Best Tasty Pages Podcasts (2025)

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Episode 68 - The Gut Brain Axis | CVST, CRVO, Splanchnic Thrombosis and Other Rare Clots 50:35

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We're nearly out of pipes to clean - Join us for the world's worst roadtrip we venture into the lesser known parts of human plumbing and tackle unusual site thromboembolism. From splanchnic clots, uterine and testicular thrombi it's clots as far as the eye can see (and those it can't like CRVO!) Timestamps: 0:58 - ROADTRIP 4:07 - CVST 11:07 - CVST …

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Episode 67 - Skin Deep | Superficial Thrombophlebitis 19:37

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It's said that beauty is skin deep but you know what else lurks just under your epithelium - CLOTS! Nick, Cale and Bashar head very slightly under our outer layer to the peripheral vasculature in this increasing tortured metaphor as we learn on our shortest episode to date about what to do when those not so deep vessels fill with thrombus. Timestam…

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7.13 | True Halloween Horror: Basement Portals, Séance Scares, and the Hat Man Returns! 1:53:57

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It's Trick-or-Treat time in the Belief Hole, gang! And that can only mean one thing: another installment of "It Happened on Halloween"! Tonight we hear tangy true tales of a wiener dog demon mimic, a snake-eyed black basement “cat” rocking a chair with unnatural power, and angels holding the line against a "portal to hell" in the basement! From a S…

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Episode 66 - In The Lab: D-Lightful | The D-Dimer 37:04

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D-ismayed by D-readful D-ressing D-owns by your D-emonstrably D-eplorable registrar? . Join de Bloody Minded Crew for a Tour D-Force of D-Dimer D-rama as we D-issect and D-iscuss this most D-ifficult of D-iagnostic tests! Timestamps 2:14 - What is a D-Dimer and where does it come from? 6:57 - FXIII and D-Dimer 7:49 - Fibrinolysis and other degradat…

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E14: The Ritual 2:15:48

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Join us for our 14th episode as we discuss The Ritual by Adam Nevill. This horror novel follows a group of men hiking through the Swedish woods. Their holiday quickly goes downhill as they stumble upon several unsettling entities that make them question going on this adventure in the first place. Will this camping trip lead to their demise? You’ll …

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Episode 65 - Take Your Breath Away | Pulmonary Embolism 46:22

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“Give me a 2cc bolus of clot stat Emma. No wait - not there!” But it was too late, and Em-Bolused the 2cc of clot straight to the lungs”. Join the Bloody Minded Crew as they get to the heart… no get to the lungs of the topic of Pulmonary Embolism. VanQuish the V/Q and CriTically aPprAise the CTPA with these acronyms that are just as bad as a cardio…

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Episode 64 - Never Skip Leg Day | Lower and Upper Limb Venous Thromboembolism 47:36

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Calves, thighs, arms and more, Clots can form inside them all! Join your hosts Cale, Bashar and Nick as they take a deep (hah) dive into the nitty-gritty things you should know about managing DVTs of the extremities TIMESTAMPS 0:54 - Intro to Extremity Clots 3:49 - Veins of the Lower Limb 5:54 - History & Exam Lower Limb 10:54 - Phlegmasias 15:52 -…

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7.12 | Skinwalkers: Southwest Witchcraft and Encounters on the Rez 1:46:02

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The American southwest is a land, scarred by blood, shaped by tradition, and steeped in magic. Here the ancient Navajo developed a powerful system of healing and protection, but in dark desert canyons, this sacred knowledge was corrupted, and an evil drifted in like a whistle on the wind. And they called it yee naaldlooshii - the Skinwalker.Join us…

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Episode 63 - Virchow’s Revenge | Introduction to Venous Thromboembolism 41:03

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Episode 62 - The Man in the High (Lymph Node) Castle | Castleman Disease 39:51

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Philip K. Dick once wrote, “Perhaps if you know you are insane then you are not insane. Or you are becoming sane, finally. Waking up.” Waking up, that is, not to the alternative history universe where the Axis won WWII but rather, to a new bonus episode on Castleman disease! Join Cale, Bashar and Nick as we explore one of Haem’s most zebra diagnose…

