Gaia TV, the self-styled "Netflix of spirituality," hosts a wide range of content from yoga videos to ancient aliens to 5D Ascension to Iceland-is-the-pineal-gland-of-the-Earth. And throw in some sovereign citizen stuff about the real reason for the American civil war just for good measure. It's a lot. And we reference Gaia quite a bit, without ever thinking for a moment "hey, maybe our audience isn't as irreparably broken as we are." So we wanted to give an introduction to the mind-melting jugg...
Feb 08, 2023•1 hr 25 min•Ep. 94
This is the true story of one marine combat veteran who believed he was up against the threat of a lifetime. Kyle Odom knew too much about the flaws in human genetics and the real truth of who controls humanity. That’s why the Martians had to stop him, which is exactly why he had to stop them. After months of building up to the act, Kyle Odom made the single most regrettable decision of his entire life and attempted to take the life of a preacher that he believed was a martian. Today we’ll be lo...
Feb 01, 2023•1 hr 29 min•Ep. 93
This week: drugs! Psychedelic drugs and the man responsible for inventing most of them, Alexander Shulgin. Shulgin was a "psychopharmacologist" who, due to a special arrangement with the DEA, invented, synthesized, and tested on himself and his friends, hundreds of brand-spankin'-new psychedelic drugs, many of which are referred to now as "research chemicals. Alexander Shulgin is also known as the "godfather of ecstasy" for his role in re-discovering MDMA and became a counterculture hero after t...
Jan 25, 2023•1 hr 28 min•Ep. 92
Ladies and gentlemen! Girls and boys! Today must be your lucky day because here at The Nonsense Bazaar, the Circus is in town. That’s right, imagine it now—the candy striped big top tent, the scent of peanuts and popcorn, the enormous crowd. But where did it all come from? And…where did it go? What do Jumbo Shrimp have to do with anything? In this episode, you’ll learn about how the Circus came to America, about some of the key figures in its development, the utter horror that is the geek show, ...
Jan 18, 2023•1 hr 31 min•Ep. 91
We're getting weird with it this week as we return to one of our favorite subjects: The Monroe Institute. The Monroe Institute uses audio signals to facilitate Out-Of-Body experiences, remote viewing, and other parapsychological phenomena. Mostly known as a vital, if goofy, component of the CIA/DIA psychic spy program (STARGATE et al) due to that document that gets passed around on the internet every 6 months like clockwork about the Monroe Institute's Gateway Experience, the Monroe Institute an...
Jan 11, 2023•1 hr 40 min•Ep. 90
This week we're looking at a couple of examples of the phenomenon of missing time, when things like a drive through a foggy night take much less time than they should, or when 6 hours pass during the time you raise your fork to your TV dinner. Where for either the subject or the outside world, a chunk of time seems to disappear. We also take a look at some research from a couple sources with government funding looking at something called Exotic Vacuum Objects and how these impossible things migh...
Jan 04, 2023•1 hr 12 min•Ep. 89
It's time for some of that old, old time religion as we tell a classic tale of blood, pride, mayhem and divine wrath. The Book of Enoch is one of the most consistently speculated upon books in the entire Judeo-Christian tradition despite not officially being part of the vast, vast majority of Jewish and Christion canons. Just what are they trying to hide? Probably just that God is kind of dick and makes mistakes. But that hasn't stopped people from latching onto the story of Enoch, the Watchers,...
Dec 28, 2022•1 hr 9 min•Ep. 88
Memory is a strange and slippery thing. Our memories are vital to our understanding of ourselves and the story we tell about our lives. Yet they're imperfect (to put it mildly) and in some cases your entire set of memories and self knowledge can just up and disappear. Who would you be without your memories? Would you have the same morals, the same values? Would you turn a hearse into a mobile bachelor pad, sit on a flagpole for a month, and get a job announcing the evening news? That's what one ...
Dec 14, 2022•1 hr 23 min•Ep. 87
Andy Pero was just a normal boy who happened to be the best at everything and only stuttered because of the residual effects of illuminati mind control. Recruited into the secret government program Project Superman, a subproject of Project Montauk. While Andy was under hypnosis he could do 200 pushups in a row and lift 1500 pounds. Also he could jump from planes without a parachute. After the Montauk project was shut down by releasing an astral monster into the facility to slaughter all the work...
Dec 07, 2022•1 hr 36 min•Ep. 86
Who are you? How do you define yourself? What are you genetically equipped to handle? How do the neutrinos generated by the planet Jupiter determine what you're genetically equipped to handle? How can we use this to grow your social media presence? And how does one Canadian advertising executive's psychotic break on Ibiza in 1987 figure into all of this? These are the questions we give up on trying to answer this week as we tackle the most mind melting system of personal growth and categorizatio...
