EPISODE 133 | Cult Pop Suicide: Japanese Cults

Japan is a land of many contradictions - very forward-looking but also retrograde. And when it comes to the spiritual side of things, quite a few people seem to fall for various cults, scammers and charlatans. And just offbeat beliefs, like that Jesus' brother died on the cross while He moved to Aomori Prefecture in northern Honshu, where he married and taught and lived until 106.

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EPISODE 132 | Keel Hauled: UAP Update

Recent revelations, reports, videos and hearings have been leading up to what many UAP folks call Disclosure. Some interesting things have come out, and a whole lot of nonsense as well. 

Spoiler: UFOs are real. Apart from that single fact, no one really has any hard evidence for anything else. So, they speculate. 

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EPISODE 131 | Hotlantis: The Lost Continent

We all love mysteries, and Atlantis is one of the biggest ones. Was it a real place or just an allegory? If real, then where was it? Many people have spent a lot of time and money trying to discover the answer to that question. 

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Timaeus By Plato

Critias By Plato

Finding Atlantis in the depths of Plato

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EPISODE 130 | Lost Cities of the New World

Guest: Neil Laird, Emmy-nominated TV producer (Discovery, BBC, PBS, History, National Geographic), author of the Prime Time novel series

What's commonly called the "New World" is actually very old, and for a long time, people have been trying to track down supposedly lost locations in the Americas. While these folks have not succeeded, advances in technology are allowing us to make astonishing discoveries that are rewriting the history of human habitation in the Western Hemisphere. 

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EPISODE 129 | The Fermi Paradox: Here Comes Nobody

If we are not unique as a species, an intelligent one that builds civilizations, then there must be lots and lots of other civilizations out there in the galaxy and the rest of the universe beyond. But if so, where the hell is everybody?

That’s the question at the heart of the Fermi Paradox. And this has kicked off a chain of reasoning and speculation that crosses disciplinary boundaries, and lets us start to envision, not just what might be out there, but where we ourselves want to go as a global civilization.

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SETI urged to fess up over alien signals

Steven Greer's website

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EPISODE 128 | Estimated Prophets: Nostradamus & Cayce

Even though almost none of the things that prophets say will happen actually do, we still persist in believing in the capability anyway. We do not like to change out minds very much. Two of the biggest prophets that still hold sway today over Western culture are Nostradamus and Edgar Cayce, and we’ll take a look at each one in turn.

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EPISODE 127 | Cognitive Biases: Thanks, Big Brain! (Because Reasons 12)

This episode looks at the final two categories of biases in the Cognitive Biases Codex – what we tend to do when the information we’re presented with doesn’t contain enough meaning, and the brain’s tendency to favor quick assessments over complete ones, because it feels it need to act quickly.

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EPISODE 126 | Cognitive Biases and the Brain: Thanks, Evolution! (Because Reasons 11)

The first of two episodes looking at cognitive biases - this one at how memory works and how we prevent input overload by filtering out information. Hopefully, this will give us some insight into why people think they way they do. 

The primary source material for this is the Cognitive Biases Codex, created by Buster Benson and John Manoogian III, as used by the EU's Marie Curie CogNovo program for Conspiracy-Theories.EU.

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EPISODE 125 | Last Flight: More Airliner Weirdness

While it's totally normal that things break, sometimes there is also some kind of secret or mystery around something as monumental as an airplane crash or disappearance. And so lots of "theories" get spun, some by those who have lost someone dear to them, others by those who seek to profit from the disaster. 

This follow-up episode to our previous one about airplanes, One of Our Aircraft Is Missing, is likewise dedicated to my godson, Vova, or Rusty, who just loves, loves, loves, loves commercial aircraft. 

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15:58 - Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 - A disappearance, an investigation, suicide and simulator speculations

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EPISODE 124 | One of Our Aircraft Is Missing

A look at a few outstanding cases of plane crashes and disappearances, commercial flights that have gone awry, and some of the weirdness surrounding those mishaps. And, of course, the ones we’ll look at have had conspiracy theories spun about them.

This episode is dedicated to my godson, Vova (or Rusty, as we call him), because he absolutely loves commercial aircraft.

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