Shocking! Lurid! Tawdry! A History of American Scandals
By Kasey Howe & Mark Peikert
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We love dining out on bad behavior so much it's practically our national dish. But while some scandals stick, most front-page stories end up forgotten. Till now! Armed only with Google and their own indefatigable curiosity, co-hosts Kasey Howe and Mark Peikert scrabble through the graveyards of forgotten headlines to unearth the stories that once consumed the country. Join the fray as Shocking! Lurid! Tawdry! remembers what America forgot.
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That Time the Falwells Met Their Match in a Pool Boy
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Nov 08, 2022 |
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That Time the CIA Got Very Into LSD
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Oct 18, 2022 |
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That Time Beatrice Sparks Published 'Go Ask Alice' and 'Jay's Journal'
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Oct 11, 2022 |
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That Time John Edwards Tried to be a YouTube Star
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Oct 04, 2022 |
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That Time Barbara Hershey Went on The Dick Cavett Show
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Sep 27, 2022 |
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That Time Alexander Hamilton Invented the Treasury and Political Sex Scandals
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Sep 20, 2022 |
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That Time Janet Cooke Won a Pulitzer
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Sep 13, 2022 |
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That Time Sumner Welles Called for a Pullman Porter
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Sep 06, 2022 |
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That Time Alexander Hamilton's Great-Grandson Was Front-Page News for Years
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Aug 30, 2022 |
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That Time They Called the Cavalry on WWI Vets
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Aug 23, 2022 |
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That Time Zsa Zsa Gabor Slapped a Cop
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Aug 19, 2022 |
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That Time Designing Women Invented Drama
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Aug 16, 2022 |
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That Time Martha Mitchell Opened Her Mouth
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Aug 09, 2022 |
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That Time We Took a Sümmer Holiday
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Jul 12, 2022 |
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That Time John G. Schmitz Begat a Sex Scandal and a Surprisingly Scandalous Child
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Jun 21, 2022 |
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That Time Helen Keller Was Accused of Plagiarism
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Jun 14, 2022 |
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That Time History Teachers Loved The XYZ Affair So Much
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May 24, 2022 |
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That Time WeCrashed, The Dropout, and Super Pumped All Premiered Within Weeks of One Another
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May 17, 2022 |
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That Time The Way Down Came Back for More Gwen Shamblin Stories
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May 10, 2022 |
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That Time Sean Young Just Wanted to Audition for Catwoman
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May 03, 2022 |
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That Time Ohio Had a Surprising Number of Political Scandals
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Apr 26, 2022 |
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That Time Reese Witherspoon Asked If a Cop Knew Her Name
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Apr 19, 2022 |
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That Time the L.A. Water Wars Inspired Chinatown
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Apr 12, 2022 |
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That Time Julia Roberts and Kiefer Sutherland Didn't Get Married
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Apr 05, 2022 |
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That Time Daniel Sickles Invented the Temporary Insanity Defense
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Mar 29, 2022 |
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That Time Hollywood Destroyed Clara Bow
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Mar 22, 2022 |
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That Time Things Went Real Bad in Waco
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Mar 15, 2022 |
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That Time Gay Drama Cruising Filmed in NYC and People Freaked the F Out
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Mar 08, 2022 |
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That Time a Lot of Women Got Caught Up in Political Scandals
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Mar 01, 2022 |
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That Time Roxanne Pulitzer Got Divorced
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Feb 22, 2022 |
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That Time It Took a Massacre to Get an 8-Hour Work Day
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Feb 15, 2022 |
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That Time Charlie Chaplin's Divorce Got Sold Like Pornography
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Feb 08, 2022 |
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That Time Anthony Weiner's Sexts Destroyed a Few Political Careers
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Feb 01, 2022 |
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That Time Charles Lindbergh Managed to Make Us Forget a Few Key Personality Traits
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Dec 28, 2021 |
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That Time the Media Declared We're in a War on Christmas
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Dec 21, 2021 |
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That Time Hilaria Baldwin Had a 'Decade-Long Grift'
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Dec 14, 2021 |
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That Time Nelson Rockefeller Had a Very Stressful 48 Hours
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Dec 07, 2021 |
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That Time Mary McCarthy Got Off 1 Good Zinger About Lillian Hellman
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Nov 30, 2021 |
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That Time President Grover Cleveland Had a Secret Son
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Nov 23, 2021 |
