Why Would You Ask That?

This week and next week, we're answering a listener question from Charlie! He asked about some specific idioms so this week we talk about what idioms are, some examples of them, and get into the first two he asked about: "Blow smoke up your ass" and "warts and all".

CW: Medical Procedure, Genocide

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Several facilities in the U.S. and abroad maintain warehouse morgues full of frozen human heads and bodies, waiting for the future. The idea of being cryogenically frozen has been around in science-fiction for a while now, but is it really possible? Well, a small group of people think cryonics is their ticket to reanimation in the future. But what are the chances, and who was the first person to be frozen?

CW: Death, Decay, Medical Procedures

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A listener question courtesy of Novalee! This episode explores a case from 1827 that drew national attention in England. Maria Marten was supposed to get married, but unfortunately her beau was not of the same mind. Dreams and conspiracies end with tragedy, and we take the time to look at case transcripts and share the details.

CW: Murder, Infant Harm

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Molasses— sticky, sweet, and responsible for destroying a large part of Boston. On a hot summer's day, some people swear they still smell the remnants of the Great Molasses Flood of 1919. The substance oozed through town and wrought sugary destruction, destroying vehicles and buildings alike. In this episode, we talk about how it spilled and the difficulty of dealing with such an enormous amount of an incredibly strange accident.

CW: Death, Animal Harm, Property Damage

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In the town of Mattoon, IL, during the second World War, the sweet smell of paralytic gas floated into the bedrooms of sleeping victims. A series of attacks brought international attention to the town, with so many frightening attacks that even soldiers on the warfront wrote home about it. So what exactly happened in Mattoon in 1944?

CW: War, Needles, Loss of Bodily Control

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A touch of rouge on the lips is easy to access now, and we have hundreds of brands just waiting to touch up some color. But where did lipstick come from? How did lipstick development change over the millenia? And just how long have we been adding some color to our lips?

CW: Bugs, Brief mention of War

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What started as a silly little question about a dictator's proclivities, quickly turned into a very serious discussion on North Korea, government, and sex work. Heavy trigger warnings on this episode as Remy details to us the reports of Kim Jong-Ill and Kim Jong-Un's 기쁨조 (Kippumjo), or in English: Pleasure Squad.

CW: Sex Trafficking, Sexual Exploitation, Pedophila, Cult Mentality

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"Five out of six dogs order Purina when they drive in!" But did you know none of those dogs knew that Purina has cultic ties? In this episode we talk about the origin of PURINA as a company and how they intertwine with the Ralston cult. 

CW: Eugenics

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This is the final episode of a four part series on the Nahanni Valley. For the most context, please start from part 1. At long last, we wrap up the Nahanni Valley by addressing the mammoth in the room: what supernatural forces may be lurking in the Valley? What creatures could have caused the mysterious happenings that have become the latest beau of the cryptozoology/true crime history world? The final episode puts a pin in the known and the unknown— listen to meet the Valley's oldest denizens!

CW: Violence Toward Animals, Death

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The incidents in the Nahanni Valley aren't limited to just in the early 1900s. This episode touches on further strange incidents, ruling out a potential serial killer and discussing what isolation could do to the mind...

CW: Violence Toward Animals, Lots of Death, Suicide, Fire

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