Freshly squeezed shots of inspiration from artists at all stages of their career, Fickle Juice asks the question: What keeps us dancing?
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Erin and Amanda are sisters, librarians, and sister librarians hailing from scenic central Oklahoma, and in this series they examine and rank clubs, cults, MLMs and more to determine which one they'd most like to join. Join us for math and questionable singing.
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Join Katie and Lena as they revisit classic romantic comedies and their effect on...everything! Your quirky best friends/leading ladies/podcast hosts discuss the impact the films have had on their lives and how they fit into the social and political landscape of the modern world. Each week they chat with guests about fave points throughout the story, philosophize about the essential elements of a great movie, and share romcommoms (romcom moments) from their own lives. It's the RomCom Effect!
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Meryl Hathaway is a Wellness coach, inclusive greeting card designer and a face you may have seen on TV here and there. In each episode, Meryl and her fellow "Lemons" swap stories of their medical experiences, from symptoms through recovery, with honesty, empathy and humor to spread the conversation and grow a community, unafraid to speak truth & show support... because really? We're all Lemons!
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Episode 87: The Enfield Poltergeist, Ghostwatch, and (haunted) Government Cheese
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Any of your better cheese experts will tell you there’s nothing that pairs better with a fist-sized hunk of Government Cheese than a couple of British ghost stories, one almost certainly made up, the other definitely made up. Warm up your false vocal chords for some fake ghost sounds, and learn more about the chain of government fuckery that ended …
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Episode 86: Not Jeff, but Gef / more like NarcoNONSENSE AMIRITE
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My freshman year in college I (Brian) got like, Freshman Drunk at a house party where a home video was playing. My friend Jeff appeared in the video several times, and apparently every time he was onscreen I would slur, from the living room floor, "there's Jeff." The story of Gef (he's Welsh!) the Talking Mongoose seems not dissimilar, except the h…
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Episode 85: Frank Dux gets his ass beat in Cassadaga
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We don't like to brag or anything, but the people behind Madness Madness have accomplished some pretty incredible feats of combat prowess, to the point where several hit movies have been based on our exploits: Avatar, Avengers: Endgame, Avatar: The Way of Water, Titanic, Star Wars: Episode VII - The Force Awakens, Avengers: Infinity War, Spider-Man…
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Episode 84: The Emu War and the Nimbin Aquarius Festival
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Aine’s in town! In honor of friend of the pod/friend of us as actual people, today’s episode is all Australia, all the time! There’s Corn Thins! Mike invented them! There’s Tim Tams! Some saint or another invented them! And there’s research that yields phrases like “singer Paul Joseph, Donny McCormack (ex-Nutwood Rug Band), The Larrikins and Ian Fa…
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Episode 83: Christian Fundamentalist Amusement Parks; Albert Broel, Frog Magnate
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Florida’s state government isn’t the only bunch to get a bug up its collective ass over Disney not being fundamentalist enough: Turns out there’s a storied history of Old Testament fanboys opening entire theme parks, except instead of a theme there’s the Bible, and instead of a park there’s the Bible. Today we learn more about this string of inexpl…
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Episode 82: Karl “Old Shatterhand” May; Richard “Signal 30” Wayman
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Like reasonable people everywhere, we here at Madness Madness, when considering the accurate and true representation of American Indians in film, television, and literature, immediately think of Germany. Thus none of you will be surprised to learn of Karl May, creator in the 1890s of the “Old Shatterhand” novels, the Wild West adventures of the tit…
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Episode 81: Dr. John C. Lilly; Rollen "Rainbow Head" Stewart
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We say it a lot here on the show, but the 1960s was an era unique for its sheer volume of uninformed drug-induced white guy fuckery. Emblematic of said fuckery was Dr. John C. Lilly, who was real into dolphins and LSD and giving dolphins LSD when he wasn't floating in an isolation tank trying to miraculously make it even further up his own ass. For…
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Episode 80: Madame Rachel and the Neptune Ceremony!
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If you’ve ever asked yourself, “Do I have what it takes to cross the equator? On a boat? For the first time?”, you’ll need to consider some follow-up questions: How good a swimmer are you? How do you feel about the biggest, hairiest dude on your ship being greased up and dressed like a baby? And is there a way you can take a car, plane, or train in…
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Episode 79: The Blackburn Cult and Explo '72!
