Conspiracy Clearinghouse

By Derek DeWitt

A rather skeptical look at conspiracies and mysteries. Each episode will examine conspiracy theories, most of which are not true, a few of which might be a little bit true and even a couple that turne... more

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March 30, 2022The Dead Internet Theory
EPISODE 55 | The Dead Internet Theory
Weirdly similar but also somewhat nonsensical tweets, emails that seem written by bots, the same posts showing up again and again - something seems to be amiss with the internet. And some people think they have found the answer: the internet died a few years ago and is now almost entirely run by sophisticated AI bots. This is the Dead Internet Theory.
We'll look at the reasoning behind this notion, a timeline of events that includes some creepy real-world DARPA projects, the state of AI and computer-brain interfaces, and a peek at the (possibly) approaching Singularity - when humans and machines will essentially blend into one thing.
Special shoutout to Gerd Altmann, who made most of the images use din the video version of this episode and made them available on Pixabay.
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02:14 - Imitation Is the Sincerest Form of Monetization - clone emails, I hate texting, @Capr1corn, @itspureluv, spoof websites, web bots, the Inversion, deepfakes
09:13 - The Dead Internet Theory - IlluminatiPirate sniffs out a truth, stupid stuff online, doors vs wheels, the early net was better/sucked, Solipsism
13:36 - The Metaverse gets handsy, the web is soulless, it's all a mindset, Pantone 448C
18:11 - Something Rotten in the State of Denmark - Tracing the DIT, standardization runs amuck, algorithm fiction, CGI and deepfakes, many internets, wag the dog
22:18 - A timeline of terror: DARPA's LifeLog, Facebook, Total Information Awareness, using Basketball for precrime, No Such Agency, Smith-Mundt Modernization Act, Project Mockingbird, Operation Mockingbird, Google's Selfish Ledger, NMT, Face2Face, Narrative Science, In-Q-Tel
29:37 - A problem of scale: Google search results are ridiculous, there are a lot of stupid people, our brains suck, are you trapped?, link rot, awesome stuff on the web, Yvette's Bridal Formal, Flat Earth News
37:02 - No 9000 Computer Has Ever Made a Mistake or Distorted Information. We Are All, by Any Practical Definition of the Words, Foolproof and Incapable of Error - Strong AI, the Turing Test, Eugene Goostman, autonomous vehicles
41:17 - Human-computer interfaces, Neuralink, Brown University's wireless interfaces
42:33 - One, Singular Sensation, Every Little Step She Takes - The Singularity approaches, transhumanism, immortality (of a sort), Ray Kurzweil and technofaith
Music by Fanette Ronjat
More Info:
Dead Internet Theory in The Atlantic
Dead Internet Theory in The Daily Free Press
We're Living in the 90s on Agora Road
The Internet Is A Potemkin Village: Proof Of Dead Internet Theory?
More thoughts (and science) on the Dead Internet
A video on The Dead Internet Theory
Total Number of Websites
How Much of the Internet Is Fake? Turns Out, a Lot of It, Actually.
Bad Bot Report 2021: The Pandemic of the Internet
The Metaverse Is on the Way: Here's What You Need to Know
The metaverse has a groping problem already
The Wheels Vs. Doors Debate Tearing the Internet Apart
Yvette's Bridal Formal
The World's Worst Website Ever!
Pentagon Kills LifeLog Project
Q&A on the Pentagon's "Total Information Awareness" Program on ACLU
Scientists dispute whether computer 'Eugene Goostman' passed Turing test
The Internet Is Rotting
Jonathan Zittrain Explains Why the Internet Is Rotting
Facebook just released a database of 100,000 deepfakes to teach AI how to spot them
The Strange Story of Google's "Selfish Ledger"
Google’s Selfish Ledger ideas can also be found in its patent applications
The Only Way Google X's Selfish Ledger Is "Good"
The State of AI in 2022: Current State & Predictions
What is limiting the autonomous driving rollout?
The Current State of Play in Autonomous Vehicles on Hackaday
The first successful wireless human brain-computer interface is here.
Eat your heart out, Neuralink.
