Timesuck with Dan Cummins

28 Jul 2025

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Did you know that women's clitoral orgasms have the power to completely transform the world and turn...

25 Jul 2025

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Patricia Douglas was a young dancer and an extra working in Hollywood during its so-called Golden Er...

21 Jul 2025

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Eric Edgar Cooke, nicknamed the Night Caller and the Nedlands Monster, was a serial killer who terro...

14 Jul 2025

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From 1932 to 1972, six hundred poor, black sharecroppers in Alabama were told they were being treate...

Fri, 11 Jul

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On June 18th, 2023,  a deep-sea submersible called The Titan operated by the private company OceanG...

Mon, 7 Jul

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In the 1930s, an association of primarily Italian mafiosos and Jewish organized crime gangsters, bas...

Mon, 30 Jun

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Did you know that US government is engaged in efforts to close stargates to other dimensions? Did yo...

Fri, 27 Jun

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In the summer of 1968, two young children, both under the age of five, turned up dead in Scotswood, ...

Mon, 23 Jun

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Ever heard the name Mike DeBardeleben? I hadn't either until very recently. This guy was something e...

Mon, 16 Jun

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Do you recognize the name, Owsley Stanley? If you're not a devoted Dead Head, probably not. But he's...

Fri, 13 Jun

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Issei Sagawa aka the Kobe Cannibal, made a living for most of his life off of the infamy he attained...

Mon, 9 Jun

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Do you believe that all non-vegans should die? In part for their needless murder of senseless people...

Mon, 2 Jun

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This week we cover the life and crimes of the most prolific serial killer in US history, Samuel Litt...

Mon, 26 May

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Did you ever watch the Staircase docu-series on Netflix? Or the 2022 HBO MAX adaptation? I watched b...

Fri, 23 May

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In the 1960s, Natalie Wood was one of the world's leading actress, her star shining as bright as Eli...

Mon, 19 May

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The Bone Wars, also known as the Great Dinosaur Rush, is what a period of intense fossil hunting in ...

Mon, 12 May

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Have you ever heard of La Luz Del Mundo? a.k.a., LLDM? a.k.a., The Church of the Living God, Pillar ...

Fri, 9 May

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Remember when a bunch of dogs saved hundreds of human’s lives in Alaska a century ago? In January ...

Mon, 5 May

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Ever heard of Gary Heidnik? Pop culture wise, he's made a much bigger impact than most murderers, bu...

Mon, 28 Apr

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You've undoubtably heard of Dr. Seuss. The author of The Cat in the Hat, How the Grinch Stole Christ...

Fri, 25 Apr

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Would you choose to have an identical twin? Someone who looked so much like you, that even your own ...

Mon, 21 Apr

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Today we talk about moral panics. Specifically, the "Video Nasty" moral panic that happened in the U...

Mon, 14 Apr

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Pee Wee Gaskin's diminutive size of 5'2" tall and 130 pounds soaking wet didn't stop him from brutal...

Fri, 11 Apr

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Today we're we’re gonna tackle a bunch of questions you never knew you needed answering, questions...

Mon, 7 Apr

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How much of what you read online has been planted there by Russian propagandists? How many times hav...

Mon, 31 Mar

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On the afternoon of February 13th, 2017, in the sleepy little 3000(ish) person town of Delphi, India...

Fri, 28 Mar

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Today we take a peek at the interesting life of author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, the man who invented ...

Mon, 24 Mar

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Have you ever been to one of those Shen Yun traveling traditional Chinese dance performances? Have y...

Mon, 17 Mar

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Today we examine the beloved host of the long-running children's television show, Mr Rogers' Neighbo...

Fri, 14 Mar

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Luis Alfredo Garavito Cubillos was a ruthless, sadistic Colombian rapist and serial killer who becam...

Mon, 10 Mar

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On July 22nd, 2011, Norwegian alt-right gamer Anders Behring Breivik carried out the deadliest attac...

Mon, 3 Mar

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How much do you know about Nelson Mandela and South Africa's brutal, racially oppressive system of a...

Fri, 28 Feb

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Ching Shih, born as Shi Yang, was quite possibly the most powerful pirate of all time. While famous ...

Mon, 24 Feb

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On November 20th, 1993, the sexually violated and mutilated corpse of a young woman is found on Long...

Mon, 17 Feb

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Ganas is an intentional community founded in 1979 in Tompkinsville, Staten Island that is still acti...

Fri, 14 Feb

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Happy Valentine's Day! Let's talk about love. Kind of. But not really. Not all actually. Let's inste...

Mon, 10 Feb

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Have you heard of Hiroo Onoda? The Japanese 2nd Lieutenant was sent to the island of Lubang in The P...

Mon, 3 Feb

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On the night of May 3rd, 2007,  three year-old British girl Madeleine vanished from her bed in her ...

Mon, 27 Jan

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Comedian, actor, author, and producer Bill Cosby... affectionately nicknamed as "America's Dad" for ...

Fri, 24 Jan

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Can you imagine being stranded for years on a remote uninhabited island with almost nothing but a fe...

Mon, 20 Jan

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Was aspiring investigative journalist Danny Casolaro murdered in his Sheraton hotel room in Martinsb...

Mon, 13 Jan

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Peter Sutcliffe, dubbed the Yorkshire Ripper in the press, attacked woman after woman with a hammer ...

Fri, 10 Jan

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A look at how we humans have chosen to incarcerate those who break the rules and how certain rule br...

Mon, 6 Jan

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Do you ever think about where your poo goes once you flush it down the toilet? Or about how not havi...

Mon, 30 Dec

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Time for some year end inspiration from the incomparable Dolly Parton! A true living legend. If all ...

Fri, 27 Dec

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On September 13th, 1848, a dynamite blast rocketed a 43-inch long, 13-pound iron bar completely thro...

Mon, 23 Dec

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Have you heard about the recent case of Shelby Hewitt? The 32 year-old Massachusetts Social Worker e...

Mon, 16 Dec

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On June 22nd, 1983, 15-year-old Emanuela Orlandi disappeared after attending a music lesson in Rome....

Fri, 13 Dec

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What a tale I have for you today! In 1518, a very peculiar form of madness fell over the people of t...

Mon, 9 Dec

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Have you ever heard of serial killer Gerald Stano? For years, he sat on death row in Florida, just a...

Mon, 2 Dec

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We take a look at the recent, tragic final act of a doomsday cult in Kenya that left 448 dead and an...

Mon, 25 Nov

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Does not having a penis make you feel inferior due to a bad case of penis envy? Do you or have you e...

Fri, 22 Nov

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Today I'm sharing a wild story that I'm surprised isn't much more known - that one time Germany inte...

Mon, 18 Nov

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The true story behind the incredible 2003 film, Monster, about sex worker and serial killer, Aileen ...

Mon, 11 Nov

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Happy Veteran's Day! On D-Day, June 6th, 1944, over 150,000 Allied troops stormed Nazi-defended beac...

Fri, 8 Nov

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Today I'm sharing the little known Servant Girl Annihilator murders. A series of crimes just as shoc...

Mon, 4 Nov

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Back in the 1950s, America was very afraid of Soviet spies and communist sympathizers infiltrating t...

Mon, 28 Oct

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In the early 1980s, Suzan and Michael Carson were very worried about witches. They thought there wit...

Fri, 25 Oct

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Today I’ll be sharing the strange and spooky story of Olivia Mabel. It's a story presented as a tr...

Mon, 21 Oct

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In 1975, two young boys in Tuam were exploring the grounds of one of Ireland's abandoned Mother and ...

Mon, 14 Oct

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I highly doubt you have ever been conned by anyone to the degree Robert Hendy-Freegard conned his vi...

Fri, 11 Oct

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Magdalena Solís was a Mexican cult leader and the extremely rare sexually motivated female serial k...

Mon, 7 Oct

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Carl Panzram is one of the most interesting serial killers we've ever covered. He was incredibly sel...

Mon, 30 Sep

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In an episode about the most infamous series of murders in the history of the state of South Austral...

Fri, 27 Sep

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On the evening of October 30th, 1938, the CBS Radio Network broadcasted Orson Welles's live adaptati...

Mon, 23 Sep

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Who are the Yakuza? How similar are they to the Mafia? What's up with all the tattoos they have? And...

