Radio Free Tote Bag

What if we spent half the show discusses the Meet N' Fuckiverse? This week's episode answers that question. And joining us, from the 10K Losses podcast, it's Tom Pain! We discuss the aforementioned topic, romance mechanics in video games, and then we hit Tom with our new, bigger and better 1-2 punch interview.   How to slide into DMs on Discord? | How to handle resenting a friend who is "perfect" and makes you feel bad by comparison? | Update on the "saying bro during sex" question | So hot that it's making people always message you mundane compliments on dating apps (what a struggle!)    Thanks again to Tom for joining us! Listen to Ten Thousand Losses wherever ya find your podcasts!   LIVE SHOW! Come see RFTB on stage in Chicago at The Hideout, Saturday January 20th tickets here: https://www.etix.com/ticket/p/33413936/radio-free-tote-bag-chicago-hideout-chicago   And thank you for tuning in! You can support the show and get a bonus episode each week at Patreon.com/rftb!  

It's another year, gang, welcome to the NEW Radio Free Tote Bag! And joining us on this momentous first episode of 2024 we have voice actor Craig Lee Thomas with us! We talk about Craig's VO work, a meet-cute with his now wife, and a truly heartbreaking embarassing dating story. And then? We answer your questions:   Navigating exploring your sexuality for the first time during gender transition | How to not shock your cat with static (an absolute tragedy) | How to stop cohabitating with your partner without breaking up | Passed out from hookah on a first date | Can you make a relationship work when you're both bottoms?   Thanks again to Craig for joining, seriously a gem of a human! Find him on insta @itsmecraiglee and check out his VO classes at Real Voice LA   RFTB LIVE SHOW! Saturday, January 20th at The Hideout in sunny Chicago! Get tickets here we'd love to see you: https://www.etix.com/ticket/p/33413936/radio-free-tote-bag-chicago-hideout-chicago   And thank you for tuning in! You ca

FOLKS! Happy New Year we're stoked to have Grace Freud from Girl God with us this week and we're getting goofy, we're getting sincere, we're having a blast. We talk sobriety, hear a couple great embarassing dating stories from Grace, and then we answer your questions:   How to get back on track with your routine after a big depressive episode | How to find community in queer spaces that aren't strictly for gay men, as a gay man | Can't make a relationship last longer than three months is there something wrong with you?   Thanks again to Grace for joining us, listen to The Girl God Experience wherever you find podcasts and go see Girl God LIVE in LA January 6th tickets here: https://www.elysiantheater.com/shows/girlgod0106   Speakin of live shows, come see RFTB LIVE in Chicago at the Hideout, Saturday January 20th tickets here: https://www.etix.com/ticket/p/33413936/radio-free-tote-bag-chicago-hideout-chicago   And thank you for tuning in! You can support the show and get a bonus

Ho ho ho ho ho neighhhh whats up gang it's holiday time and as is tradition we've got our dear friend Dylan with us! We're talkin holiday shit, we're talking ungulates, we're hearing a nice dating life update from Dylan, and we're answering your questions here's what we get into:   Split between two potential partners who both want monogamy | Nice words for us and also what’s some growth we’re proud of this year? | New to gay stuff - can you call a guy bro during sex? | Bring back Horse Dono | Actually belly jiggling during sex is hot   Thanks to Dylan for joining us find him on Twitter @itsprobablycrab   RFTB LIVE SHOW! Saturday, January 20th at The Hideout in sunny Chicago! Get tickets here we'd love to see you: https://www.etix.com/ticket/p/33413936/radio-free-tote-bag-chicago-hideout-chicago   And finally thank you for listening! You can support us and get a bonus episode each week, discord access, a sticker, and more at patreon.com/rftb

Folks! Audrey is out this week due to Holidays but Dono is holding it down and we're got an excellent guest this week, Rory Uphold from Crimes of the Heart podcast! We chat about our shows and religious shame around sex, hear an excellent embarrassing relationship story and then it's question time:   How to support a depressed partner when their material conditions are bad and out of their control? | Is that actually sugaring or just a relationship with a weird power dynamic? | How to support a friend when you're both dealing with mental health struggles?   Thanks again to Rory for coming on the show! Check out her podcast Crimes of the Heart it's excellent and follow her on Insta @icouldbeblonder   RFTB LIVE SHOW! Saturday, January 20th at The Hideout in sunny Chicago! Get tickets here we'd love to see you: https://www.etix.com/ticket/p/33413936/radio-free-tote-bag-chicago-hideout-chicago   And finally thank you for listening! You can support us and get a bonus episode each week, discord