Singularity: Explain It to Me Like I’m 5-Years-Old on Futurism
Singularity Group website
Digital Freedom Fund
Digital Freedom Foundation
Flat Earth News by Nick Davies
The Singularity is Near by Ray Kurzweil
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March 16, 2022Pootie-Poot on the Prowl: V. Putin Takes Center Stage
EPISODE 54 | Pootie-Poot on the Prowl: V. Putin Takes Center Stage
Many see parallels between Putin's invasion of Ukraine and Hitler's of Poland in 1939. Other see echoes of Stalin in today's Russian leader. But maybe we need to go back further, to Napoleon, to see what's up with this guy. Here's a look at "Little Boney", as British satire of Napoleon had it, and "Pootie-Poot", which was George W. Bush's nickname for Putin, as well as what's going on, how it's really all the same playbook, conspiracy theories about the Russo-Ukraine War and more.
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02:27 - Little Boney - A quick look at Napoleon Bonaparte
07:13 - Pootie-Poot - Putin as PM, President, President, PM
14:59 - A President's Castle Is HIs Armour - President, President (plus President x2 a-comin')
25:10 - So, What's Up with this Guy? - Contradictory assessments; Communist, Fascist, Ataman
32:48 - Weaponizing Information - The Firehose of Falsehood
36:44 -Wag the dog, anti-Semitism, the Khazars return?, QAnon, the Zorro Squad, Armageddon and more
47:48 - 5 scenarios on how the war in Ukraine might end
Music by Fanette Ronjat
More Info:
22 Nicknames for Napoleon
Vladimir Putin page on RationalWiki
Putinism and Bonapartism: The Ten Resemblances by Marcel H. van Herpen
Why has Putin's Napoleonic 'cold charisma' made him so popular in Russia?
Was Napoleon Short?
Blog by professor Mark van Vugt on Putin and Napoleon Complex
Psychology Today article on Putin and Napoleon Complex
Putin on the Couch on Politico
Is Russia repeating mistakes of past wars in Ukraine? on Al Jazeera
The Russian "Firehose of Falsehood" Propaganda Model - the Rand Corporation
China's promotion of Russian disinformation indicates where its loyalties lie on CNN
Fabricated videos about Ukraine Invasion CNN video
Conspiracy Theorists Move To Ukraine Crisis After Covid Disinformation
How to spot false posts from Ukraine
Analysis: Russia and QAnon have the same false conspiracy theory about Ukraine
Article on the letter Z becoming a pro-war symbol
Gymnast Ivan Kuliak in trouble for wearing "Z"
Ukrainians Tell Stories of Divine Intervention from the Battlefield
Ukraine: How might the war end? Five scenarios on BBC
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53min
March 09, 2022Time to Get Ill: DST, Y2K & 2012
EPSIODE 53 | Time to Get Ill: DST, Y2K & 2012
We can find doom and gloom anywhere we focus our attention. Even time itself is not free from the shadowy glances of the suspicious. This is a look at some time-related freakouts - Daylight Saving Time, time zones, Y2K and the 2012 phenomenon.
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02:02 - DST is BS - Franklin, farmers and furor
09:30 - Madness in Minnesota and more
15:27 - Market multiplications
16:37 - DST disorders and developments
19:53 - Zoning Laws - Time zone zaniness
28:38 - The Millennium Bug - Y2K consternation, Scary Gary, Dominionism, militias and the Walking Bible
35:12 - Mayan I Have Some More, Please? - The 2012 Phenomenon, calendars, Long Counts, Great Cycles and End Times
39:56 - Magnetic fields, black holes, supernovae and aliens; worldwide panic, disaster tourism, K-Pop meets Nostradamus
46:06 - The Beginning of the End
Music by Fanette Ronjat
More Info:
9 Things You Probably Don't Know About Daylight Saving Time
A Short History of Daylight Saving Time
Time is Money article about DST
Daylight Savings Time Conspiracy Theory
Crazy Original Conspiracy Theory about DST
Daylight-saving time is a curse against humanity, and we should end it forever on Insider
Daylight Savings Time Should Disappear on The Bottom Line
US time map article
The case for an entirely new calendar
It's Time to Change the Calendar, Once and For All on Forbes
Y2K bug on NatGeo
How A Computer Bug Dubbed ‘Y2K’ Was Feared to Bring About the End of the World on Inside Edition
20 Years Ago, Y2K Hysteria Led to Emergency Bunkers and Cost the U.S. $100 Billion in People Magazine
A billion years from now, a lack of oxygen will wipe out life on Earth
Anunnaki and Stargates episode
Project Blue Beam episode
Gary North's Specific Answers website
The Gary North is a Big Fat Idiot Page
Five Facts about Dominionism on The Christian Century website
Dominionism Rising: A Theocratic Movement Hiding in Plain Sight
Dominionism article in the Texas Observer
FAQ: Apocalypse 2012 Explained on CNBC
December 21, 2012 on History.com
Beyond 2012: Why the World Didn't End on NASA
Does Anyone Really Believe in the Mayan Apocalypse? on LiveScience
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48min
February 16, 2022The Mandela Effect & Memory (Because Reasons 6)
EPISODE 52 | The Mandela Effect & Memory (Because Reasons 6)
Nelson Mandela died in the early 80s, or he didn't. The comedian Sinbad was in a genie movie in the 90s, or he wasn't. Brand names keep getting changed, or not. Either our memories are not as reliable as we think they are, or someone is going around changing the very fabric of reality.
