Dead Girls Talking

Dead Girls Talking

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Dead Girls Talking episodes

  • Hometown America: Drugs & Murder in Mayberry Pt.2

    Part 2 of Minda & Jenna's powerful interview with Chad Nance and Carissa Joines, the filmmaking team behind the upcoming docuseries Hometown America.  We continue to unravel the hidden depths of the opioid crisis and it's effects on America's favorite small town, Mt. Airy, NC.  One mother's journey to shed light on the devastation that is being wrought on families touched by addiction, and her brave stand against being silenced.  We also uncover why you never, ever buy a used mixer.  

     

       Check out the sizzle reel for "Hometown America" :

     

     

     

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    1 hr 2 min
  • Mothman: West Virginia's Most Eligible Bachelor

    Glowing eyes, impressive wingspan, possible lover of lamps.......... Mothfans rejoice! Minda and Jenna chat with Mothman expert Steve Ward about his theories on Point Pleasant, WV's most elusive resident. Bizarre apex predator or interdementional time traveler? Why not both!

    1 hr 13 min
  • Amy Baxter: "Not the Owner's Daughter"
    Trigger warning: Death, Suicide, Trauma
    Amy Baxter is a licensed California Funeral Director and Embalmer whose passion is restorative art. She specializes in restoring traumatic cases involving homicides, suicides, and car accident victims.
    A native of the Central Coast of California, she moved to Southern California in 2004 to earn her degree in Mortuary Science from Cypress College.
    She is now the proud owner of Baxter Embalming, LLC, through which she provides embalming services to multiple mortuaries throughout Ventura, Los Angeles, and San Bernardino counties.
    She is also very honored to have embalmed decedents donated to the Willed Donor & Anatomical Gift Program at the University of Southern California, providing medical and dental students with specially preserved cadavers that can be studied for up to 2-4 years.
    She takes pride in her work. Her business cards read: “Baxter Embalming - The Difference is Measurable.”
    She states that providing the most beautiful “memory picture” possible is her calling and she can’t think of a more meaningful purpose in life. In her very spare free time, Amy enjoys writing and performing stand-up comedy. She has performed at Flapper’s, the Improv, was on the California’s Funniest Females Tour, and co-created/co-wrote a comedy series about a female run Mortuary. The show is based off her comedy and life as a mortician. Her hope is it will be picked up someday to give people an inside peek at the insane and hilarious experiences she’s lived through caring for the dead.
    1 hr 11 min
  • Robert the Doll: The Dead Girls Dish with David L. Sloan

    For 117 years, Key West, Florida has been home to one of America's most haunted objects: Robert the Doll.  An extensive history filled with terrifying and unexplained phenomenon's, alleged curses and Ozzy Osbourne, Robert the Doll has drawn  many a curious traveler south to witness the unexplained.  On this episode, Minda and Jenna sit down with author David L. Sloan, curator of Sloan's Ghost Fort Adventures and keeper of Robert the Doll.  Check our Dead Girls Talking Facebook and Instagram page for your chance to win a Robert the Doll Prize Pack!

     

    1 hr 1 min
  • Queerly Departed: The Dead Girls Chat with Death Doula Cas

    The Dead Girls talk with NYC drag king and professional death doula Cas aka Vigor Mortis about embracing mortality, voicing final wishes, and navigating the death industry as a minority. A death doula (also sometimes called end-of-life doula, or death midwife) is a trained nonmedical professional who provides emotional, physical, and educational support for someone nearing death.  Cas explains how important representation is for LBGTQ folks can be during end of life planning. 

    1 hr 46 min
  • Whalecorn: The Dead Girls chat with Zac Amico

    Minda and Jenna sit down with comic, actor, filmmaker, and possible Freddy Krueger apologist Zac Amico. Strap in for musings on representation in horror, stories of life on the road, and a proprietary recipe for stage poop.

    #pride #horror #filmmaking #comedy

    1 hr 10 min
  • Netflix and Hill: Hilliary Begley & Bridgette Martin

    Minda and Jenna chat with the Feral Hogs Comedy Team, Hilliary Begley and Bridgette Martin. You may recognize Hilliary as Aunt Lucy from the Netflix smash hit “ Dumplin’” with Jennifer Aniston. It’s a wild ride with comedy, body positivity and movie making!

     

    Hilliary Begley's southern charm combined with her sass make for an unforgettable night of storytelling. From tales of her religious upbringing to those of adulthood, Hilliary will share her life story with you one laugh at a time.

    Hilliary has opened for Jon Reep, Judah  Friedlander, Chanel Ali, and Fortune Feimster. She has toured the United States as the star of the Feral Hogs Comedy Tour.

    She made her film debut in the Netflix original Dumplin' as Aunt Lucy, or "Jennifer Anniston's fat sister," as Hilliary explains it.

    She can also be seen in the Austin Film Festival winning movie When We Last Spoke with Cloris Leachman, now streaming on Amazon Prime.

     

    1 hr 10 min
  • Bladder Stoned: Tupper Stevens & the Urology Museum

    Did you know tucked away in Maryland there is a museum devoted entirely to Urology? Jenna did! Minda and Jenna are joined by Tupper Stevens, an expert and guide for the Urology Museum. In the not to distant past, a bladder stone removal was much more serious than it is now, oftentimes the treatment was a kill or cure situation.  Tupper guides us through the history of urology, the more unusual exhibits in the museum and answers all our inappropriate questions! 
     

    Creatative credit: Elic Thomas 

    36 min
  • Murder in Miniature: The Mother of Forensics, Frances Glessner Lee

    Minda & Jenna sit down with the incredible Bruce Goldfarb, author of 18 Tiny Deaths: The Untold Story of the Woman Who Invented Modern Forensics and the executive assistant to the OCME of Baltimore, MA.  Bruce tell us about Frances Glessner Lee (1878-1962) who crafted her extraordinary “Nutshell Studies of Unexplained Death”—exquisitely detailed miniature crime scenes—to train homicide investigators to “convict the guilty, clear the innocent, and find the truth in a nutshell.” These dollhouse-sized dioramas of true crimes, created in the first half of the 20th century and still used in forensic training today, helped to revolutionize the emerging field of homicide investigation. - via https://americanart.si.edu. Her story is nothing short of incredible, a woman in as man’s world, inventing an entire new method to solve crime during a time when women’s voices were seldom heard.

    57 min

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