What's That Smell?
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Once Upon an Unprecedented Collective
Performance anxiety for all! This week, hosts of the MandCave podcast on TruStory FM, Mandy Kaplan and Mandy Fabian, join us to talk about nerves, shakes, and gastrointestinal distress that comes with being a professional performer.
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The Episodes of Season Six
Once Upon an Unprecedented Collective
Performance anxiety for all! This week, hosts of the MandCave podcast on TruStory FM, Mandy Kaplan and Mandy Fabian, join us to talk about nerves, shakes, and gastrointestinal distress that comes with being a professional performer.
ListenOnce Upon a Framework Inflammation
The smell of fear, addressing meat on bones, the underground town down under, and the brand new What’s That Smell? Patent-pending IN-FLAMMO-XIETY this week on the show!
ListenOnce Upon a Heavy Gullet
Nicknames. Please use responsibly. Also, Tom talks swallowing and Pete helps a listener with a special kind of heaviness.
ListenBonus Episode! Once Upon a REDACTEDSauce Rebroadcast
No one asked for it… except the sauces. This week on the show, Pete and Tom deign to dip.
ListenOnce Upon a Doodle Crash
This week on the show, we finally have our playlist act together. Plus, a listener submission emoji emergency, sugar lows, and the once and possibly future Russo-Pepsi sea force.
ListenOnce Upon a Buoyant Voyager
Pete gives the crypto-creep update, Tom plays the pilot in Catch Him If You Can, and we take on a listener submission that might just have us bouncing around the waves for days.
ListenOnce Upon an Integer Bequethal
Nose spray for social anxiety? Get ready for it. Also, we’re taking on the anxieties we leave for our descendants and the number 13.
ListenOnce Upon a Proficient Assistance
Pete asks how YOU funny, Tom fears his lost handiness, and a dear listener has a lesson for us on trauma and restaurant service.
ListenWelcome to First Citiwide Bank of Anxiety
At First Citiwide Bank of Anxiety, we live… where you live
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WTS: Season 5
Tommy and Pete lean into the delicious metaphorical anxiety sauce that drenches their lives, and some literal sauces, too.
In season 5, Pete and Tommy face bugs, eat stuff, and are generally sorry about all of it, even the stuff you send in to the show.
The Episodes of Season Five
The What’s That Smell? Special Episode #3: The Shakey’s Solution
Most of this episode is about restaurants that have damaged us in some way. Some of the episode is about Broadway, high school, and cave panic.
ListenThe What’s That Smell? Special Episode #2: We’re Still Doing This?
Tommy revels in our upcycled food future … especially the bugs! Plus, masks make you invisible (no, they don’t), injection panic, and big doors.
ListenThe Riddle of the What’s That Smell? Saucetacular! • Member Episode
No one asked for it… except the sauces. This week on the show, Pete and Tom deign to dip.
ListenThe Riddle of the Chronic Gnasher
AI lookin’ out for us. Pete helps a listener feel free in the chair while Tommy is on the hunt for Dr. Puff-n-stuff.
ListenThe Riddle of the Microbial Seizure
Clean your glasses. Watch out for the ghouls under your bed. Stay out of the metropolitan water delivery business
ListenThe Riddle of the Lookalike Disposition
Kickstart your back-ups, Sheriff Woody is loose. Tommy’s terrified of Little Tommy 2 while Pete should just give up and stop wearing pants to meetings.
ListenThe Riddle of the Jilted Rejoinder
Don’t drive while listening to this episode. Also, Tommy helps a listener get back … at everyone … at once. And Pete just hopes this will never, ever, ever end.
ListenThe Riddle of the Scanned Encumberance
Introducing Shocktato. Also, Tommy struggles with tube time overload and Pete finds solace in escape.
ListenThe Riddle of the Earmark Fixation
Pete uses his big brain to think again… and again and again while Tommy fights for the right to recline.
ListenThe Riddle of the Rueful Stratagem
Pete helps a listener find a friend in time while Tommy is generally sorry.
ListenThe Riddle of the House-trained Gambol
Pete expounds on the long-running perils of railroad tie tag while Tommy and Foster come to a pandemic impasse.
ListenThe Riddle of the Fellowship Mainframe
Pete chronicles the perils of feeling anything at all while Tommy exercises his inner Lawnmower Man daemons.
ListenThe Riddle of the Magpie Dissertation
Bumble snoozes, the pen leads to the darkest nights of the soul, and exercises in poor storage.
