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Overcompensating This Pride | 56

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Overcompensating This Pride | 56

The hosts reflect on a transformative night at Animal, a gay-friendly venue, where they feel fully seen and celebrated, drawing parallels to a joyful, rebellious coming-of-age experience. They enthusiastically review the new comedy drama *Overcompensating*, praising its authentic tone, sharp humor, and strong LGBTQ+ representation—particularly in its portrayal of queer youth, internet stars, and nuanced family dynamics. The show’s success is underlined by fan engagement and its ability to blend dark comedy with emotional truth. The hosts also spotlight emerging LGBTQ+ figures like Romey Mars and Vivian Jenna Wilson as powerful, outspoken voices using their platforms to challenge norms and celebrate self-worth. The conversation expands to reflect on fatherhood, noting how pride and family relationships intersect, especially with generational homophobia. Through personal anecdotes and pop culture references, the hosts celebrate diverse, inclusive portrayals of care and identity, culminating in a heartfelt recognition of how media can validate and empower real queer experiences—especially among young, Black, and internet-born voices. The episode ends with a nod to accessible women’s health care, bridging media and real-life wellness.

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You know, Atria said we might have taken Che Diaz from you, but we raise you a Rosie O'Donnell as a virgin, newly lesbian nun. Wow. I love them. They're always thinking big. What will they think of next? Probably something fucked up. And thank God I need it. I feel like I press play on just like that and I woke up. But I specifically press play at the screening that I hosted for HBO with a bunch of lesbians and, of course, your classic government mandated gay men. At least six. You need at least six gay men in a party to make it good. That's what I think. Huh. Six. That explains a lot about my high school experience. Was it good? No. Okay. The numbers were not on your side. The numbers were not on my side then. But Hunter couldn't make the screening. She was at Beyonce. And that's okay. We forgive. Sometimes allies have to take a day off. You know, they're working overtime. But she said, I'll lock right back in at the afters. I was going to say because, excuse me, how many other people? This is kind of my biggest stunt from a Beyonce concert from when I went from Stockholm to Kansas to pick up Remy. Nine months pregnant. My daughter. My dog. And then I went from Beyonce at MetLife to the tail end of the Injust Like That party. It got a wristband and everything. They did? You should have seen me at the afters being like. For the last 10 minutes, you said, get me together. I said, get me in here. And you were a photographer's dream because she comes on the now empty dance floor. Hunter's twirling that little onion booty around. And the photographer's like, thank you. We're getting party shots. I said, listen, I'm going to do it. I was with my sister Hilton. I said, let's dance to the night away. Let's tear it up. Dua Lipa. And I took a journey. A pilgrimage. Hmm. To a little, a little place called Animal. First time. Was it your first time there? Yeah. I'd never even heard of it before. I didn't even know where I was. You guys, you said, oh, come on, girl. We're going to Animal. I said. That's true. That's true. I was in one of those, I was in one of those moods where I was like, I'm ready to be out. I'm ready to be out on the town. I said, get me outside. And you were. And then the funniest thing ever was like, I mean, obviously I am very lucky and very privileged to see Hunter outside. I know that I get a, I get a first class front row seat. Hunter's outside era, but to watch a sea of gay men essentially roar in applause to be like, there's no way Hunter Yvonne Harris, government name is out at Animal with us right now. It felt like I was like Princess Diana. I was. Yeah, totally. Of the gay man community. Totally. Literally our friend immediately tweeting, Hunter spotted. Like, it's like, wait, like, and that was the bus. NY Social B. NY Social B. I was walking. I was walking around like waving that wrist. She said, let's get a drink. Let's stick our sticky phone case on the back of a bar. I did. I said, I auto buddy slammed against the wall. Margarita was in my hand. And the next day I had a hangover. He wouldn't believe. And I do believe. Yeah, I do believe. And I said, wow, I bet Peyton is just fine right now. I know truly. I woke up with a hangover and I said, I bet Peyton's great. And was. I was emotionally not. I was in a room full of lesbians. So it was a hard night for some of us. Tuggernaut on your back. It was a hard night to be sober. I'll tell you that. I was twitching. Our friend was like, you want me to get you a drink? And I was like, no, I'm going to pass. But yeah, good luck to everyone else. Because those drinks are crazy at Animal 2. They're made by gay men. So you know those pours. Those wrists are strong. Well, that's, maybe that's why I had a really bad hangover the next day. Yeah. But it was lovely to catch you out in the wild. No, it was lovely. I had a time, girl. I had a time. I got to cut the line. No, I was in a line. At the very end of the line, this dog comes up. Excuse me. Let her through. She needs to go to the bathroom. I said, thanks. Oh, thanks. Yeah. I know. Our friend Ludwig literally like lit up behind me and was like, look at her go. Like you're like our, like we raised her. You're marching. You're marching your little shoulders to the front of the bar to order a drink. Yes. What can I say? No, it was beautiful. Going to Animal was kind of a highlight. It was the highlight of my week. Yeah. I got ghosted. So what can I say? Like I'm on my last legs about the single life, but I would say the other highlight of my week is getting not one, not two, not three, not four, not five, not six, but seven texts from you. Oh. About wanting to talk about overcompensating. Yep. Truly definition of overcompensating tonight. Overcompensating it. Queen. Can we talk about overcompensating the pod? And if I didn't love the show so much, I'd be so annoyed, but I do. So I'm not. Yeah. So we're going to talk about over. Oh, no. You. And you hadn't even finished the season yet. No. That's how I know you really loved it. So today we're talking about overcompensating. Class is in session. We're talking about overcompensating. We're talking about some important nepo babies. The ones who are doing it the way the other girls can't. And happy Father's Day. We are ranking the internet and by the internet, I mean our favorite father figures, daddies, daddies, if you will. So, excuse me. Let me say this. Let me say