Dearly beloved, we have been obtained right here today to cope with this thing labeled as⦠a period finale! Yes, it really is genuine, the episode represents the end of the absolute blockbuster that has been S2 of
Wait, So Is This A Date?
In order to commemorate that finishing, which easier to come on and talk about the joys and achievements of an extended length crush, than star and queer individual Elise Bauman? You may acknowledge Elise from Lifetime’s wonderful queer Christmas rom-com which come away last year,
Beneath The Christmas Time Tree
,
but around these components, she has another name that’s nearly as vaunted: Drew’s girlfriend! Yes, you heard that right, this sparkling twosome was actually birthed from fantastic queer custom: the long distance crush.
But what can it be concerning the long-distance crush that’s so attractive to queers around the globe? Would it be the general scarcity of like-minded queers around you? Perhaps the capability to flirt cross country requires a few of the pressure down? The 3 of us enter into everything, AND Drew and Elise show some perhaps also adorable facts about their particular commitment!
And undoubtedly there’s a casino game! Recently, we make Drew play the online game that merely took over Twitter and Tiktok for a couple fleeting days: “they truly are a 10 but⦔ It really is a very good time, around!
PROGRAM NOTES
+ Practice Elise on
Twitter
and
IG
!
+
Read Drew’s interview with Jinx Monsoon
!
+ Watch
Bend it Like Beckham
,
it nevertheless rocks!
+ Johnny Sibilly’s upper thighs tend to be⦠without a doubt rather persuasive!
+ may Shortz is certainly the name associated with the NYT Crossword publisher!
*the much more you know*
EPISODE
Elise
: immediately after which we had gotten off of the cellphone, then we both hopped on the cellphone two mere seconds afterwards we are like, “therefore the border is actually shut, the audience is lawfully not allowed to truly get over the border.”
Christina
: What i’m saying is, leading among certainly one of the best vocals memos and or messages i acquired from Drew, I can’t recall which type it came in, it actually was love, “I made this course of action and then the edges are closed.” Yeah.
Elise
: Yeah, it absolutely was a genuine minute.
[theme track plays]
Drew
: Hi, I’m Drew.
Christina
: And I’m Christina.
Drew
: And thank you for visiting
Wait, So Is This A Date?
Christina
:
Hold Off, Is This A Night Out Together?
is actually an Autostraddle podcast brought to you by me obtaining giggles, and also the question this is certainly on everyone’s lip area, wait, ended up being this a romantic date?
Drew
: we are after our 2nd season, and that I believe we solved it, I think.
Christina
: Yeah, I think I’m only providing large finale fuel, like whenever comedies was previously facing a studio audience, and everyone would walk-in there was an hour of applause since it ended up being like, this is the last, which is how I’m experiencing. Though are clear, no one features applauded me personally yet, hateful. Thanks, thanks. Today i’m liked and used. Drew, that are you?
Drew
: Oh wow, forgot about that part.
Christina
: Yeah, correct?
Drew:
Perhaps period three I’ll have the intros. I am Drew Gregory, i will be an author for Autostraddle, a filmmaker, a queer trans woman. Guess what happens, i do believe whenever we would another season i wish to have an enjoyable one I throw-in by the end.
Christina
: Ooh, some thing spicy, you should jazz it up?
Drew
: Yeah, There isn’t everything today though.
Christina
: Okay, leave all of them wanting a lot more, i believe that’s great.
Drew
: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Christina
: Im Christina Tucker, I am also an author at Autostraddle, and internet as a whole. A podcaster, a gay Black lady, and someone who’s sensation pretty flashy listed here about afternoon.
Drew
: Great, I’m really grateful that you are flashy and that I’m spicy, or perhaps i am planning the chance that at some point I’ll be spicy.
Christina
: Yes you’re like, I’m not sure, initial 50 % of the movie Dune, the spruce can come. Cool guide, girls, she’s single. In any event, I do have a game title for all of us to relax and play with this hollowed day of all of our finale.
