Podcasts by Timesuck with Dan Cummins

299 - The Ripper Crew: Chicago's Satanic Serial Killers from 2023-11-29T16:50:33.104270

Brace yourself for this one. If you can't handle graphic depictions of sexual abuse directed in the most obscene and ridiculous ways towards breasts, this isn't gonna be one you're gonna enjoy. ...

303 - Mysterious Disappearances... from 2023-11-29T16:50:33.094918

So many of us have thought about disappearing and starting a new life somewhere else. It's a common psychological phenomenon. When life feels too overwhelming - when you feel trapped in a situat...

307 - Crikey! The Croc Hunter Steve Irwin from 2023-11-29T16:50:33.084607

Steve Irwin, better known as the Crocodile Hunter, was a wildlife enthusiast and conservationist, owner of the Australia zoo, and a TV icon loved all over the world. Known for his signature catc...

308 - Black Lords, Power Crystals, and Suicides - The Cult of Conscious Development from 2023-11-29T16:50:33.082509

The story of this little known cult is WILD. Was the cult leader, Terri Hoffman, capable of some kind of actual mind control? It honestly feels possible. This New Age guru who spoke of reincarna...

312 - The Catholic Church's Long History of Sex Scandals from 2023-11-29T16:50:33.071030

Emotional episode today! At least for me.  We examine the Catholic Church's long history of sex scandals, including extremely troublesome recent coverups, how the priesthood came to be, whether ...

316 - Bayer AG: The Most EVIL Corporation in the World? from 2023-11-29T16:50:33.059975

Is Bayer AG really EVIL? Or have they, like a lot of companies done both really good things - like marketing aspirin and other valuable medicine around the world - and really bad things, like ma...

321 - Blood on the Reservation: MMIW from 2023-11-29T16:50:33.047560

So much to go over in under three hours! Why are indigenous women on reservations in the US being killed at a rate ten times the national average? Why are indigenous women in Canada being murder...

325 - IHOPKC: Cult or Cult Incubator? from 2023-11-29T16:50:33.038142

Evangelical End Times pastor Mike Bickle founded the International House of Prayer in 1999, later renamed IHOPKC, in Kansas City after saying God had told him to do so in a series of prophecies....

329 - Dungeons and Dragons: Satanic Tool or Harmless Game? from 2023-11-29T16:50:33.030137

Today we dig into the history of Dungeons and Dragons and look at what influences Gary Gygax and others drew from to create such an immersive and addictive RPG experience. We'll examine the long...

330 - Amanda Knox and the Murder of Meredith Kercher from 2023-11-29T16:50:33.027657

What do you think you know about Amanda Knox? Do you think she was a sex-crazed party girl who got away with the murder of Meredith Kercher in Italy in 2007? That's what I thought before I dug i...

334 - The Tiananmen Square Massacre and Protests from 2023-11-29T16:50:33.015402

The Tiananmen Square massacre in Beijing, China in 1989  is one of the most important, noteworthy tragedies in modern Chinese history. It was the biggest protest against communism rule in over s...

338 - Three Mile Island Nuclear Disaster from 2023-11-29T16:50:33.001935

Early in the morning of March 28th, 1979, equipment failures and a stuck open relief valve prevented the removal of heat from Pennsylvania's Three Mile Island Unit 2 nuclear reactor’s core - an ...

342 - The Kirtland Cult Killings and Jeffrey Lundgren: 2 of 2 from 2023-11-29T16:50:32.992140

The conclusion of the the craziest cult story I had never heard of.  This week, things, incredibly, get even weirder and darker than last week. More sexual debauchery.  
More twisted visions. An...

346 - The 1980 Eruption of Mount St. Helens from 2023-11-29T16:50:32.983374

On May 18, 1980, at 8:32 AM local time, a major explosive eruption took place at a volcano in southwest Washington State. After months of earthquakes and smaller eruptions, Mt. St. Helens explod...

347 - The Lonely Hearts Killers from 2023-11-29T16:50:32.981574

In the late 1940s, troubled lovers Raymond Fernandez and Martha Beck, ran a scam using dating services commonly known as Lonely Hearts Clubs to con and kill women. Their trial became the most se...

351 - Pizza Bomber: The Mysterious Death of Brian Wells from 2023-11-29T16:50:32.973601

On August 28, 2003, a 46 year-old pizza delivery man named Brian Douglas Wells robbed a PNC Bank near his hometown of Erie, Pennsylvania, with a bomb locked to his body at his neck. After the bo...

355 - Witchcraft! from 2023-11-29T16:50:32.964195

Today we do a deep dive on the history of witchcraft. What is witchcraft? How does it differ from organized religion? Why did burning witches ever become a thing, and do witch hunts still occur ...

360 - The Lynching of Emmett Till from 2023-11-29T16:50:32.951084

Early on the morning of August 28th, 1955, 14-year-old Emmett Till was kidnapped from his great-uncle's home by two white men, Roy Bryant and JW Milam, and several others. Why? He'd allegedly fl...

364 - The Mystery of the Great Library of Ancient Alexandria from 2023-11-29T16:50:32.937745

Did the fall and/or destruction of the Great Library of Alexandria really set human progress a thousand years? Would w bee flying around in spaceships and teleporting and doing all kinds of craz...

368 - The Korean War: First Shots of the Cold War from 2023-11-29T16:50:32.927508

How much do you know about "The Forgotten War" as the Korean War - technically a UN Police Action - is often called? Sandwiched between WW2 and Vietnam, it's never gotten the attention it's dese...

369 - Larry Hall: Serial Killer or"Wannabe"? from 2023-11-29T16:50:32.925597

Is Larry Hall, currently incarcerated in federal prison on a charge of kidnapping for the purposes of sexual gratification, one of America's most prolific serial killers? Or a serial confessor t...

373 - The Chicago Tylenol Murders from 2023-11-29T16:50:32.915353

Who decided to add cyanide to a bunch of bottles of Tylenol in the Chicago area in 1982? A couple of real shifty, odd suspects emerged in an investigation that lasted decades. In this episode, w...

376 - Debunking The World's Most Dangerous Conspiracy: The Protocols from 2023-11-27T19:00

Want to know where a lot of the core ideas from the many conspiracies that revolve around the idea the a small, secretive cabal of wealthy Jews control the world and want to enslave and destroy ...

375 - The Cleveland Kidnappings: Tremont's House of Horrors from 2023-11-20T19:00

On the evening of May 6th, 2013, in the Tremont neighborhood of Cleveland, Ohio, three enduring mysteries were shockingly solved. Three missing Cleveland women, Michelle Knight, Amanda Berry, an...

374 - The Duggar's Dark Secrets from 2023-11-13T19:00

You probably are pretty familiar with the Duggar family, from TLC's hit show 19 and Counting. But do you know about the sexual abuse they hid for years? And do you know about the organization, o...

372 - Gilles de Rais: Medieval Monster or Witch-Hunt Victim? from 2023-10-30T18:00

Headed to 15th century to explore the life of a man who may have been the wealthiest noble in all of France at one point, and commander of France's military - Gilles de Rais. Was this contempora...

371 - The School of The Prophets Cult Killings from 2023-10-23T18:00

This week we dig into both LDS and FLDS teachings, and learn about The School of the Prophets, a group composted largely of FLDS polygamists who believed strongly in the gift of personal revelat...

370 - The Cuban Revolution: Fidel Castro's Communist Tranformation from 2023-10-16T18:00

When Fidel Castro took over Cuba in 1959, he deposed a dictator. And then the man who promised democracy turned into a dictator himself, and turned Cuba communist. Did he also make Cuba better t...

367 - The Bloody Briley Brothers from 2023-09-25T18:00

Have you heard of the Briley Brothers? Three young brothers, and a teenage neighbor, went on a vicious murder, robbery, and rape spree in Richmond, Virginia in 1979. And then two of the brothers...

366 - Black Holes and the Nature of the Universe! from 2023-09-18T18:00

My favorite episode in months. One that I'm hoping the most curious of the cult of the curious will truly enjoy. Today, we look at the very nature of our existence, how we came to our current th...

365 - The Trailside Killer from 2023-09-11T18:00

Between August of 1979, and May of 1981, convicted serial rapist David Carpenter escalated to murdering his rape victims, and he killed at least seven young women, and likely several other victi...

363 - NATLFED: Communist Cult Hiding in America from 2023-08-28T18:00

In the early '70s, a man presenting himself as Eugenio Mario Perente-Ramos creates the Eastern Farmworkers Association  - an organization purportedly aiming to help migrant workers on Long Islan...

362 - Watergate: When Faith in American Politics Was Destroyed from 2023-08-21T18:00

On August 9th, 1974, Richard Milhous Nixon, the 37th President of the United States of America, while serving his second term (after winning in a landslide), became the first and still only Amer...

361 - The UK's Jeffrey Dahmer: Dennis Nilsen from 2023-08-14T18:00

In addition to being a serial killer who very likely killed at least 15 young men and boys around London between 1978 and 1983... Dennis Nilsen was also SO WEIRD. Have you ever pretended to pass...

359 - William Shakespeare (Billy Shakes?) from 2023-07-31T18:00

What do we known about William Shakespeare the man? And why are his works still popular today? Who was Billy Shakes? We dive into the legacy of the English language's most important author this ...

358 - The Mysterious Disappearance of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 from 2023-07-24T18:00

On March 8th, 2014, 227 passengers boarded Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, taking off from Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia at 12:41 a.m., destined to arrive in Beijing, China at 6:30 a.m. Not only did the ...

357 - Whitey Bulger: How the FBI Built a Mob Boss from 2023-07-17T18:00

Today we take a fascinating look into how Whitey Bulger rose to power in Boston's underworld in the 70's and 80's, with not only the FBI's protection, but also their direct help. No one (that we...

356 - Jerry Brudos: The Shoe Fetish Slayer from 2023-07-10T18:00

We got a weird one today! Wow. Jerry Brudos was a serial killer who became completely consumed with sexual fantasies revolving around women's shoes - specifically high heels - and women's underg...

354 - The Redemption Experiment of Serial Killer Jack Unterweger from 2023-06-26T18:00

In the Spring of 1990, when Jack Unterweger was released from prison in Austria after serving fifteen years for strangling an eighteen year-old to death with her own bra (amongst numerous other ...

353 - The Crusades from 2023-06-19T18:00

From 1095 to 1291 CE, thousands and thousands of knights, peasants, nobles, soldiers, and more left Europe for the Holy Land around Jerusalem to take land and power away from Muslims, and into C...

352 - R. Kelly's Sex Cult from 2023-06-12T18:00

Did R. Kelly truly have a sex cult?  For around a quarter-of-a-century Robert Sylvester Kelly wrote hit after hit after hit, becoming one of the most successful musical artists in American histo...

350 - The Hillside Stranglers from 2023-05-29T18:00

Between October 1977 and February 1978, with a nickname originating from the fact that many of the victims' bodies were discovered in the hills surrounding the city, the Hillside Stranglers terr...

349 - The 1928 Banana Massacre from 2023-05-22T18:00

Did you know that American banana corporations turned almost all of Central America into US satellite states in the late 19th and early 20th centuries for roughly half-a-century? It took the mas...

348 - The Fountain Cult from 2023-05-15T18:00

We've covered a lot Los Angeles area cults from the 1960s and 70s, but as it turns out, there were cults in LA long before that. Lots and lots of cults. Today's topic, the WKFL Fountain of the W...

345 - The Prospect Killer: Terry Blair from 2023-04-24T18:00

Terry Blair. The Prospect Killer. Before he became a serial killer in the Prospect Avenue neighborhood of Kansas City in 2004, his mother, brother, and sister had all been convicted of different...

344 - Bible Belt Strangler/Redhead Murders from 2023-04-17T18:00

Today we look into a series of murders, mostly occurring in the mid-1980s, in the southeastern US. The bodies of unidentified women kept being found along I-40. Collectively, these killings came...

343 - The Irish Mob from 2023-04-10T18:00

Today we dig into the origins and the history of America's Irish Mob.  We begin centuries ago in Ireland, when a series of oppressive, discriminatory laws designed to break the backs of the Iris...

341 - The Kirtland Cult Killings and Jeffrey Lundgren: 1 of 2 from 2023-03-27T18:00

The craziest cult story I had never heard of. Jeffrey Lundgren was a cult leader and a mass leader before being caught, imprisoned, and executed. What a wild ride he had before it all came to an...

