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Wednesday Jun 07, 2023
The Skynet Matrix: AI Goes Rogue
Wednesday Jun 07, 2023
Wednesday Jun 07, 2023
EPISODE 86 | The Skynet Matrix: AI Goes Rogue
Guest: Josh Bachynski, AI thought leader and programmer
AI seems to be everywhere, and plenty of folks have freaked out about it over the years. AI expert Josh Bachynski talks about doomsday scenarios, their likelihood and what's probably coming in the near future.
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SECTIONS
03:01 - Humans Suck - I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream, "Colossus: The Forbin Project", Terminator & Skynet, the Matrix, "Avengers: Age of Ultron"
06:25 - None of that will happen on the large scale; Kassandra shows the smarter an AI gets, the more compassionate it gets, but there will be edge cases
12:11 - "The Animatrix" and "Interstellar" are plausible models, AI cannot spontaneously become self-aware, Karel Čapek's R.U.R., bad actor scenarios
18:50 - Bad Programming - "Forbidden Planet", "Demon Seed", V'ger in first Star Trek movie, Ash in "Alien", David in "Alien: Covenant", WOPR in "Wargames"
22:22 - More plausible scenarios, global ransomware, capitalism won't allow runaway AI, HAL9000, the FANG already use psychometric data as weaponized AI
28:00 - Super AI - William Gibson and Cyberpunk 2077, AIs super-size and separate, AIs only do what they're programmed to do, secret AIs in the world
33:05 - ChaosGPT - a harmless experiment, destroying the world is really hard (but we seem to be trying)
38:56 - Red State AI vs. Blue State AI - AI is being used to push Edward Bernays's psychology & pushes us into media bubbles, for-profit companies shouldn't police a society's truth, personal AI assistants, Nietzsche seems to be winning, virtue-signaling ethics
46:26 - ChatGPT predicts 4 problems
Music by Fanette Ronjat
More Info
Josh interview #1 on DSDR podcast (w/transcript): Adapting to the AI Age
Josh interview #2 on DSDR podcast (w/transcript): AI Personas & Ethics
The Moral Concept website
The Future of Google, Search, and Ethics Josh Bachynski TED Talk
Josh Bachynski YouTube channel
Philosopher Creates World’s First Self-Aware AI Prototype
Leadership Insights: Self-Aware AI Systems interview with Josh
I have Created a Self-Aware AI Prototype - discussion on the OpenAI developer board
ChatGPT is Nothing! Demo of Self-Aware AI Kassandra video
Josh's book The Zombies
Josh Bachynski On The Future Of Artificial Intelligence
Josh Bachynski Reverse Engineers Google AI video
Josh Bachynski - The Search Community Honors You
What an AI apocalypse may look like on Better Without AI website (an anti-Ai site)
Tracking the AI apocalypse on Politico
AI and the paperclip problem on the Center for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) website
Fear of AI is this century’s overpopulation scare on Big Think
AI IS ABOUT TO MAKE SOCIAL MEDIA (MUCH) MORE TOXIC
AI Isn’t Omnipotent. It’s Janky.
Pausing AI Developments Isn't Enough. We Need to Shut it All Down by decision theorist Eliezer Yudkowsky
Why you should fear artificial intelligence on TechCrunch
Is Skynet really the future of Artificial Intelligence?
