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Out in the Woods

Out in the Woods

By Jacob Thomas

This Podcast encapsulates stories, advice, musings, and everything in between from queer people in the rural south!
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The Reboot

The Reboot

Your friendly Gayborhood host returns again for the premier of Season 4 with updates about all that has transpired in the past 7 months and a very special rendition of “My Better Self” a song by Tennis, covered by yours truly!
Oct 07, 202225:57
LGBTQIUPDATE

LGBTQIUPDATE

Click play and find out! ;)
Mar 18, 202220:49
Another Large Sweet T

Another Large Sweet T

Your friendly gayborhood host and his friends are at it again! We get real about everything from mental health, daddies vs. grand-daddies, drag, and who’s gay in Star Wars!
Feb 11, 202201:46:38
Gawking Politics with Thomas Jackson Part 2

Gawking Politics with Thomas Jackson Part 2

In Part 2 we stay political and we come CORRECT!
Feb 04, 202201:03:11
Gawking Politics with Thomas Jackson Part 1

Gawking Politics with Thomas Jackson Part 1

In Part 1, we meet Thomas, find out a bit about his life and hop right into political discussion that highlights even more of his evolution!
Jan 28, 202201:14:02
Good Vibes Only with Zaya

Good Vibes Only with Zaya

Podcast Host Zaya and I discuss his experience growing up Queer in the backyard of the Big Easy.

Jan 21, 202254:40
West Coast Tex Coast with Ryan Casarez

West Coast Tex Coast with Ryan Casarez

Your friendly Gayborhood Host rings in the new year by interviewing a fellow podcaster and west coast Kween who’s living her best life in Lake Dallas, Texas!
Jan 14, 202201:01:22
Enter the Mindbook 2: The Crime of Being

Enter the Mindbook 2: The Crime of Being

A message, no, a feeling brings your Friendly Gayborhood Host back into the depths of his brain. 

In no time, Jacob finds that there's more to the voices in his head than he thought, and they want to hold him accountable.

Dec 31, 202137:38
Large Sweet T

Large Sweet T

Your friendly Gayborhood host calls upon five former guests to eat, drink, and be messy! Topics range from Music, to Toxic Relationships, to bedsheets in the first ever LARGE Sweet T!
Dec 03, 202101:52:30
Thanksgiving Special: A Second Helping with Joe Parsons

Thanksgiving Special: A Second Helping with Joe Parsons

On the second Annual Thanksgiving Special, I get to know Joe and all about his family! Enjoy as we talk about everything from Cranberry Sauce to coming out!
Nov 25, 202154:37
The Hero’s Heroine with Dr. Natalia Rivera

The Hero’s Heroine with Dr. Natalia Rivera

Coming at you from Division 44, Dr. Natalia Rivera is a military brat turned badass in the field of therapy! She’s taken her passion for psychology and turned it into a superpower she uses to help the service people of the US Armed Forces!
Nov 12, 202153:03
I’ve Been Everywhere with Johnathan Clouser

I’ve Been Everywhere with Johnathan Clouser

From Texas to New Jersey. From North Carolina, entertainer Johnathan Clouser has been on a journey of geography and identity! Head over to my YouTube channel to hear Johnathan talk about visiting China to meet his first ever boyfriend!
Nov 05, 202101:17:52
Breaking Hate with Robin McGehee

Breaking Hate with Robin McGehee

Robin is a professor, an activist, a wife and a mother. Find out how she went from a closeted lesbian in a Southern Baptist environment to leading the Equality March on Washington mere decades later!
Oct 29, 202154:38
The Shortest One Yet

The Shortest One Yet

The title is self explanatory! Listen to find out why!

Oct 22, 202106:48
Sweet T 5

Sweet T 5

Me and two former guests *and best friends* spill the T on Love, Mental Health, Fall and so much more! Pop on over to YouTube after the episode to get almost an hour of extra content in the form of "The Extra Sip".
Oct 15, 202101:14:48
Rising Pride with Jason McCarty

Rising Pride with Jason McCarty

Jason McCarty is the executive director of Capital City Pride, Jackson, Mississippi’s very own Pride Celebration! He has no time for the outdated ideologies of the old south, he’s working to evolve and change our state from the ground up and in many different facets! Hear his story now!
Oct 01, 202145:23
The Queen of Green with Alotta Wood

The Queen of Green with Alotta Wood

Alotta Wood is a Queen of many colors, but especially green! From Mississippi to Brooklyn, New York Alotta has kept herself werking as a Drag Queen, a streamer, and the host of her very own podcast!
Sep 24, 202101:01:26
Art from the Heart with Anna Yates

Art from the Heart with Anna Yates

Anna Yates is an artist through and through, and her experiences as a Queer Southerner have shaped her work from the very beginning!
Sep 17, 202101:10:43
The Q&A

The Q&A

You asked and your friendly Gayborhood host answered!
Sep 10, 202134:54
Enter the Mindbook: Four Voices of an Internal Apocalypse

