A rather skeptical look at conspiracies and mysteries. Each episode will examine conspiracy theories, most of which are not true, a few of which might be a little bit true and even a couple that turned out, in fact, to be true. This is the podcast that dares to look behind the curtain that’s behind the curtain. Episodes every other Wednesday.
EPISODE 135 | On Shakey Ground: More Shakespeare Authorship Guest: Scott Jackson, Mary Irene Ryan Executive Artistic Director of Shakespeare at the University of Notre Dame, current president of the Shakespeare Theatre Association (STA), stage actor and director On the anniversary of Shakespeare's life and death (both), a look at some of the more fringe of fringe theories as to who "really" wrote the plays and sonnets attributed to the "Man from Stratford". Like what we do? Then buy us a beer or three via our page on Buy Me a Coffee. Review us here or on IMDb. And seriously, subscribe, will ya? SECTIONS 02:56 - A recap of the Oxfordian Theory, the film "Anonymous", the Declaration of Reasonable Doubt, people asking questions 11:48 - The Prince Tudor Theory, Parts 1 & 2, most people don't take any of this seriously 20:32 - Shakespeare was Italian - Crollalanza/Scrollalanza/M. Florio, John Florio 25:22 - S. was Sicilian, most plots existed before, S. was Jewish, paintings as proof, S. was both Italian and Jewish, shades of Shylock, the performance approach; S. was Cervantes, S. had a weak chin, S. was Irish (Patrick O'Toole or William Nugent), S. was an Arab (Shaikh Zubayr) 37:06 - S. was a woman (Queen Elizabeth, Mary Queen of Scots, Anne Whateley, Anne Hathaway, Mary Sidney Herbert, Emelia Lanier/Aemilia Bassano), the Dark Lady of the Sonnets, Shakespeare CTs are like fan fiction 44:08 - A committed Stratfordian because it was a single hand Music by Fanette Ronjat More Info Who Wrote Shakespeare? Shakespeare Authorship 101 Behind the Quill: Debating the Shakespeare Authorship Greene's Jealousy of Shakespeare 8 Shakespeare Conspiracy Theories Top 18 Reasons Why Edward de Vere (Oxford) Was Shakespeare Debunking the Oxfordian Claims about Shakespearean Authorship The Declaration of Reasonable Doubt “Prince Tudor” Theory Began in 1932… Southampton and the Tudor Rose Theory Prince Tudor and the Sonnets All Is True by Mike A’Dair (Prince Tudor 2) Professor claims Shakespeare was Italian Was Shakespeare Italian? John Florio – The Anglified Italian Who Invented William Shakespeare Was Shakespeare a Believing Jew? The Secret Jewish History of William Shakespeare The secret connection between Cervantes and Shakespeare Shakespeare and Cervantes: Two geniuses and one death date Shakespeare’s Irish connections Shakespeare Was An Irishman Qadhafi: Shakespeare Was an Arab Named Shaykh Zubayr Was Shakespeare a Woman? Unmasking Shakespeare Was Shakespeare Actually This Jewish Woman? Amelia Bassano: The True Shakespeare? on Snopes Fact check: No evidence that Aemilia Bassano wrote all of Shakespeare’s plays In search of Shakespeare's dark lady How reading Shakespeare could help stop conflict in the Middle East Finding Shakespeare on the Skeptoid podcast The Shakespeare Apocalypse Follow us on social: Facebook Twitter Bluesky 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
4/23/25 • 48:30
EPISODE 134 | Behind the History Mysteries Guest: Neil Laird, Emmy-nominated TV producer (Discovery, BBC, PBS, History, National Geographic), author of the Prime Time novel series TV has so many of these Secrets of..., Mysteries of... shows, you have to wonder how they keep the stories fresh and compelling. Well, wonder no more, as Emmy-nominated producer Neil Laird takes us behind the camera on some of the many shows he's produced to kick off the start of our sixth year. Like what we do? Then buy us a beer or three via our page on Buy Me a Coffee. Review us here or on IMDb. And seriously, subscribe, will ya? SECTIONS 02:18 - How he got into the biz, how it works, 08:37 - You need a hook, the business is dying, In Search of..., don't ignore the woo crowd 19:07 - What on Earth?, structuring the shows, History's Greatest Mysteries, Errol Morris changes documentaries, reenactments in docs, "JFK" uses documentary techniques for fiction, cinéma vérité vs. direct cinema, Blair Witch 26:27 - How can we trust what we see?, the industry is getting democratized but many people lose their jobs, modern hybrid docuseries with fictional techniques in reenactments (Rise of Empires: Ottoman, etc.), after the hook you live or die on the story you tell, no one wants to watch a textbook 32:43 - Blowing Up History (Unearthed) and using computer reconstructions, video games like Assassin's Creed and Mafia as educational tools, get the audience to trust the journey, conspiracy belief is emotional and personal, the audience responds with fact-checking, don't forget Israel on your maps 38:59 - The future of docuseries, streaming needs less content than network, formats are changing, the How to Become a.... trilogy, a specific point of view instead of objective distance, the Prime Time series and Gay Ancient History Music by Fanette Ronjat More Info Neil Laird on IMDb Neil Laird on TikTok Neil Laird website Follow us on social: Facebook Twitter Bluesky 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
4/9/25 • 47:00
EPISODE 133 | Cult Pop Suicide: Japanese Cults Japan is a land of many contradictions - very forward-looking but also retrograde. And when it comes to the spiritual side of things, quite a few people seem to fall for various cults, scammers and charlatans. And just offbeat beliefs, like that Jesus' brother died on the cross while He moved to Aomori Prefecture in northern Honshu, where he married and taught and lived until 106. Like what we do? Then buy us a beer or three via our page on Buy Me a Coffee. Review us here or on IMDb. And seriously, subscribe, will ya? SECTIONS 04:52 - Hey Mister Banjo - The Yamagishi Society 07:28 - Hotaru no Hikari (Light of the Fireflies) - Mahikari, the World True Light Civilization Religious Organization 10:34 - Nagaragawa Enka (The Enka of the Nagara River) - Life Space Movement, shakty pat and a mummy 15:44 - Katatsumuri Samba (Snail Samba) - Ho No Hana Sanpōgyō, the Flower of Buddhist Teaching; Hogen Fukunaga and Yogesh Gandhi donate money to the DNC, kick off Chinagate 23:54 - Orokamono (Fool) - Pana-Wave Laboratory, electromagnetic waves, Tama-chan the arctic seal, a police standoff and the end of the world 33:50 - Doctor Head's World Tower - Happy Science, EL Cantare, gods from Venus, Komei No Kai sells water, Happy Science gets political, sets records, gets in beefs and embraces MAGA, pioneers "spiritual vaccines" 43:41 - Lunatic Doll: Ansatsu Keikoku (Assassination Warning) - Aum Shinrikyo has a real bad attitude, the sarin gas attacks of March 20, 1995 plus other crimes before and after 54:26 - Japanese police are unprepared for NRMs, online suicide cults, hikikomori Music by Fanette Ronjat More Info Expo 2025 website Apples, boogie and shamisen: A Brief look at Japanese Popular Music during the Allied Occupation Kazuya Kosaka & the Wagon Masters - Hey Mister Banjo ‘Rokabiri’: The Music That Shook Japan on Japan Nakama Glow of the Fireflies/Hotaru no hikari song Japanese Enka Music Nagaragawa Enka song performed by Junko Ishihara Katatsumuri Samba song by Onyanko Club Orokamono song by Masahiko Kondo The World Tower song by Flipper's Guitar Black Hole song by Mari Hamada Keeping the Faith: Christ’s Tomb in Aomori and Japanese Religion on Nippon.com The Grave of Jesus Christ on Travel Japan The 5 Scariest Japanese Cults on Japan Daily 10 Bizarre Japanese Cults You’ve Probably Never Heard Of on Listverse Rise of Japanese cults on BBC Japanese Society and Religion on the Eve of the 21st Century by MAEKAWA Michiko Whatever happened to Yamagishi? in Japan Times The Yamagishi Association: successful, moneyless, leaderless network of communes in Japan and elsewhere on Lowimpact.org Sukyo Mahikari North America website World Divine Light website Japanese Cults–Koji Takahashi and the Life Space Movement on Japan Powered The Corpse And The Cult in Newsweek Life Space Movement (Shakty Pay Guru Foundation) Raided in Japan on Center for Studies on New Religions Life Space guru denies suggesting man leave hospital on Japan Times A battle over mummified body renews worry about Japan cults on DeseretNews Ho No Hana Sanpogyo on Apologetics Index 1996 United States campaign finance controversy on Wikipedia New Religious Movement Raided in Japan: Ho No Hana on CESNUR Honohana foot-cult guru gets 12 years for fraud on Japan Times Pana Wave Laboratory on World Religions and Spirituality Project Doomsday cult makes waves in Japan in The Guardian Probing Pana Wave's nature The Latest Japanese Cult Panic in Religion in the News Pana Wave at the Cult Education Institute A nation's fate is sealed - Guardian article on Tama-chan Foreigners seek same rights as seal on Japan Times Pana Wave: Doomsday and Tama-chan the Seal video Pana Wave pictures Happy Science website Japan’s infamous ‘happy’ cult sets sights on the United States The Happy Science Religious Movement Claims to Hold the Cure for COVID-19 A Japanese Cult That Believes Its Leader Is an Alien From Venus Is Speaking at CPAC How a fringe religious movement in Japan built a pro-Trump social media empire Happy Science Is the Laziest Cult Ever on Vice Why is Japan the ideal country according to the Alt-Right movement Japan's rising right-wing nationalism video Consideration of the Status of Conspiracy Theories in Japan Based on Attempts at Regime Destruction Overseas in International Information Network Analysis QAnon Is Alive and Well in Japan Aum Shinrikyo: The Japanese cult behind the Tokyo Sarin attack on BBC Chronology of Aum Shinrikyo's CBW Activities paper Aum Shinrikyo report at the Ministry of Justice Revisiting Aum Shinrikyo: New Insights into the Most Extensive Non-State Biological Weapons Program to Date Aleph official website (in Japanese) Aum Sect/Shoko Asahara on Cult Education Institute Religion-Making in Japan’s Courts of Law Conspiracy Theories and Their Believers in Contemporary Japan New Religions in Japan Yearning for spiritual leadership, Japan has spawned a rash of apocalyptic religions and ominously popular sects at the Cult Education Institute Japanese New Religious Movements: An Introduction by Franz Weiner in the Handbook of East Asian New Religious Movement Japan’s chilling Internet suicide pacts Japan suicide websites targeted after 'house of horrors' Hikikomori, A Japanese Culture-Bound Syndrome of Social Withdrawal? A Proposal for DSM-V Follow us on social: Facebook Twitter Bluesky 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
3/26/25 • 57:05
EPISODE 132 | Keel Hauled: UAP Update Recent revelations, reports, videos and hearings have been leading up to what many UAP folks call Disclosure. Some interesting things have come out, and a whole lot of nonsense as well. Spoiler: UFOs are real. Apart from that single fact, no one really has any hard evidence for anything else. So, they speculate. Like what we do? Then buy us a beer or three via our page on Buy Me a Coffee. Review us here or on IMDb. And seriously, subscribe, will ya? SECTIONS 03:00 - Bullet Train to Iowa - AATIP, UFO into UAP into UAP, Luis Elizondo, Harry Reid, Robert Bigelow, Christopher Mellon leaks a video in 2017, the DoD confirmed, more videos (Gimbal, Go Fast, FLIR1), the UAP Task Force, triangles, spheres, acorns and metallic blimps 07:28 - UAPTF Report (June 2021), more data needed, AOIMSG, HISCCC hearing (May 2022), more data needed, AARO, NDAs for whistleblowers negated, Disclosure is being slow-walked, more video footage 11:52 - Grey Area - Project Blue Book, Evangelicals, Kenneth Arnold, flying saucers, Roswell & Project Mogul, UFOs as cover story, scammers 15:36 - A Singularity - The UFO ecosystem - Brad Steiger's The Reality Game, 18 theories about UFOs (including the Magic Theatre, the Overlord Theory, John Keel's Ultraterrestrials) 19:31 - The "Extraterrestrial Almanac", Tim Burchett has a press conference, everyone has a theory 22:33 - Bread and Circus - Congressional hearing (July 2023), David Fravor and Ryan Graves, David Grusch makes some amazing claims but offers no evidence, Grusch jumps on board with the interdimensional crowd, Grusch had had some troubles in the past, NASA creates the Director of Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena Research (Sept. 2023), hardcore Christians think it's all demons, true believers on both sides 29:55 - The Underwhelming - The Disclosure Project, Dr. Steven Greer, ARVs & the Wilson Memo, To the Stars Academy becomes To the Stars, Inc., Skinwalkers at the Pentagon, Jay Stratton has a book deal thanks to Dan Farah, Luis Elizondo writes Imminent: Inside the Pentagon's Hunt for UFO which has more than a few problems (remote viewing, nosy orbs), the Collins Elite & Legacy Program 38:14 - Personal Prometheus - AARO's report (March 2024), NASA's report (April 2024) - more data needed and stop bothering witnesses, Congressional hearing in November 2024 with Lue Elizondo, Dr. Tim Gallaudet, Michael Gold - more videos, people being threatened, an international arms race to back-engineer UAP tech, some tech in the hands of private companies 42:18 - Michael Shellenberger talks about SAPs, USAPs, TUOs and NHIs; Immaculate Constellation (formed in 2017) describes all sorts of UAPs (like boomerangs, triangles, and irregular/organic), Blue Force technology, verbal dancing 48:03 - Apocalyptical - Lauren Boebert is an idiot, UAP fans were not happy with Disclosure's progress, Grusch had a lot more to say, aliens are really evil transdimensional entities, Greer says they eat human souls while we sleep and also cries a lot 51:15 - Is it all disinfo? Are they all nuts? Are "they" really demons? Wild notions of what "full disclosure" will finally reveal (a real Conspiracy Theory of Everything [CTOE]), it's a vast spiritual war among creatures made of conscious energy 54:43 - Theorem - What we really know:- UAPs (and USOs) are real, some Evangelicals hate all this talk because they really do think they are demons and try to keep it all quiet; other ideas, less and less likely; the New York Post's video "Spooky Hustlers", those first three videos started it all but Brian Dunning examines them in "The UFO Movie They Don't Want You to See" Music by Fanette Ronjat More Info EPISODE 31 | Scammers, Inc.: MJ-12, Bennewitz & Serpo EPISODE 29 | The Notorious M.I.B. EPISODE 32 | A View to Vril (Valiant Thor bit around 21:29) EPISODE 99 | A Bridge Too Far: The Mothman Visits Point Pleasant EPISODE 23 | Signs, Grudges & Blue Books: Early UFOlogy EPISODE 35 | A Field Guide to Aliens EPISODE 74 | Red Alert: UFOs as Threat! EPISODE 94 | Peek-A-Boo: Project Star Gate EPISODE 17 | Project Blue Beam: Abandon Hope All Ye Who Research Here Timeline of Major UFO/UAP Events at New Space Economy UAP articles and videos on UAP on The Black Vault (147 pages!) FOIA documents about AATIP 'AATIP' explored: A brief look inside the government's top-secret UFO program on SYFY Watch the Pentagon's three declassified UFO videos taken by U.S. Navy pilots Establishment of Unidentified Aerial Phenomena Task Force at the DoD UAP Task Force documents UAP Task Force report A PHILOSOPHICAL ANALYSIS OF THE UAPTF’s PRELIMINARY ASSESSMENT ON UFOs By Adrian G. Rudnyk DoD Announces the Establishment of the Airborne Object Identification and Management Synchronization Group (AOIMSG) AOIMSG briefing card More AOIMSG documents AARO website with many links The Pentagon got hundreds of new reports of UFOs in 2022, a government report says on NPR The Roswell Report: Case Closed from US Air Force HQ, published in 1994 Report on Project Mogul: Synopsis of Balloon Research Findings Other worlds, other universes: Playing the reality game by Brad Steiger Brad Steiger's 17 Theories Of The UFO Enigma Extraterrestrial Almanac video Senators aim to set a mandatory timeline and process for agencies to declassify all UAP records UFO Disclosure: The Most Significant Law in Human History? UAP Disclosure Act of 2023 Is US on the Verge of 'Catastrophic' UFO Leak? What We Know in Newsweek Why the Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAP) Disclosure Act of 2023 Falls Far Short of Its Intended Purpose — And What That Means for Transparency Records Related to Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAPs) at the National Archives UNIDENTIFIED ANOMALOUS PHENOMENA: IMPLICATIONS ON NATIONAL SECURITY, PUBLIC SAFETY, AND GOVERNMENT TRANSPARENCY report on 2023 Congressional hearing U.S. recovered non-human 'biologics' from UFO crash sites, former intel official says Here are the 5 most memorable moments from Congress’ UFO hearing The UFO Whistleblower’s Extraordinary Congressional Hearing We are not alone: The UFO whistleblower speaks UFO whistleblower David Grusch says his health records were leaked UFO whistleblower David Grusch interview: What’s happened since? Accidental Truth: UFO Revelations - video of MUFON documentary NASA appoints new head of UFO research on Space.com UPDATE: NASA Shares UAP Independent Study Report; Names Director Eric Davis meeting with Adm. Wilson (the "Wilson Memo") Dr. Steven Greer website Executive Summary of the Disclosure Project Briefing Document by Greer To the Stars (the new website) To the Stars description (after rebranding) Skinwalkers at the Pentagon: An Insiders' Account of the Secret Government UFO Program on Amazon George Knapp statement to Congress Another UFO Boss to Break Silence in Major Book Deal: “The Process of Disclosure Has Begun” Imminent: Inside the Pentagon's Hunt for UFO by Luis Elizondo Review of Imminent at The Sentinel Summary of themes in Immanent on SuperSummary Summaries of chapters 6-10 from Imminent AARO 2024 report NASA UAP Independent Study Team Report from 2024 NASA UAP webpage Congress is revisiting UFOs: Here's what's happened since last hearing on extraterrestrials Burchett press conference Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena: Exposing the Truth on November 23, 2024 UAP hearing FULL HEARING: US Congress discusses "Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena" video Documents about Immaculate Constellation entered into the Congressional record CD307: Immaculate Constellation at Congressional Dish (plus other links) Congress heard more testimony about UFOs: Here are the biggest revelations Alien Technology Is Driving a ‘Multidecade, Secretive Arms Race,’ Former Pentagon Official Claims in Popular Mechanics What is the Cryptoterrestrial Hypothesis? ULTRATERRESTRIAL MODELS by H. E. Puthoff, Ph.D. in Journal of Cosmology, Vol. 29, No. 1 Unraveling the Mysteries of the Superspectrum: A Look at John Keel's Vision of Ultraterrestrials A comprehensive UAP theory of everything from @TomMontalk Disclosure Warriors Uncover a Vast UFO Coverup Conspiracy: Guerrilla Skeptics on Wikipedia! Spooky Hustlers: How wacky UFO activists and "crazy" ghost hunters duped Congress into hunting UFOs - video from the New York Post (long but worthwhile) Brian Dunning's The UFO Movie They Don't Want You to See webpage The UFO Movie THEY Don't Want You to See - Full Movie on YouTube (analysis on those first 3 UAP videos starts around 54 minutes in) Follow us on social: Facebook Twitter Bluesky 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
