Mix Minus - A Gay / LGBTQ Experience

Adam Burns & Daniel Brewer
  • 4.6 (22)
  • Personal Journals
  • Updated Weekly

Become a Paid Subscriber: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/mix-minus/subscribe Become a Paid Subscriber: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/mix-minus/subscribe What do you get when two gay friends who love audio, love tech, love talk radio, and love podcasting get together to live stream once a week. You get a podcast with witty banter, quizzes, tech talk, pop culture, and more. Add an LGBT spin and you get Mix Minus Podcast.

  1. 3d ago

    234 - I Love You Man, But I Will Mute You!

    Friday night arrives with birthday confusion, calendar amnesia, and Daniel temporarily unmoored from time between jobs. He is learning how to convince his nervous system that the old workplace can no longer hurt him, while Adam provides the compassion one expects from a best friend with a microphone. There is also a delicious dispatch from Daniel’s former employer, where the apparent survival strategy is “more automation or else” and AI is expected to do everything short of remembering everyone’s birthdays.Then we’re off to the Tontitown Grape Festival, where Marc and Adam find sparse crowds, fried chicken, spaghetti, grape ice cream, and an ugly cloud of ICE-related intimidation hanging over the festivities. A new Whataburger is technically nearby in the same way another continent is technically nearby, and Daniel’s unemployed era includes a trip to see Spider-Man, prompting a full investigation into Jean Grey’s morals, Spider-Man sightings in space, and whether that man has been filling out his suit. Contact brings POGS, a spectacularly assembled birthday serenade, a website that accidentally left its AI scaffolding showing, Cameo energy, and a cash giveaway winner who has apparently made a cottage industry out of taking the show’s money.The News Game delivers catering-truck intrigue, suspicious answer imports, and a hard-fought perfect score before birthdays bring Halle Berry, Steve Martin, Marcia Gay Harden, and—naturally—Adam Burns into the spotlight. The episode closes by reopening the case of the absent Joe Betance, separating three very different AI podcast projects, and examining the negotiating genius required to turn “the end of August” into “September 1.” We’ll be off next week while the boys gallivant to South Carolina, so savor the drama, pack your vitamins, and we hope you enjoy the glorious mess.Email: Contact@MixMinusPodcast.comVoice/SMS: 707-613-3284

  2. Aug 10

    233 - We've Become the Little Fatty Cast

    Friday night arrived wearing a tiara and clutching a troubleshooting manual as Adam’s shiny new production setup immediately met Daniel’s deeply princess-coded need for everything to be exactly where it belongs. Once the technology stopped demanding top billing, Daniel marked the surreal end of nearly a decade at his old job, wondered when his brain would finally stop checking broken servers out of habit, and looked ahead to sixteen days of detox, Zach’s wisdom-tooth recovery, and a much more exciting new chapter.The boys mapped out Adam’s Florida visit and their pilgrimage to Big Fatty, accidentally canceled next week’s show and then uncanceled it, and took Contact on a tour through peppermint spider control, movie trivia, birthday wishes, and the dangerously lavish celebrity-death jackpot. Daniel also explained why his ongoing feud with Joe Betance is basically vintage radio theater, unveiled his lovingly fabricated 1985 radio station, and learned that Adam is apparently number ten—even behind someone who is not on the show. A 4 p.m. comedy outing introduced a chatty twink boy, inspired a red-light/green-light system for human interaction, and somehow ended at bathhouse etiquette. As one does.The News Game and bonus trivia then became a live demonstration of why we test things, with mysterious buzzers, disappearing answers, Disney quotes, carnivorous plants, and Daniel’s exhausted head brain doing its level best. Charlize Theron, David Duchovny, Michelle Yeoh, and Lucille Ball rounded out birthdays before the prize money lost ten dollars in real time. We hope you enjoy this lovingly chaotic work in progress—and yes, despite what you heard earlier, they will be back next week.Contact@MixMinusPodcast.com707-613-3284