Terminator? Skynet? No way. Machines will never rule the world, according to book by UB philosopher
Why Elon Musk Has Fears Of Skynet Coming True on Forbes
30 Most Evil Movie Computers
Our 10 Favorite Killer A.I.'s in Movies
The Top 10 Evil AI in Sci-Fi
The 10 Most Ridiculous Movies About Evil Computers, Ranked
30 Famous Fictional Computers
Some of the Most Terrifying Fictional Computers
Someone Directed an AI to “Destroy Humanity” and It Tried Its Best
ChaosGPT: Empowering GPT with Internet and Memory to Destroy Humanity video
I tried using AI. It scared me. video
Journalist had a creepy encounter with new tech that left him unable to sleep CNN video
Full interview: "Godfather of artificial intelligence" talks impact and potential of AI CBS Mornings video
How will AI change the world? TED Talk with Stuart Russell
TIMELAPSE OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE (2028 – 3000+) video
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Wednesday Apr 26, 2023
Play Ball! Sportspiracies
Wednesday Apr 26, 2023
Wednesday Apr 26, 2023
EPISODE 83 | Play Ball! Sportspiracies
Guest: Mark Fitzhenry, EFL teacher in Prague, co-founder of the Imperfectionists improv group
Sport seems to almost lend itself to rumor, innuendo and conspiracy thinking with accusations of wrongdoing, curses that plague a team for years and even the occasional crossover of the geopolitical and athletic worlds.
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SECTIONS
03:12 - BASEBALL - The Curse of the Bambino
07:01 - The Black Sox Curse, the Curse of the Billy Goat, the Reds throw a key game
13:36 - The Curse of the Colonel with the Hanshin Tigers in Osaka, Japan
15:23 - AMERICAN FOOTBALL - The Patriots, Spygate and Deflategate
24:46 - FOOTBALL (SOCCER) - Barcelona goal is code to Syrian rebels, 1966 World Cup - England & West Germany vs. South America
34:29 - 1978 World Cup in Argentina
38:09 - BASKETBALL - The 1985 draft lottery and the frozen envelope
Music by Fanette Ronjat
More Info:
The Imperfectionists FB page
The Imperfectionists Instagram page
The 'Curse of the Bambino,' explained
The Black Sox Scandal
Forget What You Know About the Black Sox Scandal
The Billy Goat Curse - The Curse Is Broken!
The Curse of Colonel Sanders
An End To Japan Team's 'Curse Of Col. Sanders'?
The Spygate scandal's impact on the New England Patriots and the NFL
What really happened during Deflategate? Five years later, the NFL's 'scandal' aged poorly
A timeline of Patriots scandals: Spygate, Deflategate and other controversial incidents under Bill Belichick
Football's Most Bizarre: Barcelona Sending Coded Signals to Syrian Rebels?
Why not everyone remembers the 1966 World Cup as fondly as England
Remembering Argentina 1978: The Dirtiest World Cup Of All Time
The dark story of the murderous dictatorship behind Argentina's 1978 World Cup win
The Ewing Conspiracy
The 1985 Patrick Ewing, Knicks, David Stern ‘Frozen Envelope’ Conspiracy… Proved!
Knicks have a dubious NBA Lottery history
What If the Knicks Never Won the 1985 Draft Lottery?
Rigging the NBA Draft
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Wednesday Mar 15, 2023
Fair Dinkum - 4 Mysteries from Down Under
Wednesday Mar 15, 2023
Wednesday Mar 15, 2023
EPISODE 80 | Fair Dinkum - 4 Mysteries from Down Under
Australia - a land with a checkered past where everything, it seems, wants to kill you (even the magpies). It's the land of the Dreamtime, and vegemite, and Zooper Dooper ice blocks, and shopping trolleys dumped in car parks. It's also a land of mystery and the unexplained. Sometimes.
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02:43 - Spoiler Alert: Picnic at Hanging Rock (Victoria)
11:06 - Life a Beach: the Somerton Man/Taman Shud Case (South Australia)
33:05 - Harry Pulls a Harry: The Disappearance of PM Harold Holt (Victoria)
41:29 - Learning to Fly: the Frederick Valentich disappearance (Bass Strait)
Music by Fanette Ronjat
Apologies for any wonky pronunciation errors on my part.
