Have you ever wondered what happens at the top levels of government and concluded that it must be run by alien lizard people in disguise?
No? Well some people do.
Join friends Thom and Trent as they take a biweekly dive into the wacky, wild world of conspiracies and misinformation.
Oh and don't forget their definitely real producer Devin..........definitely real.
Wide open spaces.
If the Chicks have taught us anything through their musical musings it's that such spaces are pretty neat. Or maybe terrible? Honestly I couldn't tell you any other lyrics to that particular song.
But in any case, where else on this planet can you find more spaces of a wide open nature than the open ocean? I struggle to think of any. I personally find the open ocean utterly terrifying, but maybe sailor's dig it? At least most of it...
On this episode we're discussing The Bermuda Triangle! This topic falls into a group with quicksand and falling coconuts of "things I worried an inordinate amount about as a child". Batten down the hatches matties!
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You might argue that you can't really call a podcast bi-weekly when you constantly miss your upload date. I would heartily refute this argument if I could think of a single defense beyond "huff my shorts".
Where's the beef?
This is the famous philosophical quandary posed by the almighty burger sorceress known only as Wendy. And how to answer such a weighty question? Unfortunately I can't tell you. I can tell you where a very small percentage of the beef is though. It's lying dead in a field after being mutilated under mysterious circumstances.
In this episode we're discussing Cattle Mutilation. I suppose when you're a cattle rancher in a rural part of the US you've got a lot of time to consider who or what might have goofed around with your cattle corpses.
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Mad Cow Disease and Cattle Mutilations? — Our Strange Planet
Close Encounters of the Herd Kind: UFOs, Aliens & Cattle Mutilation, page 1 (abovetopsecret.com)
Detectives perplexed by mysterious Oregon cattle mutilations - oregonlive.com
'Not One Drop Of Blood': Cattle Mysteriously Mutilated In Oregon : NPR
The Mysterious History of Cattle Mutilation - HISTORY
Cattle mutilation - Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chupacabra
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Are you really late anymore if you've been so consistently for three uploads? Only God can say.
In any case we are back for the second part of our exploration of the JFK assassination. A lesser (but maybe more punctual) person would make a joke about how it's going to be mind-blowing. I strive for jokes only slightly more elevated. I'm thinking between the Blue Collar Comedy tour and the New Yorker.
What do you get when you cross a New Orleans businessman and an Attorney General with a somewhat loose grasp on reality? The unedited Zapruder film of course!
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I regret to inform you that I can't make a joke about uploading a day late two episodes in a row. Therefore there will only be this humorless acknowledgement of my failure.
You know what's not humorless? Assassination!
Wait, that can't be right...
On this episode we're talking about The JFK Assassination. Hold on to your butts or butt like protrusions, we're only scratching the surface in this two parter!
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I'M NOT LATE, YOU'RE LATE!!!
I very intentionally didn't upload this episode on the normal day and made the extremely deliberate choice to upload it Thursday evening. I swear it on Devin's iridescent chitin.
Here at Sheeple HQ we're well-oiled (on massage Mondays at least) and organized much like the world's best militaries. As it turns our being disciplined isn't the only thing a huge military needs to thrive, it also needs Tom Cruise.
This episode we're discussing the Military Entertainment Complex, the little known but widely seen network of entertainment products sponsored by the US military. If it sounds weird, and perhaps a little dystopian, that's because it is!
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The satirical, US based news outlet The Onion reused an article over 20 times since 2014, making only slight changes to the dates and location. It sounds like lazy journalism (and trust me, I would know) until you see the headline "'No Way To Prevent This,' Says Only Nation Where This Regularly Happens" with a picture of a school, place of worship or a grocery store. If you're American, that context alone was likely enough to figure out that this article is about mass shootings.
This episode we're doing a deep dive into mass shootings and why America seems to be uniquely stricken with them. We'll look at the real world circumstances, misinformation and conspiracies that surround these tragic, and yet predictable, events.
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Silence.
Deafening silence.
That's the sound of the frigid void left when your most favorite RSS feed (at least top 3, right? ... alright, top 10 then? ... fine, I'll settle for "listenable on a bi-weekly basis most of the time") goes dark for 3 months.
And then, breaking through you hear a rising tide of synth wave beeps and boops.
