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They met at a New York coffee shop, both quietly working on music, and didn’t speak for an hour. Eight years later, singer-songwriter John Coons and adult performer and former Broadway music director Jonah Wheeler are touring the country as self-described “adult cabaret clowns” with their new show, Double InDUMBnity. In this episode, Zach talks with the couple about building a creative partnership inside a romantic one, from a song that took a year and a half to finish to the Monday-night cabaret bootcamp at Club Cumming that got them started. They explain what people get wrong about cabaret, what people get wrong about kink, and why the show leads with dumb jokes but keeps leaving audiences in tears. They also get candid about Jonah’s move into adult film during the pandemic, how John made peace with it (with the help of a Mary Poppins Returns–themed party), and the assumptions people make about each of them as a result. Plus: drag queens on bicycles in Provincetown, seven weeks of shows in Puerto Vallarta, a fake infomercial of filthy 1940s gay standards, and the one person they’d love to see in the audience.NYC: The Green Room 42 Tickets (October 23): https://thegreenroom42.venuetix.com/showdetails/gAjapBDBnL0zxWLfpFdz/pHwSfqHpUIW2s8dHppPy  Palm Springs: Toucans in Palm Springs, CA (November 5): https://www.tickettailor.com/events/toucanstikilounge/2426108  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.

A sleepless night turned into this week’s This Is Everything, where Zach asks himself the question he’s never fully answered on the mic: when did I know I was gay? From a Brady Bunch-inspired fifth-grade movie date to wearing gym shorts under oversized jeans every day to avoid the junior high locker room, Zach walks through the years he spent questioning, denying, and slowly figuring it out. He talks about his three very different friend groups in Miami, the friends who had his back, the teachers and parents who seemed to know before he did, and the grandparents he wishes had known. He shares how Andrew’s grandparents embraced him like family, what it was like coming out at 20 and stepping into South Beach during the AIDS crisis, and why he went from wishing he wasn’t gay to being deeply grateful that he is. Plus: whether he’d ever invite his old high school bullies on the show, and an idea for a new coming-out series. 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.

Astrologer, tarot reader, and Reiki master Karina La Puma has spent more than 40 years studying how we create our own reality. She joins Zach to talk about her new book, Awaken Magnetic Creation: Manifesting Your Dreams, part of her series A Toolkit for Awakening. Karina explains the core idea behind magnetic creation: you don’t get what you want, you get what you are. She shares how she used it to draw in her life partner after meeting him at an online “spiritual singles” event, why you should focus on the essence of what you want instead of the who, what, when, where, and how, and how a “witch wound” kept her finished books unpublished for years. She and Zach also talk about Reiki (including Zach’s own experience with his aunt), quantum and shamanic healing, a simple breath practice she calls embodied radiance, meditation tips for busy minds, and the astrology behind today’s spiritual awakening. The episode closes with Karina pulling a tarot reading on the future of the podcast. Order Karina's Book here: https://www.amazon.com/dp/1878203193?lv=shuf&channelId=520&plpRedirect=mhFallback 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.

What if religion didn’t need belief at all? Zach sits down with Dr. Joshua Pritikin, a psychological counselor and Internal Family Systems (IFS) practitioner in Oregon who holds a PhD in quantitative psychology. He’s the author of Religion Unburdened by Belief: The Way of Open Inquiry. Joshua explains how IFS “parts” can help define altered states. He gives Zach a simple tweak to his transcendental meditation practice to quiet a racing mind. He also takes us inside the Santo Daime ceremonies he has attended for four years. The conversation covers psychedelics and safety, bad trips, the war on drugs, and what might happen when we die. In this episode: What Internal Family Systems is and how “parts” show up in everyday mixed feelingsDefining altered states, and why the usual definition is fuzzyA notepad trick that can make meditation feel effortlessHow Santo Daime ceremonies use group singing to keep participants presentBlending vs. unblending, and why it’s key to avoiding a bad tripZach’s experience with ketamine therapy and grief after losing his fatherJoshua’s views on prohibition, harm reduction and psychedelic medicineHis step-by-step path: talk therapy, then meditation, a CBD/CBN blend, then psychedelicsContent beliefs vs. process beliefs, and why the book asks readers to hold content beliefs looselyConsciousness, near-death experiences, 5-MeO-DMT and the afterlifeLinks: Book website (contact info and promo video): https://unburdened.bizBuy the book: https://www.amazon.com/Religion-Unburdened-Belief-Open-Inquiry-ebook/dp/B0GT24Z79HEstrela Counseling: https://estrelacounseling.comFeedback or guest ideas: [email protected] 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.