More Info
'You know you're in Australia when...' article
42 Things Australia is Famous For (12 Only Aussies Will Get!)
87 Australian Slang Terms to Help You Speak Like a True Aussie
The Mystery Of Hanging Rock: Australia’s Most Famous Missing Persons Case
Picnic At Hanging Rock: A mystery still unsolved
The True Story Behind ‘Picnic At Hanging Rock’
Picnic At Hanging Rock’s biggest mystery answered
The Truth Behind Joan Lindsay’s Classic Novel
What Really Happened at Hanging Rock: The True Story
Beyond the Rock: The Life of Joan Lindsay and the Mystery of Picnic at Hanging Rock by Janelle McCulloch
Anemptyglass Wikia - a Somerton Man wiki
Somerton Man list of facts
List of facts on the Taman Shud Case that are often misreported
Somerton Man has long been riddled with Russian spy speculation, but is it a red herring?
Somerton man mystery ‘solved’ as DNA points to man’s identity, professor claims
Mystery of Australia's 'Somerton Man' solved after 70 years, researcher says
Mystery of Somerton man’s identity solved after 73 years, researchers in Australia say
Harold Holt: 50 years since Australia's 'first 20th century PM' disappeared into the sea
The Life and Death of Harold Holt [electronic resource] by Tom Frame
Holt submarine theory 'madness': grandson
Holt disappearance theories resurrected online
Final word on Holt. The Chinese didn't do it
Strange Lights Before Cessna 182 Goes Missing. After 42 Years, the Mystery Lingers
Frederick Valentich plaque on Monument Australia
Frederick Valentich's 'UFO' Sighting and Disappearance
The Valentich Disappearance: Another UFO Cold Case Solved in Skeptical Inquirer
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Wednesday Feb 15, 2023
Khazar Love Triangle
Wednesday Feb 15, 2023
Wednesday Feb 15, 2023
EPISODE 78 | Khazar Love Triangle
An obscure 10th century confederation of Turkic-speaking peoples between the Caspian and Black Seas gets transformed through the power of imagination into anything and everything. The Khazars become symbols for a number of claims, including being the origin of the Cossacks (or at least some of them), the real Jews, fake Jews and more. Today, the Khazar Myth is often used to bolster antisemitic tropes, support pseudohistorical narratives and even justify invading another country.
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02:13 - Round and Round - The basic story, Dictionary of the Khazars
04:26 - Sub-culture - The Zaporozhian Cossacks, Kurgans, PIE
07:44 - State of the Nation - A thumbnail sketch of Jewish history, Ashkenazi Jews as Khazars, Zionism, Nazis
17:31 - Love Will Tear Us Apart, Again - Arthur Koestler and The Thirteenth Tribe, pseudoscience runs amok
20:11 - True Faith - Christian Identity and the Serpent Seed
24:39 - Touched By the Hand of God - Black Hebrew Israelites and more
29:45 - Shellshock - Black anti-Semitism and violence
39:45 - World in Motion - Don't paint everyone with the same brush
41:44 - Power, Corruption & Lies - Putin says Ukraine is full of Nazis
Music by Fanette Ronjat
More Info
Entry on Khazars in Encyclopaedia Iranica Online
So, Who Were the Khazars?
The Story of the Medieval European Jewish State – The Khazar Khaganate
Dictionary of the Khazars: A Lexicon Novel in 100,000 Words by Milorad Pavic
Did the Khazars convert to Judaism? New research says 'no'
The Myth of the Khazar Conversion
Terra Incognita: The return of the Khazar myth
The “Khazarian Myth”: The National Identity of the Crimean Karaites
The Story of a Euphemism: The Khazars in Russian Nationalist Literature
The «Khazar myth» as perceived by the Eurasians and L.N. Gumilyov (in Russian)
Ukrainian-Jewish Voices: The “Khazarian Myth"
The Conspiracy of the Origin of Ashkenazi Jews
The Origins of Ashkenaz, Ashkenazic Jews, and Yiddish
Ashkenazi Jews Are Not Khazars. Here’s The Proof.
No evidence from genome-wide data of a Khazar origin for the Ashkenazi Jews
Jews Are Not Descended From Khazars, Hebrew University Historian Says
"Khazar Origin" Myth Attempts to Deploy Erroneous History to Push Antisemitism
Are We All Khazars Now?