WE'RE BACK BABY!!! Like it or not we're set to continue our bi-weekly upload schedule after 3 months away. And boy are we coming back with a doozie: government sanctioned mind control experiments!
This episode we're covering MKUltra, a true story about one of the darkest corners of the US government. I wouldn't consider this a feel good episode so buckle up!
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Hello Sheeple! This episode is going to be a little different than normal. My illustrious co-host Thom has been swamped at his day job as of late so we haven't had a chance to record new episodes. On the back of that I figured I'd do a short episode about the on-going invasion of Ukraine by Russia...it ended up being 45mins.
Enjoy! We hope to return to our regular upload schedule in the next few weeks.
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Do you ever find yourself on a long highway drive with nothing to admire but fields of crops? I think my Midwest is showing. For societies sake I hope you're only looking out the window this much is when you're a passenger. Remember kids, eyes on the road and hands at 10 and 2 AT ALL TIMES. Sometimes the straight rows of crops zipping by is almost hypnotic. So hypnotic sometimes you swear you start seeing shapes in the crops...unless there's just crop circles that is.
On this episode we're discussing crop circles. What better way to spend a lovely English summer than to visit the mysterious shapes in the cereal grains?
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Sorry about the late update this week! Apparently even bi-weekly uploads is too much for us slouches at Sheeple HQ. I could blame it on the substantial (for us) amount of snow we got in our neck of the woods. Boy am I glad I don't actually live in the woods when it snows a lot. How would I even walk around to get anywhere? Why, I'd have to be 7-8 feet tall, covered in hair and have humongous feet! Then some guy catch a glimpse of me strolling in naught but my fur and start yacking. Before I knew it I'd become an urban legend and a bunch of goofballs would start running around at night in the woods shouting. How would I get my big, hairy beauty sleep?
This episode we're discussing the large ape people that live in the wilds! Whether you call the Yetis, Yowies or Sasquatch, I think we can all agree they hold a big, hairy place in our hearts.
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What was your favorite subject in school? I'd have leaned towards science back then, but the older I get the more interesting I find history. I think I'm well on my way towards the dad status of reading about the history of WW2 tanks on vacation. A fascinating period of history is ancient Rome. How could such a sophisticated culture decline and give us the Middle Ages?
Easy. Rome wasn't real.
This episode we're talking about how Rome isn't real. Who better to teach us about history than a millennial mom who may or may not have a college degree?
26 episodes marks nearly a year of bi-weekly episodes. Thank you to all our rabid sheeple for succumbing to our mind control!
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Do you remember 2012? As it turns out, a lot of things happened that year. Barack Obama was elected to a 2nd term as President, Hurricane Sandy ripped the east coast a new one, Queen Elizabeth II celebrated 60 years on the thrown and the first Marvel Avengers movie came out. Ah how I long for the days where the most radical candidate that ran for president was Rand Paul.
Do you remember what didn't happen in 2012? The secret 12th planet returning on it's 3600 year orbit and crashing into Earth.
On this episode we're discussing the mysterious Planet X. The next 3600 years can't go by soon enough, am I right?
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Do you like doughnuts? I like doughnuts. They're a sweet, deep fried hunk of enriched bread that occasionally includes sprinkles. How can you say no to that? They're also such a unique shape. If you listen to math nerds it's called a torus. And if you listen to certain individuals on the internet tori are the key to unlocking the unlimited well of energy upon which the universe is built. Bet you'll never pass up a Krispy Kreme again.
The episode we're talking about the Thrive Movement! I can think of no one more qualified to speak on archeology, the global banking system and the energy industry than the great, great grandson of the co-founder of a consumer products conglomerate.
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Is there any state in the Union convinced of it's own importance quite as much as Texas? I'd argue no where else in the US, potentially the world, that has as much regional pride. And there's admittedly a lot to like. The BBQ, the hats, the boots, the accents. I feel like even the most stuck-up, metropolitan city-slicker has to appreciate the occasional smoked brisket or Texan drawl. Not to mention what might be the most stereotypical example of US football teams: The Dallas Cowboys. And how cool is it that Dallas is going to be the second coming of both JFK and JFK Jr.? Pretty neat y'all.
This episode we're discussing JFK Jr. and his apparent reemergence in Dallas. Spoiler alert, the ending is a bit anticlimactic in the same way as a defensive Super Bowl. Nothing really happens.