This week’s Gay Bit goes a little bit everywhere, and that’s the point. Zach is back in his psychic medium and near-death experience era, and it has him thinking about the things he blurts out mid-interview, like his dream of being cryo-frozen and launched into space so aliens can find him a million years from now (backup plan: a seed pod under a big tree). From there, he gets real about how this show changed what he believes about death, why he now fully believes in reincarnation, the signs his father and grandmother have sent him, and why he talks out loud to his guardian angels every night instead of praying. Then it’s on to marriage: his husband Andrew, the self-narrating, always-singing chatty Kathy; a tense dinner with a friend in from Dallas; and Zach’s theory that Andrew’s problem with loud gay dinners has nothing to do with the gays and everything to do with being out-talked by them, especially after a table full of loud Long Islanders. Plus: the birdseed bill, the cardinals and blue jays on the feeder cam, a banana-loving groundhog he’ll miss all winter, Charlie the cat, and Heidi, the fiercely protective Saint Bernard who once knocked out a kid’s front tooth. In this episode: Space burials, tree pods, and what Zach wants when he diesWhy talking to psychic mediums changed his views on the afterlifeSigns from loved ones and talking to guardian angels at nightAndrew, the chattiest husband in MassachusettsAre the gays really too loud at dinner?Backyard birds, a groundhog, Charlie the cat, and Heidi the Saint BernardNew guest episode drops Sunday. Subscribe, and leave a five-star review so more people can find the show. Have thoughts or feedback? Email [email protected] music by Six Foot Five. 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.

Davey and Omie, the couple behind Traveling Boyfriends, join Zach from London to talk about love, travel, and what it really takes to see the world as a gay couple. In this episode: How a job interview Omie didn’t want and a canceled conference brought a Chicagoan and a Scot together in MiamiMaking long distance work across the Atlantic, and why traveling well together is the best relationship testHow they choose destinations, and why they go beyond Mykonos and Barcelona to places like Marrakesh, Dubai, Oman, and EgyptThe emotional toll of hiding affection abroad, and reconnecting once they get homeWhy some places with progressive laws can feel less welcoming than places with strict onesWhere they draw the line on countries they won’t visit, and how US religious groups have fueled anti-LGBTQ+ laws abroadMessages from followers, including a mom asking how to keep her gay son safe in JordanThe friendliest places they’ve been, from a stranger’s kindness on a tiny Irish island to ScotlandBeing monogamous in a world of open relationshipsThe honeymoon debate: Antarctica or Hawaii?Advice for young LGBTQ+ travelers who want to see the worldFollow Traveling Boyfriends:Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/traveling_boyfriends TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@travelingboyfriends  https://www.travelingboyfriends.com/ Intro music by Six Foot Five. Have thoughts on this episode? Email zach@everythingandanythingpodcast.comeverythingandanythingpodcast.com | @TheRealZachRE 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.

He made a first-ever climb of Denali’s north face, hitchhiked around the world at 22, got thrown out of two countries in one week, and was one of the last Americans standing in northern South Vietnam when the North invaded in 1972. Now 84, John Graham is “Badass Granddad” to 127,000 followers, and in this episode he tells Zach how an adrenaline junkie learned that the biggest adventure of all is finding meaning. John opens up about the night on a freighter at 17 that turned a bullied, skinny kid from Tacoma into a thrill-seeker; the moment in Hue when he realized he’d become a “moral monster”; and the PTSD, encounter groups, and inner work that turned his life around, leading to his work at the United Nations, including his role in the fight to end apartheid. He also shares a story he rarely tells: a three-year period of psychic experiences, deep meditative trances, and leaving his body, and what he believes it taught him. Plus, the story of the Giraffe Heroes Project, founded by his wife Ann Medlock to tell the stories of people who stick their necks out for the common good, and why John thinks service is the most stable source of meaning there is. Links: Giraffe Heroes Project: https://www.giraffe.org/ https://www.johngraham.org/badass-granddad https://www.youtube.com/user/JohnGraham29 John's Books: https://www.johngraham.org/books  Have a story to share or feedback on the show? Email [email protected] 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.

