Conspiracy Clearinghouse
A rather skeptical look at conspiracies and mysteries. Each episode will examine conspiracy theories, most of which are not true, a few of which might be a little bit true and even a couple that turned out, in fact, to be true. This is the podcast that dares to look behind the curtain that’s behind the curtain. Episodes every other Wednesday.
Episodes

Wednesday Apr 14, 2021
UFOs in Czecho
Wednesday Apr 14, 2021
Wednesday Apr 14, 2021
EPISODE 30 | UFOs in Czecho
Guest: Sam Beckwith, editor of Prague Pig
Today Conspiracy Clearinghouse celebrates one year of delving into the weird, so we thought we'd celebrate by doing a crossover episode with our sister podcast Prague Times. The UFO thing is not exclusively an American phenomenon, and even here in the Czech Republic, where we're based, there have been plenty of reports and reactions.
Prague-based journalist Sam Beckwith takes us through the most famous UFO sightings in the area (some going back centuries), how the Communists dealt with reports of strange craft, citizen-led initiatives, the Czech Silver Men, a UFO church and more. This is a special crossover episode with our sister podcast, Prague Times.
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SECTIONS
02:00 - UFOs as cultural phenomenon, as narratives
07:50 - Projekt Záře
09:30 - Vranov nad Dyjí - the most famous Czech sighting
13:55 - A saucer too far - Communists hate mysteries, Nazi UFO in Prague
16:27 - Centuries of sightings - flaming wheels, time-displaced tanks
20:19 - Slatiny, 1938, the Číhošť Miracle, Loose lips get you killed
22:21 - Ostružná Nová Ves - a teeny spacecraft that sucks, Miličín - balls and figures in Czech Siberia, Don't call me stupid
26:55 - Aliens tour our spa towns, The summer of '93 - sightings all over, including Svitavy
31:13 - The Silver Men (Stříbrňáci)
33:14 - Crop circles, Fidel's cigars, Are you normal?
37:19 - Universe People (Vesmírní lidé sil světla) - a Czech and Slovak UFO church
39:16 - Ashtar Galactic Command
41:44 - The Spooky Book and other Czech Forteana (coming soon!)
Music by Fanette Ronjat
More on these topics
Prague Pig
Prague Pig on Facebook
Projekt Záře
Gort
Universe People website
Universe People Wikipedia page
Prague Times: HERE - Blood on the Snow: Czech Holiday Traditions w/Peter Collman
Prague Times: HERE - Ghosts in Prague with Raymond Johnston
Prague Times: HERE - 13 More Ghost Stories with Raymond Johnston
Prague Times podcast
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Tuesday Mar 30, 2021
The Notorious M.I.B.
Tuesday Mar 30, 2021
Tuesday Mar 30, 2021
EPISODE 29 | The Notorious M.I.B.
One of the most sinister UFO-related phenomena - the Men in Black. Sure, they dress like the Blues Brothers, but they are super creepy and often menacing. And also pretty ineffective. And while they may have been created wholesale by a hoaxer, people have been reporting, and even photographing, them for years.
We're releasing this episode a day early to confound the MIBs.
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SECTIONS
02:51 - First mention of the Men in Black
03:26 - The Uncanny Valley
05:18 - Beam Me Down, Bender - Albert Bender learns a thing or two
09:02 - Gray Barker - The man behind the myth?
