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The Gay Lane PodcastThe Palm Springs Poolside Martini is the Gay Cocktail of the SummerSummer isn’t over yet! When we visited Palm Springs earlier this year, we stopped into Jaco Moretti Arts, one of a gazillion gay-owned galleries in town. The artist’s new coffee table book caught our eye for the naked guy on the cover, so we obviously bought a copy. Moretti had just had a book launch party, complete with a signature cocktail, the Poolside Martini. It’s got everything you want in a gay summer cocktail: bright blue liqueur, two kinds of vodka, and enough quenching, fruity flavor to convincingly transport your taste buds to a P...
2025-08-2203 min
The Gay Lane PodcastThe Gay Lane Podcast: Homesteading With HomosHere at The Gay Lane, we Pride ourselves on celebrating queer culture in unexpected places. But we never expected to find it on the frontier in the 1880s?! And yet, here we are, having a gay old time in rickety cabins from a bygone era. Back to the Frontier, a new reality show from Chip and Joanna Gaines’ Magnolia Network, tasks three families with living off the land, like 1880s homesteaders. Sounds pretty hetero, but one of the families is a gay Texas couple with twin boys. Naturally, the inclusion caused a stir with riled Christian homophobes. Bu...
2025-08-2027 min
The Gay Lane PodcastThe Gay Lane Podcast: Tales of the Cocktail, But Make it GayCheers queers! Last week, we attended Tales of the Cocktail in New Orleans, and this week we’re recapping all the gayest things we did during the annual cocktail event, from slurping spaghetti at a gay-owned Italian joint, to watching a campy shark movie while floating in a queer pool. And while we’re talking about New Orleans, we sure to check out our new Gay Lane Travel Guide to New Orleans! Where we ate/drank: The Country Club, Cafe Lafitte in Exile, Crossing, Mona Lisa Restaurant, Molly’s Rise and Shine, Acamaya, The Sa...
2025-07-3042 min
The Gay Lane PodcastThe Gay Lane Podcast: Welcome to the Biggest Little Town in TexasHowdy!We’re in a Texas mood this week. Next, we’re pulling on our figurative cowboy boots and heading to the small town of Graham. As tiny as it is, Graham has a quintessentially huge Texas personality, complete with the largest Main Street town square in America (go off!), a slew of vintage stores, a bunch of churches and cows, an old-school movie theater that pre-dates most movies, superb restaurants, and our favorite bottle shop. On our numerous trips to visit family, we’ve found a surprisingly welcoming community, and dare we say, a sense of home...
2025-07-1622 min
The Gay Lane PodcastThe Gay Lane Podcast: Gators, Crocs, and Bahama Mamas in Everglades National ParkNational Parks have always been near and dear to us, and especially Matt, who has written about them extensively and hosted podcasts about them. Everglades National Park, in particular, is a park of near-mythical proportions — of Jurassic Park-worthy wildlife, brutal weather, and vast swaths of remote waterways, tangled together in the mangroves. For this week’s episode, we touch on Matt’s article — Remarried, Retraveling — that talks about his first harrowing trip to Everglades with his ex, followed by our much happier return visits together, when we’ve kayaked amongst crocs, hiked amongst gators, and toasted sunsets with Bahama...
2025-07-0923 min
The Gay Lane PodcastPSA: Pride Marches OnWe're sending off Pride Month with a recap of the various Pride festivals and parades we attended, from WorldPride in D.C. to Eureka Springs, Ark. We discuss the importance of small-town Prides, the vitality of joy, and the spirit of community that endures year-round — far after Pride Month's end. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit thegaylane.substack.com/subscribe
2025-07-0105 min
The Gay Lane PodcastThe Gay Lane Podcast: 'Elio' is an Alien SuperstarHello and welcome to a Gay Lane first: a quasi-film review! Disney and Pixar movies have always been special to us (ahem especially Matt), and a new release is often an opening-weekend pastime. This week, that meant seeing Elio, an outta-this-world adventure about a lonely boy grappling with grief and isolation — who literally manifests an alien abduction to fit in. On this episode, we retrace the journey, share our immediate reactions, and discuss what made it feel surprisingly relatable (don’t listen if you want to avoid spoilers!).The Gay Lane is reader-supported. To receive new post...
