Paul Smith and Joe Granelli are two gay guys living in Southern California who are friends. Each week they talk about life, love, current events, pop culture and anything else they feel needs to be discussed. During these unprecedented days, you need These Unprecedented Gays!
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Send us a text This week, we catch up on current events. @tugayspod [email protected] #lgbt #lgbtq #lgbtqia+ #sandiego #gaysandiego #gaycommedy #currentevents Gay San Diego comedy LGBT LGBTQ LGBTQIA+ @tugayspod [email protected] #lgbt #lgbtq #lgbtqia+ #sandiego #gaysandiego #gaycommedy Gay San Diego comedy LGBT LGBTQ LGBTQIA+ Producers: Nick St…
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Send us a text This week, we get to hear from Joe and Nick about their amazing adventure to the French Riviera. They mention an incredible luxury hotel, gorgeous French men, a crazy Uber ride down a mountain and something about booty. The Côte d'Azur will never be the same. We want you to listen and we hope you Cannes! See what I did there???? @tug…
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Send us a text This week, we share some fun facts about our favorite songs, albums and performers. Everyone loves music. And there are countless stores about what artists did behind the scenes, what songs they passed up, who got along and who didn't . . . this trivia may be stuff you know, or stuff that you didn't. But we love talking about it none…
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Send us a text This week, we talk about roommate stories that are memorable or nightmarish. Some of these are our own stores, some are from Reddit and Buzzfeed. But we all can relate to those crazy situations and challenges that arise when you have to live with others. @tugayspod [email protected] #lgbt #lgbtq #lgbtqia+ #sandiego #gaysandiego #ga…
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Send us a text We spend a large part of our adult lives working. For many of us, work involves interactions with other amazing people. This week, the boys explore work relationships from their past and from today. Whether it is office romances, a little hanky panky in the supply closet, or long-term friendship, we explore our experiences and feelin…
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Send us a text This week, Paul is back! The band is united again! We review the adventures of our world traveler. @tugayspod [email protected] #lgbt #lgbtq #lgbtqia+ #sandiego #gaysandiego #gaycommedy #travels #london Gay San Diego comedy LGBT LGBTQ LGBTQIA+ @tugayspod [email protected] #lgbt #lgbtq #lgbtqia+ #sandiego #gaysandiego #gaycommedy …
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Send us a text This week, Paul is still away (now in Europe) and we welcome one of our favorite people as a special guest, Drew Davis. There is no topic that is off the table. We cover college jobs, politics, car buying . . . world domination. Chill with us and have a laugh. @tugayspod [email protected] #lgbt #lgbtq #lgbtqia+ #sandiego #gaysandie…
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Send us a text This week, Nick, Joe and Andy talk about life while Paul is on his whirlwind trip. We try our hand at solving some minute mysteries. See if you can solve them better than we can. @tugayspod [email protected] #lgbt #lgbtq #lgbtqia+ #sandiego #gaysandiego #gaycommedy #minutemysteries Gay San Diego comedy LGBT LGBTQ LGBTQIA+ @tugayspo…
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Send us a text It is time to bring back an old favorite . . . Spit or Swallow. This week, we do the cheeseburger edition. We will be having cheeseburgers in paradise this week as we taste and rate fast food burgers. @tugayspod [email protected] #lgbt #lgbtq #lgbtqia+ #sandiego #gaysandiego #gaycommedy #spitorswallow #cheeseburger Gay San Diego co…
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Send us a text The week, the boys talk about talking. Do you know that there is a word for that space between your eye brows? Well there is. Listen and learn children. @tugayspod [email protected] #lgbt #lgbtq #lgbtqia+ #sandiego #gaysandiego #gaycommedy #wordplay #theresanameforthat Gay San Diego comedy LGBT LGBTQ LGBTQIA+ @tugayspod tugayspod@y…
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Send us a text Paul returns to TuGays Pod! This week we catch up on his travels, on the Grammy Awards, on the Super Bowl and even look ahead to the Oscars. Pop-Culture dishing is all we seem to do lately. @tugayspod [email protected] #lgbt #lgbtq #lgbtqia+ #sandiego #gaysandiego #gaycommedy #popculture Gay San Diego comedy LGBT LGBTQ LGBTQIA+ @tu…
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Send us a text Well friends, we continue with 2025 being unpredictable and full of surprises. This week, we had to record without Paul (who is out of town working at a business conference). Paul will be back next week. So this week we are the three other gays talking about work, music, books movies and we even play a game based on IKEA product name…
