Bottom of the Mainstream
199 episodes - English - Latest episode: over 4 years ago - ★★★★★ - 24 ratingsPhoenix radio personality Aneesh & behind the scenes producer Sacha talking every week about all things queer/LGBT, what's up in Phoenix, pop culture, and more! 2015-2020.
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Episodes
BotM 146 - Only Time for All Stars 3
January 31, 2018 11:33 - 81.2 MBBlue Ivy tells mom & dad to chill at the Grammys, Aneesh has a date that goes Insta-bad, All Stars 3 debuted and things are already getting twisted and giving us more drama since season 5, reviewing the variety show and what went down in the episode, and much more!
BotM 145 - Educate Me, Cardi B
January 24, 2018 19:56 - 89.3 MBDisconnecting from the outrage white noise, plugging into beauty, usernames being hard to come by, Cardi B & Offset’s ridiculous defense of a homophobic lyric, using outrage to sell things, and at long last All Stars 3 is here to turn up the drama!
BotM 144 - Oprah in the Air
January 16, 2018 21:57 - 76.3 MBGetting yourself together on all the levels you can, enjoying your 20s, rethinking youth center volunteering, exes wanting to visit & stay at your place, Aneesh ducking out of the function, MLK Day, & much more!
BotM 143 - PDA No Way
January 09, 2018 11:07 - 87.8 MBGetting bad haircuts, how the kids get popular on the internet, people buying their views & followers, Aneesh’s thoughts on Call Me By Your Name, what it means to be queer and embrace PDA, & much more!
BotM 142 - Cointatas in the New Year
January 03, 2018 10:31 - 82.4 MBNew year, same old podcast. Aneesh survives his mother showing up unannounced, has a Real Housewives-style evening to ring in the new year, goals versus resolutions, and much more!
BotM 141 - Happy Holidays! 2017 Is Over
December 28, 2017 09:46 - 88.9 MBChristmas is over and Aneesh survived a family gathering, Sacha saw the ugly side of Spain, long-lost connections forced back in the closet, plus our look back on 2017 on the podcast!
BotM 140 - She's Feeling 22
December 20, 2017 15:58 - 79 MBAneesh talks about his birthday week, going to the spa & skincare, birthday downers, cupcakes vs cake, taco truck upgrades, what people do at the bathhouse, fetishizing things, the All Stars 3 trailer & much more!
BotM 139 - Too Real, Cat Person
December 14, 2017 10:39 - 89.9 MBAll the opportunists want a piece of Aneesh because of his plus one, Cat Person got too real and too personal, recounting all the ways we relate to the story and bad sex, and more!
BotM 138 - Dine & Dash
December 05, 2017 13:46 - 67 MBReading & responding to listener notes, getting nervous before meeting, dudes who disappear after the first date, what happened with the stans, haters and being stuck in our own bubbles, & more!
BotM 137 - He Likes Me
November 29, 2017 13:19 - 53.6 MBDebating the size of the D, Aneesh discovers how it feels when someone stays interested, how to get a dead conversation going again, and more!
BotM 136 - BTS with Aneesh at the AMAs
November 22, 2017 00:34 - 57 MBMoisturizing your skin & aging, networking, Aneesh goes to the AMAs and meets Demi Lovato, how celebrities manage their fame, Aneesh getting the love from BTS stans, Australia votes on gay marriage, and much more!
BotM 135 - Getting Wild on a Tuesday
November 15, 2017 12:27 - 71.2 MBThe mysterious flower man is revealed, Aneesh gets his Switch and goes to a wedding, getting older and moderating the drinking, getting over feeling anxious about the future, & more!
BotM 134 - Sugar Baby Switch
November 08, 2017 22:04 - 81.5 MBWhen generosity is and isn’t just being a sugardaddy, mixed feelings over receiving anonymous flowers, swingers, weird stuff when dating, Sacha changing his habits, & much more!
BotM 133 - No Space for Spacey
October 31, 2017 22:04 - 95.5 MBKevin Spacey crosses the line with his public statement on his abuse allegations, the essence of 80s music, Aneesh moves a sofa, old people in the way, and much more!
BotM 132 - All Stars Glitter in Gold
October 24, 2017 21:33 - 90.1 MBGetting real about mental health, Aneesh gets an efficient new car, the All Stars 3 cast was revealed in a flurry of cheap gold lamé, & more!
BotM 131 - You Can't Always Get What You Want
October 18, 2017 09:47 - 71.3 MBMen failing miserably at basic functions of living on Reddit and life in general, Aneesh dealing with entitled parents, our take on The Pink Shoe, and much more!
BotM 130 - All Stars in the Air
October 11, 2017 18:47 - 74.1 MBTips for moving, Aneesh anticipating other big changes in life, looking back on season 9 of RuPaul’s Drag Race, some hot gossip on a contestant filming season 10, and much more!
