In 1966, hundreds of students, teachers, and local residents witnessed a flying saucer hover overhead, land, and take off again at incredible speed. What was it? Extraterrestrial visitation? Top secret experimental aircraft? Weather balloon? ALSO, John discusses his own grade school encounter with a flying disc. [aka Magical Mystery Radio]
Stanley Kubrick's THE SHINING is: a) a confession of his participation in the hoaxed Apollo moon mission; b) a treatise on the genocide of the Native Americans; c) a meditation on the holocaust; d) all of the above; e) a frickin' horror movie. New favorite word: apophenia. [aka Magical Mystery Radio]
The story that inspired STRANGER THINGS. Government conspiracy, kidnapped children, time travel, raging id monsters, aliens, drug-induced journeys to other worlds. This one's got it all! John and Adam discuss Christopher Garetano's indie documentary THE MONTAUK CHRONICLES. [aka Magical Mystery Radio]
Will the 2016 election be stolen? Is voter fraud a real problem? THE BEST DEMOCRACY MONEY CAN BUY is Greg Palast's infuriating expose of actual, confirmed, widespread voter suppression. If you're not angry you're not paying attention. Or you're on the wrong side. [aka Magical Mystery Radio]
THE NIGHTMARE is a 2015 film documenting the testimonies of several people suffering from chronic sleep paralysis. It's a real-life NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET as otherworldly beings appear to taunt and terrorize these individuals, threatening to consume their very souls. John shares his personal experiences with sleep paralysis, offering a unique perspective on the film's portrayal of this horrifying phenomenon. [aka Magical Mystery Radio]
TOYNBEE IDEA / IN KUBRICK'S 2001 / RESURRECT DEAD / ON PLANET JUPITER // For over 25 years, mysterious tiles have appeared on busy streets from New York to Brazil. These tiles hint at an outrageous plan to resurrect everyone who's ever lived - on the surface of the gas giant Jupiter. What does the message mean? Who placed these tiles? Secret society? Reclusive genius? And what does all of this have to do with playwright David Mamet? Take a break from the current election madness and join us for ...
Is the federal income tax unconstitutional? Is it a fraud perpetrated by a cabal of sneaky elites pushing their self-serving agenda through nefarious means? That would be nice, wouldn't it? I mean, who loves paying taxes? Aaron Russo's America: Freedom to Fascism was a passion project for him. He put this thing together in the last years of his life as he struggled under a $2 million tax debt. He was certain he had found evidence of the unconstitutionality of the United States Federal Income Tax...
Turns out there's actual scientific evidence for the idea that we are all living in a carefully crafted simulation. Are we in fact merely sprites in a video game played by some disaffected teenager sitting on a cosmic bed in some "greater" reality? The Simulation Hypothesis is a documentary offering a brief overview of the theories and science behind this notion. It's not all as implausible as it sounds. [aka Magical Mystery Radio]
We risk the wrath of the Church of Scientology by discussing the film and book GOING CLEAR, as well as the twisted history of L Ron Hubbard and his pulp sci-fi religion. [aka Magical Mystery Radio]
DMT is a ubiquitous, naturally occurring compound that may be at the root of spiritual experience, the alien abduction phenomenon, even consciousness itself. So why is it taboo? We discuss the film AND book, DMT: THE SPIRIT MOLECULE. [aka Magical Mystery Radio]
We discuss the intriguing and troubling documentary, ARCHITECTS & ENGINEERS FOR 9/11 TRUTH. From Wikipedia: Architects & Engineers for 9/11 Truth ( AE911Truth ) is an American non-profit organization of architects and engineers who dispute the results of official investigations into the September 11 attacks , including the 9/11 Commission Report . [3] [4] [aka Magical Mystery Radio]...
