The Strange Machine

The American government has released a giant pile of UFO files, and Nathan and Lee and diving in like a couple of hooded mergansers.* On this first of several episodes, they open up FBI files from the 1940s to the 1960s, and encounter pranks, hoaxes, monkeys, sinister plots, panic, and hundreds and hundreds of pages of internal memos.

On this sea-faring episode, Lee and Nathan examine some of the conspiracies surrounding the sinking of the Titanic, and as a bonus look into the Titan submersible implosion.

On this episode, Lee looks at a classic conspiracy involving an American president, wire tapping, dirty tricks, and accountability - the story of the Watergate scandal.

On this clip from David Cooper's "The Last Show", Nathan and David talk about the dystopian future depicted in Black Mirror, and also in our actual lives. They also discuss the dangers of placing bets on real life events.

On this episode, Lee and Nathan look at the human cost of the scammers who try to sell us false conspiracies.

On this episode, Lee and David discuss the findings of the recent Canadian 2025 UFO report. Also, Lee talks about his own experience with a UFO.

In the summer of 1952, the skies over Washington DC were filled with USAF fighter jets chasing strange radar contacts and weird sightings. On this episode, Lee and Nathan look back the early 1950s, and the complicated relationship the Air Force had with the idea of flying saucers.

If you do a search on eBay for "haunted doll", you'll get an array of glassy-eyed monstrosities and stories promising that you will ruin your life if you buy one. What's going on here? On this episode, Nathan and David Cooper look into the strange economy of buying spirits trapped in children's toys.

On this episode, Lee discusses the shocking war crimes that were revealed by Wikileaks, and what happened to Julian Assange afterwards.

On this interview from The Last Show with David Cooper, Lee talks about how difficult it is to try to fake your own death, particularly when you're a celebrity.