This is the best day of the whole year! The day the A+ podcast finally finally says hello to you! As you may remember, we’ve had a time getting this project off the ground. But then we asked for help in the form of real podcast producers and the bright light of hope broke on the horizon and HERE WE ARE. Settle in and listen to Audrey and Intern Raquel ruin poetry! Brittani and Carmen offer the first installment of “A Plus B and Lil C,” and Laura helps you make a recipe for your armpits. Riese, Laneia and Rachel are also introducing a new series, BFF Interviews, where a team member interviews their best friend — it’s sort like the Interview With an Ex series, but with a different set of questions! We’re gonna transcribe the interviews and turn them into articles, but you can listen to the RAW TAPES, right here and right now.
This was edited and produced by the great Julia Wetherell and Samara Berger, and you can listen to it here or download it. We hope you like it! We have lots of fun ideas for the future.
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Thank you, getting things for Christmas is so worth waiting for them!
This was really great, except the poetry, the poetry was successfully ruined.
aw man
Thank-you! BEST CHRISTMAS!
Thank you! This was perfect to listen to while I worked on some knitting! You ladies are the best :)
Is it weird to say that I miss all of your guys’ voices?
OMG, this is the best Christmas gift. I’ve only been reading AS for a few months and I’m already so crazy about all the fantastic writers here. So much talent!
Okay, so. I have not, historically, been the type of person who joins and participates in communities. I tend more toward haughtily peering down my nose in rejection of such transient group dynamics. But y’all lovely ladies are kinda… sorta… inspiring me to change that paradigm? I think? I don’t know. Baby steps.
…anyway, um, thanks! This is great!
WELCOME!
Yay! It’s so nice to hear from you! Welcome!
Autostraddle was the first site that I actually looked forward to the comment section and I’ve stuck around ever since! Welcome home!
welcome jess we’re so happy you’re here we made you some banana bread
Oh bless my tiny heart, I am positively IN LOVE WITH banana bread.
Rachel… you just won Christmas.
Yesss I will listen to this at some point in my 12 hour flight tomorrow. Thank you!
My favorite part was B+ and Lil C, but the rest was fun, too.
I listened to this while I was out for a walk, and it was perfect. Thank you guys! I can’t wait for the next one!
thank you thank you thank you
UGH THIS IS SO GREAT
Lil C?
Like Lil Cal?
HAA HAA HEE HEE HOO HOO
He’s everywhere!
I’m only part way through so far and will have to wait until tomorrow to finish this, but I just wanted to say thank you for putting this together! It was so interesting to listen to, and I love the concept of the BFF interviews, which I can already tell I will love as much as the Interview with an Ex series. Thanks!
Loved the bff interview. Podcast worrh waiting for!
I’ve been saving this podcast until I really needed it and today I had to work 12 hours (gotta love jobs with no paid vacation) so I listened to it and it was everything I had hoped for so thank you!!!
This was worth the wait. A Plus B and Lil C forever.
I just found your site and this is great! :D
I’ve been spending a lot of time alone and podcasts help me feel like I have traveling friends or that I’m not alone or in this case that I’m not alone in cutting off all contact with the world when life gets weird and then frustrating the humans who care about me. I have so much love for you gays. So much.
I’m so glad you kept reminding me of this.
I FINALLY had a chance to listen to this, on the train on the way to work this morning, and it made coming back from nearly two weeks vacation much better. You guys are the cutest/raddest.
As someone who has a hard time navigating queer friendships, I really appreciated hearing Riese and Laneia talk about the times that they almost had something weird go down between them. Queer friendships can be so weird!
Digging the podcast.
I finally had a chance to listen to this yesterday and loved it. Hearing all of you talk about your friendships and how you met was super cool. Looking forward to more podcasts in the future!!
“One day your friendship princess will come.”
But what if instead of Disney princess movies, we could just have a long series of movies about friendship princesses. That would be so much better.
I realize I am waaaay behind on these but would it be possible to make this first podcast available for download as well, or is it too late? The other ones include the little download button within the soundcloud widget but this one doesn’t, and I was hoping to put it on my phone to listen to on a road trip.
I can’t believe I’ve waited almost a whole year to listen to this. So great!