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Remy, Karen, and M answer your bizarre questions! We will talk everything from trivia to true crime to paranormal fun— and when we get questions, we'll ask our own and pile on. We HAVE to know.
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- It's Not Race, It's Recessive: Part 1 · 1 godz. 6 min · Odcinek 167Some diseases really do run in certain ancestries. Others just look that way until you factor in poverty and colonialism. We dig into which is which, what these conditions…
- The Poison Squad · 1 godz. 0 min · Odcinek 167Join us as we learn about the incredible work of Dr. Harvey Wiley and his crusade against corporate greed, food lobbies, and small time fraudster's alike. One man's mission to…
- Cultural Concepts of Distress · 55 min · Odcinek 166Part 3? Kind of. This episode is not about idioms but is from a question we received about "culture-bound syndromes" based on the idiom running amok from our Spilling the Beans…
- 100 Feet of Human · 47 min · Odcinek 165It's aquatic. It's humanoid. It's arguably a mermaid. It was invented by anonymous forum posters and somehow ended up in a paranormal magazine next to a "real" 1958 sighting…
- British Miracle Meat · 1 godz. 6 min · Odcinek 164In 2023, Channel 4 aired a mockumentary called The British Miracle Meat, hosted by Gregg Wallace, that got 408 Ofcom complaints in 23 minutes flat. This week we get into how it…
- So You Met a Sleep Demon · 17 min · Odcinek 163Frozen in your own body, convinced something’s in the room with you? This mini unpacks what sleep paralysis is, why it can feel so terrifying, and how those night visits turned…
- Food For Thought · 47 min · Odcinek 162We take it easy this week and chat up food— favorite, fictional, and family recipes. It's a chance to learn a little more about your hosts and perhaps try a recipe they offer…
- Absolute Bayhem · 1 godz. 9 min · Odcinek 161Michael Bay's use of explosions is meme-worthy, referenced in everything from US comedies to video games to even Japanese manga. How did he get here, and how did his EXPLOSIVE…
- Descending into the Cheese Caves · 47 min · Odcinek 160Beneath our feet lies a labyrinth of cheese, specifically, American cheese. How much? The answer is more than a healthy amount of cheese, and the government put it there. The…
- Caged Humanity · 1 godz. 40 min · Odcinek 159Did you know human zoos, where real people from colonized lands were displayed like animals, ran until shockingly recently? From Ota Benga in the Bronx Zoo monkey house to 598…
- Let's Break the Law · 1 godz. 35 min · Odcinek 158There's the usual laws, like no kissing your wife on Sunday, and then there's the law about keeping ice cream in your back pocket. Remy delivers on weird laws that are still on…
- Giant Golf Balls Full of Spies · 1 godz. 24 min · Odcinek 157Echelon sounds like a conspiracy theory. A secret government project? Cold war private surveilling? And giant golf balls in the English countryside? This week we're digging into…
- War on the Warrens · 1 godz. 22 min · Odcinek 156Ed and Lorraine Warren of The Conjuring franchise and more get the WWYAT treatment: knock them down brick by brick. We address their rise to fame and subsequent drift into…
- The Rate of Reality · 54 min · Odcinek 155What is it like to experience the world at 400 frames per second? How quickly can cats see the world around them? How does it change the perception of time? This episode tackles…
- Scentertainment · 1 godz. 8 min · Odcinek 154What if you could SMELL your movies? What if the protagonist walked on screen and you recognized their smell as much as their musical motif? This episode, Karen tells us about…
- Tall Tales: The Nephilim · 1 godz. 8 min · Odcinek 153What ARE the nephilim? Where did they come from and how did their existence prompt the Christian god to drown 99.999% of humanity? This episode dives in to explore the history…
- Inupasugjuk: Cold and Colossal · 40 min · Odcinek 152Far to the north, the inukpasugjuit sleeps. Once there were giants of all sorts making their homes on the polar ice, but now we don't see even a silhouette in the distance. We…
- Do Mi So What? · 59 min · Odcinek 151This week, Karen answers a listener's questions about the history and purpose of scales in music. Why do we use scales? Where did the come from? Let's find out! Music provided…
- There's NoBunny There · 51 min · Odcinek 150You ever heard of the Bunny Man Bridge? That's fine, Karen and Remy hadn't either, not until M went and blasted them with having heard it first hand. Be prepared for hatchets and…
- Mermyths · 1 godz. 17 min · Odcinek 149Where are the mermaids? Why aren't they filing their taxes? I'll tell you why: GOVERNMENT CONSPIRACY. They talked all about it in this documentary the ANIMAL PLANET showed back…
