446 - Who Was The Real Mr. Rogers?
Today we examine the beloved host of the long-running children's television show, Mr Rogers' Neighborhood. Was Fred McFeely Rogers truly as wholesome as he seemed? Could anyone be that good? Or was it...
17 Mar 20252h 15min
Short Suck #29 - Luis Garavito: The World's Most Prolific Serial Killer
Luis Alfredo Garavito Cubillos was a ruthless, sadistic Colombian rapist and serial killer who became known to the task force searching for him as… The Beast. This sadistic monster would be convicted ...
14 Mar 20251h 2min
445 - Anders Breivik & the 2011 Neo-Nazi Norway Attacks
On July 22nd, 2011, Norwegian alt-right gamer Anders Behring Breivik carried out the deadliest attack on Norwegian soil since WW2, when he detonated a car bomb in Oslo and then snuck onto the nearby i...
10 Mar 20252h 44min
444 - Nelson Mandela: From Prisoner to President
How much do you know about Nelson Mandela and South Africa's brutal, racially oppressive system of apartheid? Mandela became the first black president of South Africa in 1994, just four years after se...
3 Mar 20252h 26min
Short Suck #28 - The Pirate Queen
Ching Shih, born as Shi Yang, was quite possibly the most powerful pirate of all time. While famous UK pirates like Blackbeard, Black Bart, Calico Jack, Sir Francis Drake, or Captain Kidd get much mor...
28 Feb 202550min
443 - The Long Island Serial Killer
On November 20th, 1993, the sexually violated and mutilated corpse of a young woman is found on Long Island, New York. The first of over ten bodies found in the coming decades of young, petite, sex wo...
24 Feb 20252h 48min
442 - Ganas: Intentional Community? Or Cult?
Ganas is an intentional community founded in 1979 in Tompkinsville, Staten Island that is still active. Is it also a cult? What is an "intentional community" And why was one of the founding members, J...
17 Feb 20252h 44min
Short Suck #27 - The History of Castration
Happy Valentine's Day! Let's talk about love. Kind of. But not really. Not all actually. Let's instead, talk about how and why we humans have castrated each other and ourselves throughout human histor...
14 Feb 202545min