Mon, 16 Sep

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In honor of the 420 episode, I decided to smoke a nice strong joint for this one while recording. An...

Fri, 13 Sep

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On March 31st, 1922, on a cold, snowy, and quiet night in Germany, at a small unassuming farm roughl...

Mon, 9 Sep

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Do you remember when seventeen-year-old Amy Fisher shot the wife of her thirty-five-year-old lover, ...

Mon, 2 Sep

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When did we meatsacks start torturing one another? How did we do it? How have torture methods change...

Mon, 26 Aug

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This one is a doozy! John Edward Robinson may be the most intelligent serial killer I've ever come a...

Fri, 23 Aug

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Have you ever heard of "clinical vampirism," more commonly known today as Renfield's Syndrome? One r...

Mon, 19 Aug

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An in-depth look at the Founding Father behind the hit musical Hamilton. How did Alexander contribut...

Mon, 12 Aug

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Back in 2011, Wales would be shocked to learn that for the previous 14 years, an actual cause for Sa...

Fri, 9 Aug

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On August 30th, 2023, Ruby Franke, a recently very popular Youtuber and "momfluencer" was arrested, ...

Mon, 5 Aug

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Did you know that in that in 1850, Hong Xiuquan, a man who interpreted literal fever demons as relig...

Mon, 29 Jul

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Danny Rolling brought terror to the college town of Gainesville, Florida, when he brutally murdered ...

Fri, 26 Jul

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Ever heard of Irish revolutionary Michael Collins? The Big Fellow? His heroic contributions to the f...

Mon, 22 Jul

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Taking a look into the life of the former dictator of Iraq today, which will of course lead us into ...

Mon, 15 Jul

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Between 1968 and 1985, eight couples having sex in either parked vehicles or a tent in remote areas ...

Fri, 12 Jul

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The Tsuyama Massacre. The strange tale of one sexually frustrated man, Mutsuo Toi, who cut the power...

Mon, 8 Jul

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The Love Has Won Cult was led by Amy Carlson, who died from alcohol abuse, anorexia, and colloidal s...

Mon, 1 Jul

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What do you know about the King, baby? Did you know how poor he was growing up? How quickly he becam...

Fri, 28 Jun

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Do you know why Pornhub removed over 80% of its content at the end of 2020? The site was littered wi...

Mon, 24 Jun

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How was Dr. Larry Nasser able to sexually abuse over 500 victims, almost all of them young female gy...

Mon, 17 Jun

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I don't know if anyone has ever loved exposing themselves to strangers as much as Randy Woodfield. T...

Fri, 14 Jun

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What really happened to a group of seven hikers in the Khamar-Daban mountain range in Siberia on Aug...

Mon, 10 Jun

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On March 17th, 2024, the first episode of a five-part docuseries, Quiet on Set: The Dark Side of Kid...

Mon, 3 Jun

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Today we learn about who the real Peaky Blinders were? How much of the hit BBC/Netflix series is his...

Tue, 28 May 2024 18:00:00 +0000

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Today we conclude yesterday's wild exploration of the cult Sun Myung Moon founded in Seoul, South Ko...

Mon, 27 May

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In Seoul, South Korea, in 1954, Sun Myung Moon founded the Holy Spirit Association for the Unificati...

Fri, 24 May

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On June 20th, 2001, former high school valedictorian, captain of the swim team, and registered nurse...

Mon, 20 May

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Are wealthy elites like Bill Gates and George Soros using their money and power to sterilize and/or ...

Mon, 13 May

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Kenneth McDuff killed three high school students the night of August 6th, 1966, repeatedly raping an...

Fri, 10 May

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What happens to your body when it is donated to science? Does it actually end up in front of some do...

Mon, 6 May

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Michael Jackson is the most successful solo act in the history of recorded music. Only the Beatles h...

Mon, 29 Apr

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The Osage Reign of Terror - dramatized recently in the 2023 award winning Martin Scorsese film, Kill...

Fri, 26 Apr

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On Saturday night, April 11th, 1981, a young mother, her teenage son, and her son's teenage friend, ...

Mon, 22 Apr

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Did you know that in 1902, August Engelhardt travelled from Germany to a small island in the South P...

Mon, 15 Apr

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Jim Bakker, and his wife, Tammy Faye, revolutionized tele-evangelism in the 1970s and 1980s. Their P...

Fri, 12 Apr

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Do you have a plan in mind for what you would do in a doomsday event like nuclear war, alien invasio...

Mon, 8 Apr

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From 1977 to 1980, Joseph Paul Franklin went on a multi-state murder and mayhem spree, bombing a syn...

Wed, 3 Apr

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Ervil LeBaron was raised by a cult leader... would have several brothers who were cult leaders...and...

Mon, 1 Apr

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Have you ever heard of disturbing serial killer Richard Byrd? He raped and strangled eight young wom...

Mon, 25 Mar

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Today we explore what life was really like for ancient Greece's feared warriors, the Spartans. How c...

Fri, 22 Mar

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On July 2nd, 2021, 22 year-old Gabby Petito and her fiancé, 23 year old Brian Laundrie, left the qu...

Mon, 18 Mar

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Very informative episode today! I learned so much and hope you do too. We explore the history of hum...

Mon, 11 Mar

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Did you ever think that overeating, specifically, could send your soul to Hell? Or that not losing e...

Fri, 8 Mar

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Jim Miller. Killin' Jim. Right before stepping off a wooden crate with a noose around his neck, in f...

Mon, 4 Mar

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On the night of November 25th, 1996, Rick Wendorf, 49, and his partner Ruth Queen, 54, were beaten t...

Mon, 26 Feb

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Exploring some super interesting and strange territory today. I might not be able to record any more...

Fri, 23 Feb

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Today's Short Suck is all about John List.  With a bankruptcy looming, worried about the shame he'd...

Mon, 19 Feb

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Today I share the real practice and history of the classic Catholic exorcism that so many of us have...

Mon, 12 Feb

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The Sunday Morning Slasher, Carl Watts, is thought to have killed over 100 women between Michigan an...

Fri, 9 Feb

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 Today's Short Suck is all about the weird, wild world of penis enlargement! What options are out t...

Mon, 5 Feb

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Between 1998 and 2006, at least 48 elderly women were strangled to death in Mexico City. These murde...

Mon, 29 Jan

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I've wanted to dig into this story for a couple of years now. Aaron seemed to have EVERYTHING going ...

Fri, 26 Jan

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Today's Short Suck is all about the life of Hugh Glass - the man whose insane story of surviving a G...

Mon, 22 Jan

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In the Spring of 1993, three eight-year-old boys were murdered in West Memphis, Arkansas. And immedi...

Mon, 15 Jan

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The story behind the new Iron Claw movie starring Zac Effron and Jeremy Allen White. Was the Von Eri...

Fri, 12 Jan

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The first in what will hopefully be many Short Sucks! 45-60 minute stories delivered in a more tradi...

Mon, 8 Jan

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Sharing the life and crimes today of William Lester Suff aka the Riverside Killer. Convicted of kill...

Mon, 1 Jan

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Whether or not you've seen the recent Amazon and/or Netflix docuseries on Twin Flames Universe, I th...

Mon, 25 Dec

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For this year's annual, inspirational episode and wrap-up, I share the surprisingly inspiring and en...

Mon, 18 Dec

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Did you know the term "incel" no longer generally refers to someone who is just lonely and horny? No...

Mon, 11 Dec

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I know - this episode is a long one! I tried to cut as much as I could that didn't feel relevant to ...

Mon, 4 Dec

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I finally look into what all the hype about the Murdaugh family murders is about. And the hype... is...

Mon, 27 Nov

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Want to know where a lot of the core ideas from the many conspiracies that revolve around the idea t...

Mon, 20 Nov

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On the evening of May 6th, 2013, in the Tremont neighborhood of Cleveland, Ohio, three enduring myst...

Mon, 13 Nov

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You probably are pretty familiar with the Duggar family, from TLC's hit show 19 and Counting. But do...

Mon, 6 Nov

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Who decided to add cyanide to a bunch of bottles of Tylenol in the Chicago area in 1982? A couple of...

Mon, 30 Oct

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Headed to 15th century to explore the life of a man who may have been the wealthiest noble in all of...

Mon, 23 Oct

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This week we dig into both LDS and FLDS teachings, and learn about The School of the Prophets, a gro...

