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January 03, 2024Panic! at the Disco: The Jan. 6 Event (WIW 12)
EPISODE 101 | Panic! at the Disco: The Jan. 6 Event (World Is Weird 12)
On January 6, 2021 at 12:53 EST, a mass of people overwhelmed police on the west side of the US Capitol Building in Washington DC. At 2:11, a window was broken, and they entered the building. What followed was a bizarre scene, with some happy to just wander around, while others had more active plans. When it was over, 5 people were dead, 138 law enforcement personnel were injured (15 needing hospitalization), and an untold number of civilians were also injured. Eventually, more than 1100 people would be charged with various crimes committed that day.
What exactly happened here? Whatever you want to call it, it was fueled by conspiracy theories and conspiracy thinking. And it also engendered CTs of its own. The conspirasphere had finally run amok.
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03:21 - A Fever You Can't Sweat Out - Sept. 29, 2020 "stand back and stand by", #stopthesteal, white supremacists and other militia asshats make plans for the Nov. 3 election, they set their eyes on the "innauguration" (sic), the Million MAGA March, Women for America First, Proud Boys leader Tarrio makes a mistake on Dec. 12
09:39 - High Hopes - Trump and Barr spar, Dec. 14 looms large, firings and hirings, shouts and insults, the #wildprotest is announced on Dec. 19, plans are made to meet on Jan. 6, pressure on Pence, threats of a "red wedding"
19:48 - Vices & Virtues - Trump calls Raffensperger on Jan. 2, Trump gets conflicting advice, Tarrio gets arrested on Jan. 4, bombs are planted, Trump sets up a war room at the Intercontinental Willard, Trump really doesn't want to leave office and rewrites his upcoming speech
25:50 - Mad as Rabbits - Jan. 6, 8:17am-2:39pm: the "rally", Giuliani talks, an extraordinary video is shown, arrests are plan and plans are laid, Trump gives his speech, the crowd finds inspiration, Trump tries to take the wheel, Proud Boys head to the Capitol, crowds follow, help is asked for, the crowd surges, the building is breached, police are attacked
38:44 - The Only Difference Between Martyrdom and Suicide Is Press Coverage - 2:44pm-3:49am: things get even uglier, help starts trickling in, attempts are still made to block certification, things finally get sorted
43:08 - Hey Look Ma, I Made It - Repercussions aplenty, dramatis personae, prison sentences with Tarrio the leader of the pack
48:57 - Emperor's New Clothes - What the heck were they all thinking? Apologist narratives, including the "false flag" trope
Music by Fanette Ronjat
More Info
The January 6 insurrection: Minute-by-minute on CNN
Capitol riots timeline: What happened on 6 January 2021? on BBC
A timeline of how the Jan. 6 attack unfolded — including who said what and when on NPR
A Timeline of the Government's Response on Jan. 6, 2021 on American Oversight
EXPLAINER: A look at far-right extremists in Jan. 6 riot on AP News
#StopTheSteal: Timeline of Social Media and Extremist Activities Leading to 1/6 Insurrection on Just Security
The January 6 Effect: An Evolution of Hate and Extremism on the ADL website
Read: Full transcript of Donald Trump’s call to Brad Raffensperger on Atlanta News First
Trump film on the Ellipse Jan. 6 video
Movie at the Ellipse: A Study in Fascist Propaganda on Just Security
Did This 2 Min. Video Help Incite the Jan. 6 Rioters? video
Read Trump's Jan. 6 Speech, A Key Part Of Impeachment Trial on NPR
How Texans helped plot, foment and carry out the Jan. 6 insurrection in The Texas Tribune
The Radicalization of Kevin Greeson on ProPublica
What Happened to the Jan. 6 Rioters Arrested Since the Capitol Attack on Time
Full List of Capitol Rioters Jailed So Far and the Sentences They Are Serving in Newsweek
Trump supporter at center of a Jan. 6 conspiracy theory: "It's just been hell" on Axios
Fox News sued by man at centre of Jan 6 conspiracy theory on Al Jazeera
Conspiracy Theorist Presumed Dead in Explosion During Police Standoff on Vice
What words should we use to describe what happened in the Capitol? on Poynter
What the History of the Word “Insurrection” Says About Jan. 6 in Time
There’s an ongoing battle of words to describe Jan 6, 2021. Here’s why it matters on PBS News
Has the U.S. Capitol Been Attacked Before? on Gale
Expert weighs in on why the Capitol riot was not an unusual historical event on Spectrum News 1
The Capitol Has Been Attacked Before: This Time It Was Different on American University website
Conspiracy Theories and January 6th on Public Wise
Conspiracy theories paint fraudulent reality of Jan. 6 riot on PBS News
A Guide to the Right’s Unhinged Conspiracy Theories about Jan. 6 in Rolling Stone
January 6 conspiracy theories and debunked claims on The National News
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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
57 min
December 20, 2023Conspirasphere Rising w/Derek Arnold (BR 9)
EPISODE 100 | Conspirasphere Rising - A Talk w/Derek Arnold (Because Reasons 9)
Guest: Derek Arnold, Senior Instructor at Villanova University, where he teaches a course on The Rhetoric of Conspiracy Theories
The modern conspirasphere sort of starts with the assassination of JFK, and events in the two decades that follow help shape a growing trend toward conspiracy thinking in the United States. Mr. Arnold teaches his students all about this, and also offers guidance in how to construct a toolkit for analyzing conspiracy theories that they can take with them out into the world.
