Podcasts by Pre-Dead Boys
You're gonna rot - but that doesn't have to be a bummer! Prepare for the inevitable with Max and Dorian as they explore the history and culture of death and decomposition.
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65: Cremation from 2021-02-01T19:25
64: Kyla Rice - Cadaver Dog Trainer from 2020-11-26T19:39:33
63: Death in Space from 2020-11-11T00:57:16
62: Ghosts from 2020-10-30T03:01:24
BONUS: Evil Dead from 2020-10-19T10:00
61: Politics&Death from 2020-09-22T10:00
60: Ossuaries from 2020-09-07T10:00
Join Max and Dorian as they examine several grim, yet beautiful locations decorated floor-to-ceiling with bones - as ... Listen
59: The Brain from 2020-08-17T10:00
Learn more about the exact poi... Listen
58: Black American Death Care from 2020-08-03T10:00
Join Max and Dorian as they explore... Listen
57: Animals 2 from 2020-07-20T10:00
56: Veneration from 2020-06-29T19:11:27
55: Death and the Internet from 2020-06-15T10:00
1: Bone Diaries ep. 1 from 2020-05-25T10:00
Listen53: Necropolises from 2020-05-11T10:00
52: Gravediggers from 2020-04-27T11:00
In this episode, Max and Dorian te... Listen
51: What to Do in a Pandemic from 2020-03-31T19:17:09
For those not on forced quarantine, might we recommend a visit to you... Listen
50: Corpse Scandals from 2020-03-17T02:52:07
49: Bog Bodies from 2020-03-02T11:00
48: Body Farms from 2020-02-17T11:00
47: Plagues from 2020-02-05T11:00
46: Coffin Tech from 2020-01-20T11:00
45: Deathy Holidays from 2019-12-30T11:00
44: Body Composting from 2019-12-16T11:00
43: Exhumation from 2019-11-25T18:42:18
42: Daredevils from 2019-11-11T18:45:03
41: NECROMANCY from 2019-10-28T21:26:43
Patreon FAQ from 2019-10-24T10:00
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BONUS: The Texas Chain Saw Massacre from 2019-10-21T10:00
40: FRANKENSTEIN from 2019-10-14T17:38:48
39: Native American Burial Mounds from 2019-09-30T10:00
38: BODIES UNDER OUR FEET!! from 2019-09-16T10:00
37: Embalming from 2019-09-02T10:00
36: Weird Cemeteries from 2019-08-12T10:00
35: Photography Part 2: Post Mortem from 2019-07-29T21:55:45
34: Photography Part 1: War from 2019-07-08T11:00
33: Shrunken Heads from 2019-06-10T10:00
32: Norse Death Culture from 2019-05-27T10:00
31: SPORTS!! from 2019-05-13T11:00
If you think modern sports are violent, buckle up! Throughout sports history, fun pastimes have often given way to religious sacrifice and total brutality. Join Max and Dorian as they cover Roma...
Listen30: Aokigahara from 2019-04-23T04:59:43
HEY GUYS WELCOME TO MY VLOG!!!
Just kidding. Unlike other content-creators, your REAL favorite bros Max and Dorian are here to deliver an uncommonly respectful homage to the beautiful ...
Listen29: Plants, Fungus&Death from 2019-04-09T12:00
Think plants are boring? THINK AGAIN! The Boys are back to dig up the dirt on interesting death-related stories about our floral and fungal friends.
There's dead bodies inside trees. T...
Listen28: Death Fashion from 2019-03-26T12:00
Pre-Dead Girl, you better WORK! This week, Max and Dorian discuss the weird practice of dressing a corpse - ranging from the baptism clothes of the early Christian church, to the stuffy suits we...
Listen27: How to Fake Your Death from 2019-03-11T12:00
Ever wish you could just disappear? WHY, WHAT ARE YOU TRYING TO HIDE??
Whether you're trying to escape debt, leave a rocky marriage, or prank your friends, staging your own death might ...
Listen26: Public Executions from 2019-02-25T22:18:08
Before cheering crowds gathered at Ted Bundy’s execution, capital punishment and torture had been popular public spectacle for centuries.
Are humans just nasty freaks that love watching...
Listen25: CANNIBALS!! from 2019-02-13T00:59:15
It’s been one full year of Pre-Dead Boys, and have they got a TREAT for you! Listen to the history of humans eating humans - for survival, for ritual practice… and just because they were stupid....
Listen24: Transhumanism from 2019-01-28T18:12:40
Who wants to live forever? Transhumanists do!
The boys research mind-uploading, cryonics (again), and the soul (whatever that is) - all in an effort to learn about the science-fiction-i...
Listen23: Mount Everest from 2019-01-16T01:00:33
The boys RETURN with horror and hubris-filled accounts of people who tried to conquer the largest mountain in the world. BUT FIRST: the strangest, grossest, and funniest death-related news of 20...
Listen22: Animals from 2018-12-28T13:00
For the final show of 2018, Max shows Dorian a kitty drone, a gross mermaid, mummies buried with their pets… and the single most horrific and perverted thing he's ever seen.
21: Weird Funerals from 2018-12-10T13:00
FINALLY, after nearly a year of discussing death, Max and Dorian decide their funeral plans. Will it be as explosive as Hunter S. Thompson’s ceremony? A fake funeral like Chinese student Zeng Ji...
