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Two childhood best pals kibitzing and cackling. We want to be your best pals, confidants, and unlicensed therapists. Whatever you need us to be, we're making this podcast for us all.
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After 19-year-old Aya Velasquez died mysteriously in Harding Park, no one seemed to care. At least not until a preteen medium accidentally summoned Aya herself to solve the mystery. With no memory of her death and no shortage of questions, Aya must make friends with her fellow ghosts and discover the truth behind the nation's most haunted park. Based on EVP audio recorded by M.A.A.G. (Mothers Against Aliens and Ghosts), Overkill is a comedy podcast, a murder mystery, and a love story all wra ...
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The Pals are back in the studio again! This time they're playing a game that tests how truly indecisive they are by pitting their favorite musicians against each other! What if there was a world where you had to pick between only listening to Taylor Swift or Kelsea Ballerini? Sounds terrible! But the Gals are here to answer those tough questions. S…
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The Pals chat about their crumbling fantasy football teams, Kelsea Ballerini's new bop, and Taylor Swifts Black Friday announcement (it's Episode 13, we HAD to mention the queen). Will the gals be able to survive the Target Hunger Games and get The Anthology vinyl? As always, only time will tell. Send us a message! Support the show Thanks for liste…
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The Gals try their best but inevitably can't land on a single "fun" fact...or all the details of one. Tiana was in the paper, but not for what you think! Click bait? Maybe. The Pals give their fantasy football failure updates, fan-girl about Kelsea Ballerini's upcoming album and generally get sidetracked pretty quickly in this one! Send us a messag…
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Tiana takes us on a journey of pain, wings, and glory. The dinguses get together and discuss what they think the saddest songs are on The Tortured Poets Department, lyrics and all. Don't worry, we've learned to move the microphones away when we laugh! Send us a message! Support the show Thanks for listening! :)…
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Episode 91: Shiva Baby Hello lovely queers! Today Alicia and Sarah are talking about the wonderfully claustrophobic 2020 film Shiva Baby. The movie takes place in a tight 72 minutes over the course of one afternoon, mostly at, you guessed it, a shiva. It revolves around Hot Mess Hot Bi Girl Danielle, who gets wrapped up in a TON of drama involving …
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Episode 90: Hello you beautiful gays! Join Sarah and Alicia for a very special live episode at the Seattle Queer Film Festival! We are discussing HEALED--a psychological thriller written by and starring Shantell Yasmine Abeydeera (Dating in Place), and co-starring Emily Goss (Dating in Place, Season of Love [which we covered in Episode 52]), and th…
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Episode 89: Nina's Heavenly Delights Hello lovely queers! Welcome to this month's podcast, wherein Alicia introduces Sarah to one of her favorite Lesbian Films, Nina's Heavenly Delights. This 2006 romcom was done dirty by critics and even its own producers but it's kind of a joy to watch, for the most part. It's real cheesy in the best way, with fa…
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Episode 88: Everything Everywhere All at Once Hi lovelies! Welcome to this month's episode, where Alicia and Sarah discuss the 2022 banger Everything Everywhere All at Once! This movie is hard to describe but you already know about it so it's fine. Join us as we talk about hot dog fingers, rocks with googly eyes, gender constructs, the everything b…
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Episode 87: Passing Hey lovely queers! Today Alicia and Sarah are back together talking about 2021's Passing, the adaptation of Nella Larson's 1929 novel of the same name. There's so much going on in this movie, none of which is explicitly gay per se, but all of which is very immersive and will make you think about the ways in which white supremacy…
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Episode 86: Lust Life Love and interview with Stephanie Sellars! Hello gaybies! In this episode, we jump into the NYC polyamorous scene with the film Lust Life Love. Alicia interviews the co-director, writer, producer, and lead in the film, Stephanie Sellars on her inspiration for the story, the queerness of polyamory, and her own media-inspired ga…
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Episode 85: Foxfire Hey queer cuties! This week Alicia and Sarah are digging into one of the greatest queer movies of all time that is not (but kinda is) explicitly queer: 1996's Foxfire. This movie launched Angelina Jolie's (tragically not gay enough) career! And also has so many great people in it including the Jennys: Jenny Lewis and Jenny Shimi…
