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Lost Cities of the New World

EPISODE 130 | Lost Cities of the New World
Guest: Neil Laird, Emmy-nominated TV producer (Discovery, BBC, PBS, History, National Geographic), author of the Prime Time novel series
What's commonly called the "New World" is actually very old, and for a long time, people have been trying to track down supposedly lost locations in the Americas. While these folks have not succeeded, advances in technology are allowing us to make astonishing discoveries that are rewriting the history of human habitation in the Western Hemisphere. 
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03:07 - The Lost City of Z - Percy Harrison Fawcett finds Manuscript 512 and goes looking in the Amazon, the search for Fawcett gets LIDAR, new discoveries are made about old New World urban planning
25:18 - The City of the Lost Monkey God - LIDAR again to the rescue, the jungle is difficult to navigate, rebranded as City of the Jaguar
31:48 - El Dorado and the Fountain of Youth - Everyone wants gold, and who doesn't want to live forever?, these locations are cyphers, Mysteries of...., Shark Week, the Prime Time novels
Music by Fanette Ronjat
MORE INFO
Neil Laird on IMDb
Prime Time Travelers: A Satirical MM Adventure by Neil Laird
Prime Time Pompeii by Neil Laird
Lost Trails, Lost Cities by Colonel Percy Harrison Fawcett
Manuscript 512: 18th century evidence of a lost civilization in Brazil? by Jason Colavito
Manuscript 512 text
Percy Fawcett and the Lost City on History Today
The Enduring Mystery Behind Percy Fawcett’s Disappearance on History.com
Lost Cities of the Amazon Discovered From the Air in Smithsonian
The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon by David Grann
The Lost City of Z movie
Indiana Jones and the Seven Veils by Rob Macgregor
The Lost City of the Monkey God: A True Story by Douglas Preston
Exclusive: Lost City Discovered in the Honduran Rain Forest in National Geographic
La Ciudad Blanca: The White City of Honduras
Lure of the Lost City in National Geographic
The Lost City That’s Not Lost, Not a City, and Doesn’t Need to Be Discovered
El Dorado: Real history behind the legend on LiveScience
El Dorado on National Geographic
Khwaja Khadir and the Fountain of Life in the Tradition of Persian and Mughal Art
Florida's Fountain of Youth on The Progress Report
Fountain of Youth in Florida website
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The Fermi Paradox: Here Comes Nobody

EPISODE 129 | The Fermi Paradox: Here Comes Nobody
If we are not unique as a species, an intelligent one that builds civilizations, then there must be lots and lots of other civilizations out there in the galaxy and the rest of the universe beyond. But if so, where the hell is everybody?
That’s the question at the heart of the Fermi Paradox. And this has kicked off a chain of reasoning and speculation that crosses disciplinary boundaries, and lets us start to envision, not just what might be out there, but where we ourselves want to go as a global civilization.
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02:54 - First we feel, then we fall - The Fermi Paradox, the Drake Equation, the Wow! Signal, space is big
09:22 - End here. Us then. Finn, again! - Abiogenesis, the Pulse-Transient Theory of Industrial Civilization, musings on the galactic situation
18:48 - They lived and laughed and loved and left - The Great Filter, Von Neumann probes, the Berserker Hypothesis; loud, quiet and grabby aliens; the Dark Forest Hypothesis, the technological singularity, the Jevons Paradox and induced demand
27:16 - The cross of your own cruelfiction - The Zoo Hypothesis, the Planetarium Hypothesis, the Deathworld Scenario, A Field Guide to Aliens, Calculating God and other science fiction, the Aestivation Hypothesis 
34:34 - Three quarks for Muster Mark! - The Kardashev Scale, Sagan's addition, megastructures, Barrow's anti-Kardashev scale, Galántai's variation, the Urbanization Hypothesis, Kardashev's six scenarios, what to look for
43:04 - He is cured by faith who is sick of fate - They're here, Greer and UAP folks, MJ-12, the SETI Paradox, we are looking, light is fast but has a limit
47:38 - Let us leave theories there and return to here's hear - Joseph Campbell and where do we go from here?
Music by Fanette Ronjat
More Info
Finnegans Wake glosses
A skeleton key to Finnegans Wake by Joseph Campbell
‘It never ends’: the book club that spent 28 years reading Finnegans Wake in The Guardian
Finnegan’s Wake at 80: In Defense of the Difficult at LitHub
Why Finnegans Wake Is Better than Ulysses
Fermi’s Paradox on This American Life
SETI Institute website
Humanity Responds to 'Alien' Wow Signal, 35 Years Later
This Is How We Know There Are Two Trillion Galaxies In The Universe in Forbes
The Great Filter: a possible solution to the Fermi Paradox in Astronomy
A list of solutions to the Fermi Paradox on It's only chemo
Are We Alone in the Universe? Article looking at the Drake Equation
How Many Aliens Are There? A look at the Drake Equation
Drake Equation: Estimating the Odds of Finding E.T. on Space.com
Template for calculating answers to the Drake Equation on PBS
The Olduvai Theory: Toward a Re-Equalizing of the World Standard of Living
The Berserker Hypothesis: The Darkest Explanation Of The Fermi Paradox
Grabby Aliens website
Dark Forest theory: A terrifying explanation of why we haven’t heard from aliens yet
The Dark Forest Hypothesis is Absurd
'Zoo hypothesis' may explain why we haven't seen any space aliens
Where Is Everyone? 4 Possible Explanations for the Fermi Paradox at Singularity Hub
The Kardashev scale: Classifying alien civilizations on Space.com
Kardashev Scale: What is it and where is Earth listed? on BBC Science Focus
Forecasting the progression of human civilization on the Kardashev Scale through 2060 with a machine learning approach reports in Scientific Reports
SETI: Musings on the Barrow Scale
A non-anthropocentric solution to the Fermi paradox in the International Journal of Astrobiology
Asymptotic burnout and homeostatic awakening: a possible solution to the Fermi paradox? in the Journal of the Royal Society
Planetary scientists suggest a solution to the Fermi paradox: Superlinear scaling leading to a singularity on Phys.org
The Coming Technological Singularity: How to Survive in the Post-Human Era by Vernor Vinge
Novels with a focus on the Fermi Paradox / Great Filter? in r/printSF
Beyond “Fermi’s Paradox” XVII: What is the “SETI-Paradox” Hypothesis?
SETI urged to fess up over alien signals
Steven Greer's website
 