this. Are you looking for a home for your worst opinion? Are you a hater first, but a lover of pop culture second? Consider this a glorified group chat. We're not calling you out. No, no, no, no, no. We're calling you in. It's a safe space. To talk shit. But of course, from Wondery, I'm Peyton Dix. And I'm Hunter Harris. And this is Let Me Say This. Let me say this. Let me say this. Let me say this. We finally pressed play and we pressed play hard on Overcompensating, a new comedy drama series starring Benito Skinner, if you know, Betty Drama, comedian Mary Beth Barone, who's one of my favorite bisexuals, and Adam DeMarco from The White Lotus. I locked in. I, listen, class is in session. Say it. It's university. Summa cum laude. Clearly, I was not. Okay. Let me give you the logline. Yeah. A dramedy that follows Benny, a closeted former football player and homecoming king, as he navigates his first year of college trying to reconcile his true queer identity with the hyper masculine persona he's created. When I tell you, I thought, okay, like very classic storyline. Coming out story. Okay, let's see how this plays. I immediately loved it. Yeah, I thought like tonally, you know who said this and I was like, I was trying to find the comparison that made me go, yes, that's it. Ayanna, Ishmael, who's been on this podcast before, we love her, a writer at Teen Vogue, was like, this reminds me of Awkward from MTV. Oh yeah. And I loved Awkward and it's like scratching that itch for me where it's like this really fun young tone meets like dark comedy, but it's also still a little bit, what do you call it? Like, like Secret Life of the American Teenager with like an app, like almost after school specialty sometimes, but in a way that's, that knows exactly what it's doing with that. Yeah. And I was really excited to see what Benito would do because I'd, I'd been so familiar obviously with his work online. I think he's so funny. I think Mary Beth Brown is so funny and I love their relationship and I love watching them on screen together and I just was like, I love these characters. I love the up and coming comedians and actors and internet stars that they have in the cast. And I just thought like, what a reflection. They're refreshing, like fun YA story and I don't care that they're 30. Well, I said it on the pod before. I think that the people who are 30 playing college kids, oh girl, whatever, grow up. I'm sorry. We're living in a, in a dire fascist nation state right now. I mean, hello. And you're concerned about a man who's 30 playing like he's 19. I'm actually, I'm curious, was your entry point into the show, what, was it me texting or did you- Absolutely not. I was just like, I'm not going to be in the show. Yeah, I did. I finished it before you, too. Yeah. My ego is in the room with us right now. Take a seat, girl. No, I wanted. OK, listen, I don't follow any drama on anything. I'm just like, I've listened to some clips from Ride, his podcast with Mary Beth. And and I like that. But I just like no shade at all. I just like didn't know anything, which I'm happy because what I would in the show was like, OK, he's hot. That's all you need to know. And is. And I was so charmed by it. It reminds me a lot of, like, the other two or, like, Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt, kind of. Yes. Or even, I mean, definitely Awkward, I see. A little bit of Freaks and Geeks, where it's, like, hard, funny, a little bit zany, but not, like, takes you out of it too much. But I just like that it's, like, it feels almost like a very self-aware college show where it's, like, okay, we're not going to really show them in class. We're not going to really show them, like, the over-reliance on, like, making it feel like a real college experience. Instead, it does feel like the emotional truth of being in a new place, like, the awkwardness of, like, okay, who am I going to be in this place? Who am I going to be in, like, as an adult? Like, that kind of coming-of-age piece of it I think is really strong. I also really liked in the first episode, like, this is, like, basically minute three, when you establish early on that, like, Benny and Grace, his sister, like don't get along and that she's so mean to him. I thought that was like such a funny turn. I'm like, oh, part of me thought, oh, since they're friends in real life, she's gonna make the supporting like talk to that his character will have throughout the show. And no, she's actually his like number one aunt. - Yeah, of course. - I loved that. - Love an eldest daughter struggling struggling to fight for attention in any capacity and listen most of the time ellis otters are i'm like but this time i was like she has a lot to be mad about disgrace um and i kind of liked the um like it not that i mean i don't know that's the only part i don't understand about the show was like if yates is like a yale or if it's like a like state school that's like just a really good state school um i'm thinking the latter yeah yeah because then once like the kind of f and g stuff comes around yeah um but i i thought like it's such a funny like adam barclay like a straight man like uh like a like a bro and i love seeing him in this character especially coming off of like the antithesis of that from white lotus where he was like i mean kind of yeah because in white lotus he felt you know very insecure very anxious very like um you know uh trying to put on a facade in some ways and in this like it reminded me a lot of um one of my favorite movies of all time richard linklater's everybody wants them where it's a movie about bros who really all they want to do is like be near and intimate with one another and like you're trying to communicate that closeness well let me tell you this all bros want to do is fuck and that is beautifully illustrated in the way that um betty like highlights this campiness of frack holter yeah and how phallic it is and how over the top like a homoerotic it is yeah um really works in this for me in a way that i think is so fun i think highlights that juxtaposition between his um obviously like hidden gay identity and trying to like participate in this world that's actually already so gay yeah okay someone we have to talk about someone who's really shaking the table oh and we're feeling that table right there well that's how she's doing it that's how she's stomping through those yates streets let's talk about hayley marie matthews hmm played by homes played by homes i want her to have every single emmy uh right the fuck now yeah no no it's one of those um just like instantly perfect character perfect actor perfect like just every line every joke is funny it's giving like meg stalter it's like a little bit of a like a little bit of a hax it's giving um the attorney from search party it's giving um i don't know like titus uh yes yeah