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Suffer the Children – Pizzagate, Wayfair & the Seeds of QAnon

EPISODE 106 | Suffer the Children – Pizzagate, Wayfair & the Seeds of QAnon
"Without a clear indication of the author's intent, it is difficult or impossible to tell the difference between an expression of sincere extremism and a parody of extremism."
In the world of the internet, this is known as Poe’s Law, and it’s especially applicable to the weird narrative Gordian Knot known as Pizzagate. The adage applies not just to how absurd some beliefs are, but also to the arguments made by people who hold these beliefs. First formulated in 2005 by Nathan Poe, it builds on a 2001 quote by Alan Morgan called Alan’s 2nd Law of Newsgroups, which states, “Any sufficiently advanced troll is indistinguishable from a genuine kook.”
And that is certainly the case for the wild story that “a hipster-heavy pizza parlor” (as they put it on their website) in the Chevy Chase neighborhood of Washington D.C. is not just a fun family place with pizza, ping pong and live music, but the nerve center for an diabolical child trafficking ring that operates out in the open because they are protected by highly-placed pedophiles in the Democratic party. As an article on Cracked.com puts it, “This is supported by lots of very stupid evidence”.
The stakes of the fake narrative are so high that it’s become more than just true believers review bombing the place. Workers have been harassed and, on December 4, 2016, a heavily armed man entered the restaurant and started firing guns.
The story of Pizzagate is the story of how the conspirasphere went from harmless kookery to being actually, physically dangerous.
TRIGGER WARNING: Some pretty disturbing things will be talked about in this episode, so if the subject of child sexual abuse and trafficking is deeply uncomfortable for you, perhaps you should not listen. I mean, it should be uncomfortable to anyone, but you know what I mean.
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03:11 - A note, pedophilia is a mental disorder, victims suffer for many years, how do we handle this problem?
06:31 - How it all began: Hillary Clinton's emails, John Podesta, Anthony Weiner and Huma Abedin; "Carmen Katz" makes allegations, "David Goldberg" shares and extends these
08:46 - Side note: "Carmen Katz" is Cynthia Campbell, "David Goldberg" is an anti-Semitic fake profile; Amanda Rob finds Borce Pejcev in Macedonia, a fake news click bait ecosystem, it really all began with Doug Hagmann of Eerie, PA
12:35 - Russian hackers Fancy Bear, APT28 and Sofacy use "spear phishing " attacks
13:30 - Pedo codes on 4chan: pizza, cheese, hot dogs, dominos and handkerchief codes; Comet Ping Pong gets targeted
16:30 - DumbScribblyUnctious see all sorts of things - murals, art, logos, musical acts and more; Pizzagaters talks of aliens, the Illuminati, Satanic rituals and Arun Rao; Susan Alefantis knew a pedophile, Tony "pasta obsession" Podesta knew Dennis Hastert, another pedophile, and also collects art (including some by Rachel Rose); Amanda Kleinman (Majestic Ape) of Heavy Breathing performs at Sasha Lord's birthday party and "secret pizza" is maybe mentioned, the film "Automatic At Sea", the Clinton Foundation in Haiti, Alex Jones issues a "bulletin"
25:49 - #pizzagate soars, Comet Ping Pong gets hassled, Turkey's Erdoğan jumps on the story, InfoWars spearheads the narrative, fake images proliferate, artists and musicians also harassed, it might all have been coordinated; other businesses (especially pizza places) get targeted, like Roberta's in Brooklyn and East Side Pies in Austin, TX
30:33 - Edgar Maddison Welch storms Comet Ping Pong with guns, InfoWars apologizes, then retracts the apology; white supremacist Jack Posobiec says Welch is a crisis actor; neo-Nazi pubs the Daily Stormer, the Right Stuff and Smoloko News continue the Pizzagate narrative
35:07 - Canadian Andrew Richmond's ice cream shop Sweet Jesus gets the #PedoGate treatment
36:15 - Portland, Oregon's Voodoo Donuts gets the same treatment thanks to talentless poet VeganMikey (Michael Whelan); #donutgate starts trending, building on a previous #donutgate when Ariana Grande and Ricky Alvarez licked food at Wolfee Donuts; Big League Politics's "research organization" Pedo Takedown Crew funds a coordinated harassment campaign and expand the narrative, adding tunnels, schools, and child-smiggling submarines
41:35 - In England, recreational troll Oliver Redmond targets Paul Cheape's vape shop business
43:32 - Mattress Firm gets targeted
45:32 - Frazzledrip: a very nasty fake video (trigger warning - seriously, it's really nasty), QAnon terms "adrenochrome" and "spirit cooking" get added to the Pizzagate lexicon
47:56 - PrincessPeach1987 kicks of the Wayfair affair, the now combined Pizzagate and QAnon make a LOT of noise, it's all nonsense and yet there were real consequences for real people, iMGSRC.ru and US Army Staff Sgt. Richard Ciccarella 
57:25 - Cybersteria and the very first QAnon 4chan post
Music by Fanette Ronjat
More Info
Pedophilia defined on Psychology Today
Crimes against Children Research Center
Facts and Stats About Child Sexual Abuse
The possible long-term effects of experiencing child sexual abuse
Long-term Effects of Child Sexual Abuse and Molestation on Helping Survivors
A review of the long-term effects of child sexual abuse on the National Library of Medicine website
Child Molesters: A Behavioral Analysis paper
Sexuality of Offenders on the Zero Abuse Project
Facts About Homosexuality and Child Molestation by Gregory Herek
Everything You Need To Know About Pizzagate (Is Insane) on Cracked.com
Pizzagate on RationalWiki
Pizzagate: A slice of fake news on Reveal
Anatomy of a Fake News Scandal in Rolling Stone
Anthony Weiner breaks down after he's sentenced to 21 months for sexting on ABC News
How The Bizarre Conspiracy Theory Behind "Pizzagate" Was Spread on BuzzFeed
How Hackers Broke Into John Podesta and Colin Powell’s Gmail Accounts on Vice
