Scared All The Time

Join hosts Ed Voccola (Rick and Morty, Bless The Harts) and Chris Cullari (Blumhouse, The Aviary) for a wild trip through the world of what scares them. This week, the boys kick off their SUMMER OF FEAR with a terrifying trip through the microscopic world of brain eating amoeba. Go behind the headlines to learn what exactly these things can do to your brain, how common they are, and what you c...

Join hosts Ed Voccola (Rick and Morty, Bless The Harts) and Chris Cullari (Blumhouse, The Aviary) for a wild trip through the world of what scares them. This week, the boys lose their minds on a meth bender through time and space. From the origins of the drug in the reeds of a 125 million year old plant, to its powerful effects on the body and mind, to a tale of a trip so wild it borders on th...

DISCLAIMER: THIS BONUS EPISODE IS FILLED WITH SPOILERS FOR THE FILM, “SINNERS,” SO DO NOT LISTEN TO IT BEFORE SEEING THE FILM. With everyone talking about Sinners these days, it felt weird that it doesn't come up in our Vampires episode, so Ed assembled a crack team of previous SATT guests to have a candid, barely fang-deep chat about the smash hit vampire film… and with Chris unavailable... m...

Join hosts Ed Voccola (Rick and Morty, Bless The Harts) and Chris Cullari (Blumhouse, The Aviary) for a wild trip through the world of what scares them. This week, the boys team up with writer/director Jackson Stewart for a stake-deep dive into the heart of vampires. From ancient monsters to modern cinema, this episode drags it all from the shadows and into the light. Don't love every word we...

Join hosts Ed Voccola (Rick and Morty, Bless The Harts) and Chris Cullari (Blumhouse, The Aviary) for a wild trip through the world of what scares them. This week, the boys book tickets on the USS SCARED and take a doomed vacation through the world of cruises. All aboard for stops at the Titanic, COVID vessels, and the haunted Queen Mary! Warning: No refunds. All fares final. Don't love ever...

Join hosts Ed Voccola (Rick and Morty, Bless The Harts) and Chris Cullari (Blumhouse, The Aviary) for a wild trip through the world of what scares them. This week, the boys get meta - talking about sleep deprivation while experiencing sleep deprivation. It's a mind melting, sense scrambling journey through a kind of hell that only exists in nightmares. If you can get to sleep at all... Don't ...

ATTENTION: THIS EPISODE IS NOT FOR THE FAINT OF HEART. THE STORIES ARE VERY GRAPHIC, AND THE COMMENTARY MIGHT INCLUDE MORE LEVITY THAN PERHAPS YOU'D FIND COMFORTABLE. This week, comedian Mike Recine joins the boys to discuss his greatest fear: chimp-assisted genital detachment syndrome. The trio tackle the dangerous combination of cuteness and aggression in chimpanzees, their evolutionary vict...

Join hosts Ed Voccola (Rick and Morty, Bless The Harts) and Chris Cullari (Blumhouse, The Aviary) for a wild trip through the world of what scares them. Sparked by the recent wildfires that threatened Chris' home, America's favorite scaredy cats explore these powerful and destructive forces. Don't love every word we say? Ok, weirdo. Here's some "chapters" to find what you DO love: 00:00:00 -...

With a newborn baby keeping Chris from getting a slick new episode finished, we’ve decided to share one of our premium monthly live shows with the public for the very first time. And not just any episode. The VERY FIRST episode! Back when we were young and dumb and a technical abomination. It was a real learning experience, and only got better from there. Don't love every word we say? Ok, weir...

Join hosts Ed Voccola (Rick and Morty, Bless The Harts) and Chris Cullari (Blumhouse, The Aviary) for a wild trip through the world of what scares them. This week, the boys turn to religious texts, doctors, and the people who claim to have gone, to get a better idea of just how many hells they might have waiting for them. Don't love every word we say? Ok, weirdo. Here's some "chapters" to fin...

Join hosts Ed Voccola (Rick and Morty, Bless The Harts) and Chris Cullari (Blumhouse, The Aviary) for a wild trip through the world of what scares them. This week, the boys begin a new series exploring bad trips - starting with what can happen when an LSD experience goes wrong. Get ready to get scrambled! Don't love every word we say? Ok, weirdo. Here's some "chapters" to find what you DO lov...