340 - The Skull and Bones aka The Brotherhood of Death from 2023-03-20T18:00

Skull and Bones has been shrouded in mystery ever since it was founded nearly two centuries ago now, back in 1832. All members take an oath promising NEVER to reveal the group’s activities and s...

339 - The Death Angels from 2023-03-13T18:00

The Zebra Murders were a series of racially motivated attacks and murders committed in San Francisco, California, by some so-called "Death Angels." From October of 1973 to April of 1974, a group...

337 - Heist! The $600 Million Gardner Museum Robbery from 2023-02-27T19:30

On March 18th, 1990 two men disguised as Boston police officers entered the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum and overpowered the two security guards on duty. In just 81 minutes, the thieves stole...

336 -The Night Witches from 2023-02-20T19:30

On October 8th, 1941, with Stalingrad surrounded, Leningrad besieged, and the Nazis making new gains on Russian territory every day, Joseph Stalin ordered the creation of three new Air Force reg...

335 - Leopold and Loeb: The Perfect Murder from 2023-02-13T19:30

What is the the Perfect Murder?  It's what two affluent and academically brilliant young Chicagoans, Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb, wanted to pull off in 1924 when the murdered fourteen-year-o...

333 - The Sullivanians: Therapy Sex Cult from 2023-01-30T19:30

In the 1960s, a strange new cult emerged in Manhattan's Upper West Side out of the Sullivan Institute. A cult created by shady "therapist" Saul Newton, who twisted the psychoanalytical teachings...

332 - Patrick Kearney: The Trash Bag Killer from 2023-01-23T19:30

This week we investigate the life and crimes of one of the Freeway Killers. Patrick Kearney, the Trash Bag Killer, was convicted for 21 murders, confessed to 32, but is suspected of up to 43 kil...

331 - Julius Caesar: Roman Daddy Dictator from 2023-01-16T19:33:05

Today we dig into the life of Julius Caesar and the final days of the Roman Republic. How was Caesar and what was Rome when he lived there? How did he transform himself from a random minor noble...

328 - The Inspiration of Helen Keller and the 2022 Bad Magic Year End Wrap from 2022-12-26T19:30

We take a look this week at the incredibly inspirational life of Helen Keller. She accomplished SO much despite completely losing her sight and ability to hear at the age of just 19 months. Had ...

327 - Josef Mengele: Nazi Angel of Death (Happy Holidays) from 2022-12-19T19:30

Josef Mengele was a great guy! Just very misunderstood. Wait, no. I'm thinking of someone else. Josef Mengele was a MONSTER. His complete and total lack of empathy for anyone not a member of Hit...

326 - Herb Baumeister: Serial Killing Leads to a Haunting? from 2022-12-12T19:30

Herb Baumeister was VERY likely the I-70 Strangler, killing a suspected nine boys and men between 1980 and 1990. And then, over the next six years, he seems to have killed at least another twent...

324 - The Mouse Utopia Experiments from 2022-11-28T19:30

Strange and thought provoking episode today! In the 1940s, 50s, and early 60s, animal behavior researcher John B Calhoun ran a number of experiments on rodents regarding how their behavior would...

323 - Devastation in Asia: WW2 (Part 2 of 2) from 2022-11-21T19:30

The Pacific War may have been even more brutal than the War in Europe. Imperial Japan had a ferocious fighting force, they despised their enemies unlike even the Nazis, and they arguably torment...

322 - Europe’s Darkest Hour: WW2 (Part 1 of 2) from 2022-11-14T19:30

Another whopper of a topic that could not be more action packed. WW2. Going over the war in Europe today - as much as we can in roughly three hours. The scale of WW2.... so massive.  Over sixty ...

320 - Cannibal Cop from 2022-10-31T18:30

On October 25, 2012, NYPD Office Gilberto Valle was arrested and charged with conspiracy to commit kidnapping after his estranged wife Kathleen had turned her computer over to the FBI following ...

319 - The Bloody Harpes from 2022-10-24T18:30

How much do you know about America's first documented serial killers, The Bloody Harpes? Micajah and Wiley Harpe went on a crazy murder spree out on the western American frontier, starting in la...

318 - Bloods and Crips - America's Deadliest Gang Rivalry from 2022-10-17T18:30

Today we cover the formation of the infamous Bloods and Crips gang rivalry. How did it get started? Why did it begin in South Central Los Angeles in the late 1960s and early 1970s? The Crips wer...

317 - The Casanova Killer: Paul John Knowles from 2022-10-10T18:30

For four months in 1974, 28 year old Paul John Knowles went on a reckless murder spree across the United States that claimed the lives of at least 18 people. He killed men, women, seniors, and s...

315 - The MRTCG: One of the World's Deadliest Doomsday Cults from 2022-09-26T18:30

The name The Movement for the Restoration of the Ten Commandments of God might not sound familiar, but in the world of cults, it should be. Only one cult in modern history has ever had more peop...

314 - George Motherf*cking Carlin: Best To Ever Do It from 2022-09-19T18:30

Get ready to meet one of my comedy heroes, but only if you can handle a LOT of profanity. George Carlin, following the path of his mentor, Lenny Bruce, kicked the doors of censorship down so peo...

313 - The Bayou Strangler - Serial Killer Ronald Dominique from 2022-09-12T18:30

Ronald Dominique confessed to raping and murdering 23 boys and men between the ages of 16 and 46 between 1997 and 2006 across six Louisiana parishes. When he was caught, investigators were shock...

311 - The Murder of Dee Dee Blanchard: Did She Have It Coming? from 2022-08-29T18:30

In June of 2015, 48-year-old Dee Dee Blanchard was murdered in cold blood. Her murderer snuck into her bedroom at night and stabbed her in her sleep... seventeen times. A brutal crime. But, base...

310 - The Many Lives of Clark Rockefeller from 2022-08-22T18:30

Long before German con artist Anna Sorokin aka Anna Delvey captured America's attention thanks to the popular Netflix series, Inventing Anna, another German con artist tricked numerous members o...

309 - The Scorecard Killer: Randy Kraft from 2022-08-15T18:30

Randy Kraft might just be the most brutal and prolific serial killer you've never heard of.  Convicted of sixteen murders, prosecutors felt they had enough evidence to charge him with forty-five...

306 - The Sex Slave Murders: Gerald and Charlene Gallegos from 2022-07-25T18:30

As a couple, Gerald and Charlene Gallego turned their dark sexual desires  into a murderous rampage that left at least ten young people dead in California, Oregon, and Nevada between 1978 and 19...

305 - Edward Snowden: Hero, Traitor, or Both? from 2022-07-18T18:30

Off and on from 2006 to 2012, Snowden had worked as a CIA analyst, a subcontractor for the NSA, and several other positions that gave him access to classified NSA information that enabled him to...

304 - Super Predator Peter Nygard and an interview with Chris Hansen from 2022-07-11T18:30

Rare interview on the Suck today! Chris Hansen from To Catch a Predator, and his new podcast Predators I've Caught with Chris Hansen. I ask him about today's subject, Peter Nygård, the disgraced...

302 - Alive! The 1972 Andes Flight Disaster from 2022-06-27T18:30

In 1972, the 45 passengers and crew of Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571 faced extreme weather, avalanches, a variety of injuries, sickness, sun blindness, thirst, and starvation so severe, they we...

301 - The DC Sniper Attacks: A Cult of Two from 2022-06-20T18:30

In October of 2002, the DC Snipers terrorized residents of Washington DC, Virginia, and Maryland for three weeks. During that time, people lived in constant fear that they’d be killed - shot dow...

300 - Bass Reeves on Acid: Trippin’ in the Wild West from 2022-06-13T18:30

LSD is a powerful, mind-bending drug. Only a crazy person would try and tell a coherent and compelling two-hour-plus historical narrative while frying their brain on the equivalent of four hits ...

298 - Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh: The Cult Leader Who Built a City in Oregon from 2022-05-30T18:30

Sometimes the truth is stranger than fiction. Such a good example of that with this week's episode. In 2018, I watched a fascinating docuseries on Netflix called Wild, Wild Country about a contr...

297 - The Holocaust 2 of 2: Fallout, Atonement, and Denial from 2022-05-23T18:30

Apologies for my weak voice today! Remnant of a second bout with Covid. Had to drink several cups of hot tea and honey, and take numerous breaks to at least sound somewhat understandable. 
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296 - The Holocaust 1 of 2: Build Up and Atrocities from 2022-05-16T18:30

As early as 1933, Hitler and the Nazis - the National Socialist German Worker’s Party - began passing a series of discriminatory laws against Jews— inch by inch, chipping away at their freedoms....

247 - The Seven Wonders of the Ancient World from 2022-05-04T10:32:19.833406

The Great Pyramid of Giza. The Hanging Gardens of Babylon. Colossus of Rhodes. The Lighthouse of Alexandria. The Temple of Artemis. The Statue of Zeus at Olympia. The Mausoleum at Halicarnassus....

251 - The Real Inglorious Basterds: Operation Greenup from 2022-05-04T10:32:19.816863

Operation Greenup was a covert OSS operation carried out by a special group of men many have called the “real life Inglorious Basterds,” a reference to the 2009 Quentin Tarantino film i...

255 - Ancient Aliens and Ancient Sumerians from 2022-05-04T10:32:19.794262

Lot to unpack in this one! Today we are blending history, aliens, and conspiracy. We'll be talking about the Ancient Sumerians - quite possibly the world's first civilization. Who were they and ...

256 - Cult! Cult! Cult! The Aggressive Christianity Mission Training Corps from 2022-05-04T10:32:19.790474

A very recent Christian militant cult, the Aggressive Christianity Mission Training Corps was founded in the late 1970s by married couple Lila and Jim Green. Lila would later change her name to ...

260 - Robin Williams: A Wonderful Mind's Rise and Fall from 2022-05-04T10:32:19.733138

Robin Williams knew how to make people feel deeply. He could give you a belly laugh - or a cathartic cry. He knew how to entertain you in a way that only he could. He seemingly had so much energ...

264 - Alcatraz: Prison Escapes, Infamous Inmates, and More from 2022-05-04T10:32:19.716092

Today we head to The Rock, America's Devil Island - Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary. So much prison-related info and history to go over today! I'll share the history of Alcatraz Island - how it wa...

268 - The Dark History of Nursery Rhymes from 2022-05-04T10:32:19.701208

Who put the rock-a-bye-baby up in the tree branch, and why? Seems irresponsible. When it was raining and pouring, why didn't the old man get out of bed after bumping his head? Did he die? What i...

269 - Japan's Deadliest Doomsday Cult: Aum Shinrikyo from 2022-05-04T10:32:19.697801

Aum Shinrikyo was a Japanese doomsday cult led by psychotic madman Shoko Asahara, a man who claimed to be Jesus who was nicknamed the Japanese Charles Manson. He was actually a much more dangero...

273 - The Hells Angels from 2022-05-04T10:32:19.678072

Did you know that Hunter S Thompson of Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas fame was one of the first people to bring national attention to the Hells Angels? Or that they were founded by soldiers retu...

277 - Prostitution: The History and Morality of Sex Work from 2022-05-04T10:32:19.632336

What, EXACTLY, is “prostitution”? How is it defined? Are prostitute and sex worker interchangeable terms? Why are most prostitutes women? Why are most clients men? Where does prostitution occur ...

282 - Attila the Hun: Evil or Slandered? from 2022-05-04T10:32:19.613893

Attila the Hun! Does his name conjure up images of savagery in your mind? Of a bloodthirsty warrior-king who ruthlessly tortured and killed his enemies as he sacked city after city?  An especial...

286 - Betty White: Much More Than a Golden Girl from 2022-05-04T10:32:19.604764

On December 31st, 2021, Hollywood legend and literally the most well-liked living person in America at one point, Betty White, passed away in her home in Brentwood, California. Even though she w...

290 - Amish Killer Edward Gingerich from 2022-05-04T10:32:19.588700

Long before he brutally murdered his wife Katie - crushing her head and disemboweling her on March 18th, 1993 - Ed  was really struggling with his mental health. He'd been diagnosed with paranoi...

294 - Vladimir Putin from 2022-05-04T10:32:19.528495

Vladimir Putin. Who is the former KGB officer who has led Russia since 2000? Is he a friend of a foe of the West? Was he legitimately elected to office? Legitimately re-elected? Does he have any...

