A crossroads. A marketplace of ideas. A subreddit evolving in the age of Trump’s second term. We dive into R/Conspiracy to see where our head is at.

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Matthew Johnson was a once respected clinical psychologist, best-selling parenting author, and national media guest. Then he saw something strange in the woods that shattered his worldview. Brad is back following a decades-long descent into the strangest corner of the American fringe: a secretive Bigfoot research site, telepathic communication with beings of light, a spiritual war against evil forces, an elder named Zorth, and eventually, prophecies involving Donald Trump. This is the bizarre saga of Team Squatchin USA - a story that starts with a poop break in the woods of Oregon, and ends with a licensed therapist who’s been accused of starting a Sasquatch cult.

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Brad Abrahams:

https://x.com/LoveAndSaucers // https://www.instagram.com/bradwtf/

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People use generative artificial intelligence to troubleshoot technical problems, churn out anime-inspired images based on their personal photos, and drive university professors who teach undergrad courses to the darkest pits of despair.

But are the applications of artificial intelligence limited to worldly matters?

On today’s episode, we discuss how strings of words generated by mindless neural network predictions over tokenized inputs are burrowing into our very souls. First, we speak to Rolling Stone journalist Miles Klee, who recently published a fascinating investigation into people who have fallen into spiritual fantasies because of their conversations with ChatGPT. And then Annie covers how conservative author Rod Dreher sees the devil in AI chatbots.

Have you heard the good news of our lord and savior: byte pair encoding tokenization?

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Miles Klee on Bluesky

https://bsky.app/profile/milesklee.bsky.social

People Are Losing Loved Ones To AI-Fueled Spiritual Fantasies

https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/ai-spiritual-delusions-destroying-human-relationships-1235330175/

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There is no bigger franchise in the video game business than Grand Theft Auto by Rockstar Games. So naturally, fans of open-world criminal mayhem descend into wild dot-connecting in the years before each hotly-anticipated release.

The next installment, GTA 6, has been delayed and is now slated for release on May 26th of 2026. This is despite many assurances from Rockstar that everything was on track for the game to come out in 2025. Alas, this will be another Christmas without an ultra-violent crime simulator wrapped beneath the pine tree. Sad! But at least Rockstar’s long silence gave us some great theories.

Rockstar’s trademark hush-hush routine has turned GTA fandom into a sweaty detective bureau: Reddit sleuths pore over patent filings, numerologists map release dates to moon phases, and anonymous “insiders” drop breadcrumbs. In this episode we sift the signal from the speculation and ponder whether weaponized silence is part of the new marketing playbook.

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SOURCES:

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC5584612/

https://www.pcgamer.com/grand-theft-auto-6-fans-have-become-so-desperate-for-information-theyve-convinced-themselves-that-the-moon-is-teasing-an-upcoming-reveal/

https://www.pcgamer.com/games/action/gta-6-fans-are-convinced-that-a-new-trailer-is-going-to-release-on-december-27-because-the-moon-and-a-license-plate-told-them-so/

Netflix’s Adolescence, a four-part thriller about a 13-year-old murder suspect, has hijacked Britain’s political conversation. Annie Kelly explains why the series hit such a nerve: it maps the online pipelines that radicalize boys in their own bedrooms, dramatizes the deadly consequences of misogyny, and spotlights the adults too clueless to confront these threats. Within weeks, MPs demanded it be shown in classrooms, tabloid headlines frightened parents over coded emojis, and right-wing investigators branded the show a taxpayer-funded anti-incel psyop involving Sophie from Peep Show.

Come listen as Annie breaks down how virtuosic television managed to inspire breathtakingly cynical discourse about race, youth violence, and fictional portrayals of social issues.

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Annie Kelly on Bluesky

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REFERENCES

“Adolescence” and the Right’s War on Men

https://www.liberalcurrents.com/adolescence-and-the-rights-war-on-men/

Not Based On A True Story

https://www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/april/not-based-on-a-true-story

A working man. A man who works… to free his boss’ daughter from the clutches of a human trafficking ring. Gabrus joins Jake and Julian as we attempt to make sense of this very puzzling film starring Jason Statham and co-written by none other than Sylvestor Stallone. They’ve come together to make an awful mess, complete with mobsters straight out of Grand Theft Auto and the Russian bad guy equivalent of Beebop and Rocksteady. Gabrus also talks about his experience seeing the film in 4D.

