Podcast Episodes
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Season 5 Episode 115
The phenomenon called 'Tarantism' began in the Middle Ages in southern Italy where the bite of a local spider caused bizarre symptoms almost like tha…
1 year, 11 months ago
Spider Slander: Confronting the Myths with Expert Rod Crawford
Season 5 Episode 114
Rod Crawford is the curator of the arachnids and related research collections at Seattle’s Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture. His website c…
2 years ago
THE AVERAGE PERSON SWALLOWS EIGHT SPIDERS A YEAR IN THEIR SLEEP
Season 5 Episode 113
For this Urban Legends Hotline episode, we are dissecting the myth that the average person swallows a certain number of spiders in their sleep by fol…
2 years ago
Rewind: BELIEVING IN THE BLAIR WITCH (Updated!)
Season 5 Episode 112
This is an update on the new developments surrounding one of my favorite movies of all time, The Blair Witch Project, paired with our 2019 minisode. …
2 years, 1 month ago
Pretendians: Indigenous Identity Fraud with Robert Jago and Angel Ellis
Season 5 Episode 111
For this episode, the hosts of the new podcast Pretendians, Robert Jago and Angel Ellis, explain Indigenous Identity Fraud, the phenomenon of scam ar…
2 years, 1 month ago
A Terrorist Attack on the Furries with Nicky Woolf
Season 5 Episode 110
Fur and Loathing is a new investigative podcast from Nicky Woolf about an unsolved 2014 chlorine gas attack on the world’s largest Furry convention, …
2 years, 1 month ago
Long Live the Ray Cat with Emperor X and Matt Kielty
Season 5 Episode 109
Reporter and Radiolab producer Matthew Kielty and musician Chad Matheny (AKA Emperor X) were both part of a 2014 episode of the 99% Invisible podcast…
2 years, 2 months ago
TALKING TO THE FUTURE: NUCLEAR SEMIOTICS
Season 5 Episode 108
How do we warn people 10,000 years in the future about nuclear waste sites that will remain extremely dangerous for longer than human civilization ha…
2 years, 2 months ago
Context Clues: Going Nuclear
Season 5 Episode 107
For some context for our upcoming series that we have not yet revealed, we will revisit excerpts from our past episodes: Horror Movies pt. 1, The End…
2 years, 2 months ago
Magical Overthinking with Amanda Montell
Season 5 Episode 106
Amanda Montell is the host of the podcast Sounds Like A Cult as well as the author of the new book The Age of Magical Overthinking: Notes on Modern I…
2 years, 2 months ago