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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 Wickedand My So-Called Life! Sure, Winnie Holzman is one of the main writers behind both projects, so it makes sense that they'd have some things in common -- an...
Bonus video! Candid Camera's naughty movie & airplane hijacking incident
Hello there!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 firs...
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 Parisnext month, and to celebrate I’m going to be doing a special Q&A episode where I answer questions...
Bonus video! Blade Runner secrets uncovered by Lance Loud
Hello there!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...
Sewers of Paris: I Didn't Have Anything to Lose (Ep 495 - daytime TV/Antony)
My guest on this week's Sewers of Parishas 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 Oprahand Ricki Lake, where he’d occasionally catch an episode with queer guests. But it wa...
Bonus video! Holly Woodlawn, the Fake Ambassador's Wife
Hello there!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 Yo...
Sewers of Paris: They're Lying and That's Not Real (Ep 494 - X-Men/Chad)
My guest on this week's Sewers of Parispodcast is Chad Anderson, host of the Graymalkin Lane podcast. Chad grew up in a home that was not exactly a happy place to be, for a variety of reasons — among them, the rule that everything always had to look as though everything was fine. His one escap...
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 may have influenced the coming-out scene in the finale, and ev...
Bonus video! Candid Camera & the pranky early days of reality TV
Hello there!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 Camerawas a fun, lighthearted show (created by a terrible tyrant of a man) that was among the first to experiment wit...
Sewers of Paris: A Disney Mallrat (Ep 493 - Disney parks/Bruce)
My guest on this week's Sewers of Parisgot his start performing in high school, when he worked as a carnival barker. Bruce Costelladrew inspiration from his environment, which consisted largely of theme parks thanks to a move to Florida initiated by his lesbian grandmothers. Now, he uses that EP...
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 week's episode, we have a reunion episode of sorts, with a rou...
Bonus video! Julia Child's kitchen goofs (and creative saves)
Hello there!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 ...
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 Parispodcast is Ian Carlos Crawford, who you may know from the podcasts Slayerfest 98and My Bloody Judy. As a youngster Ian felt something awakened in him by powerful women like Storm and Buffy — but it wasn’t until moving to New York that he discovered it w...
Matt's So-Cast Pod: My So-Called Life's Second Life on MTV (with Peppermint)
My So-Called Lifelives 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 where it originally aired? Joining me this week for a chat about MTV is the de...
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 Sewersarchives to revisit my 2020 interview with Michael — who, like the main character of Tales, moved to San Fr...
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 how he feels ... but she thinks that it's actually how Jordan feel...
Bonus video! When Mr. Rogers went to court to save the VCR
Hello there!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...
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 First Nations heritage. Ben knew he wanted to perform from an early age, ...
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 c...
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...
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 exhibitdedicated to the works of Keith Haring and Toni and I spoke about Keith’s work 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 Liferemaining!This week: Everyone’s life is FINALLY going smoothly … for about five seconds before it all comes crashing down, thanks to some ...
Bonus video! My So-Called Life's 90s Costume Inspiration, and PBS's Gay Past
Hello there!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 ...
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 Parispodcast is Johnnie McNamara Walker, whose solo shows The Heterosexualsand Redheaded Stepchildled to him being described as a comic genius by The Irish Times. Johnnie spent a lot of his youth doing everything he could to hide the queer kid trying to break free...
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 Mood Swingscomes out in one month, on October 24, 2024. Richard’s love of music was instilled early in life, but he hit some road bumps on his first attempt to move to New York and make it big in the arts. T...
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.Hello there!In this week's video, I'm sniffling my way through the last vestige of a c...
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 that changed his life, and about what Superman the character means to differe...
Bonus video! Television's long, mostly-awful history of gay teens
Hello there!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 ...
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 Parispodcast 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 followed, and he was ready to get arrested for the cause of gay liberation — an...
Bonus Video! The weird lost Tobey Maguire sitcom Great Scott, and some awkward auditions
Hello there!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 a...
