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Those Conspiracy Guys

Gordon Rochfordthoseconspiracyguys.com
Those Conspiracy Guys is a history, comedy and true crime podcast from Ireland produced and presented by Gordon Rochford and the topics discussed are varied and wide-ranging; from the speculations on the out-there conspiracy theories like aliens, time travel, and ancient civilisations to researched discussions on the more grounded, historical and provable conspiracies like political and financial corruption, scientific chicanery and secret government agency shenanigans. In long-form group discussions; interviews with authors and experts; live stage shows and streams with an eager audience; and collaborations with other conspiracy creators; Gordo examines all the wildest notions and most unbelievable theories in the ever broadening genre of 'conspiracy'. From the high-concept topics like inter-dimensional lizard men, complicated assassination plots and potential future technologies like alternative simulated universes; to the much more tangible topics like discussing serial killers and mysterious true crime cases; exploring the history of religions and cult leaders; and historically profiling the lives and times of some of the most influential people to have lived, and died. Those Conspiracy Guys brings you on a light hearted and hilarious exploration of these fantastic stories through thoroughly researched and painstakingly contmeplated production; making it easy and fun for these sometimes heavy and complicated topics to be digested, with lashings of good old irreverend Irish craic from host Gordon Rochford and a cavalcade of hilarious comedians, committed creators and fabulously interesting guests.
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Episodes

History of The Mormons

DEEP DIVE - On this episode of Those Conspiracy Guys we dive deep into the history of one of the most popular religions in the US that is widely spreading around the world and came from the mind of one man with his face in a big hat, Joseph Smith and the history of The Mormons. In the very early 19th century a wave of spiritualism called the Second Great Awakening overtook America and the afterlife, religion and the occult were a fascination of everyone looking for titilation and an entertaining...

Jan 03, 20184 hr 56 min

Jimmy Savile and The Paedophile Scandal

DEEP DIVE - On this episode of Those Conspiracy Guys we talk about undoubtedly one of the worst and most prolific paedophiles in history; Jimmy Savile. We chat about how his high powered career at the BBC, his tireless charity work and his lofty appointments by The Pope and The Queen of England couldn’t keep the truth from coming out after his death in 2011 and reports of up to 450 men, women and children suffered at the cigar stained hands of this monster.Starting as a DJ in the 40s and working...

Dec 19, 20175 hr 26 min

Chikatilo - The Russian Cannibal

TRUE CRIME - On this episode of Those Conspiracy Guys we talk about one of the craziest and most prolific murderers the world has ever seen; and one who was left roam the Russian countryside for almost 30 years without conviction, killing and eating his way through 56 victims in the most brutal and gruesome murders either side of the Iron Curtain, Andrei Chikatilo - The Russian CannibalAlso known as the Butcher of Rostov, Chikatilo had a messed up childhood in a famine torn Ukraine. With materna...

Dec 08, 20171 hr 26 min

Operation Paperclip

DEEP DIVE -On this episode we talk about one of the darkest patches on US history and a pan-atlantic collusion that could have been the driving force behind the global actions of military, scientific and political powers for the last 70 years, Operation Paperclip.In the last days of WW2 the Nazi elite were wondering what their future would look like. Impending trials for war crimes would definitely be a possibility; and some took the opportunity by pawning their military and scientific knowledge...

Nov 19, 20175 hr 13 min

Season 6 Announcement

Just a small few minutes talking about the craic over here at TCG towers and whats coming up in the next year for us. Season 6 will bring us up to May and Season 7 will bring us into the start of 2019 so both of these are addressd here. There is also talk of the social media stuff, the tour of the USA and how you can help with that, the new video and social platforms I am using to communicate withy'all lovely folks; and a few hints as to upcoming episodes foe Season 6!Listen and enjoy some casua...

