Hear why Sarah hates a parade and Susie didn't practice her mantra of "stop being polite," and she has regrets. We follow-up on our highly unscientific asparagus pee study. We learn theres a literal time warp near Las Vegas. Hear about a woman who was pronounced dead only to be found alive in a freezer at the morgue. Susie reveals her fear of being ... Show More
Jun 9
919: Smelly Brain, Pee Wee as Himself, & The Rehearsal
Susie and Sarah are headed to a baseball game, but first Susie needs to explain the importance of safety and the precariousness of Buc Fever after a man recently fell at a game. We disuss the P Diddy sketch artist who appears to have the same talent as the recent caricaturist Sar ... Show More
1h 3m
Jun 5
918: Cheers to Norm, Vigilante Justice, & Dances w/ Cranes
Sarah got mixed up in a felony and for a second was going to take matters into her own hands and try to apprehend the bandit because she "loves justice." Thankfully she realized Ann Taylor Loft's Loss Prevention isn't worth fighting for. Scientists turned a spider web red, and wh ... Show More
1h 1m
Jun 2
917: Tick Fiasco, Pigeon Bandit, & Parrot Video Calls
Sarah had a "tick fiasco" in the wilderness, and she'll never be the same. We get some updates from Susie about Pete Rose's eligibility for the Baseball Hall of Fame since his death and we hear the scandal involving the Napalm Girl image we discussed recently, and how the wrong p ... Show More
1 h
Nov 2023
Artificial Intelligence, Cryogenics, & Procrastination with Wait But Why’s Tim Urban
In this episode we discuss what Elon Musk, Bill Gates, Stephen Hawking all consider the single greatest threat to humanity, why “death” is not binary event that makes you transition from being alive or dead at a specific moment in time, we ask if you would spend $1000 on a chance ... Show More
53m 10s
Nov 2022
#217: The IHOP Murders - Waitress Willing To KILL To Keep Her Job
“Welcome to IHOP (International House of Pancakes), how many people in your party?”Dee had the routine down to a science. She knew what to say, when to smile, when to talk about her kids, when to flirt so she could keep the tips rolling in. Today was not her day though. She wante ... Show More
1h 8m
Aug 2021
Episode 253: Buried Alive
"If the beard wags, please no body bags."
Today, Alaina is going to take you on a journey that you never wanted to take. Today, we go into the fear, history and hysteria around the idea of premature burial. In this episode, you will learn about screaming and chewing corpses, meth ... Show More
1h 4m
Oct 2023
Chicken Salad, Gas-Station Shopping, and Sandra Boynton After Dark
We’ve got a grab bag for you today featuring tampon testing, Boynton Blends, Chicken Salad Chicks, and capturing the elusive joy of shopping while at the gas station. We were blown away by this Mother Jones article “Wait, Tampons Weren’t Being Tested With Human Blood?” We’re b ... Show More
39m 58s
Nov 2023
Episode 166: It's the Divas Episode: Streisand! Kardashian! And ... Napoleon?
This week, Flora Gill discusses why all of us will soon be unable to avoid Kim Kardashian’s nipples. Then, while we’re on the subject of divas, it’s been impossible to avoid the new memoir by Barbra Streisand. Yet there’s one problem with the book, which clocks in at almost 1,000 ... Show More
29m 14s
Jun 2024
A Butterfly's Secret (PODCAST EXCLUSIVE EPISODE)
On a January afternoon in 2015, a medical examiner stood over a dead woman’s body in the county morgue. He’d already opened up the woman’s abdomen, and he was using his scalpel to cut the tissues around her stomach. The woman had been murdered, and the medical examiner had alread ... Show More
38m 46s