Podcasts by F.A.C.T.S. : Flo and Carra Talk (about) Stuff

Amusement Parks and Roller Coasters from 2020-04-01T09:00

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 the U.S. and many of us went indoors and apa...

Friday Fact Check: Wigs and Codpieces! from 2020-03-13T09:00

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 Friday Fact Check!

Peruques, Periwigs, Codpieces andHair Powder! from 2020-03-11T09:00

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 of nightmares," as Flo says.  Apologies for...

Friday Fact Check: Train Crashes! from 2020-02-28T10:00

Flo talks about Crash, Texas, hard hats and rollercoasters!  

Train Crashes for Entertainment! from 2020-02-26T10:00

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 all of the accents.

Friday Fact Check: Sin Eaters! from 2020-02-14T10:00

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! from 2020-02-12T10:00

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! from 2020-01-31T10:00

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 into a microphone!

The Necropolis Railway from 2020-01-29T10:00

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 is slow when mourning.  Also...kittens!

SEASON 3 IS HERE!!!! from 2020-01-22T10:00

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 with you! 

Friday Fact Check : Psychic Pets and Nonhuman Animal Prodigies! from 2019-01-18T10:00

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 with one's companion animals, and the etymolog...

A Holiday Special! : Nonhuman Animal Prodigies and Psychic Pets! from 2018-12-26T10:00

Happy holidays!  Welcome to an episode featuring both of us singing (listen after the sign off!), carols, curds, moggies, and more!  Hey Clever Hans!  Hey Paul the octopus!  Hey Jim the Wonder D...

Fact Check Friday : NYC Trash and Poop! from 2018-12-21T10:00

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! from 2018-12-12T10:00

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 of overconsumption.  Please send us comments ...

Friday Fact Check : Civil War Embalming! from 2018-12-07T10:00

Hurray! It's a Fact Check on Civil War embalming! 

The Origins of Modern Embalming! from 2018-11-28T10:00

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! from 2018-11-23T10:00

There's not a lot of questions to fact check this Friday but there is a big apology! 

More Radioactive Beauty! from 2018-11-14T10:00

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! from 2018-11-09T15:06:06

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 from 2018-10-31T09:00

Here's a spooky semi-factual episode for you that includes discussion of blood bags, ear helixes, vampire pumpkins, rabid cows, and skeletal muscle and in which Flo comes to the conclusion that ...

Fleas and Flea Circuses : Blood Meals, Golden Chains from 2018-08-15T09:00

Flo and Carra discuss fleas and flea-based entertainment.  Topics include blood meals, sclerites, microminiatures and pulgas vestidas. 

Bodies on Everest from 2018-08-08T09:00

Rerun!  Flo and Carra journey into the cold truths and ethical complexities of  death and dying on Mount Everest.  

Podcation Rerun : Victorian Beauty! from 2018-08-01T09:00

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? from 2018-07-25T09:00

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 from 2018-07-20T09:00

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 summer, and help us figure out why coffins were...

safety coffins from 2018-07-18T09:30

Join Flo and Carra as they talk about Safety Coffins and the fear of being buried alive!

Friday Fact Check : Morgues???? from 2018-07-13T09:00

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 facts, please email or DM us on Instagram.

The Morgue as Public Spectacle, also CPR from 2018-07-11T09:00

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 also lots of shrieking.  We hope you contin...

wake fact check from 2018-07-06T09:30

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 Smith (ethicschick on Facebook) And how wonderf...

Irish Wakes, and More! from 2018-07-04T09:30

Join Flo and Carra as they discuss the different ways that people hold Wakes.

Friday Fact Check : Spontaneous Combustion from 2018-06-29T09:00

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 on today's Friday Fact Check! 

Spontaneous Combustion : Sounds Like A Figgy Pudding from 2018-06-27T09:00

This week Flo and Carra discuss way more than you ever probably wanted to know about spontaneous human combustion.  Charles Dickens!   Misogyny!  The wick effect!  Women in the decline of life! ...

