Hookergate: Criminals and Libertines in the South


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Truck-stop brothels run by a web of ex-cons… a commonwealth attorney wasted on whiskey and power… protection exchanged for cash and flesh… a brash local reporter exposing it all… This is HOOKERGATE: Criminals and Libertines in the South. I am your host, Dr. Lindsay Byron, author, historian, and lifelong wayward woman—and this forgotten scandal happened in my hometown. Join me as I use crumbling news clippings, interviews, and dramatic re-enactments to bring to life for the first time in nearly 50 years this wild ride of hedonistic corruption.
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Had high hopes
Sep 7
Really wanted to like this podcast as most of what iheart media produces is great. I love finding new and interesting stories but the host of this one absolutely killed it for me. The reading of the script was disjointed so the reading was as well. I thought a sentence was finished after a long pause little did I realize one more word was on its way.
Nails on a chalkboard
3 days ago
This has the potential to be amazing. But the host is unbearable, so I’ll never know. Her delivery is absolutely horrible. I couldn’t make it through one episode. What a waste of a good story.
Awful.
Sep 20
Host narrates like she’s in some beatnik poetry slam. It’s unlistenable. She ruins the whole thing. It makes no sense half the time. Avoid this podcast.
Interesting story, poorly narrated
Aug 30
The story is really interesting, but the podcast is tough to listen to. Everything is dramatized excessively and over done. I would really like to hear the actual story this is based on.
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