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Inside Out: Neuroscience & Memory w/Gary Simonds (Because Reasons 7)

EPISODE 96 | Inside Out: Neuroscience & Memory (Because Reasons 7)
Guest: Dr. Gary Simonds, neurosurgeon, professor and author of Death's Pale Flag
What happens when a lauded neurosurgeon starts thinking about ghosts and the scientific approach to the paranormal? You get a novel like Death's Pale Flag. This is the fictional work by Gary R. Simonds, who spends a lot of his time thinking about the brain, how it works, how it doesn't work, and areas that still need to be explored with open minds. 
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SECTIONS
02:45 - Physician, heal thyself
05:01 - The brain is a computer, sort of, but not really
12:14 - The subjectivity of the inner voice
17:00 - Not a free for all
22:07 - Internal-extrenal confabulation
27:00 - Death's Pale Flag
36:35 - Science and the paranormal
Music by Fanette Ronjat
More Info:
Gary R Simonds website
Death's Pale Flag by Gary Simonds
Building Resilience in Neurosurgical Residents: A Primer by Gary Simonds
Thriving in Healthcare: A Positive Approach to Reclaim Balance and Avoid Burnout in Your Busy Life by Gary Simonds
The Thriving Physician: How to Avoid Burnout by Choosing Resilience Throughout Your Medical Career by Gary Simonds
How Human Memory Works on How Stuff Works
Neural Plasticity and Memory at the National Library of Medicine
Unreliable Memory in Psychology Today
The Science of Ghosts in Science News Explores
Ghost Busted: When Science Meets the Supernatural in Discover Magazine
Ghosts Aren't Real: 4 Scientific Explanations for Paranormal Activity video by SciShow
Brilliant Scientists Are Open-Minded about Paranormal Stuff, So Why Not You? in Scientific American
A scientific approach to the paranormal TEDx video by Carrie Poppy
The Dangers of Keeping an Open Mind on the Ratio Scientiae Blog
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Bodyguard of Lies: The Ghost Army & Wartime Deception (WIW 11)

EPSIODE 95 | Bodyguard of Lies: The Ghost Army & Wartime Deception (World Is Weird 11)
More than 100 million soldiers took part in WWII, but not all of them were fighting with guns. There was obviously a lot of administration and infrastructure to deal with, there were codebreakers and spies, and there were even some who engaged in secret deception to trick the enemy.
This episode is not abouts ghosts, but rather the Ghost Army. No, not a battalion of unstoppable undead like Aragorn brings with him against the forces of Mordor, but a dirty tricks tactical deception unit the Allies deployed in Europe near the end of the war to fool Axis commanders.
Because, as the saying goes, all’s fair in love and war. This episode is partly a cynical attempt to lure in military history fans, but these are also really interesting stories. And you might consider them to have been, in fact, conspiracies, ones that were successful, by and large.
