Everything & Anything...and a bit gay Podcast

This week, Zach sits down with Cowboy Kenna, the TikTok and Facebook creator whose video about how words stick with us caught the attention of the Today Show. Kenna grew up in Addison, Michigan, a town of 585 people with one stoplight and a Dollar General. She opens up about staying in the closet until she was 23, the near-death experience that changed how she lives, and why one stranger’s kind wo...

Did aliens take them? Did life? On this week’s Gay Bit, Zach goes back to South Beach in the late ’80s and ’90s, before the celebrities and the fancy restaurants showed up. Back then the gays, lesbians, drag queens and the whole LGBTQ+ rainbow moved into a run-down retirement town and made it fabulous. Then he goes looking for the friends who disappeared from his life. In this episode: Why the Pio...

Trans people aren't a modern trend. They've been here as long as there have been people. Zach sits down with Sophie Edwards, a Toronto-based researcher, writer and trans voice coach, and the creator of the YouTube series We Have Always Existed , which digs into transgender history in the ancient Mediterranean. Sophie talks about why she's not surprised to find trans people throughout history, who...

Zach’s guest today is a friend, a teacher, and now a TV star. Amaris Jane is a professional remote viewer who trained under Project Stargate viewer Angela Ford. The two now teach together, and Zach has taken their remote viewing, psychic development and tarot classes. Amaris appears in episode three, “Dark Visions,” of AMC+’s Archive X: Unexplained Phenomena . Amaris grew up in a house where the f...

On Election Day 2026, Zach drops the usual lighter tone of Everything & Anything…and a Bit Gay for an urgent, deeply personal plea to the LGBTQ+ community and its allies: vote. With every House seat, 35 Senate seats, 36 governorships and thousands of state and local offices on the ballot, he explains what’s at stake. He walks through what has happened to LGBTQ+ people over the past two years:...

Matt Rodin has spent nearly a decade with Beau the Musical , starting at the first table reads, before the script or score was finished. The show ran off-Broadway, and now its cast album is coming out. Matt plays Ace, a queer singer-songwriter from Tennessee who gets to know the grandfather he thought was dead. Matt calls it a love story, though not between two lovers. It’s about a grandfather and...

Zach is sick, raspy, and fully in his complaining era — and it turns into the therapy session we all needed. In this week’s Gay Bit, he recaps a wild night out in Boston the day before Halloween, from close talkers and crowded dance floors to a 3 a.m. pizza-and-burger run with a new friend named Tom. He makes the case for why bears are the nicest men in any bar (Bear Week in P-Town converted him),...

Dr. Stephen Paul Edwards spent most of his life running. After a traumatic, controlling childhood in Blackpool, England, a psychiatric hospitalization at 16, and four marriages, he found himself at rock bottom just as he met a woman who would turn his life upside down. Their relationship, full of luxury, chaos, false accusations, and police standoffs, became the basis for his book The Venus Fly Tr...

On Election Day 2026, Zach Randles-Friedman delivers an unfiltered call to action for LGBTQ+ listeners and allies. In this solo This Is Everything episode, he walks through the policies that have hit the community hardest over the past two years: the federal two-sex definition, the loss of the X gender marker on passports, pressure on hospitals providing gender-affirming care, the trans military b...

Pride 365 Radio launched on June 1, 2025, as a lasting legacy of WorldPride in Washington, DC. One year later, the independent LGBTQ+ station, part of the Capital Pride Alliance, is reaching listeners from Oklahoma and Kansas to Ukraine, Brazil and Argentina. Zach sits down with on-air host Jerry Houston and special correspondent Natalie Thompson to talk about building a radio station for the comm...

From a tiny shed in Yorkshire, surrounded by tools and sawdust, Paul has built a YouTube following of nearly 22,000 people by doing something simple: talking honestly about what it’s like to be a 49-year-old man who happens to be gay. Zach first found Paul when his videos started popping up in his YouTube Shorts, and he’s been hooked ever since. In this episode, Paul shares how he spent years livi...

What happens when you finally put down the weight you’ve been carrying since you were five years old? Ray Aubel is a hypnotist and coach who works mostly with gay men on the patterns that form from growing up hidden: the masks, the performing, the feeling of being different before you even had a word for it. Zach and Ray get into how hypnosis actually works, why Ray went from atheist to believer a...