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Gabrus: https://x.com/Gabrus

Action Boyz Podcast: https://www.patreon.com/ActionBoyz

Staying Alive: https://www.siriusxm.com/player/show-podcast/entity/593bdc12-99c0-3430-9afb-9a9e274419df?utm_medium=shared

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Nayib Bukele, the president of El Salvador and Trump’s number one Latin American buddy, is a renaissance man for our era. Crypto, memes, reddit. Repression, megaprisons, anti-communism. We take a look at the history of El Salvador and the ascent of the “coolest dictator in the world”.

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Caio Almendra: https://x.com/caioalmendra

The U.S. is Not Special: https://caioalmendra.substack.com/s/the-us-is-not-special

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Some believe that they can make a better world just by posting enough online. But the YouTube-based Blood Over Intent community raises the stakes by literally bleeding for their beliefs.

Born from the trauma of Mark Braun, a Florida plumber turned self-styled Satan incarnate, Blood Over Intent promises followers a ticket to paradise, provided they upload a DIY blood ritual to the web. The kicker? Members claim that smearing a drop of their blood on hastily scrawled intentions will unlock a mythical Arctic portal to Eden underneath the flat earth.

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REFERENCES

The Blood Ritual That Lives on YouTube

https://gizmodo.com/the-blood-ritual-that-lives-on-youtube-1826054103

The Sun Dance – Wiwáŋyaŋg Wačípi

https://aktalakota.stjo.org/seven-sacred-rites/wiwanyang-wachipi-sun-dance/

Teen Accused of Stabbing Student to Death Was Into Online Blood Rituals and Conspiracies

https://www.vice.com/en/article/qjp3px/teen-accused-of-stabbing-student-to-death-was-into-online-blood-rituals-and-conspiracies

Satanic Flat Earthers

https://mctoon.net/satanic-flat-earthers/

Today on "Classic Depravities of the Internet": Blood over Intent

https://www.reddit.com/r/ClassicDepravities/comments/yfs9gu/today_on_classic_depravities_of_the_internet/

Soyjaks! 4chan! Breeding kink! Katy Perry!

All that and a surprise update about skateboarder and television personality Bam Margera in this week's episode.

First up, Travis will tackle the recent devastating hack of 4chan, the infamous image board that gave us Pepe memes, QAnon family members, and maybe even a president. What is this “Soyjak Party” and why do they hate 4chan so much?

Then Julian will cover the recent Elon Musk breeding kink fanfic — if the Wall Street Journal were a “fan” and documented reporting were a “fic.”

Finally Jake will report on his investigation on worrying claims from conspiracists that the recent influencer-friendly flight of a Blue Origin rocket was entirely faked. We’ll also try to figure out which graphic designer is responsible for sneaking images of Baphomet into every spaceflight patch.

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REFERENCES

Notorious image board 4chan hacked and internal data leaked

https://techcrunch.com/2025/04/15/notorious-image-board-4chan-hacked-and-internal-data-leaked/

Suspected 4chan Hack Could Expose Longtime, Anonymous Admins

https://www.wired.com/story/2025-4chan-hack-admin-leak/

Soyjak Party

https://wiki.bibanon.org/Soyjak.party

The Tactics Elon Musk Uses to Manage His ‘Legion’ of Babies—and Their Mothers

https://archive.vn/5r3jL

Katy Perry launches into space with all-female crew on Blue Origin rocket

https://www.reuters.com/business/media-telecom/katy-perry-launches-into-space-with-all-female-crew-blue-origin-rocket-2025-04-14/

An exploration of the most famous right wing crank painter in the game: artist Jon McNaughton. From tea-party-era images of Obama burning the constitution to MAGA-era images of Trump as Atlas, the progression of his career has mirrored a deeper shift in the Republican base and its obsessions. Our guest is artist, writer, and host of the Doomscroll podcast Joshua Citarella.

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