- 59 minutes 47 seconds196. The Lavender Scare
In the era of McCarthyism, thousands of people were forced out of the federal government for being gay. Victims purged from positions, because being a homosexual was to be a threat to to national security...allegedlys
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15 June 2026, 11:01 pm - 1 hour 12 minutes195. Joshua N. Haldeman - Elon Musk's Apartheid-Loving Grandfather
Did you hear? Elon Musk is now the world's first "Trillionaire." Enjoy this From the Vault
Anyway, some families have skeletons in the closet, others have an entire ossuary under the floorboards, most like to keep them quiet but the Musk family prefer to put them on display. Elon Musk's grandfather, Joshua Norman Haldeman was an apartheid-loving chiropractor, who was super into conspiracy theories and searching for a "long lost city" in his plane.
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14 June 2026, 1:32 pm - 55 minutes 49 seconds194. Pope Leo X - From the Vault
Continuing Pride Month with one of my favourite things, telling y'all all about bad popes! We've got nepotism, murder, homosexial espionage AND a conpiracy involving a pet elephant! Pull up a chair and hear abotut Pope Leo X
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8 June 2026, 11:01 pm - 1 hour 7 seconds193. Chevaliere d'Eon
Kicking off Pride Month with this Beauty from the Vault, the 18th Century Trans Spy, the Chevalière d'Éon
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2 June 2026, 7:26 am - 29 minutes 23 secondsWilliam Palmer - Day and Nightshade
Introducing your new True Crime fix, Day and Nightshade, podcast that asks you What's Your Poison? And means it...
Join Katie Charlwood and Jay McLoughlin in Victorian England, as they share the twisted tale of William Palmer, the "Prince of Poisoners" who gained the title with all of the subtlely as a dyspraxic jester. But this man's actions were n laughing matter, find out now on Day and Nightshade
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26 May 2026, 4:46 pm - 1 minute 15 secondsIntroducing - Day and Nightshade
Introducing Day and Nightshade, the podcast that asks you "what's your poison?" and means it.
For your new favourite True Crime fix (and poison fascination) listen now on Apple Podcasts, Spotify and... other places probably
Y'know, some guys just can't hold their arsenic
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26 May 2026, 12:28 am - 1 hour 15 minutes192. Errol Flynn - Swashbuckling Scoundrel
Errol Flynn was a Hollywood heartthrob in the Golden Era, a swashbuckler who the ladies would swoon at the sight of, but beneath that dashing exterior was a man filled with demons and more narcotics you could shake a stick at. Accused of affairs, assaults and sympathising the enemy there is more to the man than swordplay and tights.
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18 May 2026, 11:01 pm - 57 minutes 27 secondsFrom the Vault - Marlene Dietrich
Marlene Dietrich was a Hollywood star who wanted to be alone, but before that she was a sex symbol who combatted gender norms and wanted to poison the leader of the Third Reich with a poison hair pin, which, could have worked, we maybe should have let her try...
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17 May 2026, 11:01 pm - 1 hour 26 minutes191. Mary Pickford - America's Sweetheart
Mary Pickford was America's Sweetheart, a silent film actress during the Golden Age of Hollywood, the first to be offered a million dollar contract and one of th ecreaors of the Little Three...
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13 May 2026, 8:56 pm - 1 hour 17 minutes190. Charles Lightoller
Best known as the highest ranking crewmember to survive the sinking of the RMS Titanic, there is more to this man than just one ship, including so many near - death experiences, two world wars and a chicken coop...or two
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27 April 2026, 11:01 pm - 58 minutes 17 seconds189. The Unsinkable Molly Brown - Margaret Brown
The UNSINKABLE Margaret "Molly" Brown was a passenger on the world's largest and most luxurious passenger ship, the White Star Line's RMS Titanic which sank on the North Atlantic ocean. But shes far more interesting than you know...
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