What if the next global crisis wasn’t real?

A decades-old conspiracy theory claims technology could be used to fake an alien invasion, simulate religious events, and manipulate billions.

Impossible?

Maybe.

But with AI, drones, deepfakes, and modern surveillance technology, Project Blue Beam raises one terrifying question:

What happens when you can no longer trust your own eyes?

As America heads toward the 2026 midterms, both parties are making big claims about the economy. But what do the numbers actually show?

In this episode of Murders, Mysteries, and Conspiracies, Glenn P. Clinger III compares the first 19 months of Joe Biden’s presidency with the first 19 months of Donald Trump’s current term.

Inflation. Groceries. Gas. Wages. Jobs. Housing. Purchasing power.

Which period saw prices rise faster? Did wages actually keep up? Are families really better off today—or does it depend on what you measure?

No campaign slogans. No partisan spin.

Just the numbers—and you decide.

Sources for “Are You Better Off? Biden vs. Trump”

1. U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics — CPI, January 2021. This establishes the starting point for Biden: overall CPI 261.582, food-at-home 252.107, and the other CPI categories used in the comparison.
   BLS — Consumer Price Index, January 2021
2. U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics — CPI, August 2022. This provides the ending point for Biden's first 19 complete months: CPI 296.171 and food-at-home 295.007. From those official index values, the approximately 13.2% overall price increase and 17.0% grocery increase are calculated.
   BLS — Consumer Price Index, August 2022 data
3. U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics — CPI, January 2025. This establishes Trump's current-term starting point: CPI 317.671 and food-at-home 310.936.
   BLS — Consumer Price Index, January 2025
4. U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics — CPI, August 2026. This is the latest complete CPI month used in the episode: overall CPI 334.980, food-at-home 321.500, with 12-month inflation at 3.4%. These figures produce the roughly 5.4% overall price increase and 3.4% grocery increase from January 2025.
   BLS — Consumer Price Index, August 2026
5. U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics — Average Price Data. This is probably your most important single source for the grocery-store portion. It contains national monthly prices for eggs, gasoline, white bread, milk, ground chuck, whole chicken, bananas, tomatoes, electricity, and utility gas, using consistent product definitions over time.
   BLS — National Average Consumer Prices
6. BLS — Employment Situation, January 2021 and August 2022. January 2021 shows unemployment at 6.3% and average hourly earnings at $29.96. BLS also specifically warned that pandemic-related shifts in the composition of employment complicated wage comparisons. By August 2022, unemployment was 3.7% and average hourly earnings were $32.36.
   BLS — Employment Situation, January 2021
   BLS — Employment Situation, August 2022
7. BLS — Employment Situation, January 2025 and August 2026. January 2025 establishes unemployment at 4.0%. The August 2026 report gives average hourly earnings of $37.75 and the current employment picture; BLS's weekly-earnings table gives average private weekly earnings of $1,298.60 in August 2026.
   BLS — Employment Situation, January 2025
   BLS — Employment Situation, August 2026
8. Freddie Mac — Primary Mortgage Market Survey. This is the source for the 30-year mortgage comparisons: approximately 2.77% around Biden's January 2021 inauguration, 5.55% in late August 2022, 6.96% on January 23, 2025, and 6.66% on August 27, 2026. Freddie Mac's archive provides the historical weekly observations.
   Freddie Mac — Mortgage Rate Archive
9. U.S. Energy Information Administration — National gasoline prices. This independently supports the gasoline discussion and documents regular gasoline reaching $5.006 per gallon nationally during the week of June 13, 2022.
   EIA — Weekly U.S. Regular Gasoline Prices
10. USDA Economic Research Service — Egg prices and avian influenza.
    USDA ERS — Retail Egg Prices and Avian Influenza
11. Federal Election Commission — 2026 election date.

What would actually happen if America abandoned capitalism and moved toward a communist system? Your business. Your property. Your retirement. Your grocery store. Your freedom to criticize the government.

In this hard-hitting “What If?” episode, Glenn examines what happened to ordinary people in Cuba, the Soviet Union, China, and Venezuela—and asks what those lessons could mean for the United States. From nationalization and shortages to mass migration, political repression, and economic collapse, history gives us some disturbing clues.

Could America make that transformation and still remain the America we know?

This isn't prediction. It's history applied to one chilling question: What if it happened here?

Research Sources

Library of Congress, Cuba: A Country Study — nationalization, property changes and transformation of Cuba's economy.

Library of Congress, Revelations from the Russian Archives — Soviet collectivization, deportations, shortages and the 1932–33 famine.

World Bank historical analysis of China — Great Leap Forward collectivization and the Great Famine.

International Monetary Fund — Venezuela's economic collapse, poverty, hyperinflation and mass migration.

World Bank — China's post-1978 market reforms and economic growth.

Human Rights Watch — Cuba's one-party political system, political detention, media controls, shortages and recent emigration.

Congress.gov, Constitution Annotated — First and Fifth Amendment protections and constitutional property rights.

What happens if Republicans lose control of Congress in the 2026 midterms?

In this special What If? episode of Murders, Mysteries, and Conspiracies, Glenn P. Clinger III looks at history to explore what could happen if Democrats win the House, the Senate, or both.

