Welcome to Fly: A Queer Haikyuu Podcast!
Every week, twitter's em and rainbow will discuss an episode of Haikyuu, the volleyball anime that's taken the world by storm. Together, this queer couple plans to explore the epic highs and lows of high school volleyball, the inherent homoeroticism found in intense rivalry, and the overall gayness of this well told story.
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Welcome to Fly: A Queer Haikyuu Podcast!
Every week, twitter's em and rainbow will discuss an episode of Haikyuu, the volleyball anime that's taken the world by storm. Together, this queer couple plans to explore the epic highs and lows of high school volleyball, the inherent homoeroticism found in intense rivalry, and the overall gayness of this well told story.
Podcast Socials:
twitter
bluesky
instagram
tumblr
Transcript available on our website website, if not included in your podcast app: https://flyhqpod.buzzsprout.com
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Hi everybody, welcome to Fly a Queer Haikyuu podcast. My name is Rainbow and we are so excited this is episode zero. Meet the Pod this is syllabus day.
Em:We're gonna go over what you can expect in the future and a little bit about who we are.
Rainbow:Yeah yeah, this is just to kind of give you a nice little introduction. We're not gonna get too into the nitty gritty of the show or the manga or anything in this episode, but we just want to give you a taste of us and a taste of what you're gonna be listening to, hopefully, over the next few weeks.
Em:Yeah, another reason this is a queer podcast is because we are gay.
Rainbow:Yeah, we're very gay. Queer, I identify as queer. Pansexual is fine too. Maybe gender fluid haven't figured that out yet but that's fine.
Em:So you know it's all good. We met because of the. I was about to say we met because of the Haikyuu podcast. We met because of Haikyuu.
Rainbow:Yeah, so we are really excited. Oh yeah, I am rainbowreads666 on Twitter, as some of you might know.
Em:And I'm ackamama. I actually. It's so terrible I can't remember if I'm ackama or ackamama.
Rainbow:I think you're ackamama.
Em:But you probably know that listening to it because we're really depending on our Twitter fan base to get us started here.
Rainbow:Yeah, I imagine this is 100% Twitter followers for this episode zero. I could be wrong, but I don't think we're getting out there on the top of the charts or anything. So if you know us on Twitter, hi and welcome. We're happy to have you. And if you don't know us from Twitter and you just found this podcast, that's cool too. Welcome, I hope you like gay content, because that's what we're giving you. We're going to talk mainly about the anime. We're going to go episode by episode is the plan.
Em:Yeah, episode by episode. Why don't you give them a little bit of our rough structure, of what we want the episode to be like?
Rainbow:So, yeah, our basic episode structure is going to be we're going to have a 30 second recap right at the top after we do our little introduction, and we might make a fun competition out of that. Then we are going to move on to a spoiler free episode discussion, starting with episode one and going chronologically, and then after our episode discussion, we're going to do a little character spotlight. We'll pick a character from the episode and talk about them. That might not happen every episode. It's definitely going to happen a lot at the beginning as we're being introduced to new characters. We're going to do a fun little Who in HQ game where we find fun little silly scenarios and then talk about Haikyuu and would fit those positions and then, after all of that, we are going into the spoiler zone so we can talk about the time skip, things that happen in later seasons in the manga and we can really get into the nitty gritty, because I don't think we've talked yet about how much Haikyuu love and I think we should get into how much we love it and why we love it.
Rainbow:Yes, absolutely so. Haikyuu is everything. Everything is Haikyuu. [Em] That is the common phrase in this household the common phrase. [Rainbow] It's just. I love it. I think it's a really well told story from beginning to end. I think Furudate has pulled off an amazing feat. If you finish the manga, I'm sure you know what I'm talking about, and it's just a really good story. I think it's a really good sports anime Not that I'm an expert on sports anime or shonen in general.
Em:Well, that's the thing too is like I have no interest in sports whatsoever, and this made me see the merit in sports and sportsmanship.
