Pop Mystery Pod
Investigative journalist and pop culture junkie Tess Barker, dives into the pop culture moments that have puzzled her for years. This addictive, informative and revelatory show dives features the deep research and first person reporting that helped her launch the #FreeBritney movement while co-hosting Britney's Gram. Each episode unpacks a moment in celebrity news that was misunderstood or intentionally covered up at the time. Part true crime, part comedy, part deconstructing pop culture trivia...
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Episodes (120)
A Gruesome Celebrity Encounter: The Diddy Files Chapter One
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The Tupac Verdict: What It Was Like in the Court Room
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The Prosecution Rests: Updates from the Tupac Murder Trial
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The Tupac Murder Trial: Revelations from Inside the Courtroom
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Grimes, Mother of X Æ A-12 (with Steven Ray Morris)
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The Cult That Jared Leto Runs (with Shannon McNamara)
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Tyra Banks Cuts Models (with Jackie Johnson)
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The Ice Cream Blonde Cold Case (with Babs Gray)
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Jerry Springer Fakes It (Throwback)
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The Secret Life of Canned Laughter (with Holly Brown)
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The Top Pop Independence Days
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James Cameron’s Quest to Pester Ghosts (with Caitlin Durante)
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The NFL is Bravo (with Megan Gailey)
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An Alleged Tupac Assassin Stands Trial. Who Hired Him?
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The TMZ Secret Sauce (with Lauren Vino)
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A Literal Captive Audience
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The Terrifying Face Behind Those Pass It On Billboards (from the vault)
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Exposing “Girls Gone Wild” (with Courtney Kocak)
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The Settlement: What Justin Baldoni’s Lawyer Doesn’t Want Us to Know
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Banksy Gets His Mask Ripped Off (with Chris Fairbanks)
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Nevertheless, Blake Lively Persists (with MJ Morley)
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The Tom Cruise Wife Casting Couch (with Claire Lim)
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Bluntly, Afroman Prevails (with Paul Danke)
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Is Spencer Pratt a Villain in Reality? (with Rachel Brodsky)
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Shen Yun (with Jenny Yang)
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The Screenwriter Who Faded to Black (with Christian Duguay)
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Free Britney Was Right.
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The People You Meet at Groundhog Day
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Britney Spears Sells Britney Spears: A Britney’s Gram Reunion! (with Babs Gray)
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Angelyne (with Chris Farah)
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Babes in Hollyweirdland: Can We Keep Young Performers Safe? (with Stacy Keanan a...
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The Music Universal Studios Lost Forever (with Steven Ray Morris)
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Jenna Jameson: The Porn Industry Climaxes (with Molly Lambert)
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Mary Cosby’s Church (with Will Weldon)
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The Bots Versus Taylor’s Bops (with Joe Romm and Antonia Romm)
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The Chicks Get Cancelled (with Laganja Estranja)
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Presenting: Lady to Lady “Botox Shot to Space with Jackie Zebrowski”
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(From the Vault): Dirty Disney
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“Jaws”: Out for Blood
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The Dave Matthews Incident (with Babs Gray)
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“Love is Blind,” Being on a Reality Show is a Job (with Giulia Rozzi)
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(Reprise) “Cats”: Crime of the Century?
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Bruno Mars is Maybe Stuck in Vegas Forever (with Sean Green)
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It Looks Like A Child: Tilly Norwood, the AI Actor (with Gretchen Andrew)
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The F**d Up World of Lisa Frank (with Tess Bellomo)
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Michael Jackson, Sean Diddy Combs, and the Man in the Middle
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Sean Diddy Combs: An Incomplete Sentence
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Elevatorgate (with Lauren Smith and Rachel Smith)
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All of the Times Harrison Ford Has Crashed a Plane (with Jon Gabrus)
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Lisa Left Eye Lopes Barbecues Her Some Shoes (with Ashley Ray)
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