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Matt's So-Cast Pod: Wicked's Connection to My So-Called Life

Stepping out of the wood, out of the dark, out of the night, the so-cast pod is back for a chat about the surprising parallels between Wicked and My So-Called Life! Sure, Winnie Holzman is one of the main writ...

Bonus video! Candid Camera's naughty movie & airplane hijacking incident

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I'll have a great big new video for you next weekend about An American Family, but in the mean time here's some more fun stories about another unscripted show, Candid Camera. We'll start with the time the producer was involved in an airplane hijacking that was assumed at first to be a pran...

Sewers of Paris: Gay Men's Catnip (Ep 496 - The Wizard of Oz/Josh)

Before we get to this week’s episode, I have a question for you. And that question is … do you have any questions for me? I ask because we’re coming up on the 500th episode of The Sewers of Paris next month, and to celebrate I’m going to be doing a special Q&A episode where I answer questions from li...

Bonus video! Blade Runner secrets uncovered by Lance Loud

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I have a video coming for you next week (fingers crossed) about An American Family, the invention of reality television, and about the first gay reality star Lance Loud. For this week's bonus video, I want to take a look at Lance's later career as a pop culture journalist, and in particular a FASCINATING or...

Sewers of Paris: I Didn't Have Anything to Lose (Ep 495 - daytime TV/Antony)

My guest on this week's Sewers of Paris has experienced reality TV as both a viewer and a participant. Growing up in Australia, Antony’s window to the world was watching American daytime talk shows like Oprah...

Bonus video! Holly Woodlawn, the Fake Ambassador's Wife

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For this week's bonus video, I want to draw your attention to a figure who appeared ever so briefly on PBS back in 1973: Holly Woodlawn, an icon of queer theater, a Warhol superstar, and a magnificently weird storyteller. Holly was a trans woman who hitchhiked from Florida to New York and became famous sim...

Sewers of Paris: They're Lying and That's Not Real (Ep 494 - X-Men/Chad)

My guest on this week's Sewers of Paris podcast is Chad Anderson, host of the Graymalkin Lane podcast. Chad grew up in a ho...

Matt's So-Cast Pod: Dance in Defiance, with actor Senta Moses (Delia Fisher)

I'm chatting with a super exciting guest this week: It's the delightful Senta Moses, who played Delia Fisher on My So-Called Life! We talk about her early career, the inspiration for her performance, the real-life confession that ma...

Bonus video! Candid Camera & the pranky early days of reality TV

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For this week's bonus video, we're going way back to the 50s for a peek at the show that would lay the groundwork for the groundwork of reality television. Candid Camera was a fun, lighthearted show (created by a terrible tyrant of a man) that was among the first to experiment with cameras fol...

Sewers of Paris: A Disney Mallrat (Ep 493 - Disney parks/Bruce)

My guest on this week's Sewers of Paris got his start performing in high school, when he worked as a carnival barker. Bruce Costella dr...

Matt's So-Cast Pod: Where are they now?

When last we left Angela and Brian and Rickie and Rayanne and all their friends, they were in the early days of 1995 and at a point of no return in their teen lives. So what's happened to them in the intervening 30 years? On this we...

Bonus video! Julia Child's kitchen goofs (and creative saves)

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For my most recent YouTube video, I did some research into the early days of PBS (and its predecessor, NET), and came across a lot of fun Julia Child stuff that I didn't have room for in the final video. But I thought you'd get a kick out of a couple of clips in which she screws things up, and because it's ...

Sewers of Paris: Wear a Cute Top and Beat up a Man (Ep 492 - X-Men/Carlos)

My guest on this week's Sewers of Paris podcast is Ian Carlos Crawford, who you may know from the podcasts 2024-10-31 16:00:14 +0000 UTC View Post

Matt's So-Cast Pod: My So-Called Life's Second Life on MTV (with Peppermint)

My So-Called Life lives again! This week on the podcast, we're chatting about how MSCL was saved from oblivion, resurrected on cable. What made MTV such a perfect home for this show -- better, in fact, than the network...

Sewers of Paris: Becoming a Library Gay (Ep 491 - Tales of the City/Michael)

I have a new YouTube video premiering this weekend about the miniseries Tales of the City, based on the books by Armistead Maupin, and for this week’s episode we’re diving into the Sewers archives to revisit my 2020 interview with Michael — who, like the main character of Tales, moved to ...

Matt's So-Cast Pod: In Dreams Begin Responsibilities (with Sam Pirie)

In this week's episode of Matt's So-Cast Pod, it's the dramatic conclusion -- OR IS IT??? We've reached the final episode of My So-Called Life, in which everyone has revealing dreams and Brian finally tells Angela ...

