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Feb 2024
1h 39m

First Accusations

Blair MacMillan and Carley Thorne
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Carley tells Blair about the first accusations of witchcraft in Salem against Sarah Good, Sarah Osborne, and Tituba; and after only two episodes, they FINALLY search on-mic for witch trial porn.


Plus: Infinite Jest, the TV series Smash, throwing drinks in faces, Lemonade Mouth, clothing trends, theatricality, porn titles, The Social Network, the lying phase of childhood, Toms shoes, Sweeney Todd, jalapeno poppers, Puritans hating theatre, juries, spectral evidence, Gen Z, Cats fanfiction ethics, children at Boston Pizza, nachos and fishbowl Shirley Temples, alternate forms of birth control, sandwich debt, muttering, storytime not clickbait, how Blair and Carley met, and more.


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Hosted by: Blair MacMillan and Carley Thorne

Produced by: Rob Moden

Music by: Jacob Ollivier

Cover artist: Nicola Lyttle

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