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Send us a text Welcome back Tuggers, Tuggettes and Tuggums. it is time to bring back a Paul and Joe favorite. . . AITA! We have a whole new crop of Reddit posts and you can see how you feel about them. Some of these sparked some controversy among the boys. @tugayspod [email protected] #lgbt #lgbtq #lgbtqia+ #sandiego #gaysandiego #gaycommedy #red…
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Send us a text This week we talk about common English language phases, sayings and colloquialisms that many people regularly get wrong. We started thinking about this last week when Joe admitted to thinking that the phrase "Worth its weight in gold" was really "Worth its wait in gold." It got us thinking that there are likely a lot of those phrases…
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Send us a text This week the boys focus on all the unprecedented things happening in our world. Unprecedented fires. Unprecedented politics. Unprecedented everything. We are starting to think about how aptly our podcast was named. We thought that during a global pandemic, how could it ever get worse? Well . . . asked and answered. @tugayspod tugays…
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Send us a text This week we bring you a "Road Warriors" episode. We are on the road driving from Los Angeles to San Diego and thought it would be fun to talk about our weekend in LA. We play a little game that is aimed at helping you learn more about us all. Our thoughts go out to our listeners in Los Angeles who are dealing with the wild fires rag…
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Send us a text Happy New Year Tuggers, Tuggettes and Tuggums! It has been a crazy 2024 and before we all get sucked into an even crazier 2025, we thought we would do a year in review. Here about all the surprising, provocative, insane things that happened last year. @tugayspod [email protected] #lgbt #lgbtq #lgbtqia+ #sandiego #gaysandiego #gayco…
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Send us a text For this one last episode before Christmas we thought we would test your holiday trivia knowledge. Listen along and play with our contestants (Nick, Paul and Joe) to see who knows the most about this festive time. Helpful hint . . .These trivia questions are a great thing to pull out to divert difficult family holiday dinner conversa…
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Send us a text This week, we wanted to bring some of the joy of the holidays to our podcast. So get ready for some of the best (and worst) holiday jokes we could find. We are giving you everything from dad jokes to NSFW humor. Be the hit of your holiday party with these quips, puns and one-liners! @tugayspod [email protected] #lgbt #lgbtq #lgbtqi…
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Send us a text This week, we embrace Thanksgiving by sharing holiday preferences, stories and tradition. @tugayspod [email protected] #lgbt #lgbtq #lgbtqia+ #sandiego #gaysandiego #gaycommedy #thanksgiving2024 #holidaytraditions Gay San Diego comedy LGBT LGBTQ LGBTQIA+ @tugayspod [email protected] #lgbt #lgbtq #lgbtqia+ #sandiego #gaysandiego #…
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Send us a text This week, the boys reminisce about straight crushes from our childhood and teen years. It seems inevitable that a queer person develops attractions to people that do not feel the same for them. This archetype of the unattainable love (both sexual and romantic) is a major theme in our fantasies as well as in queer literature, movies …
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Send us a text Focus on the good . . . focus on the good . . . This week, we provide part three of our series on social media and its impact on our world. This week, it is a focus on good things. While the country is in a tailspin, we are going to look at positivity, joy, connectedness and those beautiful moments where our digital connection has ma…
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Send us a text In this episode, after a nightmare election night, the boys find comfort in each other. If we are going to be miserable, at least we get to go through it together. This week we offer a break from harsh reality by focusing on Nick's and Joe's recent trip to the UK. We all need a little distraction from the insanity that we are living …
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Send us a text In this episode the boys chat with Hunter Schwarz, the founder of Yello and a seasoned journalist with credits from The Washington Post, CNN, and Buzzfeed. Hunter brings his unique expertise at the intersection of politics, pop culture, and visual media to unpack the key cultural and aesthetic trends shaping the upcoming election. We…
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Send us a text This week, the boys are back with part 2 of our 3-part social media series. This week, we talk about situations where people have had consequences from posts they made on social media. Be careful what you post. It seems that what you say can and will be held against you . . . even if you think nobody noticed. @tugayspod tugayspod@yah…