Enter the Mindbook: Four Voices of an Internal Apocalypse

Take a deep dive into the psyche of your Friendly Gayborhood Host with the dual premier of Season 3 and the new audio drama Enter the Mindbook!
Sep 03, 202122:43
Season 2 Finale: Almost Perfect

Season 2 Finale: Almost Perfect

In the finale, your friendly gayborhood host exposes himself (no not like that) and celebrates the past season while looking to the future of Out in the Woods!
May 14, 202146:21
Coaching Queerly with Jacob Ratliff

Coaching Queerly with Jacob Ratliff

Jacob Ratliff uses the power of authenticity to drive businesses’ earning potentials way up! In order to understand that power, though, he had to grow up different in the South and be willing to break the mold!
Apr 30, 202153:05
Traditions Dressed in Sequins with Bill McCarthy

Traditions Dressed in Sequins with Bill McCarthy

Bill McCarthy is the captain of New Orleans’ second oldest Gay Mardi Gras Krewe, an interior and fashion design Maven and a damn Yankee! Find out where all those wires cross!
Apr 23, 202101:31:23
Southern Sweet T #4

Southern Sweet T #4

Former guest Alex, and my Cohost Dujour Zain hopped on Zoom and Kikied with me about everything from Lil Nas X to Queer Code-Switching to Job Burnout! So get your cups ready, it’s time for more T!
Apr 09, 202101:33:26
The Candid Cajun with Brandon Henderson

The Candid Cajun with Brandon Henderson

Coming to you straight from the bayou, Brandon is a mechanical whizz with a big family and a path that winds more crooked than the mighty Mississippi!

Apr 02, 202153:33
Laughing Matters with Katia

Laughing Matters with Katia

Between Cults, Childhood Trauma, and being pansexual growing pains, this week’s guest,Katia takes what’s thrown at her and turns it into comedy! This episode may make you laugh, cry, or both if you’re lucky!
Mar 26, 202150:46
Editorial Queer Excellence with Evan Brechtel

Editorial Queer Excellence with Evan Brechtel

From Jackson, Mississippi to NYC, this week’s guest Evan is invested in helping to shape Queer history through political and cultural journalism!
Mar 19, 202101:18:17
The Phantom of the Raks-pera with Jean-Pierre Vidrine

The Phantom of the Raks-pera with Jean-Pierre Vidrine

Ever nerdy, ever mystical Louisiana Native Jean-Pierre tells me about Tarot, Belly Dancing, and coming out as Bisexual later in his life!
Mar 12, 202158:57
El Amor es el Amor

El Amor es el Amor

In this week’s installment I talk to the incredible sibling duo, Jonathan and Jeniffer! We discussed growing up Puerto Rican in the dirty South, the importance of familial allyship, Gay Nerd Culture and so much more!
Feb 26, 202101:23:04
Southern Sweet T #3

Southern Sweet T #3

It’s Season 2’s inaugural Sweet T episode and I have my very first guest from season 1 back on the air to talk about a great multitude of random BS and current events!
Feb 19, 202101:18:03
Music to My Queers with Alex Bryant

Music to My Queers with Alex Bryant

It’s supersonic! My guest Alex, and I talk about how music has shaped us as Queers in the Bible Belt, and how that experience has influenced Alex as a Singer/Songwriter! Stay tuned at the end of the episode for the Podcast debut of Alex’s latest single, “If I’m Being Honest”
Feb 12, 202101:02:14
The Trans-Southerner with Kloki Tyykila

The Trans-Southerner with Kloki Tyykila

I talk to the “Genderless Ball of Chaos” Kloki, who lets me in their world as an artist, a promising young activist, and a Wisconsinite who ended up in the land of KFC!
Feb 05, 202150:16
“Creating, Intervening, and Conspiring” with Sai Sion

“Creating, Intervening, and Conspiring” with Sai Sion

In this week’s episode I talked to Sai, a box man, a former behavior interventionist, philanthropist, and host of “So You Want to be a Better Ally” a weekly podcast where he uses children’s literature to talk about Race Theory!
Jan 29, 202101:59:03
“The Great Unchurching” with Reverend Brandiilyne Mangum-Dear

“The Great Unchurching” with Reverend Brandiilyne Mangum-Dear

Brandiilyne and I talk about her many roles between being an activist, Reverend, and business owner! At the crux of everything though, there is her spiritual conquest to unleash, unbind, and unCHURCH.
Jan 22, 202101:01:14
The B***h is Back!

The B***h is Back!

Your friendly gayborhood host returns to kick off Season 2 with an update about life, the upcoming season, the state of the US, and being a “bad gay.”
Jan 15, 202139:07
Thanksgiving Special

Thanksgiving Special

Thanksgiving is all about family, so I thought this special episode deserved a special family member! My cousin Stephanie goes in depth about her experience as someone who transitioned in the heart of the Bible Belt. Furthermore we discuss being Queer in a family like ours!
Nov 26, 202001:46:10
Election Erection Special!!!

