Timesuck with Dan Cummins
511 episodes - English - Latest episode: 15 days ago - ★★★★★ - 21K ratingsEach week, Dan Cummins enthusiastically deep dives into everything from cults to killers to conspiracies, absurdly and sarcastically sharing the best of what he uncovers with you. Join the Cult of the Curious!
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409 - Elvis Presley
July 01, 2024 18:00 - 2 hours - 152 MBWhat do you know about the King, baby? Did you know how poor he was growing up? How quickly he became famous as an adult? Did you know he had a pet chimp, Scatter, that he let get drunk and terrorized costars on some of his movie sets? A lot about Elvis and a little bit on the history of Rock n Roll this week! Thank ya very much. Watch the Suck on YouTube: https://youtu.be/pd-Dm1tfkOU Merch and more: www.badmagicproductions.com Timesuck Discord! https://discord.gg/tqzH89v Want to join...
Short Suck #12 - The Dark Truth about Pornhub (And Where You Can Jerk/Rub Ethically!)
June 28, 2024 18:30 - 53 minutes - 48.6 MBDo you know why Pornhub removed over 80% of its content at the end of 2020? The site was littered with child pornography and rape videos. Is it still? And if it is, where else can you go to find some "ethical pornography"? A look into where to (and where not to) beat your beaver and clean your meat-rifle today! WATCH THIS EPISODE: https://youtu.be/4coiGblMKAs For Merch and everything else Bad Magic related, head to: https://www.badmagicproductions.com
408 - Larry Nassar and the US Gymnastics Scandal
June 24, 2024 18:00 - 2 hours - 138 MBHow was Dr. Larry Nasser able to sexually abuse over 500 victims, almost all of them young female gymnasts, over a period of 25+ years, in plain sight? He abused many of them while their parents sat right next to them, or across the room. And what culture of abuse was exposed when he was finally investigated? His dad needs help! Lance Rechichar's email: [email protected] Watch the Suck on YouTube: https://youtu.be/QG1tBOFl_7Y Merch and more: www.badmagicproductions.com Tim...
407 - Serial Flasher/Rapist/Killer Randy Woodfield
June 17, 2024 18:00 - 2 hours - 149 MBI don't know if anyone has ever loved exposing themselves to strangers as much as Randy Woodfield. The serial flasher, rapist, and I-5 Killer had an unusual childhood for a sexual predator - it was wonderful. He grew up in a loving, two-parent home, in a charming Oregon coast town, where he got good grades, was popular, and so good at football he was drafted into the NFL. So what happened? Watch the Suck on YouTube: https://youtu.be/6xg6yjDaO5s Merch and more: www.badmagicproductions.com ...
Short Suck #11 - The Khamar-Daban Incident
June 14, 2024 18:30 - 58 minutes - 53.2 MBWhat really happened to a group of seven hikers in the Khamar-Daban mountain range in Siberia on August 5th, 1993? Did six of them really begin to bleed from their eyes and ears before they all died in a state of utter madness? And if so - what, exactly, killed them? We look at the known facts and examine some of the conspiracies today and present a possible answer. WATCH THIS EPISODE: https://youtu.be/SFJ1tRqiWJI For Merch and everything else Bad Magic related, head to: https://www.badma...
406 - Nickelodeon's Dan Schneider: Witch Hunt Victim or Predator?
June 10, 2024 18:00 - 2 hours - 154 MBOn March 17th, 2024, the first episode of a five-part docuseries, Quiet on Set: The Dark Side of Kids TV aired on Investigation Discovery and MAX, accusing Dan Schneider of fostering a hostile work environment and overly sexualizing young cast members while he was in charge of several hit kid's shows. The series also insinuates that Dan may be a sexual predator. Is he? Or is the docuseries a hatchet job that unfairly has unfairly demonized someone? What IS the truth about young actors worki...
405 - The Real Peaky Blinders
June 03, 2024 18:00 - 2 hours - 110 MBToday we learn about who the real Peaky Blinders were? How much of the hit BBC/Netflix series is historically accurate? Who were these stylish Birmingham gangsters? Watch the Suck on YouTube: https://youtu.be/K2q9Q-swcUU Merch and more: www.badmagicproductions.com Timesuck Discord! https://discord.gg/tqzH89v Want to join the Cult of the Curious PrivateFacebook Group? Go directly to Facebook and search for "Cult of the Curious" to locate whatever happens to be our most current page :) ...
