Timesuck with Dan Cummins

251 - The Real Inglorious Basterds: Operation Greenup

05 Jul 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Operation Greenup was a covert OSS operation carried out by a special group of men many have called the “real life Inglorious Basterds,” a referen...

250 - Serial Killing Sex-Crazed Couple: Fred and Rose West

28 Jun 2021

Contributed by Lukas

My God. This story is so over-the-top, it's hard to accept as true. But sadly, it did happen. For roughly two decades, Fred and Rose West were the pat...

249 - H.P. Lovecraft, the Cthulhu Mythos, and the Horror You Love Today

21 Jun 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Hope you have as fun listening to this one as I had making it! I had no idea prior to digging into this topic, that Lovecraft was so influential on mo...

248 - P.T. Barnum and His "Human Curiosities"

14 Jun 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Big episode for a big, complex topic today. PT Barnum has been called the The Greatest Showman on Earth. And he certainly was the most famous promoter...

247 - The Seven Wonders of the Ancient World

07 Jun 2021

Contributed by Lukas

The Great Pyramid of Giza. The Hanging Gardens of Babylon. Colossus of Rhodes. The Lighthouse of Alexandria. The Temple of Artemis. The Statue of Zeus...

246 - Trail of Tears

31 May 2021

Contributed by Lukas

When the 1830s began, nearly 125,000 various tribal members lived on millions of acres of land in Georgia, Tennessee, Alabama, North Carolina and Flor...

245 - Karl Denke, the Cannibal of Ziębice

24 May 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Heard of this guy before? If you haven't, I'm with you. I hadn't either. And then once I got into this story, I wondered HOW had I never heard of him?...

244 - Crazy US Laws!

17 May 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Today we take a fun and sometimes concerning tour around the United States looking at laws that are still on the books that either definitely shouldn'...

243 - The Angel's Landing Cult

10 May 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Cult! Cult! Cult! We're back to sucking on a cult - a small and relatively unknown one which is surprising considering how crazy this story is. For we...

242 - Jameson Whiskey and Cannibalism

03 May 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Whiskey! Today’s suck is SOAKED in whiskey. Mostly, in Jameson - some Irish whiskey.John Jameson - the founder of Jameson - was originally a lawyer ...

241 - QAnon and Antifa: Who, What, And Why?

26 Apr 2021

Contributed by Lukas

QAnon is the conspiracy cult involving so, so many things. It MOSTLY centers around belief in an elite, leftist, Satanic, child sex trafficking slash ...

240 - Anonymous and the World of Hackers

19 Apr 2021

Contributed by Lukas

“We are Legion. We do not forgive. We do not forget. Expect us.” Anonymous - the hacking collective that for many put hacking on the map. Since ...

239 - El Chapo, the Sinaloa Cartel, and the War on Drugs

12 Apr 2021

Contributed by Lukas

What a wild one we have today. I set out, fascinated by his two escapes from prison, to only explore cartel leader El Chapo. And then I got sucked int...

238 - Mao Zedong: Father of Communist China and Worst Mass Murderer of All Time?

05 Apr 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Mao Zedong's name is associated with one of the heinous totalitarian regimes of the 20th century - if not one of the most heinous regimes in the histo...

237 - The Pig Farmer Killer: Canada's Filthy Robert Pickton

29 Mar 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Robert Pickton was born in 1949 just outside of Vancouver, CA, in Port Coquitlam, on a pig farm. His parents were Helen and Leonard Pickton, two insan...

236 - The Yosemite Killer and the Abduction of Steven Stayner

22 Mar 2021

Contributed by Lukas

We got a wild one today. Today's Suck is really three Sucks in one. There is the abduction of Steven Stayner, the backstory of a notorious pedophile, ...

235 - Ward MF'n Hall

15 Mar 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Today we take a huge deviation for the type of topic we typically cover here on Timesuck. The Space Lizards on Patreon vote on two topics a month thro...

234 - The Elan School, the Cult of Synanon, and the Troubling Troubled Teen Industry

08 Mar 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Founded in 1974 by a man named Joe Ricci, the Elan School was supposed to be someplace where you could send your troubled teen so they could be rehabi...

233 - Blackwater and the US Private Military Industry

01 Mar 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Blackwater. Now known as Academi. Once known as Xe Services. A private military company. One of many PMCs very active in Iraq and Afghanistan in the f...

