Grab a book for your flight delay, turn off Lifetime, and cling to any sliver of hope because today we’re getting a broader understanding of the government shutdown and flight delays, the distasteful Lifetime movie on the murders of Kaylee, Maddie, Xana and Ethan, and then finishing on a positive note with the Mamdani victory for NYC mayor

Sources available in show notes

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Hide your chicken & get ready to roll with the homies, today we’re taking a look at The Life and Death of Brittany Murphy. We will celebrate Brittany’s life & career, and examine the tragic circumstances surrounding her death. In this episode, we take a look at Brittany’s early life, and career achievements, as well as, her family dynamics and interpersonal relationships. We will also explore the impact of negative media attention, the pressures that surround women in Hollywood, and body image standards of the early 2000s. Lastly, we will unpack Brittany and her husband Simons death, and the factors that may have contributed to their demise. Please share, subscribe to our patreon, and become a monthly $upporter so we can keep making episodes for you!! Episode originally

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Sources:

HBO Max’s What Happened, Brittany Murphy

The Smithosnian, The Curious Life and Death of Brittany Murphy

Ebert, Roger. Uptown Girls, Rogerebert.com, 2003.

Logan, Elizabeth. Melanie Lynsky Rnemebers
Brittany Murphys Self-Image Issues. Glamour, 2022.

June, Sophia.
Clueless Director Reveals What Made Her Cast Brittany Murphy, Nylon, 2021.

Brittany Murphy Biography, Biography.com, 2014.
https://www.biography.com/acto... Johnson, Christen

Everything to Know about Brittany Murpy’s Husabnd, Simon Monjack. Cosmopolitan, 2021.
https://www.cosmopolitan.com/e... Kranc,

Lauren, Esquire Magazine, 2021. https://www.esquire.com/entert... --

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Phone home and don't ignore those lights in the sky, because today we're getting a broader understanding of aliens and UFOs.

In this episode we get a brief history of alien encounters and UFO sightings. We'll listen to the different theories on what they may be before getting into the whistleblower UAP hearings that recently happened in Congress and what this could mean for our intergalactic future 

(originally aired in October 2023)


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Put on your trench coat and and get ready to call the tip line, because today we’re getting a broader understanding of one of the eeriest, mesmerizing and most iconic shows to ever hit television: Unsolved Mysteries. 

We'll hear from people who worked on the series, revisit some memorable cases,

 And maybe you too can help solve a mystery

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Grab your consent forms (but don’t sign them yet) and your government-issued fetal monitoring bracelet, because today we’re getting a broader understanding of what happens when people aren’t treated like people but like data, vessels, and experiments. The body keeps the score- even when it’s for medical horror stories.

From Adriana Smith, kept alive against her will to serve as a human incubator under Georgia’s abortion laws, to Henrietta Lacks, whose cells were stolen, immortalized, and monetized without her knowledge or family’s consent, this episode unpacks the long, horrifying legacy of unethical medical research in America.

We’ll walk through the Tuskegee Syphilis Study, the Holmesburg Prison experiments, the HIV-tainted blood scandal that infected kids like Ryan White, while the government spent more money on the Tylenol murders than AIDS research. And this isn’t ancient history, it’s happening today- not just with Adriana Smith, or Terri Schiavo as a human prop before her but with forced sterilizations, CRISPR babies, and what happens when “the greater good” doesn’t include you.
This isn’t an anti-science episode. I’m pro-science, but not when the most marganilzed among us have to die for it.

And in a world where women, people of color, and the poor are still being used, sometimes even after death- it’s more important than ever to ask:

Who gets to be a patient? And who’s just a test subject?

(Originally released May 2025)

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Grab your neighborhood watch pamphlet and a flashlight with dying batteries because today we’re getting a broader understanding of Horror in the Suburbs.. and no, not the kind where you can’t take a five minute walk to grab a coffee but instead the insidious underbelly hiding behind perfect lawns and closed doors. Why are the suburbs so scary? Urban planning gone wrong or have we just watched Halloween too many times?

Sources:

Why do the Suburbs Exist? (This House, YouTube)

https://youtu.be/JAR7R_tecFc?s...

Horror in The Suburbs Trope (SyFy)

https://youtu.be/AWzSpjOsMb8?s...

How The Suburbs Became the Perfect Setting for Horror (Nylon)

https://www.nylon.com/articles...

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Don’t answer the phone when you’re babysitting, know that noise was not just the wind, and never say “I’ll be right back” because today, we’re getting a broader understanding of urban legends: the stories that may not be true but spread so much it seems like they should be. Why do we love them? And why do they linger?

sources: 
https://www.rd.com/list/scary-urban-legends/

https://youtu.be/S4Qq1htzd_0?si=W5YkFOYPdqXosKf0

https://crimereads.com/why-our-fascination-with-urban-legends-will-never-die/

https://youtu.be/9ofcLGx5VQA?si=nFe9GwKGIgePAagv

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Find a shaman and call your clairvoyant grandmother because today we’re getting a broader understanding of the tragedy that plagued the poltergeist sequels, both on and off screen, as we ask once again- can anything really be cursed or is it just our realities (and greedy studios) that haunt us?

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Turn off the movie and get ready to go behind the scenes, because today we’re getting a broader understanding of the murder of Poltergeist star Dominique Dunne. This episode contains graphic descriptions of domestic violence, failures of the justice system, and the fact that sometimes the things that haunt us our deeply human. My main sources for this episode our the writings of Dominique’s father Dominic Dunne for Vanity Fair, the writings of her brother Griffin Dunne, the E! true Hollywood story on her life and court testimony of those involved. This is a heavy one for me, I really struggled to record this but I think what happened to Dominique is important to talk about, it’s something that happens every day.


CW: Domestic Violence

Sources:

Justice, Dominick Dunne for Vanity Fair

The E! True Hollywood Story: Dominique Dunne



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Grab a strong sense of spiritual boundaries, hide your clown dolls, and be prepared to feel enraged and also terrified because today, we’re getting a Broader Understanding of the curse of Poltergeist: the classic horror film that used real skeletons, haunted its cast and made America question whether some movies really are cursed.


This is Part 1

Sources:

Poltergeist Theatrical Trailer

https://youtu.be/q0p4JUlKJYI?si=K4J2V9Mz3qKSq6O7

E! True Hollywood Story: Poltergeist 

The True Story That Inspired Poltergeist (Nerdist)

https://nerdist.com/article/poltergeist-true-story-inspired-movie/?amp





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