This is our 100th episode! What a long, strange trip it's been. Thank you for your past support!
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03:14 - 2012: A Beginning - Apocalyptic thinking creates some good stories, an overview of some motivations for belief
11:24 - JFK Kicks It Off - Liberals have deep distrust, conservatives hate Communism, both are fighting what they think is the "good fight", Flower Power on one side and Nixon on the other
21:17 - Post-Watergate - Conservatives search for a new Wallace, Reagan invents the soundbite
28:01 - Pop Culture Gets Weird - Woo rising, fantasy films succeed, things are getting better or worse (depending on your perspective)
29:58 - The New Age Movement Comes of Age - Faith replaces proof for some, volume becomes authority
33:05 - Four Tools for the Conspiracy Toolkit - Cui Bono, Occam's Razor, How Many People, Falsifiability
Music by Fanette Ronjat
More Info:
Derek Arnold at Villanova University
Villanova University Offers Course On Conspiracy Theories on CBS News Philadelphia
From Bigfoot to JFK, Villanova Students Study Conspiracy Theories on Delco Today
Villanova professor discusses conspiracies theories linked to the moon landing
Why Princess Diana conspiracies refuse to die by Derek Arnold in The Conversation
How Donald Trump Changed the Way College Students Learn About Conspiracy Theories in Time Magazine
Conspiracy theory mentality on WHYY PBS radio
“We sometimes just want to believe” - the theory behind conspiracy theories on KYW Newsradio
Five Hidden Benefits of Gossip in Fast Company
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43 min
December 06, 2023A Bridge Too Far: The Mothman Visits Point Pleasant
EPISODE 99 | A Bridge Too Far: The Mothman Visits Point Pleasant
The strange events of 1966-1967 in and around Point Pleasant, West Virginia gave rise to one of America's most enduring legends - the Mothman. It made the headlines and also the careers of Gray Barker and John Keel. But it was more than just a large winged creature. There were visits from the Men in Black, UFOs aplenty, poltergeists and other high weirdness.
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02:52 - I'm a Believer - A pair of couples see something; cranes, owls and shitepokes; Mary Hyre writes it up, Mothman is named
07:00 - Cold Sweat - Woodrow Derenberger meets Indrid Cold, Newell Partridge has his TV watching interrupted (plus his dog Bandit goes missing), three women see a demon, Mary Hyre has an odd visitor, Donna Kenmore and Norma Ashley see a pendulum, later Kenmore is also kidnapped
15:30 - Paperback Writers - Gray Barker and John Keel arrive, with ideas of their own; they get more info about Indrid Cold and friends, a nudist trip to Lanulos
23:04 - Strange Days - The TNT area becomes party central, the town swells in population, local oddballs William and Martha Bateman invent TV for angels
25:42 - The Men in Black are everywhere, so are UFOs, so is Mothman; the sense of doom builds
29:28 - 13 Steps Lead Down - The Silver Bridge collapses, Mothman Math
35:43 - Knock on Wood - Mothman as the Freiberg Shrieker and Black Bird of Chernobyl, Mothman hits the road
40:25 - Where History Meets Mystery - the Mothman Museum, the Mothman Statue, the Mothcam, the Mothman car wash, the Mothman Festival and more; Keel really got a Mothman boost
Music by Fanette Ronjat
More Info
The Notorious M.I.B. episode
A View to Vril episode (Valiant Thor bit at 21:29)
The Mothman Wiki
The Mothman Cometh on the Skeptoid Podcast
Mothman on Cryptid Wiki
Folk Tale Turned Urban Legend: Mothman (Pt 1)
The True Story Behind The Legendary Mothman Said To Terrorize West Virginia on All That's Interesting
The true origin of the Mothman legend article by Justin Mills
Misignwa Legend of Mothman
Thunderbird Cryptid: Bird with a 70ft Wingspan
The Untold Truth of Mothman on Grunge
Three facts about West Virginia's Mothman legend few know on West Virginia Explorer
Local Lore: Woodrow Derenberger and the Legend of Indrid Cold on The Daily Yonder
Indrid Cold on Cryptid Wiki
Indrid Cold aka The Smiling Man on Villains Wiki
The True Story Behind the Mothman of West Virginia on US Ghost Adventures
10 Fascinating Things You May Not Know about the Mothman
The Silver Bridge And The Men In Black! on Rip Jagger's Dojo
When the Silver Bridge Came Crashing Down in Popular Mechanics
Mothman: The Hidden Truth paper
Mothman: A West Virginia Folklore on Ohio State's The Psychology of Extraordinary Beliefs
What Is the Mothman and Why Are We so Obsessesed? on The Nerdist
10 Horrifying Facts About The Legend of the Mothman: The Harbinger Of Doom From The 1960s on Groovy History
Legend of the Mothman-Point Pleasant Sightings video of CryptidSpot
A Contactee Canon: Gray Barker’s Saucerian Books paper by Gabriel Mckee
