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Bittersweet Infamy

Josie Mitchell + Taylor Basso

Storytellers and best friends Josie Mitchell and Taylor Basso share the stories that live on in infamy: the strange and the familiar, the tragic and the comic—the bitter and the sw...

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Episode list

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  • December 24, 2024

    2 hr 6 min

    #113 - The Twelve Days of Infamy

    Holiday special! Taylor tells Josie one infamous story for each of the Twelve Days of Christmas—from the drummer the Beatles drummed out of the band, to a Partridge naked on the co...

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  • October 27, 2024

    2 hr 6 min

    #112 - A Spirited Tour of Spiritualism

    Halloween special + season finale! Josie tells Taylor about the haunting history of the modern Spiritualist movement—from the crafty teen sisters who brought it to life, to the hig...

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  • October 13, 2024

    1 hr 43 min

    #111 - The War of the Worlds

    Halloween special! Taylor tells Josie about the 1938 Orson Welles radio play about a Martian invasion that allegedly caused a mass hysteria, and the 1949 Ecuadorean remake that wen...

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  • September 29, 2024

    1 hr 42 min

    #110 - The Killers of Eden

    Guest host Peter Chiykowski tells Josie and Taylor about the pod of orcas who hunted in harmony with humans until a brutal betrayal ended it all. Plus: catch up with Darwin the Ike...

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  • September 22, 2024

    1 hr 38 min

    #109 - Night at the Dick Museum

    Josie tells Taylor about the Icelandic Phallological Museum, which contains the world's largest display of phalluses, and curator Sigurður Hjartarson's quest for the collection's c...

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  • September 15, 2024

    1 hr 29 min

    #108 - Satan's Last Stronghold

    Guest host Erika Jo Brown tells Josie and Taylor about the evangelical Christian fervour that led American missionary John Chau to contact the voluntarily isolated people of North ...

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