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Homophilia

Glen Weldon

Homophilia

WOW Podcast Network

Comedy

4.4926 Ratings

🗓️ 25 June 2021

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

All-around dream guest Glen Weldon is here to chat with Matt and Dave about the gay undertones of Luca, Anthony Mackie's take on The Falcon and the Winter Soldier, We Are Lady Parts, Hacks, Girls5Eva, Hot White Heist, Glen's podcast recommendations and highlights from his new book NPR's Podcast Start Up Guide, behind the scenes of Pop Culture Happy Hour, working in PR and getting into writing, how Glen met his husband of 22 years, recording at home, leaf blowers, self-discovery, high school, and how Glen got his signature arms. Grab Glen's new book, NPR's Podcast Start Up Guide this Tuesday, June 29th!

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0:00.0

You're going to. Oh, Okay, Dave, give me your thoughts. I know you got him. I know you've been holding them for me.

0:29.6

What? On? Carl Nassib. Oh my God, well first of all, thank God he's hot.

0:34.0

That was honestly, that was my first thought and I wish that I were a better person than that,

0:40.0

but I, you know, I saw the headline I was like, well, let's find out if this is good news and I saw a picture it's great news it's great news you know it led me down a rabbit hole of other great news were like on I think out dot com it was just a list of out

0:55.8

football players and a lot of them we have heard of and of course the thing about

1:00.4

Carl Nasib is that he is the first active NFL player, but there are tons of college

1:08.2

athletes, ton of people who came out after they played.

1:12.0

Just a good piece of queer history to you know yeah

1:16.3

context there was I think it was on sports center not that I was watching somebody

1:20.1

did a screenshot and posted it but But there was a chiron on a sports center

1:25.5

an hour or so after.

1:26.8

Carl NASA becomes first actively gay NFL player.

1:31.0

So he's just eight constantly. He's just constantly constantly fucking and certainly I would yeah no I'm I'm thrilled and it just you know it generally takes just the one.

1:44.2

Obviously, I think our entire culture failed Michael Sam,

1:49.4

however many years ago that was, that was,

1:56.4

has to have been like an identity shredding fucking debacle for that guy and I hope that our media has learned from its mistakes and I hope that the NFL has learned from its mistakes and I hope that this is just the first of many.

2:10.0

I do want to say that Twitter is telling us that he is a registered Republican and possibly

2:18.3

a vocal Trump supporter and I don't have receipts on that but it is there are there a lot of tweets about it so I do

2:26.2

think there's something there and I do need him to correct the record on that

2:31.5

sure come correct in some way shape or form correct the record on that. Sure.

2:33.0

Come correct in some way, shape, or form

2:35.0

before I'm going to celebrate this in any way.

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