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01:35 - The Mandela Effect: everything changes
05:57 - A Mandela Effect quiz (including one red herring)
12:07 - Mix & Match - Maybe CERN is to blame
13:52 - Shazam & Kazaam
17:47 - Mandela & Biko, colour confusion, fossilized errors, sheeple
21:06 - Absolutely Confabulous - The Dunning-Kruger Effect, hypnosis, alien butt stuff
26:24 - The Art of Attention - how memory works
30:07 - Memory markers - places, focus and narrative; the Memory Palace, fun socks
32:50 - Collective memory, Bieber the Lizard, 9/11
35:42 - Justice Is Blinded - eyewitness testimony is unreliable, Onion origins
40:12 - If we can't trust memory, what can we do?
Music by Fanette Ronjat
More Info:
The Mandela Effect website
Fiona Broome's website
The Mandela Effect on Snopes
What is the Mandela effect? on Medical News Today
Mandela Effect article on Very Well Mind
45 Mandela Effect Examples That Will Blow Your Mind
Time Manipulation - Mandela Effect Examples on Reddit (r/reality_shifting)
How Memory Works - Harvard article
Psychology Today article on memory
How Our Brains Make Memories in Smithsonian
Human memory: How we make, remember, and forget memories on National Geographic
How Human Memory Works on How Stuff Works
How Memory Functions - Intro to Psychology
Confabulation paper on ClinMed
Nearly 2,000 witnesses can be wrong
The Utter Unreliability Of Eyewitness Testimony
Why Eyewitness Testimony Is Unreliable
The Innocence Project
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45min
February 02, 2022Et Tu, Reptilicus: Mythconceptions About the Ancient World
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.
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01:59 - Rome Is Where the Heart Is
03:11 - What have the Romans ever done for us?
04:00 - Statues of limitations, pantheon purloiners, toga party, orgies, salutes, vomitoriums
08:56 - Are You Not Entertained? Stuff about gladiators
16:13 - Lend Me Your Ears - Stuff about Julius Caesar
21:10 - Freakazoid - Stuff about Caligula
23:38 - And Now For My Next Number - Stuff about Nero
30:12 - Fluid Prejudice - Herodotus and history
33:11 - Vikings, the Pyramids, Eve's sin, salting the ground, Amazons
36:59 - Neanderthals, Stonehenge, the Sphinx, the Hanging Gardens of Babylon
38:22 - The Great Library of Alexandria, the Battle of Thermopylae & the 300, Braveheart & cinema
42:28 - Memory is fickle, collective or otherwise
Music by Fanette Ronjat
More Info:
10 Common Misconceptions About the Ancient World
Top 10 Myths and Urban Legends About Ancient History
50 Incredible Facts about Rome
10 Things You May Not Know About Roman Gladiators
11 Misconceptions About Ancient Rome, Debunked
Rome: 5 Things that Are Accurate and 5 Things That Are Totally Fabricated
From Gladiator Duels To Caesar's Last Words: The Myths Of Ancient Rome on NPR
Professor Buzzkill history podcast
The 24 Best Podcasts for Every History Fan
The Reliability of Knowledge in History
Study: Historians Easily Fooled by Unreliable Content
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January 19, 2022The JFK Assassination w/Fred Litwin (Big ’Uns 5)
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 Garrison had it totally wrong and more.
