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Jess & Hids Make A PodcastBEKs And One Complete PsychicSend us a textIn a rare turn of events, Hids kicks the episode off this week! They're sharing the possible urban legend of Black Eyed Kids! Are they just a viral story or are the reported encounters real? Are they aliens? (It's always aliens.) We take a look at the alleged original encounter in 1996, but also talk about some historical mentions of children with black eyes. You can decide if you think they're real or not, but whatever you do, if a strange child shows up and demands to be let inside your home or car...2025-06-051h 42Jess & Hids Make A PodcastDon't Lose Your Head When You Hear The Earth FartSend us a textJess kicks off this episode (again) with a fascinating discussion on the phenomena of sky trumpets! You'll have to decide if it's an actual audio phenomenon or just an internet hoax!Update: Hids might have heard a similar sound while in Texas!!!!Note: We didn't have time to record an intro to each sound clip. During the episode we have recordings from the following areas in order: Beijing, Indonesia, Japan, Kiev, Oklahoma, and Saskatchewan.Hids tells the odd tale of Mike, the Headless Chicken. Mike was meant for...2025-05-291h 28Jess & Hids Make A PodcastIn The Peak Of Their Prime At The Same TimeSend us a textThis episode has a lot of synchronicities that surprised us both! Jess kicks it off with her discussion on Frank Lloyd Wright. We are both in love with his architectural style...but not so much with the man himself. While an obvious genius in his chosen field, he's not a great guy and Jess gets into a few reasons why as we talk about some highlights of his life and career.Hids talks about Nikola Tesla, also a genius in his field but with a much more likable character than M...2025-05-221h 37Jess & Hids Make A PodcastThe Line Between Cure And Kill With Bobby LasagnaSend us a textJess and Hids both get on some FBI watchlist somewhere... Jess gives a rundown on the history of poison gardens, lists some plants to watch out for on your walks or in your own gardens, and finds an interesting person to cover in a future episode!Hids dives into what little information is available about Area 51, which is definitely NOT a top secret airbase but is absolutely highly classified and restricted now that the government has actually acknowledged its existence... Are there aliens and alien spacecrafts hidden inside? We can't confirm...2025-05-151h 39Jess & Hids Make A PodcastIf We Say DB Cooper Three Times In A Mirror, Can We Summon All That Money?Send us a textTurn off the lights, look in the mirror....chant 'Bloody Mary' three times....Jess dives into an urban legend: Blood Mary! Did you ever try this when you had a sleepover? Hids takes on the case of Dan 'D.B.' Cooper, the only unsolved hijacking case in the history of commercial aviation!Welcome aboard, find your seats and prepare for takeoff!Support the showFor images and sources, head to our website!jessandhids.com/podcast2025-05-081h 39Jess & Hids Make A PodcastThe Mirror Mafia And The House Of BurtSend us a textDid you know that celery was once a prized table centerpiece and a symbol of just how wealthy and bougie you were? Did you also know there was (allegedly) a Venetian Mirror Mafia? Hids dives into things that were once only available to the incredibly wealthy but were later considered common and for the masses. Jess discusses Burt Shonberg, one of the pioneers of the psychedelic art era of the 1960s who's surrealistic art was featured in the Vincent Price film, The House of Usher. We do have a trigger warning h...2025-05-011h 40Jess & Hids Make A PodcastA Single Red Rose For The Tan Suit ManSend us a textThis week, Jess talks to us about Floriography, or the language of flowers. Not the same language we talked about in last weeks episode with screaming daffodils though, this one is all about the meaning of flowers and how what flowers you send in a bouquet or singly can have very specific meanings!Hids takes a little dive into some psychological phenomena when they discuss the Third Man Factor, or Third Person Syndrome. Do our brains craft a presence for us when we are in a traumatic or extremely dangerous situation...2025-04-241h 48Jess & Hids Make A PodcastGetting To Know You, Getting To Know All About You...Send us a textWe did something a little different with this episode and played a very ADHD version of 21 Questions with each other!We used a Teen Vogue list that you can find HERE, with additional questions from various other Teen Vogue articles linked at the bottom of that page.Feel free to send us a message with YOUR answers!Support the showFor images and sources, head to our website!jessandhids.com/podcast2025-04-171h 34Jess & Hids Make A PodcastDon't Be Scared, Abe, Kate Has Your BackSend us a textThis week Hids gets to talk about an awesome woman from history! Kate Warne was the first female detective in the US and we seriously wish there was more information available about her! Jess talks to us about phobias and the different types and causes for why we fear