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Gothic Horror and Queer Monsters

Ashley & Brandon Season 1 Episode 19

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Ever looked at Frankenstein's monster and thought, "Honestly, same"? 

This week, we're diving deep into the cinematic graveyard to look at classic horror monsters through a beautifully lavender lens. 

From the dramatic, closeted double-life of Dracula to the "unholy transformation" of the Werewolf - monsters have always been a little bit queer. Join us as we compare, contrast, and celebrate the rich history of queer subtext in classic horror.

Grab your garlic and leave those pitchforks at home Committed Gang, it's time to chat and yap about it!

Distribution: Buzzsprout

Editing and Production: Riverside.FM Studios

Music: "Good Things Take Time" by Otto.mp3 and Upbeat

SPEAKER_01

Bubbles. Hi, gay.

SPEAKER_02

Hi, bisexual.

SPEAKER_01

How's Pride Month treating your ass so far? I know you got a fucking story.

SPEAKER_02

Okay, well. You know about it, because I texted you while it was happening. I was working yesterday and I was at my last pickup. It's this deny ass truck stop in Newton, Kansas. And it's a quasti from from Quitwheel.

SPEAKER_01

It's a Quasti from Quitwheel. Quitwheel.

SPEAKER_02

Jesus Christ. Um, I was just sitting in my truck watching TikToks, as I do, waiting for this fuck-ass FedEx dropbox to open. And I had to go pee.

unknown

Okay.

SPEAKER_02

Because I drank a lot of water. And this guy walked in behind me, didn't think anything of it. I went to a stall and I had to go pee, like I said.

SPEAKER_03

Sure.

SPEAKER_02

And then he decides to go to the left stall right next to me. I didn't think anything else of it, because I was peeing. And I was on my phone. The next thing I fucking know, girl, this man is getting on his knees in the stall next to me.

unknown

Okay?

SPEAKER_01

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02

He then proceeds to pull out his dick and put it under the stall. And I was like, I like was looking that way, and I look down and I just see a dick, and I'm like, huh.

unknown

Okay.

SPEAKER_00

Does he like swinging it around?

SPEAKER_02

He was like jerk it. He was jorking. He was jorking it. He was jorking. He was jorking it, hoping you would jork it for him. And then he like was shaking a little bit. And I was like.

SPEAKER_01

He said, suck it. It's like a fucking glory hole.

SPEAKER_02

And I'm like, what the fuck is happening? And I'm like, this has to be a cruise spot.

SPEAKER_00

It has to be. Like, what did you like say besides, huh? You just, no, thank you.

SPEAKER_02

I didn't say anything.

SPEAKER_00

This is not a glory. My hole's not glorious for you. Like so sorry.

SPEAKER_02

Yeah, so he just kept shaking his penis. And I finished going pee, and I was like, huh. And then I walked out.

SPEAKER_01

Man, you washed your hands.

SPEAKER_02

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01

Okay.

SPEAKER_02

Well, no, but but I have my have my uh hand sanitizer. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00

That doesn't count, but okay.

SPEAKER_02

It does. What do you mean?

SPEAKER_00

What do you mean? That's insane.

SPEAKER_02

So yeah, that was fun. And then as I was walking out of the bathroom, all I hear is, eyel, what the fuck? I was like, alright, I gotta go.

SPEAKER_00

Not him like thinking that the driver was gonna suck some wiener. I told you.

SPEAKER_02

Even if I was single, I still don't think I would do it. No. No, I don't think I catch a fucking venereal disease.

SPEAKER_00

So icky. I can't. It reminds me of the time. Do you remember a long, long time ago where there was a guy, I was driving down Douglas, and there was the guy who pulled up next to me.

SPEAKER_02

Yes, yes. And he was like, It's giving the same vibes.

SPEAKER_00

A girl.

SPEAKER_02

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00

Okay, long story short, this I this guy wanted me to send him some sexy pictures. Um, I said, no, you go first. And he's proceeded to send me his dick. Brand just dribbled on himself. I did. Again. He proceeds to send me a picture of his dick. He's sitting on the toilet like he's taking a shit, and there's pee on the toilet seat, and he has his dick in his hands.