WOOOO what's up folks it's Totesday it's another week and we're joined by returning guest and friend of the show and partner of the Audrey, it's Korla! We get a dating update, we get a laryngitis health update, we hear about misogynist vore, and then it's question time:   Getting back together casually with a former romantic partner and it's good but is that good? | Is the relationship losing its luster or are you just depressed? | Miserable in your current city and wanting to move but is the grass actually greener on the other side? | Introducing your trans partner to your grandma, how to feel this out?   Thanks again to Korla for joining us! Listen to Data Transfer and Post Ponies wherever ya find our show!   LIVE SHOW! Chicago at The Hideout Saturday 1/20 get tickets here: https://hideoutchicago.com/event/radio-free-tote-bag/hideout-chicago/chicago/   And thank you for tuning in! You can support the show and get a bonus episode each week at Patreon.com/rftb as well as other neat bo

Folks! It's a wild one this week, our dear Audrey is down with laryngitis and so is Producer Audrey this week - hittin the soundboard and occasionally chiming in with the RASP! Luckily we have Josh from The Worst of All Possible Worlds as guest host and we're stoked to be joined by our friend Mo (@bongineer on Bsky) returning for the main ep! We hear a great embarassing relationship story from Mo, discuss which mascots are furries, and then it's question time:   How to break up with someone you live with? | Ready to come back to dating after six years of working on yourself but still not feeling ready? | Been feeling low and empty and not enjoying things but suicide jokes are giving a weird dopamine boost. What's happening here?   Thanks again to Mo for joining us! Follow him on Bsky @bongineer.cloud and his photography on Insta @wolverine.photos   And thanks to Josh for stepping in as guest host! Go listen to The Worst Of All Possible Worlds it's a great show we love em   And finally than

Folks! Happy holiday times, we've got a special episode this week with actress, teacher, and one of my favorite people in Chicago Sarafina Vecchio! We talk about the worst foods Audrey could eat on mic, dating after getting married too young, a truly heinous date reveal, and then it's question time:   Lovely update from the person who asked about dating someone with autism | Family your parents cut off are trying to reenter your life, should you let them in? | Feeling skeezy putting yourself out there in the dating world even though you'd never think of anyone else like that   Thanks again to Sarafina for joining us! Find her at https://sarafinavecchio.com/   And thank you for tuning in! You can support the show and get a bonus episode each week at Patreon.com/rftb as well as other neat bonus stuff! Wow!

Howdy folks it's a brand new week in THE TOTE ZONE! And this week we're stoked to be joined by returning favorite @JUNlPER and we're catching up, we're talking about Elon personally banning the Juniper AI, a breakup, and how all billionaires are soulless and miserable. Also it's a relationship show and we answer your questions here's what we get into:   Your kids love the zoo but your wife wants to explain that it's a bad time for the animals and you agree but you don't want to ruin the zoo - what doo? | High stress job fucking up your ability to do anything else - stick it out? Or somehow find the energy to find something new? And how do that?? | Correlation between not having a type and aphantasia?   Thanks again to June for joining us, find her on Bluesky @junlper.bsky.social and listen to Western Kabuki wherever ya found this podcast!   And thank you for tuning in! You can support the show and get a bonus episode each week at Patreon.com/rftb as well as Discord access, stickers, and ot

Wew gang! Welcome back to the Hotel Donofornia where this time Dono got stuck in an elevator for an hour! Wild times but luckily we are joined by returning guests Kayte and Leslie from Fangs For The Memories podcast. We talk about The Incident, our recent dating lives, and then we get into a record number of your questions for a guest episode:   Buffyverse Boyfriend Watch | Is it kosher to rematch with someone on a dating app after kind of ghosting them a year ago? | A discussion of BORG and Riot Punch | Trouble supporting a partner with chronic illness while working a demanding job and needing to handle most housework | Feeling self-conscious about entering the dating world/queer scene as a newly out 42yo | Can't seem to ever make it past the second date   Thanks again to Kayte and Leslie for joining us, we love them! Follow them on Bluesky @lesliejrising and @wormbuxx and listen to their podcasts Fangs For The Memories and Tender Subject!   And thank you for tuning in! You can support th