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Have you ever been to a sports game and been around when they start throwing free stuff out to the crowd? Grown adults start whooping and hollering like a feral parrot all to have the poor team interns whip a t-shirt or promotional stress ball in their general direction. People love freebies. Well at least those of us who aren't members of the shadowy cabal operating the energy industry. I bet they're the people that remain seated as if they don't absolutely NEED that free t-shirt or promotional stress balls. Cowards.
This episode we're talking about Free Energy Suppression. Maybe all this hoopla about an impending global energy shortage has been solved all along and they're keeping us common folk contented by chucking cheap tchotchke at us free of charge...
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Does anyone else enjoy a good courtroom drama? We can all remember certain moments from those shows and movies where the plucky protagonist seems to be on the ropes, their case is falling apart and it seems they're a few minutes from losing all together. Then suddenly, in a stroke of brilliance, BOOM! They think of the perfect argument that strengthens their case and catches the opponent in a lie. HOORAY!!!
Wouldn't it be cool if you could manage something like that? Even cooler if you could pull the wool over on the entire US government, invalidating it completely...
On this week's episode we're talking about Sovereign Citizens. Could it be that through a series of simple arguments, understandable by the layman, the whole of the US Constitution could be rendered invalid? Simple isn't a word I'd use to describe it...
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Its a question as old as the 1989: Who started the fire? I think Billy Joel was pretty clear it wasn't him. After all, JFK was blown away so what more is there to say?
At least its all a metaphorical fire though, imagine how terrible it would be if there really was a fire that's been burning for several decades. On that note I have some troubling news...
On this week's episode we're discussing Centralia Pennsylvania. If you're a fan of obscure, oddball history this episode is for you.
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Imagine you print out a fresh page, still warm from the fancy laser copier at the office. Naturally it's a work related document because you wouldn't dream of using a company resources for personal prints. These concert tickets are CRITICAL to your work performance. And then you examine the page and see that the lines of text aren't quite straight. I'd be willing to be most people would find that scenario infuriating.
Why? Humans love straight lines.
And you know what has a lot straight lines? Cubes.
You know what has a lot of not straight lines of logic? The Time Cube.
On this weeks episode we're talking about the Time Cube, a totally rational explanation of how time works. As it turns out you might have about 3x-4x the amount of time you thought you had!
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Timecube.com: Where reality as we know it is a lie – The Maine Campus (archive.org)
Time Cube - RationalWiki
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What do the Beatles, Elvis Presley and Michael Jackson have in common besides great hair? Each of them have more than 165 MILLION certified sales worldwide. Can you imagine that many people choosing to spend money to listen to you? I certainly can't and I make a widely available podcast...
It's really too bad that John, George and Michael aren't around anymore. At least we still have Elvis. LONG LIVE THE KING!!!
This episode we're talking about Elvis Presley, your grandma's favorite gyrating, gospel singer. Before you start considering why grandma liked the gyrating so much hit play on the episode. HURRY!!!
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A L I E N S
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John. A powerful name. Think of all the things Johns have given us. From exploitation of Native Americans to the most famous pop-rock band to time travel to an acting performance of the ages in Being John Malkovich. I think we can all agree John Malkovich's contribution is the greatest on that list. I suppose you could make the case for time travel being more significant. I think the existence of time travel and John Malkovich are about as likely though.
On this episode we're discussing John Titor, a self proclaimed time traveller from a different timeline of reality. Who'd have thought John Lennon's claim he'd be more famous than Jesus wouldn't be the most ridiculous John-ism on the list...
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Planning. Some of us love it, some of us hate it and yet others of us seem completely incapable of it. I think deep down no one really wants to plan. But it's just so much easier to paint my miniature gnome figurines when I figure out the colors I need before going to the craft store. Do we really want the UN planning though? Sure, they're a global organization trying to reign in sovereign governments but I'd feel more comfortable if they'd just wing it. Imagine how many gnomes they'd get painted!
This episode we're talking about Agenda 21, the non-binding agreement drawn up by the UN that just might doom the entire world. Though I think most would agree the world is doing pretty well at dooming itself without following Agenda 21. sigh
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Did your parents ever tell you drinking milk would give you strong bones? Or that eating your carrots would give you good eyesight? It feels like authority figures are always telling us what's a good idea to put in our bodies. WHO NEEDS THEM!!! Based off my complete lack of training in medicine and nutrition I'm recommending a diet of Cheetos, pickled ginger and water left behind in puddles after intense rain. That'll show those eggheads where they can shove their fluoride!
