This Podcast Will Kill You

A podcast by Exactly Right Media – the original true crime comedy network - Tuesdays

185 Episodes

  1. Ep 136 Long Covid: A long time coming

    Published: 4/9/2024

  2. Ep 135 Menopause is whatever you want it to be

    Published: 2/13/2024

  3. Ep 134 Tonsils: Underestimated and underappreciated

    Published: 1/30/2024

  4. Ep 133 Parvoviruses: Who let the dogs (and their viruses) out?

    Published: 1/16/2024

  5. Ep 132 Osteogenesis Imperfecta: All bones about it

    Published: 1/2/2024

  6. Ep 131 Parkinson’s Disease: Dopamine & discoveries

    Published: 12/12/2023

  7. Ep 130 Cocoliztli: We do love a salty dish

    Published: 11/28/2023

  8. Ep 129 Lymphatic Filariasis: Hiding in plain sight

    Published: 11/14/2023

  9. Ep 128 Skin Cancer: We love and fear the sun

    Published: 10/31/2023

  10. Wondery Presents: MrBallen’s Medical Mysteries

    Published: 10/18/2023

  11. Ep 127 Bhopal: The 1984 Union Carbide Disaster

    Published: 10/17/2023

  12. Ep 126 Migraine: A Cacophony in Four Movements

    Published: 10/3/2023

  13. Ep 125 Blastomycosis: How fungus became amongus

    Published: 9/19/2023

  14. Ep 124 The full spectrum of color vision deficiency

    Published: 9/5/2023

  15. Ep 123 Hand, Foot, and Mouth (and Butt?) Disease

    Published: 8/22/2023

  16. Wondery Presents - Over My Dead Body: Gone Hunting

    Published: 8/21/2023

  17. Ep 122 Asthma: A phlegmy episode

    Published: 8/8/2023

  18. Special Episode: Ed Yong & An Immense World

    Published: 8/1/2023

  19. Ep 121 Tularemia: Hare today, gone tomorrow

    Published: 7/25/2023

  20. Special Episode: Deborah Blum & The Poison Squad

    Published: 7/18/2023

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This podcast might not actually kill you, but Erin Welsh and Erin Allmann Updyke cover so many things that can. In each episode, they tackle a different topic, teaching listeners about the biology, history, and epidemiology of a different disease or medical mystery. They do the scientific research, so you don’t have to.   Since 2017, Erin and Erin have explored chronic and infectious diseases, medications, poisons, viruses, bacteria and scientific discoveries. They’ve researched public health subjects including plague, Zika, COVID-19, lupus, asbestos, endometriosis and more. Each episode is accompanied by a creative quarantini cocktail recipe and a non-alcoholic placeborita. Erin Welsh, Ph.D. is a co-host of the This Podcast Will Kill You. She is a disease ecologist and epidemiologist and works full-time as a science communicator through her work on the podcast. Erin Allmann Updyke, MD, Ph.D. is a co-host of This Podcast Will Kill You. She’s an epidemiologist and disease ecologist currently in the final stretch of her family medicine residency program. This Podcast Will Kill You is part of the Exactly Right podcast network that provides a platform for bold, creative voices to bring to life provocative, entertaining and relatable stories for audiences everywhere. The Exactly Right roster of podcasts covers a variety of topics including science, true crime, comedic interviews, news, pop culture and more. Podcasts on the network include My Favorite Murder with Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark, Buried Bones, That's Messed Up: An SVU Podcast and more.