Lefties unite! Today, Sarah takes us on a journey about left-handedness. Why does it exist? What challenges do left-handed people face? Are they clumsier than right-handed people? Come join us down the rabbit hole and find out!

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The Popes have gone wild! This week we go back to our religious roots and discuss the 5 most dramatic popes in history. The tea at the Vatican is piping hot girlies!

Sources

https://www.britannica.com/topic/Donation-of-Constantine

https://books.google.ca/books/about/The_Bad_Popes.html?id=dir-zQEACAAJ&redir_esc=y

https://popehistory.com/popes/pope-stephen-vi/

https://www.medievalists.net/2023/09/woman-who-ruled-papacy/

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This one is for the anthropology lovers. What started as a traditional deep dive turns into a journey of dismantling our internalized misogyny.

Sources

“Female Hunters of the Early Americas” — Randy Haas et al. (2020) https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.abd0310

“The Myth of Man the Hunter: Women’s Contribution to the Hunt Across Ethnographic Contexts” — Abigail Anderson et al. (2023) https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0287101

“Prehistoric Women’s Manual Labor Exceeded That of Athletes Through the First 5500 Years of Farming in Central Europe” — Alison A. Macintosh et al. (2017) https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.aao3893

Man the Hunter — Richard B. Lee & Irven DeVore https://books.google.com/books/about/Man_the_Hunter.html?id=Yd7pAAAAMAAJ

Woman the Gatherer — Rayna R. Reiter https://books.google.com/books/about/Toward_an_Anthropology_of_Women.html?id=Cr4EAQAAIAAJ

The !Kung San: Men, Women, and Work in a Foraging Society — Richard B. Lee https://books.google.com/books/about/The_Kung_San.html?id=R34wDwAAQBAJ

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MLMs vs. Pyramid Schemes… What is the difference? This week we dive deep into the History of the Pyramid Scheme and ultimately Multi-Level Marketing and learn that the difference between the two may not be as obvious as one may think…

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Sources:

Think and Grow Rich on If Books Could Kill Podcast: https://open.spotify.com/episode/66Sn5YcLfDswWUPBtC3bMa?si=56fdc51712a447d4

Little Bosses Everywhere by Bridget Read: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/715421/little-bosses-everywhere-by-bridget-read/

https://antimlmcoalition.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/coercive-techniques-brooks.pdf

https://www.britannica.com/event/New-Thought

https://www.amway.ca/en_CA/about-amway/history?utm_source=google&utm_medium=cpc&utm_campaign=IV_G_S_Brand_Negative_CA&utm_term=amway%20mlm&net=g&device=c&gad_source=1&gad_campaignid=19333216048&gbraid=0AAAAApG0jB4WeKwtVUhv9szb3HGlm3_Rp&gclid=CjwKCAjwwrPVBhA1EiwAv_YO-Sl9iJQljS2MlXn-h1JTMA68OU7p7VChB1FJTgn_T7Ujtt51h_GKJhoC85sQAvD_BwE

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Have you ever wondered if the world is actually run by a cabal of lizard people who sustain themselves by feeding on negative human emotions? Us either.

Let’s get weird.

Sister Episode: The Nephilim

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Sources:

The Biggest Secret by David Icke

The 12th Planet by Zecharia Sitchin

The Role of Early Trauma in the Formation of Belief in Reptilian Conspiracy Theories: A Psychoanalytic Perspective — Agnieszka M. Dixon (2023)

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/bjp.12856 Public Policy Polling — Conspiracy Theory Survey (2013)

https://www.publicpolicypolling.com/polls/democrats-and-republicans-differ-on-conspiracy-theory-beliefs/ Everything causes cancer? Beliefs and attitudes towards cancer prevention among anti-vaxxers, flat earthers, and reptilian conspiracists — The BMJ (2022)

https://www.bmj.com/content/379/bmj-2022-072561

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We're venturing into full-on bizarre territory this week as we discuss The Roswell Incident! This story has it all: aliens, spaceships, secret cold war projects, and a special shoutout to Fredericton, NB. And although Sarah has been reading about Roswell since 1999 (note: she was 9 years old), she learns many new facts about this conspiracy.

