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Is QAnon A Cult? | Case File #94
November 10, 2021 15:43 - 2 hours - 160 MBWhat actually IS QAnon? Is it a cult? Is it a religion? Is it a grift? Are the people involved dumb or just confused and angry? We consult with 6 experts on QAnon, cults, psychology, and religion to get to the heart of that answer before finishing the QAnon saga next week. -- Travis View https://twitter.com/travis_view https://www.qanonanonymous.com Will Sommer https://twitter.com/willsommer https://www.thedailybeast.com/author/will-sommer https://www.amazon.com/Trust-Plan-Conspiracy-Reshape...
QAnon Side Story Double Feature | Case File #93
November 03, 2021 06:39 - 1 hour - 76.7 MBBefore heading into the final stretch of the QAnon saga, let's look at a couple more lighthearted side stories: Vincent Fuska and Zorth the QAnon Bigfoot. -- Join our brand new Discord server! https://bit.ly/deepcutsdiscord -- Pick up some Deep Cuts T-Shirts and other merch! https://bit.ly/deepcutsmerch -- Get the official Deep Cuts shoulder patch! http://bit.ly/deepcuts_patch -- Listen to our album, a 9 song rock opera about the rise and fall of Napster! https://open.spotify.com/album/63C5uu...
Hillsmer's Halloween Special II | Case File #92
November 02, 2021 13:38 - 45 minutes - 41.7 MBJoin Dave, Andrew, Hillsmer, and Zero on a very special second annual Halloween episode of Deep Cuts. -- Hillsmer’s Halloween Special II was written by Andrew and Dave and edited by Andrew. It featured Andrew, Dave, Hillsmer, Zero, Rex, Choochie Woochie, and…a mysterious narrator that we literally have no idea how he showed up on this recording. A special thanks to Brandon Nebitt and Mike Miller for no particular reason. All music written and performed by Andrew Price except the Pizza Pizza P...
QAnon Pt. 4: Ascendancy | Case File #91
October 27, 2021 10:33 - 3 hours - 185 MBPart 4 of an exhaustive multi-episode deep dive into the mega conspiracy movement, QAnon. In October of 2017, a mysterious poster known only as Q began posting cryptic messages on the image board 4Chan. As these messages started to be noticed by the users of the board, and eventually many people outside of 4Chan, Q slowly started to take shape as the leader of some kind of new movement. But where will that movement go? -- Poker & Politics Proof Debunk Mega-Thread: https://threadreaderapp.com/...
QAnon Pt. 3: Inception w/Travis View, Will Sommer, Fredrick Brennan | Case File #90
October 20, 2021 21:02 - 3 hours - 203 MBPart 3 of an exhaustive multi-episode deep dive into the mega conspiracy movement, QAnon. In October of 2017, a mysterious poster known only as Q began posting cryptic messages on the image board 4Chan. As these messages started to be noticed by the users of the board, and eventually many people outside of 4Chan, Q slowly started to take shape as the leader of some kind of new movement. But where will that movement go? -- Follow Travis View on Twitter https://twitter.com/travis_view Listen to...
QAnon Pt. 2: Blood Libel & HyperNormalisation | Case File #89
October 13, 2021 12:19 - 1 hour - 77.6 MBPart 2 of an exhaustive multi-episode deep dive into the mega conspiracy movement, QAnon. Dating back hundreds of years, people have spread anti-semitic conspiracy theories about Jews conspiring to kidnap and murder Christian children to drink their blood. And throughout the 20th century a radical shift in the nature of reality, the meaning of truth, and our collective trust in authority, occurred and slowly eroded any semblance of a collective worldview. All of these things have contributed ...