  3. Aug 4

    232 - I don't care if it's boring to you

    A tiny software change tries to derail Friday night before the first topic even lands, but the boys soldier on like the professionals they insist they are. Daniel has a very promising job update, a potential celebration at the Cake Bake Shop, and a hilariously specific new title with entirely too many words. Adam, meanwhile, has revived the Geeky Gay, accidentally outranked the Little Fatty Cast in Daniel’s podcast queue, and discovered that asking AI a simple question is sometimes the longest route between two points. Then it’s time for a proudly nerdy tour through vibe coding, podcast-production tools, rogue browser tabs, and the triumphant return of the Diffie-Hellman key exchange—which may have helped Daniel ace an interview after all. The Little Fatty Cast’s adventures in audio processing somehow turn an ice maker into immersive theater, contact brings a voicemail and a suspiciously familiar text, and the News Game delivers wine, a baffling haircut, Christmas casting, a unicorn, and one deeply unfortunate trekking pole. Naturally, all of that is merely the warm-up for Daniel reopening the case against known liar and proven provocateur Joe Batance—with archival clips, exhibits, and a pot so stirrable it may require legal counsel. There are no birthdays this week, because apparently celebrities had the good sense not to interrupt the prosecution, so the boys put a bow on the puppy and head toward the Level 13 aftershow. Adam promises to return next week despite an anniversary party, Daniel nearly forgets how to close the podcast, and the transcript itself gets a final little cameo. We hope you enjoy this mix of career manifesting, gay-tech chaos, audio forensics, and friendship conducted across very different states of mind. Contact@MixMinusPodcast.com707-613-3284

  4. Jul 28

    231 - Funerals are so awkward.

    This week, The Gay Mix comes in hot with the most glamorous smart-light failure imaginable before Daniel drops a proper newsroom bombshell: he quit his job. After weeks of executive chaos, mystery PowerPoint math, disappearing developers, and enough stress to qualify as cardio, he finally chose peace—and perhaps a future taking happy vacation photos at Disney. Adam, already between jobs himself, naturally suggests they simply make a living podcasting. What could possibly go wrong?From there, the newly unemployed besties get entrepreneurial as Adam unveils his all-in-one podcast production playground, complete with show planning, contact wrangling, soundboards, trivia, and a UI only a developer could love. The contact segment brings Kathy Bacon’s allegedly murdered backyard, suspicious celebrity-death arithmetic, Lamont Cranston’s deep-cut Miss America reference, and a bold invitation to text the show pictures best left undescribed here. There are also elaborate funeral plans, a possible AI afterlife, a spicy detour through Broadway ticket prices and living wages, and a News Game performance that proves quitting your job does not automatically improve your knowledge of rivers.Birthdays bring Lynda Carter, Jennifer Lopez, and Elisabeth Moss, while Adam closes out the evening with a 3D-printing saga involving scratched light boxes, rogue nozzles, missing connectors, and emergency Walmart LEDs. Daniel teases an equally maddening mystery for the after show, the new production tool gets one last live shakedown, and everyone somehow reaches the closing music with dignity mostly intact. We hope you enjoy this week’s blend of liberation, innovation, funeral catering, and technical support with just a whisper of gay panic.Email: Contact@MixMinusPodcast.comVoice/SMS: 707-613-3284

  5. Jul 21

    230 - This aioli is very bitter.

    After two weeks away, Daniel and Adam swan back into the studio with enough pent-up material to sink a suspiciously small Royal Caribbean ship. Adam brings the full international dossier from Colombia and the southern Caribbean: a Spanish-forward cruise nobody bothered to advertise as such, a charming cooking class, birds committing breakfast crimes, street food gambles, and one scandalous act of light waiter-touching. Daniel, naturally, deploys multiple AI agents to prove Adam wrong and is devastated when the evidence insists Adam was right.Back home, the boys bounce from podcast feuds and wildly uneven audio levels to a more tender conversation about the sudden loss of Adam’s aunt. Then the contact bag erupts with filthy jokes, granny glasses, celebrity-death jubilation, and proof that absence really does make the voicemail queue grow louder. Daniel unveils a custom Keno game for Auntie Scott plus his AI-powered podcast player that cuts commercials, levels audio, syncs across devices, and turns rambling shows into ruthless little CliffNotes; Adam counters with a live podcast-production platform that immediately puts Daniel through a 60-second trivia torture chamber.The News Game delivers a suspiciously flawless five-for-five before the bonus round restores order, while birthdays bring David Hasselhoff, Queen Camilla, and Angela Merkel into the hosts’ rapidly expanding “peer group.” Daniel closes by explaining why living near Disney has utterly ruined ordinary fireworks for him, then saves the truly baffling patriotic soundtrack for the after show. We hope you enjoy this gloriously overstuffed return—travel tales, tech toys, touched waiters, and all.Email: Contact@MixMinusPodcast.comVoice/SMS: 707-613-3284

  6. Jun 30

    229 - I say screw Spotify and bring on the kazoo!

