StraightioLab - Podcast Rankings and reviews

I was looking for more LGBTQIA friendly podcasts and hit the jackpot with this one! I laugh each time and absolutely love their dry humor and “scary” topics ;)

Long time listener, first time reviewer: if you want a conversation of insightful and delightfully unhinged commentary, listen to this pod. Give it your time, your heart. Also the Santa ep truly sent me over the edge… Santa and The Patriot Act?? THIS is the stuff that keep me thinking.

One of the BEST pods out there. Y’all are so funny. But PLEASE fix the audio fading :( Not sure if George isn’t speaking directly into the mic or not but it’s distracting when it fades in and out.

Truly one of my favorite podcasts of all time. That said, here’s my personal bottom 4 episodes: Ilana Glazer, Jaboukie, James Adomian, and Ali Macofsky. If you're new to StraightioLab, skip those for now and (maybe) circle back after you're emotionally invested.

This was my first episode.

This was mostly just punching down at people in poly relationships, and in ways that aren't funny, but just repeat the same ideas that the most ardently straight, committedly heteronormative people use to punch down at people in poly relationships. There's nothing new or insightful here, it's just the same old things being said with the plausible deniability of queer irony.

Are the straight-coded, poly-as-identity subjects of random magazine articles tedious? Yes, of course; otherwise they wouldn't be held up as weird curiosities for pageviews. I get that you're attempting to talk about a specific form of polyamory that is incredibly easy to mock, but this is still just punching down, especially when the guest is so committed to valorizing their own open relationship as the Correct Very Queer Way to do essentially the same thing. Congrats, I guess they're Winning at Queer?

The worst thing is that, as someone who is in a poly relationship - albeit one where we're all gay; maybe that makes it okay in the eyes of the show's hosts - friends are now sending me this episode for comment and agreement. That just leaves me wondering what they must really think about my being in a poly relationship. Not a great feeling.