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Welcome to season seven of the marginally-funny anxiety podcast, What’s That Smell? This week, we have an unwelcome review of our post-COVID survival status because, you know, it’s important to check in on such things. Then, we dig into demodex folliculorum, which is not, as you might imagine, a spell taught at Hogwarts, but it should be. Instead, demodex is the stuff of nightmares fueling Pete’s...

We’re not coming down on either side of the meat debate, but we do have a study that confirms if you’re not eating it, you might want to get on board with the high-protein train. We bring you: Meat and mental health: A meta-analysis of meat consumption, depression, and anxiety .Tommy brings the soft stuff this week with a discussion of what it means to be vulnerable as a man, and we relive that sw...

Hey! Guess what, everybody? Following up on a prior week’s episode in which we discovered that drone dog snipers exist at the whims of their human handlers, turns out that airborne drones need no such things as human handlers to do their business. A United Nations report says just that about a March 2020 attack in Libya. Great job, robots… taking another human job. Tom brings a personal anxiety th...

It’s OK everyone, robots are here to support you and care for you and make your life better. Also, robot dogs can shoot you and those dogs are made by a company called SWORD and none of that is a joke except for the part about robots taking care of you. Sorry. There are apparently rules for such a thing .In other news, a listener writes in to talk about online dating. That isn’t a whole lot easier...

First, let’s get this out of the way: Panic attacks are no fun, and dangerous behind the wheel. So, if anything we say to ANYone is particularly triggering in the moment, while we hope you don’t have to turn the show off, we encourage you to do just that and make sure you’re in a safe place to ride it out. Our general rule of thumb: It’s only fun to laugh about it when you’re not actively going th...

We have glimpsed the future of saucy-sauce and it is drinky-drink. This episode marks the beginning of our exploration of alternative packaging and compositions of alcohol and while we are only able to offer a tease this week, we will absolutely return to this. This is another one of those personal episodes for Pete, having just sent his oldest off to college. It’s a process millions and millions...

We’ve never had guests on the show. It always seemed risky… like they might call us out on how dumb we look or… sound… or… are. So we held off. But in some backchannel somewhere, we got to talk about the persistent anxiety that comes with putting on this podcast — and all the other podcasts we do, along with the assorted general creative work our so-called friends put out into the world. How crazy...

We don’t love making this a gendered conversation but sometimes we just can’t help it. It turns out that women might just be able to smell fear. We don’t love it, that we might keep doing stupid stuff because we can’t smell the danger in it, and so we’ve decided that we all need to hang around more women in our lives. Sorry ladies. We promise we’ll be quiet. We just need your nasal insights. Gross...

Ok, look. We can't control what our parents called us when we were kids. We can't control the fact that those things are so deeply ingrained in our families that they still call us those things to this very day. We absolutely CAN control whether or not we talk about them on a sometimes-funny podcast for everyone to hear, but we lack the self control to stop ourselves from doing it. Please be gentl...

If you were a member last season, this may come as old news to you, so hang on while I get a little housekeeping out of the way. See, we stumbled on these sauces from the REDACTED Company and while Tommy was busy talking about how they gave him anxiety, Pete discovered that this was not in fact a simple SauceAccident, it was just a single representative of a whole line of condiments that represent...

It's another big week here at what's that smell? HQ. First and foremost, AND by popular demand, we've finally created bespoke playlists of the music of this show. The Music of What's That Smell? You might (but you'd be forgiven if you didn't) know that we source all our music from the fine artists and catalog at Artlist . But that's a subscription service for creators and not terribly convenient i...

Hey, you... how's your crypto? A real roller coaster, huh? Prolly want a guy like Mr. White Hat on your side. Also, maybe, don't use crypto if you want to fight the anxiety. Tom did a little traveling a few weeks back and the trip was fine. Oh, wait. No it wasn't. The friends were nice but the trip itself was a damned nightmare of travel anxiety. This week, he shares some good times in the Austin...