Rainbow:Yeah, like honestly, I'm like, wow, what would my life have been if I had actually like committed to a sport? I hate running, though, so it's not going to happen. I did play volleyball recreationally. My dad was the coach for like seven years and I loved volleyball. It's my favorite sport. It's like volleyball, soccer and then like gymnastics and figure skating. Those are all my like top favorite sports, but I love volleyball and I do like have a better understanding of it and so like that definitely helped me get into haiku. But then what really hooked me was the gay. Yes, it's let's say, okay, just If you're not a shipper, if you don't watch things and read gay subtext into them or read the gay subtext. That is just there.
Em:This is not for you.
Rainbow:This is not for you and we're okay with that. There are other Haikyuu podcasts out there. There's one I listened to for a long time called the Haikyuu Summit. It's two girls, they're best friends. They both got into Haikyuu during the pandemic and they're just talking about it episode by episode, and it really is more focused on the friendship and the sportsmanship, and that's fine. [Em] That's all well, good and valid. [Rainbow] Yes, that is totally valid, and if that's why I highly suggest you check out the Haikyuu Summit if you're not here for the gay.
Em:It's fun and that's why we're here, and also it's not our fault that the manga code literally gave everybody a boyfriend. Yeah, literally. This shows about volleyball and everybody has a little boyfriend.
Rainbow:Everybody, everybody's color coded, everyone's like. Their numbers are side by side. Their names pair them together. Like everybody gets, everyone has a cute little boyfriend, and we're going to talk about those cute little boyfriends Now, to be clear, we are both Kagehinaist.
Em:This is a Kagehina household which for those of you who don't know that means Kageyama and Hinata ship, the main couple, [Rainbow] sometimes known as Hina Kage. [Em] Who calls it that?
Rainbow:I don't know. I've seen it occasionally. Kagehina just like. Sounds more natural, I think, and fits better.
Em:But we like all ships .Well, we don't, but we're not going to be exclusive about it. We want everyone to feel happy and welcome, and we do. We're more multi shippers. We're not that picky or stingy about things like that, so we'll get into. We'll get into all the main ships, that you know. We'll get into some rare pairs, but really it is more just. We're going to talk about the show, why we love it, and I'll just also not be afraid to embrace the very clear underlying gay subtext.
Rainbow:Yeah, I'm a poly shipper. Like I love Hinata, favorite character from the show, for sure, and I will ship him with a lot of different people and I love that. And all to me, like fiction is subjective, it is open to interpretation. Like whatever you see in a character or in a ship, to me that is valid. I might not agree with that, my opinion might be very different, but you know, I think it's all open to interpretation.
Rainbow:Like I personally don't see how you could watch Haikyuu or read the manga and not think that Kakehina are soulmates. That just doesn't make any sense to me. But there are people who read it and don't think that and that's a valid opinion. And maybe you ship our favorite characters with other people. Like we we're not going to get mad about that and we hope that you don't get mad if we're shipping people you don't agree with. Yeah, so, and you know we have not been with IQ from the beginning, I would say I think we both kind of got into it in like 2020, 2021. I think after I don't know when, the manga ended.
Em:It was yeah, I got into it after the manga ended.
Rainbow:Yeah, I think. Yeah, I think both of us was probably like 2021. Yeah, so I got into it because of my friend, uh tiny dinosaurs, aka froggy. She came over to hang out with me and was like let's watch this uh anime about volleyball. It's really good. And I was like, yeah, sure, I like volleyball. And then 10 minutes into the first episode, kageyama and Hinata are like yelling at each other in front of a bathroom and I turned to her and I'm like are they going to kiss? She just burst out laughing. She's like that's what the whole fandom is about and I'm like, of course. And then we finished the second episode and I'm like okay, but like are they ever going to kiss? And she was like no, no, I don't think they ever do. And I was like this is queer baiting, this is guy feel baited. Um, like why, why would you give me something so obviously gay and then not make it really gay? And I honestly just like didn't even watch it for a couple months. I was like no, I refuse.
Em:Which is valid because it does get so tiring and we can talk about that on a different episode. But just getting these like these queer baity type things, and it's like, do you really not know that you're making this super queer, or is it like you can't out loud say it, so you're kind of like hint hinting at us?
