Lez Get Freaky
The Queer Cirque Du Freak Bookclub Podcast! Hannah and Zoë have been best friends since Kindergarten and obsessed with the book series Cirque Du Freak since middle school. Now, they're both queer 20-somethings with partners who have never read Darren Shan's young adult vampire saga. Listen along as Hannah, Zoë, Erika, and Sarah read, discuss, and drink their way through the books!
Episodes
21 episodes
Chapter 22/A Robot Without Personality
No best, but better! Greetings from 3 different time zones! Hannah (aka Robert) is thousands of miles away and Mabon is fed up with Erika’s screeches. Sarah’s nostril collapses under the pressure of looking so damn good as Zoë’s no...
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1:01:37
Chapter 21/Off The Rails
Send help!It’s another episode of Lez Get Freaky and absolutely no one is doing well. Hannah and Erika are masked and miserable, Sarah pairs whiskey with steroids and hacks up a lung, and Zoë is a weepy puddle after spending the da...
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Season 1
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Episode 15
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1:04:35
Chapter 20/Jellicle Rats
Strike! On this week’s LGF, Hannah paraphrases a full fortnight of pages as Erika allows us to peek into the deep recesses of her mind. Morgan slips effortlessly back into his own pants and manages to bleep out each of Sarah’s sever...
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Season 1
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Episode 14
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1:04:56
Chapter 19/Lass Uns Ausflippen
Hammy Holidays! It’s Christmas Eve and the ladies are back with an exciting new chapter of everyone’s favorite Christmas story: Cirque Du Freak! This week, we discover that Sarah Emanuel, PhD., lacks basic reading comprehension skills w...
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Season 1
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Episode 13
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1:19:27
Chapter 18/Spider Cat & Good Ham
HONEY, WE'RE HOOOOOME! A whole month later, the gals are back and better than ever, equipped with new cars, new therapists, and entirely new faces! Zoë leads the chapter and defends Darren’s questionably Irish pizza preferences.&n...
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Season 1
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Episode 14
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1:04:07
Chapter 17/Train Mayo: A Living Nightmare
Don’t flush! After a 3 week hiatus, the gang is back with a fresh new chapter to dissect. Erika tells us all about Samhain and does a spot-on impression of a 12-year-old boy (not at the same time). Sarah, recovering from her n...
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Season 1
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Episode 13
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1:06:42
Chapter 16/Vamps vs. Humes
Lez be honest... It was only a matter of time before we wasted 10 minutes discussing our menstrual cycles on the air! But don't worry, there's so much more. Erika's body may be a wonderland, but her brain is a thesaurus...
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Season 1
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Episode 12
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1:06:51
Cirquetober "Mini"-sode!
Four oh Ford!With Morgan and Sarah preoccupied by their “careers” and “obligations,” Zoë, Hannah, and Erika are on their own this week with another not-so-mini-sode! We’ll get to chapter 16 next time, but for now, sweet Vampians, we hop...
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Season 1
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Episode 12
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51:43
Chapter 15/Bang Your Head Against The Wall
But what will the editor think?!Morgan is finally back in his own pants and it's time to get freaky! Sarah, our resident professor, delivers a perspectival recap of Chapter 15 and catches a fly in mid-air. Erika ent...
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Season 1
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Episode 12
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1:05:02
Chapter 14/F Me? F F U!
Brand spankin' new!After a late-night deep-dive into copyright law, the ladies are back this week with an ALL NEW FORMAT! That's right, folks: in an effort to keep things interesting and not get sued, we are switching things up fr...
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Season 1
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Episode 11
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59:36
Chapter 13/Perfectly Morgan
Just like at 54 Below!Another Friday, another gut-wrenching episode where the ladies dissect the exquisite text that is Cirque du Freak. Both couples touch skeletons by way of teeth. Erika performs a transformational character interpret...
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Season 1
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Episode 10
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1:04:05
Friday the 13th "Mini"-sode!
Boo! Happy Friday the 13th! We *definitely* recorded this synchronously and not separately at two different times as it may seem...SPOOKY! Get to know the ladies of LGF in this...uh..."mini?!?"-sode. Sarah takes an ill-planned trip to Turkey, Z...
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Season 1
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Episode 9
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43:33
Chapter 12/The Panic! Capital of the World
Better late than never!The gals are back on this Freaky Monday (🤷🏻♀️) with another chaotic episode sans Morgan. Our story hits too close to home this week as Hannah and Erika have a real-life encounter with a black widow spider! ...
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Season 1
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Episode 9
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1:03:28
Chapter 10 & 11/Alexander McRib
Y’all - this episode is historic. To start, Hannah blatantly says no to being Zoë’s maid of honor after 20+ years of friendship. The ladies name their fan base “Vampians” and discuss sucking up and spitting out a load. Hannah explains u...
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Season 1
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Episode 8
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1:08:10
Chapter 9/Our First Guest
We’ve got a guest!Although they’ve yet to listen to even one episode, a dear friend of the pod, Steph Seiden, joins us this week to validate just how cringey Darren Shan’s choice of words can be. Zoë apologizes…profusely. Sa...
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Season 1
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Episode 7
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1:06:13
Chapter 8/Erika Craves Hannah
Maybe it was both of us?We’re back this week with an even more chaotic episode! Our thousands of fans are dying to know what actually happens in this book, and trust me - we’re getting there. We make it to the circus. Zoë finds a low-bu...
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Season 1
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Episode 6
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1:05:27
Chapter 7/Inherently and Specifically Ironic
It’s Pride Month, and that means you’re homophobic if you’re still not listening to the pod!Kidding. But this week we’re saying “goodbye” to exposition and “hello” to plot. The ladies breakdown their filler words, Sarah gets robbed and ...
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Season 1
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Episode 5
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1:04:41
Chapters 5 & 6/Zoë Lays A Breast
Yes and no?!?!?Your favorite gaggle of queer ladies sober up and return to power through the next two chapters of Cirque du Freak by Darren Shan. Sarah discusses postcoloniality, Erika and Hannah chew gnocchi into the mic, Zoë dem...
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Season 1
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Episode 4
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53:26
Chapter 4/Erika Forgot How to Read
Are we cheugy? Oops, we got a little too drunk for this one. The foursome of queer women (Erika, Hannah, Sarah, and Zoë) talk about their Hogwarts houses, the Dad Patriarchy, and Chuck E Cheese birthday parties. They also read cha...
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Season 1
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Episode 3
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57:25
Chapters 2 & 3/Mr. Dalton is Creepy
What is a cult?Zoë, Hannah, Sarah, and Erika read, discuss, and drink their way through chapters 3 and 4 of Darren Shan's 12-book saga, Cirque du Freak. Forrest Gump makes a cameo, Hannah tells a story about role-playing with Zoë in sch...
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Season 1
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Episode 2
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1:00:53
Intro & Chapter 1/How Long Does a Spider Live?
And what is a noun?!? Zoë and Hannah have been best friends since Kindergarten and obsessed with the young adult vampire series Cirque Du Freak since middle school. Now, they're both queer and want to introduce their partners to D...
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Season 1
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Episode 1
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58:18