Laughing at the offensive PR emails we get: Part 2

So our first bad PR email to cover today was brought to us with the subject line, a fashion insider's warning for LGBTQ families.

What could this possibly be about? Is it a hot new summer trend? What does the fashion insider have to say? Well, turns out nothing about fashion and actually nothing about LGBTQ families either.

There is a CEO of a totally unrelated tech company who was formerly in the fashion and entertainment media landscape.

who at some point along the line became a father.

And that made him question what kind of content culture he'd helped normalize, and what happens when that same culture reaches kids through their phones.

Now, as per usual with these requests, they reference a random episode that we recently released, and they say, that episode really stuck with me.

I can't remember if we mentioned this the last time we did an episode like this, but increasingly so, a lot of these marketing emails seem to be automated, where they will just pull whatever is recent on your public profile and mention it in a sentence and then go on to say something completely unrelated.

Yeah, sometimes they try a little harder than others to actually show us the parallel.

And it's normally a very thin line that they draw.

Sometimes it's completely irrelevant.

In this case, they're like, oh, yeah, what struck me about your episode was that you have an audience navigating identity, visibility and mental health.

And here's where the CEO of this company who used to be in fashion and entertainment can have a conversation centered on parents' rights and responsibility to guide what enters their children's phones.

Because according to this tech company, the average child is first exposed to pornography at age 11, mostly through a cell phone.

So what is this company? Well, it's a crazy Christian cell phone carrier, specifically Christian, and they want to help families block harmful content, including pornography, at the network level before it reaches their children's device.

Which of course they have to add in an email to us.

This tells me they at least like kind of maybe a little bit know what our suspicions would be when this lands in our inbox.

They specifically said after we're a Christian wireless company.

Quick clarification, we do not block LGBT or trans content by default.

We give subscribers optional controls and don't impose one standard on every user.

So will you have the CEO on your podcast for an interview?

The LGBT or trans is funny.

Yep.

Also, a fashion insider's warning for LGBTQ families, like, None of this is about LGBTQ families, actually.

You're looking for Christian families.

So of course, I did go to their website because if they had to put a line in an email to us saying, we don't block LGBT or trans content by default, that made me go, hmm, I bet you do.