Men in Black: The Secret Terror Among Us by Gray Barker on Amazon
John Keel's Mothman Casebook
Convincing Stories of People Who Claim They Saw the Mothman in Real Life
The Freiberg Shrieker
The Black Bird of Chernobyl on Paranormal Catalog
The Black Bird Of Chernobyl: True Story Of The Chernobyl Mothman on Morbid Kuriosity
The Legend of the Mothman: Agent of Destruction or Harbinger of Doom? on Curious Historian
Mothman Math: Dates, Disasters, and Deaths
Mothman: Evil Incarnate by Loren Coleman on Amazon
List of deaths related to the Mothman
Mothman Lives website
Mothman Museum
Mothcam stream
Mothman Festival 2024
The Mothman cometh? I went searching for Point Pleasant’s prophet of doom and all I got was a T-shirt
The Real Story of The Mothman Prophecies on IGN
Behold the Mothman on SYFY
Based on a True-Life Story, but Was That Story for Real? in the Los Angeles Times
Truth vs fiction in the Mothman Prophecies movie on Chasing the Frog
The Enduring Legacy of The Mothman Prophecies on Den of Geek
Mothman: Behind the Red Eyes by Jeff Wamsley on Amazon
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45 min
November 22, 2023Smoke & Mirrors: Unintentional Dangers and Slow Thinking (Because Reasons 8)
EPISODE 98 | Smoke & Mirrors: Unintentional Dangers and Slow Thinking (Because Reasons 8)
Guest: Kent Weishaus, licensed clinical social worker, author of Stop Breaking Down: The Secret to Avoiding Overwhelm and Crack-Up
Why are there so many adherents to conspiracy theories these days? What are the mechanisms that encourage people to latch onto a particular narrative?
We are modern creatures with out-dated brains. Clinical social worker (and former TV guy) Kent Weishaus talks about various theories and cognitive biases, and champions slow thinking in an age that seems too fast for our minds to keep pace with.
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03:48 - Smoke & Mirrors - TV, unreasonable expectations, wraparound for commercials, the hard edge
09:49 - Cognitive Distortions - Daniel Kahneman's Availability Heuristic, it's the system, TV was Gen X's buddy, we love fat (and sugar)
15:37 - Prospect Theory, Loss Aversion, the Endowment Effect, Aaron Beck's thought distortions, overgeneralization, "mind reading", slow thinking, I-know-how-this-will-end, please get raptured, humans crave structure, think about your thinking, Richard Schwartz's Internal Family Systems (IFS) says we are fragmented beings
26:10 - Towards Accuracy - E-Prime, people are not their diagnosis, slow thinking helps counteract otherization
33:46 - Too Much Information - Fast thinking feels good, apes with car keys, phantom urgency, unintentional dangers, too much sensory input
41:39 - Slow Thinking - Emotions are not uncontrollable, list the systems you're embedded in, nothing goes away in the digital system, Thomas Piketty and late-stage capitalism, the system is out of control
Music by Fanette Ronjat
More Info
Kent Weishaus website
Stop Breaking Down: The Secret to Avoiding Overwhelm and Crack-Up by Kent Weishaus
Kent Weishaus on IMDb
Availability Heuristic And Decision Making
Prospect Theory: What It Is and How It Works, With Examples
Loss aversion on BehavioralEconomics.com
The Endowment Effect: Why Perceived Value Increases with Ownership
Cognitive Distortions: Unhelpful Thinking Habits
13 Cognitive Distortions Identified In CBT
Cognitive Distortions: 22 Examples & Worksheets (& PDF)
Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman
Internal Family Systems (IFS)
About IFS (Internal Family Systems)
E-Prime on Wikipedia
Discovering E-Prime
E-Prime and Linguistic Revision
Wandering Gaia: Dispatches from the Anthropocene website for Gaia Vince
Galapagos by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
The Nature of the Modern Mind by Pierre Steiner
Turning the stone: embedding systems thinking in the everyday by Oliver Standing
Capital and Ideology by Thomas Piketty
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51 min
November 08, 2023Üst akıl: Totally Turkey
EPISODE 97 | Üst akıl: Totally Turkey
Turkey is a place with a complex history and a diverse population, which can lead to a sense of uncertainty and instability. Conspiracy theories that offer simple explanations for complex events and interactions, seem to take hold easily there, especially lately.
This can make it difficult for people to distinguish between reliable information and propaganda and can contribute to the spread of false information and conspiracy theories.
All told, Turkey seems to be particularly susceptible to the spread of conspiracy narratives. Which is a darned shame, since the country is absolutely fascinating, with a long and rich history stretching back more than 40,000 years, fantastic food, a varied landscape and incredibly hospitable people.
