ON THIS DAY - August 26th
The Big Honker Podcast
Andy Shaver & Jeff Stanfield
4.8 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 26 August 2025
⏱️ 14 minutes
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Summary
In this series, Jeff and Andy look at historical events that took place on this day.
Today in history, a murder in NYC takes the city by storm, America’s favorite childhood actor is born, and the man who was on television when you were home sick from school passes away today.
This series is brought to you by the great Boss Shot Shells.
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| 0:00.0 | The |
| 0:07.0 | Phaar! Here we go. Here we go. |
| 0:40.7 | Three, two, |
| 0:43.7 | oh, one. |
| 0:45.4 | Boom, and welcome to the Big Hunker podcast today. |
| 0:48.4 | Brought to you by Boss Shot Shells. |
| 0:50.1 | I am locally known Jeff Stanfield with the world famous Andy Schaver, and today is your day. Today is my day. It's August 26. I hope I can get through this. Here we go. August 26, 9th. We're going to go back to the year 1986. Oh, that's a great year. 1986. Remember it vividly. Good. Okay. We're going to test your knowledge in 1980s. Yeah, I'm sure. Let me just put this up. What happened in New York City, 1986? Central Park. Hold on. Elton John played a concert. Nope. This is not going to be anybody that you know. Not any big names. No celebrity was involved in this shit i don't know it wasn't far made then |
| 1:29.2 | um there's some kind of aid probably to raise money for some starving ethiopian or some shit maybe |
| 1:36.7 | aides fest maybe nope the preppy killer i do remember that the preppy killer yeah he wasn remember that. The preppy killer. |
| 1:44.8 | Yeah. |
| 1:45.2 | Robert Kennedy either. |
| 1:46.4 | Robert Chambers. |
| 1:48.4 | So on the mornings of August 26th, he was out a bar the night before. |
| 1:54.5 | And he had met this gal. |
| 2:02.7 | Name was Jennifer Levin. I believe it was her name |
| 2:03.9 | I just saw it |
| 2:05.1 | anyway |
| 2:06.5 | they go off to |
| 2:08.5 | do their thing |
| 2:11.0 | and she ends up dead |
| 2:13.8 | and anyway |
| 2:16.1 | so they find her the next day. Um, she had been strangled, you know, |
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