StraightioLab Book Club: Murder on Sex Island w/ Jo Firestone RE-RELEASE
StraightioLab
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4.8 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 30 December 2025
⏱️ 108 minutes
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Summary
Move over, Reese Witherspoon cause there's a new book club in town. That's right, we're kicking off the inaugural StraightioLab Book Club with Jo Firestone's new novel "Murder On Sex Island." We talk about what it means to write a book about sex that has no sex, how a very special "calendar style" edition came to be, and figure out how much of a book you can just riff. Plus, we find out if past lives are real.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an IHeart podcast. |
| 0:02.6 | Guaranteed human. |
| 0:19.3 | Happy holidays, everyone. |
| 0:20.8 | We are re-releasing our most popular episode of 2025 today. Happy holidays, everyone. |
| 0:26.6 | We are re-releasing our most popular episode of 2025 today to close out the year. |
| 0:31.2 | This is our book club episode with our friend Joe Firestone, where we discuss her book, |
| 0:35.1 | Murder on Sex Island, which you can still purchase wherever books are sold. |
| 0:38.1 | We will be back with new episodes January 13th. And in the meantime, you can find tickets to our two San Francisco shows on January 22nd and 23rd |
| 0:43.5 | at linktree.com slash stradioLab or on the SF Sketchfest website. And you can also see me, |
| 0:50.5 | George, do stand up in London on February 23rd at the Soho Theater. And tickets to that |
| 0:56.4 | are in my Instagram bio and on the Soho Theater website. So that's it for now. Enjoy the |
| 1:01.3 | episode and we'll see you soon. Okay, Joe, start the podcast. Did you come prepared or not? |
| 1:08.4 | No, listen, listen, listen. |
| 1:27.1 | We're doing this as a favor, too. And I know that, okay? I'm going to send you something after, okay? Don't do that. Do you want us to dub? I know exactly what I'm getting for both of you. Don't do that, Joe. Sam. Like you're getting us gifts? You get too many gifts for people. Okay, Sam. I've never gotten a gift. |
| 1:27.7 | I've given Sam 18 gifts, and and each one he's like, thanks. |
| 1:33.0 | Sometimes I'm like, you don't need to give me a gift. |
| 1:35.6 | You know what I mean? |
| 1:36.3 | I do think Sam, if I may. |
| 1:39.6 | Please. |
| 1:40.2 | I could see Sam being more nervous about how to respond to a gift than he is happy about receiving it, even if it's like the dream gift. |
| 1:51.1 | The stress outweighs the gifts value, I will say. |
| 1:54.6 | You have a, I think it's funny because in fact, you follow social norms perfectly and no one is ever like, wow. |
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