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02:06 - I was a Teenage JFK Conspiracy Freak
05:44 - The Great American Myth of the 20th Century
08:22 - "Proofs"
08:42 - The parade route
10:21 - The magic bullet (CE 399/FBI 1)
13:14 - The truth is, these just aren't very bright guys
14:43 - The rifle
16:41 - The Zapruder Film & frame 313
21:56 - The Three Tramps
27:36 - The Babushka Lady
29:16 - Too many Oswalds
31:00 - Umbrella Man
32:21 - Oswald on the run
35:03 - Jack Ruby
37:39 - Oswald's possible motivations
40:25 - Jim Garrison: On the Trail of Delusion
44:03: - Echoes today, focus on the great center
Music by Fanette Ronjat
More Info:
On the Trail of Delusion by Fred Litwin
Fred Litwin's blog
I Was a Teenage JFK Conspiracy Freak by Fred Litwin
The President John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection at the National Archives
National Archives additional materials release - December 2021
Warren Commission Report
JFK events timeline
The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza
JFK Assassination resources at the Mary Ferrell Foundation
JFK resources at Baylor University
The Harold Weisberg Archive
How the JFK Assassination Bullets Were Digitally Preserved at NIST
What Are the Biggest Revelations in the Declassified JFK Assassination Files? on History.com
Finding Aid for the John F. Kennedy Assassination Holdings (MA 88.17, MA 93.5) pdf
Echoes of Conspiracy, Vol. 13, #1 pdf
JFK assassination film hoax webpage
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51min
January 05, 2022’Merican Monuments (Travelogue 2)
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.
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01:55 - The Heads. You're Looking at the Heads: Mt. Rushmore (beginnings)
05:32 - Who's who?
07:05 - Suggested additions
09:37 - Ch-ch-changes
10:31 - A chamber of secrets
13:54 - Black Hills Weirdness - UFOs, Bigfoot & portals
16:47 - Fort Igloo & the Vivos Group
18:04 - Mine's Bigger - The Crazy Horse Memorial
21:51 - Tone Deaf Tourism - Stone Mountain, GA
26:03 - Phallic. Appalling. The Washington Monument
30:35 - Bench Mark A - a tiny monument
31:26 - A monument in Maryland
32:22 - Weather control device
35:20 - Obelisks are scary
36:33 - A monument to slavery
38:33 - Countdown clock to Armageddon
Music by Fanette Ronjat
More Info:
75 Surprising Facts about Mount Rushmore
The Sordid History of Mount Rushmore in Smithsonian Magazine
The heartbreaking, controversial history of Mount Rushmore in National Geographic
Mount Rushmore’s Secret Chamber on History.com
Conspiracy Theories podcast Mt. Rushmore episode transcript
Trumpmore article
7 Ways to Enjoy Your Day at Mount Trashmore
Atlas Obscura entries for area around Rushmore
UFOs are no strangers to South Dakota in the Argus Leader
Keystone’s “Big Foot Bash” a day of celebration and record-breaking
Bigfoot Field Researchers Association South Dakota sightings
World's Biggest wooden Bigfoot sculpture
Hidden Portals in Earth's Magnetic Field on Nasa.gov
Igloo, South Dakota: The Utopia That War Built
Vivos Group website
Black Hills Attractions
7 Unexpected Things in the Black Hills
Hotel Alex Johnson (haunted!)
Rapid City, city of presidents
Crazy Horse Memorial official website
Crazy Horse Memorial travel website
Crazy Horse Memorial article on Business Insider
Stone Mountain, GA
Washington Monument website
Washington Monument Access Hatch on Atlas Obscura
Washington Mini Monument on Atlas Obscura
Middleton Monument
COULD WASHINGTON D.C. BE PROTECTED BY ANCIENT EGYPTIAN TECHNOLOGY?
The Washington Monument Conspiracy
Before 1619, there was 1526: The mystery of the first enslaved Africans in what became the United States
Washington Monument Might Hide Masons' Prediction Of The Apocalypse In 2022 on Quest TV YouTube channel
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December 22, 2021Ice Ice Baby: Songs of Ice & Snow
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 look at nature used as an insult, snow that burns, the World Ice Theory, Ice Ages that are coming (or already here), buried mountains, Nazis in Antarctica, alien vegetables, Easter Island and more.
