Deep Cuts

The movie Bloodsport was based on his life. He kickstarted JCVD's career and inspired the Mortal Kombat franchise. Everything was a lie. In the 1980s, Frank Dux, a martial arts expert and former CIA operative-turned LA martial arts instructor successfully sold the story of his life to a movie studio in order to the get the movie "Bloodsport" made. The movie effectively jumpstarted the career of it...

Due to failing a simple civil service entrance exam, one man became convinced he was Jesus's brother and spearheaded a mass genocide. -- Get the Mystery Treehouse Simple Code Hybrid Album and Comic! https://bit.ly/simplecodecomic Watch the Simple Code Comic Album Video Trailer! https://bit.ly/simplecodetrailer -- Join our Discord server! https://bit.ly/deepcutsdiscord -- Pick up some Deep Cuts T-S...

Garth Brooks was the undisputed king of music in the late 90s. Then he decided to become another person. At the heigh of Brooks' success, he suddenly disappeared from the public eye. In his place came a rock ringer named Chris Gaines - a guy who supposedly had been performing since the mid-80s and was a huge, multi-platinum rock ringer. However, he was actually just Garth Brooks in a weird emo wig...

He published a comic strip throughout the 20s, 30s, and 40s. Nobody knew he was actually black. In the 1920s, a cartoonist named George Herriman came on the scene. He developed a strip called Krazy Kat, which is one of the strangest, most revered newspaper comics of all time - considered by many to be the greatest comic ever made. For the entirety of Herriman's life, the public thought he was whit...

He's a beloved video game characters from the 90s, but his creator has gone off the rails in recent years. In the early 90s, Earthworm Jim exploded onto the scene as an absurdist take on video game platformers. Eventually he was spun off into a comic, a cartoon, a toy line, among other things. But the creator of Earthworm Jim has expressed some views in recent years that really make it hard to enj...

Her son went missing, but then the LAPD found him. But it wasn't her son... In the 1920s, Christine Collins' son Walter went out to see a movie one night and disappeared. After searching for weeks, the LAPD found what they believed to be young Walter and returned him to Christine in a big public display. But when Christine realized it wasn't actually Walter, she began a decades-long battle with th...

They experimented on unwilling subjects in the 1950s to control peoples' minds and create super soldiers. And it's all real. In the early 50s, as WWII was ending the Central Intelligence Agency was being formed in the United States, paranoia was high about the technologies and weapons of war that were being developed in Russia and China. In order to anticipate a perceived threat of experimental mi...

Yes. The son of Catcher in the Rye author, J.D. Salinger, played Cap in the first-ever theatrical Captain America movie. In the early 90s, producers of such films as "Over the Top" and "Cutthroat Island" got the film rights to make a movie based on Marvel Comics' Captain America. After that a few years of development hell, they eventually made the movie, and cast Matt Salinger in the titular role....

He was obsessed with winning friends and influence, but a darkness was festering inside that would eventually turn deadly. In the 90s, millionaire sports investor and amateur wrestling aficionado John du Pont turned his lavish estate into a compound for training olympic wrestlers, He hired champion wrestlers Mark and Dave Schultz to run training at the newly-dubbed Foxcatcher Farms. They saw this...

He was orphaned and abused his entire life. He created a magical world to escape to that's unlike anything anyone has ever done. In the late 1800s, Henry Darger lived a difficult life full of pain and trauma. He suffered abuse at the hands of those around him. He wasn't understood. Eventually, he'd focus this all into a magical world that he would capture in the world's longest novel and a series...

In the 1920s, Henry Ford, inventor of the assembly line, tried to create a utopian capitalist city in Brazil. It was essentially a slave camp. During the late 1800s and early 1900s, American companies discovered a wealth of natural resources in Central America and basically decided to take it for all its worth. Tons of American corporations pillages the countryside, taking over countries, buying u...

It was an indie comic that became a seminal 90s point & click adventure game. Its the little franchise that could and still endures to this day. In the late 1980s, Steve Purcell created Sam & Max - a zany, madcap comic about a buddy cop duo of a talking dog and a weird bunny rabbit creature named Sam & Max. Then he got a job as an animator at the famed Lucasfilm Games studio. Eventually, he was ap...