Drew
: Incredible.
Christina
: This Is Actually The traditional, and also by classic What I’m Saying Is a casino game that overran the net and TikTok for a couple weeks, “They Are a 10, but⦔
Drew
: Ah, great.
Christina
: Now Drew, I’m going to lay out some ground rules for your family, because I’m sure you adore a follow-up concern.
Drew
: Great.
Christina
: When I say they may be a 10, they are a 10 for your requirements at all that counts to you, which can be physically, that could be emotionally, this is just one you feel is actually a 10, okay?
Drew
: Okay, okay, thanks.
Christina
: i actually do n’t have any circumstances for what otherwise you within individual have already been undertaking in your internet dating life, you are merely going to have to go together with your abdomen and determine.
Drew
: Cool.
Christina
: okay?
Drew
: Yes.
Christina
: we are going to place in which make that clear, right here we get. They are a 10, even so they clap once the plane places.
Drew
: i usually felt like people were also dramatic with this specific, in which it’s like they can be a 10 hence thing makes them choose a-two, seriously.
Christina
: Yes.
Drew
: and so i’m planning to nonetheless offer a fairly big eight.
Christina
: Yeah, i believe that is fair. In my opinion eight could be the correct level of cringe treatment regarding little activity. All right, this will be a great beginning. Okay, they truly are a nine nonetheless they never ever text you initially.
Drew
: and I also cannot ask followup questions?
Christina
: No, no, no.
Drew
: thus I are unable to ask, well carry out they text me personally when we text? I would state a five.
Christina
: Yeah, maybe not texting first actually, that’s crude.
Drew
: previously is actually weird.
Christina
: That’s rough stuff. All right, these include a five nonetheless drive that every errand you’ve ever had to operate.
Drew
: That’s great, but I could constantly⦠If there were five, I’ll provide him a six.
Christina
: Sure, sure. But i understand you love a solo jaunt anyway, you love an errand run.
Drew
:I mean today my sweetheart Elise did drive me to an errand, and that I had been really thankful, however, if which was the one and only thing she performed we mightn’t take a connection, that was merely an additional bit good extra.
Christina
: i believe that is reasonable.
Drew
: Yeah.
Christina
: All right, they truly are a seven nonetheless they just pretend to see work.
Drew
: See the facet of that that bothers me personally is the pretend.
Christina
: Pretending, we understood it will be.
Drew
: it is not the maybe not reading it. Should they failed to review my work it is like, I’m not that, I would end up being just a little, it is like never ever? But it’s great, i possibly could conquer it. However they lie if you ask me about that is really what’s weird in my opinion, to ensure thatwill go down to a three.
Christina
: Yeah, appropriate, appropriate. They might be a three nonetheless they get access to the criterion closet.
Drew
: And do I have you to go?
Christina
: and you also get accessibility, you reap the benefits of that accessibility, yes.
Drew
: i possibly could have a great affair with this six.
Christina
: i believe you might. It had been a three, but yeah, you’re knocking it up to a six.
Drew
: No, no, no, that is what i am stating, i am slamming it to a six.
Christina
: Gotcha, gotcha. I love that. They are an eight but all their pals are directly.
Drew
: Okay, there is some discussion about it, because i do believe there was clearly a needed help. In my opinion I possibly had been from the opposite side of most in the Autostraddle group just who asserted that its good to only have right pals. I wish to say that it really is okay, it’s just not living I lead. All directly friends, that will head to a two.
Christina
: Yeah, i’ll have to trust you on that one, i might merely find it some troubling, complicated.
Drew
: All straight friends?
Christina
: Yeah.
Drew
: If they’re fresh to queerness and are also wanting to meet even more queer folks, that’s distinct from if they’re a well established season queer who’s love, you-know-what? I prefer being usually the one lesbian in my friend group of right men and women.
