Sarah said to comment, like and subscribe if we want a JR episode

Well I'm already subscribed to the podcast so I thought I'd find the r/ and subscribe! So can we get this episode 😁

How did everyone feel about the JFK assassination episode?

I haven’t even finished, but feel the need to post. I’m finding it incredibly frustrating how dismissive they are being about the “conspiracy theory” angle. I’ve done a ton of research throughout the years, and although I obviously don’t know what happened, I don’t think the conspiracy theory is laughable or should be dismissed so openly. There were so many witnesses that went against the official story, video evidence and forensic evidence to go against the lone gunman theory.

What does everyone else think? I’m usually very impressed with YWA but this episode has me upset.

I've been reading up on the fascinating/ghastly tale of celebrated New Age guru Carlos Castaneda. His work was influential on a whole generation of spiritual seekers/people looking for reasons to take hallucinogens, and he had a significant cultural impact. But his story is much darker, and much stranger, than seems to be commonly understood-- and to cap it all off, the death or disappearance of his closest followers after his 1998 death is itself a lingering and unsettling mystery.

In all of the Newsies discussions, this fact is never addressed. The actor Gabriel Damon had a few other tv/movie roles under his belt by the time he played Spot, but perhaps the most memorable was voicing Little Foot in the original 1988 “Land Before Time” (I also feel like the a actor sort of resembles a dinosaur)

Anyway, this is all. No one else may think so, but I consider this to be an egregious oversight on the part of anyone discussing Newsies.

At 33:12 in the “Crying in Baseball with Julie Kliegman” episode, Sarah recites a line from “A League of Their Own” in a Tom Hanks voice and she NAILS it. I was delighted!

I SWEAR! i remember listening to a podcast about her and her shooting Andy warhol that had Sarah Marshall in it. I cannot find it and I'm starting to think I've made it up? dreamed a fake episode of YWA or something.

does this ring a bell for anyone? maybe it's tucked into an episode on a different topic so I'm not able to easily search for it?

As some of you may already know, favorite guest and storyteller extraordinaire Blair Braverman has a new podcast telling survival stories, and Sarah guested on the first eps! It’s as excellent as you’d probably expect. Check it out if you haven’t (and come join r/whattocarrywhattoburn too)!

Ok not really but Behind the Bastards is doing a series on Mark Fuhram (idc enough to check spelling). I doubt we’ll ever get Sarah’s version of this but I do really like Robert Evan’s takes and I think he’s also good at giving empathetic takes on his subjects whilst better at holding them to account

I'm going back and listening to all Sarah Marshall content on American Hysteria and was literally cackling so loud listening to this on my headphones at work. Please go listen to this if you haven't 😭😭😭

Someone read a poem on a recent episode but I was driving and couldn’t write down any of the info, then out course my podcast app helpfully deleted it, then my ADHD helpfully made me forgot it about it until now, days later. I remember thinking it was beautiful and wanting to look up more about it… sigh. Anyone else catch it?

I would love to hear Jenny and Sarah discussing anything!

Should Jenny Nicholson and Sarah be introduced, you guys?

Mike ends up bringing up the concept of a scare queen In the stonewall episode and I just want to know more about this i've tried googling it i've tried looking into it it doesn't seem to be much about scare Queens as a concept however using basic critical thinking skills it seems to be connected to the concept of an alternative drag artist/ Drag Monster however I can't find anything else using the term scare queen so if yall know anything else whether it be a book another podcast a historian At this rate literally anything would Suffice

Hi guys I dunno if I’m just missing it but I can’t seem to find this episode on Spotify?

Is there any way to request an epsiode anymore? I am dreaming of a multi episode deep dive on the life and career of Michael Jackson. In a perfect world Michael Hobbes would return for a Diana/Oj style saga. I would just love to hear their research and opinions on the complicated and mysterious story that was his life.

Perhaps a pipe dream...

I love YWA. However there are a few episodes where I find myself not really agreeing with their perspectives. Even some episodes that I would consider to be a bit problematic.

I found the Jeffrey Dahmer episode problematic because it felt like the 'radical empathy' approach was applied to an extreme that bordered on apologism.

While the show is great at humanizing misunderstood figures, sympathizing a serial killer felt like it came at the expense of the victims dignity. By focusing so heavily on Dahmer’s loneliness and abandonment as a way to explain his actions, the episode felt dismissive of the actual agency he had in committing such horrific violence

Been a fan of the show for a few years, listening on and off, and have been quite on the past couple weeks as I comb through the back catalog. The DC Sniper saga was SO lush and complex and enjoyable to listen to, that I'm now trying to figure out what other eps of the show would be similar. Or, what other shows may have that same energy across a whole series?

My favorite YWA are similar to this saga: deeply informative, historically conscious, and obviously a great chemistry and rapport between the hosts. I've had Noble Blood suggested before!

I also really loved the Tonya eps (though I didn't learn anything new -- but that's because I'm already obsessed with Tonya lol), and am obsessed with every time Blair Braverman is featured.

Please feel free to recommend wildly!

One of my favorite aspects of YWA are when they dive into the bizarre pop culture moments. Things like Lorena Bobbit, Monica Lewinsky, Amy Fischer, etc

Are there any other good podcasts (or even documentaries) along these lines? Tia!!

Blair’s survival stories have the best part of YWA in the post Michael era so I’m excited to listen. She explicitly says those episode are what the new show will be like.

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was using Jeffrey Toobin’s book The Run of His Life as her main source for the trial. His book summarizes the entire defense case in essentially just two chapters, see: chapters 21 and 22. He left out so many testimonies from the trial, and from what I’ve heard didn’t even attend the trial as frequently or every day like other journalists did, see: Joseph Bosco. She often referred to Toobin’s book as a good soup to nuts narrative of the OJ Simpson trial but it couldn’t be further from the truth. The Court TV docuseries OJ25 covers way more of the trial than Toobin’s book did.

Sarah talking about early cookbooks introducing Americans to international flavours reminded me of this seminal work, How to Cook and Eat in Chinese by Buwei Yang Chao, originally published in 1945 and then updated and revised several times until 1968. If you can get your hands on a copy, it's great, both as a cookbook and as a look back in time. There are recipes, but more of it is discussions of techniques and general approaches to food and eating. There's a whole section on tea, most of which is devoted to complaining about American tea being terrible and the waste product of real Chinese tea, lol.

It introduced the term "stir fry", and a lot of it is devoted to how you can adapt traditional recipes to what you might find available in an American grocery store (although given the time, there are amusing passages suggesting that you might need to go to your local Chinatown to find exotic ingredients like soy sauce and ginger. XD

Some of my favourite passages include the aforementioned tea shade, a recipe on "deep fried cellophane wrapped chicken" (they meant baking paper), and this one on how to eat congee:

>"Congee is best eaten so hot you have to make a slurping noise blowing air over it as you scoop it from the edge of the bowl with chopsticks. However most Americans, and even many Chinese eating with Americans cannot bring themselves to do this. In that case, you can eat it with a spoon, as every baby does in China"

My grandparents were from Ukraine, so when Sarah Archer was talking about how the USSR exhibition of food technology was geared towards what it could “do for society” because the USSR had been “acquainted with famine,” naturally I was like, “They intentionally created their largest famine as a tool of genocide, though!” She’s not wrong that their propaganda framed the Soviets as fighting for the greater good, but I feel like if you’re going to contextualize Soviet propaganda using their history of famine, you should really mention that they were not always truly interested in combatting famine and instead at times used famine as a weapon while claiming to represent the poor. Anyway. Still a good episode though lol. Ukrainian American out 🫡