F.A.C.T.S. : Flo and Carra Talk (about) Stuff
Friends talk about facts! The F.A.C.T.S. podcast drops very Wednesday and mini fact check episodes on Fridays. We discuss the strange and unusual, the weird and wonderful, the gross and the glorious.
- Update frequency
- every 4 days
- Average duration
- 17 minutes
- Episodes
- 96
- Years Active
- 2017 - 2020
Fleas and Flea Circuses : Blood Meals, Golden Chains
Flo and Carra discuss fleas and flea-based entertainment. Topics include blood meals, sclerites, microminiatures and pulgas vestidas.
Bodies on Everest
Rerun! Flo and Carra journey into the cold truths and ethical complexities of death and dying on Mount Everest.
Podcation Rerun : Victorian Beauty!
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?
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
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 seal…
safety coffins
Join Flo and Carra as they talk about Safety Coffins and the fear of being buried alive!
Friday Fact Check : Morgues????
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
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 continue to…
wake fact check
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 wonderful th…
Irish Wakes, and More!
Join Flo and Carra as they discuss the different ways that people hold Wakes.
Friday Fact Check : Spontaneous Combustion
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
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! We r…
Victorian Mourning! Again and Again!
Flo and Carra do a collaborative episode on Victorian mourning practices. Watch out bog oak and weepers cuff, here we come!
lightning, there is no safe place
Join us as we discuss lightning, fear mongering, rubber soled bathroom shoes and Sha Na Na.
Friday Fact Check : Tarantula Hawks
A brief fact check on the tarantula hawk episode that Flo is eager to leave far behind her
Zoinks! Tarantula Hawks!
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 "just li…
Friday Fact Check : Periods! (Part 1)
This week Flo fact checks the menstruation episode and we realize how much more we want to learn.
Let's Talk About Periods!
Join Flo and Carra as they discuss many menstrual wonders!
A Thumbs Up for Friday Fact Checks!
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 story…