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. Like what we do? Then buy us a beer or three via our page on Buy Me a Coffee. #ConspiracyClearinghouse #sharingiscaring #donations #support #buymeacoffee You can also SUBSCRIBE to this podcast. Review us here or on IMDb! SECTIONS 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 Follow us on social for extra goodies: Facebook (including upcoming conspiracy-themed events) Twitter YouTube (extra videos on the topic, Old Time Radio shows, music playlists and more) Other Podcasts by Derek DeWitt 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 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. Like what we do? Then buy us a beer or three via our page on Buy Me a Coffee. #ConspiracyClearinghouse #sharingiscaring #donations #support #buymeacoffee You can also SUBSCRIBE to this podcast. Review us here or on IMDb! SECTIONS 03:18 - Hail to the Thief - intro 05:14 - 1792 New York Governor's Race 07:47 - 1824 Presidential 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 American 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. Follow us on social for extra goodies: Facebook (including upcoming conspiracy-themed events) Twitter YouTube (extra videos on the topic, Old Time Radio shows, music playlists and more) Other Podcasts by Derek DeWitt DIGITAL SIGNAGE DONE RIGHT - Winner of a 2022 Gold Quill Award, the 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 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. Like what we do? Then buy us a beer or three via our page on Buy Me a Coffee. #ConspiracyClearinghouse #sharingiscaring #donations #support #buymeacoffee You can also SUBSCRIBE to this podcast. Review us here or on IMDb! SECTIONS 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 Follow us on social for extra goodies: Facebook (including upcoming conspiracy-themed events) Twitter YouTube (extra videos on the topic, Old Time Radio shows, music playlists and more) Other Podcasts by Derek DeWitt DIGITAL SIGNAGE DONE RIGHT - Winner of a 2022 Gold Quill Award, the 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 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. Like what we do? Then buy us a beer or three via our page on Buy Me a Coffee. #ConspiracyClearinghouse #sharingiscaring #donations #support #buymeacoffee You can also SUBSCRIBE to this podcast. Review us here or on IMDb! SECTIONS 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 Follow us on social for extra goodies: Facebook (including upcoming conspiracy-themed events) Twitter YouTube (extra videos on the topic, Old Time Radio shows, music playlists and more) Other Podcasts by Derek DeWitt DIGITAL SIGNAGE DONE RIGHT - Winner of a 2022 Gold Quill Award, the 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 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, Mormon mythology and, of course, the United States, including Ong's Hat, New Jersey - site of the very first internet conspiracy theory. Like what we do? Then buy us a beer or three via our page on Buy Me a Coffee. #ConspiracyClearinghouse #sharingiscaring #donations #support #buymeacoffee You can also SUBSCRIBE to this podcast. Review us here or on IMDb! SECTIONS 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 Follow us on social for extra goodies: Facebook (including upcoming conspiracy-themed events) Twitter YouTube (extra videos on the topic, Old Time Radio shows, music playlists and more) Other Podcasts by Derek DeWitt DIGITAL SIGNAGE DONE RIGHT - Winner of a 2022 Gold Quill Award, the 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 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. Like what we do? Then buy us a beer or three via our page on Buy Me a Coffee. #ConspiracyClearinghouse #sharingiscaring #donations #support #buymeacoffee You can also SUBSCRIBE to this podcast. Review us here or on IMDb! SECTIONS 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 Follow us on social for extra goodies: Facebook (including upcoming conspiracy-themed events) Twitter YouTube (extra videos on the topic, Old Time Radio shows, music playlists and more) Other Podcasts by Derek DeWitt DIGITAL SIGNAGE DONE RIGHT - Winner of a 2022 Gold Quill Award, the 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 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. Like what we do? Then buy us a beer or three via our page on Buy Me a Coffee. #ConspiracyClearinghouse #sharingiscaring #donations #support #buymeacoffee You can also SUBSCRIBE to this podcast. Review us here or on IMDb! SECTIONS 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 Follow us on social for extra goodies: Facebook (including upcoming conspiracy-themed events) Twitter YouTube (extra videos on the topic, Old Time Radio shows, music playlists and more) Other Podcasts by Derek DeWitt DIGITAL SIGNAGE DONE RIGHT - Winner of a 2022 Gold Quill Award, the 