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No Lies Just BS

Nick Swartz

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Listen to Nick Swartz tell stories about his life. From growin' up in the small VA mountain town of Clifton Forge to his entry into and career in the tattoo industry. All the rough upbringin', punk rock, family, country, skateboardin', good eatin', blues, ass-kickin', tattooed, hard to believe but addictin' to perceive bullshit that can be packed into each episode. His brother Josh helps out and the guests are the best of the best.
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Small Town Murder

James Pietragallo, Jimmie Whisman

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Two comedians look at a small town, what makes it tick, and a murder that took place there. In depth research, horrible tragedy, and the hosts' comedic spin on the whole thing. New episodes every Thursday!!
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Taboo Tales Podcast

Laurenne Sala & Corey Podell

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We define a taboo story as something you would never EVER talk about at the dinner table. Even after a few glasses of wine. Society has made the rules, and our mission is to break them because we honestly believe: The more we all talk about how fucked up we are, the more normal we all feel. Since establishing our stage show in 2010, Taboo Tales has covered everything from living with HIV to being born without rectal muscles to blindness to being forty and lonely. One requirement is that all ...
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Destroying Lives and Livers is the premiere podcast for the everyday millennial. Casey and Jeremiah cover a variety of topics including booze, bars, sports, and life in general. At the end of each episode they hope to leave your liver and life in a new/worse state. **This podcast has a one drink minimum**
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Malevolent

Harlan Guthrie

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Do not fear the dark, fear what darkness brings... Arkham Private Investigator Arthur Lester wakes up with no memory of who he is or what has happened, only a nameless, eerie voice guiding him through the darkness. Blind, terrified, and confused, his journey will lead him towards a series of mysteries in the hopes of understanding the truth of what has transpired. As cosmic horrors seep into the world around, Arthur must ask himself whether this entity truly seeks to help him, or are its int ...
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Join writer Elizabeth Flux and comedian Ben McKenzie on their six(ish) year mission to read every Terry Pratchett novel – not just the Discworld ones! They’ll read one a month, and discuss them with special guests, puns and footnotes. Episodes released on the 8th of each month (Australian time); check pratchatpodcast.com and the end of each episode for notice of the next book, and send in questions to us via social media! The explicit tag represents a fairly average Australian level of coars ...
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The Book Club Review

The Book Club Review

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Discussion, debate, even a little dispute – expect it all on The Book Club Review. Every month hosts Kate and Laura bring you a new episode. That could be Book Club where we chat about the book read most recently by one of our book clubs. It could be Bookshelf, an episode dedicated to the books we're reading outside of book club – the ones we get to pick and choose. Or it could be an interview with a book club, bookshop or book lover. Whatever the topic, every episode features lively and fra ...
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The Spoke

Outside the March

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The Spoke is Outside the March's monthly storytelling event. Inspired by The Moth in New York, every month we present true stories told live, based around a given theme.
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Weekly Spooky: Horror Stories & Scary Tales

Henrique Couto | Halloween Horror Expert | Master of Horror Stories

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Join Henrique Couto for Halloween horror stories and spooky tales! Explore urban legends, haunted houses, cursed objects, vampires, werewolves, and cryptids in expertly narrated, mature-themed stories perfect for spooky season. Every Monday and Wednesday, get scary frights with cinematic sound design, dark humor, and twist endings. Whether you're into horror stories, creepy legends, or seasonal specials, Weekly Spooky delivers the scariest stories for late-night chills, road trips, and binge ...
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Which Murderer?

Which Murderer

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Which Murderer brings together two hosts who talk about the methods, motives and background to murderers and their victims, covering two crimes per episode and debating from the victim's perspective which murderer they would pick to kill them if they HAD to choose. Hosted by Holly (the Canadian) and Garry (the Scot) from Scotland. Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/whichmurderer/) Twitter (https://twitter.com/whichmurderer) Explicit content and subject matter.
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This conversational storytelling podcas features interviews with a wide range of guests who are prompted to reveal a headline for a funny personal true story. Hosted by comedian Tim Barnes, "It's All True!" is quick, sonically rich and always fun. timbarnescomedy.substack.com
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Hot and Bothered

