The New Conspiracist

Did Lee Harvey Oswald act alone in killing JFK? The most widely believed conspiracy theory in America, and the one you've all been waiting for!

Actor, writer, and director David Schneider joins James and Jol to dissect the countless conspiracies surrounding the assassination of the 35th President of the United States, John F. Kennedy. You may know David from such TV classics as The Day Today and Knowing Me, Knowing You with Alan Partridge. Plus, Mission: Impossible, 28 Days Later and The Death of Stalin.

Believers of this conspiracy claim the involvement of the CIA, the Mafia, Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson, Cuban Prime Minister Fidel Castro, the KGB, or some combination of these. In fact, doubters of the lone gunman theory have accused 42 groups, 82 assassins and 214 people of being involved in the assassination.

Why is this theory so widely believed, and acceptably so? If you believe this one, are you in danger or believing something more radical? And more importantly, why is the word ‘grassy knoll’ so funny?!

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Rising stand-up comedian and NHS Clinical Pharmacist Ola Labib joins James and Jol to take-down the theory that the Egyptian pyramids were built by aliens.

Being the only Black, Muslim, female, Sudanese comedian currently performing in the UK she is no stranger to smashing stereotypes and expectations and is therefore perfectly placed to trash the theory that the pyramids ‘couldn’t possibly have been built by black people’. In fact, it may well have been the Sudanese, so suck on that – UKIP!

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Comedian Rosie Holt takes time out of her busy schedule mocking Conservative MPs to ponder the existence of time travel with James and Jolyon. Is the 19-year-old Swedish Climate Activist Greta Thunberg really a time-traveller sent to warn us of the dangers of global warming? Or does she simply have an uncanny doppelganger from the 19th Century? If she really can hop through the time-space continuum, why didn’t she kill Hitler? More importantly, why is James so obsessed with Penicillin?

If you haven’t already seen the photo from 1889, we suggest you look it up whilst listening to this podcast for the full experience.

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Once a week with us not enough? Join us in the Tier 4 Platinum circle. Subscribers to Tier 4 Platinum circle will get an extra episode every week, where we’ll be discussing new developments in the world of conspiracies, extended tangents and subscribers get the exclusive opportunity to get in touch and tell us what we’ve got wrong. Plus, subscribers get all episodes of the show completely ad-free. Visit the New Conspiracist show page on Apple Podcasts and hit ‘try free’ at the top of the page to start your free trial.

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Is Vladmir Putin an evil genius? Or has he got high on his own supply? New York Times published columnist, Lecturer in Journalism and long-term explorer of Russian and European conspiracy theories, Dr Ilya Yablokov joins James and Jol to discuss the mountainous level of conspiracy theories surrounding the Russian leader, and how he’s weaponizing them.

If he’d just listened to Biggie Smalls album, could we have avoided warfare? Just what does the KGB school actually teach you? And, is it all the fault of the sinister gays?

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Stella Creasy MP for Walthamstow discusses Chemtrails; the theory than condensation trails from the back of aeroplanes are in fact toxic chemicals sprayed into the atmosphere for nefarious purposes.

Is the government trying to poison us? Or control the weather? Is the plot of Paw Patrol simply ‘Chem Trails for Kids’?

Stella joins James and Jol to settle it once and for all.

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We’re back for Season 3! Did Aliens build the pyramids? Is Greta Thunberg really a time traveller and why is it that women clothes don’t have pockets?  Jol and James cover more of those unanswered conspiracies that you just can’t get out of your head. It’s all covered right here!

The New Conspiracist Coming 20th June. Listen & follow on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon Music, Stitcher or wherever you get your podcasts.

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Jolyon is joined by editor of Private Eye Magazine and star of Have I Got News For You Ian Hislop to round up season 2. James was being sued at the time of recording so it’s a good old chin wag between two satirist trying to get to the heart of what conspiracy theories so powerful today.

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Was Barack Obama secretly born in Kenya? A years long conspiracy theory boosted by Donald Trump has suggested so – but this week comedian Athena Kugblenu joins Jolyon and James to solve the mystery. Like this episode? Please like, share and subscribe if so – or leave us a (five star) review.

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David Icke used to be a footballer. Now, he’s better known as the father of all conspiracy theorists – behind anti-5G, covid truther movements, and more. But before that he revealed the world was ruled by lizard people. Journalist and metropolitan liberal elitist Hugo Rifkind joins Jolyon and James to tell all on the great lizard man theory. Like the podcast? Please subscribe, share, and leave a (five star?) review!

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Author, broadcaster, former Labour Party advisor and Scot Ayesha Hazarika joins Jolyon and James to talk Scottish independence conspiracies. Did the Westminster government hide a North Sea oilfield? Are they faking the accounts? Do you need to #usepens? All that and more answered in this week’s episode. Like it? Please subscribe, share, and leave a (five star?) review!

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