The Ides of April

🎧 The Ides of April The Handshake Line: The Assassination of William McKinley Episode Two: The Strenuous Life Two shots. Eight days. A century set in motion. Episode Two begins in the immediate aftermath of the assassination attempt—inside the Temple of Music as chaos erupts, and follows the slow, agonizing decline of a president who, for a moment, seemed like he might survive. He didn’t. And the...

🎧 The Ides of April The Handshake Line: The Assassination of William McKinley Episode One: The Last Gentleman On September 6th, 1901, at the height of the Pan-American Exposition, President William McKinley stood in a public receiving line, greeting ordinary citizens one handshake at a time. It was a gesture he believed in. It was also the moment that would end his life. In Episode One, we step i...

THE SLIPPERY The con artists think they're untouchable. The fraudsters believe their schemes are foolproof. The scammers assume they'll never be caught. They're all dead wrong. Welcome to The Slippery, where the most audacious scammers, mind-bending scandals, and elaborate schemes meet their match. Hosted by Nancy Moscatiello and Scott Eldridge—the investigative duo behind the explosive hit "Scama...

Episode 2: Sveavägen February 28th, 1986. 11:21 PM. Two shots. A Prime Minister down. A killer who vanishes into the night. Episode Two takes you inside one of the most exhaustive — and deeply flawed — investigations in modern history. From the chaotic crime scene to decades of dead ends, false confessions, and abandoned theories, the search for Palme’s killer becomes something larger than a case…...

🎧 The Ides of April — The Last Walk Episode 1: The Most Dangerous Social Democrat in the World On a cold February night in 1986, Olof Palme walked home from the cinema without security — a decision rooted in principle… and one that would cost him his life. In Episode One, we trace the life of a man who became one of the most dangerous voices in global politics. Born into privilege, shaped by his...

🎧 The Devil’s Ledger Week of April 6 🌌 Episode Overview This week, we look up. Way up. As the crew of Artemis II orbits the Moon, humanity once again pushes beyond the edge of the known world—into a place defined not just by distance, but by silence. And in that silence… We begin to ask different questions. 👁️ The Creepiest Thing I Heard This Week A chilling account from the early days of the In...

🔫 Episode Two: The Parade The moment arrives. Not in secret.
Not in shadow. But in broad daylight. A military parade.
A national celebration.
A perfectly executed illusion of control. 💥 In This Episode: The assassination of Anwar Sadat—minute by minute The role of Khaled Islambouli and the military cell behind the attack The ideological foundation of the conspiracy, including the doctrine of tak...

🎧 The Ides of April The Parade: The Assassination of Anwar Sadat 🏛️ Episode One: The Hero’s Welcome Cairo. October 6th, 1981. A perfect morning.
A nation celebrating victory.
A president at the height of his power. And a moment—just seconds long—that will change everything. Anwar Sadat stands before a cheering crowd, marking the anniversary of the October War—the defining triumph of his presidenc...

🎧 The Ides of AprilThe Last Handshake: The Assassination of Yitzhak Rabin Episode Two: The Parking Lot There is a man in a parking lot. He stands in the one place he should never be—steps from the Prime Minister. No one stops him. No one questions him. And in less than a minute, history fractures. In this episode, we move inside the final forty minutes of Yitzhak Rabin’s life—beginning with a ral...

🎧 The Ides of April The Last Handshake: The Assassination of Yitzhak Rabin Episode 1: A Man of War Learns Peace Our new series on The Ides of April begins with the remarkable life of Yitzhak Rabin—a soldier shaped by war who ultimately became one of the most controversial advocates for peace in modern Israeli history. Born in Jerusalem in 1922 during the British Mandate, Rabin grew up in a land a...

🎧 The Ides of April Episode 3 — The Death of the Impossible Man In this episode, we follow the final months of Alexander the Great — from the long return from India to the glittering capital of Babylon, where the most powerful man in the world was already planning his next conquest.  What begins as another banquet among generals soon turns into one of the greatest mysteries of the ancient world:...

🎧 The Ides of April Episode 3 — The Death of the Impossible Man In this episode, we follow the final months of Alexander the Great — from the long return from India to the glittering capital of Babylon, where the most powerful man in the world was already planning his next conquest.  What begins as another banquet among generals soon turns into one of the greatest mysteries of the ancient world:...

Episode 2: The Man Who Became a God Victory changes the world. Absolute victory changes the conqueror. Now ruler of the largest empire on earth, Alexander begins to adopt the customs of Persian kings. Ceremony replaces familiarity. Distance replaces camaraderie. And whispers of divine favor begin to surround him. But as Alexander moves closer to godhood, the men who once fought beside him begin to...

