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Coming In My Ears
Jul. 3rd, 2009 02:44 pmI am just getting into this whole Podcast thing; it's an excellent way to fill the lunch hour as I stroll down the road to the shop. (Perhaps not the best way to encourage one to stroll at any kind of pace, but I digress.) I have most recently been entertained - at the recommendation of the iTunes Store's Most Popular Podcasts list - by Ben and Dave's Six Pack, and if that sounds like a double-entendre, well, that's because it is. Despite being openly-gay media types they're refreshingly non-camp, and indeed sound for all the world as though they're real men instead of screaming benders with no more right to live on God's clean Earth than a weasel.
It would be a mistake to pretend the show doesn't have an agenda, but above and beyond "things that we like and are interested in" there's also a general message of "gay people are just people".
(I'm not 100% with them on the way they do this. In the inaugural Six Pack podcast they call out a camp-as-tents TV fashion specialist, and say how terrible it is that the only way to get on TV as a gay is to be a flaming joke. Which TBH I think is actually prejudiced towards the notion of "gay==camp" - there could be plenty of other homos in the same show, it's just that you don't know, because it doesn't come up in casual conversation. Indeed, they are themselves assuming the guy himself is gay based on his demeanour. And finally, after moaning about his outfit, they get annoyed by one of the other presenters saying he dresses funny, decrying it as a homophobic comment, when really it's less anti-gay than it is anti-camp. But I digress.)
At the end of the day they're a pair of funny guys who seem to be into Star Trek, beer, sex, and Transformers. Which is, to me at least, a pretty entertaining listen.
It would be a mistake to pretend the show doesn't have an agenda, but above and beyond "things that we like and are interested in" there's also a general message of "gay people are just people".
(I'm not 100% with them on the way they do this. In the inaugural Six Pack podcast they call out a camp-as-tents TV fashion specialist, and say how terrible it is that the only way to get on TV as a gay is to be a flaming joke. Which TBH I think is actually prejudiced towards the notion of "gay==camp" - there could be plenty of other homos in the same show, it's just that you don't know, because it doesn't come up in casual conversation. Indeed, they are themselves assuming the guy himself is gay based on his demeanour. And finally, after moaning about his outfit, they get annoyed by one of the other presenters saying he dresses funny, decrying it as a homophobic comment, when really it's less anti-gay than it is anti-camp. But I digress.)
At the end of the day they're a pair of funny guys who seem to be into Star Trek, beer, sex, and Transformers. Which is, to me at least, a pretty entertaining listen.