Nov 29, 2022•1 hr 39 min•Ep. 85
Did you know that for thousands of years, a spiritual CIA has been watching over humanity? They’re called The Light System. They have secret agents in every city worldwide taking part in important missions, like plotting to overthrow the UN or rescuing children from underground tunnels. They’ve finally broken their thousand-year vow of silence thanks to the help of a NYC real estate agent named Jason Shurka. Rising above his tragic past full of shoulder injuries, Jason is making a name for himse...
Nov 23, 2022•1 hr 54 min•Ep. 84
This is an unlocked episode from our bonus series on Patreon. In this episode we're talking about meeting flat earthers at a party deep behind enemy lines, getting strapped with paperback grimoires, a dolphin that grew up to be a fine British gentleman, a new social media site that will actually destroy your mind, and we start looking into maybe the weirdest scam we've ever found on the internet. If you want more of this nonsense, you can get access for just $5 a month on our Patreon https://pat...
Nov 17, 2022•1 hr 18 min•Ep. 83
This week we're concluding the story of Leonhard Seppala, Togo, and the 1925 serum run to Nome with the story of the actual serum Run to Nome, Alaska. As Dr. Curtis Welch realizes Nome is completely unprepared for the epidemic of diphtheria, the town goes into hard quarantine, which is already entirely too late. A batch of antitoxin is found in Anchorage Alaska and is shipped by rail to Nenana, 674 miles east of Nome across the the Alaskan interior. From there a relay of the most hardboiled men ...
Nov 16, 2022•1 hr 10 min•Ep. 82
In January of 1925, an epidemic of diphtheria threatened to destroy the very small, very isolated town of Nome, Alaska. Diphtheria is straight up horrifying. And without any antitoxin and completely cut off from the rest of civilization, Nome's only hope was to transport diphtheria serum in a 674 mile relay by dogsled drivers through -80 degree temperatures, blizzards, and pounding winds in a matter of days. The team Nome relied on for the heaviest lifting on this relay was that of a 5'4" Norweg...
Nov 09, 2022•1 hr 17 min•Ep. 81
What do you know about Harriet Tubman? You probably know she helped slaves flee the South, right? Something about a railroad? Did you know Harriet Tubman was a psychic spy, guided by conversations with God, engaging in actual hardcore espionage deep behind enemy lines? Traveling downriver leading militia units and lighting plantations on fire? Did you know that the CIA has a statue of Harriet Tubman as an example of a model spy? Probably not. Harriet Tubman is one of the coolest people in histor...
Nov 02, 2022•1 hr 26 min•Ep. 80
Happy Halloween! It's the spookiest time of the year so we figured we'd talk about the paranormal phenomenon we actually never talk about on our show, but which we have the most personal experiences with: ghosts! Or things that have been called ghosts! Whatever they are, we crack open some fine IPAs and tell some ghost stories, from our own lives and from the towns we grew up in. Including but not limited to: The Ram Tail Factory, Rhode Island's only officially haunted location (according to the...
Oct 26, 2022•1 hr 22 min•Ep. 79
We're taking it a bit easy this week and talking about the magical superweapon that will or already has destroyed the world and taken over your mind. And created every single weather event that has occurred since it was built in the early 90's. That's right we're talking about HAARP, or the High-frequency Active Auroral Research Project, a big spooky machine in Alaska that has been a mainstay of conspiracy theories for its entire lifespan. But are those conspiracy theories justified? Well, maybe...
Oct 19, 2022•1 hr 3 min•Ep. 78
Flying hamburgers! Flying bananas! Nerds in the jungle! Lots and lots of chanting! And more UFOs than you can shake a stick at! This week we're telling the story of the Rahma Mission, the Peruvian UFO movement/group/not-a-religion-but-verging-on-that-territory started by Sixto Paz Wells in 1974. Through automatic writing, Sixto made contact with the space-brothers on their mining base on Ganymede. The space-brothers told him and his friends where and when to walk off into the desert if they want...
Oct 12, 2022•1 hr 41 min•Ep. 77
Well, we're back here again: the I AM Activity, Saint Germain, Mt Shasta, interdimensional vampires, Nazis, mind control, you know, that old chestnut. If you're not familiar with the The Nonsense Bazaar's Saint Germain lore, go back and listen to episodes 23, 24, and 52, otherwise this is going to make absolutely zero sense. If you are familiar, we're sorry but this needs to be done. As we know, the Saint Germain Foundation is the modern heir to the truly evil legacy left behind by Guy and Edna ...
Oct 05, 2022•1 hr 24 min•Ep. 76
This week we're talking about Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP), the system of brain reprogramming that will allow you too to have a mind as clean and efficient as a hotel conference room in Miami circa 1986. It'll win you friends, lovers, cure every disease known to man, and evidently let you get away with murder. All without ever really developing a personality. NLP is, essentially, a system of magic, that came out of the Human Potential Movement of the 1970s. Developed by linguist John Grind...