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Estimated Prophets: Nostradamus & Cayce

EPISODE 128 | Estimated Prophets: Nostradamus & Cayce
Even though almost none of the things that prophets say will happen actually do, we still persist in believing in the capability anyway. We do not like to change out minds very much. Two of the biggest prophets that still hold sway today over Western culture are Nostradamus and Edgar Cayce, and we’ll take a look at each one in turn.
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02:35 - Built to Last - Nostradamus' career and style, Virgilianised syntax, Les Prophéties and the Mirabilis Liber 
06:53 - Aoxomoxoa - Into the 20th century, Erika Cheetham, "The Man Who Saw Tomorrow", some prophecies 
12:48 - Blues for Allah - The King of Terror wears a blue turban, more prophecies, modern rehashings and interpretations, Over Sixty's Travel Trouble section for 2025
22:13 - Shakedown Street - Nostrafakers, Mabus the 3rd Antichrist, Ray Mabus, Dennis "prophetofrevenge" Markuze, John "rogue scholar" Hogue
28:38 - Ship of Fools - Nostrascams, Gangnam Style, Rudolf Hess uses Nostradamus
32:08 - American Beauty - Edgar Cayce gets his voice back, starts a lucrative career as the Sleeping Prophet and has weird food ideas
36:01 - In the Dark - Cayce sells pseudomedical "cures", then loses it in 1932, makes lots of predictions and travels around in time, the "root race" and polygenesis, Atlantis and more
42:14 - Wake of the Flood - Cayce's Earth Changes, Lori Toye's I Am America maps, Gordon-Michael Scallion's prophetic doomsday maps, billionaires start buying land
Music by Fanette Ronjat
More Info
EPSIODE 53 | Time to Get Ill - DST, Y2K & 2012
Episode 08 | Time Cube - Four Is the Loneliest Number
Entry for Nostradamus on the Museum of Hoaxes website
A translation of Nostradamus prophecies
More translations of the prophecies 
Nostradamus’s Cherry Jelly recipe on Tasting History
Nostradamus Predicted 9/11 on the Museum of Hoaxes
Crystalinks prophecies page
Nostradamus' 2025 predictions revealed on OverSixty
Dennis Markuze - The Prophecies of Nostradamus 
HogueProphecy website
An Idiot's Biography - John Hogue
Edgar Cayce on Crystalinks
Edgar Cayce’s life & readings page on his official website
Edgar Cayce: The Would-Be Sleeping Prophet
Earth Star magazine
Arizona Corporation Commission Finds Payson Couple Defrauded Elderly Investor
The Shocking Doomsday Maps Of The World And The Billionaire Escape Plans in Forbes
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Cognitive Biases: Thanks, Big Brain! (BR 12)

