EPISODE 20 | Time for Timer: Pseudohistories & Historical Revisions

History may not have happened like you think. Is it possible that whole swaths of so-called "history" have been made up to bolster various people and downplay others, or maybe even to cover up the existence of the greatest historical force ever known - the Russian Horde? 

What year is it? Is it 2020? Or 1723? 2520? Depends on who you listen to.

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1. 02:43 - The Missing Day - NASA Proves the Bible?

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LAPSUS LINGUAE:

I mispronounce Anatoly Fomenko's name (adding a "r" erroneously) as well as say the wrong middle initial for B. G. Burkett (he is not actually "BJ").

Referenced in this episode:

• NASA Discovers a ‘Lost Day’ in Time? on Snopes

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EPISODE 19 | The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress - Facts & Fictions About Our Nearest Neighbour

You can be over the moon, bark at the moon, ask for the moon, shoot the moon; something can happen once in a blue moon, there's a man in the moon (or a woman or a rabbit or a toad). Maybe there are ruins on the moon. Maybe there's an alien base there. Maybe Nazis live there. Maybe it's a hollow spacecraft. Or a hologram. Or a nightlight (a big one).

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1. 02:23 - Facts First - stats, details, knowing in Knowth

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Referenced in this episode: 

• "Iron Sky"

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EPISODE 18| The Illuminati - Bavarian Brouhaha - Big 'Uns 1

The first major conspiracy theory of the modern age is the tale of the Illuminati. Started in Bavaria by a power-hungry professor with poor social skills, it has become one of the overarching theories of our times. This is one of the Big 'Uns.

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1. 01:37 - Origin Story - Johann Adam Weishaupt: Lawyer, Professor, Empiricist, Jerk

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AN EXTRA TREAT for people who actually read these episode notes: open your browser and type in "www." then the word "illuminati" backwards, then ".com". You will be very surprised. Someone at that organization sure has a sense of humour! Thanks to our friend Debra Richardson for telling us about this! 

Referenced in this episode:

• Behold a Pale Horse by Milton William Cooper

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EPISODE 17 | Project Blue Beam - Abandon Hope All Ye Who Research Here

What do you get for the conspiracy theorist who has everything? How about a conspiracy theory that has everything? Project Blue Beam has it all - a bleak techno-apocalypse that culminates in the enslavement of most of humanity by demons pretending to be god and/or aliens, with the help of NASA, the Masons, Microsoft, Greenpeace, the IMF and many more.

Dig in to the all-you-can-eat buffet of horror and doom that is Project Blue Beam.

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1. 02:11 - The Canadian Father of the Theory (Serge Monast) & Blue Beam in the Wild (Blue Beam Is Becoming the Unified Conspiracy Theory - a Paranoia Minestrone)

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Referenced in this episode: 

• Time Cube - Four Is the Loneliest Number

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Episode 16 | Studies & Signals: Insights into the Conspiracy Mindset - Because Reasons 4

Guest: John Poston, Theatrical Artist & Writer

We talk about the origins of some clichés about conspiracy folks, as well as some actual scientific studies about the mindset. We also deftly use Star Trek as a metaphor for the brain. And some questionnaires you can take at home to find out just how conspiracy-minded you are yourself. A lot of what you think you know about conspiracy theorists is probably wrong. But some of it is right.

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1. 01:28 - Conspiracy Folks Are People

How conspiracy-minded are YOU? Take the GCBS yourself!

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PREVIOUS BECAUSE REASONS: Conspiracy Thinking in Eastern Europe

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Episode 15 | October Surprise: Fact or Fiction? - The World Is Weird 3

Is it commonplace for a big event that sways things to happen in presidential election years in the U.S? Maybe. We'll look at the 18 "October Surprises" in US presidential electoral history, encountering smear attempts, false charges, false claims, outright lies, political chaos, boozing, racism, homophobia, financial collapse brought about by unchecked rampant greed and really bad weather brought about by terminal shortsightedness and the politicization of literally everything. Sort of a greatest hits of the very worst things America expresses. 

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1. 03:33 - WHAT DID I MISS? THE REVOLUTION OF 1800 - Adams (Federalist) vs. Jefferson (Democratic-Republican)

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PREVIOUS WORLD IS WEIRD: Mass Hysteria

Referenced in this episode: Episode 05 | 44 for 44 - The Obama Conspiracies (Thanks, Obama!)

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Episode 14 | Conspiracy Thinking in Eastern Europe - Because Reasons 3

Guest: Mark Baker, Journalist & Travel Writer

The cultural and social impact of conspiracy thinking will differ depending on where it's happening. You have to take into account a country's particular history to gain some understanding as to why people in that place react the way they do to serious theories. The authoritarian past many Eastern Bloc countries suffered through can shed a light on how citizens of those countries react to events, or perceived events.

Journalist and travel writer Mark Baker, who's been writing about this part of Europe for a long time, shares some insights on how citizens of some of these countries react to ideas, and the damage they can cause a civil society. He also shares his personal dislike of the whole conspiracy mindset and how he deals with it all.

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1. 02:12 - Coronavirus Conspiracies in Bulgaria & Romania - National Mythmaking & the Media

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NEXT BECAUSE REASONS: Studies & Signals: Insights into the Conspiracy Mindset

PREVIOUS BECAUSE REASONS: True Fictions

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Episode 13 | Mass Hysteria & Shared Delusions - The World Is Weird 2

Host: Derek DeWitt

Mass hysteria, collective delusions or just people freaking out - whatever you call it, you can't deny that history is filled with reports of people losing it en masse. We'll look at nuns that bite and meow, fainting and twitching schoolchildren, uncontrollable dancing, large scale paranoia, mysterious attacks on windshields and a worldwide epidemic of creepy clown sightings. 

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1. 02:14 - Hysteria: Not Just a "Female Problem"

• Music by Fanette Ronjat

Hear about the Vampire Panic in Bohemia and Moravia in an episode of our sister podcast, Prague Times: Ghosts in Prague

LAPSUS LINGUAE:

• I mispronounce French words all over the place in this episode. Sorry, French speakers.

NEXT WORLS IS WEIRD: October Surprise: Fact or Fiction? 

PREVIOUS WORLD IS WEIRD: The Tuskegee Study

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