Whoa, whoa, whoa, welcome to Food for Thought, a podcast gab fest in which a multiracial

mix of queer writers gather around the table to talk about sex, identity, culture, what

we like to read, and who we like to read, food for thought, honestly, we're so tired.

This is Joe O. The Science Ho here to introduce a weird and different episode like we used

to do.

It's a live show.

Remember live shows, I'm so, so, so grateful to have shared the stage for my silly little

New York City book launch with one, the one the only, Demish El Norris, and Garrett Conley,

friend of the pod, friend of me personally, and author of the incredible book, Boya Rast,

and lots of fiction that's about to be hitting your eyeballs.

We talk about everything, five verses, we are sorry about that, but also try to bring

love, joy, pleasure, connection, and struggle into the question.

We start with a little amusement, a little game to tell me and Garrett apart, kind of difficult,

and we end as always with one little bite, I do hope y'all enjoy, and that as best as you

can be out there, baby, thought he is, you are saying safe, and healthy, and loving each

other.

Okay, see you on the other side.

Hello, hello, hi, welcome, look at this audience, oh my gosh, you're also beautiful and wonderful,

give yourselves a round of applause for coming out in this heat.

So oh yes, all right, so we have a couple of announcements.

The first one being, you saw that little sterling silver, white, coffee, caraphingy that

Joe just put on the floor over there, that's where you can put questions for our question

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