The Ben and Ashley I Almost Famous Podcast - What The Heck is a Sleeping Porch?

Episode Date: March 14, 2026

Secrets, scandals, and salacious activity in the sleeping porch… 20 girls together in one room, 24/7 darkness. Are we setting ourselves up for failure? See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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I went to school in Arizona, and I had the pleasure of living in my sorority, my sophomore year. It was a pretty good blend of, like, sophomore and junior girls. And I really became close with a lot of the girls living in. I think everyone should live in the sorority if they can. But we did have a sleeping porch. There was, it was a front porch and a back porch. And in total, this porch slept about 54 of us. So there was 50 around, like, I want to say around 54 girls living in the house.

And then we had like our rooms where our clothes were. But in the porch, you know, those bunk beds are really close together. They're literally made out of metal. So like any type of movement you can hear. and there was this one time I was not there for this but it happened to one of my friends living in so she came back and like told our group chat that this had happened but I believe it was like end of finals week Christmas break about to start could have been another break but definitely like thought everyone was out of the house like back home for the holidays type of thing and our friend

had brought a boy into the sleeping porch. Totally thought they were alone. They ended up hooking up with this boy in the sleeping porch and come to find out they're not alone. There is someone else either sleeping in the porch or just like relaxing in there. The lights were off. So you can't really see if anyone is in there, but they were not alone. And if you know sorority houses, they're, like, the boys can kind of hang out in like the downstairs space where there's like the couch, or we eat dinner. They're really not supposed to go upstairs or like where the bedrooms are just for it to be like a safe space for all the girls or if anyone, you know, is coming from the shower, like walking in a towel to their bedroom. It's just supposed to be, you know, that safe space

for the girls. So boys are not supposed to be up there. And this boy is literally in the actual sleeping porch, hooking up with their friend. You can obviously probably hear it, you know, being the other person in the room, like with those small metal beds. You can probably hear. You can probably hear something going on and this person just like gets up and leaves the room. I don't know if we ever found out like who that person was or if that person found out who was hooking up with someone. But it was such a funny story like no harm, no foul, no one gets hurt. So it's funny to look back at and think of some of those funny memories. There is definitely probably some other crazy stuff, but that's what first comes to mine. And I truly loved living in my.

sorority, I think everyone should take the opportunity to do it. It is so worth it. And you'll seriously have some of the most funniest epic memories with your friends there. I have so many memories from living in the sorority house and having to sleep in a sleeping porch. I don't even know where to begin. The first thing is when someone had to go to the bathroom, the person on the bottom bunk, which was me, would wake up because they would step on your mattress, your bunk bed would shake, the floor would make noises because the sorority house was super old. So you were constantly waking up. And the noises were just insane in the sleeping porch. There was snoring. There was people listening to music with their AirPods in that

you could still hear. People watching Netflix. People sleep talking. People actually talking. People coming in and out. People drunk coming in and out. I mean, it was like plugs wouldn't even help. And the one story I will never forget is I was going to bed one night. And as I was pulling on my sheets getting into my bed. I felt something super like wet and slimy and I could not figure out what it was because it was so dark in the sleeping porch. So I grabbed my phone and I turned my flash on and it's a freaking banana peel with like a little part of the banana still there that someone half eaten. I was so grossed out. I didn't know what to do. I had to quickly like pull an extra blanket up and just sleep on top of it because it was already like,

2 a.m. since we were going out that night, and it was not a good time to change my sheets, because that would have frustrated everyone around me. So the next morning, I went downstairs for breakfast, and I asked, who was eating a banana, and how did it land and end up in my bed? And a girl who literally lives on the opposite side of the sleeping porch said she was really sorry, she was really drunk, but she was eating a banana because she had a really bad eye twitch that night and she happened to throw the banana because she thought it was funny and just left it there and it landed on my bed. I mean, I don't even know how that's real. I'm not making this up.

It was disgusting. And so from that, moving on, I always looked in my sheets and I always put layers and layers of blankets so nothing would get like inside my bed. It was, I just never forget that. It was so gross. Hi, my name is Emma and I went to college in Los Angeles and I wanted to tell you a little bit about a particularly memorable experience I had living in my sorority's sleeping porch my sophomore year. So our sleeping porch was like the big eight girl room in my sorority house. So it was a lot of fun. It was like this really big room with two sets of bunk beds and four beds and this big vanity at the front. So we had a lot of fun. But with it being such a big room, we were definitely like the host of a lot of the pregames in the house. And most notorious of those

was our pregame for our like biggest date party that we threw in the spring. So a little bit of background about this date party, this was one where we would anonymously invite our dates. And they would have no idea, like, which member of the sorority had invited them. And they would arrive separate from all the girls of the venue, which was usually at, like, a big club in downtown LA. So it was always a lot of fun trying to figure out, like, who's, who's everyone's dates were. But because of that, we would have to have, like, a really big pregame of all the girls. And we would do that at the sorority house in our sleeping port. So this was a notoriously very drunk occasion and definitely was one of our wildest nights.