2025-06-2528 min
The Gay Lane PodcastThe Gay Lane Podcast: WorldPride RecapFor only its second time in the U.S., WorldPride took place in D.C. May 17-June 8, complete with a dizzying lineup of performances, parties, parades, and partner Prides. We attended for the final weekend of WorldPride, when we marched in the parade, saw Cynthia Erivo headline, ate rainbow pimento cheese tea sandwiches (!), and so much more. The Gay Lane is reader-supported. To receive new posts and support our work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.Thank you for reading, following, and listening!With Pride,Matt and Nathan
2025-06-1131 min
The Gay Lane PodcastThe Gay Lane Podcast: Pride Has Never Been More ImportantIt’s officially Pride Month, and we wanted to kick it off with a conversation about our own histories with Pride, the importance of Pride (especially this year), our epic Pride Guide, and what we’ve got planned for the season. Oh, and Thunder Up, OKC! The Gay Lane is reader-supported. To receive new posts and support our work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.Thank you for reading, following, and listening!With Pride, Matt and Nathan Thank you for following The Gay Lane. To s...
2025-06-0424 min
The Gay Lane PodcastWelcome to The Gay Lane Podcast!Welcome to The Gay Lane…the podcast!Like our articles, this is a space for us to share earnest and honest stories — rooted in personal experience — about queer culture in unexpected places. Unfussy and honest (with occasional background noise from a surly dachshund and/or screeching peacocks), this channel is where we’ll discuss everything from places we’re visiting to movies, and queer news to restaurants. Altogether, it’s a snapshot of queer culture through our eyes, and the broad spectrum of multifaceted interests we share.For our inaugural episode, we’re talking about something that...
2025-05-2926 min
One Knight in ProductChris Butler's Hot Take - Product Managers DON'T Need to be Technical (with Chris Butler, Staff Product Operations Manager @ GitHub)Chris Butler is a "Chaotic Good Product Manager" who has worked for companies like Microsoft, Google and Facebook. He's currently Staff Product Operations Manager at GitHub, and current running an online course on AI Product Design Patterns.
His hot take? That product managers don't need to be technical and that it might even be a net negative to their relationship with the engineering team.
Find Chris on LinkedIn and remember to check out his AI product course, "AI Product Design Patterns" .
If you'd like to appear on Hot Takes, please grab a time!
2024-09-2824 min
City Cast ChicagoO’Hare’s Upped Its Dining Game. Here Are the Best Places to EatIf your holiday travels take you through O’Hare International Airport, consider this list for places to eat and drink. Writer Matt Kirouac recently compiled the list of best restaurants at the airport for Thrillist. Lead producer Carrie Shepherd and Kirouac talk about how to stay fed and happy while you’re traveling. For a list of best places to eat at Chicago’s other airport, Midway, check out this issue of our Hey Chicago newsletter. Getting active? Relaxing more? What’s your New Year’s resolution? Leave us a voicemail at (773) 780-0246 and we’ll featu...
2022-12-1417 min
Thrillist ExplorersOklahoma City Is a Queer Friendly, Booze Loving, Totally Underrated ParadiseHost Wil Fulton heads to Oklahoma City, Oklahoma to stay at the iconic LGBTQIA+ destination, the District Hotel, in one of the most historic (and weirdly underreported?) queer districts in America: 39th Street. He attends the Heartland Transgender Music Festival, some drag shows, and gleans insight into the area via OKC's own Kelly Mantle (RuPaul's Drag Race, The Browns). Outside of 39th street, he stops at Edna's — one of the best dive bars in the country — to try their legendary "Lunchbox," speaks with chef Andrew Black (Grey Sweater, Black Walnut) about OKC's rising and ridiculously underrated culinary scene, and rides alon...
2021-12-0936 min
Park Rats PodcastBest and Worst Eats In The ParksWhoa, what an episode right? What do you think is in that wild game meatball stew?Would you be Baker, Nevada’s 69th citizen?Do you think Matt should’ve filled up the ice tea containers? Well whatever your opinion was, thanks for listening! Hope you enjoyed learning about the best restaurants and bars in National parks and why we sucked as cooks in the park. To check out these awesome restaurants, check out the story by Matt Kirouac (no relation) here.To learn a little more abou...
2021-09-2843 min
ParkographyParks During a PandemicIt's now clear we’re dealing with the Coronavirus pandemic for the long haul, and instead of just staying inside, many Americans are wanting to figure out how to recreate responsibly. And what could be a better place to socially distance than a National Park, right? Well, it’s not so simple.
This week, we’re sharing with you an episode of a different podcast: "Everybody’s National Parks." Hosts Danielle and Bryan do an excellent job taking us on deep dives into parks through their trip reports as well as interviews from expert to help us ge...
