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November 09 LISTEN NOW: The First Wife
Many listened to the Dirty John podcast, which introduced the world to John Meehan, a dangerous serial predator who infiltrates the life of Debra Newell and ultimately dies at the hand of her daughter, Terra. But there was an overlooked story that’s now being told, in full, for the first time.
In The First Wife: John Meehan’s Reign of Terror, Tonia Bales recounts her harrowing experiences as John’s wife of 10 years and the mother of their daughters, Emily and Abby. Highlighting new details and revelations, Tonia shares the abuse she suffered from the man she once believed to be her soulmate, but who ultimately revealed himself as a coercive and controlling terrorist. Through exclusive archival materials and all-new interviews with the people who knew her and John best, uncovering long-held secrets and including perspective from their daughters, Tonia embarks on a re-investigation of the man she thought she knew. The multiple bombshells she unearths include one that will change her and her daughters’ lives forever.
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10 min
October 26 Listen Now— Over My Dead Body: Operation Sideswipe
A Hollywood stuntwoman turned personal injury attorney. A handsome disbarred lawyer with a dark past. And an elaborate scheme that leads to murder.
Vanessa Motta gives up a career of fake car crashes for real ones. But her law career in New Orleans gets off to a rocky start — until she meets Sean Alfortish, a charming man who offers her the perfect space for her law office. Vanessa and Sean fall hard for each other, and as a former lawyer himself, Sean becomes her mentor. So, what if he's done some prison time for fraud?
When Sean introduces Vanessa to one of the city's most prolific case runners, Cornelius Garrison, the money starts rolling in. Cornelius brings her a steady stream of accident victims looking to sue. There's just one problem: the accidents aren't real. And once the secret gets out, someone will have to pay.
Reported and hosted by Mitch Moxley, Over My Dead Body: Operation Sideswipe is a six-part series about greed, betrayal, and who gets thrown under the bus when everything is on the line.
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7 min
October 13 Listen Now: Audible True Crime – Ghost Story
Audible True Crime is a dedicated podcast feed where we bring you the best podcasts in true crime, with episodes dropping every single week.
Just in time for spooky season, we’re releasing a show called Ghost Story, a series about a hidden family secret, unexplainable events and jaw-dropping coincidences. Tristan Redman doesn’t believe in ghosts. But weird things happened in his teenage bedroom. And when he discovers later that occupants of his family home have seen the ghost of a faceless woman, he’s intrigued. Because it just so happens that his wife’s great grandmother, Naomi Dancy, was murdered in the house next door…killed by two gunshots to the face.
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10 min
September 28 Listen Now: My Mom’s Murder
Lauren Malloy was a baby when her mother, Lori, was murdered in East Providence, Rhode Island. For thirty years, no one told her. Everyone said Lori died of natural causes. Then a stranger sent Lauren a message — and the lie collapsed. Now Lauren is investigating her own mother’s murder. She’s recorded hundreds of hours of interviews with law enforcement, family, childhood friends, and people who won’t stop contradicting each other. Every answer opens a darker question. Every person she trusts seems to be hiding something. And the closer she gets to the truth, the more she realizes the people she trusts may be the ones with the most to hide. A 10-part true crime investigation hosted by the victim’s daughter. Lauren’s mission: to finally uncover the identity of Lori’s killer.
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6 min
June 20 What To Listen To Next: Dr. Death The Cowboy
Dr. John Schneider rode into town like a character out of a Western: an outsider on a Harley-Davidson, in trademark cowboy boots. He promised relief to patients suffering in Wyoming and Montana. He seemed like the hero they needed. But when surgeries go wrong and a strange letter exposes a bitter feud, medical professionals and government officials search for the truth about this cowboy doctor. They discover claims of broken bodies, bullying, fraud, and lawsuits.
From Audible, the fifth season of the hit series Dr. Death returns with The Cowboy: the story of a surgeon who took advantage of a broken system and the fight to bring him to justice.
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41 min
June 18 Wolves Only | 6
In the series finale, Gracie marks her first “fanniversary.” As she meets a subscriber in person and takes stock of a year inside OnlyFans, Leon looks on — and together they consider what paid intimacy has revealed about loneliness, care, and knowing your worth.

Credits:
Hosts — Leon Neyfakh and Gracie Canaan
Supervisor Producer — Sam Lee
Editor — Diane Hodson
Producers — Dustin DeSoto and Betsy Shepherd
Mix Engineer — Erica Huang
Theme Song and Score — Billy Libby
Fact-Checker — Annika Robbins
Executive Producers — Lara Regan Kleinschmidt, Jules Henderson, and Heather Won Tesoriero
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40 min
June 11 Water, Wind, and Stupid | 5
After Gracie begins receiving cruel messages from subscribers, she and Leon explore the darker corners of online desire — from a ruthless Romanian cam pioneer to AI influencers built to exploit loneliness. Gracie is forced to confront a troubling idea: that making real money depends on treating men as endlessly exploitable — and what it might cost her to do the same.

Credits:
Hosts — Leon Neyfakh and Gracie Canaan
Supervisor Producer — Sam Lee
Editor — Diane Hodson
Producers — Dustin DeSoto and Betsy Shepherd
Mix Engineer — Erica Huang
Theme Song and Score — Billy Libby
Fact-Checker — Annika Robbins
Executive Producers — Lara Regan Kleinschmidt, Jules Henderson, and Heather Won Tesoriero
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48 min
June 04 We’re All Born Naked and the Rest is Drag | 4
They thought they were in real relationships. They weren’t. As subscribers reckon with betrayal on OnlyFans, Leon and Gracie hear from a former paid “chatter” about how pretending to be someone else for money reshaped her sense of intimacy — and herself.

