Bonus 23 - Knights Templar pt 2 of 2: Fall and Conspiracies

92 - Knights Templar pt 1 of 2: License to Kill (Rise of the Pope's Army): The Knights Templar was founded in 1119 CE on the principles of chastity, obedience and poverty - but they soon, ironically became immensely wealthy and obedient to almost no one but themselves and the Pope. The Templars financed wars, built castles, ran cities, raised armies, and so much more. From meager beginnings they became as mighty an outfit as existed during the later Middle Ages. They were more powerful, wealthier, and better armed than some entire medieval kingdoms. Today, more than seven hundred years after their demise, the Templars remain an object of fascination. And we do our best to begin the telling of their legendary, awe-inspiring tale, today, on Timesuck! Timesuck is also brought to you by the Wild Card Podcast! Check it on iTunes or anywhere you listen to podcastshttps://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/wild-card/id1392652002?mt=2 Timesuck is brought to you today by AmeriGas! Go to MyTimeSuckG by Timesuck with Dan Cummins

112 min listen

85 - The Spanish Inquisition: The Spanish Inquisition started in 1478 and lasted all the way until 1834 - and it was terrible the whole time. But it was at its worst in the first hundred years, when thousands and thousands of innocent people living in the new Spanish Empire were ruthlessly tortured and many of them burned alive for, mostly, maybe being Jewish in a country that was aggressively Catholic. Find out how the Catholic church rose to power, how the Spanish empire was formed, why inquisitions were carried out, and how they were carried out, in this torture-filled edition of Timesuck! Check out the My West Coast Buds podcast! Timesuck is also brought to you by Hims! Hims is one-stop shop for hair loss, skincare, and sexual wellness for men. Go to ForHims.com/Timesuck and get a trial month of everything for only $5! Timesuck is also brought to you by the new Parcast podcast, Gone! What do the Holy Grail, Nefertiti's Tomb, and Michael Rockefeller have in common? They’re gone. by Timesuck with Dan Cummins

110 min listen

364 - The Mystery of the Great Library of Ancient Alexandria: Did the destruction of the Great Library of Alexandria truly set humanity's progress back 1,000 years? Or is that total speculation? What was stored in what was supposedly the greatest library of the ancient world? What happened to all that knowledge? by Timesuck with Dan Cummins

117 min listen

310 - The Many Lives of Clark Rockefeller: Long before German con artist Anna Sorokin aka Anna Delvey captured America's attention thanks to the popular Netflix series, Inventing Anna, another German con artist tricked numerous members of NYC's upper social circles, and caused a lot more harm, including killing one person for sure, and very likely two people: Christian Gerhartsreiter aka Clark Rockefeller. by Timesuck with Dan Cummins

169 min listen

274 - The Ken and Barbie Killers: The true crime tale of serial killing Canadian couple, Paul Bernardo and Karla Homolka, the "Ken and Barbie Killers." by Timesuck with Dan Cummins

155 min listen

107 - The Lost Colony of Roanoke: In 1587, Englishman John White led a group of 118 colonists to what was supposed to Roanoke Island. One hundred fifteen of those colonists were never seen again after White returned to England to get word to Sir Walter Raleigh that the colonists desperately needed supplies. On August 18th, 1590, John White returned to Roanoke three years after leaving to get those supplies and found the settlement completely deserted and the word “Croatoan” carved into a fence post. And historians, archaeologists and others have been trying to figure out what happened to those initial settlers ever since. Hear there story and take a look into the most popular possibilities, today, on Timesuck! Merch - https://badmagicmerch.com/ Want to try out Discord!?! https://discord.gg/tqzH89v Want to join the Cult of the Curious private Facebook Group? Go directly to Facebook and search for "Cult of the Curious" in order to locate whatever current page hasn't been put in FB Ja by Timesuck with Dan Cummins

100 min listen

259 - Lady Diana: The People's Princess's Life, Death, and Conspiracies: An exploration of the life, untimely death, and conspiracies that surrounded the death of one of the most famous people of all time - Diana, Princess of Wales. by Timesuck with Dan Cummins

132 min listen

221 - The Dark Ages: How bad the average European peasant have it? We examine this and more as we explore Europe's Dark Ages - a terrible time to be alive. by Timesuck with Dan Cummins

