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The Bicameral World of the Zizians

EPISODE 146 | The Bicameral World of the Zizians
One striking thing about the many stories that have appeared about the Zizians and the crimes they are accused of committing, is that each one starts at a different place. Some start with the attack on a Vallejo landlord that resulted in his being run through with a samurai sword and then work backwards and then forwards. Others begin their tale with the shooting of an older couple in Pennsylvania. Still others kick things off with the shooting death of a Border Patrol agent up near the Canadian border. 
As a result, it can be a bit difficult to get a handle on exactly what happened when and what the several people currently in police custody are accused of. 
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SECTIONS
LEFT BRAIN
02:28 - Gimme Some Truth - Ziz LaSota, Effective Altruism, x-risk, MIRI, transhumanism and the Singularity, CFAR, LessWrong
12:25 - Digital Witness - Roko's Basilisk, “I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream”, utilitarianism, the many-worlds interpretation, online censorship
22:58 - Adrift in Sleepwakefulness - The Zizians start as vegan anarchotranshumanists, unbucketing, the bicameral mind, unihemispheric sleep (UHS), sleep deprivation, Ziz Theory, the Rationalist Fleet, Curtis Lind offers a place to stay, the first suicide, self-blackmail
RIGHT BRAIN
35:02 - Friendship Train - The Westminster Woods protest, arrests and a lack of cooperation, Ziz dies, Curtis Lind is stabbed repeatedly, Ziz is alive, Richard and Rita Zajko are killed; Michelle Zajko, Daniel Blank and Ziz arrested; Michelle blames LessWrong, Ziz is released and vanishes, more legal issues
50:19 - Lose Control - Ophelia Bauckholt and Teresa Youngblut wander around Vermont, a firefight with the Border Patrol, Curtis Lind is killed, Maxmilian Snyder dictates a letter; Zajko, Blank and Ziz arrested (again); trials are set
Music by Fanette Ronjat
More Info
LessWrong on RationalWIki
Roko's Basilisk on RationalWiki
Zizian Murdercult summary, for those out of the loop on X by @Aella_Girl - January 29, 2025
Who is ‘Ziz’? How a mysterious group with roots in the Bay Area is linked to six deaths in the San Francisco Chronicle
‘Death upon death’: Defendant in killing tied to cult-like ‘Zizian’ group dictates 1,500-word letter over jail phone in the San Francisco Chronicle
How a Vermont border agent's death exposed violence linked to the cultlike Zizian group on CBS News
A Vermont border agent’s death was the latest violence linked to the cultlike Zizian group on AP
Alleged leader of cultlike ‘Zizian’ group to be held without bail after arrest in The Guardian
Zizians: What we know about the 'cult' linked to six deaths on the BBC
The Delirious, Violent, Impossible True Story of the Zizians by Evan Ratliff in Wired
Alleged Leader of Roko’s Basilisk Murder Cult Says She Did Nothing Wrong, and Would Appreciate Some Vegan Food in Jail on Futurism
Who Are the Zizians: Why 6 Killings Are Linked to Alleged Vegan Techie "Cult" on E! News
What to Know About the Alleged Zizian "Cult" Linked to 6 Killings on E! News
Possible Suicide Cluster Linked to Zizian Group, on Top of Killings on SFist
Judge confirms trial date for ‘Zizian cult’ murder case on Courthouse News Service
Grand jury indicts accused leader of cultlike 'Zizian' group on USA Today
She Wanted to Save the World From A.I. Then the Killings Started in the New York Times
Three Zizians face trial together in Maryland amid sprawling federal investigation on AP
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Trumpspiracies: What a Tangled Web

EPISODE 145 | Trumpspiracies: What a Tangled Web
Ever since Donald Trump first decided to run for the highest office in the United States, he has promoted an astonishing number of conspiracy theories. It’s almost as if a New York real estate baron famous for lying to clients, not paying his bills and exploiting loopholes for his own benefit had learned, somewhere along the way, that “truth” is a slippery subject. And because he’s not a very deep thinker, he has, like many people, confused truth with facts.