293 - Jeffrey Epstein Suicide Conspiracies: Part 2 of 2 from 2022-04-25T18:30

After laying out so much of what we know about Epstein last week, this week we get more speculative and we examine multiple conspiracies regarding Epstein's death. Did he not, in fact, die - and...

292 - Jeffrey Epstein Suicide Conspiracies: Part 1 of 2 from 2022-04-18T18:30

We know that Jeffrey Epstein was born on January 20th, 1953 in Brooklyn, New York City. We also know he died on August 10th, 2019 (or late the evening of the 9th) in the Metropolitan Correctiona...

291 - The CIA, Smuggling Drugs, and Fighting Communism: The Story of Air America from 2022-04-11T18:30

Fascinating stuff today!  I knew almost nothing about Air America - the CIA's secret airline - before this week's research. Today, we go over the history of Air America, and also look at how Air...

289 - Robert Yates: Serial Killing"Family Man" from 2022-03-28T18:30

Robert Lee Yates often described himself as a "family man." And he was a family man. He was a married father of five. Married to the mother of his children for over twenty years. He was also a d...

288 - Doctor Death: Jack Kevorkian and the Right to Die Debate from 2022-03-21T18:30

Death! How comfortable are you thinking about it? Talking about? What rights should be afforded to you when it's your time to "meet your maker?"  Jack Kevorkian thought you,  under certai...

287 - Raëlism: UFO Sex Cult? from 2022-03-14T18:30

Did you know that Jesus was half-alien? And so was Buddha? And Muhammed, Joseph Smith, Moses, Abraham, and many other proclaimed  prophets throughout history. There are 40 in total, and a failed...

168 - Killdozer from 2022-03-07T02:59:29.295422

Killdozer. The story of one man, Marvin Heemeyer, who modified a Komatsu D355A bulldozer into a demolition weapon, and then go on a two plus hour rampage in the small town of Granby, Colorado in...

169 - Stan Lee! And the History of Comics from 2022-03-07T02:59:29.292131

Stan Lee! The man, the myth, the legend! The man who co-created 200 different comic book characters. The co-creator of Spiderman, Thor, the Hulk, the Fantastic Four, the X-Men, and so many other...

173 - The 1977 Girl Scout Murders from 2022-03-07T02:59:29.261002

On the morning of June 13th, 1977, at Camp Scott, in Mayes County, Oklahoma, the dead bodies of three young girl scouts, ages 8, 9, and 10, are discovered by a camp counselor. The girls had been...

177 - The Brothers Grimm from 2022-03-07T02:59:29.241750

The Brothers Grimm! German folklorists Jacob and Wilhem Grimm collected a lot of strange, old, primarily Germanic tales back in the mid-19th century. Tales like Cinderella, Snow White, Hansel an...

181 - Oklahoma City Bombing from 2022-03-07T02:59:29.198277

On April 19, 1995, at 9:02 AM, a Ryder moving truck parked at a drop-off zone situated under the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building's day-care center exploded in downtown Oklahoma City. The blast...

182 - Nation of Yahweh Cult: Murder, Manipulation, and Black Supremacy from 2022-03-07T02:59:29.194832

At the height of its power in the late 1980s, the Miami-based Nation of Yahweh cult had satellite temples around the country and a lucrative business empire of apartment complexes, hotels, store...

186 - The Sex Suck: Who's Doing What, Female Ejaculation, and More! from 2022-03-07T02:59:29.178530

Let's talk about sex! What is "normal" based on data? Who’s having sex? What kinds of sex are they having? Are you having more or less sex than the average Meatsack? Are you having freakier sex?...

190 - The Multiverse from 2022-03-07T02:59:29.169613

Are there other yous living in other, parallel dimensions? Are there an infinite number of other yous? Where the Hell are they? Today we talk about multiverse theory and it is a fascinating brai...

194 - Killer Kids from 2022-03-07T02:59:29.153323

Why do some kids kill? Digging into that difficult and dark question today. Is it due to how they're raised? The type of brain they're born with? Playing too many violent video games? Gonna take...

195 - Genghis Kahn from 2022-03-07T02:59:29.150356

Genghis Kahn. Damn. I knew the dude was a renowned conqueror. Did NOT know he conquered like no other before or since. At the height of their army, perhaps no army in the world was more feared t...

199 - Bruce Lee: Life and Death of the Dragon from 2022-03-07T02:59:29.136138

Today we dig into the life of a true citizen of the world, Lee Jun-fan; known professionally as Bruce Lee. Bruce Lee was a martial arts pioneer, known to some as the "father of MMA" and as the f...

203 - BSU: The FBI's Serial Killer Catchers from 2022-03-07T02:59:29.088742

Investigating the investigators today! Talking about the FBI's Behavioral Science Unit. Looking into how a small group of special agents introduced the term "serial killer" into our lexicon, and...

208 - The Titanic: Its Sinking and the Conspiracies That Surround It from 2022-03-07T02:59:29.072596

The Titanic sank in the early hours of April 15th, 1912. The luxury cruise liner that some thought of as being “unsinkable” turned out to be very, very sinkable. After smashing into an iceberg o...

212 - The Boston Strangler from 2022-03-07T02:59:29.057171

The Boston Strangler! The residents of Boston, in late 1962 through the summer of 1964, were terrified of a man the newspapers dubbed “the Boston Strangler.” A sadistic serial rapist and murdere...

216 - John Haigh"The Acid Bath Murderer" from 2022-03-07T02:59:29.040918

Knock, knock, Meatsacks. Who's there? John Haigh. The Acid Bath Murderer.

Between 1944 and 1949, John “the Acid Bath Murderer” Haigh killed between six and nine people. Several of them w...

217 - WW2 Race Against the Nazi Enigma Machine from 2022-03-07T02:59:29.035346

Breaking an unbreakable code to save, at the very least, millions and millions of lives. To possibly stop Hitler from taking over the world. That was the unimaginably stressful task assigned to ...

221 - The Dark Ages from 2022-03-07T02:59:28.989122

The Dark Ages. We attempt to suck a MASSIVE topic today. A thousand year's worth of European history. And actually, since we compare life in the Dark Ages to life in the Roman Empire, we end up ...

225 - Navajo Code Talkers from 2022-03-07T02:59:28.968185

Can you imagine fighting a war for a country that had removed you from the land your ancestors lived on for centuries - a country actively trying to erase your language and culture? That’s exact...

229 - Denver International Airport Conspiracies from 2022-03-07T02:59:28.959114

The Denver Airport was built by the New World Order. The Denver Airport contains the international headquarters of the Illuminati. Collectively, the Satanic art installations of the Denver Inter...

230 - Armenian Genocide from 2022-03-07T02:59:28.954463

This might be the first episode to get me death threats. The Turkish government does NOT like being accused of genocide, and neither do many of its citizens. But during WW1, genocide is exactly ...

233 - Blackwater and the US Private Military Industry from 2022-03-07T02:59:28.943350

Blackwater. Now known as Academi. Once known as Xe Services. A private military company. One of many PMCs very active in Iraq and Afghanistan in the first decade of this century. One of many emp...

234 - The Elan School, the Cult of Synanon, and the Troubling Troubled Teen Industry from 2022-03-07T02:59:28.884127

Founded in 1974 by a man named Joe Ricci, the Elan School was supposed to be someplace where you could send your troubled teen so they could be rehabilitated and put back on the right track. But...

238 - Mao Zedong: Father of Communist China and Worst Mass Murderer of All Time? from 2022-03-07T02:59:28.787744

Mao Zedong's name is associated with one of the heinous totalitarian regimes of the 20th century - if not one of the most heinous regimes in the history of the world. Due to famines brought abou...

242 - Jameson Whiskey and Cannibalism from 2022-03-07T02:59:28.778378

Whiskey! Today’s suck is SOAKED in whiskey. Mostly, in Jameson - some Irish whiskey.
John Jameson - the founder of Jameson - was originally a lawyer from Alloa in Scotland before he founded...

285 - The 2017 Las Vegas Shooting and Conspiracies Surrounding It from 2022-02-28T19:30

On the night of October 1, 2017, Stephen Paddock opened fire on a crowd attending the final night of the Route 91 Harvest Country Music Festival on Las Vegas’s famous StripLas Vegas, killing 58 ...

284 - The Amish Life: Quaint or Terrible? from 2022-02-21T19:30

A lot to unpack today! Who are the Amish? Why do they dress and live like it's still the 17th century? How are they related to Mennonites? What interpretation of Christianity led to them to the ...

283 - A Descent Into Madness: The 1980 New Mexico Prison Riot from 2022-02-14T19:30

At 1:40AM on February 2nd, 1980, a group of inmates at the New Mexico State Penitentiary attacked three guards doing their nightly count. What followed was one of the deadliest prison riots in U...

281 - Arthur Shawcross: The Genesee River Killer from 2022-01-31T19:30

Arthur Shawcross was born on June 6th, 1945 in Kittery, Maine and he would grow up to terrorize the people of Watertown and Rochester, both in New York. Family, neighbors, schoolmates, and anyon...

280 - The Murder of Laci Peterson - Who Really Killed Her? from 2022-01-24T19:30

Did Scott Peterson REALLY kill Laci Peterson? Did you know that zero direct evidence tied him to these crimes? And a lot of the circumstantial evidence in this case was... very loose. And there ...

279 - Celtic Mythology from 2022-01-17T19:30

Get ready for a brain buster. Or at least prepare to witness my brain being busted. Celtic mythology is... tricky to understand. And no one understands perfectly because the source material is s...

278 - Sex, Silverware, and Immortality: The Oneida Community Cult from 2022-01-10T19:30

Did you know that if lots of people  have lots of unprotected sex and the men never ejaculate you can help Jesus create his kingdom on Earth?  No? Well then you would NOT have been accepted into...

276 - Robert MF'n Smalls and Year End Recap from 2021-12-27T19:30

Robert Smalls! He was born a slave in Beaufort, South Carolina  in 1839. Then he'd pull off a daring sea-faring escape to the Union during the Civil War, then become the first black captain for ...

275 - Appalachian Cryptids from 2021-12-20T19:30

The Flatwoods Monster. The Whirling Whimpus. Devil Dogs and Sheepsquatch. The Virginia Moonshine Man-Possum, GreenBrier Skink-Skank,  the Tiddle-Whisper Dragon of Johnson City, the Rocky Branch ...

274 - The Ken and Barbie Killers from 2021-12-13T19:30

In early 1992, young married couple Paul Bernardo and Karla Homolka seemed to have a lot going for them. They'd just gotten married, Paul was making good money, and they were living in a nice ho...

272 - The Opioid Epidemic from 2021-11-29T19:30

Covering a lot of ground today! Going over the history of human opioid usage - the opium poppy is one helluva plant. What different types of opiates and opioids are out there? Why are we having ...

271 - The Menendez Brothers: Parent Killing Sociopaths? Victims? Both? from 2021-11-22T19:30

I had a lot of fun on this one taking a nostalgic look at US culture in 1989 and 1993. Also found the story of Lyle and Erik Menendez incredibly interesting. Why did two brothers viciously murde...

270: Boone Helm the Kentucky Cannibal: One the Wild West's Wildest Outlaws from 2021-11-15T19:30

Levi Boone Helm. The Kentucky Cannibal. Born in 1828 in Kentucky, and hanged in Montana Territory in 1864, this guy was mayhem on legs. He spent nearly his entire adult life fighting, robbing, k...

267 - Doctor Satan: The Insane Story of Serial Killer Marcel Petiot from 2021-10-25T18:30

Happy Halloween! This episode feels appropriately dark enough for Halloween week. French serial killer Marcel Petiot was an evil genius. A master manipulator. And the greatest scam artist we've ...

266 - The Oregon Trail from 2021-10-18T18:30

The Oregon Trail was 2,100 plus mile journey from Independence, Missouri all the way to Oregon City, Oregon. And along this trail and its offshoots, between 1841 and 1869, somewhere between 250,...

265 - The Dolphin Point Experiment: LSD, Aliens, NASA, and Dolphin Sex from 2021-10-11T18:30

Oh boy. This is an especially weird one. Sometimes truth really is stranger than fiction. In the summer of 1965, John C. Lilly, a medic and neuroscientist, and his assistant Margaret Howe, a you...