Zach returns with a solo This Is Everything segment, working through the headlines that have been weighing on him and on the LGBTQ+ community. He starts with the Supreme Court’s two trans sports ban cases, asking how a ruling could collide with the dozens of state laws and school policies already in place, and points to Massachusetts as proof that anti-trans talking points can cost a candidate. From there he takes on HIV/AIDS funding cuts that threaten medication, testing, and clinics at home and in Africa; the Kansas move that voided trans residents’ driver’s licenses overnight; and book bans targeting LGBTQ characters and people of color. He widens the lens to Ecuador’s new adoption restrictions and the independent LGBTQ journalists forced into hiding in Russia. Then the episode turns hopeful: Zach shares that Listen Up Girl has been trending in Nigeria and Saudi Arabia, where being LGBTQ is criminalized, and what it means that people there are quietly listening through their headphones. A short message from one listener sums it up and becomes the reason he keeps going. He closes with his belief that change is coming. 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.

A Baptist preacher who’d never held a gun walks into the FBI Academy, and 24 years later walks out a different man. On this episode of Everything & Anything…and a Bit Gay, Zach sits down with Eric Robinson, author of Irreverend: From Saving Souls to Chasing Sinners in the FBI, for a conversation Zach admits he might have turned down a few years ago. Eric spent years as a youth pastor, assistant pastor, and founding pastor of his own church in Western New York, where he gave his congregation a “flinch test” to make sure everyone who walked through the door felt welcome. But two years of daily stress headaches pushed him out of the pulpit. He preached his last sermon on Easter Sunday 2002, entered the FBI Academy the next week, and went on to work drugs, Chicago gangs, public corruption, and 15 years on SWAT. Then his oldest child came out as trans. Then his middle child. Then his youngest came out as gay. Eric talks about the moment that broke him free from the “love the sinner, hate the sin” thinking he’d held onto for decades, and why he calls unconditional love the bare minimum for a parent. In this episode: Why Eric reached out to a former congregant 25 years later to apologizeThe “flinch test” he used to build a more welcoming churchHow chronic stress headaches led him from ministry to the FBI, and stopped the day he was acceptedWhat investigating gang members, a $20 million fraudster, and child predators taught him about human natureWhy many LGBTQ+ people are wary of the FBI right nowWatching the white supremacist group Blood Tribe target an LGBTQ+ barbecue in Toledo, and why prosecutors couldn’t actFinding a “flow state” on high-risk SWAT raidsHis oldest’s coming out, and the freedom of letting go of judgmentTelling his FBI colleagues about his trans kids and banning Fox News from the break roomZach’s own coming-out story with his father, and his brother’s 8 a.m. phone callHow Eric thinks about faith, the Bible, and his old sermons todayConnect with Eric Robinson: Website: https://preachertobreacher.com/Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/_eric_robinson/LinkedIn:https://www.linkedin.com/in/eric-robinson-9220053a4/Book: Irreverend: From Saving Souls to Chasing Sinners in the FBI (Weaving Influence)Connect with Zach: https://everythingandanythingpodcast.com @TheRealZachRE on all platformsIntro music by Six Foot Five. 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.

