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
Holy Anorexics : A Jumble of Questions Marks and Feelings
Also drink those cups of pus/life right down to the dregs, listeners. Flo and Carra talk about St. Catherine of Siena and other holy anorexics with many digressions and questions and mixed feelings …
Molasses Disaser Fact Check
Join us as we fact check the Boston Molasses Flood Episode!
Boston Molasses Disaster
Join us as we talk about the Great Boston Molasses Flood of 1919!
A Puckle of Fact Checking
Join us for this brief and belated Friday Fact Check in which we tell you about the word puckle and wonder about spermaceti funerals.
Bees, Honey, Death, Bertram Puckle
This week Flo and Carra find 2 of our favorite things coming together when we learn about bees being fed funeral candy! Also mellification! Honey embalming! Bertram Puckle! Lots of bee-related PSAs…
Egyptian Funerary and Mummification Fact Check
Flo and Carra fact check all things mummy! You can google Mummification of Transference to learn how you and your animal friends can be mummified!
Ancient Egyptian Funeral Practices
This week Flo and Carra talk about VIP afterlife figurines, cat mummies, gory organ removal stuff, how "delicious and cedary" those dry stuffed bodies must have been, and contemplate what we'd need f…
Fact Check Friday : The 1st Magic 8 Ball
Spoiler : the 1st Magic 8 Ball is a rodent who chews on your cheese in highly significant ways. Also Johannes La Chapelle, songs that are stuck in our heads, and talking genitalia. Send us your sug…
Ventroloquism : to create other voices divorced from our own
Flo and Carra discuss the ancient origins of ventroloquism and wow, is there so much to fact check. Magical frogs? Charlie McCarthy? Cheese divination? Crespolu the demon? Bird-human relationshi…
Friday Fact Check : Sideshows of Yore
We learn more about Ozzy Osbourne's creaturely gustatory experiments on the Friday Fact Check! And fact checking the fact check, I said that the infamous bat eating Des Moines Iowa concert occurred …
Sideshows of Yore!
Oh zoinks! With the fuzziest parts of our heart we are here to talk about the resilient beauties who worked, voluntarily and involuntarily, in 19th-20th century sideshows. Thanks to Joice Heth, to…
courageous women
Flo and Carra talk about two amazing women who you've probably never heard of.
Spring! Yes, Please!
Flo and Carra had no facts to check, so they talk a little bit about springtime things that make them happy.
Underdressed Women
We discuss Caresse Crosby and Amelia Jenks Bloomer today and all that they did for underclothes, plus organ-shifting corsets and Crosby's great name for her dog.
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Friday Fact Check : Dangerous Women
We learn about North Brother Island, rat poison in beverages and more!
Dangerous Women : If I Go It will be With the Taste of Hot Wine on My Lips
Welcome to Season 2 in which Flo and Carra talk about stuff in a car. This week we discuss women who were very dangerous around other people's food. Also ice cream with raw peaches, organization, g…
Miniepisode : Season 2 Talk PLUS Corpse Candy updates!
We are preparing for season 2 and in the meantime, here's a short episode in which we tell you more about corpse candy!
Friday Fact Check : Bicycle Face
Airomatic tires! Side saddles! Misogyny! Recording in a car!
Bicycle Face
This week Flo and Carra discuss wheel insanity, bicycle face, hygienic saddles and more. Apologies for the audio quality this week - we recorded amidst a din of cat caterwauling, paper shuffling, po…