Best Matthew Rivas Podcasts (2024)

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World’s first Drag Laureate shares joy, art, and politics of drag 52:44

2M ago52:44

52:44

A yearly "Day of Drag" and a drag mall? While many states are restricting drag, San Francisco Drag Laureate D'Arcy Drollinger is spreading the humor and "sparkle" of drag to make positive change in the world.By Eric Jansen

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Writer Dwayne Ratleff on ‘Dancing to the Lyrics’ 29:30

5M ago29:30

29:30

Dwayne Ratleff grew up poor, Black and gay in 1960s Baltimore. As a youngster, his loving grandma taught him: “Don’t explain yourself, be yourself.”By Eric Jansen

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Peers connect on Pacifica Pier in ‘Spell Heaven’ 28:59

6M ago28:59

28:59

As we await the reopening of the Pacifica Pier — now closed due to recent storm damage — we bring you poet Toni Mirosevich's stories of connection on this historic pier.By Eric Jansen

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Pagans at Xmas? Making holidays queer-comfy 29:29

7M ago29:29

29:29

Just in time for holiday gatherings, tips for getting along joyfully with differences. Our guest says "nosy" questions can grease the turkey!By Eric Jansen

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25 years since Matt Shepard, how are queer civil rights? 53:26

8M ago53:26

53:26

In December 1998, soon after its namesake's savage murder, his parents launched the Matthew Shepard Foundation to erase hate-based violence. We’ve seen big advances since then — and big setbacks. LGBTQ+ leaders discuss where we are now.By Eric Jansen

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Matthew Shepard – in his mother’s words 28:45

9M ago28:45

28:45

25 years ago, a gay college student was savagely beaten, tied to a fence post, and left out to die on a cold Wyoming night. His grief-stricken mother worked to expand hate crime laws. Hear her story.By Eric Jansen

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'Funeral Diva' Pamela Sneed: 'We can heal' 29:30

9M ago29:30

29:30

Pamela Sneed’s prose and poetry can reach out and grab you. They did me.By Eric Jansen

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Peter Thiel // The Diversity Myth, 30 Years Later 1:08:53

10M ago1:08:53

1:08:53

Nearly 30 years after publishing “The Diversity Myth,” Peter Thiel sits down with Mike Solana to unpack what the book got right and wrong. Thiel argues that social distractions have stunted scientific progress, slowed economic growth and weakened our geopolitical standing. How did anti-Western rhetoric popularized on college campuses in the 90s mor…

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Burning Man – art and queer exploration 29:30

11M ago29:30

29:30

Why do tens of thousands of people trek to a temporary tent city in an alkaline Nevada desert every August? Is Burning Man worth the heat and dust? What’s queer about it?By Eric Jansen

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Drag Storytime – VERA! reads to preschoolers 29:29

12M ago29:29

29:29

Should drag story hours be banned? With so much fuss, we thought you'd like to judge for yourselves. So we bring some to you! Here’s #3 in our series.By Eric Jansen

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Drag Storytime – Panda Dulce, Lourdes Rivas read to kindergarteners 29:29

12M ago29:29

29:29

Should drag story hours be banned? With all the fuss, we thought you'd like to judge for yourselves. So we bring some to you! (Episode 2 of 3)By Eric Jansen

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Drag Storytime – The One & Only Rexy reads at book fest 29:29

1y ago29:29

29:29

Why ban drag performers? Why all the fuss over drag story hours? Hear some for yourself ... then you decide!By Eric Jansen

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Transgender rock band Lipstick Conspiracy reunites 29:30

1y ago29:30

29:30

Pump up the volume! In part as a “joyful antidote” to the escalation of anti-LGBTQ laws across the USA, San Francisco’s all-transwomen rock band is back together after 12-plus years.By Eric Jansen

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Author Dwayne Ratleff on ‘Dancing to the Lyrics’ 29:30

1y ago29:30

29:30

Dwayne Ratleff grew up Black, poor and gay in 1960s Baltimore. As a youngster, his loving grandma taught him: “Don’t explain yourself, be yourself.” The long-time San Franciscan has written an impressive, insightful, award-winning novel about his childhood.By Eric Jansen

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Learning from asexuals about sex and relationships 29:30

1y ago29:30

29:30

Quick, what’s your sexuality? Most of us know roughly where we fall on the Kinsey scale that goes from zero (totally straight) to six (flaming fag or butchest of dykes). But have you considered another continuum, the asexual – allosexual one?By Eric Jansen

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‘Doubting Thomas’ probes false accusations 29:29

1+ y ago29:29

29:29

What would you do if falsely accused of molesting a child? And you see your career crumble. Matthew Clark Davison’s novel “Doubting Thomas,” about a gay school teacher, challenges assumptions about guilt, innocence and more.

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Grandma inspired California’s first lesbian supreme court justice 29:30

1+ y ago29:30

29:30

As a young girl, future Supreme Court of California Associate Justice Kelli Evans was more excited about the bookmobile coming through her Denver neighborhood than the ice cream truck.By Eric Jansen

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1960s 'pulp fiction' spurred LGBTQ rights 35:53

1+ y ago35:53

35:53

While a young housewife and mom in the 1950s and ’60s, Ann Bannon wrote lusty lesbian love stories. Scorned by the literary elite then, her and other authors’ “pulp fiction” paperbacks helped advance queer rights and now offer a glimpse of gay and lesbian life in those times.By Eric Jansen

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Hats off to Pauli Murray! 29:30

1+ y ago29:30

29:30

On our last Out in the Bay of 2022, hear about the amazing life and accomplishments of a Black queer civil rights pioneer left out of history books: Pauli Murray.

