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You said you wanted an episode on serial killers, and after months of absolutely heinous research (Kim cried), recording, and editing, itâs finally here: The Season Two Finale, âForgotten Serial Killers,â featuring the stars of Netflixâs MINDHUNTER series.
Teams Kimberly and Edward endeavored to find tales of true âmultiple murderersâ not already discussed to death by other podcasts and documentariesâŠand 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 (Broadwayâs Sweeney Todd and Assassins; TVâs 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 youâd 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 Frontier
If youâd like to read the book MINDHUNTER was based on, you can find that here:
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If youâre not already familiar with The Toybox Killer case, youâre about to beâŠ.and headâs up that itâs from the deepest, darkest, stankest part of historyâs colon. You may need a fresh baptism afterwards just from listening.
If youâve ever wondered why thereâs such a loud movement to shut down social media accounts teaching misogyny, and backlash to violent pornography, this story is a great example. Itâs also further argument AGAINST smacking kids around, and/or letting them be exposed to violent and emotionally unfit parents, because while the Toybox Killer may have been born with a screw loose, his upbringing only made things worse.
It all goes down in a bleak and dusty stretch of desert just outside Truth or Consequences, New Mexico.
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This episode was written as an epic Pride Season gift to our beloved Patreon subscribers, but given recent Supreme Court rulings and the fresh wave of anti-LGBTQ+ mouth diarrhea that SCOTUS fuckery spawned, it seemed an important story to release into the wild.
Because while it might sound like a joke, few things are more epic, gayer, AND more prescient in these polarized times than the largely forgotten sliver of wildly queer pro wrestling history called âThe Goldust Era,â which officially began on October 15, 1995.
Thereâs even a hero in this salacious tale of WWE executives exploiting homophobia for profit: Dustin Runnels, veteran pro wrestling superstar and outspoken advocate for LGBTQ folk. Runnelsâ arc from a wounded little boy to Southern American hero, to the most hated man in wrestling, to redeemed role model and father of a trans kid is equal parts heartwarming and unhinged and is compelling even if youâve never once watched a body slam live on Pay Per View. Itâs also a major thread in pro wrestlingâs long history of selling the gayest heat imaginable to audiences that, by and large, see themselves as heterosexual patriots with no ties to the LGBTQ community, despite participating in one of the most homoerotic art forms on the planet.
Heads Up: Thereâs hate speech and LGBTQ slurs in this episode, and not because we condone it. (People really said some wild
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We may ALL be struggling to survive the surrealist nightmare which is âpost-Pandemicâ 2023, but thereâs still stuff to be grateful for. Not dying slowly of scurvy in the frozen Arctic, or roasting like a pair of hot nuts under a relentless Sahara sun, for starters. Weâre also collectively blessed with an uncanny ability to adapt, overcome, and experience âPost Traumatic Growth,â which you gotta admit doesnât suck.
This month Teams Edward & Kimberly kick off summerâand seasonal travelâwith a pair of swan dives into tales of human resilience in the face of our O.G. adversary, Nature. Kimberly unearths the story of Ada Blackjack, a 23-year-old Inuit girl coerced into a disastrous Arctic expedition with a bunch of inexperienced white boys and a housecat. Edward pulls out the harrowing journey of Mauro Prosperi, an ultramarathoner whose persistence in the face of adversity landed him in a desert cave drinking his own urine like a champ.
The gang is joined by special guest judge TR Hendricks, a veteran Army intelligence officer and author of the fantastic new survivor thriller âThe Instructor,â about a former marine using SERE school techniques to take on a surprise threat hidden in the Adirondacks. (Itâs one of the best summer reads youâll blow through this year, so grab a copy en route to the beach or pool.)
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Full disclosure: When Edward proposed this interview back in March, Kimberlyâs immediate response was âWhy the fuck would we talk to Joe Exotic?â (Sheâs a delicate flower like that.) And itâs a fair question. While Tiger King was a savagely addictive and jaw-dropping series, it was also rife with animal abuse, unchecked misogyny, predatory sexual behavior, and Adults Behaving Like Childrenâall things neither of our hosts are fans of.
As our resident philosopher, Edward quickly pointed out how prison has palpably changed the manic antihero the world first met back in 2020. Once singularly focused on self-promotion, the Joe Exotic of 2023 has been campaigning heavily for prison reform over the last 18 monthsâŠsomething Human Fuckery can very much get behind. Mr. Exotic was placed in solitary confinement âfor his own protectionâ under suspicious circumstances and held for roughly 18 months in an Atlanta-based federal penitentiary now under investigation for human rights violations, including breaches of the 6th (right to effective legal counsel) and 8th (freedom from cruel and unusual punishment) constitutional amendments.
