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...
Episode list
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July 30, 2025
1 hr 53 min
#129 - A Shipwreck Away from Abalonia
Josie tells Taylor about the 1966 near-founding of the micronation of Abalonia on a sunken island 100 miles off the California coast, and how the would-be country's future was wash...
moreJuly 13, 2025
1 hr 39 min
#128 - Too Cute for Comfort
Taylor tells Josie about Cuties (a.k.a. Mignonnes), the 2020 Netflix film by Senegalese-French writer/director Maïmouna Doucouré, and how it sparked a child exploitation panic that...
moreJune 29, 2025
1 hr 54 min
#127 - A Palace of Seeds and Nothing to Eat
Josie tells Taylor how the botanists at the U.S.S.R.'s Institute of Plant Industry kept the world's largest seed bank intact during the infamously brutal Siege of Leningrad (1941-4...
moreJune 15, 2025
1 hr 51 min
#126 - Spin-Out in the Fast Lane
Taylor tells Josie about the cheating conspiracy behind Brazilian auto racer Nelson Piquet Jr.’s deliberate crash at the 2008 Formula One Singapore Grand Prix. Plus: a few notes on...
moreJune 1, 2025
1 hr 38 min
#125 - The White Witch of Rose Hall
Josie tells Taylor about Annie Palmer, the legendary murderous vodou matron whose ghost is said to haunt her Montego Bay plantation—and how her story wrestles with the true spectre...
moreMay 18, 2025
1 hr 15 min
#124 - My X Father
Guest host Kai Cheng Thom tells Josie and Taylor about the turbulent relationship between terminally online rich guy Elon Musk and his transgender daughter Vivian Wilson. Plus: loo...
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