Dearly cherished, we have been collected here right now to complete this thing called… a period finale! Yes, it is correct, present occurrence represents the conclusion absolutely the smash hit which was S2 of

Wait, Is This A Night Out Together?

In order to commemorate that finishing, which easier to come on and talk about the joys and positive results of a long distance crush, than star and queer person Elise Bauman? You might accept Elise from Lifetime’s delightful queer Christmas rom-com that come on just last year,

In Christmas Time Tree
,

but around these components, she has another title that is nearly as vaunted: Drew’s gf! Yes, that is right, this sparkling twosome was birthed from the fantastic queer tradition: the cross country crush.

But what would it be concerning the long-distance crush which very attractive to queers internationally? Can it be the relative scarceness of like minded queers near you? even the capacity to flirt long distance requires many of the pressure off? The three people enter into the whole thing, AND Drew and Elise share some probably also sweet factual statements about their particular commitment!

As well as there is a game! Recently, we make Drew have fun with the online game that merely got over Twitter and Tiktok for a few momentary weeks: „they are a 10 but…“ It is a good time, throughout!

PROGRAM NOTES

+ Practice Elise on
Twitter
and
IG
!

+
Study Drew’s meeting with Jinx Monsoon
!

+ Watch

Bend it Like Beckham
,

it still rocks!

+ Johnny Sibilly’s legs tend to be… undoubtedly very compelling!

+ will likely Shortz is in fact the name of NYT Crossword Editor!

*the more you know*

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EPISODE

Elise

: And then we got off the cellphone, immediately after which we both hopped regarding the cellphone two moments later on we’re like, „and so the line is closed, our company is lawfully prohibited to truly get throughout the line.“

Christina

: I mean, leading among one of my favorite vocals memos and even messages i acquired from Drew, i can not remember which kind it was available in, it absolutely was like, „we made this plan nowadays the edges are shut.“ Yeah.

Elise

: Yeah, it absolutely was a real time.

[theme tune performs]

Drew

: Hi, I’m Drew.

Christina

: And I Also’m Christina.

Drew

: And thank you for visiting

Wait, Is This A Date?

Christina

:

Wait, Is It A Night Out Together?

is actually an Autostraddle podcast delivered by myself getting the giggles, while the concern that’s on everybody’s mouth, wait, was actually this a night out together?

Drew

: we are at the conclusion of our next season, and I also believe we resolved it, I think.

Christina

: Yeah, i do believe I’m just providing huge finale energy, like when comedies was once facing a facility audience, and everybody would walk in and there had been an hour of applause given that it was like, this is the finally, that’s the way I’m feeling. Though become clear, no-one features applauded me personally yet, hateful. Thanks, thank you. Now personally i think liked and held. Drew, that happen to be you?

Drew

: Oh wow, forgot about that component.

Christina

: Yeah, proper?

Drew:

Possibly period three we’ll get the intros. I’m called Drew Gregory, i will be an author for Autostraddle, a filmmaker, a queer trans woman. Do you know what, In my opinion if we do another season I would like to have a great one I throw-in by the end.

Christina

: Ooh, something spicy, you should jazz it up?

Drew

: Yeah, There isn’t such a thing today however.

Christina

: Okay, keep all of them wanting even more, i do believe which is fantastic.

Drew

: Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Christina

: i’m Christina Tucker, i’m in addition a writer at Autostraddle, and internet in particular. A podcaster, a gay dark girl, and an individual who’s sensation rather flashy right here about mid-day.

Drew

: Great, I’m truly grateful that you are jazzy and I also’m spicy, or perhaps I’m planning for the possibility that someday i’m going to be spicy.

Christina

: Yes you’re like, I don’t know, the very first 50 % of the film Dune, the spruce can come. Cool reference, females, she is unmarried. In any event, I do have a game title for us playing on this hollowed day’s the finale.

Drew

: Incredible.

Christina

: This Is Basically The classic, and by classic After All a-game that overran the internet and TikTok for 2-3 weeks, „They Truly Are a 10, but…“

Drew

: Ah, fantastic.

Christina

: today Drew, i will set-out some soil regulations for your needs, because i understand you like a follow up concern.

Drew

: Great.

Christina

: As I say they can be a 10, they’re a 10 to you in any way that counts to you personally, that would be literally, that may be emotionally, this is just a person you feel is a 10, okay?

Drew

: Okay, ok, many thanks.

Christina

: I do not have any scenarios for just what more you in this person being performing within matchmaking life, you are just gonna have to go together with your instinct and decide.

Drew

: Cool.

Christina

: fine?

Drew

: Yes.

Christina

: we will put where make that obvious, right here we get. They can be a 10, but they clap whenever the airplane lands.

Drew

: i usually decided everyone was as well remarkable with this specific, where it is like they can be a 10 and therefore thing means they are visit a-two, come on.

Christina

: Yes.

Drew

: and so i’m planning to nonetheless give a fairly generous eight.

Christina

: Yeah, i do believe which is reasonable. In my opinion eight could be the proper level of cringe treatment for that small action. All right, that is a fantastic beginning. Okay, they truly are a nine nevertheless they never text you first.

