Episodes

  • 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
  • The Great Moon Hoax

    The Great Moon Hoax
    Oct 28 2025
    Before clickbait headlines and conspiracy YouTubers, there was The Great Moon Hoax of 1835. Join us as we talk lunar lies, Victorian media chaos, and a fake discovery so elaborate it makes some modern conspiracy theories look tame. All that, and one astronomer who just wanted to mind his own telescope.

    Music provided by Dark Fantasy Studios. [License]

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    1 hr and 14 mins
  • Splice It Real Good

    Splice It Real Good
    Oct 13 2025
    You ever wonder how plausible it would be to become a real life catgirl/catboy/catbeing? How close we are to having centaurs? Or perhaps you wonder if you could gain some cool animal powers if science just progressed far enough? Well guess what! Remy has the deets on human/animal chimera research! We also discuss the ethics of cannibalism. Again.

    CW: Animal Cruelty, Racism (briefly)

    Music provided by Dark Fantasy Studios. [License]

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    1 hr and 6 mins
  • BrosNowhere to Hide

    BrosNowhere to Hide
    Sep 29 2025
    In Russia lies a lake that could hold a sea dragon of either humble or magnificent proportions, which is either big enough to swallow men or small enough to hide, and maybe it glows, or maybe it breathes fire. I don't FUCKING know. This is more of a lesson in research than a lesson on Brosnya, but hey! Somewhere in here there is a dragon, just like Lake Brosno!

    CW: Big Fish with Big Teeth, Deep Water Talk, Brief Talk of Murder and SA (maybe 30 seconds)

    Music provided by Dark Fantasy Studios. [License]

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    55 mins
  • A Bug's Eye View

    A Bug's Eye View
    Sep 15 2025
    We're back! We got a question from JJ about something very important: what do bugs think humans are? This episode we delve into bug perception, bug feelings, and bugs... as cows?

    CW: Bugs (Bees, Spiders, Mites, Flies mostly)

    Music provided by Dark Fantasy Studios. [License]

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    47 mins
  • An Announcement

    An Announcement
    Jul 28 2025
    Hey, folks. This week, we have an announcement.

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    2 mins
  • Steel Abs, Steel Bowels

    Steel Abs, Steel Bowels
    Jul 21 2025
    A silly question has emerged from the crypts this time around! This episode ponders a deeply held curiosity... about Superman's digestive system. When he drops the kids off at the pool, does the porcelain throne explode? When his stomach disposes of the evidence, how much disappears? Are Kryptonian gut germs adapted to Earth?

    CW: Poop, About 5 minutes of Sex Talk

    Music provided by Dark Fantasy Studios. [License]

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    35 mins