WHATS UP WTFERS AND WTFETTES?? Have we done that bit yet? It's unclear! But what is clear is we're stoked to have Brynn Nieboer back with us on the show where we're talkin about slickies, Mio, Brynn's recent dating times, but NOT discourse! We will never do discourse! But we will answer your questions here's what we get into:   Coming out as trans to your bigoted parents while you're stuck living with them for a couple more months? We say ya don't have to | Struggling with telling people you use she/her pronouns bc you feel you're still too masc looking    Thanks again to Brynn for joining us! Listen to her band Stay Inside and her podcasts Generation Loss and Beep Beep Lettuce!   And thank you for tuning in! You can support the show and get a bonus episode each week at Patreon.com/rftb as well as other neat bonus stuff! Wow!

This episode is SO DRY and tonight, we're cleaning out the Q box!We did about a million questions so I'm not going to do these in order BUT here's what we get to!How do you effectively negotiate your emotions when what you need to share is hard for your partner to hear? Especially as a relationship nears its end? | How to navigate dating when you're demisexual? | $60 ceramic pumpkins?? WHO?? | How do you handle a customer getting rowdy with you on the phone in a service position? | We dunk on Melvins | Wife is always talking about tennis hunks but it's a problem when you routinely masturbate to Maria Sharapova?? What gives!? | What little ticks and affectations have we picked up from partners? This one gets really vulnerable, actually! | How do you get into the gym when all you want to do is munch delicious food and hang out? | How do we feel about micropenises? | How to navigate flirting when you're on the autism spectrum? How do you share that you're inexperienced in relationships, also? | How do you broach

Giddy up and yeehaw pardners, we're stoked this week to have Drew Toothpaste of dasharez0ne and Everything Is Real fame! We hear an all-timer embarassing dating story involved THE 9/11 before getting to your, the listener's, questions. Here's what we answer:   Dating an autistic person and having trouble conversationally | Navigating an open marriage when your kids and your partner's kids all go to school together | How to handle a friend who's always talking down to himself | A second date (or is it?) and how to proceed   Thanks again to Drew for joining us! Follow him on Bluesky @drewtoothpaste.bsky.social and check out Everything Is Real at garbagebrainuniversity.com   And thank you for tuning in! You can support the show and get a bonus episode each week, Discord access, and a sticker at Patreon.com/rftb This week we have Josh from TWOAPW joining us and we get into the weeds about our high school dating, dance, and internet experiences with some goofy reddit questions and a heinous sponcon

Foooolks Dono here in DA BIG APPLE and joing in person by our good friend KRL. We talk my Quorators appearance, the state of kink dating, how we're all doin, caltrops, and then questions. Not in that order necessarily. Here's what we get into:   Getting ghosted often and unsure why this is happening | But at what cost | How to make yourself more approachable to other people? Should you? | What is consciousness what is happening | How many insta stories posted by a long distance crush can you like before it's too much?   Thanks again to Katie for joining us and also just bein great people. Follow her on insta @ohhellokatierose and bluesky @krl   And thank you for tuning in! You can support the show and get a bonus episode each week at Patreon.com/rftb as well as other neat bonus stuff! This week Audrey and I are losing our dang minds after 6 hours of recording!

Help I'm stuck under the stairs mate! Oi guv me muggles! We've got Anne Dersley here with us this and we're talkin Harry Potter for some reason and also Anders' famous ability to have a girlfriend! So we do that and then questions:   Friend is wanting chaos, consciously, how to help them out? | How to get out of bed when depression is paralyzing you? | Lost all your friends in the divorce, what to do? | What is Bill Clinton's attachment style? | What if Ralph Nader won in 2000?   Thanks again to Anders for joining us we love him! Listen to Pod Damn America wherever you find podcasts and follow him on Insta @derslee1 and Twitter @andersleehere   And thank you for tuning in! You can support the show and get a bonus episode each week at Patreon.com/rftb as well as other neat bonus stuff! This week we trawled Amazon for heinous cheap sex toys and found some HORRORS! Plus over 140 episodes in the backlog, check it out!

