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December 09, 2020The Knights Templar (Big ‘Uns 2)
EPISODE 21 | The Knights Templar (Big 'Uns 2)
They were the most powerful group in Medieval Europe, and then they vanished. Who were the Templars? Warrior-priests with good patronage? Keepers of the Holy Grail and other mystical secrets? Blasphemous gay Satan worshiping freaks? All of the above?
For centuries, people have claimed to have figured out the secrets of the Knights Templar and what they were really up to. This is one of the big 'uns.
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02:00 - The Fellowship of the Temple - Nine Guys Kick It All Off in Jerusalem
07:21 - Growth Hacking - Bigger & Better, Banking & Big Bosses
12:12 - Rivalries & Accusations - Philip IV of France, Jacques de Molay, Medieval Fake News & the Chinon Parchment
18:58 - Wheat from the Chaff - Follow the Money....Oh, Wait, Where Is it All?
21:29 - Holy Grail, Holy Smokes! - Hammer-Purgstall, the Cathars, Joséphin Péladan, Otto Rahn and More
26:11 - Everybody Traces to the Templars - Freemasons, Rosicrucians, Illuminati and Order of the Knights of Christ in Santarém, Portugal
29:12 - Many Mysteries - Alchemy, Immortality, America, the Ark of the Covenant, Jesus' Bloodline, Telephone to God, the Ultimate Battle between Good & Evil, Other Worlds, Alien Tech, Other Dimensions
30:34 - The Templars Today - Harmless: "National Treasure", Assassin's Creed; Not So Harmless: Knight Templar UK, Siol nan Gaidheal, Knights Templar Europe, Anders Breivik
Music by Fanette Ronjat
LAPSUS LINGUAE:
I slipped when saying the name "Bruce Burgess" for some reason (maybe I was drunk?) and may or may not have mispronounced "Siol nan Gaidheal" but that's because I just don't care and couldn't even be bothered to check. Finally, I mention the Portuguese templars in Santarém but should also have mentioned their huge church and base in Tomar.
Referenced in this episode:
The Templar Treasure: An Investigation by Tobias Daniel Wabbel
Hammer-Purgstall and Baphomet
The Cathars on Ancient History Encyclopedia
Joséphin Péladan Wikipedia page
Otto Rahn And The Nazi Crusade For The Holy Grail by Andrew Milne
Otto Rahn And The Quest For The Grail by Nigel Graddon
Holy Blood, Holy Grail by Michael Baigent, Richard Leigh and Henry Lincoln
The Woman with the Alabaster Jar: Mary Magdalen and the Holy Grail by Margaret Starbird
The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown
Trailer for "Bloodline" by Bruce Burgess
The Messianic Legacy by Michael Baigent, Richard Leigh and Henry Lincoln
The Temple and the Lodge: The Strange and Fascinating History of the Knights Templar and the Freemasons by Michael Baigent and Richard Leigh
De Occulta Philosophia (in German) by Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa von Nettesheim
Rosicrucian.org
The Illuminati - Bavarian Brouhaha
History of the Order of Christ Wikipedia page
Alt-right claims to march in step with the Knights Templar – this is fake history
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34 min
November 25, 2020Time for Timer: Pseudohistories & Historical Revisions
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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SECTIONS
02:43 - The Missing Day - NASA Proves the Bible?