12:03 - More Than a Few M.I.B.s
12:22 - John H. Stuart in New Zealand
13:20 - What detergent do you use? - Paul Miller's luminous silo
15:38 - The Solway Firth Spaceman - M.I.B.s #9 and #10 (or maybe #11)
18:43 - An M.I.B. gets random - Rex Heflin gets a lesson on the Bermuda Triangle
20:57 - I hope you have insurance - Robert Richardson has a crash
23:09 - I'm surrounded! - Carlos de Santos has a flyby
26:08 - Nothing up my sleeve - Herbert Hopkins sees a magic trick
29:05 - Mind yer business - UFO researchers get targeted
30:10 - More Recent M.I.B.s - Dan Aykroyd gets cancelled
33:01 - Niagara Falls and the Tale of Jack & Jeff (note: the website Out There with Ted has gone away since the recording of this episode - make of that what you will)
41:32 - John Keel on the Trail - another comprehensive (yet incomplete) theory & ultraterrestrials
Music by Fanette Ronjat
More on this topic
Signs, Grudges & Blue Books - Early UFOlogy
World Contact Day
Robotics' Uncanny Valley Gets New Translation in LiveScience
10 Creepy Examples of the Uncanny Valley on Stranger Dimensions
They knew too much about flying saucers by Gray Barker
Flying Saucers and the Three Men by Gray Barker and Albert Bender
Gray Barker books
Gray Barker: My Friend, The Myth-Maker in Skeptical Inquirer
"Whispers from Space" 1995 documentary
"Shades of Gray" 2009 documentary
UFO Warning by John H. Stuart
Flying Saucers - Serious Business by Frank Edwards
"The Shenandoah Experiment" Indiegogo page
John Keel books
Operation Trojan Horse by John Keel
Back in Black: BEKs, Black Helicopters, Black Knight & More
Disneyland of the Gods by John Keel
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Wednesday Mar 17, 2021
Back in Black: BEKs, Black Helicopters, Black Knight & More
Wednesday Mar 17, 2021
Wednesday Mar 17, 2021
EPISODE 28 | Back in Black: BEKs, Black Helicopters, Black Knight & More
Black is the new black. We in the West sure seem to have an issue with this darkest of dark shades. It often symbolizes nefarious things, especially in the conspiracy world. Black is the colour of my true love's hair, but it's also the colour of evil black-eyed children, Soviet cars, sinister black helicopters, mysterious secret aircraft and alien satellites.
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SECTIONS
02:32 - Black-Eyed Kids (BEKs) - starts in the UK?
06:49 - starts in the US?
09:59 - Creepypasta & urban legends
12:42 - Black dogs, the woman in black
14:41 - Black Volgas - scary Soviet sedans
18:05 - Look, Up in the Sky!
18:17 - Black Helicopters - the New World Order, the Apocalypse & the Quadrant Sign Code
29:49 - Aurora, Stealth Bombers & Black Aircraft at Groom Lake
33:27 - The Blackstar
35:34 - The Black Knight Satellite - Aliens above us
Music by Fanette Ronjat
More on these topics
UFO's Werewolves & The Pig-Man: Exposing England's Strangest Location - Cannock Chase by Lee Brickley
The Black Eyed Child of Cannock Chase by Lee Brickley
Those Darned Black-Eyed Kids by Brian Bethel original post
Now You See It, Now You Don't - Finland Doesn't Exist episode (post-modern irony)
The black oil in The X-Files
Village of the Damned (1960) trailer
Black Volga Wikipedia page
The Late Great Planet Earth by Hal Lindsey
The Late, Great Planet Earth film trailer
Left Behind book series
America Under Siege film by Linda Thompson
Jump Into the Fire scene from "Goodfellas"
Black Helicopters over America: Strikeforce for the New World Order by Jim Keith
Black Helicopters II: The End Game Strategy by Jim Keith
Harold Green website on helicopters, quadrat sign code, FEMA and more
Harold Green on secret quadrant code in public signage
Texxe Mars website on UN takeover plot
Time Cube - Four Is the Loneliest Number episode
Trailer for "Blue Thunder"
Trailer for "Capricorn One"
Trailer for "Escape from New York"
Deus Ex game series
The Truth About Black Helicopters (Lyle Zapato site - worth checking out)
President Obama on the WTF podcast
Signs, Grudges & Blue Books - Early UFOlogy episode
The US Secret Black Airplans (sic) (WhoRunThe World website)
Blackstar: the US space conspiracy that never was? on The Register
The Flying Saucers Are Real by Donald Keyhoe
Leap of Faith: An Astronaut's Journey Into the Unknown by Gordon Cooper
The Truth About the Black Knight Satellite Conspiracy Theory in Popular Mechanics
Video footage of Black Night Satellite (supposedly)
VALIS by Philip K. Dick
VALIS by PKD full audio book
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Wednesday Mar 03, 2021
Walk Into My Parlour: Early UFO Abductions
Wednesday Mar 03, 2021
Wednesday Mar 03, 2021
EPISODE 27 | Walk Into My Parlour: Early UFO Abductions
For several decades, people have been claiming that they've not only seen aliens in spaceships, they've been taken by them. And the aliens...did things to them. We'll look at some notable cases as well as false memory syndrome, sleep paralysis and alien abduction insurance.
