Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchDisneyland’s Disastrous Opening Day with Riley Swedelius-Smith and Miranda Zickler
Our associate producer (and my brother) Riley Swedelius-Smith is here to tell our producer Miranda Zickler and me about the chaotic opening day of The Happiest Place on Earth way back in 1955. We’ll…
Published on 7 hours ago
Bot Farms and the Troll Toll with Perry Carpenter
Have you ever wondered if the person you are arguing with in a social media comment section is really a person at all? Perry Carpenter is a cybersecurity expert, author of FAIK: A Practical Guide to …
Published on 1 week ago
BLOODY MARY
Bloody Mary...Bloody Mary...Bloody Mary...For our Halloween special, we are going to trace the history of the slumber party ritual known as Bloody Mary in which a young summoner stands in the dark in…
Published on 2 weeks ago
Spontaneous Human Combustion with Sarah Marshall of 'You're Wrong About'
Sarah Marshall is here to teach me about the confounding phenomenon of Spontaneous Human Combustion in which a person is found almost totally incinerated with no explanation, seeming to have burst in…
Published on 3 weeks ago
12 Ft Skeleton (rewind)
This is a rerelease of our 2023 Halloween special about the 12 Ft Skeleton Halloween craze and the strange history of our relationship to skeletons, both real and fake, stretching back hundreds of ye…
Published on 4 weeks ago
Horror Movie Curses with 'What Went Wrong' Podcast
What Went Wrong hosts Chris Winterbauer and Lizzie Bassett join me to tell the stories of three allegedly cursed horror movies and the unexplained events that befell the cast, crew, and sometimes eve…
Published on 1 month ago
Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark with Liz "Cosbrarian" Gotauco
For this episode, I get schooled on the history of Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark, the children's horror book series that terrified 80s and 90s kids with its repurposed urban legends and folklore …
Published on 1 month, 1 week ago
The Kennedy Curse with George Civeris
George Civeris is the host of the comedy podcast Straightiolab as well as a new podcast called United States of Kennedy that explores our cultural fascination with the Kennedy dynasty and the ways th…
Published on 1 month, 2 weeks ago
Houdini's Afterlife with Sarah Marshall and Tim Harford
Tim Harford is the host of the podcast Cautionary Tales which recently put out a series on the most famous magician of all time, Harry Houdini. For this episode, Sarah Marshall of You’re Wrong About …
Published on 1 month, 3 weeks ago
#Elsagate (rewind)
This is a rerelease of our 2021 episode. In 2017, YouTube Kids was embroiled in a major scandal when it was discovered that a dark underbelly of inappropriate cartoons, computer animations, and live …
Published on 2 months ago