This bitch is a cunning linguist, she loves languages! - Film Lady describing herself, probably. Listen to an ex-Russian straight chick ramble about the hyped-up gay sports romance adaptation - ‘Heated Rivalry (2025)’. 9/10 Banana Socks.

Content Warning: Sexual Language (Explicit), Mentions of Suicide.

Mentions:

HR novel: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heated_Rivalry_(novel)

Cheburashka: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cheburashka

Doxa vid on HR: https://youtu.be/L9ruQnm8kYM?si=8-PpfCbyGhhqlric

SPOILERS: this is an extremely spoilerific episode discussing characters & plot, listen at your own risk.

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Music - via Free Music Archive — CC BY: 

• GrW - Alaska 1

• LaFaena - Sexy

• Meydän - Away

• Tea K Pea - light

Cold Open - song ‘Мальчик-Гей (Gay Boy)’ by t.A.T.u. 

Producer: Ivan Shapovalov

200 po vstrechnoy 

https://genius.com/Genius-english-translations-tatu-gay-boy-english-translation-lyrics

https://genius.com/Tatu-gay-boy-lyrics

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T.A.T.u.

Warm Close: song by Mylène Farmer Fuck Them All

Producer: Laurent Boutonnat

Avant que l’ombre…

https://genius.com/Mylene-farmer-fuck-them-all-lyrics

Acknowledgment of Country

I would like to acknowledge that I live, work, and learn on the traditional lands of the Dharug and Darkinjung peoples. I pay my respects to their Elders past and present, and extend that respect to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples here today.