Kyle Leon Henderson

At the midway point of 2021, Kyle takes a pause to check in with Ethan. The two discuss how they have done so far in the follow-up to 2020. The verdict? It has been a year that has progressed at break-neck speeds, but everyone is succeeding. After every great disaster in history, there is always a renaissance. And the 20s of the 21st century are no exception. The time has come to lay it all out on...

Mandy Shunnarah is a writer, book blogger, and vintage seller. She is originally from Alabama, but now Columbus, Ohio is her home. She is also a bisexual woman who is married to a man. Not surprisingly this, among other things, gives her a complex relationship with Pride Month festivities. Mandy also tells the story of the Black Pride 4, four queer people who showed up at Columbus Pride holding Bl...

As Pride month progresses, Kyle continues the conversation about what Pride means to others. This week, librarian, Alyx Kim-Yohn comes to the show. Alyx and Kyle have been friends from a distance for years. They share a best friend in common, Friend-of-the-Show Sarah Cooper. The COVID-19 pandemic and ensuing quarantine have given them a chance to deepen their friendship, and so Kyle did the only n...

In continuing the conversation about pride month, Kyle sits down with another Kyle. Kyle Griswold. Kyle Griswold is a former college athlete, a former researcher of LGBTQ+ issues, a humanitarian, one of Kyle Leon Henderson’s newest friends, and he happens to be transgender. In a friendship forged through a love of whiskey, Kyle and Kyle have grown to be fast friends who deeply respect one another’...

Happy Pride Y’all! In one of the most real episode of “Not For Nothing…” Kyle has ever recorded, he talks about LGBT Pride with Ethan. Being raised in the south and feeling like they never found their truest space within Pride celebrations, Ethan and Kyle have very complicated relationships with the month-long embrace of being exactly who one is. For this episode, the two find themselves in the mi...

Kyle is delighted to sit down with his dear friend, and mentor, actress, writer, improv maven, Samantha Jones. Kyle and Samantha met in 2014 in New York City when he began studying improv under her guidance. In the years since, their paths have crossed time and again. Today, they continue to perform improv together. In addition, they are now writing parters and great admirers of each other’s work....

Beth Zysberg is back!! And she is on the move! She has to decide what she is going to do now that the world is thawing out and coming back to life again. Kyle and Beth discuss their mutual anxiety about trusting the CDC science after spending a year begging people to trust the CDC science. In the end, Beth decided that her next step is deciding what her next step is, and that’s okay! Insta: @kylel...

After several weeks of a partial hiatus, Kyle is back with a brand new episode. so much has happened in the last couple of weeks. His job has changed, he moved apartments, and he had a birthday. Kyle and Ethan do a relationship check-in to see if they are still standing after the most strenuous move they have ever made. Kyle freely admits he is exhausted and road-weary after the year of productivi...

In this last look back at Kyle’s first podcast, “Kyle’s Friends Are Funny,” Kyle is joined by his friend of almost 20 years, Josh VanZant. The episode was recorded in Washington Heights, New York City in April of 2016. Josh and Kyle met freshman year in college. They had a ten year hiatus from their friendship, which they talk about in the episode, but now they get together at least once a year, u...

Kyle is pausing again for a break from the show, but he is bringing you take number two of last week’s episode. Kyle, as a podcaster, has evolved over the years. Sometimes the evolution in our art can come quickly. Last week he brought you an interview with his sister. This week he is bringing you the exact same episode, but with a more clear vision, and a dinner with his family. Enjoy the first e...

This week, Kyle is taking it easy by not recording a new podcast episode, but rather going back to the very first episode of a podcast that he ever recorded back in 2015 with his sister, Magan. He is getting ready to move to his new house, and, in retrospect, he wished he could have recorded a podcast this week because looking back at the first thing you have ever done can be the cringiest cringe...

Ethan is back and he is talking about moving. Kyle and Ethan are… Wait for it, moving again! These two fellas have had extensive experience at changing homes, changing neighborhoods, changing cities, changing states! They have moved a lot. And the story of all their moves is one worth telling. Ethan and Kyle go back to the very beginning and talk about how far they come and where they are going. I...