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SECTIONS
02:35 - Intro: Pop culture holds the seeds of the abduction movement
03:32 - Paleo-Abductions - early reports, mainly
05:38 - AVB (Antônio Villas Boas, 1957)
09:55 - The Hill Abduction (Barney & Betty Hill, 1961)
15:33 - Private Investigations - the Hills ask for help, Betty has dreams
21:06 - Going Public & Going Under - the Hills share their story & try hypnosis
26:06 - The press gets the story & unwanted fame is the result
28:18 - School teacher Marjorie Fish works on the star map
30:19 - Ripples in the Pond - the Hills & pop culture, the Travis Walton abduction
32:44 - Possible explanations & legacy of the Hill case
35:27 - You Are Getting Sleepy - Budd Hopkins, the alien abduction industry & making babies
44:25 - Alien abduction insurance, polls & more
Music by Fanette Ronjat
More on this topic:
See some pictures and related videos on our YouTube channel
Conspiracy Clearinghouse episode Signs, Grudges & Blue Books - Early UFOlogy
Flying Saucers are Real by Donald Keyhoe
Flying Saucers: Top Secret by Donald Keyhoe
NICAP - National Investigations Committee on Aerial Phenomena
CIA document about NICAP
Barney and Betty Hill Memorials in Lincoln, NH
The Interrupted Journey: Two Lost Hours Aboard a Flying Saucer by John Fuller
Barney Hill on To Tell the Truth
A Common Sense Approach to UFOs by Betty Hill
Marjorie Fish's interpretation of Betty Hill's star map
The Zeta Reticuli (or Ridiculi) Incident in Astronomy Magazine
The UFO Incident 1975 TV movie
The UFO Incident full movie on YouTube
Fire in the Sky 1993 film
Dark Skies TV series
A look at the Hill case in an obsessive amount of detail by Nielsen Hayden
Article on what the Hills may have seen
"The Bellero Shield" episode of Outer Limits
Invaders from Mars 1953 trailer
Captured! The Betty and Barney Hill UFO Experience by Stanton Friedman
Mutual UFO Network (MUFON)
Article on Bergen, NJ UFO sighting
Ethical Implications of the UFO Abduction Phenomenon by Budd Hopkins
Budd Hopkins books
Healthline article on false memory syndrome
WebMD article on sleep paralysis
Alien abduction insurance
More alien abduction insurance
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Wednesday Feb 17, 2021
Come On Vaccine! Vaccine Hesitancy & You
Wednesday Feb 17, 2021
Wednesday Feb 17, 2021
EPISODE 26 | Come On Vaccine! Vaccine Hesitancy & You
Science marches on, eradicating debilitating diseases (among other things). However, there have always been some who are skeptical, or even downright hostile, to this. There are lots of reasons: maybe God wants your kid to get sick, the ingredients used are harmful and/or weird, or they have terrible side effects, like giving children autism; turning them into half-man, half-cow hybrids or making making males become homosexuals. Or maybe there are teeny, tiny mind control devices in them.
