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Why is a soap opera Western like Yellowstone so wildly successful?

The American West with Dan Flores is the latest show from the Meat Eater Podcast Network.

So join me starting Tuesday, May 6th, where we'll delve into stories of the West

and come to understand

how it helps inform the ways in which we experience the region today.

Listen to the American West with Dan Flores on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever

you get your podcasts.

I'm Jeff Perlman.

And I'm Rick Jervis.

We're journalists and hosts of the podcast

Finding Sexy Sweat. At an internship in 1993, we roomed with Reggie Payne, aspiring reporter and

rapper who went by Sexy Sweat. A couple years ago, we set out to find him. But in 2020,

Reggie fell into a coma after police pinned him down, and he never woke up.

But then I see, my son's not moving.

So we started digging and uncovered city officials bent on protecting their own.

Listen to finding sexy sweat on the Iheart radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcast.

So what happened to Chappaquittic?

Well, it really depends on who you talk to.

There are many versions of what happened in 1969 when a young Ted Kennedy drove a car into a pond.

And left a woman behind to drown.

Chappaquitic is a story of a tragic death and how the Kennedy machine took control.

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