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- Flared Base: Adventures in Forensic Pathology with Lauren Polli
Trigger warning: sensitive subjects, death, miscarriage
Lauren Polli is a pathologists’ assistant from North Carolina trained in surgical pathology, autopsy, and making people laugh. You can find her in the hospital laboratory dissecting human body parts by day and on stage at a comedy club telling jokes by night.
1 hr 7 min - The Thicc and the Dead: Zombie Erotica Author Isabelle Drake
Isabelle Drake is the fiction alias of Melissa Ford Lucken. She holds an MFA in Creative Writing from Boston College’s program at Pine Manor College and an MA in Special Education from Eastern Michigan University. She teaches creative writing and composition at Lansing Community College.
59 min - Get a Whiff of This: Dead Girls Talk Cadaver Dogs
Minda and Jenna welcome Dr. Ben Alexander to the show to talk about man's best friend, dead or alive. Everything you never knew about cadaver dogs, search and rescue and fraud in the body recovery industry.
52 min - Everyone’s a Hotdog
Minda and Jenna speak to Dr. Damon de la Cruz, author of Turning Art into Science: Applying Chemistry to Funeral Service. He’s also part of the development team behind the apps Embalm Calc and MorTraqr (available in the App Store)
Damon takes us on a journey through the ties between human decomposition and the humble hot dog.
www.Tuesdayeveningpublications.com
Creative credit: Elic Thomas
50 min - Buckle Up for Underwater Ghost Towns
North Georgia has more than forty lakes, and not one is natural. Buildings drowned where they stood. Entire towns flooded to bring in cheap power to North Georgia. Gravesites moved to accommodate the Army Corps of Engineers. We talk to author Lisa M. Russell about her fascinating book Underwater Ghost Towns of North Georgia.
"The state’s controversial decision to dam the region’s rivers for power and water supply changed the landscape forever. Lost communities, forgotten crossroads, dissolving racetracks and even entire towns disappeared, with remnants occasionally peeking up from the depths during times of extreme drought. The creation of Lake Lanier displaced more than seven hundred families. During the construction of Lake Chatuge, busloads of schoolboys were brought in to help disinter graves for the community’s cemetery relocation. Contractors clearing land for the development of Lake Hartwell met with seventy-eight-year-old Eliza Brock wielding a shotgun and warning the men off her property. Lisa Russell dives into the history hidden beneath North Georgia’ lakes." -lisamrussell.net
55 min - Dead Girls go South of the Border
It's an undeniable landmark of the Southeast. Anyone who has traveled up and down Interstate 95 has been bathed in it's cool, neon glow. South of the Border is nothing short of legendary and we chat with filmmaker Nate Mallard in the famed landmark's origins and the question of it being haunted.
Photo credit: Jenna Hall
Production credit: Elic Thomas
56 min - Memento Mori, Sharkey Style
Frozen cats, bricks made from human bones and the legality of exhuming remains. Funeral Director and Mortuary Lawyer Michael Sharkey answers all our questions and more!
1 hr 5 min - Ruth Coker Burks: Hero
"How can I help?" With those four words, a young, single mother from Arkansas became a warrior at the onset of the HIV/AIDS crisis in the 1980's. Ruth Coker Burks tells us her incredible story, rife with sass, grit and undeniable love for all the people she cared for, when the rest of the world was rejecting them. Threatened by the Ku Klux Klan, shunned by her town, Ruth never wavered. We are celebrating PRIDE by honoring her, the Cemetery Angel of Arkansas.
1 hr 24 min - Putting the Fun in Forensics with Professor J. Slaughter
CSI Effect, magic maggots, true crime, forensics, oh my!
27 min - Maybe she's born with it, Maybe it's Mortuary Makeup.
It's super sized episode with Minda and Jenna chatting with Ceirra Doll, an award winning special effects artist/mortician and Benjamin Schmidt, one of the authors of Creating Natural Form, the latest and greatest textbook on restorative art. Reattaching body parts, the extremely important role of gelatin in the film world and how baking and embalming are pretty much the same thing.....you're not going to want to miss this one!
Find Ben's Textbook at : http://www.tuesdayeveningpublications.com/new-page
Ben's podcast: The Funeral Science Podcast
Ceirra Doll's music can be found at: https://www.facebook.com/stonedollsmusic/about/?ref=page_internal
Ceirra Doll's SFX work: instagram corruptedcarnage_ceirradoll
Jenna's SFX work: instagram jennabhallsfx
Email us at [email protected]
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Weird women of a certain age chatting about the stuff that makes your weird little heart go pitter patter.