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02:58 - Sucker Bait - Dudley Clarke, Jasper Maskelyne, North Africa fun, Operation Crusader, Operation Bertram, the Second Battle of EL Alamein, Sunshields & Cannibals, Operation Canwell, Operation Sly Bob, HMS Houdin
12:08 - I’ll Make Mincemeat Out of That Mouse! - Operation Husky (the invasion of Sicily); Operations Barclay, Mincemeat, Waterfall & Animals, the Trout Memo
16:47 - Don't Touch the Sides! - Operations Overlord, Neptune, Bodyguard, Wadham, Starkey, Tindall & Cockade; 'A' Force, Plan Jael, Operations Fortitude & Ironside, double agents (Garbo, Brutus, Tricycle, Tate & Bronx), Operations Graffham, Royal Flush & Zeppelin
23:52 - We Can Scare You, but You Can't Scare Us - The Ghost Army, Eye of the Needle, Operation Quicksilver, the 3132 Signal Service Company Special & spoof radio, Operation Viersen
30:31 - Surfin' USA - Douglas Fairbanks Jr. gets inspired by HMS Tormentor, the Beach Jumpers, PsyOps, the Navy SEALs
36:04 - Would I Lie to You? - The Siege of Yapu, Alexander crosses the Hydaspes River, Sun Bin of the Qi, the Empty Fort Strategy, Mongol deceptions, the Sultan Baybars takes the Krak des Chevaliers in the Ninth Crusade, the Americans vs Brits & North Vietnamese
40:03 - MILDEC strategies & guidelines - Sun Tzu vs. Clausewitz, the fog of war, the five main MILDEC tactics, Magruder's Principle, Jones' Dilemma, Avoid Windfalls, Multiple Forms of Surprise
45:38 - We're Not as Clever as We Think We Are - The military influences fashion, all deception if about perception and psychology
Music by Fanette Ronjat
More Info
Magic in the Desert on the Warfare History Network website
The Magician of WWII who Made Tanks Disappear on War History Online
The Deceivers: Allied Military Deception in the Second World War by Thaddeus Holt
The War Magician: The True Story of Jasper Maskelyne by David Fisher
Operation Bertram on the Scholarly Community Encyclopedia
A 5-Minute History Of The Battle Of El Alamein
Dummy Tanks and Fake Radio Broadcasts: WW2's Biggest Deception Campaigns
Operation Husky: The Classroom for Amphibious Landings
Trout Memo on Military History Wiki
What Was Operation Mincemeat?
Dead Man Floating: World War II's Oddest Operation on NPR
Operation Mincemeat: The man who never was on The History Press
"A" Force: The Origins of British Deception During the Second World War by Whitney T. Bendeck
6 Daring Double Agents on History.com
Agent Garbo on MI5 website
Secret Agents, Secret Armies: The D-Day Misfit Spies on the National WWII Museum website
A Pioneering Experiment - OSS Double-Agent Operations in World War II paper by Robert Cowden
The Ghost Army Legacy Project website
How the Ghost Army of WWII Used Art to Deceive the Nazis in Smithsonian Magazine
The Top-Secret WWII Unit That Fooled the Nazis on History.com
Ghost Army book and film
How a Ghost Army of American artists helped defeat Hitler in The Week
Inside the 23rd, the 3132 Signal Company, The Sonic Deceivers
Operation Viersen mission summary
D-DAY DECEPTION: OPERATION FORTITUDE SOUTH
Eye of the Needle by Ken Follett
The Defeat of Hitler: D-Day Invasion on The History Place
How Actor Douglas Fairbanks Jr. Crafted an Impressive Military Career on Miltary.com
Douglas Fairbanks's Drama on the High Seas on HistoryNet
The Beach Jumpers and Douglas Fairbanks Jr. video by The History Guy
U.S. Navy Beach Jumpers Association
UDT-SEAL Association
Army document FM 3-13.4 Army Support to Military Deception
Deceivingly Decisive: U.S. Army Military Deception and Counterintelligence article by First Lieutenant Will Rector 
Two Taxonomies of Deception for Attacks on Information Systems by Neil C. Rowe and Hy S. Rothstein, U.S. Naval Postgraduate School
Tactical Level PSYOP and MILDEC Information Oper Operations: How to Smartly and Lawfully Prime the Battlefield paper by Joshua E. Kastenberg
The lost and found art of deception on US Army website
‘The Art of War’: As relevant now as when it was written in Irish Times
The Grand Strategy of Carl von Clausewitz on Warroom
On War Without the Fog article in Military Review
Genghis Khan's Secrets of Success on HistoryNet
Hiding in Plain Sight: The Science of Military Camouflage blog on UF PRO
Lessons from Others for Future U.S. Army Operations in and Through the Information Environment paper by the Rand Corporation
Deploying Deception on the Battlefield in Scientific American
The Military Influence on Fashion on Highsnobiety
The Psychology of Cognitive Deception
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Peek-A-Boo: Project Star Gate

EPISODE 94 | Peek-A-Boo: Project Star Gate
The US military heard the Soviets were working on creating psychic spies, so they started their own program, which would, after many name changes, get dubbed Project Star Gate. This would attract cranks and flim-flammers of all kinds over its 25 year run, resulting in not much useful intel but inspiring some participants to make a number of outlandish claims and starting various conspiracy theories about remote viewing techniques.