3/12/25 • 59:13
EPISODE 131 | Hotlantis: The Lost Continent We all love mysteries, and Atlantis is one of the biggest ones. Was it a real place or just an allegory? If real, then where was it? Many people have spent a lot of time and money trying to discover the answer to that question. Like what we do? Then buy us a beer or three via our page on Buy Me a Coffee. Review us here or on IMDb. And, seriously, subscribe, will ya? SECTIONS 02:22 - Let the Mermaids Flirt with Me - Plato's Timaeus and Critias describe Atlantis, Utopia, probably just an allegory, Tertullian's "On Baptism", Elysium, Plato references Solon 08:44 - When the Levee Breaks - Atlantias by Hellanicus of Lesbos, the disaster at Helike, Altantipedia 14:00 - Mediterranean Sundance - Crantor believed it, the Pillars of Hercules, in the Mediterranean: Santorini (Thira), the Minoans, Robert Graves thought it was Pharos, Robert L. Scranton liked Lake Copais, other Med locales 21:08 - Atlantic - Ignatius Donnelly and Pierre-Marie Termier chose the Azores, hyperdiffusionism, Otto Muck thought about the Mid-Atlantic Range and the Carolina Bays, Bory de Saint-Vincent liked the Canary Islands (and pillow lava), Jorge Maria Ribero-Meneses considered the Cachucho Plateau, some liked the Spartel Bank, Paul Dunbavin liked the the Irish Sea, Stel Pavlou changes the timeline, the Richart Structure in Mauritania 28:48 - Abraham Ortelius drew a map, Athanasius Kircher expanded that work and thought Atlantis connected North America with Africa 31:02 - New World - Edgar Cayce's visions pointed to Bimini, the Bimini Road, the Blake Plateau, the Sargasso Sea, J.M. Allen thinks of the Incans and Bolivia, mythological places, Antarctica 36:40 - Underwater Love - Olaus Rudbeck preferred Sweden, Jürgen Spanuth like Northern Europe, Helena Blavatsky's Theosophy and root races, Jörg Lanz von Liebenfels and Guido von List create Ariosophy ("the wisdom of the Aryans"), the Nazis took that ball and ran with it 41:33 - Palace of the Brine - CTs like ancient aliens, the Vatican, the Illuminati; Tony O’Connell of Atlantapedia's central Mediterranean theory, my own take on it all Music by Fanette Ronjat More Info Atlantipedia website Timaeus By Plato Critias By Plato Finding Atlantis in the depths of Plato On Baptism by Tertullian Atlantis isn’t real, but here are all the places it could have been in Popular Science Atlantis on History.com Atlantis at National Geographic Atlantis - An Investigation on Storymaps Top 10 Amazing Facts About the Lost City of Atlantis The ‘truth’ behind Atlantis – Christopher Gill on Plato’s Atlantis Story Where is the Lost City of Atlantis — and Does it Even Exist? in Discover Is Atlantis Real? The Truth Behind the Atlantis Myth Was there a real Atlantis? on How Stuff Works Plato’s Atlantis Before Plato on Beachcombing's BIzarre HIstory Blog WHO ELSE WROTE ABOUT ATLANTIS? Findings on Santorini Point to “Lost Island of Atlantis” Origins How the Ancient Greek City of Helike Was Destroyed and Rediscovered Wrath of a God or Nature: The Demise of Helike What Are the Pillars of Hercules Mentioned in Greek Mythology? The Pillars of Heracles at the Plato Project How the Discovery of ‘Atlantis’ Made Big News Then Faded Away The Mysteries of Lake Copais and the Island Fortress of Gla The Sunken City That Might Be Atlantis Atlantis Location Hypothesis 10 mysterious locations to find the lost city of Atlantis WHERE IS ATLANTIS?: PILLARS OF HERACLES, A SEA OF MUD AND MONSTERS IN THE DEEP Atlantis, Lake Tritonis, and Pharos Ignatius L. Donnelly in the Scholarly Community Encyclopedia Master of Disaster, Ignatius Donnelly in the Public Domain Review Are the Misty Peaks of the Azores Remnants of the Legendary Atlantis? The Canary Islands And The Atlantis Legend Pillow basalt more than a kilometer above sea level Lost city of Atlantis believed found off Spain The Mystery of Carolina Bays Location hypotheses of Atlantis Hunting Atlantis TV show “Be Vewy Quiet. I’m Hunting Atlantis.” What Exactly Is the Eye of the Sahara, aka the Richat Structure? Ancient Saharan Origins of East African Bantus: The Land of Atlantis and Egypt Atlantis on the Green Sahara The Infamous Map of Atlantis on Cryptid Campfire How the imaginary island of Atlantis was mapped on Vox Bimini Road/The Lost City of Atlantis Why Some People Think Bimini Road Is A Lost Highway To Atlantis on All That's Interesting Ep. 128 | Estimated Prophets: Nostradamus & Cayce The Island of Atlantis Discovered The Blake Plateau: A Southern Treasure Deep Sea Corals: The depths of the Blake Plateau Ep. 103 | Down in Bermuda, It’s Easy to Believe: The Devil’s Triangle The Sargasso Sea: why this ‘golden floating rainforest’ urgently needs protecting at Greenpeace Mysteries of the Sargasso Sea Atlantis: The Andes Solution : The Discovery of South America As the Legendary Continent of Atlantis by John Blashford-Snell Exploring Atlantis and Lemuria Is Atlantis in Antarctica Atlantis on the H. P. Lovecraft Wiki Swedish Visions of Atlantis – Olof Rudbeck the Elder’s Atlantica Atlantis Then and Now on the Theosophical Society website Eight unbelievable theories about Atlantis - that people actually believed! Atlantis Conspiracy website Lost city of Atlantis rises again to fuel a dangerous myth in The Guardian Atlantis: The Lost Continent Finally Found by Arysio Santos Joining The Dots: Plato's Atlantis in the Central Mediterranean by Tony O'Connell Follow us on social: Facebook Twitter Bluesky 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
2/26/25 • 45:29
EPISODE 130 | Lost Cities of the New World Guest: Neil Laird, Emmy-nominated TV producer (Discovery, BBC, PBS, History, National Geographic), author of the Prime Time novel series What's commonly called the "New World" is actually very old, and for a long time, people have been trying to track down supposedly lost locations in the Americas. While these folks have not succeeded, advances in technology are allowing us to make astonishing discoveries that are rewriting the history of human habitation in the Western Hemisphere. Like what we do? Then buy us a beer or three via our page on Buy Me a Coffee. Review us here or on IMDb. And seriously, subscribe, will ya? SECTIONS 03:07 - The Lost City of Z - Percy Harrison Fawcett finds Manuscript 512 and goes looking in the Amazon, the search for Fawcett gets LIDAR, new discoveries are made about old New World urban planning 25:18 - The City of the Lost Monkey God - LIDAR again to the rescue, the jungle is difficult to navigate, rebranded as City of the Jaguar 31:48 - El Dorado and the Fountain of Youth - Everyone wants gold, and who doesn't want to live forever?, these locations are cyphers, Mysteries of...., Shark Week, the Prime Time novels Music by Fanette Ronjat MORE INFO Neil Laird on IMDb Prime Time Travelers: A Satirical MM Adventure by Neil Laird Prime Time Pompeii by Neil Laird Lost Trails, Lost Cities by Colonel Percy Harrison Fawcett Manuscript 512: 18th century evidence of a lost civilization in Brazil? by Jason Colavito Manuscript 512 text Percy Fawcett and the Lost City on History Today The Enduring Mystery Behind Percy Fawcett’s Disappearance on History.com Lost Cities of the Amazon Discovered From the Air in Smithsonian The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon by David Grann The Lost City of Z movie Indiana Jones and the Seven Veils by Rob Macgregor The Lost City of the Monkey God: A True Story by Douglas Preston Exclusive: Lost City Discovered in the Honduran Rain Forest in National Geographic La Ciudad Blanca: The White City of Honduras Lure of the Lost City in National Geographic The Lost City That’s Not Lost, Not a City, and Doesn’t Need to Be Discovered El Dorado: Real history behind the legend on LiveScience El Dorado on National Geographic Khwaja Khadir and the Fountain of Life in the Tradition of Persian and Mughal Art Florida's Fountain of Youth on The Progress Report Fountain of Youth in Florida website Follow us on social: Facebook Twitter Bluesky 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
2/12/25 • 46:01
EPISODE 129 | The Fermi Paradox: Here Comes Nobody If we are not unique as a species, an intelligent one that builds civilizations, then there must be lots and lots of other civilizations out there in the galaxy and the rest of the universe beyond. But if so, where the hell is everybody? That’s the question at the heart of the Fermi Paradox. And this has kicked off a chain of reasoning and speculation that crosses disciplinary boundaries, and lets us start to envision, not just what might be out there, but where we ourselves want to go as a global civilization. Like what we do? Then buy us a beer or three via our page on Buy Me a Coffee. You can also SUBSCRIBE to this podcast. Review us here or on IMDb! SECTIONS 02:54 - First we feel, then we fall - The Fermi Paradox, the Drake Equation, the Wow! Signal, space is big 09:22 - End here. Us then. Finn, again! - Abiogenesis, the Pulse-Transient Theory of Industrial Civilization, musings on the galactic situation 18:48 - They lived and laughed and loved and left - The Great Filter, Von Neumann probes, the Berserker Hypothesis; loud, quiet and grabby aliens; the Dark Forest Hypothesis, the technological singularity, the Jevons Paradox and induced demand 27:16 - The cross of your own cruelfiction - The Zoo Hypothesis, the Planetarium Hypothesis, the Deathworld Scenario, A Field Guide to Aliens, Calculating God and other science fiction, the Aestivation Hypothesis 34:34 - Three quarks for Muster Mark! - The Kardashev Scale, Sagan's addition, megastructures, Barrow's anti-Kardashev scale, Galántai's variation, the Urbanization Hypothesis, Kardashev's six scenarios, what to look for 43:04 - He is cured by faith who is sick of fate - They're here, Greer and UAP folks, MJ-12, the SETI Paradox, we are looking, light is fast but has a limit 47:38 - Let us leave theories there and return to here's hear - Joseph Campbell and where do we go from here? Music by Fanette Ronjat More Info Finnegans Wake glosses A skeleton key to Finnegans Wake by Joseph Campbell ‘It never ends’: the book club that spent 28 years reading Finnegans Wake in The Guardian Finnegan’s Wake at 80: In Defense of the Difficult at LitHub Why Finnegans Wake Is Better than Ulysses Fermi’s Paradox on This American Life SETI Institute website Humanity Responds to 'Alien' Wow Signal, 35 Years Later This Is How We Know There Are Two Trillion Galaxies In The Universe in Forbes The Great Filter: a possible solution to the Fermi Paradox in Astronomy A list of solutions to the Fermi Paradox on It's only chemo Are We Alone in the Universe? Article looking at the Drake Equation How Many Aliens Are There? A look at the Drake Equation Drake Equation: Estimating the Odds of Finding E.T. on Space.com Template for calculating answers to the Drake Equation on PBS The Olduvai Theory: Toward a Re-Equalizing of the World Standard of Living The Berserker Hypothesis: The Darkest Explanation Of The Fermi Paradox Grabby Aliens website Dark Forest theory: A terrifying explanation of why we haven’t heard from aliens yet The Dark Forest Hypothesis is Absurd 'Zoo hypothesis' may explain why we haven't seen any space aliens Where Is Everyone? 4 Possible Explanations for the Fermi Paradox at Singularity Hub The Kardashev scale: Classifying alien civilizations on Space.com Kardashev Scale: What is it and where is Earth listed? on BBC Science Focus Forecasting the progression of human civilization on the Kardashev Scale through 2060 with a machine learning approach reports in Scientific Reports SETI: Musings on the Barrow Scale A non-anthropocentric solution to the Fermi paradox in the International Journal of Astrobiology Asymptotic burnout and homeostatic awakening: a possible solution to the Fermi paradox? in the Journal of the Royal Society Planetary scientists suggest a solution to the Fermi paradox: Superlinear scaling leading to a singularity on Phys.org The Coming Technological Singularity: How to Survive in the Post-Human Era by Vernor Vinge Novels with a focus on the Fermi Paradox / Great Filter? in r/printSF Beyond “Fermi’s Paradox” XVII: What is the “SETI-Paradox” Hypothesis? SETI urged to fess up over alien signals Steven Greer's website Follow us on social: Facebook Twitter Bluesky 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
1/29/25 • 48:57
EPISODE 128 | Estimated Prophets: Nostradamus & Cayce Even though almost none of the things that prophets say will happen actually do, we still persist in believing in the capability anyway. We do not like to change out minds very much. Two of the biggest prophets that still hold sway today over Western culture are Nostradamus and Edgar Cayce, and we’ll take a look at each one in turn. Like what we do? Then buy us a beer or three via our page on Buy Me a Coffee. You can also SUBSCRIBE to this podcast. Review us here or on IMDb! SECTIONS 02:35 - Built to Last - Nostradamus' career and style, Virgilianised syntax, Les Prophéties and the Mirabilis Liber 06:53 - Aoxomoxoa - Into the 20th century, Erika Cheetham, "The Man Who Saw Tomorrow", some prophecies 12:48 - Blues for Allah - The King of Terror wears a blue turban, more prophecies, modern rehashings and interpretations, Over Sixty's Travel Trouble section for 2025 22:13 - Shakedown Street - Nostrafakers, Mabus the 3rd Antichrist, Ray Mabus, Dennis "prophetofrevenge" Markuze, John "rogue scholar" Hogue 28:38 - Ship of Fools - Nostrascams, Gangnam Style, Rudolf Hess uses Nostradamus 32:08 - American Beauty - Edgar Cayce gets his voice back, starts a lucrative career as the Sleeping Prophet and has weird food ideas 36:01 - In the Dark - Cayce sells pseudomedical "cures", then loses it in 1932, makes lots of predictions and travels around in time, the "root race" and polygenesis, Atlantis and more 42:14 - Wake of the Flood - Cayce's Earth Changes, Lori Toye's I Am America maps, Gordon-Michael Scallion's prophetic doomsday maps, billionaires start buying land Music by Fanette Ronjat More Info EPSIODE 53 | Time to Get Ill - DST, Y2K & 2012 Episode 08 | Time Cube - Four Is the Loneliest Number Entry for Nostradamus on the Museum of Hoaxes website A translation of Nostradamus prophecies More translations of the prophecies Nostradamus’s Cherry Jelly recipe on Tasting History Nostradamus Predicted 9/11 on the Museum of Hoaxes Crystalinks prophecies page Nostradamus' 2025 predictions revealed on OverSixty Dennis Markuze - The Prophecies of Nostradamus HogueProphecy website An Idiot's Biography - John Hogue Edgar Cayce on Crystalinks Edgar Cayce’s life & readings page on his official website Edgar Cayce: The Would-Be Sleeping Prophet Earth Star magazine Arizona Corporation Commission Finds Payson Couple Defrauded Elderly Investor The Shocking Doomsday Maps Of The World And The Billionaire Escape Plans in Forbes Follow us on social: Facebook Twitter Bluesky 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
1/15/25 • 49:48