Edwardâs also a passionate advocate for the idea that people fundamentally NEED a âpath to redemptionâ in order for life to be worth living and that giving each other the opportunity to express remorse and grow is part of âdoing the work.â Since HFâs ultimate goal is to guide people toward more human decency, conversing with a man learning to advocate for others at age 60 to see how heâs grown seemed a potentially good learning experience.
So Gary set up a call to Butler Federal Medical Center, a prison for inmates with complex health issues, in North Carolina, where Joe Exotic is being evaluated for his second cancer diagnosis in as many years while serving his 21-year sentence.
Love him or hate him, thereâs no question that Joeâs one of the breakout storytellers and characters of the last decade. Whether heâs achieved a full redemption arc yet is up to you to decide for yourself.
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He was hailed as âThe Painter of Light,â a titan of pastoral landscapes which glowed whimsically from the windows of malls and Disney stores across America in the 1990s. But inside Thomas Kinkade, the famed born-again Christian artist behind one of the most commercially successful art entities ever created, lurked a darkness even he couldnât cover with layers of shining lacquer. His tragic story of worker exploitation, belligerent self-destruction, and nostalgia gone awry was carefully hidden behind a wall of corporate money for decades but emerged from the shadows after Kinkadeâs sudden and unexpected death back in 2012. Itâs a piece of forgotten American art history so bent Teams Edward and Kimberly had to drop their monthly storytelling competition and join forces to share it with y'all correctly. If youâve ever felt disillusioned with The American Dream, skeptical about so-called âChristian artists,â or creeped out by those relentlessly-cheery Christmas villages glowing in Hallmark stores every winter, hit play and listen as the veneer dissolves into truth far stranger than fiction. Featuring original music by Sergio Gonzalez Pagan.
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Weâre all capable of royally screwing up a romance, but some guys are so good at it we still talk about them 100 years after their relationships tank. In this monthâs battle of storytelling, Team Edward flies into Key West, Florida, to unearth the story of Carl Tanzer and his extremely unhinged relationship with a beautiful, dead Cuban tuberculosis patient half his age. Team Kimberly punches back with the mad entanglement of painter Oskar Kokoschka and his legendary muse, curvacious composer Alma MahlerâŠwho got immortalized the wrong way. Soulful rock star Mia Borders and commanding music educator Kate Duncan, both of the podcast âGreat Question with Mia and Kate,â step in as special guest judges to declare which true story submission is the winner, and all parties confess some of the most cringe crap theyâve ever pulled while in the throes of maladaptive love. Mia also plays out the episode, appropriately, with her breakup song for the ages, âPlastic Love."
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Terrible things happen when we put professions on pedestals. Over the last two centuries, âMedicineâ has improved so significantly the human lifespan increased dramatically. Unfortunately, medical science and medical ETHICS are two different thingsâand they arenât always practiced together, even today. This episode dives into two of the most horrific cases of human experimentation and iatrogenic injury perpetrated in the 20th century. Team Kimberly fondles the questionable choices Dr. Leo Stanley made with prisonersâ testicles during the San Quentin Prison Experiments, which spanned decades here in the United States. Team Edward teleports us back to WWII, directly into the secret Japanese facility known as Unit 731, a research laboratory which rivaled (if not exceeded) the egregious work of Nazi scientists in Germany. Special guests include public health experts and ethical superheroes Dr. Lucas Trautman, a psychiatrist and addiction specialist who randomly was mentored by Dr. Death Christopher Duntsch; and Dr. Elizabeth Nicholson, a heavily tattooed doctor of emergency medicine and bold COVID frontline survivor.
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Ho, Ho, Holy shit.
It takes a special kind of dick hole to be jealous of a kid's affection for Santa Claus. But when you take into consideration that Paul SchÀfer was a Nazi, pedophile, and notorious cult leader, his disdain for jolly old St. Nick starts to make a bit more sense. After all, how could he afford to make space for the children of his commune to love and celebrate anyone more than him? To secure their affection, it was all too appropriate for Paul to shit in the eggnog and bless these kiddos with a Christmas gift that would keep on giving: devastating emotional trauma.
This month, as a special holiday stick of dynamite, Team HF takes you deep into the heart of Chile, to a heavily guarded hellscape known as "Colonia Dignidad." It's there we'll turn the lens to an isolated colony of Germans established in post-World War II which, under the leadership of German preacher Paul SchÀfer, became notorious for the internment, torture, and murder of dissidents during the military dictatorship of General Augusto Pinochet in the 1970s.