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03:37 - Get Ready - The Soviet Project AIZEN, SCANATE at SRI, Uri Geller
07:53 - Gypsies, Tramps and Thieves - The Scientologists: Harold Putoff, Pat Price, Ingo Swann (the most successful remote viewer of all time), sexy bio-androids go shopping, a thirsty UFO
12: 37 - Joseph McMoneagle (the most successful remote viewer of all time) doesn't find General James Dozier, makes predictions that don't come true
16:02 - David Morehouse (the most successful remote viewer of all time) 
17:26 - Fly Like an Eagle - Jewish Hungarian cowboy Edwin May takes over, Gondola Wish, Grill Flame moves to Fort Meade, Major General Albert Stubblebine, the Soviet Project Znacki, Sun Streak, Project Star Gate, Ray Hyman finds fault (again)
24:34 - So Be It, Jedi - Various JEDIs, not those stargates, Suggestopedia, the First Earth Batallion
29:20 - (Don't Fear) The Reaper - Ed Dames (the most successful remote viewer of all time), remote viewing is not really "seeing", Psi Tech, Harry DeLighter, Dames makes predictions and some money
35:10 - Subterranean Homesick Alien - The KGB's Project ISIS, the Brits look into remote viewing (in a half-arsed way), how much did all this cost, talented remote viewer Courtney Brown, Star Trek, yogic flying, the Heaven's Gate cult
43:10 - Sympathy for the Devil - Aaron Hanson née Donahue (the greatest psychic of all time) and his father, James Donahue, angels are bat aliens from Orion, Aaron as the Hopi Pahana, Aaron starts his Luciferian Order (cult), and he's a colossal racist, Aaron and Ed Dames fall out over Japanese TV money, Aaron runs for president
Music by Fanette Ronjat
More Info:
Psychic Discoveries Behind the Iron Curtain by Sheila Ostrander 
Unconventional research in USSR and Russia: short overview, 2013 paper by Serge Kernbach
CIA releases psychic experiment documents on CNET, 2017
STAR GATE [Controlled Remote Viewing] on FAS Intelligence Resource Program
Uri Geller on the Tonight Show, August 1, 1973 video
Uri Geller interview with The Guardian. September 2022
Operation Star Gate: U.S. Intelligence and Psychic Spies in Enigma
Remote Viewing, Reality, and the Human Condition, Russell Targ article with links
CIA documents about Ingo Swann
Memoirs of a Psychic Spy: The Remarkable Life of U.S. Government Remote Viewer by Joseph McMoneagle
Remote Viewing: The Complete User's Manual for Coordinate Remote Viewing by David Morehouse
Psychic Warrior: The True Story of the CIA's Paranormal Espionage Programme by David Morehouse
The Monroe Institute website
CIA entry for Gondola Wish
CIA entry for Project Grill Flame
Grill Flame Project DIA session report, July 31, 1999
Meet the Former Pentagon Scientist Who Says Psychics Can Help American Spies in Newsweek
Rise Up and Fight the Swine Flu Conspiracy, article of Stubblebine's pseudomedical nonsense
The Men Who Stare at Goats by Jon Ronson
Saddam’s Stargate and Taskforce 20 episode
The Pentagon’s Twilight Zone, 1988 WaPo article by Sally Squires
Read The CIA 1983 Report About Transcending Spacetime With Your Mind
Remotely Viewed? The Charlie Jordan Case
Remote Viewing Matrix (Ed Dames's latest name change)
Free Energy: The Race to Zero Point movie
Coast to Coast AM - Project Stargate with Dale Graff
Coast to Coast AM - Remote Viewing Satan with Ed Dames (Dec. 21, 1998)
Hocus Pocus - Is Ed Dames Exploiting Missing and Murdered Children for Self Promotion?
