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Musicians. Movie stars. Mayhem. Murder. DISGRACELAND is the award-winning podcast that tells the unbelievable but true stories from the dark side of entertainment history. Rockstars getting away with murder and behaving very badly. Actors engulfed in scandal. Pop stars plotted against and terrorized. Taylor Swift escaping her stalkers. Jerry Lee Lewis allegedly murdering his wife. Brittany Murphy’s suspicious death. Big Lurch, the hip hop star who ate his roommate. The assassination of John ...
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Welcome to the Brittany Bruce podcast, where amazing things happen. Cover art photo provided by 𝚂𝚒𝚘𝚛𝚊 𝙿𝚑𝚘𝚝𝚘𝚐𝚛𝚊𝚙𝚑𝚢 on Unsplash: https://unsplash.com/@siora18
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Travel That Matters (named one of the 10 Best Podcasts of 2022 by Men’s Journal) explores the world’s most extraordinary travel experiences and destinations with award-winning editor, writer, and luxury travel expert Bruce Wallin. Bruce’s remarkable guests share inspiring, life-shaping stories about their adventures and cultural explorations, as well as travel tips and recommendations for the best destinations, hotels, restaurants, activities, and more. Their travel tales and insights cover ...
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A daily news show from the publisher of The Monthly and The Saturday Paper. Hear from the country’s best reporters, covering the news as it affects Australia. This is news with narrative, every weekday.
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ICONiCAST was created to share with everyone the personal experiences and mindsets of top ICONs of top industries and sports. Do you want to #BecomeAnICON?
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A True Crime Podcast about Cases Based in Oklahoma! New Episodes Released Twice a month! Subscribe in Apple Podcasts or Most Podcast Apps... Follow us on Twitter @OKCrimeState Like Us on Facebook: OKcrimestate Instagram: OKcrimestate Email us : SoonerStateCrimePod@gmail.com Donate to the Tip Jar to Keep New Episodes coming: https://PayPal.me/crimestate
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Welcome to The Shit Show Of My Twenties- a supportive place to help you make your twenties less of a shit show. Join Sophia for honest conversations about personal growth, entrepreneurship, and how to struggle better. I am excited to be apart of your journey and hold space for your personal growth. I would love to connect with you on Instagram @theshitshowofmytwenties Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Sharing Secrets - a new series from the Secret Foundation - explores the biggest secrets of the blockchain and cryptocurrency space. Hosted by Tor Bair, Sharing Secrets features everything from interviews, to monologues, to special guests, to technical explainers, to surprises, and beyond. (Sharing Secrets is a reboot and expansion of Decentralize This!, an interview-driven podcast previously hosted by Tor Bair and presented by Enigma. Back episodes are available here!)
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Elon Musk’s secret plan to buy Trump the presidency
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In 2022, Elon Musk said Donald Trump was “too old” to be president, and Donald Trump called Musk a “bullshit artist”. In the relatively short time since, Elon Musk has endorsed the former president and offered him some free publicity by interviewing Trump on his website X. It’s now been revealed that Elon Musk has also been working behind the scene…
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QANTAS crash: How Alan Joyce lost a $9 million bonus
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Alan Joyce was once hailed as a saviour of perhaps Australia’s most iconic business. The former CEO of QANTAS was championed by his board and well known in the Australian business community for his support of social justice causes throughout his 15 years in the job. So, it’s been a dramatic fall from grace. Joyce has now left his successors with a …
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Iconic Restaurants Around the World with Jean Imbert, in Paris, Cannes, French Polynesia, St. Barth’s, Dubai, Brittany, and More, Including on the Orient Express
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Could you, would you, on a train? We would eat chef Jean Imbert's cuisine on a train, by the sea, in a city... we would eat Jean Imbert's cuisine anywhere! Dr. Seuss jokes aside, Jean Imbert is the culinary mastermind behind some of the most iconic restaurants in the world, including those in Paris, Cannes, French Polynesia, St. Barth’s, and even t…
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Alfred Hitchcock: Killers, Auteurs, and Survivors
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Alfred Hitchcock grew up on murder. He was the OG crime junkie; obsessed with true stories of stranglers, bodysnatchers, necrophiliacs, and serial killers. He was also afraid – not so much with these ghoulish figures, but of authority, the dark, crowds, and of being alone. He channeled his obsessions and his fears into some of the greatest movies o…
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Peter Dutton's Palestinian ban is textbook Peter Dutton
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The treatment or mistreatment of refugees fleeing to Australia has been the wellspring of Australian politics for almost a quarter of a century. This time, it's Peter Dutton with his call for Palestinians fleeing Gaza to be banned from coming to Australia. The language is designed to wedge the government by making them look soft on national securit…
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After the 'no' vote: Advance’s plan to destroy the Greens
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The hard-right group behind the “No” campaign, Advance, is amassing a multi-million dollar war chest to take down its next opponent: the Australian Greens. Advance has called the Greens the “single biggest threat to freedom, security and prosperity in Australia” – and they have big plans to target their voters ahead of the next election. Today, spe…
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Read This: All Bruce Pascoe Needs Is a Biro