404 - The Moonies Cult 2: Empire in Decline
May 28, 2024 18:00 - 1 hour - 110 MBToday we conclude yesterday's wild exploration of the cult Sun Myung Moon founded in Seoul, South Korea, in 1954. Moon's corruption and insanity finally begin to catch up with him before his death sends the empire he built into chaos. Also - Black Heung Jin may be the most entertaining character I've ever come across in any of these episodes. I wish we knew SO much more about his crazy ass. Hail Nimrod! Watch the Suck on YouTube: https://youtu.be/2KdsEm3TdIk Merch and more: www.badmagicp...
403 - The Moonies Cult: Sex, Control, and Marrying the Dead
May 27, 2024 18:30 - 2 hours - 125 MBIn Seoul, South Korea, in 1954, Sun Myung Moon founded the Holy Spirit Association for the Unification of World Christianity, a new religious institution that would quickly become known as the Unification Church, and one of the biggest cults in modern history. Adherents would come to be known as "Moonies," following the controlling teachings a man who considered himself a new Jesus. Sexual rituals, physical and psychological abuse, financial corruption, and so much more follow in this real ...
Short Suck #10 - Andrea Yates
May 24, 2024 18:30 - 52 minutes - 48.3 MBOn June 20th, 2001, former high school valedictorian, captain of the swim team, and registered nurse, Andrea Yates, coldly drowned all five of her children in a bathtub. Is she a monster.... or also a tragic victim? We explore the intersection of murder and mental illness on this heavy bonus episode. WATCH THIS EPISODE: https://youtu.be/pb7wmFLBstY For Merch and everything else Bad Magic related, head to: https://www.badmagicproductions.com
402 - Population Control Conspiracies: Are Wealthy Elites Trying To Kill You?
May 20, 2024 18:00 - 3 hours - 168 MBAre wealthy elites like Bill Gates and George Soros using their money and power to sterilize and/or kill you through vaccines, chemtrails, and more in their nefarious schemes to depopulate the planet? Or are population control conspiracies based on a bunch of paranoid nonsense? I think you know the answer but listen anyway! Watch the Suck on YouTube: https://youtu.be/sqPf4R1AMwY Merch and more: www.badmagicproductions.com Timesuck Discord! https://discord.gg/tqzH89v Want to join the ...
401 - Kenneth McDuff: The Broomstick Killer
May 13, 2024 18:00 - 2 hours - 156 MBKenneth McDuff killed three high school students the night of August 6th, 1966, repeatedly raping and sexually torturing one of them first. He'd be sent to death row for those crimes. But then, he'd have his sentence reduced to life in prison. And then, he'd get released on parole at the age of 43 and start killing again within 72 hours of leaving prison. Find out what legal changes made his release possible, and how his case drastically changed Texas's criminal justice system once he was ca...
Short Suck #9 - The US Human Body Trade
May 10, 2024 18:30 - 52 minutes - 47.8 MBWhat happens to your body when it is donated to science? Does it actually end up in front of some doctor or medical student? Not necessarily. Sometimes it ends up being sold by nefarious body brokers to be used for explosive detonation testing or to add to the collection of some weirdo who just likes dead bodies. What happens to corpses in the US is not nearly as regulated as you probably think. Watch the Suck on YouTube: https://youtu.be/_Wem61jufrQ For Merch and everything else Bad Magi...
400 - Molly and Michael Jackson: Rolling on the King of Pop!
May 06, 2024 18:00 - 2 hours - 137 MBMichael Jackson is the most successful solo act in the history of recorded music. Only the Beatles have sold more albums. He has the top selling album of all time, Thriller. And the 5th best selling album of all time, Bad. He was arguably the most famous man in the history of the world at his career's peak. But also.... a very troubled, beyond eccentric person who was creepy with kids, at best, or... a pedophile. I try and explore his life today... while fighting against the effects of a dou...