QAnon Pt. 1: Pizzagate | Case File #88
October 06, 2021 12:56 - 1 hour - 88.7 MBPart 1 of an exhaustive multi-episode deep dive into the mega conspiracy movement, QAnon. In November of 2016, amidst a monumental presidential election, WikiLeaks obtained 20,000 private emails from former White House Chief of Staff, John Podesta, and released them to the public. A handful of the emails contained references to various foods such as pizza. Seemingly innocent, but little did anyone know that it would spark the beginning of one of the biggest conspiracy movements of all time, d...
How Batman Was Stolen | Case File #87
September 29, 2021 12:02 - 1 hour - 106 MBBatman is one of the most well-known fictional characters of all time. He was completely stolen from his original creator. In the late 1930s, a new comic book character hit newsstands across the country. He was called The Bat-Man (later on just Batman), and he quickly took the nation by storm. Over the years he could go on to become one of the most popular characters - comic book or otherwise - ever conceived. And, as we all know, he was created by Bob Kane. He was credited as the sole creato...
Arthur Conan Doyle Pt. 2 | Case File #86
September 22, 2021 11:57 - 1 hour - 80 MBAn obsessed Sherlock Holmes fan lived out a bizarre and tragic real life Sherlock Holmes murder mystery. In the early 2000s, Richard Lancelyn Green, an obsessed Arthur Conan Doyle scholar and biographer, began down a path of obsession. He was searching for some lost papers on Conan Doyle that would allow him to write the definitive biography, but they had somehow fallen into the hands of an auction house to be sold to private collectors instead of a museum archive like they should have been. ...
Pizza Pizza Paparizza Memearizza Celebrizza Special 1 | Case File #85
September 18, 2021 05:57 - 1 hour - 95.6 MBThe first ever Pizza Pizza Paparizza Memearizza Celebrizza meme competition full-length episode. -- The Memes https://www.dropbox.com/sh/eephixesoy817hi/AACcIbgMu6vQC0PBWzq77qLta?dl=0 -- Join our brand new Discord server! https://bit.ly/deepcutsdiscord -- Pick up some Deep Cuts T-Shirts and other merch! https://bit.ly/deepcutsmerch -- Get the official Deep Cuts shoulder patch! http://bit.ly/deepcuts_patch -- Listen to our album, a 9 song rock opera about the rise and fall of Napster! https://...
Arthur Conan Doyle, Fairy Hunter | Case File #84
September 15, 2021 06:52 - 1 hour - 74 MBHe created Sherlock Holmes, the world's most famous detective. He also believed in fairies and magic. Throughout the late 1800s and early 1900s, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's literary creation, Sherlock Holmes, took the world by storm and became one of the most popular characters of all time. Holmes was known for his dedication to science and his brilliant deduction skills, and the man who created him equally valued these skills and - by many accounts - largely based the character on himself. Howe...
Dark and Bloody History of Chiquita Banana | Case File #83
September 08, 2021 09:33 - 2 hours - 116 MBThe origins of the world's biggest banana company are darker than you could ever imagine. In the late 1800s, several enterprising American businessman saw an opportunity to move into Central America and build successful companies growing, shipping, and selling bananas to the masses. Several fruit companies cropped up during this time, but none bigger or more powerful than the United Fruit Company - which would later become known as Chiquita Brands International, seller of Chiquita Bananas. Bu...
Velocity Gnome Pt. 2 w/ Dylan Reiff & Joe Korsmo | Case File #82
September 03, 2021 08:51 - 2 hours - 120 MBTwo complete strangers planned out an elaborate 3-year prank on a 19-year-old guy that would change his life forever. Today we interview those two guys. -- This Week's Listener Memes: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/vxoh6aq0jb51jws/AAC9w8mdITkhSNpwpT_rIiY2a?dl=0 -- Pick up some Deep Cuts T-Shirts and other merch! https://bit.ly/deepcutsmerch -- Get the official Deep Cuts shoulder patch! http://bit.ly/deepcuts_patch -- Listen to our new album, a 9 song rock opera about the rise and fall of Napster!...
