Podcast Episodes

104 - The Children of God Sex Cult

The Children of God cult aka The Family aka The Family International is still around today which is very disturbing considering their twisted origins and disgusting, sexually exploitive doctrinal pas…

Published on 7 years, 3 months ago

103 - The Public Suicide of Budd Dwyer and the Tragic Events That Led Up To It

On January 22nd, 1987, forty-seven year-old R. Budd Dwyer, Republican State Treasurer of Pennsylvania, held a press conference in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania to address his recent conviction on eleven c…

Published on 7 years, 3 months ago

102 - Immigration: Fact Versus Fiction

Immigration! Man - what a big, complicated topic. What is the Unite State's history with immigration? How much have policies changed over the years? How does illegal immigration actually affect the e…

Published on 7 years, 4 months ago

101 - The Candyman Killer: Houston's Nightmare

Dean Arnold Corll. The Candyman Killer. A Texas momma’s boy who first made friends with local kids by handing out candy from his family’s Houston candy store like the absolute creep he was. A man who…

Published on 7 years, 4 months ago

100 - Drunk as F*#k Suck of the Axeman of New Orleans

Well, you asked for it.

We got a bunch of emails to do something special for the 100th Monday episode of TImesuck and the main request was to do Timesuck's version of Drunk History. So, the good folk…

Published on 7 years, 4 months ago

99 - Area 51: Secret Weapons Program or Alien Experimentation?

What actually goes on at Area 51? There are two competing narratives. One involves a series of classified Cold War projects involving covert aerial surveillance aircraft and nuclear weapons testing, …

Published on 7 years, 4 months ago

Bonus 25 - Werewolves: Howl at the Moon!

Werewolves! Awhoooooooo! Shape-shifting creatures of the night with unusual speed, otherworldly strength, lightning fast reflexes, and incredibly heightened senses. Monsters who can be a gentle, thou…

Published on 7 years, 4 months ago

98 - The Assassination of Lincoln: It's Crazier Than You Think

John Wilkes Booth wasn't some community theater bit player. He wasn't a bartender who did summer theater. He was one of the most famous actors of the day and a member of THE most famous acting family…

Published on 7 years, 5 months ago

97 - Spartacus: When Gladiators Attacked Rome Itself

Spartacus was a Thracian gladiator who escaped his gladiatorial school in Capua with about 70 other gladiators and slaves and then led a slave rebellion against the armies of Rome in the 1st century …

Published on 7 years, 5 months ago

96 - Pennhurst State Hospital: Pennsylvania's Dirty Secret

Billed now as the Pennhurst Haunted Asylum, Pennhurst was never an asylum. It wasn't a home for the mentally ill when it first opened its doors in 1908. It was a home for epileptics and the intellect…

Published on 7 years, 5 months ago