8 episodes
Pressure Cooker CBC True Crime
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3.7 • 166 Ratings
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John Nuttall and Amanda Korody are scraping by on welfare and methadone in a basement suite with John’s grandma, when they find themselves embroiled in a terrorist plot. A mysterious figure named Abe comes into their lives and introduces the couple to a shadowy world of global extremism. With Abe as their mentor and benefactor, John and Amanda hatch a plan to bomb a national holiday celebration using homemade pressure cooker devices. They have no idea that federal police are tracking their every move.
Through nearly a hundred hours of surveillance footage and wiretaps, Pressure Cooker puts you in the middle of a sprawling anti-terror operation at the height of the War on Terror — one the courts will eventually call a “travesty of justice."
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Project Souvenir
Police intercept two homegrown – and very peculiar – extremists intent on murder and mayhem at a national holiday festival. Pressure cooker bombs. Just like the Boston Marathon. But something about the official version of the story doesn’t add up.
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The Mysterious Uncle Abe
Meet the misfit suspects behind the foiled attack. Learn how they fell down a rabbit hole of conspiracy, hate and terror. And how they crossed paths with a mysterious financier who pledged to fund their diabolical plot.
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Point of No Return
John and Amanda’s struggles with addiction complicate their fledgling plot. Will these oddballs be able to pull off an attack? Police spending escalates as Project Souvenir gets more elaborate by the day.
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Ticking Time Bombs
John and Amanda are losing their grip on reality, frustrating Abe and his shadowy accomplices. John has doubts and asks for spiritual guidance from an imam, but time is running out as zero hour approaches.
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Trapped
John and Amanda piece together their shattered reality while facing a possible lifetime in prison. As the full picture of Project Souvenir emerges in court, they start to wonder if the deception goes even deeper.
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Introducing: Pressure Cooker
John and Amanda are outsiders. They’re devoted to Dungeons & Dragons, struggling with addiction and living on welfare when they find themselves at the centre of a sprawling terrorism investigation. Host Dan Pierce follows their wild journey in this five part series, launching September 5th. New episodes on Mondays with early access for CBC True Crime Premium subscribers.
Customer Reviews
An Unlikable Subject Matter
5 stars for the production of the podcast. 0 stars for these two wannabe jihadists who belong in prison for the rest of their pathetic lives.
Nope
I didn’t like how the host wanted audience to empathize with 2 drug addicts that were racist and clearly wanted to commit a terrorist crime. Good for the police for arresting them but this host was a no for me and John and his wife absolutely disgusting. How can you empathize/sympathize with two people who made multiple comments about killing people and wanting to commit terrorist acts against innocent people. Whether they teetered on whether they should do it or not John was absolutely clear since the 1st episode what he wanted to do.
Mmmm wow
Very well put together podcast. Balanced. John/Omar is still a scary dude. I’m with the guy who said at the end he (John) was okay with blowing people up. It was entrapment. The police were so far over the line that they should be punished. It is the story of WRONG on so many levels. Binged the whole thing.