07:22 - Time for a Change - The Julian Calendar Fixes the Roman Calendar
09:56 - The Gregorian Calendar Fixes the Julian Calendar & the Calendar Riot Myth
13:53 - Other, Better Systems We Don't Use
14:57 - Herbert Illig's Phantom Time Hypothesis - the Middle Ages Were Faked
18:27 - The Revised Chronology by Immanuel Velikovsky, Ancient Israel is Actually Ancient Egypt
21:57 - Big Boom, Big Changes - Catastrophism and You
24:18 - The New Chronology by Anatoly Fomenko - Everything before 1600 CE Is a Lie to Hide the Russian Horde
29:19 - The Vatican, HRE Rudolf II and the Romanovs Hatch a Plot
31:38 - Russians Aplenty - Nikolai Alexandrovich Morozov: Apocalypse Then & Now
32:41 - The 1421 Theory - Retired Sub Commander Gavin Menzies Loves China
34:58 - He Who Controls the Past, Controls the Future - Crazies, Racists, Alt-Righties & More
Music by Fanette Ronjat
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
The Harmony of Science and Scripture by Harry Rimmer
"Give us back our eleven days!" – the calendar riot myth
"Did the Early Middle Ages Really Exist?" - paper by Dr. Hans-Ulrich Niemitz
Ages in Chaos by Velikovsky on velikovsky.info
The Velikovsky affair: Scientism versus science by Alfred De Grazia
Episode 11 | Conspirasaurus Rex - Dino-Mite Theories About the Dinosaurs
History: Fiction or Science? Chronology 1 by Anatoly Fomenko
The Revelation in Storm and Thunder by Nikolai Alexandrovich Morozov on Wikipedia
1421: The Year China Discovered America by Gavin Menzies
Stolen Valor: How the Vietnam Generation Was Robbed of Its Heroes and Its History by B. G. Burkett
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38 min
November 11, 2020The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress: Facts & Fictions About Our Nearest Neighbour
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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02:23 - Facts First - stats, details, knowing in Knowth
04:08 - Misconceptions
04:16 - No Atmosphere
05:03 - Always the Same Size
05:27 - The Dark Side of the Moon
06:24 - talking tidal locking & orbits
08:02 - Moon Madness
10:35 - Made of Cheese
11:36 - Faces - man/woman/rabbit/toad, lunar pareidolia
13:18 - Far-Out Conspiracy Theories
13:27 - Nazis on the Moon - Antarctica, space & the Vril
15:44 - movies & books
16:22 - Aliens on the Moon - the Kraken File, the Great Moon Hoax
18:27 - Richard Hoagland (again!), shards, castles, robot heads & processing artifacts
19:44 - Milton William Cooper (again!) & Majestic 12, with bonus thorium
20:46 - The Moon is Hollow - bad Photoshop, ancient astronauts & wild conjectures
23:13 - David Icke (again!) and other "experts"
24:22 - The Moon is Fake - Moon Truthers Just Wanna Have Fun
25:54 - Crrow777: lunar waves & reality is fake
29:00 - a plasma ball, a "natural" hologram, a nightlight
30:30 - Back to Earth - Postcards from the Exosphere
Music by Fanette Ronjat
Referenced in this episode:
"Iron Sky"
Rocket Ship Galileo
UFO Sightings Daily
The Unparalleled Adventure of One Hans Pfaall by Edgar Allen Poe
The Lucifer Project(s) - Big Scary in Sky!
The Secret Government: The Origin, Identity, and Purpose of MJ-12 by Milton William Cooper
The Compton–Belkovich Thorium Anomaly
Scott Waring videos
Our Mysterious Spaceship Moon: Is Our Nearest Neighbor a Huge Alien Spacecraft? by Don Wilson
Somebody Else Is on the Moon by George H. Leonard
The Moon Is Your Worst Nightmare video by Robert Peternell (mirrored by Notus)
Who Built the Moon? by Christopher Knight & Alan Butler
For The Moon Is Hollow and Aliens Rule the Sky by Rob Shelsky
Crrow777 YouTube channel
Crrow777 has a podcast!
VALIS by Philip K. Dick
The Plasma Moon video with R. Foster (a clever fake?)
The Holographic Universe: The Revolutionary Theory of Reality by Michael Talbot (actually an interesting book)
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34 min
October 28, 2020The Illuminati: Brouhaha in Bavaria (Big ’Uns 1)
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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SECTIONS
01:37 - Origin Story - Johann Adam Weishaupt: Lawyer, Professor, Empiricist, Jerk
04:21 - The Illuminati Kicks Off, Grows Quickly
06:45 - Trouble in Paradise - Dissention in the Ranks, Rumours Abound
12:32 - Voulez-vous la paranoïa avec moi? - Augustin Barruel & John Robison Blame the Illuminati for the French Revolution
15:33 - It Ain't Over Till It's Over - Rulers Overreact & Cause the Spring of Nations, Nesta Helen Webster & Edith Starr Miller Revive the Rumours Between World Wars, the Birchers Chime In, the Principia Discordia Is Totally Misunderstood and People Confuse Them with the Freemasons
18:12 - Some Musicians think Behold a Pale Horse is a Non-Fiction Book, Many Famous People May Are Illuminati, Carpetbaggers & Scammers Take Over the Name
22:03 - The Idea of the Illuminati is Certainly Widespread, Maybe Part of the New World Order
Music by Fanette Ronjat
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
Project Blue Beam - Abandon Hope All Ye Who Research Here
The Illuminati in Hollywood by Mark Dice
"Footloose"
Illuminati Watcher website
The Illuminati Elite website (with a help line in Uganda!)