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 59 | 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. Like what we do? Then buy us a beer or three via our page on Buy Me a Coffee. #ConspiracyClearinghouse #sharingiscaring #donations #support #buymeacoffee You can also SUBSCRIBE to this podcast. Review us here or on IMDb! SECTIONS 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? Follow us on social for extra goodies: Facebook (including upcoming conspiracy-themed events) Twitter YouTube (extra videos on the topic, Old Time Radio shows, music playlists and more) Other Podcasts by Derek DeWitt DIGITAL SIGNAGE DONE RIGHT - Winner of a 2022 Gold Quill Award, the 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 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. Like what we do? Then buy us a beer or three via our page on Buy Me a Coffee. #ConspiracyClearinghouse #sharingiscaring #donations #support #buymeacoffee You can also SUBSCRIBE to this podcast. Review us here or on IMDb! SECTIONS 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 Follow us on social for extra goodies: Facebook (including upcoming conspiracy-themed events) Twitter YouTube (extra videos on the topic, Old Time Radio shows, music playlists and more) Other Podcasts by Derek DeWitt DIGITAL SIGNAGE DONE RIGHT - Winner of a 2022 Gold Quill Award, the 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 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. Like what we do? Then buy us a beer or three via our page on Buy Me a Coffee. #ConspiracyClearinghouse #sharingiscaring #donations #support #buymeacoffee You can also SUBSCRIBE to this podcast. Review us here or on IMDb! SECTIONS 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 Follow us on social for extra goodies: Facebook (including upcoming conspiracy-themed events) Twitter YouTube (extra videos on the topic, Old Time Radio shows, music playlists and more) Other Podcasts by Derek DeWitt DIGITAL SIGNAGE DONE RIGHT - Winner of the 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.
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! Like what we do? Then buy us a beer or three via our page on Buy Me a Coffee. #ConspiracyClearinghouse #sharingiscaring #donations #support #buymeacoffee You can also SUBSCRIBE to this podcast. Review us here or on IMDb! SECTIONS 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 See related videos in the dedicated playlist on our YouTube channel 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 Follow us on social for extra goodies: Facebook (including upcoming conspiracy-themed events) Twitter YouTube (extra videos on the topic, Old Time Radio shows, music playlists and more) Other Podcasts by Derek DeWitt DIGITAL SIGNAGE DONE RIGHT - Winner of the 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 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. Like what we do? Then buy us a beer or three via our page on Buy Me a Coffee. #ConspiracyClearinghouse #sharingiscaring #donations #support #buymeacoffee You can also SUBSCRIBE to this podcast. Review us here or on IMDb! SECTIONS 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' Follow us on social for extra goodies: Facebook (including upcoming conspiracy-themed events) Twitter YouTube (extra videos on the topic, Old Time Radio shows, music playlists and more) Other Podcasts by Derek DeWitt DIGITAL SIGNAGE DONE RIGHT - Winner of a 2022 Gold Quill Award, the 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 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. Like what we do? Then buy us a beer or three via our page on Buy Me a Coffee. #ConspiracyClearinghouse #sharingiscaring #donations #support #buymeacoffee You can also SUBSCRIBE to this podcast. Review us here or on IMDb! See a video version on our YouTube channel. SECTIONS 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 Follow us on social for extra goodies: Facebook (including upcoming conspiracy-themed events) Twitter YouTube (extra videos on the topic, Old Time Radio shows, music playlists and more) Other Podcasts by Derek DeWitt DIGITAL SIGNAGE DONE RIGHT - Winner of the 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 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. See a video version on our YouTube channel. Like what we do? Then buy us a beer or three via our page on Buy Me a Coffee. #ConspiracyClearinghouse #sharingiscaring #donations #support #buymeacoffee You can also SUBSCRIBE to this podcast. Review us here or on IMDb! SECTIONS 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 Follow us on social for extra goodies: Facebook (including upcoming conspiracy-themed events) Twitter YouTube (extra videos on the topic, Old Time Radio shows, music playlists and more) Other Podcasts by Derek DeWitt DIGITAL SIGNAGE DONE RIGHT - Winner of the 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.