yeah like just whenever the line deliveries oh whenever carmen is like oh i have a brother she's like oh dibs yeah he died oh why does that happen as she's putting in her hair clips yeah i loved every minute of her own camera when i was watching um i think like the first thing that comes to me and it's like peyton that's you it's like thank you it is so beautiful and so important to see yourself reflected in media i will say that wow i love her i think i and i love when i understand a character immediately know exactly what she cares about like how she's gonna show up so funny great one-liners um and not even just great one-liners such good physical acting yeah there's one scene where she literally doesn't even say anything she just she's trying to get photographed by like the campus um fashion magazine and she just floats by and there's a moment where the dialogue just stops and then goes on and on and on and on and on and on and goes right back in like these small moments that we get with her yeah i also love the line of her talking to carmen when she's like didn't you borrow this dress from me and carmen's like yeah and i washed it and she's like well you're the first person to wash something you borrowed from a friend loved that um okay speaking of things that were made specifically for us i'm doing the charlie show poof no xex i'm working the charlie show poof no xex um so mary beth barone in this show is um working a like campus like concert yeah yeah summer series or something um with charlie xex and adam demarco playing her boyfriend every every mention of charlie's show he says poof in this perfect way oh yeah i know i mean that's that's entirely 100% me as a as an ex charlie booth stan oh you're off yeah okay but i still listen to empty cups and intention and we don't talk anymore okay actually great song um and i actually want to go back to adam demarco in general because i think it's like it's like it's like it's like it's like because i do think that the appeal of him in white lotus works really well for the sympathy that we extend to him in this show like i think if he was just a totally new actor he's great in this but i think that there's something about his charm from white lotus as like this really boyish young character works in this way where we see him here as this yes total douche but there's still this i think is that my is that my talk the trick i don't know really i find him really charming too in this show specifically when he um even though it's messy sorry he starts to date court talk to carmen via that video game and we start to see like a little bit more of him um you know dissolve i i loved the casting of him in this yeah i think it worked really well um i also have to say i loved the supporting characters like um kyle mclaughlin and um connie britain connie britain as the parents yeah i will watch that big ass tv with the accident wall in every room it's like that kind of stuff that um it kind of reminds me of like i don't know i like that it wasn't you go home and you hate your parents you hate your family that it's like a new experience and also the um there's one small joke about like the thursday before thanksgiving that everyone goes home to like their like hometown bar and it's like such a big scene um i loved that in this show too do you do that not anymore not yeah it was a big thing when i like was in college like show up and show out yeah i did that yeah and listen another thing's happened when does it go don't worry about it whatever i will say a scene that i thought i would not be taken by but i actually really enjoyed was mary beth barone singing i love my couple romance i love a redemption art karaoke scene yeah hope to live one one day and she sings what is it called black parade welcome to the black parade black parade hell yeah brother did you is that your ministry at all i was a little bit more avril i'm with you that one i was singing okay into my karaoke machine alone my mom was like you're housed this is a song about someone being unhoused shut up turn it down quote um no okay i want to go back to supporting characters loved connie britain in it i also want to make some noise for that guy from dawson's creek who's that i don't know his name oh but he's like the the older like a llama of the fraternity yeah yeah um and i was like why does his face look so familiar and i loved again the way it works for me it's like hometown like good good guy from dawson's creek i never watched a show i'm assuming he's a good guy he seems nice i don't know if they i don't know about dawson or her creek i don't know what they get up to we're too young but i think strategically it worked well for this yes i felt the same way about um matt and bowen being like the gay couple who like get into a fight fully as they're looking for a third like that was like hilarious pitch perfect i also love a show that doesn't milk a cameo too much like doesn't make a whole meal out of like just having kyger where they're like uses people very intentionally yeah that feels like um just a really well plotted detail this guy gerber great in this and also you know who's having a moment and i want to keep seeing it owen thiel oh yeah who's like the one out gay guy in at yates yeah um which you know i think brings me to this um feeling that i i struggled with at first it's like watching rising internet stars like find their home in people's tv and i am so for it i think something that made me think about it before this show and i know owen has adults out now i haven't pressed play but will um is it started kind of with the quinta brunson of quinta brunson universe where i feel like not just watching her um and her success with abbott elementary but her casting like a sabrina breyer and and it really working and i think um and even zach fox you know i know zach fox is a comedian of course but very internet personality or like um niche beat if you will yeah and i think that there's a lot of excitement and a lot of validity now and real authority behind um internet voices that we're getting to see in a new and more um fleshed out way it's really exciting i would love to see that for myself one day i would love to see that for us one day um soon but i think a core part of what you're talking about is that it wasn't like um like the office started to do this like toward the end of its run where it's like it would just recreate an internet trend in some ways where like i think quinta and in overcompensating as well it's like they're not just bringing someone from the internet to the exact same bit or the exact same thing yes it more be more it is generally just funny yeah um and that piece of it i think is like a really core um part of what makes it work where it's not just like okay now you've like brought in someone who's like just famous and trending to like just say