399 - Osage Murders: The True Story Behind Killers of the Flower Moon
April 29, 2024 18:00 - 2 hours - 149 MBThe Osage Reign of Terror - dramatized recently in the 2023 award winning Martin Scorsese film, Killers of the Flower Moon based on the 2017 book of the same name - has been described as an epidemic of murders and mysterious deaths among the people of the Osage Nation. This is a wild story of a preposterous amount of corruption, conspiracy, and cold-blooded killing. Most experts state that at least sixty murders - and quite possibly HUNDREDS - were committed between 1918 and 1931, with the m...
Short Suck #8 - Horror in the Woods: The Keddie Cabin Murders
April 26, 2024 18:30 - 43 minutes - 39.6 MBOn Saturday night, April 11th, 1981, a young mother, her teenage son, and her son's teenage friend, were all violently murdered in the small, picturesque community of Keddie, California. One of her daughters was also kidnapped, and also murdered. No one was ever charged. Did local authorities help coverup the most gruesome killings in the history of Plumas County? Watch the Suck on YouTube: https://youtu.be/Yf5vYWfrE88 For Merch and everything else Bad Magic related, head to: https://www....
398 - August Engelhardt and the Coconut Cult
April 22, 2024 18:00 - 2 hours - 130 MBDid you know that in 1902, August Engelhardt travelled from Germany to a small island in the South Pacific and tried to build a community based mostly in worship of the sun, being naked all the time, and literally only eating coconuts? He tried for seventeen years. Oh yeah. This is a weird one. Watch the Suck on YouTube: https://youtu.be/RKATRYFl5-Y Merch and more: www.badmagicproductions.com Timesuck Discord! https://discord.gg/tqzH89v Want to join the Cult of the Curious Private Face...
397 - Jim Bakker: The Rise and Fall (and Rise Again) of an American Grifter
April 15, 2024 18:00 - 2 hours - 157 MBJim Bakker, and his wife, Tammy Faye, revolutionized tele-evangelism in the 1970s and 1980s. Their PTL Club, was, at it's height, pulling in millions a WEEK in donations to support their cause. But their cause was a lie. Jim was not who he claimed to be, and financial and sexual improprieties would send him to prison... before he got out and started running his scam all over again. Watch the Suck on YouTube: https://youtu.be/VhHZaIOtbm8 Merch and more: www.badmagicproductions.com Timesu...
Short Suck #7 - Survive the Apocalypse in Style: The World of Luxury Doomsday Bunkers
April 12, 2024 18:30 - 45 minutes - 41.6 MBDo you have a plan in mind for what you would do in a doomsday event like nuclear war, alien invasion, a deadly plague, some Terminator Skynet style "robots have turned against humanity" scenario, etc.? Some people do. Some very rich people. And it's insane what they're building in case everything goes off the rails. Watch the Suck on YouTube: https://youtu.be/JKR0YpYTO1E For Merch and everything else Bad Magic related, head to: https://www.badmagicproductions.com
396 - One Man Race War: Joseph Paul Franklin
April 08, 2024 18:00 - 2 hours - 128 MBFrom 1977 to 1980, Joseph Paul Franklin went on a multi-state murder and mayhem spree, bombing a synagogue, shooting at people exiting another, and shooting interracial couples, lone black men, women who had previously dated black men, and a white porn magazine owner for publishing nude photos of an interracial couple. All in a delusional attempt to ignite a race war. Find out how an abused and confused little boy named James Clayton Vaughn, Jr. transformed into a full grown monster, Joseph...
395 - Ervil LeBaron: The Mormon Manson
April 03, 2024 18:00 - 2 hours - 130 MBErvil LeBaron was raised by a cult leader... would have several brothers who were cult leaders...and would father several more cult leaders. And out of all of them, he was the worst. The Mormon Manson loved to call for blood atonement - ordering the execution of between 20 and 30 people, many of them rival cult leaders. Watch the Suck on YouTube: https://youtu.be/Ss5QOux5xtw Merch and more: www.badmagicproductions.com Timesuck Discord! https://discord.gg/tqzH89v Want to join the Cult...