Comet Ping Pong - Pizzagate Summary by DumbScribblyUnctious
How Pizzagate went from fake news to a real problem for a D.C. business on PolitiFact
'It's a form of addiction' - Tony Podesta's art addiction article in The Guardian
Rachel Rose - Aubade: Grendel's Mother (live reading) video
Pizzagate, the fake news conspiracy theory that led a gunman to DC’s Comet Ping Pong, explained on Vox
Pizzagate gunman recorded video for daughters, said he's standing up for children on CBS News
Death threats, abuse, then a gunman: 'Pizzagate' businesses relive ordeal in The Guardian 
Pizzagate: Gunman fires in restaurant at centre of conspiracy on BBC News
What to Know About Pizzagate, the Fake News Story With Real Consequences in Time
'Pizzagate' gunman pleads guilty as conspiracy theorist apologizes over case
Is Comet Ping Pong Pizzeria Home to a Child Abuse Ring Led by Hillary Clinton? on Snopes
Dissecting the #PizzaGate Conspiracy Theories in the New York Times
A Moral Panic for the Age of Trump: “Pizzagate” is the latest in a long line of child-sex-ring myths on Slate
The PizzaGate Gunman's Paranoid Rescue Fantasy Comes from a Long American Tradition on Reason
'There's Nothing You Can Do': The Legacy of #Pizzagate on SPLC
Secret message board drives 'pizzagate'-style harassment campaign of small businesses on NBC News
When Nerds Attack - Gamergate, Elevatorgate & Sad Puppies episode
Voodoo Donuts website
Voodoo Doughnut Gets Sucked Into Outrageous Far-Right Conspiracy Theory on Eater
Wolfee Donuts Pressing Charges Against Ariana Grande
Donut-Gate on Ariana Grande fandom wiki
Vegan Mikey - bad poet and troll 
#Donutgate: How one Oregon donut shop became the target of online conspiracy theorists on Salon
Connecting the Dots Between Donutgate and Pizzagate
Man jailed for falsely branding a businessman a ‘dirty paedophile’
The Great Mattress Conspiracy: Why Are There So Many Mattress Firm Stores
Why Are There So Many Mattress Stores?
A wildly popular conspiracy theory about why there are so many Mattress Firm stores is starting to sound less crazy
Mattress Firm responds to the wild conspiracy theory about its business that people are going crazy over
The Mattress Firm Conspiracy: An Analysis
The Mattress Firm Money Laundering Conspiracy Theory on Snopes
What Is Frazzledrip? Fake Hillary Clinton Video Builds on Pizzagate Conspiracy Theory in Newsweek
Frazzledrip: Is a Hillary Clinton 'Snuff Film' Circulating on the Dark Web? on Snopes
Hush Supper Club
Full Frazzledrip video (WARNING)
Claims that pizza listings on Etsy are selling child pornography are baseless
Reddit post that kicked off Wayfair conspiracy theories
Outrageously Priced Wayfair Cabinets Lead to Human Trafficking Conspiracy
Kids Shipped in Armoires? The Person Who Started the Wayfair Conspiracy Speaks in Newsweek
Wayfair: The false conspiracy about a furniture firm and child trafficking on BBC News
Baseless Wayfair child-trafficking theory spreads online on AP
The bizarre story of how internet conspiracy theorists convinced themselves Wayfair is trafficking children on CBC News
A US soldier working at Mar-a-Lago uploaded photos of an underage girl to a Russian website — a closer look at the site reveals a horrific underworld
A US Army soldier who worked at Trump's Mar-a-Lago resort uploaded photos of an underage girl to a Russian website, prosecutors say
How a reporter found the true story behind a false story of sex trafficking
Is Wayfair Trafficking Children Via Overpriced Items? on Snopes
MISSING IN KANSAS: Anabel Wilson no longer missing
How A QAnon Conspiracy Theory Involving A Wayfair Pillow Left A Metro Detroit Teen Struggling
A girl falsely believed to be a victim of the fake Wayfair sex-trafficking ring says she had hives, lost sleep over the conspiracy theory
A QAnon con: How the viral Wayfair sex trafficking lie hurt real kids
Human Trafficking Rumors: Viral Stories That Do More Harm Than Good at the Polaris Project
The Storm Is the New Pizzagate — Only Worse
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Capitol Assets: Weird DC (Travelogue 4)

EPISODE 105 | Capitol Assets: Weird DC (Travelogue 4)
Guest: Fayge Horesh, co-creator, writer and host of the D Listers of History podcast, and licensed tour guide
Washington D.C. is an interesting place and, like many cities, has some oddities. We take a look at some of the things around town that might not be obvious at first glance, like (not-so secret) tunnels, ghost cats, strange clocks, hollow domes, street plans, statues, snipers, protected trees, food trucks and more.
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03:42 - Making the past accessible, Daniel of Beccles, Father Divine, traces of history, Deep Throat in Rosslyn
06:35 - Pierre L'Enfant's plans, Masonic symbols, quadrants, a hidden pentagram, Benjamin Banneker's thighs, DC once had canals (gross ones)
14:03 - Street plan as weather control machine yet the weather is terrible, underground tunnels (one open to the public), the Ghost Cat, no sitting on the floor, the Capitol Dome is hollow
21:37 - The Women's Portrait Monument, so many statues
23:43 - Snipers and other security, food truck a-go-go
28:33 - The NIST Newton Apple Tree in International Park, don't linger in front of the former Iran Embassy, clocks and time in Friendship Heights, conspiracy theories are distractions, Chinatown has very few Chinese people
36:55 - Explore your city and embrace the weirdness
Music by Fanette Ronjat
More Info
D Listers of History podcast
’Merican Monuments (Travelogue 2) episode
The world of Daniel of Beccles D Listers episode
Book of the Civilized Man by Daniel of Beccles article
A Brief History of Pierre L’Enfant and Washington, D.C. in Smithsonian
Grand Avenues: The Story of Pierre Charles L'Enfant on the Virginia Museum of History & Culture
Benjamin Banneker: The Black Tobacco Farmer Who the Presidents Couldn't Ignore on the White House Historical Association
Capitol Building Tunnel System
What lies beneath DC? Many more tunnels than you might think!
