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IS IT POSSIBLE THAT THE EARTH IS FLAT? Turns out, there are LOTS of people believe it is. Is their evidence compelling? Not really, but their conspiracies run deep and cross over into everything from being anti-vaccination to, you know, believing that the school systems invented dinosaurs to keep kids dumb...or something like that. For us, this was 90 minutes of rage, and that always makes for a great episode. Enjoy. ALSO THE EARTH IS FLAT. LOOKING FOR MORE TCO? WHO COULD BLAME YOU! Join our Patreon fam and instantly get over 80 FULL BONUS episodes to BINGE RIGHT NOW!Including our episode-by-episode coverage of "Serial," "The Jinx," "Making A Murderer," "The Staircase," "Lorena," and so many more! You can also get ad-free versions of our regular episodes! JOIN HERE! COME TO OUR PRIDE SHOW! Come hang with us in NYC on Saturday, June 29th--the 50th Anniversary of The Stonewall Riots! It will be one of our most special and memorable live shows to date! All ticket holders are welcome to join Patrick on a FREE walking tour of the West Village on the morning of the show! He'll show you all the spots from the gay liberation movement, old New York movies, and even Sex and the City--all within a few blocks! Get tickets to the Pride Show here! To learn about our sponsors AND GET THOSE PROMO CODES, Click here!

28 Mai 201953min

FAM! QUEEN GILLIAN GOT SUPER SICK THIS WEEK AND SO WE HAD TO RUN A CLASSIC EPISODE! First please note that, unbeknownst to us before we picked this episode to rerun, THIS IS THE EPISODE WHERE WE INVENTED BOTH OUR THEME SONG AND…WAIT FOR IT…THE GARBAGE BELL!! Any-who, Gillian is much better now and we'll be back next week with that bonkers #FlatEarthDoc "Behind the Curve. ENJOY! Meet Joyce McKinney, a former Miss Wyoming with an IQ of 168. 30 years ago, she fell in love with a young Mormon named Kirk. When Kirk disappeared and then turned up a few months later in the UK, Joyce was convinced he’d been kidnapped and was being held against his well. Determined to get him back, Joyce set off on a journey that would lead her across the globe, into jail, and onto the front pages of the most popular tabloids of the time. Her crusade for love took her through a surreal world of kidnapping, manacled Mormons, risqué photography, magic underwear, and celestial sex. Oh AND to the 1977 after party for the film “Saturday Night Fever.” LOOKING FOR MORE TCO? WHO COULD BLAME YOU! Join our Patreon fam and instantly get over 80 FULL BONUS episodes to BINGE RIGHT NOW for just $5 per month! Including our episode-by-episode coverage of "Serial," "The Jinx," "Making A Murderer," "The Staircase," "Lorena," and so many more! You can also get ad-free versions of our regular episodes! JOIN HERE! COME TO OUR PRIDE SHOW  Come hang with us in NYC on Saturday, June 29th--the 50th Anniversary of The Stonewall Riots! It will be one of our most special and memorable live shows to date! All ticket holders are welcome to join Patrick on a FREE walking tour of the West Village on the morning of the show! He'll show you all the spots from the gay liberation movement, old New York movies, and even Sex and the City--all within a few blocks! Get tickets to the Pride Show here! To learn about our sponsors AND GET THOSE PROMO CODES, Click here!

21 Mai 201957min

This episode covers episodes 4 - 6 of the Oxygen series. For part 1, covering episodes 1 - 3, go here. Or listen on Spotify here.  It's the most famous--and most obsessed over--missing person's case of our time: On February 9, 2004, Maura Murray, a promising young nursing student, left her college dorm, emptied her bank account, and drove to a remote New Hampshire town where she didn't know a soul. Just after 7pm, her car crashed into a tree. A witness spoke to her, offering help, which she refused. And then she vanished into thin air. Nobody has seen or heard from her since. Everybody has a theory: The family knows more than they're saying, the police botched the case and are covering it up, Maura fled her life and started over in Canada. This documentary series attempts to solve the mystery.  LOOKING FOR MORE TCO? WHO COULD BLAME YOU! Join our Patreon fam and instantly get over 80 FULL BONUS episodes to BINGE RIGHT NOW! Including our episode-by-episode coverage of "Serial," "The Jinx," "Making A Murderer," "The Staircase," "Lorena," and so many more! You can also get ad-free versions of our regular episodes! JOIN HERE! COME TO OUR PRIDE SHOW! Come hang with us in NYC on Saturday, June 29th--the 50th Anniversary of The Stonewall Riots! It will be one of our most special and memorable live shows to date! All ticket holders are welcome to join Patrick on a FREE walking tour of the West Village on the morning of the show! He'll show you all the spots from the gay liberation movement, old New York movies, and even Sex and the City--all within a few blocks! Get tickets to the Pride Show here! To learn about our sponsors AND GET THOSE PROMO CODES, Click here! This week's Palate Cleaser is "Green Street" from The Jonathan Larson Project. You need to buy the album immediately. Click here!