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Episode 84: Anne+ - The Film This month, we're headed to Amsterdam! In this sequel to a popular Dutch webseries of the same name, we follow Anne, a 20-something Dutch writer queer just trying to ~figure out her life~ as she cycles and walks the streets of a v picturesque city. We quite enjoyed this one and hope you do too! Further reading:Autostrad…
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Episode 83: D.E.B.S Hiya gays! This month we are digging into the cult classic 2004 cinematic masterpiece (arguable), D.E.B.S! This was a formative film for Alicia, and Sarah had never seen it before, but boy is it of its time. Tune in to hear Alica and Sarah relive the disturbing moment that was the aughts and its glorification of uber-thin bodies…
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Episode 82: Skate Kitchen Hi sweet queeros! This month Alicia and Sarah are talking about a movie near and dear to Sarah's heart (and now Alicia's too): 2018's vibe-fest Skate Kitchen. This film is based on a real life girls skate crew in New York City and the way they ~vibe~ with each other and their sport. Also some stuff happens with like, comin…
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Episode 81: Mars One Hi queeros! Welcome back to the pod! This month we are discussing the 2022 Brazilian film Mars One, which can be streamed on Netflix. It follows a Black family in the early days after Bolsonaro's election, which is the background noise to their daily lives. The parents work in the service industry, the tween brother is a soccer…
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Episode 80: Elisa & Marcela Happy new year, lovely queers! To kick off the 2023 movie-watching season, this month Alicia and Sarah go back in time to turn-of-the-20th-century Spain, where these two teenage schoolgirls get really into towel play (i.e. they fall in love at school), and spend the rest of their lives either together or trying to be tog…
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Episode 79: Under the Christmas Tree Happy holigays everyone! This year for our December episode we are talking about the very Lifetime Lifetime movie Under the Christmas Tree, which is the first Lifetime lesbian Christmas romcom (say it five times fast!). It stars queer lady darling Elise Bauman and Ricki Lake it takes place in Sarah’s home state …
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Episode 78: Erin's Guide to Kissing Girls Hiiii lovely queers! Welcome to a very special episode of Gal Pals Watch: a live recording at the Seattle Queer Film Festival! We are talking about one of their 2022 youth features, the Canadian film Erin’s Guide to Kissing Girls. Listen to Alicia and Sarah discuss positive and nuanced youth representation,…
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Episode 77: My Name is Pauli Murray Hi queeros! Welcome to an episode about a movie we love! It's a documentary about Pauli Murray, who was a truly amazing nonbinary lawyer, civil rights activist, priest, and all-around human being. You should watch this movie and learn even more reasons we owe Pauli every progressive legal precedent we hope we can…
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Episode 76: Crush Hey queeros! Welcome back to our little lesbian-ish show, where this week Alicia and Sarah dig into a movie without much substance but a lot of charm -- Crush! This 2022 film is on Hulu and stars Rowan Blanchard and Auli'i Cravalho (who played Moana), and also Megan Mullally which is fun too. It's a ridiculous teen movie about art…
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Episode 75: Nowhere Inn Hey hi hello! Remember a while back when the gay girl internet got really excited for a second about Dakota Johnson playing a version of Kristin Stewart in a movie with and by Annie Clark/St. Vincent and Carrie Brownstein? This is that movie, and it's on Hulu! It is... weird! Join Alicia and Sarah as they try to work through…
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Episode 74: Baka Bukas Good day, fair queers! Today on the pod we're discussing a film out of the Phillipines, 2016's Baka Bukas! This is billed as a romantic drama, and that's pretty accurate. It follows two early-20s friends working in the entertainment industry in different roles, one of whom is out as lesbian to everyone but this friend. Who th…
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Episode 73: The Fallout Hello queeros, this month Alicia and Sarah are delving into a movie that will hit you in the absolute feels, fyi. The movie is The Fallout, starring the dancing Sia girl (sorry, that was reductive) Maddie Ziegler and the most amazing Jenna Ortega, and a lot of other really great people, about how a few teens cope after a sch…
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Episode 72: So My Grandma's a Lesbian! Hi loves! This month, after a brief hiatus due to cHaOs, we are back and discussing a movie that requires very little brainpower to sit through! Titled So My Grandma's a Lesbian exclamation point, this Spanish movie follows some sweet older women who love each other in a very healthy way, in contrast to the sh…
