Afternoonified

As a little holiday gift from us to you, Emily made Sara play an educational game! After the first 2 or so minutes, we keep it pretty family-friendly....which is the real gift and all the trivia about reindeer is just a bonus.

This year for the holidays, Afternoonified is serving up a buffet of some international Christmas foods! We have festive treats from Mexico, France, Italy, Germany, England, and Norway, and even stop by Wisconsin to see what those weirdos are up to. Come for the food and stay because we're as loud as your conservative uncles but way easier to listen to. We forgot how to do a podcast so sources are...

This week Sara and Emily thought long and hard about the many things that terrify them and picked the ones that really stood out. Sara gets into the super secretive Russian Space Program and how two Italian nerds got involved with that and Emily remembers why crawl spaces are the work of the devil.

During an investigation into two animal friends from a certain Marvel movie that just came out, Emily stumbled upon a story of Thor making a Frost Giant-sized ass of himself and getting REAL mad about it. This is that story.

Before we had TV, video games, major league sports, books...pretty much anything fun, humans had to do something with their time. For whatever reason, they opted to carve intricate lines into the earth that resembled things such as snakes, horses, and, big naked guys. We're not sure why, but the real fun is guessing, isn't it? Support Afternoonified by contributing to their tip jar: https://tips.p...

If you've never wondered about what the relationship between one of the greatest American aviators and a bunch of horrific crustaceans could possibly be, now might be the time. Was Amelia Earhart really the victim of yet another one of god's nautical mistakes or do we just not have any other good answers for her disappearence? Support Afternoonified by contributing to their tip jar: https://tips.p...

After countless stories of fun women being burned at the stake for being witches, we thought it was time to cover a similar story involving a man. As it turns out, it's actually pretty easy to have a powerful member of the clergy tried and executed for witchcraft so long as you have a vindictive Cardinal, a convent full of bored nuns, and a victim who actually is kind of a dick. Needless to say, f...

One chilly November in 1970, an 8-ton whale washed ashore near Florence, Oregon. While there were probably a couple of different ways this could have been dealt with, the powers that be decided half a ton of dynamite would be the solution to their problem. Spoiler alert: It was not. See the remastered news report here (courtesy of KATU) Support Afternoonified by contributing to their tip jar: http...

Apparently, Emily did something to offend Sara so she is seeking her revenge in the form of a tour of the ocean's depths. With everything from crabs that look like mistakes to some cephalopods that have earned their right to stay, it's a real Sharkcuterie of deep sea nightmares. Support Afternoonified by contributing to their tip jar: https://tips.pinecast.com/jar/afternoonified Find out more at h...

Spooky Summer continues with some of the freshest short horror stories pulled from the depths of Reddit! Join us around the campfire for some s'mores and tales of shadow men, hair where it doesn't belong and, Way Too Many Bens. Support Afternoonified by contributing to their tip jar: https://tips.pinecast.com/jar/afternoonified Find out more at http://getafternoonified.com This podcast is powered...

On June 5th 1960, a group of teenagers visiting Finland's scenic Lake Bodom were attacked by a mystery assailant. over 60 years after the fact, we're still not sure what really happened that night. It's gonna be a rough one, friends, so hold on to your butts and put that tent away because we're about to make a great case for never camping again. Support Afternoonified by contributing to their tip...

As a bonus stop on our spooky road trip, we're headed to a shack in the middle of the Oregon woods! It's not just any shack, though, it's full of mystery and weird science and...people trying to deliver pizzas to Sasquatch. It's the Oregon Vortex! Support Afternoonified by contributing to their tip jar: https://tips.pinecast.com/jar/afternoonified Find out more at http://getafternoonified.com This...

Pack up your Gameboy and hop in the car because we're going on vacation! We've invited our bestest best friend Sadie to join us as we travel these United States in search of the rowdiest ghosts and the creepiest hotels. Support Afternoonified by contributing to their tip jar: https://tips.pinecast.com/jar/afternoonified Find out more at http://getafternoonified.com This podcast is powered by Pinec...