But my year, I would say, had a particularly heinous end. Basically, we would throw this big pregame where like we cover every surface in the room with like different drinks. Everyone's passing around handles the entire night. And we had like beer bongs all over the room and wine bags hanging from the ceiling, which was so fun. But definitely a little hectic. And when we got to the venue, one of my roommates had. unfortunately fallen ill after the long bus ride as was pretty classic for events like this. So all of us were helping her.

Like, you know, everyone's been there at some point. Everyone's been pretty down bad before. We're all helping her out, get her home. And like definitely a couple other girls also had a similar fate after the evening's festivities. But again, pretty characteristic for an event like this. However, the next day we found out that it was not just a hangover, but instead. dead, the stomach flow, and all of us who had been helping a bunch of drunk girls around the entire night, passing around wine bags, sharing drinks the whole night had caught noravirus,

and the entire sorority house, like all 60 of us girls came down with it in the span of 24 hours. And it was literally, unlike any experience I've ever had, like, every single bathroom at the stall had girls curled up on the floor, like texting each other. So, so heinous. And our chefs in the sorority house even changed the menu for. the week just to like soup and ginger ale and crackers because everyone was so down bad and even like a bunch of the other sororities on the road like got wind that this was all happening and we got like banned from friday brunch that week and they would like walk by screaming things into our windows about our

sorority having the plague and various things and all of the fraternities end up getting this mystery stomach bug because of their attendance at this date party so can't say it's something we were necessarily proud of, but definitely a really funny memory that we all bonded over and brought a lot of us girls living in the house at the time a lot closer. So a lot of fun memories coming out of living or sleeping porch, but I can't say that was the most fun, but definitely memorable. Next Monday, our 2026 IHeart podcast awards are happening live at South by Southwest. This is the biggest night in podcasting. We'll honor the very best in podcasting from the past year and celebrate the most innovative talent and creators in the industry.

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Okay, so when I was in, lived in my sorty house, I went to a large school in Los Angeles, and I was in Cap Alpah Theta, and we had an eight-person sleeping porch. So there were four bunk beds or two sets of bunk beds and four other just standing beds. We had like a big closet area and this huge vanity. We would host pregames. We would host all sorts of different things. And when you live in a room with that many girls in college, you have to get kind of creative as far as what you're going to do if you're ever going to bring a boy home. And our house mom was pretty chill.

she didn't really care or she kind of, it was kind of a don't ask, don't tell situation if you were going to bring a guy back to the house. There weren't like very strict rules about it. And anyways, what me and the girls who lived in our sleeping porch would do is we have this big study room called the pit in the basement. And it had a bunch of desk, but it also had like a little couch seating area. And you could like rent out the pit to hold study groups or something. But otherwise it was like a silent study area. And what our girls would do if we slept, you know, all the girls do slept in porch, we would rent out pit, like the pit really late at night.

So that in case we were ever going to bring like a guy back that we would rent out pit, like the pit really late at night. going to bring like a guy back that we would have a space to do it because you can't do it in your bed obviously if you live in a room with eight other girls. So one night after a date party, I decided to bring my date down to the dungeon of Pitt so that we could make out on the couch. And there were, I thought it was like, it has a study room that has like a row of desks, but in front of the desks like on another wall is like a seating area and with like two couches. And I had thought nobody was in there. We were pretty drunk after the state party and it was like 1230.

But we also went to a very competitive school where people tended to stay up really late to study. And I thought no one was in there. And we were about 10 minutes into her makeout. and I realized that someone was on the other side of the wall. Like, I've been studying. And I didn't realize it until I heard someone the door open and closed and someone had walked out. And I got up to look around to see, you know, who had been there.

Was someone still there? Did someone come in? Did someone walk out? And it happened that, yeah, someone had been in there, and they left their computer, their laptop open, and they had just left to let us finish our business. and we did and ended up walking upstairs. We lived in the house with 60 girls, but we were all really close.

So after we had been done making out in the pit, I texted our group chat and said, sorry to whoever was studying downstairs, the ghost is clear. You may return to your studying. And we all laugh about it now. And I'm still friends with those girls and haven't seen that guy since. So just goes to show value the sisterhood.

