About M⁴: Medicine, Mystery, Mayhem... and Sometimes Murder
Hosted by two seasoned RNs with over 45 years of combined experience and a friendship nearly as long, the M⁴ Podcast dives into the strange, shocking, and sometimes spine-chilling side of medicine. Each episode explores real cases, bizarre conditions, historical medical mysteries, and the occasional true crime, with expert insight, unfiltered commentary, and a touch of gallows humor.
If you love twisted tales with a clinical twist, M⁴ delivers. Subscribe now—because healthcare isn’t always by the book.
A podcast climbed to the top of Spotify's charts with a claim that stopped us cold: that some non-speaking autistic children can read minds — and that dozens of them gather on a shared, non-physical plane they call "the Hill." As two RNs, we wanted to believe it. So we pulled the research.
What we found traces straight back to a technique with a body count of false accusations, broken families, and at least one criminal conviction — and a well-documented psychological effect that explains why loving, honest parents can be completely convinced their child is typing when they aren't.
This one's about grief, hope, a horse named Clever Hans, and what actually works for kids who can't speak for themselves.
Extraordinary claims. Ordinary evidence.
23 Sept 2026
Ep. 53: Knocking On Heaven's Door
People who've survived a near-death experience often describe the same things: a tunnel, a bright light, a sense of peace, even a "life review." But what if some of these experiences aren't happening at the edge of death at all, and instead are happening in the brain during a seizure?
This week Andrea dives into the eerie overlap between post-ictal states and near-death experiences, tracing the neuroscience of what happens in the brain right after a seizure and asking a genuinely unsettling question: are NDEs a glimpse of something beyond, or a very human misfire of an overtaxed brain? Grab your headphones and get ready to question everything you thought you knew about the line between life and death.
16 Sept 2026
Fart Song
He turned a childhood beach accident into the most bizarre stage career in French history — and became the highest-paid entertainer in Paris doing it.
In this episode, Crystal takes Andrea through the strange, true story of Joseph Pujol, the 19th-century performer who discovered he had absolute voluntary control over a part of his anatomy most people never think about twice. From his early days as a baker in Marseille to his sold-out shows at the Moulin Rouge — where he reportedly out-earned Sarah Bernhardt herself — we cover his rise to fame, the imitators who tried to steal his act, the business dispute that pushed him to open his own theater, and his return to a quiet, ordinary life after the applause stopped. We also dig into the actual physiology behind what he could do, and how it compares to what modern medicine understands about pelvic floor control today.
It's mayhem, it's medicine, and it's one of the strangest success stories you'll ever hear.
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