147 min listen

89 - Joan of Arc: Joan of Arc was BURNED ALIVE on May 30th, 1431 CE, something no one ever aspires to have written on their obituary. She fought to end the Hundred Years' War between England and France on behalf of Charles VII, the King of France she would help crown. How did a rural farmer's daughter with no military training end up in charge of thousands of French soldiers? Why did Charles even allow a seventeen year old girl into the army in an age when women didn't go to war? Prophecies fulfilled, battles fought and won, a heroine captured and then burned alive, and so much more on this Game of Thrones-esque 15th century Timesuck! Today's Timesuck is brought to you by AmeriGas! Go to MyTimeSuckGrill.com between now and July 4thand enter your name and email to register to win a free Weber Spirt II – E 210 grill ($400 value). The winner will be announced July 6th! Timesuck is also brought to you by the Tom and Dan 2019 Cruise! To reserver your cabin (not many left!) go to the Tom a by Timesuck with Dan Cummins

123 min listen

170 - Nazi Search for the Holy Grail: An exploration into Nazi occultism and a look into the Aryan origin myth. by Timesuck with Dan Cummins

141 min listen

231 - Dante's Inferno: An exploration of Dante's depiction of Hell and how his vision still influences the way many still think of Hell today. by Timesuck with Dan Cummins

154 min listen

94 - The Donner Party: Cannibalism, Cholera, and More Horribleness: The story of the Donner Party is one of the most disturbing tales of western migration during the time of Manifest Destiny, the common 19th-century belief that the United States was destined to expand across the entire continent from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean. Well, the destiny of many of the members of the Donner Party was to spread their actual bones around a frozen Sierra Nevada mountain camp as they were eaten by other members of their party. That's what they manifested. Theirs is a fascinating tale of bad decisions that led to much worse decisions that led to, well, cannibalism. Learn about their tragic journey and also about life for settlers as they traveled West in the mid-19th century, today on Timesuck! NOTE: Working through some volume issues as we make changes. Sorry! My new free Behind the Bit Pandora station with Chad Daniels talking about our favorite bits! https://www.pandora.com/station/play/ by Timesuck with Dan Cummins

104 min listen

74 - The IRA: Freedom FIghters or Terrorists?: The Irish Republican Army. Guys and gals who have, since their inception, been viewed as a liberation force by some and a terrorist group by others. They fight for the liberation of Northern Ireland from whom they view as British oppressors. But, as you’ll find out today - their case isn’t so simple. Their cause not obviously just. They’ve been lighting up Northern Ireland and England with bombs and gun fire for damn near 100 years. Why? Does Northern Ireland even need or want liberating? We dig deep into Ireland’s history and the formation and latter evolution of the Irish Republican Army on a boom boom edition, of Timesuck. Wanna be a Space Lizard" Go here: https://www.patreon.com/timesuckpodcast Sign up through Patreon and for $5 a month you get to listen to the Secret Suck, which will drop Thursdays at Noon, PST. You'll also get 20% off of all regular Timesuck merch PLUS access to exclusive Space Lizard merch. You get to vote on two by Timesuck with Dan Cummins

104 min listen

BONUS 21 - Jack the Ripper!: From August seventh to September tenth, 1888, a crazed killer who came to be known as "Jack the Ripper” terrorized the Whitechapel district of London's impoverished East End. This extremely violent sadist brutally killed at least five prostitutes, mutilating their bodies in a highly unusual manner. And today we Suck into the details of his crimes, who he could’ve been, who his victims were, and how absolutely terrible life was for the economically enslaved inhabitants of the East End of London at the close of the 19th century in today’s, across the pond, bloody, brutal, and British edition of Timesuck. Want the A Mediocre Time with Tom and Dan's kick-ass documentary? CLICK HERE! Merch - https://badmagicmerch.com/ Want to try out Discord!?! https://discord.gg/tqzH89v Want to join the Cult of the Curious private Facebook Group? Go directly to Facebook and search for "Cult of the Curious" in order to locate whatever current page hasn't been put in FB Jai by Timesuck with Dan Cummins

114 min listen

100 - Drunk as F*#k Suck of the Axeman of New Orleans: Well, you asked for it. We got a bunch of emails to do something special for the 100th Monday episode of TImesuck and the main request was to do Timesuck's version of Drunk History. So, the good folks from fantastic restaurant 10/six in Couer d'Alene brought over crawfish etouffee, beignets, whiskey, beer, and mixed up some hurricanes... and I got blackout drunk. I don't start out drunk - it was a steady progression. Started out buzzed for the first sixty minutes or so of the recording and then, well, things get messy. I hope you enjoy it! In 1918 and 1919 (and also in 1910 and 1911), someone or several people terrorized, for the most part, Italian Grocers living in New Orleans with, you guessed it, an axe. Or, rather, with several axes. And razors. And even an iron bar in one incident. Someone was breaking into homes, grabbing the most terrible weapon they could find in the victim's house (usually a meat cleaver/butcher's axe), by Timesuck with Dan Cummins