EPISODE 127 | Cognitive Biases: Thanks, Big Brain! (Because Reasons 12)
This episode looks at the final two categories of biases in the Cognitive Biases Codex – what we tend to do when the information we’re presented with doesn’t contain enough meaning, and the brain’s tendency to favor quick assessments over complete ones, because it feels it need to act quickly.
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COMPLICATED SHADOWS- Confabulation, apophenia, illusory correlation, the clustering illusion, the illusion of validity and WYSIWTI, the anecdotal fallacy, inductive reasoning, the post hoc ergo propter hoc fallacy, the recency illusion, the gambler's fallacy and hot hand fallacy
Stereotyping, group attribution error, outgroup homogeneity, the  moral credential effect, authority bias, functional fixedness, the Just-World Hypothesis, the bandwagon effect, argument from fallacy (bad apple bias, fallacy fallacy), the placebo and nocebo effects
The cross-race effect, the Halo and Horns Effect, the positivity effect, reactive devaluation, the cheerleader effect, the not invented here bias, the well-traveled road effect
Mental accounting, Miller's Law (magic number 7 +/- 2), appeal to probability, survival bias, the subadditivity effect, the zero sum bias
The illusion of transparency, the curse of knowledge, the illusions of asymmetric insight and of external agency
Self-consistency bias, hindsight bias, moral luck, outcome bias, restraint bias, pro-innovation bias, declinism, pessimism bias, the planning fallacy, backward and forward telescoping
ALARM CALL - Belief bias and syllogisms, Occam's Razor, the less-is-better effect, the Delmore effect, the conjunction fallacy (the Linda Problem), information bias, ambiguity bias, the Easton-Rosen Phenomenon (rhyme-as-reason effect)
Status quo bias and ante, system justification, the decoy effect (asymmetric dominance effect), reverse psychology, social comparison bias, reactance
The backfire effect, the sunk cost fallacy, the pseudocertainty effect, zero-risk bias, loss aversion, unit bias, irrational escalation (escalation of commitment), the endowment effect (divestiture aversion) and the IKEA effect, the generation effect
The identifiable victim effect, hyperbolic discounting, Argumentum ad Novitatem (appeal to novelty)
Effort justification, the defensive attribution hypothesis, trait ascription bias, the illusion of control, the optimism effect, risk compensation and the Peltzman effect, the egocentric bias (Illusory Superiority, the Lake Woebegone effect), the self-serving bias, the overconfidence effect, the Dunning-Kruger effect, the hard-easy effect, the false consensus effect, social desirability bias, the fundamental attribution error and the Actor-Observer bias
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Cognitive Biases and the Brain: Thanks, Evolution! (BR 11)

EPISODE 126 | Cognitive Biases and the Brain: Thanks, Evolution! (Because Reasons 11)
The first of two episodes looking at cognitive biases - this one at how memory works and how we prevent input overload by filtering out information. Hopefully, this will give us some insight into why people think they way they do. 
The primary source material for this is the Cognitive Biases Codex, created by Buster Benson and John Manoogian III, as used by the EU's Marie Curie CogNovo program for Conspiracy-Theories.EU.
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MEMORIES CAN'T WAIT - Misinformation effect, testing effect, processing effect, spacing effect, Google effect, two types of absentmindedness, next-in-line effect, list length effect, serial position effect, suffix effect, part-list cueing effect, peak-end rule, duration neglect
Fading affect bias, negativity bias, leveling and sharpening, Maude sees a Black man, suggestibility; false memory (UFO abductions, Satanic Panic), misattribution of memory, cryptoamnesia, source confusion (eyewitness testimony)
TOO MUCH INFORMATION - The availability heuristic, repetition makes it true - the illusory truth effect and the mere exposure effect, attentional bias, context effect, mood-congruent memory bias, cue-dependent forgetting, the frequency illusion and Baader-Meinhof Phenomenon, the base rate fallacy, the empathy gap (cold-to-hot and hot-to-cold), omission bias
The bizarreness effect, humor effect, isolation effect (Von Resteroff effect), and picture superiority effect; bias blind spot, the introspection illusion, naïve cynicism, confirmation bias, congruence bias, choice-supportive bias (post-purchase bias), selective perception and the ostrich effect, observer-expectancy effect (also experimenter effect), subjective validation (the personal validation effect) helps conspiracy theory formation, the Semmelweis reflex, the continued influence effect (people don't unlearn mis- or disinformation easily once it's been integrated)
Anchoring, conservatism, distinction bias, contrast bias, the focusing effect, the framing effect, the money illusion or price illusion and the price of milk; perceiving change - Weber and Fechner, the discrimination threshold, Numerical Cognition
Music by Fanette Ronjat
More Info
Cognitive biases codex
Cognitive Biases on Conspiracy-Theories.EU
Conspiracy-Theories.EU website
About CogNovo
Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions website
What Is Cognitive Bias? 7 Examples & Resources (Incl. Codex) on Positive Psychology
List of Cognitive Biases and Heuristics on The Decision Lab
How Our Brains Make Memories in Smithsonian
Psychology study uncovers new details about the cognitive underpinnings of belief in conspiracy theories on PsyPost
Conspiracy theories in New Scientist
24 cognitive biases that are warping your perception of reality on the World Economic Forum
Conspiracy theory and cognitive style: a worldview
Beliefs in conspiracy theories and the need for cognitive closure
Social Media, Cognitive Reflection, and Conspiracy Beliefs
Cognitive Bias articles on ScienceDirect
Cognitive Biases and Brain Biology Help Explain Why Facts Don’t Change Minds at the University of Connecticut
Cognitive Bias 101: What It Is and How To Overcome It at the Cleveland Clinic
4 widespread cognitive biases and how doctors can overcome them at the American medical Association
How Cognitive Biases Influence the Way You Think and Act on VeryWellMind
24 cognitive biases stuffing up your thinking plus cards at yourbias.is
Identify Cognitive Biases in Business Decision‑Making at Mailchimp
 
