Timesuck with Dan Cummins

Today we explore the horrifying true story of the Radium Girls — young women told to “lip, dip, and paint” with radioactive dial paint while their employers hid the deadly consequences. What began as a factory job seen as glamorous and high-paying turned into one of the most grotesque workplace poisoning scandals in American history, leaving behind shattered bodies, corporate lies, and a legal battle that helped change worker safety forever. For Merch and everything else Bad Magic related, head to: https://www.badmagicproductions.com Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

A dive into the strange life and bold ideas behind Waldorf schooling, from imaginative pedagogy to delayed academics. The episode traces a founder’s claimed clairvoyant visions, occult cosmology, and spiritual science. It also covers artistic programs, biodynamic farming origins, controversies about hidden doctrine, and how mystical beliefs shaped real-world institutions.

A calm, calculating predator who terrorized Melbourne suburbs and left almost no evidence. Harrowing abductions with repeated MO and chilling survivor details. A long, tangled investigation with task force profiling, lost evidence, and several compelling suspects. Unresolved murders and lingering DNA leads that continue to haunt investigators and communities.

A 19th century French visionary tried to build a communist utopia in America. The tale follows disastrous Texas land claims, a takeover of abandoned Nauvoo, and communal dining, schools, and workshops. Authoritarian rules, fraud trials, internal splits, epidemics, Civil War losses, and failed western ventures chronicle one of the strangest communal experiments in U.S. history.

A fast-paced dive into the chaos of World War I in the Middle East. Traces a young archaeologist’s plunge into intelligence and desert warfare. Relives a daring desert march, guerrilla raids on railways, and the capture of Aqaba. Ends with the messy Paris peace, secret maps that carved up the region, and the complicated legacy left behind.

A deep dive into South Korea’s 4B movement and its four strict no’s. Traces the movement’s online origins, the Gangnam murder catalyst, and ties to Megalia and mirroring tactics. Examines economic pressures, beauty culture, spy-camera crimes, and Me Too’s influence. Follows how 4B spread internationally and its political and reproductive-rights implications.

A serial predator drugs women, keeps a list of victims, and somehow keeps slipping through the cracks — while the people meant to stop him sure do appear to keep looking the other way. This week, we follow one relentless prosecutor as she pulls at a thread that unravels disturbing alleged corruption, institutional failure, and a justice system that seems more interested in protecting itself than protecting victims. For Merch and everything else Bad Magic related, head to: https://www.badmagicproductions.com Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

A deep dive into a family disappearance that spirals into a shocking homicide investigation. Covers the couple’s shifting finances, MLM lifestyle pressures, and social media image. Tracks secret affairs, escalating deceptions, and the minute-by-minute unraveling of the crime. Ends with the legal fallout and psychological questions surrounding motive and appearance.

He was Australia’s most infamous bushranger - a working-class rebel to some, a violent murderer to others. This week on Timesuck, we dive into the brutal, myth-soaked life of Ned Kelly, his war with the police, and the armored showdown that sealed his place in history.Merch and more: www.badmagicproductions.com Timesuck Discord! https://discord.gg/tqzH89vWant to join the Cult of the Curious PrivateFacebook Group? Go directly to Facebook and search for "Cult of the Curious" to locate whatever happens to be our most current page :)For all merch-related questions/problems: store@badmagicproductions.com (copy and paste)Please rate and subscribe on Apple Podcasts and elsewhere and follow the suck on social media!! @timesuckpodcast on IG and http://www.facebook.com/timesuckpodcastWanna become a Space Lizard? Click here: https://www.patreon.com/timesuckpodcast.Sign up through Patreon, and for $5 a month, you get access to the entire Secret Suck catalog (295 episodes) PLUS the entire catalog of Timesuck, AD FREE. You'll also get 20% off of all regular Timesuck merch PLUS access to exclusive Space Lizard merch. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

A fast-paced retelling of the Haitian Revolution, focusing on the massive slave uprising that toppled a plantation empire. Scenes of coordinated burnings, battlefield genius, and shifting alliances. The rise of Toussaint Louverture, brutal French reprisals, and Dessalines' push for independence. A look at the violent aftermath and the global consequences of Haiti's birth.