S08.25: Heated Rivalry Read-Alikes with Christopher Rice

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4.9 • 964 Ratings

🗓️ 11 March 2026

⏱️ 104 minutes

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Summary

Calling all Loons! You’ve heated and reheated the rivalry, and now it’s time for us to talk about what you should read between now and Season 2. We’re joined by friend and fave of the pod, Christopher Rice, who writes m/m and sometimes m/m/m romance as C. Travis Rice. We talk about our feelings about Heated Rivalry, about the books and their impact, and about the transformational work of the show…and then we fill your to-be-read piles with books we thing deliver the same kind of emotions. We had a great time, and you will, too.

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Our next read along is The Madness of Lord Ian MacKenzie by Jennifer Ashley. Get it at Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Kobo, Apple Books or wherever you get your books.

Notes

Welcome back Christopher Rice who writes romance under the name C. Travis Rice. Christopher and his best friend Eric Shaw Quinn host a podcast called The Dinner Party Show. You can listen to their Heated Rivalry episode here, and Eric’s tuna melt thoughts start around the 18:30 minute mark. Their episode with Dateline producer Josh Mankiewicz aired on March 1st. You can watch the documentary Anne Rice: An All Saints’ Day Celebration for free at her website.
Wesley Morris’s essay in the New York Times, I’m so Used to Gay Tragedies That I Almost Missed Romance.
The Heated Rivalry Crave social media feed highlighted the power of the adaptation by showing the cast reading from the books, juxtaposing scenes from the show with the text, and loving Rachel Reid!
Good Will Hunting is 29 years old! Okay, I know that Ryan Coogler has made a couple of Marvel movies, but he’s also writing dazzling original films like Sinners!
Olympians in Italy ran through 10,000 condoms in 3 days and the Village needed to do some restocking. Here’s one athlete’s history of condoms at the Olympics.
To be fair, adding a pitch clock and changing other MLB baseball rules have shortened the running time of most games.
For more information about gay rodeo, follow the instagram of the International Gay Rodeo Association. Pick Up Men is the first book in the Pick Up Men series by LC Chase.

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0:00.0	I'm so excited about this episode.
0:03.2	Me too.
0:04.0	And because I feel like we have been preparing for this for a long time.
0:11.3	And we were waiting for the exact right opportunity to bring Chris Rice back.
0:19.2	Everybody is so excited to have Christopher Rice slash C. Travis Rice back with us.
0:27.6	And it's to talk about everybody's favorite show.
0:31.5	Oh, my God.
0:32.8	Bridgerton, season four.
0:34.2	I'm kidding.
0:34.7	Sorry.
0:36.1	No, I'm on the wrong episode.
0:38.8	I mean, nothing against Bridgetton. Run away.
0:40.0	You've enlisted the wrong expert. I'm sorry.
0:44.3	I, that was a lovely translation of the fact that I harass you all the time to try to come on this podcast.
0:49.2	Because it's my favorite podcast ever.
0:51.6	Oh, stop it. We love having you.
0:54.8	Eric thinks you are, I mean, we're not actually, we probably shouldn't say this publicly, but he could take it out if he wants, but Eric thinks you are our best guest. Oh, I'm sorry. Every time we're like, we're going to have Chris back on. He's like, yes. Good job. Good, good. And you know what I said last time I said that was male bias, you know, and possibly
1:15.3	you pointed out an unreasonable, let's just say an accurate expectation of what I would
1:21.1	be talking about during my appearance on the show.
1:23.2	But yes, you know, we men, we got to stick together in romance because there's like four
1:27.2	of us and one of them's married to Sarah.
1:32.3	Amazing. That is true.
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