For the Weekend Warriors, Weirdos & Whackjobs - Issue #118
Your weekly disturbance, hello
We’re a one-woman show at BSH HQ this week, and it’s quieter and better smelling than ever. Here’s hoping your week was equally serene.
Hitting all inboxes this week was The Third Place. In a small bar by the ocean, a drunk owner laughs, surrounded by people. It’s nothing extraordinary, and that’s the point. In Kennedy’s most recent article, she examines the modern collapse of the “Third Place,” those informal spaces that once gave structure to our social lives and taught us how to exist alongside one another.
In paid inboxes was a Justin original, How Women Put the Mysteries in Unsolved Mysteries. Every mystery has two stories: the event itself, and the quiet chain of decisions that brought it to your attention. Long before algorithms learned to mine our curiosity, there were women in Manhattan scanning thousands of newspapers by hand. This piece uncovers the largely invisible labour of women in clipping bureaus, human intelligence networks, and analog OSINT pipelines that shaped Unsolved Mysteries.
What Kennedy Recommends
Listen, I’ve been on a DIY mission recently. I built a table, rescued a broken tension rod that needed to be rehabbed, finally got a 6V battery for my stud finder so I could hang an ungodly large mirror near an electrical panel. It’s been a whole thing, a thing that requires headphones and something to keep your mind occupied.
I scrolled through the “home” page of Apple Podcasts, something I never do, and found myself quickly absorbed in Betrayal from iHeart Radio.
Though the show now has five seasons, I’ve only finished the first and am halfway through the second. Season one follows Jenifer, who reconnected with her high school sweetheart later in life, spent six blissful years together, only to discover his affairs with dozens of women and that he was also preying on his underage students.
What I appreciate about this podcast is that you get to hear from everyone. You hear Jenifer’s journey through an undoubtedly shameful, grief-stricken, horrifying time in her life, but you also hear from a victim who tells her story with a grace I could never muster, and from women who had consensual relationships with her husband, to her husband himself.
Cooking, cleaning, driving, Betrayal will keep you interested.
Until next time,
Take care of yourself and be good to each other.
Your Bullshit Hunting Crew