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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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What is the Satanic Panic? It was a moral panic predominantly occurring in North America throughout the 1980s and early 1990s. The general public lost their shit over the belief that Satan worshippers, from school teachers to politicians, were members of a cult that would abduct, sexually abuse, and/or sacrifice chi...
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Who is Ray Buckey? He was a preschool teacher, but in the height of the 1980s Satanic Panic, he as well as other teachers at his school, underwent years of trials for sexually abusing children, becoming the longest and most expensive criminal case in United States history. And it resulted in zero convictions because...
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Who is Vince Offer? If you watched any television in the late 2000s, you undoubtedly saw Vince hock a product called ShamWow, a super absorbent towel. His abrasive, enthusiastic personality made him an instant icon, but frequent lawsuits, a scandal with a sex worker, and an anti-woke podcast absolutely deserve to be...
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Yasuke: The Black Man Who Escaped Slavery and Became the First Non-Japanese Samurai
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What is Slab City? It’s an off-the-grid unincorporated community in the California Sonoran Desert, taking its name from concrete slabs left behind by the Marine Corps and upon which the city was built. With about 150 year-round residents, Slab City is often touted as the last lawless place in America with no running...
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Between 1942 and 1977, Roy Sullivan was struck by lightning not once. Not twice. But seven times. Seven separate incidents, each documented. Each time, he survived. This is not a metaphor. This isn’t a folk tale. This is a real guy who lived through something so absurdly implausible that scientists have studied his...
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This is the true story of a woman who lured a series of vulnerable young people—most of them queer or trans—into her home with promises of friendship, acceptance, and a place to stay. But once inside, they weren’t allowed to just be themselves.
They had to become characters from Final Fantasy VII.
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What is the CIA vampire hoax? It was a 1950s military operation in which the CIA fought back against Filipino insurgents via psychological warfare by making them think that local vampires, known as the “Aswang,” were ready to kill them all, one by one.
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Who are the Carpet People? They’re two separate guys - Kevin Carpet and Georgio the Human Carpet - who have nothing to do with one another, yet they each inexplicably wrap themselves up in carpet to lie down in New York nightclubs, hoping that people will step on them.
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So, who are the people of Kalachi, Kazakhstan, and why did an entire town just decide to nap for days on end? Well, they didn’t exactly “decide” – but, in a phenomenon that still has people confounded years later, hundreds of villagers in Kalachi started randomly falling asleep for days. And by that, we don’t mean they got extra comfy on the couch; we’re talking multi-day comas. This town fell into the world’s longest nap, and even...
Who is William Banks? He’s a New York-based artist and comedian who specializes in avant garde performance art This includes forming his own cult, going to jail, breaking out of jail, committing a crypto scam, and donating all the profits from said scam to Palestinian charities. Cults, weird comedy, and financial scams? William Banks might just be the very embodiment of the internet.
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What is the sex raft experiment? In the extremely insane pantheon of insane 1970s science experiments, right next to dolphin handjobs and psychic spoon-bending, there lies one forgotten maritime debacle more Love Island than thesis. It was called the "Acali Experiment," but history remembers it by a better name: The Sex Raft.
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What happens when a teenager turns small-time theft into a nationwide manhunt? In this episode, we dive into the wild story of Colton Harris-Moore — better known as The Barefoot Bandit. From stolen planes to high-speed boat chases, Colton’s two-year crime spree captured headlines around the world and turned him into an unlikely folk hero.
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Vincent “The Chin” Gigante was a crime boss infamous for two pretty stellar feats. One: sounding like a Dick Tracy villain. And two: feigning mental illness in order avoid prosecution for a lifetime of crime. Most surprisingly, he almost pulled it off.
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Today we unravel one of the most infamous scandals in music history – the story of Milli Vanilli, the duo that rose to global stardom only to become the ultimate cautionary tale of pop culture. This is the tale of manufactured fame, kayfabe, and a lie that grew too big to sustain.
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Who is Gareb Shamus? He’s the founder of Wizard Magazine, an influential resource of comic book news in the ‘90s that contributed to the comic speculation market and subsequent crash of that era. And while he helped push the medium of entertainment news forward initially, more recently, you can find him hocking … NFTs?
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What is Roar? It’s a 1981 movie starring Noel Marshall, Tippi Hedren, and Melanie Griffith about a family that gets attacked by dozens of big cats. However, the movie itself isn’t all that interesting compared to the story behind it because throughout production, as many as 70 people were injured from those cats, making it one of the most dangerous film productions in history.
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The Dolphin House, the story of a flooded home, a scientist’s dream, and a dolphin named Peter who showed us all how important connection and *contact* can really be.
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Who is J. Fred Muggs? He was the chimp co-host of The Today Show who helped save the show from an early cancellation, much to the dismay of his co-host, who went to ridiculous lengths to get Muggs kicked off the show, including putting drugs in his drinks.
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While Howard Stern is now a reputable figure of pop culture, it’s easy to forget how truly shocking his ascent was. And in the case of his fame making feud, how dark it really was.
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