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SPRING BREEEEEAK!!!! Today we're taking a break from not talking about cults, so as to learn more about the Blackburn Cult, the proper name of which is the Divine Order of the Royal Arms of the Great Eleven, a name perhaps designed to remind people that while the Great Depression might be raging, you can still use as many words and letters as you w…
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Episode 78: The Minnesota Starvation Experiment and the Tar Creek Superfund Site
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Have we all, every one of us, stared at a small humanlike doll and thought to ourselves, "What would it be like if this doll were like 35+ dudes and I starved them for six months in the University of Minnesota football stadium?" Of course we have; there's no need to even phrase it as a question. A notable fellow of science thought the same thing du…
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Zoë Bastin - A Role Model For My 9 Year Old Self
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Zoë Bastin is an artist. Her expanded choreographic practice considers exhibition, installation, publication and performance as part of the same political project - the reorganisation of societal structures that limit bodies. In 2021 she completed a PhD at RMIT, University. Bastin has previously exhibited & performed at the Villa Lena Foundazione, …
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Episode 77: Painless Parker and the Actual Shogun Guy
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A lot of people say dentistry lost its street cred when it started happening in "Offices" with "Sterile Instruments" and "Windows that close," and at one point the Street Dentist who legally changed his first name to Painless to avoid a lawsuit would have agreed with you. Today we learn about this ... guy ... in the history of dentistry. Plus, a lo…
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Deepa P Mani - Leaving the 9-5 and sliding into DMs
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Deepa P Mani is a Naarm / Melbourne- based Performing & Teaching artist with over 30 years’ experience in both Classical Bharathanatyam & Contemporary styles. An accomplished performer, dance theatre producer and owner of Chandralaya School of Dance, she believes passionately in the power of traditional dance to connect people with their heritage, …
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Episode 76: The Dreadnought Hoax and Ada Blackjack
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Most days you get up, have a coffee, look at the same six gifs again, and then it's off to work. But what if you didn't have the daily grind to distract you, and you could focus on doing the things that really feed your soul? If the things that feed your soul include dressing in blackface and pranking the entire Imperial Navy, you've got some racis…
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Episode 75: Square Dancing, Sonic Booms, and a Brand New Year!
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What better way to ring in the new year with a solid six months of deafening, damaging aural assaults that you're powerless to stop? Other than a bracing series of square dances, nothing I can think of! This week we learn about what would ultimately become one of the most important reasons we don't have cross-country supersonic passenger flights. W…
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TAKE 22 launch - with Derrick Duan, Shyama Sasidharan and Jacqui Maida
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Throughout 2022 your hosts engaged in Dancehouse’s Emerging Choreographers Program (ECP). This live artist talk from the 2022 ECP "take over" season, TAKE 22 introduces artists Derrick Duan, Shyama Sasidharan and Jacqui Maida. ECP is a year-long capacity building and professional development initiative offering young choreographers from diverse cul…
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Episode 74: Troubled Gymnasts! Magazines for Ladies!
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Are you now, or have you ever been, a Lady? If yes, were you a Lady in the United States during the 19th Century? You are doubtless familiar, then, with Godey's Lady's Book, a source of densely packed text, hand-colored fashion plates, piano sheet music, and the odd Edgar Allan Poe short story ("for the love of Godey, Montresor!"). All this, plus a…
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Hayley Does - Removing Labels
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Hayley Does is an emerging contemporary dance artist based in Naarm (Melbourne)/Wadawarrung Country (Surf Coast). A Victorian College of the Arts (dance) graduate, Does' choreographic practice harnesses duration and repetition through live multi-medium improvisational collaborations to investigate the body's relationship to places we inhabit. They …
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Shelley O'Meara - The Doing Factor
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Shelley O’Meara is a Melbourne based video artist, animator and dancer. Having recently completed their Honours degree in Animation at the VCA, Shelley’s work combines dance, projected animation and intricate video layering techniques to develop highly immersive works on and off the screen. Concerned with power, autonomy and the politicisation of b…
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Priya Srinivasan - Unveiling Hidden Histories
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Priya Srinivasan has a dual career as an artist and scholar committed to questions of decolonisation and interdisciplinary postcolonial feminist performance. Her work brings together live bodily performance with visual art, interactive multimedia and digital technology to think about archives of the body, migration, and female labour. Her work has …
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Episode 73: 40 Elephants, a Sci-Fi Convention, and Thou
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You know what's awesome? VICTORIAN LADY THIEVES. You know what else is awesome? Science Fiction! Mostly! Partly. It's complicated. Today we hear tales of both things!Erin Byrne & Amanda Clay
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Welcome to Fickle Juice
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What is Fickle Juice? The first episode of our first podcast. Chelsea and Erin in a casual, meandering conversation about where they're at in their artistic career, what they've achieved this year and what might come out of Fickle Juice.Chelsea Byrne & Erin O'Rourke
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Episode 72: When a Mannequin is More Than a Mannequin
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Two pivotal questions lie at the heart of this week's episode. One: To what extent have we been collectively missing out as a society since the practice of soap carving fell by the wayside? Two: What happens when Erin and Amanda don't call their dad?Erin Byrne & Amanda Clay
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Episode 71: Bicentennial Chiropractors!
