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, inte…
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), specifi…
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 de…
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 raci…
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'…
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, br…
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, trag…
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…
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 …
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…
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…
SHOW NOTES Content warnings: Elephant hunting, brief mention of murder-suicide, old-timey racism, lung disease, feces, violent strike-breaking, dire poverty/food insecurity, mass death of children which is the topic of the e…
SHOW NOTES Content warnings: Drowning, water search, missing people Links: 25 years ago, thousands watched a balloon launch on Public Square Balloonfest '86 Balloonfest 1986, the spectacle that became a debacle: Cleveland Re…
SHOW NOTES Content warning: this episode discusses the large-scale death of children in moderate detail. BACK IN THE DAY: EPISODE 9 | OUR LADY OF THE ANGEL'S SCHOOL FIRE 1958 Chicago Fire Dept. - Our Lady Of The Angels Schoo…
SHOW NOTES A good Samaritan helped a woman who was being beaten in a parking lot. Now he’s dead. Bad Blood and Not Bad Mood Most Likely The Cause For Toys R Us Shooting Black Friday Death Count Black Friday sales: moments of…
SHOW NOTES 5 Cool and Curious Facts About Maps 27 Facts About Maps Agloe, New York CBC Mississauga Train Derailment November 10 1979 Chemical leak at LG plant in India kills 11, about 1,000 ill City plans to rename Mississau…
A Town with a Hot Problem Decides Not to Move Mountains but to Move Itself Centralia Loses Another Resident, Home Abandoned Centralia, Pennsylvania Centralia, Pennsylvania’s least-populated town, has been sitting on top of a…
This week, we come close to free-balling an episode, Brianne has a horrific encounter while on her sleep bullshit, Curious George lightens the mood, we identify the spooky-lookers in our lives, and a savage six year old migh…
This week, Aunt Vada's dad is not having it, we envision a possessed child as Roland Schitt and a ghost as Lin-Manuel Miranda, and a sadistic director curses a film production. Content warnings: demonic/occult topics, refere…
