Jim Bakker, and his wife, Tammy Faye, revolutionized tele-evangelism in the 1970s and 1980s. Their PTL Club, was, at it's height, pulling in millions a WEEK in donations to support their cause. But their cause was a lie. Jim was not who he claimed to be, and financial and sexual improprieties would send him to prison... before he got out and started running his scam all over again. Watch the Suck on YouTube: https://youtu.be/VhHZaIOtbm8 Merch and more: www.badmagicproductions.com Timesuck Discor...
Apr 15, 2024•2 hr 51 min
Do you have a plan in mind for what you would do in a doomsday event like nuclear war, alien invasion, a deadly plague, some Terminator Skynet style "robots have turned against humanity" scenario, etc.? Some people do. Some very rich people. And it's insane what they're building in case everything goes off the rails. Watch the Suck on YouTube: https://youtu.be/JKR0YpYTO1E For Merch and everything else Bad Magic related, head to: https://www.badmagicproductions.com...
Apr 12, 2024•45 min
From 1977 to 1980, Joseph Paul Franklin went on a multi-state murder and mayhem spree, bombing a synagogue, shooting at people exiting another, and shooting interracial couples, lone black men, women who had previously dated black men, and a white porn magazine owner for publishing nude photos of an interracial couple. All in a delusional attempt to ignite a race war. Find out how an abused and confused little boy named James Clayton Vaughn, Jr. transformed into a full grown monster, Joseph Paul...
Apr 08, 2024•2 hr 20 min
Ervil LeBaron was raised by a cult leader... would have several brothers who were cult leaders...and would father several more cult leaders. And out of all of them, he was the worst. The Mormon Manson loved to call for blood atonement - ordering the execution of between 20 and 30 people, many of them rival cult leaders. Watch the Suck on YouTube: https://youtu.be/Ss5QOux5xtw Merch and more: www.badmagicproductions.com Timesuck Discord! https://discord.gg/tqzH89v Want to join the Cult of the Curi...
Apr 03, 2024•2 hr 21 min
Have you ever heard of disturbing serial killer Richard Byrd? He raped and strangled eight young women to death in Las Vegas between 1991 and 2001, but almost no one has heard of him, because he was arrested... the day after 9/11. And he took a plea bargain and never went to trial. Hear his wild story today... and never think about hair brushes the same way again. Watch the Suck on YouTube: https://youtu.be/2ndQSjHBWPs Merch and more: www.badmagicproductions.com Timesuck Discord! https://discord...
Apr 01, 2024•2 hr 4 min
Today we explore what life was really like for ancient Greece's feared warriors, the Spartans. How close was it to the Hollywood depiction in movies like 300? We go over the history of the militaristic city-state and much more. For the glory of Sparta! Watch the Suck on YouTube: https://youtu.be/Y_AK9uE9TIw Merch and more: www.badmagicproductions.com Timesuck Discord! https://discord.gg/tqzH89v Want to join the Cult of the Curious Private Facebook Group ? Go directly to Facebook and search for "...
Mar 25, 2024•2 hr 19 min
On July 2nd, 2021, 22 year-old Gabby Petito and her fiancé, 23 year old Brian Laundrie, left the quaint hamlet of Blue Point, Long Island to embark upon on a cross-country adventure in a white, modified, 2012 Ford Transit Connect van. Less than two months later, what appeared to be the trip of a lifetime based on social media posts, ended in both of their deaths. Hope you enjoy this Short Suck! Have a great weekend! Watch the Suck on YouTube: https://youtu.be/rsN67r9hnLU For Merch and everything...
Mar 22, 2024•58 min
Very informative episode today! I learned so much and hope you do too. We explore the history of human psychedelic usage, and also dive into the origin, properties, dangers, and benefits of the most popular psychedelics today: LSD, MDMA, Magic Mushrooms, DMT, and Peyote. I loved psychedelics before this episode, and love them even more after learning what I share this week. Watch the Suck on YouTube: https://youtu.be/jxcKBIgK0uc Merch and more: www.badmagicproductions.com Timesuck Discord! https...
Mar 18, 2024•3 hr 1 min
Did you ever think that overeating, specifically, could send your soul to Hell? Or that not losing enough weight, fast enough, could jeopardize your salvation? These are just some of the many terrible (and bizarre) messages that very skinny self-proclaimed "prophetess" Gwen Shamblin Lara preached before she died in a plane crash in 2021. Sadly, the cultish church she built, lives on. And this week, we explore (and mock) its weirdly weight-centric teachings. Watch the Suck on YouTube: https://you...
Mar 11, 2024•2 hr 37 min
Jim Miller. Killin' Jim. Right before stepping off a wooden crate with a noose around his neck, in front of the members of the lynch mob that wanted him dead, Miller claimed to have killed 51 men. I believe him. This guy put the wild... in the wild west. Hope you enjoy this Short Suck! Have a great weekend! Watch the Suck on YouTube: https://youtu.be/WMLoTqgsyDU For Merch and everything else Bad Magic related, head to: https://www.badmagicproductions.com...
