Did you know that the CIA once owned an airline called Air America? It was used extensively in southeast Asia in the 50s, 60s, and 70s for various Cold War-related covert operations. And also for shipping opium to be processed into heroin. We cover the complicated, morally gray story of the CIA and Air America today!

291 - The CIA, Smuggling Drugs, and Fighting Communism: The Story of Air America

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Michael Jackson is the most successful solo act in the history of recorded music.  He was arguably the most famous man in the history of the world at his career's peak. But also.... a very troubled, beyond eccentric person who was creepy with kids, at best, or... a pedophile.  I try and explore his life today... while fighting against the effects of a double-dose of Molly... for Timesuck's 400th episode.  Hail Nimrod and thanks for sticking around!!

400 - Molly and Michael Jackson: Rolling on the King of Pop!

The Osage Reign of Terror - dramatized recently in the 2023 award winning Martin Scorsese film, Killers of the Flower Moon based on the 2017 book of the same name - has been described as an epidemic of murders and mysterious deaths among the people of the Osage Nation. This is a wild story of a preposterous amount of corruption, conspiracy, and cold-blooded killing.

399 - Osage Murders: The True Story Behind Killers of the Flower Moon

On Saturday night, April 11th, 1981, a young mother, her teenage son, and her son's teenage friend, were all violently murdered in the small, picturesque community of Keddie, California. One of her daughters was also kidnapped, and also murdered. No one was ever charged. Did local authorities help coverup the most gruesome killings in the history of Plumas County?

Short Suck #8 - Horror in the Woods: The Keddie Cabin Murders

Did you know that in 1902, August Engelhardt travelled from Germany to a small island in the South Pacific and tried to build a community based mostly in worship of the sun, being naked all the time, and literally only eating coconuts? He tried for seventeen years. Oh yeah. This is a weird one.

398 - August Engelhardt and the Coconut Cult

Jim Bakker, and his wife, Tammy Faye, revolutionized tele-evangelism in the 1970s and 1980s. Their PTL Club, was, at it's height, pulling in millions a WEEK in donations to support their cause. But their cause was a lie. Jim was not who he claimed to be, and financial and sexual improprieties would send him to prison... before he got out and started running his scam all over again.

291 - The CIA, Smuggling Drugs, and Fighting Communism: The Story of Air America

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