Beards & Sundries

Don't catch the fever, Beardos! This week on Beards & Sundries, your favorite weekly LGBTQ+ comedy podcast, Joe, Jay, and Anthony connect the dots on their queer origin stories—and the results are unhinged.

It turns out all three of the boys were former "gifted kids" who also survived dramatic childhood plot twists, leading to a hilarious deep dive into the ridiculous things people claim "made us gay." The highlight? Jay’s relatives legitimately believing a high fever in childhood crossed wires in his brain and turned him gay (honestly, thank you, high fever).

Plus, we hear from our Beardo community in the mailbag, pull out the Season 9 Tarot deck to predict how Joe’s experience with the massive upcoming GTA release will go (following up on Jay’s reading last week), dive into Crumbl Corner, and wrap up with an epic game of FMK—though Jay insists his choices are so painfully obvious it barely counts as a challenge.

Inside Episode 20:

• Gifted Kids & Gay Fever: Childhood drama, gifted kid trauma, and Jay’s legendary brain-wire fever lore.

• Beardo Mailbag: Checking in with our listeners and reading your latest messages.

• Joe’s GTA Tarot Reading: Consulting the cards to forecast Joe’s gaming chaos for the upcoming Grand Theft Auto release.

• Crumbl Corner: Back at the table for our weekly cookie review.

• FMK: An epic studio showdown that Jay breezes right through.

Hit play for childhood origin stories, gaming tarot predictions, and three gay bears laughing through their "crossed wires"!

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• Website: https://beardsandsundries.com

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• Instagram & Threads: @Beardsandsundries

• YouTube Channel: https://youtube.com/@beardssundriespodcast

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Check out time is never, Beardos! This week on Beards & Sundries, your favorite weekly LGBTQ+ comedy podcast, Joe, Jay, and Anthony try their best to talk about hotels—and by "try," we mean they barely stay on track for five minutes.

Coming to you straight from Fort Worth where Jay is on a work trip holding court with everyone's favorite four-legged Beardo, Reggie the Regal Frenchie, the boys unpack their hotel habits, pet peeves, and what they actually look for when booking a stay. Tell us your favorite spots (and biggest hotel red flags)!

After the break, we check in on listener mail, and Anthony pulls out the Tarot deck for an epic GTA-style reading predicting pure chaos for Jay’s upcoming Denver vacation. Plus, the moment you’ve all been dreading: we are officially launching the Beards & Sundries Book Club! We need your feedback and jokes, Beardos, so grab your copy of the book we all love to hate—Harleigh Beck’s Obsession—and suffer along with us.

Inside Episode 19:

• Hotel Talk (Sort Of): Jay checks in live from Fort Worth with Reggie the Regal Frenchie.

• Hotel Hits & Misses: What we actually look for in a room vs. what drives us insane.

• Beardo Mailbag: Hearing from our listeners and favorite community members.

• Anthony’s GTA Tarot Reading: Mapping out Jay’s wild, chaotic upcoming trip to Denver.

• The Beardo Book Club Launch: Why everyone needs to read Obsession by Harleigh Beck so we can roast it together.

Hit play for travel banter, Frenchie royalty, Tarot trip forecasts, and literary trauma bonds!

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Connect with the Beardos:

• Website: https://beardsandsundries.com

• Merch Shop: https://beardsandsundriesmarket.myshopify.com

• Instagram & Threads: @Beardsandsundries

• YouTube Channel: https://youtube.com/@beardssundriespodcast

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Grab your "I Voted" sticker and an oversized sweater, Beardos! This week on Beards & Sundries, your favorite weekly LGBTQ+ comedy podcast, Joe, Jay, and Anthony welcome the autumn chill by diving headfirst into midterm election fever. With campaign season haunting every commercial break, the boys break down the anxiety, the political theater, and why Anthony's your worst possible vote ever.

