Defining Marriage is a limited run-podcast that accompanies the book of the same name.
From 2015-2018, hosts Matt Baume and James Morris chatted about what's happening with marriage equality, with frequent digressions into pop culture, silly banter, and the jokes and quibbles that have kept them together as a couple for over a decade.
The first eighteen episodes of the podcast contain the complete audiobook version of the book Defining Marriage, which traces the decades-long evolution of marriage through the personal stories of those who lived through it, featuring personal insights from the lives of Evan Wolfson, Dan Savage, Ken Mehlman, Dustin Lance Black, and many more.
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Episode Archive
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July 2015
- Jul 20, 2015 Defining Marriage Introduction
- Jul 27, 2015 Chapter 1: Imperfect Man
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August 2015
- Aug 3, 2015 Chapter 2: To be Let in, not Just Left Alone
- Aug 10, 2015 Chapter 3: Know Who Your Enemies Are
- Aug 17, 2015 Chapter 4: Not the Marrying Kind
- Aug 24, 2015 Chapter 5: I Just Wanted to Love Somebody as Much as I Could
- Aug 31, 2015 Chapter 6: I Was Just Tired of Running Away From Myself
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September 2015
- Sep 7, 2015 Chapter 7: There’s No Marriage Without Engagement
- Sep 14, 2015 Chapter 8: You’d Think They Had Won
- Sep 21, 2015 Chapter 9: Zero Regrets
- Sep 28, 2015 Chapter 10: This is an Effing Disaster
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October 2015
- Oct 5, 2015 Chapter 11: I Don’t Really Know How it’s Going to Work
- Oct 12, 2015 Chapter 12: You Have to Take Part in Your Own Liberation
- Oct 19, 2015 Chapter 13: Well That is F***ing Bold
- Oct 26, 2015 Chapter 14: If not … Great
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November 2015
- Nov 2, 2015 Chapter 15: Welcome to the Other Side of the Rainbow
- Nov 9, 2015 Chapter 16: Love and Commitment
- Nov 16, 2015 Chapter 17: Set Course for the Alpha Quadrant
- Nov 23, 2015 Afterword
- Nov 30, 2015 Debunking NOM's Craziest Ads
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December 2015
- Dec 7, 2015 NOM's Cool Moose Obsession
- Dec 14, 2015 A Gay Couple's 60-Year Love Story
- Dec 21, 2015 Revisiting the Gay Soldier Who Changed a Presidential Race
- Dec 28, 2015 The Last Year-in-Review You'll Ever Need
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January 2016
- Jan 4, 2016 The Emotional Work of Turning Prop 8's Heartbreak into Triumph
- Jan 11, 2016 Interview with "Buffy" Writer Jane Espenson & Friends About Gays, Marriage, and Their Sitcom "Husbands"
- Jan 18, 2016 When Coming Out at Work Launched a Federal Investigation
- Jan 25, 2016 Can Marriage Equality Be Rolled Back?
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February 2016
- Feb 1, 2016 Anti-Marriage Pledge Punishes Straight Fornicators
- Feb 8, 2016 Behind the Scenes at the Star-Studded Prop 8 Play
- Feb 15, 2016 How do you Solve a Problem Like Scalia?
