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Latest Episodes

Taylor Ortega (and Melanie’s) Notebook
August 13, 2017

In high school, Taylor Ortega used to share a notebook with her friend Melanie. They would pass it back and forth, adding something to it’s ruled pages with each transition. Taylor shares some selections from the book,

Live From Q.E.D. with Raquel Powell, Liz Barrett, Camille Harris, Parker Denton and Chemda Khalili
August 06, 2017

Lyssa returns to NYC and discusses “frenemies” with Raquel Powell, Liz Barrett, Camille Harris, Parker Denton and Chemda Khalili. Recorded live from Q.E.D. in Astoria, NYC on Monday, July 31, 2017. Like The Bitch Seat on Facebook Follow The Bitch Seat ...

Clayton Farris’s Pencil Box of Writings
July 16, 2017

Clayton Farris’s Pencil Box of Writings is one of the few pieces of his youth that he’s brought with him from his hometown of Dallas, TX. He shares some choice selections of it’s precious contents with Lyssa & Phil and discovers a drastic disconnect wi...

Christopher Korbel’s Ideal Apartment
July 09, 2017

Christopher Korbel joins Lyssa and special guest co-host engineer Veronica in the Bitch Seat! He shares a drawing he had made at the age of 12 of the interior of his ideal apartment. Like The Bitch Seat on Facebook Follow The Bitch Seat on Twitter Foll...

Mara Wilson, Matt Knudsen, Brent Sullivan, Angela Lewis Live from NerdMelt!
June 25, 2017

Lyssa & Phil are live from NerdMelt with Mara Wilson’s show choir dress, Matt Knudsen’s letter to his grandmother, Brent Sullivan’s letter to his future self and Angela Lewis’s diary. Recorded June 2, 2017 at the Nerdist Showroom at Meltdown Comics in ...

Elaine Carroll’s Scary Story and Katie Hilliard’s Journal From France
May 28, 2017

Katie Hilliard and Elaine Carroll, hosts of the I Feel Ya podcast, share the bitch seat as well as some of their early creative works. Elaine reads from  one of her earliest forays into storytelling and Katie shares a journal entry from her time in Fra...

Kiwi Callahan’s Holocaust Poem
May 07, 2017

Kiwi Callahan wrote a poem titled A Soldier’s Suicide when she was in 8th grade. It’s a poem she’s still proud of to this day. She also talks about her unique name, growing up on a farm in Colorado and being asked for her blood by her vampire ex-boyfri...

Live at Q.E.D. with Jenn Dodd, Peter Michael Marino, Leah Bonnema & Jay Malsky
April 30, 2017

Lyssa & Phil make a quick trip back to the right-coast for a live show with Jenn Dodd, Peter Michael Marino, Leah Bonnema and musical accompaniment/performance by Jay Malsky. Recorded live at QED in Astoria, NY on April 9, 2017.

Craig ‘muMs’ Grant’s Ave Posse Chant
April 23, 2017

Craig ‘muMs’ Grant (Oz, Birdman) sits in the Bitch Seat and shares his memories of growing up in the south Bronx, going clubbing at Union Square and tales of his “Ave Posse”. Check out muMs’s show ‘A SUCKER EMCEE’ playing from Aprul 26,

Live at Nerdmelt with Laurie Kilmartin, Ramin Nazer, Liz Glazer, Zach Sherwin & Myq Kaplan
April 16, 2017

Lyssa & Phil are live from The Nerdmelt Showroom with Laurie Kilmartin (Conan), Ramin Nazer (Rainbow Brainskull, Craig Ferguson), Zach Sherwin (Totally Biased with W. Kamau Bell), Liz Glazer (#DearLizGlazer) & Myq Kaplan (David Letterman, Conan).