263 - The Freeway Killer William Bonin and His Death Van from 2021-09-27T18:30

William Bonin is a little known serial killer who died via lethal injection in 1996 in San Quentin, after sitting on California's death row for over a decade. Surprising that he isn't more well ...

262 - The Jehovah's Witnesses: Doomsday Cult from 2021-09-20T18:30

I'm guessing you know of the Jehovah's Witnesses. You've heard of them. Maybe you've noticed their "Kingdom Halls." Maybe they've knocked on your door. But - do you really know anything about th...

261 - The Grim Sleeper Serial Killer and the Southside Slayer murders from 2021-09-13T18:30

Lonnie David Franklin Jr. was but one of the numerous prolific serial killers preying on sex workers in South Central Los Angeles in the 1980s. And then after possibly going to "sleep"
dur...

259 - Lady Diana: The People's Princess's Life, Death, and Conspiracies from 2021-08-30T18:30

Let's get royal, Meatsacks! Born a minor aristocrat, Diana Spencer grew up to become one of the most famous people of all time. For years, she was the most photographed person in all of England ...

258 - Celebrity Cloning Conspiracies from 2021-08-23T18:30

Oh boy. Did you know that some people think that Avril Lavigne, Britney Spears, Beyoncé, Eminem, some guy named Donald Marshall, and many other celebrities have been cloned? There are conspiraci...

257 - The Dexter Killer Mark Twitchell from 2021-08-16T18:30

Mark Twitchell really wanted to become a serial killer. In 2008, after discovering the Showtime series, Dexter, it had become his latest obsession. The aspiring filmmaker felt like he related to...

254 - Jodi Arias and the Murder of Travis Alexander from 2021-07-26T18:30

Remember Jodi Arias? Remember why her trial back in 2013 captivated so many and made so many headlines? I'd forgotten. But I sure remember now. Most people have either dated someone like Jodi, ...

253 - Hammer Happy Serial Killer Peter Kürten, the"Vampire of Dusseldorf" from 2021-07-19T18:30

This guy. Killing mainly in 1929 when he was 46, the final year of his freedom, Peter Kürten would be charged with nine brutal murders and seven attempted murders in 1930, and then executed 1931...

252 - Aliens, Sexual Abuse, Disco, Racism, and ... Egyptians? The Nuwaubian Nation of Moors Cult from 2021-07-12T18:45

So much WTF!?! coming at you today. Wow. Dwight York is a maniac. And a terrible writer. And only a good disco/r&b vocalist if you compare him to other cult leaders who also have dabbled in musi...

250 - Serial Killing Sex-Crazed Couple: Fred and Rose West from 2021-06-28T18:45

My God. This story is so over-the-top, it's hard to accept as true. But sadly, it did happen. For roughly two decades, Fred and Rose West were the patriarch and matriarch of torture, sadism, inc...

249 - H.P. Lovecraft, the Cthulhu Mythos, and the Horror You Love Today from 2021-06-21T18:45

Hope you have as fun listening to this one as I had making it! I had no idea prior to digging into this topic, that Lovecraft was so influential on modern horror. Like Stranger Things? Heavily i...

248 - P.T. Barnum and His"Human Curiosities" from 2021-06-14T18:45

Big episode for a big, complex topic today. PT Barnum has been called the The Greatest Showman on Earth. And he certainly was the most famous promoter of the 19th century. He brought entertainme...

Bonus Episode! - Real Good from 2021-06-11T19:00

A sample episode of the fantastic podcast, Real Good! This episode is about supporting the AAPI community with Anna Mok, the co-founder of Ascend Leadership, a nonprofit supporting the AAPI communi...

246 - Trail of Tears from 2021-05-31T18:45

When the 1830s began, nearly 125,000 various tribal members lived on millions of acres of land in Georgia, Tennessee, Alabama, North Carolina and Florida - land where their ancestors had lived f...

245 - Karl Denke, the Cannibal of Zi?bice from 2021-05-24T18:43:58

Germany's Interwar Years led to an alarming amount of cannibalism. Karl Denke is one of two serial killing, German cannibals we look into in today's disturbing episode.

244 - Crazy US Laws! from 2021-05-17T18:45

Today we take a fun and sometimes concerning tour around the United States looking at laws that are still on the books that either definitely shouldn't be, shouldn't have ever been, are sadly ne...

243 - The Angel's Landing Cult from 2021-05-10T18:45:45

Cult! Cult! Cult! We're back to sucking on a cult - a small and relatively unknown one which is surprising considering how crazy this story is. For well over a decade, conman Daniel Perez convin...

241 - QAnon and Antifa: Who, What, And Why? from 2021-04-26T18:45

QAnon is the conspiracy cult involving so, so many things. It MOSTLY centers around belief in an elite, leftist, Satanic, child sex trafficking slash human sacrifice slash adrenochrome harvestin...

240 - Anonymous and the World of Hackers from 2021-04-19T18:45

“We are Legion. We do not forgive. We do not forget. Expect us.” Anonymous - the hacking collective that for many put hacking on the map. Since 2007, Anonymous has hacked just about e...

239 - El Chapo, the Sinaloa Cartel, and the War on Drugs from 2021-04-12T18:45

What a wild one we have today. I set out, fascinated by his two escapes from prison, to only explore cartel leader El Chapo. And then I got sucked into the history of the War on Drugs. And what ...

237 - The Pig Farmer Killer: Canada's Filthy Robert Pickton from 2021-03-29T18:45

Robert Pickton was born in 1949 just outside of Vancouver, CA, in Port Coquitlam, on a pig farm. His parents were Helen and Leonard Pickton, two insanely filthy human beings who couldn’t have ca...

236 - The Yosemite Killer and the Abduction of Steven Stayner from 2021-03-22T18:45

We got a wild one today. Today's Suck is really three Sucks in one. There is the abduction of Steven Stayner, the backstory of a notorious pedophile, Kenneth Parnell, and the story of serial kil...

235 - Ward MF'n Hall from 2021-03-15T18:45

Today we take a huge deviation for the type of topic we typically cover here on Timesuck. The Space Lizards on Patreon vote on two topics a month through the app, and for today, they voted in my...

232 - The Great Emu War from 2021-02-22T19:44

The Great Emu War! Such a weird and fun tale to tell. What an odd historical period. As World War I came to an end, Australia - whose economy was tanking, tried to figure out what to do with the...

231 - Dante's Inferno from 2021-02-15T19:45

Dante's Inferno! One of the most influential literary works ever written. Put to parchment in the early 14th century, Dante's opening third of the Divine Comedy presented a clear vision of Chris...

166 - The Happy Face Killer: Keith Hunter Jesperson from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

The Happy Face Killer. Wow. What a dirtbag! What an especially hate-able dude, even for a serial killer. Keith Hunter Jesperson raped and strangled at least eight women in the early 90s. His crimes...

164 - The Manhattan Project from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

The Manhattan Project! The United States gathered all the best minds it could find to develop atomic weapons before the Germans or Japan beat them to the nuclear WW2 punch. And then, after Germany ...

162 - The Greek Gods! from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

The Greek Gods! Didn't expect this to be the craziest suck we've ever done going in, but maybe it was. The Greek Gods were unbelievably insane. These very human-like gods were flawed and complicate...

160 - Time Travel! from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Time travel! Today on Timesuck we suck time itself! Will we ever be able to go back and kill Hitler? Or go to the future and visit a world of teleportation and sex robots? Is time travel scientific...

155 - Leonardo da Vinci from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

The only thing Leonardo da Vinci wasn't good at was raising his kids. And only because he didn't have any. He seemed to master just about everything else. He may have known more than any other huma...

152 - The Anti-Vaccination Movement from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Infectious disease. The number one murderer of humankind. By far! Nasty little viruses and other pathogens have killed more people than any other single cause of death each and every year prior to ...

151 - Lost Technologies! from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Lost technologies! Greek fire, Damascus steel, the pyramid building abilities of ancient Egypt, India's flying vimanas, Rome's miracle medicine, the Antikythera Mechanism and so much more. We look ...

150 - Belle Gunness and Her Murder Farm from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Hinker du teh hoingy boingy! Uff da! Uff da! Tiddly winks teh dingy thingy. Don't worry - not all of today's show is in Norwegian (and neither is that gibberish). Talking about Norway's infamous ex...

148 - Robert "The Butcher Baker" Hansen from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Serial killer Robert Hansen abducted and killed at least seventeen women and hunted many of them down in the Alaskan wilderness in the 1970s and 80s around Anchorage. This bakery owner and sport hu...

147 - Revolutionary War from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Less than a week after the 4th of July, we Suck into the birth of the United States of America. We glance at some of the war's important battles and important figures, but, more importantly, we dig...

146 - The Black Dahlia Murder Mystery from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Who killed Elizabeth Short in 1947? We still don't know. Or do we? Today we go over the details of the Black Dahlia murder mystery - to this day the most infamous murder in Los Angeles history. We ...

142 - Darwin Awards and Evolution from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

The Darwin Awards! Meatsacks removing themselves from being able to procreate or from the planet entirely in the most easily avoidable ways. Natural selection at work! We make light of a lot of dea...

139 - The Vietnam War from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Today we talk about Vietnam. Do you know how the Vietnam war began? What events really led up to it? You will after this episode. You'll learn about centuries of foreign occupation at the hands of ...

135 - Vikings! from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Vikings! We take a deep dive today into the history of Scandinavia, focusing in particular on the age of the Vikings! We look into what they wore, how their society was structured, why they became ...

132 - Order of the Solar Temple Doomsday Cult from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

On October 4th, 1994 the dead bodies of two Solar Temple cult members and their baby are found in Morin Heights, Quebec. All three have been stabbed to death. The baby has had a wooden dagger run t...

130 - Casey Anthony - Free and Guilty? from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Liar, liar, pants on fire. Wow! I have never read about someone who told lies - big lies - more often and consistently than Casey Anthony. On July 5, 2011, a Florida jury found Casey Anthony “not g...

127 - Pedophile Island from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Should we banish pedophiles to an actual island? That's essentially what Washington state has been doing since 1990 with the Special Commitment Center for sexually violent offenders deemed to be at...

124 - Mothman from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

The Mothman is a strange creature reportedly witnessed mainly in the Point Pleasant area of West Virginia between November 12, 1966, and December 1967. It’s described as a winged, man-sized creatur...

120 - Year End Wrap Up! And More Tales of Inspiration from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Happy New Year's Eve! We take a look back at 2018 and a look forward to 2019 today on Timesuck. We also find more inspiration in the tales of Nick Vujicic and Bethany Hamilton. Nick was born with ...

118 - The Alphabet Murders from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Three young girls were kidnapped, raped, and strangled to death near Rochester, NY in the early 70s. Carmen Colon, Michelle Maenza, and Wanda Walkowicz. Their crimes became referred to as the Alpha...

117 - Harriet MF'n Tubman from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Harriet Tubman! One of the most important conductors on the Underground Railroad. A brave, inspirational human being who escaped slavery in Maryland and ran to freedom in Pennsylvania in 1849 and t...

113 - World War One: Unprecedented Carnage from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

It's the 100th anniversary of WW1! The Great War. The War of Nations. The War to End All Wars. If only that were true. What a war it was! It was a war unlike any other fought in the long history of...

112 - The Russian Sleep Experiment from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Did Russian Scientists seal five prisoners in an airtight chamber and dosed them with an experimental stimulant gas to test the effects of prolonged sleep deprivation in the 1940s? Did these prison...

111 - Demonologists Ed and Lorraine Warren (from Annabelle, the Conjuring, and more) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

The "true" horror stories of Ed and Lorraine Warren have turned into more than a billion dollars worth of scares at the box office between The Conjuring, The Conjuring 2, Annabelle, and Annabelle: ...

108 - Lizzie Borden Took an Axe... from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

During an oppressive heat wave in August 1892, prominent Fall River residents Andrew and Abby Borden were brutally murdered in their home; each dealt multiple and savage blows to their heads with a...

Bonus 26: The Way of the Samurai, a Brief History of Japan, and the Warrior Life of Miyamoto Musashi from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

For centuries, Japan was ruled by a military dictatorship, the Shogunate, and the samurais were the enforcers of this rule. The samurai was soldier, police officer, judge, jury, and executioner. He...

102 - Immigration: Fact Versus Fiction from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

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...

100 - Drunk as F*#k Suck of the Axeman of New Orleans from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

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 f...

