Episoe 162: Sad Showers and Turkey Stuffed Oreos
The Buds dive deep — and dark — this week. From the art of “dark showers” meant to reset your parasympathetic nervous system, to the over 200 bodies discovered in Houston’s bayous, and finally to Oreo’s increasingly unhinged lineup of Thanksgiving flavors, this episode swings between zen wellness and total cultural decay.
10 Nov 39min
Episode 160: Mommy’s Step-Sins
It’s one of those episodes where reality sounds like bad fan fiction. A porn star who murdered her husband to marry her stepson refuses a plea deal and now faces trial, body parts keep washing ashore in California’s Palos Verdes Estates, and Antonio Brown is extradited from Dubai to face attempted murder charges.
7 Nov 46min
Episode 159: Fall in the House of Mouse
It’s another week in the uncanny valley of real life. The Buds break down the wild story of a woman sentenced for killing a Hollywood actress after a series of illegal butt injections, the fourth Disney park death in just three weeks, and a former American Idol contestant arrested for child predation.
6 Nov 42min
Episode 158: The Day the Monkey Died
It’s the end of an era, and possibly humanity. The escaped Mississippi monkey saga reaches its brutal finale as the last herpes-positive, COVID-carrying primate is shot dead by a mother of five, Britney Spears deletes her Instagram (again), and an elephant in India kills a local, then returns to her funeral to finish the job.
3 Nov 44min
Episode 157: The Algorithm Killed My Cat
The Buds unpack another bizarre week of headlines. A bodega cat known as the “Mayor of 16th Street” is tragically killed by a self-driving Waymo car in San Francisco, a SoundCloud rapper gets arrested after sacrificing his kitten for a “music video stunt,” and new developments emerge in the D4VD case that make the mystery even murkier.
31 Okt 34min
Episode 156: We've Been Here Before...
Science is spiraling, and so are we. New research suggests deja vu might actually mean we’re stuck in a time loop, 90s doctors claim sleeping with a nightlight could be worse for your heart than cigarettes and booze, and Allison Mack — yes, the NXIVM sex cult lieutenant — is launching a podcast about her time in human trafficking.
30 Okt 48min
Episode 155: Monkey See, Monkey Flee
The Buds are back with an episode that swings from high drama to pure chaos. The Virginia ring-camera “killer threat” mystery turns out to be a family prank gone viral, the French jewel bandits behind a multimillion-euro heist may have finally been caught in Paris, and an ape carrying herpes, COVID, and hepatitis C is on the loose in Mississippi.
29 Okt 45min
