Light Treason

Ep 54: Charles (@charlesrockhill) joins the show to rec Hereditary (light spoilers), Oceans 8, and Everything Is Love Our dramatic Mystery Weekend reading is available to Allison's $5/month+ Patreon supporters! Sign up here: patreon.com/allisonkilkenny Allison interviews Dawn, a Long Island medium, and Jenn, a straight ally In bad news: a political cartoonist claims he was fired for making fun of...

Ep 53: Rachel (@realslimchada) and Chloe (@itsthechew) join the show again to rec: King Princess, House in L.A. by Jungle, Cara Salimando's Nothing's Gonna Hurt You Baby, Grace VanderWaal's Moonlight, Jane the Virgin, Women by Chloe Caldwell, and discuss online dating and the Hemsworths Our dramatic Mystery Weekend reading is available to Allison's $5/month+ Patreon supporters! Sign up here: patre...

Ep 53: Rachel (@realslimchada) and Chloe (@itsthechew) join the show! Today's recs: Queer Eye season 2, Hereditary (no spoilers), Killing Eve, and Friday Night Tykes Enjoy a sneak peak of our dramatic Mystery Weekend reading. The full reading is available to Allison's $5/month+ Patreon supporters! Sign up here: patreon.com/allisonkilkenny Allison interview Bob's Burgers writer Wendy Molyneux about...

Meredith (@MeredithLClark) joins the show! Today's recs: Sense 8, Lykke Li's new album, the World Cup, The Looking Glass War by Jean le Carré, and Strictly Ballroom In bad news: Trump administration's child internment camps: the administration is looking to build tent cities at military posts around Texas, MSNBC reporter: detained immigrant children "effectively incarcerated" in Texas facility, br...

Ep 51: Parker (@parkermolloy) joins the show to rec Brooklyn 99, Grateful by Diana Butler Bass, Well, That Escalated Quickly by Franchesca Ramsey, Mountain Goats, Erin Rae, and Ted Leo In bad news: Trump showed Kim Jong Un a fake movie trailer starring the two of them as heroes, second anniversary of the Orlando nightclub mass shooting, something is killing the world's oldest Baobabs, and Jeff Ses...

Ep 50: Chloe (@itsthechew) joins this very goog episode to rec Robyn and Carly Rae Jepsen, Karaoke feat. Lizzo, the new Queer Eye trailer, and Allison recs the New York Times crossword app Erek (@erek_smith) interviews Deb, the tourist In bad news: The dumpster fire of the Trump administration: a guy's job is just taping back together the documents Trump tears up, senior White House aide is report...

Erek (@erek_smith) recs Sleepies, Parlor Walls, Merzbow, and Law & Order SVU, while Allison recs The Staircase, and Andrew Garfield dedicated his Tony win to "LGBTQ people who've fought and died for the right to live" In bad news: Trump's weird hatred of Justin Trudeau: the erroneous historical reference to the War of 1812 and his "fit of anger" at Trudeau during the G7 In good news: Trump commute...

Erek (@erek_smith) joins the show to discuss Anthony Bourdain's powerful legacy Allison interviews Danielle Moodie-Mills (@DeeTwoCents) about inspiring young people, The Chi, Billions, Vanderpump Rules, Drop The Ball, J. Cole, and Cardi B In bad news: immigrants are dying because of our inhumane policies: two immigrants have died by suicide in separate incidents after being detained by authorities...

Ep 47: Katey (@khealywu) joins the show to share L.A. horror stories and to rec Space Opera and Escape To The Country. In bad news: Star Wars' Kelly Marie Tran is the latest victim of the fandom's abusive men, fashion designer Kate Spade dies by suicide, police broke into Chelsea Manning's home with guns drawn in a "wellness check," family of David Hogg "swatted" at home, nearly two million SNAP r...

Ep 46: Meredith (@meredithlclark) joins the show again to rec Picnic At Hanging Rock, going to cookouts, Robyn, Hereditary, some good old-fashioned gossip, Rob Sheffield's 98 Best Songs of 1998, and to anti-rec 13 Reasons Why In bad news: Trump insists he has the right to pardon himself, Sy Hersh never reported on Nixon's alleged spousal abuse, and protesters demand audit of Hurricane Maria death...

Ep 45: Meredith (@meredithlclark) joins the show to rec The Americans , A Quiet Place, Neko Case, Party Girl, and Racked's piece about inclusive sizing Allison interviews her childhood friend, Reginald In bad news: Bill Clinton and Woody Allen weigh in on #MeToo in the worst possible way, Supreme Court sides with the homophobic baker who refused to make a gay couple's wedding cake, and Senator Mer...

Ep 44: Erek (@erek_smith) and Chloe (@itsthechew) join the show again to offer recs: Léon, Ryn Weaver, Neko Case, Hop Along, The Glass Castle (kind of), the Crossfit Games, and sex workers' rights, and to talk about this batshit profile of Anna Delvey In bad news: the media treated Kim Kardashian West's efforts to free Alice Marie Johnson like a joke, Melania Trump is maybe missing, Trump is set t...

