BONUS Sci-Fi and Starting a Podcast with Asher Freeman

Bonus content from episode 1 with Asher Freeman. Become a patron QFP at patreon.com/queerfitnesspod to get more bloopers and bonus content like this!

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Transcript
You’re listening to a bonus episode of the queer fitness podcast. This first bonus episode is available to everyone, but all other bonus content is available to patrons who support the podcast on patron.com/queerfitnesspod for a dollar a month or more. Go support to enjoy more bonus content! These are a couple extra moments I had with personal trainer Asher Freeman that didn’t make it into the first episode. 

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Elise: Do you have any hobbies outside of fitness? 

Asher: Yeah! Well recently I’ve been really into reading science fiction. 

Elise: Cool. 

Asher: Yeah. It started with, I mean it started with reading Octavia’s Brood. Which is like, Walidah Imarisha and Adrienne Maree Brown collaborated to make this book of like, short science fiction stories -

Elise: Yeah. 

Asher: That are written in like. Looks like you’re nodding. You’re aware of it? 

Elise: Yeah. 

Asher: Written by activist and um, they really talk about how science fiction is, um, or I should say how all organizing work is really science fiction. And so yeah, that got me into reading. And I’ve been in a science fiction rabbit hole and it’s been really fun. 

Elise: That’s cool!

Asher: How’d you get into the podcast? 

Elise: Um, like, I have been wanting to start a podcast for something for a while, but I couldn’t figure out what exactly that was going to be. Whether it was going to be about, because I’m a musician too. Um, yeah. 

Asher: Uh-huh. 

Elise: - Gardener, baker, all of the hobbies. Uh, but yeah, I sort of ran into this niche from your, the New York Times article, that like sort of started it in my head. 

Asher: Oh wow. 

Elise: And then I was going down like a YouTube rabbit hole. 

Asher: Yeah. There’s great rabbit holes there. 

Elise: And, like, looking at female fitness YouTubers and seeing a discrepancy in what I wanted to be working on in terms of fitness and what, what was already out there in the world. But now I’ve found other people on Instagram so it’s been really cool to just, you know, see that there is a community. 

Asher: Uh-huh. 

Elise: And now that I’ve started looking for it, yeah. 

Asher: Yeah, yeah. Instagram has been awesome. I don’t, I haven’t spent much time on YouTube, but I feel like all of the queers are on Instagram. 

Elise: Yeah!

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