Mon, 16 Oct

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When Fidel Castro took over Cuba in 1959, he deposed a dictator. And then the man who promised democ...

Mon, 9 Oct

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Is Larry Hall, currently incarcerated in federal prison on a charge of kidnapping for the purposes o...

Mon, 2 Oct

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How much do you know about "The Forgotten War" as the Korean War - technically a UN Police Action - ...

Mon, 25 Sep

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Have you heard of the Briley Brothers? Three young brothers, and a teenage neighbor, went on a vicio...

Mon, 18 Sep

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My favorite episode in months. One that I'm hoping the most curious of the cult of the curious will ...

Mon, 11 Sep

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Between August of 1979, and May of 1981, convicted serial rapist David Carpenter escalated to murder...

Mon, 4 Sep

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Did the fall and/or destruction of the Great Library of Alexandria really set human progress a thous...

Mon, 28 Aug

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In the early '70s, a man presenting himself as Eugenio Mario Perente-Ramos creates the Eastern Farmw...

Mon, 21 Aug

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On August 9th, 1974, Richard Milhous Nixon, the 37th President of the United States of America, whil...

Mon, 14 Aug

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In addition to being a serial killer who very likely killed at least 15 young men and boys around L...

Mon, 7 Aug

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Early on the morning of August 28th, 1955, 14-year-old Emmett Till was kidnapped from his great-uncl...

Mon, 31 Jul

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What do we known about William Shakespeare the man? And why are his works still popular today? Who w...

Mon, 24 Jul

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On March 8th, 2014, 227 passengers boarded Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, taking off from Kuala Lumpu...

Mon, 17 Jul

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Today we take a fascinating look into how Whitey Bulger rose to power in Boston's underworld in the ...

Mon, 10 Jul

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We got a weird one today! Wow. Jerry Brudos was a serial killer who became completely consumed with ...

Mon, 3 Jul

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Today we do a deep dive on the history of witchcraft. What is witchcraft? How does it differ from or...

Mon, 26 Jun

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In the Spring of 1990, when Jack Unterweger was released from prison in Austria after serving fiftee...

Mon, 19 Jun

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From 1095 to 1291 CE, thousands and thousands of knights, peasants, nobles, soldiers, and more left ...

Mon, 12 Jun

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Did R. Kelly truly have a sex cult?  For around a quarter-of-a-century Robert Sylvester Kelly wrote...

Mon, 5 Jun

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On August 28, 2003, a 46 year-old pizza delivery man named Brian Douglas Wells robbed a PNC Bank nea...

Mon, 29 May

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Between October 1977 and February 1978, with a nickname originating from the fact that many of the v...

Mon, 22 May

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Did you know that American banana corporations turned almost all of Central America into US satellit...

Mon, 15 May

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We've covered a lot Los Angeles area cults from the 1960s and 70s, but as it turns out, there were c...

Mon, 8 May

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In the late 1940s, troubled lovers Raymond Fernandez and Martha Beck, ran a scam using dating servic...

Mon, 1 May

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On May 18, 1980, at 8:32 AM local time, a major explosive eruption took place at a volcano in southw...

Mon, 24 Apr

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Terry Blair. The Prospect Killer. Before he became a serial killer in the Prospect Avenue neighborho...

Mon, 17 Apr

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Today we look into a series of murders, mostly occurring in the mid-1980s, in the southeastern US. T...

Mon, 10 Apr

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Today we dig into the origins and the history of America's Irish Mob.  We begin centuries ago in Ir...

Mon, 3 Apr

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The conclusion of the the craziest cult story I had never heard of.  This week, things, incredibly,...

Mon, 27 Mar

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The craziest cult story I had never heard of. Jeffrey Lundgren was a cult leader and a mass leader b...

Mon, 20 Mar

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Skull and Bones has been shrouded in mystery ever since it was founded nearly two centuries ago now,...

Mon, 13 Mar

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The Zebra Murders were a series of racially motivated attacks and murders committed in San Francisco...

Mon, 6 Mar

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Early in the morning of March 28th, 1979, equipment failures and a stuck open relief valve prevented...

Mon, 27 Feb

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On March 18th, 1990 two men disguised as Boston police officers entered the Isabella Stewart Gardner...

Mon, 20 Feb

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On October 8th, 1941, with Stalingrad surrounded, Leningrad besieged, and the Nazis making new gains...

Mon, 13 Feb

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What is the the Perfect Murder?  It's what two affluent and academically brilliant young Chicagoans...

Mon, 6 Feb

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The Tiananmen Square massacre in Beijing, China in 1989  is one of the most important, noteworthy t...

Mon, 30 Jan

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In the 1960s, a strange new cult emerged in Manhattan's Upper West Side out of the Sullivan Institut...

Mon, 23 Jan

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This week we investigate the life and crimes of one of the Freeway Killers. Patrick Kearney, the Tra...

Mon, 16 Jan

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Today we dig into the life of Julius Caesar and the final days of the Roman Republic. How was Caesar...

Mon, 9 Jan

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What do you think you know about Amanda Knox? Do you think she was a sex-crazed party girl who got a...

Mon, 2 Jan

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Today we dig into the history of Dungeons and Dragons and look at what influences Gary Gygax and oth...

Mon, 26 Dec

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We take a look this week at the incredibly inspirational life of Helen Keller. She accomplished SO m...

Mon, 19 Dec

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Josef Mengele was a great guy! Just very misunderstood. Wait, no. I'm thinking of someone else. Jose...

Mon, 12 Dec

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Herb Baumeister was VERY likely the I-70 Strangler, killing a suspected nine boys and men between 19...

Mon, 5 Dec

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Evangelical End Times pastor Mike Bickle founded the International House of Prayer in 1999, later re...

Mon, 28 Nov

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Strange and thought provoking episode today! In the 1940s, 50s, and early 60s, animal behavior resea...

Mon, 21 Nov

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The Pacific War may have been even more brutal than the War in Europe. Imperial Japan had a ferociou...

Mon, 14 Nov

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Another whopper of a topic that could not be more action packed. WW2. Going over the war in Europe t...

Mon, 7 Nov

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So much to go over in under three hours! Why are indigenous women on reservations in the US being ki...

Mon, 31 Oct

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On October 25, 2012, NYPD Office Gilberto Valle was arrested and charged with conspiracy to commit k...

Mon, 24 Oct

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How much do you know about America's first documented serial killers, The Bloody Harpes? Micajah and...

Mon, 17 Oct

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Today we cover the formation of the infamous Bloods and Crips gang rivalry. How did it get started? ...

Mon, 10 Oct

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For four months in 1974, 28 year old Paul John Knowles went on a reckless murder spree across the Un...

Mon, 3 Oct

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Is Bayer AG really EVIL? Or have they, like a lot of companies done both really good things - like m...

Mon, 26 Sep

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The name The Movement for the Restoration of the Ten Commandments of God might not sound familiar, b...

Mon, 19 Sep

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Get ready to meet one of my comedy heroes, but only if you can handle a LOT of profanity. George Car...

Mon, 12 Sep

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Ronald Dominique confessed to raping and murdering 23 boys and men between the ages of 16 and 46 bet...

Mon, 5 Sep

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Emotional episode today! At least for me.  We examine the Catholic Church's long history of sex sca...

Mon, 29 Aug

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In June of 2015, 48-year-old Dee Dee Blanchard was murdered in cold blood. Her murderer snuck into h...

Mon, 22 Aug

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Long before German con artist Anna Sorokin aka Anna Delvey captured America's attention thanks to th...

Mon, 15 Aug

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Randy Kraft might just be the most brutal and prolific serial killer you've never heard of.  Convic...

Mon, 8 Aug

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The story of this little known cult is WILD. Was the cult leader, Terri Hoffman, capable of some kin...

Mon, 1 Aug

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Steve Irwin, better known as the Crocodile Hunter, was a wildlife enthusiast and conservationist, ow...

Mon, 25 Jul

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As a couple, Gerald and Charlene Gallego turned their dark sexual desires  into a murderous rampage...

Mon, 18 Jul

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Off and on from 2006 to 2012, Snowden had worked as a CIA analyst, a subcontractor for the NSA, and ...

Mon, 11 Jul

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Rare interview on the Suck today! Chris Hansen from To Catch a Predator, and his new podcast Predato...