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By the time July 4, 1976 had rolled around, a lot of people had put a lot of effort into crushing the whole thing into a bureaucratic logjam. A lot more people had made sure not one single American had the option of forgetting, even for a moment, that it was the BICENTENNIAL AND EVERYBODY BETTER AMERICA REAL REAL HARD STARTING RIGHT NOW, GOT IT?!? …
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Episode 70: Buggery and Bald Knobbers
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Today, a lighthearted look at England's long and storied history of, as an official act, killing men for being gay. It goes back a while! It's awful and pointless, but ... uh. Well. No actual "but" there, as it turns out. We'll also examine a group of racist vigilantes of the pedigree that's only possible in central Missouri. Also they called thems…
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Episode 69: Pullman Porters and the Hitler Diaries? Nice.
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George Pullman, it should be universally agreed, was a huge piece of shit. Nobody who isn't a huge piece of shit has himself buried in hundreds of cubic feet of concrete and railroad ties to keep his employees from besmirching his corpse. Today we'll be talking about the Pullman Porters, black men and women who migrated north for a better life afte…
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Episode 68: K-Tel Records and the Dionne Quintuplets!
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It's easy to forget the days before fertility treatments that yielded between four and thirty babies per pregnancy. It's even easier to forget 1934, since most of us weren't born yet. You know who WAS born in 1934? The Dionne Quintuplets! As was the case for a great many Depression-era babies, things didn't go as well as they could have. Speaking o…
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Episode 67: A 17th-Century Bi Vivant, and The Greatest Football Team Between Kansas and Texas
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Boomeur Sooneur!! Today Erin takes a look at the practically unheard-of* football team at the University of Oklahoma, and Amanda introduces us to Julie d'Aubigny, a vastly overexposed** 17th-Century fencing master, opera singer, and lover of the ladies, who managed to do a frankly astonishing amount of L-I-V-I-N inside 33 years. Join us, won't you?…
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Episode 66: The Ship's Cat Catches a North Korean Godzilla
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If you've listened to the podcast for a while, you've almost certainly been waiting literally months to hear us spend an hour and a half talking about cats. WAIT NO LONGER, MY FRIENDS! Today Amanda tells us about ship's cats, in between the times when we interrupt ourselves and each other talking about other cats. Then Erin takes us on a trip in th…
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Episode 65: Just Say No to the Penn Square Bank Collapse
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The thing about the '80s is that there was a lot of money and a lot of drugs, and they were both gonna last forever! Until they didn't. This week Erin tells us about the collapse of the Penn Square Bank, which knocked the oil business on its ass far beyond the greater Oklahoma City area, and was toooootally different than the financial collapse of …
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Regretfully we must inform you, our avid listeners, that there is no new episode this week because Adobe is being a dick about things. We are working on these technical difficulties and will be back as soon as humanly possible.Erin Byrne & Amanda Clay
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Episode 64: The Pearly Kings & Queens and the "Irish Crown Jewels"
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Today's show is a real study in contrasts. England's Pearly Kings and Queens (you've probably seen them even if you don't know the name) are working-class Britons who've been collecting money for charity by way of some truly jaw-dropping suits for more than a century. The person in charge of the "Irish Crown Jewels," by contrast, is ... actually ex…
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Episode 63: The Beast of Gévaudan & Ken Kesey's Merry Pranksters
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Sometimes a stark tragedy takes the form of an imperfect history. In this case the tragedy is that the Beast of Gévaudan, a creature or creatures who spent a chunk of the 1760s taking fatal chunks out of terrified villagers of the French countryside, did not show up 200 years later in the bus containing Ken Kesey and his "Merry Pranksters" and spen…
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Vacations! You love 'em! Unless they keep your favorite podcast from having a new episode. Then you resent them, which is understandable. We'll be back next week! It's still hot.Erin Byrne & Amanda Clay
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Episode 62: The Versailles Time Slip and The Toronto Clown Riot
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Is it hyperbolic to call it a Clown Riot when they were rioting against the Toronto Fire Department? Maybe. When clowns kick the ass of a city's fire department, and the fire department are Orangemen to a man and collectively symbolic both of municipal graft and Ulster Unionist fuckery, are the clowns immediately granted IRA membership? Friends, I'…
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Episode 61: Chris Noel and The Hunley! [GAAAAAAASP]
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Well fuck, it's wartime again on Madness Madness. Today we learn about legitimate national hero Chris Noel, who started her work actually supporting the actual troops in a way more useful than car window stickers in Vietnam and never looked back. We also learn about The Hunley!, a Civil War-era submarine that worked about as well as the submarine y…
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Episode 60: An IRA Horse Kidnapping and an American Icon's Slutty German Mom
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Look, the IRA did some unforgivable things in response to some equally unforgivable things done by the Ulster Unionists and centuries of even worse things done by the fucking English. But when you kidnap a horse hailed as a national hero by the people of Ireland itself, you have officially gone too far. Today we hear the tale of Shergar, a horse wh…
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Hello! Madness Madness is currently out of the office. You've pressed six to learn more about Tom Petty! Brian reads an excerpt from a remembrance by Warren Zanes, Petty's biographer, published a year after the absolute legend's death. You can read the full article here.Erin Byrne & Amanda Clay
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Hello! You've reached Madness Madness. We are currently out of the office. Please listen to your choices carefully, as our menu has changed.Erin Byrne & Amanda Clay
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Episode 59: The Abernathy Boys, Goat Testicle Surgery, and more
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How 'bout we just list some key items this episode has in it: Border Blasters, goat testicle implantation, rootin' tootin' child neglect, Brother Al ("A-L"), one hundred baby chicks by mail, Big Tex continuing to slowly and mechanically wave as he is engulfed in flames*, the ionosphere. Get to it! *this is quite possibly the funniest thing that had…
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Episode 58: The Ghosts of the Crescent Hotel and the Voynich Manuscript!
