Pack a bag, wrap up tight, and follow close behind Dani, Justy, and Oisin as they investigate the Dyatlov Pass Incident. Ticking off a big topic on Dani’s bucket list, we defrost the mystery of what happened to the nine experienced hikers who died in mysterious circumstances in the Ural Mountains in 1959. Was it hypothermia? Military tests? Avalanche? Abominable snowmen? Abominable snowmen from space? Badgers? A time-travelling Dani looking for content? You’ll have to listen and find out. Expect a lot of injury descriptions (naturally, it’s a Dani episode) and mispronunciations of Russian names.

Throw on your leather trenchcoats and tiny sunglasses, it's an episode for the philosophy and quantum physics sickos out there as we hack into the mainframe anad try to figure out simulation theory. What around us is real? How is the Fibonacci sequence so prevalent in nature? Why do we dream? And in Dani's case, what is 1 + 2?

In between the binary code we touch on The Sims, Liverpool-based time slips, Cool Runnings, Schrödinger's cat and Leon Kennedy.

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Crack open your history books, Oisin is taking us on a tour through the evils for America once again. This week, we're testifying in front of the very chill, very normal Joseph McCarthy and his Red Scare, which swept through the US in the 1950s and essentially rewired the American political brain, with its effects still being felt today. Along the way, we get into Roy Cohn and learning American culture through The Simpsons, Billie Holiday, The Rosenbergs, The Kennedys, some very questionable accents, and Pete Hegseth's even more questionable tattoos

Short episode alert! Probably best you don't cue this one up around mealtimes, because this week we're opening the casefile of one Armin Meiwes, the infamous German cannibal and his voluntary victim Bernd Brandes. Trigger warning, which shoud go without saying. Along the way, there's more of Oisin's impressions, Dick Tracy, the open awfulness of the early internet, Star Trek novels, but shockingly not a single Simpsons "Armin Tamzarian" reference. For shame.

Back on our weird shit this week! Justy guides Dani, Oisín and you, our lovely listeners, into the stars to tell us about the Annunaki, the ancient and mythical deities who supposedly decreed the fate of mankind. Just like the elites on Epst... no, we won't go there again.

This week's tangents include Dani's fear of "Earth Song", old people's mouth sounds, and yes, hog talk.

Switching lanes this week, as Dani's sporadic side-podcast breaches containment onto main feed. We thought it'd be a nice change of pace after 6+ hours of Epstein dread, so instead have Dani and Justy delving deep into the dire depths of Reddit stories.

Next week, we finally get to our Annunaki episode!

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.