Deep Cuts
Boy Genius
Dave and Andrew delve into the seedy underbelly of pop culture and uncover fascinating and obscure true stories.
- 1 hour 45 minutesClay Tiffany, Public Access Prophet | Case File #244
Note: Sorry for the radio silence! Long story short, the latest MacBook Pro seems to have some kind of line-wide defect. When I first bought it last year, the screen died a day later. And I got another one, and it worked fine for like a year and then about three weeks ago the screen died again. I took it to the Apple Store for a repair, they fixed it, I got it...and the screen died again. And so I had to get it fixed all over again. Unfortunately I opted for the 64gb ram version, which they don't sell in stores. So every time I need it fixed, it takes a week to order in the parts. Needless to say, this has completely made me unable to edit the show or any other videos. But I've got my computer back now and it seems to be going strong, so we'll be back to regular posting.
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If you lived in New York in the '80s or '90s and had a taste for the weird corners of cable television, you might have stumbled upon a public access show called Dirge of the Charlatans. It aired at strange hours and looked like something taped in a janitor’s closet. Its host was a manic street corner preacher in a cheap suit who punched up at politicians, crooked police, and the government at large. But his passion was infectious, and at least once, hauntingly on point.
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13 March 2026, 9:15 am - 1 hour 18 minutesThe Kentucky Cave Wars | Case File #243
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What were the Kentucky Cave Wars? It was a fierce business rivalry in the early 1900s between competing cave owners around Mammoth Cave in south-central Kentucky. It involved sabotage, dueling false advertising and smear campaigns, and other cartoonish hijinks that resulted in a national park being established. But it will go down in history as the most intense…cave disagreement known to man.
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18 February 2026, 9:37 am - 1 hour 57 minutesRoy Jay, Comedian or AI Demon? | Case File #242
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Who is Roy Jay? He was a British-Norwegian comedian who performed stand-up from the 1970s until his death in 2007. However, something strange happened in April 2025. The internet became convinced Roy Jay was an AI-generated demon who was inserting himself into our memories as part of a collective Mandela effect when he never existed at all…
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6 February 2026, 11:26 pm - 2 hours 21 minutesSatanic Panic w/ Jason Pargin Case File #241
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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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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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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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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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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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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.
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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.
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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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