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E13: The Round House 2:25:39

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For our 13th episode of Liquor & Literature we are covering the 2012 award-winning book The Round House written by Louise Erdrich. This coming of age novel tells the story of Joe, a young boy living on a Chippewa reservation in North Dakota. Joe has to learn to grow up quickly after a horrible incident happens to his mother. Join us as we follow Jo…

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The Highest Strangeness: True Stories of the Ultra Bizarre (Previously Member Only) 1:16:19

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Welcome to an evening of the most unusual encounters you've never heard of! With the help of Author Richard Freemen's incredible compendium, we're going to be taking an expedition through time and across continents to explore some severely strange happenings. From alien-catfish UFO-nauts broken down on the highway, to Top-hat wearing Fox Demons inv…

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Episode 61 - On The Wards: BiTE Me and other T Cell Tasty Treats 53:12

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Have you stumbled onto the haematology ward only to discover patients on bizarrely named BiTE & CART therapy? Why are we giving patients CARTs? Do they come with a horse? Why does everyone freak out when these patients are febrile? Why is everyone so hung up about handwriting? What are these weird drugs? It's OK – we are here once more to demystify…

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7.11 | Camp Creeply 7: True Paranormal Camping Encounters and Backwoods Horror Stories 1:29:50

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Tonight we’re getting weird with some wild and unnerving true camping stories straight from the deep woods 🪵 From red eyes gliding over Tennessee waters and a slack‑jawed cave thing stalking the Oklahoma woods, to tapping and tinkling tent fingers in haunted Utah—join us, dear Belieflings, on a camping trip into the truly strange with these true li…

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Episode 60 - Twenty Pages About Basophils | Approach to Basophilia 26:15

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Bamboozled by basophils bountiful booty of granules? Let’s begin brilliantly with a basophil based bonanza. Buckets and buckets of brazenly basophil related bonus banter. You beauty! But, beware the bawdy, boisterous boys babbling brobdignagian-ly about BASOPHILS. It sounds better if you read it in Hugo Weaving’s voice and it’s the 5th of November …

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Poetry: Installment One 1:30:33

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For this episode of Liquor & Literature we will be discussing some notable poets that we have picked to focus on for our first installment on poetry! Join us as we learn about the lives of Nikita Gill, Robert Frost, and James Baldwin while reading selections of their work. With this being an xtrasode, we don’t have a specific drink pairing for this…

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Episode 59 - A Bad (eosino-)Feeling | Approach to Eosinophilia 31:26

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The mighty eosinophil had triumphed. The last parasitic worm lay vanquished beneath his granule-studded pseudopodia. For years, he’d battled helminthic scourge, a hero in mucus armor. But now, with no foes left to smite, he grew restless. He turned his sharp gaze to pollen, peanuts, and pet dander. "Troublemakers," he muttered, unsheathing his cyto…

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7.10 | Ohio's Area 51: Secrets from Peach Mountain 1:44:16

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The Ohio River Valley is a special place- a window area where sightings of bizarre cryptids and UFO encounters are unusually high. Discreetly positioned on the ridges of Peach Mountain is GE Peebles, a secretive propulsion testing facility. There have been allegations that this facility is, in fact, Ohio's Area 51, back-engineering exotic ET techno…

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Episode 58 - Not even my final form | Approach to Monocytes 24:33

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Put on your monocles and kimonos and hop on the monorail to our episode composed of monotonous monologues, monogamously dedicated to that most monolithic and sometimes monoclonal of mononucleated cells. We are monobviously talking about the monocyte. TIMESTAMPS 0:57 - Mono-Cyte! 2:50 - What is a monocyte? 4:20 - Monocyte subclasses 6:00 - Role of m…

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Episode 57 - Running on Fumes | Approach to Pancytopenia 47:46

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Behold the field in which I grow my cells and see that it is barren. It’s out of the frying pan and into the aplastic fire with not a cell in sight. Join Nick, Cale and Bashar without two neutrophils to rub together as we talk about an approach to that most concerning of FBC features - pancytopenia. TIMESTAMPS 2:22 - Definition of pancytopenia 4:23…

