In the early 90s, Mike Diana started producing an extremely grotesque indie comic called Boiled Angel. It eventually flew onto the radar of the FBI, and he'd eventually be the first and only artist in history to be found guilty of criminal obscenity. -- Join our Discord server! https://bit.ly/deepcutsdiscord -- Pick up some Deep Cuts T-Shirts and other merch! https://bit.ly/deepcutsmerch -- Get the official Deep Cuts shoulder patch! http://bit.ly/deepcuts_patch -- Listen to our album, a 9 song r...
Oct 19, 2022•1 hr 22 min
In the 1960s, this small town in Florida had an insanely high number of insurance claims for people cutting off their own limbs... -- Join our Discord server! https://bit.ly/deepcutsdiscord -- Pick up some Deep Cuts T-Shirts and other merch! https://bit.ly/deepcutsmerch -- Get the official Deep Cuts shoulder patch! http://bit.ly/deepcuts_patch -- Listen to our album, a 9 song rock opera about the rise and fall of Napster! https://open.spotify.com/album/63C5uu1tkzZ2FhfsrSSf5s?si=q4WItoNmRUeM159Tx...
Oct 12, 2022•53 min
Can Spandrew grow out of Andrew's shadow and carve out his own identity in the world? -- Join our Discord server! https://bit.ly/deepcutsdiscord -- Pick up some Deep Cuts T-Shirts and other merch! https://bit.ly/deepcutsmerch -- Get the official Deep Cuts shoulder patch! http://bit.ly/deepcuts_patch -- Listen to our album, a 9 song rock opera about the rise and fall of Napster! https://open.spotify.com/album/63C5uu1tkzZ2FhfsrSSf5s?si=q4WItoNmRUeM159TxKLWew Learn more about your ad choices. Visit...
Sep 28, 2022•29 min
She was the very first Internet famous person, but over the years spiraled into some extremely concerning behavior. -- Join our Discord server! https://bit.ly/deepcutsdiscord -- Pick up some Deep Cuts T-Shirts and other merch! https://bit.ly/deepcutsmerch -- Get the official Deep Cuts shoulder patch! http://bit.ly/deepcuts_patch -- Listen to our album, a 9 song rock opera about the rise and fall of Napster! https://open.spotify.com/album/63C5uu1tkzZ2FhfsrSSf5s?si=q4WItoNmRUeM159TxKLWew Learn mor...
Sep 21, 2022•1 hr 5 min
He spent over a year in a tiny room, naked, surviving off of only what he won through magazine sweepstakes. He predicted how life basically became for everyone. He’s a Japanese amateur comedian whose real name is Tomoaki Hamatsu. In the late 90s, he won a raffle to be the contestant on a game show titled “Prize Contest Life” where he had to live in a tiny room by himself, completely naked, no contact with the outside world, and only a rack of magazines to read. The rules of the game were that he...
Sep 15, 2022•1 hr 30 min
Today on a mini Labor Day episode of Deep Cuts, we explore the lore of the Jersey Devil. -- Join our Discord server! https://bit.ly/deepcutsdiscord -- Pick up some Deep Cuts T-Shirts and other merch! https://bit.ly/deepcutsmerch -- Get the official Deep Cuts shoulder patch! http://bit.ly/deepcuts_patch -- Listen to our album, a 9 song rock opera about the rise and fall of Napster! https://open.spotify.com/album/63C5uu1tkzZ2FhfsrSSf5s?si=q4WItoNmRUeM159TxKLWew Learn more about your ad choices. Vi...
Sep 07, 2022•40 min
They were kicked out of China in the 90s for dancing. They ended up helping to get Trump elected in 2016. On this episode of Deep Cuts, we explore the bizarre world of Shen Yun. -- This episode is dedicated to the memory of Andrew's brother, Christian McGowin, who passed away on December 26th. https://www.greenlawnmortuaryandcemetery.com/memorials/christian--mcgowin/4818575/obituary.php -- Join our Discord server! https://bit.ly/deepcutsdiscord -- Pick up some Deep Cuts T-Shirts and other merch!...
Aug 31, 2022•1 hr 13 min
Can Spandrew and Zero save Dave from the clutches of the Clepps so they can continue doing the podcast? -- This episode is dedicated to the memory of Andrew's brother, Christian McGowin, who passed away on December 26th. https://www.greenlawnmortuaryandcemetery.com/memorials/christian--mcgowin/4818575/obituary.php -- Join our Discord server! https://bit.ly/deepcutsdiscord -- Pick up some Deep Cuts T-Shirts and other merch! https://bit.ly/deepcutsmerch -- Get the official Deep Cuts shoulder patch...
Aug 25, 2022•21 min
Andrei Tarkovsky shot the Stalker 3 separate times in abandoned nuclear power plants in Russia across multiple decades. It ended up killing him. -- Get the Mystery Treehouse Simple Code Hybrid Album and Comic! https://bit.ly/simplecodecomic Watch the Simple Code Comic Album Video Trailer! https://bit.ly/simplecodetrailer -- Join our Discord server! https://bit.ly/deepcutsdiscord -- Pick up some Deep Cuts T-Shirts and other merch! https://bit.ly/deepcutsmerch -- Get the official Deep Cuts shoulde...
