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Pirates of the Caribbean with Colin Woodard Nov 08, 2022

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Disney has released five movies in the Pirates of the Caribbean franchise, and while they're clearly fictional movies they pull from and have influenced our views of what the real pirates of history were like. New York Times Bestselling and Pulitzer Prize Finalist author Colin Woodard has a fantastic book called The Republic of Pirates and today he'll help us separate fact from fiction in the Pirates of the Caribbean franchise.

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Being the Ricardos with Michael Karol Nov 03, 2022

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The 2021 Amazon Original Movie Being the Ricardos tells us the story behind the scenes of the husband/wife team behind I Love Lucy, Dezi Arnaz (Javier Bardem) and Lucille Ball (Nicole Kidman). To help us separate fact from fiction in the movie, we'll learn from Michael Karol, author of the book Lucy A to Z: The Lucille Ball Encyclopedia.

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A Nightmare Before Halloween Part 2 Oct 25, 2022

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This is part 2 of 'A Nightmare Before Halloween' with 16 spooky stories to help you get into the Halloween spirit!

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True Crime Island: https://links.boatspodcast.com/214truecrimeisland
Based on a True Story: https://links.boatspodcast.com/214boats
The Asian Madness Podcast: https://links.boatspodcast.com/214theasianmadnesspodcast
Sistas Who Kill: https://links.boatspodcast.com/214sistaswhokill
Hometown History: https://links.boatspodcast.com/214hometownhistory
Coffee and Cases: https://links.boatspodcast.com/214coffeeandcases
Military Murder: https://links.boatspodcast.com/214militarymurder
Dystopian Simulation Radio: https://links.boatspodcast.com/214dystopiansimulationradio
Cults, Crimes & Cabernet: https://links.boatspodcast.com/214cultscrimescabernet
Morbidology: https://links.boatspodcast.com/214morbidology
Dark Pountine: https://links.boatspodcast.com/214darkpoutine
Hillbilly Horror Stories: https://links.boatspodcast.com/214hillbillyhorrorstories
True Consequences: https://links.boatspodcast.com/214trueconsequences
Gone Cold: https://links.boatspodcast.com/214gonecold
Crime Stories with Nancy Grace & Crime Online: https://links.boatspodcast.com/214crimestories
True Crime IRL & True Crime Sleep Stories: https://links.boatspodcast.com/214truecrimeirl

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A Nightmare Before Halloween Part 1 Oct 24, 2022

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This Halloween season, enter the woods for a unique and truly epic podcast experience! Around the campfire, Shane Waters will introduce 31 crime podcast hosts, including Based on a True Story. Each host brings a new, nerve-wracking true story to the circle. It’s an extra special, two-part, five-hour, Halloween event, but before hitting play you might want to ask yourself…can you really handle this much murder and mayhem?

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Foul Play: Crime Series: https://links.boatspodcast.com/213foulplay
Murder She Told: https://links.boatspodcast.com/213murdershetold
Crime Salad: https://links.boatspodcast.com/213crimesalad
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Frightful: https://links.boatspodcast.com/213frightful
Reverie True Crime: https://links.boatspodcast.com/213reverietruecrime
Rotten to the Core: https://links.boatspodcast.com/213rottontothecore
The Trail Went Cold: https://links.boatspodcast.com/213thetrailwentcold
Once Upon A Crime: https://links.boatspodcast.com/213onceuponacrime
Criminology: https://links.boatspodcast.com/213criminology
The Peripheral & Generation Why: https://links.boatspodcast.com/213theperipheral
Live, Laugh, Larceny: https://links.boatspodcast.com/213livelaughlarceny
The Hidden Staircase: https://links.boatspodcast.com/213thehiddenstaircase
True Crime Cases with Lanie & It's Haunted...What Now?: https://links.boatspodcast.com/213truecrimecaseswithlanie
Obscura: A True Crime Podcast & Disaster: https://links.boatspodcast.com/213obscura

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Pearl Harbor with Marty Morgan Oct 11, 2022

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Released in 2001, Michael Bay's Pearl Harbor is often criticized as being entirely inaccurate as it attempts to tell the story of the surprise attack on December 7th, 1941 that led to the United States entering World War II. Today we'll be joined by historian and author Marty Morgan to take a deep dive into what details the movie got right and what it got wrong.

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The X-Files with Rob Kristoffersen Sep 26, 2022

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The classic TV series The X-Files is fiction, but there are some true stories and UFO cases that inspired episodes of the series. To help us learn more about them, we'll chat with UFO researcher and host of Our Strange Skies, Rob Kristoffersen.

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Dolemite Is My Name with Mark Jason Murray Sep 07, 2022

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Dolemite Is My Name is the 2019 biopic about Rudy Ray Moore, the comedian, singer, actor, and film producer who has often been given the nickname the "godfather of rap." We'll chat with Mark Jason Murray, who was the Research Consultant on the film and author of Thank You For Letting Me Be Myself: The Authorized Biography Of Rudy Ray Moore Aka Dolemite.

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W.E. with Andrew Lownie Aug 19, 2022

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The movie's title W.E. stands for Wallis and Edward. Was the movie correct to suggest King Edward VIII's reason for abdicating the throne in 1936 was so he could marry the American divorcee Wallis Simpson? We'll chat with author Andrew Lownie about the true story to find out more.

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Zero Dark Thirty with Peter Bergen Aug 03, 2022

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Zero Dark Thirty shows the decade-long search for Osama bin Laden. Peter Bergen is the author of The Rise and Fall of Osama bin Laden and he joins us today to dig into the true story behind the movie.

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Also mentioned on this episode, Manhunt: The Ten-Year Search for Bin Laden from 9/11 to Abbottabad: https://links.boatspodcast.com/208manhunt
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Lawless with Matt Bondurant (Remastered) Jul 25, 2022

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This episode was originally released on August 28, 2017. This is a remastered version of that interview.

Matt Bondurant joins us today episode as we compare what really happened with the movie Lawless. Matt's grandfather, Jack, and two grand-uncles that were the inspiration for his book that the movie is based on, The Wettest County in the World.

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