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
• Alison’s Film

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
• https://authorcindyparmiter.medium.com/kidnapped-at-knifepoint-raped-disemboweled-left-for-dead-the-incredible-survival-story-of-9d7e1547582d

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/
• Stream Hind's Hall here
• Read up and donate to Operation Olive Branch.
• A great breakdown to the Drake vs Kendrick timeline.
• A video essay on their ENTIRE histroy.
• Kendrick takes everyone to history class and this Tiktok makes me cackle.

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.