Tag: DragonKingDark
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DragonKing Dark: The story of former NFL star Aaron Hernandez
Our next installment in our 100 darkest moments in pop culture history involves the story of former New England Patriots tight end Aaron Hernandez. Hernandez was an elite level football player whose off the field exploits landed him in prison and later dead. Despite being one of the best players on his national championship winning…
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DragonKing Dark: How ‘Seduction of the Innocent’ went after the comic industry
Free speech. Censorship. Right thinking. Moral policing. All of these terms are hot button topics to various political and social groups. The more that things change, the more they stay the same as in 1954, a holier than thou psychiatrist took on the comic book industry with his infamous book, “Seduction of the Innocent”. No…
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DragonKing Dark: The video game crash of 1983
Continuing our 100 darkest moments in pop culture series, this week’s DragonKing Dark takes a look back at the video game crash of 1983. It was a moment in time where subpar games were being produced en masse as a cash grab during a home video game boom. Juan Nunez wrote a tremendous article about this…
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DragonKing Dark: How ‘The Death of Superman’ almost killed comics
We pick back up our ongoing series in the 100 darkest moments in pop culture history and in doing so, we travel back to the early 1990s. Comic books and trading cards were booming. Speculators were buying both in bulk with hopes of one day owning something valuable. But, the bubble was ready to burst…
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DragonKing Dark: The death and mysterious life of Jayne Mansfield
Continuing our look at 100 of the darkest moments in pop culture history, I am joined by Tonya from When It Was Cool to discuss the death of starlet Jayne Mansfield who was killed in a 1967 car accident. The events leading up to her death are quite dark and mysterious including her stint in the…
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DragonKing Dark: Julius Obsequens and the Greco-Roman UFOs
On today’s show, DragonKing Dark host Karl Stern continues his series of podcasts looking at UFO activity in antiquity. We examine the reports of Julius Obsequens, an AD 400 era writer who reported on unknown objects in the sky in the period leading up to the birth of Christ. Can he be trusted? Do his writings…
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FREE DragonKing Dark: Charlemagne and his UFOs
On this episode of DragonKing Dark, host Karl Stern continues his hunt for UFOs in the era before airplanes and balloons. He continues to scour history for reports of unknown objects in the sky to see if any pan out to be truly unanswerable. This week, Karl takes a look at Charlemagne, King of the Franks,…
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DragonKing Dark: Texas Chainsaw Massacre
The countdown to Halloween continues on the DragonKing Dark show with host Karl Stern. On this episode of the show, Karl takes some questions from the mailbag, including more horror movie suggestions. Karl also talks about his latest haunted house attraction visit, this time in Tennessee with the Doomsday Haunted Trail walk. Karl then revisits one of…