EPISODE 127 | Cognitive Biases: Thanks, Big Brain! (Because Reasons 12) This episode looks at the final two categories of biases in the Cognitive Biases Codex – what we tend to do when the information we’re presented with doesn’t contain enough meaning, and the brain’s tendency to favor quick assessments over complete ones, because it feels it need to act quickly. Like what we do? Then buy us a beer or three via our page on Buy Me a Coffee. You can also SUBSCRIBE to this podcast. Review us here or on IMDb! SECTIONS COMPLICATED SHADOWS- Confabulation, apophenia, illusory correlation, the clustering illusion, the illusion of validity and WYSIWTI, the anecdotal fallacy, inductive reasoning, the post hoc ergo propter hoc fallacy, the recency illusion, the gambler's fallacy and hot hand fallacy Stereotyping, group attribution error, outgroup homogeneity, the moral credential effect, authority bias, functional fixedness, the Just-World Hypothesis, the bandwagon effect, argument from fallacy (bad apple bias, fallacy fallacy), the placebo and nocebo effects The cross-race effect, the Halo and Horns Effect, the positivity effect, reactive devaluation, the cheerleader effect, the not invented here bias, the well-traveled road effect Mental accounting, Miller's Law (magic number 7 +/- 2), appeal to probability, survival bias, the subadditivity effect, the zero sum bias The illusion of transparency, the curse of knowledge, the illusions of asymmetric insight and of external agency Self-consistency bias, hindsight bias, moral luck, outcome bias, restraint bias, pro-innovation bias, declinism, pessimism bias, the planning fallacy, backward and forward telescoping ALARM CALL - Belief bias and syllogisms, Occam's Razor, the less-is-better effect, the Delmore effect, the conjunction fallacy (the Linda Problem), information bias, ambiguity bias, the Easton-Rosen Phenomenon (rhyme-as-reason effect) Status quo bias and ante, system justification, the decoy effect (asymmetric dominance effect), reverse psychology, social comparison bias, reactance The backfire effect, the sunk cost fallacy, the pseudocertainty effect, zero-risk bias, loss aversion, unit bias, irrational escalation (escalation of commitment), the endowment effect (divestiture aversion) and the IKEA effect, the generation effect The identifiable victim effect, hyperbolic discounting, Argumentum ad Novitatem (appeal to novelty) Effort justification, the defensive attribution hypothesis, trait ascription bias, the illusion of control, the optimism effect, risk compensation and the Peltzman effect, the egocentric bias (Illusory Superiority, the Lake Woebegone effect), the self-serving bias, the overconfidence effect, the Dunning-Kruger effect, the hard-easy effect, the false consensus effect, social desirability bias, the fundamental attribution error and the Actor-Observer bias Music by Fanette Ronjat Follow us on social: Facebook Twitter 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
1/1/25 • 54:54
EPISODE 126 | Cognitive Biases and the Brain: Thanks, Evolution! (Because Reasons 11) The first of two episodes looking at cognitive biases - this one at how memory works and how we prevent input overload by filtering out information. Hopefully, this will give us some insight into why people think they way they do. The primary source material for this is the Cognitive Biases Codex, created by Buster Benson and John Manoogian III, as used by the EU's Marie Curie CogNovo program for Conspiracy-Theories.EU. Like what we do? Then buy us a beer or three via our page on Buy Me a Coffee. You can also SUBSCRIBE to this podcast. Review us here or on IMDb! SECTIONS MEMORIES CAN'T WAIT - Misinformation effect, testing effect, processing effect, spacing effect, Google effect, two types of absentmindedness, next-in-line effect, list length effect, serial position effect, suffix effect, part-list cueing effect, peak-end rule, duration neglect Fading affect bias, negativity bias, leveling and sharpening, Maude sees a Black man, suggestibility; false memory (UFO abductions, Satanic Panic), misattribution of memory, cryptoamnesia, source confusion (eyewitness testimony) TOO MUCH INFORMATION - The availability heuristic, repetition makes it true - the illusory truth effect and the mere exposure effect, attentional bias, context effect, mood-congruent memory bias, cue-dependent forgetting, the frequency illusion and Baader-Meinhof Phenomenon, the base rate fallacy, the empathy gap (cold-to-hot and hot-to-cold), omission bias The bizarreness effect, humor effect, isolation effect (Von Resteroff effect), and picture superiority effect; bias blind spot, the introspection illusion, naïve cynicism, confirmation bias, congruence bias, choice-supportive bias (post-purchase bias), selective perception and the ostrich effect, observer-expectancy effect (also experimenter effect), subjective validation (the personal validation effect) helps conspiracy theory formation, the Semmelweis reflex, the continued influence effect (people don't unlearn mis- or disinformation easily once it's been integrated) Anchoring, conservatism, distinction bias, contrast bias, the focusing effect, the framing effect, the money illusion or price illusion and the price of milk; perceiving change - Weber and Fechner, the discrimination threshold, Numerical Cognition Music by Fanette Ronjat More Info Cognitive biases codex Cognitive Biases on Conspiracy-Theories.EU Conspiracy-Theories.EU website About CogNovo Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions website What Is Cognitive Bias? 7 Examples & Resources (Incl. Codex) on Positive Psychology List of Cognitive Biases and Heuristics on The Decision Lab How Our Brains Make Memories in Smithsonian Psychology study uncovers new details about the cognitive underpinnings of belief in conspiracy theories on PsyPost Conspiracy theories in New Scientist 24 cognitive biases that are warping your perception of reality on the World Economic Forum Conspiracy theory and cognitive style: a worldview Beliefs in conspiracy theories and the need for cognitive closure Social Media, Cognitive Reflection, and Conspiracy Beliefs Cognitive Bias articles on ScienceDirect Cognitive Biases and Brain Biology Help Explain Why Facts Don’t Change Minds at the University of Connecticut Cognitive Bias 101: What It Is and How To Overcome It at the Cleveland Clinic 4 widespread cognitive biases and how doctors can overcome them at the American medical Association How Cognitive Biases Influence the Way You Think and Act on VeryWellMind 24 cognitive biases stuffing up your thinking plus cards at yourbias.is Identify Cognitive Biases in Business Decision‑Making at Mailchimp Follow us on social: Facebook Twitter 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
12/18/24 • 56:13
EPISODE 125 | Last Flight: More Airliner Weirdness While it's totally normal that things break, sometimes there is also some kind of secret or mystery around something as monumental as an airplane crash or disappearance. And so lots of "theories" get spun, some by those who have lost someone dear to them, others by those who seek to profit from the disaster. This follow-up episode to our previous one about airplanes, One of Our Aircraft Is Missing, is likewise dedicated to my godson, Vova, or Rusty, who just loves, loves, loves, loves commercial aircraft. Like what we do? Then buy us a beer or three via our page on Buy Me a Coffee. You can also SUBSCRIBE to this podcast. Review us here or on IMDb! SECTIONS 02:42 - Northwest Orient Airlines Flight 2501 - What's going on in Michigan? 05:31 - Swissair Flight 111 - Richard Tomlinson, wayward MI6 agent 09:45 - EgyptAir Flight 990 - The apotheosis of petty revenge, which inspires bin Laden 15:58 - Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 - A disappearance, an investigation, suicide and simulator speculations 22:27 - More MH370 Theories - Fire, ghost plane, cyberattack, hijacking, Freescale Semiconductor and and patent # US8671381B1 25:49 - Diego Garcia, the Donbas, the old switcheroo, a plot to destroy Malaysian Airlines 30:49 - Meteors, black holes, weird phone calls, aliens, transdimensional rifts Music by Fanette Ronjat More Info 7 Puzzling Plane Disappearances Planes full of passengers that vanished and could never be traced Disappearance Over Lake Michigan: The Story Of Northwest Orient Airlines Flight 2501 on Simple Flying The Wreck of Northwest Flight 2501 Submerged in Lake Michigan 229 people, 15 000 body parts: pathologists help solve Swissair 111’s grisly puzzles in the Canadian Medical Association Journal A Rogue Spy's Cyber-Revenge on CBS News Did British intelligence down Swissair Flight 111? by Dean Andromidas More mysteries over Swissair Flight 111 by Dean Andromidas The Crash of EgyptAir 990 in The Atlantic The Tragedy Of EgyptAir Flight 990 on Simple Flying EgyptAir Flight 990: A Controversial Aviation Accident on Aviation File Text: NTSB Chairman Hall on EgyptAir Flight 990 Crash Investigation Flight 990: What Really Happened? on Al Jazeera Timeline of MH370 disappearance on CNN Timeline of the search for MH370 – a visual guide in The Guardian MH370: History's Greatest Unsolved Aviation Mystery video Top 10 theories what may have happened to Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 on RationalWiki Mathematician: Missing MH370 plunged vertically into ocean on CNN Map Shows Where MH370 Signal Detected, Raising Hopes of Breakthrough in Newsweek What Really Happened to Malaysia’s Missing Airplane in The Atlantic What happened to missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370? Five theories evaluated Former Proteus Airlines boss Marc Dugain claims MH370 may have been shot down by US military near Diego Garcia My Missing Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 Theory: Diego Garcia Did missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 fly to little lost island of Diego Garcia? Comment: Conspiracies more mysterious than MH370 The conspiracy theories surrounding missing flight MH370 MH370: Exploring compelling conspiracy theories around Malaysian Airlines’ mysterious flight disappearance episode in Business Insider The Conspiracy Theories Behind the Malaysian Flight 370 Disappearance on The Takeaway The Most Logical (And Craziest) MH370 Conspiracy Theories in Wired Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 Found After 10 Years, Scientists Find Perfect Hiding Spot video on OneIndia News Examining MH370 conspiracy theories CNN video Did Governments Lie About This Missing Plane? | MH370 EXPLAINED Part I video Are Any MH370 Conspiracy Theories True? | MH370 EXPLAINED Part II video Debunking the MH370 conspiracy theories on 9 News Australia Flight MH370: Why Are Conspiracy Theories Seductive? video on the Wall Street Journal Follow us on social: Facebook Twitter 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
12/4/24 • 34:39
EPISODE 124 | One of Our Aircraft Is Missing A look at a few outstanding cases of plane crashes and disappearances, commercial flights that have gone awry, and some of the weirdness surrounding those mishaps. And, of course, the ones we’ll look at have had conspiracy theories spun about them. This episode is dedicated to my godson, Vova (or Rusty, as we call him), because he absolutely loves commercial aircraft. Like what we do? Then buy us a beer or three via our page on Buy Me a Coffee. You can also SUBSCRIBE to this podcast. Review us here or on IMDb! SECTIONS 04:33 - BSAA Avro Lancastrian Star Dust, August 2, 1947 (STENDEC) 10:19 - 191 Is Cursed - Prinair Flight 191, American Airlines Flight 191, Delta Air Lines Flight 191, Comair Flight 5191, JetBlue Flight 191 and Germanwings Flight 9525 15:32 - TWA Flight 800, July 17, 1996 23:03 - More July 17 – TAM 3054 (July 17, 2007) and MH17 (July 17, 2014) 27:34 - Korean Air Lines Flight 007, September 1, 1983 35:58 - KAL007 "Theories" 39:47 - Bert Schlossberg Wades In Music by Fannete Ronjat More Info EPISODE 103 | Down in Bermuda, It’s Easy to Believe – The Devil’s Triangle EPISODE 89 | JBS BS: The John Birch Society Number of worldwide air traffic fatalities from 2006 to 2021 Airplane Crashes on NSC Injury Facts A Pilot’s Last Words: “STENDEC” in Plane and Pilot Magazine The Star Dust Mystery on Damn Interesting STENDEC Solved in the North Texas Skeptic 17th July a cursed date and 191 a cursed flight number? on FlyerTalk by JetAirways77W The Curse of Flight 191 by Still Penguins Seldom Waddle on Medium The Inauspicious “Curse” of Flight 191 on Airline Geeks Flight 191: The Cursed Number video on the Grand Conspiracies and Mysteries YouTube channel The World's Riskiest Flight in Esquire Fatal Over-Rotation: 50 Years Since The Crash Of Prinair Flight 191 on Simple Flying The Deadliest Crash: Flight 191 and its Maintenance Legacy in Aviation Maintenance Magazine Knowing When to Stop: The Investigation of Flight 191 by Mara E. Vatz, MIT 2003 The Worst Crash in US History: American Airlines 191 video on the Fascinating Horror YouTube channel Remembering Delta Flight 191 at the National Weather Service Delta Flight 191 deadly crash 38 years ago led to changes in forecasting after microburst brought down plane on Fox Weather Wrong Runway: The Crash Of Comair Flight 5191, 16 Years On on Simple Flying Comair 5191 Crash Led to Air Traffic Control Changes on the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) website JetBlue Pilot Yelled About Sept. 11 and 'Push It to Full Throttle' on ABC News JetBlue flight diverted after captain’s ‘erratic’ behavior on CNN Travel Germanwings crash: What happened in the final 30 minutes on BBC News The Real Story of Germanwings Flight 9525 in Esquire The Germanwings Flight 9525 Crash video on the Dark Records YouTube channel TWA Flight 800 in RationalWiki 25-year anniversary of TWA Flight 800 explosion marks new chapter in disaster’s history on CNN What Happened to TWA Flight 800? on History.com 'First conspiracy of the internet age’: How the TWA Flight 800 explosion sparked online rumors for years in USA Today News TWA 800 lawsuit document filing 15 Years Ago: TAM Flight 3054 Becomes Brazil's Deadliest Air Crash on Simple Flying TAM 3054 entry on the Aviation Safety Network MH17 incident on the Government of the Netherlands website Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 at RationalWiki MH17 Ukraine plane crash: What we know on BBC MH17 plane crash: Horror and hope for families as trial starts on BBC Korean Air Lines flight 007 at Britannica The downing of Flight 007: 30 years later, a Cold War tragedy still seems surreal on CNN The Death of Korean Air Lines Flight 007 by Peter Grier in AIR FORCE Magazine (January 2013) Vadim Kondrabaev: "Secret of the Empty Airplane" on Roy's Russian Aircraft Resource Korean Air Lines Flight 007 alternative theories on Wikipedia Bert Schlossberg on RationalWiki Korean Airlines Flight 007 entry on Conservapedia Rescue 007 - Schlossberg's website Let's Ask Putin column by Reed Irvine, Chairman for Accuracy in media World's 10 most mysterious plane disappearances and strangest aircraft crashes 10 aviation Mysteries of Our Time The Unsolved Mysteries of 8 Missing Passenger Flights 7 Puzzling Plane Disappearances Follow us on social: Facebook Twitter 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
11/20/24 • 43:29
EPISODE 123 | A Heritage of Nonsense: More JKF Stories Guest: Fred Litwin, author of A Heritage of Nonsense: Jim Garrison's Tales of Mystery and Imagination The JFK assassination truly is the gift that keeps on giving, as this third book on the topic by Fred Litwin demonstrates. People who became suspects after just a two-minute phone call, a comedian who claimed to have channeled Oswald's ghost, a dishwasher spy, Jim Garrison's theory of propinquity and more weirdness than you can shake a stick at. SECTIONS 02:37 - What's the problem with Jim Garrison? 08:44 - Breck Wall makes a phone call and gets noticed, Garrison's "methods" 17:55 - Raymond Broshears channels Lee Harvey Oswald 20:42 - Arthur Strout tries to change careers 24:14 - Richard Case Nagell is the Man in the Middle 32:45 - Farewell America: The Plot to Kill JFK by "James Hepburn" 38:47 - Aren't you sick of this? Music by Fanette Ronjat More Info Fred Litwin's website A Heritage of Nonsense on Amazon The JFK Assassination w/Fred Litwin (Big ’Uns 5) episode 50 Film Flam - JFK & Stone w/Fred Litwin episode 79 Papers of Jim Garrison at the National Archives Oliver Stone's Portrayal of Jim Garrison on The JFK 100 Breck Wall Oral History video at The Sixth Floor Museum Warren Commission testimony of Breck Wall Assassination a Homosexual Thrill Killing by Dave Reitzes A Homosexual Thrill-Kill? By Adam Gorightly A Farewell to Justice: Jim Garrison, JFK's Assassination, and the Case That Should Have Changed History by Joan Mellen Breck Wall blogs Raymond Broshears blogs Arthur Strout blogs Richard Case Nagell blogs Richard Case Nagell - The Man Who Knew Too Much Nagell communications with the authorities How to Get the CIA’s Attention: Threaten a JFK Assassination Reveal The Man Who Knew Too Much: Hired to Kill Oswald and Prevent the Assassination of JFK by Dick Russell Richard Case Nagel timeline Man in the Middle: The Inside Story text Farewell America: The Plot to Kill JFK article in Publisher's Weekly The Realist archives They Killed Our President: 63 Reasons to Believe There Was a Conspiracy to Assassinate JFK by Jesse Ventura The Man Who Killed Kennedy: The Case Against LBJ by Roger Stone with Mike Colapietro Hit List: An In-Depth Investigation Into the Mysterious Deaths of Witnesses to the JFK Assassination by Richard Belzer Follow us on social: Facebook Twitter 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
11/6/24 • 44:11