232 - The Great Emu War

22 Feb 2021

Contributed by Lukas

The Great Emu War! Such a weird and fun tale to tell. What an odd historical period. As World War I came to an end, Australia - whose economy was tank...

231 - Dante's Inferno

15 Feb 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Dante's Inferno! One of the most influential literary works ever written. Put to parchment in the early 14th century, Dante's opening third of the Div...

230 - Armenian Genocide

08 Feb 2021

Contributed by Lukas

This might be the first episode to get me death threats. The Turkish government does NOT like being accused of genocide, and neither do many of its ci...

229 - Denver International Airport Conspiracies

01 Feb 2021

Contributed by Lukas

The Denver Airport was built by the New World Order. The Denver Airport contains the international headquarters of the Illuminati. Collectively, the S...

228 - The Strange Story of Serial Killer Israel Keyes

25 Jan 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Possibly the most meticulous Serial Killer the world has ever known, Israel Keyes spent years planning murders all across North America. Burying what ...

227 - Operation Paperclip: Nazi War Criminals Hired by the United States

18 Jan 2021

Contributed by Lukas

In the final days of World War II and in the next few years after the war was over, the U.S. government helped hundreds and hundreds of Nazi Scientist...

226 - Shaka Zulu

11 Jan 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Shaka Zulu! I'm guessing you've heard the name. Also guessing you know very little about his story. Most don't seem too. Which is a shame because it's...

225 - Navajo Code Talkers

04 Jan 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Can you imagine fighting a war for a country that had removed you from the land your ancestors lived on for centuries - a country actively trying to e...

224 - Viktor Frankl/2020 Year End Recap

28 Dec 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Viktor Frankl and his logotherapy. This is the topic we examine this week to carry on the Timesuck tradition of ending the year on a little inspiratio...

223 - The Craigslist Killer

20 Dec 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Phillip Markoff. AKA, the Craigslist Killer. On the surface, Markoff seemed like a normal guy. A guy on the path to a lot of success. He was a six-foo...

222 - General Butt Naked

14 Dec 2020

Contributed by Lukas

General Butt Naked aka Joshua Blahyi is a complicated figure. He is now a Liberian Christian missionary helping victims or Liberia's first civil war r...

221 - The Dark Ages

07 Dec 2020

Contributed by Lukas

The Dark Ages. We attempt to suck a MASSIVE topic today. A thousand year's worth of European history. And actually, since we compare life in the Dark ...

220 - The Truck Stop Killer: Robert Ben Rhoades

30 Nov 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Robert Ben Rhoades, born in 1945, started driving big rigs across America’s interstates and major highways in the mid-1970s, and he seemed to most l...

219 - Annie Oakley

23 Nov 2020

Contributed by Lukas

At the height of her career, sharpshootin' Annie Oakley the talented sharpshooter was the most famous woman in America, if not the world - dazzling au...

218 - The Bloody Benders

16 Nov 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Life was NOT easy on the American frontier for European and American settlers in the 19th century. You lived off the land or you died trying. You were...

217 - WW2 Race Against the Nazi Enigma Machine

09 Nov 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Breaking an unbreakable code to save, at the very least, millions and millions of lives. To possibly stop Hitler from taking over the world. That was ...

216 - John Haigh "The Acid Bath Murderer"

02 Nov 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Knock, knock, Meatsacks. Who's there? John Haigh. The Acid Bath Murderer. Between 1944 and 1949, John “the Acid Bath Murderer” Haigh killed betwe...

215 - NXIVM Cult

26 Oct 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Cult! Cult! Cult! The NXIVM Sex Cult! Founded by Keith Raniere in 1998 - at its height, NXIVM counted thousands of members, including celebrities, hei...

214 - The Granny Ripper

19 Oct 2020

Contributed by Lukas

For roughly fifteen years, an unassuming Russian woman named Tamara Samsonova may have secretly murdered between ten and perhaps as many as fourteen p...

213 - Hollow Earth Theory

12 Oct 2020

Contributed by Lukas

I bet you’ve heard of Flat Earthers. But have you heard of… Hollow Earthers?? Variations of Hollow Earth Theory propose that our planet Earth is e...

212 - The Boston Strangler

05 Oct 2020

Contributed by Lukas

The Boston Strangler! The residents of Boston, in late 1962 through the summer of 1964, were terrified of a man the newspapers dubbed “the Boston St...