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SECTIONS
02:25 - Liar, Liar - 9/11 nonsense, open season on Muslims
08:50 - Would I Lie to You? - Boogeyman Obama, Birtherism 
19:02 - Suspicious Minds - The Clintons, Biden, robot clones, Canada, assassinations, self delusion as super power
29:22 - Liar, Liar, Burn in Hell - Science, medicine, the Great Replacement, crime stats, Britain First, tweets and retweets
38:31 - Dance Little Liar - Haitians eating pets, conspiracy theorists in his administration
46;40 - Liar (It Takes One to Know One) - 2016 Russian election interference, Spygate, #Obamagate, Trump's impeachments
Music by Fanette Ronjat
More Info
58 Donald Trump Conspiracy Theories (And Counting!): The Definitive Trump Conspiracy Guide (from 2016)
President Obama's Long History of Insulting Donald Trump
The birth of the Obama 'birther' conspiracy
‘Birtherism,’ Trump and anti-Black racism: Conspiracy theorists twist evidence to maintain status quo
Trump's history of launching "birther" conspiracy theories against rivals
Trump promotes 'totally baseless' birther conspiracy theory against Nikki Haley
Trump claims media 'dishonest' over crowd photos
Comparison: Donald Trump and Barack Obama’s inauguration crowds
Trump's crowd-size obsession to be tested at inauguration after 2017 controversy
The surprising reason why the Park Service won't count folks at Trump's inauguration
'It eats him alive inside': Trump's latest attack shows endless obsession with Obama
12 false claims Trump has made about Obama since last month (from 2020)
Trump's obsession with Obama took an ominous turn this week
Twitter use by Donald Trump
A farewell to @realDonaldTrump, gone after 57,000 tweets
FBI 2019 crime statistics
Trump Says He’s Going To Check If ‘Somebody Stole’ Fort Knox $400 Billion Gold Supply. What We Know.
No Evidence Haitian Immigrants Are Eating Ducks, Geese or Pets in Springfield, Ohio
‘They’re eating the pets:’ Trump, Vance earn PolitiFact’s Lie of the Year for claims about Haitians
Altogether fitting and proper? Trump repeatedly compares himself to Abraham Lincoln
Donald Trump: Height, Weight, Obesity, and Documentation
Seriously, What Is “Obamagate”? | The Daily Social Distancing Show (video)
How Trump’s Obsession With a Conspiracy Theory Led to the Impeachment Crisis
Trump impeachment trial: Conspiracy theories and fidget spinners
How the Senate Could Bar Donald Trump from Running for President in 2024
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Unwell and Unregulated: The Militia Movement

EPISODE 144 | Unwell and Unregulated: The Militia Movement
The United States has always had a certain comfort level with violence, or at least the idea of it. Throughout its history, groups of armed citizens will threaten to use, or actually use, force to get their point across, either to effect change or to prevent that from happening.
But in the 1990s, something changed, and groups formed around new ideologies that sometimes had little to do with objective reality. The Militia Movement was mainly rural, white, far-right Christians who’d been nurtured on conspiracy theories and half truths which they had chosen to believe because these made some sort of emotional sense to them, and because they had an unerring sense that they were right and everyone else was wrong. And some of them were willing to go to great lengths to achieve their aims.
This is the breeding ground for the modern conspirasphere.
