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12/19/2025

STAR TREK” TURNS 60 – STILL BOLDLY GOING?
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After a very modest beginning in 1966, the original “Star Trek” TV series was canceled by NBC after only 3 seasons and 79 episodes. But it found new life in syndication and gradually became a cultural phenomenon. It went onto spawn 13 feature length movies between 1979-2016 (new one coming soon). It has also hatched 12 additional TV series (2 still running) that have collectively produced over 900 episodes (and counting). How does a TV show that lasted only half the seasons as one of its 1960’s TV contemporaries, “Mister Ed”, (about a talking horse) become a - still growing - $20 billion dollar franchise? We are joined by returning guest host and “super fan” Jim Maurer

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11/23/2025

Great holiday podcast from my team. It’ll take the edge off your travel or guest preparations. Enjoy.
THANKSGIVING SPECIAL: THE SALEM WITCHES – WERE THEY JUST TRIPPIN’ ??
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This is an unconventional side dish for your holiday. Salem, MA was founded by people that were part of the original Christian Puritans (“Pilgrims”). The same folks that celebrated the first Thanksgiving in 1621. Many left Plymouth in 1626, moving, south to a place they called Salem, where they succeeded financially as a harbor/port. Then in 1692, authorities accused over 15% of their population with WITCHCRAFT, executing many and leaving others to die in jail. How could “reformed” devout Christians prosecute this inexplicable genocide on members of their very own community? Was a key chemical in the drug L*D (‘Acid’) unknowingly present their own bread and played a role in the hysteria? Anuradha and I will guide you through this rarely told but very informative story. HAPPY THANKSGIVING!!

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10/31/2025

VAMPIRES! - WELCOME TO THE BITE CLUB
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OUR HALLOWEEN SPECIAL! Today, VAMPIRES are the most popular of all supernatural figures but what are they really and where did they come from? Merely a legend? Or, are they sexy teenagers in Washington State. Was there really a Count Dracula and why was he so over-dressed for every occasion. We examine these questions and more in this spooktacular episode.

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10/17/2025

NY METS’ HEARTBREAKING SEASON
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With the second highest payroll in the MLB and an amazing roster of talent, the NEW YORK METS were positioned for history. They started the 2025 baseball season with the best record in the entire MLB -- and in all team history. But then in June…something happened. What? WHAT? We are again joined by our 6-year baseball commentators and favorite New Yorkers – THE METS MOB! They are here to explain the unexplainable, yell at one another, and cry on each other’s shoulders. You’ll both laugh and cry listening …

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UNCUT - NY METS' HEARTBREAKING SEASONVideo: https://bit.ly/3KE0LirThis is an UNCUT-UNCENSORED version for our beloved Pa...
10/11/2025

UNCUT - NY METS' HEARTBREAKING SEASON
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This is an UNCUT-UNCENSORED version for our beloved Patreon members. Here you get the behind-the-scenes of how your podcast heroes make the show sausage. Everyone is welcome. It only takes a minute to join!

With the second highest payroll in the MLB and an amazing roster of talent, the NEW YORK METS were positioned for history. They started the 2025 baseball season with the best record in the entire MLB -- and in all team history. But then in June…something happened. What? WHAT? We are again joined by our 6 year baseball commentators and favorite New Yorkers – THE METS MOB! They are here to explain the unexplainable, yell at one another, and cry on each other’s shoulders. You’ll laugh and cry listening …

10/05/2025

ROBERT REDFORD MEMORIAM / WATERGATE SCANDAL
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Actor icon, movie producer and director, and founder of the famous Sundance Festival, Robert Redford, passed away very recently, at age 89, after 60+ years of amazing professional work in the cinematic industry. In addition to his $1B+ career box office receipts, he won numerous Oscars, other major awards, and helped kickstart the careers of many dozens of unknown indie filmmakers through his Sundance Film Festival.

Anuradha and I initially discuss Mr. Redford’s overall career and then we replay a famous past episode of this pod where we discuss the Watergate Scandal – and concurrently – Redford’s very first movie producing effort, “All The President’s Men”, which became an unlikely box office hit and won 4 Oscars.

Find us on Patreon at patreon.com/ScandalSheet with bonus content for premium subscribers. We’d love to have your generous support for only the price of one Starbuck’s coffee per month. Also, please reach out to us at [email protected], find us on Facebook as 'Scandal Sheet' or on X at . We’d love to hear from you!

09/16/2025

DIS–ASTER! Disneyland Opening Day S**T Show
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Many Americans don’t know this…but back in 1955, the Disney corporation was only a modestly profitable animation movie company. They had a couple of hits – but that was it. But, then, the founder, Walt Disney, decided to pour all his movie profits into something that had never been done before – a permanent, around the year, live action amusement park, which he called Disneyland. It was a giant financial risk for him that could have easily sunk his entire company, if it failed. Today, WE TAKE YOU BACK to the disastrous opening day of Disneyland, 60 years ago, in the summer of 1955. Can anyone possibly laugh this much? Watch and find out. We had fun recording it.