Not Sorry Productions

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Hot and Bothered is all about the power of romance culture. We analyze romance novels and movies to better imagine our own happy endings. Episodes release weekly on Tuesdays. CURRENT SEASON: Hot and Bothered (Movie Edition) We make Hot and Bothered because we are interested in the way that love stories have impacted our lives and culture. For our fifth season of the show, we’re turning our attention to romantic films. Vanessa and Hannah McGregor dig into the canon of romantic films, from Tit ...
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Shame That Tune

Shame That Tune

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Part-storytelling event, part-comedy, part-musical, 100% embarrassing for the contestants/storytellers. This monthly musical-comedy game show was devised by Chicago Reader contributor and Outer Minds drummer Brian Costello and former Baby Teeth front man Abraham Levitan. Each episode features three locally famous contestants telling embarrassing stories, being interviewed by Costello, and then standing helplessly by while Levitan turns their stories into warped covers of popular songs—and th ...
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Something's Not Right

Something's Not Right

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Dive into the world of true crime and the paranormal with Olivia and Thashana on Something’s Not Right. From heartbreaking crimes to bizarre mysteries, their single-host true crime episodes offer a serious and thoughtful exploration of cases, while their duo-host paranormal and oddities episodes bring humor into the unexplained. Prepare for a captivating listening experience that will leave you craving more. Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/something-s-not ...
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It’s the English class you didn't know you missed and the meaningful conversations you didn't know you craved. Join Vanessa Zoltan and Matt Potts as they bring thought, reflection and laughter to Harry Potter; not just as novels, but as instructive and inspirational texts that will teach us about our own lives. Relive the magic of Harry Potter chapter by chapter as Matt and Vanessa explore themes such as commitment, revenge and forgiveness. This podcast creates time in your week to think abo ...
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The Delivery Podcast brings together leading thinkers to explore what it is to be human in complex project delivery and how a human-centric approach enables a sea change in how projects are conceived, structured and delivered, and the value they generate.
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A true crime / survival mystery from the Siberian wilds: in August 1993, seven hikers entered the Hamar-Daban Mountains of Buryatia (near Lake Baikal)—and only one walked back out. What happened on that windswept ridge has been called the “Buryat Dyatlov Pass”: a sudden storm, a frantic descent, and then a cascade of bizarre symptoms—foaming at the…
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Ah, there you are. Unknown Broadcast returns with old-time radio horror stories, classic OTR, and radio suspense for those who like the dark close and the volume low, my dear. Tonight the valves warm and the quiet learns to talk: 🔥 Hell Hath No Fury — Fame can’t drown jealousy; a private curtain falls where the applause can’t reach. 🌒 The Night Rev…
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Small town horror stories hit different—because everyone knows your name… and everyone is hiding something. In this Weekly Spooky Vault compilation, we dig into Small Town Secrets where quiet streets cover up occult rituals, missing people, backwoods monsters, and ancient things that should’ve stayed buried. Lock your doors, kill the lights, and li…
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This week, in South Salt Lake, Utah, what seems like a simple missing person investigation turns deadly serious, when a pair of legs is discovered in a dumpster, behind a local grocery store. Detectives then dig up the yard of a friend of the victim, and find even more body parts. It turns out that this "friend" is not only trying to steal the vict…
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Kick off the Best of 2025 with one of the most intense episodes we released on the Weekly Spooky horror podcast—a brutal winter survival horror story where a long-haul trucker gets trapped at a lonely truck stop after a sudden blizzard buries the world in white. The bathroom run turns into a nightmare when his tracks vanish, the store is locked and…
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This week, in Waterford, Connecticut, the bodies of multiple women are placed on rural streets & posed, in a certain way, while having the exact same cause of death. Detectives are pretty sure that it's the same killer, possibly a serial killer, but finding that killer isn't so easy. The case goes cold, until a seemingly minor incident eventually l…
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Weekly Spooky rings in the new year with a New Year’s Eve horror story that spirals into a Y2K nightmare—and it all starts with a stupidly simple discovery: crank two radios loud enough, hit the right tone, and you can rip open a hole in time. Sixteen-year-old Jimmy and his cousin Phillip start pulling lost junk from the void… until grief turns cur…
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For this week’s bi-weekly scene study, Vanessa and Hannah analyze the ending of White Christmas. They discuss 50's nostalgia and why ballerinas are 'Christmas' coded. Hot and Bothered is a Not Sorry Production Find us at our website | Follow us on Instagram --- If we give you butterflies, consider supporting us on Patreon! On Patreon we have more g…
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New Year’s horror, horror movie history, and messages from the other side—welcome to This Week in Horror History, the weekly horror podcast where we track what happened on these dates across film, books, and cult classics.In this episode, Henrique Couto follows a haunting thread that runs straight through the holiday: a phone that calls from the fu…
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Monthly Spooky true crime + paranormal to close out the year: a chilling wrongful conviction case tied to a 1987 Times Square-area murder that stole decades from two lives—and the long road to exoneration when the truth finally surfaced. Inside this episode: The New Year’s Eve case: The wrongful convictions of Eric Smokes and David Warren after a 1…
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Ah, there you are, my dear. Unknown Broadcast returns with old-time radio horror stories, classic OTR ghost tales, and radio suspense for these last nights before New Year’s Eve—when clocks get louder and promises come due. Sit close to the speaker and let the tubes warm. Inside tonight’s program: 👼 Angel of Death — Grief invites a visitor who neve…
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Ring in the new year with a New Year’s Eve horror stories marathon built for maximum dread: devil bargains, vampires in the dark, zombie chaos, and a paranormal case file that turns the end of the year into a blood-soaked countdown. If you’re searching for scary New Year stories, NYE horror, or a horror anthology podcast to binge, this is your midn…
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This week, in Minden, Nevada, a horrifying scene in a lovely home, leaves suspicions squarely on the dead man's wife, who claims to have slept through a shotgun blast, and woke up to the front door being wide open. Detectives follow her around, waiting for a slip up. But did she actually do it? A drunken call to detectives changes everything, and o…
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Looking for after Christmas horror stories and scary Christmas stories to keep the season creepy on December 26? Tonight on the Weekly Spooky feed, we’re dropping a holiday horror podcast double feature—two full-length Christmas horror novellas built for the quiet, eerie day after Christmas, when the decorations are still up… and the darkness feels…
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This week, in Woodbridge Township, New Jersey, several matching suitcases found in different places, all contain body parts that add to a a whole person. This leads to an investigation that reveals a shady spouse, some of the most incriminating internet searches ever typed, and one of the most brutal & senseless murders possible. Will anyone be hel…
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Weekly Spooky drops a Christmas Eve horror story soaked in ’90s slasher energy and last-minute retail panic. In Etawah, Oklahoma (1996), Otis Kilgore walks into the Big K like it’s a church—new car, new haircut, new plan—convinced a cashier named Diane has been sending him secret messages. But when the store “messes with” his routine, Otis spirals …
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Happy holiday season! We're interrupting our mini-season on the wedding industrial complex to bring you our (now) annual holiday movie. Vanessa Zoltan and Hannah McGregor meet at an inn Vermont to record this week’s episode of Hot and Bothered about White Christmas. This week, we discuss the trope of the 'tricky Jew', minstrelsy, and nostalgia. We …
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Step into This Week in Horror History and relive the nightmare fuel of December 22–28: a Christmas-week collision of alien infiltration, true-case exorcism lore, and paranoia-soaked sci-fi horror. This episode digs into: Dec 25, 1998 — The Faculty: the ultimate ’90s teen alien horror—teachers acting wrong, bodies getting swapped, and the school tur…
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Weekly Spooky unleashes a Christmas horror anthology where the lights are twinkling… and the afterlife is weaponized. When Jack Scratch throws open the curtains on Hell’s “operations,” you don’t get fire-and-brimstone pageantry—you get clipboards, procedures, and punishments dressed up in tinsel. Tonight’s holiday horrors include: The Santa Experim…
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We finally got Matty Goldstein to sit down for a full episode of NLJBS. He hit the road from Key City Tattoo in Frederick, MD along with fellow Key City artist Justin Bush and headed into Rocktown to Alley Cat Tattoo; Harrisonburg VA. It's a great conversation about starting out as an artist and getting into tattooing later. There's a ton of great …
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Dive into Christmas true crime, Santa Claus history, and holiday folklore with the real medieval relic heist that helped shape the legend of Santa. In 1087, sailors from Bari, Italy break into the tomb of St. Nicholas in Myra (modern Turkey)—and the world’s most famous Christmas icon gets a disturbingly real origin story. Inside the candlelit crypt…
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Unknown Broadcast — old-time radio horror stories, classic OTR, radio suspense, and Christmas ghost stories for the longest nights of the year. A special holiday edition, my dear: later nights for cold frights. We unwrap mislaid presents, whispered confessions, and footsteps in new snow; a Yule of shivers where favors come due and the past waits in…
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Christmas horror stories marathon time, my spookies. Tonight on Weekly Spooky, you’re getting a full holiday horror novella triple-feature—three long, nasty winter tales where tinsel and terror share the same oxygen. This is cozy-season listening with sharp teeth: a haunted mall after-hours, a slumber-party movie night that opens the wrong door, an…
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If you’re hunting for Christmas horror stories and scary Christmas stories that feel like a warm holiday glow… right before the lights go out—welcome to the final Xmas compilation of the year on the Weekly Spooky feed. Expect holiday horror, supernatural dread, and the kind of winter nightmares that make you double-check the chimney, the gift tags,…
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This week, in Bellaire, Ohio, a teenager finds his family absolutely butchered, in their home. Even crazier is the fact that his mother is found, with nails, next to her body, and his father's head has been placed in a bowl, under some satanic drawings. What this boy doesn't know is that he was supposed to be killed, too. The murderer ends up havin…
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It’s Christmas Eve, the lights are bright, the carols are fake, and something wrong is crawling down the chimney of a normal night. In this Weekly Spooky Christmas horror story, Allison just wants to survive the holidays long enough to buy a last-minute gift… but a filthy, broken “Santa” has other plans — and he’s working off a Naughty List that do…
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If you’re hunting for a Christmas horror movie that isn’t cozy or cute, Dead End (2003) is a nasty little gift waiting on a snowy back road. On this episode of Cutting Deep into Horror, hosts Henrique Couto & Rachael Redolfi sink into the cult Christmas chiller where the Harrington family’s Christmas Eve shortcut becomes an endless nightmare of cur…
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This week Vanessa and Casper are joined by their old pal Ariana to respond to a few of the wonderful voicemails we've received while making our final season of Harry Potter and the Sacred Text! Thanks to Johanna & Regine, Jenny, Julie, Kieran, Rowan & Caitlin for their beautiful voicemail contributions! Next week we're reading Chapter 34, The Fores…
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Looking for a Christmas horror story that hits like a slasher, moves like a thriller, and burns like a nightmare? This week on Weekly Spooky, the holidays turn deadly in the Strickfield universe when a toxic chemical crash on a snowy Ohio highway ignites neon green fire—and something comes shambling out of it. Detective Chantel Devereux thinks the …
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This week, in Washington Township, Michigan, a man claims that his high powered wife, just walked out on him, after an argument. But when no one ever sees her, again, suspicions start to build. Especially, when detectives see that the couple has an attractive, 19 year old German live in babysitter. Was this an affair gone wrong? All is revealed, as…
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Dive into this chilling Christmas horror story where a centuries-old witch's curse entwines with a doomed romance. From the icy Middle Ages to modern-day Strickfield, discover how true love battles a dark, supernatural force in a tale filled with eerie twists and mature themes. Unwrap a spooky story perfect for fans of horror stories and chilling h…
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Bundle up, my spookies—this week’s This Week in Horror History digs into Christmas horror movies, winter ghost stories, and festive frights from December 15–21. We’re hanging the stockings and turning off the lights as we revisit the classics that made the holidays just a little more terrifying. We kick things off with Mel Brooks’ Young Frankenstei…
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For this week’s bi-weekly scene study, Vanessa and Carvell Wallace analyze the ending of Bridesmaids. They discuss Helen's questionable taste level, the way the film frames romantic love vs. friendship, and how class performance constrains emotion. Hot and Bothered is a Not Sorry Production Find us at our website | Follow us on Instagram --- If we …
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Weekly Spooky brings you a Christmas horror story about a broke newsboy, a hidden antiques shop, and a cursed snow globe that can tilt luck itself—if you’re willing to pay. Inside the glass sits a miniature winter town… and with each whispered wish, the flakes swirl… and a few turn black. At first, it feels like a miracle: debts vanish, odds bend, …
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When most people think of Christmas, they picture cozy lights, warm cocoa, and jolly Saint Nick. But in parts of France and Belgium, children grew up with a much darker figure stalking the snowy streets: Père Fouettard, the “French Krampus” — Saint Nicholas’ brutal Christmas punisher. In this chilling episode of Terrifying & True, we unwrap one of …
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