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  • Alejandra Oliva, author of Rivermouth, came by to catch us up on the last few decades of American immigration policy--and to talk about how the world as we know it is not the world as it must be.

    Alejandra's website:

    olivalejandra.com

    Read Rivermouth, out now in paperback:

    https://bookshop.org/a/10832/9781662602672

    Further Reading:

    Greg Grandin The End of the Myth (2020)

    Jonathan Blitzer Everyone Who is Gone is Here (2024)

    David Bacon The Right to Stay Home (2014)

    Dara Lind, "The disastrous, forgotten 1996 law that created today's immigration problem." Vox, April 2016.

    Heather Timmons. "No one really knows what ICE is supposed to do. Politicians Love that." Quartz, July 2018.

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    https://bookshop.org/a/10832/9781662602672
    https://bookshop.org/a/10832/9781250214850
    https://bookshop.org/p/books/everyone-who-is-gone-is-here-the-united-states-central-america-and-the-lives-in-between-jonathan-blitzer
    https://bookshop.org/a/10832/9780807061213
    https://www.vox.com/2016/4/28/11515132/iirira-clinton-immigration
    https://qz.com/1316098/what-is-ice-supposed-to-do-the-strange-history-of-us-immigration-and-customs-enforcement

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  • Sarah Archer came by to make an episode from scratch. What's the real history of the American housewife? Where did the tradwife come from, and why? Is she okay? Will we be okay? And who is she churning all that butter for?

    Sarah Archer's accompanying Substack post https://open.substack.com/pub/saraharcher/p/going-to-business

    Sarah Archer's bibliography

    Clips:

    Mrs. Modern versus Mrs. Drudge from The Middleton Family at the 1939 New York World's Fair (produced by Westinghouse) https://youtu.be/vH2Lpl-UB64?si=vtVFAWhAvkDq-EOE

    Design for Dreaming from General Motors 1956 Motorama featuring the Frigidaire “Kitchen of the Future” display https://youtu.be/4_ccAf82RQ8?si=mzVREYgY-d2yWcCl

    “Total Electric Home,” Westinghouse, 1959 https://youtu.be/IRrMLaiiAGY?si=aoc-7PQfSQIEZW5r

    The Frankfurt Kitchen at MoMA: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6T3EM872x-A

    Articles Books and Pods:

    Dolores Hayden, Grand Domestic Revolution: https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262580557/the-grand-domestic-revolution/

    Kathleen Belew, Bring the War Home: https://www.hup.harvard.edu/books/9780674286078

    “Wife Sentences,” Moira Donegan https://www.bookforum.com/print/3004/lisa-selin-davis-s-confused-history-of-homemakers-25336

    “Trad Wives,” In Bed with the Right https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/in-bed-with-the-right/id1696774612?i=1000651855063

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  • Today, Princess Weekes takes us to meet the real Rosa Parks.

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    Princess’ video, “The 1920s Sex Scandal You’ve Never Heard of”

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  • Let's go outside in the sunshine.

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    You can buy Marcus McCann's book, Park Cruising: What Happens When We Wander Off the Path, here.

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  • He turned a bright spark into a flame.

    (Part 1 of 2!)

    You can buy Marcus McCann's book, Park Cruising: What Happens When We Wander Off the Path, here.

    Content warning: this episode briefly discusses suicide around minute 13.

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  • Sarah talks with Chelsey Weber-Smith, host of American Hysteria, about some of their favorite hoaxes—from the Loch Ness Monster to the Taco Liberty Bell—and ponder the value of pranks in a world of misinformation.

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  • Celebrity correspondent Eve Lindley came by to tell us about Britney Spears' memoir The Woman in Me. This is part one of a four-part saga we're currently releasing on Patreon and Apple Plus, and in this episode we get into Britney's family history, her childhood, her years of searching for stardom, and her life until the eve of "...Baby One More Time."

    *A content warning—in this episode we talk about mental health struggles, and a part of the story around minute 22 involves suicide.

    Eve Lindley on Instagram.

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  • In 1974, Robert Opel ran naked through the Academy Awards telecast, and into American history. Today, Michael Schulman, a staff writer at The New Yorker and the author of Oscar Wars, tells Sarah the story of gay history, art, and tragedy that happened after Robert’s fifteen minutes were over.

