Science with The Blunt Letters

Welcome to our first two-part episode with special guest Sarah Bartell! You may have seen her on Naked and Afraid with our resident Googler and friend Jon! They’re a survivalist, professional taxidermist, and all-around badass. In this two-part series, Sarah talks to us about living off the grid, animals you may encounter in the wilderness and how to tell if they’re edible, creepy cryptid interactions, ghosts, and more! Stick around for this extra special guest!

Original Song “Fucking Aliens” by Micaela Superstar

References

Sarah Bartell - our guest!

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Naked and Afraid: Last One Standing

Fresno Walker or Night Crawler

Bandage Man

Terra Short from Naked and AfraidGeyser Grand Hotel

 Vinegaroons

Whip Scorpion

Sun Spider  

This week The Blunt Letters welcomes back Jon B! We talk about all things swamps: terrifying sinkholes that have eaten whole trees, creepy critters who call bogs home, and cryptids who’ve been spotted in the swamps. If you want to learn how sinkholes form and the consequences they have on communities, this episode is for you. If you’re planning to do down to the Everglades and find out what sort of creatures make up the fauna, the answers may make you think twice. Or if you love Big Foot you’ll want to learn about the swamp Big Foot of Louisiana and its friends. All of this and more on this special swamp episode!

Jon B is an outdoors person and survivalist who has been on Naked and Afraid twice in South East Asia and in Africa. He’s also an artist and our resident Googler for The Blunt Letters. Learn about his experience in rough climates on the show and check him out @temple_of_dying_gods on all platforms.

This episode features the original song “Jon B” by Micaela Superstar

References:

Florida Panther + pics 

Peehole Parasite Fish 

Florida venomous snakes

90% of wild-caught fish have parasitesVideo of trees being swallowed by sinkhole

THE SINKHOLE THAT SWALLOWED A SWAMPThe Bayou Corne Sinkhole

Honey Island Swamp MonsterSovereign Nation of ChitimachaLegend of LeticheSwamp Monsters (TV Show)The Grunch

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This week Elle and Micaela bring you a very special 420 episode of The Blunt Letters podcast! Recorded on 4/20 your favorite hosts answer the question: What’s going on up there? In this week’s Astrologeeks. Then, could there be more than meets the eye when it comes to all life on Earth? Find out on this week’s News of the Weird! Finally, Conspiracy Corner reveals what Skinwalker Ranch has to do with portals and ball lightning. Yes, that is a thing!

This episode features original songs “I wish it was 420 every day” and “Quartz Portals” by Micaela Superstar

References:

Jupiter’s Transit Astrology Resource Chani NicholasEpisode #229 of the Confessionals that talks to super soldiers (members only sorrry) 

Light curves and colours of the ejecta from Dimorphos after the DART impactShadow Biosphere Hypothesis

SETI - Unistellar Citizen Science Network and SETI Institute Contribute to Planetary Defense

Shadow Biosphere Interview with Physist Sara Walker

Scientists pull living microbes, possibly 100 million years old, from beneath the sea

Can modern science help solve the ancient mystery of the Brown Mountain lights?

Hessdalen Lights

S3 Ep 8: Math is FactsAncient Apocalypse

The Iron SnailFringe (TV Show)

I’m Totally Fine (Film)

Bender from Futurama

The Secret of Skinwalker Ranch (TV Show)

Get ready for another space update! Could there be a mothership sending probes into the Milky Way? And NASA chooses it’s crew for the Artemis 2 lunar mission! Then, from the outer limits of space to the deepest depths of the Pacific Ocean, it’s a new Animal Drop!! Learn all about the snailfish that thrives under bone-crushing pressure. Finally, Math Madness! Black Mathematicians making history again as two young women write a new trigonometric proof for one of the earth’s most popular math theorems.

Original Song “Math is Facts” by Micaela Superstar

References:

2 New Orleans teenagers say they proved the 2,000-year-old Pythagorean Theorem

Imhotep v. Pythagorean

Famous Black Mathematicians and Their Contributions

Crewed Mission to space: Artemis 2Is Victor Glover related to Danny Glover?