Mon, 4 Jul

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So many of us have thought about disappearing and starting a new life somewhere else. It's a common ...

Mon, 27 Jun

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In 1972, the 45 passengers and crew of Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571 faced extreme weather, avalanc...

Mon, 20 Jun

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In October of 2002, the DC Snipers terrorized residents of Washington DC, Virginia, and Maryland for...

Mon, 13 Jun

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LSD is a powerful, mind-bending drug. Only a crazy person would try and tell a coherent and compelli...

Mon, 6 Jun

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Brace yourself for this one. If you can't handle graphic depictions of sexual abuse directed in the ...

Mon, 30 May

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Sometimes the truth is stranger than fiction. Such a good example of that with this week's episode. ...

Mon, 23 May

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Apologies for my weak voice today! Remnant of a second bout with Covid. Had to drink several cups of...

Mon, 16 May

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As early as 1933, Hitler and the Nazis - the National Socialist German Worker’s Party - began pass...

Mon, 9 May

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Rodney Alcala - the Dating Game Killer.  Not as well known, but just as vicious as any other killer...

Mon, 2 May

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Vladimir Putin. Who is the former KGB officer who has led Russia since 2000? Is he a friend of a foe...

Mon, 25 Apr

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After laying out so much of what we know about Epstein last week, this week we get more speculative ...

Mon, 18 Apr

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We know that Jeffrey Epstein was born on January 20th, 1953 in Brooklyn, New York City. We also know...

Mon, 11 Apr

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Fascinating stuff today!  I knew almost nothing about Air America - the CIA's secret airline - befo...

Mon, 4 Apr

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Long before he brutally murdered his wife Katie - crushing her head and disemboweling her on March 1...

Mon, 28 Mar

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Robert Lee Yates often described himself as a "family man." And he was a family man. He was a marrie...

Mon, 21 Mar

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Death! How comfortable are you thinking about it? Talking about? What rights should be afforded to y...

Mon, 14 Mar

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Did you know that Jesus was half-alien? And so was Buddha? And Muhammed, Joseph Smith, Moses, Abraha...

Mon, 7 Mar

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On December 31st, 2021, Hollywood legend and literally the most well-liked living person in America ...

Mon, 28 Feb

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On the night of October 1, 2017, Stephen Paddock opened fire on a crowd attending the final night of...

Mon, 21 Feb

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A lot to unpack today! Who are the Amish? Why do they dress and live like it's still the 17th centur...

Mon, 14 Feb

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At 1:40AM on February 2nd, 1980, a group of inmates at the New Mexico State Penitentiary attacked th...

Mon, 7 Feb

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Attila the Hun! Does his name conjure up images of savagery in your mind? Of a bloodthirsty warrior-...

Mon, 31 Jan

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Arthur Shawcross was born on June 6th, 1945 in Kittery, Maine and he would grow up to terrorize the ...

Mon, 24 Jan

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Did Scott Peterson REALLY kill Laci Peterson? Did you know that zero direct evidence tied him to the...

Mon, 17 Jan

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Get ready for a brain buster. Or at least prepare to witness my brain being busted. Celtic mythology...

Mon, 10 Jan

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Did you know that if lots of people  have lots of unprotected sex and the men never ejaculate you c...

Mon, 3 Jan

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What, EXACTLY, is “prostitution”? How is it defined? Are prostitute and sex worker interchangeab...

Mon, 27 Dec

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Robert Smalls! He was born a slave in Beaufort, South Carolina  in 1839. Then he'd pull off a darin...

Mon, 20 Dec

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The Flatwoods Monster. The Whirling Whimpus. Devil Dogs and Sheepsquatch. The Virginia Moonshine Man...

Mon, 13 Dec

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In early 1992, young married couple Paul Bernardo and Karla Homolka seemed to have a lot going for t...

Mon, 6 Dec

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Did you know that Hunter S Thompson of Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas fame was one of the first peop...

Mon, 29 Nov

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Covering a lot of ground today! Going over the history of human opioid usage - the opium poppy is on...

Mon, 22 Nov

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I had a lot of fun on this one taking a nostalgic look at US culture in 1989 and 1993. Also found th...

Mon, 15 Nov

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Levi Boone Helm. The Kentucky Cannibal. Born in 1828 in Kentucky, and hanged in Montana Territory in...

Mon, 8 Nov

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Aum Shinrikyo was a Japanese doomsday cult led by psychotic madman Shoko Asahara, a man who claimed...

Mon, 1 Nov

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Who put the rock-a-bye-baby up in the tree branch, and why? Seems irresponsible. When it was raining...

Mon, 25 Oct

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Happy Halloween! This episode feels appropriately dark enough for Halloween week. French serial kill...

Mon, 18 Oct

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The Oregon Trail was 2,100 plus mile journey from Independence, Missouri all the way to Oregon City,...

Mon, 11 Oct

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Oh boy. This is an especially weird one. Sometimes truth really is stranger than fiction. In the sum...

Mon, 4 Oct

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Today we head to The Rock, America's Devil Island - Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary. So much prison-re...

Mon, 27 Sep

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William Bonin is a little known serial killer who died via lethal injection in 1996 in San Quentin, ...

Mon, 20 Sep

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I'm guessing you know of the Jehovah's Witnesses. You've heard of them. Maybe you've noticed their "...

Mon, 13 Sep

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Lonnie David Franklin Jr. was but one of the numerous prolific serial killers preying on sex workers...

Mon, 6 Sep

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Robin Williams knew how to make people feel deeply. He could give you a belly laugh - or a cathartic...

Mon, 30 Aug

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Let's get royal, Meatsacks! Born a minor aristocrat, Diana Spencer grew up to become one of the most...

Mon, 23 Aug

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Oh boy. Did you know that some people think that Avril Lavigne, Britney Spears, Beyoncé, Eminem, so...

Mon, 16 Aug

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Mark Twitchell really wanted to become a serial killer. In 2008, after discovering the Showtime seri...

Mon, 9 Aug

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A very recent Christian militant cult, the Aggressive Christianity Mission Training Corps was founde...

Mon, 2 Aug

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Lot to unpack in this one! Today we are blending history, aliens, and conspiracy. We'll be talking a...

Mon, 26 Jul

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Remember Jodi Arias? Remember why her trial back in 2013 captivated so many and made so many headlin...

Mon, 19 Jul

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This guy. Killing mainly in 1929 when he was 46, the final year of his freedom, Peter Kürten would ...

Mon, 12 Jul

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So much WTF!?! coming at you today. Wow. Dwight York is a maniac. And a terrible writer. And only a ...

Mon, 5 Jul

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Operation Greenup was a covert OSS operation carried out by a special group of men many have called ...

Mon, 28 Jun

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My God. This story is so over-the-top, it's hard to accept as true. But sadly, it did happen. For ro...

Mon, 21 Jun

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Hope you have as fun listening to this one as I had making it! I had no idea prior to digging into t...

Mon, 14 Jun

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Big episode for a big, complex topic today. PT Barnum has been called the The Greatest Showman on Ea...

Mon, 7 Jun

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The Great Pyramid of Giza. The Hanging Gardens of Babylon. Colossus of Rhodes. The Lighthouse of Ale...

Mon, 31 May

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When the 1830s began, nearly 125,000 various tribal members lived on millions of acres of land in Ge...

Mon, 24 May

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Heard of this guy before? If you haven't, I'm with you. I hadn't either. And then once I got into th...

Mon, 17 May

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Today we take a fun and sometimes concerning tour around the United States looking at laws that are ...

Mon, 10 May

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Cult! Cult! Cult! We're back to sucking on a cult - a small and relatively unknown one which is surp...

Mon, 3 May

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Whiskey! Today’s suck is SOAKED in whiskey. Mostly, in Jameson - some Irish whiskey.John Jameson -...

Mon, 26 Apr

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QAnon is the conspiracy cult involving so, so many things. It MOSTLY centers around belief in an eli...

Mon, 19 Apr

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“We are Legion. We do not forgive. We do not forget. Expect us.” Anonymous - the hacking colle...

Mon, 12 Apr

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What a wild one we have today. I set out, fascinated by his two escapes from prison, to only explore...

Mon, 5 Apr

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Mao Zedong's name is associated with one of the heinous totalitarian regimes of the 20th century - i...

