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RA and Doug discuss the more intense parts of the Heaven's Gate documentary, including the botched castration of one of the members, the tragic story of Frank and Erika, a couple who joined Heaven's Gate together in the 1970s, and the baffling reality that many former members seem to be true believers.

We love Halloween, which is why we know you already know all the standard Halloween songs for your October playlist. No one who reads...

If there's one headline we love more than any other it is some variation of "Human Fucks Around With Nature—Finds Out." About 21 years ago, Werner Herzog released the groundbreaking documentary Grizzly Man. It is the story of Timothy Treadwell, a man who, despite all evidence to the contrary, felt he was exempt from the laws of nature and was brutally disabused of that notion.

Kid Congo Powers said that his collaboration with French musician and composer Naïm Amor was "a conversation between our guitars." It sounds like a conversation that happened at four in the morning after sharing a couple joints, binge-watching Twin Peaks, and putting on an album by The Cramps.

RA Pickup and Doug Ziegler dive into the story of the Aquarian Society, their tyrannical leader, and the possibility that there is a whole load of gold off the coast of Canada somewhere. Join them as they explore the money, sex, and tugboats of it all.

No one can blame you if you've been quietly meditating on UFOs and aliens in hopes of a mass invasion that takes us all away from here. Well, there's a playlist for that! We present: September Playlist: Alien Invasion!

People are mourning Dolly because she was a rare light of kindness and goodness in a world that is needlessly cruel more and more of the time. And Dolly didn't save that light for those lucky enough to see her play live or even just for those who liked her music. She showed up for the folks the world is most cruel to early, and often.

You want a movie with Paul Rudd, Elizabeth Banks, Amy Poehler, Janeane Garafalo, Molly Shannon, and fucking Bradley Cooper? How about H. Jon Benjamin playing a sentient can of vegetables?

The greatest love story ever told is jumping from page to screen - yes, I am talking about Sex Criminals! No, this is not a story about sex crimes, but it is a story about committing crimes in a paranormal post-coital bliss. A boisterously ribald comedy that tells the story of two outsiders, so alone in the world they don't even get to spend sex with the person they're copulating with, finally coming together. Suzie and Jon discover that when they bang together, they get to stay together - unlike any other partner either has ever had. See, when they fck, time stops. Literally.

Less a harrowing tale of the dark side of the modeling industry and more like a Stefon skit on SNL, Bring Me The Beauties has everything. Yes, there are gorgeous male models (and a surprise Fabio storyline!), gorgeous women, summers in Nantucket, parties at Studio 54 — but there was also astrology, Eastern philosophy, and yes, babies — ALIENS.

You might hate summer or love it, but either way, August hits, and it's all you can do to live through another hot, humid, disgusting day. It feels like summer will never fucking end. Well, there's a playlist for that!

Maternal Instinct is the latest true crime doc to make everyone say, "What the f*ck did I just watch?" There are some elements of this case that paint an interesting picture of what we expect from victims.