Or maybe all of these things are true. When you decide that science doesn't matter, and there's no such things as a fact, it's sort of a free for all of superstition and suspicion.
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SECTIONS
02:00 - A quick overview of the situation
04:03 - Don't Have a Cow! The smallpox vaccine starts it all
08:12 - The Hospital of Dr. Moreau - Benjamin Moseley & others
11:04 - DPT (diphtheria, pertussis [whooping cough] & tetanus) - Vaccine Roulette & Dravet Syndrome
15:01 - How to Make a Vaccine
18:39 - The 'Vid - How we got vaccines so fast
22:16 - MMR (measles, mumps, and rubella [German measles]) - (Former Dr.) Andrew Wakefield & the seeds of the modern anti-vax movement
25:23 - Pointing fingers at anti-vax celebrities - a not-quite-complete list
28:55 - Tweedle-dee's Logic - Some reasons for vaccine hesitancy
29:51 - Bubble, Bubble, Toil and Trouble - Ingredients - Icky, weird, deadly stuff
33:19 - Heard of Herd Immunity? - A little knowledge is a dangerous thing
36:11 - Mother Nature Knows Best - Post-modern snake oil
37:12 - Big Pharma Wants You - It's all about the Benjamins
38:39 - Cloud-Cuckoo Land - The "out there" conspiracy theories & truly spotty logic
40:47 - Repercussions - Vaccine hesitancy affects us all
45:13 - Cutting Through the Noise - 18 steps for talking to the vaccine hesitant
Music by Fanette Ronjat
More on this topic:
Vaccine Hesitancy: Causes, Consequences, and a Call to Action in the American Journal of Preventative Medicine
The golden age of anti-vaccine conspiracies in GERMS
Anti-Vaccine and COVID-19 Conspiracy Theories: A Perfect Storm in Psychology Today
The 200-Year History of the Anti-Vaxxer Movement: From 'Cowpox Face' to Autism Claims in Newsweek
What’s in a Name? Or, Will Vaccination Turn Your Children into Cows? on the History of Vaccines website
DPT: Vaccine Roulette - 1982 NBC documentary
A Shot in the Dark by H. Coulter
Dravet Syndrome entry of Vaxopedia
Coronavirus: Operation Warp Speed US Dept. of Defense website
Vaccines: The Basics on the CDC website
Making Vaccines: How Are Vaccines Made? on the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia website
How Are Vaccines Made and Why Do They Work? on PKID website
What Is the Difference Between Immunization and Vaccination? on Very Well Health
The online anti-vaccine movement in the age of COVID-19 in The Lancet
The MMR vaccine and autism: Sensation, refutation, retraction, and fraud in The Indian Journal of Psychiatry
Book review in Nature for The Doctor Who Fooled the World by Brian Deer
Callous Disregard: Autism and Vaccines--The Truth Behind a Tragedy, Andrew Wakefield's discredited book
New Zealand Immunisation Advisory Centre Information for Parents about the film "Vaxxed: From Cover-up to catastrophe
We watched the movie ‘Vaxxed’ so you don’t have to article on StatNews
7 things about vaccines and autism that the movie ‘Vaxxed’ won’t tell you in The Washington Post
Trailer for "The Pathological Optimist" 2017 documentary
The Anti-vaccination Movement: A Regression in Modern Medicine in Cureus
Anti-Vaccine Celebrities Have Inordinate Amount of Influence on the Pharmacy Times
New World Order episodes of Conspiracy Clearinghouse on YouTube
Robert F. Kennedy's Children's Health Defense website
Natural herd immunity should not be used as a means of pandemic control on The BMJ Opinion website
The false promise of herd immunity for COVID-19 in Nature
COVID-19 anti-vaxxers use the same arguments from 135 years ago on The Conversation
Seven ways to talk to anti-vaxxers (that might actually change their minds) on HealthyDebate.ca
Best practice guidance: How to respond to vocal vaccine deniers in public paper by the World Health Organization
Inside the Mind of an Anti-vaxxer in The Atlantic
Book announcement for Anti-vaxxers - How to Challenge a Misinformed Movement by Johnathan M. Berman
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Wednesday Feb 03, 2021
The Dyatlov Pass Incident: More Than a UFO Story (The World Is Weird 4)
Wednesday Feb 03, 2021
Wednesday Feb 03, 2021
EPISODE 25 | The Dyatlov Pass Incident: More Than a UFO Story (The World Is Weird 4)
People love mysteries but also hate them. Unanswered questions drive us crazy, especially when the stakes are high. Like when someone dies. Or when nine people die on the side of a mountain in the dead of winter, found in various states on undress, with unexplainable wounds and missing body parts. The strange and provocative events of the Dyatlov Pass Incident have kept UFOlogists, cryptozoologists and people who just distrust the government very busy for the past 62 years.