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SECTIONS
02:38 - Saturday Night Special - Precursors, the Minutemen, the Patriotic Party, Liberty Lobby, the Christian Defense League (CDL), Posse Comitatus 
08:27 - Guns in the Sky - The Late Great Planet Earth, Aryan Nations, National Alliance, The Turner Diaries, Hunter, evangelicals, the Satanic Panic, still more anti-Jewish ideas, "Red Dawn"
14:20 - Ride a White Horse - Behold a Pale Horse, Milton William Cooper, Hour of the Time, Mysteries of Babylon
23:40 - Ruby Tuesday - Agenda 21, the Weaver family, the Ruby Ridge siege
30:56 - This Could Be Heaven - Victor Houteff starts Shepherd's Rod (later Branch Davidians), Vernon Howell becomes David Koresh and takes over, the Waco Siege
36:48 - Oklahoma Blues - The Militia of Montana (MOM), the Michigan Militia (Wolverines), Timothy McVeigh and the Oklahoma City bombing
39:56 - Militias take off and expand, attracting scammers and opportunists - Ron Cole, General Benton Partin, Mary Elizabeth Broderick, Roy Schwasinger & We the People, LeRoy Schweitzer & the Montana Freemen, Justus Township standoff
45:30 - Insane in the Brain - Militias also attract terrorists and lunatics - Willie Ray Lampley & the Universal Church of God (Yahweh) plus the Oklahoma Constitutional Militia plan massive bombings, the Unabomber, Georgia Republic, the Mountaineer Militia, Donald Beauregard & and Trix cereal, Mark "Mike from Michigan" Koernke, Norm Olsen, Charles Duke, Bob Fletcher and Belgian weather control, John Parsons talks purple UFOs and starts the Tri-States Militia of South Dakota (but turns out to be on the FBI payroll), Darrel Frech, Rick McLaren and space rays, Ted Gunderson sells pseudoscience gear, Bo "Rambo" Gritz pushes Y2K, Jack McLamb writes Operation Vampire Killer 2000: American Police Action Plan for Stopping World Government Rule
Music by Fanette Ronjat
More Info
Militia movement in the 1990s at EBSCO
Militias in the US at the Institute for Strategic Dialogue
5 Things You Need to Know about Private Militia Groups from the National Police Foundation
Examining Extremism: The Militia Movement at CSIS
False Patriots report at the Southern Poverty Law Center, May 8, 2001
Posse Comitatus
The Late Great Planet Earth
The Turner Diaries - America's manual of hatred on BBC (audio, 9 minutes)
What to Do With the Most Dangerous Book in America
The Turner Legacy: The Storied Origins and Enduring Impact of White Nationalism’s Deadly Bible
CONSPIRACY THEORIES IN THE PATRIOT/MILITIA MOVEMENT
Behold a Pale Horse
Pale Horse Rider: William Cooper, the Rise of Conspiracy, and the Fall of Trust in America
Ruby Ridge, 1992: the day the American militia movement was born
Maniacs and Militias: Waco to Extremist Groups
Turning Point: The Rise of Right-Wing Politics, the Waco Siege, and the Response of American Law Enforcement
Legacy Everlasting: how the 1993 Waco siege became a symbolic rallying cry for the American far right decades later 
Clinton administration’s deadly mistake in Waco gave rise to Oklahoma City, Columbine in the New York Post (labelled as "entertainment", which seems odd) 
The infamous Texas siege with a ‘straight line’ to QAnon, right-wing militias, and January 6
Two Minutes Past Nine: The story behind the Oklahoma City bombing on BBC
Remembering the Oklahoma City Bombing, 25 Years Later at the Brennan Center for Justice 
From Ruby Ridge to Oklahoma City: The Radicalization of Timothy McVeigh paper
The Militia Movement and Second Amendment Revolution: Conjuring with the People 1996 paper
Beyond the Bombing: The Militia Menace Grows report by the ADL
Operation Vampire Killer 2000 text
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Paranoia Is Forever: Disney Conspiracies

EPISODE 143 | Paranoia Is Forever: Disney Conspiracies
Walt Disney’s goal was to make the “Happiest Place on Earth”, and to delight and inspire both children and adults through the ages. Many would say he succeeded beyond even his own wildest expectations. Others might say that Disney is, and always has been, a place of evil. And when you get as big as Disney has, you are naturally going to attract some rather wild narratives. 
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01:58 - Uncle Rat - Uncle Walt: anti-Jewish, Nazi, racist, head frozen 
15:05 - Grim Grinning Ghosts - The parks, deaths and accidents, ghosts, the Haunted Mansion attraction
20:32 - There's no evil scheme he wouldn't concoct! No depravity he wouldn't commit. - Occultism at the parks and in the movies, sex is everywhere, pedofiles, dirty pictures in "The Rescuers", the makers of "White Wilderness" murdered a bunch of lemmings
30:58 - The Maleficent Seven - The company, the Disney Vault, copyright issues, Disney hates women
38:42 - In Canis Corpore Transmuto - Ron DeSantis tangles with the Mouse, Disney is surprisingly progressive or "woke" depending on who you are
Music by Fanette Ronjat
More Info
Fact-Checking the Age-Old Rumors of Walt Disney’s Dark Side
Was Walt Disney Frozen?