Victorian Mourning! Again and Again! from 2018-06-20T09:00

Flo and Carra do a collaborative episode on Victorian mourning practices.  Watch out bog oak and weepers cuff, here we come! 

lightning fact ceck from 2018-06-15T10:00

Join us as we fact check our lightning episode!

lightning, there is no safe place from 2018-06-13T09:30

Join us as we discuss lightning, fear mongering, rubber soled bathroom shoes and Sha Na Na.

Friday Fact Check : Tarantula Hawks from 2018-06-08T09:00

A brief fact check on the tarantula hawk episode that Flo is eager to leave far behind her

Zoinks! Tarantula Hawks! from 2018-06-06T09:00

Flo and Carra discuss tarantula hawks  and topics include Schmitt's Pain Index, brood nests, shaking pedipalps, aposematic communication, hanging out at the lek, and what it would be like to "ju...

Friday Fact Check : Periods! (Part 1) from 2018-06-01T09:00

This week Flo fact checks the menstruation episode and we realize how much more we want to learn.  

Let's Talk About Periods! from 2018-05-30T09:30

Join Flo and Carra as they discuss many menstrual wonders!

A Thumbs Up for Friday Fact Checks! from 2018-05-25T09:00

Today we fact check questions about St. Catherine of Siena's stigmata, levitation, communion wafer-catching abilities, and incorruptible head and thumb.  Please send us any info you have on the ...

Holy Anorexics : A Jumble of Questions Marks and Feelings from 2018-05-23T09:00

Also drink those cups of pus/life right down to the dregs, listeners.  Flo and Carra talk about St. Catherine of Siena and other holy anorexics with many digressions and questions and mixed feel...

Molasses Disaser Fact Check from 2018-05-18T09:00

Join us as we fact check the Boston Molasses Flood Episode!

Boston Molasses Disaster from 2018-05-16T10:00

Join us as we talk about the Great Boston Molasses Flood of 1919!

A Puckle of Fact Checking from 2018-05-11T16:31:32

Join us for this brief and belated Friday Fact Check in which we tell you about the word puckle and wonder about spermaceti funerals. 

Bees, Honey, Death, Bertram Puckle from 2018-05-09T09:00

This week Flo and Carra find 2 of our favorite things coming together when we learn about bees being fed funeral candy!  Also mellification!  Honey embalming! Bertram Puckle! Lots of bee-related...

Egyptian Funerary and Mummification Fact Check from 2018-05-04T09:30

Flo and Carra fact check all things mummy! You can google Mummification of Transference to learn how you and your animal friends can be mummified!

Ancient Egyptian Funeral Practices from 2018-05-02T09:00

This week Flo and Carra talk about VIP afterlife figurines, cat mummies, gory organ removal stuff, how "delicious and cedary" those dry stuffed bodies must have been, and contemplate what we'd n...

Fact Check Friday : The 1st Magic 8 Ball from 2018-04-27T09:00

Spoiler : the 1st Magic 8 Ball is a rodent who chews on your cheese in highly significant ways.  Also Johannes La Chapelle, songs that are stuck in our heads, and talking genitalia.  Send us you...

Ventroloquism : to create other voices divorced from our own from 2018-04-25T09:00

Flo and Carra discuss the ancient origins of ventroloquism and wow, is there so much to fact check.  Magical frogs?  Charlie McCarthy?  Cheese divination?  Crespolu the demon?  Bird-human relati...

Friday Fact Check : Sideshows of Yore from 2018-04-13T09:00

We learn more about Ozzy Osbourne's creaturely gustatory experiments on the Friday Fact Check!  And fact checking the fact check, I said that the infamous bat eating Des Moines Iowa concert occu...

Sideshows of Yore! from 2018-04-11T09:00

Oh zoinks!   With the fuzziest parts of our heart we are here to talk about the resilient beauties who worked, voluntarily and involuntarily,  in 19th-20th century sideshows. Thanks to Joice Het...

Fact Check Friday Courageous Women from 2018-04-06T09:00

The quickest little fact check!

courageous women from 2018-04-04T09:00

Flo and Carra talk about two amazing women who you've probably never heard of.

Spring! Yes, Please! from 2018-03-30T09:00

Flo and Carra had no facts to check, so they talk a little bit about springtime things that make them happy.