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02:00 - Ice Ice Baby - types of ice
04:45 - Snowball Fight - snow terms, snarl words, snowclones, broflakes
10:32 - What a Snow Job - fake snow, polar vortexes, burning snow
16:34 - The Cold Sun - global warming pseudoscience
20:05 - Ice Ages Now & Then - global cooling, fake Time covers, Robert Felix, the World Ice Theory, Nazis
28:37 - Baby, es ist kalt draußen - Neuschwabenland, Antarctic Nazi UFOs
34:21 - The Ends of the Earth - Antarctica facts & fictions, H.P. Lovecraft, Planet X, Easter Island, Google Maps, the UN flag & more
Music by Fanette Ronjat
More Info:
Q: Could Kurt Vonnegut’s “Ice-9 catastrophe” happen?
Ghost Ice
Snowclones article on The Conversation
Fake Snow articles: The Independent, Popular Mechanics, Politifact, Reuters, Unilad, Slate, Insider and European Scientist
The NASA data conspiracy theory and the cold sun
Time Magazine cover, April 3, 2006
The Real TIME Cover Behind That Fake 'Ice Age' Report
That ’70s myth—did climate science really call for a “coming ice age?” on Ars Technica
How the "Global Cooling" Story Came to Be in Scientific American
How Trump gets his fake news on Poilitico
Robert Felix on the Encyclopedia of American Loons
Why Hitler and other Nazis thought the world was really made of ice on Big Think
The Nazis Believed In A Universe Full Of Ice Just To Spite Einstein on Gizmodo
Hitler's Frozen Base
Weird Antarctica - the truth behind secret Nazi bases and aliens
Neumayer Station III
Planet X & 2012: The Myth of the Southern Approach
Antarctica's Biggest Mysteries: Secrets of a Frozen World on Live Science
Hidden Antarctic Secrets - All is Revealed what "they" don't want you to know on Cool Antarctica (!)
Google Earth photo sparks conspiracy theories about ‘400-foot ice ship’ in Antarctica
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46min
December 08, 2021What Lies Beneath: The Hollow Earth (Big ‘Uns 4)
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. Or the Book of Genesis is really all about Mars. And on and on it goes as the pseudoscientific folks get all hot and bothered about what lies beneath our feet.
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01:58 - The Hollow Earth Point Zero - early notions, Halley, Euler
05:54 - The Symmesulation - John Cleves Symmes Jr., Symmes Holes, Jeremiah Reynolds inspires, early fiction, William Warren's Paradise Found, Etidorhpa
11:43 - Fiction & Fact - Verne, Nequa, Pellucidar (special guest: Tarzan), Agharta (Shamballa lite?)
16:28 - Szukalski & Zermatism (Protong & the Yetisyni)
19:26 - Dero, Dero! The Shaver Mystery - Richard Shaver, the evil Dero, Mantong, Ray Palmer, an Amazing Stories scandal, the Hidden World, Atlantean rock books, Shaver Mystery Clubs crop up
28:36 - Not Visitors, Roommates! - UFO & mountains, Raymond Bernard, Peter Kolosimo, Brinsley Le Poer Trench and a Martian Genesis
33:48 - Facts Cut a Hole in Us - Chimborazo & a vertical deflection experiment, the Kola Superdeep Borehole, facts about the Earth's interior & structure; Rodney Cluff, a multi-dimensional interior
41:02 - Growing Pains - the Expanding Earth Theory - Mantovani, continental drift, artist Neal Adams and Batman
Music by Fanette Ronjat
LAPSUS LINGUAE: I say the Life Magazine article starts on page 134, but it actually starts on page 127. In the video version, I write the inter-dimensional hollow earth video only has Hungarian subtitles, but I found a copy without (see the playlist for that).
