Everything & Anything...and a bit gay Podcast

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Guest: Con Chapman, author and attorney based in the greater Boston area

Book: Queer Street: The Curious Connections Between Boxing and the Homoerotic — available for pre-order on Amazon and at lutterworth.com. Publishing April 30.

Episode Summary: Con Chapman spent over a decade researching the parallel histories of boxing rules and laws governing consensual sex between men — and the result is Queer Street, a book that...

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Title: The Skincare Secret You're Missing: Why Glow Starts from the Inside with Francois Vix

Episode Summary: Zach sits down with Francois Vix, a veteran of L'Oreal and Johnson & Johnson who spent 18 years leading skincare and dermatology brands around the world — then left it all at 40 to co-found ISOCELL. Francois breaks down the science behind Superoxide Dismutase (SOD), why your internal antioxidant defense is the r...

Episode Summary Zach opens with some personal reflection — starting with a story about getting a facial and hearing his husband called exactly that: his husband. It's a small moment that lands big. He also unpacks a news story about a civil engineer suing his employer over a Pride flag, and shares a conversation with a dinner guest who said he didn't "understand" transgender people — and what Zach told him that just might stick. Th...

Chosen Family | The Gay Bit Zach opens with a rabbit hole of coming-out videos — and the way they split almost perfectly between parents who said "we love you no matter what" and parents who said "get out." That contrast sent him somewhere deeper: a meditation on chosen family, the strange art of disappearing in rooms where you can't be fully yourself, and the people who have quietly held him together for decades. In this episode: ...

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• How it started: Dr. Blechman trained at NYU and did a fellowship at MD Anderson Cancer Center, where he focused on breast reconstruction for cancer patients. In 2016, a trans patient came in seeking a mastectomy — and everything shifted.
• Top surgery isn't one thing: The term is often used to mean chest masculinization, but Dr. Blechman walks through the full range — from complete chest masculinization to gende...

This week, Zach sits down with Justin Alexander — writer, director, and producer — for a wide-ranging conversation about his debut feature film Mean Boys and the raw personal experience behind it. Justin shares how growing up as an outsider, being bullied, and looking up to popular jocks in school became the foundation for a story that's part bisexual love triangle, part cautionary tale about fentanyl addiction. He opens up about l...

About Lennon Torres Lennon Torres is a professional dancer, trans activist, and advocate for online safety and social media reform. She is a core voice at the Heat Initiative, an organization fighting to hold Big Tech companies accountable for harms to children and young people. She also writes the Diary of a Palatable Trans Woman on Substack — an honest look at what it's like to navigate spaces that don't fully welcome you while d...

Kelly O'Hearn is back, and this one goes deep. One of Zach's all-time favorite guests — and it's easy to hear why. Their conversation flows like two old friends who can't stop finishing each other's thoughts, covering everything from quarters mysteriously appearing after a loved one's passing to the quantum physics of tarot to what it means when a baby's soul comes through during a reading and changes a woman's entire life.

In this...

In this episode: 

• Isaac's debut novel Six and a Half Days in the City — what's real vs. fictional 

• Coming out as bisexual at 17: the notes app, Facebook post, and a very supportive mom 

• Growing up Native American and Mexican American with a bisexual mother 

• Why people still deny bisexuality exists — and why Isaac no longer cares 

• Hookup culture, Grindr, Hinge, and making real friends off dating apps 

• Being an EMT in pre...

The Gay Bit — Cliques, Categories & The Truth About the LGBTQ+ Community

In this week's Gay Bit, Zach gets real about something we all see, experience, and — if we're honest — participate in: the silent rules about who belongs where inside the LGBTQ+ community.

From twinks and bears to Grindr exclusion lists to fem-on-fem policing to the obsession with masculinity, Zach holds the mirror up to the community he loves — himself very m...

Zach sits down with Margot Grant-Witz, third-generation CEO of Elizabeth Grant Skincare, a privately owned brand founded in 1948 by her grandmother — now 103 years young — who developed the world's first at-home serum after suffering bomb blast damage to her skin during WWII. They cover the real reason your neck is sagging (hint: it's your phone), why bar soap is destroying your face, the truth about the vampire facial, how men and...

Board-certified plastic surgeon and President Emeritus of the American Society of Plastic Surgeons Dr. Steven Williams joins Zach for a wide-ranging, refreshingly honest conversation about plastic surgery ethics, body autonomy, the GLP-1 revolution, transgender surgery, medical tourism risks, social media's toxic impact on beauty standards, and why your NAD supplements probably aren't doing what you think.

Dr. Williams practices at...

Zach sits down with Nicole Gress (she/they), speech-language pathologist and founder of Undead Voice — a virtual trans voice training platform helping transgender and gender-diverse people find voices that feel affirming. Nicole shares why the traditional medical path can take 3–5 years, how Undead Voice cuts that to just 4–6 months, and the free Jumpstart program that's already helped over 40,000 voices across 20 countries. They a...

Zach sits down with Thais Gibson, founder of the Personal Development School, to explore why our childhood wounds quietly run our adult relationships — and what we can actually do about it.

Thais breaks down the science of attachment styles, explains the difference between love and emotional obsession (limerence), reveals why people cheat (it's not what you think), and shares a powerful subconscious rewiring technique you can start...

Episode: Psychic Orion — Remote Viewing, Mediumship & What's Coming

Psychic Orion is an evidence-based medium and intuitive teacher who trained at the Oak Bridge Institute under Michael Mayo and with TikTok-based psychic John Crawley (handle: @joncrawley). He offers a 10-week intuitive development course with one-on-one sessions, free Sunday live readings at ~3pm PT, and discounted one-on-one readings for followers and super fans.

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Check out Alex's stories on Queerty: https://www.queerty.com/author/alex-reimer/

Grindr takes D.C.: The gayest party in Tr*mp’s Washington was also the strangest: 
https://www.queerty.com/grindr-takes-d-c-the-gayest-party-in-trmps-washington-was-also-the-strangest-20260428/

Sniffies users are not OK after learning their glory hole was just infiltrated: 
https://www.queerty.com/users-are-not-ok-after-learning-their-glory-hole-...

Bears, twinks, circuit queens, drag queens, fashion gays, gym gays — the gay community contains multitudes. In episode 5 of The Gay Bit, Zach explores the many personalities within the LGBTQ+ world and asks a bigger question: how much of our identity is authentically ours, and how much is performance? Drawing on his own journey from South Beach club kid to 53-year-old podcaster, Zach reflects on how gay people learn to code-switch,...

Jennifer Norman — founder of the Human Beauty Movement and host of the Human Beauty Movement Podcast — joins Zach for one of the most emotionally raw and beautiful conversations Everything & Anything has ever had.

Jennifer was abandoned in Seoul, South Korea as an infant, adopted by a white family on Long Island, and spent years in the beauty industry trying to outrun a deep sense of not belonging. What she didn't know was that h...

This week I went digging through old boxes and found a stack of CDs I haven't touched in years — and it sent me down a full nostalgia spiral. From Two Live Crew to Dolly Parton, Duran Duran to Alanis Morissette, I talk about how music is basically a time machine for your memories.\

Then I sit down with LA-based musician Robbie Gennet — a seriously talented artist who has performed at Graceland and has an incredible history in music...