WOO! Extendo mode! We've got A.J. Ditty from The Worst of All Possible Worlds podcast with us this week and we love him and so it's the longest ep we've ever done. We talk vanity plates and wedding musicals and embarassing tales and then it's question time:   Feels like your partner is gonna propose and you're a lil nervous | Still not over ex after almost a year, will it ever get better? | Getting phalloplasty but your therapist who's supposed to write the rec letter is being real unprofessional | Figuring out sexuality when you're a former incel and ace-spectrum   Thanks again to A.J. for joining us, extremely lovely person, follow him on Twitter and Insta and Bsky and stuff @TheFuzzyMaskedMan and listen to The Worst of All Possible Worlds wherever ya find podcasts! We were on an episode recently it was great check it out!   And thank you for tuning in! You can support the show and get a bonus episode each week at Patreon.com/rftb as well as other neat bonus stuff! Wow!

Folks! We're excited this week to have Ash from Horror Vanguard podcast with us, a certified extremely good dude. We talk ectoplasm and the worst first date of all time and then we hit your questions! Here's what we get into:   Why do people want to fuck ghosts so bad | Parents split recently and are asking you, their adult child, for dating advice and you don't love it | Dating and socializing while you're taking care of your elderly parents and can't risk covid | Does this bartender have a crush on you or is he just being nice?   Thanks again to Ash for joining us, listen to Horror Vanguard wherever ya find podcasts and follow him on Insta @darrowscope   And thank you for tuning in! You can support the show and get a bonus episode each week at Patreon.com/rftb as well as other neat bonus stuff! We did an in person ep with our good friend Dylan this week check it out!

FOLKS! We're stoked we've got Josh from The Worst Of All Possible Worlds with us, hot off our appearance last week where we took intense psychic damage watching Kirk Cameron's fireproof! We talk vulnerability, evolving relationship dynamics in a healthy way, and of course an embarassing dating story. And then it's questions:   Partner's mom went through trauma recently and you've ended up as her confidant - how to convey she needs therapy without being harsh? | Newly transitioning, going through mental health stuff, and now have a long distance crush with lots of caveats. What do? | What would you do if you brought a date home and they said they hate cats? | Partner's mom looks like Donald Trump, can you say something? (Yes)   Thanks again to Josh for joining us! Find him on Bluesky @bosh.worstpossible.world and Twitter @boshj and listen to The Worst Of All Possible Worlds wherever ya find podcasts! We were on the recent Fireproof episode on the main feed and it's a banger check it out!  

Vroom vroom indeed! We're very excited to be joined by Brian Regular from Regular Car Reviews to talk about Audrey's recent automotive investments as well as coming out in your 40s and performative dating.    Next, listenter questions!   Should a 24 year old bisexual man who's never dated men before break off a long distance relationship for the opportunity to date men? Even if this man's career would make gay dating complicated? | What can a man do to improve his self image? Even if he "feels sick" when he looks in the mirror? | Is Brian a furry? | How would Brian review the 2006 Volkswagen Jetta, a car without fault or shortcoming? Huge thanks to Brian for joining us! You can find his incredible catalog of content at https://www.youtube.com/@RegularCars/aboutFind Regular Car Reviews on *ugh* X at https://twitter.com/regularcars

Ow oof ouch my leg! What's up gang I got injured but the show NEVER DIES so we're here this week with returning champ Jake Flores! We talk about body problems, Jake's LDR and move, cicadas, and then we answer your Qs:   A comment about our recent Seroquel talk | Should you reach out to a long time friend who's gone dark on you and ask what's going on? | Dono looks like Winslow from The Lighthouse so we talk about lighthouses | How to develop a sense of style after wearing nothing but jeans and graphic Ts for years   Thanks again to Jake for joining us again, we love him! Find him on Bsky and Twitter @feraljokes and listen to Pod Damn America wherever ya find podcasts   Jake's show with Jamie Peck "The Woke Mob" in NYC Saturday September 2ndhttps://wl.seetickets.us/event/THE-WOKE-MOB/564089?afflky=TVEye Minion Death Cult with The Antifada and Pod Damn America LIVE in NYC Sunday September 10thhttps://www.eventbrite.com/e/minion-death-cult-live-tickets-691958234707?aff=oddtdtcreator