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Introducing: Very Special Episodes

Feb 01, 20243 min
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On Very Special Episodes, we tell one incredible story each week. Stranger-than-fiction tales about normal people in extraordinary situations. Stories that make you say, “this should be a movie.” Follow Dana Schwartz, Zaron Burnett, and Jason English down a different rabbit hole every Wednesday.

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Speaker 1

You know what I realized this podcast is. It's like when you are at a cocktail party or out to dinner with like a group of your partner's friends, and you don't know what to talk about and you just get to say, I heard the craziest story on a podcast. That is every single one of these episodes.

Speaker 2

To night on a very special episode.

Speaker 1

Hey, this is Danish Sports. You may know my voice from Noble Blood, Haleywood or Stealing Superman. I'm hosting a new podcast with Zarren Burnett and Jason English and we're calling it Very Special Episodes.

Speaker 3

A very special episode is that sort of story where there's a clear before and a clear after with a big WTF in the middle.

Speaker 4

This is your invitation to follow us down a different rabbit hole every Wednesday.

Speaker 3

One week we'll be on the case with special agents from NASA as they crack down on black market moon rocks.

Speaker 5

H rosspros on the other side, and he goes, hello, Joe, how can I help you? I said, mister prow what we need is five billion dollars to get back a moon rock.

Speaker 4

Another week, we'll unravel a nineties Hollywood mystery.

Speaker 6

It sounds like it should be the next season of True Detective or something. These Canadian cops trying to solve this twenty five year old mystery of who' spike the chowder on the Titanic send.

Speaker 3

We've got another one about a young Mark Twain and the San Francisco bar fight that changed the course of American literature.

Speaker 1

We'll unpack the greatest botany rivalry of all time and take you inside Spider Man's adventures on Broadway.

Speaker 2

The weird thing is like here is just part of societal collapse. Ticket sales went up because it became this weird thing that, like you may see someone nimed on Broadway, a.

Speaker 1

Very special episode is stranger than fiction. It's normal people PLoP down in extraordinary circumstances. It's a story where you say this should be a movie.

Speaker 4

It's our masterpiece theater. It's our movie of the week. It's mister mcpheeley coming over to mister Rogers and popping something in the VCR.

Speaker 1

I don't get that reference.

Speaker 3

Yeah, you gotta work on these references.

Speaker 1

Jason, I'm thirty.

Speaker 4

That settles it, mister mcpheley, deep dive. We're doing it. So if you like Dana's blockbuster podcast Noble Blood, or Zaren's hit show Ridiculous Crime, or any of the podcasts we've made together Haleywood Stealing Superman, Black Cowboys. Do me a favor and check out very special episodes next Wednesday and every Wednesday after that in perpetuity, and tell your friends a small favor and rate review.

Speaker 1

Listen to very Special episodes starting January thirty first on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts

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