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Winter Book Club: The Amityville Horror Part 2 with Jamie Loftus

Sarah continues telling guest host Jamie Loftus about the Amityville Horror, and the two touch on ghosts, fallen angels, poltergeists, the space race…

4 years, 4 months ago

Winter Book Club: The Amityville Horror Part 1 with Jamie Loftus

Sarah tells guest host Jamie Loftus about the Amityville Horror, how it’s a Christmas story, and why buying murder furniture might not be such a grea…

4 years, 4 months ago

Reconstruction with Jamelle Bouie

Jamelle Bouie explains to Sarah what the Reconstruction era was, why it remains relevant today, and how this history lesson is one that could get som…

4 years, 5 months ago

True Crime with Emma Berquist

Emma Berquist stops by to tell us about how true crime doesn't have to make us better people, and in fact may be more harmful to us than we realize—b…

4 years, 5 months ago

Ed and Lorraine Warren with Jamie Loftus

Special Guest Jamie Loftus tells Sarah about Ed and Lorraine Warren (of The Conjuring and Annabelle fame). Topics of interest include Connecticut as …

4 years, 6 months ago

Catherine the Great with Dana Schwartz

Special guest Dana Schwartz tells Sarah about Catherine the Great. Topics of interest include the very not great life of serfs, the accidental flatte…

4 years, 6 months ago

Mike Lives in a Downtown Hotel

An announcement!

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4 years, 7 months ago

Bonus: The Great Protein Fiasco

From our friends at Maintenance Phase, the story of how Nestlé executives, global health institutions and a very racist white lady seeded a nutrition…

4 years, 7 months ago

The McDonald's Hot Coffee Case

Mike tells Sarah how a tragic story became a national punchline and a decades-long moral panic. Digressions include a sympathetic psychic, a paternal…

4 years, 7 months ago

Re-Release: Dan Quayle vs. Murphy Brown

While our next episode's in the oven,  enjoy this gem from the YWA vault!

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4 years, 8 months ago