Project Pegasus - Mars and Beyond! episode
Project ISIS: The Secret KGB ★ Abduction Files Part 1 video
Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Psi in The Independent
British Military Tests Psychic Warfare in Wired
British Ministry of Defence Remote Viewing archive
Ministry of Defence 2002 report
UK forces tested, rejected psychic techniques in The Register
The psychic hunt for Osama Bin Laden
Cosmic Voyage: A Scientific Discovery of Extraterrestrials Visiting Earth by Courtney Brown 
The Farsight Institute website 
Courtney Brown's 'Cosmic Voyage' in Preposterism in the Skeptical Inquirer 
The Courtney Brown Affair and Academic Freedom in the Skeptical Inquirer 
Courtney Brown - Adolf Hitler: Remote Viewing a Mass Murderer video
The Hopi Turned Their Backs On The Pahana by James Donahue
Under the Vatican - Revelation of the Beast by James Donahue
Remote Viewing the 45th President of the USA 2016 James Hanson video
Aaron C. Hanson documents archive
Suspect Zero movie (18% on Rotten Tomatoes)
Aaron C. Hanson entry in the Encyclopedia of American Loons
The Truth About Remote Viewing on Skeptoid
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From Sea to Sea: More Canada Mysteries & Histories

EPISODE 93 | From Sea to Sea: More Canada Mysteries & Histories
Guest: Nile Séguin, comedian, actor, writer, French-Canadian
Canada, northern neighbor to the United States, a sovereign nation that’s only party sovereign, second largest country in the world by size but 37th by population. It’s a place filled with fairly reasonable people, lots of trees and many mysteries.
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03:18 - A bit about Nile (including his new podcast), where Canada gets its name, Canucks
09:05 - The Screaming Tunnel of Niagara Falls
15:10 - Jerome of Sandy Cove, NS
25:04 - Project Y: the flying VZ-9 Avrocar 
30:34 - Canadian pronunciation and slang
45:22 - Nile has homework
Music by Fanette Ronjat
MORE INFO:
Nile Séguin website
Nile's Conspiracy Planning Committee: Plandemic
Nile's Conspiracy Planning Committee: The Moon Landing
Nile's IMdb page
Mercer Report video: Canada Explained
Origin of the name "Canada" - government webpage
The Screaming Tunnel on To Do Canada
Screaming Tunnel Niagara Falls: Haunted or Hoax? on I've Been BT
Real History of the Screaming Tunnel | Niagara Haunt’s Legit Legend on Ghost Walks
Jerome of Sandy Cove, Nova Scotia on Historic Mysteries
The story of Jerome: The southwestern N.S. mystery that never ends, even 110 years after his death on Saltwire
Jerome Identified - An Early Mystery Solved on Canadian Mysteries
The Story Of Avro Canada's VZ-9 Avrocar Flying Saucer Project on Simple Flying
Canada Built a Flying Saucer. It didn't work; the story of the Avro Canada VZ-9 Avrocar video
The Avrocar in Toronto from the 1950s video
Coanda Effect – Avro Car on Mysteries of Canada
What’s Going On With the Way Canadians Say ‘About’? on Atlas Obscura
Canadianisms on CMU School of Computer Science website
Canadian Slang: A Guide To Bunny Hugs, Loonies, And More
25 Canadian slang words you should learn before visiting
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Octopus’s Garden: Dan Casolaro, INSLAW & Death (WIW 10)

EPISODE 92 | Octopus's Garden: Dan Casolaro, INSLAW & Death (WIW 10)
A number of unusual deaths, law enforcement software, mob families, casinos, drug running, arms dealing, and a possible nationwide, possible international, conspiracy known as the Octopus – this wild and complicated tale reads like a whole series of thriller novels and is further proof that the world is weird indeed.