One fateful night in 1977, three teenagers in Massachusetts saw something they couldn't explain. Was it really the demon they all thought it was? Perhaps an extraterrestrial checking out the scenery...or maybe something even weirder. Support Afternoonified by contributing to their tip jar: https://tips.pinecast.com/jar/afternoonified Find out more at http://getafternoonified.com This podcast is po...

You've heard of pirates pillaging, plundering, and being general badasses through the Golden Age of Piracy. But it wasn't all about smelling terrible and getting your sword bloody for all of the men sailing the high seas. Enter Stede Bonnet, a man who was so bad at being a pirate that he managed to become okay at it and make some friends along the way. Support Afternoonified by contributing to the...

Grimm's is back with a very classic princess story! The stakes for this one are a little lower than you'd expect, but there's still a very important lesson to be learned...probably. We think. Support Afternoonified by contributing to their tip jar: https://tips.pinecast.com/jar/afternoonified Find out more at http://getafternoonified.com This podcast is powered by Pinecast .

While the title definitely sounds like we're about to pitch a sexy new series for Starz or something, there's actually a little bit more to it. This week we're diving into The Affair of the Poisons and The Affair of the Diamond Necklace, both of which are very French and also heavily feature fun women and stupidly horny men. Like most historical stories, it seems. Support Afternoonified by contrib...

Welcome to our new geology podcast! We’re discussing whether or not Northern Ireland’s Giant’s Causeway is actually one big rock or a bunch of little rocks... oh and also a story about how a Scotsman was taken down by a big Irish baby.

Somewhere between a grunting, club-wielding dullard and Fred Flinstone lies the reality of what cavemen actually were. Despite the archaic idea of a Neanderthal living on in the minds of many, there were a lot of complexities in the lives of one of our ancient relatives and we're going to get into them and what it meant to be an archaic species of human (or what scientists theorize it was like.) S...

We had a few more lighthouse jokes left in us so we took them to Scotland! Only this time the weird part isn't so much what people saw on the island of Eilean Mor and more what they didn't see. [ Source Article ] Support Afternoonified by contributing to their tip jar: https://tips.pinecast.com/jar/afternoonified Find out more at http://getafternoonified.com This podcast is powered by Pinecast .

As it turns out, Salem wasn't the only time in history when you could just accuse someone of being a witch and have them legally executed. People have been doing that old song and dance for a while . This week we get into a few of the notable hunts and how, exactly, these hunts were legal. Support Afternoonified by contributing to their tip jar: https://tips.pinecast.com/jar/afternoonified Find ou...

There was once a time when everyone was into ferns. Like... REALLY into ferns. We can't explain why people are so weird, but we can get into the Fern-Fever that overtook Victorian-era England. Support Afternoonified by contributing to their tip jar: https://tips.pinecast.com/jar/afternoonified Find out more at http://getafternoonified.com This podcast is powered by Pinecast .

We're going to level with you... there's a lot of trivia and history about lighthouses in this episode. However, there are also old sea captains, insanity-inducing piano performances, more little girls than you can shake a really big stick at, and, the attempted exorcism of an entire island. Support Afternoonified by contributing to their tip jar: https://tips.pinecast.com/jar/afternoonified Find...

At some point, we're sure you've wondered things like "What do astronauts eat in space?" or "Hey, can you make beer out of space wheat?" Luckily we have taken it upon ourselves to find the answer to these questions and many more (so long as they're related to astronaut food). There's even a snack food review segment! Support Afternoonified by contributing to their tip jar: https://tips.pinecast.co...

There is only so long that we can go without talking about body parts and the Catholic church and, wouldn't you know it, we were overdue for both of those things. We have a roundup of some of the more...colorful relics of saints from around the world. Some of which we honestly could have gone on not knowing about. Support Afternoonified by contributing to their tip jar: https://tips.pinecast.com/j...