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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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SECTIONS
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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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.
PRAGUE TIMES - A city is more than just a location - it’s a kaleidoscope of history, places, people and trends. This podcast looks at Prague, in the center of Europe, from a number of perspectives, including what it is now, what is has been and where it’s going. It’s Prague THEN, Prague NOW, Prague LATER.
44 min
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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SECTIONS
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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51 min
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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SECTIONS
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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43 min
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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SECTIONS
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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46 min
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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SECTIONS
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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47 min
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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43 min
November 10, 2021Rumours & CTs in the Workplace (Because Reasons 5)
EPISODE 45 | Rumours & CTs in the Workplace (Because Reasons 5)
Guest: Andrew Brown, co-founder of the Academy of Business Communications
Watercooler talk has moved online, so the speed and spread of rumours and conspiracy theories is growing every day, and it's not just inter-office gossip. How do such things take root in a work environment and what can organizations do to address them?
Andrew Brown walks us through the conditions that create fertile ground for rumors, the very human and social reasons behind them, and some real-world stories and advice for how organizations should and should not try to manage rumors in the workplace.
And while we're looking at an organizational context, these insights apply equally to any grouping of humans - a touch football team, a WhatsApp chat group or, with the holidays coming up, a family gathering.
**This interview was originally conducted for another podcast, Digital Signage Done Right. You can listen to it and see a transcript here. You can also listen to an earlier interview with Andrew Brown and his fellow co-founder Elizabeth Williams about employee surveys here.**
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SECTIONS
02:34 - ABC: Helping communications suck less
03:41 - Three levels where rumours take hold
09:52 - Three conditions that allow rumours to rise & spread now
15:13 - Maslow's Needs Hierarchy
18:09 - Four common but ineffective tactics
20:40 - These tactics ain't gonna cut it anymore
24:51 - Tips & models for combatting rumours & negative behaviours
30:16 - Traps organizations fall into
32:52 - What about when the leader is crazy? Are surveys useful?
36:08 - People want to be heard
39:52 - Belief is not knowing; change is scary
Music by Fanette Ronjat
MORE INFO:
The Academy of Business Communications
Transcript of this episode on Digital Signage Done Right
Visix communications resources
The Swear Jar podcast
The Fearless Communicator's Bullsh*t Barometer
An IdeaPACK for Fearless Communicators
Suspicion in the workplace: Organizational conspiracy theories and work-related outcomes
Conspiracy theories: Why we align with them & how to manage them at work at Human Resources Director
European Union article and infographic on identifying conspiracy theories
Leadership Steps to Stop Spread of Conspiracy Theories on RockDove Solutions
Conspiracy Theories: A Public Health Concern and How to Address It in Frontiers in Psychology
Are Conspiracy Theories Harmless? in The Spanish Journal of Psychology
The Illusory Truth Effect: Why We Believe Fake News, Conspiracy Theories and Propaganda
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45 min
October 27, 2021The Philadelphia Experiment & the Montauk Project - Time Tunnel Vision
EPISODE 44 | The Philadelphia Experiment & the Montauk Project - Time Tunnel Vision
It's 78 years since one of the most storied military experiments in history, wherein a whole ship vanished and/or teleported and/or moved through time. And this dovetails with another famous military project at the tip of Long Island that's a grab bag of elements: virus labs, monster animals, Nikola Tesla, Ian Fleming, creating superhumans, teleportation, hyperspace, psychic spies, Nazi occultists, MIBs, the internet, AIDS, mind control, time travel, aliens and much more. Or so some say. Quite loudly, at times.
