WE ARE BACK FROM THE DEAD! Rising like the bloody corpse of your favorite vocalist after they’ve been stabbed and stabbed and stabbed by a clown, Honey This Podcast makes its triumphant return! As we discuss at the outset, this episode is a bit cobbled together with some reflections on the tour from mid-August as well as some thoughts on fascism from before the tour even launched (terrible audio included!) but we've got some smart insights and wild predictions that did not come true that we think you'll quite enjoy.

Topics include:

The Boston Incident, super lame cancer like from the My Chemical Romance song, Ticketmaster in our fucking crosshairs, CLOWNS, My Chemical Cryptography, us not knowing Charlie Saxton’s name yet (sorry Charlie), tricking 25,000 people into watching performance art, fascism as an alluring aesthetic, Dr. Strangelove and good satire, ballgown wishful thinking, LIZA MINELLI, military drag, new music wishful thinking, how everything is the Cold War, democratizing the barricade experience, and our ardent demands for a limp clown.

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*tap tap tap* Hello? Is this thing on? We’re BACK with hot, fresh updates from the When We Were Young Festival and a raucous celebration of Miss Black Parade’s 18th Birthday.

Topics include being juice famous, casino grime, Pete Wentz Is The Only Reason We’re Famous, the people’s princess Geoff Rickly, barricade dedication, ten or eleven swords, the Polka King of Waterbury, Connecticut, Girl, So Confusing (feat. Gerard Way and Bert McCracken), and our plans for the future!

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Hey gang, it’s goth dyke Trixie and Katya here to bring you a VERY overdue episode about illness and disability in Part 2 of our Angels in America episode! We’ve got a lot of reading this week, from revisiting Angels in America to Susan Sontag to Eli Clare. We’re exploring metaphors of illness and cure and how they work in Angels in America and in the Black Parade.

Topics include,: Susan Sontag’s triumphant return to the pod, sexy tuberculosis, being Gun. haters, absolutely pummeling Cancer, unholyverse mention, transgender body horror in Mama, Stomachaches, a brief Kombucha interlude, problems with madness and prophecy, “The worst thing about being sick in America is that you’re booted out of the parade”, cure and living with illness, and free top surgery at Las Vegas Festival Grounds.

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We are back and we’re answering asks from July! Sorry for the delay, we are busy guys but we love bringing you this podcast! This episode we talk about the barbie movie, gender babies shitting in their god damn diapers, a thrilling guest appearance from the spider on Maren’s ceiling, a call for filmmakers, Frank Reverb Sale, command-f-ing Frerard, the Byronic poet, a quick trip to AO3, new music optimism, Revenge of the Nerds, some really beautiful music journalism, and omegaverse (again)

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Frantic cuts! Title cards! 2 hours of Give ‘em Hell on a loop! This week we’re reviewing beloved fan resource and seminal documentary Life on the Murder Scene. We’re talking about truth and documentaries, the archetypical rockstar, and how this film shaped early fan lore and community.

Topics include: wild guesses as to when the film was released, Paris is Burning, A Hard Day’s Night, atmospheres of masculinity, the title cards, giving a shit about women, the New Jersey of it all, Maren’s bidet, thinly veiled animosity toward Howard Benson, subculture and MTV and the early internet, Geoff Rickly being sued by the UN, and the diet soda arrow.

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LOOK UP! Prepare the way! Welcome to PART ONE of our angels episodes! This week we talk about angels and how they factor into world religions, MCR, and the play Angels in America. We are NOT theology students but we ARE drawing some unexpected connections to dig into the connections between religion and queerness in MCR.

Topics include: Frank’s reverb sale, angel droppings, translating ancient Hebrew, EJ’s midwestern religious upbringing, Gerard Way’s legitimate gift from god, making catholicism sexy, angel cum, God playing sims, Reaganism, Louis’s terrible and still relevant takes, the work of survival, the absurdity of decay, Wikipedia pronouns, MCR as a Christian rock band, and incredibly stale discourse about Patrick Stump.