African-American Anti-Semitism
From the archive, 1 July 1974: Martin Luther King's mother slain in church
A chance encounter with Jersey City shooters left a hardworking cab driver dead, friends say
Racist Black Hebrew Israelites Becoming More Militant
Deep roots in history: The Russia–Ukraine clash
The Art of Shifting Contexts
An Antisemitic Conspiracy Theory is Being Shared on Telegram to Justify Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine
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Wednesday Feb 01, 2023
Monster Mash - Werewolf? There Wolf!
Wednesday Feb 01, 2023
Wednesday Feb 01, 2023
EPISODE 77 | Monster Mash - Werewolf? There Wolf!
Tales of shapeshifters go back many moons in human history, and wolves seem to be especially in the spotlight. When people get accused of this, they often find themselves in serious trouble. And once in a blue moon, someone claims that they are actually a werewolf. This is often a mental disorder known as clinical lycanthropy.
And then there are those today who think that they really are part animal, in some way, or part hobbit or part unicorn or even part alien. And they like to talk to one another on the internet.
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01:57 - The Werewolf of Bedburg - Peter Stumpp has a magic belt
05:02 - Downward Facing Dog - Ancient tales, King Lycaon of Attica
08:29 - Berserker clans, hysterical strength
11:27 - The Werewolves of Ossory, Irish Wolfhounds
12:27 - It's a Dog Eat Dog World - Swiss witch trials, the Werewolves of Jülich, Michel Verdun, the Livonian Werewolf, Michale Leicht terrorizes Ansbach
19:11 - Barking Up the Wrong Tree - Clinical lycanthropy, a werebuffalo, Florida man Austin Harrouff
23:22 - Their Bark Is Worse than Their Bite - Porphyria, rabies and hypertrichosis: Jo-Jo the Dog-Faced Boy, Pedro González
27:34 - Teaching an Old Dog New Tricks - Werewolves in literature and cinema
33:29 - Puppy Love - Therains, Furries, Furrygate and the Otherkin
Music by Fanette Ronjat
More Info
Old Time Farm Crime: The Werewolf Farmer of Bedburg
werewolf (n.) at Oxford Etymology Dictionary
The ancient origins of werewolves
Werewolves: Lore, Legend & Lycanthropy at LiveScience
Werewolves: The Legend of Lycanthropy
Werewolf – Ancient Worldwide Belief In Terrible Curse
The Ossory Werewolves
The She-Wolves of Jülich
A Brief History Of Europe's Werewolf Trials
Der Wolf von Ansbach (in German)
Kaspar Hauser -The Boy, The Syndrome (The World Is Weird 5)
Wolves among us: Five real-life werewolves from history
The Book of Were-Wolves: Being an Account of a Terrible Superstition by Sabine Baring-Gould
A Rare Report of Clinical Lycanthropy in Obsessive-Compulsive and Related Disorders
Does 'Werewolf Syndrome' actually exist?
Austin Harrouff thought he was 'half-dog, half-man' in double homicide
Three years later, Austin Harrouff case still puzzles many
The Russian “Dog-Faced Boy” who Became a Global Sensation
Petrus Gonsalvus And The Real Beauty And The Beast Story
A Story of a Weir-Wolf by Catherine Crowe
Werewolf News
The Werewolf Timeline at werewolves.com
Project Shift website
HOW TO DETERMINE IF YOU ARE A THERIANTHROPE BY THERIAN NATION
Fur Science - A Summary of Five Years of Research from the International Anthropomorphic Research Project (2017)
WikiFur
Therianthropy on WikiFur
9 questions about furries you were too embarrassed to ask
Midwest FurFest
How an urban myth about litter boxes in schools became a GOP talking point
What are ‘furries?’ Debunking myths about kids identifying as animals, and litter boxes in schools
Did a Michigan School District Install Litter Boxes in Bathrooms? on Snopes
Otherkin.net
Otherkin entry on Nonbinary Wiki
So You Want to Be An Animal?
