Lawn Chair Larry & His Homemade Flying Machine
What do ya get when you strap 42 weather balloons to a lawn chair? The homemade flying machine of one Lawn Chair Larry. In the early '80s, the amateur aviator took to the skies of Southern California,...
10 Dec 202454min
Tequila Mockingbird: Sammy Hagar's Booze Empire
The recent theft of a shipment of Santo Tequila, the brand owned by rocker Sammy Hagar and diner lover Guy Fieri, really shook America to its core. We take a look at Sammy's bumpy road to establishing...
5 Dec 202455min
Magic: the Gathering ...on Magic Mushrooms
Magic: the Gathering is a tabletop card game for dueling wizards. Magic mushrooms are a psilocybin-based psychedelic that distorts reality. Combine them both and you get this story: a man travels to P...
3 Dec 20241h
I See Your True Colors Shining Through: The Fine Cotton Scandal
A lifelong criminal fixes a horse race with the help of Australian organized crime. In what would make an excellent Guy Ritchie movie, the crimers bumble their way to a disastrous finish worthy of no ...
28 Nov 202445min
The Half-Alien Human Hybrid Superspy Guy: Jeffrey Alan Lash
When a dead body is left in a SUV in a wealthy LA enclave, it launches an out-of-this-world mystery. Was the strange dead man really a half-alien human hybrid superspy working for a super-secret gover...
26 Nov 202452min
I'll Buy that for a Dollar: Emerich Juettner
A upright citizen living in "genteel poverty" loses everything — except his dog — and instead of going broke decides to go for broke. When life gives you lemons, make dollar bills, dagnabbit! See omny...
21 Nov 202442min
The "Break–In of the Century": The Citizens Committee to Investigate the FBI
In 1971, Muhammad Ali fights Smokin' Joe Frazier in The Fight of the Century. The huge media event is the perfect distraction for a group of Catholic hippie antiwar activists to stage a break-in at an...
19 Nov 202450min
Make it Bahrain: Russell King
Conning your way into ownership of a professional sports team is one thing, but playing two countries off each other for phony mineral rights is the pinnacle of scamming. Russell King did them both! H...
14 Nov 202452min
