This week, we have bones to pick with each other, a man goes to extreme lengths to fight for his right to party, the "show me" state shows 'em, a dumpster isn't a dumpster,  and the dead crash the party.

Content warnings: unusual meats, turtle murder, fleeting mention of cannibalism, home break-in, gross earwax discussion, flooding, alcoholism, continuous and graphic discussion of corpses and decomposition, grief, cancer, graphic discussion of infant death 45:50.

Links:
Buried Secrets, S1 E1
Great Flood of 1993
James Scott (criminal)
Scapegoat
The Hardin Cemetery Disaster

This week, MELANIE IS BACK, Brianne is haunted by a koala, Florida man bracket kicks off, Melanie loves chaotic men, everyone is naked, lava lamps cause a lot of trouble, Brianne meets a snake and tries on victim blaming for size, and Melanie permanently loses her right to judge Midwestern cuisine.

Content warnings: COVID, unwanted physical contact in the form of a wet willy, passing mention of Glasgow smiles and schizophrenia, extensive and detailed discussion of having alcoholic parents, hallucinations, withdrawal symptoms, attempted murder/stabbings, vague racism, strangulation, explosion, death, gross food.

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Links:
A groovy birthday glow
Acute renal toxicity after ingestion of Lava light liquid
Dad Drank a Lava Lamp at Bedtime. It Didn't Go Well
Death By Lava Lamp? New TV Show, ‘Curious And Unusual Deaths,’ Explains How It’s Possible
Earthquake Machine
Edward Craven Walker
Elizabeth Elcoate Gilbert
Elizabeth Walker: Naturism’s Ambassador
Exploding lava lamp kills Washington man
Homemade lava lamp causes injuries
Kent man killed by exploding lava lamp
Lava Lamp
The History of Mathmos and the original lava lamp
The History of the Lava Lamp
Two Hurt in Lava Lamp Lunacy
US3387396A

This week, The Audio Guy is our final guest star and doesn't want to be a beaver, someone is a loser ghost, a barefoot medieval knight does a somersault, a nurse has two jobs in order to be a nurse and fails at both, TAG wants people to take their destinies by the dick, and a dialysis clinic has the most morbid layout imaginable.

Content warnings: divorce, depression, vague mention of suicidal ideation/in-patient treatment. drug addiction/abuse, domestic disputes without explicit violence, job loss, elder abuse, abuse of patients, poisoning/deaths, abusive medical providers, kidney failure, dialysis, end of life care, blood, very brief mention of pediatric dialysis.

SHOW NOTES
Dialysis: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)
Killer Nurse - John Foxjohn
Kim Saenz

This week, Mandi is willing and even ready to fight a chicken to the death, divers attempt the "Dive of Death" with mixed results, a diver finds himself on both ends of drunk driving disasters, someone fails to read the room on a scale never seen before on this podcast, Brianne's mom spills the Olympic tea, and in Melanie's absence we fail to make one single dick joke about the name Steele Johnson.

SHOW NOTES

Content warnings: theoretical animal murder in the context of a would-you-rather, alcoholic parent, drunk driving accident, head trauma, broken bones, internal injuries, death, child death, parental mourning, LGBT discrimination, HIV, coma/hospitalization, prison, amputation, dismemberment, loss of teenage child, drug/alcohol abuse, HIV/AIDS, homophobia, torture, murder, attempted violence against children, brief mention of domestic violence, memory loss.

Links:
10 Tragic Athlete Deaths
50 stunning Olympic moments
A double victory with a new twist
AIDS in South Korea: Out of Sight, Out of Mind
AIDS worldwide
Bruce Kimball
COKEY SMITH REGAINS TOP FORM
Diver laments drunken crash
DIVING AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL CHAMP KILLED ON A PRACTICE DIVE
The father of a teenager struck and killed by...
Greg Louganis
Greg Louganis' heroic diving triumph in Seoul
Greg Louganis' painful moment of diving history at 1988 Olympics
'He Was Short on The Dive All Week'
Hope, bitterness and film are legacies of fatal crash
How Greg Louganis' Olympic Diving Accident Forced a Conversation About AIDS
Indiana Olympian Steele Johnson won't let an injury keep him out of the water
Kimball Wants To 'Start Over,' Won't Discuss Crash, Prison
Leg a reminder of Kimball’s accident
Life’s Work: An Interview with Greg Louganis
Local Olympic hopeful Steele Johnson reveals memory loss from near-tragic accident
Lost Lives, Shattered Dreams: The Aftermath of a Tragedy
LOUGANIS TOLD THE TRUTH - 7 YEARS TOO LATE
Matthew Shepard
Nathan Meade, one of Australia's premier divers, was killed...
Platform and springboard diving positions and groups
Ray brothers
Ryan White
SHE'S DIVING BACK FROM A TRAGEDY
Sincerely, Bruce D. Kimball
SMITH TAKES BIG STEP ON RECOVERY ROAD
Soviet Diver Is Dead A Week After Accident
Steele Johnson
Universiade
Ways HIV Cannot be Spread

