The Untold History of the NYPD with Chenjerai Kumanyika of Empire City
Dr. Chenjerai Kumanyika is a Peabody Award-winning audio journalist and an assistant professor of journalism at New York University. His latest podcast, Empire City: The Untold Origin Story of the NYP...
23 Sep 202459min
Taylor Swift Decoded with Pop Music Journalist Brittany Spanos
Brittany Spanos is a senior writer for Rolling Stone Magazine who has taught a course at NYU called Topics in Recorded Music: Taylor Swift, which analyzes "the culture and politics of teen girlhood in...
9 Sep 20241h
ELVIS IS ALIVE!
The life of the conspiracy theory that claims Elvis Presley faked his death is an almost unbelievable journey through gimmick-crazy hucksters and true blue believers, the tales turning the king of roc...
2 Sep 20241h 7min
Context Clues: The King is Dead Probably
The idea that Elvis Presley did not die in August of 1977, that he instead faked his death, has become one of the most famous and enduring conspiracy theories of all time, essentially elevating the fo...
26 Aug 202451min
The Disney Gimmick That Conjured a Ghost with Jim Perry of Euphomet
Our paranormal correspondent Jim Perry is back to tell us about his recent ghost hunt inside the Queen Mary ship, where he discovered that Walt Disney had installed some ghostly gimmicks decades ago, ...
12 Aug 202454min
TARANTISM: DANCING MANIA pt. 2 with Sarah Marshall of 'You're Wrong About'
For part two of our series, we are returning to the phenomenon called 'Tarantism' that began in the Middle Ages in southern Italy where the bite of a local spider caused bizarre and contagious symptom...
5 Aug 20241h 18min
TARANTISM: DANCING MANIA pt. 1 with Sarah Marshall of 'You're Wrong About'
The phenomenon called 'Tarantism' began in the Middle Ages in southern Italy where the bite of a local spider caused bizarre symptoms almost like that of demonic possession. The only cure was to dance...
29 Jul 20241h 1min
Spider Slander: Confronting the Myths with Expert Rod Crawford
Rod Crawford is the curator of the arachnids and related research collections at Seattle’s Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture. His website called Spider Myths debunks the many misconceptions ...
22 Jul 202442min
