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.

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.
• MFM E29: Twenty-Nein
• Forensic Files S01 E12 - “The List Murders” - 1996
• Nightmarehouses.com
• Realtor.com
• Myfatherwantsusdead.com
• The Watcher's grisly John Graff murder sequence is based on true story of a family massacre

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
• Fred Goldman on OJ Simpson's Death

A Jojo Siwa Deep Dive Suggestion:

• FunkFrogBait on Youtube

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