Then, things get real. The crew steps off the campaign trail for an honest, vulnerable conversation about the daily grind under late-stage capitalism. We unpack the exhausting trap of tying your personal self-worth to productivity, burnout culture, and the millennial dream of abandoning it all to escape into the woods.

Plus, we catch up with the Beardo community mailbag, draw cards from our Tarot deck to see what post-election energy is heading our way, and make our weekly pilgrimage to Crumbl Corner to soothe our economic dread with sugar!

Inside Episode 18:

• Fall Feels: Cozy vibes, cooling temperatures, and autumn traditions.

• Midterm Madness: Surviving campaign season, political ads, and Anthony’s scary platform.

• The Capitalism Trap: Deconstructing hustle culture, burnout, and finding self-worth outside the machine.

• Beardo Mailbag: Hearing from our listeners as election day looms.

• Tarot Forecast: Pulling cards for clarity through seasonal and political chaos.

• Crumbl Corner: Soothing existential dread with this week’s cookie lineup.

Hit play for seasonal laughs, anti-capitalist therapy, and three gay bears trying to survive another election cycle!

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Connect with the Beardos:

• Website: https://beardsandsundries.com

• Merch Shop: https://beardsandsundriesmarket.myshopify.com

• Instagram & Threads: @Beardsandsundries

• YouTube Channel: https://youtube.com/@beardssundriespodcast

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Spooky season is peaking, Beardos—so buckle up for a supersized pre-Halloween haunt! This week on Beards & Sundries, your favorite weekly LGBTQ+ comedy podcast, Joe, Jay, and Anthony get into the Halloween spirit with real chills and even more unhinged laughs.

Anthony takes center stage to read terrifying "true" horror stories and urban legends from nearby local haunts, while Joe and Jay provide an unrelenting peanut gallery of roasts and commentary. Then, Jay pulls up the receipts to share iconic, hilarious quotes from beloved listener Sara detailing her own traumatic reading experience with Harleigh Beck’s dark romance novel Obsession.

Plus, we dive into the Beardo community mailbag, draw Tarot cards to forecast a listener's high-stakes upcoming job hunt, review this week’s Crumbl drop, and wrap up with a classic, ruthless game of Fuck, Marry, Kill!

Inside Episode 17:

• Local "True" Horror Stories: Anthony reads spooky local hauntings while Joe and Jay roast the ghosts.

• The Sara Dispatches: Iconic listener commentary on surviving Harleigh Beck’s Obsession.

• Beardo Mailbag: Hearing from our favorite community members ahead of Halloween.

• Career Tarot Reading: Shuffling the deck to forecast a listener's upcoming job hunt.

• Crumbl Corner: Pre-Halloween sugar rush and weekly cookie reviews.

• Studio Game Night: A fast, chaotic round of Fuck, Marry, Kill.

Hit play for ghost stories, dark romance trauma, spooky Tarot cards, and Southern queer banter!

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Connect with the Beardos:

• Website: https://beardsandsundries.com

• Merch Shop: https://beardsandsundriesmarket.myshopify.com

• Instagram & Threads: @Beardsandsundries

• YouTube Channel: https://youtube.com/@beardssundriespodcast

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Is it just us, or is the entire world currently operating at peak insanity? This week on Beards & Sundries, your favorite weekly LGBTQ+ comedy podcast, Joe, Jay, and Anthony pause the jokes for a brief second to address the collective existential dread hanging over our heads—before immediately roasting the absurdity of modern life to cope.

To bring the mood right back up, the boys take a trip down the aisles of Spirit Halloween to investigate why knockoff costume manufacturers give characters the most ridiculous, legally dodging names on earth (why be Beetlejuice when you could be "Juice Demon"?). Plus, the community mailbag brings us messages from our Beardos—including a very steamy update from our most drool-worthy international listener, John from Greece! We wrap it up with our Season 9 weekly Tarot reading and an honest look at the Crumbl lineup.

Inside Episode 16:

• Existential Spiral: Trying to make sense of what the f*** is going on in the world right now.

• The Knockoff Costume Hall of Fame: Roasting the bizarre bootleg names at the pop-up Halloween store.

