April Fool's!! This episode from Ignorance Was Bliss comes to you as part of Operation Switcheroo (established by Your Brain On Facts) - an April Fool's podcaster celebration where we switch RSS feeds for a day. You can check out more of Kate's show at the links below!
Read MoreOlivia recently visited a tattoo parlor (they sketched and outlined during the session, which took a handful of hours). While waiting to get needles stuck into her, two giant screens on one wall were playing this movie, Gentlemen Broncos. She had nothing better to do, and she knew Jemaine Clement was in it, so she watched and live-texted me her ever-growing rage. She said she enjoyed the beginning well enough and thought the design was good, but the sheer stupidity of the film overwhelmed her—so much so that, when I asked if we should review it for the podcast, she responded, “Are you sure you want to do that to yourself?”
Read MoreOur Heavy Hitter this week was the first of yet another two-parter, this time focusing on the nuclear bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. We started—as is customary—with plenty of background information to prepare for Part II. I began by addressing that I came into this with a pretty heavy bias against the use of nuclear weapons. I’m generally anti-war across the board, so it seemed natural that I’d frame this episode from that perspective. But it was a disingenuous place to start an episode that ended up being extremely complex, and I ended up rewriting the episode a handful of times.
Read MoreTRIGGER WARNING: Right off the top, this episode touches on extremely sensitive and offensive themes presented in the movie that may be triggering to listeners. These include: overt and deeply harmful instances of racism, sexism, ableism, approval of rape culture and domestic violence, homophobia, sexual assault, transphobia, and just about any other form of bigotry you can imagine. Plus, there are mentions of blood and gore, bodily fluids, drugs, alcohol, and physical abuse.
Read MoreThe Antiwork movement isn’t new, but it has picked up quite a bit of steam in the last year or so with what some are calling the Great Resignation—or that neat phenomenon where people are tired of working abusive jobs for pennies.
Read MoreWe finally have a new one for y’all, and we’re so excited to have submissions from YOU to read on the first Campfire Horror Stories in over two years!
A big thank you to the anonymous listener who provided the first story and Scottie Cockrill, who wrote a killer piece of fiction for us. Remember you can always submit stories (based on real life or fiction) to us at ttkmeup@gmail.com and reach out for more guidelines. Enjoy!
Read MoreWe discussed briefly the displacement experienced by citizens near the plant but hardly went into detail about the larger scale repercussions of the disaster. While we know that people were evacuated and were exposed to radiation, we don’t know about the cleanup and fallout. That’s what we’ll discuss in today’s episode. As a warning, this episode is more graphic than the last, so if you’re squeamish and/or sensitive to depictions of injury, you should probably sit this one out.
Read MoreThere was just no way we would have been able to record an extensive script on the entirety of Chernobyl within 2 hours. So for that reason, we're splitting this into two parts. Part one will cover what caused the disaster, the explosion of the core, and the subsequent evacuation. Part two will discuss the liquidation crew, nuclear fallout, and the current state of the exclusion zone. So buckle up, and let's start talking about an entirely preventable nuclear catastrophe.
Read MoreM. Night Shyamalan has done it again. And by “done it,” I mean he made a bad movie, folks.
I’d like to think we’ve become somewhat more forgiving in our time making this show, but sometimes we come across films that are so hilariously misguided that we can’t help but razz. This is one of those endlessly razzable films.
Read MoreHi all, Brooke’s shiny new fiancé got food poisoning this weekend, so the blog this week is just going to be the list of articles from the episode. Have fun! Enjoy some good news!
Read MoreOkay, okay… why are we covering Pocahontas II: Journey to a New World? Because! I was forced to watch it like 100 times in a few months! And I deserve recompense for the brain space it took up! But for real, if you want more info about why and how this came to be, the episode includes a looooong rant about the daycare center and its various… shortcomings. In the meantime, we’re going to talk about the main event: Pocahontas II: Journey to a New World.
Read MoreOh, man, this one got out of hand. This week, I brought it all the way back to the beginning, to our roots, to the one that started it all: my Groupthink episode on the Salem Witch Trials. But this time, I’m taking it all the way back to the beginning of humans’ obsession with witches.
Read MoreIt’s freak accident time, baby! And we’ve got two fun ones this week.
Now, I (Brooke) had a bit of a time finding a subject that wasn’t horrendously depressing… until I found the jackpot. It’s an example of mass hysteria that I found through Sam O’Nella on YouTube (who needs to make more videos, please and also thank you), and it technically counts as an accident for reasons I’ll touch on later.
Read MoreWe’re talking about the WBC again, baby - and this time with… empathy? Is that empathy I feel? Wuh oh.
Read MoreThe Westboro Baptist Church (WBC) is a Kansas-based hate group notorious for their protests. They’d prefer you call them “pickets,” but who cares? At said protests, they’ll tout some of the most hateful signs you’ve ever seen…
Read MoreI think we found it, kids. The worst movie of all time. A masterpiece that will enter the annals of history as one of the most baffling pieces of cinema of all time: Kamilions (1990). Shoutout to Noodle on YouTube for showing me the brilliance of this in one of his videos - this one’s for you.
Read MoreOkay this was a monster episode, so this blog is going to be basically my script because I’m so tired and you’re not my dad so you can’t make me write a whole blog post about this topic - I’m a grown adult! Wah!
Enjoy my historical deep dive into how Christianity and Capitalism were used to justify each other throughout history and became weapons of white supremacy and nationalism in the United States!
Read MoreHey folks - no blog post today because I’m exhausted and achy from the second Pfizer vaccine.
My summary is: this movie sucked so hard. It was great. Don’t watch it alone. Watch it with friends, preferably while inebriated.
I’m going back to sleep. Stay hydrated. Make good choices.
Mwah.
Read More…what if I told you that commonly-practiced Christianity and all its offshoots are perversions of Jesus’ actual purpose? What if the foundations of the world’s most popular religion were actually based largely on the personal biases of one man - who notably wasn’t Jesus? Let’s get into the history.
Read MoreSo here we are; another day, another beautiful opportunity to watch a docu-series about the absolute worst of humanity. And when I say the worst, I absolutely mean the worst. Murder Among the Mormons, a brand new series on Netflix created by Jared Hess (Napoleon Dynamite) and Tyler Measom (Jesus Town, USA), hones in on the nigh-unbelievable case of Mark Hofmann and his place in the history of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints.
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