Host Jack Luna covers the worlds darkest stories, while holding you close in an itchy blanket.
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Have you ever wondered about death? Sure you have - after all, you're not Keanu Reeves, probably. As it turns out, humans have gotten pretty good at dying over the course of history - and we've really committed to the bit in a lot of (death)ways. Join comedians Nash Flynn and Angel Luna on a world history tour of death and dying. What's the worst that could happen?
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Follow along with Justin Press and ShipRocked MC Chad Nicefield (of the band Wilson) and the ShipRocked crew as they exploit behind-the-scenes details of heavy metal musicians. Life, music, social scenes, sex, life-defining moments, and more are all address here on MAKING WAVES. New episodes drop every Monday! Rock Hard. Vacation Harder. Listen to all of our podcasts, book a cabin or learn more about ShipRocked Cruise here: https://www.shiprocked.com/MakingWavesPodcast
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The Empowerful Podcast is brought to you by MiiR, a premium drinkware company with a social and environmental mission. Its founders and husband and wife team Bryan and Rebecca Papé explore the company's foundational pillars of design and generosity in conversations with authentic, curious and wildly smart people we admire. Grab your cup of coffee (or beverage of choice) and join us.
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We got Carnal with Jonny Hawkins of Nothing More, discussing the importance of stretching your legs artistically while retaining value with your longtime fans. How collaborations come to be, they tend to be easier than you think. The working relationship between band members when you’re in four different places and the importance of getting in the …
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Dark Topic Cold. May 10th 1973. A masked man brandishing a pistol and a rifle, enters the CIBC (Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce) in downtown Kenora, Ontario. A dead man’s switch that looks more like a duck whistle, is clenched between his teeth. The switch is connected to a bag slung over his shoulder which he claims to contain a bomb. Everybody…
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D&F&F Ep1 | Medieval Literature and Black Death revisited with Dr. Mary M. Alcaro
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Dr. Mary M. Alcaro, a visiting assistant professor of literature at Bryn Mawr College, takes us on a captivating journey through the intersections of plague, trauma, and Middle English texts. This episode kicks off our new interview series with Dr. Alcaro, who shares her path from undergraduate curiosity to a dissertation on the social and psycholo…
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The hunt for coffee, the benefits of cinnamon, his take on video games, first gigs, how the band got together, and the effort to keep music organic. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesBy ShipRocked & Sound Talent Media
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S5 E12 | Teenage Lobotomy: Walter Freeman and the Ice Pick
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DISCLAIMER: Hi everybody, this is Angel. A quick reminder, Death and Friends is not a podcast for the light of heart. Dark and serious subjects may come up. Listener discretion is advised. This episode, we talk about a different kind of death. If you read the title and thought, "oh i like The Ramones," clearly this will be light hearted. It is not.…
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www.patreon.com/darktopic for exclusive content. This ep is from the growing DT+ library of Patreon and Apple +. John Norman Collins. The Ted Bundy Prototype. Sources: Sheriff Harvey Interview https://youtu.be/4kgSecWW9Nk The Michigan Murderer https://youtu.be/duhjKn4aGIA Detroit Free Press https://www.freep.com/in-depth/news/local/michigan/2019/11…
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www.patreon.com/darktopic for exclusives. This ep starts off a little odd for DT. I had a loss in my family that I shouldn't speak publicly about yet so I cut it. Also, this is a previously released on Patreon, but unreleased public ep of DT. Thanks for understanding. Although, this is confusing no doubt. July 12th 2013. A Friday afternoon in the q…
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S5 E11 | We Need to Talk About Jessica Mitford: the Problem With American Funerals
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Join us as we unravel the extraordinary life of Jessica Mitford, starting from her birth in 1917 Oxfordshire, England, amidst a family infamous for their fascist leanings and Nazi sympathies. Listen in as we recount the unsettling history of the Mitford family, including her father's fascist tendencies, her sister Diana's marriage to British Union …