Ep 43: Erek (@erek_smith) and Chloe (@itsthechew) join the show to listen to young Allison's handwritten mystery novel (or maybe just notes?) and to talk about racist Roseanne's show being canceled Allison interviews journalist Jessica Luther (@jessicawluther) about the #MeToo movement in sports, her podcast Burn It All Down, and Star Trek: The Next Generation In bad news: Pundits who faint over t...

Ep 42: Meredith (@MeredithLClark) joins the show again to rec Vanderpump Rules, Geostorm, and John Wick 3, and to discuss the frustration of unearned queer revisionism in media and Kelly Clarkson calling for "moments of action" in honor of the Santa Fe shooting victims In bad news: EPA's Scott Pruit bars the AP and CNN from summit on contaminants, Mike Pompeo promises to "crush" Iran and achieve a...

Ep 41: Meredith (@MeredithLClark) joins the show to rec Friday Night Lights, Continuum, and Allison recs Lost In Space, and Jordan Peterson is scared of swamp witches and advocates for enforced monogamy Allison interviews Mark Twain (@erek_smith) about his terrible business decisions In bad news: NRA's Oliver North blames school shootings on Ritalin, and a border patrol agent questions two women f...

Ep 40: Hilary (@dthilarybrown) and Kevin (@theninjakevin) join the show to rec true crime podcasts and to discuss why women are drawn to true crime, Criminal Minds, the Mean Girls musical, and to anti-rec Dreamscape, and to discuss Michael Avenatti and Anthony Scaramucci maybe getting their own show In bad news: fuck the Democrats who voted to confirm Gina Haspel, hacked emails show UAE building c...

Ep 39: Hilary (@dthilarybrown) and Kevin (@theninjakevin) join the show to help answer a Patreon question about terrible hockey fans and to rec The Ritual, Lost In Space, and country music Allison interviews Alexis Goldstein (@alexisgoldstein) of Humorless Queers about Trump dismantling the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, The Florida Project, and Atlanta. Visit ourfinancialsecurity.org for m...

Ep 38: Parker Molloy (@parkermolloy) joins the show to discuss dealing with the death of a pet and to rec The Hidden Persuaders and her article about Bryan Fuller's criticism of Bohemian Rhapsody and Allison recs escape rooms, Small Town Dicks, and Atlanta In bad news: Trump calls immigrants "animals," pro-Trump Jewish lawyer caught ranting about people speaking Spanish in New York deli, and an At...

Red (@erinred) and Zak (@auralnauts) help answer Patreon questions about moving to a new city, debating the Second Amendment, and state governments sharing voters' information and rec the new Predator trailer, God Of War, and Ahimi vegan sushi In bad news: almost no one at the age of 35 has twice their salary saved, Trump administration is preparing to imprison migrant children on military bases c...

Ep 36: Red (@erinred) and Zak (@auralnauts) discuss the Webbys and rec the Star Wars novels, Hotel Artemis trailer, and Oatly oat milk, and Allison recs Evil Genius, and the trailers for Black Klansman and Bohemian Rhapsody Allison takes a little nap and has a conversation with her brain (@itsthechew) In bad news: Nicole Arbour's terrible This Is America parody video, Israeli forces kill scores of...

p 35: Erek (@erek_smith) and Chloe (@itsthechew) join the show to rec FKJ, Leisure, The Stooges, Handmaid's Tale, WestWorld, and to sort of rec Disobedience In bad news: Oklahoma governor signs adoption law that discriminates against LGBT people, Katie Porter survived domestic abuse only to have it used against her in her campaign, and the Trump administration just rolled back rules that protect t...

Ep 34: Erek (@erek_smith) and Chloe (@itsthechew) join the show to rec Eurovision and Sex At Dawn Allison interviews Pia Glenn (@PiaGlenn) about writing for The Opposition, Frasier reruns, Alfred Hitchcock, Megan Thee Stallion, Hot Fuzz, Black Mirror, and Carol Anderson's White Rage In bad news: black activist jailed for his Facebook posts about police brutality and John Kelly says undocumented im...

Ep 33: Erek Smith (@erek_smith) joins the show to rec Your Money Or Your Life, Bored And Brilliant, and to share his hot take on Donald Glover hosting SNL, while Allison recs Chef's Table Desserts and discusses this batshit Elle piece about "what to do when your partner double-taps someone else's butt pic?", Roseanne's hacky Muslim neighbors episode, and Monica Lewinsky being disinvited from an ev...

Ep 32: Charles (@charlesrockhill) joins the show again to rec the Mean Girls musical, Phantom Of The Opera, Celine Dion's Ashes video from Deadpool 2, anti-rec Christina Aguilera's new song, the weirdness of Elon Musk and Grimes dating, Melania Trump's "Be Best" initiative, and spring cleaning but with people In bad news: Oliver North named new NRA president, Trump team hired spy firm for "dirty o...

Ep 31: Charles (@charlesrockhill) joins the show to rec Michelle Wolf's work, his new podcast Dirty Little Horror (@DirtyHorrorPod), Allison recs The Rain on Netflix, and so many people looked fierce as hell at the Met Gala Chloe (@itsthechew) interviews the Cowardly Lion and a woman who is very bad at accents (@realslimchada) In bad news: Eric Schneiderman resigns follow accusations from four wom...