Christina
: Yeah, i’d have the in an identical way if it ended up being a dark individual who had been like, “There isn’t any black friends and,” i might be like, “what’s happening there?” Internally.
Drew
: We’re not in a network sitcom, we cannot have a token person.
Christina
: You don’t need to function as the token, you don’t have to accomplish that to your self. Okay, there is three a lot more. These include a seven even so they spend-all their free-time at the gym, continuously lifting weights top to bottom. I’m not sure what folks carry out in the gym.
Drew
: All of their time. I suppose it all depends on what counts as spare time. We’ll say a five.
Christina
: Yeah.
Drew
: I’ll bump them down two.
Christina
: Bump all of them down.
Drew
: But that’s fine. I guess this will depend mostly personally, that we’m maybe not asking a follow concern, i am following five, it depends in my experience what matters as sparetime.
Christina
: Positive.
Drew
: are we able to enjoy motion pictures collectively, or venture out to consume, would be that spare time? Isn’t operate time free time, or perhaps is it just like when we don’t have other activities?
Christina
: I listen to you, I listen to you.
Drew
: But we’ll stick with five.
Christina
: All right. They’re six, but their mother is hotter than they’re.
Drew
: Oh, I’m not sure to go up or down.
Christina
: i am aware, correct?
Drew
: I do not believe i possibly could previously date some one for their⦠its like easily’m perhaps not interested in some one to start with, i am not likely gonna be internet dating all of them.
Christina
: Correct.
Drew
: I’m not likely to be love, well, they can end up as their own hot mom. I believe I would declare that they can be nonetheless a six, i am merely going to not call them and that I’m going to call their unique mommy.
Christina
: Yeah, I feel think its great’s as if you remain alike, but maybe I spend time to you just a little more than I would with the purpose-
Drew
: which is a beneficial point.
Christina
: To get some mommy time. I don’t consider you transform.
Drew
: i did so some thing actually terrible that I however think severely in regards to, which will be that somebody requested me personally down, which was actually when I was a student in college, and I was not interested, and so I was clear about this, I happened to be clear I wasn’t interested. However she wanted to end up being buddies, and I could inform that she mentioned she wanted to be friends nonetheless it ended up being via spot-
Christina
: She was hoping.
Drew
: Yeah. But the thing would be that each one of the woman pals were truly hot and cool, and so I performed always been her pal to go out together pals. I didn’t rest about my personal intentions normally, it nonetheless was not the best thing I did as a 20 year old.
Christina
: What i’m saying is sadly it really reminds me of that bout of
Intercourse plus the City
where Carrie’s dating, I think its Justin Theroux, and then he sucks, but his family rocks, and she’s like, i will repeat this for quite. I’m like, yeah, definitely, just who cannot.
Drew
: Carrie was not wanting to hook-up together with his household, which is the distinction, nevertheless know very well what? Its fine, we’re all good.
Christina
: A hookup will appear like everything, i am constantly stating that.
Drew
: That’s an extremely great point.
Christina
: your own last any, is a three but has actually a coastline household.
Drew
: I’m about to state a frustrating phrase, but we went along to NYU.
Christina
: awful to state.
Drew
: something sucks about myself, which this is probably seem like a simple brag, because it’s really most likely an effective personality characteristic, it sucks as individuals checking out the world. I went to a college that’s filled with wealthy folks who have a number of amazing coastline residences, as well as these other stuff, and I just became friends with people who were there on scholarships. Besides, but mostly, I positively, i did not socialize with others who’d beach residences.
Christina
: You didn’t use.
Drew
: Yeah, therefore I think if they’re a three even so they have a coastline household, they truly are most likely a two. The truth⦠I am not sure.
Christina
: Yeah, you simply can’t generate that leap to work well with the ill coastline house minute.
