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In the second part of our series, pop culture historian Jamie Loftus takes us through the meteoric rise of Pee-wee Herman and the withering of Paul Reubens' world as dubious allegations surface that threaten to turn a beloved children’s character into a real life villain. Jamie tells us about his struggle to reconcile the character of Pee-wee with the real Paul Reubens, and how his longtime friendships became his sanctuary until the very end. 

Content Warning: This episode contains discussion of explicit materials involving minors 

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What happens when you’re just a little too good at forging the diaries of Adolf Hitler? And why did so many people want to read them? In 1983, the West German news magazine Stern bought sixty volumes of forged journals and held a press conference to announce their publication. This week, Adrian Daub of podcasts In Bed With the Right and The Feminist Present is here to tell us all about what would be the publishing hoax to end all hoaxes…if only the book in question wasn’t so boring. 

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This week, flim flam correspondent and certified April Fool Chelsey Weber-Smith is here to talk about a fistful of fake memoirs, featuring girls raised by wolves; the chicken pox of James Frey; what poetry can give us that memoir can't; and Eugene, Oregon (twice!). 

Read more about it here:

The Smoking Gun's "A Million Little Lies" https://www.thesmokinggun.com/documents/celebrity/million-little-lies

Blake Eskin's "The Girl Who Cried Wolf" https://www.bostonmagazine.com/2008/08/18/the-girl-who-cried-wolf-a-holocaust-fairy-tale/

Michelle Dean's "Opal Whiteley's Riddles" https://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/opal-whiteleys-riddles

Christopher L. Miller's Impostors https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/I/bo29203296.html


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"Our alleged serial killers deserve better than this." Was Elizabeth Báthory the most prolific serial killer of all time, or was she just in the wrong place at the wrong time? Do we even have the tools to know? And what about that bathing in the blood of virgins thing? Lizzie correspondent Princess Weekes is here with your election night distract-a-thon. 

Princess' YouTube Channel
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"Tall, Dark and Racially Ambiguous"
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This week, we fight the real enemy with Allyson McCabe.
 
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You can find Allyson's book Why Sinéad O'Connor Matters here.

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From our friends at Maintenance Phase, the story of how Nestlé executives, global health institutions and a very racist white lady seeded a nutritional myth we're still living with today.

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Mike tells Sarah how a tragic story became a national punchline and a decades-long moral panic. Digressions include a sympathetic psychic, a paternalistic principal and a manure mishap. Mike appears to be unaware of the difference between a cousin and a nephew.

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• Distorting the Law: Politics, Media, and the Litigation Crisis 
• Java Jive: Genealogy of a Juridical Icon
• Newsweek’s “Lawsuit Hell” story
• Retro Report’s “The Misunderstood McDonald's Hot Coffee Lawsuit
• Adam Ruins Everything’s “The Truth About the McDonald's Coffee Lawsuit”
• Swindled’s “The Lawsuit”
• Susan Saladoff's "Hot Coffee" documentary
• McTorts: The Social and Legal Impact of McDonald's Role in Tort Suits
• Legal Urban Legends Hold Sway
• Revisiting The United States Application Of Punitive Damages: Separating Myth From Reality
• Six Myths of Capping Pain and Suffering Damages
• The Monster In The Television: The Media's Contribution To The Consumer Litigation Boogeyman
• The Beginning And The Possible End Of The Rise Of Modern American Tort Law
• Debunking Medical Malpractice Myths: Unraveling the False Premises Behind "Tort Reform"
• Blocking the Courthouse Door: How the Republican Party and Its Corporate Allies Are Taking Away Your Right to Sue

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While our next episode's in the oven,  enjoy this gem from the YWA vault!

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This week we debunk Mike Warnke right out of his cabin and into the lake, using Cornerstone Magazine’s long overdue exposé as our guide. Digressions include "Star Trek," a classic New Yorker cover and Ariana Grande. We definitively conclude that the Bible endorses cancel culture.
This episode, we’re sorry to say, includes detailed descriptions of domestic abuse.

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We finish our San Bernardino joyride through Mike Warnke’s 1972 “memoir” with a hex, a horrible crime and a Satanic celebrity cameo. Digressions include digressions include Billie Eilish, wicker men and today’s completely new and not at all throwback panic over critical race theory.

This episode includes a wildly fake but nonetheless disturbing description of a sexual assault.

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