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04:17 - Parkta Bir Gün (A Walk in the Park) - The Mastermind Theory ( Üst akıl), earthquake weapons, Yeni Akit (New Agreement) loves Hitler but hates blue jeans (the Kot Pantalon Theory), some t-shirts and the US $1 bill
11:06 - Aya Benzer (Similar to the Moon) - The start of the Turkish republic (1923), the Multi-Party Period, Adnan Menderes turns into a jerk, a bomb in Thessaloniki leads to the Committee of Inquest, the military stages a coup and then hands power back
18:25 - Seviyorum Sevmiyorum (I Like It, Don’t Like It) - More chaos, the coup by memorandum, trouble in Cyprus; a new coup, a new constitution and new atrocities
22:14 - The Kurds got screwed, Turgut Özal tries to make peace but dies, conspiracy theories abound, Islamicists gain traction, the Postmodern Coup, Islamicists on the rise
26:07 - … Dan Sonra (…After) - 2013 protests over a park lead to the victory of Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, crackdowns aplenty, Erdoğan wins again, more crackdowns, Erdoğan changes the country to a Presidential Republic and wins again, making many more changes
29:44 - Resimdeki Gözyaşları (Tears in the Picture) - The Armenian Genocide, a monument to lies called the the Memorial and Museum of Martyred Turks Massacred by Armenians in Iğdır
35:02 - Rakıya Su Katamam (I Can’t Add Water to Raki) - The Dönme Jews, anti-Semitism, the İzmir Plot, Israeli-trained spy sharks and other animals, this all seems a bit familiar
Music by Fanette Ronjat
More Info
Guguou - Parkta Bir Gün official audio
Mustafa Sandal - Aya Benzer video
Nil Karaibrahimgil - Seviyorum Sevmiyorum video
Sila and Kenan Dogulu - ...dan sonra video
Cem Karaca - Resimdeki Gözyaşları audio
Altın Gün - Rakıya Su Katamam video
Conspiracy theories in Turkey on Wikiwand
The Conspiratorial Style in Turkish Politics: Discussing the Deep State in the Parliament
Türkiye’s twin quakes and conspiracy theories
NEW H.A.A.R.P EVIDENCE COMES OUT IN TURKEY EARTHQUAKE?! FACT OR CONSPIRACY? THIS IS SH0CKING! video
The Science Behind the Massive Turkey-Syria Earthquakes video from the Wall Street Journal
Turkish intelligence breaks ripped jeans signal code
‘Spies’ Communicate Via Ripped Jeans, According to Akit Daily
The Tin-Foil Hats Are Out in Turkey
Conspiracy theory keeps Turkey in its grip: “There is a vast conspiracy against the Turkish nation”
AKP’s Conspiracy Theories paper
Unraveling the AKP's 'Mastermind' conspiracy theory
The discourse of üst akıl: a search for hegemony in the Turkish media paper
On the Resilience of Conspiracy Theories: The Resurrection of a Turkish Deep State under AKP Rule video
Why Turkish government pushes 'global conspiracy' narrative
How Turkish conspiracy theories upended life of U.S. scholar Barkey video
The Middle East 'mastermind' who worries Erdogan
Erdogan: Turkey's all-powerful leader of 20 years on BBC News
The complex history of Turkey and the Kurds, explained video from the Washington Post
Armenia Genocide Explained: Turkey, Erdogan, Biden Statement, Reparations & the Ottoman Empire video
The Armenian Genocide video
The Unspeakable Things That Happened In The Armenian Genocide video
Turkey Clears Bird Of Spying For Israel; Kestrel Is Just Latest In Long List Of Suspected Animal Mossad Agents
Iran's ex-military chief: Israel sent lizards to spy on nuclear program
Ayoon Wa Azan (Conspiracy Theory)
They Might Be Giants - Istanbul (Not Constantinople) video
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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
43 min
October 25, 2023Inside Out: Neuroscience & Memory w/Gary Simonds (Because Reasons 7)
EPISODE 96 | Inside Out: Neuroscience & Memory (Because Reasons 7)
Guest: Dr. Gary Simonds, neurosurgeon, professor and author of Death's Pale Flag
What happens when a lauded neurosurgeon starts thinking about ghosts and the scientific approach to the paranormal? You get a novel like Death's Pale Flag. This is the fictional work by Gary R. Simonds, who spends a lot of his time thinking about the brain, how it works, how it doesn't work, and areas that still need to be explored with open minds.
