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If your friend told you to jump off a cliff would you do it? It's kind of a ridiculous saying, but there's truth behind the macabre phrase. How far would you go out of your comfort zone to make your friend happy? Now what would you do if their life depended on it? If your friend told you to stab someone for them ... would you do it? We are back again this week to tell the story of the Mark...

Imagine you are the very best at what you do. You've been practicing since you were 3 and you plan on dedicating your entire life to it. You can't be paid to do it because then you wouldn't be an amature and you wouldn't be able to compete on the biggest scale possible: The Olympics. You've trained all your life. You've got the jumps no one else has. It's your destiny t...

Like a heartbeat, there's an ever-present noise humming under this town. Below the streets and behind the walls of the city, you can hear the music. Jazz running through the alleys. Bootleg gin bubbling out of the city cracks. Behind the closed doors and locked windows, cash is handed off and clothes are taken off. It's 1924, welcome to Chicago. Zach tells us all about Beulah Annan, Belva...

You were recently contacted by an entertainment lawyer because you're late husband wasn't the man you thought he was, he's actually a world famous singer. As his wife you should be getting some of the money from the royalties of his hit songs. That is ... if you really are his one and ONLY wife. Doo-wop is NOT dead! Madi tells us all about Frankie Lymon, his rise and fall with internat...

What makes the best, most compelling story? Something that viewers wouldn't be able to look away from even if they tried. A story so tragic that it crushes their hearts but gripping enough to force them to see what happens next. We can create any story we want: truth ... or fiction. Today Zach tells us all about Elizabeth Finch and the series of stories that she told in the Grey's Anatomy...

Get in loser, we're going shopping. Just kidding, we're not going shopping ... at least not in the way most people would think. We're going somewhere so exclusive there's no need for security or even money. Just bring your confidence, your can-do attitude, and a hoodie. Madi tells us all about The Bling Ring criminals (also known as the Hollywood Hills Burglar Bunch) who were able...

New York City begins to close up shop for the day. The sun goes down ... and the Club Kids come out. Dressed in bizarre costumes straight from a fashion-fueled nightmare. Too many drugs to remember what's happening but just enough to not feel a thing. Louder and louder the music thumps, beating like a hammer. Don't leave, the party's just begun! We're taking it back to the 90's and talking about t...

It's 10am on a Tuesday in May. The sun is beating down on the desert sand and rocks that line your view out of the diner window. You blow on your steaming cup of coffee and sit back as you patrol the highway for the start of your morning shift. As you start on your second mug, you can see a dust cloud in the distance. It starts small, but quickly grows in speed until you can just make out the tire...

Wake up! School first thing. Three hours to cram everything in, don't forget a thing. Then singing rehearsals and scales and humming and trills for two hours minimum. Next rushed, no, pushed onto set. No, it's not time for lunch, no eating allowed. What movie is this again? If you take your energy pills, you can have some soup tonight. What pill is this? What time is it? What's my line? Then shove...

Have you ever thought about what it would be like in real life to have a 'Get out of Jail Free' card? Just wave it around and suddenly any mistake you made is gone. What if I told you ... it was real. And all you had to do was simply become a spy for the government. Buckle up folks! Because this week Madi tells all about Abscam and the 2013 movie, American Hustle .  Don't forget, pictures fro...

In the entirety of history, only 12 people have ever made it to the moon. It takes years of training, dedication, and even if you make it through every loop hole, you still may not be selected for a final mission. In 1970, three men had finally passed all of the checkpoints, trainings, and health screenings and were finally chosen to become the next to step foot on Earth's moon ... Or so they thou...

The year is 1957 and you've been invited to a selective dinner. As you look around the horseshoe-shaped table, you can see many of your esteemed law professors who served as escorts for you and your fellow colleagues. Certainly a woman can't go to a party without a male escort of some kind. Then, you hear a question asked out loud that you've tried to suppress from your own mind many times. "Why a...

Perseverance: the ability to continue on no matter the obstacles. When others fall to the back of the pack, the strong have the ability to continue on no matter the journey. Trudging through the desert with sand-filled winds ripping at your skin, you continue on. In the downpour of a storm or the cold blistering snows at night, you continue on. To build your nest egg for decades only to have it bu...

What's that you smell? Why it's a traditional British holiday cake. But what is that nagging thought at the back of your mind? Oh that's right, you're about to change in your fifth outfit of the day and you haven't even had dinner. Your holiday joy is planned out to the minute and you are at the will of one singular person whose breath dictates what you must wear and when. Afterall, you are a roya...

Love is a funny thing. It can bring you life's most memorable moments, stretching your emotions to their heights. Love can make you grow and bring you places you'd never dream of. Doing things you could never have imagined. Like ... for instance ... committing a felony.  This week, Zach tells us the story of a Brooklyn bank robbery that inspired this Al Pacino film. For pictures from today's...

What would you do if you could make $1,000 a day? What adventures would you take? Would you get all new clothes, invest, perhaps start a savings? What if you barely had to do anything but give a man some wine and a karaoke machine and he would happily sing and dance the night away to the tune of $135,000? Easy money? Think again ...  This week, Madi tells us the stories that inspired the star...

For many families all over the world, packing up life for a week and flying off on a vacation to a foreign country is guaranteed to be full of happy memories. Boarding the plane, brimming with excitement and overstuffed suitcases, you and your family have made many plans for your trip abroad. But ... odds are you didn't plan on traveling into the epicenter of what was about to be one of the worst...

Do you like music? Dance? How about epic love stories and tragic endings? Do brothels wet your whistle? If France is on your list of places to visit, you're just about ready for a good time ... perhaps with the help of a little green fairy.  Welcome to our very first episode! This week Madi tells us about the true stories behind the musical film, Moulin Rouge! (exclamation point) Check us out...