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Today: #64 in News, United Kingdom on our combined chart.
Today: #42 in News, Canada on our combined chart.
Today: #63 in News, Australia on our combined chart.
Today: #162 in News, Germany on our combined chart.
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| Date | Combined Rank | Apple Podcasts | Pocket Casts | Castbox |
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| Oct 21 | #64 | #45 | #47 | #47 |
| Oct 20 | #62 | #42 | #44 | #43 |
| Oct 19 | #64 | #48 | #49 | #49 |
| Oct 18 | #64 | #50 | — | #57 |
| Oct 17 | #68 | #59 | — | #54 |
| Oct 16 | #67 | #50 | — | #50 |
Latest episodes
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The Last 12 Weeks - Ep. 5
June 18, 2026 · 39 minDays before the execution, the defense team scrambles to respond to an unexpected ruling, while the lead lawyer makes what may be his final visit to David Wood on death row. Everyone waits to find out Wood’s fate. To find out about new…
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The Last 12 Weeks - Ep. 4
June 18, 2026 · 31 minTo justify sentencing David Wood to death, prosecutors argued that he was a convicted rapist turned serial killer. And yet, Wood has insisted all along that isn’t true. We head to death row to hear him tell us why. But not before a victim…
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The Last 12 Weeks - Ep. 3
June 18, 2026 · 44 minIn the final weeks before the execution date, the defense team has to decide just how far it’s willing to push people to save David Wood’s life. The team’s deliberations lead to a key witness on his deathbed … and the mother of one of the…
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The Last 12 Weeks - Ep. 2
June 18, 2026 · 46 minThe way the state constructed the case, there’s no one big shiny piece of evidence for the defense to knock down. Instead, there are a million little threads to pull at. With less than two months until the execution, the lawyers comb…
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The Last 12 Weeks - Ep. 1
June 18, 2026 · 41 minIn 1992, David Wood became El Paso’s most notorious convicted serial killer. He has been on death row ever since. More than 30 years later, his lawyers have just a few months to argue his innocence and stop his execution. To find out…
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The Last 12 Weeks - Trailer
June 16, 2026 · 2 minIn 1992, David Wood was convicted of murdering young women and girls and burying them in the desert outside El Paso. He has been on death row ever since. “The Last 12 Weeks” takes you behind the scenes as a capital defense team races…
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The Idiot - Chapter 5
March 26, 2026 · 29 minAllen will almost certainly be released in a few years. What should M.’s family do with a guy who refuses to own up to his own crime? Can he be re-integrated into the family? Should he be? While M. has grown increasingly compassionate…
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The Idiot - Chapter 4
March 26, 2026 · 1 hr 3 minAllen finally agrees to talk … and talk and talk, for 35 hours of interviews. M. wants to understand Allen on his own terms, to try and figure out how this scion of bohemian intellectuals ended up hiring someone to kill his ex. It’s hard…
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The Idiot - Chapter 3
March 26, 2026 · 50 minM. attends Allen’s trial in San Francisco. The FBI’s star witness, an agent who went by “David," plays his undercover recordings of Allen. They reveal how Allen’s scheme to deport Priscilla turned into a murder-for-hire plot. Allen is his…
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The Idiot - Chapter 2
March 26, 2026 · 50 minM. seeks out Allen’s ex-wife, Priscilla, who tells her side of the story. It begins with a whirlwind romance but quickly turns to chart Allen’s betrayal: taking her son from Russia and stranding Priscilla and her daughter in Moscow. What…
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The Idiot - Chapter 1
March 26, 2026 · 22 minFor decades, M. simply disliked Allen. They saw him as a fool, a pompous “international businessman” who bragged about shady deals and drove fancy cars while living in Eastern Europe and Africa. But one day Allen suddenly shows up at their…
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The Idiot - Trailer
March 19, 2026 · 2 minThe New York Times writer M. Gessen is widely known for their award-winning writing about totalitarianism, terrorism and the erosion of human rights. Now, M. is examining a more personal target: their least favorite cousin, Allen. For…
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