DEADPOD
Welcome to DEADPOD - a weekly podcast about death. Death is a thing that touches all of our lives - it’s a big part of world culture but often taboo to talk about.Join Andy Bush and Brian Murphy as they explore all sides of death from famous deaths in TV soap operas, to villainous deaths in popular fiction, dead technology, strange burial rituals in ancient civilisations and incredibly weird historical deaths.Give it to your morbid curiosity and join us. Get in touch on @dead.pod on instagram!
Wed, April 02, 2025
Queenly Deaths
Welcome to DEADPOD a weekly podcast about death. Death is a thing that touches all of our lives - it has scared, scarred and mesmerised throughout human history. Join Andy Bush and Brian Murphy as they embark on a journey to explore different aspects of death around the world, in history and pop culture and what it says about us. Whether it be murder mysteries, unsolved crimes, deceased technology, shock deaths in TV soaps or super crazy historical deaths, DEADPOD will satisfy your morbid curiousity. Queenly Deaths: Last week we did Kingly Deaths so we thought it was only fair to also do an episode on Queenly Deaths and they're just as bad as the Kingly ones if not worse. Featuring botched executions, Heath Robinson style murder plots, hearts in jars and the worlds worst hernia. Thanks for listening! Give in to your morbid curiosity and join us. Get in touch on Instagram Hosts - Andy Bush and Brian Murphy Producer Dane Smith Production Company - Lock It In Studio Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
S1 E17 · Wed, March 26, 2025
Kingly Deaths
Welcome to DEADPOD a weekly podcast about death. Death is a thing that touches all of our lives - it has scared, scarred and mesmerised throughout human history. Join Andy Bush and Brian Murphy as they embark on a journey to explore different aspects of death around the world, in history and pop culture and what it says about us. Whether it be murder mysteries, unsolved crimes, deceased technology, shock deaths in TV soaps or super crazy historical deaths, DEADPOD will satisfy your morbid curiousity. Kingly Deaths: Kings ascend, Kings rule, Kings die. In this episode Andy & Brian talk about interesting Kingly deaths across the ages. Including mercury poisoning, alleged pokers up bums, death by monkey and exploding coffins. Thanks for listening! Give in to your morbid curiosity and join us. Get in touch on Instagram Hosts - Andy Bush and Brian Murphy Producer Dane Smith Production Company - Lock It In Studio Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
S1 E16 · Wed, March 19, 2025
Last Will & Testament
Welcome to DEADPOD a weekly podcast about death. Death is a thing that touches all of our lives - it has scared, scarred and mesmerised throughout human history. Join Andy Bush and Brian Murphy as they embark on a journey to explore different aspects of death around the world, in history and pop culture and what it says about us. Whether it be murder mysteries, unsolved crimes, deceased technology, shock deaths in TV soaps or super crazy historical deaths, DEADPOD will satisfy your morbid curiousity. Last Will & Testament: There comes a time in our life where we have to face facts and draw up a will. However you don't have to keep it simple and carve up your possessions between your loved ones. You can get creative. In this episode Andy and Brian take a look at some of the more interesting wills across the years. Warning. It gets weird. Thanks for listening! Give in to your morbid curiosity and join us. Get in touch on Instagram Hosts - Andy Bush and Brian Murphy Producer Dane Smith Production Company - Lock It In Studio Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
S1 E15 · Wed, March 12, 2025
Dead Dinner Party
Welcome to DEADPOD a weekly podcast about death. Death is a thing that touches all of our lives - it has scared, scarred and mesmerised throughout human history. Join Andy Bush and Brian Murphy as they embark on a journey to explore different aspects of death around the world, in history and pop culture and what it says about us. Whether it be murder mysteries, unsolved crimes, deceased technology, shock deaths in TV soaps or super crazy historical deaths, DEADPOD will satisfy your morbid curiousity. Dead Dinner Party: If you could host a dinner party populated entirely with notable figures who are dead, who would you choose? Andy and Brian spend this episode pondering that question. They have three invites each and its fair to say there is a 'unique' spread of guests. Thanks for listening! Give in to your morbid curiosity and join us. Get in touch on Instagram Hosts - Andy Bush and Brian Murphy Producer Dane Smith Production Company - Lock It In Studio Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
S1 E14 · Wed, March 05, 2025
Chattin' to the Dead.