EPISODE 122 | How to Be a Communist One of the many words tossed about these days as a snarl term is “communist”, but do the people using this sobriquet know what that really means? It certainly doesn’t mean every leftwing philosophy or ideology. In fact, Communism is a very specific set of applications of very certain ideas, and, like it or not, helped define the 20th century. So let’s look at what Communism is and what it isn’t, and what other systems and suites of thought have crossover with it. Like all the different flavors of Socialism. Like what we do? Then buy us a beer or three via our page on Buy Me a Coffee. You can also SUBSCRIBE to this podcast. Review us here or on IMDb! SECTIONS Closer to Home - Socialism (market and non-market), Adam Smith, the Labour Theory of Value (LTV) Duty Now for the Future - The French Revolution and the Directory, the Conspiracy of Equals, Utopian Socialism, Chartism, Karl Marx and Friedreich Engels become buddies Mean Machine - Engels's "alienated labour" and The German Ideology, historical materialism, The Communist Manifesto, the basics of Marxism, Marx and Engels hatch a fast-track plan Brothers in Arms - The Russian Tsar is overthrown and Communism comes to power, the first Communist platform, Reds versus Whites, Lenin develops Leninism Music for the People - Stalin develops Marxism-Leninism, which spreads to all countries that go Communist Futuristic Design - Mao Zedong takes over in China, Communism fails almost everywhere Subterranean Jungle - The Horseshoe Theory, Communism has more in common with Fascism than with socialism, comparing and contrasting Fascism and Communism, comparing and contrasting capitalism and socialism, Third Way, social liberalism, social democracy Life's What You Make It - Capitalism is not a social or political system, democracy is opposed to authoritarianism's many flavours Music by Fanette Ronjat More Info: Why market socialism is a viable alternative to neoliberalism at the Lon don School of Economics and Political Science Market Socialism: A Case for Rejuvenation by Pranab Bardhan and John E. Roemer in the Journal of Economic Perspectives Socialist Market Economy chapters and articles on Science Direct Non-Market Socialism: What is it? How will it work? - 2 papers from the Socialist and Anarchist Utopias Panel at the 2018 The Great Transition: Setting the Stage for a Post-Capitalist Society International Conference in Montreal SOCIALISM WITHOUT MARKETS: DEMOCRATIC PLANNED SOCIALISM paper by Al Campbel What are some contemporary defenses of non-market socialism? on Quora labour theory of value entry on Britannica Chapter 6: Theories of Value from Human Society and the Global Economy by Kit Sims Taylor Gracchus Babeuf & the Conspiracy of Equals Utopian Socialism articles on Science Direct Utopian Socialism in America on Digital History Chartism essay by Amy J. Lloyd, University of Cambridge What was the Chartist movement? on BBC Bitesize Capitalism and alienation by Phil Gaspar in Critical Thinking from the International Socialist Review Marx’s Theory of Alienation by Asher Horowitz, professor of political science at York University The German Ideology by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels Historical Materialism.org website What is Historical Materialism? video on PHILO-notes YouTube channel Karl Marx entry in the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy Manifesto of the Communist Party What is 'Marxism' in The Economic Times How does Marxism differ from Leninism? What Is Marxism-Leninism? Marxism: What It Is and Comparison to Communism, Socialism, and Capitalism on Investopedia The Rise of Mao Zedong on Alpha History Socialism, Fascism, Capitalism and Communism Chart from the Hampton Roads Naval Museum Democracy in the Manual for Human Rights Education with Young People Communism vs. Fascism comparison chart Communism vs. Socialism comparison chart Socialism vs Communism also with a chart Communism vs. Democracy comparison chart Capitalism vs. Socialism comparison chart Capitalism vs Socialism another chart Fascism and communism: Two sides of the same coin at the Adam Smith Institute History is much too important to be left to politicians by Jonathan Steele in The Guardian Different Types of Socialism 6 Political Ideas Socialism different types video on various types of Socialism The Third Way: Myth and Reality by James Petras in the Monthly Review What the Heck Is Social Liberalism? Social Liberalism vs. Social Conservatism Social Democracy definition by John Patrick in Understanding Democracy, A Hip Pocket Guide Basics on Social Democracy brochure by the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung What Is Social Democracy? Unveiling Its Values video What are the main differences between social democracy and democratic socialism? on Quora Liberal or Social Democrat? in Dissent Magazine What's the difference between Social Democracy and Libertarianism? on Quora Follow us on social: Facebook Twitter 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
10/23/24 • 59:14
EPISODE 121 | Coup Coup G'joob: Civic Disturbances in the U.S. 1900 - Present This is a continuation of our previous episode about coup attempts, rebellions and civic unrest in the United States prior to the 20th century. This time, we jump into the 20th century and bring us right up to the present day. After hearing all this, you decide if things really are, as some would have you believe, the worst it’s ever been, or if in fact, America has always struggled with its foundational problems and original sins, coupled with an unusual appetite for, or at least tolerance of, violence. Like what we do? Then buy us a beer or three via our page on Buy Me a Coffee. You can also SUBSCRIBE to this podcast. Review us here or on IMDb! SECTIONS Sitting on a Cornflake - Race riots, the Green Corn Rebellion of 1917, the Red Summer of 1919, Anarchists, the Battle of Blair Mountain (1921), 1931 - Bloody Harlan, the Housing Riots, the Kingfish vs. the Wild Bull of Jeanerette Corporation Tee-Shirt - The Business Plot of 1933-1934 Yellow Matter Custard - The McMinn County War (the Battle of Athens) (1946) You Let Your Face Grow Long - The 1960s - Ax Handle Saturday, the Ole Miss Riot, the Harlem Riot, the Selma marches, the Watts Riot, the Long Hot Summer of 1967, segregationists in North Carolina, the Stonewall Riots, the Weathermen and the Days of Rage; the 1970s - the Kent State shootings, the Hard Hat Riot, Alcatraz and Catalina occupations, the Attica Prison Riot, the Weather Underground Organization (WUO) bombings and more; the 1980s and 1990s in brief A Serviceable Villain - The 21st century - Pseudolaw gets violent, the rise of protests, Occupy Wall Street, the Gretchen Whitmer kidnapping plot, stochastic terrorism, Trump mouths off, King Henry II and his "turbulent priest", the Manson family, proposed solutions to violent outbursts, Pakistan's Sabaoon Project, Kenya's Preventing of Violent Extremism through Education, Islamic deradicalization group Muflehun, Google's Redirect Method, what we can do Music by Fanette Ronjat More Info EPISODE 115 | Cuckoo Coups in the U.S. The Beatles explained: What does ‘goo goo g’joob’ mean? When the Socialist Revolution Came to Oklahoma—and Was Crushed in Smithsonian Magazine Red Summer: When Racist Mobs Ruled on American Experience Red Summer of 1919: How Black WWI Vets Fought Back Against Racist Mobs on History.com The Battle of Blair Mountain on ReImagine Appalachia Introduction to the West Virginia Mine Wars on the National Park Service Remembering Bloody Harlan on Parallel Narratives When the Unemployed Fought Back on Shelterforce.org Huey Long: His Life and Times Why is so little known about the 1930s coup attempt against FDR? in The Guardian Considering History: The 1933 Business Plot to Overthrow America in the Saturday Evening Post The Battle of Athens: An Obscure American Revolution on Legends of America The Battle of Athens in American Heritage What happened on Ax Handle Saturday, Aug. 27, 1960, in Jacksonville? The Riot at Ole' Miss on American RadioWorks Riots erupt over desegregation of Ole Miss on History.com Riots of 1964: The Causes of Racial Violence paper by Roy Wilkins at the Notre Dame Law Review Inside the Harlem Uprising of 1964 at Rutgers Watts Rebellion on History.com She Played a Key Role in the Police Response to the Watts Riots. The Memory Still Haunts Her—But Black History Is Full of Haunting Memories in Time The 1967 Riots: When Outrage Over Racial Injustice Boiled Over on History.com What was the Stonewall uprising? in National Geographic Stonewall then and now in The Harvard Gazette Chicago's Forgotten 'Days of Rage' THE MAY 4 SHOOTINGS AT KENT STATE UNIVERSITY: THE SEARCH FOR HISTORICAL ACCURACY Kent State shootings: The 1970 student protests that shook the US on the BBC What was the Weather Underground? on The Hill How the Weather Underground Failed at Revolution and Still Changed the World in Time Evading the FBI: The Weather Underground Organization at Yale University Press Some Say Occupy Wall Street Did Nothing. It Changed Us More Than We Think in Time Occupy Wall Street swept the world and achieved a lot, even if it may not feel like it in The Guardian Gretchen Whitmer kidnapping articles on PBS News The Final Twist in the Gretchen Whitmer Kidnap Case on Slate Donald Trump, Stochastic Terrorist in Mother Jones Stochastic terrorism: critical reflections on an emerging concept in Critical Studies on Terrorism How Stochastic Terrorism Uses Disgust to Incite Violence in Scientific American Deradicalizing, Rehabilitating, and Reintegrating Violent Extremists at the United States Institute of Peace (USIP) Bringing them home: Pakistan's child deradicalisation centre offers second chance Education for Preventing Violent Extremism (EPVE) working group paper from the Club of Madrid Lessons Learned from Student-led Initiatives to Prevent Violent Extremism in Kenyan Universities PREVENTING VIOLENT EXTREMISM THROUGH PROMOTING INCLUSIVE DEVELOPMENT, TOLERANCE AND RESPECT FOR DIVERSITY discussion paper from the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) Preventing violent extremism webpage at UNESCO Preventing Violent Radicalization in America report from the National Security Preparedness Group at the Bipartisan Policy Center DHS Rebrands and Expands Biased, Ineffective Countering Violent Extremism Program at the Brennan Center for Justice The Redirect Method on Moonshot The Search for Extremism: Deploying the Redirect Method at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy Follow us on social: Facebook Twitter 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
10/9/24 • 56:29
EPISODE 120 | OOPArts Doompa-Dee-Doo Sometimes people find something… interesting, maybe even mysterious. What is that? they ask. And then they or someone else makes a logical leap and says oh, wow, here is the missing link I’ve been looking for that proves all my theories that until now have been ridiculed or ignored. And not even scientists are immune to this very common and very human process. We’re looking at out of place artifacts, or OOPArts – things found in an unusual context. This might, upon examination, indicate that certain civilizational develops happened much earlier than we had thought or, if you’re of a certain bent, be used to further narratives of ancient advanced civilizations, Atlantis, ancient aliens, time travel, or the literal truth of the Bible. Like what we do? Then buy us a beer or three via our page on Buy Me a Coffee. You can also SUBSCRIBE to this podcast. Review us here or on IMDb! SECTIONS 02:27 - Cheer Up, Charlie - The Diquis Spheres, the Plain of Jars, the Eltanin Antenna, the Baigong Pipes, Starchild Skull, the Paluxy Tracks, the Meister Print, the Wolfsegg Iron (Salzburg Cube), the Klerksdorp Spheres; the Yonaguni Monument, the Land of Mu and Zealandia 25:35 - I Want It Now - The Dorchester Vase, the London Hammer, the Kingoodie artifact, the Coso Artifact, the Wedge of Aiud 34:39 - (I've Got a) Golden Ticket - The Shakōkidogū, the Quimbaya/Tolima "jets", the Saqqara Bird, the Abydos helicopter, the Dendera light/lamp, the Baghdad Battery 47:09 - Pure Imagination - The Nampa Figurine, the Multiregional Hypothesis, the Tecaxic-Calixtlahuaca head, the Upshur Bell Music by Fanette Ronjat More Info Episode 04 | Saddam's Stargate and Taskforce 20 Episode 11 | Conspirasaurus Rex - Dino-Mite Theories About the Dinosaurs Out of Place Artifacts on Historic Mysteries OOPARTs on History Undusted The strange world of Out-of-place artifact (OOPArt) Archeological Fantasies website Pseudoarchaeology Research Archive (PARA) website The Ancient Stone Spheres Costa Rica on 360 On History Atlantis in America: Navigators of the Ancient World by Ivar Zapp and George Erikson Diquis Spheres UNESCO listing Plain of Jars in Archaeology Magazine Plain of Jars Archaeological Research Project website Plain of Jars UNESCO listing In Search of... the Eltanin Antenna The Harp Sponge Baigong Pipes: The Strange Ancient "Pipes" Found In The Caves Of Mount Baigong The Baigong Pipes Skeptoid podcast episode The Starchild Skull -- Genetic Enigma or Human-Alien Hybrid? by Lloyd Pye The Starchild Project Starchild entry in the Encyclopedia of Dubious Archaeology Skeptic's Guide to the Universe podcast Paluxy Man -- The Creationist Piltdown A Summary of the Taylor Site Evidence Footprints in Stone (Forbidden History II) video The Meister Print on Footprints in Stone Tripping Over a Trilobite: A Study of the Meister Tracks The Salzburg Cube on Legends & Chronicles The Saltzburg Cube (sic) on the Museum of Unnatural Mystery Creation Evidence Museum website Alleged Iron Pot in Coal 10 Most Not-So-Puzzling Ancient Artifacts: The Grooved Spheres Klerksdorp Spheres: Strange Spheres Found In 3 Billion-Year-Old Rock Concretion on WIkipedia The 10 Most Not-So-Puzzling Ancient Artifacts: The Grooved Spheres on Archaeological Fantasies Exploration Mysteries: Yonaguni Monument on ExplorersWeb Japan's mysterious underwater 'city' on the BBC Was the legendary lost continent of Mu the 'real' Atlantis? Scientific American entry on Dorchester find, June 1852, "A Relic of a By-Gone Age" The Dorchester Vase on Genesis Park Dorchester Pot on Wikipedia The Book of the Damned by Charles Fort Worlds Before Our Own by Brad Steiger Mysteries of the Unexplained: How Ordinary Men and Women Have Experienced the Strange, the Uncanny, and the Incredible Reader's Digest book Ediacaran Period on Britannica If I Had a Hammer The London Hammer: It’s Real and It’s Fake on Naturalis Historia The Kingoodie Artifact on Stronghold Nation Those We Call Cavemen Were All That Remained Of Humanity After The Last Time We Destroyed Ourselves on Above Top Secret When Some 1920s Garbage Was Mistaken for an Ancient Artifact on Smithsonian Wedge of Aiud on RationalWiki The Mystery of Japan's Dogū Figures Ancient Dogu Figurines With Large Goggle-eyes Defy Scholarly Explanation on Ancient Origins Tolima "Fighter Jets" on Ancient Aliens Debunked The Saqqara Bird on Historic Wings The Saqqara Bird on Digging Up Ancient Aliens Submarines and the Hieroglyphics on Egypt Joy Helicopter Hieroglyphs? Debunking the “Mystery” of the Abydos Carvings on Ancient Origins.net Dendera lamp on RationalWiki The Dendera Light Bulb is a microdroplets fog made of sprayed water produced to achieve evaporative cooling inside the horizontal passage of the Great Pyramid of Khufu What the "Light Bulb" Relief Means at the Dendera Temple on The Archaeologist Was the Baghdad Battery really a battery? on BBC Science Focus Awful Archaeology Ep. 6: The Baghdad Battery video The "Baghdad Battery" on the Iron Skeptic The Unique Figurine In Idaho That Still Baffles Archaeologists To This Day on Only In Your State The Nampa Figurine: 2-million-year-old Relic or Just a Hoax? on Ancient Origins Multiregional Hypothesis: Human Evolutionary Theory on Thought Co. The Tan-Tan Venus Tan-Tan: The oldest known human representation? on The Bradshaw Foundation - The Art of the Ice Age Calixtlahuaca's Head at the University of New Mexico The Calixtlahuaca Head at Ohio State Archaeological Outliers 300 Million Years old Bell with Garuda found in Buckhannon, West Virginia The Mystery of the Bronze Bell encased within a Block of Coal on Metallic Man Genesis Park website Follow us on social: Facebook Twitter 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
9/25/24 • 56:37
Episode 119 | False-Flag-A-Go-Go (WIW 14) The false flag trick started with naval warfare, but has also been used to initiate wars and to sabotage political opponents. And the conspirasphere uses the idea of the false flag, both in general and specific terms, quite often to justify certain narratives. In that regard, the two most influential are the assassination of John F. Kennedy, and the attacks in New York City and Washington D.C. on September 11, 2001. Since that latter event, nearly every major public incident has been called a false flag by someone or another. Since today is September 11, this seems like a fitting time to look at false flags from history, because they do actually happen. Sometimes. Like what we do? Then buy us a beer or three via our page on Buy Me a Coffee. You can also SUBSCRIBE to this podcast. Review us here or on IMDb! SECTIONS 03:10 - Talk of the Town - The Puumala incident, the Ems Dispatch, the Mukden incident, the Reichstag fire and the Lex van der Lubbe, the Gleiwitz incident, Operation Grandmother Died, Operation Himmler, pseudo-operations, the shelling of Mainila and the Winter War, the Gulf of Tonkin incident 14:11 - Mystery Achievement - Black propaganda, the Protocols of the Elders of Zion, the KGB's Section A, Operation Trust, the Zinoviev Letter, black propaganda post-9/11, the Roorback Forgery of 1844, the Canuck Letter, the Penkovsky Papers 25:50 - Sense of Purpose - Culture jamming, Let’s Go! Shell in the Arctic, Scientology's Brain-Washing: A Synthesis of the Russian Textbook on Psychopolitics, L. Ron Hubbard's "fair game", Operation Freakout, Operation AJAX, Operation Susannah ("Unfortunate Business"), the bombing of the King David Hotel, Herman Hanneken in Haiti, the Mau Mau Uprising, quintuple agent Silver 36:20 - Loose Screw - The U.S. hates Castro, Operation Mongoose, Operation Bingo, Operation Dirty Trick, Operation Northwoods, the Maine incident 42:02 - Break Up the Concrete - McCain volunteer "attacked", Joe Jobs, sporgery, trolling CPAC with flags, Turlas piggybacks on OilRig, false flag cyber-ops Music by Fanette Ronjat More Info Examples of historical false flag/covert operations and false pretexts for war on Paradox Forum False flags: What are they and when have they been used? on BBC False-Flag Operations at the Hoover Institution A Guide to False Flag Operations on Grey Dynamics False flags are real, but far less widespread than social media suggest on Poynter The swedes stage a false flag attack against Russia! at On Wargames and Such Winter War: The 1939 Soviet Invasion Of Finland In Crystal-Clear Photos on Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty Revealed: the dark past of ‘Outcast’, MI6’s top wartime double agent Silver: The Spy Who Fooled the Nazis: The Most Remarkable Agent of The Second World War by Mihir Bose The many adventures and misadventures of 'Silver', a remarkable Indian spy Shell in the Arctic website The Scandal of Scientology by Paulette Cooper The story of Paulette Cooper Operation Freakout: an internal document from Scientology Fidel Castro: The CIA's 7 Most Bizarre Assassination Attempts on NBC News U.S. Military Wanted to Provoke War With Cuba on ABC News Inside Operation Northwoods, The U.S. Military Plot To Incite A War With Cuba on All That's Interesting Operation Northwoods document McCain Worker Made Up Attack Story on CBS News An Actual False-Flag Operation at CPAC in The Atlantic Russian hackers cloak attacks using Iranian group at BBC How Russia conducts false flag operations at US Embassy in the UK False Flag Theory | Psychics And Society on Medium How the term ‘false flag’ migrated to the right on the Columbia Journalism review Raising the False Flag of Conspiracy: What Are the Psychiatric Implications? at Psychiatric Times Follow us on social: Facebook Twitter 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