Deaths at Disney: Top 13 Deaths at Disney Theme Parks
The death that sparked the legend that 'no one dies at Disneyland'
MARR: Death At Disneyland - rewriting of the article "Waiting in Line to Die" by John Marr
The Dark Side of Disney
Real Human Bones Were Originally Used In Disneyland's Pirates Of The Caribbean Ride
Doombuggies website
Did a Former Disney World Princess 'Reveal the Truth'?
The Hidden Messages in Disney: A Closer Look at Occult Symbolism on Chick Wick News
DISNEY=666 video on Amazing VIP World YouTube channel
21 Completely Filthy Hidden Sex References in Disney Movies in Cosmopolitan
Snopes: Is the Word 'Sex' Hidden in 'The Lion King'?
Snopes: Is a Risqué Image of Sand Dunes Hidden in 'The Lion King'?
Snopes: Was a Phallus Purposely Added to the Artwork for 'The Little Mermaid' VHS Cover?
Snopes: Does the Minister in 'Little Mermaid' Get an Erection?
Snopes: Did a Topless Woman Appear in Disney's 'The Rescuers'? (True, BTW)
Snopes: Did Disney Fake Lemming Suicide for the Nature Documentary 'White Wilderness'? (Also true)
The Darker Side of Disney ("boy love" symbols)
The Dark Side of Disney Part 1 at Little Light Studios
The Dark Side of Disney Part 2 at Little Light Studios
Global Ranking of largest entertainment companies
10 Things You Didn't Know About The Disney Vault's History
Mickey Mouse, Long a Symbol in Copyright Wars, to Enter Public Domain: ‘It’s Finally Happening’ in Variety
Disney and Universal sue AI firm Midjourney over images on BBC
How the Disney-Midjourney Lawsuit Could Reshape the Battle Over AI and Copyright
Copyright, Mickey Mouse and what it means to be within the public domain
Mickey, Disney, and the Public Domain: a 95-year Love Triangle at the Center for the Study of the Public Domain
Popular copyright infringement cases highlighting how Disney is protective of its intellectual property rights
The Moana Lawsuit: Writer Woodall Sues Disney for Infringement
Did Disney or DeSantis win their big fight? Yes. in the Tampa Bay Times
Snopes: Harlan Ellison and Disney (true)
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Project 2025: The First 180 Days (World Is Weird 15)

EPISODE 142 | Project 2025: The First 180 Days (World Is Weird 15)
Donald Trump said he didn’t really know much about Project 2025 except that they sure liked him. And yet, of 313 specific Project 2025 initiatives, he’s already enacted 108 of them, and another 63 are actively in the works as of this recording. Quite a coincidence, wouldn’t you say?
Project 2025 put a lot of importance of a sort of blitzkrieg if their boy won the 2024 election, a flurry of activity to define the first 180 days of his presidency and hopefully create so much change that, no matter what happens in future elections (if there are any) many of the changes they want to see happen will end up sticking around. That benchmark date was July 19. 
So, let’s look at Project 2025. What they say, and some of their own justifications for why they say it. And we’ll also see just how much Trump has actively assisted them in realizing their vision for a very different America than the world has ever seen. 
