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DragonKing Dark: The crimes of Jared Fogle

DragonKing Dark: The crimes of Jared Fogle

Karl Stern’s Dark 100 series continues. Note: Listener discretion advised You probably didn’t expect the face of evil to look like a geek eating a footlong did you?  Yet, here he is: Jared Fogle. Why this goof became pop culture famous is beyond

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DragonKing Dark: The Lance Armstrong scandal

DragonKing Dark: The Lance Armstrong scandal

Karl Stern’s run through dark moments in pop culture history continues. Lance Armstrong is far and away the most famous cyclist that has ever lived, dominating the Tour de France and many other world class cycling events.  He was pop culture famous in

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DragonKing Dark: The Payne Stewart plane crash

DragonKing Dark: The Payne Stewart plane crash

Karl Stern’s path down the darkest 100 moments in pop culture continues. In 1999, television viewers tuned into the story about an out of control jet plane flying across the country from Florida toward Canada. The unresponsive plane was tailed by military jets

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DragonKing Dark: The 1972 Olympics

My 100 darkest moments in pop culture history series on DragonKing Dark continues as I examine the terrorist assault and murder of eleven Israeli athletes during the 1972 Olympic games in Munich, Germany.  Germany, wanting to put the stain of the past behind

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DragonKing Dark: The Jackie Coogan Law

You know your life has taken a bad turn if the government has to name a law after you. That’s exactly what it was for child actor Jackie Coogan, who, after gaining huge success in various Charlie Chaplin films, went on to even

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DragonKing Dark: The death of George Michael

We continue our series of 100 of the darkest moments in pop culture history by taking a look at the death of one of the greatest vocalist of the 1980s-2000s, George Michael.  Starting his career with the duo Wham!, Michael rose to even

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DragonKing Dark: The death of Prince

I continue the DragonKingDark look at 100 of the darkest moments in pop culture history with the death of pop music legend, Prince.  He died just over six years ago of a fentanyl overdose. Since then, fentanyl has been a scourge in American

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DragonKing Dark: The death of Naomi Judd

We continue our series of 100 of the darkest moments in pop culture history by looking at the recent death of country music star Naomi Judd.  Judd was 76 years old and all of The Judds’ hit songs were behind them, so in

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DragonKing Dark: The death of John Denver

In my continuing series on the 100 darkest moments in pop culture history, I look back at the 1997 death of folk and country music star John Denver who was killed in an experimental aircraft crash at the age of 53. While Denver’s

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DragonKing Dark: Honey Boo Boo

We continue our series of 100 of the darkest moments in pop culture history and this week, I am your father who is very disappointed in you. No, this week nobody died. No tragedy has befallen a cast member (aside from a few

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DragonKing Dark: The OJ Simpson case & trial

Where were you when JFK was assassinated or when Elvis died or when a man landed on the moon? How about when the OJ Simpson verdict came down? The NFL football star and actor was accused of murdering two people, including his ex-wife.

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