EPISODE 51 | Et Tu, Reptilicus: Mythconceptions About the Ancient World History is a concept, often imperfectly recounted and remembered, sometimes purposefully obscured or confused. So, we think we know things that, in fact, we don't really know. Let's jump into the Wayback Machine and take a look at some things we think we know about the ancient world. See a video version on our YouTube channel . Like what we do? Then buy us a beer or three via our page on Buy Me a Coffee . #ConspiracyClearing...
Feb 02, 2022•44 min•Season 2Ep. 51
EPISODE 50 | The JFK Assassination (Big 'Uns 5) Guest: Fred Litwin, author of On The Trail of Delusion: Jim Garrison: The Great Accuser The JFK assassination is sort of a gateway drug for conspiracy theories, and boy there are lots of ideas about what happened that day in 1963. Fred Litwin once believed a lot of those theories, but has since changed his mind and is firmly in the lone gunman camp. For our 50th episode, we talk about why he thinks it was just Oswald, the Zapruder film, why Jim Gar...
Jan 19, 2022•51 min•Season 2Ep. 50
EPISODE 49 | 'Merican Monuments (Travelogue 2) Nations help tell the story of themselves to themselves with monuments, so let's look at two famous ones in the US of A - Mount Rushmore and the Washington Monument. Secret rooms and hatches, astonishing racial insensitivity, UFOs, Bigfoot, interdimensional portals, ancient weather control tech and a countdown calendar to the Apocalypse. That's a lot to deal with. See a video version of this episode on our YouTube channel . Like what we do? Then buy...
Jan 05, 2022•42 min•Season 2Ep. 49
EPISODE 48 | Ice Ice Baby: Songs of Ice & Snow Baby, it’s cold outside. That sentiment is not just part of a kind of rapey Xmas song, but a fact brought about by the ROUND Earth orbiting the sun in the way that it does and tilting on its axis. To mangle a phrase – winter has come. And with winter comes ice and snow, at least at the latitudes closer to the poles. And even here, in this brittle transparent crystalline solid, usually water, you can snow shovel up some conspiracy theories. We’ll...
Dec 22, 2021•46 min•Season 2Ep. 48
EPISODE 47 | What Lies Beneath: The Hollow Earth (Big 'Uns 4) Is our world hollow, possibly inhabited by evil descendants of the Yeti, or malevolent Detrimental Robots, or aliens, or dinosaurs, or Bigfoot, or Atlanteans, or Tarzan, or Neanderthal Batman? Maybe the Arctic has a giant hole leading into the interior, or is really Atlantis or Eden or Avalon or Mt. Meru or Hyperborea, or part of Yggdrasil or Irminsul, or the homeland of the Vedas. Or maybe the earth is actually expanding all the time...
Dec 08, 2021•47 min•Season 2Ep. 47
EPISODE 46 | Fakespiracies: Anyone Can Play! As another holiday season rolls around, there's the looming threat of dealing family & friends who subscribe to this conspiracy theory or that one. Here's a collection of some fake conspiracy theories, #fakespiracy, that you can use to confound those folks, as well as entertain and maybe even educate a bit. From hidden messages about 9/11 in the film "Back to the Future" to nefarious truths about snack foods, and even some tools for creating your ...
Nov 24, 2021•43 min•Season 2Ep. 46
EPISODE 45 | Rumours & CTs in the Workplace (Because Reasons 5) Guest: Andrew Brown, co-founder of the Academy of Business Communications Watercooler talk has moved online, so the speed and spread of rumours and conspiracy theories is growing every day, and it's not just inter-office gossip. How do such things take root in a work environment and what can organizations do to address them? Andrew Brown walks us through the conditions that create fertile ground for rumors, the very human and so...
Nov 10, 2021•45 min•Season 2Ep. 45
EPISODE 44 | The Philadelphia Experiment & the Montauk Project - Time Tunnel Vision It's 78 years since one of the most storied military experiments in history, wherein a whole ship vanished and/or teleported and/or moved through time. And this dovetails with another famous military project at the tip of Long Island that's a grab bag of elements: virus labs, monster animals, Nikola Tesla, Ian Fleming, creating superhumans, teleportation, hyperspace, psychic spies, Nazi occultists, MIBs, the ...
Oct 27, 2021•46 min•Season 2Ep. 44
EPISODE 43 | Conspiracy U with Scott Shay Guest: Scott Shay, author of Conspiracy U , In Good Faith & Getting Our Groove Back ; President of Chai Mitzvah , Chairman of the Board & Co-founder of Signature Bank The academic world is supposed to be a place to open and expand minds, but some professors actively promote conspiracy theories about Israel and the Jewish people that do the exact opposite. Scott Shay has written a book about how this is happening on both the right and left sides o...
Oct 13, 2021•41 min•Season 2Ep. 43
EPISODE 42 | J.K. Rowling & the Gauntlet of Hysteria A secretary got an idea on a train and some years later had created an international entertainment sensation, gaining fame and fortune. A feel good story? Or is she a witch? A Satanist? A spendthrift? A TERF? A transphobe? A spendthrift Satanist TERF transphobe witch? Or maybe she doesn't really exist at all. Like what we do? Then buy us a beer or three via our page on Buy Me a Coffee . #ConspiracyClearinghouse #sharingiscaring #donations ...
Sep 29, 2021•42 min•Season 2Ep. 42
