Hot White Heist
5.0/5
Critic Rating
Deep under Seattle’s Space Needle in a hidden bunker sits the most valuable substance on earth: Barack Obama’s sperm. And Mark Zuckerberg’s. And Stephen Hawking’s. In case of global catastrophe, the US government has been storing sperm samples from some of history’s greatest minds (and also some politicians). Hot White Heist follows Jude “Judy” Fink (Bowen Yang) and a crew of misfits from across the LGBTQ+ spectrum as they attempt the stickiest heist in history. Why? To help a lesbian cult finance a top-secret project, of course. Featuring an all-star, all-queer cast, Hot White Heist is the first and only podcast about a sperm bank heist. What else do you need to know? Created and written by Adam Goldman, directed by Alan Cumming, and produced by Broadway Video, Club Cumming Productions, and Adam Goldman, Hot White Heist stars Saturday Night Live’s Bowen Yang, along with Cynthia Nixon, Abbi Jacobson, Jane Lynch, Margaret Cho, Bianca Del Rio, MJ Rodriguez, Shannon Woodward, Stephanie Beatriz, John Cameron Mitchell, Tony Kushner, Cheyenne Jackson, Jonathan Bailey, Peppermint, and Brian McCook as Katya Zamolodchikova.
Critic Reviews
Score: 5
Cameron Scheetz • AV Club • Jun 17, 2021
"The new Audible Original podcast Hot White Heist thrives in that familiar mold, spinning a high-stakes action-comedy yarn across six episodes as a ragtag group comes together to accomplish the impossible. But the fact that the series pulls it off with an entirely LGBTQ+ cast and crew? That’s a queer inception. …"
Score: 5
Nicholas Quah • Vulture • Jun 17, 2021
"Hot White Heist is an utter delight. It is, of course, very funny, and it features excellent performances from its expansive cast...I can’t recommend it highly enough."
Score: 5
Jude Dry • IndieWire • Jun 17, 2021
"...a fast-paced, high tension, delightfully ridiculous scripted podcast out on Audible today...there is clearly an appetite for quality queer stories, ones that brim with the biting satire and outlandish camp sensibility that is synonymous with queer culture. Audible throwing support behind such a boldly queer show is heartening, to be sure."
