Gay chaos with Chicago bite.
Foul Monkeys A Gay Podcast runs on loose friendship chemistry, blunt jokes, and the pleasure of hearing people interrupt each other with history. Episodes move from transit bits and website problems to election dread, pop music, queer nightlife, concerts, and whatever happened since the last recording.
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Foul Monkeys A Gay Podcast is a long-running gay comedy conversation with one foot in Chicago and another in West Hollywood. It sounds like friends who have known each other long enough to skip the warm-up. The openings are often chaotic: train announcements, unstable internet, missing episode numbers, absent speakers, and jokes about whether the website has been paid for. That disorder is part of the texture. Adam, Ricky, and Jerry trade stories, corrections, insults, and callbacks with the ease of people who trust the room to follow them. The subject can change fast. A concert trip to see Melissa Etheridge and the Indigo Girls can turn into train frustration, flannel jokes, and a queer identity riff. A political episode can move from election despondency to Little Mix, Gaga, and misheard pop lyrics. A casual check-in can become a story about West Hollywood, cruising history, or a library encounter that gets retold with nervous comedy. The show is not tidy. It is built from interruption, overreaction, and the exact kind of group memory that makes small details feel important. Chicago neighborhoods such as Rogers Park and Andersonville recur as home-base markers, while West Hollywood brings its own set of nightlife and queer-culture associations. Politics enters as exhaustion rather than analysis. The speakers describe toggling between needing to know what is happening and needing to ignore the news entirely. Pop culture works differently. Songs, concerts, celebrity side hustles, and gay internet reactions become a shared language for judging mood and taste. The humor is adult, blunt, and frequently abrasive, but the engine is companionship rather than shock alone. It suits listeners who like a podcast to feel overheard instead of packaged. The best moments come when nobody seems fully in control, because that is when the friendship takes over. Foul Monkeys is scrappy, profane in spirit even when described cleanly, and unusually committed to letting queer chaos stay human.
Made for: For listeners who like loose, adult queer comedy built from friendship, tangents, pop culture, and city-specific stories. It especially fits fans of chat shows where interruption and personal history matter more than structure.
What sets it apart: The show’s edge is its lived-in dynamic: Chicago, West Hollywood, old theater and music memories, politics, and queer nightlife all collide without much filtering. It feels less produced than preserved, which gives the jokes their texture.
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Adam, Ricky, and Jerry turn gay life into the group chat you wish had fewer boundaries.
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A loose catch-up turns a distant concert seat, frosted tips and a high-school beard into good-natured teasing.
Ricky, Adam and Jerry catch up after some time away from recording, and the talk soon wanders. Ricky's travels bring up a startling account of people by a pool. Then one host remembers a concert seat so high he could barely see the show.
Election fatigue turns into pop opinions, misheard lyrics, and easy conversation.
Adam and Jerry sound worn out the day after an election. Adam remembers being sent home from work after an earlier one. Jerry worked all night, tried to avoid the results, and came home to Badger while his husband was away. Neither slept well.
A crowded concert train and an awkward encounter near a library set the three hosts talking.
Ricky's story about seeing Melissa Etheridge and the Indigo Girls barely gets past a crowded train before Adam and Jerry start chiming in. Flannel and Birkenstocks become part of the joke, with each host finding another quick addition.
An LA hat sets Ricky, Adam and Jerry talking about sports, cities and whatever comes up next.
An LA hat is enough to send Ricky, Adam and Jerry into a debate about sports knowledge. They cannot settle the logo, joke about being "so sporty," and even question the episode number.
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A city-by-city true-crime documentary, from Detroit's Kwame Kilpatrick scandal to mob confessions.
The hosts of Found Monkeys catch up after a break, discussing Ricky's travels and the gypsies in his neighborhood.
Adam and Jerry banter about missing co-host Ricky, their podcast's lack of audience engagement, and a Dolly Parton quote.
The hosts of Foul Monkeys, a gay podcast, discuss their struggles with technology and their difficulty coping with the current political climate in early 2025.
The hosts of Foul Monkeys podcast reunite with Ricky after a long absence, joking about technical issues and their locations.
Adam and Jerry open with "election despondent day," mention Chicago, Illinois, and West Hollywood, California, and describe sleeping badly after the election.
Ricky, Adam, and Jerry record episode 1095 of Foul Monkeys from Chicago and West Hollywood while discussing concerts, local gay events, pets, and recent Olympic coverage.
The hosts of Foul Monkeys banter about episode numbers and Jerry's L.A.
The hosts of Foul Monkeys, a gay podcast, banter about episode numbering, editing, and Ricky's tan from Mexico.
Adam and Jerry interview Frederick, creator of the true crime website Lurid Digs, discussing its origins and evolution.
Adam and Ricky discuss Twitter alt accounts and the lack of nude photos on their main accounts.
The hosts of Foul Monkeys discuss their return after a long hiatus and Ricky's discovery of married and DL men on the app Smithies.