The D.C. Underground Atlas
Demon Cat: the tale of a wanderlust feline ghost
Make America Ghostly Again: The Demon Cat of Washington D.C. 
Does The Demon Cat Still Haunt Washington's Capitol Hill?
Bells, Buzzers, Clicks and Clocks
Congressional Clocks Have a Secret Code on Atlas Obscura
Capitol Illumination
Inside the Capitol Dome
Hidden Congress: An Alternative Tour of the U.S. Capitol
Apotheosis of Washington
Leaders in Equality: The Portrait Monument
Portrait Monument to Lucretia Mott, Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony
The Suffragist Statue Trapped in a Broom Closet for 75 Years
How Security Measures In Washington, D.C., Have Changed Since 9/11 
12 Best Washington DC Food Trucks on Female Foodie
Find food trucks in DC on Roaming Hunger
What happened to D.C.’s food trucks? The answer says much about the ‘new normal.’
NIST Newton Apple Tree
Where To Find The Most Unusual Trees In D.C.
After the arena came, the Asian population of Washington's Chinatown shrank
269 Cool, Hidden, and Unusual Things to Do in Washington, D.C.
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Fatal Attraction: Magnet Woo

EPISODE 104 | Fatal Attraction: Magnet Woo
While we use magnets all the time, most of us don’t know some of the subtleties of magnetic fields and the electromagnetic force. This lack of knowledge is the perfect opening for scam artists to sell unsuspecting folks all kinds of sham cures for illnesses and injuries, opening up a wide world of woo and pseudoscientific narratives.
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02:56 - Come Together - What is electromagnetism?
07:46 - Diesel and Dust - Magnetic water treatments, magnetic gasoline treatments, magnetic mugs
15:02 - Hypnotic Tango - Mesmer and animal magnetism, the rise of hypnosis, arthritis cures, magnetic shoes
24:58 - Terrible Lie - Albert Abrahms, Hercules Sanche's Electropoise, Ruth Beymer Drown and the Vibra-Ray, Georges Lakhovsky's Multiple Wave Oscillator (MWO), Thomas Galen Hieronymus's "eloptic energy", Royal Rife, Hulda Regehr Clark, Precision Herbs, H. A. Morton Whitby, Radionics and De La Warr Laboratories 
41:20 - You'll Be My Toy, I'll Be Your Electricity - More quackery, Desiré Dubounet & Quantum Medicine
47:22 - Baby Stick Around - Human magnets: Leonid Tenkaev and Miroslaw Magola, the Super Human/Super Brain/Magnetic Man
Music by Fanette Ronjat
More Info
Electromagnetism 101 video from National Geographic
The basic principles of electromagnetism on Electrical Apprentice
Why does the moving of charged particles (electrons) in a wire carrying electricity produce a magnetic field? on Quora
Magnetic water treatment and pseudoscience on AquaScams
Non Chemical Devices: Thirty Years of Myth Busting by Timothy Keister, FAIC, CWT in Water Conditioning & Purification magazine, April 2008
Demonstration and Evaluation of Magnetic Descalers paper by the US Army Corps of Engineers, September 2001
Electronic Water Conditioner: Do They Work?
First4Magnets.com 
The True Price Of Gas: What It Should Really Cost To Fill Up on FastCompany
The True Cost of Gasoline: $15 Per Gallon on Smart Cities Dive archived article
Super FuelMAX® Booster Fuel Saving Device - Made in USA product page
Super FuelMAX Marketers Settle FTC Charges from the Federal Trade Commission
Magnetic Mug from Serenity 2000 product page
IAMPDD Self Stirring Mug product page on Amazon
Mesmerized by Magnetism column by Michael Shermer
Franz Anton Mesmer in the Super-Enlightenment Digital Archive at Stanford Libraries
Beginners Guide to the History of Hypnosis (Timeline)
Magnets Provide Amusement, But Not Health Benefits in Science-Based Medicine
Magnet Therapy: A Skeptical View on Quackwatch
Questionable Ads for Magnets on Quackwatch
Florsheim’s MagneForce Shoes on Quackwatch
BIOflex and VITAflex health magnets
The Electronic Reactions of Albert Abrams on American Artifacts
Multiple Wave Oscillator - Forgotten Device that is claimed to have cured Cancer
The Incredible Drown Case in Today's Health, April 1968
The Incredible Drown Case on Quackwatch
Bionuu Clinic 
Metayantra quack products
Polaris DD in Prague
Multiple wave oscillator at Clinica Omega Zeta
DIY Lakhovsky MWO (Milti Wave Oscollator) Device, Detailed Informations, Facts, Analysis
Hieronymus Machine in the New Age Encyclopedia
Rife Machines and Cancer
The Cancer Cure That Worked: 50 Years of Suppression by Barry Lynes
“The Cure for All Cancers”? Maybe Not.
Precision Herbs on Rationalwiki
FDA Warning Letter to Precision Herbs LLC
Paranoia, the Destroyer – Gangstalking, Targeted Individuals & Havana Syndrome episode
Electromagnetic hypersensitivity: a critical review of explanatory hypotheses
Is It Possible to Be Allergic to Electricity? on Healthline
Recognizing Dubious Health Devices
Is it worth it? PEMF
UVLrx Therapy Lights Up Charlatans Dealing In Medical Devices
Questions for Pseudoscience | Magnet Therapy video on Dark Science
Electrostatics: A non-contact force
Silly season, silly machine
Desire Dubounet on IMDb
S-HE, She or He Movie 2008 the story of Desire' Dubounet and the war crimes trial of Harry S Truman video
Is there any validity to the claim that some people are “human magnets,” with their bodies able to attract an assortment of objects?