Is LinkedIn secretly the hottest dating app out there? On this week’s Gay Bit, Zach Randles-Friedman ends the week super gay with a campy deep dive into the world’s most “professional” social network, where the job posts are depressing, the headshots are suspiciously gorgeous, and the scammers never sleep. In this episode: The LGBTQ+ Professionals group: Why Zach and a friend trade screenshots of impossibly hot “just introducing myself” posts, and whether some of these men are AI (spoiler: one wasn’t)Zach the matchmaker: The time he slid into a stranger’s LinkedIn DMs to set up his friend Greg, and why an open relationship in another city was a dealbreakerEquinox Seaport flashbacks: Feeling like a 4 among perfect 10s at 5:30 a.m., plus the mystery of barefoot and shirtless gym guysLinkedIn’s sad era: Layoff posts, overshare culture, AI-polished resumes, and why LinkedIn is starting to feel a little too FacebookyVetting your date: Only about one in five people say they use LinkedIn mainly for job hunting — many are using it to check whether that “Fortune 500 CEO” from the bar is legitSpam folder safari: 1,317 unread spam emails, domain buyers, fake delivery notices, and the long-lost princeWrong-number texts: “Grace” thinks she’s texting Zach’s husband Andrew, and a surprise Australian call that turns out to be an MLM pitchThe big idea: A blind-date matchmaking app — answer a questionnaire, get matched, meet at a coffee shop in Somerville without ever seeing a photoPlus: Google yourself after this episode. You might be surprised. 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.

Why does everyone ghost? Why do dating apps feel like a hamster wheel? And is there still a way to find real, lasting love in the LGBTQ+ community? Zach sits down with Dr. Frankie Bashan, clinical psychologist, certified sex therapist, and founder of Little Gay Book, one of the nation's leading LGBTQ+ matchmaking agencies. Since 2009, Dr. Frankie has combined her psychology training with a lifelong knack for setting people up, building a matchmaking service with an 80–85% success rate. They get real about the state of modern dating: ghosting, gamified apps, AI-filtered photos, scam profiles pushing you to WhatsApp, and why so many people keep swiping in search of someone "a little bit better." Dr. Frankie shares how the matchmaking process actually works, why feedback within 24 hours changes everything, her take on open relationships and polyamory, and the most meaningful transformations she's seen in her sex therapy practice.  Little Gay Book (LGBTQ+): https://littlegaybook.comLittle Black Book Matchmaking: https://littleblackbookmatchmaking.com 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.

What happens when a Real Housewives editor decides to kill off the Housewives himself? Timothy Hedden has spent 25 years behind the scenes of reality TV, cutting Real Housewives of Atlanta, New Jersey, and Potomac, plus Mob Wives. Now he's channeled all of it into his debut novel, Dead Housewives of Philadelphia, a campy, dark-comedy murder mystery out today. And this is his very first podcast interview. Timothy's path to the edit bay was anything but direct: a would-be actor kicked off the set of Law & Order, a fur salesman at Saks Fifth Avenue, a stand-up comic, and a 38-year-old production assistant at the Food Network before working his way from audience coordinator to editor. He opens up to Zach about meeting the Housewives, why the shows have become so formulaic, and why the women on screen are far more than the characters they play. He also shares, with remarkable candor, his life as a long-term HIV survivor: diagnosed in 1988, a drug trial that saved his life, the moment he told his mother, and why a run-in with a young guy at Pride pushed him to write his award-winning essay The AIDS Dinosaur. In this episode: 25 years in reality TV and meeting Kenya Moore, Phaedra, Teresa, Dolores, and moreWhy Dolores is the inspiration for one of the book's charactersMob Wives, Big Ang, and the night Timothy and his husband ended up on cameraFrom Food Network PA to Who Wants to Be a Millionaire to Housewives editorThe prime-time shoot that made him quit producingMeeting his husband of 20 years after a dramatic gym transformationWriting as a dyslexic author, and his first novel that almost got publishedLiving with HIV since the '80s and the life insurance policy he bought to cover his own funeralThe drug trial at Rockefeller University that saved his lifePrEP, condoms, and what younger gay men don't understand about the epidemicInside Dead Housewives of Philadelphia: Bailey, Skylar, a séance, and a ratings stunt gone wrongHis dream cast, and why Kenya Moore should play ErinRunning into Andy Cohen after a week of editing his footageWhy reality stars are real people, and why we all need a page-turner right nowLinks: Dead Housewives of Philadelphia: https://deadhousewives.com/ Timothy Hedden: https://www.instagram.com/heddenwrites/   https://heddenwrites.com/ Buy the book an Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0HH8XG8HV  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.

