82 - The Westboro Baptist Lunatics
The Westboro Baptist Church (WBC), founded by hatemonger Fred Phelps, is an American church (cult) known for protesting funerals with preposterously homophobic signs and for its use of inflammatory ha...
9 Apr 20181h 30min
81 - The Stanford Prison Experiment
The Stanford Prison Experiment is one of the most famous psychological studies ever conducted. In 1971, newly tenured psychology professor Richard Zimbardo turned the basement of the Stanford Universi...
2 Apr 20181h 32min
BONUS 19: Richard "The Night Stalker" Ramirez
Serial killer Richard Ramirez killed at least 14 people and raped and tortured at least two dozen more, mostly during the Spring and Summer of 1985. He robbed to support his coke habit and and he tort...
30 Mars 20181h 47min
80 - America's Guns: What is the Real Problem?
Toughest topic I’ve tackled so far. Marches going on across the country to ban assault rifles. School walkouts. Gun rights advocates staging their own protests. Celebrities posting all kinds of feel g...
26 Mars 20181h 36min
79 - The Chernobyl Disaster: What, Why, and How Bad Was it?
On Friday, April 25th, 1986, the Soviet city of Pripyat, built to support the local nuclear power plant Chernobyl, had 13,414 apartments, a hospital, a movie theater, an art school, a central park wit...
19 Mars 20181h 31min
78 - Defiance: the Nazi Killing Bielski Brothers
The Bielski brothers led the largest Jewish-led rescue operation of Jewish civilians in ALL of World War II. They saved over 1,200 men, women, and children by hiding them in the forests of Western Bel...
12 Mars 20181h 40min
BONUS 18: Aleister Crowley: The Wickedest Man in the World
Aleister Crowley was many things: an author, an artist, a poet, a mystic, a student, a mountaineer, a world traveler, and a notorious occultist. He shocked Victorian and post-Victorian England and the...
9 Mars 20181h 53min
77 - Norse Gods
What in the shit are we talking about this week? Norse Gods! Turns out they’re still being worshipped today. Who knew? Well, our own Timesuck editor Jesse Dobner for one, who is a practicing Asatruar....
5 Mars 20181h 34min