Election Erection Special!!!

Me and my guest get down and dirty about local and countrywide politics and how they effect Queer people! It’s far less scary than the actual election, I promise!
Nov 02, 202001:23:15
Ooky Spooky Sweet T

Ooky Spooky Sweet T

In the final episode of HalloQUEEN 2020, me and two of my former guest sit down and discuss everything from the paranormal to hookup apps. Nothing is off limits when we're spilling the T! And y'all the T is hot as Hell!

Oct 30, 202001:14:04
HalloQUEEN 4: Lucifer and the LGBT with Dylan

HalloQUEEN 4: Lucifer and the LGBT with Dylan

I took a brief walk down the left hand path, guided by my friend Dylan who is a Queer Satanist!
Oct 23, 202001:08:33
HalloQUEEN 3: Season of the Bitch with Annie Bellym

HalloQUEEN 3: Season of the Bitch with Annie Bellym

Just like Jekyll and Hyde, the dramatic transformation through the art of DRAG has captured the imaginations of so many people from the beginning of time. Drag itself has taken on many different forms throughout the ages but ultimately it is always an otherness , a separation of the self. . . and a well of steaming hot TEA! In today's episode I sat down with my friend Wesley (Miss Annie Bellym) to talk about her drag, southern drag in general, and how drag could make people better!
Oct 16, 202001:21:26
HalloQUEEN 2: Witchissippi-Queer Country Magic with Zain Donovan

HalloQUEEN 2: Witchissippi-Queer Country Magic with Zain Donovan

I sat down with my best Theydy friend, Zain to talk about their journey as a Queer Witch in the depths of the rural south!
*Special thanks to The Red Jasper, Hattiesburg's premier rock shop!
Oct 09, 202001:37:54
HalloQUEEN 1: Monsters in the Closet with Chris Moore

HalloQUEEN 1: Monsters in the Closet with Chris Moore

This week, to ring in spooky season, I sat down with acclaimed writer/director/actor Chris Moore to talk all things horror and the gay community! We also discussed his most recent film. "A Stranger Among the Living" and his podcast "Homos on Haunted Hill."
Oct 02, 202001:35:49
Episode 10: Straight to the Point with Will Lovorn

Episode 10: Straight to the Point with Will Lovorn

Me and my brother from another mother, Will, discuss what it's like for him being the only straight man in a room, politics, the importance of being an ally in the Bible Belt, and the beauty of theatre, music, and film!
Sep 25, 202001:18:05
Out in the Woods After Dark

Out in the Woods After Dark

Warning:NSFW
Me and my anonymous guest, Ryan, dive deep into the annals of psychology, self improvement, identity, and most importantly SEX! So get yourselves a change of underwear and a good pair of headphones. . . unless of course your coworkers are cool with this sort of thing! ;)
Sep 18, 202001:17:19
Episode 8: “Gay-Ranteed Safety” with Sam Goodman

Episode 8: “Gay-Ranteed Safety” with Sam Goodman

On this episode me and my guest, Sam, discuss his upbringing in the middle of Appalachia, The Paranormal, and his passion for safety and the American Worker!
Sep 11, 202001:22:56
Episode 7: A Black Queer Odyssey with Lucy Wells

Episode 7: A Black Queer Odyssey with Lucy Wells

Me and Lucy talk about her experience growing up Pentecostal, Queer, and Black in the heart of Mississippi and how that has shaped her into the professional costumer in Oregon she is today! Along the way we stop in various different phases, pieces, and places from her past!
Sep 04, 202001:17:25
Southern Sweet T #1

Southern Sweet T #1

Me and my BFFL Zain get deep about Karens, Coronavirus, and Current Events among other things! Y’all get your cups ready for some Southern Sweet T!
Aug 28, 202001:30:43
Episode 5: “The Empire Strikes Bi”

Episode 5: “The Empire Strikes Bi”

I talked to two of my very good friends about the joys and stigmas of being a bisexual lady in the middle of the Bible Belt! They also happen to have a podcast of their own called “Same Brand of Idiot!” Out now! And be sure to stay tuned after the episode for an announcement!
Aug 21, 202057:10
Episode 4: “Bustin’ Hell Wide Open!” with Sarah Lovorn

Episode 4: “Bustin’ Hell Wide Open!” with Sarah Lovorn

Me and my little sister from another mister talk about her experience growing up in a conservative evangelical church and how it affects her worldview today.
Aug 14, 202001:18:32
Episode 3: Queerness and Christianity Coexisting with Cameron David Pitre!

Episode 3: Queerness and Christianity Coexisting with Cameron David Pitre!

In this episode I sat down with my good friend Cameron to discuss his faith and what it’s like being a Christian in the LGBT community!
Aug 07, 202001:02:10