• Beardo Mailbag: Hearing from our listeners, featuring our resident Greek crush, John.

• Tarot Forecast: Pulling cards to predict how our upcoming week is going to survive the madness.

• Crumbl Corner: Another weekly sugar haul to self-medicate through our existential crisis.

Hit play for unhinged spooky season laughs, international eye candy, and three gay bears reading the cards through the chaos!

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Connect with the Beardos:

• Website: https://beardsandsundries.com

• Merch Shop: https://beardsandsundriesmarket.myshopify.com

• Instagram & Threads: @Beardsandsundries

• YouTube Channel: https://youtube.com/@beardssundriespodcast

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Boomer Gooner! 🏈 (yes... we are making fun of both Oklahoma University AND Boomers with just this title)

Boomer Sooner? More like Boomer Gooner! This week on Beards & Sundries, your favorite weekly LGBTQ+ comedy podcast, Joe, Jay, and Anthony put a delightfully filthy twist on Oklahoma’s most inescapable sports chant to tackle a subject very close to our bitter millennial hearts: our absolute disdain for Baby Boomers.

The boys unpack their latest infuriating real-life encounters with Boomers in the wild, share why we are entirely done biting our tongues, and explain why we could not care less if the older generation despises us back. Plus, the mailbag takes an international turn when we discover one of our beloved Beardo listeners has apparently invaded another country (cue the sarcastic surprise). We skim through the latest Crumbl drop and pull the plug a bit early to save your eardrums—because when the rants start flowing, the runtime gets out of hand fast!

Hit play for unhinged generational warfare, Oklahoma roasts, and three gay bears who have officially run out of patience!

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• Website: https://beardsandsundries.com

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• Instagram & Threads: @Beardsandsundries

• YouTube Channel: https://youtube.com/@beardssundriespodcast

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Step across timelines, Beardos—and watch out for the mysterious noise! This week on Beards & Sundries, your favorite weekly LGBTQ+ comedy podcast, Joe, Jay, and Anthony explore the wild concept of the multiverse. Jay gets a fast, crushing reality check when he realizes multiverse theory has absolutely nothing to do with versatile gay men in alternate dimensions.

Things get even weirder when our sponsor break causes an actual glitch in reality, launching us into our very own multiverse moment. Plus, the studio is haunted by a recurring "guest sound" making a persistent cameo across the audio track. We catch up on listener mail, review the latest Crumbl drop, watch Anthony pull cards on his own employment future, and wrap up with a snappy, fast-paced studio game!

Inside Episode 14:

• Multiverse Madness: Why Jay was wrong about "multi-vers" guys, alternate realities, and sci-fi chaos.

• Multiverse Sponsor Glitch: An interdimensional sponsor experience that bends reality.

• The Mystery Studio Sound: Our unexpected, uninvited guest noise making audio history.

• Beardo Mailbag: Hearing from our listeners across every timeline.

• Crumbl Corner: Back in the rotation for another weekly cookie breakdown.

• Anthony’s Career Reading: Anthony pulls tarot cards to forecast his own job and employment future.

• The Quick-Fire Game: A fun, rapid-fire studio game to close out the episode.

Hit play for alternate dimensions, unintended sound effects, and three gay bears losing their grip on space-time!

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Last call is coming, Beardos! This week on Beards & Sundries, your favorite weekly LGBTQ+ comedy podcast, Joe, Jay, and Anthony pull up a stool to discuss all things bar culture. From wild nightlife war stories and chaotic bar experiences to the ultimate list of pet peeves and annoyances that make us want to close our tabs immediately, the boys hold nothing back.

Plus, we step behind the bar as amateur mixologists to invent our own chaotic signature cocktails, read from our all-time favorite regular Beardo in the mailbag, and pull Tarot cards to unpack Jay’s unfortunate knack for completely overlooking romantic potential. We close it out with a studio game that was tons of fun to play—even if it turns out to be an absolute visual mess for audio listeners!