All woman space walk Reverse Speech - David John OatesAlien Mothership Lurking…

Meet the 'world's deepest fish,' filmed for the first time at bone-crushing depths

This week The Blunt Letters welcomes back scientist Sarah! Our friend and immunologist is back to talk to us about the horrifying new drug additive xylazine aka the zombie drug. Warning! This episode discusses the symptoms this drug causes and it is not for the faint of heart. Also! Scientist Sarah talks to us about uterine fibroids, a condition estimated to affect 70-80% of people with uteruses. Learn what they are and how they work in this week's episode!

Original Song “Science Shuffle” by Micaela Superstar

References:

Fibroid Facts

Xylazine-Induced Skin Ulcers in a Person Who Injects Drugs in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

Skin Necorsis caused by Xylazine use

Why Deadly Candida Auris Fungus Is Spreading So Fast Across the U.S.

Welcome to the We're ONLY Going To Talk About Judy: The Twin Peaks Episode of The Blunt Letters podcast. In our longest episode yet, Micaela and Elle tell the story of the bizarre and paranormal in the town of Twin Peaks! In this episode we don’t discuss the drama, for us, it’s all about the weird!

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Welcome to another week of The BL podcast! What’s going on with all those UAPs? Micaela and Elle get into it in another Conspiracy Corner! Plus did you know there’s a movie about a train derailment that preceded the incident in Ohio? Also, The Blunt Letters gear up for their Twin Peaks episode by diving into doppelgangers! Who’s seen them and what can it mean?

Original Song “Simulacrum Serenade” by Micaela Superstar

References:

Fresh Approach Mobile Market

Why the US started detecting mysterious arial objects

Everything We Still Don’t Know About the Unidentified Objects

Color psychology behind color theory

Emily Sagee doppelganger story

What is a Tulpa?

8 Creepy Superstitions About Doppelgängers That Will Keep You Up Tonight

Evil Twins and Doppelgangers: What meaning does the double have in folklore

Canada’s ex-defense minister: Aliens would give us more tech if we’d stop wars

East Palentine train derailment timeline

War and Peace was written by Tolstoy

Who was John Donne?

Guy de Maupassant

La Horla by Guy De Maupassant

Monsters Among Us podcast

This episode is packed with more science and science fiction! This week’s Let Me Tell You About This Movie segment is all about: ETs Among Us 2, a documentary that takes a look at the mysteries below the ice in Antarctica and beyond. Then we talk comic books with the release of the new superhero comic from Rob Guillory Mosely. And finally, the BL talks about The Last of Us and other fungi in Recipes for Chaos!

Original Song “New Wave Tacos” by Micaela Superstar

References:

ETs Among Us 2:Our Alien Origins, Antarctica, Mars and Beyond

Blunt Letters talk Ariel Phenomenon

Rob Guillory

Chew (comic book)

Mosely (comic book)

Fungus

Frog disease

The Last of Us (tv show)

Cordyceps in asia - Economic study 

Traditional uses for Cordyceps

Cordyceps as a status symbol

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This week's episode is bursting with science! We bring you a Space Update about the newly released 2022 Annual Report on Unidentified Aerial Phenomena (aka the government’s UFO report) and learn about News of The Weird: Lake Superior. What secrets are held in this massive Great Lake? Or should we say inland sea? Finally, we bring you more Recipes For Chaos with the second installment of Math Madness!

Original Song “Science Shuffle Aliens”  by Micaela Superstar

References:

Download the declassified 2022 Annual Report on UAP here

The Pentagon got hundreds of new reports of UFOs in 2022, a government report says

US government logs more than 500 UFO reports with hundreds unexplained

Watch "In Plain Sight: The Intelligence Community and UFOs [Official Trailer]" on YouTube

Lake Superior info

Lake Superior is one of the most haunted bodies of water in America

Spooky Stories of Lake Superior 

This Air Force Jet Was Scrambled to Intercept a UFO—Then Disappeared

Rogue Waves - The Three Sisters

Kurt Gödel, Mathematician

Vienna Circle

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