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Everything & Anything...and a bit gay Podcast

Zach Randles-Friedman

Queer-hosted and unapologetically curious. We cover everything and anything — and yes, it"s a bit gay.

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00:23:48

Ep. 294: The Gay Bit #20: Standards and Types

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2026/08/21

This week on The Gay Bit, Zach takes listeners through a brunch with his friend "Freddie" that spirals into a full breakdown of modern gay dating culture. What starts as harmless phone-snooping and prank messaging turns into a real conversation about Freddie's Grindr profile — outdated photos, a fudged age, and a "grid" full of one very specific physical type.From there, Zach zooms out into a broader reflection on gay dating culture at large: the elaborate, hyper-specific "type" so many gay men

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00:46:42

Ep. 293: Building Gathry: The App Connecting LGBTQ+...

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2026/08/20

Greg Palmer, known in the community as BabyArm, joins Zach to talk about Gathry, the app he built to help LGBTQ+ people find real events happening around them instead of just defaulting to the same bars every weekend. Greg walks through the origin story, from a themed drag night in London to a game night poster outside his New York apartment, and how those moments revealed corners of queer community he'd never encountered before.The conversation covers Gathry's rapid growth to 26 cities across

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00:41:52

Ep. 292: Capitol Hill Journalist Myles Morel on...

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2026/08/19

Myles Morel is a Capitol Hill correspondent for The Gateway Pundit who's built a following filming candid, on-the-ground moments in DC — including a viral series of clips from outside Senator Mitch McConnell's home during his prolonged public absence. In this conversation, Myles walks through what he saw there, the theories swirling around McConnell's condition, and the behavior that convinced him something bigger is being kept quiet.From there, the conversation moves into how Myles got into video

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00:42:02

Ep. 291: From Budweiser to Brad Pitt: RLC Talent...

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2026/08/18

Guest: Leila, Founder & CEO, RLC Models and Talent AgencyIn this episode, Zach sits down with Leila, the powerhouse behind RLC Models and Talent Agency, who has spent 23 years building one of LA's most versatile talent and modeling operations. Leila shares the story of landing her first major client, Budweiser, just months after opening her agency, and how that relationship (along with Tecate) led to years of work sponsoring major sporting events in boxing, football, and basketball. She talks

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00:30:11

Ep. 290: This is Everything: Why I'll Never Move to a...

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2026/08/17

In this week's "This Is Everything" segment, Zach gets personal about a question that's been on his mind: what does it actually mean to be a queer person living in a red state right now? Prompted by a wave of anti-LGBTQ+ news alerts and his own family's push to relocate, Zach walks through why he and his husband Andrew have ruled out moving closer to his brother, despite the appeal of buying a house outright and being near family. He talks candidly about growing up in Miami, the segregation he's

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00:59:09

Ep. 289: Gay Dating & Ghosting Advice with TikTok's...

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2026/08/16

Japheth Franco — the TikTok creator gay men (and everyone else) are calling their "gay big brother" — is back for round two. This time he and Zach get into the messy middle of modern dating: the catfish who never shows up on FaceTime, the guy who vanishes after weeks of daily texting, and why ghosting does more psychological damage than a direct rejection ever could.Japheth breaks down his core dating rule — get clear on what you want and say it upfront, because clarity saves everyone time — and

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00:23:34

Ep. 288: The Gay Bit #19 - How the Interviews Started

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2026/08/14

Happy Friday! This week's Gay Bit is a personal one — Zach digs into the real, decades-long backstory of how he became an interviewer, long before "podcast host" was ever the plan. It starts in childhood, filming home movies on VCR cameras and later mini-DVD cameras, a habit inherited from his father, who Zach describes as the family historian. Those tapes — now digitized — capture a teenage Zach already doing mock interviews with friends, including one memorable bit where he played Barbara Walters

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00:55:37

Ep. 287: Filament Founder Nathan on Ditching...

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2026/08/13

Nathan spent years climbing the corporate ladder at L'Oreal, eventually reaching senior vice president level across brands like Kiehl's and Baxter of California. But the more success he found in corporate beauty, the more disconnected he felt from what stylists and their clients actually wanted — so he walked away to start his own company from scratch.That company became Filament Sciences, home to the haircare brand Filament. Unlike most beauty startups that lean on contract manufacturers or

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00:49:43

Ep. 286: Radio Host Philip Anthony on Coming Out,...

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2026/08/12

Zach welcomes Philip Anthony, host of Downright Upright on Minnesota's AM 950 — "the Progressive Voice of Minnesota" — for a conversation that moves from career origin stories all the way to the heart.Philip shares how he went from teaching and legal work to becoming a flight attendant, landing (unexpectedly) in Minneapolis-St. Paul, where he found a tight-knit community, met his husband, and eventually turned a pandemic-era podcast into a full progressive radio show. He and Zach swap first-date

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00:37:54

Ep. 285: From The Lumineers to Broadway: Neyla...