Listen20: The Middle East from 2018-11-26T13:00
Good dogs, nasty vultures, Zoroastrianism, and the largest cemetery in the world! Join the boys as they explore the death culture and funeral rituals of Iraq, Afghanistan, and other parts of the...
Listen19: TRAINS!! from 2018-11-12T13:00
Max and Dorian are going off the rails! Learn about presidential funeral processions, the railway with the COOLEST name, and just how gross an overpopulated city gets when cholera breaks out. Listen
BONUS: Uzumaki from 2018-10-29T12:00
The Pre-Dead Book Club is in session! We discuss UZUMAKI, the bizarre and brilliant magnum opus of horror comics legend Junji Ito. Max and Dorian try to make sense of this creepy tome via Akira,...
Listen18: VAMPIRES!! from 2018-10-22T12:00
Journey through history with Max and Dorian as they parse through the various folk tales that formed the modern day vampire, explore the hysteria of real-life cases of alleged vampirism, and try...
Listen17: ZOMBIES!! from 2018-10-09T02:54:33
Psh. Zombies? On a so-called history podcast? Yeah right! Sounds like the boys are just covering fiction from now on!
Unless you ask the people of Haiti.
Or t...
ListenBONUS: The Thing from 2018-10-01T12:00
As a special THANK YOU to everyone who has supported the podcast this far, here’s a BONUS EPISODE! Max and Dorian discuss the history of the film, the fan theories, possible themes of masculinit...
Listen16: Corpse Theft from 2018-09-24T15:35:54
Murder and exploitation abound in the business of stealing dead people! While cadavers were hard to come by in the early days of modern medicine, there was no shortage of nefarious dudes willing...
Listen15: Spontaneous Human Combustion from 2018-09-10T16:29:54
Man it’s a hot one! The boys take a look at the documented cases throughout history of humans bursting into flames. Surprisingly, the science isn’t quite as weird as you might think.
14: The Catacombs of Paris from 2018-08-27T23:01:04
You randy for bones? Then come learn all about the history of the Catacombs! Max and Dorian discuss the overflow of corpses that led to their creation, as well as some nasty wax… all before they...
Listen13: Lying in State from 2018-08-13T12:00
What happens to a corpse when you put it on display? Max and Dorian discuss an English king who was at risk of exploding, a Russian ruler whose brain got reamed, and a dorky philosopher trapped ...
Listen12: Death in Film from 2018-07-23T12:00
THE BOYS STRIKE BACK in their epic return, this time covering mortality in movies! Learn about family-friendly flicks like FACES OF DEATH and THE DRILLER KILLER, and shudder in horror as they di...
Listen11: The Long Now from 2018-07-03T02:22:08
What will remain of human civilization in 10,000 years? How do you finance building a mountain clock? And can glowing cats save us from our own radioactive death garbage? Nothing stops Max and D...
Listen10: Floridian Death Metal from 2018-06-19T04:02:53
Get BRUTAL with the boys as Dorian teaches Max (!!) about the finer points of the rich Death Metal scene of late 1980s/early 1990s Florida! Learn how the scene and the bands came to be, and list...
Listen9: Death and the Ocean from 2018-06-04T12:00
Get nasty with Max and Dorian as they explore the horrific and beautiful depths of the sea! They examine the complex ecosystems of whale falls, the shameful sea burials of history, and how YOU c...
Listen8: Death Hoaxes from 2018-05-21T12:00
IT’S TIME TO PARTY as Max and Dorian explore some strange and paranoia-drenched death hoaxes! They cover the victimization of wrongfully-declared dead in India, some comically inaccurate obituar...
Listen7: Chinese Death Culture from 2018-05-07T12:00
Hop in the time-traveling mausoleum with Max and Dorian as they travel back and explore the rich history and culture of death in China! Learn about cliffside coffins, a city of ceramic soldiers,...
Listen6: Mausoleums from 2018-04-23T12:00
GREAT GUTZON BORGLUM! The boys get downright presidential as they revisit MAUSOLEUMS, those big pretty buildings that store the dead above the ground! Listen as Max and Dorian teach you about th...
Listen5: Cryonics from 2018-04-09T12:00
It’s the Pre-Dead Boys at their most skeptical as they explore the fringe science of cheating death by freezing bodies! Y’see, they’re only LEGALLY dead. And much to Max’s joy, he gets to tell D...
Listen4: New Orleans Death Culture from 2018-03-26T12:00
Jazz funerals! Mausoleums! Airborne coffins! Max shares the rich culture and funerary practices of New Orleans, where music is as much a part of death as it is life. And Dorian eliminates a pote...
Listen3: Mummies, Dummies, and Honey from 2018-03-12T10:00
Enter the fraud-riddled world of mummy trade as Max enlightens Dorian on the history of profiting off of enbalmed bodies… as well as poorly-made fakes! We wrap up (heh) with some details on how ...
Listen2: Terror Management Theory from 2018-02-26T07:00
Ball is life… but is ball also death? Max and Dorian explore a unique death philosophy that involves sports, Van Gogh, and what sounds like a pretty rad t-shirt.
You can read the study...
Listen1: Sky Burials from 2018-02-12T13:00
In this inaugural episode, Max teaches Dorian about Tibetan Sky Burial! It's a pretty brutal yet surprisingly practical way to dispose of remains. Yum. Listen