![Fakespiracies]()
November 24, 2021
EPISODE 46 | Fakespiracies: Anyone Can Play!
As another holiday season rolls around, there's the looming threat of dealing family & friends who subscribe to this conspiracy theory or that one. Here's a collection of some fake conspiracy theories, #fakespiracy, that you can use to confound those folks, as well as entertain and maybe even educate a bit. From hidden messages about 9/11 in the film "Back to the Future" to nefarious truths about snack foods, and even some tools for creating your own #fakespiracies out of whole cloth, this episode will help you prepare for the onslaught on CT conversation around the dinner table.
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SECTIONS
- 02:12 - Unknown unknowns & the attention economy
- 07:15 - The McFly Code - "Back to the Future" predicts 9/11
- 12:45 - Nonsense or sense?
- 13:28 - A Connecting Principle, Linked to the Invisible - the Sync Movement
- 17:39 - What a Tangled Web We Weave - secrets in Disney movies
- 18:25 - How to Start a CT
- 20:47 - A collection of memes
- 23:21 - Silica gel packs are red pills
- 24:32 - Yummy in the Tummy - food #fakespiracies
- 25:55 - The Shape of Evil, with Sauce - the BTS/Among Us McNugget
- 30:14 - Crunch All You Want, We'll Make More - The Doritos Conspiracies
- 36:02 - What's in a Name - The Truth Behind Triscuits
- 38:09 - Mix & Match - Conspiracy Theory generators & more
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![Rumours & CTs in the Workplace (Because Reasons 5)]()
November 10, 2021
EPISODE 45 | Rumours & CTs in the Workplace (Because Reasons 5)
Guest: Andrew Brown, co-founder of the Academy of Business Communications
Watercooler talk has moved online, so the speed and spread of rumours and conspiracy theories is growing every day, and it's not just inter-office gossip. How do such things take root in a work environment and what can organizations do to address them?
Andrew Brown walks us through the conditions that create fertile ground for rumors, the very human and social reasons behind them, and some real-world stories and advice for how organizations should and should not try to manage rumors in the workplace.
And while we're looking at an organizational context, these insights apply equally to any grouping of humans - a touch football team, a WhatsApp chat group or, with the holidays coming up, a family gathering.
**This interview was originally conducted for another podcast, Digital Signage Done Right. You can listen to it and see a transcript here. You can also listen to an earlier interview with Andrew Brown and his fellow co-founder Elizabeth Williams about employee surveys here.**
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SECTIONS
- 02:34 - ABC: Helping communications suck less
- 03:41 - Three levels where rumours take hold
- 09:52 - Three conditions that allow rumours to rise & spread now
- 15:13 - Maslow's Needs Hierarchy
- 18:09 - Four common but ineffective tactics
- 20:40 - These tactics ain't gonna cut it anymore
- 24:51 - Tips & models for combatting rumours & negative behaviours
- 30:16 - Traps organizations fall into
- 32:52 - What about when the leader is crazy? Are surveys useful?
- 36:08 - People want to be heard
- 39:52 - Belief is not knowing; change is scary
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![The Philadelphia Experiment & the Montauk Project - Time Tunnel Vision]()
October 27, 2021
EPISODE 44 | The Philadelphia Experiment & the Montauk Project - Time Tunnel Vision
It's 78 years since one of the most storied military experiments in history, wherein a whole ship vanished and/or teleported and/or moved through time. And this dovetails with another famous military project at the tip of Long Island that's a grab bag of elements: virus labs, monster animals, Nikola Tesla, Ian Fleming, creating superhumans, teleportation, hyperspace, psychic spies, Nazi occultists, MIBs, the internet, AIDS, mind control, time travel, aliens and much more. Or so some say. Quite loudly, at times.
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SECTIONS
- 01:41 - Happy Easter - The Philadelphia Experiment - Carl Allen marks up Jessup, the Varo Edition
- 08:57 - Nothin up my sleeve! Vincent Gaddis & Charles Berlitz chime in, Einstein collides with pop culture
- 13:24 - Eyewitnesses tell different stories
- 15:17 - Project Rainbow - the U2 is too easy to see, Jacques Vallee has some thoughts on hoaxes
- 17:38 - The Montauk Project - Small but mighty - The town of Montauk, New York
- 20:53 - The Montauk Monster, Plum Island & Lab 257, Jeff Rense chirps up
- 24:12 - Life Imitating Art Imitating Life - Preston B. Nichols writes a book about Camp Hero, makes some startling claims, inspires movies and TV shows, writes more books
- 33:45 - Slav to Love - Stewart A. Swerdlow tries to get in on the action, Al Bielek travels to the future & deep space
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![Conspiracy U with Scott Shay]()
October 13, 2021
EPISODE 43 | Conspiracy U with Scott Shay
Guest: Scott Shay, author of Conspiracy U, In Good Faith & Getting Our Groove Back; President of Chai Mitzvah, Chairman of the Board & Co-founder of Signature Bank
The academic world is supposed to be a place to open and expand minds, but some professors actively promote conspiracy theories about Israel and the Jewish people that do the exact opposite. Scott Shay has written a book about how this is happening on both the right and left sides of the political spectrum, especially at his alma mater, Northwestern University.
