Out Loud: A Queer Comedy Podcast · Corbin Willmorth

Minisode - Queer Coding or Projecting?

·42 min·10 clips

Corbin starts the mini-episode with a very ordinary problem that turns into a full derailment: he planned to record with a guest, but the day became a travel headache. He does not have a working car right now, so he has been leaning on the Spokane transit bus system. That setup gets wrecked by bus trouble and malfunctioning train crossing gates near the edge of town. After about 45 minutes of waiting, the bus is told it will not be making it through anytime soon. Corbin messages the guest to reschedule and rolls into the episode anyway. That kind of detour fits the show's loose style. From there, the episode turns into a casual talk about queer coding. Corbin and the conversation around him move between characters who are read as queer and characters who are plainly, canonically queer. Captain Hook comes up first as an example of a villain with old-school gay-coded traits. The Powerpuff Girls show up next, especially around how villainy and queerness were often tangled together in older kids' TV. John Constantine is handled very differently, because he is not being framed as coded at all. He is described as explicitly queer, with male lovers and a sexual history that is not up for debate. Jughead Jones from Riverdale follows, where the conversation gets more tentative and interpretive. The discussion notes that some people read him as ace, trans, or something else depending on which version of the character they know. Corbin says he mostly knows the first season of Riverdale and then jumps into a drinking-game anecdote built around watching the first and final episodes of a season and trying to connect the dots. The whole thing keeps the show's messy, conversational pace. It feels like friends circling a topic, correcting each other, and laughing through pop-culture taxonomy. The episode ends with a run of jokes and a proper sign-off, including a shout-out to the person who made the podcast profile image and a request for more queer comedians to contact. It closes with Corbin's reminder not to keep your head on straight.

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A loose mini-episode that turns travel trouble into a funny, conversational look at queer-coded and canonically queer characters.

Corbin turns a busted travel day into a loose, funny mini-episode, drifting from transit trouble into a conversation about queer-coded and canonically queer characters.

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When a bus breakdown leaves Corbin without a guest, he turns a mini-episode into a riff on queer-coded villains and bisexual icons instead.

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