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Liar City
Everybody lies. Some are terrible at it, some do it frighteningly well. Sooner or later, most of us get caught. This is the story of the lies we tell, and what happens when they crumble. This is Liar City.
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This week, join Brian and Darien as they tell the tale of our nation's most prolific homegrown environmental terrorist, Ted Kaczynski.
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Satanic Panic V: Mazes and Monsters
This week, join Brian and Darien as they tell the stories behind the 1980's D&D moral panic.
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How I Got To Memphis (Kaufman Part 2)
This week, join Darien and Brian as they conclude the Andy Kaufman story.
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That's Entertainment! (Part One)
This week, join Darien and Brian as they tell (half of) the fascinating story of a man who just might be the world's best bullshit artist, the incompa...
The Boys in the Bank
This week, join Brian and Darien as they tell the real story behind one of the strangest crimes of the 1970s -- the simple robbery of a Brooklyn bank...
The Sinful Messiah and The Seven Seals
This week, join Brian and Darien as they wade through the origins of the Branch Davidian group, and the lead-up to the infamous Waco Siege.
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Great Artists Steal: The Xerox PARC Story
This week, join Brian and Darien as they tell the story of the PC revolution from the perspective of a group of researchers and scientists who should...
Psycho Skate
This week, join Brian and Darien as they discuss the life and crimes of former professional skater Mark "Gator" Rogowski.
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A Carpenter and a Crane
This week, join Brian and Darien as they wade through the sordid details of the seemingly idyllic lives of actor Bob Crane and his best pal: a videogr...
What Happens In Vegas
This week, join Brian and Darien as they return from hiatus to discuss the infamous OJ Simpson trial.
No, not that one. The other one. It's a p...
Get to the Choppah!
This week, join Brian (and a very special guest) as they tell the story of the world's very own Governator, Arnold Schwarzenegger. Well that, plus ab...
Right Next Door To Hell
This week, join Brian and Darien as they tell the story of what happened at 2207 Seymour Avenue, a nondescript Cleveland home that became a horrific p...
The Away Team
This week, join Brian and Darien as they discuss the history of the infamous Heaven's Gate cult.
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Games People Play: The Quiz Show Scandals
This week, join Brian and Darien as they tell one of the most fascinating stories from the early history of television -- the story of Herb Stemple, C...
Satanic Panic IV: Screaming For Vengeance
This week, join Brian and Darien as they tell the tale of James Vance v. Judas Priest, the most infamous of all the subliminal messages cases -- and...
Method Acting in a Bathrobe
This week, join Brian and Darien as they discuss one of the most fascinating Mafia figures of all time - Vincent 'Chin' Gigante.
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Not in Great Neck: The Friedman Story
This week, join Brian and Darien as they tackle one of the most frustrating cases to come out of the child sex abuse panic of the 1980's -- the story...
The Devil You Know: Castro and the Mariel Boatlift
This week, Liar City welcomes a very special guest to the show -- Jesse from I Doubt it With Dollemore.
Join Brian and Jesse as they discuss th...
Girls on Film: The Traci Lords Story
This week, join Brian and Bren as they tell one of the most fascinating, heartbreaking, and - ultimately - infuriating stories to come out of the 1980...
A Viking Funeral With Gram Parsons
This week, join Brian and Darien as they discuss the life, the tragic death, and the very weird aftermath of Gram Parsons -- the biggest star there ne...
A Rockefeller By Any Other Name
This week, join Brian and Darien as they discuss the mind-bending case of notorious con man Christian Gerhartsreiter -- better known to the world (at...
Pitch Black Outback
Join Brian and Darien as they dive into a listener request: the story of Lindy Chamberlain, a Seventh Day Adventist and loving mother who became one o...
Fatty's in a Little Jam
This week, join Brian and Darien as they discuss the most notorious scandal to come out of silent film-era Hollywood, the story of Fatty Arbuckle's sw...
Still a Great Year
Join Brian, Darien, and Bren as they recap and recount their first year bringing you Liar City.
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Rajneesh and the Salad Bar Bio-Terrorists
After a difficult week of unspeakable crimes against the civilized world, join Brian and Darien for a discussion of the first (and most wide-reaching)...
The Man in the Mirror
Join Brian, Bren, and Darien for a discussion of Michael Jackson's life, centering on the allegations of child molestation that dogged him for his fin...
Tania Head and the WTC Survivor's Network
This week, join Brian and Bren as they discuss Tania Head, the former president of the World Trade Center Survivor's Network.
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The Dread Pirate Roberts: Digital Kingpin
This week, join us as we talk about one of the most fascinating cases of online crime in recent memory: The Silk Road, and its founder and leader -- T...
Make Do and Mend: John Money and the Reimer Family
This week, join us as we tell the sad tale of Bruce/Brenda/David Reimer -- the boy who was raised as a girl.
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Stella Liebeck's Coffee and Neil Young's Middle Finger
This week, Liar City takes on a couple of legendary frivolous lawsuits -- Stella Liebeck v. McDonald's and David Geffen v. Neil Young.
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Going Downhill With Janet Cooke
Listen as Liar City celebrates an arbitrary anniversary with a very special episode. From Janet Cooke's perky prose to Jimmy Gronen's magnets, the 25t...
God Only Knows: Brian Wilson Meets Eugene Landy
Few things in life are as timeless as the music of The Beach Boys. They had a magical combination of soaring harmonies and an unepected level of techn...
Investing 101: Ponzi, Patreon, and Plush Toys
This week, we'll tackle a true rags to riches story: Charles Ponzi. While his specific exploits are a lot less remembered than his name, his plucky, c...
Satanic Panic III: West Memphis Boogeymen
The case of the West Memphis Three might be the last gasp of the satanic panic that gripped America a couple decades ago. A horrible crime against thr...
Henry Hill: Goodfella, College Basketball Enthusiast
This week, rather than talk about deflated footballs, we take a stroll down memory lane and discuss the weird ending that GoodFellas should've had: Th...
Billy Collins and Luis Resto's Gloves
Madison Square Garden was packed to capacity on the night of June 16th, 1983. Everyone was expecting a good fight, but nobody was all that excited abo...
The Raccoon Attack / Andrew Wakefield's Truth Inoculation
Brian and Bren explain their unexpected absence last week, then explain why Andrew Wakefield and Jenny McCarthy are dangerously insane human beings.
Drinking The Kool-Aid With Jim Jones
Jonestown, Guyana. A 3,500 acre commune in the middle of a jungle, was supposed to be a socialist paradise on earth for Jim Jones and his many followe...
Go Ask Alice and A Million Little Pieces
This week, we talk about two books: one a memoir, one a diary, both of them total bullshit.
Join us as we discuss the origins of, and the fallo...
Operation Freakout and Project Normandy
"What is true is what is true for you," L. Ron Hubbard was fond of saying.Wise words from a dangerously insane human being.
Join us as we tell t...