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SECTIONS
- 02:26 - A book I didn't intend to write
- 04:39 - Whatsoever things are true
- 06:03 - Holocaust denial
- 09:46 - Not all professors
- 12:09 - Also on the left
- 14:37 - Oppressive hyper-whites
- 15:37 - A personal holocaust story
- 16:54 - "The Holocaust is overblown"
- 18:00 - Anti-Zionism is not (necessarily) Anti-Semitism
- 20:10 - Jewishness defined racially
- 22:15 - Where do we draw the historical line?
- 25:42 - Polarization & the demonized other
- 31:08 - Canary in the coalmine
- 34:32 - God-king pharaohs & super-authority
- 38:09 - Final thoughts
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![J.K. Rowling & the Gauntlet of Hysteria]()
September 29, 2021
EPISODE 42 | J.K. Rowling & the Gauntlet of Hysteria
A secretary got an idea on a train and some years later had created an international entertainment sensation, gaining fame and fortune. A feel good story? Or is she a witch? A Satanist? A spendthrift? A TERF? A transphobe? A spendthrift Satanist TERF transphobe witch? Or maybe she doesn't really exist at all.
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SECTIONS
- 02:41 - The Wiccan Witch of the West - Harry Potter is evil
- 10:42 - Expelliarmus - Conspiracy theories about the books (WARNING: Spoilers)
- 17:24 - Accio Suspicion - Follow the money
- 18:53 - A Bit of Polyjuice Potion - She's a front
- 22:15 - Strike One - What's in a (pen) name?
- 25:34 - Pick a Little, Tweet a Little - Rowling tweets her way into trouble
- 33:27 - Transfiguration - Rowling stakes out her TERF
- 40:18 - Coda
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![Critical Race Theory - Re-examining ”Normal”]()
September 15, 2021
EPISODE 41 | Critical Race Theory - Re-examining "Normal"
A loose framework for thinking about how America's racist roots permeate many social, legal and political systems has become a flashpoint for the far right. And so a war on ideas has started in the country that holds itself up as the beacon of freedom in the world, led by white, heteronormative cis people, mainly men.
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- 02:15 - What is Critical Race Theory? - Background and some basics
- 05:44 - Hair Today, Gone Tomorrow - Natural hair as an example of systemic problems, with a detour to tattoos, and the CROWN Act
- 16:51 - Historical Baggage: The Tignon Law, the Pigtail Ordinance
- 19:47 - Scanning CRT - 10 main points of CRT, and some criticisms, with a detour to money
- 29:53 - Tempest in a Teacup - As the US minority population grows, white people react badly, accelerated in 2020 by Chris Rufo, the Trump administration and Fox
- 42:30 - No more changes - the GOP is becoming a White Power party
- 43:16 - There's more to talk about
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![When Nerds Attack - Gamergate, Elevatorgate & Sad Puppies]()
September 1, 2021
EPISODE 40 | When Nerds Attack - Gamergate, Elevatorgate & Sad Puppies
A short late night chat in an elevator becomes a flashpoint in a storm of online misogyny; a woman has to hide because she dares critique the depiction of women; a relationship ends, sparking off a campaign of hate against women that lasts for years, and not even the venerable Hugo Awards are safe from the spreading #onlineslimemold. And then the racists get in on the action.
You'd think the realms of atheism, video games and science fiction would be immune to online nonsense, but you'd be very, very wrong. Even there, aggrieved men weaponize the internet to try and "take back" something that was really never theirs in the first place. Along the way the #slimemold will use doxxing, swatting, spite charities and other tools to lay the foundations of the modern alt-right, QAnon and the January 6, 2021 attack on the US Capitol.
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SECTIONS
- 02:36 - Elevatorgate - Rebecca Watson, Richard Dawkins & flame wars
- 09:46 - I am Not a Number, I am a Free Chan! - 2channel, 2chan, 4chan, 8chan & 8kun
- 13:56 - #Gamergate - Anita Sarkeesian, Zoe Quinn, Eron Gjoni, MundaneMatt, Internet Aristocrat, Total Biscuit, #burgersandfries, The Fine Young Capitalists, Phil Fish, Vivian James, Hotwheels, JonTron, Adam Baldwin
- 29:09 - Mike Cernovich, "Based Lawyer" & professional misogynist, sockpuppets
- 30:53 - Marc Threadingham, white knight, Operation Disrespectful Nod, the Red Pill Right
- 32:41 - New techniques are developed, Brianna Wu, swatting, Social Justice Warriors (SJWs), #slimemold, #onlineslimemold
- 38:45 - Sad Puppies Aren't Much Fun - Larry Correia wants a Hugo Award, Brad R. Torgensen takes over the Sad Puppies, Theodore Beale (Vox Day, total jerk) goes further with the Rabid Puppies, George R.R. Martin, Chuck Tingle gets slammed in the butt, the Puppies get owned (three times), N. K. Jemisin gets the last word (three times)
- 54:22 - Zoe Quinn also gets a last word
- 55:17 - The #slimemold thrives, a really nasty game is sold, the foundations of the present
LAPSUS LINGUAE: I accidentally call Mike Cernovich "Mark", probably because simply thinking about him makes me want to throw up.