Drew

: And I are unable to ask followup questions?

Christina

: No, no, no.

Drew

: So I are unable to ask, really would they text me personally back when we text? I’d say a five.

Christina

: Yeah, perhaps not texting basic actually, that’s harsh.

Drew

: previously is strange.

Christina

: That’s harsh things. Fine, they’re a five however they drive one every errand you’ve ever had to operate.

Drew

: which is very nice, but I could usually… If there had been five, I’ll offer him a six.

Christina

: Sure, sure. But I’m sure you love a solamente jaunt in any event, you adore an errand run.

Drew

:I mean these days my personal girl Elise did drive us to an errand, and I also had been really thankful, however if that was the single thing she did we wouldn’t take a connection, that has been merely an added bit good bonus.

Christina

: I think which is reasonable.

Drew

: Yeah.

Christina

: fine, they truly are a seven nonetheless they just pretend to read through your work.

Drew

: See the element of that that bothers me will be the pretend.

Christina

: Pretending, we understood it will be.

Drew

: It isn’t really the maybe not reading it. When they didn’t read my work it really is like, I’m not that, I would be somewhat, it’s like never? But it’s fine, I could conquer it. But they lay in my opinion about this is what’s weird if you ask me, to ensure that’s going to drop to a three.

Christina

: Yeah, appropriate, correct. They have been a three but they gain access to the criterion wardrobe.

Drew

: And perform I have you to go?

Christina

: and also you get access, you reap the benefits of that accessibility, yes.

Drew

: i really could have a great affair thereupon six.

Christina

: i believe you might. It was a three, but yeah, you are slamming it to a six.

Drew

: No, no, no, that’s what i am claiming, i am knocking it to a six.

Christina

: Gotcha, gotcha. I adore that. They may be an eight but all of their buddies tend to be straight.

Drew

: Okay, there was some discussion about any of it, because i believe there clearly was a you want help. In my opinion I possibly was actually in the reverse side of many of this Autostraddle group just who mentioned that truly good to only have directly friends. I wish to declare that truly okay, it’s just perhaps not living I lead. All direct friends, that’s going to go to a-two.

Christina

: Yeah, i will need certainly to accept you on that one, i might simply find it somewhat troubling, complicated.

Drew

: All straight friends?

Christina

: Yeah.

Drew

: if they are new to queerness and are usually attempting to satisfy a lot more queer men and women, which is unique of if they are a recognised period queer who is similar, you-know-what? I like becoming the one lesbian in my own friend number of right folks.

Christina

: Yeah, I would personally feel the same manner whether or not it had been an Ebony one who ended up being like, „There isn’t any Black pals,“ I would be like, „what are you doing there?“ Internally.

Drew

: we aren’t in a network sitcom, we can’t have a token person.

Christina

: you don’t have to function as token, you should not do this to your self. Fine, we’ve got three a lot more. They have been a seven nevertheless they spend-all their unique spare time in the gym, consistently lifting weights up and down. I am not sure what individuals perform in the gym.

Drew

: All of their sparetime. I guess it all depends on what counts as sparetime. We’ll say a five.

Christina

: Yeah.

Drew

: we’ll bump them all the way down two.

Christina

: Bump all of them down.

Drew

: but that is fine. I assume it depends largely in my situation, which I’m maybe not inquiring a follow question, i am keeping five, nonetheless it is dependent if you ask me what matters as leisure time.

Christina

: Sure.

Drew

: are we able to see flicks collectively, or go out to eat, is that free time? Isn’t work time free-time, or perhaps is it simply like when we lack alternative activities?

Christina

: I hear you, I listen to you.

Drew

: But I’ll stick with five.

Christina

: All right. They can be six, however their mom is hotter than they might be.

Drew

: Oh, I don’t know to increase or down.

Christina

: i am aware, appropriate?

Drew

: I don’t imagine i really could previously date some one for their… its like if I’m maybe not attracted to some one to start with, I’m most likely not will be online dating them.

Christina

: Appropriate.

Drew

: I am not likely to be love, well, they might become their particular hot mom. In my opinion I’d declare that they may be still a six, i am simply probably perhaps not refer to them as and I’m browsing phone their mom.

Christina

: Yeah, I feel enjoy it’s like you stay alike, but perhaps I go out to you only a little longer than i might if you wish-

Drew

: That’s a great point.

Christina

: to have some mom time. I really don’t think you change.

Drew

: I did anything truly terrible that I still feel severely pertaining to, and that is that somebody questioned me around, and also this was actually when I was in university, and that I had not been interested, and so I ended up being obvious about that, I became obvious I wasn’t interested. But she wished to be friends, and that I could inform that she said she wanted to end up being pals it was originating from location-

Christina

: She was actually hoping.

Drew

: Yeah. However the thing is that most of the woman friends happened to be actually hot and cool, I really performed always been her pal being spend time together with her buddies. I didn’t rest about my objectives typically, but it nevertheless wasn’t the best thing I did so as a 20 year old.

Christina

: What i’m saying is unfortunately it simply reminds me personally of these bout of

Sex plus the City

in which Carrie’s relationship, I do believe its Justin Theroux, and then he sucks, but his household rocks, and she actually is like, i will repeat this for slightly. I am like, yeah, absolutely, which could not.

