Serial Squatter Strikes Again – Ep. 53
There are terrible roommates, and then there’s THIS guy. For more than a decade, a man with extensive knowledge of squatters’ rights made life miserable for multiple people – a girlfriend, landlords, ...
31 Tammi 202544min
The Long Game: Fighting crime by creating connections – Ep. 52
Police officers typically meet residents of high-crime neighborhoods on their worst days – when they’re either victims of crime or contributors to it – and providing long-term help and support while a...
24 Tammi 202547min
Escape Artist Overcomes Trafficking, Trauma, Addiction, and More – Ep. 51
At age 5, she remembers being touched inappropriately; at 7, doing drugs for the first time; at 10, going into foster care, where she was a “lost child” until getting adopted in her teens. As an adul...
17 Tammi 202555min
The Call: 12 year old escapes bowling alley massacre – Ep. 50
911: Emergency. Melissa, 12: Please help me ... We were all shot. A child, suffering from multiple bullet wounds, still manages to provide critical information to emergency dispatch in hopes of help...
10 Tammi 202544min
HERsterical! Escaping Myths Surrounding Menstruation – Ep. 49
The curse. Aunt Flow. Code Red! Whatever you call it, women have been experiencing periods since women came to be; yet, historically, this “monthly visitor” has made people – mainly men, if we’re bein...
3 Tammi 20251h 9min
Call Me ‘Fernando’ – Ep. 48
An email arrives in a nonprofit CEO’s inbox. The gist: An “investor” is interested in the work you do. He has connections to some of the country’s wealthiest people, and he’d like to leverage those co...
27 Joulu 20241h 4min
Phreaky Phrogging Pt. 2 – Ep. 47
Summary of Episode The co-hosts return to The Escape Pod this week to wrap up a two-part series on “phrogging,” when a person occupies a home without the homeowner’s or renter’s knowledge or permissi...
20 Joulu 202436min
Phreaky Phrogging Pt. 1 – Ep. 46
Summary of Episode “Phrogging” (sounds like “frogging”) refers to the act of living in someone’s home without their knowledge or permission. It is not the same as squatting, and – in many ways – phro...
13 Joulu 202444min
