S1 Ep12: Episode 12: Pan-Mediterranean Mythos and Mummy Bees
In this episode Ashley talks about the news of the shrinking human brain and Tracey thinks about how we should warn people tens of thousands of years in the future about our buried nuclear waste (when...
23 Sep 20231h 36min
S1 Ep11: Episode 11: A Totem Pole Theft with a Hint of Vanilla
In this week’s Stuff in the News Tracey talks about a potential future apocalypse if we don’t work out how to label our nuclear waste for 100,000 years and Ashley talks about an apocalypse past, and a...
13 Sep 20232h 2min
S1 Ep10: Episode 10 - A Spot of Tea and Silk from the Sea
In this episode’s Stuff in the News we talk about Eminem asking a certain GOP candidate not to use his music, and a five thousand year old dragon made of mussel shells that has just been discovered in...
2 Sep 20231h 47min
S1 Ep9: Episode 9 Gained in Transit - A Desert Goddess and Arctic Doggy Heroes
In this week’s episode, Ashley shares news of the possible recovery of an ancient herb, long thought lost, called Silphion, which in its day was worth its weight in silver for culinary, medicinal, and...
23 Aug 20232h 9min
S1 Ep8: Episode 8 -Swaggering Samurai and Dracula's Bloody Tears
In this episode, we discuss important stuff in the news such as a doggy surfing competition in California and a seventeenth-century child’s anti-vampire grave that has been discovered in Poland (no st...
15 Aug 20232h 5min
S1 Ep7: Episode 7 - Snake Women, The Devil's Trumpet, and Planet Disco
In this episode Tracey talks about news of missing Icelandic skulls and Ashley is extraordinarily happy about a giant, space disco-ball. Tracey's piece of stuff discusses the plant datura (or devil's ...
9 Aug 20231h 45min
S1 Ep6: Episode 6 - Sicán Funerary Mask, Shang Ritual Owl and Another Kick-Ass Queen
In this episode Ashley shares the news of over-the-counter birth control in the US and Tracey responds to another dumbass - this time explaining why it is inappropriate to say the Jews survived in the...
1 Aug 20231h 46min
S1 Ep5: Episode 5: Ancient Divining and Ottoman Whining and Pining
In this episode we talk about why we think it is wrong to teach children that slaves were able to parlay skills they were taught for their “personal benefit” “later in life,” and what is going on with...
26 Juli 20231h 40min