their bit on camera for this show which i think is really good um i also i don't know i want to know you think of it because i thought that like there's one scene in this that really actually made me so like like romantic i'm like kiss the girl like that kind of thing um but it was in like a friendship beat where um benny is talking to owen like really he's like kind of connected with like another gay out gay person um who was owen after like the campus shop or whatever and all like the frat guys come in and the frat guys are like oh are you guys friends like to benny and owen and um benny's like no i'm just here getting something and it's like oh oh that made me so but again perfect character moment yeah yeah but that was the kind of moment where i was like oh i like that it is like a true dramedy where i really do want more for this character than he wants for himself at this moment yeah just really sweet another right after that is when he charges when owen charges him like fifty dollars for like a candy bar or something he's like no it's like beef jerky it was like two beef jerky strips and he's like damn like he just pulls out the cash god willing this show gets a season two what do you want to see you know i would like to see honestly more black girls and maybe two and maybe one of them is a lesbian most days and maybe one of them is a sweetheart from oklahoma and i think a sweetheart wait you think what the hell do i just say me sweet and i said you just call me sweet and i'll compliment my top compliment my fun party talk i love your party talk thank you but i take back that she's sweet and i think that that would really shake the table and shake things up come on it's sprinkled i'm sprinkling on two black girls a little razzle dazzle um but i really i want i want more of this i want a season two i'm sure the season two is going to come it seems like it's been really successful so far yeah i've seen so many tiktok fan cams that's indicative of a good show yeah i'll tell you that yeah um and maybe a grace and julia shiplet who i love you babe but i forgot your character's name just now but i would love a little kiss between them i would love things to get real bisexual okay okay i see it i see it i it's loud the bisexual undertones are loud astronomical on that show but we'll see we'll hope well it's about to be father's day have you heard of it probably not knowing the way fathers are these days well shaking the table for once um but we you know we we got dads that's what i was about to say um but my dad actually confirmed something for me recently it was his birthday he's a taurus may 5th cinco de mayo um i'm gonna put my fist down i don't know why you did that something that i think is so funny is how father's day lands during pride month because i've never met a queer person with a normal relationship with their father say more i will i shout out to lewis dicks uh junior we love my dad um but i will say a formative fight has both um pride themes and uh father themes as in my dad wrote a script about a young girl in a black family coming out hey that sounds familiar i love it yeah oh that's you yeah oh wow could be based on true events okay um but in this story that he was having me read in his script the daughter was um kind of bullied by her entire family after she came out and is that true to your experience no no one really cared my my coming out made no noise actually it was pretty uneventful they said we know they said we saw dry humping everybody we know girl um but uh my dad wanted notes so i told him this is a little let's say it homophobic um yeah it wasn't the best my dad's an ally down delirious but he is from philly so you know there are complications with that and we got into this like screaming fight that got so intense that i jumped out of a moving vehicle on libra and um pico do you stay in a car like do you has there ever been a time when you just just sit in a car normal and uber hates to see me coming no they really didn't know uber got mad at us because we're taking too many flashes and we're like oh my god i'm so sorry i'm so sorry i'm so sorry i'm so sorry i'm so sorry i'm so sorry i'm so sorry i'm so sorry i'm so sorry i'm so sorry backseat and he was like can you guys sorry please stop were we drunk no oh we did just go to frog club and it was so bad that we had to make a getaway car but yeah so we repaired and we forgave and we didn't forget because i'm bringing it up right now but happy father's day to you and yours yeah yeah father's day i don't think of a good story about my dad um one time i was asking my dad if he was gonna see one of the new star wars movies yeah and he said i don't like the new star wars movies they have all these creepy characters that they they like bend backwards and have a lot of legs i was like okay a purist um there's a first second and third yeah a theme here of dad's and a slight layer of homophobia i don't like all that bend like honestly me too i get it i get it i don't know what character you're talking about he was like no i want the classic i want chewbacca um but we're not here we're not here we're not here we're not here we're not here to talk about our dads that's a different podcast uh we're gonna talk about something more important which is daddies daddies some zaddies and some father figures yes yes i'm so glad you brought it up yeah um so let's do a little a little roundup so we put together a little a little ranking for father's day if you will um we have chosen six of our favorite dads in movies and tv and this is a surprise you haven't heard mine and i haven't heard yours yeah i'm gonna tell you mine tear so get ready i i have mine are great hunters caffeinated and things have been really dire in this studio by the way there's been a gun to my head this whole time okay um no i'm scared of what you're gonna say and i i'm not scared of how you're gonna react to mine i just can feel i can feel the twitch of her eye rolling into the back of her head at every single person i'm about to list oh god okay yeah let's let's get ready yeah let me get my eyes ready i will say some of these fathers are from culture you know i'm just gonna say that okay okay should we get started should we go like one by one or should you say your six and i'll say my six let's do one by one no say just say your six say your six no say yours you you want to hear my six first happy bride okay allies to the front okay go okay okay okay um i'm gonna start off with james tupper who was the actor in big little lies who played a first husband and zoe kravitz's current husband he's a daddy to me he's a hot dad i love i can appreciate that okay i'm gonna go with billy crude up in 20th century women oh specifically yeah and then i'm gonna shake the table a little bit i'm gonna say charles melton in may december and well because