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Last Flight: More Airliner Weirdness

EPISODE 125 | Last Flight: More Airliner Weirdness
While it's totally normal that things break, sometimes there is also some kind of secret or mystery around something as monumental as an airplane crash or disappearance. And so lots of "theories" get spun, some by those who have lost someone dear to them, others by those who seek to profit from the disaster. 
This follow-up episode to our previous one about airplanes, One of Our Aircraft Is Missing, is likewise dedicated to my godson, Vova, or Rusty, who just loves, loves, loves, loves commercial aircraft. 
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02:42 - Northwest Orient Airlines Flight 2501 - What's going on in Michigan?
05:31 - Swissair Flight 111 - Richard Tomlinson, wayward MI6 agent
09:45 - EgyptAir Flight 990 - The apotheosis of petty revenge, which inspires bin Laden
15:58 - Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 - A disappearance, an investigation, suicide and simulator speculations
22:27 - More MH370 Theories - Fire, ghost plane, cyberattack, hijacking, Freescale Semiconductor and and patent # US8671381B1 
25:49 - Diego Garcia, the Donbas, the old switcheroo, a plot to destroy Malaysian Airlines
30:49 - Meteors, black holes, weird phone calls, aliens, transdimensional rifts
Music by Fanette Ronjat
More Info
7 Puzzling Plane Disappearances
Planes full of passengers that vanished and could never be traced
Disappearance Over Lake Michigan: The Story Of Northwest Orient Airlines Flight 2501 on Simple Flying
The Wreck of Northwest Flight 2501 Submerged in Lake Michigan 
229 people, 15 000 body parts: pathologists help solve Swissair 111’s grisly puzzles in the Canadian Medical Association Journal
A Rogue Spy's Cyber-Revenge on CBS News
Did British intelligence down Swissair Flight 111? by Dean Andromidas
More mysteries over Swissair Flight 111 by Dean Andromidas
The Crash of EgyptAir 990 in The Atlantic
The Tragedy Of EgyptAir Flight 990 on Simple Flying
EgyptAir Flight 990: A Controversial Aviation Accident on Aviation File
Text: NTSB Chairman Hall on EgyptAir Flight 990 Crash Investigation
Flight 990: What Really Happened? on Al Jazeera
Timeline of MH370 disappearance on CNN
Timeline of the search for MH370 – a visual guide in The Guardian
MH370: History's Greatest Unsolved Aviation Mystery video
Top 10 theories what may have happened to Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370
Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 on RationalWiki
Mathematician: Missing MH370 plunged vertically into ocean on CNN
Map Shows Where MH370 Signal Detected, Raising Hopes of Breakthrough in Newsweek
What Really Happened to Malaysia’s Missing Airplane in The Atlantic
What happened to missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370? Five theories evaluated
Former Proteus Airlines boss Marc Dugain claims MH370 may have been shot down by US military near Diego Garcia
My Missing Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 Theory: Diego Garcia
Did missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 fly to little lost island of Diego Garcia?
Comment: Conspiracies more mysterious than MH370
The conspiracy theories surrounding missing flight MH370
MH370: Exploring compelling conspiracy theories around Malaysian Airlines’ mysterious flight disappearance episode in Business Insider
The Conspiracy Theories Behind the Malaysian Flight 370 Disappearance on The Takeaway
The Most Logical (And Craziest) MH370 Conspiracy Theories in Wired
Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 Found After 10 Years, Scientists Find Perfect Hiding Spot video on OneIndia News
Examining MH370 conspiracy theories CNN video
Did Governments Lie About This Missing Plane? | MH370 EXPLAINED Part I video
Are Any MH370 Conspiracy Theories True? | MH370 EXPLAINED Part II video
Debunking the MH370 conspiracy theories on 9 News Australia
Flight MH370: Why Are Conspiracy Theories Seductive? video on the Wall Street Journal
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One of Our Aircraft Is Missing