ListenThe Riddle of the Acceleration Gig
Are there are more villainous creepies than hornets? Pete fights the purge while Tom winces at the wheel.
ListenThe Riddle of the Volition Faux Pas
Surprising no one, we have pandemic body issues. Plus, social anxiety… and a little dose of a listener’s struggles to choose… or do we?
ListenWelcome to Anxiemart • The What’s That Smell? Season 5 Trailer
Pandemic. Politics. WAP. Just when we thought we were out of anxieties to unpack, 2020 happened.
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WTS: Season 4
Tommy and Pete dive into the bureaucracy that underpins the anxiety industrial complex.
In season 4, Pete and Tommy invent new words, ditch dining out, and once again face the down-there fears that plague them ... and their listeners.
The Episodes of Season Four
The Dilly-Dally Podcast Report
Pete and Tom help a listener approach the long, dark path of apathy, and then cut open their inner podcaster.
ListenThe Toppling Trainwreck Report
Tommy finds joy hidden in the joy disguised as joy masquerading as trauma while Pete helps a listener with gravity … again.
ListenThe Transcendental Tip Report
Pete embraces the long-cut while Tommy helps a listener keep the silver cord tight.
ListenThe Staggering Stockade Report
Tommy channels an otter prison while Pete helps a listener with gravity.
ListenThe Schooner Tycoon Report
Pete faces an industrialist nightmare while Tommy helps a listener move beyond buoyant butterflies.
ListenThe Skittering Deuce Report
Tommy comes face to face with a new nemesis and responds appropriately, while Pete helps a listener feel better about feeling dirty.
ListenThe Galactic Adhesive Report
Pete finally moves aside and frees a new generation to experience out of this world anxiety while Tommy picks, and picks, and picks.
ListenThe Depository Examination Report
Tommy has prepared a list of places in which it is appropriate to ‘oil oneself up’ while Pete helps a listener to stand face-to-face with their inner Scarecrow.
ListenThe Guzzling Endowment Report
Pete devours an anxiety that should be a test for itself while Tommy helps a listener to see that the grass, sometimes, isn’t always greener.
ListenThe Curly Chamber Report
Tommy is on a hunt for fear and isolation and finds it in northern California while Pete helps a listener to maybe not see so much after all.
ListenThe Forsaken Dumbwaiter Report
Pete tries to hug the darkness while Tommy helps a listener find peace in verticality.
ListenThe Disrespectful Reconciliation Report
Tommy yells at people who yell at clouds while Pete helps a listener who has already helped herself. It’s a real gas. Welcome to season four, everybody.
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WTS: Season 3
Tommy and Pete face down the legends of their darkest anxieties... and yours, too.
In season 3, Pete and Tommy unveil the dark truth about their podcasting endeavor, and answer the question of what goes pee in the night.
The Episodes of Season Three
301: The Legend of the Whispering Goaltender
Tommy explores what his life might have looked like had he fully exercized his mad skillz while Pete hits the dark web and gets blitzed on slime.
Listen302: The Legend of the Invoice Incursion
Pete explores options for general home protection while Tommy brings lessons in restaurant etiquette on behalf of those cursed as recipients of grand gestures.
Listen303: The Legend of the Zesty Shebang
Tommy is really in the mood to frolic with no outlet and Pete brings a listener submission that celebrates flamboyance with a cherry on top.
Listen304: The Legend of the Infraction Trap
Pete’s stuck in the stocks while Tommy hits the city of Los Angeles straight in the selfie.
Listen305: The Legend of the Shadow Trance
Tommy avoids swinging clocks while Pete helps a young listener own the night.
Listen306: The Legend of the Mealtime Ticker
Pete goes deep into the anxiety diorama while Tommy helps a listener find a mealtime tribe.
Listen307: The Legend of the Analytical Crater
Tommy takes to the couch while Pete helps a listener to stay aloft.
ListenThe What’s That Smell? Escape Room Anxiety Bonus!
Remember that time Pete did the escape room? Tommy did one, and his was a horror-filled nightmarescape. This is his report.
Listen308: The Legend of the Precision Fixation
Pete is stuck in the meta-cognitive gap while Tommy saves a listener from sweet, sweet perfection.
Listen309: The Legend of the Modulated Anticipation
Tommy attempts peace with his future overlords while Pete helps a listener see peace in ghosting the e-anxiety.
