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

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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March 19, 2025 74 mins
The gabbers gab about Mayhem, Survivor, dating each other, and more
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March 12, 2025 27 mins
Lena and an ill Ian read an email and talk about the Traitors finale
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March 5, 2025 79 mins
We're reading listener emails about saying goodbye to Glee!
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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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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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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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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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January 22, 2025 127 mins
This week we are taking a look back at the New Directions' 66% losing record as we visit the best and worst set lists, original songs, and rank all12 competition episodes

Episodes discussed this week are
New York
Nationals
City of Angels
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