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SECTIONS
01:45 - The Dyatlov Pass Incident - The strange facts (who, where, when and what)
07:59 - CSI: Dead Mountain - Theories (avalanche, snow slab, katabatic wind, fight, animals, the official cause)
13:47 - Mullerovich & Scullina: Russia's Own X-File (UFOs, weapons test, gulag escape, infrasound, assassination, Russian Yeti)
21:31 - Smells like a cover up?
22:36 - But Wait, There's More! - An Enduring Mystery (The 2015-19 investigation, a new explanation, victim shaming, blogger Valentin Degterev, films & books)
27:58 - Man vs. Wild - Bad things can happen out there
Music by Fanette Ronjat
NOTE: to see pictures from the hikers and investigation, check out the video version of this episode on our YouTube channel
More about this incident:
Original investigation files, in English
An outrageously comprehensive website by Teodora Hadjiyska (in English)
Dead Mountain: The Untold True Story of the Dyatlov Pass Incident by Donnie Eichar
Russian Yeti: The Killer Lives
"Devil's Pass" Variety review
Dyatlov Pass, the Story by Anna Matveeva in Ural magazine (in Russian)
City of Exiles by Alec Nevala-Lee
Kholat - Polish survival horror game inspired by these events
Mountain of the Dead by Keith McClosky
Death of Nine: The Dyatlov Pass Mystery by Launton Anderson
Yuba County Five Wikipedia page
National Geographic article that came out less than a week before this episode
The Dyatlov Pass Incident - a website
A truly wild website by a possibly mentally ill person about the Dyatlov incident, filled with a number of rants & theories, lots of pictures and some truly offbeat video embeds (like Obama and Putin having breakfast, the closing ceremony of the Sochi Olympic games, clips from John Carpenter's "The Thing" and the Russian Red Army Choir singing "The Song of the Volga Boatmen" in 1965 ). Multiple pages - check them all out.
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Wednesday Jan 20, 2021
Agenda 21: This Land Is My Land
Wednesday Jan 20, 2021
Wednesday Jan 20, 2021
EPISODE 24 | Agenda 21: This Land Is My Land
A secret international elite plans to depopulate much of the earth, and enslave the rest of it. We know because they keep publishing papers about it. Like Agenda 21, a set of environmental goals created in 1992 and pretty much ignored ever since. This is really a declaration of war against freedom and the first step in the global takeover. And it starts with your land.
Yes, the New World Order is back, and this time it's about real estate, national parks and affordable housing led by internationalists who are Communists and/or Nazis and/or homosexuals.
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SECTIONS
02:03 - What is Agenda 21?
06:05 - Eeeek! The New World Order!! - Birchers, Glenn Beck & the RNC
11:22 - Same As It Ever Was - Environmentalism is un-American
12:49 - The Wise Use Movement - When industrialists & off-roaders party together
14:19 - The Sagebrush Rebellion - Greed & land use
15:51 - Watt a Jerk - James Watt was a huge tool
17:34 - Keep on Truckin' - So where's that NWO, anyway?
