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CODieK slash Special Offer. Hello and welcome to Outward, Slate's LGBTQ Podcast. I am Brian Lauter, an editor at Slate, and I am just coming

back from a bunch of summer travels, a of very gay summer travel so I'm very

happy to be here with my co-host Jules hello Jules. Hello Brian you're

looking gare than ever which is one of the highest compliments that I can give. I have also taken some gay

vacation this summer, and yeah, it's always, it is nice, you know, it's nice to get out there. There's some gay in my family, some trans in my family and I just got back from visiting home, but you know my younger sisters. She's significantly enough younger than me that my boyfriend and I finally got to ask her and her boyfriend some burning

questions about the youth these days and their attitudes and their their dating

behaviors and their gender presentation etc so it was it was very interesting, very enlightening, and I definitely feeling kind of revved up for this episode.

Yeah. Oh, it's so helpful to have a sort of inside source.

I know. I mean I shamelessly like as a

university professor like I do try to ask students not like to tell me their

personal lives at all but I often know, even though I teach history,

ask students to comment on, you know, the discourse this, but that it's like I'm really truly

over that hill now where for the most part I'll be like now I heard

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