99 - Area 51: Secret Weapons Program or Alien Experimentation? from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

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...

Bonus 25 - Werewolves: Howl at the Moon! from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

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, th...

96 - Pennhurst State Hospital: Pennsylvania's Dirty Secret from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

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 intelle...

94 - The Donner Party: Cannibalism, Cholera, and More Horribleness from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

The story of the Donner Party is one of the most disturbing tales of western migration during the time of Manifest Destiny, the common 19th-century belief that the United States was destined to exp...

Bonus 23 - Knights Templar pt 2 of 2: Fall and Conspiracies from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

The Knights Templar fought their last stand in the Holy Land (their last proper stand) in Acre in 1291 and shit was epic. They went down, but, they didn't go down easy. And then, less than two deca...

90 - The Golden State Killer from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

On Tuesday, April 24th, 2018, Joseph James DeAngelo, 72, was taken into custody by local police and FBI agents when he stepped outside his Citrus Heights home, a quiet suburb of Sacramento. The man...

89 - Joan of Arc from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Joan of Arc was BURNED ALIVE on May 30th, 1431 CE, something no one ever aspires to have written on their obituary. She fought to end the Hundred Years' War between England and France on behalf of ...

87 - The "Real" Men in Black from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Cold Open: The Men in Black. The men who inspired the movies, not Will Smith and Tommy Lee Jones. Who or what are they? Aliens? Extra top secret government officials specializing in suppressing UFO...

BONUS 21 - Jack the Ripper! from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

From August seventh to September tenth, 1888, a crazed killer who came to be known as "Jack the Ripper” terrorized the Whitechapel district of London's impoverished East End. This extremely violent...

86 - The Green River Killer from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Gary "The Green River Killer" Ridgway is currently in prison in Walla Walla, Washington, having been convicted of 49 different murders, most of which took place in the early and mid-1980s. It took ...

85 - The Spanish Inquisition from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

The Spanish Inquisition started in 1478 and lasted all the way until 1834 - and it was terrible the whole time. But it was at its worst in the first hundred years, when thousands and thousands of i...

84 - The Demonic Possession of Anneliese Michel 2 of 2 from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

In 1973, 21 year old German college student Anneliese Michel began to descend into an existence of pure and utter madness. She had begun to see the faces of demons appear around her with increasing...

83 - Lost Books of the Bible! from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

The Lost Books of the Bible! Is that really what we’re talking about today on Timesuck? Yes. Was I super excited to dive into this topic when I found out our Space Lizard listeners voted it in on t...

82 - The Westboro Baptist Lunatics from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

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...

80 - America's Guns: What is the Real Problem? from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

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 fee...

79 - The Chernobyl Disaster: What, Why, and How Bad Was it? from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

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 ...

78 - Defiance: the Nazi Killing Bielski Brothers from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

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 ...

BONUS 18: Aleister Crowley: The Wickedest Man in the World from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

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 ...

73 - Digital Immortality from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

I recently watched the new 4th season of Black Mirror on Netflix, and, if this season has a theme, I’d say it’s the concept of digital immortality. Can human consciousness be transferred into digit...

72 - The Colonial Devastation of Africa from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Before this week I knew very little about Africa’s history. It’s a continent of many nations, nations whose boundaries and governments are near constantly in some state of transition. It’s a beauti...

BONUS 16 - Doc Holliday from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

"I'm your huckleberry." Did the real Doc Holliday actually say that? Or was that some Hollywood dramatization added to Tombstone? Turns out he did tell Johnny Ringo he was a huckleberry when he tri...

71 - Stalin: Russia's Ruthless Man of Steel from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Joseph Stalin. Icon of the 20th century. Personification of Soviet might. Catalyst of the Cold War. Hero to some, monster to many. The Man of Steel who brought the Soviet Union to the world stage a...

70 - The Jersey Devil from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

The Jersey Devil. Is it a kangaroo-like creature with the head of a goat, horse, or dog? Most agree that it has wings, hooves, horns, and a tail. Where does it come from? Many describe a dragon-lik...

69 - Freemasons 2 of 2: Are Freemasons the Illuminati? from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Do the Freemasons work hand in hand with the illuminati? Are the Freemasons and the Illuminati one and the same? Is Alex Jones a Freemason? Was Jack the Ripper a Freemason? Did George Washington, d...

Bonus 14 - Oak Island Mystery! from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

What is the Oak Island Mystery? Why have been teams of people been digging hundreds of feet into the ground for over 200 years there? Is there buried pirate treasure? Aztec gold? Secrets of the Kni...

63 - BTK Killer: Bind. Torture. Kill. from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

BTK. Bind. Torture. Kill. The name Wichita Serial Killer Dennis Rader gave to himself in the 1970s in letters he sent to the Wichita press where he would flaunt his crimes and taunt the police. He ...

60 - Man of War: Chesty Puller from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

The most highly decorated Marine in the history of the Corps, Lewis "Chesty" Puller won five Navy Crosses, a Purple Heart, a Silver Star, the Army Distinguished Service Cross, five Presidential Uni...

58 - The Bermuda Triangle from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

What actually goes on in the Bermuda Triangle? Do more ships and airplanes disappear within it’s borders than they do anywhere elsewhere? And if they are disappearing - where the Hell do they go!?!...

BONUS 11 - The Amityville Horror from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

At roughly 3:00 AM, Nov. 13, 1974, twenty three year old Ronald Joseph "Butch" DeFeo Jr took a thirty-five caliber Marlin rifle and executed all six members of entire immediate family in their slee...

56 - The Wonderland Murders (live performance in Hollywood!): Coke, Porn, and John Holmes from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Four dead bodies were found on July 1, 1981, at 8763 Wonderland Avenue in the Laurel Canyon neighborhood of Los Angeles. It was the most gruesome LA murder scene since the Manson murders of 1969. W...

21 - Ghosts & Magic: Houdini takes on Spiritualism from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

In the early 1920s, world renown escape artist and master magician, Harry Houdini, became obsessed with exposing seance-holding mediums as frauds and imposters, sometimes cancelling his own shows t...

228 - The Strange Story of Serial Killer Israel Keyes from 2021-01-25T19:44

Possibly the most meticulous Serial Killer the world has ever known, Israel Keyes spent years planning murders all across North America. Burying what he dubbed “murder kits” in various locations...

227 - Operation Paperclip: Nazi War Criminals Hired by the United States from 2021-01-18T19:45

In the final days of World War II and in the next few years after the war was over, the U.S. government helped hundreds and hundreds of Nazi Scientists whose knowledge and expertise was deemed c...

226 - Shaka Zulu from 2021-01-11T19:45

Shaka Zulu! I'm guessing you've heard the name. Also guessing you know very little about his story. Most don't seem too. Which is a shame because it's such a great story! Shaka took the small Zu...

224 - Viktor Frankl/2020 Year End Recap from 2020-12-28T19:45

Viktor Frankl and his logotherapy. This is the topic we examine this week to carry on the Timesuck tradition of ending the year on a little inspirational note. Frankl had everything taken from h...

223 - The Craigslist Killer from 2020-12-20T19:45

Phillip Markoff. AKA, the Craigslist Killer. On the surface, Markoff seemed like a normal guy. A guy on the path to a lot of success. He was a six-foot-three, athletic-framed, blonde hair and bl...

222 - General Butt Naked from 2020-12-14T19:45

General Butt Naked aka Joshua Blahyi is a complicated figure. He is now a Liberian Christian missionary helping victims or Liberia's first civil war rebuild their lives. In the early 90s, he was...

220 - The Truck Stop Killer: Robert Ben Rhoades from 2020-11-30T19:45

Robert Ben Rhoades, born in 1945, started driving big rigs across America’s interstates and major highways in the mid-1970s, and he seemed to most like an unassuming and harmless trucker for the...

219 - Annie Oakley from 2020-11-23T19:45

At the height of her career, sharpshootin' Annie Oakley the talented sharpshooter was the most famous woman in America, if not the world - dazzling audiences and setting records as she fired at ...

218 - The Bloody Benders from 2020-11-16T19:43

Life was NOT easy on the American frontier for European and American settlers in the 19th century. You lived off the land or you died trying. You were always one wrong move from freezing or star...

215 - NXIVM Cult from 2020-10-26T18:45

Cult! Cult! Cult! The NXIVM Sex Cult!

Founded by Keith Raniere in 1998 - at its height, NXIVM counted thousands of members, including celebrities, heirs and heiresses who all paid th...

214 - The Granny Ripper from 2020-10-19T18:45

For roughly fifteen years, an unassuming Russian woman named Tamara Samsonova may have secretly murdered between ten and perhaps as many as fourteen people. When she was finally arrested in 2015...

213 - Hollow Earth Theory from 2020-10-12T18:43

I bet you’ve heard of Flat Earthers. But have you heard of… Hollow Earthers?? Variations of Hollow Earth Theory propose that our planet Earth is either entirely hollow or contains a substantial ...

211 - The Immanuel David Cult from 2020-09-28T18:45

The Immanuel David Cult! Not much has been written about Immanuel David compared to more notable cult leaders like Jim Jones or David Koresh - but he was just as delusional and, in his own way, ...

210 - Alexander the Great! from 2020-09-21T18:45

Alexander III, king of the ancient state of Macedon aka Macedonia - one of history’s greatest military commanders. And he was even more than that. He was also a scholar, a lover of literature an...

Introducing INCREDIBLE FEATS with Dan Cummins! from 2020-09-15T19:00

I'm hosting a new daily show on the Parcast network called Incredible Feats, profiling fellow human beings' inspirational accomplishments!

209 - American Riots: the 1992 LA Riots and So Much More from 2020-09-14T18:45

LAPD and California Highway Patrol officers chased, arrested, and beat Rodney King, a twenty-five-year-old Black man, in 1991, and the fateful encounter would lead to a verdict of “not guilty” f...

207 - The Vampire of Sacramento: Serial Killer Richard Chase from 2020-08-31T18:45

Wow. This is a really, really crazy tale. Sacramento's Richard chase was very mentally ill. He was a paranoid schizophrenic who did not do well when he was off his meds. He was also a sadistic m...

206 - The Strange Kidnapping of Patty Hearst from 2020-08-24T18:45

Who joins the gang that kidnapped them and held them for ransom and helps them rob banks long after they're free to leave? Patty Hearst did that in 1974. And who the Hell is Patty Hearst? She's ...

205 - Skinwalker Ranch from 2020-08-17T18:44

What the Hell is going on in Northeastern Utah? If you just drove by, you might think that Skinwalker Ranch is just an innocent-seeming 512-acre parcel of land about 150 miles southeast of Salt ...

204 - Walt Disney: How a Media Empire Was Built from 2020-08-10T18:45

Walt Disney! How much do you know about the mind and the man that built one of the ten biggest media empires in the world? How did the production company behind some animated short films in the ...

202 - The Cult of Tony and Susan Alamo from 2020-07-27T18:44

Susan Alamo was a cult leader and televangelist who founded the Alamo Christian Foundation with her husband, Tony, in Hollywood, in the late 1960s. Then they quickly built a compound just north ...

201 - The Columbine Massacre from 2020-07-20T18:45

My brain is back! Today we take a sober look at the Columbine massacre, when on April 20th, 1999, two Columbine High School seniors, Dylan Klebold and Eric Harris, shot and killed twelve student...

200 - The West Mesa Bone Collector: Shroom'd and Doomed from 2020-07-13T18:45

Today's episode is.... interesting. Honoring a tradition started with the 100th Drunk as F*#k episode, I altered my mind again for this 200th episode. Five minutes before recording, I ingested a...

198 - Egyptian Gods from 2020-06-29T18:45

Osiris - god of the dead, resurrection into eternal life, and judge of the deceased. Ra - god of the sun, order, kings, and the sky. Babi - weird, very well-endowed baboon monster who wants to e...

197 - Serial Killer: Joachim Kroll from 2020-06-22T18:44

Wow. THIS guy! Joachim Kroll is one of the most disturbing serial killers we've covered so far. And if you've listened to the Albert Fish and Toybox Killer episodes, you know that is saying A LO...

196 - The Wendigo and Other American Indian Folklore Monsters from 2020-06-15T18:44

The Wendigo. Tales of a perpetually starving monster roaming the woods of Eastern North America. The Wendigo originates in the lore of tribes like the Chippewa, Ottawa, and Algonquin. Its name r...