we have something to talk okay i have so many thoughts on that keep going okay so that's first second uh tier i'm gonna say morris chestnut and like mike talk about a father figure talk about a lesbian oh hey we'll talk about that later yeah um and then i'm going to go ethan hawke in first reformed he played a priest well that well you well you know what ethan hawke looks like yeah especially at this age no i've been a priest for a long time but i don't think i've been a priest at all so i'm going to go ethan hawke i'm going to go ethan hawke i'm going to go ethan hawke i'm going to go ethan hawke i'm going to go ethan hawke i'm going to go ethan hawke i'm going to go ethan hawke i'm going to go ethan hawke again the pride and father's day crossover is to be studied that's the gayest he's ever played and that includes devil wears prada that is a fine list yeah oh my god no i i told you i i'm gonna take it okay my honorable mentions are this is a crazy one oh um bill nye and notes on a scandal i thought you said bill nye the science guy is who i was thinking no bill nye notes on a scandal married to uh cape lanchette and she cheats on him with a like a 17 year old crazy love the movie though um and relatedly my other runner-up is um a little actress named cape lanchette and tar yeah she is petra's father kate and that button up that's a good one so you're welcome you left the woman out of that conversation though until the way limp wrist with that ally oh ah after all i've done what have you done besides stress me out okay we do have to talk about like what when you brought up charles mo and this got me thinking this got me cooking like what makes a daddy because i'm like do you have to be over a certain age no really well obviously like gender doesn't play a role here but i'm like i think you need to be 30 plus he is 30 plus oh really i thought he was like you didn't watch my riverdale oh right he was 45 in that i fully forgot grown man grown man he was a man playing was like with amongst boys no he was a grown-up on that show yeah and that's why he stays bookie and busy and i don't know what the others are doing no offense um i think so there's a differentiation between what being a daddy is what being a zaddy is and what being a father figure which i think is like top tier ultimate booking a father figure is normally um a lesbian it's anyone that's got a strap and knows what to do with it okay is my opinion and that one there is an age bracket you must be over 35 that's what i'm gonna say a zaddy is you know i don't know if it's a dad or a mom but i don't know if it's a dad or a mom but i don't know i think just to to tell if you're a millennial or gen z because a gen z person i think would never say that in a millennial would be like zaddy like yeah i would never say that so well what does that say about me yeah we might have some listeners that are in the zaddy community and we stand with you we just don't say it and a daddy is just like you're a caretaker you're you're not letting me even reach for my purse on the date you're not you wouldn't even date her well i wouldn't reach for it anyway on a first date i move things around there's just lip glosses and stuff like that i don't know if it's a dad or a mom i don't know i'm like what the heck that is like the time that i had truly no less than four road lip glosses in my purse yeah crazy nothing else yeah just air okay let's crack into my list are you ready i'm scared you should be i think mine were really good they were you better take it i won't you better go head on i'll try here we go okay one that you can expect charlie or sorry carlisle from twilight almost thought about charlie swan but he is a cop so we have to let that go but i met him in person and oh my god yes i went to a twilight festival after that we have uh coach mike from my middle school he was just really hot and he was a coach then and i saw him as an adult now and i was like that man was fine as fuck and i get why all the moms are flirting with him it's hard to for me to concur without a visual i'll show you after let me tell you a follow-up i'm just gonna be like period poop okay um alicia keys in that one photo um and then i have i don't know if i did okay um i have janet jackson specifically in that one performance and live in hawaii in 2002 so the man was on the that platform yeah okay no we're in alignment we're in alignment um and also janet jackson uh in atlanta in 2023 when she goes oh y'all smoking in here no i haven't seen that video oh my god it's so good it's very you actually being like oh hell then we have obviously tiana taylor okay i would love to know what that strap does thank god my parents don't listen to this anymore they learned and last but not least i'm really gonna shake the table with this one okay god is kind of the ultimate daddy if you think about it okay he did now you piss me off because my culture is not a costume melodies from heaven rain down on me you've even seen the video of marvin sat going ushers close the doors ushers close the doors don't let anybody out when hunter talks about god i just looked to camera and tried to bat my eyes and you're you're you're so like that one time trump tried to pretend that he read the bible and said two corinthians not even second corinthians which is what you should say i just did that to irritate you really like you really made me mad i wrote it out the other ones i was being so serious like okay and oh yes in this reference and then i said oh i got some you love god so much name three things about him he jesus um and the earth and um he's with me jesus the earth and he's with me amen amen thank you so much wow wow wow wow so i'm really shaking the table so happy father's day to god uh we don't give him enough credit i feel like i'm gonna quote um a woman named peyton dicks oh and say that um what is it every black girl has one micro she doesn't play about and i've said about 52 on this podcast you said about 497 i've been counting um i mine is a shorter list but on that list is romey mars that's true i want to talk about nepo babies today because oh i love romey mars i love following her little tiktok updates you really do i really do you don't play about i listen to her music what her music a about the actor who she met at a party no okay well i'll educate you yeah we're not on the clock um it's very like it's very just teen girl music it's like like grace abrams no actually maybe i think this is what other people think about me i don't know i don't know i don't know i don't know other people here in grace abrams that i refuse to hear refuse no i've listened to i don't hear anything it's i have it's like i don't know anyway i love romey mars and i love specifically i want to talk about um this post that she did for sofia coppola's birthday um on may 14th because i've been