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We are THRILLED to present our first bonus episode! Our ask box is stacked full of amazing comments and questions from you, dear listeners, and we’ll be releasing some special episodes to keep the conversation going and respond to our asks!

Topics include: Team Jacob, draculoids, TV All The Television, the wikipedia page for gobstoppers, alien gender, fantastic shittiness, the other jewel thief, Kendall Roy’s new secretary, performativity (again), Dunes gossip, and how smart you all are.

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Do you like D&D, Audrey Hepburn, and Fangoria? Have you ever felt… curious? This week we’re diving into the extensive collection of MCR’s music videos and exploring the power of feminine characters and the narratives the videos shape about masculinity. We’ve got crisp and clean new audio, so tune in to hear us review each video and dig into the lore behind its making.

Topics include: getting high off spray paint, Frank’s terrible glue dreads, being horror babies, beating up traditional masculinity, the music video as an archive, uniforms, huge cock military might Hollywood budget, Mikey’s tragic death in World War II, accidentally g-noting yourself, women’s traditional role in music videos, jacking off the mic, Liza-ing absolute Minelli, what a Mama music video could look like, bridges, Bob Bryar set ablaze, comic book pacing, piss flagging, making Glenn Beck angry, and substance.

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One hour episode dissecting Millions when? One hour episode dissecting Millions NOW! In this special bonus ep we are digging into the glittery scuzzy glammy world of Hesitant Alien. We’re talking about the band breakup, liminality, and fame, and we’re dissecting a song which is certainly and unequivocally about jewel thieves.

Topics include:

Our tin foil hats, dreams, the Gerard “she”, longing and television, the No Shows bridge, Frank Iero as this week’s theorist, elevators going to 10, evil songs for evil people, Greggin’, dead rectangles, Lola!!, a line-by-line analysis of Millions, William It Was Really Nothing, and simply reading the text.

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Welcome to the first day of Gender Studies 101! In this episode your esteemed professors take you through foundational gender theory texts: we’re talking about Judith Butler, Donna Haraway, Leslie Fienberg, and Michel Foucault. We’re also wading through the discourse about how we talk about Gerard’s gender, and what does it actually mean to be trans anyway? We also respond to some of our Tumblr asks and share some completely uncontroversial opinions about the barricade brigade.

Topics include: the gender wars, wrangling the discourse, a history of gender expression, white supremacy, the inherent truth of gender, gender as a doing, “reality”, terms and conditions, what is a “woman” and what is a “trans person”, drag and subversiveness, bad takes from cis people and why they are wrong, X gender markers, identity politics and coalitions, cyborgs, hyperpop and posthumanism, Geoff Rickly and postmodernism, the normative politics of internet spaces, and meaningful community at live shows.

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It’s our LONGEST and SPOOKIEST episode yet! This week we talk about our favorite movie monsters, vampires and zombies, and discuss queer themes in horror movies. We dig into how these monsters were represented in film in the 70s and 80s and how they went on to influence vampires and zombies in My Chemical Romance. 

Topics include: fanfiction in 2105, “the gothic”, groaning and boning, monsters as meaning machines, Dracula as a lesbian, film and the uncanny, Maren’s Hayes Code Hour, mass-market horror, Ronald Reagan, body horror and porn, kissing Nosferatu on his head, “suckin’” as a cultural universal, vampires as a marketing scheme for the Catholic Church, normie vampires, Bela Lugosi, Zombie socialism, bad pandemic media, zombie gender, omegaverse and werewolves, the Bullets vampire nightclub, Twilight, and how there’s no 9/11 in Sex and the City.

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That's right, the long awaited affect theory episode is here and we are terrified that our former college professor might listen. This episode we talk about collective effervescence at concerts, online vs in person bodily experience, and what even is affect theory anyway.

