NOT REALLY

Everything to the side: we live in a racist country and we've had enough. Let's discuss systemic racism.

With a very special message from New York City's True Finest, the One and Only Big Shugga, America's Auntie, Ian Isiah.

We discuss the swift rise and fall of Netflix's queer branding strategist, young millennial queer culture's personal branding obsession, assimilation into corporate culture as a reverse resistance optic, media millennials washing their personal interactions with buzzterms and marketspeak. We also get into the modern syndrome of judging past behaviors through today's moral majority standards.

Plus: The Jeffrey Epstein docuseries, Bill Clinton's affair with Ghislaine Maxwell, Racist Amy in Central Park, Hot Christian the gay bird watcher, cops getting away with murdering black people, the Jenny Jones murder, Kiki Kannibal, early-2000s MTV reality shows, and more!

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Relevant links:

"Losing the Narrative: The Genre Fiction of the Professional Class" by James McElroy

https://americanaffairsjournal.org/2020/05/losing-the-narrative-the-genre-fiction-of-the-professional-class/

"The Pandemic Work Diary of Netflix's Queer Champion" by Melissa Guerrero

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/13/business/fran-tirado-netflix-lgbtq.html

"Did Netflix oust LGBT exec Fran Tirado over New York Times interview?" in Page Six

https://pagesix.com/2020/05/26/did-netflix-oust-lgbtq-exec-fran-tirado-over-ny-times-interview/?utm_medium=SocialFlow&utm_source=P6Twitter&utm_campaign=SocialFlow

This episode was recorded all the way back in March, has quarantine really lasted this long?

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Alissa Bennett is back and here to discuss her latest beautiful but grim discovery, the life, legacy, and death of the gay porn icon Erik Rhodes. It just so happens that Patrik and Paul both knew Erik Rhodes...we discuss his career trajectory, proximity to the fashion biz, dark depraved soul, drug addictions, online diaries, and the runaway train that was his eventual heart attack at the age of 30. We miss you James! (That was his real name.)

We talk Ben Smith's Ronan Farrow takedown, high achiever syndrome, resistance journalism, audiobook melodrama, and why Farrow's investigative nonfiction comes across as a glorified Hollywood audition. We also get into Alison Roman's suspension from the New York Times, James Charles's "Instant Influencers," Jackie Cox, and the emergence of the politically correct drag queen. We discuss VH1's censure of Sherry Pie and imagine what the season would have been like had she been showcased objectively. Then we talk about Justin Bieber and Ariana Grande's #1 debut controversy, parse the conspiracies and money channels that dictate the Billboard charts, and observe Doctor Luke's comeback with the new Doja Cat single featuring Nicki Minaj. Then we talk about Jeffrey's closing, New York COVID-19 casualties, and why Patrik is moving to L.A.

Further reading:

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/17/business/media/ronan-farrow.html

https://www.nme.com/news/music/billboard-responds-after-tekashi-6ix9ine-accused-ariana-grande-and-justin-bieber-of-rigging-hot-100-chart-2672297

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Big COVID energy. What don't we talk about?

Paul started watching Vanderpump Rules for the first time and solved the mystery of the 7-11 Corona Bandit, and then we go into how the Coronavirus is teaching people how to live in a society, why quarantining is really designed to curb the worst among us, the cancelled New York Democratic Primary, DeBlasio's "Jewish" gaffe, unpacking the syntax, his intent, the Internet's outrage, and what it reflects. Also: Cuomosexuals, the cudgel of victimization, regional controversies and our new New York relativism, Zoom funerals, social distancing cops, pandemic as equalizer, Jeff Goldblum's Drag Race controversy, abusing oneself to please one's parents, the liberal obsession with lesser evils, post-millennial fusion of self and brand how it erodes the art of drag, delusional American exceptionalist fantasies of first-world status, and the conflation of otherness with virtue. Paul comes out as trad Cath and we reminisce about Catholic child molestors, and realize middle-aged Catholic smokers are the new tabloid sex symbols (Chris Cuomo and Ben Affleck). We also talk about why podcasters, YouTubers, and porn stars are the post-COVID entrepreneurial class, Hillary Clinton's graboid bid for the running mate slot, Rebecca Traister's Biden Trap essay, the spinelessness of the Democratic Party's leadership, and finally...a message from the CEO of Nasty Pig.

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Paul's drunk. Patrik's hot and bothered over due process. Neither of us are voting for Joe Biden, and it has nothing to do with sexual assault allegations. We also talk about the lost art of "getting away with it," and our favorite YouTubers: Paul is obsessed with Kalvin Garrah's war against GoFundMe surgeries, Patrik loves HRH Collection but finds her to be a "nondesigner," or a "fashion charlatan," if you will. We venture into Drag Race's Madonna Rusical and address our beloved listeners and their absolutely adorable demands!

We have recorded 14 special quarantine episodes with guests like Hari Nef (twice!), Alissa Bennett, Steven Phillips-Horst, and we did a RHONY episode and a full radio show with music!...If you aren't a subscriber to the patreon, so much awaits you once you join:

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We are doing DAILY PATREON EPISODES the ENTIRE DURATION OF THE QUARANTINE! Go to http://www.patreon.com/notreally for the FULL episodes!

Welcome to the dollhouse! Hari Nef joins us to discuss this week's episode of Drag Race, season 12, the early seasons, bio queens, fishy femmes, who's got it and who's got nothing. We talk oedipal mom-worship in the drag arts, the trans/drag connection, Jan's obsession with going mainstream, Widow Von Du's watermelon realness, and wonder if we should just forgive Sherry Pie... We go deep on Sherry Pie's connection to Playwright's Horizons, the Hell's Kitchen theater circuit, Bulk the musical based on the movie based on the musical and who's playing whom, casting, the Vanity Fair party, our J train haters, social justice warrior regrets, and caviar dreams!

We also take time to address our listeners...you guys are cute but some of you think you're too cute. Patrik is going to start blocking you for it!

Again, we are not putting out any free episodes for the entire quarantine period so if you talk to someone who's not on the Patreon let that bitch know where it's all going down dolls!!!!

We are now DAILY!!!

We are doing nightly shows over on patreon.com/notreally during the quarantine!!!! EVERY...SINGLE...NIGHT...

Tonight we have guest Amber A'Lee Frost from Chapo and two nights ago we had Alissa Bennett on to do a deep dive into the life and death of pornstar Erik Rhodes. Who will the NEXT GUEST? tune in to find out!

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Xo

Paul

We are recording Patreon-only nightcalls the whole duration of the Quarantine! Check out our first on on http://www.patreon.com/notreally ! We go into all the gossip and drama surrounding the pandemic and our new, shut-in lives, including recommendations, music, movies, trend forecasts and more.

This is the first episode in our nightly quarantine series, which will be available for the duration of the pandemic on Patreon! Subscribe at http://www.patreon.com/notreally for a day-by-day breakdown of what has to be the most melodramatic extinction-level mass behavioral shift since Paul was kicked off Twitter and forced to shitpost as @gaycrossfit.

We discuss our quars, individual symptoms, attention-starved celebrities, becoming gamers, "the death of cinema", Alex HRH Collection, the fulfilled prophecies of Wall-E, Idiocracy, and Glamorama, Paul's brother's girlfriend's intimacy issues, Coronavirus grifters, lying hookers, getting deplatformed, our entertainment suggestions, Danielle Staub's face, designer dogs named after designer bags, and Amanda Bynes's pregnancy.

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