    Friday night rolls around and The Gay Mix is back, but not before a near-death experience at Adam's house. Crisis averted — the brown recluse spider has been killed and flushed, though Daniel helpfully reminds us it was dangling "like the sword of Damocles" above Adam's head. Daniel, meanwhile, is still not running, blaming a back injury for skipping the annual Pulse 4.9K Pride Run in Orlando. It has nothing to do with the 120-degree Florida heat. Nothing at all. It's medical reasons, Adam. Medical reasons alone. The show kicks off with Adam promoting Auntie Scott's YouTube channel (Auntie Vera Charles 50, go subscribe), before Daniel goes full AI evangelist, pushing back on an article claiming software engineers are drowning in depression over AI-generated code. The software craftsmen are the insufferable pedantic types who care whether your variable is camel-cased, and Daniel has news for them: the code is irrelevant. He's doing an entire dev team's work in an hour with Codex and hasn't looked at actual code in months. Somewhere, a software craftsman is weeping into his well-commented function.Then things take a turn for the nerdy. Daniel drags Adam into a live, on-air Diffie-Hellman key exchange demonstration — yes, on a podcast, yes, with calculators. Two prime numbers, two secret numbers, and somehow everyone in the chat room can hear every step but can't figure out the shared secret. Spoiler: they both picked seven, and the math still worked. Math sucks, but Diffie-Hellman is cool, and Adam feels like he's on the coding train. In other segments: Adam recounts a Father's Day weekend involving P.F. Chang's, a cherry cobbler, and a 20-minute standoff at the host stand. Tony from Illinois calls in not once, not twice, but approximately 47 times from his car, demanding to know what Mix Minus means (Daniel explains), requesting kazoos (Daniel produces one from a comb and wax paper), asking what music the hosts listen to (Adam: Mariah Carey, Adele, Taylor Swift; Daniel: Mormon a cappella choir singing Disney mashups at full volume), and pressuring Adam to bring back Geeky Gay. Joe Betance also calls in to accuse Daniel of slander over a RODECaster Pro 2 channel assignment dispute. It's contact segment gold.The News Game sees Daniel going 3 for 5 — he nailed Venezuela earthquakes, the Brad Lander primary upset, and correctly identified that Alan Greenspan did not serve under Obama (he died at 100 this week, which feels like it should be its own news quiz question). He whiffed on France's record 112-degree heat and Andy Burnham's mayoralty of Manchester, going with Birmingham because, well, "Burnham from Burningham." The bonus round brought Von Trapp family arithmetic, HTTP acronym debates, and a last-minute scramble involving a kazoo that never quite materialized. Birthdays featured Ariana Grande (33), Sean Hayes (56), and Nick Offerman (woodworking enthusiast). The show wraps with a bittersweet goodbye — Adam is heading to Colombia for two weeks, leaving us to contemplate cheesecake episodes and whether Daniel's new mystery podcast app will ever see the light of day. We hope you enjoy this one, because it's all you're getting for a fortnight.Email: Contact@MixMinusPodcast.comVoice/SMS: 707-613-3284

  7. Jun 23

    228 - What if your car explodes?

