Episodes

This week, we complete each other, dingbats go up against melon heads, a little girl wants to smash a glass ceiling, Brianne has some unresolved gifted child issues, MELANIE IS HILARY SWANK, forensic anthropologists sling mud, we maybe start a book club, and our house tools get an upgrade. SHOW NOTES Content warnings: brief mention of stillbirth at 13:50, alcoholism, transportation accident. Links contain spoilers: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Amelia Earhart Amelia Earhart’s...

We've officially been a podcast for ONE YEAR! To celebrate, we wanted to record a little rundown of our first year in numbers, from ghosts in the studio to animals attacks to decapitations to conspiracy theories. From the bottom of our hearts, thank you for listening and making every single day of it so fun.

This week, we enter Jeremy Bearimy time, Bigfoot faces off against sentient pants, Melanie gets high-brow on us and continues with her favorite chaotic men theme, ballerinas catch fire, firefighters eff around and find out, a man hacks his way through a crowd, 807 Walnut Street is hit by disaster after grandiose disaster, and Melanie rolls out the exclusive new $20 Patreon level. SHOW NOTES Content warnings: extensive animal cruelty, slavery/dehumanization, animal attacks, amputation, racism/min...

This week, discombobulation abounds, we start the hairdo pocket revolution, cryptid teeth arrive in the mail, Brianne does not want a head in the box, the wendigo and selkie face off, Melanie has an alarming conspiracy, we struggle to be mature, and a whole bunch of scuba diving disasters happen. SHOW NOTES Content warnings: brief reference to gore from last episode, sexual innuendo, brief mention of suicide in a legend at 34:03, drowning, death of adult child from parent's perspective, decompos...

This week, Melanie and Brianne contemplate mortality, Melanie crosses her legs to keep Baby John Mellencamp in, a cryptid has an elaborate backstory, we're joined in the studio by fourteen badass ghosts drinking beers, Brianne loves atmospheric trains, we all learn about saturation diving together, YouTube crowns the most gruesome death imaginable, and Melanie has disaster-themed maternity photos. SHOW NOTES Content warnings: death/mortality, claustrophobia, drowning deaths, very vague mention o...

We aren't able to record this week, but we have an older episode you should check out today.

This week, Brianne plans a chair operation, the cryptid bracket continues with another lake snake versus an angry mountain monster, Melanie denies her taxidermy derby hat energy, a real life dryer fire crisis is averted, Brianne is underwhelmed by a drug syndicate, a villain falls from the sky, a black bear stumbles upon the stash of a lifetime, an unexpected snack rains down on Kentucky, a museum gets eaten, science and creativity win the day in Disaster Relief. SHOW NOTES Content warnings: thr...

This week, the cryptid bracket kicks off, Brianne plans to catch a lonely meshekenabek from a local lake, an elderly airline fleet causes catastophic problems, disaster relief needs its own disaster relief. SHOW NOTES Content warnings: Extreme corporate greed, stabbing murder at 48:57, fire, in-flight catastrophe, plane crash, snakes, alligators, relatively graphic recovery of remains discussed periodically from 1:01:45 on, exceptionally sad details from 1:13:00-1:18:00, death of a child 1:19:00...

This week, the true cure for hiccups is unveiled, somebody spots a flying baby, the king of animals is crowned, listeners have a chance to win a cryptid, Count Dante bankrolls his own prize money and reports his own death, the martial arts community is sick of his shit, our friendship is torn apart dream-casting Count Dante, Brianne enables Melanie to harass Mark Wahlberg, feuding dojos implement The Ten Duel Commandments, a dude gets killed, Melanie is hot for Count Dante, and a judge rules Eve...

SHOW NOTES Content warnings: Vague old-timey racism, particularly violent martial arts, one joke about drugs, poor treatment of exotic animals, bombings/explosions, violence against bulls, testicle injury Links: A history of bomb attacks Adult Bookstores, theater insist on right to do business here Black & White Black Belt Black Belt Chicago Lion Sinks Teeth in Quincy Visit Clipped from Chicago Tribune Count Dante Count Dante Count Dante – The Deadliest Man Alive Dante I heard that a Quincy mayo...

SHOW NOTES Content warnings: Child abandonment, possible rabid animal, bridge collapse, severe weather, ship collision, car accident(s), threatened drowning, animal abuse (dog) 1:16:50-1:17:36, animal abuse (birds) 1:28:00-1:29:15 Links: 39 years ago, Skyway bridge crash changed lives forever Anderson: Sarasota’s connections to the Skyway bridge disaster Couple on the run raced into disaster EX-SHIP PILOT SEEKS TO TELL STORY OF CRASH Florida is installing a suicide prevention net on the Sunshine...

SHOW NOTES Content warnings: Snakes, wasps, animals killing each other in nature, violence in war, IED, fire, human being on fire, graphic description of severe burn injuries, hypothermia death, drug dealing, hurricane, interactions with the police, incarceration, gross media depictions of black men, racism, child in peril (abduction) who survives 51:10-53:53, brief and non-explicit mention of sexual assault of a child 52:00-53:53, child in peril (drowning) who survives 54:50-58:36, mass shootin...