SPEAKER_02

These okay, if you're straight. And if you ever fucking do this, stop it. Knock it the fuck off. We should make an episode about how to take dick pics.

SPEAKER_00

Yes! We're doing it. Hot shots, dick pics, titty shots, titty shots, all the things, foreplay videos.

SPEAKER_02

There's actually a very educational podcast a long, long time ago. Uh The Call Her Daddy Girls. They did uh an episode on how to take a dick pic.

SPEAKER_00

We should recap it, but not like them, because have you heard all the tea in shade with Alex Earl and Alex Cooper? Are you into any of that drama?

SPEAKER_02

What do you mean? Ugh. Alex Earl?

SPEAKER_00

Yeah. Alex Earl and Alex Cooper.

SPEAKER_02

Oh no, I have no idea.

SPEAKER_00

Oh girl, we gotta talk about it off camera. I gotta I gotta educate you.

SPEAKER_02

There's no camera here.

SPEAKER_00

Anyways, we're gonna chat and app about queer horror and gothic monsters. Yahweh. The angry villagers with the pitchforks and the torches, and they're chasing the misunderstood creature throughout the town, out of the town, and into the burning windmill. Now, ask yourself, were you reading for the townspeople, or were you secretly hoping that the monster would escape? Now, if you see the bigger picture, are you ready to understand why horror has always been fundamentally queer? Let's chat.

SPEAKER_02

And yap.

SPEAKER_00

And yap. So I don't know if you've ever made any type of connections to this. I was trying to find things to talk about during Pride Month so we could chat and yap about all things queer and how proud we are to be in this community, whatever. So it's like, let's take our favorite thing, horror movies, and a piece of who we are, which is part of the LGBTQIA plus community, and combine them. Okay, girl, I found some tea. So historically, Hollywood has a code, it's called the Hollywood Hayes Code, where it strictly banned depictions of sexual perversion, which obviously included homosexuality, right? From 1934 to 1968. 1968 is fucking crazy. It's the year my mom was born.

SPEAKER_02

I mean, it's a different, it's a different era though. And they weren't, I mean, shit, they're still not accepting the queer community. Right. It's just like when people say like that I couldn't even imagine what it was like back then. But like people, yeah.

SPEAKER_00

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02

People were being like stunned to death. Oh my god, I wish that was me.

SPEAKER_00

Actually, let me go back.

SPEAKER_02

Let me just catch a hate crime real quick.

SPEAKER_00

It's like when people say that like ice pick lobotomies or just lobotomies in general, were done up until the 80s.

SPEAKER_02

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00

To me, that's fucking insane. I also love one of those too. Oh, an ice pick lobotomy?

SPEAKER_02

Yeah, that sounds fun.

SPEAKER_00

I'll give one to you.

SPEAKER_02

Yay! I'm excited.

SPEAKER_00

So next week when we talk about dick pics and you just hear Brandon slurring his words, it's because I I gave him the ice pick lobotomy.

SPEAKER_02

Right. I just want him to be a girl to be dead, probably. She'll poke into my brain.

SPEAKER_00

No, I'll be careful. Um, anyways, so casual. Casual. So knowing that that was like a rule. Now, queer people didn't just like randomly pop up in the 70s and the 80s, like, hey, we're gay.

SPEAKER_03

Right.

SPEAKER_00

Um, queer people have been around forever.

SPEAKER_02

Right.

SPEAKER_00

As long as like anyone else, right? So directors try to hide the themes in plain sight, their queer personalities, their queer beliefs in plain sight. So there's a director, his name is James Whale. He was openly gay, and he infused movies like The Bride of Frankenstein that he did and The Old Dark House with campy outsiders who are rejected by the standard nuclear family structures. We did not celebrate a nuclear family month, by the way.

SPEAKER_02

That's really crazy that you said nuclear family. Did you see that post about with the senator? Yes. And then he uh blamed it on his PR team.

SPEAKER_00

Girl, you are the PR team. Like, that's insane.

