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32 - Floods that'll knock your cocks off.

Gather round at your local beerery and try not to get caught out in this flood of worthless info. This week we have sticky situations galore. Listen to Nikki tell you about the Boston Molasses Flood and learn why you shouldn't trust your accountant to build ANYTHING. Ever. And then cleanse your palate with Joyce while she tells us about the London Beer Flood. Not as fun as it sounds.

 

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It's the end of the world as we know it (no, it isn't)

Come along for a natural disaster and natural disaster adjacent episode! This week we have a mystery to solve in the form of the Flannan Isles lighthouse disappearance. Also Joyce reminisces about the 80s while telling us about a particularly melodramatic whirlpool incident.

 

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30 - Dinner party mishaps

Welcome to 2021! This week we're talking about feasts that have gone wrong enough to spark war or inspire Game of Thrones.

 

Joyce gets confusing with the tale of the Percys and the Nevilles and how that impacted the War of the Roses. Or as Joyce calls it - The English Flower War. 

 

Nikki brings the sads (and the really horrible Irish accents) with the betrayal of Clandeboye. Apologies to Ireland, just in general, for this one.

 

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29 - Sneaky sneaky double lives

We're sneaking back into your earholes with a VERY belated episode about people who maybe aren't what they seem. Nikki talks about the Chevalier d'Eon who essentially wrote the first gossip blog. Meanwhile Joyce tries her hardest not to crowd the mushrooms and channels the great Julia Child, an OG secret squirrel  -  many accents were butchered in the making of this episode. 

 

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Witchy Woman 4

Happy Thanksgiving witches! It's a sciency witchy woman this week. And honestly, this lass is goals! Joyce tells us about the "satanic wiles" of Hypatia who just couldn't stay away from the "magic". Read: she was smart and pretty so must be a witch and had to go. Classic dude manoeuvre. 

 

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Let's Start A Cult?

Hey Kool-Aid (gin) drinking buddies, wanna join an awesome group of like minded individuals led by someone who definitely doesn't have nefarious intentions for your body or money? Boy have we got the groups for you! Listen along as Nikki talks about the Order of the Solar Temple and Joyce tries to make sense of Happy Science. Also we all discover that Joyce has a tiny connection to the Jonestown Massacre...eeek. Your membership payments are all due at the first of the month. 

 

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26 - Pride comes before the Fawkes

This week we're talking Coups! Nikki discussed Australias only military coup, the inaccurately named Rum Rebellion. And Joyce talks about that time England executed their King in Prides Purge. Also we take a super shallow dive into Guy Fawkes. So light your bonfires and open your bottles. Why's the rum always gone?

 

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25 - Turnips and Lager - A Halloween Special

Happy Halloween! This week Joyce tells us a little bit about the origins of the best day ever. And Nikki talks about the Lemp Mansion and it's spooky history. This week we also have a promo for Coffee and the Macabre - a group of girls who just like to drink coffee and talk about strange and unusual things. Go listen to them, they're awesome!

 

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24 - The worst kinder-surprise

You’re glowing! But in a creepy way. This week we’re getting into the Halloween spirit with a chat about creepy kids. Nikki talks about the possession of Elizabeth Knapp and how she beat the demon menopause. And Joyce introduces you to some spare goblins. Oh, but they’re children. And they glow. And they may lead to madness.

 

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23 - A studio apartment full of skeletons and ugly bags of mostly water

Well kids, this is fun and gross. This week we're talking grisly archaeological finds! Joyce gets gross about bog bodies and she outs herself as a die hard trekkie. Meanwhile Nikki talks about a prehistoric house full of skeletons that was unearthed in China back in 2011. 

 

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22 - Gilligans misadventures

This episode we've got ghosts ships! And Joyce tries to sing! And we have a new drinking game! Drink anytime you hear an f bomb, fornication optional! What else could you even ask for?!? Sit right back and we'll tell the tale of the Octavius, frozen and maybe found 13 years later as well as the Lady Lovibond who may or may not show up in 2048. Either way, we're booking the Air bnb now.

 

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Witchy Woman 3

Buckle up witches, we're going to Lancashire to talk about the Pendle Witches, sometimes called the Lancashire Witches. We're discussing familial loyalty which was sorely missing in this case, how to plot properly, as well as the best names for your familiar. We're also debating generational distinction and why Nikki is so bad at social media.

 

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20 - Yo ho ho and a bathtub full of blood

We have some skincare secrets to spill week! Come along for a journey through the anti-aging world of The OG Vampire, Blood Countess, Elizabeth Bathory. And Joyce tells us all about the recently discovered incompetent vampire pirate mayor of Sozopol - Mayor Krivich who was buried in a prestigious place despite being an utter failure. Lesson of the day - money talks.

 

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19 - There's a Bad Moon Rising

We're gigglewolves this week! Join us for a gin or 5 while we tell you about werewolves. Nikki talks about bad shapewear while telling the story of Peter Stubb, the Werewolf of Bedburg. And Joyce tells us all about how the film industry has gotten some free publicity out of the Werewolf of Cannock Chase. 

 

Blanket content warning for this one guys. 

 

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18 - The Clan of the Cave Cannibals and a macabre cake mix.

Hold on to your hats. And your skulls! This week We're talking about the long standing and far too recent practice of corpse medicine and the case of Scottish maybe cannibals the Sawney Beanes. Hope you're not eating. 

 

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It's Spooky Season B*tches!

September means it's Halloween, so we're kicking it off with a ghost story or two. Unfortunately *one* of us is a raging sceptic. Sooo.... buckle up for the Winchester Mystery House as told by Joyce and Listen to Nikki make all manner of inappropriate bad jokes about the Cock Lane Ghost - Scratching Fanny. I mean... the jokes really do write themselves.

 

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16 - The lumberjacks are not okay

The Lumberjacks are not okay. And neither are the nuns for that matter! This week we're talking about mass hysteria or weird plagues? Joyce talks about the Jumping French Lumberjacks of Maine and Nikki talks about the meowing, biting nuns of Germany and France. Get ready for lots of cat sounds and try not to get the lumberjack song stuck in your head!

 

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Chiromancy, serfs, and why petitions are bad... or good?

What do you get when you mix 600 serfs and palm reading? A whole heap of nope. This week we're talking about female serial killers! So fun!! Nikki tells us about La Voisin, the woman at the centre of the Affair of Poisons. Meanwhile Joyce heroically overcomes her head cold to regale us with the tale of Darya Saltykova, a sadistic Russian noble who did not appreciate being unmarried. 

14 - Witchy Woman #2

It's just Spluge Fest 1662 over here this week! Join us as Joyce tells us all about Isobel Gowdie who confessed to witchcraft and an extramarital affair with the devil. Meanwhile we're over here trying to answer the age old question - Is satan actually just Tim Curry as Dr Frankenfurter? See ya next time, Pickles!

 

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13 -Pointy Shoes and a high altitude buffet

We discovered this week that we are in fact amoral and wicked in the eyes of the Knights Templar. But who cares, they all got slaughtered. Joyce told us about it in her most wholesome way. Meanwhile Nikki shares her love of plant based protein and the colour yellow when she talks about the Andes Plane Crash