Join hosts Ed Voccola (Rick and Morty, Bless The Harts) and Chris Cullari (Blumhouse, The Aviary) for a wild trip through the world of what scares them. This week, the boys ascend to horrifying heights and plunge to life-ending lows as they learn all about how elevators can crush, maim, and kill. Don't love every word we say? Ok, weirdo. Here's some "chapters" to find what you DO love: 00:00...

Join hosts Ed Voccola (Rick and Morty, Bless The Harts) and Chris Cullari (Blumhouse, The Aviary) for a wild trip through the world of what scares them. This week, the boys trust no one in their exploration of gang stalking, a phenomenon experienced by thousands of innocent victims. Who is behind it? What do they want? And what happens if they decide to stalk you next? Don't love every word w...

Join hosts Ed Voccola (Rick and Morty, Bless The Harts) and Chris Cullari (Blumhouse, The Aviary) for a wild trip through the world of what scares them. Still affected by the fires, the boys have put together a very special episode to hold you over. AMA-Palooza is a collection of answers to the fans' most pressing questions about monsters, movies, frogs, and the rest of life's little miracles....

We weren't supposed to have an episode this week, but with everyone reaching out to check in on us, we wanted to get on mic to let you know that we're currently safe, and with Chris still under evacuation orders, we thought we'd also give you a short peek into what evacuating from a fire is like.

This week, the boys take a drive over the scariest bridges in the world: failing ones. Which it turns out is actually lots of them. How bad is the situation? And what happens when these architectural marvels finally break down? Plus: how to survive a bridge collapse! Sort of. Don't love every word we say? Ok, weirdo. Here's some "chapters" to find what you DO love: 00:00:00 - Intro 00:02:13 -...

Join hosts Ed Voccola (Rick and Morty, Bless The Harts) and Chris Cullari (Blumhouse, The Aviary) for a wild trip through the world of what scares them. This week, the Hose Boys kick off Season Five by dialing the clocks back almost a quarter century to the night of Dec. 31st, 1999. Y2K was on everyone's lips. Society was going to collapse at the stroke of midnight. How did we manage to surviv...

Join hosts Ed Voccola (Rick and Morty, Bless The Harts) and Chris Cullari (Blumhouse, The Aviary) for a wild trip through the world of what scares them. This week, the boys say "RIP God Bless" to Season Four with a super-sized return to the Fear of The Unknown series. From bridge beasts to frog men, the boys examine some unusual cryptids that rarely make headlines. Don't love every word we sa...

Join hosts Ed Voccola (Rick and Morty, Bless The Harts) and Chris Cullari (Blumhouse, The Aviary) for a wild trip through the world of what scares them. This week, the boys swing by the bodega to buy a ticket to financial freedom -- only to find out that winning the lottery can put them straight into an early grave. Don't love every word we say? Ok, weirdo. Here's some "chapters" to find what...

Join hosts Ed Voccola (Rick and Morty, Bless The Harts) and Chris Cullari (Blumhouse, The Aviary) for a wild trip through the world of what scares them. This week, the boys explore a fear of earthquakes that looms over their daily lives in Southern California. But not just any earthquake. The Big One. What will it be like when it hits? Will the boys survive? Only one way to find out! Don't l...

Chris and Ed open the inbox one last time to close out the week of too many treats. Thanks for joining us on this 5 episodes in 5 days run to celebrate our anniversary. We'll probably start answering e-mails more quickly now!

The week of too many treats continues with ALL HAT MAN ALL THE TIME (plus one little bonus story in there). So join us as we go through a bunch of listener-submitted stories chronicling their potential run-ins with the man himself.

If you listen to the show, then you know we’re the pits when it comes to e-mail. It’s part that we’re bad about checking, and part that we get overwhelmed when we do. So we thought it would be fun (aka: a long grueling chore) to spend our anniversary trying to make up for year of un-replied to e-mails — RIGHT IN FRONT OF EVERYONE. Let’s open the inbox and hit send on the first of 3 listener-en...

Join hosts Ed Voccola (Rick and Morty, Bless The Harts) and Chris Cullari (Blumhouse, The Aviary) for a wild trip through the world of what scares them. Inspired by horrifying Halloween rumors of Satanic sacrifice on All Hallow's Eve, the boys take a look back at human sacrifice throughout the centuries. Who practiced it? Why? And what benefits did it really offer society? The answers might sh...

Chris and Ed get up to trouble when looking for episode ideas in the Midnight Library in this Astonishing Legends Network crossover. Will they be successful at finding any? Or at acting? Find out in the Scared All The Time version of the Midnight Library crossover.

