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13 O’Clock Episode 303 LIVE: Mata Hari

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Even today, more than a century after her execution, the name Mata Hari conjures up images of the ultimate femme fatale, an exotic dancer and courtesan who allegedly used her feminine wiles to spy for the Germans during World War I. She has been the subject of numerous films, musicals, songs, and even a recent ballet and a 2017 opera, so it seems her legend is still going strong. But the real story behind this fascinating woman—who in reality was a Dutch national named Margaretha Zelle—is much more complex and intriguing than popular perception would have you believe, so shimmy into your best jeweled breastplate and travel back to the early 20th century with Tom and Jenny on a cloak and daggery episode 303.

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13 O’Clock Episode 185 – The Marquis de Sade

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On this titillating installment of 13 O’Clock, Tom and Jenny are discussing one of the most notorious writers (and serial rapists) in all of literary history, the infamous aristocrat Marquis de Sade. Born into privilege and possessed of a sociopathically voracious sexual appetite, the Marquis assaulted his way through 18th-century France, making plenty of enemies and spending decades of his life imprisoned, but also becoming immortalized due to his unbelievably explicit writings, such as The 120 Days of Sodom and Justine, and the fact that his name became the basis for our word “sadism.” Hide the whips and chains and check your chocolates for Spanish fly, it’s about to get rough on episode 185.

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