The Salty Hoes Podcast. The Real Lives of Ex-Mormon Ex-Wives

The Ultimate Love Island: Survival Skills (Patriarchy Edition)Claire hosts solo while Mel is away, recording late due to travel and jet lag after trips to Kraków, Belfast, Galway, and the Aran Islands (Inishmaan). Reflecting on a decade of solo travel, she connects the isolation and “coupling” premise of Love Island to patriarchal relationship dynamics through the 1890s eco-feminist novel Gránia:...

Join Mel as she dives into her Tinder likes queue and looks through the many exciting local profiles! From ethical non-monogamy to weird kinks, there is something here for everyone!

The Salty Hoes connected from across the sea to bring you this episode! Claire and Mel talk about Claire's European adventure and reminisce about divorce, child support, and how to interact with your recently divorced friends. Enjoy?

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This week Mel and Claire come to the tough realization that they're clearly just too picky. Here is a whole buffet of amazing dating profiles to choose from. Follow along and let us know which of these eminently date-able men to pick!

Bro, Do You Even LooksMaxx? Mel and Claire (The Salty Hoes) return to their discussion about beauty standards, focusing on the resurgence of skinny culture reminiscent of 1990s “heroin chic,” the role of expensive GLP-1/GIP-1 drugs as both weight-loss tool and class flex, and how diet trends become moralized through “clean eating,” gluten-free virtue signaling bs, and protein obsession. They argue...

Receipts. Proof. Timeline. Screenshots: RH of Rhode Island S1E5 Reality RecapMel and Claire (“the Salty Hoes”) recap The Real Housewives of Rhode Island S1E5, “Receipts. Proof. Timeline. Screenshots." starting with the women recovering from the rail-drinking fight as Alicia, Joellen, and Liz debrief and Alicia half-regrets calling Rosie a “whore.” At Kelsey’s sugar daddy’s 16,000-square-foot...

The Droopy Mic, getting off the David Bus, and the Male Laziness Epidemic. Mel and Claire (The Salty Hoes) riff on a droopy “flaccid” microphone, then trade bleakly funny dating-app stories: a man who unmatched after Mel shared an interesting shark story, and another who endlessly outsourced planning a simple drink date, prompting Mel to unmatch him after he complained she wasn’t making it easy. T...

Join Mel and Claire as they recap RHoRI season 1 episode 4. The Real Housewives of Rhode Island are still reeling from the disco party slash blowup. We join the ladies as they grudgingly film on a peasant beach rather than a posh private beach club and we learn about pizza chips. Pizza without the cheese? Rhode Island is certainly on the bleeding edge of culinary innovation! We also watch them try...

Stripper Juice Hangover Meets Angel Woo-Woo Night Claire and Mel (“The Salty Hoes”) record on a Saturday morning after Claire hosted Mel’s bubble dogs-themed birthday party featuring “Stripper Juice,” hot dogs, and desserts from Mel’s sister, though Claire forgot the caviar. They recap an outing to an “Angel Woo Woo” event with MomTok diva Jessi Draper from The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives, a smug...

The Salty Hoes are back with another reality recap! Real Housewives of Rhode Island continues to be absolutely jaw-dropping television. This week, we meet Liz's special friend/alleged mobster Dino, Kelsey's other boyfriend Bill, and Alicia's totally not creepy doll collection. There are a lot of them! We also have a showdown at Gerry's disco-themed birthday party and learn that goi...

The Salty Hoes reunite after Mel’s vacation to wish Mel a happy birthday. Mel recaps her birthday present to herself: a scuba trip with Neptune Divers to Chuuk Lagoon, Micronesia. What happens when two professors talk about a vacation? You get to hear all kinds of rambling about obscure World War II facts, how Americans and British frame history, inappropriate children's television shows, pira...