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Send us a text This week, the boys talk about social media trends that become harmful. TikTok and Inst challenges that go from fun to tragic, or posts that end up having dire consequences for the people who made them. Our digital age gives access to things we might otherwise never see or learn about. That broadens horizons and allows us to see the …
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Send us a text This week, Joe and Paul welcome a special guest, Joshua Schubart. Born and raised on Long Island, Joshua has been working as a professional actor for over a decade. Joshua had a tough childhood, growing up homeless and in the foster care system. At 14, his foster parents put him in Catholic school, and his life took a turn for the be…
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Send us a text TU Gays Pod gives you a special edition episode. We preempt our regularly scheduled episode to dish about this week's US Presidential Debate. Yas Queens! We are political commentators now. Here are our reads on the debate and on the aftermath. There is so much to unpack here. :-) @tugayspod [email protected] #lgbt #lgbtq #lgbtqia+ …
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Send us a text This week, we are happy to present our love letter to our home city, San Diego, California. We talk about our city's favorites from favorite sunset views to favorite tacos. If you are visiting San Diego, or if you are lucky enough to live here, we hope you find our choices and recommendations to line up with your own. Please drop us …
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Send us a text This week, we welcome a very special guest Natalie Tincher. Natalie is a passionate Style Strategist, and curious entrepreneur. She founded her business, BU Style, in 2010 with a strong focus on creating style brand alignment and strategies for executives and founders as well as for businesses and their employees. In 2023, she became…
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Send us a text This week, the boys focus on good news. Let's talk about things that make us smile, warm our hearts, bring tears to our eyes, and just remind us that life is ok. It is so easy to focus on the negative, but we wanted to shine the light on goodness, love, compassion and utter cuteness. @tugayspod [email protected] #lgbt #lgbtq #lgbtq…
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Send us a text This week, the boys do a de-brief of the 2024 Paris Olympics. There is so much to talk about from the gay perspective. We had a summer filled with amazing performances, competitive drama, and incredible spectacles. Join us and see if you agree with our unique and sometimes opposing perspectives what played out on the world stage. @tu…
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Send us a text Happy Season 5 people! We are so excited to start our fifth season of These Unprecedented Gays! In some way, it feels like it was just yesterday that we were kicking off our first few episodes. We have a lot of fun things planned for this new season. In fact, we were so excited we started recording early. We started our podcast in un…
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Send us a text This is our 4th annual special Pride episode. San Diego celebrates Pride this weekend. We are very lucky to welcome back our favorite guest for his second annual Pride episode . . . the multi-hyphenate, guru of gay health and wellbeing, the influencer that had us at "butt stuff" . . . Dr. Carlton Thomas. Aside from being a board cert…
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Send us a text For the last official episode of Season 4, the boys continue their walk on memory lane. For all of us, this brought up memories (both joys and traumas) we don't often think about. That was a great way to end the season. We are swimming in nostalgia and just don't want to get out of the pool! Come join us -- the water's fine! tugayspo…
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Send us a text This week, the boys take a trip back to childhood, when life was easy, where things were magical, and were our imaginations ran wild with adventure and possibility. As Willy Wonka said, "Come with me and you'll be in a world of pure imagination." [email protected] #lgbt #lgbtq #lgbtqia+ #sandiego #gaysandiego #gaycommedy #childhood…
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Send us a text After a week off, the boys workshop a new feature called, "Did she eat?!?!" After that, get ready for a very "moving" episode where we break down the major even in Paul's and Andy's life -- the move to our new home/podcast studio. Moving is hard! Moving after you have lived in the same place for 9 years is even harder. We downsized t…