This episode we're exploring the strangely divisive mineral fluoride. I can tell you some people sure do hate it but explaining why is.......a bit more complicated.
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Hats are neat. Where would a high-class Kentucky woman be on derby day with out her hat? How many fly ball would outfielders have missed without their trusty baseball caps blocking the sun? How would we have opened a gateway to other dimensions if not for Ong's Hat? I reiterate, hats are neat.
On this episode we're talking about Ong's Hat, one of the early Internet's oddest legends. Who'd have though all you need to travel to other dimensions are a couple of Ivy League dropouts, a dash of eastern spiritualism and an egg? I'd have guessed you'd need at least an alien or two.
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Say what you want about the Internet but there's no denying it's the most efficient cat-video distribution service mankind has ever created. And that's in no small part due to the mass adoption of smart phones. But how do my precious dank memes get from their creator to my phone? The answer is electromagnetic waves. If that term doesn't make you want to don a tinfoil hat, I'm not sure what will. This episode we're talking about 5G, the new emerging standard for cellular communication. ABORT MISSION, MY GOVERMENT ISSUED MICROCHIP HAS JUST BEEN ACTIVATED! MIND CONTROL PROTOCOL ACTIVATING IN 3...2...1...
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https://www.miniphysics.com/electromagnetic-spectrum_25.html https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/5G https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/12/science/5g-phone-safety-health-russia.html https://www.facebook.com/RTAmerica/videos/5g-health-risks-censored-full-episode/2598097440285748/ https://ehtrust.org/about/ https://ehtrust.org/key-issues/cell-phoneswireless/5g-internet-everything/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Devra_Davis https://www.linkedin.com/in/devra-davis-3b6b62a https://arstechnica.com/science/2018/03/a-critical-analysis-of-the-latest-cellphone-safety-scare/ https://www.vox.com/recode/2020/4/24/21231085/coronavirus-5g-conspiracy-theory-covid-facebook-youtube https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/5g-cellular-test-birds/ https://www.healthnutnews.com/hundreds-of-birds-dead-during-5g-experiment-in-the-hague-the-netherlands/ https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/5g-covid-guitar-pedal-b1782573.html?utm_source=reddit.com https://telegra.ph/ATTENZIONE---VACCINO-12-27
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Magnets, how do they work? Insane Clown Posse and I demand answers! Keys seem to be sticking to people left and right if social media is to be believed. Maybe one day science will overcome the mysteries of magnetism and understand how a vaccine could cause this. One day...
This episode we're covering the COVID-19 vaccines. There's lots of folks out there speculating these miracles of modern medicine do a lot more than mitigate the risks of COVID-19. If I'm lucky the COVID-19 vaccine will rewrite my DNA and give me magnetic powers like some sort of real life Magneto. Big money, no whammies!
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If I offered to give you a million dollars to move a 2.5 ton stone a mile, could you? Now imagine you lived about 4500 years ago. Seems pretty impossible...right?
This episode we're talking about the Pyramids. Perhaps...
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Ahh, the splendor of a clear sunrise. Is there anything quite so peaceful and picturesque as watching our friendly neighborhood star come back into view? It holds some of life simple pleasures: the cool morning air, the early morning stillness and the golden wash of light across the landscape. It makes you wish you could just sit and stare at it......and keep staring......perhaps for 44 minutes.
This episode we're talking about the wellness technique known as sun gazing. Sunglasses be damned, we're welcoming that sweet, sweet UV straight in our eagerly awaiting corneas! Blindness is always an option.
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Sources:
These People Eat Sunlight Instead of Food - YouTube
Sungazing - Wikipedia
William Bates (physician) - Wikipedia
See Clearly Method - Wikipedia
NASA Research Reveals How "Eating The Sun" Can Give People Superhuman Abilities (powerofpositivity.com)
Sun Gazing for Health: An Ancient Therapy (earthclinic.com)
Solar Healing Center
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Imagine this, you're casually strolling along in the Artic Circle (all the cool kids are doing it) surrounded by snow and ice. You're a bit distracted trying to post the selfie you just took with an iceberg. Typing a witty yet relatable caption in the massive gloves needed to stave of frostbite is a challenge. You look up just after deciding on "The Titanic shot first" and are amazed to see a gaping hole in front of you. It must be miles wide. You peer over the edge and see.............well, it depends who you ask.
