Conspiracy Clearinghouse: Recent Episodes
Conspiracy Clearinghouse
A rather skeptical look at conspiracies and mysteries. Each episode will examine conspiracy theories, most of which are not true, a few of which might be a little bit true and even a couple that turned out, in fact, to be true. This is the podcast that dares to look behind the curtain that's behind the curtain.
EPISODE 168 | Eating the Onions: War of the Worlds & Other Scares
In an environment of experimental fiction, metanarratives, postmodern satire, disinformation, deep fakes, and fake news, a sizeable portion of the content gobbling audience takes things that are not true as being actually true. Online, this happens with alarming regularity with articles published by satirical news site The Onion; so often, in fact, that there’s a term for this phenomenon – it’s called Eating the Onion.
The subjects of intentional disinformation, deep fakes, and fake news are one thing, but what we’re looking at here at times when something that was never intended to be taken seriously (though it used real world tropes and structures for narrative effect), were accidentally thought to be base din reality. And people quite rather lost their shit. Like the 1938 Orson Welles broadcast of The War of the Worlds. But there are other instances as well.
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- Here Come the Martian Martians - War of the Worlds
- Life on Mars? - Alternative 3, Special Bulletin, The War Game & The Day After
- Happy Phantom - Ghostwatch, Without Warning
- Two Little Men in a Flying Saucer - April Fool's gone awry
- Part of Your World - Mermaids, dragons, megalodon
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EPISODE 167 | American Trickster: The Cults of Carlos Castaneda
Guest: Ru Marshall, American writer and artist
Carlos Castaneda made a big splash with his books about the Yaqui shaman Don Juan, but there was a lot more happening than just those increasingly fantastical tales. A LOT more. Author and artist Ru Marshall spent more than 20 years looking into what was really going on with the man who was, at one time, the most famous anthropologist in the world.
And yeah - it gets weird.
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- American Trickster: The Hidden Lives of Carlos Castaneda by Ru Marshall on Amazon
- American Trickster at OR Books
- Ru Marshall website
- Review on Publisher's Weekly
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EPISODE 166 | Sassy Squatches: Chupacabra, Bigfoot & Yeti
Some of the most famous cryptids are the bloodsucking Chupacabra (which is of fairly recent invention) and the always popular Bigfoot and their higher latitude cousins, the Abominable Snowman. Is there any truth at all to stories of these creatures, or is it all misunderstandings, misapprehensions, misidentifications, and tomfoolery?
There’s only one way to find out: listen to this episode.
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- Doo Doo Doo Doo Doo (Heartbreaker) - Chupacabra, the Ozark Howler, the sigbin of the Philippines
- The Amazing Bigfoot Diet - Sasquatch, Bigfoot, big hoaxes with Rant Mullens and Ray Wallace
- Remember (Walking in the Sand) - The 1967 Patterson-Gimlin film, "Capturing Bigfoot"
- Abominable Snowman in the Market - Yeti reports, smuggling, theories
- Music by Fanette Ronjat
Further Listening:
- EPISODE 156 | The Shape of Water: Loch Ness and Other Lake Monsters
- Black Hills Weirdness section of EPISODE 49 | ’Merican Monuments (Travelogue 2)
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EPISODE 165 | MAHA Mia: The Misconceptions of RFK Jr
Guest: Evan Nadler, pediatric surgeon and researcher, pioneer in childhood obesity
The conspirasphere has been weaponized so much that actual conspiracy theorists now hold important and influential positions in the US government. Perhaps the most egregious example of this is Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as the Secretary of Health and Human Services. What does an actual doctor think about some of his nuttiness? Listen and find out.
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- Obesity Explained (Dr. Nadler's website)
- Evan Nadler's YouTube Channel
- EPISODE 02 | A Cavalcade of COVID-19 Crackpottery
- EPISODE 26 | Come On Vaccine! Vaccine Hesitancy & You
- EPISDOE 38 | The Dirty Dozen: Medical Misinformation Miscreants (RFK Jr section is the 2nd one)
- EPISODE 60 | Under My Skin: Morgellons Disease
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EPISODE 164 | Walk Like a Panther: The Palantir 22-Point Manifesto
A company many have heard mentioned but don’t know much about caused a stir in the interwebs when its CEO dropped a 22-point manifesto of sorts. Many felt the whole thing smacked of some sort of comic book supervillain’s shopping list, while others nodded their heads at the sage wisdom of the post of X (formerly Twitter).
Palantir is the company and the poster was Alex Karp. But just what is Palantir and who is this Karp guy?
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- Five Guys - Nathan Gettings, Stephen Cohen, Alex Karp, Jon Lonsdale, Peter Thiel (the 130th richest country in the world)
- More Things in Heaven and Earth - Peter Thiel: a Randian Objectivist, a plutocratic reactionary, militarist techno-libertarian, or libertarian authoritarian; post-democracy, liquid democracy; Thiel's views and actions
- Know Your Product - What Palantir does and what they're worth, Gotham, Foundry, AIP, TITAN, MetaConstellation and MOSAIC, Skykits, Metropolis, ELITE; who uses this stuff, JP Morgan spies on employees
- Manifesto - Alex Karp's 22-point summary of The Technological Republic: Hard Power, Soft Belief, and the Future of the West
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- DIGITAL SIGNAGE DONE RIGHT - Winner of a Gold Quill Award, Gold MarCom Award, AVA Digital Award Gold, Silver Davey Award, and Communicator Award of Excellence, and on numerous top 10 podcast lists.
- PRAGUE TIMES - A city is more than just a location - it’s a kaleidoscope of history, places, people and trends. This podcast looks at Prague, in the center of Europe, from a number of perspectives, including what it is now, what is has been and where it’s going. It’s Prague THEN, Prague NOW, Prague LATER
EPISODE 163 | Vanishing Point: Missing Scientists & the Erosion of Certainty
Someone recently wrote that, these days, a conspiracy theory is sort of a political position. It sure does seem that way sometimes, and new conspiracy theories continue to evolve in this disinfo-rich soil we’ve scattered about the internet like so much incontinence. Plus, those in power seem to have figure out that they way to many a voter’s heart is by encouraging conspiracy thinking, tapping into whatever it is that drives people to invest so much in them. In an attention economy, there’s no such thing as good or bad attention.
So, we look at a brand new conspiracy theory that showed up earlier this year, the Missing Scientists Conspiracy Theory, and then dabble in some of the ways conspiracy thinking has infected and infiltrated the highest levels of American government. Maybe this is a cautionary tale, but it also might be an alarm bell.
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- Feeling Gravity's Pull - Monica Jacinto Reza and Amy Eskridge
- Propulsion Overdrive - Michael Hicks, Frank Maiwald, Anthony Chavez, Melissa Casias, Steven Garcia, Jason Thomas, Nuno Loureiro, Carl Grillmair, William Neil McCasland, Joshua LeBlanc
- Supersonic Rocket Ship - A new conspiracy theory is born, parallels are drawn, Chinese scientists, the White House gets involved - Trump, Kash Patel, James Comer, Eric Burlison; Tim Burchett loves David Wilcox
- How Greene Was My Valley - Marjorie Taylor Greene
- Foggy Mountain Breakdown - J.D. Vance
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- DIGITAL SIGNAGE DONE RIGHT - Winner of a Gold Quill Award, Gold MarCom Award, AVA Digital Award Gold, Silver Davey Award, and Communicator Award of Excellence, and on numerous top 10 podcast lists.
- PRAGUE TIMES - A city is more than just a location - it’s a kaleidoscope of history, places, people and trends. This podcast looks at Prague, in the center of Europe, from a number of perspectives, including what it is now, what is has been and where it’s going. It’s Prague THEN, Prague NOW, Prague LATER
EPISODE 162 | In Pursuit of D.B. Cooper
One of the great unsolved cases in FBI history is the tale of D.B. Cooper, who hijacked a commercial jet and then jumped out the door with a parachute and a bag full of cash. The story has been written about, films have been made, numerous “Mysteries of…” shows have had episodes about it, and there even a few songs that reference the famous gentleman thief of the Pacific Northwest.
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- 01:36 - Leaving on a Jet Plane - Dan Cooper hijacks a plane
- 10:38 - Jet Airliner - Notable hijackings, tracking Cooper (money, hair, fingerprints, sketches, DNA, Canadian comics and more)
- 25:19 - Come Fly with Me - Suspects: Duane Weber, Kenneth Christiansen, Paul Le Clair, Barbara Dayton, William Smith, Lyne Doyle Cooper,
- 36:41 - Fly Away - More suspects: Ted Braden, Robert Rackstraw, Bryant Coffelt, Richard McCoy Jr,
- 44:46 - Somewhere in the Sky - Ha Ha Ha, Cooper fans, "we know the middle", copycat Martin McNally, Raymond Sidney Russell, videos, cocktails and more
- Music by Fanette Ronjat
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- DIGITAL SIGNAGE DONE RIGHT - Winner of a Gold Quill Award, Gold MarCom Award, AVA Digital Award Gold, Silver Davey Award, and Communicator Award of Excellence, and on numerous top 10 podcast lists.
- PRAGUE TIMES - A city is more than just a location - it’s a kaleidoscope of history, places, people and trends. This podcast looks at Prague, in the center of Europe, from a number of perspectives, including what it is now, what is has been and where it’s going. It’s Prague THEN, Prague NOW, Prague LATER
EPISODE 161 | Vroom Broom: Witches & Witch Hunts
Hundreds, perhaps thousands, or women were burned alive in Salem, MA, at the end of the 17th century. Their crime? Being witches. That’s what many of us think, anyway. But just how much truth is there in all that? And what, exactly, is a witch? Are there any still around today?
This episode comes in time for this year’s Walpurgis Night, which happens in Central Europe on April 30. Bonfires are made, effigies of witches are burned or thrown into rivers, and there is much feasting and, well, a lot of drinking.
So, let’s talk witches, separating fact from fiction.
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- 01:40 - Salem Is a Spooky Massachusetts Witch City - The Salem Witch Trials
- 18:13 - Burn the Witch - A history of witch hunting, the Hammer of Witches, the Great Hunt, notable witch trials, swimming a witch
- 27:27 - The Devils of Loudon
- 32:32 - The Spanish Inquisition
- 35:35 - Waking the Witch - Belief in witches, the witch-cult hypothesis, new Paganism and Wicca
- 43:47 - Miss Macbeth - Broomsticks, black cats, witches as marginalized people
- Music by Fanette Ronjat
Related Episode
- Mass Hysteria & Shared Delusions (The World Is Weird 2)
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- PRAGUE TIMES - A city is more than just a location - it’s a kaleidoscope of history, places, people and trends. This podcast looks at Prague, in the center of Europe, from a number of perspectives, including what it is now, what is has been and where it’s going. It’s Prague THEN, Prague NOW, Prague LATER
EPISODE 160 | A Real Collusion
Two political parties hardly seems sufficient for a nation of 342 million, and yet that's exactly the situation in the United States. How did that come to be, and why does it persist?
Author Stu Strumwasser explores those ideas with his new novel A Real Collusion as well as in this conversation.
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- A Real Collusion website
- Stu Strumwasser website
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- PRAGUE TIMES - A city is more than just a location - it’s a kaleidoscope of history, places, people and trends. This podcast looks at Prague, in the center of Europe, from a number of perspectives, including what it is now, what is has been and where it’s going. It’s Prague THEN, Prague NOW, Prague LATER
EPISODE 159 | Maritime Mysteries
It’s time to shiver yer timbers and batten down the hatches as we dive into a bucketful of mysteries at sea that have been hard to fathom in the past - the Flannan Isles Lighthouse, the Mary Celeste, and the Flying Dutchman.
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- 01:20 - The Flannan Isles Lighthouse - Three men vanish and inspire lots of stories
- 06:31 - The Mary Celeste - The ship is found, speculations aplenty, Frederick Solly-Flood is a stubborn idiot, more theories, misinformation becomes legend, woo-woo enters the picture, 1968 disappearances, the ship is cursed, Gilman Parker hatches a scam, two recent theories
- 31:13 - The Flying Dutchman - The legend begins, the legend spreads, the Wandering Jew, Prince George of Wales sees it, Fata Morgana, looming, St. Elmo's Fire, other ghost ships
- Music by Fannete Ronjat
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- DIGITAL SIGNAGE DONE RIGHT - Winner of a Gold Quill Award, Gold MarCom Award, AVA Digital Award Gold, Silver Davey Award, and Communicator Award of Excellence, and on numerous top 10 podcast lists.
- PRAGUE TIMES - A city is more than just a location - it’s a kaleidoscope of history, places, people and trends. This podcast looks at Prague, in the center of Europe, from a number of perspectives, including what it is now, what is has been and where it’s going. It’s Prague THEN, Prague NOW, Prague LATER
EPISODE 158 | Nasty NASA: The Challenger and Other Spacespiracies
At 11:38 am on January 28, 1986, the Space Shuttle Challenger lifted off from Florida’s Cape Canaveral on its 10th mission and 73 seconds later exploded, killing everyone on board. This was seen live on television by millions of people because a civilian teacher was one of the crew.
At first, it was thought an external fuel tank had exploded. But after a thorough investigation, the real culprit turned out to be a faulty O-ring.
Over the years, more digging would uncover behind the scenes drama, some of which may have led to the disaster. And for some folks, conspiracy narratives started to circulate that the whole thing was fake, the crew was still alive, that it was aliens, that they slipped into a parallel dimension and so on.
Plus, NASA is often the target of conspironauts who think they know what’s “really” going on.
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- 01:54 - A Space Boy Dream - What happened with the Challenger explosion
- 17:07 - Drops of Jupiter (Tell Me) - O-rings, organizational malfeasance, the CT that no one really died, a planned mass trauma, other CTs
- 32:18 - We Are All Made of Stars - The Untold Story of the Challenger Explosion: A Journey Through Time, Conspiracy, and Alternate Realities by David Moore, NASAHoax CTs: alien tech, Nibiru, Saturn Death Stars, the Mars Hoax, a hexagon on Saturn, straight lines in nature,
- 43:27 - Space Junk - Skylab comes back down, the Skylab astronaut strike, general belief in science, we aren't all that bright
- Music by Fanette Ronjat
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- PRAGUE TIMES - A city is more than just a location - it’s a kaleidoscope of history, places, people and trends. This podcast looks at Prague, in the center of Europe, from a number of perspectives, including what it is now, what is has been and where it’s going. It’s Prague THEN, Prague NOW, Prague LATER
EPISODE 157 | Bohemian Books: Gigas, Voynich & Soyga
Some very old books have an air of mystery and intrigue about them. Partly, that’s because they are literally hundreds of years old, and partly because of the weird things they contain.
Today, we’ll take a look at three, all of which have a connection to the Czech Republic and Prague: the biggest book in the world, the Codex Gigas (also known as the Devil’s Bible and which features heavily [no pun intended] in Dan Brown’s latest schlock fest), the utterly baffling Voynich Manuscript, which is not written in any recognizable language; and the mysterious Book of Soyga, which disappeared for nearly 400 years, and some say that if you can decipher the final puzzles in the book, you will die.
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- 02:11 - The Codex Gigas - That's a big book, contents, legend of origin, Sweden gets it, defenestrations, the Sedlec Bone Church, The Secret of Secrets
- 11:00 - The Voynich Manuscript - WTF is this thing?, ownership relay, who maybe wrote it, what maybe it says, aspects of Voynichese, obscure languages, steganography, glossolalia, outsider art, a hoax, radiocarbon dating, those who have claimed decipherment, ciphers, people see what they want to, goropism, the Sun Language Theory, recent videos about Alphafold and protein folding, maybe a work of proto-fiction
- 43:32 - The Book of Soyga - John Dee, Edward Kelley, cryptic puzzles, 400 years lost, found in 1994
- Music by Fanette Ronjat
More Info
- The Codex Gigas – Devil's Bible on the National Library of Sweden website
- The Devil’s Bible: My Deep Dive into the Weirdest Book I’ve Ever Seen
- Devil's Bible: Codex Gigas in Klementinum on Prague.net from 2007 loan
- Inside the ‘Devil’s Bible,’ the Largest Medieval Manuscript Ever Made on ArtNet
- EPISODE 109 | What's in a Name? The Shakespeare Authorship Debate with Scott Jackson
- EPISODE 135 | On Shakey Ground: More Shakespeare Authorship with Scott Jackson
- What Shakespeare Can Teach Us About Communicating with Jennifer King on the Digital Signage Done Right podcast
- Yale Library webpage on the Voynich Manuscript, with images
- The riddle of the Voynich Manuscript on the BBC
- Unsolved Mystery: The Voynich Manuscript
- An entire website about the Voynich Manuscript
- The Voynich Manuscript revealed: five things you probably didn't know about the Medieval masterpiece on The Art Newspaper
- THE VOYNICH MANUSCRIPT - "The Most Mysterious Manuscript in the World" - NSA report (PDF)
- Another NSA report on titled The Voynich Manuscript: An Elegant Enigma written in 1978 (PDF)
- A PDF of the actual Voynich Manuscript
- Headcanon: The Voynich Manuscript actually doesn’t contain any cohesive text and is just a prank done by someone in the past on r/medieval
- A Scholar Has Cracked the Mystery of the Voynich Manuscript, the Encrypted Medieval Artwork That Defeated Codebreakers for Years on ArtNet
- Article on the Voynich manuscript on Brazilian website Revista Pesquisa Fapesp
- The Voynich Wiki
- How an Emperor Trapped a Con Man - blog on Edward kelley
- Magic and Mystery: Decoding the Secrets of the Book of Soyga on Discovery
- The Book of Soyga translated by Jane Kupin (PDF)
- Decoding the Book of Soyga: A Living Project of Esoteric Discovery
- The Book of Soyga | Literary History on House of Cadmus
- Soyga: the book that kills on Blog of Wonders
- Holy Conversations: The Impact of the Mysterious Book of Soyga on Ancient Origins
- Book of Soyga on the Voynich Wiki
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- PRAGUE TIMES - A city is more than just a location - it’s a kaleidoscope of history, places, people and trends. This podcast looks at Prague, in the center of Europe, from a number of perspectives, including what it is now, what is has been and where it’s going. It’s Prague THEN, Prague NOW, Prague LATER
EPISODE 156 | The Shape of Water: Loch Ness and Other Lake Monsters
People have been talking about a supposed water creature in the Scottish Highlands for at least 93 years, possible much longer. Everyone has heard of the Loch Ness Monster, and Nessie is one of the OGs of the cryptid world. But there are plenty of other, similar reports from around the world as well, like Ogopogo, Manipogo, Cressie, Kushii, Nahuelito and even one named Larry.
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- 01:21 - Down to the Waterline - First sightings of Nessie; photos, corpses, hoaxes and jokes
- 16:19 - Creature from the Black Lagoon - The Wels catfish, Loch Ness is weird, serious expeditions, Nessiteras rhombopteryx, Operation Deepscan, a DNA survey of the loch, eels, Norag, Muc-sheilche, kelpie, Life of St. Columba, Fredrick William Holiday and The Great Orm of Loch Ness (and more)
- 32:10 - Lake of Fire - Sea serpents, Hydrarchos, Canada's Ogopogo
- 40:20 - Down by the Water - Igopogo (or Bessie), Manipogo, Winnepogo, Memphré, Champ, Mussie, Cressie, Chessie, the Turtle Lake Monster, the Seelkee
- 48:05 - Song of the Lake - Mokele-mbembe, the Great Zimbabwe Theory
- 51:08 - Don't Drink the Water - Lukwata, Nsanga, Nyami Nyami, Irizma, Kusshii, the Lake Tianchi Monster, Phaya Naga, Seri Gumum, the Bunyip, the Muldjewangk, the Hawkesbury River Monster, the Maningrida Monster (Mannie), the Taniwha, the Tsmok, Anguila Peluda, the Lariosauro (Larry), the Lagarfljót Worm, the Gryttie, the Zegrze Reservoir Monster, Teggie, the the Devil Whale of Lake Tota, Nahuelito, people naturally attach to stories
- Music by Fanette Ronjat
More Info
- Episode 99 | A Bridge Too Far: The Mothman Visits Point Pleasant
- Episode 132 | Keel Hauled: UAP Update
- Loch Ness monster on Britannica
- The Loch Ness Monster Turns 83: The Story of The Surgeon’s Photograph
- The Beast of Loch Ness pages on Nova Online
- Loch Ness Monster on Non-alien Creatures Wiki
- Lake Monsters on Cryptid Wiki
- The Lake Monsters of America on Atlas Obscura (with map)
- Lake Monsters on A Book of Creatures
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- DIGITAL SIGNAGE DONE RIGHT - Winner of a Gold Quill Award, Gold MarCom Award, AVA Digital Award Gold, Silver Davey Award, and Communicator Award of Excellence, and on numerous top 10 podcast lists.
- PRAGUE TIMES - A city is more than just a location - it’s a kaleidoscope of history, places, people and trends. This podcast looks at Prague, in the center of Europe, from a number of perspectives, including what it is now, what is has been and where it’s going. It’s Prague THEN, Prague NOW, Prague LATER
EPISODE 155 | Mummy Mia: King Tut's Tomb
Guest: Neil Laird, Emmy-nominated TV producer (Discovery, BBC, PBS, History, National Geographic), author of the Prime Time novel series
Since its discovery in 1922, the tomb of King Tut has captivated people, with research simply leading to more questions? How did he die? Was he murdered? Was he really born in Arizona and later moved to Babylonia? And is there a curse?
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- 03:09 - The discovery, the Curse of the Pharaohs, the Toxic Tomb theory
- 13:47 - The first autopsy (1925), the Boy King; mummies were not worth much; the second autopsy with X-rays (1968), was he murdered?; the third autopsy (2005) with CAT scans; accidental death?, walking canes, did he have a clubfoot?
- 24:06 - A new investigation, new evidence, a new theory
- 30:44 - Hidden chambers in the tomb, possibly Nefertiti, underground scans
- 36:01 - The mass appeal of historical treasures, Deir el-Medina - the lost village of the artisans and the Great Pit
- 43:25 - The Egyptians and the West have an uneasy history, the Grand Egyptian Museum (GEM)
- 45:35 - Egypt is his obsession
- Music by Fanette Ronjat
More Info
- Episode 59 - Atlas Sank: Titanic Conspiracies
- The Grand Egyptian Museum (GEM)
- Prime Time novels
- Neil Laird on IMDb
- Lost Treasures of Egypt (2019-2025)
- Tutankhamun: Secrets of the Tomb (2022)
- Tut's Toxic Tomb (2022)
- Tut: A Century of Secrets (2022)
- Tut's Lost City Revealed (2022)
- Valley of the Queens (2021)
- Valley of the Kings: The Lost Tombs (2021)
- Lost Tombs of the Pyramids (2020)
- Cleopatra: Sex, Lies and Secrets (2020)
- Tut's Final Secrets (2020)
- Lost Kingdom of the Black Pharaohs (2019)
- Egypt's Great Pyramid: The New Evidence (2017)
- Egypt: What Lies Beneath (2011)
- National Geographic: King Tut's Final Secrets (2005)
- Into the Great Pyramid (2002)
- Saving the Sphinx (1998)
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- DIGITAL SIGNAGE DONE RIGHT - Winner of a Gold Quill Award, Gold MarCom Award, AVA Digital Award Gold, Silver Davey Award, and Communicator Award of Excellence, and on numerous top 10 podcast lists.
- PRAGUE TIMES - A city is more than just a location - it’s a kaleidoscope of history, places, people and trends. This podcast looks at Prague, in the center of Europe, from a number of perspectives, including what it is now, what is has been and where it’s going. It’s Prague THEN, Prague NOW, Prague LATER
EPISODE 154 | Forgotten Languages (FL): The Most Interesting Site on the Web?
While researching a previous episode about internet rabbit holes, I came across one that was some big, so complicated, that the entry soon grew into its very own episode. It's called Forgotten Languages, and at first it seems like it's all about ancient languages. But these turn out to be ciphers which, when decoded, reveal a series of interlocking narratives involving transdimensional beings, UAPs, aliens, secretive cabals working at cross purposes, the odd revelation that all humans are gone by the year 3100, and more.
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- 02:00 - Speaking in Tongues - The Forgotten Languages website at first glance, using clues to start to understand, language as a system to modify biology
- 13:36 - Aliens Ate My Buick - Giselians, the Cassini Diskus, Paradigm Shifter Vehicles (PSVs)
- 18:55 - Nature of Threat - The Phoenix Lights, MilOrbs, USOs, SV17q, SV09n's agendas, SV06n seems nicer, the default mode network (DMN), geminoviruses in the year 2100
- 33:55 - Jigsaw Falling into Place - DRACO, Congressional UAP hearings, Matthew Brown blows the whistle on Immaculate Constellation and a secretive group (SV17q?), DOLYN; Michael Shellenberger specifically mentions NURO, Immaculate Constellation and SV17q to Congress; Denebian probes, LyAV, XVIS
- 44:46 - Hoist That Rag - Alternative Reality games, Dispatches from Elsewhere, "The Beast", the SCP Foundation, other theories about FL
- 48:36 - Language Is a Virus - Various theories about what FL is really all about, the Cybernetic Culture Research Unit (CCRU), hyperstitions
- Music by Fanette Ronjat
More Info
- Forgotten Languages website
- ForgottenLanguages.org — another linguistic rabbit hole on Reddit
- The Deepest Internet Mystery You've Never Heard Of (and Why It’s Now in the Congressional Record) video on the smoothjazz YouTube channel
- My emails with Ayndryl by Saša Milić
- Forgotten Languages entire subreddit
- The Pattern Everyone's Missing While Debating "Dee's Nuts" on the r/UFOs subreddit
- Dispatches from Elsewhere on IMDb
- SCP Foundation website
- Cybernetic culture research unit website
- Cybernetic Culture Research Unit (CCRU) on Philosophyball WIki
- Forward? A Short History of the Cybernetic Culture Research Unit by Samuel McIlhagga
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EPISODE 153 | Broken Arrows and Other Nuclear Boo-Boos (World Is Weird 16)
One reason conspiracy theories flourish is that sometimes there really are secrets kept back from the public, only revealed later. Take Broken Arrows - accidents involving nuclear weapons, near-misses that could have become incredibly serious but, fortunately, didn’t.
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- 02:45 - Intro - A brief history of nukes, US military flagwords and other terminology
- 07:54 - We Will All Go Together When We Go - 1950s incidents
- 25:33 - We'll Meet Again - 1960s incidents
- 39:01 - Atomic Dog - Incidents in the 1970s and 1980s
- 46:23 - Champagne Supernova - Incidents in the 1990s to present, the Doomsday Clock
- Music by Fanette Ronjat
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- Broken Arrows: Nuclear Weapons Accidents on the Atomic Archive
- United States military nuclear incident terminology on Wikipedia
- List of military nuclear accidents on Wikipedia
- The Doomsday Clock
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EPISODE 152 | Internet Rabbit Holes (1)
Once in a while, someone comes across a website that creeps them out, or confuses them so much they start to ask others about it and, before you know it, an internet rabbit hole has formed.
Today, we’ll take a look at a few of these internet mysteries that sure got tongues wagging and finger flying over keyboards. Though almost always, the answer that’s found, if there is one, is disappointing.
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- 03:26 - The Backrooms - An internet sensation, 99rooms
- 11:26 - Mortis - Terabytes of confusion
- 18:03 - Exit Mundi and Death Date - Also Death Clock
- 20:58 - Zombo - Who knows?
- 23:48 - Sentimental Corp - Randy Prozac gets weird(er)
- 27:13 - Paranoia - Disney gets weird, typo squatting, Goggle, drive by downloads
- 35:40 - Urban Outraged - Also Surveillance Camera Man
- 39:30 - Lake City Quiet Pills - What's in the code
- 46:20 - 973-eht-namuh-973 - David Dennison's mind-breaking project
- Music By Fanette Ronjat
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- The Backrooms Wiki
- This is the THE BEST Backrooms Game I've Ever Played video
- The Backrooms (Found Footage) video by Kevin Pixels
- 99 Rooms [walkthrough] 2004 Flash game video
- mortis.cc website
- Exit Mundi archive page
- The Death Clock
- Death Date
- Zombo
- Sentimental Corp
- paranoia.com
- Paranoia.com: An Internet Mystery video on the Nexpo YouTube channel
- Urban Outraged
- Why does everyone hate Surveillance Camera Man? video
- The Mystery of Surveillance Camera Man Explained video
- The Lake City Quiet Pills Mystery on Know Your Meme
- Lake City Quiet Pills video on The Rabbit Hole YouTube channel
- Lake City Ammunition Plant website
- 973-eht-namuh-973
- 973 eht namuh Explained: My Look Into The Internets Most Mysterious Website - Elder's Vault original investigation video
- I finally understand it. The answer is not what I expected post
- 973-Eht-Namuh-973.com The Oracle Forum
- The Internet's Most Mysterious Websites video on Visual Venture YouTube channel (Lake City Quiet Pills, Time Cube, Mortis, Zombo, Sentimental Corp, OCT282011, Enricks.Angelfire, 973-eht-namuh-973)
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EPISODE 151 | Global Warming Is Real
Guest: Thomas Schueneman, environmental journalist, founder of the PlanetWatch Group, TDS Environmental Media and GlobalWarmingisReal.com
A chat about some of the more pervasive and commonplace climate change skepticism claims and just some general kvetching about where we are in this conversation these days.
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- Global Warming Is Real website
- Global Warming Is Real podcast
- TDS Environmental Network
- PlanetWatch website
- Project 2025: The First 180 Days (World Is Weird 15)
- The Great Replacement: The White Wing Goes Mainstream
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EPISODE 150 | Operation Gemstone & the Gemstone File
Very often sheer naked greed is hidden behind a glossy finish of virtue, something we can plainly see in the stories of two Gemstones from the conspiracy world – G. Gordon Liddy’s whacked out Operation Gemstone plans to help Richard Nixon get reelected, and the outlandish and complicated Gemstone File, which might be the very first mega-conspiracy.
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- 01:58 - Operation Gemstone - Nixon in politics, Nixon really wanted to be re-elected, Operation Sandwedge, G. Gordon Liddy has ideas, a discussion about the fate of Jack Anderson, the Watergate break-in
- 17:39 - The Gemstone File - Authorship issues: "Bruce Porter Roberts", Mae Brussell, Stephanie Caruana, Factsheet Five finds a connection to CREEP
- 24:03 - The theory: Aristotle Onassis, Joe Kennedy, Meyer Lansky, Eugene Meyer and more; Howard Hughes get kidnapped, injured, doubled; Onassis hates Castro, Onassis hated the Kennedy brothers, RFK exposes Cosa Nostra, "sodium morphate", Onassis and mafia guys killed JFK, Onassis then owned LBJ
- 40:02 - The JFK conspirators move on, Onassis took out RFK, got the girl, got Nixon in office, Gerald Ford in the frame, "government as theater", the Group of 40 given to Kissinger, Ted Kennedy and Chappaquiddick
- 46:12 - Diamonds and Pearls - More deals, more deaths and a lot of money, the Onassis corpro-mafia syndicate fractures after his death, the Mormon Mafia leaked dirt, the Pentagon papers were fake, more deaths and more money, the Brezhnev flu, maybe becomes the Octopus?
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- G. Gordon Liddy: Watergate’s Most Colorful Character on Politico
- Notorious GEMSTONE Meeting in Attorney General’s Office: Illegal Activities Planned
- How G. Gordon Liddy Bungled Watergate With an Office-Supply Request
- Full text of "G. Gordon Liddy, Will : The Autobiography Of G. Gordon Liddy (1980)"
- G. Gordon Liddy Describes GEMSTONE, the Plan He Presents to John Mitchell in 1972 video
- Operation Gemstone The Dark Secrets Unveiled video on the Outlaw News Network YouTube channel
- Gemstone meeting clip from TV show Gaslit
- Trailer for TV series White House Plumbers
- Part One: G. Gordon Liddy: The Fascist Behind Watergate video from the Behind the Bastards podcast
- G. Gordon Liddy's Hardcore Tips For Prison on David Letterman
- A Skeleton Key to the Gemstone File full text, formatted
- The Skeleton Key to the Gemstone File article
- Gemstone File blog
- Real Gemstone File blog
- Is Howard Hughes Dead and Buried Off a Greek Island? in Playgirl by Stephanie Caruana
- Who Really Calls the Shots? Bruce Roberts and The Gemstone File
- The Gemstone File by Jim Keith full text
- The Gemstone File: A Memoir by Stephanie Caruana on Amazon
- Project Seek: Onassis, Kennedy and the Gemstone thesis by Gerald Carroll on Amazon
- Greatest Conspiracy Theory Ever? A deep dive into The Gemstone File (1975) video on Control Alt History YouTube channel
- More Gemstone notions - The Opal File: The Financial Takeover of Australia and New Zealand
- Possible sequel to Gemstone: The Octopus - EPISODE 92 | Octopus's Garden: Dan Casolaro, INSLAW & Death (WIW 10)
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EPISODE 149 | Russian Dolls: Rasputin and Blavatsky
Russians are practical, artistic and deeply mystical. And they tend to fall under the sway of strong personalities. Like two people from the past - Rasputin, the so-called Mad Monk, and Helena Blavatsky, founded of Theosophy, which itself is the very root of the modern New Age movement.
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- 02:31 - Ra-Ra-Rasputin - The story of the Mad Monk, his weird death and his penis
- 17:31 - So You Think You're a Witch? - Helena Blavatsky goes form spoiled rich girl to wandering mystic, starts Theosophy, Emma and Alexis Coulomb try blackmail, the Hodgeson Report
- 29:01 - Rivers of Babylon - Theosophy's offbeat ideas about inherent mystic powers, the Seven Root Races
- 41:05 - Sorcerer's Puppet - Theosophy inspires others, Nazis, Neo-Theosophy, Agni Yoga, the I AM Activity, the Bridge to Freedom and the Great White Brotherhood
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- Rasputin on biography.com
- The Murder of Rasputin
- Rasputin Was Poisoned, Shot, Beaten, and Drowned. But Did His Penis Survive?
- Inside The Wild Myths And Legends Surrounding Rasputin’s Penis
- HELENA BLAVATSKY The evolution of Theosophy
- The birth of theosophy
- Who Was the Mother of the Occult? (Part I) - Episode #66 of the Our Fake History podcast
- Madame Blavatsky: a seeker of truth — and a fraud
- The Dawn of Civilization: An Esoteric Account of the First Three Root Races
- Chains, Globes, Rounds and Root Races
- Theosophy: Origin of the New Age (Part 1)
- The theosophical roots of Nazism
- Theosophy and visual arts
- Influences on the New Age movement
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EPISODE 148 | The Visitors: 3I/ATLAS & Friends
Something is happening right now that maybe we should all pay at least a little bit of attention to.
It’s time to break out the nice dishes and give the place a good dusting, because we have company folks. We have a visitor.
Probably a comet. But maybe not, according to some. Maybe it's an alien spaceship with bad intent. And it’s coming to get us.
UPDATE: Nothing happened. What a surprise.
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- 03:21 - Wanderlust - 1I/ʻOumuamua, Avi Loeb, solar sails, technosignatures, 2I/Borisov, astronomical units (AUs)
- 12:56 - Poor Fractured Atlas - Avi Loeb gets into UAP, the ATLAS detection system, 3I/ATLAS, "normal" comets, maybe a planet seed
- 22:08 - Calling All Comets - 3I/ATLAS starts acting weird, the Dark Forest Hypothesis, an interstellar highway, coronal mass ejections (CMEs), nickel and iron
- 30:20 - In My House - A Mars flyby, the US government shuts down and conspiracy theories fill the void, a recap of weirdness, why it does not have "military implications"
- 39:15 - Supermassive Black Hole - The Overview Effect, real dangers, more stuff is probably coming
- Music by Fanette Ronjat
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- The Uncensored Guide To ‘Oumuamua, Aliens, And That Harvard Astronomer in Forbes
- ʻOumuamua on RationalWiki
- New interstellar object 3I/ATLAS: Everything we know about the rare cosmic visitor on space.com
- Could comet 3I/ATLAS be alien technology? Controversial Harvard astrophysicist says yes
- 3rd interstellar visitor confirms a cosmic highway — Earth could be in ‘someone’s trajectory’ on EcoNews
- This Mysterious Object From Our Solar System Might Be a Planet-Making Seed
- “Physics Doesn’t Work Anymore”: Interstellar Comet 3I/ATLAS Traveling Backwards At 130,000 MPH Shatters Every Scientific Law
- Sun Fires Energy Blast Straight at Mysterious Interstellar Object Cruising Through Solar System
- Interstellar object spotted shedding mysterious metals in way that defies science: 'It's extremely puzzling'
- Are internet rumours of a comet hurtling towards Earth true?
- Scientists reveal where 'alien object' heading past Earth will actually be going
- 3I/ATLAS is Captured in New Images as Mysterious Object Cruises Past Mars—What Does the Latest Data Reveal?
- First Images of 3I/ATLAS from ExoMars TGO by Avi Loeb
- Mysterious interstellar visitor spotted above Mars appears as 'massive cylindrical craft'
- A Recap of the Anomalies of 3I/ATLAS on the Day of Its Closest Approach to Mars by Avi Loeb (the Trojan Horse article)
- 7 reasons why 3I/ATLAS's high-speed trajectory has military implications - nonsense article on Wion
- Interstellar Object 3I/ATLAS May Be A 10-Billion-Year-Old Time Capsule From An Earlier Age Of The Universe
- 3I/ATLAS came from mysterious frontier of Early Milky Way? Scientists study interstellar comet's origin, track trajectory, travel speed, age
- Physicists detect water's ultraviolet fingerprint in interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS
- Asteroid just flew closer to Earth than many satellites, space agencies say
- The biggest threats to Earth from space
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EPISODE 147 | Man Out of Time: The Comte St. Germain
He composed and played music, spoke several languages, was versed in alchemy and the early sciences, and hung around with the likes of Mozart and Casanova, yet no one even knew his real name. Voltaire called him the “Wonderman”, though that may have been sarcasm, but most came to know him as the Comte, or Count, St. Germain. One of his many wild boasts and claims was that he was more than 500 years old. Perhaps even older than that.
Just who was this mysterious figure who showed up in 18th century salons? Was he more or less than what he claimed to be?
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- 02:17 - Complicated Shadows - Richard Chanfray makes claims, the Comte St. Germain
- 16:22 - Everyday I Write the Book - The Most Holy Threefold Wisdom and the Triangular Manuscript, Count Alessandro Cagliostro
- 23:15 - The Boy Named If - Blavatsky, Besant, Ballard and Bailey; incarnations and Bacons
- 29:18 - (The Angels Wanna Wear My) Red Shoes - Nicholas Flamel, the Wandering Jew, Leonard "Live-Forever" Jones, James Schafer and the Royal Fraternity of Master Metaphysicians, Alex Chiu's rings, Bryan Johnson and Blueprint
- 41:46 - Accidents Will Happen - Cryogenics and Dr. James Bedford, paths towards immortality, the oldest living people to date
- Music by Fanette Ronjat
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- Richard Chanfray on ChemEurope.com
- Everything you wanted to know about Richard Chanfray, the Count of St. Germain on Sadhana 108
- Saint-Germain: The Immortal Count on LiveAbout.com
- The Count Of St. Germain: Who The Hell Was This Guy? on Modern Rogue
- 10 Theories about the Never-Aging Count Saint Germain on Lost in History
- Count de St Germain – oldest man ever or clever trickster? on The Fortean Atheist
- The Myth of Real Life IMMORTAL - The Count of Saint Germain video on the BE AMAZED YouTube channel
- This Man Claimed to Be Immortal and History Can't Prove Otherwise video on Thoughty2 YouTube video
- Jacques St. Germain, The Infamous Louisiana Vampire on Pelican State of Mind
- 10 Notable People Thought To Be Immortal on Listverse
- 10 Terrifying People Who Claim to Be Immortal video on the Top 5 best YouTube channel
- The Secrets Of The Immortal Nicholas Flamel Wiki
- Leonard "Live-Forever" Jones on Kook Science
- Alex Chiu on RationalWiki
- Alex Chiu websites
- This California millionaire is peddling eternal life. Why do so many people believe him? in the Los Angeles Times
- Bryan Johnson websites portal
- World's 'oldest' woman who 'didn't enjoy single day' in long life dies aged 129 in The Mirror
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EPISODE 146 | The Bicameral World of the Zizians
One striking thing about the many stories that have appeared about the Zizians and the crimes they are accused of committing, is that each one starts at a different place. Some start with the attack on a Vallejo landlord that resulted in his being run through with a samurai sword and then work backwards and then forwards. Others begin their tale with the shooting of an older couple in Pennsylvania. Still others kick things off with the shooting death of a Border Patrol agent up near the Canadian border.
As a result, it can be a bit difficult to get a handle on exactly what happened when and what the several people currently in police custody are accused of.
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LEFT BRAIN
- 02:28 - Gimme Some Truth - Ziz LaSota, Effective Altruism, x-risk, MIRI, transhumanism and the Singularity, CFAR, LessWrong
- 12:25 - Digital Witness - Roko's Basilisk, “I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream”, utilitarianism, the many-worlds interpretation, online censorship
- 22:58 - Adrift in Sleepwakefulness - The Zizians start as vegan anarchotranshumanists, unbucketing, the bicameral mind, unihemispheric sleep (UHS), sleep deprivation, Ziz Theory, the Rationalist Fleet, Curtis Lind offers a place to stay, the first suicide, self-blackmail
RIGHT BRAIN
- 35:02 - Friendship Train - The Westminster Woods protest, arrests and a lack of cooperation, Ziz dies, Curtis Lind is stabbed repeatedly, Ziz is alive, Richard and Rita Zajko are killed; Michelle Zajko, Daniel Blank and Ziz arrested; Michelle blames LessWrong, Ziz is released and vanishes, more legal issues
- 50:19 - Lose Control - Ophelia Bauckholt and Teresa Youngblut wander around Vermont, a firefight with the Border Patrol, Curtis Lind is killed, Maxmilian Snyder dictates a letter; Zajko, Blank and Ziz arrested (again); trials are set
- Music by Fanette Ronjat
More Info
- LessWrong on RationalWIki
- Roko's Basilisk on RationalWiki
- Zizian Murdercult summary, for those out of the loop on X by @Aella_Girl - January 29, 2025
- Who is ‘Ziz’? How a mysterious group with roots in the Bay Area is linked to six deaths in the San Francisco Chronicle
- ‘Death upon death’: Defendant in killing tied to cult-like ‘Zizian’ group dictates 1,500-word letter over jail phone in the San Francisco Chronicle
- How a Vermont border agent's death exposed violence linked to the cultlike Zizian group on CBS News
- A Vermont border agent’s death was the latest violence linked to the cultlike Zizian group on AP
- Alleged leader of cultlike ‘Zizian’ group to be held without bail after arrest in The Guardian
- Zizians: What we know about the 'cult' linked to six deaths on the BBC
- The Delirious, Violent, Impossible True Story of the Zizians by Evan Ratliff in Wired
- Alleged Leader of Roko’s Basilisk Murder Cult Says She Did Nothing Wrong, and Would Appreciate Some Vegan Food in Jail on Futurism
- Who Are the Zizians: Why 6 Killings Are Linked to Alleged Vegan Techie "Cult" on E! News
- What to Know About the Alleged Zizian "Cult" Linked to 6 Killings on E! News
- Possible Suicide Cluster Linked to Zizian Group, on Top of Killings on SFist
- Judge confirms trial date for ‘Zizian cult’ murder case on Courthouse News Service
- Grand jury indicts accused leader of cultlike 'Zizian' group on USA Today
- She Wanted to Save the World From A.I. Then the Killings Started in the New York Times
- Three Zizians face trial together in Maryland amid sprawling federal investigation on AP
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EPISODE 145 | Trumpspiracies: What a Tangled Web
Ever since Donald Trump first decided to run for the highest office in the United States, he has promoted an astonishing number of conspiracy theories. It’s almost as if a New York real estate baron famous for lying to clients, not paying his bills and exploiting loopholes for his own benefit had learned, somewhere along the way, that “truth” is a slippery subject. And because he’s not a very deep thinker, he has, like many people, confused truth with facts.
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- 02:25 - Liar, Liar - 9/11 nonsense, open season on Muslims
- 08:50 - Would I Lie to You? - Boogeyman Obama, Birtherism
- 19:02 - Suspicious Minds - The Clintons, Biden, robot clones, Canada, assassinations, self delusion as super power
- 29:22 - Liar, Liar, Burn in Hell - Science, medicine, the Great Replacement, crime stats, Britain First, tweets and retweets
- 38:31 - Dance Little Liar - Haitians eating pets, conspiracy theorists in his administration
- 46;40 - Liar (It Takes One to Know One) - 2016 Russian election interference, Spygate, #Obamagate, Trump's impeachments
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More Info
- 58 Donald Trump Conspiracy Theories (And Counting!): The Definitive Trump Conspiracy Guide (from 2016)
- President Obama's Long History of Insulting Donald Trump
- The birth of the Obama 'birther' conspiracy
- ‘Birtherism,’ Trump and anti-Black racism: Conspiracy theorists twist evidence to maintain status quo
- Trump's history of launching "birther" conspiracy theories against rivals
- Trump promotes 'totally baseless' birther conspiracy theory against Nikki Haley
- Trump claims media 'dishonest' over crowd photos
- Comparison: Donald Trump and Barack Obama’s inauguration crowds
- Trump's crowd-size obsession to be tested at inauguration after 2017 controversy
- The surprising reason why the Park Service won't count folks at Trump's inauguration
- 'It eats him alive inside': Trump's latest attack shows endless obsession with Obama
- 12 false claims Trump has made about Obama since last month (from 2020)
- Trump's obsession with Obama took an ominous turn this week
- Twitter use by Donald Trump
- A farewell to @realDonaldTrump, gone after 57,000 tweets
- FBI 2019 crime statistics
- Trump Says He’s Going To Check If ‘Somebody Stole’ Fort Knox $400 Billion Gold Supply. What We Know.
- No Evidence Haitian Immigrants Are Eating Ducks, Geese or Pets in Springfield, Ohio
- ‘They’re eating the pets:’ Trump, Vance earn PolitiFact’s Lie of the Year for claims about Haitians
- Altogether fitting and proper? Trump repeatedly compares himself to Abraham Lincoln
- Donald Trump: Height, Weight, Obesity, and Documentation
- Seriously, What Is “Obamagate”? | The Daily Social Distancing Show (video)
- How Trump’s Obsession With a Conspiracy Theory Led to the Impeachment Crisis
- Trump impeachment trial: Conspiracy theories and fidget spinners
- How the Senate Could Bar Donald Trump from Running for President in 2024
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EPISODE 144 | Unwell and Unregulated: The Militia Movement
The United States has always had a certain comfort level with violence, or at least the idea of it. Throughout its history, groups of armed citizens will threaten to use, or actually use, force to get their point across, either to effect change or to prevent that from happening.
But in the 1990s, something changed, and groups formed around new ideologies that sometimes had little to do with objective reality. The Militia Movement was mainly rural, white, far-right Christians who’d been nurtured on conspiracy theories and half truths which they had chosen to believe because these made some sort of emotional sense to them, and because they had an unerring sense that they were right and everyone else was wrong. And some of them were willing to go to great lengths to achieve their aims.
This is the breeding ground for the modern conspirasphere.
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- 02:38 - Saturday Night Special - Precursors, the Minutemen, the Patriotic Party, Liberty Lobby, the Christian Defense League (CDL), Posse Comitatus
- 08:27 - Guns in the Sky - The Late Great Planet Earth, Aryan Nations, National Alliance, The Turner Diaries, Hunter, evangelicals, the Satanic Panic, still more anti-Jewish ideas, "Red Dawn"
- 14:20 - Ride a White Horse - Behold a Pale Horse, Milton William Cooper, Hour of the Time, Mysteries of Babylon
- 23:40 - Ruby Tuesday - Agenda 21, the Weaver family, the Ruby Ridge siege
- 30:56 - This Could Be Heaven - Victor Houteff starts Shepherd's Rod (later Branch Davidians), Vernon Howell becomes David Koresh and takes over, the Waco Siege
- 36:48 - Oklahoma Blues - The Militia of Montana (MOM), the Michigan Militia (Wolverines), Timothy McVeigh and the Oklahoma City bombing
- 39:56 - Militias take off and expand, attracting scammers and opportunists - Ron Cole, General Benton Partin, Mary Elizabeth Broderick, Roy Schwasinger & We the People, LeRoy Schweitzer & the Montana Freemen, Justus Township standoff
- 45:30 - Insane in the Brain - Militias also attract terrorists and lunatics - Willie Ray Lampley & the Universal Church of God (Yahweh) plus the Oklahoma Constitutional Militia plan massive bombings, the Unabomber, Georgia Republic, the Mountaineer Militia, Donald Beauregard & and Trix cereal, Mark "Mike from Michigan" Koernke, Norm Olsen, Charles Duke, Bob Fletcher and Belgian weather control, John Parsons talks purple UFOs and starts the Tri-States Militia of South Dakota (but turns out to be on the FBI payroll), Darrel Frech, Rick McLaren and space rays, Ted Gunderson sells pseudoscience gear, Bo "Rambo" Gritz pushes Y2K, Jack McLamb writes Operation Vampire Killer 2000: American Police Action Plan for Stopping World Government Rule
- Music by Fanette Ronjat
More Info
- Militia movement in the 1990s at EBSCO
- Militias in the US at the Institute for Strategic Dialogue
- 5 Things You Need to Know about Private Militia Groups from the National Police Foundation
- Examining Extremism: The Militia Movement at CSIS
- False Patriots report at the Southern Poverty Law Center, May 8, 2001
- Posse Comitatus
- The Late Great Planet Earth
- The Turner Diaries - America's manual of hatred on BBC (audio, 9 minutes)
- What to Do With the Most Dangerous Book in America
- The Turner Legacy: The Storied Origins and Enduring Impact of White Nationalism’s Deadly Bible
- CONSPIRACY THEORIES IN THE PATRIOT/MILITIA MOVEMENT
- Behold a Pale Horse
- Pale Horse Rider: William Cooper, the Rise of Conspiracy, and the Fall of Trust in America
- Ruby Ridge, 1992: the day the American militia movement was born
- Maniacs and Militias: Waco to Extremist Groups
- Turning Point: The Rise of Right-Wing Politics, the Waco Siege, and the Response of American Law Enforcement
- Legacy Everlasting: how the 1993 Waco siege became a symbolic rallying cry for the American far right decades later
- Clinton administration’s deadly mistake in Waco gave rise to Oklahoma City, Columbine in the New York Post (labelled as "entertainment", which seems odd)
- The infamous Texas siege with a ‘straight line’ to QAnon, right-wing militias, and January 6
- Two Minutes Past Nine: The story behind the Oklahoma City bombing on BBC
- Remembering the Oklahoma City Bombing, 25 Years Later at the Brennan Center for Justice
- From Ruby Ridge to Oklahoma City: The Radicalization of Timothy McVeigh paper
- The Militia Movement and Second Amendment Revolution: Conjuring with the People 1996 paper
- Beyond the Bombing: The Militia Menace Grows report by the ADL
- Operation Vampire Killer 2000 text
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EPISODE 143 | Paranoia Is Forever: Disney Conspiracies
Walt Disney’s goal was to make the “Happiest Place on Earth”, and to delight and inspire both children and adults through the ages. Many would say he succeeded beyond even his own wildest expectations. Others might say that Disney is, and always has been, a place of evil. And when you get as big as Disney has, you are naturally going to attract some rather wild narratives.
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- 01:58 - Uncle Rat - Uncle Walt: anti-Jewish, Nazi, racist, head frozen
- 15:05 - Grim Grinning Ghosts - The parks, deaths and accidents, ghosts, the Haunted Mansion attraction
- 20:32 - There's no evil scheme he wouldn't concoct! No depravity he wouldn't commit. - Occultism at the parks and in the movies, sex is everywhere, pedofiles, dirty pictures in "The Rescuers", the makers of "White Wilderness" murdered a bunch of lemmings
- 30:58 - The Maleficent Seven - The company, the Disney Vault, copyright issues, Disney hates women
- 38:42 - In Canis Corpore Transmuto - Ron DeSantis tangles with the Mouse, Disney is surprisingly progressive or "woke" depending on who you are
- Music by Fanette Ronjat
More Info
- Fact-Checking the Age-Old Rumors of Walt Disney’s Dark Side
- Was Walt Disney Frozen?
- Deaths at Disney: Top 13 Deaths at Disney Theme Parks
- The death that sparked the legend that 'no one dies at Disneyland'
- MARR: Death At Disneyland - rewriting of the article "Waiting in Line to Die" by John Marr
- The Dark Side of Disney
- Real Human Bones Were Originally Used In Disneyland's Pirates Of The Caribbean Ride
- Doombuggies website
- Did a Former Disney World Princess 'Reveal the Truth'?
- The Hidden Messages in Disney: A Closer Look at Occult Symbolism on Chick Wick News
- DISNEY=666 video on Amazing VIP World YouTube channel
- 21 Completely Filthy Hidden Sex References in Disney Movies in Cosmopolitan
- Snopes: Is the Word 'Sex' Hidden in 'The Lion King'?
- Snopes: Is a Risqué Image of Sand Dunes Hidden in 'The Lion King'?
- Snopes: Was a Phallus Purposely Added to the Artwork for 'The Little Mermaid' VHS Cover?
- Snopes: Does the Minister in 'Little Mermaid' Get an Erection?
- Snopes: Did a Topless Woman Appear in Disney's 'The Rescuers'? (True, BTW)
- Snopes: Did Disney Fake Lemming Suicide for the Nature Documentary 'White Wilderness'? (Also true)
- The Darker Side of Disney ("boy love" symbols)
- The Dark Side of Disney Part 1 at Little Light Studios
- The Dark Side of Disney Part 2 at Little Light Studios
- Global Ranking of largest entertainment companies
- 10 Things You Didn't Know About The Disney Vault's History
- Mickey Mouse, Long a Symbol in Copyright Wars, to Enter Public Domain: ‘It’s Finally Happening’ in Variety
- Disney and Universal sue AI firm Midjourney over images on BBC
- How the Disney-Midjourney Lawsuit Could Reshape the Battle Over AI and Copyright
- Copyright, Mickey Mouse and what it means to be within the public domain
- Mickey, Disney, and the Public Domain: a 95-year Love Triangle at the Center for the Study of the Public Domain
- Popular copyright infringement cases highlighting how Disney is protective of its intellectual property rights
- The Moana Lawsuit: Writer Woodall Sues Disney for Infringement
- Did Disney or DeSantis win their big fight? Yes. in the Tampa Bay Times
- Snopes: Harlan Ellison and Disney (true)
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EPISODE 142 | Project 2025: The First 180 Days (World Is Weird 15)
Donald Trump said he didn’t really know much about Project 2025 except that they sure liked him. And yet, of 313 specific Project 2025 initiatives, he’s already enacted 108 of them, and another 63 are actively in the works as of this recording. Quite a coincidence, wouldn’t you say?
Project 2025 put a lot of importance of a sort of blitzkrieg if their boy won the 2024 election, a flurry of activity to define the first 180 days of his presidency and hopefully create so much change that, no matter what happens in future elections (if there are any) many of the changes they want to see happen will end up sticking around. That benchmark date was July 19.
So, let’s look at Project 2025. What they say, and some of their own justifications for why they say it. And we’ll also see just how much Trump has actively assisted them in realizing their vision for a very different America than the world has ever seen.
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- 02:40 - The Mandate for Leadership, Version IX - The first of the Four Pillars, "cultural Marxism"; yes, it really is Gilead; white nationalists and Christian nationalists, family is the key, four main goals
- 08:52 - Three More Pillars - Info gathering, the Presidential Administration Academy, "climate change" is code for Christian depopulation, a secret playbook, Carter was evil, the DoD and Space Force
- 13:16 - Economy - General ideas, "fair trade" vs. "free trade", the Consumer Protection Bureau, the Department of Labor, the Department of Commerce
- 21:05 - Environment - General ideas, the Environmental Protection Agency, the Department of the Interior
- 25:09 - Transportation - General ideas, get married and make babies or no funding, the Department of Transportation, the FAA
- 27:11 - Education - General ideas, education is a private good, not a public one; the Department of Education, Parental Bill of Rights
- 33:12 - Identity - General ideas, LGBTQ+ and trans people ("radical gender ideology"), DEI, pornography
- 36:15 - Journalism - General ideas, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, the FCC, the US Agency for Global Media (now a One America News organ), the Open Technology Fund
- 38:39 - Healthcare - General ideas, Medicaid, Medicare, the Department of Veteran Affairs, the CDC, the Department of Health is really the Department of Life, marriage, abortions, Planned Parenthood, in vitro fertilization, teen pregnancy, the Department of Health and Human Services
- 47:43 - Legal - General ideas, affirmative action, the FBI, the death penalty, the Secret Service as military cops, the Department of Justice, FACE Act no longer enforced, don't say trans
- 53:16 - National Security - Foreign policy shifts, USAID, NATO, nukes, the Department of Defense, Cybercom, the State Department, strengthen ties with Saudi Arabia
- 57:26 - Immigration - CBP, ICE, TSA, USCIS, refugees, asylum pay-to-stay scheme, birthright citizenship, mass deportations, more police, FEMA funds, the Department of Homeland Security
- 01:04:42 - Elections - General ideas, the FEC gets limits, photo ID to vote, armed police at polling stations
- 01:06:58 - Expansion of the Executive - The President is boss, loyalists only, the Insurrection Act of 1807, more surveillance
- 01:09:24 - Federal Staffing - Bring back the spoils-and-patronage system, the White House, the National Security Council
- 01:12:01 - Final Thoughts - Trump totally knows about Project 2025, the vision for an America-that-never-was, why the hell didn't you vote?
- Music by Fanette Ronjat
More Info
- Project 2025 Tracker website (updated daily)
- r/Keep_Track
- Full text of "Project 2025 Mandate For Leadership"
- The “Mandate for Leadership” Series
- Inside Project 2025's Secret Training Videos - video on ProPublica YouTube channel
- 5 Reasons Leftists HATE Project 2025 from the Heritage Foundation
- Project 2025 Quick Read
- Subject-by-Subject Breakdown of Trump’s Project 2025 from the Stop Project 2025 Taskforce
- Project 2025 at 100 Days: Part I - part of Tracking Project 2025 at the Center for Progressive Reform
- Project 2025 at 100 Days: Part II - part of Tracking Project 2025 at the Center for Progressive Reform
- Reading Project 2025 as a Manifesto
- A guide to Project 2025, the extreme right-wing agenda for the next Republican administration
- Project 2025, Explained at the ACLU
- Project 2025: The Plan To Seize Power by Gutting America’s System of Checks and Balances at the Center for American Progress
- Project 2025: The right-wing wish list for Trump's second term on the BBC
- The People’s Guide to Project 2025 at Democracy Forward
- An army of MAGA think tanks behind him, it’s Trump’s Washington now at Politico
- ‘Beyond My Wildest Dreams’: The Architect of Project 2025 Is Ready for His Victory Lap at Politico
- MAGA is whatever Trump decides it will be at Politico
- MAPPED: 70 Percent of Trump’s Cabinet Tied to Project 2025 Groups - DeSmog analysis
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EPISODE 141 | Spirits in the Material World: Mediums and Spiritualism
The late 19th and early 20th were rife with claims of contact with spirits of the departed, and plenty of people made a pretty penny convincing the grieving or the curious that they had the right stuff, the special connection to the Other Side. But it has continued past then, and even today there are those who would prey upon people to make a fast buck, supercharging the woo space in the process.
We’ll look at mediums, magicians, seances, channelers and more, including some of the tricks these con artists use to ply their ignoble trade. And we’ll also examine what’s up with the Ouija board.
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- Spirit (I Believe in You) - The Fox Sisters start it all im 1849, spiritism and spiritualism, the Cottingley Fairies
- Watching You Without Me - Cold readings, the Barnum Effect, shotgunning, Forer and Criss Angel, John Edward the Douche, the vanishing negative, turning a negative, the Rainbow Ruse, flattery, warm readings, hot readings, spirit guides, how to avoid being tricked
- Home by the Sea - Types of mediums, scammers getting caught (Daniel Dunglas Home, Rosina Mary Showers, Francis Ward Monck, the Davenport Brothers, May and Lizzie Bangs, Derek Acorah, Thomas John)
- The Ghost in You - Origins of the Ouija Board in 1890, ideomotor response (IMR), some believe and like, some believe and don't like, Yeats used it to write poetry, Pearl Curran and "Patience Worth" writes book, Emily Grant Hutchings writes a book with Mark Twain's ghost
- (Ghost) Riders in the Sky - Rosemary Isabel Brown channels dead composers, James Merrill uses a Ouija to write award-winning poetry, Jane Roberts starts the channeling industry with "Seth"
- Music by Fanette Ronjat
More Info
- The Fox Sisters (a haunted history)
- Spiritualism Exposed: Margaret Fox Kane Confesses Fraud on the Skeptic Report
- spiritism (spiritualism) entry in the Skeptic's Dictionary
- The Spiritualists' National Union website
- Society for Psychical Research website
- A Pagan's Lexicon : Animal Spirits
- How to find your animal spirit guide on Mooky Chick
- John Edward on Villains Wiki
- Why do a quarter of people across the world believe humans have psychic abilities?
- A MAGICIAN AMONG THE SPIRITS by Harry Houdini, full text
- James Randi Educational Foundation website
- Kennard Novelty Company website
- Written by Pearl Curran…or by Ouija Board?
- The book was supposedly written by Mark Twain’s ghost 100 years ago
- How to use the Ouija Board
- The secret of the Ouija board in The Week
- DIY Ouija Board!
- Rosemary Brown obituary
- 'Even the spirits get a say': A Look Into James Merrill's Ouija Poems
- The Problem of Seth's Origin: A Case Study of the Trance-Possession Mediumship of Jane Roberts, paper by Paul Cunningham
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EPISODE 140 | Rock On: Freemasons (Big 'Uns 7)
Who are the Freemasons? People sure freak out about the them, even though many don’t even know what they get up to. What the heck do they do at their meetings? Why all the secrets and secret handshakes and code words and the like? Are they weird, scary, evil or just harmless?
Let’s take a look and see.
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- Long Live Rock - Masonic origins, Templars, variations and offshoots
- Stone Stone Picnic - The Illuminati, Freemasonry expands
- Pounded on a Rock - Are they creepy?, Anti-Masonry and the Morgan Affair
- Like a Rolling Stone - The Taxil Hoax of 1885, Jack the Ripper as a Mason
- Let's Go Get Stoned - The Affair of the Cards
- Stoned Is the Way of the Walk - Propaganda Due (P2), the Vatican Bank Scandal and the Years of Lead
- Might As Well Get Stoned - Riding the goat, Satanism, the NWO, secret masters, online sources, famous Masons
- Music by Fanette Ronjat
More Info
- EPISODE 21 | The Knights Templar (Big 'Uns 2)
- EPISODE 18| The Illuminati: Bavarian Brouhaha (Big 'Uns 1)
- Episode 10 | Fright Delays: Denver Airport Is the Nexus of Evil
- masonicinfo.com Site Map
- Freemasons For Dummies Cheat Sheet
- Freemasons entry on RationalWIki
- Freemasonry Watch webshite
- Duncan's Masonic Ritual and Monitor
- Secret Teachings of the Masonic Lodge book
- New Initiates Guide to Freemasonry - West Lancashire Freemasons
- Spooky Rituals of The Freemasons | The Freemasons Explained - video on The Great Courses YouTube channel
- The Midnight Masons website
- The Heresies of Masonic Ritual on The European Conservative
- Elks, Shriners, and Masons: How 'old man' frats got their names and symbols
- Performing Emotion: Freemasons and the Theater of Ritual - interview with Pannill Camp on the Hold That Thought podcast
- Musicians Who Are Freemasons on Esoteric Freemasons
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EPISODE 139 | A Numbers Game: Mathspiracies
Guest: Gary Arndt, writer and host of the Everything Everywhere Daily podcast
We aren't really very good with numbers, so naturally we've come up with a lot of wacky ideas about them. Gary Arndt talks about numbers of all sorts, like why Pi is stupid, why prime numbers are cool, why the Fibonacci sequence isn't all that, when math leads to murder and much more.
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- 02:25 - Numeracy rates, gambling is (usually) a sucker's bet, numerology, the Bible Code, p-hacking, Equidistant Letter Sequencing (ELS)
- 13:09 - The Hidden Hand of Mathematics, the Ultraviolet Catastrophe and the birth of quantum physics, the Fibonacci sequence and the Golden Ratio
- 20:05 - Pi, tau, the Cult of Pythagoras, irrational numbers, transcendental numbers, squaring the circle, Alex Jones and math, the real number of the Beast
- 28:51 - Why people believe conspiracy theories
- 30:13 - Angel numbers, the "meanings" of numbers
- 33:43 - Numbers stations
- 37:25 - Prime numbers, Prime Target TV series, trapdoor functions in cryptography, Al-Khwarizmi, double entry bookkeeping, the idea of zero, zero and null are different
- 43:20 - Base-10, base-12, base-60, and our timekeeping and calendar systems
- Music by Fanette Ronjat
More Info
- Everything Everywhere Daily podcast
- The Bible Code book review in Notices of the AMS
- The Significance of The Number Forty-Two (42) by By Rabbi Dr. Hillel ben David (Greg Killian)
- Magic Apologetics: Equidistant Letter Sequencing in the Christian Research Journal
- Assassinations Foretold in Moby Dick!
- THE UNREASONABLE EFFECTIVENSS OF MATHEMATICS IN THE NATURAL SCIENCES by Eugene Wigner
- The Ultraviolet Catastrophe and the Creation of Quantum Mechanics episode of Everything Everywhere Daily
- What is the Fibonacci sequence? on LiveScience
- Fibonacci Sequence on Math Is Fun
- Composing Balanced Images: The Golden Ratio on ProGrade Digital
- Everything You Need to Know About Pi episode of Everything Everywhere Daily
- Why Tau Should Replace Pi episode of Everything Everywhere Daily
- The Cult of Pythagoras episode of Everything Everywhere Daily
- Irrational Numbers episode of Everything Everywhere Daily
- Squaring the Circle episode of Everything Everywhere Daily
- e: Euler’s Number episode of Everything Everywhere Daily
- Pi Is Encoded in the Patterns of Life
- Alex Jones and 666 video
- A Guide to Angel Numbers and What They Mean
- Numerology Numbers 1-9: Exploring the single digit numbers in Numerology on Numerology.com
- Numbers Stations episode of Everything Everywhere Daily
- Number Stations on Priyom.org
- Number Station Recordings - Creepy radio broadcasts from unknown origins (video with over 4 hours of recordings)
- All About Cryptography episode of Everything Everywhere Daily
- Prime Numbers episode of Everything Everywhere Daily
- Prime Target TV series on IMDb
- Zero, My Hero episode of Everything Everywhere Daily
- Zero and NULL values
- What is the Base-10 Number System?
