Pitney & Amelia's Bitchen Boutique

Confessions! Is Pitney losing his identity as a nerdy fanboy? Is Amelia harboring a secret desire to build stuff? How close did Amelia come to attacking the arrogant unvaccinated?   And this week in self-care, yoga nidra. Click here for the yoga nidra meditation Amelia made just for you!   Promos: 2 Girls on a Bench , 2 Skeptical Chaps   (Want to swap show promos? Email us!) We love you for listen...

Stories of days that started off bad and then the world just kept piling on more and more crap. Amelia got heatstroke at a nude beach, and Pitney had to find money for a late power bill payment. Then some jackass gave Amelia a mullet in 2006. It's a whole thing. And this week in self-care, the importance of sleep.   Promo: Invasion of the Remake   (Want to swap show promos? Email us!)   We love yo...

Shopping at Torrid. Amelia's big anniversary this year. Memories of WesterCon 1996 in El Paso. The right way to poop. Indecency with an Elmo doll. And THEN things get weird.   Promos: 2 Skeptical Chaps and Reverie True Crime Podcast (Want to swap show promos? Email us!)   We love you for listening! Please take a moment to rate and review us, and earn a STICKER! (Everyone loves stickers!) And pleas...

Happy Pride, queers and dears! This year we've got a lot of fabulous stuff for you. A bit about what queer-friendly and inclusive stuff Target is up to, a couple of non-cis historical figures, and we give you the lowdown on a surprisingly subversive sixties comedy called The Gay Deceivers. It's so much more than the difference between peonies and marigolds! Watch The Gay Deceivers (1969) on YouTub...

We dive into a few select stories from Am I The Asshole? and give our uncensored opinions. And in this week's #YearOfSelfCare, Amelia talks about how any exercise is better than none at all.   Promo: Brook Reading Podcast   (Want to swap show promos? Email us!)   We love you for listening! Please take a moment to rate and review us, and earn a STICKER! (Everyone loves stickers!) And please subscri...

Hey! It's Mental Health Awareness Month! Regular listeners are quite aware of our mental health or lack thereof, but we haven't done an episode about it in a while, so here we are, talkin' about it. We're talking medication, masculinity, and making an effort to look out for ourselves. No shame here! If you're curious about our other episodes focusing on mental health issues, check out the mental h...

  Simple food versus complicated food. Why delicacies are things we probably shouldn't even be eating in the first place. Just because something is French, that doesn't mean it's fancy. We've got an idea for a gourmet seasoning that will make us millionaires. Then we take a giggly tangent into the world of adhesive underwear. And in this week's #YearOfSelfCare, chill out with radical acceptance.  ...

Has the world become so sensitive that it's necessary to apologize to imaginary people who haven't yet gotten upset? Do we no longer assume that people aren't out to offend us? Are some people so focused on themselves they can't stand that everything isn't about them? We have opinions. And in today's #YearOfSelfCare, keeping your immune system strong.   Promo: Brook Reading Podcast   (Want to swap...

Goin' deep on dirty talk, baby-birding and other grossness, butthole maintenance, taking care of your feet, and a wannabe hippy chick trying way too hard. And you gotta stay till after the credits, because this time there's a fashion trend from the 90s we thought was really stupid.   Promos: 2 Skeptical Chaps and Brook Reading Podcast   (Want to swap show promos? Email us!)   We love you for liste...

The Social Dilemma. We watched it, and we have thoughts. Tricia may have been right about some things. The recent "cancellation" of Dr. Seuss. And be sure to stick it out till the post-credits scene where Pitney got thrown out of a Hickory Farms for a reason that honestly shouldn't surprise you too much.   Promo: Paranormal Burrito   (Want to swap show promos? Email us!)   We love you for listenin...

(hey, did you already download this and it was missing the ending? well, it's fixed! sorry about that!) Happy 1st Everybody-Stay-Home-niversary, you guys! This week, we hit you with a big ol' grilled cheese sandwich, a #YearInSelfCare reminder about respecting yourself, some excitement about Texas Frightmare Weekend, and then we go where things get ugly. Really ugly. And probably smelly, too. The...

This week we tackle the Colbert Questionert, 15 questions that help you really know a person. Our favorite sandwiches, scariest animals, worst smells, and MORE.   Plus, the benefits of putting thoughts and feelings into actual WORDS.   And if you're curious about the old episode we mentioned where we take the Bernard Pivot questionnaire from Inside the Actor's Studio, here you go:   https://bitche...