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For Exclusive Content www.patreon.com/darktopic Emanuel Kemp Jr. Texas Death Row Inmate, and his crazy story. Sources: Faces of Death Row Faces of Death Row | The Texas Tribune Fort Worth Star Telegram https://www.star-telegram.com/news/local/crime/article219481385.html Murderpedia Emanuel Kemp | Murderpedia, the encyclopedia of murderers Newspaper…
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Dr. Melissa Ketunuti had a rodent problem. Jason Smith, a local Philly exterminator, turned out to be an expensive solution. Thanks to our old Philly friend Shore on research. ABC news source of interest. https://youtu.be/Elz--ou8l3w?si=f2DTX92uG3eG0PDC Our Sponsors: * Check out Rosetta Stone and use my code TODAY for a great deal: www.rosettastone…
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S5 E10 | True Crime Time Part 2: William Henry Bury and The 13 Hour Criminal Trial
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On the back door of the flat, chalk graffiti says “JACK RIPPER IS AT THE BACK OF THIS DOOR” and no one is mentioning that at all in the police headquarters. Join Nash and Angel as they try to parse out the most confusingly planned crime of the century, and decide for yourself whether Jack the Ripper abandoned cheery old East End London for small-to…
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www.patreon.com/darktopic for EXCLUSIVES. David Shearing crept through the darkness of the old prison camp, to the fire-lit campsite of two grandparents, two parents, and two children. When the father of the girls that Shearing had come to see, got up to meet the approaching shadow - two hands gripping a .22 pump action rifle made this family campi…
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S5 E9 | True Crime Time Pt 1: Hide Your Wives (In A Large, Weirdly Empty Trunk You Have For No Reason): William Henry Bury, The Time He Maybe Definitely Killed His Wife, and Was Maybe Jack the Ripper
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It’s true crime o’clock, and in today’s episode, Angel and Nash find themselves in Scotland, in a basement flat, with the body of a woman in a trunk. She definitely didn’t put herself there, and the guy that did is currently at the Dundee Police Station telling them he didn’t kill her, but he did shove her in there five days ago, and maybe he’s als…
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www.patreon.com/darktopic for exclusives. Nineteen year old Brian Cohee JR, went for a cruise late one Saturday night in February of 2021. He wore coveralls, three pairs of gloves, and had a Michael Myers mask and large kitchen knife at the ready. When he found what seemed to be the perfect victim in sixty nine year old Warren Barnes - a homeless m…
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S5 E8 | Back to the Future: The Other Pandemic That Almost Ended The Modern World - The Spanish Flu
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A pandemic AND a world war?? Wow, that sounds really hard. We wouldn’t know anything about that today, because we solved medicine and warfare, thankfully. Phew! Oh wait, just kidding. In today’s completely hashtag-relatable episode, come hear Nash and Angel learn about the other time these things happened in tandem - and why the 1910s were not bett…
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Fully independent and the master of her destiny, Luna Aura took us on her path to success from session and sync artist to fully formed recording and touring act with only her blood and sweat as collateral. Her latest EP, The Fiction, with its sinister artwork yet bright-sounding dark numbers, illuminates her belief in contrasts. Learn about one of …
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S5 E7 | Do You Smell What The Rocks Are Cooking? Surprise, It’s Death!: A History of The Paris
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Angel and Nash are enjoying a lovely holiday in Paris. Or they would be, if they could expense it. Since they can’t, join them as they deep dive on the city’s catacombs and how they came to be. Hey, if you thought the bone mudslides of early Plymouth Colony (The First Thanksgiving Episode) were fun, we bet you’ll love this! (Hint: Yeah, more bone m…
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Ep. 123 Keith Wallen of Breaking Benjamin
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In anticipation of the May 3rd release of his latest solo album, Infinity Now (Rise Records), Breaking Benjamin guitarist and backing vocalist Keith Wallen took the time to discuss learning Metallica riffs at 15, his never-ending touring schedule, his methodology for getting 7 hours of sleep and making good on graduating from the University of Tenn…