Drew

: Carrie wasn’t wanting to hook up together with his family, which is the huge difference, nevertheless understand what? Its fine, we are all great.

Christina

: A hookup can look like anything, i am usually proclaiming that.

Drew

: which is a truly great point.

Christina

: the final one, is a three but has a coastline residence.

Drew

: I’m about to say a frustrating sentence, but I visited NYU.

Christina

: terrible to express.

Drew

: Something that sucks about myself, which this might be gonna seem like a modest brag, since it is actually probably a good fictional character trait, nonetheless it sucks as a person checking out the globe. We decided to go to a college which is filled up with wealthy individuals who have all sorts of awesome coastline homes, and all sorts of these other things, and I just turned into buddies with folks who have been truth be told there on scholarships. Not only, but largely, I definitely, I didn’t make friends with folks who’d coastline residences.

Christina

: You Probably Didn’t make use of.

Drew

: Yeah, I really believe if they are a three but they have actually a coastline household, they are probably a-two. The actual fact… I am not sure.

Christina

: Yeah, you just can not make that jump to utilize the sick coastline residence time.

Drew

: No, it sucks. But what I’m actually wanting is my buddies who’re relatively down to earth, great individuals, more and more of them are simply gonna consistently have that new cash immediately after which get coastline homes, and I’ll be able to go out with my great pals and start to become at a beach household. That is the fantasy in which i really could obtain the beach home.

Christina

: That’s the dream at the end of the afternoon, it’s brand-new cash and a beach household, which is all we are seeking. You heard it here initially folks.

Drew

: Everyone loves new money.

Christina

: Love brand new money.

Drew

: Love brand-new money. Yeah, which was a delight. I would in fact, I would really been planning to perform that online game because it had been something on TikTok, therefore many thanks to make my dreams be realized.

Christina

: I imagined it will be an enjoyable anyone to carry out, and it also ended up being very enjoyable to generate them.

Drew

: Well, should we proceed to all of our main portion of few days, that’s falling for those who reside in other metropolises. That is different than cross country interactions, because long-distance connections may start well into a commitment, they can keep on into a connection, this is the desire that queer folks have to check out their particular location which they live and get, no, I’m not probably flirt with these men and women, i will carry on instagram.com and discover someone that life really distant. And then we have a, i understand we constantly state a tremendously unique visitor, but for myself this is an extremely special visitor. Do you wish to present yourself?

Elise

: I would personally love to present myself. In the morning I the unique guest?

Drew

: you might be, yes.

Christina

: Baby, however.

Elise

: Great, wow, amazing. My name is Elise Bauman, i am an actor, I’m a queer individual, and I also’m here now because I’m sleeping with the hosts.

Christina

: imagine which?

Elise

: Yeah, other podcast is just the audience attempting decipher which host I’m asleep with. I prefer that, it’s like a murder puzzle but-

Christina

: there isn’t any strategy to know.

Elise

: there is method to know. Yeah, performs this generate me personally a nepotism infant? Is the fact that the way the industry works.

Christina

: Yes, which is how the sector works, hottie.

Elise

: cool, nice.

Christina

: This is it.

Elise

: Wow, maybe i possibly could get a career using this.

Christina

: fingertips crossed for your family.

Elise

: Nepo child to career, wow, great. I have constantly planned to be a nepo child.

Christina

: I’m thus happy.

Drew

: Yeah, I found myself only attending declare that for people who do not know, well I am just ruining the murder secret of it all, but Elise and that I come into an union, and performed begin matchmaking during the pandemic, and Elise resides in Toronto, and I inhabit la, which are in fact various places, as they are in fact in almost any nations.

Elise

: they truly are certainly, these are typically indeed.

Christina

: And Drew, not saying which you moved against your personal instinct, but I do feel like you may be normally a person who states, the reason why work with a long length moment? There are men and women listed here I am able to date, so why do this to your self? You know it will likely be hard, you are sure that it will be a challenge, so why do this? But right here you happen to be.

Drew

: See, that’s interesting, because personally i think like i usually enjoyed to own a small amount of both, i simply think i did not take the long distance types perhaps since honestly.

Christina

: Maybe that’s all, yeah.

Drew

: But i loved a lengthy length flirt.

Christina

: Real.

Drew

: i really believe this simply held going. When we started-

Elise

: so that the response, Drew, was not that I was simply irresistible and it also was personal in my opinion, and that it was actually very particular in my experience that I found myself just extremely irresistible you merely smashed all rules and you also mentioned, „I have to have this 1.“

Drew

: after all it really is type of the clear answer in a lengthier good sense. In the sense that it only kept happening. And the close friends associated with the pod, Mal Blum and Gab Dunn, exactly who I accustomed live with, as some people may know, i might always be like, I’d end up being trying to date men and women during pandemic in l . a . plus the encompassing aspects of L. A.. After which they’d generate fun of myself because i’d occasionally you should be love, „i am talking about, I could just make an effort to date Elise Bauman.“ I was constantly, „What i’m saying is, {this person|this i
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