NOTE: Bryan has a quick intro before the main episode because we recorded last weekend prior to the AMAZING midterm election results. We will celebrate together with you next week!

Bryan took his mom to a drive-thru polling place in Texas and is stressed out about whether or not to go to a Halloween party, while Erin offers her own tips for being a great guest by showing up early to help the host. Bryan fills us in on numerous wins for the queer community around the world, including a trans woman in Brazil being the most-voted for candidate in the history of the lower house of Congress, China having to answer for the treatment of LGBTQ+ children, New Zealand striking down a ban on puberty blockers and more. Erin discusses a report from The 19th about a survey by The Data for Progress asking American voters on their perceptions of Greek Life and their effect on campus culture.

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Happy Halloqueen 2026! Sergio forgot to get us costumes, so we pulled out some pieces from our closet and became one of the most popular toys from the 80s and the forlorn wife of a favorite character in children's literature. Erin is discussing how open concept kitchens are actually a tool of control masquerading as modern architecture. Bryan tells us how the conservative movement using trans people as a distraction from their horrible economy and policies is actually having an unintended positive effect of making more people aware of what trans people actually are, and about a recent victory with the Supreme Court voting against the Trump Administration reversing a gender affirming care ban for trans prisoners.

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This week we have our music writing hats on, penning some new sexy new tunes for Janet Jackson, Bryan's inventing faux wool companies wondering why we milk smart animals, and Erin is cold and scared in her recently Halloween-decorated Saw basement in Vancouver. Bryan reports on Uncloseted Media's expose of Meta's Facebook Content Monetization invite-only program which has been paying rage bait accounts promoting white supremacists, neo-Nazi ideologies and anti-LGBTQ+ rhetoric. Erin reveals how female surgeons are underpaid compared to male surgeons, even in specialty, range, age, etc. Surgeons who perform surgeries specifically for women are paid less then for male surgeries, which disincentivizes hospitals to offer women's health services, fewer training opportunities and lab research.

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Bryan hit the bricks at his parents' El Paso hell house and injured himself moving some wrought iron patio furniture and Erin has some odd encounters with tech and influencers at multiple Vancouver restaurants. Erin's discussing the first recorded sexual harassment lawsuit from 1970 by Cornell University employee Carmita Dickerson and how assaults are still happening 56 years later at college campuses across the country. Bryan brings up a recent censorship of a Protect The Dolls t-shirt by the BBC during a segment on Strictly Come Dancing, and wonders how their word salad response doesn't make much sense with other t-shirts that have been aired on the publicly-funded television network.

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We're a one 'ssue show today because we have to get to our Lady Attorneys! This week turns into a wellness podcast with us discussing the merits of supplements and a doctor who eats 9 cups of vegetables a day, plus how Bryan went to a brunch where "FUN" was the word of the day. This week Bryan covers the South Carolina Arts Commission defunding two of the only queer organizations, The Greenville Gay Mens' Chorus and The Proud Mary Theatre Company for not meeting their new "artistic merit" requirements.

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Put a pillow and sick on it! This week is a reverse course from last week's appeal to white men over 60 as we try to confuse Gen Alpha with some potential new slang, plus we fawn over Nigella Lawson as she replaces Prue Leith on The Great British Bake-Off. Erin discusses University of Texas' provost office rejecting "DEI classes" for core requirements based on "student feedback", and the removing of majors involving urban unrest, gender and sexuality. Bryan examines how six major hospitals reached deals with the Trump administration and the DOJ to stop providing gender affirming care to people 19 and under to avoid lawsuits and releasing underage patient information to the government.

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It's a balmy 80 degrees at the start of fall and we're wearing burnt orange repping our Texas roots (Hook 'em horns! UT is in the finals!), and somehow get into a deep dive on college football coach Major Applewhite and watch how the players rehearse for the big game. Bryan discusses Turkey increasing their attack on the LGBTQ+ commnity by ordering more activists to be held in pre-trial detention and the blocking of websites and social media accounts for journalists and human rights groups, plus how a study from Prevention Science is showing an increased use of vaping by the queer community as a result of bullying and rejection. Erin details how Texas is purposely delaying the release of the state's Health and Human Dervices maternal mortality report until after the midterms out of concern Republican candidates will receive backlash as a result of their reproductive health restrictions.

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This week Erin's luggage (with her mic) still hasn't been returned to her, but she's sipping on eucalyptus and discussing her appearance on the Scriptnotes podcast! Bryan has symptoms of exhaustion but managed to get a $70 haircut and learned all about the Seventh Day Adventists. Erin is Paul Revere spreading the news from the recent ProPublica study from 2020-2025 showing ectopic pregnancy deaths nearly doubling since the overturning of Roe V. Wade Bryan spins his big gay globe to lead us through Turkey's recent raids on its LGBTQ+ citizens, Hungary making progressive changes, and how here in the U.S. Democrats are failing its trans citizens in this conservative culture war. For all our bonus content visit www.patreon.com/attitudes

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