Timesuck with Dan Cummins

523 - The Immortality Industry: Silicon Valley’s War on Death

What if aging isn’t inevitable...and death is a problem science might someday solve? From groundbreaking longevity research to Silicon Valley billionaires, rogue biohacke

522 - The Mary Kay Opportunity! The Dark Truth About MLMs

Mary Kay Ash turned a $5,000 investment into a cosmetics empire that promised generations of women financial independence, recognition, and—if they climbed high enough—th

Short Suck 64: The Skunk Ape

Today we journey deep into the swamps of Florida to investigate the legend of the Skunk Ape, Bigfoot’s smaller, stinkier, swamp-dwelling cousin. From centuries-old sighti

521 - The Serpent: Serial Killer Charles Sobhraj

Long before Catch Me If You Can made Frank Abagnale famous, another master con man was crisscrossing the globe under countless stolen identities and leaving a trail of bo

520 - Mother of Frankenstein: Mary Shelley

Mary Shelley didn't just create Frankenstein - she helped invent modern science fiction while forever changing the landscape of horror. This episode, we explore her remar

Short Suck 63: The Children's Crusade: Faith, Folly, and 30,000 Kids

In 1212, thousands of children set out across Europe believing God would part the Mediterranean and lead them peacefully to Jerusalem. (Spoiler alert: God didn't.) Their

519 - Death Before Divorce: The Kouri Richins Case

When Utah realtor and children's author Kouri Richins reported her husband dead after what appeared to be a tragic medical emergency, investigators eventually uncovered a

518 - San Ysidro McDonald's Massacre

From the troubled life of James Huberty to the horrifying events inside a San Ysidro McDonald's on July 18th, 1984, we explore how one of America's first modern mass shoo

517 - The Buffalo River Cult: Murder, Prophecy, and... a Ghost Girl??

In 1978, a fanatical doomsday cult disappeared into the Arkansas Ozarks believing the end of the world was arriving fast... which it did (for them), after they were arres

Short Suck 62: From Mom-and-Pop to Mega-Corporations: The Transformation of America’s Food Industry

How did a nation built on local farms and family businesses become dependent on a handful of massive corporations for most of its (now mostly processed) food? In this wee

516 - Murder at 100 MPH: The Mackenzie Shirilla Case

A quiet Ohio suburb is shattered when a 17-year-old girl, Mackenzie Shirilla, drives nearly 100 miles per hour into a brick wall, killing her boyfriend and a close friend

515 - Fort Hood: Murders, Mysteries, and Silence

For years, Fort Hood has been plagued by an unsettling string of murders, disappearances, suspicious deaths, and allegations of institutional failure that have left griev

Short Suck 61: Why Are Nordic People So.... Happy?

For over a decade, Finland, Denmark, Norway, Iceland, and Sweden have consistently ranked among the happiest nations on Earth—but why? We dig into the research behind the

514 - Carl Tanzler: Romantic... Necrophiliac?

In Key West, Florida during the Great Depression, an obsessed German radiology technician, Carl Tanzler, became convinced that a dying young woman named Elena de Hoyos wa

513 - The Dark Strangler: Serial Killer Earle Nelson

For at least sixteen months in the 1920s, Earle Nelson terrorized North America, murdering at least twenty-two women while drifting from city to city under false identiti

Short Suck 60: The Mystery of the Yuba County Five

In February of 1978, five friends left a college basketball game in Northern California and seemingly vanished into thin air. Months later, four of them were found dead d

512 - The Stonewall Riots

On June 28th, 1969, New York City police expected another routine raid on a gay bar. Instead, they found a community that had finally had enough. This week, we explore th

511 - The 1991 Austin Yogurt Shop Murders

On a December night in 1991, four teenage girls gathered at an Austin frozen yogurt shop for what should have been an ordinary evening of work, pizza, friendship, and wee

Short Suck 59: The Alligator Man aka The Butcher of Elmendorf

Long before serial killers became podcast and true crime doc celebrities in the US, there was Joe Ball: a bootlegger, bar owner, womanizer, and suspected murderer who kep

510 - Black Death: The Bizarre Kidnapping of Chloe Ayling

A young British glamour model flies to Milan for what she believes is a routine photo shoot in 2017 — and vanishes into one of the strangest kidnapping cases in modern tr