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34 - Jonestown Massacre: Cult leader Jim Jones and his mass suicide in South America
The most insane suck yet, Timesuckers. How did a pastor and political activist convince nearly 1,000 people to move from California to a communist jungle compound in Guyana and then kill themselves b…
Published on 8 years, 7 months ago
33 - Designer Babies: The Scary Pandora's Box of Genetic Modification
What exactly are designer babies? What plants and animals have scientists already genetically modified? Have any humans been genetically modified? How will genetic modification affect the future of t…
Published on 8 years, 7 months ago
BONUS 5 - Pablo Escobar: Coke, Power, Mayhem & So Much Money
How do you rise from being so poor your parents can't afford to buy you shoes for school to being the 7th richest man in the entire world? If you're Pablo Escobar you do it through violence, intimida…
Published on 8 years, 8 months ago
32 - Marilyn Monroe: Life, Death, & Murder Conspiracy
What do you know about Marilyn Monroe? Did you know it took years after she being "discovered" for her to "make it"? That she spent part of her childhood in an orphanage? That she never knew who her …
Published on 8 years, 8 months ago
31 - The Mandela Effect: False Memories, Satanic Cults, Parallel Universes, and more...
The Mandela Effect: a large group of people remembering an event that never happened or remembering an alternate version of an event that did happen in the same, incorrect way. Is this proof that the…
Published on 8 years, 8 months ago
30 - Caligula: Rome's Monstrous Son
Special guest episode! The hosts of the wildly entertaining Crime and Sports and Small Town Murder podcasts, James Pietragallo and Jimmie Whisman, ride along for today's suck on ancient Rome and one …
Published on 8 years, 8 months ago
29 - The Mysterious Death of Elisa Lam
On February 1st, 2013, 21 year old Canadian college student Elisa Lam vanished while staying at the Cecil hotel in downtown Los Angeles. Her nude, decomposing body isn't found until the morning of Fe…
Published on 8 years, 8 months ago
BONUS 4 - Scientology
Scientology. What do they believe? How did it begin? Who, exactly, was L Ron Hubbard? What appeal does it have for Tom Cruise? So much crazy revealed on this OT9, beyond clear, Sea Org edition of Tim…
Published on 8 years, 8 months ago
28 - Blackbeard the pirate!
In just a year as captain of his own fleet of pirates, Blackbeard made one hell of a name for himself. A name that's lasted to this day. Pistols, cutlasses, looting, plundering - even the lawless Buc…
Published on 8 years, 9 months ago
27 - ISIS, Syria, and Islam
Yup. ISIS. We're talking about them Timesuckers! A brief explanation of Islam, what's going on in Syria, and how President Assad may be even worse than ISIS (and they're pretty bad). An intense, cont…
Published on 8 years, 9 months ago