The Gay Power Half Hour

This week Tony books a church gig which makes Casey feel nostalgic for his Catholic upbringing. Speaking of live performance, the boys promote their live podcast on Wednesday May 13th at the Lyric Hyperion in Los Angeles. The most recent failed assassination attempt leaves some unanswered questions (per usual), and the boys bid farewell to Spirit Airlines. 

The boys go see MJ the musical and review their fellow audience members as harshly as they do the show.  The LA mayoral and CA governor races are an embarrassment, and not of riches, so Casey provides some messaging tips.  The Trump administration brings back death by firing squad prompting the boys to discuss the best and worst ways to die.

This week, Casey shows his commitment to the pod by announcing a live GPHH date, and Tony responds by pitting his fans against Casey’s. Donald Trump goes to a UFC fight with Vanilla Ice, and that’s not even the gayest part. Caitlin Jenner continues to be a problematic trans woman. Still, the boys consider a scenario where she could totally redeem herself (hint: it involves manslaughter just one more time), and Pope Leo makes Chicago Tony proud.

This week Tony ambushes Casey with emotions leading to their first big fight (and first lasting cease fire) of 2026.  Casey is selfish and takes the podcast for granted, and Tony decides when that is processed.  The boys share a desire for a failed mission to the moon but for surprisingly different reasons.  The CA Governor race gets goosed and the world is reminded why straight white male politicians of all stripes are creeps. 

This week, Tony is hungover and blames college basketball and homophobia. Casey explains Looksmaxxing and how Tony is inadvertently an enthusiastic participant in the online trend. Mormon Bachelorette Taylor Frankie Paul exposes the limits of “trash casting” in reality TV, and Chuck Norris dies by one last karate chop from the hand of God.

This week Casey marks the anniversary of Covid by getting his first professional hair cut in 6 years. Tony uses Casey’s return from a work trip to continue talking about his favorite subject, Casey’s injured leg. Tony catches the flu during a late winter heat wave and warns everyone about ineffective vaccines, and Nancy Guthrie, Liza Minelli and Donald Trump provide three distinct reasons to fear getting old.

This week, the boys continue discussing Tony’s favorite topic: Casey’s injured leg. Tony learns what MAHA is and finds he shares a lot of their beliefs, with one big injectable caveat. Kansas begins restricting trans people’s rights, and Donald Trump starts a new war, which quickly becomes the boy’s least favorite topic since October 7, 2023.

This week, Casey is injured in a dance class accident, and Tony begins the long process of never letting him hear the end of it. The boys see the historically accurate musical Six together, and Tony uses it to ridicule Casey’s injury further. RFK Jr mandates new bathroom etiquette, the Supreme Court overthrows Trump’s tariffs, and Alyssa Liu wins gold - but this is really a show about Casey injuring himself in a hip hop dance class.

This week the boys watch American Olympians in Italy mimic their country as they apart on the international stage. James Van Der Beek dies and Tony pays homage to him in the most disgusting way. Donald Trump decides no one can have a future by ending all environmental regulations, and in an age of true creeps the boys reevaluate Hunter Biden’s legacy.

This week the boys come back from a two week break rejuvenated; Casey from a trip and Tony from a recent peptide injection. Casey returns from Prague to the most American of welcomes - discrimination from his insurance company. Tony finally sees 2 minutes of Heated Rivalry so the boys give their belated heated review.  

This week the boys wonder if they could still be considered trophy husbands. Tony starts Pilates class to open up his body but isn’t quite ready to open up to his classmates. The boys reminisce about the superiority of 90’s daytime talk shows before getting back to the reality show of present times, where Donald Trump continues his quest to personally give the finger to every citizen, steal peace prizes from world leaders and let Americans eat dog food.  

This week, the boys get caught up in the insanity. ICE murdered Renee Good, and the boys talk about why that is really bad. A comment about the Iranian protests sparks the boys' first real argument of the new year. Casey offers a defense of lobotomization, and Tony offends Casey by calling him the wrong white slur.

It’s the first show of the year, and hating to be upstaged by a fireworks display, Donald Trump kidnaps a world leader. Tony and Casey spend their New Year's Eve apart, and only one of them has regrets. Casey encourages Tony to get into the self-help business, as they offer ways to make your lives better in 2026. 

This week, the boys spend Christmas together and start new traditions. Casey cooks for Tony, while Tony drinks wine and tries to enlist other Leys in a medical injectables scheme. A family health scare has Tony wondering where he falls on an emergency contact list, and the boys recount 2025 highs and lows. 

