Torched
Episodes
From Here We Go Again with Kal Penn: The Caitlin Clark Effect with Sarah Spain
05 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
This week in honor of National Girls & Women in Sports Day, we're bringing you a special episode of Here We Go Again with Kal Penn, another show f...
World Cup Part II: The Legacy of Les Bleues
08 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Season Finale! We complete our World Cup coverage and look at what the French National Team, Les Bleues, means to the nation it represents. Will they ...
World Cup Part I: Shadows of the Beautiful Game
01 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
We investigate what it looked like when a nation tried to win the right to host the World Cup, and what was sacrificed in the process.See Privacy Poli...
Writing Your Own Story with Lindsey Jacobellis
18 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
We talk with Lindsey Jacobellis, the most decorated snowboarder in history, and delve into her winning ways as an athlete, mentor, and published autho...
Your Friendly Neighborhood All-Star
11 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Hear the story of Stasia Czernicki, one of the greatest candlepin bowlers of all time. Her determination to be the best at this little known sport cat...
Sports Betting in the Digital Age
04 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In a short amount of time, we’ve gone from gambling being stigmatized and barely legal, to omnipresent and woven into the sports we watch. But how d...
A Scandal at Stones
27 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Poker impresario Veronica Brill joins us to break down one of Poker's most recent and heightened controversies.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com...
Taking a Stand with Judge Rosemarie Aquilina
20 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
We speak with Judge Rosemarie Aquilina about her most infamous case, and how she helped empower the young women who bravely took the stand during the ...
Amateurism & The NCAA
13 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Jeremy Bloom joins us to discuss amateurism and how new rulings have helped college athletes begin to make money off the big business that exists beca...
Title IX Trailblazers
06 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Through the lens of several women impacted, we’ll see how Title IX provides more than just athletic opportunities and how it has led to sweeping cha...
The Long-term Future of Winter Sports with Auden Schendler
30 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Climate activist, businessman and author, Auden Schendler joins us to help unveil the simplest concepts behind tackling climate change, and saving the...
Olympic Dreams to Hollywood Screens
23 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Hear the tale of Esther Williams, a champion swimmer whose dreams of Olympic success were shortchanged due to a world war...and how she turned her tra...
Breaking on the Olympic Stage
16 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Breaking, an art form, dance, and cultural movement, was announced to be an upcoming Olympic Event in 2024. However, reactions to this decision were m...
Olympic Destroyer
02 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
To most, the 2018 Winter Olympic Games were an astounding success. But for the organizers and security personnel on the inside, it was a tense game of...
The Russian Obsession With Winning
26 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
We talk with Russian athletes and international watchdogs — to discover how Russia’s elaborate, state-sponsored doping regime has become virtually...
Two Tales from the Tour De France
12 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Season 2 launches with a two tales from the Tour De France, which has, over the course of decades, become a stain on the sport of competitive cycling....
Introducing Torched: Season 2
05 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Torched is back! Season 2 brings you the same high-stakes controversial Olympic stories you loved in Season 1, while expanding to other iconic sportin...
Relax and Win from Legacy of Speed
28 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Sharing a new Pushkin show, Legacy of Speed. When two Black sprinters raised their fists in protest at the 1968 Olympic Games, it shook the world. Mor...
Taking a Stance with Gwen Berry
10 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Listen to the full conversation with Gwen Berry from our Rule 50 episode. We talk with Gwen about what it means to her to be an activist, a mother, a ...
Changing Course with Kaillie Humphries
26 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Now famous for winning the first ever gold in women's monobob at the 2022 Beijing Olympics, Kallie Humphries once didn't even know if she would be all...
Bidding, Hosting & Corruption: Part II
19 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
From the LA riots to the Tlatelolco Massacre to Beijing 2022, governments have used the Olympics to paper over social problems, suppress dissent and f...
Bidding, Hosting & Corruption: Part I
12 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Are we headed toward a future where nobody wants to host the Olympics? Over the next two episodes, we’ll look at the Olympic stage itself. Hosting t...
The Stigma Against Mental Health
05 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
While elite athletes train themselves to push their bodies toward extremes, they’re also pushing their minds to sometimes unhealthy – and even dan...
The Gay Games Lawsuit
29 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
An episode about a different Olympics. This is a story about a community that organized its own Games, against the odds and in spite of a serious lega...
Boris Cheats at Fencing
22 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The story of a swashbuckling scandal that unfolds like a John Le Carre spy novel: the curious case of fencer Boris Onischenko. For some athletes, are ...
The Dangers of Sledding
15 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Most people like a good shot of adrenaline now and then. Roller coasters, bungee jumping... poker games... And bobsledders take that hair-raising tend...
Greg Louganis' Infamous Dive
08 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
It was the bump heard round the world. The best diver ever - Greg Louganis - hit his head on the diving board in 1988 in Seoul, and splashed awkwardly...
The Right to Olympic Protest
01 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
It's an iconic image from the '68 Mexico City games: Tommie Smith and John Carlos bow their heads and raise their firsts on the podium. Though the pai...
Salt Lake's Disaster on Ice
22 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In 2002, it was the biggest judging scandal to ever rock the sport of figure skating. What followed was a media frenzy — a week of rumors, lies, con...
The Great Badminton Scandal
15 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
One of the most bizarre Olympic moments in recent memory was when a group of Olympians decided that it was worth it to actually lose… in an attempt ...
Switching Sleds
08 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
When bobsledder Kaillie Humphries decided to leave a toxic team environment, it put her future as an Olympian in jeopardy. When is it acceptable for a...
SPECIAL INTERVIEW: Jeremy Bloom on Starting Over After Sports
01 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
You may have heard of Molly's brother, Jeremy Bloom: two time Olympics skier and former NFL player. Ambition - and athletic greatness - run in the Blo...
Cannabis Controversy
25 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
How did gold medalist Ross Rebagliati find himself inside a Japanese prison? At the 1998 Nagano Games, one snowboarder's failed drug test leads to imp...
Three Seconds on the Clock
18 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The 1972 Munich men’s gold medal basketball game unfolded against a bitter Cold War backdrop. What happened on the Olympic court between the U.S. an...
Introducing Torched
22 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
It’s no exaggeration to say that at the Olympics – the culmination of years of sweat, tears, and more sweat – everything is on the line. Medals....