The Ides of April — Son of the Blade The world didn’t change slowly. It changed in a theater… during a celebration… with a single blade. In Episode One of The Ides of April, we begin the story of Alexander the Great at the moment everything became possible — and everything became dangerous. When Philip II of Macedon, the most powerful ruler in Greece, is assassinated in front of a crowd, the futur...

The Ides of April – Part Two: The Blade at Aegae In Part One, Philip II of Macedon rose from the margins of the Greek world to its center — forging the army, the alliances, and the vision that would reshape history. In Part Two, his story ends. And a far more dangerous one begins. At the ancient capital of Aegae, a royal wedding is meant to celebrate unity and power. Greece is subdued. The League...

🎙️ The Ides of April — Two-Part Series Philip of Macedon: The Father Behind the Empire Before the legend of Alexander the Great, there was the man who made his rise possible. In this two-part series of The Ides of April, we travel to the rugged northern kingdom of Macedonia to explore the life, ambition, and violent death of Philip II of Macedon — the ruler who transformed a dismissed frontier sta...

The Ides of April April's Shadow - Part Two: The Manhunt and the Plea The morning after an assassination is never quiet — it only looks that way from the outside. Inside a nation’s nervous system, everything is shaking. In this episode, The Ides of April follows the official investigation into Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s assassination, tracing the manhunt for James Earl Ray, his capture in London...

April's Shadow : “The Balcony in Memphis” In Episode One of this two-part Ides of April event series, we step into Memphis, 1968—not as a footnote in civil rights history, but as a pressure cooker where the fight for equality evolves into something even more threatening to power: economic justice. Martin Luther King Jr. comes to Memphis to support the sanitation workers’ strike, sparked by the hor...

THE IDES OF APRILEpisode Two: The End of the Romanovs — The Night and the Myth The second episode moves from ideology to execution. From the basement of the Ipatiev House to the birth of one of history’s most enduring survival myths, this is where the Romanov story truly ends—and refuses to stay buried. CHAPTERS Chapter Four — The Basement In the early hours of July 17, 1918, the Romanov family is...

The Devil’s Ledger — January 5, 2026 Happy New Year — and welcome back. We’re kicking off 2026 with a chilling slate across the Evio universe. We start with The Creepiest Thing I Heard This Week — a winter nightmare from Japan about the Yuki-onna, the mysterious “snow woman” who appears during blizzards… and quietly breathes the warmth out of anyone who helps her. Then, on The Devil Within, we ope...

THE IDES OF APRIL Episode One: The End of the Romanovs — Power, Abdication, and Inevitability In this first episode, we trace how the fall of the Romanov dynasty began long before gunfire echoed in a basement. From battlefield catastrophe to political collapse, this is the story of how abdication ended authority—but not danger. CHAPTERS Chapter One — The Abdication The Russian Empire collapses und...

THE IDES OF APRIL — BONUS EPISODE The Knife That Wouldn’t Stay Put: Rasputin, Provenance, and the Seduction of Artifacts What happens after an assassination? Sometimes the story doesn’t end with the body—it migrates into objects. In this bonus episode of The Ides of April, we examine the strange afterlife of a knife long rumored to have killed Grigori Rasputin—a weapon with questionable provenance...

THE IDES OF APRIL A Christmas Assassination: The Death of Rasputin Christmas 1916. Russia is starving. The First World War is grinding the empire into dust. Faith, monarchy, and legitimacy are collapsing in real time. And inside a candlelit palace, a small group of aristocrats convinces itself that killing one man might still save the nation. In this stand-alone holiday episode of The Ides of Apri...

🕯 THE DEATH OF THE NEW AMERICA - PART TWO “THE FALL OF ROBERT F. KENNEDY” In Part Two, we move to Los Angeles, 1968—a city balancing glamour with growing unrest, a fading Ambassador Hotel with a storied past, and a night when American optimism was dealt another catastrophic blow. We examine the life and radicalization of Sirhan Bishara Sirhan, a young immigrant shaped by trauma, identity fractures...

🕊 THE DEATH OF THE NEW AMERICA - PART ONE “THE RISE OF ROBERT F. KENNEDY” In the first installment of this two-part series, The Ides of April traces the origins of the Kennedy dynasty—its ruthless ambition, its early tragedies, and the extraordinary forces that shaped Robert F. Kennedy into the most unlikely moral voice of the 1960s. We begin with the unvarnished story of Joseph P. Kennedy Sr. and...