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02:45 - Physician, heal thyself
05:01 - The brain is a computer, sort of, but not really
12:14 - The subjectivity of the inner voice
17:00 - Not a free for all
22:07 - Internal-extrenal confabulation
27:00 - Death's Pale Flag
36:35 - Science and the paranormal
Music by Fanette Ronjat
More Info:
Gary R Simonds website
Death's Pale Flag by Gary Simonds
Building Resilience in Neurosurgical Residents: A Primer by Gary Simonds
Thriving in Healthcare: A Positive Approach to Reclaim Balance and Avoid Burnout in Your Busy Life by Gary Simonds
The Thriving Physician: How to Avoid Burnout by Choosing Resilience Throughout Your Medical Career by Gary Simonds
How Human Memory Works on How Stuff Works
Neural Plasticity and Memory at the National Library of Medicine
Unreliable Memory in Psychology Today
The Science of Ghosts in Science News Explores
Ghost Busted: When Science Meets the Supernatural in Discover Magazine
Ghosts Aren't Real: 4 Scientific Explanations for Paranormal Activity video by SciShow
Brilliant Scientists Are Open-Minded about Paranormal Stuff, So Why Not You? in Scientific American
A scientific approach to the paranormal TEDx video by Carrie Poppy
The Dangers of Keeping an Open Mind on the Ratio Scientiae Blog
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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
48 min
October 11, 2023Bodyguard of Lies: The Ghost Army & Wartime Deception (WIW 11)
EPSIODE 95 | Bodyguard of Lies: The Ghost Army & Wartime Deception (World Is Weird 11)
More than 100 million soldiers took part in WWII, but not all of them were fighting with guns. There was obviously a lot of administration and infrastructure to deal with, there were codebreakers and spies, and there were even some who engaged in secret deception to trick the enemy.
This episode is not abouts ghosts, but rather the Ghost Army. No, not a battalion of unstoppable undead like Aragorn brings with him against the forces of Mordor, but a dirty tricks tactical deception unit the Allies deployed in Europe near the end of the war to fool Axis commanders.
Because, as the saying goes, all’s fair in love and war. This episode is partly a cynical attempt to lure in military history fans, but these are also really interesting stories. And you might consider them to have been, in fact, conspiracies, ones that were successful, by and large.
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02:58 - Sucker Bait - Dudley Clarke, Jasper Maskelyne, North Africa fun, Operation Crusader, Operation Bertram, the Second Battle of EL Alamein, Sunshields & Cannibals, Operation Canwell, Operation Sly Bob, HMS Houdin
12:08 - I’ll Make Mincemeat Out of That Mouse! - Operation Husky (the invasion of Sicily); Operations Barclay, Mincemeat, Waterfall & Animals, the Trout Memo
16:47 - Don't Touch the Sides! - Operations Overlord, Neptune, Bodyguard, Wadham, Starkey, Tindall & Cockade; 'A' Force, Plan Jael, Operations Fortitude & Ironside, double agents (Garbo, Brutus, Tricycle, Tate & Bronx), Operations Graffham, Royal Flush & Zeppelin
23:52 - We Can Scare You, but You Can't Scare Us - The Ghost Army, Eye of the Needle, Operation Quicksilver, the 3132 Signal Service Company Special & spoof radio, Operation Viersen
30:31 - Surfin' USA - Douglas Fairbanks Jr. gets inspired by HMS Tormentor, the Beach Jumpers, PsyOps, the Navy SEALs
36:04 - Would I Lie to You? - The Siege of Yapu, Alexander crosses the Hydaspes River, Sun Bin of the Qi, the Empty Fort Strategy, Mongol deceptions, the Sultan Baybars takes the Krak des Chevaliers in the Ninth Crusade, the Americans vs Brits & North Vietnamese
40:03 - MILDEC strategies & guidelines - Sun Tzu vs. Clausewitz, the fog of war, the five main MILDEC tactics, Magruder's Principle, Jones' Dilemma, Avoid Windfalls, Multiple Forms of Surprise
45:38 - We're Not as Clever as We Think We Are - The military influences fashion, all deception if about perception and psychology
Music by Fanette Ronjat
More Info
Magic in the Desert on the Warfare History Network website
The Magician of WWII who Made Tanks Disappear on War History Online
The Deceivers: Allied Military Deception in the Second World War by Thaddeus Holt
The War Magician: The True Story of Jasper Maskelyne by David Fisher
Operation Bertram on the Scholarly Community Encyclopedia
A 5-Minute History Of The Battle Of El Alamein
Dummy Tanks and Fake Radio Broadcasts: WW2's Biggest Deception Campaigns
Operation Husky: The Classroom for Amphibious Landings
Trout Memo on Military History Wiki
What Was Operation Mincemeat?