Nov 18, 201733 min

Amanda Knox

TRUE CRIME - On this episode of Those Conspiracy Guys we discuss the still mysterious case of the murder of Meredith Kircher, more famously known as the Amanda Knox case. Knox and her boyfriend Raphael Sollecito were arrested for the murder of Kircher in 2007 and spent 4 years in jail until their case was unprecidentedly thrown out and they were set free.Kircher was brutally murdered in the home she and Knox shared in a small Italian town called Perugia. They were both on a study abroad trip and...

Nov 12, 20171 hr 47 min

EllieJayden aka Shona Ellen

SWAPCAST - Gordo chats with EllieJayden aka Shona Ellen about YouTube, being a creator, monetising creativity after the Adpocalypse, Google Censorship, SJWs and loads of other stuff.*This is a SwapCast and the same video is on both creators video channels as well as being broadcast on our podcast channel. Please consider subscribing to each and supporting creators online*To get in touch with Shona you can find her here:* Blog: http://elliejayden.com/ * Twitter: @Elliejayden * Instagram: @EllieJa...

Oct 28, 20174 min

The West Memphis 3

TRUE CRIME - On this episode of Those Conspiracy Guys we discuss one of the more famous miscarraiges of justice with an Arkansas trio of young men, known as The West Memphis 3, who were convicted of the murders of three boys in the city of West Memphis, served 18 years in prison, and were released after a celebrity star studded campaign for justice allowed them to be set free under a legal technicality.Damien Echols, Jason Baldwin and Jessie Miskelly Jnr were said to have brutally taken the live...

Oct 18, 20171 hr 43 min

The Disclosure Project

DEEP DIVE - On this episode we talk about one of the most important revelations in modern technology, suggests tangible solutions to the energy crisis and the definitive answer to whether new are alone in the universe (the answer is we aren’t) we discuss Dr. Stephen M. Greer and the 24 year long mission to disclose to the world the existence of alien life forms in The Disclosure Project.In 1993 Greer started this journey to reveal the evidence that attests to the existence of extra-terrestrials....

Sep 29, 20175 hr 9 min

Albert Fish

TRUE CRIME - On this episode of Those Conspiracy Guys we discuss the monster on whom the story of The Boogeyman was based; The Werewofl of Wysteria, The Gray Man and one of the most prolific, evil and cruel murderers of the last two centuries, the sadomasochictic cannibal known as Albert Fish.Albert, like most gruesome murderers, had a messed up childhood. Brought up in an atmosphere of abuse in a childrens home, and with a family plagued by psycholigcal disorders; Albert was subjected to unimag...

Sep 08, 20171 hr 25 min

Aleister Crowley

DEEP DIVE - On this episode of Those Conspiracy Guys we discuss the Beast himself, creator of the Order of Thelema and quite possibly one of the biggest cultural influencers of the last century, The Dark Magician himself, Aleister Crowley.From his reasonably comfortable beginnings to the debauched and disease riddled end, Crowley lived to the extreme. A proficient and prolific mountaineer, a poet, painter, novelist, magician, occultist and mountaineer who travelled the world on a perpetual searc...

Aug 30, 20175 hr 32 min

The Life and Times of JP Morgan

DEEP DIVE - On this episode of Those Conspiracy Guys we discuss the man who possibly could have had the strongest influence on the shaping of society as we know it and whose banking and business practices paved the way for the system of finance that prevails across the world today. We talk about his history, his influence and the circumstances in which he thrived as a entrepreneur and moulded America and world finance to his will, this show is all about The Life and Times of JP Morgan.The Morgan...

Aug 16, 20174 hr 50 min

Money and The Gold Standard

DEEP DIVE - On this episode of Those Conspiracy Guys we discuss the stuff that really makes the world go round, money! From its creation as pressed salt and fancy sea shells, to its advancement into a digital and invisible token for payment for goods and services, money has been at the heart of civilised human society for thousands of years. The formation of a considered trading commodity that is universal over barter and other more primitive forms of token payments has taken millennia to develo...

