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This episode of How the #@&! Was That a Hit is "Fight for Your Right (To Party)" by the Beastie Boys. The Beastie Boys are a groundbreaking hip-hop trio from New York City that blended rap, rock, punk, funk, and more in their innovative and influential music. And "Fight for Your Right (To Party)" took the punk roots of the Boys (did you know they started as a hardcore punk band with a female drummer??), and with the help of their buddy producing legend Rick Rubin, made an abrasive and aggressively dumb song with an aggressively dumb video taking a punk ethos to the burgeoning hip hop sound. It was a sound that was unlike any other up to them - but should it have been such a huge hit? Let's discuss it.  -  Welcome to the Quintana Show. Q has spent years in the political world so he knows how to ask questions. Watch as we bring you entertaining and insightful interviews from guests across the sports, music, entertainment, and news world. And we didn’t forget you either true crime fans!  -  Listen and subscribe!

Our audience's favorite guest, Detective John Cabrera, returns to the Quintana Show! Today we cover another forgotten serial killer: Juan Corona. In 1971, a year that saw Patty Hearst, the Charles Manson trials, and the Zodiac Killer, the deadliest killer in US history was in the sleepy river burg of Marysville California. Juan Corona killed at least 25 down-on-their-luck drifters in the course of a couple of months before being caught. But this forgotten story is more complicated than it seems, with multiple trials, a mysterious brother, cries of racism, and a defense attorney more interested in a book deal than his client, it's a case for the ages. But after sifting through the plethora of evidence - even a retired homicide detective thinks the case is a little weak.  -  Welcome to the Quintana Show. Q has spent years in the political world so he knows how to ask questions. Watch as we bring you entertaining and insightful interviews from guests across the sports, music, entertainment, and news world. And we didn’t forget you either true crime fans!  -  Watch and subscribe!

The year was 1985, Reagan and Gorbachev met for the first time, Doc Gooden won his only Cy Young award, NBC's the Cosby Show was the most popular TV show and on November 16th, THE WORST ROCK SONG EVER hit Number 1 in America! We Built This City by Starship (not Jefferson Starship) rocked up the charts on the backs of nostalgia, great production and brilliant management but 20 years later is considered one of the worst songs to top the charts. Does it deserve such shade??  Listen in and we'll give you our opinions! -  Welcome to the Quintana Show. Q has spent years in the political world so he knows how to ask questions. Watch as we bring you entertaining and insightful interviews from guests across the sports, music, entertainment, and news world. And we didn’t forget you either true crime fans!  -  Watch and subscribe!

Anna de Rothchild was a wealthy heiress to the European banking dynasty and real estate developer networking with other high society folks at Mar-a-Lago. She played rounds of golf, took photos, and hobnobbed with the cream of the American political elite. But, turns out, she was a complete fraud bc and simultaneously running from the Russian mob!    Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Michael Sallah joins us to explain how a two-bit con artist from the Midwest, on the run from  Russian gangsters, ended up being the bell of the ball at the “Winter White House.” Welcome to the Quintana Show. Q has spent years in the political world so he knows how to ask questions. Watch as we bring you entertaining and insightful interviews from guests across the sports, music, entertainment, and news world. And we didn’t forget you either true crime fans!  Watch and subscribe!

It’s September of 1983: Martina Navratilova wins her first Wimbledon, Vanessa Williams is the first black Miss America, and the #4 song in America is… Puttin’ on the Ritz by Taco?? How and why did this song from the 1920s regain popularity in the 80s and should it have been a hit? Tim and Q break down Dutch-Indonesian rock, and MTV music video selections, and, for the first time, agree that they don’t think it should have been hit! Welcome to the Quintana Show. Q has spent years in the political world so he knows how to ask questions. Watch as we bring you entertaining and insightful interviews from guests across the sports, music, entertainment, and news world. And we didn’t forget you either true crime fans! Watch and subscribe!

Cher is waaaaay bigger than you thought! She has been a pop star, fashion icon, Oscar-winning actress, and cultural phenom since the mid-60s but didn't have her biggest number 1 until she was 52 years old! Regrouping in London after being dropped by her label Cher worked with an innovative producer and a brand new technology: Auto-Tune to create the smash dance hit "Believe" which became not just her biggest hit, but one of the biggest selling records of all-time!! More than that, she introduced a new technology to the music world, and the music world would never be the same.  Welcome to the Quintana Show. Q has spent years in the political world so he knows how to ask questions. Watch as we bring you entertaining and insightful interviews from guests across the sports, music, entertainment, and news world. And we didn’t forget you either true crime fans! Watch and subscribe!

The media sold her as the little old lady grandma that also turned out to be a serial killer: Dorothea Puente. But the truth was she was a lifetime grifter with a self-curated fiction. The crimes shouldn't have been a surprise to anyone following her - but that was the problem: no one was. Before the Netflix documentary, we had retired Detective John Cabrera on the show to talk us through the whole Dorothea Puente story. And in this Quintana Show Remix, we hear the whole saga from her origins through his discoveries of bodies to him chasing her down you will learn everything you thought you knew was wrong and more…  Welcome to the Quintana Show. Q has spent years in the political world so he knows how to ask questions. Watch as we bring you entertaining and insightful interviews from guests across the sports, music, entertainment, and news world. And we didn’t forget you either true crime fans! 