    It's Friday night, and the vibes are... coconut vape and gray-beard existentialism. Daniel kicks things off by revealing that his barber thinks he looks like Eric Dane — who, as it turns out, just died. So that's where we're at. Adam's puffing on something tropical, Larry Vader has apparently built an entire software ecosystem with a coding agent, and Daniel is quietly thrilled that his entire after-show pipeline is now automated. The boys are back, and the show hasn't even started yet.Once things get rolling, Adam treats us to an epic Wendy's drive-thru saga that involves a ten-hour round trip, a permanently closed location, a drive-thru lane with curbs that trap you like a DMV waiting room, a five-to-ten-minute wait per car because they're gaming their own performance metrics, and — the cherry on top — the wrong burger. Meanwhile, Daniel spirals into a passionate defense of the Wendy's Super Bar and its dubious "7,000 combinations" claim. Then things get real: Anthropic's new Fable 5 model dropped and got yanked almost immediately after Amazon — yes, that Amazon, the one invested in Anthropic — flagged a so-called jailbreak to the government. Spotify has silently yanked five episodes over copyright claims on the birthday segment's music, and the boys brainstorm solutions ranging from moving birthdays to the after show, to three facts instead of songs, to Daniel's personal assistant Sebastian's inspired suggestion: just play the songs on a kazoo. Speaking of which, we hear voicemails from Phoenix Dave (reporting James Burrows' death) and Gary in Portland (celebrating his 79th birthday), Tony from Illinois sends Disney trivia PDFs, and Adam has FEELINGS about Big Fatty's passive-aggressive podcast-guilt-tripping of shows that have gone quiet. Oh, and there's a whole segment about Joe Batance sending the most incomprehensible text message in podcasting history — something about Bluetooth channels and a mixer, delivered via voice-to-text while driving, that no human could possibly decode.The news game delivers (Daniel aces it, natch), the bonus round from Michael's trivia brings the goods, and the show wraps with Adam and Daniel teasing a show idea that neither of them actually has. Same time next week, kids. Same time next week.Email: Contact@MixMinusPodcast.comVoice/SMS: 707-613-3284

  8. Jun 16

    227 - How does one pull a butt cheek?

    The boys are back! After taking a well-deserved mental health break (and weathering what we're told were hundreds of concerned emails — each one personally answered by Adam, naturally), Daniel and Adam return with fresh energy and a new member of the extended Mix family. Daniel introduces us to Sebastian, his AI personal assistant who helped prep the show, and we quickly learn that saying "Hermes" out loud leads to instant confusion with luxury handbags. The show kicks off with Adam's mysterious butt muscle injury ("I herniated a butt muscle") and some exciting James Corden news, before things take a more serious turn: Adam's mother, over lunch following her doctor's appointment, asked him to remove the word "gay" from his podcast name. Adam handled it with grace and conviction — gay isn't a bad word to people who know it isn't one — and we couldn't be prouder.From there, the show spins into classic Mix territory. Daniel delivers a forensic breakdown of Apple's WWDC keynote videos, convinced the outdoor walking shots were studio-voiced and AI-lip-synced — an audio Uncanny Valley that had the internet buzzing. A fascinating science piece argues that adults who reread the same novels aren't stuck in the past; they're using fiction as a mirror to measure who they've become, which leads to a discussion of Adam's third rewatch of The West Wing (season 5 is a struggle, we hear you) and Daniel's revelation that his local UPN station once followed Mama's Family with "more sci-fi adventure" as the lead-in to Star Trek: The Next Generation. In the Contact segment, Brian writes in about YouNify, a tool for consolidating watch lists across streaming services, and we get a moment of silence for synthesizer pioneer Michael Iceberg. Then Adam tells us the sweetest story about a baby bird in his crepe myrtle tree — which takes a hard left turn into a possible lawnmower incident he insists was pre-existing. The News Game delivers a respectable showing (even if the World Cup final being in New Jersey remains deeply funny), and the 60-second bonus round tests Daniel's trivia mettle on everything from Pixar to moonwalkers. A delightful digression into a 1982 ABC7 consumer report on home computers — complete with cassette tape programs and the immortal advice that "if you could bake a cake, you can write a program" — reminds us all that the home computer market was supposed to fully evolve by 1985. Spoiler: it took until 2000.Adam shows off his latest UV printer project — a custom metal sign for his stepfather featuring ChatGPT-generated art (sorry, artists) — and the Birthday segment brings us Noah Wyle, Anderson Cooper, and Dana Carvey. Then comes the segment Joe Betance probably won't hear: an exasperated PSA that pairing a Bluetooth phone to the RODECaster Pro 2 takes exactly three button presses. Three! The show wraps with the kind of scheduling certainty we've all come to love — they might be here next Friday, or maybe the week after, July's spotty because Daniel has a long vacation, but they'll definitely be back at some point. We hope you enjoy!Email: Contact@MixMinusPodcast.comVoice/SMS: 707-613-3284

See All (240)

4.6
out of 5
22 Ratings

About

Become a Paid Subscriber: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/mix-minus/subscribe Become a Paid Subscriber: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/mix-minus/subscribe What do you get when two gay friends who love audio, love tech, love talk radio, and love podcasting get together to live stream once a week. You get a podcast with witty banter, quizzes, tech talk, pop culture, and more. Add an LGBT spin and you get Mix Minus Podcast.

Information

You Might Also Like