The Twilight Zone Movie Deaths | Case File #81
September 01, 2021 07:26 - 1 hour - 90.7 MBOne of the most famous movie directors was involved in the death of a legendary actor and two children on his set. In the early 1980s, hot off the heels of several hit movies, director John Landis was hired to direct a segment from the Twilight Zone movie being produced by Steven Spielberg. After a series of shady decisions - most of them illegal, Landis ended up directing a scene at 2:30 AM featuring an actor, two small children, a bunch of fake rain and explosions, and an actual helicopter....
James Hydrick, Psychic With a Dark Secret | Case File #80
August 25, 2021 08:25 - 1 hour - 98.3 MBHe fooled the world into believing he had telekinetic powers, but his true secret was much darker. In the late 1970s, James Hydrick came onto the scene claiming to have the ability to move objects with his mind. This landed him in newspaper articles, owning a handful of martial arts dojos, and making several television appearances where he demonstrated his powers. For a while it seemed like he had fooled the world...until he had a VERY bad week, and his lies were revealed. But that wasn't the...
Anton LaVey, Father of Satanism | Case File #79
August 18, 2021 08:59 - 1 hour - 93.9 MBHe invented the Satanic Church to shock people, but he had an immeasurable impact on our culture. In the 1960s, Anton LaVey founded the Church or Satan, wrote the Satanic Bible, and became one of the most infamous figures in history. But so many people wildly misunderstand what LaVey and the Church of Satan was about. On this episode of Deep Cuts, we explore the strange world of Anton LaVey and the Church of Satan. -- This Week's Listener Memes: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/tw7vq8kb9zhmdon/AAAr...
Disney VS the Air Pirates | Case File #78
August 11, 2021 11:59 - 1 hour - 94.4 MBThey stole Mickey Mouse and put him in comics where he did drugs and had sex. The legal battle they fought against Disney saved free speech. In the late 1960s, newspaper cartoonist Dan O'Neill wanted to walk away from his job at the San Francisco Chronicle with ownership of the copyright to his comic strip, Odd Bodkins. But they wouldn't give it to him. So he hatched a plan. He'd start sticking tons of Disney characters like Mickey Mouse into his strip and then get Disney to sue him, which wo...
Citizen, Orwellian Nightmare App | Case File #77
August 04, 2021 07:00 - 1 hour - 77.5 MBIt's an app where people can learn about and report crimes in their neighborhood. It's designed to make us spy on each other and stoke fear. In the mid 2010s, Andrew Frame and his company launched an app called Vigilante which was literally designed to listen to police scanner broadcasts, alert users of crimes in their area, and encourage them to go...be vigilantes. The app was immediately shut down by all app stores within 48 hours. So they re-branded as Citizen, an app that's merely suppose...
Velocity Gnome, Greatest Prank Of All Time | Case File #76
July 28, 2021 15:47 - 2 hours - 136 MBTwo complete strangers planned out an elaborate 3-year prank on a 19-year-old guy that would change his life forever. In August of 2003, Kolin Pope - known as Velocity Gnome on the Internet - got a knock at his door. It was a man from the future named Zane Figiam who handed him a scrapbook that foretold that Kolin would one day become to savior of all mankind and the leader of the Resistance army that would go on to fight against an evil robot army that would eventually conquer the world. Lit...
The Worst Dating Service Of All Time | Case File #75
July 21, 2021 10:08 - 1 hour - 91 MBThe Dating Ring was a service that flew single women from New York City to go on blind dates with tech bros in Silicon Valley. It didn't go well. In the early 2010s, dating startup The Dating Ring got into the Y Combinator program and worked for several months trying to develop a successful business model. They cycled through many different ideas, the founders fighting and struggling to feel confident in their abilities. They finally settled on the bizarre idea to take advantage of the shorta...
