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This Podcast Will Kill You

Exactly Right and iHeartPodcasts

New episode 4 days ago

Made by
Exactly Right and iHeartPodcasts
Episodes
308 episodes
Last episode
October 20, 2026
Rating
4.9 / 5
Charts
Apple No. 14 · Pocket Casts No. 14 · Audible No. 28
On Audible since
July 26, 2023

No. 9 on Across the charts in Science & Engineering, and on 1 other chart here.

What it is

This podcast might not actually kill you, but Erin Welsh and Erin Allmann Updyke cover so many things that can. In each episode, they tackle a different topic, teaching listeners about the biology, history, and epidemiology of a different disease or medical mystery. They do the scientific research, so you don’t have to.   Since 2017, Erin and Erin have explored chronic and infectious diseases, medications, poisons, viruses, bacteria and scientific discoveries. They’ve researched public health subjects including plague, Zika, COVID-19, lupus, asbestos, endometriosis and more.

Each episode is accompanied by a creative quarantini cocktail recipe and a non-alcoholic placeborita.

Erin Welsh, Ph.D. is a co-host of the This Podcast Will Kill You. She is a disease ecologist and epidemiologist and works full-time as a science communicator through her work on the podcast. Erin Allmann Updyke, MD, Ph.D. is a co-host of This Podcast Will Kill You. She’s an epidemiologist and disease ecologist currently in the final stretch of her family medicine residency program.

This Podcast Will Kill You is part of the Exactly Right podcast network that provides a platform for bold, creative voices to bring to life provocative, entertaining and relatable stories for audiences everywhere. The Exactly Right roster of podcasts covers a variety of topics including science, true crime, comedic interviews, news, pop culture and more. Podcasts on the network include My Favorite Murder with Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark, Buried Bones, That's Messed Up: An SVU Podcast and more.

Latest episodes

  1. Ep 225 Peptides: What your peptide dealer doesn’t want you to know October 20, 2026 · 1 hr 5 min
  2. Ep 224 Snake Oil: The Great American Fraud October 13, 2026 · 57 min
  3. Special Episode: Robert Kolker & The Vanishing Family October 6, 2026 · 48 min
  4. Ep 223 ALS: Unraveling the mystery September 29, 2026 · 1 hr 21 min
  5. Ep 222 Vitamin K: Calling the shots September 22, 2026 · 1 hr 7 min

On the charts

Charting now — best position 5 on Still running in Science & Engineering, reached September 22, 2026. Seen on 9 charts over 42 days of readings, the first on September 5, 2026.

1 14 5 September 22, 2026 October 21, 2026 September 22, 2026 — position 5September 23, 2026 — position 14September 29, 2026 — position 6October 6, 2026 — position 5October 7, 2026 — position 12October 13, 2026 — position 5October 14, 2026 — position 12October 20, 2026 — position 5October 21, 2026 — position 14
Still running in Science & Engineering — position by day.
ChartBestDaysLast seen
Still running in Science & Engineering 5 9 days October 21, 2026
Still running in Health & Wellness 7 1 day September 29, 2026
Across the charts in Science & Engineering 8 42 days October 24, 2026
Apple Podcasts · Science 10 42 days October 24, 2026
Pocket Casts · Science 10 42 days October 24, 2026
Highest rated in Science & Engineering 10 39 days October 24, 2026
Highest rated in Health & Wellness 12 3 days September 29, 2026
Most listened to in Science & Engineering 27 39 days October 24, 2026
Most listened to in Health & Wellness 45 3 days September 29, 2026

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