Hi, guys. Okay, so I want to give you a first listen and background on a project that I've been working on for months now.

So you all know that I'm obsessed with Fire Island and obviously love asking guests on this show about their experiences.

So I had been feeling for a while like there really wasn't a piece of media that I would want like that fully marries the mystique and rich history of cherry grove in the pines with the modern day experience.

So okay, here's the situation. The show is titled Finding Fire Island. It premieres Thursday, July 6th. The first two episodes are going to drop on Thursday, July 6th, and then it will be weekly.

It's an eight episode docus series. Each episode centers on a theme and is woven together via storytelling by really interesting and fun players who have been there from the 50s to today.

The cast is insane. We have Margaret Cho, Joe Kambouster, Matt Rogers, DJ Lena Bradford. I'm obsessed. Brian Moilin, Ben Rimmelauer, plus icons who have been there since the 50s and 60s.

Like if you know a lot about Fire Island, maybe you know of Bob Rose Levine and pansy who started the very first invasion of the pines in 1976.

Anyway, so I'm about to play you the trailer, which is about two minutes and 20 seconds in this really gives you an idea of how the show feels, what it's going to sound like.

But also if you run to my Instagram, just X NYC, I'm going to post a fully produced video trailer, which has a lot of archival footage and also really gives you the feel and the sound and the moment that we're trying to create.

So you can subscribe to Finding Fire Island on all podcast platforms right now. And you can read a lot more about the cast and the project at Finding Fire Island dot com. Okay, here's the trailer.

I followed DJ Lena Bradford and I would see this woman playing an amazing DJ set to like a hype crowd on the beach somewhere that didn't look like New York City. And I was just like, how do I get there? I want to go there.

Fire Island used to be a sleepy 19th century beach town that is transformed itself into a modern day queer mecca. I kept calling it like gay adult camp, but this version of camp, there are drugs.

People on boats and let's be like, what the fuck is going on on fire Island? This is my fucking Shangri-la. Like men dressed as women, women dressed as men.

I'm Jess Rothschild. And in Finding Fire Island, we're going to take you behind the curtain of the mystique. The legends and lore of the island told by those who witnessed its evolution from the 1950s to today. Truman Capote came.

Why can't we get the real eyes of Manelli?

A true and tragic tale of the death of the great poet, Franco Harrah.

Where history has often been told through the lens of loss and disappearance, but Fire Island has transcended that to survive as a stunning fantasy world and cultural touchstone.

I had heard Fire Island, but I never went until 1955.

We had to sleep in front of Tommy Toon's house on the beach, because I couldn't afford to stay anywhere.

Are you aware this house is currently on sale again for six and a half million dollars?

I've never heard of any house on Fire Island going for that kind of money.

We're going deep on the ritual of tea, the invasion, sharehouse culture, the rivalry between Sherry Grove and the Pines, and even here from those who actually live here through the winter.

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