18:15 - Building Back Better
19:49 - Soylent Green Is People! - Useless eaters & depopulation (chemtrails, war, & COVID-19)
26:10 - The Great Reset
29:55 - The Birchers keep the faith
31:25 - The Only Thing to Fear Is Fear Itself - A Mad Libs of paranoia, Ted Cruz & the Tea Party
Music by Fanette Ronjat
LAPSUS LINGUAE:
I say that the book Wise Use Agenda was by Ron Arnold. It was actually edited by Alan Gottlieb, but grew out of a a conference held by Arnold and Gottlieb.
Referenced in this episode:
Agenda 21 text
Project Blue Beam - Abandon Hope All Ye Who Research Here
Fright Delays - Denver Airport Is the Nexus of Evil
The Birchers think global warming is caused by earthquakes
Glenn Beck's Agenda 21 keyword list
The Anti-Environmentalist Roots of the Agenda 21 Conspiracy Theory
Excerpts from the Wise Use Agenda book
Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015-2030
One of the many United States of Africa FB pages, but with a MAGA twist
Agenda 21, The Plan To Kill You by David Icke - video
Agenda 21 comic on Grist.com
The Great Reset website by the World Economic Forum
USAPP article from 2014 on the Tea Party's anti-environmentalism
Agenda 21: The UN, Sustainability and Right-Wing Conspiracy Theory on SPLC
Conspiracy Theorists Are Obsessed With the Wrong ‘New World Order’ on The Nation
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Wednesday Jan 06, 2021
Signs, Grudges & Blue Books: Early UFOlogy
Wednesday Jan 06, 2021
Wednesday Jan 06, 2021
EPISODE 23 | Signs, Grudges & Blue Books: Early UFOlogy
Hidden inside the new COVID relief bill is a mandate for US Congress to be fully briefed on UFOs, so it might be worth it to take a look at the early days of UFO sightings and American investigative efforts.
And tomorrow is the anniversary of the Mantell UFO Incident, called by some the first UFO-related death on record. But is it? Depends on who you believe.
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SECTIONS
03:06 - The Mantell UFO Incident - January 7, 1948
07:13 - Suspicions Are Raised
08:51 - The Chiles-Whitted UFO Encounter - July 24, 1948
10:47 - The Gorman UFO Dogfight - October 1, 1948
16:50 - Early Days - UFOs 1883-1947 - cows in space, racist aliens, dead aliens & Foo Fighters
21:47 - Maury Is. & Mt. Rainier - June 1947 - origin of "flying saucers" & "Men in Black"
25:17 - SAUCER to Sign; Great (Green) Balls of Fire - Investigations & green fireballs
29:47 - Grudge Match
32:23 - Sidebar: The Kelly-Hopkinsville Encounter - August 21, 1955: origin of "little green men"
38:04 - The Golden Age of Blue Book - Origin of "UFO" plus the Hynek Scale
39:56 - The Robertson Panel puts a lid on it
42:14 - End of an Era - Blue Book dies, "UFO" into "UAP", AATIP dies, UAPTF ongoing
Music by Fanette Ronjat
Referenced in this episode:
US government documents on Mantell Incident
The UFO Phenomenon: The Phenomenon from the Beginning by Jerome Clark (out of print)
The Bonilla Observation
The 1897 Cow Abduction Hoax
Ned - The Aurora Alien
Aurora Texas 1897 UFO Crash: The Real Story? by Stan Haydon
Mysterious UFOs Seen by WWII Airman Still Unexplained on History.com
Ängelholm UFO Memorial
‘Flying saucers’ became a thing 70 years ago Saturday with sighting near Mount Rainier - Seattle Times
UFOs Over Washington article on spokesman.com
The UFO Sightings That Launched 'Men in Black' Mythology on History.com
Report on Project Mogul
Mystery of Green Fireball 'UFOs' Solved on Live Science
Project Twinkle SlideShare presentation
The Kelly-Hopkinsville UFO and Alien Shootout by George Dudding
Little Green Men Days Festival website
Project Blue Book Part 1 (UFO Reports) by Dr. Deborah Kidwell, OSI Command Historian
The Hynek-Scale Is A Six Item System For Classifying UFO Sightings And Alien Contact (Astronomy)
Durant Report on the Robertson Panel
The Report On Unidentified Flying Objects by Edward J. Ruppelt, former head of Project Blue Book
To the Stars... Academy
Article on creation of UAPTF
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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.

