Re-Minded: Samhain
This episode is a Messy Re-Minder! We're kicking off spooky season by reaching back through the thinning veil and dragging one of last year's Halloween episodes back into the land of the living. Origi...
1 Loka 45min
The Little Prince
In this episode, Jess revisits Antoine de Saint-Exupéry’s The Little Prince—a deceptively simple children’s story about imagination, loneliness, love, grief, and the peculiar little prisons adults bui...
17 Syys 46min
The Great Emu War
In this Messy Morsel, Jess explores the true story behind Australia’s Great Emu War, including the desperate former soldiers farming difficult land during the Great Depression, the military operation ...
3 Syys 22min
The Georgia Guidestones
Jess is joined by the ever-inquisitive Lolo to dig into the strange history of the Georgia Guidestones: the anonymous people who paid for them, the controversial messages carved into the stone, the co...
20 Elo 40min
Ota Benga
In 1906, Ota Benga—a young man from what is now the Democratic Republic of the Congo—was exhibited at the Bronx Zoo alongside primates. It sounds impossible. It isn't.We trace his story from the atroc...
6 Elo 24min
Crack Babies | Messy Morsel
In the 1980s and early '90s, America was warned about a coming "lost generation."The media told us that babies exposed to crack cocaine before birth would grow up violent, intellectually disabled, and...
23 Heinä 19min
The Odyssey
This week on Messy Minded, we're setting sail into one of the greatest adventure stories ever told: Homer's Odyssey.Join me as we follow Odysseus, the clever King of Ithaca, on his legendary journey h...
9 Heinä 1h 25min
The Holdouts: Last of Their Kind | Isolated Human Tribes
In this episode of Messy Minded, Jess explores the fascinating, tragic, and sometimes hopeful stories of isolated peoples and first contacts.We travel from the remote forests of North Sentinel Island ...
18 Kesä 1h 5min