BotM 129 - Actions Speak Louder than Thoughts & Prayers
October 04, 2017 22:44 - 59.8 MBTalking about the Las Vegas terror attack, how we respond to these continual shootings, plus Aneesh learns how to make peanut butter, we talk pet names, actions vs words when you’re dating, manipulative people & relationships, & more!
BotM 128 - We Just Had a Kiki
September 27, 2017 21:28 - 79.4 MBIt’s back to basics as we kiki & let our topics wander this week! Gay walking, letting people know where you are when you hook up with someone, and much more!
BotM 127 - It's Okay to Text Message Breakup
September 20, 2017 15:38 - 63.8 MBThis week is all about how dating is versus the expectations we have for it: Aneesh talks about a scary situation he found himself in, we talk about what’s considered the right and wrong way to cut things off, when it truly is okay to text message breakup, and much more!
BotM 126 - The Eye of the Storm
September 12, 2017 17:29 - 78.6 MBThis week we talk TV addiction, Aneesh learns new things about food, what to do when someone who’s too young is too into you, power not being consent, Fenty Beauty slaying the shade game, and much more!
BotM 125 - Camping with Children in Nature
September 07, 2017 00:35 - 66.1 MBAneesh played a disappearing act and when camping in nature with LGBTQ children, plus Drag Race rumors/spoilers, secrets you never knew about Sacha, and more!
BotM 124 - Swift Swift Bish
August 28, 2017 23:18 - 78.6 MBEveryone’s favorite awful white pop divas released competing music videos/songs and Sacha is having absolutely none of it, plus the whirlwind of awful news coming from the Executive office in the wake of Hurricane Harvey, and more!
BotM 123 - Staring Directly at the Sun
August 23, 2017 18:27 - 72.1 MBAneesh goes to Vegas and meets Britney with no shortage of tangents, a fabulous gay mechanic patches his car up for the drive home, tragedy in Barcelona, the rise of Brazilian drag queen Pabllo Vittar, and much more this week!
BotM 122 - Feeling like a Woman
August 16, 2017 10:40 - 76.5 MBAneesh checks out a woman and doesn’t know what to make of it, his review of the War on the Catwalk tour, and what kind of presence of minors/kids is suitable for drag!
BotM 121 - Mawma's Got a D Appointment
August 08, 2017 20:32 - 80.3 MBThe difference between beauty, attractiveness, and visual appeal, Aneesh recounts a horrific end to a D appointment, rumored leaked RuPaul’s Drag Race All Stars 3 cast, and much more this week!
BotM 120 - Piercing for your Parts
August 01, 2017 15:40 - 65.1 MBAneesh gets his ears pierced live on the radio, more details come out on the fire set at the Phoenix LGBT youth center, transphobic New York radio hosts, and much more this week!
BotM 119 - Two Bottoms Don't Make a Top
July 25, 2017 13:45 - 59.1 MBTwo people with the same bedroom preferences getting into a relationship together, thoughts on marriage and whether we would do it, Sacha Sips, and more this week!
BotM 118 - Nutella on the Butt-ella
July 19, 2017 13:57 - 69.3 MBThis week’s ep is more NSFW than usual, so take that into mind when you listen! Body scents and tastes, Vice teaching the gays about douching, Nutella on the butt-ella, Trump Jr’s emails, an LGBT youth center in Phoenix that needs some TLC after a fire, and much more this week!
BotM 117 - The High Art of Faggotry
July 11, 2017 12:28 - 65.4 MBAneesh goes all out in an opulent wedding for the Shahs of 5th Avenue, we double down in our appreciation for the high art of Faggotry™, the male Kardashian is a mess, Sacha recounts his crazy London trip, and more!
BotM 116 - Porno Pigs
July 05, 2017 00:12 - 72.3 MBThis week, Aneesh sits down with the Arizona Diamondbacks for Pride, ponders ditching porn & contemplates porn addictions, plus fetishes & escalation, July 4th, Germany’s gay marriage, & much more!
BotM 115 - Rose to the Occasion
June 27, 2017 10:45 - 66 MBAneesh escapes Phoenix the heat so hot you can roast a steak on your car to go to Seattle Pride and comes back with a bunch of adventures and observations about the rainy city, a rose petal of a surprise from Sasha Velour winning RuPaul’s Drag Race, and much more this week!
BotM 114 - Teleno-Villaintina
June 21, 2017 23:29 - 56.4 MBThe RuPaul’s Drag Race Season 9 reunion gave us everything we didn’t know we needed, especially when it comes to Valentina, the telenovela villain herself, plus the new colors on the LGBTQ flag, what Aneesh has been up to, and more!
BotM 113 - Unibrand, Not Unibrow
June 14, 2017 23:15 - 53.8 MBAneesh is sad, we talk about how we teach masculinity in our society, Pride month and what it means, what we think of the surprise finalists of RuPaul’s Drag Race Season 9, and much more this week!