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www.patreon.com/darktopic for exclusive content. Alex J. Mengel was a poacher of human beings. This widely unknown killer has a terrifying, yet barely mapped out history despite an actual map being found tucked into the dash of his ghostmobile. Sources: Unearthing a Serial Killer (Book) UNEARTHING A SERIAL KILLER: Paul, David, McMurray, Kevin F.: 9…
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S5 E6 | Baby Fight Club: Medical Doctors versus Midwives
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Oh good, men are taking over women’s medicine. And history. And body autonomy. And political rights. And whatever else this list doesn’t have on it already. Ladies, get ready to hear the unfortunate true story of how 19th century men think the female brain works and how they forced their way into childbirth after a millennia of pretending they coul…
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From Dark Topic Plus - with purpose. This episode is about domestic violence. It is pretty heavy, and I said i'd not release it. But I am because I was told it might help. Thank you! Sources: 911 Call (6:30) https://youtu.be/2AWKhij9IV8 Articles Michigan Live Fatal shooting of Nancy Kovach in Comstock preceded by argument over cooking a meal, polic…
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Some of you have requested more relaxed content so here you go! Here's a sneak peak on our monthly Patreon exclusive content: Beyond The Grave. Nash and Angel spend about 15 minutes discussing how to eat an axolotl, some depression talk, their social security numbers, and answering some actual questions about themselves. Let us know what you think …
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For exclusive content www.patreon.com/darktopic In the early eighties David Alan Gore along with his cousin Fred Waterfield, stalked and terrorized Vero Beach - AKA Zero Beach, Florida. Thanks to letters written by Gore in prison, we know more than we’d like to know about just how brutal the serial killer life can be. Listener beware. Sources: Musi…
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S5 E5 | Shut Up About The Sun: Ahkenaten or How I learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Sun
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Back to Egypt! And this time we don't make fun of anyone... okay so we make a little fun... alright we gave it an honest try. Come learn why monotheism can be bad sometimes (all the time), now with 30% more desert. Nash and Angel also learn why having a super hot supportive girlfriend (Nefertiti) can lead to international conflict and historical er…
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Ep. 122 ShipRocked Cruise Q&A, Jesse (Killswitch), Johnny (Highly Suspect), Brandon (Crobot), Daniela (The Warning), Cullen (Sleep Theory), Luna (Luna Aura)
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The gang is all here! Our powerhouse Q&A onboard ShipRocked Cruise! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesBy ShipRocked & Sound Talent Media
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S5 E4 | Creature Feature: The Haunted History of Ghosts (Now With Zero Pottery Scenes!)
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Did you ever wonder why the ghost of your grandmother keeps harassing you with the local cats? No? Well maybe it’s because you stopped writing her letters. Join Nash and Angel as they learn all about why the living are terrified of the dead, and what you could maybe do about it. Also Harry Houdini is in the episode in a way you would not see coming…
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www.patreon.com/darktopic for exclusive content. Larry Gene Bell was a suspected serial killer who only became known as a result of calling in his crimes - to one victims family. Sources: Book - When A Killer Calls. By John Douglas and Mark Olshaker. https://www.chapters.indigo.ca/en-ca/books/when-a-killer-calls-a/9780062979797-item.html Trial Reco…
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Making Waves Episode 121, our final podcast before we set sail on ShipRocked 2024, found us in conversation with Coco, the lead singer and guitarist for Winona Fighter, talking all things Boston, Nashville, punk rock, the opportunities of playing Bonnaroo and gaining traction with their peers in the pop/punk world. They may, may not, maybe, not sur…
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S5 E3 | Ashes to Nash’s, Baby: A History of Cremation
