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- 2 days ago24 min
Ep. 358: Where Did My South Beach Friends Go? Searching for Lost ’90s Gay Friends | The Gay Bit
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 Pioneers of South Beach Facebook group has Zach staring at old scanned photos of faces he knows but can’t nameClub nights at Warsaw, Twist until 5 AM, and breakfast at the diner next door watching the “sidewalk sale,” the last chance to hook up before going homeDating before Grindr, Scruff or Sniffies: phone lines, Flamingo Park after dark, and the gorgeous doorman nobody could figure outWhy you only knew people’s first names back then: no social media, no Google, flip phones, and long-distance bills that had Zach living on bologna sandwichesGary Carlisle, a friend Zach kept in touch with for decades, through New York, Switzerland and beyond, until the calls stopped about four and a half years agoAlex Rosell, a college best friend who found Zach on Facebook after 25 years, talked with him for a few weeks, then vanished, profile and allShout-outs to the ones still missing: Mark, the other Alex, Karen and Thomas, Brian, and Rachel, the Paragon bartender who called Zach her little brotherHelp Zach find his friends: If you know Gary Carlile (grew up in Miami, lived in South Beach, in New York for the last 15+ years) or Alex Rosell (Coral Gables), please reach out at zach@everythingandanythingpodcast.com or DM @TheRealZachRE.New full episode with a brand new guest drops Sunday. If you’re enjoying the show, please leave a review. It helps more people find us. Podcast song by SIXFOOT 5: https://www.sixfoot5prod.com Apple: https://music.apple.com/us/artist/sixfoot-5/1551774977 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/artist/5rHMzoU0G0fLhaBsrQiOOY?si=laSZ5hiKTYubJJyhrzf2JQ Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.
- 3 days ago55 min
Ep. 357: • Trans People Have Always Existed: Sophie Edwards on Ancient History & Coming Out
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 the Galli were (the gender-crossing priestesses of the mother goddess Cybele), and how India's Hijra community fits into a much bigger picture. Then it gets personal: a mosquito-filled camping trip that started her self-reflection, the inner voice that told her she'd never be happy until she transitioned, and the first time she put her hand on the doorknob and walked out the front door as herself.They also get into what it looks like from Canada as the U.S. passes anti-trans laws (including Kansas invalidating about 1,700 trans people's driver's licenses overnight), Alberta's "North Texas" reputation, why so many of Sophie's American voice clients now want to pass for safety rather than comfort, what you should and shouldn't ask a trans person, and whether gay men treat trans women well.. Sophie's website: sbedwards.coYouTube, We Have Always Existed: youtube.com/c/sbedwardsBluesky: @transgenderhistory.bsky.socialInstagram: @queer.trans.writer.sophiePatreon: patreon.com/c/sbedwardsThe 519 (Toronto LGBTQ+ community centre): the519.org Podcast song by SIXFOOT 5: https://www.sixfoot5prod.com Apple: https://music.apple.com/us/artist/sixfoot-5/1551774977 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/artist/5rHMzoU0G0fLhaBsrQiOOY?si=laSZ5hiKTYubJJyhrzf2JQ Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.
- 4 days ago57 min
Ep. 356: Archive X Remote Viewer Amaris Jane: Alien Encounters, Ghosts & Tracking Fugitives
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 fireplace played organ music, balls of light floated through rooms, and her mom’s keys rose off the kitchen counter. Her out-of-body experiences began at 13. She explains how remote viewing actually works, and how a month of blind testing led to a privately funded year of training with Angela. Then she tells the story of a team of seven remote viewers who helped a European bank find a man hiding with its money on a Mediterranean island.Then it gets spicy. Amaris describes waking up in a hospital gown on a ship, floating into a cathedral-sized chamber, and coming face to face with a tall grey being that asked whether she wanted to know what was going on. She talks about what these beings have told her since, why she isn’t teaching people to contact them yet, and the vision of a giant tree with connecting roots that keeps coming back to her.Zach and Amaris also talk about her grandmother visiting while she read her old knitting books, what happens after we die, psychic hygiene, why testing a medium gets in the way of the real message, and the quarters Zach’s mother-in-law keeps leaving for him. They end with Darryl Anka and Bashar, the hope for 2027, and what Amaris is doing next.Links:Amaris Jane: https://www.amarisjane.com/ Classes with Amaris Jane and Angela Ford: Remote Viewing One starts Monday, November 16; the Psychic Practice series starts November 18 (both run six weeks) https://www.amarisjane.com/classes International Remote Viewing Association (IRVA): https://www.irva.org/ Archive X: Unexplained Phenomena, Season 1, Episode 3 “Dark Visions”: streaming on AMC+ in the U.S. and through Sundance Now https://www.amcplus.com/shows/archive-x-unexplained-phenomena--1075677 https://www.sundancenow.com/series/watch/archive-x-unexplained-phenomena/f1bf3c1848175eb8?season=1 Podcast song by SIXFOOT 5: https://www.sixfoot5prod.com Apple: https://music.apple.com/us/artist/sixfoot-5/1551774977 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/artist/5rHMzoU0G0fLhaBsrQiOOY?si=laSZ5hiKTYubJJyhrzf2JQ Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.