Rainbow:Yeah, if anyone's familiar with like the, in America, the haze code that was in effect from like the like 30s up through like the 60s or 70s or something Like it's like that, and I think maybe it's harder to have like something that's just a sports anime and also have really any romance, but especially gay romance in it. So we can get into that. But I did like I was like I was at a point where, like I was very much like coming, I'd come into my queerness fully, um, and I wanted just all the queer content I could get. And also for me, I had not gotten into fanfiction until I got into Haikyuu.
Rainbow:And so once I so froggie and I, a couple months after that first time I watched it, she was like, oh, did you watch anymore? I was like no, she was like, do you want to? I was like, yeah, sure, why not? And then we put it on and then I really got hooked, not even just because of the gay, because it is continue continually like some textually gay, but also just like I really got into the show. It really pulled me in, the characters, the dynamics, the, the epic highs and lows of high school volleyball, like it. Just it just pulled me in and sucked me in. And then I discovered fanfiction and I was like, oh my god, well, it's so crazy to me that the person that you are, that you had that.
Em:That was your first fanfiction experience.
Rainbow:I used to be snobby about fanfiction. I used to think it was like, I think, like back when I was in middle school I saw some meme about like a fanfiction between, like Jesus and Hitler this is not a lie oh yeah yeah. You remember that meme going around on like Tumblr or something and I was like, oh, I don't think fanfiction is for me if this is what they're doing. And then I grew up and I got older and I and I and I always just assumed that fanfiction was just gonna be like oh, it's really poorly written, blah, blah, blah.
Rainbow:Turns out there are fanfictions out there that are like the greatest novel I've ever read. And then when you look at some of the stuff that actually does get published, it's like, yeah, no, like publishing is not about the quality of the work, it's about what's gonna make the most money, whereas fanfiction is just about people and fan arts, like fan works in general. It's just about people Loving something so much and pouring that love into art and it's beautiful and I've completely turned around on it. I like I still read real books, but I have, you know, I have 40 million ao3 tabs open on my phone at any given time.
Em:Well our origin Haikyuu stories are kind of flipped in that way where you were new to fanfiction and kind of you know, had a misunderstanding of it, whereas I I mean, I've been reading fanfiction since 2010, but I was new. I was pretty new to anime itself. I had a very snobby view of anime, I mean, and I didn't even really realize, like when I was a kid I really loved Spirited away and Sailor Moon and, you know, pokemon, all these things that are anime. But you don't really think about that when you're a kid. But I just didn't really grow up with like a like you know, classic animes like Naruto and One Piece and blah, blah, blah, and I thought it was boring and for the weird kids that would run around in the hallways.
Rainbow:Whereas I was a weird kid who ran, who Naruto ran down the hallway
Rainbow:I Maybe a little bit. Um, I'm listen, I'm Naruto around in my day, not at area 51. Unfortunately, but no, like I watched Naruto, I was obsessed with Digimon. I was a Digimon over Pokemon kid. Weirdly, I still love Pokemon, but you know, I like I love, nor I loved. Or on high school host club Wallflower, like I'd always been watching anime, but it was generally more like the shoujo anime or just whatever it was on to Nami. Or like like I watched Wolf's Rain Shout out for anyone who liked that one. We were all crying at the end, um, but yeah, so like I was into anime, I just wasn't into like fanfiction. I was a shipper. Like I was a Sasu Nara shipper watching Anime edits and am v's on YouTube back in the day when I was like 12.
Em:Well you're. I really believe that you are born a fan nerd because I mean I can. I've been writing fanfiction in my head Since before I knew what a fanfiction oh.
Rainbow:I was reading self-insert Harry Potter fan fiction. Exactly for a very long time, like I would tell myself little stories of me and like Draco Malfoy falling in love when I was young.
