Episodes

  • Listen Now: Hysterical
    Jul 25 2024

    Hysterical investigates a mysterious illness that spreads among a group of high school girls in upstate New York. What is causing their sudden, often violent symptoms? Is there something in the water or inside the school? Or is it “all in their head?” The series examines the outbreak in LeRoy, NY, believed by some to be the most severe case of mass hysteria since the Salem Witch Trials. In his search for answers, Dan Taberski (9/12, Missing Richard Simmons, Running from Cops) explores other seemingly inexplicable events of the last few years – CIA officers being crippled with nausea and vertigo; cops OD'ing from exposure to fentanyl – and discovers they’re far more connected than we realize.


    From Wondery and Pineapple Street Studios, this 7-part series forces us to grapple with the mysteries of our own minds, and reckon with a contagion that we thought was long dead, but may be the defining disorder of our time.


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    7 mins
  • Listen Now: Happily Never After: Dan & Nancy
    Jul 15 2024

    Nancy Brophy fills her novels with romantic betrayals and murder. It’s a far cry from her quiet life in the suburbs, where she and her chef husband, Dan, are living out their golden years. But when Dan is shot dead, Nancy finds herself at the center of a murder case that could be ripped from the pages of her novels.


    From Wondery, this is a story about what happens when the line blurs between fiction and reality.


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    5 mins
  • How to Survive Prison with Chris Gethard | 42
    May 6 2024

    Don’t Panic but... it’s our final episode! We dusted off an old recording of Tony and the very funny, very talented Chris Gethard. In this finale, Chris and Tony try not to panic about… SURVIVING PRISON. What would you do? Keep to yourself? Link up with a prison gang? Try to write your manifesto in solitary confinement? We’ll hear what Chris thinks he’d do if he was spending the next 10 years in a supermax, hear what “experts” say to do, and discover Chris actually has a personal connection to this scenario due to participating in “Scared Straight” as a teenager in New Jersey!

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    30 mins
  • How to Survive Being Poisoned with Christine Nangle | 41
    Apr 29 2024

    BLECH! This week, the very funny Christine Nangle joins Tony as they try not to PANIC about… BEING POISONED! Tony is crafting Christine mocktails in her new kitchen when he accidentally adds the wrong ingredient: poison! What would you do? Call Poison Control? Vomit? Give a ghost a blowjob? We’ll find out what Christine thinks she’d do, hear what experts say to do, and discover that even if someone is choking on poison it’s still a good time to bring up if they are good or bad at oral sex.

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    26 mins
  • How to Survive Skydiving with a Faulty Parachute with Julie Klausner | 40
    Apr 22 2024

    HELP! This week, the very funny Julie Klausner joins Tony as they try not to PANIC about… SKYDIVING WITH A FAULTY PARACHUTE! Julie and Tony jump off a plane to “keep things interesting” when Julie’s parachute fails to open! What would you do? Pull the emergency chute? Try to find a soft place to land? Come to terms that you’ll be a human pancake soon? We’ll hear how Julie thinks she’d survive this panic inducing scenario, hear what experts say to do, and who knows, maybe Alec Baldwin will visit the podcast!

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    32 mins
  • How to Survive Being Stuck in a Cave with Carl Tart | 39
    Apr 15 2024

    The walls are caving in! This week, Carl Tart joins Tony as they try not to PANIC about… BEING STUCK IN A CAVE. Carl and Tony are repelling down a giant sinkhole when they fall in with no way out. What would you do? Try to climb the wall? Look for food? Immediately have a heart attack and give up? We’ll hear what Carl thinks he’d do in this cavernous scenario, hear what the experts say to do, and discover there’s nothing better to take the edge off at the end of a hard day than baking – and eating – a homemade key lime pie. Yum!

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    39 mins
  • How to Survive an Earthquake with Emmy Blotnick | 38
    Apr 8 2024

    The ground is shaking! This week, Emmy Blotnick joins Tony as they try not to PANIC about… SURVIVING AN EARTHQUAKE. Emmy and Tony are enjoying a day at the mall when suddenly – the Earth starts quaking! What would you do? Run? Hide in a doorway? Worry about the inevitable societal collapse that is to come? We’ll hear what Emmy thinks she’d do in this seismic scenario, hear what experts say to do, and discover the most important person to keep alive if you’re at the mall when an earthquake happens is the dude serving drinks at Orange Julius.

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    27 mins
  • How to Survive Complete Societal Collapse with Neil Casey | 37
    Apr 1 2024

    HELP! This week, the very funny Neil Casey joins Tony as they try not to PANIC about… A COMPLETE SOCIETAL COLLAPSE. This one’s a doozy! Neil and Tony take a stroll around their neighborhood when the city’s power generators malfunction, F-16 fighter planes fly overhead, and every news station claims ‘America has fallen’. What would you do? Hole up at home? Buy survival gear? Start a militia? We’ll hear what Neil thinks he’d do if confronted with this dystopian reality, hear what experts say to do, and discover that Tony is actually pretty happy about all this ‘society collapsing business’ because at least he can smoke cigarettes again.

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    35 mins