Otherkin - People Who Don't Identify as Human on Exploring Your Mind
Otherkin Are People Too; They Just Identify as Nonhuman
Who are otherkin - and how should we view them?
Otherkin Is Not a Mental Illness
Why be human when you can be otherkin? research article at University of Cambridge
How Otherkins Harm The Equality Movement
On Otherkin and Trans People
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Wednesday Jan 18, 2023
Klown Kar - The KKK Can KMA (WIW 8)
Wednesday Jan 18, 2023
Wednesday Jan 18, 2023
EPISODE 76 | Klown Kar - The KKK Can KMA (World Is Weird 8)
We're always products of the time and place we live in, so when a Southern group of friends got together in the wake of the American Civil War to start a fun club, it’s really not that big a surprise that it quickly transformed into the largest racist organization in the country. We’re talking about the Ku Klux Klan, a terrorist group that has been responsible for literally thousands of deaths and violent acts over the years.
But the Klan is not just one thing. It’s had at least three different incarnations and today is a motley collection of power-hungry criminals and grifters who may or may not believe some of the inflammatory and even outlandish narratives that try to bind the turbulent world of white supremacy into a cohesive whole.
As always, though, they can dress up in white robes with silly pointy hoods all they want, but they can’t stop being who they really are, deep down inside. Very often, their ambitions and appetites end up being their undoing.
We look at the three different incarnations of the Klan, how a movie helped revitalize them, the time Superman made them laughing stocks, when Beulah Mae Donald took them to court, some of their symbols, some of their more egregious crimes, and even a Klan-sponsored effort to take over a Caribbean island.
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02:27 - The Ku Klux Klan (1865-1871) - Fun turns rotten in the Reconstruction South
07:41 - The Invisible Empire of the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan (1915-1944) - "Birth of a Nation" & Stone Mountain, brought to you by the letters "k" and "l"
15:36 - Counter-groups: the Knights of the Flaming Red Circle, the All American League, the Anti-Poke-Noses
17:58 - The sad story of Madge Oberholtzer, Superman takes on the Klan
21:16 - Knights of the Ku Klux Klan (1950s - present) - Fractured and violent, a incomplete list of victims
26:10 - Karma's a Bitch - Beulah Mae Donald takes on the United Klans of America
30:12 - Jeff Berry is his own worst enemy
34:08 - The Klan is clacked up
35:05 - Klabels of the Klan - A recap, symbols and acronyms
40:29 - Klonspiracies - Operation Red Dog (Bayou of Pigs)
Music by Fanette Ronjat
More Info
Electoral Collage – Voter Fraud, Election Interference & Other Shenanigans
Ku Klux Klan - History
“The Birth of A Nation” opens, glorifying the KKK
Reconstruction: The Birth of a Nation - Rewriting History through Propaganda at PBS
Ku Klux Klan at the Southern Poverty Law center
Murdering Madge Oberholtzer: Rape, poison and the KKK
How Superman Defeated the Ku Klux Klan
My Boss Was Tarred And Feathered By The KKK
12 Horrific Crimes Committed By The KKK Between 1921 And 2016
'The People v. The Klan': Inside the case that bankrupted the Klan
They Killed Her Son. So Michael Donald’s Mother Went After the Klan.
Interview with The Ku Klux Klan: Jeff Berry
Jeff Berry at SPLC
SPLC Sues Jeff Berry
Ku Klux Klan - Active Groups (by state) list at ADL (as of 2006)
Racially or Ethnically Motivated Groups: Symbols Guide from the DOJ
Klan symbols and images at the Granger Historical Picture Archive
Ku Klux Klan rally in Anaheim erupts in violence; 3 are stabbed and 13 arrested - 2016 LA Times article
Operation Red Dog, Or 'The Time The KKK Tried To Take Over A Caribbean Island'
Inside Operation Red Dog, The Bizarre And Disastrous KKK Plot To Take Over A Caribbean Nation
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Wednesday Nov 09, 2022
The Starfighter & the Condor (WIW 7)
Wednesday Nov 09, 2022
Wednesday Nov 09, 2022
EPISODE 71 | The Starfighter & the Condor (World Is Weird 7)
The story of the Lockheed F-104 Starfighter starts fine, but then takes a turn into comedy, then tragedy before veering into corporate malfeasance, corruption, far-right ultranationalism, secret agents, a modern kamikaze attack, a finance giant and a bag lady, MK-ULTRA Manchurian Candidates and South American state-sponsored terror.