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7.9 | Appalachian Nightmares: Steve Stockton’s True Tales of Haunted Trails & Cursed Towns 1:49:28

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Join us as we journey deep into the haunted heart of Appalachia as we explore dangers lurking along the Appalachian Trail, the chilling mysteries of missing persons, phantom hitchhikers, and the infamous curse of Dudleytown, with legendary storyteller Steve Stockton. From tales of haunted schools and bewitched mirrors to seances and spiritual archi…

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Episode 56 - Lymph and Let Die | Approach to Lymphocytosis 43:29

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Once again the Bloody Minded Crew have ventured out of the lab to find and trap another haematology registrar from the wards and convince them to come back to the show and talk about cells. Join haematology registrar Dr Lise Kempler as she teaches the team about what to do when that lymphocyte number just creeps up and up and up. TIMESTAMPS 2:34 - …

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Episode 55 - Too much of a good thing | Approaching Neutrophilia 31:13

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Whilst most of haematology is spent looking forlornly into the empty neutrophil cupboard like old Mother Hubbard post chemotherapy, the pendulum can also swing to the other extreme. Join us as we unpack the reactive and not-so-reactive causes of a neutrophilia so you don’t get too left-shifted on the wards. TIMESTAMPS 2:18 - Apologies to the Welsh …

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E12: Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark 1:47:34

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To every millennial’s delight, this episode of Liquor & Literature will be discussing Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark! This childhood favorite intrigued and unsettled millions of children. Very rarely could you check these books out at the library, as they were so popular! On the off chance your friend was able to get their hands on these creepy …

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7.8 | Nights of the Gargoyle! Fear Eaters, Dream Invaders & the Pop-Open House | SLS 32 1:41:35

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In this collection of true paranormal listener accounts, we meet a giant hand that saves a kid from a tragic cliffside fate, dream-invading astral travelers, low-rent gargoyles creeping on apartment candelabras, the disembodied patrons of an Alaskan tavern and more! So tonight.. hunker down, watch the wood line, and whatever you do, don’t... poke..…

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Episode 54 - You and What Army? | Approach to Neutropenia 34:39

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A lone neutrophil stands alone against a horde of gram negative bacteria. He is the last of his kind, the single granulocyte rising from the ashes of a marrow once verdant with haematopoiesis, now overrun with blasts. As the endotoxin rushes towards him, he smiles, for on the horizon he can see the glimmer of tazocin rushing through the blood vesse…

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Episode 53 - PlateLOTS | Approaching Thrombocytosis 34:05

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There’s a problem with billionaires at the moment. Every day, you make a hundred billion platelets. For some in our society, even that colossal quantity isn’t nearly enough. They strive ever onward for even more. Unfettered platelet production all the time forever - after all the number can only go up. But mo’ platelets leads to mo’ problems. Go on…

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Ohio Night Siege: 1981's Terrifying UFO and Bigfoot Invasion (Member's Episode) 1:30:17

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In Rome Township, 1981, the summer sky was illuminated by bizarre lights, terrible screams, and the crack and boom of desperate gunfire echoing like thunder in the distance. Journey with us back in time — when a quiet Ohio summer night was shattered by a multi-night siege, as a family found themselves under attack by horrific creatures, shadow enti…

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Episode 52 - Scraping the barrel | Approach to thrombocytopenia 46:36

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Are you a platelet that has been conjugated to an antibody? Sequestered in a spleen? Diluted out by too much saline? Had your precious gold stolen from you? Then you might be entitled to thrombensation! Listen to this episode to learn how we can help YOU approach thrombocytopenia. TIMESTAMPS 2:23 - Striking gold where you least expect it 4:40 - Def…

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Episode 51 - Seeing Red | Approaching Erythrocytosis 46:06

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Our half empty cup from last week has now runneth over! If having low red cells is a bad thing, then having an extremely high amount must be a good thing, right? WRONG! Join the Bloody Minded Crew as we explore what happens when we’re on the other side of that Goldilocks zone of red cells. Remember that episode of the Simpsons where they try and fo…