BotM 112 - Hater Blocker
June 07, 2017 01:05 - 56.9 MBThis week, Ann Miller is feeling very attacked right now and shares her secret hater blocker, we talk about the top 4 of RuPaul’s Drag Race, the Kathy Griffin incident, how to deal with jealousy, and much more!
BotM 111 - Supernova of Suck
May 31, 2017 00:10 - 46 MBWhat to do when medical stigmas pop up between you and your partner, thoughts on RuPaul’s Drag Race for the week, a circus peanut riding a golf cart around Italy, and more!
BotM 110 - She Mask
May 23, 2017 16:27 - 62.5 MBThis week we peel back the mask & dish all of our thoughts on the drama from RuPaul’s Drag Race’s most controversial elimination, plus Aneesh updates on flirting IRL, a baseball-playing LGBTQ Person of the Week, and more!
BotM 109 - ASL IRL
May 16, 2017 19:01 - 53.3 MBTaking the flirting from the app to IRL, thoughts on Drag Race including what we think of how formulaic season 9 is so far, the recap of this week’s episode, and more!
BotM 108 - Oh, Honey
May 10, 2017 13:56 - 57.3 MBThis week, Sacha is broken, the honey pot is stirred, Aneesh learns a lot starting to drive for Lyft, our RuPaul’s Drag Race recap for the week, and much more!
BotM 107 - Bottom Line, Cut & Dry
May 02, 2017 23:50 - 57.8 MBAneesh does some volunteering with LGBTQ youth, we talk the importance of representation, Drag Race thoughts from Snatch Game, and much more!
BotM 106 - Birthday Bitch
April 26, 2017 15:03 - 63.6 MBSacha turns 25, Aneesh throws away his LuMee case and gets locked out of Facebook, the podcast has 2 years worth of episode, our Drag Race recap, and much more this week!
BotM 105 - She Wanna Go
April 18, 2017 11:08 - 66.3 MBAneesh is getting into tarot and goes to his first public watch party for RuPaul’s Drag Race season 9, we share our thoughts on what happened on the latest episode & the infamous lip sync, plus the situation in Chechnya, and more this week!
BotM 104 - Can I Speak to Your Manager?
April 11, 2017 22:45 - 50.9 MBThis week, Aneesh has an Ann Miller Moment™ with Apple, and other things in the world are blowing up. Plus, we talk our thoughts on RuPaul's Drag Race season 9 so far & what’s off about it, & highlight the creators of SlayTV as our LGBT People of the Week! You can check out SlayTV on YouTube here: https://www.youtube.com/user/BluntedMuse
BotM 103 - Stop the March
April 04, 2017 22:19 - 52.5 MBThis week, someone halted Phoenix Pride, the first elimination of Drag Race season 9, our visually stimulating LGBT Person of the Week, and more!
BotM 102 - Sister Sister
March 27, 2017 17:04 - 54.6 MBSibling special this week as Aneesh’s sister Alisha joins us for a chat about performative wokeness, Trump, the first episode of RuPaul’s Drag Race season 9, Nico Hines's 100 word apology 7 months too late, and much more! Check out Alisha's comedy duo Overtly Sensitive at http://www.overtlysensitive.com/!
BotM 101 - Michael Hobbes, Author of Together Alone
March 21, 2017 22:08 - 62.8 MBAn extra special episode this week where we get the unique chance to talk to the author of the thinkpiece that sent a shockwave across the gay community, author Michael Hobbes! We talk b-sides of his article on gay loneliness and much more! Follow Michael Hobbes on Twitter at http://twitter.com/RottenInDenmark and read the article on gay loneliness on the Highline by Huffington Post at http://highline.huffingtonpost.com/articles/en/gay-loneliness/
BotM 100 - The 100th Episode
March 14, 2017 20:58 - 51.7 MBBotM is 100 episodes old this week! To celebrate, we look back, talk about new things to come in our triple digits, as well as our usual weekly updates!
BotM 99 - Gay Loneliness in the Moonlight
March 07, 2017 22:02 - 66.9 MBA whammy of a week with Leiomy Maldonado as our LGBTQ Persona of the Week, Aneesh’s Ann Miller Moment™ this weekend, the gay loneliness article that blew up the internet, and a little rant about the Oscars shortchanging Moonlight.
BotM 98 - Jess Herbst—TX's First Openly Trans Mayor
February 27, 2017 11:33 - 53.8 MBJess Herbst, Texas’s first openly trans mayor, joins us this week on the show to talk about her story, the unique challenges of being a small-town mayor, trans advocacy, & much more!
BotM 97 - Independent Women
February 21, 2017 10:53 - 54.2 MBThis week, we go over Laverne Cox’s stealth use of her platform at the Grammys, Aneesh talks relationship trials & tribulations, Texas’s first openly trans mayor, Gia Gunn’s gender identity, & much more!