For many of us, house cleaning is a daunting, unpleasant affair, but for You’re Wrong About editor Miranda Zickler, it is a love language. Continuing the Peg Bracken Book Club tradition set forth by our I Hate Cookbook episode with Sarah Archer, we discuss The I Hate to Housekeep Book, a tongue-in-cheek guide for housewives that came out in 1962. Miranda also shares her background as a housecleaner as she and Sarah get into all the figurative cracks and crevices of the archetypal Home to figure out why keeping our space clean can feel so emotionally charged.

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Who is out there behind the howling midnight parties in the distance? For generations we have coexisted in varying degrees of rivalry, conflict, and admiration with the North American canine known as the coyote. From pre-colonization to our modern backyards, through the wild west and the streets of San Francisco, award-winning NPR science reporter and YWA Maligned Animal correspondent Lulu Miller takes our pack on a journey toward a better understanding of these resilient creatures.

Terrestrials // “The Howler: The Dog Who Joined a Coyote Pack”
https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/radiolab-kids/articles/the-howler-the-dog-who-joined-a-coyote-pack

More about Lulu Miller:
https://radiolab.org/team/lulu-miller

Visit Christine E. Wilkerson's website
https://scrappynaturalist.com/

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Where did all these teens come from? Harmony Colangelo, co-host of This Ends at Prom, is here to explain how, before Americans got to worry about what teenagers were up to, we first had to decide what they were—and how a boom in postwar educational films taught a generation of adolescents what not to do.

Skipper Learns a Lesson: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h8kJzBJrOkU
1950 Family Date: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h8kJzBJrOkU

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https://www.instagram.com/veloci_trap_tor

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Have you scrubbed down the top of your fridge lately? Home & garden correspondent Sarah Archer is here to tell us how and when we got so obsessed with the antiseptically clean house as a status symbol, and whether we really need to worry about every bit of dust on that baseboard.

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https://www.sarah-archer.com/

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This week, flim flam correspondent and certified April Fool Chelsey Weber-Smith is here to talk about a fistful of fake memoirs, featuring girls raised by wolves; the chicken pox of James Frey; what poetry can give us that memoir can't; and Eugene, Oregon (twice!). 

Read more about it here:

The Smoking Gun's "A Million Little Lies" https://www.thesmokinggun.com/documents/celebrity/million-little-lies

Blake Eskin's "The Girl Who Cried Wolf" https://www.bostonmagazine.com/2008/08/18/the-girl-who-cried-wolf-a-holocaust-fairy-tale/

Michelle Dean's "Opal Whiteley's Riddles" https://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/opal-whiteleys-riddles

Christopher L. Miller's Impostors https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/I/bo29203296.html


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https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/american-hysteria/id1441348407

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At the end of our last episode, we asked you to call in and tell us what has been bringing you joy, connecting you to your community, and where you’ve been finding hope in these last few months. These are some of the responses we wanted to share in hopes that we can all find new ways to survive this world together. Thank you to all who sent us messages; though we couldn’t play them all, we felt inspired listening to each and every one.

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What do Lily Tomlin, Snow White, and Kenny Ortega have in common? They were all part of the 61st Academy Awards, a broadcast now remembered as the worst of all time, and masterminded by Allan Carr (lover of spectacle and producer of Grease). But awards season correspondent and New Yorker staff writer Michael Schulman is here to argue that the tackiest, most disastrous Oscars of all time might just be... unfairly maligned.

And to tell us what's bringing you joy and excitement right now, send us a voice memo (three minutes or shorter) at sloppyandalive (at) gmail (dot) com. We can't wait to hear from you.

Michael's book Oscar Wars

https://www.harpercollins.com/products/oscar-wars-michael-schulman?variant=41063519387682

Michael's New Yorker page

https://www.newyorker.com/contributors/michael-schulman

the video of the opening number

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9mronRVvdmw

the video of Pee-wee and RoboCop

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ETFHeMSIMGc&t=63s

And the book Michael mentioned about Allan Carr, Party Animals, is here

https://www.dacapopress.com/titles/robert-hofler/party-animals/9780306818943/

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9mronRVvdmw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ETFHeMSIMGc&t=63s
https://www.dacapopress.com/titles/robert-hofler/party-animals/9780306818943/
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What is "emotional labor," and why is it probably not what your boyfriend accuses you of making him do when you want him to go to Ikea with you? Psychotherapist Ash Compton and journalist Rachel Monroe are here to tell the tale of how the term sociologist Arlie Russell Hochschild coined—in her 1983 book The Managed Heart—has come to mean, well, almost everything. How is the term still useful? How can we use therapy language as a tool for growth or an excuse for avoiding it? And whose job is it to do these dishes? Happy Valentine's Day from You're Wrong about and Bad Therapist.

Bad Therapist
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/bad-therapist/id1780035004

Arlie Russell Hochschild
https://sociology.berkeley.edu/professor-emeritus/arlie-r-hochschild

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In County Kilkenny, Ireland, in an early year of a century not too long before our own, Alice Kyteler was accused of witchcraft. But the story doesn't end there. This week, Molly Aitken—author of BRIGHT I BURN—is here to tell us a tale where the more things* change, the more they stay the same. (*Men)

Read Molly's books:
https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/authors/2204198/molly-aitken/

This month's bonus episode on Peg Bracken's I Hate to Cook Book: https://www.patreon.com/posts/121131515?pr=true

LINKS! for fire relief and mutual aid:
https://5pmlucky.substack.com/p/direct-fundraising-for-los-angeles

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What would you do if you were pinned down by an 800-pound boulder, and no one knew where you were? In 2003, Aron Ralston had to answer that question. Today, our survival correspondent Blair Braverman is here to tell us the tale of the man, the myth, and the multitool.

Blair Braverman tells us how the legendary story of one good dog is actually a story of two good dogs. 

Read Blair’s book, Small Game:

https://www.indiebound.org/book/9780063066175

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https://www.patreon.com/bravermountain

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