
Ranting Out Loud: An LGBTQ+ perspective on life, love, politics and chaos
Author Lee Swift and pop culture fanboy Chadrick Douglas join Producer Mike in bringing you lively conversations about living the LGBTQ+ life and maturing gracefully amid all kinds of chaos. Rant about life, work, love, politics ... iPhones!
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The gang unpacks America’s love affair with guns, the messy politics of martyrdom, and why corporations have more rights than people—before lightening the mood with a farewell to TV legend Polly Holiday (aka Flo, queen of “kiss my grits”). It’s sharp, ranty and a little snarky, because if you can’t laugh at fascism cre
September brings no chill as the gang rants about everything from Lee’s lingering Circle fame and Mike’s hot take that Wicked is… overrated (cue gay gasp), to Taylor Swift’s engagement ring dazzling the internet, and the dark comedy of U.S. politics—from gerrymandered maps to ICE strong-arming grannies. And just when y
The crew dives headfirst into the opulent mess of The Gilded Age—where corsets, cocaine, and class wars feel a little too on-brand for 2025—before detouring through South Park takedowns, Epstein conspiracies, and Paramount’s slow morph into Fox News Lite. Lee reveals a Birdcage secret, Chadrick confesses his Swiftie de
This week on Ranting Out Loud, the boys are back from their summer escapes—Lee survived 24-hour daylight in Alaska, Chad’s knee-deep in Halloween merch, and Producer Mike is half in Canada, half in existential dread. Between weather reports, pilot adventures, and South Park politics, the convo takes a sharp turn into t
Lee’s out this week, so it’s Chadrick and Producer Mike taking the reins (and spilling every drop of political tea). This week’s chaos? A cheating scandal caught on the kiss cam, the Epstein file cover-up that even MAGA loyalists can’t ignore, and the glorious downfall of Trump’s golden-boy approval ratings. It’s equal
While the Ranting Out Loud boys are off sipping something fruity with little umbrellas, we’re diving into the archives for a retro episode that still hits harder than a closet case on Ashley Madison. Travel back to 2015 when Chadrick and Lee (back when he went by Kris Cook) sat down with the fabulous Sabrina Pandora fo