Straightio Rewind: "Prolonged Divorce" w/ Torrey Peters (April 29, 2025)
StraightioLab
Big Money Players Network and iHeartPodcasts
4.8 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 15 May 2026
⏱️ 72 minutes
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Summary
Once a month, we're re-releasing a classic StraightioLab episode from the vault. Today we're celebrating Torrey Peters, who was just named a Pulitzer Prize finalist for her book Stag Dance!
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:02.6 | Guaranteed human. |
| 0:20.3 | Hootty-hoo, Glammer Girls, you're listening to StradioLab Rewind. |
| 0:24.3 | Once a month, we will be re-releasing an old classic StraderLab episode |
| 0:29.1 | to re-familiarize new listeners with the lore that built the podcast. |
| 0:34.7 | The government cannot shut down. |
| 0:36.8 | Because we recorded some of these long, long ago, |
| 0:39.9 | the audio quality may be mixed, but trust the ideas are eternal and dangerous. So take out |
| 0:46.7 | your notebook and open to page one, because it's time to start taking notes about the things we've said. |
| 0:55.9 | Okay, enjoy the past. Bye. |
| 1:00.0 | Podcast starts now. What's up, everyone around the globe? You're listening to StradioLab |
| 1:04.2 | from a windowless room in Times Square. That's right. Welcome to TRL. I can hear NSYNC bumping their new hit downstairs. |
| 1:15.5 | So this is our final day of a full week of StradioLab content. Yeah. We've been recording nonstop. |
| 1:24.6 | I feel wistful. I know. We've recorded four episodes. We've done a live show. It was our |
| 1:29.3 | first ever Lesbian live show. All queer women lineup. And instead of straight topics, |
| 1:35.7 | they brought lesbian topics. Yes. And we learned about, I think we can say what the three topics were. |
| 1:41.5 | Just say them. Okay. Self cancellation. Uh-huh. So this is when you are a lesbian and you start a small business sort of with the intention of being canceled for having bad labor practices. You get like one complaint and then decide to go on a, I'm sorry to work. That's right. And it's also like starting a business is actually more of a means to an end, |
| 2:01.1 | the end being getting a conversation going. |
| 2:03.4 | Yeah. |
| 2:03.7 | So you want like a Reddit thread. |
| 2:05.4 | You want people saying like thread the truth about, you know, black cat coffee. |
| 2:11.8 | So that was one. |
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