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Welp, the time has come. In this episode, Erin and Nicole say goodbye to the podcast, after their last round of Sinterklaas poems and a few (several) tears.

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It's the second to last episode and you know what that means! Erin and Nicole are doing a 'lil Cryptid Quickfire Challenge! Of course, they don't get to ALL of the cryptids to ever creep, but they do cover: the Fresno Nightcrawler, Hogzilla, The Sandown Clown, Champ, the Monster of Dildo Pond, the Yukon Beaver Eater, the Lizard Man of Scape Ore Swamp, the Cactus Cat and Curupira!

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This week, Erin and Nicole are celebrating unions for getting us the 8 hour workday! You know those Corporate Tycoons would have Americans working 17 hour days, 6 days a week if they could. In fact, people (read: Republicans) are still out here, trying to find loopholes so kids can be exploited on the job. WILD.

Disclaimer: We TOTALLY forgot to announce the fake AI story from last week's ShatGPT Vol.4! We'll announce it at the top of next week's episode!

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Erin & Nicole threw in a 5th GPT-generated story this episode, to 1) make it more challenging to guess the listener story and 2) soften the blow that November 29th, 2023 will be the final episode of the podcast (for now). We have LOVED doing this podcast the last (almost!) seven years and will miss you all so much-oop! did I just out myself as the writer of these episode descriptions? Sh*t. I meant to keep the curtain down until the very end! Ok, well, it's been me all along! I'm a rascal. xo Nicole

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The Great Chicago Fire of 1871 was, in fact, not great. It was awful. Devastating. Erin and Nicole talk about the conditions which led to such a destructive fire, how people responded, and why one woman was blamed for the entire thing. It's a real hot mess.

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One little misunderstanding in Europe in the twelfth century, and people started takin' mummified remains for a headache! Or epilepsy. Or a rug burn! They were really taking mummified remains for any and all ailments. Erin discusses how this communication came about and why it resulted in the pillaging of Egypt's deceased. Nicole shares some other forms of medicinal cannibalism and a few printed recipes from almost a thousand years of eating dead people for health purposes.

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Ohio is for lovers - or is it loveland?! In this episode, Erin and Nicole get horny about the Loveland Frogman. A cryptid, native to Ohio, who (according to renderings) is ripped like a wrestler. Seriously, do frogs even have abs, because this Frogman has like, twelve.

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The origins of Halloween (as we now know it) can be traced back to the Celtic season of Samhain, and the tradition of ushering in that season, as well as the souls of deceased loved ones from the realm of the dead. It can also be tied to a Cat Cave. Is it exactly what it sounds like? You'll have to listen to Erin and Nicole to find out! Muah ah ah!

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Guess which ONE of the FOUR stories Erin and Nicole shared, is written by a real-life human listener!

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In 1945, a B-25 bomber accidentally hit the Empire State Building, killing several people. Betty Lou Oliver, an elevator operator, was one of those people injured. Surprisingly, that incident was NOT the lowest point of her day. Join Erin and Nicole as they decide if this was, indeed, the worst last day on the job of all time, before they play two bespoke rounds of trivia: one Disney, and one September!

**Timestamp 00:00 - 11:05: we're using backup audio we captured for Erin, as we had some mic issues! However, they're cleared up after 11:05 for the remainder of the episode!**

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We're mere weeks out from the Delta diarrhea fiasco that turned a whole-ass International flight around, so naturally Erin and Nicole can't stop thinking about it. That is, until this week, when a rabbit's hole led Erin to a 1975 Japan Airlines flight where nearly 60% of passengers fell ill with only an hour remaining to their destination. The culprit? You'll have to listen to find out!

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Everyone's heard the "Five Love Languages," right? It's so engrained in pop culture, it feels like it's an actual thing. Turns out, it was made up by a 50 year old fundamentalist Christian man in the 1990s and we've all just assumed it's some kind of psychology! Erin and Nicole share the results their own findings, delve into the origin of the "5 love languages," and round out the convo with criticism of the creator from various (actual) experts on the topic!