Because the world is weird.
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02:18 - The Widowmaker - Nice plane, but...
03:32 - Bug, fixes & features
07:08 - Pay to Play - Lockheed bribes Germany
08:55 - Lockheed eyes Japan, taps ultranationalist criminal Yoshio Kodama
14:42 - I Vant to Suck Your Bank Account - Nicholas Deak (the James Bond of Money) hires a bagman, the scheme comes out
17:47 - Soft porn actor Mitsuyasu Maeno flies a plane
21:50 - Tanaka holds on, Nakasone sparks the Second Lockheed Election
23:20 - You've Got Yours! - Lois Lang shoots Deak, Kuhlmann has suspicions
25:40 - Lang's long path to NYC, Dr. Melges, SRI and MK-ULTRA
29:06 - 21 Years of the Condor - The Monroe Doctrine, the School of the Americas combats coup fever
32:11 - Pinochet starts Operation Condor, Argentina's Dirty War, assassinations & disappearances, Martín Almada & the Archives of Terror, Kissinger was a pig
37:57 - Europe considers their own Condor
38:50 - Manchurian Candidates, final thoughts
Music by Fanette Ronjat
MORE INFO
Here's Why the Luftwaffe Dubber the Iconic F-104 Starfighter "Widow Maker"
"Sale of the Century” - A reappraisal of the procurement of the F-104 Starfighter paper
Lockheed's Defiance: A Right to Bribe? in Time Magazine
The Rise and Spread of Japan’s Black Dragon Secret Society
The Murder of Empress Myeongseong of Korea
Bagman in the Lockheed bribery scandal on Asia Times
Story of Mitsuyasu Maeno – the Japanese porn actor who kamikazed a Yakuza don
Japan rewind: 40 years since the porn star’s kamikaze attack in Tokyo
Lockheed Scandal 40 years on: The downfall of Prime Minister Kakuei Tanaka
James Bond and the killer bag lady on Salon.com
Woman Accused of Shooting Deak Held Master’s Degree
The biggest CIA-drug money scandal you never read
The CIA and the American Psychological Association: Partners in crime
200 years of Monroe Doctrine leave trail of US atrocities in Latin America
Operation Condor: the cold war conspiracy that terrorised South America
30,000 People Were 'Disappeared' in Argentina's Dirty War. These Women Never Stopped Looking
European spies sought lessons from dictators’ brutal ‘Operation Condor’
The Man Who Discovered the Archives of Terror on UNESCO
Martín Almada on Right Livelihood
How Paraguay's 'Archive of Terror' put Operation Condor in focus on BBC
Archive of Terror document scans on Washington Research Library Consortium Digital Collections
The Search for the Manchurian Candidate
Manchurian Candidates on Shrine of Dreams
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Wednesday Oct 26, 2022
Monster Mash - Vampires
Wednesday Oct 26, 2022
Wednesday Oct 26, 2022
EPISODE 70 | Monster Mash: Vampires
With Halloween just around the corner, it’s natural to start think about the supernatural. While superheroes and characters from TV and movies are increasingly popular costumes, it’s very often the classics we turn to when choosing what to dress up as for All Hallow’s Eve.
Vampire is still a popular choice, and the idea of undead blood-drinking fiends frightens some and titillates others. And some people even say that they are, in fact, vampires.
