Deep Cuts

Deep Cuts

Hosts Dave Baker and Andrew Price walk you through the ins, outs, and the nitty gritty of an astonishing story from pop culture or history that you won't believe you've never heard before.

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February 6, 2025 57 mins

It was supposed to be a relaxing vacation in deep space for the Mystery Treehouse gang. But the...universe had other plans.

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Written by Spandrew and Dave

Edited by Spandrew Spice and Lewis Poggie

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Who was Lou Pearlman? He was the manager behind some of the biggest boy bands of the ‘90s and 2000s, including the Backstreet Boys and *NSYNC. However, following the post-boy band boom, he was outed for screwing over many of the artists he worked with out of their hard-earned money before getting arrested for one of the largest Ponzi schemes in American history.

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Episode Written by Mike Bedard

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Who was Anne Perry? She was a prolific author known for writing historical detective fiction, a career that began in 1979. But she harbored a dark secret in the early part of her career, namely that she was involved in murdering a friend’s mother when she was only 15 years old in one of the most famous murder cases in all of New Zealand’s history.

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Episode Editing by Lewis Poggie

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Who were The Cat Dancers? They were a trio of performers who embellished their dance routines with captive big cats. Originally a duo, Ron and Joy Holiday teamed up with Chuck Lizza and embarked on a thirty year odyssey of fame, love, and devastating loss. Because when they added a white tiger named Jupiter into their orbit, the dance troupe paid the ultimate price. But were The Cat Dancers simply victims of a series of catastrophe...

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Who is Cliff Twemlow? He began his career writing songs and serving as a bouncer in Manchester clubs before realizing his true dreams of creating movies. From the 1980s until the early ‘90s, he wrote, produced, and starred in many of his own films, rarely making any money from them but capturing the public’s attention for his gusto attitude toward creating art.

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Who is Armin Meiwes? He is a self-confessed cannibal who was convicted of one of the strangest and most gruesome cases in the annals of true crime history. Currently serving a life sentence in his home country of Germany, Armin Meiwes’ trials have been the source of much controversy. As Germany’s first cannibalism court case, the story of Armin Meiwes is fraught with toxic romance, extreme deviancy, and the dangerous wasteland of t...

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Who is Richard Davis? He’s the inventor of the modern bulletproof vest, who demonstrated his product’s efficacy by shooting himself a reported 192 times. He became an icon to police departments around the country, making amateur movies starring the cops who were saved with his vests. But it all came crashing down when his bulletproof vests suddenly became … not so bulletproof.

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Who is Hiroo Onoda? He was a second lieutenant in the Japanese Imperial Army during World War 2. But instead of ending his fight following Japan’s surrender, he kept on fighting for 29 years after the war had ended. And throughout those three decades, he initiated guerilla warfare against a Philippine island, killing up to 30 civilians in the process over a war that was already over.

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Who was Dr Peter Scott-Morgan? The short of it would be a death defying madman who took risk after risk as an act of both hubris and self-preservation. But that sounds a little too much like Evel Keneval or anyone from Jackass. No, Dr. Peter Scott-Morgan was a robotics scientist who in the face of a terminal illness decided to take everything he learned over his illustrious career and attempt to turn that into immortality.

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Who is André Stander? For much of his life, Stander was an unassuming citizen who nonetheless rose to the rank of Captain in the South African Police during the era of apartheid. As the folk legend usually goes, he grew disillusioned with this racist regime and began robbing banks as a way to stick it to the system. But was he actually a freedom fighter who realized he was part of the problem, or was he just a bored nepo baby who f...

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October 11, 2024 73 mins

Dave, Spandrew, Hillsmer, Zero, and Freddie must stop the Bacon and Leggs reboot from being made! And sing about it!

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Episode edited by Spandrew Spice & Lewis Poggie

Written by Spandrew Spice and Dave Baker

Music by Spandrew Spice

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Starring Dave, Spandrew, Hillsmer, Zero, Freddie, and Chelsea Waimaraner


Special Thanks to Kelly Bohart and Faith Cox.

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Who was Richard Gazowksy? He was a pentecostal minister who, after inheriting his ministry from his mother, made an unconventional decision. After seeing his first feature film when he turned 40 years old, he decided to make a feature film… called Gravity The Shadow of Joseph. He became obsessed with this goal. He convinced his church to fund the film, raised massive amounts of money, and began the process of making a biblically in...

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What is Akon City? Well, it’s a land development and infrastructural project sponsored by the senegalese government in collaboration with the rapper and entrepreneur Akon. Only problem being… despite having ambitious plans on funding the project through Cryptocurrency…. Nothing seems to have actually happened? Despite, Akon taking massive amounts of investment.

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In the late 1980s Richard Montañez, an entry level janitor at Frito Lay, invented the company's most popular product - Flamin' Hot Cheetos. He went on to live the rags to riches story of becoming a top executive at the company. They even made a feature film about his story for Disney Plus. The only problem? The whole thing is a lie.

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In the late 1800s, a man named Petrus Gonsalvus who was covered in hair due to a condition called hypertrichosis, was forcibly married to a peasant woman as a form of amusement for his aristocratic "owners." They ended up being the real life inspiration for the Beauty and the Beast.

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In the mid-80s, a teenager recorded a song from a German radio station onto a cassette tape. Years later he uncovered the song and tried to figure out who performed it. His quest to figure out who played The Mysterious Song would end up being decades-long and build a large following of dedicated song sleuths on the Internet. But would they ever find out who was behind the song?

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In the early 1920s, one woman created a massive child trafficking network where she kidnapped babies and sold them to wealthy parents.

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In 1947, something crashed on a farm just outside of Roswell, New Mexico. Was it a weather balloon? Secret government experiment? Or was it...aliens?

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