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01:59 - Complicated Life - 1977: The weird death of Charles “Chuck” Morgan, Don Devereux investigates
08:48 - Herbie Goes Bananas - 1990: Joseph Bonanno aka Joe Bananas aka Don Peppino, Devereux helps Unsolved Mysteries on a story about Morgan, Doug Johnston dies across the street from Devereux's house, Dan Casolaro contacts Devereux in 1991
12:58 - Squid Game - 1973-1991: Dan Casolaro, dilletante & part-time journalist, starts poking around into rumors around INSLAW's PROMIS software, the 1980 October Surprise theory, Iran Contra and the BCCI Scandal
21:36 - Danger Man & the Octopus - 1989-1991: Casolaro encounters Michael Riconosciuto ("Danger Man"), begins to see the shape of the Octopus, starts getting threats
25:43 - Meeting in Martinsburg - 1991: Casolaro goes to Martinsburg, West Virginia but never makes it home, weirdness at his funeral, unanswered questions and "missing" files
32:47 - You Better You Bet - 1978-1981: Cabazon murders in Rancho Mirage, the the Fantasy Springs Resort Casino  in Indio, secret government dealings, mafia dudes, INSLAW and Michael Riconosciuto again, Wackenhut, drug running, software trojan horses, hitman James Hughes
40:35 - Giant Octopus Kraken - 1982-1991: Riconosciuto's roommate is killed, NSA guy Alan David Standorf is killed, Riconosciuto's lawyer is killed, journalist Anson Ng Yong is killed in Guatemala while researching much of all this, arms running, INSLAW, BCCI, and the DOJ
44:33 - Death & Espionage - 1976-2001: John Munson tries to frame Riconosciuto, then his girlfriend dies; the Spiro family are killed in Southern California; arms dealer turned Israeli spy Ari Ben-Menashe, counterintelligence agent Robert Hanssen turns double agent
50:10 - Trying to make some sense of it all
Music by Fanette Ronjat
Lapsus Linguae: I consistently mispronounce the name of Michael Riconosciuto thruoghout this episode, only finding out after I had recorded and edited that it should be closer to "Re-con-SHOO-toh" My bad.
More Info:
The Odd Mystery behind Charles C. Morgan's Death
Cold Case: Strange evidence found in '77 on, near man's body
Joe Bonanno Tuscon Arizona Crew Members video 
The Kinship of Killers
FBI Phoenix History
The Odd Death of Charles C. Morgan on Unsolved Wiki
Chuck Morgan on Unsolved Mysteries
A Case of Mistaken Identity? The Strange Death of Doug Johnston
Devereux Reports website
Danny Casolaro on Alchetron
Danny Casolaro on Unsolved Mysteries
The Last Days of Danny Casolaro article plus several links
The Strange Death of Danny Casolaro New York Times article, reprinted
What Killed Danny Casolaro? Washington Post article
THE STRANGE DEATH OF DANNY CASOLARO in Vanity Fair
FBI files on Dan Casolaro
Dan's file titled CIA Frank Terpil Renegades
Danny Casolaro's files and notes
Danny Casolaro Died for You backstory
The Mysterious Death Of Danny Casolaro
The INSLAW File
The INSLAW Affair - chapter 17 of The Last Circle: Danny Casolaro's Investigation into the Octopus and the PROMIS Software Scandal by Cheri Seymour
The INSLAW Affair documents
Federal Corruption: INSLAW by Harry V. Martin
The Promis Threat: An Octopus Slouches Toward Mena, Arkansas, Area 51 and The International UFO Congress in Las Vegas by Kenn Thomas, Steamshovel press, #7
Octopus Revisited by Kenn Thomas
The Undying Octopus: FBI and the PROMIS affair Part 1
Black Arcadia - Danny Casolaro and the Octopus - Parts 1-3
Parts 4-7, Lindsay Biziak Murder parts 1-2
Parts 8-10
The INSLAW Octopus in Wired
Code for PROMIS software
BCCI SCANDAL: BEHIND THE 'BANK OF CROOKS AND CRIMINALS' in the Washington Post
The Dictator-Run Bank That Tells the Story of America’s Foreign Corruption
BCCI Scandal document
Danny Casolaro and the Octopus Syndicate video
Casolaro Murder excerpts from The Village Voice
Cabazon: How 'Indian gaming' began - LaRouche article
Arrest in 1981 tribal murders revives old mystery
Badlands - article in Spy Magazine about many of these stories
Worldwide Conspiracy, Or Fantasy? -- Felon's Story Checks Out - Kind Of
Journalist Investigating Bank Was Second To Die
Guatemala: Journalist's Murder May Be Linked With Bcci Scandal
Murder in Rancho Santa Fe
Investigators closed a mysterious murder case Wednesday and blamed...
