Hosted by Lorien Megill and Katharine McNally · 🇺🇸 US · EN · 157 episodes
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Co-hosts Lorien and Katharine talk about what's making them anxious, from bears to Botox and everything in between.
Lorien Megill and Katharine McNally hosts The Anxiety Encyclopedia, a comedy show with 157 episodes published.
Diseases, aggression, and bird strike, oh my! Sources: https://www.ncwildlife.gov/species/canada-goose https://www.audubon.org/magazine/10-fun-facts-about-canada-goose https://www.audubon.org/news/learn-tell-cackling-goo
Katharine tells Lorien about those big, dangerous, goofy, majestic (?) river horse. Sources: https://www.natgeokids.com/uk/discover/animals/general-animals/ten-hippo-facts/ https://animals.sandiegozoo.org/animals/hippo h
Lorien learned a lot of rodent-related facts she doesn't like. She shares them with Katharine. Sources: Sources https://www.instagram.com/p/DYPeDuARj29/https://www.instagram.com/laurel__bristow/https://en.wikipedia.org/w
A Katharine classic! Sources: - https://www.merriam-webster.com/slang/manosphere - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manosphere#:~:text=The%20manosphere%20is%20a%20varied%20collection%20of,that%20feminists%20promote%20misand
Lorien tells Katharine about mystery mushrooms, magic mushrooms, and mushroom foraging (and reveals that the hunter/gatherer gene skipped her). Sources https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/a70698051/mushroom-bizarre-
Like much of the country of late, Katharine has space on the brain. Sources: https://www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/how-an-asteroid-caused-extinction-of-dinosaurs.htmlhttps://today.ucsd.edu/story/an-asteroid-doesnt-have-to-hit-e
Lorien has discovered another reason not to go hiking. Also, Lorien says she's not going to give away the ending to a 130-year-old short story and then immediately does, so spoiler alert, we guess.
Join us on the Atchison, Topeka and the Santa Fe as Katharine tells Lorien about trains. Sources: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/clye22ljxw4ohttps://www.reuters.com/world/europe/train-crashes-against-crane-southeaster
Lorien tells Katharine about a group that dares to ask the question: what if the only laws that count are the ones I like? Sources https://www.splcenter.org/resources/extremist-files/sovereign-citizens-movement/https:/
This episode is more filling and less toxic than a Tide pod. Sources: Sources: https://www.npr.org/2022/09/22/1124252556/nyquil-chicken-challenge-fda-warninghttps://www.healthline.com/health/dont-eat-tiktoks-nyquil-chick
Lorien gives Katharine a quick and dirty history lesson on the largest island in the world for...absolutely no specific reason at all... Sources: Sources: https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/trump-administration-mulls-p
Katharine tells Lorien about types of flooding; Lorien (kind of) tells Katharine the plot of the 2006 movie Flushed Away. Sources: https://www.weather.gov/phi/FlashFloodingDefinition https://www.usgs.gov/faqs/what-are-tw
Like a raccoon stealing shiny trash or a squirrel collecting nuts for the winter, Lorien has been collecting small anxieties to sustain her through the winter months. Sources: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colloidhttps:/
Katharine tells Lorien a story all about how important it is to stay on schedule and have a supply list. Sources https://www.history.com/articles/10-things-you-should-know-about-the-donner-party https://www.nps.gov/cali/
Lorien, too tired for anything truly terrible, tells Katharine about a mysterious, anonymous, unsolvable set of puzzles. Sources: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cicada_3301https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steganography
Katharine teaches Lorien all about cracking and packing, monstrous political cartoons, and shapes. That's right, it's that sexiest of topics: Gerrymandering! Sources: https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/research-repor
Lorien tells Katharine about a tragedy of gigantic proportions. Sources: The Story of the Titanic: As Told by Its Survivors, Lawrence Beesley, Archibald Gracie, Commander Lightoller, Harold Bride, ed. Jack Winocour.https
Katharine tells Lorien about a seasonally appropriate phobia, and then grants her an honorary doctorate that they're sure is legit. Sources: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2016_clown_sightings#:~:text=The%202016%20clown%2
It's October! So Lorien tells Katharine some theatre ghost stories. Sources: https://www.shakespearetheatre.org/watch-listen/feeling-superstitious-ghost-lights-and-whistling-backstage/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghost_
Katharine channels her inner Sarah Koenig to answer serious questions about a wild animal sighting. Sources: https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/mammals/facts/gray-wolf https://www.pbs.org/wnet/nature/the-wolf-tha
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