Em:But yeah, it's so. It is really kismet how Haikyuu brought us together. We were really in the same Twitter space at the same time. It was kind of perfect because, as I was saying, I wasn't really into anime Growing up. But then the pandemic happened and a lot of people, I think, have gone on a similar journey where, like Avatar, the last airbender had its Renaissance in like the summer of 2020, and that is the gateway drug to anime if you're not already Involved in it. And so from there I just like I was just craving different stories. I was sick of Western stories. I'm not a Marvel girl II, I was just I needed something new, and so I got more into cartoons and I watched like she raw, which if you haven't watched that and you're gay, please do. It's so good.
Em:And it's a show, but whatever, and oh, you know I was getting to that. And Steven Universe yeah, we're the insufferable gays and get over yourself. So, and then from there and then, if I'm being very honest, tick tock like edits and sounds 2020. Tick tock was for the anime girlies and there were so many different sounds and songs and it just like got me interested. And the first anime I ever tried Was kake guru, which I can hear people groaning right now. It's like this not very, it's good, but it's not good anime, absolutely for 14 year old boys, about gambling.
Em:I watched it twice. I don't know why, but I just really I got hugged. I just love anime. It's such a specific niche kind of culture. And From there on I I watched. I watched B stars, which again grown, but it's so good, so don't judge me. And then I watched attack on Titan for like my first like serious anime, like okay, I'm gonna watch anime. This is for real, also very good. And then a few more. But then I finally like I'd seen edits of haiku and I'd seen specifically like edits of Hina 10, kakeyama, and I'm like I would probably ship that like. There have been times where do you ever like see Content from afar and you're like one day I'm gonna indulge.
Rainbow:Oh yeah, I think that happened with skate the infinity, where, like I saw, there was like an anime edit of like, like something about like soulmates or something, and there was, uh, recky and Longa and I was like, yeah, I think I'm gonna get into that.
Em:Yeah, and talk about uh, queer baiting.
Rainbow:with Skate the Infinity is literally like BL adjacent yeah well, and we, like I said, we're gonna have to have an episode one day about, like the how often that happens because, like Bungo, Stray Dogs has the same thing where it's just like all of these characters are so gay for each other and like there's like parts where they like almost say stuff that's like like you guys are in love with each other, um, but, like you know, I think we can have a conversation and do some research into, like, what's the deal with that phenomenon?
Rainbow:Is it like back in like the you know, the 50s and 60s with the Haze Code in America, where, like you just you can't, like you know, because like it's not just artists like making these mangas and then like self publishing and there's like it's a machine that's running these things, and so I can't help but wonder if, like you know, maybe somebody does try to make something like overtly gay and then the editors are like absolutely not, like we can't do it.
Rainbow:Like it just like no, this needs to be a shonen anime about, like you know, people with powers, or this needs to be a sports anime where they're just playing the sport. So, like I do wonder how much of that goes into that or how much of it is like the, the creator, not really realizing that they cause. Goodness knows I've I wrote things back before I realized I was queer, that I was like oh, this is queer, like you know, maybe, maybe they're. They're just not even realizing that they're putting all of this queer or subtext into it, or maybe we're just picking it up Cause we're gay.
Em:Yeah, yeah, I don't know where. Where does the homophobia come in at?
Rainbow:all sides, everywhere it surrounds us.
Em:But yeah, so yeah, I got into Haikyuu and and like you were saying about how you know, fan people just like have this need. I just like had so many thoughts about the show, so many head cannons, that I just needed to like put it out somewhere. And I was on TikTok at the time and we're we're fully grown adult women, um, late twenties, early thirties, and uh, tiktok it is a space for younger people and that was starting to get old and also it's hard to make like I was making fan videos and stuff, but also TikTok is a hater and was not showing my content, so like there was frustration with that. And then I, from TikTok, could see that there was a presence on Twitter and I've never, like last time I was really into fandom like this. I was on Tumblr back in like the 2010s, um, so I didn't, it didn't click for me for a second that oh, there's fandom on Twitter. So I made a Twitter, you know, purely just to scream into the void. I had no intentions of like finding the community.
Em:That I did finding you, um, which both of us, we joined in like January of 21 and 22, [Rainbow] I think yeah, yeah, it was 22, [Em] because we started dating shortly after Um, but yeah, yeah, it was early 22 and you were, like one of my first Twitter friends.
