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Don't Ruin This For Me

Don't Ruin This For Me

Elizabeth Gomez & Adrienne Gunn

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Join comedians Elizabeth Gomez and Adrienne Gunn as they revisit books and films from the 80s and 90s, and talk about how growing up with fictional best friends really fucks up your ideas about how to be a person.
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Don't Ruin This For Me - Episode 3 - Chicks Before Dicks - Sweet Valley High
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11/11/20 • 57 min

911 Jessica is finally dating Sweet Valley stud Bruce Patman and Elizabeth is apoplectic. Jessica does a lot of dulling her sparkle to make Bruce happy and in this episode we welcome Chicago storyteller and queer icon Jeremy Owens to help us figure out how you know if you’re in an abusive relationship, when it’s okay to cockblock your sister, and should you tell your bff if their boyfriend is trash? Then stay tuned for our very own SVH fan fiction where Bruce embarks on a very steamy romance with...sorry, you’re gonna have to listen to find out!

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Don't Ruin This For Me - Episode 2 - Secrets Secrets Hurt Someone - Sweet Valley High
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10/28/20 • 57 min

Enid’s got a secret and ohhhhh gurl, it’s a doozy! In this episode we welcome Chicago comedy legend and TWIN (!!!) Maya Haughton to help us figure out 1) are all twins this terrible and 2) why is gossip just the best?
#Wokefield #SweetValleyHigh #ShameTheDevil
Wokefield is produced and engineered by J.W. Basilo. Production copyright 2020, Shame The Devil Media.

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Don't Ruin This For Me - Episode 9: This is Your Brain On Drugs  - Sweet Valley High
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01/06/21 • 71 min

It’s finally here!! The most formative book of Adrienne’s youth, the one where disabled hero Regina Morrow gets dumped by Bruce Patman, does one line of cocaine, and falls over and dies! This week we welcome to the pod comedian, actor, writer, teacher, and Chicago legend Kelsie Huff to discuss why she thinks these books are “hot garbage” and what we did or did not put up our noses in high school. We’ve got some alcoholic parents and some alcoholic tendencies, so buckle up, there’s a lot to unpack.
Wokefield is written and hosted by Elizabeth Gomez & Adrienne Gunn. Produced and engineered by J.W. Basilo for Shame The Devil Media.

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Don't Ruin This For Me - Episode 8: There’s a Ho in this House - Sweet Valley High
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12/30/20 • 65 min

In Sweet Valley, cheerleading is a matter of life and death. New girl in town Annie Whitman dreams of joining the squad but--oops!--this fifteen-year-old has a reputation and our favorite sociopath Jessica Wakefield says NO SLUTS ALLOWED. Jessica will do whatever it takes to keep Annie off the squad, even if it drives Francine Pascal to her most irresponsible plot twist of all time. This week we welcome storyteller and Chicago LGBT Hall of Fame inductee Kim Hunt to help us figure out, just how slutty do you have to be to be called a slut? What’s slut shaming like in lesbian culture? Are all single moms drunk losers? And are you even allowed to be a cheerleader if you come from a broken home?
Written and hosted by Elizabeth Gomez & Adrienne Gunn. Produced and engineered by J.W. Basilo for Shame The Devil Media. Copyright 2020. All rights reserved.

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Don't Ruin This For Me - Episode 7: Gemini Twins - Sweet Valley High
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12/16/20 • 63 min

You guys, Jessica finally gets a personality and its BROWN HAIR. And of course the pitch perfect 80s dream of becoming a model at the mall. Because representation is important, this week we welcome poet, sk8erboi, and straight white guy Tim Stafford to the pod to talk about influencer culture, branding yourself, frenemies, and basically how Sweet Valley is no Lyons, IL. And then for the first time, Wokefield’s resident astrologer Zane Biebelle breaks down how the sun, the moon, and the stars have influenced the Wakefield twins—of course those hoes be Geminis!—and how our own birth weeks determine whether or not we could be friends with them.
Wokefield is written & hosted by Elizabeth Gomez & Adrienne Gunn. Produced and engineered by J.W. Basilo for Shame The Devil Media.