Ashtar Galactic Command, Accidental Religion | Case File #74
July 14, 2021 10:18 - 1 hour - 59.2 MBAn airport owner in the 1950s created a weird story about time machines and aliens to get more business. It ended up becoming a religion. In the late 1950s, George Van Tassel was running a small airport in Giant Rock, California. One day, out of nowhere for this seemingly normal clean-cut business owner and family man, Van Tassel started peddling a story about how he'd been visited by an alien who had given him plans to build a time machine. The story was clearly meant to drum of word of mout...
The Church That Worships Machine Guns | Case File #73
July 07, 2021 08:19 - 1 hour - 80 MBThey started off as a religious cult in the 1980s, but turned into a smaller cult that literally worships guns. In the 1980s, The Moonies were a very popular hyper-religious cult. Now, the son of the leader of that cult, Sean Moon, has started his own smaller offshoot. And they worship guns. On this episode of Deep Cuts, we delve into the bizarre and terrifying world of the Church of Guns. -- Pick up some Deep Cuts T-Shirts and other merch! https://bit.ly/deepcutsmerch -- Get the official Dee...
Man Who Killed 19 Aliens With a Katana | Case File #72
June 30, 2021 07:36 - 1 hour - 71.5 MBHe claims to fight extraterrestrials on his ranch in Arizona on a daily basis, and to have killed 19 of them with a sword. John Edmonds and his wife bought Stardust Ranch in the late 90s so they could retire on the outskirts of Phoenix, Arizona. However, quickly after moving in they discovered that the place was swarming with aliens from another world. Or so they claim. Edmonds says that dozens of these aliens warp in from their spaceships and attack him on a daily basis, and he defends himse...
Forest Ray Colson, the Man From Mars | Case File #71
June 23, 2021 04:21 - 1 hour - 61.8 MBIn the 1950s, he dressed up like an apocalyptic storm trooper and robbed banks. Nobody remembers him. Forest Ray Colson was ex-military and an ex-cop. He'd gone on tour during World War II without ever seeing combat, and he was fired from two different police stations for improper conduct. But he wanted power and he wanted to be respected. And so, in the early 1950s, he started dressing up in a terrifying apocalyptic costume and robbing banks in Southern California. He ravaged the area for 10...
Unmaking of Shane Carruth Pt. 2 | Case File #70
June 16, 2021 07:30 - 4 hours - 243 MBHe created some of the most inventive films in history, but his continued struggles with Hollywood would lead to a dark, self-destructive spiral. In the early 2000s, a software engineer from Texas decided to spend $7,000 making an independent film about time travel called 'Primer.' The movie would go on to win at the Sundance film festival and become a huge cult hit. He would go on to spend the next 20 years struggling to get more of his films made - with increasing frustrations with the Holl...
Unmaking of Shane Carruth Pt. 1 | Case File #69
June 09, 2021 07:01 - 4 hours - 225 MBHe created some of the most inventive films in history, but his continued struggles with Hollywood would lead to a dark, self-destructive spiral. In the early 2000s, a software engineer from Texas decided to spend $7,000 making an independent film about time travel called 'Primer.' The movie would go on to win at the Sundance film festival and become a huge cult hit. He would go on to spend the next 20 years struggling to get more of his films made - with increasing frustrations with the Holl...
The Man Who Got Boobs on a Bet | Case File #68
June 02, 2021 07:26 - 1 hour - 67.3 MBIn the late 90s he got breast implants to win a $100k bet. 20 years later he still has them. In 1996, Brian Zembic, a somewhat eccentric gambling addict, entered into a wager with a fellow gambling friend that he would get breast implants for an entire year for $100,000. He did it, but then after that year he kept the breasts, and has basically crafted his entire life and personality around having them. The weird transphobia at play in this decades-long publicity stunt is troubling and fascin...