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. See a video version on our YouTube channel. Like what we do? Then buy us a beer or three via our page on Buy Me a Coffee. #ConspiracyClearinghouse #sharingiscaring #donations #support #buymeacoffee You can also SUBSCRIBE to this podcast. Review us here or on IMDb! SECTIONS 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 Follow us on social for extra goodies: Facebook (including upcoming conspiracy-themed events) Twitter YouTube (extra videos on the topic, Old Time Radio shows, music playlists and more) Other Podcasts by Derek DeWitt DIGITAL SIGNAGE DONE RIGHT - Winner of the 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 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. See a video version on our YouTube channel. Like what we do? Then buy us a beer or three via our page on Buy Me a Coffee. #ConspiracyClearinghouse #sharingiscaring #donations #support #buymeacoffee You can also SUBSCRIBE to this podcast. Review us here or on IMDb! SECTIONS 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 Follow us on social for extra goodies: Facebook (including upcoming conspiracy-themed events) Twitter YouTube (extra videos on the topic, Old Time Radio shows, music playlists and more) Other Podcasts by Derek DeWitt DIGITAL SIGNAGE DONE RIGHT - Winner of the 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 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. See a video version on our YouTube channel. Like what we do? Then buy us a beer or three via our page on Buy Me a Coffee. #ConspiracyClearinghouse #sharingiscaring #donations #support #buymeacoffee You can also SUBSCRIBE to this podcast. Review us here or on IMDb! SECTIONS 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 Follow us on social for extra goodies: Facebook (including upcoming conspiracy-themed events) Twitter YouTube (extra videos on the topic, Old Time Radio shows, music playlists and more) Other Podcasts by Derek DeWitt DIGITAL SIGNAGE DONE RIGHT - Winner of the 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 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. See a video version on our YouTube channel. Like what we do? Then buy us a beer or three via our page on Buy Me a Coffee. #ConspiracyClearinghouse #sharingiscaring #donations #support #buymeacoffee You can also SUBSCRIBE to this podcast. SECTIONS 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 Follow us on social for extra goodies: Facebook (including upcoming conspiracy-themed events) Twitter YouTube (extra videos on the topic, Old Time Radio shows, music playlists and more) Other Podcasts by Derek DeWitt DIGITAL SIGNAGE DONE RIGHT - Winner of the 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 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. See a video version of this episode on our YouTube channel. Like what we do? Then buy us a beer or three via our page on Buy Me a Coffee. #ConspiracyClearinghouse #sharingiscaring #donations #support #buymeacoffee You can also SUBSCRIBE to this podcast. SECTIONS 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 Follow us on social for extra goodies: Facebook (including upcoming conspiracy-themed events) Twitter YouTube (extra videos on the topic, Old Time Radio shows, music playlists and more) Other Podcasts by Derek DeWitt DIGITAL SIGNAGE DONE RIGHT - Winner of the 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 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. See a video version of this episode on our YouTube channel. Like what we do? Then buy us a beer or three via our page on Buy Me a Coffee. #ConspiracyClearinghouse #sharingiscaring #donations #support #buymeacoffee You can also SUBSCRIBE to this podcast. SECTIONS 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 Follow us on social for extra goodies: Facebook (including upcoming conspiracy-themed events) Twitter YouTube (extra videos on the topic, Old Time Radio shows, music playlists and more) Other Podcasts by Derek DeWitt DIGITAL SIGNAGE DONE RIGHT - Winner of the 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.