Welcome to Very Special Episodes, an anthology of outrageous stories pulled from history and pop culture. Each immersive tale feels like a movie. Very Special Episodes will have you telling your friends and co-workers, "I just heard the craziest story on a podcast."
Follow Dana Schwartz, Zaron Burnett and Jason English down a different rabbit hole every Wednesday.
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Episode Transcript
You know what I realized this podcast is. It's like
when you are at a cocktail party or out to
dinner with like a group of your partner's friends, and
you don't know what to talk about and you just
get to say I heard the craziest story on a podcast.
That is every single one of these episodes.
Speaker 2 (00:18):
Tue Night, on a very special episode.
Speaker 1 (00:23):
Hey, this is Danish Sports. You may know my voice
from Noble Blood, Haleywood or Stealing Superman. I'm hosting a
new podcast with Zarren Burnett and Jason English and we're
calling it Very Special Episodes.
Speaker 3 (00:37):
A very special episode is that sort of story where
there's a clear before and a clear after with a
big WTF in the middle.
Speaker 4 (00:43):
This is your invitation to follow us down a different
rabbit hole every Wednesday.
Speaker 3 (00:49):
One week we'll be on the case with special agents
from NASA as they crack down on black market moon rocks.
Speaker 5 (00:56):
H rosspros on the other side and goes hello, Joe,
how can I help you? I said, mister prow What
we need is five billion dollars to get back a
moon rock.
Speaker 4 (01:06):
Another week, we'll unravel a nineties Hollywood mystery.
Speaker 6 (01:09):
It sounds like it should be the next season of
True Detective or something. These Canadian cops trying to solve
this twenty five year old mystery of who's bike the
chowder on the Titanic send.
Speaker 3 (01:19):
We've got another one about a young Mark Twain and
the San Francisco bar fight that changed the course of
American literature.
Speaker 1 (01:26):
We'll unpack the greatest botany rivalry of all time and
take you inside Spider Man's adventures on Broadway.
Speaker 2 (01:35):
The weird thing is like here is just part of
societal collapse. Ticket sales went up because it became this
weird thing that, like you may see someone nimed on Broadway.
Speaker 1 (01:47):
A very special episode is stranger than fiction. It's normal
people PLoP down in extraordinary circumstances. It's a story where
you say, this should be a movie.
Speaker 4 (02:00):
It's our masterpiece theater. It's our our movie of the week.
It's mister mcpheeley coming over to mister Rogers and popping
something in the VCR.
Speaker 1 (02:10):
I don't get that reference. Yeah, you gotta work on
these references, Jason, I'm thirty.
Speaker 4 (02:16):
That settles it, mister mcpheley, deep dive. We're doing it.
So if you like Dana's blockbuster podcast Noble Blood, or
Zaren's hit show Ridiculous Crime, or any of the podcasts
we've made together Haleywood Stealing Superman, Black Cowboys. Do me
a favor and check out very special episodes next Wednesday
and every Wednesday after that in perpetuity, and tell your
(02:39):
friends a small favor and rate review.
Speaker 1 (02:41):
Listen to very Special episodes starting January thirty first on
the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your
podcasts
Hosts And Creators
Zaron Burnett
Dana Schwartz
Jason English
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