    Read Michael’s work here.

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  • 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
    Read Blair’s Patreon (and learn more about sled dogs!)

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  • This week, writer Miles Klee tells us why we have to take our shoes off at the airport.

    Read Miles Klee at Rolling Stone.


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  • This week, Harmony Colangelo tiptoes through the tulips with us.

    You can find Harmony at This Ends at Prom here!

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  • During what should’ve been Roe v. Wade’s 51st birthday week, Sarah and reproductive health policy reporter Megan Burbank take a look at the movement, decades in the making, to tear down abortion rights in America, starting with the hypocrisy at its root. Is what we know as the pro-life movement a religious effort or a political movement? And how did a veneer of sincere belief conceal a toxic combination of racism and fear of paying taxes? Join us as we take out the trash — and look for the helpers who are cleaning it up.

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    Two recent pieces by Megan:

    The Brand New Anti-Abortion Law That’s Steeped in an Old Moral Panic
    Planned Parenthood awarded $110K after Spokane clinic protests

    100% of our net proceeds from this episode will be donated to the following organizations:

    Jane's Due Process
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    Yellowhammer Fund
    Northwest Abortion Access Fund

    Listen to our episode Your Abortion Stories here.

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    https://crosscut.com/news/2022/12/planned-parenthood-awarded-110k-after-spokane-clinic-protests
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  • Sarah teams up with writer and editor Julie Kliegman—author of the hotly anticipated book MIND GAME—to look back at tennis's Battle of the Sexes, between Billie Jean King and Bobby Riggs (aka the Libber and the Lobber). No pigs were harmed in the making of this episode or in the Houston Astrodome on September 20, 1973.

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  • The Exorcist turns 50 this week, so we invited Marlena Williams, author of Night Mother: A Personal and Cultural History of the Exorcist, to come tell us about the little possession movie that changed America forever. Was the set cursed by Satan himself, or plain old 70s misogyny? What makes a country going through a cultural upheaval embrace stories about the Devil? And—the most critical question of all—do Ouija boards really cause possession?

    You can find Marlena online here.
    You can buy the book here.

    This episode was produced by Carolyn Kendrick.

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  • “The creatures outside looked from influencer to human, and from human to influencer, and from human to influencer again; but already it was impossible to say which was which.”

    Taylor Lorenz, author of Extremely Online, takes Sarah on a horror- and nostalgia-filled ride through the last twenty years of internet history. Then we try to make sense of what our internet future will be.

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  • Mulder and Scully were busy this week, so Monroe and Marshall are on the case. Did UFOs really travel across the galaxy to experiment on American cows in the 1970s? And if so, why did they come back after fifty years?

    You can find Rachel online here.
    This episode was produced by Carolyn Kendrick.

    Links:

    UFOs and a Horse Called Snippy
    Mutilations of Cattle In Texas, Oklahoma Called Work of Cults
    Six Cattle Found Dead in Texas With Their Tongues Missing
    "UFO Secrecy extends to NASA; cattle mutilations confuse authorities"

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  • This week, celebrity correspondent Eve Lindley tells Sarah about why we should all be thankful for Amy Winehouse. Note: this episode depicts struggles with eating disorders, addiction and self harm. Please listen with care. We are thankful for you, too.

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  • This week, American Hysteria’s Chelsey Weber-Smith gives Sarah some exposure therapy.

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  • Come one, come all to the Aladdin theater in Portland, Oregon this December 6, for a collaboration with our BFF podcast American Hysteria!

    Two podcasts combine mystical forces to summon strange spirits and investigate sensational otherworldly beliefs, conjuring comedy and witchy rock and roll to create our own new rituals and shake off the ghostly chains of the past year. Join Sarah Marshall and Chelsey Weber-Smith fireside for an evening of conversation, music, and a massive séance that we hope will bring us back to life.

    Tickets are on sale NOW for Patreon and Apple Subscription supporters, Friday for everybody else!

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  • Forty whacks with a wet noodle, Bart! This week, Princess Weekes tells Sarah the true story of the crime of the century
 the nineteenth century, that is.

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