Dead Man Floating: World War II's Oddest Operation on NPR
Operation Mincemeat: The man who never was on The History Press
"A" Force: The Origins of British Deception During the Second World War by Whitney T. Bendeck
6 Daring Double Agents on History.com
Agent Garbo on MI5 website
Secret Agents, Secret Armies: The D-Day Misfit Spies on the National WWII Museum website
A Pioneering Experiment - OSS Double-Agent Operations in World War II paper by Robert Cowden
The Ghost Army Legacy Project website
How the Ghost Army of WWII Used Art to Deceive the Nazis in Smithsonian Magazine
The Top-Secret WWII Unit That Fooled the Nazis on History.com
Ghost Army book and film
How a Ghost Army of American artists helped defeat Hitler in The Week
Inside the 23rd, the 3132 Signal Company, The Sonic Deceivers
Operation Viersen mission summary
D-DAY DECEPTION: OPERATION FORTITUDE SOUTH
Eye of the Needle by Ken Follett
The Defeat of Hitler: D-Day Invasion on The History Place
How Actor Douglas Fairbanks Jr. Crafted an Impressive Military Career on Miltary.com
Douglas Fairbanks's Drama on the High Seas on HistoryNet
The Beach Jumpers and Douglas Fairbanks Jr. video by The History Guy
U.S. Navy Beach Jumpers Association
UDT-SEAL Association
Army document FM 3-13.4 Army Support to Military Deception
Deceivingly Decisive: U.S. Army Military Deception and Counterintelligence article by First Lieutenant Will Rector
Two Taxonomies of Deception for Attacks on Information Systems by Neil C. Rowe and Hy S. Rothstein, U.S. Naval Postgraduate School
Tactical Level PSYOP and MILDEC Information Oper Operations: How to Smartly and Lawfully Prime the Battlefield paper by Joshua E. Kastenberg
The lost and found art of deception on US Army website
‘The Art of War’: As relevant now as when it was written in Irish Times
The Grand Strategy of Carl von Clausewitz on Warroom
On War Without the Fog article in Military Review
Genghis Khan's Secrets of Success on HistoryNet
Hiding in Plain Sight: The Science of Military Camouflage blog on UF PRO
Lessons from Others for Future U.S. Army Operations in and Through the Information Environment paper by the Rand Corporation
Deploying Deception on the Battlefield in Scientific American
The Military Influence on Fashion on Highsnobiety
The Psychology of Cognitive Deception
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48 min
September 27, 2023Peek-A-Boo: Project Star Gate
EPISODE 94 | Peek-A-Boo: Project Star Gate
The US military heard the Soviets were working on creating psychic spies, so they started their own program, which would, after many name changes, get dubbed Project Star Gate. This would attract cranks and flim-flammers of all kinds over its 25 year run, resulting in not much useful intel but inspiring some participants to make a number of outlandish claims and starting various conspiracy theories about remote viewing techniques.
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03:37 - Get Ready - The Soviet Project AIZEN, SCANATE at SRI, Uri Geller
07:53 - Gypsies, Tramps and Thieves - The Scientologists: Harold Putoff, Pat Price, Ingo Swann (the most successful remote viewer of all time), sexy bio-androids go shopping, a thirsty UFO
12: 37 - Joseph McMoneagle (the most successful remote viewer of all time) doesn't find General James Dozier, makes predictions that don't come true
16:02 - David Morehouse (the most successful remote viewer of all time)
17:26 - Fly Like an Eagle - Jewish Hungarian cowboy Edwin May takes over, Gondola Wish, Grill Flame moves to Fort Meade, Major General Albert Stubblebine, the Soviet Project Znacki, Sun Streak, Project Star Gate, Ray Hyman finds fault (again)
24:34 - So Be It, Jedi - Various JEDIs, not those stargates, Suggestopedia, the First Earth Batallion
29:20 - (Don't Fear) The Reaper - Ed Dames (the most successful remote viewer of all time), remote viewing is not really "seeing", Psi Tech, Harry DeLighter, Dames makes predictions and some money
35:10 - Subterranean Homesick Alien - The KGB's Project ISIS, the Brits look into remote viewing (in a half-arsed way), how much did all this cost, talented remote viewer Courtney Brown, Star Trek, yogic flying, the Heaven's Gate cult
43:10 - Sympathy for the Devil - Aaron Hanson née Donahue (the greatest psychic of all time) and his father, James Donahue, angels are bat aliens from Orion, Aaron as the Hopi Pahana, Aaron starts his Luciferian Order (cult), and he's a colossal racist, Aaron and Ed Dames fall out over Japanese TV money, Aaron runs for president
Music by Fanette Ronjat
More Info:
Psychic Discoveries Behind the Iron Curtain by Sheila Ostrander
Unconventional research in USSR and Russia: short overview, 2013 paper by Serge Kernbach
CIA releases psychic experiment documents on CNET, 2017
STAR GATE [Controlled Remote Viewing] on FAS Intelligence Resource Program
Uri Geller on the Tonight Show, August 1, 1973 video
Uri Geller interview with The Guardian. September 2022
Operation Star Gate: U.S. Intelligence and Psychic Spies in Enigma
Remote Viewing, Reality, and the Human Condition, Russell Targ article with links
CIA documents about Ingo Swann
Memoirs of a Psychic Spy: The Remarkable Life of U.S. Government Remote Viewer by Joseph McMoneagle
Remote Viewing: The Complete User's Manual for Coordinate Remote Viewing by David Morehouse
Psychic Warrior: The True Story of the CIA's Paranormal Espionage Programme by David Morehouse
The Monroe Institute website
CIA entry for Gondola Wish
CIA entry for Project Grill Flame
Grill Flame Project DIA session report, July 31, 1999
Meet the Former Pentagon Scientist Who Says Psychics Can Help American Spies in Newsweek
Rise Up and Fight the Swine Flu Conspiracy, article of Stubblebine's pseudomedical nonsense
The Men Who Stare at Goats by Jon Ronson
Saddam’s Stargate and Taskforce 20 episode
The Pentagon’s Twilight Zone, 1988 WaPo article by Sally Squires
Read The CIA 1983 Report About Transcending Spacetime With Your Mind
Remotely Viewed? The Charlie Jordan Case
Remote Viewing Matrix (Ed Dames's latest name change)
Free Energy: The Race to Zero Point movie
Coast to Coast AM - Project Stargate with Dale Graff
Coast to Coast AM - Remote Viewing Satan with Ed Dames (Dec. 21, 1998)
Hocus Pocus - Is Ed Dames Exploiting Missing and Murdered Children for Self Promotion?