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Don't Ruin This For Me - Episode 6 - Stranger Danger - Sweet Valley High
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12/09/20 • 47 min

Uh, hello, 911? Elizabeth Wakefield’s been kidnapped by a mentally ill hospital orderly! Join us as we relive Elizabeth’s thirty-six hour horror, tied to a chair in the only shack in Sweet Valley, while Jessica wears bikinis and poses in the mirror and Todd flexes his muscles. This week we welcome writer and performer Archy Jamjun to the pod and drop him right into the SVH universe in a new game we invented where he has to survive as the only queer person of color at Sweet Valley High. CAN HE DO IT???
Written & Hosted by Elizabeth Gomez and Adrienne Gunn. Produced & engineered by J.W. Basilo for Shame The Devil Media. Copyright 2020

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Don't Ruin This For Me - Episode 5: Sex on the Beach (Sort of) - Sweet Valley High
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12/02/20 • 46 min

Jessica’s dating an older man. How do we know he’s older? HE HAS A MUSTACHE. On this episode we welcome Alissa Rowinsky Wright, SVH super fan and mother of twins, to help us figure out--are all twins this codependent? Because after Jessica stays out < all! night! long! > Elizabeth is a wreck, running around taking tests for her sister and being a maniac until even Todd has had enough.

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Don't Ruin This For Me - Episode 4 -  Revenge Body - Sweet Valley High
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11/18/20 • 46 min

After being blackballed by Pi Beta Alpha, resident fat girl Robin Wilson runs around the SVH track and only eats lettuce leaves to transform herself into this year’s Miss Sweet Valley. (Because, you know, she always had a pretty face.) In this episode we welcome transgender stand-up comedian, actor, and entrepreneur Dina Nina Martinez to talk about body image, shaming, and reinventing ourselves.
Hosted by Elizabeth Gomez and Adrienne Gunn. Produced and engineered by J.W. Basilo for Shame The Devil Media. Recorded at Que4 Radio Studios, Chicago.
Follow us online @wokefieldpod and @shame.the.devil

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Don't Ruin This For Me - LEGENDS OF THE FALL

LEGENDS OF THE FALL

Don't Ruin This For Me

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06/21/23 • 60 min

LEGENDS OF THE FALL has been hailed as “an unforgettable portrait of the twentieth century man,” but let’s be real, we’re not here for all that 1900s toxic masculinity—we’re here to talk about Adrienne’s SEXUAL AWAKENING!!! This week we welcome queer writer and storyteller (and fellow Brad Pitt enthusiast) Jeremy Owens to help us answer this very important question: What if your whole entire vision of romance is based on a Brad Pitt movie you saw when you were fourteen????????

CW: suicide, murder, war, ptsd, white saviourism, some violence with a bear

Theme Music courtesy of Matt Oakley

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Don't Ruin This For Me - Episode 1 - The All-American Girl  - Sweet Valley High
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10/28/20 • 50 min

Episode 1: The All-American Girl

If you know anything about the Wakefield twins it’s that they wear matching lavaliers and are a perfect size six. In this episode we welcome pop culture phenom Kim Nelson to help us break down what “...spectacular, all-American good looks...” means (TRANSLATION: WHITE?) and if Jessica is a sociopath, why do we all want to be her???

#Wokefield #SweetValleyHigh #ShameTheDevil
Wokefield is produced and engineered by J.W. Basilo. Production copyright 2020, Shame The Devil Media.

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How many episodes does Don't Ruin This For Me have?

Don't Ruin This For Me currently has 34 episodes available.

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The podcast is about Comedy, Podcasts and Tv & Film.

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The episode title 'PAMELA ANDERSON' is the most popular.

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The average episode length on Don't Ruin This For Me is 62 minutes.

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Episodes of Don't Ruin This For Me are typically released every 7 days.

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The first episode of Don't Ruin This For Me was released on Oct 28, 2020.

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