Credits:
Hosts — Leon Neyfakh and Gracie Canaan
Supervisor Producer — Sam Lee
Editor — Diane Hodson
Producers — Dustin DeSoto and Betsy Shepherd
Mix Engineer — Erica Huang
Theme Song and Score — Billy Libby
Fact-Checker — Annika Robbins
Executive Producers — Lara Regan Kleinschmidt, Jules Henderson, and Heather Won Tesoriero
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51 min
May 28 Flirty Little Secrets | 3
A message from a subscriber’s wife sends Gracie and Leon searching for the roots of digital desire — and the quiet thrill many men find in keeping secrets, including a conversation with Leon’s first online crush.

Credits:
Hosts — Leon Neyfakh and Gracie Canaan
Supervisor Producer — Sam Lee
Editor — Diane Hodson
Producers — Dustin DeSoto and Betsy Shepherd
Mix Engineer — Erica Huang
Theme Song and Score — Billy Libby
Fact-Checker — Annika Robbins
Executive Producers — Lara Regan Kleinschmidt, Jules Henderson, and Heather Won Tesoriero
See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
50 min
May 21 Growth Industry | 2
What does it take to make six figures on OnlyFans? Leon and Gracie explore what feels like a modern-day Playboy Mansion, where intimacy is engineered for scale and success. Elsewhere, a medical worker who turned to OnlyFans during the pandemic finds that the connection she sells after hours may be just as life-saving.

Credits:
Hosts — Leon Neyfakh and Gracie Canaan
Supervisor Producer — Sam Lee
Editor — Diane Hodson
Producers — Dustin DeSoto and Betsy Shepherd
Mix Engineer — Erica Huang
Theme Song and Score — Billy Libby
Fact-Checker — Annika Robbins
Executive Producers — Lara Regan Kleinschmidt, Jules Henderson, and Heather Won Tesoriero
See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
43 min

About OnlyFantasy

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Leon Neyfakh is a journalist and podcaster best known as the co-creator and host of Slow Burn, Fiasco, and Backfired. He has been a reporter for Slate, The Boston…

Globe, and The New York Observer and is the author of the book The Next Next Level. Listen to his newest podcasts here.

Season 3: OnlyFantasy

In this provocative investigation into OnlyFans— the adult platform where subscribers around the world spent more than $7 billion in 2024— journalist Leon Neyfakh teams up with comedian and OnlyFans creator Gracie Canaan for a one-of-a-kind exploration into the current state of human connection.

Throughout, they discover that the site originally built for spicy adult content has quietly and surprisingly become something more complicated— an emotional marketplace where desire, performance, care, fantasy, and vulnerability seemingly blur together.

As Neyfakh and Canaan navigate timely questions about autonomy, performance, and profit, a question emerges: is connection mediated by a screen still authentic? To find the answer, they meet creators building lucrative businesses, subscribers who believe they’ve found something real, professional “chatters” who are paid to simulate affection, and pioneers who have helped engineer intimacy at scale.

Captivating and tender, <i>OnlyFantasy</i> is ultimately about the cost of loneliness, the seductive power of desire, and how the rules of human intimacy are being rewritten online.

Is what’s happening on OnlyFans real? Or is it only a fantasy?

Season 2: Final Thoughts: Jerry Springer

Jerry Springer wasn’t supposed to become the host of The Jerry Springer Show. Before the chairs started flying and the fights became a daytime TV staple, the man then known as Gerald Springer was an idealistic rising star in Democratic politics, with ambitions to one day be elected governor of Ohio.

From Leon Neyfakh and Prologue Projects — the team behind Slow Burn, Fiasco, Backfired, and Think Twice: Michael Jackson — comes Final Thoughts: Jerry Springer.

You may think you know Springer, the notorious ringmaster of what TV Guide once called “the worst show in television history.” But long before Springer’s name became synonymous with outrageous guests, taboo confessions, and vicious on-stage brawls, he was the mayor of Cincinnati — a serious and popular politician who many believed was the future of the Democratic Party. So, what happened?

This series traces Springer’s unlikely transformation — from the son of Jewish refugees who fled Nazi Germany, to a respected public servant, to the face of a show many called a symptom of cultural decline. Through intimate interviews with the people who knew him best — family, political insiders, and the producers who helped shape his show — Final Thoughts will bring you closer than ever to the man behind the spectacle, and maybe even cause you to rethink some of your own life choices.

Final Thoughts isn’t just a story about one man’s improbable career path. It’s about how far someone can go for success and what they’re willing to trade to stay on top. Was Springer pulled into the gutter, or did he just understand it better than anyone else?

Season 1: Think Twice: Michael Jackson

More than a decade since Michael Jackson’s death, his legacy remains complicated and unresolved. Think Twice: Michael Jackson is an exploration of the King of Pop’s life and impact — and an investigation into why his global influence continues to endure, despite the disturbing allegations against him. In this ten-part series, journalists Leon Neyfakh and Jay Smooth bring you a new perspective on the Michael Jackson story, based on dozens of original interviews with people who watched it unfold from up close.