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Juan Joseph was a beloved member of his community, a former high school football star who became a respected coach. The kind of guy who never started fights, but rather always stepped in to try to break them up, Juan was attempting to diffuse a heated situation outside a nightclub in Baton Rouge in the early morning of November 16, 2014, when he was was gunned down. After his killer drove off, Juan's entire community came together to find him and bring him to justice. This is a tragic and freaking HEARTWRENCHING story, Fam. Bring the tissues. 

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They say that imitation is the sincerest form of flattery... but maybe not so much in the high-stakes world of Hollywood skin care. Dawn DaLuise, the perhaps self-proclaimed skin guru to the stars, is at the top of her game running her facial spa, but when a rival aesthetician moves in down the block, the fur begins to fly. And not just from the back waxing sessions....

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This week we're among the good people of Canada, Fam, in a community who opened their hearts to two mysterious brothers who wandered into town on day, claiming to have been raised off the grid with no connection to modern society.  But somehow... they knew pop culture references...?  Their story unravels in a wild way - come along with us for the ride!

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Fam! Welcome to our first bonus episode of the year!  We have 22 Thursday episodes coming to you between now and the end of the year!  Welcome also to... the past, with our old booth and all!  We filmed this episode a few months ago - just look how young and dewy we look, and all bundled up for winter.

Today's episode features a story from the show "A Killer Among Friends."  In 2010, Michele Carson and group of her girlfriends went on a trip to Las Vegas - a fun celebration between graduating college and heading off to graduate school.  But running into an old boyfriend in the city, one with a violent history, would unfortunately lead to tragedy.

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OKAY, FAM - FROM THIS MOMENT ON HE'S KNOWN AS "PHIL" AND "PHIL" ONLY!!!!  He may have presented as folksy and wise uncle, but dark shadows haunted the "Dr." Phil Show behind the avuncular front (that's my drag name!).  Manipulate desperate families?  Check!  Slut-shame naive teenagers?  Check!  Run cover for a sketchy chain of rehab centers that do more harm to their residents than help?  Check, check, check!  

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Ya know, Fam - there are lots of ways to be garbage people in this world, but preying on sick people with promises of miracle cures and cleanses has got to among the lowest.  We've covered Elizabeth Holmes, we've covered the Herbalife scam, and now here comes "Dr." Robert Young to join their scummy, scummy ranks with his cult-like health retreats and "green juices."  He's hear to make a quick buck off the sick.. and we are SICK and TIRED of it!

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Imagine Melissa Caddick was your friend and financial adviser, unfortunately not providing you with large returns on your investments, but somehow appearing at friendly gatherings in new necklaces and expensive clothes.  It's a fishy business, and as soon as investigations start into her business practices, Melissa disappears.  And only a piece of her is ever found.

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WAIT, THERE'S AN ORIGINAL DALI PAINTING HANGING IN RIKERS ISLAND?!?!  Well... there was, anyway.  Dali was supposed to pay a visit to the prison in 1965, but instead of showing up, gave them the hastily made painting that he called "Christ on the cross" (a good swear, as anyone familiar with Long Island mothers of a certain stripe will tell you!).  It hung in various places throughout the facility for forty years until someone on the inside was brazen enough to steal it in 2003 - AND REPLACE WITH HIS OWN HASTILY SCRAWLED PAINTING!  This one's a kooky one, Fam!

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Hey Fam! Our bonus episodes are coming back in April... BUT WE COULDN'T WAIT! We wanted to share this throwback episode because IT'S WILD, but also because we talked about it in our recent episode about Andrea Yates and we thought... LET'S GIVE HER ANOTHER LISTEN! Have fun, enjoy, and whatever you do DO NOT GOOGLE THE PICTURES!!!

Seinfeld mocked it. Letterman ranked it in his top ten list. And more than fifteen years later, its infamy continues. Everyone knows the McDonald's coffee case. It has been routinely cited as an example of how citizens have taken advantage of America's legal system, but is that a fair rendition of the facts? Hot Coffee reveals what really happened to Stella Liebeck, the Albuquerque woman who spilled coffee on herself and sued McDonald's, while exploring how and why the case garnered so much media attention, who funded the effort, and to what end.

In part 2, we start to understand the severity of Andrea's postpartum depression - an illness that went untreated so long that it developed into a psychosis. And even after she recovered from it the first time and she and her husband Rusty were warned that it would be worse if they had any more kids, they went ahead and had their fifth. Many questions swirl around Rusty and his insistence that they continue to reproduce. And only when Andrea's attorney is finally able to make the connection between her mental illness and her religious indoctrination is a jury able to see her crime for what it was, a perfect storm of coercion, depression, and a desperate attempt - as backwards as it sounds - to save the souls of her children. YEAH IT'S A LOT FAM. PLEASE COME HOLD OUR HANDS AND SCREAM WITH US.

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