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 Th…
4 months, 2 weeks 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 cybersecu…
4 months, 3 weeks 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 Ma…
4 months, 3 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 inciner…
5 months 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, …
5 months, 1 week 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 ev…
5 months, 2 weeks 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 ki…
5 months, 3 weeks 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 fa…
6 months 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 t…
6 months, 1 week 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 inap…
6 months, 2 weeks ago