Could Trump’s agenda grind to a halt? Would investigations intensify? What happens to judicial appointments, federal spending, executive orders, and the possibility of impeachment?

Using the Clinton, Bush, Obama, and first Trump administrations as historical examples, we examine how divided government has reshaped presidencies before—and what it could mean for America after 2026.

This isn’t a prediction. It’s a political What If?

SOURCES / RESEARCH NOTES

U.S. House of Representatives — Party Breakdown: Current House membership and party division.
House Party Breakdown

United States Senate — Senators / Party Division: Current Senate composition and historical party divisions.
U.S. Senate Party Division

Congress.gov — Constitution Annotated: Article I impeachment authority, Senate impeachment trials, Article II presidential authority, and the Appointments Clause.
Constitution Annotated

United States Senate — Impeachment: Constitutional requirements governing House impeachment and Senate trials.
U.S. Senate: About Impeachment

U.S. House of Representatives — History, Art & Archives: Historical changes in congressional majorities and periods of divided government.
Party Government Since 1857

The White House — Priorities: Current Trump administration policy priorities.
White House Priorities

In 1982, Italian banking tycoon Roberto Calvi was found hanging beneath London’s Blackfriars Bridge. In his pockets were thousands in foreign currency. Hidden in his clothing were pieces of masonry. Behind him was a collapsing financial empire with connections to the Vatican Bank, a secret Masonic lodge, and allegations involving organized crime.

Authorities initially believed Calvi committed suicide, but evidence would eventually raise a far more disturbing possibility.

Follow the money, examine the evidence, and decide for yourself.

You Be the Detective.

Celebrity hairstylist Fabio Sementilli seemed to have it all—a successful career, a beautiful Los Angeles home, and a family. But behind closed doors, his wife Monica was having a secret affair with racquetball instructor Robert Baker.

Then Fabio was found brutally stabbed to death on his own patio.

Investigators initially considered a home invasion. But when DNA pointed directly to Monica's lover, the case exploded into a story of sex, money, betrayal, and murder.

Prosecutors said Monica helped orchestrate her husband's killing and stood to collect $1.6 million in life insurance. But at her trial, the admitted killer took the stand and made an extraordinary claim: Monica had nothing to do with it. He killed Fabio because he wanted her.

Was Monica the mastermind behind her husband's murder—or was she an unfaithful wife whose obsessed lover killed on his own?

You Be the Jury.

Murders, Mysteries, and Conspiracies
Created and narrated by Glenn P. Clinger III.

Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office — Guilty Verdict in Murder of Renowned Hairdresser Fabio Sementilli by His Wife, April 11, 2025.
Los Angeles County District Attorney case release

Los Angeles County — Monica Sementilli Sentenced to Life in Prison for Husband's Murder, June 23, 2025.
Los Angeles County sentencing release

Los Angeles Times — L.A. hair mogul's wife guilty of murder in deadly love triangle, April 11, 2025.
Los Angeles Times coverage

Court TV — CA v. Monica Sementilli: Celebrity Stylist Murder Trial.
Court TV case coverage

He built an island, made a fortune during Florida’s wild real-estate boom—and then vanished without a trace.

In 1926, millionaire developer D.P. Davis, the visionary behind Tampa’s famous Davis Islands, boarded the luxury ocean liner Majestic bound for Europe. Somewhere in the middle of the Atlantic, Davis disappeared through an open porthole.

His body was never recovered.

Was it a tragic accident during rough seas? Did financial and personal pressures drive him to take his own life? Or could Davis have deliberately disappeared and started over somewhere else?

Nearly 100 years later, the islands still bear his name—but what happened to the man who created them remains a mystery.

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Created and narrated by Glenn P. Clinger III

Accident. Suicide. Or the perfect disappearance? You decide.

For nearly 34 years, she was known only as “Claudia”—an unidentified woman found murdered beside a California highway in 1992. Police eventually learned she was a victim of notorious serial killer Keith Jesperson, the Happy Face Killer. They knew who killed her, but they still didn’t know who she was.

Now, after more than three decades, DNA and genetic genealogy have finally given the woman without a name her identity back.

In this episode of Murders, Mysteries, and Conspiracies, Glenn P. Clinger III examines the Happy Face Killer, the mystery surrounding the remarkable investigation that finally gave a family the answer they had waited decades to receive.

A killer was caught. A murder was solved. But one mystery remained for 34 years: Who was she?

Thirty-four years after 21-year-old Tammy Zywicki disappeared along Interstate 80 in Illinois, her murder remains unsolved.

Now investigators are retesting evidence with modern DNA technology and asking the public for help identifying a mysterious truck driver who may hold the key to the case.

Could a decades-old memory finally provide the missing piece?

Listen closely. Someone may know something.

Tammy Zywicki: You Be the Detective
Murders, Mysteries and Conspiracies
Hosted by Glenn P. Clinger III

Could an American election actually be rigged?

If someone wanted to change the outcome, how would they do it? Who would benefit? How many people would have to know? And could it happen without anyone discovering the truth?

Some election crimes have actually happened. Others have become the stuff of conspiracy theories. But where does the truth end and the conspiracy begin?

Today, forget politics. Follow the evidence, consider the possibilities, and reach your own verdict.

Could they rig an election and get away with it?

You Be the Jury.