How Konami Screwed Hideo Kojima | Case File #67
May 26, 2021 08:39 - 3 hours - 165 MBHe created the Metal Gear franchise and became one of the world's only mega-famous video game designers. And then his company tried to erase his legacy. Throughout the 80s and 90s, Hideo Kojima crafted some of the most interesting, as well as most successful video games in the world. He created the Metal Gear franchise, which experienced massive critical and commercial success over the last three decades. However, in the 2010s there started to be a sea change in the video game world. Things w...
Issei Sagawa, Cannibal Celebrity | Case File #66
May 19, 2021 04:00 - 1 hour - 69.2 MBHe murdered and ate someone, but was set free and became a Japanese national celebrity. Throughout his childhood growing up in the 70s and 80s, Iseei Sagawa harbored a dark secret. He craved human flesh. While in college in France, this dark desire finally resulted in him murdering and eating a fellow classmate. However, due to weird legal technicalities, he wasn't put in prison for his heinous crime. He was deported back to Japan where he was a free man. But that was only the beginning of th...
Buckaroo Banzai w/Dan Berger | Case File #65
May 12, 2021 12:02 - 1 hour - 107 MBIt's one of the most truly strange films ever made, and we are going to delve into how it came to be. Throughout the late 70s, an idea was cooking in the minds of writer and musician Earl Mac Rauch and writer/director W.D. Richter. It was for an episodic multi-film adventure franchise about a half American/half Japanese scientist/rockstar/race car driver fighting a legion of evil aliens across multiple dimensions. And, while this idea eventually only resulted in one single film in 1984 - The ...
Ultraman In Thailand | Case File #64
May 05, 2021 10:52 - 1 hour - 60.9 MBA Thai production company licensed Ultraman for one movie, but they'd try and illegally build a bootleg empire with it. In the 1970s, a production company in Thailand was given permission to produce a single film utilizing characters from the popular Japanese series, Ultraman. However, instead of just doing the one movie, the company decided to just act as if they'd been given partial ownership of the franchise. They started producing their own original movies and tv shows using Ultraman char...
Slender Man | Case File #63
April 28, 2021 07:00 - 1 hour - 78.5 MBHe was a meme created for an Internet photoshop contest. A few short years later he would drive two young girls to stab their friend 19 times. In the early 2000s, Slender Man popped up as a ubiquitous Internet meme on platforms such as YouTube and the various forums that power the underbelly of the Internet. Much lore was created about the origins of the mysterious tall man in a black suit with no face, bu in reality he was created as part of a Photoshop contest in which the goal was to creat...
North Korea Kidnapped a Famous Director | Case File #62
April 21, 2021 10:24 - 1 hour - 70.9 MBShin Sang-Ok was the most famous film director in South Korea in the 1970s, until he was kidnapped by North Korea and forced to make a Godzilla ripoff. Throughout the 60s and 70s, Shin Sang-Ok created a massive reputation for himself making highly successful films in South Korea. However, in the late 70s his ex-wife went missing - seemingly kidnapped by the North Korean government. Sang-Ok went looking for her and ended up being kidnapped himself. Thus begun his over a decade long tenure as a...
John McAfee Is a F!#$ing Maniac | Case File #61
April 14, 2021 11:21 - 3 hours - 177 MBThe creator of McAfee Antivirus attempted to overthrow the Belizean government with his own private army and likely brutally murdered two men. In the early 90s, John McAfee launched the company responsible for the McAfee Antivirus software that was basically preinstalled on every computer throughout the 90s and 2000s. But he quickly sold his company and used his massive wealth to live a life of seclusion and shady business dealings. He eventually fled the United States and started living like...
Winsor McCay, Inventor of Animation | Case File #60
April 07, 2021 07:00 - 43 minutes - 40.1 MBHe was a brilliant illustrator who basically invented comics AND animation. Throughout the 1920s and 1930s, Winsor McCay was one of the most prolific artists and illustrators in the world. He drew lavish editorial illustrations for the biggest newspapers in the country, had several ongoing comic strips where he defined a lot of the rules of the entire comics medium, and he was one of the first people to think of ways to utilize multiple illustrations to create a moving image - which would eve...
