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Welcome to Dire Straights Live, one of our bonus podcast episodes recorded on Substack in front of a virtual audience. If you're listening on a podcasting platform, make sure to join us at direstraightspod.com for the full experience—and upgrade to paid so you can listen to the whole episode.

We dig into HBO’s Heated Rivalry, the spicy gay hockey drama that everyone is talking about. Given that our podcast is all about critiquing hetero love, sex, politics, and culture, we obviously had to do a bonus episode on this viral phenomenon. Why do women like it? And might it have something to do with the current hetero-pessimistic moment?

Just a few topics discussed:

* butts

* cocks

* hockey goalie warm-ups in which they very much look like they are f*****g the ice (also: f**k ICE)

* the show’s foley artists simulating b******s

* straight women co-opting gay culture

* the show’s lesbian viewership

* straight women watching gay porn

* the novelty of depicting mutual pleasure and sex as story

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