More Info:
Hollow-Earth Theories: A List of References
The Hollow Earth Theory Isn’t So Funny Anymore on Wired
Tales of a Hollow Earth. Tracing the Legacy of John Cleves Symmes in Antarctic Exploration and Fiction, a research paper by Lester Ian Chaplow
Euler and the Hollow Earth: Fact or Fiction? by Ed Sandifer
Marshall B Gardner's patent US1096102A
The Hollow Earth Theory: Our Inside Out Universe on Mysteries Unsolved
Stanislav Szukalski: Zermatic on Kook Science Research Associates
Behold!!! the Protong by Stanislav Szukalski
List of Protong words with English translation
Struggle: The Life and Lost Art of Szukalski
FEAR DOWN BELOW: The Curious History of the Shaver Mystery
The Hidden World Volume One: The Dero! The Tero! The Battle Between Good and Evil Underground
The Secret World
Richard Shaver & the proto-language of Mantong
Life Magazine, May 21, 1951 issue (article on science fiction begins page 127)
What's This? A Shaver Revival? by Doug Skinner for Fate Magazine
The mantong alphabet and sound symbolism
Review of Mantong and Protong exhibition
Inner Earth Is Teeming With Exotic Forms of Life on Smithsonian
World Top Secret: Our Earth IS Hollow - Rodney Cluff's website
That awesome video WITHOUT Hungarian subtitles!
The earth is expanding and we don't know why on Science Frontiers Online
The case against pangea - Neal Adams and the Expanding Earth Theory webpage plus links at the bottom
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November 24, 2021Fakespiracies: Anyone Can Play!
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 own #fakespiracies out of whole cloth, this episode will help you prepare for the onslaught on CT conversation around the dinner table.
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SECTIONS
02:12 - Unknown unknowns & the attention economy
07:15 - The McFly Code - "Back to the Future" predicts 9/11
12:45 - Nonsense or sense?
13:28 - A Connecting Principle, Linked to the Invisible - the Sync Movement
17:39 - What a Tangled Web We Weave - secrets in Disney movies
18:25 - How to Start a CT
20:47 - A collection of memes
23:21 - Silica gel packs are red pills
24:32 - Yummy in the Tummy - food #fakespiracies
25:55 - The Shape of Evil, with Sauce - the BTS/Among Us McNugget
30:14 - Crunch All You Want, We'll Make More - The Doritos Conspiracies
36:02 - What's in a Name - The Truth Behind Triscuits
38:09 - Mix & Match - Conspiracy Theory generators & more
Music by Fanette Ronjat
MORE INFO:
Time Cube - Four Is the Loneliest Number
Now You See It, Now You Don't - Finland Doesn't Exist
Birds Aren't Real
BACK TO THE FUTURE predicts 9/11
The Sync Book
42 Minutes podcast on Apple
Sorry Cassandra I Misunderstood: EVERYTHING PREDICTS 9-11
The DELTA-TERRESTRIAL: Harvesting DRACO VRIL "Liquids" To Ignite Zero-Point PANPSYCHISM (Draco Wars)
The Internet Is Made of Cats
A $100,000 Chicken McNugget Triggered a Child-Sex-Trafficking Conspiracy Theory in Rolling Stone
rule62rule62 ebay forum comment
The Doritos Conspiracy on Security Boulevard
Rebecca Webb Carranza, 98; Pioneered Creation, Manufacture of Tortilla Chip
‘Lady Doritos’ and the new, facile culture wars
Fact check: CNN correction about Ted Cruz, Dorito chip is fake
Writer Can’t Find The Origin Of The ‘Doritos’ Name, Makes Up His Own Creepy Backstory
Cracker Brand “Triscuit” Rewarded Man For Explaining The Real Meaning Of Its Name
The “Snacks Madness” Roundtable
The Conspiracy Singularity Has Arrived
How to Build a Conspiracy Theory
How to Start a Conspiracy Theory flow chart
CT Generators:
http://www.publiceye.org/conspire/generator.html
http://chaoticshiny.com/consgen.php
https://conspiracytheorygenerator.com/
https://www.generatorslist.com/random/misc/conspiracy-theory-generator
https://philome.la/matthew_/conspiracy-generator/play/index.html
http://conspiracy.kristinabrantley.com/

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DIGITAL SIGNAGE DONE RIGHT - Winner of the 2021 AVA Digital Award Gold, 2021 Silver Davey Award & 2020 Communicator Award of Excellence, and on numerous top 10 podcast lists.
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