Mon, 29 Mar

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Robert Pickton was born in 1949 just outside of Vancouver, CA, in Port Coquitlam, on a pig farm. His...

Mon, 22 Mar

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We got a wild one today. Today's Suck is really three Sucks in one. There is the abduction of Steven...

Mon, 15 Mar

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Today we take a huge deviation for the type of topic we typically cover here on Timesuck. The Space ...

Mon, 8 Mar

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Founded in 1974 by a man named Joe Ricci, the Elan School was supposed to be someplace where you cou...

Mon, 1 Mar

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Blackwater. Now known as Academi. Once known as Xe Services. A private military company. One of many...

Mon, 22 Feb

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The Great Emu War! Such a weird and fun tale to tell. What an odd historical period. As World War I ...

Mon, 15 Feb

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Dante's Inferno! One of the most influential literary works ever written. Put to parchment in the ea...

Mon, 8 Feb

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This might be the first episode to get me death threats. The Turkish government does NOT like being ...

Mon, 1 Feb

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The Denver Airport was built by the New World Order. The Denver Airport contains the international h...

Mon, 25 Jan

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Possibly the most meticulous Serial Killer the world has ever known, Israel Keyes spent years planni...

Mon, 18 Jan

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In the final days of World War II and in the next few years after the war was over, the U.S. governm...

Mon, 11 Jan

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Shaka Zulu! I'm guessing you've heard the name. Also guessing you know very little about his story. ...

Mon, 4 Jan

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Can you imagine fighting a war for a country that had removed you from the land your ancestors lived...

Mon, 28 Dec

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Viktor Frankl and his logotherapy. This is the topic we examine this week to carry on the Timesuck t...

Sun, 20 Dec

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Phillip Markoff. AKA, the Craigslist Killer. On the surface, Markoff seemed like a normal guy. A guy...

Mon, 14 Dec

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General Butt Naked aka Joshua Blahyi is a complicated figure. He is now a Liberian Christian mission...

Mon, 7 Dec

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The Dark Ages. We attempt to suck a MASSIVE topic today. A thousand year's worth of European history...

Mon, 30 Nov

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Robert Ben Rhoades, born in 1945, started driving big rigs across America’s interstates and major ...

Mon, 23 Nov

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At the height of her career, sharpshootin' Annie Oakley the talented sharpshooter was the most famou...

Mon, 16 Nov

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Life was NOT easy on the American frontier for European and American settlers in the 19th century. Y...

Mon, 9 Nov

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Breaking an unbreakable code to save, at the very least, millions and millions of lives. To possibly...

Mon, 2 Nov

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Knock, knock, Meatsacks. Who's there? John Haigh. The Acid Bath Murderer. Between 1944 and 1949, Jo...

Mon, 26 Oct

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Cult! Cult! Cult! The NXIVM Sex Cult! Founded by Keith Raniere in 1998 - at its height, NXIVM counte...

Mon, 19 Oct

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For roughly fifteen years, an unassuming Russian woman named Tamara Samsonova may have secretly murd...

Mon, 12 Oct

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I bet you’ve heard of Flat Earthers. But have you heard of… Hollow Earthers?? Variations of Holl...

Mon, 5 Oct

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The Boston Strangler! The residents of Boston, in late 1962 through the summer of 1964, were terrifi...

Mon, 28 Sep

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The Immanuel David Cult! Not much has been written about Immanuel David compared to more notable cul...

Mon, 21 Sep

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Alexander III, king of the ancient state of Macedon aka Macedonia - one of history’s greatest mili...

Mon, 14 Sep

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LAPD and California Highway Patrol officers chased, arrested, and beat Rodney King, a twenty-five-ye...

Mon, 7 Sep

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The Titanic sank in the early hours of April 15th, 1912. The luxury cruise liner that some thought o...

Mon, 31 Aug

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Wow. This is a really, really crazy tale. Sacramento's Richard chase was very mentally ill. He was a...

Mon, 24 Aug

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Who joins the gang that kidnapped them and held them for ransom and helps them rob banks long after ...

Mon, 17 Aug

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What the Hell is going on in Northeastern Utah? If you just drove by, you might think that Skinwalke...

Mon, 10 Aug

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Walt Disney! How much do you know about the mind and the man that built one of the ten biggest media...

Mon, 3 Aug

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Investigating the investigators today! Talking about the FBI's Behavioral Science Unit. Looking into...

Mon, 27 Jul

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Susan Alamo was a cult leader and televangelist who founded the Alamo Christian Foundation with her ...

Mon, 20 Jul

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My brain is back! Today we take a sober look at the Columbine massacre, when on April 20th, 1999, tw...

Mon, 13 Jul

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Today's episode is.... interesting. Honoring a tradition started with the 100th Drunk as F*#k episod...

Mon, 6 Jul

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Today we dig into the life of a true citizen of the world, Lee Jun-fan; known professionally as Bruc...

Mon, 29 Jun

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Osiris - god of the dead, resurrection into eternal life, and judge of the deceased. Ra - god of the...

Mon, 22 Jun

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Wow. THIS guy! Joachim Kroll is one of the most disturbing serial killers we've covered so far. And ...

Mon, 15 Jun

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The Wendigo. Tales of a perpetually starving monster roaming the woods of Eastern North America. The...

Mon, 8 Jun

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Genghis Kahn. Damn. I knew the dude was a renowned conqueror. Did NOT know he conquered like no othe...

Mon, 1 Jun

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Why do some kids kill? Digging into that difficult and dark question today. Is it due to how they're...

Mon, 25 May

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Ivan the Terrible. First true Tsar of Russia. And a dude who more than lived up to his "terrible" ni...

Mon, 18 May

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Alexander Solonik, aka Alexander the Great aka Sasha the Macedonian aka The Superkiller was a legend...

Mon, 11 May

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Haven't heard of these two? By the end of today's tale, you'll be shocked that they're not much more...

Mon, 4 May

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Are there other yous living in other, parallel dimensions? Are there an infinite number of other you...

Mon, 27 Apr

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Get ready for one helluva tale. Today's story is so crazy. The promising beginning, insane planning,...

Mon, 20 Apr

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The US Civil War. Fought over 150 years ago and still the bloodiest war the US has ever been involve...

Mon, 13 Apr

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Robert Berdella. The Kansas City Butcher. The Collector. An insanely depraved cook and former art sc...

Mon, 6 Apr

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Let's talk about sex! What is "normal" based on data? Who’s having sex? What kinds of sex are they...

Mon, 30 Mar

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What the Hell is going on right now? Why is the world in lockdown? Today I try and answer some biolo...

Mon, 23 Mar

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John Dillinger. J Edgar Hoover named him America's public enemy #1 for a reason. Dude LOVED to rob a...

Mon, 16 Mar

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Baba Yaga - OG witch and one of the many characters of ancient Slavic folklore. Today we explore Sla...

Mon, 9 Mar

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At the height of its power in the late 1980s, the Miami-based Nation of Yahweh cult had satellite te...

Mon, 2 Mar

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On April 19, 1995, at 9:02 AM, a Ryder moving truck parked at a drop-off zone situated under the Alf...

Mon, 24 Feb

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Harold Frederick Shipman AKA Dr. Death. Quite possibly the world's most prolific serial killer. From...

Mon, 17 Feb

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The 1992 Ruby Ridge armed standoff between the Weaver family and the federal government. Three peopl...

Mon, 10 Feb

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Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge Genocide. An insane, Cambodian tragedy that was oh, so avoidable. Saloth...

Mon, 3 Feb

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The Brothers Grimm! German folklorists Jacob and Wilhem Grimm collected a lot of strange, old, prima...

Mon, 27 Jan

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Joseph Duncan. What a terrible, terrible dude. This was one of the hardest episodes we've done yet. ...

Mon, 20 Jan

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Operation Iceworm. Operation Gladio. Operation Paperclip, Sea Spray, Acoustic Kitty, and more. What ...

Mon, 13 Jan

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Boanthropy. Capgras Delusion. Alien Hand Syndrome. Clinical Lycanthropy. We go over a variety of rar...

Mon, 6 Jan

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On the morning of June 13th, 1977, at Camp Scott, in Mayes County, Oklahoma, the dead bodies of thre...

Mon, 30 Dec

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Happy New Year! 2020 is almost here and we do a little a summary of what went on with Timesuck in 20...

