Pitney & Amelia's Bitchen Boutique

Pitney explains his obsession with organized crime and  mafia documentaries, and talks about his personal childhood encounters with mobsters and their shady dealings. Then Amelia jumps in with a quick story about the Worst Person in the World. Please excuse Pitney's very excited dog Joxer making a racket in the background with the squeaky toy. He's a good puppy. We love you for listening! Please take a moment to rate and review us! Questions? Comments? Complaints? Write to us at PitneyAndAmelia@gmail.com! Tweet at us at @bitchenboutique! Who the heck are Pitney and Amelia? A gay guy and his fat friend talking about everything! We've got over 30 years of stories to share about stuff we love, stuff that annoys us, people we've known, places we've been, and things we've seen. Geeky, silly, and always opinionated. NAMES ARE CHANGED TO PROTECT THE GUILTY! We may be awful, but we're right! New episodes every other Friday. Recorded close enough to Austin, Texas to help with their weirdness factor. LGBTQ | Com

Happy Holidays! This week, we talk about family traditions and how families come up with their own special way of celebrating Christmas. Trees, fancy or no? Or both? Does Santa wrap presents? When do you open presents? There's a lot that goes into a Christmas tradition! Then Amelia surprises Pitney with a festive Christmas edition of the game "Fuck Marry Kill!" Play along at our website or on Twitter! http://bitchenb.libsyn.com/wanna-play-a-game Then we wrap things up with a fun discussion about Christmas-themed horror movies like Black Christmas and Jack Frost! We love you for listening! Please take a moment to rate and review us! Questions? Comments? Complaints? Write to us at PitneyAndAmelia@gmail.com! Tweet at us at @bitchenboutique! Who the heck are Pitney and Amelia? A gay guy and his fat friend talking about everything! We've got over 30 years of stories to share about stuff we love, stuff that annoys us, people we've known, places we've been, and things we've seen. Geeky, silly, and always opinio

We've gotten some questions about Wicca lately, so we decided to answer them. Pitney teaches us, in a nutshell, about the Wheel of the Year, about rituals and spellwork, and about the duality of deity. Amelia does her best to keep up. (If you downloaded this podcast on day one, you may have gotten a file with some audio hiccups. You may need to load it again! Sorry about that!)   If you're interested in the Tarot deck Pitney mentioned, visit the website of its creators! http://thewildwoodtarot.com We love you for listening! Please take a moment to rate and review us! Questions? Comments? Complaints? Write to us at PitneyAndAmelia@gmail.com! Tweet at us at @bitchenboutique! Who the heck are Pitney and Amelia? A gay guy and his fat friend talking about everything! We've got over 30 years of stories to share about stuff we love, stuff that annoys us, people we've known, places we've been, and things we've seen. Geeky, silly, and always opinionated. NAMES ARE CHANGED TO PROTECT THE GUILTY! We may be awful, b

Happy Thanksgiving! It's been a weird year, but there's always something to give thanks for, right? We thought it would be fun to talk about some of the more unusual things we're thankful for, things that continue to bring us joy every day!   And when you're done listening to this episode, head on over to bitchenb.libsyn.com to check out our first download-only bonus episode! It's a bit of extra love for one of our favorite artists!   We love you for listening! Please take a moment to rate and review us!   Questions? Comments? Complaints? Write to us at PitneyAndAmelia@gmail.com! Tweet at us at @bitchenboutique!   Who the heck are Pitney and Amelia? A gay guy and his fat friend talking about everything! We've got over 30 years of stories to share about stuff we love, stuff that annoys us, people we've known, places we've been, and things we've seen. Geeky, silly, and always opinionated. NAMES ARE CHANGED TO PROTECT THE GUILTY!   We may be awful, but we're right!   New episodes every other Friday. Recorded clo

What a week, huh? We swear it's a coincidence that we're putting up a podcast about being happy during a week when a lot of us are so miserable. But Amelia DID change her mind about calling this episode "Get Happy, Stupid!" so we all won, in a way. Some people are just determined to be DOWN all the time, you know? Maybe you feel like happiness isn't real because you don't think you can be happy. We think you're just doing it wrong. And we know stuff, because we've been around the block a few thousand times. We learned the hard way how to avoid drowning in sadness and self-pity. Let's get out of the bitter barn and play in the hay! We love you for listening! Please take a moment to rate and review us! Questions? Comments? Complaints? Write to us at PitneyAndAmelia@gmail.com! Tweet at us at @bitchenboutique! Who the heck are Pitney and Amelia? A gay guy and his fat friend talking about everything! We've got over 30 years of stories to share about stuff we love, stuff that annoys us, people we've known, plac