This week, Tony sees a world in which he could kiki with Trump, while the rest of the administration has their faces read to filth by Vanity Fair. The boys partake in that very American holiday tradition of discussing a son’s violent killing of his famous parents, and, due to a glitch, give you a glimpse of the hilarious GPHH after-show that airs on Twitch each week.

This week, Tony turns her self-appointed age of 51. For Tony’s birthday, Casey shows up early to hear how Tony was disappointed by a birthday gift.  Conservative women clamor to get that Mar-a-Lago face, Casey considers church, and Tony is reminded why 2025 wasn’t such a terrible year. 

This week, the boys reword an old slur. Casey sees Wicked: For Good, and his review leaves Tony less than green with envy. Casey’s birthday vacation to Maui is a mere blip in Tony’s thought process before his real question: Is there a good amount of meth, and Marjorie Taylor Greene announces her retirement from being one of the worst people in America. 

Zohran Mamdani wins the New York mayoral election, and the boys find common ground…for 1 minute before arguing about old grievances. The government shutdown leaves the boys concerned for people’s benefits in very different ways. Tony discovers what a “side” is, and Casey helps him manage his feelings about it. All that and the former worst person in the world finally goes to Hell. 

It’s Halloween this week, and Tony treats himself to a trip, while Casey gets tricked out of a good time. Tony learns that guessing people’s costumes can be a mistake, women in bars put themselves at risk, and Texas is still a scary place to be a homosexual.

This week, Tony and Casey go out together and have very different experiences. Casey proposes a hypothetical beauty treatment, and Tony is all ears. The boys consider how a third Trump presidency might happen, and Casey shows two signs of aging, which Tony promptly ridicules. 

This week, Casey makes a promise that he immediately can’t keep. Tony starts therapy and immediately finds an issue with his therapist. A sound bath leaves Tony’s chakras dripping, and George Santos gets out of prison thanks to Daddy’s rule of law. 

This week, Tony is trying out some new drugs, and the side effects are leaving him a little too peppy.  Casey looks for a therapist, and his criteria is further proof that his brain is problematic. The Nobel Peace Prize didn’t go to the worst person, but Tony thinks it was close, and Casey needs work on his impression of Donald Trump.

Tony goes back to Brooklyn and takes more of their money, forgetting more of their names. Casey wants a Botox buddy and doesn’t want to feel like a prick about it. Penn Station is the latest historic gay club to be shut down in America. The Riyadh Comedy Festival announces its lineup and, shockingly, the gay power half hour isn’t on it. 

The boys are back.

This week, the boys talk about other stuff too.

This week, the boys talk about how gross it is to catch the measles.

The boys "celebrate" their 350th episode.

The boys are back and louder than ever.

This is the last pod of the year, look out for new episodes in 2025.

This week the boys are back and better than ever! Or getting there at least. Tony prepares for surgery to repair a recently acquired bodily non-conformity, and he’s in his head about the new parts. Casey is diagnosed with a tongue that’s too big for his mouth and few are surprised. Israel sends exploding pagers to its northern neighbors in an attempt to dissuade anyone ever from wanting to be its neighbor. And someone allegedly tries to kill Trump again through a hedge. Ahedgedly…

It's a thirty-minute show with two best friends who happen to be gay and are not afraid to argue.

It's a thirty-minute show with two best friends who happen to be gay and are not afraid to argue.

A thirty-minute show with two best friends who happen to be gay and are not afraid to argue

This week the boys are back with a bang. After a 6 week hiatus Tony and Casey return having survived the hottest Pride season on record. Also still alive is former President Donald Trump and the boys debate the reality of his assassination. Attempt. The list of those not surviving the boy’s hiatus includes icons Richard Simmons, Dr. Ruth and Shannon Doherty. R.I.P.

This week the boys strike nothing from the record. Marjorie Taylor Green and Jasmine Crockett fight on the congressional floor and Casey likens it to the narrative surrounding the Gaza protest movement which sparks an argument more civil than anything you’d see in Congress these days. Move over snakes, now there are measles on a plane and the boys talk about how gross that is. Elon Musk plans to insert a chip into a second human brain and Tony complains that we haven’t seen enough results from the first chip.

A thirty-minute show with two best friends who happen to be gay that are not afraid to argue.

