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Bittersweet Infamy

Bittersweet Infamy

By: Josie Mitchell + Taylor Basso
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 Episode 138 coming the week of Feb. 15! 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
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  • #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
  • #137 - Divorced, Beheaded, Died...

    #137 - Divorced, Beheaded, Died...
    Feb 1 2026

    Season six premiere! Taylor tells Josie about the temperamental Tudor King of England, Henry VIII, and his six ill-fated wives: Catherine of Aragon, Anne Boleyn, Jane Seymour, Anne of Cleves, Catherine Howard, and Catherine Parr.
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    1 hr and 46 mins
  • #136 - Merry Mitchmas!

    #136 - Merry Mitchmas!
    Dec 24 2025

    Josie Margaret Mitchell, Taylor Mitchell Basso, and guest host Mitchell Charles Collins ring in Mitchmas, a made-up holiday celebrating people named Mitchell, by exchanging infamous stories—including a compendium of psychic pets, the surprising history of Christmas tree tinsel, and how a song that came to its writer in a nightmare became Natalie Imbruglia's 1997 smash hit "Torn."
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    1 hr and 26 mins
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