Strange attractors
Miroslaw Magola YouTube channel
Man claims he has magnetic powers, can make objects stick to body
James Randi debunks Magnet Man video
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Down in Bermuda, It’s Easy to Believe – The Devil’s Triangle

EPISODE 103 | Down in Bermuda, It’s Easy to Believe – The Devil’s Triangle
Back in the 70s, the Bermuda Triangle was all over the place but today, not so much. Whatever happened with that? Did it go away? Was it debunked? Or did the woosphere simply get bored and move on to juicer subjects? 
A bit of both. Plus, the are lots of other supposed interesting/mysterious/dangerous triangles out there. They do have sharp corners, after all. 
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02:29 - New Frontier - How it all starts: Edward Van Winkle Jones gets the ball rolling in 1950, Allan W. Eckert picks it up in 1952, Vincent Gaddis expands the idea in 1962, as does John Wallace Spencer in 1969, and in 1974, Charles Berlitz and Richard Winer go all in on the Triangle; Larry Kusche thoroughly debunks it all in 1975, Hitchens' Razor and the Sagan Standard (ECREE)
11:31 - Strange Brew - Cayce's people weigh in as do plenty of other knowledge garglers, better woo comes along, Lloyds of London investigates, Gian J. Quasar tries to revive Triangle interest in the Noughties
15:17 - Your Haunted Head - The Sargasso Sea - an oceanic gyre surrounded by four currents, Donald Crowhurst gets stuck there and goes insane
19:36 - Long Way Down - Ocean farts, the Gulf Stream, the Milwaukee Deep, the agonic line and the North Poles (both true and magnetic)
24:59 - Hunting High and Low - The Dragon's Triangle near Japan, Ivan Sanderson develops his Twelve Vile Vortices theory:
27:31 - "Hamkulia Volcano", Hawaii; the Ring of Fire
29:14 - Jeddars in the Atlas Mountains, Algeria; fungoid rock art in the Tassili n'Ajjer 
29:57 - Mohenjo-daro in the Indus Valley, ancient nuclear war, chicken city
34:00 - The Wharton Basin, Indian Ocean, Flight MH370
34:44 - The Loyalty Islands, New Caledonia; Sandy Island
35:52 - Easter Island, Rapa Nui,  Szukalski's Zermatism, Miroljub Petrović
37:26 - The Southern Atlantic Anomaly, the Mozambique Channel 
38:22 - Fever to Tell - Ley lines, Ramsey's Theorem, the Bridgewater Triangle near Boston (home of the  Pukwudgie), the Bennington Triangle in Vermont, the Nevada Triangle, the Lake Michigan Triangle and yet another "America's Stonehenge"
41:45 - The Marysburgh Vortex in Lake Ontario, the Matlock Triangle and Falkirk Triangle in the UK, the Broad Haven Triangle in Wales, the Hoia Forest in Romania
42:47 - The Mapimí Silent Zone in Mexico's Chihuahuan desert 
Music by Fanette Ronjat
More Info
Sea's Puzzles Still Baffle Men In Pushbutton Age by Edward Van Winkle Jones, Miami Herland, 1950
Sea Mystery at our Back Door by George X. Sand, Fate Magazine, 1952
The Mystery of the Lost Patrol by Allan W. Eckert, American Legion Magazine, April 1962, page 12
The Deadly Bermuda Triangle by Vincent Gaddis, The Argosy, February 1964
Invisible Horizons True Mysteries of the Sea by Vincent Gaddis
Limbo of the Lost by John Wallace Spencer
The Bermuda Triangle by Charles Berlitz
The Devils' Triangle by Richard Winer
The Devil's Triangle 2 by Richard Winer
From the Devil's Triangle to the Devil's Jaw by Richard Winer
Bermuda Triangle Mystery - Solved by Larry Kusche
The Case of the Bermuda Triangle episode of NOVA
What is the Bermuda Triangle? on the National Oceanic Service website
Bermuda Triangle on Britannica
What Is Known (and Not Known) About the Bermuda Triangle on Britannica
Bermuda Triangle: Where Facts Disappear on LiveScience
Into the Bermuda Triangle: Pursuing the Truth Behind the World's Greatest Mystery by Gian Quasar
Mysteries of the Sargasso Sea in The Bermudian
The Mystery on the Sargasso on How Stuff Works
Donald Crowhurst: The fake round-the-world sailing story behind The Mercy in Yachting World
They Went to Sea in a Sieve, They Did by Shannon Proudfoot on Big Reads
Off the Deep End: A History of Madness at Sea by Nic Compton
Bermuda Triangle mystery solved? It's a load of gas on The Age
7 Chilling Conspiracy Theories About the Bermuda Triangle in Popular Mechanics
Down in the Milwaukee Deep 
Magnetic Declination Varies Considerably Across The United States on USGS
The Bermuda Triangle Mystery Delusion: Looking Back after Forty Years by Larry Kuche for Skeptical Inquirer
Mysterious waters: from the Bermuda Triangle to the Devil's Sea on CNN
Beyond the Bermuda Triangle: The Devil's Sea documentary video
Unexplained Mystery: The Devil’s Sea – The Dragon’s Triangle on Marine Insight
The Vile Vortices Of Ivan T. Sanderson on History Daily
Vile Vortices Part 2 – Hamakulia on CryptoVille
Algeria's ancient pyramid tombs still shrouded in mystery on France24
What Happened to Mohenjo Daro? on Wonderopolis
Rediscovering the lost city of Mohenjo Daro on National Geographic
Uncovering the Secrets of the Indus Valley Civilization and Its Undeciphered Script
The Mythical Massacre at Mohenjo-Daro
Top Things to Do in the Loyalty Islands
Now You See It, Now You Don't - Finland Doesn't Exist episode
The Secrets of Easter Island on Smithsonian
Easter Island - the Mystery of the Moai on Mountain Kingdoms
Rapa Nui on IMDb
What Lies Beneath - The Hollow Earth episode including Zermatism
Weird behavior of Earth's magnetic field over South Atlantic dates back 11 million years
NASA Is Tracking a Huge, Growing Anomaly in Earth's Magnetic Field 
10 Mozambique Channel Facts You Might Not Know
Madagascar's Menagerie Floated from Africa from the University of Hong Kong
It Happens Here: A look at the 'weirdness' of the Bridgewater Triangle
Bennington Triangle, Vermont on Legends of America
Mysteries of Flight: The Nevada Triangle
Lake Michigan Triangle on Atlas Obscura
What Is the Great Lakes Triangle? classroom activity
Stonehenge-like Structure Found Under Lake Michigan
‘Strange things out there’: Inside Lake Ontario’s ‘Bermuda Triangle'
The Great Lakes and the mystery of the Marysburgh Vortex
Gateway to Oblivion: The Great Lakes' Bermuda Triangle by Hugh F. Cochrane
The Falkirk Triangle in Scotland
Why Is a Small Village in Scotland the UK's UFO Hotspot?