Join hosts Ed Voccola (Rick and Morty, Bless The Harts) and Chris Cullari (Blumhouse, The Aviary) for a wild trip through the world of what scares them. Inspired by horrifying Halloween rumors of Satanic sacrifice on All Hallow's Eve, the boys take a look back at human sacrifice throughout the centuries. Who practiced it? Why? And what benefits did it really offer society? The answers might sh...

Join hosts Ed Voccola (Rick and Morty, Bless The Harts) and Chris Cullari (Blumhouse, The Aviary) for a wild trip through the world of what scares them. This week, the boys take a haunted trip around the world to explore the history of the child-eating monster known as the boogeyman. From Michael Myers to pirates to sack-men to an ancient serial killer with the wealth of a billionaire and a bo...

Join hosts Ed Voccola (Rick and Morty, Bless The Harts) and Chris Cullari (Blumhouse, The Aviary) for a wild trip through the world of what scares them. This week, the boys are joined by Ally Malinenko (https://allymalinenko.com/) , author of the upcoming middle grade horror book Broken Dolls, to talk about the scariest toy ever created: Dolls! From the uncanny valley, to Victorian doll funera...

Join hosts Ed Voccola (Rick and Morty, Bless The Harts) and Chris Cullari (Blumhouse, The Aviary) for a wild trip through the world of what scares them. This week, the boys go sicko mode and come down with a case of necrotizing fasciitis...better known as flesh-eating bacteria. They cover the symptoms, the consequences, and what it takes to survive one of the deadliest diseases known to man. P...

Join hosts Ed Voccola (Rick and Morty, Bless The Harts) and Chris Cullari (Blumhouse, The Aviary) for a wild trip through the world of what scares them. This week, they gaze deeply into the myths, legends, and scary games surrounding mirrors and are horrified at what gazes back. If you've ever wanted to summon the demonic mirror version of yourself, this is the episode for you! Don't love eve...

Join hosts Ed Voccola (Rick and Morty, Bless The Harts) and Chris Cullari (Blumhouse, The Aviary) for a wild trip through the world of what scares them. This week, they explore the causes and consequences of one of nature's cruelest traps: the sinkhole. Equal parts science and tragedy, these natural disasters can appear out of nowhere and wreak havoc. They can also create incredible new worlds...

Join hosts Ed Voccola (Rick and Morty, Bless The Harts) and Chris Cullari (Blumhouse, The Aviary) for a wild trip through the world of what scares them. In the Season Four premiere, the boys have a paranoid, existential crisis as they prepare to meet their maker in one of the scariest ways possible - instantaneously. Plus: Quantum Immortality. Does it live up to its reputation as one of the mo...

Join hosts Ed Voccola (Rick and Morty, Bless The Harts) and Chris Cullari (Blumhouse, The Aviary) for a wild trip through the world of what scares them. This week, the boys close out Season Three with the first installment of Scared All The Time: Fear of The Unknown. Using his second grade research as a guide, Chris takes Ed back to the first sighting of Nessie, examines the highs and lows of ...

Join hosts Ed Voccola (Rick and Morty, Bless The Harts) and Chris Cullari (Blumhouse, The Aviary) for a wild trip through the world of what scares them. This week, poison's on the menu. From Ed's surprising connections to these killer concoctions, to a story of college alcohol poisoning that is as hilarious as it is horrifying, to a rundown of the most dangerous toxins in the world, this episo...

Join hosts Ed Voccola (Rick and Morty, Bless The Harts) and Chris Cullari (Blumhouse, The Aviary) for a wild trip through the world of what scares them. This week, they get on their hands and knees and squeeze into the world of caves. Deep, dark, wet, creature-and-death filled caves. Warning to the claustrophobic: you might want to listen to this one outside. Don't love every word we say? Ok,...

Join hosts Ed Voccola (Rick and Morty, Bless The Harts) and Chris Cullari (Blumhouse, The Aviary) for a wild trip through the world of what scares them. This week, they grit their teeth and hang on as twisters hit the studio. What powers these terrifying tempests? How big can they really get? And are they here to destroy America...or save it? Don't love every word we say? Ok, weirdo. Here's s...

