We abandon the serious stuff and dive straight into our love of all things woo-woo: near-death experiences, dodgy mediums, growing up under Satanic Panic, and the paranormal guilty pleasures that make us cry with laughter.

Tamanda sets the scene early: this is not a serious death and grief episode. Instead, it’s a confessional of the strange, terrifying, and sometimes hilarious ways we first encountered the afterlife - from her family cat “Pussy Rosa”, to the endless references to reincarnation and sangomas in her mother’s magazines.

Aiwan recalls growing up under the shadow of debunked Christian writers like Rebecca Brown and Mary K. Baxter, whose lurid books about demons terrified her as a child… and still rack up glowing Amazon reviews. Meanwhile, Tamanda confesses her loyalty to Tyler Henry, the sweating, scribbling “white boy band” medium who claims to chat with the dead.

Between the crying-laughing fits, we ask ALLLLLL the serious-unserious questions: are near-death experiences brain glitches, or proof of the great beyond? Are mediums for real, or do they just make really great TV? And is it better to chase the afterlife — or focus on the here and now?

In this episode:

• Netflix guilty pleasures, Tyler Henry, and the medium who sweats his way to the other side
• Pussy Rosa the cat, Nollywood demons, and the strange ways we first met death
• Rebecca Brown, Mary K. Baxter, and the Christian books that terrified a generation (and still sell like hotcakes)
• Why we can’t stop watching dodgy paranormal shows even when we don’t believe a word of them
• NDEs: glitch in the brain, window to the beyond, or just our favourite binge-worthy trope?
• Laughing our way through the fears that used to keep us up at night

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