193 - Ivan The Terrible from 2020-05-25T18:45

Ivan the Terrible. First true Tsar of Russia. And a dude who more than lived up to his "terrible" nickname, which actually is a mistranslation. Today we learn about the formation of Russia, and ...

192 - Russian Hitman Alexander"Superkiller"Solonik from 2020-05-18T18:43

Alexander Solonik, aka Alexander the Great aka Sasha the Macedonian aka The Superkiller was a legendary and mysterious Russian hitman in the 1980s and 90s who carried out contract killings prima...

191 - Serial Killers Leonard Lake and Charles Ng from 2020-05-11T18:45

Haven't heard of these two? By the end of today's tale, you'll be shocked that they're not much more infamous. Lake and Ng most likely killed over 25 people in central and northern California in...

189 - The Children of Thunder Cult from 2020-04-27T18:45

Get ready for one helluva tale. Today's story is so crazy. The promising beginning, insane planning, and tragic pre-life-in-prison final acts of Taylor Helzer are hard to wrap one's mind around....

188 - The US Civil War from 2020-04-20T18:45

The US Civil War. Fought over 150 years ago and still the bloodiest war the US has ever been involved in when it comes to the loss of American life. Well over 600,000 Americans died. A greater l...

187 - The Kansas City Butcher: Robert Berdella from 2020-04-13T18:45

Robert Berdella. The Kansas City Butcher. The Collector. An insanely depraved cook and former art school student who kidnapped, raped, tortured and murdered at least six men between 1984 and 198...

185 - Pandemic: COVID-19 vs 1918 Spanish Flu from 2020-03-30T18:45

What the Hell is going on right now? Why is the world in lockdown? Today I try and answer some biology basics: What is a virus? What is a coronavirus? Why is the governmental reaction to COVID-1...

184 - John Dillinger: Public Enemy Number One from 2020-03-23T18:45

John Dillinger. J Edgar Hoover named him America's public enemy #1 for a reason. Dude LOVED to rob a bank. John lived and robbed during arguably the best time to be a gangster in America's histo...

183 - Baba Yaga: OG Witch from 2020-03-16T18:45

Baba Yaga - OG witch and one of the many characters of ancient Slavic folklore. Today we explore Slavic folklore just like we explored Germanic folklore with the Brother's Grimm episode. The peo...

180 - Dr. Death: Harold Shipman from 2020-02-24T19:45

Harold Frederick Shipman AKA Dr. Death. Quite possibly the world's most prolific serial killer. From 1975 to 1998, he killed at least 215 people. The real number may be much, much higher. Harold...

179 - Ruby Ridge from 2020-02-17T19:45

The 1992 Ruby Ridge armed standoff between the Weaver family and the federal government. Three people died and the American modern militia movement was born. Did the government use excessive for...

178 - Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge Genocide from 2020-02-10T19:45

Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge Genocide. An insane, Cambodian tragedy that was oh, so avoidable. Saloth Sar, aka Pol Pot, was a man with a dream. A horrible, delusional, misguided dream. He wanted ...

176 - Serial Killer Joseph Duncan from 2020-01-27T19:45

Joseph Duncan. What a terrible, terrible dude. This was one of the hardest episodes we've done yet. I knew it would be dark, but, I didn't know it would be THIS dark. The worst of Duncan's crime...

175 - Declassified Military Documents from 2020-01-20T19:45

Operation Iceworm. Operation Gladio. Operation Paperclip, Sea Spray, Acoustic Kitty, and more. What has the US government kept secret over the years, and why? How does information become classif...

174 - Bizarre Mental Disorders from 2020-01-13T19:45

Boanthropy. Capgras Delusion. Alien Hand Syndrome. Clinical Lycanthropy. We go over a variety of rare and unusual mental disorders today and also give an overview of how we meatsacks deal with m...

172 - Colonel Robert L. Howard/2019 Year End Review from 2019-12-30T19:45

Happy New Year! 2020 is almost here and we do a little a summary of what went on with Timesuck in 2019. It was the best of years. Hail Nimrod! Also, for a little inspiration, we cover the life a...

171 - The Warsaw Ghetto - A Tale of Nazi Resistance from 2019-12-23T19:45

Ummm.... more Nazis this week. Not EXACTLY a normal holiday choice, but what's normal on Timesuck? Today we look at the Warsaw Ghetto - the largest concentration of European Jews was in Poland, ...

170 - Nazi Search for the Holy Grail from 2019-12-16T19:50

The Nazi’s Search for the Holy Grail. We look at this today and also into so, so many other strange beliefs held by Heinrich Himmler, Hitler, and other occult-minded Nazis. Today we’re going rea...

167 - The Son of Sam: Serial Killer David Berkowitz from 2019-11-25T20:18

David Berkowitz. The Son of Sam. One of America's most infamous serial killers. The man who terrorized the already terrible New York City in the mid-1970s. Berkowitz would kill six, injure nine ...

165 - Simo Hayha: White Death from 2019-11-11T19:45

Happy Veteran's Day to all our American men and women armed forces members. Much respect to armed forces members world wide. Going international today to talk about one of the most decorated war...

163 - The Church of Satan from 2019-10-28T19:05

The Church of Satan! How many babies do they sacrifice? Do the babies have to be Christian? How many virgins are presented to dudes wearing robes or devil horns or goat masks at their orgies? Do...

162 - The Greek Gods! from 2019-10-21T18:45

The Greek Gods! Didn't expect this to be the craziest suck we've ever done going in, but maybe it was. The Greek Gods were unbelievably insane. These very human-like gods were flawed and complic...

161 - The Source Family Cult from 2019-10-14T18:45

In the late 1960s, James Baker transitioned from the spiritually-minded owner of a vegetarian restaurant on Los Angele's Sunset Strip to Father Yod - the leader of a cult based on the belief that h...

159 - Josephine Baker: Spy, Sex Symbol, Superstar from 2019-09-30T18:45

Josephine Baker. What a meatsack!! Such an incredible person. The modern world's first internationally famous black, female celebrity. She lived a lot of life. She was born into extreme poverty in ...

158 - The Mysterious Death of JonBenet Ramsey from 2019-09-23T18:45

JonBenet Ramsey. It's been over twenty years since the six-year-old was found murdered in her Boulder, Colorado home and ever since, investigators and the general public alike have been wondering w...

157 - Mormonism: The Good, The Bad, and The FLDS from 2019-09-16T18:45

Mormonism. BIG topic today! Oh my HECK! We talk today about the history of Mormonism - a religion born in America. We'll go over the life of its founder Joseph Smith and investigate his claims of r...

156 - The Confession Killers: Henry Lee Lucas and Ottis Toole from 2019-09-09T18:45

Henry Lee Lucas and Ottis Toole committed at least four murders, or maybe five. They were, collectively, convicted of seventeen. But they definitely didn't kill some of the people they were convict...

154 - The Outlaw Jesse James and the James-Younger Gang from 2019-08-26T18:45

Jesse James! Perhaps the most notorious outlaw in wild west history. Yip, yip, yaw! But do you know why he was so infamous? Do you understand the social climate that helped create him? Do you know ...

153 - The Ninth Circle Cult & Jeffrey Epstein: An Exploration Into Pedophile Rings from 2019-08-19T18:45

The Ninth Circle Cult! Is there actually a group of "global elites" hunting children in private European forests, raping and sacrificing children to Satan? Is the Pope the leader? That's what some ...

149 - OJ Simpson from 2019-07-22T18:45

OJ Simpson. It's been twenty-five years since his *alleged* murder of Nicole Simpson and Ron Goldman. You've heard about the murders. You've heard about the trial. But how much do you really know a...

145 - Josef Fritzl: Austria's Monster from 2019-06-24T18:45

On April 19th, 2008, forty-two year-old Elisabeth Fritzl helped her seventy-three year-old father Josef carry their nineteen year-old unconscious daughter Kerstin - yes, THEIR daughter, you read th...

144 - The Texas Killing Fields from 2019-06-17T18:45

Since 1971, well over thirty women have disappeared along a fifty mile-long patch of I-45 between Houston and Galveston. Some refer to this stretch of the Gulf Freeway as a highway to Hell, and to ...

143 - America's Homeless Epidemic from 2019-06-10T18:45

Really hope you enjoy this one. One of my favorite episodes so far. Such a big topic that touches so many lives. What is the history of homelessness in America? Why are people homeless now? Who is ...

141 - Albert Fish: NY Killer and SUPER Creep from 2019-05-27T18:45

Albert Fish. The Boogey Man. The Werewolf of Wysteria. The Brooklyn Vampire. The Gray Man. The Moon Maniac. A sexual sadist, sexual masochist, kidnapper, con artist, cannibal, torturer, murderer, a...

140 - The Legend of King Arthur, the Knights of the Round Table, and More from 2019-05-20T18:45

Do you enjoy knights, wizards, and dragons? How about medieval history? Folklore, maybe? Want to learn how England became England? We learned a lot about the beginning of the mythology that has led...

138 - The Brutal KGB and Russia's Long History of Secret Police from 2019-05-06T18:45

Back to the USSR! Talking about Mother Russia's long history with BRUTAL various secret police agencies terrorizing its own people today on the Suck. Gonna go over the GULAG forced labor camps, gon...

137 - Madame Delphine LaLaurie: How Evil Was She? from 2019-04-29T18:45

Did Madame Delphine and her Dr. husband really torture their slaves in the most horrific of ways at the now infamous LaLaurie Mansion at 1140 Royal St in the French Quarter of New Orleans? Or are t...

136 - The Moon Landing Conspiracy from 2019-04-22T18:45

2019 is the 50th anniversary of the moon landing! Yip, yip, yaw! On July 20th, 1969, Commander Neil Armstrong and lunar module pilot Buzz Aldrin, two American astronauts, landed the Apollo Lunar Mo...

134 - Napoleon MF'n Bonaparte! from 2019-04-08T18:45

Napoleon! A man who knew before he died he would be remembered as being one of the most important European leaders in history - and boy was he right. He's regarded by many military historians as be...

133 - Mikhail "The Werewolf" Popkov: Russia's Most Prolific Serial Killer from 2019-04-01T18:45

Former Russian police officer Mikhail Popkov was found guilty on December 10th, 2018 of killing fifty-six people in Siberia. All but one victim were women between the ages of seventeen to thirty-ei...

131 - Disappearances, Hidden Cities, Murders and More: National Park Mysteries from 2019-03-18T18:45

The origin of the Chupacabra legend! UFO sightings in Yosemite. A giant, lost Egyptian city in the Grand Canyon. Another underground city supposedly inhabited by mystical Lemurians in Mount Shasta....

129 - Ted "The Unabomber" Kaczynski from 2019-03-04T19:45

Ted Kaczynski, aka "The Unabomber", is an American domestic terrorist who conducted a seventeen-plus-year series of attacks, using mail bombs to target academics, business executives, and others. T...

128 - Serial Killer Pedro "Monster of the Andes" Lopez from 2019-02-25T19:45

South American serial killer Pedro "Monster of the Andes" Lopez was convicted of killing 110 girls in Ecuador in 1983. He claimed to have killed roughly 350 between Ecuador, Peru, and his native Co...

126 - The Black Panthers from 2019-02-11T19:45

The Black Panthers! A very controversial civil rights group originating in Oakland, California in 1966. Formed by young revolutionaries Huey Newton and Bobby Seale in response to police brutality t...

125 - The Black Death from 2019-02-04T19:45

The Black Death killed between 25 and 75 million people in Europe alone in just over five years! This terrifying outbreak of the plague killed roughly 1/3 of the entire world’s population, dropping...

123 - Serial Killer Ed Kemper: The Co-ed Killer from 2019-01-21T19:45

Born on December 18, 1948, in Burbank, California, Edmund Kemper, at age 15, killed both his grandparents to "see what it felt like." He turned himself in and was sentenced to a state mental health...

122 - Cleopatra: Queen. Seductress. Product Of SO MUCH INCEST! from 2019-01-14T19:45

Whopper of a tale for you today. Battles, incest, murder, betrayal, and more! Born in 69 BCE, Cleopatra VII was part of the Macedonian dynasty that took over rule of Egypt in the late 4th century B...

121 - The DB Cooper Hijack Mystery from 2019-01-07T19:45

November 24th, 1971. The day before Thanksgiving. Dan Cooper, also known as DB Cooper, shows up at the Portland, Oregon airport looking like your average business traveler. Over the next few hours,...

