Art and Jacob Do America

Happy Valentine's day to all you lover out there searching for "TRUE LOVE'S KISS" . Today we continue our annual tradition of covering another kiss....the kiss of death. ::insert "Pyscho" theme here::  Yes, yes y'all! It's "My Bloody Valentine" year 4 where we each give you a story about love spurned murders. Art kicks it off by telling the tale of Ezra McCandless. The girlfriend who kills her ex...

Once upon a time...during the "Satanic Panic" of the 80's , a group of Washington wives formed a group called the PMRC.  This stood for the Parents Music Resource Center and was headed by Tipper Gore, wife of , then senator and future Vice President Al Gore. After, walking in to her daughters room while hearing her play Prince's "Darling Nikki", Mrs Gore was SHOCKED to hear her 11 year old daughte...

This week we do a deep dive into serial killer Richard Ramirez. Also known as "The Night Stalker" This episode comes on the heels of the Netflix documentary "Night Stalker" which we'll  be referencing quite a bit during the episode.  So as a companion to this episode we highly recommend watching that as well. We also depart from our USUAL format here as well as we covered the chronological time li...

This week we take a break from the hash world of politics and world events and provide a pleasant distraction. And what better way to be distracted than by the beautiful world of video games! This week we take a look at some of the most interesting urban legends and conspiracies within the virtual world of gaming. From suspicious arcade games like "Polybius" to cursed games like "Madden". We hit y...

Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays to all! Except you Bruce Pardo! On Christmas Eve 2008, a newly divorced Bruce Pardo, showed up at his former In-laws' home dressed as Santa Claus. But instead of bringing good tithings and cheer....this Santa would bring 2 automatic pistols and a gift wrapped "flame thrower" that he'd use to kill his Ex-Wife, Ex In-laws, and multiple other people. He'd then use a...

This week we're hitting you with a classic cryptid from across the pond! Spring Heeled-Jack. Spring-Heeled jack was a legend that started in Victorian London around 1837 when several servant girls were being brutally harassed and molested by a very strange entity. This entity's M.O. would be to violently rip off the clothes of his victims while diligently trying kiss and claw at their flesh with m...

This episode has been a long time coming! But finally after 3 years and some change we're covering this. For those who don't know, Selena was a massively popular Tejano singer from Corpus Christi, TX. She started singing in her families band at the age of 9 playing doo whop and 50's rock n roll. The band had limited success at first until father/manager Abraham Quintanilla decided to take their ba...

This week we bring you another .....UNSOLVED Mystery  (imagine me saying that in Robert Stack's Voice) . We take a look at a missing person's case that has over 16 million YouTube views, collectively, on that platform. Each video shows a young German man, Identified as Lars Mittank, who is seen sprinting out of a Bulgarian Airport , hoping an 8-foot  Barbed-Wire fence, and disappearing in the Bulg...

What's up everybody, this week we welcome to the show guitarist, vocalist, stand up comedian, and over all well round guy .... AARON NORTH to the show. You might recognize his work from a little band called NINE INCH NAILS.  Aaron sits down with us  this week to discuss the LA music scene throughout the years, The LA Dodgers, The LA Lakers, getting bullied by the cops, and his masturbating Parrot!...

This week we welcome Comedian, Musician, Writer and Illustrator Emily Panic to the show.  You may recognize her from her as "Hard Melissa" from "Two Minutes to Late Night". Emily stops by to tell us about her podcast  "Ghosts to Show You"  where she and her friend, Lillian DeVane , "explore haunted spaces in their quest to finally encounter a spirit from beyond" Listen as we swap ghost stories and...

To end our month of horror, we decided to cover our favorite haunted building......THE COMEDY STORE! That's right you might know "The Comedy Store" as the MECCA of all stand up comedy. The place that launched the careers of people like: David Letterman, Jay Leno, Richard Pryor, Robin Williams, Roseanne, Joe Rogan, Joey Diaz, Bobby Lee, and PAULY SHORE (heeeeey buuuuddy) ....also has a very dark pa...

Like the great citizens of Halloween Town once said "This is Halloween" and what better way to usher in the season than to discuss horror movies?! This week we take a look at some of Hollywood's most cursed films. We discuss the curses that surrounded such horror movies like "The Exorcist", "The Omen" , "Poltergeist", "The Crow", and "The Twighlight Zone". But we didn't limit ourselves to just hor...

