The Facts Verse Podcast

#13 - Eddie Van Halen's Biographer Reveals What He Was Like in Private | Steve Rosen

Get Steve Rosen's Eddie Van Halen biography, Tonechaser, on Amazon: https://amzn.to/4v0WXtz Journalist Steve Rosen spent nearly a decade as one of Eddie Van Halen's closest confidants, and the stories he tells here reveal a side of the guitar god almost no one saw. Eddie personally sanctioned Rosen to write his authorized biography, handing over phone numbers and telling him to carry a microphone and record anything he wanted. But the book collapsed when Eddie kept stalling with the same excuse: "If we sit down now, the next album won't be part of the book." The two had a bitter falling out in 2003, and the project sat dead until 2020, when Rosen rediscovered what he calls the "Twilight Tapes" and began writing again, just six weeks before Eddie passed away. In this conversation, Rosen shares the intimate moments that defined the real Edward: the night Eddie cried talking about his father's death, the chain-smoking that Rosen believes ultimately killed him, the time Eddie drove his Lamborghini to Guitar Center and had to borrow ten dollars for strings, and the painful end of a friendship Rosen still doesn't fully understand. He explains Eddie's "brown sound," his admission late in life that he was a "tone chaser" who never found the sound he was after, and why he lied about his own age to build the legend. It's an unguarded portrait of the most influential guitarist who ever lived, from the man who knew him when the cameras were off.

#12 - Marilyn Monroe's Biographer Uncovers the TRUTH About Her Last Days Alive | Imogen Edwards-Jones

Imogen's book, The Last Days of Marilyn Monroe, is available to purchase on Amazon: https://amzn.to/4dqnTvi Award-winning journalist and bestselling author Imogen Edwards-Jones joins the Facts Verse podcast to reveal the shocking discoveries she made while co-writing The Last Days of Marilyn Monroe with James Patterson. In this conversation, Imogen uncovers the hidden contents of Marilyn's secret "red book" where she recorded classified government secrets shared by Bobby Kennedy, including details about the Bay of Pigs, nuclear testing in Nevada, and CIA plots to assassinate Castro. Imogen also details the terrifying "lost weekend" at the Cal-Neva Lodge just days before Marilyn died, the CIA surveillance operation that bugged her home, the role of her psychiatrist who was secretly a Soviet asset, and the explosive evidence surrounding Bobby Kennedy's visit to Marilyn's house on the day of her death. From her troubled childhood and first marriage at sixteen to her relationships with JFK, DiMaggio, and Arthur Miller, this is the definitive account of the forces that converged in Marilyn Monroe's final days.

#11 - "Anyone Can Be Happy": Gary King on The Happiness Experiment

Get Gary King's book, The Happiness Experiment, on Amazon: https://amzn.to/4eul26Q Learn more at https://thehappinessexperiment.com/ Gary King has endured 36 major life traumas including childhood abuse, a home invasion that left him with brain damage, accidentally killing a four-year-old child, and the suicide of his son off the Sunshine Skyway Bridge. After a lifetime of complex PTSD, he claims he discovered how to completely reverse it and can teach others to do the same in just three hours. He went public with his findings on ABC earlier this year.In this interview, Gary breaks down his happiness formula, explains why he believes 95% of people are unknowingly running what he calls "the happiness experiment," and shares the story of a young woman named Delaney who was driving to end her life but turned around after seeing one of his now-famous happiness signs. With over 2,000 signs placed across the world and a new documentary film, Gary is on a mission to prove that happiness is internal and that the pursuit of it has been leading us in the wrong direction.

#10 - The JFK Assassination Attempt Nobody Was Supposed to Know About | Brad Meltzer

Brad Meltzer's book, The JFK Conspiracy, is available on Amazon: https://amzn.to/48jnARn Three years before Lee Harvey Oswald, a postal worker named Richard Pavlik packed his car with seven sticks of dynamite and followed JFK to Florida. All he had to do was flip a switch. In this interview, bestselling author Brad Meltzer reveals the forgotten assassination attempt that was about to go national news until a freak plane crash over New York City buried the story as a footnote.Meltzer also shares the untold side of Jackie Kennedy, from the brutal standoff with Mamie Eisenhower to the single interview after Dallas where Jackie planted the word Camelot into history and rewrote her husband's legacy before anyone else could.

#9 - Sacheen Littlefeather's Sister Exposes the BIGGEST Lie in Oscar History | Rosalind Cruz

In one of the most shocking revelations in Hollywood history, Rosalind Cruz sits down to expose the truth about her own sister: the woman the world knew as Sacheen Littlefeather was not Native American. The iconic 1973 moment when she rejected Marlon Brando's Oscar on behalf of Native Americans was built on a fabricated identity that fooled Brando, the Academy, and the entire world for decades. Cruz details how her sister invented a false backstory, adopted elements of their father's family history, and used the persona to launch a Hollywood career. This is the full, unfiltered conversation with the one person who knew the truth from the beginning.