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Ever wondered why people started setting dead people on fire? We sure have! Our therapist says this isn’t a healthy thing to wonder, but what do they know? They haven’t studied ANY of the history of cremation, so we aren’t super inclined to take their opinion on this. This isn’t a fun episode, per se, so just… go in knowing that. Well. Most of it I…
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The intended episode was too dicey for a public release. Head over to www.patreon.com/darktopic for exclusives, including that episode DT + 17 ~ Nothing Happened. Two special releases from the growing Patreon and Apple + archive. 1 ~ Out to Lunch A little ditty bout Brad and Diane Sources: Forensic Files - News at 11 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v…
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S5 E2 | Cut My Life into Pieces: History of the Autopsy
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Let's go back to Egypt (and other places!) for the original "show me what you're made of." How far back? *checks notes* Pretty damn far. Let’s talk about the origins of looking inside your bits (non derogatory) and how it’s done. Want a free signed hat? 1/26/24 only! Support us on Patreon. Now with Beyond the Grave, a new series with the cre…
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S5 E0.5 | Live Jazz, Die Strung Part 2: Before The 27 Club, It Was, Like, EVERY Jazz Musician, And With Heroin
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Do you know why I pulled you over? I saw you playing saxophone in the club earlier. You have a license for that? In the depressingly-thrilling conclusion to part one, Angel, Nash, and the ever-obnoxious jazz guy Dom explore how New York City made the jazz life even harder than it already was. Support us on Patreon. Now with Beyond the Grave, a…
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S5 E0 | Live Jazz, Die Strung Part 1: Getting Into Arguments In The Kentucky Medical Journal
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What do bebop music, and German big pharma, and a bunch of heroin-prescribin’ doctors in Kentucky have in common? Jazz! (*Does jazz hands.*) The show’s editor, audio engineer, and not-quite-Chicagoan, Dom, joins Nash and Angel for some shulie-a-bop-a-doo-vah-day high times. Support us on Patreon. Now with Beyond the Grave, a new series with the …
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How does one get both Cannibal Corpse to loathe you and Janet Jackson to love you? You’ll have to check out Episode 120 of Making Waves, the Shiprocked podcast featuring our guests Chris and Brandon of CROBOT. How to participate with your label while keeping your dignity, the gig outside of the gig, and how to tell your daughter that Dad’s poop too…
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David Edwin Mason. Executed in the notorious “Coughing Box”. Here’s why. For Exclusive Content www.patreon.com/darktopic Sources: California Executed Inmates Executed Inmate Summary - David Edwin Mason - Capital Punishment LA Times Archive 1993 https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1993-08-22-mn-26483-story.html People v. Mason PEOPLE v. MASON (1…
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Jack wakes up to a tequila sunrise and the inspiration to recount heroic tales. Source ~ https://www.wthr.com/article/news/local/lafayette-pizza-delivery-driver-who-saved-5-children-from-burning-home-awarded-carnegie-medal-nick-bostic/531-e345c2bd-fa89-4fbc-aee5-098f538ca720 Our Sponsors: * Check out Rosetta Stone and use my code TODAY for a great …
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Ep. 119 Dead Poet Society (Jack Underkofler)
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Making Waves, Episode 119, the Christmas edition, featured Jack Underkofler Dead Poet Society, who offered us everything but a lump of coal for the hour. Their new album, Fission, is a heavily influenced breakup record due out a week before ShipRocked 2024; timing is everything. We spoke about the band's popularity in Europe, especially in the Neth…
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104 • The Curious Case of Randall Hopley w Deadbug
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A strange kind of Xmas special for DT listeners. These eps are a fly on the wall of a seedy bar experience. Tales from the Bottom Down is a DT Exclusive on Patreon and Apple +. I think it's worth the risk sharing this one. Enjoy or not. You can find more of the notorious Deadbug at www.youtube.com/@DEADBUGsays With this episode we will give a rare …
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For a lot more www.patreon.com/darktopic In the early eighties a killer stalked Southern Florida neighborhoods, peering in windows at night, searching for the perfect victim behind glass and under lights. Duane Eugene Owen. Sources: The Coastal Star When 'The Monster' came over the bridge - News - The Coastal Star Appeal Docs http://library.law.fsu…