Bonjour! Ça va? This week, Kyle is talking with French filmmaker Florent “Flo” Cornillac. Kyle and Flo have known one another for about a year and over the course of that time they have really grown to become great friends. In this episode, Kyle is learning new things about his friend, while also exploring the more nuanced differences, and similarities, in French and American culture. So cut off a...

Fresh off the heels of his latest therapy session, Kyle talks with bestie, and avid therapy advocate, Sarah Cooper about some news he received from his therapist. She told him after the ten months he spent in therapy, he was ready to graduate from weekly or bi-weekly sessions to a space of “as-needed” therapy sessions for maintenance. Together the two mental health advocates discuss more of their...

Kyle is joined again by writer and music lover, Sarah Cooper. The Grammys were this past weekend and the two are discussing the merits of the awards show, the direction music has taken and where it will go from here, and how Kyle is lost as a goose through it all.

Kyle is joined by Ethan to talk about the interview that the entire world is buzzing about. Oprah Winfrey has done it again. She has snagged the interview that everyone was waiting for. Prince Harry and Meghan Markel sit down with the talk show maven and give their truths. Meghan Markel just might be the woman to take down the Royal Family. And let’s be honest, if the Royal Family was going to col...

After almost two years, Michelle Cassel comes back to the podcast to talk about her experiences of life during the pandemic. Also, Kyle and Michelle have found themselves apartment hunting… During COVID… AGAIN! The two besties discuss the merits of apartment hunting; the must-haves and the can-live-withouts.

Kyle is joined, once again, by Beth Zysberg. In this episode, we hear an in-depth conversation about the struggles of finding one’s identity as an adult. Kyle and Beth get very candid about their own struggles to maintain and express their identity as they move swiftly into their 30s. These two 30-something millennials started their association with one another as members of the same improv troupe...

Kyle and the Bestie are together again. And she has a story that is such a nightmare for all of us. She was robbed. She recounts a story of how it felt to have her house broken into, have her valuables stolen, and her cat escape. Later, the conversation turns to the death of Rush Limbaugh. Sarah cites some of his most vile quotes to really paint the picture of who this man was. Kyle and Sarah disc...

Ethan is back again. And in this more casual than usual episode, Kyle and Ethan are simply using prompts of their favorite things to inspire a conversation, just to understand a little more about one other. It is very interesting how favorite ice cream flavors can prompt a discussion about the idiosyncrasies of texture, taste, and habits of life. Travel from Alabama to New York to Los Angeles with...

Kyle is joined by first-time guest, Beth Zysberg, to talk about the art form that is at the center of everything for both of them. Both Kyle and Beth have been doing improv for about 8 years and it has totally transformed their lives. Together, they make up 2/7 of the Por-Q-Pines improv team. They have been doing improv for six months together digitally, and they have never met in person. Just lik...

All over the world, people have been baking bread, learning a craft, reading new books, binging new shows, all in the name of expanding their lives and hobbies in the time of the stay-at-home orders. We are coming up on a year that the world has been mostly shut down due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Ethan has found himself a little left out. Now that we are almost a year in, Ethan is joining the crow...

There is a new administration in the White House and they’ve gotten to work on day one. Kyle and Ethan talk all about the celebration at the nation’s Capitol to usher in a new era of unity, togetherness, and diversity. President Biden has the most diverse cabinet in the history of the federal government, with the most progressive agenda. So, of course, it’s the perfect time to talk about Michelle...

Kyle and Ethan are talking about all the goings-on that have happened in the short, short period of time that is 2021. They get exceptionally real with the work they are doing for themselves within their relationship. In the very last episode of the Trump Presidency, of course, they have to talk a little about Trump and his gooney minions. But mostly Kyle is excited to announce that he has develop...

In a follow-up to Episode 47, Kyle and Sarah talk about the insurrection at the Capitol and the second impeachment of President Donald Trump to follow a week later. Two southern liberals share two unique perspectives on what happened on the day that changed the course of history in this country. It was a day in which Donald Trump and his supporters took things way too far, leaving the country wond...