Timesuck with Dan Cummins

526 - Anthony Bourdain: Hungry for Everything

Anthony Bourdain went from a heroin-addicted line cook bouncing between chaotic New York kitchens to a bestselling author and beloved world traveler who changed the way m

Short Suck 66: Locusta of Gaul: The World’s First Serial Killer?

Long before forensic science could expose a killer, poison was one of ancient Rome’s deadliest—and hardest to detect—weapons, and few were said to wield it better than th

525 - The Franklin Conspiracy: Satanic Panic or a Real Cover-Up?

When a massive financial scandal erupted in Omaha in the late 1980s, allegations soon followed that politically connected power players were involved in something far dar

524 - Bible John: Glasgow's Dancing Killer

In late 1960s Glasgow, three women went out dancing at the legendary Barrowland Ballroom.... and never made it home alive. Their murders were linked to a mysterious stran

Short Suck 65: The Lady With the Lamp: Florence Nightingale’s War on Death

Florence Nightingale didn’t just become the world’s most famous nurse - she helped revolutionize modern medicine, battling horrific hospital conditions, deadly disease, e

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