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Deep Cuts

Hosts Dave Baker and Andrew Price walk you through the ins, outs, and the nitty gritty of an astonishing story from pop culture or history that you won"t believe you"ve never heard before.

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01:19:36

Mothman | Case File #59

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2021/03/31

A mysterious bird-like creature that is able to predict future tragedies has lived in the peripheries of our imaginations for decades. What is it? In the mid-60s, four people ran into a mysterious flying creature with glowing eyes while driving through the woods in the middle of the night. They reported the encounter to the media, and from that point on, any time a tragedy would occur, somebody would claim to spot this alleged "Mothman" lurking nearby. On this episode of Deep Cuts we dive into the

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01:33:06

The Bizarre Empire of The Wiggles | Case File #58

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2021/03/24

You've heard of this children's group, but did you know about their crazy rise to power? The Wiggles formed in the early 90s and had a meteoric rise to fame that is more fascinating than you'd ever imagine - with triumph, tragedy, pain, death, and illness. And they've risen above it all to be one of the most strangely enduring music group for preschoolers in history. -- Get the official Deep Cuts shoulder patch! http://bit.ly/deepcuts_patch -- Listen to our new album, a 9 song rock opera about the

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01:41:04

Disney World Has Its Own Government | Case File #57

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2021/03/17

Disney World was originally supposed to be a futuristic city, but it still has its own creepy corporate government. In the mid-1960s, Walt Disney was bored with his animation studio and frustrated and dissatisfied with the creative freedom he had with the 160 acre Disneyland theme park he had just built a few years prior. So he set his sights on something bigger. He was going to buy up a massive plot of land in Central Florida and build a private, corporately-owned city of the future called EPCOT

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02:24:42

How the WEIRD SATANIST GUY Went Viral w/Andrew Bowser...

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2021/03/10

He appeared on the Internet talking about his love for Satan, and then he became a household name. In the mid-2010s, videos started popping up on social media featuring a strange man dressed in an outfit that looked like it was purchased off the mannequin at a Hot Topic in 2005. He would appear around the country at various events captured on the news, and he always had an incredibly unique, hilarious, perplexing, and often-Satan-themed take on whatever was going on. He soon became a huge viral hit

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01:12:07

Captain Marvel's Racist Secret | Case File #55

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2021/03/03

The creator of Captain Marvel/Shazam! is a singular talent with a dark legacy of racism. In the late 1930s, the legendary comic character, Captain Marvel, who would later become known as Shazam! because of copyright issues, was created by writer Bill Parker and illustrator C.C. Beck. He went on to become more popular than Superman for a long period of time, adapted into multiple movies and tv shows, and just another piece of pop culture history for comic fans. However, the early inception of Captain

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02:59:17

Juggalos | Case File #54

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2021/02/24

A deep dive into the bizarre history of this fascinating but massive subculture. In the late 80s, a rap duo formed called the Insane Clown Posse - comprised of two men nicknamed Violent J and Shaggy 2Dope. They would go on to become massively successful for a time, but more importantly found a massive community of people all over the country called Juggalos. They're a tight-knit community of likeminded weirdos who wear clown face paint, listen to ICP, and...at one point were classified as a gang? On

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01:09:58

1918 Pandemic, AKA Spanish Flu | Case File #53

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2021/02/17

The 1918 global pandemic is almost note-for-note identical to what is happening today. In 1918, a severe case of influenza ravaged the entire planet - killing around 50 Million people worldwide in the span of a few years. The way we handled with it, the misinformation, the denial, the politicization, and everything else surrounding the Spanish Flu was oddly similar to what has happened in the last year of the COVID-19 pandemic, and yet we didn't seem to learn anything from it because, for whatever

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00:45:05

Woman Who Co-Wrote Novels With a Ghost | Case File #52

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2021/02/10

Pearl Curran wrote several novels in her lifetime, but she claims they were all actually written by a ghost. In the early 1900s, Pearl Curran became famous because she was a published novelist who claimed to have written all of her books by communicating with a spirit through a Ouija board. The ghost would communicate the words to her, and she would write them down. Was this true? Was Pearl insane? Or was she a con artist? We dive into the odd and fascinating story of Pearl Curran on this episode of

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01:52:41

How Gamestop Bankrupted Wall Street | Case File #51

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2021/02/03

An exhaustive breakdown of how Reddit bankrupted Wall Street using Gamestop stock. In late January 2020, a bunch of amateur stock traders in the subreddit /r/WallStreetBets decided that they would hatch a plan to drive up the value of stock shares in the ailing video game retailer, Gamestop. They bought up tons of the stock and within a few days the shares went up from $12 to over $400. Because a bunch of hedge funds had been majorly betting against Gamestop's stock improving, this move literally

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00:50:54

Dan Bilzerian, Social Media Fraud | Case File #50

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2021/01/27

He projected a lifestyle of riches, fame, women, cars, and guns...but it was all a lie. Dan Bilzerian started as a professional poker player that came from a rich - albeit controversial - family. Then, at some point in the 2010s he transitioned into being this ubiquitous Internet influencer - posting pictures of his wild parties, surrounded by beautiful models, in giant mansions, brandishing huge guns, and just generally showing off an aspirational lifestyle that garnered him a ton of attention

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01:01:44

The Warrens, Ghost Grifters & Secret Pedophiles? |...