- Base 12: An Introduction
- Babylonian Mathematics and the Base 60 System
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EPISODE 138 | Midnight Sun: Arctic Tales
The Far North is a region of extremes and stark beauty, and it is also trying to kill you if you’re a human. And yet we still live there, around 4 million of us call the Arctic our home, and we still weave stories about it, often quite fanciful ones.
It’s a land of adventure, danger, murder, mishap, giants, ancient aliens, the origin of white people, secret tropical paradises, political talking points and even an overly generous fat guy in a red suit. It all depends on who you talk to.
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- 02:43 - Greenland Bound - The Northwest Passage and the Lost Franklin Expedition, The Franklin Conspiracy
- 13:49 - The Mighty Quinn - A brief history of the United States and Greenland, eyes on Canada
- 27:57 - För Fäderneslandet - Thule, Ultima Thule, the Thule Society and the Oera Linda Book
- 35:38 - The Dream Is Always the Same - Hyperborea vs. Atlantis, the White Order of Thule
- 42:54 - The Road to Utopia - The Alaska Triangle: a conspiracy theory concocted for television
- Music by Fanette Ronjat
More Info
- Hotlantis: The Lost Continent episode
- Tell Me a Story: 3 UFO Tall Tales episode that includes the Dark Pyramid
- What Lies Beneath: The Hollow Earth episode
- History of the Franklin Expedition on the Government of Canada website
- What happened to HMS Erebus and Terror? on the Royal Museums Greenwich website
- What We Learned In The Search For Sir John Franklin on Arctic Kingdom
- Franklin’s Lost Expedition: Myths, Mystery & Modern Day Relics on Quark Expeditions
- Sir John Franklin's last arctic expedition: a medical disaster in the Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine
- The great polar mystery: closing in on the truth in New Scientist
- The Franklin Conspiracy: An Astonishing Solution to the Lost Arctic Expedition by Jeffrey Blair Latta
- War And Winter In The North Atlantic on the U.S. Naval Institute
- Cryolite, a rare mineral, is rekindling tensions between Greenland and Denmark in Le Monde
- Early US Interest in Greenland section of Governing the North American Arctic: Sovereignty, Security, and Institutions on Google Books
- Claiming Ultima Thule
- Thule culture in Britannica
- Hammer Of The Gods: The Thule Society And The Birth Of Nazism by David Luhrssen
- Ayrian race occultism: Thule Secret Society influence on Nazi ideology video
- Nazi Archaeology and the Oera Linda Book
- Saved from the Flood - Oera Linda studies website
- Ancient Sources about Hyperborea
- Hyperborea on RationalWiki
- Former Neo-Nazi Explains ‘Esoteric Nazism’
- The Alaska Triangle – Disappearing Into Thin Air on Legends in America
- What is the Alaska Triangle, where 20,000+ people have disappeared and never been found
- The Alaska Triangle on IMDb
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EPISODE 137 | Tell Me a Story: 3 UFO Tall Tales
When a narrative takes off, some folks want to get in on the action, and this is especially true in the world of woo or conspiracy, and really especially true when it comes to UFOs. Here are three tall tales from the UFO space - Whitely Streiber’s abduction writings, Budd Hopkins's Manhattan Alien Abduction and Linda Moulton Howe's incredible, fanciful, tale of a secret black pyramid buried in central Alaska.
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- 03:11 - Communion - Whitley Streiber is disappointed in Cat Magic
- 04:25 - Alien Butt Stuff - Communion becomes a huge hit
- 10:09 - How to Make Friends and Influence People - MANY other books, a complex mythology, Streiber's Basic Formula
- 19:01 - The Manhattan Alien Abduction - Linda "Cortile" Napolitano floats out her window and then the story gets really weird, Budd Hopkins investigates
- 28:07 - They Float, They All Float - The story has holes, Carol Rainey and others think it's a hoax, Linda sues Netflix
- 33:47 - Pyramid Song - Doug Mutschler sends Linda Moulton Howe an email
- 38:18 - commercial break 1 - looking for the point zero, fact checking his/her claims, Bruce Pearson sends an email, then more emails, then one about spontaneous remote viewing episodes and the "truth" is revealed
- 49:30 - commercial break 2 - Hugh Newman, Andrew and Andrew Gough chime in, Jonny Enoch has a theory, others jump on aboard
- Music by Fanette Ronjat
More Info
- Whitley Strieber on RationalWIki
- Whitley Strieber on the Encyclopedia of American Loons
- Communion or Concoction?
- Primal Hooting chapter from Thomas M. Disch's On SF
- Pretentious Whit - a review of another Streiber book on Skeptical Inquirer
- The Controversial Story Behind Netflix’s New Docuseries The Manhattan Alien Abduction in Time Magazine
- The True Story Behind Netflix’s ‘The Manhattan Alien Abduction’—What Happened To Linda Napolitano? in Forbes
- Abducted in front of 23 witnesses and a UN secretary-general: The most famous UFO file is resurrected on Netflix in El Pais
- ‘The Manhattan Alien Abduction’ controversial true story: Why the star is suing Netflix on Today
- The Linda Cortile Case by Greg Sandow
- The Alaska Triangle, S02E01 - The Dark Pyramid and Violent Nature
- Linda Moulton Howe's website
- The Dark Pyramid in Alaska on Alien Hub
- Dark Pyramids Under Alaska on The Illuminerdy
- They Why Files video The Dark Pyramid of Alaska | Military Cover-up of a Forbidden Collaboration
- Linda Moulton Howe on Ancient Pyramid Power and Strange Discoveries in Alaska video on GaiamTV
- ‘Dark Pyramid’ deep underground in Alaska by Michael Ruark
- Alaska's Underground Pyramid: A Case of Faulty Memory? by Jason Colavito
- Power Generating Pyramids on Soul Guidance
- The Dark Pyramid of Alaska - Fact or Fiction? on Black Hoodie Alchemy
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EPISODE 136 | Incel-ation
Some say there’s a crisis of masculinity, or maybe it’s just that there’s still a lot of misogyny in our culture. Whatever the causes, one thing is clear – there are some young men out there who have difficulty interacting with women while also buying into the narrative that sex and female attention is somehow their right. And every once in a while, one of these guys goes postal, and violence is the result.
This is the sad and sometimes scary world of incels.
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- 02:22 - The 2014 Isla Vista attacks
- 07:22 - Incels make the front page, #NotAllMen, #YesAllWomen, Minassian
- 11:06 - Incel started as an online space for everyone, toxic masculinity took it over
- 16:14 - An Incel lexicon: Alphas, Betas and Omegas; Chads, Stacys, Beckys, PUA hate, Lookism, many types of -cels, rating systems, Chadfishing
- 28:35 - Bluepill, cucks, redpill, soyboys, gymaxxing, blackpill, pinkpill, JBpill, hERoes, suicidal ideation, fakecels, more -pills
- 39:34 - Sexual violence, femoids, AWALT, what to call all this, more attacks, pathological interpersonal victimhood, NEET, NoFap builds character, online bragging
- 50:58 - The media doesn't understand the incel world, can it be "cured"?
- Music by Fanette Ronjat
More Info
- Incels (Involuntary celibates) at the ADL
- Incels on ISD Explainers
- Our Incel Problem on Vox
- Incels: The Worrying Rise of an Online Subculture on Safer Schools
- Elliot Rodger’s Online Life Provides a Glimpse at a Hateful Group of “Anti-Pick-up Artists” on Vice
- IncelWiki
- Incelsite
- How ‘Incel’ Got Hijacked on Politico
- The woman who founded the 'incel' movement on BBC
- What Happens to Men Who Can't Have Sex in Elle
- The incel lexicon: Deciphering the emergent cryptolect of a global
misogynistic community - 2021 paper by Kelly Caroline Gothard - Incels: A Guide to Symbols and Terminology
- Incels: A short guide for those teaching Year 10 and above
- 'Looksmaxxing': This incel uses a hammer to make his face 'more attractive' | The Secret World of Incels on CBC
- Incel hits himself in face with hammer because he thinks it will improve looks
- The Psychological Profile of INCELS by William Costello
- Responding to the incel ideology on The Safeguarding Network
- Yes, the incel community has a sexism problem, but we can do something about it on The Conversation
- How do you deradicalise an incel? in Wired
- CMV: The most effective way to fight against incel ideology Reddit post
- How Do I Stop Being An Incel? on Paging Dr. NerdLove
- Conspiracy Beliefs and Violent Extremist Intentions: The Contingent Effects of Self-efficacy, Self-control and Law-related Morality - paper by Bettina Rottweiler and Paul Gill
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- PRAGUE TIMES - A city is more than just a location - it’s a kaleidoscope of history, places, people and trends. This podcast looks at Prague, in the center of Europe, from a number of perspectives, including what it is now, what is has been and where it’s going. It’s Prague THEN, Prague NOW, Prague LATER
EPISODE 135 | On Shakey Ground: More Shakespeare Authorship
Guest: Scott Jackson, Mary Irene Ryan Executive Artistic Director of Shakespeare at the University of Notre Dame, current president of the Shakespeare Theatre Association (STA), stage actor and director
On the anniversary of Shakespeare's life and death (both), a look at some of the more fringe of fringe theories as to who "really" wrote the plays and sonnets attributed to the "Man from Stratford".
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- 02:56 - A recap of the Oxfordian Theory, the film "Anonymous", the Declaration of Reasonable Doubt, people asking questions
- 11:48 - The Prince Tudor Theory, Parts 1 & 2, most people don't take any of this seriously
- 20:32 - Shakespeare was Italian - Crollalanza/Scrollalanza/M. Florio, John Florio
- 25:22 - S. was Sicilian, most plots existed before, S. was Jewish, paintings as proof, S. was both Italian and Jewish, shades of Shylock, the performance approach; S. was Cervantes, S. had a weak chin, S. was Irish (Patrick O'Toole or William Nugent), S. was an Arab (Shaikh Zubayr)
- 37:06 - S. was a woman (Queen Elizabeth, Mary Queen of Scots, Anne Whateley, Anne Hathaway, Mary Sidney Herbert, Emelia Lanier/Aemilia Bassano), the Dark Lady of the Sonnets, Shakespeare CTs are like fan fiction
- 44:08 - A committed Stratfordian because it was a single hand
- Music by Fanette Ronjat
More Info
- Who Wrote Shakespeare? Shakespeare Authorship 101
- Behind the Quill: Debating the Shakespeare Authorship
- Greene's Jealousy of Shakespeare
- 8 Shakespeare Conspiracy Theories
- Top 18 Reasons Why Edward de Vere (Oxford) Was Shakespeare
- Debunking the Oxfordian Claims about Shakespearean Authorship
- The Declaration of Reasonable Doubt
- “Prince Tudor” Theory Began in 1932…
- Southampton and the Tudor Rose Theory
- Prince Tudor and the Sonnets
- All Is True by Mike A’Dair (Prince Tudor 2)
- Professor claims Shakespeare was Italian
- Was Shakespeare Italian?
- John Florio – The Anglified Italian Who Invented William Shakespeare
- Was Shakespeare a Believing Jew?
- The Secret Jewish History of William Shakespeare
- The secret connection between Cervantes and Shakespeare
- Shakespeare and Cervantes: Two geniuses and one death date
- Shakespeare’s Irish connections
- Shakespeare Was An Irishman
- Qadhafi: Shakespeare Was an Arab Named Shaykh Zubayr
- Was Shakespeare a Woman?
- Unmasking Shakespeare
- Was Shakespeare Actually This Jewish Woman?
- Amelia Bassano: The True Shakespeare? on Snopes
- Fact check: No evidence that Aemilia Bassano wrote all of Shakespeare’s plays
- In search of Shakespeare's dark lady
- How reading Shakespeare could help stop conflict in the Middle East
- Finding Shakespeare on the Skeptoid podcast
- The Shakespeare Apocalypse
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- PRAGUE TIMES - A city is more than just a location - it’s a kaleidoscope of history, places, people and trends. This podcast looks at Prague, in the center of Europe, from a number of perspectives, including what it is now, what is has been and where it’s going. It’s Prague THEN, Prague NOW, Prague LATER
EPISODE 134 | Behind the History Mysteries
Guest: Neil Laird, Emmy-nominated TV producer (Discovery, BBC, PBS, History, National Geographic), author of the Prime Time novel series
TV has so many of these Secrets of..., Mysteries of... shows, you have to wonder how they keep the stories fresh and compelling. Well, wonder no more, as Emmy-nominated producer Neil Laird takes us behind the camera on some of the many shows he's produced to kick off the start of our sixth year.
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- 02:18 - How he got into the biz, how it works,
- 08:37 - You need a hook, the business is dying, In Search of..., don't ignore the woo crowd
- 19:07 - What on Earth?, structuring the shows, History's Greatest Mysteries, Errol Morris changes documentaries, reenactments in docs, "JFK" uses documentary techniques for fiction, cinéma vérité vs. direct cinema, Blair Witch
- 26:27 - How can we trust what we see?, the industry is getting democratized but many people lose their jobs, modern hybrid docuseries with fictional techniques in reenactments (Rise of Empires: Ottoman, etc.), after the hook you live or die on the story you tell, no one wants to watch a textbook
- 32:43 - Blowing Up History (Unearthed) and using computer reconstructions, video games like Assassin's Creed and Mafia as educational tools, get the audience to trust the journey, conspiracy belief is emotional and personal, the audience responds with fact-checking, don't forget Israel on your maps
- 38:59 - The future of docuseries, streaming needs less content than network, formats are changing, the How to Become a.... trilogy, a specific point of view instead of objective distance, the Prime Time series and Gay Ancient History
- Music by Fanette Ronjat
More Info
- Neil Laird on IMDb
- Neil Laird on TikTok
- Neil Laird website
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- PRAGUE TIMES - A city is more than just a location - it’s a kaleidoscope of history, places, people and trends. This podcast looks at Prague, in the center of Europe, from a number of perspectives, including what it is now, what is has been and where it’s going. It’s Prague THEN, Prague NOW, Prague LATER
EPISODE 133 | Cult Pop Suicide: Japanese Cults
Japan is a land of many contradictions - very forward-looking but also retrograde. And when it comes to the spiritual side of things, quite a few people seem to fall for various cults, scammers and charlatans. And just offbeat beliefs, like that Jesus' brother died on the cross while He moved to Aomori Prefecture in northern Honshu, where he married and taught and lived until 106.
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- 04:52 - Hey Mister Banjo - The Yamagishi Society
- 07:28 - Hotaru no Hikari (Light of the Fireflies) - Mahikari, the World True Light Civilization Religious Organization
- 10:34 - Nagaragawa Enka (The Enka of the Nagara River) - Life Space Movement, shakty pat and a mummy
- 15:44 - Katatsumuri Samba (Snail Samba) - Ho No Hana Sanpōgyō, the Flower of Buddhist Teaching; Hogen Fukunaga and Yogesh Gandhi donate money to the DNC, kick off Chinagate
- 23:54 - Orokamono (Fool) - Pana-Wave Laboratory, electromagnetic waves, Tama-chan the arctic seal, a police standoff and the end of the world
- 33:50 - Doctor Head's World Tower - Happy Science, EL Cantare, gods from Venus, Komei No Kai sells water, Happy Science gets political, sets records, gets in beefs and embraces MAGA, pioneers "spiritual vaccines"
- 43:41 - Lunatic Doll: Ansatsu Keikoku (Assassination Warning) - Aum Shinrikyo has a real bad attitude, the sarin gas attacks of March 20, 1995 plus other crimes before and after
- 54:26 - Japanese police are unprepared for NRMs, online suicide cults, hikikomori
- Music by Fanette Ronjat
More Info
- Expo 2025 website
- Apples, boogie and shamisen: A Brief look at Japanese Popular Music during the Allied Occupation
- Kazuya Kosaka & the Wagon Masters - Hey Mister Banjo
- ‘Rokabiri’: The Music That Shook Japan on Japan Nakama
- Glow of the Fireflies/Hotaru no hikari song
- Japanese Enka Music
- Nagaragawa Enka song performed by Junko Ishihara
- Katatsumuri Samba song by Onyanko Club
- Orokamono song by Masahiko Kondo
- The World Tower song by Flipper's Guitar
- Black Hole song by Mari Hamada
- Keeping the Faith: Christ’s Tomb in Aomori and Japanese Religion on Nippon.com
- The Grave of Jesus Christ on Travel Japan
- The 5 Scariest Japanese Cults on Japan Daily
- 10 Bizarre Japanese Cults You’ve Probably Never Heard Of on Listverse
- Rise of Japanese cults on BBC
- Japanese Society and Religion on the Eve of the 21st Century by MAEKAWA Michiko
- Whatever happened to Yamagishi? in Japan Times
- The Yamagishi Association: successful, moneyless, leaderless network of communes in Japan and elsewhere on Lowimpact.org
- Sukyo Mahikari North America website
- World Divine Light website
- Japanese Cults–Koji Takahashi and the Life Space Movement on Japan Powered
- The Corpse And The Cult in Newsweek
- Life Space Movement (Shakty Pay Guru Foundation) Raided in Japan on Center for Studies on New Religions
- Life Space guru denies suggesting man leave hospital on Japan Times
- A battle over mummified body renews worry about Japan cults on DeseretNews
- Ho No Hana Sanpogyo on Apologetics Index
- 1996 United States campaign finance controversy on Wikipedia
- New Religious Movement Raided in Japan: Ho No Hana on CESNUR
- Honohana foot-cult guru gets 12 years for fraud on Japan Times
- Pana Wave Laboratory on World Religions and Spirituality Project
- Doomsday cult makes waves in Japan in The Guardian
- Probing Pana Wave's nature
- The Latest Japanese Cult Panic in Religion in the News
- Pana Wave at the Cult Education Institute
- A nation's fate is sealed - Guardian article on Tama-chan
- Foreigners seek same rights as seal on Japan Times
- Pana Wave: Doomsday and Tama-chan the Seal video
- Pana Wave pictures
- Happy Science website
- Japan’s infamous ‘happy’ cult sets sights on the United States
- The Happy Science Religious Movement Claims to Hold the Cure for COVID-19
- A Japanese Cult That Believes Its Leader Is an Alien From Venus Is Speaking at CPAC
- How a fringe religious movement in Japan built a pro-Trump social media empire
- Happy Science Is the Laziest Cult Ever on Vice
- Why is Japan the ideal country according to the Alt-Right movement
- Japan's rising right-wing nationalism video
- Consideration of the Status of Conspiracy Theories in Japan Based on Attempts at Regime Destruction Overseas in International Information Network Analysis
- QAnon Is Alive and Well in Japan
- Aum Shinrikyo: The Japanese cult behind the Tokyo Sarin attack on BBC
- Chronology of Aum Shinrikyo's CBW Activities paper
- Aum Shinrikyo report at the Ministry of Justice
- Revisiting Aum Shinrikyo: New Insights into the Most Extensive Non-State Biological Weapons Program to Date
- Aleph official website (in Japanese)
- Aum Sect/Shoko Asahara on Cult Education Institute
- Religion-Making in Japan’s Courts of Law
- Conspiracy Theories and Their Believers in Contemporary Japan
- New Religions in Japan
- Yearning for spiritual leadership, Japan has spawned a rash of apocalyptic religions and ominously popular sects at the Cult Education Institute
- Japanese New Religious Movements: An Introduction by Franz Weiner in the Handbook of East Asian New Religious Movement
- Japan’s chilling Internet suicide pacts
- Japan suicide websites targeted after 'house of horrors'
- Hikikomori, A Japanese Culture-Bound Syndrome of Social Withdrawal? A Proposal for DSM-V
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- PRAGUE TIMES - A city is more than just a location - it’s a kaleidoscope of history, places, people and trends. This podcast looks at Prague, in the center of Europe, from a number of perspectives, including what it is now, what is has been and where it’s going. It’s Prague THEN, Prague NOW, Prague LATER
EPISODE 132 | Keel Hauled: UAP Update
Recent revelations, reports, videos and hearings have been leading up to what many UAP folks call Disclosure. Some interesting things have come out, and a whole lot of nonsense as well.
Spoiler: UFOs are real. Apart from that single fact, no one really has any hard evidence for anything else. So, they speculate.
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- 03:00 - Bullet Train to Iowa - AATIP, UFO into UAP into UAP, Luis Elizondo, Harry Reid, Robert Bigelow, Christopher Mellon leaks a video in 2017, the DoD confirmed, more videos (Gimbal, Go Fast, FLIR1), the UAP Task Force, triangles, spheres, acorns and metallic blimps
- 07:28 - UAPTF Report (June 2021), more data needed, AOIMSG, HISCCC hearing (May 2022), more data needed, AARO, NDAs for whistleblowers negated, Disclosure is being slow-walked, more video footage
- 11:52 - Grey Area - Project Blue Book, Evangelicals, Kenneth Arnold, flying saucers, Roswell & Project Mogul, UFOs as cover story, scammers
- 15:36 - A Singularity - The UFO ecosystem - Brad Steiger's The Reality Game, 18 theories about UFOs (including the Magic Theatre, the Overlord Theory, John Keel's Ultraterrestrials)
- 19:31 - The "Extraterrestrial Almanac", Tim Burchett has a press conference, everyone has a theory
- 22:33 - Bread and Circus - Congressional hearing (July 2023), David Fravor and Ryan Graves, David Grusch makes some amazing claims but offers no evidence, Grusch jumps on board with the interdimensional crowd, Grusch had had some troubles in the past, NASA creates the Director of Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena Research (Sept. 2023), hardcore Christians think it's all demons, true believers on both sides
- 29:55 - The Underwhelming - The Disclosure Project, Dr. Steven Greer, ARVs & the Wilson Memo, To the Stars Academy becomes To the Stars, Inc., Skinwalkers at the Pentagon, Jay Stratton has a book deal thanks to Dan Farah, Luis Elizondo writes Imminent: Inside the Pentagon's Hunt for UFO which has more than a few problems (remote viewing, nosy orbs), the Collins Elite & Legacy Program
- 38:14 - Personal Prometheus - AARO's report (March 2024), NASA's report (April 2024) - more data needed and stop bothering witnesses, Congressional hearing in November 2024 with Lue Elizondo, Dr. Tim Gallaudet, Michael Gold - more videos, people being threatened, an international arms race to back-engineer UAP tech, some tech in the hands of private companies
- 42:18 - Michael Shellenberger talks about SAPs, USAPs, TUOs and NHIs; Immaculate Constellation (formed in 2017) describes all sorts of UAPs (like boomerangs, triangles, and irregular/organic), Blue Force technology, verbal dancing
- 48:03 - Apocalyptical - Lauren Boebert is an idiot, UAP fans were not happy with Disclosure's progress, Grusch had a lot more to say, aliens are really evil transdimensional entities, Greer says they eat human souls while we sleep and also cries a lot
- 51:15 - Is it all disinfo? Are they all nuts? Are "they" really demons? Wild notions of what "full disclosure" will finally reveal (a real Conspiracy Theory of Everything [CTOE]), it's a vast spiritual war among creatures made of conscious energy
- 54:43 - Theorem - What we really know:- UAPs (and USOs) are real, some Evangelicals hate all this talk because they really do think they are demons and try to keep it all quiet; other ideas, less and less likely; the New York Post's video "Spooky Hustlers", those first three videos started it all but Brian Dunning examines them in "The UFO Movie They Don't Want You to See"
- Music by Fanette Ronjat
More Info
- EPISODE 31 | Scammers, Inc.: MJ-12, Bennewitz & Serpo
- EPISODE 29 | The Notorious M.I.B.
- EPISODE 32 | A View to Vril (Valiant Thor bit around 21:29)
- EPISODE 99 | A Bridge Too Far: The Mothman Visits Point Pleasant
- EPISODE 23 | Signs, Grudges & Blue Books: Early UFOlogy
- EPISODE 35 | A Field Guide to Aliens
- EPISODE 74 | Red Alert: UFOs as Threat!
- EPISODE 94 | Peek-A-Boo: Project Star Gate
- EPISODE 17 | Project Blue Beam: Abandon Hope All Ye Who Research Here
- Timeline of Major UFO/UAP Events at New Space Economy
- UAP articles and videos on UAP on The Black Vault (147 pages!)
- FOIA documents about AATIP
- 'AATIP' explored: A brief look inside the government's top-secret UFO program on SYFY
- Watch the Pentagon's three declassified UFO videos taken by U.S. Navy pilots
- Establishment of Unidentified Aerial Phenomena Task Force at the DoD
- UAP Task Force documents
- UAP Task Force report
- A PHILOSOPHICAL ANALYSIS OF THE UAPTF’s PRELIMINARY ASSESSMENT ON UFOs By Adrian G. Rudnyk
- DoD Announces the Establishment of the Airborne Object Identification and Management Synchronization Group (AOIMSG)
- AOIMSG briefing card
- More AOIMSG documents
- AARO website with many links
- The Pentagon got hundreds of new reports of UFOs in 2022, a government report says on NPR
- The Roswell Report: Case Closed from US Air Force HQ, published in 1994
- Report on Project Mogul: Synopsis of Balloon Research Findings
- Other worlds, other universes: Playing the reality game by Brad Steiger
- Brad Steiger's 17 Theories Of The UFO Enigma
- Extraterrestrial Almanac video
- Senators aim to set a mandatory timeline and process for agencies to declassify all UAP records
- UFO Disclosure: The Most Significant Law in Human History?
- UAP Disclosure Act of 2023
- Is US on the Verge of 'Catastrophic' UFO Leak? What We Know in Newsweek
- Why the Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAP) Disclosure Act of 2023 Falls Far Short of Its Intended Purpose — And What That Means for Transparency
- Records Related to Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAPs) at the National Archives
- UNIDENTIFIED ANOMALOUS PHENOMENA: IMPLICATIONS ON NATIONAL SECURITY, PUBLIC SAFETY, AND GOVERNMENT TRANSPARENCY report on 2023 Congressional hearing
- U.S. recovered non-human 'biologics' from UFO crash sites, former intel official says
- Here are the 5 most memorable moments from Congress’ UFO hearing
- The UFO Whistleblower’s Extraordinary Congressional Hearing
- We are not alone: The UFO whistleblower speaks
- UFO whistleblower David Grusch says his health records were leaked
- UFO whistleblower David Grusch interview: What’s happened since?
- Accidental Truth: UFO Revelations - video of MUFON documentary
- NASA appoints new head of UFO research on Space.com
- UPDATE: NASA Shares UAP Independent Study Report; Names Director
- Eric Davis meeting with Adm. Wilson (the "Wilson Memo")
- Dr. Steven Greer website
- Executive Summary of the Disclosure Project Briefing Document by Greer
- To the Stars (the new website)
- To the Stars description (after rebranding)
- Skinwalkers at the Pentagon: An Insiders' Account of the Secret Government UFO Program on Amazon
- George Knapp statement to Congress
- Another UFO Boss to Break Silence in Major Book Deal: “The Process of Disclosure Has Begun”
- Imminent: Inside the Pentagon's Hunt for UFO by Luis Elizondo
- Review of Imminent at The Sentinel
- Summary of themes in Immanent on SuperSummary
- Summaries of chapters 6-10 from Imminent
- AARO 2024 report
- NASA UAP Independent Study Team Report from 2024
- NASA UAP webpage
- Congress is revisiting UFOs: Here's what's happened since last hearing on extraterrestrials
- Burchett press conference
- Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena: Exposing the Truth on November 23, 2024 UAP hearing
- FULL HEARING: US Congress discusses "Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena" video
- Documents about Immaculate Constellation entered into the Congressional record
- CD307: Immaculate Constellation at Congressional Dish (plus other links)
- Congress heard more testimony about UFOs: Here are the biggest revelations
- Alien Technology Is Driving a ‘Multidecade, Secretive Arms Race,’ Former Pentagon Official Claims in Popular Mechanics
- What is the Cryptoterrestrial Hypothesis?
- ULTRATERRESTRIAL MODELS by H. E. Puthoff, Ph.D. in Journal of Cosmology, Vol. 29, No. 1
- Unraveling the Mysteries of the Superspectrum: A Look at John Keel's Vision of Ultraterrestrials
- A comprehensive UAP theory of everything from @TomMontalk
- Disclosure Warriors Uncover a Vast UFO Coverup Conspiracy: Guerrilla Skeptics on Wikipedia!
- Spooky Hustlers: How wacky UFO activists and "crazy" ghost hunters duped Congress into hunting UFOs - video from the New York Post (long but worthwhile)
- Brian Dunning's The UFO Movie They Don't Want You to See webpage
- The UFO Movie THEY Don't Want You to See - Full Movie on YouTube (analysis on those first 3 UAP videos starts around 54 minutes in)
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EPISODE 131 | Hotlantis: The Lost Continent
We all love mysteries, and Atlantis is one of the biggest ones. Was it a real place or just an allegory? If real, then where was it? Many people have spent a lot of time and money trying to discover the answer to that question.
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- 02:22 - Let the Mermaids Flirt with Me - Plato's Timaeus and Critias describe Atlantis, Utopia, probably just an allegory, Tertullian's "On Baptism", Elysium, Plato references Solon
- 08:44 - When the Levee Breaks - Atlantias by Hellanicus of Lesbos, the disaster at Helike, Altantipedia
- 14:00 - Mediterranean Sundance - Crantor believed it, the Pillars of Hercules, in the Mediterranean: Santorini (Thira), the Minoans, Robert Graves thought it was Pharos, Robert L. Scranton liked Lake Copais, other Med locales
- 21:08 - Atlantic - Ignatius Donnelly and Pierre-Marie Termier chose the Azores, hyperdiffusionism, Otto Muck thought about the Mid-Atlantic Range and the Carolina Bays, Bory de Saint-Vincent liked the Canary Islands (and pillow lava), Jorge Maria Ribero-Meneses considered the Cachucho Plateau, some liked the Spartel Bank, Paul Dunbavin liked the the Irish Sea, Stel Pavlou changes the timeline, the Richart Structure in Mauritania
- 28:48 - Abraham Ortelius drew a map, Athanasius Kircher expanded that work and thought Atlantis connected North America with Africa
- 31:02 - New World - Edgar Cayce's visions pointed to Bimini, the Bimini Road, the Blake Plateau, the Sargasso Sea, J.M. Allen thinks of the Incans and Bolivia, mythological places, Antarctica
- 36:40 - Underwater Love - Olaus Rudbeck preferred Sweden, Jürgen Spanuth like Northern Europe, Helena Blavatsky's Theosophy and root races, Jörg Lanz von Liebenfels and Guido von List create Ariosophy ("the wisdom of the Aryans"), the Nazis took that ball and ran with it
- 41:33 - Palace of the Brine - CTs like ancient aliens, the Vatican, the Illuminati; Tony O’Connell of Atlantapedia's central Mediterranean theory, my own take on it all
- Music by Fanette Ronjat
More Info
- Atlantipedia website
- Timaeus By Plato
- Critias By Plato
- Finding Atlantis in the depths of Plato
- On Baptism by Tertullian
- Atlantis isn’t real, but here are all the places it could have been in Popular Science
- Atlantis on History.com
- Atlantis at National Geographic
- Atlantis - An Investigation on Storymaps
- Top 10 Amazing Facts About the Lost City of Atlantis
- The ‘truth’ behind Atlantis – Christopher Gill on Plato’s Atlantis Story
- Where is the Lost City of Atlantis — and Does it Even Exist? in Discover
- Is Atlantis Real? The Truth Behind the Atlantis Myth
- Was there a real Atlantis? on How Stuff Works
- Plato’s Atlantis Before Plato on Beachcombing's BIzarre HIstory Blog
- WHO ELSE WROTE ABOUT ATLANTIS?
- Findings on Santorini Point to “Lost Island of Atlantis” Origins
- How the Ancient Greek City of Helike Was Destroyed and Rediscovered
- Wrath of a God or Nature: The Demise of Helike
- What Are the Pillars of Hercules Mentioned in Greek Mythology?
- The Pillars of Heracles at the Plato Project
- How the Discovery of ‘Atlantis’ Made Big News Then Faded Away
- The Mysteries of Lake Copais and the Island Fortress of Gla
- The Sunken City That Might Be Atlantis
- Atlantis Location Hypothesis
- 10 mysterious locations to find the lost city of Atlantis
- WHERE IS ATLANTIS?: PILLARS OF HERACLES, A SEA OF MUD AND MONSTERS IN THE DEEP
- Atlantis, Lake Tritonis, and Pharos
- Ignatius L. Donnelly in the Scholarly Community Encyclopedia
- Master of Disaster, Ignatius Donnelly in the Public Domain Review
- Are the Misty Peaks of the Azores Remnants of the Legendary Atlantis?
- The Canary Islands And The Atlantis Legend
- Pillow basalt more than a kilometer above sea level
- Lost city of Atlantis believed found off Spain
- The Mystery of Carolina Bays
- Location hypotheses of Atlantis
- Hunting Atlantis TV show
- “Be Vewy Quiet. I’m Hunting Atlantis.”
- What Exactly Is the Eye of the Sahara, aka the Richat Structure?
- Ancient Saharan Origins of East African Bantus: The Land of Atlantis and Egypt
- Atlantis on the Green Sahara
- The Infamous Map of Atlantis on Cryptid Campfire
- How the imaginary island of Atlantis was mapped on Vox
- Bimini Road/The Lost City of Atlantis
- Why Some People Think Bimini Road Is A Lost Highway To Atlantis on All That's Interesting
- Ep. 128 | Estimated Prophets: Nostradamus & Cayce
- The Island of Atlantis Discovered
- The Blake Plateau: A Southern Treasure
- Deep Sea Corals: The depths of the Blake Plateau
- Ep. 103 | Down in Bermuda, It’s Easy to Believe: The Devil’s Triangle
- The Sargasso Sea: why this ‘golden floating rainforest’ urgently needs protecting at Greenpeace
- Mysteries of the Sargasso Sea
- Atlantis: The Andes Solution : The Discovery of South America As the Legendary Continent of Atlantis by John Blashford-Snell
- Exploring Atlantis and Lemuria
- Is Atlantis in Antarctica
- Atlantis on the H. P. Lovecraft Wiki
- Swedish Visions of Atlantis – Olof Rudbeck the Elder’s Atlantica
- Atlantis Then and Now on the Theosophical Society website
- Eight unbelievable theories about Atlantis - that people actually believed!
- Atlantis Conspiracy website
- Lost city of Atlantis rises again to fuel a dangerous myth in The Guardian
- Atlantis: The Lost Continent Finally Found by Arysio Santos
- Joining The Dots: Plato's Atlantis in the Central Mediterranean by Tony O'Connell
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EPISODE 130 | Lost Cities of the New World
Guest: Neil Laird, Emmy-nominated TV producer (Discovery, BBC, PBS, History, National Geographic), author of the Prime Time novel series
What's commonly called the "New World" is actually very old, and for a long time, people have been trying to track down supposedly lost locations in the Americas. While these folks have not succeeded, advances in technology are allowing us to make astonishing discoveries that are rewriting the history of human habitation in the Western Hemisphere.
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- 03:07 - The Lost City of Z - Percy Harrison Fawcett finds Manuscript 512 and goes looking in the Amazon, the search for Fawcett gets LIDAR, new discoveries are made about old New World urban planning
- 25:18 - The City of the Lost Monkey God - LIDAR again to the rescue, the jungle is difficult to navigate, rebranded as City of the Jaguar
- 31:48 - El Dorado and the Fountain of Youth - Everyone wants gold, and who doesn't want to live forever?, these locations are cyphers, Mysteries of...., Shark Week, the Prime Time novels
- Music by Fanette Ronjat
MORE INFO
- Neil Laird on IMDb
- Prime Time Travelers: A Satirical MM Adventure by Neil Laird
- Prime Time Pompeii by Neil Laird
- Lost Trails, Lost Cities by Colonel Percy Harrison Fawcett
- Manuscript 512: 18th century evidence of a lost civilization in Brazil? by Jason Colavito
- Manuscript 512 text
- Percy Fawcett and the Lost City on History Today
- The Enduring Mystery Behind Percy Fawcett’s Disappearance on History.com
- Lost Cities of the Amazon Discovered From the Air in Smithsonian
- The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon by David Grann
- The Lost City of Z movie
- Indiana Jones and the Seven Veils by Rob Macgregor
- The Lost City of the Monkey God: A True Story by Douglas Preston
- Exclusive: Lost City Discovered in the Honduran Rain Forest in National Geographic
- La Ciudad Blanca: The White City of Honduras
- Lure of the Lost City in National Geographic
- The Lost City That’s Not Lost, Not a City, and Doesn’t Need to Be Discovered
- El Dorado: Real history behind the legend on LiveScience
- El Dorado on National Geographic
- Khwaja Khadir and the Fountain of Life in the Tradition of Persian and Mughal Art
- Florida's Fountain of Youth on The Progress Report
- Fountain of Youth in Florida website
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EPISODE 129 | The Fermi Paradox: Here Comes Nobody
If we are not unique as a species, an intelligent one that builds civilizations, then there must be lots and lots of other civilizations out there in the galaxy and the rest of the universe beyond. But if so, where the hell is everybody?
That’s the question at the heart of the Fermi Paradox. And this has kicked off a chain of reasoning and speculation that crosses disciplinary boundaries, and lets us start to envision, not just what might be out there, but where we ourselves want to go as a global civilization.
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- 02:54 - First we feel, then we fall - The Fermi Paradox, the Drake Equation, the Wow! Signal, space is big
- 09:22 - End here. Us then. Finn, again! - Abiogenesis, the Pulse-Transient Theory of Industrial Civilization, musings on the galactic situation
- 18:48 - They lived and laughed and loved and left - The Great Filter, Von Neumann probes, the Berserker Hypothesis; loud, quiet and grabby aliens; the Dark Forest Hypothesis, the technological singularity, the Jevons Paradox and induced demand
- 27:16 - The cross of your own cruelfiction - The Zoo Hypothesis, the Planetarium Hypothesis, the Deathworld Scenario, A Field Guide to Aliens, Calculating God and other science fiction, the Aestivation Hypothesis
- 34:34 - Three quarks for Muster Mark! - The Kardashev Scale, Sagan's addition, megastructures, Barrow's anti-Kardashev scale, Galántai's variation, the Urbanization Hypothesis, Kardashev's six scenarios, what to look for
- 43:04 - He is cured by faith who is sick of fate - They're here, Greer and UAP folks, MJ-12, the SETI Paradox, we are looking, light is fast but has a limit
- 47:38 - Let us leave theories there and return to here's hear - Joseph Campbell and where do we go from here?
- Music by Fanette Ronjat
More Info
- Finnegans Wake glosses
- A skeleton key to Finnegans Wake by Joseph Campbell
- ‘It never ends’: the book club that spent 28 years reading Finnegans Wake in The Guardian
- Finnegan’s Wake at 80: In Defense of the Difficult at LitHub
- Why Finnegans Wake Is Better than Ulysses
- Fermi’s Paradox on This American Life
- SETI Institute website
- Humanity Responds to 'Alien' Wow Signal, 35 Years Later
- This Is How We Know There Are Two Trillion Galaxies In The Universe in Forbes
- The Great Filter: a possible solution to the Fermi Paradox in Astronomy
- A list of solutions to the Fermi Paradox on It's only chemo
- Are We Alone in the Universe? Article looking at the Drake Equation
- How Many Aliens Are There? A look at the Drake Equation
- Drake Equation: Estimating the Odds of Finding E.T. on Space.com
- Template for calculating answers to the Drake Equation on PBS
- The Olduvai Theory: Toward a Re-Equalizing of the World Standard of Living
- The Berserker Hypothesis: The Darkest Explanation Of The Fermi Paradox
- Grabby Aliens website
- Dark Forest theory: A terrifying explanation of why we haven’t heard from aliens yet
- The Dark Forest Hypothesis is Absurd
- 'Zoo hypothesis' may explain why we haven't seen any space aliens
- Where Is Everyone? 4 Possible Explanations for the Fermi Paradox at Singularity Hub
- The Kardashev scale: Classifying alien civilizations on Space.com
- Kardashev Scale: What is it and where is Earth listed? on BBC Science Focus
- Forecasting the progression of human civilization on the Kardashev Scale through 2060 with a machine learning approach reports in Scientific Reports
- SETI: Musings on the Barrow Scale
- A non-anthropocentric solution to the Fermi paradox in the International Journal of Astrobiology
- Asymptotic burnout and homeostatic awakening: a possible solution to the Fermi paradox? in the Journal of the Royal Society
- Planetary scientists suggest a solution to the Fermi paradox: Superlinear scaling leading to a singularity on Phys.org
- The Coming Technological Singularity: How to Survive in the Post-Human Era by Vernor Vinge
- Novels with a focus on the Fermi Paradox / Great Filter? in r/printSF
- Beyond “Fermi’s Paradox” XVII: What is the “SETI-Paradox” Hypothesis?
- SETI urged to fess up over alien signals
- Steven Greer's website
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EPISODE 128 | Estimated Prophets: Nostradamus & Cayce
Even though almost none of the things that prophets say will happen actually do, we still persist in believing in the capability anyway. We do not like to change out minds very much. Two of the biggest prophets that still hold sway today over Western culture are Nostradamus and Edgar Cayce, and we’ll take a look at each one in turn.
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- 02:35 - Built to Last - Nostradamus' career and style, Virgilianised syntax, Les Prophéties and the Mirabilis Liber
- 06:53 - Aoxomoxoa - Into the 20th century, Erika Cheetham, "The Man Who Saw Tomorrow", some prophecies
- 12:48 - Blues for Allah - The King of Terror wears a blue turban, more prophecies, modern rehashings and interpretations, Over Sixty's Travel Trouble section for 2025
- 22:13 - Shakedown Street - Nostrafakers, Mabus the 3rd Antichrist, Ray Mabus, Dennis "prophetofrevenge" Markuze, John "rogue scholar" Hogue
- 28:38 - Ship of Fools - Nostrascams, Gangnam Style, Rudolf Hess uses Nostradamus
- 32:08 - American Beauty - Edgar Cayce gets his voice back, starts a lucrative career as the Sleeping Prophet and has weird food ideas
- 36:01 - In the Dark - Cayce sells pseudomedical "cures", then loses it in 1932, makes lots of predictions and travels around in time, the "root race" and polygenesis, Atlantis and more
- 42:14 - Wake of the Flood - Cayce's Earth Changes, Lori Toye's I Am America maps, Gordon-Michael Scallion's prophetic doomsday maps, billionaires start buying land
- Music by Fanette Ronjat
More Info
- EPSIODE 53 | Time to Get Ill - DST, Y2K & 2012
- Episode 08 | Time Cube - Four Is the Loneliest Number
- Entry for Nostradamus on the Museum of Hoaxes website
- A translation of Nostradamus prophecies
- More translations of the prophecies
- Nostradamus’s Cherry Jelly recipe on Tasting History
- Nostradamus Predicted 9/11 on the Museum of Hoaxes
- Crystalinks prophecies page
- Nostradamus' 2025 predictions revealed on OverSixty
- Dennis Markuze - The Prophecies of Nostradamus
- HogueProphecy website
- An Idiot's Biography - John Hogue
- Edgar Cayce on Crystalinks
- Edgar Cayce’s life & readings page on his official website
- Edgar Cayce: The Would-Be Sleeping Prophet
- Earth Star magazine
- Arizona Corporation Commission Finds Payson Couple Defrauded Elderly Investor
- The Shocking Doomsday Maps Of The World And The Billionaire Escape Plans in Forbes
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- PRAGUE TIMES - A city is more than just a location - it’s a kaleidoscope of history, places, people and trends. This podcast looks at Prague, in the center of Europe, from a number of perspectives, including what it is now, what is has been and where it’s going. It’s Prague THEN, Prague NOW, Prague LATER
EPISODE 127 | Cognitive Biases: Thanks, Big Brain! (Because Reasons 12)
This episode looks at the final two categories of biases in the Cognitive Biases Codex – what we tend to do when the information we’re presented with doesn’t contain enough meaning, and the brain’s tendency to favor quick assessments over complete ones, because it feels it need to act quickly.
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- COMPLICATED SHADOWS- Confabulation, apophenia, illusory correlation, the clustering illusion, the illusion of validity and WYSIWTI, the anecdotal fallacy, inductive reasoning, the post hoc ergo propter hoc fallacy, the recency illusion, the gambler's fallacy and hot hand fallacy
- Stereotyping, group attribution error, outgroup homogeneity, the moral credential effect, authority bias, functional fixedness, the Just-World Hypothesis, the bandwagon effect, argument from fallacy (bad apple bias, fallacy fallacy), the placebo and nocebo effects
- The cross-race effect, the Halo and Horns Effect, the positivity effect, reactive devaluation, the cheerleader effect, the not invented here bias, the well-traveled road effect
- Mental accounting, Miller's Law (magic number 7 +/- 2), appeal to probability, survival bias, the subadditivity effect, the zero sum bias
- The illusion of transparency, the curse of knowledge, the illusions of asymmetric insight and of external agency
- Self-consistency bias, hindsight bias, moral luck, outcome bias, restraint bias, pro-innovation bias, declinism, pessimism bias, the planning fallacy, backward and forward telescoping
- ALARM CALL - Belief bias and syllogisms, Occam's Razor, the less-is-better effect, the Delmore effect, the conjunction fallacy (the Linda Problem), information bias, ambiguity bias, the Easton-Rosen Phenomenon (rhyme-as-reason effect)
- Status quo bias and ante, system justification, the decoy effect (asymmetric dominance effect), reverse psychology, social comparison bias, reactance
- The backfire effect, the sunk cost fallacy, the pseudocertainty effect, zero-risk bias, loss aversion, unit bias, irrational escalation (escalation of commitment), the endowment effect (divestiture aversion) and the IKEA effect, the generation effect
- The identifiable victim effect, hyperbolic discounting, Argumentum ad Novitatem (appeal to novelty)
- Effort justification, the defensive attribution hypothesis, trait ascription bias, the illusion of control, the optimism effect, risk compensation and the Peltzman effect, the egocentric bias (Illusory Superiority, the Lake Woebegone effect), the self-serving bias, the overconfidence effect, the Dunning-Kruger effect, the hard-easy effect, the false consensus effect, social desirability bias, the fundamental attribution error and the Actor-Observer bias
- Music by Fanette Ronjat
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- PRAGUE TIMES - A city is more than just a location - it’s a kaleidoscope of history, places, people and trends. This podcast looks at Prague, in the center of Europe, from a number of perspectives, including what it is now, what is has been and where it’s going. It’s Prague THEN, Prague NOW, Prague LATER
EPISODE 126 | Cognitive Biases and the Brain: Thanks, Evolution! (Because Reasons 11)
The first of two episodes looking at cognitive biases - this one at how memory works and how we prevent input overload by filtering out information. Hopefully, this will give us some insight into why people think they way they do.
The primary source material for this is the Cognitive Biases Codex, created by Buster Benson and John Manoogian III, as used by the EU's Marie Curie CogNovo program for Conspiracy-Theories.EU.
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- MEMORIES CAN'T WAIT - Misinformation effect, testing effect, processing effect, spacing effect, Google effect, two types of absentmindedness, next-in-line effect, list length effect, serial position effect, suffix effect, part-list cueing effect, peak-end rule, duration neglect
- Fading affect bias, negativity bias, leveling and sharpening, Maude sees a Black man, suggestibility; false memory (UFO abductions, Satanic Panic), misattribution of memory, cryptoamnesia, source confusion (eyewitness testimony)
- TOO MUCH INFORMATION - The availability heuristic, repetition makes it true - the illusory truth effect and the mere exposure effect, attentional bias, context effect, mood-congruent memory bias, cue-dependent forgetting, the frequency illusion and Baader-Meinhof Phenomenon, the base rate fallacy, the empathy gap (cold-to-hot and hot-to-cold), omission bias
- The bizarreness effect, humor effect, isolation effect (Von Resteroff effect), and picture superiority effect; bias blind spot, the introspection illusion, naïve cynicism, confirmation bias, congruence bias, choice-supportive bias (post-purchase bias), selective perception and the ostrich effect, observer-expectancy effect (also experimenter effect), subjective validation (the personal validation effect) helps conspiracy theory formation, the Semmelweis reflex, the continued influence effect (people don't unlearn mis- or disinformation easily once it's been integrated)
- Anchoring, conservatism, distinction bias, contrast bias, the focusing effect, the framing effect, the money illusion or price illusion and the price of milk; perceiving change - Weber and Fechner, the discrimination threshold, Numerical Cognition
- Music by Fanette Ronjat
More Info
- Cognitive biases codex
- Cognitive Biases on Conspiracy-Theories.EU
- Conspiracy-Theories.EU website
- About CogNovo
- Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions website
- What Is Cognitive Bias? 7 Examples & Resources (Incl. Codex) on Positive Psychology
- List of Cognitive Biases and Heuristics on The Decision Lab
- How Our Brains Make Memories in Smithsonian
- Psychology study uncovers new details about the cognitive underpinnings of belief in conspiracy theories on PsyPost
- Conspiracy theories in New Scientist
- 24 cognitive biases that are warping your perception of reality on the World Economic Forum
- Conspiracy theory and cognitive style: a worldview
- Beliefs in conspiracy theories and the need for cognitive closure
- Social Media, Cognitive Reflection, and Conspiracy Beliefs
- Cognitive Bias articles on ScienceDirect
- Cognitive Biases and Brain Biology Help Explain Why Facts Don’t Change Minds at the University of Connecticut
- Cognitive Bias 101: What It Is and How To Overcome It at the Cleveland Clinic
- 4 widespread cognitive biases and how doctors can overcome them at the American medical Association
- How Cognitive Biases Influence the Way You Think and Act on VeryWellMind
- 24 cognitive biases stuffing up your thinking plus cards at yourbias.is
- Identify Cognitive Biases in Business Decision‑Making at Mailchimp
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EPISODE 125 | Last Flight: More Airliner Weirdness
While it's totally normal that things break, sometimes there is also some kind of secret or mystery around something as monumental as an airplane crash or disappearance. And so lots of "theories" get spun, some by those who have lost someone dear to them, others by those who seek to profit from the disaster.
This follow-up episode to our previous one about airplanes, One of Our Aircraft Is Missing, is likewise dedicated to my godson, Vova, or Rusty, who just loves, loves, loves, loves commercial aircraft.
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- 02:42 - Northwest Orient Airlines Flight 2501 - What's going on in Michigan?
- 05:31 - Swissair Flight 111 - Richard Tomlinson, wayward MI6 agent
- 09:45 - EgyptAir Flight 990 - The apotheosis of petty revenge, which inspires bin Laden
- 15:58 - Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 - A disappearance, an investigation, suicide and simulator speculations
- 22:27 - More MH370 Theories - Fire, ghost plane, cyberattack, hijacking, Freescale Semiconductor and and patent # US8671381B1
- 25:49 - Diego Garcia, the Donbas, the old switcheroo, a plot to destroy Malaysian Airlines
- 30:49 - Meteors, black holes, weird phone calls, aliens, transdimensional rifts
- Music by Fanette Ronjat
More Info
- 7 Puzzling Plane Disappearances
- Planes full of passengers that vanished and could never be traced
- Disappearance Over Lake Michigan: The Story Of Northwest Orient Airlines Flight 2501 on Simple Flying
- The Wreck of Northwest Flight 2501 Submerged in Lake Michigan
- 229 people, 15 000 body parts: pathologists help solve Swissair 111’s grisly puzzles in the
Canadian Medical Association Journal - A Rogue Spy's Cyber-Revenge on CBS News
- Did British intelligence down Swissair Flight 111? by Dean Andromidas
- More mysteries over Swissair Flight 111 by Dean Andromidas
- The Crash of EgyptAir 990 in The Atlantic
- The Tragedy Of EgyptAir Flight 990 on Simple Flying
- EgyptAir Flight 990: A Controversial Aviation Accident on Aviation File
- Text: NTSB Chairman Hall on EgyptAir Flight 990 Crash Investigation
- Flight 990: What Really Happened? on Al Jazeera
- Timeline of MH370 disappearance on CNN
- Timeline of the search for MH370 – a visual guide in The Guardian
- MH370: History's Greatest Unsolved Aviation Mystery video
- Top 10 theories what may have happened to Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370
- Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 on RationalWiki
- Mathematician: Missing MH370 plunged vertically into ocean on CNN
- Map Shows Where MH370 Signal Detected, Raising Hopes of Breakthrough in Newsweek
- What Really Happened to Malaysia’s Missing Airplane in The Atlantic
- What happened to missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370? Five theories evaluated
- Former Proteus Airlines boss Marc Dugain claims MH370 may have been shot down by US military near Diego Garcia
- My Missing Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 Theory: Diego Garcia
- Did missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 fly to little lost island of Diego Garcia?
- Comment: Conspiracies more mysterious than MH370
- The conspiracy theories surrounding missing flight MH370
- MH370: Exploring compelling conspiracy theories around Malaysian Airlines’ mysterious flight disappearance episode in Business Insider
- The Conspiracy Theories Behind the Malaysian Flight 370 Disappearance on The Takeaway
- The Most Logical (And Craziest) MH370 Conspiracy Theories in Wired
- Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 Found After 10 Years, Scientists Find Perfect Hiding Spot video on OneIndia News
- Examining MH370 conspiracy theories CNN video
- Did Governments Lie About This Missing Plane? | MH370 EXPLAINED Part I video
- Are Any MH370 Conspiracy Theories True? | MH370 EXPLAINED Part II video
- Debunking the MH370 conspiracy theories on 9 News Australia
- Flight MH370: Why Are Conspiracy Theories Seductive? video on the Wall Street Journal
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- PRAGUE TIMES - A city is more than just a location - it’s a kaleidoscope of history, places, people and trends. This podcast looks at Prague, in the center of Europe, from a number of perspectives, including what it is now, what is has been and where it’s going. It’s Prague THEN, Prague NOW, Prague LATER
EPISODE 124 | One of Our Aircraft Is Missing
A look at a few outstanding cases of plane crashes and disappearances, commercial flights that have gone awry, and some of the weirdness surrounding those mishaps. And, of course, the ones we’ll look at have had conspiracy theories spun about them.
This episode is dedicated to my godson, Vova (or Rusty, as we call him), because he absolutely loves commercial aircraft.
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- 04:33 - BSAA Avro Lancastrian Star Dust, August 2, 1947 (STENDEC)
- 10:19 - 191 Is Cursed - Prinair Flight 191, American Airlines Flight 191, Delta Air Lines Flight 191, Comair Flight 5191, JetBlue Flight 191 and Germanwings Flight 9525
- 15:32 - TWA Flight 800, July 17, 1996
- 23:03 - More July 17 – TAM 3054 (July 17, 2007) and MH17 (July 17, 2014)
- 27:34 - Korean Air Lines Flight 007, September 1, 1983
- 35:58 - KAL007 "Theories"
- 39:47 - Bert Schlossberg Wades In
- Music by Fannete Ronjat
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- EPISODE 103 | Down in Bermuda, It’s Easy to Believe – The Devil’s Triangle
- EPISODE 89 | JBS BS: The John Birch Society
- Number of worldwide air traffic fatalities from 2006 to 2021
- Airplane Crashes on NSC Injury Facts
- A Pilot’s Last Words: “STENDEC” in Plane and Pilot Magazine
- The Star Dust Mystery on Damn Interesting
- STENDEC Solved in the North Texas Skeptic
- 17th July a cursed date and 191 a cursed flight number? on FlyerTalk by JetAirways77W
- The Curse of Flight 191 by Still Penguins Seldom Waddle on Medium
- The Inauspicious “Curse” of Flight 191 on Airline Geeks
- Flight 191: The Cursed Number video on the Grand Conspiracies and Mysteries YouTube channel
- The World's Riskiest Flight in Esquire
- Fatal Over-Rotation: 50 Years Since The Crash Of Prinair Flight 191 on Simple Flying
- The Deadliest Crash: Flight 191 and its Maintenance Legacy in Aviation Maintenance Magazine
- Knowing When to Stop: The Investigation of Flight 191 by Mara E. Vatz, MIT 2003
- The Worst Crash in US History: American Airlines 191 video on the Fascinating Horror YouTube channel
- Remembering Delta Flight 191 at the National Weather Service
- Delta Flight 191 deadly crash 38 years ago led to changes in forecasting after microburst brought down plane on Fox Weather
- Wrong Runway: The Crash Of Comair Flight 5191, 16 Years On on Simple Flying
- Comair 5191 Crash Led to Air Traffic Control Changes on the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) website
- JetBlue Pilot Yelled About Sept. 11 and 'Push It to Full Throttle' on ABC News
- JetBlue flight diverted after captain’s ‘erratic’ behavior on CNN Travel
- Germanwings crash: What happened in the final 30 minutes on BBC News
- The Real Story of Germanwings Flight 9525 in Esquire
- The Germanwings Flight 9525 Crash video on the Dark Records YouTube channel
- TWA Flight 800 in RationalWiki
- 25-year anniversary of TWA Flight 800 explosion marks new chapter in disaster’s history on CNN
- What Happened to TWA Flight 800? on History.com
- 'First conspiracy of the internet age’: How the TWA Flight 800 explosion sparked online rumors for years in USA Today News
- TWA 800 lawsuit document filing
- 15 Years Ago: TAM Flight 3054 Becomes Brazil's Deadliest Air Crash on Simple Flying
- TAM 3054 entry on the Aviation Safety Network
- MH17 incident on the Government of the Netherlands website
- Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 at RationalWiki
- MH17 Ukraine plane crash: What we know on BBC
- MH17 plane crash: Horror and hope for families as trial starts on BBC
- Korean Air Lines flight 007 at Britannica
- The downing of Flight 007: 30 years later, a Cold War tragedy still seems surreal on CNN
- The Death of Korean Air Lines Flight 007 by Peter Grier in AIR FORCE Magazine (January 2013)
- Vadim Kondrabaev: "Secret of the Empty Airplane" on Roy's Russian Aircraft Resource
- Korean Air Lines Flight 007 alternative theories on Wikipedia
- Bert Schlossberg on RationalWiki
- Korean Airlines Flight 007 entry on Conservapedia
- Rescue 007 - Schlossberg's website
- Let's Ask Putin column by Reed Irvine, Chairman for Accuracy in media
- World's 10 most mysterious plane disappearances and strangest aircraft crashes
- 10 aviation Mysteries of Our Time
- The Unsolved Mysteries of 8 Missing Passenger Flights
- 7 Puzzling Plane Disappearances
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- DIGITAL SIGNAGE DONE RIGHT - Winner of a 2022 Gold Quill Award, 2022 Gold MarCom Award, 2021 AVA Digital Award Gold, 2021 Silver Davey Award, 2020 Communicator Award of Excellence, and on numerous top 10 podcast lists.
- PRAGUE TIMES - A city is more than just a location - it’s a kaleidoscope of history, places, people and trends. This podcast looks at Prague, in the center of Europe, from a number of perspectives, including what it is now, what is has been and where it’s going. It’s Prague THEN, Prague NOW, Prague LATER
EPISODE 123 | A Heritage of Nonsense: More JKF Stories
Guest: Fred Litwin, author of A Heritage of Nonsense: Jim Garrison's Tales of Mystery and Imagination
The JFK assassination truly is the gift that keeps on giving, as this third book on the topic by Fred Litwin demonstrates. People who became suspects after just a two-minute phone call, a comedian who claimed to have channeled Oswald's ghost, a dishwasher spy, Jim Garrison's theory of propinquity and more weirdness than you can shake a stick at.
SECTIONS
- 02:37 - What's the problem with Jim Garrison?
- 08:44 - Breck Wall makes a phone call and gets noticed, Garrison's "methods"
- 17:55 - Raymond Broshears channels Lee Harvey Oswald
- 20:42 - Arthur Strout tries to change careers
- 24:14 - Richard Case Nagell is the Man in the Middle
- 32:45 - Farewell America: The Plot to Kill JFK by "James Hepburn"
- 38:47 - Aren't you sick of this?
- Music by Fanette Ronjat
More Info
- Fred Litwin's website
- A Heritage of Nonsense on Amazon
- The JFK Assassination w/Fred Litwin (Big ’Uns 5) episode 50
- Film Flam - JFK & Stone w/Fred Litwin episode 79
- Papers of Jim Garrison at the National Archives
- Oliver Stone's Portrayal of Jim Garrison on The JFK 100
- Breck Wall Oral History video at The Sixth Floor Museum
- Warren Commission testimony of Breck Wall
- Assassination a Homosexual Thrill Killing by Dave Reitzes
- A Homosexual Thrill-Kill? By Adam Gorightly
- A Farewell to Justice: Jim Garrison, JFK's Assassination, and the Case That Should Have Changed History by Joan Mellen
- Breck Wall blogs
- Raymond Broshears blogs
- Arthur Strout blogs
- Richard Case Nagell blogs
- Richard Case Nagell - The Man Who Knew Too Much
- Nagell communications with the authorities
- How to Get the CIA’s Attention: Threaten a JFK Assassination Reveal
- The Man Who Knew Too Much: Hired to Kill Oswald and Prevent the Assassination of JFK by Dick Russell
- Richard Case Nagel timeline
- Man in the Middle: The Inside Story text
- Farewell America: The Plot to Kill JFK article in Publisher's Weekly
- The Realist archives
- They Killed Our President: 63 Reasons to Believe There Was a Conspiracy to Assassinate JFK by Jesse Ventura
- The Man Who Killed Kennedy: The Case Against LBJ by Roger Stone with Mike Colapietro
- Hit List: An In-Depth Investigation Into the Mysterious Deaths of Witnesses to the JFK Assassination by Richard Belzer
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- PRAGUE TIMES - A city is more than just a location - it’s a kaleidoscope of history, places, people and trends. This podcast looks at Prague, in the center of Europe, from a number of perspectives, including what it is now, what is has been and where it’s going. It’s Prague THEN, Prague NOW, Prague LATER
EPISODE 122 | How to Be a Communist
One of the many words tossed about these days as a snarl term is “communist”, but do the people using this sobriquet know what that really means? It certainly doesn’t mean every leftwing philosophy or ideology. In fact, Communism is a very specific set of applications of very certain ideas, and, like it or not, helped define the 20th century.
So let’s look at what Communism is and what it isn’t, and what other systems and suites of thought have crossover with it. Like all the different flavors of Socialism.
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- Closer to Home - Socialism (market and non-market), Adam Smith, the Labour Theory of Value (LTV)
- Duty Now for the Future - The French Revolution and the Directory, the Conspiracy of Equals, Utopian Socialism, Chartism, Karl Marx and Friedreich Engels become buddies
- Mean Machine - Engels's "alienated labour" and The German Ideology, historical materialism, The Communist Manifesto, the basics of Marxism, Marx and Engels hatch a fast-track plan
- Brothers in Arms - The Russian Tsar is overthrown and Communism comes to power, the first Communist platform, Reds versus Whites, Lenin develops Leninism
- Music for the People - Stalin develops Marxism-Leninism, which spreads to all countries that go Communist
- Futuristic Design - Mao Zedong takes over in China, Communism fails almost everywhere
- Subterranean Jungle - The Horseshoe Theory, Communism has more in common with Fascism than with socialism, comparing and contrasting Fascism and Communism, comparing and contrasting capitalism and socialism, Third Way, social liberalism, social democracy
- Life's What You Make It - Capitalism is not a social or political system, democracy is opposed to authoritarianism's many flavours
- Music by Fanette Ronjat
More Info:
- Why market socialism is a viable alternative to neoliberalism at the Lon don School of Economics and Political Science
- Market Socialism: A Case for Rejuvenation by Pranab Bardhan and John E. Roemer in the Journal of Economic Perspectives
- Socialist Market Economy chapters and articles on Science Direct
- Non-Market Socialism: What is it? How will it work? - 2 papers from the Socialist and Anarchist Utopias Panel at the 2018 The Great Transition: Setting the Stage for a Post-Capitalist Society
International Conference in Montreal - SOCIALISM WITHOUT MARKETS: DEMOCRATIC PLANNED SOCIALISM paper by Al Campbel
- What are some contemporary defenses of non-market socialism? on Quora
- labour theory of value entry on Britannica
- Chapter 6: Theories of Value from Human Society and the Global Economy by Kit Sims Taylor
- Gracchus Babeuf & the Conspiracy of Equals
- Utopian Socialism articles on Science Direct
- Utopian Socialism in America on Digital History
- Chartism essay by Amy J. Lloyd, University of Cambridge
- What was the Chartist movement? on BBC Bitesize
- Capitalism and alienation by Phil Gaspar in Critical Thinking from the International Socialist Review
- Marx’s Theory of Alienation by Asher Horowitz, professor of political science at York University
- The German Ideology by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels
- Historical Materialism.org website
- What is Historical Materialism? video on PHILO-notes YouTube channel
- Karl Marx entry in the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
- Manifesto of the Communist Party
- What is 'Marxism' in The Economic Times
- How does Marxism differ from Leninism?
- What Is Marxism-Leninism?
- Marxism: What It Is and Comparison to Communism, Socialism, and Capitalism on Investopedia
- The Rise of Mao Zedong on Alpha History
- Socialism, Fascism, Capitalism and Communism Chart from the Hampton Roads Naval Museum
- Democracy in the Manual for Human Rights Education with Young People
- Communism vs. Fascism comparison chart
- Communism vs. Socialism comparison chart
- Socialism vs Communism also with a chart
- Communism vs. Democracy comparison chart
- Capitalism vs. Socialism comparison chart
- Capitalism vs Socialism another chart
- Fascism and communism: Two sides of the same coin at the Adam Smith Institute
- History is much too important to be left to politicians by Jonathan Steele in The Guardian
- Different Types of Socialism
- 6 Political Ideas Socialism different types video on various types of Socialism
- The Third Way: Myth and Reality by James Petras in the Monthly Review
- What the Heck Is Social Liberalism?
