<p>TRIGGER WARNING - This episode includes discussion of death that some people may find distressing.
This week, Lauren and Billy are joined by a mortician, Hayleigh, who shares with us what it's like to work with the dead. She answers all of our morbid curiosities including how they seal up our mouths, what a ’skin slip’ is and where our organs actually e ... Show More
Yesterday
Can anyone be Psychic? Energy Healer reveals how to unlock your hidden abilities
Energy Healer, Psychic and Medium, Katy Whyte joins Lauren and Billy today to unlock their inner magic. With Billy on the sceptic side, and Lauren as a believer, Katy helps us learn how to discover our spirit guides....Ever wondered if you could be low-key Psychic? Katy reveals t ... Show More
53m 6s
Oct 2
“I joined a cult that ruined my life” - surviving exorcisms, brainwashing and coercion
Today Lauren and Christie are joined by cult survivor, Rachel Reign, who wants to raise awareness of the horrible things going on in the Universal Church of the Kingdom of God.She describes being ‘recruited’ at age 13, having exorcisms every Friday and the dating rules that would ... Show More
57m 28s
Sep 25
Migrant Protests, Cosplaying Prison and Why Gen Z Stopped Ironing
This week we're coming in HOT with our piping hot takes... From migrant protests to victorian orphans, we cover a LOT. What country are we really fighting for? And do millennials really wish they could be victorian orphans?We also debate why this generation stopped ironing, and i ... Show More
24m 22s
May 2025
“You’re old, you’ll probably miscarry”: What’s really causing infertility? With Liberty Mills
At age 43 Liberty Mills was told she had a 0.7% chance of having another baby with her own eggs – and that was with the assistance of IVF. But she and her partner decided to continue their fertility journey with the help of integrative medicine, and after a lifestyle overhaul, sh ... Show More
52m 28s
May 2024
Do I want children or does society want me to have children? with Laura Henshaw
You meet someone, you get married, you have children. Right? That’s been the status quo for so long that it can be hard to imagine an alternative. For so many people who don’t feel called to be a parent, that path doesn’t feel right. But if you’ve grown up in a world where everyo ... Show More
39m 10s
Aug 2023
Courtney Adams Wooten, "Childfree and Happy: Transforming the Rhetoric of Women's Reproductive Choices" (Utah State UP, 2023)
Childfree and Happy: Transforming the Rhetoric of Womens' Reproductive Choices (Utah State University Press, 2023) examines how millennia of reproductive beliefs (or doxa) have positioned women who choose not to have children as deviant or outside the norm. Considering affect and ... Show More
43m 34s
Apr 2024
E106: This Fertility Doctor Believes IVF is Not The Answer
Today I welcome back Dr. Lauren Rubal, MD, Ob/Gyn, reproductive care physician, and former IVF doctor, to break down the practice of In Vitro Fertilization and why it is not the way we should treat infertility. We discuss the in-depth process of IVF, what harms IVF can bring to c ... Show More
1h 1m
Nov 2024
Ep 8: Should You Have Kids?
For most of human history, having kids wasn’t much of a choice. Social expectations, lack of birth control, and limited autonomy for women presented a couple of options: Have children, or join a convent. But the 1960s ushered in a big change. With better options for birth control ... Show More
49m 31s