From 1979 to 1981 Blondie was the biggest band in the world with FOUR #1 hits in a year and a half - when that really meant something. And that third #1 was "Rapture" - a rap song when most of America had never heard of this thing called "rap." It was clearly a smash but it definitely has fomented controversy .… is it the first rap hit? Or the first female rap hit? Or the first hit featuring rap? Did Blondie exploit the NY DJ scene to line their pockets? Was Debbie Harry a Culture Vulture? Tim and Q take you through the 3rd hit of 1981 from NY underground legends Blondie.  Welcome to the Quintana Show. Q has spent years in the political world so he knows how to ask questions. Watch as we bring you entertaining and insightful interviews from guests across the sports, music, entertainment, and news world. And we didn’t forget you either true crime fans! Watch and subscribe! - #blondie #rapture #1980s #hiphop #popmusic #rap #rapmusic

Everyone tells the story of the monster that is Charles Manson. However, what people don’t really know is what created that monster? Was he born evil? Was he molded into a monster? When you take the time to dig deep into how his infancy, childhood, and young adulthood unfolded - you can see exactly how both his life experiences and unfortunate gene pool joined to create the mind of a monster. It is a fascinating journey that few have taken the time to travel – but Q and H. Allegra Lansing take you down this dark, dirty and dangerous road: the creating of the monster that was Charles Manson.  "Manson Family: More to the Story" author, H Allegra Lansing, is the foremost expert on the origins of Manson and the Manson Family. Her YouTube Channel, HAllegraLansing is the go-to site for all the Manson Family research that few other have the courage to discuss. Get ready for one hell of a journey.  Welcome to the Quintana Show. Q has spent years in the political world so he knows how to ask questions. Watch as we bring you entertaining and insightful interviews from guests across the sports, music, entertainment, and news world. And we didn’t forget you either true crime fans!  Watch and subscribe!

Aspen Ladd has moved to the Professional Fighters League! As relaxed and free in an interview as you have ever seen, we talk with Aspen about changing leagues, feelings about the UFC, how the PFL will expand opportunities for female fighters, steroid use in MMA, wild animal encounters, and whether she’d rather fight a bear or a gorilla. Her answer will NOT surprise you!  Welcome to the Quintana Show. Q has spent years in the political world so he knows how to ask questions. Watch as we bring you entertaining and insightful interviews from guests across the sports, music, entertainment, and news world. And we didn’t forget you either true crime fans! Watch and subscribe!

He was a genius who straddled musical genres, broke barriers, and stole the show at the greatest musical event ever: Woodstock. Sylvester Stewart, better known as “Sly Stone,” was the songwriter, arranger, producer, singer and a virtuoso on any instrument in the studio for his hand-picked group, The Family Stone. Sly shot across the musical horizon like the brightest of comets. He was omnipresent on America’s cultural pages during the for 5 years, producing legendary music and songs that are STILL a mainstay on playlists. 3 #1 songs in 3 years; then he disappeared. What happened to Sly Stone? For 40 years he’s been out of the public eye, a complete recluse – spoken about in hushed tones, but rarely if ever seen Michael Rubenstone is an actor and filmmaker who conceived and created a brilliant documentary, "On the Sly: The Search for the Family Stone", to achieve one goal: FIND SLY STONE. It was a multi-year ride, but what a damn ride it was!! Watch and listen as Michael Rubenstone details the years and travails spent searching for a vanished icon: Sly Stone.

Nirvana took a scene and made a genre, becoming one of the biggest rock bands of all time. But should have "Smells Like Teen Spirit" been a hit? Compared to what was on the charts at the time: no! Tim worked at Tower Records and remembers the label guys losing their minds because they hadn’t pressed enough copies of the record; they didn’t think anyone would buy it! Welcome to the Quintana Show.  Q has spent years in the political world so he knows how to ask questions. Watch as we bring you entertaining and insightful interviews from guests across the sports, music, entertainment, and news world. And we didn’t forget you either true crime fans! Watch and subscribe!

Anthony “Fluffy” Hernandez is one of the hottest fighters in the UFC right now. A middleweight with a 3 fight win streak and he just went viral for dropping his last opponent, Marc-André Barriault, on his head! He returns to the show with more crazy stories of small-town life, why he doesn’t give an F*#K about what people say, and the story of why a certain UFC star can’t attend UFC fights.  Welcome to the Quintana Show. Q has spent years in the political world so he knows how to ask questions. Watch as we bring you entertaining and insightful interviews from guests across the sports, music, entertainment, and news world. And we didn’t forget you either true crime fans! Watch and subscribe!

