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!
- Update frequency
- every 7 days
- Average duration
- 28 minutes
- Episodes
- 186
- Years Active
- 2015 - 2025
Show 26 - A New Hope. Oh wait, that's taken. A NEW YEAR!
It's 2016 and Romance Out Loud rings it in by skipping a day. Yep we're a day late but you really didn't think we'd do an episode drunk did you? Hung over is much more classy!
Kris and Chadrick rev…
Show 25 - It's Christmas ... so all thoughts turn to toilets.
Chadrick admits that sometimes his parties stink and one Christmas gift could have helped this year. But (hee hee) now the toilet humor door is busted open and somehow the two can’t seem to get out …
Show 24 - The Mother of All Shows
Kris Cook is off again and so the show goes off the rails ... again. Chadrick substitutes Kris with the author's own mother and tries to make her blush. He's still trying as Mama Lana holds her own…
Show 23 - Haven't started your shopping? Stay away from Chadrick!
The time is getting near. Chadrick's holiday festivities are well underway but all that good cheer will turn into anguish if you don't heed one simple warning from Chadrick.
Kris welcomes Denise M…
Show 22 - Some really old sitcoms get a new life … a sex life … and it’s not pretty
Kris chats with Rocco Paone (R. Paone to his fans), a new author to the gay romance scene who Kris met through the Romance Out Loud Facebook page! Rocco is crafting several books about gay romantic …
Show 21 - Turkey, tacos and tummy rumbles. A Thanksgiving aftermath.
Kris and Chadrick follow up their Thanksgiving holiday with more talk about food. Ugh, we know. Yet barely food comatose, they trudge along to rattle off their views on Black Friday, the legendary …
Show 20 - Baby It's Cold Outside (but only for Chadrick)
Kris and Chadrick talk turkey as the U.S. holiday of Thanksgiving approaches. But first, Chadrick swears he can live in Alaska ... as long as he's bundled up like a body in a rug after a mafia hit. …
Show 19 - Houston, do YOU have a problem?
Kris laments a recent LGBT rights setback at the ballot box, while speaking of politics, Chadrick contemplates running for office himself ... handing out decoration violations. He does get down from…
Show 18 - The Golden Girls and Porn. Who could ask for a better night?
Chadrick waxes poetic about Halloweens past and provides a "hairy" story about his antics during those days gone by. Kris gets Chadrick to admit that Halloween does not top his list for special days…
Show 17 - Hell hath no fury like four fabulously dressed girls out for revenge! Oh and a bug flies into Kris' eye.
It's Halloween and what's scarier than Chadrick and Kris trying to be, well, scary? Don't get bug-eyed by this episode. Halloween is upon us and for Chadrick that means, beware ... and behold the won…
Show 16 - Chadrick brings tiki dolls for everyone! Oh wait, that's bad luck.
The long-awaited return of Chadrick Douglas brings some candid talk about annoying people on a cruise. The good news is that Chadrick and Steve returned with their relationship intact ... despite sc…
Show 15 - Exposing yourself online during a cupcake war? There's an app for that.
As Chadrick sails the ocean blue, the show's producer Mike sits in one more time and wishes Chadrick luck as he shares stories of other trips to Hawaii that have not gone so well -- especially one in…
Show 14 - Deadlines Shmead-lines. Why bother?
Chadrick is off to Hawaii and out of the studio with a promise to call in and check with the show. Remember that promise about the Pride parade float and Periscope event? We thought so. That's why…
Show 13 - Do you know that you can jump rope with someone's intestines?
Kris chats with Chadrick about his upcoming cruise and traveling with in-laws. Author Sandrine Gasq-Dion joins Kris in a lively conversation about her series of gay romance books and other fun topic…
Show 12 - Breaking bread ... and gagging on it. No Mama Cass jokes please!
Chadrick sings like a canary, unable to live with his own little fib. Author Riley Hart shares her book series which takes the hard outer core of divergent lives and breaks them down into sensual ro…
Show 11 - Gay marriage is legal! Yay! So is gay divorce. Oh.
Robert Peters started up the Dallas-Ft. Worth chapter of Gay for Good, an organization dedicated to sharing the best of the LGBT community with the larger population through volunteerism. Robert sh…
Show 10 - People put what inside what to make what stay open?
It’s Kris’ birthday month and our regular host takes a break from the studio chair but Chadrick will have none of it. He teams up with previous guest and best-selling author Lexi Blake to reel Kris i…
Show 09 - What's the color of oral sex?
Chadrick suffers a great loss (really, it's not that big a deal) and Kris interviews prolific reader, writer, shifter fan and menage creator Carrie Anne Ryan. Did you know that some authors hear voi…
Show 08 - "Be prepared to lose everything!"
In a slight detour from our interviews with romance authors, special guest and friend of the show Sabrina Pandora joins Kris and Chadrick to talk about the myths, misconceptions and misunderstandings…
Show 07 - "You should never be afraid to walk into your own locker room."
From Wall Street to barely a Main Street, Sarina Bowen takes her love of sports and her bucolic surroundings to craft best-selling romantic stories for many tastes and lifestyles. One gay-themed sto…