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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10 - Robots, Artificial Intelligence, & Extinction?
November 21, 2016 20:00 - 37 minutes - 34.3 MBWill we see robots that look, feel, and communicate in such lifelike ways that we won’t be able to tell them apart from other humans in our lifetime? When did the artificial intelligence movement begin? Is our progress with artificial intelligence leading to an inevitable, Skynet-like confrontation with future Terminator robots doomed to turn against us? Where are we at now with robot progress? (Hint: further than you think!) When will we be having sex with sexy sexbots? (hint: sooner than ...
9 - Corey Haim: Lost Years of the Lost Boy
November 14, 2016 20:00 - 32 minutes - 29.7 MBCorey Haim went one from a teen heartthrob and one of the most bankable child stars of the late 80s to being a junkie and out-of-work actor labeled as a “has been” by the early 90s to being virtually homeless before he was thirty. Find out what happened to Dan’s onetime favorite actor in this tragic (and fascinating) edition of Timesuck!
8 - A President, Mole People, and Hollow Earth Theory
November 07, 2016 20:00 - 32 minutes - 29.7 MBJohn Quincy Adams was the sixth President of the United States, a Massachusetts State Senator, a Harvard professor, the Secretary of State, and a member of the House of Representatives for the last 17 years of his life. He was also a man who hoped to fund an expedition to travel into the center of the Earth via the North Pole and possibly establish trade with mole people. Yup.
7 - Halloween Origins
October 31, 2016 19:00 - 35 minutes - 33 MBWhat is Halloween? Where does it come from? When did people start asking for candy? When did it become an excuse for women to dress like porn stars?? All of this and more answered on a very informative and hopefully equally entertaining episode. Shove work up your ass - it’s time for Timesuck!!
6 - The Mongol Mass-Beheading of Nishapur
October 24, 2016 19:00 - 36 minutes - 33.5 MBThe Mongols sacked many cities over the course of their reign, but perhaps none so brutally as the Persian jewel of Nishapur in 1221. When they were done, giant pyramids of human heads stood where a majestic, cosmopolitan, Silk Road oasis had flourished only a few short days before. Be glad, so glad, you never lived on the wrong side of Genghis in this unbelievably bloody edition of Timesuck.
5 - The Great Clown Scare of 2016
October 17, 2016 19:00 - 45 minutes - 41.6 MBYear of the creepy clown. What's behind the insane number of creepy clown sightings happening around the world? Why do we fear clowns? Have these creepy clowns actually hurt anyone? Everything you need to know about the current clown craze in this extended episode of Timesuck.
4 - Sociopaths and Psychopaths
October 10, 2016 19:00 - 41 minutes - 38.4 MBWhat is a sociopath? What's a psychopath? Do you know one? Are you one? Dan breaks down the clinical definition of both and defines them in his own terms as well before nervously taking both a sociopath and a psychopath test himself. Take the tests with him and join Dan in this mentally ill edition of Timesuck! http://illnessquiz.com/sociopath-test/ http://vistriai.com/psychopathtest/
3 - The Big One
October 03, 2016 16:00 - 33 minutes - 30.7 MBYour chances of dying in "the big one" Southern California earthquake are roughly the same as of being shot and killed by a toddler according to a study cited by the LA Times. Is it even scientifically possible for a giant earthquake to cause LA to fall into the sea? Are there a lot of trigger happy babies out there? Find out all this and more as the show's first guest, Jacob Kubon, and Dan break down the origins and possibility of the giant earthquake legend.
2 - Weird Sex Customs
September 26, 2016 16:00 - 32 minutes - 30.2 MBRoman orgies! Columbian bestiality! Irish underwear! Find out what the Hell Dan is referring to and learn what Dan considers to be the ten strangest sexual customs of the world today and some odd sexual norms of yesteryear as well.
1 - Lizard Illuminati Conspiracy
September 19, 2016 01:17 - 31 minutes - 29.1 MBDid you believe that a race of alien lizards has been secretly running the world’s governments since the dawn of human civilization, mining for mono-atomic gold in their underground cities and tunnels, creating world wars in order to feast on human sadness and controlling our thoughts from their moon weapon? If you do, you should probably skip this podcast and order one of British conspiracy theorist David Icke’s books explaining oh so much more about the reptilian agenda. If you think this ...
What is Timesuck?
September 04, 2016 10:00 - 2 minutes - 2.65 MBWelcome to Timesuck! Do you wonder how people end up in doomsday cults? Or why they believe in OUTLANDISH conspiracies? Are you morbidly curious about history’s most depraved serial killers - and wonder why they committed their terrible crimes? Me too! Join me, comedic host Dan Cummins, for heavily researched episodes every week, where I deep dive on topics like The Scorecard Killer, Randy Kraft, the NXIVM Cult, the Q Anon Conspiracy, the 1980 New Mexico Prison Riot, the life of Wild West le...