SPEAKER_02

I saw on TikTok, and a bunch of these comments were like uh his PR team and quotation marks. And it was just a person looking in the mirror.

SPEAKER_00

No shit. Painting his face like a clown.

SPEAKER_02

Like, what did he think was gonna happen?

SPEAKER_00

I don't know. Like, for real, I think they forget that who they are, and like there's other people who follow them besides like their mom and their auntie. Right. Hello. And like not everyone believes in what you believe, and so when you post hateful, bigotry type shit, like somebody's gonna pop the fuck off.

SPEAKER_02

Hello, hello. Nuclear family is insane. Anyways, continue.

SPEAKER_00

Yes, so he believed that he could hide who he was and what he believed in in plain sight. So he took these quote unquote monsters and transformed them into hidden and plain sight frustrations of the queer community. Are your eyes twitching still?

SPEAKER_02

Don't look in my eyes. I look crazy about that, but you too.

SPEAKER_00

It looks a little ah, you know what I mean? A little scary. A little scary. So he like I said, he directed The Bride of Frankenstein. So you take like example of Frankenstein himself. He's rejected by everyone around him. He doesn't know exactly what he wants, who he is, and everyone just looks at him like, no, we don't want you because you don't fit into our normal standards. Right?

SPEAKER_03

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00

So and obviously he can't, or maybe he doesn't know how to reproduce as an someone who is fully human would. So that's why Frankenstein tries to make a bride for his creature, right? Right. Okay, try to make him fit in. But is it is that what they want? No, because if you know the bride of Frankenstein's story, Frankenstein was gay. T. T, T T T T.

SPEAKER_02

That was more of a joke.

SPEAKER_00

But was he? I don't know. Who I wish we could ask the creature.

SPEAKER_02

If anything, I would hope it'd be Jacob Alordy. Be like, oh, yes. That one.

SPEAKER_01

That one, that one, I want that one.

SPEAKER_02

And then he's like, uh you want the thick thighs pussy salad.

SPEAKER_01

The thick thigh pussy salad.

SPEAKER_02

I want that one. Sorry.

SPEAKER_01

No, I love that.

SPEAKER_02

I just was stimming a little bit.

SPEAKER_00

It's okay. It's okay. We all know. We all know, babe. We all know. There's other like archaeotypes. I'm sorry. You said I gotta keep it going. There's other type of archaeotypes that kind of fit into what James Whale was trying to do. So I kind of like broke it down a little bit. This might be super far-fetched. So if you guys who are listening are like on the fence of like, you know, what you believe, what you don't believe, you're like in between parties, I don't fucking know. And you're like, this bitch is crazy. You are right. I might be stretching the truth, I might be like trying to pull at strings here, but this is how I related these horror movie icons to being queer or making queer comparisons.

SPEAKER_02

Ash said, play with your pussy hoe, not me.

SPEAKER_00

Play with your pussy hoe, not me. And on that part, vampires.

SPEAKER_02

I fear I'm just gonna be stimming.

SPEAKER_00

You're adding some flavor to it.

SPEAKER_02

I I'm doing something. I don't know what I'm doing.

SPEAKER_01

You're putting your whole buddhie into it.

SPEAKER_02

Goodbye.

SPEAKER_00

Squirt your pussy to the sky, babe.

SPEAKER_02

Oh my god.

unknown

Okay.

SPEAKER_02

Anyways, vampires.

SPEAKER_00

Vampires. Okay. With my pussy out. With your pussy squirt into the sky is the ultimate symbol of the forbidden desire. Think about it. Think about it. They always want what they can't have, right? Okay. Okay. So if you think about Sheridan, I'm gonna say this wrong. This is French. Um, from Sheridan Le Farnes. I'm so sorry if I botched that. Uh, she wrote a book in 1872. It's a novella, it's called Carmilla. It's a lesbian vampire story. And it actually predates Dracula. So it was original, original, original vampire. Before Dracula. Before no Noseratu, before any of that, right?

SPEAKER_02

Oh, okay. So original. Original, original.

