We The Sheeple

What happens in Soviet Russia, stays in Soviet Russia...…except when it involves the disappearance of a group of hikers.

This episode we're talking about The Dyatlov Pass Incident of 1959, a tragic event in which a group of college students perished while hiking in the remote Ural Mountains in the Siberian wilderness. Though tragic you might be wondering why we're discussing it. Let's just say the circumstances are......rather odd.

Were Yetis involved? Potentially.

Was it an avalanche? Probably.

Is it mysterious to this day? DA! 

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Time is just a construct, you dig? It's what the Man is using to try and make us less groovy. PEACE AND LOVE!!!

Sorry everyone, a 1960s flower child had control of my keyboard. I distracted him with a die dye shirt and a Jimi Hendricks vinyl. 

This episode we're discussing the Phantom Time Hypothesis, a far out name for a far out idea. Make sure you're well rested, rearranging classical history takes a lot out of you.

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Music:

Intro: Alien visitors

Ads: The Bounty Hunter

Outro: Trip with a UFO

From: https://soundtrackuniverse.com

Hear from an expert in online literacy: https://omny.fm/shows/factually-with-adam-conover/why-critical-thinking-can-t-beat-misinformation-an

Sources:

https://www.ancient-origins.net/history-important-events/phantom-time-hypothesis-0013965

https://www.medievalists.net/2020/04/why-phantom-time-hypothesis-wrong/

Immanuel Velikovsky - Wikipedia

Phantom time hypothesis - Wikipedia

Pope Sylvester II - Wikipedia

Otto III, Holy Roman Emperor - Wikipedia

Heribert Illig’s Theory of Missing History 614–911 | nextexxAges in Chaos | The Velikovsky Encyclopedia

Immanuel Velikovsky - Bad Archaeology

New chronology (Fomenko) - Wikipedia

Why my fellow physicists think they know everything (and why they’re wrong) | Ars Technica

Dunning–Kruger effect - Wikipedia

https://web.archive.org/web/20120722210701/http://heatherlench.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/07/svenson.pdf

What do the son of a former president, a financial advisor from Pennsylvania and a shadowy cabal sucking the youth from children like the Sanderson sisters have in common? As a rational human you might be tempted to say absolutely nothing. Well our podcast would be pretty boring if we only talked about the thoughts of rational humans.

This week we're dipping our toe into the world of QAnon to discuss JFK Jr. Whoever said you can only die once never considered creating their own universe of truth. 4Chan strikes again!

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Intro: Alien visitors

Ads: The Bounty Hunter

Outro: Trip with a UFO

From: https://soundtrackuniverse.com

Hear from an expert in online literacy: https://omny.fm/shows/factually-with-adam-conover/why-critical-thinking-can-t-beat-misinformation-an

Sources:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_F._Kennedy_Jr.

What Is Adrenochrome? - QAnon Blood Harvesting Conspiracy Theory (menshealth.com)

QAnon Is More Important Than You Think - The Atlantic

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/retropolis/wp/2018/08/05/jfk-jr-didnt-die-he-runs-qanon-and-hes-no-1-trump-fan-omg/

https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/qanon-jfk-jr-conspiracy-theory-854938/

Site Foreshadows Congress Run by QAnon Figure Vincent Fusca (dailydot.com)

If you're like most people you probably get woken up each morning by an alarm, drag yourself out of bed to the bathroom and begin your morning routine. The thing you might not think about is just how integral energy is to modern life. It lets you charge your phone, heats the water for your shower and moves your car when you push the gas. And at the time of publishing this episode we recently had a very real example of what happens when the energy suddenly stops flowing.

This episode we're talking about wind turbines. There's been a lot of misinformation floating around after the Texas Crisis a few weeks ago so let's talk about what they do and what some goobers out there think they do. Fair warning, The Don is coming...

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Intro: Alien visitors

Ads: The Bounty Hunter

Outro: Trip with a UFO

From: https://soundtrackuniverse.com

Hear from an expert in online literacy: https://omny.fm/shows/factually-with-adam-conover/why-critical-thinking-can-t-beat-misinformation-an

Sources:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wind_turbine_syndrome

https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/article/can-wind-turbines-make-you-sick/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waubra_Foundation

https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Waubra_Foundation

https://apnews.com/article/election-2020-ap-fact-check-joe-biden-donald-trump-technology-dd10b705845e945c4c33f62640ccd246

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ec9P3C1OXqE

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/black-wind-turbine-blades-help-birds-avoid-deadly-collisions-180975668/

https://www.eia.gov/energyexplained/electricity/how-electricity-is-generated.php

https://www.energy.gov/eere/wind/how-do-wind-turbines-work#:~:text=Wind%20turbines%20work%20on%20a,a%20generator%2C%20which%20creates%20electricity.

