Cooking With Grief

This episode was recorded in front of a live studio audience (for charity- check out our YouTube channel for more info), but that didn't stop us learning about Dracula's Irish inspiration, NASCAR's answer to DB Cooper, medieval barber-surgeons and the Rosenhan Experiment (could you prove your sanity?)!

Show Notes

Cooking With Grief is the comedy podcast that covers everything from history to science, pop culture to geography, and everything in between. Each week the two hosts each bring two topics they want to share with the other, in an internet show and tell.

In this episode (recorded live to raise money for Comic Relief) we explore whether Bram Stoker's inspiration for Dracula was not Vlad the Impaler but in fact a bloodthirsty Irish warlord called Abhartach.

We also learn about LW Wright  (a mysterious DB Cooper figure who conned his way into a NASCAR race with no experience), the barber-surgeons who could cut your hair and amputate a limb, and the Rosenhan Experiment (where a Stanford professor of psychology tested how good psychiatric institutions were at sorting actual patients from fakers, and the results weren't encouraging).

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What is Cooking With Grief?

Cooking With Grief is a podcast where two glorious morons share facts, stories and titbits they've found interesting, an internet Show & Tell. Topics range from science to history to current events, and pretty much anything else, all discussed and dissected with complete irreverence and absolutely no desire to be serious. The facts are sound, the understanding is tenuous, and the jokes - well, that's subjective. Enjoy!

"A witty and unique podcast on current events and the world around us."
- Chris & Chris

"This is completely banal and you're wasting your time."
- Our mothers

"Who the hell are you and why are you talking to me?"
- Random guy on the street