SPEAKER_00

She was uh she was a lesbian. She was a lesbian. Lesbians scare me. Lesbians scare you? Yeah. Really? Why?

SPEAKER_02

The ex-wife scared me.

SPEAKER_00

That's valid.

SPEAKER_01

But but I hope that Mike can pick that up.

SPEAKER_02

If you heard me, then I said what I said.

SPEAKER_00

He said, play with your pussy hoe, not with me. Not with me. Hello.

SPEAKER_02

Go ahead and play.

SPEAKER_00

No, you're fine. So from Sheridan's version of Camilla to Anna Rice's vampire chronicles that represent fluid sensual lifestyles. They don't fit into the normal realm of things. And they're fine with that. They love that shit. It's kind of like the queer community. We don't fit into your standard, you know, belief system. We don't fit into your standard lifestyles. And we're okay with that. Some of us are vampires. How would you know? Because we can hide in plain sight.

SPEAKER_02

This is actually really crazy.

SPEAKER_00

Do you like it? Yeah. I put a lot of it.

SPEAKER_02

Does it make it makes sense actually?

SPEAKER_00

I put my whole pussy into it.

SPEAKER_02

Girl, I can tell.

SPEAKER_00

You can tell. I can tell.

SPEAKER_02

I mean, the vampires and the Frankenstein. I feel like they're all gay.

SPEAKER_00

They're all gay now. You're like, ah, uh. It makes sense. Is it that you're like you're gay, you're bisexual, if anything. You have some lesbians like Carmilla, you have hell, there might be some, there's might be some trans, some non-binaries. Fluidity. Fluid-d-dity.

SPEAKER_02

You can you can do it. Fluidity.

SPEAKER_00

Uh-huh. And it's like the TikTok I just showed you.

SPEAKER_02

Wait, no, say it again. Fluid. This is like ASMR.

SPEAKER_00

And I can't say that word either.

SPEAKER_02

Do it.

SPEAKER_00

Do it. Do it. Do it. AMSMR.

SPEAKER_02

A S M R.

SPEAKER_00

A S M R. I have to say it like that. That makes me sound really fucking stupid.

SPEAKER_02

ASMR. It's really fast.

SPEAKER_00

ASMR.

SPEAKER_02

A girl.

SPEAKER_00

Okay, anyways.

SPEAKER_02

That was fun.

SPEAKER_00

But no, it's like the TikTok I just showed you where it's the cute little twink boy in the Barnes and Noble, and his friend said, Stop telling people that you're bisexual, you're gay. And he goes, I am gay, but sometimes studs get me, and I'm never afraid of a strap. That is sexual fluidity. Pop your pussy.

SPEAKER_02

Yeah, that's crazy.

SPEAKER_00

Are you afraid of a strap?

SPEAKER_02

I'm afraid of lesbians.

SPEAKER_00

So we're afraid of some straps.

SPEAKER_02

Yeah. Uh yeah. Yeah. Well, maybe. I don't know.

SPEAKER_00

I gotta get him real dry.

SPEAKER_02

It's been a while it's been a while since I've um bottled, so I don't know. That's true. No. That's true.

SPEAKER_00

Okay, moving on to our next creature. I kind of talked about it a little bit. Frankenstein, Frankenstein's creature. I feel like everyone says that. They're like, oh Frankenstein, Frankenstein. Frankenstein is the creator. His creature has no name. It's just the call the creature. Do you know that?

SPEAKER_02

No. What?

SPEAKER_00

Yeah. So Frankenstein is the guy who made what people who people call Frankenstein, right? But it he has no name. The creature he creates has no name. He never gives him a name.

SPEAKER_02

I thought he was Frankenstein.

SPEAKER_00

No, Frankenstein is the inventor.

SPEAKER_02

Oh. I did not know that.

SPEAKER_00

T.

SPEAKER_02

The more you know.

SPEAKER_00

And the more you know.

SPEAKER_02

Damn.

SPEAKER_00

So his creature is a profound metaphor for body dysmorphia, gender, nonconformity, or simply just feeling like an outcast cobbled together in a place that was never made for you.

unknown

God, I felt that.

