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Bittersweet Infamy

Bittersweet Infamy

By: Josie Mitchell + Taylor Basso
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New episode coming the week of March 22! Storytellers and best friends Josie Mitchell and Taylor Basso share the stories that live on in infamy: the strange and the familiar, the tragic and the comic—the bitter and the sweet. New episodes (usually) every other Sunday on the 604 Podcast Network! Support the show: ko-fi.com/bittersweetinfamy2020-2025 Josie Mitchell + Taylor Basso Social Sciences World
Episodes
  • #140 - F for Flamin' Hot

    #140 - F for Flamin' Hot
    Mar 26 2026

    Josie tells Taylor about the spicy history of one of America's favourite snack foods, Flamin' Hot Cheetos—and how the brand's well-known rags-to-riches origin story may actually be a flamin' hot fraud.
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    1 hr and 35 mins
  • #139 - Invasion of the Iceworm

    #139 - Invasion of the Iceworm
    Mar 4 2026

    Taylor tells Josie about Camp Century, the U.S. military's once-innovative, now-abandoned science base in northwestern Greenland—and how it was merely a cover for Project Iceworm, a top-secret Cold War plan to hide hundreds of nuclear weapons within the Greenland Ice Sheet.
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    1 hr and 42 mins
  • #138 - Do Not Pass Go, Do Not Collect $200

    #138 - Do Not Pass Go, Do Not Collect $200
    Feb 21 2026

    Josie tells Taylor about the hidden history of the classic board game Monopoly, and how Parker Brothers covered up its unlikely roots as the anti-monopolist polemic, The Landlord's Game.
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    1 hr and 35 mins
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