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The Shocking Details

Hunting for The Crackmaster

The Shocking Details

Vincent Caldoni

True Crime, Society & Culture, Documentary, History

4.8737 Ratings

🗓️ 15 September 2020

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

Did Sesame Street air an insane, traumatizing cartoon in the late '70s? Some people on the internet think so. But is it hoax? A glitch in the Matrix? Or the real deal? 

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0:00.0

Hey there, welcome to another episode of The Shocking Details.

0:04.2

I am your host, Joe, joined as always by Vincent Caldoni.

0:09.7

And we're bringing you another fascinating but shocking story this week.

0:13.5

This is one actually that you, Vincent, you dug up.

0:16.7

You somehow found this thing.

0:18.1

You want to tell us about it?

0:18.9

Yeah, I'm going to.

0:19.6

I was kind of looking for something a little more contemporary.

0:22.5

Yeah.

0:22.7

And I stumbled upon kind of a cool lost media story that I don't think has been too overplayed yet.

0:28.8

So I wanted to talk about some lost media.

0:31.3

Mm-hmm.

0:31.7

Picture this.

0:32.5

Yeah.

0:32.8

You're a kid again.

0:34.2

You're at home. It's a lazy day, probably summer or maybe you're sick. And instead of

0:39.5

tearing it up on your bike out there or whatever, you're home watching Sesame Street. And we're

0:44.9

not showing skits with Muppets like Burton Ernie and Oscar the Grouch. They would show these short

0:49.6

films. You'd probably remember that. It's still more or less that way. Sometimes they were

0:53.4

live action and sometimes they're animated.

0:54.9

And you're watching and a cartoon starts. And the topic is immediately relatable to you. You see a child in a similar situation to your own.

1:02.9

They're stuck indoors and sad about it. They're just sitting in their bedroom because it's some bad weather.

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