A global network of thieves is targeting the wealthiest neighborhoods in the United States and no one is talking about it. Chilean nationals, possibly cartel-funded, are arriving in the US due to loopholes needed in our immigration/trade laws and traveling coast-to-coast in a very sophisticated manner, robbing and trashing high-end homes & then moving on - like ghosts in the night. Marc Wortman of Vanity Fair is the first reporter to connect the dots and explain how this is a singular organized theft cartel with funding and direction - but from who?  Welcome to the Quintana Show. Q has spent years in the political world so he knows how to ask questions. Watch as we bring you entertaining and insightful interviews from guests across the sports, music, entertainment, and news world. And we didn’t forget you either true crime fans! Watch and subscribe!

In the summer of 1972, the US was withdrawing forces from Vietnam, there were talks of a mysterious burglary at the Watergate Hotel, the first episode of The Price is Right aired, and for two weeks Chuck Berry's "My Ding-a-Ling" was the number 1 song in America. It was rock and roll progenitor Berry’s only number 1 and it’s awful! Or is it? Why did it go to number 1? A huge swath of folks in their 30s and 40's were deeply nostalgic for the 1950s, radio DJs had a massive influence, and don’t forget the stunning work the crowd did singing in rhythm and on key!! Watch as Q and Tim dive in to figure it all out.  Welcome to the Quintana Show. Q has spent years in the political world so he knows how to ask questions. Watch as we bring you entertaining and insightful interviews from guests across the sports, music, entertainment, and news world. And we didn’t forget you either true crime fans! Watch and subscribe!

If you’ve seen documentaries or read books about the Golden State Killer you might think you know about him and his crimes. SPOILER ALERT:  You got NO idea. 120 burglaries. 50 rapes. 13 murders. The Visalia Ransacker, The East Side Rapist, The Original Night Stalker, The Golden State Killer. He was all of them.   Today you’ll find out how he was brought to justice after decades of being on the run.   Former Sacramento District Attorney Anne Marie Shubert is most famous for putting away the Golden State Killer. But she also started one of the earliest Cold Case Units in the state and tells the story of the first time she knew it was over for a killer that they caught using DNA testing. Welcome to the Quintana Show. Q has spent years in the political world so he knows how to ask questions. Watch as we bring you entertaining and insightful interviews from guests across the sports, music, entertainment, and news world. And we didn’t forget you either true crime fans! Watch and subscribe!

How did "Strawberry Letter 23" become a hit for the Brothers Johnson? You match up a magical melody dreamed up by a musical prodigy, Shuggie Otis, put it at the fingertips of one of the greatest producers in the history of music, Quincy Jones, and the pour it through the sweet soulful voice and fantastic playing of George ("Lightnin' Licks") and Louis ("Thunder Thumbs") Johnson. It was destiny.  Welcome to the Quintana Show. Q has spent years in the political world so he knows how to ask questions. Watch as we bring you entertaining and insightful interviews from guests across the sports, music, entertainment, and news world. And we didn’t forget you either true crime fans! Watch and subscribe!

Amway:   In the world of multi-level marketing (MLM) one player stands head and shoulders above all others – Amway.  In the 1950’s the founders created what they called “The Plan” – the product wasn’t the focus – the focus was the distributor – and it was brilliant.    “The Plan” raked in billions for the company and they adopted a sophisticated game-plan by immersing themselves in “Americana” branding and becoming a major political donor.  In the world of MLMs, they are the ones you overlook, because they choose to hide in plain sight, with stadium naming deals and members of Presidential cabinets.  They are the cult next door.   Author of “Ponzinomics,” Robert FitzPatrick is the leading expert on the history of MLM and he’ll share the origin story of Amway and “The Plan” they created that all the MLMs now follow.   He’ll explain why it’s literally impossible to make a profit unless you're in on the scam at the start, and why when you really look into the structure one thing becomes clear: MLMs are cults.   Welcome to the Quintana Show. Q has spent years in the political world so he knows how to ask questions. Watch as we bring you entertaining and insightful interviews from guests across the sports, music, entertainment, and news world. And we didn’t forget you either true crime fans! Watch and subscribe!

Our guest is Scottish Comedian Eleanor Morton whose career exploded over covid with the popularity of her historic and literary parodies. We talk about why she loves history, why she studied English literature instead, how and why she developed her comedic process, which part of English history she likes most, and more. Watch as she has Q cracking up!  Welcome to the Quintana Show. Q has spent years in the political world so he knows how to ask questions. Watch as we bring you entertaining and insightful interviews from guests across the sports, music, entertainment, and news world. And we didn’t forget you either true crime fans! Watch and subscribe!

1974: Connors and Evert conquer Wimbledon, Watergate roils the U.S., and singer George McCrae releases what will become the first disco hit -- “Rock Your Baby.” But what was it that made this song and the genre it ushered in, disco, take the world by storm? Listen as Q and Tim break down how serial label owner, Henry Stone and a couple of warehouse guys (who went on to form the core of KC and the Sunshine Band) revolutionized music and introduced the world to disco! Welcome to the Quintana Show. Q has spent years in the political world so he knows how to ask questions. Watch as we bring you entertaining and insightful interviews from guests across the sports, music, entertainment, and news world. And we didn’t forget you either true crime fans! Watch and subscribe!