- Feb 22, 2016 Manny Pacquiao and the Bonobo Showboat
- Feb 29, 2016 Many Things Go
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March 2016
- Mar 7, 2016 No Mas, Roy Moore
- Mar 14, 2016 A Marriage Encounter
- Mar 21, 2016 President Chicken
- Mar 27, 2016 Georgia On Our Minds
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April 2016
- Apr 4, 2016 Young Men Foaming for Gay Marriage in the Florida Heat
- Apr 11, 2016 The Pope and a Pig in a Poke
- Apr 18, 2016 Queen Latifah Wipe
- Apr 25, 2016 Animals Strike Curious Poses
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May 2016
- May 2, 2016 International Amour, More Ray Moore, and More
- May 9, 2016 #VacationOfConsulGeneral
- May 16, 2016 The Banana Banner Boys
- May 23, 2016 A Sloppy Whisper
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June 2016
- Jun 6, 2016 Rim Shots from Gabe Kaplan
- Jun 13, 2016 Weezing the Knees
- Jun 20, 2016 People Love Boobs
- Jun 25, 2016 Plebiscite Didgeridoodling Swank
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July 2016
- Jul 5, 2016 The Baby's Friend
- Jul 11, 2016 Andrea Loathsome
- Jul 25, 2016 Why Don't You Fall in a Pigsty
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August 2016
- Aug 1, 2016 The Moist Encumberance
- Aug 8, 2016 Stinky Manfolds
- Aug 15, 2016 Honeymoon on the Moon, Honey
- Aug 22, 2016 A Flight of Fancy Feast
- Aug 29, 2016 A Horse in a Bikini
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September 2016
- Sep 5, 2016 Francis the Talking Mule
- Sep 13, 2016 The Southington Peeper
- Sep 19, 2016 The Family Thermos
- Sep 26, 2016 Nevada Tim Strikes Again
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October 2016
- Oct 10, 2016 The Camel's Nose
- Oct 17, 2016 Ira Glass Tries to Remember the Name of a Song
- Oct 24, 2016 Once I was a Woman
- Oct 31, 2016 Slashdance
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November 2016
- Nov 14, 2016 Fear Leads to Anger
- Nov 21, 2016 The Sudden Problem Law Center
- Nov 28, 2016 The Trump Appointee who Eats Cars and Smells Like a Fish
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December 2016
- Dec 5, 2016 The Pelican's Briefs
- Dec 12, 2016 Schizophrenic Breakdown
- Dec 19, 2016 Susie Booze Cruise
- Dec 26, 2016 Introducing Mother Mayo
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January 2017
- Jan 2, 2017 Best Make Egg Costume Man
- Jan 9, 2017 Don't Gaslight my Schlong
- Jan 16, 2017 The Horse in the Nude Castle
- Jan 23, 2017 Evar Orbus and His Galactic Jizz-Wailers
- Jan 30, 2017 Unlocking the Donkey Within
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February 2017
- Feb 6, 2017 Rats in a Raincoat
- Feb 13, 2017 We Found a Ratboy
- Feb 20, 2017 The Royal Way to Eat a Tuffet
- Feb 27, 2017 The Case of the Misplaced Moustache
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March 2017
- Mar 6, 2017 It Depends on the Intent of the Sandwich
- Mar 13, 2017 Murder She Hopes
- Mar 20, 2017 Bathroom Bill as Played by Ellen Burstyn
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April 2017
- Apr 3, 2017 The Widow of the Web
- Apr 10, 2017 Christine Ebersole is my Mother the Car
- Apr 17, 2017 Slime Confessions with Matthew
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May 2017
- May 1, 2017 The Youth of America Need to Exfoliate
- May 8, 2017 The Man Root of All Evil
- May 15, 2017 The Chimp, the Chump, and the Chomp
- May 22, 2017 Max the Hedgehog in the Dracula Parade
- May 30, 2017 You Look Just Like the Commish
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June 2017
- Jun 5, 2017 These Have Always Brought me Luck
- Jun 12, 2017 Copin' with Copenhagen
- Jun 19, 2017 Salami Tactics Advance
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July 2017
- Jul 3, 2017 Porky the Pumpkin
- Jul 10, 2017 The Devil's Bicycle
- Jul 17, 2017 Mummy Overalls
- Jul 25, 2017 A Damp Swaddle in the Swath of Night
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August 2017
- Aug 7, 2017 The Newly Dead Game
- Aug 16, 2017 The Aftertaste of Tomorrow
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September 2017
- Sep 4, 2017 The Steel Beefalo of the Nightmare World
- Sep 18, 2017 Don't Deny Your Chum a Bum
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October 2017
- Oct 2, 2017 The Floor Whisperer
- Oct 31, 2017 The Greatest Adventure
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December 2017
- Dec 18, 2017 Practice Man Full of Meat
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April 2018
- Apr 2, 2018 Do You Want to See My Foot
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December 2018
- Dec 24, 2018 Storebought Ham