EPISODE 124 | One of Our Aircraft Is Missing
A look at a few outstanding cases of plane crashes and disappearances, commercial flights that have gone awry, and some of the weirdness surrounding those mishaps. And, of course, the ones we’ll look at have had conspiracy theories spun about them.
This episode is dedicated to my godson, Vova (or Rusty, as we call him), because he absolutely loves commercial aircraft.
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04:33 - BSAA Avro Lancastrian Star Dust, August 2, 1947 (STENDEC)
10:19 - 191 Is Cursed - Prinair Flight 191, American Airlines Flight 191, Delta Air Lines Flight 191, Comair Flight 5191, JetBlue Flight 191 and Germanwings Flight 9525
15:32 - TWA Flight 800, July 17, 1996
23:03 - More July 17 – TAM 3054 (July 17, 2007) and MH17 (July 17, 2014)
27:34 - Korean Air Lines Flight 007, September 1, 1983
35:58 - KAL007 "Theories"
39:47 - Bert Schlossberg Wades In
Music by Fannete Ronjat
More Info
EPISODE 103 | Down in Bermuda, It’s Easy to Believe – The Devil’s Triangle
EPISODE 89 | JBS BS: The John Birch Society
Number of worldwide air traffic fatalities from 2006 to 2021
Airplane Crashes on NSC Injury Facts
A Pilot’s Last Words: “STENDEC” in Plane and Pilot Magazine
The Star Dust Mystery on Damn Interesting
STENDEC Solved in the North Texas Skeptic
17th July a cursed date and 191 a cursed flight number? on FlyerTalk by JetAirways77W
The Curse of Flight 191 by Still Penguins Seldom Waddle on Medium
The Inauspicious “Curse” of Flight 191 on Airline Geeks
Flight 191: The Cursed Number video on the  Grand Conspiracies and Mysteries YouTube channel
The World's Riskiest Flight in Esquire
Fatal Over-Rotation: 50 Years Since The Crash Of Prinair Flight 191 on Simple Flying
The Deadliest Crash: Flight 191 and its Maintenance Legacy in Aviation Maintenance Magazine
Knowing When to Stop: The Investigation of Flight 191 by Mara E. Vatz, MIT 2003
The Worst Crash in US History: American Airlines 191 video on the Fascinating Horror YouTube channel
Remembering Delta Flight 191 at the National Weather Service
Delta Flight 191 deadly crash 38 years ago led to changes in forecasting after microburst brought down plane on Fox Weather
Wrong Runway: The Crash Of Comair Flight 5191, 16 Years On on Simple Flying
Comair 5191 Crash Led to Air Traffic Control Changes on the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) website
JetBlue Pilot Yelled About Sept. 11 and 'Push It to Full Throttle' on ABC News
JetBlue flight diverted after captain’s ‘erratic’ behavior on CNN Travel
Germanwings crash: What happened in the final 30 minutes on BBC News
The Real Story of Germanwings Flight 9525 in Esquire
The Germanwings Flight 9525 Crash video on the Dark Records YouTube channel
TWA Flight 800 in RationalWiki
25-year anniversary of TWA Flight 800 explosion marks new chapter in disaster’s history on CNN
What Happened to TWA Flight 800? on History.com
'First conspiracy of the internet age’: How the TWA Flight 800 explosion sparked online rumors for years in USA Today News
TWA 800 lawsuit document filing
15 Years Ago: TAM Flight 3054 Becomes Brazil's Deadliest Air Crash on Simple Flying
TAM 3054 entry on the Aviation Safety Network
MH17 incident on the Government of the Netherlands website
Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 at RationalWiki
MH17 Ukraine plane crash: What we know on BBC
MH17 plane crash: Horror and hope for families as trial starts on BBC
Korean Air Lines flight 007 at Britannica
The downing of Flight 007: 30 years later, a Cold War tragedy still seems surreal on CNN
The Death of Korean Air Lines Flight 007 by Peter Grier in AIR FORCE Magazine (January 2013)
Vadim Kondrabaev:  "Secret of the Empty Airplane" on Roy's Russian Aircraft Resource
Korean Air Lines Flight 007 alternative theories on Wikipedia
Bert Schlossberg on RationalWiki
Korean Airlines Flight 007 entry on Conservapedia
Rescue 007 - Schlossberg's website
Let's Ask Putin column by Reed Irvine, Chairman for Accuracy in media
World's 10 most mysterious plane disappearances and strangest aircraft crashes
10 aviation Mysteries of Our Time
The Unsolved Mysteries of 8 Missing Passenger Flights
7 Puzzling Plane Disappearances
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A Heritage of Nonsense: More JKF Stories