Listen310: The Legend of the Obfuscated Riposte
Pete is here to remind you that if you’re not feeling good about the world, you’re feeling bad about it, while Tommy has plans to strip silence from your future conversations.
Listen311: The Legend of the Claptrap Capitulation
Tommy faces the challenge of words falling from his face while Pete stares gently into the fog of the unknown.
Listen312: The Legend of the Hat Tap
This week, Pete and Tommy bring you the round-robin, rapid fire anxiety draft you didn’t know you’ve been waiting for all your life.
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WTS: Season 2
Tommy and Pete take on the greatest mysteries of the universe
In season 2, the crew takes on new anxieties and welcomes submissions from voices of the world in this follow-up to their "hit" first season.
The Episodes of Season Two
201: The Case of the 😜 💳 💵
Tommy looks inside himself and finds his inner 😻 while Pete reminisces about false hope at the bottom of an empty 💰.
Listen202: The Case of the Out-of-Work Virus
Tommy takes to the trolls while Pete brings a listener challenge and advice for the espionage-minded.
Listen203: The Case of the Cardiac Doodler
Tommy helps a listener through pesky pen pessimism while Pete builds a strong case for the end of all medical science.
Listen204: The Case of the Derma-Trolley
Pete’s looking for grime in the dark places while Tommy is in a most perilous race against his own cheeks.
Listen205: The Case of the Jester’s Chops
Tommy helps a listener navigate pavement in clever new ways while Pete confronts a dark confusion in face of tools for joy.
Listen206: The Case of the Fangspace
Pete helps a listener (in no way whatsoever) to overcome a personal pestilence while Tommy mourns (in no way whatsoever) the loss of an esteem-maker.
Listen207: The Case of the Manchurian Mathematician
Tommy helps a listener find the secrets in plain sight while Pete struggles at the blackboard.
Listen208: The Case of the Audited Moniker
Pete helps a listener with the find peace under the giant thumb of a byzantine system while Tommy struggles to gift the long arm of history with anything more than a list of nouns.
Listen209: The Case of the Elder Contri-BOO-tions!!!
Tommy digs deep to help a listener distressed with specter-spook while Pete seeks the solution to the generation gap.
Listen210: The Case of the Apocalyptic Valise
Pete helps a listener tilt into the winds of change while Tommy faces the black depths of his toiletry kit.
Listen211: The Case of Calamity U.
Tommy helps a listener through a disturbing case of Neesonitis while Pete struggles to hide from academics bearing heavy books.
Listen212: The Case of the Inedible Venetian
In this final episode of season 2, Pete seeks safety in the arms of the FDA while Tommy struggles for freedom from the mighty grasp of a waterlogged Italian city.
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What's That Smell?
A sometimes-funny podcast about humans and their anxieties
In our inaugural season, Pete and Tommy explore their anxieties and learn to laugh along the way.
The Episodes of Season One
102: Unwarranted Distress & Administrophobia
Pete takes an uncomfortable journey inward and Tommy faces the paper monster while on the injured list.
Listen103: Deafening Silence, Buried Deep
Tommy talks to hush the sound of judgment and Pete prepares for the long rest, prematurely.
Listen104: Imposter, #2
Pete battles his urge to hide everything he creates. Ironically, so does Tommy.
Listen105: Pam and the Fashion Police
Tommy conjures demons of the deep and Pete goes all-in on hemp.
Listen106: They, Robot
Pete strives to relate to a brave new world. Tommy worries that in that world, we’re all just meat targets.
Listen107: Whompf! (There Eat Is)
Tommy visits the darkness and in the process finds Shyamalan while Pete beats his inner child to the Twinkies.
Listen108: Ruff Procedures
Pete sees someone else’s life flash before his eyes, and Tommy dodges daggers doggedly.
Listen109: Paula Ticks as Usual
Pete pokes the dragon of our own making while Tommy feels the pangs of embarrassment decades in the making.
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110: High Jump, No Landing
Pete laments the sad shortage of railings in the world, and Tommy’s just sitting there watching the clock… and waiting…
Listen111: Eat Prey Run
At long last, Tommy unleashes the swarm while Pete fights to flaunt his … ummm … outer strength?
Listen112: Your mother says we’re her favorite: A What’s That Smell Retrospective
Pete struggles with neuronal navigation, and delightful mother Metz gives us some fantastic updates on a young Tommy’s childhood pee habits.
Listen113: Just in case you forgot us: Best of Season 1
The dynamic shifts when robots take over the show.
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