EPISODE 40 | When Nerds Attack: Gamergate, Elevatorgate & Sad Puppies

A short late night chat in an elevator becomes a flashpoint in a storm of online misogyny; a woman has to hide because she dares critique the depiction of women; a relationship ends, sparking off a campaign of hate against women that lasts for years, and not even the venerable Hugo Awards are safe from the spreading #onlineslimemold. And then the racists get in on the action.

You'd think the realms of atheism, video games and science fiction would be immune to online nonsense, but you'd be very, very wrong. Even there, aggrieved men weaponize the internet to try and "take back" something that was really never theirs in the first place. Along the way the #slimemold will use doxxing, swatting, spite charities and other tools to lay the foundations of the modern alt-right, QAnon and the January 6, 2021 attack on the US Capitol.

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EPISODE 39 | A Weirdness Travelogue: Henges, Tiles & Plaques

Mystery is all around us - we just need to seek it out. Here are a few offbeat and weird places in the US to go see: some henges, some tiles and some plaques.

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EPISODE 38 | The Dirty Dozen: Medical Misinformation Miscreants

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Just 12 people are responsible for the vast bulk of misinformation about COVID vaccines on social media. 12. Are they cuckoo banana pants true believers or just modern day snake oil hucksters endangering people to make a buck? We'll take a look at this dirty dozen and see what they say and speculate as to why they say those things.

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EPISODE 37 | Magnificent Desolation: The Moon Landing Was a Hoax (Big 'Uns 3)

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Yesterday was the anniversary of humans landing on the moon. Or was it? A surprisingly large number of people have their doubts, and they also have all sorts of "proof" as to why the whole thing is hooey. We'll look at some of the deniers' claims as well as a few of the big players in the moon hoax industry.

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EPISODE 36 | The Georgia Guidestones: An NWO Billboard

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40 years ago, an anonymous group paid a lot of money to have an odd structure erected in a field in Northern Georgia - a series of stone megaliths with carved inscriptions in several languages. What the heck was it? A message for the survivors of a future cataclysm? A statement of intent for the New World Order? Plenty of people are more than a little freaked out by the Georgia Guidestones - it's been vandalized, had bits stolen and wingnuts of all types froth at the mouth when talking about this enigmatic monument to... whatever the hell it is.

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EPISODE 35 | A Field Guide to Aliens

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"The aliens" are not one group, but many, often with competing goals and motivations. Starting back in 1946, the Russians compiled a handbook for elite KGB and SMERSH agents on 58 separate alien races that visit our planet. Some are nice and some are not very nice at all. They all seem to think the Earth is a special place, however, even if many of them really just couldn't care less about us humans at all. Or so says an internet marketing guy who "found" a copy of this book and claims it's all real, including pictures of the aliens taken from movies and video games. One thing's for sure - it's a helluva story.

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EPISODE 34 | Magic Carpet Ride: UFOs & the New Age

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Many supposed abductees report scary experiences, but some have a counter-narrative: the aliens are friendly and very attractive and really, really into sex. A close encounter of the groovy kind often spawns a lucrative business and/or cult with the space sweetheart as the leader, of course. Embrace the Age of Aquarius with psychic powers, cosmic vibrations, walk-ins, star seeds and indigo children. There's a lot of money to be made on the peace train. All you need is love, and believers. Preferably believers with disposable income. 

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EPISODE 33 |  Kaspar Hauser:The Boy, The Syndrome (The World Is Weird 5)

193 years ago today, a boy stumbled into the Bavarian city of Nuremberg. He was carrying two letters, could barely speak and no one knew where he had come from. Speculations flew about the mysterious young man. Was he of royal blood? Had he been raised by wolves? And was he telling the truth when he said someone wanted to kill him?

The strange and enigmatic tale of Kaspar Hauser leads us to language deprivation experiments through the ages as well as the effects of neglect on children. The world is certainly weird.

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EPISODE 32 | A View to Vril

Did a 19th century novelist accidentally tap into a long hidden truth about an underground race of godlike beings who control an electrical fluid called the Vril? Of course not. But that hasn't stopped plenty of folks from claiming it as fact, including Theosophists, Nazis, New Agers, a race car journalist turned UFO church guru and psychologist Wilhelm Reich (kind of).  Just to name a few.

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EPISODE 31 | Scammers, Inc.: MJ-12, Bennewitz & Serpo

Sometimes the crap piles up so high in the UFO world you'd need a flying saucer to stay above it all. And yet, man, these are some good stories! We look at three key events from the 1980s: the Majestic 12 claims, Project Serpo, and the sad & infuriating Bennewitz Affair. And some of the people who might be behind it all.

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