What would you do if you had millions and millions of dollars? Terrance Watanabe managed to gamble away the most money in history - he came from the family that invented the catalogue 'Oriental Trading'. If you were a kid in the 90s, you know what we're talking about!

Learn about the dangers of gambling - including all the stuff you can do on your phone these days! 

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Today, we have two stories of disasters at sporting events. First, we'll talk about the 1989 Crowd Crush at the Liverpool / Nottingham Forest FA Cup game at Hillsborough Stadium in the UK. Poor planning and new leadership ended in the deaths of 97 people.

Then, we will go back to 1918 to the Happy Valley Racecourse Fire where over 600 people were killed when grandstands made of bamboo fell into food stands with open flames.

Finally, we'll talk about how you can stay safe in a crowd, from knowing your exits at all times to making sure you have a few centimeters in front of your chest free for breathing. 

​​HILLSBOROUGH

Hillsborough tragedy: a reconstruction - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mCFuQLUD-LQ

Hillsborough Disaster: How it Happened in 1989 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J6kAtdwNJ5s

Hillsborough: anatomy of a disaster - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PYNeoTXe-SE

15 Darkest Moments in Sports History -

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O-fg7OADzsk

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Imagine you've been unstoppable - created the most popular websites and movies in the history of well, websites and movies... what would be next? You see everyone on their phone all the time out in public, and think - that's it! Shows JUST for your phone!

Sounds kind of dumb, but whatever - the only thing that could possibly go wrong would be if people were trapped in their houses and devoted to their TVs in a way that they hadn't been in ages.

Right - That was Quibi - phone only shows that launched right before we were all stuck inside due to Covid! A spectacular failure from Meg Whitman & Jeffrey Katzenberg.

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Read Fab's Book! 

"You Know It's True: The Real Story of Milli Vanilli"

https://www.amazon.com/You-Know-Its-True-Vanilli/dp/B0FP4P554H

We're back with the epic rise and fall of Milli Vanilli! We're old enough to remember, and we still delight in their smash hits!

But it's obviously also a tragic story of fame, the music industry, race, culture, and creative freedom.

We'll talk about our stars Fab Morvan and Rob Pilatus - how they found each other in 1980s Germany, rose to superstardom under the heel of the villain Frank Farian, and their very public fall from grace. It's a deeper story than you thought, but girl, you know it's true. 

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Did this case enthrall you when you were a child?? I remember the song, and being sure she did it from the TV movie... but after researching I'm just not as convinced! 

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Voltaire kind of  said, "I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it." And that's pretty much Freedom of Speech in the US. You CAN say stuff, you aren't immune to consequences, but the basic right does exist.

Today we'll talk about the founding of the ACLU, and the time that they supported the right to have a bad opinion.

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It's Victorian London - and if you aren't rich, things are awful. (That's actually a pattern of all of humanity and of all time if you take a second to reflect on the greed.) Imagine, though, that it's specifically the kind of awful where you are on the streets selling yourself for money in order to buy crappy booze and sleep in an even crappier rooming house if you can.

Taylor read a lot of books for this - and although she doesn't believe that DNA evidence will ever find Jack the Ripper - she does believe that he probably snuck up on his victims while they were sleeping in alleyways, which I don't know changes it a bit. 

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Episodes:

• Ep 1 - Part 2: Mommy Dearest - Lori Vallow & Chad Daybell
  • A doomsday cult, missing children, and murders that shocked the nation.
    
     
• Ep 3 - Part 2: Trouble in Celebration - The Todt Family Murders
  • A quiet Florida town rocked by family annihilation.
    
     
• Ep 8 - Part 1: Terror in the Capital - The DC Snipers
  • Two men who turned daily errands into fatal targets.
    
     
• Ep 18 - Part 1: BFFs Gone Wrong - Bernie Tiede
  • The small-town funeral director who killed his wealthy friend.
    
     
• Ep 20 - Part 1: Call the Keystone Cops - It's Fatty Arbuckle
  • Hollywood’s first scandal, a death at a party, and a career destroyed.
    
     
• Ep 21 - Part 2: The Least Great Showman - Grady Stiles
  • The “Lobster Boy” whose life in the sideshow ended in murder.
    
     
• Ep 57: A Most Dangerous Game - Alexander Pichushkin - The Chess Board Killer
  • The Russian “Chessboard Killer” who wanted 64 victims.
    
     
• Ep 81 - Responsible journalism? The Stephen Glass story
  • Lies, fabrications, and careers killed by deceit.
    
     
• Ep 91 - Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night: Going Postal
  • Workplace shootings that coined a phrase.
    
     
• Ep 104 - Big Trouble in Little Skidmore, Missouri
  • A rural town’s vigilante justice against its most feared man isn’t its only story.

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Farz & Taylor met in 2013 when they started working at a startup in Downtown Los Angeles. 

We understand that some people like DTLA, but Taylor personally lived in New York City for 13 years before this and has never set foot in a worse place than the area around Pershing Square.

We say that because the Cecil Hotel is just a block away from where we worked, and as soon as we got into the neighborhood, Elisa Lam's body was found in a water tower. That's not the only thing to happen there, from the Night Stalker coming 'home' after a night of stalking & murdering, to ghosts in the lobby, and secret hotels within a hotel - this has it all! 

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In 1996, Australian weirdo Martin Bryant killed 35 people in the deadliest shooting in Australian history. He's the worst, annoying and rude, he killed his landlords and tourists, going on a spree that shocked the nation.

Australia followed up with a mass gun buyback program that has made Australia safer from gun violence, but it still has all those bugs. 

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