On this episode, The Friend discusses two poems: one by Frank O'Hara called "Homosexuality" (1970) and the other by Frank Bidart called "Queer" (2012).

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In this episode, The Friend looks at Chappell Roan's breakout hit "Good Luck, Babe!" in the context of Freud's concept of negation, comparing Bob Dylan as well as a close reading of William Butler Yeats' famous heartbreak (revenge poem): "When You Are Old and Grey."

In this episode, The Friend discusses quotes about ignorance from Saidiya Hartman, Karl Marx, Plato, Jesus, Jacques Lacan and Immanuel Kant. Can ignorance be seen as a gift? Should it be given the state of the world?

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