Ivory Tower Boiler Room

Watch/Listen to this and all episodes ad free by joining the ITBR Patreon for only $5 a month!  ⁠⁠⁠⁠patreon.com/ivorytowerboilerroom⁠⁠ Eric Marcus, host of the "Making Gay History" podcast and author of the well-known book "Making Gay History," joins Andrew to have a nuanced intergenerational conversation about LGBTQ+ culture and rights. Eric opens up about coming out as gay in...

Watch/Listen to this and all episodes ad free by joining the ITBR Patreon for only $5 a month!  ⁠⁠⁠patreon.com/ivorytowerboilerroom⁠⁠ ⁠ Manuel Betancourt, a Los Angeles-based queer Colombian writer and film critic joins Andrew in the ITBR to talk all things Hunks Heartthrobs and Desiring Men! Andrew asks Manuel why he decided to write "The Male Gazed: On Hunks, Heartthrobs, and What Pop Cultu...

Hey, true crime friends! This week we’re getting into Part 2 of the Patty Hearst series. We will be breaking down the mental consequences of Hearst’s kidnapping and the financial lengths her family went through to get her back-that failed (I forgot to equate to today's money so please forgive me. $2 million = $11,342,342.01; $6 million = $34,091,933.09).   In the News Update- Danilo Cavalvante...

Watch/Listen to this and all episodes ad free by joining the ITBR Patreon for only $5 a month!  ⁠⁠⁠patreon.com/ivorytowerboilerroom⁠⁠ It's been 22 years since September 11th, and today Rachel Uchitel joins us to remember and reflect on the love of her life, Andy O'Grady who died in the attacks. She opens up about her last conversation with Andy and why it's so important for her to cont...

Want to listen to this episode ad free? Click here for access! Hey, true crime friends! I'm back from my vacation with a brand new case SERIES! (I know, it has been a while) Over the next few weeks, we will be covering the infamous kidnapping of Patty Hearst- granddaughter of newspaper mogul William Randolf Hearst. In this first part, we will go over Patty's (Patricia) early life and some...

Watch/Listen to Part Two by joining our Patreon! patreon.com/ivorytowerboilerroom⁠⁠ Welcome to a very special unfiltered conversation with Dr. Andrew Rimby! Andrew is ready to recap ITBR's empowering steamy summer episodes so get your pen and paper ready to take notes. Andrew reveals how interviewing guests who work on gender, sexuality, and/or erotic studies helped him become more authentic a...

Watch/Listen to this and all episodes ad free by joining the ITBR Cafe for only $5 a month!  ⁠⁠⁠patreon.com/ivorytowerboilerroom⁠⁠ During my first semester at Kean University, in 2014, I met Dr. John Cullen Gruesser who quickly became one of my academic undergraduate mentors. To have him on the ITBR podcast means so much to me, and he has taught and continues to teach me so much about why I fell i...

Watch this and all episodes ad free by joining the ITBR Cafe for only $5 a month!  ⁠⁠⁠patreon.com/ivorytowerboilerroom⁠⁠ Have you ever thought to yourself I think I could be a poet? Today's guest, Stuart Barnes is an acclaimed Australian poet who reveals the trials and tribulations of becoming a published poet! Stuart opens up about how he found his openly queer male poetic voice, biographical...

Hey, true crime friends! This week we break down a cult related murder of University of Texas student Mark Kilroy. Please heed the warnings in this week's episode. On the news update, we dive into celebrity news! Our Sponsors: Head to Broadview Press, an independent academic publisher, for all your humanities related books. Use code ivorytower for 20% off your broadviewpress.com order. To subs...

Watch this and all episodes ad free by joining the ITBR Cafe for only $5 a month!  ⁠⁠⁠patreon.com/ivorytowerboilerroom⁠⁠ Joseph Federico (the Social Media Marketing Maven) joins Andrew for the first ever Gay Culture Corner! First, Andrew and Joseph bond over their New Jersey upbringing, their coming out journeys, and the trials and tribulations of gay dating and friendships. Joseph opens up about...

Watch this and all episodes ad free by joining the ITBR Cafe for only $5 a month!  ⁠⁠⁠patreon.com/ivorytowerboilerroom⁠⁠ (Content Warning) There will be a lot of discussion about gay sex and pornography...you've been warned! Tim Dean and Andrew left you all on the edge of your seats since Tim was just about to answer Andrew's question about the male nude body have a renaissance! In the fin...

Hey, true crime friends! This week's case is a cold one. Eighteen-year-old Paula Jean Welden went missing after going for a hike on the Long Trail in Vermont near Bennington College. To this day, she has yet to be found. In the news update, a grief-stricken father murders his son's killer, there is an update in the murder of US soldier Vanessa Guillen case, and three Indianapolis men were...