Secret Government Program Linked To Local Murders? KESQ new story on murders, INSLAW and more
Transcript of interview with Ari Ben-Menashe for Journeyman.tv
Justice Department records confirm PROMIS scandal’s ties to Israel
How an FBI Sting Took Down KGB Spy Robert Hanssen on Spyscape
How Robert Hanssen Spied for the Soviets
Because there's a LOT more to this, the timeline from Danny Casolaro Died for You
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Tartaria Sauce: The Tartarian Empire and 15-Minute Cities

EPSIODE 91 | Tartaria Sauce : The Great Tartarian Empire and 15-Minute Cities
One day, I wondered if there were any conspiracy theories about architecture, which is something I am quite keen on, so I fired up the laptop and did a Google search, and sure enough, there is. One. One that’s weird and funny and just a little bit sad.
While researching this, a new conspiracy pops up on the interwebs, this time about urban planning, another subject I‘m very interested in. And so, between the Tartarian Empire/Great Mud Flood theory, and the newly minted freak out about 15-minute cities, it felt like this episode of Conspiracy Clearinghouse was sort of writing itself.
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02:08 - Trans-Continental Hustle - Fomenko's New Chronology and Levashov's ramblings
04:51 - This City Never Sleeps - NYC's Singer Building & Penn Station, San Francisco's 1915 Panama–Pacific International Exposition, the White City at the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago
10:49 - World in My Eyes - Great Tartaria, the Great Mudflood, YouTube and Reddit
15:29 - They Might Be Giants - Tartarians were giants, mountains are petrified buildings, ancient nukes
18:29 - Bury the Evidence - Zero point energy, Nikola Tesla, we was robbed, a 1957 CIA report is proof (or not)
25:45 - I of the Storm - It's the QAnon of architecture
29:56 - City to City - Gemma O'Doherty discovers the 15-minute city, Carlos Moreno's ideas, Frank Llyod Wright's Broadacre Cities, Build Back Better and Agenda 21/30
35:02 - Deeply Dippy - O'Doherty ramps up her rhetoric, Oxford gets in trouble, Neo-Nazis and Not Our Future make noise
38:46 - Party at Ground Zero - Death threats, climate change deniers get in on the action, Jordan Peterson and other screwheads weigh in, not really a new idea, Jan Gehl's groundbreaking ideas on urban planning, many cities are making plans (like Prague)
45:24 - Bitter Sweet Symphony - 15-minute cities have become a rallying point for alt-right madness and conspiracy theories
Music by Fanette Ronjat
More Info:
Time for Timer: Pseudohistories & Historical Revisions episode
Khazar Love Triangle episode
Singer Building on Skyscraper.org
The Story Behind The Singer Building: NYC's Lost Skyscraper
The birth, life, and death of old Penn Station
The Panama-Pacific International Exhibition
SAN FRANCISCO, UNITED STATES 1915 on America's Best History
WORLD’S COLUMBIAN EXPOSITION OF 1893
The World’s Columbian Exposition: The White City and fairgrounds on Smart History
5 fun facts about the World’s Columbian Exposition of 1893
The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America by Erik Larson
Lost Empire of Tartaria in Never Was Magazine
Tartaria and the Mud Flood on the Skeptoid podcast
Inside The Empire Of Tartaria, One Of History’s Wildest Conspiracies
Twitter thread on Tartaria by @cinemashoebox
Tartarian Architecture on Reddit
Nikola Tesla - The Monster from Venus episode
Tartaria Uncovered: AntiquiTech, Tesla, Mud Flood & Beyond! subreddit
Inside the wild architecture conspiracy theory gaining traction online
John Levi on YouTube
Philipp Druzhinin on YouTube
Tartaria: an Empire hidden by history, or revealed by ignorance?