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‘Grin and bear’ curious holiday questions 29:29

1+ y ago29:29

29:29

Just in time for potentially awkward holiday gatherings, we present a holiday fave: Author and civil rights lawyer Abby Dees tells our allies to go ahead, ask LGBTQ relatives or friends your burning questions.By Eric Jansen

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Remembering The Cockettes 29:30

1+ y ago29:30

29:30

While they weren’t around for long, the Cockettes left an outsized legacy that we explore this week with exclusive recordings and interviews.By Christopher J. Beale

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Patri Friedman // Starting Over 33:22

3+ y ago33:22

33:22

What if we just... left? The challenges facing our cities are enormous. Our problems could take years to correct, or decades. The purpose of this season is to explore new ways to reinvigorate our cities, but it's worth entertaining the alternative. What if we built something new, from the foundation up? I sat down with Patri Friedman, founder of bo…

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Robert Poole // Gridlock 33:01

3+ y ago33:01

33:01

Why is the traffic so bad? And why is so hard to build new transportation infrastructure? Robert Poole is the co-founder and director of transportation policy at Reason Foundation, and the author of Rethinking America’s Highways. We talked about congestion, variable pricing, light rail, tunnel boring machines, and why they don’t seem to work in our…

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Garrett Langley // Standing Guard 37:08

3+ y ago37:08

37:08

Flock Safety is building a national network of security cameras monitoring neighborhood traffic. In some cities, their work has been instrumental in reducing property crime by as much as 70 percent. In this episode of Anatomy of Next, Mike Solana sits down with Garrett Langley, the CEO and founder of Flock. They talk about the network — where it ca…

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ASYLUM #3 — Trivial Pursuit 41:02

4y ago41:02

41:02

In San Francisco, how does government work? Who is in charge, what can they do — structurally, what are they actually capable of? — and most importantly: what are they focused on? A look at our Board of Supervisors, its apparent war on growth (and possibly tech), and an argument for moving forward (spoiler alert: you just have to vote (sorry))Featu…

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Daniela Perdomo // A New Signal 30:55

4y ago30:55

30:55

There's almost nothing more terrifying than losing communication in the heat of a blazing wildfire. In recent months, California has been brought to its knees by natural disaster. Now more than ever we need the help of our firefighters, and to keep them safe. An entirely centralized communication infrastructure is a single point of failure we just …

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Fnnch // Brand New Paint Job 42:41

4y ago42:41

42:41

Who owns our streets? Our bus and train stops? Our public walls and public parks? If public property truly belongs to the public, can members of the public (which is to say: us) do with our property whatever we want? And on the absolute ground floor, can we not just... make it all look a little bit nicer? Fnnch is an artist based in San Francisco, …

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Matthew Putman // Nano City 37:09

4y ago37:09

37:09

Consider the computer mouse. It takes a massive, sprawling, global system, and thousands of parts and people from all over the world, many months, or even years after conceptualization, and design, to get that product to your desk. But what if you could do it all in a "factory" the size of your one-bedroom apartment… in a building down the street? …

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Alexis Rivas // House Factory 21:20

4y ago21:20

21:20

Separate from our government's anti-housing policies, a big piece of our crisis in affordability comes down to the way we think about new homes. In Japan, for example, where housing is significantly more affordable, newer homes are far more popular than older homes, and this has galvanized both construction and prefabrication. At scale, this reduce…

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Spiritual Awakening 53:10

4y ago53:10

53:10

Free Jimmy Free Danny 🙏🏻💯. This episode is a real doosie, wouldn’t wanna miss this one, promise you. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/bestbuds/support

Podcasts Worth a Listen

Matthew Rivas Podcasts

Podcasts Worth a Listen

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The Best Buds Podcast

Matthew Rivas

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Out in the Bay

Eric Jansen

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Anatomy of Next

Founders Fund

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World’s first Drag Laureate shares joy, art, and politics of drag 52:44

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Writer Dwayne Ratleff on ‘Dancing to the Lyrics’ 29:30

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Peers connect on Pacifica Pier in ‘Spell Heaven’ 28:59

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Pagans at Xmas? Making holidays queer-comfy 29:29

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25 years since Matt Shepard, how are queer civil rights? 53:26

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Matthew Shepard – in his mother’s words 28:45

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'Funeral Diva' Pamela Sneed: 'We can heal' 29:30

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Peter Thiel // The Diversity Myth, 30 Years Later 1:08:53

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Burning Man – art and queer exploration 29:30

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Drag Storytime – VERA! reads to preschoolers 29:29

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Drag Storytime – Panda Dulce, Lourdes Rivas read to kindergarteners 29:29

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Drag Storytime – The One & Only Rexy reads at book fest 29:29

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Transgender rock band Lipstick Conspiracy reunites 29:30

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Author Dwayne Ratleff on ‘Dancing to the Lyrics’ 29:30

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Learning from asexuals about sex and relationships 29:30

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‘Doubting Thomas’ probes false accusations 29:29

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Grandma inspired California’s first lesbian supreme court justice 29:30

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1960s 'pulp fiction' spurred LGBTQ rights 35:53

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Hats off to Pauli Murray! 29:30

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‘Grin and bear’ curious holiday questions 29:29

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Remembering The Cockettes 29:30

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Patri Friedman // Starting Over 33:22

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Robert Poole // Gridlock 33:01

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Garrett Langley // Standing Guard 37:08

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ASYLUM #3 — Trivial Pursuit 41:02

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Daniela Perdomo // A New Signal 30:55

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Fnnch // Brand New Paint Job 42:41

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Matthew Putman // Nano City 37:09

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Alexis Rivas // House Factory 21:20

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Spiritual Awakening 53:10

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