It's our 13th episode, and it's Halloween! Our favorite holiday by far. The sights, the sounds, the scares, all of it!   We tell stories of our glorious party days of the past and the complications of putting scary decorations on a "murder house."   Then we get to the educational bit where we talk about the origins of Halloween traditions and how American Halloween was shaped over the years! (Shoutout to Hiawatha, KS and the @HalloweenFrolic!)   And finally, all that healthy nonsense surrounding giving candy to kids. Don't be the jerk who gives out pennies! We hate that guy! Did we include a music clip that might get us sued? Did we? DID WE?? DID YOU HEAR ONE? Because we gonna deny deny deny. We love you for listening! Please take a moment to rate and review us! Questions? Comments? Complaints? Write to us at PitneyAndAmelia@gmail.com! Tweet at us at @bitchenboutique! Who the heck are Pitney and Amelia? A gay guy and his fat friend talking about everything! We've got over 30 years of stories to share abou

We LOVE horror movies. A lot. And this is the time of year when regular people are in the mood for horror, so we got to chatting about horror movies through the decades, and how they often tend to reflect the times!   When we get to the 1980s, it's all about demonic influence on teenagers, so you know we just had to reminisce about the Satanic Panic! Do you remember all that ridiculous crap? Cuz we sure do! We talk about Michelle Remembers, the Oak Hill Satanic Ritual Abuse trial of Dan and Fran Keller, and Amelia tells the story of a time when the Texas Rangers got called to investigate some Karo syrup. Seriously.   We love you for listening! Please take a moment to rate and review us!   CONGRATULATIONS TO OUR TWO CONTEST WINNERS!!   Questions? Comments? Complaints? Write to us at PitneyAndAmelia@gmail.com! Tweet at us at @bitchenboutique!   Who the heck are Pitney and Amelia? A gay guy and his fat friend talking about everything! We've got over 30 years of stories to share about stuff we love, stuff that an

Don't miss our Halloween Special, airing October 28th!

We're a little all over the place this week with bits of silliness and seriousness. Trusting your gut. Bathing in a public hot tub. Mister Diskette and his quest to see Xena's boob. Listener email! And another tale of the Worst Person in the World. And Ted Nugent sucks! I mean, that's just TRUE. We love you for listening! Please take a moment to rate and review us! DON'T FORGET TO ENTER THE CONTEST! DETAILS AT BITCHENB.LIBSYN.COM! Questions? Comments? Complaints? Write to us at PitneyAndAmelia@gmail.com! Tweet at us at @bitchenboutique! Who the heck are Pitney and Amelia? A gay guy and his fat friend talking about everything! We've got over 30 years of stories to share about stuff we love, stuff that annoys us, people we've known, places we've been, and things we've seen. Geeky, silly, and always opinionated. NAMES ARE CHANGED TO PROTECT THE GUILTY! We may be awful, but we're right! New episodes every other Friday. Recorded close enough to Austin, Texas to help with their weirdness factor. LGBTQ | Com

As we continue our conversation about gender, we talk about tone and attitude in interactions, particularly on social media, and whether or not people are truly willing to learn from each other. In other words, shit gets real. Like, really real. Maybe you're non-binary, maybe you've never even thought about gender before; either way you may learn something! (Split into two podcasts for your comfort, because we talked till we dropped. This is part two. Please listen to part one first!) Get more information about our contest on our website, bitchenb.libsyn.com! Links of interest: Definitions/Explanations http://www.advocate.com/transgender/2015/07/31/true-meaning-word-cisgender http://nonbinary.org/wiki/Main_Page About Nate and his memoir http://www.runningrewired.com/home/ We love you for listening! Please take a moment to rate and review us! Questions? Comments? Complaints? Write to us at PitneyAndAmelia@gmail.com! Tweet at us at @bitchenboutique!