Question the Narrative | Trees, Titans, or Melted Buildings?
History Reset video
The Lost Empire of Tartaria on Historical Blindness
National Cultural Development Under Communism - 1957 CIA report
Inside the ‘Tartarian Empire,’ the QAnon of Architecture
Tartaria Explained in Three Minutes video
What is the Truth about Tartaria video
The Tartarian Meltdown YouTube channel
The 15-minute city: how Ireland's conspiracy theorists grew to fear an urban planning concept
Introducing the “15-Minute City”: Sustainability, Resilience and Place Identity in Future Post-Pandemic Cities
15-Minute City on Deloitte
The 15-Minute City: Putting people at the center of urban transformation website
Paris’ Vision for a ‘15-Minute City’ Sparks a Global Movement
Paris, the 15-minute city in The New European
THE PROMISE OF THE 15-MINUTE CITY on Politico
The Death and Life of Great American Cities by Jane Jacobs
Revisiting Frank Lloyd Wright’s Vision for “Broadacre City”
Agenda 21 - This Land Is My Land episode
How '15-minute cities' turned into an international conspiracy theory
What is the '15-minute city' conspiracy theory?
Why is the apparently harmless idea of 15-minute cities exercising conspiracy theorists?
Oxford, the 15-Minute City, and the Birth of a Lie
Why do traffic reduction schemes attract so many conspiracy theories?
Oxford hit by wave of protests over '15-minute city' backlash
Oxford protest video
Oxfordshire and Oxford councillors threatened over traffic filters
False climate lockdown claims in Oxford lead to death threats
Don’t lock me in my neighborhood! 15-minute city hysteria sweeps the UK
Walkable Cities
Jan Gehl website
"The Human Scale" in IMDb
Times Square Transformation
Times Square: Putting the “square” back in Times Square
Citing “Livability and Mobility,” Bloomberg Declares Broadway Plazas a Success on Next City
Portland's 20-Minute Neighborhoods after Ten Years: How a Planning Initiative Impacted Accessibility
London's Gear Change plan
Prague Metropolitan Plan
Prague 2050 Plan
Prague Institute of Planning and Development plans
How can we bring ‘zero auto ownership’ out of the shadows?
Tackling the 15-minute cities conspiracy means fixing inequality
Conspiracy Theorists Are Coming for the 15-Minute City
The 15-Minute City Freakout Is a Case Study in Conspiracy Paranoia
15-minute cities: how to separate the reality from the conspiracy theory
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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

Oh, Canada!

EPISODE 90 | Oh, Canada! 
The Great White North, the Just Society - Canada is a cold place filled with reasonable people. For the most part. But not even they are immune to the pull of the conspirasphere, and have hatched some wacky ideas all their own. 
This episode is by request of a Canadian fan of the podcast. So enjoy!
