3SchemeQueens

** Discussion begins at 3:45** Welcome to Consult Queens, our brand-new monthly series where we put Hollywood medicine under the microscope.  For our inaugural consult, we're scrubbing in with everyone's favorite sarcastic, Vicodin-popping diagnostician, Dr. Gregory House!  We're breaking down the Emmy winning episode "Three Stories" (Season 1, Episode 21), where three pat...

This week, in our throwback episode the 3SchemeQueens and their expert guest Dr Andrew, PharmD, put Big Pharma under the microscope.  Are drug companies hiding cures to protect their profits?  Are we being prescribed medications we don't actually need?  And just how much influence does Big Pharma have over doctors, researchers, and the FDA?  From allegations of suppressed treatments and manip...

**Discussion begins at 5:25** In 1988, Peggy Carr and several members of her family began experiencing bizarre symptoms, including excruciating pain, muscle weakness, and hair loss.  As doctors struggled to identify the cause, Peggy's condition rapidly deteriorated.  The culprit?  Thallium, a rare and deadly poison.  But how did an entire family become exposed, and who would want them dead? T...

Welcome back to Throwback Thursday, where we’re digging into the 3SchemeQueens archives and revisiting some of our older conspiracy and mystery episodes that included medical discussions.  This week, we’re going back to one of history’s most persistent conspiracy theories: Did Adolf Hitler really die in his Berlin bunker in 1945, or did he somehow escape to Argentina?  Was Hitler even physically c...

**Discussion begins at 5:00** In 1995, 18-year-old Christa Pike committed the brutal murder of 19-year-old Colleen Slemmer, a crime that would put Pike on Tennessee’s death row for three decades.  On September 30, 2026, the state attempted to carry out her sentence using lethal injection.  Two doses of pentobarbital later, Pike was still alive, ultimately leaving the prison in an ambulance rather...

**Discussion begins at 2:00** On November 22, 1963, President John F. Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas, Texas, and more than 60 years later, the JFK assassination remains one of the most debated mysteries in American history.  In this Throwback Thursday episode, we dive into the assassination of JFK, Lee Harvey Oswald, the Warren Commission, the single-bullet theory, the Zapruder film, and some...

**Discussion begins at 2:50** In 1994, Gloria Ramirez arrived at Riverside General Hospital in California critically ill.  During her treatment, 23 healthcare workers suddenly developed symptoms including dizziness, nausea, difficulty breathing, muscle spasms, and fainting.  Even stranger, some reported unusual odors and mysterious substances associated with Ramirez’s body.  As more people became...

Have you ever wondered if madness could be contagious?  We usually think of pathogens and viruses spreading from person to person, but what about a delusion?  This week, we are opening up the vault to bring you a re-release of one of the most mind-bending medical mysteries we've ever covered. We are diving back into the harrowing and truly bizarre case of the Eriksson twins. Ursula and Sabina...

**Discussion begins at 5:00** In 1518, in the city of Strasbourg, something bizarre began happening.  One woman reportedly started dancing in the street, and within days, dozens of other people had joined her.  Soon, the dancing had spread through the city, with some people reportedly dancing for days on end.  Some collapsed from exhaustion.  Others may have died.  So what was happening to these p...

**Discussion begins at 2:23** Located just off the coast of Long Island, New York, Plum Island has been home to a government animal disease research facility for decades.  Officially established to study infectious diseases affecting livestock, the island has also become the center of decades of speculation about biological warfare, government experiments, biological weapons research, and accident...

**Discussion begins at 3:10** Picture this: You’re standing on a tiny island in the middle of San Francisco Bay.  The city skyline is just over one mile away.  You can see it.  At night, you can see the lights.  If the wind is right, you can even hear the sounds of people living their normal, free lives across the water.  But between you and them is freezing water, brutal currents, and a prison sp...

**Discussion begins at 9:25** You know that feeling when you rewatch a movie you loved as a kid and suddenly realize… wait a minute. This is actually kind of messed up.  What if some of the movies we know and love aren’t actually about what we think they’re about? What if Sandy didn’t survive the beginning of Grease , and the entire movie is actually her dying fantasy? What if Ferris Bueller doesn...