Welcome to DEADPOD a weekly podcast about death. Death is a thing that touches all of our lives - it has scared, scarred and mesmerised throughout human history. Join Andy Bush and Brian Murphy as they embark on a journey to explore different aspects of death around the world, in history and pop culture and what it says about us. Whether it be murder mysteries, unsolved crimes, deceased technology, shock deaths in TV soaps or super crazy historical deaths, DEADPOD will satisfy your morbid curiousity. Chattin' to the Dead: During the late 19th and early 20th Century for some reason people were desperate to speak to the dead with Ouija boards. We also cover seances, which surprisingly contained a lot of feet action. Also in the weird historical death of the week, a joke so funny it killed a king. Thanks for listening! Give in to your morbid curiosity and join us. Get in touch on Instagram Hosts - Andy Bush and Brian Murphy Producer Dane Smith Production Company - Lock It In Studio Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
S1 E13 · Wed, February 26, 2025
Bodies You Can See.... Extravaganza!
Welcome to DEADPOD a weekly podcast about death. Death is a thing that touches all of our lives - it has scared, scarred and mesmerised throughout human history. Join Andy Bush and Brian Murphy as they embark on a journey to explore different aspects of death around the world, in history and pop culture and what it says about us. Whether it be murder mysteries, unsolved crimes, deceased technology, shock deaths in TV soaps or super crazy historical deaths, DEADPOD will satisfy your morbid curiousity. Bodies You Can See...... Extravaganza! Following on from last weeks discussion about the fact that 19th century philosopher Jeremy Bentham's embalmed body is in the foyer of UCL, we've done a 'bodies you can see around the world' special. Think Judith Chalmers but instead of Sardinian beaches its mummified former Communist Strongmen. Thanks for listening! Give in to your morbid curiosity and join us. Get in touch on Instagram Hosts - Andy Bush and Brian Murphy Producer Dane Smith Production Company - Lock It In Studio Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
S1 E12 · Wed, February 19, 2025
Graveyards
Welcome to DEADPOD a weekly podcast about death. Death is a thing that touches all of our lives - it has scared, scarred and mesmerised throughout human history. Join Andy Bush and Brian Murphy as they embark on a journey to explore different aspects of death around the world, in history and pop culture and what it says about us. Whether it be murder mysteries, unsolved crimes, deceased technology, shock deaths in TV soaps or super crazy historical deaths, DEADPOD will satisfy your morbid curiousity. Graveyards: In this episode Andy & Brian explore two of Europe's most interesting graveyard stories, the Paris Catacombs and the London Necropolis Railway. Plus you'll hear about a potential curse stemming from Jeremy Beadle's grave. Thanks for listening! Give in to your morbid curiosity and join us. Get in touch on Instagram Hosts - Andy Bush and Brian Murphy Producer Dane Smith Production Company - Lock It In Studio Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
S1 E11 · Wed, February 12, 2025
Death Deities
Welcome to DEADPOD a weekly podcast about death. Death is a thing that touches all of our lives - it has scared, scarred and mesmerised throughout human history. Join Andy Bush and Brian Murphy as they embark on a journey to explore different aspects of death around the world, in history and pop culture and what it says about us. Whether it be murder mysteries, unsolved crimes, deceased technology, shock deaths in TV soaps or super crazy historical deaths, DEADPOD will satisfy your morbid curiousity. Death Deities: There is a surprising amount of admin when you die, so naturally you need a lot of gods to deal with it. Join us as we explore the multitude of gods from polytheistic religions that help usher you to the afterlife and deal with the paperwork. Thanks for listening! Give in to your morbid curiosity and join us. Get in touch on Instagram Hosts - Andy Bush and Brian Murphy Producer Dane Smith Production Company - Lock It In Studio Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
S1 E10 · Wed, February 05, 2025
Bubonic Plague
Welcome to DEADPOD a weekly podcast about death. Death is a thing that touches all of our lives - it has scared, scarred and mesmerised throughout human history. Join Andy Bush and Brian Murphy as they embark on a journey to explore different aspects of death around the world, in history and pop culture and what it says about us. Whether it be murder mysteries, unsolved crimes, deceased technology, shock deaths in TV soaps or super crazy historical deaths, DEADPOD will satisfy your morbid curiousity. Bubonic Plague: Starting with the Black Death in 1346 and reappearing sporadically until the 1600s the Bubonic Plague really is one of the worst diseases known to humanity. Were rats really to blame though? Where did we get the word Quarantine from? Did the Mongols invent chemical warfare by firing plague victims off trebuchets into besieged castles? All this and more answered in this episode. Thanks for listening! Give in to your morbid curiosity and join us. Get in touch on Instagram Hosts - Andy Bush and Brian Murphy Producer Dane Smith Production Company - Lock It In Studio Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
S1 E9 · Wed, January 29, 2025
Famous Last Words