Aug 17, 2022•1 hr 9 min
McKamey Manor is a "haunted house" where guests are tortured, beat up, and nearly drowned, and it has a waitlist of over 20,000 people. In the late 90s and early 2000s, an amateur haunted house enthusiast, Russ McKamey, started hosting "haunts" in his backyard. Over the years he began to attract attention as these haunted house experiences became more and more extreme. By the late 2010s, he started to become nationally known for the fact that McKamey Manor had somehow devolved into an 8 hour tor...
Aug 10, 2022•1 hr 51 min
There was a world before and after Akira, and its release in the states forever changed the landscape of pop culture around the world. On this episode of Deep Cuts, we explore the legacy of the groundbreaking 1988 film, Akira! -- Get the Mystery Treehouse Simple Code Hybrid Album and Comic! https://bit.ly/simplecodecomic Watch the Simple Code Comic Album Video Trailer! https://bit.ly/simplecodetrailer -- Join our Discord server! https://bit.ly/deepcutsdiscord -- Pick up some Deep Cuts T-Shirts a...
Aug 03, 2022•1 hr 7 min
One of the most influential comic characters of all time. Let's look back at the character through the years. On this episode, we explore The Phantom! -- Get the Mystery Treehouse Simple Code Hybrid Album and Comic! https://bit.ly/simplecodecomic Watch the Simple Code Comic Album Video Trailer! https://bit.ly/simplecodetrailer -- Join our Discord server! https://bit.ly/deepcutsdiscord -- Pick up some Deep Cuts T-Shirts and other merch! https://bit.ly/deepcutsmerch -- Get the official Deep Cuts s...
Jul 27, 2022•1 hr 39 min
The movie Bloodsport was based on his life. He kickstarted JCVD's career and inspired the Mortal Kombat franchise. Everything was a lie. In the 1980s, Frank Dux, a martial arts expert and former CIA operative-turned LA martial arts instructor successfully sold the story of his life to a movie studio in order to the get the movie "Bloodsport" made. The movie effectively jumpstarted the career of its star, Jean-Claude Van Damme. It wasn't until years later that we found out that none of his story ...
Jul 13, 2022•54 min
Due to failing a simple civil service entrance exam, one man became convinced he was Jesus's brother and spearheaded a mass genocide. -- Get the Mystery Treehouse Simple Code Hybrid Album and Comic! https://bit.ly/simplecodecomic Watch the Simple Code Comic Album Video Trailer! https://bit.ly/simplecodetrailer -- Join our Discord server! https://bit.ly/deepcutsdiscord -- Pick up some Deep Cuts T-Shirts and other merch! https://bit.ly/deepcutsmerch -- Get the official Deep Cuts shoulder patch! ht...
Jul 07, 2022•1 hr 10 min
Garth Brooks was the undisputed king of music in the late 90s. Then he decided to become another person. At the heigh of Brooks' success, he suddenly disappeared from the public eye. In his place came a rock ringer named Chris Gaines - a guy who supposedly had been performing since the mid-80s and was a huge, multi-platinum rock ringer. However, he was actually just Garth Brooks in a weird emo wig. Brooks proceeded to release an entire album as Gaines - and even starred in an hour-long episode o...
Jun 29, 2022•1 hr 24 min
He published a comic strip throughout the 20s, 30s, and 40s. Nobody knew he was actually black. In the 1920s, a cartoonist named George Herriman came on the scene. He developed a strip called Krazy Kat, which is one of the strangest, most revered newspaper comics of all time - considered by many to be the greatest comic ever made. For the entirety of Herriman's life, the public thought he was white. It wasn't until his death that we learned he hid his racial identity in order to make it in the w...
Jun 22, 2022•2 hr 1 min
He's a beloved video game characters from the 90s, but his creator has gone off the rails in recent years. In the early 90s, Earthworm Jim exploded onto the scene as an absurdist take on video game platformers. Eventually he was spun off into a comic, a cartoon, a toy line, among other things. But the creator of Earthworm Jim has expressed some views in recent years that really make it hard to enjoy the beloved character. On this episode, we discuss the difficult world of Doug TeNapel's Earthwor...
Jun 15, 2022•1 hr 33 min
Her son went missing, but then the LAPD found him. But it wasn't her son... In the 1920s, Christine Collins' son Walter went out to see a movie one night and disappeared. After searching for weeks, the LAPD found what they believed to be young Walter and returned him to Christine in a big public display. But when Christine realized it wasn't actually Walter, she began a decades-long battle with the police and a corrupt Captain to prove that she wasn't insane. This is the heartbreaking story of C...
Jun 08, 2022•1 hr 6 min
They experimented on unwilling subjects in the 1950s to control peoples' minds and create super soldiers. And it's all real. In the early 50s, as WWII was ending the Central Intelligence Agency was being formed in the United States, paranoia was high about the technologies and weapons of war that were being developed in Russia and China. In order to anticipate a perceived threat of experimental mind control techniques being developed by foreign actors, the CIA implemented its own research arm wi...
