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This week we learn how in 1816, the catastrophic eruption of Mount Tambora in Indonesia shifted the world's temperature and atmosphere, causing crop failures and major food shortages. A listener email describes how male anglerfish are from Mars and female anglerfish are from Venus .

Episode Tabs:
MOUNT TAMBORA IN 1815: A VOLCANIC ERUPTION IN INDONESIA AND ITS AFTERMATH
https://web.english.upenn.edu/~cavitch/pdf-library/Boers_Mount_Tambora_in_1815.pdf

Listener Tabs:
Anglerfish
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anglerfish#Reproduction

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On this very special Halloween episode, we learn how nepo baby Carl Laemmle Jr. gave birth to the Universal Monster Universe and how themes of sexuality and political persecution have kept these characters beloved for more than a century. A listener email describes a horrific phenomenon in Brazil involving cockroaches.

Episode Tabs:
How the Classic Monsters Saved Universal Studios
https://www.antoniacarlotta.com/home/how-the-monsters-saved-universal

Listener Tabs:
Cockroach clouds scare residents in Viamão
https://www.instagram.com/p/DTIQV62Df07/

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This week we are joined by no guest at all, just the normal, regular co-host named Kaveh who adds his medical expertise to Hannah’s tab about the Black Angels, the 300 black nurses who made history by helping administer the cure to Tuberculosis at Staten Island’s Sea View Hospital.

Episode Tabs:
Taking Care: The Black Angels of Sea View Hospital
https://www.statenislandmuseum.org/exhibitions/takingcare/
Listener Tabs:
Uncle Arthur's Bedtime Stories: "Jesus Understood"
http://www.smothergoose.com/2011/01/uncle-arthurs-bedtime-stories-jesus.html?m=1

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This week we learn dedicate the entire episode to all the emails that listeners have sent in including a live reading of a pig butchering text exchange, bile cow liver antibiotics, and an extended discussion about which animals have actual bones in their boners.
Listener Tabs:
Stellar’s Sea Cow:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steller%27s_sea_cow

Hatchet Granny
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2021/09/carry-nation-biography-reasons-for-activism.html

The Miyawaki Method for Creating Forests
https://www.creatingtomorrowsforests.co.uk/blog/the-miyawaki-method-for-creating-forests

Searching for Hobey Baker
https://30for30podcasts.com/episodes/the-natural/

Sun Sets on the British Empire
https://oikofuge.com/sun-sets-on-british-empire/

Billikens in Alaska
https://www.adn.com/alaska-life/2025/06/15/billikens-the-grinning-pot-bellied-good-luck-charm-that-dominated-midcentury-alaska/

A 1,000-Year-Old Antimicrobial Remedy with Antistaphylococcal Activity - PubMed
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/26265721/

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This week we learn how a corpse fluids seeping into NYC drinking water led to the creation of one of America’s first rural cemeteries. A listener email explains how the euthanizing of a squirrel became a MAGA wedge issue against the Democrats.

Episode Tabs:
Green-Wood Cemetery: A Victorian-Era Icon
https://www.history.com/articles/green-wood-cemetery-a-victorian-era-icon-turns-175

Listener Tabs:
Peanut the Squirrel
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peanut_(squirrel)

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