This episode has been over a year overdue. This week we finally tackle the topic of VOODOO. Don't worry no one's head shrunk and we didn't cast any hexes on our enemies, but rather we dispel some misconceptions of the practice, give some history, and jump in to a few differences of the different practices within the Voodoo umbrella. We narrow it down to New Orleans Voodoo and talk about the most f...

This week we ran into a quagmire. Jacob lost internet connection (therefore losing the guest we were going to have this week over Zoom) and Art had a last minute emergency (don't worry he's ok). So we called in the Calvary! This week we welcome back Keith Silvas and making their AJDA debut...Debbe Sivlas.  We discuss growing up with horror movies , movies and characters that were unintentionally s...

We kick off the Halloween season a little early this year. It's 2020 y'all...we all deserve it. But this Week We start our month of Halloween season shenanigans off with a follow up to a very EARLY episode we did back when we first started. Aleister Crowley. Famous occultist and practitioner of MAGICK. Crowley and his teachings have had a HUGE influence on musical artists from The Bealtes all the...

Britney Spears, one of the most iconic pop stars of the last 25 years. But did you know, at age 38 she is under complete court-ordered  conservatorship? Meaning she can not do ANYTHING without the permission from her legal guardian/conservator. This has been her situation since her VERY public break down during 2007-2008. Initially this conservatorship was to only last a year. However, for some re...

This week we cover probably one of the craziest people to ever live, John McAfee. If you ever owned a computer...yes...THAT McAfee. He was the man behind the world's first commercially available anti virus software. But at his business' peak he left the company to pursue, sex cults, sexual enhancing drugs, bath salts, herbal remedies, yoga, spiritualism, cocaine (lots of cocaine), under age Caribb...

On April 15th 2013, two young men set off two homemade bombs towards the finish line at the Boston Marathon. Within 5 days they would be brought to justice. However, not before killing a police officer, car jacking a Mercedes Benz SUV, getting in to a shoot out with Watertwon Police, and forcing the city of Boston to go on a pre-covid lock down.  Conspiracy theorists called this a false flag while...

If you're a fan of true crime, you've PROBABLY heard this one before. That's because this is arguably the most notorious unsolved murder mystery of all time. But in case you haven't heard of the Black Dahlia Murder...no not the band...but, the Black Dahlia was a 22 year old woman named Elizabeth Short who's body was discovered in an undeveloped area of Los Angeles in the 1940's. Her corpse was spl...

Before you start reading the description I need all of you all to picture this in Robert Stack's Voice from "Unsolved Mysteries": This week on Art and Jacob Do America; we discuss the mysterious skeletal remains of an unknown female corpse inside the hollow of a Wych Elm outside of Birmingham, England. The decomposed body was discovered by 4 young boys in 1943 who were looking for bird eggs...and...

Time Travel...a concept mankind has been fantasizing about since the beginning of ...TIME. But is it possible? Or a better question to ask , has it been done? Well if we go back to the year 2000 (insert Conan O'brien sound byte here) on the Art Bell "Coast to Coast" BBS message board, you find a Timetraveler_0/John Titor who will tell you that, YES! Time travel is possible and he has done it and h...

We've all seen those ghost shows where a team of "paranormal investigators" gather upon a supposed "haunted" location to expose some kind of supernatural activity. One of the ways they do this is by using an audio recording technique that is supposed reveal proof the haunting called, an EVP. EVP stands for Electronic Voice Phenomenon. This is when sounds are found within recordings that are vocal...

This week we welcome comedian Georgea Brooks, from the "Nice Bum Where Ya From" podcast. We discuss the restart of the 2019-2020 NBA season and what we think things will look like and how they will play out under quarantine rules over at the ESPN Wide World of Sports Complex. We also talk about other riveting topics such as blueberry muffins and Poutine Fries!  ENJOY!! Please support Georgea by vi...

A long long time ago during the reign of King Stephen to children MYSTERIOUSLY showed up in the town of Woolpit. They had green skin, spoke in an unknown language, and dressed in clothes not known to the region. When the oldest of the children grew older and was able to speak English, she told a story of her and her brother coming from a subterranean land where everything and EVERYONE were green....

"The Last Dance"...probably the most important documentary to come out during the "Corona Times". Yes, we had "Tiger King" but really there is only one king ....and his name is Michael Jefferey Jordan. This week we discuss the documentary "The Last Dance" and cover in depth the career of Michael Jordan, what he meant to us, what he meant to sports, what he meant to AMERICAN CULUTRE. Yes we get int...