What’s inside Hoia Baciu Forest, the world's most haunted forest?
Romania’s Bermuda Triangle: The Creepy Hoia Forest of Transylvania
What does the Mexican Bermuda Triangle look like
Enter The Mapimi Zone Of Silence: Where Science Fiction Meets Reality
The Zone of Silence in Northern Mexico: scientific marvel or just fiction?
Zone Of Silence Mexico video
Mexico: UFOs, magnetism, army: The strange zone of silence
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Conspiracy Thinking in the Middle East w/Adel Aali

EPISODE 102 | Conspiracy Thinking in the Middle East (Because Reasons 10)
Guest: Adel Aali, creator and host of the podcasts History Behind News and Unravelling the Middle East
Conspiracy theories seem to thrive in the Middle East, but why? Adel Aali takes a look at some of the more common CTs, as well as where they come from and why that region might be primed for conspiracy thinking due to its history. 
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04:39 - What Is the Middle East?
06:44 - The Fertile Crescent, the Ottomans, the Sykes–Picot Agreement, comparing modern Middle Eastern history with US history, the ME has not been given the space to develop modern structures
12:36 - Religion as a startup, Islam is quite different from Judaism and Christianity, possible reasons CTS thrive - a paucity of information vs. a plethora, a lack of education, stability vs instability; CTs begin to swirl when people feel disconnected from their government, individuated instability and emotional narratives
21:46 - Israel has an unusual place in the ME, anti-Semitic CTs like the Jewish people are Communists vs. they are Nazis, online brownshirting, Russia was once seen as the second home for the Jewish people, the Protocols of the Elders of Zion, the Khazar theory, scapegoating works for a primed audience, the divisions are illusions
32:53 - Jews, America, Israel and Zionism; the Muslim world was once the shizzle so what happened?, Tamerlane rejects invading Europe for business reasons, the Ottomans held back the printing press, persecution complex in the ME, the blame game, the secularization thesis, Iran is becoming secular
45:37 - You can't be pro or against a country
Music by Fanette Ronjat
More Info:
History Behind News podcast
Unravelling the Middle East podcast
The Georgia Guidestones - An NWO Billboard episode
A Weirdness Travelogue: Henges, Tiles & Plaques episode
’Merican Monuments (Travelogue 2) episode
Spanish Caravan (Travelogue 3) episode
Fair Dinkum - 4 Mysteries from Down Under episode
Oh, Canada! episode
From Sea to Sea: More Canada Mysteries & Histories with comedian Nile Séguin
Üst akıl – Totally Turkey episode
How The CIA Overthrew Iran's Democracy In 4 Days on NPR
Violent Gangs and Predatory Republics - From Haiti to Africa HBN episode
A History of God: The 4,000-Year Quest of Judaism, Christianity and Islam by Karen Armstrong
The Billion-Dollar Party That Ended a 2500-Year-Old Monarchy essay
Smoke & Mirrors: Unintentional Dangers and Slow Thinking with Kent Weishaus episode
Pootie-Poot on the Prowl - V. Putin Takes Center Stage episode
From Beirut to Jerusalem by Thomas Friedman on Amazon
Thomas Friedman website
Protocols of the Elders of Zion in Holocaust Encyclopedia 
Khazar Love Triangle episode
Abbas and the Khazar Claim: Separating Myth from Fact on Fikra Forum
Blood Libel on the Jewish Virtual Library
The “Golden Age” of Jewish-Muslim Relations: Myth and Reality by Mark R. Cohen, Princeton University Press paper
Conspiracy Theories and Conflict in the Middle East on the Religious Freedom Institute
When animals were used as spies in the Economic Times
The lure of conspiracy theories in Iranian politics
Policy, Perception, and Misperception: The United States and the Fall of the Shah by Kyle Balzer paper from Marine Corp University
The Paranoid Style in Iranian Politics
Deconstructing Secularization Theory: Religion, Secularity, and Self-hood Since theOnset of Western Modernity by Nicole Owens paper in Berkeley Undergraduate Journal 
Iran’s secular shift: new survey reveals huge changes in religious beliefs in The Conversation
Inside story: How Iran’s religious classes are turning increasingly secular on Amwaj Media
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Panic! at the Disco - The Jan. 6 Event (WIW 12)

EPISODE 101 | Panic! at the Disco - The Jan. 6 Event (World Is Weird 12)
On January 6, 2021 at 12:53 EST, a mass of people overwhelmed police on the west side of the US Capitol Building in Washington DC. At 2:11, a window was broken, and they entered the building. What followed was a bizarre scene, with some happy to just wander around, while others had more active plans. When it was over, 5 people were dead, 138 law enforcement personnel were injured (15 needing hospitalization), and an untold number of civilians were also injured. Eventually, more than 1100 people would be charged with various crimes committed that day. 
What exactly happened here? Whatever you want to call it, it was fueled by conspiracy theories and conspiracy thinking. And it also engendered CTs of its own. The conspirasphere had finally run amok. 