394 - Serial Killer Richard Byrd: The Las Vegas Strip Strangler
April 01, 2024 18:00 - 2 hours - 114 MBHave you ever heard of disturbing serial killer Richard Byrd? He raped and strangled eight young women to death in Las Vegas between 1991 and 2001, but almost no one has heard of him, because he was arrested... the day after 9/11. And he took a plea bargain and never went to trial. Hear his wild story today... and never think about hair brushes the same way again. Watch the Suck on YouTube: https://youtu.be/2ndQSjHBWPs Merch and more: www.badmagicproductions.com Timesuck Discord! https:/...
393 - Tonight We Dine In Hell! The Spartans
March 25, 2024 18:00 - 2 hours - 127 MBToday we explore what life was really like for ancient Greece's feared warriors, the Spartans. How close was it to the Hollywood depiction in movies like 300? We go over the history of the militaristic city-state and much more. For the glory of Sparta! Watch the Suck on YouTube: https://youtu.be/Y_AK9uE9TIw Merch and more: www.badmagicproductions.com Timesuck Discord! https://discord.gg/tqzH89v Want to join the Cult of the Curious Private Facebook Group? Go directly to Facebook and sea...
Short Suck #6 - A Van Life Nightmare: The Gabby Petito Story
March 22, 2024 18:30 - 57 minutes - 52.8 MBOn July 2nd, 2021, 22 year-old Gabby Petito and her fiancé, 23 year old Brian Laundrie, left the quaint hamlet of Blue Point, Long Island to embark upon on a cross-country adventure in a white, modified, 2012 Ford Transit Connect van. Less than two months later, what appeared to be the trip of a lifetime based on social media posts, ended in both of their deaths. Hope you enjoy this Short Suck! Have a great weekend! Watch the Suck on YouTube: https://youtu.be/rsN67r9hnLU For Merch and eve...
392 - Let The People Trip! (What Psychedelics Are and Where They Come From)
March 18, 2024 18:00 - 3 hours - 166 MBVery informative episode today! I learned so much and hope you do too. We explore the history of human psychedelic usage, and also dive into the origin, properties, dangers, and benefits of the most popular psychedelics today: LSD, MDMA, Magic Mushrooms, DMT, and Peyote. I loved psychedelics before this episode, and love them even more after learning what I share this week. Watch the Suck on YouTube: https://youtu.be/jxcKBIgK0uc Merch and more: www.badmagicproductions.com Timesuck Disc...
391 - Skinny Folks Go To Heaven: The Remnant Fellowship Cult
March 11, 2024 18:00 - 2 hours - 144 MBDid you ever think that overeating, specifically, could send your soul to Hell? Or that not losing enough weight, fast enough, could jeopardize your salvation? These are just some of the many terrible (and bizarre) messages that very skinny self-proclaimed "prophetess" Gwen Shamblin Lara preached before she died in a plane crash in 2021. Sadly, the cultish church she built, lives on. And this week, we explore (and mock) its weirdly weight-centric teachings. Watch the Suck on YouTube: http...
Short Suck #5 - The Wild West's Deadliest Hitman: Jim "Killer" Miller
March 08, 2024 19:30 - 45 minutes - 42.1 MBJim Miller. Killin' Jim. Right before stepping off a wooden crate with a noose around his neck, in front of the members of the lynch mob that wanted him dead, Miller claimed to have killed 51 men. I believe him. This guy put the wild... in the wild west. Hope you enjoy this Short Suck! Have a great weekend! Watch the Suck on YouTube: https://youtu.be/WMLoTqgsyDU For Merch and everything else Bad Magic related, head to: https://www.badmagicproductions.com
390 - The Florida Vampire Murders
March 04, 2024 19:00 - 2 hours - 148 MBOn the night of November 25th, 1996, Rick Wendorf, 49, and his partner Ruth Queen, 54, were beaten to death with a crowbar inside their home in Eustis, Florida, by a vampire over 500 years old known as Vesago. At least that's what their killer believed. "Vesago" was really Rod Ferrell, a sixteen year-old from Murray, Kentucky, who lost himself in a vampiric role playing game, and truly thought he'd become an immortal bloodsucker. Watch the Suck on YouTube: https://youtu.be/Tj4P-thTEdc Mer...