In this solo This Is Everything episode, Zach Randles-Friedman takes on the exhaustion so many people are feeling right now. He talks about doom scrolling and a news cycle that feels like a horror show. He covers a job market where AI-polished applications flood every listing, grocery prices that jumped his weekly Instacart order from $200 to $312, and a McDonald's hot fudge sundae that now costs $6.99 on DoorDash. As a member of the LGBTQ+ community, Zach reacts to Senator Tuberville's "furry pilots" claims, to rhetoric targeting trans people, and to calls for violence against queer people. He also explains why he believes the November midterms matter so much. Through it all, he finds signs of hope: strangers being a little kinder, a TikTok plant auction that brings him joy, and the comfort of good friends. He closes with simple ways to feel better, including limiting screen time, volunteering, FaceTiming with a heads-up, sending voice notes, guarding your social battery, and getting help when you need it. It's a candid reminder that if you're in a funk, you're not alone. Intro music by Six Foot Five. 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.

What do people really think when no one is watching? Startup founder Kiko Zang joins Zach to talk about the gap between how we perform online and what we actually believe, and why she's betting $3.6 million on closing it. Born in China and sent to an all-girls boarding school in small-town New Zealand at just 12, Kiko grew up as one of only a handful of Asian people in town. She opens up about the questions, the exclusion, and the moments of outright hostility that shaped her, including a story she's never shared publicly before. From there, her path winds through jazz conservatory, USC, the H-1B lottery, seven years in Shanghai, and a year and a half in Singapore. Now she's building Chomp, an app that asks you what you think and what you think everyone else thinks. The results are often surprising: Zach guesses wrong on both questions Kiko puts to him live on the show. In this episode: Growing up Chinese in a town of 50,000 on New Zealand's South IslandWhy her parents sent her abroad, and why she's not mad about itRacism, ignorance, and becoming "prickly" as protectionWhy "being different" may be the most universal experience there isZach on once wishing he were straight, and why he'd never trade it nowHow social media rewards people for pretending to be authenticThe perception-versus-reality gap, and how algorithms make the world seem more extreme than it isWould you cheat for $100,000? The surprising Chomp answerSaying "I love you" in the first month: red flag or green flag? 93% say greenThe couple who hit a 100-day streak answering Chomp questions togetherWhy brand partnerships hurt user enthusiasmKiko's bigger vision: a more honest internet and AI that understands lived experienceTexting after a first date, and whether phone calls are now a "what the f—" momentWhy Kiko held her wedding in New ZealandLinks: Chomp: https://chomp.fyi/ https://apps.apple.com/us/app/chomp-can-you-read-the-room/id6758931572 Follow Kiko: https://www.instagram.com/kikochomps/ 500 users to receive 1 month free https://apps.apple.com/redeem?ctx=offercodes&id=6758931572&code=EVERYTHINGCHOMPS    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.

and Facebook and finds thousands of unread DMs waiting for him. After wading through the Nigerian princes, SEO pitches, and spam, he pulls out the real ones and reads them on air, Jimmy Kimmel mean-tweets style, except not all of them are mean. In this episode: Why Zach ignores most comments, and the one thing that always gets a clapback (anyone coming for trans people)A listener who has walked 600 miles and lost 11 pounds to the show after a bad breakupThe commuter who missed an exit, drove 11 extra miles, and blamed "traffic"A 24-year-old's "not flirtatious" career inquiry, and Zach's honest advice on starting a podcastA 58-year-old who came out to their kids in January and just wanted someone to knowListening in a truck with the windows up in a town of 3,000: why it feels like somewhere to goThe first thing one listener could get through after losing their momFive-point "constructive feedback" that's really a backhanded love letterA testosterone supplement pitch from someone who isn't sure the show is what he thought it wasShout-out to Six Foot Five, the artist behind the intro musicA listener who disagrees with everything Zach believes but keeps listening because he sounds like their Uncle RayWill there ever be a co-host again? (No.) An in-person show? (Maybe, Oprah, call him.)"The call is coming from inside the condo," the comment that roasted Zach's gay voice episodeWhy Zach covers transgender news so often, and why every part of the LGBTQ+ community should careHave a question? Email Zach at [email protected]. Comments can still go to the DMs; he'll get to them eventually. 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.