Underdressed Women from 2018-03-28T09:00

We discuss Caresse Crosby and Amelia Jenks Bloomer today and all that they did for underclothes, plus organ-shifting corsets and Crosby's great name for her dog.

Send us your suggestions ...

Friday Fact Check : Dangerous Women from 2018-03-23T09:00

We learn about North Brother Island, rat poison in beverages and more! 

Dangerous Women : If I Go It will be With the Taste of Hot Wine on My Lips from 2018-03-21T09:00

Welcome to Season 2 in which Flo and Carra talk about stuff in a car.  This week we discuss women who were very dangerous around other people's food.  Also ice cream with raw peaches, organizati...

Miniepisode : Season 2 Talk PLUS Corpse Candy updates! from 2018-03-14T09:00

We are preparing for season 2 and in the meantime, here's a short episode in which we tell you more about corpse candy! 

Friday Fact Check : Bicycle Face from 2018-03-02T10:00

Airomatic tires! Side saddles! Misogyny! Recording in a car!

Bicycle Face from 2018-02-28T10:00

This week Flo and Carra discuss wheel insanity, bicycle face, hygienic saddles and more.  Apologies for the audio quality this week - we recorded amidst a din of cat caterwauling, paper shufflin...

Cotard's Delusion from 2018-02-21T10:00

Also known as the Walking Corpe Syndrome, we discuss this fascinating topic as well as some stuff thats great!

Valentine's Fact Check from 2018-02-16T10:00

Join us as we fact check our love adjacent episode and answer the question "Whats with apples and love?". 

Valentines Day Love Adjacent Episode from 2018-02-14T10:00

Join us for a fun and fascinating joint episode in which we discuss all sorts of weird and wonderful love adjacent topics.

Friday Fact Check : Corpse Candy , Communion, and Crepe Paper from 2018-02-09T10:00

So much alliterative fun on this week's Friday Fact Check with Flo and Carra

Corpse Candies and Other Mourning Practices from 2018-02-07T10:00

We digress a lot about death and dying to the almost constant sounds of Boris the cat's long toenails striking against the floor as he paces.  Also we get ideas for our new business venture and ...

Dance Plague Fact Check from 2018-02-02T10:00

We Fact check the Dancing Plague and find that Hans Christian Anderson had some stuff to work through.

Here is The Red Shoes..

http://www.fairytalescollection.com/HansChr...

The Dancing Plague of 1518 from 2018-01-31T10:00

This week, Flo and Carra talk about hydration, the 4 humors, and what dance all of those people were infected with.

Friday Fact Check : Hair!!! from 2018-01-26T10:00

A solo fact check on hair-centric questions.  Send us your suggestions and comments! 

Hair : It's Complicated and It Keeps Coming Back from 2018-01-24T10:00

This week we take a deep dive into hair modification, spiritual significance and terrible depilatory products.  Remember to "wash quickly so the flesh doesn't come off" during your arsenic-based...

Can Whales Cure Rheumatism Fact Check from 2018-01-12T10:00

Flo and Carra do a very pithy fact check of the short-lived whale corpse rheumatism cure!  We learn about calico and imagine gristly living room death scenes.  Also apologies for the sound quali...

Can Whales Cure Rheumatism? from 2018-01-10T10:00

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Holidays Episode : "Poop me a snack" from 2017-12-27T10:00

Flo and Carra discuss our own and others' peculiar holiday traditions including cat stocking, Bjork holiday songs, mistletoe and the worst dodgeball story ever (poor Balder!!!!), El Caganer scav...

Super Fan Saturday : Joe and the London Fire of 1666 from 2017-12-23T10:00

Joe is super amazing and we are super fans of him and his discussion of some of the nuances and contexts of the London Fire of 1666 in this brief and excellent fact check.  Thank you so much Joe...

Friday Fact Check : Tycho Brahe from 2017-12-22T10:00

A brief fact check on Tycho Brahe's corpse, mother and some basic astronomy that I actually don't understand very well at all. #helpusout #factcheckyourfriends 

Tycho Brahe :" I'd Like to have a Dress Nose" from 2017-12-20T10:00

Flo and Carra discuss the father of modern astronomy, drunken elks, dress noses, math duels and how greatness is built on the backs of the exploited.  Also we learn about Pandora, a service that...