Project Pegasus - Mars and Beyond! episode
Project ISIS: The Secret KGB ★ Abduction Files Part 1 video
Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Psi in The Independent
British Military Tests Psychic Warfare in Wired
British Ministry of Defence Remote Viewing archive
Ministry of Defence 2002 report
UK forces tested, rejected psychic techniques in The Register
The psychic hunt for Osama Bin Laden
Cosmic Voyage: A Scientific Discovery of Extraterrestrials Visiting Earth by Courtney Brown
The Farsight Institute website
Courtney Brown's 'Cosmic Voyage' in Preposterism in the Skeptical Inquirer
The Courtney Brown Affair and Academic Freedom in the Skeptical Inquirer
Courtney Brown - Adolf Hitler: Remote Viewing a Mass Murderer video
The Hopi Turned Their Backs On The Pahana by James Donahue
Under the Vatican - Revelation of the Beast by James Donahue
Remote Viewing the 45th President of the USA 2016 James Hanson video
Aaron C. Hanson documents archive
Suspect Zero movie (18% on Rotten Tomatoes)
Aaron C. Hanson entry in the Encyclopedia of American Loons
The Truth About Remote Viewing on Skeptoid
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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
54 min
September 13, 2023From Sea to Sea: More Canada Mysteries & Histories
EPISODE 93 | From Sea to Sea: More Canada Mysteries & Histories
Guest: Nile Séguin, comedian, actor, writer, French-Canadian
Canada, northern neighbor to the United States, a sovereign nation that’s only party sovereign, second largest country in the world by size but 37th by population. It’s a place filled with fairly reasonable people, lots of trees and many mysteries.
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03:18 - A bit about Nile (including his new podcast), where Canada gets its name, Canucks
09:05 - The Screaming Tunnel of Niagara Falls
15:10 - Jerome of Sandy Cove, NS
25:04 - Project Y: the flying VZ-9 Avrocar
30:34 - Canadian pronunciation and slang
45:22 - Nile has homework
Music by Fanette Ronjat
MORE INFO:
Nile Séguin website
Nile's Conspiracy Planning Committee: Plandemic
Nile's Conspiracy Planning Committee: The Moon Landing
Nile's IMdb page
Mercer Report video: Canada Explained
Origin of the name "Canada" - government webpage
The Screaming Tunnel on To Do Canada
Screaming Tunnel Niagara Falls: Haunted or Hoax? on I've Been BT
Real History of the Screaming Tunnel | Niagara Haunt’s Legit Legend on Ghost Walks
Jerome of Sandy Cove, Nova Scotia on Historic Mysteries
The story of Jerome: The southwestern N.S. mystery that never ends, even 110 years after his death on Saltwire
Jerome Identified - An Early Mystery Solved on Canadian Mysteries
The Story Of Avro Canada's VZ-9 Avrocar Flying Saucer Project on Simple Flying
Canada Built a Flying Saucer. It didn't work; the story of the Avro Canada VZ-9 Avrocar video
The Avrocar in Toronto from the 1950s video
Coanda Effect – Avro Car on Mysteries of Canada
What’s Going On With the Way Canadians Say ‘About’? on Atlas Obscura
Canadianisms on CMU School of Computer Science website
Canadian Slang: A Guide To Bunny Hugs, Loonies, And More
25 Canadian slang words you should learn before visiting
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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
50 min
August 30, 2023Octopus’s Garden: Dan Casolaro, INSLAW & Death (WIW 10)
EPISODE 92 | Octopus's Garden: Dan Casolaro, INSLAW & Death (WIW 10)
A number of unusual deaths, law enforcement software, mob families, casinos, drug running, arms dealing, and a possible nationwide, possible international, conspiracy known as the Octopus – this wild and complicated tale reads like a whole series of thriller novels and is further proof that the world is weird indeed.