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That Time Brenda Frazier Became Famous for Having a Party
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Nov 16, 2021 |
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That Time Linda Tripp and Monica Lewinsky Testified Before the Grand Jury
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Nov 11, 2021 |
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That Time Boss Tweed Lost a Lot of Weight During a Lengthy Escape Attempt
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Nov 09, 2021 |
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That Time Andrea Van Landingham Wrote a Book About Hollywood Scandals
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Nov 02, 2021 |
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That Time an Entire Country Made Fun of a 20Something Monica Lewinsky
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Oct 27, 2021 |
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That Time Truman Capote Published a Short Story and Ruined a Few Lives
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Oct 26, 2021 |
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That Time Gary Webb Published 1 Story and Watched His Career Destroyed
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Oct 19, 2021 |
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That Time Monica Lewinsky Went to the Mall With Linda Tripp
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Oct 13, 2021 |
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That Time Grace Metalious Pissed Off Her Entire Town By Publishing Peyton Place
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Oct 12, 2021 |
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That Time Gwen Shamblin Invented Portion Control and a New Church
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Oct 07, 2021 |
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That Time Linda Tripp Bought a Tape Recorder
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Oct 06, 2021 |
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That Time Robert Potter Castrated 2 Men and Got Re-Elected to Congress
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Oct 05, 2021 |
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That Time J.B. Watson Ruined Psychiatry, Advertising, and Office Culture
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Sep 28, 2021 |
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Special Bonus Episode: When Monica Lewinsky Waited by the Phone. And Waited. And Waited.
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Sep 23, 2021 |
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That Time Arnold Schwarzenegger Broke His Own Scandalous Affair With the Nanny
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Sep 21, 2021 |
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"They Say, 'In God We Trust,' But It Is Written on a Dollar"
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Sep 14, 2021 |
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Special Bonus Episode: That Time Linda Tripp Met Monica Lewinsky
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Sep 08, 2021 |
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That Time a Secret Service Guy Didn't Have Enough Money to Pay His Sex Worker in Cartagena
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Sep 07, 2021 |
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That Time Lana Turner Watched Her Teen Daughter Stab Her Gangster Boyfriend on Good Friday
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Aug 31, 2021 |
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That Time D.C. Wives Hated Peggy Eaton So Much Andrew Jackson Had to Fire His Cabinet
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Aug 24, 2021 |
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That Time Geraldo Rivera Published a Salacious Memoir and Almost Instantly Regretted It
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Aug 17, 2021 |
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That Time Gary Hart and Donna Rice Posed for 1 Innocent Photo and Destroyed His Candidacy
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Aug 10, 2021 |
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That Time Christina Crawford Pissed Off Old Hollywood and Film Fans With Mommie Dearest
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Aug 03, 2021 |
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That Time Someone Finally Held Senator Joseph McCarthy Accountable for His Lazy Lies
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Jul 27, 2021 |
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That Time Valerie Harper Got Fired From Her Own Sitcom, Smeared in the Press, and Took It All to Court
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Jul 20, 2021 |
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That Time Gary Condit Waited 11 Weeks to Mention He Knew Missing Person Chandra Levy
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Jul 13, 2021 |
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That Time Rex Harrison Was So Sexy Women Couldn't Get Enough of His Magic D
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Jul 06, 2021 |
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That Time First Lady Edith Wilson Staged a Coup and Took Over the Unite States Government While Woodrow Wilson Recuperated
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Jun 29, 2021 |
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That Time Tennis Legend Big Bill Tilden Destroyed His Legacy by Being Caught With a Minor (Twice)
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Jun 22, 2021 |
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That Time President Ulysses S. Grant Accidentally Allowed the Corruption of His Treasury Department and a Stock Market Crash
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Jun 15, 2021 |
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That Time Joan Bennett Watched Husband Walter Wanger Shoot Her Agent in the Groin
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Jun 08, 2021 |
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That Time Eliot Spitzer Went From Sheriff of Wall Street to Governor of New York to Client 9
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Jun 01, 2021 |
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That Time Pia Zadora Won a Golden Globe and Became an Instant Industry Joke
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May 25, 2021 |
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That Time Richard Nixon's White House Was So Corrupt Vice President Spiro Agnew Went Down Unrelated to Watergate
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May 18, 2021 |
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That Time an Oleomargarine Heir Dabbled in Cafe Society Pimping Until His Trust Fund Could Kick In
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May 11, 2021 |
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That Time D.C. Lobbyist Craig J. Spence Became Linked to a Male Prostitution Ring and Then Ended Up Dead
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May 04, 2021 |
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Welcome to Shocking! Lurid! Tawdry! A History of American Scandals
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Apr 27, 2021 |