Goose Chase Podcast

Episode 51: Wisdom from the Whiz Palace

Tonight, we're talking about pee.  Really. Fair warning, if you're grossed out now, it's only gonna get worse. People try to treat all kinds of health conditions with urine as a means of therapy, including some really commonly shared folk remedies. But is there anything to it? We try to filter the bad stuff from the good stuff and pass along the remaining material to you. Get it? It's pee. It's all pee. Goose chase!

Episode 50: The Mysterious Death of Natalie Wood

Tonight we talk about Natalie Wood, an actress of some acclaim who drowned under mysterious circumstances in November of 1981. Despite that being 3 and a half decades ago, people still have lots to say. We do our best to sort the facts from the tabloid gossip and arrive at what may have happened, but it's a tough nut to crack. Things are often not quite as simple as they seem and this story appears to be no different. 

Episode 49: Thoreau Was a Big Fat Faker

This week we have our special guests Laura and TJ back to talk about the truly unbelievable tale of the North Pond Hermit. What begins as a confusing series of items going missing slowly escalates, causing a small vacation community to look over their shoulders. The mystery, pursuit, and eventual explanation are truly staggering, and made us question the limits of what people are capable of. Henry David Thoreau can suck an egg.  Goose Chase!

Episode 48: The Biggest Belly Flop in Video Game History

This week we talk with special guests Ben and Aubrey about the hype and collapse behind Daikatana, the game by id software's legendary John Romero. Hot on the heels of years of success in making Doom and Quake, John Romero set out to make something big. Too big.  Way too big, it turns out, and the hype machine, delay, and eventual release of Daikatana turn into a cautionary tale for developers for years to come. 

Episode 47: Bad Canadians and Good TV

This week we're talking about the Montreal Screwjob, the most definining moment in professional wrestling of our short lifetimes, with our special guest Chris! Chris is one of the biggest wrestling buffs we know and he's here to give us the context, the setup, and the fallout of an event which is still heavily disputed and the echoes of which are still felt in the business today. 

Episode 46: The Michigosh Dogmoosh

This week we're back to cryptids! Specifically, something called the Michigan Dog Man. A legend from the heart of the mitten, we explore some historical stories, the popularization of the dog man, and another cryptid which may be a close relative. 

Episode 45: Hold On to Your Butts

This week we talk about an intestinal parasite called the rope worm. By the sounds of some people talking about it, it sounds pretty serious. Causes all kinds of health problems? Literally everyone is infected with one? Gotta get rid of that, right? Maybe not so much, as we find, going down a whole bunch of sidestreets and alleys down a very twisty turny goose chase. 

Episode 44: Up to our Eyeballs in Goop

This week we talk about the lifestyle blog that has so widely polarized people, the omnipresent Goop. Once widely ridiculed for being a bit too rich for the average person's blood, Goop has gone from a mailing list to a blog to a small scale media empire, with products and retail shops and lots on offer. We wade through some of its influencers, its founder, its core beliefs and the philosophies at the heart of it all to make sense of all this goop. 

Episode 43: There's Gold in Them Thar Hills!

This week, we have our very first real life Goose Chase. Last week, when we took a week off the podcast, Dave was out exploring the west in search of an honest-to-god hidden treasure. We discuss the long-running mystery of Fenn's Treasure, a true hidden treasure placed by a guy who is still around to tell the tale, and Dave's quest through the Rocky Mountains to unearth its $1-2 million worth of contents.

Episode 42: The John Wick of Antivirus Protection

This week we're talking about John McAfee, whose name you know from that thing that won't leave your computer, like, ever. The founder of the eponymous software has led, let's say, a strange life, especially this last decade. This is a story of going into the jungle to discover who you really are.