Mon, 23 Dec

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Ummm.... more Nazis this week. Not EXACTLY a normal holiday choice, but what's normal on Timesuck? T...

Mon, 16 Dec

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The Nazi’s Search for the Holy Grail. We look at this today and also into so, so many other strang...

Mon, 9 Dec

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Stan Lee! The man, the myth, the legend! The man who co-created 200 different comic book characters....

Mon, 2 Dec

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Killdozer. The story of one man, Marvin Heemeyer, who modified a Komatsu D355A bulldozer into a demo...

Mon, 25 Nov

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David Berkowitz. The Son of Sam. One of America's most infamous serial killers. The man who terroriz...

Mon, 18 Nov

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The Happy Face Killer. Wow. What a dirtbag! What an especially hate-able dude, even for a serial kil...

Mon, 11 Nov

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Happy Veteran's Day to all our American men and women armed forces members. Much respect to armed fo...

Mon, 4 Nov

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The Manhattan Project! The United States gathered all the best minds it could find to develop atomic...

Mon, 28 Oct

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The Church of Satan! How many babies do they sacrifice? Do the babies have to be Christian? How many...

Mon, 21 Oct

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The Greek Gods! Didn't expect this to be the craziest suck we've ever done going in, but maybe it wa...

Mon, 14 Oct

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In the late 1960s, James Baker transitioned from the spiritually-minded owner of a vegetarian restau...

Mon, 7 Oct

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Time travel! Today on Timesuck we suck time itself! Will we ever be able to go back and kill Hitler?...

Mon, 30 Sep

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Josephine Baker. What a meatsack!! Such an incredible person. The modern world's first international...

Mon, 23 Sep

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JonBenet Ramsey. It's been over twenty years since the six-year-old was found murdered in her Boulde...

Mon, 16 Sep

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Mormonism. BIG topic today! Oh my HECK! We talk today about the history of Mormonism - a religion bo...

Mon, 9 Sep

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Henry Lee Lucas and Ottis Toole committed at least four murders, or maybe five. They were, collectiv...

Mon, 2 Sep

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The only thing Leonardo da Vinci wasn't good at was raising his kids. And only because he didn't hav...

Mon, 26 Aug

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Jesse James! Perhaps the most notorious outlaw in wild west history. Yip, yip, yaw! But do you know ...

Mon, 19 Aug

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The Ninth Circle Cult! Is there actually a group of "global elites" hunting children in private Euro...

Mon, 12 Aug

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Infectious disease. The number one murderer of humankind. By far! Nasty little viruses and other pat...

Mon, 5 Aug

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Lost technologies! Greek fire, Damascus steel, the pyramid building abilities of ancient Egypt, Indi...

Mon, 29 Jul

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Hinker du teh hoingy boingy! Uff da! Uff da! Tiddly winks teh dingy thingy. Don't worry - not all of...

Mon, 22 Jul

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OJ Simpson. It's been twenty-five years since his *alleged* murder of Nicole Simpson and Ron Goldman...

Mon, 15 Jul

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Serial killer Robert Hansen abducted and killed at least seventeen women and hunted many of them dow...

Mon, 8 Jul

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Less than a week after the 4th of July, we Suck into the birth of the United States of America. We g...

Mon, 1 Jul

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Who killed Elizabeth Short in 1947? We still don't know. Or do we? Today we go over the details of t...

Mon, 24 Jun

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On April 19th, 2008, forty-two year-old Elisabeth Fritzl helped her seventy-three year-old father Jo...

Mon, 17 Jun

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Since 1971, well over thirty women have disappeared along a fifty mile-long patch of I-45 between Ho...

Mon, 10 Jun

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Really hope you enjoy this one. One of my favorite episodes so far. Such a big topic that touches so...

Mon, 3 Jun

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The Darwin Awards! Meatsacks removing themselves from being able to procreate or from the planet ent...

Mon, 27 May

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Albert Fish. The Boogey Man. The Werewolf of Wysteria. The Brooklyn Vampire. The Gray Man. The Moon ...

Mon, 20 May

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Do you enjoy knights, wizards, and dragons? How about medieval history? Folklore, maybe? Want to lea...

Mon, 13 May

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Today we talk about Vietnam. Do you know how the Vietnam war began? What events really led up to it?...

Mon, 6 May

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Back to the USSR! Talking about Mother Russia's long history with BRUTAL various secret police agenc...

Mon, 29 Apr

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Did Madame Delphine and her Dr. husband really torture their slaves in the most horrific of ways at ...

Mon, 22 Apr

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2019 is the 50th anniversary of the moon landing! Yip, yip, yaw! On July 20th, 1969, Commander Neil ...

Mon, 15 Apr

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Vikings! We take a deep dive today into the history of Scandinavia, focusing in particular on the ag...

Mon, 8 Apr

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Napoleon! A man who knew before he died he would be remembered as being one of the most important Eu...

Mon, 1 Apr

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Former Russian police officer Mikhail Popkov was found guilty on December 10th, 2018 of killing fift...

Mon, 25 Mar

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On October 4th, 1994 the dead bodies of two Solar Temple cult members and their baby are found in Mo...

Mon, 18 Mar

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The origin of the Chupacabra legend! UFO sightings in Yosemite. A giant, lost Egyptian city in the G...

Mon, 11 Mar

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Liar, liar, pants on fire. Wow! I have never read about someone who told lies - big lies - more ofte...

Mon, 4 Mar

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Ted Kaczynski, aka "The Unabomber", is an American domestic terrorist who conducted a seventeen-plus...

Mon, 25 Feb

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South American serial killer Pedro "Monster of the Andes" Lopez was convicted of killing 110 girls i...

Mon, 18 Feb

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Should we banish pedophiles to an actual island? That's essentially what Washington state has been d...

Mon, 11 Feb

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The Black Panthers! A very controversial civil rights group originating in Oakland, California in 19...

Mon, 4 Feb

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The Black Death killed between 25 and 75 million people in Europe alone in just over five years! Thi...

Mon, 28 Jan

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The Mothman is a strange creature reportedly witnessed mainly in the Point Pleasant area of West Vir...

Mon, 21 Jan

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Born on December 18, 1948, in Burbank, California, Edmund Kemper, at age 15, killed both his grandpa...

Mon, 14 Jan

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Whopper of a tale for you today. Battles, incest, murder, betrayal, and more! Born in 69 BCE, Cleopa...

Mon, 7 Jan

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November 24th, 1971. The day before Thanksgiving. Dan Cooper, also known as DB Cooper, shows up at t...

Mon, 31 Dec

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Happy New Year's Eve! We take a look back at 2018 and a look forward to 2019 today on Timesuck. We a...

Mon, 24 Dec

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Malvika Iyer had both her hands blown off by a grenade when she was thirteen years-old. The blast al...

Mon, 17 Dec

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Three young girls were kidnapped, raped, and strangled to death near Rochester, NY in the early 70s....

Mon, 10 Dec

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Harriet Tubman! One of the most important conductors on the Underground Railroad. A brave, inspirati...

Mon, 3 Dec

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Founded by Scottish immigrant Allan Pinkerton, Chicago’s first police detective, in 1850, the Pink...

Mon, 26 Nov

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The Hatfields and the McCoys repeatedly attacked one another in the rural Tug River Valley separatin...

Mon, 19 Nov

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The Federal Reserve Act. The Bilderbergers. The Freemasons, Wall Street, and the Council on Foreign ...

Mon, 12 Nov

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It's the 100th anniversary of WW1! The Great War. The War of Nations. The War to End All Wars. If on...

Mon, 5 Nov

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Did Russian Scientists seal five prisoners in an airtight chamber and dosed them with an experimenta...

Mon, 29 Oct

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The "true" horror stories of Ed and Lorraine Warren have turned into more than a billion dollars wor...

Mon, 22 Oct

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On February 29th, 2000, in the small, rugged town of Aberdeen, Australia, forty-five year old mother...

Mon, 15 Oct

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Alexander Pichushkin insisted he’d killed sixty-three people after being apprehended in 2006 but a...

Mon, 8 Oct

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During an oppressive heat wave in August 1892, prominent Fall River residents Andrew and Abby Borden...

Mon, 1 Oct

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In 1587, Englishman John White led a group of 118 colonists to what was supposed to Roanoke Island. ...

