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Pop culture, memes, and secret histories take a fast, fun frolic with "Destiny". Music, sounds clips, commentary and comedy shine a light on topics like Walt Disney, "the dark side of the Hamster dance," and an infamous war between singing rodents (featuring jazz-singing squirrels!)
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12/20/2006 | Download File (31.22 MB) - right click to download
Destiny pays a holiday visit to the podcast of RU Sirius. Hear seven strange Christmas songs, including a rare track by Leonard Nimoy from Mr. Spock’s Music From Outer Space. Stories about Christmas with Elvis lead to punk Christmas tunes by Root Boy Slim and the Vandals — plus a cover by [...]
11/10/2006 | Download File (22.00 MB) - right click to download
Children inspire comedies - but then fame changes the young actors’ lives. Alfalfa floats from a 1930s world of black-and-white romps into one of the most notorious Hollywood scandals. As a grown-up world abandons Buckwheat, Waldo, Porky, and Darla, did struggling Robert Blake move from playing cold-blooded killers to becoming one? Destiny skips [...]
10/15/2006 | Download File (18.28 MB) - right click to download
World War I leads an American soldier to an abandoned kennel in Lorraine, and a shell-shocked dog becomes a Hollywood star. Destiny follows Rin Tin Tin through an impossible 50-year dog-life of fame — encountering Lassie, young Robert Blake, troubled child star Tommy Rettig, and an unlikely Swedish hit single. Meme-track: The abandoned kennel [...]
10/7/2006 | Download File (26.25 MB) - right click to download
America’s favorite TV cowboy lives another 40 years, confronting beer commercials and lawsuits with his faith in cowboy justice. Meanwhile in Modesto, Spade Cooley starts his rise to Los Angeles notoriety, as the poor fiddler becomes a popular singer and Los Angeles’s first TV star. He retires to a desert paradise where everything turns awful [...]
10/2/2006 | Download File (12.57 MB) - right click to download
Meet the singer behind Unpack Your Adjectives and Figure 8. She’s a legendary New York chanteuse who mingled with Miles Davis, and knew everyone from Johnny Mercer to John Lennon. Destiny play songs from her 40-year career, showing how she won the heart of the man who sang “I’m Just a Bill.” Meme-track: Listeners speak [...]
9/25/2006 | Download File (26.81 MB) - right click to download
Beloved short cartoons transcend their 70s educational origins and conquer the hearts and minds of a generation, as dabbling ad agency executives turn legendary jazz singers into schoolteachers across America. Destiny uncovers the secrets and controversies of Schoolhouse Rock, exploring the magic-making men and women behind songs like Conjunction Junction and Shot Heard Round [...]
9/16/2006 | Download File (20.01 MB) - right click to download
Former child star Dana Plato descends through the ultimate degradation — from hit network TV show to video game, porn film, the Howard Stern show, and death. And then exploitation of her corpse. As surreptitious recordings turn up on the web, Destiny takes an unpredictible and instructive joyride down that low road [...]
9/9/2006 | Download File (20.12 MB) - right click to download
Walt Disney fights an animator rebellion, Disneyland vandals, and the ravages of time. Hear creepy stories about child actors behind Peter Pan, Bambi, and The Mickey Mouse Club, while taking an A-ticket ride through the lurid and debunked legends about an unfrozen corpse and the Snow White orgy. Meme-track: “Professor Wonderful” - Art Spiegelman’s Nixon [...]
9/9/2006 | Download File (20.12 MB) - right click to download
Walt Disney fights an animator rebellion, Disneyland vandals, and the ravages of time. Hear creepy stories about child actors behind Peter Pan, Bambi, and The Mickey Mouse Club, while taking an A-ticket ride through the lurid and debunked legends about an unfrozen corpse and the Snow White orgy. Meme-track: “Professor Wonderful” - Art Spiegelman’s Nixon [...]
9/4/2006 | Download File (15.80 MB) - right click to download
It’s crazy randomness and greed, as pop music sensations spring from the explosive popularity of the Hampster Dance. Meet the poor, the proud, and the cocky as awful craziness collides with ambition, frustration, and insanity, and vast after-life fame descends on the voice of a real-life drifter. An account of the Internet’s most promiscuous [...]