What The Phalange?! | A Queer Feminist Friends (TV Show) Podcast

What The Phalange?! | A Queer Feminist Friends (TV Show) Podcast

From a place of absolute love and fandom, queer siblings, Quinn (they/them) and Emilie (she/her), take on one of the most influential 90s TV shows, Friends. Join them as they discuss, unpack, revel and challenge the fashion, relationships, and some seriously problematic jokes, one episode at a time. All while learning to podcast for the first time...

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May 17, 2022 49 mins

This episode covers season 2 episode 23 of FRIENDS, The One With The Chicken Pox.

In this episode we explore workplace culture, wage theft, the proper way to fix a bed and the how COVID has ruined the fictional aspects of stories with viruses forever (we know there's an incubation period and Charlie Sheen wouldn't have gotten the pox right away! common!)

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Season 2, Episode 22 - The One With the Two Parties

We're chatting about Ross being his best self (which is a rarity), Monica just wanting to poach a fish and play word games, and how your true friends will make absolute fools of themselves if it means making your birthday a little less terrible.

Digressions include The Ring, Evanescence, Blockbuster and Parks & Recreation.

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April 26, 2022 1 min

Quinn is sicky so we weren't able to record this week but be sure to head to our Patreon to answer this week's poll questions (free for everyone!) so we can include your answers when we record Season 2, Episode 22 -- The One with the Two Parties (so many twos!)


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This episode we cover season 2 episode 21 of FRIENDS, The One With The Bullies!

Today we explore friends supporting each-other; the concept of bullying and identity based discrimination; and just for fun chat about personal finance!

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Season 2, Episode 20 - The One Where Old Yeller Dies

CW: This episode contains discussions of suicide.

We're chatting sad ending of movies and suppressing bad feelings; being a "seh"-condary caregiver (if you get it, you get it 😅) and navigating being on different pages in both romantic relationships and friendships.

Quinn references a Ted Talk about emotional courage in this episode, here...

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Season 2 Episode 19 - The One Where Eddie Moves Out

Hoo boy, nothing like kicking out your mentally ill roommate and then gaslighting them into believing they never lived there to begin with. Let's talk mental health, female empowerment written by men and how Ross is maybe actually okay in this episode?


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Season 2 Episode 18 - The One Where Dr. Ramoray Dies

This episode opens up a lot of conversations about S-E-X: condoms, where your condoms should live, the concept of "your number', the gender bias of "your number", why you shouldn't hypothetically sleep with your new roommates ex? ...
... Also, why you shouldn't pick your roommate form one conversation in a grocery store.
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So Joey's moved out and Eddie's moved in. Let's explore transitional relationships, male intimacy and the "No-Homo" era. At the same time, lets assess glory of 90s fashion but also recognize that certain amounts of hair gel should never be back in style...

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We're chatting Season 2, Episode 16, The One Where Joey Moves Out. We talk about Chandler and Joey's relationship and their breakup, Phoebe being a boss, plus all of the sexism that happens in this episode including double-standards, sisters getting "scored on," creepy dads and suffrage?

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January 18, 2022 56 mins

Emilie and Quinn spend time reflecting on their relationship with Friends and podcast-making since putting out their first episode a year and a half ago.  

We'll be back on February 1st to continue into Season 2 with Episode 16, The One Where Joey Moves Out.

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December 15, 2021 1 min

No new episode this week but our Patreon subscribers will get a BONUS EPISODE in their feed on December 28 :) Become a Patreon to get access! 

For everyone else, we'll be back in your ears in January! 

Have a happy and safe New Year, wishing you all the best <3

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ROSS AND RACHEL ARE GONNA DO IT!!  🥳

Flock of Seagulls Hair: https://images.app.goo.gl/P4imdVzC3kmovmtb6
Xanadu Movie (not band): https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0081777/
Fun facts:
"The earliest known human-made stone tools date back around 2.6 million years. Crafted and used by Homo habilis (sometimes known as “handy man”), these implements marked the first in a series of major toolmaking advances among ea...

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We're chatting Season 2, Episode 14, The One With the Prom Video. We talk controversies about Ross, how fat suits should not be a thing and how everything we thought we knew about lobsters is wrong.

RESOURCES:
https://www.pastemagazine.com/tv/hbo-max/friends-monica-geller/
https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/32073/do-lobsters-really-mate-life
https://maintenancephase.com/

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https://www.nhes.org/animals-in-film-and-televison/
https://ew.com/tv/friends-monkey-trainer-david-schwimmer-despicable/

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We would like to state that this podcast was recorded in part 'Montreal', or Tiohtiá:ke, which we recognize is unceded indigenous land of the traditional territories of the Kanien’kehá:ka, 'Mohawk', Anishinabeg, 'Algonquin', and other peoples. We...

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Grab your coffee and sing along! We've got a musical episode for you!

Resources:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=syjEN3peCJw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xbagFzcyNiM
https://www.verywellmind.com/mental-health-stigmas-in-mass-media-4153888
https://www.animalsaustralia.org/features/blackfish-to-air-in-australia.php
https://www.animalsaustralia.org/features/things-we-need-to-stop-telling-ourselves-...

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October 5, 2021 89 mins

Do you want lesbian kissing? Well do we not have the episode for you. We're talking about Season 2 Episode 11: TOW The Lesbian Wedding.

WE LAUNCHED OUR WEBSITE FINALLY!
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Did you know that Russ is played by the same actor as Ross (David Schwimmer)? ?
... Well one of your hosts did not realize until recording this episode **gasp!!*
In this episode we take a look at how alcoholism is depicted in media; discuss the #metoo movement in relation to Joey's  storyline; and share some of Lauren Tom's perspective of being on FRIENDS.

Lauren Tom:
My First (and Nearly Last) Day on...

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ALERT:: This episode contains SPOILERS
The Friends Reunion Episode was a lot of things, it was funny, it was sentimental and emotional, it was uplifting and inspiring, it was downright entertaining. But even so, did the FRIENDS Reunion episode fail us?
Emilie and Quinn sit down to discuss:
-The  abhorrent erasure of the very little diversity the FRIENDS tv show had in the first place
-What the producers have said in...

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We're BACK! And were talking about Season 2 Episode 9 of FRIENDS : The One With Phoebe's Dad! (good timing for Father's day, right?!)
In this episode we look at fashion through the ages (and how it continues to repeat itself), the bigger meaning of Phoebe's new discovery, and how tipping culture is a strange world that to navigate and in reality just a way to offload an employers responsibility to pay their ...

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Hi everyone! good news and bad news:
Good: Quinn is double dosed! Which is wild and exciting a surreal
Bad: Quinn got super sick from the second dose - like SUPER sick. And between the being incapacitated for multiple days and some other complications, we were not able to record this weeks episode!
we are so very sorry to disappoint!
BUT we are very much looking forward to next time, when we cover the FRIENDS REUNIO...

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