In early episodes, Dratch professed a wariness of her own. It has since waned. “The more stories I hear, the more open I become,” she said. “There’s no cost to it.” It’s also a practical approach. “If a guest tells their story, I don’t want to step in and be, like, ‘Well, that was probably just the wind,’ ” she said. “For the sake of the pod, we often believe that nothing has a scientific explanation.” Her father, she noted, was a radiologist. “I want to put a little disclaimer, like: I’m a person of science!” she added. “But we sort of walk the line, I guess.”journey-inline-newsletterinline-newsletter