"Professional Homosexuals" Pt. 2 (w/ Adam Eli)
Seek Treatment with Cat & Pat
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🗓️ 29 May 2020
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Cat, Pat, and special guest Adam Eli talks about his new book, "The New Queer Conscience", plus imposter syndrome, being gay and Jewish, wanting to be on Hollywood squares, the astrological self, all four Dear Evans, and so much more!
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| 0:00.0 | forever |
| 0:30.0 | We'll see |
| 0:35.0 | Hey, it's kitty cat cocoa cappuccino dot comista. It's Patrick Lulu lemon |
| 0:43.6 | Regan and we're back in the studio with Adam Eli author of the fourth it's fourth coming. Is that the word we use? |
| 0:51.6 | fourth coming forth coming the new queer conscience, but what does that mean Adam? Can you tell me what that means? |
| 0:58.7 | So conscience is like the idea of like when you do something wrong like you feel bad about it |
| 1:04.2 | Yeah, yeah, or like you help someone you help a stranger on the subway because they felt because of your conscience |
| 1:09.5 | Like it's an innate thing that just tells you to do that. Yeah |
| 1:12.5 | The thesis of my book is that queer people anywhere are responsible for queer people everywhere because I think like being built into the DNA |
| 1:20.8 | of being Jewish means you like show up for other Jewish people and I want queer people to adopt that same ideology |
| 1:26.6 | And I would start like 10 things that |
| 1:28.8 | They can like maybe do to try to make our world more to make our community like a more loving place. Yeah, that's so incredible |
| 1:35.0 | Do you ever you ever fall victim to that kind of like |
| 1:40.1 | Like toxicity of like |
| 1:43.6 | Yeah, or like I just feel like there's not enough to go around like feeling competitive with other gay men |
| 1:49.4 | Pat you literally just took the words out of my mouth. I might like |
| 1:53.4 | I'm sorry. I'm a thief. I'm a slutty thief |
| 1:57.6 | My my like toughest moments are like when something good happens to another gay person. Yeah |
| 2:04.4 | Another like gay man, and then I'm like angry or I feel bad about it. Yes |
| 2:09.8 | Like someone I know like had this like striving podcast. It's like I didn't or like you know, he like you're talking about me |
| 2:15.3 | Adam |
| 2:17.3 | You like you like got a solo show and I was like nothing's like Adam |
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