Certain intimate details about Cyberpunk 2077.  People at work who hate us. Insights and revelations about forgiving abusers. And, this week in self-care: making yourself a priority.   Promos: 2 Skeptical Chaps   and Aim For The Head Podcast   (Want to swap show promos? Email us!) We love you for listening! Please take a moment to rate and review us, and earn a STICKER! (Everyone loves stickers!)...

Selfies. We don't understand them. Or the people who constantly post them. Or the people who bully those people. Or Rihanna, who is apparently awful. And you know what else is awful? Hip dips. Apparently. And this week in self care, reduce your stress by paying off your credit cards.   Promo: 2 Girls on a Bench  (Want to swap show promos? Email us!)   We love you for listening! Please take a momen...

We're a little all over the place this week. We've got some commentary on religion, or rather the religious (because that's not the same thing), respect for the flag, respect for your neighbors, respect for your teeth, and then we bring back Bitchen in the Kitchen! This time it's all about soup. We're even giving you a recipe for minestrone!   Promos: 2 Skeptical Chaps and Paranormal Burrito   (Wa...

"Happy New Year." How about "Decidedly Better New Year?"  We're doing our best to look forward to whatever is coming. And this week, we introduce the theme for 2021: The Year of Self Care. Because we need it.   Promo: FriGay the 13th (Want to swap show promos? Email us!)   We love you for listening! Please take a moment to rate and review us, and earn a STICKER! (Everyone loves stickers!) And plea...

Christmastime is here. Happiness and cheer. We do a deep dive into our Christmas music collections and share some exquisite and unusual holiday favorites. It's sure to help you get in the mood! And in the final segment of the Year of Woo, Pitney teaches us all about pyramid power!   Promos: 2 Skeptical Chaps and Thanks For Coming! (Want to swap show promos? Email us!)   We love you for listening!...

Remember when Tipper Gore and a bunch of other politicians' wives with nothing better to do decided to be the nation's mommies and let us know what records were dirty? Good times. But what Tipper and friends didn't realize is the music they grooved to in the 1970s was far more dangerous. This week we talk about what the PMRC targeted and the insidious mind poison they missed.   And this week in wo...

It's that time of year again where we talk about gratitude, and things that make our world a better place. Everything about 2020 has been crazy, but some good has come out of it. We talk about the people who are struggling to make it work (such as teachers and creatives) in contrast to things like the effects of working at home full time on Amelia's emotional health. Also: - The joys of therapy vi...

Our best stories about our worst roommates. Breaking stuff, skipping out on bills, being generally gross - this one's got it all! And women who believe they've been pregnant for YEARS and doctors are just too dumb to agree with them. For real. The woo-woo world of cryptic pregnancies. And we know the title is weird, but if you listen, you'll understand.   Promo: Invasion of the Remake   (Want to s...

It's Pitney & Amelia's Spooky Stax! We're celebrating Halloween this year by sharing our love of Halloween themed records! Music, scary stories, classic sound effects, everything you need to set a Halloween mood! Plus, a bit of QAnon woo! Here are links to stuff we talked about in this episode! Scary Sounds of Halloween website   A Night In A Haunted House/A Night In A Graveyard   Disneyland Recor...

Angela in Sleepaway Camp. Liz in American Horror Story: Hotel. Charlie in Hereditary.   Three very different ways of looking at trans identities.   Welcome to our supersized All The Horror special for 2020, featuring Dr. Leks Drakos, of The Geekly. Find him on Twitter at @leksikality and at leksikality.com .   Follow #AllTheHorror on social media to find all the awesome episodes by participating p...

Don't forget October is ALL THE HORROR month, and our next episode is a special supersized discussion with our friend Dr. Leks Drakos about trans characters in horror. Tell your friends!   This week we kick it off with an all new Hatin' on Satan, where we make fun of a woman who thinks wearing face masks and standing six feet apart to control the spread of COVID-19 is Satanic! Link to the full You...

First a bit of catching up, talking about dogs, how insane the weather is, and how you used to be able to afford to live in Austin when you couldn't pay your bills on time.   Then a quick "woo" lesson in urine therapy. Yup, urine and the people who swear by drinking it.   Pitney saw a couple movies, Resolution and The Endless, and they haunted him so much he had to tell Amelia about them.   Then s...

First off, we are SO SORRY about the weird sound issues in this one. It's been insanely hot in California and Pitney's mom's house had NO AC so there was a fan on full blast and we didn't realize the sound was picked up until it was too late!   Beware when Facebook ads suddenly offer you everything you've ever wanted, like hot tattooed guys in linen pants. Online clothes shopping can be a nightmar...