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Erin and Nicole are back this week to talk about a few things that happened during their summer break, and someone we lost: Paul Reubens. How does this podcast even exist without Pee-Wee's Big Adventure? It doesn't, it can't, because without that film and without Paul Reubens, we wouldn't have anything. RIP, Pee-Wee.

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A friendly reminder that Erin and Nicole are not publishing new episodes during the month of August! They will, however, continue making content for Patreon and will be lurking around #soshmeeds. Make sure to follow @dtfupodcast on all the platforms (and @nicole.mackie on TikTok)!

If you're considering becoming a Patron, you can learn more at https://www.patreon.com/dtfupodcast!

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Just outside of Louisville, Kentucky, lurks a man-goat-sheep monster with a propensity for luring people to their death. Erin and Nicole discuss the lore of the Pope Lick Monster, the *real* threat in this scenario (an underdeveloped, 20-something's brain), and what the Pope Lick Monster's genitals might look like, because of course.

It's 2023, and people* are really still out here, making fashion inspired by unhoused people, appropriating indigenous styles and selling their wares in their Texas-based Flagship Plantation- er, location. Erin and Nicole aren't planning to wear "fashion" brand Magnolia Pearl anytime soon, mostly because of the aforementioned issues, but also because that sh*t is expensive as hell!

*Read: white women

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Reborn babies can be therapeutic for people who have experienced postpartum depression, fertility issues, childhood trauma, etc. Or maybe they're just a hobby for someone who likes to play caretaker. Either way, they can be cute, but they can *also* be creepy. Erin and Nicole have a very frank discussion about their feelings relating to Reborn babies, the controversies within the Reborn Baby community, and they take a look at some of the worst Reborn Babies on Etsy.

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Coney Island wasn't always just hot dogs and roller coasters. It started as marsh land inhabited by Native people, and then it was beaches for rich people and THEN it had hot dogs. Erin and Nicole learn about the history of Coney Island, both in how it was developed and the ways it has evolved to be what it is today (which is a very cool, historical landmark that is also very crowded and a b*tch to get to from Manhattan).

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Oof. Did you know there are whole human beings who think the Titanic never sank? Are they the same people who went down in the Titan Submersible? Who's to say, but Erin and Nicole have a lot of thoughts about the botched billionaire ocean romp, and even more thoughts on the conspiracy theorists out here on these internets, acting like the Titanic wasn't an actual, horrible disaster.

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Erin and Nicole are back with another listener story and 3 computer-generated stories! Can you guess the story written by the human?!

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This episode is NOT about what the name suggests; quite the opposite. But it doesn't mean we don't have a great f*ckin' time. Erin and Nicole discuss the ultra-conservative, evangelical, private college: Bob Jones University. They chat the origins, past controversies and current nightmare codes of conduct. This is NOT a place you'd want to spend your formative years, but it's a great place to talk sh*t on!

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Did you see the headlines earlier this year regarding the Scottish man accused of being an American criminal who had a full on meltdown on NBC's Dateline? You may have assumed it was an article from The Onion and kept on scrolling, because it's so unbelievably cringey. Of course your best dudes, Erin and Nicole, are here to tell you Arthur Knight formerly known as Nicholas Rossi, formerly known as Nicholas Alahverdian is real! And most likely going to be extradited to the US in the coming months, to be held accountable for many, many crimes.

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Showing your butt to someone can be flirtatious and/or funny. But it can also be rude and/or illegal, depending on where (and when) you do it. In this episode, Erin and Nicole discuss the history of "mooning" (or showing your bare butt to someone), and discuss some of the meatier documented instances where a naked butt caused a scene.

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Erin and Nicole discuss the popularity of ASMR, the different senses that can "trigger" a physiological or neurological response and they even try out some ASMR for y'all!