Bonus video! When Mr. Rogers went to court to save the VCR

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For this week's bonus video, we're plucking Fred Rogers out of his neighborhood and sending him to Washington to scold a senator about giving PBS more money. But wait, there's more! Years later, Fred returns -- this time, to court, where he testifies in favor of our very good friend, the Video Cassette Reco...

Sewers of Paris: Tina Turner's Wet Season (Ep 490 - Tina Turner/Ben Graetz & Miss Ellaneous)

My guest on The Sewers of Paris this week is Ben Graetz, also known as Miss Ellaneous — an Australian drag performer whose work is infused with influences that range from a life-changing Tina Turner concert to his family’s Fi...

Matt's So-Cast Pod: Weekend (with Drew Droege & Alonso Duralde)

On this week's episode of the podcast: We're closing in on the end of the series, and it's time for some wacky hijinks after last week's heart-rending drama! The grownups are going to take a VERY SERIOUS vacation, and they leave Angela in charge ... but it doesn't take long for chaos to reign when Rayanne accidentally handcuf...

Bonus Video! Who was the closeted actor that Armistead cursed out while filming Tales of the City?

Hello there! My travels continue this week, and for this week's bonus video I have a story about a big fight between a writer and an actor. At issue: Writer Armistead Maupin was FURIOUS that the actor in Tales of the City was pretending to be straight. But who was the actor??? It's a mystery, but perhaps some of you will have...

Sewers of Paris: Beautiful and a Little Tormented (Ep 489 - Dr. Who/Toni)

I’ve got a special conversation for you on this week's Sewers of Paris: Toni Godwin Sells is the Chief Business and Strategy Officer at the Museum of Pop Culture in Seattle. MoPOP is about to open a new exhibit dedicated to ...

Matt's So-Cast Pod: Betrayal (with Ryan O'Connor & Kristin Russo)

Hello! Thanks for your patience during our little break from Matt's So-Cast Pod. As of today we're back, with just three episodes of My So-Called Life remaining!

This week: Everyone’s life is FINALLY g...

Bonus video! My So-Called Life's 90s Costume Inspiration, and PBS's Gay Past

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I'm coming to you from the road this week, with a bonus video about two very different topics: First, from my most recent YouTube video, some details about the very 90s fashion on My So-Called Life (and the unlikely career of the show's wardrobe guy); and second, as a preview of my next upcoming video, a qu...

Sewers of Paris: I Have Been Looking for the Pirate King (Ep 488 - Shakespeare/Johnnie McNamara Walker)

My guest this week on the Sewers of Paris podcast is Johnnie McNamara Walker, whose solo shows The Heterosexuals and Redheaded Stepchild led to him being described as a comic genius by The Irish Times....

Sewers of Paris: From Gay Dive Bars to Jazz at Lincoln Center (Ep 487 - jazz/Richard Cortez)

My guest on The Sewers of Paris this week is jazz musician Richard Cortez, whose new album 2024-09-26 16:00:34 +0000 UTC View Post

Bonus Video! A Jared Leto jump-scare from before he was famous

UPDATE: Very annoyingly, Warner Bros (or someone???) copyright-claimed this video because of a snippet of Madonna music, so I've replaced the video with a new un-Madonnaed version. Hopefully that works.

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In this week's video, I'm sniffling my way through the last vest...

Sewers of Paris: A Little Space Alien (Ep 486 - Superman/Glenn)

This weekend, there’s a new documentary coming to theaters about the life of Christopher Reeve, the actor who played Superman. It’s called Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story, and it’s about his career, the injury t...

Bonus video! Television's long, mostly-awful history of gay teens

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For today's bonus video, we're taking a look at the history of gay teens on TV -- going alllllll the way back to Dobie Gillis in the early 1960s, then wandering through the groovy vibes of Richard Dreyfuss into the 1970s with lesbian-teacher scares. And of course, who can forget young Ryan Phillippe as a tr...

Sewers of Paris: Homosexuals Are Mad as Hell and We're Organizing (Ep 485 - live television/Mark Segal)

My guest on this week's Sewers of Paris podcast is Mark Segal, who started making waves in the 1960s and hasn’t stopped since. Mark was there for Stonewall, he was there for the organizing of the first Prides that fol...

Bonus Video! The weird lost Tobey Maguire sitcom Great Scott, and some awkward auditions

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I was doing some research on Wilson Cruz and My So-Called Life when I came across a BONKERS semi-lost sitcom called Great Scott -- not only is it Wilson's first(ish) TV role, it's also an early role for Tobey Maguire, before he was the Spider-Man. But the most interesting thing about it is the astonishingly...