That Time a Secret Service Guy Didn't Have Enough Money to Pay His Sex Worker in Cartagena
What the Secret Service did in Cartagena didn’t stay so secret after they didn't pay for services rendered. In this episode, we travel back to the quieter days of the Obama Administration. You may remember it as a not particularly scandalous administration and yet! Join us for some PSAs on how to responsibly hire sex workers, while it's Mark's turn to struggle with his audio.
7 Syys 202139min
That Time Lana Turner Watched Her Teen Daughter Stab Her Gangster Boyfriend on Good Friday
The glamour goddess saw her reputation get a good tawdry tarnishing when her 14-year-old daughter killed her abusive 32-year-old lover with a single stab. How did Lana Turner end up watching a man die in her pink bedroom? How did her daughter, Cheryl Crane, end up trying to protect her mother? And did Johnny Stompanato know that he was buying his own murder weapon when he helped Lana pick out that set of carving knives a week prior? Mark digs deep into one of Hollywood's most shocking scandals, one that can best be summed up by the phrase "bruises caused by diamonds."
31 Elo 202134min
That Time D.C. Wives Hated Peggy Eaton So Much Andrew Jackson Had to Fire His Cabinet
Peggy Eaton was just trying to be a good housewife, but the women of D.C. were not going to let her do it in peace! During the Andrew Jackson administration, not much else was going on, so one wife deemed unfit could take down a whole cabinet! (Maybe you've heard of Peggy because you're a big fan of the Joan Crawford picture The Gorgeous Hussy?) And we learn the fastest way to lose a tip as far as Mark is concerned.
24 Elo 202137min
That Time Geraldo Rivera Published a Salacious Memoir and Almost Instantly Regretted It
Before Geraldo was throwing punches and chairs at neo Nazis on his daytime talk show, he was a respected journalist and noted Horny Man. And his 1991 memoir Exposing Myself dedicated possibly more time to the latter. Join Kasey as Mark leads her down a wild hedonistic path from Al Capone's vault to a Bette Midler interview with Barbara Walters to a shocking third-act twist when Rivera pens a new afterward for the paperback edition, addressing the uproar he caused by including so many stories about sex on the job.
17 Elo 202134min
That Time Gary Hart and Donna Rice Posed for 1 Innocent Photo and Destroyed His Candidacy
Ol' Monkey Businessman and presidential hopeful Gary Hart teaches us what a sheltered childhood will do to you. It will all come out one day. Another rising star in politics burns out before our very eyes when this philandering presidential candidate gets caught with photo evidence of his monkey business. Join us as we discuss the dos' and mostly don’ts of 1980s politics, the upkeep of yachts, the casual arrogance of straight white men, and what Donna Rice is like.
10 Elo 202139min
That Time Christina Crawford Pissed Off Old Hollywood and Film Fans With Mommie Dearest
The Hype was never meant to be a biography of a movie star. But when Christina Crawford's memoir of a childhood spent battling her controlling mother, Joan Crawford, was published as Mommie Dearest in 1978, the reaction was decidedly not that. From having to defend her account of her childhood to friends of her adopted mother (not to mention interviewers and fans) to the stroke that people whispered was actually a nervous breakdown precipitated by the disastrous film adaptation, this is the story how the legend of Joan Crawford almost ruined Christina's life... a second time.
3 Elo 202143min
That Time Someone Finally Held Senator Joseph McCarthy Accountable for His Lazy Lies
How unoriginal. Joseph McCarthy might have been the laziest person who ruined over 600 lives. Playing off of already established fears of Cold War America, he quickly brought himself into the Senate spotlight of the Senate and rode McCarthyism until hubris and some horny underlings got the best of him.
27 Heinä 20211h 2min
That Time Valerie Harper Got Fired From Her Own Sitcom, Smeared in the Press, and Took It All to Court
Valerie Harper struck a blow for performers everywhere with her much-publicized court battle over her abrupt firing from the NBC sitcom Valerie. She’s remembered as a hero now, but at the time she was in a terrifying position just a few years after Farrah Fawcett and Suzanne Somers saw their careers implode. This is what happened, and how we ended up watching Sandy Duncan in The Hogan Family reruns.
20 Heinä 202139min