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This episode is a podcast and a game, all in one! Guess which story is a listener story, and which THREE stories are written by ChatGPT! Erin and Nicole will reveal the listener story at the beginning of next week's episode, but don't wait to talk about it! Head to #soshmeeds and let the world know which story you think is the real* one! *Thank you to the listener who wrote in with their story! If you'd like to write in with your own story for the next round of "ShatGPT," email us or visit our website!

Erin and Nicole discuss the American government's cheese caves, how we ended up with a surplus of dairy and why children of the 90s were horny for milk.

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Did you know, that had it not been for the tragic events of the Hindenburg's, we might still be trying to make commercial flights on an explosive gas-filled balloon a thing?! This week, Erin and Nicole discuss the events leading up to the Hindenburg Disaster, the ground-breaking coverage of the event and finally ask the question: why were commercial flights on a highly flammable balloon ever a thing to begin with!?

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If everyone solved minor grievances with the level of pettiness in this episode, the world would have burned long ago. That being said, Erin and Nicole find today's topic, Spite Houses, VERY entertaining. Learn all about how rich people have emptied their coffers, just to annoy a cousin or ruin a brother's ocean view!

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In the mid-1990s, a documentary claimed to have footage from a real life alien autopsy. They called it "Alien Autopsy." Cool. Erin and Nicole recount their memories of the must-see-tv event while wondering how the documentarians knew where to blur the alien genitals?! HOW would they know that? WHY would they know that?

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There is a whole, mysterious ecosystem of digital content based around making upsetting food videos, and Erin and Nicole are studying it's fragile balance. If you've ever seen a TikTok of someone making spaghetti in their bathtub, you know what we're talking about. Also, there's a magician named Rick Lax that's somehow involved? Why does that somehow make sense?

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If you find yourself in Ireland, take a close look at the castles and churches. Among the turrets and battlements, you may find the figure of a soft woman, gapering you with her vulva. Erin and Nicole delight in the historical figure of Sheela Na Gig, discuss the theories around her existence, and support the movement by feminists to take her back as a symbol of warrior badass-ery.

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It's Women's History Month and we love any reason to stan a bad bitch! Even if they're so bad, they engage in illicit activities. Even if they're so bad, they get arrested. Even if they're so bad, they murd- no okay, that's a little too far. This week, Erin and Nicole recount Marguerite "Meg" Steinheil's life, the scandal(s) she got swept up in, and why the French have it all right when it comes to taking a lovah.

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Live, From Las Vegas, It's DTFU: PART 2! That's right, we're in Las Vegas this week for a Pod convention, and we're comin' at you in first person right here, in this episode description! And we're talking about one of the most unexpected, nation-wide, aspirational weekly traditions we've ever seen: Sweden's Cozy Fridays! So grab a taco kit, brown some beef and put on those sweatpants for some hygge!

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Since the beginning of time, women have been referred to as "the fairer sex;" made to stay home for a life of domestic caretaking and child rearing. But there was one industry where the women absolutely thrived: piracy. That's right, out on the open seas, women could swab the decks, hoist the sails and be swimmin' in booty, same as the men! For their 6th Anniversary (which was technically last week, whoops!), Erin and Nicole shine a light on some of the baddest, most swashbuckling-ist, most jolly roger b*itches in HERstory!

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No one has done more for neuroscience than Phineas Gage, and all he did was take an iron rod to the head! Erin and Nicole discuss the absolutely horrific events surrounding Gage's accident, the incredible lengths doctors went to save this man, and why his survival was key in understanding function of the brain!

**A note from Nicole: I just realized THIS is our anniversary episode, however we repeatedly allude to our next episode being our "6th anniversary" because we're bad at math. Just know that February 28th, 2017, is the date we launched DTFU and maybe remind us next year so we don't look like stupid idiots?**

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Oh, sure. Erin and Nicole talk plenty about buttholes and poop and farts, but there's a reason pee is referred to as "number 1!" Here are some fun facts about urine, mostly from a science perspective, but also anecdotally!

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What Chess lacks for in excitement, it makes up for in anal beads! Erin and Nicole talk about a recent cheating scandal that rocked the nerd-world (they're jealous they can't play), how people have cheated at the game for quite some time, and how titillating they find some recent cheating tactics!

