467 - Russian Wizards, Witches, and Folk Magic, Oh My!
Did you know that roughly a million people in Russia today make their living as some kind of wizard, witch, or folk healer? And that some of the most popular TV programs in Russia in the '90s were pre...
11 Aug 20252h 32min
Short Suck #39: The Abolitionist John MF'n Brown
You'll be hard pressed to find a man who stood for his convictions more firmly than John Brown. John was an white abolitionist willing to do more to end slavery than any other man - of any color - in ...
8 Aug 202556min
466 - Acres of Skin: Inside the Terrordome
Philadelphia's Holmesburg prison, before it was officially shut down in 1995, had been a house of horrors for much of its history. In addition to being grossly overcrowded and its prisoners being subj...
4 Aug 20252h 37min
465 - OneTaste: The Orgasmic Meditation Cult
Did you know that women's clitoral orgasms have the power to completely transform the world and turn it into a blissful nirvana free from pain and suffering? They don't, but, that's essentially what O...
28 Juli 20252h 48min
Short Suck #38: Hollywood’s Biggest Forgotten Scandal: Patricia Douglas
Patricia Douglas was a young dancer and an extra working in Hollywood during its so-called Golden Era when she was tricked into attending a party Tinseltown's most powerful studio, MGM, was throwing f...
25 Juli 202554min
464 - The Night Caller: Eric Edgar Cooke
Eric Edgar Cooke, nicknamed the Night Caller and the Nedlands Monster, was a serial killer who terrorized Perth, Australia from 1958 to 1963. He was incredibly hard to catch, because his MO was to not...
21 Juli 20252h 45min
463 - The Tuskegee Study (Secret, Deadly Medical Testing on American Citizens)
From 1932 to 1972, six hundred poor, black sharecroppers in Alabama were told they were being treated for "bad blood," when in reality, the US government was conducting an experiment on how untreated ...
14 Juli 20252h 44min
Short Suck #37 - The Very Avoidable Oceangate Disaster
On June 18th, 2023, a deep-sea submersible called The Titan operated by the private company OceanGate mysteriously vanished while its CEO piloted four passengers who had paid $250,000 each to visit t...
11 Juli 202548min
