i found you a poem: February 9th, 2026

In this episode, we read three wonderful poems: The Boy Scout Pledge by Michael Glatze, High School Sleepovers with Straight Girls by Julian Guy, and The Archipelago of Kisses by Jeffrey McDaniel. Heated Rivalry has no doubt been on a lot of people's minds, but today we explore themes that the viral show has undoubtedly brought to the surface: queerness, homoerotic friendships, love as the act of witnessing, love as a way to explore identity, and the dance of self-denial that can find us all at points in our lives. Listen to the tracks we played here.