A new strain of cryptozoology is howling across the internet. It’s less about stuff like “undiscovered birds” and more like “Bigfoot is interdimensional.” This week, we are joined by guest writer Jack LaRoche follow that trail straight into Louisiana’s swampy heartland to meet the Rougarou: a Cajun loup-garou legend shaped by Catholic ideas about sin and control, then transformed through centuries of cultural mixing into something that’s been feared, joked about, and even embraced as a local mascot.

Along the way, we rewind to medieval France to untangle where “werewolves” actually come from, detour through the shaky math and moral panic of the werewolf trials, and trace how the Acadian diaspora and Indigenous storytelling traditions helped remake the monster on American soil. It’s sometimes a trickster, sometimes a warning, sometimes protection.

We end by asking what these stories do: how folklore polices behavior, manufactures outsiders, and rhymes with modern conspiracist fearcraft.

Jack LaRouche

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Julian, Travis, and Jake ring in the new year by chatting about the deluge of disinformation and AI slop created in the wake of the brazen U.S. abduction of Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro. We interview The Empire Files journalist Abby Martin about her on-the-ground reporting in Venezuela. Plus, Julian reveals the darkest secret of his family line.

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Earth’s Greatest Enemy: A Film by Abby Martin

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Liv brings us a very special report from inside the brain of former Vanity Fair editor and journalist Olivia Nuzzi. You see, Liv has read Nuzzi’s book, “American Canto,” cover to cover; we know this because Travis was one of the 1200 people who purchased a hard copy – again, we apologize.

But as the gang dives deeper and deeper into the sacred text, Liv and Julian make the horrible discovery that… Nuzzi, she’s just like them! Jake and Travis remain mostly intact throughout this very silly look into the latest drama between Nuzzi, Lizza, and Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

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Tic Tac, Gimbal, GOFAST. Elizondo, Grusch, Mellon. AAWWSAP, AATIP, AARO. Brad is back, ensconced in a space-time bubble, to take on the latest UFO film blockbuster with the guys: “The Age of Disclosure”. It’s the most credentialed UFO film to date, featuring 35 government insiders, and smashing all box office records. Somehow, this same intelligence community that allegedly ran eight decades of deception, is now to be trusted? Find out why, even though he’s “the UFO guy”, Brad is over disclosure, and this film was the final nail in that coffin.

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In the three months since Charlie Kirk’s assassination, Kirk’s former friend and colleague Candace Owens has spun several wild conspiracy theories about that event. Owens rejects the mainstream narrative of a single killer who had no accomplices, instead insinuating that Kirk’s death was part of an international conspiracy involving Israel, Egypt, and possibly France. She has further implied that Erika Kirk, Charlie Kirk’s widow, is helping cover up the supposed truth behind the fatal gunshot, to the outrage of much of the right wing media ecosystem.

Travis, Jake, and Julian break down the unfolding scandal that has inspired a parade of conservative influencers to denounce Owens, why this has not harmed Owens’ popularity, and Owens’ faulty investigative methods (which mostly consists of uncritically repeating the wildest stories and rumors that come across her inbox.)

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The year is 1983. Your evil stepmother is hosting a party to celebrate the arrival of an interstellar comet. The two of you get into a fistfight and you spend the night in the yard shed. In the morning, everyone you care about has been turned to red dust.

This is the inciting incident of “Night of the Comet,” a deep pocket Travis pull for our annual melted holiday movie night. There are ghoulish motorcycle cops, deep underground research labs, and loud diegetic music playing in nearly every scene. Jake and Travis make the case to Julian that this movie is good. Happy Holidays everyone!

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A self-proclaimed whistleblower’s post has gone viral on the r/UFOS subreddit. They claim, through their work as a government contractor, that they have become privy to an intergalactic wager made by aliens betting on our survival in a future war we fight against bugs. Tight!

But that’s just a side note to what she claims is the real alien coverup: that a communist version of our planet exists on a nearby star system – and that the US government is doing everything in its power to make sure we don’t discover that they are doing a LOT better than we are.

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Julian, Travis, and Jake discuss Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene’s resignation from Congress and the many MAGA accounts which were revealed to be based overseas.

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Nuzzi. Lizza. Maga. Disney. Chemtrails. Folks, the world is getting weirder and weirder as human brains begin to wilt and grow mold. Perhaps we didn’t water them enough. Perhaps some of us watered with Diet Coke, Monster Energy, and Electrolytes instead of classic H20, which would explain why some of us are so much more powerful than others.

For this week’s episode, Travis, Jake, and Liv form a meeting of the minds. We talk about some of the latest and ongoing news stories from pilled America that each host has been drawn to like a hummingbird to that sweet sweet sugar water. It’s a grab bag, so reach in and pull out your favorite host, pull the cord on their back, and retreat in horror (or hopefully laugh) as they spit out their latest rabbit hole.

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The 1956 book When Prophecy Fails describes one of the most famous case studies in social psychology. The researchers Leon Festinger, Henry Riecken, and Stanley Schachter covertly joined a small, apocalyptic UFO group, observing how members prepared, including quitting jobs, giving away possessions, and severing ties with skeptics. According to the book, when the group’s predicted disaster did not occur, instead of simply abandoning their beliefs, many core members strengthened their commitment and actively sought new converts.

But it didn’t actually happen like that. In truth, Festinger and his fellow researchers glossed over evidence that contradicted their thesis and actively influenced the UFO group to get the result they wanted.

This is the discovery of our guest Thomas Kelly. By combing through newly unsealed materials from Festinger’s archives, UFO and occult magazines of the 1950s, later writings by group leader Dorothy Martin, he discovered crucial information that was omitted by the original book. Kelly detailed his startling findings in a paper published in the Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences titled Debunking “When Prophecy Fails.”

Travis interviews Kelly to discuss the real story behind When Prophecy Fails, the possible consequences of invalidating Festinger’s study, and how his work fits in the wider “replication crisis” in experimental psychology.

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SOURCES

Debunking “When Prophecy Fails”

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/jhbs.70043

Debunking “When Prophecy Fails” (Free Preprint Version)

https://osf.io/preprints/socarxiv/9j7qc_v2

Failed Prophecies Are Fatal

https://journal.equinoxpub.com/IJSNR/article/view/33085/32543

Cults, Conscripts, and College Boys: Whither Cognitive Dissonance? (Preprint)

https://osf.io/preprints/socarxiv/xdj2u_v1