Oct 7, 2026 · 2 hr 1 min · 13 segments
Josie's new book, *The Last Temptation of Beck*, just dropped! And she also produced an album to accompany it filled with original songs inspired by the book's narrative, *Loser Babies*! So we're…
Josephine RiesmanHostRachel Garrett SteeleGuest
Becca PetuniaHostIf you follow me on Blue Sky or Instagram or anywhere, I'm sure I've been inundating you with links to people talking to me about the book.
It's all original music, and it was put together inspired by musicians, uh, writing songs based on them reading the book.
I gave them advance copies, this small group of musicians I trusted, and each one of them, or each one of these acts, put together a track for this album that we are calling Loser Babies, music inspired by Josephine Riesman's The Last Temptation of Beck, which was, of course, pushing us into Push based on the novel, Push by Sapphire, whatever.
You know, it, it gets a long title, but Loser Babies is what will suffice today.
And we have a very special guest who you heard, you have heard many a time if you are a listener of this podcast, and that special guest is Rachel Garrett Steele, who composed and performed the Here Comes Tomorrow theme music, which you heard today segueing itself into one of the songs that she composed for Loser Babies.
Um, folks, folks at home should know that my, my spouse, uh, Eli Lee, refers to Rachel, Josie, and I, uh, collectively as the tranny Jessarit, uh-
If you follow me on Blue Sky or Instagram or anywhere, I'm sure I've been inundating you with links to people talking to me about the book.
It's all original music, and it was put together inspired by musicians, uh, writing songs based on them reading the book.
I gave them advance copies, this small group of musicians I trusted, and each one of them, or each one of these acts, put together a track for this album that we are calling Loser Babies, music inspired by Josephine Riesman's The Last Temptation of Beck, which was, of course, pushing us into Push based on the novel, Push by Sapphire, whatever.
You know, it, it gets a long title, but Loser Babies is what will suffice today.
And we have a very special guest who you heard, you have heard many a time if you are a listener of this podcast, and that special guest is Rachel Garrett Steele, who composed and performed the Here Comes Tomorrow theme music, which you heard today segueing itself into one of the songs that she composed for Loser Babies.
Um, folks, folks at home should know that my, my spouse, uh, Eli Lee, refers to Rachel, Josie, and I, uh, collectively as the tranny Jessarit, uh-
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