9/11/24 • 47:39
EPISODE 118 | Public Enemy Antifa Much has been made about Antifa. Is it a concept, socio-political stance, or an organized group? Do they oppose oppression by any means necessary, or are they simply hooligans who want to break things? Or, as Trump and others in the Maga mirror world have suggested, are they the quasi-military arm of some insidious plot to undermine the very foundations of western society? Are they, in fact, terrorists? So, let’s trace what it is, where it comes from and who is part of it. Like what we do? Then buy us a beer or three via our page on Buy Me a Coffee. You can also SUBSCRIBE to this podcast. Review us here or on IMDb! SECTIONS 02:05 - Bring the Noise - Antifaschistische Aktion (Antifa), skinhead culture, Anti-Racist Action (ARA), skins go left and right, White Aryan Resistance (WAR) the Heritage Front, Midwest Anti-Fascist Network, National Alliance, the NSM in Toledo, Ohio 11:30 - Shut 'em Down - The Hoosier Anti-Racist Movement (HARM) clash with the Illinois European Heritage Association, punch Nazis in the face, why the police protect them, police as legitimate targets, black bloc tactics, the New Sanctuary Movement, Milo Yiannopoulos goes to UC Berkeley 19:10 - Public Enemy No. 1 - Fake Antifa Twitter accounts spread #PunchWhiteWomen and #PunchANazi, Jebediah88 fakes The Antifa Manual, It's Going Down counters with Forming an Antifa Group: A Manual, Microchip sends petitions to Trump, the far-right goes all in of Antifa disinformation, molehill mountaineering, Lucian Wintrich worries about "Antifa supersoldiers" 25:39 - No Sympathy from the Devil - Louisiana police fall for "full list of antifa.docx", the American Identity Movement, CHiPs fall for "antifa buses", militias roam Coeur d’Alene, Idaho; Jeffersonians in Sonora, California become "rooftop rednecks", a family has a scary camping trip in Forks, Washington; Trump tells more lies 33:09 - Welcome to the Terrordome - Nonsense about Jan. 6, the Center for Strategic and International Studies creates a database of U.S. terrorist acts, Willem van Spronsen attacks an Immigration center in Washington, Patriot Prayer guy Aaron Danielson is killed by Michael Reinoehl, who is then killed by police; Trump crushes hard on the U.S. Marshalls Music by Fanette Ronjat More Info EPISODE 61 | The Great Replacement - The White Wing Goes Mainstream EPISODE 76 | Klown Kar - The KKK Can KMA (World Is Weird 8) EPISODE 101 | Panic! at the Disco - The Jan. 6 Event (WIW 12) EPISODE 117 | Stay Awake – The Wokeness Issue Antifa.org It's Going Down website The Long History of Antifa in The Progressive Magazine Who Are Antifa, and Are They a Threat? at the Center for Strategic & International Studies Inside the Underground Anti-Racist Movement that Brings the Fight to White Supremacists on Mother Jones What is antifa? Is it a group or an idea, and what do supporters want? on CBS News The Philosophy of Antifa video on Philosophy Tube The Antifa Comic Book: 100 Years of Fascism and Antifa by Gord Hill Antifa: A New Political Resistance? in the Berkeley Political Review Seven things you need to know about Antifa on BBC 11 Suggested Actions Towards Anti-Racism at UC Davis Anti-Racism Toolkit at Georgetown University Being Antiracist at the National Museum of African American History & Culture Antifa articles on Snopes EU Anti-racism Action Plan 2020-2025 Antifa: The Anti-Fascist Antagonists of the Alt-Right video from The Daily Show Left Hook: A Brief History of Nazi Punching in America in Mother Jones Is Antifa Counterproductive? in The Intercept Thinking Strategically About Free Speech And Violence in Current Affairs Butterfly Attack: The Origins of the Fake Antifa Social Media Accounts on The Media Manipulation Casebook Twitter says fake "Antifa" account was run by white supremacists on CBS News From Alt Right to Alt Lite: Naming the Hate from the Anti-Defamation League A brief dictionary to help understand the US far right at Al Jazeera Prevalence of white supremacists in law enforcement demands drastic change on Reuters The Nov. 4 conspiracy theory about antifa has some scary historical echoes on Slate How the antifa conspiracy theory traveled from the fringe to the floor of Congress in USA Today Is This 'Antifa Manual' Real? on Snopes Forming An Antifa Group: A Manual on It's Going Down White House ‘antifa’ petition written by pro-Trump troll on Politico Family reportedly harassed in Forks after being accused of being members of Antifa Federal officers won’t be charged for killing Portland anti-fascist supporter, prosecutor states 'I Am Antifa': One Activist's Violent Death Became A Symbol For The Right And Left on NPR What we know about Portland shooting suspect Michael Reinoehl in The News Tribune Trump Cheered His Killing As ‘Retribution,’ Now His Family Is Suing in Court in Rolling Stone Family of activist killed in alleged ‘spray of bullets’ by US police files lawsuit on The Guardian The Escalating Terrorism Problem in the United States from the Center for Strategic & International Studies Pushed to Extremes: Domestic Terrorism amid Polarization and Protest from the Center for Strategic & International Studies Follow us on social: Facebook Twitter 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
8/28/24 • 43:27
EPISODE 117 | Stay Awake: The Wokeness Issue In a classic example of the weird mirror world days we are currently moving through, a term used by Black people to mean one thing has been turned by opportunists into something totally different. So, let's look at the origin of the term "woke", how it's been used, African-American Vernacular English (AAVE), the Black Lives Matter movement, Defund the Police, and the appropriating of the word by those who see more personal profit in keeping us all divided. 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 02:23 - Hi Diddle Dee Dee (An Actor's Life For Me) - Jive talk/hep talk/Harlemese/Ebonics/AAVE, "stay woke" 10:53 - Someday My Prince Will Come - Black Lives Matter, Campaign Zero, M4BL 15:44 - Little April Shower - Defund the Police, support drops drastically 21:07 - Pink Elephants on Parade - All lives matter, white lives matter, blue lives matter, Russian trolls try to start a race war, #fakehashtags, athletes kneel in protest 26:59 - I Wan’na Be Like You - "Woke" becomes a snarl term, cancel culture rises, Cultural Marxism, the mirror world ascendant 33:55 - Heigh Ho - Musk's "woke mind virus" (WMV); DeSantis declares war with the PREA ("Don't Say Gay") and Stop WOKE, fights with the Mouse, babbles about Critical Race Theory 41:00 - Zip-a-Dee-Doo-Dah - Woke Christianity, woke Capitalism, corporate sociopolitical activism (CSA); John Ringo, ConCarolinas and Go Woke, Go Broke; Boycotts against Nike, Gillette, United Airlines, Disney, Bud Light 49:50 - Cruella De Vril - GAG targets Target, astroturfing, DeSantis goes after DEI programs 53:30 - Second Star to the Right - How it all has come to this Music by Fanette Ronjat More Info EPISODE 40 | When Nerds Attack - Gamergate, Elevatorgate & Sad Puppies EPISODE 41 | Critical Race Theory - Re-examining "Normal" EPISODE 61 | The Great Replacement - The White Wing Goes Mainstream EPISODE 100 | Conspirasphere Rising - A Talk w/Derek Arnold EPISODE 106 | Suffer the Children – Pizzagate, Wayfair & the Seeds of QAnon Stay Awake: Various Interpretations of Music from Vintage Disney Films A history of “wokeness” on Vox Wokeness: A Brief History of Wokeness, Woke Culture, and Staying Woke by University Press Cab Calloway’s “Hepster Dictionary,” a 1939 Glossary of the Lingo (the “Jive”) of the Harlem Renaissance Prof. Cab Calloway’s Swingformation Bureau on Cult Jones, Books for Visionaries Ebony + Phonics on PBS EBONICS: Its Origins and Significance on Our Time Press Oakland School District Recognizes Black English in the Los Angeles Times Lessons from the media’s coverage of the 1996 Ebonics controversy Stay Woke: The Black Lives Matter Movement video The Origin Of Woke: William Melvin Kelley Is The 'Woke' Godfather We Never Acknowledged Black Lives Matter website Campaign Zero website M4BL website Fake 'BLM Manifesto' Is Taken From Italian Fascism Document What Does Defund the Police Mean? at the Police Brutality Center What Do “Defund the Police” and “Police Abolition” Mean? And What Do They Not Mean? on Close Up Washington DC 7 myths about “defunding the police” debunked on the Brookings website Why saying "all lives matter" communicates to Black people that their lives don't on CBS News White Lives Matter on SPLC Blue Lives Matter on Participedia Virtual Hatred: How Russia Tried to Start a Race War in the United States - paper by William Aceves Me Too website Americans and ‘Cancel Culture’: Where Some See Calls for Accountability, Others See Censorship, Punishment at Pew Research Center Is Cancel Culture Effective? at University of Southern Florida What Is Cancel Culture and What Does It Mean in 2024? on Vice Cancel Culture: Myth or Reality? paper abstract Why we can’t stop fighting about cancel culture on Vox ‘Marxists are brainwashing us’: The conspiracy theory taking hold among some on the right in El Pais Cultural Marxism: An Antisemitic Conspiracy Theory? - briefing form Antisemitism Policy Trust How sport became a vehicle for far-right conspiracy theories Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World by Naomi Klein When brands go woke, do they go broke? on The Chartered Institute of Marketing A First-Amendment Case for Freedom from the Woke Religion on New Discourses On National Beer Day 2024, the US is drinking more Modelo than Bud Light as NA brews rise This Gay Conservative Twitter Account Is the Latest Trying to Use Drag to Stir Outrage Is ‘Gays against Groomers’ the new Libs of TikTok? on the Daily Dot Astroturfing on The Midea Manipulation casebook Target’s Pride collection features ‘tuck-friendly’ swimsuits for adults, not kids on AP News The feud between Ron DeSantis and Disney, explained on Vox Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis signs a bill banning DEI initiatives in public colleges on NPR Gov. Ron DeSantis' war on 'woke' appears to be losing steam in Florida on NPR Follow us on social: Facebook Twitter 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
8/14/24 • 55:44
EPISODE 116 | High(er) Strangeness w/Eric Bickernicks Guest: Eric Bickernicks, writer, author of High Strangeness and Higher Strangeness What does a guy who's made novelty songs, short comedy videos, an indie film for $32k, kettle corn aplenty, and a novel about art theft do next? If he's Eric Bickernicks, he writes two books about UFOs, hoaxes, alien thoughts, UFO cults, gullibility and Cape Cod. 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 02:49 - High/Higher Strangeness and other books, pranksters, unintended consequences, UFO cults, Cape Cod minus buzzards 13:16 - Aliens and fiction become folklore, truly alien aliens 19:42 - Crop circles, re-hoaxing, not bright guys, Hanlon's Razor, emotional processing is conservative, lazy writing, fridge logic, butts in seats, good writing can happen, fold-your-laundry content, ignorance is a right 32:56 - Believe in God never really goes away, we've evolved to be paranoid, nihilism is stressful 40:45 - Rampant existentialism, keeping busy, novelty songs, kicking Weird Al's ass, A Dead Guy Music by Fanette Ronjat More Info A Dead Guy - the website of Eric Bickernicks High Strangeness has its own website Eric Bickernicks on Amazon Rampant Existentialism alt.sex - Eric's indie film The Defectives - Eric and another guy's novelty songs Dr. Demento website More of Eric's Crap The Buzzards Bay Coalition Buzzards Bay Brewing - because why not? The New England Science Fiction Association, Inc. - the genre bullies who reject Eric 9 Outrageous Pranks in History 7 of History's Greatest Pranks The Merry Pranksters And the Art of the Hoax - NYT The Logistical Challenges of a Supersize Acid Test: On the Merry Pranksters’ Trips Festival THIS IS AMERICA: Twilight of a Merry Prankster Research Books - Pranks! UFOs Keep Appearing in the News. Here’s Why We Can’t Quit Them - Scientific American UFO Mania Is Out of Control. Please Stop. - Washington Post List of UFO-related hoaxes on Wikipedia 4 INFAMOUS UFO HOAXES REVEALED | The Proof is Out There - video Alien 'Hoaxes' That Went Viral From Roswell's Flying Saucers to Mexican & Australian X-Files - Spyscape Crop circles: Cynical hoax, natural phenomenon or proof of alien life? - The Independent Crop Circles: The Art of the Hoax - Smithsonian Circlemakers - website for people who make crop circles Hanlon’s Razor: Not Everyone is Out to Get You Fridge Logic on TV Tropes The 5 Basic Laws of Human Stupidity The Stupidity Quotient by Dennis L. Holeman, The Systems Perspective The Darwin Awards website Are Americans Just Stupid? - Psychology Today The reason why America has become 'uniquely stupid' Stupid People: Our Society is Succumbing Why Do Stupid People Rule the World? Stupid People Are Surprisingly Confident - How Stuff Works Bonhoeffer’s “theory of stupidity”: We have more to fear from stupid people than evil ones - Big Think Follow us on social: Facebook Twitter 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
7/31/24 • 44:11
EPISODE 115 | Cuckoo Coups in the U.S. Alarmist rhetoric has been used multiple times in America’s past with the express intent of fomenting a rebellion or even a coup. The game is to create a sense of urgency in the hopes that enough people will commit to extreme actions, so you can get what you want (which is power). According to Wikipedia, there have been 13 coup attempts in the United States since it won its independence from the British crown, plus an additional 29 rebellions and well, lots of moments of civil unrest. Things are not always happy and peaceful in the Land of the Free. Often because some people don’t think everyone should, in fact, be free. Here's a look at those that occurred before the 20th century. 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 - Early Daze - Bacon's Rebellion, Virginia (1676); the Newburgh Conspiracy (1783) and George Washington's spectacles, the Pennsylvania Mutiny (1783) 09:16 - Dorr's Rebellion - Rhode Island (1841) 11:47 - The Status of Slavery - Slave revolt in Orleans (1811), Nat Turner's Rebellion in Virginia (1831); largest slave escape (1842), the Kansas-Nebraska Act (1854), Bleeding Kansas (1854-1859), John Brown's raid on Harper's Ferry in Virginia (1859), states secede (1861), Sam Houston deposed in Texas, militia groups form throughout the South after the Civil War 18:31 - Brindletails and Minstrels - The Brooks–Baxter War in Arkansas (1874) 25:23 - The Battle of Liberty Place, New Orleans (1874) - Rise of the White League and another city under siege, the Compromise of 1877 ends Reconstruction 33:53 - The Jaybird-Woodpecker War, Texas (1888) 37:47 - The Secret Nine and the Wilmington Insurrection in North Carolina (1898) - The Populists and Fusionists, the Secret Nine and the Committee of Twenty-Five, the Red Shirts Music by Fanette Ronjat Lapsus Linguae: At 33:44, I say the Wilmington Insurrection was also in the 1880s, but it was not. More Info EPISODE 69 | Electoral Collage – Voter Fraud, Election Interference & Other Shenanigans EPISODE 76 | Klown Kar - The KKK Can KMA Bacon's Rebellion on Historic Jamestowne page on the National Park Service website George Washington and the Newburgh Conspiracy, 1783 at The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History The Pennsylvania Mutiny - This Day in History - June 20, 1783 on The Constitutional Walking Tour The Dorr Rebellion on Rhode Tour Our Hidden History: Racism and Black suffrage in the Dorr Rebellion in The Providence Journal The Enslaved Peoples’ Uprising of 1811 on New Orleans Historical Nat Turner’s Revolt (1831) on Encyclopedia Virginia Kansas-Nebraska Act (1854) at the National Archives Bleeding Kansas on the American Battlefield Trust Bleeding Kansas: From the Kansas-Nebraska Act to Harpers Ferry on Civil War on the Western Border Remembering John Brown’s Raid on Harpers Ferry on ReImagine Appalachia Sam Houston and Texas Secession on the Abbeville Institute The 1858 New Orleans Mayoral Election on Emerging Civil War Brooks-Baxter War on Encyclopedia of Arkansas Battle of Liberty Place on 64 Parishes The Battle of Liberty Place: A Matter of Historical Perception on 64 Parishes March 1, 1874: White League Formed on the Zinn Education Project Louisiana White League Platform (1874) on Facing History & Ourselves 34 Documented Mass Lynchings During the Reconstruction Era The Compromise of 1877 on the Khan Academy Jaybird-Woodpecker War on Texas State Historical Association THE JAYBIRD-WOODPECKER WAR (1888-1889) on BlackPast Wilmington Massacre and Coup d’état of 1898 – Timeline of Events on New Hanover County Cape Fear Museum Wilmington 1898: When white supremacists overthrew a US government on the BBC The Wilmington Massacre of 1898 at the Equal Justice Initiative The Lost History of an American Coup D’État in The Atlantic America’s Only Successful Coup d’Etat Overthrew a Biracial Government in 1898 on History.com A North Carolina city begins to reckon with the massacre in its white supremacist past on NPR The 1898 Wilmington Massacre Is an Essential Lesson in How State Violence Has Targeted Black Americans in Time 'Better organized, more disciplined': Capitol rioters mirror Red Shirts in 1898 Wilmington Coup in Wilmington Star News A Tale of Two Insurrections Follow us on social: Facebook Twitter 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
