Episodes

  • The Rate of Reality

    The Rate of Reality
    Feb 24 2026
    What is it like to experience the world at 400 frames per second? How quickly can cats see the world around them? How does it change the perception of time? This episode tackles the speed of reality. How fast can you see?

    CW: Harm to Animals

    Music provided by Dark Fantasy Studios. [License]

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    54 mins
  • Scentertainment

    Scentertainment
    Feb 9 2026
    What if you could SMELL your movies? What if the protagonist walked on screen and you recognized their smell as much as their musical motif? This episode, Karen tells us about the history of Smell-O-Vision and how it briefly came to light in the movie theatre.

    Music provided by Dark Fantasy Studios. [License]

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    1 hr and 8 mins
  • Tall Tales: The Nephilim

    Tall Tales: The Nephilim
    Jan 26 2026
    What ARE the nephilim? Where did they come from and how did their existence prompt the Christian god to drown 99.999% of humanity? This episode dives in to explore the history and the conspiracy of nephilim.

    CW: Murder, Death, Religious Trauma

    Music provided by Dark Fantasy Studios. [License]

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    1 hr and 8 mins
  • Inupasugjuk: Cold and Colossal

    Inupasugjuk: Cold and Colossal
    Jan 12 2026
    Far to the north, the inukpasugjuit sleeps. Once there were giants of all sorts making their homes on the polar ice, but now we don't see even a silhouette in the distance. We meander into Inuit folklore this week, sharing what we could find on Inukpasugjuit.

    CW: Animal Harm (super briefly), Colonialism

    Music provided by Dark Fantasy Studios. [License]

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    40 mins
  • Do Mi So What?

    Do Mi So What?
    Dec 22 2025
    This week, Karen answers a listener's questions about the history and purpose of scales in music. Why do we use scales? Where did the come from? Let's find out!

    Music provided by Dark Fantasy Studios. [License]

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    59 mins
  • There's NoBunny There

    There's NoBunny There
    Dec 8 2025
    You ever heard of the Bunny Man Bridge? That's fine, Karen and Remy hadn't either, not until M went and blasted them with having heard it first hand. Be prepared for hatchets and a variety of bunny suits and an absolute shredding of the looks of the bridge.

    CW: Murder, Discussion of Mental Illness

    Music provided by Dark Fantasy Studios. [License]

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    51 mins
  • Mermyths

    Mermyths
    Nov 24 2025
    Where are the mermaids? Why aren't they filing their taxes? I'll tell you why: GOVERNMENT CONSPIRACY. They talked all about it in this documentary the ANIMAL PLANET showed back in— what's that? It wasn't a real documentary? It's a pseudodocumentary that had a hand in eroding media literacy and fostering distrust in government-backed science?! Now hold on...

    CW: Implied Harm to Animals, Death, Brief mention of Covid-19

    Music provided by Dark Fantasy Studios. [License]

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    1 hr and 18 mins
  • Degrees of Ridiculousness

    Degrees of Ridiculousness
    Nov 10 2025
    The typical American education ends in college. People pursue their passions, no matter how small, no matter how... atypical. This episode delves into some textbook "weird" college degrees and perhaps why they are not so weird as people believe, or why they truly are as weird as we think they are. And perhaps... we poke a bit at the USAmerican obsession with simply having a degree.

    Music provided by Dark Fantasy Studios. [License]

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    44 mins