142 min listen

115 - Hatfield-McCoy Feud: The Hatfields and the McCoys repeatedly attacked one another in the rural Tug River Valley separating West Virginia and Kentucky for over a decade in the late 19th century. Two patriarchs - Devil Anse Hatfield and Ol’ Randall McCoy - let their hatred of one another infect first their entire families and then an entire region of the country. Governor pitted against governor. West Virginia versus Kentucky. The Supreme court of the United States would end up getting involved. So how did it all start? How did it finally end? And how much blood was shed in between. The origins and the dirty deeds of America’s most famous feud revealed on today’s Timesuck. Timesuck is brought to you today by Eero! Never think about Wifi again. Get $100 off the “Eero base unit and 2 beacons package” and a year of Eero Plus when you visit eero.com/TIMESUCK and enter the code TIMESUCK at checkout Timesuck is also brought to you today by Leesa! Get $150 off the price of your mattre by Timesuck with Dan Cummins

138 min listen

BONUS 18: Aleister Crowley: The Wickedest Man in the World: Aleister Crowley was many things: an author, an artist, a poet, a mystic, a student, a mountaineer, a world traveler, and a notorious occultist. He shocked Victorian and post-Victorian England and the Western World at-large with his "Satanic" ways. He was permanently banned from both Italy and France before his death. He believed in magic, real magic, and tried to conjure mythical spirits into our world. He performed bizarre "sex magick" rituals that shocked polite society. He developed the spiritual philosophy of Thelema, built on his guiding principle of "Do What Thou Wilt". Who was this dark, strange man and how was he able to leave the mark he did on Western Culture? All is revealed! The Great Beast exposed today, on Timesuck. Merch - https://badmagicmerch.com/ Want to try out Discord!?! https://discord.gg/tqzH89v Want to join the Cult of the Curious private Facebook Group? Go directly to Facebook and search for "Cult by Timesuck with Dan Cummins

114 min listen

279 - Celtic Mythology: The wild world of Celtic mythology. So much mystery around the Celts, their gods, customs, and creatures and for good reason. They didn't write anything down. What we know about them we know from their artifacts, enemies, and the Catholic monks that doomed the days of the druids. A lot of crazy history in this one. by Timesuck with Dan Cummins

146 min listen

93 - The Aztec Empire: So Much Human Sacrifice!: Today we’re talking about the Aztecs! The Aztecs built a vast empire, one that outpaced, out-staged, and out-populated the likes of Paris at the time. They were a powerhouse warrior based society with an interesting obsession with human sacrifice. When did they show up? When did they build their empire? And what happened when the Spaniard Hernan Cortes showed up with 400 soldiers? An amazing city built on a lake, a prophecy falsely fulfilled, the worst ball game ever played, and a lot of violent death at the hands of all the teams involved in today's Timesuck! My new free Behind the Bit Pandora station with Chad Daniels talking about our favorite bits! https://www.pandora.com/station/play/3978690913982414208?ag=17920720304261509 Timesuck is brought to you today by AmeriGas! Go to MyTimeSuckGrill.com between now and July 4th and enter your name and email to register to win a free Weber Spirt II – E 210 grill ($400 value). Timesuck is b by Timesuck with Dan Cummins

120 min listen

122 - Cleopatra: Queen. Seductress. Product Of SO MUCH INCEST!: Whopper of a tale for you today. Battles, incest, murder, betrayal, and more! Born in 69 BCE, Cleopatra VII was part of the Macedonian dynasty that took over rule of Egypt in the late 4th century B.C. A dynasty full of a PREPOSTEROUS amount of incest and murder. SO much. During her reign, she forged political alliances and became romantically involved with Roman military leaders Julius Caesar and Mark Antony - bearing sons for month men. She could've ended up ruling Rome. Instead Rome pushed her to her death in 30 BCE. Check out the best of my standup on Spotify! (for free!) https://open.spotify.com/user/1253351401/playlist/2ldySEdIW3YfhHLQpkX2AS?si=snvNrIagRbWI5frN6_3Sdg Timesuck is brought to you by Leesa! Get $160 off a Leesa mattress at leesa.com/timesuck and use promo code TIMESUCK at checkout Timesuck is brought to you by the The Great Courses Plus! Start your free trial now only at TheGreatCoursesPlus.com/TIMESU by Timesuck with Dan Cummins

