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Episode 135: Mummy Issues
CW: Death, Dead Bodies, Desecration of Corpses, War Medicine and linguistics come together to create an unlikely event: medical cannibalism! Once upon a time, Europeans were eating mummies by the ton. Real mummies. Fake mummies. All sorts! And all for the health benefits of… dead bodies? This week, we talked about eating mummies. We talked…
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Episode 134: Colorful Controversy
CW: Death, Desecration of Corpses As we all know, color matters. And color can inspire a lot of controversy. Like, for example, certain pinks? They have baggage. Baggage that could be very expensive, very fast. M manages to keep it to a single parter this time (woah!) and we get to discuss a sampling of…
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Episode 133: Beards, Bullets, and BS
CW: Poverty, Child Death, War, Xenophobia, Murder (Poison, Stabbing, Gun Violence, Physical Beatings) This time we are venturing into Russia, where Rasputin left a mark on the governance and the still-lingering legacy of being a so-called love machine. He was shot! He was poisoned! He was absolutely harangued! Or… was he? First thing’s first, let’s…
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Episode 132: The Ladies that Loved Chaplin
CW: miscarriage, pedophilia, grooming, domestic abuse, brief mention of Nazis What, Charlie Chaplin, too? Yeah, Charlie Chaplin, too. The Tramp has gone too far, and Karen tells us just how far he went in this extra long episode. Despite his glistening career as an actor/director/more, when the camera was off, he wasn’t always the paragon…
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Episode 131: Gandhi-vil
CW: domestic abuse, emotional manipulation, sexual assault, pedophilia, racism, death This week, we’re putting Gandhi on trial — and we’re not pulling punches. Turns out, the man behind the loincloth was less “peace and love” and more “racism and ego trips.” In this episode, we dig into the messy, manipulative, and straight-up deplorable parts of…
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Episode 128-130: PicasSo Many Crimes
This is a combined episode page for the three part episode on Picasso. All the resources for that episode will be contained on this page. Here are the embeded audio links for each episode as well. Here are the Content Warnings for these episodes: domestic abuse, alcoholism, suicide, emotional manipulation, assault In the series of…
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Episode 126: Casanovella
CW: Incest, Suicidal Ideation Mention A challenge has been thrown into the ring! Can we make you hate Casanova? With Remy on the case, we’ll drag you down to hater status. The man fucked his way around Europe and wrote thousands of pages of memoirs. He was a sugar baby and a lover of clitties.…
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Episode 125: The Chicken and Elephant Problem
CW: Animal Death, Violence We return triumphantly to 2025 with a listener question: how many chickens would it take to fight an elephant? First we need to decide on the chicken. Consider size. Spirit. Anger. And then we need to determine how much a group of chickens can take out. Can we fight a chicken?…