But yeah, we had to get pretty creative when we were living in our sleeping porch, especially if you wanted to make out with a guy. So that's my advice to anyone listening. If you're currently in the sleeping porch, find alternative ways to get your makeout in. Okay, thanks. Bye.

Okay, so I need to preface this by saying that our sorority house was built in 1927. which means it has character, but it was obviously haunted. We had a sleeping porch, so we had a big room and we all would pile in. And after a night out, it was a total free-for-all. I mean, there was like one girl fully sleeping on a pool float. But one night during rush, I'm on my cot, stone cold sober, and I watch as a picture frame, slowly slides off the wall, pauses mid-air for two full seconds, and then gently sets itself down on the floor.

gently. Like it was considerate. I screamed my face off. Everyone told me I was crazy and seeing something and tired from rush, but I saw what I saw. The second thing that happened is one night, it was Thursday Thursday, and half the chapter was back on the porch, various states of drunkenness, and Casey falls asleep holding her dominoes at 2 a.m. every single window slams open at the exact same moment. Like wind rushing through, cups flying, we all so freaked out, there was no explanation. On another night, the light started flickering and a voice came through the baby monitor that we use is an intercom, don't judge us, and said, get out. I mean, we lost our minds. Someone was then like, it's just Liv, she's doing that to scare us. And then from across the room, Liv goes,

that was not me. And we all screamed again. I mean, that place is haunted. I loved it so much. I'm actually going back this weekend, L.O.L. So my sorority had what's known as a sleeping porch. And if you don't know what a sleeping porch is, it sounds misleading. We were not actually sleeping on the porch,

but we were sleeping in this giant room that had, I think, about 25 beds at my sorority house. and they were all bunk beds and a bunch of the girls would sleep in there. And I have to preface too, it was freezing in this room. So everyone had electric blankets like we would be cozy. I was sleeping in sweatshirts and sweatpants. Like it was rough in there. But for the most part, it was pretty fun. Not too bad until one night I'm about to go to sleep.

Again, I'm under my electric blanket. I'm freezing, but about to doze off, and I hear this, like, vibrating noise. And I was like, what is that? And I didn't want to, like, obviously say anything out loud. I didn't want to wake up any of the girls. But I was like, that's weird. I've never heard that before. Come to find out someone was using a vibrator in this room where 25 girls are sleeping.

And I was mortified. I didn't know who it was. It sounded like it was near me. I obviously didn't want to, like, again, ask who was using this. And I didn't even want to speculate because I was like, I don't think I want to even know who's doing this in their own time in this room filled with girls. So that was a horror story, my experience in a sleeping porch. I still, to this day, don't know who it was.

I kind of speculate. But if you're in a sleeping porch, just don't do that in there. Very mortifying. Next Monday, our 2026 IHeart Podcast Awards are happening live in South by Southwest. This is the biggest night in podcasting. We'll honor the very best in podcasting from the past year and celebrate the most innovative talent and creators in the industry. And the winner is... Creativity, knowledge, and passion will all be on full display.

Thank you so much. IHeart Radio. Thank you to all the other nominees. You guys are awesome. Watch live next Monday at 8 p.m. Eastern, 5 p.m. Pacific free at Veeps.com or the Veeps app. You know Roll Doll. He thought up Willie Wonka and the BFG. But did you know he was a spy?

In the new podcast, The Secret World of Roll Doll, I'll tell you that story, and much, much more. What? You probably won't believe it either. Was this before he wrote his stories? It must have been. Okay, I don't think that's true. I'm telling you. I was a spy.

Listen to The Secret World of Roll Doll on the Iheart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcast. Hey, I'm Jay Chetty, host of the On Purpose podcast. My latest episode is with Hillary Duff, singer, actress and multi-platinum artist. You desire in family like this picture, and that's not reality. My sister and I don't speak. It's definitely a very painful part of my life. And I hope it's not forever, but it's for right now. Listen to On Purpose with Jay Chetty on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or

wherever you get your podcasts. I'm Clayton Eckerd. In 2022, I was the lead of ABC's The Bachelor. But here's the thing. Bachelor fans hated him. If I could press a button and rewind it all I would. That's when his life took a disturbing turn. A one-night stand would end in a courtroom.

The media is here. This case has gone viral. The dating contract. Agree to date me, but I'm also suing you. This is unlike anything I've ever seen before. I'm Stephanie Young. Listen to Love Trapped on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. I'm Amanda Knox, and in the new podcast, Doubt, the case of Lucy Lettby, we unpack the story of an unimaginable tragedy that gripped the UK in 2023. But what if we didn't get the whole story?

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