We are delighted to welcome back professional video producer and cultural commentator, JOSEPH LONG, who has appeared in previous popular episodes.

This incorporates the previously published “Disney On Ice – WE FOUND HIM !!!” comical cold open, starring Anuradha and Thad. Find our co-host, Anuradha’s Instagram accounts: and .

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09/07/2025

COLD OPEN: Disney On Ice – WE FOUND HIM !!
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Since legendary entrepreneur Walt Disney’s death in 1966, there has been a persistent conspiracy theory that says, just before he died, he had himself cryogenically frozen until such time as there was a cure for his cancer. No evidence has ever been produced...until now. Our intrepid co-host, ANURADHA, was able to locate his nitrogen chamber and revive Mr. Disney. The truth can now finally be told!

This is the hilarious cold open for our episode on the disastrous opening day of Disneyland in 1955. Coming soon!

08/22/2025

CHILI MADNESS !! – SUMMER COOKING, PART 2
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The summer ain’t over yet folks! And there’s a lotta cookin’ and eatin’ left to do. In this part 2 of our summer cooking special we celebrate the 15 years Thad, his daughter, co-chef Joe, and their friends competed semi-professionally in chili cook-offs in Virginia, Maryland, and Washington DC. We were invited to the World Championship only once but frequently placed – and sometimes made some prize money to boot. Lot’s of cooking fun along way.

The featured new song, “Joe And Thad Oughta Open a Restaurant” can be heard in its entirety here: https://bit.ly/3V9jWSZ

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08/11/2025

You’re New Favorite Beach Listen!!!
“JAWS” AT 50 – WE’RE GONA NEED A BIGGER BOAT – COMPLETE EPISODE
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This episode marries the previously released teaser with our in-depth conversation between Anuradha, myself, and frequent guest, professional composer/movie critic, JOHN HOEKSTRA. 56 minutes of informative and hilarious entertainment!

Today, we think of the movie “Jaws” as a blockbuster game-changer in movie history. But back in 1973-1975, it appeared to be the biggest financial disaster in cinema history to producing company Universal Studios and many Hollywood insiders. Directed by a talented, but inexperienced and unknown filmmaker, Steven Spielberg, it appeared to be a runaway train leading the studio to eventual bankruptcy. The initial shooting schedule swelled from 55 days to 159 days. And the budget soared from $3.5 million to $12 million. Almost everything went wrong. Spielberg, an age 24 TV director, had no idea what he was doing on a project of this massive scale. They started with no useable script and they spent $1.5 million on a mechanical shark that mostly didn’t work while shooting. Also, there was drug and alcohol addiction among the major actors. How could the production of this movie possibly be worse? And yes, it eventually became the most successful film of all time to that date – BUT HOW THE HECK DID THAT HAPPEN? We tell you the REAL story behind the scenes.

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08/06/2025

80TH ANNIVERSARY OF HIROSHIMA BOMBING – FIRST NUCLEAR BOMB
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Today, August 6, is a terribly sad anniversary, in any way you perceive it – especially for people of any faith tradition, like myself. We’re replaying an episode from 2023 recorded on the occasion of the Academy Award-winning movie, “Oppenheimer”. It features my son-in-law, Dylan Cuellar, who was born and grew up in New Mexico, near Los Alamos, where the first several nuclear bombs were invented. Also, my daughter Kassia, Dylan’s wife, who had a rare opportunity to explore the original Trinity test site, where the first bomb test occurred. It seems more relevant now.

The facts: on the morning of August 6, 1945 the U.S. dropped the first fission uranium atom bomb from a US-made B-29 on Hiroshima in Japan. It killed 85,000+ people almost instantly. 150,000+ would die weeks and months later from radiation sickness. 98% of the deaths were civilians and not uniformed soldiers. In fairness, radiation sickness was not understood by either the U.S. physicists who built the bomb or the supervising generals at the time. A second plutonium bomb was dropped on Nagasaki 3 days later, with similar, catastrophic results.

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07/20/2025

"SUPERMAN" 2025 MOVIE PREVIEW
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America’s favorite good guy is back on the big screen! Despite its incredible box office success in its first week, ONE PERSON has a very different take on this movie - and saw an advanced screening. We are delighted to welcome back ROB (aka "Handsome Rob") from the Upper East Side of the Big Apple. He is a frequent guest of this podcast and a founding member of the Mets Mob, a popular baseball commentary trio in NYC. He also describes himself as the “biggest Superman fan in the world”. Please hear him out!

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