Mar 08, 2024•46 min
On the night of November 25th, 1996, Rick Wendorf, 49, and his partner Ruth Queen, 54, were beaten to death with a crowbar inside their home in Eustis, Florida, by a vampire over 500 years old known as Vesago. At least that's what their killer believed. "Vesago" was really Rod Ferrell, a sixteen year-old from Murray, Kentucky, who lost himself in a vampiric role playing game, and truly thought he'd become an immortal bloodsucker. Watch the Suck on YouTube: https://youtu.be/Tj4P-thTEdc Merch and ...
Mar 04, 2024•2 hr 42 min
Exploring some super interesting and strange territory today. I might not be able to record any more podcasts because NOW MY BRAIN IS MELTED! In this episode, we explore the theoretical concept of the fourth dimension, see how it applies to the nature of our reality and our dreams, and explore how some think it proves the existence of the soul... and ghosts. (cue Twilight Zone melody...) Watch the Suck on YouTube: https://youtu.be/0kfpTPgvzhY Merch and more: www.badmagicproductions.com Timesuck ...
Feb 26, 2024•2 hr 23 min
Today's Short Suck is all about John List. With a bankruptcy looming, worried about the shame he'd face for no longer being able to provide his family with the life they'd grown accustomed to, and supposedly worried about their salvation as well, John makes some extreme and horrific choices to "save" their souls. Hope you enjoy! And have a great weekend! Watch the Suck on YouTube: https://youtu.be/Aia59A-hm5Y For Merch and everything else Bad Magic related, head to: https://www.badmagicproductio...
Feb 23, 2024•50 min
Today I share the real practice and history of the classic Catholic exorcism that so many of us have seen in films like 1973's The Exorcist and 2023's The Pope's Exorcist. How does an exorcism actually work? Who qualifies? What is the official ritual? What is the history of exorcisms? All this and more - including an exploration of the real life exorcism that inspired the 1973 movie - in this demon-infested episode. The power of Christ compels you! (to listen to this week's episode) Watch the Su...
Feb 19, 2024•2 hr 24 min
The Sunday Morning Slasher, Carl Watts, is thought to have killed over 100 women between Michigan and Texas, from 1974 to 1982. He's also the only US serial killer ever to almost be released from prison AFTER confessing to 13 murders in a plea deal. This guy was a creepy killing MACHINE. Applications for four, $5,000 Cummins Family Foundation scholarships will open up on March 6th! Applications will be due by April 24th. Visit Badmagicproductions.com and click the scholarship banner to be linked...
Feb 12, 2024•2 hr 16 min
Today's Short Suck is all about the weird, wild world of penis enlargement! What options are out there? Are they safe? And why are so many unsatisfied with the length and girth of their one-eyed willies? Hope you enjoy! And have a great weekend! Watch the Suck on YouTube: https://youtu.be/ZG6NQjqMEPw For Merch and everything else Bad Magic related, head to: https://www.badmagicproductions.com...
Feb 09, 2024•46 min
Between 1998 and 2006, at least 48 elderly women were strangled to death in Mexico City. These murders would lead to Mexico's first ever investigation into an active serial killer. The task force was certain that a man was responsible for the killings, and were shocked to realize the killer was a middle-aged mother of four. A wannabe luchadora who told friends she once wrestled under the name of the Lady of Silence. Watch the Suck on YouTube: https://youtu.be/HJtJRTu_ILI Merch: https://www.badma...
Feb 05, 2024•2 hr 27 min
I've wanted to dig into this story for a couple of years now. Aaron seemed to have EVERYTHING going for him. And he threw it all away through committing the most confusing, impulsive acts of violence. How much did the severe case of CTE football gave him lead to the murder (and probably multiple murders) he committed? Congrats to the Suck Ranger, Tyler Sea, and please wish him luck on the next chapter of his life. He's a great dude and we will miss having him around! Watch the Suck on YouTube: h...
Jan 29, 2024•2 hr 50 min
Today's Short Suck is all about the life of Hugh Glass - the man whose insane story of surviving a Grizzly Bear attack inspired the 2015 Leonardo DiCaprio film, The Revenant. Hope you enjoy! And have a great weekend! Watch the Suck on YouTube: https://youtu.be/1nnLCum2UsU For Merch and everything else Bad Magic related, head to: https://www.badmagicproductions.com...
Jan 26, 2024•48 min
In the Spring of 1993, three eight-year-old boys were murdered in West Memphis, Arkansas. And immediately, thanks to outlandish, paranoid Satanic Panic notions, investigative suspicion fell on a local eighteen-year-old, Damien Echols, ignorantly believed to be the leader of a local Satanic cult, and two of his teen friends, falsely believed to be his followers... Watch the Suck on YouTube: https://youtu.be/UiP4cd3rvH8 Merch: https://www.badmagicmerch.com Timesuck Discord! https://discord.gg/tqzH...