Jul 19, 20175 hr 30 min

Jaycee Lee Dugard

TRUE CRIME - On this episode of Those Conspiracy Guys we talk about one of the longest running kidnap cases ever and how a husband and wife could kidnap a girl off the street outside her own house and keep her incarcerated for 18 years, Jaycee Lee Dugard.In the summer of 1991 Phillip Garrido, a convicted sex offender, and his wife Nancy snatched Jaycee Lee off the street outside her house in Lake Tahoe, California. They drive her 3 hours away and kept her in a prefabricated cell that eventually ...

Jun 28, 20171 hr 25 min

The Columbine High School Shooting

DEEP DIVE - On this episode of Those Conspiracy Guys we examine one of the most influential and traumatic events in a pre-9/11 world which changed how our children have been treated for almost the last 20 years and an event so shocking and unpredicatble it changed police operating procedures, world wide school environments, and the attitudes toward mental health and medication, The Columbine High School Shooting.Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold with an arsenal of weapons killed 13 people on the 20t...

Jun 24, 20175 hr 32 min

Freemasons

DEEP DIVE - On this episode we tie on the apron of inquisitiveness and flick through the ancient texts as we try to unravel the mystery behind one of the world most well known secret society, The Freemasons. With a very sketchy genesis story and connections to Satanism, The Illuminati and other unsavoury business and social practices The Freemasons have got a bad reputation in the latter half of the last century.The rituals and ceremony behind the Freemason order could be the reason so many peop...

Jun 20, 20174 hr 54 min

The Lake Bodom Murders

TRUE CRIME - On 5th June 1960 in Finland four teenagers were found dead on the shores of Lake Bodom, just 22 kilometres from the captial Helsinki, in a small area known as Espoo. Between 4 and 6 in the morning someone, or something, stabbed and beat them to death leaving only one survivor and the biggest unsolved murder mystery in Finnish history.With some strange suspects and a survivor in the mix, this case gets weird right at the start. Nils Gustafsson survived the attack and his girlfriend M...

Jun 02, 201757 min

Area 51

DEEP DIVE - On this episode we venture deep into the desert to find out the truth about one of the most elusive and secret locations on the planet, Area 51. Synonymous with UFO sightings, secret government operations and extreme privacy measures, Area 51 is bursting with secrets but not very well kept ones.We talk about the high tech radar repellent spy planes, the men who made them and how these craft were used as spy machines while getting misidentified as UFOs. We also talk about the black op...

May 18, 20174 hr 50 min

Elvis Presley

DEEP DIVE - On this episode we take a long look at the tragically short life of one of the most iconic and influential musicians and pop culture figures the world has ever seen, Elvis Presley. His swift rise to fame, his trailblazing musical style, his groundbreaking cultural impact and his untimely and world renowned death make the story of Elvis Presley, one everyone should know in its entirety.Born into abject poverty in Tupelo Mississippi and spent his early years practically homeless and pe...

May 01, 20175 hr 30 min

HAARP and Weather Manipulation

DEEP DIVE - On this episode we take a look at the invisible force that could be controlling our entire planet and the governmental and scientific levers that are being pulled to possibly manipulate the weather and take over the minds of the worlds population, The HAARP Program.On the surface HAARP, or the High Frequency Active Auroral Research Program, seems to be just an innocent research endeavour of the University of Alaska; a magnetic array that has very similar counterparts in Europe, Russi...

Apr 23, 20174 hr 21 min

The Sodder Children

TRUE CRIME - On Christmas Eve, 1945 in Fayetteville, West Virginia, the Sodder Family went to bed for the last time together. George and Jennie Sodder and their 9 kids went to bed that night and a fire supposedly claimed the live of 5 of the 9 Sodder Children but mystery has surrounded their deaths and suggestions of illegal and suspicious activity plague this case to this day.A mysterious set of circumstances and witnesses began the growth of the seeds of doubt for George and Jenny Sodder. They...

