Trashy Divorces

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A Good Podcast About Bad Relationships

  • 53 minutes 49 seconds
    S32E21: Aimee Semple McPherson | The Disappearing Evangelist

    In 1920s Los Angeles, one of the biggest names in American evangelism was, surprisingly for the time, a woman. Aimee Semple McPherson founded America's first megachurch, preaching to some 17,000 people at three services, seven days a week. She founded a radio station that shared those services to millions of households around the country. 10% of the population of Los Angeles held a membership at her Angelus Temple. And on May 18, 1926, Aimee Semple McPherson vanished.

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    25 March 2026, 7:00 am
  • 1 hour 4 seconds
    S32E20: Sid and Nancy | How Does It End?

    Left to their own devices, and with the Sex Pistols basically over, Sid and Nancy found their way to New York City. From room 100 of the Chelsea Hotel, they spent 1978 in a drug-fueled haze, with Nancy booking some gigs for Sid to keep them supplied with money to support their habits. On October 12, 1978, Sid awoke from a Tuinal-induced sleep and found Nancy dead on the bathroom floor, with a stab wound in her abdomen. He was arrested and charged with her murder, but didn't live long enough to stand trial. Sid Vicious died of a heroin overdose on February 2, 1979, though the specifics of his final dose remain a subject of speculation.

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    22 March 2026, 7:00 am
  • 53 minutes 36 seconds
    S32E19: Sid and Nancy | Nancy and the End of The Sex Pistols

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    Nancy Spungen didn't start life with a lot going for her. She was very smart, but also very emotionally disturbed. At 15, she was diagnosed with schizophrenia, and would shortly pick up a heroin addiction, an activity that she would share with her future boyfriend, Sid Vicious. As a couple, they were volatile and violent, drawing Sid's attention further and further from The Sex Pistols, which was rapidly disintegrating on the road in America at the start of 1978.  

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    18 March 2026, 7:00 am
  • 37 minutes 27 seconds
    S32E18: Dumpster Dive | Corey Feldman, Hugh Jackman, Sutton Foster, Boy George, Chappell Roan, Billy Joel, P!NK, Tom Brady, Yael Braun, Shannen Doherty, and Cindy Crawford

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    Today we're bringing you one of our occasional Dumpster Dives, where we catch up on the latest news from the Trashy Divorces Cinematic Universe. In the Dumpster today:

    • Corey Feldman's long running divorce is over, but he's found something else to be mad about: the time he was almost cast in What's Eating Gilbert Grape. Leo DiCaprio earned an Oscar nomination instead. 
    • Hugh Jackman and Sutton Foster are reportedly planning to get married, but Hugh's children aren't entirely on board. Also, no prenup? Come on, celebrities. Do you even listen to our show?
    • 80s pop master Boy George has some advice for notoriously press-averse Chappell Roan. 
    • Another 80s pop master, Billy Joel, was honored at Carnegie Hall, accompanied to the show by his friend P!NK.
    • Is Tom Brady dating Scooter Braun's ex, Yael? Maybe so, but Giselle still wins the divorce, Tom. 
    • Dearly departed Shannen Doherty is somehow still in court with her ex-husband, who wants the terms of their divorce agreement adjusted because, you know, she lost her fight with breast cancer two years ago. 
    • Finally, Cindy Crawford made the mistake of sharing her morning routine with social media. The results were... well, you can guess.

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    15 March 2026, 7:00 am
  • 44 minutes 4 seconds
    S32E17: Sid and Nancy | Sid and The Sex Pistols

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    As Britain's youth struggled through the doldrums of the 1970s, their sense of alienation forged a new approach to music, birthing punk. And the band most closely associated with the punk movement at the time was The Sex Pistols. Four young men driven by a sense of aggression and a whole lot of drugs? It was not a recipe for longevity, an outcome that would become especially acute for bassist Sid Vicious.

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    11 March 2026, 7:00 am
  • 1 minute 57 seconds
    A Quick Programming Note from Us

    Hey friends - just a quick note to let you know that we're pausing production this week because of a death in the family. Trashy Divorces will return next Wednesday, March 11. Thanks for your understanding.

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    4 March 2026, 8:00 am
  • 41 minutes 34 seconds
    S32E16: Billy Bush

    Entertainment reporter Billy Bush found himself in a life-changing pickle back in 2016, when a leaked tape was dropped into the final month of a presidential election. It ended his long career with NBC, and for a while, looked like it might have ended his career entirely. In the aftermath, he and his wife divorced, but a funny thing happened on his way to a comeback: he made himself a better person.

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    1 March 2026, 8:00 am
  • 55 minutes 56 seconds
    S32E15: Horace, Augusta, and Baby Doe Tabor | Colorado's Trashiest Triangle

    While researching for her Done & Dunne podcast, Alicia came across a story right up our alley: a scandalous affair, secret marriages, secret divorces, bigamy, and all set in America's Wild West. Meet Horace Tabor, once one of America's richest men and briefly a US Senator for Colorado, his long-suffering wife Augusta, and the mistress Horace couldn't wait to wed, again and again, Baby Doe Tabor.

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    25 February 2026, 8:00 am
  • 45 minutes 6 seconds
    S32E14: Ryan Lochte and Kayla Reid

    Swimmer Ryan Lochte is one of the most decorated male swimmers ever, but he's managed to mar his own accomplishments over and over again. From 2016's Lochtegate to his current messy divorce from his long-suffering wife Kayla, it seems like he just can't manage to get out of his own way.

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    22 February 2026, 8:00 am
  • 13 minutes 25 seconds
    Birthday Bust: Andrew (Formerly Known As Prince) Arrested!

    It's been a huge day in our Trashy Universe, with what might be the start of real, criminal accountability for a Jeffrey Epstein friend. Finally, Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, formerly Prince Andrew, has been arrested on suspicion of misconduct in public office - what Americans would likely call "public corruption" - a charge that could land him in prison for life. Americans may still be fuming about elite impunity over here, but at least in the UK, someone powerful is entering the find-out phase. 

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    19 February 2026, 11:11 pm
  • 1 hour 6 minutes
    S32E13: The Beckham Family Feud

    A story that's been bubbling for a few years now finally broke open one January day, when Brooklyn Beckham, son of David and Victoria Beckham, took to Instagram to lay out a full-throated indictment of his parents for all the world to see. The story is not at all pretty, and it left us feeling pretty bad for Brooklyn's wife, who seems to have become a target for his family, rather than a part of it.

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    18 February 2026, 8:00 am
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