Out Loud: A Queer Comedy Podcast · Corbin Willmorth

Episode 10 - ARU Creative and Almost... Not Quite

·1 hr 16 min·3 clips

Almost Not Quite: a sitcom about rebuilding life after losing everything

Corbin opens by saying he wants to try something a little different with the show. He frames the episode as a bit of press coverage for a local project in Spokane, Washington. He also talks about how comedy first hooked him as a kid, especially watching stand-up and other performers growing up, and how summer evenings gave him room to sit with it. The episode moves in the easy, sidetracked way he admits to pretty quickly. He keeps the focus on queer comedy and the people around it instead of trying to make the whole thing tidy. The energy is casual and chatty. It sounds like somebody figuring it out while already in motion. A big part of the conversation is how much support the project has gotten online. The team has been getting views, replies, and people offering their time and space. Corbin and his guests talk about how strange it is, in a good way, to see so many people respond so quickly. They mention people wanting to volunteer and even asking to show up and squeeze into auditions. That kind of interest seems to have caught everyone off guard. It also seems to have made the whole thing feel more real. The episode leans hard into the idea that a project like this takes a lot of people. It is not one person carrying the whole load. It is a pile of kindness, persistence, and friends doing what they can. Corbin and Michaela joke about how the support has been different from what they are used to getting for queer projects in Spokane. They talk about how unusual it is to see this level of response. They also connect that support to being open on social media. The conversation gives credit to people who are willing to show up publicly and make the work visible. There is also a joke about being more comfortable in the shadows, which fits the whole loose, self-deprecating tone of the show. The episode keeps coming back to queer artists in town and the fact that many of them are not used to being met with this much warmth. The room is full of corrections, asides, and quick little affirmations. The talk never pretends the process is clean. It just lets the mess hang around. By the end, the episode feels like a community update that accidentally becomes a portrait of how queer creative work survives: through people sharing links, offering rooms, making jokes, and turning up when they can. It closes with the usual plug-heavy outro and the familiar Out Loud reminder to keep your head on straight, which lands with the kind of wink this show likes.

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A loose Spokane spotlight with real warmth and community momentum.

Corbin steps away from the usual guest-chat setup and uses this outing to put a local queer project in Spokane front and center. The tone stays easy and self-aware, even when it wanders a bit, but it keeps returning to the thing that makes the work feel alive: support from…

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Press play if you want queer comedy that feels candid and conversational, with a local Spokane project in the mix.

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