In the first five minutes of a recent episode of The Lost Boys podcast, Evangeline Lilly says she would describe starring on the TV show Lost as her destiny. “I would say it was my destiny because it certainly wasn’t my agenda,” she told host Jacob Stolworthy (who is also a writer for the Independent). She wasn’t…
S-Town, the true crime podcast about an Alabama horologist who commits suicide mid-production, is involved in a lawsuit alleging that the podcast exploited its subject in life and death.
The Russian scammer who conned New York high society into believing she was a wealthy German socialite. The tattooed hipster who grifted her way into a job at VICE. The guy who pretends he can cook in order to be the “food and wine expert” on Queer Eye. Why are we so obsessed with those who seek to deceive us?
After recording this week’s episode of Dirtcast, we walked out of the studio and passed through an elaborate film set being shot on the steps of the building next to us. Coincidentally—or was it fate?—the famous party at the heart of the cluster was none other than our girl, Sarah Jessica Parker: A fitting celebrity…
Grab a seat around the roaring campfire of Big Time Dicks and a big stick, because this week on the podcast we’re roasting a record number of weenies that are fucking up everyone’s good time.
On Sunday morning, a man who had left the Air Force after receiving a “bad conduct” discharge, and jailed for one year for domestic abuse opened fire on a church in Sutherland Springs, Texas, killing 26 and injuring 20 others.
This weekend, around 4,000 people gathered at the Cobo Center in Detroit for the Women’s Convention—a follow-up to January’s Women’s March intended to tap into “the power of women in leadership as the fundamental, grassroots force for change” ahead of the 2018 midterm elections.
Imagine you’re a pig, and so is your dad. Imagine your dad sucks, but on a massive, historic level—let’s say he wanted to own other pigs and led an army to fight for his right to do so. Imagine one day your dad took a shit in the middle of the town square and then died. Imagine 100 years later, all the pigs in town…
You’ve asked. We’ve listened. Your cries are answered. We’ve brought back someone very special to join us on this week’s episode of DirtCast.
It’s widely accepted that reality TV—thanks to editing and the personalities of people who willingly put their lives in front of the camera—is quite far from depicting actual reality. Relationships are made and broken in order to entertain the audience and dramatic cast members are rewarded with more attention and…
There are a lot of people to thank for last week’s failure to pass the Obamacare replacement and repeal bill in the Senate, including the three Republican senators who broke with party lines to vote against the bill. But the role that activists played—particularly women and advocates for disability rights—cannot be…
With rape scenes more prevalent in film and television than ever before, “rape choreography” has emerged as a necessary part of set life for actors and directors.
As Donald Trump’s almost all-boys club pushes America closer and closer to a constitutional crisis, a historic number of fed up women are mulling bids for elected office. While there are more resources and organizations to help women plot this journey than ever before, it’s still daunting to think about—and…
When a large portion of pundits on cable news are actively benefiting from a corrupt and moronic administration, it’s especially gratifying to meet one who isn’t afraid to call them out on their bullshit.
In 1997, Irene McGee—a college student at Georgetown—applied on a whim and was cast on The Real World: Seattle, the seventh season of the pioneer MTV reality show that featured “seven strangers picked to live in a house and have their lives taped.” Little did she know that the two months she spent living on Pier 70…
In a shortened work week during which America celebrated its 241st birthday and our esteemed president tweeted gifs of himself pummeling CNN taken from a Reddit user called HanAssholeSolo, Big Time Dicks celebrated our dystopian reality by honoring all of the real-life cartoon villains of the Trump administration.
This month marks 70-year-old candy corn Donald Trump’s six-month mark in office, and for the occasion we decided to throw him a biannual review.
If one theme has arisen out of 20 episodes of DirtCast, it’s that—with the advent of social media—the glory days of tabloid culture was over by 2010. So who does one turn to when you want to revisit the thrill that comes only from Lindsay Lohan calling Paris Hilton a “cunt” on camera? Pop Culture Died in 2009, of…
Earlier this week, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott signed into a law House Bill 3859, which allows religious (and tax-payer funded!) foster care and adoption agencies to deny services “under circumstances that conflict with the provider’s sincerely held religious beliefs.” In other words, when this law goes into effect,…
For the first time ever, ABC’s Bachelor spinoff Bachelor in Paradise is getting people to take it seriously. To the show’s discredit, this was accomplished through dark and unethical circumstances when two contestants’ alcohol-infused sexual encounter (not a first for BiP) lead to an internal investigation and bigger…