Mon, 24 Sep

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Andrew Jackson. Seventh president of the United States. First president born to immigrant parents. O...

Mon, 17 Sep

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Nikola Tesla. The prototypical "mad scientist". He slept only a few hours a night and devoted his li...

Fri, 14 Sep

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For centuries, Japan was ruled by a military dictatorship, the Shogunate, and the samurais were the ...

Mon, 10 Sep

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The Children of God cult aka The Family aka The Family International is still around today which is ...

Mon, 3 Sep

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On January 22nd, 1987, forty-seven year-old R. Budd Dwyer, Republican State Treasurer of Pennsylvani...

Mon, 27 Aug

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Immigration! Man - what a big, complicated topic. What is the Unite State's history with immigration...

Mon, 20 Aug

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Dean Arnold Corll. The Candyman Killer. A Texas momma’s boy who first made friends with local kids...

Mon, 13 Aug

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Well, you asked for it. We got a bunch of emails to do something special for the 100th Monday episod...

Mon, 6 Aug

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What actually goes on at Area 51? There are two competing narratives. One involves a series of class...

Fri, 3 Aug

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Werewolves! Awhoooooooo! Shape-shifting creatures of the night with unusual speed, otherworldly stre...

Mon, 30 Jul

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John Wilkes Booth wasn't some community theater bit player. He wasn't a bartender who did summer the...

Mon, 23 Jul

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Spartacus was a Thracian gladiator who escaped his gladiatorial school in Capua with about 70 other ...

Mon, 16 Jul

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Billed now as the Pennhurst Haunted Asylum, Pennhurst was never an asylum. It wasn't a home for the ...

Fri, 13 Jul

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WARNING/DISCLAIMER: This is the most disturbing episode of Timesuck thus far. To the point I conside...

Mon, 9 Jul

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Pancho Villa! Pancho Villa was a revolutionary fighter who despised the wealthy landowners who had s...

Mon, 2 Jul

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The story of the Donner Party is one of the most disturbing tales of western migration during the ti...

Mon, 25 Jun

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Today we’re talking about the Aztecs! The Aztecs built a vast empire, one that outpaced, out-stage...

Fri, 22 Jun

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The Knights Templar fought their last stand in the Holy Land (their last proper stand) in Acre in 12...

Mon, 18 Jun

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The Knights Templar was founded in 1119 CE on the principles of chastity, obedience and poverty - bu...

Mon, 11 Jun

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The Ma Barker gang robbed bank, after bank, after drugstore, after hardware store, clothing store, C...

Mon, 4 Jun

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On Tuesday, April 24th, 2018, Joseph James DeAngelo, 72, was taken into custody by local police and ...

Fri, 1 Jun

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Edgar Allan Poe did more than write The Raven and look creepy. He also basically invented the modern...

Mon, 28 May

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Joan of Arc was BURNED ALIVE on May 30th, 1431 CE, something no one ever aspires to have written on ...

Mon, 21 May

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An alarming number of Japanese citizens have taken a dark pilgrimage to the Aokigahara forest, more ...

Mon, 14 May

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Cold Open: The Men in Black. The men who inspired the movies, not Will Smith and Tommy Lee Jones. Wh...

Fri, 11 May

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From August seventh to September tenth, 1888, a crazed killer who came to be known as "Jack the Ripp...

Mon, 7 May

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Gary "The Green River Killer" Ridgway is currently in prison in Walla Walla, Washington, having been...

Mon, 30 Apr

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The Spanish Inquisition started in 1478 and lasted all the way until 1834 - and it was terrible the ...

Mon, 23 Apr

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In 1973, 21 year old German college student Anneliese Michel began to descend into an existence of p...

Fri, 20 Apr

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Anneliese Michel would die in a small, German town on July 1st, 1976. The official cause of death? M...

Mon, 16 Apr

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The Lost Books of the Bible! Is that really what we’re talking about today on Timesuck? Yes. Was I...

Mon, 9 Apr

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The Westboro Baptist Church (WBC), founded by hatemonger Fred Phelps, is an American church (cult) k...

Mon, 2 Apr

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The Stanford Prison Experiment is one of the most famous psychological studies ever conducted. In 19...

Fri, 30 Mar

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Serial killer Richard Ramirez killed at least 14 people and raped and tortured at least two dozen mo...

Mon, 26 Mar

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Toughest topic I’ve tackled so far. Marches going on across the country to ban assault rifles. Sch...

Mon, 19 Mar

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On Friday, April 25th, 1986, the Soviet city of Pripyat, built to support the local nuclear power pl...

Mon, 12 Mar

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The Bielski brothers led the largest Jewish-led rescue operation of Jewish civilians in ALL of World...

Fri, 9 Mar

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Aleister Crowley was many things: an author, an artist, a poet, a mystic, a student, a mountaineer, ...

Mon, 5 Mar

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What in the shit are we talking about this week? Norse Gods! Turns out they’re still being worship...

Mon, 26 Feb

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Tupac and Biggie - two of the biggest hip hop stars of all time. And neither of them would see the a...

Mon, 19 Feb

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Feb. 28th, 2018 will mark the 25th anniversary of the ATF raiding the Branch Davidian Compound in Wa...

Fri, 16 Feb

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When murder investigators entered the rural farm house of loner Ed Gein just outside the tiny town o...

Mon, 12 Feb

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The Irish Republican Army. Guys and gals who have, since their inception, been viewed as a liberatio...

Mon, 5 Feb

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I recently watched the new 4th season of Black Mirror on Netflix, and, if this season has a theme, I...

Mon, 29 Jan

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Before this week I knew very little about Africa’s history. It’s a continent of many nations, na...

Fri, 26 Jan

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"I'm your huckleberry." Did the real Doc Holliday actually say that? Or was that some Hollywood dram...

Mon, 22 Jan

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Joseph Stalin. Icon of the 20th century. Personification of Soviet might. Catalyst of the Cold War. ...

Mon, 15 Jan

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The Jersey Devil. Is it a kangaroo-like creature with the head of a goat, horse, or dog? Most agree ...

Mon, 8 Jan

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Do the Freemasons work hand in hand with the illuminati? Are the Freemasons and the Illuminati one a...

Fri, 5 Jan

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Who are the Freemasons? An ancient, Satanic organization who are part of the illuminati and intent o...

Mon, 1 Jan

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John Wayne Gacy aka Pogo the clown aka Patches the clown aka the Devil himself. This outgoing member...

Mon, 25 Dec

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Einstein! Theoretical physicist. Nobel Prize winning mathematician. Guy who made his name synonymous...

Mon, 18 Dec

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Who was Eleanor Roosevelt? She was the niece of Theodore Roosevelt. The wife of Franklin D. Roosevel...

Fri, 15 Dec

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What is the Oak Island Mystery? Why have been teams of people been digging hundreds of feet into the...

Mon, 11 Dec

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Griselda Blanco. The Godmother. La Madrina. The Black Widow. The Columbian drug lord who came BEFORE...

Mon, 4 Dec

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What the Hell is Pizzagate? It’s a detailed conspiracy theory claiming that a pedophile ring - a S...

Mon, 27 Nov

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BTK. Bind. Torture. Kill. The name Wichita Serial Killer Dennis Rader gave to himself in the 1970s i...

Fri, 24 Nov

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What is Unit 731? It was one of Japan's WWII era medical research centers where doctors performed ho...

Mon, 20 Nov

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Sometime in the late hours of Feb. 1st, 1959, nine Russian college students died tragically in the N...

Mon, 13 Nov

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Chief Crazy Horse. Pride of the Lakota people. Brilliant military tactician who handed the US Milita...

Mon, 6 Nov

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The most highly decorated Marine in the history of the Corps, Lewis "Chesty" Puller won five Navy Cr...

Fri, 3 Nov

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Who killed five people for sure and possibly many more in central California in late 1968 and 1969 a...

Mon, 30 Oct

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Welcome to a Halloween edition of Timesuck! Have you ever felt like something in the shadows was wat...

Mon, 23 Oct

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What actually goes on in the Bermuda Triangle? Do more ships and airplanes disappear within it’s b...

Fri, 20 Oct

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At roughly 3:00 AM, Nov. 13, 1974, twenty three year old Ronald Joseph "Butch" DeFeo Jr took a thirt...

