{"podcast":{"title":"LET'S GET METAPHYSICAL","slug":"let-s-get-metaphysical-7021402","podcast_index_feed_id":7021402,"rss_url":"https://anchor.fm/s/fadfccf8/podcast/rss","website_url":"https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/sam-cross3","image_url":"https://d3t3ozftmdmh3i.cloudfront.net/staging/podcast_uploaded_nologo/41989710/41989710-1731073533469-74ebb6e85be44.jpg","author":"Sam Cross","episode_count":50,"summary":"THE podcast for the Cosmically Curious. Sam Cross is a Claircognizant spiritual mentor, author, and artist who lives by the philosophy \"seek, and you will find.\" Sam explores spirituality at the intersections of deconstructing religion / patriarchy / capitalism, social justice, personal growth, and discovering that \"science\" is mysticism plus statistics. Sam is the author of THE ART OF BEING LIGHT, a hand-illustrated memoir of spiritual awakening. She publishes essays on spirituality and culture for her Substack, QUEERITUALITY. 👇 For more, visit 👇 www.crosssam.com","last_synced_at":"2026-07-04T20:19:23.002406+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/let-s-get-metaphysical-7021402"},"episode":{"title":"36. Dear Straight People: a storytelling invitation.","slug":"36-dear-straight-people-a-storytelling-invitation","published_at":"2025-06-06T17:13:59+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/let-s-get-metaphysical-7021402/36-dear-straight-people-a-storytelling-invitation","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/let-s-get-metaphysical-7021402","url":"https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/sam-cross3/episodes/36--Dear-Straight-People-a-storytelling-invitation-e33sqfk","audio_url":"https://anchor.fm/s/fadfccf8/podcast/play/103753652/https%3A%2F%2Fd3ctxlq1ktw2nl.cloudfront.net%2Fstaging%2F2025-5-6%2F401693011-44100-2-221ed17877ab8.mp3","summary":"Dear Straight People: it's Pride month. Most people who live under the ever-expanding LGBTQ umbrella know what that means to them. But what does it mean to you? What if Pride is an invitation to a deeper level of humanity? What if it means something to all of us? This is an invitation to listen to stories this Pride month, and to tell your story, too. Every single human has been "othered" in some way. Our portal to compassion (for ourselves, and for each other) is through the medium of storytelling, and COMEDY. In this epsiode, I talk about: My own story: coming out as a lesbian in the flaming cultural dumpster of the early 2000s How representation shapes our sense of possibility, and why that's life-changing The heteronormative pressure on women to be mothers as the path to "love," observing and navigating that as a childfree-by-choice lesbian The quiet ways patriarchy conditions all of us to feel othered, including men (but we're not supposed to notice) Why storytelling is the key to both personal and collective healing, ESPECIALLY COMEDY!!! Check out these BRILLIANT comedians: Jerrod Carmichael (" Don't Be Gay ") Fortune Feimster (" Crushing It ") Hannah Gadsby (" Nanette ") Sam Jay , Sabrina Jalees Mike Birbiglia , Will Ferrell (" Will & Harper ") HAVE A WONDERFUL, COLOURFUL, VERY GAY MONTH! 🏳‍🌈","meta_description":"Dear Straight People: it's Pride month. Most people who live under the ever-expanding LGBTQ umbrella know what that means to them. But what does it mean t…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":1999,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/let-s-get-metaphysical-7021402/episodes/36-dear-straight-people-a-storytelling-invitation/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/let-s-get-metaphysical-7021402/36-dear-straight-people-a-storytelling-invitation.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}