Inside Episode 13:

• Cocktail Creations: The boys invent their own wild, unhinged signature drinks.

• Favorite Regular Check-In: Catching up with our beloved MVP Beardo listener.

• Jay’s Blindspot Reading: The Tarot cards expose Jay’s habit of overlooking genuine romantic potential.

• The "Audio Nightmare" Game: A game that was an absolute blast in the room, but maybe questionably suited for a podcast.

Grab a drink, tip your bartender, and hit play for an hour of pure queer nightlife banter and Southern comedy!

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• Instagram & Threads: @Beardsandsundries

• YouTube Channel: https://youtube.com/@beardssundriespodcast

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Put your earbuds in and get ready to derail! This week on Beards & Sundries, your favorite weekly LGBTQ+ comedy podcast, Joe, Jay, and Anthony start off attempting to discuss the world of audiobooks—which, in true Beardo fashion, stays on track for about four minutes before spiraling completely out of control.

Anthony officially finished reading the dark romance novel Obsession by Harleigh Beck, and the verdict is unanimous: we all completely hated it. Which naturally means we strongly demand that every single one of you go read it immediately. Misery loves company, Beardos.

Plus, our community inbox delivered some top-tier listener love that had the boys in high spirits—until Crumbl Corner, where Joe reaches his absolute boiling point. Not because of the cookies, but because Jay and Anthony will not stop interrupting him mid-review. We wrap it all up with a studio game where, shocker of the season, we actually don’t do half bad!

Inside Episode 12:

• The Audiobook Rabbit Hole: Talking favorite narrators, listening speeds, and why we can’t stay on topic.

• The Obsession Post-Mortem: Anthony finishes Harleigh Beck’s novel and delivers the ultimate angry rant.

• Beardo Love: Answering sweet, hilarious messages from our favorite community.

• Crumbl Chaos: Joe tries to host Crumbl Corner while Jay and Anthony relentlessly interrupt him.

• Studio Game Triumph: A trivia showdown where the crew surprisingly pulls off a decent performance.

Hit play for unhinged queer book rants, studio interruptions, and Southern banter!

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Connect with the Beardos:

• Website: https://beardsandsundries.com

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• Instagram & Threads: @Beardsandsundries

• YouTube Channel: https://youtube.com/@beardssundriespodcast

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Tropes, dark romance disasters, and jet-lagged delirium! This week on Beards & Sundries, your favorite weekly LGBTQ+ comedy podcast, Joe, Jay, and Anthony sprint through a debate on pop-culture tropes just so we can dive headfirst into literary chaos.

Anthony and Jay read the controversial, dark romance novel Obsession by Harleigh Beck—and let's just say, it was definitely NOT for them. We aren't saying it's an objectively bad book, but it was horrifyingly bad for them.

Plus, we have a live Crumbl Corner taste test! Joe and Anthony sample this week’s cookie lineup on mic while Jay—who literally walked through the front door from an airport flight minutes before hitting record—fights for his life against pure exhaustion.

Also... talk about a true tarot reveal in this episode... right?!

Inside Episode 11:

• Trope Speed-Run: Breaking down our most and least favorite pop-culture and story tropes.

• Harleigh Beck’s Obsession: Jay and Anthony’s unfiltered review of the novel that scarred them for life.

• The Tarot Was Right?!: Checking back in on our previous readings to confirm our spot-on accuracy.

• Live Crumbl Taste Test: Joe and Anthony chow down on the latest box while Jay runs on 1% battery power.

Grab your bookmark, fight the jet lag, and hit play for an unhinged hour of book roasts, sugar rushes, and Southern queer banter!

🔮 Explore our Tarot-themed website: https://beardsandsundries.com

Connect with the Beardos:

• Website: https://beardsandsundries.com

• Merch Shop: https://beardsandsundriesmarket.myshopify.com

• Instagram & Threads: @Beardsandsundries

• YouTube Channel: https://youtube.com/@beardssundriespodcast

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