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Part 1 was the rise. This is the fall.
We pick up in the ’90s, when the world that had made Michael Jackson started turning on him. The tabloids had a field day. The hyperbaric chamber. The Elephant Man’s bones. A baby dangled off a balcony in Berlin. One by one, the story of the greatest entertainer who ever lived began to curdle into something else entirely.
Then came the allegations.
A dentist who drugged his own kid to get a confession. A $20 million demand to stay quiet. A 2003 documentary that aired to 48 million people and changed everything. A trial with 14 counts, a circus outside the courthouse, and a jury that came back not guilty — on every single one.
And then, four years later, a rented mansion in Holmby Hills. A doctor on his phone with a cocktail waitress. A call to 911 that came 90 minutes too late. And the most famous human being on earth, gone at 50.
We get into the death, the theories, the $400 million lawsuit still pending, and the question nobody has a clean answer to — was it negligence, a cash grab, a conspiracy, or all three?
We also give you our takes. Unfiltered.
00:00 — Intro, Patreon shoutouts
03:00 — Part 1 recap & where we left off
08:00 — “Wacko Jacko” — the tabloids turn on him & the hyperbaric chamber truth
09:00 — The Elephant Man bones stunt that went horribly wrong
10:00 — Blanket over the Berlin balcony — the guys debate it
11:00 — Jordan Chandler 1993: the Rent-A-Wreck call that started everything
12:00 — The dentist dad who drugged his own kid to get a confession
13:00 — Evan Chandler demands $20 million — the guys call it immediately
15:00 — The LAPD raid, the Asia tour collapse & the world’s worst PR agent
16:00 — The $15.3 million settlement & the “innocent men don’t pay” debate
19:00 — Martin Bashir’s documentary airs to 48 million people
20:00 — The hand-holding interview — the guys watch it, react to it
24:00 — Macaulay Culkin & Corey Feldman defend Michael
25:00 — Tom Sneddon reopens the case & Neverland gets raided again
26:00 — The 2005 trial: 14 counts, pajamas in court & the circus outside
29:00 — The jury acquits on all 14 counts — not even one
30:00 — “I hate this place. I never want to see it again.” — Michael leaves Neverland forever
32:00 — James Safechuck: the Pepsi commercial kid & what he alleged
34:00 — Wade Robson: testified for Michael in 2005, then flipped in 2013
41:00 — Leaving Neverland wins an Emmy, music gets pulled worldwide
42:00 — The estate sues HBO and wins — Neverland Firsthand rebuttal
44:00 — The train station that wasn’t built yet — the key credibility dispute
45:00 — Leaving Neverland 2 drops in 2025 & the $400 million lawsuit
47:00 — The death: propofol, insomnia & “give me the milk”
51:00 — The night of June 24th — drug after drug, nothing works
52:00 — Murray on the phone with a cocktail waitress while Michael stops breathing
53:00 — CPR on the bed with one hand — the 911 call that came too late
54:00 — Pronounced dead at 2:26 PM — the coroner rules homicide
55:00 — Murray convicted, gets 4 years, walks in 2 & moves to Trinidad
57:00 — Theory 1: AEG held a $17 million life insurance policy on Michael
59:00 — Theory 2: He faked his death — the Elvis parallel
01:01 — Theory 3: Murdered for the catalog — Paris & La Toya speak out
01:03 — Theory 4: Sony silenced him — follow the money
01:04 — Theory 5: The never-ending lawsuit machine & the $400 million cash grab
01:09 — Final takes: did he do it? Who killed him? The guys give their verdicts
01:19 — Murray should’ve gotten more time — unanimous agreement
01:20 — The Matthew Perry & Prince parallel — why the story made them sad
01:21 — Most famous person of all time? MJ vs. Jordan vs. Alexander the Great