(Get it? 101? Binary? Aw. come on.) We've been talking to each other about gender for a while, and thought it was time to share our thoughts. Listen to two cisgender folks get super nerdy about word definitions and analyze the hell out of them, and the way human brains use words to categorize people. Maybe you're non-binary, maybe you've never even thought about gender before; either way you may learn something! (Split into two podcasts for your comfort, because we talked till we dropped. This is part one.) Did you hear about the contest? Listen to part two for details! Links of interest: Definitions/Explanations http://www.advocate.com/transgender/2015/07/31/true-meaning-word-cisgender http://nonbinary.org/wiki/Main_Page About Jeffrey Marsh http://www.jeffreymarsh.com/ (I learned after the fact that Jeffrey prefers the pronoun "they" and I shall never make that mistake again!) We love you for listening! Please take a moment to rate and review us! Questions? Comments? Complaints? Write to us at Pit

Pitney and Amelia discuss getting rid of "stuff" and why Pitney is an expert purger and Amelia is sentimental as hell. What we collect and why. Some musical samples of Amelia's super famous relative you've probably never heard of. And stories about Verity and the Worst Person in the World! We love you for listening! Please take a moment to rate and review us! Questions? Comments? Complaints? Write to us at PitneyAndAmelia@gmail.com! Tweet at us at @bitchenboutique!

We're not due for a new episode this week, but we had to share with you the harrowing saga of TOILET RAT!!! Check out the @bitchenboutique tweets from the evening of Sept 1st for Amelia's online freakout!  

A discussion of unguents, balms, and salves takes an odd turn. Then things get dirty. NSFW. We mean it. Oh, and we introduce yet another new character! We love you for listening! Please take a moment to rate and review us! Questions? Comments? Complaints? Write to us at PitneyAndAmelia@gmail.com! Tweet at us at @bitchenboutique!

(Sorry about the slightly odd audio...sounds at times like we're broadcasting from space!) The food like Mom used to make, the food Pitney really shouldn't have been eating, and the wonders of chicken nivernaise. Our biggest boy crushes from the 70s. The arrogance of inanimate objects. And we introduce a new character!! Questions? Comments? Complaints? Fangirliness? Write to us at PitneyAndAmelia@gmail.com! Tweet at us at @bitchenboutique!

Listen in as two non-experts talk about politics in America. As we admit that while we believe it’s important to listen to those on the other side of an issue, we don’t always do it. As we talk about how the way you approach people who disagree with you affects their ability to listen. Recorded right at the beginning of the RNC, before we knew how ugly the rhetoric would get. Here’s the link to the website that inspired the discussion: idaretolisten.org Questions? Comments? Complaints? Fangirliness? Write to us at PitneyAndAmelia@gmail.com! Tweet at us at @bitchenboutique!  

Were you a weird child? Come with us as we reminisce about why we were the weirdest kids we knew. Then we continue down the weirdness track, discussing the joys of cussing, fake pregnancies, and some really odd compliments we've received. Questions? Comments? Complaints? Fangirliness? Write to us at PitneyAndAmelia@gmail.com! Tweet at us at @bitchenboutique! And if you're feeling generous, review us on iTunes!

We discuss Pitney's experience at the Kerrville Folk Festival, and how important it is to find your tribe, especially when you don't quite fit into the larger community. And we open the mailbag, answering our first listener question! Questions? Comments? Complaints? Fangirliness? Write to us at PitneyAndAmelia@gmail.com! Tweet at us at @bitchenboutique!  

Coincidentally, during the week following the horrific Pulse nightclub massacre in Orlando, we had already planned to post this episode that features a frank discussion about homophobia and the ugliness we lived and witnessed during our formative years. Plus, the 80s sucked more than a lot of people realize these days. And, to wrap things up, we share a story about removing an awful person from our lives because of the awfulness of his awfulness. (Please excuse the yappiness of Amelia's chihuahua in the distance. He was in a bit of a mood.)  Questions? Comments? Complaints? Fangirliness? Write to us at PitneyAndAmelia@gmail.com! Tweet at us at @bitchenboutique!  

We've been attending conventions since the 1980s. Doctor Who, Star Trek, Star Wars, Xena, general sci-fi, fantasy, anime, horror...you name it, we've been a fan of it! In this episode, we talk about the excitement that comes with being a fan, and what we love the most about cons. We discuss the types of conventions, some of the famous folks we've met, and the new "comic-con" setup that isn't nearly as much fun as the good old days.