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The Illuminati: Brouhaha in Bavaria (Big ’Uns 1)

EPISODE 18| The Illuminati: Bavarian Brouhaha (Big 'Uns 1)
The first major conspiracy theory of the modern age is the tale of the Illuminati. Started in Bavaria by a power-hungry professor with poor social skills, it has become one of the overarching theories of our times. This is one of the Big 'Uns.
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01:37 - Origin Story - Johann Adam Weishaupt: Lawyer, Professor, Empiricist, Jerk
04:21 - The Illuminati Kicks Off, Grows Quickly
06:45 - Trouble in Paradise - Dissention in the Ranks, Rumours Abound
12:32 - Voulez-vous la paranoïa avec moi? - Augustin Barruel & John Robison Blame the Illuminati for the French Revolution
15:33 - It Ain't Over Till It's Over - Rulers Overreact & Cause the Spring of Nations, Nesta Helen Webster & Edith Starr Miller Revive the Rumours Between World Wars, the Birchers Chime In, the Principia Discordia Is Totally Misunderstood and People Confuse Them with the Freemasons
18:12 - Some Musicians think Behold a Pale Horse is a Non-Fiction Book, Many Famous People May Are Illuminati, Carpetbaggers & Scammers Take Over the Name
22:03 - The Idea of the Illuminati is Certainly Widespread, Maybe Part of the New World Order
Music by Fanette Ronjat
AN EXTRA TREAT for people who actually read these episode notes: open your browser and type in "www." then the word "illuminati" backwards, then ".com". You will be very surprised. Someone at that organization sure has a sense of humour! Thanks to our friend Debra Richardson for telling us about this! 
Referenced in this episode:
Behold a Pale Horse by Milton William Cooper
Project Blue Beam - Abandon Hope All Ye Who Research Here
The Illuminati in Hollywood by Mark Dice
"Footloose"
Illuminati Watcher website
The Illuminati Elite website (with a help line in Uganda!)
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Project Blue Beam: Abandon Hope All Ye Who Research Here

EPISODE 17 | Project Blue Beam: Abandon Hope All Ye Who Research Here
What do you get for the conspiracy theorist who has everything? How about a conspiracy theory that has everything? Project Blue Beam has it all - a bleak techno-apocalypse that culminates in the enslavement of most of humanity by demons pretending to be god and/or aliens, with the help of NASA, the Masons, Microsoft, Greenpeace, the IMF and many more.
Dig in to the all-you-can-eat buffet of horror and doom that is Project Blue Beam.
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02:11 - The Canadian Father of the Theory (Serge Monast) & Blue Beam in the Wild (Blue Beam Is Becoming the Unified Conspiracy Theory - a Paranoia Minestrone)
04:40 - Here Come the Bastards - an Outline of Blue Beam
05:40 - Phase 1: Indiana Jones & the Temple of Lies (Earthquakes & Archeology)
06:33 - Phase 2: It's a Bird, It's a Plane, It's Shiva! (Holograms, Gods, Demons & Beethoven)
09:40 - Phase 3: Can You Hear Me Now? (Russian Supercomputers, Radio Waves & Kitty Dukakis)
11:11 - Phase 4: Welcome to the Machine (the Night of 1000 Stars, the Apocalypse, Aliens & Technology)
14:05 - Big Brother Has Always Loved You (A Series of Tests & Judgements)
15:31 - Consistently Inconsistent - What's God Got to Say About All This? How About Other Writers?
18:35 - Serge Might Have Been Inspired by Others
20:19 - Serge Might Have Been Inspired by Science Fiction Movies & TV Shows
22:23 - Serge's End, and Abandon All Hope
Music by Fanette Ronjat
Referenced in this episode: 
Time Cube - Four Is the Loneliest Number
Serge's original Blue Beam book (in French)
Serge's Blue Beam book in English
Transcript of a 1994 (?) talk Serge gave
A Collection of Blue Beam writings (on Geocities!)
Project Blue Beam - The Quest For A New World Order And The Rule Of The Antichrist
Project Blue Beam False Flag - Coming soon to a sky near you
Project Blue Beam: Remember It's a Lie, also by Jay Jericho, as a SlideShare presentation
UPDATE: Jay Jericho's Free School website is down and has been replaced with the much-better-organized (but much less entertaining) website Journalist Ethics. Same material, though.
Books by Commander William Guy Carr
Behold a Pale Horse by Milton William Cooper
The Visions and Circles of Power by Betty J. Mills
Gene Roddenberry: The Myth and the Man Behind "Star Trek"
Fan page about Roddenberry's unproduced script "The God Thing"
Books by Serge Monast
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Studies & Signals: Insights into the Conspiracy Mindset (Because Reasons 4)

