SLAY!!! A Queer Buffy Podcast

SLAY!!! A Queer Buffy Podcast

Presented by Recovering Gleek, a spoiler free Buffy the Vampire Slayer rewatch podcast, hosted by two long time friends, Lena Conatser and Ian Allred, and looked at through a queer lens. New episodes every Wednesday! Follow us! @rgpresents_podcast Support this podcast: patreon.com/recoveringgleek

Episodes

BtVS S1E10 Nightmares

July 16, 2025 • 84 mins
High school can be a real nightmare! Especially when a local kid with psychic abilities falls into a coma causing everyone's bad dreams to come to life
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BtVS S1E9 The Puppet Show

July 9, 2025 • 79 mins
Buffy and friends deal with the teen struggles of stage fright, and a mystical force killing off their classmates in the school talent show.
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BtVS S1E8 I, Robot...You Jane

July 2, 2025 • 100 mins
Willow learns the hard way that people you meet online could actually be much older than they say. Like centuries older. And also a demon.
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BtVS S1E7 Angel

June 25, 2025 • 104 mins
It's a big one! Buffy discovers the mysterious older man she's been dating has a big secret, and an ex girlfriend who wants to kill her. First love man.
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BtVS S1E6 The Pack

June 18, 2025 • 83 mins
Xander falls in with a group of kids who are a bad influence on him. They pick on other kids, they don't take school seriously, and they eat people alive, because they are actually hyena spirits in the bodies of human teenagers.
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BtVS S1E5 Never Kill a Boy on the First Date

June 11, 2025 • 79 mins
Buffy has a date with a cute boy in her class but, aw man, it's the same night as the apocalypse! Can she balance her double life, or will millions of people die by her negligence? Tune in to find out!
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BtVS S1E4 Teacher's Pet

June 4, 2025 • 89 mins
Xander's been bit by the love bug, but its for his teacher! Who's also a literal bug and is going to bite his head off. Teen crushes are tough, man.
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Listener Thoughts

May 28, 2025 • 65 mins
We are discussing your thoughts on the show, Dr Who, which member of the New Directions would be a Slayer, and the Master serving.
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BtVS S1E3 The Witch

May 21, 2025 • 79 mins
Remember your one friend in high school who's parent was way too overbearing and controlling over their life? And remember that one time when their parent took up witchcraft and swapped bodies with them leading to a malicious Freaky Friday? And then their parent in your friends body tried to poison and then axe murder you? That's what this episode is.
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BtVS S1E2 The Harvest

May 14, 2025 • 78 mins
Buffy and co work to thwart the Master's master (get it?) plan to walk above ground, Xander struggles to kill his best friend turned vampire, and the Master and Luke are definitely hooking up
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BtVS S1E1 Welcome to the Hellmouth

May 7, 2025 • 95 mins
NEW SHOW NEW PODCAST! We're leaving the halls of McKinley and heading to Sunnydale High as we talk about our history with Buffy, what we love about the Scoobies, and Darla being an uninformed citizen.
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The Last Episode of Recovering Gleek

April 16, 2025 • 53 mins
A check in and a few listener emails while we prep to release SLAY!!! A Queer Buffy Podcast
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The One Where We Find Out What's Happening Next

April 2, 2025 • 77 mins
OKAY WE'RE FINALLY ANNOUNCING WHAT'S NEXT FOR THE POD AND PUTTING THINGS IN MOTION GET EXCITED. Also talking Smosh and Ian's experience in Matilda the Musical.
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Amicable Exes

March 19, 2025 • 74 mins
The gabbers gab about Mayhem, Survivor, dating each other, and more
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Sick Brain

March 12, 2025 • 27 mins
Lena and an ill Ian read an email and talk about the Traitors finale
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That's Such a Good Thought

March 5, 2025 • 79 mins
We're reading listener emails about saying goodbye to Glee!
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Final Gleewind: Recovering Gleek Pilot

February 19, 2025 • 192 mins
For the end of our Glee era we are going back to the beginning. We are relistening to the first episode of Recovering Gleek: A Glee Podcast and reflecting on how we've changed, how our feelings about the show have changed, and what we hope the future brings. Thank you all for joining us these past few years!
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Sporty Spice in the Chat

February 12, 2025 • 53 mins
GO ELGSES! We're talking about the Super Bowl and reading listener emails about favorite Glee episodes
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Gleewind: Our Favorite Episodes

February 5, 2025 • 142 mins
As we wrap up our time with Glee, we are talking about our FOUR FAVORITE EPISODES. Glee's peak (in our opinion), what Glee is to us, the plot lines we think about the most frequently.

Ian's picks:
Pilot, Duets

Lena's picks:
Laryngitis, The Hurt Locker Part 2
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Becoming Each Other's Beards

January 29, 2025 • 82 mins
This week we are falling in love with each other by doing (an incredibly abridged version of) 36 Questions to fall in love. As well as some listener emails about yearning after people who don't want us back and what the best New Directions setlist is.
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