The Misery Machine

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March 20, 2020 COVID-19 Update 3.19.2020 | Support Local Businesses | What About The Prisoners?
Yergy and Drewby give you the latest updates on the state of COVID-19 in Lewiston/Auburn Maine, and share with you what you can do on a local level to support small business in your area during this trying time. Please stay home as much as you can and practice social distancing, every little bit goes a long way! We also talk about the lack of prisoner care regarding the virus at this time, and what could happen if the Coronavirus enters the prison system.
The first small business we outline in this episode is the Craft Brew Underground in Auburn, Maine. You can support this business during the outbreak by purchasing a gift card for yourself, a friend (or us) here!!!
Next, go check out Courtney at Quiet City Books in Lewiston for all of your art and reading needs! She's got a wide arrange of books, postcards, local art, and much more!
You should go visit my friend Drew at Mr. Drew's Exotic Rescue & Education Center in Lewiston for all of your feeder needs! He's got a wide selection of crickets, meal worms, roaches, and frozen/live rodents to keep your scale babies happy. You can also support the center via their Amazon Wish List or by donations through PayPal here!!!
Go check out Caribbean Life Grocery & Gift Shop in Lewiston for all of your specialty grocery needs. The have a wide variety of drinks, rice, yams, plantains, meats, hot sauces, and other goods that you can't find anywhere else - and some of the sweetest owners ever (they literally taught Yergy how to cook some of the veggies she purchased on the fly)! Make sure to check them out in Freeport at Jeff's Jamaican Cuisine after the pandemic is over and they open back up!
Last but certainly not least, if you have little ones - please go check out my cousin Laura at Sippy Cup Consignment in Lisbon Falls for all of your clothing and toy needs. She updates her inventory album daily (which you can view on her Facebook page here) and can ship orders to you, as well as hook you up with curbside pick up!
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15 min
March 17, 2020 COVID-19 Update 3.16.2020 | The Virus Makes Landfall in Maine | Social Distancing
In this bonus episode, Drewby and Yergy review the happenings about our local area now that the Wuhan Coronavirus (now known as COVID-19,) has not only hit the USA, but has hit the twin cities of Lewiston/Auburn here in Maine. We cover some of the latest national news updates on the pandemic, discuss our own preparations for an eventual lockdown, and our journey into Hannaford in masks - as well as the lack of food and paper goods in supermarkets.
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26 min
March 16, 2020 Chris Benoit: The Dark Side of the Ring
This week, Drewby and Yergy delve deep into the chilling real-life story of Chris Benoit, a Canadian professional wrestler with an illustrious career (WWF/WWE, WCW, ECW, NJPW) that was found dead by suicide due to hanging after murdering his wife and young son. This was a high profile case given Benoit being at the top of the WWE at the time, and came with many theories about what the motive was or if Benoit was the one responsible at all. Also present in the autopsy was Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy (CTE) which claimed Benoit had the brain of "an 85 year old Alzheimer's patient" by one doctor. We cover the rampant use of steroids and painkillers in wrestling, the lack of action from promotions who discover their wrestlers are abusing drugs, and the string of deaths of wrestlers at young ages from heart complications tied to the misuse of steroids and other substances.
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1 hr 8 min
March 09, 2020 Maine Urban Legends
This week, Yergy and Drewby take a break from the macabre and discuss a few of the many tales and urban legends surrounding their home state of Maine.

Stories we cover are:
-The Sabattus Well (which we take a journey to try to find)
-Colonel Buck’s Tomb in Bucksport
-The Robie-Andrews Dorm which is an allegedly haunted dorm at The University of Southern Maine's (USM) Gorham campus
-The Wood Island Lighthouse
-The Seguin Island Lighthouse Hauntings
-Pamola (not the beer)
-The Hermit of North Pond Christopher Knight
-Paul Bunyan
-The Monster Of Pocomoonshine Lake
-The Ghost Bride Of Haynesville Woods
-The Fort William Henry Haunting
-Maiden's Cliff Haunting in Camden
-The Legend of Wessie
-Bigfoot
-Andre the Seal
-The Royal Tar Circus Ship That Sank Off Vinalhaven
-Portland's Whorehouse Riots
-The Turner Beast

