THE AVERAGE PERSON SWALLOWS EIGHT SPIDERS A YEAR IN THEIR SLEEP
For this Urban Legends Hotline episode, we are dissecting the myth that the average person swallows a certain number of spiders in their sleep by following this false fact's bizarre and mysterious tra...
15 Jul 202457min
Rewind: BELIEVING IN THE BLAIR WITCH (Updated!)
This is an update on the new developments surrounding one of my favorite movies of all time, The Blair Witch Project, paired with our 2019 minisode. When news broke that the film's production company ...
24 Jun 202424min
Pretendians: Indigenous Identity Fraud with Robert Jago and Angel Ellis
For this episode, the hosts of the new podcast Pretendians, Robert Jago and Angel Ellis, explain Indigenous Identity Fraud, the phenomenon of scam artists pretending to be indigenous in order to recei...
17 Jun 202453min
A Terrorist Attack on the Furries with Nicky Woolf
Fur and Loathing is a new investigative podcast from Nicky Woolf about an unsolved 2014 chlorine gas attack on the world’s largest Furry convention, an assumed safe place for those who create animal a...
10 Jun 202452min
Long Live the Ray Cat with Emperor X and Matt Kielty
Reporter and Radiolab producer Matthew Kielty and musician Chad Matheny (AKA Emperor X) were both part of a 2014 episode of the 99% Invisible podcast called Ten Thousand Years that asked the same ques...
20 Mai 202458min
TALKING TO THE FUTURE: NUCLEAR SEMIOTICS
How do we warn people 10,000 years in the future about nuclear waste sites that will remain extremely dangerous for longer than human civilization has existed? When language, symbols, and technologies...
13 Mai 20241h 7min
Context Clues: Going Nuclear
For some context for our upcoming series that we have not yet revealed, we will revisit excerpts from our past episodes: Horror Movies pt. 1, The End of the World, and Alien Abductions pt. 1 and 2. We...
6 Mai 202443min
Magical Overthinking with Amanda Montell
Amanda Montell is the host of the podcast Sounds Like A Cult as well as the author of the new book The Age of Magical Overthinking: Notes on Modern Irrationality, a collection of personal essays on va...
29 Apr 20241h 5min