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2026/08/11

Neyla Pekarek spent eight years as the cellist and vocalist for The Lumineers, joining the band just weeks after graduating college in 2010 after answering a Craigslist ad. What started as a way to get out of her parents' house turned into Grammy nominations, a Saturday Night Live performance, opening for U2, playing Madison Square Garden and Red Rocks, and an invitation to perform for President Obama at the White House.In this conversation, Neyla talks about why she eventually left the band to

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00:29:36

Ep. 284: This is Everything: LGBTQ+ Acceptance

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2026/08/10

Support for same-sex marriage in America just dropped six points since 2022 — and Zach wants to know why. In this week's solo episode, he digs into a recent Gallup poll showing acceptance falling from 71% to 65%, even as LGBTQ+ identification among Gen Z and millennials continues to climb. It's a contradiction that's been sitting with him, and he works through it out loud. The conversation ranges from anti-gay laws spreading across parts of Africa, to Budapest's pride parade defying a hostile

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00:46:51

Ep. 283: Two Spirit & Sacred: Arnold Dahl-Wooley on...

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2026/08/09

In this deeply moving episode, Zach sits down with Arnold Dahl-Wooley — a nationally recognized Two Spirit public speaker, advocate, and founder of Two Spirit Advocacy in Minnesota — for a conversation about identity, culture, and survival.Arnold opens by defining "Two Spirit" for listeners unfamiliar with the term: a sacred identity within Native American culture referring to those within the LGBTQ+ population who are seen as embodying more than one gender, historically honored as leaders,

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00:26:47

Ep. 282: The Gay Bit: Why I'm Already Over Summer...

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2026/08/07

It's Friday, which means it's time for The Gay Bit — Zach's weekly dose of camp, commentary, and community talk on Everything & Anything…and a Bit Gay. This week: summer is officially Zach's least favorite season, and he's not sorry about it. He breaks down why he'd rather be bundled up in a sweater than baking in the heat, why he's never been a beach person despite growing up in Miami, and why his skincare routine comes before his tan. From there, it's a full tour of gay summer culture: the annual

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00:40:20

Ep. 281: Author Kathy Anderson on Vamoose, Older...

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2026/08/06

Kathy Anderson joins the show to talk about her new short story collection, Vamoose, fifteen stories centered on older lesbians standing on the edge of something new. She traces the book's title back to a single line of dialogue that captured the collection's spirit of letting go of the old to make room for the new.The conversation moves through Kathy's own path: coming out at 17 in the late 1970s, building a career as a public librarian at a time when librarians were among the first professionals

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00:25:09

Ep. 280: 28 Years Together: Zach & Andrew's Real Gay...

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2026/08/04

Zach opens up about the relationship people ask him about most: his 28-year partnership with his husband, Andrew. Prompted by the same question on every radio and podcast appearance lately — "how did you two make it work?" — Zach walks through the whole origin story: meeting on AOL in 1998 (dial-up, flip phones, and all), their first date, moving in together, and the honeymoon phase giving way to who they really are.Along the way: the infamous "unique boutique" closet purge, the DC trip that ended

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00:52:41

Ep. 279: Matt Cain: Gay Shame, His MBE & Founding...

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2026/08/03

Today on Everything & Anything…and a Bit Gay, Zach sits down with British author Matt Cain — bestselling novelist, former editor-in-chief of Attitude magazine, MBE recipient, and founder of Pansy, the UK's dedicated LGBTQ+ publishing house. Matt opens up about growing up gay in a working-class town outside Manchester during the height of the AIDS crisis, being bullied for being "too girly" before he even understood what being gay meant, and the years he spent internalizing shame he didn't create

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00:35:49

Ep. 278: Ryan La Sala on The Dead of Summer,...

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2026/08/02

Author Ryan La Sala joins the show to talk about his new horror novel The Dead of Summer, now out in paperback, and the fictional island of Anchor's Mercy — a queer sanctuary modeled on Provincetown, right down to the drag queens who run the town after the tourists clear out. Ryan opens up about writing horror as a way to process fear and courage, the complicated dynamic between year-round locals and seasonal visitors in queer resort towns, and the mother-son storyline inspired by (but not

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00:21:25

Ep. 277: The Gay Bit #17: Decoding the Anatomy of a...

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2026/07/31

Every gay content creator has a Karen. Mine has several — plus a Brent, a Donna, and a Gary with exactly six followers and one Pokémon post to his name. This week on The Gay Bit, Zach breaks down the taxonomy of the strangers who slide into his comments and DMs to inform him he's going to hell: the drive-by, the scripture bomber, the concerned auntie, and the rarest breed of all, the debate-me bro. Some of it is pure comedy (Donna's 47 public photos of her granddaughter's birthday party while

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00:52:57

Ep. 276: Heated Rivalry Lookalike Felix Eller on...

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2026/07/30

In this episode of Everything & Anything…and a Bit Gay, Zach talks with Felix Eller — the Richmond, Virginia native who unexpectedly went viral for winning a Heated Rivalry-themed lookalike contest.In this episode: Felix's coming out story — being told he was gay before he'd considered it himself Middle school bullying, a death threat, and a year of homeschooling A first relationship ended by a conversion therapy threat Full-circle acceptance from parents, siblings, and even his

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00:25:34

Ep. 275: What If I Never Left? Revisiting My...

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2026/07/28

In this week's This Is Everything episode, Zach takes listeners on a trip back to Southern Illinois, where he visited his mother for her birthday and revisited the tiny rural town he lived in until age seven. He reflects on what his life could have looked like had his family never relocated to Florida — the bullying he likely would have faced, the lack of diversity in his childhood school, and the very real possibility his life would have taken a darker turn. He traces the ripple effects of that one

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