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03:21 - A Fever You Can't Sweat Out - Sept. 29, 2020 "stand back and stand by", #stopthesteal, white supremacists and other militia asshats make plans for the Nov. 3 election, they set their eyes on the "innauguration" (sic), the Million MAGA March, Women for America First, Proud Boys leader Tarrio makes a mistake on Dec. 12
09:39 - High Hopes - Trump and Barr spar, Dec. 14 looms large, firings and hirings, shouts and insults, the #wildprotest is announced on Dec. 19, plans are made to meet on Jan. 6, pressure on Pence, threats of a "red wedding"
19:48 - Vices & Virtues - Trump calls Raffensperger on Jan. 2, Trump gets conflicting advice, Tarrio gets arrested on Jan. 4, bombs are planted, Trump sets up a war room at the Intercontinental Willard, Trump really doesn't want to leave office and rewrites his upcoming speech
25:50 - Mad as Rabbits - Jan. 6, 8:17am-2:39pm: the "rally", Giuliani talks, an extraordinary video is shown, arrests are plan and plans are laid, Trump gives his speech, the crowd finds inspiration, Trump tries to take the wheel, Proud Boys head to the Capitol, crowds follow, help is asked for, the crowd surges, the building is breached, police are attacked
38:44 - The Only Difference Between Martyrdom and Suicide Is Press Coverage - 2:44pm-3:49am: things get even uglier, help starts trickling in, attempts are still made to block certification, things finally get sorted
43:08 - Hey Look Ma, I Made It - Repercussions aplenty, dramatis personae, prison sentences with Tarrio the leader of the pack
48:57 - Emperor's New Clothes - What the heck were they all thinking? Apologist narratives, including the "false flag" trope
Music by Fanette Ronjat
More Info
The January 6 insurrection: Minute-by-minute on CNN
Capitol riots timeline: What happened on 6 January 2021? on BBC
A timeline of how the Jan. 6 attack unfolded — including who said what and when on NPR
A Timeline of the Government's Response on Jan. 6, 2021 on American Oversight
EXPLAINER: A look at far-right extremists in Jan. 6 riot on AP News
#StopTheSteal: Timeline of Social Media and Extremist Activities Leading to 1/6 Insurrection on Just Security
The January 6 Effect: An Evolution of Hate and Extremism on the ADL website
Read: Full transcript of Donald Trump’s call to Brad Raffensperger on Atlanta News First
Trump film on the Ellipse Jan. 6 video
Movie at the Ellipse: A Study in Fascist Propaganda on Just Security
Did This 2 Min. Video Help Incite the Jan. 6 Rioters? video
Read Trump's Jan. 6 Speech, A Key Part Of Impeachment Trial on NPR
How Texans helped plot, foment and carry out the Jan. 6 insurrection in The Texas Tribune
The Radicalization of Kevin Greeson on ProPublica
What Happened to the Jan. 6 Rioters Arrested Since the Capitol Attack on Time
Full List of Capitol Rioters Jailed So Far and the Sentences They Are Serving in Newsweek
Trump supporter at center of a Jan. 6 conspiracy theory: "It's just been hell" on Axios
Fox News sued by man at centre of Jan 6 conspiracy theory on Al Jazeera
Conspiracy Theorist Presumed Dead in Explosion During Police Standoff on Vice
What words should we use to describe what happened in the Capitol? on Poynter
What the History of the Word “Insurrection” Says About Jan. 6 in Time
There’s an ongoing battle of words to describe Jan 6, 2021. Here’s why it matters on PBS News
Has the U.S. Capitol Been Attacked Before? on Gale
Expert weighs in on why the Capitol riot was not an unusual historical event on Spectrum News 1
The Capitol Has Been Attacked Before: This Time It Was Different on American University website
Conspiracy Theories and January 6th on Public Wise
Conspiracy theories paint fraudulent reality of Jan. 6 riot on PBS News
A Guide to the Right’s Unhinged Conspiracy Theories about Jan. 6 in Rolling Stone
January 6 conspiracy theories and debunked claims on The National News
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Conspirasphere Rising w/Derek Arnold (BR 9)

EPISODE 100 | Conspirasphere Rising - A Talk w/Derek Arnold (Because Reasons 9)
Guest: Derek Arnold, Senior Instructor at Villanova University, where he teaches a course on The Rhetoric of Conspiracy Theories
The modern conspirasphere sort of starts with the assassination of JFK, and events in the two decades that follow help shape a growing trend toward conspiracy thinking in the United States. Mr. Arnold teaches his students all about this, and also offers guidance in how to construct a toolkit for analyzing conspiracy theories that they can take with them out into the world.
This is our 100th episode! What a long, strange trip it's been. Thank you for your past support!
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03:14 - 2012: A Beginning - Apocalyptic thinking creates some good stories, an overview of some motivations for belief
11:24 - JFK Kicks It Off - Liberals have deep distrust, conservatives hate Communism, both are fighting what they think is the "good fight", Flower Power on one side and Nixon on the other
21:17 - Post-Watergate - Conservatives search for a new Wallace, Reagan invents the soundbite
28:01 - Pop Culture Gets Weird - Woo rising, fantasy films succeed, things are getting better or worse (depending on your perspective)
29:58 - The New Age Movement Comes of Age - Faith replaces proof for some, volume becomes authority
33:05 - Four Tools for the Conspiracy Toolkit - Cui Bono, Occam's Razor, How Many People, Falsifiability
Music by Fanette Ronjat
More Info: 
Derek Arnold at Villanova University
Villanova University Offers Course On Conspiracy Theories on CBS News Philadelphia
From Bigfoot to JFK, Villanova Students Study Conspiracy Theories on Delco Today
Villanova professor discusses conspiracies theories linked to the moon landing 
Why Princess Diana conspiracies refuse to die by Derek Arnold in The Conversation
How Donald Trump Changed the Way College Students Learn About Conspiracy Theories in Time Magazine
Conspiracy theory mentality on WHYY PBS radio
“We sometimes just want to believe” - the theory behind conspiracy theories on KYW Newsradio
Five Hidden Benefits of Gossip in Fast Company
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A Bridge Too Far: The Mothman Visits Point Pleasant

EPISODE 99 | A Bridge Too Far: The Mothman Visits Point Pleasant
The strange events of 1966-1967 in and around Point Pleasant, West Virginia gave rise to one of America's most enduring legends - the Mothman. It made the headlines and also the careers of Gray Barker and John Keel. But it was more than just a large winged creature. There were visits from the Men in Black, UFOs aplenty, poltergeists and other high weirdness. 
