This Podcast Will Kill You

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

190 Episodes

  1. Special Episode: David Quammen & Breathless

    Published: 2/14/2023

  2. Ep 112 Epilepsy: It’s always the phlegm

    Published: 2/7/2023

  3. Ep 111 RSV: What’s syncytial anyway?

    Published: 1/24/2023

  4. Wondery Presents: Frozen Head

    Published: 1/23/2023

  5. Wondery Presents: The Vanished

    Published: 11/28/2022

  6. Ep 110 Influenza, Take 2: Fowl Play

    Published: 11/22/2022

  7. Ep 109 Chikungunya: Not dengue (or is it?)

    Published: 11/8/2022

  8. Ep 108 Gout: Toetally fascinating

    Published: 10/25/2022

  9. Ep 107 Sepsis: It's a mess

    Published: 10/11/2022

  10. Ep 106 Turner Syndrome: Let's talk about X

    Published: 9/27/2022

  11. Ep 105 Down in the Mumps

    Published: 9/13/2022

  12. Ep 104 The Bends: Industrial Revolution, baby

    Published: 8/30/2022

  13. Ep 103 Leptospirosis: Don't blame the rats

    Published: 8/16/2022

  14. Wondery Presents: Fed Up

    Published: 8/8/2022

  15. Ep 102 Arsenic: Paris Green with Envy

    Published: 8/2/2022

  16. Ep 101 Immortality: This Podcast Won't Kill You

    Published: 7/19/2022

  17. Ep 100 Monkeypox: Here we go again?

    Published: 7/12/2022

  18. Wondery Presents: The Greatest Con Man Ever?

    Published: 6/27/2022

  19. Ep 99 Salmonella: A hard egg to crack

    Published: 6/21/2022

  20. Ep 98 Folate: Marmite, anyone?

    Published: 6/7/2022

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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.