This week we vent. We get real about the burden of women always cleaning up for men. We talk about hockey, masculinity and what it takes to be a real man without great models to mirror.

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0:00 Intro

0:12 Hockey Culture Growing Up

1:04 How the Olympics Reignited Hockey Passion

2:11 Women's Hockey Gold Medal Excitement

2:30 Men's Hockey Gold & The Miracle on Ice Anniversary

3:14 Cash Patel in the Locker Room

5:10 Trump's Phone Call & The Joke at Women's Expense

6:33 Why No One Spoke Up

7:16 The Responsibility to Be the Dissenting Voice

8:32 When Your Character Shows Up

9:24 What Real Masculinity Looks Like

10:58 SNL Monologue & The Hughes Brothers

12:12 Women and Queer People Always Cleaning Up the Mess

14:18 Teaching Boys to Speak Up

15:52 Raising Kids with Principles

16:49 Male Role Models in a Two-Mom Family

18:14 The "Not All Men" Problem

20:01 The Bar is on the Floor - School Pickup Story

23:01 Good Men Do Exist

24:53 Masculinity, Accountability & Confidence

27:15 Field Trip Chaos & Simon's Performance Plan

29:18 Kids Listening to the Podcast

30:13 Future Episode Ideas - Straight Man Roundtable

31:37 Losing Words with Age & Self-Acceptance

32:25 Outro

We chat with Brandon Kazen-Maddox, a non-binary an ASL artist, actor, choreographer, director, acrobat, and educator whose work lives at the intersection of movement, language, and identity. We chat about recommended reading, they teach us about codas and godas, and remind us to slow down, take a breath, and think before we speak.

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0:00 - Introduction to Brandon

1:02 - What is a CODA?

3:51 - Thinking in Multiple Languages

8:04 - Grace and Pace - The Art of Interpretation

12:08 - Sign Languages Around the World

15:44 - Language Deprivation and ASL Legacy

19:37 - Reading, Books, and Queer Joy

26:45 - Fellow Travelers Opera

29:26 - Intersectionality and Finding Your Place

32:07 - Growing Up Millennial

34:25 - Queer Quickies

41:30 - Where to Find Brandon

On today’s episode we’re talking about the fragility of men, why Erica likes expensive wine, dancing, not being good, Laura’s obsession with the challenger, the moon landing and spelunking.

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00:00 Intro + Season 2: Anonymous Queer Confessions

00:29 We’re Over It: Winter Hell in the Northeast

01:27 Darkness, Ice Dams & Snowed-In House Chaos

04:27 Parenting in a Deep Freeze: Ice Noises & Mom-Voice Trauma

05:47 Boomer Parents, Catholic Guilt & the ‘Body of Christ’ Cracker

07:06 Main Topic: The Fragility of Men (and Why We’re Done)

11:02 ‘Being Good’ Is Boring: Women, Queerness, Work & Mom Expectations

18:03 Homework, Gen Z, and Teaching Kids to Think for Themselves

20:40 Botox, spray tans & the pressure to “fix” ourselves

21:50 Instagram wellness overload & the Kardashian face effect

22:48 Moon landing rabbit hole: 1960s tech vs. modern skepticism

23:31 Challenger disaster: the morbid details that won’t let go

27:14 From “being good” to having standards: no more shitty wine

28:25 Speak up for what you want: sending it back & demanding a better table

30:28 What we’re looking forward to: hope, signs, and living the ‘happily ever after’

32:40 2020 as a gift: surviving chaos, finding gratitude, and friendship

35:30 Dancing again + one last morbid obsession (Nutty Putty cave)

37:22 Skydiving in the Swiss Alps & season wrap-up takeaways