We can’t promise that the Epstein debacle will end any time soon irl, but we can confirm this is our last episode on it for a while! It’s all just very bleak! We need a bit of a break! As ever, big ol’ content warning for everything you might think we’ll talk about. Some bright spots along the way include SNL’s never-ending unfunniness, Pete Hegseth being “rugby straight”, the Glasgow derby infecting Dani’s twitter mentions, Justy almost getting accidentally pegged, Winter Olympic jigglies, and a heated debate on the pronunciation of the word “Caribbean”.

Surprise! It’s a Monday episode because the whole Epstein of it all is just too horrific and ever-evolving. Once again, a colossal content warning for some very dark things discussed in this episode, which you can probably guess. On the happier side, we have delightful tangents about Pokemon and Spider-Man 3, some hog talk, Oisin’s always impeccable impressions of terrible human beings, and the coining of the term “subpoenis”

In the first of what will - depressingly - no doubt be an ongoing series, we’re opening the Epstein Files. Needless to say, and without going into specifics, a ginormous general content warning applies to this one. Non-nonce-related conversation topics include Dani’s utter hatred for Punch the Monkey, how the feds are spying on our episode recording sessions (leading to our previous attempt on this topic mysteriously failing), Justy’s adventures in mid-00s Tennessee, Boris Johnson gifting a peerage to an ex-KGB agent, and the staggering incompetence of basically everyone in the Trump administration.

Welcome one and all to this week's episode, focusing on Lilith, the entity of many descriptors; the actual first woman, demoness, baby-snatcher, feminist icon, and patron saint of edgy goths.

On our journey we found the Church of Sheryl Crow, slander white women with dreadlocks, demons as purely transactional businesspeople, the Charlie Sheen documentary, Buffy The Vampire Slayer, Saint Tony Soprano, the RFK/Kid Rock workout video and what our hosts would do if they had infinite money.

Who doesn't love a cult? This week our three beloved leaders Dani, Justy, and Oisin takes us down to Jonestown and investigate the beginnings (and ending) of its charismatic founder Jim Jones. Along the way, expect playground rumours from the death of Scatman to the ever-present celebrity rib removal, Jocelyn Carter’s love of the weirdos, nature vs nurture, the smugness of born again Christians, a lot of mum talk, migraines and the Movementarians.

In the first of an ongoing series, and maybe our most self-flagellating episode to date, Oisin takes the wheel and directs Dani, Justy, and our loyal listeners to the start of darkness of the United States: those damned Puritans. Along the way, we pass by Justy’s drag dreams, Florida Man, London Dungeons, how all our problems started with Henry VIII wanting to get his end away, The Righteous Gemstones, and the downsides in living in a place named after Oliver Cromwell

An episode? On a Monday? Madness! Basically, in case you weren't aware, we have a sister podcast, entitled Nobody Asked! wherein Dani and a guest delve into some wild Reddit stories. Is its existence purely because Dani is incapable of shutting up? Who knows! It currently lives on our Patreon, but we're testing the waters this week and including it on our main feed. So enjoy Dani and co-host Anna presenting a rather timely Reddit story about what NOT to do on Valentine's in the shortest Hocus Pocus-verse episode to date.

Somehow an episode about a saint hosting Easter on the back of a whale is one of our least supernatural episodes. Go figure. As we follow aul Brendan's path across the Atlantic, Dani, Oisin and Justy hit on Heated Rivalry, Biker Mice From Mars, the oxen vs cows debate, the need for a new Hocus Pocus bingo card, a giant tangent about Irish geography and Irish TV, Greek myths and Bible stories, Justy’s whale boat adventures, Irish women being the original manic pixie dream girls, some much needed Latin pronunciation lessons, and their top three Game Of Thrones boys

Hope you're all ready for 2.75 more hours of depraved serial killer talk. Sunshine lollipops and rainbows next week, guaranteed*. Interspersed between the awful this week is Oisin’s love for touring the most horrible places in the world, how Bernie Sanders would’ve saved the world, the various smells of Dani’s apartment, the impracticalities of vaginas, Dani’s mob wife dreams, a blatant attempt to get KFC to sponsor us, and a slightly gross/depressing story time with Justy.

* (not a guarantee)

Dani, Oisin, and Justy dive into one of the big topics of true crime this week: John Wayne Gacy. Naturally a big ol' content warning for some truly horrible shit, but mixed in to that, we talk about Oisin’s terrorising twin uncles, Hollywood Ireland vs real Ireland, morticians (shockingly no mention of The Undertaker or Paul Bearer), Justy’s Ed Gein/Mickey Mouse impression, Jimmy Savile, sex lives of the Romans and the Greeks and Ask Jeeves.