Mix Minus - A Gay / LGBTQ Experience

Adam Burns & Daniel Brewer
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  • 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. 5d ago

    237 - I'm not a UV printer technician

    A muted Adam attempts a solemn September 11th opening, Daniel’s tinnitus refuses to observe the moment of silence, and we’re off to the races—almost literally. Daniel weighs a cautious return to running before Wine & Dine, then sends Devs straight to editing jail for crimes against pacing while making the case that Star City deserves more than one episode to work its Soviet-space-program magic.Adam’s beloved UV printer demands a $600 organ transplant, inspires the launch of the entirely fictional UFlexon, and raises the deeply important question of why printer discounts are respectable but Aldi cheese is apparently comedy gold. From there, the boys troubleshoot Codex, marvel at Apple’s shocking invention of a foldable phone, demand holograms and shit, and turn Tony from Illinois’s driving dilemma into a suspiciously elaborate app-development assignment.AI takes over the household finances as Daniel tackles benefits and retirement contributions while Adam learns exactly how long he has before becoming destitute—and gets personally attacked over his streaming subscriptions. Daniel scores an extremely legitimate six out of five in the News Game, birthdays bring Harry Connick Jr., Adam Sandler, and Hugh Grant, and MS Now finally offers cable-news access without a cable-sized ransom. We’re back next week; until then, we hope you enjoy this highly professional organization in action.Email: Contact@MixMinusPodcast.comVoice/SMS: 707-613-3284

  2. Sep 8

    236 - Seriously? We're just gonna gloss over the whole tiger blood thing?

    Friday night starts like a tiny studio rave as the soundboard lights twinkle and Daniel dives headfirst into a bumper crop of new AI models. Adam counters with his adventures in voice-driven vibe coding from the car, where his allegedly brilliant assistant can explain exactly what step needs doing, promise to do it, and then absolutely not do it. There’s also a glimpse of Daniel’s new Epcot Food & Wine Festival app, plus confirmation that RT Cruiser’s prize money made its way to Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library.Then it’s time for romance, travel, and aggressive budgeting: Adam and Marc unveil their 2027 fifteenth-anniversary “Boyfication,” with Fiji triumphing over Antarctica and an African safari. The fantasy includes Survivor-adjacent islands, “free” flights bought with miles, and a possible overwater bungalow expensive enough to make Daniel suggest building one at the lake house and returning the mattress afterward. Daniel also solves the mystery of Hanson’s unusually early Epcot appearance, while listener calls, birthday-trip plans, and a little theme-song shade keep the mess moving.The back half brings an online-identity scramble for a former podcaster, followed by Adam’s gloriously inefficient Global Entry saga: a six-hour passport-free false start, another epic drive, a missing credit card, and a five-minute interview. Daniel tackles the News Game before celebrity birthdays for Beyoncé, Charlie Sheen, and Keanu Reeves lead to tiger blood, Estefan-versus-Estevez confusion, and one last after-show tease. We hope you enjoy this week’s tour through artificial intelligence, international travel, and the uniquely gay art of turning every minor inconvenience into a full production.Contact@MixMinusPodcast.com707-613-3284

  3. Sep 1

    235 - Those Mashed Potatoes Were Lava!

    The Hot Box Edition comes in smoky, slightly singed, and gloriously unprepared as Daniel and Adam wrestle with a desk that may be on fire, a suspiciously public “Gay Mix starting soon” notification at church rehearsal, and the philosophical crisis of whether “conversate” is a real word. Daniel delivers a running update that is mostly about post-race breakfast, then the boys unpack Adam’s Florida visit, a celebratory California Grill dinner with Zach, Rodan, and Darwin, and Disney fireworks that may—or may not—have vanished into the humidity.Then it’s off to South Kakalaki for Adam’s long-awaited Friday at Fatty’s experience, where Big Fatty’s country-fried steak inspires rapture, the mashed potatoes achieve lava status, and a perfectly innocent ice maker gives everyone plenty of material about Fatty’s balls. There’s also hotel carpet trauma, Larry Vader’s mysterious refusal to eat, lunch at Page’s Okra Grill, a moving visit to the International African American Museum, and a Level 13 recording made during a thunderstorm with an Android phone and the power of AI. We hope you enjoy this tasteful travelogue of fine dining, canned green beans, cannabis, and spherical ice.The Contact segment brings Kathy Bacon’s congratulations, Tony from Illinois treating the voicemail line like podcast technical support, listener mail, theme-song theft that wasn’t theft, and a particularly busy round of celebrity death calls. Daniel then faces Adam’s News Quiz, argues for half-credit with the confidence of a man who knows the scoring system is beneath him, and asks listeners how to spend a $1,000 home-office stipend when he already owns nearly everything. Birthdays bring Jack Black, Jennifer Coolidge, and Shania Twain before the show closes with attachments, mimeograph machines, and absolutely no project management whatsoever.Email: Contact@MixMinusPodcast.comVoice/SMS: 707-613-3284

  4. Aug 18

    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

  5. 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

  6. 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

  7. 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

  8. 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

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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.

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