Deep Cuts
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Dave and Andrew delve into the seedy underbelly of pop culture and uncover fascinating and obscure true stories.
- 2 hours 21 minutesSatanic Panic w/ Jason Pargin
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What is the Satanic Panic? It was a moral panic predominantly occurring in North America throughout the 1980s and early 1990s. The general public lost their shit over the belief that Satan worshippers, from school teachers to politicians, were members of a cult that would abduct, sexually abuse, and/or sacrifice children.
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Written by Mike Bedard
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11 December 2025, 1:08 pm - 1 hour 34 minutesThe Tragedy of the McMartin Preschool Trial | Case File #240
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Who is Ray Buckey? He was a preschool teacher, but in the height of the 1980s Satanic Panic, he as well as other teachers at his school, underwent years of trials for sexually abusing children, becoming the longest and most expensive criminal case in United States history. And it resulted in zero convictions because, and this cannot be expressed heavily enough, no one abused children because they had all been coerced to lie by their parents and the police.
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Written by Mike Bedard
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3 December 2025, 11:58 am - 1 hour 37 minutesThe Shamwow Guy's Unhinged Life | Case File #239
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Who is Vince Offer? If you watched any television in the late 2000s, you undoubtedly saw Vince hock a product called ShamWow, a super absorbent towel. His abrasive, enthusiastic personality made him an instant icon, but frequent lawsuits, a scandal with a sex worker, and an anti-woke podcast absolutely deserve to be mentioned in the same breath as his iconic ShamWow.
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Written by Mike Bedard
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15 November 2025, 7:10 pm - 1 hour 10 minutesYasuke, the Black Samurai | Case File #238
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Yasuke: The Black Man Who Escaped Slavery and Became the First Non-Japanese Samurai
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Written by Adam Smith
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8 November 2025, 11:18 am - 1 hour 36 minutesSlab City | Case File #237
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What is Slab City? It’s an off-the-grid unincorporated community in the California Sonoran Desert, taking its name from concrete slabs left behind by the Marine Corps and upon which the city was built. With about 150 year-round residents, Slab City is often touted as the last lawless place in America with no running water, plumbing, or food, but that’s all just kayfabe as it’s mostly just home to a bunch of aging hippies.
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Written by Mike Bedard
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31 October 2025, 1:52 pm - 1 hour 51 minutesRoy Sullivan, The Human Lightning Rod | Case File #236
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Between 1942 and 1977, Roy Sullivan was struck by lightning not once. Not twice. But seven times. Seven separate incidents, each documented. Each time, he survived. This is not a metaphor. This isn’t a folk tale. This is a real guy who lived through something so absurdly implausible that scientists have studied his body, tourists have followed him through the woods, and Guinness World Records etched his name into history as the man most frequently struck by lightning and survived.
Written by Adam Smith
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23 October 2025, 11:13 am - 1 hour 28 minutesThe Final Fantasy VII Cult From the 2000s | Case File #235
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This is the true story of a woman who lured a series of vulnerable young people—most of them queer or trans—into her home with promises of friendship, acceptance, and a place to stay. But once inside, they weren’t allowed to just be themselves.
They had to become characters from Final Fantasy VII.
Written by Adam Smith
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16 October 2025, 6:57 pm - 1 hour 1 minuteThe CIA Vampire Hoax | Case File #234
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What is the CIA vampire hoax? It was a 1950s military operation in which the CIA fought back against Filipino insurgents via psychological warfare by making them think that local vampires, known as the “Aswang,” were ready to kill them all, one by one.
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Written by Mike Bedard
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8 October 2025, 8:19 am - 1 hour 25 minutesThe Carpet People of New York City | Case File #233
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Who are the Carpet People? They’re two separate guys - Kevin Carpet and Georgio the Human Carpet - who have nothing to do with one another, yet they each inexplicably wrap themselves up in carpet to lie down in New York nightclubs, hoping that people will step on them.
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Written by Mike Bedard
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1 October 2025, 9:14 am - 1 hour 1 minuteKalachi, the Town That Couldn't Stop Sleeping | Case File #232
So, who are the people of Kalachi, Kazakhstan, and why did an entire town just decide to nap for days on end? Well, they didn’t exactly “decide” – but, in a phenomenon that still has people confounded years later, hundreds of villagers in Kalachi started randomly falling asleep for days. And by that, we don’t mean they got extra comfy on the couch; we’re talking multi-day comas. This town fell into the world’s longest nap, and even now, most folks have yet to piece together even a semi-coherent answer as to why.
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Written by Adam Smith
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25 September 2025, 7:45 pm - 2 hours 5 minutesWilliam Banks, Performance Artist Cult Leader | Case File #231
Who is William Banks? He’s a New York-based artist and comedian who specializes in avant garde performance art This includes forming his own cult, going to jail, breaking out of jail, committing a crypto scam, and donating all the profits from said scam to Palestinian charities. Cults, weird comedy, and financial scams? William Banks might just be the very embodiment of the internet.
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Written by Mike Bedard
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