389 - The Fourth Dimension
February 26, 2024 19:00 - 2 hours - 131 MBExploring some super interesting and strange territory today. I might not be able to record any more podcasts because NOW MY BRAIN IS MELTED! In this episode, we explore the theoretical concept of the fourth dimension, see how it applies to the nature of our reality and our dreams, and explore how some think it proves the existence of the soul... and ghosts. (cue Twilight Zone melody...) Watch the Suck on YouTube: https://youtu.be/0kfpTPgvzhY Merch and more: www.badmagicproductions.com T...
Short Suck #4 - The Dark Disappearing Act of John List
February 23, 2024 19:30 - 49 minutes - 45.8 MBToday's Short Suck is all about John List. With a bankruptcy looming, worried about the shame he'd face for no longer being able to provide his family with the life they'd grown accustomed to, and supposedly worried about their salvation as well, John makes some extreme and horrific choices to "save" their souls. Hope you enjoy! And have a great weekend! Watch the Suck on YouTube: https://youtu.be/Aia59A-hm5Y For Merch and everything else Bad Magic related, head to: https://www.badmagicpr...
388 - How To Rid Yourself of Demons: A History of Exorcisms
February 19, 2024 19:00 - 2 hours - 132 MBToday I share the real practice and history of the classic Catholic exorcism that so many of us have seen in films like 1973's The Exorcist and 2023's The Pope's Exorcist. How does an exorcism actually work? Who qualifies? What is the official ritual? What is the history of exorcisms? All this and more - including an exploration of the real life exorcism that inspired the 1973 movie - in this demon-infested episode. The power of Christ compels you! (to listen to this week's episode) Wat...
387 - Evil Eyes: Carl "The Sunday Morning Slasher" Watts
February 12, 2024 19:00 - 2 hours - 125 MBThe Sunday Morning Slasher, Carl Watts, is thought to have killed over 100 women between Michigan and Texas, from 1974 to 1982. He's also the only US serial killer ever to almost be released from prison AFTER confessing to 13 murders in a plea deal. This guy was a creepy killing MACHINE. Applications for four, $5,000 Cummins Family Foundation scholarships will open up on March 6th! Applications will be due by April 24th. Visit Badmagicproductions.com and click the scholarship banner to be ...
Short Suck #3 - Is Bigger Better? The Scary World of Penis Enlargement
February 09, 2024 19:30 - 46 minutes - 42.6 MBToday's Short Suck is all about the weird, wild world of penis enlargement! What options are out there? Are they safe? And why are so many unsatisfied with the length and girth of their one-eyed willies? Hope you enjoy! And have a great weekend! Watch the Suck on YouTube: https://youtu.be/ZG6NQjqMEPw For Merch and everything else Bad Magic related, head to: https://www.badmagicproductions.com
386 - The Lady of Silence: Mexico's First Hunt For a Serial Killer
February 05, 2024 19:30 - 2 hours - 135 MBBetween 1998 and 2006, at least 48 elderly women were strangled to death in Mexico City. These murders would lead to Mexico's first ever investigation into an active serial killer. The task force was certain that a man was responsible for the killings, and were shocked to realize the killer was a middle-aged mother of four. A wannabe luchadora who told friends she once wrestled under the name of the Lady of Silence. Watch the Suck on YouTube: https://youtu.be/HJtJRTu_ILI Merch: https://w...
385 - Brain Damage, Murder, and Football: The Aaron Hernandez Story
January 29, 2024 19:00 - 2 hours - 155 MBI've wanted to dig into this story for a couple of years now. Aaron seemed to have EVERYTHING going for him. And he threw it all away through committing the most confusing, impulsive acts of violence. How much did the severe case of CTE football gave him lead to the murder (and probably multiple murders) he committed? Congrats to the Suck Ranger, Tyler Sea, and please wish him luck on the next chapter of his life. He's a great dude and we will miss having him around! Watch the Suck on Yo...