Easter in September! For no good reason, we discuss the mystery of the Shroud of Turin, the supposed burial cloth of Christ. More specifically, we talk about the 2004 documentary SECRETS OF THE SHROUD. 14th century forgery? Hoax or holy relic? You decide... [aka Magical Mystery Radio]
Is civilization teetering on the edge of the greatest preventable disaster in human history? Collapse explores the theories and life of doomsayer, Michael Ruppert. Join John and Adam as they discuss Ruppert's dire predictions of Peak Oil, the inevitable collapse of modern societies, and how his doomed worldview sadly became a self-fulfilling prophecy. [aka Magical Mystery Radio]
STRANGER THINGS was inspired by the real-life Montauk Project (its working title was MONTAUK). According to legend, thousands of young boys were abducted from the streets of New York in the 1970s and 80s, and subjected to bizarre mind control experiments. In this special interview, filmmaker Christopher Garetano discusses his own journey down the rabbit hole. [aka Magical Mystery Radio]
CONSPIRACY OF SILENCE was a 1994 documentary exposing a child abuse and pedophilia ring that led to the highest levels of the United States government. Just before airing, the Discovery Channel abruptly pulled the film from its schedule. Why? Evidence suggests that the cable channel buckled under pressure from some very powerful Washington interests. John and Adam discuss the disturbing facts of the so-called "Franklin Coverup." [aka Magical Mystery Radio]
THE SECRET is an insidious, destructive force ruining the lives of millions. What's worse, there are some real truths at the root of its philosophy - you just can't see them through THE SECRET's noxious cloud of narcissistic new age hokum. Adam and John discuss free will, the New Thought Movement, and the real secrets behind THE SECRET. [aka Magical Mystery Radio]
Justin Smeja and a friend were hunting in the Sierras when they saw a seven-foot-tall hairy hominid they could not identify. So they shot it. Then, after giving chase to the wounded creature, they encountered a couple of juvenile bigfoots (bigfeet?) and did what any responsible hunter would do in the same situation - shot one of them too. Join John and Adam as they discuss DEAD BIGFOOT, an intriguing, infuriating documentary by first-time filmmaker Ro Sahebi . [aka Magical Mystery Radio]...
The 1950s saw a wave of individuals claiming special relationships with our space brothers and sisters. Sure, many (all?) of these "contactees" may have been off their rockers... but there's an undeniable internal consistency to these reports of extraterrestrial communion. Did these stories spring from a single source? Could they actually have been... TRUE? Adam and John discuss the classic contactee documentary FAREWELL GOOD BROTHERS (1992). [aka Magical Mystery Radio]
In 1980, a man and a woman witnessed the controlled landing of a cigar-shaped, apparently extraterrestrial vehicle. More than three decades later they returned to the location of their sighting with an intrepid team of UFO researchers. What did they find? John and Adam discuss the excellent documentary GHOST ROCKETS (2015), directed by Kerstin Übelacker and Michael Cavanagh. [aka Magical Mystery Radio]
What was the real-life inspiration for THE EXORCIST? What really happened in AMITYVILLE? Was THE ENTITY a demon, spirit, or poltergeist? Who haunts the HOLLYWOOD SIGN? What silent stars STILL can't rest in peace? Adam and John chew on HOLLYWOOD GHOST STORIES (1986), a delicious slice of vintage 80s direct-to-video cheese. [aka Magical Mystery Radio]
Planet earth is doomed. Climate change is real. And the only viable solution to saving mankind is to abandon our planet and start anew somewhere else... Hey, we hear Mars has plenty of real estate! Aired on June 20th, 1977, Alternative 3 purported to be a serious investigation into Britain's so-called "brain drain", uncovering an international conspiracy of epic proportions initiated by the world's elite to establish colonies on the Red Planet. [aka Magical Mystery Radio]...
The documentary SIRIUS claims to expose "the greatest story never told." It explains how Earth has been visited by benevolent space brothers concerned for our future. It relates how elements within the military-industrial complex have not only been keeping this information secret for over 60 years, they've been actively suppressing technologies that could free us from fossil fuels. Join us as we dissect the film's premise and its purported evidence of an alien creature found in the Atacama deser...
It is one of the greatest, if not the greatest , achievements in all of human history. But what if it didn’t happen that way? What if NASA, knowing they couldn’t achieve what Kennedy set in motion just 7 years earlier, decided to fake the footage so as not to lose the space race to the enemy: the Soviet Union? What if what the world was seeing was actually shot on a sound stage by one of the most creative and innovative filmmakers of the 20th century, Stanley Kubrick? [aka Magical Mystery Radio]...
Providing a broad historical context behind some of the biggest crimes of the 20th century, this fascinating 3 1/2 hour documentary not only explains it all for you, it even names names. Yes, all the usual suspects are identified, but so are many you’ve probably never heard of who were (are) the real fascist conspirators behind the scenes. Join us as we dive into the deep end and discover how the real world works. [aka Magical Mystery Radio]
What if someone told you that most - maybe all - of the biggest UFO stories of the last few decades were carefully crafted lies? And what if that same someone told you that those lies were a deliberately manufactured disinformation campaign directed by elements within the government to steer you away from the truth: the UFOs are us. Would you believe it? [aka Magical Mystery Radio]