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02:52 - I'm a Believer - A pair of couples see something; cranes, owls and shitepokes; Mary Hyre  writes it up, Mothman is named
07:00 - Cold Sweat - Woodrow Derenberger meets Indrid Cold, Newell Partridge has his TV watching interrupted (plus his dog Bandit goes missing), three women see a demon, Mary Hyre has an odd visitor, Donna Kenmore and Norma Ashley see a pendulum, later Kenmore is also kidnapped
15:30 - Paperback Writers - Gray Barker and John Keel arrive, with ideas of their own; they get more info about Indrid Cold and friends, a nudist trip to Lanulos
23:04 - Strange Days - The TNT area becomes party central, the town swells in population, local oddballs William and Martha Bateman invent TV for angels
25:42 - The Men in Black are everywhere, so are UFOs, so is Mothman; the sense of doom builds
29:28 - 13 Steps Lead Down - The Silver Bridge collapses, Mothman Math
35:43 - Knock on Wood - Mothman as the Freiberg Shrieker and Black Bird of Chernobyl, Mothman hits the road
40:25 - Where History Meets Mystery - the Mothman Museum, the Mothman Statue, the Mothcam, the Mothman car wash, the Mothman Festival and more; Keel really got a Mothman boost
Music by Fanette Ronjat
More Info
The Notorious M.I.B. episode
A View to Vril episode (Valiant Thor bit at 21:29)
The Mothman Wiki
The Mothman Cometh on the Skeptoid Podcast
Mothman on Cryptid Wiki
Folk Tale Turned Urban Legend: Mothman (Pt 1)
The True Story Behind The Legendary Mothman Said To Terrorize West Virginia on All That's Interesting
The true origin of the Mothman legend article by Justin Mills
Misignwa Legend of Mothman
Thunderbird Cryptid: Bird with a 70ft Wingspan
The Untold Truth of Mothman on Grunge
Three facts about West Virginia's Mothman legend few know on West Virginia Explorer
Local Lore: Woodrow Derenberger and the Legend of Indrid Cold on The Daily Yonder
Indrid Cold on Cryptid Wiki
Indrid Cold aka The Smiling Man on Villains Wiki
The True Story Behind the Mothman of West Virginia on US Ghost Adventures
10 Fascinating Things You May Not Know about the Mothman
The Silver Bridge And The Men In Black! on Rip Jagger's Dojo
When the Silver Bridge Came Crashing Down in Popular Mechanics
Mothman: The Hidden Truth paper
Mothman: A West Virginia Folklore on Ohio State's The Psychology of Extraordinary Beliefs
What Is the Mothman and Why Are We so Obsessesed? on The Nerdist
10 Horrifying Facts About The Legend of the Mothman: The Harbinger Of Doom From The 1960s on Groovy History
Legend of the Mothman-Point Pleasant Sightings video of CryptidSpot
A Contactee Canon: Gray Barker’s Saucerian Books paper by Gabriel Mckee
Men in Black: The Secret Terror Among Us by Gray Barker on Amazon
John Keel's Mothman Casebook
Convincing Stories of People Who Claim They Saw the Mothman in Real Life
The Freiberg Shrieker
The Black Bird of Chernobyl on Paranormal Catalog
The Black Bird Of Chernobyl: True Story Of The Chernobyl Mothman on Morbid Kuriosity
The Legend of the Mothman: Agent of Destruction or Harbinger of Doom? on Curious Historian 
Mothman Math: Dates, Disasters, and Deaths
Mothman: Evil Incarnate by Loren Coleman on Amazon
List of deaths related to the Mothman
Mothman Lives website
Mothman Museum
Mothcam stream
Mothman Festival 2024
The Mothman cometh? I went searching for Point Pleasant’s prophet of doom and all I got was a T-shirt
The Real Story of The Mothman Prophecies on IGN
Behold the Mothman on SYFY
Based on a True-Life Story, but Was That Story for Real? in the Los Angeles Times
Truth vs fiction in the Mothman Prophecies movie on Chasing the Frog
The Enduring Legacy of The Mothman Prophecies on Den of Geek
Mothman: Behind the Red Eyes by Jeff Wamsley on Amazon
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Smoke & Mirrors: Unintentional Dangers and Slow Thinking (Because Reasons 8)

EPISODE 98 | Smoke & Mirrors: Unintentional Dangers and Slow Thinking (Because Reasons 8)
Guest: Kent Weishaus, licensed clinical social worker, author of Stop Breaking Down: The Secret to Avoiding Overwhelm and Crack-Up
Why are there so many adherents to conspiracy theories these days? What are the mechanisms that encourage people to latch onto a particular narrative? 
We are modern creatures with out-dated brains. Clinical social worker (and former TV guy) Kent Weishaus talks about various theories and cognitive biases, and champions slow thinking in an age that seems too fast for our minds to keep pace with.
