Dark House

Hadley and Alyssa put together a fun yet thoughtful, respectful and truly unique podcast! I really miss DH and still listen to old episodes, despite it’s cancellation, because it’s too good to give up. No other podcast replicates the same mix of easy charm, professionalism, and unique vibe that DH has. Still crossing my fingers a production company will bring DH back ❤️

Love the concept! Please bring it back! Only one piece of feedback. The hosts are a bit valley girl and unpolished. I feel like I’m listening to some late 20 somethings at brunch with mimosas. The vocal fry is unbearable. The hosts seem smart and well read, they just need about ten more years on them professionally.

This was a spectacular interview! One of my close friends is a very well known broadcast journalist who knows I’m a big SQ fan, and I actually sent this episode to her not for the subject matter but for the quality of the interview. So interesting- we both think- and we had a GREAT convo about this- perfect excuse to catch up… and we both feel your ages mattered a lot. We are Gen X, and started our careers in journalism working for, and admiring, Second Wave feminists. We also had our daughters after age 40 at that last possible second so we haven’t interfaced much with Millennials- except perhaps to supervise them at work. What we feel (I agree to be the emissary and write this out because I run a farm now and my time is my own, hers is not- her industry has high time demands) is that your Gen is so accepting, so not confrontational (compared to ours and the SG OG Feminists, a group SQ was absolutely dead center in) and so able to hear someone who for decades had to prepare to be walled out or pushed back on because her beliefs are not mainstream and she refuses to pretend they are—- that your LACK of critical condescension toward her really allowed some magic to happen. Her tone changes during the interview. Considerably. By the end, it’s very much like dining with her in a safe space (and one of us would know 😉). While this particular house was an obsession of my Grandmother’s and she passed that to me- I did not at all expect the magic you two made with SQ. If I may offer one piece of knowledge neither of you had—that you might like to have. The accent the Edies is called the “Mid Atlantic Accent.” How I even know this obscure thing: My Alma mater is famous for its speech pathologists and all journalism students have to complete a class in undergrad called “Voice and Articulation.” When I took that class in 1994, the professor identified me as having a residual North Atlantic accent and used me as an example for the class of an arcane speaking style (subtle but weirdly present in 1994, when it had been dead a long time)- but could not identify any regionalisms or other issues in my speech aside from vocal fry. The reason is my Great Grandmother was my caretaker as a child and I spent my summers alone with her in Maine. I had a speech impediment. And was an Irish immigrant to America in the 1930s. To eliminate her brogue she copied the Mid Atlantic accent of the movie stars of the time. So, to help me overcome my speech impediment, we spent summers in Maine watching beta max and later VHS classic films from the 1930s. I covered the impediment by learning alternative ways to pronounce fricatives. I thought I had “flattened” that North Atlantic accent almost entirely by age 18. But my professor caught it instantly. Because when asked to speak in front of the class, under pressure from my peers and wanting an “A,” my adrenaline kicked in and I fell back on it. The professor called me “Hep” for the rest of the semester. Because I am from Connecticut and what Sass Pants lady of the silver screen from Connecticut rocked the Mid Atlantic the best? Katharine Hepburn. Of course 😂! Thank you two so much for a wonderful podcast. I absolutely love it. Creative and weird and wonderful. Well done. Persist! 🙌

I just saw a reference to this podcast in a magazine about haunted houses and thought I'd try it, it SEEMS interesting but the women talk entirely to fast and being hard of hearing, miss a lot of info even with my hearing aids. It would help if there was a way to slow it down a bit.