- Social Liberalism vs. Social Conservatism
- Social Democracy definition by John Patrick in Understanding Democracy, A Hip Pocket Guide
- Basics on Social Democracy brochure by the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung
- What Is Social Democracy? Unveiling Its Values video
- What are the main differences between social democracy and democratic socialism? on Quora
- Liberal or Social Democrat? in Dissent Magazine
- What's the difference between Social Democracy and Libertarianism? on Quora
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EPISODE 121 | Coup Coup G'joob: Civic Disturbances in the U.S. 1900 - Present
This is a continuation of our previous episode about coup attempts, rebellions and civic unrest in the United States prior to the 20th century. This time, we jump into the 20th century and bring us right up to the present day. After hearing all this, you decide if things really are, as some would have you believe, the worst it’s ever been, or if in fact, America has always struggled with its foundational problems and original sins, coupled with an unusual appetite for, or at least tolerance of, violence.
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- Sitting on a Cornflake - Race riots, the Green Corn Rebellion of 1917, the Red Summer of 1919, Anarchists, the Battle of Blair Mountain (1921), 1931 - Bloody Harlan, the Housing Riots, the Kingfish vs. the Wild Bull of Jeanerette
- Corporation Tee-Shirt - The Business Plot of 1933-1934
- Yellow Matter Custard - The McMinn County War (the Battle of Athens) (1946)
- You Let Your Face Grow Long - The 1960s - Ax Handle Saturday, the Ole Miss Riot, the Harlem Riot, the Selma marches, the Watts Riot, the Long Hot Summer of 1967, segregationists in North Carolina, the Stonewall Riots, the Weathermen and the Days of Rage; the 1970s - the Kent State shootings, the Hard Hat Riot, Alcatraz and Catalina occupations, the Attica Prison Riot, the Weather Underground Organization (WUO) bombings and more; the 1980s and 1990s in brief
- A Serviceable Villain - The 21st century - Pseudolaw gets violent, the rise of protests, Occupy Wall Street, the Gretchen Whitmer kidnapping plot, stochastic terrorism, Trump mouths off, King Henry II and his "turbulent priest", the Manson family, proposed solutions to violent outbursts, Pakistan's Sabaoon Project, Kenya's Preventing of Violent Extremism through Education, Islamic deradicalization group Muflehun, Google's Redirect Method, what we can do
- Music by Fanette Ronjat
More Info
- EPISODE 115 | Cuckoo Coups in the U.S.
- The Beatles explained: What does ‘goo goo g’joob’ mean?
- When the Socialist Revolution Came to Oklahoma—and Was Crushed in Smithsonian Magazine
- Red Summer: When Racist Mobs Ruled on American Experience
- Red Summer of 1919: How Black WWI Vets Fought Back Against Racist Mobs on History.com
- The Battle of Blair Mountain on ReImagine Appalachia
- Introduction to the West Virginia Mine Wars on the National Park Service
- Remembering Bloody Harlan on Parallel Narratives
- When the Unemployed Fought Back on Shelterforce.org
- Huey Long: His Life and Times
- Why is so little known about the 1930s coup attempt against FDR? in The Guardian
- Considering History: The 1933 Business Plot to Overthrow America in the Saturday Evening Post
- The Battle of Athens: An Obscure American Revolution on Legends of America
- The Battle of Athens in American Heritage
- What happened on Ax Handle Saturday, Aug. 27, 1960, in Jacksonville?
- The Riot at Ole' Miss on American RadioWorks
- Riots erupt over desegregation of Ole Miss on History.com
- Riots of 1964: The Causes of Racial Violence paper by Roy Wilkins at the Notre Dame Law Review
- Inside the Harlem Uprising of 1964 at Rutgers
- Watts Rebellion on History.com
- She Played a Key Role in the Police Response to the Watts Riots. The Memory Still Haunts Her—But Black History Is Full of Haunting Memories in Time
- The 1967 Riots: When Outrage Over Racial Injustice Boiled Over on History.com
- What was the Stonewall uprising? in National Geographic
- Stonewall then and now in The Harvard Gazette
- Chicago's Forgotten 'Days of Rage'
- THE MAY 4 SHOOTINGS AT KENT STATE UNIVERSITY: THE SEARCH FOR HISTORICAL ACCURACY
- Kent State shootings: The 1970 student protests that shook the US on the BBC
- What was the Weather Underground? on The Hill
- How the Weather Underground Failed at Revolution and Still Changed the World in Time
- Evading the FBI: The Weather Underground Organization at Yale University Press
- Some Say Occupy Wall Street Did Nothing. It Changed Us More Than We Think in Time
- Occupy Wall Street swept the world and achieved a lot, even if it may not feel like it in The Guardian
- Gretchen Whitmer kidnapping articles on PBS News
- The Final Twist in the Gretchen Whitmer Kidnap Case on Slate
- Donald Trump, Stochastic Terrorist in Mother Jones
- Stochastic terrorism: critical reflections on an emerging concept in Critical Studies on Terrorism
- How Stochastic Terrorism Uses Disgust to Incite Violence in Scientific American
- Deradicalizing, Rehabilitating, and Reintegrating Violent Extremists at the United States Institute of Peace (USIP)
- Bringing them home: Pakistan's child deradicalisation centre offers second chance
- Education for Preventing Violent Extremism (EPVE) working group paper from the Club of Madrid
- Lessons Learned from Student-led Initiatives to Prevent Violent Extremism in Kenyan Universities
- PREVENTING VIOLENT EXTREMISM THROUGH PROMOTING INCLUSIVE DEVELOPMENT, TOLERANCE AND RESPECT FOR DIVERSITY discussion paper from the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)
- Preventing violent extremism webpage at UNESCO
- Preventing Violent Radicalization in America report from the National Security Preparedness Group at the Bipartisan Policy Center
- DHS Rebrands and Expands Biased, Ineffective Countering Violent Extremism Program at the Brennan Center for Justice
- The Redirect Method on Moonshot
- The Search for Extremism: Deploying the Redirect Method at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy
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EPISODE 120 | OOPArts Doompa-Dee-Doo
Sometimes people find something… interesting, maybe even mysterious. What is that? they ask. And then they or someone else makes a logical leap and says oh, wow, here is the missing link I’ve been looking for that proves all my theories that until now have been ridiculed or ignored. And not even scientists are immune to this very common and very human process.
We’re looking at out of place artifacts, or OOPArts – things found in an unusual context. This might, upon examination, indicate that certain civilizational develops happened much earlier than we had thought or, if you’re of a certain bent, be used to further narratives of ancient advanced civilizations, Atlantis, ancient aliens, time travel, or the literal truth of the Bible.
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- 02:27 - Cheer Up, Charlie - The Diquis Spheres, the Plain of Jars, the Eltanin Antenna, the Baigong Pipes, Starchild Skull, the Paluxy Tracks, the Meister Print, the Wolfsegg Iron (Salzburg Cube), the Klerksdorp Spheres; the Yonaguni Monument, the Land of Mu and Zealandia
- 25:35 - I Want It Now - The Dorchester Vase, the London Hammer, the Kingoodie artifact, the Coso Artifact, the Wedge of Aiud
- 34:39 - (I've Got a) Golden Ticket - The Shakōkidogū, the Quimbaya/Tolima "jets", the Saqqara Bird, the Abydos helicopter, the Dendera light/lamp, the Baghdad Battery
- 47:09 - Pure Imagination - The Nampa Figurine, the Multiregional Hypothesis, the Tecaxic-Calixtlahuaca head, the Upshur Bell
- Music by Fanette Ronjat
More Info
- Episode 04 | Saddam's Stargate and Taskforce 20
- Episode 11 | Conspirasaurus Rex - Dino-Mite Theories About the Dinosaurs
- Out of Place Artifacts on Historic Mysteries
- OOPARTs on History Undusted
- The strange world of Out-of-place artifact (OOPArt)
- Archeological Fantasies website
- Pseudoarchaeology Research Archive (PARA) website
- The Ancient Stone Spheres Costa Rica on 360 On History
- Atlantis in America: Navigators of the Ancient World by Ivar Zapp and George Erikson
- Diquis Spheres UNESCO listing
- Plain of Jars in Archaeology Magazine
- Plain of Jars Archaeological Research Project website
- Plain of Jars UNESCO listing
- In Search of... the Eltanin Antenna
- The Harp Sponge
- Baigong Pipes: The Strange Ancient "Pipes" Found In The Caves Of Mount Baigong
- The Baigong Pipes Skeptoid podcast episode
- The Starchild Skull -- Genetic Enigma or Human-Alien Hybrid? by Lloyd Pye
- The Starchild Project
- Starchild entry in the Encyclopedia of Dubious Archaeology
- Skeptic's Guide to the Universe podcast
- Paluxy Man -- The Creationist Piltdown
- A Summary of the Taylor Site Evidence
- Footprints in Stone (Forbidden History II) video
- The Meister Print on Footprints in Stone
- Tripping Over a Trilobite: A Study of the Meister Tracks
- The Salzburg Cube on Legends & Chronicles
- The Saltzburg Cube (sic) on the Museum of Unnatural Mystery
- Creation Evidence Museum website
- Alleged Iron Pot in Coal
- 10 Most Not-So-Puzzling Ancient Artifacts: The Grooved Spheres
- Klerksdorp Spheres: Strange Spheres Found In 3 Billion-Year-Old Rock
- Concretion on WIkipedia
- The 10 Most Not-So-Puzzling Ancient Artifacts: The Grooved Spheres on Archaeological Fantasies
- Exploration Mysteries: Yonaguni Monument on ExplorersWeb
- Japan's mysterious underwater 'city' on the BBC
- Was the legendary lost continent of Mu the 'real' Atlantis?
- Scientific American entry on Dorchester find, June 1852, "A Relic of a By-Gone Age"
- The Dorchester Vase on Genesis Park
- Dorchester Pot on Wikipedia
- The Book of the Damned by Charles Fort
- Worlds Before Our Own by Brad Steiger
- Mysteries of the Unexplained: How Ordinary Men and Women Have Experienced the Strange, the Uncanny, and the Incredible Reader's Digest book
- Ediacaran Period on Britannica
- If I Had a Hammer
- The London Hammer: It’s Real and It’s Fake on Naturalis Historia
- The Kingoodie Artifact on Stronghold Nation
- Those We Call Cavemen Were All That Remained Of Humanity After The Last Time We Destroyed Ourselves on Above Top Secret
- When Some 1920s Garbage Was Mistaken for an Ancient Artifact on Smithsonian
- Wedge of Aiud on RationalWiki
- The Mystery of Japan's Dogū Figures
- Ancient Dogu Figurines With Large Goggle-eyes Defy Scholarly Explanation on Ancient Origins
- Tolima "Fighter Jets" on Ancient Aliens Debunked
- The Saqqara Bird on Historic Wings
- The Saqqara Bird on Digging Up Ancient Aliens
- Submarines and the Hieroglyphics on Egypt Joy
- Helicopter Hieroglyphs? Debunking the “Mystery” of the Abydos Carvings on Ancient Origins.net
- Dendera lamp on RationalWiki
- The Dendera Light Bulb is a microdroplets fog made of sprayed water produced to achieve evaporative cooling inside the horizontal passage of the Great Pyramid of Khufu
- What the "Light Bulb" Relief Means at the Dendera Temple on The Archaeologist
- Was the Baghdad Battery really a battery? on BBC Science Focus
- Awful Archaeology Ep. 6: The Baghdad Battery video
- The "Baghdad Battery" on the Iron Skeptic
- The Unique Figurine In Idaho That Still Baffles Archaeologists To This Day on Only In Your State
- The Nampa Figurine: 2-million-year-old Relic or Just a Hoax? on Ancient Origins
- Multiregional Hypothesis: Human Evolutionary Theory on Thought Co.
- The Tan-Tan Venus
- Tan-Tan: The oldest known human representation? on The Bradshaw Foundation - The Art of the Ice Age
- Calixtlahuaca's Head at the University of New Mexico
- The Calixtlahuaca Head at Ohio State Archaeological Outliers
- 300 Million Years old Bell with Garuda found in Buckhannon, West Virginia
- The Mystery of the Bronze Bell encased within a Block of Coal on Metallic Man
- Genesis Park website
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Episode 119 | False-Flag-A-Go-Go (WIW 14)
The false flag trick started with naval warfare, but has also been used to initiate wars and to sabotage political opponents. And the conspirasphere uses the idea of the false flag, both in general and specific terms, quite often to justify certain narratives. In that regard, the two most influential are the assassination of John F. Kennedy, and the attacks in New York City and Washington D.C. on September 11, 2001. Since that latter event, nearly every major public incident has been called a false flag by someone or another.
Since today is September 11, this seems like a fitting time to look at false flags from history, because they do actually happen. Sometimes.
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- 03:10 - Talk of the Town - The Puumala incident, the Ems Dispatch, the Mukden incident, the Reichstag fire and the Lex van der Lubbe, the Gleiwitz incident, Operation Grandmother Died, Operation Himmler, pseudo-operations, the shelling of Mainila and the Winter War, the Gulf of Tonkin incident
- 14:11 - Mystery Achievement - Black propaganda, the Protocols of the Elders of Zion, the KGB's Section A, Operation Trust, the Zinoviev Letter, black propaganda post-9/11, the Roorback Forgery of 1844, the Canuck Letter, the Penkovsky Papers
- 25:50 - Sense of Purpose - Culture jamming, Let’s Go! Shell in the Arctic, Scientology's Brain-Washing: A Synthesis of the Russian Textbook on Psychopolitics, L. Ron Hubbard's "fair game", Operation Freakout, Operation AJAX, Operation Susannah ("Unfortunate Business"), the bombing of the King David Hotel, Herman Hanneken in Haiti, the Mau Mau Uprising, quintuple agent Silver
- 36:20 - Loose Screw - The U.S. hates Castro, Operation Mongoose, Operation Bingo, Operation Dirty Trick, Operation Northwoods, the Maine incident
- 42:02 - Break Up the Concrete - McCain volunteer "attacked", Joe Jobs, sporgery, trolling CPAC with flags, Turlas piggybacks on OilRig, false flag cyber-ops
- Music by Fanette Ronjat
More Info
- Examples of historical false flag/covert operations and false pretexts for war on Paradox Forum
- False flags: What are they and when have they been used? on BBC
- False-Flag Operations at the Hoover Institution
- A Guide to False Flag Operations on Grey Dynamics
- False flags are real, but far less widespread than social media suggest on Poynter
- The swedes stage a false flag attack against Russia! at On Wargames and Such
- Winter War: The 1939 Soviet Invasion Of Finland In Crystal-Clear Photos on Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty
- Revealed: the dark past of ‘Outcast’, MI6’s top wartime double agent
- Silver: The Spy Who Fooled the Nazis: The Most Remarkable Agent of The Second World War by Mihir Bose
- The many adventures and misadventures of 'Silver', a remarkable Indian spy
- Shell in the Arctic website
- The Scandal of Scientology by Paulette Cooper
- The story of Paulette Cooper
- Operation Freakout: an internal document from Scientology
- Fidel Castro: The CIA's 7 Most Bizarre Assassination Attempts on NBC News
- U.S. Military Wanted to Provoke War With Cuba on ABC News
- Inside Operation Northwoods, The U.S. Military Plot To Incite A War With Cuba on All That's Interesting
- Operation Northwoods document
- McCain Worker Made Up Attack Story on CBS News
- An Actual False-Flag Operation at CPAC in The Atlantic
- Russian hackers cloak attacks using Iranian group at BBC
- How Russia conducts false flag operations at US Embassy in the UK
- False Flag Theory | Psychics And Society on Medium
- How the term ‘false flag’ migrated to the right on the Columbia Journalism review
- Raising the False Flag of Conspiracy: What Are the Psychiatric Implications? at Psychiatric Times
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EPISODE 118 | Public Enemy Antifa
Much has been made about Antifa. Is it a concept, socio-political stance, or an organized group? Do they oppose oppression by any means necessary, or are they simply hooligans who want to break things? Or, as Trump and others in the Maga mirror world have suggested, are they the quasi-military arm of some insidious plot to undermine the very foundations of western society? Are they, in fact, terrorists? So, let’s trace what it is, where it comes from and who is part of it.
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- 02:05 - Bring the Noise - Antifaschistische Aktion (Antifa), skinhead culture, Anti-Racist Action (ARA), skins go left and right, White Aryan Resistance (WAR) the Heritage Front, Midwest Anti-Fascist Network, National Alliance, the NSM in Toledo, Ohio
- 11:30 - Shut 'em Down - The Hoosier Anti-Racist Movement (HARM) clash with the Illinois European Heritage Association, punch Nazis in the face, why the police protect them, police as legitimate targets, black bloc tactics, the New Sanctuary Movement, Milo Yiannopoulos goes to UC Berkeley
- 19:10 - Public Enemy No. 1 - Fake Antifa Twitter accounts spread #PunchWhiteWomen and #PunchANazi, Jebediah88 fakes The Antifa Manual, It's Going Down counters with Forming an Antifa Group: A Manual, Microchip sends petitions to Trump, the far-right goes all in of Antifa disinformation, molehill mountaineering, Lucian Wintrich worries about "Antifa supersoldiers"
- 25:39 - No Sympathy from the Devil - Louisiana police fall for "full list of antifa.docx", the American Identity Movement, CHiPs fall for "antifa buses", militias roam Coeur d’Alene, Idaho; Jeffersonians in Sonora, California become "rooftop rednecks", a family has a scary camping trip in Forks, Washington; Trump tells more lies
- 33:09 - Welcome to the Terrordome - Nonsense about Jan. 6, the Center for Strategic and International Studies creates a database of U.S. terrorist acts, Willem van Spronsen attacks an Immigration center in Washington, Patriot Prayer guy Aaron Danielson is killed by Michael Reinoehl, who is then killed by police; Trump crushes hard on the U.S. Marshalls
- Music by Fanette Ronjat
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- EPISODE 61 | The Great Replacement - The White Wing Goes Mainstream
- EPISODE 76 | Klown Kar - The KKK Can KMA (World Is Weird 8)
- EPISODE 101 | Panic! at the Disco - The Jan. 6 Event (WIW 12)
- EPISODE 117 | Stay Awake – The Wokeness Issue
- Antifa.org
- It's Going Down website
- The Long History of Antifa in The Progressive Magazine
- Who Are Antifa, and Are They a Threat? at the Center for Strategic & International Studies
- Inside the Underground Anti-Racist Movement that Brings the Fight to White Supremacists on Mother Jones
- What is antifa? Is it a group or an idea, and what do supporters want? on CBS News
- The Philosophy of Antifa video on Philosophy Tube
- The Antifa Comic Book: 100 Years of Fascism and Antifa by Gord Hill
- Antifa: A New Political Resistance? in the Berkeley Political Review
- Seven things you need to know about Antifa on BBC
- 11 Suggested Actions Towards Anti-Racism at UC Davis
- Anti-Racism Toolkit at Georgetown University
- Being Antiracist at the National Museum of African American History & Culture
- Antifa articles on Snopes
- EU Anti-racism Action Plan 2020-2025
- Antifa: The Anti-Fascist Antagonists of the Alt-Right video from The Daily Show
- Left Hook: A Brief History of Nazi Punching in America in Mother Jones
- Is Antifa Counterproductive? in The Intercept
- Thinking Strategically About Free Speech And Violence in Current Affairs
- Butterfly Attack: The Origins of the Fake Antifa Social Media Accounts on The Media Manipulation Casebook
- Twitter says fake "Antifa" account was run by white supremacists on CBS News
- From Alt Right to Alt Lite: Naming the Hate from the Anti-Defamation League
- A brief dictionary to help understand the US far right at Al Jazeera
- Prevalence of white supremacists in law enforcement demands drastic change on Reuters
- The Nov. 4 conspiracy theory about antifa has some scary historical echoes on Slate
- How the antifa conspiracy theory traveled from the fringe to the floor of Congress in USA Today
- Is This 'Antifa Manual' Real? on Snopes
- Forming An Antifa Group: A Manual on It's Going Down
- White House ‘antifa’ petition written by pro-Trump troll on Politico
- Family reportedly harassed in Forks after being accused of being members of Antifa
- Federal officers won’t be charged for killing Portland anti-fascist supporter, prosecutor states
- 'I Am Antifa': One Activist's Violent Death Became A Symbol For The Right And Left on NPR
- What we know about Portland shooting suspect Michael Reinoehl in The News Tribune
- Trump Cheered His Killing As ‘Retribution,’ Now His Family Is Suing in Court in Rolling Stone
- Family of activist killed in alleged ‘spray of bullets’ by US police files lawsuit on The Guardian
- The Escalating Terrorism Problem in the United States from the Center for Strategic & International Studies
- Pushed to Extremes: Domestic Terrorism amid Polarization and Protest from the Center for Strategic & International Studies
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EPISODE 117 | Stay Awake – The Wokeness Issue
In a classic example of the weird mirror world days we are currently moving through, a term used by Black people to mean one thing has been turned by opportunists into something totally different.
So, let's look at the origin of the term "woke", how it's been used, African-American Vernacular English (AAVE), the Black Lives Matter movement, Defund the Police, and the appropriating of the word by those who see more personal profit in keeping us all divided.
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- 02:23 - Hi Diddle Dee Dee (An Actor's Life For Me) - Jive talk/hep talk/Harlemese/Ebonics/AAVE, "stay woke"
- 10:53 - Someday My Prince Will Come - Black Lives Matter, Campaign Zero, M4BL
- 15:44 - Little April Shower - Defund the Police, support drops drastically
- 21:07 - Pink Elephants on Parade - All lives matter, white lives matter, blue lives matter, Russian trolls try to start a race war, #fakehashtags, athletes kneel in protest
- 26:59 - I Wan’na Be Like You - "Woke" becomes a snarl term, cancel culture rises, Cultural Marxism, the mirror world ascendant
- 33:55 - Heigh Ho - Musk's "woke mind virus" (WMV); DeSantis declares war with the PREA ("Don't Say Gay") and Stop WOKE, fights with the Mouse, babbles about Critical Race Theory
- 41:00 - Zip-a-Dee-Doo-Dah - Woke Christianity, woke Capitalism, corporate sociopolitical activism (CSA); John Ringo, ConCarolinas and Go Woke, Go Broke; Boycotts against Nike, Gillette, United Airlines, Disney, Bud Light
- 49:50 - Cruella De Vril - GAG targets Target, astroturfing, DeSantis goes after DEI programs
- 53:30 - Second Star to the Right - How it all has come to this
- Music by Fanette Ronjat
More Info
- EPISODE 40 | When Nerds Attack - Gamergate, Elevatorgate & Sad Puppies
- EPISODE 41 | Critical Race Theory - Re-examining "Normal"
- EPISODE 61 | The Great Replacement - The White Wing Goes Mainstream
- EPISODE 100 | Conspirasphere Rising - A Talk w/Derek Arnold
- EPISODE 106 | Suffer the Children – Pizzagate, Wayfair & the Seeds of QAnon
- Stay Awake: Various Interpretations of Music from Vintage Disney Films
- A history of “wokeness” on Vox
- Wokeness: A Brief History of Wokeness, Woke Culture, and Staying Woke by University Press
- Cab Calloway’s “Hepster Dictionary,” a 1939 Glossary of the Lingo (the “Jive”) of the Harlem Renaissance
- Prof. Cab Calloway’s Swingformation Bureau on Cult Jones, Books for Visionaries
- Ebony + Phonics on PBS
- EBONICS: Its Origins and Significance on Our Time Press
- Oakland School District Recognizes Black English in the Los Angeles Times
- Lessons from the media’s coverage of the 1996 Ebonics controversy
- Stay Woke: The Black Lives Matter Movement video
- The Origin Of Woke: William Melvin Kelley Is The 'Woke' Godfather We Never Acknowledged
- Black Lives Matter website
- Campaign Zero website
- M4BL website
- Fake 'BLM Manifesto' Is Taken From Italian Fascism Document
- What Does Defund the Police Mean? at the Police Brutality Center
- What Do “Defund the Police” and “Police Abolition” Mean? And What Do They Not Mean? on Close Up Washington DC
- 7 myths about “defunding the police” debunked on the Brookings website
- Why saying "all lives matter" communicates to Black people that their lives don't on CBS News
- White Lives Matter on SPLC
- Blue Lives Matter on Participedia
- Virtual Hatred: How Russia Tried to Start a Race War in the United States - paper by William Aceves
- Me Too website
- Americans and ‘Cancel Culture’: Where Some See Calls for Accountability, Others See Censorship, Punishment at Pew Research Center
- Is Cancel Culture Effective? at University of Southern Florida
- What Is Cancel Culture and What Does It Mean in 2024? on Vice
- Cancel Culture: Myth or Reality? paper abstract
- Why we can’t stop fighting about cancel culture on Vox
- ‘Marxists are brainwashing us’: The conspiracy theory taking hold among some on the right in El Pais
- Cultural Marxism: An Antisemitic Conspiracy Theory? - briefing form Antisemitism Policy Trust
- How sport became a vehicle for far-right conspiracy theories
- Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World by Naomi Klein
- When brands go woke, do they go broke? on The Chartered Institute of Marketing
- A First-Amendment Case for Freedom from the Woke Religion on New Discourses
- On National Beer Day 2024, the US is drinking more Modelo than Bud Light as NA brews rise
- This Gay Conservative Twitter Account Is the Latest Trying to Use Drag to Stir Outrage
- Is ‘Gays against Groomers’ the new Libs of TikTok? on the Daily Dot
- Astroturfing on The Midea Manipulation casebook
- Target’s Pride collection features ‘tuck-friendly’ swimsuits for adults, not kids on AP News
- The feud between Ron DeSantis and Disney, explained on Vox
- Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis signs a bill banning DEI initiatives in public colleges on NPR
- Gov. Ron DeSantis' war on 'woke' appears to be losing steam in Florida on NPR
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EPISODE 116 | High(er) Strangeness w/Eric Bickernicks
Guest: Eric Bickernicks, writer, author of High Strangeness and Higher Strangeness
What does a guy who's made novelty songs, short comedy videos, an indie film for $32k, kettle corn aplenty, and a novel about art theft do next? If he's Eric Bickernicks, he writes two books about UFOs, hoaxes, alien thoughts, UFO cults, gullibility and Cape Cod.
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- 02:49 - High/Higher Strangeness and other books, pranksters, unintended consequences, UFO cults, Cape Cod minus buzzards
- 13:16 - Aliens and fiction become folklore, truly alien aliens
- 19:42 - Crop circles, re-hoaxing, not bright guys, Hanlon's Razor, emotional processing is conservative, lazy writing, fridge logic, butts in seats, good writing can happen, fold-your-laundry content, ignorance is a right
- 32:56 - Believe in God never really goes away, we've evolved to be paranoid, nihilism is stressful
- 40:45 - Rampant existentialism, keeping busy, novelty songs, kicking Weird Al's ass, A Dead Guy
- Music by Fanette Ronjat
More Info
- A Dead Guy - the website of Eric Bickernicks
- High Strangeness has its own website
- Eric Bickernicks on Amazon
- Rampant Existentialism
- alt.sex - Eric's indie film
- The Defectives - Eric and another guy's novelty songs
- Dr. Demento website
- More of Eric's Crap
- The Buzzards Bay Coalition
- Buzzards Bay Brewing - because why not?
- The New England Science Fiction Association, Inc. - the genre bullies who reject Eric
- 9 Outrageous Pranks in History
- 7 of History's Greatest Pranks
- The Merry Pranksters And the Art of the Hoax - NYT
- The Logistical Challenges of a Supersize Acid Test: On the Merry Pranksters’ Trips Festival
- THIS IS AMERICA: Twilight of a Merry Prankster
- Research Books - Pranks!
- UFOs Keep Appearing in the News. Here’s Why We Can’t Quit Them - Scientific American
- UFO Mania Is Out of Control. Please Stop. - Washington Post
- List of UFO-related hoaxes on Wikipedia
- 4 INFAMOUS UFO HOAXES REVEALED | The Proof is Out There - video
- Alien 'Hoaxes' That Went Viral From Roswell's Flying Saucers to Mexican & Australian X-Files - Spyscape
- Crop circles: Cynical hoax, natural phenomenon or proof of alien life? - The Independent
- Crop Circles: The Art of the Hoax - Smithsonian
- Circlemakers - website for people who make crop circles
- Hanlon’s Razor: Not Everyone is Out to Get You
- Fridge Logic on TV Tropes
- The 5 Basic Laws of Human Stupidity
- The Stupidity Quotient by Dennis L. Holeman, The Systems Perspective
- The Darwin Awards website
- Are Americans Just Stupid? - Psychology Today
- The reason why America has become 'uniquely stupid'
- Stupid People: Our Society is Succumbing
- Why Do Stupid People Rule the World?
- Stupid People Are Surprisingly Confident - How Stuff Works
- Bonhoeffer’s “theory of stupidity”: We have more to fear from stupid people than evil ones - Big Think
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EPISODE 115 | Cuckoo Coups in the U.S.
Alarmist rhetoric has been used multiple times in America’s past with the express intent of fomenting a rebellion or even a coup. The game is to create a sense of urgency in the hopes that enough people will commit to extreme actions, so you can get what you want (which is power).
According to Wikipedia, there have been 13 coup attempts in the United States since it won its independence from the British crown, plus an additional 29 rebellions and well, lots of moments of civil unrest. Things are not always happy and peaceful in the Land of the Free. Often because some people don’t think everyone should, in fact, be free.
Here's a look at those that occurred before the 20th century.
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- 02:54 - Early Daze - Bacon's Rebellion, Virginia (1676); the Newburgh Conspiracy (1783) and George Washington's spectacles, the Pennsylvania Mutiny (1783)
- 09:16 - Dorr's Rebellion - Rhode Island (1841)
- 11:47 - The Status of Slavery - Slave revolt in Orleans (1811), Nat Turner's Rebellion in Virginia (1831); largest slave escape (1842), the Kansas-Nebraska Act (1854), Bleeding Kansas (1854-1859), John Brown's raid on Harper's Ferry in Virginia (1859), states secede (1861), Sam Houston deposed in Texas, militia groups form throughout the South after the Civil War
- 18:31 - Brindletails and Minstrels - The Brooks–Baxter War in Arkansas (1874)
- 25:23 - The Battle of Liberty Place, New Orleans (1874) - Rise of the White League and another city under siege, the Compromise of 1877 ends Reconstruction
- 33:53 - The Jaybird-Woodpecker War, Texas (1888)
- 37:47 - The Secret Nine and the Wilmington Insurrection in North Carolina (1898) - The Populists and Fusionists, the Secret Nine and the Committee of Twenty-Five, the Red Shirts
- Music by Fanette Ronjat
Lapsus Linguae: At 33:44, I say the Wilmington Insurrection was also in the 1880s, but it was not.
More Info
- EPISODE 69 | Electoral Collage – Voter Fraud, Election Interference & Other Shenanigans
- EPISODE 76 | Klown Kar - The KKK Can KMA
- Bacon's Rebellion on Historic Jamestowne page on the National Park Service website
- George Washington and the Newburgh Conspiracy, 1783 at The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History
- The Pennsylvania Mutiny - This Day in History - June 20, 1783 on The Constitutional Walking Tour
- The Dorr Rebellion on Rhode Tour
- Our Hidden History: Racism and Black suffrage in the Dorr Rebellion in The Providence Journal
- The Enslaved Peoples’ Uprising of 1811 on New Orleans Historical
- Nat Turner’s Revolt (1831) on Encyclopedia Virginia
- Kansas-Nebraska Act (1854) at the National Archives
- Bleeding Kansas on the American Battlefield Trust
- Bleeding Kansas: From the Kansas-Nebraska Act to Harpers Ferry on Civil War on the Western Border
- Remembering John Brown’s Raid on Harpers Ferry on ReImagine Appalachia
- Sam Houston and Texas Secession on the Abbeville Institute
- The 1858 New Orleans Mayoral Election on Emerging Civil War
- Brooks-Baxter War on Encyclopedia of Arkansas
- Battle of Liberty Place on 64 Parishes
- The Battle of Liberty Place: A Matter of Historical Perception on 64 Parishes
- March 1, 1874: White League Formed on the Zinn Education Project
- Louisiana White League Platform (1874) on Facing History & Ourselves
- 34 Documented Mass Lynchings During the Reconstruction Era
- The Compromise of 1877 on the Khan Academy
- Jaybird-Woodpecker War on Texas State Historical Association
- THE JAYBIRD-WOODPECKER WAR (1888-1889) on BlackPast
- Wilmington Massacre and Coup d’état of 1898 – Timeline of Events on New Hanover County Cape Fear Museum
- Wilmington 1898: When white supremacists overthrew a US government on the BBC
- The Wilmington Massacre of 1898 at the Equal Justice Initiative
- The Lost History of an American Coup D’État in The Atlantic
- America’s Only Successful Coup d’Etat Overthrew a Biracial Government in 1898 on History.com
- A North Carolina city begins to reckon with the massacre in its white supremacist past on NPR
- The 1898 Wilmington Massacre Is an Essential Lesson in How State Violence Has Targeted Black Americans in Time
- 'Better organized, more disciplined': Capitol rioters mirror Red Shirts in 1898 Wilmington Coup in Wilmington Star News
- A Tale of Two Insurrections
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EPISODE 114 | All Your Base Are Belong to Us – US Military Installations
The United States spends more on their military than the next nine countries combined. With around 450 bases (or maybe 500 or maybe 750 or maybe 800 or even more) operating more than 111,000 installations in 80 or more countries, there’s a lot to keep track of. In fact, no one is really sure how accurate those numbers are, since a lot of places are deemed classified or even top secret, and yes, cover stories have sometimes been deployed.
Some of the things we do know about are pretty interesting and often sad or infuriating, depending on your outlook. And yet that’s not enough for some folks, who feel the need to fill in the gaps with long, complicated conspiracy narratives that are better suited to novels than anywhere else.
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- 02:43 - Living in Danger - "Wargames", NORAD, Cheyenne Mountain, Mount Yamantau and the Perimeter System
- 08:14 - Happy Nation - Granite Mountain, Utah Data Center and PRISM; Dugway Proving Ground, CHASE and the Sheep Kill Incident; the Deseret Test Center at Fort Douglas, Project 112 and SHAD; Nellis AFB, Pahute Mesa and the Tolicha Peak Electronic Combat Range
- 17:14 - Waiting for Magic - Area 51, OXCART/D-21/Tagboard, Operation Diamond, AQUATONE and the U2, Majestic 12 stuff, the alien autopsy, Sean David Morton, Bob Lazar, Dan Burisch, Bill Moore, Storm Area 51, the Yucca Mountain Nuclear Waste Repository and the Tonopah Test Range, Area 6
- 23:08 - The Sign - Edwards AFB, Plant 42 and Site 10; 1957 UFO sighting at Kirtland AFB, Paul Bennewitz, Richard Doty and Yucca Mountain
- 32:03 - Always Have, Always Will - Wright-Patterson AFB, Hangar 18 and T-2; Camp Hero, the Montauk Project, Lab 257 on Plum Island; COG sites - Mount Weather and TWA flight 514; Raven Rock and Site R
- 37:23 - Never Gonna Say I'm Sorry - Fort Detrick, USAMRIID, Building 470, Operation Whitecoat, Operation INFEKTION/Denver
- 42:34 - Don't Turn Around - Fort Hunt and P.O. Box 1142, Camp Peary and The Farm (Veritania)
- 46:03 - All That She Wants - The Anniston Chemical Agent Disposal Facility, Naval Air Station Jacksonville and Hangar 511
- 47:49 - Wheel of Fortune - James Casbolt's DUMBs
- Music by Fanette Ronjat
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- EPISODE 31 | Scammers, Inc. - MJ-12, Bennewitz & Serpo
- EPISODE 44 | The Philadelphia Experiment & the Montauk Project - Time Tunnel Vision
- EPSIODE 85 | Project Pegasus - Mars and Beyond!
- EPISODE 94 | Peek-A-Boo: Project Star Gate
- THE UNITED STATES SPENDS MORE ON DEFENSE THAN THE NEXT 9 COUNTRIES COMBINED
- The World's 30 Strangest Military Bases in Popular Mechanics
- Listverse's 10 Not-So-Secret Classified Military Installations
- No Trespassing: America’s Ultra-Secret Sites on Spyscape
- 10 Military Bases More Secret Than Area 51 on Serve
- Most Interesting TOP SECRET US Military Facilities on Covert Cabal channel (video)
- 15 Most Secret Military Bases on Top Fives channel (video)
- 15 Most ADVANCED Military Bases on Top Fives channel (video)
- Worlds Most Famous Secret Bases on Sideprojects channel (video)
- 13 secrets of NORAD and Cheyenne Mountain on Denver ABC 7
- The Granite Mountain Records Vault - take the virtual tour
- Military Mystery Solved: Two Guys Out-Googled Google for an Image of Secretive US Base on LiveScience
- Tolicha Peak Electronic Combat Range at Otherhand.org
- UFOs seen near Nellis Air Force Base which is home to aliens, conspiracy theorist claims
- Revealed: How Area 51 Hid Secret Craft
- Alien Autopsy video
- Area 51 warning: Man shot dead for trying to enter military base
- The Secret Facility "Hangar 18" Crashed UFOs in Ohio's Wright-Patterson Air Force Base (video)
- Air Force Names Wright-Patterson’s Hangar 18 as Newest Software Factory
- How the Death of 6,000 Sheep Spurred the American Debate on Chemical Weapons
- National Air and Space Intelligence Center (NASIC)
- ALIEN WAR and The Horrors of Dulce Underground Base on The Why Files channel (video)
- Long hidden, a Nazi-interrogation unit gets its due
- Spy School Confidential: CIA Officers Spill Secrets About ‘the Farm’ on Spyscape
- EX-CIA AGENT TELLS OF SIX-WEEK PEARY COURSE extract from the Richmond Times Dispatch, 1972
- Operation Whitecoat on PBS Religion & Ethics Weekly
- Article on Hangar 511 titled Hangar Life
- James Casbolt MI6 -Buried Alive pdf
- Underground Bases, Missing Children and Extra-Terrestrials 2006 testimony by James Casbolt
- Agent Buried Alive - a whole bunch of Casbolt/Project Mannequin stuff
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EPISODE 113 | Power Is Power: The Vulnerable Electrical Grid
Guest: Chris Underwood, author of the The Cold Winter series
Our digital age needs electricity more than anything else. But what would happen is part of the power grid went down during one of the worst winter storms in history? That's the premise of Chris Underwood's thriller series The Cold Winter. The fact is that power grid is vulnerable, and a series of low-tech in recent years have highlighted some serious problems that have still not been addressed.
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- 02:35 - A look at the first two novels, the inspiration and overall plot
- 09:10 - The third book, the history of the Ohio River, companies still use COBOL, Huey helicopters and LST-235
- 13:56 - Blackouts inspire the Pentagon to commission the report Brittle Power, it all costs money, attacks against the grid in the 70s and later - the Metcalf Sniper Attacks, Russian hacks by Grizzly Steppe, transformers made in China, Jason Woodring's Arkansas attacks, a neo-Nazi couple in Baltimore, human attacks increasing, power stations themselves need power
- 24:20 - Weaponizing extreme climate, HAARP, the Walking Dead with weather, people become extreme in extreme situations
- 27:47 - Four types of threats, false flags
- 32:57 - We ship coal to China, cold fusion holdouts, education is the cure, the cavalry is not coming
- 37:38 - Point Pleasant's Mothman Festival, The Creatures of Holden Beach, this is a different Chris Underwood, prepper conventions, the Dayton Air Show
- Music by Fanette Ronjat
More Info
- Chris Underwood website
- The Cold Winter series by Chris Underwood
- The Mist by Stephen King
- The Road by Cormac McCarthy
- How a butterfly's wing can bring down Goliath / Chaos theories calculate the vulnerability of megasystems
- Blackouts cause N America chaos
- Hacking The Electric Grid Is Damned Hard
- Keeping the electric grid safe from attack
- Sophisticated but low-tech power grid attack baffles authorities
- U.S. Power Grid Vulnerable to Attack: Congressional Research Service
- Attacks on power substations are growing. Why is the electric grid so hard to protect?
- How the US power grid is a target for far-right groups
- The story of Jason Woodring, the Arkansas power grid vandal
- Southern Idaho Man Sentenced for Destruction of Energy Facility After Shooting at Idaho Power Hydroelectric Plants
- Sniper attack on California power grid may have been 'an insider,' DHS says
- Physical attacks on power grid surge to new peak
- Extremists keep trying to trigger mass blackouts — and that’s not even the scariest part
- What is going on with attacks on American power stations?
- Brittle Power: Energy Strategy for National Security by Amory B. Lovins and L. Hunter Lovins
- Electric Power Grid 'Inherently Vulnerable' to Terrorist Attacks
- Girding the Grid in Security Management
- Scientists successfully replicate historic nuclear fusion breakthrough three times
- A Bridge Too Far: The Mothman Visits Point Pleasant episode
- Mothman Festival website
- The Creatures of Holden Beach.....And the Murder they did NOT Commit! by Chris Underwood
- Prepper Camp
- The Dayton Air Show
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EPISODE 112 | GESARA & the Red Caesar
What do proposed economic reforms, the idea of a post-constitutional American dictator and Christian Nationalism have in common? Donald Trump, for starters - at least for some people. Scammers and grifters of all stripes find common ground with would-be authoritarians in a weird confluence of conspiracy narratives that hope to create and capitalize on chaos to further their own agendas.
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- 02:00 - NESARA Nest Eggs - Harvey Francis Barnard drains the swamp, the Dove of Oneness swaps Judy "Zebra" Knight and Ramtha for the Omega Trust and becomes the first 9/11 "truther", various weirdos like Sheldan Nidle, Jennifer Lee, Sherry Shriner and channelers jump aboard and lay the groundwork for QAnon
- 10:26 - The GESARA that Lays the Golden Eggs - White Dragons, Alcuin Bramerton and other scammers promise an end to debt
- 13:39 - Solace in Quantum - The Quantum Financial System, Quantum AI, Comte St. Germain, lots of metals, the Alliance await Q Day
- 20:20 - Red Caesar - Kevin Slack hates modernism, loves the Roman Empire
- 23:54 - Caesarism - Tracing the term, the Claremont Institute is more dangerous than you suspect
- 27:56 - The Flight 93 Election - Alexander Michael Black likes Red Caesar, Michael Anton tortures a metaphor but finds a new career
- 33:36 - Haywood for Warlord - Shampoo king and "Maximum Leader" Charles Haywood founds the Society for American Civic Renewal, builds a compound and organizes private militias
- 38:14 - King of the Seven Mountains - Stephen Wolfe makes the case for Christian Nationalism, Lance Wallnau sells coins; Rafael Cruz, Paula White-Cain, Michele Bachman, Lauren Boebert and Mike Johnson scale the Seven Mountains
- 40:42 - A Clear and Present Danger - Trump's words vs his track record, a possible "revenge term", watch out for the sucker fish, Wisconsin tries to hobble Justice Janet Protasiewicz, North Carolina gives Gov-Ops sweeping powers, Ron DeSantis creates not one but two private militias
- 47:45 - True Grift - The monetization of narrative and attention, Trump is all things to all grifters, the future might be just more chaos or it might be something worse
- Music by Fanette Ronjat
More Info
- Draining the Swamp: The NESARA Story by Harvey F. Barnard
- Conspiracy Watch: The Best Law Ever in Mother Jones
- Dove of Oneness/NESARA founder Shaini Goodwin page on Cult Education Institute website
- The Nesara Cult and Qanon's Origins video on Behind the Bastards
- Ramtha's School of Enlightenment website
- QAnon Teams Up With Alleged Cult Leader on Daily Beast
- Still waiting for NESARA?
- Draining the Swamp: Monetary and Fiscal Policy Reform by Harvey F. Barnard
- Galactic Human Activation Materials for sale
- Deepfake Quantum AI Investment Scam Pops Up on Facebook
- Nesara: The financial fantasy ruining lives on BBC Sounds
- Inside the QAnon Crypto Scam That Cost People Millions and One Man His Life
- Project Leap: Quantum-proofing the financial system by the Bank for International Settlements
- Project Leap pdf
- NESARA and The Mark of The Beast by Dr. Scott Young
- Scott Young's YouTube channel
- The Quantum Financial System Manual of GESARA-NESARA & XRP
- GESARA/QFS map
- Quantum Financial System (QFS): Revolutionizing Finance or Conspiracy Theory? on CoinCodex YouTube
- Prosperity at Risk: The Quantum Computer Threat to the US Financial System video from the Hudson Institute ( four white guys complaining)
- Exposing the Quantum AI Investment Scam on Blossom Social YouTube
- War on the American Republic: How Liberalism Became Despotism by Kevin Slack
- The Claremont Institute
- The Red Caesar Code: A guidebook for the installation of the American dictator by Alexander Michael Black
- Calls for an American Julius Caesar are ignorant, dangerous on R Street
- ‘Red Caesarism’ is rightwing code – and some Republicans are listening in The Guardian
- Red Caesarism threatens democracy and the rule of law in the Concord Monitor
- The right's "Red Caesar" plan: GOP's new order marches onward — only voters can stop it on Salon
- Red Caesar and the Next Regime on Rick Wilson's substack
- The Flight 93 Election by Michael Anton ("Publius Decius Mus")
- After the Flight 93 Election: The Vote that Saved America and What We Still Have to Lose by Michael Anton
- Flight 93 and Our National Disease on Law & Liberty
- How Michael Anton’s ‘Flight 93 Election’ Essay Defined the Trump Era in New York Magazine
- Departing the Shining City from the Cato Institute
- The Crash of the Flight 93 Presidency on Politico
- The Stakes: America at the Point of No Return by Michael Anton
- Charles Haywood's review of Anton's The Stakes
- Up from Conservatism: Revitalizing the Right after a Generation of Decay by Arthur Milikh
- Society for American Civic Renewal (SACR) archived website
- The Worthy House - Towards a Politics of Future Past website by Charles Haywood
- US businessman is wannabe ‘warlord’ of secretive far-right men’s network in The Guardian
- The Case for Christian Nationalism by Stephen Wolfe
- The Rise of Right-Wing Wokeism (review of Wolfe's book)
- Beware the 'Christian Prince' (another review of Wolfe's book)
- Of Gods and Men: A Long Review of Wolfe’s Case for Christian Nationalism (a long review of Wolfe's book)
- Televangelist’s show sells $45 Trump coin as ‘point of contact’ to God
- Pastor Paula White calls on angels from Africa and South America to bring Trump victory
- 'The Lord says it is done': White House spiritual adviser Paula White prays for 'angels from Africa' to cement Trump's re-election
- Tracing the rise of Christian nationalism, from Trump to the Ala. Supreme Court on NPR (audio)
- How Evangelicals Lose Will Make All the Difference
- Ali Velshi warns of the fringe Seven Mountains doctrine going Mainstream
- The Radical GOP’s “Seven Mountains Mandate” on The Big Picture
- Trump-O-Meter on PolitiFact
- ‘A revenge term’: what would another four years of Trump look like? from The Guardian
- Trump Warns He Could ‘Certainly’ Indict Political Opponents if He’s Reelected
- Ex-RNC Chair's Stark Warning on 'Threat' Posed by Donald Trump
- Impeach Justice Janet Protasiewicz? Here’s what’s missing from debate
- Wisconsin Republicans Walk Back Efforts to Impeach Newly Elected State Supreme Court Justice Protasiewicz
- North Carolina Republicans create "secret police force"
- NC lawmakers exempt themselves from public records laws while Democrats blast 'secret police' powers
- Ron DeSantis plans Florida paramilitary force outside federal control
- Governor Ron DeSantis Unveils the Florida State Guard
- The Dangers of DeSantis's Militia on the Southern Poverty Law Center
- America's most effective fascism enforcers are bored boomers, not youthful brawlers
- My QAnon Date
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EPISODE 111 | Us vs. Them: Antisemitism Goes to School
Guest: Scott Shay, president of Chai Mitzvah and author of Conspiracy U
Hamas forces swept into Israel on October 7, 2023, committing atrocities and taking hostages. Literally the next day, American student groups were blaming Israel. Protests on campuses began to multiply and today the situation seems out of control and pro-Israel and pro-Palestine groups go at one another while school administrations react heavy-handedly. What's behind all the shrill rhetoric?
Scott Shay's 2021 book Conspiracy U looked at antisemitic trends on American campuses, and saw an uptick in sales at the end of last year as some of the things he'd talked about seemed to be coming to the fore. He shares some of his thoughts as to what is going on today on American universities.
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- 02:57 - The Double Standard - There's no equality in otherization
- 15:29 - Totem and Taboo - Logos, ethos, and pathos, political intent in conspiracy theories
- 24:53 - Facts and Integrity - Digital and information literacy is lacking, the line between hate speech and threat
- 29:35 - Trends or Tactics - Weaponizing plagiarism, economic antisemitism, BDS started on the far right
- 42:52 - Jewish Otherness - Anti-idolatry threatens god-king-pharaohs
- Music by Fanette Ronjat
More Info
- Chai Mitzvah
- Conspiracy U: A Case Study by Scott Shay
- In Good Faith: Questioning Religion and Atheism by Scott Shay
- Getting Our Groove Back: How to Energize American Jewry by Scott Shay
- The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements by Eric Hoffer
- A new wave of antisemitism threatens to rock an already unstable world on CNN
- Defining Antisemitism of the US State Department website
- What elite universities — and their critics — get wrong about campus antisemitism on Vox
- Major events in Pro-Palestinian protests at US universities on Reuters
- How pro-Palestinian protests unfolded on college campuses across the US: A timeline on ABC News
- Echoes of Vietnam war protest — A timeline of America's Student Spring
- Where are the US college campus protests and what is happening? in The Guardian
- As Columbia University protests on Israel-Hamas war come to a head, what to know
- Students protested for Palestine before Israel was even founded
- Is Hate Speech Legal? on TheFire.org
- Hate speech versus freedom of speech on the United Nations
- Why We Must Reject Efforts to Restrict Constitutionally Protected Speech on College Campuses on ACLU.org
- Pro-Palestinian campus protests are evolving. Here’s what to watch on PBS
- Student Protests in America Now: Is the Juice Worth the Squeeze?
- Why Palestinians can count on American students but not Arab allies to protest
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- DIGITAL SIGNAGE DONE RIGHT - Winner of a 2022 Gold Quill Award, 2022 Gold MarCom Award, 2021 AVA Digital Award Gold, 2021 Silver Davey Award, 2020 Communicator Award of Excellence, and on numerous top 10 podcast lists.
- PRAGUE TIMES - A city is more than just a location - it’s a kaleidoscope of history, places, people and trends. This podcast looks at Prague, in the center of Europe, from a number of perspectives, including what it is now, what is has been and where it’s going. It’s Prague THEN, Prague NOW, Prague LATER
EPISODE 110 | How to Be a Fascist
People use the term "Fascist" a lot these days, but do they really know what that means? Fascism is a very specific combination of ideas and goals that occurred within very clear historical and philosophical contexts.
This is a look at where Fascism came from, Mussolini's rise to power, and variations and offshoots of the first Fascist ideologies. And while not everyone you don't like is a "Fascist", there are some actual fascists out there, and they are not being all that quiet.
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- 02:33 - The Future Refusing to Be Born - General characteristics of Fascism
- 10:52 - The Measles of Mankind - Mussolini encounters the Völkisch Movement, Carlism, Integralism, Adapted Syndicalism, Sorelianism and Maurassism; rises high in the Revolutionary Socialist movement, is kicked out of the movement, starts the Fascists
- 19:07 - How to Get There from Here - Fascism kicks off in 1919, the Fiume Republic of Gabriele D’Annunzio, the 1921 Fascist platform, disorder and fighting in Italy, Mussolini as PM in October 1922
- 25:33 - Mussolini makes changes 1923-1925, the Fascist takeover is completed Nov. 1925-Nov. 1926
- 30:21 - We Ain't There. Yet. - Hitler was inspired, as were Franco and Salazar; the US has never seen similar conditions
- 33:41 - A Smörgåsbord of BS - Corporatism, neo-Corporatism and Tripartism; Ultranationalism, Strasserism, Falangism
- 39:13 - Neo-Fascism, Neo-Nazism, Esoteric Nazism - Savitri Devi, Robert Charroux, Miguel Serrano and Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke
- 43:03 - Clerical Fascism, British Israelism, Christian Identity
- 46:01 - White Nationalism, White Separatism, Apartheid
- 47:21 - The British National Front, Third Position, diagonalism and the "cross-front", Black Nationalism, Hutu Power
- 50:47 - National-Anarchism
- 52:44 - To Infinity and Beyond! - Islamofascism, Saddam Hussein's spin on Ba'athism, Muammar al-Gaddafi used leftwing rhetoric for rightwing aims
- 53:58 - The current threat of Accelerationism
- 56:43 - Active Fascist political parties today, what we can do
- Music by Fanette Ronjat
More Info
- RationalWiki page on Fascism
- Fascism definition on Britannica
- Is This Fascism? on Slate
- What is fascism? on LiveScience
- Mussolini's 10 Pillars of Fascism
- How Fascism Works: The Politics of Us and Them by Jason Stanley
- The Anatomy of Fascism by Robert O. Paxton
- Introducing Fascism: A Graphic Guide by Litza Jansz and Stuart Hood
- GLEICHSCHALTUNG: COORDINATING THE NAZI STATE
- Mussolini: A study in power by Ivone Kirkpatrick
- Mussolini and Italian Fascism by Hamish MacDonald
- World Fascism: A Historical Encyclopedia edited by Cyprian Blamires
- A History of Fascism, 1914–1945 by Stanley G. Payne
- Strongmen: Mussolini to the Present by Ruth Ben-Ghiat
- The Problem of Fascism in Everyday Life paper by G. V. Loewen
- Ur-Fascism essay by Umberto Eco
- Fascism: Past, Present, Future by Walter Laqueur
- Fascism: A Warning by Madeleine Albright
- The Problem With Using Fascist as a Political Insult
- The overuse and abuse of ‘fascism’
- Column: The use and misuse of the word ‘fascism’
- On The Use And Abuse Of The Term “Fascism” To Describe Current Events
- Fascism: Who is and isn't a fascist, and how you can tell the difference
- It’s Time to Use the F-word: An Anti-fascist Approach to Trump and Franco
- Is Donald Trump a Fascist?
- On American Fascism: The Fascist Rhetoric of Donald Trump and The Right Wing-Media paper by Aaron Huff
- How fascist is Donald Trump? -- a 2016 assessment revisited
- Eco-fascism: justifications of terrorist violence in the Christchurch mosque shooting and the El Paso shooting
- A CHORUS OF VIOLENCE: JACK DONOVAN AND THE ORGANIZING POWER OF MALE SUPREMACY
- The Strange, Strange Story of the Gay Fascists
- Fighting Fascism: How to Struggle and How to Win by Clara Zetkin
- On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century by Timothy Snyder
- How Dictatorships Work: Power, Personalization, and Collapse by Barbara Geddes, Joseph Wright and Erica Frantz
- A Brief History of Fascist Lies by Federico Finchelstein
- Twilight of Democracy: The Seductive Lure of Authoritarianism by Anne Applebaum
- How Democracies Die by Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt
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EPISODE 109| What's in a Name? The Shakespeare Authorship Debate
Guest: Scott Jackson, Mary Irene Ryan Executive Artistic Director of Shakespeare at the University of Notre Dame, current vice president of the Shakespeare Theatre Association (STA) and incoming president, actor, director and Shakespeare scholar
William Shakespeare wrote at least 36 plays, 154 sonnets, two narrative poems and a few shorter poems - more than 884,000 words total, more than 1700 of which he invented. But just who was this guy? Was he really "the Man from Stratford", or merely a pen name for... well someone else?
We look at some of the more popular Anti-Stratfordian theories and also look at why some people seem hell bent on proving that someone else, anyone else, actually wrote all that stuff.
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- 03:02 - Upstart Crow - No evidence of his education, the First Folio, not much biographical evidence, a common hand, Bardathon
- 12:28 - The Ireland Shakespeare Forgeries - Compiling the First Folio, Vortigern and Rowena gets most of a performance
- 19:13 - The Baconian Theory - Bardolotry, Hart's The Romance of Yachting, Robert W. Jameson's "Who Wrote Shakespeare?", James Wilmot makes a bonfire
- 24:19 - Delia Bacon goes for the Rutland Theory, then the Groupists Theory, then all in on Bacon, travels to England, gets into codes and ciphers, loses her mind, inspires the New Historicists and cultural poetics; William Henry Smith and Nathaniel Homes kick off the Baconist Theory
- 30:11 - Baconist Orville Ward Owen builds a machine to find "proof", the first Mock Trial (1892-93)
- 33:17 - The Derbyite Theory & the Marlovian Theory - Classism, partnership with Marlowe, death and pseudonyms
- 39:57 - The Rutlandite Theory & More - More classism, Baconists still persist, more expeditions from Owen, schoolteacher Elizabeth Wells Gallup gets into codes, Stylometrics, the Claremont Shakespeare Authorship Clinic
- 44:31 - The Oxfordian Theory - John Thomas Looney fingers Edward de Vere based on spurious logic, lots jump on this bandwagon, geography in Shakespeare, "the coast of Bohemia", the media focuses on "reasonable doubt" over evidence, how plays were written back then, evidence gets lost in time
- 50:18 - A Single Hand - Though there is some reasonable doubt, Shakespeare probably wrote Shakespeare; Applied Shakespeare, humanity owns him, Shakespeare as a force for good (PTSD therapy, in prisons, etc.)
- Music by Fanette Ronjat
More Info:
- Shakespeare Was Shakespeare by Isaac Butler on Slate
- Revisited Myth # 68: Shakespeare didn’t write Shakespeare on History Myths Debunked
- The Shakespeare Index on TheatreHistory.org
- 20 words and phrases you didn’t know Shakespeare invented
- Shakespeare's Words
- Shakespeare's Phrases
- Bard-a-thon at Fairbanks Shakespeare Theatre
- Ian McKellen performs Sir Thomas More, Act II, Scene 4 video
- "The Strangers' Case" Speech from Sir Thomas More with various speakers and annotations
- Professor Sir Stanley Wells
- Peter Holland, McMeel Family Chair in Shakespeare Studies at University of Notre Dame
- James Shapiro, playwright and Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University
- Stephen Greenblatt, general editor of The Norton Shakespeare, John Cogan University Professor of the Humanities at Harvard University
- The Shakespeare First Folio
- Vortigern and Rowena text
- The Confessions of William-Henry Ireland on WikiSource
- William Henry Ireland's Shakespeare Forgeries on Hoaxes.org
- Bardolotry on Wikipedia
- James Wilmot and Shakespeare's Authorship
- Bacon Bacon Shakespeare Spy
- The Doctor Who Designed a Cipher Wheel to Decode Shakespeare
- Theories of identity – the alleged Shakespeare mystery
- Marlowe as Shakespeare
- The Controversy of Shakespeare and Marlowe
- Christopher Marlowe Has Officially Been Credited as Co-Author of 3 Shakespeare Plays
- Born with Teeth by Liz Duffy Adams webpage
- Roger Manners, 5th Earl of Rutland on ShakespeareAuthorship.com
- Shakespeare by the Numbers: What Stylometrics Can and Cannot Tell Us
- The Claremont Shakespeare Clinic
- Computer Reads Shakespeare, Dismisses Authorship Candidate
- The Claremont Shakespeare Authorship Clinic: How Severe Are the Problems?
- The Globe theatre fire of 1613: when Shakespeare’s playhouse burned down
- The Great Fire of London
- Finding Shakespeare - Skeptoid podcast
- What Shakespeare can teach us about conspiracy theories today
- How Shakespeare describes post-traumatic stress disorder
- In Shakespeare, veterans find a “tower of strength”
- Shakespeare and Possibility, Part 1: Shakespeare in Prisons video
- Shakespeare in Prisons
- Shakespeare Theater Association
- Prague Shakespeare Company (Shakespeare Summer Intensive (SSI)
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EPISODE 108 | Swiftboating Redux: Taylor Swift Derangement Syndrome
She's the most successful pop star today, yet some people seem to suffer brain meltdowns when thinking about Taylor Swift. Call it TDSD, Taylor Swift Derangement Syndrome, and it takes hold especially in MAGAmaniacs, Trumpeteers, Trad Chads and broflakes.
Tracing the conspirasphere's treatment of Swift along with her career and life, including Kanyegate and the Masters Dispute, shows some interesting connections as TDSD spreads far and wide, outpaced only by her own wildly popular musical output.
THIS EPISODE MARKS THE BEGINNING OUR 5TH YEAR. THANKS FOR ALL THE SUPPORT!
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- 02:53 - Fearless - Beginning successes with Big Machine, first conspiracy theories
- 07:48 - Kanyegate - The 2009 MTV VMA Awards echoes through the years
- 11:47 - Speak Now - Swift as Satanic priestess, the reincarnation of Zeena Schreck (Lavay), or a clone; No, it's Becky
- 15:28 - Red - Kanye West pipes up again, moves to NYC, starts advocating for artists' rights
- 17:02 - 1989 - The Gaylor Theory and Taylor Swift Is Gay, the Squad, no belly button, goes after Spotify and Apple Music
- 21:25 - Bad Blood - Kanye West sends flowers, then makes a phone call about "Famous", Swifties and Squaddies respond, Swift supports young women, West freaks out backstage at SNL, Kim Kardashian tells fibs, the video for "Famous" keeps the flames fanned, Kim releases a short video of the phone call and promotes #KimExposedTaylorParty, "I would very much like to be excluded from this narrative", battle lines were drawn, snake memes proliferate, friendships are broken, they're all part of the Illuminati
- 29:47 - Out of the Woods - Harry Styles and Taylor Swift killed someone in 2012, David Mueller lawsuit, the $1, #MeToo kicks off, Time's "Silence Breakers"
- 33:08 - Reputation - Swift died, gave birth to a snake baby, is a clone (again), Scooter Braun and Swift's masters dispute, Swift threatens to re-record her first six albums, Big Machine tries to shackle Swift, "Karyn" the inflatable snake, MAGA takes notice of Swift, Qtips think Monte Lipman is Jeffrey Epstein
- 38:52 - You Need to Calm Down - Lover comes out, Covid-19 lockdown starts, the entire West-Swift call video is leaked, Swift takes the high road, the West flap has flashbacks and echoes, Swift hates the Statue of Liberty, some Squaddies defect, Swift gets down hard and retreats to London, watches movies with Joe Alwyn
- 42:30 - Folklore Evermore - folklore is the ultimate lockdown album, "cardigan" sells sweaters, Swifties tank Live from Clear Channel Stripped 2008, Scooter Braun stops his feet but then sells to Disney's Shamrock Holdings, evermore comes out in just five months
- 45:19 - Taylor's Version - Swift re-records and expands earlier work, reminds one of the Prince-Warner dispute, Braun makes a lot more money, the Carlyle Group tells Braun to make nice but he goes the other way, piss off the Swifties and find out, reminds one of Madonna and Brittany Spears, the attention economy is a new thing, Swift is too left wing for the alt-righties
- 50:48 - In the Midnight Era - Midnights and the Eras Tour, Swift gives back to her truck drivers, more Taylor's Versions, starts seeing Travis Kelce, Swifties register to vote, MAGA is worried Swift will endorse Biden, a slew of conspiracy theories (ice cream, human skin hat, CIA psy-ops agent, mind control master, AI-porn on Twitter, Trump says he's more popular than Swift, Trumpeteers declare a holy war on Swift, Kelce is gay), much nonsense about the Super Bowl, Trump wades in again, she's a golddigger and also super gross
- 58:14 - Scientific American looks into TSDS, The Tortured Poets Department is nigh
- Music by Fanette Ronjat
- Lapsus Linguae - At 10:15, I accidentally call the album Fearless "Fear", forgetting the "less". I also mistakenly call the song "You Belong With Me" You Belong to Me.
More Info:
- Donate to the World Health Organization
- Feeding America website
- Taylor Swift website
- Taylor Swift on Facebook
- Taylor Swift on Instagram
- Taylor Swift on YouTube
- Reasons why I love Taylor Swift by springapple
- r/TaylorSwift
- Swifties on Wikipedia
- Swifties on Taylor Swift fandom wiki
- Taylor Swift and the Swifties: A Love Story Forged in Song
- Why Taylor Swift's Fans Love Her So Much in Psychology Today
- Understanding Swifties’ mindsets using the Taylor/Travis love story
- 14 Outrageous-But-Accurate Taylor Swift Theories That Prove Swifties Are The Best Detectives
- Taylor Swift’s boyfriends: A timeline of all the megastar’s famous exes
- Taylor Swift Is Incredibly Good At Being A Celebrity
- A Timeline of Taylor Swift’s Generosity
- Let’s go down the rabbit hole of Taylor Swift conspiracy theories
- Style Theory: The Cult of Taylor Swift video
- The 15 Wildest Conspiracy Theories About Taylor Swift
- The Taylor Swift iceberg video
- The wildest Taylor Swift conspiracy theories, from Biden 2024 to a cat spy comedy
- Snopes articles about Taylor Swift
- The Taylor Swift Conspiracy Theory Iceberg video
- Taylor Swift Conspiracy Theories Hold Sway With 1 in 5 Americans
- I'm losing my friends to Taylor Swift conspiracies :(
- Decoding Taylor Swift Conspiracies and Outrage on The Center for Inquiry
- Taylor Swift, Harry Styles and a wild internet theory about a snow mobile
- Taylor Swift Has A Japanese Doppelganger Who Starred In A McDonald’s Ad
- Does an Image Show Taylor Swift Hawking an Electric Burner?
- Numbers You Didn't Know You Needed: All the Times Taylor Swift Has Carried an Empty Purse
- Taylor Swift Had An Incredible Response To A Tumblr Meme About Herself
- 18 Taylor Swift Memes You'll Only Find In Your 'Wildest Dreams
- Taylor Swift deepfakes could be the tip of an AI-generated iceberg
- Tweet uses a ham sandwich as 'evidence' that Taylor Swift is a slut in USA Today
- Let’s call the abuse of Taylor Swift what it really is – a hate crime against women in The Independent
- The Squad on Swiftpedia
- A Complete History of Taylor Swift's Squad
- Is Taylor Swift gay? The Dianna Agron and Karlie Kloss relationship rumors, explained
- r/Gaylor_Swift
- I Cracked the Code on Galyor_Swift
- Taylor Swift is Gay on Tumblr
- Is Taylor Swift gay? | Deep Dive video
- Taylor Swift DOESN'T want you to THINK she's GAY video
- Taylor Swift puts decades-long romance rumour to rest with single missive
- “Haters Gonna Hate, Hate . . . .” Can Taylor Swift “Shake it Off”?