2020-08-2551 min
Let's Go TogetherA Gay Couple’s Journey Around AmericaMarried couple Matt and Brad Kirouac spent a lot of time traveling for work and it was impacting the amount of time they spent together. So, they decided to ditch their city lifestyle and apartment to hit the road in a 26-foot RV. With a shared love of the great outdoors, Brad and Matt have spent time visiting national parks, historic sites, battlefields, and protected lands while reflecting on what it’s like to travel around the country as a gay couple. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
2020-06-1722 min
Everybody's National ParksNational Park Week Throwback Thursday: Other Great National Park… (Bonus Episode)This week, we’re doing something a little different. It’s National Park Week, and we’re teaming up with other National Park podcasters, authors, bloggers, and other content creators to celebrate. The theme for Today, Thursday, April 23rd is “Throwback Thursday,” so a few of us podcasts decided to band together for a “best-of” sort of episode. We’re going to play you a clip each from, Gaze at the National Parks, Everybody’s National Parks, Parklandia, and America’s National Parks. These throwback episodes are some of our favorites. We hope you enjoy.
Thank you to America's Nationa...
2020-04-2300 min
ParklandiaBonus Episode! The NomadsIn this crossover episode, we appear on the show Committed, hosted by Jo Piazza.Last year Brad and Matt Kirouac gave up their very comfortable and secure lives in a beautiful loft in a gorgeous neighborhood in Chicago to live as nomads in an RV with the goal of visiting all of 61 the country’s national parks. Their new lifestyle challenges every single part of their relationships and they’ve been forced to dig deep to see if they really want to be in this together.Listen to the full episode and subscribe to Committed at c...
2019-11-2010 min
CommittedThe NomadsLast year Brad and Matt Kirouac gave up their very comfortable and secure lives in a beautiful loft in a gorgeous neighborhood in Chicago to live as nomads in an RV with the goal of visiting all of 61 the country’s national parks. Their new lifestyle challenges every single part of their relationships and they’ve been forced to dig deep to see if they really want to be in this together. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
2019-11-2032 min
The Dana Barrett ShowBrad And Matt Kirouac, Hosts of the "Parklandia" Podcast (CLIPBrad And Matt Kirouac, Hosts of the "Parklandia" Podcast (CLIP by 632829
2019-08-1608 minParklandiaParklandia TrailerA married couple packed up everything from their home in Chicago and bought an RV to travel the country full-time, with one goal: to visit as many national parks as possible along the way. With each stop in each park, Brad and Matt Kirouac immerse themselves and the listeners – and the Kirouac’s dog Finn! – in these beautiful, larger-than-life places and share our discoveries about what makes them truly special, from the intimidating wildlife of the Everglades to the cinematic lore of Redwood, all with a dash of what it’s really like to live in an RV full time.
2019-07-3001 min
FPF PodcastSpring 2019 Calling The Audible - Division C: Episode 7Moe, Peeze and Stefano welcome you to the seventh episode of Calling The Audible for Spring 2019 Division C. This episode covers:
1:00 Introductions
2:30 Game Recap: Keyport Lock vs Easy-Jake Oven
6:00 Game Recap: Game Changers vs Simon Says
7:30 Game Recap: Gym Class Heroes vs KGP
10:00 Game Recap: GloGang vs Junkyard Dogs
12:00 Rapid Fire Topics
17:00 Interview with Matt Kirouac of P.O.P.
30:00 Games of the Week
Music by Atsuko Chiba
https://atsukochiba.bandcamp.com/
https://open.spotify.com/artist/5sztlFD2VHbf7vg13bt5eb
2019-06-2832 min
Three BooksEpisode 2: Booksgiving! (Part 1 - Adult Fiction & Nonfiction)Three Books is Ela Area Public Library’s podcast series where our hosts, Becca and Christen, chat about three popular/favorite books. This month is a two part special to celebrate Booksgiving! Part one features book recommendations and gift experiences for adult fiction and non-fiction.
Introduction 0:00 to 0:24
Booksgiving Explanation 0:24 to 3:30
Adult Fiction 3:30 to 15:54
Adult Non-fiction 15:54 to 49:18
Wrapping Up 49:18 to 49:59
Conclusion 49.59 to 50:58
Sourdough by Robin Sloan
Behind Closed Doors by B. A. Paris
My Favorite Thing is Monsters by Emil Ferris
Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders
A...
2017-11-2850 min