113 min listen

97 - Spartacus: When Gladiators Attacked Rome Itself: Spartacus was a Thracian gladiator who escaped his gladiatorial school in Capua with about 70 other gladiators and slaves and then led a slave rebellion against the armies of Rome in the 1st century BCE , commanding a fighting force that grew to an army of 90,000–120,000 strong. We explore his fight and the interesting history of Roman gladiatorial combat in today's Suck. Men (and women!) facing off against each other in arenas, forums, and coliseums in fights that often lasted until severe injury or the death. Insane emperors, trident-wielding warriors, spear-wielding elephants, and so much more in today's tale of Roman debauchery and the man who almost took down a Republic. My new free Behind the Bit Pandora station with Chad Daniels talking about our favorite bits! https://www.pandora.com/station/play/3978690913982414208?ag=17920720304261509 Timesuck is brought to you today by The Great Courses Plus! Do yourself a HUGE favor an by Timesuck with Dan Cummins

106 min listen

91 - The Ma Barker Gang! Ruthless 1930s Killers: The Ma Barker gang robbed bank, after bank, after drugstore, after hardware store, clothing store, Chevy dealership, jewelry store, and still more banks in the early 1930s. They committed more robberies and took more lives than the much more famous Dillinger Gang. The Dillinger Gang was active for less than one year. The Barker-Karpis gang was active from 1931 to 1935. FDR called them out on national radio during one of his famous fireside chats, referring to them as “an attack on everything we hold dear”. FBI Director J Edgar Edgar Hoover described Ma as "the most vicious, dangerous and resourceful criminal brain of the last decade". But, was she really their leader? Or was she just along for the wild ride? Keep listening and find out, on today’s shoot ‘em up, put your hands in the air edition, of Timesuck! Timesuck is brought to you today by AmeriGas! Go to MyTimeSuckGrill.com between now and July 4th and enter your name and email to by Timesuck with Dan Cummins

117 min listen

255 - Ancient Aliens and Ancient Sumerians: Looking into how the Ancient Aliens/Ancient Astronaut theory is connected to the history of the ancient Sumerians, the world's oldest known civilization. by Timesuck with Dan Cummins

158 min listen

361 - The UK's Jeffrey Dahmer: Dennis Nilsen: Scottish serial killer Dennis Nilsen isn't known nearly as well in the United States as he is in the UK, but that isn't because his story isn't darkly fascinating. Nilsen's crimes were as... strange as they were brutal. Telling an especially weird true crime tale this week. by Timesuck with Dan Cummins

169 min listen

242 - Jameson Whiskey and Cannibalism: The dark and strange historical event of an heir to the Jameson whiskey fortune paying to watch a girl be eaten by cannibals. by Timesuck with Dan Cummins

111 min listen

197 - Serial Killer: Joachim Kroll: German cannibal Joachim Kroll raped and killed as many as 30+ people from 1955 to 1976. This one is not for the easily disturbed. by Timesuck with Dan Cummins

121 min listen

121 - The DB Cooper Hijack Mystery: November 24th, 1971. The day before Thanksgiving. Dan Cooper, also known as DB Cooper, shows up at the Portland, Oregon airport looking like your average business traveler. Over the next few hours, he pulled off the most mysterious airplane hijacking in US aviation history. He took $200,000 in ransom money from the FBI, jumped out of a plane and disappeared into the thick forests of the Pacific Northwest. He was never found, caught, or even positively identified. We explore this mystery and look into the epidemic of air piracy that plagued the US in the late 1960s and early 1970s, today, on Timesuck. Timesuck is brought to you by the The Great Courses Plus! Start your free trial now only at TheGreatCoursesPlus.com/TIMESUCK Want to try out Discord!?! Click HERE! Watch the Suck on Youtube: https://youtu.be/l1LgmqmTaXM Merch - https://badmagicmerch.com/ Want to try out Discord!?! https://discord.gg/tqzH89v Want to join the Cult of the Curious pr by Timesuck with Dan Cummins

120 min listen

171 - The Warsaw Ghetto - A Tale of Nazi Resistance: A WW2 tale of Polish Jewish people fighting back against the Nazis. by Timesuck with Dan Cummins

141 min listen

217 - WW2 Race Against the Nazi Enigma Machine: An examination into how if Allied codebreakers has failed to crack the Enigma Machine, the Nazis could have won WW2. by Timesuck with Dan Cummins

133 min listen

349 - The 1928 Banana Massacre: Did you know that American banana corporations turned almost all of Central America into US satellite states in the late 19th and early 20th centuries for roughly half-a-century? It took the massacre of thousands of unarmed, exploited, and striking Columbian banana workers in 1928 to turn the tide against American imperialism. by Timesuck with Dan Cummins

154 min listen

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Bonus 23 - Knights Templar pt 2 of 2: Fall and Conspiracies

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