thinking about it a lot okay she says happy birthday to the most boss baddie i know even when no one gets me you find the art in me crying in my bedroom whilst in bikini in the middle of winter because i was trying because i was doing a try on haul seeing you care about teenage girl stories so much made me feel like i could put myself out into the world as an authentic teenage girl not trying to be anything else i mean that's like really beautiful i know but there was gonna be a bit in there no but it just kind of reminds me of like how much you can love your mom but also i read that and i was like i bet they're not talking right now i bet i bet something it's like she's like i'm not actually coming downstairs it's alo yeah um but i but that's what i mean it's like she just feels like she feels like a sister she so much um and then i also love when she's on tiktok just like shit posting is that what she's up to right now yeah that's always what she's doing she's always like girls don't buy clothes consumerism is too much it's bad i wear chanel because i get it from my mom but everything else i don't need it and it has like a big stanley cub i'm like you contain multitudes romie mars like i ride or die for her i don't play about her i also i'm like i'm seeing myself in her i'm realizing i know because when i read that sofia like the birthday post to sofia i thought that's totally peyton and alicia yeah you would totally like write something like long something beautiful about your mom and like not be speaking and meanwhile fully beefing me at my mother's day event when i was like you're on my last nerves okay and then you're out at the house yeah no we haven't forgotten you're the villain of the pod well you know someone i do love that you introduced me to yes i said say that louder yes you're the street that you introduced me to i gotta get off this but i'm walking out the door hunter um you know she keeps me young and um she was like you need the baby at the pod totally um he was like you need to lock into usher's son's tiktok account because i do love an epil baby online because they will make a mistake and i like to lock in but only good things are happening here no they're the best no mistakes for um usher's younger son navid navid navid i think you say his name um i i said let me just see when i tell you about 20 scrolls later kicking my feet screaming giggling haha okay which was the one that got you because it's him singing love drought in china to a random group of people not even singing his dad's like his dad the like last man have a diamond album he said no i'm gonna sing love drought i'm gonna do love his his getting ready with me his all of his like tatcha i was like you wash your face but also the way that like i'm sure people are like chomping at the bit to get a cameo on his tiktok because why has he featured pink panther dochi gorilla and then let me say really quickly about the pink panther's cameo captioned it um i said get what you want use your tools and use them wisely and he did that's that's like the best mark of a nepo baby is like someone who uses their powers for good which is a pink panther's cameo on tiktok or like romi mars telling her mom it's like that um priscilla behind the scenes video like can you get a photo of me and jacob alordi and can you take it on my phone and sophia's like i'll take it on my phone camera she's like well no on my phone please like i want to take this back to school i need a digital babe no i was like you are so funny online yeah it made me think like i love the youth and i maybe trust them yeah no when i say i believe children in the future i'm talking about um usher's son yeah like that's that's the future that i believe there's two it's navid and it's romney he's and his little glasses too i'm like and he's kind of dripping he's got style kind of dripping oh no i mean you're usher's son but but it's but he doesn't dress like usher just like kind of like like chingy and jason i just like what billy eilish oh that's what i meant oh yeah yeah okay yeah i see what you're saying now if you will um no love him i don't know why he is abroad but i i don't even care i want to keep making videos i want him to keep that one thing when he does the um tokyo tony audio but like you are being mind controlled i look at you just he stays on his zoom if you haven't if you haven't followed you really should i will you will have fun you will lock in roll me too i haven't gone there but i will yeah my way yeah yeah yeah um and there's one other one that we wanted to talk about one other nepo baby i feel like you know the nepo baby's taking it if we're ranking them right now taking number three spot i'm not ranking them oh our this our sister right here has a different set of difficulties than anyone else many in fact vivian jenna wilson who is elon musk's trans daughter it's a very fucking musk household here yeah but we are pro vivian and her inches oh my god vivian takes it you know how much money people pay for a bus down like that she inches to the booty and like oh it's just one god bless her protect her at all costs we love someone being loud about their deadbeat dad yeah and he's the deadest of the beats yeah yeah ideally um no she recently did a shoot with i think tomboy x the like queer underwear brand and was taking it the bts bodied like i want everything for her there's a video of her that was going around of her um doing like a cute little like ballroom dance fun to have i mean i mean i guess i have those inches right now but like you know these are paid for but um she was swinging that hair around she was taking it those knees are working i love her i love to see that some part of elon musk's um immoral wealth is being used for good yeah are there any other nepo babies that you're loving you know there are never babies i want to hear more from okay you know i don't really love a quiet nepo baby i like when they're loud i know nepo baby i want to hear less from jamie lee curtis always ever say put just get the activia and like lock in there okay um but you know who i want to hear about who is uh j-lo's kids are they too young for that right now i don't know no i think like like 16 yeah i'm like my favorite thing about j-lo her children yeah yeah yeah yeah okay and then her body oh is that anti-feminist no no because she posted that that instagram graphic saying some women work on their body only for themselves not for a man's attention and for my attention yeah i'm looking yeah um but yeah i feel i bet they're cool they seem like a cool and they're i don't know i bet they have stories about j-lo they've lived to here's a house with two leos oh girl come on no they've seen some stuff someone give them a back camera and a tiny mic and they gotta get to 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Podcast Summary