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![A Weirdness Travelogue: Henges, Tiles & Plaques]()
August 18, 2021
EPISODE 39 | A Weirdness Travelogue: Henges, Tiles & Plaques
Mystery is all around us - we just need to seek it out. Here are a few offbeat and weird places in the US to go see: some henges, some tiles and some plaques.
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- 02:42 - America's Stonehenge
- 07:46 - A Hankering for Henges - replicas and homages of the famous monument
- 10:23 - Manhattanhenge
- 11:23 - I'll Take Manhattan - The Portal of Paradise at St. John the Divine
- 13:56 - Look Down, Look Down, Don't Look 'Em in the Eye - The Toynbee Tiles
- 20:16 - Rock Me, Leedskalnin - Coral Castle
- 29:07 - Frankly My Dear, I DO Give a Damn - weird fun in Atlanta
- 30:35 - 54 Columns by Sol LeWitt (the Atlanta Stonehenge)
- 32:02 - Making It Up in Our Secret World - Kcymaerxthaere by "geographer at large" Eames Demetrios
- 35:52 - Don't Get Me Down - Roger Babson & the Gravity Research Foundation
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![The Dirty Dozen - Medical Misinformation Miscreants]()
August 4, 2021
EPISODE 38 | The Dirty Dozen - Medical Misinformation Miscreants
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Just 12 people are responsible for the vast bulk of misinformation about COVID vaccines on social media. 12. Are they cuckoo banana pants true believers or just modern day snake oil hucksters endangering people to make a buck? We'll take a look at this dirty dozen and see what they say and speculate as to why they say those things.
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- 02:15 - Pooping in our Rice Krispies
- 03:21 - 1. The Big Cheese - Joseph Mercola
- 10:26 - 2. Oh, Junior! - Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.
- 15:12 - 3. The Terrible Twofer - Ty & Charlene Bollinger
- 19:53 - 4. A Dime in the Dozen - Sherri Tenpenny
- 23:52 - 5. Straight Outta Compton - Rizza (Ronnie) Islam
- 27:37 - 6. Testing His Metal - Rashid Buttar
- 31:01 - 7. In It Together - Erin Elizabeth (Finn)
- 33:17 - 8. I'll Raise You 200 - (Ali Zeck) Sayer Ji
- 37:04 - 9. If It Walks Like a Quack - Kelly Brogan "M.D."
- 40:56 - 10. Hearts in Atlantis - Christiane Northrup
- 47:22 - 11. Paging Dr. Hitler - Ben Tapper
- 49:10 - 12. Junior's Jr. - Kevin Jenkins
LAPSUS LINGUAE: I keep calling Charlene Bollinger "Charlane" for some reason. I must have been thinking of the word "charlatan".
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![Magnificent Desolation - The Moon Landing Was a Hoax]()
July 21, 2021
EPISODE 37 | Magnificent Desolation - The Moon Landing Was a Hoax (Big 'Uns 3)
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Yesterday was the anniversary of humans landing on the moon. Or was it? A surprisingly large number of people have their doubts, and they also have all sorts of "proof" as to why the whole thing is hooey. We'll look at some of the deniers' claims as well as a few of the big players in the moon hoax industry.
SECTIONS
- 02:09 - A brief overview of the Space Race, disbelievers abound
- 07:16 - It's Ra-diation -space is dangerous, solar flares, etc.
- 14:45 - Real is good, interesting is better - Kubrick done it
- 19:25 - A Picture's Worth a Thousand Words - so-called photographic "evidence"
- 20:05 - O say can you see (quality's too good, Armstrong's not holding a camera, crosshairs, the "C rock")
- 23:23 - By the dawn's early light (shadows are wrong or not parallel, multiple shadows)
- 24:39 - What so proudly we hail'd (no radio delay in recordings)
- 25:38 - At the twilight's last gleaming (no dust from modules, no blast craters)
- 26:44 - Whose broad stripes and bright stars (no stars in the sky, not enough moisture for footprints, no lander impression in dust)
- 29:57 - O'er the ramparts we watch'd (same backgrounds in different photos, the horizon)
- 31:21 - Were so gallantly streaming (too many pictures)
- 31:51 - And the rocket's red glare (no rocket flames, camera pans)
- 33:57 - The bomb bursting in air (lens flares)
- 34:31 - Gave proof through the night that our flag was still there (data is missing)
- 36:12 - O say does that star-spangled banner yet wave (the flag moves)
- 38:14 - O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave? (Why not use the Hubble to show us stuff left behind?)
- 39:34 - A hunch, an intuition, a true conviction - Bill Kaysing starts it all (mostly), Bart Sibrel confronts Buzz Aldrin, Mythbusters, Moontruth and more
- 44:47 - X Minus One - The Soviets, Project A119
- 46:31 - Earthrise (NASA image AS08-14-2383)
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