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Itâs that time again, folksâour monthly, pithy recap of the previous monthâs most mentionable public human fuckery, plus a few honorable decency mentions for everyoneâs sanity.
Several weeks of October 2022 in the United States were dominated by surprise anti-semitism being spewed by billionaire rappers, resulting in one of the more entertaining graduations from âF*** Around and Find Outâ University. A deadly batch of drugs dispatched by some guy named Brian from New Jersey ended up flattening hundreds of unsuspecting narcotics enthusiasts in New York City, and Florida police came across what may have been Lord Voldemortâs most recent victim. Fortunately, a heroic and exceptionally pregnant firefighter did some heroic pregnant firefighter stuff, while a team of of Italian surgeons pulled off the first ever brain surgery on a guy playing saxophone DURING his brain surgery.
Click play, get the rundown, and be sure to tag us in whatever colorful examples of fuckery/decency you come across this month. With midterm elections coming to a close, weâre pretty sure next monthâs recap is gonna be a doozy.Support the Show.
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Itâs that time of year again folks! The veil is thinning, and the rate of spooky fuckery is on the rise. Last season, our Halloween stories were thematically in sync, as we brought you tales of two haunted homes on opposite sides of the world. But this year, the hosts were left with a lot more space to explore Satan's grundle. The assignment: "scare me." Team Kimberly brings us the story of a terrifying exorcism that trumps the movie it inspired, and Team Edward shares the story of 'Cropsey', a boogeyman and urban legend brought to life. Our guests this month are Justin Welborn (star of oodles of horror films), and resident scaredy cat, Lori Kramer.
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What a time to be alive! Deadly weather events, dickheads holding office, adult toddlers running around doing adult toddler shitâitâs too much to keep up with. So weâre helping out. Now that our amazing new subscribers Denise and âJâ have tipped us over into the 30+ paying patrons mark, weâre able to make this monthly roundup of human fuckery just for yâall. (More patrons mean more, and better, content more frequently, so consider gifting a subscription to a friend or shilling for us online, it works.)
The Fuckerrecap is not comprehensive, but it IS entertaining and will, ideally anyway, keep you abreast of some of the modern, daily fuckery rattling the human experience in real time.
If you see any news stories in the month of October that make you go uuuuuum, please do tag us in them or send the links our way. Weâll do our best to get them, along with credit to you, worked into future recaps.
On this monthâs agenda:
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Thirty years ago, alien talk was mostly restricted to trashy daytime talk shows or weird sitcom fodder. (RE: âALF?â) But with the very recent declassification of hundreds of pages of United States military case files on UFOs, plus an ever-expanding Internet cache of compelling videos and eyewitness reports, alien encounters are no longer tabooâŠand seem less sci-fi than ever before. Award-winning âSomewhere in the Skiesâ author and podcaster Ryan Sprague, a UFO researcher tapped for shows like âAncient Aliens,â gets hauled onto the show to judge our teamsâ deep dives into extraterrestrials. Team Edward returns to the land down under, spotlighting a trio of bizarre Australian arial events with no explanation. Team Kimberly skips the flying saucers and digs into the story of a California model whose life came undone after she was abductedâmaybeâfrom the love nest she shared with her boyfriend. Who will be declared victorious? And are aliens more a part of the human experience than we were taught? You know what to do to find out.
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Pontius Pilate may have been the one who condemned Jesus of Nazareth to death, but the name reviled most today is âJudas.â And thatâs because treacherous backstabbersâmen like Ephialtes of Trachis and Benedict Arnoldâwho betray friends, lovers, or countrymen for personal gain are so shameful we put them on display forever, a collective reminder of who NOT to be. Dark history nerds will especially love this monthâs special guest judge: âHistory on Fireâ host & historian Daniele Bolelli, dragged into the lair for our monthly battle of wits and storytelling. Team Kimberly digs up the truth on disgraced Arizona Sheriff Paul Babeu, one half of a jaw-dropping political breakup. Team Edward resurrects The Coward Robert Ford, whose choices were so cringy he went viral a century before social media existed. The scalding-hot historic tea is ready to be served.