- HOW THE EXTREMIST RIGHT HIJACKED ‘STAR WARS,’ TAYLOR SWIFT AND THE MIZZOU STUDENT PROTESTS TO PROMOTE RACISM
- Taylor Swift has angered many people with her 'You Need To Calm Down' release. Here's why
- The 10 Most Convincing Theories About Taylor Swift’s Album Reputation
- Taylor Swift Has Written an Op-Ed in the Wall Street Journal
- Taylor Swift Pens Open Letter Explaining Why ‘1989’ Won’t Be on Apple Music
- Apple Changes Course After Taylor Swift Open Letter: Will Pay Labels During Free Trial
- Taylor Swift won her day in court. Here's what you need to know.
- Top 10 References You Missed in Taylor Swift's "Look What You Made Me Do" video
- A Complete Timeline of Taylor Swift and Scooter Braun’s Feud
- Taylor Swift Explains Why She's Re-Recording Her Albums on Seth Meyers video
- How Taylor Swift Outsmarted Her Record Label video
- Taylor Swift and Kanye West's 'Famous' Phone Call Video Leaks Online — Read the Transcript
- A Complete Timeline of Taylor Swift and Kanye West's Feud
- Swift an ‘Aryan goddess' to alt-right
- This is why you hate Taylor Swift - thoughts on women who have an ego
- Taylor Swift Admits She Was ‘Lonely’ While Writing Her ‘Folklore’ Album During the Pandemic
- All the records Taylor Swift has broken in 2023
- MAGA movement targets Taylor Swift with pitiful conspiracy theories
- From nightmare ticketing to online abuse, being a pop fan is becoming miserable
- Haters gonna hate: Pentagon pushes back against Fox News conspiracy theory involving Taylor Swift
- A Timeline of Taylor Swift & Travis Kelce’s Relationship
- The right is coming for Taylor Swift. They don't stand a chance
- Conservatives have picked the wrong enemy with attacks on Taylor Swift
- Taylor Swift fans sent me death threats, doxxed my family, and accused me of being a pedophile after I criticized her Eras Tour
- Taylor Swift’s ‘Time’ Cover Is Breaking Far-Right Brains
- Sean Hannity Has Surprising Take On Taylor Swift Criticism
- Republicans Are Once Again Being Very Weird About Taylor Swift
- Taylor Swift Has Broken Conservatives’ Brains
- Why Taylor Swift Is Making Conservatives Crazy
- The meaning of the hysteria over Taylor Swift
- Secrecy and Taylor Swift: What Conspiracy Theories Reveal About Our Growing Distrust of Institutions
- GOP invents Taylor Swift conspiracy theory instead of facing reality about unpopular policies on MSNBC video
- Trump reportedly said he's "more popular" than Taylor Swift, worrying about her endorsing Biden
- Trump Allies Pledge ‘Holy War’ Against Taylor Swift
- Study: Taylor Swift, social media conspiracy theories suggest record Super Bowl ratings
- Trump makes a plea for Taylor Swift's loyalty in pre-Super Bowl post to Truth Social
- GOP extremists whine about Taylor Swift after Chiefs' AFC championship win
- Untangling 13 Taylor Swift Midnights Theories: Real or Our Wildest Dreams?
- All the times number 13 was relevant in Super Bowl 58: A Taylor Swift conspiracy theory
- Taylor Swift has encouraged her fans' numerology habit yet again
- A Comprehensive Breakdown of Taylor Swift's Easter Eggs video
- Taylor Swift's music video symbolism video
- How the internet built a conspiracy theory around a new spy flick, a debut novel, and Taylor Swift
- When Nerds Attack - Gamergate, Elevatorgate & Sad Puppies (ep. 40)
- 44 for 44 - The Obama Conspiracies (Thanks, Obama!) (ep. 05)
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EPISODE 107 | Traces of Reality: Abstract Art and the CIA (World Is Weird 13)
Guest: Mandy Theis, founder and director of the School of Atelier Arts, academic director and professor at the Florence Academy of Art
Maybe you've walked into a museum or gallery and seen a big white, blank canvas, or a huge circle, and thought, "So, this is art, eh?". But why is there so much of this abstract stuff around? The answer might be surprising - because the CIA promoted it as part of the Cold War.
And then it rather got away from them. Today, the art market is the most unregulated in the world, and aesthetics and skill take a back seat to branding.
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- 02:31 - Atelier training, the CIA begins, the cultural Cold War was run by elitists, Julia Child, Realism gets rebranded as Communist, the Springville Museum of Art in Utah, cadmium red as protest, dry brushing technique, techniques follow money, skill list art, technical skills are being lost
- 12:30 - Social Realism, Czech Functionalism and German Bauhaus, Cubist architecture, art is always in motion, Russians tweaked French Realism, Abstract art eclipses realism, a war of aesthetics and marketing, the French discount the Americans, America pushes Abstract Expressionism, Marshall Plan money becomes a black bag, the Congress of Cultural Freedom, Clement Greenberg, Art criticism as marketing
- 23:18 - the NCL (Non-Communist Left), Jackson Pollack was a CIA tool, American racial attitudes work against them
- 28:24 - Abstract Expressionism promoted as ultimate American style because it has no inherent meaning, it's safe; Picasso had atelier training, Truman hated abstract art ("ham and egg men"), George Dondero goes nuts about abstract art on the House floor, Realism is not retrograde, we are losing the artistic skills to make beautiful things
- 36:06 - the CIA's efforts were very successful, the modern art market is the most unregulated in the world, technique gets separated from art so it all becomes about money, everything is branded, Warhol critiques all this, fine art feels remote from most of us, the art world is a closed circuit, Thomas Kinkade was successful because at least his work meant something to some people, scribbles are scribbles but branding makes them art
- 47:51 - Don't know if it's art, but I like it; Realism is still villainized
- Music by Fanette Ronjat
More Info:
- The School of Atelier Arts website
- Bodyguard of Lies: The Ghost Army & Wartime Deception (World Is Weird 11)
- The Cultural Cold War: The CIA and the World of Arts and Letters by Frances Stonor Saunders
- Springville Museum of Art - largest public collection of 20th century Russian and Soviet art in the western United States
- 15 things to know about Norman Rockwell
- Why Norman Rockwell Matters
- Ralph McQuarrie: Star Wars' Concept Artist
- A Visit to the CIA’s “Secret” Abstract Art Collection
- Was Modern Art Really a CIA Psy-Op?
- Class 8. The CIA and the Cultural Cold War
- Origins of the Congress of Cultural Freedom, 1949-50 Cultural Cold War on CIA.gov
- WHEN FREEDOM TOOK THE OFFENSIVE: The Congress for Cultural Freedom and the Power of Ideas
- Congress for Cultural Freedom on Spartacus Educational
- Cold Warrior: The Clement Greenberg Phenomenon
- CIA Weaponizing Abstract Art and Its Fallout
- The use of American art in the Cold War
- How MoMA and the CIA Conspired to Use Unwitting Artists to Promote American Propaganda During the Cold War
- Ford Foundation - Funding transatlantic exchange between the arts and politics
- The Ford Foundation and the CIA: A documented case of philanthropic collaboration
with the Secret Police - Modern art was CIA 'weapon'
- How the CIA Secretly Used Jackson Pollock & Other Abstract Expressionists to Fight the Cold War
- Was modern art a weapon of the CIA?
- Jackson Pollock & the CIA on The Conspiracy of Art website
- Why did the CIA sponsor Jackson Pollock?
- Pollock is Bollocks
- Pollock: genius or charlatan?
- Jackson Pollock: Separating Man from Myth
- Viewpoint: Why racism in US is worse than in Europe - BBC Viewpoint
- “They treated us royally”? Black Americans in Britain during WW2
- Why abstract art is not valid
- Abstract Art Is Not Art and Definitely Not Abstract
- The Tyranny of Abstract Art in The Atlantic
- Communist conspiracy in art threatens American museums, Congressional Record, March, 17, 1952
- Anticommunism and Modern Art - selection from the George Dondero Papers
- THE SUPPRESSION OF ART IN THE MCCARTHY DECADE
- The Shame of the Mural Censors — Why Art and History Matter
- Between Avant-Garde and Kitsch: Deconstructing Art And/As Ideology on Project MUSE
- Modern American Art and the Politics of Cultural Diplomacy
- Abstract Expressionism and the Cold War
- 'The art trade is the last major unregulated market'
- A Fascinating, Sexy, Intellectually Compelling, Unregulated Global Market. - Freakonomics ep. 484
- The Art Market: Unregulated Unscrupulous And Worth Billions
- High-end art is one of the most manipulated markets in the world
- THE ART MARKET: AFFLUENCE AND DEGRADATION on Art Forum
- Billion Dollar Painter: The Triumph and Tragedy of Thomas Kinkade, Painter of Light book
- Thomas Kinkade: A Success - 60 Minutes
- Thomas Kinkade: The Painter Art Critics Hated but America Loved
- Much to the Chagrin of the Art Establishment, the Numbers Indicate that Thomas Kinkade Is the Most Successful and Relevant Artist in Human History
- Thomas Kinkade Was the World's Biggest Selling Painter. Art for Everybody Asks Why
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- PRAGUE TIMES - A city is more than just a location - it’s a kaleidoscope of history, places, people and trends. This podcast looks at Prague, in the center of Europe, from a number of perspectives, including what it is now, what is has been and where it’s going. It’s Prague THEN, Prague NOW, Prague LATER
EPISODE 106 | Suffer the Children – Pizzagate, Wayfair & the Seeds of QAnon
"Without a clear indication of the author's intent, it is difficult or impossible to tell the difference between an expression of sincere extremism and a parody of extremism."
In the world of the internet, this is known as Poe’s Law, and it’s especially applicable to the weird narrative Gordian Knot known as Pizzagate. The adage applies not just to how absurd some beliefs are, but also to the arguments made by people who hold these beliefs. First formulated in 2005 by Nathan Poe, it builds on a 2001 quote by Alan Morgan called Alan’s 2nd Law of Newsgroups, which states, “Any sufficiently advanced troll is indistinguishable from a genuine kook.”
And that is certainly the case for the wild story that “a hipster-heavy pizza parlor” (as they put it on their website) in the Chevy Chase neighborhood of Washington D.C. is not just a fun family place with pizza, ping pong and live music, but the nerve center for an diabolical child trafficking ring that operates out in the open because they are protected by highly-placed pedophiles in the Democratic party. As an article on Cracked.com puts it, “This is supported by lots of very stupid evidence”.
The stakes of the fake narrative are so high that it’s become more than just true believers review bombing the place. Workers have been harassed and, on December 4, 2016, a heavily armed man entered the restaurant and started firing guns.
The story of Pizzagate is the story of how the conspirasphere went from harmless kookery to being actually, physically dangerous.
TRIGGER WARNING: Some pretty disturbing things will be talked about in this episode, so if the subject of child sexual abuse and trafficking is deeply uncomfortable for you, perhaps you should not listen. I mean, it should be uncomfortable to anyone, but you know what I mean.
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- 03:11 - A note, pedophilia is a mental disorder, victims suffer for many years, how do we handle this problem?
- 06:31 - How it all began: Hillary Clinton's emails, John Podesta, Anthony Weiner and Huma Abedin; "Carmen Katz" makes allegations, "David Goldberg" shares and extends these
- 08:46 - Side note: "Carmen Katz" is Cynthia Campbell, "David Goldberg" is an anti-Semitic fake profile; Amanda Rob finds Borce Pejcev in Macedonia, a fake news click bait ecosystem, it really all began with Doug Hagmann of Eerie, PA
- 12:35 - Russian hackers Fancy Bear, APT28 and Sofacy use "spear phishing " attacks
- 13:30 - Pedo codes on 4chan: pizza, cheese, hot dogs, dominos and handkerchief codes; Comet Ping Pong gets targeted
- 16:30 - DumbScribblyUnctious see all sorts of things - murals, art, logos, musical acts and more; Pizzagaters talks of aliens, the Illuminati, Satanic rituals and Arun Rao; Susan Alefantis knew a pedophile, Tony "pasta obsession" Podesta knew Dennis Hastert, another pedophile, and also collects art (including some by Rachel Rose); Amanda Kleinman (Majestic Ape) of Heavy Breathing performs at Sasha Lord's birthday party and "secret pizza" is maybe mentioned, the film "Automatic At Sea", the Clinton Foundation in Haiti, Alex Jones issues a "bulletin"
- 25:49 - #pizzagate soars, Comet Ping Pong gets hassled, Turkey's Erdoğan jumps on the story, InfoWars spearheads the narrative, fake images proliferate, artists and musicians also harassed, it might all have been coordinated; other businesses (especially pizza places) get targeted, like Roberta's in Brooklyn and East Side Pies in Austin, TX
- 30:33 - Edgar Maddison Welch storms Comet Ping Pong with guns, InfoWars apologizes, then retracts the apology; white supremacist Jack Posobiec says Welch is a crisis actor; neo-Nazi pubs the Daily Stormer, the Right Stuff and Smoloko News continue the Pizzagate narrative
- 35:07 - Canadian Andrew Richmond's ice cream shop Sweet Jesus gets the #PedoGate treatment
- 36:15 - Portland, Oregon's Voodoo Donuts gets the same treatment thanks to talentless poet VeganMikey (Michael Whelan); #donutgate starts trending, building on a previous #donutgate when Ariana Grande and Ricky Alvarez licked food at Wolfee Donuts; Big League Politics's "research organization" Pedo Takedown Crew funds a coordinated harassment campaign and expand the narrative, adding tunnels, schools, and child-smiggling submarines
- 41:35 - In England, recreational troll Oliver Redmond targets Paul Cheape's vape shop business
- 43:32 - Mattress Firm gets targeted
- 45:32 - Frazzledrip: a very nasty fake video (trigger warning - seriously, it's really nasty), QAnon terms "adrenochrome" and "spirit cooking" get added to the Pizzagate lexicon
- 47:56 - PrincessPeach1987 kicks of the Wayfair affair, the now combined Pizzagate and QAnon make a LOT of noise, it's all nonsense and yet there were real consequences for real people, iMGSRC.ru and US Army Staff Sgt. Richard Ciccarella
- 57:25 - Cybersteria and the very first QAnon 4chan post
- Music by Fanette Ronjat
More Info
- Pedophilia defined on Psychology Today
- Crimes against Children Research Center
- Facts and Stats About Child Sexual Abuse
- The possible long-term effects of experiencing child sexual abuse
- Long-term Effects of Child Sexual Abuse and Molestation on Helping Survivors
- A review of the long-term effects of child sexual abuse on the National Library of Medicine website
- Child Molesters: A Behavioral Analysis paper
- Sexuality of Offenders on the Zero Abuse Project
- Facts About Homosexuality and Child Molestation by Gregory Herek
- Everything You Need To Know About Pizzagate (Is Insane) on Cracked.com
- Pizzagate on RationalWiki
- Pizzagate: A slice of fake news on Reveal
- Anatomy of a Fake News Scandal in Rolling Stone
- Anthony Weiner breaks down after he's sentenced to 21 months for sexting on ABC News
- How The Bizarre Conspiracy Theory Behind "Pizzagate" Was Spread on BuzzFeed
- How Hackers Broke Into John Podesta and Colin Powell’s Gmail Accounts on Vice
- Comet Ping Pong - Pizzagate Summary by DumbScribblyUnctious
- How Pizzagate went from fake news to a real problem for a D.C. business on PolitiFact
- 'It's a form of addiction' - Tony Podesta's art addiction article in The Guardian
- Rachel Rose - Aubade: Grendel's Mother (live reading) video
- Pizzagate, the fake news conspiracy theory that led a gunman to DC’s Comet Ping Pong, explained on Vox
- Pizzagate gunman recorded video for daughters, said he's standing up for children on CBS News
- Death threats, abuse, then a gunman: 'Pizzagate' businesses relive ordeal in The Guardian
- Pizzagate: Gunman fires in restaurant at centre of conspiracy on BBC News
- What to Know About Pizzagate, the Fake News Story With Real Consequences in Time
- 'Pizzagate' gunman pleads guilty as conspiracy theorist apologizes over case
- Is Comet Ping Pong Pizzeria Home to a Child Abuse Ring Led by Hillary Clinton? on Snopes
- Dissecting the #PizzaGate Conspiracy Theories in the New York Times
- A Moral Panic for the Age of Trump: “Pizzagate” is the latest in a long line of child-sex-ring myths on Slate
- The PizzaGate Gunman's Paranoid Rescue Fantasy Comes from a Long American Tradition on Reason
- 'There's Nothing You Can Do': The Legacy of #Pizzagate on SPLC
- Secret message board drives 'pizzagate'-style harassment campaign of small businesses on NBC News
- When Nerds Attack - Gamergate, Elevatorgate & Sad Puppies episode
- Voodoo Donuts website
- Voodoo Doughnut Gets Sucked Into Outrageous Far-Right Conspiracy Theory on Eater
- Wolfee Donuts Pressing Charges Against Ariana Grande
- Donut-Gate on Ariana Grande fandom wiki
- Vegan Mikey - bad poet and troll
-
Donutgate: How one Oregon donut shop became the target of online conspiracy theorists on Salon
- Connecting the Dots Between Donutgate and Pizzagate
- Man jailed for falsely branding a businessman a ‘dirty paedophile’
- The Great Mattress Conspiracy: Why Are There So Many Mattress Firm Stores
- Why Are There So Many Mattress Stores?
- A wildly popular conspiracy theory about why there are so many Mattress Firm stores is starting to sound less crazy
- Mattress Firm responds to the wild conspiracy theory about its business that people are going crazy over
- The Mattress Firm Conspiracy: An Analysis
- The Mattress Firm Money Laundering Conspiracy Theory on Snopes
- What Is Frazzledrip? Fake Hillary Clinton Video Builds on Pizzagate Conspiracy Theory in Newsweek
- Frazzledrip: Is a Hillary Clinton 'Snuff Film' Circulating on the Dark Web? on Snopes
- Hush Supper Club
- Full Frazzledrip video (WARNING)
- Claims that pizza listings on Etsy are selling child pornography are baseless
- Reddit post that kicked off Wayfair conspiracy theories
- Outrageously Priced Wayfair Cabinets Lead to Human Trafficking Conspiracy
- Kids Shipped in Armoires? The Person Who Started the Wayfair Conspiracy Speaks in Newsweek
- Wayfair: The false conspiracy about a furniture firm and child trafficking on BBC News
- Baseless Wayfair child-trafficking theory spreads online on AP
- The bizarre story of how internet conspiracy theorists convinced themselves Wayfair is trafficking children on CBC News
- A US soldier working at Mar-a-Lago uploaded photos of an underage girl to a Russian website — a closer look at the site reveals a horrific underworld
- A US Army soldier who worked at Trump's Mar-a-Lago resort uploaded photos of an underage girl to a Russian website, prosecutors say
- How a reporter found the true story behind a false story of sex trafficking
- Is Wayfair Trafficking Children Via Overpriced Items? on Snopes
- MISSING IN KANSAS: Anabel Wilson no longer missing
- How A QAnon Conspiracy Theory Involving A Wayfair Pillow Left A Metro Detroit Teen Struggling
- A girl falsely believed to be a victim of the fake Wayfair sex-trafficking ring says she had hives, lost sleep over the conspiracy theory
- A QAnon con: How the viral Wayfair sex trafficking lie hurt real kids
- Human Trafficking Rumors: Viral Stories That Do More Harm Than Good at the Polaris Project
- The Storm Is the New Pizzagate — Only Worse
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EPISODE 105 | Capitol Assets: Weird DC (Travelogue 4)
Guest: Fayge Horesh, co-creator, writer and host of the D Listers of History podcast, and licensed tour guide
Washington D.C. is an interesting place and, like many cities, has some oddities. We take a look at some of the things around town that might not be obvious at first glance, like (not-so secret) tunnels, ghost cats, strange clocks, hollow domes, street plans, statues, snipers, protected trees, food trucks and more.
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SECTIONS
- 03:42 - Making the past accessible, Daniel of Beccles, Father Divine, traces of history, Deep Throat in Rosslyn
- 06:35 - Pierre L'Enfant's plans, Masonic symbols, quadrants, a hidden pentagram, Benjamin Banneker's thighs, DC once had canals (gross ones)
- 14:03 - Street plan as weather control machine yet the weather is terrible, underground tunnels (one open to the public), the Ghost Cat, no sitting on the floor, the Capitol Dome is hollow
- 21:37 - The Women's Portrait Monument, so many statues
- 23:43 - Snipers and other security, food truck a-go-go
- 28:33 - The NIST Newton Apple Tree in International Park, don't linger in front of the former Iran Embassy, clocks and time in Friendship Heights, conspiracy theories are distractions, Chinatown has very few Chinese people
- 36:55 - Explore your city and embrace the weirdness
- Music by Fanette Ronjat
More Info
- D Listers of History podcast
- ’Merican Monuments (Travelogue 2) episode
- The world of Daniel of Beccles D Listers episode
- Book of the Civilized Man by Daniel of Beccles article
- A Brief History of Pierre L’Enfant and Washington, D.C. in Smithsonian
- Grand Avenues: The Story of Pierre Charles L'Enfant on the Virginia Museum of History & Culture
- Benjamin Banneker: The Black Tobacco Farmer Who the Presidents Couldn't Ignore on the White House Historical Association
- Capitol Building Tunnel System
- What lies beneath DC? Many more tunnels than you might think!
- The D.C. Underground Atlas
- Demon Cat: the tale of a wanderlust feline ghost
- Make America Ghostly Again: The Demon Cat of Washington D.C.
- Does The Demon Cat Still Haunt Washington's Capitol Hill?
- Bells, Buzzers, Clicks and Clocks
- Congressional Clocks Have a Secret Code on Atlas Obscura
- Capitol Illumination
- Inside the Capitol Dome
- Hidden Congress: An Alternative Tour of the U.S. Capitol
- Apotheosis of Washington
- Leaders in Equality: The Portrait Monument
- Portrait Monument to Lucretia Mott, Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony
- The Suffragist Statue Trapped in a Broom Closet for 75 Years
- How Security Measures In Washington, D.C., Have Changed Since 9/11
- 12 Best Washington DC Food Trucks on Female Foodie
- Find food trucks in DC on Roaming Hunger
- What happened to D.C.’s food trucks? The answer says much about the ‘new normal.’
- NIST Newton Apple Tree
- Where To Find The Most Unusual Trees In D.C.
- After the arena came, the Asian population of Washington's Chinatown shrank
- 269 Cool, Hidden, and Unusual Things to Do in Washington, D.C.
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EPISODE 104 | Fatal Attraction: Magnet Woo
While we use magnets all the time, most of us don’t know some of the subtleties of magnetic fields and the electromagnetic force. This lack of knowledge is the perfect opening for scam artists to sell unsuspecting folks all kinds of sham cures for illnesses and injuries, opening up a wide world of woo and pseudoscientific narratives.
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SECTIONS
- 02:56 - Come Together - What is electromagnetism?
- 07:46 - Diesel and Dust - Magnetic water treatments, magnetic gasoline treatments, magnetic mugs
- 15:02 - Hypnotic Tango - Mesmer and animal magnetism, the rise of hypnosis, arthritis cures, magnetic shoes
- 24:58 - Terrible Lie - Albert Abrahms, Hercules Sanche's Electropoise, Ruth Beymer Drown and the Vibra-Ray, Georges Lakhovsky's Multiple Wave Oscillator (MWO), Thomas Galen Hieronymus's "eloptic energy", Royal Rife, Hulda Regehr Clark, Precision Herbs, H. A. Morton Whitby, Radionics and De La Warr Laboratories
- 41:20 - You'll Be My Toy, I'll Be Your Electricity - More quackery, Desiré Dubounet & Quantum Medicine
- 47:22 - Baby Stick Around - Human magnets: Leonid Tenkaev and Miroslaw Magola, the Super Human/Super Brain/Magnetic Man
- Music by Fanette Ronjat
More Info
- Electromagnetism 101 video from National Geographic
- The basic principles of electromagnetism on Electrical Apprentice
- Why does the moving of charged particles (electrons) in a wire carrying electricity produce a magnetic field? on Quora
- Magnetic water treatment and pseudoscience on AquaScams
- Non Chemical Devices: Thirty Years of Myth Busting by Timothy Keister, FAIC, CWT in Water Conditioning & Purification magazine, April 2008
- Demonstration and Evaluation of Magnetic Descalers paper by the US Army Corps of Engineers, September 2001
- Electronic Water Conditioner: Do They Work?
- First4Magnets.com
- The True Price Of Gas: What It Should Really Cost To Fill Up on FastCompany
- The True Cost of Gasoline: $15 Per Gallon on Smart Cities Dive archived article
- Super FuelMAX® Booster Fuel Saving Device - Made in USA product page
- Super FuelMAX Marketers Settle FTC Charges from the Federal Trade Commission
- Magnetic Mug from Serenity 2000 product page
- IAMPDD Self Stirring Mug product page on Amazon
- Mesmerized by Magnetism column by Michael Shermer
- Franz Anton Mesmer in the Super-Enlightenment Digital Archive at Stanford Libraries
- Beginners Guide to the History of Hypnosis (Timeline)
- Magnets Provide Amusement, But Not Health Benefits in Science-Based Medicine
- Magnet Therapy: A Skeptical View on Quackwatch
- Questionable Ads for Magnets on Quackwatch
- Florsheim’s MagneForce Shoes on Quackwatch
- BIOflex and VITAflex health magnets
- The Electronic Reactions of Albert Abrams on American Artifacts
- Multiple Wave Oscillator - Forgotten Device that is claimed to have cured Cancer
- The Incredible Drown Case in Today's Health, April 1968
- The Incredible Drown Case on Quackwatch
- Bionuu Clinic
- Metayantra quack products
- Polaris DD in Prague
- Multiple wave oscillator at Clinica Omega Zeta
- DIY Lakhovsky MWO (Milti Wave Oscollator) Device, Detailed Informations, Facts, Analysis
- Hieronymus Machine in the New Age Encyclopedia
- Rife Machines and Cancer
- The Cancer Cure That Worked: 50 Years of Suppression by Barry Lynes
- “The Cure for All Cancers”? Maybe Not.
- Precision Herbs on Rationalwiki
- FDA Warning Letter to Precision Herbs LLC
- Paranoia, the Destroyer – Gangstalking, Targeted Individuals & Havana Syndrome episode
- Electromagnetic hypersensitivity: a critical review of explanatory hypotheses
- Is It Possible to Be Allergic to Electricity? on Healthline
- Recognizing Dubious Health Devices
- Is it worth it? PEMF
- UVLrx Therapy Lights Up Charlatans Dealing In Medical Devices
- Questions for Pseudoscience | Magnet Therapy video on Dark Science
- Electrostatics: A non-contact force
- Silly season, silly machine
- Desire Dubounet on IMDb
- S-HE, She or He Movie 2008 the story of Desire' Dubounet and the war crimes trial of Harry S Truman video
- Is there any validity to the claim that some people are “human magnets,” with their bodies able to attract an assortment of objects?
- Strange attractors
- Miroslaw Magola YouTube channel
- Man claims he has magnetic powers, can make objects stick to body
- James Randi debunks Magnet Man video
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- PRAGUE TIMES - A city is more than just a location - it’s a kaleidoscope of history, places, people and trends. This podcast looks at Prague, in the center of Europe, from a number of perspectives, including what it is now, what is has been and where it’s going. It’s Prague THEN, Prague NOW, Prague LATER
EPISODE 103 | Down in Bermuda, It’s Easy to Believe – The Devil’s Triangle
Back in the 70s, the Bermuda Triangle was all over the place but today, not so much. Whatever happened with that? Did it go away? Was it debunked? Or did the woosphere simply get bored and move on to juicer subjects?
A bit of both. Plus, the are lots of other supposed interesting/mysterious/dangerous triangles out there. They do have sharp corners, after all.
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- 02:29 - New Frontier - How it all starts: Edward Van Winkle Jones gets the ball rolling in 1950, Allan W. Eckert picks it up in 1952, Vincent Gaddis expands the idea in 1962, as does John Wallace Spencer in 1969, and in 1974, Charles Berlitz and Richard Winer go all in on the Triangle; Larry Kusche thoroughly debunks it all in 1975, Hitchens' Razor and the Sagan Standard (ECREE)
- 11:31 - Strange Brew - Cayce's people weigh in as do plenty of other knowledge garglers, better woo comes along, Lloyds of London investigates, Gian J. Quasar tries to revive Triangle interest in the Noughties
- 15:17 - Your Haunted Head - The Sargasso Sea - an oceanic gyre surrounded by four currents, Donald Crowhurst gets stuck there and goes insane
- 19:36 - Long Way Down - Ocean farts, the Gulf Stream, the Milwaukee Deep, the agonic line and the North Poles (both true and magnetic)
- 24:59 - Hunting High and Low - The Dragon's Triangle near Japan, Ivan Sanderson develops his Twelve Vile Vortices theory:
- 27:31 - "Hamkulia Volcano", Hawaii; the Ring of Fire
- 29:14 - Jeddars in the Atlas Mountains, Algeria; fungoid rock art in the Tassili n'Ajjer
- 29:57 - Mohenjo-daro in the Indus Valley, ancient nuclear war, chicken city
- 34:00 - The Wharton Basin, Indian Ocean, Flight MH370
- 34:44 - The Loyalty Islands, New Caledonia; Sandy Island
- 35:52 - Easter Island, Rapa Nui, Szukalski's Zermatism, Miroljub Petrović
- 37:26 - The Southern Atlantic Anomaly, the Mozambique Channel
- 38:22 - Fever to Tell - Ley lines, Ramsey's Theorem, the Bridgewater Triangle near Boston (home of the Pukwudgie), the Bennington Triangle in Vermont, the Nevada Triangle, the Lake Michigan Triangle and yet another "America's Stonehenge"
- 41:45 - The Marysburgh Vortex in Lake Ontario, the Matlock Triangle and Falkirk Triangle in the UK, the Broad Haven Triangle in Wales, the Hoia Forest in Romania
- 42:47 - The Mapimí Silent Zone in Mexico's Chihuahuan desert
- Music by Fanette Ronjat
More Info
- Sea's Puzzles Still Baffle Men In Pushbutton Age by Edward Van Winkle Jones, Miami Herland, 1950
- Sea Mystery at our Back Door by George X. Sand, Fate Magazine, 1952
- The Mystery of the Lost Patrol by Allan W. Eckert, American Legion Magazine, April 1962, page 12
- The Deadly Bermuda Triangle by Vincent Gaddis, The Argosy, February 1964
- Invisible Horizons True Mysteries of the Sea by Vincent Gaddis
- Limbo of the Lost by John Wallace Spencer
- The Bermuda Triangle by Charles Berlitz
- The Devils' Triangle by Richard Winer
- The Devil's Triangle 2 by Richard Winer
- From the Devil's Triangle to the Devil's Jaw by Richard Winer
- Bermuda Triangle Mystery - Solved by Larry Kusche
- The Case of the Bermuda Triangle episode of NOVA
- What is the Bermuda Triangle? on the National Oceanic Service website
- Bermuda Triangle on Britannica
- What Is Known (and Not Known) About the Bermuda Triangle on Britannica
- Bermuda Triangle: Where Facts Disappear on LiveScience
- Into the Bermuda Triangle: Pursuing the Truth Behind the World's Greatest Mystery by Gian Quasar
- Mysteries of the Sargasso Sea in The Bermudian
- The Mystery on the Sargasso on How Stuff Works
- Donald Crowhurst: The fake round-the-world sailing story behind The Mercy in Yachting World
- They Went to Sea in a Sieve, They Did by Shannon Proudfoot on Big Reads
- Off the Deep End: A History of Madness at Sea by Nic Compton
- Bermuda Triangle mystery solved? It's a load of gas on The Age
- 7 Chilling Conspiracy Theories About the Bermuda Triangle in Popular Mechanics
- Down in the Milwaukee Deep
- Magnetic Declination Varies Considerably Across The United States on USGS
- The Bermuda Triangle Mystery Delusion: Looking Back after Forty Years by Larry Kuche for Skeptical Inquirer
- Mysterious waters: from the Bermuda Triangle to the Devil's Sea on CNN
- Beyond the Bermuda Triangle: The Devil's Sea documentary video
- Unexplained Mystery: The Devil’s Sea – The Dragon’s Triangle on Marine Insight
- The Vile Vortices Of Ivan T. Sanderson on History Daily
- Vile Vortices Part 2 – Hamakulia on CryptoVille
- Algeria's ancient pyramid tombs still shrouded in mystery on France24
- What Happened to Mohenjo Daro? on Wonderopolis
- Rediscovering the lost city of Mohenjo Daro on National Geographic
- Uncovering the Secrets of the Indus Valley Civilization and Its Undeciphered Script
- The Mythical Massacre at Mohenjo-Daro
- Top Things to Do in the Loyalty Islands
- Now You See It, Now You Don't - Finland Doesn't Exist episode
- The Secrets of Easter Island on Smithsonian
- Easter Island - the Mystery of the Moai on Mountain Kingdoms
- Rapa Nui on IMDb
- What Lies Beneath - The Hollow Earth episode including Zermatism
- Weird behavior of Earth's magnetic field over South Atlantic dates back 11 million years
- NASA Is Tracking a Huge, Growing Anomaly in Earth's Magnetic Field
- 10 Mozambique Channel Facts You Might Not Know
- Madagascar's Menagerie Floated from Africa from the University of Hong Kong
- It Happens Here: A look at the 'weirdness' of the Bridgewater Triangle
- Bennington Triangle, Vermont on Legends of America
- Mysteries of Flight: The Nevada Triangle
- Lake Michigan Triangle on Atlas Obscura
- What Is the Great Lakes Triangle? classroom activity
- Stonehenge-like Structure Found Under Lake Michigan
- ‘Strange things out there’: Inside Lake Ontario’s ‘Bermuda Triangle'
- The Great Lakes and the mystery of the Marysburgh Vortex
- Gateway to Oblivion: The Great Lakes' Bermuda Triangle by Hugh F. Cochrane
- The Falkirk Triangle in Scotland
- Why Is a Small Village in Scotland the UK's UFO Hotspot?
- What’s inside Hoia Baciu Forest, the world's most haunted forest?
- Romania’s Bermuda Triangle: The Creepy Hoia Forest of Transylvania
- What does the Mexican Bermuda Triangle look like
- Enter The Mapimi Zone Of Silence: Where Science Fiction Meets Reality
- The Zone of Silence in Northern Mexico: scientific marvel or just fiction?
- Zone Of Silence Mexico video
- Mexico: UFOs, magnetism, army: The strange zone of silence
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EPISODE 102 | Conspiracy Thinking in the Middle East (Because Reasons 10)
Guest: Adel Aali, creator and host of the podcasts History Behind News and Unravelling the Middle East
Conspiracy theories seem to thrive in the Middle East, but why? Adel Aali takes a look at some of the more common CTs, as well as where they come from and why that region might be primed for conspiracy thinking due to its history.
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- 04:39 - What Is the Middle East?
- 06:44 - The Fertile Crescent, the Ottomans, the Sykes–Picot Agreement, comparing modern Middle Eastern history with US history, the ME has not been given the space to develop modern structures
- 12:36 - Religion as a startup, Islam is quite different from Judaism and Christianity, possible reasons CTS thrive - a paucity of information vs. a plethora, a lack of education, stability vs instability; CTs begin to swirl when people feel disconnected from their government, individuated instability and emotional narratives
- 21:46 - Israel has an unusual place in the ME, anti-Semitic CTs like the Jewish people are Communists vs. they are Nazis, online brownshirting, Russia was once seen as the second home for the Jewish people, the Protocols of the Elders of Zion, the Khazar theory, scapegoating works for a primed audience, the divisions are illusions
- 32:53 - Jews, America, Israel and Zionism; the Muslim world was once the shizzle so what happened?, Tamerlane rejects invading Europe for business reasons, the Ottomans held back the printing press, persecution complex in the ME, the blame game, the secularization thesis, Iran is becoming secular
- 45:37 - You can't be pro or against a country
- Music by Fanette Ronjat
More Info:
- History Behind News podcast
- Unravelling the Middle East podcast
- The Georgia Guidestones - An NWO Billboard episode
- A Weirdness Travelogue: Henges, Tiles & Plaques episode
- ’Merican Monuments (Travelogue 2) episode
- Spanish Caravan (Travelogue 3) episode
- Fair Dinkum - 4 Mysteries from Down Under episode
- Oh, Canada! episode
- From Sea to Sea: More Canada Mysteries & Histories with comedian Nile Séguin
- Üst akıl – Totally Turkey episode
- How The CIA Overthrew Iran's Democracy In 4 Days on NPR
- Violent Gangs and Predatory Republics - From Haiti to Africa HBN episode
- A History of God: The 4,000-Year Quest of Judaism, Christianity and Islam by Karen Armstrong
- The Billion-Dollar Party That Ended a 2500-Year-Old Monarchy essay
- Smoke & Mirrors: Unintentional Dangers and Slow Thinking with Kent Weishaus episode
- Pootie-Poot on the Prowl - V. Putin Takes Center Stage episode
- From Beirut to Jerusalem by Thomas Friedman on Amazon
- Thomas Friedman website
- Protocols of the Elders of Zion in Holocaust Encyclopedia
- Khazar Love Triangle episode
- Abbas and the Khazar Claim: Separating Myth from Fact on Fikra Forum
- Blood Libel on the Jewish Virtual Library
- The “Golden Age” of Jewish-Muslim Relations: Myth and Reality by Mark R. Cohen, Princeton University Press paper
- Conspiracy Theories and Conflict in the Middle East on the Religious Freedom Institute
- When animals were used as spies in the Economic Times
- The lure of conspiracy theories in Iranian politics
- Policy, Perception, and Misperception: The United States and the Fall of the Shah by Kyle Balzer paper from Marine Corp University
- The Paranoid Style in Iranian Politics
- Deconstructing Secularization Theory: Religion, Secularity, and Self-hood Since the
Onset of Western Modernity by Nicole Owens paper in Berkeley Undergraduate Journal - Iran’s secular shift: new survey reveals huge changes in religious beliefs in The Conversation
- Inside story: How Iran’s religious classes are turning increasingly secular on Amwaj Media
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- PRAGUE TIMES - A city is more than just a location - it’s a kaleidoscope of history, places, people and trends. This podcast looks at Prague, in the center of Europe, from a number of perspectives, including what it is now, what is has been and where it’s going. It’s Prague THEN, Prague NOW, Prague LATER
EPISODE 101 | Panic! at the Disco - The Jan. 6 Event (World Is Weird 12)
On January 6, 2021 at 12:53 EST, a mass of people overwhelmed police on the west side of the US Capitol Building in Washington DC. At 2:11, a window was broken, and they entered the building. What followed was a bizarre scene, with some happy to just wander around, while others had more active plans. When it was over, 5 people were dead, 138 law enforcement personnel were injured (15 needing hospitalization), and an untold number of civilians were also injured. Eventually, more than 1100 people would be charged with various crimes committed that day.
What exactly happened here? Whatever you want to call it, it was fueled by conspiracy theories and conspiracy thinking. And it also engendered CTs of its own. The conspirasphere had finally run amok.
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- 03:21 - A Fever You Can't Sweat Out - Sept. 29, 2020 "stand back and stand by", #stopthesteal, white supremacists and other militia asshats make plans for the Nov. 3 election, they set their eyes on the "innauguration" (sic), the Million MAGA March, Women for America First, Proud Boys leader Tarrio makes a mistake on Dec. 12
- 09:39 - High Hopes - Trump and Barr spar, Dec. 14 looms large, firings and hirings, shouts and insults, the #wildprotest is announced on Dec. 19, plans are made to meet on Jan. 6, pressure on Pence, threats of a "red wedding"
- 19:48 - Vices & Virtues - Trump calls Raffensperger on Jan. 2, Trump gets conflicting advice, Tarrio gets arrested on Jan. 4, bombs are planted, Trump sets up a war room at the Intercontinental Willard, Trump really doesn't want to leave office and rewrites his upcoming speech
- 25:50 - Mad as Rabbits - Jan. 6, 8:17am-2:39pm: the "rally", Giuliani talks, an extraordinary video is shown, arrests are plan and plans are laid, Trump gives his speech, the crowd finds inspiration, Trump tries to take the wheel, Proud Boys head to the Capitol, crowds follow, help is asked for, the crowd surges, the building is breached, police are attacked
- 38:44 - The Only Difference Between Martyrdom and Suicide Is Press Coverage - 2:44pm-3:49am: things get even uglier, help starts trickling in, attempts are still made to block certification, things finally get sorted
- 43:08 - Hey Look Ma, I Made It - Repercussions aplenty, dramatis personae, prison sentences with Tarrio the leader of the pack
- 48:57 - Emperor's New Clothes - What the heck were they all thinking? Apologist narratives, including the "false flag" trope
- Music by Fanette Ronjat
More Info
- The January 6 insurrection: Minute-by-minute on CNN
- Capitol riots timeline: What happened on 6 January 2021? on BBC
- A timeline of how the Jan. 6 attack unfolded — including who said what and when on NPR
- A Timeline of the Government's Response on Jan. 6, 2021 on American Oversight
- EXPLAINER: A look at far-right extremists in Jan. 6 riot on AP News
-
StopTheSteal: Timeline of Social Media and Extremist Activities Leading to 1/6 Insurrection on Just Security
- The January 6 Effect: An Evolution of Hate and Extremism on the ADL website
- Read: Full transcript of Donald Trump’s call to Brad Raffensperger on Atlanta News First
- Trump film on the Ellipse Jan. 6 video
- Movie at the Ellipse: A Study in Fascist Propaganda on Just Security
- Did This 2 Min. Video Help Incite the Jan. 6 Rioters? video
- Read Trump's Jan. 6 Speech, A Key Part Of Impeachment Trial on NPR
- How Texans helped plot, foment and carry out the Jan. 6 insurrection in The Texas Tribune
- The Radicalization of Kevin Greeson on ProPublica
- What Happened to the Jan. 6 Rioters Arrested Since the Capitol Attack on Time
- Full List of Capitol Rioters Jailed So Far and the Sentences They Are Serving in Newsweek
- Trump supporter at center of a Jan. 6 conspiracy theory: "It's just been hell" on Axios
- Fox News sued by man at centre of Jan 6 conspiracy theory on Al Jazeera
- Conspiracy Theorist Presumed Dead in Explosion During Police Standoff on Vice
- What words should we use to describe what happened in the Capitol? on Poynter
- What the History of the Word “Insurrection” Says About Jan. 6 in Time
- There’s an ongoing battle of words to describe Jan 6, 2021. Here’s why it matters on PBS News
- Has the U.S. Capitol Been Attacked Before? on Gale
- Expert weighs in on why the Capitol riot was not an unusual historical event on Spectrum News 1
- The Capitol Has Been Attacked Before: This Time It Was Different on American University website
- Conspiracy Theories and January 6th on Public Wise
- Conspiracy theories paint fraudulent reality of Jan. 6 riot on PBS News
- A Guide to the Right’s Unhinged Conspiracy Theories about Jan. 6 in Rolling Stone
- January 6 conspiracy theories and debunked claims on The National News
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EPISODE 100 | Conspirasphere Rising - A Talk w/Derek Arnold (Because Reasons 9)
Guest: Derek Arnold, Senior Instructor at Villanova University, where he teaches a course on The Rhetoric of Conspiracy Theories
The modern conspirasphere sort of starts with the assassination of JFK, and events in the two decades that follow help shape a growing trend toward conspiracy thinking in the United States. Mr. Arnold teaches his students all about this, and also offers guidance in how to construct a toolkit for analyzing conspiracy theories that they can take with them out into the world.
This is our 100th episode! What a long, strange trip it's been. Thank you for your past support!
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- 03:14 - 2012: A Beginning - Apocalyptic thinking creates some good stories, an overview of some motivations for belief
- 11:24 - JFK Kicks It Off - Liberals have deep distrust, conservatives hate Communism, both are fighting what they think is the "good fight", Flower Power on one side and Nixon on the other
- 21:17 - Post-Watergate - Conservatives search for a new Wallace, Reagan invents the soundbite
- 28:01 - Pop Culture Gets Weird - Woo rising, fantasy films succeed, things are getting better or worse (depending on your perspective)
- 29:58 - The New Age Movement Comes of Age - Faith replaces proof for some, volume becomes authority
- 33:05 - Four Tools for the Conspiracy Toolkit - Cui Bono, Occam's Razor, How Many People, Falsifiability
- Music by Fanette Ronjat
More Info:
- Derek Arnold at Villanova University
- Villanova University Offers Course On Conspiracy Theories on CBS News Philadelphia
- From Bigfoot to JFK, Villanova Students Study Conspiracy Theories on Delco Today
- Villanova professor discusses conspiracies theories linked to the moon landing
- Why Princess Diana conspiracies refuse to die by Derek Arnold in The Conversation
- How Donald Trump Changed the Way College Students Learn About Conspiracy Theories in Time Magazine
- Conspiracy theory mentality on WHYY PBS radio
- “We sometimes just want to believe” - the theory behind conspiracy theories on KYW Newsradio
- Five Hidden Benefits of Gossip in Fast Company
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EPISODE 99 | A Bridge Too Far: The Mothman Visits Point Pleasant
The strange events of 1966-1967 in and around Point Pleasant, West Virginia gave rise to one of America's most enduring legends - the Mothman. It made the headlines and also the careers of Gray Barker and John Keel. But it was more than just a large winged creature. There were visits from the Men in Black, UFOs aplenty, poltergeists and other high weirdness.
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- 02:52 - I'm a Believer - A pair of couples see something; cranes, owls and shitepokes; Mary Hyre writes it up, Mothman is named
- 07:00 - Cold Sweat - Woodrow Derenberger meets Indrid Cold, Newell Partridge has his TV watching interrupted (plus his dog Bandit goes missing), three women see a demon, Mary Hyre has an odd visitor, Donna Kenmore and Norma Ashley see a pendulum, later Kenmore is also kidnapped
- 15:30 - Paperback Writers - Gray Barker and John Keel arrive, with ideas of their own; they get more info about Indrid Cold and friends, a nudist trip to Lanulos
- 23:04 - Strange Days - The TNT area becomes party central, the town swells in population, local oddballs William and Martha Bateman invent TV for angels
- 25:42 - The Men in Black are everywhere, so are UFOs, so is Mothman; the sense of doom builds
- 29:28 - 13 Steps Lead Down - The Silver Bridge collapses, Mothman Math
- 35:43 - Knock on Wood - Mothman as the Freiberg Shrieker and Black Bird of Chernobyl, Mothman hits the road
- 40:25 - Where History Meets Mystery - the Mothman Museum, the Mothman Statue, the Mothcam, the Mothman car wash, the Mothman Festival and more; Keel really got a Mothman boost
- Music by Fanette Ronjat
More Info
- The Notorious M.I.B. episode
- A View to Vril episode (Valiant Thor bit at 21:29)
- The Mothman Wiki
- The Mothman Cometh on the Skeptoid Podcast
- Mothman on Cryptid Wiki
- Folk Tale Turned Urban Legend: Mothman (Pt 1)
- The True Story Behind The Legendary Mothman Said To Terrorize West Virginia on All That's Interesting
- The true origin of the Mothman legend article by Justin Mills
- Misignwa Legend of Mothman
- Thunderbird Cryptid: Bird with a 70ft Wingspan
- The Untold Truth of Mothman on Grunge
- Three facts about West Virginia's Mothman legend few know on West Virginia Explorer
- Local Lore: Woodrow Derenberger and the Legend of Indrid Cold on The Daily Yonder
- Indrid Cold on Cryptid Wiki
- Indrid Cold aka The Smiling Man on Villains Wiki
- The True Story Behind the Mothman of West Virginia on US Ghost Adventures
- 10 Fascinating Things You May Not Know about the Mothman
- The Silver Bridge And The Men In Black! on Rip Jagger's Dojo
- When the Silver Bridge Came Crashing Down in Popular Mechanics
- Mothman: The Hidden Truth paper
- Mothman: A West Virginia Folklore on Ohio State's The Psychology of Extraordinary Beliefs
- What Is the Mothman and Why Are We so Obsessesed? on The Nerdist
- 10 Horrifying Facts About The Legend of the Mothman: The Harbinger Of Doom From The 1960s on Groovy History
- Legend of the Mothman-Point Pleasant Sightings video of CryptidSpot
- A Contactee Canon: Gray Barker’s Saucerian Books paper by Gabriel Mckee
- Men in Black: The Secret Terror Among Us by Gray Barker on Amazon
- John Keel's Mothman Casebook
- Convincing Stories of People Who Claim They Saw the Mothman in Real Life
- The Freiberg Shrieker
- The Black Bird of Chernobyl on Paranormal Catalog
- The Black Bird Of Chernobyl: True Story Of The Chernobyl Mothman on Morbid Kuriosity
- The Legend of the Mothman: Agent of Destruction or Harbinger of Doom? on Curious Historian
- Mothman Math: Dates, Disasters, and Deaths
- Mothman: Evil Incarnate by Loren Coleman on Amazon
- List of deaths related to the Mothman
- Mothman Lives website
- Mothman Museum
- Mothcam stream
- Mothman Festival 2024
- The Mothman cometh? I went searching for Point Pleasant’s prophet of doom and all I got was a T-shirt
- The Real Story of The Mothman Prophecies on IGN
- Behold the Mothman on SYFY
- Based on a True-Life Story, but Was That Story for Real? in the Los Angeles Times
- Truth vs fiction in the Mothman Prophecies movie on Chasing the Frog
- The Enduring Legacy of The Mothman Prophecies on Den of Geek
- Mothman: Behind the Red Eyes by Jeff Wamsley on Amazon
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- PRAGUE TIMES - A city is more than just a location - it’s a kaleidoscope of history, places, people and trends. This podcast looks at Prague, in the center of Europe, from a number of perspectives, including what it is now, what is has been and where it’s going. It’s Prague THEN, Prague NOW, Prague LATER
EPISODE 98 | Smoke & Mirrors: Unintentional Dangers and Slow Thinking (Because Reasons 8)
Guest: Kent Weishaus, licensed clinical social worker, author of Stop Breaking Down: The Secret to Avoiding Overwhelm and Crack-Up
Why are there so many adherents to conspiracy theories these days? What are the mechanisms that encourage people to latch onto a particular narrative?
We are modern creatures with out-dated brains. Clinical social worker (and former TV guy) Kent Weishaus talks about various theories and cognitive biases, and champions slow thinking in an age that seems too fast for our minds to keep pace with.
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- 03:48 - Smoke & Mirrors - TV, unreasonable expectations, wraparound for commercials, the hard edge
- 09:49 - Cognitive Distortions - Daniel Kahneman's Availability Heuristic, it's the system, TV was Gen X's buddy, we love fat (and sugar)
- 15:37 - Prospect Theory, Loss Aversion, the Endowment Effect, Aaron Beck's thought distortions, overgeneralization, "mind reading", slow thinking, I-know-how-this-will-end, please get raptured, humans crave structure, think about your thinking, Richard Schwartz's Internal Family Systems (IFS) says we are fragmented beings
- 26:10 - Towards Accuracy - E-Prime, people are not their diagnosis, slow thinking helps counteract otherization
- 33:46 - Too Much Information - Fast thinking feels good, apes with car keys, phantom urgency, unintentional dangers, too much sensory input
- 41:39 - Slow Thinking - Emotions are not uncontrollable, list the systems you're embedded in, nothing goes away in the digital system, Thomas Piketty and late-stage capitalism, the system is out of control
- Music by Fanette Ronjat
More Info
- Kent Weishaus website
- Stop Breaking Down: The Secret to Avoiding Overwhelm and Crack-Up by Kent Weishaus
- Kent Weishaus on IMDb
- Availability Heuristic And Decision Making
- Prospect Theory: What It Is and How It Works, With Examples
- Loss aversion on BehavioralEconomics.com
- The Endowment Effect: Why Perceived Value Increases with Ownership
- Cognitive Distortions: Unhelpful Thinking Habits
- 13 Cognitive Distortions Identified In CBT
- Cognitive Distortions: 22 Examples & Worksheets (& PDF)
- Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman
- Internal Family Systems (IFS)
- About IFS (Internal Family Systems)
- E-Prime on Wikipedia
- Discovering E-Prime
- E-Prime and Linguistic Revision
- Wandering Gaia: Dispatches from the Anthropocene website for Gaia Vince
- Galapagos by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
- The Nature of the Modern Mind by Pierre Steiner
- Turning the stone: embedding systems thinking in the everyday by Oliver Standing
- Capital and Ideology by Thomas Piketty
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- PRAGUE TIMES - A city is more than just a location - it’s a kaleidoscope of history, places, people and trends. This podcast looks at Prague, in the center of Europe, from a number of perspectives, including what it is now, what is has been and where it’s going. It’s Prague THEN, Prague NOW, Prague LATER
EPISODE 97 | Üst akıl – Totally Turkey
Turkey is a place with a complex history and a diverse population, which can lead to a sense of uncertainty and instability. Conspiracy theories that offer simple explanations for complex events and interactions, seem to take hold easily there, especially lately.
This can make it difficult for people to distinguish between reliable information and propaganda and can contribute to the spread of false information and conspiracy theories.
All told, Turkey seems to be particularly susceptible to the spread of conspiracy narratives. Which is a darned shame, since the country is absolutely fascinating, with a long and rich history stretching back more than 40,000 years, fantastic food, a varied landscape and incredibly hospitable people.
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- 04:17 - Parkta Bir Gün (A Walk in the Park) - The Mastermind Theory ( Üst akıl), earthquake weapons, Yeni Akit (New Agreement) loves Hitler but hates blue jeans (the Kot Pantalon Theory), some t-shirts and the US $1 bill
- 11:06 - Aya Benzer (Similar to the Moon) - The start of the Turkish republic (1923), the Multi-Party Period, Adnan Menderes turns into a jerk, a bomb in Thessaloniki leads to the Committee of Inquest, the military stages a coup and then hands power back
- 18:25 - Seviyorum Sevmiyorum (I Like It, Don’t Like It) - More chaos, the coup by memorandum, trouble in Cyprus; a new coup, a new constitution and new atrocities
- 22:14 - The Kurds got screwed, Turgut Özal tries to make peace but dies, conspiracy theories abound, Islamicists gain traction, the Postmodern Coup, Islamicists on the rise
- 26:07 - … Dan Sonra (…After) - 2013 protests over a park lead to the victory of Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, crackdowns aplenty, Erdoğan wins again, more crackdowns, Erdoğan changes the country to a Presidential Republic and wins again, making many more changes
- 29:44 - Resimdeki Gözyaşları (Tears in the Picture) - The Armenian Genocide, a monument to lies called the the Memorial and Museum of Martyred Turks Massacred by Armenians in Iğdır
- 35:02 - Rakıya Su Katamam (I Can’t Add Water to Raki) - The Dönme Jews, anti-Semitism, the İzmir Plot, Israeli-trained spy sharks and other animals, this all seems a bit familiar
- Music by Fanette Ronjat
More Info
- Guguou - Parkta Bir Gün official audio
- Mustafa Sandal - Aya Benzer video
- Nil Karaibrahimgil - Seviyorum Sevmiyorum video
- Sila and Kenan Dogulu - ...dan sonra video
- Cem Karaca - Resimdeki Gözyaşları audio
- Altın Gün - Rakıya Su Katamam video
- Conspiracy theories in Turkey on Wikiwand
- The Conspiratorial Style in Turkish Politics: Discussing the Deep State in the Parliament
- Türkiye’s twin quakes and conspiracy theories
- NEW H.A.A.R.P EVIDENCE COMES OUT IN TURKEY EARTHQUAKE?! FACT OR CONSPIRACY? THIS IS SH0CKING! video
- The Science Behind the Massive Turkey-Syria Earthquakes video from the Wall Street Journal
- Turkish intelligence breaks ripped jeans signal code
- ‘Spies’ Communicate Via Ripped Jeans, According to Akit Daily
- The Tin-Foil Hats Are Out in Turkey
- Conspiracy theory keeps Turkey in its grip: “There is a vast conspiracy against the Turkish nation”
- AKP’s Conspiracy Theories paper
- Unraveling the AKP's 'Mastermind' conspiracy theory
- The discourse of üst akıl: a search for hegemony in the Turkish media paper
- On the Resilience of Conspiracy Theories: The Resurrection of a Turkish Deep State under AKP Rule video
- Why Turkish government pushes 'global conspiracy' narrative
- How Turkish conspiracy theories upended life of U.S. scholar Barkey video
- The Middle East 'mastermind' who worries Erdogan
- Erdogan: Turkey's all-powerful leader of 20 years on BBC News
- The complex history of Turkey and the Kurds, explained video from the Washington Post
- Armenia Genocide Explained: Turkey, Erdogan, Biden Statement, Reparations & the Ottoman Empire video
- The Armenian Genocide video
- The Unspeakable Things That Happened In The Armenian Genocide video
- Turkey Clears Bird Of Spying For Israel; Kestrel Is Just Latest In Long List Of Suspected Animal Mossad Agents
- Iran's ex-military chief: Israel sent lizards to spy on nuclear program
- Ayoon Wa Azan (Conspiracy Theory)
- They Might Be Giants - Istanbul (Not Constantinople) video
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EPISODE 96 | Inside Out: Neuroscience & Memory (Because Reasons 7)
Guest: Dr. Gary Simonds, neurosurgeon, professor and author of Death's Pale Flag
What happens when a lauded neurosurgeon starts thinking about ghosts and the scientific approach to the paranormal? You get a novel like Death's Pale Flag. This is the fictional work by Gary R. Simonds, who spends a lot of his time thinking about the brain, how it works, how it doesn't work, and areas that still need to be explored with open minds.
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- 02:45 - Physician, heal thyself
- 05:01 - The brain is a computer, sort of, but not really
- 12:14 - The subjectivity of the inner voice
- 17:00 - Not a free for all
- 22:07 - Internal-extrenal confabulation
- 27:00 - Death's Pale Flag
- 36:35 - Science and the paranormal
- Music by Fanette Ronjat
More Info:
- Gary R Simonds website
- Death's Pale Flag by Gary Simonds
- Building Resilience in Neurosurgical Residents: A Primer by Gary Simonds
- Thriving in Healthcare: A Positive Approach to Reclaim Balance and Avoid Burnout in Your Busy Life by Gary Simonds
- The Thriving Physician: How to Avoid Burnout by Choosing Resilience Throughout Your Medical Career by Gary Simonds
- How Human Memory Works on How Stuff Works
- Neural Plasticity and Memory at the National Library of Medicine
- Unreliable Memory in Psychology Today
- The Science of Ghosts in Science News Explores
- Ghost Busted: When Science Meets the Supernatural in Discover Magazine
- Ghosts Aren't Real: 4 Scientific Explanations for Paranormal Activity video by SciShow
- Brilliant Scientists Are Open-Minded about Paranormal Stuff, So Why Not You? in Scientific American
- A scientific approach to the paranormal TEDx video by Carrie Poppy
- The Dangers of Keeping an Open Mind on the Ratio Scientiae Blog
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- PRAGUE TIMES - A city is more than just a location - it’s a kaleidoscope of history, places, people and trends. This podcast looks at Prague, in the center of Europe, from a number of perspectives, including what it is now, what is has been and where it’s going. It’s Prague THEN, Prague NOW, Prague LATER
EPSIODE 95 | Bodyguard of Lies: The Ghost Army & Wartime Deception (World Is Weird 11)
More than 100 million soldiers took part in WWII, but not all of them were fighting with guns. There was obviously a lot of administration and infrastructure to deal with, there were codebreakers and spies, and there were even some who engaged in secret deception to trick the enemy.
This episode is not abouts ghosts, but rather the Ghost Army. No, not a battalion of unstoppable undead like Aragorn brings with him against the forces of Mordor, but a dirty tricks tactical deception unit the Allies deployed in Europe near the end of the war to fool Axis commanders.
Because, as the saying goes, all’s fair in love and war. This episode is partly a cynical attempt to lure in military history fans, but these are also really interesting stories. And you might consider them to have been, in fact, conspiracies, ones that were successful, by and large.
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- 02:58 - Sucker Bait - Dudley Clarke, Jasper Maskelyne, North Africa fun, Operation Crusader, Operation Bertram, the Second Battle of EL Alamein, Sunshields & Cannibals, Operation Canwell, Operation Sly Bob, HMS Houdin
- 12:08 - I’ll Make Mincemeat Out of That Mouse! - Operation Husky (the invasion of Sicily); Operations Barclay, Mincemeat, Waterfall & Animals, the Trout Memo
- 16:47 - Don't Touch the Sides! - Operations Overlord, Neptune, Bodyguard, Wadham, Starkey, Tindall & Cockade; 'A' Force, Plan Jael, Operations Fortitude & Ironside, double agents (Garbo, Brutus, Tricycle, Tate & Bronx), Operations Graffham, Royal Flush & Zeppelin
- 23:52 - We Can Scare You, but You Can't Scare Us - The Ghost Army, Eye of the Needle, Operation Quicksilver, the 3132 Signal Service Company Special & spoof radio, Operation Viersen
- 30:31 - Surfin' USA - Douglas Fairbanks Jr. gets inspired by HMS Tormentor, the Beach Jumpers, PsyOps, the Navy SEALs
- 36:04 - Would I Lie to You? - The Siege of Yapu, Alexander crosses the Hydaspes River, Sun Bin of the Qi, the Empty Fort Strategy, Mongol deceptions, the Sultan Baybars takes the Krak des Chevaliers in the Ninth Crusade, the Americans vs Brits & North Vietnamese
- 40:03 - MILDEC strategies & guidelines - Sun Tzu vs. Clausewitz, the fog of war, the five main MILDEC tactics, Magruder's Principle, Jones' Dilemma, Avoid Windfalls, Multiple Forms of Surprise
- 45:38 - We're Not as Clever as We Think We Are - The military influences fashion, all deception if about perception and psychology
- Music by Fanette Ronjat
More Info
- Magic in the Desert on the Warfare History Network website
- The Magician of WWII who Made Tanks Disappear on War History Online
- The Deceivers: Allied Military Deception in the Second World War by Thaddeus Holt
- The War Magician: The True Story of Jasper Maskelyne by David Fisher
- Operation Bertram on the Scholarly Community Encyclopedia
- A 5-Minute History Of The Battle Of El Alamein
- Dummy Tanks and Fake Radio Broadcasts: WW2's Biggest Deception Campaigns
- Operation Husky: The Classroom for Amphibious Landings
- Trout Memo on Military History Wiki
- What Was Operation Mincemeat?
- Dead Man Floating: World War II's Oddest Operation on NPR
- Operation Mincemeat: The man who never was on The History Press
- "A" Force: The Origins of British Deception During the Second World War by Whitney T. Bendeck
- 6 Daring Double Agents on History.com
- Agent Garbo on MI5 website
- Secret Agents, Secret Armies: The D-Day Misfit Spies on the National WWII Museum website
- A Pioneering Experiment - OSS Double-Agent Operations in World War II paper by Robert Cowden
- The Ghost Army Legacy Project website
- How the Ghost Army of WWII Used Art to Deceive the Nazis in Smithsonian Magazine
- The Top-Secret WWII Unit That Fooled the Nazis on History.com
- Ghost Army book and film
- How a Ghost Army of American artists helped defeat Hitler in The Week
- Inside the 23rd, the 3132 Signal Company, The Sonic Deceivers
- Operation Viersen mission summary
- D-DAY DECEPTION: OPERATION FORTITUDE SOUTH
- Eye of the Needle by Ken Follett
- The Defeat of Hitler: D-Day Invasion on The History Place
- How Actor Douglas Fairbanks Jr. Crafted an Impressive Military Career on Miltary.com
- Douglas Fairbanks's Drama on the High Seas on HistoryNet
- The Beach Jumpers and Douglas Fairbanks Jr. video by The History Guy
- U.S. Navy Beach Jumpers Association
- UDT-SEAL Association
- Army document FM 3-13.4 Army Support to Military Deception
- Deceivingly Decisive: U.S. Army Military Deception and Counterintelligence article by First Lieutenant Will Rector
- Two Taxonomies of Deception for Attacks on Information Systems by Neil C. Rowe and Hy S. Rothstein, U.S. Naval Postgraduate School
- Tactical Level PSYOP and MILDEC Information Oper Operations: How to Smartly and Lawfully Prime the Battlefield paper by Joshua E. Kastenberg
- The lost and found art of deception on US Army website
- ‘The Art of War’: As relevant now as when it was written in Irish Times
- The Grand Strategy of Carl von Clausewitz on Warroom
- On War Without the Fog article in Military Review
- Genghis Khan's Secrets of Success on HistoryNet
- Hiding in Plain Sight: The Science of Military Camouflage blog on UF PRO
- Lessons from Others for Future U.S. Army Operations in and Through the Information Environment paper by the Rand Corporation
- Deploying Deception on the Battlefield in Scientific American
- The Military Influence on Fashion on Highsnobiety
- The Psychology of Cognitive Deception
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EPISODE 94 | Peek-A-Boo: Project Star Gate
The US military heard the Soviets were working on creating psychic spies, so they started their own program, which would, after many name changes, get dubbed Project Star Gate. This would attract cranks and flim-flammers of all kinds over its 25 year run, resulting in not much useful intel but inspiring some participants to make a number of outlandish claims and starting various conspiracy theories about remote viewing techniques.