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02:33 - Bela Legosi's Dead - Jure Grando, the 1st recorded vampire; early vampire lore
06:39 - Arnold Paole and more Slavs, vampire panics
12:48 - Darnesses in Life - Bram Stoker gets inspired, Vlad the Impaler, vamps in cinema
17:28 - Dracula tourism in Romania
19:15 - Vampire Blues - Sleeping sicknees, bubonic plague, rabies, porphyria & Dr. Dolphin
23:02 - Love Song for a Vampire - Lifestyle and real vampires, the vamp community
30:59 - The Highgate Vampire Incident - David Farrant & Seán Manchester: vampire hunters, egotists
Music by Fanette Ronjat
NOTE: In the story of Arnold Paole, I refer to the village as Medveda, though some sources have it as Meduegna.
More Info:
The World’s Most Popular Halloween Costumes (2022)
Jure Grando and The First Documented Case of Vampirism in Europe
Croatian ‘Dracula’ revived to lure tourists
Arnold Paole: Serbia's Most Famous Vampire
The True Story of Arnold Paole, Vampire of Meduegna, Serbia
Vampire Panic on the Science History Institute
Vlad the Impaler: The real Dracula
Vlad the Impaler - The ruthless ruler of Wallachia
Transylvania: A Walk in Dracula's Shadow
In the Footsteps of Dracula in Romania: Main Attractions to Visit
Romania wants to sink its teeth into a new Dracula-themed amusement park
Vampire History
Science Behind Vampire Myths on KQED
3 Real Diseases That Influenced Vampire Folklore
The real-life diseases that spread the vampire myth on BBC Future
Vampire links page
The Vampire Project
The Vampire Subculture
Life Among the Vampires in The Atlantic
Interview with a real-life vampire: why drinking blood isn't like in Hollywood
Types of People Within the Vampire Community
VampireWebsite.net
Vampire-friendly bars in the US
Atlanta Vampire Alliance [AVA] - A Real Vampire House
Vampirism Forum
The Highgate Vampire – Did a 1970s Nosferatu Stalk a London Cemetery?
The strange tale of the Highgate vampire
The Bizarre True Story of the Highgate Vampire Feud
David Farrant's website
Bishop Bonkers website
Highgate ‘vampire hunter’ dies half a century after supernatural panic gripped community
Hidden Highgate website
Seán Manchester website
Friends of Bishop Seán Manchester website
The Vampire Research Society - founded by Seán Manchester
Kevin Chesham website
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Wednesday Oct 12, 2022
Electoral Collage – Voter Fraud, Election Interference & Other Shenanigans (WIW 6)
Wednesday Oct 12, 2022
Wednesday Oct 12, 2022
EPISODE 69 | Electoral Collage – Voter Fraud, Election Interference & Other Shenanigans (The World Is Weird 6)
The US midterms are coming up and there's lots of chatter about fraud. Are they legit? Has there been fraud and interference in the past? Yes, but not every time foul has been cried. A look at claims and scandals 1792-1982, plus a thumbnail history of American political parties.
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SECTIONS
03:18 - Hail to the Thief - intro
05:14 - 1792 New York Governor's Race
07:47 - 1824 Presidential Election ("Corrupt Bargain")
10:33 - Nullifiers & Anti-Masons in the 1820s & 30s
13:50 - 1838 – The New Jersey Broad Seal War & Cooping (plus Edgar Allen Poe)
18:17 - 1855 – Bleeding Kansas
24:57 - 1860 Presidential Election - A Nation Divides
27:38 - White League, Red Shirts and the Compromise of 1877
36:18 - 1888 Presidential Election (Packs of Five, the Murchison Letter & the Lodge Bill)
42:12 - 1948 Senate Elections in Texas
44:20 - 1960 Presidential Election
47:15 - Unpledged & faithless electors
49:20 - Illinois in 1982
Music by Fanette Ronjat
MORE INFO:
October Surprise: Fact or Fiction?
Compulsory Voting on IDEA
8 Most Contentious US Presidential Elections
Voter Fraud on the Heritage Foundation
Voter fraud used to be rampant. Now it’s an anomaly.
