Homo Sapiens

Homo Sapiens

By Spirit Studios & Christopher SweeneySociety & CultureHealth & FitnessArtsRelationshipsSexuality
Download on the App Store

Homo Sapiens episodes

  • Dry January: What are the benefits for LGBTQ+ people?

    Dry January: Who's doing it, who's lasting the distance, who's ditched it, what are the benefits and what does it mean for LGBTQ+ people? Here is a snippet of our conversation with alcohol and addiction expert Toni Hogg. Listen to the full episode here. 


    Buy tickets to the Homo Sapiens X Like Minded Friends live show here.

    📍 Homo Sapiens Spotify Playlist

    📍Subscribe here for ad free listening

    📍NEW EPISODE Every Thursday

    📍Come play with us on socials Facebook & Instagram @Homosapiens

    📍Email us: [email protected]

    📍Podcast Host: Acast

    Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    14 min
  • 264: Your Sex and Relationship Dilemmas answered with Cody Rigsby | Part 2

    Is sex BEFORE a date the best policy? Should we ban uploading old photos on Grindr profiles? And why is tactful pettiness important? Today we are bringing in the new year in style with one of the world’s most famous fitness faces - Cody Rigsby. Cody shot to fame as a result of his world-famous Peloton classes which combine unbelievable pop music with beaming advocacy for LGBTQ+ rights. Identifying as an ‘opinionated homosexual’, Cody has also become world-famous for his no-nonsense life advice- from sex to relationships to red flags. Tune in as he helps answer our listeners’ sex and relationship dilemmas. It’s a hoot!


    You can purchase Cody's book XOXO Cody here.

    Buy tickets to the Homo Sapiens X Like Minded Friends live show here.

    📍 Homo Sapiens Spotify Playlist

    📍Subscribe here for ad free listening

    📍NEW EPISODE Every Thursday

    📍Come play with us on socials Facebook & Instagram @Homosapiens

    📍Email us: [email protected]

    📍Podcast Host: Acast

    Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    24 min
  • 264: Your Sex and Relationship Dilemmas answered with Cody Rigsby | Part 1

    Is sex BEFORE a date the best policy? Should we ban uploading old photos on Grindr profiles? And why is tactful pettiness important? Today we are bringing in the new year in style with one of the world’s most famous fitness faces - Cody Rigsby. Cody shot to fame as a result of his world-famous Peloton classes which combine unbelievable pop music with beaming advocacy for LGBTQ+ rights. Identifying as an ‘opinionated homosexual’, Cody has also become world-famous for his no-nonsense life advice- from sex to relationships to red flags. Tune in as he helps answer our listeners’ sex and relationship dilemmas. It’s a hoot!


    You can purchase Cody's book XOXO Cody here.

    Buy tickets to the Homo Sapiens X Like Minded Friends live show here.

    📍 Homo Sapiens Spotify Playlist

    📍Subscribe here for ad free listening

    📍NEW EPISODE Every Thursday

    📍Come play with us on socials Facebook & Instagram @Homosapiens

    📍Email us: [email protected]

    📍Podcast Host: Acast

    Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    30 min
  • Culture Club: The Closet: how clothes provide a lens into queerness | Part 2

    Did you have a favorite item of clothing during your childhood? Clothes, what we wear and why we wear them provide a lens into so many aspects of queerness. Our guest today, editorial director of Soho House, Teo van den Broeke, has written a beautiful memoir called ‘Closet’ about exactly this. There are brilliant stories of the realities of being in the Closet in the nineties, from MSN accounts entitled ‘ILoveWomen87’ to errors with concealing your internet search history on the family computer- it’s a coming of age story like no other and you're going to LOVE it!


    You can buy a copy of the closet here.


    Buy tickets to the Homo Sapiens X Like Minded Friends live show here.

    📍 Homo Sapiens Spotify Playlist

    📍Subscribe here for ad free listening

    📍NEW EPISODE Every Thursday

    📍Come play with us on socials Facebook & Instagram @Homosapiens

    📍Email us: [email protected]

    📍Podcast Host: Acast

    Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    20 min
  • Culture Club: The Closet: how clothes provide a lens into queerness | Part 1

    Did you have a favorite item of clothing during your childhood? Clothes, what we wear and why we wear them provide a lens into so many aspects of queerness. Our guest today, editorial director of Soho House, Teo van den Broeke, has written a beautiful memoir called ‘Closet’ about exactly this. There are brilliant stories of the realities of being in the Closet in the nineties, from MSN accounts entitled ‘ILoveWomen87’ to errors with concealing your internet search history on the family computer- it’s a coming of age story like no other and you're going to LOVE it!


    You can buy a copy of the closet here.


    Buy tickets to the Homo Sapiens X Like Minded Friends live show here.

    📍 Homo Sapiens Spotify Playlist

    📍Subscribe here for ad free listening

    📍NEW EPISODE Every Thursday

    📍Come play with us on socials Facebook & Instagram @Homosapiens

    📍Email us: [email protected]

    📍Podcast Host: Acast

    Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    20 min
  • 🎄 Joe Lycett's Christmas Advice! 🎄

    Should Christmas be changed to 1st December? What is your Christmas tree decoration etiquette? Today I am talking about being queer at Christmas with the one and only Joe Lycett. You can listen to the full episode here.