Episode 16 | Studies & Signals: Insights into the Conspiracy Mindset (Because Reasons 4)
Guest: John Poston, Theatrical Artist & Writer
We talk about the origins of some clichés about conspiracy folks, as well as some actual scientific studies about the mindset. We also deftly use Star Trek as a metaphor for the brain. And some questionnaires you can take at home to find out just how conspiracy-minded you are yourself. A lot of what you think you know about conspiracy theorists is probably wrong. But some of it is right.
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01:28 - Conspiracy Folks Are People
02:47 - The Tin Foil Hat
03:47 - The Lunatic Fringe & The Paranoid Style in American Politics by Richard Hofstadter
04:50 - The Conspiracy Mentality Questionnaire (CMQ) (2013)
07:57 - Some Findings of the CMQ
08:58 - The Generic Conspiracist Beliefs Scale (GCBS) (2013)
13:51 - Three Studies: Analytic thinking reduces belief in conspiracy theories - Viren Swami, Martin Voracek, Stefan Stieger, Ulrich S. Tran & Adrian Furnham
16:55 - Star Trek as a Metaphor for the Brain's Information Processing Systems, the First Study
20:37 - The Second Study - the First Evidence that Analytic Thinking Might Reduce Conspiracy-Mindedness 
22:11 - The Third Study
23:47 - People Tend to Silo, Emotional Gratification is Key, Tribal Signaling 
25:42 - Hofstadter Oversimplified Things, Social Media Is Also Tribe Signaling, Humans Have a Big White of the Eye, Film Actors Have Big Bobble Heads
27:52 - Conspiracy Thinkers Are Not Necessarily Tin Foil Hatters
How conspiracy-minded are YOU? Take the GCBS yourself!
Music by Fanette Ronjat
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October Surprise: Fact or Fiction? (The World Is Weird 3)

Episode 15 | October Surprise: Fact or Fiction? (The World Is Weird 3)
Is it commonplace for a big event that sways things to happen in presidential election years in the U.S? Maybe. We'll look at the 18 "October Surprises" in US presidential electoral history, encountering smear attempts, false charges, false claims, outright lies, political chaos, boozing, racism, homophobia, financial collapse brought about by unchecked rampant greed and really bad weather brought about by terminal shortsightedness and the politicization of literally everything. Sort of a greatest hits of the very worst things America expresses. 
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03:33 - WHAT DID I MISS? THE REVOLUTION OF 1800 - Adams (Federalist) vs. Jefferson (Democratic-Republican)
05:25 - "ELECTORAL FRAUD" IN 1840 - Van Buren (Democratic) vs. Harrison (Whig)
07:29 - THE CHINESE LETTER OF 1880 - Garfield (Republican) vs. Hancock (Democratic)
09:10 - 1884: DRUNKEN PAPISTS & SLAVEHOLDERS - Cleveland (Democratic) vs. Blaine (Republican)
10:25 - 1912: TOO MANY COOKS - Taft (Republican) vs. T. Roosevelt (Progressive - Bull Moose) vs. Debs [Socialist] vs. Wilson (Democratic)
13:32 - 1920: RACE ENTERS THE RACE - Harding (Republican) vs. Cox (Democratic)
16:17 - 1940: RACE KEEPS ON RACING - F. Roosevelt (Democratic) vs. Willkie (Republican)
17:49 - 1956: SURPRISE FROM ABROAD - Eisenhower (Republican) vs. Stevenson (Democratic)
20:01 - 1964: THE WORLD MAKES NOISE AGAIN - Johnson (Democratic) vs. Goldwater (Republican)
22:02 - 1968: TIT FOR TAT - Humphrey (Democratic) vs. Nixon (Republican) vs. Wallace (Independent)
24:12 - 1972: PEACE IS AT HAND - Nixon (Republican) vs. McGovern (Democratic)
26:33 - 1980: THE ORIGIN OF THE TERM "OCTOBER SURPRISE" - Carter (Democratic) vs. Reagan (Republican)
32:53 - 1992: LIARS & WAFFLES - G. H. W. Bush (Republican) vs. B. Clinton (Democratic) vs. Perot (Independent)
34:24 - 2000: ONE FOR THE ROAD - G. W. Bush (Republican) vs. Gore (Democratic)
36:43 - 2004: THE BUSH BOUNCE - G. W. Bush (Republican) vs. Kerry (Democratic)
38:23 - 2008: AUNTIE O. & THE GFC  - Obama (Democratic) vs. McCain (Republican)
40:44 - 2012: STORM & SLANDER - Obama (Democratic) vs. Romney (Republican)
42:38 - Does It Really Matter?
43:22 - 2016: ANATOMY & EMAILS - Trump (Republican) vs. H. Clinton (Democratic)
46:49 - The News Likes the Idea of an October Surprise. Also, VOTE, DAMMIT.
Music by Fanette Ronjat
Guest vocal by Cinna Bantegnie Ronjat at 34:24 & 36:43
PREVIOUS WORLD IS WEIRD: Mass Hysteria
Referenced in this episode: Episode 05 | 44 for 44 - The Obama Conspiracies (Thanks, Obama!)
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Conspiracy Thinking in Eastern Europe (Because Reasons 3)

