Your Story or Your Life

Known as "Cowboy Bob" for impersonating a man when she robbed a string of banks in the early 1990's, Peggy Jo Tallas is coming soon to the big screen in a true crime love story. She was a unicorn in her field, as was another woman who stole millions from a bank in the same dusty area of East Texas. This is Your Story or Your Life. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/yourstory-or-yourlife/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/yourstory-or-yourlife/support

HBO's documentary on Michelle McNamara might be too personal to watch alone in the dark. Patton Oswalt stepped in to finish her book after his wife died. Thus, he became a True Crime writer in his own right. Was I'll Be Gone In The Dark part Kentucky Blood? There's a weird art/life connection going on here that needs to be discussed. #PattonOswalt #GSK --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/yourstory-or-yourlife/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/yourstory-or-yourlife/support

The Betty Broderick story has been told many times before. The latest installment takes a page or three from Mad Men and gives Betty Draper a gun. The storytelling may be different than all the other times on TV, but the ending is the same. This is Your Story or Your Life. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/yourstory-or-yourlife/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/yourstory-or-yourlife/support

Chad Daybell was recently arrested after investigators from Rexburg, ID found human remains on his property in Salem, ID. Daybell has authored several books which follow an End of Times theme. He began his writing career after forming a publishing company with his former wife, Tammy. She died under mysterious circumstances shortly before the author married Lori Vallow Daybell last November. Find out how some of the things he wrote about in a series called "Times of Turmoil" might be taking place in real life. This is Your Story or Your Life. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/yourstory-or-yourlife/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/yourstory-or-yourlife/support

So much True Crime takes place in Orange County, CA that Netflix's Dirty John is just the tip of the iceberg. In this episode of Your Story or Your Life I discuss a similar case that might be right for Netflix, along with the people who help to prosecute offenders and bring justice. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/yourstory-or-yourlife/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/yourstory-or-yourlife/support

Recently, I had the chance to speak with Michael Crane, who was featured in a Sports Illustrated article about a choice he'd made before The 2007 Masters Golf Tournament. We talk about where he was back then and what his life is like today. If you've got a story to tell, you'll learn the best way to go about it and what to look out for along the journey. Remember to practice your bunker shot more than your short game. This is Your Story or Your Life. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/yourstory-or-yourlife/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/yourstory-or-yourlife/support

Trashy novelist Nancy Brophy 86'd her chef hubby a few years back. Amanda Knox once escaped Italy in just enough time to regain her freedom back. Recently, she got married. Both Nancy and Amanda are from the Pacific Northwest, where it's dark and dreary and the evidence is convenient enough to pen a unique domestic thriller for TV. Or maybe the big screen? --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/yourstory-or-yourlife/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/yourstory-or-yourlife/support

Jason Derek Brown is on the FBI's Ten Most Wanted list. It's been 16 years since the crime, the same amount of time it took the Feds to capture their former number 1, who was holding steady in the second spot on the notorious list until a famous terrorist fell to zero. This is Your Story or Your Life. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/yourstory-or-yourlife/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/yourstory-or-yourlife/support

According to Heavy.com's article, a Fire Captain in Tulsa, Oklahoma has been arrested and accused of robbing two banks. Here's my take. This is Your Story or Your Life. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/yourstory-or-yourlife/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/yourstory-or-yourlife/support

Robbing a Brink's truck. Dressing up like a construction worker to fool the cops during the getaway. An overachieving good-guy on the edge. Sounds like a film I'd love to watch starring Ben Affleck. This isn't The Town, though. This is the curious case of Anthony Curcio. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/yourstory-or-yourlife/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/yourstory-or-yourlife/support

Stephane Bourgoin is a true crime author, speaker and bullshit artist. Recently, he admitted he's no expert on serial killers and the enormous lies he's told over the years have been weighing him down. In this episode of The Story of Your Life Podcast I weigh in on the subject and discuss where I believe he found his inspiration for fakery; and it isn't about how he claimed his partner was killed by a prolific serial killer. I believe this guy modeled his act after a genuine US hero. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/yourstory-or-yourlife/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/yourstory-or-yourlife/support

The Last Dance, a "documentary" which follows the Chicago Bulls and Michael Jordan to the promised land of multiple NBA championships in the 1990's was called a "Puff Piece" by Utah Jazz legend, John Stockton. Is it a real documentary or a promotional tool for Air Jordan and Nike? What is a real documentary, anyway? --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/yourstory-or-yourlife/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/yourstory-or-yourlife/support

Nancy Brophy 86'd her culinary-instructor husband in real life in the same manner she'd written about in her trashy novel available to Amazon readers. Now she wants out of jail because other inmates aren't standing six feet apart from her during the pandemic. She got up real close and personal to her hubs to put two bullets in him because of her insatiable appetite for the life insurance money, much like her leading lady in the book Wrong Husband. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/yourstory-or-yourlife/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/yourstory-or-yourlife/support

The June release of Top Gun Maverick has been shot down by the Coronavirus. With movie theaters closing left and right and AMC Theaters filing for bankruptcy, will freedom ring for TC and company come December time? The Story of Your Life Podcast is requesting flyby to discuss the reasons why the long-awaited Part II can't go straight to streaming. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/yourstory-or-yourlife/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/yourstory-or-yourlife/support

The reboot of the XFL timed-out. It's easy to blame the Coronavirus as the reason for their collapse, even with fans in the stands already social distancing themselves. But the XFL had no story to stand on, no characters or way to connect with people beyond the sidelines. Pro sports is so much more than the sport itself. In this episode of The Story of Your Life Podcast I talk about the power of story and what it means in the business of football and in life. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/yourstory-or-yourlife/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/yourstory-or-yourlife/support