HeyJaredM⁴: Medicine, Mystery, Mayhem... and Sometimes Murder
Hosted by two seasoned RNs with over 45 years of combined experience and a friendship nearly as long, the M⁴ Podcast dives into the strange, shocking, and sometimes spine-chilling side of medicine.
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Ep. 53: Knocking On Heaven's Door (opens the original)
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People who've survived a near-death experience often describe the same things: a tunnel, a bright light, a sense of peace, even a "life review." But what if some of these experiences aren't happening at the edge of death at all, and instead are happening in the brain during a seizure? This week Andrea dives into the eerie overlap between post-ictal states and near-death experiences, tracing the neuroscience of what happens in the brain right after a seizure and asking a genuinely unsettling ques
Ep. 52: Fart Song (opens the original)
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He turned a childhood beach accident into the most bizarre stage career in French history — and became the highest-paid entertainer in Paris doing it. In this episode, Crystal takes Andrea through the strange, true story of Joseph Pujol, the 19th-century performer who discovered he had absolute voluntary control over a part of his anatomy most people never think about twice. From his early days as a baker in Marseille to his sold-out shows at the Moulin Rouge — where he reportedly out-earned Sar
Ep. 51: Cream (opens the original)
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Dr. Thomas Neill Cream trained as a doctor, and he used every bit of that training to hurt the people who trusted him most. As nurses, we've seen what it means to hold someone's life in your hands. Cream held that same trust and used it as a weapon, poisoning patients across two continents while the medical establishment looked the other way. In this episode, Andrea walks us through how he got away with it for so long, the string of victims most people have never heard of, and the twisted claim
Ep. 50: I See a Bad Moon Rising (opens the original)
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A blue diamond mailed through the regular postal service. A pharaoh's tomb blamed for deaths that had nothing to do with him. A Porsche that vanished from a locked trailer. A Raggedy Ann doll two student nurses swore was moving on its own. This week Crystal and Andrea go owner by owner, deathbed by deathbed, through history's most famous "cursed" objects, and dig into what's actually killing people versus what's just an excellent sales pitch. Spoiler: one jeweler wrote a curse clause into an act
Ep. 49: Then I Saw Her Face (opens the original)
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Most people can barely recall a stranger's face after a few minutes. Then there are the outliers, the small slice of the population who can pick a face out of a crowd years later, from a single glimpse, even through disguises. We dig into the research on super recognizers: how scientists identify them, what's happening differently in their brains, and how police departments and border agencies have started recruiting them as real investigative tools. It's a rare case where a "superpower" isn't s
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