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Making Waves episode 118 features Jami Morgan of the mighty Code Orange. The Pittsburgh native took the time to discuss the band’s latest album, The Above, and its continued growth of the group from hardcore upstarts to metal titans who treat their albums in a cinematic approach while expanding their sonic palette beyond pure cacophony, giving the …
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The Long Man, Sir Douglas Mawson, and his improbable survival story through a widely uncharted territory in the early 20th century. Antarctica. A mysterious, unruly, frozen goatee on the chin of the planet. An area we dared not comb through until the face of the earth was sufficiently covered. Subscribe to Marooned. A new podcast from Jack Luna of …
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Jack Wilson, vocalist and guitarist for England’s Kid Kapichi, are on the cusp of the new punk generation. Their third album, "There Goes The Neighborhood," which includes “Tamagotchi” and “Let’s Get To Work,” is already drawing massive attention months before its release in March 2024. We talked about the song-building process, delivering profound…
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Visit www.patreon.com/darktopic for exclusives. The Butter Knife Murders. Texarkana 1981. The truth is out. Sources: True Crime Texarkana https://open.spotify.com/show/0hLrPd5dYINHBFZHIdp60J?si=WXxa1HDfT_W0JiWrV22FUw Medium - Cindy Parmiter https://authorcindyparmiter.medium.com/a-known-enemy-the-horrific-butter-knife-slayings-of-karen-and-gordon-a…
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Making Waves Episode 117 featuring Brixton’s Tigercub. Their latest release The Perfume Of Decay displays their influences while forging a new path. The discussion lead us into the daunting aspect of touring as they try to establish a fanbase, playing to 25,000 one day and 100 the next. Playing analog gear in a digital world, working with notable f…
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Making Waves Episode 115 welcomed Mike of Mike’s Dead to the podcast. His latest EP Bite Down is ready to hit the market as a continuation of his ability to drop singles briskly. His move from university business major to audio production school changed his trajectory, and his love of nu metal, industrial, and NY hip hop paved the way to the sound …
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For exclusive content www.patreon.com/darktopic That’s what they called it. Cheri’s Ghost House. And whether the little girl haunted it or not… the idea that her spirit could be tortured within was enough for her elderly parents to buy the place in 2020.. and demolish it. Mentioned Video Rip (Balloon at 39 mins) ~ https://youtu.be/kcYtCoRDJFI?si=rn…
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Ep. 114 Chris Motionless (Motionless in White)
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Episode 114 was frightfully good, featuring our guest Chris Motionless of Motionless in White for our annual Halloween edition. We talked ghouls, goblins, vampires, and werewolves, plus touring until the tires come off the bus, pushing the boundaries of what the band does sonically and the ballet that is working with characters, dancers, pyro, and …
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S5 E1 | Necrophilia: the Story of Hopefully Just One Karen
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Just in time for Halloween, Angel and Nash learn about one of the creepiest things imaginable: the consequences of their actions. And also necrophilia! Come take a walk through history and learn about why France is taking the blame for this nightmare fuel - and why you might want to double check your state’s laws, you know, just in case. This episo…
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Warning ~ BRUTAL is BRUTAL. If you think you might be offended.. you will be. This is a Halloween Special. Recorded long ago. For more of Kent, check out True Crime Kent pod wherever you listen. For Deadbug, search DEADBUG Says, on Youtube, Our Sponsors: * Check out Rosetta Stone and use my code TODAY for a great deal: www.rosettastone.com Support …
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Lucky 113 as Making Waves latest episode features AJ from Austin Texas metalcore stalwarts Fire FromThe Gods. The influence of Jonathan Davis, the boot camp of the New York hardcore scene, singing like Seal, album reinventions, the Texas effect and Corey Glover’s Jamaican isn’t half bad. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoice…
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