Wednesday Dec 23, 2020
Jingle H*lls: The War on Xmas
Wednesday Dec 23, 2020
Wednesday Dec 23, 2020
EPISODE 22 | Jingle Hells: The War on Xmas
Some members of the largest religion in the world, over 2.4 billion people, somehow feel aggrieved or under siege, especially when it comes to one of their most important holidays. We're talking about Christians and Christmas, and the narrative that claims there's a concerted effort to destroy the celebration of Jesus' birth. Who? Depends on who you talk to. Communists, or Jehovah's Witnesses, or 7th Day Adventists, or Puritans, or Jews, or Muslims, or Black people, or atheists, or some combination of these groups.
This episode traces the notion of a "war on Christmas" back to its beginnings and looks at some periods in history when the holiday was not only not celebrated but was actually illegal. And many of the modern trappings of Christmas are, in fact, quite recent innovations in a long story.
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SECTIONS
02:30 - Winter Wonderland - Winter Celebrations of All Kinds
06:18 - Jolly Old St. Nicholas - Different Ways of Celebrating
07:22 - Colonel Sanders is Santa Claus
08:24 - Nicholas of Mira was a Greek, Born in Turkey, and an Interesting Guy
10:06 - Fairytale of New York - Birth of Modern Christmas Tropes: A Poem, a Dutch Connection, Washington Irving, Thomas Nast & Jeff the Puppet
11:40 - Santa is a New Yorker, an Address, Oz, Advertising, Howard's Santa School
13:15 - Rudolph the Commie Reindeer - The John Birch Society Kicks Things Off
15:13 - Peter Brimelow - the Immigrant Who Hates Immigrants
16:47 - Little Culture War Drummer Boy - Papa Bear Sees an Opportunity
18:14 - Language & Laws, Companies Caught in the Culture War, X-Rated Xmas
22:37 - Walking in a Puritan Wonderland - Christmas Was Outlawed in England & the New World Colonies, by Christians
24:23 - Santa Claus Won't be Coming to Town - The Unpopular Holiday Was Revived by a Poem & Charles Dickens, with Mixed Results; After WWII, Religions Returns
26:55 - Baby, It's Cold Outside - No Christmas in Revolutionary France, Communist Nations, Nazi Territory, Cuba Prefers Sugar to Santa, Brunei & the Saudis Barely Tolerate It
30:02 - The 12 Plots of Christmas (or Xmas) - Santa Is Satan, Santa's a Cannibal, Elf on a Shelf is CIA, Climate Changers Hate Jesus
32:11 - Poinsettias Are Racist
33:40 - These Are a Few of My Favourite Things - Conspiracies Get Commoditized, the Advent Conspiracy
Music by Fanette Ronjat
LAPSUS LINGUAE:
I mispronounce the name for the Greek letter "X", because I don't speak Greek. I also stumble over the word "Walmart".