14 Mai 201954min

This episode covers episodes 1 - 3 of the Oxygen series. It's the most famous--and most obsessed over--missing person's case of our time:  On February 9, 2004, Maura Murray, a promising young nursing student, left her college dorm, emptied her bank account, and drove to a remote New Hampshire town where she didn't know a soul. Just after 7pm, her car crashed into a tree. A witness spoke to her, offering help, which she refused. And then she vanished into thin air. Nobody has seen or heard from her since.  Everybody has a theory: The family knows more than they're saying, the police botched the case and are covering it up, Maura fled her life and started over in Canada. This documentary series attempts to solve the mystery.  LOOKING FOR MORE TCO? WHO COULD BLAME YOU! Join our Patreon fam and instantly get over 80 FULL BONUS episodes to BINGE RIGHT NOW! Including our episode-by-episode coverage of "Serial," "The Jinx," "Making A Murderer," "The Staircase" and so many more! You can also get ad-free versions of our regular episodes! JOIN HERE! COME TO OUR PRIDE SHOW! Come hang with us in NYC on Saturday, June 29th--the 50th Anniversary of The Stonewall Riots! It will be one of our most special and memorable live shows to date! All ticket holders are welcome to join Patrick on a tour of the West Village on the morning of the show! He'll show you all the spots from the gay liberation movement, old New York movies, and even Sex and the City--all within a few blocks! Get tickets to the Pride Show here!  To learn about our sponsors AND GET THOSE PROMO CODES, Click here!

7 Mai 201953min

Southwest of Salem: The Story of the San Antonio Four excavates the nightmarish persecution of Elizabeth Ramirez, Cassandra Rivera, Kristie Mayhugh, and Anna Vasquez - four Latina lesbians wrongfully convicted of gang-raping two little girls in San Antonio, Texas. The film begins its journey inside a Texas prison, after these women have spent nearly a decade behind bars. They were 19 and 20 years old at the time the allegations surfaced. Using the women's home video footage from 21 years ago combined with recent verité footage and interviews, the film explores their personal narratives and their search for exculpatory evidence to help their losing criminal trials. LOOKING FOR MORE TCO? WHO COULD BLAME YOU! Join our Patreon fam and instantly get over 80 FULL BONUS episodes to BINGE RIGHT NOW! Including our episode-by-episode coverage of "Serial," "The Jinx," "Making A Murderer," "The Staircase" and so many more! You can also get ad-free versions of our regular episodes! JOIN HERE! COME TO OUR PRIDE SHOW! Come hang with us in NYC on Saturday, June 29th--the 50th Anniversary of The Stonewall Riots! It will be one of our most special and memorable live shows to date! Get tickets here! To learn about our sponsors AND GET THOSE PROMO CODES, Click here!

30 Apr 201958min

Who killed Marsha P. Johnson? When the beloved, self-described "street queen" of NY's gay ghetto was found floating in the Hudson River in 1992, the NYPD chalked it up as a suicide and refused to investigate. But Marsha was a lover of life and many who knew her refused to believe she would have taken her own life.  Now, a quarter century later, at a time of unprecedented visibility and escalating violence in the transgender community, Marsha's old friend and fellow activist Victoria Cruz has taken it upon herself to reexamine what happened to Marsha. Dipping deep into jaw-dropping archival footage of another era of New York City life, The Death and Life of Marsha P. Johnson follows as this champion pursues leads, mobilizes officials, and works to tell the story of Marsha's life and get to the bottom of Marsha's death. COME TO OUR PRIDE SHOW! Come hang with us in NYC on the 50th Anniversary of The Stonewall Riots. Take pictures with our sassy drag queens, meet fellow TCO fam, and hear our take on the definitive Stonewall documentary "Stonewall Uprising." IT'S GONNA BE A BLAST. Get tickets here! LOOKING FOR MORE TCO? Join our Patreon at $5/month and get INSTANT ACCESS to over 80 FULL BONUS EPISODES! Hear our episode-by-episode coverage of "The Jinx," Serial," "Making A Murderer," "The Staircase" and more! Join Here!

23 Apr 201959min

With a magical new invention that promised to revolutionize blood testing, 19 year old Elizabeth Holmes became the world's youngest self-made billionaire, heralded as the next Steve Jobs. Then, overnight, it was revealed that the technology she'd invented didn't work--it never had. Her $10-billion-dollar company dissolved, investors lost everything, and Holmes now faces jail time.  LOOKING FOR MORE TCO? WHO COULD BLAME YOU! Join our Patreon fam and instantly get over 80 FULL BONUS episodes to BINGE RIGHT NOW! Including our episode-by-episode coverage of "Serial," "The Jinx," "Making A Murderer," "The Staircase" and so many more! You can also get ad-free versions of our regular episodes! JOIN HERE! COME TO OUR PRIDE SHOW! Come hang with us in NYC on Saturday, June 29th--the 50th Anniversary of The Stonewall Riots! It will be one of our most special and memorable live shows to date! Get tickets here! To learn about our sponsors AND GET THOSE PROMO CODES, Click here!

16 Apr 201955min

GAYS! DRAG QUEENS! LIZA! DISCO! DRUGS! TAX FRAUD! DO I REALLY NEED TO GO ON? Studio 54 was the epicenter of 70s hedonism--a place that not only redefined the nightclub, but also came to symbolize an entire era. Its co-owners, Ian Schrager and Steve Rubell, two friends from Brooklyn, seemed to come out of nowhere to suddenly preside over a new kind of New York society. Now, 39 years after the velvet rope was first slung across the club's hallowed threshold, a feature documentary tells the real story behind the greatest club of all time and the crimes that brought it down. LOOKING FOR MORE TCO? WHO COULD BLAME YOU! Join our Patreon fam and instantly get over 80 FULL BONUS episodes to BINGE RIGHT NOW! Including our episode-by-episode coverage of "Serial," "The Jinx," "Making A Murderer," "The Staircase" and so many more! You can also get ad-free versions of our regular episodes! JOIN HERE! COME TO OUR PRIDE SHOW! Come hang with us in NYC on Saturday, June 29th--the 50th Anniversary of The Stonewall Riots! It will be one of our most special and memorable live shows to date! Get tickets here! To learn about our sponsors AND GET THOSE PROMO CODES, Click here!

9 Apr 201955min