This week, we have our first guest star since Melanie got her ultimate disaster relief, Atlantis wants finger nipples and to eat her cat, Marked Safe is on TikTok now, it's time for everyone to get nekkid, we evaluate whether arrhythmia is a verb, a lot of corpses do a little breathing, Brianne is not cooking dinner after six days in a coffin, and we make petty ghost plans.

SHOW NOTES

Content warnings: CPR/resuscitation attempts, death and near-death experiences, embalming, buried/embalmed alive situations, scary clown, fatal and near-fatal heart conditions

Links:
Autoresuscitation: A Case and Discussion of the Lazarus Phenomenon
Dead Mississippi man begins breathing in embalming room, coroner says
Lazarus Syndrome: Or how - as one British woman's just proved - waking from the dead is more common than you think
Ohio Man Declared Dead Comes Back to Life
Russian woman, Fagilyu Mukhametzyanov, dies at her own funeral after being mistaken for dead
Survival After Failed Intraoperative Resuscitation: A Case of “Lazarus Syndrome”
Undertaker finds ‘dead’ woman really alive

This week, Melanie records her last episode before maternity leave, TAG (The Audio Guy) chimes in, we ponder what a Florida Man baby would be like, the cryptid bracket comes to a close, Melanie identifies her strengths, the final Titanic episode sets sail, a staffing change sinks the Titanic, Violet Jessop becomes our WCW, James Cameron has a bad trip, we demand an apology from Leonardo DiCaprio, and Melanie has a lot to learn about beverages.

SHOW NOTES

Content warnings: difficult labor, infant loss 22:45-23:00, drowning, head injury, loss of parents in childhood, hallucinations.

Links:
5 Ridiculous Titanic Tales That Didn't Make The Movie
Being Leo: DiCaprio’s Body Double Shares Stories from the Titanic Set
Halomonas titanicae
History of Tuberculosis (TB) - World history, start of TB, then through the centuries
Louis And Lump: Tiny Tots Saved At Sea
James Cameron's 'Titanic' Correction May Impress Astronomers
Remembering When the ‘Titanic’ Crew Ate PCP-Spiked Clam Chowder
Southampton's lost Titanic generation
The Story Of The ‘Titanic Orphans’ Who Made It Off The Doomed Ship All Alone
This Woman Survived The Sinking Of The Titanic — And Its Two Sister Ships
Titanic - (087) Jack & Rose Try to Save the Boy 1080p 60fps
'Titanic' Fan Works Out Which Scene Features Kate Winslet's Stunt Double
Titanic’s Greatest Unsolved Mystery Involves a Conga Line, P.C.P., and an Unidentified Chowder
Violet Constance Jessop
Violet Jessop
Violet's Barren White Star Wedding
Were Cast and Crew on the Film ‘Titanic’ Sickened by PCP-Laced Seafood Chowder?

This week, Melanie's labor is a disaster, Brianne makes one of the most controversial cryptid hot takes yet, a Carpathia passenger is an unapologetic gossip, the pro-Cal lobby is just three Billy Zanes in a trench coat, dogs get zoomies on the Titanic, a cat sees the writing on the wall, and we unpack two Jack Dawson conspiracy theories.

SHOW NOTES

Content warnings: burial at sea, death from hypothermia and drowning, fictional revenge porn, deaths of companion animals, deaths of (fictional) children at 50:20.

Links:
A Captain's Career
Ann Elizabeth Isham
Billy Zane
Billy Zane reveals ‘Titanic’ set secrets 20 years later
CAPTAIN SMITH’S DILEMMA; TITANIC IN EXTREMIS
CAPTAIN'S CRY TO 'BE BRITISH' RALLIED SEAMEN
Edward John Smith
Happy Birthday Kate Winslet: Did You Know? In Titanic, Rose Spat On The Face Of Cal Hockley Out Of The Script
Helen Melville Smith
The Much Better Movie Hiding In 'Titanic'
The reality behind the Irish characters in the 1997 Titanic movie
The Remarkable Story of Jenny the Titanic Cat
The Sinking of the Titanic
This Insane Titanic Theory Would Make The Film Even More Tragic
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