This week the boys let the dogs out. South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem brags about killing her dog which turns out is a little too maga even for maga. Protests on campuses nationwide have the boys (predictable) arguing but (surprisingly) also agreeing. Kevin Spacey asks to be uncanceled so the boys give some hot takes on The Biz.

Thirty minutes of content from two gay best friends. This week the boys don’t fight once! The Washington Correspondents Dinner is supposed to be funny but to the boys, it’s just a reminder that Biden needs a better makeup artist. Casey is still feeling butt hurt from the first Trump administration and if the Supreme Court grants absolute presidential immunity he’s preparing to get fully blown out by the second. Tony shares best practices for getting out of jury duty and with Tennessee enacting more bad laws the boys share a plan for getting people out of that state.

This week the boys can’t extinguish the flame. A man lights himself on fire outside of Trump’s trial leading to an argument over who can be defined as crazy. A question for women in the woods leads to a surprising answer and the debunking of a misogynistic myth, while a scientific breakthrough has Casey worried about the future of humanity in general and Tony rooting for the end. Very on brand.

This week the boys bring you doom AND gloom. An earthquake in NYC and a solar eclipse have the boys thinking about preparedness. The IDF kills several members of a relief organization and all of a sudden now the world has had enough. Korean women are refusing to interact with Korean men and the effects are generational, while white Americans move to Mexico and end up getting real white about it.

30 minutes with 2 gay hosts.

This week the boys join the ban wagon. Senator Katie Britt’s response to the SOTU proves why conservatives should leave acting to the Hollywood nepo-babies. Florida cracks down on spring breakers which is such an abrupt change of identity, it’s now illegal to talk about Florida in Florida public schools. Congress votes to ban TikTok, Boeing keeps literally falling apart and the boys are very suspicious of Queen Camilla.

This week the boys are giving it their best shot. Super Tuesday solidified the presidential race which the boys try to talk about but quickly end up shaming each others’ fetishes instead. Two male humpback whales are caught on film having sex and the boys talk about how these poor whales got done dirty. The boys almost make it a whole episode without fighting over Israel but Nikki Haley dropping out of the race is enough of the trigger they need.

This week the boys get very familiar. This month marks the tenth year the boys have known each other and Tony read the comments section to celebrate. After remembering why they love each other, Casey baits Tony into their favorite shared pastime, a fight.

This week the boys profess their love for each other, in obscure ways. Valentine's Day has the boys dreaming up the perfect gift for the perfect holiday. John Stewart returns to host The Daily Show and states his case against a Biden nomination, leaving liberals unclear of whose side even they are on. Casey maintains there are clear differences between the two American political parties and Tony disagrees which starts a fight that - in the recent past - would have taken a week to mend. In a sign of progress, this fight is mended after only 20 minutes.

This week the boys are floating above it all. A relentless atmospheric river has the boys feeling moist and ready to get physical. A right-wing freak beheads his father for being a government employee yet somehow Casey finds a bright side. A Michigan mother is convicted for her son’s school shooting and the boys think it’s about time parents pay for their creepy kids’ crimes. Republicans fail to impeach DHS Secretary Mayorkas in spectacular fashion and if turning easy wins into losses is their thing then the boys say “keep up the good work!”

This week the boys are mitigating, for once. Nicki and Megan are in a feud and the boys can relate. Texas Gov Greg Abbot stokes a literal civil war stand off which raises the question, who’s scared of Arkansas? Republicans push to impeach DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkus and the boys think that’s a characteristically stupid thing to do.

This week the boys have performance anxiety. Two white gays adopt a black baby on TikTok and it has the boys questioning all performative parenting. Trump’s performance at the polls scares the world but Tony and Casey both think he will lose, and argue over why. Barbie is snubbed at the Oscars and Tony explains why caring about that makes you a war criminal.

This week the boys are sick of it. Los Angeles sees a major rise in Covid, RSV, and the flu redefining what it means to be a Hollywood triple threat. The 2024 election cycle begins in Iowa and it’s still unclear which candidate has Tony’s vote. The boys argue over a generational divide, what constitutes yelling, and if it’s possible to catch ADD.

This week the boys aren’t quite ready for more in ‘24. Covid is starting the new year off strong and the boys wonder if it’s a harbinger of things to come. A Boeing Max-9 plane blows a door mid-flight so the boys talk about why flying does indeed blow. Gypsy Rose Blanchard is out of prison, married, and famous which begs the question, what are Tony and Casey doing wrong?