427 - McCarthyism: When Red Scare Paranoia Destroyed Innocent Lives

427 - McCarthyism: When Red Scare Paranoia Destroyed Innocent Lives

Back in the 1950s, America was very afraid of Soviet spies and communist sympathizers infiltrating the government and destroying the United States from within. And there were actual spies sharing secrets with the Soviets. But concern soon gave way to paranoia, and a political witch-hunt began, with a self-serving senator from Wisconsin leading a very misguided and ultimately anti-American and embarrassing Red Scare that destroyed the lives of many.

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Short Suck #39: The Abolitionist John MF'n Brown

Short Suck #39: The Abolitionist John MF'n Brown

You'll be hard pressed to find a man who stood for his convictions more firmly than John Brown. John was an white abolitionist willing to do more to end slavery than any other man - of any color - in ...

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466 - Acres of Skin: Inside the Terrordome

466 - Acres of Skin: Inside the Terrordome

Philadelphia's Holmesburg prison, before it was officially shut down in 1995, had been a house of horrors for much of its history. In addition to being grossly overcrowded and its prisoners being subj...

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465 - OneTaste: The Orgasmic Meditation Cult

465 - OneTaste: The Orgasmic Meditation Cult

Did you know that women's clitoral orgasms have the power to completely transform the world and turn it into a blissful nirvana free from pain and suffering? They don't, but, that's essentially what O...

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Short Suck #38:  Hollywood’s Biggest Forgotten Scandal: Patricia Douglas

Short Suck #38: Hollywood’s Biggest Forgotten Scandal: Patricia Douglas

Patricia Douglas was a young dancer and an extra working in Hollywood during its so-called Golden Era when she was tricked into attending a party Tinseltown's most powerful studio, MGM, was throwing f...

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464 - The Night Caller: Eric Edgar Cooke

464 - The Night Caller: Eric Edgar Cooke

Eric Edgar Cooke, nicknamed the Night Caller and the Nedlands Monster, was a serial killer who terrorized Perth, Australia from 1958 to 1963. He was incredibly hard to catch, because his MO was to not...

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463 - The Tuskegee Study (Secret, Deadly Medical Testing on American Citizens)

463 - The Tuskegee Study (Secret, Deadly Medical Testing on American Citizens)

From 1932 to 1972, six hundred poor, black sharecroppers in Alabama were told they were being treated for "bad blood," when in reality, the US government was conducting an experiment on how untreated ...

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Short Suck #37 - The Very Avoidable Oceangate Disaster

Short Suck #37 - The Very Avoidable Oceangate Disaster

On June 18th, 2023,  a deep-sea submersible called The Titan operated by the private company OceanGate mysteriously vanished while its CEO piloted four passengers who had paid $250,000 each to visit t...

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462 - Murder, Inc.

462 - Murder, Inc.

In the 1930s, an association of primarily Italian mafiosos and Jewish organized crime gangsters, based in Brooklyn, was formed for the purpose of putting distance between the underworld figures orderi...

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