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57 min
March 02, 2020 The Story of Junko Furuta: The 44 Days of Hell | Concrete-Encased High School Girl Murder Case
This week, Drewby and Yergy discuss the tragic case of Junko Furuta, a Japanese high-school student who was abducted, tortured, raped, and murdered in the late 1980s. Her murder case was named "Concrete-Encased High School Girl Murder Case," due to her body being discovered in a concrete drum.
Approximately 100 people knew about Furuta's captivity, but either did nothing about it or themselves participated in the torture and murder. Most of the participants were friends of the teenage boys, who were low-ranking members of the Yakuza. We draw parallels between this case and the murder of Kitty Genovese regarding the many people who knew about what was going on and refused to act despite clear knowledge that somebody was suffering or dying.
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42 min
February 26, 2020 Ed Kemper: Interview with Occultae Veritatis | Nature vs Nurture | A Victim of His Era?
As a companion to our Monday episode, Yergy and Drewby get into the mind of Ed Kemper with Sage and Ood of the Occultae Veritatis Podcast, and ask the tough questions - What would Ed have been like had he grown up in the internet age? Would it have saved him - or fueled his murderous behavior? Is he genuine? What does he get from being so painfully transparent?
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50 min
February 24, 2020 Ed Kemper - The Co-ed Killer | Ogre of Aptos | Mindhunter
This week, join Yergy and Drewby as they embark on a two part episode exploring the life and crimes of Ed Kemper also known as "The Co-ed Killer"- a man standing 6 foot 9 inches tall with a larger than life personality and a genius level IQ who was an American serial killer and necrophile who was committed to a mental institution for the murder of his paternal grandparents when he was 15 years old, and then later in life terrorized female hitchhikers in Santa Cruz, California in the early 1970's, finally culminating in the murder of his mother which lead to his capture and final incarceration. He is often scrutinized in theories of "nature vs nurture" in serial killers due to overwhelming physical and emotional abuse he suffered at the hands of his mother growing up.
He was the subject of the Netflix original series "Mindhunter"
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56 min
February 10, 2020 Tsutomu Miyazaki: The Otaku Killer | The Rat Man | The Human Dracula | The Little Girl Murderer
This week, Drewby and Yergy cover the heinous crimes of Tsutomo Miyazaki - a young Japanese man obsessed with anime and manga that was executed for the necrophiliac serial killings of four young girls. We cover the killings, as well as Miyasaki's backstory of being a premature birth born to an incestuous relationship between his father and sister. Hot takes include American stigmas around people who watch anime, why Disney is toxic, and the lack of a goth Disney princess.Join Our Facebook Group to Request a Topic: https://t.co/DeSZIIMgXs?amp=1Support Our Patreon For More Unreleased Content: https://www.patreon.com/themiserymachineInstagram: miserymachinepodcastTwitter: misery_podcast
36 min
February 03, 2020 The Wuhan Coronavirus Outbreak - A Global Pandemic?
In this episode, Yergy and Drewby deliver daily updates on the situation in the province of Hubei, China regarding the Wuhan Coronavirus which emerged December 2019 and into 2020. Topics include the virology of this new strain, how and where it's spreading, and some of the conspiracy theories that have already taken social media by storm. Make sure to cover your cough and wash your damn hands!
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56 min
January 31, 2020 Wuhan Coronavirus Update - January 30, 2020 (Now Declared a Global Emergency)
As a prelude to our Wuhan Coronavirus episode (dropping Monday morning), Drewby and Yergy review the latest updates as of January 30th on the epidemic plaguing mainland China, as well as other regions globally. The World Health Organization has now classified this as a global emergency.Join Our Facebook Group to Request a Topic: https://t.co/DeSZIIMgXs?amp=1Support Our Patreon For More Unreleased Content: https://www.patreon.com/themiserymachineInstagram: miserymachinepodcastTwitter: misery_podcast
8 min