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2021/01/20

The Conjuring was based on them, they were world famous ghost hunters, but they had two very dark secrets. Throughout the 60s, 70s, 80s, 90s, all the way up to their deaths in the late 2000s, Ed and Lorraine Warren were world famous for hunting ghosts, spirits, and other supernatural entities. They were a fiercely religious married couple who claimed to be demonologists and mediums. The Amityville Horror was based on one of their cases. They were the owners of the Annabelle doll. They are the

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01:37:32

Helen Keller Doesn't Exist? | Case File #48

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2021/01/13

A movement of millions of teenagers on Tik Tok now believe Helen Keller is a hoax. Why? At some point during this hells cape we called 2020, what started off as possibly a joke turned into a movement of millions of Gen Z kids on Tik Tok who collectively developed an elaborate conspiracy theory about how Helen Keller wasn't a real person. Some people believe she never existed. Some believe she was a scam artist. Some believe she was faking at least one of her disabilities. But either way, it's a

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01:01:32

Hobby Horsing, Competitive Fake Horse Riding | Case...

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2021/01/06

In Finland, thousands of little girls compete in national competitions where they do tricks on fake horses. Around 2004, a bizarre trend popped up in Finland among preteen girls - Hobby Horsing. Where little girls trains laboriously to compete in Olympics-style competitions where they take one of those horse heads on a wooden stick and ride it around doing intricate tricks and jumping over hurdles. The competitions are judged like an actual horse show, and the girls take their dedication to the

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01:49:20

Rise and Fall of Napster | Case File #46

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2020/12/30

Napster came out of nowhere, was the biggest thing in the world, and then disappeared just as quickly. What really happened? In the late 90s, the music industry was on the verge of change. Many were concerned about the growing popularity of the Internet, and how digital files could be easily shared from home to home. Could this have some kind of lasting effect on sales of albums somewhere down the line? But all that changed when a new program popped out seemingly out of nowhere: Napster. And it did

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00:21:14

Hillsmer's Holiday Special | Case File #45

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2020/12/28

Join Dave, Andrew, and Hillsmer on a very special Holiday episode of Deep Cuts. 00110000 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/deepcutspod/message

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02:54:58

Phantom Patriot, Deep State Superhero | Case File #44

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2020/12/23

He was a masked vigilante who stormed a private club for the wealthy elite in hopes of uncovering a deep state trafficking ring. In the early 2000s, Richard McCaslin had become obsessed with the idea of the Deep State and the New World Order, and the fact that Reptilian overlords were controlling humanity from behind the scenes. Specifically, he had hear from Alex Jones that there was a private club in Northern California called Bohemian Grove where some of the richest, most powerful celebrities,

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01:19:05

The Worst Harry Potter Fanfic Ever Written | Case...

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2020/12/16

In 2006, the worst fan fiction ever written was released. We still haven't figured out who actually wrote it. My Immortal is a bizarre, intensely terrible fan fiction published on the internet from 2006 to 2007. It features a Hot Topic-clad, suicidal, goth, My Chemical Romance-loving female vampire protagonist who goes to Hogwarts and has romances as well as conflicts with the cast of Harry Potter - except all goth'd and Hot Topic'd out themselves. It's a truly hypnotically awful piece of writing

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01:52:51

How Our Adam Sandler Hoax Went Viral | Case File #42

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2020/12/09

The strange story about the time we accidentally went viral for a hoax about Adam Sandler singing the entire Hamilton musical. In 2017, we recorded a weird inside joke bit where an impressionist, Matt Harbert, meticulously re-recorded the entire smash Broadway musical, Hamilton, in his Adam Sandler impression. We posted it online and nobody listened for years. Then, in 2020, out of nowhere, after we'd long forgotten about it, it became a huge viral hit on Tik Tok and Spotify. This is the anatomy of

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01:36:43

When Congress Tried to Ban Video Games w/ Jackson...

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2020/12/02

Mortal Kombat caused a chain reaction of parental fear in the 90s, so congress tried to ban video games. Video games fought back. In the early 90s, home video game consoles exploded in popularity. But with the newfound success came attention from concerned parents who didn't like seeing their kids exploding each others' heads in the violent fighting game, Mortal Kombat. This lead to a massively important congressional hearing in 1993 that would decide the fate of video games forever. This hearing

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01:03:10

Mother Teresa, Saint of Lies and Death | Case File #40

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2020/11/25

She is the most well-known Saint of the modern era, but her true legacy is full of cruelty, torture, and death. Throughout the 1950s - 1990s, Mother Teresa rose to prominence as one of the most well-known and celebrated humanitarians in history. She ran hundreds of hospitals and clinics to help rehabilitate the poverty and disease-stricken poor out of the kindness of her heart, was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, and was officially granted Saint status by the Catholic Church. We literally use her

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