To L And Back: An L Word Podcast

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Generation Q: 1.05 Labels Jan 06, 2020

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The Gen Q chaos continues! This week everyone is processing their feelings and we're processing our feelings about them processing their feelings! We're baffled by both newbie couples, delighted by Quiara's emotional health, and very conflicted about the pairing of Tess and Finley. Can something be both sad and hot? Time and again The L Word proves the answer is yes! Also our favorite throuple continues to throuple and when it's time to discuss Drew and Analyssa may just get a third of their own.

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Episode Produced, Mixed, Edited: Lauren Klein @laurentaylorklein

Generation Q: 1.04 L.A. Times Dec 30, 2019

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Our dreams came true! That's right! Threesome, babyyyyy. Analyssa is gone for the holidays so join Drew and Riese as they break down Gen Q episode 104: LA Times. There's a threesome, Shane's 40th birthday, a threesome, some insane workplace behavior, a threesome, confirmation of a death we were dreading, and a threesome! Okay fine there was just one threesome. But you can rewatch it as much as you'd like!

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Follow our Gen Q co-hosts hosts Drew Gregory (@draw_gregory) and Analyssa Lopez (@analoco_ / @analocaa)

Theme song: Be Steadwell @besteadwell

Logo: Carra Sykes @carrasykes

Episode Produced, Mixed, Edited: Lauren Klein @laurentaylorklein

Generation Q: 1.03 Lost Love Dec 23, 2019

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This week we continue our time with Generation Q as Micah peruses Grindr, Finley confronts her religious past, and Dani and Sophie look at wedding venues! Meanwhile, Bette debate preps, Shane hooks up with the less interesting of her new business partners, and Alice... TALKS TO MEGAN RAPINOE!? Just another exciting day in gay LA!

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Follow Riese everywhere at @autowin and her esteemed website @autostraddle. Join our membership program, A+, to ensure our site lasts as long as this show did!

Follow our Gen Q co-hosts hosts Drew Gregory (@draw_gregory) and Analyssa Lopez (@analoco_ / @analocaa)

Theme song: Be Steadwell @besteadwell

Logo: Carra Sykes @carrasykes

Episode Produced, Mixed, Edited: Lauren Klein @laurentaylorklein

Generation Q: 1.02 Less Is More Dec 16, 2019

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This week on "To L and Back" Gen Q co-hosts Drew Gregory and Analyssa Lopez are joined by regular co-host Riese Bernard to talk about episode two! Dani takes over PR for Bette, Micah and Jose go on a date, Shane and Finley go to a bar, we learn about Nat and Alice's past, and we meet Sophie's amazing family! Do we discuss the representation of trans lesbians, trans sex, and Latinx families? Yes. Do we discuss high-waisted pants and threesomes? Also yes. Just like the Alice show we do it all!

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Follow our Gen Q co-hosts hosts Drew Gregory (@draw_gregory) and Analyssa Lopez (@analoco_ / @analocaa)

Theme song: Be Steadwell @besteadwell

Logo: Carra Sykes @carrasykes

Episode Produced, Mixed, Edited: Lauren Klein @laurentaylorklein

Generation Q: 1.01 Let's Do It Again Dec 12, 2019

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Welcome to the first Gen Q episode of "To L and Back"! For the next eight weeks, noted gays and proud members of Generation Q, Drew Gregory and Analyssa Lopez, will be taking over hosting duties to discuss the new show. Join us as we reunite with our original favorites and meet TWO new generations of queers. We share L Word origin stories, our hopes for the series, and dive right into the first episode. This was still recorded in Riese's living room so she might just shout an occasional opinion.

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Follow Riese everywhere at @autowin and her esteemed website @autostraddle. Join our membership program, A+, to ensure our site lasts as long as this show did!

Follow our Gen Q co-hosts hosts Drew Gregory (@draw_gregory) and Analyssa Lopez (@analoco_ / @analocaa)

Theme song: Be Steadwell @besteadwell

Logo: Carra Sykes @carrasykes

Episode Produced, Mixed, Edited: Lauren Klein @laurentaylorklein

0.05 LIVE from LA! Showtime x Autostraddle Presents: Generation Q Dec 09, 2019

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Showtime x Autostraddle presents a very special LIVE episode of "To L and Back" featuring the cast of The L Word: Generation Q! Recorded at the LA LGBT Center (@ileosheng, @jtoboni, @arienne_mandi, @rosannyzayas) with an audience of ~200 delightful humans, Carly and Riese talk to Jacqueline Toboni (Finley), Leo Sheng (Micah), Rosanny Zayas (Sophie) and Arienne Mandi (Dani) about filming sex scenes, L Word origin stories, riding losing winning, falling in love with your best friend, on-set shenanigans, fan fiction and musical writing. An incredible time was had by all and you can too!! Plus: details on our Generation Q podcast and a special code to get a 30 day free trial of Showtime!