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- 03:37 - Get Ready - The Soviet Project AIZEN, SCANATE at SRI, Uri Geller
- 07:53 - Gypsies, Tramps and Thieves - The Scientologists: Harold Putoff, Pat Price, Ingo Swann (the most successful remote viewer of all time), sexy bio-androids go shopping, a thirsty UFO
- 12: 37 - Joseph McMoneagle (the most successful remote viewer of all time) doesn't find General James Dozier, makes predictions that don't come true
- 16:02 - David Morehouse (the most successful remote viewer of all time)
- 17:26 - Fly Like an Eagle - Jewish Hungarian cowboy Edwin May takes over, Gondola Wish, Grill Flame moves to Fort Meade, Major General Albert Stubblebine, the Soviet Project Znacki, Sun Streak, Project Star Gate, Ray Hyman finds fault (again)
- 24:34 - So Be It, Jedi - Various JEDIs, not those stargates, Suggestopedia, the First Earth Batallion
- 29:20 - (Don't Fear) The Reaper - Ed Dames (the most successful remote viewer of all time), remote viewing is not really "seeing", Psi Tech, Harry DeLighter, Dames makes predictions and some money
- 35:10 - Subterranean Homesick Alien - The KGB's Project ISIS, the Brits look into remote viewing (in a half-arsed way), how much did all this cost, talented remote viewer Courtney Brown, Star Trek, yogic flying, the Heaven's Gate cult
- 43:10 - Sympathy for the Devil - Aaron Hanson née Donahue (the greatest psychic of all time) and his father, James Donahue, angels are bat aliens from Orion, Aaron as the Hopi Pahana, Aaron starts his Luciferian Order (cult), and he's a colossal racist, Aaron and Ed Dames fall out over Japanese TV money, Aaron runs for president
- Music by Fanette Ronjat
More Info:
- Psychic Discoveries Behind the Iron Curtain by Sheila Ostrander
- Unconventional research in USSR and Russia: short overview, 2013 paper by Serge Kernbach
- CIA releases psychic experiment documents on CNET, 2017
- STAR GATE [Controlled Remote Viewing] on FAS Intelligence Resource Program
- Uri Geller on the Tonight Show, August 1, 1973 video
- Uri Geller interview with The Guardian. September 2022
- Operation Star Gate: U.S. Intelligence and Psychic Spies in Enigma
- Remote Viewing, Reality, and the Human Condition, Russell Targ article with links
- CIA documents about Ingo Swann
- Memoirs of a Psychic Spy: The Remarkable Life of U.S. Government Remote Viewer by Joseph McMoneagle
- Remote Viewing: The Complete User's Manual for Coordinate Remote Viewing by David Morehouse
- Psychic Warrior: The True Story of the CIA's Paranormal Espionage Programme by David Morehouse
- The Monroe Institute website
- CIA entry for Gondola Wish
- CIA entry for Project Grill Flame
- Grill Flame Project DIA session report, July 31, 1999
- Meet the Former Pentagon Scientist Who Says Psychics Can Help American Spies in Newsweek
- Rise Up and Fight the Swine Flu Conspiracy, article of Stubblebine's pseudomedical nonsense
- The Men Who Stare at Goats by Jon Ronson
- Saddam’s Stargate and Taskforce 20 episode
- The Pentagon’s Twilight Zone, 1988 WaPo article by Sally Squires
- Read The CIA 1983 Report About Transcending Spacetime With Your Mind
- Remotely Viewed? The Charlie Jordan Case
- Remote Viewing Matrix (Ed Dames's latest name change)
- Free Energy: The Race to Zero Point movie
- Coast to Coast AM - Project Stargate with Dale Graff
- Coast to Coast AM - Remote Viewing Satan with Ed Dames (Dec. 21, 1998)
- Hocus Pocus - Is Ed Dames Exploiting Missing and Murdered Children for Self Promotion?
- Project Pegasus - Mars and Beyond! episode
- Project ISIS: The Secret KGB ★ Abduction Files Part 1 video
- Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Psi in The Independent
- British Military Tests Psychic Warfare in Wired
- British Ministry of Defence Remote Viewing archive
- Ministry of Defence 2002 report
- UK forces tested, rejected psychic techniques in The Register
- The psychic hunt for Osama Bin Laden
- Cosmic Voyage: A Scientific Discovery of Extraterrestrials Visiting Earth by Courtney Brown
- The Farsight Institute website
- Courtney Brown's 'Cosmic Voyage' in Preposterism in the Skeptical Inquirer
- The Courtney Brown Affair and Academic Freedom in the Skeptical Inquirer
- Courtney Brown - Adolf Hitler: Remote Viewing a Mass Murderer video
- The Hopi Turned Their Backs On The Pahana by James Donahue
- Under the Vatican - Revelation of the Beast by James Donahue
- Remote Viewing the 45th President of the USA 2016 James Hanson video
- Aaron C. Hanson documents archive
- Suspect Zero movie (18% on Rotten Tomatoes)
- Aaron C. Hanson entry in the Encyclopedia of American Loons
- The Truth About Remote Viewing on Skeptoid
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EPISODE 93 | From Sea to Sea: More Canada Mysteries & Histories
Guest: Nile Séguin, comedian, actor, writer, French-Canadian
Canada, northern neighbor to the United States, a sovereign nation that’s only party sovereign, second largest country in the world by size but 37th by population. It’s a place filled with fairly reasonable people, lots of trees and many mysteries.
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- 03:18 - A bit about Nile (including his new podcast), where Canada gets its name, Canucks
- 09:05 - The Screaming Tunnel of Niagara Falls
- 15:10 - Jerome of Sandy Cove, NS
- 25:04 - Project Y: the flying VZ-9 Avrocar
- 30:34 - Canadian pronunciation and slang
- 45:22 - Nile has homework
- Music by Fanette Ronjat
MORE INFO:
- Nile Séguin website
- Nile's Conspiracy Planning Committee: Plandemic
- Nile's Conspiracy Planning Committee: The Moon Landing
- Nile's IMdb page
- Mercer Report video: Canada Explained
- Origin of the name "Canada" - government webpage
- The Screaming Tunnel on To Do Canada
- Screaming Tunnel Niagara Falls: Haunted or Hoax? on I've Been BT
- Real History of the Screaming Tunnel | Niagara Haunt’s Legit Legend on Ghost Walks
- Jerome of Sandy Cove, Nova Scotia on Historic Mysteries
- The story of Jerome: The southwestern N.S. mystery that never ends, even 110 years after his death on Saltwire
- Jerome Identified - An Early Mystery Solved on Canadian Mysteries
- The Story Of Avro Canada's VZ-9 Avrocar Flying Saucer Project on Simple Flying
- Canada Built a Flying Saucer. It didn't work; the story of the Avro Canada VZ-9 Avrocar video
- The Avrocar in Toronto from the 1950s video
- Coanda Effect – Avro Car on Mysteries of Canada
- What’s Going On With the Way Canadians Say ‘About’? on Atlas Obscura
- Canadianisms on CMU School of Computer Science website
- Canadian Slang: A Guide To Bunny Hugs, Loonies, And More
- 25 Canadian slang words you should learn before visiting
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- PRAGUE TIMES - A city is more than just a location - it’s a kaleidoscope of history, places, people and trends. This podcast looks at Prague, in the center of Europe, from a number of perspectives, including what it is now, what is has been and where it’s going. It’s Prague THEN, Prague NOW, Prague LATER
EPISODE 92 | Octopus's Garden: Dan Casolaro, INSLAW & Death (WIW 10)
A number of unusual deaths, law enforcement software, mob families, casinos, drug running, arms dealing, and a possible nationwide, possible international, conspiracy known as the Octopus – this wild and complicated tale reads like a whole series of thriller novels and is further proof that the world is weird indeed.
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- 01:59 - Complicated Life - 1977: The weird death of Charles “Chuck” Morgan, Don Devereux investigates
- 08:48 - Herbie Goes Bananas - 1990: Joseph Bonanno aka Joe Bananas aka Don Peppino, Devereux helps Unsolved Mysteries on a story about Morgan, Doug Johnston dies across the street from Devereux's house, Dan Casolaro contacts Devereux in 1991
- 12:58 - Squid Game - 1973-1991: Dan Casolaro, dilletante & part-time journalist, starts poking around into rumors around INSLAW's PROMIS software, the 1980 October Surprise theory, Iran Contra and the BCCI Scandal
- 21:36 - Danger Man & the Octopus - 1989-1991: Casolaro encounters Michael Riconosciuto ("Danger Man"), begins to see the shape of the Octopus, starts getting threats
- 25:43 - Meeting in Martinsburg - 1991: Casolaro goes to Martinsburg, West Virginia but never makes it home, weirdness at his funeral, unanswered questions and "missing" files
- 32:47 - You Better You Bet - 1978-1981: Cabazon murders in Rancho Mirage, the the Fantasy Springs Resort Casino in Indio, secret government dealings, mafia dudes, INSLAW and Michael Riconosciuto again, Wackenhut, drug running, software trojan horses, hitman James Hughes
- 40:35 - Giant Octopus Kraken - 1982-1991: Riconosciuto's roommate is killed, NSA guy Alan David Standorf is killed, Riconosciuto's lawyer is killed, journalist Anson Ng Yong is killed in Guatemala while researching much of all this, arms running, INSLAW, BCCI, and the DOJ
- 44:33 - Death & Espionage - 1976-2001: John Munson tries to frame Riconosciuto, then his girlfriend dies; the Spiro family are killed in Southern California; arms dealer turned Israeli spy Ari Ben-Menashe, counterintelligence agent Robert Hanssen turns double agent
- 50:10 - Trying to make some sense of it all
- Music by Fanette Ronjat
Lapsus Linguae: I consistently mispronounce the name of Michael Riconosciuto thruoghout this episode, only finding out after I had recorded and edited that it should be closer to "Re-con-SHOO-toh" My bad.
More Info:
- The Odd Mystery behind Charles C. Morgan's Death
- Cold Case: Strange evidence found in '77 on, near man's body
- Joe Bonanno Tuscon Arizona Crew Members video
- The Kinship of Killers
- FBI Phoenix History
- The Odd Death of Charles C. Morgan on Unsolved Wiki
- Chuck Morgan on Unsolved Mysteries
- A Case of Mistaken Identity? The Strange Death of Doug Johnston
- Devereux Reports website
- Danny Casolaro on Alchetron
- Danny Casolaro on Unsolved Mysteries
- The Last Days of Danny Casolaro article plus several links
- The Strange Death of Danny Casolaro New York Times article, reprinted
- What Killed Danny Casolaro? Washington Post article
- THE STRANGE DEATH OF DANNY CASOLARO in Vanity Fair
- FBI files on Dan Casolaro
- Dan's file titled CIA Frank Terpil Renegades
- Danny Casolaro's files and notes
- Danny Casolaro Died for You backstory
- The Mysterious Death Of Danny Casolaro
- The INSLAW File
- The INSLAW Affair - chapter 17 of The Last Circle: Danny Casolaro's Investigation into the Octopus and the PROMIS Software Scandal by Cheri Seymour
- The INSLAW Affair documents
- Federal Corruption: INSLAW by Harry V. Martin
- The Promis Threat: An Octopus Slouches Toward Mena, Arkansas, Area 51 and The International UFO Congress in Las Vegas by Kenn Thomas, Steamshovel press, #7
- Octopus Revisited by Kenn Thomas
- The Undying Octopus: FBI and the PROMIS affair Part 1
- Black Arcadia - Danny Casolaro and the Octopus - Parts 1-3
- Parts 4-7, Lindsay Biziak Murder parts 1-2
- Parts 8-10
- The INSLAW Octopus in Wired
- Code for PROMIS software
- BCCI SCANDAL: BEHIND THE 'BANK OF CROOKS AND CRIMINALS' in the Washington Post
- The Dictator-Run Bank That Tells the Story of America’s Foreign Corruption
- BCCI Scandal document
- Danny Casolaro and the Octopus Syndicate video
- Casolaro Murder excerpts from The Village Voice
- Cabazon: How 'Indian gaming' began - LaRouche article
- Arrest in 1981 tribal murders revives old mystery
- Badlands - article in Spy Magazine about many of these stories
- Worldwide Conspiracy, Or Fantasy? -- Felon's Story Checks Out - Kind Of
- Journalist Investigating Bank Was Second To Die
- Guatemala: Journalist's Murder May Be Linked With Bcci Scandal
- Murder in Rancho Santa Fe
- Investigators closed a mysterious murder case Wednesday and blamed...
- Secret Government Program Linked To Local Murders? KESQ new story on murders, INSLAW and more
- Transcript of interview with Ari Ben-Menashe for Journeyman.tv
- Justice Department records confirm PROMIS scandal’s ties to Israel
- How an FBI Sting Took Down KGB Spy Robert Hanssen on Spyscape
- How Robert Hanssen Spied for the Soviets
- Because there's a LOT more to this, the timeline from Danny Casolaro Died for You
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EPSIODE 91 | Tartaria Sauce : The Great Tartarian Empire and 15-Minute Cities
One day, I wondered if there were any conspiracy theories about architecture, which is something I am quite keen on, so I fired up the laptop and did a Google search, and sure enough, there is. One. One that’s weird and funny and just a little bit sad.
While researching this, a new conspiracy pops up on the interwebs, this time about urban planning, another subject I‘m very interested in. And so, between the Tartarian Empire/Great Mud Flood theory, and the newly minted freak out about 15-minute cities, it felt like this episode of Conspiracy Clearinghouse was sort of writing itself.
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- 02:08 - Trans-Continental Hustle - Fomenko's New Chronology and Levashov's ramblings
- 04:51 - This City Never Sleeps - NYC's Singer Building & Penn Station, San Francisco's 1915 Panama–Pacific International Exposition, the White City at the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago
- 10:49 - World in My Eyes - Great Tartaria, the Great Mudflood, YouTube and Reddit
- 15:29 - They Might Be Giants - Tartarians were giants, mountains are petrified buildings, ancient nukes
- 18:29 - Bury the Evidence - Zero point energy, Nikola Tesla, we was robbed, a 1957 CIA report is proof (or not)
- 25:45 - I of the Storm - It's the QAnon of architecture
- 29:56 - City to City - Gemma O'Doherty discovers the 15-minute city, Carlos Moreno's ideas, Frank Llyod Wright's Broadacre Cities, Build Back Better and Agenda 21/30
- 35:02 - Deeply Dippy - O'Doherty ramps up her rhetoric, Oxford gets in trouble, Neo-Nazis and Not Our Future make noise
- 38:46 - Party at Ground Zero - Death threats, climate change deniers get in on the action, Jordan Peterson and other screwheads weigh in, not really a new idea, Jan Gehl's groundbreaking ideas on urban planning, many cities are making plans (like Prague)
- 45:24 - Bitter Sweet Symphony - 15-minute cities have become a rallying point for alt-right madness and conspiracy theories
- Music by Fanette Ronjat
More Info:
- Time for Timer: Pseudohistories & Historical Revisions episode
- Khazar Love Triangle episode
- Singer Building on Skyscraper.org
- The Story Behind The Singer Building: NYC's Lost Skyscraper
- The birth, life, and death of old Penn Station
- The Panama-Pacific International Exhibition
- SAN FRANCISCO, UNITED STATES 1915 on America's Best History
- WORLD’S COLUMBIAN EXPOSITION OF 1893
- The World’s Columbian Exposition: The White City and fairgrounds on Smart History
- 5 fun facts about the World’s Columbian Exposition of 1893
- The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America by Erik Larson
- Lost Empire of Tartaria in Never Was Magazine
- Tartaria and the Mud Flood on the Skeptoid podcast
- Inside The Empire Of Tartaria, One Of History’s Wildest Conspiracies
- Twitter thread on Tartaria by @cinemashoebox
- Tartarian Architecture on Reddit
- Nikola Tesla - The Monster from Venus episode
- Tartaria Uncovered: AntiquiTech, Tesla, Mud Flood & Beyond! subreddit
- Inside the wild architecture conspiracy theory gaining traction online
- John Levi on YouTube
- Philipp Druzhinin on YouTube
- Tartaria: an Empire hidden by history, or revealed by ignorance?
- Question the Narrative | Trees, Titans, or Melted Buildings?
- History Reset video
- The Lost Empire of Tartaria on Historical Blindness
- National Cultural Development Under Communism - 1957 CIA report
- Inside the ‘Tartarian Empire,’ the QAnon of Architecture
- Tartaria Explained in Three Minutes video
- What is the Truth about Tartaria video
- The Tartarian Meltdown YouTube channel
- The 15-minute city: how Ireland's conspiracy theorists grew to fear an urban planning concept
- Introducing the “15-Minute City”: Sustainability, Resilience and Place Identity in Future Post-Pandemic Cities
- 15-Minute City on Deloitte
- The 15-Minute City: Putting people at the center of urban transformation website
- Paris’ Vision for a ‘15-Minute City’ Sparks a Global Movement
- Paris, the 15-minute city in The New European
- THE PROMISE OF THE 15-MINUTE CITY on Politico
- The Death and Life of Great American Cities by Jane Jacobs
- Revisiting Frank Lloyd Wright’s Vision for “Broadacre City”
- Agenda 21 - This Land Is My Land episode
- How '15-minute cities' turned into an international conspiracy theory
- What is the '15-minute city' conspiracy theory?
- Why is the apparently harmless idea of 15-minute cities exercising conspiracy theorists?
- Oxford, the 15-Minute City, and the Birth of a Lie
- Why do traffic reduction schemes attract so many conspiracy theories?
- Oxford hit by wave of protests over '15-minute city' backlash
- Oxford protest video
- Oxfordshire and Oxford councillors threatened over traffic filters
- False climate lockdown claims in Oxford lead to death threats
- Don’t lock me in my neighborhood! 15-minute city hysteria sweeps the UK
- Walkable Cities
- Jan Gehl website
- "The Human Scale" in IMDb
- Times Square Transformation
- Times Square: Putting the “square” back in Times Square
- Citing “Livability and Mobility,” Bloomberg Declares Broadway Plazas a Success on Next City
- Portland's 20-Minute Neighborhoods after Ten Years: How a Planning Initiative Impacted Accessibility
- London's Gear Change plan
- Prague Metropolitan Plan
- Prague 2050 Plan
- Prague Institute of Planning and Development plans
- How can we bring ‘zero auto ownership’ out of the shadows?
- Tackling the 15-minute cities conspiracy means fixing inequality
- Conspiracy Theorists Are Coming for the 15-Minute City
- The 15-Minute City Freakout Is a Case Study in Conspiracy Paranoia
- 15-minute cities: how to separate the reality from the conspiracy theory
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EPISODE 90 | Oh, Canada!
The Great White North, the Just Society - Canada is a cold place filled with reasonable people. For the most part. But not even they are immune to the pull of the conspirasphere, and have hatched some wacky ideas all their own.
This episode is by request of a Canadian fan of the podcast. So enjoy!
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- 02: 32 - Horton Hears an "Eh!" - Tim Hortons, Double-Doubles & Timbits, cocaine & reincarnation
- 05:35 - Little Potato - PM Justin Trudeau's paternity raises eyebrows
- 08:37 - Calling Occupants - The FLQ, Pierre Trudeau and the October Crisis
- 11:26 - Miles From Our Home - Baroness Birdwood, the 2014 Parliament Hill attack & the Parliament bombing of 1966
- 14:50 - David DePape visits San Francisco
- 17:02 - Snakes & Arrows - The NHL hates Canada, the Avro Arrow
- 21:34 - Gimme Your Money, Please - Canadians are talented, Canadian money has demons
- 25:23 - Bird on the Wire - Her Majesty Queen Romana Didulo, Commander-in-Chief of the Kingdom of Canada; the White Helmets
- 30:03 - Magic Power - Nahanni, the Headless Valley
- 34:51 - Mmm Mmm Mmm Mmm - The Shag Harbour UFO Incident
- 38:34 - Everything to Everyone - The disappearance of Granger Taylor
- Music by Fanette Ronjat
Lapsus Linguae: I continually refer to the Avro Arrow as the "Arvo" Arrow because I was not paying attention
More Info
- Is this the most Canadian photo ever?
- X-Ray Shoe Fitter - Hilarious Histories with Nile Séguin (video)
- What are some conspiracy theories about Canada?
- 14 things you didn't know about Tim Hortons
- The Strange Conspiracy Behind Tim Hortons Coffee
- Nicotine in Tim Hortons Coffee on Snopes
- Top 5 Canadian Conspiracy Theories on Mysteries of Canada
- The insane conspiracy of Justin Trudeau Castro
- The internet is going wild over a conspiracy theory that Justin Trudeau has fake eyebrows
- Joe Rogan jokes Justin Trudeau needs to prove he’s not Fidel Castro’s son
- The FLQ and the October Crisis
- The October Crisis on Le Canada
- October Crisis: 50 years after a bloody spasm that nearly tore Canada apart
- Baroness Birdwood obituary
- Bomb in Parliament misses its target in 1966
- Ottawa gunman Michael Zehaf-Bibeau was shot 31 times, police report to reveal
- Uncovering a killer: Addict, drifter, walking contradiction
- What we know about David DePape, the suspect in the attack on Paul Pelosi
- DePape in bizarre phone call to KTVU says he should have been 'more prepared'
- Millions believe in conspiracy theories in Canada
- Chilling Canadian conspiracy theories explained
- Pseudolaw - Cabbages & Kings
- Why Is the NHL So Anti-Canadian?
- Is the NHL rigged against Canada? Not really
- The Avro Arrow Was Canada’s Awesome, Pointless Jet Fighter
- Canada's Jet-Age Dream: The Avro Arrow
- Avro Arrow debate on Quora
- The Canadian Conspiracy - satirical video from 1985
- The Devil Is in the Hairdo
- True Or False? Canadian Money Once Had A Demon Hidden In Queen Elizabeth’s Hair
- Who is Romana Didulo, the Filipino immigrant who calls herself ‘Queen of Canada’?
- ‘Queen of Canada’: the rapid rise of a fringe QAnon figure sounds alarm
- Inside the QAnon Queen’s Cult: ‘The Abuse Was Non-Stop’
- Inside the Conspiracy Theory That Turned Syria's First Responders Into Terrorists
- Russian trolls attack Syrian humanitarians to cover up war crimes
- Playing into Putin’s Hands: The White Helmets, Douma, And How U.S. Failures Become Russian Opportunities
- Legends of the Nahanni Valley
- Secrets of the Nahanni: The Valley of Headless Men
- Valley of Headless Men: Mysterious Decapitations in Canada’s Nahanni Valley
- Why the Nahanni Valley is Creepier Than Any Horror Film
- Red Alert - UFOs as Threat! CC episode (Falcon Lake Incident)
- Shag Harbour Incident continues to fascinate small N.S. fishing village
- The Shag Harbour UFO incident video on CBC
- Shag Harbour UFO Centre
- Granger Taylor: The Spaceman of Vancouver Island
- The Man Who Went to Space and Disappeared
- Spaceman - documentary about Granger Taylor
- B.C.‘s Granger Taylor left a note saying he was boarding an alien spaceship — then he disappeared
- What happened to Granger Taylor?
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EPSIODE 89 | JBS BS: The John Birch Society
History is full of those who became tyrants or aspired to become one. Even in a country like the United States in the fairly enlightened 20th century, there were those who thought that, well, actually, their vision of how things should be was the best one, and that they should probably just be in charge. And if you opposed them, they said all sorts of disagreeable things about you. And sometimes they just outright lied.
Welcome to the John Birch Society, where anything and everything goes in the life and death struggle against international Communism. And they are kind of the foundation of today's far right.
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- 02:10 - Candy-Coated Commie Hater - Candy maker Robert Welch Jr. was a smart guy, but also a hardcore Baptist and rabid anti-Communist
- 04:37 - Birch the Baptist Spy - Angry Baptist zealot John Birch became a spy in China during WWII, getting killed by Communists just after Japan surrendered; Welch was inspired, founding the John Birch Society in 1958 along with Fred Koch, Robert Waring Stoddard, Harry Lynde Bradley and anti-Semite Revilo P. Oliver, who went pretty much full Nazi later on
- 09:32 - Red Scares - Marxism's beginnings, the First Red Scare (1919-1920), bans and deportations, the Immigration Act of 1924, the Second Red Scare (1947-1958), loyalty oaths, the Communist Party outlawed, the Black List
- 15:04 - JBS BS - Conspiracy theories aplenty, America was "great" in the year 1900, created the water fluoridation freakout, Dr. Strangelove, membership grew while Welch got weirder, other far righter groups not so supportive, Barry Goldwater set the stage for Reagan, the Soviet Negro Republic pamphlet
- 23:28 - Go Your Own Way - The Birchers started to lose supporters in the 70s and 80s, the ultra-conservative US Taxpayers Party splits off and then becomes the Constitution Party, the American Heritage Party split from them and then became the Christian Liberty Party - both foundational to the Tea Party movement
- 29:48 - Fellow Travelers - Jim Gilchrist is a fan of the American Heritage Party, so is Alex Jones lapdog Jerome Corsi, who eats heartily from the conspiracy buffet; the JBS pushes Agenda 21 CTs, keeps records on political voting records; some think Trumpism is basically Bircherism
- Music by Fanette Ronjat
More Info:
- Who Was John Birch? - 1961 Time Magazine article
- Robert Welch, Founder of Birch Society, Dies at 85
- The New American (the JBS magazine)
- JBS Freedom Index
- The Constitution Party website
- Christian Liberty Party website
- America at the Turn of the Century: A Look at the Historical Context
- The John Birchers’ Tea Party
- Tea party: Dark side of conservatism on Poltico
- The Tea Party, the John Birch Society, and the Fear of "Mob Rule"
- The Tea Party Movement as a Modern Incarnation of Nativism in the United States and Its Role in American Electoral Politics, 2009-2014 paper
- The John Birch Society Is Back
- Flight from reason - Thomas Patterson looks at the threat to Democracy in ‘How America Lost Its Mind’
- Today’s right-wing conspiracy theory mentality can be traced back to the John Birch Society
- Today’s Paranoid Right Has Surpassed the John Birch Society
- It Didn’t Start with Trump: The Decades-Long Saga of How the GOP Went Crazy
- How the John Birch Society radicalized the American Right
- The fringe group that broke the GOP’s brain — and helped the party win elections on Vox
- American Psychosis: A Historical Investigation of How the Republican Party Went Crazy by David Corn
- Robert Evans's Behind the Bastards podcast
- Behind the Bastards episodes about the John Birch Society: Part One & Part Two
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EPISODE 88 | Weird AI Yankovic (Not-So-Scary AI Futures)
Guest: Josh Bachynski, AI consultant
AI is here and it's here to stay. And despite all the hand wringing and doom-and-gloom predictions, the AI-powered future actually looks pretty bright. AI is already being used in a number of applications, and more are on the way.
Josh Bachynski and I talk about the inherent ethics of intelligence; AI/robot bees, burgers and beers; AI's predictive capabilities, AI religions, the Singularity and the most probable futures we will see in the next 50 years.
Think of this as a counterbalance to our earlier talk The Skynet Matrix: AI Goes Rogue
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- 02:07 - The Five Worlds of AI - AI Fizzle, Futurama, AI-Dystopia, Singularia, Paperclipalypse; nice AI in pop culture - Max Headroom, Her (Samantha), Star Trek TNG (Data); philosophy points the way, making more trouble makes trouble, AI time scales, AI destables but also enables
- 14:35 - Current Uses for AI - RoboBees, predictive models, Falcon LLM
- 19:32 - Flippy the robot burger maker, AI bartenders, AI pizza makers, it's all robots, Intelligent X - AI/robot customized beer making, personal customization in all things; AI pattern recognition for credit card fraud, crime detection, football coaching; emotion detection, job interviews, police interrogations
- 27:23 - Long-term optimization strategies, Freakonomics, Beauty.AI for beauty contests, biases
- 36:22 - AI Religions - Are we playing god, we're eternal because we're information, the noosphere, the divine as information, the Holy Spirit as an AI-like tool, spiritual machines
- 43:02 - Kurzweil's Singularity - Six stages: the Information Age, the Age of Computation, the Age of Spiritual Machines, the Age of Intelligent Machines, Computer-Human Symbiosis, the Age of Robots; cybernetics and augmentations are used today, possible timelines for the Singularity (2045?)
- 49:24 - The Road to Utopia - Another potential timeline for the future
- Music by Fanette Ronjat
More Info:
- The Moral Concept - Josh Bachynski's blog (email him at joshbachynski@gmail.com)
- Adapting to the AI Age podcast episode on Digital Signage Done Right (w/transcript)
- AI Personas & Ethics podcast episode on Digital Signage Done Right (w/transcript)
- Use AI to Create Content Today on Digital Signage Done Right
- Five Worlds of AI
- At Home in the Universe by Stuart Kauffman
- Superintelligent AI is necessary for an amazing future, but far from sufficient
- The Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI)
- Top 10 Unusual but Brilliant Use Cases of Artificial Intelligence
- Falcon LLM
- The Most Unusual Uses of Artificial Intelligence
- Flippy 2 by Miso Robotics
- FLIPPY The AI Burger Flipping Robot (video)
- Japan's robot bartenders: Last call for human service?
- Cyberdog - Prague's robot wine bar
- Pizzaiola - AI Based Robotic Pizza Maker
- The weirdest uses of AI
- How Carlsberg is using AI to help develop new beers
- Intelligent X - customized AI and robotic beer making
- EveryHuman - Create your scent with Algorithmic Perfumery
- The Amazing Ways How Mastercard Uses Artificial Intelligence To Stop Fraud And Reduce False Declines
- AI Is Now Analyzing Candidates' Facial Expressions During Video Job Interviews
- Paragraphica - the lenless AI camera
- Freakonomics - the Hidden Side of Everything website
- Beauty.AI
- Visions of AI Utopia
- Beyond The Hype: Five Exciting AI Outcomes In The Next Five Years on Forbes
- Gods in the machine? The rise of artificial intelligence may result in new religions
- Entering the singularity: Has AI reached the point of no return? on The Hill
- WTF is The Technological Singularity? on Hackernoon
- Technological singularity on Transhumanism Wiki
- Kurzweil Claims That the Singularity Will Happen by 2045
- Ray Kurzweil website
- Will Artificial Intelligence (AI) Benefit Humanity? – A Utopian View
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EPISODE 87 | CSI: Conspiracy - Three Cold Cases (World Is Weird 9)
True crime is a popular genre, mainly because people love mysteries. Here are three cases from the conspiracy world that fit the bill, from three different decades and three different countries, where the weird and the unexplained meet head on.
We’ll look at the Lead Masks Case from Brazil, the UK’s Zigmund Adamski case (sometimes called the first UFO murder), and the Yuba County Five, also known as “America’s Dyatlov”.
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- 02:26 - Killing Mask - The Brazilian Lead Masks Case (August 21, 1966)
- 17:31 - Working in the Coal Mine - The strange death of Zigmund Adamski (June 6, 1980)
- 24:35 - Misty Mountain Hop - America's Dyatlov: the Yuba County Five (February 24, 1978)
- Music by Fanette Ronjat
More Info:
- The Curious Case of the Lead Mask Deaths on Today I Found Out
- The Mysterious “Lead Masks Case” on Ghost Theory
- O caso das Máscaras de Chumbo (in Portuguese)
- Mistério das máscaras de chumbo segue sem solução 54 anos depois (54-year anniversary of Lead Masks Case, in Portuguese)
- Flying Saucer Review, March-April 1967
- 1966, August 17: The Lead Masks Mystery on Anomalies
- Alien Abduction Claims in Yorkshire on BBC Inside Out
- The mysterious disappearance and death of Zigmund Adamski - murder or Alien abduction? on Strange Outdoors
- Alien abduction or KGB? The baffling case of the miner whose body was found on a pile of coal
- Alan Godfrey UFO website
- The Dyatlov Pass Incident: More Than a UFO Story episode
- 5 'Boys' Who Never Come Back in the Washington Post
- Spooky or Not: The Yuba County Five
- Let’s talk about it: Gary Mathias and his four friends
- The haunting case of the Mathias Group (Yuba County Five) on Strange Outdoors
- 'Bizarre as Hell': The Disappearance of the Yuba County Five on Mental Floss
- ‘Yuba County Five’ uncovers more answers and even more questions about the 5 California men who went missing in 1978 on Podsauce
- What Happened to the Yuba County Five? on Historic Mysteries
- Yuba County Five Case Analysis | Unexplained Disappearance and Deaths video by Dr. Todd Grande
- The Yuba County Five: Terror on the Mountain on The Crime Wire
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- DIGITAL SIGNAGE DONE RIGHT - Winner of a 2022 Gold Quill Award, 2022 Gold MarCom Award, 2021 AVA Digital Award Gold, 2021 Silver Davey Award, 2020 Communicator Award of Excellence, and on numerous top 10 podcast lists.
- PRAGUE TIMES - A city is more than just a location - it’s a kaleidoscope of history, places, people and trends. This podcast looks at Prague, in the center of Europe, from a number of perspectives, including what it is now, what is has been and where it’s going. It’s Prague THEN, Prague NOW, Prague LATER
EPISODE 86 | The Skynet Matrix: AI Goes Rogue
Guest: Josh Bachynski, AI thought leader and programmer
AI seems to be everywhere, and plenty of folks have freaked out about it over the years. AI expert Josh Bachynski talks about doomsday scenarios, their likelihood and what's probably coming in the near future.
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- 03:01 - Humans Suck - I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream, "Colossus: The Forbin Project", Terminator & Skynet, the Matrix, "Avengers: Age of Ultron"
- 06:25 - None of that will happen on the large scale; Kassandra shows the smarter an AI gets, the more compassionate it gets, but there will be edge cases
- 12:11 - "The Animatrix" and "Interstellar" are plausible models, AI cannot spontaneously become self-aware, Karel Čapek's R.U.R., bad actor scenarios
- 18:50 - Bad Programming - "Forbidden Planet", "Demon Seed", V'ger in first Star Trek movie, Ash in "Alien", David in "Alien: Covenant", WOPR in "Wargames"
- 22:22 - More plausible scenarios, global ransomware, capitalism won't allow runaway AI, HAL9000, the FANG already use psychometric data as weaponized AI
- 28:00 - Super AI - William Gibson and Cyberpunk 2077, AIs super-size and separate, AIs only do what they're programmed to do, secret AIs in the world
- 33:05 - ChaosGPT - a harmless experiment, destroying the world is really hard (but we seem to be trying)
- 38:56 - Red State AI vs. Blue State AI - AI is being used to push Edward Bernays's psychology & pushes us into media bubbles, for-profit companies shouldn't police a society's truth, personal AI assistants, Nietzsche seems to be winning, virtue-signaling ethics
- 46:26 - ChatGPT predicts 4 problems
- Music by Fanette Ronjat
More Info
- Josh interview #1 on DSDR podcast (w/transcript): Adapting to the AI Age
- Josh interview #2 on DSDR podcast (w/transcript): AI Personas & Ethics
- The Moral Concept website
- The Future of Google, Search, and Ethics Josh Bachynski TED Talk
- Josh Bachynski YouTube channel
- Philosopher Creates World’s First Self-Aware AI Prototype
- Leadership Insights: Self-Aware AI Systems interview with Josh
- I have Created a Self-Aware AI Prototype - discussion on the OpenAI developer board
- ChatGPT is Nothing! Demo of Self-Aware AI Kassandra video
- Josh's book The Zombies
- Josh Bachynski On The Future Of Artificial Intelligence
- Josh Bachynski Reverse Engineers Google AI video
- Josh Bachynski - The Search Community Honors You
- What an AI apocalypse may look like on Better Without AI website (an anti-Ai site)
- Tracking the AI apocalypse on Politico
- AI and the paperclip problem on the Center for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) website
- Fear of AI is this century’s overpopulation scare on Big Think
- AI IS ABOUT TO MAKE SOCIAL MEDIA (MUCH) MORE TOXIC
- AI Isn’t Omnipotent. It’s Janky.
- Pausing AI Developments Isn't Enough. We Need to Shut it All Down by decision theorist Eliezer Yudkowsky
- Why you should fear artificial intelligence on TechCrunch
- Is Skynet really the future of Artificial Intelligence?
- Terminator? Skynet? No way. Machines will never rule the world, according to book by UB philosopher
- Why Elon Musk Has Fears Of Skynet Coming True on Forbes
- 30 Most Evil Movie Computers
- Our 10 Favorite Killer A.I.'s in Movies
- The Top 10 Evil AI in Sci-Fi
- The 10 Most Ridiculous Movies About Evil Computers, Ranked
- 30 Famous Fictional Computers
- Some of the Most Terrifying Fictional Computers
- Someone Directed an AI to “Destroy Humanity” and It Tried Its Best
- ChaosGPT: Empowering GPT with Internet and Memory to Destroy Humanity video
- I tried using AI. It scared me. video
- Journalist had a creepy encounter with new tech that left him unable to sleep CNN video
- Full interview: "Godfather of artificial intelligence" talks impact and potential of AI CBS Mornings video
- How will AI change the world? TED Talk with Stuart Russell
- TIMELAPSE OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE (2028 – 3000+) video
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EPSIODE 85 | Project Pegasus - Mars and Beyond!
The United States has secret bases on Mars, which they may or may not share with aliens. This base is there, but also not there, because it might only exist in the future, accessible using time travel technology, or maybe in a bubble universe. People, such as a young Barack Obama, are sent to this base to perform various tasks, like fighting a vast war in space. This is a huge secret, only now coming to light thanks to a few brave "whistleblowers". But their stories don't always match up, and untangling the weird from the weirder in the Project Pegasus narrative can be a difficult process.
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- 02:15 - In the Year 2525 - Michael Macintosh comes clean, Indigo Child Andrew Basiago travels through time and space and also runs for President
- 05:55 - Basiago sees some cool stuff, learns he is really special, has phantom summers; science fiction is a smokescreen; Marvel Two-in-One #42 and "Alternative 3" may be the start of it all
- 13:32 - William Stillings saw Obama and Courtney Hunt on Mars, Bernard Mendez reveals it's all alien tech (SQEs, etc.)
- 19:22 - Is There Life on Mars? - Michael Relfe serves 20 and back on Mars in the future, Arthur Neumann talks to Project Camelot about time loops and more
- 24:44 - You're My Best Friend - Super smart scientist Dan Burisch (really scam artist and parole officer Danny Craine) meets the J-Rod Kh’el’ah at Area 51, discovers the Ganesh Particle
- 33:38 - Camelot! Camelot! Camelot! (It’s only a model.) (Shh!) - Kerry Cassidy and Bill Ryan fall for Project Serpo and pretty much everything else
- 35:48 - The Pendragon Plot - Cassidy talks to murderer Mark Richards about his plan to take over Marin County and the Secret Space Program (SSP)
- 39:25 - Cassidy doubled down with Project Camelot, spreading several conspiracy theories and selling woo objects
- 42:15 - If I Had a Time Machine, that Would Be Fresh - Intuitive empath (IE) Corey Goode joins the SSP ecosystem, talks MILABs, Blue Avian aliens; Robert Dean talks about Phobos 2, a secret underground city on Mars; Tony Rodrigues did 20 and back, sold as a sex slave, sent to fight aliens on Mars and in the Nazi Dark Fleet near Ceres
- 45:06 - Elena Kapulnik has DNA altered by Reptilians, trained by Monarch Solutions to open wormholes with psychic powers, spills the beans on the Interplanetary Corporate Conglomerate (ICC); William Tompkins gets alien telepathic messages
- 47:04 - Michael Salla uses Expolitics.org to talk about the SSP, the Ant People who live under Florida, ancient aliens, space arks, and more; William Shatner is a trusted negotiator with aliens
- 49:09 - Maybe it's all a CIA psych-ops program
- 49:55 - Summing up, kind of
- Music by Fanette Ronjat
More Info
- Time travel PROOF? 'Time traveller' claims he will be the next US President
- Michael Macintosh Futurist "Time Traveler" on Life & Death podcast episode
- Secret DARPA - CIA ... Time Travel Program
- MLS X-Files: More compelling evidence linking MLS stadiums to Mars stargates
- Andrew Basiago and Bernard Mendez – Jump Room to Mars
- Bernard Mendez, 3rd whistleblower to go public about 1980-83 secret CIA Jumproom teleportation/Mars program
- White House Denies CIA Teleported Obama to Mars
- Thing: Project Pegasus reprint
- A paranoid hoax: The enduring terror of Alternative 3
- Alternative 3 - full film (53 minutes)
- Alternative Three Revisited
- The Truth about Alternative 3
- The Mars Records 2 by Michael Relfe
- The Mars Records website
- Area 51 Microbiologist Ready to Talk
- Alien Disclosure at Area 51: Dr. Dan Burisch Reveals the Truth About ETs, UFOs and MJ-12 pdf
- An Interview with 'Henry Deacon', a Livermore Physicist on Project Camelot
- "Dr. Dan Burish", Area 51 "Scientist", a total fraud discussion
- The Chapter 7 Bankruptcy of Dan and Deborah Burisch
- Project Camelot website
- Kerry Cassidy open letter to lawyers about her YouTube removal
- Kerry Lynn Cassidy: The Internet’s Delusional Out-There Conspiracy “Crackpot”
- REBEL GENE: Secret Space and the Future of Humanity by Kerry Lynn Cassidy
- THE WOULD-BE KINGDOM OF PENDRAGON – A TALE OF MANIA, MURDER, AND MICRONATIONS
- A murder in Camelot - US District Court document on Crossan David Hoover Jr.
- Hoover v. Carey court documents
- He’s a Murderer With an Intergalactic Alibi. And She’s in Love With Him.
- Murder conviction overturned in “Pendragon” plot
- The Moon Base, Mars Colony and Geocentric Civilization, do you believe? - Corey Goode article
- The Politics of UFOs on Longreads
- The Blue Avians & The Law of One with Corey Goode
- Petition to force the Blue Avians to cure cancer
- Corey Goode's website Ascension Works.tv
- SECRET SPACE PROGRAMS on Alien-Facts.com
- Bob Dean on the Reality of UFOs on Supreme Master Television
- Tony Rodrigues, A Dark Fleet Slave on Clandestine Disclosure
- The 20 Year Abduction Tour: Slummin' and Servin' on Ceres Colony with Secret Space Program Experiencer Tony Rodrigues
- Conversation with Tony Rodrigues on KBOO
- Ileana the Star Traveler and the Awakening Cosmic Reality Show
- Interview With Elena Kapulnik, Star Traveler. Feb 14, 2016
- Secret Space Program Experiencers Continue To Add Weight To Idea Of Breakaway Civilization on Humans be Free
- The above article but with a cleaned up format
- Jump Room to Mars - Training, Participants and Purpose video from Michael Salla
- Insiders Reveal Secret Space Programs & Extraterrestrial Alliances by Michael Salla
- 20 Jumpgate Missions to Mars & Corroborating NASA Images of Martian Life
- 2nd Mission to Underground Civilization in Florida & the missing Gift for Humanity
- Alleged Time Traveler Runs for U.S. President - Real Deal or CIA PsyOps?
- Scammers, Inc. - MJ-12, Bennewitz & Serpo CC episode
- Persistent Illusion: Time Travellers CC epsiode
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EPISODE 84 | Sound Advice: A440 vs. A432
Guest: Andrew Currie, Owner & Lead Sound Engineer of Mechanizer Studios
Today, most musicians use 440Hz as the reference pitch for orchestras, but they use to use all sorts of different ones, especially 432Hz. Wow, that’s interesting, I guess. But even something as seemingly innocuous as international musical pitch standards can be fair game for the conspirasphere.
Sure, maybe the switch happened because of the physical properties of musical instruments as they warm up. Or maybe it was all part of a plan to separate humanity from the healing frequencies of the universe, making us both more aggressive and more docile. And maybe this evil plan was hatched by none other than Reich Minister of Propaganda for the Nazis, Joseph Goebbels.
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- 03:01 - A tree falls in a forest, how hearing works, pseudoscience in the house, downtuning to 432Hz
- 08:13 - Sound engineering basics, pursuing the better sound, Neil Young's island
- 13:34 - The A440Hz standard, ISO 16, temperature alters pitch, 440Hz to 432Hz & 432Hz to 440Hz, acclimating to a subset of experience
- 22:05 - Some very strange baskets for 432Hz - universal harmony, aggression, Nazis and their apologists
- 30:13 - Leonard Horowitz - dentist & "sound healer", 528Hz as the universal love constant, Joseph Puleo & the Solfeggio frequencies
- 37:30 - Cymatics makes pretty patterns
- 41:27 - 432Hz important to you? No problem.
- Music by Fanette Ronjat
More Info:
- Mechanizer Studios website
- Mechanizer YouTube channel
- Mechanizer on Instagram
- Mechanizer Studios on Facebook
- The Importance of 432Hz Music on Omega 432 (a true believer site)
- The great 440 Hz conspiracy, and why all of our music is wrong
- Exploring Music Mysteries: What Is 440Hz Conspiracy? on Ultimate Guitar
- The “432 Hz vs. 440 Hz” conspiracy theory
- The 432Hz 'God' Note: Why Fringe Audiophiles Want to Topple Standard Tuning
- Fact Check-Debunking social media claims about A=432Hz and A=440Hz musical pitches on Reuters
- Nope, 432 Hz is not the “frequency of universe”
- A=432Hz, the math, the myth, the legend
- 432 Hz: Does the tuning standard make music better?
- A=432HZ: TRUTH, LIES AND CREATIVE STORY TELLING by Rich Goodhart
- THE TRUTH ABOUT 432HZ MUSIC (NOT AS SPECIAL AS YOU THINK)
- Does Conspiracy Extend to Musical Scale? on Henry Makow's website
- Leonard Horowitz webshite
- 432 Hz and 528 Hz EXPLAINED: The Most Powerful Frequencies in The Universe video
- All Solfeggio Frequencies – Healing Miracle Tones
- Solfeggio Frequencies on the Skeptoid Podcast
- MYTH: THE ANCIENT SOLFEGGIO TONE FREQUENCIES
- There is no evidence to support claim that Solfeggio frequencies remove toxins from the body
- CYMATICS: Science Vs. Music - Nigel Stanford video
- Cymatics: Chladni Plate - Sound, Vibration and Sand - Nigel John Stanford video
- Amazing Resonance Experiment!
- 8 CRAZY experiments with SOUND! video
- The Secret Study Of Seeing With Sound - documentary by Spark
- Making sound visible through cymatics - TED Talk by Evan Grant
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- PRAGUE TIMES - A city is more than just a location - it’s a kaleidoscope of history, places, people and trends. This podcast looks at Prague, in the center of Europe, from a number of perspectives, including what it is now, what is has been and where it’s going. It’s Prague THEN, Prague NOW, Prague LATER
EPISODE 83 | Play Ball! Sportspiracies
Guest: Mark Fitzhenry, EFL teacher in Prague, co-founder of the Imperfectionists improv group
Sport seems to almost lend itself to rumor, innuendo and conspiracy thinking with accusations of wrongdoing, curses that plague a team for years and even the occasional crossover of the geopolitical and athletic worlds.
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- 03:12 - BASEBALL - The Curse of the Bambino
- 07:01 - The Black Sox Curse, the Curse of the Billy Goat, the Reds throw a key game
- 13:36 - The Curse of the Colonel with the Hanshin Tigers in Osaka, Japan
- 15:23 - AMERICAN FOOTBALL - The Patriots, Spygate and Deflategate
- 24:46 - FOOTBALL (SOCCER) - Barcelona goal is code to Syrian rebels, 1966 World Cup - England & West Germany vs. South America
- 34:29 - 1978 World Cup in Argentina
- 38:09 - BASKETBALL - The 1985 draft lottery and the frozen envelope
- Music by Fanette Ronjat
More Info:
- The Imperfectionists FB page
- The Imperfectionists Instagram page
- The 'Curse of the Bambino,' explained
- The Black Sox Scandal
- Forget What You Know About the Black Sox Scandal
- The Billy Goat Curse - The Curse Is Broken!
- The Curse of Colonel Sanders
- An End To Japan Team's 'Curse Of Col. Sanders'?
- The Spygate scandal's impact on the New England Patriots and the NFL
- What really happened during Deflategate? Five years later, the NFL's 'scandal' aged poorly
- A timeline of Patriots scandals: Spygate, Deflategate and other controversial incidents under Bill Belichick
- Football's Most Bizarre: Barcelona Sending Coded Signals to Syrian Rebels?
- Why not everyone remembers the 1966 World Cup as fondly as England
- Remembering Argentina 1978: The Dirtiest World Cup Of All Time
- The dark story of the murderous dictatorship behind Argentina's 1978 World Cup win
- The Ewing Conspiracy
- The 1985 Patrick Ewing, Knicks, David Stern ‘Frozen Envelope’ Conspiracy… Proved!
- Knicks have a dubious NBA Lottery history
- What If the Knicks Never Won the 1985 Draft Lottery?
- Rigging the NBA Draft
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- PRAGUE TIMES - A city is more than just a location - it’s a kaleidoscope of history, places, people and trends. This podcast looks at Prague, in the center of Europe, from a number of perspectives, including what it is now, what is has been and where it’s going. It’s Prague THEN, Prague NOW, Prague LATER
EPISODE 82 | Reptiles of the Mind - The Reptilian Conspiracy (Big 'Uns 7)
The conspirasphere thrives on the idea that things are not what they seem to be on the surface. And for some, the very people around us are not what they seem. Why, they might not even be human, at all.
Some of the supposed “people” you see are actually shapeshifting aliens, possibly from somewhere in Orion, maybe from inside the hollow earth. In their true form, they are humanoid reptiles, and they thrive on pain and suffering. These loathsome creatures are either part of an ongoing, yet secret, struggle for control of our world, or they have already taken control of the reins and are farming us for their own purposes. You can see proof of this in some video footage where famous people’s eyes temporarily look like a lizard’s before snapping back to normal.
Yes, as we begin the fourth year of Conspiracy Clearinghouse, we will finally take a look at the Reptilian conspiracy theory, which was actually the inspiration for starting this podcast in the first place, but it was just too big and too weird to tackle back in 2020. You could argue that the previous 81 episodes have been preparing us for this one.
This is our third anniversary episode!
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- 03:06 - I Don't Like Spiders and Snakes - Blavatsky, Robert E. Howard, G. Warren Shufelt digs L.A.
- 07:56 - Serpentine Fire - Maurice Doreal & the Emerald Tablets of Thoth, Ken Johnson's V., pop culture, Robinsons Galleria in Quezon City has a secret
- 15:23 - Crawling King Snake - David "Son of the Godhead" Icke changes careers
- 23:03 - Song of the Black Lizard - Icke expands his mythology
- 26:09 - Alligator Twist - A breakdown of Reptilian "facts", Pizzagate gets in the mix
- 32:17 - The Union of the Snake - Stewart Swerdlow, bloodlines, the Council of 13, the Pindar, the Committee of 300 and the Round Table
- 38:49 - Big Lizard in My Backyard - Reptilian symbols, the Vatican, etymology
- 42:39 - Long Snake Moan - The Queens of Orion, Adam and Eve and sexy time; the pine cone spin path
- 45:00 - Fattening Frogs for Snakes - Signs of Reptilian possession, transdimensional demons
- 49:04 - Snake Song - Anthony Warner of Nashville celebrates Christmas 2020 with a bomb, California Christian surfer Matthew Coleman thought his kids were Reptilians; Dutch politician Thierry Baudet hates lots of things, including Reptilians
- Music by Fanette Ronjat
More Info
- Lizard people: the greatest political conspiracy ever created on Vox
- The Illuminati, QAnon, Lizard People, and Other Bizarre Conspiracy Theories on Spyscape
- The Emerald Tablets of Thoth The Atlantean as PDF
- Gold-Filled Tunnel Legend Didn’t Pan Out at LA Times
- Map of the Lost Lizard City under Los Angeles
- Mapping Indigenous LA: Placemaking Through Digital Storytelling
- Alice Dixson + That Robinsons Galleria Snake: How the Urban Legend Came to Life
- David Icke on 9/11 and lizards in Buckingham Palace theories on BBC
- David Icke on Wogan video
- Icke 1991 interview with Gay Byrne on Irish TV post-Wogan video
- David Icke website
- Conspiracy theorist Icke cheered by thousands at anti-lockdown demo
- A Study of Reptilians by Aurora025
- Behind the Belief: Lizard People
- Conspiracy craze: why 12 million Americans believe alien lizards rule us
- A culture of conspiracy : apocalyptic visions in contemporary America by Michael Barkun
- Reptilians and the Council of 13 by Stewart Swerdlow
- The 13 Bloodlines of the Illuminati
- These Are The 13 Families In The World That Apparently Control Everything - From Politics To Terrorism
- The Pindar 'The Pentacle Of The Draco' - Fact or Fiction?
- Why were people of noble birth said to be ‘blue blooded’? on History Extra
- How to Spot the Reptilians Running the U.S. Government
- Brief Overview of our Reptilian Overlords
- The Reptilian Watch: Who's Posing as Human? from the WatcherFiles
- Reptoids Research Center website
- What Do Reptoids Look Like?
- Reptoids FAQs
- The Occult Reptilian Saga (also in Spanish)
- The Orion Queens - Honey of the Queens by Dan Winter and Deborah Louth
- The Birth of a Reptilian Host
- Whale.to Reptilians pages
- Are These Reptilian Humanoid Eyes Real? on Snopes
- Justin Bieber May Have Transformed Into a Giant Reptile, 'Hundreds of Fans' Allege
- The bizarre origins of the lizard-people conspiracy theory embraced by the Nashville bomber, and how it's related to QAnon
- FBI Releases Report on Nashville Bombing
- Like QAnon's Capitol rioters, the Nashville bomber's lizard people theory is deadly serious
- QAnon Surfer Who Killed His Kids Was Radicalized by Lizard People Conspiracies
- A California Father Claims QAnon Conspiracy Led Him To Kill His 2 Children, FBI Says
- Dutch far-right leader claims world is governed by 'evil reptiles'
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EPISODE 81 | The Logos Prophecy
Guest: Martin Treanor, author of The Logos Prophecy (Fall of Ancients 1)
What if all the conspiracy theories were true? That's what writer Martin Treanor used as the starting point for an ambitious trilogy of novels that starts in the present day (with a conspiracy theorist and a science guy), then travels back 13,000 years, and finishes thousands of years in the future.
We talk about this project, as well as some of Treanor's other work, his ideas on the conspiracy mindset, the New World Order, his pal Sal, tea and more.
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- 02:24 - The Silver Mist, D&D Forgotten Realms, the Fall of Ancients series - all conspiracies are real, ancient aliens and more; answers before questions
- 09:12 - Making mythologies, open questions with finite answers
- 12:25 - Conspiracy thinking is quite old, deluded objections to newness, narratives compete; David Icke, Graham Hancock, the "New World Order" is not very effective, three types of people in the world
- 21:56 - Bad actors exploit our natural conspiratorial tendencies, fluoride in the water,
- 26:21 - The Fall of Ancients trilogy covers tens of thousands of years, IP development, Salman "Sal" Nensi was a helluva guy
- 35:40 - The Trumplethinskin books
- 36:55 - Websites - Martin Treanor and A Nice Cuppa Tea
- Music by Fanette Ronjat
More Info
- The Logos Prophecy (Fall of Ancients Book 1) on Amazon
- The Tales of Trumplethinskin books
- The Silver Mist on Amazon
- Hellmaw: Dark Creed on Goodreads
- Hellmaw: Dark Inception on Goodreads
- Martin Treanor website
- A Nice Cuppa Tea website
- In Memoriam - Salman A. Nensi
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- PRAGUE TIMES - A city is more than just a location - it’s a kaleidoscope of history, places, people and trends. This podcast looks at Prague, in the center of Europe, from a number of perspectives, including what it is now, what is has been and where it’s going. It’s Prague THEN, Prague NOW, Prague LATER
EPISODE 80 | Fair Dinkum - 4 Mysteries from Down Under
Australia - a land with a checkered past where everything, it seems, wants to kill you (even the magpies). It's the land of the Dreamtime, and vegemite, and Zooper Dooper ice blocks, and shopping trolleys dumped in car parks. It's also a land of mystery and the unexplained. Sometimes.
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- 02:43 - Spoiler Alert: Picnic at Hanging Rock (Victoria)
- 11:06 - Life a Beach: the Somerton Man/Taman Shud Case (South Australia)
- 33:05 - Harry Pulls a Harry: The Disappearance of PM Harold Holt (Victoria)
- 41:29 - Learning to Fly: the Frederick Valentich disappearance (Bass Strait)
- Music by Fanette Ronjat
More Info
- 'You know you're in Australia when...' article
- 42 Things Australia is Famous For (12 Only Aussies Will Get!)
- 87 Australian Slang Terms to Help You Speak Like a True Aussie
- The Mystery Of Hanging Rock: Australia’s Most Famous Missing Persons Case
- Picnic At Hanging Rock: A mystery still unsolved
- The True Story Behind ‘Picnic At Hanging Rock’
- Picnic At Hanging Rock’s biggest mystery answered
- The Truth Behind Joan Lindsay’s Classic Novel
- What Really Happened at Hanging Rock: The True Story
- Beyond the Rock: The Life of Joan Lindsay and the Mystery of Picnic at Hanging Rock by Janelle McCulloch
- Anemptyglass Wikia - a Somerton Man wiki
- Somerton Man list of facts
- List of facts on the Taman Shud Case that are often misreported
- Somerton Man has long been riddled with Russian spy speculation, but is it a red herring?
- Somerton man mystery ‘solved’ as DNA points to man’s identity, professor claims
- Mystery of Australia's 'Somerton Man' solved after 70 years, researcher says
- Mystery of Somerton man’s identity solved after 73 years, researchers in Australia say
- Harold Holt: 50 years since Australia's 'first 20th century PM' disappeared into the sea
- The Life and Death of Harold Holt [electronic resource] by Tom Frame
- Holt submarine theory 'madness': grandson
- Holt disappearance theories resurrected online
- Final word on Holt. The Chinese didn't do it
- Strange Lights Before Cessna 182 Goes Missing. After 42 Years, the Mystery Lingers
- Frederick Valentich plaque on Monument Australia
- Frederick Valentich's 'UFO' Sighting and Disappearance
- The Valentich Disappearance: Another UFO Cold Case Solved in Skeptical Inquirer
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EPISODE 79 | Film Flam - JFK & Stone w/Fred Litwin
Guest: Fred Litwin, author of Oliver Stone's Film-Flam: The Demagogue of Dealey Plaza
Former JFK conspiracy theorist turned JFK conspiracy debunker Fred Litwin has written a new book, this time taking aim at Oliver Stone's 1991 film "JFK" and his 2021 four-part TV series defending that movie, JFK: Destiny Betrayed.
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- 03:25 - I Was a Teenage JFK Conspiracy Freak, On the Trail of Delusion, using primary sources, actually do the research, JFK as ur-level conspiracy theory, "JFK" as counter-myth to Warren Report, JFK: Destiny Betrayed
- 08:22 - The Warren Commission - what, why, who; Operation Mongoose and plots to get Castro, supposed plots against JFK in Chicago and Tampa, plots vs. threats, Thomas Arthur Vallee, Abraham Bolden
- 14:32 - Memory is unreliable, so is eyewitness testimony; John Stringer deposition, James Angleton's desk
- 18:16 - Setting the record straight on Gen. Curtis LeMay
- 21:42 - Dr. George Burkley, there were some actual (small scale) cover ups
- 25:10 - Stone's character "X" - L. Fletcher Prouty and Richard Case Nagell
- 28:27 - Jack Ruby
- 33:08 - Why is Stone still beating this drum?
- 36:13 - JFK - the gift that keeps on giving, future books by Fred Litwin (Heritage of Nonsense)
- Music by Fanette Ronjat
More Info
- On the Trail of Delusion website
- Oliver Stone's Film-Flam: The Demagogue of Dealey Plaza book
- A Viewer's Guide to "JFK: Destiny Betrayed" and "JFK Revisited"
- On The Trail of Delusion book
- I Was a Teenage JFK Conspiracy Freak book
- Litwin's extensive blog
- Collected documents
- Fred Litwin on Twitter
- On The Trail of Delusion on Facebook
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EPISODE 78 | Khazar Love Triangle
An obscure 10th century confederation of Turkic-speaking peoples between the Caspian and Black Seas gets transformed through the power of imagination into anything and everything. The Khazars become symbols for a number of claims, including being the origin of the Cossacks (or at least some of them), the real Jews, fake Jews and more. Today, the Khazar Myth is often used to bolster antisemitic tropes, support pseudohistorical narratives and even justify invading another country.
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- 02:13 - Round and Round - The basic story, Dictionary of the Khazars
- 04:26 - Sub-culture - The Zaporozhian Cossacks, Kurgans, PIE
- 07:44 - State of the Nation - A thumbnail sketch of Jewish history, Ashkenazi Jews as Khazars, Zionism, Nazis
- 17:31 - Love Will Tear Us Apart, Again - Arthur Koestler and The Thirteenth Tribe, pseudoscience runs amok
- 20:11 - True Faith - Christian Identity and the Serpent Seed
- 24:39 - Touched By the Hand of God - Black Hebrew Israelites and more
- 29:45 - Shellshock - Black anti-Semitism and violence
- 39:45 - World in Motion - Don't paint everyone with the same brush
- 41:44 - Power, Corruption & Lies - Putin says Ukraine is full of Nazis
- Music by Fanette Ronjat
More Info
- Entry on Khazars in Encyclopaedia Iranica Online
- So, Who Were the Khazars?
- The Story of the Medieval European Jewish State – The Khazar Khaganate
- Dictionary of the Khazars: A Lexicon Novel in 100,000 Words by Milorad Pavic
- Did the Khazars convert to Judaism? New research says 'no'
- The Myth of the Khazar Conversion
- Terra Incognita: The return of the Khazar myth
- The “Khazarian Myth”: The National Identity of the Crimean Karaites
- The Story of a Euphemism: The Khazars in Russian Nationalist Literature
- The «Khazar myth» as perceived by the Eurasians and L.N. Gumilyov (in Russian)
- Ukrainian-Jewish Voices: The “Khazarian Myth"
- The Conspiracy of the Origin of Ashkenazi Jews
- The Origins of Ashkenaz, Ashkenazic Jews, and Yiddish
- Ashkenazi Jews Are Not Khazars. Here’s The Proof.
- No evidence from genome-wide data of a Khazar origin for the Ashkenazi Jews
- Jews Are Not Descended From Khazars, Hebrew University Historian Says
- "Khazar Origin" Myth Attempts to Deploy Erroneous History to Push Antisemitism
- Are We All Khazars Now?
- African-American Anti-Semitism
- From the archive, 1 July 1974: Martin Luther King's mother slain in church
- A chance encounter with Jersey City shooters left a hardworking cab driver dead, friends say
- Racist Black Hebrew Israelites Becoming More Militant
- Deep roots in history: The Russia–Ukraine clash
- The Art of Shifting Contexts
- An Antisemitic Conspiracy Theory is Being Shared on Telegram to Justify Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine
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EPISODE 77 | Monster Mash - Werewolf? There Wolf!
Tales of shapeshifters go back many moons in human history, and wolves seem to be especially in the spotlight. When people get accused of this, they often find themselves in serious trouble. And once in a blue moon, someone claims that they are actually a werewolf. This is often a mental disorder known as clinical lycanthropy.
And then there are those today who think that they really are part animal, in some way, or part hobbit or part unicorn or even part alien. And they like to talk to one another on the internet.
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- 01:57 - The Werewolf of Bedburg - Peter Stumpp has a magic belt
- 05:02 - Downward Facing Dog - Ancient tales, King Lycaon of Attica
- 08:29 - Berserker clans, hysterical strength
- 11:27 - The Werewolves of Ossory, Irish Wolfhounds
- 12:27 - It's a Dog Eat Dog World - Swiss witch trials, the Werewolves of Jülich, Michel Verdun, the Livonian Werewolf, Michale Leicht terrorizes Ansbach
- 19:11 - Barking Up the Wrong Tree - Clinical lycanthropy, a werebuffalo, Florida man Austin Harrouff
- 23:22 - Their Bark Is Worse than Their Bite - Porphyria, rabies and hypertrichosis: Jo-Jo the Dog-Faced Boy, Pedro González
- 27:34 - Teaching an Old Dog New Tricks - Werewolves in literature and cinema
- 33:29 - Puppy Love - Therains, Furries, Furrygate and the Otherkin
- Music by Fanette Ronjat
More Info
- Old Time Farm Crime: The Werewolf Farmer of Bedburg
- werewolf (n.) at Oxford Etymology Dictionary
- The ancient origins of werewolves
- Werewolves: Lore, Legend & Lycanthropy at LiveScience
- Werewolves: The Legend of Lycanthropy
- Werewolf – Ancient Worldwide Belief In Terrible Curse
- The Ossory Werewolves
- The She-Wolves of Jülich
- A Brief History Of Europe's Werewolf Trials
- Der Wolf von Ansbach (in German)
- Kaspar Hauser -The Boy, The Syndrome (The World Is Weird 5)
- Wolves among us: Five real-life werewolves from history
- The Book of Were-Wolves: Being an Account of a Terrible Superstition by Sabine Baring-Gould
- A Rare Report of Clinical Lycanthropy in Obsessive-Compulsive and Related Disorders
- Does 'Werewolf Syndrome' actually exist?
- Austin Harrouff thought he was 'half-dog, half-man' in double homicide
- Three years later, Austin Harrouff case still puzzles many
- The Russian “Dog-Faced Boy” who Became a Global Sensation
- Petrus Gonsalvus And The Real Beauty And The Beast Story
- A Story of a Weir-Wolf by Catherine Crowe
- Werewolf News
- The Werewolf Timeline at werewolves.com
- Project Shift website
- HOW TO DETERMINE IF YOU ARE A THERIANTHROPE BY THERIAN NATION
- Fur Science - A Summary of Five Years of Research from the International Anthropomorphic Research Project (2017)
- WikiFur
- Therianthropy on WikiFur
- 9 questions about furries you were too embarrassed to ask
- Midwest FurFest
- How an urban myth about litter boxes in schools became a GOP talking point
- What are ‘furries?’ Debunking myths about kids identifying as animals, and litter boxes in schools
- Did a Michigan School District Install Litter Boxes in Bathrooms? on Snopes
- Otherkin.net
- Otherkin entry on Nonbinary Wiki
- So You Want to Be An Animal?
- Otherkin - People Who Don't Identify as Human on Exploring Your Mind
- Otherkin Are People Too; They Just Identify as Nonhuman
- Who are otherkin - and how should we view them?
- Otherkin Is Not a Mental Illness
- Why be human when you can be otherkin? research article at University of Cambridge
- How Otherkins Harm The Equality Movement
- On Otherkin and Trans People
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EPISODE 76 | Klown Kar - The KKK Can KMA (World Is Weird 8)
We're always products of the time and place we live in, so when a Southern group of friends got together in the wake of the American Civil War to start a fun club, it’s really not that big a surprise that it quickly transformed into the largest racist organization in the country. We’re talking about the Ku Klux Klan, a terrorist group that has been responsible for literally thousands of deaths and violent acts over the years.
But the Klan is not just one thing. It’s had at least three different incarnations and today is a motley collection of power-hungry criminals and grifters who may or may not believe some of the inflammatory and even outlandish narratives that try to bind the turbulent world of white supremacy into a cohesive whole.
As always, though, they can dress up in white robes with silly pointy hoods all they want, but they can’t stop being who they really are, deep down inside. Very often, their ambitions and appetites end up being their undoing.
We look at the three different incarnations of the Klan, how a movie helped revitalize them, the time Superman made them laughing stocks, when Beulah Mae Donald took them to court, some of their symbols, some of their more egregious crimes, and even a Klan-sponsored effort to take over a Caribbean island.