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SECTIONS
02:40 - The Mandate for Leadership, Version IX - The first of the Four Pillars, "cultural Marxism"; yes, it really is Gilead; white nationalists and Christian nationalists, family is the key, four main goals
08:52 - Three More Pillars - Info gathering, the Presidential Administration Academy, "climate change" is code for Christian depopulation, a secret playbook, Carter was evil, the DoD and Space Force
13:16 - Economy - General ideas, "fair trade" vs. "free trade", the Consumer Protection Bureau, the Department of Labor, the Department of Commerce
21:05 - Environment - General ideas, the Environmental Protection Agency, the Department of the Interior
25:09 - Transportation - General ideas, get married and make babies or no funding, the Department of Transportation, the FAA
27:11 - Education - General ideas, education is a private good, not a public one; the Department of Education, Parental Bill of Rights
33:12 - Identity - General ideas, LGBTQ+ and trans people ("radical gender ideology"), DEI, pornography
36:15 - Journalism - General ideas, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, the FCC, the US Agency for Global Media (now a One America News organ), the Open Technology Fund
38:39 - Healthcare - General ideas, Medicaid, Medicare, the Department of Veteran Affairs, the CDC, the Department of Health is really the Department of Life, marriage, abortions, Planned Parenthood, in vitro fertilization, teen pregnancy, the Department of Health and Human Services
47:43 - Legal - General ideas, affirmative action, the FBI, the death penalty, the Secret Service as military cops, the Department of Justice, FACE Act no longer enforced, don't say trans
53:16 - National Security - Foreign policy shifts, USAID, NATO, nukes, the Department of Defense, Cybercom, the State Department, strengthen ties with Saudi Arabia
57:26 - Immigration - CBP, ICE, TSA, USCIS, refugees, asylum pay-to-stay scheme, birthright citizenship, mass deportations, more police, FEMA funds, the Department of Homeland Security
01:04:42 - Elections - General ideas, the FEC gets limits, photo ID to vote, armed police at polling stations
01:06:58 - Expansion of the Executive - The President is boss, loyalists only, the Insurrection Act of 1807, more surveillance
01:09:24 - Federal Staffing - Bring back the spoils-and-patronage system, the White House, the National Security Council
01:12:01 - Final Thoughts - Trump totally knows about Project 2025, the vision for an America-that-never-was, why the hell didn't you vote?
Music by Fanette Ronjat
More Info
Project 2025 Tracker website (updated daily)
r/Keep_Track
Full text of "Project 2025 Mandate For Leadership"
The “Mandate for Leadership” Series
Inside Project 2025's Secret Training Videos - video on ProPublica YouTube channel
5 Reasons Leftists HATE Project 2025 from the Heritage Foundation
Project 2025 Quick Read
Subject-by-Subject Breakdown of Trump’s Project 2025 from the Stop Project 2025 Taskforce 
Project 2025 at 100 Days: Part I - part of Tracking Project 2025 at the Center for Progressive Reform
Project 2025 at 100 Days: Part II - part of Tracking Project 2025 at the Center for Progressive Reform
Reading Project 2025 as a Manifesto
A guide to Project 2025, the extreme right-wing agenda for the next Republican administration
Project 2025, Explained at the ACLU
Project 2025: The Plan To Seize Power by Gutting America’s System of Checks and Balances at the Center for American Progress
Project 2025: The right-wing wish list for Trump's second term on the BBC
The People’s Guide to Project 2025 at Democracy Forward
An army of MAGA think tanks behind him, it’s Trump’s Washington now at Politico
‘Beyond My Wildest Dreams’: The Architect of Project 2025 Is Ready for His Victory Lap at Politico
MAGA is whatever Trump decides it will be at Politico
MAPPED: 70 Percent of Trump’s Cabinet Tied to Project 2025 Groups - DeSmog analysis
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Spirits in the Material World: Mediums and Spiritualism

EPISODE 141 | Spirits in the Material World: Mediums and Spiritualism
The late 19th and early 20th were rife with claims of contact with spirits of the departed, and plenty of people made a pretty penny convincing the grieving or the curious that they had the right stuff, the special connection to the Other Side. But it has continued past then, and even today there are those who would prey upon people to make a fast buck, supercharging the woo space in the process.
We’ll look at mediums, magicians, seances, channelers and more, including some of the tricks these con artists use to ply their ignoble trade. And we’ll also examine what’s up with the Ouija board.
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SECTIONS
Spirit (I Believe in You) - The Fox Sisters start it all im 1849, spiritism and spiritualism, the Cottingley Fairies
Watching You Without Me - Cold readings, the Barnum Effect, shotgunning, Forer and Criss Angel, John Edward the Douche, the vanishing negative, turning a negative, the Rainbow Ruse, flattery, warm readings, hot readings, spirit guides, how to avoid being tricked
Home by the Sea - Types of mediums, scammers getting caught (Daniel Dunglas Home, Rosina Mary Showers, Francis Ward Monck, the Davenport Brothers, May and Lizzie Bangs, Derek Acorah, Thomas John)
The Ghost in You - Origins of the Ouija Board in 1890, ideomotor response (IMR), some believe and like, some believe and don't like, Yeats used it to write poetry, Pearl Curran and "Patience Worth" writes book, Emily Grant Hutchings writes a book with Mark Twain's ghost
(Ghost) Riders in the Sky - Rosemary Isabel Brown channels dead composers, James Merrill uses a Ouija to write award-winning poetry, Jane Roberts starts the channeling industry with "Seth"
Music by Fanette Ronjat
More Info
The Fox Sisters (a haunted history)
Spiritualism Exposed: Margaret Fox Kane Confesses Fraud on the Skeptic Report
spiritism (spiritualism) entry in the Skeptic's Dictionary
The Spiritualists' National Union website
Society for Psychical Research website
A Pagan's Lexicon : Animal Spirits
How to find your animal spirit guide on Mooky Chick
John Edward on Villains Wiki
Why do a quarter of people across the world believe humans have psychic abilities?
