F.A.C.T.S. : Flo and Carra Talk (about) Stuff
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F.A.C.T.S. : Flo and Carra Talk (about) Stuff
Friends talk about facts! The F.A.C.T.S. podcast drops very Wednesday and mini fact check episodes on Fridays. We discuss the strange and unusual, the weird and wonderful, the gross and the glorious.
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Amusement Parks and Roller Coasters
Hi everyone, we hope you are hanging in there and are wishing all of you well. We recorded this episode before the pandemic became prevalent here in...
Friday Fact Check: Wigs and Codpieces!
We learn to better appreciate our pockets, about 18th century sly boys, chin straps for wigs, chewing and sucking louses and much more on this week's...
Peruques, Periwigs, Codpieces and Hair Powder!
Hey listeners, what's YOUR dream wigscape? DM or email us and let us know!
We discuss Powder Rooms! Big Wigs! And codpieces, a "Pandora's box...
Friday Fact Check: Train Crashes!
Flo talks about Crash, Texas, hard hats and rollercoasters!
Train Crashes for Entertainment!
This week Flo tells us about every human's lurking desire to smash things, Head on Joe, the Crash in Crush, and the joys of learning new things. Also...
Friday Fact Check: Sin Eaters!
There's nothing like a fact check about sin eaters, eternal damnation and delicious bread people to say we love you! Happy Valentine's Day!
Sin Eaters!
Join us for Episode 2 of Season 3 in which we discuss sin eating, trading one's soul for a few pennies and a meal, and the joys of vinyl.
Friday Fact Check: Necropolis Railway!
Join us for a very thorough fact check about the Necropolis Railway and apologies for the occasional bad audio feels. We are relearning how to speak...
The Necropolis Railway
Flo takes us on a wild ride on London's Necropolis Railway and tells us about grave recycling, fancy railroad amenities and the importance of taking i...
SEASON 3 IS HERE!!!!
Flo and Carra return from what we thought would be a short break and turned into a very, very long break. We're back and so happy to share new content...
Friday Fact Check : Psychic Pets and Nonhuman Animal Prodigies!
This is a strange and silly fact check recorded in a car during a slight snow squall. We learn about octopodes, the difficulties of being interred wi...
A Holiday Special! : Nonhuman Animal Prodigies and Psychic Pets!
Happy holidays! Welcome to an episode featuring both of us singing (listen after the sign off!), carols, curds, moggies, and more! Hey Clever Hans!...
Fact Check Friday : NYC Trash and Poop!
We welcome special regular guest Charles Dickens back to the studio and discuss the complexities of tracking life expectancy.
Some Histories of NYC Trash and Poop!
So. Much. Filth. In this episode we're up to our knees in facts about dead horses, night soil, Barren Island, garbage lands, and astounding amounts o...
Friday Fact Check : Civil War Embalming!
Hurray! It's a Fact Check on Civil War embalming!
The Origins of Modern Embalming!
During a flurry of feline activity, Flo talks about the U.S. Civil War and the birth of modern embalming.
Friday Fact Check : Radiation Beauty!
There's not a lot of questions to fact check this Friday but there is a big apology!
More Radioactive Beauty!
Come for this very enlightening episode on radioactive spas, radioactive shoe insoles, corsets and toothpaste! Also we learn some labor history!
Fact Check : Vampire Biology!
We learn about the most gruesome results of being startled ever, preurination, the powers of hawthorn, and how vampires first arrived in the U.S.
Brrrl! A Boatload of Facts about Vampires
Here's a spooky semi-factual episode for you that includes discussion of blood bags, ear helixes, vampire pumpkins, rabid cows, and skeletal muscle an...
Fleas and Flea Circuses : Blood Meals, Golden Chains
Flo and Carra discuss fleas and flea-based entertainment. Topics include blood meals, sclerites, microminiatures and pulgas vestidas.
Bodies on Everest
Rerun! Flo and Carra journey into the cold truths and ethical complexities of death and dying on Mount Everest.
Podcation Rerun : Victorian Beauty!
Hurry for a few weeks of reruns! Flo and Carra are on podcation so here's a past episode all about Victorian Beauty practices, and lots of arsenic.
Rat Kings : How Could You Tie It All Up?
We discuss rat kings and Flo warns our rodent listeners against snuggling in the winter.
Friday Fact Check : Safety Coffins and All the Bells and Whistles
We've got all the bells and whistles this week on our safety coffin fact check! Learn about Bavarian tartes, how loud it is inside my house in the sum...
safety coffins
Join Flo and Carra as they talk about Safety Coffins and the fear of being buried alive!
Friday Fact Check : Morgues????
Welcome to the Friday Fact check in which I do not have any facts to offer you. We are always excited to learn about them though so if you do have any...
The Morgue as Public Spectacle, also CPR
This week Flo and Carra discuss morgues in the 19th c. and feel a little icky afterwards. Also the audio file is filled with the sounds of summer and...
wake fact check
Join Flo and Carra as they fact check the Wakes episode, and as they talk about the wonderful @FuneralConsumer Josh Slocum, the brilliant Dr Karen Smi...
Irish Wakes, and More!
Join Flo and Carra as they discuss the different ways that people hold Wakes.
Friday Fact Check : Spontaneous Combustion
Does blood in a bowl burn? Can I get a caffeine high from drinking someone's blood right after that person drank green tea? All of this and acetone...
Spontaneous Combustion : Sounds Like A Figgy Pudding
This week Flo and Carra discuss way more than you ever probably wanted to know about spontaneous human combustion. Charles Dickens! Misogyny! The...
Victorian Mourning! Again and Again!
Flo and Carra do a collaborative episode on Victorian mourning practices. Watch out bog oak and weepers cuff, here we come!
lightning, there is no safe place
Join us as we discuss lightning, fear mongering, rubber soled bathroom shoes and Sha Na Na.
Friday Fact Check : Tarantula Hawks
A brief fact check on the tarantula hawk episode that Flo is eager to leave far behind her
Zoinks! Tarantula Hawks!
Flo and Carra discuss tarantula hawks and topics include Schmitt's Pain Index, brood nests, shaking pedipalps, aposematic communication, hanging out...
Friday Fact Check : Periods! (Part 1)
This week Flo fact checks the menstruation episode and we realize how much more we want to learn.
A Thumbs Up for Friday Fact Checks!
Today we fact check questions about St. Catherine of Siena's stigmata, levitation, communion wafer-catching abilities, and incorruptible head and thum...