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People are out here doing the most to feel and look young; from ice baths and Botox™️, to light masks and human blood bags (see: Peter Thiel). This week, Erin and Nicole discovered someone who might actually be doing the literal most: multi-millionaire tech bro Bryan Johnson. This man's life serves as a series of data points, all with the purpose of reversing his aging bag of skin and bones. And guess what? He may have figured a few things out...

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Surviving a plane crash is already an unlikely feat. Surviving a plane crash, at seventeen years old, as a girl in 1971, in the jungles of Peru?! Impossible. Unless, you're Juliane Koepcke. Erin and Nicole discuss the unbelievable events surrounding LANSA Flight 508, the fortitude and knowledge required to navigate the rainforest, and the 100% bad a** b*tchery this girl inherited from her mom and dad, to be able to come out on the other side of an impossible situation.

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Erin and Nicole used the premise of this episode as an excuse to talk about that time in the 90s, when musician Sting wouldn't stop talking about his yoga-fueled, hours-long sex sessions with his wife, Trudie Styler. Seriously, that's it. I mean, I guess they also briefly talk about Neotantra and how it's different from Tantra, and how it shows up in western yoga and sexy stuff. But also, Sting!

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Don't let the time travel to ~570 BCE ancient Greece, and the talk of "math and theorems" put you off of this episode. Yes, Erin and Nicole are discussing Pythagoras today, but this guy was a TRIP. Wildly egotistical, the modern definition of "culty," and the hottest take on beans anyone's ever had, then or now. 

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Three hundred episodes feels like a big deal, and that's because it is! 300 topics. 300 recordings. 300 times Nicole has clenched her butthole when she hits "schedule episode," out of a fear that she may have messed up the edits. But it's all worth it, because we've found our people. As a thank you, Nicole and Erin are giving you a glimpse behind the curtain, with special guests Peter Muse and DJ Saul!

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This week's episode is another lesson in "just because you can, doesn't mean you should." Erin and Nicole try out the hottest AI on the market: Chatgpt, before discussing the ethical debates around source data, protocol for usage rights and assigning credit, and finally, what happens when AI outsmarts humans?

It's the 5th annual DTFU Sinterklaas episode! But before Erin and Nicole roast each other with their rhymes, they make a holiday libation and discuss the movie prop-turned biggest toy of 1994: the TalkBoy! Happy Holidays to all you Dudes!

If you live in a U.S. college town, there's a good chance you know The Yellow Deli. What Erin and Nicole learn this week that you might not know, is that deli is a front for a cult! From living on a commune, to indenturing children as servants, to recruiting the unhoused, this cult isn't as bad as NXIVM, but is worse than Peloton, for sure.

This episode is sponsored by BetterHelp. Give online therapy a try at betterhelp.com/DTFU and get on your way to being your best self.

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With Elon's takeover of Twitter, a high stakes U.S. election + runoff, and a contentious World Cup, the amount of false information being spread online is exhausting! Thanks to the News Literacy Project, Erin and Nicole identify some of the faux news stories making it to all our parents on Facebook right now, why getting curious is the best way to poke holes in bad information, and how to avoid the QAnon landmines put onto the holiday dinner table by your uncle!  If you'd like to learn more about The News Literacy Project and/or support them with a donation, visit www.newslit.org!

If you'd like to learn more about The News Literacy Project and/or support them with a donation, visit www.newslit.org!

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From Viagra and Insulin, to Pace Makers and Pap Smears, Erin and Nicole discuss modern medical breakthroughs that were almost entirely dumb luck.

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There isn't a cryptid we've met that we haven't loved, and this week's featured fable is no exception! Erin and Nicole make the acquaintance of The Fouke Monster aka The Swamp Stalker aka The Boggy Creek Monster, a "sasquatian" Peeping Tom from Arkansas. And he's about as backwoods as a creature can get, without actually living way back in the woods...'cause he's out here makin' house calls!