For a week I’ve been listening to Olivia rant in vague terms about how awful her topic was going to be. I’m not sure what I expected (I mean, it is War Crimes, after all), but somehow I was still caught completely off-guard. Welcome to our newest Heavy Hitter series, everyone. Let’s talk about the Rape of Nanking.
Read MoreThis movie was atrocious. It was bad even by the standard of bad horror, and I can only say that our biggest mistake was having expectations for this film. It was contrived and dumb and exactly what the doctor ordered. Join us, my dear friends, for Haunting on Fraternity Row.
Read MoreAnd thus ends another ttkmeup Heavy Hitter series, as our very special guest Zak Kadletz joins us to make us sad about the only saving grace we thought we had: the Paris Agreement.
Read MoreToday, I got to finally unleash the thing that’s been haunting me for a week and talk about something rather near and dear to my heart. Buckle up, folks, it’s time to talk about the 2010 Haiti earthquake.
Read MoreThis week was an odd brand of sad, as is usually the case when we watch documentaries. We dove (hah) into Jeff Orlowski’s 2017 documentary Chasing Coral, which essentially acts as a video diary of a group of scientists who are trying to definitively document coral bleaching and death.
Read MoreIt’s Double Upload Day! Now that you’ve finished Olivia’s first Heavy Hitter episode in our Environment series, we figured it’d be nice to wind down with a return to one of our favorite minisode segments: Freak Accidents.
Read MoreI know what you're thinking. "Oh good! The gals picked something black and white to discuss today." Man, that would be great if it were true. Sit down, son, you're in for a world of existential dread.
Read MoreWe’re back with Season 3, and we’re ready to throw down with a whole new Heavy Hitter series!
Read MoreWe’re wrapping up our Snake Oil Salesmen heavy hitters today with a delightful guest episode, a journalism student and Best Friend of Brooke, Devon Watson!
Read MoreHere we are again, folks. Another day, another minisode where Olivia and Brooke talk about weird stuff that happened to them.
Read MoreThe gals are back with Snake Oil Salesmen part II, and this time Brooke decided to take the theme a little literally. It’s a three-part whirlwind of fraud and false claims and really nice-smelling liquids.
Read MoreThis recap is going to be a little different, since it involves reviewing and discussing the documentary Enlighten Us (2016) directed by Jenny Carchman. For the sake of the director/producers, we won’t go into the film’s details - you’ll want to watch the documentary and then come back to the episode for that - but I’ll delve a little into the things that kept us up at night.
Read MoreAnd thus begins our descent into fraud and fortune, into the lives and lies of those we affectionately refer to as snake oil salesmen. This week, Olivia kicked us off with a household name - a man who is (I daresay wrongfully) synonymous with dozens of revolutionary inventions: Thomas Edison.
Read MoreWhat’s small and muggy and full of black mold?
As it turns out, both of our apartments!
This week we decided to allow Olivia some room to breathe while she preps for and takes her GRE, so we substituted the first episode of Snake Oil Salesmen for the long-awaited Leasing Companies Minisode.
Read MoreThe time has come, my friends, to take a break from the toil of the modern world and slip into something a little more comfortable - good news!
Read MoreThis week we brought in our very good friend and Kinesiology/Biology major, Solveig Erngren, to wrap up our Fad Diets series and talk about her experiences with disordered eating.
Read MoreThis time, the Things That Keep Me Up at Night crew discuss the 2017 “documentary” What the Health, a hyper-biased trek that explores the correlation between meat-based diets and basically every chronic disease known to man. Also, Olivia gives out her favorite salsa recipe (even if she is confused about where capsaicin comes from).
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