Episode 22 - AI Bubbles, ICE, Stranger Things, and the Phantom of the Opera

Hey y’aaalllll. How we doin? Fearing for American civil war? Cool, us too! Wanna take an hour away from the dread and gab with your parasocial pals? Okay, come on in. This week we almost immediately devolve into a tangent about fast food because we are nothing if not connoisseurs of fried brown things. Did you know people are donating blood to get rid of microplastics? Good luck to the recipients. Heather’s keeping young by fangirling about ~theatre~ after seeing MASQUERADE aka the interactive, fan fiction answer to Phantom of the Opera closing. Blake is staying young because it’s seeming like the AI bubble might burst! Yay! Blake is aging because of the internet’s reaction to something (again) and Heather is aging because of America’s absolutely abysmal so-called democrazy (again).Dear listeners. Please indulge us - honestly for the bulk of the episode - while we go photo by photo of our own ig 2016 post. That’s right, it’s a full on slide show of inside jokes and summer memories from TEN years ago. On a famously audio based medium! But idk, maybe you’ll like it! The 20 other traumatized opera singer friends who were there will love it. We double up on Depression Meal submissions this week but the Q&A is surprisingly un-depressing. And that’s balance, folks! Submit your Depression Meals and Q&A with Queer and Gay questions to [email protected] or @keepmeyoungpod. Our theme song “Old” is written and performed by the band pop kiss, fronted by Nicole and Sydney Patrick  @popkisstheband @niconeeek @sydneypatrick_ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices