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Let's Talk About Spoilers

I just finished typing up this interview after getting off the phone  with my latest anonymous friend. We waited until the Tony nominations were announced so we  could discuss those along with our main topic for this week-- Spoilers. Here’s the interview: ME:  This week is all about spoilers, but since I usually put these  out on Tuesday’s and the Tony nominations came out this morning-- THEM:  I had a feeling we were going to have to talk about that. ME:  I don’t want to spend too much time on it, but just give me  your initial thoughts. THEM:  I think it’s a lot of the same problems we see every year  that for some reason the Tony committee doesn’t seem interested  in fixing--the biggest one being that shows that open early in the  season get forgotten about or, kind of, lose their momentum, and  then you have shows that aren’t that good being given the benefit  of the doubt, because uh-- ME:  We have to nominate something. THEM:  Exactly.  I thin

Let's Talk About Electability

As I was transcribing this, social media was all aflutter about Joe Biden announcing his candidacy for President, and, sure enough, the word “electability” started being thrown around in relation to why he makes a good candidate. Funnily enough, that’s the topic of conversation with my Anonymous Friend of the Week, otherwise known as Them. Here’s the interview: ME:   Let’s talk about electability. THEM:   Is this about Joe Biden? ME:   Yup. THEM:   (Laughs.)   He’s already getting too much press, and he hasn’t even announced yet.                 (Sidenote:   This conversation was had on Sunday.) ME:   People are saying he should be the nominee—or someone like him—because he’s ‘electable’ and I just wanted to figure out what they mean when they say that. THEM:   So you don’t know what it means? ME:   I thiiiiiink I know what it means, but I’m not sure they do. THEM:   Okay, well, from my perspective, it’s because he’s a straight, white male