This week’s episode is the unbelievable survival story of Alison Botha, a woman who went through so many unfathomable things, but lived to tell her story. I feel so honored to get to discuss this amazing woman and her enduring strength. Trigger Warning: sexual assault, violence, attempted murder.

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• Alison’s Book

Sources:

Tinning, Danielle. "‘Do You Think She’s Dead?’: Inside The Incredible Survival Story Of Alison Botha." AllThatsInteresting.com, October 22, 2023, https://allthatsinteresting.com/alison-botha. Accessed April 18, 2024.

Bridger, E. (2024). Apartheid’s ‘rape crisis’: understanding and addressing sexual violence in South Africa, 1970s–1990s. Women’s History Review, 33(2), 265–284. https://doi.org/10.1080/09612025.2023.2219535

Other sources:

• https://www.news24.com/news24/southafrica/news/pair-sentenced-in-1995-for-rape-of-alison-botha-granted-parole-20230704

For this mini ep, we touch on the Jerry Seinfeld's flop Unfrosted, Macklemore's "Hind's Hall" (check resources for how to donate), the Drake vs Kendrick beef, and so much more. 

Resources:

• https://www.unrwa.org/

If you're into tea about people you do not know, this ep is for you! Stacy Bailey joins the pod this week to get very honest with our host. Audree and Stacy have been friends for a long time but have never discussed the red flags they saw in one another's relationships that did eventually end up in divorce, so they talk that out for the first time on this episode. Along the way, they hit on religious trauma, world views, and much, much more! It's a weirdly funny yet vulnerable episode. 

Part 2 of the John List vs The Stepfather series has dropped! This time we dig into "The Stepfather" horror movie series and how close it keeps to the true story of John List (the true crime story we dug into in Part 1). Your host, Audree, watched 3 Stepfather movies, spanning from the '80s to the remake in 2009 to discuss all the similarities, differences, and wacky inspirations of the series. 

Source: 

https://ew.com/tv/the-watcher-john-graff-true-story-john-list-family-murders/

The last week has been bonkers and Audree tries to cover it. She discusses the TikTok ban, Joe Biden and Donald Trump, the Pro-Palestine protests on campuses across the nation, and her misgivings about Taylor Swift's recent album and her Swift Fatigue. 

Collage images from: ABC.com, Billboard, WAVY.com, and Teen Vogue.

Surprise! An early main episode with Kelsey has dropped! Today we're reacting to Taylor Swift's new album: The Tortured Poets Department. Kelsey came over late on a week night to share her opinions loudly just for all of you (and for me)! It was a blast and the pod covers our theories for what the album could be about, our individual reactions and thoughts about each song as we listen through, and ultimately our overall impression of the album based on the first listen. Our opinions are bound to change over time with more listens, but the first impressions we had are forever frozen in this recording posted to the internet to haunt us forever!

Image from Rolling Stone.

This week your host, Audree, discovers the '80s horror series "The Stepfather" and talks through the true crime story it's based around. In part 1, we discuss John List and his horrific crime of murdering his family despite the outward appearance of an all-American life in a beautiful house called Breeze Knoll. Not only is the story harrowing, but List's eventual capture and trial are wild as well! TW: family annihilation. 

Part 2 which digs into "The Stepfather" movie series and how close it keeps to the true story of List will drop April 30th, so stay tuned for that!

Sources: 

• More on Devonte Hart.

Mini Ep 11: Bi-weekly pop-culture recaps have begun! This week we cover Beyonce’s CowboyCarter, Jojo Siwa’s interesting new era, The Joker 2 trailer, and much more! TW: Discussion of domestic violence. 

Article links:

• In Memory of Nicole Brown Simpson

A Jojo Siwa Deep Dive Suggestion:

• FunkFrogBait on Youtube

Beyonce image from LA Weekly. Jojo from Billboard. Joker 2 from digital spy.  

This episode is PACKED to the brim with awesome stuff! This week, Kelsey (@kjacksbookshelf on IG) stops by to talk about the romance genre, the community within the genre that includes fans as well as creators, Booktok, incredible book events, and so much more. Kelsey also brings some bookish AITI stories for us to explore, and she even interviews two romance authors for the pod! Thank you to Ashley Poston (@heyashposton on IG) and Emma Lord (@dilemmalord on IG) for lending your voices to us for a bit! 

Check out visuals on @tillisayitoutloud on Instagram. 

Sources:

Courtney Milan @courtneymilan on X: https://x.com/courtneymilan

Olivia Dade: https://oliviadade.com/

https://www.publicbooks.org/genre-juggernaut-measuring-romance/

https://www.marketplace.org/2024/02/13/steamy-sultry-and-stigmatized-no-more-romance-novels-are-having-a-moment/

https://www.feministbookclub.com/the-romance-genre-and-feminism/

Texas Freedom Network - https://tfn.org/

Special edition of Throne of Glass from @fairyloot on IG:  https://www.instagram.com/p/C4vRcUlNT5O/?img_index=2

Full episodes return with a discussion about wedding culture that covers it all with our friend, Chelsea. As she is currently planning her own wedding, Chels gives interesting insight into wedding history, the culture that surrounds putting one together, statistics, games, and even a few AITA stories from Reddit! It's a fun one, enjoy! 

Episode sources:

• History