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If Books Could Kill

Conservatives vs. Pride Month [TEASER]

If Books Could Kill

Michael Hobbes & Peter Shamshiri

Arts, Politics, Books, Society & Culture, News

4.68.2K Ratings

🗓️ 12 June 2023

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

To celebrate Pride Month we recorded the most depressing bonus episode we've ever done.

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Michael, Peter, what do you know about the backlash to corporate pride?

0:04.0

All I know is that it will be refreshing to have a pride month that is exhausting, but not because of the gaze.

0:09.0

You texted earlier this week and said that you wanted to do a bonus episode on the target backlash and like the institution of corporate pride in general.

0:32.0

And my initial gut instinct was I don't know if I trust Peter to talk about corporate pride. I don't know if I want, I don't know if I need like the straights weighing in.

0:43.0

You handle the pride I'll handle the corporate.

0:46.0

And then I realized that this is how members of other groups feel like when we cover issues, this is how like women feel when we talk about like the love languages on the show.

0:58.0

They're like, I don't know about Mike and Peter. Thank you for giving me a window of empathy this week's Peter.

1:03.0

That's when you realized that you were wrong because we can speak for women.

1:08.0

We can't.

1:09.0

And I can speak for all LGBT people.

1:11.0

Exactly.

1:12.0

Just summarize this debate for us, Peter.

1:14.0

I plan to just sit quietly and let you talk and just wait for you to fuck up.

1:19.0

Everybody listen up.

1:20.0

Yeah, exactly.

1:21.0

A straight man is talking.

1:23.0

So tell us about the genesis of this episode, Peter. Why did you want to cover this?

1:29.0

Well, I was bearing witness to some of the backlash against Bud Light.

1:37.0

You're true. You're living your truth.

1:39.0

And it sort of struck my brain that it was more transparent than what we've seen in the past.

1:48.0

In the sense that there was almost no veneer of like a reasonable position.

1:54.0

Yeah.

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