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Internet shamans, TV hucksters, wellness grifters, slimy CryptoBrosâhumanity is bombarded by successful scam artists using the internet for evil, and we wanna make sure theyâre LESS successful. Branding guru Alyssa Bonanno, and Fyre Festival crew survivor Will Desena, join Teams Kimberly and Edward to help listeners ID scammers before they get into our wallets, and also declare one host âThe Winner.â Team Kimberly covers the true story of Shaman Durek, an Instagram-based spiritual advisor with a massive following, very shady backstory, and European princess on his arm. Team Edward counters with the tale of vintage infomercial king Don Lapre, who dominated late-night television as a salesman for sketchy products before face-planting into rock bottom. Also covered are a few other famous faces worth avoiding, including Anthony âThe Medical Mediumâ Williams; business bro Tai Lopez; pop-psychologist Jordan Peterson; and Fyre Fest mastermind Billy McFarland.
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So what happens when two broke Jews-turned-Christian-Evangelicals fall in love, then decide to grift a bunch of poor people out of money using The Bible as leverage? SPOILER ALERT: ItâsâŠuh, yeah, itâs not great. It involves a lot of gaslighting, hypocrisy, some sexual assault, and a prodigious amount of abuse. But in the case of The Alamos, it also involves gay demons, alien angels, laser beams, and piles of karma, so the story is as entertaining as it is infuriating.
If youâve not already listened to PART ONE (published June 19 on Patreon), youâll want to go back and start there. If youâve already been schooled on the humble beginnings of âGrandma Susie and Papa Tony,â pop those earbuds in, hit play, and be prepared to be appalled by these two total assholes.
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A young body found dead, without a single mark or sign of struggle on it. Strangled animals appearing mysteriously in yards. Playtimes that turn from harmless to violent in the blink of an eye.
Nature lays the foundation. But nurturingâor worse, lack of itâbuilds the rest of the person. And when children are denied affection, stability, consistency, love, and care, psychopathy can assemble itselfâŠwith devastating results. Team Kimberly and Team Edward yank open the history books and the DSM-V for a glimpse into the real-life consequences of bringing innocent lives into unstable families. Kimberly leads with the shocking case of Mary Flora Bell, a British schoolgirl with a strangulation fascination. Edward counters with Carroll âEddieâ Cole, a predator whose hunting started in grade school and never stopped. Master of Special Education and proud dad of non-psychopaths (so far anyway) Jared Loper declares only on of these tales âthe winner.âSupport the Show.
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SEASON 2 PREMIERE! Doctor of clinical psychology, Edward Simon and recovering journalist Kimberly Kaye are finally back to spelunking in human historyâs colon for their friendly competition to see who can enthrall listeners most. This month, Team Edward dredges up the true story of the ChĂąteau de Montsegur, site of a massive religious martyr killing, infamous religious relics, and apparently even some UFOs. Team Kimberly counterpunches with a trip to St. Petersburg, that city built by a sociopathic torturer and home of a waterway which allegedly lures onlookers to their death via hypnosis. Whose piece of true dark history will win? Paranormal Investigator Amanda Paulson (@prettyfnspooky) and Religious Ritual Researcher/Tarot Reader Celeste Mott (@celestemott) slide into the guest judge seat to weigh in.
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Happy Pride month fellow LGBTQ+ nerds! Who wants to hear about queer people rioting against police brutality, runway walk-offs, and dead bodies?! Human F*ckery celebrates queer history 12 months a year, but we do love a month where re-sharing the shadiest stories from under the rainbow is extra appropriate. This âSecret Story Timeâ episode debuted in January via our Patreon and featured Mother Dorian Corey, one of the great queens of the ballroom scene. The shocking secret she had stashed in her New York City closet made headlines for months, but thereâs a lot about Coreyâand the world she lived inâthat never made it into the salacious newspaper reports.
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Another banter-free installment from our subscribers only Secret Story Time series!
So, the holidays have been a bit strange this year. A global pandemic, money problems, crushing existential dread. Some folks canât get close enough to their families, others canât escape them. Itâs easy in times like these to romanticize; to look back through a rosy portal at the past, time filtering out the imperfections, and long for the way Thanksgiving âused to be.âDuring such delicate, emotionally triggering times, itâs our professional duty to remind you all: Thanksgiving is a shit show. Seriously. Always has been. The âfirst Thanksgivingâ was, at best, an anxious and unsatisfying day. (At worst it was an utter fabrication used to manipulate people into making hand turkeys every November). The pressure of the holidays has been making people crazy for generations, and thereâs a legacy of police reports to prove it.
This Secret Story Time is for anyone feeling a little low or isolated during the holidays. It may make you thankful for a little extra time alone. And if you like what you hear, there's a whole backlog of episodes you can stream at: https://www.patreon.com/humanfuckery
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