The Pod's 300th Episode with Amber Ruffin!

Coming Out Pod

Health & Fitness, Sexuality, Comedy, Mental Health

4.9 • 584 Ratings

🗓️ 18 December 2024

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

Holy cow! It's the podcast's THREE HUNDREDTH EPISODE, and to celebrate this landmark event, Lauren has brought on the *incomparable* Amber Ruffin (Late Night with Seth Meyers; The Amber Ruffin Show)! Amber is an Emmy and Tony-nominated writer *and* a best-selling author, but most important of all: she and Lauren go back nearly twenty years. Despite being incredibly open to the idea of being queer (not to mention being surrounded by lesbians for most of her career in comedy), Amber only recently realized that she was more than just a *really* good ally. Amber explains how the type of people she's attracted to - androgynous women and non-binary folks - just weren't super visible until recently; also, there was the whole thing where she was married to a man for thirteen years. Amber shares how she accidentally outed herself to her male coworker because phones are hard and discusses how gay butch women have somehow ALWAYS been able to clock her, even before she could clock herself. All this, plus the "gay as hell" leather sweatsuit that Amber owned and wore as a five-year-old child!

Amber is at @amberruffin across all social media, but you can also watch her on your TV on Late Night with Seth Meyers and Have I Got News for You. Plus, check out the two books she wrote with her sister Lacey and their hilarious podcast, The Amber & Lacey, Lacey & Amber Show! Lauren was a guest in October!

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0:00.0	Y'all welcome to the 300th episode of Coming Out Pod.
0:15.1	Um, wow. I cannot believe. I am so deeply honored, surprised to be doing the 300th episode before I
0:30.5	introduced my very, very special guest. I just wanted to, yeah, just to say a little bit and say thank you to everybody.
0:41.3	This 300 episodes is, I feel like, such a huge accomplishment, and that is all due to you all listening.
0:50.8	And you're the reason why this has, why the pot is kept going for 300, 300 episodes.
1:00.0	So yeah, I just, I just wanted to say thank you before we officially get started and let you know
1:08.4	how grateful I am to all of you over these many, many years and
1:13.7	many, many episodes. The queer root shout out for this 300th episode is, of course, thematic. You know,
1:27.2	I love a thematic queer root shout out shout out to you if your
1:32.0	queer root is the movie 300 um for those who are maybe a little younger. I hope
1:44.2	everybody at least knows
1:46.0	about 300.
1:48.1	It is the movie where
1:49.9	Gerard Butler goes, this is
1:52.3	Sparta!
1:54.1	But yeah, it's about this
1:56.0	battle in ancient Greece, and basically
1:58.3	it's a bunch of
2:00.3	incredibly good-looking, jacked dudes being
2:04.8	almost totally naked except for loin claws. And it is both the most bro-y and most homoerotic movie
2:14.5	of all time. We're talking Gerard Butler. We're talking Michael Fassbender.
2:19.8	We're talking the really beautiful man from Love Actually who plays an androgynous, like,
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