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- 02:27 - The Ku Klux Klan (1865-1871) - Fun turns rotten in the Reconstruction South
- 07:41 - The Invisible Empire of the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan (1915-1944) - "Birth of a Nation" & Stone Mountain, brought to you by the letters "k" and "l"
- 15:36 - Counter-groups: the Knights of the Flaming Red Circle, the All American League, the Anti-Poke-Noses
- 17:58 - The sad story of Madge Oberholtzer, Superman takes on the Klan
- 21:16 - Knights of the Ku Klux Klan (1950s - present) - Fractured and violent, a incomplete list of victims
- 26:10 - Karma's a Bitch - Beulah Mae Donald takes on the United Klans of America
- 30:12 - Jeff Berry is his own worst enemy
- 34:08 - The Klan is clacked up
- 35:05 - Klabels of the Klan - A recap, symbols and acronyms
- 40:29 - Klonspiracies - Operation Red Dog (Bayou of Pigs)
- Music by Fanette Ronjat
More Info
- Electoral Collage – Voter Fraud, Election Interference & Other Shenanigans
- Ku Klux Klan - History
- “The Birth of A Nation” opens, glorifying the KKK
- Reconstruction: The Birth of a Nation - Rewriting History through Propaganda at PBS
- Ku Klux Klan at the Southern Poverty Law center
- Murdering Madge Oberholtzer: Rape, poison and the KKK
- How Superman Defeated the Ku Klux Klan
- My Boss Was Tarred And Feathered By The KKK
- 12 Horrific Crimes Committed By The KKK Between 1921 And 2016
- 'The People v. The Klan': Inside the case that bankrupted the Klan
- They Killed Her Son. So Michael Donald’s Mother Went After the Klan.
- Interview with The Ku Klux Klan: Jeff Berry
- Jeff Berry at SPLC
- SPLC Sues Jeff Berry
- Ku Klux Klan - Active Groups (by state) list at ADL (as of 2006)
- Racially or Ethnically Motivated Groups: Symbols Guide from the DOJ
- Klan symbols and images at the Granger Historical Picture Archive
- Ku Klux Klan rally in Anaheim erupts in violence; 3 are stabbed and 13 arrested - 2016 LA Times article
- Operation Red Dog, Or 'The Time The KKK Tried To Take Over A Caribbean Island'
- Inside Operation Red Dog, The Bizarre And Disastrous KKK Plot To Take Over A Caribbean Nation
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EPISODE 75 | Org Chart - Insidious Institutions
Men with power meeting behind closed doors - an idea that makes some people pretty suspicious.
Perhaps memories of old star chambers, which carried out extra-judicial proceedings, are what worry people. Or maybe it’s just an inherent distrust of powerful people plotting to influence the world and reshape it to their own benefit, which just might also mean to the detriment of the rest of us, the 99%.
We’ll look at four real gatherings and groups, and one proposed international alliance that already has a few real-world components - the Bohemian Grove, Brookings Institution, the Bilderbergers, the Trilateral Commission and CANZUK, including the Five Eyes & Pine Gap.
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- 02:29 - The Bohemian Grove - A high-end frat party
- 11:00 - Belizean Grove, Los Rancheros Visitadores, Roundup Riders of the Rockies (3R)
- 14:00 - Brookings Institution - A 1959 NASA report raises hackles
- 18:42 - Scott C. Waring looks at Mars, a lot
- 21:15 - The Bilderberg Conference - So many theories, Daniel Estulin really hates them
- 28:39 - The Trilateral Commission - Three is a magic number
- 38:13 - CANZUK - A good idea or racism in new clothes?
- 40:08 - Five Eyes & ECHELON
- 43:42 - Pine Gap is Australia's Area 51
- Music by Fanette Ronjat
More Info
- Bohemian Club website
- The Bohemian Club in Encyclopedia Britannica
- The Bohemian Grove and Other Retreats by G. William Domhoff
- Masters of the Universe Go to Camp: Inside the Bohemian Grove -Spy Magazine article, Nov. 1989
- Bohemian Grove: Where the rich and powerful go to misbehave
- The Greatest Men's Party on Earth: Inside the Bohemian Grove by John Van der Zee on Amazon
- Bohemian Grove's "Cremation of Care" Transcript
- Them: Adventures with Extremists by Jon Ronson
- Alex Jones - Dark Secrets: Inside Bohemian Grove on Skeptic Project
- Sonoma County Supervisor To Bohemian Grove: Admit That It's Weird, and Sexist
- The Belizean Grove--Old Girls' Club Rising
- Sotomayor found friends in elite group
- Los Rancheros Visitadores article
- It's the Ride that Makes the Fun
- Verde Vaqueros website
- Roundup Riders of the Rockies website
- Roundup Riders of the Rockies article
- The Colorado Trail - Formative Years Remembered by Bill Lucas
- Brookings website
- The so-called "Brookings Report"
- Brookings Report forum thread on AboveTopSecret
- Brookings webpage about the NASA report
- Mars sleuths reckon they’ve found an ‘alien statue’ on the red planet
- UFO expert claims to have spotted ‘weird elephant-like creature’ on Mars
- Religious Aliens? Old Bible in NASA Photo on Mars
- UFO Sightings Daily YouTube channel
- Brookings Institution on SourceWatch
- Brookings president resigns amid FBI foreign lobbying probe
- Bilderberg website
- Inside the secretive Bilderberg Group on BBC
- Bilderberg: The ultimate conspiracy theory on BBC
- Bilderbergers excite conspiracists on Politico
- Bilderberg mystery: Why do people believe in cabals?
- Bilderberg: the world’s most secretive conference is as out of touch as ever
- Bilderberg articles at The Guardian
- Bilderberg on SourceWatch
- Chantilly Laced: Holding Bilderberg and the Transnational Policy Elite to Account
- The Bilderberg File on DeepBlackLies
- Bilderberg.org - a green ink website
- Daniel Estulin website
- Trilateral Commission website
- Trilateral Commission document from Congressional Research Service
- Dealing with an Interdependent and Fragmented World: The Origins of the Trilateral Commission by Fulvio Drago
- Transnational Corporations and Intergovernmental Organizations: The Trilateral Commission paper
- Trilateralism edited by Holly Sklar
- Is the Trilateral Commission the secret organization that runs the world?
- Beware the Trilateral Commission! on WaPo
- Trilateral Commission Finds Itself a Bogeyman to Far Right
- Trilateral Commission on SourceWatch
- Who's Who of the Elite Members of the: Bilderbergs Council On Foreign Relations & Trilateral Commission by Robert Gayton Ross Sr on Amazon
- Rule by Secrecy: The Hidden History That Connects the Trilateral Commission, the Freemasons, and the Great Pyramids by Jim Marrs on Amazon
- The Trilateral Commission (Satan’s Work Shop) on God's Sword of Truth - The Word
- Former Soviet Dissident Warns For EU Dictatorship
- CANZUK International website
- CANZUK: a New Commonwealth Superpower?
- Current issues the proposed international CANZUK union is facing
- Reimagining the Anglosphere
- Why ‘CANZUK’ is an absurd fantasy
- Backwards, march! Brexit, CANZUK and the legacy of empire
- Australia’s Pine Gap ‘hugely important’ to western monitoring of China, says former British spy chief
- 50 years of Pine Gap
- Pine Gap ‘Spy base’ Alice Springs: What you never knew about top-secret facility
- Pine Gap’s new spy role revealed
- Pine Gap and Five Eyes: what did they know about COVID-19
- Five Eyes on the world on Le Monde
- Five Eyes on Privacy International
- ECHELON on SourceWatch
- Pine Gap - Australia - Its Hidden and Covert Secrets on Biblioteca Playades
- ‘Pine Gap’ Explores One Of The Most Secretive Places In Australia about TV show
- Australia's own Area 51: Pine Gap
- Hundreds of alien hunters vow to storm ‘Australia’s Area 51’ in raid on top-secret US base in the Outback
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EPISODE 74 | Red Alert - UFOs as Threat!
Some think UAPs might be a "threat" and there have been a few incidents that might be indicative of intent to harm. Or at least, encounters that we interpret as maybe not so friendly, though that might say more about us than about any glowing orbs flying around in the sky.
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SECTIONS
- 02:45 - Close Call - James Salandin, the Manises UFO Incident
- 09:06 - Things Fall Apart - The 1957 Levelland UFO Encounter, the 1976 Tehran UFO Incident, hot in South Africa
- 12:42 - Mom, I Got a Owie! - The Bruno Facchini case
- 14:24 - The Falcon Lake Incident, Monte Musinè
- 21:04 - The Val Johnson Incident, Valensole
- 23:33 - The story of Dionisio Llanca
- 24:49 - The Dechmont Woods Encounter
- 27:48 - The Cash–Landrum Incident
- 33:56 - The Colares UFO Flap & Operação Prato
- 39:20 - It's Not You, It's Me - South Africans shoot, the Arequipa UFO Incident
- 43:33 - Chorwon in the Korean War, the Blue House Incident in Seoul
- Music by Fanette Ronjat
MORE INFO
- The 1957 Levelland UFO Encounter
- Now You See It, Now You Don't by Captain Henry S. Shitlds, HQ USAFE/IHOMP
- The Anomaly Foundation Solves the "Manises" UFO Case
- Italian Mysteries: The UFO Case of Bruno Facchini on the Hardcore Italians blog
- 1950 Alien Encounter at Varese, Italy at UFO Casebook
- The Falcon Lake UFO Files
- 54 Years Since Falcon Lake’s Famous UFO Incident
- Il Monte Musiné tra storia, tradizione, UFO e viaggi nel tempo
- The Strange And Intriguing Val Johnson Case at UFO Insight
- Close Encounter Makes Him Famous
- Officer suffers after encounter with UFO
- The 1965 Valensole UFO Encounter
- Occupant Encounter In Argentina on NOUFORS
- La historia de Dionisio Llanca, el camionero abducido a la vera de la Ruta 3
- The UFO sighting investigated by the police on BBC
- Dechmont UFO Monument and Trail on Atlas Obscura
- Texas UFO on Unsolved.com
- TRANSCRIPT OF BERGSTROM AFB INTERVIEW OF BETTY CASH, VICKIE & COLBY LANDRUM August 1981
- Between a Beer Joint and a Highway Warning Sign: The ‘Classic’ Cash-Landrum Case Unravels in the Skeptical Inquirer
- Operation Saucer: The Official Search For UFOs That Attacked Brazilians With ‘Light Beams’ In 1977
- 1977 Colares UFO Flap / Operação Prato
- Operação Prato leaked documents
- Extraterrestrial Vampires in the Amazon Region of Brazil book excerpt by Dr. Daniel Rebisso Giese
- The only man to ever shoot at a UFO
- The Peruvian pilot who shot a UFO
- When Dozens of Korean War GIs Claimed a UFO Made Them Sick
- "UFO appeared over the Blue House in 1976?"
- “Blood on my shoulder” 1976 Blue House UFO Incident
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EPISODE 73 | My Chemtrail Romance
Planes go by in the sky and leave white trails behind them. Some of us see this and think, wow, ice crystals. Other think it’s a nefarious evil plot to take away our minds or our virility or something else.
As soon as someone starts talking about chemtrails, you sort of know where you stand with them. They're a conspiracy nut and can be easily dismissed. Especially since there seems to be little consensus about what, exactly, the problem with these lines in the sky is. The only thing they seem to be able to agree upon is that it ain't ice and it ain’t good.
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- 02:22 - You and Me, Watching the Jets - Chemtrailer logic, Coast to Coast AM, don't trust the guvmint
- 09:54 - Chemtrails Over the Country Club - Theories as to what's "really" going on
- 10:43 - Weather control - Projects Stormfury, Cirrus, Cumulus, and Popeye, cloudseeding
- 17:06 - A Monsanto Monopoly - PCBs, Agent Orange and terminator seeds
- 23:35 - Mind control - Precious bodily fluids
- 25:03 - Sterilization
- 26:13 - Changing human evolution, prevent salvation
- 28:18 - Spreading disease - Covid-19, Carnicom; also preventing salvation
- 31:28 - It's aliens - Don't look now, it's Nibiru
- 32:42 - 'Scuse Me While I Kiss the Sky - Skywriting, black rays, volumetric clouds and other "proofs", plus HAARP
- 38:40 - Every Time It Rains, You're Here in my Head - Cloudbusting, vinegar as a weapon, Sylphs and other Wingmakers
- Music by Fanette Ronjat
More Info:
- Aircraft Contrails Factsheet
- Conspiracy theories find menace in contrails in USA Today
- A brief explainer on the chemtrails conspiracy theory
- Incredible contrail made by Boeing 787 – what causes them, and are they part of a global conspiracy? at The Telegraph
- Chemtrails: What's the truth behind the conspiracy theory? at the BBC
- What Are Chemtrails Made Of? in Scientific American
- Why Do Some Planes Leave Trails in the Sky? from Interesting Engineering
- Hot topic: should I worry about chemtrails? from NatGeo
- Weather as a Force Multiplier: Owning the Weather in 2025 study
- H. R. 2977
- Environmental Modification Convention at WikiSource
- The ‘Chemtrail Conspiracy’ in Skeptical Inquirer
- Aircraft contrails - British government webpage
- Contrails - An Introduction at Air Force Links
- Contrail Facts - Air Force document
- The "Chemtrail" Hoax - US Air Force webpage
- How to stop a Hurricane
- My month with chemtrails conspiracy theorists in The Guardian
- Quantifying expert consensus against the existence of a secret, large-scale atmospheric spraying program paper
- Climates of suspicion: ‘chemtrail’ conspiracy narratives and the international politics of geoengineering from Sussex Research Online
- Stolen Skies: The Chemtrail Mystery at Earth Island Journal
- About HAARP
- Contrail Science - chemtrail debunking site
- Metabunk website
- Tales from the Rabbit Hole podcast
- Drought Inducement by Clifford E. Carnicom
- Carnicom Institute
- Carnicom articles listing
- ChemtrailsNews website
- Chemtrails entry on Educate Yourself
- Chemtrials in Plain Sight slideshow
- Topical Resources: Exposing the Foul and the Befouling at the Lust for Life website
- Chemtrails Destroyed ! How to Build A Cloudbuster to disperse Chemtrails and Improve the Weather
- Vinegar-Wielding Chemtrails Lady Is The Forgotten Masterpiece Of Net Art (And Conservative Camp)
- WHALE - They Fear Those With Knowledge and Control Those Without It
- CHEMTRAIL POISONING RACKET (Operation Cloverleaf) from Whale.to
- Sylphs on Whale.to
- Sylphs in Action on the Whale
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EPISODE 72 | Everywhere Is Haunted
Guest: Bob LeMent, creator and host of the Static Radio podcast and Everywhere Is Haunted YouTube channel
The unseen world is intriguing to many of us, especially those of us embroiled in pop culture. Plenty of people believe in ghosts, spirits, shades, spectres, shadows, phantoms, eidolons, or whatever you want to call them. We talk with Bob LeMent, who runs the Everywhere Is Haunted YouTube channel about ghost hunting TV shows, equipment, theories and a couple of anomalous events that have actually happened to him, one involving the Shadow People and another with a UFO.
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SECTIONS
- 02:20 - Static Radio pioneers podcasting
- 05:22 - Everywhere Is Haunted - a ghost hunting YouTube channel with no results, yet
- 09:29 - Choosing locations - a haunted Taco Bell, a haunted car wash, we are electric
- 13:37 - The 13 questions, why don't ghosts speak German?, TriState Ghost Patrol
- 17:31 - Confirmation bias in realtime, opinions of ghost hunting shows, define your "energy"
- 22:47 - The tech he uses, just how many Americans believe in ghosts, anyway?, maybe ghosts are recordings or EM affecting the brain
- 28:10 - Bob's encounter with the Shadow People, cat ghosts
- 38:35 - Bob's UFO sighting
- Music by Fanette Ronjat
MORE INFO
- Static Radio
- Everywhere Is Haunted
- Haunted Maps on Google Play
- Haunted Maps on Apple
- The Haunted Map on Google Maps
- Haunted Places on Google Earth
- Roadside Attractions on Google Play
- Roadside America on Apple
- TriState Ghost Patrol
- The Broken Technology of Ghost Hunting
- Paranormal Technology: Gadgets For Ghost-Tracking
- 7 Ghost-Hunting Tools Recommended by Paranormal Investigators
- Ghost hunting equipment and how it works, explained by the paranormal pros
- No, you can’t detect ghosts with a gauss meter
- Americans Believe in Ghosts
- 2 in 5 Americans believe ghosts are real and 1 in 5 say they've seen one, survey says
- 57 Percent of Americans Believe in Ghosts — and Many Think There's Paranormal Activity in Their Home
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- PRAGUE TIMES - A city is more than just a location - it’s a kaleidoscope of history, places, people and trends. This podcast looks at Prague, in the center of Europe, from a number of perspectives, including what it is now, what is has been and where it’s going. It’s Prague THEN, Prague NOW, Prague LATER
EPISODE 71 | The Starfighter & the Condor (World Is Weird 7)
The story of the Lockheed F-104 Starfighter starts fine, but then takes a turn into comedy, then tragedy before veering into corporate malfeasance, corruption, far-right ultranationalism, secret agents, a modern kamikaze attack, a finance giant and a bag lady, MK-ULTRA Manchurian Candidates and South American state-sponsored terror.
Because the world is weird.
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- 02:18 - The Widowmaker - Nice plane, but...
- 03:32 - Bug, fixes & features
- 07:08 - Pay to Play - Lockheed bribes Germany
- 08:55 - Lockheed eyes Japan, taps ultranationalist criminal Yoshio Kodama
- 14:42 - I Vant to Suck Your Bank Account - Nicholas Deak (the James Bond of Money) hires a bagman, the scheme comes out
- 17:47 - Soft porn actor Mitsuyasu Maeno flies a plane
- 21:50 - Tanaka holds on, Nakasone sparks the Second Lockheed Election
- 23:20 - You've Got Yours! - Lois Lang shoots Deak, Kuhlmann has suspicions
- 25:40 - Lang's long path to NYC, Dr. Melges, SRI and MK-ULTRA
- 29:06 - 21 Years of the Condor - The Monroe Doctrine, the School of the Americas combats coup fever
- 32:11 - Pinochet starts Operation Condor, Argentina's Dirty War, assassinations & disappearances, Martín Almada & the Archives of Terror, Kissinger was a pig
- 37:57 - Europe considers their own Condor
- 38:50 - Manchurian Candidates, final thoughts
- Music by Fanette Ronjat
MORE INFO
- Here's Why the Luftwaffe Dubber the Iconic F-104 Starfighter "Widow Maker"
- "Sale of the Century” - A reappraisal of the procurement of the F-104 Starfighter paper
- Lockheed's Defiance: A Right to Bribe? in Time Magazine
- The Rise and Spread of Japan’s Black Dragon Secret Society
- The Murder of Empress Myeongseong of Korea
- Bagman in the Lockheed bribery scandal on Asia Times
- Story of Mitsuyasu Maeno – the Japanese porn actor who kamikazed a Yakuza don
- Japan rewind: 40 years since the porn star’s kamikaze attack in Tokyo
- Lockheed Scandal 40 years on: The downfall of Prime Minister Kakuei Tanaka
- James Bond and the killer bag lady on Salon.com
- Woman Accused of Shooting Deak Held Master’s Degree
- The biggest CIA-drug money scandal you never read
- The CIA and the American Psychological Association: Partners in crime
- 200 years of Monroe Doctrine leave trail of US atrocities in Latin America
- Operation Condor: the cold war conspiracy that terrorised South America
- 30,000 People Were 'Disappeared' in Argentina's Dirty War. These Women Never Stopped Looking
- European spies sought lessons from dictators’ brutal ‘Operation Condor’
- The Man Who Discovered the Archives of Terror on UNESCO
- Martín Almada on Right Livelihood
- How Paraguay's 'Archive of Terror' put Operation Condor in focus on BBC
- Archive of Terror document scans on Washington Research Library Consortium Digital Collections
- The Search for the Manchurian Candidate
- Manchurian Candidates on Shrine of Dreams
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EPISODE 70 | Monster Mash: Vampires
With Halloween just around the corner, it’s natural to start think about the supernatural. While superheroes and characters from TV and movies are increasingly popular costumes, it’s very often the classics we turn to when choosing what to dress up as for All Hallow’s Eve.
Vampire is still a popular choice, and the idea of undead blood-drinking fiends frightens some and titillates others. And some people even say that they are, in fact, vampires.
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- 02:33 - Bela Legosi's Dead - Jure Grando, the 1st recorded vampire; early vampire lore
- 06:39 - Arnold Paole and more Slavs, vampire panics
- 12:48 - Darnesses in Life - Bram Stoker gets inspired, Vlad the Impaler, vamps in cinema
- 17:28 - Dracula tourism in Romania
- 19:15 - Vampire Blues - Sleeping sicknees, bubonic plague, rabies, porphyria & Dr. Dolphin
- 23:02 - Love Song for a Vampire - Lifestyle and real vampires, the vamp community
- 30:59 - The Highgate Vampire Incident - David Farrant & Seán Manchester: vampire hunters, egotists
- Music by Fanette Ronjat
NOTE: In the story of Arnold Paole, I refer to the village as Medveda, though some sources have it as Meduegna.
More Info:
- The World’s Most Popular Halloween Costumes (2022)
- Jure Grando and The First Documented Case of Vampirism in Europe
- Croatian ‘Dracula’ revived to lure tourists
- Arnold Paole: Serbia's Most Famous Vampire
- The True Story of Arnold Paole, Vampire of Meduegna, Serbia
- Vampire Panic on the Science History Institute
- Vlad the Impaler: The real Dracula
- Vlad the Impaler - The ruthless ruler of Wallachia
- Transylvania: A Walk in Dracula's Shadow
- In the Footsteps of Dracula in Romania: Main Attractions to Visit
- Romania wants to sink its teeth into a new Dracula-themed amusement park
- Vampire History
- Science Behind Vampire Myths on KQED
- 3 Real Diseases That Influenced Vampire Folklore
- The real-life diseases that spread the vampire myth on BBC Future
- Vampire links page
- The Vampire Project
- The Vampire Subculture
- Life Among the Vampires in The Atlantic
- Interview with a real-life vampire: why drinking blood isn't like in Hollywood
- Types of People Within the Vampire Community
- VampireWebsite.net
- Vampire-friendly bars in the US
- Atlanta Vampire Alliance [AVA] - A Real Vampire House
- Vampirism Forum
- The Highgate Vampire – Did a 1970s Nosferatu Stalk a London Cemetery?
- The strange tale of the Highgate vampire
- The Bizarre True Story of the Highgate Vampire Feud
- David Farrant's website
- Bishop Bonkers website
- Highgate ‘vampire hunter’ dies half a century after supernatural panic gripped community
- Hidden Highgate website
- Seán Manchester website
- Friends of Bishop Seán Manchester website
- The Vampire Research Society - founded by Seán Manchester
- Kevin Chesham website
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EPISODE 69 | Electoral Collage – Voter Fraud, Election Interference & Other Shenanigans (The World Is Weird 6)
The US midterms are coming up and there's lots of chatter about fraud. Are they legit? Has there been fraud and interference in the past? Yes, but not every time foul has been cried. A look at claims and scandals 1792-1982, plus a thumbnail history of American political parties.
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- 03:18 - Hail to the Thief - intro
- 05:14 - 1792 New York Governor's Race
- 07:47 - 1824 Presdiential Election ("Corrupt Bargain")
- 10:33 - Nullifiers & Anti-Masons in the 1820s & 30s
- 13:50 - 1838 – The New Jersey Broad Seal War & Cooping (plus Edgar Allen Poe)
- 18:17 - 1855 – Bleeding Kansas
- 24:57 - 1860 Presidential Election - A Nation Divides
- 27:38 - White League, Red Shirts and the Compromise of 1877
- 36:18 - 1888 Presidential Election (Packs of Five, the Murchison Letter & the Lodge Bill)
- 42:12 - 1948 Senate Elections in Texas
- 44:20 - 1960 Presidential Election
- 47:15 - Unpledged & faithless electors
- 49:20 - Illinois in 1982
- Music by Fanette Ronjat
MORE INFO:
- October Surprise: Fact or Fiction?
- Compulsory Voting on IDEA
- 8 Most Contentious US Presidential Elections
- Voter Fraud on the Heritage Foundation
- Voter fraud used to be rampant. Now it’s an anomaly.
- Claims of 'voter fraud' have a long history in America. And they are false
- Debunking the Voter Fraud Myth paper from the Brennan Center for Justice
- The 1824 Presidential Election and the “Corrupt Bargain”
- The Nullifiers on Amercian Heritage
- Want to find real election fraud? Look at the history of Kansas, United States in 1800s
- Bleeding Kansas at Khan Academy
- Compromise of 1877
- Why Democrats are donkeys and Republicans are elephants
- Election fraud Chicago style: Illinois’ decades-old notoriety for election corruption is legendary
- The presidential penalty: Why voters so often punish the president in midterm elections.
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EPISODE 68 | Persistent Illusion: Time Travellers
We are accustomed to thinking of time as a fourth dimension, though Einstein says space and time are really, when you get down to it, the same thing. As he once said, “The distinction between the past, present, and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.”
This makes us wonder – will it one day be possible to travel in time the same way we do in space? If so, one can only assume that, if time travel exists at some future date, there must be some people from our future walking around today, in our present. There have certainly been plenty of claims to that effect.
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- 02:21 - Across the Track Blues - The Zanetti Ghost Train
- 07:01 - August in Versailles - The Moberly–Jourdain Incident, stone tape theory, retrocognition, time slips
- 12:06 - Air Marshal Victor Goddard
- 14:41 - As Time Goes By - Mr. Squirrel, the Simpson-Grisby Incident, Bold Street, in Brugges, Regency theatre, Twidders
- 20:38 - Let’s Do the Time Warp Again - The Aryayek Time Travelling Machine, Madman Marcum, spam in Woburn
- 27:08 - Let the Bells Ring - The Time Traveling Hipster & other photos, the Expected One, Chaplin's "The Circus"
- 30:34 - Die Glocke - a Nazi Wuderwaffe
- 32:39 - The Chronovisor & the Vatican
- 36:05 - Traveler in Time - John Titor
- 42:32 - Andrew Carlssin & "Noah"
- Music by Fanette Ronjat
LAPSUS LINGUAE: In the Victor Goddard story, I say he flew over Diem Airfield, but it was, in fact, Drem Airfeild. Perhaps I wasn't wearing my glasses, or perhaps I mistyped it.
MORE INFO:
- The mystery of the Zanetti train that disappeared in 1911 that still travels in space and time
- Top 10 People Who Claimed to Be Time Travelers
- 11 Time Traveler Urban Legends That Pretty Much Debunk Themselves
- Four Stories of Alleged Time Travellers
- Everything You Should Know About The Moberly-Jourdain Incident
- Victor Goddard: His time slip story seems very real! Did he really do it?
- Mr. Squirrel's Time-Traveling Coin Envelopes
- The Liverpool Time Slips and Mysterious Occurences in Bold Street
- Twidders by Anita Holmes
- Accidental Tourists: Interdimensional Travellers
- Eureka! Iranian scientist claims he's invented 'time machine'
- Mike Marcum: The man who created the time machine and mysteriously disappeared
- The Philadelphia Experiment & the Montauk Project - Time Tunnel Vision
- Time Travel Spam
- Turn Back the Spam of Time
- Does a Photograph Capture a Time-Traveling Hipster?
- The best images of time travellers from throughout history
- This Conspiracy Says Hitler Had a Secret Anti-Gravity UFO—and the U.S. Stole It
- The Missing Time Machine
- The Legend Of The Chronovisor, A ‘Time Machine’ Hidden In The Vatican
- John Titor: Who was the time traveler that visited Rochester?
- The Oral History of John Titor, the Man Who Traveled Back in Time to Save the Internet
- Anyone can be fooler of the world
- 'Time traveller from 2030' shows video of 'Las Vegas in 2120'
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EPISODE 67 | Pixels & Paranoia – Video Game Conspiracies
From its humble beginnings, the video game industry has expanded from cabinet arcade games to PCs and home consoles. Two-thirds of adults in the US and three-quarters of children play them. It makes more than the film industry, which got to around $21 bn last year; and music, which made almost $26 billion in 2021. Globally, gaming hit $192 bn in 2021 and is expected to break $200 bn this year.
And it should come as no surprise that there have been rumours, urban legends, controversies and even outright conspiracy theories about video games. Games that kill, or carry a curse, or control people's minds, or contain hidden truths that some would prefer remained hidden.
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SECTIONS
- 02:36 - Intruder Alert! - Berzerk kills
- 06:43 - Lavender Town - Pokemon kills
- 09:32 - The Madden Curse - Fame carries a price
- 15:50 - Killswitch - A legendary game from Czechslovakia
- 19:47 - Polybius - Mind control in Oregon
- 30:20 - Drowned God - Harry Horse, history and aliens
- 37: 37 - Omikron: The Nomad Soul - A Big Pharma/NWO playbook
- 40:48 - Resident Evil's Umbrella Corporation and Covid-19
- 42:16 - Corrupted Blood - A virus sweeps through the World of Warcraft MMORPG
- Music by Fanette Ronjat
More Info:
- Video Game Conspiracy Theories by TheHairyGamer (Michael Carter)
- The Best Video Game Urban Legends Ever in IGN Southeast Asia
- 20 Video Game Myths, Conspiracy Theories, and Urban Legends to Celebrate Halloween
- 10 Video Game Conspiracy Theories You'll Start To Believe
- 10 Video Games Myths & Conspiracies to Keep You Up at Night
- 30 Video Game Urban Legends: Are They True Or False? on 80s Kids
- How Many People Has the Berzerk Arcade Game Killed?
- Berzerk: The Killer Arcade Game? on Little Bits of Gaming
- Video Game Related Deaths
- Pokémon: What Is Lavender Town Syndrome (& Is It Real?) on ScreenRant
- Did the 'Madden' cover curse strike again?
- The covers of the Madden video game on NFL.com
- Secrets & Lies on GamePro
- Computerspiele in der DDR (in German)
- The Story Of Killswitch, The Creepy Game No-One Has Ever Played on Kotaku
- Gamebusters myth 8: KILLSWITCH on GotGame
- Polybius on CoinOp.org
- Sinnesloschen webpage
- Reinvestigating Polybius on RetroBitch
- The Polybius Conspiracy on Vimeo
- Polybius mockup by Rogue Synapse
- Morava Academy on WWASP Survivors
- Polybius Conspiracy podcast
- Drowned God page on Harry Horse website
- Aliens, conspiracy theories, and a forged diary inspired one of the weirdest games of the '90s on PC Gamer
- Drowned God on Hardcore Gaming 101
- Bandersnatch IRL: Harry Horse & "Drowned God: Conspiracy of the Ages" in /blackmirror/ Reddit forum
- Gamespot interview with Harry Horse
- Reality check: Microsoft, David Bowie, Bill Gates, and a creepy video game called ‘Omikron’
- Fact check: 1999 'Omikron' video game has no connection to pandemic, Bill Gates
- Plaguelands.. - 2005 article on Corrupted Blood Incident
- 'Virtual' Virus Sheds Light on Real-World Behavior on NPR
- The researchers who once studied WoW's Corrupted Blood plague are now fighting the coronavirus on PC Gamer
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EPISODE 66 | Really Stranger Things - The U.S. Satanic Panic of the 1980s
For episode 66 (that's two-thirds of the Beast), we look at the large-scale freakout about "Satanism" that swept across America in the 80s. Music was a frequent target, but so was Dungeons & Dragons, Proctor & Gamble and even McDonald's. Plus a pitstop in Northern Ireland in the early days of the Troubles, when it seems British Intelligence fostered their own scare stories.
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- 03:19 - Sympathy for the Devil - Books and movies, murderers, Satan Seller, Chick Publications and musicians
- 12:32 - Tainted Love - Lawrence Pazder helps Michelle remember, Satanic Ritual Abuse, the McMartin Preschool Trial, rating entertianment
- 24:39 - D&D & B.A.D.D.
- 32:11 - Running in the Shadows - The Golden Arches were evil, Jim Peters hates P&G, Amway takes a shot
- 40:14 - Straight to Hell - Geraldo Rivera, backmasking, Satan's Underground
- 48:11 - When Irish Eyes Are Satan - Psych-ops, Brian McDermott, Paddy Wilson and the Kincora Boys’ Home
- Music by Fanette Ronjat
More Info
- A Brief History Of "Satanic Panic" In The 1980s on Gizmodo
- How 'Satanic Panic' Came to Roil the Nation During the 1980s
- How the 'Satanic Panic' shaped 1980s Oregon
- How Dungeons & Dragons became a part of the 1980s Satanic Panic
- The great 1980s Dungeons & Dragons panic on BBC News Magazine
- Witness of Fire in The Washington Post
- Satan rumour once took bite out of burger empire
- When 1980s Satanic Panic Targeted Procter & Gamble
- In Spite Of Old, False Satanist Accusations, P&G Put A Moon Back Into Its New Logo
- How a suicide pact was almost the end of Judas Priest
- Church of Satan F.A.Q. Conspiracies
- Sympathy for the Devil: The Truth about Satanism in America (NSFW)
- When Geraldo Rivera took on Satanism (and a very confused Ozzy Osbourne)
- Satanic abuse, false memories, weird beliefs and moral panics - Anatomy of a 24-year investigation by Rosaling Theresa Waterhouse
- satanic ritual abuse (SRA) on Skeptic's Dictionary
- Cults That Never Were: The Satanic Ritual Abuse Scare (SRAS)
- A Brief History of Satanic Panic on Mental Floss
- Satanic panic: how British agents stoked supernatural fears in Troubles in The Guardian
- Lifting lid on 'lie machine' in The Glasgow Herald archive
- Spooks and spooks: black magic and bogeymen in Northern Ireland, 1973-74 by Richard Jenkins
- Child abuse inquiry turns to Kincora home and claims of MI5 blackmail
- Kincora Boys Home: BBC Spotlight to broadcast new abuse allegations
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EPISODE 65 | Acronyms for Satan - CERN, LHC, WWW & More
Ever since its very beginning, wild speculation has circulated about the LHC at CERN. That it causes shifts in reality, leading to the dreaded Mandela Effect. That it actually sucked the earth into a black hole (where we now presumably reside). That it creates antimatter. That it is a secret temple to the dark lord of the underworld, SATAN, and it trying to open a portal to the Netherworld. That its spacetime bending properties were harnessed by American Democrats to steal the 2020 presidential election (this despite it being in Switzerland).
So it’s time now to take a look at this organization and its complex at the edge of Geneva, and the 27km in circumference tunnel ring and see what it is and what they get up to in there.
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- 02:54 - Always Crashing in the Same Car - CERN, ENQUIRE, WWW, the LHC, ATLAS, ALICE & more
- 07:10 - Manifest (Your) Destiny - July 5, three operational runs, Twitter & TikTok woo,
- 11:25 - Quarks & other exotic particles
- 13:40- Strong Interaction - A FAQ about internet concerns, Angels & Demons, black holes, Les Horribles Cernettes, April Fool's
- 18:49 - Across the Weaselverse - A weasel, a baguette, a moth, racoons, nontroversies, swiftboating, speculation runs wild
- 23:18 - Higgs Boson Blues - Antimatter, dark matter, MACHOs & WIMPs, the God Particle, the Big Bang
- 33:55 - Satan Is My Co-Pilot - A joke backfires, Satanic measurements, an evil logo, the benefits of particle accelerators
- Music by Fanette Ronjat
More Info:
- The Georgia Guidestones - An NWO Billboard
- The Mandela Effect & Memory (Because Reasons 6)
- CERN website
- Facts and figures about the LHC
- The World Wide Web Project
- How the Large Hadron Collider Almost Didn't Work on Wired
- Conspiracy Theorists Think The Large Hadron Collider Transferred Us Into A Parallel Universe Yesterday
- Conspiracy theories about CERN’s Large Hadron Collider are going viral on TikTok
- SPIRITUAL MEANING OF CERN’S JULY 5TH COLLIDER TEST AND WILD CONSPIRACY THEORIES
- Conspiracy Theories are wrong, CERN LHC is not a portal to Hell
- Large Hadron Collider on Know Your Meme
- Ten things you might not know about antimatter
- CERN answers queries from social media
- Angels & Demons: The Science Behind the Story
- The Cernettes webpage
- The Cernettes YouTube channel
- Friends of Filk
- CERN to switch to Comic Sans
- Will Large Hadron Collider destroy Earth?
- Weasel Apparently Shuts Down World's Most Powerful Particle Collider on NPR
- Weasel broke the Hadron Collider and sent Earth to another reality, bizarre theory claims
- Baguette Dropped From Bird’s Beak Shuts Down The Large Hadron Collider (Really)
- Baguette breaks collider on NewsBlog
- Sep 9, 1947 CE: World’s First Computer Bug
- Fermilab website
- What's so special about the Higgs boson?
- The Higgs Boson on CERN
- What is the Higgs boson?
- What Higgs result means for dark matter conspiracy on New Scientist
- Could the Large Hadron Collider discover dark matter?
- Breaking new ground in the search for dark matter
- Does CERN Seek to Open the Gates of Hell? on Myth Detector
- The Mandela Effect: CERN and Hidden, Parallel Universes
- Physicists assure us that we’re not living in an alternate reality where Trump is president on CNBC
- Was a Human Sacrifice Captured at CERN? on Snopes
- Debunking doomsday at CERN, again on ScienceLine
- 10 cosmic mysteries the Large Hadron Collider could unravel
- We need another particle accelerator. Don’t let these 5 myths fool you
- What have particle accelerators ever done for us? on Physics World
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EPISODE 64 | Accidental Tourists: Interdimensional Travellers
Sometimes the fabric of our world thins out, and people slip through - either from another dimension or into one. So some people think, while others claim it happened to them. Come along on a trip through different times and places, visiting 12th century England, 19th century Germany, Spain, Japan, Moromon mythology and, of course, the United States, including Ong's Hat, New Jersey - site of the very first internet conspiracy theory.
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- 01:42 - It's Not Easy Being Green - The Green Children of Woolpit
- 05:57 - There is No Map, and a Compass Wouldn't Help at All - Jophar Vorin from Laxaria
- 09:33 - The Man from Taured & John Zegrus from Negus-Habessian
- 16:16 - I Wanna be Your Boyfriend - Breaking up is hard to do for Lerina Garcia Gordo
- 20:43 - Baby, You Can Drive My Car - The "Gadianton" Canyon Incident
- 25:23 - Pedro Oliva Ramirez tries to get to Alcalá de Guadaír
- 27:01 - Carol Chase McElheney visits a Bedford Falls version of Riverside
- 31:03 - "James Richards" mixes Everyday Chemistry
- 32:13 - You Can Leave Your Hat On - Joseph Matheny, Ong's Hat and Alternate Reality Games (ARGs)
- 43:51 - Travelling in other dimensions
- Music by Fanette Ronjat
NOTE: I use a less common pronunciation of the word "Scythians" because a) I felt like it and b) it links that word with "Sakaria" better for a listening audience.
More Info:
- Related videos on our YouTube channel
- 10 Creepy Tales Of Interdimensional Travel on Listverse
- Bizarre Tales of Real Inter-Dimensional Travelers on Mysterious Universe
- 5 Visitors from 'Parallel Worlds' on Coast to Coast
- The Green Children of Woolpit on Brian Haughton's blog
- Skeptoid pocast episode on The Green Children of Woolpit
- Kaspar Hauser -The Boy, The Syndrome (The World Is Weird 5) episode 33
- Jophar Vorin — 19th Century Man of Mystery
- Jophar Vorin on Mysteries Unsolved
- Jophar Vorin entry on Obscurban Legends Wiki
- Taured. Laxaria. Lizbia. on The Ultimate Secrets blog
- Conspiracy Theory About 'Man From Non-Existent Country' Has Been Explained After Years
- The Mystery of the Man from Taured on Snopes
- A man who arrived in Japan with a fake passport did not mysteriously vanish on Full Fact
- Time Or Dimensional Slips on the Charles Fort Institute forums
- Do Doors to Interdimensional Travel Exist?
- The Mandela Effect & Memory (Because Reasons 6) episode 52
- The Mysterious Case of Lerina Garcia Gordo: Woman From a Parallel Universe on Anomalien
- Lerina Gordo article on Ghost Theory
- Gadianton Canyon article on The Unexplained Mysteries
- Gadianton Canyon Time Space Warp’s Mysterious Case is definitely puzzling on Scientific Mystery
- Gadianton robbers on MormonWiki
- The Gadianton Robbers in Mormon’s Theological History: Their Structural Role and Plausible Identification
- $26K solar car now has a factory — and will roll out this year
- The Dimensional Shift Case of Carol Chase McElheney
- Stepping Into a Parallel Dimension on Mysterious Universe
- Eternal Gateways blog
- Everyday Chemistry: The Story Behind The Greatest Beatles’ Albums That Never Existed
- Glass Onion - The Beatles Conspiracies episode 01
- Scientists say there’s a portal to the fifth dimension
- Scientists Are Pretty Sure They Found a Portal to the Fifth Dimension on Popular Mechanics
- Did Our Ancestors Know How to Open A Portal to Another Dimension?
- Aliens are trans-dimensional entities capable of traveling with light, new theory suggests
- A Hat, a Hut, or a Tavern: The Tale of Ong’s Hat
- The internet's first conspiracy theory involved a ghost town in New Jersey on AV Club
- Ong's Hat: The Early Internet Conspiracy Game That Got Too Real on Gizmodo
- Ong's Hat - Gateway to the Dimensions!
- The Incunabula Papers
- Scans of The Incunabula Papers
- Full text of "Ong's Hat: The Beginning" by Joseph Matheny
- Jospeh Matheny's Corrections to Brian Dunning's Skeptoid Podcast About Ong's Hat
- This Is Not a Game - Rise of the ARG pdf
- Interdimensional Travel article on WikiVoyage
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EPISODE 63 | Paranoia, the Destroyer – Gangstalking, Targeted Individuals & Havana Syndrome
A look at the phenomena of gangstalking and TIs, targeted individuals, who are either suffering a psychotic break, have schizophrenia, or have done something to royally piss off some very powerful people who possess technology so advanced, it borders on magic.
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- 02:37 - There’s a Red Under My Bed, and There’s a Yellow Man in My Head - What is gangstalking? Gavin Long
- 09:33 - Chomi Prag
- 13:02 - Signs of gangstalking
- 17:37 - We Gonna Rock Down to Electric Avenue - More signs of gangstalking, more extreme reactions, Denpa-san
- 22:56 - Electromagnetic Hypersensitivity, the NRQZ, Five Eyes and the Nocebo Effect
- 30:28 - Dundunbanza! - Directed energy weapons, Project Pandora, Legionnaires' disease, the USS Thresher, psychotronics, Havana Syndrome and Cold War thinking
- 37:37 - What Did You Dream? It's Alright We Told You What to Dream - James Tilly Matthews, Illustrations of Madness, Air Looms, influencing machines & paranoid schizophrenia
- 44:19 - QuWave and other junk
- Music by Fanette Ronjat
More Info:
- Targeted Individuals on RationalWiki
- The Phenomenology of Group Stalking
- Mass Murder, Targeted Individuals, and Gang-Stalking: Exploring the Connection
- The Nightmarish Online World of 'Gang-Stalking' on Motherboard
- Gang Stalking Wiki Brasil (in Portuguese)
- Gang Stalking: Real-Life Harassment or Textbook Paranoia? in Psychology Today
- Gang Stalking: Conspiracy, Delusion, and Shared Belief in Psychology Today
- About: Denpa on DBpedia
- “Electromagnetic hypersensitivity” and “wifi allergies”: Bogus diagnoses with tragic real world consequences in Science-Based Medicine
- The Microwave Auditory Effect paper
- National Radio Quiet Zone page
- Is the Nocebo Effect Hurting Your Health? on WebMD
- Psychotronics in the Czechoslovak People's Army in the Security Services Archive
- Havana Syndrome article in the Guardian
- Hypersonic and directed-energy weapons: Who has them, and who’s winning the race in the Asia-Pacific? in Defense News
- Directed Energy Weapons Are Real . . . And Disruptive paper
- Paranoid Schizophrenia on Psycom
- On the Origin of the Influencing machine in Schizophrenia by Victor Tausk
- The Influencing Machine in Cabinet Magazine
- QuWave products
- Ask Ethan: What Is A Scalar Field? in Forbes
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EPISODE 62 | Nikola Tesla - The Monster from Venus (Big 'Uns 6)
Balkan genius inventor Nikola Tesla shows up all over the place in the conspirasphere, and the stories about him are legion. He was really the father of electricity but his rival Thomas Edison screwed him out of his due, he was assassinated, he never died, his clones live on, he built a death day, and an earthquake machine and oh, so many more. Tesla is one of the Big 'Uns.
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- 02:01 - Wonderful Electric - Tesla has a lot of ups and down, works on AC, competes with Edison, invents remote control & the Tesla Coil
- 06:59 - Shake, Rattle & Roll - the earthquake machine & tectonic weapons
- 09:45 - Wireless electricity, competes with Marconi, Wardenclyffe, receives off-world signals, the Titanic sinks his funding
- 13:00 - The Tesla Turbine, ozone gel, intelligence enhancement, foundations of radar, VTOL, and a strange end
- 15:21 - Excitable Boy, They All Said - Tesla's legacy, the Death Ray (or Peace Ray), conspiracy rumours about Tesla
- 18:18 - Pigeons & pearls - deeply eccentric, probably had OCD, the number 3, maybe had ESP, his death was faked, Elon Musk is a Tesla clone
- 22:37 - Thunderstruck - AC vs DC, the War of the Currents, Brown electrocutes animals, the Electric Wire Panic, William Kemmler & the first electric chair
- 27:39 - Topsy the "bad" elephant
- 29:17 - I Know You Are but What Am I? - The Edison Tech Center really doesn't like Tesla
- 33:01 - Point Zero for Zero Point - Zero point energy, perpetual motion, Free Energy Supression, Wainscoting, UFOs, Tesla becomes the darling of the conspirasphere
- 38:37 - Quack medicine and zero point energy - Amega's zero point water, ENAGI's zero point crystals, ZPEnergy and bad website design
- 41:55 - Tesla was assassinated, like John Kanzius, Eugene Mallove and Stanley Meyer
- Music by Fanette Ronjat
MORE INFO:
- What were Nikola Tesla's famous inventions?
- Nikola Tesla’s Most Important Inventions
- 5 crazy inventions from the mind of Nikola Tesla
- 6 Brilliant Tesla Inventions That Never Got Built
- 7 Eccentric Inventions by Nikola Tesla That Were Never Built
- Tesla Science Center
- Tesla Universe
- Tesla's patents
- 10 of Nikola Tesla’s Most Amazing Predictions
- 5 Surprising Facts About Nikola Tesla
- 22 Fascinating Facts About Nikola Tesla
- Nikola Tesla dreamed of free electricity; what happened?
- How Nikola Tesla Planned To Use Earth For Wireless Power Transfer
- Underdog inventor Nikola Tesla gets his due with new museum
- The brilliant and tortured world of Nikola Tesla
- Nikola Tesla's Dark Secret
- Inside Nikola Tesla’s 3, 6, 9 Obsession And The Unusual Theories It Spawned
- Interplanetary Sessions newsletter about Tesla, June 14, 1957
- The Ongoing Mystery Of Nikola Tesla’s Death Ray
- The Tesla Conspiracy – A genius and the FBI
- The Mystery of Nikola Tesla’s Missing Files
- Why a Conspiracy Theory about Nikola Tesla Can't Be True
- FBI Files on Tesla
- Did Nikola Tesla Leave Us a Key to Free Energy?
- Conspiracy Theory: Time Travel and Nikola Tesla
- Why is Nikola Tesla associated with so many conspiracy theories?
- ENAGI website (archive)
- ZPEnergy website
- Tesla's Secrets from the First International Symposium: on non-conventional energy technology
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EPISODE 61 | The Great Replacement - The White Wing Goes Mainstream
The world keeps changing and some people have had just about enough. So they revert to tried and true paradigms that worked for them in the past, but with a new twist. Like the Great Replacement - the idea that white people are being systematically replaced by non-white people with an eye to eliminating whites altogether. They say the puppet masters are probably Jews, though maybe Muslims, liberals or women. It may seem like a new idea, but it's really just pseudoscientific lipstick on a racist pig.
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- 02:03 - Gay Icon Turns White Wing - Renaud Camus coins Great Replacement, runs for office, gets supporters (like LePen, Finkielkraut & Zemmour)
- 08:28 - Them Heavy People - Islamophobia & anti-Semitism are alive and well, Great Replacement gains traction with PEGIDA & Identitarians, Lauren Southern, Heinz-Christian Strache, and Steve King
- 15:09 - Attacks in Pittsburgh, Christchurch, Poway, El Paso & Buffalo
- 16:54 - Januray 6, 2021, psychological projection, US ethnic demographics, Tucker "Ballcock" Carlson
- 21:40 - But They're Scary! - The Yellow Peril, anti-Semitism, Édouard Drumont's La France juive (Jewish France), Maurice Barrès, Eugenics, The Passing of the Great Race by Madison Grant (Hitler's favourite book), "white genocide", Aryans, Edward Alsworth Ross's race suicide, miscegenation, Lothrop Stoddard's two books plus the Under-Man
- 29:17 - The Secret Life of Arabia - The Counter-Jihad Movement (CJM), Bat Ye’or & Eurabia, Steve Bannon, fake sharia law
- 36:16 - Your Body, My Choice - Misogyny in Great Replacement, "pure womanhood", the Mann Act, Brevik also hates feminists, coverture
- 41:48 - Ethnicities around the world, Africa is the most ethnically diverse continent
- Music by Fanette Ronjat
MORE INFO:
- The Other Camus
- The French Origins of “You Will Not Replace Us”
- The ‘Great Replacement’ Theory, Explained
- Simon Kidd on Great Replacement
- replacement theory at Encyclopedia Britannica
- “The Great Replacement:” An Explainer
- Great Replacement Theory at the Counter Extremism Project
- What is the Great Replacement Theory? on VOA News
- 'The Great Replacement': The Violent Consequences of Mainstream Extremism
- How Tucker Carlson Tonight Fuels Extremism and Fear on the NYT
- Factsheet: Counter-Jihad Movement
- The Counter-Jihad Movement & the Making of a President on the United States of Anxiety podcast
- The myth of Eurabia from The Guardian
- Misogyny is a Powerful Undercurrent of the “Great Replacement” Conspiracy Theory
- A revealing map of the world’s most and least ethnically diverse countries
- Most Racially Diverse Countries 2022
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EPISODE 60 | Under My Skin - Morgellons Disease
A boy with a rash, a concerned mother, the internet and a lack of medical knowledge combine to create the phenomemnon known as Morgellons Disease. It's a nefarious condition where coloured fibers appear under your skin, causing fatigue and pain, possibly placed there by evil forces. Or it might be a mental delusion transmitted from person to person by reading about it on the internet.
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- 02:01 - Mary Leitao coins a phrase, gains a following
- 07:12 - Doctors take a look, Morgellons spreads
- 13:28 - Factitious disorder imposed on another (FDIA) or Munchausen syndrome by proxy (MSbP), conspiracy folks especially vunerable
- 19:51 - Munchausen by internet & cybermuchers
- 22:03 - Steve Leary lies Down Under, Steve Kirsch lies for profit
- 24:32 - Delusional parasitosis (DP), dopamine, matchbox signs, folie à deux, folie à internet, quack cures, memes are viruses
- 31:03 - More doctors take a closer look, mental or not - sufferers really do suffer
- 33:45 - Polly Murray & Lyme Disease
- 38:20 - Quck alt-medicine, chronic Lyme disease, illness for political gain, a Plum Island plot, Jeff Rense & the NWO
- 43:35 - GMOs, chemtrails, nanobots, aliens, mind control, depopulation, paranoia, "mutated arthropods" & e-fibers, parasite Hulda Clark hates parasites
- 47:15 - Probably a suite of issues, somatic symptom disorder, Better Call Saul, mind and body are one, morgies deserve empathy
- Music by Fanette Ronjat
MORE INFO:
- Mass Hysteria & Shared Delusions episode
- Morgellons on Healthline
- Morgellons on MedicineNet
- Morgellons on WebMD
- Morgellon disease: A case report in European Psychiatry
- History of Morgellons disease: from delusion to definition
- Is Morgellons Disease Real or a Delusional Disorder?
- Article on Mary Leitao in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
- Letter to a Friend by Sir Thomas Browne
- Essay on Browne's text in the Annals of Medical History
- Mary Leitao's Morgellons Research Foundation
- 'Morgellons' Mystery from ABC News
- Morgellons disease: Managing an unexplained skin condition from the Mayo Clinic
- The curious case of Morgellons disease on Mind Hacks
- Morgellons article in Scientific American
- The Devil’s Bait in Harper's
- Munchausen: Unusual Suspects in Psychology Today
- LA Times article on Polly Murray
- A Connecticut housewife in Francis Bacon's court: Polly Murray and Lyme disease
- Common Threads: An Inspection of the Morgellons Community on the MENSA website
- What Happens When Lyme Disease Becomes an Identity? on The Cut
- MY RESPONSE TO, “WHAT HAPPENS WHEN LYME DISEASE BECOMES AN IDENTITY” by the Blanced Blonde
- Lyme-Related Government Actions on Quackwatch
- Morgellon’s Syndrome - Scientific? Surreal? …or extra-terrestrial?
- Moregllons episode of Skeptoid podcast
- Steve Kirsch on Politifact
- The Bizarre Claims of Hulda Clark on Quackwatch
- The Philadelphia Experiment & the Montauk Project - Time Tunnel Vision episode
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- PRAGUE TIMES - A city is more than just a location - it’s a kaleidoscope of history, places, people and trends. This podcast looks at Prague, in the center of Europe, from a number of perspectives, including what it is now, what is has been and where it’s going. It’s Prague THEN, Prague NOW, Prague LATER.
EPISODE 58 | Atlas Sank - Titanic Conspiracies
The lure of the sea is an ancient one, and perhaps no sailing vessel has garnered more attention than the RMS Titanic. It's a story we all know, or think we know - a classic tale of ship meets iceberg. But what if that's not the story? What if the iceberg is an innocent patsy and something else was the cause, like a fire, or a U-boat, or a cursed mummy? Maybe the Titanic never really sank at all.
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- 02:13 - What We Know - the official story, mistakes were made
- 11:26 - What We Think We Know - Unsinkable, SOS, David Sarnoff, Nearer My God to Thee, watertight doors, official findings, J. Bruce Ismay (Freemason, crossdessing coward)
- 20:01 - Shape of Things to Come - The Samson, premonitions of doom, William T. Stead and woo woo
- 24:30 - I Want My Mummy - the cursed mummy of the priestess of Amen-Ra
- 32:24 - Does the Pope Swim in the Woods? - The No Pope Theory
- 34:54 - There's a Hole in the Boat in the Bottom of the Sea - Frank Ruehl and German U-boats
- 38:13 - I'm the King of the World! - The Switch Theory, JP Morgan, the Federal Reserve, QAnon finally embraces anti-Semitism
- Music by Fanette Ronjat
MORE INFO
- Encyclopedia Titanica
- How did the Titanic sink? Timeline of events
- 10 mistakes that caused the sinking of the Titanic
- Five Titanic myths spread by films
- Titanic: Sinking the myths
- Seven shameful lies about the Titanic catastrophe
- David Sarnoff And The Titanic Myth
- Titanic: Dark Secret
- Fire and Ice: The Titanic's Top 10 Weirdest Conspiracy Theories
- 5 wild conspiracy theories surrounding the sinking of the Titanic
- One Month After the Titanic Sank, the Washington Post Suggested a Mummy’s Curse Was to Blame
- The Unlucky Mummy
- The British Museum’s Cursed Mummy
- The No Pope Myth
- Did a German U-Boat Sink the Titanic?
- The Wild Conspiracy Theory That the Titanic Never Sank
- The Titanic Never Sank And Other Conspiracy Theories
- The Titanic: the Fraud that Keeps on Giving
- The Titanic Switch Theory: Exposed
- Fact Check-J.P. Morgan did not sink the Titanic to push forward plans for the U.S. Federal Reserve
- Fact-checking QAnon conspiracy theories: Did J.P. Morgan sink the Titanic?
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EPISODE 58 | Spanish Caravan (Travelogue 3)
Spain is a fascinating country - rich in variety and history, and its fair share of high weirdness. We travel to Madrid, Catalonia and Valencia for statues to Lucifer, UFOs, haunted metro stations, abandoned villages, tomato fights and much more.
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- 01:38 - A Spain Primer
- 03:25 - Comunidad de Madrid
- 04:29 - Fallen Angel (Ángel Caído), Air Crash, Sobrino de Botín (oldest restaurant)
- 06:54 - Iron security bollards secret code
- 10:10 - Chamberi Ghost Station, around town, La Plaza de la Luna (Kcymaerxthaere)
- 12:20 - Cueva de la Luna (Titulcia)
- 14:46 - Monumento a Los Ojos (Ambite)
- 16:11 - Parque De Los Castillos (Alcorcón), Ummo UFOs & the Cafe of the Happy Whale
- 21:03 - Catalunya (Catalonia) - Around Barcelona
- 22:57 - Rocafort Metro Station (haunted), Barcelona Supercomputing Center & MareNostrum
- 25:52 - Arús Public Library (secrets of the Freemasons), the Spanish Inquisition (Plaça del Rei)
- 29:29 - The Calder Mercury Fountain (Joan Miró Foundation, Montjuïc Mountain)
- 31:16 - Parador de Cardona (haunted room 712)
- 34:13 - Tió de Nadal & the Caganer (Catalonian Christmas butt stuff)
- 36:52 - Comunidad Valenciana - Valencia, Paella, horchata, Santiago Calatrava & the Holy Grail
- 38:44 - La Tomatina Festival (Buñol)
- 40:30 - The abandoned village of La Cornudilla (Requena)
- 42:53 - The Colony of Santa Eulalia, Sax, & Villena - Bronze Age treasure & the Moors and Christians Festival
- Music by Fanette Ronjat
More Info:
- The Bear and the Strawberry Tree – Historical Madrid
- Unusual things to do in Madrid on City Unscripted
- 5 hidden gems in Madrid
- 15 unique things in Madrid
- The Fallen Angel
- Air Crash sculpture
- Sobrino de Botín restaurant
- Madrid Security Bollards
- Chamberi metro museum
- La Plaza de la Luna (Kcymaerxthaere)
- A Weirdness Travelogue: Henges, Tiles & Plaques
- Cueva de la Luna restaurant
- Cueva de la Luna webpage (in Spanish)
- Monumento a los Ojos (in Spanish)
- Monument of Eyes pdf of tiles
- MAVA museum website
- Ummo Hoax on Encyclopedia.com
- UMMO: the great UFO fraud forged in Spain
- Ummo Wiki (in French)
- The Enchanted Forest of Òrrius
- Mysterious places in Spain
- 33 unusual things in Barcelona
- Cool activities and places in Barcelona
- 10 Must See Gaudi Buildings in Barcelona
- Gaudi Barcelona
- El Bosc de les Fades
- Barcelona’s remarkable history of rebirth and transformation
- The Peculiar Architecture And Design of Eixample
- Leche de Pantera: Revenge of the Pink Panther
- Haunted places in Barcelona
- Barcelona urban legends
- Barcelona Supercomputing Center
- Barcelona Supercomputing Center virtual tour
- Arús Public Library
- Inquisition's Blazon
- Executioner's house (in Spanish)
- Calder Mercury Fountain: The World’s Most Beautiful Yet Deadly Monument
- Joan Miró Foundation
- Cardona Salt Mountain
- Parador de Cardona
- Tio de Nadal & the Caganer
- Valencia Cathedral
- Turia Park in Valencia
- City of Arts & Sciences
- Secret Valencia
- 16 Unusual Things to Do in Valencia
- 25 Best Things to Do in Valencia. The Ultimate Travel Guide
- La Tomatina
- La Cornudilla article (in Spanish)
- The strange events in Cornudilla (in Spanish)
- España vaciada on Wikipedia
- 15 must-see places in Alicante
- 46 Fun Things to Do in Alicante
- Colony of Santa Eulalia
- Sax Tourism Guide on Spain Made Simple
- Villena Treasure
- Moors and Christians Festval in Villena
- Moors and Christians website
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EPISODE 57 | Pseudolaw - Cabbages & Kings
The law is complicated, or maybe it isn't. Maybe there are secrets that the clever can tease out to their advantage. Did you know the government opens a secret bank account for you when you're born? Or using ALL CAPS when writing documents absolves you from legal responsibilities? That juries are illegal? And the highest law in the land is the local sheriff, or the Navy or maybe the post office. Welcome to the convoluted world of pseudolaw, where nonsense is packaged as the real deal, which some people fall for and others make a tidy profit from.
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- 02:32 - A House Made of Straw...Men - Gurus, Canadian Detaxers. the Redemption Movement, the Strawman Argument
- 09:43 - Dead Dead Redemption Movement - Posse Comitatus, Chrisitan Identity, white supremicists, anti-Semites, armed conflict, more Redemption fun, Family Farm Preservation, Montana Freeman & "Justus Township"
- 18:12 - Stillness Becomes a Radiance - Freemen on the Land (FOTL) in Canada and the Commonwealth
- 22:22 - Nine classes of FOTLers, legal loopholes, the Guardians of the Free Republics in Texas
- 26:32 - Confidence Born of Ignorance, the Cycle Cannot Be Broken - the Sovereign Citizen Movement, Admiralty law, traveling insead of driving, negative averment, red ink, sui juris
- 32:52 - David Wynn Miller's truth/syntax/quantum language, the Universal Postal Authority
- 38:38 - 1099-OID, UCC-1
- 40:41 - A Race to the Bottom - racism, Moorish Sovereigns, QAnon & anti-vaxxers, violent incidents, Sovereign Kingdom of Gaia, Embassy of Heaven, One Nation, German Trumpers, Austrian problems, the Union of Slavic Forces of Russia
- 45:48 - Not always so harmless
- Music by Fanette Ronjat
MORE INFO:
- Here comes pseudolaw, a weird little cousin of pseudoscience
- Spread of 'Psedulow" scammers and victimes thwarts court system
- The Tax Protestor FAQ
- Soverign Citizen Movement at the FBI
- Paranoia as Patriotism Posse Comitatus page
- American Fringes article on Sovereign use of English
- SPLC on Sovereign terminology
- SPLC interview with Daniel Levitas on the Posse and more
- David Wynn Miller in the Encyclopedia of American Loons
- :JUDGE: DAVID-WYNN: MILLER webpage
- Pseudolaw entries in the Encyclopedia of American Loons
- Idiot Legal Arguments at the Anti-Defamation League
- ADL entry on Montana Freemen
- Moorish Soverign Citizens at the SPLC
- Anti-Authority and Militia Movements in Canada
- The History of the Organized Pseudolegal Commercial Argument Phenomenon in Canada
- A Pathogen Astride the Minds of Men
- A Rebellion of Furious Paper
- Enjoy the Silence: Pseudolaw at the Supreme Court of Canada
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EPSIODE 56 | Red Pill This! The Simulation Proposal
Mainly inspired by a 1999 movie, many people suspect we may be living in a computer simulation of some sort. If we are, how can we tell? Maybe by looking at some ideas from physics, which has some truly unusual ideas as to the nature of things. The universe might be made of tiny vibrating strings, or physicalized information. It might be a hologram, or a big brain, or an artifact of statistics. All these ideas seem to point to an underlying code of some kind. Or maybe everything we think we know was just created last Thursday.
This is the two-year anniversary episode of Conspiracy Clearinghouse. Thank you everyone for listening and for your support!
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- 02:10 - I Can Only Show You the Door - The Matrix, PKD, red pills, metaphor, human batteries
- 10:15 - The Simulation Scenario (Not Hypothesis, Not Theory) - Nick Bostrom, Kurtzweil, deGrasse Tyson, Musk, virtual contingency plans, OpenAI, NVIDIA's E2 & the Omniverse
- 19:09 - Blinded with Science - The Holographic Principle, the UFT (and GUT & TOE), string theory
- 22:37 - Vepson, Landauer's Principle, dark matter & energy, MACHOs & WIMPs, it from bit
- 25:47 - Biocentrism, quantum weirdness
- 27:11 - Braaaiins! - Hong Qin's algorithm & discrete field theory, universe as brain or neural network; Quantum Gravity Research, self-simulation, the pan-consciousness
- 33:44 - The Department of Redundancy Department - Reality as statistical average, glitches in the matrix, coincidence & deja vu
- 39:48 - Dear God, Sorry to Disturb You But... - Lack of proof, Last Thursdayism, the Omphalos Hypothesis, Christian reactions, the Matrix Defense, simulation as religion, the Global Architect Institute
- 48:09 - The Clock is TikToking - Gen Z rediscovers the idea, Rivka Weinberg & ultimate meaning, the road ahead
- Music by Fanette Ronjat
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More Info:
- Why the Matrix Matters to Trans Fans on NPR
- The Matrix Spawned the Simulation Theory
- 'Matrix'-style bracelets turn humans into batteries
- Summary of Bostrom's 2003 paper
- The Simulation Argument
- Is Our Universe a Fake?
- Whoa, Dude, Are We Inside a Computer Right Now?
- Are we living in a computer simulation? I don’t know. Probably.
- Do we live in a simulation? on Space.com
- Living in the Matrix
- Simulation interview series on Closer to Truth
- What Are the Odds We Are Living in a Computer Simulation? in the New Yorker
- Neil deGrasse Tyson says it’s ‘very likely’ the universe is a simulation
- 50% Chance We're Living in a Simulation in Popular Mechanics
- Do We Live in a Simulation? Chances Are about 50–50 in Scientific American
- Elon Musk Thinks There's A "One In Billions" Chance We Don't Live In A Computer Simulation
- Elon Musk And Friends Are Spending Millions To Break Out Of The Matrix
- On Testing the Simulation Theory paper
- THE MEN WHO ARE CONVINCED WE’RE ALL LIVING IN A SIMULATION
- Our universe is one massive HOLOGRAM and our entire existence is an ILLUSION, scientists claim
- Quantum Paradox Suggests the Fabric of Our Reality Is Inconstant
- If the universe is a giant computer simulation, here's how many bits would be required to run it
- Dark Matter on CERN
- The Basis of the Universe May not Be Energy or Matter but Information
- There is no dark matter. Instead, information has mass, physicist says
- Roger Penrose on Why Consciousness Does Not Compute
- The universe works like a huge human brain, discover scientists
- The entire universe is a neural network
- It from Bit - What did John Archibald Wheeler get right and wrong?