Referenced in this episode:
Why rich New Yorkers created Santa Claus at Business Insider
The War on Christmas: How the Liberal Plot to Ban the Sacred Christian Holiday Is Worse Than You Thought by John Gibson
Christmas in the Crosshairs: Two Thousand Years of Denouncing and Defending the World's Most Celebrated Holiday by Gerry Bowler
The Elf on the Shelf by Chanda A. Aebersold & Carol V. Bell
Some Conspiracy-Themed Christmas Ornaments
The Advent Conspiracy
Living Water International
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Other Podcasts by Derek DeWitt
DIGITAL SIGNAGE DONE RIGHT - Winner of 2020 Communicator Award of Excellence for Podcasts Series-Corporate Communications and on numerous top 10 podcast lists.
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.

Wednesday Dec 09, 2020
The Knights Templar (Big ‘Uns 2)
Wednesday Dec 09, 2020
Wednesday Dec 09, 2020
EPISODE 21 | The Knights Templar (Big 'Uns 2)
They were the most powerful group in Medieval Europe, and then they vanished. Who were the Templars? Warrior-priests with good patronage? Keepers of the Holy Grail and other mystical secrets? Blasphemous gay Satan worshiping freaks? All of the above?
For centuries, people have claimed to have figured out the secrets of the Knights Templar and what they were really up to. This is one of the big 'uns.
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SECTIONS
02:00 - The Fellowship of the Temple - Nine Guys Kick It All Off in Jerusalem
07:21 - Growth Hacking - Bigger & Better, Banking & Big Bosses
12:12 - Rivalries & Accusations - Philip IV of France, Jacques de Molay, Medieval Fake News & the Chinon Parchment
18:58 - Wheat from the Chaff - Follow the Money....Oh, Wait, Where Is it All?
21:29 - Holy Grail, Holy Smokes! - Hammer-Purgstall, the Cathars, Joséphin Péladan, Otto Rahn and More
26:11 - Everybody Traces to the Templars - Freemasons, Rosicrucians, Illuminati and Order of the Knights of Christ in Santarém, Portugal
29:12 - Many Mysteries - Alchemy, Immortality, America, the Ark of the Covenant, Jesus' Bloodline, Telephone to God, the Ultimate Battle between Good & Evil, Other Worlds, Alien Tech, Other Dimensions
30:34 - The Templars Today - Harmless: "National Treasure", Assassin's Creed; Not So Harmless: Knight Templar UK, Siol nan Gaidheal, Knights Templar Europe, Anders Breivik
Music by Fanette Ronjat
LAPSUS LINGUAE:
I slipped when saying the name "Bruce Burgess" for some reason (maybe I was drunk?) and may or may not have mispronounced "Siol nan Gaidheal" but that's because I just don't care and couldn't even be bothered to check. Finally, I mention the Portuguese templars in Santarém but should also have mentioned their huge church and base in Tomar.
Referenced in this episode:
The Templar Treasure: An Investigation by Tobias Daniel Wabbel
Hammer-Purgstall and Baphomet
The Cathars on Ancient History Encyclopedia
Joséphin Péladan Wikipedia page
Otto Rahn And The Nazi Crusade For The Holy Grail by Andrew Milne
Otto Rahn And The Quest For The Grail by Nigel Graddon
Holy Blood, Holy Grail by Michael Baigent, Richard Leigh and Henry Lincoln
The Woman with the Alabaster Jar: Mary Magdalen and the Holy Grail by Margaret Starbird
The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown
Trailer for "Bloodline" by Bruce Burgess
The Messianic Legacy by Michael Baigent, Richard Leigh and Henry Lincoln
The Temple and the Lodge: The Strange and Fascinating History of the Knights Templar and the Freemasons by Michael Baigent and Richard Leigh
De Occulta Philosophia (in German) by Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa von Nettesheim
Rosicrucian.org
The Illuminati - Bavarian Brouhaha
History of the Order of Christ Wikipedia page
Alt-right claims to march in step with the Knights Templar – this is fake history
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Other Podcasts by Derek DeWitt
DIGITAL SIGNAGE DONE RIGHT - Winner of 2020 Communicator Award of Excellence for Podcasts Series-Corporate Communications and on numerous top 10 podcast lists.
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.