Watch this and all episodes ad free by joining the ITBR Cafe for only $5 a month!  ⁠⁠⁠patreon.com/ivorytowerboilerroom⁠⁠ The time has come for me, Dr. Andrew Rimby to open up and get vulnerable on this podcast. I rarely, if ever, have recorded a solo episode, let alone one that reveals that I'm scared and don't know what my future holds. However, I have so many cheering me on, including al...

Watch this and all episodes ad free by joining the ITBR Cafe for only $5 a month!  ⁠⁠⁠patreon.com/ivorytowerboilerroom⁠⁠ (Content Warning) There will be a lot of discussion about gay sex and pornography...you've been warned! Andrew first saw Tim Dean's name when he was an undergrad at Kean University and encountered a book called "Unlimited Intimacy: Reflections on the Subculture of B...

Watch Andrew's birth chart reading for FREE on our Patreon! patreon.com/ivorytowerboilerroom Welcome to a special episode where Andrew is joined with his good friend Sarah. Sarah is an astrologer who asked Andrew if he wanted to have his birth chart read and Andrew said yes! The following helps you understand what happens when an astrologer sits down with you and reads your birth chart. Thanks...

Hey, true crime friends! This week is Patreon Bonus Episode week, but I'm not leaving you high and dry! Instead of waiting another week to do a News Update for a regular episode, I've decided to do one this week while we wait. Trust me, it's going to be a roller-coaster-of-emotions kind of episode so buckle up and please adhere to the trigger warning in the episode. Our Sponsors: Head...

Watch this and all episodes ad free by joining the ITBR Cafe for only $5 a month!  ⁠⁠⁠patreon.com/ivorytowerboilerroom⁠⁠ (Content Warning) Dr. Thomas Waugh and Dr. Andrew Rimby talk extensively about vintage gay porn and all things gay male erotic studies...you have been warned! This is truly a full circle moment since Andrew first learned about Dr. Waugh's iconic gay male erotic academic writ...

Hey, true crime friends! This week in the News Update- Delta Airlines are being sued for $2 million, a West Virginia was caught on surveillance camera abusing her students, and a "Home Improvement" star was arrested for domestic violence charges. As for this week's case, we are breaking down the tragic murder of 16-year-old, Cassie Jo Stoddart. Because of horror films like Scream, we know not to s...

Watch this and all episodes ad free by joining the ITBR Cafe for only $5 a month!  ⁠⁠patreon.com/ivorytowerboilerroom⁠ Dr. Jason Holt and Andrew pick up where they left off to address hot button issues like transgender athletes, gender neutral sports, being openly gay in professional sports, and the erotic ancient Greek origins of the gymnasium. Jason explores the ethics of all of these topics fro...

Watch this and all episodes ad free by joining the ITBR Cafe for only $5 a month!  ⁠patreon.com/ivorytowerboilerroom Our first official philosopher, Dr. Jason Holt, joins Andrew to discuss what it means to philosophize about all things sporting and athletic culture! He quickly answers Andrew's burning questions about the origin of the gymnasium...you will be surprised about the meaning of this...

Watch this and all episodes ad free by joining the ITBR Cafe for only $5 a month!  ⁠patreon.com/ivorytowerboilerroom Part 2 of Andrew's chat with Tom Crewe continues! Tom left us on the edge of our seats when he discussed why water is such a male homoerotic symbol in literature. He begins here and then jumps right into the nuances of John Addington Symonds' marriage to a woman while having...

Hey, true crime friends. This week I sat down with the host of the podcast of That Gay Ol' Classic Cinema, Christian Garcia, to discuss his case study on real female serial killers who used poison as their method of murder and how they parallel some familiar female fairytale villains. In our News Update, I discuss the recent finding of a mass grave in Kenya that is suspected to be linked to a...

Watch this and all episodes ad free by joining the ITBR Cafe for only $5 a month!  ⁠patreon.com/ivorytowerboilerroom Tom Crewe enters the ITBR and pulls back the curtain on his first novel, "The New Life." Since 2015, Tom has been an editor at the London Review of Books and has a PhD in 19th-century British history from the University of Cambridge. Tom explains what it was about John Add...

Hey, true crime friends! We are back from our break with a brand new case and brand new dynamic. We are changing up True Crime in Academia episodes just a little bit to contain modern news. This week includes- a case update, OceanGate Titan, and the Gilgo Beach Killer. Our main case this week focuses on Minnesota West Community and Techincal college student, Brandon Swanson who went missing on the...

You can watch my presentation for FREE on our YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=47SeHV2zouw&t=2s Thanks so much to an amazing dissertation committee! Drs. Susan Scheckel, Michael Tondre, Victoria Hesford, Karen Karbiener, and Nikos Panou! And yes, I officially became Dr. Andrew Rimby. Here's a description of my project: The deployment of the myth of Narcissus in mid- to late...