119 - Triumph Over Unbelievable Tragedy: Two Exceptional Tales! from 2018-12-24T19:45

Malvika Iyer had both her hands blown off by a grenade when she was thirteen years-old. The blast also turned her legs into a mangled mass of blood and bone. Alex Lewis lost both legs, both arms, a...

116 - The Pinkerton Detective Agency - "We Never Sleep" from 2018-12-03T19:45

Founded by Scottish immigrant Allan Pinkerton, Chicago’s first police detective, in 1850, the Pinkerton Agency quickly became one of the most important crime detection and law enforcement groups in...

115 - Hatfield-McCoy Feud from 2018-11-26T19:45

The Hatfields and the McCoys repeatedly attacked one another in the rural Tug River Valley separating West Virginia and Kentucky for over a decade in the late 19th century. Two patriarchs - Devil A...

114 - Illuminati Revealed! The New World Order Conspiracy from 2018-11-19T19:45

The Federal Reserve Act. The Bilderbergers. The Freemasons, Wall Street, and the Council on Foreign Relations. The National Security Act of 1947. Area 51. The Trilateral Commission. Agenda 21. The ...

110 - Australia's Katherine Knight and the Murder Everyone Saw Coming from 2018-10-22T18:45

On February 29th, 2000, in the small, rugged town of Aberdeen, Australia, forty-five year old mother and grandmother Katherine Knight stabbed her live-in boyfriend thirty-seven times. Then, after s...

109 - The Chessboard Killer: Alexander Pichushkin from 2018-10-15T18:45

Alexander Pichushkin insisted he’d killed sixty-three people after being apprehended in 2006 but authorities only had enough evidence to convict him of forty-eight murders. The bodies of other vict...

107 - The Lost Colony of Roanoke from 2018-10-01T18:45

In 1587, Englishman John White led a group of 118 colonists to what was supposed to Roanoke Island. One hundred fifteen of those colonists were never seen again after White returned to England to g...

106 - Andrew MF'n Jackson: Gunslingin' War Hero and President from 2018-09-24T18:45

Andrew Jackson. Seventh president of the United States. First president born to immigrant parents. Only president to serve in both the American Revolution and the War of 1812. First president to be...

105 - Nikola Tesla: A Strange and Beautiful Mind from 2018-09-17T18:45

Nikola Tesla. The prototypical "mad scientist". He slept only a few hours a night and devoted his life to science like none-other. A rags-to-riches-to-rags visionary who was a giant in the field of...

104 - The Children of God Sex Cult from 2018-09-10T18:45

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 p...

103 - The Public Suicide of Budd Dwyer and the Tragic Events That Led Up To It from 2018-09-03T18:45

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...

101 - The Candyman Killer: Houston's Nightmare from 2018-08-20T18:45

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 w...

98 - The Assassination of Lincoln: It's Crazier Than You Think from 2018-07-30T18:51

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 fami...

97 - Spartacus: When Gladiators Attacked Rome Itself from 2018-07-23T18:45

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 centur...

Bonus 24 - The Toy Box Killer: New Mexico's Satanic Sadist from 2018-07-13T18:45

WARNING/DISCLAIMER: This is the most disturbing episode of Timesuck thus far. To the point I considered not releasing it. Maybe it just hit me unusually hard for some reason but the crime scene det...

95 - Pancho MFN' Villa: Mexico's Robin Hood from 2018-07-09T18:45

Pancho Villa! Pancho Villa was a revolutionary fighter who despised the wealthy landowners who had subjugated the impoverished farming class, comprised of mostly indigenous people, since long befor...

93 - The Aztec Empire: So Much Human Sacrifice! from 2018-06-25T18:45

Today we’re talking about the Aztecs! The Aztecs built a vast empire, one that outpaced, out-staged, and out-populated the likes of Paris at the time. They were a powerhouse warrior based society w...

92 - Knights Templar pt 1 of 2: License to Kill (Rise of the Pope's Army) from 2018-06-18T18:45

The Knights Templar was founded in 1119 CE on the principles of chastity, obedience and poverty - but they soon, ironically became immensely wealthy and obedient to almost no one but themselves and...

91 - The Ma Barker Gang! Ruthless 1930s Killers from 2018-06-11T18:58

The Ma Barker gang robbed bank, after bank, after drugstore, after hardware store, clothing store, Chevy dealership, jewelry store, and still more banks in the early 1930s. They committed more robb...

Bonus 22 - Edgar Allan Poe from 2018-06-01T18:45

Edgar Allan Poe did more than write The Raven and look creepy. He also basically invented the modern detective story. He was America's first "master of suspense" according to Stephen King and many ...

88 - Aokigahara: Japan's Suicide Forest from 2018-05-21T18:45

An alarming number of Japanese citizens have taken a dark pilgrimage to the Aokigahara forest, more commonly known as Japan’s suicide forest, to end their lives, most commonly by hanging themselves...

BONUS 20 - The Demonic Possession of Anneliese Michel 1 of 2 from 2018-04-20T18:45

Anneliese Michel would die in a small, German town on July 1st, 1976. The official cause of death? Malnutrition and dehydration. But why did she stop eating? Mental illness? She’d seen a plethora o...

81 - The Stanford Prison Experiment from 2018-04-02T18:30

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 Unive...

BONUS 19: Richard "The Night Stalker" Ramirez from 2018-03-30T18:45

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 t...

77 - Norse Gods from 2018-03-05T19:45

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 Asatru...

76 - Tupac & Biggie: Fame, Money, & Murder from 2018-02-26T19:45

Tupac and Biggie - two of the biggest hip hop stars of all time. And neither of them would see the age of 26. Their West Coast/East Coast rap feud helped sell millions of records, helped launch the...

75 - Guns and God: David Koresh's Waco Siege from 2018-02-19T20:14

Feb. 28th, 2018 will mark the 25th anniversary of the ATF raiding the Branch Davidian Compound in Waco Texas, setting off a 51 day armed standoff between federal agents and militant Christian fanat...

BONUS 17 - Ed Gein: The Butcher of Plainfield from 2018-02-16T19:45

When murder investigators entered the rural farm house of loner Ed Gein just outside the tiny town of Plainfield, Wisconsin on November 16th, 1957, they found a scene like nothing any American inve...

74 - The IRA: Freedom FIghters or Terrorists? from 2018-02-12T19:45

The Irish Republican Army. Guys and gals who have, since their inception, been viewed as a liberation force by some and a terrorist group by others. They fight for the liberation of Northern Irelan...

BONUS 15 - Freemasons 1 of 2: Original Cult of the Curious? from 2018-01-05T20:00

Who are the Freemasons? An ancient, Satanic organization who are part of the illuminati and intent of destroying Christianity and ruling the world? A harmless fraternal organization that gives its ...

68 - John Wayne Gacy: Chicago's Serial Killing Clown from 2018-01-01T20:00

John Wayne Gacy aka Pogo the clown aka Patches the clown aka the Devil himself. This outgoing member of his Chicago community, this Democratic Party volunteer, high ranking member of the Jaycees, p...

67 - Einstein: A Complicated Genius from 2017-12-25T20:00

Einstein! Theoretical physicist. Nobel Prize winning mathematician. Guy who made his name synonymous with genius. Man who changed the world’s understanding of space and time. Guy who Flat Earthers ...

66 - Eleanor MF'n Roosevelt from 2017-12-18T20:00

Who was Eleanor Roosevelt? She was the niece of Theodore Roosevelt. The wife of Franklin D. Roosevelt. So much Roosevelt! She was also a bad MF'er. She revolutionized the role of First Lady in Amer...

65 - Griselda "The Godmother" Blanco: Cocaine Queenpin from 2017-12-11T20:00

Griselda Blanco. The Godmother. La Madrina. The Black Widow. The Columbian drug lord who came BEFORE the Medellin Cartel. Before Pablo Escobar. The woman who helped turn 1980s Miami into one of the...

64 - Pizzagate: How to make lies sound like truth from 2017-12-04T19:50

What the Hell is Pizzagate? It’s a detailed conspiracy theory claiming that a pedophile ring - a Satanic pedophile ring was being run out of a Hillary Clinton-linked Washington D.C. pizzeria called...

BONUS 13 - Unit 731: Japan's Evil Experiments from 2017-11-24T20:00

What is Unit 731? It was one of Japan's WWII era medical research centers where doctors performed horrific experiments on prisoners, gruesomely torturing and killing human lab rats in order to impr...

62 - Dyatlov Pass Incident from 2017-11-20T20:00

Sometime in the late hours of Feb. 1st, 1959, nine Russian college students died tragically in the Northern Ural mountains of the Soviet Union.When their bodies were finally found, a strange crime ...

61 - Chief Crazy Horse from 2017-11-13T20:12

Chief Crazy Horse. Pride of the Lakota people. Brilliant military tactician who handed the US Military it’s two greatest losses ever delivered at the hands of the Sioux Nation. Who was this fearles...

BONUS 12 - The Zodiac Killer from 2017-11-03T19:00

Who killed five people for sure and possibly many more in central California in late 1968 and 1969 and then taunted the entire Bay Area with letters sent in to the press revealing details of the cr...

59 - The Shadow People from 2017-10-30T19:00

Welcome to a Halloween edition of Timesuck! Have you ever felt like something in the shadows was watching you? Something ominous. Have you ever woken up to the sensation that a strange, dark, prese...

57 - The Butcher of Rostov: Serial Killer Andrei Chikatilo from 2017-10-16T19:00

We go REAL dark this week on Timesuck with an examination of Russian serial killer and relentless sadist Andrei Chikatilo, a monster who killed between 53-56 men, women, and mostly children between...

BONUS 10 - Timesuck Sucks Itself from 2017-10-06T19:00

Timesuck sucks itself in this special 1,000 review bonus edition of Timesuck! Why did I create Timesuck in the first place? Why did I get into standup at all? Where was I born and raised and by who...

55 - The Disappearance of Amelia Earhart from 2017-10-02T19:00

What happened to Amelia Earhart on July 2nd, 1937? Where did Amelia and her navigator, Fred Noonan, disappear to? Amelia was due to land on Howland Island, 1700 miles Southwest of Honolulu, on her ...

54 - Heaven's Gate UFO Cult from 2017-09-25T19:00

What led 39 people to kill themselves in a desperate attempt to board a spaceship in 1997? Why did anyone believe that Marshall Applewhite, a former choir director, was the Second Coming of Christ,...

53 - Teddy MF'n Roosevelt! President Tough Guy from 2017-09-18T19:00

America's 26th President went from an asthmatic child to a weightlifting, boxing, mountain climbing, book writing, lots-of-animals killing, calvary rough riding, NYC police commissioner, war hero, ...

BONUS 9 - The Salem Witch Trials from 2017-09-15T19:00

So much crazy in one episode. In 1692, the residents of Salem Village became obsessed with the idea that the Devil himself was in their midst and that he was being helped by an army of witches look...

52 - 9/11: Looking Back at the Day That Changed America Forever from 2017-09-11T19:00

The Department of Homeland Security. The enduring military occupation of Afghanistan that began as Operation Enduring Freedom and the Global War on Terror. The Transportation Security Administratio...

51 - "The Iceman": Serial Killer Richard Kuklinski from 2017-09-04T19:00

Richard Kuklinski once shot a man twice in the head on Christmas Eve because the guy owed him $1600. He beat a kid to death with a closet rod when he was 13. He strangled, stabbed, poisoned, shot, ...

50 - The Ku Klux Klan: Who are these hatemongers? from 2017-08-28T19:00

Recent events in Charlottesville, VA reminded me that the KKK is still around. I realized I've never thought much about who these people are. When was the KKK founded? By whom and why? Why are they...

BONUS 8 - Project MK Ultra: The CIA experiments with LSD from 2017-08-25T19:00

In the 1950s, while many Americans were busy watching I Love Lucy or waiting for the new Elvis Presley album, the members of the CIA's Project MK Ultra were busy dropping acid, taking shrooms, and ...

49 - Kurt Cobain: The Triumph and Tragedy of Alt Rock's Greatest Icon from 2017-08-21T19:00

I remember the exact moment I first heard Nirvana and I remember the day he died. But I didn't know how hard he had to work for Nirvana to break through, and I didn't know how terribly troubled he ...

