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The Hillsborough Disaster: A Fatal Crush, Soccer Hooligans, and a Massive Cover-Up
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2024-08-09
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Bonus Episode: Can a Heavy Metal Band Be The Most Successful Band of All Time?
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2024-08-08
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Metallica: Thrash Metal, Murder, and the Death of Cliff Burton
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2024-08-06
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Bonus Episode: Great Actors of the 1970s, Juvenile Delinquency, and the Luck of The Draw
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2024-08-01
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Al Pacino: Good and Evil, Attempted Robbery, and the Role of a Lifetime
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2024-07-30
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Bonus Episode: POV in Storytelling, 1970s Actors, and Sarah Vaughan vs. Ella Fitzgerald
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2024-07-25
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Bonus Episode: Teenage Obsessions, Your Suggestions, and Great Singers
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2024-07-23
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Bonus Episode: "Crazy" Artists, Ultraterrestrials, and Arnt Poppy in the Gararge
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2024-07-18
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Donny Hathaway: Angels, Demons, and Unexplained Visions
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2024-07-16
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Bonus Episode: Crime and Grime in 1977 NYC, Great Music Cities, CBGB Qu'est-ce que c'est?
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2024-07-11
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Talking Heads: Punk Rock, New Wave, Blackouts, and Psycho Killers
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2024-07-09
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Gianni Versace: Sly Stallone, Madonna, Elton John, a Serial Killer, and the Death of the Sun King
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2024-07-02
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Bonus Episode: Scene Showdown, Partying With Tyson, and Juvenile Stickups
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2024-06-27
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Waylon Jennings: Surviving Buddy Holly, the DEA, and Himself
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2024-06-27
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Bobby Brown: Cocaine Chicken, Horny Ghosts, and His Prerogative
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2024-06-25
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Bonus Episode: Justin Timberlake, Eighteen Banners, and Ghostwriter Grandstanding
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2024-06-20
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O.J. Simpson: Stolen Memorabilia, Armed Robbery, and Fake Gangsters
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2024-06-18
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Bonus Episode: The Punk-Rock Dock Ellis, Canseco the Troll, and "a Gorilla in a Zoo"
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2024-06-13
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Jose Canseco: SWAT Teams, Smuggled Drugs, and 'Roid Rage
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2024-06-11
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Bonus Episode: Suppressing the Truth, A Brother Under the Bus, and Profit as Virtue
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2024-06-06
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