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This week, we're revealing the contents of Alyssa's new doomsday apocalypse prepper backpack. Text us your tea! Support the show

This week we're talking the GRAMMY Awards with a side of Real Housewives of Beverly Hills and the usual conspiracy theories. Text us your tea! Support the show

This week's stop on our listener hometown spooky tour is ROMANIA! We're talking The Witch's Pond, the Hotel Cismigiu, and the world's most haunted forest, Hoia Baciu. Sources used in today's episode include: Reddit story Amy's Crypt Britannica The Independent J.H. Moncrieff Atlas Obscura Text us your tea! Support the show

On this Would You Rather Wednesday, we're chatting Sedona, Arizona and January birthdays before asking each other some pressing technology questions.  Text us your tea! Support the show

Welcome back to Tea Time! This week we're talking the 12 hour TikTok ban, preparing to live off the land, JD Vance's eyeliner, Billy Ray Cyrus, and the ongoing Blake Lively/Justin Baldoni legal battle. Plus, we're sharing The Serial Cheater's belated Christmas letter to the community. Text us your tea! Support the show

Join us as we are snowed in for a Would You Rather Wednesday - Snow Day Edition! We are talking our new strange TV binges, Luigi, and choosing our own snow day destiny. Text us your tea! Support the show

Tea time! We're snowed in this week and chatting Southern snow day activities, saying goodbye to the Eras Tour, house fires, Jimmy Carter's funeral, and a handful of snow day stories from our favorite subreddit: AITA? Text us your tea! Support the show

Ireland, you're up. Today we're talking the unsolved 1907 heist of the Irish Crown Jewels and a few of the women who have gone missing in the infamous Vanishing Triangle. Sources used in today's episode include: 10 interesting and fun facts about Ireland 7 Interesting Facts About Ireland 18 facts about Ireland that'll blow your mind The Theft of the Irish "Crown Jewels&quo...

Welcome back to Would You Rather Wednesday! What's on your 2025 bingo card?  Text us your tea! Support the show

Surprise, Season 2 is here and we're now coming to your ears THREE times a week! This week's Tuesday Tea Time topics include Blake Lively's Blake Brown Beauty,  Big Time Rush On Ice, the Real Housewives, Extreme Makeover: Home Edition, Timothee Chalamet as Bob Dylan, Christmas gift hauls, and that NYE surprise video. Book Club roll call! Let us know if you're joining us in read...

Secure your oxygen masks and your life jackets, because this week we're asking: what happened to Malaysia Airlines flight 370 and the crew of ghost ship The Mary Celeste? Sources used in this episode include: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/abandoned-ship-the-mary-celeste-174488104/ https://www.history.com/news/what-happened-to-the-mary-celeste https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Celest...

If you're here, we must have survived. This week's Tea Time features some highlights from the AITA subreddit holiday feed AND a first look at our official Christmas gift guide, including SALT SHAKERS MERCH - COMING SOON! Christmas Gift Guide HERE More info about the Appalachian Helene Response Fund HERE Text us your tea! Support the show

Next up on our listener hometown spooky story tour of the world is everyone's favorite island full of criminals, Australia. We're talking The Somerton Man (including a major DNA update from 2022!) and the land down under's most haunted abandoned insane asylum, Larundel. Music box: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YBEHGb95tJg Sources used in this episode include: https://www.smithsoni...

Happy Thanksgiving, Americans! We're celebrating by surprising each other with some international snacks to taste test. Our selections come from China, Portugal, Korea, Japan, Germany, and Australia and garnered official ratings between -5 and 9. Misophonia girlies, this might not be your episode. Text us your tea! Support the show

Knock knock Russia, it's us again. We're back to discuss what really happened to those hikers in Part 2 of the Dyatlov Pass Incident, and the chilly abandoned mining town of Vorkuta. Bundle up. Sources used in this episode include: https://dyatlovpass.com/theories https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021/05/17/has-an-old-soviet-mystery-at-last-been-solved https://theworld.org/stories/2020...

Buckle up! This week we're joined by someone *very* close to The Serial Cheater for some brutally honest intel, direct from the source.  Text us your tea! Support the show

In the first of our Spooky Saturday listener hometown series, we're talking spooky stories from Lithuania, featuring Countess Sofija Horvataitė-Tiškevičienė and The Black Ghost. Who knew Lithuanians were so spooky? Sources used in today's episode include: https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Horwatt-16 https://lt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sofija_Horvatait%C4%97-Ti%C5%A1kevi%C4%8Dien%C4%97 https://www....

Welcome back to #WouldYouRatherWednesday! We're talking polarizing holiday foods, the Walmart oven incident, and Lyin' Zach Bryan. Text us your tea! Support the show

This week, we're sticking to what we know: the Taylor Swift cinematic universe, featuring Katie's Indy N1 Eras Tour experience. Do we think KillaTrav will go all in on the Erik von Detten haircut? Here's hoping ✨ Austin Swift TikTok cred: @ozbourn73 Text us your tea! Support the show

This week, we're talking some of our favorite Russian mysteries-- the UVB-76 ghost radio station, and the Dyatlov Pass incident (Part 1). These mysteries have it all-- ghosts, nuclear disasters, alien encounters, and government conspiracies. Sources used in this episode include: https://yucelkulturvakfi.org/hayalet-radyo-istasyonu-uvb76 https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20170801-the-ghostly-...

BOO! We're back with our first-ever Halloween special. This year, we're talking murders on both sides of the trick-or-treat equation-- the Halloween 1957 murder of Peter Fabiano, and the 1974 murder of Timothy O'Bryan by The Man Who Killed Halloween. All tricks, no treats.  Sources used in this episode include: https://www.talesfromtheunderworld.com/p/threes-a-crowd-the-cold-blooded...

This week, we're back with our usual nonsense, and are joined by special guest relationship enthusiast Leslie for a long overdue update on The Serial Cheater! Text us your tea! Support the show

We’re talking horrifying cults! First, we visit The Order of the Solar Temple with Knights Templar fanatics Joseph Di Mambro and Luc Jouret, culminating in the ritualistic deaths of 74 of the Order’s members around the world in the 1990s. Next, we look a little closer to home at Angel’s Landing leader Daniel Perez (aka Lou Castro) and his 2015 convictions for first-degree murder, child exploitatio...

This week, Alyssa & Katie chat wardrobes— Taylor Swift’s plaid era, Katie’s Eras Tour outfit search, Alyssa’s Kris Jenner workwear hand-me-downs, and feelings on renting clothes— before digging (get it?) into our favorite Internet mystery of the moment: what’s in that rug? BONUS: We share a listener theory on who killed JonBenet!  Text us your tea! Support the show

We're back with Part 2 of our discussion of the 1996 death of JonBenet Ramsey. Last week, we talked about the attention on the Ramsey family. This week, we're focusing in on the intruder theory and a few notable suspects that came up in authorities' investigation into this theory. Text us your tea! Support the show