what we fear!Support the showFor images and sources, head to our website!jessandhids.com/podcast2025-04-101h 38Jess & Hids Make A PodcastA Meadow Of Mimics And Tree TallsSend us a textY'all.... this one is hands down one of our favorites!Jess dives into a fantastic conspiracy theory that has Hids second guessing everything, and Hids talks about a cryptid that has very little information and may be a small conspiracy theory of its own!We hope you enjoy this episode, released to our Patrons on April 1st.Support the showFor images and sources, head to our website!jessandhids.com/podcast2025-04-031h 28Jess & Hids Make A PodcastA Very Not-Dry Episode...AllegedlySend us a textHids kicks off this episode with a dive into the alleged life and death of Joan Wytte from Bodmin, Cornwall, UK.Then Jess talks about logomisia, or word aversion. Heads up, if certain words make you cringe, you might struggle a bit with this section, but it's still fascinating so we hope you keep listening!Support the showFor images and sources, head to our website!jessandhids.com/podcast2025-03-271h 26Jess & Hids Make A PodcastIn Lieu Of An Episode... Have Some Warm Embers Instead!Send us a textBecause life is crazy at the moment, we decided to postpone our next episode! We want to make sure we're giving you quality stuff that isn't haphazardly thrown together while we're both stressed about other things!BUT, we did want to share some warm embers with you, and talk about all the fun we're gonna have in April!! We're SO excited!Support the showFor images and sources, head to our website!jessandhids.com/podcast2025-03-2024 minJess & Hids Make A PodcastLet's Talk About The Birds And The... Fu Dogs?Send us a text#NotACryptid - We both learned new things this week as Jess takes us on a little trip to ancient China and the history of the Fu Dogs! We initially thought these were in the 'mythological beast' category but we found out they are really just lions.Hids takes us down under to Australia in 1932. Soldiers are coming home from the war and being given wheat farms, but a new battle arises. This one is against a very wary adversary: the emu! In a strange turn of events, a battalion of the...2025-03-131h 17Jess & Hids Make A PodcastIs There A Slang Word For Stilts?Send us a textJess discusses the stilt walking shepherds of France, and Hids discusses a bit of the history of slang!Support the showFor images and sources, head to our website!jessandhids.com/podcast2025-03-061h 23Jess & Hids Make A PodcastADHD-Z Bread After Pie SessionSend us a textHids lost her voice! Sadly, we couldn't get a new episode out for you all this week, but we decided to release one of our Patreon-exclusive After Pie Sessions instead! (Head to Patreon for more information about that perk!)We hope you enjoy!Support the showFor images and sources, head to our website!jessandhids.com/podcast2025-02-271h 15Jess & Hids Make A PodcastRaven Riffs! Swamp Thing (1982)Send us a textWe didn't plan to have another Raven Riff so soon, but here we are! Travel time and some extra work hours pushed back our recording sessions and we had this one in our pocket ready to go.We really had fun watching this one. It's a 1982 classic from Wes Craven. There's a lot of campy stuff, but it's a fun romp through the bayous of Texas and good and bad prosthetic work.Support the showFor images and sources, head to our website!...2025-02-201h 40Jess & Hids Make A PodcastMushroom Rodeos And A.I. HopesSend us a textIn this week's episode, Jess takes us back to the mountains of Western North Carolina, a place that Hids knows and loves so well! We talk about the mysterious Brown Mountain Lights...are they spirits, aliens, mushrooms, or trains?Hids tackles a subject that's been on everyone's mind that past few years: Artificial Intelligence, or AI. We could honestly have multiple episodes on the vast amount of information, but for now, we do a brief discussion of the timeline of AI, and what some of the hopes are...2025-02-131h 24Jess & Hids Make A PodcastQuestionable Science And Squonk BiologySend us a textIn this episode, Jess touches on the three different types of hair forensics, and Hids introduces us to our first cryptid, the Squonk!Support the showFor images and sources, head to our website!jessandhids.com/podcast2025-02-061h 26Jess & Hids Make A PodcastThe Ultimate Sneak Attack And Our New ObsessionSend us a textJess gets all the women! In this episode she talks about the Night Witches of World War 2, a group of Russian female pilots and mechanics that ran impossible missions against all odds.Hids shifts gears and talks about sports. Yeah, it's weird for us to talk about sports, but we are kind of obsessed with Kabaddi! It's an ancient game from India that is now played professionally around the world!Support the showFor images and sources, head to our website!jessandhids.com/podcast2025-01-301h 20Jess & Hids Make A PodcastRaven Riffs! Treasure Of The Four CrownsSend us a textEvery so often, we're going to be dropping a movie 'review' of sorts instead of our typical podcast episode. This is where we riff on and discuss some wonderfully