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

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!

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 the several minutes in which we describe bodily wounds, pus and blood.  Also I just found out that the adjective to describe something that is oozing with pus is actually purulent.  As it should be. We'd love your comments! 

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

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.

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!

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.

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!

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!

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! 

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 etymology of curd. 

Here's a link to some NYS regulationsabout pet and human burial : https://www.dos.ny.gov/cmty/pet-cremation.html

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 Dog and Oscar the hospice cat! We appreciate all of you amazing creatures and wish all of you a very healthy and love-filled holiday season, whatever you may be celebrating.  See you next year for a Friday Fact Check! 

We welcome special regular guest Charles Dickens back to the studio and discuss the complexities of tracking life expectancy.  

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 and episode suggestions at our Instagram and email!

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

During a flurry of feline activity, Flo talks about the U.S. Civil War and the birth of modern embalming.

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

Come for this very enlightening episode on radioactive spas, radioactive shoe insoles, corsets and toothpaste!  Also we learn some labor history!

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.

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 vampires are "literally upstanding citizens who just want to tailor your clothes."  Join us!