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01:59 - Complicated Life - 1977: The weird death of Charles “Chuck” Morgan, Don Devereux investigates
08:48 - Herbie Goes Bananas - 1990: Joseph Bonanno aka Joe Bananas aka Don Peppino, Devereux helps Unsolved Mysteries on a story about Morgan, Doug Johnston dies across the street from Devereux's house, Dan Casolaro contacts Devereux in 1991
12:58 - Squid Game - 1973-1991: Dan Casolaro, dilletante & part-time journalist, starts poking around into rumors around INSLAW's PROMIS software, the 1980 October Surprise theory, Iran Contra and the BCCI Scandal
21:36 - Danger Man & the Octopus - 1989-1991: Casolaro encounters Michael Riconosciuto ("Danger Man"), begins to see the shape of the Octopus, starts getting threats
25:43 - Meeting in Martinsburg - 1991: Casolaro goes to Martinsburg, West Virginia but never makes it home, weirdness at his funeral, unanswered questions and "missing" files
32:47 - You Better You Bet - 1978-1981: Cabazon murders in Rancho Mirage, the the Fantasy Springs Resort Casino in Indio, secret government dealings, mafia dudes, INSLAW and Michael Riconosciuto again, Wackenhut, drug running, software trojan horses, hitman James Hughes
40:35 - Giant Octopus Kraken - 1982-1991: Riconosciuto's roommate is killed, NSA guy Alan David Standorf is killed, Riconosciuto's lawyer is killed, journalist Anson Ng Yong is killed in Guatemala while researching much of all this, arms running, INSLAW, BCCI, and the DOJ
44:33 - Death & Espionage - 1976-2001: John Munson tries to frame Riconosciuto, then his girlfriend dies; the Spiro family are killed in Southern California; arms dealer turned Israeli spy Ari Ben-Menashe, counterintelligence agent Robert Hanssen turns double agent
50:10 - Trying to make some sense of it all
Music by Fanette Ronjat
Lapsus Linguae: I consistently mispronounce the name of Michael Riconosciuto thruoghout this episode, only finding out after I had recorded and edited that it should be closer to "Re-con-SHOO-toh" My bad.
More Info:
The Odd Mystery behind Charles C. Morgan's Death
Cold Case: Strange evidence found in '77 on, near man's body
Joe Bonanno Tuscon Arizona Crew Members video
The Kinship of Killers
FBI Phoenix History
The Odd Death of Charles C. Morgan on Unsolved Wiki
Chuck Morgan on Unsolved Mysteries
A Case of Mistaken Identity? The Strange Death of Doug Johnston
Devereux Reports website
Danny Casolaro on Alchetron
Danny Casolaro on Unsolved Mysteries
The Last Days of Danny Casolaro article plus several links
The Strange Death of Danny Casolaro New York Times article, reprinted
What Killed Danny Casolaro? Washington Post article
THE STRANGE DEATH OF DANNY CASOLARO in Vanity Fair
FBI files on Dan Casolaro
Dan's file titled CIA Frank Terpil Renegades
Danny Casolaro's files and notes
Danny Casolaro Died for You backstory
The Mysterious Death Of Danny Casolaro
The INSLAW File
The INSLAW Affair - chapter 17 of The Last Circle: Danny Casolaro's Investigation into the Octopus and the PROMIS Software Scandal by Cheri Seymour
The INSLAW Affair documents
Federal Corruption: INSLAW by Harry V. Martin
The Promis Threat: An Octopus Slouches Toward Mena, Arkansas, Area 51 and The International UFO Congress in Las Vegas by Kenn Thomas, Steamshovel press, #7
Octopus Revisited by Kenn Thomas
The Undying Octopus: FBI and the PROMIS affair Part 1
Black Arcadia - Danny Casolaro and the Octopus - Parts 1-3
Parts 4-7, Lindsay Biziak Murder parts 1-2
Parts 8-10
The INSLAW Octopus in Wired
Code for PROMIS software
BCCI SCANDAL: BEHIND THE 'BANK OF CROOKS AND CRIMINALS' in the Washington Post
The Dictator-Run Bank That Tells the Story of America’s Foreign Corruption
BCCI Scandal document
Danny Casolaro and the Octopus Syndicate video
Casolaro Murder excerpts from The Village Voice
Cabazon: How 'Indian gaming' began - LaRouche article
Arrest in 1981 tribal murders revives old mystery
Badlands - article in Spy Magazine about many of these stories
Worldwide Conspiracy, Or Fantasy? -- Felon's Story Checks Out - Kind Of
Journalist Investigating Bank Was Second To Die
Guatemala: Journalist's Murder May Be Linked With Bcci Scandal
Murder in Rancho Santa Fe
Investigators closed a mysterious murder case Wednesday and blamed...
Secret Government Program Linked To Local Murders? KESQ new story on murders, INSLAW and more
Transcript of interview with Ari Ben-Menashe for Journeyman.tv
Justice Department records confirm PROMIS scandal’s ties to Israel
How an FBI Sting Took Down KGB Spy Robert Hanssen on Spyscape
How Robert Hanssen Spied for the Soviets
Because there's a LOT more to this, the timeline from Danny Casolaro Died for You
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55 min

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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…