Talk about a double-feature! We've got Joey Graceffa (YouTuber, vlogger, actor, and the author who gave you Rebels of Eden, In Real Life, and Children of Eden) AND Irene Tu who you've seen at SF Sketchfest, Bridgetown Comedy Festival, and Comedy Central’s Clusterfest and on TV shows like Take My Wife and Funny How?

Well, first up Dave is teaching an online personal essay workshop at Dynasty Typewriter starting Oct. 7th, so we should all definitely sign up for that (link below.) THEN the prolific and incredible Rain Valdez joins the guys to discuss doing your own COVID nose test, at home workouts, thoughts on networking in a post COVID world, Schitt's Creek, Veep, Ugly Betty, creating/writing/crowdfunding/producing and starring in Razor Tongue, what it was like to get nominated for her first Primetime Emmy Award, not wanting to be the party pooper or disrupter, zoom dinner dates, and how worthiness starts with yourself- which is really hard, but possible!

Dave's Essay Writing Class: https://www.dynastytypewriter.com/whats-your-story

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Stand-up comedian Sam Jay joins the guys to talk about Star Wars, late 90's / early 00's teen movies, dating guys before coming out as a lesbian, and more! Plus, Dave and Matt break down this year's very weird VMAs.

Everyone's favorite, Vicky Vox, joins Matt and Dave to chat about it all this week! They discuss plants, carnival fish, tarot card readings, Real Housewives of Potomac, absence of remorse on reality shows, Charlie Sheen, DWV group, guided meditations, Emerald Tablets of Thoth The Atlantean, psychic abilities, asking for the world to stop, Iowaska, going to rehab in high school and horrific high school harassment, pushing through tough times, AOL instant messenger, teaching musical theater, spending a year in Nebraska, and how Vicky came to be!

The guys are back this week with fresh new dos thanks to Dave's backyard pop-up salon plus the gem who brought you the Emmy nominated Circus of Books documentary, Rachel Mason, is here to chat about it all. They discuss how Emmy speeches are working this year, the history of Circus of Books, poppers, Outcry documentary, Escaping NXIVM podcast, cults, Dancing With The Stars contestants, Victorian piano music, finding new music, favorite venues, nostalgia for band drama, comedians on social media, hypothesizing the party scene post COVID, Buck Angel (Rachel's partner), discrimination, and potential new documentaries on the horizon!

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This week has absolutely everything you need: Matt and Dave's literary corner, Dave's meet-cute story and the prolific Gaby Dunn. The guys chat with Gaby about her Patrick Swazye tattoos, Idina Menzel, Adele Dazeem, Fried Green Tomatoes, Chris O'Donnell, being better than everyone else in high school, Rent, Star Trek, Meow Mix, Cubbyhole, Julius' Can You Ever Forgive Me?, meeting Gaby's partner (fomer guest Mal Blum!), conventional beauty and expanding beauty ideals, confidence, poly people during the pandemic, Zoom sex parties, medical emergencies during the pandemic, and plans to have cocktails on the front lawn. 

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This episode is filled to the brim with treats and surprises. Dave addresses Zoom pause critiques, Jonathan and Alex from https://www.stonewalldems.org/vote-at-home make a surprise appearance, and Lucus V. in PA sends in a top-notch meet cute. ALL THIS before Matt and Dave get to this week's fantastic guest, Sam Lansky! Sam is here to tell the guys everything that happened between his first book The Gilded Razor and his new book Broken People. 

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Order Sam's new book, Broken People, here:https://bookshop.org/books/broken-people-9781335013934/9781335013934

The Scam Goddess herself, Laci Mosley, joins Matt and Dave today!!! Did she scam her way on the show? Who cares! She's such a delight it would be an honor if she did. (She didn't.) Matt, Dave and Laci dish about LA parking tickets and getting your car towed, working and auditioning during COVID times, secret hair styling, not liking rules, Legendary, Selling Sunset, Justin Hartley, the Scam Goddess theme song, COVID scams and how to flip it on scammers, Laci's "Leg 2020" campaign, RNC, making racists famous, writing jokes about family, sleepover discoveries, dating apps, and the helpful observation Laci's mom made.

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He's here! Byron Lane, the author of Homophilia's Summer Book Club selection: A Star Is Bored, is here! The guys get into it all including good chemo attitudes, The Umbrella Academy, the Moulin Rouge and The Bodyguard soundtrack, Don't Tell Mom The Babysitter's Dead, Big Business, releasing a book during a pandemic, being Carrie Fisher's assistant, how A Star Is Bored came to be, spending quarantine in Palm Springs, Bryon's play Tilda Swinton Answers An Ad On Craigslist, how Bryon proposed to his boyfriend, writing inspiration from Chuck Palahniuk, He-man, getting diagnosed with cancer, growing up in Louisianna, recording morning announcements in High School, and maintaining a friendship with Carrie Fisher. PLUS, A reading from A Star is Bored!

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Buy Byron's book here: https://www.byronlane.com/bio

Happy 3 Year Homophilia Anniversary to you and yours! Whether you've been here from the start or just found us we're so happy to have you along for the Homophilia ride! To celebrate this week's Anniversary Dave's mom is mailing him printed-out emails, listener Matt has a band bus themed My First Time, and the guys are introducing a new listener segment: MEET-CUTE (send your meet-cute story to [email protected].) Then the hilarious and wonderful Alex English joins the guys to chat about "trash days" in quarantine, doing Two Joysticks and a Couch with T-Pain, video games, I May Destroy You, Love on the Spectrum, Queer as Folk and the expectations and beliefs it created, coming out to pastors dressed like wizards, growing up in Detroit, Noah's Arc, moving to NY, breaking into stand-up, and of course dating. 

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