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Theme song: Be Steadwell @besteadwell

Logo: Carra Sykes @carrasykes

Episode Produced, Mixed, Edited: Lauren Klein @laurentaylorklein

3.05 Lifeline Dec 02, 2019

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This week on "To L and Back," noted bisexual and prolific author Gaby Dunn of the "Bad With Money" podcast joins us for an analysis of "Lifeline," Riese's favorite episode of the season! It contains THREE entire sex scenes, a stunning confession from Tina about her extracurricular activities with Daddyof2, a classic "is she or isn't she a vampire" escapade, tight trousers, a strap-on mystery, bisexual speed dating, a surprise haircut for Cherie Peroni in FULL MOMMI SPLENDOR, Jenny's trip to the store for a six-pack and also some truly tragic events for Dana and Max. Plus: Tina didn't know Buddhism could be so expensive!

Special thanks to our episode sponsor LOLA!

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Theme song: Be Steadwell @besteadwell

Logo: Carra Sykes @carrasykes

Episode Produced, Mixed, Edited: Lauren Klein @laurentaylorklein

3.04 Light My Fire Nov 25, 2019

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This week we are so pleased to announce that Cerise Castle, an actual employee of KCRW, joined us to discuss topics including Alice's dubious KCRW show about Dana / interconnectivity / weapons of mass destruction / giving a pig a pancake. Also: Bette yells about art and has finger intercourse with Senator Barbara Grisham (played by Dana Delaney), Jenny burns her book, Bif Naked talks about top surgery, Tina is a major league c*nt, Dana meets her hero Billie Jean King, Carmen has to decide between a major career opportunity and a party at a skate shop, Helena wants to over-finance Dylan's movie and so much more! A special thanks to this episode sponsor LOLA!

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Follow our SPECIAL GUEST Cerise Castle @yourmajestcee

Theme song: Be Steadwell @besteadwell

Logo: Carra Sykes @carrasykes

Episode Produced, Mixed, Edited: Lauren Klein @laurentaylorklein

3.03 Lobsters Nov 18, 2019

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Carmen's shopping for gig vests at Wax, Max and Shane are gonna be butch and help the ladies out with their luggage, Bette's had just about enough of Tina's petty bourgeois anxiety and everybody is very clear about their intentions to attend a dinner tonight in honor of Jenny and male lobsters, who behave better than female lobsters while in a pot together. Also: Dana gets a mammogram, Shane and Carmen are puppy-sitting for some reason, we didn't know Mark Epstein was a real person and Alice has a really bad psychiatrist! Special thanks to our episode sponsor, MCD! The publisher for the new memoir High School, by Tegan and Sara!

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Follow Riese everywhere at @autowin and her esteemed website @autostraddle. Join our membership program, A+, to ensure our site lasts as long as this show did!

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Theme song: Be Steadwell @besteadwell

Logo: Carra Sykes @carrasykes

Episode Produced, Mixed, Edited by Lauren Klein @laurentaylorklein

3.02 Lost Weekend Nov 11, 2019

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Welcome to a very Frankensteined episode of "To L and Back"! Carly had to skip town this weekend, but you can join Riese and her very special guest host, friend-of-the-pod Drew, as they overanalyze "Lost Weekend" — but that's not all! Guest contributors Yvonne Marquez and Gloria Delgadillo-Alvarado have recapped all the Quinceañera-related scenes for you all the way from Texas! Join us as Jenny and Max do a Great Plains Bar-hop, Shane wears a wig, Daddyof2 logs on to his fave chat room, Alan Cumming hosts Vulva Las Vegas, Bette worries about her relationship with Tina falling apart like sand through the hourglass and Helena hires a hottie to clean up Alice's weird shrine. Also, Carmen does that dance in her lingerie, so. Yvonne and Gloria are v cute and funny you do NOT WANT TO MISS THIS.

This episode of To L and Back is supported by MCD, the publisher of HIGH SCHOOL, the new memoir by the musicians TEGAN AND SARA!

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