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Bittersweet Infamy

Bittersweet Infamy

By: Josie Mitchell + Taylor Basso
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 Storytellers and best friends Josie Mitchell and Taylor Basso share the stories that live on in infamy: the strange and the familiar, the tragic and the comic—the bitter and the sweet. New episodes every other Sunday on the 604 Podcast Network! Support the show: ko-fi.com/bittersweetinfamy2020-2025 Josie Mitchell + Taylor Basso Social Sciences World
Episodes
  • #128 - Too Cute for Comfort

    #128 - Too Cute for Comfort
    Jul 13 2025

    Taylor tells Josie about Cuties (a.k.a. Mignonnes), the 2020 Netflix film by Senegalese-French writer/director Maïmouna Doucouré, and how it sparked a child exploitation panic that made its way to the U.S. Senate. Plus: illusionist Murray SawChuck breaks the magician's code, and gets disappeared from the Academy of Magical Arts.
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    1 hr and 40 mins
  • #127 - A Palace of Seeds and Nothing to Eat

    #127 - A Palace of Seeds and Nothing to Eat
    Jun 29 2025

    Josie tells Taylor how the botanists at the U.S.S.R.'s Institute of Plant Industry kept the world's largest seed bank intact during the infamously brutal Siege of Leningrad (1941-44). Plus: we examine the ancient roots of the al-Badawi tree, the millennia-old olive tree that keeps vigil over the embattled village of al-Walaja, Palestine.
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    1 hr and 54 mins
  • #126 - Spin-Out in the Fast Lane

    #126 - Spin-Out in the Fast Lane
    Jun 15 2025

    Taylor tells Josie about the cheating conspiracy behind Brazilian auto racer Nelson Piquet Jr.’s deliberate crash at the 2008 Formula One Singapore Grand Prix. Plus: a few notes on the reclusive Q Lazzarus, the mysterious voice behind the cult favourite song "Goodbye Horses."
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    1 hr and 52 mins

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