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Grindr Lifestyle Magazine to Partner with Popular Podcast

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Grindr will be partnering with the podcast ‘Food 4 Thot’, as the gay dating app continues to expand its online lifestyle magazine ‘INTO’. The partnership comes as Food 4 Thot enters its second season.

The podcast is hosted by Executive Editor of ‘Hello Mr.’ Fran Tirado, indigenous American poet and author Tommy Picco, writer Dennis Norris II, and scientist and memoirist Joseph Osmundson.

On Twitter (@food4thotpod), the podcast describes itself as covering “boys, butts, books, & brown people”.  It may also feature political discussion, with Tirado telling out.com that the podcast “feels like a direct response to the current administration”.

An INTO article posted this month states that: “Every Sunday starting December 10th, the show will go live everywhere you can download a podcast —  and it will also appear in two very special places that no podcast has ever gone before: Grindr + here.”

When users open Grindr, the podcast will “pop down with a quick summary” of the week’s content, and users can then navigate to INTO and listen to episodes.

Grindr has made a number of notable moves outside of the dating space, from sending aid to LGBTQ Chechenyans to sending

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Scott Harvey

Scott is the Editor of Global Dating Insights. Raised in Dorset, he holds a BA from The University of Nottingham and an MSc from Lund University School of Economics and Management. Previously he has written about politics, economics and technology for various online publications.

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