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The designer of Unreal and Gears of War offers an eye-opening personal account of the video game industry as it grew from niche hobby to hundred-billion-dollar enterprise. Video games are dominating the planet. In 2020, they brought in $180 billion dollars globally—nearly $34 billion in the...

In 1967, 21-year-old Pauline Butcher was working for a London secretarial agency when a call came through from a Mr Frank Zappa asking for a typist. The assignment would change her life forever. For three years, Pauline served as Zappa's PA, moving with him, his family and the Mothers of Invention to a log cabin in the Hollywood Hills, where the straight young English girl mixed with Oscar winners and rock royalty.

The story of Hunter S. Thompson's crusade against Richard Nixon and the threat of fascism in America--and the devastating price he paid for it Hunter S. Thompson is often misremembered as a wise-cracking, drug-addled cartoon character. This book reclaims him for what he truly was: a fearless...

When Jared Dillian joined Lehman Brothers in 2001, he fulfilled a life-long dream to make it on Wall Street - but he had no idea how close to the edge the job would take him. Like Michael Lewis' classic Liar's Poker, Jared Dillian's Street Freak takes listeners behind the scenes of the legendary Lehman Brothers, exposing its outrageous and often hilarious corporate culture.

"I came late to Christianity", writes Sara Miles, "knocked upside down by a mid-life conversion centered around eating a literal chunk of bread. I hadn't decided to profess an article of doctrine, but discovered a force blowing uncontrollably through the world." In this book, Sara Miles tells what happened when she decided to follow the flesh and blood Jesus by doing something real. For everyone afraid to feed hungry strangers, love the unlovable, or go to dark places to bless and heal, she offers hope.

This gripping memoir vividly recounts Al Moreno’s rise as a gifted and fearless Los Angeles police officer, surviving gangs and homicidal situations in urban war zones as he strove to achieve his personal and professional dreams. Packed with unforgettable scenes of both beauty and despair, it culminates in his vocal stand against corruption within the LAPD, and the political retribution that ensued - a dirty internal investigation that unleashed the murderous vendetta of a violent ex-con from the Aryan Brotherhood.

This is the story of one man’s wrestling with God over control. It’s the story of his discovery that being a control freak could mean the destruction of his family and of his ability to contribute, or even survive in this life.

Freak Hour dives into the shadows of the strange and unsettling. From chilling true crime cases to unexplained paranormal events, and everything weird and creepy in between, this is your hour of darkness where the ordinary meets the terrifying. Tune in… if you dare.

In 1972, Perry Bulwer, a naive sixteen-year-old growing up in Port Alberni, a mill town on Vancouver Island, dropped out of high school to run away with the Children of God, one of a number of millennial Christian cults that sprang up in the 1960s and 1970s. Bulwer takes the listener on an extraordinary trip through the world of biblical literalism, fundamentalist endtime fantasies, paranormal spirituality, evangelical extremism, ritual abuse, and liberally interpreted Biblical teachings that were used to justify licentious sexual doctrines, evangelical prostitution, and child sexual abuse.

Freaks No More! is about visible and invisible disabilities, neurodiversity, and inclusion. Following the motto "nothing about us without us", people with disabilities and neurodivergent voices share their personal stories, social perspectives, and political insights. Freaks No More! raises awareness, fights stigma, and gives a platform to lived experiences, making diversity and accessibility part of the conversation. By the end of each episode, host Vicky Hristova and their guests walk away with something new - a new way to think about the word "disability", a fresh perspective on empathy, or...

Entertainment Weekly's controversial critic of more than two decades looks back at a life told through the films he loved and loathed. Owen Gleiberman has spent his life watching movies-first at the drive-in, where his parents took him to see wildly inappropriate adult fare like Rosemary's Baby...

Fishing for piranhas in the Amazon, getting stoned at Fijian kava ceremonies, and witnessing the ancient ritual of land diving on Pentecost Island is the stuff of National Geographic cover stories - and Nevin Martell’s childhood vacations. His family’s globetrotting took them from the South Pacific to South America and many points nowhere in between.

Kacy Tellessen is a grunt. After completing high school in rural Washington, he enlisted in the Marine Corps and began the hero's journey he imagined might parallel those epic tales he'd consumed throughout adolescence. But what Tellessen lived through—from boot camp to the battlefield and home again—had little in common with Homer's tales or Hollywood's depictions. In his memoir, Tellessen offers a truer account of life as an infantryman: the complicated, conflicting, adrenaline-pumping, and traumatic experience of war.

Rarely has such an original, brilliant voice captured the chaos, the ecstasy, and the zeitgeist of the modern dad. A mad mash-up of David Sedaris, P.J. O'Rourke, Dave Barry, and Hunter S. Thompson, Mr. Bell selflessly cracks open his head like a walnut and shines a brilliant light onto the thinking matter of an older, first-time dad. The silly fears, the poignant observations, and the constant ebb and flow of his manhood make for an irreverent and hilarious first-person examination of all things holy and unholy in the parenthood universe.

Freaks and Creeps is a paranormal and true crime podcast created and hosted by two sisters, Stacy Krajicek and Keri Davison. They bring you bone-chilling content each week spanning listener ghost stories, weird cryptids, true crime and so much more! Tune in each Wednesday for a dose of all things freaky and creepy!

Crime Freaks Podcast is a weekly true crime show. Join us each week as we dive deep into a baffling case or a spooky paranormal tale.

Welcome to Freakouts Plus where we tell Crazy Karen, entitled tantrum, and public freakout stories. The assiduity of these Karens and their need to prove just how stupid they are can leave us shaking our heads in disbelief and provides us with a good laugh. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

We are two sisters who are obsessed with True Crime, Aliens, Ghost, Ect. Host Amanda and Co Host Hannah invite you to Enter the world of the Lovely Freaks.

We like to talk about everything that gives us the creeps

I'm Shawn Ventura, the Host of TRUE CRIME FREAKS. I have always been a True Crime fan going back to DATELINE and Unsolved Mysteries. True Crime podcasts are what I listen to relax on my long walks. There is something about being scared and shocked that snaps me out of my daily routine. I created TRUE CRIME FREAKS after I created the Lights, Camera, Pro! Podcast, a Film and TV Interviews and reviews podcast. I hope you enjoy the crazy and sometimes horrifying stories of this podcast you TRUE CRIME FREAKS.