The Case of the Cutoffs

Nancy

WNYC Studios

Gay, Documentary, Society & Culture, Sexuality, Lgtbq, Lesbian, Relationships, Asian, Politics, Conversations, Storytelling, Health & Fitness, Homosexuality

4.8 • 3K Ratings

🗓️ 11 February 2019

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

Eight years ago, Ben found a pair of cutoff jean shorts mounted in a shadowbox. Now, he's on a search for the truth.

— Ben Riskin quit his law firm four years ago and embarked on a career in podcasting. Ben recently joined Endeavor Audio to lead their business development and content acquisition efforts. When he's not working, he's listening to everything and talking to everyone.

Special thanks this week to Tracey Baim of the Windy City Times, the team at Curious City, Ben Rose and Tracey Panek at Levi’s, St. Sukie de la Croix (author of Chicago Whispers: a History of LGBT Chicago before Stonewall), Gnat Carpenter, the team at Third Coast International Audio Festival, and everyone who shared pictures of the shorts on social media.

Music in this episode by Jeremy Bloom, Little Glass Men ("Procreation"), Broke for Free ("Calm the Fuck Down"), and Nctrnm ("Tethered"). Theme by Alexander Overington.

Transcript

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0:00.0	Tobin, you know how I don't like things that I have to do every day, such as eating, sleeping.
0:08.5	So dressing up or just putting clothes on as I call it is a daily annoyance for me.
0:14.0	Yeah. Since I was a child, when I was in middle school, our school decided to have a boat.
0:20.3	On whether or not we were going to have uniforms. And I secretly was like, yes.
0:25.4	You're not giving it to me. So I took home the little infoshi and I had a little like voting
0:30.3	thing at the bottom of it and I bring it back and I had written down a yes vote for uniforms.
0:37.0	And I pass it in with everybody else and people saw my answer. And I guess I don't know,
0:43.2	everybody else didn't want uniforms, but I didn't understand. So were they like,
0:47.9	Kathy, what the hell? They were. And what did you say?
0:52.0	My mom gave me 20 bucks of out. Yes, so I did.
0:54.4	Classic. Kathy, throw in your mom under the bus.
0:58.8	I mean, Felicia can do.
1:00.7	Yeah.
1:04.1	From WN Weiss and Studios, this is Nancy.
1:06.9	With your hosts, Tobin Low and Kathy too.
1:09.8	Tobin.
1:19.0	Tobin. Kathy.
1:20.5	Today we have in the studio with us radio producer friend, Ben Raskin.
1:25.5	Hi, Ben. Hello.
1:26.8	Ben, how do we all know each other?
1:30.0	I think just through like gay radio circles and general homosexuality.
1:34.7	Yeah, yeah, yeah. We met at the meeting.
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