This week we look at the battle of Los Angeles ... not the RATM album... An actual battle... kind of....

Scandalous Past is Charis (TheDigitalMaori) and Phid McAwesome going back to look at some of the scandalous moments from our past.

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This week we look at the tale of the first esports star, from the arcade era.

Billy Mitchell rose to the top of Pac-Man, Donkey Kong and Centipede, only to have it all come crashing down 30 odd years later

Scandalous Past is Charis (TheDigitalMaori) and Phid McAwesome going back to look at some of the scandalous moments from our past.

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This week we look at George Leonidas Leslie, A wealthy businessman who turned to a life of crime while gaining the trust of both high society New York and the underworld figures of the time.

Scandalous Past is Charis (TheDigitalMaori) and Phid McAwesome go back and look at some of the scandalous moments from our past.

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This week we look at the allegations that 90's Hip hop icons Puff Daddy and Biggie Smalls may have stolen a hit song, a name and a concept from a little known Missispi artist

Scandalous Past is Charis (TheDigitalMaori) and Phid McAwesome go back and look at some of the scandalous moments from our past.

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Scandalous Past is Charis (TheDigitalMaori) and Phid McAwesome go back and look at some of the scandalous moments from our past.

This week we look at Pope Benedict the 9th. Gay pope, P.I.M.P and at one stage, one of three Popes in the role at the same time!

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Scandalous Past is Charis (TheDigitalMaori) and Phid McAwesome go back and look at some of the scandalous moments from our past.

This week we look at Vince McMahons historic allegations and how recent allegations may go back further than you know!

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Scandalous Past is Charis (TheDigitalMaori) and Phid McAwesome go back and look at some of the scandalous moments from our past.

This week we look at the history of "Cancel Culture" and discover that it may not be as new as boomers will have you think.

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Its been 10years of lying about a box that goes beep, takes some blood and performs 2 of the 200 tests it purports to be able to do. 

We have lost Theranos staff to suicide,  we’ve had lawsuits, we’ve had political and influential people investing, we’ve gone from raising $6million in a year to now being valued at $9billion. 

Theranos is squashing potential threats with legal litigation to protect what they call trade secrets by using the dirtiest lawyers in America in what can only be described as verging on illegal tactics.

Staff and ex-staff mental health is in shatters, Walgreen has implemented the box into a select stores and Pfizer are reputed to be using Therano’s medical marvel The edison on cancer patients.  Media are loving this blonde blue eyed standford dropout Elizabeth Holmes who has disrupted the healthcare world.

But there is a storm a brewing. 

We left off last weeks episode with Dr Clapper and his blog called the Pathology Blawg, who has been contacted by the late Dr Gibbons wife (DR Gibbons was the licensied head scientist at Theranos) and Elizabeth Holmes family friends who have sued and been sued by Theranos for patent infringement.    

Dr Clapper sensing this is quite a big deal after hearing their stories has sent the story to someone he believes he has the resources, time and investigative know-how to take on a $9billion dollar corporation.

Enter the chat John Carrey-you the lead medical investigative journalist at the Wall Street Journal.

In this story of scandalous Past we aren’t actually venturing that far back in time as we take a look at Silicon Valley in the mid 2000’s during the rise of the technology start up era.  This is the story of Theranos the jewel of the technology health & medical start up world. 

In this story of scandalous Past we look at the ultimate story of “Faking it till you make it” as we head to France in the late 1800’s early 1900s to learn the story of Therese Humbert

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