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The Best of The Sewers of Paris: A Drag Race Spectacular!

Starting this week, I’m doing something special for Pride. Throughout the month of June, I’m going ...

Matt's So Cast Pod: Life of Brian (with Trevor McMahan, Sharon Johnson, and Susan Lambert Hatem)

On this week's episode of Matt's So-Cast Pod: Everyone's at maximum freakout in the leadup to World Happiness Dance, whatever that is, and nobody can figure out who's...

Bright Colors, Zany Action (Ep 470 - Skeletor/JP Karliak)

You may have most recently heard this week’s guest on X-Men 97, where he plays the character morph — but you’ve also heard him as the voice of the Green Goblin, the Joker, Boss Baby,...

Matt's So-Cast Pod: Other People's Mothers (with Sam Pirie and Liz Krott)

On this week’s episode of the podcast, Rayanne and Patty throw dueling parties on the same night! It seems like the most worst thing that could possibly happen to Angela...until Rayanne’s drink...

Bonus video! The first gay vampire novel

Hello there! There's a Cabaret video coming your way next Sunday, all about the making of the film and why Berlin was such a tantalizing pla

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There's a Cabaret...

Sewers of Paris: Dangerous Book of Secrets (Ep 469 - Lord of the Rings/Jared)

My guest this week is Jared Pechaček, author of the forthcoming fantasy-horror novel The West Passage. Jared’s work is heavily i...

Matt's So-Cast Pod: Halloween (with Peaches Christ and Drew Mackie)

It’s Halloween! Spoooooooky chills are in the air as Rayanne plots a seance, but winds up making a connection with someone she least unexpected. Meanwhile, Angela finds a new boy to fixate on —...

Bonus video! Liza Minnelli visits the lesbian mud-wrestlers of Hamburg

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I've been digging deeper into the life & career of Ms. Liza Minnelli and I've found some truly delightsome interviews that she gave around 1972. That includes a few details a...

Sewers of Paris: Don't Ask Me Out Again Until You've Written Chapter Two (Ep 468 - Steven Rowley/Tootsie)

For this week's Sewers of Paris podcast, I'm chatting with the writer Steven Rowley. He's known for numerous nove...

Matt's So-Cast Pod: Episode 8, Strangers in the House (with Ryan O'Connor and Samantha Rei)

A medical emergency throws everyone into a panic, and things get weird at the Chase household. Sharon s...

Bonus video! Fosse's big blowup fight (and Liza's lost Disney film)

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For this week's bonus video we're taking a closer look at Bob Fosse, the legendary dancer, choreographer, director ... and eavesdropper. There was a bit of an incident&n...

Sewers of Paris: There Was a Rage (Ep 467 - Star Wars/Karl Dunn)

My guest this week is writer, activist, and former gold trader 2024-05-09 16:00:07 +0000 UTC View Post

Matt's So-Cast Pod: Why Jordan Can't Read (with Liz Krott)

On this week's podcast: Angela is DEFINITELY over Jordan, honest, swear to God. Except th...

Bonus Video! The time Johnny Carson's gay jokes went a little too far

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Did you hear the one about the time Wayne Newton threatened to beat up Johnny Carson over some gay jokes? Or the one about Rodney Dangerfield's gay brother? Or how about the comi...

Sewers of Paris: Lucy Would Not Take This Down (Ep 466 Lucille Ball/Eli McCann)

My guest on this week's Sewers of Paris podcast is 2024-05-02 16:00:11 +0000 UTC View Post

Matt's So-Cast Pod: Ep 6 - The Substitute (with Scott Flanary)

On this week's podcast: A new substitute teacher arrives at Liberty High, bringing a shocking attitude, mismatched socks, and carpets galore. His class becomes the hottest ticket in town — but wh...

Sewers of Paris: Living a Superhero Lifestyle (Ep 465 - Scooby Doo/Tim Fish)

My guest on this week's Sewers of Paris podcast is writer and artist Tim Fish. I first came across his work in th...

Matt's So-Cast Pod: The Zit (with Virginia Sole-Smith, Samantha Rei, and Sam Pirie)

This week our heroes grapple with their greatest horror yet: Being perceived! A list circulates around Liberty...

Bonus video! The gay activist who caught a real-life murderer in The Exorcist

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I've got some more fun artifacts from my Yale research trip to share with you -- this time, some scribbles in scripts and early drafts from the sitcom Ellen.

Plus...

Sewers of Paris: Gay Male Student #1 (Ep 464 - Carol Burnett/Justin Root)

Next week, comedy legend Carol Burnett turns 91 years old, and in honor of her amazing career and life, for this week’s episode of the Sewers of Paris podcast we’re diving into the arc...

Matt's So-Cast Pod: Ep 4, Father Figures (with Guy Branum)

Do not be misled! The title of episode 4, “Father Figures,” does not refer to dad bods, but instead to dad...

Bonus Video! My surprising gay discoveries in the Yale archives

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I have to admit I get a real thrill every time an archivist comes out of a back room carrying a banker's box full of file folders, yellowed newspaper clippings, crinkled photogra...

Sewers of Paris: I Love F***-Ups (Ep 463 - Another World/Rasheed Newson)

My guest on this week's Sewers of Paris podcast is author Rasheed Newson, a TV writer who got his start on the show <...

Matt's So-Cast Pod: Guns and Gossip (with Anthony Oliveira)

There’s a double-feature of drama on this week’s episode, as rumors and innuendo swirl around two separate...

Bonus video! The Silliest Sissies of the Seventies

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For this week's bonus video, we're going to take a brief look at Mr. Humphreys from Are You Being Served? and then a looooong look at gay TV of the 1970s.

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Sewers of Paris: Loners & Misfits (Ep 462 - Silence of the Lambs/Monty Wolfe)

My guest on this week's Sewers of Paris podcast is director Monty Wolfe, whose queer romcom 2024-04-04 16:00:12 +0000 UTC View Post

Matt's So-Cast Pod: Dancing in the Dark (with Michael Hobbes & Terrence Moss)

Welcome to episode 2 of Matt's So-Cast Pod!

Everyone’s in the mood for love but nobody seems to be able to make a connection in this week’s episode, “Dancing in the Dark,” with Angela...

Bonus video! Daring gay British films of the 1960s, and also Ghostbusters

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For this week's bonus video, I thought you might like a closer look at some of the movies that followed through the door that Victim opened: Brave films that included ev...

March recommendations: Your top 3 queer films, a mermaid's love life, and Liberace the flower child

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Time once again for the monthly recommendations video, where I gather viewing recommendations from folks like you and pass them along -- so if you like what I make, you'll probab...

Sewers of Paris: Sci-Fi, Soaps, and Sports (Ep 461 - Jesse/All My Children)

My guest on this week's Sewers of Paris podcast is Jesse Murray, who got hooked on soap operas as a kid when he watched them with his mom … and then as an adult, found himself working in...