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Patrick W. Reed
Bunkum and Ballyhoo
A podcast about bullsh*t - join your host, author and professional wrestling historian Patrick W. Reed, as he takes a look back at the lives and lies of some of history's greatest showmen, con artists, grifters, hustlers and bullsh*tters of all kinds, from pro-wrestling to politics, and from sideshows to pseudoscience.
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“It is - in turn - absurd, enlightening, frightening, and a more digestible length than most podcasts. I’m two episodes in and hungry for more.”
joshuakharris via Apple Podcasts ·
United States of America ·
09/14/24
Recent Episodes
Published 11/11/24
Episode 6 of Bunkum & Ballyhoo rounds up a season on World War 2-related b******t by looking at when lies and propaganda can be used for good, exploring the lives and times of the revolutionary queer surrealist artists Claude Cahun & Marcel Moore, and how they stood up to Nazi oppression...
Published 11/11/24
Episode 5 is a spooktacular Halloween special looking at Orson Welles' infamous Halloween 1938 radio production of War Of The Worlds, and the stories of mass panic and chaos when the American public believed that the Martians really were coming - or did they?
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Published 10/28/24
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