In a rare serious episode of the Gay Bit, Zach Randles-Friedman makes his final pre-election case for voting in the November 3 midterms. He covers the first-ever anti-trans measures to go directly to voters, including Missouri’s Amendment 3, Colorado’s measures, and Arizona’s HCR 2003, along with Virginia’s vote to remove its constitutional same-sex marriage ban and the flood of anti-LGBTQ+ bills...

October is LGBTQ+ History Month, and on this solo episode of This Is Everything, Zach takes you on a whirlwind tour through thousands of years of queer history — the heroes, the heartbreaks, and the hard-won victories most of us were never taught in school. Zach starts with a candid take on religion and where homophobia really comes from (spoiler: the word “homosexual” didn’t appear in an English...

What does a 25-year open marriage actually look like, and what happens when you let Showtime cameras into the bedroom? Zach sits down with KamalaDevi McClure, a sex and relationship coach, tantra teacher, author of seven books and former star of Showtime’s Polyamory: Married & Dating . She’s here to talk about her new memoir, One Fool’s Journey . KamalaDevi explains how she told her future hus...

Is your company committed to inclusion, or was it only ever for show? Celeste Warren, a diversity and inclusion leader with nearly 30 years at Global Fortune 100 companies and author of The Truth About Equity , joins Zach for a candid conversation about belonging at work. She shares the early-career moment that shaped her mission: presenting her own project to a room of men who directed every ques...

This week on The Gay Bit, Zach goes all in on a theory that’s been all over the internet: is Donald Trump slowly coming out? With a clear disclaimer that everything here is his opinion, Zach plays a series of rally clips in which the president gushes over men’s muscles, hands and bodies, offers to kiss every guy in the room, recalls what athletes said coming out of the showers, and pantomimes with...

They met at a New York coffee shop, both quietly working on music, and didn’t speak for an hour. Eight years later, singer-songwriter John Coons and adult performer and former Broadway music director Jonah Wheeler are touring the country as self-described “adult cabaret clowns” with their new show, Double InDUMBnity. In this episode, Zach talks with the couple about building a creative partnership...

A sleepless night turned into this week’s This Is Everything, where Zach asks himself the question he’s never fully answered on the mic: when did I know I was gay? From a Brady Bunch-inspired fifth-grade movie date to wearing gym shorts under oversized jeans every day to avoid the junior high locker room, Zach walks through the years he spent questioning, denying, and slowly figuring it out. He ta...

Astrologer, tarot reader, and Reiki master Karina La Puma has spent more than 40 years studying how we create our own reality. She joins Zach to talk about her new book, Awaken Magnetic Creation: Manifesting Your Dreams , part of her series A Toolkit for Awakening . Karina explains the core idea behind magnetic creation: you don’t get what you want, you get what you are. She shares how she used it...

What if religion didn’t need belief at all? Zach sits down with Dr. Joshua Pritikin, a psychological counselor and Internal Family Systems (IFS) practitioner in Oregon who holds a PhD in quantitative psychology. He’s the author of Religion Unburdened by Belief: The Way of Open Inquiry . Joshua explains how IFS “parts” can help define altered states. He gives Zach a simple tweak to his transcendent...

This week’s Gay Bit goes a little bit everywhere, and that’s the point. Zach is back in his psychic medium and near-death experience era, and it has him thinking about the things he blurts out mid-interview, like his dream of being cryo-frozen and launched into space so aliens can find him a million years from now (backup plan: a seed pod under a big tree). From there, he gets real about how this...

Davey and Omie, the couple behind Traveling Boyfriends, join Zach from London to talk about love, travel, and what it really takes to see the world as a gay couple. In this episode: How a job interview Omie didn’t want and a canceled conference brought a Chicagoan and a Scot together in Miami Making long distance work across the Atlantic, and why traveling well together is the best relationship te...

He made a first-ever climb of Denali’s north face, hitchhiked around the world at 22, got thrown out of two countries in one week, and was one of the last Americans standing in northern South Vietnam when the North invaded in 1972. Now 84, John Graham is “Badass Granddad” to 127,000 followers, and in this episode he tells Zach how an adrenaline junkie learned that the biggest adventure of all is f...

Zach returns with a solo This Is Everything segment, working through the headlines that have been weighing on him and on the LGBTQ+ community. He starts with the Supreme Court’s two trans sports ban cases, asking how a ruling could collide with the dozens of state laws and school policies already in place, and points to Massachusetts as proof that anti-trans talking points can cost a candidate. Fr...