meta_pixel
Tapesearch Logo
Log in
The Remnant with Jonah Goldberg

Queer Factors

The Remnant with Jonah Goldberg

The Dispatch

Politics, News

4.7 • 6.6K Ratings

🗓️ 28 February 2024

⏱️ 62 minutes

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

Today’s episode of The Remnant features James Kirchick, the prolific pundit and author of Secret City: The Hidden History of Gay Washington. Recently, James published an essay in Liberties that examined how gay culture has changed in American life since the 1980s. But despite the success of the gay rights movement, LGBTQ issues remain prominent in the culture war. Why is this the case? Where do we go from here? And how would Jonah’s grandpa feel about this episode? Show Notes: —Watch this episode on YouTube Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0

Oh, Ladies and gentlemen, uh...

0:15.0

can I please have your attention.

0:18.0

Can I please have your attention?

0:19.0

And you, Digger! Go Jigga! Jigga!

0:24.0

Greetings your listeners, this is Jonah Goldberg, host of the Remnant podcast brought to you by

0:31.4

the Dispatch and Dispatch Media in the grand tradition of

0:35.4

counter programming against annoying and exhausting political stories where

0:40.0

there isn't much new to say because everyone's already said it.

0:42.8

We're going in a different direction today.

0:44.8

We're having a friend of mine,

0:46.3

if this was a 1970's public service ad on kids television,

0:51.7

I would refer to my guest today as my gay friend but and then my

0:57.5

grandfather would explain to me that that was prejudiced because if he's your

1:00.3

friend you shouldn't say your gay friend there was a commercial commercial in the 70s, you're too young to remember this, Jamie,

1:04.4

but where they did this where this kid was fishing with his grandpa.

1:08.3

And he said, my, the grandpa says something like, and who's Timmy?

1:14.0

And the kid says, Timmy's my Jewish friend.

1:17.2

And then Grandpa has to explain

1:18.6

that you shouldn't have to call him your Jewish friend.

1:21.0

He's just your friend.

1:22.1

So, and anyway, Jamie is, he's a man of many talents

1:27.9

and he knows a lot of things about a lot of things

...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from The Dispatch, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of The Dispatch and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.

Copyright Š Tapesearch 2026.