Mothman | Case File #59
March 31, 2021 07:56 - 1 hour - 72.9 MBA mysterious bird-like creature that is able to predict future tragedies has lived in the peripheries of our imaginations for decades. What is it? In the mid-60s, four people ran into a mysterious flying creature with glowing eyes while driving through the woods in the middle of the night. They reported the encounter to the media, and from that point on, any time a tragedy would occur, somebody would claim to spot this alleged "Mothman" lurking nearby. On this episode of Deep Cuts we dive int...
The Bizarre Empire of The Wiggles | Case File #58
March 24, 2021 08:19 - 1 hour - 85.2 MBYou've heard of this children's group, but did you know about their crazy rise to power? The Wiggles formed in the early 90s and had a meteoric rise to fame that is more fascinating than you'd ever imagine - with triumph, tragedy, pain, death, and illness. And they've risen above it all to be one of the most strangely enduring music group for preschoolers in history. -- Get the official Deep Cuts shoulder patch! http://bit.ly/deepcuts_patch -- Listen to our new album, a 9 song rock opera abou...
Disney World Has Its Own Government | Case File #57
March 17, 2021 11:02 - 1 hour - 92.5 MBDisney World was originally supposed to be a futuristic city, but it still has its own creepy corporate government. In the mid-1960s, Walt Disney was bored with his animation studio and frustrated and dissatisfied with the creative freedom he had with the 160 acre Disneyland theme park he had just built a few years prior. So he set his sights on something bigger. He was going to buy up a massive plot of land in Central Florida and build a private, corporately-owned city of the future called E...
How the WEIRD SATANIST GUY Went Viral w/Andrew Bowser | Case File #56
March 10, 2021 13:50 - 2 hours - 132 MBHe appeared on the Internet talking about his love for Satan, and then he became a household name. In the mid-2010s, videos started popping up on social media featuring a strange man dressed in an outfit that looked like it was purchased off the mannequin at a Hot Topic in 2005. He would appear around the country at various events captured on the news, and he always had an incredibly unique, hilarious, perplexing, and often-Satan-themed take on whatever was going on. He soon became a huge vir...
Captain Marvel's Racist Secret | Case File #55
March 03, 2021 08:25 - 1 hour - 66 MBThe creator of Captain Marvel/Shazam! is a singular talent with a dark legacy of racism. In the late 1930s, the legendary comic character, Captain Marvel, who would later become known as Shazam! because of copyright issues, was created by writer Bill Parker and illustrator C.C. Beck. He went on to become more popular than Superman for a long period of time, adapted into multiple movies and tv shows, and just another piece of pop culture history for comic fans. However, the early inception of ...
Juggalos | Case File #54
February 24, 2021 12:42 - 2 hours - 164 MBA deep dive into the bizarre history of this fascinating but massive subculture. In the late 80s, a rap duo formed called the Insane Clown Posse - comprised of two men nicknamed Violent J and Shaggy 2Dope. They would go on to become massively successful for a time, but more importantly found a massive community of people all over the country called Juggalos. They're a tight-knit community of likeminded weirdos who wear clown face paint, listen to ICP, and...at one point were classified as a g...
1918 Pandemic, AKA Spanish Flu | Case File #53
February 17, 2021 10:53 - 1 hour - 64.1 MBThe 1918 global pandemic is almost note-for-note identical to what is happening today. In 1918, a severe case of influenza ravaged the entire planet - killing around 50 Million people worldwide in the span of a few years. The way we handled with it, the misinformation, the denial, the politicization, and everything else surrounding the Spanish Flu was oddly similar to what has happened in the last year of the COVID-19 pandemic, and yet we didn't seem to learn anything from it because, for wha...