Sep 28, 2022•1 hr 35 min•Ep. 75
This week we’re concluding the story of John Murray Spear and the New Motive Power. What’s a New Motive Power, you ask? It’s a big ol’ pile of gizmos and gadgets meant to contain the life-animating power of God, a mechanical messiah to lead humanity into the golden age, complete with wires and knobs and pulsing balls. We pick up our tale as John Murray Spear has left his activist life behind for good and is now taking directions from the disembodied voice of Benjamin Franklin and the other membe...
Sep 21, 2022•1 hr 35 min•Ep. 74
This week we begin our look at a man named John Murray Spear, a 19th century Universalist preacher, abolitionist, prison reformer, and rabble rouser who worked himself into madness and left all that to build a mechanical golem to house the spirit of God with the help of the ghost of Ben Franklin. And many other dead founding fathers. But all that is next week. This week we learn about John Murray Spear's ceaseless efforts first on behalf of the abolition movement in the 1840's in which he person...
Sep 14, 2022•1 hr 13 min•Ep. 73
This week we're taking a look and what happens when you mix theosophy with postmodernism, and philosophy with a diet of dried ramen noodles and amphetamine. CCRU was an experimental counter-culture literature club turned full occultist who discovered "hyperstitions", fictions that create a feedback loop which results in the actualization of the fictions into reality. They lose their minds in a firestorm of amphetamine psychosis and the absolute nonsense that is academic philosophy. The head of C...
Sep 07, 2022•1 hr 39 min•Ep. 72
Would it alarm you to learn that in every medicine cabinet in America there lurks a powerful hallucinogenic drug? A drug in the same class of chemicals as datura and amanita muscaria mushrooms which not only sends the user into a bizarre and terrifying nightmare realm of shadow people and time loops, but causes a severe over reaction of the fight-or-flight response and removes your ability to calm yourself, and can cause kidney failure and early onset dementia? Would it further alarm you to know...
Aug 31, 2022•1 hr 39 min•Ep. 71
It's the conclusion to the all-too-long life of C.W. Leadbeater. But somehow, the older Leadbeater and Annie Besant get the more ridiculous their lives become. In part III we meet young Jiddu Krishnamurti, who Leadbeater spied one day and decided was going to become the "World Teacher", a thing he and Besant had recently made up. There's so much nonsense in this episode. We've got Besant and Leadbeater stealing custody of Krishna and his brother from their father, Leadbeater faking hundreds of p...
Aug 24, 2022•2 hr 6 min•Ep. 70
On part II of our Leadbeater series, it's the most anticlimactic courtroom drama there's ever been! We pick up the story of Leadbeater's rise to become one of the most influential occultists of all time right after the death of HPB and we see how Leadbeater ingratiates himself with the new president of the Theosophical Society, Annie Besant. We cover Leadbeater and Besant's "investigations" of "occult chemistry" and thought forms, Leadbeater's ridiculous travelogue of the astral plane (and what ...
Aug 17, 2022•1 hr 37 min•Ep. 69
Well, we're doing it. This week we're starting a monster of a series on a real piece of work named C.W. Leadbeater, who is, unfortunately, one of the absolute most influential and important people in Western occultism and spirituality. Leadbeater was a theosophist, and after Helena Blavatsky's death became the most important theosophists and a global superstar. He invented aura reading, the color scheme for the chakras, turned the literary device of the "masters of ancient wisdom" into the super...
Aug 10, 2022•1 hr 48 min•Ep. 68
This week we're looking at one of the stranger UFO hoaxes in history: the space people from the planet Ummo. Beginning in 1960s Spain, upwards to 6,700 people started receiving letters from entities alleging to be from a star system 14.6 lightyears from Earth. The aliens wrote of a history with more than a little resemblance to the history of Spain in the 20th century and told a familiar tale of a looming nuclear apocalypse. They even showed up in Spanish skies just long enough for one intrepid ...
Aug 02, 2022•1 hr 14 min•Ep. 67
About a week after the war in Ukraine broke out, our good friend Cody dropped everything, booked a flight to eastern Europe to volunteer as a paramedic, and spent the next four months as a medic in a special forces reconnaissance unit in eastern Ukraine. His qualifications were that he used to be a paramedic, is currently certified EMT Basic, and is one of the smartest and most truly insane people we have ever known. He did not, however, have prior military experience. We sat down three days aft...
Jul 27, 2022•2 hr•Ep. 66
This week we're taking a look at some modern fae folklore. And by modern folklore we mean bizarre and disturbing stories from the worst corners of the internet. But that's where you find the real gems. We take a look at a few encounters with something eerily similar to the gancanagh, the Irish "love-talking fairy," who takes on the appearance of whatever his victims will find most attractive, gets said victims to fall in love with him, and then leaves them in despair and madness when he goes to ...
Jul 20, 2022•1 hr 50 min•Ep. 65
