Hello, and thank you for choosing high jinx for your podcast entertainment today.

I'm so excited because our guest is Kate Berlant, who is a personal

comedy hero to me, and we'll be discussing everything from collaborative friendships to our

fateful years at art school. So hunker down, get ready, because here comes high jinx.

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Forever!

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Hello, everyone! I'm Jinx Monsoon, and welcome to High Jinx, a podcast where I, an internationally

tolerated drag superstar, get to interview compelling and fascinating people about how they

became, who they are, and why they do what they do. And today we are joined by Kate Berlant.

Hi, Kate! Hi, Jinx! Did I say your name correctly? Yes. Berlant. Berlant has in lantern.

Yes. This is exciting for me because every guest we have is special and a master in their field,

but I'm still in this place of, we've only ever met once, IRL, and we haven't had many

opportunities to develop the strong friendship I know we would have given the chance, and we'll have.

So I'm still very much in the realm of fandom when it comes to you, and I am unapologetic for

how, how big of a fan of you I am. So this is very exciting for me. Now that I've gotten that out

of the way, I am deeply moved to my core. When you expressed, you know, enjoying my work in the past,

I was, I was deeply flattered, but now taking it to a podcast, such as shocking, you remain

one of the only people in the culture to have enjoyed my web series.

Kate Berlant teaches, and you, I just appreciate it so much, and thank you for having me.

That's okay, we'll get into it, but I front loaded with like a lot there. No, no, it's like you know,

it drops perfect. It sounds, that sounds like I'm plugging, it's like, no. I just can't do it, you know,

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