the more likely a place is to like tell me to kill myself or like issue a rape threat,

like the more authentic and vital it is as a reflection of American discourse.

Like as much as it hates me personally, that is directly correlated to how real and how American it is.

Have you ever considered, Moirut, that maybe the pussy is in bio?

Maybe you need to open yourself up to new ideas.

Hello, I'm Adrienne Dob.

And I'm Moira Donigan.

Whether we like it or not, we're in bed with the right.

So, Adrian, today we have our second annual installment of everybody's favorite tradition, which is the Kirstie Awards.

Do you want to tell us about the Kirstie's?

This is a long-running tradition in the sense that we made it up last year.

So we're tradwives in that way.

We're celebrating and upholding and vigorously defending tradition that we invented not 12 months ago.

We used to be a proper country. Return.

That's right. Return.

And this is our award for the most cursed discourses having to do with gender and sexuality in 2024.

We anticipated recording for about 45 hours because there was a lot of them. There was a lot of

them. Just no way around that. But helping us sift through it is a man who is perhaps the Leonardo

or the Galileo of Christ takes. And also a person who's recorded three shows like this probably this is all I do now. This is my whole life. Michael Hobbs, welcome back. Hello. I wanted you guys to do like, Adrian, Moira, what do you know about the most cursed discourse of the year and like steal our intro? Oh my God, we should. I would love that. All right. Do you want to get into our nominees? Because we've got a lot. We've got a lot on the plate. Yeah. The way we usually do this is we each nominate three takes or three cursed discourses. Last year, I feel like we all operated at a pretty great level of remove. I have to say that for myself, that wasn't true this year. I kind of ended up, I went down a couple of rabbit holes, and then I was like convinced myself that those rabbit holes, like, actually said everything about our present moment. That's what I did, too. And I do think that the election kind of brought a whole lot of stuff into focus for me. I did that, too, where it's like, this is not a bad take. This is like a canonical bad take.

Yeah.

This is symbolic of a broader disease.

Yeah.

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