Welcome to DEADPOD a weekly podcast about death. Death is a thing that touches all of our lives - it has scared, scarred and mesmerised throughout human history. Join Andy Bush and Brian Murphy as they embark on a journey to explore different aspects of death around the world, in history and pop culture and what it says about us. Whether it be murder mysteries, unsolved crimes, deceased technology, shock deaths in TV soaps or super crazy historical deaths, DEADPOD will satisfy your morbid curiousity. Famous Last Words: "Et Tu Brute, My wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death, one or the other of us has to go & I'm just going outside I may be some time" - all brilliant final words. We'd all like to think that when we go, we'll impart some sort of cosmic wisdom destined to be repeated down the ages, but the reality can be far more mundane. In this episode Andy and Brian explore some of the lesser known final words of the great and the good. Thanks for listening! Give in to your morbid curiosity and join us. Get in touch on Instagram Hosts - Andy Bush and Brian Murphy Producer Dane Smith Production Company - Lock It In Studio Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
S1 E8 · Wed, January 22, 2025
Faking Your Own Death
Welcome to DEADPOD a weekly podcast about death. Death is a thing that touches all of our lives - it has scared, scarred and mesmerised throughout human history. Join Andy Bush and Brian Murphy as they embark on a journey to explore different aspects of death around the world, in history and pop culture and what it says about us. Whether it be murder mysteries, unsolved crimes, deceased technology, shock deaths in TV soaps or super crazy historical deaths, DEADPOD will satisfy your morbid curiousity. Faking Your Own Death: We’ve all thought about it. Whats the universal cure for Money troubles, relationship problems, or a reluctance to sit throught a nativity play. Yes, faking your own death. In this episode Andy & Brian discuss a legend of the pretending your dead game, John Darwin AKA The Canoe Man and a 18th Century merchant who attended his own funeral for a laugh. They also go down a bit of a cul-de-sac about the ‘Big Light’ and this week's historical death isn’t for the faint hearted. Thanks for listening! Give in to your morbid curiosity and join us. Get in touch on Instagram Hosts - Andy Bush and Brian Murphy Producer Dane Smith Production Company - Lock It In Studio Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
S1 E7 · Wed, January 15, 2025
Cheating the Grim Reaper?
Welcome to DEADPOD a weekly podcast about death. Death is a thing that touches all of our lives - it has scared, scarred and mesmerised throughout human history. Join Andy Bush and Brian Murphy as they embark on a journey to explore different aspects of death around the world, in history and pop culture and what it says about us. Whether it be murder mysteries, unsolved crimes, deceased technology, shock deaths in TV soaps or super crazy historical deaths, DEADPOD will satisfy your morbid curiousity. Cheating the Grim Reaper? This episode we talk about the possibility of extending your life or beating death altogether. Is Bryan Johnson (The Canadian tech billionaire, not the Geordie singer) on to something with his bizarre health regime. We also debunk the "Walt Disney Frozen Head" urban myth and explain why you definitely don't want to try the 'Brown-Séquard Elixir' to extend your life. Thanks for listening! Give in to your morbid curiosity and join us. Get in touch on Instagram Hosts - Andy Bush and Brian Murphy Producer Dane Smith Production Company - Lock It In Studio Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
S1 E6 · Wed, January 08, 2025
Ye Olde Executions
Welcome to DEADPOD a weekly podcast about death. Death is a thing that touches all of our lives - it has scared, scarred and mesmerised throughout human history. Join Andy Bush and Brian Murphy as they embark on a journey to explore different aspects of death around the world, in history and pop culture and what it says about us. Whether it be murder mysteries, unsolved crimes, deceased technology, shock deaths in TV soaps or super crazy historical deaths, DEADPOD will satisfy your morbid curiousity. Ye Olde Executions: Thankfully the majority of societies no longer hand out the death penalty but if you were unlucky enough to live in the distant past there were some strange ways to depart this mortal coil. In this episode we explore the Roman pratice of Poena Cullei which involved a sack and a collection of animals, and Schaphism which needed 2 boats and a load of milk and honey. Don't ask. Thanks for listening! Give in to your morbid curiosity and join us. Get in touch on Instagram Hosts - Andy Bush and Brian Murphy Producer Dane Smith Production Company - Lock It In Studio Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
S1 E5 · Thu, December 19, 2024
Ghosts
Welcome to DEADPOD a weekly podcast about death. Death is a thing that touches all of our lives - it has scared, scarred and mesmerised throughout human history. Join Andy Bush and Brian Murphy as they embark on a journey to explore different aspects of death around the world, in history and pop culture and what it says about us. Whether it be murder mysteries, unsolved crimes, deceased technology, shock deaths in TV soaps or super crazy historical deaths, DEADPOD will satisfy your morbid curiousity. Ghosts: We all love a bit of ghost action. Sheets over heads, transparent monks, Headless Horsemen, the lot. In this episode Andy and Brian discuss their favourite ghosts. Featuring the UKs most haunted house, CIA Ghost Hoaxes and not one but two poltergeists! Thanks for listening! Give in to your morbid curiosity and join us. Get in touch on Instagram Hosts - Andy Bush and Brian Murphy Producer Dane Smith Production Company - Lock It In Studio Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