SPEAKER_00

Are you are you the creature?

SPEAKER_02

Specifically body body dysmorphia.

SPEAKER_00

I feel body dysmorphia too.

SPEAKER_02

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00

It's crazy. I feel like everyone has some type of form of body dysmorphia. You don't have to be queer to have body dysmorphia.

SPEAKER_02

No, definitely not. So you just gotta be a big bitch.

SPEAKER_00

You just gotta be a big bitch or a skinny bitch or a bitch that's been one or the other on some realm, and you still feel like you're there. It's a whole spectrum. Girl. Right. Or on the spectrum of body dysmorphia.

SPEAKER_02

And autism.

SPEAKER_00

And autism. There's another one. A shape shifter, or people know this creature as like a werewolf. So characters hide their secret identity, terrified of what will happen if their true nature is exposed. Is a form of like a werewolf.

SPEAKER_02

When you say like shapeshifter, do you mean like like a skinwalker?

SPEAKER_00

No, I well, I guess you could, but like to me, shape shifting when I'm like that's why I slashed it, like the werewolf. So during the day, he's human.

SPEAKER_02

I see what you're saying.

SPEAKER_00

And he shaveshifts tonight with the werewolf.

SPEAKER_02

With werewolf, yeah. I got you.

SPEAKER_00

Which everyone I've known in the queer community has identified, I think, as a shape shifter. Because everyone has been hidden at so hell, me, even me has hidden their sexuality.

SPEAKER_02

I could see that.

SPEAKER_00

And afraid of what will happen. Damn.

SPEAKER_02

So we're all werewolves, then all werewolves. Shapeshifters. Hello. Skinwalkers.

SPEAKER_00

Yep. Poppin' pussies.

SPEAKER_02

Poppin' pussies. Shaking ass.

SPEAKER_00

So now that we kind of like broke down, like I said, this might be far-fetched, but if you're really listening and if you're open-minded or you're part of the community, you're like, you want to know what? These bitches are Satan something. Now it's time to take like the power of the reclamation of historically queer people being labeled as monstrous or deviant. Because I feel like everyone has heard some type of derogatory term, whether it's towards yourself or towards the community or towards whatever. Right. Has someone ever called you like out of your name? And meant it as a derogatory or like deviant thing. I feel like I've caught someone so maybe it wasn't you, maybe it's not the one in the other case. I remember someone called one of my friends the F word and meant it in a very derogatory way. Oh yeah. And I got so fucking pissed and almost fought in the club. I think it was that fucking XY of all places. The gay community.

SPEAKER_02

Who are you talking about?

SPEAKER_00

I don't remember who the guy was, but I don't know.

SPEAKER_02

Who are you with?

SPEAKER_00

The other two. Oh, okay. The gays. The gays. Oh, you did say that. I was sorry.

SPEAKER_02

And I hate that shit. I love being hate crime, though.

SPEAKER_00

I love being called a they take these immersive senses of power, freedom, and glamour in gothic villain, reclaiming the monster equals taking the weapon that is used against you and turning it into the badge of honor. Okay. That was a lot of like word vomit. But to take that and kind of soak it back, something that people can compare that to taking what people say about you and like just making yourself be like, you want to it? Yeah, I am that, and I'm proud of that. In a gothic term, Morticia and Gomez from the Adams family. Sure. They know they're outsiders. Right. And they love that shit. Wednesday Adams, what was it? Like the second movie back from the 90s when Christina Ritchie was Wednesday Adams and she goes to the camp. Do you remember what I'm talking about? And they do like the play about Thanksgiving.

unknown

I don't know.

SPEAKER_02

I don't think I've ever seen that. Oh my god. The only version I've seen about the Adams family is Wednesday from Netflix.

SPEAKER_00

So you haven't seen anything from like backdated?

SPEAKER_02

Jenna Ortega eats that shit up.

SPEAKER_00

She's is a good Wednesday Addams.

SPEAKER_02

I think she is. She plays it very well. But I have not seen the one you're talking about.

