The Speech Prof

The Speech Prof

@thespeechprof.bsky.social

Professor and Content Creator with 2M+ followers across my platforms. Host of the “Mr. Pick Me & The Manhater” podcast. Brendan Fraser owes me a cheeseball.

15,754 Followers 60 Following 198 Posts Joined May 2023
6 days ago

Wow, his response was absurd. It’s kind of sad to see him lean into the redpill pipeline.

I actually had a discussion with him through email before he posted that and he apparently decided to ignore everything we talked about in favor of rage-baiting.

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1 month ago

Wait, I’m doing what? I mean, I’m not opposed to joining a DND campaign.

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4 months ago
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Inflatable Frogs vs. Federal Agents: The Genius Strategy Explained YouTube video by The Speech Prof

I partnered with the ACLU to talk about tactical frivolity (basically explaining why we are seeing so many people in blow up animal costumes and the historical significance of it).

Inflatable Frogs vs. Federal Agents: The Genius Strategy Explained
youtu.be/FX0NLzq6bhc

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5 months ago
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How the X-Men Movie Caused the Housing Crisis (No Really) YouTube video by The Speech Prof

How the X-Men Movie Caused the Housing Crisis (No Really)
youtu.be/02npnTU-SoA

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9 months ago

In my experience, people don’t typically hit the streets protesting en masse in defense of people they need to be “liberated” from.

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9 months ago

He’s fucking terrible. He markets himself as an alternative to the Andrew Tate’s of the world, but he literally pushes the same problematic talking points. He inserted himself as a thought leader in this space without ever actually doing the work necessary to be that voice.

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10 months ago

Today is superhero day at my kid’s school and my daughter decided to dress up as the school’s social worker 🥹

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10 months ago
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Not a Burden, Not a Superpower The Nuanced Reality of Autism RFK Jr. Refuses to See

open.substack.com/pub/thespeec...

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10 months ago
Our humanity is not up for debate—and the value of our lives should never be measured by how well we conform to neurotypical standards.The future we build must have room for all neurotypes to flourish—not as broken versions of “normal,” but as essential variations in the infinite expressions of being human.
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10 months ago

In response to me making a video making fun of the word Alpha male, a guy responded that based on my body shape, I look like more of an “eating too much Pi male.”

And I know it was meant to be a burn, but I love that so much.

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10 months ago

For those of you in a longterm relationship, how did you meet your signficant other?

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10 months ago

I took my son on opening night and he had an absolute blast (and so did I). It’s hard not to enjoy a movie when you can see the literal joy emanating from the target audience in attendance with you.

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11 months ago

Note: it almost never works and so my most common phrase overall is “I’m sorry.”

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11 months ago

Words I am just now realizing I use CONSTANTLY as an autistic adult to try and avoid people from thinking I have some sort of hidden meaning behind what I’m saying: genuinely, literally, absolutely, absurdly, truly, and legitimately.

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11 months ago
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Can you imagine the narcissism involved to continually think you are the arbiter of what identities are valid? This is what happens when you empower bigots. They slowly but surely start confidently expanding their hate and spreading misinformation.

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11 months ago

Genuinely wondering if this just another example of his overreach that we are ignoring because we like TikTok or if I'm off base and this is within his actual power to implement.

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11 months ago

I know "legal" has taken on a new meaning in the era of Trump, but is it legal for him to use an executive order to alter the bill for the TikTok ban? Wasn't there only a single extension written into it?

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11 months ago

After hearing all the chatter online about Morgan Wallen storming off the set at SNL for it being “godless,” I immediately ran to Google and typed, “Who is Morgan Wallen?”

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11 months ago
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5 years ago today and one week into Covid lockdown, my wife and I headed to the hospital unsure if I’d even be let into the delivery room with her.

Bringing home a newborn during the pandemic was…unique.

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11 months ago

Part of my morning routine now is opening up my Signal app to see if Pete Hegseth messaged me any war plans.

He hasn’t yet, but I’m cautiously optimistic that it is only a matter of time.

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11 months ago

I’m a tenured full professor of Communication Studies here in Los Angeles and former director of one of the top speech and debate teams in the country.

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11 months ago

I feel like Substack is just LiveJournal, but we’re all grownups now so we have to make it feel professional…at least that’s how I’m going to be treating mine.

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11 months ago
My Favorite Spaceship When I was an undergraduate taking a course in Gender and Communication, LONG before I knew I was autistic, I learned about the concept of "Performativity" from Judith Butler…and everything started to...

For those of you that enjoy my work, I just posted my first "essay" on Substack. Similar to my video content, these are going to be unedited, free flowing, and probably a bit more unhinged. Think of it as a longform version of my posts on here.

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1 year ago

I had to turn that mess off 5-minutes in.

I did think it was funny seeing Melania sitting while everyone around her stood up though. 😆

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1 year ago

But this is why I don’t believe anything will change. Voters didn’t learn last time or the time before that or the time before that or the two times before that and they won’t learn this time.

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1 year ago

And so begins another likely recession under a Republican president. Literally every Republican president in my lifetime has inherited a strong economy and overseen a recession.

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1 year ago

How anybody could watch Trump’s bumbling tyrade at Zelenskyy and not be embarrassed to be an American is beyond me. We are so cooked.

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1 year ago

The short answer, without disclosing too much, is no.

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1 year ago

ABA is the only therapy that my insurance DOES cover

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1 year ago

Our insurance doesn’t cover the type of therapy my daughter needs and the only place we can find that does charges $800 per hour for a parent consultation.

What in the actual fuck?

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