    Buy tickets to the Homo Sapiens X Like Minded Friends live show here.

    📍 Homo Sapiens Spotify Playlist

    📍Subscribe here for ad free listening

    📍NEW EPISODE Every Thursday

    📍Come play with us on socials Facebook & Instagram @Homosapiens

    📍Email us: [email protected]

    📍Podcast Host: Acast

    Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    8 min
  • 262: Christmas Special: A Queer Cultural roundup of 2023 and what not to miss in 2024 | Part 2

    Xmas Entertainment Recommendations! What are your queer cultural and entertainment highlights of 2023? Is it Red, White & Royal Blue, I Kissed A Boy, the birth of PADAM? In today’s episode we will be discussing and sharing all of your recommendations and joining us is The Guardian entertainment critic Scott Bryan. Scott will also be guiding us through all of the exciting things to come in 2024. We hope you have a lovely festive period xxx


    Buy tickets to the Homo Sapiens X Like Minded Friends live show here.

    📍 Homo Sapiens Spotify Playlist

    📍Subscribe here for ad free listening

    📍NEW EPISODE Every Thursday

    📍Come play with us on socials Facebook & Instagram @Homosapiens

    📍Email us: [email protected]

    📍Podcast Host: Acast

    Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    20 min
  • 262: Christmas Special: A Queer Cultural roundup of 2023 and what not to miss in 2024 | Part 1

    Xmas Entertainment Recommendations! What are your queer cultural and entertainment highlights of 2023? Is it Red, White & Royal Blue, I Kissed A Boy, the birth of PADAM? In today’s episode we will be discussing and sharing all of your recommendations and joining us is The Guardian entertainment critic Scott Bryan. Scott will also be guiding us through all of the exciting things to come in 2024. We hope you have a lovely festive period xxx


    Buy tickets to the Homo Sapiens X Like Minded Friends live show here.

    📍 Homo Sapiens Spotify Playlist

    📍Subscribe here for ad free listening

    📍NEW EPISODE Every Thursday

    📍Come play with us on socials Facebook & Instagram @Homosapiens

    📍Email us: [email protected]

    📍Podcast Host: Acast

    Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    27 min
  • 261: Leo Reich | Part 2
    What are your worst dating app stories? Is dating as a young queer man a dumpster fire or a delight? Today we are answering these questions and are thrilled to be joined by Leo Reich, one of the most exciting young comedians to occupy stage and screen. Leo is fresh from supporting Simon Amstell on tour alongside wildly successful runs at Edinburgh and Broadway with his hit comedy show “Literally Who Cares”. He is laugh-out-loud funny and will fill your ears with queer joy. Plus, should we rename the podcast?

    Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    17 min
  • 261: Leo Reich | Part 1
    What are your worst dating app stories? Is dating as a young queer man a dumpster fire or a delight? Today we are answering these questions and are thrilled to be joined by Leo Reich, one of the most exciting young comedians to occupy stage and screen. Leo is fresh from supporting Simon Amstell on tour alongside wildly successful runs at Edinburgh and Broadway with his hit comedy show “Literally Who Cares”. He is laugh-out-loud funny and will fill your ears with queer joy. Plus, should we rename the podcast?

    Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    24 min

About Homo Sapiens

From the publisher's feed

The world from a Queer perspective: Conversations, stories and a good old laugh with LGBTQ+ icons, allies and of course, our lovely listeners. Come and join the Homo Sapiens family with new episodes…

More shows like Homo Sapiens

Desert Island Discs by BBC Radio 4

Desert Island Discs

1,997 Listeners

Like Minded Friends with Tom Allen & Suzi Ruffell by Like Minded Friends with Tom Allen & Suzi Ruffell

Like Minded Friends with Tom Allen & Suzi Ruffell

130 Listeners

Table Manners with Jessie and Lennie Ware by Jessie Ware

Table Manners with Jessie and Lennie Ware

1,571 Listeners

How To Fail With Elizabeth Day by Elizabeth Day and Sony Music Entertainment

How To Fail With Elizabeth Day

1,220 Listeners

Sentimental Garbage by Justice for Dumb Women

Sentimental Garbage

443 Listeners

Alan Carr's 'Life's a Beach' by Keep It Light Media / Travesty Media

Alan Carr's 'Life's a Beach'

454 Listeners

Comfort Eating with Siobhán McSweeney by The Guardian

Comfort Eating with Siobhán McSweeney

100 Listeners

Dish by Cold Glass Productions

Dish

779 Listeners

Where There's A Will, There's A Wake by Sony Music Entertainment

Where There's A Will, There's A Wake

168 Listeners

Sara & Cariad's Weirdos Book Club by Plosive

Sara & Cariad's Weirdos Book Club

64 Listeners

Sidetracked with Annie and Nick by BBC Sounds

Sidetracked with Annie and Nick

46 Listeners

The Rest Is Entertainment by Goalhanger

The Rest Is Entertainment

880 Listeners

The Louis Theroux Podcast by Spotify Studios

The Louis Theroux Podcast

460 Listeners

Miss Me? by Persephonica

Miss Me?

237 Listeners