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Episode 158: Let’s Break the Law
CW: Ableism / Disability exploitation, LGBTQ+ discrimination, Sexual content (brief/legal context), Death (brieth), Religion There’s the usual laws, like no kissing your wife on Sunday, and then there’s the law about keeping ice cream in your back pocket. Remy delivers on weird laws that are still on the books, some of which we can be…
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Episode 156: War on the Warrens
CW: Child Sexual Abuse/Statutory Rape Allegations, Grooming, Coerced Abortion Allegations, Domestic Violence, Manipulation, Religious exploitation, Demonic and Paranormal topics, Death Ed and Lorraine Warren of The Conjuring franchise and more get the WWYAT treatment: knock them down brick by brick. We address their rise to fame and subsequent drift into infamy, the Judith Penney allegations,…
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Episode 155: The Rate of Reality
CW: Harm to Animals What is it like to experience the world at 400 frames per second? How quickly can cats see the world around them? How does it change the perception of time? This episode tackles the speed of reality. How fast can you see? This one dives into the weird science of when…
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Episode 154: Scentertainment
What if you could SMELL your movies? What if the protagonist walked on screen and you recognized their smell as much as their musical motif? This episode, Karen tells us about the history of Smell-O-Vision and how it briefly came to light in the movie theatre. For a starting place, let’s begin with Wikipedia’s Smell-O-Vision…
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152: Inupasugjuk: Cold and Colossal
CW: Animal Harm (super briefly), Colonialism Far to the north, the inukpasugjuit sleeps. Once there were giants of all sorts making their homes on the polar ice, but now we don’t see even a silhouette in the distance. We meander into Inuit folklore this week, sharing what we could find on Inukpasugjuit. Let’s start with…
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Episode 151: Do Mi So What?
This week, Karen answers a listener’s questions about the history and purpose of scales in music. Why do we use scales? Where did the come from? Let’s find out! For her sources, Karen pulled a lot of information from the Wikipedia page for what the musical scales are, so I’m going to drop those here…
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Episode 149: Mermyths
CW: Implied Harm to Animals, Death, Brief mention of Covid-19 Where are the mermaids? Why aren’t they filing their taxes? I’ll tell you why: GOVERNMENT CONSPIRACY. They talked all about it in this documentary the ANIMAL PLANET showed back in— what’s that? It wasn’t a real documentary? It’s a pseudodocumentary that had a hand in…