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Teenage hustler Conor MacKay makes his living selling counterfeit tickets—or blinkers—at concerts and sporting events across the United States. It’s the early 1990s, the golden age of the blinker game, but as the federal authorities and Ticketmaster close in, Conor has to find what’s authentic in this world of fakes. A fictional story based on real events.

NARRATOR: CARTER BELLAIMEY

JOURNALIST: HARMON LEON

AUDIO EDITING: MADDIE HICKISH

MUSIC, SCORING & SOUND-DESIGN: DOMINIC GOZO

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It's Los Angeles in the mid-2000s and Nina is chasing the LA dream. She falls into sex work and gets caught up in her boyfriend/pimp's latest scheme: robbing banks. A disparate group of sex workers are transformed into a gang of bank robbers named The Starlet Bandits...

Narrator: Jurnee Smollett

Journalist: Lexi Pandell

Audio Editing: Natalia Rodriguez

Music, Scoring & Sound-Design: Dominic Gozo

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It's Los Angeles in the mid-2000s and Nina is chasing the LA dream. She falls into sex work and gets caught up in her boyfriend/pimp's latest scheme: robbing banks. A disparate group of sex workers are transformed into a gang of bank robbers named The Starlet Bandits...

Narrator: Jurnee Smollett

Journalist: Lexi Pandell

Audio Editing: Natalia Rodriguez Ford

Music, Scoring & Sound-Design: Dominic Gozo

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It's 1974, and Richard Molfer has just started his own labor consulting firm and zeroed in on his first client: a hospital in Elizabeth, New Jersey. A union drive is about to start here, the employees are already organizing, and administrators are terrified. But Molfer, a seasoned veteran of hardcore union fights in the mines of Utah, has a plan. He's going to divide and conquer the staff, and make sure Local 1199 never sets foot in that hospital—all for a price, of course. Little does he know that he's about to meet his greatest protegee, a young man with an uncanny gift for gaining trust, and that blood will be spilled before this drive is over. A fictional story inspired by true events.

Writer: Naben Ruthnum

Voice: Eric Jason Martin

Audio Editing: Maddie Hickish & Aron Keller

Music, Scoring & Sound-Design: Dominic Gozo

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When the great Russian writer Anton Chekov visits the penal colony on the remote island of Sakhalin in 1890, he is astonished to learn that they’re holding a famous prisoner—Sonya Golden Hand. He finds the legendary con-artist in solitary confinement, her legs clamped in iron chains. Chekhov kneels down beside her on the filthy prison floor. Tell me the story of how you ended up in chains...

A fictional story inspired by historical events.

Writer: Michael LaPointe

Voice: Olga Kurylenko

Audio Editing: Maddie Hickish

Music, Scoring & Sound-Design: Dominic Gozo

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A woman grapples with the mysterious murder of her husband in their Denver home. All the doors were locked from inside, there is no sign of break-in, but her husband lies there, stabbed to death. The murder haunts the house, already a place of mourning after their son Anthony did not return from World War II. As a local detective struggles to pry apart the puzzle of the murder, Helen begins to see a ghost in her dead son's room. The killing isn't over.

A fictional story inspired by historical events.

Writers: C.Avery & Maggie Milstein

Voice: Lauryn Allman

Audio Editing: Thomas Curry

Music, Scoring & Sound-Design: Dominic Gozo

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For Maeve DuVally, coming out as transgender in a corporate America was a journey of self-discovery that required her to hit rock bottom before she came out on top. This is her story.

Journalist: Pamela Ryckman

Voice: Jamie Clayton

Audio Editing: Natalia Rodriguez

Music, Scoring & Sound-Design: Dominic Gozo

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Narrated by Steve Buscemi, this is the story of Gosnell Duncan and the silicone dildo. After suffering a work-related accident, Caribbean-born Gosnell Duncan was paralyzed from the waist down. An engineer by trade, and determined not to let his disability come between him and the love of his life, Angela, Gosnell poured his knowledge and energy into crafting a new invention from his Brooklyn basement: the world’s first silicone dildo. His invention was intended for others too; specifically, he sought to bring pleasure to people with disabilities. Letters would come from all over the country with specific requests for his custom-made sex toys - letters telling Gosnell intimate secrets and hoping he could help. Despite many obstacles — including laws that could send him to prison just for advertising his products — Gosnell changed the world, one dick at a time. This story brings overdue recognition for an inventor like no other.

Journalist: Hallie Lieberman

Voice: Steve Buscemi

Production: Christopher Hooton

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The Oakland A's of the early 1970s were the most iconoclastic team in baseball history. Never before had a club so collectively traumatized baseball's establishment with its eccentric behavior and business decisions, not to mention its outlandish facial hair, while simultaneously setting records: five consecutive division titles and three straight championships. Yet despite all the winning, the drama that played out on the field was somehow exceeded by the drama in the clubhouse. There were fistfights between players on the regular. The one thing that kept the team from splintering was the fact that, as much as they might have loathed each other, they loathed the team’s owner, Charlie Finley, even more... At least they had that much in common. In 1973, Finley pushed it too far, maneuvering to get a player off the team on false pretenses, uniting his team against him as the World Series hangs in the balance.

Journalist: Jason Turbow

Voice: Jud Meyers

Production: Christopher Hooton

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Inspired by the life and work of Leon Theremin, a Russian inventor whose most famous invention was the Theremin –– an instrument that produces otherworldly, haunting music, and which is played seemingly by magic. At the height of the Cold War, Theremin’s passions for music and science drew him into dangerous territory: the price of pursuing his great passions would be to live his life as a spy. 

A fictional story inspired by historical events.

Writer: Michael LaPointe

Voice: Gerard Howard

Production: Christopher Hooton

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