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It was 2014 when Bruce Pascoe went from being a prolific, yet relatively unknown writer, to public enemy #1 in Australia’s culture wars. That was the year that Bruce published his now infamous book, Dark Emu, and its re-examination of accepted historical accounts of pre-invasion Australia. On this episode of Read This, he joins Michael for a discus…
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Brian Jones: To Be On Your Own Like A Sinking Stone
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‘It’s not 1800-phone-a-friend’: the failed promise of therapy apps
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“I didn’t have a boyfriend to text anymore so might as well text a therapist,” a millennial podcast host tells her audience while recommending they seek out counselling. Online therapy services like BetterHelp are some of podcasting’s biggest advertisers, promising to address the barriers that prevent people from accessing face-to-face therapy. Now…
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Bonus Episode: Hollywood and History’s Worst Moms and the Hitchcock Dilemma
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This week in the After Party, Jake looks at Brittany Murphy's mysterious death and the history of bad moms in Hollywood and crime. As we prepare for next week's episode on the brilliant yet problematic Alfred Hitchcock, we want to know: Which films can you not go without despite the horrific behavior of their creators? How do you handle the dilemma…
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Linda Reynolds, Brittany Higgins and the rise of political defamation
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Brittany Higgins has now been at the centre of three court cases. First, there was the criminal trial of Bruce Lehrmann - which was aborted with no findings made against him. Lehrmann later sued Network 10 and journalist Lisa Wilkinson, claiming that they defamed him by identifying him as a rapist. The court found that he did, to a civil standard, …
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Inside the illegal underground schools for Afghan girls
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Three years ago the Taliban regained control of Afghanistan. From his new home in Adelaide, Australia, Hazara human rights activist and photographer Muzafar Ali watched warlords returning to the places he had loved but had been forced to leave. He saw Western journalists describing a place they didn’t know and didn’t really understand. So last mont…
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Brittany Murphy: The Suspicious Death of a Starlet or an Unsolved Murder?
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When actress Brittany Murphy died of pneumonia at the age of just 32 years old, it seemed that all of Hollywood had questions about her death. All but her husband, who did not find his wife’s death suspicious in the slightest. Then, shortly after, Brittany Murphy’s husband died of the same highly suspect cause of death, pneumonia, and then, things …
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Labor’s plan to put young people into aged care
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Neale Radley was in his early 40s when he dived off a houseboat and hit a sandbar, becoming a high-needs quadriplegic. With no family members able to look after him, he was faced with limited options and ended up in aged-care. Now, a clause in the government’s New Aged Care Act could mean that more younger people will end up in aged-care, potential…
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Imane Khelif and the scrutiny of female athletes’ bodies
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This year’s Olympics has been phenomenal for women in sport. Paris 2024 also set a milestone as the first Olympics to achieve full gender parity on the field of play. But these achievements have been overshadowed by the abuse levelled at two female boxers who both clinched their first olympic medals over unfounded speculation about their sex. One o…
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Read This: Eric Beecher Is a Media Mongrel
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In this episode of our sister podcast, Read This, host Michael Williams speaks with journalist, editor and media proprietor Eric Beecher about his new book The Men Who Killed the News. Eric has worked for some of the most well-respected newspapers in the world, including the Sydney Morning Herald and the Wall Street Journal. He’s currently the head…
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The Hillsborough Disaster: A Fatal Crush, Soccer Hooligans, and a Massive Cover-Up
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On April 15th, 1989, 95 men, women, and children were crushed to death during a soccer match between Liverpool and Nottingham Forest – two additional victims would later die of their injuries. The Hillsborough Disaster ruined lives and communities. But Hillsborough wasn’t just a disaster. It was a fight for justice. It was a war between the establi…
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Is Australia failing to teach kids to read?
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It’s been called a forever war: the fight over how to teach children to read. For decades, an outdated method has lingered in Australian classrooms as states protect schools’ right to teach how they wish. Following a recent report from the Grattan Institute that found a third of Australian children couldn’t read well, state governments are finally …
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Bonus Episode: Can a Heavy Metal Band Be The Most Successful Band of All Time?
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This week in the After Party, Jake looks at Metallica's rise from the vanguard of a niche sub-genre of Heavy Metal to become one of the most successful bands of all time. And in preparation for next week's episode on Brittany Murphy, we want to know: Which celebrity deaths seem suspicious to you? Which explanations of celebrity death just don't hol…
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In the weeks since he was announced as Donald Trump’s running mate, some of JD Vance’s past remarks have resurfaced. He is now at the centre of a number of bizarre rumours and jokes. They’ve been picked up by some Democrats, who are labelling the two men on the republican ticket as ‘weird’. Kamala Harris has chosen the man who started the ‘weird’ l…
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