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Friends, do you like stunning stone structures perched on piney hilltops? Do you like the ghosts of mistreated sanitarium patients, dead from neglect? OK what about the ghost of a cute little orange tabby cat? OK! Me too! Let's go to the Crescent Hotel then, and learn about Eureka Springs' most haunted place! (Also one of the prettiest.) Oh, and be…
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Episode 57: Stagger Lee & Backward Masking!
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This week we have a look at the actual events that led to a legendary song, the most famous version of which contained the line "I've got three little children and a very sickly wife." Stagger Lee! Real shit! That there is a song that contains absolutely no hidden backward lyrics, which means it wasn't a part of the moral majority scare about rock …
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Episode 56: The Mechanical Turk, the 1989 Oklahoma Olympic Festival, and things not being OK
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Today we learn about automatons from hundreds of years ago, the most famous of which may have been The Mechanical Turk, which played chess with actual people in the room and got pissy with you if you tried to cheat. Then it's a personal story of a deeply unsettling babysitting gig, the 1989 Olympic Festival in Norman, Oklahoma, and the bleak shitsc…
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Episode 55: AAAAAA OK the tornado's over, Kit Williams' "Masquerade" cont'd, Piltdown Man
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OK WELL ANYWAY now that the tornado has passed, Erin can continue talking about Kit Williams' book "Masquerade" and the real-life treasure hunt it spawned (on purpose). And Amanda can tell us a little something about some obvious straight-up horse shit that the British scientific community uncritically gobbled right up because it wanted to believe …
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Episode 54: Koreshan Unity, Kit Williams' "Masquerade," AAAAAA TORNADO
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This week we spend some time with Koreshan Unity, which has nothing to do with Waco, the ATF, or TV movies starring the guy from "Wings" or, later, Tim Riggins. Although it might be worth debating whether the standoff in Waco would have ended differently if the Earth were hollow, as today's cult insisted it was. We also learn more about "Masquerade…
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Episode 53: The Mayerling Incident and the French Foreign Legion
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Gather 'round, listeners, and hear the story of what happens when dictatorships—sorry, I'm being told the proper name is monarchies—get so far up their own asses they get syphilis and start wars and basically murder literally millions of their own citizens. The Mayerling Incident was a low-key extremely important* example of this brand of royal fuc…
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Episode 52: Code Talkers, a Con Man, and an Immortal Baby
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Today we squint quizzically at James Bernard Schafer, a teleporting doctor who founded the Royal Fraternity of Master Metaphysicians and set out to raise an immortal baby! Until the baby's mother showed up and wanted her back. Still totally immortal, possibly.* We keep going, though, and end up with a look at “the most famous con man you’ve never h…
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Episode 51: Lyndon LaRouche and Fake Books!
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This week we examine a real insane person and fake books! Lyndon LaRouche ran for president 8 times and was less coherent with each successive run. Though he started out as a semi-Marxist pro-labor kinda guy, he quickly moved squarely into right-wing pro-insane bullshit territory. No matter what, there was always room in his heart for all sorts of …
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Episode 50: Fake Cults and a Fake High School! Church of the Subgenius vs. Bishop Sycamore High School
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This week on Madness Madness we're out here lookin' for starters, but all we can see is a bunch of jackoffs. First off we take a surprisingly thought-provoking journey to the '80s and '90s for a look at the Church of the Subgenius, a cult that wasn't actually a cult from the heady days of heavy 'zine-ing! Straight out of Dallas, very close to our h…
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