Episode 14 | Conspiracy Thinking in Eastern Europe (Because Reasons 3)
Guest: Mark Baker, Journalist & Travel Writer
The cultural and social impact of conspiracy thinking will differ depending on where it's happening. You have to take into account a country's particular history to gain some understanding as to why people in that place react the way they do to serious theories. The authoritarian past many Eastern Bloc countries suffered through can shed a light on how citizens of those countries react to events, or perceived events.
Journalist and travel writer Mark Baker, who's been writing about this part of Europe for a long time, shares some insights on how citizens of some of these countries react to ideas, and the damage they can cause a civil society. He also shares his personal dislike of the whole conspiracy mindset and how he deals with it all.
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02:12 - Coronavirus Conspiracies in Bulgaria & Romania - National Mythmaking & the Media
05:56 - Authoritarian Culture Creates a Conspiracy Breeding Ground
07:09 - The 1989 Romanian Revolution - Popular Uprising or Palace Coup?
12:04 - Conspiracy Theories Breed Apathy & Fatalism
17:07 - Facebook, Russian Troll Farms & a Possible Russian Foundational Myth Born of Conspiracy
21:45 - No One Wants to Feel Naive
Music by Fanette Ronjat
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PREVIOUS BECAUSE REASONS: True Fictions
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Mass Hysteria & Shared Delusions (The World Is Weird 2)

Episode 13 | Mass Hysteria & Shared Delusions (The World Is Weird 2)
Mass hysteria, collective delusions or just people freaking out - whatever you call it, you can't deny that history is filled with reports of people losing it en masse. We'll look at nuns that bite and meow, fainting and twitching schoolchildren, uncontrollable dancing, large scale paranoia, mysterious attacks on windshields and a worldwide epidemic of creepy clown sightings. 
SECTIONS
02:14 - Hysteria: Not Just a "Female Problem"
03:41 - Nunsense: Mass Hysteria in Convents - Biting Nuns, Meowing Nuns
05:59 - The Devils of Loudon
09:08 - School Daze: Seizures in Switzerland & Canada, the Tanganyika Laughter Epidemic, Louisiana; Blackburn, England; Twitching in Vinton, Virginia; Portugal's Strawberries with Sugar Outbreak
14:10 - More School Stuff, Conversion Disorder, Somatic Countertransference, Hysterical Contagion
16:01 - Hysterical Contagion: The 1962 June Bug Epidemic
17:11 - Folie à Deux/Trois/Famille/Plusieurs, Folie Imposée/Simultanée, Physical Repercussions of Hysteria
19:27 - Cut a Rug: The Dancing Plague of 1518 & Other Dancing Outbreaks
23:50 - Possible Causes of Uncontrolled Dancing
24:22 - Crowd Control: The Milan Poisoning Scare
28:12 - The Irish Fright
31:04 - Collective Delusions: The Seattle Windshield Pitting Epidemic
33:54 - Mass Hysteria: The Hollinwell Incident
35:49 - Collective Delusion Meets Social Media: The 2016 Clown Sightings
Music by Fanette Ronjat
Hear about the Vampire Panic in Bohemia and Moravia in an episode of our sister podcast, Prague Times: Ghosts in Prague
LAPSUS LINGUAE:
I mispronounce French words all over the place in this episode. Sorry, French speakers.
NEXT WORLS IS WEIRD: October Surprise: Fact or Fiction? 
PREVIOUS WORLD IS WEIRD: The Tuskegee Study
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True Fictions (Because Reasons 2)

Episode 12 | True Fictions (Because Reasons 2)
Guest: John Poston, Theatrical Artist and Writer
So, just who are these "conspiracy theorists" anyway? I talk with John Poston about conspiracy thinking, true believers and debunkers, how humans create identity through narratives, tribal signaling, Homo Ludens and, of course, the JFK assassination.
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01:35 - I Wouldn't Call Myself A Conspiracy Theorist But....
04:44 - Stories Are Awesome, Two Red Flags, Project for the New American Century 
09:04 - Homo Ludens (Man the Player), Brains As Script Doctors, Harari & Shared Fictions
16:40 - AI Research & the Brain, the Power of Gossip
19:39 - Too Much Information Yet Also Not Enough, Some Ideas on JFK, Don't Be Naive
24:06 - Deeper Down the JFK Rabbit Hole, the Dog that Didn't Bark
33:25 - True Believers On Both Sides, History as Theatre, Magic Bullets, High Stakes Narratives, You're Probably Wrong
Music by Fanette Ronjat
NEXT BECAUSE REASONS: Conspiracy Thinking in Eastern Europe
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Conspirasaurus Rex: Dino-Mite Theories About the Dinosaurs