The Nose Knows Anxiety Get ready, because VistaGen Therapeutics (a pharma company straight out of a Michael Crichton book), is on the verge of helping you out of your social anxiety with the same tech used to fight your pollen allergy. Right now it's called PH94B , so we're not talking about one of those sexy-sexy Sunday morning TV ad names quite yet, but it's coming... and we're here for it. Bewa...

How do you funny? We welcome this first episode back of season six with a journey to HuRL, University of Colorado's Humor Research Laboratory . We're both graduates of University of Colorado and, just so we're clear, no one ever introduced us to the Humor Research Laboratory, or this show might be funnier. How funny? Check out this passage from the team's website:The Humor Research Lab (aka HuRL)...

AI lookin’ out for us. Pete helps a listener feel free in the chair while Tommy is on the hunt for Dr. Puff-n-stuff. Links & Notes This weeks tune: Belong to You by Denitia --- Learn more about supporting this podcast by becoming a member. Visit allthefeelings.fum/join to learn more!

Clean your glasses. Watch out for the ghouls under your bed. Stay out of the metropolitan water delivery business Links & Notes This weeks tune: The No Show Blues by Ben Bostick I Didn't Clean My Glasses for a Week and then I Put them Under a Microscope — Vlogbrothers --- Learn more about supporting this podcast by becoming a member. Visit allthefeelings.fum/join to learn more!

Kickstart your back-ups, Sheriff Woody is loose. Tommy’s terrified of Little Tommy 2 while Pete should just give up and stop wearing pants to meetings. Links & Notes This weeks tune: Flutes Will Chill by Kicktracks ‘Breaking News’ — Radiolab --- Learn more about supporting this podcast by becoming a member. Visit allthefeelings.fum/join to learn more!

Don’t drive while listening to this episode. Also, Tommy helps a listener get back … at everyone … at once. And Pete just hopes this will never, ever, ever end. Links & Notes This week’s tune: It Blows My Mind by Assaf Ayalon --- Learn more about supporting this podcast by becoming a member. Visit allthefeelings.fum/join to learn more!

Introducing Shocktato. Also, Tommy struggles with tube time overload and Pete finds solace in escape. Links & Notes This week’s tune: Zombie Funk by Steve Poloni --- Learn more about supporting this podcast by becoming a member. Visit allthefeelings.fum/join to learn more!

Pete uses his big brain to think again... and again and again while Tommy fights for the right to recline. Links & Notes This week’s tune: Mini Me by WEARETHEGOOD --- Learn more about supporting this podcast by becoming a member. Visit allthefeelings.fum/join to learn more!

Pete helps a listener find a friend in time while Tommy is generally sorry. Links & Notes This week’s tune: Keepin’ Up by ikoliks Become a Registered What’s That Smell? Panic Pal and support the production of season 5 today! --- Learn more about supporting this podcast by becoming a member. Visit allthefeelings.fum/join to learn more!

Pete expounds on the long-running perils of railroad tie tag while Tommy and Foster come to a pandemic impasse. Links & Notes This week’s tune: Life Hacks by FASSounds How Tag Became a Professional Sport - Vox Media --- Learn more about supporting this podcast by becoming a member. Visit allthefeelings.fum/join to learn more!

Pete chronicles the perils of feeling anything at all while Tommy exercises his inner Lawnmower Man daemons. Links & Notes This week’s tune: A Second Without Your Love by John Coggins --- Learn more about supporting this podcast by becoming a member. Visit allthefeelings.fum/join to learn more!

Bumble snoozes, the pen leads to the darkest nights of the soul, and exercises in poor storage. Links & Notes This week’s tune: Lucky Me by Ofrin --- Learn more about supporting this podcast by becoming a member. Visit allthefeelings.fum/join to learn more!

Are there are more villainous creepies than hornets? Pete fights the purge while Tom winces at the wheel. Links & Notes This week’s tune: Runaways by Benj Heard --- Learn more about supporting this podcast by becoming a member. Visit allthefeelings.fum/join to learn more!