We have the star of one of our favorite shows here this week, Theo Germaine. You Might Know Them From Work In Progress and The Politician. Theo is a non-binary actor from Chicago with a background in theatre, circus, and burlesque, who blew up from the Netflix series, The Politician. Theo gave us all the goods on working with Ryan Murphy, navigating Hollywood as a trans artist, and, of course, all the juice on our current favorite show, Showtime’s Work In Progress.

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Discussed this week:

Easy Cheese

The Pipettes

Rene Russo’s Outbreak (1995)

Cheez Whiz

Anne believes in the power of Duncan Hines box brownies

Gushers, Dunkaroos, EL Fudge

Keebler Elves

We hate David the Gnome

Voice of David the Gnome: Tom Bosley 

Work in Progress

Julia Sweeney

Damian will give you his Showtime credentials

The Politician

co-creator/star: Abby McEnany; co-creator: Tim Mason; writer: Lily Wachowski

Theo watched the following Ryan Murphy: GleeSe, Running with Scissors (2006)

AHS: Asylum w/ Sarah Paulson, Chloe Sevigny, Zachary Quinto/

Ryan Murphy is a Midwestern Catholic

Nip/Tuck was early Murphy and had gay and trans storylines

Theo’s character in The Politician is trans but it’s not part of the storyline

Theo eating fire

Doug Jones in Hellboy, Hocus Pocus, Pan’s Labyrinth, The Shape of Water

Our girl Sally Hawkins

Gay content: A Leauge of Their Own, Bound, Fried Green Tomatoes, Thelma and Louise, High Art, Queer as Folk, The L Word, Clueless, Harry Potter, Mulan

Princess Zelda’s alter ego, Sheik

Heather Locklear always listed as “Special Guest Star” on Melrose Place

The L Word Gen Q: Micah

Is “buttmunch” homophobic? RHOA moment

Bye Bye Birdie, Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson

Pippin revival with circus theme (dir: Diane Paulus)

Holy Trinity 

Are poppers queer culture

Other stars of THe Politician: Gwyneth Paltrow, Bette Midler, Jessica Lange

Did you know about Pat?

Damian’s SNL audition: Bob Vila, Urkel, Pat