Turn on your dial-up modem & get ready to send this email to ten friends before a limewire virus crashes the family desktop  because today, we're getting a broader understanding of how the internet became an ad.

In this episode we travel through the ghost town of the old internet through chain emails, geocities fan sites, LiveJournal confessions, MySpace betrayals, before making are way to the Facebook takeover & the rise of tiktokshop, all while asking:

When did our online diaries turn into shopping malls?

When did our friendships turn into feed suggestions?

And what do we do now, on an internet (and in a world) where everything feels more algorithm than human?

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Grab your push-up bra and your popsicles because today we’re getting a broader understanding of the moment Mariah Carey “crashed” the set of TRL in the summer of 2001, and how the world absolutely lost its mind... while she was quietly losing hers.

More than just a glittery publicity stunt, this was a woman unraveling under the fluorescent lights of early-2000s scrutiny while society mocked her.

The jokes were cruel but in the end Mariah would get the last laugh.

Sources:

Held Captive, Mariah’s Untold Horror Story (Deepdive, YouTube)

https://youtu.be/jjmSbkU7ZWo?s...

MTV TRL
July, 2001

MTV News
July, 2001

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Put down the cocktail & get ready to hunt for cryptids as Daniela & Kristin get a broader understanding of the sober to spooky pipeline. The reasons we quit drinking, the weird things we got into and how cautionary tales meant for teenagers end up being instruction manuals. Plus, we talk about Mt. Shasta, ancient civilizations & everything in between.

Let us know what spooky subjects you’d like us to cover next!

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Grab your ouija board and your teenage rage because today, we’re getting a broader understanding of poltergeists

What if they aren’t ghosts at all? Not even a haunting but a manifestation? What if it’s all just the raw, unfiltered energy of adolescence, the force of pure, unspoken rage and heartbreak? A panic attack attack at a pivotal time, an attempt to be seen so strong it bends the astral realm itself- What if the scariest part of poltergeist activity is not that it’s real but that it’s us?

We’re going through the history of poltergeists, the science, the scares and the teenage angst to try and figure out what it means when your house is haunted not just by ghosts but by puberty.

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put on your flotation devices and keep an eye on the catering table, because today, we’re getting a broader understanding of what happened on the set of Titanic when around 80 cast and crew members were drugged with PCP on the last night of filming in Nova Scotia 

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Get in your flight simulator & make sure your seatbelts are securely fastened as we look at season 2 of The Rehearsal where Nathan Fielder has taken on a broader subject than before- aviation safety.

Should we all develop a fear of flying or can a clown really change the world?

We’ll go over the episode (which feels like a comedy in the way The Bear feels like a comedy) while also exploring some of the crashes that are mentioned and some that are not.

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Trade in your telescope for an adult diaper and ignore that court-issued restraining order, because today we’re getting a broader understanding of the 2007 astronaut love triangle.

Lisa Nowak became infamous after driving 900 miles in a space diaper to kidnap the new girlfriend of her astronaut ex lover- but the story behind the headlines is much more disturbing.

Lisa literally went to space but even before this, there were cracks. 

We look at how the 2003 Columbia shuttle disaster sparked a series of events that may have drove Lisa to madness- and if nothing else exposed an institution built to ignore emotion and put spectacle over safety.


Sources:

Lust in Space, Texas Monthly
2007

https://www.texasmonthly.com/t...?

Astronaut Love Triangle: Lisa Nowak 'Is Finally at Peace' 15 Years After Attacking Romantic Rival


https://people.com/crime/astro...

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Grab your chargers, put your heart in airplane mode, and maybe delete that Replika app, because today, we are stepping into the uncanny valley of AI romance. We’ll be talking about the new film Companion, starring the brilliant Sofie Thatcher. We talk about real stories of people dating AI, films like Terminator, Her & Ex Machina before finally getting a broader understanding of AI companionship- why we’re obsessed with with media about dating robots, and why our next relationship may soon come with a software update.

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Today, we’re leaving the jokes aside but still bringing a flashlight just as in case as we step into the murky waters of Lady Bird Lake. Under its inviting surface lurks a question unsettling locals- is there a serial killer haunting Lady Bird Lake?

We'll explore the troubling pattern of mysterious deaths, talk about the lives lost as we try to gain a broader understanding of just what's going on.


Sources:


The Lore Lodge, YouTube
Lady Bird Lake

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Click your ruby slippers together & grab your little dog too as we take a broader look at the life & death of Judy Garland

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