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Denver seems to be treating comedian—and former Portlander—Andie Main well. Her creative output has never been higher. In September, Main sold out two shows at Kickstand Comedy where she taped her debut stand-up album Magpie, which will be released via Blonde Medicine in January. In the interim, you should check out Main's new dark-as-a starless-fucking-night humor podcast People Enjoying Terrible Accidents (PETA). With PETA, Main has accomplished something truly rare: she came up with a cool idea for a podcast that hasn't been done yet. PETA, you see, is a podcast about vegans and vegetarians discussing the times animals have killed humans and, let me tell you, if you can hang with that level of emotional remove, this is a pretty funny podcast.

The first episode of PETA, titled "Grizzly Kid" talks about Timothy Treadwell, the subject of the 2005 Werner Herzog documentary Grizzly Man. Treadwell was eaten by a grizzly bear in 2003, and, right from the beginning, that made me wonder how this will go for Main—you know, making fun of people's dead relatives.

Main has always been a tight performer (and one who likes to stick to her best material) so it's cool to hear her just let loose and try jokes out in the moment. Probably due to the first-episode-ness of "Grizzly Kid," Main and company progressively gave ground to their charismatic 12-year-old guest, Ariah. I was a fan of Ariah too, due to his truth-speaking disses of both The Office and Seinfeld paired with an extremely 12-year-old-kid declaration that he would never die. I laughed pretty hard when exasperated producer Randall Lawrence finally told him to shut up—a bold thing to do right in front Ariah's dad, musician Mike Brunken, who Main says she met on Tinder.

PETA isn't research-heavy; it's more of a riffing comedy show. Main admits she only "spent a couple hours" researching Treadwill's life so, if you've already seen the Herzog documentary, there won't be any new information. The second episode, "Blackfish" is similarly mostly a recap of another extremely good documentary, the film of the same name directed by Gabriela Cowperthwaite. That said, I don't think people hungry for the unknown history of humans killed by animals are PETA's target audience. It's a humor podcast. And while it bills itself as a show for vegans and vegetarians, I think PETA's true tribe will be goths, fans of dead baby jokes, and other thick-skinned individuals. Here's hoping PETA finds them before Timothy Treadwell's relatives find Main.

(Subscribing to a podcast is truly one of life's great mysteries. We must all forge our own path, but you can subscribe to People Enjoying Terrible Accidents on most, if not all, podcasting apps. New episodes are up every Thursday.)