Short Suck #2 - Grizzly Bear vs Mountain Man: The Story of Hugh Glass
January 26, 2024 19:30 - 47 minutes - 44 MBToday's Short Suck is all about the life of Hugh Glass - the man whose insane story of surviving a Grizzly Bear attack inspired the 2015 Leonardo DiCaprio film, The Revenant. Hope you enjoy! And have a great weekend! Watch the Suck on YouTube: https://youtu.be/1nnLCum2UsU For Merch and everything else Bad Magic related, head to: https://www.badmagicproductions.com
384 - Satanic Panic and the West Memphis Three
January 22, 2024 19:00 - 2 hours - 161 MBIn the Spring of 1993, three eight-year-old boys were murdered in West Memphis, Arkansas. And immediately, thanks to outlandish, paranoid Satanic Panic notions, investigative suspicion fell on a local eighteen-year-old, Damien Echols, ignorantly believed to be the leader of a local Satanic cult, and two of his teen friends, falsely believed to be his followers... Watch the Suck on YouTube: https://youtu.be/UiP4cd3rvH8 Merch: https://www.badmagicmerch.com Timesuck Discord! https://discord...
383 - The Iron Claw: The Von Erich Curse
January 15, 2024 19:00 - 3 hours - 168 MBThe story behind the new Iron Claw movie starring Zac Effron and Jeremy Allen White. Was the Von Erich wrestling family actually cursed? I understand why some people think so. Five out of six of wrestling star Fritz Von Erich's sons would die prematurely and tragically, many of them dying shortly after the family became the most famous family in all of professional wrestling. Watch the Suck on YouTube: https://youtu.be/T6Rc-_-Bk04 Merch: https://www.badmagicmerch.com Timesuck Discord! ht...
Short Suck #1 - The Strange Tale of Lobster Boy
January 12, 2024 19:00 - 51 minutes - 46.8 MBThe first in what will hopefully be many Short Sucks! 45-60 minute stories delivered in a more traditional type of story-telling. No inside jokes and mythology to keep track of. Just some quick extra entertainment! This episode is all about the life of Grady Stiles, Jr. aka Lobster Boy, a "freak show" performer who truly was a monster. Watch the Suck on YouTube: https://youtu.be/ivyX-o9HbCA For Merch and more, head to: https://www.badmagicproductions.com
382 - The Riverside Killer: America's Forgotten Serial Killer
January 08, 2024 19:00 - 2 hours - 157 MBSharing the life and crimes today of William Lester Suff aka the Riverside Killer. Convicted of killing twelve women after being arrest in 1992 after already serving nearly a decade in prison in Texas for murdering his own child. Come for the true crime, stay for the chili recipe... Watch the Suck on YouTube: https://youtu.be/EE36ytvUJSk Merch: https://www.badmagicmerch.com Timesuck Discord! https://discord.gg/tqzH89v Want to join the Cult of the Curious Private Facebook Group? Go direc...
381 - The Cult of the Twin Flames Universe
January 01, 2024 19:00 - 2 hours - 144 MBWhether or not you've seen the recent Amazon and/or Netflix docuseries on Twin Flames Universe, I think you're gonna love this one. Another cult episode, but with a few major twists. This cult was born and still lives primarily online. And rather than selling salvation, it's focused on selling you romance. Jeffrey and Shaleia Divine are true grifters, playing with the lives of their followers in strange and dangerous ways. Also - Happy New Year! Let's tear it up in 2024! Watch the Suck o...
380 - Kentucky Fried Suck!
December 25, 2023 19:00 - 2 hours - 147 MBFor this year's annual, inspirational episode and wrap-up, I share the surprisingly inspiring and entertaining tale of Colonel Harland Sanders, man behind the KFC empire. Then I go over what went down in Bad Magic 2023, and what I'm hoping to do in 2024. Hail Nimrod and THANK YOU! It was such a good year and thanks to your continual support, I am more excited going into the next year of Bad Magic than I've ever been. Hope you had a great 2023, and really looking forward to 2024! Thank you ...
379 - The Incelosphere: Sex, Hate, and Violence
December 18, 2023 19:00 - 2 hours - 155 MBDid you know the term "incel" no longer generally refers to someone who is just lonely and horny? Now, it's more synonymous with a new kind of domestic terrorist. A rise in mass shootings carried out by self-identified "incels," starting with Elliot Rodger in 2014, has more and more people looking into the "manosphere" that incels digitally inhabit. It's a sad and terrifying place... and also - holy shit, is it unintentionally also hilarious. Get ready to learn all about Chads, Stacys, Tyron...
