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20b. why we never had sex: horizontal with joe mccue (part 2)
Category: Health
Duration: 01:05:14
Publish Date: 2018-05-04 11:00:00
Description:

Welcome back to horizontal, the podcast about intimacy that’s recorded while “the opposite of vertical.” I believe: when we make private conversations public, intimacy becomes contagious.

In this episode, I lie down with my closest friend from high school, Joe McCue. Beloveds from that era of my life are few and far between, and I’m only in touch with a handful of them today, which makes my friendship with Joe all the more precious to me. Joe and I went to an arts magnet program at Gibbs High School, called Pinellas County Center for the Arts, or PCCA for short. His major was Visual Art; mine was Performance Theatre.

Joe is now an osteopath in Bangor, Maine, where we recorded this episode. Bangor was the second stop on my 10,000 mile cross-country road trip. I first went to Burlington, Vermont, where I failed to record an incredible conversation with the relationship coach Lola D. Houston - SIGH. You can read that behind-the-scenes story on the website.

This conversation marks the first episode release from the road trip and tour, which I dubbed horizontal does america. In October and November of 2017, I, a couple of suitcases, and my recording equipment circumnavigated the United States in a Honda Civic - in order to lie down with people in their homes, in their cities.

Stories from the road, like the mishap with Lola’s episode, behind-the-scenes photos like my horizontal portrait at the base of the World’s Tallest File Cabinet, and discounts on live events shall be yours when you go to horizontalwithlila.com and sign up for my mailing list! (Also: Joe took some pretty lovely shots of me in my sexy minion outfit amongst pumpkins - you’ll just have to see it for yourself.)

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If you enjoy lying down with Joe and I, become a patron of the horizontal arts! Patreon is an innovation in the life of the artist. It’s a website that crowdsources income on a monthly basis. It can make it possible for me to continue creating independent, uncensored, ad-free, homemade radio. There are lovely perks when you become my patron. For instance, for $25 a month you’ll receive recorded love poems. You’ll also get two tickets to a live recording of horizontal, quarterly lullabies, an invitation to my secret FB group, and a post of what I call GPG: Genuine Public Gratitude (or not! If you want to remain a private patron, I shall honor you privately!) There’s loads of other perks on patreon.com/horizontalwithlila

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In the first half of our episode together, released last week as 20a, Joe and I talked about our high school lives, his bad first time, the title of this episode, teaching his sister to read, and the stay-at-home Dad dream. He also points out the fact that he’s been getting horizontal with lila since the 90s.

In this second half of this episode, I tell Joe a minor secret, and we discuss whether missionary can be a kink, how joe met his wife, how such a radical person ended up monogamous and happy, and the gifts of the paper anniversary.

For my sweetest, most vanilla episode yet, I invite you: to come lie down with us.

 

Credit where credit is due:

This episode was edited by Chad Michael Snavely! Peruse Chad’s other podcasts on chadmichael.com. My delectable cover art is by the illustrator Shana Shay, whom you can hire through 99designs - she’s such a pleasure to work with. Horizontal’s theme music is by Alan Markley, rock star and newly-minted Dad. You can find him on Instagram as plasticcannons.
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