EPISODE 123 | A Heritage of Nonsense: More JKF Stories
Guest: Fred Litwin, author of A Heritage of Nonsense: Jim Garrison's Tales of Mystery and Imagination
The JFK assassination truly is the gift that keeps on giving, as this third book on the topic by Fred Litwin demonstrates. People who became suspects after just a two-minute phone call, a comedian who claimed to have channeled Oswald's ghost, a dishwasher spy, Jim Garrison's theory of propinquity and more weirdness than you can shake a stick at. 
SECTIONS
02:37 - What's the problem with Jim Garrison?
08:44 - Breck Wall makes a phone call and gets noticed, Garrison's "methods"
17:55 - Raymond Broshears channels Lee Harvey Oswald
20:42 - Arthur Strout tries to change careers
24:14 - Richard Case Nagell is the Man in the Middle
32:45 - Farewell America: The Plot to Kill JFK by "James Hepburn"
38:47 - Aren't you sick of this? 
Music by Fanette Ronjat
More Info
Fred Litwin's website
A Heritage of Nonsense on Amazon
The JFK Assassination w/Fred Litwin (Big ’Uns 5) episode 50
Film Flam - JFK & Stone w/Fred Litwin episode 79
Papers of Jim Garrison at the National Archives
Oliver Stone's Portrayal of Jim Garrison on The JFK 100
Breck Wall Oral History video at The Sixth Floor Museum
Warren Commission testimony of Breck Wall
Assassination a Homosexual Thrill Killing by Dave Reitzes
A Homosexual Thrill-Kill? By Adam Gorightly
A Farewell to Justice: Jim Garrison, JFK's Assassination, and the Case That Should Have Changed History by Joan Mellen
Breck Wall blogs
Raymond Broshears blogs
Arthur Strout blogs
Richard Case Nagell blogs
Richard Case Nagell - The Man Who Knew Too Much
Nagell communications with the authorities
How to Get the CIA’s Attention: Threaten a JFK Assassination Reveal
The Man Who Knew Too Much: Hired to Kill Oswald and Prevent the Assassination of JFK by Dick Russell
Richard Case Nagel timeline
Man in the Middle: The Inside Story text
Farewell America: The Plot to Kill JFK article in Publisher's Weekly
The Realist archives
They Killed Our President: 63 Reasons to Believe There Was a Conspiracy to Assassinate JFK by Jesse Ventura
The Man Who Killed Kennedy: The Case Against LBJ by Roger Stone with Mike Colapietro
Hit List: An In-Depth Investigation Into the Mysterious Deaths of Witnesses to the JFK Assassination by Richard Belzer
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PRAGUE TIMES - A city is more than just a location - it’s a kaleidoscope of history, places, people and trends. This podcast looks at Prague, in the center of Europe, from a number of perspectives, including what it is now, what is has been and where it’s going. It’s Prague THEN, Prague NOW, Prague LATER 

