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You get a burnt book! YOU get a burnt book! Everybody's leaving with a burnt book!!! This week, I'm dissecting the fact vs fiction of Ronnie D’s book burning antics in Florida and the other side of that coin in the Battle of the S̶e̶x̶e̶s̶ Censorship war. Dragging Huck Finn into this is one thing. But Oompa Loompas?! The nerve. Taking a peek into queer theory and critical race theory -- both gloriously convoluted -- we'll peel back how both political sides of the culture war indulge in their own slippery slopes of censoring everyone who breathes the wrong way, but further, how the archnemeses are almost exact versions of the other. On the bright side, the one some refer to as reality, there are voices bringing rationale to the insanity. Now pass me a Target pride rainbow glass and let's get this party going!

Women are now the bad guys. Gay and drag icons are evil. Inclusion is censorship. And basic scientific facts are hate speech. Take this wild journey with me that starts back with '80s hair bands and a gay tennis legend, to a peculiar 2015 article on the Victoria's Secret Fashion Show, to where we are now in the diversity clusterf*ck no one asked for. Don't try too hard to make any of it make sense, guys. You'll break your brain. But mark my words: "representation" in the guise of stepping on and punishing other people? It won't go so well. Twisted Sister with "We're Not Gonna Take It" had it right all along. 

We're not here for a long time. We're here for a good time... a good time for unreasonable woke warriors to have a seat. Josh Duhamel's raunchy new buddy comedy "Buddy Games: Spring Awakening" is packed with social commentary, hitting EVERY hot-button, taboo topic -- from a dog's pronouns to racism, sexism, all the isms -- encouraging the masses to lighten up. The director/star and his co-stars Kevin Dillon (Entourage) and Dan Bakkedahl (VEEP) talk to me over a beer about: the art (and necessity) of making fun of the otherwise unspeakable, men's biological fixation on boobs, the timeless dick joke, and what this is all about at the end of the day: the primal desire for freedom. Pour me another round.

Perpetually disgruntled person on social media, actress Jameela Jamil, called out Hollywood for being big, fat hypocrites at this year's Met Gala. For once, the lady has a point. And I let her know it. In addition to my online interaction with her regarding the issue and my stance (eerily similar to the one I had with Chrissy Teigen a few years back), I detail how she's spot on in their true hypocrisy when it comes to selective cancelling. However, her reasoning of WHY in this case (regarding this year's Met theme of late designer Karl Lagerfeld), I feel, is a stretch. Almost as big of a stretch as your sweatpants, which Karl despised. Listen now.

Santa came early because your much-needed breath from the psychosis of the news cycle is here. But who needs Santa when you have... BATWOMAN. Tune into this inquisitive yet fun, provocative conversation with actress Javicia Leslie here to talk about her new Paramount film "Double Life." Javicia, who you've seen on The CW's "Batwoman" as the title role and "The Flash," gives super thoughtful takes on the infidelity trope as she plays the other woman. Both on and off screen, she leads by example with her non-victim mentality. She asks: Why NOT indulge woman-on-woman drama since it's real? And of course you'd expect to hear "monogamy isn't natural" coming from a dude. But to change things up: enter, Javicia.

Fox News and CNN's golden boys are fired out of nowhere on the same day. BuzzFeed, Vice, and Paper Magazine start to go under days later. In the apocalypse of the news media landscape, Cancel Me, Baby is the last man standing.

Remember the society in which Tampax wanted their products promoted by individual who doesn't have periods? Where elite athletic orgs encouraged biological men to smoke their female competition? Where you were called crazy for thinking it was all crazy? Same. But nothing to see here, folks, just good ol' gaslighting and female mockery at its finest! It's not The Twilight Zone. It's another Monday in the American news cycle.

In today's episode, I dive into the continued chaos around trans TikTok star Dylan Mulvaney and an issue much bigger than an unused tampon: the line of celebrating trans women and stepping on all other women -- and where the line is not only blurred but ignored harder than your taxes. I ask: Is this really your trans female hero? ('cus it ain't mine), while reflecting on my Riley Gaines interview experience, trans women we should be looking up to, and feminist of our time Emily Ratajkowski's part in Marc Jacobs' new "genderless" campaign.

My common sense can't help but wonder: Isn't genderless and individuality an oxymoron? Why can we do this identity abandoning and fluctuating with gender but not race? And why are these conversations ALWAYS.around.women for crying out loud?

Reality check: AI is about to take over more than your chats and sex lives, earthlings. This shit is on its way to making human roles and creativity obsolete. Well not if this game-changing artist has anything to do with it. What, like it's hard? 

Jeremy Cowart's been named one of the most influential web photographers by HuffPost and also featured in TIME, Forbes, AdWeek. His portraits include the Kardashians, Taylor Swift, Dolly Parton, Sting, Garth Brooks, and Britney, bitch, with clients like Nike, Sports Illustrated, and ABC. Following his NFT renegade "Block Queens" (which sold out in seconds), he talks about his historic, upcoming project AURAS -- creating 10,000 unique NFTs in 20 minutes without AI in front of a live audience.

In our sit-down from his Nashville studio, we talk: NFT naysayers, what IG was *intended* for,  why the female form just hits different in art, control and freedom in creating, and of course, beating AI art at its creepy little game.

While I may be wondering why a biological male who doesn't have tits yet is enlisted by Nike to sell us women sports bras, I'd still argue we have bigger fish to fry. In the continuous news cycle from Hades itself (don't tell The Daily Wire I said that!!!), I'm here to talk about how objects that used to be associated with fun and joy -- like beer and teddy bears -- are now used as political tools to trigger chaos and all out war. I wish I was kidding. I wish I could reminisce on my first Build-A-Bear in peace. But no. It's 2023. And from trans influencers to drag queens, prominent forces on either side frankly aren't doing anyone any favors in this battle around gender identity. With some of my celeb trans and drag queen experiences, and a will to effing go another day in this godforsaken mess, I'm here to help.

Stormy Daniels. You may have heard the name. Especially if you've been a conscious, breathing being with ears over the last week, chances are pretty high! Well, four years ago, I was featured right next to Stormy in the opening Playbill of Playboy's Anniversary Issue dedicated to, of all things, freedom. I had a feature about women being free to break out of the "brains or beauty" boxes. She had a feature on the heels of speaking out about her affair with Trump about being free to break out of the "hero or whore" boxes the media put her in. Now, she's the center of Trump's unprecedented, explosive, and politicized potential indictment and arrest.... and here we are. Here's my view of it all that no one seems to get.

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