Topics include: woo-woo theory, why we're scared of this episode, haunted houses, Durkheim time, time travel, multiple versions of Gerard Way all at once, vampires, the first notes of Demo Lovers, the cheerleader dress as a religious object, haunted phones, phenomenology, intimacy and presence, the 9/11 of it all (again), community, fanfiction as religious text and other piping hot takes about rpf.

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OUTFIT ALERT! They’ve done it again. Gerard Way knows how Joan of Arc felt, and in this episode we break down how her life, death, and canonization shape the way faith, nationalism, and gender nonconformity work in MCR.

Topics include: a brief political and religious history of 15th century Europe, The Crucible, girlboss Joan, the modesty of being burned at the stake, the squid interview, our canonization pitch to Pope Francis, purifying flame, the divine judgement of Bob Bryar, holy transvestites, Purity and Danger, Gerard Way’s wandering uterus syndrome, the ecstasy of St. Theresa, scream queens, the Kurt Cobainization of the modern rock star, satanic panic, the 9/11 of it all, Lil Nas X, and action vs. identity in contemporary mass culture.

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We are BACK from our massive cross-country road trip to see American Rock Band My Chemical Romance perform live and in the flesh in the year 2022. In this episode we recap our queueing and touring experiences and share some of our plans for upcoming episodes of this show!

Topics include: 20 questions, unhinged hyperbole, intimate eye contact with Ray Toro, queue tips, barricade poutine, My Chemical Towmance (the car got towed), party hats, Anthony Green eating shit on his skateboard, intimate eye contact with Gerard Way, crying in a hotel room in northern Indiana, we hate festivals, Jersey Batman, vigilante justice in the MCR merch line, My Keymical Romance (we lost the car keys), and our massive gratitude and exhaustion

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We're bringing you breaking news on the category 5 gender event in Nashville. We're shedding real tears for queer joy. Gerard Way wore a cheerleading uniform.

Topics include: the patron saint of making it to MCR shows, pleats, reading the text, Judy B in the room, Maren attempts cheerleading, Fangoria, the Madonna/whore complex, the awe/horny cycle, Natasha Lyonne, our shared history as gleeks, homosocial spaces, the Blood music video (again), Kurt Cobain, and queer elders.

The Fangoria article referenced can be found here.

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And we’re back! We’re having a sticky boy summer and gearing up for the US tour, and we’ve got some hot fresh analysis in the meantime. This episode we focus on legacy, queer time, and living forever (and we FINALLY talk about Danger Days).

Topics include: Eddie Munson, afterlives, cheers thanks for the venom, Hanif Abdurraqib, basting the rotisserie chicken of My Chemical Romance, the AIDS crisis and cancer, how Mama made us transgender, our steadfast refusal to talk about Millions, myth building in the age of the internet, Don’t Ask Don’t Tell, the stomp-claps, RRRATS, apocalypse, God’s divine plan for Bullets, and basic American geography.

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WELCOME BACK! This week we DIY our own critical gender theory with a focus on the Demolition Lovers. Who are they? How many different ways can we read them? What’s up with all the mirrors?

Topics include: pride month shenanigans, weekend waffle report, the MCR extended universe (MCREU), liminality, Rocky Horror, theory that’s kinda bullshit maybe not, desire, death to gender, bringing the writer into the room, Frank experiencing a strong emotion, and Gerard’s legs.

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Your humble podcast dads discuss Notes on Camp (1964) by Susan Sontag and what is camp about MCR. Topics include: glamor that has rolled around in the dirt, la Sagrada Familia, The Great Rock Opera of the 2000s, wilting hand gestures, basic subtraction, the Pro Rev public kiss-in, the yassification of emo, pure melodrama, the Blood music video, making the serious frivolous, and our favorite moments from the tour so far. RIP Susan Sontag, you would have loved the Black Parade.

Read Notes on Camp by Susan Sontag

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