This episode we're talking about the Hollow Earth. This is definitely one of the more self explanatory episode titles. Enjoy!
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What happens in Soviet Russia, stays in Soviet Russia...…except when it involves the disappearance of a group of hikers.
This episode we're talking about The Dyatlov Pass Incident of 1959, a tragic event in which a group of college students perished while hiking in the remote Ural Mountains in the Siberian wilderness. Though tragic you might be wondering why we're discussing it. Let's just say the circumstances are......rather odd.
Were Yetis involved? Potentially.
Was it an avalanche? Probably.
Is it mysterious to this day? DA!
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Time is just a construct, you dig? It's what the Man is using to try and make us less groovy. PEACE AND LOVE!!!
Sorry everyone, a 1960s flower child had control of my keyboard. I distracted him with a die dye shirt and a Jimi Hendricks vinyl.
This episode we're discussing the Phantom Time Hypothesis, a far out name for a far out idea. Make sure you're well rested, rearranging classical history takes a lot out of you.
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Intro: Alien visitors
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Sources:
https://www.ancient-origins.net/history-important-events/phantom-time-hypothesis-0013965
https://www.medievalists.net/2020/04/why-phantom-time-hypothesis-wrong/
Immanuel Velikovsky - Wikipedia
Phantom time hypothesis - Wikipedia
Pope Sylvester II - Wikipedia
Otto III, Holy Roman Emperor - Wikipedia
Heribert Illig’s Theory of Missing History 614–911 | nextexxAges in Chaos | The Velikovsky Encyclopedia
Immanuel Velikovsky - Bad Archaeology
New chronology (Fomenko) - Wikipedia
Why my fellow physicists think they know everything (and why they’re wrong) | Ars Technica
Dunning–Kruger effect - Wikipedia
https://web.archive.org/web/20120722210701/http://heatherlench.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/07/svenson.pdf
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What do the son of a former president, a financial advisor from Pennsylvania and a shadowy cabal sucking the youth from children like the Sanderson sisters have in common? As a rational human you might be tempted to say absolutely nothing. Well our podcast would be pretty boring if we only talked about the thoughts of rational humans.
This week we're dipping our toe into the world of QAnon to discuss JFK Jr. Whoever said you can only die once never considered creating their own universe of truth. 4Chan strikes again!
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_F._Kennedy_Jr.
What Is Adrenochrome? - QAnon Blood Harvesting Conspiracy Theory (menshealth.com)
QAnon Is More Important Than You Think - The Atlantic
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/retropolis/wp/2018/08/05/jfk-jr-didnt-die-he-runs-qanon-and-hes-no-1-trump-fan-omg/
https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/qanon-jfk-jr-conspiracy-theory-854938/
Site Foreshadows Congress Run by QAnon Figure Vincent Fusca (dailydot.com)
If you're like most people you probably get woken up each morning by an alarm, drag yourself out of bed to the bathroom and begin your morning routine. The thing you might not think about is just how integral energy is to modern life. It lets you charge your phone, heats the water for your shower and moves your car when you push the gas. And at the time of publishing this episode we recently had a very real example of what happens when the energy suddenly stops flowing.
This episode we're talking about wind turbines. There's been a lot of misinformation floating around after the Texas Crisis a few weeks ago so let's talk about what they do and what some goobers out there think they do. Fair warning, The Don is coming...
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Sources:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wind_turbine_syndrome
https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/article/can-wind-turbines-make-you-sick/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waubra_Foundation
https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Waubra_Foundation
https://apnews.com/article/election-2020-ap-fact-check-joe-biden-donald-trump-technology-dd10b705845e945c4c33f62640ccd246
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ec9P3C1OXqE
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/black-wind-turbine-blades-help-birds-avoid-deadly-collisions-180975668/
https://www.eia.gov/energyexplained/electricity/how-electricity-is-generated.php
https://www.energy.gov/eere/wind/how-do-wind-turbines-work#:~:text=Wind%20turbines%20work%20on%20a,a%20generator%2C%20which%20creates%20electricity.