Woman Who Co-Wrote Novels With a Ghost | Case File #52
February 10, 2021 11:06 - 45 minutes - 41.3 MBPearl Curran wrote several novels in her lifetime, but she claims they were all actually written by a ghost. In the early 1900s, Pearl Curran became famous because she was a published novelist who claimed to have written all of her books by communicating with a spirit through a Ouija board. The ghost would communicate the words to her, and she would write them down. Was this true? Was Pearl insane? Or was she a con artist? We dive into the odd and fascinating story of Pearl Curran on this epi...
How Gamestop Bankrupted Wall Street | Case File #51
February 03, 2021 12:39 - 1 hour - 103 MBAn exhaustive breakdown of how Reddit bankrupted Wall Street using Gamestop stock. In late January 2020, a bunch of amateur stock traders in the subreddit /r/WallStreetBets decided that they would hatch a plan to drive up the value of stock shares in the ailing video game retailer, Gamestop. They bought up tons of the stock and within a few days the shares went up from $12 to over $400. Because a bunch of hedge funds had been majorly betting against Gamestop's stock improving, this move liter...
Dan Bilzerian, Social Media Fraud | Case File #50
January 27, 2021 08:00 - 50 minutes - 46.6 MBHe projected a lifestyle of riches, fame, women, cars, and guns...but it was all a lie. Dan Bilzerian started as a professional poker player that came from a rich - albeit controversial - family. Then, at some point in the 2010s he transitioned into being this ubiquitous Internet influencer - posting pictures of his wild parties, surrounded by beautiful models, in giant mansions, brandishing huge guns, and just generally showing off an aspirational lifestyle that garnered him a ton of attenti...
The Warrens, Ghost Grifters & Secret Pedophiles? | Case File #49
January 20, 2021 11:08 - 1 hour - 56.5 MBThe Conjuring was based on them, they were world famous ghost hunters, but they had two very dark secrets. Throughout the 60s, 70s, 80s, 90s, all the way up to their deaths in the late 2000s, Ed and Lorraine Warren were world famous for hunting ghosts, spirits, and other supernatural entities. They were a fiercely religious married couple who claimed to be demonologists and mediums. The Amityville Horror was based on one of their cases. They were the owners of the Annabelle doll. They are the...
Helen Keller Doesn't Exist? | Case File #48
January 13, 2021 11:02 - 1 hour - 89.3 MBA movement of millions of teenagers on Tik Tok now believe Helen Keller is a hoax. Why? At some point during this hells cape we called 2020, what started off as possibly a joke turned into a movement of millions of Gen Z kids on Tik Tok who collectively developed an elaborate conspiracy theory about how Helen Keller wasn't a real person. Some people believe she never existed. Some believe she was a scam artist. Some believe she was faking at least one of her disabilities. But either way, it's...
Hobby Horsing, Competitive Fake Horse Riding | Case File #47
January 06, 2021 08:00 - 1 hour - 56.3 MBIn Finland, thousands of little girls compete in national competitions where they do tricks on fake horses. Around 2004, a bizarre trend popped up in Finland among preteen girls - Hobby Horsing. Where little girls trains laboriously to compete in Olympics-style competitions where they take one of those horse heads on a wooden stick and ride it around doing intricate tricks and jumping over hurdles. The competitions are judged like an actual horse show, and the girls take their dedication to t...
Rise and Fall of Napster | Case File #46
December 30, 2020 12:42 - 1 hour - 100 MBNapster came out of nowhere, was the biggest thing in the world, and then disappeared just as quickly. What really happened? In the late 90s, the music industry was on the verge of change. Many were concerned about the growing popularity of the Internet, and how digital files could be easily shared from home to home. Could this have some kind of lasting effect on sales of albums somewhere down the line? But all that changed when a new program popped out seemingly out of nowhere: Napster. And ...
Hillsmer's Holiday Special | Case File #45
December 28, 2020 14:47 - 21 minutes - 19.4 MBJoin Dave, Andrew, and Hillsmer on a very special Holiday episode of Deep Cuts. 00110000 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices