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Human F*ckeryAuthor: Human F*ckery
If you waited by the TV for new episodes of Are You Afraid of the Dark each weekend or wasted study hall reading the weird parts of the encyclopedia, this ones for you SPECIFICALLY. Human F*ckery pits a doctor of psychology and an investigative journalist against one another in a battle of wits, research, and creative storytelling. Each episode the curious pair get assigned a topic. Then, they go spelunking through historys colon in an effort to find the most jaw-dropping, unbelievable, and utterly bonkers examples of that topic buried in the dark history deposited by our collective ancestors. Whats the point? To captivate, occasionally horrify, and accidentally educate a rotating panel of judgesincluding you, the listenerinto crowning one of our hosts the winner. This irreverent showcase for darker narratives buried in the historic trash heap was the winner of 2021s Best of the Beat Award here in New Orleans, which means its enjoyed by people besides the hosts parents. Language: en Genres: Documentary, Society & Culture, True Crime Contact email: Get it Feed URL: Get it iTunes ID: Get it |
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"Forgotten Serial Killers - Season Finale!"
Episode 12
Tuesday, 29 August, 2023
You said you wanted an episode on serial killers, and after months of absolutely heinous research (Kim cried), recording, and editing, it’s finally here: The Season Two Finale, “Forgotten Serial Killers,” featuring the stars of Netflix’s MINDHUNTER series.Teams Kimberly and Edward endeavored to find tales of true “multiple murderers” not already discussed to death by other podcasts and documentaries…and our guest judges, both well-versed professionally in retelling the stories of mad killers, agreed they pulled it off.Team Edward presents the blood-chilling history of The Red Ripper, a prolific monster hidden for decades by Soviet censorship and the first-ever Russian criminal to be caught in part by employing psychological profiling.Team Kimberly transports listeners to the antebellum frontier, where a family of mysteriously antisocial colonists led by a charismatic daughter terrorized travelers riding the Osage Mission Trail, earning themselves the terrible moniker The Bloody Benders.Our hosts were joined by MINDHUNTER headliners Holt McCallany (Fight Club, Alien 3, Blue Bloods, Mission Impossible: Dead Reckoning) and Michael Cerveris (Broadway’s Sweeney Todd and Assassins; TV’s Fringe and The Gilded Age), two guys who have made careers out of either playing killers, or playing the people who catch killers. In addition to the serial killer talk, they give us insight into working with cinematic masters like David Fincher; befriending Charles Mansonite Bobby Boselie; and learning from FBI profilers.If you’d like to learn more about The Bloody Benders yourself, check out one of our sources for this episode: Hell's Half-Acre: The Untold Story of the Benders, a Serial Killer Family on the American FrontierIf you’d like to read the book MINDHUNTER was based on, you can find that here:Mindhunter: Inside the FBI's Elite Serial Crime Unit Support the show