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Sources:

https://www.history.com/articles/kenneth-arnold

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H4AxRTzASxE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gK5vjLVDOiE

https://content.time.com/time/subscriber/article/0,33009,986565-3,00.html

https://science.howstuffworks.com/space/aliens-ufos/history-roswell-incident.htm

https://ia601607.us.archive.org/20/items/DTIC_ADA326148/DTIC_ADA326148.pdf

https://media.defense.gov/2010/Oct/27/2001330219/-1/-1/0/AFD-101027-030.pdf

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m9lTaQMvDvs

https://books.google.ca/books/about/The_Roswell_Incident.html?id=ni4RAAAACAAJ&redir_esc=y

Some people are Horse Girls but today we discover that Sarah is a Dolphin Girl. This week we dive into the surprisingly complicated world of dolphins, and if daily dolphin life isn't already complicated enough, dolphin motherhood turns it into an extreme sport.

Sources

Janik, V. M., & Sayigh, L. S. (2013). Communication in bottlenose dolphins: 50 years of signature whistle research. Journal of Comparative Physiology A, 199(6), 479–489. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00359-013-0817-7

Janik, V. M., Sayigh, L. S., & Wells, R. S. (2006). Signature whistle shape conveys identity information to bottlenose dolphins. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 103(21), 8293–8297.

Sayigh, L. S., El Haddad, N., Tyack, P. L., Janik, V. M., Wells, R. S., & Jensen, F. H. (2023). Bottlenose dolphin mothers modify signature whistles in the presence of their own calves. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 120(27), e2300267120.

Wells, R. S. (2000). The bottlenose dolphin: Social relationships in a fission–fusion society. In J. Mann, R. C. Connor, P. L. Tyack, & H. Whitehead (Eds.), Cetacean Societies: Field Studies of Dolphins and Whales (pp. 199–225). University of Chicago Press.

Krützen, M., Mann, J., Heithaus, M. R., Connor, R. C., Bejder, L., & Sherwin, W. B. (2005). Cultural transmission of tool use in bottlenose dolphins. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 102(25), 8939–8943. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0500232102

Fahlman, A., van der Hoop, J., Moore, M. J., Levine, G., Howle, L. E., & Wells, R. S. (2018). Field energetics and lung function in wild bottlenose dolphins, Tursiops truncatus, in Sarasota Bay, Florida. Royal Society Open Science, 5(2), 171200.

Lyamin, O., Pryaslova, J., Kosenko, P., & Siegel, J. (2007). Behavioral aspects of sleep in bottlenose dolphin mothers and their calves. Physiology & Behavior, 92(4), 725–733.

Williams, T. M., Friedl, W. A., & Haun, J. E. (1993). The physiology of bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops truncatus): Heart rate, metabolic rate and plasma lactate concentration during exercise. Journal of Experimental Biology, 179, 31–46.

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). (2025, March 6). Common bottlenose dolphin.

Robeck, T. R., Steinman, K. J., Yoshioka, M., Jensen, E., O’Brien, J. K., Katsumata, E., Gili, C., McBain, J. F., Sweeney, J., & Monfort, S. L. (2005). Estrous cycle, ovarian activity, and serum concentrations of reproductive hormones in the bottlenose dolphin. Biology of Reproduction, 72(2), 336–346.

Noren, S. R. (2008). Infant carrying behaviour in dolphins: Costly parental care in an aquatic environment. Functional Ecology, 22(2), 284–288.

Noren, S. R. (2013). Altered swimming gait and performance of dolphin mothers: Implications for interactions with tuna purse-seine fisheries. Marine Ecology Progress Series, 482, 255–263.

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Everyone get your radium-laced tonics and dust off your grade 12 chemistry books, we are deep diving into radium this week! We chat about Marie Curie (GOAT), how Sarah needs to watch HBOs Chernobyl, and the dark history of the Radium Girls.

If you're reading this, please note we had a few audio issues in this episode which have been fixed for future episodes so we are sorry to any audiophiles out there.

Sources:

https://www.history.com/articles/radium-cures-health-fad-early-20th-century

https://www.history.com/articles/radium-girls-workplace-safety

https://www.orau.org/health-physics-museum/collection/radioactive-quack-cures/index.html

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC5595405/#s1

Obsessive Genius: The Inner World of Marie Curie https://www.amazon.ca/Obsessive-Genius-Barbara-Goldsmith/dp/0393051374

Radium Girls by Kate Moore: https://books.google.ca/books/about/The_Radium_Girls.html?id=XUXwtAEACAAJ&redir_esc=y

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