Jun 01, 2022•2 hr 27 min
Yes. The son of Catcher in the Rye author, J.D. Salinger, played Cap in the first-ever theatrical Captain America movie. In the early 90s, producers of such films as "Over the Top" and "Cutthroat Island" got the film rights to make a movie based on Marvel Comics' Captain America. After that a few years of development hell, they eventually made the movie, and cast Matt Salinger in the titular role. On this episode of Deep Cuts, we look at the bizarre intersection between contemporary literature a...
May 25, 2022•1 hr 25 min
He was obsessed with winning friends and influence, but a darkness was festering inside that would eventually turn deadly. In the 90s, millionaire sports investor and amateur wrestling aficionado John du Pont turned his lavish estate into a compound for training olympic wrestlers, He hired champion wrestlers Mark and Dave Schultz to run training at the newly-dubbed Foxcatcher Farms. They saw this as a meal ticket and an opportunity to pursue their passion for wrestling, but over time du Pont's g...
May 19, 2022•1 hr 15 min
He was orphaned and abused his entire life. He created a magical world to escape to that's unlike anything anyone has ever done. In the late 1800s, Henry Darger lived a difficult life full of pain and trauma. He suffered abuse at the hands of those around him. He wasn't understood. Eventually, he'd focus this all into a magical world that he would capture in the world's longest novel and a series of breathtaking wall drawings that are unlike anything you've ever seen. On this episode of Deep Cut...
May 11, 2022•58 min
In the 1920s, Henry Ford, inventor of the assembly line, tried to create a utopian capitalist city in Brazil. It was essentially a slave camp. During the late 1800s and early 1900s, American companies discovered a wealth of natural resources in Central America and basically decided to take it for all its worth. Tons of American corporations pillages the countryside, taking over countries, buying up all their land, and forcibly becoming their largest source of economy. In 1928, Henry Ford, founde...
May 04, 2022•48 min
It was an indie comic that became a seminal 90s point & click adventure game. Its the little franchise that could and still endures to this day. In the late 1980s, Steve Purcell created Sam & Max - a zany, madcap comic about a buddy cop duo of a talking dog and a weird bunny rabbit creature named Sam & Max. Then he got a job as an animator at the famed Lucasfilm Games studio. Eventually, he was approached to make a game based on the characters. For the next few decades, this franchis...
Apr 27, 2022•1 hr 49 min
He was a doctor at the age of 17 and opened up his own medical practice where he treated patients...except he wasn't actually a doctor at all... At the age of 17, Alexander Love Robinson had achieved things many of us could never fathom doing at that age. He had secured funding to open up his own medical practice in Florida - and he was the world's youngest practicing physician. The only problem was that he wasn't a real doctor, and everything he told his business partners and patients was a tot...
Apr 20, 2022•59 min
They claimed a team of home school kids excavated a dinosaur skeleton and it proved the Earth was only 6,000 years old. The entire thing was a lie. In the early 2000s, a small religious home school supply company released a documentary. The movie claimed to depict a group of 30 home school kids discovering and excavating a fully-intact Allosaurus skeleton - the first of its kind ever found. The documentary was massively popular on the religious home school racket, and made the company owner, Dou...
Apr 13, 2022•1 hr 53 min
They singlehandedly redefined stage magic and transformed Vegas into a family tourist destination. But it came with a price. Siegfried and Roy met as teenagers and merged their love for magic and animals into one of the most revolutionary stage shows in modern history. Throughout the 60s, 70s, and 80s they took over Las Vegas with some of the most extravagant stage shows ever conceived. They went from immigrants to household names and build a massive empire and brand for themselves. However, it ...
Apr 06, 2022•1 hr 25 min
They gave him the Tonight Show and then took it away and it created a nationwide outcry. But how do we feel about it now? In the late 2010s, Conan O'Brien was handed the hosting gig for the mother of all late night talk shows, The Tonight Show. However, after several months, slipping ratings, and a weird time slot kerfuffle with previous Tonight Show host Jay Leno, Conan ended up walking away from his dream job. The fallout of it sent a shockwave through the late night world as well as Conan's f...
Mar 30, 2022•2 hr 2 min
She claims to channel a 35,000-year-old spirit. She's been responsible for death and abuse for decades. In the 80s, JZ Knight emerged as a member of the growing community of spiritual mediums that could channel a spirit and allow it to speak through them. Her spirit was named Ramtha, and he was a 35,000-year-old Atlantean spirit that came to Earth to...start a cult, go on self help public speaking tours, sell video tapes, scam his followers for millions of dollars, and allow horrible abuse to go...
Mar 23, 2022•1 hr 16 min
In the 17th century, the sudden death of the 5th Dalai Lama created a huge problem for Tibet. Fearing being taken over by the Qing Dynasty, the Tibetan theocracy just...pretended that the 5th was still alive. For 14 years. And during this time they searched for the 6th. And when they found him...he wasn't quite what they expected. On this season 3 premiere episode of Deep Cuts, we explore the fascinating story of Tsangyang Gyatso, The Drunken Dalai Lama. -- Get the Mystery Treehouse Simple Code ...
Mar 16, 2022•1 hr