- 5 days ago26 min
Ep. 355: Midterm Election Day 2026: Why Every LGBTQ+ Vote Counts | This Is Everything
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: federal rules recognizing only two sexes, the end of the X marker on passports, Kansas cancelling trans residents’ driver’s licenses, hospitals stopping gender-affirming care even in Massachusetts, the trans military ban, and hundreds of anti-LGBTQ+ bills introduced in 2026 alone. He ties it all back to everyday costs, including gas, groceries, tariffs and struggling farmers.Zach also looks at the races the community was watching, especially James Talarico’s U.S. Senate run against Ken Paxton in Texas. He holds up Andy Beshear and Laura Kelly as leaders who stood their ground in red states and points to a record number of out LGBTQ+ candidates. He reminds listeners to vote the entire ballot, down to local questions like Massachusetts’ marijuana measure. It’s raw, frustrated and hopeful, and a snapshot of where things stood the day the country went to the polls. Podcast song by SIXFOOT 5: https://www.sixfoot5prod.com Apple: https://music.apple.com/us/artist/sixfoot-5/1551774977 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/artist/5rHMzoU0G0fLhaBsrQiOOY?si=laSZ5hiKTYubJJyhrzf2JQ Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.
- 1 weeks ago42 min
Ep. 353: Matt Rodin on Beau the Musical, Finding His Confidence & Starting Over in LA
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 grandson, a mother and son, a boy and his music, and a boy and himself. The role has him singing nine of eleven songs, playing guitar and hosting the evening. He says it’s the hardest thing he’s ever done, and the thing that finally made him believe he’s capable.Matt and Zach talk about growing up as the kid who was “good for my neighborhood” and not knowing how that would hold up nationally. They also cover the national tour of Company, the move from New York to Los Angeles, and being patient while you build a community in your mid-thirties. Matt explains why he writes a weekly newsletter when everyone else is making videos. He talks about meeting audience members from the South who’d never seen a queer character from their hometown on stage. And when Zach asks who he’d most want to see in the audience, Matt doesn’t pick a celebrity. He picks the grandparents he lost as a small child.There’s also plenty of fun along the way: Zach choosing Gucci shoes over a baby, $3 off-Broadway tickets, Boston “townies,” and Theater Games, the free daily puzzle app Matt co-created that’s close to a million plays.Links:Beau singles “Crush” and “It Couldn’t Be” on Spotify and Apple Music: https://open.spotify.com/artist/2AEin5PUjyzx0ZXWt9sVbR?si=GNMnmYvHT-KsALjFFjtGsQ https://music.apple.com/us/artist/matt-rodin/1189224082 Fourth Wall newsletter: https://www.fourthwall.news/ Theater Games: theater.games (also in the app stores) https://theater.games/ Follow Matt on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/whoismattrodin/ Podcast song by SIXFOOT 5: https://www.sixfoot5prod.com Apple: https://music.apple.com/us/artist/sixfoot-5/1551774977 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/artist/5rHMzoU0G0fLhaBsrQiOOY?si=laSZ5hiKTYubJJyhrzf2JQ Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.
- 1 weeks ago22 min
Ep. 352: The Gay Bit: Bear Bars, a Surprise Cousin & My Husband’s Chewbacca Yawn
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), shares how his collab with Paul from Paul’s Shed Talk brought a wave of bear followers, and admits it might be time to find a new bar now that the regulars know his name.Then it’s family time: Mom is planning every minute of Thanksgiving, including eyelash extensions and meeting a cousin Zach never knew existed. Plus, the Wegmans vs. Market Basket banana war, why Andrew can’t stay quiet through a single scene of The Gilded Age, his Chewbacca yawn, the 4:30 a.m. “clog dancing,” and whether this is finally the year Zach gets Christmassy. Podcast song by SIXFOOT 5: https://www.sixfoot5prod.com Apple: https://music.apple.com/us/artist/sixfoot-5/1551774977 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/artist/5rHMzoU0G0fLhaBsrQiOOY?si=laSZ5hiKTYubJJyhrzf2JQ Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.
- 1 weeks ago1h 11m
Ep. 352: Trauma Bonds, Toxic Love & the Venus Fly Trap with Dr. Stephen Paul Edwards
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 Trap.In this conversation, Stephen explains how he came to see that relationship as a gift: the experience that finally forced him to face his patterns and heal. He talks about trauma bonds and borderline personality disorder, why we keep attracting “the same person in a different body,” how forgiving his father changed everything, and his REAL method for breaking the cycle. He and Zach close with a big question: could stepping away from religion and toward spirituality solve some of these problems?Learn more about Stephen: https://vft23.com/dr-stephen-paul-edwards-speaker/ Buy Stephen's books: https://www.amazon.com/stores/author/B0FRY7HLSD?ccs_id=3ee1d169-5072-4d41-9fb5-5f00caa28b1f Podcast song by SIXFOOT 5: https://www.sixfoot5prod.com Apple: https://music.apple.com/us/artist/sixfoot-5/1551774977 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/artist/5rHMzoU0G0fLhaBsrQiOOY?si=laSZ5hiKTYubJJyhrzf2JQ Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.
- 1 weeks ago24 min
Ep. 351: Midterm Election Day 2026: Why Every LGBTQ+ Vote Counts Right Now | This Is Everything
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 ban, prison placement rules, and cuts to LGBTQ+ health programs at home and abroad. He connects those fights to the everyday costs voters are feeling, from gas and groceries to tariffs and the war in Iran.Zach also spotlights the races and candidates he’s watching, including James Talarico’s Senate run against Ken Paxton in Texas, the false rumor campaign launched against Talarico, and Democratic governors Andy Beshear and Laura Kelly, who have held on in red states. He shares data on the wave of anti-LGBTQ+ bills, the record number of out candidates on the ballot, and the share of LGBTQ+ adults considering leaving their states. His message is simple: polls don’t vote, people do. Vote the whole ballot, bring someone with you, and if you don’t vote, don’t complain. Podcast song by SIXFOOT 5: https://www.sixfoot5prod.com Apple: https://music.apple.com/us/artist/sixfoot-5/1551774977 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/artist/5rHMzoU0G0fLhaBsrQiOOY?si=laSZ5hiKTYubJJyhrzf2JQ Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.
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