Starting this week, I’m doing something special for Pride. Throughout the month of June, I’m going to bring you the very best of the last nine years of Sewers of Paris interviews — ex...
2024-06-06 16:00:09 +0000 UTC View Post
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 going with who -- especially with the addition of two new students, Delia and Cory, shaking up the ...
2024-06-03 16:00:14 +0000 UTC View Post
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, Archie, Wile E. Coyote, and so many more I’ve lost count.
I spoke with JP Karliak back in 2...
2024-05-30 16:00:12 +0000 UTC View Post
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 drinking spirals out of control. Meanwhile Patty’s mother Vivian stuffs a turkey in the fridge, to Grah...
2024-05-27 16:00:24 +0000 UTC View Post
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 video coming your way next Sunday, all about the making of the film and why Berlin was such a ...
2024-05-26 17:41:51 +0000 UTC View Post
My guest this week is Jared Pechaček, author of the forthcoming fantasy-horror novel The West Passage. Jared’s work is heavily informed by his homeschooling and his upbringing in the Pentecostal church — influences that found ...
2024-05-23 16:00:14 +0000 UTC View Post
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 — one who’s even more doomed than Jordan. Patty and Graham obtain some haunted (???) outfits from a...
2024-05-20 16:00:13 +0000 UTC View Post
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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 about her research into Cabaret, which apparently led her to a Hamburg orgy/lesbian mud wrestling??? ...
2024-05-19 16:00:24 +0000 UTC View Post
For this week's Sewers of Paris podcast, I'm chatting with the writer Steven Rowley. He's known for numerous novels: Lily and the Octopus; The Celebrants; The Editor; and The Guncle<...
2024-05-17 16:00:15 +0000 UTC View Post
A medical emergency throws everyone into a panic, and things get weird at the Chase household. Sharon starts hanging out with Brian, Rayanne is nice to Sharon, and Graham makes a cake that makes Patty qu...
2024-05-13 16:00:11 +0000 UTC View Post
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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 during the filming of Cabaret, when he happened to be listening through a wall and hear...
2024-05-12 16:00:11 +0000 UTC View Post
My guest this week is writer, activist, and former gold trader Karl Dunn, whose new book 2024-05-09 16:00:07 +0000 UTC View Post
On this week's podcast: Angela is DEFINITELY over Jordan, honest, swear to God. Except then she discovers that he can barely read, and decides it's her mission to help him... which convenie...
2024-05-06 16:00:17 +0000 UTC View Post
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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 comic who got cut from the show for being too gay?
Johnny had an often-contentious relationship wi...
2024-05-05 17:26:30 +0000 UTC View Post
My guest on this week's Sewers of Paris podcast is Eli McCann, a lawyer, a humor columnist for the Salt Lake Tribune, and a devo...
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 who really is Vic Racine, and is he as “cool” as the teens say? And who wrote that s...
2024-04-29 16:00:13 +0000 UTC View Post
My guest on this week's Sewers of Paris podcast is writer and artist Tim Fish. I first came across his work in the book Liebestrasse, written by Greg Lockard and illustrated by Tim. It’s the story of tw...
2024-04-25 16:00:17 +0000 UTC View Post
This week our heroes grapple with their greatest horror yet: Being perceived! A list circulates around Liberty High that ranks the sophomore girls on their appearance, much to the dismay of just about everyone....
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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! A group of very effective lesbians shutting down a particularly homophobic & antifeminist spea...
2024-04-21 16:00:09 +0000 UTC View Post
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 archives to revisit my 2018 chat with Carol superfan 2024-04-18 16:00:04 +0000 UTC View Post
Do not be misled! The title of episode 4, “Father Figures,” does not refer to dad bods, but instead to dads who loom large in the lives of Angela, Patty, and Rayanne — often when those dads are nowhere to...
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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 photographs, and mimeographed memos that were tucked away ten years before I was even born -- who even KNOWS...
2024-04-14 16:00:10 +0000 UTC View Post
My guest on this week's Sewers of Paris podcast is author Rasheed Newson, a TV writer who got his start on the show Lie to Me and has gone on to write for The 100, Narcos, Bel Air, and more. Last yea...
2024-04-11 16:00:05 +0000 UTC View Post
There’s a double-feature of drama on this week’s episode, as rumors and innuendo swirl around two separate calamities: After a gun goes off during class, only Brian Krakow can reveal the parties involved ...
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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.
[And a quick update about Mr. Humphries & John Inman -- I'm completely wrong in the vid...
2024-04-07 16:00:09 +0000 UTC View Post
My guest on this week's Sewers of Paris podcast is director Monty Wolfe, whose queer romcom Exploding Boy is now available on streamin...
2024-04-04 16:00:12 +0000 UTC View Post
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 longing for a kiss from Jordan, Patty hoping Graham will sweep her off her feet, and Brian hoping a...
2024-04-01 16:00:18 +0000 UTC View Post
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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 even more queer content like Taste of Honey, The Leather Boys, If..., and <...
2024-03-31 17:06:44 +0000 UTC View Post
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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 probably like this stuff too!
Last month I asked what you would put on your top-three queer movie li...
2024-03-30 19:47:00 +0000 UTC View Post
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 writer’s rooms at ABC, helping to make soap operas for a new generation. As a young viewer, Jesse...
2024-03-28 16:59:42 +0000 UTC View Post