This Podcast Will Kill You
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Science and ideas · Ongoing · ~58 min
Taste attributes: documentaryslowheavyrealisticintricatelinearemotive & stirringsocial commentary
Boxlist takeA grounded ideas podcast, heavy rather than light. Best if you like real life over fantasy.
Taste details
Pace: balanced · Originality: balanced · Tone: balanced · Weight: heavy · Realism: true to life · Story: balanced · Structure: linear · Look: balanced · Scale: balanced · Emotional punch: balancedHow we score
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About this podcast
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,…
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- Publisher
- Exactly Right and iHeartPodcasts
- Format
- Ongoing
- Typical episode
- About 58 minutes
- Latest episode
- 10 November 2026
- Categories
- Science, Health & Fitness
- Taste scores
- How we score
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