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Episode 71: Hello beautiful queeros and happy Valentine's Day! (we hate it, but we also love it) Unfortunately (for some of us, like Sarah) KStew is off the market, but that won't stop us from talking about her, and today we are discussing her latest gay Christmas movie, Spencer! It is not exactly an upbeat film, and is also not that gay, but it's …
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Episode 70: The Party Good evening, happy new year, and welcome to our Bougie and Pretentious evening soirée, with a side of gay. Tonight we will be discussing the 2017 Art Haus Film The Party. Topics include mortality, cocaine, cultural appropriation, academia, The Men, dated lesbian culture, Cherry Jones, Kristen Scott Thomas, murder, and plot tw…
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Episode 69: The Novice Happy 69, queerz! This month we watch the new psychological sports thriller, The Novice, in which a college freshman is ~*very obsessed*~ with getting onto her school's varsity crew team. Some very disturbing obsessive thoughts and self harm in this one, so take care of yourselves if you watch it, but also it's pretty absorbi…
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Episode 68: Addicted to Fresno Helloooo lovely listeners! This month we're headed to Cali, but it's the part of Cali people like to dump on, aka Fresno! In this 2015 film, Natasha Lyonne and Aubrey Plaza are gay for each other but not enough. A bunch of other stuff happens including Sister Drama and Murder, but you'll have to listen (and watch the …
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Episode 67: A Date for Mad Mary Hiya queeros! This month we are watching an actually pretty good movie! The 2016 Irish film A Date for Mad Mary is a surprisingly great example of nuanced and bittersweet storytelling based on a one-woman play, and it is way better than its title. Tune in to hear us talk about ambiguity, love, and ~personal growth~ i…
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Episode 66: See You Then Hey lovely queers! It's us, Alicia and Sarah! This month, we bought tickets to virtual screenings of some movies at LA's Outfest, and we love virtual screenings because we can "go to" tons of different festivals! This movie is one we saw via Outfest, and it stars Lynn Chen of Saving Face fame, which is tbh 99% of the reason…
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Episode 65: Set It Off Hi queeros! This month we're taking it back to 1996, to a movie that is not very gay but it does feature Queen Latifah in a queer role which is why we wanted to watch it! Tune in to hear Alicia and Sarah's thoughts about why this movie sad heist rather than fun heist, and how gay the character of Cleo is/is not?! In all serio…
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Episode 64: Dating Amber Hello beautiful queers! This month we’ve got a treat for all you 90s gays and everyone else too. We watched the cute little beard movie Dating Amber, which is set in Ireland in 1995. Tune in to listen to Alicia and Sarah talk about complicated romantic-ish relationships, cute gay kids, peer bullying, gay bars, the military,…
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Episode 63: The World to Come Hello lovely queers of the world! Happy pride month and all that. This month, Alicia and Sarah are talking about the Late 2020 Lesbian Period Drama (vol. 783 in the Lesbian Period Drama canon), The World to Come. It is winter in here, it's bleak! Get in but also stay away if you don't like Sadness! There are some redee…
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Episode 62: The Half of It Hello lovelies! It is us, your forever gay aunts! This month we are talking about the movie that got us all through that early lil bit of the pan pizza in May 2020, The Half of It! In case for some unfathomable reason you don't know about this adorable movie, it is the long-awaited sophomore venture from ultimate fave Ali…
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Episode 61: Ellie & Abbie (& Ellie's Dead Aunt) Howdy, beautiful listeners! We are back from a winter spent in survival mode, hbu? Shooting for the stars that we will be on a monthly recording schedule from here on out :) Today we start out with a lil update, including a discussion of our tagline and why we decided to change it. Then we get into th…
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Episode 60: Happiest Season Hello gays! We are back with a brand-new episode of the highly anticipated (and now highly debated) movie, Happiest Season, directed by Clea DuVall (of But I'm a Cheerleader fame). There are things we loved and things we did not love about this movie--we talk about those things around Sarah stanning KStew. We're so happy…
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We're back! And trying to talk about fun stuff and not the big bad thing going on!Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/galpalsTweet us: https://twitter.com/galpalspodAsk us for advice that we'll answer on the podcast! You can DM us on Twitter, message us through Patreon, or email galpalsthepodcast@gmail.com…
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