378 - Zombies, White Camps, and Murder: The Story of Lori Vallow
December 11, 2023 19:00 - 3 hours - 177 MBI know - this episode is a long one! I tried to cut as much as I could that didn't feel relevant to tell this tale. I really did! There's just so much juicy stuff. So many strange, STRANGE details. Lori evolved, over the course of her adult life, from a manipulative person who was also very religious, into a murderous, manipulative person who became, essentially, the co-leader of a cult when she met her fifth and final husband, Chad Daybell. Chad had, over many years as an LDS author, create...
377 - The Murdaugh Murders: Rise and Fall of a Low Country Dynasty
December 04, 2023 19:00 - 2 hours - 152 MBI finally look into what all the hype about the Murdaugh family murders is about. And the hype... is justified. I provide a summary of the Murdaugh's history of power and influence in South Carolina's Low Country and how a series of financial crimes and murders led to the collapse of their corrupt rural empire. Alec Murdaugh is a TERRIBLE human being... and I'm so glad that snake will rot in prison for the rest of his life. BAD MAGIC GIVING TREE: Go to Amazon.com and purchase an Amazon gif...
376 - Debunking The World's Most Dangerous Conspiracy: The Protocols
November 27, 2023 19:00 - 2 hours - 142 MBWant to know where a lot of the core ideas from the many conspiracies that revolve around the idea the a small, secretive cabal of wealthy Jews control the world and want to enslave and destroy humanity come from? Some old debunked Russian propaganda that is still causing problems over 125 years after it was written. Today, I'll explore the roots of antisemitism, and how antisemitic beliefs have led to various conspiratorial allegations against the Jewish people, and to the creation of the f...
375 - The Cleveland Kidnappings: Tremont's House of Horrors
November 20, 2023 19:00 - 3 hours - 174 MBOn the evening of May 6th, 2013, in the Tremont neighborhood of Cleveland, Ohio, three enduring mysteries were shockingly solved. Three missing Cleveland women, Michelle Knight, Amanda Berry, and Gina DeJesus - all long presumed dead - were found to have been held captive by a madman named Ariel Castro for roughly a decade. It is insane what they had endured, and it is so inspiring how all three women have chosen not to let their torture and captivity define them. GIVING TREE INFORMATION:...
374 - The Duggar's Dark Secrets
November 13, 2023 19:00 - 2 hours - 142 MBYou probably are pretty familiar with the Duggar family, from TLC's hit show 19 and Counting. But do you know about the sexual abuse they hid for years? And do you know about the organization, often called a dangerous cult, that shaped their beliefs that may have led to them downplay that sexual abuse, The Institute in Basic Life Principles? Wild one today. A lot more talk about riding bikes than I anticipated. Hail Nimrod! GIVING TREE INFORMATION: If you would like to donate this year, g...
373 - The Chicago Tylenol Murders
November 06, 2023 19:00 - 2 hours - 152 MBWho decided to add cyanide to a bunch of bottles of Tylenol in the Chicago area in 1982? A couple of real shifty, odd suspects emerged in an investigation that lasted decades. In this episode, we'll not only look at the Chicago crimes, we'll also look at how these crimes led to legal changes to protect the consumers of all kinds of products. Protections all of us benefit from today. And we'll look into some copycat crimes that came later. Get ready to smell your medicine and vitamins for the...
372 - Gilles de Rais: Medieval Monster or Witch-Hunt Victim?
October 30, 2023 18:00 - 2 hours - 123 MBHeaded to 15th century to explore the life of a man who may have been the wealthiest noble in all of France at one point, and commander of France's military - Gilles de Rais. Was this contemporary of Joan of Arc also a demon-worshipper child killer? He was put to death for, among other crimes, confessing to killing 140 children in the most heinous of ways. Did he really do all that he was accused of? Or was he another victim of a medieval witch hunt? Nice blend of true crime and. history to...