7/17/24 • 54:28
EPISODE 114 | All Your Base Are Belong to Us: U.S. Military Installations The United States spends more on their military than the next nine countries combined. With around 450 bases (or maybe 500 or maybe 750 or maybe 800 or even more) operating more than 111,000 installations in 80 or more countries, there’s a lot to keep track of. In fact, no one is really sure how accurate those numbers are, since a lot of places are deemed classified or even top secret, and yes, cover stories have sometimes been deployed. Some of the things we do know about are pretty interesting and often sad or infuriating, depending on your outlook. And yet that’s not enough for some folks, who feel the need to fill in the gaps with long, complicated conspiracy narratives that are better suited to novels than anywhere else. 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 02:43 - Living in Danger - "Wargames", NORAD, Cheyenne Mountain, Mount Yamantau and the Perimeter System 08:14 - Happy Nation - Granite Mountain, Utah Data Center and PRISM; Dugway Proving Ground, CHASE and the Sheep Kill Incident; the Deseret Test Center at Fort Douglas, Project 112 and SHAD; Nellis AFB, Pahute Mesa and the Tolicha Peak Electronic Combat Range 17:14 - Waiting for Magic - Area 51, OXCART/D-21/Tagboard, Operation Diamond, AQUATONE and the U2, Majestic 12 stuff, the alien autopsy, Sean David Morton, Bob Lazar, Dan Burisch, Bill Moore, Storm Area 51, the Yucca Mountain Nuclear Waste Repository and the Tonopah Test Range, Area 6 23:08 - The Sign - Edwards AFB, Plant 42 and Site 10; 1957 UFO sighting at Kirtland AFB, Paul Bennewitz, Richard Doty and Yucca Mountain 32:03 - Always Have, Always Will - Wright-Patterson AFB, Hangar 18 and T-2; Camp Hero, the Montauk Project, Lab 257 on Plum Island; COG sites - Mount Weather and TWA flight 514; Raven Rock and Site R 37:23 - Never Gonna Say I'm Sorry - Fort Detrick, USAMRIID, Building 470, Operation Whitecoat, Operation INFEKTION/Denver 42:34 - Don't Turn Around - Fort Hunt and P.O. Box 1142, Camp Peary and The Farm (Veritania) 46:03 - All That She Wants - The Anniston Chemical Agent Disposal Facility, Naval Air Station Jacksonville and Hangar 511 47:49 - Wheel of Fortune - James Casbolt's DUMBs Music by Fanette Ronjat More Info EPISODE 31 | Scammers, Inc. - MJ-12, Bennewitz & Serpo EPISODE 44 | The Philadelphia Experiment & the Montauk Project - Time Tunnel Vision EPSIODE 85 | Project Pegasus - Mars and Beyond! EPISODE 94 | Peek-A-Boo: Project Star Gate THE UNITED STATES SPENDS MORE ON DEFENSE THAN THE NEXT 9 COUNTRIES COMBINED The World's 30 Strangest Military Bases in Popular Mechanics Listverse's 10 Not-So-Secret Classified Military Installations No Trespassing: America’s Ultra-Secret Sites on Spyscape 10 Military Bases More Secret Than Area 51 on Serve Most Interesting TOP SECRET US Military Facilities on Covert Cabal channel (video) 15 Most Secret Military Bases on Top Fives channel (video) 15 Most ADVANCED Military Bases on Top Fives channel (video) Worlds Most Famous Secret Bases on Sideprojects channel (video) 13 secrets of NORAD and Cheyenne Mountain on Denver ABC 7 The Granite Mountain Records Vault - take the virtual tour Military Mystery Solved: Two Guys Out-Googled Google for an Image of Secretive US Base on LiveScience Tolicha Peak Electronic Combat Range at Otherhand.org UFOs seen near Nellis Air Force Base which is home to aliens, conspiracy theorist claims Revealed: How Area 51 Hid Secret Craft Alien Autopsy video Area 51 warning: Man shot dead for trying to enter military base The Secret Facility "Hangar 18" Crashed UFOs in Ohio's Wright-Patterson Air Force Base (video) Air Force Names Wright-Patterson’s Hangar 18 as Newest Software Factory How the Death of 6,000 Sheep Spurred the American Debate on Chemical Weapons National Air and Space Intelligence Center (NASIC) ALIEN WAR and The Horrors of Dulce Underground Base on The Why Files channel (video) Long hidden, a Nazi-interrogation unit gets its due Spy School Confidential: CIA Officers Spill Secrets About ‘the Farm’ on Spyscape EX-CIA AGENT TELLS OF SIX-WEEK PEARY COURSE extract from the Richmond Times Dispatch, 1972 Operation Whitecoat on PBS Religion & Ethics Weekly Article on Hangar 511 titled Hangar Life James Casbolt MI6 -Buried Alive pdf Underground Bases, Missing Children and Extra-Terrestrials 2006 testimony by James Casbolt Agent Buried Alive - a whole bunch of Casbolt/Project Mannequin stuff Follow us on social: Facebook Twitter 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
7/3/24 • 50:24
EPISODE 113 | Power Is Power: The Vulnerable Electrical Grid Guest: Chris Underwood, author of the The Cold Winter series Our digital age needs electricity more than anything else. But what would happen is part of the power grid went down during one of the worst winter storms in history? That's the premise of Chris Underwood's thriller series The Cold Winter. The fact is that power grid is vulnerable, and a series of low-tech in recent years have highlighted some serious problems that have still not been addressed. 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 02:35 - A look at the first two novels, the inspiration and overall plot 09:10 - The third book, the history of the Ohio River, companies still use COBOL, Huey helicopters and LST-235 13:56 - Blackouts inspire the Pentagon to commission the report Brittle Power, it all costs money, attacks against the grid in the 70s and later - the Metcalf Sniper Attacks, Russian hacks by Grizzly Steppe, transformers made in China, Jason Woodring's Arkansas attacks, a neo-Nazi couple in Baltimore, human attacks increasing, power stations themselves need power 24:20 - Weaponizing extreme climate, HAARP, the Walking Dead with weather, people become extreme in extreme situations 27:47 - Four types of threats, false flags 32:57 - We ship coal to China, cold fusion holdouts, education is the cure, the cavalry is not coming 37:38 - Point Pleasant's Mothman Festival, The Creatures of Holden Beach, this is a different Chris Underwood, prepper conventions, the Dayton Air Show Music by Fanette Ronjat More Info Chris Underwood website The Cold Winter series by Chris Underwood The Mist by Stephen King The Road by Cormac McCarthy How a butterfly's wing can bring down Goliath / Chaos theories calculate the vulnerability of megasystems Blackouts cause N America chaos Hacking The Electric Grid Is Damned Hard Keeping the electric grid safe from attack Sophisticated but low-tech power grid attack baffles authorities U.S. Power Grid Vulnerable to Attack: Congressional Research Service Attacks on power substations are growing. Why is the electric grid so hard to protect? How the US power grid is a target for far-right groups The story of Jason Woodring, the Arkansas power grid vandal Southern Idaho Man Sentenced for Destruction of Energy Facility After Shooting at Idaho Power Hydroelectric Plants Sniper attack on California power grid may have been 'an insider,' DHS says Physical attacks on power grid surge to new peak Extremists keep trying to trigger mass blackouts — and that’s not even the scariest part What is going on with attacks on American power stations? Brittle Power: Energy Strategy for National Security by Amory B. Lovins and L. Hunter Lovins Electric Power Grid 'Inherently Vulnerable' to Terrorist Attacks Girding the Grid in Security Management Scientists successfully replicate historic nuclear fusion breakthrough three times A Bridge Too Far: The Mothman Visits Point Pleasant episode Mothman Festival website The Creatures of Holden Beach.....And the Murder they did NOT Commit! by Chris Underwood Prepper Camp The Dayton Air Show Follow us on social: Facebook Twitter 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
6/19/24 • 45:22
EPISODE 112 | GESARA & the Red Caesar What do proposed economic reforms, the idea of a post-constitutional American dictator and Christian Nationalism have in common? Donald Trump, for starters - at least for some people. Scammers and grifters of all stripes find common ground with would-be authoritarians in a weird confluence of conspiracy narratives that hope to create and capitalize on chaos to further their own agendas. 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 02:00 - NESARA Nest Eggs - Harvey Francis Barnard drains the swamp, the Dove of Oneness swaps Judy "Zebra" Knight and Ramtha for the Omega Trust and becomes the first 9/11 "truther", various weirdos like Sheldan Nidle, Jennifer Lee, Sherry Shriner and channelers jump aboard and lay the groundwork for QAnon 10:26 - The GESARA that Lays the Golden Eggs - White Dragons, Alcuin Bramerton and other scammers promise an end to debt 13:39 - Solace in Quantum - The Quantum Financial System, Quantum AI, Comte St. Germain, lots of metals, the Alliance await Q Day 20:20 - Red Caesar - Kevin Slack hates modernism, loves the Roman Empire 23:54 - Caesarism - Tracing the term, the Claremont Institute is more dangerous than you suspect 27:56 - The Flight 93 Election - Alexander Michael Black likes Red Caesar, Michael Anton tortures a metaphor but finds a new career 33:36 - Haywood for Warlord - Shampoo king and "Maximum Leader" Charles Haywood founds the Society for American Civic Renewal, builds a compound and organizes private militias 38:14 - King of the Seven Mountains - Stephen Wolfe makes the case for Christian Nationalism, Lance Wallnau sells coins; Rafael Cruz, Paula White-Cain, Michele Bachman, Lauren Boebert and Mike Johnson scale the Seven Mountains 40:42 - A Clear and Present Danger - Trump's words vs his track record, a possible "revenge term", watch out for the sucker fish, Wisconsin tries to hobble Justice Janet Protasiewicz, North Carolina gives Gov-Ops sweeping powers, Ron DeSantis creates not one but two private militias 47:45 - True Grift - The monetization of narrative and attention, Trump is all things to all grifters, the future might be just more chaos or it might be something worse Music by Fanette Ronjat More Info Draining the Swamp: The NESARA Story by Harvey F. Barnard Conspiracy Watch: The Best Law Ever in Mother Jones Dove of Oneness/NESARA founder Shaini Goodwin page on Cult Education Institute website The Nesara Cult and Qanon's Origins video on Behind the Bastards Ramtha's School of Enlightenment website QAnon Teams Up With Alleged Cult Leader on Daily Beast Still waiting for NESARA? Draining the Swamp: Monetary and Fiscal Policy Reform by Harvey F. Barnard Galactic Human Activation Materials for sale Deepfake Quantum AI Investment Scam Pops Up on Facebook Nesara: The financial fantasy ruining lives on BBC Sounds Inside the QAnon Crypto Scam That Cost People Millions and One Man His Life Project Leap: Quantum-proofing the financial system by the Bank for International Settlements Project Leap pdf NESARA and The Mark of The Beast by Dr. Scott Young Scott Young's YouTube channel The Quantum Financial System Manual of GESARA-NESARA & XRP GESARA/QFS map Quantum Financial System (QFS): Revolutionizing Finance or Conspiracy Theory? on CoinCodex YouTube Prosperity at Risk: The Quantum Computer Threat to the US Financial System video from the Hudson Institute ( four white guys complaining) Exposing the Quantum AI Investment Scam on Blossom Social YouTube War on the American Republic: How Liberalism Became Despotism by Kevin Slack The Claremont Institute The Red Caesar Code: A guidebook for the installation of the American dictator by Alexander Michael Black Calls for an American Julius Caesar are ignorant, dangerous on R Street ‘Red Caesarism’ is rightwing code – and some Republicans are listening in The Guardian Red Caesarism threatens democracy and the rule of law in the Concord Monitor The right's "Red Caesar" plan: GOP's new order marches onward — only voters can stop it on Salon Red Caesar and the Next Regime on Rick Wilson's substack The Flight 93 Election by Michael Anton ("Publius Decius Mus") After the Flight 93 Election: The Vote that Saved America and What We Still Have to Lose by Michael Anton Flight 93 and Our National Disease on Law & Liberty How Michael Anton’s ‘Flight 93 Election’ Essay Defined the Trump Era in New York Magazine Departing the Shining City from the Cato Institute The Crash of the Flight 93 Presidency on Politico The Stakes: America at the Point of No Return by Michael Anton Charles Haywood's review of Anton's The Stakes Up from Conservatism: Revitalizing the Right after a Generation of Decay by Arthur Milikh Society for American Civic Renewal (SACR) archived website The Worthy House - Towards a Politics of Future Past website by Charles Haywood US businessman is wannabe ‘warlord’ of secretive far-right men’s network in The Guardian The Case for Christian Nationalism by Stephen Wolfe The Rise of Right-Wing Wokeism (review of Wolfe's book) Beware the 'Christian Prince' (another review of Wolfe's book) Of Gods and Men: A Long Review of Wolfe’s Case for Christian Nationalism (a long review of Wolfe's book) Televangelist’s show sells $45 Trump coin as ‘point of contact’ to God Pastor Paula White calls on angels from Africa and South America to bring Trump victory 'The Lord says it is done': White House spiritual adviser Paula White prays for 'angels from Africa' to cement Trump's re-election Tracing the rise of Christian nationalism, from Trump to the Ala. Supreme Court on NPR (audio) How Evangelicals Lose Will Make All the Difference Ali Velshi warns of the fringe Seven Mountains doctrine going Mainstream The Radical GOP’s “Seven Mountains Mandate” on The Big Picture Trump-O-Meter on PolitiFact ‘A revenge term’: what would another four years of Trump look like? from The Guardian Trump Warns He Could ‘Certainly’ Indict Political Opponents if He’s Reelected Ex-RNC Chair's Stark Warning on 'Threat' Posed by Donald Trump Impeach Justice Janet Protasiewicz? Here’s what’s missing from debate Wisconsin Republicans Walk Back Efforts to Impeach Newly Elected State Supreme Court Justice Protasiewicz North Carolina Republicans create "secret police force" NC lawmakers exempt themselves from public records laws while Democrats blast 'secret police' powers Ron DeSantis plans Florida paramilitary force outside federal control Governor Ron DeSantis Unveils the Florida State Guard The Dangers of DeSantis's Militia on the Southern Poverty Law Center America's most effective fascism enforcers are bored boomers, not youthful brawlers My QAnon Date Follow us on social: Facebook Twitter 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
6/5/24 • 54:29
EPISODE 111 | Us vs. Them: Antisemitism Goes to School Guest: Scott Shay, president of Chai Mitzvah and author of Conspiracy U Hamas forces swept into Israel on October 7, 2023, committing atrocities and taking hostages. Literally the next day, American student groups were blaming Israel. Protests on campuses began to multiply and today the situation seems out of control and pro-Israel and pro-Palestine groups go at one another while school administrations react heavy-handedly. What's behind all the shrill rhetoric? Scott Shay's 2021 book Conspiracy U looked at antisemitic trends on American campuses, and saw an uptick in sales at the end of last year as some of the things he'd talked about seemed to be coming to the fore. He shares some of his thoughts as to what is going on today on American universities. 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 02:57 - The Double Standard - There's no equality in otherization 15:29 - Totem and Taboo - Logos, ethos, and pathos, political intent in conspiracy theories 24:53 - Facts and Integrity - Digital and information literacy is lacking, the line between hate speech and threat 29:35 - Trends or Tactics - Weaponizing plagiarism, economic antisemitism, BDS started on the far right 42:52 - Jewish Otherness - Anti-idolatry threatens god-king-pharaohs Music by Fanette Ronjat More Info Chai Mitzvah Conspiracy U: A Case Study by Scott Shay In Good Faith: Questioning Religion and Atheism by Scott Shay Getting Our Groove Back: How to Energize American Jewry by Scott Shay The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements by Eric Hoffer A new wave of antisemitism threatens to rock an already unstable world on CNN Defining Antisemitism of the US State Department website What elite universities — and their critics — get wrong about campus antisemitism on Vox Major events in Pro-Palestinian protests at US universities on Reuters How pro-Palestinian protests unfolded on college campuses across the US: A timeline on ABC News Echoes of Vietnam war protest — A timeline of America's Student Spring Where are the US college campus protests and what is happening? in The Guardian As Columbia University protests on Israel-Hamas war come to a head, what to know Students protested for Palestine before Israel was even founded Is Hate Speech Legal? on TheFire.org Hate speech versus freedom of speech on the United Nations Why We Must Reject Efforts to Restrict Constitutionally Protected Speech on College Campuses on ACLU.org Pro-Palestinian campus protests are evolving. Here’s what to watch on PBS Student Protests in America Now: Is the Juice Worth the Squeeze? Why Palestinians can count on American students but not Arab allies to protest Follow us on social: Facebook Twitter 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
