Ranting Out Loud: An LGBTQ+ perspective on life, love, politics and chaos

Updated: 14 Nov 2025 • 196 episodes
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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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With Chadrick mysteriously missing and possibly trapped in a gold-trimmed ballroom somewhere, Lee and Mike dive into holiday prep, billionaire fantasies, and America's growing serfdom problem. From Elon's trillion-dollar robot army to MAGA meltdown economics, ICE cosplay patrols, and Marjorie Taylor Greene's sudden att

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With Chad off schmoozing VIPs, Lee and Mike take the reins and dive into America's latest political circus, including tacky White House renovations and election upsets that have the GOP clutching its pearls. Between voter turnouts, golden ballrooms, and Fox News denials, the boys find a little hope, a lot of horror, an

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The crew gets spooky with Halloween nostalgia, from flammable 70s costumes and questionable couple ideas (Jim Jones and the Kool-Aid Man?) to debates over what's offensive or just adult-party creative. Between trick-or-treat etiquette, "don't buy candy you like" wisdom, and talk of terrifying documentaries and classic

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The gang gushes over Taylor Swift's record-smashing album, clears up Dolly Parton's "deathbed" drama, and side-eyes America's latest political clowns, led by a man literally named Johnson. How unfortunate!

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The guys get into America's never-ending government shutdown, ICE villains who need to be melted like the Wicked Witch, and, speaking of melt-downs, just look at the reaction to Bad Bunny headlining the Super Bowl. Between clergy getting pepper-sprayed and politicians chasing Nobel Prizes like it's RuPaul's Drag Race:

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The shutdown is on, the hypocrisy is loud, and somewhere in the madness, Taylor Swift emerges as America's accidental emotional support icon. The boys go off this week on America's "reality TV" government, where cabinet members are cast from Fox News and beauty pageants. Meanwhile, Portland's "war zones" look more like

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