THE HAIR AND THE WHOLE VIBE - A Trent Crimm Podcast

Of all the podcasts Lou and Balth could have made, they ended up making one about Trent Crimm, beloved minor character from the Apple TV+ hit show Ted Lasso. We'll follow our favourite ex-journalist throughout season 3 as he stays in Ted's orbit, share our theories and meta-analysis and discuss everything Trent Crimm-related, from the hair to the whole vibe. linktr.ee/crimmcast

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It's true that it looks like Ted Lasso might come back for another season and rest assured, if Trent Crimm is in it we will be back! If you guys miss us though, remember we have an ongoing podcast as well!

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We are so damn happy that so many of you went on this journey with us and listened to our silly little podcast! 🥺

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Hey y'all, did you miss us? We finally made a new podcast! Come join us on this new adventure as we find more and more media to dissect and be incredibly correct about all the time!

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I did some reading while listening to the most recent episode and apparently Quentin Crisp was trans, but it seems like that was a realization at an older age. I can’t help but think that makes the connection to Trent even more interesting.

that is interesting!!! i would love to know why James Lance picked exactly this person to interview as Trent - surely the reasons are as elaborate as they are wild.

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I can’t see anything about Robert Redford without thinking about you guys.

awww we've succeeded!!! in our evil plan to make people think about Robert Redford!!! 😈😅

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Dottie, like Dorothy??!?!

Yeah, seems likely, doesn't it?! Although this Dorothy returned to Kansas much quicker than the Wizard of Oz one...

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Also Trent’s hair finally being complimented!!

it definitely deserves to be up on the list of things that are perfect 🥰

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I just finished bingeing your podcast, and I absolutely adore it! You both have such great ideas about the show, and it's wonderful listening to two people who are as unwell about James Lance as I am!

I had a revelation about the "Trent Crimm goes to America with Ted" theory. Despite all the evidence (James Lance's Dorthy shirt, him saying how Trent loves America, mentioning wanting to interview Quentin Crisp, saying that Trent goes on a journey, etc.), I still wasn't convinced until I watched Casablanca. The film famously ends with the protagonist and a man he was once in opposition with but who he now considers a friend about to get on a plane together to go to America. I wouldn't have thought of the Ted and Trent parallels if it weren't for you reminding me of Trent quoting the film in season two when he bumps into Ted at the pub and episode 8's title being a reference to Casablanca, so we know that the film is on the writers minds.

Sorry if you've mentioned this connection before and I missed it! I hope you enjoy the finale!

We have certainly not made that connection before, and congrats to you for finding it!!! Damn, what a show this could have been if they had let all of us write it... It certainly would have been a compelling and stringent ending to Trent's arc, wouldn't it?

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It looks like James Lance will be on Brett Goldstein’s podcast,“Films to be buried with” this week, and the episodes come out on Wednesdays so the day we get the finale, we also get that. I’m so curious about his answers, cause I can guess what Trent would say for some of the questions but not him. Also, off topic but he is my lockscreen on my phone and only one person has asked about that, but it was my aunt. She and my uncle haven’t watched the show yet.

Oh yeah, in all the finale hullabaloo, the ftbbw completely slipped our mind!

Here's where you can listen to that, to anyone else who missed it!

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I've just started listening to your podcast (the day before the finale!) but realised something which I think Ted Lasso has in common with OFMD. I'm a fandom elder and have a long history of never seeing truly realised ships/proper representation within the media. Fandom hopes never really fully materialised in the past. That was why fic and fanart was created instead. But nowadays, sands are shifting and we do see queer characters, relationships and story arcs. I'm thinking about the TL finale and my brain, almost like a self protection thing, automatically reverts to "well obviously none of the fandom wishes will actually end up as canon", but... they could? Which I just think it's a really lovely position to be in. (I now really hope the finale doesn't absolutely spit on this :D)

You are right, we're now in that weird era of television where anything could happen, but some writers seem to be more aware of that than others. That being said, not every show has to tell every story, and there can be good stories without queerness in the center of it like in ofmd.

That being said again, we both have mixed feelings about this show and its ending and the things that could have been. If something between Trent and Ted could have happened, for example, there would have to have been a much bigger build-up earlier on - to us, it would have felt rushed in the finale, especially if it's the series finale. There would have been options to give us more, and they decided not to take those, and that's their choice.

Luckily, these days, we do have the comfortable option to move on to many other tv shows if it's 'good queer representation' we're after, whatever that means to each of us individually.

Also, there's queer shows and then there's shows who just happen to tell a queer storyline or two. Ted Lasso is definitely the latter, which was to be expected. So, to me (Balth), there's no point in getting angry at a show for not being what it never even pretended it was. People can either move on or partake in the sacred fandom tradition of making things exactly as queer as they like it to be. <3

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When I complained about not learning anything about Trent’s daughter, my mom asked “so?” And I remembered that she’s not one of us, even if I’d like her to be.

Yesss, it would have been such a treat if we had gotten to see her! I guess we should keep in mind that Trent has been a very minor character up until s3, and while our and James Lance's collective brain rot has gotten us far, it seems like it's unfortunately not enough to will an entire child into existence on our screens.

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@crimmcast besties if you're still here I'm so so sorry

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it's alright, we still feel like we won because we know it was on the table!

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This Esquire interview gave us some WONDERFUL Jimmy Lance fits, but also some more interesting Trent Crimm backstory! Figured you guys would be interested 👀

https://www.esquire.com/style/mens-fashion/a44155619/james-lance-trent-crimm-ted-lasso-five-fits-with/

Thank you for sharing! We gathered some interviews before we decided to talk about this in our latest episode!

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Would your next podcast be about something specific?

We're still in the early planning stages of our next podcast, we will make sure to let y'all know once that particular adventure starts! but we can already tell you that it will be a media-related podcast again

but as long as there's still enough Trent Crimm to discuss we'll keep this one going 😄

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hey everyone, we're sorry it took us so long to get to your asks - to be honest, between both of us having to check and reply to them, some of them got lost in the drafts 🙈

we're going to put all of them in the queue now, so hopefully you'll get your replies in the next few days!

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Lou and Balth give a report on the latest madness from recent interviews with James Lance. Highlights include a Brokeback Mountain gay/cowboy awakening, Trent craving love but thinking he's unloveable, and wide-leg trouser enthusiasm.

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If you ever wanted to hear Lou and Balth have a major breakdown - well, this is your chance! In one big swoop, James Lance confirmed in an interview Trent's feelings for Ted as well as several other tidbits from our theories, AND he also learned of the existence of this podcast. Whoa! In a slightly messy emergency episode, we dropped everything to give you our unfiltered reaction to all of that.