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The story of Hunter S. Thompson's crusade against Richard Nixon and the threat of fascism in America--and the devastating price he paid for it Hunter S. Thompson is often misremembered as a wise-cracking, drug-addled cartoon character. This book reclaims him for what he truly was: a fearless...

Hosted by Rosalie Minnitt & Sarah Roberts, Freak of the Week is a deep dive contest to find the world’s biggest freak from history and pop culture. (Freak defined as someone we’d like to follow around for a day with a go-pro strapped to their head).Every episode, we each bring a pop culture figure and a historical figure, and battle it out with three facts to crown the biggest freak of the episode. We will then rank them on a freakometre and each series one will win freak of all the weeks.

Freak Show is a documentary podcast exploring the true historical lives of individuals once displayed as curiosities in sideshows, exhibitions, and public spectacles. Each episode focuses on one person, examining how rare physical conditions, medical anomalies, or extraordinary traits were misunderstood and exploited in their time. Using historical records, social context, and modern understanding, Freak Show reexamines these stories beyond shock value. The series emphasizes humanity, dignity, and the cultural forces that shaped how difference was viewed during the nineteenth and early ...

Control Freaks is an original podcast series by the Consumer Choice Center. Your host, Bill Wirtz, will introduce different impactful personalities to you, that seek to undermine choice and evidence-based policy-making, and replace your choices with theirs. Season One, Enemy of the Truth, will debut July 23, 2025.

Sumérgete en la nostalgia, la fantasía, el terror y el arte. Todo reunido en un solo mundo, Freak - end. Nada, es lo que parece. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

El reverso, los detalles, las anécdotas y las conexiones de lo que ha pasado en este punto del Universo que llamamos Tierra, desde el Big Bang en adelante.

Toda historia tiene algo de historieta. Desde los entusiastas campesinos medievales pateando vejigas infladas de cerdo hasta los clubes galácticos, Joaquín Barañao y Ricardo Murguía dan un paseo por el huerto del futbol de ayer cosechando sus más rojas cerezas. “Historia Freak del Futbol” se escucha aquí, en este podcast exclusivo de futvox. Hablamos futbol.

“Les Standiford takes us under the big top and behind the curtain in this richly researched and thoroughly engaging narrative that captures all of the entrepreneurial intrigue and spirit of the American circus.” —Gilbert King, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Devil in the Grove Millions...

A deliciously subversive and endlessly informative celebration of “kinky f*ckery,” as told by a lifelong student of kink and fetishism Neither a how-to guide to getting it on nor a collection of sensational erotica, Superfreaks is instead an empathetic journey into the widely misunderstood...