Conflagration FACT CHECK from 2017-12-15T10:00

A solo Friday fact check on the London fire of 1666! 

The Great London Fire of 1666 from 2017-12-13T15:38:47

With the fires raging in California, this episode is both timely and unfortunate. Our thoughts are with the friends we have in Cali. 

Join us as Flo recites historical quotes in voices/ac...

Fact Check Friday : Laki Eruption from 2017-12-08T10:00

A very short and very factual fact check!  

The Laki Eruption of 1783 from 2017-12-06T10:00

Volcanoes!  Explosions! Basalt lava flows and climate change!  Join us as we discuss the Laki eruption in Iceland.

Friday Fact Check : Super Alarming Facts about Alarm Clocks!!!! from 2017-12-01T10:00

We fact check snooze buttons and standardized time.  You'll never want to snooze after listening to this episode!!!

Alarm Clocks!!! from 2017-11-29T10:00

Wake up everyone!  This is our belated Thanksgiving episode about alarm clocks and it's so much fun!  Flo talks about knocker uppers, the inverse square law, and the best clocks of our life. Plu...

Fact Check Friday : Banana Slugs! from 2017-11-24T10:00

We briefly discuss mucus, fungus balls, recomposing and regeneration.  

Banana Slugs : Zoink! Can They Grow It Back? from 2017-11-22T10:00

Flo and Carra talk facts about aestivation, banana slug intimacies, exo-slime layers and the beauty of decomposing! 

Friday Fact Check : Flus from 2017-11-17T11:00

We answer questions about viruses and frozen corpses!

The Super Scary 1918 Flu Pandemic from 2017-11-15T11:00

Flo talks all about flus and the influenza pandemic of 1918.  You'll never spit on the sidewalk again!

Friday Fever Cabinet Fact Check from 2017-11-10T10:49:15

It's Fact Check Friday!  Join us as we learn more interesting tidbits about malaria, odorous rheumatism treatments and more!

Fever Cabinets and Cabin Fever from 2017-11-08T11:00

This week Flo and Carra discuss arcane treatments of STIs and the benefits of heat.  Also DIY cat water dish compasses.

everest fact check from 2017-11-03T09:30

A quick fact check about bodies on Mt. Everest with a guest appearance from Flo's sister in law, who has climbed Mt. Kilimanjaro! 

Fact Check Friday : Cane Toads from 2017-10-27T10:00

We discuss toad licking and a few other facts.

Here's the article I mentioned if you want more information on the chemistry of toad toxins.

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Cane Toads from 2017-10-25T10:00

We're talking about cane toad stuff this week.  Carra gets intense, Flo gets freaked out by meat ants, and guess what?  The cane toads just keep getting better.  

Fact Check Friday : Victorian...Beauty? from 2017-10-20T10:00

So much cosmetic curiosity!  Please send us your cosmetic questions and advice.

Here's the article about enameling we discussed :

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Victorian Beauty : A Little Bit About Arsenic from 2017-10-18T10:00

Flo tells us about ammonia face washes, arsenic complexion wafers and other ways to make yourself dewy-eyed, moist, pale and painted with poison! 

Friday Fact Check : Fleas from 2017-10-13T12:44:22

Our mini-fact check episode draws on terrifying first hand experience. Please write us with your questions and comments and stay curious!

factcheck1comedi from 2017-10-06T10:00

Flo and Carra talk (about fact check) stuff!  We follow up on questions about corpse medicine.  If you want us to clarify anything, send us a message.  More on skull moss, red headed remedies, m...

Corpse Medicine from 2017-10-04T10:00

Flo and Carra talk about medicinal treatments derived from human corpses! Topics include skull moss, drinking mummified people, brain tinctures and vampirism.  We also do our segment in which we...

F.A.C.T.S. Introduction from 2017-09-26T19:59:04

The F.A.C.T.S. podcast launches with a brief introduction, in which we discuss the premise and the promises of this podcast.  Each week we will research something about which we are curious (can...