How to Be a Communist

EPISODE 122 | How to Be a Communist
One of the many words tossed about these days as a snarl term is “communist”, but do the people using this sobriquet know what that really means? It certainly doesn’t mean every leftwing philosophy or ideology. In fact, Communism is a very specific set of applications of very certain ideas, and, like it or not, helped define the 20th century.
So let’s look at what Communism is and what it isn’t, and what other systems and suites of thought have crossover with it. Like all the different flavors of Socialism. 
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SECTIONS
Closer to Home - Socialism (market and non-market), Adam Smith, the Labour Theory of Value (LTV)
Duty Now for the Future - The French Revolution and the Directory, the Conspiracy of Equals, Utopian Socialism, Chartism, Karl Marx and Friedreich Engels become buddies
Mean Machine - Engels's "alienated labour" and The German Ideology, historical materialism, The Communist Manifesto, the basics of Marxism, Marx and Engels hatch a fast-track plan
Brothers in Arms - The Russian Tsar is overthrown and Communism comes to power, the first Communist platform, Reds versus Whites, Lenin develops Leninism
Music for the People - Stalin develops Marxism-Leninism, which spreads to all countries that go Communist
Futuristic Design - Mao Zedong takes over in China, Communism fails almost everywhere
Subterranean Jungle - The Horseshoe Theory, Communism has more in common with Fascism than with socialism, comparing and contrasting Fascism and Communism, comparing and contrasting capitalism and socialism, Third Way, social liberalism, social democracy
Life's What You Make It - Capitalism is not a social or political system, democracy is opposed to authoritarianism's many flavours 
Music by Fanette Ronjat
More Info: 
Why market socialism is a viable alternative to neoliberalism at the Lon don School of Economics and Political Science
Market Socialism: A Case for Rejuvenation by Pranab Bardhan and John E. Roemer in the Journal of Economic Perspectives
Socialist Market Economy chapters and articles on Science Direct
Non-Market Socialism: What is it? How will it work? - 2 papers from the Socialist and Anarchist Utopias Panel at the 2018 The Great Transition: Setting the Stage for a Post-Capitalist SocietyInternational Conference in Montreal
SOCIALISM WITHOUT MARKETS: DEMOCRATIC PLANNED SOCIALISM paper by Al Campbel
What are some contemporary defenses of non-market socialism? on Quora
labour theory of value entry on Britannica
Chapter 6: Theories of Value from Human Society and the Global Economy by Kit Sims Taylor
Gracchus Babeuf & the Conspiracy of Equals
Utopian Socialism articles on Science Direct
Utopian Socialism in America on Digital History
Chartism essay by Amy J. Lloyd, University of Cambridge
What was the Chartist movement? on BBC Bitesize
Capitalism and alienation by Phil Gaspar in Critical Thinking from the International Socialist Review
Marx’s Theory of Alienation by Asher Horowitz, professor of political science at York University 
The German Ideology by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels
Historical Materialism.org website
What is Historical Materialism? video on PHILO-notes YouTube channel
Karl Marx entry in the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
Manifesto of the Communist Party
What is 'Marxism' in The Economic Times
How does Marxism differ from Leninism?
What Is Marxism-Leninism?
Marxism: What It Is and Comparison to Communism, Socialism, and Capitalism on Investopedia
The Rise of Mao Zedong on Alpha History
Socialism, Fascism, Capitalism and Communism Chart from the Hampton Roads Naval Museum
Democracy in the Manual for Human Rights Education with Young People
Communism vs. Fascism comparison chart
Communism vs. Socialism comparison chart
Socialism vs Communism also with a chart
Communism vs. Democracy comparison chart
Capitalism vs. Socialism comparison chart
Capitalism vs Socialism another chart
Fascism and communism: Two sides of the same coin at the Adam Smith Institute 
History is much too important to be left to politicians by Jonathan Steele in The Guardian
Different Types of Socialism
6 Political Ideas Socialism different types video on various types of Socialism 
The Third Way: Myth and Reality by James Petras in the Monthly Review
What the Heck Is Social Liberalism?
Social Liberalism vs. Social Conservatism
Social Democracy definition by John Patrick in Understanding Democracy, A Hip Pocket Guide
Basics on Social Democracy brochure by the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung
What Is Social Democracy? Unveiling Its Values video
What are the main differences between social democracy and democratic socialism? on Quora
Liberal or Social Democrat? in Dissent Magazine
What's the difference between Social Democracy and Libertarianism? on Quora
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PRAGUE TIMES - A city is more than just a location - it’s a kaleidoscope of history, places, people and trends. This podcast looks at Prague, in the center of Europe, from a number of perspectives, including what it is now, what is has been and where it’s going. It’s Prague THEN, Prague NOW, Prague LATER 
 
 

