223 - No One Will See Me Decline

223 - No One Will See Me Decline

From Mix Minus - A Gay / LGBTQ Experience by Adam Burns & Daniel Brewer

May 12, 2026 · 1h 15m

About this episode

The hosts discuss personal updates, celebrate birthdays, and review Survivor Season 50 while engaging with listener mail and current events.

The episode opens with the hosts fumbling the video intro cue — a recurring live-production hazard they blame on aging — before Daniel delivers a running update: four years into a habit started to lower his cholesterol, he's benching himself through the end of May to recover a back injury (a pulled muscle that resurfaced during a mid-week run after the Dollywood race weekend). He uses the injury news as a pivot into a pair of birthday acknowledgments: Pride48 network fixture "Auntie Scott" turning 60, and Daniel's partner Zach hitting 39 — the latter celebrated with a dinner reservation at Jiko at Disney's Animal Kingdom Lodge, joined by friends Rodan and Darwin. The middle third of the show runs through the episode's recurring segments in sequence. Survivor Season 50 gets a lengthy debrief: both hosts' preferred players, Ozzy and Christian, are now sitting on the jury, with Daniel laying blame squarely on Ozzy for going home with an unplayed idol. Listener mail surfaces via voicemail and texts from regulars Kathy Bacon, Cat, Kathy Marshall, and Mel — topics ranging from a Florida Wawa gas station sighting to Adam's vaping habits to the long-overdue "So-So…

People in this episode

Hosts: Adam Burns, Daniel Brewer

Topics covered

  • health
  • birthdays
  • reality TV
  • listener mail
  • current events

Keywords

  • cholesterol
  • back injury
  • Pride48
  • Survivor
  • listener mail

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Pride48, New York Times

Places: Disney's Animal Kingdom Lodge, Florida

More episodes of Mix Minus - A Gay / LGBTQ Experience

Explore listener stats, chart rankings, contacts and more on the Mix Minus - A Gay / LGBTQ Experience podcast page.