Key Points:

  1. The hosts celebrate a vibrant, authentic experience at Animal, a gay-friendly venue, where they feel seen and embraced by the community.
  2. They reflect on the humor and emotional truth of coming-of-age stories in *Overcompensating*, praising its tonal blend of dark comedy, awkwardness, and genuine queer identity exploration.
  3. Characters like Benito, Mary Beth Barone, and Adam DeMarco bring fresh, internet-savvy energy, with strong chemistry and self-aware humor that resonates with audiences.
  4. The show’s success is highlighted by strong fan engagement, including TikTok reactions and a clear cultural shift in media representation of LGBTQ+ youth and internet stars.
  5. The hosts spotlight LGBTQ+ figures like Romey Mars and Vivian Jenna Wilson as powerful examples of confident, outspoken nepo babies using their platform for authenticity and empowerment.
  6. A heartfelt father’s day conversation explores evolving relationships with fathers, blending pride themes with real family dynamics and generational homophobia.
  7. The hosts rank memorable father figures in pop culture, blending humor and personal reflection to celebrate diverse portrayals of care, masculinity, and familial bonds.
  8. They emphasize the importance of visibility, especially for Black queer youth, and celebrate how media can reflect and validate real experiences of identity and belonging.

Summary:

The hosts reflect on a transformative night at Animal, a gay-friendly venue, where they feel fully seen and celebrated, drawing parallels to a joyful, rebellious coming-of-age experience. They enthusiastically review the new comedy drama *Overcompensating*, praising its authentic tone, sharp humor, and strong LGBTQ+ representation—particularly in its portrayal of queer youth, internet stars, and nuanced family dynamics. The show’s success is underlined by fan engagement and its ability to blend dark comedy with emotional truth.