Join hosts Ed Voccola (Rick and Morty, Bless The Harts) and Chris Cullari (Blumhouse, The Aviary) for a wild trip through the world of what scares them. This week, the steel-stomached pals bite into tales of American cannibalism - complete with the nastiest details of the Donner Party you never knew. From kuru disease to survival cannibalism to an insane story out of Papua New Guinea, this epi...

Join hosts Ed Voccola (Rick and Morty, Bless The Harts) and Chris Cullari (Blumhouse, The Aviary) for a wild trip through the world of what scares them. This week, the guys go to ghoul-inary school to learn about the history and horror of feasting on one's own species. And just wait until you hear how some people say goodbye to their loved ones... PLUS! Hear Ed eat at one point (chips, not pe...

Join hosts Ed Voccola (Rick and Morty, Bless The Harts) and Chris Cullari (Blumhouse, The Aviary) for a wild trip through the world of what scares them. This week, more stories of the not-so-dead-and buried - from Brazil to South Africa to Japan - where the boys learn all about "sokushinbutsu," one of the most extreme forms of live burial ever practiced. Don't love every word we say? Ok, weir...

Join hosts Ed Voccola (Rick and Morty, Bless The Harts) and Chris Cullari (Blumhouse, The Aviary) for a wild trip through the world of what scares them. This week, internet icon and multi-hyphenate creator, Anna Akana, joins our frightened hosts to dig up the dirt around being buried alive. How often does it happen? Has anyone survived it? And just why do we bury people in the first place? Plu...

Chris and Ed get caught in a web of fear spun by the world's most dangerous spiders.

Join hosts Ed Voccola (Rick and Morty, Bless The Harts) and Chris Cullari (Blumhouse, The Aviary) for a wild trip through the world of what scares them. In the Season Three premiere, the guys put surgery under the knife and explore all the ways we've cut, snapped, stabbed and sliced surgical patients. From the days when doctors didn't know how to put you to sleep for an operation to the modern...

We got some schedule updates! That's right: concrete dates for premium content, appearances, and the Season Three premiere! - Friday, May 24th: Deadline for AMA questions. - Friday, May 24th: ALSO the date for our first live show! Keep an eye out for an e-mail with a link and exact time. - Friday, May 31st: We drop the first AMA episode on SATT premium. - Thursday, June 6th: Season 3 Premie...

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Join hosts Ed Voccola (Rick and Morty, Bless The Harts) and Chris Cullari (Blumhouse, The Aviary) for a wild trip through the world of what scares them. In the Season Two finale, the guys welcome Aly and Nat from "Let's Get Haunted," the only investigative journalism podcast about shit that may or may not have even happened in the first place. The whole squad suits up to dive into the mystery ...

Join hosts Ed Voccola (Rick and Morty, Bless The Harts) and Chris Cullari (Blumhouse, The Aviary) for a wild trip through the world of what scares them. In part three of three, the guys wrap up their alien abduction trilogy with a deep dive into anal probes, a look under the skin of alien implants, and a close encounter with radiation sickness. Don't love every word we say? Ok, weirdo. Here's...

Join hosts Ed Voccola (Rick and Morty, Bless The Harts) and Chris Cullari (Blumhouse, The Aviary) for a wild trip through the world of what scares them. This week, the boys continue their investigation into alien abductions by examining two of the strangest and scariest abductions in modern history: the abduction of Betty and Barney Hill, and the Pascagoula Abduction. Don't love every word we...

Join hosts Ed Voccola (Rick and Morty, Bless The Harts) and Chris Cullari (Blumhouse, The Aviary) for a wild trip through the world of what scares them. In Part One, the guys explore the history of abductions, pre-1960s. Turns out, humans have a history of being whisked away by lots of creatures - including fairies. Learn all about the world of changelings, fairy circles, and the murder of Bri...

Join hosts Ed Voccola (Rick and Morty, Bless The Harts) and Chris Cullari (Blumhouse, The Aviary) for a wild trip through the world of what scares them. This week, the pair take an early slay-cation through the worst amusement park disasters of all time. From the history of horrible coasters to a water ride from hell, this one will make you think twice before getting in line. Don't love every...

Join hosts Ed Voccola (Rick and Morty, Bless The Harts) and Chris Cullari (Blumhouse, The Aviary) for a wild trip through the world of what scares them. This week, the guys take a tour through the history of alchemy and the strange legend of the homunculus. Can little people actually be grown in jars? Would doing so be absolutely disgusting? Only one way to find out... let’s talk Homunculi, my...