Reunited and Trans with Ash Perez
A Thousand Natural Shocks With Gabe S. Dunn
Gabe Dunn | Diamond MPrint Productions
4.5 • 2.6K Ratings
🗓️ 17 March 2026
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
Gabe’s old BuzzFeed coworker and writer Ash Perez joins the show to talk about his new rom com Speak Now. The duo catch up about transness, autism, and the wild paths their lives have taken.
Speak Now is a queer rom-com about a rising-star chef who’s forced to confront her first love when she’s hired to cater her ex–best friend’s wedding, putting her career-defining opportunity at odds with unresolved feelings from her past. Set in the world of fine dining in Big Sur, it’s a funny, emotionally honest story about second chances and self-discovery. Speak Now is Ash's fiction debut! The audiobook features a full cast led by Jena Malone and Arienne Mandi.
Speak Now is available for preorder now wherever you get audiobooks, and publishes on March 31 (on International Transgender Day of Visibility). Link is here to preorder: https://bit.ly/3MiDUtm Woooo!
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| 0:00.0 | You had told a lot of lies about achievement. |
| 0:03.4 | They called you when they got you to believe it. |
| 0:06.0 | Thumb and finger held to their foreheads in an L shirt trapped in a capital of salescape. |
| 0:10.7 | Let's fight back in half some talks about class and the massive costs of the disasters. |
| 0:15.9 | Blots are fascists and Nazis and Nazis and Nazis and fat cats and fox. |
| 0:19.0 | It's a thousand natural shocks. |
| 0:21.2 | A bad with money podcast. |
| 0:22.9 | Hello and welcome to A Thousand Natural Shocks, A Bad With Money Podcast. |
| 0:27.4 | I'm your host, Gabe Dunn. |
| 0:29.3 | And with me today, you probably clicked on it, so you already know. |
| 0:32.3 | But, Ash, do you want to tell my audience who you are and what you do, which I know is the most insane question of all time. |
| 0:39.0 | My name is Ash Perez. Gabe and I used to work together at BuzzFeed, and I am a writer, but I am here in my capacity today as a first-time fiction author writing rom-coms. |
| 0:52.4 | Kind of crazy that this is the first one. |
| 0:54.4 | I know. |
| 0:55.0 | I don't know why I didn't get to it sooner, to be honest. |
| 0:58.5 | It's like the best, it's the best working structure. |
| 1:02.6 | You know, like writing film and TV, there's so many layers of notes and people who can |
| 1:08.1 | tell you yes or no on things. |
| 1:10.2 | A book, it's just one editor and it's so much |
| 1:14.0 | nicer. Yeah, it's definitely more, you have more hope that it's going to see the light of day. |
| 1:21.8 | Yeah. And there is, I think, yeah, more control, perhaps more trust from the people at the top with you to say, |
| 1:29.9 | okay, I know what my audience is going to like. |
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