Surreal Mundane: Recent Episodes
Here Be Monsters
We think the best podcasts are the ones that exist in the surreal mundane. It's a state that doesn’t shout itself from the mountaintops–it’s just a state of unusual normalcy. This is our list of essential listening for you.
A journalist-turned-corrections-worker reflects on her years of witnessing executions in the Texas justice system.
Trudy and Frances have been best friends since high school. When Trudy is turned into a vampire, she turns to Frances for help.
A woman stumbles upon a personal ad for anonymous sex in a movie theatre. She can’t help but respond.
The misunderstandings of Hermann Rorschach’s eponymous inkblot test in history and pop culture.
If waking up’s too hard, pay someone $10 each morning to bang on your window until you put your pants on.
A high-schooler with Tourette’s tries to separate his tics from normal teenage outbursts.
Host Bec Fary has a conversation with Drew Ackerman (AKA Dearest Scooter), host of another sleepy podcast, Sleep With Me.
Here’s everything you need to know about this episode: “The house reeks of broccoli, or ‘ghost urine’ as we exorcists have come to know it.”