SPEAKER_00

So those are the movies I grew up with because those came out like late 90s and love that shit, right? Yeah. So they send Wednesday and her brother, God, what's his name? What's his name? What's his name?

SPEAKER_02

It's we it's a it's not normal. I want to say he's like it's not a normal name.

SPEAKER_00

It's only because he's pudgy, and I want to say like Chubbs. Hold on. That's not it.

SPEAKER_02

I gotta I gotta I gotta Google it. Dr. Google. I need to I need to know.

SPEAKER_00

Anyways, they send the kids off to a camp. And of course, everyone else is like super nice and bubbly. It's like summer fucking camp, right? And here are the Adams children, and they're just in their black swimsuits, and they're very like morbous, and they they just don't get along with the other kids, and they're perfectly fine with that. They like being uniquely themselves. Um Wednesday does something, and to punish Wednesday, instead of like doing a normal punishment, I guess what they make Wednesday do.

SPEAKER_02

Damn, girl, your hands are cold as fuck.

SPEAKER_00

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02

Oh my god. I know my Pugsley?

SPEAKER_00

Pugsley! Yes, it is that is right. Pugsley in Wednesday. See, and it was like Chubs, Pugs, Chubs, something like that.

SPEAKER_02

Yeah. I honestly didn't know that, but anyways.

SPEAKER_00

So a punishment that they do for Wednesday Adams when she's at this camp because she's not like all the normal kids, right? Is they make her sit in a cabin and watch Disney movies. Like The Little Mermaid. And she hates that shit. Because they're trying to conform her to like what they are.

SPEAKER_02

Gay to straight camp, almost.

SPEAKER_00

Literally, it's like gay to straight camp. Yeah. It's like from from gothic to normality camp.

SPEAKER_02

Isn't that a conversion camp? A conversion, that's what I was trying to say.

SPEAKER_00

It's conversion camp.

SPEAKER_02

Yeah, fun.

SPEAKER_00

So, anyways, that's what it makes me think of. Um, and they're like, you know what? No, fuck you. And at the very end, this might be spoilers. Definitely for you, if anyone else has not seen that movie. Um, they end up taking the the play and they're putting it on for the parents. It's a play about Thanksgiving, but of course it's like the ones that we were taught in school, right? Not like the dark behind it. Yeah. And Wednesday's like, no, you fucking took this land, you're on stolen land, and like ties up all the little white children and like pretends to cook them over the fire. And then all her like friends that she made at the camp are all dressed up as like Native Americans, and they're like, and they're like, fuck you for taking our land and fuck Thanksgiving.

SPEAKER_01

It was great.

SPEAKER_02

Damn, cunty. I love that.

SPEAKER_00

It's very cunty. I ought to watch it sometimes, especially like when it gets vulnerable.

SPEAKER_02

It's like you said uh it's the Adams Family, right?

SPEAKER_00

The Adams Family is the second one. There's a couple with then I have seen.

SPEAKER_02

I thought you meant like they made like a Wednesday just specifically for Oh no, girl.

SPEAKER_00

This is the Wednesday, this is the uh Adam's family movie. Okay, then yes, I have seen it. With Uncle Fester, and he marries the white bitch and she's out for his money because he's an eligible bachelor. It's that one. Yes!

SPEAKER_02

Yeah, okay.

SPEAKER_00

Jim.

SPEAKER_02

What?

SPEAKER_00

Jim thinks he looks like Uncle Fester, but Mexican. Because he has no neck.

SPEAKER_02

That's diabolical.

SPEAKER_00

He'll laugh at this. You can go ahead and laugh.

SPEAKER_02

Jim, what the fuck?

SPEAKER_00

I mean, you're not wrong, but I told him we should be Uncle Fester and in the white bitch from Adam Stanley too, one year. Okay. So that was kind of off topic, but I'm glad I got to talk about it. So when you think of classic horror, now. Explaining and kind of me like throwing this out there. Do you still root for the monster or are you just homophobic? Always have rooted for the monster, me personally.

SPEAKER_02

Um I'm both. Both of them. Both of them.