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Send us a text This week the boys talk about cheaters. More specifically how cheaters get caught. With technology being so pervasive in our lives these days, it seems to have gotten harder and harder to cover your tracks or remain undetected. Here are some fun ways that cheaters got caught. We know you will enjoy it. [email protected] #lgbt #lgbt…
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Send us a text This week Paul and Joe talk about queer spaces, their significance in the past and today, how they have changed, how they continue to be important, and how we continue to depend on them for connection, community, validation, and to some degree, safety. Queer spaces could be a digital platform, a church, youth group, bar, night club, …
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Send us a text This week the boys are back in town. We welcome a special guest -- Nick's friend Christie from Washington, D.C. Learn about Nick's adventures as a young blossoming gay man in a big city. It is said that our friendships define us. Friends know the good and the bad about us -- even things we might prefer to forget. It was great to have…
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Send us a text This week is our 150th episode! To celebrate we sent Joe to Ohio and recorded without him (sorry Ohio!). Joe will be back next week. He was just tied up working is day job. As a treat Paul Nick and Andy talk about what going on in the world. Everything from Joe's amazing piano playing to the Momofuku Chili Crunch face plant . . . we …
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Send us a text This week, we offer the latest in edutainment. The boys review some of the latest lingo, terms and slang that the kids are tossing out on the tweets, the grams, the tiks . . . Our language constantly evolves and it seems that lately, our lexicon changes so fast you can't keep up. [email protected] #lgbt #lgbtq #lgbtqia+ #sandiego #…
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Send us a text This week, we get to have fun in the neighborhood sharing some fun and outrageous Nextdoor app posts. People are crazy. People who are entitled and anonymous are even crazier! Join us for a laugh and share how positively uplifting our communities can be (sarcasm)! [email protected] #lgbt #lgbtq #lgbtqia+ #sandiego #gaysandiego #gay…
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Send us a text This week, we are back together in San Diego and so happy to be home. Travel give you a chance to discover and fall in love with new things, and helps you appreciate things from home that you miss having while away. Let's talk about the old and new stuff we don't think we could live without! [email protected] #lgbt #lgbtq #lgbtqia+…
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Send us a text This week, the boys get to record their episode from opposite ends of the world. Nick and Joe are in our hometown, San Diego, and Paul and Andy are in Melbourne, Australia. Hear about our adventures in Australia and New York over the last week. The boys share their encounters with famous people. For the NYC boys, it was Aaron Tveit, …
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Send us a text This week, Paul and Joe do a recap of the Season 16 of RuPaul's Drag Race, and Season 2 of RuPaul's Drag Race UK vs the World. Hear them dish about who is giving them life, who is getting the villain edit, and who is getting the free pass (repeatedly). Today we give you the skinny on all things drag. Be gagged and gooped. Words to li…
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Send us a text This week, Paul and Joe talk about family secrets . . . those things that nobody talks about, or that you only find out much later in time. Family surprises can be shocking, heartwarming, sad, and even uplifting. But the boys find the funny in all of it. Enjoy! @tugayspod [email protected] #lgbt #lgbtq #lgbtqia+ #sandiego #gaysandi…
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Send us a text This week, Paul and Joe are together again after a few weeks of travel and adventure. Listen in to hear about the Adele concert in Las Vegas, Nick's fetish for expensive leather goods, Paul and Andy's assessment of the emergency room services of a Palm Springs hospital, and even a trailer park after dark experience. After some time a…
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Send us a text This week, Paul and Joe are finally together again. We talk about the Usher concert that was televised last Sunday, the incredible and provocative advertisements that were running before and after the Usher concert, and some stupid sports ball that kept interrupting the commercials. Haha, we're talking about Super Bowl Sunday -- an i…
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Send us a text This week, Paul and Joe jump into crazy and hilarious product reviews that people have shared about everyday household products such as milk, gummy bears and headphones. People love to share their wit, humor and sarcasm in the strangest places. Product reviews are a perfect look into our cultural zeitgeist. Come listen, laugh, and ma…
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