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Hey, I'm welcome to the podcast. I'm Josh and there's Chuck Jerry's here too. And that makes this stuff you should know. Let's see.

That's right. This is about James Beard the human and the James Beard Foundation and awards.

Big thanks to Dave Ruse, who helped us put this together. And I also got a lot of stuff from a writer, a bunch of interviews and magazine articles on this guy John Birdzall, who wrote a book called The Man Who Eight Too Much about James Beard, about James Beard and James Beard through the lens of sort of what it was like to be a closeted gay man.

And then, you know, starting in the early 1900s in the United States.

Yeah, one of the things about the internet is when something comes along that's kind of definitive, most of the stuff that turns up on a search engine is interpretation of that.

Yeah.

It's a bunch of different reviews of in this case of a book or think pieces, you know, based on the book, whatever.

But if you dig hard enough, you can find like pre, you know, definitive articles as well. And this is a case of that.

And it's really interesting to see things that were written about James Beard in 1997 or 2010 or whatever.

And it's time before 2020 when John Birdzall's book came out. And it's just totally different.

It's so much more surface level and accepting him as who he was basically or taking on face that he was who he seemed to be.

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