SPEAKER_01

Both for the monster, both for the homophobia. Oh, oh. Well, yeah. I guess. Well, anyways, uh, we're gonna finish this one.

SPEAKER_02

I'm allowed to be homophobic, though.

unknown

Because I'm gay.

SPEAKER_01

You know what? You're right.

SPEAKER_00

Pop your pussy queen. Squirt it to the sky.

SPEAKER_02

It's been it's been squirting this entire time while we were talking.

SPEAKER_00

I have to mop that up later. Thank you.

SPEAKER_02

Bro, it's gonna be like a goddamn ocean in your apartment.

SPEAKER_00

You're gonna have to help me. God damn it.

SPEAKER_02

It's gonna drown in my my pussy juice. My pussy juice. Drowned in your pussy juice.

SPEAKER_00

Okay, well.

SPEAKER_02

Um Wow, that was um that was very queer and cunty of you.

SPEAKER_00

Well, well, you know, we had to do one for the spooky girls, gays and the they've.

SPEAKER_02

Why, yes. It was a good one and kind of cool to learn about the ones who helped bring queer knowledge into Hollywood.

SPEAKER_00

Exactly. Okay, so now that we kind of got that out there, we did something uh for the girls, gays and they're, like we just said, let's round it out. What are you listening to currently this week, B?

SPEAKER_02

Um, Lotto just dropped her new album. Okay, is that it? Yeah, it's literally okay.

SPEAKER_00

With Doja, right? I heard Doja's part first before I heard it. Oh, did you really? Mm-hmm. It's so good. I love she's the feature queen.

SPEAKER_02

Yeah. I love Doja. I want to go see her. She's coming to Kansas City.

SPEAKER_00

You said like what, October?

SPEAKER_02

Yeah. I wanna go. But I don't I don't want to go by myself. Anyways. Anyways, but yes, my song is okay with uh Lotto and Doja Cat. Doja Cat. Yeah, love. What about you?

SPEAKER_00

Um uh you're gonna hate this again. Uh I'm gonna make you listen to this one too. I love Aubrey Graham. Um Too Hard for the Radio. Too hard for the Radio is a hardcore diss on Kendrick Lamar and all his little whoop-de-doos.

SPEAKER_02

Is this from Iceman or is it from Hub Beauty?

SPEAKER_00

Uh this one is from Iceman, actually.

SPEAKER_02

Oh, okay.

SPEAKER_00

This one's from Iceman. He actually so I don't know. I know you're not really into like hip-hop and like the hip-hop knowledge, but when Kendrick dissed Drake of all those other times, yeah. He basically said that if you come to like LA and you come to the Bay Area, come to Compton, you you it's like a death wish for you. Tell me why Drake takes a Bay Area artist's song, samples it, and that's the whole sample. Like that's the whole background to the whole song, right? Until Drake, you know, does Drake thing, he switches up mid midway and uses Bay Area slang in the song. It was fucking crazy. And then when he switches it up, at the there's a part where he says, You boys were out island hopping, that's crazy. I bet all your names are redacted. Oh talking about like Epstein files and like Jay-Z, who also has talked shit on Drake, goes, Mmm, hello, you.

SPEAKER_02

That's crazy.

SPEAKER_00

Girl, girl, that song's T. You have to listen to that one.

SPEAKER_02

I didn't know they were still beefing.

SPEAKER_00

I think when Drake never responded is when it died out. I think Kendra kept like fishing for it to have like this beef, and Drake never released anything. This is the first time we've heard anything from Drake since then.

SPEAKER_02

Damn, that's crazy.

SPEAKER_00

Yeah. And as we know, he's been working on three albums trying to get out of his fucking contract. So pop off. I'm a supporter.

SPEAKER_02

You always been a supporter game.

SPEAKER_00

I've always been a supporter of Aubrey Graham. All right, committed gang.

SPEAKER_02

As usual, thanks for listening. And don't forget to like, subscribe, and share. Until next week, I'm Brandon.

SPEAKER_00

And I'm Ashley. And this is Committed Technically. Okay, I'm going to go to the