PODCASTS

FUNNY MY WAY

Take a deep dive into the personal and political lives of six trailblazing Black comedians with host JB Smoove. This engaging docuseries reveals how these fearless artists and entertainers broke color barriers and challenged the racist status quo, all while making audiences roar with laughter. Each episode presents the story of a comedy great: Paul Mooney, Flip Wilson, Moms Mabley, Dick Gregory, Rudy Ray Moore, and Redd Foxx. Through funny and moving archival footage, their stories are told alongside incisive commentary from various popular comics, political commentators, and legendary creators.

the real killer

In 1982, JoAnn Tate and her two young daughters, Melissa and Renee, are savagely attacked in their home. JoAnn dies; the girls barely survive. One month later, Melissa identifies Rodney Lincoln, one of JoAnn’s ex-boyfriends, as the killer. Two trials later, Rodney is sentenced to two life terms plus 15 years. In 2015, thirty-two years after Rodney is convicted, Melissa recants and says Rodney didn’t do it. So who is the real killer? Follow host Leah Rothman as she maps the story from its gruesome beginnings to new revelations that could expose a miscarriage of justice and a killer still on the loose.

QUEEN OF the con: the o.c. savior

Lizzie Mulder desperately wants to be part of Laguna Beach’s Maserati-driving, champagne-swilling, mansion-buying community. So she starts lying. And lying BIG: Pretending to be a CPA, swindling every client who hires her while impersonating a slew of compelling characters, and stealing people’s life savings in the process. But a rumored extramarital affair with a local cowboy puts her on the radar of an enterprising Laguna Beach police detective who is determined to put her behind bars. Will Lizzie’s victims see justice served? And will new evidence reveal her most brazen con yet?

QUEEN OF the con S1: the irish heiress

What if you woke up one day to discover that your best friend of four years was an international con-artist… and you were one of her victims? Join host Johnathan Walton as he uncovers his friend Mair Smyth’s vast network of cons—involving BDSM sex rings, witchcraft, a phony cancer diagnosis, and scamming a Los Angeles politician—as he and fellow victims work to bring her to justice. Can they stop her? Or will she go free in a world where her next mark is just a friendly smile away.

the murder of robert wone

It’s one of the most haunting cold cases in DC history. On the night of August 2, 2006, Robert Wone was brutally murdered in the home of his best friend, Joseph Price. But when police arrive, the scene is eerily clean—and the story told by Price, his husband Victor Zaborsky, and their partner Dylan Ward, isn’t adding up. Join H. Alan Scott as he re-investigates the case, hoping to discover who murdered Robert Wone, talking to those who covered it, fought it, and lived it from within the LGBTQ community.

the first wife: John Meehan’s Reign of Terror

Millions heard the Dirty John podcast, but there was an overlooked story that’s now being told, in full, for the first time. Tonia Bales recounts her harrowing experiences as John’s wife of 10 years and the mother of their daughters, Emily and Abby. Tonia shares the abuse she suffered at the hands of John Meehan, a man who was her soul mate until he revealed himself to be a coercive and controlling terrorist. The new details and multiple bombshells she unearths include one that will change her and her daughters’ lives forever.

bitter blood s1: kasem vs. kasem

Radio icon Casey Kasem was known to millions as the legendary voice of America’s Top 40. But many don’t know the behind-the-scenes Shakespearean family drama of his final years. In 2014, as Kasem is dying and about to leave behind a $100 million estate, his family goes to war, flinging accusations of greed and murder in a stranger-than-fiction family feud. Join host Martin Kove for an exclusive look inside this famous family, told through exclusive interviews and archival audio.