The real cost of a broken education system.
Our interview with investigative journalist and author Chris Papst explores his powerful book. Failure Factory: How Baltimore City Public Schools Deprive Taxpayers and Students of a Future. Chris shares what led him to investigate the Baltimore school system, the eye-opening findings from his research, and the real stories behind the data. We talk about the systemic issues, the human cost, and what it means for the students, families, and taxpayers of Baltimore and beyond.
This is an important conversation about accountability, missed opportunities and the urgent need for change in public education.
Just us for a thought provoking discussion with Chris Papst author of Failure Factory.

https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/failure-factory-chris-papst/1148114701?ean=9798888193495

Dorothy Stratten had everything Hollywood promised: beauty, fame, a Playboy Playmate of the Year title, and a career that seemed ready to explode. But behind the glamorous photoshoots and rising celebrity was a relationship marked by jealousy, control, and obsession.
In this episode of That’s Disturbing, Daphne and Gayle dive into the true crime story of Dorothy Stratten, her rapid rise from a small-town teenager to Playboy star, her relationship with Paul Snider, and the horrifying events that led to her murder at just 20 years old.
We’re talking Hollywood ambition, possessiveness, fame, manipulation, and one of the most tragic celebrity murder cases of the 1980s. If you love true crime, creepy stories, Hollywood scandals, and disturbing real-life cases, this is one you won’t forget.

And as a bonus, some very opinionated four-legged co-hosts joined us for this one—so please enjoy the occasional snorts, shakes, and aggressive parkouring of Alex, Groot, and Peaches in the background. Apparently, silence was not in their contracts.
https://www.britannica.com/biography/Peter-Bogdanovich#ref1185533
https://globalnews.ca/news/7273712/dorothy-stratten-murder-40-years/
https://www.factinate.com/people/facts-dorothy-stratten
http://www.teresacarpenter.com/voice_playmate.pdf
The Playboy Murders S2 E5: “Falling Star”
https://murderpedia.org/male.S/s/snider-paul-leslie.htm
https://allthatsinteresting.com/paul-snider#:~:text=The%20Early%20Years%20Of%20Paul%20Snider%2C%20The%20%E2%80%9CJewish%20Pimp%E2%80%9D&text=Snider%20grew%20up%20in%20Vancouver's,so%20he%20started%20working%20out.
https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/story/dorothy-stratten-hollywood-horror-story?srsltid=AfmBOoqqkILjPAB3osVvCbcHN2m2eJkzyH9MeWQdVU6pCFOXiaYV42Vl

In this episode, we sit down with author Barry Maher to discuss his wildly original book, The Great Dick and the Dysfunctional Demon. We dive into the strange mysteries, dysfunctional characters, dark humor, and unexpected chaos behind the story we get the inside scoop on what inspired Barry to create a world that is equal parts bizarre, clever, and completely unforgettable.
From demonic disasters to deeply flawed humans, this interview is packed with creepy stories, sharp wit, and plenty of moments that left us wondering what the hell we had just heard, in the best possible way.

It’s 1982. Steve Witowski, a failed songwriter on the run from the law, finds himself caught in a supernatural thriller after an apparently innocent act of heroism—saving a woman from a vicious assault by a seemingly unstoppable wino. The woman, Victoria, is just part of a mystery Steve can’t unravel. Even as he’s looting the decomposing dead for the secrets of a self-proclaimed sorcerer. Even as he plummets into a nightmare of fire and blood and murder. Even then, Steve remains certain the sorcerer’s spells, the occult rituals—the supposed demons and supernatural horror—are simply delusion and fantasy. Steve is wrong.
Victoria, who has just bought a dilapidated church with a haunting past, entangles Steve in a deadly game of dark magic and rituals. As,unknown to him, the demon grows desperate, Steve plunges deeper into a world of crypts, grave robbing, and long-forgotten secrets, all while trying to escape his own haunted past. But when the face of the man Steve killed appears on his arm, the line between reality and nightmare begins to blur.
This supernatural novel will leave you on the edge of your seat, with wickedly funny dark humor and, ultimately, pulse-pounding suspense, as Steve and Victoria navigate a twisted adventure full of occult horror, supernatural suspense, and shocking revelations.
https://www.amazon.com/Great-Dick-Dysfunctional-Demon/dp/1968532137

Black Sam Bellamy wasn’t your average pirate. Known as the “Robin Hood of the Sea,” he was charming, stylish, surprisingly merciful, and also responsible for capturing more than 50 ships before meeting a very dramatic end aboard the Whydah. In this episode, we’re diving into the true crime, strange mysteries, and legendary love story surrounding one of history’s most successful pirates, because apparently stealing ships is fine as long as you look hot in a velvet coat while doing it.
https://www.thetruecrimedatabase.com/case_file/black-bellamy/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Bellamy
https://www.piratesinfo.com/famous-pirates/samuel-bellamy/
https://newenglandhistoricalsociety.com/black-sam-bellamy-pirate-fought-smart-harmed-scored-big/
https://medium.com/@scraze88/the-secrets-of-the-pirate-sam-bellamy-585418ed8518
https://realpiratessalem.com/blog/the-real-captain-black-sam-bellamy-historys-most-successful-pirate/?srsltid=AfmBOopbd8-XsB9bWCwK2AGn4iGUrL-9b2QVLQvL-eKu8VwpvEJVoL20
https://dmrbooks.com/test-blog/2022/1/28/black-sam-bellamy-and-the-witch-of-wellfleet
https://www.worldhistory.org/Samuel_Bellamy/
https://archive.org/stream/privateeringandp24882gut/24882.txt
https://digital.lib.ecu.edu/17002
https://www.gutenberg.org/files/40580/40580-h/40580-h.htm
https://www.masshist.org/beehiveblog/2017/11/the-end-of-piracy-pirates-hanged-in-boston-300-years-ago/
https://www.discoverpirates.com/whydah-gally-history/
https://www.discoverpirates.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/5903/2023/12/Educator-Guide-6-8-1.pdf
https://www.discoverpirates.com/blog/what-the-whydahs-brass-rings-reveal-about-the-slave-trade-and-the-benin-bronzes/
https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-jun-01-sci-pirate1-story.html
https://www.cindyvallar.com/BellamyMartel-Nelson.html