211 - The Immanuel David Cult

28 Sep 2020

Contributed by Lukas

The Immanuel David Cult! Not much has been written about Immanuel David compared to more notable cult leaders like Jim Jones or David Koresh - but he ...

210 - Alexander the Great!

21 Sep 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Alexander III, king of the ancient state of Macedon aka Macedonia - one of history’s greatest military commanders. And he was even more than that. H...

209 - American Riots: the 1992 LA Riots and So Much More

14 Sep 2020

Contributed by Lukas

LAPD and California Highway Patrol officers chased, arrested, and beat Rodney King, a twenty-five-year-old Black man, in 1991, and the fateful encount...

208 - The Titanic: Its Sinking and the Conspiracies That Surround It

07 Sep 2020

Contributed by Lukas

The Titanic sank in the early hours of April 15th, 1912. The luxury cruise liner that some thought of as being “unsinkable” turned out to be very,...

207 - The Vampire of Sacramento: Serial Killer Richard Chase

31 Aug 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Wow. This is a really, really crazy tale. Sacramento's Richard chase was very mentally ill. He was a paranoid schizophrenic who did not do well when h...

206 - The Strange Kidnapping of Patty Hearst

24 Aug 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Who joins the gang that kidnapped them and held them for ransom and helps them rob banks long after they're free to leave? Patty Hearst did that in 19...

205 - Skinwalker Ranch

17 Aug 2020

Contributed by Lukas

What the Hell is going on in Northeastern Utah? If you just drove by, you might think that Skinwalker Ranch is just an innocent-seeming 512-acre parce...

204 - Walt Disney: How a Media Empire Was Built

10 Aug 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Walt Disney! How much do you know about the mind and the man that built one of the ten biggest media empires in the world? How did the production comp...

203 - BSU: The FBI's Serial Killer Catchers

03 Aug 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Investigating the investigators today! Talking about the FBI's Behavioral Science Unit. Looking into how a small group of special agents introduced th...

202 - The Cult of Tony and Susan Alamo

27 Jul 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Susan Alamo was a cult leader and televangelist who founded the Alamo Christian Foundation with her husband, Tony, in Hollywood, in the late 1960s. Th...

201 - The Columbine Massacre

20 Jul 2020

Contributed by Lukas

My brain is back! Today we take a sober look at the Columbine massacre, when on April 20th, 1999, two Columbine High School seniors, Dylan Klebold and...

200 - The West Mesa Bone Collector: Shroom'd and Doomed

13 Jul 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Today's episode is.... interesting. Honoring a tradition started with the 100th Drunk as F*#k episode, I altered my mind again for this 200th episode....

199 - Bruce Lee: Life and Death of the Dragon

06 Jul 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Today we dig into the life of a true citizen of the world, Lee Jun-fan; known professionally as Bruce Lee. Bruce Lee was a martial arts pioneer, known...

198 - Egyptian Gods

29 Jun 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Osiris - god of the dead, resurrection into eternal life, and judge of the deceased. Ra - god of the sun, order, kings, and the sky. Babi - weird, ver...

197 - Serial Killer: Joachim Kroll

22 Jun 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Wow. THIS guy! Joachim Kroll is one of the most disturbing serial killers we've covered so far. And if you've listened to the Albert Fish and Toybox K...

196 - The Wendigo and Other American Indian Folklore Monsters

15 Jun 2020

Contributed by Lukas

The Wendigo. Tales of a perpetually starving monster roaming the woods of Eastern North America. The Wendigo originates in the lore of tribes like the...

195 - Genghis Kahn

08 Jun 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Genghis Kahn. Damn. I knew the dude was a renowned conqueror. Did NOT know he conquered like no other before or since. At the height of their army, pe...

194 - Killer Kids

01 Jun 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Why do some kids kill? Digging into that difficult and dark question today. Is it due to how they're raised? The type of brain they're born with? Play...

193 - Ivan The Terrible

25 May 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Ivan the Terrible. First true Tsar of Russia. And a dude who more than lived up to his "terrible" nickname, which actually is a mistranslation. Today ...

192 - Russian Hitman Alexander "Superkiller" Solonik

18 May 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Alexander Solonik, aka Alexander the Great aka Sasha the Macedonian aka The Superkiller was a legendary and mysterious Russian hitman in the 1980s and...