SHOW NOTES Content warnings: Death by accidental gunshot wound, vague discussion of shark attacks, death by falling projectile, a couple euphemistic dirty jokes (younger kids would not understand, adolescents might), specific description of gross food, cannibalism, starvation, death of infant 45:21-45:44, death of child 47:44-50:45, animal exploitation, brief mention of sex lube at 56:53 and 57:00, death of infant 57:49-58:30, death of infant 01:01:05-1:01:33, Links: Baby Dies After Being Hit by...

SHOW NOTES Content warnings: Racism in the military, stereotype of black men as sexual predators, gun violence in the context of war, grenades, bludgeoning death, stabbing death, disembowelment, coma/near-death, traumatic death/c-section, poor treatment of veterans, death from myocarditis, PTSD, alcoholism, poverty, death from blood loss, torpedoes, death by explosion, sucking chest wound, death in car accident, impalement, diabetes, depression, death of adult child from mother's perspective 1:2...

SHOW NOTES Content warnings: Institutional/medical racism, COVID-19/vaccine hesitancy, syphilis, brief and euphemistic adult joke Links: 40 Years of Human Experimentation in America: The Tuskegee Study Black Airmen turn racism, bigotry into opportunity Blackface photo reopens long history of bigotry in medicine Condemned to Die for Science Decades later, infamous Tuskegee syphilis study stirs wariness in Black community over COVID-19 vaccine Descendants of Tuskegee Syphilis Study Survivors Say I...

Audio disclaimer: For my birthday this year, Melanie wanted to make sure I shone for this episode and recorded with the wrong microphone. The Audio Guy did what he could, but her parts don't sound quite as good as usual. We're sorry, it won't happen again! (Until my next birthday.) SHOW NOTES Content warnings: Extreme and graphic descriptions of racism throughout, often violent. A few joking references to adult toys, primary sources that use racist language, flooding, weather-related animal negl...

SHOW NOTES Content warnings: White supremacists (in the context of their existence and that we dislike them), ghosts/paranormal, passing mention of exorcisms, extremely venomous animals, mention of intubation/ventilators, brief mention of child in peril who survives at 25:38, death of a child 31:05-47:44, premature birth, infertility, death of a mother in front of her child 47:55-48:50, deaths of multiple adults, death of a couple together, Catholic last rites, coma, two instances of a person dy...

Content warnings: Having COVID-19, endangered animals, brief reference to children dying in a fire in previous episode, very brief mentions of miscarriage and infertility, being an orphan, forced medication, orphanages, tragic implications of poverty, violence against Native Americans, yellow fever, foster care, building fire with children in peril who survive, Catholicism, hurricane, large-scale death of children as an unavoidable part of the episode, drowning, decomposing bodies, mass casualti...

SHOW NOTES Content warnings: Pigs eating people, animal death, plane crash with fatalities, water rescue, hypothermia, broken arms, loss of spouse/SO, loss of adult child, heart attack, depression, loss of infant in disaster 1:18:13-1:18:23 Links: AAR8208 Afterward Air Florida Flight 90 Air Florida Flight 90 At 3:59 p.m. he was on a plane to Florida; 2 minutes later, it crashed into the Potomac River Bridge of Sighs Cold Water Survival Eagle One: Rescue and Recovery of Air Florida Flight 90 FIVE...

SHOW NOTES Content warnings: Death of birds, deer hunting, discussion of mortality and grief, crushing death of an adolescent around 22:00-24:00, strangling death, anti-Muslim racism 33:05-34:18, scalping, death of a mother in front of her small child and spouse, serious injury to leg, serious injury to child's arm, suffocation/stragulation death of a 4 year old 44:58-45:25, falling death of a 3 year old 45:25-46:36, falling death of adult, extremely vague mention of possible suicide, ableism, l...

SHOW NOTES Content warnings: Poop, birds, plane emergency landing, mention of pornography, brief mentions of vomit Links: 12 Ben & Jerry's Ice Cream Flavors Inspired By Musicians, Bands, and Festivals 2004 Dave Matthews Band Chicago River incident Aboard the Carnival Triumph cruise ship Accident: Ryanair B738 at Rome on Nov 10th 2008, engine and landing gear trouble, temporarily departed runway Cara's Basement Carnival Cruise Ship Ordered Held in Texas in Shipwreck Suit Carnival Triumph Disaster...

SHOW NOTES Content warnings: Racism, vaguely mentioned premature birth, specific children in theoretical peril, frostbite, loss of spouse, death by drowning (very vaguely mentioned), death by freezing (very vaguely mentioned), coma, blood loss, a quote containing a racial slur, general discussion of the impacts of PTSD, a disaster in which 59 children die but are not discussed specifically at all Links: Black passengers add another facet to Titanic story Black People and Titanic: The Reality Jos...