Podcasts Archive

Billy Collins and Luis Resto’s Gloves

Ahh, professional boxing, one of our most wholesome competitive traditions.

The Raccoon Attack and Andrew Wakefield’s Truth Inoculation

The people who bring you Liar City every week are regular people with normal lives. We are not immune to wild animal attacks.

Drinking The Kool-Aid With Jim Jones

Before Jim Jones was popularly known as one of the worst human beings to have ever lived, he was a dedicated civil rights activist. 

Go Ask Alice and A Million Little Pieces

If you’ve gone to school in the United States sometime in the last 35 years, there’s a good chance you’ve unknowingly read an author named Beatrice Sparks. 

Operation Freakout and Project Normandy

L. Ron Hubbard, the mind behind Dianetics and Scientology was a pulp sci-fi writer with a penchant for exaggeration. That part you probably already know. 

Little Marjoe is Bad, But Not Evil

The world loves a child prodigy. From Mozart to Marie Curie, we venerate, we celebrate these little geniuses every chance we get.

John Holmes Has a Big Problem

From the early 70s until the early 80s, there was only one man you thought of when you thought of adult cinema: John Holmes.

Kevin Mitnick and The Art of Deception

By all accounts, former hacker Kevin Mitnick has lived a pretty unique life.

John DeLorean’s Manufactured Fall

If you’re of a certain age and you know the name John DeLorean, it’s probably for one of two reasons, and neither of them are the right ones.

Lance Armstrong’s Favorite Mistake

  Lance Armstrong is one of those guys. A professional cyclist with near-universal recognition, he made no secret of his desire to win at all costs.