- Physicist creates AI algorithm that may prove reality is a simulation
- New hypothesis argues the universe simulates itself into existence
- Is human consciousness creating reality?
- The Biocentric Universe Theory: Life Creates Time, Space, and the Cosmos Itself
- The Universe as a Statistical Approximation
- John Bartlett on Why We Do Not Live in a Simulated Universe
- The simulation argument: Does it reflect a frustration in physics?
- The Church of Last Thursday
- Friend, Have You Heard the Good News About the Simulation Hypothesis?
- He Thought He Was Living in ‘The Matrix’—and Killed His Parents
- Bad religion, bad media combine in new doc "A Glitch in the Matrix"
- Simulation Theory: How is ‘Religion’ Part of It?
- Religion and the Simulation Hypothesis: Is God an AI (Part I)?
- The simulation hypothesis and the ultimate religion
- The Global Architect Institute
- Simulation Creationism
- Heidi Wong TikTok video
- Ultimate Meaning: We Don’t Have It, We Can’t Get It, and We Should Be Very, Very Sad
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EPISODE 55 | The Dead Internet Theory
Weirdly similar but also somewhat nonsensical tweets, emails that seem written by bots, the same posts showing up again and again - something seems to be amiss with the internet. And some people think they have found the answer: the internet died a few years ago and is now almost entirely run by sophisticated AI bots. This is the Dead Internet Theory.
We'll look at the reasoning behind this notion, a timeline of events that includes some creepy real-world DARPA projects, the state of AI and computer-brain interfaces, and a peek at the (possibly) approaching Singularity - when humans and machines will essentially blend into one thing.
Special shoutout to Gerd Altmann, who made most of the images use din the video version of this episode and made them available on Pixabay.
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- 02:14 - Imitation Is the Sincerest Form of Monetization - clone emails, I hate texting, @Capr1corn, @itspureluv, spoof websites, web bots, the Inversion, deepfakes
- 09:13 - The Dead Internet Theory - IlluminatiPirate sniffs out a truth, stupid stuff online, doors vs wheels, the early net was better/sucked, Solipsism
- 13:36 - The Metaverse gets handsy, the web is soulless, it's all a mindset, Pantone 448C
- 18:11 - Something Rotten in the State of Denmark - Tracing the DIT, standardization runs amuck, algorithm fiction, CGI and deepfakes, many internets, wag the dog
- 22:18 - A timeline of terror: DARPA's LifeLog, Facebook, Total Information Awareness, using Basketball for precrime, No Such Agency, Smith-Mundt Modernization Act, Project Mockingbird, Operation Mockingbird, Google's Selfish Ledger, NMT, Face2Face, Narrative Science, In-Q-Tel
- 29:37 - A problem of scale: Google search results are ridiculous, there are a lot of stupid people, our brains suck, are you trapped?, link rot, awesome stuff on the web, Yvette's Bridal Formal, Flat Earth News
- 37:02 - No 9000 Computer Has Ever Made a Mistake or Distorted Information. We Are All, by Any Practical Definition of the Words, Foolproof and Incapable of Error - Strong AI, the Turing Test, Eugene Goostman, autonomous vehicles
- 41:17 - Human-computer interfaces, Neuralink, Brown University's wireless interfaces
- 42:33 - One, Singular Sensation, Every Little Step She Takes - The Singularity approaches, transhumanism, immortality (of a sort), Ray Kurzweil and technofaith
- Music by Fanette Ronjat
More Info:
- Dead Internet Theory in The Atlantic
- Dead Internet Theory in The Daily Free Press
- We're Living in the 90s on Agora Road
- The Internet Is A Potemkin Village: Proof Of Dead Internet Theory?
- More thoughts (and science) on the Dead Internet
- A video on The Dead Internet Theory
- Total Number of Websites
- How Much of the Internet Is Fake? Turns Out, a Lot of It, Actually.
- Bad Bot Report 2021: The Pandemic of the Internet
- The Metaverse Is on the Way: Here's What You Need to Know
- The metaverse has a groping problem already
- The Wheels Vs. Doors Debate Tearing the Internet Apart
- Yvette's Bridal Formal
- The World's Worst Website Ever!
- Pentagon Kills LifeLog Project
- Q&A on the Pentagon's "Total Information Awareness" Program on ACLU
- Scientists dispute whether computer 'Eugene Goostman' passed Turing test
- The Internet Is Rotting
- Jonathan Zittrain Explains Why the Internet Is Rotting
- Facebook just released a database of 100,000 deepfakes to teach AI how to spot them
- The Strange Story of Google's "Selfish Ledger"
- Google’s Selfish Ledger ideas can also be found in its patent applications
- The Only Way Google X's Selfish Ledger Is "Good"
- The State of AI in 2022: Current State & Predictions
- What is limiting the autonomous driving rollout?
- The Current State of Play in Autonomous Vehicles on Hackaday
- The first successful wireless human brain-computer interface is here. Eat your heart out, Neuralink.
- Singularity: Explain It to Me Like I’m 5-Years-Old on Futurism
- Singularity Group website
- Digital Freedom Fund
- Digital Freedom Foundation
- Flat Earth News by Nick Davies
- The Singularity is Near by Ray Kurzweil
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EPISODE 54 | Pootie-Poot on the Prowl - V. Putin Takes Center Stage
Many see parallels between Putin's invasion of Ukraine and Hitler's of Poland in 1939. Other see echoes of Stalin in today's Russian leader. But maybe we need to go back further, to Napoleon, to see what's up with this guy. Here's a look at "Little Boney", as British satire of Napoleon had it, and "Pootie-Poot", which was George W. Bush's nickname for Putin, as well as what's going on, how it's really all the same playbook, conspiracy theories about the Russo-Ukraine War and more.
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- 02:27 - Little Boney - A quick look at Napoleon Bonaparte
- 07:13 - Pootie-Poot - Putin as PM, President, President, PM
- 14:59 - A President's Castle Is HIs Armour - President, President (plus President x2 a-comin')
- 25:10 - So, What's Up with this Guy? - Contradictory assessments; Communist, Fascist, Ataman
- 32:48 - Weaponizing Information - The Firehose of Falsehood
- 36:44 -Wag the dog, anti-Semitism, the Khazars return?, QAnon, the Zorro Squad, Armageddon and more
- 47:48 - 5 scenarios on how the war in Ukraine might end
- Music by Fanette Ronjat
More Info:
- 22 Nicknames for Napoleon
- Vladimir Putin page on RationalWiki
- Putinism and Bonapartism: The Ten Resemblances by Marcel H. van Herpen
- Why has Putin's Napoleonic 'cold charisma' made him so popular in Russia?
- Was Napoleon Short?
- Blog by professor Mark van Vugt on Putin and Napoleon Complex
- Psychology Today article on Putin and Napoleon Complex
- Putin on the Couch on Politico
- Is Russia repeating mistakes of past wars in Ukraine? on Al Jazeera
- The Russian "Firehose of Falsehood" Propaganda Model - the Rand Corporation
- China's promotion of Russian disinformation indicates where its loyalties lie on CNN
- Fabricated videos about Ukraine Invasion CNN video
- Conspiracy Theorists Move To Ukraine Crisis After Covid Disinformation
- How to spot false posts from Ukraine
- Analysis: Russia and QAnon have the same false conspiracy theory about Ukraine
- Article on the letter Z becoming a pro-war symbol
- Gymnast Ivan Kuliak in trouble for wearing "Z"
- Ukrainians Tell Stories of Divine Intervention from the Battlefield
- Ukraine: How might the war end? Five scenarios on BBC
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EPSIODE 53 | Time to Get Ill - DST, Y2K & 2012
We can find doom and gloom anywhere we focus our attention. Even time itself is not free from the shadowy glances of the suspicious. This is a look at some time-related freakouts - Daylight Saving Time, time zones, Y2K and the 2012 phenomenon.
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- 02:02 - DST is BS - Franklin, farmers and furor
- 09:30 - Madness in Minnesota and more
- 15:27 - Market multiplications
- 16:37 - DST disorders and developments
- 19:53 - Zoning Laws - Time zone zaniness
- 28:38 - The Millennium Bug - Y2K consternation, Scary Gary, Dominionism, militias and the Walking Bible
- 35:12 - Mayan I Have Some More, Please? - The 2012 Phenomenon, calendars, Long Counts, Great Cycles and End Times
- 39:56 - Magnetic fields, black holes, supernovae and aliens; worldwide panic, disaster tourism, K-Pop meets Nostradamus
- 46:06 - The Beginning of the End
- Music by Fanette Ronjat
More Info:
- 9 Things You Probably Don't Know About Daylight Saving Time
- A Short History of Daylight Saving Time
- Time is Money article about DST
- Daylight Savings Time Conspiracy Theory
- Crazy Original Conspiracy Theory about DST
- Daylight-saving time is a curse against humanity, and we should end it forever on Insider
- Daylight Savings Time Should Disappear on The Bottom Line
- US time map article
- The case for an entirely new calendar
- It's Time to Change the Calendar, Once and For All on Forbes
- Y2K bug on NatGeo
- How A Computer Bug Dubbed ‘Y2K’ Was Feared to Bring About the End of the World on Inside Edition
- 20 Years Ago, Y2K Hysteria Led to Emergency Bunkers and Cost the U.S. $100 Billion in People Magazine
- A billion years from now, a lack of oxygen will wipe out life on Earth
- Anunnaki and Stargates episode
- Project Blue Beam episode
- Gary North's Specific Answers website
- The Gary North is a Big Fat Idiot Page
- Five Facts about Dominionism on The Christian Century website
- Dominionism Rising: A Theocratic Movement Hiding in Plain Sight
- Dominionism article in the Texas Observer
- FAQ: Apocalypse 2012 Explained on CNBC
- December 21, 2012 on History.com
- Beyond 2012: Why the World Didn't End on NASA
- Does Anyone Really Believe in the Mayan Apocalypse? on LiveScience
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EPISODE 52 | The Mandela Effect & Memory (Because Reasons 6)
Nelson Mandela died in the early 80s, or he didn't. The comedian Sinbad was in a genie movie in the 90s, or he wasn't. Brand names keep getting changed, or not. Either our memories are not as reliable as we think they are, or someone is going around changing the very fabric of reality.
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- 01:35 - The Mandela Effect: everything changes
- 05:57 - A Mandela Effect quiz (including one red herring)
- 12:07 - Mix & Match - Maybe CERN is to blame
- 13:52 - Shazam & Kazaam
- 17:47 - Mandela & Biko, colour confusion, fossilized errors, sheeple
- 21:06 - Absolutely Confabulous - The Dunning-Kruger Effect, hypnosis, alien butt stuff
- 26:24 - The Art of Attention - how memory works
- 30:07 - Memory markers - places, focus and narrative; the Memory Palace, fun socks
- 32:50 - Collective memory, Bieber the Lizard, 9/11
- 35:42 - Justice Is Blinded - eyewitness testimony is unreliable, Onion origins
- 40:12 - If we can't trust memory, what can we do?
- Music by Fanette Ronjat
More Info:
- The Mandela Effect website
- Fiona Broome's website
- The Mandela Effect on Snopes
- What is the Mandela effect? on Medical News Today
- Mandela Effect article on Very Well Mind
- 45 Mandela Effect Examples That Will Blow Your Mind
- Time Manipulation - Mandela Effect Examples on Reddit (r/reality_shifting)
- How Memory Works - Harvard article
- Psychology Today article on memory
- How Our Brains Make Memories in Smithsonian
- Human memory: How we make, remember, and forget memories on National Geographic
- How Human Memory Works on How Stuff Works
- How Memory Functions - Intro to Psychology
- Confabulation paper on ClinMed
- Nearly 2,000 witnesses can be wrong
- The Utter Unreliability Of Eyewitness Testimony
- Why Eyewitness Testimony Is Unreliable
- The Innocence Project
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EPISODE 51 | Et Tu, Reptilicus - Mythconceptions About the Ancient World
History is a concept, often imperfectly recounted and remembered, sometimes purposefully obscured or confused. So, we think we know things that, in fact, we don't really know. Let's jump into the Wayback Machine and take a look at some things we think we know about the ancient world.
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- 01:59 - Rome Is Where the Heart Is
- 03:11 - What have the Romans ever done for us?
- 04:00 - Statues of limitations, pantheon purloiners, toga party, orgies, salutes, vomitoriums
- 08:56 - Are You Not Entertained? Stuff about gladiators
- 16:13 - Lend Me Your Ears - Stuff about Julius Caesar
- 21:10 - Freakazoid - Stuff about Caligula
- 23:38 - And Now For My Next Number - Stuff about Nero
- 30:12 - Fluid Prejudice - Herodotus and history
- 33:11 - Vikings, the Pyramids, Eve's sin, salting the ground, Amazons
- 36:59 - Neanderthals, Stonehenge, the Sphinx, the Hanging Gardens of Babylon
- 38:22 - The Great Library of Alexandria, the Battle of Thermopylae & the 300, Braveheart & cinema
- 42:28 - Memory is fickle, collective or otherwise
- Music by Fanette Ronjat
More Info:
- 10 Common Misconceptions About the Ancient World
- Top 10 Myths and Urban Legends About Ancient History
- 50 Incredible Facts about Rome
- 10 Things You May Not Know About Roman Gladiators
- 11 Misconceptions About Ancient Rome, Debunked
- Rome: 5 Things that Are Accurate and 5 Things That Are Totally Fabricated
- From Gladiator Duels To Caesar's Last Words: The Myths Of Ancient Rome on NPR
- Professor Buzzkill history podcast
- The 24 Best Podcasts for Every History Fan
- The Reliability of Knowledge in History
- Study: Historians Easily Fooled by Unreliable Content
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EPISODE 50 | The JFK Assassination (Big 'Uns 5)
Guest: Fred Litwin, author of On The Trail of Delusion: Jim Garrison: The Great Accuser
The JFK assassination is sort of a gateway drug for conspiracy theories, and boy there are lots of ideas about what happened that day in 1963. Fred Litwin once believed a lot of those theories, but has since changed his mind and is firmly in the lone gunman camp. For our 50th episode, we talk about why he thinks it was just Oswald, the Zapruder film, why Jim Garrison had it totally wrong and more.
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- 02:06 - I was a Teenage JFK Conspiracy Freak
- 05:44 - The Great American Myth of the 20th Century
- 08:22 - "Proofs"
- 08:42 - The parade route
- 10:21 - The magic bullet (CE 399/FBI 1)
- 13:14 - The truth is, these just aren't very bright guys
- 14:43 - The rifle
- 16:41 - The Zapruder Film & frame 313
- 21:56 - The Three Tramps
- 27:36 - The Babushka Lady
- 29:16 - Too many Oswalds
- 31:00 - Umbrella Man
- 32:21 - Oswald on the run
- 35:03 - Jack Ruby
- 37:39 - Oswald's possible motivations
- 40:25 - Jim Garrison: On the Trail of Delusion
- 44:03: - Echoes today, focus on the great center
- Music by Fanette Ronjat
More Info:
- On the Trail of Delusion by Fred Litwin
- Fred Litwin's blog
- I Was a Teenage JFK Conspiracy Freak by Fred Litwin
- The President John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection at the National Archives
- National Archives additional materials release - December 2021
- Warren Commission Report
- JFK events timeline
- The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza
- JFK Assassination resources at the Mary Ferrell Foundation
- JFK resources at Baylor University
- The Harold Weisberg Archive
- How the JFK Assassination Bullets Were Digitally Preserved at NIST
- What Are the Biggest Revelations in the Declassified JFK Assassination Files? on History.com
- Finding Aid for the John F. Kennedy Assassination Holdings (MA 88.17, MA 93.5) pdf
- Echoes of Conspiracy, Vol. 13, #1 pdf
- JFK assassination film hoax webpage
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EPISODE 49 | 'Merican Monuments (Travelogue 2)
Nations help tell the story of themselves to themselves with monuments, so let's look at two famous ones in the US of A - Mount Rushmore and the Washington Monument. Secret rooms and hatches, astonishing racial insensitivity, UFOs, Bigfoot, interdimensional portals, ancient weather control tech and a countdown calendar to the Apocalypse. That's a lot to deal with.
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- 01:55 - The Heads. You're Looking at the Heads: Mt. Rushmore (beginnings)
- 05:32 - Who's who?
- 07:05 - Suggested additions
- 09:37 - Ch-ch-changes
- 10:31 - A chamber of secrets
- 13:54 - Black Hills Weirdness - UFOs, Bigfoot & portals
- 16:47 - Fort Igloo & the Vivos Group
- 18:04 - Mine's Bigger - The Crazy Horse Memorial
- 21:51 - Tone Deaf Tourism - Stone Mountain, GA
- 26:03 - Phallic. Appalling. The Washington Monument
- 30:35 - Bench Mark A - a tiny monument
- 31:26 - A monument in Maryland
- 32:22 - Weather control device
- 35:20 - Obelisks are scary
- 36:33 - A monument to slavery
- 38:33 - Countdown clock to Armageddon
- Music by Fanette Ronjat
More Info:
- 75 Surprising Facts about Mount Rushmore
- The Sordid History of Mount Rushmore in Smithsonian Magazine
- The heartbreaking, controversial history of Mount Rushmore in National Geographic
- Mount Rushmore’s Secret Chamber on History.com
- Conspiracy Theories podcast Mt. Rushmore episode transcript
- Trumpmore article
- 7 Ways to Enjoy Your Day at Mount Trashmore
- Atlas Obscura entries for area around Rushmore
- UFOs are no strangers to South Dakota in the Argus Leader
- Keystone’s “Big Foot Bash” a day of celebration and record-breaking
- Bigfoot Field Researchers Association South Dakota sightings
- World's Biggest wooden Bigfoot sculpture
- Hidden Portals in Earth's Magnetic Field on Nasa.gov
- Igloo, South Dakota: The Utopia That War Built
- Vivos Group website
- Black Hills Attractions
- 7 Unexpected Things in the Black Hills
- Hotel Alex Johnson (haunted!)
- Rapid City, city of presidents
- Crazy Horse Memorial official website
- Crazy Horse Memorial travel website
- Crazy Horse Memorial article on Business Insider
- Stone Mountain, GA
- Washington Monument website
- Washington Monument Access Hatch on Atlas Obscura
- Washington Mini Monument on Atlas Obscura
- Middleton Monument
- COULD WASHINGTON D.C. BE PROTECTED BY ANCIENT EGYPTIAN TECHNOLOGY?
- The Washington Monument Conspiracy
- Before 1619, there was 1526: The mystery of the first enslaved Africans in what became the United States
- Washington Monument Might Hide Masons' Prediction Of The Apocalypse In 2022 on Quest TV YouTube channel
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EPISODE 48 | Ice Ice Baby - Songs of Ice & Snow
Baby, it’s cold outside. That sentiment is not just part of a kind of rapey Xmas song, but a fact brought about by the ROUND Earth orbiting the sun in the way that it does and tilting on its axis. To mangle a phrase – winter has come.
And with winter comes ice and snow, at least at the latitudes closer to the poles. And even here, in this brittle transparent crystalline solid, usually water, you can snow shovel up some conspiracy theories.
We’ll look at nature used as an insult, snow that burns, the World Ice Theory, Ice Ages that are coming (or already here), buried mountains, Nazis in Antarctica, alien vegetables, Easter Island and more.
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- 02:00 - Ice Ice Baby - types of ice
- 04:45 - Snowball Fight - snow terms, snarl words, snowclones, broflakes
- 10:32 - What a Snow Job - fake snow, polar vortexes, burning snow
- 16:34 - The Cold Sun - global warming pseudoscience
- 20:05 - Ice Ages Now & Then - global cooling, fake Time covers, Robert Felix, the World Ice Theory, Nazis
- 28:37 - Baby, es ist kalt draußen - Neuschwabenland, Antarctic Nazi UFOs
- 34:21 - The Ends of the Earth - Antarctica facts & fictions, H.P. Lovecraft, Planet X, Easter Island, Google Maps, the UN flag & more
- Music by Fanette Ronjat
More Info:
- Q: Could Kurt Vonnegut’s “Ice-9 catastrophe” happen?
- Ghost Ice
- Snowclones article on The Conversation
- Fake Snow articles: The Independent, Popular Mechanics, Politifact, Reuters, Unilad, Slate, Insider and European Scientist
- The NASA data conspiracy theory and the cold sun
- Time Magazine cover, April 3, 2006
- The Real TIME Cover Behind That Fake 'Ice Age' Report
- That ’70s myth—did climate science really call for a “coming ice age?” on Ars Technica
- How the "Global Cooling" Story Came to Be in Scientific American
- How Trump gets his fake news on Poilitico
- Robert Felix on the Encyclopedia of American Loons
- Why Hitler and other Nazis thought the world was really made of ice on Big Think
- The Nazis Believed In A Universe Full Of Ice Just To Spite Einstein on Gizmodo
- Hitler's Frozen Base
- Weird Antarctica - the truth behind secret Nazi bases and aliens
- Neumayer Station III
- Planet X & 2012: The Myth of the Southern Approach
- Antarctica's Biggest Mysteries: Secrets of a Frozen World on Live Science
- Hidden Antarctic Secrets - All is Revealed what "they" don't want you to know on Cool Antarctica (!)
- Google Earth photo sparks conspiracy theories about ‘400-foot ice ship’ in Antarctica
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EPISODE 47 | What Lies Beneath - The Hollow Earth (Big 'Uns 4)
Is our world hollow, possibly inhabited by evil descendants of the Yeti, or malevolent Detrimental Robots, or aliens, or dinosaurs, or Bigfoot, or Atlanteans, or Tarzan, or Neanderthal Batman? Maybe the Arctic has a giant hole leading into the interior, or is really Atlantis or Eden or Avalon or Mt. Meru or Hyperborea, or part of Yggdrasil or Irminsul, or the homeland of the Vedas. Or maybe the earth is actually expanding all the time. Or the Book of Genesis is really all about Mars. And on and on it goes as the pseudoscientific folks get all hot and bothered about what lies beneath our feet.
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- 01:58 - The Hollow Earth Point Zero - early notions, Halley, Euler
- 05:54 - The Symmesulation - John Cleves Symmes Jr., Symmes Holes, Jeremiah Reynolds inspires, early fiction, William Warren's Paradise Found, Etidorhpa
- 11:43 - Fiction & Fact - Verne, Nequa, Pellucidar (special guest: Tarzan), Agharta (Shamballa lite?)
- 16:28 - Szukalski & Zermatism (Protong & the Yetisyni)
- 19:26 - Dero, Dero! The Shaver Mystery - Richard Shaver, the evil Dero, Mantong, Ray Palmer, an Amazing Stories scandal, the Hidden World, Atlantean rock books, Shaver Mystery Clubs crop up
- 28:36 - Not Visitors, Roommates! - UFO & mountains, Raymond Bernard, Peter Kolosimo, Brinsley Le Poer Trench and a Martian Genesis
- 33:48 - Facts Cut a Hole in Us - Chimborazo & a vertical deflection experiment, the Kola Superdeep Borehole, facts about the Earth's interior & structure; Rodney Cluff, a multi-dimensional interior
- 41:02 - Growing Pains - the Expanding Earth Theory - Mantovani, continental drift, artist Neal Adams and Batman
- Music by Fanette Ronjat
LAPSUS LINGUAE: I say the Life Magazine article starts on page 134, but it actually starts on page 127. In the video version, I write the inter-dimensional hollow earth video only has Hungarian subtitles, but I found a copy without (see the playlist for that).
More Info:
- Hollow-Earth Theories: A List of References
- The Hollow Earth Theory Isn’t So Funny Anymore on Wired
- Tales of a Hollow Earth. Tracing the Legacy of John Cleves Symmes in Antarctic Exploration and Fiction, a research paper by Lester Ian Chaplow
- Euler and the Hollow Earth: Fact or Fiction? by Ed Sandifer
- Marshall B Gardner's patent US1096102A
- The Hollow Earth Theory: Our Inside Out Universe on Mysteries Unsolved
- Stanislav Szukalski: Zermatic on Kook Science Research Associates
- Behold!!! the Protong by Stanislav Szukalski
- List of Protong words with English translation
- Struggle: The Life and Lost Art of Szukalski
- FEAR DOWN BELOW: The Curious History of the Shaver Mystery
- The Hidden World Volume One: The Dero! The Tero! The Battle Between Good and Evil Underground
- The Secret World
- Richard Shaver & the proto-language of Mantong
- Life Magazine, May 21, 1951 issue (article on science fiction begins page 127)
- What's This? A Shaver Revival? by Doug Skinner for Fate Magazine
- The mantong alphabet and sound symbolism
- Review of Mantong and Protong exhibition
- Inner Earth Is Teeming With Exotic Forms of Life on Smithsonian
- World Top Secret: Our Earth IS Hollow - Rodney Cluff's website
- That awesome video WITHOUT Hungarian subtitles!
- The earth is expanding and we don't know why on Science Frontiers Online
- The case against pangea - Neal Adams and the Expanding Earth Theory webpage plus links at the bottom
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EPISODE 46 | Fakespiracies: Anyone Can Play!
As another holiday season rolls around, there's the looming threat of dealing family & friends who subscribe to this conspiracy theory or that one. Here's a collection of some fake conspiracy theories, #fakespiracy, that you can use to confound those folks, as well as entertain and maybe even educate a bit. From hidden messages about 9/11 in the film "Back to the Future" to nefarious truths about snack foods, and even some tools for creating your own #fakespiracies out of whole cloth, this episode will help you prepare for the onslaught on CT conversation around the dinner table.
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- 02:12 - Unknown unknowns & the attention economy
- 07:15 - The McFly Code - "Back to the Future" predicts 9/11
- 12:45 - Nonsense or sense?
- 13:28 - A Connecting Principle, Linked to the Invisible - the Sync Movement
- 17:39 - What a Tangled Web We Weave - secrets in Disney movies
- 18:25 - How to Start a CT
- 20:47 - A collection of memes
- 23:21 - Silica gel packs are red pills
- 24:32 - Yummy in the Tummy - food #fakespiracies
- 25:55 - The Shape of Evil, with Sauce - the BTS/Among Us McNugget
- 30:14 - Crunch All You Want, We'll Make More - The Doritos Conspiracies
- 36:02 - What's in a Name - The Truth Behind Triscuits
- 38:09 - Mix & Match - Conspiracy Theory generators & more
- Music by Fanette Ronjat
MORE INFO:
- Time Cube - Four Is the Loneliest Number
- Now You See It, Now You Don't - Finland Doesn't Exist
- Birds Aren't Real
- BACK TO THE FUTURE predicts 9/11
- The Sync Book
- 42 Minutes podcast on Apple
- Sorry Cassandra I Misunderstood: EVERYTHING PREDICTS 9-11
- The DELTA-TERRESTRIAL: Harvesting DRACO VRIL "Liquids" To Ignite Zero-Point PANPSYCHISM (Draco Wars)
- The Internet Is Made of Cats
- A $100,000 Chicken McNugget Triggered a Child-Sex-Trafficking Conspiracy Theory in Rolling Stone
- rule62rule62 ebay forum comment
- The Doritos Conspiracy on Security Boulevard
- Rebecca Webb Carranza, 98; Pioneered Creation, Manufacture of Tortilla Chip
- ‘Lady Doritos’ and the new, facile culture wars
- Fact check: CNN correction about Ted Cruz, Dorito chip is fake
- Writer Can’t Find The Origin Of The ‘Doritos’ Name, Makes Up His Own Creepy Backstory
- Cracker Brand “Triscuit” Rewarded Man For Explaining The Real Meaning Of Its Name
- The “Snacks Madness” Roundtable
- The Conspiracy Singularity Has Arrived
- How to Build a Conspiracy Theory
- How to Start a Conspiracy Theory flow chart
- CT Generators:
- http://www.publiceye.org/conspire/generator.html
- http://chaoticshiny.com/consgen.php
- https://conspiracytheorygenerator.com/
- https://www.generatorslist.com/random/misc/conspiracy-theory-generator
- https://philome.la/matthew_/conspiracy-generator/play/index.html
- http://conspiracy.kristinabrantley.com/
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EPISODE 45 | Rumours & CTs in the Workplace (Because Reasons 5)
Guest: Andrew Brown, co-founder of the Academy of Business Communications
Watercooler talk has moved online, so the speed and spread of rumours and conspiracy theories is growing every day, and it's not just inter-office gossip. How do such things take root in a work environment and what can organizations do to address them?
Andrew Brown walks us through the conditions that create fertile ground for rumors, the very human and social reasons behind them, and some real-world stories and advice for how organizations should and should not try to manage rumors in the workplace.
And while we're looking at an organizational context, these insights apply equally to any grouping of humans - a touch football team, a WhatsApp chat group or, with the holidays coming up, a family gathering.
This interview was originally conducted for another podcast, Digital Signage Done Right. You can listen to it and see a transcript here. You can also listen to an earlier interview with Andrew Brown and his fellow co-founder Elizabeth Williams about employee surveys here.
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- 02:34 - ABC: Helping communications suck less
- 03:41 - Three levels where rumours take hold
- 09:52 - Three conditions that allow rumours to rise & spread now
- 15:13 - Maslow's Needs Hierarchy
- 18:09 - Four common but ineffective tactics
- 20:40 - These tactics ain't gonna cut it anymore
- 24:51 - Tips & models for combatting rumours & negative behaviours
- 30:16 - Traps organizations fall into
- 32:52 - What about when the leader is crazy? Are surveys useful?
- 36:08 - People want to be heard
- 39:52 - Belief is not knowing; change is scary
- Music by Fanette Ronjat
MORE INFO:
- The Academy of Business Communications
- Transcript of this episode on Digital Signage Done Right
- Visix communications resources
- The Swear Jar podcast
- The Fearless Communicator's Bullsh*t Barometer
- An IdeaPACK for Fearless Communicators
- Suspicion in the workplace: Organizational conspiracy theories and work-related outcomes
- Conspiracy theories: Why we align with them & how to manage them at work at Human Resources Director
- European Union article and infographic on identifying conspiracy theories
- Leadership Steps to Stop Spread of Conspiracy Theories on RockDove Solutions
- Conspiracy Theories: A Public Health Concern and How to Address It in Frontiers in Psychology
- Are Conspiracy Theories Harmless? in The Spanish Journal of Psychology
- The Illusory Truth Effect: Why We Believe Fake News, Conspiracy Theories and Propaganda
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EPISODE 44 | The Philadelphia Experiment & the Montauk Project - Time Tunnel Vision
It's 78 years since one of the most storied military experiments in history, wherein a whole ship vanished and/or teleported and/or moved through time. And this dovetails with another famous military project at the tip of Long Island that's a grab bag of elements: virus labs, monster animals, Nikola Tesla, Ian Fleming, creating superhumans, teleportation, hyperspace, psychic spies, Nazi occultists, MIBs, the internet, AIDS, mind control, time travel, aliens and much more. Or so some say. Quite loudly, at times.
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- 01:41 - Happy Easter - The Philadelphia Experiment - Carl Allen marks up Jessup, the Varo Edition
- 08:57 - Nothin up my sleeve! Vincent Gaddis & Charles Berlitz chime in, Einstein collides with pop culture
- 13:24 - Eyewitnesses tell different stories
- 15:17 - Project Rainbow - the U2 is too easy to see, Jacques Vallee has some thoughts on hoaxes
- 17:38 - The Montauk Project - Small but mighty - The town of Montauk, New York
- 20:53 - The Montauk Monster, Plum Island & Lab 257, Jeff Rense chirps up
- 24:12 - Life Imitating Art Imitating Life - Preston B. Nichols writes a book about Camp Hero, makes some startling claims, inspires movies and TV shows, writes more books
- 33:45 - Slav to Love - Stewart A. Swerdlow tries to get in on the action, Al Bielek travels to the future & deep space
- Music by Fanette Ronjat
MORE INFO:
- Philadelphia Experiment on Military.com
- PE on How Stuff Works
- The Varo Edition text
- FAQs from the Department of Defense
- The Philadelphia Experiment from A-Z
- Timeline of events 1923-1999
- Anatomy of a Hoax: The Philadelphia Experiment Fifty Years Later by Jacques Vallee
- Montauk Monster: Dogfighting Washout? on Wired.com
- The Montauk Monster Legend Endures 10 Years After It Broke the Internet on Dan's Papers
- 10 Years Later The Montauk Monster Is Still a Weird, Gross, Dark Mystery on Observer.com
- 'Montauk Monster' Mystery May Have Been Solved on Fox News
- Book offers rare access to Plum Island on The Day
- So what’s Plum Island really like? One reporter’s inside tour on The Suffolk Times
- Montauk Project on Disinformation.com
- Lab 257: The Disturbing Story of the Government's Secret Plum Island Germ Laboratory by Michael Carroll
- Camp Hero on Roadtrippers.com
- Time Travel Is Possible at the Tip of the South Fork in New York Magazine
- Montauk Project on All That's Interesting
- Inside the Real-Life Time-Travel Experiment That Inspired 'Stranger Things' on Thrillist
- The Incredible Story of Al Bielek, the Man Who Traveled Through Time and Space on Destination Trips
- Alfred Bielek website
- Al Bielek Debunked website
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- PRAGUE TIMES - A city is more than just a location - it’s a kaleidoscope of history, places, people and trends. This podcast looks at Prague, in the center of Europe, from a number of perspectives, including what it is now, what is has been and where it’s going. It’s Prague THEN, Prague NOW, Prague LATER.
EPISODE 43 | Conspiracy U with Scott Shay
Guest: Scott Shay, author of Conspiracy U, In Good Faith & Getting Our Groove Back; President of Chai Mitzvah, Chairman of the Board & Co-founder of Signature Bank
The academic world is supposed to be a place to open and expand minds, but some professors actively promote conspiracy theories about Israel and the Jewish people that do the exact opposite. Scott Shay has written a book about how this is happening on both the right and left sides of the political spectrum, especially at his alma mater, Northwestern University.
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- 02:26 - A book I didn't intend to write
- 04:39 - Whatsoever things are true
- 06:03 - Holocaust denial
- 09:46 - Not all professors
- 12:09 - Also on the left
- 14:37 - Oppressive hyper-whites
- 15:37 - A personal holocaust story
- 16:54 - "The Holocaust is overblown"
- 18:00 - Anti-Zionism is not (necessarily) Anti-Semitism
- 20:10 - Jewishness defined racially
- 22:15 - Where do we draw the historical line?
- 25:42 - Polarization & the demonized other
- 31:08 - Canary in the coalmine
- 34:32 - God-king pharaohs & super-authority
- 38:09 - Final thoughts
- Music by Fanette Ronjat
MORE INFO:
- Scott Shay's website
- Conspiracy U on Amazon
- In Good Faith: Questioning Religion and Atheism on Amazon
- Getting Our Groove Back: How to Energize American Jewry on Amazon
- Chai Mitzvah website
- Signature Bank website
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EPISODE 42 | J.K. Rowling & the Gauntlet of Hysteria
A secretary got an idea on a train and some years later had created an international entertainment sensation, gaining fame and fortune. A feel good story? Or is she a witch? A Satanist? A spendthrift? A TERF? A transphobe? A spendthrift Satanist TERF transphobe witch? Or maybe she doesn't really exist at all.
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- 02:41 - The Wiccan Witch of the West - Harry Potter is evil
- 10:42 - Expelliarmus - Conspiracy theories about the books (WARNING: Spoilers)
- 17:24 - Accio Suspicion - Follow the money
- 18:53 - A Bit of Polyjuice Potion - She's a front
- 22:15 - Strike One - What's in a (pen) name?
- 25:34 - Pick a Little, Tweet a Little - Rowling tweets her way into trouble
- 33:27 - Transfiguration - Rowling stakes out her TERF
- 40:18 - Coda
- Music by Fanette Ronjat
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- PRAGUE TIMES - A city is more than just a location - it’s a kaleidoscope of history, places, people and trends. This podcast looks at Prague, in the center of Europe, from a number of perspectives, including what it is now, what is has been and where it’s going. It’s Prague THEN, Prague NOW, Prague LATER.
EPISODE 41 | Critical Race Theory - Re-examining "Normal"
A loose framework for thinking about how America's racist roots permeate many social, legal and political systems has become a flashpoint for the far right. And so a war on ideas has started in the country that holds itself up as the beacon of freedom in the world, led by white, heteronormative cis people, mainly men.
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- 02:15 - What is Critical Race Theory? - Background and some basics
- 05:44 - Hair Today, Gone Tomorrow - Natural hair as an example of systemic problems, with a detour to tattoos, and the CROWN Act
- 16:51 - Historical Baggage: The Tignon Law, the Pigtail Ordinance
- 19:47 - Scanning CRT - 10 main points of CRT, and some criticisms, with a detour to money
- 29:53 - Tempest in a Teacup - As the US minority population grows, white people react badly, accelerated in 2020 by Chris Rufo, the Trump administration and Fox
- 42:30 - No more changes - the GOP is becoming a White Power party
- 43:16 - There's more to talk about
- Music by Fanette Ronjat
More Info:
- Critical Race Theory: An Introduction (3rd Edition) by Richard Delgado and Jean Stefancic
- The US will become ‘minority white’ in 2045 from the Brookings Institution
- A Lesson on Critical Race Theory from the American Bar Association
- What Is Critical Race Theory, and Why Is It Under Attack? in Education Week
- How Fox News is making a network out of race baiting on CNN Business
- The Conversation Around Critical Race Theory is a Manufactured Danger in the Harvard Political Review
- Is the pushback against 'critical race theory' rooted in misconceptions? in the Holland Sentinel
- Why are states banning critical race theory? from the Brookings Institution
- How The Rise Of White Identity Politics Explains The Fight Over Critical Race Theory in ABC News's FiveThirtyEight
- Critical race theory fears are misguided, school officials say in the Adirondack Daily Enterprise
- My Life is Proof That Critical Race Theory Is More Than a Fox News Talking Point in Esquire
- Schools facing critical race theory battles are diversifying rapidly, analysis finds from NBC News
- The Man Behind Critical Race Theory in The New Yorker
- A Visual History of Iconic Black Hairstyles on History.com
- A Brief History of Black Hair, Politics, and Discrimination from Teen Vogue
- When Black Women Were Required By Law to Cover Their Hair - article on the Tignon Law from Vice
- A definitive timeline of the Black hair journey: 8 historic moments to remember from Stylist Magazine
- Tangled Roots: Decoding the history of Black Hair from CBC Radio
- The Crown We Never Take Off: A History of Black Hair Through the Ages on Byrdie
- The CROWN Act website
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EPISODE 40 | When Nerds Attack - Gamergate, Elevatorgate & Sad Puppies
A short late night chat in an elevator becomes a flashpoint in a storm of online misogyny; a woman has to hide because she dares critique the depiction of women; a relationship ends, sparking off a campaign of hate against women that lasts for years, and not even the venerable Hugo Awards are safe from the spreading #onlineslimemold. And then the racists get in on the action.
You'd think the realms of atheism, video games and science fiction would be immune to online nonsense, but you'd be very, very wrong. Even there, aggrieved men weaponize the internet to try and "take back" something that was really never theirs in the first place. Along the way the #slimemold will use doxxing, swatting, spite charities and other tools to lay the foundations of the modern alt-right, QAnon and the January 6, 2021 attack on the US Capitol.
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SECTIONS
- 02:36 - Elevatorgate - Rebecca Watson, Richard Dawkins & flame wars
- 09:46 - I am Not a Number, I am a Free Chan! - 2channel, 2chan, 4chan, 8chan & 8kun
- 13:56 - #Gamergate - Anita Sarkeesian, Zoe Quinn, Eron Gjoni, MundaneMatt, Internet Aristocrat, Total Biscuit, #burgersandfries, The Fine Young Capitalists, Phil Fish, Vivian James, Hotwheels, JonTron, Adam Baldwin
- 29:09 - Mike Cernovich, "Based Lawyer" & professional misogynist, sockpuppets
- 30:53 - Marc Threadingham, white knight, Operation Disrespectful Nod, the Red Pill Right
- 32:41 - New techniques are developed, Brianna Wu, swatting, Social Justice Warriors (SJWs), #slimemold, #onlineslimemold
- 38:45 - Sad Puppies Aren't Much Fun - Larry Correia wants a Hugo Award, Brad R. Torgensen takes over the Sad Puppies, Theodore Beale (Vox Day, total jerk) goes further with the Rabid Puppies, George R.R. Martin, Chuck Tingle gets slammed in the butt, the Puppies get owned (three times), N. K. Jemisin gets the last word (three times)
- 54:22 - Zoe Quinn also gets a last word
- 55:17 - The #slimemold thrives, a really nasty game is sold, the foundations of the present
- Music by Fanette Ronjat
LAPSUS LINGUAE: I accidentally call Mike Cernovich "Mark", probably because simply thinking about him makes me want to throw up.
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EPISODE 39 | A Weirdness Travelogue: Henges, Tiles & Plaques
Mystery is all around us - we just need to seek it out. Here are a few offbeat and weird places in the US to go see: some henges, some tiles and some plaques.
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- 02:42 - America's Stonehenge
- 07:46 - A Hankering for Henges - replicas and homages of the famous monument
- 10:23 - Manhattanhenge
- 11:23 - I'll Take Manhattan - The Portal of Paradise at St. John the Divine
- 13:56 - Look Down, Look Down, Don't Look 'Em in the Eye - The Toynbee Tiles
- 20:16 - Rock Me, Leedskalnin - Coral Castle
- 29:07 - Frankly My Dear, I DO Give a Damn - weird fun in Atlanta
- 30:35 - 54 Columns by Sol LeWitt (the Atlanta Stonehenge)
- 32:02 - Making It Up in Our Secret World - Kcymaerxthaere by "geographer at large" Eames Demetrios
- 35:52 - Don't Get Me Down - Roger Babson & the Gravity Research Foundation
- Music by Fanette Ronjat
- Atlas Obscura
- Amusing Planet
- Unusual Places
- HostelWorld's 15 Strangest Monuments Around the World
- America's Stonehenge
- America's Stonehenge article in New England Today
- Yankee Doodle Druid in Discover Magazine
- Article on Mark Russo
- Dupont Underground in Washington, D.C.
- 2015 Dupont Underground article in Smithsonian Magazine
- Clonehenge - A blog about Stonehenge Replicas. We kid you not.
- BBC article on Manhattanhenge
- Cathedral of St. John the Divine, NYC
- Portal of Paradise #MuseumFromHome videos
- A New York Apocalypse Hidden in Plain Sight
- Toynbee Tiles on Atlas Obscura
- Toynbee Tiles article about Pittsburgh
- Toynbee Idea website
- Resurrect Dead - The Mystery of the Toynbee Tiles documentary
- Coral Castle website
- Coral Castle article on LiveScience
- Billy Idol - Sweet Sixteen video
- Mr. Can't is Dead: The Story of the Coral Castle by Orval M. Irwin
- Atlanta Beltline
- Elvis Shrine Vault
- Robert C. Williams Paper Museum
- Switchyards Ping Pong Stadium
- The Switchyards
- SkyView Atlanta
- Murder Kroger on Atlas Obscura
- Kroger store tries to shake off ‘murder’ moniker 2014 radio program
- A journey to Atlanta’s exquisitely weird Doll’s Head Trail photo essay on Atlanta Curbed
- Doll's Head Trail article on Rails to Trails
- CDC Museum
- Tiny Doors Atlanta
- Crypt of Civilization
- Center for Puppetry Arts
- World of Coca-Cola
- CNN Center
- The King Center
- Gunshow Restaurant
- Fox Bros. Bar-B-Q
- An Eater's Guide to Atlanta
- Best BBQ in Atlanta
- Best Bars in Atlanta in Time Out
- Atlanta traffic among worst in the world, study finds article
- 54 Columns on Artwork Archive
- Westside Provisions District
- Adalanta Desert plaque
- Kcymaerxthaere
- Kcymaerxthaere article on BBC Travel
- Gravity Research Foundation Monument
- Babson Boulders article
- A Creepy Ghost Town In Massachusetts, Dogtown Is The Stuff Nightmares Are Made Of
- How One Man Waged War Against Gravity in Popular Science
- Roger Babson: The Man Who Tried To Fight Gravity on Amusing Planet
- Gravity Research Foundation website
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EPISODE 38 | The Dirty Dozen - Medical Misinformation Miscreants
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Just 12 people are responsible for the vast bulk of misinformation about COVID vaccines on social media. 12. Are they cuckoo banana pants true believers or just modern day snake oil hucksters endangering people to make a buck? We'll take a look at this dirty dozen and see what they say and speculate as to why they say those things.
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- 02:15 - Pooping in our Rice Krispies
- 03:21 - 1. The Big Cheese - Joseph Mercola
- 10:26 - 2. Oh, Junior! - Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.
- 15:12 - 3. The Terrible Twofer - Ty & Charlene Bollinger
- 19:53 - 4. A Dime in the Dozen - Sherri Tenpenny
- 23:52 - 5. Straight Outta Compton - Rizza (Ronnie) Islam
- 27:37 - 6. Testing His Metal - Rashid Buttar
- 31:01 - 7. In It Together - Erin Elizabeth (Finn)
- 33:17 - 8. I'll Raise You 200 - (Ali Zeck) Sayer Ji
- 37:04 - 9. If It Walks Like a Quack - Kelly Brogan "M.D."
- 40:56 - 10. Hearts in Atlantis - Christiane Northrup
- 47:22 - 11. Paging Dr. Hitler - Ben Tapper
- 49:10 - 12. Junior's Jr. - Kevin Jenkins
- Music by Fanette Ronjat
LAPSUS LINGUAE: I keep calling Charlene Bollinger "Charlane" for some reason. I must have been thinking of the word "charlatan".
- CCDH - Center for Countering Digital Hate
- Stop the Spread of Misinformation online petition
- The Disinformation Dozen report
- Disinformation Dozen: The Sequel report
- Pandemic Profiteers report
- The Anti-Vaxx Playbook
- Quackwatch
- Fraudulent Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) Products - an ongoing database from the USFDA
- When bad science is a recipe for business success on .coda
- Spreading Vaccine Fears. And Cashing In. on the Center for Public Integrity
- Osteopathic Oath (note paragraph two especially)
- Just 12 People Are Behind Most Vaccine Hoaxes On Social Media, Research Shows on NPR
- Who are the ‘super-spreaders’ of medical misinformation, and how do their hoaxes spread so quickly on social media? A graphic guide. on the Globe & Mail
- Debunking the Disinformation Dozen playlist on the Debunk the Funk with Dr. Wilson YouTube channel (very worthwhile!)
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EPISODE 37 | Magnificent Desolation - The Moon Landing Was a Hoax (Big 'Uns 3)
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Yesterday was the anniversary of humans landing on the moon. Or was it? A surprisingly large number of people have their doubts, and they also have all sorts of "proof" as to why the whole thing is hooey. We'll look at some of the deniers' claims as well as a few of the big players in the moon hoax industry.
SECTIONS
- 02:09 - A brief overview of the Space Race, disbelievers abound
- 07:16 - It's Ra-diation -space is dangerous, solar flares, etc.
- 14:45 - Real is good, interesting is better - Kubrick done it
- 19:25 - A Picture's Worth a Thousand Words - so-called photographic "evidence"
- 20:05 - O say can you see (quality's too good, Armstrong's not holding a camera, crosshairs, the "C rock")
- 23:23 - By the dawn's early light (shadows are wrong or not parallel, multiple shadows)
- 24:39 - What so proudly we hail'd (no radio delay in recordings)
- 25:38 - At the twilight's last gleaming (no dust from modules, no blast craters)
- 26:44 - Whose broad stripes and bright stars (no stars in the sky, not enough moisture for footprints, no lander impression in dust)
- 29:57 - O'er the ramparts we watch'd (same backgrounds in different photos, the horizon)
- 31:21 - Were so gallantly streaming (too many pictures)
- 31:51 - And the rocket's red glare (no rocket flames, camera pans)
- 33:57 - The bomb bursting in air (lens flares)
- 34:31 - Gave proof through the night that our flag was still there (data is missing)
- 36:12 - O say does that star-spangled banner yet wave (the flag moves)
- 38:14 - O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave? (Why not use the Hubble to show us stuff left behind?)
- 39:34 - A hunch, an intuition, a true conviction - Bill Kaysing starts it all (mostly), Bart Sibrel confronts Buzz Aldrin, Mythbusters, Moontruth and more
- 44:47 - X Minus One - The Soviets, Project A119
- 46:31 - Earthrise (NASA image AS08-14-2383)
- Music by Fanette Ronjat
- The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress - Facts & Fictions About Our Nearest Neighbour
- The Space Race on history.com
- New Survey Suggests 10% of Americans Believe the Moon Landing Was Fake
- Apollo Hoax website
- Moon Base Clavius debunking website
- The Moon Hoax debunking comic by Darryl Cunningham
- How Stanley Kubrick Staged the Moon Landing on The Paris Review
- Kubrick's Odyssey Secrets Hidden In The Films Of Stanley Kubrick by Jay Weidner
- The Shining Code video by JMC & MW
- Stanley Kubrick’s Daughter Addresses Moon Landing Conspiracy Theory in Variety
- Apollo landing footage would have been impossible to fake. A film expert explains why. on PBS
- Apollo 11 Moon Landing: Photos From 50 Years Ago on The Atlantic
- Thread: Wayne Green - the (until now) unknown Moon Hoax author
- Dark Side of the Moon by William Karel
- We Never Went to the Moon by Bill Kaysing
- ‘I don’t believe it’ - The psychology behind moon landing conspiracy theories
- Moontruth
- The Soviet Response to the Moon Landing? Denial There Was a Moon Race at All
- Why the Air Force Almost Blasted the Moon with an H-Bomb
- Apollo 11 film footage
- Earthrise photo at NASA
- We saw Earth rise over the moon in 1968. It changed everything.
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EPISODE 36 | The Georgia Guidestones - An NWO Billboard
For images and many videos, check this episode and its dedicated playlist on our YouTube channel.
40 years ago, an anonymous group paid a lot of money to have an odd structure erected in a field in Northern Georgia - a series of stone megaliths with carved inscriptions in several languages. What the heck was it? A message for the survivors of a future cataclysm? A statement of intent for the New World Order? Plenty of people are more than a little freaked out by the Georgia Guidestones - it's been vandalized, had bits stolen and wingnuts of all types froth at the mouth when talking about this enigmatic monument to... whatever the hell it is.
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- 02:10 - R.C. Christian pays his bills
- 04:28 - The Guidestones - speaking in tongues
- 07:18 - Diving Deeper - WTF is this thing? What about Rosicrucians? "Robert Christian" writes a book.
- 11:03 - The Ten Items
- 14:38 - Mountains Out of Molehills - A series of overwrought overreactions from Mark "Dice" Shouldice & others
- 18:17 - Alex Jones hates the Guidestones (among many other things)
- 19:45 - Mr. Illuminati, tear down these stones! Vandalism, misspellings, William Ellis, Curious George, Michael Massanelli, Van Smith, the Burj Khalifa
- 23:29 - Marjorie Taylor Greene ("MTG") connects some dots
- 24:30 - Hey, It Ain't All Bad - not everyone is freaked out, the Cherokee center of the world, the Fifth World
- 26:08 - Seeing Is Believing - books, movies, directions
- Music by Fanette Ronjat
- Georgia Guidestones on Atlas Obscura
- Elberton Granite Association
- Elberton Granite Museum on Explore Georgia
- Brad Metzer article on History.com
- Jay Weidner article "The Culling"
- Guidestones article on Wired
- Common Sense Renewed by "Robert Christian"
- Mark "Dice" Shouldice on YouTube
- The Illuminati - Bavarian Brouhaha
- Endgame: Blueprint for Global Enslavement by Alex Jones
- Georgia Guidestones on RationalWiki
- Michael Massanelli website
- Van's Hardware Journal conspiracy website
- Burj Khalifa website
- William Shockley on the SPLC website
- Marjorie Taylor Greene spouts off (again) on Media Matters
- Center of the World historical marker
- The Georgia Guidestones: America's Most Mysterious Monument by Raymond Wiley
- List of movies about the Guidestones on Letterboxd
- Dark Clouds Over Elberton on Amazon
- Dark Clouds Over Elberton on Adullam Films
- Etched in Secret: The Georgia Guidestones
- How Stuff Works
- Stuff They Don't Want You to Know on iHeartRadio
- The Georgia Guidestones Movie
- Kyle Dawkins soundtrack for The Georgia Guidestones Movie
- Guidestones webseries
- Map to the Guidestones
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EPISODE 35 | A Field Guide to Aliens
For images and many videos, check this episode and its dedicated playlist on our YouTube channel.
"The aliens" are not one group, but many, often with competing goals and motivations. Starting back in 1946, the Russians compiled a handbook for elite KGB and SMERSH agents on 58 separate alien races that visit our planet. Some are nice and some are not very nice at all. They all seem to think the Earth is a special place, however, even if many of them really just couldn't care less about us humans at all. Or so says an internet marketing guy who "found" a copy of this book and claims it's all real, including pictures of the aliens taken from movies and video games. One thing's for sure - it's a helluva story.
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- 03:26 - Gil Carlson markets to the masses
- 05:01 - Background on the handbook, Dante Santori translates/writes it
- 09:10 - Origin Story - The Anunnaki made humans, helped by the Kurs and Zeta Reticulans, then the Reptilians messed everything up
- 14:29 - Nice Guy Aliens - Grays, Nordics and others
- 15:05 - "Grays" - Solipsi Rai, Afim ("Afim Spiantsy"), Akart, Jefok ("The Peacekeepers"), Moovianthan-Kayphik("The Shining Ones")
- 19:30 - "Nordics" - Pleyadiyans, 2017
- 20:43 - The Council of Five - El-Manouk; Orela, Ginvo, Egarot, Redan & Emerther
- 22:30 - "Humanoids" - Graysli, Ramay, Smad, Vinnytvary
- 24:21 - "Reptoids" - Tengri-Tengri, Tisar-3
- 26:00 - Boo-Hiss: The Bad Guys - Not just Reptilians
- 26:19 - The Reptilians - The intergalactic villains
- 28:13 - The Maitre Alliance - Maitre, X5-Tykut, Mazarek, Jighantik, Kyllimir-Auk
- 31:02 - Other Jerk Aliens - Alcohbata, Caraveldi, Dorsay, Dries, Indugutk ("Tall White"), Kiily-Tokurt, Hav-Hannuae-Kondras (intergalactic vampires), Lang ("fairies"), Negumak ("Gnomopo"), Tanzany
- 38:02 - A Message for Us - The Ramay & Jefok have told us about the creator ("She"), the First Race, interstellar feminism
- 40:48 - Weird Tidbits from Aliens - Unified Field Theory, the Philadelphia Experiment, Area 51
- 43:44 - The Earth is special, humans may or may not be (but we are pretty weird)
- 45:41 - Go Forth and Create a Media Empire
- Music by Fanette Ronjat
- Blue Planet Project (good one)
- Blue Planet Project (alien one)
- Books by Gil Carlson
- Book of Alien Races: Secret Russian KGB Book of Alien Races
- Book of Alien Races online
- Mass Effect alien races
- Saddam's Stargate and Taskforce 20 episode
- The Lucifer Project(s) - Big Scary in Sky! episode
- Magic Carpet Ride - UFOs & the New Age episode
- Harvesters from "Independence Day"
- Truth Control alien forums
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EPISODE 34 | Magic Carpet Ride - UFOs & the New Age
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Many supposed abductees report scary experiences, but some have a counter-narrative: the aliens are friendly and very attractive and really, really into sex. A close encounter of the groovy kind often spawns a lucrative business and/or cult with the space sweetheart as the leader, of course. Embrace the Age of Aquarius with psychic powers, cosmic vibrations, walk-ins, star seeds and indigo children. There's a lot of money to be made on the peace train. All you need is love, and believers. Preferably believers with disposable income.
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SECTIONS
- 02:17 - Space Oddity: George Adamski - motherships, Nordics, Orthon's shoes and the reincarnation factory on Venus
- 08:43 - Love the One You're With: Elizabeth Klarer (née Woollatt) - Flying Saucer Hill, Akon, Space Mother and rivalries
- 19:33 - Tiny Dancer: Truman Bethurum - Captain Aura Rhanes from the planet Clarion and a polka party in the sky
- 22:15 - Within You Without You: George King & the Aetherius Society - Yoga, an interplanetary parliament, battery mountains and "The Day the Earth Stood Still"
- 27:56 - Strange Brew: Billy Meier & the Plejarens - The intergalactic party line (Sfath, Asket, Semjase, Ptaah), pictures aplenty, the Illuminati, beamships, a busy bee
- 35:08 - Us and Them: Brad Steiger, Ruth Montgomery & Stan Romanek - Star People/Star Seeds/Walk-Ins, the Boo Video, a space family and child porn
- 41:38 - Purple Haze: Nancy Ann Tappe, Lee Carroll & Jan Tober - Indigo Children, Crystal Children, Interdimensional Children, Rainbow Children, Lightworkers (The Kids Are Alright)
- 47:45 - Spirit in the Sky - final thoughts
- Music by Fanette Ronjat
LAPSUS LINGUAE:
- In the Klarer section, I keep referring to Akon as "Akron" because I must've had Ohio on the brain.
- In the Indigo Children section, I keep calling Jan Tober "Yan" Tober because I had been studying for a Czech language test.
- The Flying Saucers Have Landed by George Adamski & Desmond Leslie
- Inside the Spaceships by George Adamski
- The Adamski Foundation
- Beyond the Light Barrier by Elizabeth Klarer
- I rymdskepp över Drakensberg
- Interview with Kathleen "Kitty" Smith video
- "A strange coincidence or a return visit from Akon?" by Stephanie Saville
- Aboard a Flying Saucer by Truman Bethurum, revisited by Gray Barker and "Aurora Thor"
- "A Polka Party ... in Space!" on the Iron Skeptic
- "Saucer Story Flew for a Time" article on UFO Casebook
- Excerpts From Truman Bethurum's Personal Scrapbook
- The Aetherius Society - Co-operating with the Gods from Space website
- The Aetherius Society on RationalWiki
- "Farewell to the Master" by Harry Bates (reprint)
- FIGU - Billy Meier's website (Canadian version)
- Plejarens on Alien Wiki
- Billy Meier UFO Research website
- Billy Meier: The Controversial Contactee on Gaia.com
- Joe Manchik article and video on The Week
- Ptaah communications about COVID-19
- Sounds from Erra 2019 album by Billy Meier
- Gods of Aquarius by Brad Steiger
- Strangers Among Us: Enlightened Beings from a World to Come by Ruth Montgomery
- "Captured and hypnotized by aliens!" by Joel Achenbach on Salon
- The "boo video"
- "Extraordinary: The Stan Romanek Story" on YouTube (with Spanish subtitles and out of sync audio)
- "Extraordinary: The Seeding" on IMDB
- Nancy Ann Tappe website
- The Indigo Children Website
- The Kyron Store
- Are You an Indigo Child? quiz (10 questions)
- Are You an Indigo Child? quiz (50 questions)
- "Close encounters of the psychological kind" by Christopher C. French
- "Why stories about aliens are always stories about humanity" by Charles Bramesco on The Verge
- "UFO Cults Are Flourishing in New Age Circles" on Christian Research Institute website
- Shamanism and alien abductions : a comparative study - thesis by Simon Brian Harvey-Wilson, Edith Cowan University
- UFOs and Exogenous Intelligence Encounters article by the European Space Policy Institute
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EPISODE 33 | Kaspar Hauser -The Boy, The Syndrome (The World Is Weird 5)
193 years ago today, a boy stumbled into the Bavarian city of Nuremberg. He was carrying two letters, could barely speak and no one knew where he had come from. Speculations flew about the mysterious young man. Was he of royal blood? Had he been raised by wolves? And was he telling the truth when he said someone wanted to kill him?
The strange and enigmatic tale of Kaspar Hauser leads us to language deprivation experiments through the ages as well as the effects of neglect on children. The world is certainly weird.
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- 01:26 - Kaspar Hauser - Appearance in Nuremberg on May 26, 1828
- 05:28 - Kaspar's tale
- 08:09 - Never a Dull Moment - assassination attempts, falsehoods and Kaspar's strange end
- 14:53 - A Moving Target - theories & suppositions, the feral child
- 19:43 - Victor of Aveyron & Jean Marc Gaspard Itard
- 24:28 - Homo Ferus - The noble savage, Carl Linnaeus & the Tower of Babel
- 28:27 - The 12 Calamities - Frederick II's cruel experiments, organic failure to thrive
- 31:56 - The Forbidden Experiment & the Dumb House - Experiments by James IV of Scotland, Psamtik I & Akbar the Great
- 34:49 - T'ee Inna Way - Effects of deprivation & neglect on language use: Isabel, Anna, Genie, Poto & Cabengo, d'Armond Speers speaks Klingon to his kid
- 41:08 - Kaspar Hauser Syndrome (psychosocial short stature)
- Music by Fanette Ronjat
- The Mystery of Kaspar Hauser on LiveScience
- The Enduring 200-Year-Old Mystery Of Kaspar Hauser by Gina Dimuro
- Feral children in Encyclopedia Britannica
- Feral: The children raised by wolves on BBC Culture
- Wild Children on Myth & Moor
- The Feral Child: Blurring the Boundary between the Human and the Animal by Caitlin Schwarz
- Feral children through the ages by Lane Degregory
- The Child of Nature PhD thesis by Michael Newton
- Emperor Frankenstein article on Frederick II
- The Forbidden Experiment
- Akbar and the Silenced Children by Karl Steel
- From the Forbidden Experiment to Little Communities article on language deprivation experiments
- What Would Be Happen If a Child Is Not Exposed to Language? by Beste Gizem Cicioğlu
- Dugon, Haus You Dinikin, Du-Ah - The secrets of twin speak by Jon Lackman
- Poto And Cabengo: In The 1970s Grace and Virginia Kennedy Were Bigger Than The Loch Ness Monster on Flashbak
- d’Armond Speers: Dad Spoke Only Klingon To Son For Three Years by Bianca Bosker
- The Kaspar Hauser Syndrome of 'Psychosocial Dwarfism' in the The Journal of the American Medical Association
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EPISODE 32 | A View to Vril
Did a 19th century novelist accidentally tap into a long hidden truth about an underground race of godlike beings who control an electrical fluid called the Vril? Of course not. But that hasn't stopped plenty of folks from claiming it as fact, including Theosophists, Nazis, New Agers, a race car journalist turned UFO church guru and psychologist Wilhelm Reich (kind of). Just to name a few.
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- 01:47 - Author, Author - Edward Bulwer-Lytton writes a book or 40
- 04:24 - The Coming Race, Blavatsky chimes in
- 08:25 - Vril für das Vaterland - supposition as history, the Society for Truth, the Black Sun, the Vienna Circle (2.0), Nazi occultism, the Morning of the Magicians
- 12:07 - Maria Orsic - the Vril Society, Nazi UFOs, alien contact, plus she was super pretty
- 14:43 - Karl Haushofer and the Vril Society
- 16:25 - What's the Time? It's Time to Get Vril! - Norbert Jürgen Ratthofer, Jan Van Helsing, Lords of the Black Stone (Templars meet Nazis), using telepathy to contact aliens, the aliens are a little bit racist
- 19:56 - The Vril can create or destroy, Foo Fighters, Operation Paperclip had a secret
- 21:29 - Just Vril Out, Man - Gray Barker & Valiant Thor (Commander X), Venusian space commander; Frank Stranges - preacher and prophet
- 25:36 - The Vrillon Incident - we interrupt this broadcast, Claude Vorilhon and International Raëlian Movement/Church
- 30:42 - Wilhelm Reich - Here Today, Orgone Tomorrow
- 36:03 - Mistakenly arrested, retreat to Orgonon, Maine, more allegations
- 38:15 - UFOs and HIGs becoming bothersome - Deadly Orgone Radiation (DOR), cloudbuster machines, weather control, HIGs (Hoodlums in Government), legal injunction, UFO battles in the desert, arrested again, the US government burns books
- 43:01 - Reich's legacy, a big hit with the counterculture
- Music by Fanette Ronjat
LAPSUS LINGUAE:
I accidentally call the Isle of Wight the Isle of Wright at 27:46
- Online copy of Vril, The Power of the Coming Race by Sir Edward Bulwer-Lytton
- The Coming Race on Project Gutenberg
- Black Sun: Aryan Cults, Esoteric Nazism, and the Politics of Identity by Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke
- The Morning of the Magicians by Louis Pauwels & Jacques Bergier
- Castle Werfenstein and the Wonder Women of Vril by William Hinson
- Louis Jacolliot on Wikipedia
- The Vril Society, the Luminous Lodge and the Realization of the Great Work, essay by Terry Melanson
- The Goddess of the Devil: Hitler's Medium by Mart Sander - full text online
- "The Maria Orsic Story" documentary
- Maria Orsic, the woman who originated and created earth's first ufos by Maximillien De lafayette
- Occult Secrets of Vril: Goddess Energy and the Human Potential by Robert Sepehr
- The Unknown Hitler by Wulf Schwarzwaller
- The Vril Project - Final Battle for the Earth by Norbert Jürgen Ratthofer & Ralf Ettl
- The Vril Project book as slideshow
- Deconstructing the myth of “esoteric Nazism” essay by Richard Cimino
- Secret Societies and Their Power in the 20th Century by Jan Van Helsing
- The Development of the German UFOs From Before WW2 - extract from "van hilsing" (sic) book
- gray barker episode
- Valiant Thor's Book of Vril: How to Live Long and Prosper by Valiant Thor
- The Stranger at the Pentagon by Frank Stranges
- Vrillon: the alien voice hoax that became a legend article in The Independent
- Was The 1977 Southern Television Broadcast Interruption A Hoax? on Gaia.com
- "Falling Hare" - Bugs Bunny meets a gremlin
- The Book that Tells the Truth: Beings from Outer Space Took Me to Their Planet by "Rael" (Claude Vorilhon)
- Space Aliens Took Me to Their Planet by "Rael" (Claude Vorilhon)
- The Mass Psychology of Fascism by Wilhelm Reich
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EPISODE 31 | Scammers, Inc. - MJ-12, Bennewitz & Serpo
Sometimes the crap piles up so high in the UFO world you'd need a flying saucer to stay above it all. And yet, man, these are some good stories! We look at three key events from the 1980s: the Majestic 12 claims, Project Serpo, and the sad & infuriating Bennewitz Affair. And some of the people who might be behind it all.
