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We’re all capable of royally screwing up a romance, but some guys are so good at it we still talk about them 100 years after their relationships tank. In this month’s battle of storytelling, Team Edward flies into Key West, Florida, to unearth the story of Carl Tanzer and his extremely unhinged relationship with a beautiful, dead Cuban tuberculosis patient half his age. Team Kimberly punches back with the mad entanglement of painter Oskar Kokoschka and his legendary muse, curvacious composer Alma Mahler…who got immortalized the wrong way. Soulful rock star Mia Borders and commanding music educator Kate Duncan, both of the podcast “Great Question with Mia and Kate,” step in as special guest judges to declare which true story submission is the winner, and all parties confess some of the most cringe crap they’ve ever pulled while in the throes of maladaptive love. Mia also plays out the episode, appropriately, with her breakup song for the ages, “Plastic Love."

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Terrible things happen when we put professions on pedestals. Over the last two centuries, “Medicine” has improved so significantly the human lifespan increased dramatically. Unfortunately, medical science and medical ETHICS are two different things—and they aren’t always practiced together, even today. This episode dives into two of the most horrific cases of human experimentation and iatrogenic injury perpetrated in the 20th century. Team Kimberly fondles the questionable choices Dr. Leo Stanley made with prisoners’ testicles during the San Quentin Prison Experiments, which spanned decades here in the United States. Team Edward teleports us back to WWII, directly into the secret Japanese facility known as Unit 731, a research laboratory which rivaled (if not exceeded) the egregious work of Nazi scientists in Germany. Special guests include public health experts and ethical superheroes Dr. Lucas Trautman, a psychiatrist and addiction specialist who randomly was mentored by Dr. Death Christopher Duntsch; and Dr. Elizabeth Nicholson, a heavily tattooed doctor of emergency medicine and bold COVID frontline survivor.

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Ho, Ho, Holy shit.

It takes a special kind of dick hole to be jealous of a kid's affection for Santa Claus. But when you take into consideration that Paul Schäfer was a Nazi, pedophile, and notorious cult leader, his disdain for jolly old St. Nick starts to make a bit more sense. After all, how could he afford to make space for the children of his commune to love and celebrate anyone more than him? To secure their affection, it was all too appropriate for Paul to shit in the eggnog and bless these kiddos with a Christmas gift that would keep on giving: devastating emotional trauma.

This month, as a special holiday stick of dynamite, Team HF takes you deep into the heart of Chile, to a heavily guarded hellscape known as "Colonia Dignidad." It's there we'll turn the lens to an isolated colony of Germans established in post-World War II which, under the leadership of German preacher Paul Schäfer, became notorious for the internment, torture, and murder of dissidents during the military dictatorship of General Augusto Pinochet in the 1970s. 

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It’s that time again, folks—our monthly, pithy recap of the previous month’s most mentionable public human fuckery, plus a few honorable decency mentions for everyone’s sanity.

Several weeks of October 2022 in the United States were dominated by surprise anti-semitism being spewed by billionaire rappers, resulting in one of the more entertaining graduations from “F*** Around and Find Out” University. A deadly batch of drugs dispatched by some guy named Brian from New Jersey ended up flattening hundreds of unsuspecting narcotics enthusiasts in New York City, and Florida police came across what may have been Lord Voldemort’s most recent victim. Fortunately, a heroic and exceptionally pregnant firefighter did some heroic pregnant firefighter stuff, while a team of of Italian surgeons pulled off the first ever brain surgery on a guy playing saxophone DURING his brain surgery.

Click play, get the rundown, and be sure to tag us in whatever colorful examples of fuckery/decency you come across this month. With midterm elections coming to a close, we’re pretty sure next month’s recap is gonna be a doozy.

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It’s that time of year again folks! The veil is thinning, and the rate of spooky fuckery is on the rise. Last season, our Halloween stories were thematically in sync, as we brought you tales of two haunted homes on opposite sides of the world. But this year, the hosts were left with a lot more space to explore Satan's grundle. The assignment: "scare me." Team Kimberly brings us the story of a terrifying exorcism that trumps the movie it inspired, and Team Edward shares the story of 'Cropsey', a boogeyman and urban legend brought to life. Our guests this month are Justin Welborn (star of oodles of horror films), and resident scaredy cat, Lori Kramer.