A MAGICIAN AMONG THE SPIRITS by Harry Houdini, full text
James Randi Educational Foundation website
Kennard Novelty Company website
Written by Pearl Curran…or by Ouija Board?
The book was supposedly written by Mark Twain’s ghost 100 years ago
How to use the Ouija Board
The secret of the Ouija board in The Week
DIY Ouija Board!
Rosemary Brown obituary
'Even the spirits get a say': A Look Into James Merrill's Ouija Poems
The Problem of Seth's Origin: A Case Study of the Trance-Possession Mediumship of Jane Roberts, paper by Paul Cunningham
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Rock On: Freemasons (Big 'Uns 7)

EPISODE 140 | Rock On: Freemasons (Big 'Uns 7)
Who are the Freemasons? People sure freak out about the them, even though many don’t even know what they get up to. What the heck do they do at their meetings? Why all the secrets and secret handshakes and code words and the like? Are they weird, scary, evil or just harmless?
Let’s take a look and see.
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Long Live Rock - Masonic origins, Templars, variations and offshoots
Stone Stone Picnic - The Illuminati, Freemasonry expands
Pounded on a Rock - Are they creepy?, Anti-Masonry and the Morgan Affair
Like a Rolling Stone - The Taxil Hoax of 1885, Jack the Ripper as a Mason
Let's Go Get Stoned - The Affair of the Cards
Stoned Is the Way of the Walk - Propaganda Due (P2), the Vatican Bank Scandal and the Years of Lead
Might As Well Get Stoned - Riding the goat, Satanism, the NWO, secret masters, online sources, famous Masons
Music by Fanette Ronjat
More Info
EPISODE 21 | The Knights Templar (Big 'Uns 2)
EPISODE 18| The Illuminati: Bavarian Brouhaha (Big 'Uns 1)
Episode 10 | Fright Delays: Denver Airport Is the Nexus of Evil
masonicinfo.com Site Map
Freemasons For Dummies Cheat Sheet
Freemasons entry on RationalWIki
Freemasonry Watch webshite
Duncan's Masonic Ritual and Monitor
Secret Teachings of the Masonic Lodge book
New Initiates Guide to Freemasonry - West Lancashire Freemasons
Spooky Rituals of The Freemasons | The Freemasons Explained - video on The Great Courses YouTube channel
The Midnight Masons website
The Heresies of Masonic Ritual on The European Conservative
Elks, Shriners, and Masons: How 'old man' frats got their names and symbols
Performing Emotion: Freemasons and the Theater of Ritual -  interview with Pannill Camp on the Hold That Thought podcast
Musicians Who Are Freemasons on Esoteric Freemasons
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A Numbers Game: Mathspiracies

EPISODE 139 | A Numbers Game: Mathspiracies
Guest: Gary Arndt, writer and host of the Everything Everywhere Daily podcast
We aren't really very good with numbers, so naturally we've come up with a lot of wacky ideas about them. Gary Arndt talks about numbers of all sorts, like why Pi is stupid, why prime numbers are cool, why the Fibonacci sequence isn't all that, when math leads to murder and much more.