cheesy movie from the past, and then we'll give it a Raven Rating!This week we're talking about Treasure of the Four Crowns. This movie was filmed in 3D and oh buddy, they definitely did alllllll the 'comin' at ya' shots they could squeeze in!Support the showFor images and sources, head to...2025-01-231h 28Jess & Hids Make A PodcastYo Ho Ho And A Bottle Of...Beans?Send us a textFrom the high seas to a cave somewhere in Greece, this episode dives into the myths and realities of the lives of pirates, and then we learn a little bit about math and the ancient philosopher/mathematician/musician/teacher etc., etc.: Pythagoras!Support the showFor images and sources, head to our website!jessandhids.com/podcast2025-01-161h 30Jess & Hids Make A PodcastWho Would Win In A Fight? A Kodiak Bear Or Katie?Send us a textHids gives us a quick look at some of the amazing things Alaska has to offer and Jess returns with another badass woman: Katie Sandwina!Support the showFor images and sources, head to our website!jessandhids.com/podcast2025-01-091h 29Jess & Hids Make A PodcastMillions Of Books But Only Two GunsSend us a textThis one turned out to be the travel episode! Hids takes us around the world on a quick bookish tour featuring Jinbocho, Tokyo, Japan, then to other bookish sites around the globe.Jess takes us just an hour from our hometown to the ghost town of Two Guns, Arizona.(Hey! It's Jess! I'm so sorry for completely forgetting to add a little trigger warning about the Death Caves. The story is gruesome and, while I try not to give gory details, if you're sensitive to violent and tragic stories, you...2025-01-021h 19Jess & Hids Make A PodcastOf Suffragettes and SquidsSend us a textIn this episode Jess takes us up some of the highest peaks with the amazing Annie Smith Peck and Hids takes us the opposite direction, diving into shallow coastal waters of the Pacific to meet the adorable Bobtail Squid!Support the showFor images and sources, head to our website!jessandhids.com/podcast2024-12-261h 29Jess & Hids Make A PodcastDelightfully Daring Dolly Dazzles In Her Precipitous Parachuting ProfessionSend us a textIn this episode, Jess talks about Dolly Shepherd, an amazing woman who was the first female parachutist! Hearing about the incredible lack of safety equipment at the time just makes her that much more awesome and inspiring!Hids dives into tongue twisters and hilarity ensues! Do you have a favorite tongue twister?Support the showFor images and sources, head to our website!jessandhids.com/podcast2024-12-191h 37Jess & Hids Make A PodcastIt's All Bad... Blame The DemogorgonSend us a textIn this episode, Jess talks about the Benin Walls, which were four times longer than the Great Wall of China! She also discusses some of the dark history around Benin City in Nigeria.Hids starts to talk about Lake Issyk Kul in Kyrgyzstan, but ends up taking a detour north to the Dyatlov Pass in the Ural Mountains. We'd like to visit Lake Issyk Kul, but there's a bit too much mystery (and freezing cold snow) around Dyatlov Pass!Support the showFor images and sources, head...2024-12-121h 30Jess & Hids Make A PodcastLittle Yule Punks (But Someone Please Feed Spoonlicker!)Send us a textIn this episode, Hiddles attempts to take a deep dive into 'punk punks' but ends up barely skimming the surface of the wide variety of subcultures within subcultures! Learn a bit about Decopunk, Biopunk, Solarpunk, Hopepunk, and more!Jess reads a bit of Icelandic poetry and tells us the somewhat benign, maybe a little creepy tales of the Yule Lads! We still feel sorry for little Spoonlicker!For sources and pictures, head over to our website! JessAndHids.com/PodcastSupport the showFor images and sources...2024-12-051h 29Jess & Hids Make A PodcastLiving My Best Brain Life In A Wildflower BogSend us a textSURPRISE!!! We decided to drop episode 2 a week early!!In this episode, Hids talks about Aphantasia, a fascinating condition that only affects about 2-4% of people.Jess takes us back in time to the early 1900s and the creation of the first public wildflower garden by Eloise Butler.For sources and pics, head over to our website!https://jessandhids.com/podcastSupport the showFor images and sources, head to our website!jessandhids.com/podcast2024-11-281h 22Jess & Hids Make A PodcastJohannes Factotum And A Super Spish Devilish RomanticSend us a textIn our first episode, Jess talks about commonly misused sayings like "curiosity killed the cat" and "Jack of all trades". Hids takes us on a wild ride with the story of James Addison Peralta-Reavis, the Baron of Arizona! Well... he tried to be a Baron...Head over to our website for the links to the sources we used!JessAndHids.comSupport the showFor images and sources, head to our website!jessandhids.com/podcast2024-11-211h 26Jess & Hids Make A PodcastComing Soon... WE HAVE A PODCAST!!Send us a textWe are so excited to announce that we are OFFICIALLY launching our podcast!! Look for Jess & Hids Make A Podcast on your favorite podcasting site or app on November 21st!Support the showFor images and sources, head to our website!jessandhids.com/podcast2024-10-2902 min