Hot Men in the Wild vs. Unvaxxed Sperm Bitcoin Mel and Claire return as The Salty Hoes for a “Salty Bite” rant on online dating, with Claire declaring the apps “f@#king” awful and recommits to singlehood ... until they walk into their usual coffee shop and find a freakishly concentrated pack of wholesome, age-appropriate, mid-50s hot men, inspiring brief hope that meeting someone “in the wild” mig...

Dirty Soda, True Tea, and Brigham’s Bar: A Salty Dive into the Word of Wisdom. Mel and Claire (The Salty Hoes) catch up on a spa visit with Paulina at Spa Day, praising her Moonshine Versus Milk skincare line, then pivot to Mormon dietary rules inspired by “The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives” and dirty soda culture. They unpack the Word of Wisdom’s origins (Joseph Smith’s 1833 revelation, later form...

Men are just so logical, aren't they? They simply exist in all of their logical glory, above the fray of those pesky feminine emotions. Their stoicism and serene self-regulation is an example to us all. OR IS IT?

Are you a mom? Do you have a mom? If the answer to either question is yes, you'll want to tune in to this episode. Claire and Mel discuss birth stories, miscarriage, motherhood, grief, paranoia, raising children in and out of the Mormon church, and peeing. Join us for a funny, heartwarming, and occasionally explicit conversation about all things mom.

Episode Two of Real Housewives of Rhode Island (RHoRI) brings us plenty of exposition and character development. Also, many allegations of affairs! Who is and who isn't stepping out? We don't know but we are excited to find out! Also, we visit a winery where we discover that rosé is, in fact, a wine! We also tour the production facility and see the heroin vats, and the vineyards where they...

Hey, are you mad as hell? Because we are. We are sick and tired of bro code, rape culture, ignorant men, and whataboutism. Join us to discuss some serious topics, including the recent uncovering of the online "rape academy". Not all men, but it's always men. TW: sexual assault, rape

Join Claire and Mel on a new adventure watching the Real Housewives of Rhode Island (RHoRI). Have you been Real Housewife-curious? This is your chance to get in on the ground floor with a whole new cast in a new location. This one is fire, y'all. We have a bunch of classy broads with an infinite amount of dirt on each other and relationships that are messy as hell. In this debut episode, we me...

Angry Men on Dating Apps: Tests, Entitlement, and Sudden Rage. Claire and Mel (the Salty Hoes) discuss the pervasive hostility they encounter from men on dating apps, aiming to understand it and also laugh at it. They are confident they will never run out of material. They recap recent dating updates: Mel’s long-texting “German” date was boring and ended with mutual silence; Claire ends contact wi...

Do you love the Secret Lives of Mormon Wives? Do you love some or all of the ladies of MomTok? Then maybe, like us, you're not big fans of DadTok, who we wish would go away forever. Join us for the piping hot tea and hot takes on each member of DadTok with some bonus takes on the ladies. We talk about the recent allegations against Dakota and what's going on with Jordan, Zac, and the rest...

Have you ever been to an airport and marveled at all the people who seem to be experiencing their first day on Earth? Us too! Claire and Mel discuss some recent bad behavior observed out in the wild. Join us to learn about the Airport Banhammer Game!

Dating sucks for all of us, right? Whether you're a salty hoe or a salty bro, this process probably sometimes makes you feel like you're getting a colonoscopy sans anesthesia. What on Earth is wrong with dating, gender roles, and capitalism? Explaining this all is a tall order, but the Salty Hoes never back down from a challenge. We talk about Caliban. We talk about witches. We talk about...

Ting Ting Ting! We have an announcement to make. Join us April 10 for the Real Housewives of Salt Lake City Symposium at the Tanner Humanities Center. Also, tune in to hear some unhinged bios from our dating app adventures. You'll never guess what the key to Randy's heart is!

The Salty Hoes dish about some(!) of the latest news and gossip about Layla, Jessi, and Taylor Frankie Paul. Claire and Mel also discuss some of their own experiences and how they relate to The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives. If you're a fan of these ladies, and enemy of DadTok, or just MomTok curious, you won't want to miss it. TW: emotional and physical abuse