Put Yourself In A Straight Person’s Shoes with Ruha Taslimi
Best Gabe Ever
Gabe S. Dunn | Noted Bisexual Inc.
4.8 • 3.7K Ratings
🗓️ 20 May 2026
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
Comedian Ruha Taslimi (UCB, Dropout) joins the podcast to talk about their trans/non-binary improv team, getting taken advantage of while doing someone else a favor (r/choosingbeggers), and how to handle grandparents forcing you to baptize your baby (r/atheism). A hairdresser realizes her client is married to her ex… and it gets worse. Plus, some really lovely thoughts on theater.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to Best Gabe Ever. |
| 0:05.0 | This is a show where there's two parts. |
| 0:08.0 | One part we give advice, other part is just random stuff. |
| 0:11.0 | Today is the advice segment. |
| 0:13.0 | I am here with Rua. Do you want to tell my audience who you are and what you do? |
| 0:16.0 | Oh, wow, on the spot. Okay. I am Ruhat Taslimi. |
| 0:20.0 | Who am I? |
| 0:22.6 | God, everyone freaks out about this question. |
| 0:25.6 | Like, no one has been able to just answer it. |
| 0:28.2 | Everyone is like, I don't fucking know. |
| 0:30.6 | Who am I? |
| 0:31.5 | An existential crisis on this podcast. |
| 0:34.1 | I'm an actor. |
| 0:35.5 | I'm in comedy mostly. |
| 0:40.1 | I perform a lot at Upright Citizens Brigade Theater amongst other theaters. I'm on this team cuties. That's a monthly show. That's |
| 0:46.2 | an all like trans, non-binary improv team. I have an Instagram. It's my full name. You can find |
| 0:51.9 | me there. There's a lot to me, but I think that'll |
| 0:54.1 | cover it for now. Are you from here in L.A.? I am, yeah. You're from L.A.? I know. It's so rare. |
| 1:00.3 | I was born in Santa Monica Hospital. Wow. So, grew up in Santa Monica. Wow. So like, really L.A. |
| 1:08.0 | Yeah, not just general Southern California. Right. I mean, technically, |
| 1:13.4 | yeah. Technically Santa Monica is its own city, but yeah, you know, but I was living in |
| 1:18.5 | official Los Angeles by the time I was a teenager. Wow. Did you want to do acting? Well, |
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