Hot Takes & Deep Dives

Podcast serving quick hits & deep cuts on LGBT pop iconography & NYC culture. Recent guests include Rosie O'Donnell, Sandra Bernhard, Fortune Feimster, Roxane Gay, Fran Drescher, Isaac Mizrahi, Lea DeLaria, Melissa Etheridge, Rachel Dratch, Gina Gershon, Margaret Cho, L Word creator Ilene Chaiken, Jenifer Lewis, Judy Gold, Mario Cantone, Michael Musto & more!

Daniel Nardicio Returns! Sandra Bernhard, John Waters, Zipolite & Patti LuPone's Rider 01/26/2026

Lola Rocknrolla on Dean Johnson: ’80s Genderf*ck Icon, Mysterious Death 01/19/2026

How Mariah Carey's “All I Want for Christmas Is You” Was Really Made — Co-writer Walter Afanasieff 12/29/2025

Inside Celebrity Home Tours: Bethenny, Andy Cohen, Madonna, Amy Sedaris & more (w/ Dale Saylor) 12/15/2025

Culture Debate: 2025 Theater, Film, Concert Revue (w/ Mark Snyder) 12/02/2025

Producing Jeff Lewis Flipping Out, MTV Diary, Selling Sunset (w/ EP Billy Taylor) 11/24/2025

Guinevere Turner on Writing The L Word & American Psycho, Taxicab Confessions & more! 11/10/2025

Stories from a 73-Year-Old Queer Collector (w/ Mike Balaban) 10/27/2025

Zach Noe Towers on Cruising, 12 Step, Horror Screenplays 10/13/2025

Bob the Drag Queen on Swearing Off Watch What Happens Live, Barracuda Nights 10/06/2025

How The Saint Defined NYC’s ’80s DJ Scene (w/ Susan Morabito) 09/29/2025

Natalie Joy Johnson on Patti LuPone, Atlantis Cruises, Craigslist Sl*ts 09/22/2025

Will & Grace Writer & Producer — Jon Kinnally on ACT UP, The Cut Gay Sex / Drugs Exposé & more 09/15/2025

Ryan Raftery on Barbra Streisand, Glenn Close, Patricia Field, JonBenét Ramsey & more! 09/08/2025

Provincetown Deep Dive (w/ Dominick Pupa) 09/02/2025

History of Gay Restaurants (Florent, Julius, Diners) (w/ Erik Piepenburg) 08/25/2025

Jillian Michaels Through the Eyes of Jackie Warner (Bravo's Work Out) 08/22/2025

Behind the Scenes of And Just Like That - Filming Insider Tells All 07/28/2025

Jenifer Lewis on Bette Midler, Whitney Houston & Mother of Black Hollywood 07/14/2025

Sex and the City Exec. Producer & Writer — Jenny Bicks 06/30/2025

Liz Glazer — Quitting Law to Become a Comedian & Marry a Gay Rabbi 06/16/2025

And Just Like That (w/ Every Outfit's Chelsea Fairless & Lauren Garroni) 06/02/2025

Cult of Body & Soul - My new docuseries drops May 27! 05/23/2025

Judy Garland, Radical Faeries & more (w/ Justin Elizabeth Sayre) 05/19/2025

“Rent” & “Hamilton” Power Producer is a Theater Kid (w/ Jeffrey Seller) 05/05/2025

Culture Catch-up: How to Fix Bravo & Summer House (w/ Dan Allegretto) 04/28/2025

Madonna & Michael Jackson Choreographer / Director — Vincent Paterson 04/21/2025

DJ Lina Bradford on Candis Cayne, Club Kids, Fire Island Reign & more 04/14/2025

Jeff Hiller on HBO’s Somebody Somewhere, Fire Island & Actress of a Certain Age 03/31/2025

Bruce Vilanch on Bette Midler, Writing The Oscars & more! 03/24/2025