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24 min
October 14, 2020Project Blue Beam: Abandon Hope All Ye Who Research Here
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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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)
04:40 - Here Come the Bastards - an Outline of Blue Beam
05:40 - Phase 1: Indiana Jones & the Temple of Lies (Earthquakes & Archeology)
06:33 - Phase 2: It's a Bird, It's a Plane, It's Shiva! (Holograms, Gods, Demons & Beethoven)
09:40 - Phase 3: Can You Hear Me Now? (Russian Supercomputers, Radio Waves & Kitty Dukakis)
11:11 - Phase 4: Welcome to the Machine (the Night of 1000 Stars, the Apocalypse, Aliens & Technology)
14:05 - Big Brother Has Always Loved You (A Series of Tests & Judgements)
15:31 - Consistently Inconsistent - What's God Got to Say About All This? How About Other Writers?
18:35 - Serge Might Have Been Inspired by Others
20:19 - Serge Might Have Been Inspired by Science Fiction Movies & TV Shows
22:23 - Serge's End, and Abandon All Hope
Music by Fanette Ronjat
Referenced in this episode:
Time Cube - Four Is the Loneliest Number
Serge's original Blue Beam book (in French)
Serge's Blue Beam book in English
Transcript of a 1994 (?) talk Serge gave
A Collection of Blue Beam writings (on Geocities!)
Project Blue Beam - The Quest For A New World Order And The Rule Of The Antichrist
Project Blue Beam False Flag - Coming soon to a sky near you
Project Blue Beam: Remember It's a Lie, also by Jay Jericho, as a SlideShare presentation
UPDATE: Jay Jericho's Free School website is down and has been replaced with the much-better-organized (but much less entertaining) website Journalist Ethics. Same material, though.
Books by Commander William Guy Carr
Behold a Pale Horse by Milton William Cooper
The Visions and Circles of Power by Betty J. Mills
Gene Roddenberry: The Myth and the Man Behind "Star Trek"
Fan page about Roddenberry's unproduced script "The God Thing"
Books by Serge Monast
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25 min
September 30, 2020Studies & Signals: Insights into the Conspiracy Mindset (Because Reasons 4)
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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01:28 - Conspiracy Folks Are People
02:47 - The Tin Foil Hat
03:47 - The Lunatic Fringe & The Paranoid Style in American Politics by Richard Hofstadter
04:50 - The Conspiracy Mentality Questionnaire (CMQ) (2013)
07:57 - Some Findings of the CMQ
08:58 - The Generic Conspiracist Beliefs Scale (GCBS) (2013)
13:51 - Three Studies: Analytic thinking reduces belief in conspiracy theories - Viren Swami, Martin Voracek, Stefan Stieger, Ulrich S. Tran & Adrian Furnham
16:55 - Star Trek as a Metaphor for the Brain's Information Processing Systems, the First Study
20:37 - The Second Study - the First Evidence that Analytic Thinking Might Reduce Conspiracy-Mindedness
22:11 - The Third Study
23:47 - People Tend to Silo, Emotional Gratification is Key, Tribal Signaling
25:42 - Hofstadter Oversimplified Things, Social Media Is Also Tribe Signaling, Humans Have a Big White of the Eye, Film Actors Have Big Bobble Heads
27:52 - Conspiracy Thinkers Are Not Necessarily Tin Foil Hatters
How conspiracy-minded are YOU? Take the GCBS yourself!
Music by Fanette Ronjat
PREVIOUS BECAUSE REASONS: Conspiracy Thinking in Eastern Europe
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31 min
September 16, 2020October Surprise: Fact or Fiction? (The World Is Weird 3)
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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03:33 - WHAT DID I MISS? THE REVOLUTION OF 1800 - Adams (Federalist) vs. Jefferson (Democratic-Republican)
05:25 - "ELECTORAL FRAUD" IN 1840 - Van Buren (Democratic) vs. Harrison (Whig)
07:29 - THE CHINESE LETTER OF 1880 - Garfield (Republican) vs. Hancock (Democratic)
09:10 - 1884: DRUNKEN PAPISTS & SLAVEHOLDERS - Cleveland (Democratic) vs. Blaine (Republican)
10:25 - 1912: TOO MANY COOKS - Taft (Republican) vs. T. Roosevelt (Progressive - Bull Moose) vs. Debs [Socialist] vs. Wilson (Democratic)
13:32 - 1920: RACE ENTERS THE RACE - Harding (Republican) vs. Cox (Democratic)
16:17 - 1940: RACE KEEPS ON RACING - F. Roosevelt (Democratic) vs. Willkie (Republican)
17:49 - 1956: SURPRISE FROM ABROAD - Eisenhower (Republican) vs. Stevenson (Democratic)
20:01 - 1964: THE WORLD MAKES NOISE AGAIN - Johnson (Democratic) vs. Goldwater (Republican)
22:02 - 1968: TIT FOR TAT - Humphrey (Democratic) vs. Nixon (Republican) vs. Wallace (Independent)
24:12 - 1972: PEACE IS AT HAND - Nixon (Republican) vs. McGovern (Democratic)
26:33 - 1980: THE ORIGIN OF THE TERM "OCTOBER SURPRISE" - Carter (Democratic) vs. Reagan (Republican)
32:53 - 1992: LIARS & WAFFLES - G. H. W. Bush (Republican) vs. B. Clinton (Democratic) vs. Perot (Independent)
34:24 - 2000: ONE FOR THE ROAD - G. W. Bush (Republican) vs. Gore (Democratic)
36:43 - 2004: THE BUSH BOUNCE - G. W. Bush (Republican) vs. Kerry (Democratic)
38:23 - 2008: AUNTIE O. & THE GFC - Obama (Democratic) vs. McCain (Republican)
40:44 - 2012: STORM & SLANDER - Obama (Democratic) vs. Romney (Republican)
42:38 - Does It Really Matter?