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7.7 | Haunted Hawaii: Ancient Curses and Dark Magic 1:48:16

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🌋 Aloha! Join us tonight for a summer island getaway into the strange for tales of Ancient Sorcery and encounters with Dark Magic in the haunted and beautiful lands of Hawaii. From phantasmic night marchers patrolling their sacred routes to Kahuna sorcerers who craft murderous fireballs powered by spirits of the dead, we’ll uncover allegedly truly …

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E11: Kindred 2:25:45

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In this episode of Liquor & Literature we discuss the breakthrough novel, Kindred, written by Octavia E. Butler. Join us as we follow the main character, Dana, as she is transported back to 1815 where she comes face-to-face with the origin story of her ancestors. Be sure to mix yourself up a cocktail/mocktail for this month’s drink pairing and list…

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Episode 50 - Washed Out | Approach to Anaemia 59:32

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All that blood study making you faint, fatigued and short of breath? Well, you might be anaemic but how can we tell why? Join us on our first expedition of this season of highs and lows as we take apart the full blood count one episode at a time. Let’s start with an approach to a cup half-empty of blood - anaemia! TIMESTAMPS 2:10 - The Motto of Hae…

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Episode 49 - In The Lab: Easy as 1-2-3 | Performing a FBC 50:29

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Learning to count is hard. Learning to count cells is harder. Luckily we've got an expert with us today to show us the basics. Welcome back to a new batch of episodes where we unpack the highs and lows of haematology and teach you what to do with those pesky out of range blood counts. But to do that we need to know where the numbers come from. We d…

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7.6 | Strange Listener Stories 31: Monsters at the Door 1:34:42

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🔥The time has come! Get cozy with a libation of your choice, and join us for the premiere of Strange Listener Stories 31! This edition into the archive is packed with sincerely strange encounters- from imposter tricksters whispering through cabin doors and ghosts in the urn, to plane crash premonitions and NDE induced interdimensional travel! 🔥GET …

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Episode 48 - On The Wards: HELP! I need somebody! | Consulting Haematology 55:04

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Have you been asked to call for a Haematology consult and are now considering hiding in a toilet? Never fear! You can listen to this podcast from the hospital bathroom AND learn some fantastic tips and tricks to help us help you! Dr Alison Chandler is back in the studio and we're aiming for future consults with at least 50% less crying – and that’s…

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Anniversary: Ask the Hosts Episode 1:35:03

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Holy cow! We can’t believe it’s been a full year since our first episode release of Liquor & Literature Podcast! To celebrate, we have a very special Anniversary Ask the Hosts Episode for our listeners to enjoy! Go behind-the-scenes and learn about our origin story and how we create the podcast. Also, learn what books, authors, food/drink pairings …

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Episode 47 - Blood Banking with the Best | An Interview with Dr Joe Chaffin, MD (aka BBGuy) 1:07:41

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Bashar was tasked with finding an expert to talk to about blood banking. He decided to cold-email the best transfusion-educator in the world who is probably responsible for hundreds if not thousands of haematology trainees understanding blood banking. Turns out he's an absolutely lovely guy who decided to spend an hour of his Monday morning chattin…

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Episode 46 - A PerPLEXing Journey | Introduction to Apheresis 33:48

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Red cells. White cells. Platelets. Plasma. Proteins. By your powers combined I am Captain… Whole Blood? Wouldn’t it be so much easier if we could work with each of these blood components individually. After all, we have to get them in a bag to donate to people. Before we swear off transfusion for the time being, join the Bloody Minded Crew as we le…

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7.5 | Dragon Theory: Evidence and Encounters with Real Dragons 1:52:17

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🐉 What if dragons weren’t just myth—but memory? In this episode, we dive claw-first into the strange possibility that fire-breathing dragons actually once soared our skies (and maybe still do! 😬). From bat-winged apparitions over an ancient abbey in England to ancient accounts of sky serpents, we ignite the dusty bones of this maybe not so mythical…