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A giant size DragonKing Dark Podcast drops today as Karl and Tonya from When It Was Cool begin a discussion of the seven deadly sins and kick off with sloth and wrath / laziness and anger. How do they effect mankind? Are their times when it's good to be lazy or mad? This is part one of a three part series discussing the seven deadly sins on DragonKing Dark.

The Rat returns in the 68th edition of Stuck In the Desert To discuss the western wildfires, and the rumors surrounding them. Bring your hot dogs and marshmallows, because this is kind of like a fireside chat-just bigger! A satellite podcast of planet whenitwascool.com. Support the platform that houses this podcast. Contact The Rat: Patreon-whenitwascool comments or [email protected]

Two of the most influential television shows in history were the Twilight Zone and the Outer Limits. Both were very similar with Outer Limits being somewhat more sci-fi based. In this DragonKing Dark Podcast special, Karl takes you behind the When It Was Cool paywall for a look back at these two iconic TV series.

We are going on a trip to the Grand Canyon National Park later this week and while the Grand Canyon is one of the most beautiful places in North America it can also be very dangerous. Routinely people, often using less than good judgement, plunge to their death. Other hike away on trails and the weather gets the better of them. Still others go missing never to be found again. On this episode of DragonKing Dark, host Karl Stern takes a look at a few of the outstanding cases of the Grand Canyon missing and murdered.

We live in an age of conspiracies, no question about it. What is real about the illness sweeping the world? What is real concerning the upcoming election? Is there a rogue government agent posting insider information on the internet? Conspiracies happen every day which are real. You might even be conspiring about something yourself. But how can we know what is real and what isn't when the world is in such turmoil right now? A year ago if you would have told people the world would be masked, shut down, and large numbers of people dying you might have been inclined to yell "conspiracy". Let's talk about it.

The old Sloss Furnace steel mill in Birmingham, AL was a brutal place to work. While the steel industry built Birmingham it wasn't an easy life and many died working in the horrible conditions there. Several TV shows and documentaries have covered Sloss Furnace as one of the supposed most haunted places in America. Karl and Tonya from When It Was Cool traveled there on a stormy night and this is what they found.

True Crime podcasts and television are very popular. Entire TV channels are devoted to the genre and true crime podcast series often reside near the top of the podcast charts. What is our morbid fascination murder? Why do we gawk at the misfortune of others, often forming our opinion based less on fact than on entertainment? Millions of untrained people are fed the most sensational aspects of a story and willingly sit and devour that information for their own entertainment. Join us as host Karl Stern examines True Crime entertainment.

This week on the DragonKing Dark Podcast we have two retro TV reviews for you of very differing types. Pulled from our Patreon archives at WhenItWasCool.com host Karl takes a look at one of his favorite TV shows, the gothic vampire soap opera Dark Shadows.  Then Karl is joined by Tonya from When It Was Cool to discuss the witch themed sitcom Bewitched! Two very different shows and both with Halloween themes!

A great show for you today as Karl reviews the book The Led Zeppelin Curse by Lance Gilbert exploring Jimmy Page and his involvement with the occult and especially his ownership of the Boleskine House manor on the shores of Loch Ness previously owned by the occultist Alister Crowley. Did Jimmy Page's dabbling in the dark arts bring doom down on the band? Did a curse placed on Jimmy Page by an occult film director cause his downfall? What is the real story of Boleskine House and it's history? (It's burned down twice). Plus wizards, a fatal church fire, and more!

Tarot cards evoke images of the esoteric and occult. With names like "The Devil", "The Hanged Man", "The Tower", and "Death", it's not hard to understand why tarot cards stoke the imagination. While decks of cards have been used for millennia for divination, the Tarot's antiquity is someone in question. While they have been linked to ancient Egypt the evidence is somewhat questionable. Never the less, the Tarot are imaginative, interesting, and somewhat scary. Let's look at the Tarot cards.