Has anyone ever told that something helps "keep them grounded"? Perhaps it's a beloved pet, long walks on the beach.....or plugging yourself into an electrical outlet. That's right folks, this episode we're talking about the wellness trend known as Grounding (or Earthing depending on the particular brand of pseudoscience you prefer). 

What if I told you better sleep, lower blood pressure and reduced inflammation were easily within your grasp? Well then buckle-up, all you need is a credit card and 7-10 days while you await the arrive of your electrically conductive bedsheet to arrive in the mail. Shocking.

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Intro: Alien visitors

Ads: The Bounty Hunter

Outro: Trip with a UFO

From: https://soundtrackuniverse.com

Hear from an expert in online literacy: https://omny.fm/shows/factually-with-adam-conover/why-critical-thinking-can-t-beat-misinformation-an

Sources:

https://www.earthing.com/collections/all-1

https://www.earthing.com/pages/what-is-earthing

https://grounded.com/what-is-earthing#:~:text=The%20phenomenon%20of%20Earthing%20was,from%20connecting%20to%20the%20Earth

https://edisontechcenter.org/basics.html

https://www.khanacademy.org/science/physics/electric-charge-electric-force-and-voltage

It's here. The inescapable inevitability. You can't run. You can't hide. That's right, this week we're tackling the bear that is COVID-19. Unless you're an extraterrestrial picking up this transmission on your space-pod slinger I don't need to introduce you to the pandemic that flipped 2020 upside down. Everyone has heard about it. And when everyone hears, everyone talks. And considering there's a small fraction of the population that's actually qualified to speak knowledgably on virology, you know there's a mother load of misinformation out there.  Buckle in folks, it's gonna be like eating your ice cream cone with a slingshot: shocking, a little painful and oh so tasty.   

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Sources: misinformation.https://www.who.int/emergencies/diseases/novel-coronavirus-2019/advice-for-public/myth-busters https://www.who.int/health-topics/coronavirus#tab=tab_1 https://www.cdc.gov/library/covid19/pdf/public_pdfs/2020_10_02-Science-Update_Final-Public_v1.pdf https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/hcp/non-us-settings/overview/index.html https://www.thenewhumanitarian.org/news/2020/04/15/id2020-coronavirus-vaccine-misinformation https://www.acsh.org/news/2020/07/23/conspiracy-theory-about-bill-gates-covid-vaccine-doesnt-make-logical-sense-14928 https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-52833706 https://twitter.com/RexChapman/status/1275912010555932672?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1275912010555932672%7Ctwgr%5Eshare_3%2Ccontainerclick_1&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fcdn.embedly.com%2Fwidgets%2Fmedia.html%3Ftype%3Dtext2Fhtmlkey%3D3ce26dc7e3454db5820ba084d28b4935schema%3Dtwitterurl%3Dhttps3A%2F%2Ftwitter.com%2Frexchapman%2Fstatus%2F1275912010555932672image%3D https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2020/05/great-5g-conspiracy/611317/ https://www.who.int/peh-emf/publications/facts/fs296/en/ https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20150511005200/en/International-Scientists-Appeal-U.N.-Protect-Humans-Wildlife https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/news-perspective/2020/05/scientists-exactly-zero-evidence-covid-19-came-lab https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2020-09/appc-bic092120.php

For our maiden voyage we're covering a blast from the past. A blast from 1918 to be specific. The Spanish Flu was the worst influenza pandemic of the 20th century killing an estimated 50,000,000 people worldwide. 100 years later I'm sure we've learned a lot and don't fall for the same silly ideas people back then did right? *Sigh*

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Sources:

https://www.cdc.gov/flu/pandemic-resources/1918-pandemic-h1n1.html

https://ourworldindata.org/spanish-flu-largest-influenza-pandemic-in-history

https://www.un.org/en/development/desa/population/publications/pdf/mortality/WMR2019/WorldMortality2019DataBooklet.pdf

https://www.pnas.org/content/pnas/102/31/11059.full.pdf

https://theintercept.com/2020/04/06/misinformation-coronavirus-ebola-congo/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SARS_conspiracy_theory

https://www.forbes.com/sites/alexknapp/2020/05/15/the-original-plandemic-unmasking-the-eerily-parallel-conspiracy-theories-behind-the-russian-flu-of-1889/#3bfacfe950d5

https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/the-flu-pandemic-of-1918-and-early-conspiracy-theories#Why-did-these-misconceptions-catch-on?

https://untappedcities.com/2020/07/15/the-anti-mask-league-of-1919-the-cultural-battle-of-an-enduring-pandemic/

https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2020/03/17/spanish-flu-lessons-coronavirus-133888