Claims of 'voter fraud' have a long history in America. And they are false
Debunking the Voter Fraud Myth paper from the Brennan Center for Justice
The 1824 Presidential Election and the “Corrupt Bargain”
The Nullifiers on American Heritage
Want to find real election fraud? Look at the history of Kansas, United States in 1800s
Bleeding Kansas at Khan Academy
Compromise of 1877
Why Democrats are donkeys and Republicans are elephants
Election fraud Chicago style: Illinois’ decades-old notoriety for election corruption is legendary
The presidential penalty: Why voters so often punish the president in midterm elections.
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Wednesday Sep 14, 2022
Pixels & Paranoia – Video Game Conspiracies
Wednesday Sep 14, 2022
Wednesday Sep 14, 2022
EPISODE 67 | Pixels & Paranoia – Video Game Conspiracies
From its humble beginnings, the video game industry has expanded from cabinet arcade games to PCs and home consoles. Two-thirds of adults in the US and three-quarters of children play them. It makes more than the film industry, which got to around $21 bn last year; and music, which made almost $26 billion in 2021. Globally, gaming hit $192 bn in 2021 and is expected to break $200 bn this year.
And it should come as no surprise that there have been rumours, urban legends, controversies and even outright conspiracy theories about video games. Games that kill, or carry a curse, or control people's minds, or contain hidden truths that some would prefer remained hidden.
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SECTIONS
02:36 - Intruder Alert! - Berzerk kills
06:43 - Lavender Town - Pokemon kills
09:32 - The Madden Curse - Fame carries a price
15:50 - Killswitch - A legendary game from Czechslovakia
19:47 - Polybius - Mind control in Oregon
30:20 - Drowned God - Harry Horse, history and aliens
37: 37 - Omikron: The Nomad Soul - A Big Pharma/NWO playbook
40:48 - Resident Evil's Umbrella Corporation and Covid-19
42:16 - Corrupted Blood - A virus sweeps through the World of Warcraft MMORPG
Music by Fanette Ronjat
More Info:
Video Game Conspiracy Theories by TheHairyGamer (Michael Carter)
The Best Video Game Urban Legends Ever in IGN Southeast Asia
20 Video Game Myths, Conspiracy Theories, and Urban Legends to Celebrate Halloween
10 Video Game Conspiracy Theories You'll Start To Believe
10 Video Games Myths & Conspiracies to Keep You Up at Night
30 Video Game Urban Legends: Are They True Or False? on 80s Kids
How Many People Has the Berzerk Arcade Game Killed?
Berzerk: The Killer Arcade Game? on Little Bits of Gaming
Video Game Related Deaths
Pokémon: What Is Lavender Town Syndrome (& Is It Real?) on ScreenRant
Did the 'Madden' cover curse strike again?
The covers of the Madden video game on NFL.com
Secrets & Lies on GamePro
Computerspiele in der DDR (in German)
The Story Of Killswitch, The Creepy Game No-One Has Ever Played on Kotaku
Gamebusters myth 8: KILLSWITCH on GotGame
Polybius on CoinOp.org
Sinnesloschen webpage
Reinvestigating Polybius on RetroBitch
The Polybius Conspiracy on Vimeo
Polybius mockup by Rogue Synapse
Morava Academy on WWASP Survivors
Polybius Conspiracy podcast
Drowned God page on Harry Horse website
Aliens, conspiracy theories, and a forged diary inspired one of the weirdest games of the '90s on PC Gamer
Drowned God on Hardcore Gaming 101
Bandersnatch IRL: Harry Horse & "Drowned God: Conspiracy of the Ages" in /blackmirror/ Reddit forum
Gamespot interview with Harry Horse
Reality check: Microsoft, David Bowie, Bill Gates, and a creepy video game called ‘Omikron’
Fact check: 1999 'Omikron' video game has no connection to pandemic, Bill Gates
Plaguelands.. - 2005 article on Corrupted Blood Incident
'Virtual' Virus Sheds Light on Real-World Behavior on NPR
The researchers who once studied WoW's Corrupted Blood plague are now fighting the coronavirus on PC Gamer
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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