The Strange Machine

Our information ecosystem is crawling with Ai slop and videos. On this episode, Lee and Nathan examine some of the dangers this poses, as well as some tips to try to keep ourselves from getting fooled and manipulated by them.

We're trying something new! In addition to posting our usual episodes every other week, we're going to start posting some of our radio interviews. This episode on the dangers of gaslighting is from "The Last Show With David Cooper", and you can find David's show anywhere you find podcasts.

Edward Snowden blew the whistle on a program of terrifying overreach by the NSA. Lee is of the opinion that people aren't as worked up by these revelations as they should be, and so on this episode he gets worked up about them..

In December of 1980, something strange happened outside of a Royal Air Force base near Rendlesham Forest. On this episode, Lee and Nathan try to figure out the odd event, in the hopes that they've finally come across proof of alien visitation.

Humans in power try to control other humans, and in turn those humans find ingenious ways to resist and escape. On this episode, Lee looks back at a specific time and place in history - East Berlin during the Cold War - and discussed some of the ways people were able to escape oppression and captivity.

It's the end of another year! Which means it's time for the annual trivia party. Also, thanks to all of you for listening, and sharing your time with us. You guys are the best, and we love hearing from you. Email us at [email protected] to say hello, suggest a topic, or to tell Lee how much you enjoy hearing Nathan talk about airplanes

In the early 1500s, the town of Munster was surrounded by enemy soldiers. But inside the town, things were even stranger. On this episode, Lee finally gets to revisit his PhD work, and he explains the background fumes that led to the explosion of the Münster Rebellion

On this episode, Lee and Nathan go back into the CIA files to look into how effective their mind control projects were. Also, it turns out that they have been experimenting on themselves again...

On this episode, Lee and Nathan look at the TV show "Stranger Things", and dive into the Upside Down to discuss the real-life experiments and projects that inspired its twisted and disturbing universe

In 1933, the German parliament building is set on fire. In the resulting chaos, Adolf Hitler seizes more power and dismantles the safeguards that help prevent democracies from collapsing into dictatorships. In this episode, Nathan and Lee examine the fire and its consequences, and look for lessons that we should probably learn from history to prevent this sort of thing from happening again...