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Friend of the show and author of the just-released and critically-acclaimed Big Gay Wedding Byron Lane is back! The first order of business is holding space for one another in the wake of the Kim Cattrall And Just Like That news, and speculating on its personal, local, and global implications. But there is time for other topics, and these include: finally getting around to reading Kavalier & K...

Writer and Co-Chair of the LGBTQ+ Writers Committee at the WGA West Rob Forman joins us to talk about the upcoming Pride Picket at the Warner Brothers lot on June 1. (Be there! Bring donuts!) Also: Succession, gay love on Ted Lasso, getting fucked out of a window on The Great, the formative one-two punch of Princess Leia and Buffy Summers, the moment that was the WB, grade-grubbing and its social...

It’s a family affair this week, as Matt and Dave talk a glittering Eurovision, celebrified pickleball drama, Succession theories, Vanderpump conspiracies, and the pros and cons of revisiting exes. This episode is NOT sponsored by Mercedes-Benz, but what a great opportunity that would be for the legendary carmaker, whose 2023 EQS 580 combines luxury with eco-consciousness.  Subscribe to Matt's...

The GREAT Mollie Merkel is here to dish about having a shocking amount of siblings, 5 brothers and 3 sisters. Growing up on a corn/pumpkin/Xmas tree farm. The origin stories of her character videos. Being an elite athlete before transitioning to comedy. The quiz her girlfriend gave on their first date. And whether or not she (and Dave) should finally start playing pickleball. 

This week, we're joined by Deanna Cheng and Drew Pokorny to pay tribute to our late friend Michael Hannus, aka Mike Nice. Matt reveals their "Golden Eagles" origin story, and Drew and Deanna recall their days performing sketch comedy with the funniest man they've ever known. Dave also shares his own experience of meeting Mike at Matt's wedding, and a moment he captured that M...

Once in a very rare while, we are forced to stop the podcast presses and slide in a breaking news update. America, this is one of those whiles: trailers for AND JUST LIKE THAT and Pedro Almodovar’s gay western STRANGE WAY OF LIFE have dropped, and we could not let this episode drop without our thoughts. Plus: Dave’s take on the Pedro Pascal Esquire cover, Matt and his girlfriends’ manatee madness...

It IS hot in here, because this week, we are visited by Zach Zimmerman: comedian, humorist and author of the hilarious memoir Is It Hot In Here (Or Am I Suffering For All Eternity For The Sins I Committed On Earth). We talk about his evangelical upbringing, his reality-star-in-waiting mother, Christian music concerts, secular music awakenings, summer stock three-ways, sex pamphlets, and The Price...

Comedian and co-host of the brilliant podcast Straightiolab Sam Taggart comes through to talk about his new live show Club Comic, PLUS: sad girl music, snobbery, straight culture, and sex journals.  Listen to Sam's podcast, StraightioLab from iHeartMedia and Will Ferrell’s Big Money Players Network, every Tuesday:  https://www.iheart.com/podcast/263-straightiolab-97815943/ 

We’re ramping up for Miami Beach Pride with Advocate Grand Marshal Jazzmun and social psychologist Dr. Erica Jayne Friedman. We’re talking Whitney Houston, the ballroom scene, Miami clubs, and self-care in the face of so many bills attacking Florida’s trans community. To catch Erica’s panel on April 12th, Jazzmun at all the Pride events, and hang with Dave and Matt, go to  www.miamibeachpride.com...

Legendary legend Fenton Bailey joins us to talk about his new book Screen Age: How TV Changed Our Reality, From Tammy Faye to RuPaul’s Drag Race. Plus: the Succession-esque drama of the Redstone family book Unscripted, the joys of bold wallpaper, the personal breakthrough of playing Titania in a high school production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream, the camp of Batman, the excess of the ‘80s, the sh...

The host of NPR’s All Things Considered and author of the new memoir, The Best Strangers In The World Ari Shapiro joins us to talk about The Last of Us, his early choice for music of the summer Nakhane, coming out at 16, Wilson Phillips, U2, Phil Collins, the long history of anti-drag laws, a meet-cute at Little Shop of Horrors, parkour, Pink Martini, designated worriers, and so much more. 

Model, celebrity chef, and author of the upcoming cookbook DID YOU EAT YET Ronnie Woo joins us to talk Julianne Moore, disciplined indulgence, greens that aren’t boring, the life of a private chef, a connection on Connexxion, a kitchen mishap out of a romcom, the dating life of a model, and the risks of a white carpet for a dog owner.