5/22/24 • 52:04
EPISODE 110 | How to Be a Fascist People use the term "Fascist" a lot these days, but do they really know what that means? Fascism is a very specific combination of ideas and goals that occurred within very clear historical and philosophical contexts. This is a look at where Fascism came from, Mussolini's rise to power, and variations and offshoots of the first Fascist ideologies. And while not everyone you don't like is a "Fascist", there are some actual fascists out there, and they are not being all that quiet. 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 02:33 - The Future Refusing to Be Born - General characteristics of Fascism 10:52 - The Measles of Mankind - Mussolini encounters the Völkisch Movement, Carlism, Integralism, Adapted Syndicalism, Sorelianism and Maurassism; rises high in the Revolutionary Socialist movement, is kicked out of the movement, starts the Fascists 19:07 - How to Get There from Here - Fascism kicks off in 1919, the Fiume Republic of Gabriele D’Annunzio, the 1921 Fascist platform, disorder and fighting in Italy, Mussolini as PM in October 1922 25:33 - Mussolini makes changes 1923-1925, the Fascist takeover is completed Nov. 1925-Nov. 1926 30:21 - We Ain't There. Yet. - Hitler was inspired, as were Franco and Salazar; the US has never seen similar conditions 33:41 - A Smörgåsbord of BS - Corporatism, neo-Corporatism and Tripartism; Ultranationalism, Strasserism, Falangism 39:13 - Neo-Fascism, Neo-Nazism, Esoteric Nazism - Savitri Devi, Robert Charroux, Miguel Serrano and Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke 43:03 - Clerical Fascism, British Israelism, Christian Identity 46:01 - White Nationalism, White Separatism, Apartheid 47:21 - The British National Front, Third Position, diagonalism and the "cross-front", Black Nationalism, Hutu Power 50:47 - National-Anarchism 52:44 - To Infinity and Beyond! - Islamofascism, Saddam Hussein's spin on Ba'athism, Muammar al-Gaddafi used leftwing rhetoric for rightwing aims 53:58 - The current threat of Accelerationism 56:43 - Active Fascist political parties today, what we can do Music by Fanette Ronjat More Info RationalWiki page on Fascism Fascism definition on Britannica Is This Fascism? on Slate What is fascism? on LiveScience Mussolini's 10 Pillars of Fascism How Fascism Works: The Politics of Us and Them by Jason Stanley The Anatomy of Fascism by Robert O. Paxton Introducing Fascism: A Graphic Guide by Litza Jansz and Stuart Hood GLEICHSCHALTUNG: COORDINATING THE NAZI STATE Mussolini: A study in power by Ivone Kirkpatrick Mussolini and Italian Fascism by Hamish MacDonald World Fascism: A Historical Encyclopedia edited by Cyprian Blamires A History of Fascism, 1914–1945 by Stanley G. Payne Strongmen: Mussolini to the Present by Ruth Ben-Ghiat The Problem of Fascism in Everyday Life paper by G. V. Loewen Ur-Fascism essay by Umberto Eco Fascism: Past, Present, Future by Walter Laqueur Fascism: A Warning by Madeleine Albright The Problem With Using Fascist as a Political Insult The overuse and abuse of ‘fascism’ Column: The use and misuse of the word ‘fascism’ On The Use And Abuse Of The Term “Fascism” To Describe Current Events Fascism: Who is and isn't a fascist, and how you can tell the difference It’s Time to Use the F-word: An Anti-fascist Approach to Trump and Franco Is Donald Trump a Fascist? On American Fascism: The Fascist Rhetoric of Donald Trump and The Right Wing-Media paper by Aaron Huff How fascist is Donald Trump? -- a 2016 assessment revisited Eco-fascism: justifications of terrorist violence in the Christchurch mosque shooting and the El Paso shooting A CHORUS OF VIOLENCE: JACK DONOVAN AND THE ORGANIZING POWER OF MALE SUPREMACY The Strange, Strange Story of the Gay Fascists Fighting Fascism: How to Struggle and How to Win by Clara Zetkin On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century by Timothy Snyder How Dictatorships Work: Power, Personalization, and Collapse by Barbara Geddes, Joseph Wright and Erica Frantz A Brief History of Fascist Lies by Federico Finchelstein Twilight of Democracy: The Seductive Lure of Authoritarianism by Anne Applebaum How Democracies Die by Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt Follow us on social: Facebook Twitter 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
5/8/24 • 59:51
EPISODE 109 | What's in a Name? The Shakespeare Authorship Debate Guest: Scott Jackson, Mary Irene Ryan Executive Artistic Director of Shakespeare at the University of Notre Dame, current vice president of the Shakespeare Theatre Association (STA) and incoming president, actor, director and Shakespeare scholar William Shakespeare wrote at least 36 plays, 154 sonnets, two narrative poems and a few shorter poems - more than 884,000 words total, more than 1700 of which he invented. But just who was this guy? Was he really "the Man from Stratford", or merely a pen name for... well someone else? We look at some of the more popular Anti-Stratfordian theories and also look at why some people seem hell bent on proving that someone else, anyone else, actually wrote all that stuff. 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 03:02 - Upstart Crow - No evidence of his education, the First Folio, not much biographical evidence, a common hand, Bardathon 12:28 - The Ireland Shakespeare Forgeries - Compiling the First Folio, Vortigern and Rowena gets most of a performance 19:13 - The Baconian Theory - Bardolotry, Hart's The Romance of Yachting, Robert W. Jameson's "Who Wrote Shakespeare?", James Wilmot makes a bonfire 24:19 - Delia Bacon goes for the Rutland Theory, then the Groupists Theory, then all in on Bacon, travels to England, gets into codes and ciphers, loses her mind, inspires the New Historicists and cultural poetics; William Henry Smith and Nathaniel Homes kick off the Baconist Theory 30:11 - Baconist Orville Ward Owen builds a machine to find "proof", the first Mock Trial (1892-93) 33:17 - The Derbyite Theory & the Marlovian Theory - Classism, partnership with Marlowe, death and pseudonyms 39:57 - The Rutlandite Theory & More - More classism, Baconists still persist, more expeditions from Owen, schoolteacher Elizabeth Wells Gallup gets into codes, Stylometrics, the Claremont Shakespeare Authorship Clinic 44:31 - The Oxfordian Theory - John Thomas Looney fingers Edward de Vere based on spurious logic, lots jump on this bandwagon, geography in Shakespeare, "the coast of Bohemia", the media focuses on "reasonable doubt" over evidence, how plays were written back then, evidence gets lost in time 50:18 - A Single Hand - Though there is some reasonable doubt, Shakespeare probably wrote Shakespeare; Applied Shakespeare, humanity owns him, Shakespeare as a force for good (PTSD therapy, in prisons, etc.) Music by Fanette Ronjat More Info: Shakespeare Was Shakespeare by Isaac Butler on Slate Revisited Myth # 68: Shakespeare didn’t write Shakespeare on History Myths Debunked The Shakespeare Index on TheatreHistory.org 20 words and phrases you didn’t know Shakespeare invented Shakespeare's Words Shakespeare's Phrases Bard-a-thon at Fairbanks Shakespeare Theatre Ian McKellen performs Sir Thomas More, Act II, Scene 4 video "The Strangers' Case" Speech from Sir Thomas More with various speakers and annotations Professor Sir Stanley Wells Peter Holland, McMeel Family Chair in Shakespeare Studies at University of Notre Dame James Shapiro, playwright and Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University Stephen Greenblatt, general editor of The Norton Shakespeare, John Cogan University Professor of the Humanities at Harvard University The Shakespeare First Folio Vortigern and Rowena text The Confessions of William-Henry Ireland on WikiSource William Henry Ireland's Shakespeare Forgeries on Hoaxes.org Bardolotry on Wikipedia James Wilmot and Shakespeare's Authorship Bacon Bacon Shakespeare Spy The Doctor Who Designed a Cipher Wheel to Decode Shakespeare Theories of identity – the alleged Shakespeare mystery Marlowe as Shakespeare The Controversy of Shakespeare and Marlowe Christopher Marlowe Has Officially Been Credited as Co-Author of 3 Shakespeare Plays Born with Teeth by Liz Duffy Adams webpage Roger Manners, 5th Earl of Rutland on ShakespeareAuthorship.com Shakespeare by the Numbers: What Stylometrics Can and Cannot Tell Us The Claremont Shakespeare Clinic Computer Reads Shakespeare, Dismisses Authorship Candidate The Claremont Shakespeare Authorship Clinic: How Severe Are the Problems? The Globe theatre fire of 1613: when Shakespeare’s playhouse burned down The Great Fire of London Finding Shakespeare - Skeptoid podcast What Shakespeare can teach us about conspiracy theories today How Shakespeare describes post-traumatic stress disorder In Shakespeare, veterans find a “tower of strength” Shakespeare and Possibility, Part 1: Shakespeare in Prisons video Shakespeare in Prisons Shakespeare Theater Association Prague Shakespeare Company (Shakespeare Summer Intensive (SSI) Follow us on social: Facebook Twitter 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
4/24/24 • 57:55
EPISODE 108 | Swiftboating Redux: Taylor Swift Derangement Syndrome She's the most successful pop star today, yet some people seem to suffer brain meltdowns when thinking about Taylor Swift. Call it TDSD, Taylor Swift Derangement Syndrome, and it takes hold especially in MAGAmaniacs, Trumpeteers, Trad Chads and broflakes. Tracing the conspirasphere's treatment of Swift along with her career and life, including Kanyegate and the Masters Dispute, shows some interesting connections as TDSD spreads far and wide, outpaced only by her own wildly popular musical output. THIS EPISODE MARKS THE BEGINNING OUR 5TH YEAR. THANKS FOR ALL THE SUPPORT! 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 02:53 - Fearless - Beginning successes with Big Machine, first conspiracy theories 07:48 - Kanyegate - The 2009 MTV VMA Awards echoes through the years 11:47 - Speak Now - Swift as Satanic priestess, the reincarnation of Zeena Schreck (Lavay), or a clone; No, it's Becky 15:28 - Red - Kanye West pipes up again, moves to NYC, starts advocating for artists' rights 17:02 - 1989 - The Gaylor Theory and Taylor Swift Is Gay, the Squad, no belly button, goes after Spotify and Apple Music 21:25 - Bad Blood - Kanye West sends flowers, then makes a phone call about "Famous", Swifties and Squaddies respond, Swift supports young women, West freaks out backstage at SNL, Kim Kardashian tells fibs, the video for "Famous" keeps the flames fanned, Kim releases a short video of the phone call and promotes #KimExposedTaylorParty, "I would very much like to be excluded from this narrative", battle lines were drawn, snake memes proliferate, friendships are broken, they're all part of the Illuminati 29:47 - Out of the Woods - Harry Styles and Taylor Swift killed someone in 2012, David Mueller lawsuit, the $1, #MeToo kicks off, Time's "Silence Breakers" 33:08 - Reputation - Swift died, gave birth to a snake baby, is a clone (again), Scooter Braun and Swift's masters dispute, Swift threatens to re-record her first six albums, Big Machine tries to shackle Swift, "Karyn" the inflatable snake, MAGA takes notice of Swift, Qtips think Monte Lipman is Jeffrey Epstein 38:52 - You Need to Calm Down - Lover comes out, Covid-19 lockdown starts, the entire West-Swift call video is leaked, Swift takes the high road, the West flap has flashbacks and echoes, Swift hates the Statue of Liberty, some Squaddies defect, Swift gets down hard and retreats to London, watches movies with Joe Alwyn 42:30 - Folklore Evermore - folklore is the ultimate lockdown album, "cardigan" sells sweaters, Swifties tank Live from Clear Channel Stripped 2008, Scooter Braun stops his feet but then sells to Disney's Shamrock Holdings, evermore comes out in just five months 45:19 - Taylor's Version - Swift re-records and expands earlier work, reminds one of the Prince-Warner dispute, Braun makes a lot more money, the Carlyle Group tells Braun to make nice but he goes the other way, piss off the Swifties and find out, reminds one of Madonna and Brittany Spears, the attention economy is a new thing, Swift is too left wing for the alt-righties 50:48 - In the Midnight Era - Midnights and the Eras Tour, Swift gives back to her truck drivers, more Taylor's Versions, starts seeing Travis Kelce, Swifties register to vote, MAGA is worried Swift will endorse Biden, a slew of conspiracy theories (ice cream, human skin hat, CIA psy-ops agent, mind control master, AI-porn on Twitter, Trump says he's more popular than Swift, Trumpeteers declare a holy war on Swift, Kelce is gay), much nonsense about the Super Bowl, Trump wades in again, she's a golddigger and also super gross 58:14 - Scientific American looks into TSDS, The Tortured Poets Department is nigh Music by Fanette Ronjat Lapsus Linguae - At 10:15, I accidentally call the album Fearless "Fear", forgetting the "less". I also mistakenly call the song "You Belong With Me" You Belong to Me. More Info: Donate to the World Health Organization Feeding America website Taylor Swift website Taylor Swift on Facebook Taylor Swift on Instagram Taylor Swift on YouTube Reasons why I love Taylor Swift by springapple r/TaylorSwift Swifties on Wikipedia Swifties on Taylor Swift fandom wiki Taylor Swift and the Swifties: A Love Story Forged in Song Why Taylor Swift's Fans Love Her So Much in Psychology Today Understanding Swifties’ mindsets using the Taylor/Travis love story 14 Outrageous-But-Accurate Taylor Swift Theories That Prove Swifties Are The Best Detectives Taylor Swift’s boyfriends: A timeline of all the megastar’s famous exes Taylor Swift Is Incredibly Good At Being A Celebrity A Timeline of Taylor Swift’s Generosity Let’s go down the rabbit hole of Taylor Swift conspiracy theories Style Theory: The Cult of Taylor Swift video The 15 Wildest Conspiracy Theories About Taylor Swift The Taylor Swift iceberg video The wildest Taylor Swift conspiracy theories, from Biden 2024 to a cat spy comedy Snopes articles about Taylor Swift The Taylor Swift Conspiracy Theory Iceberg video Taylor Swift Conspiracy Theories Hold Sway With 1 in 5 Americans I'm losing my friends to Taylor Swift conspiracies :( Decoding Taylor Swift Conspiracies and Outrage on The Center for Inquiry Taylor Swift, Harry Styles and a wild internet theory about a snow mobile Taylor Swift Has A Japanese Doppelganger Who Starred In A McDonald’s Ad Does an Image Show Taylor Swift Hawking an Electric Burner? Numbers You Didn't Know You Needed: All the Times Taylor Swift Has Carried an Empty Purse Taylor Swift Had An Incredible Response To A Tumblr Meme About Herself 18 Taylor Swift Memes You'll Only Find In Your 'Wildest Dreams Taylor Swift deepfakes could be the tip of an AI-generated iceberg Tweet uses a ham sandwich as 'evidence' that Taylor Swift is a slut in USA Today Let’s call the abuse of Taylor Swift what it really is – a hate crime against women in The Independent The Squad on Swiftpedia A Complete History of Taylor Swift's Squad Is Taylor Swift gay? The Dianna Agron and Karlie Kloss relationship rumors, explained r/Gaylor_Swift I Cracked the Code on Galyor_Swift Taylor Swift is Gay on Tumblr Is Taylor Swift gay? | Deep Dive video Taylor Swift DOESN'T want you to THINK she's GAY video Taylor Swift puts decades-long romance rumour to rest with single missive “Haters Gonna Hate, Hate . . . .” Can Taylor Swift “Shake it Off”? HOW THE EXTREMIST RIGHT HIJACKED ‘STAR WARS,’ TAYLOR SWIFT AND THE MIZZOU STUDENT PROTESTS TO PROMOTE RACISM Taylor Swift has angered many people with her 'You Need To Calm Down' release. Here's why The 10 Most Convincing Theories About Taylor Swift’s Album Reputation Taylor Swift Has Written an Op-Ed in the Wall Street Journal Taylor Swift Pens Open Letter Explaining Why ‘1989’ Won’t Be on Apple Music Apple Changes Course After Taylor Swift Open Letter: Will Pay Labels During Free Trial Taylor Swift won her day in court. Here's what you need to know. Top 10 References You Missed in Taylor Swift's "Look What You Made Me Do" video A Complete Timeline of Taylor Swift and Scooter Braun’s Feud Taylor Swift Explains Why She's Re-Recording Her Albums on Seth Meyers video How Taylor Swift Outsmarted Her Record Label video Taylor Swift and Kanye West's 'Famous' Phone Call Video Leaks Online — Read the Transcript A Complete Timeline of Taylor Swift and Kanye West's Feud Swift an ‘Aryan goddess' to alt-right This is why you hate Taylor Swift - thoughts on women who have an ego Taylor Swift Admits She Was ‘Lonely’ While Writing Her ‘Folklore’ Album During the Pandemic All the records Taylor Swift has broken in 2023 MAGA movement targets Taylor Swift with pitiful conspiracy theories From nightmare ticketing to online abuse, being a pop fan is becoming miserable Haters gonna hate: Pentagon pushes back against Fox News conspiracy theory involving Taylor Swift A Timeline of Taylor Swift & Travis Kelce’s Relationship The right is coming for Taylor Swift. They don't stand a chance Conservatives have picked the wrong enemy with attacks on Taylor Swift Taylor Swift fans sent me death threats, doxxed my family, and accused me of being a pedophile after I criticized her Eras Tour Taylor Swift’s ‘Time’ Cover Is Breaking Far-Right Brains Sean Hannity Has Surprising Take On Taylor Swift Criticism Republicans Are Once Again Being Very Weird About Taylor Swift Taylor Swift Has Broken Conservatives’ Brains Why Taylor Swift Is Making Conservatives Crazy The meaning of the hysteria over Taylor Swift Secrecy and Taylor Swift: What Conspiracy Theories Reveal About Our Growing Distrust of Institutions GOP invents Taylor Swift conspiracy theory instead of facing reality about unpopular policies on MSNBC video Trump reportedly said he's "more popular" than Taylor Swift, worrying about her endorsing Biden Trump Allies Pledge ‘Holy War’ Against Taylor Swift Study: Taylor Swift, social media conspiracy theories suggest record Super Bowl ratings Trump makes a plea for Taylor Swift's loyalty in pre-Super Bowl post to Truth Social GOP extremists whine about Taylor Swift after Chiefs' AFC championship win Untangling 13 Taylor Swift Midnights Theories: Real or Our Wildest Dreams? All the times number 13 was relevant in Super Bowl 58: A Taylor Swift conspiracy theory Taylor Swift has encouraged her fans' numerology habit yet again A Comprehensive Breakdown of Taylor Swift's Easter Eggs video Taylor Swift's music video symbolism video How the internet built a conspiracy theory around a new spy flick, a debut novel, and Taylor Swift When Nerds Attack - Gamergate, Elevatorgate & Sad Puppies (ep. 40) 44 for 44 - The Obama Conspiracies (Thanks, Obama!) (ep. 05) Follow us on social: Facebook Twitter 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