Rainbow:Yeah, I, actually I was on, I was using another Twitter account from like, like like late 2021. And then I was like I don't. I was like I think I want to just do like a straight up, like anime Twitter account, and so I made a new Twitter account not associated with my old one I actually deleted the old one, um, and so I just made my and I think, oh, oh, oh, and I decided to write a thick. That was really what happened, is I? I had this idea for a thick. I had lots of ideas, but there was one where I was like I'm actually going to write this and post it. And I wrote and posted the first chapter and I made a Twitter account that kind of went along with that Um, and yeah, I, just I and you know I was like I'm the type of person I'm a hopeless romantic where, like growing up, anytime I like went on a trip or started a new school, anything like I was like what if I meet a person to fall in love with?
Rainbow:That was always like my go to Um. And you know, I was also like dating men for a long time. That didn't work out very well, but then, like I'd gotten into this place in my life where I wasn't doing that anymore, specifically when it went into it like rainbow, like you're not going to like find love through this, like you're just looking for community, you're just looking for friendship and for other people who understand. And I think that's the key to finding true love is just going out there and being yourself and living your life and then like meeting somebody whose goals and values align with you, which is exactly what happened with him.
Em:I saw him on Twitter and immediately was like I need more from this person and, yes, this is a podcast about high Q, but we are going to talk about ours. You're going to get to know us.
Rainbow:Yeah, oh yeah, I mean listen. That's what's the fun of a podcast if you don't also share a little bit about yourself, you know?
Em:Yeah, I hope you guys don't mind, it is syllabus day, so you got to get to know us a little bit, yeah, but yeah, no, we uh yeah, I mean to get away from high Q and a little bit more into us.
Em:Yeah, we really found each other at a very like the stars had aligned like fandom wise we were in the same place and then just life wise, like I too, like was dating men all my life but knew I was pretty fucking gay, um, and it was only in that last like year or so that I was like really ready to embrace that.
Em:Like I was consciously like I really want to date a woman next time I did anybody, um, and like you said, which is perfect is like that's the time you find your people, is when you're just doing your thing and enjoying yourself and being yourself. Um, and cause, that whole advice of like put yourself out there is so annoying to us nerdy introverts, because usually that means go to the bar and find somebody. But putting yourself out there can mean a lot of different things. And yeah, I feel like it was similar for me too. I wasn't even looking for community, I didn't even like I just wanted to scream into the void. And then the void started to scream back Um, because you're just like being you, and the right people will be attracted to that.
Rainbow:And I think the thing that people don't like. I feel like when people here put yourself out there, they think they have to like go out into the world and be like like, kind of like, you know, kind of almost like putting themselves on sale, like dress a certain way so that people know like hey, I'm interested in a relationship. But also kind of like I feel like it's like put yourself out there to like be fucked and just like find the person you want to continue fucking. But that's not really putting yourself out there means just being like open and vulnerable with the person, which is really hard. And if you don't feel safe doing with that with somebody, like you know, investigate why. But like with Em it just like immediately. I was like I just want to talk to you about so much.
Em:Our very first conversation was and I'm going to edit this a little bit, but it was about like a fanfic recommendation. You came into my DMs because I had been tweeting about something and so we just started to talk about fanfic. And that's another thing too is like I'm very, I'm pretty introverted and I have a hard time, like I hate just chit chatting just for the sake of it, Like I'm really bad at just like talking, just to talk, but when it comes to my special interests, I am the most extroverted bitch you will ever meet. I love talking to people about fandom. Sometimes that goes sideways, but most of the time, like in real life, you know it can be great. So we met, we found each other and now we live together. I moved across the country for her and everything. That's how really you know it is. And then we also we have like our own little Twitter family and we have a lot of like mutuals that I just like all these people, this whole community that we never would have had without gay volleyball men.