Ally for the ages Colin Campbell is here to talk about the tragedies that inspired Grief: A One-Man Shitshow and the new book Finding The Words. Also: Wednesday, high school drama club, Cyndi Lauper and the Grateful Dead, director-on-director action, his late daughter and son as lesbian warrior and ally, and espadrilles.

Homophilia homofavorite Drew Droege comes back to talk about the return of his top-notch podcast Minor Revelations (which you should support via this IndieGogo ( https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/drew-droege-s-minor-revelations#/ ). Also: The Last of Us, Hitchcock’s Rope, Lifetime’s Rodeo Drive, Museum of Home Video, the unique beauty of SNL’s terrible sixth season, bad news at El Compadre, subco...

Legendary playwright/screenwriter of queer classic Beautiful Thing (and writer for Coronation Street , if you please) Jonathan Harvey joins Matt and Dave to talk about his youth as a "little camp queen,” The Sound of Music on the big screen, borrowing records from the Liverpool Record Library and twirling in the window, the UK’s Eurovision dominance in the ‘70s, the significance of Mama Cass, bein...

Writer/director Goran Stolevski joins us to unpack his new film Of an Age , a romantic drama about an intense 24-hour romance between two young Aussie men. We go deep on his creative process, from writing short stories to finding his dream cast, and chat about young love, musical inspirations, and meeting his husband.

Award-winning Judy Garland tribute artist and author of the upcoming memoir Don’t Let This Happen To You Peter Mac joins us to talk all things Judy, the value of dodging the daily news, The Facts of Life, Tootsie, imitation as flattery vs imitation as battery, the enduring mystery of Joey Luft, a surprise Mickey Rooney endorsement, meeting one’s soulmate at a Wizard of Oz brunch, and quite frankly...

Show-runner of HBO Max’s brilliant The Sex Lives of College Girls Justin Noble gets into all of it: Agatha Christie and a cappella, Charli XCX, catfishing, and Craigslist hookups at casinos, gay villains and getting punched at a Morrissey show, which shows got coming out right, an anticlimactic engagement, and embracing cringe. Get into it.

RuPaul’s Drag Race season 14 superstar Kerri Colby swings by to talk about her new show Kerri Cares, out now on WoW Plus! Also: Euphoria, Mean Girls, the gay specificity of Beyonce’s Renaissance, working through trauma through the medium of beats (and therapy), a drag jump-start from Gigi Goode, spirituality and soulspace, the feminine nature of the universe, stoned existentialism, and crazy RuPau...

Television writer/producer and author of How To Fuck A Woman Ali Adler joins us on a rare break from getting yelled at by her teenage children to talk about Prince Harry’s Spare, the joys of trash television, being cool in an uncool area of the country, auspicious career opportunities on the Playboy Channel and 90210, inspiring a character on The L Word, competing on MTV’s Remote Control, basing S...

Writer/director/friend of the show John Butler (Handsome Devil! Papi Chulo! Amazon’s The Outlaws!) makes a return appearance from a similarly rainy Dublin, for a conversation that goes to unexpected, beautiful and nameless places. Along the way, we dive into: standup specials, Colm Toibin, Bronski Beat, Heartstoppers, Barbarian, Edmund White, being along vs. being lonely, a unique and rarely-discu...

Legendary podcaster, friend of the show, and married heterosexual Elizabeth Laime stops in to talk about her new podcast The One Sure Thing, a whimsical dive into death and dying. Also: Thot Shit, mountain cabins, our time on Earth as a cosmic puberty, meeting a sociopath at Rage, grief as love unexpressed, how bereavement makes Stepmom and “I Can See Clearly Now” hit different, and getting signs...

At last! Abbott Elementary writer and general positive force Brittani Nichols joins Dave and Matt to talk about life as the one cryer in the writers’ room, the upcoming plot point she will not spoil, the efficacy of the movie Click as an emotional release, the once-fruitless quest for queer representation in mainstream movies, the podcast A Tradition of Violence, and how to get involved locally so...

It’s a super-slayer event, as God-tier singer Johnny Manuel joins Matt and Dave from his new home of Sydney, Australia, where it is very early in the morning, and also July. We talk about his new EP Younger Skin, finding a husband on Grindr, crushing America’s Got Talent after getting discovered at a NoHo bar, living the gay dream of Eurovision, Bulgarian fame, Whitney, Patti, Donny, and the life...

She's the Chicago Queen, the Princess of Pickleball and the writer behind the smash hit Wondery podcast Fed Up ... Blair Beeken is HERE!