Coup Coup G'joob: Civic Disturbances in the U.S. 1900 - Present

EPISODE 121 | Coup Coup G'joob: Civic Disturbances in the U.S. 1900 - Present
This is a continuation of our previous episode about coup attempts, rebellions and civic unrest in the United States prior to the 20th century. This time, we jump into the 20th century and bring us right up to the present day. After hearing all this, you decide if things really are, as some would have you believe, the worst it’s ever been, or if in fact, America has always struggled with its foundational problems and original sins, coupled with an unusual appetite for, or at least tolerance of, violence. 
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SECTIONS
Sitting on a Cornflake - Race riots, the Green Corn Rebellion of 1917, the Red Summer of 1919, Anarchists, the Battle of Blair Mountain (1921), 1931 - Bloody Harlan, the Housing Riots, the Kingfish vs. the Wild Bull of Jeanerette
Corporation Tee-Shirt - The Business Plot of 1933-1934
Yellow Matter Custard - The McMinn County War (the Battle of Athens) (1946)
You Let Your Face Grow Long - The 1960s - Ax Handle Saturday, the Ole Miss Riot, the Harlem Riot, the Selma marches, the Watts Riot, the Long Hot Summer of 1967, segregationists in North Carolina, the Stonewall Riots, the Weathermen and the Days of Rage; the 1970s - the Kent State shootings, the Hard Hat Riot, Alcatraz and Catalina occupations, the Attica Prison Riot, the Weather Underground Organization (WUO) bombings and more; the 1980s and 1990s in brief
A Serviceable Villain - The 21st century - Pseudolaw gets violent, the rise of protests, Occupy Wall Street, the Gretchen Whitmer kidnapping plot, stochastic terrorism, Trump mouths off, King Henry II and his "turbulent priest", the Manson family, proposed solutions to violent outbursts, Pakistan's Sabaoon Project, Kenya's Preventing of Violent Extremism through Education, Islamic deradicalization group Muflehun, Google's Redirect Method, what we can do
Music by Fanette Ronjat
More Info
EPISODE 115 | Cuckoo Coups in the U.S.
The Beatles explained: What does ‘goo goo g’joob’ mean?
When the Socialist Revolution Came to Oklahoma—and Was Crushed in Smithsonian Magazine
Red Summer: When Racist Mobs Ruled on American Experience
Red Summer of 1919: How Black WWI Vets Fought Back Against Racist Mobs on History.com
The Battle of Blair Mountain on ReImagine Appalachia
Introduction to the West Virginia Mine Wars on the National Park Service
Remembering Bloody Harlan on Parallel Narratives
When the Unemployed Fought Back on Shelterforce.org
Huey Long: His Life and Times
Why is so little known about the 1930s coup attempt against FDR? in The Guardian
Considering History: The 1933 Business Plot to Overthrow America in the Saturday Evening Post
The Battle of Athens: An Obscure American Revolution on Legends of America
The Battle of Athens in American Heritage
What happened on Ax Handle Saturday, Aug. 27, 1960, in Jacksonville?
The Riot at Ole' Miss on American RadioWorks
Riots erupt over desegregation of Ole Miss on History.com
Riots of 1964: The Causes of Racial Violence paper by Roy Wilkins at the Notre Dame Law Review
Inside the Harlem Uprising of 1964 at Rutgers
Watts Rebellion on History.com
She Played a Key Role in the Police Response to the Watts Riots. The Memory Still Haunts Her—But Black History Is Full of Haunting Memories in Time
The 1967 Riots: When Outrage Over Racial Injustice Boiled Over on History.com
What was the Stonewall uprising? in National Geographic
Stonewall then and now in The Harvard Gazette
Chicago's Forgotten 'Days of Rage'
THE MAY 4 SHOOTINGS AT KENT STATE UNIVERSITY: THE SEARCH FOR HISTORICAL ACCURACY
Kent State shootings: The 1970 student protests that shook the US on the BBC
What was the Weather Underground? on The Hill
How the Weather Underground Failed at Revolution and Still Changed the World in Time
Evading the FBI: The Weather Underground Organization at Yale University Press
Some Say Occupy Wall Street Did Nothing. It Changed Us More Than We Think in Time
Occupy Wall Street swept the world and achieved a lot, even if it may not feel like it in The Guardian
Gretchen Whitmer kidnapping articles on PBS News
The Final Twist in the Gretchen Whitmer Kidnap Case on Slate
Donald Trump, Stochastic Terrorist in Mother Jones
Stochastic terrorism: critical reflections on an emerging concept in Critical Studies on Terrorism
How Stochastic Terrorism Uses Disgust to Incite Violence in Scientific American
Deradicalizing, Rehabilitating, and Reintegrating Violent Extremists at the United States Institute of Peace (USIP)
Bringing them home: Pakistan's child deradicalisation centre offers second chance
Education for Preventing Violent Extremism (EPVE) working group paper from the Club of Madrid
Lessons Learned from Student-led Initiatives to Prevent Violent Extremism in Kenyan Universities
PREVENTING VIOLENT EXTREMISM THROUGH PROMOTING INCLUSIVE DEVELOPMENT, TOLERANCE AND RESPECT FOR DIVERSITY discussion paper from the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)
Preventing violent extremism webpage at UNESCO
Preventing Violent Radicalization in America report from the National Security Preparedness Group at the Bipartisan Policy Center
DHS Rebrands and Expands Biased, Ineffective Countering Violent Extremism Program at the Brennan Center for Justice
The Redirect Method on Moonshot
The Search for Extremism: Deploying the Redirect Method at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy
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PRAGUE TIMES - A city is more than just a location - it’s a kaleidoscope of history, places, people and trends. This podcast looks at Prague, in the center of Europe, from a number of perspectives, including what it is now, what is has been and where it’s going. It’s Prague THEN, Prague NOW, Prague LATER