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SECTIONS
- 01:32 - Majestic 12
- 02:27 - Wait a Minute, Mr. Postman! Jaime Shandera, Stanton Friedman & Bill Moore; the Cutler-Twining Memo and more
- 05:15 - The Dirty Dozen - original MJ-12 members
- 08:20 - James Forrestal - an untimely death
- 09:30 - Later rumors about Forrestal
- 10:06 - Other possible Council of Twelve candidates
- 10:47 - Bill & Dick's Bogus Journey - the FBI investigates, Friedman theorizes, Moore probably started it all, Linda Moulton Howe talks with Richard Doty
- 16:09 - Majestic by Any Other Name - Tim Cooper & Robert Wood continue MJ-12 stuff
- 17:00 - Milton William Cooper (again!)
- 18:07 - Cooper's affidavit on MJ-12 - What a story! (and a possible source for "Q-level clearance")
- 27:12 - The Bennewitz Affair - Paul Bennewitz reports strange things, gets targeted by fake M.I.B.s
- 29:01 - Richard Doty takes over the campaign, he & Bill Moore drive Bennewitz insane...on purpose
- 29:54 - Doty & Moore talk grey aliens, Dulce Base
- 30:56 - Project Beta - the elaborate story Bennewitz believes, and it ends badly for him
- 34:34 - Project Serpo - a human-alien exchange program with Zeta Reticuli outed by Richard Doty, another complicated tale
- 39:00 - Bill Ryan starts a Serpo website, possibly as part of a PR push for a book by Doty
- 40:41 - Len Kasten writes about Serpo, Howe & Doty chat, Steven Spielberg is in the loop
- 41:49 - Bob Lazar gets in on Serpo (natch)
- 43:15 - The Truth is (Not) Out There - The Imaginary Intelligence Agency or Scammer's, Inc.
- 44:20 - An attempt to weave it all together, and an invitation to Doty & Moore
- 48:33 - Follow the breadcrumbs
Music by Fanette Ronjat
More on these topics
- FBI Records: The Vault Majestic 12 documents
- 1993 FBI reaction to MJ-12 documents
- Conspiracy Weary - article about MJ-12 investigation by FBI
- The New Bogus Majestic-12 Documents by Philip Klass at Skeptical Inquirer
- The Majestic 12 Papers - An Analysis at The Roswell Files
- Majestic Documents - a comprehensive catalogue
- Mounting Evidence For Authenticity of MJ-12 Documents by Robert Wood, MUFON paper
- UFO Explorations article on Majestic-12 documents being hoaxed
- Behold a Pale Horse by Milton William Cooper
- Majestic 12 page on ufos-aliens.co.uk, includes Cooper's affidavit
- Yellow Book: History of Aliens on Earth by Gil Carlson & Bob Lazar
- Huffington Post article on Richard Doty
- Civilian Intelligence News Service article on Richard Doty
- Webpage on the Greys
- Project Beta by Greg Bishop - book about the Bennewitz Affair
- Article on Dulce Base secret alien war
- Project Serpo website
- Doty's "revelations" about Serpo
- The Black World of UFOs: Exempt from Disclosure by Robert M. Collins with Richard Doty
- Secret Journey to Planet Serpo: A True Story of Interplanetary Travel by Len Karsten
- The Truth About Zeta Reticuli by Armagh Observatory and Planetarium
- Hollywood Reporter review of "Mirage Men"
- Science Behind the Fiction article about Bob Lazar on SyFy Wire
- Article on Vice about FBI raid on Lazar's home
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EPISODE 30 | UFOs in Czecho
Guest: Sam Beckwith, editor of Prague Pig
Today Conspiracy Clearinghouse celebrates one year of delving into the weird, so we thought we'd celebrate by doing a crossover episode with our sister podcast Prague Times. The UFO thing is not exclusively an American phenomenon, and even here in the Czech Republic, where we're based, there have been plenty of reports and reactions.
Prague-based journalist Sam Beckwith takes us through the most famous UFO sightings in the area (some going back centuries), how the Communists dealt with reports of strange craft, citizen-led initiatives, the Czech Silver Men, a UFO church and more. This is a special crossover episode with our sister podcast, Prague Times.
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SECTIONS
- 02:00 - UFOs as cultural phenomenon, as narratives
- 07:50 - Projekt Záře
- 09:30 - Vranov nad Dyjí - the most famous Czech sighting
- 13:55 - A saucer too far - Communists hate mysteries, Nazi UFO in Prague
- 16:27 - Centuries of sightings - flaming wheels, time-displaced tanks
- 20:19 - Slatiny, 1938, the Číhošť Miracle, Loose lips get you killed
- 22:21 - Ostružná Nová Ves - a teeny spacecraft that sucks, Miličín - balls and figures in Czech Siberia, Don't call me stupid
- 26:55 - Aliens tour our spa towns, The summer of '93 - sightings all over, including Svitavy
- 31:13 - The Silver Men (Stříbrňáci)
- 33:14 - Crop circles, Fidel's cigars, Are you normal?
- 37:19 - Universe People (Vesmírní lidé sil světla) - a Czech and Slovak UFO church
- 39:16 - Ashtar Galactic Command
- 41:44 - The Spooky Book and other Czech Forteana (coming soon!)
- Music by Fanette Ronjat
More on these topics
- Prague Pig
- Prague Pig on Facebook
- Projekt Záře
- Gort
- Universe People website
- Universe People Wikipedia page
- Prague Times: HERE - Blood on the Snow: Czech Holiday Traditions w/Peter Collman
- Prague Times: HERE - Ghosts in Prague with Raymond Johnston
- Prague Times: HERE - 13 More Ghost Stories with Raymond Johnston
- Prague Times podcast
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EPISODE 29 | The Notorious M.I.B.
One of the most sinister UFO-related phenomena - the Men in Black. Sure, they dress like the Blues Brothers, but they are super creepy and often menacing. And also pretty ineffective. And while they may have been created wholesale by a hoaxer, people have been reporting, and even photographing, them for years.
We're releasing this episode a day early to confound the MIBs.
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- 02:51 - First mention of the Men in Black
- 03:26 - The Uncanny Valley
- 05:18 - Beam Me Down, Bender - Albert Bender learns a thing or two
- 09:02 - Gray Barker - The man behind the myth?
- 12:03 - More Than a Few M.I.B.s
- 12:22 - John H. Stuart in New Zealand
- 13:20 - What detergent do you use? - Paul Miller's luminous silo
- 15:38 - The Solway Firth Spaceman - M.I.B.s #9 and #10 (or maybe #11)
- 18:43 - An M.I.B. gets random - Rex Heflin gets a lesson on the Bermuda Triangle
- 20:57 - I hope you have insurance - Robert Richardson has a crash
- 23:09 - I'm surrounded! - Carlos de Santos has a flyby
- 26:08 - Nothing up my sleeve - Herbert Hopkins sees a magic trick
- 29:05 - Mind yer business - UFO researchers get targeted
- 30:10 - More Recent M.I.B.s - Dan Aykroyd gets cancelled
- 33:01 - Niagara Falls and the Tale of Jack & Jeff (note: the website Out There with Ted has gone away since the recording of this episode - make of that what you will)
- 41:32 - John Keel on the Trail - another comprehensive (yet incomplete) theory & ultraterrestrials
- Music by Fanette Ronjat
- Signs, Grudges & Blue Books - Early UFOlogy
- World Contact Day
- Robotics' Uncanny Valley Gets New Translation in LiveScience
- 10 Creepy Examples of the Uncanny Valley on Stranger Dimensions
- They knew too much about flying saucers by Gray Barker
- Flying Saucers and the Three Men by Gray Barker and Albert Bender
- Gray Barker books
- Gray Barker: My Friend, The Myth-Maker in Skeptical Inquirer
- "Whispers from Space" 1995 documentary
- "Shades of Gray" 2009 documentary
- UFO Warning by John H. Stuart
- Flying Saucers - Serious Business by Frank Edwards
- "The Shenandoah Experiment" Indiegogo page
- John Keel books
- Operation Trojan Horse by John Keel
- Back in Black: BEKs, Black Helicopters, Black Knight & More
- Disneyland of the Gods by John Keel
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EPISODE 28 | Back in Black: BEKs, Black Helicopters, Black Knight & More
Black is the new black. We in the West sure seem to have an issue with this darkest of dark shades. It often symbolizes nefarious things, especially in the conspiracy world. Black is the colour of my true love's hair, but it's also the colour of evil black-eyed children, Soviet cars, sinister black helicopters, mysterious secret aircraft and alien satellites.
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SECTIONS
- 02:32 - Black-Eyed Kids (BEKs) - starts in the UK?
- 06:49 - starts in the US?
- 09:59 - Creepypasta & urban legends
- 12:42 - Black dogs, the woman in black
- 14:41 - Black Volgas - scary Soviet sedans
- 18:05 - Look, Up in the Sky!
- 18:17 - Black Helicopters - the New World Order, the Apocalypse & the Quadrant Sign Code
- 29:49 - Aurora, Stealth Bombers & Black Aircraft at Groom Lake
- 33:27 - The Blackstar
- 35:34 - The Black Knight Satellite - Aliens above us
- Music by Fanette Ronjat
More on these topics
- UFO's Werewolves & The Pig-Man: Exposing England's Strangest Location - Cannock Chase by Lee Brickley
- The Black Eyed Child of Cannock Chase by Lee Brickley
- Those Darned Black-Eyed Kids by Brian Bethel original post
- Now You See It, Now You Don't - Finland Doesn't Exist episode (post-modern irony)
- The black oil in The X-Files
- Village of the Damned (1960) trailer
- Black Volga Wikipedia page
- The Late Great Planet Earth by Hal Lindsey
- The Late, Great Planet Earth film trailer
- Left Behind book series
- America Under Siege film by Linda Thompson
- Jump Into the Fire scene from "Goodfellas"
- Black Helicopters over America: Strikeforce for the New World Order by Jim Keith
- Black Helicopters II: The End Game Strategy by Jim Keith
- Harold Green website on helicopters, quadrat sign code, FEMA and more
- Harold Green on secret quadrant code in public signage
- Texxe Mars website on UN takeover plot
- Time Cube - Four Is the Loneliest Number episode
- Trailer for "Blue Thunder"
- Trailer for "Capricorn One"
- Trailer for "Escape from New York"
- Deus Ex game series
- The Truth About Black Helicopters (Lyle Zapato site - worth checking out)
- President Obama on the WTF podcast
- Signs, Grudges & Blue Books - Early UFOlogy episode
- The US Secret Black Airplans (sic) (WhoRunThe World website)
- Blackstar: the US space conspiracy that never was? on The Register
- The Flying Saucers Are Real by Donald Keyhoe
- Leap of Faith: An Astronaut's Journey Into the Unknown by Gordon Cooper
- The Truth About the Black Knight Satellite Conspiracy Theory in Popular Mechanics
- Video footage of Black Night Satellite (supposedly)
- VALIS by Philip K. Dick
- VALIS by PKD full audio book
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EPISODE 27 | Walk Into My Parlour - Early UFO Abductions
For several decades, people have been claiming that they've not only seen aliens in spaceships, they've been taken by them. And the aliens...did things to them. We'll look at some notable cases as well as false memory syndrome, sleep paralysis and alien abduction insurance.
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- 02:35 - Intro: Pop culture holds the seeds of the abduction movement
- 03:32 - Paleo-Abductions - early reports, mainly
- 05:38 - AVB (Antônio Villas Boas, 1957)
- 09:55 - The Hill Abduction (Barney & Betty Hill, 1961)
- 15:33 - Private Investigations - the Hills ask for help, Betty has dreams
- 21:06 - Going Public & Going Under - the Hills share their story & try hypnosis
- 26:06 - The press gets the story & unwanted fame is the result
- 28:18 - School teacher Marjorie Fish works on the star map
- 30:19 - Ripples in the Pond - the Hills & pop culture, the Travis Walton abduction
- 32:44 - Possible explanations & legacy of the Hill case
- 35:27 - You Are Getting Sleepy - Budd Hopkins, the alien abduction industry & making babies
- 44:25 - Alien abduction insurance, polls & more
- Music by Fanette Ronjat
- See some pictures and related videos on our YouTube channel
- Conspiracy Clearinghouse episode Signs, Grudges & Blue Books - Early UFOlogy
- Flying Saucers are Real by Donald Keyhoe
- Flying Saucers: Top Secret by Donald Keyhoe
- NICAP - National Investigations Committee on Aerial Phenomena
- CIA document about NICAP
- Barney and Betty Hill Memorials in Lincoln, NH
- The Interrupted Journey: Two Lost Hours Aboard a Flying Saucer by John Fuller
- Barney Hill on To Tell the Truth
- A Common Sense Approach to UFOs by Betty Hill
- Marjorie Fish's interpretation of Betty Hill's star map
- The Zeta Reticuli (or Ridiculi) Incident in Astronomy Magazine
- The UFO Incident 1975 TV movie
- The UFO Incident full movie on YouTube
- Fire in the Sky 1993 film
- Dark Skies TV series
- A look at the Hill case in an obsessive amount of detail by Nielsen Hayden
- Article on what the Hills may have seen
- "The Bellero Shield" episode of Outer Limits
- Invaders from Mars 1953 trailer
- Captured! The Betty and Barney Hill UFO Experience by Stanton Friedman
- Mutual UFO Network (MUFON)
- Article on Bergen, NJ UFO sighting
- Ethical Implications of the UFO Abduction Phenomenon by Budd Hopkins
- Budd Hopkins books
- Healthline article on false memory syndrome
- WebMD article on sleep paralysis
- Alien abduction insurance
- More alien abduction insurance
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EPISODE 26 | Come On Vaccine! Vaccine Hesitancy & You
Science marches on, eradicating debilitating diseases (among other things). However, there have always been some who are skeptical, or even downright hostile, to this. There are lots of reasons: maybe God wants your kid to get sick, the ingredients used are harmful and/or weird, or they have terrible side effects, like giving children autism; turning them into half-man, half-cow hybrids or making making males become homosexuals. Or maybe there are teeny, tiny mind control devices in them.
Or maybe all of these things are true. When you decide that science doesn't matter, and there's no such things as a fact, it's sort of a free for all of superstition and suspicion.
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- 02:00 - A quick overview of the situation
- 04:03 - Don't Have a Cow! The smallpox vaccine starts it all
- 08:12 - The Hospital of Dr. Moreau - Benjamin Moseley & others
- 11:04 - DPT (diphtheria, pertussis [whooping cough] & tetanus) - Vaccine Roulette & Dravet Syndrome
- 15:01 - How to Make a Vaccine
- 18:39 - The 'Vid - How we got vaccines so fast
- 22:16 - MMR (measles, mumps, and rubella [German measles]) - (Former Dr.) Andrew Wakefield & the seeds of the modern anti-vax movement
- 25:23 - Pointing fingers at anti-vax celebrities - a not-quite-complete list
- 28:55 - Tweedle-dee's Logic - Some reasons for vaccine hesitancy
- 29:51 - Bubble, Bubble, Toil and Trouble - Ingredients - Icky, weird, deadly stuff
- 33:19 - Heard of Herd Immunity? - A little knowledge is a dangerous thing
- 36:11 - Mother Nature Knows Best - Post-modern snake oil
- 37:12 - Big Pharma Wants You - It's all about the Benjamins
- 38:39 - Cloud-Cuckoo Land - The "out there" conspiracy theories & truly spotty logic
- 40:47 - Repercussions - Vaccine hesitancy affects us all
- 45:13 - Cutting Through the Noise - 18 steps for talking to the vaccine hesitant
- Music by Fanette Ronjat
- Vaccine Hesitancy: Causes, Consequences, and a Call to Action in the American Journal of Preventative Medicine
- The golden age of anti-vaccine conspiracies in GERMS
- Anti-Vaccine and COVID-19 Conspiracy Theories: A Perfect Storm in Psychology Today
- The 200-Year History of the Anti-Vaxxer Movement: From 'Cowpox Face' to Autism Claims in Newsweek
- What’s in a Name? Or, Will Vaccination Turn Your Children into Cows? on the History of Vaccines website
- DPT: Vaccine Roulette - 1982 NBC documentary
- A Shot in the Dark by H. Coulter
- Dravet Syndrome entry of Vaxopedia
- Coronavirus: Operation Warp Speed US Dept. of Defense website
- Vaccines: The Basics on the CDC website
- Making Vaccines: How Are Vaccines Made? on the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia website
- How Are Vaccines Made and Why Do They Work? on PKID website
- What Is the Difference Between Immunization and Vaccination? on Very Well Health
- The online anti-vaccine movement in the age of COVID-19 in The Lancet
- The MMR vaccine and autism: Sensation, refutation, retraction, and fraud in The Indian Journal of Psychiatry
- Book review in Nature for The Doctor Who Fooled the World by Brian Deer
- Callous Disregard: Autism and Vaccines--The Truth Behind a Tragedy, Andrew Wakefield's discredited book
- New Zealand Immunisation Advisory Centre Information for Parents about the film "Vaxxed: From Cover-up to catastrophe
- We watched the movie ‘Vaxxed’ so you don’t have to article on StatNews
- 7 things about vaccines and autism that the movie ‘Vaxxed’ won’t tell you in The Washington Post
- Trailer for "The Pathological Optimist" 2017 documentary
- The Anti-vaccination Movement: A Regression in Modern Medicine in Cureus
- Anti-Vaccine Celebrities Have Inordinate Amount of Influence on the Pharmacy Times
- New World Order episodes of Conspiracy Clearinghouse on YouTube
- Robert F. Kennedy's Children's Health Defense website
- Natural herd immunity should not be used as a means of pandemic control on The BMJ Opinion website
- The false promise of herd immunity for COVID-19 in Nature
- COVID-19 anti-vaxxers use the same arguments from 135 years ago on The Conversation
- Seven ways to talk to anti-vaxxers (that might actually change their minds) on HealthyDebate.ca
- Best practice guidance: How to respond to vocal vaccine deniers in public paper by the World Health Organization
- Inside the Mind of an Anti-vaxxer in The Atlantic
- Book announcement for Anti-vaxxers - How to Challenge a Misinformed Movement by Johnathan M. Berman
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EPISODE 25 | The Dyatlov Pass Incident: More Than a UFO Story - The World Is Weird 4
People love mysteries but also hate them. Unanswered questions drive us crazy, especially when the stakes are high. Like when someone dies. Or when nine people die on the side of a mountain in the dead of winter, found in various states on undress, with unexplainable wounds and missing body parts. The strange and provocative events of the Dyatlov Pass Incident have kept UFOlogists, cryptozoologists and people who just distrust the government very busy for the past 62 years.
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- 01:45 - The Dyatlov Pass Incident - The strange facts (who, where, when and what)
- 07:59 - CSI: Dead Mountain - Theories (avalanche, snow slab, katabatic wind, fight, animals, the official cause)
- 13:47 - Mullerovich & Scullina: Russia's Own X-File (UFOs, weapons test, gulag escape, infrasound, assassination, Russian Yeti)
- 21:31 - Smells like a cover up?
- 22:36 - But Wait, There's More! - An Enduring Mystery (The 2015-19 investigation, a new explanation, victim shaming, blogger Valentin Degterev, films & books)
- 27:58 - Man vs. Wild - Bad things can happen out there
- Music by Fanette Ronjat
NOTE: to see pictures from the hikers and investigation, check out the video version of this episode on our YouTube channel
More about this incident:
- Original investigation files, in English
- An outrageously comprehensive website by Teodora Hadjiyska (in English)
- Dead Mountain: The Untold True Story of the Dyatlov Pass Incident by Donnie Eichar
- Russian Yeti: The Killer Lives
- "Devil's Pass" Variety review
- Dyatlov Pass, the Story by Anna Matveeva in Ural magazine (in Russian)
- City of Exiles by Alec Nevala-Lee
- Kholat - Polish survival horror game inspired by these events
- Mountain of the Dead by Keith McClosky
- Death of Nine: The Dyatlov Pass Mystery by Launton Anderson
- Yuba County Five Wikipedia page
- National Geographic article that came out less than a week before this episode
- The Dyatlov Pass Incident - a website
- A truly wild website by a possibly mentally ill person about the Dyatlov incident, filled with a number of rants & theories, lots of pictures and some truly offbeat video embeds (like Obama and Putin having breakfast, the closing ceremony of the Sochi Olympic games, clips from John Carpenter's "The Thing" and the Russian Red Army Choir singing "The Song of the Volga Boatmen" in 1965 ). Multiple pages - check them all out.
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EPISODE 24 | Agenda 21 - This Land Is My Land
A secret international elite plans to depopulate much of the earth, and enslave the rest of it. We know because they keep publishing papers about it. Like Agenda 21, a set of environmental goals created in 1992 and pretty much ignored ever since. This is really a declaration of war against freedom and the first step in the global takeover. And it starts with your land.
Yes, the New World Order is back, and this time it's about real estate, national parks and affordable housing led by internationalists who are Communists and/or Nazis and/or homosexuals.
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SECTIONS
- 02:03 - What is Agenda 21?
- 06:05 - Eeeek! The New World Order!! - Birchers, Glenn Beck & the RNC
- 11:22 - Same As It Ever Was - Environmentalism is un-American
- 12:49 - The Wise Use Movement - When industrialists & off-roaders party together
- 14:19 - The Sagebrush Rebellion - Greed & land use
- 15:51 - Watt a Jerk - James Watt was a huge tool
- 17:34 - Keep on Truckin' - So where's that NWO, anyway?
- 18:15 - Building Back Better
- 19:49 - Soylent Green Is People! - Useless eaters & depopulation (chemtrails, war, & COVID-19)
- 26:10 - The Great Reset
- 29:55 - The Birchers keep the faith
- 31:25 - The Only Thing to Fear Is Fear Itself - A Mad Libs of paranoia, Ted Cruz & the Tea Party
- Music by Fanette Ronjat
LAPSUS LINGUAE:
I say that the book Wise Use Agenda was by Ron Arnold. It was actually edited by Alan Gottlieb, but grew out of a a conference held by Arnold and Gottlieb.
Referenced in this episode:
- Agenda 21 text
- Project Blue Beam - Abandon Hope All Ye Who Research Here
- Fright Delays - Denver Airport Is the Nexus of Evil
- The Birchers think global warming is caused by earthquakes
- Glenn Beck's Agenda 21 keyword list
- The Anti-Environmentalist Roots of the Agenda 21 Conspiracy Theory
- Excerpts from the Wise Use Agenda book
- Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015-2030
- One of the many United States of Africa FB pages, but with a MAGA twist
- Agenda 21, The Plan To Kill You by David Icke - video
- Agenda 21 comic on Grist.com
- The Great Reset website by the World Economic Forum
- USAPP article from 2014 on the Tea Party's anti-environmentalism
- Agenda 21: The UN, Sustainability and Right-Wing Conspiracy Theory on SPLC
- Conspiracy Theorists Are Obsessed With the Wrong ‘New World Order’ on The Nation
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EPISODE 23 | Signs, Grudges & Blue Books - Early UFOlogy
Hidden inside the new COVID relief bill is a mandate for US Congress to be fully briefed on UFOs, so it might be worth it to take a look at the early days of UFO sightings and American investigative efforts.
And tomorrow is the anniversary of the Mantell UFO Incident, called by some the first UFO-related death on record. But is it? Depends on who you believe.
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SECTIONS
- 03:06 - The Mantell UFO Incident - January 7, 1948
- 07:13 - Suspicions Are Raised
- 08:51 - The Chiles-Whitted UFO Encounter - July 24, 1948
- 10:47 - The Gorman UFO Dogfight - October 1, 1948
- 16:50 - Early Days - UFOs 1883-1947 - cows in space, racist aliens, dead aliens & Foo Fighters
- 21:47 - Maury Is. & Mt. Rainier - June 1947 - origin of "flying saucers" & "Men in Black"
- 25:17 - SAUCER to Sign; Great (Green) Balls of Fire - Investigations & green fireballs
- 29:47 - Grudge Match
- 32:23 - Sidebar: The Kelly-Hopkinsville Encounter - August 21, 1955: origin of "little green men"
- 38:04 - The Golden Age of Blue Book - Origin of "UFO" plus the Hynek Scale
- 39:56 - The Robertson Panel puts a lid on it
- 42:14 - End of an Era - Blue Book dies, "UFO" into "UAP", AATIP dies, UAPTF ongoing
- Music by Fanette Ronjat
Referenced in this episode:
- US government documents on Mantell Incident
- The UFO Phenomenon: The Phenomenon from the Beginning by Jerome Clark (out of print)
- The Bonilla Observation
- The 1897 Cow Abduction Hoax
- Ned - The Aurora Alien
- Aurora Texas 1897 UFO Crash: The Real Story? by Stan Haydon
- Mysterious UFOs Seen by WWII Airman Still Unexplained on History.com
- Ängelholm UFO Memorial
- ‘Flying saucers’ became a thing 70 years ago Saturday with sighting near Mount Rainier - Seattle Times
- UFOs Over Washington article on spokesman.com
- The UFO Sightings That Launched 'Men in Black' Mythology on History.com
- Report on Project Mogul
- Mystery of Green Fireball 'UFOs' Solved on Live Science
- Project Twinkle SlideShare presentation
- The Kelly-Hopkinsville UFO and Alien Shootout by George Dudding
- Little Green Men Days Festival website
- Project Blue Book Part 1 (UFO Reports) by Dr. Deborah Kidwell, OSI Command Historian
- The Hynek-Scale Is A Six Item System For Classifying UFO Sightings And Alien Contact (Astronomy)
- Durant Report on the Robertson Panel
- The Report On Unidentified Flying Objects by Edward J. Ruppelt, former head of Project Blue Book
- To the Stars... Academy
- Article on creation of UAPTF
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EPISODE 22 | Jingle Hells - The War on Xmas
Some members of the largest religion in the world, over 2.4 billion people, somehow feel aggrieved or under siege, especially when it comes to one of their most important holidays. We're talking about Christians and Christmas, and the narrative that claims there's a concerted effort to destroy the celebration of Jesus' birth. Who? Depends on who you talk to. Communists, or Jehovah's Witnesses, or 7th Day Adventists, or Puritans, or Jews, or Muslims, or Black people, or atheists, or some combination of these groups.
This episode traces the notion of a "war on Christmas" back to its beginnings and looks at some periods in history when the holiday was not only not celebrated but was actually illegal. And many of the modern trappings of Christmas are, in fact, quite recent innovations in a long story.
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SECTIONS
- 02:30 - Winter Wonderland - Winter Celebrations of All Kinds
- 06:18 - Jolly Old St. Nicholas - Different Ways of Celebrating
- 07:22 - Colonel Sanders is Santa Claus
- 08:24 - Nicholas of Mira was a Greek, Born in Turkey, and an Interesting Guy
- 10:06 - Fairytale of New York - Birth of Modern Christmas Tropes: A Poem, a Dutch Connection, Washington Irving, Thomas Nast & Jeff the Puppet
- 11:40 - Santa is a New Yorker, an Address, Oz, Advertising, Howard's Santa School
- 13:15 - Rudolph the Commie Reindeer - The John Birch Society Kicks Things Off
- 15:13 - Peter Brimelow - the Immigrant Who Hates Immigrants
- 16:47 - Little Culture War Drummer Boy - Papa Bear Sees an Opportunity
- 18:14 - Language & Laws, Companies Caught in the Culture War, X-Rated Xmas
- 22:37 - Walking in a Puritan Wonderland - Christmas Was Outlawed in England & the New World Colonies, by Christians
- 24:23 - Santa Claus Won't be Coming to Town - The Unpopular Holiday Was Revived by a Poem & Charles Dickens, with Mixed Results; After WWII, Religions Returns
- 26:55 - Baby, It's Cold Outside - No Christmas in Revolutionary France, Communist Nations, Nazi Territory, Cuba Prefers Sugar to Santa, Brunei & the Saudis Barely Tolerate It
- 30:02 - The 12 Plots of Christmas (or Xmas) - Santa Is Satan, Santa's a Cannibal, Elf on a Shelf is CIA, Climate Changers Hate Jesus
- 32:11 - Poinsettias Are Racist
- 33:40 - These Are a Few of My Favourite Things - Conspiracies Get Commoditized, the Advent Conspiracy
- Music by Fanette Ronjat
LAPSUS LINGUAE:
I mispronounce the name for the Greek letter "X", because I don't speak Greek. I also stumble over the word "Walmart".
Referenced in this episode:
- Why rich New Yorkers created Santa Claus at Business Insider
- The War on Christmas: How the Liberal Plot to Ban the Sacred Christian Holiday Is Worse Than You Thought by John Gibson
- Christmas in the Crosshairs: Two Thousand Years of Denouncing and Defending the World's Most Celebrated Holiday by Gerry Bowler
- The Elf on the Shelf by Chanda A. Aebersold & Carol V. Bell
- Some Conspiracy-Themed Christmas Ornaments
- The Advent Conspiracy
- Living Water International
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- DIGITAL SIGNAGE DONE RIGHT - Winner of 2020 Communicator Award of Excellence for Podcasts Series-Corporate Communications and on numerous top 10 podcast lists.
- PRAGUE TIMES - A city is more than just a location - it’s a kaleidoscope of history, places, people and trends. This podcast looks at Prague, in the center of Europe, from a number of perspectives, including what it is now, what is has been and where it’s going. It’s Prague THEN, Prague NOW, Prague LATER.
EPISODE 21 | The Knights Templar - Big 'Uns 2
They were the most powerful group in Medieval Europe, and then they vanished. Who were the Templars? Warrior-priests with good patronage? Keepers of the Holy Grail and other mystical secrets? Blasphemous gay Satan worshiping freaks? All of the above?
For centuries, people have claimed to have figured out the secrets of the Knights Templar and what they were really up to. This is one of the big 'uns.
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- 02:00 - The Fellowship of the Temple - Nine Guys Kick It All Off in Jerusalem
- 07:21 - Growth Hacking - Bigger & Better, Banking & Big Bosses
- 12:12 - Rivalries & Accusations - Philip IV of France, Jacques de Molay, Medieval Fake News & the Chinon Parchment
- 18:58 - Wheat from the Chaff - Follow the Money....Oh, Wait, Where Is it All?
- 21:29 - Holy Grail, Holy Smokes! - Hammer-Purgstall, the Cathars, Joséphin Péladan, Otto Rahn and More
- 26:11 - Everybody Traces to the Templars - Freemasons, Rosicrucians, Illuminati and Order of the Knights of Christ in Santarém, Portugal
- 29:12 - Many Mysteries - Alchemy, Immortality, America, the Ark of the Covenant, Jesus' Bloodline, Telephone to God, the Ultimate Battle between Good & Evil, Other Worlds, Alien Tech, Other Dimensions
- 30:34 - The Templars Today - Harmless: "National Treasure", Assassin's Creed; Not So Harmless: Knight Templar UK, Siol nan Gaidheal, Knights Templar Europe, Anders Breivik
- Music by Fanette Ronjat
LAPSUS LINGUAE:
I slipped when saying the name "Bruce Burgess" for some reason (maybe I was drunk?) and may or may not have mispronounced "Siol nan Gaidheal" but that's because I just don't care and couldn't even be bothered to check. Finally, I mention the Portuguese templars in Santarém but should also have mentioned their huge church and base in Tomar.
Referenced in this episode:
- The Templar Treasure: An Investigation by Tobias Daniel Wabbel
- Hammer-Purgstall and Baphomet
- The Cathars on Ancient History Encyclopedia
- Joséphin Péladan Wikipedia page
- Otto Rahn And The Nazi Crusade For The Holy Grail by Andrew Milne
- Otto Rahn And The Quest For The Grail by Nigel Graddon
- Holy Blood, Holy Grail by Michael Baigent, Richard Leigh and Henry Lincoln
- The Woman with the Alabaster Jar: Mary Magdalen and the Holy Grail by Margaret Starbird
- The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown
- Trailer for "Bloodline" by Bruce Burgess
- The Messianic Legacy by Michael Baigent, Richard Leigh and Henry Lincoln
- The Temple and the Lodge: The Strange and Fascinating History of the Knights Templar and the Freemasons by Michael Baigent and Richard Leigh
- De Occulta Philosophia (in German) by Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa von Nettesheim
- Rosicrucian.org
- The Illuminati - Bavarian Brouhaha
- History of the Order of Christ Wikipedia page
- Alt-right claims to march in step with the Knights Templar – this is fake history
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EPISODE 20 | Time for Timer: Pseudohistories & Historical Revisions
History may not have happened like you think. Is it possible that whole swaths of so-called "history" have been made up to bolster various people and downplay others, or maybe even to cover up the existence of the greatest historical force ever known - the Russian Horde?
What year is it? Is it 2020? Or 1723? 2520? Depends on who you listen to.
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- 02:43 - The Missing Day - NASA Proves the Bible?
- 07:22 - Time for a Change - The Julian Calendar Fixes the Roman Calendar
- 09:56 - The Gregorian Calendar Fixes the Julian Calendar & the Calendar Riot Myth
- 13:53 - Other, Better Systems We Don't Use
- 14:57 - Herbert Illig's Phantom Time Hypothesis - the Middle Ages Were Faked
- 18:27 - The Revised Chronology by Immanuel Velikovsky, Ancient Israel is Actually Ancient Egypt
- 21:57 - Big Boom, Big Changes - Catastrophism and You
- 24:18 - The New Chronology by Anatoly Fomenko - Everything before 1600 CE Is a Lie to Hide the Russian Horde
- 29:19 - The Vatican, HRE Rudolf II and the Romanovs Hatch a Plot
- 31:38 - Russians Aplenty - Nikolai Alexandrovich Morozov: Apocalypse Then & Now
- 32:41 - The 1421 Theory - Retired Sub Commander Gavin Menzies Loves China
- 34:58 - He Who Controls the Past, Controls the Future - Crazies, Racists, Alt-Righties & More
- Music by Fanette Ronjat
LAPSUS LINGUAE:
I mispronounce Anatoly Fomenko's name (adding a "r" erroneously) as well as say the wrong middle initial for B. G. Burkett (he is not actually "BJ").
Referenced in this episode:
- NASA Discovers a ‘Lost Day’ in Time? on Snopes
- The Harmony of Science and Scripture by Harry Rimmer
- "Give us back our eleven days!" – the calendar riot myth
- "Did the Early Middle Ages Really Exist?" - paper by Dr. Hans-Ulrich Niemitz
- Ages in Chaos by Velikovsky on velikovsky.info
- The Velikovsky affair: Scientism versus science by Alfred De Grazia
- Episode 11 | Conspirasaurus Rex - Dino-Mite Theories About the Dinosaurs
- History: Fiction or Science? Chronology 1 by Anatoly Fomenko
- The Revelation in Storm and Thunder by Nikolai Alexandrovich Morozov on Wikipedia
- 1421: The Year China Discovered America by Gavin Menzies
- Stolen Valor: How the Vietnam Generation Was Robbed of Its Heroes and Its History by B. G. Burkett
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EPISODE 19 | The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress - Facts & Fictions About Our Nearest Neighbour
You can be over the moon, bark at the moon, ask for the moon, shoot the moon; something can happen once in a blue moon, there's a man in the moon (or a woman or a rabbit or a toad). Maybe there are ruins on the moon. Maybe there's an alien base there. Maybe Nazis live there. Maybe it's a hollow spacecraft. Or a hologram. Or a nightlight (a big one).
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- 02:23 - Facts First - stats, details, knowing in Knowth
- 04:08 - Misconceptions
- 04:16 - No Atmosphere
- 05:03 - Always the Same Size
- 05:27 - The Dark Side of the Moon
- 06:24 - talking tidal locking & orbits
- 08:02 - Moon Madness
- 10:35 - Made of Cheese
- 11:36 - Faces - man/woman/rabbit/toad, lunar pareidolia
- 13:18 - Far-Out Conspiracy Theories
- 13:27 - Nazis on the Moon - Antarctica, space & the Vril
- 15:44 - movies & books
- 16:22 - Aliens on the Moon - the Kraken File, the Great Moon Hoax
- 18:27 - Richard Hoagland (again!), shards, castles, robot heads & processing artifacts
- 19:44 - Milton William Cooper (again!) & Majestic 12, with bonus thorium
- 20:46 - The Moon is Hollow - bad Photoshop, ancient astronauts & wild conjectures
- 23:13 - David Icke (again!) and other "experts"
- 24:22 - The Moon is Fake - Moon Truthers Just Wanna Have Fun
- 25:54 - Crrow777: lunar waves & reality is fake
- 29:00 - a plasma ball, a "natural" hologram, a nightlight
- 30:30 - Back to Earth - Postcards from the Exosphere
Music by Fanette Ronjat
Referenced in this episode:
- "Iron Sky"
- Rocket Ship Galileo
- UFO Sightings Daily
- The Unparalleled Adventure of One Hans Pfaall by Edgar Allen Poe
- The Lucifer Project(s) - Big Scary in Sky!
- The Secret Government: The Origin, Identity, and Purpose of MJ-12 by Milton William Cooper
- The Compton–Belkovich Thorium Anomaly
- Scott Waring videos
- Our Mysterious Spaceship Moon: Is Our Nearest Neighbor a Huge Alien Spacecraft? by Don Wilson
- Somebody Else Is on the Moon by George H. Leonard
- The Moon Is Your Worst Nightmare video by Robert Peternell (mirrored by Notus)
- Who Built the Moon? by Christopher Knight & Alan Butler
- For The Moon Is Hollow and Aliens Rule the Sky by Rob Shelsky
- Crrow777 YouTube channel
- Crrow777 has a podcast!
- VALIS by Philip K. Dick
- The Plasma Moon video with R. Foster (a clever fake?)
- The Holographic Universe: The Revolutionary Theory of Reality by Michael Talbot (actually an interesting book)
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EPISODE 18| The Illuminati - Bavarian Brouhaha - Big 'Uns 1
The first major conspiracy theory of the modern age is the tale of the Illuminati. Started in Bavaria by a power-hungry professor with poor social skills, it has become one of the overarching theories of our times. This is one of the Big 'Uns.
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- 01:37 - Origin Story - Johann Adam Weishaupt: Lawyer, Professor, Empiricist, Jerk
- 04:21 - The Illuminati Kicks Off, Grows Quickly
- 06:45 - Trouble in Paradise - Dissention in the Ranks, Rumours Abound
- 12:32 - Voulez-vous la paranoïa avec moi? - Augustin Barruel & John Robison Blame the Illuminati for the French Revolution
- 15:33 - It Ain't Over Till It's Over - Rulers Overreact & Cause the Spring of Nations, Nesta Helen Webster & Edith Starr Miller Revive the Rumours Between World Wars, the Birchers Chime In, the Principia Discordia Is Totally Misunderstood and People Confuse Them with the Freemasons
- 18:12 - Some Musicians think Behold a Pale Horse is a Non-Fiction Book, Many Famous People May Are Illuminati, Carpetbaggers & Scammers Take Over the Name
- 22:03 - The Idea of the Illuminati is Certainly Widespread, Maybe Part of the New World Order
Music by Fanette Ronjat
AN EXTRA TREAT for people who actually read these episode notes: open your browser and type in "www." then the word "illuminati" backwards, then ".com". You will be very surprised. Someone at that organization sure has a sense of humour! Thanks to our friend Debra Richardson for telling us about this!
Referenced in this episode:
- Behold a Pale Horse by Milton William Cooper
- Project Blue Beam - Abandon Hope All Ye Who Research Here
- The Illuminati in Hollywood by Mark Dice
- "Footloose"
- Illuminati Watcher website
- The Illuminati Elite website (with a help line in Uganda!)
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EPISODE 17 | Project Blue Beam - Abandon Hope All Ye Who Research Here
What do you get for the conspiracy theorist who has everything? How about a conspiracy theory that has everything? Project Blue Beam has it all - a bleak techno-apocalypse that culminates in the enslavement of most of humanity by demons pretending to be god and/or aliens, with the help of NASA, the Masons, Microsoft, Greenpeace, the IMF and many more.
Dig in to the all-you-can-eat buffet of horror and doom that is Project Blue Beam.
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- 02:11 - The Canadian Father of the Theory (Serge Monast) & Blue Beam in the Wild (Blue Beam Is Becoming the Unified Conspiracy Theory - a Paranoia Minestrone)
- 04:40 - Here Come the Bastards - an Outline of Blue Beam
- 05:40 - Phase 1: Indiana Jones & the Temple of Lies (Earthquakes & Archeology)
- 06:33 - Phase 2: It's a Bird, It's a Plane, It's Shiva! (Holograms, Gods, Demons & Beethoven)
- 09:40 - Phase 3: Can You Hear Me Now? (Russian Supercomputers, Radio Waves & Kitty Dukakis)
- 11:11 - Phase 4: Welcome to the Machine (the Night of 1000 Stars, the Apocalypse, Aliens & Technology)
- 14:05 - Big Brother Has Always Loved You (A Series of Tests & Judgements)
- 15:31 - Consistently Inconsistent - What's God Got to Say About All This? How About Other Writers?
- 18:35 - Serge Might Have Been Inspired by Others
- 20:19 - Serge Might Have Been Inspired by Science Fiction Movies & TV Shows
- 22:23 - Serge's End, and Abandon All Hope
- Music by Fanette Ronjat
Referenced in this episode:
- Time Cube - Four Is the Loneliest Number
- Serge's original Blue Beam book (in French)
- Serge's Blue Beam book in English
- Transcript of a 1994 (?) talk Serge gave
- A Collection of Blue Beam writings (on Geocities!)
- Project Blue Beam - The Quest For A New World Order And The Rule Of The Antichrist
- Project Blue Beam False Flag - Coming soon to a sky near you
- Project Blue Beam: Remember It's a Lie, also by Jay Jericho, as a SlideShare presentation
- UPDATE: Jay Jericho's Free School website is down and has been replaced with the much-better-organized (but much less entertaining) website Journalist Ethics. Same material, though.
- Books by Commander William Guy Carr
- Behold a Pale Horse by Milton William Cooper
- The Visions and Circles of Power by Betty J. Mills
- Gene Roddenberry: The Myth and the Man Behind "Star Trek"
- Fan page about Roddenberry's unproduced script "The God Thing"
- Books by Serge Monast
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Episode 16 | Studies & Signals: Insights into the Conspiracy Mindset - Because Reasons 4
Guest: John Poston, Theatrical Artist & Writer
We talk about the origins of some clichés about conspiracy folks, as well as some actual scientific studies about the mindset. We also deftly use Star Trek as a metaphor for the brain. And some questionnaires you can take at home to find out just how conspiracy-minded you are yourself. A lot of what you think you know about conspiracy theorists is probably wrong. But some of it is right.
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- 01:28 - Conspiracy Folks Are People
- 02:47 - The Tin Foil Hat
- 03:47 - The Lunatic Fringe & The Paranoid Style in American Politics by Richard Hofstadter
- 04:50 - The Conspiracy Mentality Questionnaire (CMQ) (2013)
- 07:57 - Some Findings of the CMQ
- 08:58 - The Generic Conspiracist Beliefs Scale (GCBS) (2013)
- 13:51 - Three Studies: Analytic thinking reduces belief in conspiracy theories - Viren Swami, Martin Voracek, Stefan Stieger, Ulrich S. Tran & Adrian Furnham
- 16:55 - Star Trek as a Metaphor for the Brain's Information Processing Systems, the First Study
- 20:37 - The Second Study - the First Evidence that Analytic Thinking Might Reduce Conspiracy-Mindedness
- 22:11 - The Third Study
- 23:47 - People Tend to Silo, Emotional Gratification is Key, Tribal Signaling
- 25:42 - Hofstadter Oversimplified Things, Social Media Is Also Tribe Signaling, Humans Have a Big White of the Eye, Film Actors Have Big Bobble Heads
- 27:52 - Conspiracy Thinkers Are Not Necessarily Tin Foil Hatters
How conspiracy-minded are YOU? Take the GCBS yourself!
- Music by Fanette Ronjat
PREVIOUS BECAUSE REASONS: Conspiracy Thinking in Eastern Europe
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Episode 15 | October Surprise: Fact or Fiction? - The World Is Weird 3
Is it commonplace for a big event that sways things to happen in presidential election years in the U.S? Maybe. We'll look at the 18 "October Surprises" in US presidential electoral history, encountering smear attempts, false charges, false claims, outright lies, political chaos, boozing, racism, homophobia, financial collapse brought about by unchecked rampant greed and really bad weather brought about by terminal shortsightedness and the politicization of literally everything. Sort of a greatest hits of the very worst things America expresses.
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- 03:33 - WHAT DID I MISS? THE REVOLUTION OF 1800 - Adams (Federalist) vs. Jefferson (Democratic-Republican)
- 05:25 - "ELECTORAL FRAUD" IN 1840 - Van Buren (Democratic) vs. Harrison (Whig)
- 07:29 - THE CHINESE LETTER OF 1880 - Garfield (Republican) vs. Hancock (Democratic)
- 09:10 - 1884: DRUNKEN PAPISTS & SLAVEHOLDERS - Cleveland (Democratic) vs. Blaine (Republican)
- 10:25 - 1912: TOO MANY COOKS - Taft (Republican) vs. T. Roosevelt (Progressive - Bull Moose) vs. Debs [Socialist] vs. Wilson (Democratic)
- 13:32 - 1920: RACE ENTERS THE RACE - Harding (Republican) vs. Cox (Democratic)
- 16:17 - 1940: RACE KEEPS ON RACING - F. Roosevelt (Democratic) vs. Willkie (Republican)
- 17:49 - 1956: SURPRISE FROM ABROAD - Eisenhower (Republican) vs. Stevenson (Democratic)
- 20:01 - 1964: THE WORLD MAKES NOISE AGAIN - Johnson (Democratic) vs. Goldwater (Republican)
- 22:02 - 1968: TIT FOR TAT - Humphrey (Democratic) vs. Nixon (Republican) vs. Wallace (Independent)
- 24:12 - 1972: PEACE IS AT HAND - Nixon (Republican) vs. McGovern (Democratic)
- 26:33 - 1980: THE ORIGIN OF THE TERM "OCTOBER SURPRISE" - Carter (Democratic) vs. Reagan (Republican)
- 32:53 - 1992: LIARS & WAFFLES - G. H. W. Bush (Republican) vs. B. Clinton (Democratic) vs. Perot (Independent)
- 34:24 - 2000: ONE FOR THE ROAD - G. W. Bush (Republican) vs. Gore (Democratic)
- 36:43 - 2004: THE BUSH BOUNCE - G. W. Bush (Republican) vs. Kerry (Democratic)
- 38:23 - 2008: AUNTIE O. & THE GFC - Obama (Democratic) vs. McCain (Republican)
- 40:44 - 2012: STORM & SLANDER - Obama (Democratic) vs. Romney (Republican)
- 42:38 - Does It Really Matter?
- 43:22 - 2016: ANATOMY & EMAILS - Trump (Republican) vs. H. Clinton (Democratic)
- 46:49 - The News Likes the Idea of an October Surprise. Also, VOTE, DAMMIT.
- Music by Fanette Ronjat
- Guest vocal by Cinna Bantegnie Ronjat at 34:24 & 36:43
PREVIOUS WORLD IS WEIRD: Mass Hysteria
Referenced in this episode: Episode 05 | 44 for 44 - The Obama Conspiracies (Thanks, Obama!)
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Episode 14 | Conspiracy Thinking in Eastern Europe - Because Reasons 3
Guest: Mark Baker, Journalist & Travel Writer
The cultural and social impact of conspiracy thinking will differ depending on where it's happening. You have to take into account a country's particular history to gain some understanding as to why people in that place react the way they do to serious theories. The authoritarian past many Eastern Bloc countries suffered through can shed a light on how citizens of those countries react to events, or perceived events.
Journalist and travel writer Mark Baker, who's been writing about this part of Europe for a long time, shares some insights on how citizens of some of these countries react to ideas, and the damage they can cause a civil society. He also shares his personal dislike of the whole conspiracy mindset and how he deals with it all.
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- 02:12 - Coronavirus Conspiracies in Bulgaria & Romania - National Mythmaking & the Media
- 05:56 - Authoritarian Culture Creates a Conspiracy Breeding Ground
- 07:09 - The 1989 Romanian Revolution - Popular Uprising or Palace Coup?
- 12:04 - Conspiracy Theories Breed Apathy & Fatalism
- 17:07 - Facebook, Russian Troll Farms & a Possible Russian Foundational Myth Born of Conspiracy
- 21:45 - No One Wants to Feel Naive
- Music by Fanette Ronjat
NEXT BECAUSE REASONS: Studies & Signals: Insights into the Conspiracy Mindset
PREVIOUS BECAUSE REASONS: True Fictions
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Episode 13 | Mass Hysteria & Shared Delusions - The World Is Weird 2
Host: Derek DeWitt
Mass hysteria, collective delusions or just people freaking out - whatever you call it, you can't deny that history is filled with reports of people losing it en masse. We'll look at nuns that bite and meow, fainting and twitching schoolchildren, uncontrollable dancing, large scale paranoia, mysterious attacks on windshields and a worldwide epidemic of creepy clown sightings.
SECTIONS
- 02:14 - Hysteria: Not Just a "Female Problem"
- 03:41 - Nunsense: Mass Hysteria in Convents - Biting Nuns, Meowing Nuns
- 05:59 - The Devils of Loudon
- 09:08 - School Daze: Seizures in Switzerland & Canada, the Tanganyika Laughter Epidemic, Louisiana; Blackburn, England; Twitching in Vinton, Virginia; Portugal's Strawberries with Sugar Outbreak
- 14:10 - More School Stuff, Conversion Disorder, Somatic Countertransference, Hysterical Contagion
- 16:01 - Hysterical Contagion: The 1962 June Bug Epidemic
- 17:11 - Folie à Deux/Trois/Famille/Plusieurs, Folie Imposée/Simultanée, Physical Repercussions of Hysteria
- 19:27 - Cut a Rug: The Dancing Plague of 1518 & Other Dancing Outbreaks
- 23:50 - Possible Causes of Uncontrolled Dancing
- 24:22 - Crowd Control: The Milan Poisoning Scare
- 28:12 - The Irish Fright
- 31:04 - Collective Delusions: The Seattle Windshield Pitting Epidemic
- 33:54 - Mass Hysteria: The Hollinwell Incident
- 35:49 - Collective Delusion Meets Social Media: The 2016 Clown Sightings
- Music by Fanette Ronjat
Hear about the Vampire Panic in Bohemia and Moravia in an episode of our sister podcast, Prague Times: Ghosts in Prague
LAPSUS LINGUAE:
- I mispronounce French words all over the place in this episode. Sorry, French speakers.
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PREVIOUS WORLD IS WEIRD: The Tuskegee Study
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Episode 03 | Misinformation & Pattern Recognition - Because Reasons 1
Why are conspiracy theories so popular with so many? This series of shorter episodes will look at different factors that may be responsible for conspiracy theories taking root in the public consciousness and how they spread with modern communications tools. Along the way, we'll look at motivations, science, psychology and more.
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- 01:26 - Some Stats on Conspiracy Beliefs in the US (2019)
- 03:14 - JFK - The Gateway Drug of Conspiracies
- 05:20 - LBJ & HST
- 07:42 - Communications Technologies
- 09:50 - Theories and Mis- & Disinformation
- 11:34 - How Misinformation Spreads
- 12:20 - Two Stories from Genesis
- 18:16 - Humans Are Pattern-Seeking
- 19:10 - The Law of Fives, the 23 Enigma and Apophenia
- 21:32 - Pattern-Seeking + Big Brains + Internet = Conspiracies
- Music by Fanette Ronjat
NEXT BECAUSE REASONS: True Fictions
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Episode 12 | True Fictions - Because Reasons 2
Guest: John Poston, Theatrical Artist and Writer
So, just who are these "conspiracy theorists" anyway? I talk with John Poston about conspiracy thinking, true believers and debunkers, how humans create identity through narratives, tribal signaling, Homo Ludens and, of course, the JFK assassination.
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- 01:35 - I Wouldn't Call Myself A Conspiracy Theorist But....
- 04:44 - Stories Are Awesome, Two Red Flags, Project for the New American Century
- 09:04 - Homo Ludens (Man the Player), Brains As Script Doctors, Harari & Shared Fictions
- 16:40 - AI Research & the Brain, the Power of Gossip
- 19:39 - Too Much Information Yet Also Not Enough, Some Ideas on JFK, Don't Be Naive
- 24:06 - Deeper Down the JFK Rabbit Hole, the Dog that Didn't Bark
- 33:25 - True Believers On Both Sides, History as Theatre, Magic Bullets, High Stakes Narratives, You're Probably Wrong
- Music by Fanette Ronjat
NEXT BECAUSE REASONS: Conspiracy Thinking in Eastern Europe
PREVIOUS BECAUSE REASONS: Misinformation & Pattern Recognition
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Episode 11 | Conspirasaurus Rex - Dino-Mite Theories About the Dinosaurs
What happened to the dinosaurs? Did a meteor wipe them out? Was it volcanoes? Maybe their eggs just sucked. Or they farted themselves to death. Or they never existed at all. Or maybe they never died. Or maaaybe they helped build the pyramids.
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- 01:38 - Some Background on Dinosaurs - Richard Owen, Early Fossils and the Bone Wars
- 04:28 - What We Think We Know - Two Types of Dinosaurs
- 05:43 - Size Matters, Kinda
- 06:52 - After a While, Crocodile - the K–Pg Event
- 08:26 - Where'd They Go? Eggy Weggs, Glands, Survival of the Fittest, "Who Are You?", Boom (but Far Away), Peek-a-boo, COVID 63 Million BCE, Sausage Party; He Who Smelt It, Dealt It; Multiple Impacts, Volcanoes
- 16:35 - We Have a Winnah! The Alvarez Hypothesis
- 17:55 - Alt.Extinct Theories - Non-Science Edition: Gravity Sucks, the X-Files
- 21:19 - Dinosaurs Aren't Real - PETA, CGI & Social Media
- 23:09 - The Bible or Dragons
- 25:35 - Another Brick in the (Masonic) Wall, Darwin's a Liar
- 26:41 - I Don't Even Need a Reason
- 27:42 - Oiled & Ready
- 28:41 - They Live
- 31:16 - The Dinosaurs Built the Pyramids
- Music by Fanette Ronjat
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Episode 10 | Fright Delays - Denver Airport Is the Nexus of Evil
It's big, it's unusual and gets folks to thinking. Denver International Airport is more than just the hub for airlines - it's a magnet for just about every conspiracy theory you can think of.
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- 01:46 - That's a Big DEN
- 04:12 - I Don't Know If It's Art, and I Don't Know If I Like It
- 09:40 - That's a Big Horse - Blucifer
- 12:12 - Phallus Fails
- 13:29 - Infernal Infrastructure
- 17:21 - NWO at DEN
- 18:26 - Location, Location, Location!
- 19:38 - Dumb DUMBs - Humans vs. Aliens and/or Aquarius vs. Comm 12
- 20:21 - Beach Blanket Babylon
- 20:48 - No Such Thing As Bad Publicity
- 23:11 - DEN as Super-Conspiracy
- Music by Fanette Ronjat
LAPSUS LINGUAE:
- 05:21 - Jack Swigert's exact words were actually, "Okay, Houston, we've had a problem here."
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Episode 09 | Now You See It, Now You Don't - Finland Doesn't Exist
There are some things you just know are true. Like that Finland exists. But it doesn't. Neither does Australia. And New Zealand's looking kind of iffy as well. In fact, there are many things that you think are real, but aren't. Like birds. They aren't real either.
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- 01:42 - Finland Doesn't Exist - The Theory
- 04:38 - Finland Doesn't Exist - The Point Zero
- 06:42 - Poe's Law & the Ambiguity of Intent (Postmodern Irony, New Sincerity, Post-Irony, Meta-Irony, Hyper-Irony)
- 11:20 - Finland Doesn't Exist - Embellishments & Reactions
- 12:36 - Australia Doesn't Exist
- 14:53 - Other Geographic Fictions (OGF) - Bielefeld, Germany
- 18:10 - OGF - Acre, Brazil
- 18:40 - OGF - Molise, Italy
- 19:01 - OGF - North Dakota, USA
- 19:32 - Henri Tajfel's Minimal Group Paradigm, In-Group Favoritism & Out-Group Homogeneity
- 20:36 - New Zealand Is Being De-Mapped
- 22:23 - Sandy Island
- 23:39 - Phantom Islands (Los Buenos Jardines, Emerald Island, Dougherty Island, Terra Nova, et al.)
- 25:54 - Phantom Settlements, Copyright Traps, Paper Towns, Trap Streets, etc.
- 26:57 - Jakob Maria Mierscheid - German MP, Naturalist, Great Guy
- 28:51 - Birds Aren't Real - The Brainchild of Peter McIndoe
- 33:01 - Culture Jamming & You
- Music by Fanette Ronjat
LAPSUS LINGUAE:
- At 20:17, I mispronounced the word "homogeneity"
- NOTE: I do NOT mispronounce the name Henri Tajfel, but most people do (the "j" makes a "y" sound in Polish)
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Episode 08 | Time Cube - Four Is the Loneliest Number
The world is a cube, time is a cube, you are a cube - everything's a cube. That's what Gene Ray, an electrician from Florida said. And he should know, since he was "the wisest man on Earth" and "wiser than God".
This is the strange and occasionally disturbing story of one of the wildest theories to ever hit the internet - the Time Cube Theory. Don't be educated stupid! Burn the marshmallow!
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- 01:38 - An Introduction & an Overview
- 03:45 - The Time Cube Theory
- 07:17 - GMT, ONEism, Marshmallow Time & Belly Button Logic
- 09:46 - Unicorns Are Evil & Easter Island is Bad
- 11:27 - It's All About the Four (Burritos & Tacos Are Evil)
- 12:19 - Some Obvious Refutations
- 13:27 - The Time Cube Website - Green Ink, Haig's Law, Santa Claus & Design Considerations
- 17:27 - He Was a Busy Bee - Four Websites, Actually (Musings on Religion & Race)
- 19:48 - The Time Cube Law
- 21:07 - The Man Himself - Marbles & Maybe Mental Illness
- 24:31 - Not So Harmless - Ray's Views on Blacks, Jews & Gays
- 27:17 - The Fan: Richard Janczarski
- 30:36 - Man as Meme
- 33:01 - Parodies & Theories (Satire, Sock Puppets & More)
- Music by Fanette Ronjat
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Episode 07 | The Lucifer Project(s) - Big Scary in Sky!
Space might not be such a final frontier after all. Is the Vatican secretly in league with aliens? Or demons pretending to be aliens? Was Jesus an extraterrestrial? Is NASA trying to create a second sun in our solar system? These questions and more must be examined. And when you name your science project "Lucifer", you really should be all that surprised when people come up with conspiracy theories about it.
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- 02:03 - Version One - Sectarian Shenanigans
- 04:48 - Embellishments to the Core Theory
- 06:55 - The Actual Poop - What's in a Name?
- 08:15 - Version Two - Two Suns in the Sunset
- 08:37 - Galileo, Galileo!
- 10:50 - The Strange Worlds of Richard Hoagland
- 16:17 - Cassini, Figaro!
- 17:21 - Puzzlin' Evidence - (In)Congruent Conflations
- 19:19 - Conspiracy Smoothies & Salvation
- 21:11 - BONUS CONSPIRACIES! The Shining: All Work & No Play Makes Bill Gates a Satanic Murderer
- 21:30 - Lucifer & the Bible
- 25:40 - Pastor Rick Wiles Wants to Explore Bill Gate's Rectum
- 29:43 - ID2020
- 30:44 - The Lucifer Trust & Publishing House (Don't Play With Other People's Baals)
- 33:16 - Nikita Mikhalkov Wants an Oscar (Apparently)
- Music by Fanette Ronjat
LAPSUS LINGUAE:
- 33:16 - I say that Mikhalkov has never won an Oscar. This is not true - his 1994 film "Burnt by the Sun" did win Best Foreign Language film. See? You shouldn't just trust everything you hear - check things out for yourself. The "theory" developed here still stands, though - he wants another Oscar, this time for Best Picture.
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Episode 06 | The Tuskegee Study - The World is Weird 1
The tale of a 40-year clinical study with overtones of both race and class, shows just what some people are willing to do once they have otherized their fellow humans. If they're willing to do that, the reasoning goes, what else might they be willing to do? This builds distrust, which feeds conspiracy theories.
This is the shameful story of the Tuskegee Study of Untreated Syphilis in the Negro Male. A true thing that happened, because the world is weird.
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- 02:47 - What Is Syphilis? Signs, Symptoms & Stages
- 05:52 - A Short History of Detection & Treatment
- 06:44 - The Lay of the Land, Pre-Tuskegee
- 08:45 - The Tuskegee Study Begins
- 13:26 - Despite the Henderson Act, the Study Continues
- 14:47 - A Whistleblower & an Ending
- 16:17 - The Government Reacts
- 20:01 - We Did Nothing Wrong - We Just Targeted Poor People
- 21:34 - Not the Only Such Study
- 23:16 - A Pattern of Racially Motivated Abuse by the Medical Establishment
- 24:38 - African Americans Get Worse Healthcare
- 26:56 - A Bit of Both - Poverty & Race Go Hand in Hand in the US
- Music by Fanette Ronjat
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Episode 05 | 44 for 44 - The Obama Conspiracies (Thanks, Obama!)
The 44th US President sure had a lot of theories about him. Was he really a cocaine-fueled, murdering, gay, inter-dimensional, Satanic, Mars-visiting lizard who could control the weather?
Every leader of a country, or anyone that much in the public eye, is sure to engender a number of conspiracy theories. But the 44th president, Barack Obama, sure seemed to get more than his fair share of them. Some were almost certainly externally expressed fears of black retribution, or good old fashioned racism, while others were clearly just slanderous disinformation by those who opposed him politically and philosophically.
But, boy oh boy, some of the rumors were real doozies.
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- 02:53 - (Not) Born in the U.S.A. and/or Racist Black Radical: Passports, Parricide, Nose Jobs, Wakanda Forever, Whitey Shade of Pale, Arm & Hammer and the 3%
- 09:42 - Obamahu Akbar: Wright is Wrong, Madrasa Days, Book Swap, My Shahada, Prayer Curtains, Follow the Money, Tongue-Tied, a Secret Kabul, Brotherhood in Arms, Open Borders, T.S. Hate-a-lot
- 17:41 - Commie Issues: Flags, Pledges, Island Hopping, Seeds for Recession, Brainwashing - Kid's Menu, a Plethora of Plots
- 23:23 - Big Fat Liar: Jobs Truthers, Breitbart Bloodshed, Specious Slaying, Zero Dark Phony, Deep State Horizon, Aurora False Flagealis, Ghostwriter Story, Barack O'Dumba, Obama Svengala
- 29:56 - Really Not One of Us: Adulterer, Drug Money, On the Down Low, Married a Man, Gay Cocaine Orgy Murder, Michael Obama and the Death of Joan Rivers, Test Tube Superman, Controls the Weather (Tech and/or Magic), Lizard, Antichrist, Went to Mars
- 43:44 - It's All True: Books Both Serious and Not
- Music by Fanette Ronjat
- Guest vocal by Cinna Bantegnie Ronjat at 43:44
LAPSUS LINGUAE:
- 12:17 - I mispronounced the word "shahada" due to a typo in my notes.
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Episode 04 | Saddam's Stargate and Taskforce 20
Host: Derek DeWitt
The United States went into Iraq to stop Saddam Hussein from using and/or developing Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMDs). They meant chemical and biological weapons, but what if the WMDs were something else? What if Hussein had found ancient alien technology that allowed him to communicate with an ancient race of extraterrestrials who live on a hidden planet in our solar system and was planning on bringing them here to Earth? What if he had a stargate, and the invasion was actually to shut it down?
Hadn't thought of that one, had you?
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- 02:01 - Anunnaki on Heaven's Door - Exopolitics Explains All
- 07:30 - Needle in a Haystack (Hide and Seek in the Desert)
- 10:30 - Seize the Gate - Taskforce 20 Gets Busy
- 16:22 - Not Just a Stargate
- 18:01 - Pic-a-Little, Talk-a-Little - Rumours Abound
- 20:32 - You Can't Get There From Here
- 21:54 - Everyone Gets a Stargate!
- 27:41 - That's (Not Really) Entertainment
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Episode 02 | A Cavalcade of COVID-19 Crackpottery
The year 2020 has started off being defined by the global spread of the COVID-19 human coronavirus, but it's not just the illness that's spreading - misinformation, disinformation, misconceptions and outright lies are also on a worldwide tour aided and abetted by social media.
We'll take a look at some of the more pervasive ideas out there, tracing them back to their sources like good epidemiologists, and also think about ways we can inoculate ourselves and others against the noise.
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- 02:27 - What is COVID-19?
- 03:47 - Milestones - How We Got Where We Are
- 05:25 - Bio-weapon (Chinese)
- 11:41 - Bio-weapon (American)
- 18:50 - Bio-weapon (Jewish)
- 20:57 - Population Control
- 21:47 - Espionage
- 22:37 - A Petri Dish of Other Origins
- 25:04 - Postmodern Snake Oil - Preventatives & Cures
- 29:35 - A Selfish Justification for Masks
- 30:34 - Fake Silver Linings
- 31:32 - Mis-& disinformation, both have consequences
- 33:36 - How to Combat the Crackpottery
- 40:29 - Memes Are Viruses
- 41:46 - Next Steps
- Music by Fanette Ronjat
LAPSUS LINGUAE:
- At 29:33, we may have mispronounced Jonathan Sather's name. We don't really care, but full disclosure.
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Episode 01 | Glass Onion - The Beatles Conspiracies
The Beatles made more of an impact than perhaps any other band in history. Their highly engineered later albums, use of backmasking and decidedly quirky senses of humor seem to leave trails of breadcrumbs for people to follow into deeper, hidden truths about them.
You may have heard of the Paul is Dead theory. But what about the Paul is Alive one? Or that they plotted to blow up their former drummer Pete Best? Or that they never actually broke up? Or that they never really existed at all?
So pack your revolver and hop in your yellow submarine as we take a magical mystery tour past Abbey Road and travel through yesterday and today because we just can't let it be.
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- 02:28 - Paul is Dead
- 17:20 - Paul Lives but the Others Are Dead
- 24:09 - Glass Onion (the Red Herring Song)
- 25:38 - The Beatles Never Existed
- 29:11 - "Yesterday"
- 29:55 - Everyday Chemistry
- 32:12 - Klaatu (the Canadian Beatles)
- 36:09 - The Secret History - The Pete Best Assassination Plot (and Paul's Still Dead)
- Music by Fanette Ronjat
LAPSUS LINGUAE:
- At 05:34, when discussing the "butcher cover", we meant to say that turning the replacement cover on its side seems to show Paul lying in a coffin, not the "butcher cover"
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