4/10/24 • 59:55
EPISODE 107 | Traces of Reality: Abstract Art and the CIA (World Is Weird 13) Guest: Mandy Theis, founder and director of the School of Atelier Arts, academic director and professor at the Florence Academy of Art Maybe you've walked into a museum or gallery and seen a big white, blank canvas, or a huge circle, and thought, "So, this is art, eh?". But why is there so much of this abstract stuff around? The answer might be surprising - because the CIA promoted it as part of the Cold War. And then it rather got away from them. Today, the art market is the most unregulated in the world, and aesthetics and skill take a back seat to branding. 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 02:31 - Atelier training, the CIA begins, the cultural Cold War was run by elitists, Julia Child, Realism gets rebranded as Communist, the Springville Museum of Art in Utah, cadmium red as protest, dry brushing technique, techniques follow money, skill list art, technical skills are being lost 12:30 - Social Realism, Czech Functionalism and German Bauhaus, Cubist architecture, art is always in motion, Russians tweaked French Realism, Abstract art eclipses realism, a war of aesthetics and marketing, the French discount the Americans, America pushes Abstract Expressionism, Marshall Plan money becomes a black bag, the Congress of Cultural Freedom, Clement Greenberg, Art criticism as marketing 23:18 - the NCL (Non-Communist Left), Jackson Pollack was a CIA tool, American racial attitudes work against them 28:24 - Abstract Expressionism promoted as ultimate American style because it has no inherent meaning, it's safe; Picasso had atelier training, Truman hated abstract art ("ham and egg men"), George Dondero goes nuts about abstract art on the House floor, Realism is not retrograde, we are losing the artistic skills to make beautiful things 36:06 - the CIA's efforts were very successful, the modern art market is the most unregulated in the world, technique gets separated from art so it all becomes about money, everything is branded, Warhol critiques all this, fine art feels remote from most of us, the art world is a closed circuit, Thomas Kinkade was successful because at least his work meant something to some people, scribbles are scribbles but branding makes them art 47:51 - Don't know if it's art, but I like it; Realism is still villainized Music by Fanette Ronjat More Info: The School of Atelier Arts website Bodyguard of Lies: The Ghost Army & Wartime Deception (World Is Weird 11) The Cultural Cold War: The CIA and the World of Arts and Letters by Frances Stonor Saunders Springville Museum of Art - largest public collection of 20th century Russian and Soviet art in the western United States 15 things to know about Norman Rockwell Why Norman Rockwell Matters Ralph McQuarrie: Star Wars' Concept Artist A Visit to the CIA’s “Secret” Abstract Art Collection Was Modern Art Really a CIA Psy-Op? Class 8. The CIA and the Cultural Cold War Origins of the Congress of Cultural Freedom, 1949-50 Cultural Cold War on CIA.gov WHEN FREEDOM TOOK THE OFFENSIVE: The Congress for Cultural Freedom and the Power of Ideas Congress for Cultural Freedom on Spartacus Educational Cold Warrior: The Clement Greenberg Phenomenon CIA Weaponizing Abstract Art and Its Fallout The use of American art in the Cold War How MoMA and the CIA Conspired to Use Unwitting Artists to Promote American Propaganda During the Cold War Ford Foundation - Funding transatlantic exchange between the arts and politics The Ford Foundation and the CIA: A documented case of philanthropic collaboration with the Secret Police Modern art was CIA 'weapon' How the CIA Secretly Used Jackson Pollock & Other Abstract Expressionists to Fight the Cold War Was modern art a weapon of the CIA? Jackson Pollock & the CIA on The Conspiracy of Art website Why did the CIA sponsor Jackson Pollock? Pollock is Bollocks Pollock: genius or charlatan? Jackson Pollock: Separating Man from Myth Viewpoint: Why racism in US is worse than in Europe - BBC Viewpoint “They treated us royally”? Black Americans in Britain during WW2 Why abstract art is not valid Abstract Art Is Not Art and Definitely Not Abstract The Tyranny of Abstract Art in The Atlantic Communist conspiracy in art threatens American museums, Congressional Record, March, 17, 1952 Anticommunism and Modern Art - selection from the George Dondero Papers THE SUPPRESSION OF ART IN THE MCCARTHY DECADE The Shame of the Mural Censors — Why Art and History Matter Between Avant-Garde and Kitsch: Deconstructing Art And/As Ideology on Project MUSE Modern American Art and the Politics of Cultural Diplomacy Abstract Expressionism and the Cold War 'The art trade is the last major unregulated market' A Fascinating, Sexy, Intellectually Compelling, Unregulated Global Market. - Freakonomics ep. 484 The Art Market: Unregulated Unscrupulous And Worth Billions High-end art is one of the most manipulated markets in the world THE ART MARKET: AFFLUENCE AND DEGRADATION on Art Forum Billion Dollar Painter: The Triumph and Tragedy of Thomas Kinkade, Painter of Light book Thomas Kinkade: A Success - 60 Minutes Thomas Kinkade: The Painter Art Critics Hated but America Loved Much to the Chagrin of the Art Establishment, the Numbers Indicate that Thomas Kinkade Is the Most Successful and Relevant Artist in Human History Thomas Kinkade Was the World's Biggest Selling Painter. Art for Everybody Asks Why Follow us on social: Facebook Twitter 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
3/27/24 • 52:37
EPISODE 106 | Suffer the Children: Pizzagate, Wayfair & the Seeds of QAnon "Without a clear indication of the author's intent, it is difficult or impossible to tell the difference between an expression of sincere extremism and a parody of extremism." In the world of the internet, this is known as Poe’s Law, and it’s especially applicable to the weird narrative Gordian Knot known as Pizzagate. The adage applies not just to how absurd some beliefs are, but also to the arguments made by people who hold these beliefs. First formulated in 2005 by Nathan Poe, it builds on a 2001 quote by Alan Morgan called Alan’s 2nd Law of Newsgroups, which states, “Any sufficiently advanced troll is indistinguishable from a genuine kook.” And that is certainly the case for the wild story that “a hipster-heavy pizza parlor” (as they put it on their website) in the Chevy Chase neighborhood of Washington D.C. is not just a fun family place with pizza, ping pong and live music, but the nerve center for an diabolical child trafficking ring that operates out in the open because they are protected by highly-placed pedophiles in the Democratic party. As an article on Cracked.com puts it, “This is supported by lots of very stupid evidence”. The stakes of the fake narrative are so high that it’s become more than just true believers review bombing the place. Workers have been harassed and, on December 4, 2016, a heavily armed man entered the restaurant and started firing guns. The story of Pizzagate is the story of how the conspirasphere went from harmless kookery to being actually, physically dangerous. TRIGGER WARNING: Some pretty disturbing things will be talked about in this episode, so if the subject of child sexual abuse and trafficking is deeply uncomfortable for you, perhaps you should not listen. I mean, it should be uncomfortable to anyone, but you know what I mean. 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 03:11 - A note, pedophilia is a mental disorder, victims suffer for many years, how do we handle this problem? 06:31 - How it all began: Hillary Clinton's emails, John Podesta, Anthony Weiner and Huma Abedin; "Carmen Katz" makes allegations, "David Goldberg" shares and extends these 08:46 - Side note: "Carmen Katz" is Cynthia Campbell, "David Goldberg" is an anti-Semitic fake profile; Amanda Rob finds Borce Pejcev in Macedonia, a fake news click bait ecosystem, it really all began with Doug Hagmann of Eerie, PA 12:35 - Russian hackers Fancy Bear, APT28 and Sofacy use "spear phishing " attacks 13:30 - Pedo codes on 4chan: pizza, cheese, hot dogs, dominos and handkerchief codes; Comet Ping Pong gets targeted 16:30 - DumbScribblyUnctious see all sorts of things - murals, art, logos, musical acts and more; Pizzagaters talks of aliens, the Illuminati, Satanic rituals and Arun Rao; Susan Alefantis knew a pedophile, Tony "pasta obsession" Podesta knew Dennis Hastert, another pedophile, and also collects art (including some by Rachel Rose); Amanda Kleinman (Majestic Ape) of Heavy Breathing performs at Sasha Lord's birthday party and "secret pizza" is maybe mentioned, the film "Automatic At Sea", the Clinton Foundation in Haiti, Alex Jones issues a "bulletin" 25:49 - #pizzagate soars, Comet Ping Pong gets hassled, Turkey's Erdoğan jumps on the story, InfoWars spearheads the narrative, fake images proliferate, artists and musicians also harassed, it might all have been coordinated; other businesses (especially pizza places) get targeted, like Roberta's in Brooklyn and East Side Pies in Austin, TX 30:33 - Edgar Maddison Welch storms Comet Ping Pong with guns, InfoWars apologizes, then retracts the apology; white supremacist Jack Posobiec says Welch is a crisis actor; neo-Nazi pubs the Daily Stormer, the Right Stuff and Smoloko News continue the Pizzagate narrative 35:07 - Canadian Andrew Richmond's ice cream shop Sweet Jesus gets the #PedoGate treatment 36:15 - Portland, Oregon's Voodoo Donuts gets the same treatment thanks to talentless poet VeganMikey (Michael Whelan); #donutgate starts trending, building on a previous #donutgate when Ariana Grande and Ricky Alvarez licked food at Wolfee Donuts; Big League Politics's "research organization" Pedo Takedown Crew funds a coordinated harassment campaign and expand the narrative, adding tunnels, schools, and child-smiggling submarines 41:35 - In England, recreational troll Oliver Redmond targets Paul Cheape's vape shop business 43:32 - Mattress Firm gets targeted 45:32 - Frazzledrip: a very nasty fake video (trigger warning - seriously, it's really nasty), QAnon terms "adrenochrome" and "spirit cooking" get added to the Pizzagate lexicon 47:56 - PrincessPeach1987 kicks of the Wayfair affair, the now combined Pizzagate and QAnon make a LOT of noise, it's all nonsense and yet there were real consequences for real people, iMGSRC.ru and US Army Staff Sgt. Richard Ciccarella 57:25 - Cybersteria and the very first QAnon 4chan post Music by Fanette Ronjat More Info Pedophilia defined on Psychology Today Crimes against Children Research Center Facts and Stats About Child Sexual Abuse The possible long-term effects of experiencing child sexual abuse Long-term Effects of Child Sexual Abuse and Molestation on Helping Survivors A review of the long-term effects of child sexual abuse on the National Library of Medicine website Child Molesters: A Behavioral Analysis paper Sexuality of Offenders on the Zero Abuse Project Facts About Homosexuality and Child Molestation by Gregory Herek Everything You Need To Know About Pizzagate (Is Insane) on Cracked.com Pizzagate on RationalWiki Pizzagate: A slice of fake news on Reveal Anatomy of a Fake News Scandal in Rolling Stone Anthony Weiner breaks down after he's sentenced to 21 months for sexting on ABC News How The Bizarre Conspiracy Theory Behind "Pizzagate" Was Spread on BuzzFeed How Hackers Broke Into John Podesta and Colin Powell’s Gmail Accounts on Vice Comet Ping Pong - Pizzagate Summary by DumbScribblyUnctious How Pizzagate went from fake news to a real problem for a D.C. business on PolitiFact 'It's a form of addiction' - Tony Podesta's art addiction article in The Guardian Rachel Rose - Aubade: Grendel's Mother (live reading) video Pizzagate, the fake news conspiracy theory that led a gunman to DC’s Comet Ping Pong, explained on Vox Pizzagate gunman recorded video for daughters, said he's standing up for children on CBS News Death threats, abuse, then a gunman: 'Pizzagate' businesses relive ordeal in The Guardian Pizzagate: Gunman fires in restaurant at centre of conspiracy on BBC News What to Know About Pizzagate, the Fake News Story With Real Consequences in Time 'Pizzagate' gunman pleads guilty as conspiracy theorist apologizes over case Is Comet Ping Pong Pizzeria Home to a Child Abuse Ring Led by Hillary Clinton? on Snopes Dissecting the #PizzaGate Conspiracy Theories in the New York Times A Moral Panic for the Age of Trump: “Pizzagate” is the latest in a long line of child-sex-ring myths on Slate The PizzaGate Gunman's Paranoid Rescue Fantasy Comes from a Long American Tradition on Reason 'There's Nothing You Can Do': The Legacy of #Pizzagate on SPLC Secret message board drives 'pizzagate'-style harassment campaign of small businesses on NBC News When Nerds Attack - Gamergate, Elevatorgate & Sad Puppies episode Voodoo Donuts website Voodoo Doughnut Gets Sucked Into Outrageous Far-Right Conspiracy Theory on Eater Wolfee Donuts Pressing Charges Against Ariana Grande Donut-Gate on Ariana Grande fandom wiki Vegan Mikey - bad poet and troll #Donutgate: How one Oregon donut shop became the target of online conspiracy theorists on Salon Connecting the Dots Between Donutgate and Pizzagate Man jailed for falsely branding a businessman a ‘dirty paedophile’ The Great Mattress Conspiracy: Why Are There So Many Mattress Firm Stores Why Are There So Many Mattress Stores? A wildly popular conspiracy theory about why there are so many Mattress Firm stores is starting to sound less crazy Mattress Firm responds to the wild conspiracy theory about its business that people are going crazy over The Mattress Firm Conspiracy: An Analysis The Mattress Firm Money Laundering Conspiracy Theory on Snopes What Is Frazzledrip? Fake Hillary Clinton Video Builds on Pizzagate Conspiracy Theory in Newsweek Frazzledrip: Is a Hillary Clinton 'Snuff Film' Circulating on the Dark Web? on Snopes Hush Supper Club Full Frazzledrip video (WARNING) Claims that pizza listings on Etsy are selling child pornography are baseless Reddit post that kicked off Wayfair conspiracy theories Outrageously Priced Wayfair Cabinets Lead to Human Trafficking Conspiracy Kids Shipped in Armoires? The Person Who Started the Wayfair Conspiracy Speaks in Newsweek Wayfair: The false conspiracy about a furniture firm and child trafficking on BBC News Baseless Wayfair child-trafficking theory spreads online on AP The bizarre story of how internet conspiracy theorists convinced themselves Wayfair is trafficking children on CBC News A US soldier working at Mar-a-Lago uploaded photos of an underage girl to a Russian website — a closer look at the site reveals a horrific underworld A US Army soldier who worked at Trump's Mar-a-Lago resort uploaded photos of an underage girl to a Russian website, prosecutors say How a reporter found the true story behind a false story of sex trafficking Is Wayfair Trafficking Children Via Overpriced Items? on Snopes MISSING IN KANSAS: Anabel Wilson no longer missing How A QAnon Conspiracy Theory Involving A Wayfair Pillow Left A Metro Detroit Teen Struggling A girl falsely believed to be a victim of the fake Wayfair sex-trafficking ring says she had hives, lost sleep over the conspiracy theory A QAnon con: How the viral Wayfair sex trafficking lie hurt real kids Human Trafficking Rumors: Viral Stories That Do More Harm Than Good at the Polaris Project The Storm Is the New Pizzagate — Only Worse Follow us on social: Facebook Twitter 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. 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