48 - Slenderman: A Modern Monster is Born from 2017-08-14T19:00

In 2014, two twelve year old Wisconsin girls believed in monsters. They believed in one, Slenderman, so completely, they decided to kill their friend to prove their worth to Slenderman so they coul...

47 - Rasputin: Russia's Mad Monk from 2017-08-07T19:00

Rasputin is one of the strangest historical figures out there. He was a Siberian peasant who ended up becoming part of the Tsar's inner circle due to his alleged healing abilities. He also helped g...

EP 46 - Blood Countess Elizabeth Bathory: Most Prolific Female Serial Killer Ever? from 2017-07-31T19:00

16th century Hungary was a place and time of unimaginable violence. Europe had been at war with itself and the Ottoman Turks for centuries. Hungary was located between the Holy Roman Empire and the...

45 - North Korea: Prison Posing as a Nation from 2017-07-24T19:00

What is happening over in North Korea and why do we not try and stop the atrocities being committed? Just how insane is Kim Jong-un? (VERY) How bad is life for the average North Korean citizen? (HE...

44 - The Transgender Debate from 2017-07-17T19:00

What does it actually mean to be transgender? Why does one person identifying as transgender scare, disgust, or enrage so many others? Does it really matter? Listen, be entertained, and maybe gain ...

BONUS 7 - Vlad "the Impaler" Dracula: Man Behind the Vampire from 2017-07-14T19:00

How do you become the real life basis for the most famous monster of our time? By being one of the most sadistic and terrifying figures who ever lived. Vlad impaled, disemboweled, boiled, burned, h...

43 - The Lost City of Atlantis! So Many Crazy Theories... from 2017-07-10T19:21:35

Atlantis! Did a highly advanced civilization sink into the sea tens of thousands of years ago?  Can the cultures of the Romans, Maya, Incas, Mesopotamians, Greeks and more all be traced back to it?...

42 - Martin Luther King, Jr.: Life, Legacy and Assassination Conspiracy from 2017-07-03T19:00

How much do you really know about Martin Luther King, Jr.? Did you know he was so committed to nonviolence that he refused to even defend himself from a white supremacist that once attacked him on ...

41 - Blood and Glory: True Tales of the Texas Rangers from 2017-06-26T19:00

If it weren't for the Texas Rangers, Texas probably wouldn't be a state today. These wild, eccentric frontiersman rode into battle on crippled legs, gun wound shortened arms, shot horseshoes out of...

40 - Doomsday Drama! Nostradamus & Apocalypse Prophets from 2017-06-19T19:00

Did Nostradamus predict a series of major world events that would occur hundreds of years after his death? Did he know when the world would end? Or is it all just a bunch of ridiculous nonsense? Fi...

39 - Bonnie & Clyde: Original Gangsters from 2017-06-12T19:00

On May 23rd, 1934, 23 year old Bonnie Parker was shot 26 times. 25 year old Clyde Barrow was shot 17 times. They died in a hail of gunfire, initiated by legendary Texas Ranger Frank Hamer, who'd co...

38 - JFK Assassination Part 2 of 2 from 2017-06-05T19:00

The conclusion of Timesuck's first two part episode. Do I think Oswald killed Kennedy? I don't think so. Do I think the CIA was involved in Kennedy's death? I do think so. I know this all sounds cr...

BONUS 6 - JFK Assassination Part 1 of 2 from 2017-06-02T19:00

We know that on November 22nd, 1963, John Fitzgerald Kennedy, the 35th President of the United States, was assassinated at 12:30PM CST while traveling through Dallas, Texas, in a 1961 open-top, Lin...

37 - Shark Attacks! Great Whites, Megalodon, & Blood in the Water… from 2017-05-29T19:00

Why do sharks terrify us? How dangerous are they? Can they attack in fresh water!?! Can they nibble your dick off!?! SO MANY QUESTIONS!!! So many answers on this getting ready for summertime, shark...

36 - Jeffrey Dahmer: The Cannibal of Milwaukee from 2017-05-22T19:00

Sadist. Rapist. Pedophile. Murderer. Cannibal. Necrophiliac. Jeffrey Dahmer was all of these things. But why? Why did he do it? What exactly did he do? Find out on this fascinating and cringeworthy...

35 - Murder, Drugs, Porn, and Pirates: Tales From the Dark Web from 2017-05-15T19:00

On Friday, May 25th, 2015, 31 year old Ross Ulbricht, aka the Dread Pirate Roberts, was sentenced to life in prison for money laundering, computer hacking, conspiracy to traffic narcotics, "drug ki...

34 - Jonestown Massacre: Cult leader Jim Jones and his mass suicide in South America from 2017-05-08T19:00

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...

33 - Designer Babies: The Scary Pandora's Box of Genetic Modification from 2017-05-01T19:00

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...

BONUS 5 - Pablo Escobar: Coke, Power, Mayhem & So Much Money from 2017-04-28T19:00

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, intimi...

32 - Marilyn Monroe: Life, Death, & Murder Conspiracy from 2017-04-24T19:00

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 he...

31 - The Mandela Effect: False Memories, Satanic Cults, Parallel Universes, and more... from 2017-04-17T19:00

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 t...

30 - Caligula: Rome's Monstrous Son from 2017-04-10T19:00

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 on...

29 - The Mysterious Death of Elisa Lam from 2017-04-03T19:00

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 ...

BONUS 4 - Scientology from 2017-03-31T19:00

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 T...

28 - Blackbeard the pirate! from 2017-03-27T19:00

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 B...

27 - ISIS, Syria, and Islam from 2017-03-20T19:00

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, co...

26 - Sasquatch vs Loch Ness Monster! from 2017-03-13T19:00

It's the Skunk Ape from Shreveport, the Bigfoot from Bremerton squaring off against the Sea Creature from Scotland, the dinosaur of Drumnadrochit. Sasquatch versus The Loch Ness Monster! Which lege...

BONUS 3 - Hitler's Third Reich: How Did It Happen? from 2017-03-10T20:00

How did Hitler and his Nazi Party ever gain political power in 1930s Germany? Why didn't the German people revolt? Why didn't America or any other countries intervene? How did the Jewish persecutio...

25 - Serial Killer H.H. Holmes and his Murder Castle from 2017-03-06T20:00

Who has a murder castle!?! 19th century serial killer H.H. Holmes, that's who. Dubbed "America's first serial killer", Holmes' terrorized Chicago during the 1893 World's Fair, killing an estimated ...

24 - Wild West Legend Billy the Kid from 2017-02-27T20:00

William Bonney aka Billy the Kid killed several men while still a teenager and shot his way out of a New Mexico jail when he was 21. He shot a man for insulting him,  gunned down another in a saloo...

23 - The Nigerian Email Scam from 2017-02-20T20:00

Ever wondered who's sending you those crazy emails from someone claiming to want share a large sum of money with you or be tracking you down for a huge inheritance? Why are they almost always suppo...

22 - Al Capone's Valentine's Day Massacre from 2017-02-13T20:00

On Feb. 14th, 1929, seven men were found dead in a North Side Chicago garage. The scene was grisly - each man had been shot anywhere from nine to fifteen times, mowed down with shotguns and Thompso...

BONUS 2 - Alien Extravaganza! Roswell, Area 51, UFOs and more! from 2017-02-10T20:00

When did humans first claim to be contacted by extraterrestrials? What really happened at Roswell? What is going on at Area 51? Why do aliens want to stick things in our butts? Is it all made up!?!...

20 - Insane Insane Asylum Tales from 2017-01-30T20:00

What started off as a listener suggested look into the Trans Allegheny Lunatic Asylum in Weston, West Virginia became a disturbing timesuck into the dark history of mental health patient mistreatme...

19 - Flat Earth Theory F*ckery from 2017-01-23T20:00

Welcome to a Flat Earth Society edition of Timesuck! Think the Earth is a floating disc being propelled upwards by something you can't define? Think gravity is a myth? Do you have no respect for sc...

18 - Charles Manson: Sex, Murder, and Helter Skelter from 2017-01-16T20:00

In 1969 Charles Manson convinced Tex Watson and several young women to brutally murder seven innocent people in Los Angeles, including rising star/model Sharon Tate. Why did he do it and how did he...

17 - Is Walmart the Problem? from 2017-01-09T20:00

Is Walmart destroying middle class America? Is it the problem or merely a symptom of a larger economic disease? Find out who's bending over working class Americans and how hard they're sticking it ...

16 - Is We Getting Dumberest? from 2017-01-02T20:00

What happened to the good old days when dumb, lazy fucks used to just die in the pre-industrialized, non-welfare state world of yesteryear?  It’s never been easier for the least motivated members o...

BONUS 1 - Robert the Cursed Doll from 2016-12-30T20:00

Old porcelain dolls weird me out. Especially the kind whose eyes blink when you move them around. Those all too realistic looking glass eyes that seem to be truly watching you. Just thinking about ...

15 - LBJ's "Jumbo" Johnson from 2016-12-26T20:00

It was a crazy time in America in the 1960s.  JFK was assassinated in Dallas, we were entrenched in Vietnam - a war that deeply divided the nation, the civil rights movement was in full swing, and,...

14 - Krampus: The Christmas Devil. from 2016-12-19T20:00

In the mountains of central Europe, jolly old St. Nick doesn’t work alone. He leaves the handling of the naughty list to Krampus - a horned, goat-legged, split tongued, whip holding, Christmas demo...

13 - The Dead Do Tell Tales from 2016-12-12T20:00

Timesucker and British archaeologist Rebecca Pridmore sent me some fascinating articles on what we’ve learned from the excavation of various ancient tombs and incredibly well preserved corpses. Bog...

12 - Elon Musk's Mars Mission from 2016-12-05T20:00

Billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk wants to have a million people living on Mars by 2070 and wants to send the first 100 people to permanently live on Mars by 2024.  Can he make this happen? And wo...

11 - Ted Bundy, Real Life Monster from 2016-11-28T20:05:42

Ted Bundy is perhaps the most disturbing serial killer of the 20th century. Why? For starters, he didn’t look like a serial killer, so you can’t convince yourself you would’ve seen him coming. He w...

10 - Robots, Artificial Intelligence, & Extinction? from 2016-11-21T20:00

Will we see robots that look, feel, and communicate in such lifelike ways that we won’t be able to tell them apart from other humans in our lifetime? When did the artificial intelligence movement b...

9 - Corey Haim: Lost Years of the Lost Boy from 2016-11-14T20:00

Corey Haim went one from a teen heartthrob and one of the most bankable child stars of the late 80s to being a junkie and out-of-work actor labeled as a “has been” by the early 90s to being virtual...

8 - A President, Mole People, and Hollow Earth Theory from 2016-11-07T20:00

John Quincy Adams was the sixth President of the United States, a Massachusetts State Senator, a Harvard professor, the Secretary of State, and a member of the House of Representatives for the last...

7 - Halloween Origins from 2016-10-31T19:00

What is Halloween? Where does it come from? When did people start asking for candy? When did it become an excuse for women to dress like porn stars?? All of this and more answered on a very informa...

6 - The Mongol Mass-Beheading of Nishapur from 2016-10-24T19:00

The Mongols sacked many cities over the course of their reign, but perhaps none so brutally as the Persian jewel of Nishapur in 1221. When they were done, giant pyramids of human heads stood where ...

5 - The Great Clown Scare of 2016 from 2016-10-17T19:00

2016. Year of the creepy clown. What's behind the insane number of creepy clown sightings happening around the world? Why do we fear clowns? Have these creepy clowns actually hurt anyone? Everythin...

4 - Sociopaths and Psychopaths from 2016-10-10T19:00

What is a sociopath? What's a psychopath? Do you know one? Are you one? Dan breaks down the clinical definition of both and defines them in his own terms as well before nervously taking both a soci...

3 - The Big One from 2016-10-03T16:00

Your chances of dying in "the big one" Southern California earthquake are roughly the same as of being shot and killed by a toddler according to a study cited by the LA Times. Is it even scientific...

2 - Weird Sex Customs from 2016-09-26T16:00

Roman orgies! Columbian bestiality! Irish underwear! Find out what the Hell Dan is referring to and learn what Dan considers to be the ten strangest sexual customs of the world today and some odd s...

1 - Lizard Illuminati Conspiracy from 2016-09-19T01:17:50

Did you believe that a race of alien lizards has been secretly running the world’s governments since the dawn of human civilization, mining for mono-atomic gold in their underground cities and tunn...