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What a time to be alive! Deadly weather events, dickheads holding office, adult toddlers running around doing adult toddler shit—it’s too much to keep up with. So we’re helping out. Now that our amazing new subscribers Denise and “J” have tipped us over into the 30+ paying patrons mark, we’re able to make this monthly roundup of human fuckery just for y’all. (More patrons mean more, and better, content more frequently, so consider gifting a subscription to a friend or shilling for us online, it works.)

The Fuckerrecap is not comprehensive, but it IS entertaining and will, ideally anyway, keep you abreast of some of the modern, daily fuckery rattling the human experience in real time.

If you see any news stories in the month of October that make you go uuuuuum, please do tag us in them or send the links our way. We’ll do our best to get them, along with credit to you, worked into future recaps.

On this month’s agenda:

• Brett Farve’s Reverse Robin Hooding
• Marjorie Taylor Green being Marjorie Taylor Green
• "Sleepy Chicken”
• Needless Raccoon Arrests
• Coolio’s Super Manly Beef-Squashing Skills

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Thirty years ago, alien talk was mostly restricted to trashy daytime talk shows or weird sitcom fodder. (RE: “ALF?”) But with the very recent declassification of hundreds of pages of United States military case files on UFOs, plus an ever-expanding Internet cache of compelling videos and eyewitness reports, alien encounters are no longer taboo…and seem less sci-fi than ever before. Award-winning “Somewhere in the Skies” author and podcaster Ryan Sprague, a UFO researcher tapped for shows like “Ancient Aliens,” gets hauled onto the show to judge our teams’ deep dives into extraterrestrials. Team Edward returns to the land down under, spotlighting a trio of bizarre Australian arial events with no explanation. Team Kimberly skips the flying saucers and digs into the story of a California model whose life came undone after she was abducted—maybe—from the love nest she shared with her boyfriend. Who will be declared victorious? And are aliens more a part of the human experience than we were taught? You know what to do to find out.

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Pontius Pilate may have been the one who condemned Jesus of Nazareth to death, but the name reviled most today is “Judas.” And that’s because treacherous backstabbers—men like Ephialtes of Trachis and Benedict Arnold—who betray friends, lovers, or countrymen for personal gain are so shameful we put them on display forever, a collective reminder of who NOT to be. Dark history nerds will especially love this month’s special guest judge: “History on Fire” host & historian Daniele Bolelli, dragged into the lair for our monthly battle of wits and storytelling. Team Kimberly digs up the truth on disgraced Arizona Sheriff Paul Babeu, one half of a jaw-dropping political breakup. Team Edward resurrects The Coward Robert Ford, whose choices were so cringy he went viral a century before social media existed. The scalding-hot historic tea is ready to be served.  

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Internet shamans, TV hucksters, wellness grifters, slimy CryptoBros—humanity is bombarded by successful scam artists using the internet for evil, and we wanna make sure they’re LESS successful. Branding guru Alyssa Bonanno, and Fyre Festival crew survivor Will Desena, join Teams Kimberly and Edward to help listeners ID scammers before they get into our wallets, and also declare one host “The Winner.” Team Kimberly covers the true story of Shaman Durek, an Instagram-based spiritual advisor with a massive following, very shady backstory, and European princess on his arm. Team Edward counters with the tale of vintage infomercial king Don Lapre, who dominated late-night television as a salesman for sketchy products before face-planting into rock bottom. Also covered are a few other famous faces worth avoiding, including Anthony “The Medical Medium” Williams; business bro Tai Lopez; pop-psychologist Jordan Peterson; and Fyre Fest mastermind Billy McFarland.

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So what happens when two broke Jews-turned-Christian-Evangelicals fall in love, then decide to grift a bunch of poor people out of money using The Bible as leverage? SPOILER ALERT: It’s…uh, yeah, it’s not great. It involves a lot of gaslighting, hypocrisy, some sexual assault, and a prodigious amount of abuse. But in the case of The Alamos, it also involves gay demons, alien angels, laser beams, and piles of karma, so the story is as entertaining as it is infuriating.

If you’ve not already listened to PART ONE (published June 19 on Patreon), you’ll want to go back and start there. If you’ve already been schooled on the humble beginnings of “Grandma Susie and Papa Tony,” pop those earbuds in, hit play, and be prepared to be appalled by these two total assholes.

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