Ep. 57: The Red Eye Guys

Freddie & Jim are excited for the looooong awaited opening week of Red Eye (the bar where they've been recording Thotlight for over a year), and they share the excitement with their guests today: a pair of the venue's co-owners, Sam Benedict & Taylor Shubert! They boys first chat about the joys, challenges and controversies behind their first summer running sister venue The Ice Palace on Fire Island before delving into some behind the scenes tea re: all the  creativity, sweat equity and near endless bureaucratic red tape navigation they put into Red Eye. They also tell us what the programming is gonna be like... and perhaps more importantly, the food!

In the news: more Brooklyn Mirage drama as the truth about another on-premises death emerges along with their connection to the Electric Zoo disaster;  Yelp reviews slam the hateful congresswoman Lauren Boebert's Beetlejuice sidepiece's gay-friendly bar;  PAPER & Dragula return;  the NewFest queer film festival will highlight an important local queen; an artist displays 68 pairs of his hookups' underwear, which is also for sale.

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