43:22 - 2016: ANATOMY & EMAILS - Trump (Republican) vs. H. Clinton (Democratic)
46:49 - The News Likes the Idea of an October Surprise. Also, VOTE, DAMMIT.
Music by Fanette Ronjat
Guest vocal by Cinna Bantegnie Ronjat at 34:24 & 36:43
PREVIOUS WORLD IS WEIRD: Mass Hysteria
Referenced in this episode: Episode 05 | 44 for 44 - The Obama Conspiracies (Thanks, Obama!)
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51 min
September 02, 2020Conspiracy Thinking in Eastern Europe (Because Reasons 3)
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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02:12 - Coronavirus Conspiracies in Bulgaria & Romania - National Mythmaking & the Media
05:56 - Authoritarian Culture Creates a Conspiracy Breeding Ground
07:09 - The 1989 Romanian Revolution - Popular Uprising or Palace Coup?
12:04 - Conspiracy Theories Breed Apathy & Fatalism
17:07 - Facebook, Russian Troll Farms & a Possible Russian Foundational Myth Born of Conspiracy
21:45 - No One Wants to Feel Naive
Music by Fanette Ronjat
NEXT BECAUSE REASONS: Studies & Signals: Insights into the Conspiracy Mindset
PREVIOUS BECAUSE REASONS: True Fictions
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25 min
August 19, 2020Mass Hysteria & Shared Delusions (The World Is Weird 2)
Episode 13 | Mass Hysteria & Shared Delusions (The World Is Weird 2)
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.
SECTIONS
02:14 - Hysteria: Not Just a "Female Problem"
03:41 - Nunsense: Mass Hysteria in Convents - Biting Nuns, Meowing Nuns
05:59 - The Devils of Loudon
09:08 - School Daze: Seizures in Switzerland & Canada, the Tanganyika Laughter Epidemic, Louisiana; Blackburn, England; Twitching in Vinton, Virginia; Portugal's Strawberries with Sugar Outbreak
14:10 - More School Stuff, Conversion Disorder, Somatic Countertransference, Hysterical Contagion
16:01 - Hysterical Contagion: The 1962 June Bug Epidemic
17:11 - Folie à Deux/Trois/Famille/Plusieurs, Folie Imposée/Simultanée, Physical Repercussions of Hysteria
19:27 - Cut a Rug: The Dancing Plague of 1518 & Other Dancing Outbreaks
23:50 - Possible Causes of Uncontrolled Dancing
24:22 - Crowd Control: The Milan Poisoning Scare
28:12 - The Irish Fright
31:04 - Collective Delusions: The Seattle Windshield Pitting Epidemic
33:54 - Mass Hysteria: The Hollinwell Incident
35:49 - Collective Delusion Meets Social Media: The 2016 Clown Sightings
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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44 min
August 05, 2020True Fictions (Because Reasons 2)
Episode 12 | True Fictions (Because Reasons 2)
Guest: John Poston, Theatrical Artist and Writer
So, just who are these "conspiracy theorists" anyway? I talk with John Poston about conspiracy thinking, true believers and debunkers, how humans create identity through narratives, tribal signaling, Homo Ludens and, of course, the JFK assassination.
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01:35 - I Wouldn't Call Myself A Conspiracy Theorist But....
04:44 - Stories Are Awesome, Two Red Flags, Project for the New American Century
09:04 - Homo Ludens (Man the Player), Brains As Script Doctors, Harari & Shared Fictions
16:40 - AI Research & the Brain, the Power of Gossip
19:39 - Too Much Information Yet Also Not Enough, Some Ideas on JFK, Don't Be Naive
24:06 - Deeper Down the JFK Rabbit Hole, the Dog that Didn't Bark
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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…