191 - Serial Killers Leonard Lake and Charles Ng

11 May 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Haven't heard of these two? By the end of today's tale, you'll be shocked that they're not much more infamous. Lake and Ng most likely killed over 25 ...

190 - The Multiverse

04 May 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Are there other yous living in other, parallel dimensions? Are there an infinite number of other yous? Where the Hell are they? Today we talk about mu...

189 - The Children of Thunder Cult

27 Apr 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Get ready for one helluva tale. Today's story is so crazy. The promising beginning, insane planning, and tragic pre-life-in-prison final acts of Taylo...

188 - The US Civil War

20 Apr 2020

Contributed by Lukas

The US Civil War. Fought over 150 years ago and still the bloodiest war the US has ever been involved in when it comes to the loss of American life. W...

187 - The Kansas City Butcher: Robert Berdella

13 Apr 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Robert Berdella. The Kansas City Butcher. The Collector. An insanely depraved cook and former art school student who kidnapped, raped, tortured and mu...

186 - The Sex Suck: Who's Doing What, Female Ejaculation, and More!

06 Apr 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Let's talk about sex! What is "normal" based on data? Who’s having sex? What kinds of sex are they having? Are you having more or less sex than the ...

185 - Pandemic: COVID-19 vs 1918 Spanish Flu

30 Mar 2020

Contributed by Lukas

What the Hell is going on right now? Why is the world in lockdown? Today I try and answer some biology basics: What is a virus? What is a coronavirus?...

184 - John Dillinger: Public Enemy Number One

23 Mar 2020

Contributed by Lukas

John Dillinger. J Edgar Hoover named him America's public enemy #1 for a reason. Dude LOVED to rob a bank. John lived and robbed during arguably the b...

183 - Baba Yaga: OG Witch

16 Mar 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Baba Yaga - OG witch and one of the many characters of ancient Slavic folklore. Today we explore Slavic folklore just like we explored Germanic folklo...

182 - Nation of Yahweh Cult: Murder, Manipulation, and Black Supremacy

09 Mar 2020

Contributed by Lukas

At the height of its power in the late 1980s, the Miami-based Nation of Yahweh cult had satellite temples around the country and a lucrative business ...

181 - Oklahoma City Bombing

02 Mar 2020

Contributed by Lukas

On April 19, 1995, at 9:02 AM, a Ryder moving truck parked at a drop-off zone situated under the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building's day-care center e...

180 - Dr. Death: Harold Shipman

24 Feb 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Harold Frederick Shipman AKA Dr. Death. Quite possibly the world's most prolific serial killer. From 1975 to 1998, he killed at least 215 people. The ...

179 - Ruby Ridge

17 Feb 2020

Contributed by Lukas

The 1992 Ruby Ridge armed standoff between the Weaver family and the federal government. Three people died and the American modern militia movement wa...

178 - Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge Genocide

10 Feb 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge Genocide. An insane, Cambodian tragedy that was oh, so avoidable. Saloth Sar, aka Pol Pot, was a man with a dream. A horri...

177 - The Brothers Grimm

03 Feb 2020

Contributed by Lukas

The Brothers Grimm! German folklorists Jacob and Wilhem Grimm collected a lot of strange, old, primarily Germanic tales back in the mid-19th century. ...

176 - Serial Killer Joseph Duncan

27 Jan 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Joseph Duncan. What a terrible, terrible dude. This was one of the hardest episodes we've done yet. I knew it would be dark, but, I didn't know it wou...

175 - Declassified Military Documents

20 Jan 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Operation Iceworm. Operation Gladio. Operation Paperclip, Sea Spray, Acoustic Kitty, and more. What has the US government kept secret over the years, ...

174 - Bizarre Mental Disorders

13 Jan 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Boanthropy. Capgras Delusion. Alien Hand Syndrome. Clinical Lycanthropy. We go over a variety of rare and unusual mental disorders today and also give...

173 - The 1977 Girl Scout Murders

06 Jan 2020

Contributed by Lukas

On the morning of June 13th, 1977, at Camp Scott, in Mayes County, Oklahoma, the dead bodies of three young girl scouts, ages 8, 9, and 10, are discov...

172 - Colonel Robert L. Howard/2019 Year End Review

30 Dec 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Happy New Year! 2020 is almost here and we do a little a summary of what went on with Timesuck in 2019. It was the best of years. Hail Nimrod! Also, f...