**Discussion begins at 7:25** This week, we’re throwing research out the window and letting TikTok and Instagram take the wheel.  In this chaotic rapid-fire episode, we dive into some of the wildest conspiracy theories currently making the rounds on social media, and judge them based on absolutely nothing but the evidence presented in the videos. Is Stevie Wonder really blind? Did Sony kill Michae...

**Discussion begins at 4:45** There are some cases where the facts are so horrifying that we instinctively want the answer to be simple.  Someone did something terrible, they knew what they were doing, and they should be held responsible.  But what happens when the person accused of doing something unimaginable may also have been profoundly, catastrophically mentally ill?  That is the question at...

In this minisode, we investigate the conspiracy theory that the cookies sold at Dollar Tree are essentially Girl Scout cookies, just sold under a different brand and at a fraction of the price.  We’re digging into the companies behind Girl Scout cookies, the surprisingly similar cookies that show up on dollar-store shelves, and why some people swear that their favorite Girl Scout flavors have a su...

**Discussion begins at 4:00** **Reproduction discussion 25:30  - 31:30** The blue whales are the largest animals to have ever lived on Earth.  They are larger than any dinosaur, with hearts the size of small cars and voices so powerful they can travel across entire ocean basins.  Despite this, blue whales remain surprisingly mysterious. This week we’re diving into the hidden world of these ocean g...

**Discussion begins at 2:45** For years, the human race has tried to answer the infamous question, 'what is at the bottom of the ocean?'  The great deep blue sea, a part of our planet we have barely explored, continues to be just out of our grasp.  Something once unattainable is slowly becoming anything but.  What started as an exploration of the ocean floor in search for shipwrecks and...

**Discussion begins at 4:40** Have you ever thought to yourself, can we live forever?  Besides the Cullens, is anything truly immortal in this world?  If you’ve ever participated in any treatment to reverse aging you’re going to like today’s subject.  Today we will be diving deep and floating with the jellyfish, a creature that is currently helping today’s scientist answer the question, 'can...

**Discussion begins at 4:50** Picture a ship drifting silently across the Atlantic Ocean.  Its sails are raised.  It's cargo is untouched.  There are no signs of violence, no evidence of a struggle, and yet every single person on board has vanished without a trace.  In December of 1872, the merchant brigantine Mary Celeste was discovered adrift between the Azores and Portugal.  The ship itsel...

**Discussion begins at 5:40** Picture this... you are a lone fisherman setting sale for your next trip.  You’re currently resting on the back deck watching the sun set in the horizon.  You are the only soul within hundreds of miles, just you, the ocean and creatures below.  It's dark now, the sun has set and you notice the water around you start to change… It’s as if the sea is now suddenly g...

**Discussion begins at 5:05** On a remote cluster of windswept islands off the coast of Scotland, three lighthouse keepers vanished without a trace.  No bodies.  No signs of a struggle.  Just an abandoned lighthouse, a stopped clock, and a mystery that has haunted the sea for more than a century.  This week, we’re heading to the Flannan Isles Lighthouse, where in December of 1900, keepers James Du...

Before you dive into SEA-son 2026, we’re taking one last detour into the deep.  This week’s episode is a special supercut of some of our favorite ocean-animal mysteries from past SEA-son episodes featuring creatures that are somehow equal parts fascinating, terrifying, and probably smarter than all of us combined.  From dolphins that may be way more manipulative than their cute reputation suggests...

**Discussion begins at 4:15** In this chaotic rapid-fire episode, we put the deep dives aside and let the conspiracy theories fly.  This week we're discussing viral internet theories, and with only two minutes on the clock, listen to the 3SQ react, debate, and dissect them in real time.  We dive into a number of theories, including claims that Mountain Dew can predict the future, that Timothé...

This conspiracy is called Operation Sideswipe, so get ready to get wrecked.  In New Orleans, on Interstate 10,  there was a string of crashes over a period of ten years that looked random at first glance until insurance investigators noticed a pattern.  What started as a routine insurance claim exploded into one of the most shocking fraud conspiracies in Louisiana history.  Staged car wrecks, fake...

Between 1918 and 1920, the Spanish Flu killed 50 million people worldwide.  This pandemic, arrived on the heels of WW1, and between the two events, nearly 5% of the world’s population was killed.  But there was another pandemic occurring, one that is less well known and less frequently talked about, that remains a mystery to this day.  In the winter of 1916 in Europe, people were seeking medical a...