Apr 13, 20171 hr 17 min

The Italian Mafia

DEEP DIVE - On this episode we talk about one of the most renowned criminal organisations in the world, that went from a super secret cabal of career criminals to a star studded cavalcade of celebrity gangsters that were splashed across the pages of newspapers and whose stories lit up our cinema screens for the last 50 years, The Italian Mafia.Starting from a small and poverty stricken gaggle of Sicilian local town stewards with a penchant for violence and way with coercion; The Cosa Nostra beca...

Mar 30, 20174 hr 57 min

HH Holmes

TRUE CRIME - On this episode we talk about Americas first serial killer and possibly the most prolific in US history. HH Holmes confessed to 27 murders after his arrest in the final years of the 19th century and most of the missing persons associated with his case have never been found and their crime remain unsolved.Herman Mudgett grew from a young New Hampshire boy with a fascination with dead bodies to a grim hotel owner where a seris of trap doors and torture devices helped in the early expi...

Mar 24, 20171 hr 25 min

Global Warming

DEEP DIVE - On this episode we crank up the heat and dive deep into the rising water of the biggest issue to face our planet and its inhabitants since the dawn of man, or so some would have you believe.Global warming and the climate change debate has raged in the halls of academia for the last 100 years or so and even with apparant imperical evidence the community is split on whether its real or not.We discuss the possible causes and solutions to a problem that we will all have to face up to, wh...

Mar 14, 20175 hr 7 min

The Death of Marilyn Monroe

DEEP DIVE - On this episode we talk about one of the most iconic people on the planet in the last 100 years, her life and her death, and the cultural legacy she left behind after her untimely death, Marilyn Monroe.With her early life being plagued with insecurity and tragedy, it seems impossible to image that Marilyn was destined to become one of the most powerful women in Hollywood. But drugs, alcohol and an ever present cloud of mental illness hung over her and stunted her meteoric rise.With a...

Feb 28, 20174 hr 38 min

Ghosts: Revisited

DEEP DIVE - On this episode we out on our proton packs and edge our way into the world of the hereafter where the spirits of the dead hold dominion. This is the reconstituted version of a show from the start of Season 1, which was horroibly disfigured by technical faults. This is the full version of Ghosts, with some extra juice! We talk about the origins of ghost stories from around the world and the types of ghosts that the human mind thought relevant to create. There is an imperative for peop...

Feb 12, 20174 hr 25 min

Propaganda

DEEP DIVE - On this episode of Those Conspiracy Guys we delve deep into the septic tank of modern news media and examine what's now called 'Fake News', but we have always known it as Propaganda. A tool invented by sociologists using psychological techniques to convice the public to think and act against their will. We talk about the scientific techniques and the origins of the idea of manipulation of media throughout history. We all learned in school that Hitler had a propaganda machine, but wha...

Jan 31, 20177 hr 24 min

Season 5 Announcement

Season 5 has been cookin' and this is a short video telling you whats coming up! If you want to stay abreast (hehe a breast) of the TCG news coming up join us on social media. Some really great episodes coming up in Season 5 and I dont want to spoil the surprise, so I won't. But there will be more types of shows and more content for you to enjoy.________________________This podcast is supported by the generous donations of the wonderful folks over at Patreon. If you want to support the show and ...

Jan 20, 20178 min

The Vatican

DEEP DIVE - On this episode we talk about the most holy of holies and the headquarters of the Catholic Church, The Vatican. Existing uniquely as a state, a corporation and a person, The Vatican and The Holy See has been surrounded in mystery from the outside world for hundreds of years. We wonder what goes on inside its walls and discuss the known inner workings of Vatican City. We also talk about the Swiss Guard and their killer skill and how difficult it is to get into The Vatican as a citizen...

Dec 25, 20167 hr 35 min

Marijuana

DEEP DIVE - On this episode we talk about the medical marvel that has been teetering on the edge of legality for the better part of a century, Recently legalised in many states in the US and free to possess in over 50 countires worldwide, the public opinion of marijuana is changing. Its medicinal properties are being identified and rolled out to an unwilling medical community and dispenseries are making big bucks selling top grade Mary-Jane. But the other properties of the cannabis plant, its po...

Dec 15, 20165 hr 45 min
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