Episodes

Sept. 20, 2022

New! Qanon: How we got here - Dedicated, conscious agents of the anti…

We're finishing up our Bircher talk here, with our discussion of the group's great crusades to keep people from having more rights, because apparently expanding civil, women's, or gay rights played right into the commies' han...

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Sept. 8, 2022

New! Qanon: How we got here - Old ladies in tennis shoes derail the D…

We find ourselves falling deeper into the history of the John Birch Society, Robert Welch's baby, and the anti-communist organization that seemed so fringey in the mid-20th century, yet seems so clearly a prologue to Qanon to...

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Aug. 23, 2022

New! Qanon: How we got here - The Candyman versus the Commies

As the title suggests, this is the moment where we hand off the story from contemporary Russia to the USA's number one Cold Warrior, a former candy magnate who founded the most successful and influential anti-Communist moveme...

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Aug. 9, 2022

New! Qanon: How we got here - The plot to DESTROY Russia. (Not really)

Our second full part on the topic of Putin's Russia, we cover more of that fun-loving gaggle of nationalist extremist conspiracy theorists who run that place these days, and with the help of our intrepid guide, Professor Yabl...

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July 27, 2022

New! Qanon: How we got here - Russia collapses into conspiracy

Having finished our dissection of Fed conspiracies, we now move on to consider how the other great world power of the 20th Century ended up becoming a dysfunctional autocracy overwhelmed by conspiracies. We learn what makes R...

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July 12, 2022

New! Qanon: How we got here - JP Morgan Sinks the Titanic

(Plus, satanic giants found the Federal Reserve)

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June 28, 2022

New! Qanon: How we got here - The Fed the Bitcoin Bros, and the Goldb…

Episode 3! We hope you like hearing Federal reserve conspiracy theories debunked, because boy, that's what you're getting this time. Thrill to the history of monetary policy. Experience the chills of arguing with bitcoin enth...

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June 14, 2022

New! Qanon: How we got here - Part 2: Q and the Jekyll Island Conspir…

Second episode! Which means the introduction to this series literally took up an entire episode. Does that mean we're getting better or worse? Hard to say. This time, we're taking on the conspiracist view of what actually tra...

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May 31, 2022

New! Qanon: How we got here - Part 1 - Introductions

We're back, bay-bee! For the next umpty-bajillion episodes, we're going to take a new angle to look at Qanon. Why, when we've already done Qanon several times? Because we believe the Qanon conspiracy is...in a sense "eating" ...

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May 24, 2022

Archive: JFK Part 7

We did it! We reached the end of the marathon. In this one, we chat through the Zapruder film, and its cultural impact. But the most important thing about this episode is it marks the end of the new-content dry …

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May 17, 2022

Archive: JFK Part 6

PENULTIMATE! It does not, as a young Jesuit believed, mean "better than ultimate". It means "the one before the last one." Which is what we have here. Some more discussions of the impact of JFK conspiracizing prior to the fin...

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May 11, 2022

Archive: JFK Part 5

This time, we focus not on Oliver Stone, but rather the real guy whom his movie portrayed as a fearless, untouchable campaigner for the truth--former New Orleans District Attorney Jim Garrison. Our analysis of the man's caree...

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May 5, 2022

Archive: JFK Part 4

Part 4, which includes the end of our Stone/Costner courtroom takedown, as well as a discussion of a bunch of other conspiracies that somehow Stone managed not to regurgitate in that scene. Year 5 coming in a matter of weeks....

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April 26, 2022

Archive: JFK Part 3

Third part of JFK inbound. This one features one of the highlights of our cross-country conspiracy trek of 2017, an interview with Stephen Fagin of the 6th Floor Museum in Dallas, which we insist you visit if you find yoursel...

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April 20, 2022

Archive: JFK Part 2

Part 2, better late than never. This episode covers Lee Harvey Oswald's desperate attempt to make his life matter in some way by murdering a President in broad daylight. We cover Oswald's crime, attempted escape, capture, int...

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April 12, 2022

Archive: JFK Part 1

Lo, we have entered the time prophesied--the time between episode arcs...the time...of the ARCHIVE! Seriously, though, we're once again breaking down one of our old, big, long shows into bite-sized chunks, to give you somethi...

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March 25, 2022

Complete Secret Societies - Part 4

Masons, Illuminati, Wrapup, and Bonus Material

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March 24, 2022

Complete Secret Societies - Part 3

Rosicrucians through a lot of the Masons

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March 23, 2022

Complete Secret Societies - Part 2

Cathars through most of Rosicrucians

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March 22, 2022

Complete Secret Societies - Part 1

Eleusynian Mysteries through Cathars

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March 15, 2022

New: Secret Societies I, Part 21 - The Illuminati 2

You're not gonna believe this--but this is actually the final episode of the secret societies series. I know . Which means that next week, as promised, and almost a year to the day from when we started this thing, we …

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March 2, 2022

New: Secret Societies I, Part 21 - The Illuminati 1

Off-schedule, but on-topic, we bring you the first of two Illuminati episodes to wrap up this epic series. This one's the story of the actual, real-life 18th-century group whose brief but influential existence led them, throu...

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Feb. 8, 2022

New: Book Report--Illuminatus!

Comin' in HOT! We just got Dana Unicorn's lines a day or so ago, and yet here we are, presenting a complete, piping-fresh episode right out of the oven. We'd say it's like your grandmother used to make, but we …

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