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02:25 - Numeracy rates, gambling is (usually) a sucker's bet, numerology, the Bible Code, p-hacking, Equidistant Letter Sequencing (ELS)
13:09 - The Hidden Hand of Mathematics, the Ultraviolet Catastrophe and the birth of quantum physics, the Fibonacci sequence and the Golden Ratio
20:05 - Pi, tau, the Cult of Pythagoras, irrational numbers, transcendental numbers, squaring the circle, Alex Jones and math, the real number of the Beast
28:51 - Why people believe conspiracy theories
30:13 - Angel numbers, the "meanings" of numbers
33:43 - Numbers stations
37:25 - Prime numbers, Prime Target TV series, trapdoor functions in cryptography, Al-Khwarizmi, double entry bookkeeping, the idea of zero, zero and null are different
43:20 - Base-10, base-12, base-60, and our timekeeping and calendar systems
Music by Fanette Ronjat
More Info
Everything Everywhere Daily podcast
The Bible Code book review in Notices of the AMS
The Significance of The Number Forty-Two (42) by By Rabbi Dr. Hillel ben David (Greg Killian)
Magic Apologetics: Equidistant Letter Sequencing in the Christian Research Journal
Assassinations Foretold in Moby Dick!
THE UNREASONABLE EFFECTIVENSS OF MATHEMATICS IN THE NATURAL SCIENCES by Eugene Wigner
The Ultraviolet Catastrophe and the Creation of Quantum Mechanics episode of Everything Everywhere Daily
What is the Fibonacci sequence? on LiveScience
Fibonacci Sequence on Math Is Fun
Composing Balanced Images: The Golden Ratio on ProGrade Digital
Everything You Need to Know About Pi episode of Everything Everywhere Daily
Why Tau Should Replace Pi episode of Everything Everywhere Daily
The Cult of Pythagoras episode of Everything Everywhere Daily
Irrational Numbers episode of Everything Everywhere Daily
Squaring the Circle episode of Everything Everywhere Daily
e: Euler’s Number episode of Everything Everywhere Daily
Pi Is Encoded in the Patterns of Life
Alex Jones and 666 video
A Guide to Angel Numbers and What They Mean
Numerology Numbers 1-9: Exploring the single digit numbers in Numerology on Numerology.com
Numbers Stations episode of Everything Everywhere Daily
Number Stations on Priyom.org
Number Station Recordings - Creepy radio broadcasts from unknown origins (video with over 4 hours of recordings)
All About Cryptography episode of Everything Everywhere Daily
Prime Numbers episode of Everything Everywhere Daily
Prime Target TV series on IMDb
Zero, My Hero episode of Everything Everywhere Daily
Zero and NULL values 
What is the Base-10 Number System?
Base 12: An Introduction
Babylonian Mathematics and the Base 60 System
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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 
 

Midnight Sun: Arctic Tales

EPISODE 138 | Midnight Sun: Arctic Tales
The Far North is a region of extremes and stark beauty, and it is also trying to kill you if you’re a human. And yet we still live there, around 4 million of us call the Arctic our home, and we still weave stories about it, often quite fanciful ones. 
It’s a land of adventure, danger, murder, mishap, giants, ancient aliens, the origin of white people, secret tropical paradises, political talking points and even an overly generous fat guy in a red suit. It all depends on who you talk to.
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SECTIONS
02:43 - Greenland Bound - The Northwest Passage and the Lost Franklin Expedition, The Franklin Conspiracy
13:49 - The Mighty Quinn - A brief history of the United States and Greenland, eyes on Canada
27:57 - För Fäderneslandet - Thule, Ultima Thule, the Thule Society and the Oera Linda Book 
35:38 - The Dream Is Always the Same - Hyperborea vs. Atlantis, the White Order of Thule
42:54 - The Road to Utopia - The Alaska Triangle: a conspiracy theory concocted for television
Music by Fanette Ronjat
More Info
Hotlantis: The Lost Continent episode
Tell Me a Story: 3 UFO Tall Tales episode that includes the Dark Pyramid
What Lies Beneath: The Hollow Earth episode
History of the Franklin Expedition on the Government of Canada website
What happened to HMS Erebus and Terror? on the Royal Museums Greenwich website
What We Learned In The Search For Sir John Franklin on Arctic Kingdom
Franklin’s Lost Expedition: Myths, Mystery & Modern Day Relics on Quark Expeditions