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03:48 - Smoke & Mirrors - TV, unreasonable expectations, wraparound for commercials, the hard edge
09:49 - Cognitive Distortions - Daniel Kahneman's Availability Heuristic, it's the system, TV was Gen X's buddy, we love fat (and sugar)
15:37 - Prospect Theory, Loss Aversion, the Endowment Effect, Aaron Beck's thought distortions, overgeneralization, "mind reading", slow thinking, I-know-how-this-will-end, please get raptured, humans crave structure, think about your thinking, Richard Schwartz's Internal Family Systems (IFS) says we are fragmented beings
26:10 - Towards Accuracy - E-Prime, people are not their diagnosis, slow thinking helps counteract otherization
33:46 - Too Much Information - Fast thinking feels good, apes with car keys, phantom urgency, unintentional dangers, too much sensory input
41:39 - Slow Thinking - Emotions are not uncontrollable, list the systems you're embedded in, nothing goes away in the digital system, Thomas Piketty and late-stage capitalism, the system is out of control
Music by Fanette Ronjat
More Info
Kent Weishaus website
Stop Breaking Down: The Secret to Avoiding Overwhelm and Crack-Up by Kent Weishaus
Kent Weishaus on IMDb
Availability Heuristic And Decision Making
Prospect Theory: What It Is and How It Works, With Examples
Loss aversion on BehavioralEconomics.com
The Endowment Effect: Why Perceived Value Increases with Ownership
Cognitive Distortions: Unhelpful Thinking Habits
13 Cognitive Distortions Identified In CBT
Cognitive Distortions: 22 Examples & Worksheets (& PDF)
Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman
Internal Family Systems (IFS)
About IFS (Internal Family Systems)
E-Prime on Wikipedia
Discovering E-Prime
E-Prime and Linguistic Revision
Wandering Gaia: Dispatches from the Anthropocene website for Gaia Vince
Galapagos by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
The Nature of the Modern Mind by Pierre Steiner
Turning the stone: embedding systems thinking in the everyday by Oliver Standing
Capital and Ideology by Thomas Piketty 
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Üst akıl – Totally Turkey

EPISODE 97 | Üst akıl – Totally Turkey
Turkey is a place with a complex history and a diverse population, which can lead to a sense of uncertainty and instability. Conspiracy theories that offer simple explanations for complex events and interactions, seem to take hold easily there, especially lately.
This can make it difficult for people to distinguish between reliable information and propaganda and can contribute to the spread of false information and conspiracy theories.
All told, Turkey seems to be particularly susceptible to the spread of conspiracy narratives. Which is a darned shame, since the country is absolutely fascinating, with a long and rich history stretching back more than 40,000 years, fantastic food, a varied landscape and incredibly hospitable people. 
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04:17 - Parkta Bir Gün (A Walk in the Park) - The Mastermind Theory ( Üst akıl), earthquake weapons, Yeni Akit (New Agreement) loves Hitler but hates blue jeans (the Kot Pantalon Theory), some t-shirts and the US $1 bill
11:06 - Aya Benzer (Similar to the Moon) - The start of the Turkish republic (1923), the Multi-Party Period, Adnan Menderes turns into a jerk, a bomb in Thessaloniki leads to the Committee of Inquest, the military stages a coup and then hands power back
18:25 - Seviyorum Sevmiyorum (I Like It, Don’t Like It) - More chaos, the coup by memorandum, trouble in Cyprus;  a new coup, a new constitution and new atrocities
22:14 - The Kurds got screwed, Turgut Özal tries to make peace but dies, conspiracy theories abound, Islamicists gain traction, the Postmodern Coup, Islamicists on the rise
26:07 - … Dan Sonra (…After) - 2013 protests over a park lead to the victory of Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, crackdowns aplenty, Erdoğan wins again, more crackdowns, Erdoğan changes the country to a Presidential Republic and wins again, making many more changes
29:44 - Resimdeki Gözyaşları (Tears in the Picture) - The Armenian Genocide, a monument to lies called the the Memorial and Museum of Martyred Turks Massacred by Armenians in Iğdır 
35:02 - Rakıya Su Katamam (I Can’t Add Water to Raki) - The Dönme Jews, anti-Semitism, the İzmir Plot, Israeli-trained spy sharks and other animals, this all seems a bit familiar
Music by Fanette Ronjat
More Info
Guguou - Parkta Bir Gün official audio
Mustafa Sandal - Aya Benzer video
Nil Karaibrahimgil - Seviyorum Sevmiyorum video
Sila and Kenan Dogulu - ...dan sonra video
Cem Karaca - Resimdeki Gözyaşları audio
Altın Gün - Rakıya Su Katamam video
Conspiracy theories in Turkey on Wikiwand
The Conspiratorial Style in Turkish Politics: Discussing the Deep State in the Parliament
Türkiye’s twin quakes and conspiracy theories
NEW H.A.A.R.P EVIDENCE COMES OUT IN TURKEY EARTHQUAKE?! FACT OR CONSPIRACY? THIS IS SH0CKING! video
The Science Behind the Massive Turkey-Syria Earthquakes video from the Wall Street Journal
Turkish intelligence breaks ripped jeans signal code
‘Spies’ Communicate Via Ripped Jeans, According to Akit Daily
The Tin-Foil Hats Are Out in Turkey
Conspiracy theory keeps Turkey in its grip: “There is a vast conspiracy against the Turkish nation”
AKP’s Conspiracy Theories paper
Unraveling the AKP's 'Mastermind' conspiracy theory
The discourse of üst akıl: a search for hegemony in the Turkish media paper
On the Resilience of Conspiracy Theories: The Resurrection of a Turkish Deep State under AKP Rule video
Why Turkish government pushes 'global conspiracy' narrative
How Turkish conspiracy theories upended life of U.S. scholar Barkey video
The Middle East 'mastermind' who worries Erdogan
Erdogan: Turkey's all-powerful leader of 20 years on BBC News
The complex history of Turkey and the Kurds, explained video from the Washington Post
Armenia Genocide Explained: Turkey, Erdogan, Biden Statement, Reparations & the Ottoman Empire video
The Armenian Genocide video
The Unspeakable Things That Happened In The Armenian Genocide video
Turkey Clears Bird Of Spying For Israel; Kestrel Is Just Latest In Long List Of Suspected Animal Mossad Agents
Iran's ex-military chief: Israel sent lizards to spy on nuclear program
Ayoon Wa Azan (Conspiracy Theory)
They Might Be Giants - Istanbul (Not Constantinople) video
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