My guest this week is Dean FM, a genderqueer rapper from Massachusetts. Dean was always a colorful kid and loved to escape into music — but never considered that it might become a career until a series of setbacks made him re-evaluate where he was living and what he was doing with his life. Dean just released a new album — there’s a link to that in the shownotes — and he has big dreams for what’s next.
We’ll have that conversation in a minute. First, a couple quick announcements, starting with a reminder that if you like this podcast, you’ll probably like my newsletter. Every week I share fun stories about the making of beloved movies and TV shows, as well as the fascinating people behind them. You can sign up at MattBaume.com.
Also, check out my YouTube channel for videos about the making of iconic pop culture — I just released a new one about the 2004 movie Straight Jacket, which made a big splash when it came out, then disappeared for mysterious reasons, and is finally poised for a triumphant return. That’s now live at YouTube.com/mattbaume.
And I hope you’ll join me for weekly livestreams over on Twitch every Sunday afternoon. That’s at twitch.tv/mattbaume. We’ll be watching Straight Jacket this weekend, as well as some of my favorite scenes from the drag camp classic Girls Will be Girls.
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Magic Horses & Middle School (Ep 388 - Hugh Ryan/magic horses)
Camp is like Pornography (Ep 387 - Eurovision/Jānis)
Did I Just Get Married? (Ep 386 - Pedro Almodóvar/Alejandro Varela)
Betrayed by Books (Ep 385 - Fantasy novels/Oliver Darkshire)
Learning to be Myself More (Ep 384 - Live drag soap opera/Harold Slazer)
Oracular Garbage Pile (Ep 383 - James Bond/Andrew Wheeler)
A Crew of Proto-Queer Boys (Ep 382 - Spice Girls/Little Miss Hot Mess)
Space Ballerinas (Ep 381 - Sailor Moon/Ryan La Salla)
It's Petty Drama (Ep 380 - The Hills/Xavier D'Leau)
We're All Enjoying the Male Body (Ep 379 - International Male/Buck Jones)
Secrets Kill (Ep 378 - Disaster films/Christopher Rice)
Raised by Hippies (Ep 377 - Room with a View/Michael Bach)
The Moon's About to Fall (Ep 376 - Majora's Mask/Enrique)
Funny and Salacious and Dangerous (Ep 375: Andrew/Soap)
I was Quite Happy to be the Villain (Ep 374: Tork Shaw/Kenneth Williams)
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Southern Decadence (Ep 372 - The Chronicles of Narnia/Jonathan Alexander)
Cozy vs Kinky (Ep 371 - The Jungle Book/Caudle)
You Can be Sad or You Can be Gay (Ep 370 - Guy Branum)
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