CLASSIC: Orang Minyak: Mythical Monster or Monstrous Cover-up?
In Malay folklore, the Orang Minyak is an supernaturally agile, humanoid creature coated in an oily, slippery substance. It is primarily known for abducting young women at night. There are other, simi...
30 Jul 202440min
Strange News: Crowdstrike, Fake Picassos, Cocaine Sharks, the Looming Yellowstone Volcanic Supereruption
Fake Picassos launch a fascinating discourse about gender in Australia. The massive Crowdstrike outage exposes troubling vulnerabilities in software infrastructure across the planet. Amid all this cha...
29 Jul 20241h 1min
Angel Hair and Star Jelly: What the heck is this stuff?
For thousands of years, humans were convinced meteors and stars shed heavenly goo onto Earth's surface, or that shreds of the Virgin Mary's veil drifted to the ground after her visitations. In tonight...
26 Jul 20241h 5min
Listener Mail: Targeted Ads, Driving in Europe, a Word from King John
An astronaut writes a Tripadvisor review of life in space. King John calls in to prompt an excellent conversation about food as medicine... and how private insurance may help you eat healthy. A Europe...
25 Jul 202457min
Can you hack the emergency alert system?
If you live in the US, you've heard the tone before: a staccato series of beeps followed by an oddly neutral voice disclosing any number of warnings or disasters. This is known as the Emergency Alert ...
24 Jul 20241h 1min
CLASSIC: What will humanity be like in 1,000 years?
If you met a person from the year 1019, they would be, in many ways, much like you. But what if you met a person from 3019? How different will human beings be one thousand years from today? Will human...
23 Jul 20241h 17min
Strange News: Horrifying Discovery of a Kenyan Serial Killer, Oceangate Cofounder Pitches Lunar Colony, Fentanyl Robbery Gang
33 year-old Collins Jumaici Khalusha has been arrested in connection to multiple murders in Kenya -- he himself has testified to killing 42 women in the past two years. Guillermo Söhnlein, the co-foun...
22 Jul 20241h 1min
Do fish ever really rain from the sky?
It's a weird -- and weirdly common -- story throughout history: a storm that carries not just rain and thunder, but any number of strange animals dropping along in the ground. In tonight's episode, Be...
19 Jul 202459min