Rainbow:Yeah, you like how I brought it back. Yeah, that's how you bring it Well, because I mean Haikyuu and you know, volleyball is all about connection and Haikyuu is all about connection. That's something I think about all the time. Is Furudate, like wrote this story about like connection, as in, like you have to connect on the court you know you have to connect each play but also like people making connections. That's a big part of he not just story is you know him making connections with all of these other players and then like each of those players making connections with others, and then you know, and Furudate, put this beautiful piece of art in the world and that in turn, led to people making connections. Like I have friends on multiple continents because of this, this series, Like I met the love of my life. Like I met my own personal Kageyama.
Em:Yeah, that was another thing. That was crazy too, is you're so Hinata coded and I'm so Kageyama coded.
Rainbow:I feel like like she has a little like a Kageyama profile picture and I had a Hinata one for a while. Right now it's cool vampire Tendo. [Em] But I don't know, and I really wanted to stick to a brand, so I never change that [Rainbow] and that is so you, whereas like I'm like, every like few months, I'm like I have to completely change everything about my Twitter profile real quick. I appreciate that. About you.
Rainbow:I have to keep the emojis in that because I know the]at AJ has said if rainbow ever takes the emojis out of there, we don't have to include the thing by AJ but like, oh no, we can keep that. Okay, I know people have said like if rainbow ever takes the emojis out of their display name, I will have no idea who they are, which is fair and valid. So I will always keep the emojis for all of you.
Em:There was a. I heard a crow just now and I really hope that the mic picked it up.
Rainbow:Oh my, God probably didn't. But I'm going to put in a crow sound. I didn't like find a crow sound online, but that's pretty good. I'm also has echolalia and is really good at making sounds. It's very impressive, not diagnosed but yeah, but I have a diagnosis is valid.
Em:Um, but yeah, that's another thing that and we, that could even be almost like a little segment for us, Like I love the, the lessons in Haikyuu. They're so simple but they're so true and I think that's what I like about them, about like eat a proper meal. And and my favorite and it makes me tear up every single time is when Noya is talking about his grandpa and his grandpa and he's asked like what do you, what do I do if you need help or no, I'm fucking this up If you're afraid what do you do if you're afraid?
Em:And he says, what else? Ask for help? I will cry every time Like I. It's just so good and I feel like every episode we probably be like here's the lesson of the day.
Rainbow:Yeah, I mean we could on it. That'll come up. I'm sure it'll come up, naturally, in episode discussions because there are just so like there's like things from the show that like I've brought into my life that like, really like he who wishes to climb the ladder must begin at the bottom is like what are you taught what that's so like that.
Rainbow:I find that just so inspirational. And just he knit a story in general and Kageyama story. I won't get too much into that, but like that, listen. Spoiler zone stuff is going to be a lot about things that happen in the time skip, so yeah, you mentioned the spoiler zone because we want to.
Em:you know this manga has been out for a minute, so but we do know that there are some people who haven't finished it and whatnot. So, you know, during the most of the episode we will try and be like we'll just focus on that episode and not get too far into, like, the future, especially with time, skip stuff. But we're going to have a section for it because it is so good.
Rainbow:Yeah, yeah we have to talk about because, like for me, like I can't talk about Haikyuu without talking about all of it, especially if we're going to be talking about, like, the storytelling and the lessons. But, yeah, we want this to be accessible to people. We don't want, you know, anybody who really, like, doesn't want to be spoiled, to be spoiled. So we're going to do our very best to keep any spoilers in that dedicated spoiler zone. We'll put the timestamp of when we head into the spoiler zone in the show notes so that you know when it gets to a certain time, if you don't want to be spoiled, get on out. And again, just going to reiterate, if you're not into the gay, you don't have to be here.
Em:This is not for you. And like we're going to talk about shipping, you know, but we want to focus more on just like the show. But, like we said, like there's just a lot of very straight takes on the show, which is all well and good. If you want to look at them all as brotherly love, that's all well and good, but there is real and there's a lot of like queer people in the fandom and we just want to put some sort of spotlight on that. Like we are here. We're queer, get used to it. Pass me the volleyball.
Rainbow:We are going to stay on the court the longest.
Em:Yeah, stay on the court. That's another thing I love the idea of like well, the ball hasn't hit the ground yet. And yeah and like winning is not, is like.
Rainbow:Winning is a little bit about glory, but more than anything, winning is about like getting to continue playing.