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SECTIONS
01:41 - Happy Easter - The Philadelphia Experiment - Carl Allen marks up Jessup, the Varo Edition
08:57 - Nothin up my sleeve! Vincent Gaddis & Charles Berlitz chime in, Einstein collides with pop culture
13:24 - Eyewitnesses tell different stories
15:17 - Project Rainbow - the U2 is too easy to see, Jacques Vallee has some thoughts on hoaxes
17:38 - The Montauk Project - Small but mighty - The town of Montauk, New York
20:53 - The Montauk Monster, Plum Island & Lab 257, Jeff Rense chirps up
24:12 - Life Imitating Art Imitating Life - Preston B. Nichols writes a book about Camp Hero, makes some startling claims, inspires movies and TV shows, writes more books
33:45 - Slav to Love - Stewart A. Swerdlow tries to get in on the action, Al Bielek travels to the future & deep space
Music by Fanette Ronjat
MORE INFO:
Philadelphia Experiment on Military.com
PE on How Stuff Works
The Varo Edition text
FAQs from the Department of Defense
The Philadelphia Experiment from A-Z
Timeline of events 1923-1999
Anatomy of a Hoax: The Philadelphia Experiment
Fifty Years Later by Jacques Vallee
Montauk Monster: Dogfighting Washout? on Wired.com
The Montauk Monster Legend Endures 10 Years After It Broke the Internet on Dan's Papers
10 Years Later The Montauk Monster Is Still a Weird, Gross, Dark Mystery on Observer.com
'Montauk Monster' Mystery May Have Been Solved on Fox News
Book offers rare access to Plum Island on The Day
So what’s Plum Island really like? One reporter’s inside tour on The Suffolk Times
Montauk Project on Disinformation.com
Lab 257: The Disturbing Story of the Government's Secret Plum Island Germ Laboratory by Michael Carroll
Camp Hero on Roadtrippers.com
Time Travel Is Possible at the Tip of the South Fork in New York Magazine
Montauk Project on All That's Interesting
Inside the Real-Life Time-Travel Experiment That Inspired 'Stranger Things' on Thrillist
The Incredible Story of Al Bielek, the Man Who Traveled Through Time and Space on Destination Trips
Alfred Bielek website
Al Bielek Debunked website
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PRAGUE TIMES - A city is more than just a location - it’s a kaleidoscope of history, places, people and trends. This podcast looks at Prague, in the center of Europe, from a number of perspectives, including what it is now, what is has been and where it’s going. It’s Prague THEN, Prague NOW, Prague LATER.
47 min
October 13, 2021Conspiracy U with Scott Shay
EPISODE 43 | Conspiracy U with Scott Shay
Guest: Scott Shay, author of Conspiracy U, In Good Faith & Getting Our Groove Back; President of Chai Mitzvah, Chairman of the Board & Co-founder of Signature Bank
The academic world is supposed to be a place to open and expand minds, but some professors actively promote conspiracy theories about Israel and the Jewish people that do the exact opposite. Scott Shay has written a book about how this is happening on both the right and left sides of the political spectrum, especially at his alma mater, Northwestern University.
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SECTIONS
02:26 - A book I didn't intend to write
04:39 - Whatsoever things are true
06:03 - Holocaust denial
09:46 - Not all professors
12:09 - Also on the left
14:37 - Oppressive hyper-whites
15:37 - A personal holocaust story
16:54 - "The Holocaust is overblown"
18:00 - Anti-Zionism is not (necessarily) Anti-Semitism
20:10 - Jewishness defined racially
22:15 - Where do we draw the historical line?
25:42 - Polarization & the demonized other
31:08 - Canary in the coalmine
34:32 - God-king pharaohs & super-authority
38:09 - Final thoughts
Music by Fanette Ronjat
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September 29, 2021J.K. Rowling & the Gauntlet of Hysteria
EPISODE 42 | J.K. Rowling & the Gauntlet of Hysteria
A secretary got an idea on a train and some years later had created an international entertainment sensation, gaining fame and fortune. A feel good story? Or is she a witch? A Satanist? A spendthrift? A TERF? A transphobe? A spendthrift Satanist TERF transphobe witch? Or maybe she doesn't really exist at all.
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SECTIONS
02:41 - The Wiccan Witch of the West - Harry Potter is evil
10:42 - Expelliarmus - Conspiracy theories about the books (WARNING: Spoilers)
17:24 - Accio Suspicion - Follow the money
18:53 - A Bit of Polyjuice Potion - She's a front
22:15 - Strike One - What's in a (pen) name?
25:34 - Pick a Little, Tweet a Little - Rowling tweets her way into trouble
33:27 - Transfiguration - Rowling stakes out her TERF
40:18 - Coda
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PRAGUE TIMES - A city is more than just a location - it’s a kaleidoscope of history, places, people and trends. This podcast looks at Prague, in the center of Europe, from a number of perspectives, including what it is now, what is has been and where it’s going. It’s Prague THEN, Prague NOW, Prague LATER.
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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…