This Podcast Will Kill You

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

189 Episodes

  1. Ep 122 Asthma: A phlegmy episode

    Published: 8/8/2023

  2. Special Episode: Ed Yong & An Immense World

    Published: 8/1/2023

  3. Ep 121 Tularemia: Hare today, gone tomorrow

    Published: 7/25/2023

  4. Special Episode: Deborah Blum & The Poison Squad

    Published: 7/18/2023

  5. Ep 120 Acetaminophen/Paracetamol: Pain. Killer.

    Published: 7/11/2023

  6. Special Episode: Dr. Andrew Wehrman & The Contagion of Liberty

    Published: 7/4/2023

  7. Ep 119 Marburg virus: Too fast, too furious

    Published: 6/27/2023

  8. Special Episode: Dr. Steven Thrasher & The Viral Underclass

    Published: 6/13/2023

  9. Ep 118 Asbestos: Corruption and cancer and corporate greed, oh my!

    Published: 5/30/2023

  10. Special Episode: Mary Roach & Fuzz

    Published: 5/16/2023

  11. Ep 117 Bedbugs: Bug-bitten and bedeviled

    Published: 5/2/2023

  12. Special Episode: Dr. Kate Clancy & Period

    Published: 4/18/2023

  13. Ep 116 It's never lupus (except this time)

    Published: 4/4/2023

  14. Wondery Presents - This Is Actually Happening: Point Blank

    Published: 4/3/2023

  15. Ep 115 Altitude Sickness: Balloons though?

    Published: 3/21/2023

  16. Special Episode: Angela Saini & Superior

    Published: 3/14/2023

  17. Ep 114 Listeria: It put dairy on the map

    Published: 3/7/2023

  18. Special Episode: Sarah Everts & The Joy of Sweat

    Published: 2/28/2023

  19. Ep 113 Vitamin D: The D stands for drama

    Published: 2/21/2023

  20. Special Episode: David Quammen & Breathless

    Published: 2/14/2023

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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.