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Why Won't You Date Me? with Nicole Byer

Stripping & Sex Work (w/ Teddy B. Ruxpin)

Why Won't You Date Me? with Nicole Byer

Headgum & Nicole Byer

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4.815.6K Ratings

🗓️ 12 February 2021

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

Dancer and sex worker Teddy B. Ruxpin chats with Nicole about all things stripping and sex work. They discuss her start into the profession, finding her niche as an "alt girl", dealing with racism in the workplace, and her work for stripper advocacy. Plus, Teddy reveals she dated a comedian who would talk about her work in his stand-up routine. Tonight - See a LIVE virtual episode of Why Won't You Date Me? with Heidi N Closet! Tickets: onlocationlive.com/nicolebyer This Black History Month, research anti-racism resources and donate to Black Lives Matter at blacklivesmatters.carrd.co. Follow Nicole Byer: Twitter: @nicolebyer Instagram: @nicolebyer Facebook: www.facebook.com/nicolebyercomedy

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0:00.0

Guess what? Okay, so I'm doing a live episode of my podcast today. It's February 12th. It is live

0:08.0

Episode of Why Won't You Day Me Day? And my sister's birthday I keep saying it because you know

0:11.8

You try not to forget things anyway. I'm doing this episode with Heidi and closet of

0:17.4

wonderfully fun drag queen from RuPaul's Drag Race

0:19.6

And if you can't watch the stream live listen up you can watch it any time

0:25.0

For up to a week after the ticket link is in the show notes and

0:32.4

Listen, I think it's gonna be fun who knows what we're gonna wear

0:35.2

I will be in a lot of makeup because that's like my my whole thing. Okay

0:41.0

See you there, but I won't because it's weird and virtual and also we're gonna do questions and answers at the end

0:46.1

This is a long promo. Why won't you date me? Why won't you date me? Why won't you date me? Please tell me why?

1:06.0

Oh

1:12.6

Baby welcome to another episode of Why Won't you date me a podcast or mean a cold buyer tries to figure out how I'm still single

1:18.8

It's also about other things too because 2020 was a wild year

1:22.3

But I'm trying to figure out how I'm still single even though you could break all of the vases in my house

1:26.8

And I would go I guess they belonged on the floor. So my guess today is a dancer named Teddy B. Ruxpin

1:34.4

Teddy, thank you so much for doing this. Thank you so much for having me. I

1:40.4

Was telling you before we started that like I

1:43.9

Came across my friend Dan sent me your Instagram live that you had done with your friend Honeyla Strange and you were talking about

1:50.7

like performative allyship in the dancing community in the sex work world and

1:56.5

You were talking about like calling people out and how they were like

1:59.6

Reacting negatively and I just thought it was so interesting because I was like I feel like in every little

2:06.0

niche pocket of like what people do

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