The hosts also spotlight emerging LGBTQ+ figures like Romey Mars and Vivian Jenna Wilson as powerful, outspoken voices using their platforms to challenge norms and celebrate self-worth. The conversation expands to reflect on fatherhood, noting how pride and family relationships intersect, especially with generational homophobia. Through personal anecdotes and pop culture references, the hosts celebrate diverse, inclusive portrayals of care and identity, culminating in a heartfelt recognition of how media can validate and empower real queer experiences—especially among young, Black, and internet-born voices.

The episode ends with a nod to accessible women’s health care, bridging media and real-life wellness.

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The show explores a closeted former football player navigating his first year of college while trying to reconcile his true queer identity with a hyper-masculine persona he's created.

Benito Skinner, Mary Beth Barone, and Adam DeMarco star in the show. Their performances are praised for authenticity, humor, and emotional depth, especially their dynamic as a gay couple.

The show blends dark comedy with heartfelt moments, using relatable college experiences like awkwardness and identity struggles to create a genuine coming-of-age story.

They found the tone and storytelling style reminiscent of those shows—fun, self-aware, and grounded in the emotional realities of young adults navigating identity and relationships.

Grace, Benny's sister, is initially portrayed as mean-spirited, but her complex relationship with Benny adds depth, highlighting themes of family conflict and emotional tension.

It features authentic LGBTQ+ characters and storylines, including a strong bisexual presence and moments of queer camaraderie, reflecting diverse experiences in a relatable, non-stereotypical way.

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