Episode 11 | Conspirasaurus Rex: Dino-Mite Theories About the Dinosaurs
What happened to the dinosaurs? Did a meteor wipe them out? Was it volcanoes? Maybe their eggs just sucked. Or they farted themselves to death. Or they never existed at all. Or maybe they never died. Or maaaybe they helped build the pyramids.
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01:38 - Some Background on Dinosaurs - Richard Owen, Early Fossils and the Bone Wars
04:28 - What We Think We Know - Two Types of Dinosaurs
05:43 - Size Matters, Kinda
06:52 - After a While, Crocodile - the K–Pg Event
08:26 - Where'd They Go? Eggy Weggs, Glands, Survival of the Fittest, "Who Are You?", Boom (but Far Away), Peek-a-boo, COVID 63 Million BCE, Sausage Party; He Who Smelt It, Dealt It; Multiple Impacts, Volcanoes
16:35 - We Have a Winnah! The Alvarez Hypothesis
17:55 - Alt.Extinct Theories - Non-Science Edition: Gravity Sucks, the X-Files 
21:19 - Dinosaurs Aren't Real  - PETA, CGI & Social Media
23:09 - The Bible or Dragons
25:35 - Another Brick in the (Masonic) Wall, Darwin's a Liar
26:41 - I Don't Even Need a Reason
27:42 - Oiled & Ready
28:41 - They Live
31:16 - The Dinosaurs Built the Pyramids
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Fright Delays: Denver Airport Is the Nexus of Evil

Episode 10 | Fright Delays: Denver Airport Is the Nexus of Evil
It's big, it's unusual and gets folks to thinking. Denver International Airport is more than just the hub for airlines - it's a magnet for just about every conspiracy theory you can think of. 
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01:46 - That's a Big DEN
04:12 - I Don't Know If It's Art, and I Don't Know If I Like It
09:40 - That's a Big Horse - Blucifer
12:12 - Phallus Fails
13:29 - Infernal Infrastructure
17:21 - NWO at DEN
18:26 - Location, Location, Location!
19:38 - Dumb DUMBs - Humans vs. Aliens and/or Aquarius vs. Comm 12
20:21 - Beach Blanket Babylon
20:48 - No Such Thing As Bad Publicity
23:11 - DEN as Super-Conspiracy
Music by Fanette Ronjat
LAPSUS LINGUAE:
05:21 - Jack Swigert's exact words were actually, "Okay, Houston, we've had a problem here."
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Now You See It, Now You Don’t: Finland Doesn’t Exist

Episode 09 | Now You See It, Now You Don't: Finland Doesn't Exist
There are some things you just know are true. Like that Finland exists. But it doesn't. Neither does Australia. And New Zealand's looking kind of iffy as well. In fact, there are many things that you think are real, but aren't. Like birds. They aren't real either.
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01:42 - Finland Doesn't Exist - The Theory
04:38 - Finland Doesn't Exist - The Point Zero
06:42 - Poe's Law & the Ambiguity of Intent (Postmodern Irony, New Sincerity, Post-Irony, Meta-Irony, Hyper-Irony)
11:20 - Finland Doesn't Exist - Embellishments & Reactions
12:36 - Australia Doesn't Exist
14:53 - Other Geographic Fictions (OGF) - Bielefeld, Germany 
18:10 - OGF - Acre, Brazil
18:40 - OGF - Molise, Italy
19:01 - OGF - North Dakota, USA
19:32 - Henri Tajfel's Minimal Group Paradigm, In-Group Favoritism & Out-Group Homogeneity
20:36 - New Zealand Is Being De-Mapped
22:23 - Sandy Island
23:39 - Phantom Islands (Los Buenos Jardines, Emerald Island, Dougherty Island, Terra Nova, et al.)
25:54 - Phantom Settlements, Copyright Traps, Paper Towns, Trap Streets, etc.
26:57 - Jakob Maria Mierscheid - German MP, Naturalist, Great Guy
28:51 - Birds Aren't Real - The Brainchild of Peter McIndoe
33:01 - Culture Jamming & You
Music by Fanette Ronjat
LAPSUS LINGUAE:
At 20:17, I mispronounced the word "homogeneity"
NOTE: I do NOT mispronounce the name Henri Tajfel, but most people do (the "j" makes a "y" sound in Polish)
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