Dee and Kate’s dark family secrets hardly compare to those of the Alexander family which include messianic cults, incestual orgies and ritualistic murder. Marshall Island Tony calls in about the Japanese attitude towards WW2. Sign up for the Sick and Wrong Patreon to hear the Second Show, SW archives, and the bonus minisode Serial Killer Star Signs.
The extreme act of protest by US Air Force member Aaron Bushnell prompts Dee and Kate to explore the history of self-immolation as the ultimate act of defiance and a drastic form of suicide as well as look into the veracity of other forms of combustion that are more spontaneous. Driver calls in with a story about a special chair and a caller learns that the Shangri-Las invented barking in a recent Overkill episode. Sign up for the Sick and Wrong Patreon to hear Second Show, SW archives, and the bonus minisode Serial Killer Star Signs.
To commemorate the 45th anniversary of the Jonestown massacre, Kate highlights the shadowy private investigator Joe Mazor who might have inadvertently led the Reverend Jim Jones to order the mass suicide of his followers. Long time listener phones in about the etymology of the term blumpkin and Matt the Trucker discover something foul at the truck stop. Sign up for the Sick and Wrong Patreon to hear the Second Show, SW archives, and the bonus minisode Overkill.
Inspired by a visit to the Heaven’s Gate mansion in Rancho Santa Fe, Dee and Kate discuss the mass suicide in 1997 where 39 people “exited their vehicles” under the watchful eyes of cult leader Marshall Applewhite. Christian Slater calls in about last week’s show and Lothario has a story about hooking up with a hippy chick. Sign up for the Sick and Wrong Patreon to hear the Second Show, SW archives, and the bonus minisode Overkill.
After driving by the former Shilo Inn, one of the most haunted sites in Utah, Dee’s inspired to research the backstory involving the suicide of a failed prophet and his wife who murdered their children in an act of religious zealotry. The WAD calls in with parenting advice. Sign up for the Sick and Wrong Patreon to hear the Second Show, SW archives, and the bonus minisode Overkill.
Was Sharon Tate in a Satanic cult? Did the FBI use psyops to weaponize the Manson Family? Was Helter Skelter a hoax? Did the murders occur because of a drug burn? To commemorate the death anniversary of Sharon Tate and friends, Dee and Kate unravel the various conspiracy theories surrounding the brutal murders on 10050 Cielo Drive. Waxer waxes sentimental in the bathtub and Jizzy Jake ponders his own mortality when he finds a dead cat. Sign up for the Sick and Wrong Patreon to hear the Second Show, SW archives, and the bonus minisode Overkill.
Dee feels the best technique to be disinvited from your in-laws’ Super Bowl party is to overshare the graphic details of St Louis Cardinals defensive end Robert Rozier’s violent crimes committed on the order of black supremacist cult, the Nation of Yahweh. Listener calls in with a nightmarish story about edibles and machetes. Sign up for the Sick and Wrong Patreon to hear the Second Show, Overkill, and S&W Weekly Nooozzz.
The anniversary of the Manson Family murders leads Dee and Kate to examine the connection between Charles Manson, the Son of Sam, and a Satanic cult known as the Process Church of the Final Judgement. Listener has an emotionally moving story about a dead crackhead and another listener calls in with a tragic story about a Bangkok prostitute. Sign up for the Sick and Wrong Patreon to access bonus news stories, phone calls, and outtakes.
Dee is ready for a hot vax summer until Kate kills his buzz with the gruesome story of Junko Furuta, a Japanese high school student, who was kidnapped, raped, and tortured for 44 days at the home of her classmate. Children’s author killed by neighbor who thought he was Russian spy spreading Covid. A cult leader known as ‘Mother God’ was found mummified in Colorado. Phone calls. Sign up for the Sick and Wrong Patreon to access bonus news stories, phone calls, and outtakes.
Baby Shmuley has arrived! Now that Dee is the cool uncle, he has some words of warning for his young nephew: Never be a D&D roleplayer as it only ends in murder. Dictator father only allowed his family two baths a week. Aussie dangerous driver pleads guilty to outraging the public. Phone calls. Sign up for the Sick and Wrong Patreon to access bonus news stories, phone calls, and outtakes.