171 - The Warsaw Ghetto - A Tale of Nazi Resistance

23 Dec 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Ummm.... more Nazis this week. Not EXACTLY a normal holiday choice, but what's normal on Timesuck? Today we look at the Warsaw Ghetto - the largest co...

170 - Nazi Search for the Holy Grail

16 Dec 2019

Contributed by Lukas

The Nazi’s Search for the Holy Grail. We look at this today and also into so, so many other strange beliefs held by Heinrich Himmler, Hitler, and ot...

169 - Stan Lee! And the History of Comics

09 Dec 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Stan Lee! The man, the myth, the legend! The man who co-created 200 different comic book characters. The co-creator of Spiderman, Thor, the Hulk, the ...

168 - Killdozer

02 Dec 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Killdozer. The story of one man, Marvin Heemeyer, who modified a Komatsu D355A bulldozer into a demolition weapon, and then go on a two plus hour ramp...

167 - The Son of Sam: Serial Killer David Berkowitz

25 Nov 2019

Contributed by Lukas

David Berkowitz. The Son of Sam. One of America's most infamous serial killers. The man who terrorized the already terrible New York City in the mid-1...

166 - The Happy Face Killer: Keith Hunter Jesperson

18 Nov 2019

Contributed by Lukas

The Happy Face Killer. Wow. What a dirtbag! What an especially hate-able dude, even for a serial killer. Keith Hunter Jesperson raped and strangled at...

165 - Simo Hayha: White Death

11 Nov 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Happy Veteran's Day to all our American men and women armed forces members. Much respect to armed forces members world wide. Going international today...

164 - The Manhattan Project

04 Nov 2019

Contributed by Lukas

The Manhattan Project! The United States gathered all the best minds it could find to develop atomic weapons before the Germans or Japan beat them to ...

163 - The Church of Satan

28 Oct 2019

Contributed by Lukas

The Church of Satan! How many babies do they sacrifice? Do the babies have to be Christian? How many virgins are presented to dudes wearing robes or d...

162 - The Greek Gods!

21 Oct 2019

Contributed by Lukas

The Greek Gods! Didn't expect this to be the craziest suck we've ever done going in, but maybe it was. The Greek Gods were unbelievably insane. These ...

161 - The Source Family Cult

14 Oct 2019

Contributed by Lukas

In the late 1960s, James Baker transitioned from the spiritually-minded owner of a vegetarian restaurant on Los Angele's Sunset Strip to Father Yod - ...

160 - Time Travel!

07 Oct 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Time travel! Today on Timesuck we suck time itself! Will we ever be able to go back and kill Hitler? Or go to the future and visit a world of teleport...

159 - Josephine Baker: Spy, Sex Symbol, Superstar

30 Sep 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Josephine Baker. What a meatsack!! Such an incredible person. The modern world's first internationally famous black, female celebrity. She lived a lot...

158 - The Mysterious Death of JonBenet Ramsey

23 Sep 2019

Contributed by Lukas

JonBenet Ramsey. It's been over twenty years since the six-year-old was found murdered in her Boulder, Colorado home and ever since, investigators and...

157 - Mormonism: The Good, The Bad, and The FLDS

16 Sep 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Mormonism. BIG topic today! Oh my HECK! We talk today about the history of Mormonism - a religion born in America. We'll go over the life of its found...

156 - The Confession Killers: Henry Lee Lucas and Ottis Toole

09 Sep 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Henry Lee Lucas and Ottis Toole committed at least four murders, or maybe five. They were, collectively, convicted of seventeen. But they definitely d...

155 - Leonardo da Vinci

02 Sep 2019

Contributed by Lukas

The only thing Leonardo da Vinci wasn't good at was raising his kids. And only because he didn't have any. He seemed to master just about everything e...

154 - The Outlaw Jesse James and the James-Younger Gang

26 Aug 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Jesse James! Perhaps the most notorious outlaw in wild west history. Yip, yip, yaw! But do you know why he was so infamous? Do you understand the soci...

153 - The Ninth Circle Cult & Jeffrey Epstein: An Exploration Into Pedophile Rings

19 Aug 2019

Contributed by Lukas

The Ninth Circle Cult! Is there actually a group of "global elites" hunting children in private European forests, raping and sacrificing children to S...

152 - The Anti-Vaccination Movement

12 Aug 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Infectious disease. The number one murderer of humankind. By far! Nasty little viruses and other pathogens have killed more people than any other sing...