Em:And about getting so good at something that it can be fun for you.
Rainbow:Yeah.
Em:And I love that it has like all of the perspectives, because that's another thing about shown in them, like sports anime that I think can be a little isolating Not that I've watched a ton of sports anime outside of the show but it's not just about the crazy, you know, main character that will bleed to be successful. It also talks about people like Tsukishima and Ennoshita, who, like in particular, I think is so relatable to the common man of. Like you know, I joined this because I thought it was fun and then it was really hard, so I wanted to go indoors in the AC absolutely relatable king and then, like you know, but feeling bad about that and feeling left out, so I don't know, I just like that, like it's all. It's not just for the crazy jocks who take gym class too seriously, it's also for the regular person who just wants to sit down.
Rainbow:It's like the people like me who played rec volleyball through elementary and middle school and did one week of spring conditioning for the high school team and they made us run as part of warm ups. Warm ups, and I said no, absolutely not, I won't be doing this.
Em:The closest I ever came to like a heat stroke moment was a volleyball. I never, I never got into any school sports teams because I wasn't very good. But I did try volleyball because I am gay and, yeah, I remember like we had to go to another building in the middle of summer and I almost passed out, but anything for the game, yeah.
Rainbow:So I feel like we that that. I think that gives you a pretty good taste of who we are and what the show is going to be about. Obviously, episode one, the end in the beginning. I can't wait.
Em:The first episode is so good.
Rainbow:It's so fucking. I like I. I am worried that we're going to talk too much and we're going to set an unrealistic expectation about how long our episodes are going to be. We're, I think we're going to try to keep regular episodes to like an hour. Maybe they'll get longer if people are interested in that. That's happened with a lot of podcasts I've listened to. But we're going to talk about the end in the beginning. That episode is going to come out next week.
Em:Yeah, if all goes according to plan, we should be releasing videos weekly on Mondays, not videos episodes.
Rainbow:Check our YouTube episodes wherever you can find podcasts yes, but you know, eventually we want to have guests on. We have no idea how that works, but yeah. So like we're going to figure that out eventually. I just know people have like already like commented being like I'd love to be a guest and we just haven't figured out how we're going to do that yet. Submit your audition tapes to us first and we'll consider. Yes, you have to send us an audio message clip of your best NPR impression. No so, but we want to do that. And then, like we are you know we're talking about eventually doing a Patreon. If we get enough people are interested, just not to like make money but just to like cover podcast costs, Like we're doing this a pretty low cast, low cost way.
Rainbow:But you know it's still that there's going to be some money and we want to be able to give people like bonus content and stuff, like we might do mini soaps on the main feed and then, you know, if we get enough interest, we would do a Patreon and we would do different, like bonus episodes, where things get a little bit more loosey goosey. But yeah, so we're really excited about all of that. We're excited to have listeners. You know definitely rate, review and subscribe. That is the best way if you want more people to listen to this. Podcast subscriptions, downloading episodes, five star reviews those really help get things up.
Rainbow:I think Apple podcast and Spotify definitely let you rate I know not all podcast apps let you do that and you should be able to find us anywhere that you find a podcast Apple podcast, spotify, maybe YouTube, music, pocket cast yeah, and if you want to interact with us, we're on most of the social medias. We're on Twitter, we're on blue sky, we're on Tumblr, we're on Instagram and all of that is the same handle fly high Q pod. That's f, l, y, h, q, p o, d and so, like I said at fly hq pod on all of those socials, or fly hq pod at gmail. com If you'd like to send us an email and give us any feedback.
Em:Yeah, please, if you have suggestions too, because we have this, we have this like rough format we're going to try out, but we are just baby crows and we are willing and ready to adapt and change.
Rainbow:We are on course we will take, we will consume stronger things and make ourselves stronger yeah, but in we and we just like I. For me, part of the fun of podcasting is interacting, like I will message the podcasts that I listen to and give them my opinion or, like you know, share things with them, and I think that's fun and I'm interested in hearing listener feedback. So interact with us and thank you so much for listening and until next time fly high.