Drew
: No, it sucks. Exactly what I’m truly wanting is that my pals who’re fairly down-to-earth, great folks, increasingly more of those basically gonna continue steadily to get that brand-new money and then get beach homes, after which i’m going to be in a position to go out with my fantastic friends and start to become at a beach residence. That’s the fantasy in which i possibly could obtain the coastline home.
Christina
: this is the dream after your day, it is new money and a coastline house, that is all we are shopping for. You heard it here very first people.
Drew
: I like brand-new money.
Christina
: Love new cash.
Drew
: Love brand new cash. Yeah, that was a delight. I would actually, I would really been willing to perform that video game because it had been something on TikTok, therefore many thanks for making my fantasies become a reality.
Christina
: I was thinking it could be a great a person to carry out, also it was actually extremely enjoyable to generate all of them.
Drew
: Well, should we move on to the main portion of few days, and is dropping for folks who are now living in other metropolitan areas. That will be distinct from cross country interactions, because cross country interactions can begin really into an union, they may be able continue on into an union, this is the desire that queer folks have to look at their unique location that they reside and go, no, I’m not planning flirt with these individuals, I’m going to embark on instagram.com in order to find someone that life really far. And now we have actually a, i understand we constantly state a rather special guest, but also for me personally this is certainly a very special guest. Would you like to introduce yourself?
Elise
: I would love to introduce my self. In the morning we the special visitor?
Drew
: you will be, yes.
Christina
: child, obviously.
Elise
: Great, wow, remarkable. I’m called Elise Bauman, i am a star, i am a queer person, and that I’m here now because I’m resting with among hosts.
Christina
: imagine what type?
Elise
: Yeah, all of those other podcast is only the audience attempting decipher which number I’m resting with. I love that, its like a murder puzzle but-
Christina
: there’s really no strategy to understand.
Elise
: there’s really no option to understand. Yeah, performs this make me personally a nepotism child? Usually the business really works.
Christina
: Yes, that is how the sector works, girl.
Elise
: Wonderful, good.
Christina
: this is certainly it.
Elise
: Wow, maybe i possibly could get a profession out of this.
Christina
: Fingers crossed for you.
Elise
: Nepo baby to career, wow, great. I constantly wanted to be a nepo infant.
Christina
: i am very grateful.
Drew
: Yeah, I became just going to claim that for folks who don’t know, well now I’m destroying the murder secret of it all, but Elise and I have a commitment, and performed begin relationship throughout pandemic, and Elise resides in Toronto, and that I live in l . a ., which have been indeed different metropolises, consequently they are in fact in various nations.
Elise
: they have been without a doubt, these are typically undoubtedly.
Christina
: And Drew, not to say which you moved against a abdomen, but i actually do feel as though you might be usually someone who states, the reason why bother with a long range time? There are folks the following I am able to date, how come this to yourself? You are sure that it will likely be hard, you are aware it will likely be challenging, why do this? And yet here you happen to be.
Drew
: See, that’s fascinating, because i’m like i usually enjoyed to own a small amount of both, I just think i did not grab the long-distance ones possibly since honestly.
Christina
: perhaps that’s it, yeah.
Drew
: But I always liked an extended distance flirt.
Christina
: Genuine.
Drew
: i really think this just kept heading. Whenever we began-
Elise
: Therefore, the response, Drew, wasn’t that I became simply enticing plus it was actually personal for me, and this ended up being really specific to me that I happened to be simply surprisingly attractive which means you only out of cash all your valuable guidelines therefore mentioned, “i must have that certain.”
Drew
: What i’m saying is really kind of the clear answer in an extended good sense. In the same way so it merely kept occurring. Then the friends with the pod, Mal Blum and Gab Dunn, whom we familiar with live with, as some of you may already know, I would be like, I’d be attempting to date individuals during the pandemic in Los Angeles and encompassing regions of L. A.. Then they would create fun of me personally because i’d often you need to be love, “after all, i really could simply try to date Elise Bauman.” I found myself constantly, “after all, {this person|this i
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