Investing 101: Ponzi, Patreon, and Plush Toys

If you’re like most people, you can’t really differentiate between a hedge fund and a hedge maze. Complicated financial matters are best left to professionals, but what happens when the professionals are ridiculously skilled con men?

Satanic Panic III: West Memphis Boogeymen

With at least 3 books, 4 documentaries, and one (very terrible) feature length film, the story of the West Memphis Three is not what you’d call overlooked.

Henry Hill: GoodFella, College Basketball Enthusiast

If you’ve seen GoodFellas, you already know that things begin to go bad for New York mobster Henry Hill as soon as he meets his so-called Pittsburgh connection. It’s all guns and drugs and witness protection.

Billy Collins and Luis Resto’s Gloves

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

Billy Collins and Luis Resto’s Gloves

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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.

The Raccoon Attack / Andrew Wakefield’s Truth Innoculation

[iframe style=”border:none” src=”http://html5-player.libsyn.com/embed/episode/id/3511827/height/100/width/480/thumbnail/no/theme/standard” height=”100″ width=”480″ scrolling=”no” allowfullscreen webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen oallowfullscreen msallowfullscreen] Brian and Bren explain their unexpected absence last week, then explain why Andrew Wakefield and Jenny McCarthy are dangerously insane human beings.  Check out this episode!

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. 

Drinking The Kool-Aid With Jim Jones

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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.