He was a doctor at the age of 17 and opened up his own medical practice where he treated patients...except he wasn't actually a doctor at all... At the age of 17, Alexander Love Robinson had achieved things many of us could never fathom doing at that age. He had secured funding to open up his own medical practice in Florida - and he was the world's youngest practicing physician. The only problem w...

They claimed a team of home school kids excavated a dinosaur skeleton and it proved the Earth was only 6,000 years old. The entire thing was a lie. In the early 2000s, a small religious home school supply company released a documentary. The movie claimed to depict a group of 30 home school kids discovering and excavating a fully-intact Allosaurus skeleton - the first of its kind ever found. The do...

They singlehandedly redefined stage magic and transformed Vegas into a family tourist destination. But it came with a price. Siegfried and Roy met as teenagers and merged their love for magic and animals into one of the most revolutionary stage shows in modern history. Throughout the 60s, 70s, and 80s they took over Las Vegas with some of the most extravagant stage shows ever conceived. They went...

They gave him the Tonight Show and then took it away and it created a nationwide outcry. But how do we feel about it now? In the late 2010s, Conan O'Brien was handed the hosting gig for the mother of all late night talk shows, The Tonight Show. However, after several months, slipping ratings, and a weird time slot kerfuffle with previous Tonight Show host Jay Leno, Conan ended up walking away from...

She claims to channel a 35,000-year-old spirit. She's been responsible for death and abuse for decades. In the 80s, JZ Knight emerged as a member of the growing community of spiritual mediums that could channel a spirit and allow it to speak through them. Her spirit was named Ramtha, and he was a 35,000-year-old Atlantean spirit that came to Earth to...start a cult, go on self help public speaking...

In the 17th century, the sudden death of the 5th Dalai Lama created a huge problem for Tibet. Fearing being taken over by the Qing Dynasty, the Tibetan theocracy just...pretended that the 5th was still alive. For 14 years. And during this time they searched for the 6th. And when they found him...he wasn't quite what they expected. On this season 3 premiere episode of Deep Cuts, we explore the fasc...

When last we left our intrepid boy detectives, Dave ended the show in a flourish of grief over the untimely demise of Andrew. Can Hillsmer convince him to bring the show back? -- This episode is dedicated to the memory of Andrew's brother, Christian McGowin, who passed away on December 26th. https://www.greenlawnmortuaryandcemetery.com/memorials/christian--mcgowin/4818575/obituary.php -- Join our...

And now...the season finale of Deep Cuts... -- This episode is dedicated to the memory of Andrew's brother, Christian McGowin, who passed away on December 26th. https://www.greenlawnmortuaryandcemetery.com/memorials/christian--mcgowin/4818575/obituary.php -- Join our Discord server! https://bit.ly/deepcutsdiscord -- Pick up some Deep Cuts T-Shirts and other merch! https://bit.ly/deepcutsmerch -- G...

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Join us for a special episode 100, when the Mystery Treehouse boys travel across the world to save the universe from evil forces...on the isle of the Unicorn's Prince! -- Join our Discord server! https://bit.ly/deepcutsdiscord -- Pick up some Deep Cuts T-Shirts and other merch! https://bit.ly/deepcutsmerch -- Get the official Deep Cuts shoulder patch! http://bit.ly/deepcuts_patch -- Listen to our...

He created some of the most memorable daytime television in history. He also claims he was assassinating people for the government the entire time. In the mid-60s, Chuck Barris got his start producing daytime television. He produced shows such as The Dating Game, The Newlywed Game, and even was the host of the Gong Show. But, all the way, he struggled with inner demons and family tragedy. And, acc...

For decades, this motel in Colorado had a secret network of surveillance rooms in the ceiling where the owner spied on his guests. Nobody knew until recently. The man was Gerald Foos, and he purchased a motel in the 1960s, outfitted it with a secret crawlspace in the ceiling where he could watch people inside of their rooms, and spent years spying on his guests - witnessing things like drug deals,...

How about a palate cleanser after two solid months of QAnon? And what better way to get the taste of Q out of your mouth than with some delicious Arby's? On this episode of Deep Cuts, we dive into the...very normal and straightforward history of Arby's. And maybe get Dave to finally eat it. -- Join our Discord server! https://bit.ly/deepcutsdiscord -- Pick up some Deep Cuts T-Shirts and other merc...