S1 E4 · Wed, December 04, 2024
Movie Deaths
Welcome to DEADPOD a weekly podcast about death. Death is a thing that touches all of our lives - it has scared, scarred and mesmerised throughout human history. Join Andy Bush and Brian Murphy as they embark on a journey to explore different aspects of death around the world, in history and pop culture and what it says about us. Whether it be murder mysteries, unsolved crimes, deceased technology, shock deaths in TV soaps or super crazy historical deaths, DEADPOD will satisfy your morbid curiousity. Movie Deaths: We all have favourite movie deaths that stick with us for a reason. We might learn something, or it might set us off on a philosophical journey. In this week's episode the guys choose 3 each. In Andy's case its because he found them poignant and touching in some way. Unfortunately Brian misunderstood the brief and chose all his from action movies. Thanks for listening! Give in to your morbid curiosity and join us. Get in touch on Instagram Hosts - Andy Bush and Brian Murphy Producer Dane Smith Production Company - Lock It In Studio Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
S1 E3 · Wed, November 27, 2024
Heaven & Hell
Welcome to DEADPOD a weekly podcast about death. Death is a thing that touches all of our lives - it has scared, scarred and mesmerised throughout human history. Join Andy Bush and Brian Murphy as they embark on a journey to explore different aspects of death around the world, in history and pop culture and what it says about us. Whether it be murder mysteries, unsolved crimes, deceased technology, shock deaths in TV soaps or super crazy historical deaths, DEADPOD will satisfy your morbid curiousity. Heaven & Hell: Does Purgatory belong to heaven or hell? What is the allegory of the long spoons? Do dogs have a seperate heaven? Why is Julius Caesar in hell according to Dante and his Inferno? Find out the answer to all these questions in this episode of Deadpod where we explore heaven and hell. Thanks for listening! Give in to your morbid curiosity and join us. Get in touch on Instagram Hosts - Andy Bush and Brian Murphy Producer Dane Smith Production Company - Lock It In Studio Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
S1 E2 · Wed, November 20, 2024
Reanimation: Frankenstein & Zombies
Welcome to DEADPOD a weekly podcast about death. Death is a thing that touches all of our lives - it has scared, scarred and mesmerised throughout human history. Join Andy Bush and Brian Murphy as they embark on a journey to explore different aspects of death around the world, in history and pop culture and what it says about us. Whether it be murder mysteries, unsolved crimes, deceased technology, shock deaths in TV soaps or super crazy historical deaths, DEADPOD will satisfy your morbid curiousity. "Reanimation: Frankenstein & Zombies" Ever since humans have told each other stories they’ve been fascinated with the undead and reanimation of corpses. In this episode we take a look at one of the first stories of the undead ever, Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein. We also explore the start of zombie lore and this week’s historical death includes a Greek Playwright and a massive tortoise. Thanks for listening! Give in to your morbid curiosity and join us. Get in touch on Instagram Hosts - Andy Bush and Brian Murphy Production Company - Lock It In Studio Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
S1 E1 · Wed, November 13, 2024
Human Sacrifice, Landlines & the Hammersmith Ghost
Welcome to DEADPOD a weekly podcast about death. Death is a thing that touches all of our lives - it has scared, scarred and mesmerised throughout human history. Join Andy Bush and Brian Murphy as they embark on a journey to explore different aspects of death around the world, in history and pop culture and what it says about us. Whether it be murder mysteries, unsolved crimes, deceased technology, shock deaths in TV soaps or super crazy historical deaths, DEADPOD will satisfy your morbid curiosity. In episode one, Bush & Brian tackle the thorny issue of Human Sacrifice, an historical rollercoaster that covers everything from different cultural views of the afterlife, to Mayan sink holes and Viking Bloodeagles. They also lament the imminent end for one of the home’s most iconic communication devices and learn about the Hammersmith Ghost. Give in to your morbid curiosity and join us. Get in touch on Instagram Hosts - Andy Bush and Brian Murphy Production Company - Lock It In Studio Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Trailer · Tue, November 05, 2024
DEADPOD - COMING SOON
Welcome to DEADPOD - a weekly podcast about death. Death is a thing that touches all of our lives - it’s a big part of world culture but often taboo to talk about. Join Andy Bush and Brian Murphy as they explore all sides of death from famous deaths in TV soap operas, to villainous deaths in popular fiction, dead technology, strange burial rituals in ancient civilisations and incredibly weird historical deaths. Give in to your morbid curiosity and join us. Get in touch on Instagram Hosts - Andy Bush and Brian Murphy Production Company - Lock It In Studio Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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