QUEERNECKS

Inflatable Vaginas, Horgons, and the Women’s Pro Baseball Opener

Hosts Beck and Dash review the opening of the Women’s Professional Baseball League, praising the games and milestones (first home run, Mo’Ne Davis as first batter). What happened with that national anthem performance and the choice of mayor for the league’s first ceremonial pitch? They talk about how girls’ limited baseball development pat...

Remembering Emily Cobb Thomas + The Night I Quit Mushrooms | Queernecks

Beck and Dash open with a theory that Trixie Mattel is diddlin a country dumplin, then share updates and stories ranging from dog grooming costs and haircuts to an oddly bonding conversation about health “battle scars.” The episode’s “Noun of Appalachian Interest” honors Emily Cobb Thomas, a close friend of Beck’s and an anti...

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Beck and Dash recap a weekend visit with Beck’s mother-in-law and best friend that led to an ill-fated purchase of Taboo Uncensored, which was too explici...

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Beck and Dash discuss the film Major League (1989), including its Cleveland setting, baseball culture and superstitions, misogyny and racism (including Chief Wa...

Beck shows off stunning flower photos shot on a budget phone, Dash gets the "dramatics" of nature photography, and we get deep into why certain songs—from Big Butter Jesus to Keith Whitley—become emotionally tied to our childhoods in ways that have nothing to do with actually liking the music. Plus: Jennifer Garner's secret Appalachian connection, religion's weird rules against instruments, and our next movie assignment...

Beck and Dash discuss how World Cup banter on TikTok sparked the meme phrase “America’s favorite sport is competition,” leading into a broader conversation about memes, early internet culture (4chan, Rickrolling, Rotten.com, eBaum’s World), and how Web 2.0 interactivity evolved into today’s app-driven, algorithmic internet, with Web 3.0 framed as decentralization via blockchain. They highlight Facebook...

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In this episode:

• What if your parents were gay?
• The Stonewall riots, hidden family secrets, and domestic violence
• ADHD medications and heart health...

Beck and Dash explore why humor matters, what makes a comedian memorable, and how queerness and marginalization shape comedy. Dash argues that humor is inherently queer in the queer-theory sense: making fun of something means breaking it down, ruining it a little, and turning it into a ridiculous version of itself. Both hosts agree that comedians from marginalized backgrounds tend to be more creative because they've had to find new...

Weather, Yellowjackets, and Appalachian History: Tree Houses and the Underground Railroad

Hosts Beck and Dash chat about shifting weather and anxiety around a severe El Niño forecast, then Beck describes a brief health scare with their older dog Pita. They discuss TikTok videos of Europeans experiencing American chain restaurants, travel and food media influences like Anthony Bourdain, and cooking competition shows including Top Che...

Beck and Dash show up with mics on and zero prep — and somehow go from dead languages to Jehovah's Witnesses to the most redneck thing a giraffe has ever done.

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SEASON TWO OF QUEERNECKS HAPPY PRIDE MONTH

Hosts Beck and Dash celebrate Pride Month, joke about “straight pride” backlash and a Tennessee “nuclear family month,” and talk about rising costs, engineered poverty, and how work and isolation affect relationships and having kids. They discuss small-town pride and share personal updates about reconnecting with friends. The main segment reviews the film Foxy Merkin...

Trauma Bonding, Bury Your Gays, and WVU’s Burning Couch Lore

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Hosts Beck and Dash discuss difficulties accessing the film The Foxy Merkins for rental and pl...

Hosts Beck and Dash open the Queernecks episode discussing a frightening car incident in Toledo where their dog Ru appeared to have an asthma attack and has a vet appointment Monday. They then talk about modern roast culture after seeing clips from the Kevin Hart roast, including Chelsea Handler’s jab at a MAGA comedian, mention Tony Hinchcliffe’s George Floyd joke, and discuss boundaries, context, and craft in comedy, ...

In this 50th episode of Queernecks, queer rural Appalachian LGBTQ hosts Beck and Dash chat about pets, junk food, and digestive issues, then reflect on smoking—how early they started, how it was normalized, and how quitting saved Christmas. They discuss teaching, student pass/fail options, rate-my-professor culture, and gaps in student literacy, tech skills, and civic knowledge, plus the poverty-simulator game, Spent. They sh...

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Hosts Beck and Dash chat on Queernecks about returning to a boxing gym, favorite salty-sweet snacks, novelty candies, and hometown-made products (BG Campbell’s/Heinz, Portsmouth shoelaces, Cincinnati schnapps). They swap train stories, including meeting recently released prisoners on an Amtrak ride to Chicago and observing re-entry moments and public-transportation dynamics. The conversation sh...

Hosts Beck and Dash chat through tech frustrations and changing internet/IT, early home computing memories (AOL dial-up costs, Commodore 64, Carmen Sandiego, Number Munch, Oregon Trail, typing skills), and odd public moments (a classmate farting in a lab, an ROTC student’s loud burp, quirky neighbor small talk, a neighbor’s unsolicited diet comment). They share affirming messages from former students, including one cred...

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Hosts Beck and Dash open with weather and small talk before reviewing the film Kinky Boots, noting it’s based on a true story about a struggling rural sho...

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Hosts Beck and Dash riff on colorful high school teachers, language classes, impressions, and how improv “yes, and” parallels teaching and bias, the...

Beck and Dash chat on Queernecks about haircuts, scar care (Bio-Oil, silicone tape), and trans products like trans tape and stand-to-pee packers, then mark Transgender Day of Visibility with humor and a plug for KB Brookins’ Substack “Trans News That Doesn’t Suck.” They discuss inclusive language as “being correct,” classroom practices around names/pronouns, and teaching about Indigenous issues a...