Messy Minded Podcast
Messy Minded is a podcast for curious people with slightly chaotic brains.
Hosted by Jess — researcher, overthinker, and your cartoon-brained friend — each episode dives into a weird, true story that hijacked her attention for the week.
From internet scams and historical fraudsters to Viking settlers, liars, secret societies, and secession attempts, Messy Minded blends real research with offbeat storytelling.
To start, you’ll get episodes on:
The Founders of Iceland
Lying
Internet Scams
US Secessions
Coming soon: a deep dive into the world of secret societies — the mystical, the powerful, and the deeply weird. Some wear robes. Some run banks. Some just really love goats.
📅 New episodes every other week.
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- Update frequency
- every 9 days
- Average duration
- 50 minutes
- Episodes
- 10
- Years Active
- 2025
The Plants Are Plotting
Plants don’t just sit there quietly photosynthesizing—they plot. Jess and guest Scott (a Master Gardener) dig into the wild science of plant communication, defense, and even fungal conspiracies. From…
Questionable Medicine
From foot X-ray machines and Victorian vibrators to radioactive tonics and lobotomies, this episode dives into the weird world of questionable medical treatments and the history of health fads that d…
Bog Bodies
In this episode of Messy Minded, Jess is joined by Lolo and they squelch into the haunting, weirdly well-preserved world of bog bodies — ancient humans pulled from the muck of northern Europe, skin i…
Olympics
The ancient Greeks ran naked. Modern athletes get Tinder Gold. Somewhere in between? A lot of weird stuff.
This week on Messy Minded, we explore the strange evolution of the Olympics — from sacred rit…
Secret Societies
From candlelit basements to elite forest retreats, this episode of Messy Minded dives deep into the strange, spooky, and occasionally sinister world of secret societies. Jess explores the mystics, th…
Secessions : The Great American Flake-Off
Internet Scams
From Nigerian princes to fake tech support, the internet is a scammer’s paradise — and we’ve all almost fallen for something.
In this episode of Messy Minded, Jess explores the wild, weird world of on…
Pants on Fire - Lying
Let’s be honest — we all lie. Some lies are small and polite. Others are… slightly more elaborate and involve fake résumés, secret second lives, or pretending you read the terms and conditions.
In thi…
The Discovery of Iceland
Before Iceland became a tourist dream of volcanoes, hot springs, and cozy sweaters, it was an uninhabited island at the edge of the known world — until a few bold or lost people showed up.
In this epi…
Introducing Messy Minded
Hey, I’m Jess — your guide, your researcher, and your resident overthinker on Messy Minded, the podcast for curious weirdos who love true stories with an unexpected side quest.
Each episode, I deep di…