Sir John Franklin's last arctic expedition: a medical disaster in the Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine
The great polar mystery: closing in on the truth in New Scientist
The Franklin Conspiracy: An Astonishing Solution to the Lost Arctic Expedition by Jeffrey Blair Latta
War And Winter In The North Atlantic on the U.S. Naval Institute
Cryolite, a rare mineral, is rekindling tensions between Greenland and Denmark in Le Monde
Early US Interest in Greenland section of Governing the North American Arctic: Sovereignty, Security, and Institutions on Google Books
Claiming Ultima Thule
Thule culture in Britannica
Hammer Of The Gods: The Thule Society And The Birth Of Nazism by David Luhrssen
Ayrian race occultism: Thule Secret Society influence on Nazi ideology video
Nazi Archaeology and the Oera Linda Book
Saved from the Flood - Oera Linda studies website
Ancient Sources about Hyperborea
Hyperborea on RationalWiki
Former Neo-Nazi Explains ‘Esoteric Nazism’
The Alaska Triangle – Disappearing Into Thin Air on Legends in America
What is the Alaska Triangle, where 20,000+ people have disappeared and never been found
The Alaska Triangle on IMDb
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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 

Tell Me a Story: 3 UFO Tall Tales

EPISODE 137 | Tell Me a Story: 3 UFO Tall Tales
When a narrative takes off, some folks want to get in on the action, and this is especially true in the world of woo or conspiracy, and really especially true when it comes to UFOs. Here are three tall tales from the UFO space - Whitely Streiber’s abduction writings, Budd Hopkins's Manhattan Alien Abduction and Linda Moulton Howe's incredible, fanciful, tale of a secret black pyramid buried in central Alaska.
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SECTIONS
03:11 - Communion - Whitley Streiber is disappointed in Cat Magic
04:25 - Alien Butt Stuff - Communion becomes a huge hit
10:09 - How to Make Friends and Influence People - MANY other books, a complex mythology, Streiber's Basic Formula
19:01 - The Manhattan Alien Abduction - Linda "Cortile" Napolitano floats out her window and then the story gets really weird, Budd Hopkins investigates
28:07 - They Float, They All Float - The story has holes, Carol Rainey and others think it's a hoax, Linda sues Netflix
33:47 - Pyramid Song - Doug Mutschler sends Linda Moulton Howe an email
38:18 - commercial break 1 - looking for the point zero, fact checking his/her claims, Bruce Pearson sends an email, then more emails, then one about spontaneous remote viewing episodes and the "truth" is revealed
49:30 - commercial break 2 - Hugh Newman, Andrew and Andrew Gough chime in, Jonny Enoch has a theory, others jump on aboard
Music by Fanette Ronjat
More Info
Whitley Strieber on RationalWIki
Whitley Strieber on the Encyclopedia of American Loons
Communion or Concoction?
Primal Hooting chapter from Thomas M. Disch's On SF
Pretentious Whit - a review of another Streiber book on Skeptical Inquirer
The Controversial Story Behind Netflix’s New Docuseries The Manhattan Alien Abduction in Time Magazine
The True Story Behind Netflix’s ‘The Manhattan Alien Abduction’—What Happened To Linda Napolitano? in Forbes
Abducted in front of 23 witnesses and a UN secretary-general: The most famous UFO file is resurrected on Netflix in El Pais
‘The Manhattan Alien Abduction’ controversial true story: Why the star is suing Netflix on Today
The Linda Cortile Case by Greg Sandow 
The Alaska Triangle, S02E01 - The Dark Pyramid and Violent Nature
Linda Moulton Howe's website
The Dark Pyramid in Alaska on Alien Hub
Dark Pyramids Under Alaska on The Illuminerdy
They Why Files video The Dark Pyramid of Alaska | Military Cover-up of a Forbidden Collaboration
Linda Moulton Howe on Ancient Pyramid Power and Strange Discoveries in Alaska video on GaiamTV
‘Dark Pyramid’ deep underground in Alaska by Michael Ruark
Alaska's Underground Pyramid: A Case of Faulty Memory? by Jason Colavito
Power Generating Pyramids on Soul Guidance
The Dark Pyramid of Alaska - Fact or Fiction? on Black Hoodie Alchemy
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DIGITAL SIGNAGE DONE RIGHT - Winner of a Gold Quill Award, Gold MarCom Award, AVA Digital Award Gold, Silver Davey Award, and Communicator Award of Excellence, 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