Episodes

  • Bubonic Plague
    Feb 5 2025

    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.

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    Hosts -⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Andy Bush⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ and⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Brian Murphy⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠

    Producer⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Dane Smith⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠

    Production Company -⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Lock It In Studio⁠⁠

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    40 mins
  • Famous Last Words
    Jan 29 2025

    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.

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    Hosts -⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Andy Bush⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ and⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Brian Murphy⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠

    Producer⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Dane Smith⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠

    Production Company -⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Lock It In Studio⁠⁠

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    39 mins
  • Faking Your Own Death
    Jan 22 2025

    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.

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    Hosts - ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Andy Bush⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ and ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Brian Murphy⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠

    Producer ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Dane Smith⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠

    Production Company - ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Lock It In Studio⁠⁠

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    35 mins
  • Cheating the Grim Reaper?
    Jan 15 2025

    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.

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    Hosts - ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Andy Bush⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ and ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Brian Murphy⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠

    Producer ⁠⁠⁠⁠Dane Smith⁠⁠⁠⁠

    Production Company - ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Lock It In Studio⁠⁠

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    38 mins
  • Ye Olde Executions
    Jan 8 2025

    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.

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    Hosts - ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Andy Bush⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ and ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Brian Murphy⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠

    Producer ⁠⁠⁠Dane Smith⁠⁠⁠

    Production Company - ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Lock It In Studio⁠⁠

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    41 mins
  • Ghosts
    Dec 19 2024

    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!

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    Hosts - ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Andy Bush⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ and ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Brian Murphy⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠

    Producer ⁠⁠Dane Smith⁠⁠

    Production Company - ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Lock It In Studio⁠⁠

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    39 mins
  • Movie Deaths
    Dec 4 2024

    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.

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    Hosts - ⁠⁠⁠⁠Andy Bush⁠⁠⁠⁠ and ⁠⁠⁠⁠Brian Murphy⁠⁠⁠⁠

    Producer ⁠Dane Smith⁠

    Production Company - ⁠⁠⁠⁠Lock It In Studio⁠⁠

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    43 mins
  • Heaven & Hell
    Nov 27 2024

    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.

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    Hosts - ⁠⁠⁠Andy Bush⁠⁠⁠ and ⁠⁠⁠Brian Murphy⁠⁠⁠

    Producer Dane Smith

    Production Company - ⁠⁠⁠Lock It In Studio⁠


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    46 mins