Out Back with Josh is a warm, intimate storytelling podcast where a queer Southern veteran and transgender writer revisits the memories and cultural touchstones that shaped us. With humor, vulnerability, and a campfire-style spirit, Josh and his guests explore identity, belonging, nostalgia, and the complicated process of becoming who we are.
5: The "Trusting Your Instincts" Episode with Bex Vega
In 2020, with the world shutting down around him, Bex Vega (he/they) packed everything he could fit into a Toyota Corolla and drove across the country from San Francisco to Baltimore. He had no job, no established community and an apartment he'd rented sight unseen. What he did have was a gut feeling that it was time for something new. In this episode of Out Back with Josh, Bex shares how that leap into the unknown led him to a new sense of belonging and a thriving creative life in Baltimore'...
16 Oct 2026
4: The Canadian Catfish Episode with Jamie Brazell
What happens when the love story you imagined turns out to be something else entirely? In this episode, Josh sits down with longtime friend Jamie Brazell to revisit the pandemic-era trip to Canada that began with romantic expectations and unraveled into deception, manipulation, and a hard-earned lesson about trusting yourself enough to leave. But Jamie’s story doesn’t end at the airport: years later, a shared love of Greta Van Fleet leads her to an unexpected friendship—and eventually a queer...
2 Oct 2026
3: The Theater Episode with Sharen Sonntag
Josh sits down with his friend Sharen Sonntag to trace her journey from the theater stage and an Amazon warehouse to gender transition and a new calling as a counselor. Together, they explore performance as both sanctuary and survival skill, the grief of leaving behind lives we once worked hard to build, and the winding path toward becoming who we were all along.
21 Sept 2026
2: The Jesus Music Episode with Brandon Boykin
Josh sits down with Austin librarian and grad student Brandon Boykin to revisit the contemporary Christian music, youth groups, Winter Jam concerts, and evangelical culture that shaped their adolescence in South Alabama. Together, they explore how the church offered two queer teenagers genuine community while teaching them they did not belong, and what it means to reclaim the songs that once held both their faith and their shame—this time, on their own terms.
7 Sept 2026
1: The Legacy Episode with Caitlin Dowell
In the inaugural episode of Out Back with Josh, Josh sits down with longtime friend Caitlin Dowell to ask what queer people leave behind and who will preserve our stories if we don’t. Through conversations about marriage, chosen family, queer elders, lost histories, visibility, and the wonderfully strange fate Josh has planned for his skeleton, they explore legacy not as something reserved for after death, but as something we build through the lives we touch, the stories we tell, and the cour...
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