Jan 22, 2024•2 hr 56 min
The story behind the new Iron Claw movie starring Zac Effron and Jeremy Allen White. Was the Von Erich wrestling family actually cursed? I understand why some people think so. Five out of six of wrestling star Fritz Von Erich's sons would die prematurely and tragically, many of them dying shortly after the family became the most famous family in all of professional wrestling. Watch the Suck on YouTube: https://youtu.be/T6Rc-_-Bk04 Merch: https://www.badmagicmerch.com Timesuck Discord! https://di...
Jan 15, 2024•3 hr 3 min
The first in what will hopefully be many Short Sucks! 45-60 minute stories delivered in a more traditional type of story-telling. No inside jokes and mythology to keep track of. Just some quick extra entertainment! This episode is all about the life of Grady Stiles, Jr. aka Lobster Boy, a "freak show" performer who truly was a monster. Watch the Suck on YouTube: https://youtu.be/ivyX-o9HbCA For Merch and more, head to: https://www.badmagicproductions.com...
Jan 12, 2024•51 min
Sharing the life and crimes today of William Lester Suff aka the Riverside Killer. Convicted of killing twelve women after being arrest in 1992 after already serving nearly a decade in prison in Texas for murdering his own child. Come for the true crime, stay for the chili recipe... Watch the Suck on YouTube: https://youtu.be/EE36ytvUJSk Merch: https://www.badmagicmerch.com Timesuck Discord! https://discord.gg/tqzH89v Want to join the Cult of the Curious Private Facebook Group ? Go directly to F...
Jan 08, 2024•2 hr 51 min
Whether or not you've seen the recent Amazon and/or Netflix docuseries on Twin Flames Universe, I think you're gonna love this one. Another cult episode, but with a few major twists. This cult was born and still lives primarily online. And rather than selling salvation, it's focused on selling you romance. Jeffrey and Shaleia Divine are true grifters, playing with the lives of their followers in strange and dangerous ways. Also - Happy New Year! Let's tear it up in 2024! Watch the Suck on YouTub...
Jan 01, 2024•2 hr 37 min
For this year's annual, inspirational episode and wrap-up, I share the surprisingly inspiring and entertaining tale of Colonel Harland Sanders, man behind the KFC empire. Then I go over what went down in Bad Magic 2023, and what I'm hoping to do in 2024. Hail Nimrod and THANK YOU! It was such a good year and thanks to your continual support, I am more excited going into the next year of Bad Magic than I've ever been. Hope you had a great 2023, and really looking forward to 2024! Thank you for li...
Dec 25, 2023•2 hr 40 min
Did you know the term "incel" no longer generally refers to someone who is just lonely and horny? Now, it's more synonymous with a new kind of domestic terrorist. A rise in mass shootings carried out by self-identified "incels," starting with Elliot Rodger in 2014, has more and more people looking into the "manosphere" that incels digitally inhabit. It's a sad and terrifying place... and also - holy shit, is it unintentionally also hilarious. Get ready to learn all about Chads, Stacys, Tyrones, ...
Dec 18, 2023•2 hr 49 min
I know - this episode is a long one! I tried to cut as much as I could that didn't feel relevant to tell this tale. I really did! There's just so much juicy stuff. So many strange, STRANGE details. Lori evolved, over the course of her adult life, from a manipulative person who was also very religious, into a murderous, manipulative person who became, essentially, the co-leader of a cult when she met her fifth and final husband, Chad Daybell. Chad had, over many years as an LDS author, created a ...
Dec 11, 2023•3 hr 14 min
I finally look into what all the hype about the Murdaugh family murders is about. And the hype... is justified. I provide a summary of the Murdaugh's history of power and influence in South Carolina's Low Country and how a series of financial crimes and murders led to the collapse of their corrupt rural empire. Alec Murdaugh is a TERRIBLE human being... and I'm so glad that snake will rot in prison for the rest of his life. BAD MAGIC GIVING TREE: Go to Amazon.com and purchase an Amazon gift card...
Dec 04, 2023•2 hr 46 min
Want to know where a lot of the core ideas from the many conspiracies that revolve around the idea the a small, secretive cabal of wealthy Jews control the world and want to enslave and destroy humanity come from? Some old debunked Russian propaganda that is still causing problems over 125 years after it was written. Today, I'll explore the roots of antisemitism, and how antisemitic beliefs have led to various conspiratorial allegations against the Jewish people, and to the creation of the ficti...
Nov 27, 2023•2 hr 35 min
On the evening of May 6th, 2013, in the Tremont neighborhood of Cleveland, Ohio, three enduring mysteries were shockingly solved. Three missing Cleveland women, Michelle Knight, Amanda Berry, and Gina DeJesus - all long presumed dead - were found to have been held captive by a madman named Ariel Castro for roughly a decade. It is insane what they had endured, and it is so inspiring how all three women have chosen not to let their torture and captivity define them. GIVING TREE INFORMATION : If yo...
Nov 20, 2023•3 hr 10 min