Mon, 16 Oct

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We go REAL dark this week on Timesuck with an examination of Russian serial killer and relentless sa...

Mon, 9 Oct

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Four dead bodies were found on July 1, 1981, at 8763 Wonderland Avenue in the Laurel Canyon neighbor...

Fri, 6 Oct

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Timesuck sucks itself in this special 1,000 review bonus edition of Timesuck! Why did I create Times...

Mon, 2 Oct

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What happened to Amelia Earhart on July 2nd, 1937? Where did Amelia and her navigator, Fred Noonan, ...

Mon, 25 Sep

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What led 39 people to kill themselves in a desperate attempt to board a spaceship in 1997? Why did a...

Mon, 18 Sep

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America's 26th President went from an asthmatic child to a weightlifting, boxing, mountain climbing,...

Fri, 15 Sep

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So much crazy in one episode. In 1692, the residents of Salem Village became obsessed with the idea ...

Mon, 11 Sep

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The Department of Homeland Security. The enduring military occupation of Afghanistan that began as O...

Mon, 4 Sep

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Richard Kuklinski once shot a man twice in the head on Christmas Eve because the guy owed him $1600....

Mon, 28 Aug

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Recent events in Charlottesville, VA reminded me that the KKK is still around. I realized I've never...

Fri, 25 Aug

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In the 1950s, while many Americans were busy watching I Love Lucy or waiting for the new Elvis Presl...

Mon, 21 Aug

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I remember the exact moment I first heard Nirvana and I remember the day he died. But I didn't know ...

Mon, 14 Aug

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In 2014, two twelve year old Wisconsin girls believed in monsters. They believed in one, Slenderman,...

Mon, 7 Aug

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Rasputin is one of the strangest historical figures out there. He was a Siberian peasant who ended u...

Mon, 31 Jul

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16th century Hungary was a place and time of unimaginable violence. Europe had been at war with itse...

Mon, 24 Jul

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What is happening over in North Korea and why do we not try and stop the atrocities being committed?...

Mon, 17 Jul

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What does it actually mean to be transgender? Why does one person identifying as transgender scare,...

Fri, 14 Jul

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How do you become the real life basis for the most famous monster of our time? By being one of the m...

Mon, 10 Jul

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Atlantis! Did a highly advanced civilization sink into the sea tens of thousands of years ago?  Can...

Mon, 3 Jul

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How much do you really know about Martin Luther King, Jr.? Did you know he was so committed to nonvi...

Mon, 26 Jun

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If it weren't for the Texas Rangers, Texas probably wouldn't be a state today. These wild, eccentric...

Mon, 19 Jun

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Did Nostradamus predict a series of major world events that would occur hundreds of years after his ...

Mon, 12 Jun

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On May 23rd, 1934, 23 year old Bonnie Parker was shot 26 times. 25 year old Clyde Barrow was shot 17...

Mon, 5 Jun

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The conclusion of Timesuck's first two part episode. Do I think Oswald killed Kennedy? I don't think...

Fri, 2 Jun

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We know that on November 22nd, 1963, John Fitzgerald Kennedy, the 35th President of the United State...

Mon, 29 May

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Why do sharks terrify us? How dangerous are they? Can they attack in fresh water!?! Can they nibble ...

Mon, 22 May

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Sadist. Rapist. Pedophile. Murderer. Cannibal. Necrophiliac. Jeffrey Dahmer was all of these things....

Mon, 15 May

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On Friday, May 25th, 2015, 31 year old Ross Ulbricht, aka the Dread Pirate Roberts, was sentenced t...

Mon, 8 May

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The most insane suck yet, Timesuckers. How did a pastor and political activist convince nearly 1,000...

Mon, 1 May

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What exactly are designer babies? What plants and animals have scientists already genetically modifi...

Fri, 28 Apr

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How do you rise from being so poor your parents can't afford to buy you shoes for school to being th...

Mon, 24 Apr

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What do you know about Marilyn Monroe? Did you know it took years after she being "discovered&...

Mon, 17 Apr

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The Mandela Effect: a large group of people remembering an event that never happened or remembering ...

Mon, 10 Apr

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Special guest episode! The hosts of the wildly entertaining Crime and Sports and Small Town Murder ...

Mon, 3 Apr

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On February 1st, 2013, 21 year old Canadian college student Elisa Lam vanished while staying at the ...

Fri, 31 Mar

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Scientology. What do they believe? How did it begin? Who, exactly, was L Ron Hubbard? What appeal do...

Mon, 27 Mar

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In just a year as captain of his own fleet of pirates, Blackbeard made one hell of a name for himsel...

Mon, 20 Mar

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Yup. ISIS. We're talking about them Timesuckers! A brief explanation of Islam, what's going on in Sy...

Mon, 13 Mar

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It's the Skunk Ape from Shreveport, the Bigfoot from Bremerton squaring off against the Sea Creatur...

Fri, 10 Mar

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How did Hitler and his Nazi Party ever gain political power in 1930s Germany? Why didn't the German ...

Mon, 6 Mar

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Who has a murder castle!?! 19th century serial killer H.H. Holmes, that's who. Dubbed "America'...

Mon, 27 Feb

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William Bonney aka Billy the Kid killed several men while still a teenager and shot his way out of ...

Mon, 20 Feb

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Ever wondered who's sending you those crazy emails from someone claiming to want share a large sum o...

Mon, 13 Feb

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On Feb. 14th, 1929, seven men were found dead in a North Side Chicago garage. The scene was grisly -...

Fri, 10 Feb

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When did humans first claim to be contacted by extraterrestrials? What really happened at Roswell? W...

Mon, 6 Feb

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In the early 1920s, world renown escape artist and master magician, Harry Houdini, became obsessed w...

Mon, 30 Jan

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What started off as a listener suggested look into the Trans Allegheny Lunatic Asylum in Weston, We...

Mon, 23 Jan

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Welcome to a Flat Earth Society edition of Timesuck! Think the Earth is a floating disc being propel...

Mon, 16 Jan

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In 1969 Charles Manson convinced Tex Watson and several young women to brutally murder seven innocen...

Mon, 9 Jan

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Is Walmart destroying middle class America? Is it the problem or merely a symptom of a larger econom...

Mon, 2 Jan

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What happened to the good old days when dumb, lazy fucks used to just die in the pre-industrialized,...

Fri, 30 Dec

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Old porcelain dolls weird me out. Especially the kind whose eyes blink when you move them around. Th...

Mon, 26 Dec

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It was a crazy time in America in the 1960s.  JFK was assassinated in Dallas, we were entrenched in...

Mon, 19 Dec

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In the mountains of central Europe, jolly old St. Nick doesn’t work alone. He leaves the handling ...

Mon, 12 Dec

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Timesucker and British archaeologist Rebecca Pridmore sent me some fascinating articles on what we’...

Mon, 5 Dec

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Billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk wants to have a million people living on Mars by 2070 and wants t...

Mon, 28 Nov

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Ted Bundy is perhaps the most disturbing serial killer of the 20th century. Why? For starters, he di...

Mon, 21 Nov

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Will we see robots that look, feel, and communicate in such lifelike ways that we won’t be able to...

Mon, 14 Nov

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Corey Haim went one from a teen heartthrob and one of the most bankable child stars of the late 80s ...

Mon, 7 Nov

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John Quincy Adams was the sixth President of the United States, a Massachusetts State Senator, a Ha...

Mon, 31 Oct

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What is Halloween? Where does it come from? When did people start asking for candy? When did it beco...

Mon, 24 Oct

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The Mongols sacked many cities over the course of their reign, but perhaps none so brutally as the P...

Mon, 17 Oct

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Year of the creepy clown. What's behind the insane number of creepy clown sightings happening aroun...

Mon, 10 Oct

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What is a sociopath? What's a psychopath? Do you know one? Are you one? Dan breaks down the clinical...

Mon, 3 Oct

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Your chances of dying in "the big one" Southern California earthquake are roughly the sam...

Mon, 26 Sep

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Roman orgies! Columbian bestiality! Irish underwear! Find out what the Hell Dan is referring to and ...

Mon, 19 Sep

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Did you believe that a race of alien lizards has been secretly running the world’s governments sin...

Sun, 4 Sep

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Welcome to Timesuck! Do you wonder how people end up in doomsday cults? Or why they believe in OUTL...