Matt Baume

My guest on The Sewers of Paris podcast this week is writer SW Kent, whose new novel is The Storyteller from Balincia. He’s been a storyteller himself since he was a kid, but for the first act of his career he had to rest his fiction-writing muscles so that he could concentrate on his job, which lar

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 partic

My guest on this week's Sewers of Paris podcast is author Rasheed Newson, a TV writer who got his start on the show Lie to Me and has gone on to write for The 100, Narcos, Bel Air, and more. Last year his debut novel, My Government Means to Kill Me, made a big splash — it’s the story of a young gay

Hello there! Welcome to another bonus video. This week I'm responding to feedback about last week's weird Rosalind Russell joke, and also sharing some more fun stories about the great Leslie Jorden -- including the time he got into a bit of a wrestling match with Paul Hogan, aka Crocodile Dundee. Al

Dynasty's known for cliffhangers, and the bizarre UFO scene in the finale of the Colbys spinoff is -- I think -- their greatest work. Alas, America didn't quite see it that way, because the show was cancelled before it had a chance to explain itself. But we can still speculate about what the hell th

Hello, time for another bonus video! I've just come into a vintage copy of an important issue of Andy Warhol's Interview magazine, and here' Hello, time for another bonus video! I've just come into a vintage copy of an important issue of Andy Warhol's Interview magazine, and here's what I learned: S

My guest on the Sewers of Paris podcast this week is Lane V. Rogers, who splits his time between posting videos on YouTube, streaming on Twitch, posting nudes on OnlyFans, and getting a degree in business — all of which would be a tremendous surprise to him just a few years ago. When he graduated fr

Everything has changed in our home, thanks to the arrival of a pot! This week we discuss our fear of the new pressure-cooker sent by my mother -- is it a kitchen boon or a deadly trap? We also debate the relative edginess of Cheerios versus Cream of Wheat, and take a loooooong dive into all of the p

This episode is posting on the Fourth of July, and I’m going to celebrate America with a look back at one of my favorite early episodes of The Sewers of Paris — an interview from 2015 with director Wes Hurley, whose story of immigrating to this country is unlike anything you’ve ever heard. Wes was r

There’s a good chance that the Internet as we know it wouldn't be a thing without this week's guest. Alan Emtage grew up in Barbados, where his connection to the outside world came through amateur radio projects that allowed him to talk with people around the world. He went on to pioneer the way we

My guest this week is Drew Mackie. You might know him from the podcasts Gayest Episode Ever, or Singing Mountain, or We Are Not Young Anymore. The point is that he does a lot of podcasts, generally about the art & entertainment that makes the world a more joyful place. It's a long way from where he

At this point, we're all very familiar with the foundational queer story that many of us have lived: feeling like outcasts, fleeing from small towns to big cities, and searching for our tribe. But what happens once you get to that big city? What can you create once you're free to create the life you