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Has anyone ever told that something helps "keep them grounded"? Perhaps it's a beloved pet, long walks on the beach.....or plugging yourself into an electrical outlet. That's right folks, this episode we're talking about the wellness trend known as Grounding (or Earthing depending on the particular brand of pseudoscience you prefer).
What if I told you better sleep, lower blood pressure and reduced inflammation were easily within your grasp? Well then buckle-up, all you need is a credit card and 7-10 days while you await the arrive of your electrically conductive bedsheet to arrive in the mail. Shocking.
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https://www.earthing.com/collections/all-1
https://www.earthing.com/pages/what-is-earthing
https://grounded.com/what-is-earthing#:~:text=The%20phenomenon%20of%20Earthing%20was,from%20connecting%20to%20the%20Earth
https://edisontechcenter.org/basics.html
https://www.khanacademy.org/science/physics/electric-charge-electric-force-and-voltage
It's here. The inescapable inevitability. You can't run. You can't hide. That's right, this week we're tackling the bear that is COVID-19. Unless you're an extraterrestrial picking up this transmission on your space-pod slinger I don't need to introduce you to the pandemic that flipped 2020 upside down. Everyone has heard about it. And when everyone hears, everyone talks. And considering there's a small fraction of the population that's actually qualified to speak knowledgably on virology, you know there's a mother load of misinformation out there. Buckle in folks, it's gonna be like eating your ice cream cone with a slingshot: shocking, a little painful and oh so tasty.
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Sources: misinformation.https://www.who.int/emergencies/diseases/novel-coronavirus-2019/advice-for-public/myth-busters https://www.who.int/health-topics/coronavirus#tab=tab_1 https://www.cdc.gov/library/covid19/pdf/public_pdfs/2020_10_02-Science-Update_Final-Public_v1.pdf https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/hcp/non-us-settings/overview/index.html https://www.thenewhumanitarian.org/news/2020/04/15/id2020-coronavirus-vaccine-misinformation https://www.acsh.org/news/2020/07/23/conspiracy-theory-about-bill-gates-covid-vaccine-doesnt-make-logical-sense-14928 https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-52833706 https://twitter.com/RexChapman/status/1275912010555932672?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1275912010555932672%7Ctwgr%5Eshare_3%2Ccontainerclick_1&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fcdn.embedly.com%2Fwidgets%2Fmedia.html%3Ftype%3Dtext2Fhtmlkey%3D3ce26dc7e3454db5820ba084d28b4935schema%3Dtwitterurl%3Dhttps3A%2F%2Ftwitter.com%2Frexchapman%2Fstatus%2F1275912010555932672image%3D https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2020/05/great-5g-conspiracy/611317/ https://www.who.int/peh-emf/publications/facts/fs296/en/ https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20150511005200/en/International-Scientists-Appeal-U.N.-Protect-Humans-Wildlife https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/news-perspective/2020/05/scientists-exactly-zero-evidence-covid-19-came-lab https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2020-09/appc-bic092120.php
For our maiden voyage we're covering a blast from the past. A blast from 1918 to be specific. The Spanish Flu was the worst influenza pandemic of the 20th century killing an estimated 50,000,000 people worldwide. 100 years later I'm sure we've learned a lot and don't fall for the same silly ideas people back then did right? Sigh
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https://www.cdc.gov/flu/pandemic-resources/1918-pandemic-h1n1.html
https://ourworldindata.org/spanish-flu-largest-influenza-pandemic-in-history
https://www.un.org/en/development/desa/population/publications/pdf/mortality/WMR2019/WorldMortality2019DataBooklet.pdf
https://www.pnas.org/content/pnas/102/31/11059.full.pdf
https://theintercept.com/2020/04/06/misinformation-coronavirus-ebola-congo/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SARS_conspiracy_theory
https://www.forbes.com/sites/alexknapp/2020/05/15/the-original-plandemic-unmasking-the-eerily-parallel-conspiracy-theories-behind-the-russian-flu-of-1889/#3bfacfe950d5
https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/the-flu-pandemic-of-1918-and-early-conspiracy-theories#Why-did-these-misconceptions-catch-on?
https://untappedcities.com/2020/07/15/the-anti-mask-league-of-1919-the-cultural-battle-of-an-enduring-pandemic/
https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2020/03/17/spanish-flu-lessons-coronavirus-133888