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02: 32 - Horton Hears an "Eh!" - Tim Hortons, Double-Doubles & Timbits, cocaine & reincarnation
05:35 - Little Potato - PM Justin Trudeau's paternity raises eyebrows
08:37 - Calling Occupants - The FLQ, Pierre Trudeau and the October Crisis
11:26 - Miles From Our Home - Baroness Birdwood, the 2014 Parliament Hill attack & the Parliament bombing of 1966
14:50 - David DePape visits San Francisco
17:02 - Snakes & Arrows - The NHL hates Canada, the Avro Arrow
21:34 - Gimme Your Money, Please - Canadians are talented, Canadian money has demons
25:23 - Bird on the Wire - Her Majesty Queen Romana Didulo, Commander-in-Chief of the Kingdom of Canada; the White Helmets
30:03 - Magic Power - Nahanni, the Headless Valley
34:51 - Mmm Mmm Mmm Mmm - The Shag Harbour UFO Incident
38:34 - Everything to Everyone - The disappearance of Granger Taylor 
Music by Fanette Ronjat
Lapsus Linguae: I continually refer to the Avro Arrow as the "Arvo" Arrow because I was not paying attention
More Info
Is this the most Canadian photo ever?
X-Ray Shoe Fitter - Hilarious Histories with Nile Séguin (video)
What are some conspiracy theories about Canada?
14 things you didn't know about Tim Hortons
The Strange Conspiracy Behind Tim Hortons Coffee
Nicotine in Tim Hortons Coffee on Snopes
Top 5 Canadian Conspiracy Theories on Mysteries of Canada
The insane conspiracy of Justin Trudeau Castro
The internet is going wild over a conspiracy theory that Justin Trudeau has fake eyebrows
Joe Rogan jokes Justin Trudeau needs to prove he’s not Fidel Castro’s son
The FLQ and the October Crisis
The October Crisis on Le Canada
October Crisis: 50 years after a bloody spasm that nearly tore Canada apart
Baroness Birdwood obituary
Bomb in Parliament misses its target in 1966
Ottawa gunman Michael Zehaf-Bibeau was shot 31 times, police report to reveal
Uncovering a killer: Addict, drifter, walking contradiction
What we know about David DePape, the suspect in the attack on Paul Pelosi
DePape in bizarre phone call to KTVU says he should have been 'more prepared'
Millions believe in conspiracy theories in Canada
Chilling Canadian conspiracy theories explained
Pseudolaw - Cabbages & Kings
Why Is the NHL So Anti-Canadian?
Is the NHL rigged against Canada? Not really
The Avro Arrow Was Canada’s Awesome, Pointless Jet Fighter
Canada's Jet-Age Dream: The Avro Arrow
Avro Arrow debate on Quora
The Canadian Conspiracy - satirical video from 1985
The Devil Is in the Hairdo
True Or False? Canadian Money Once Had A Demon Hidden In Queen Elizabeth’s Hair
Who is Romana Didulo, the Filipino immigrant who calls herself ‘Queen of Canada’?
‘Queen of Canada’: the rapid rise of a fringe QAnon figure sounds alarm
Inside the QAnon Queen’s Cult: ‘The Abuse Was Non-Stop’
Inside the Conspiracy Theory That Turned Syria's First Responders Into Terrorists
Russian trolls attack Syrian humanitarians to cover up war crimes
Playing into Putin’s Hands: The White Helmets, Douma, And How U.S. Failures Become Russian Opportunities
Legends of the Nahanni Valley
Secrets of the Nahanni: The Valley of Headless Men
Valley of Headless Men: Mysterious Decapitations in Canada’s Nahanni Valley
Why the Nahanni Valley is Creepier Than Any Horror Film
Red Alert - UFOs as Threat! CC episode (Falcon Lake Incident)
Shag Harbour Incident continues to fascinate small N.S. fishing village
The Shag Harbour UFO incident video on CBC
Shag Harbour UFO Centre
Granger Taylor: The Spaceman of Vancouver Island
The Man Who Went to Space and Disappeared
Spaceman - documentary about Granger Taylor
B.C.‘s Granger Taylor left a note saying he was boarding an alien spaceship — then he disappeared
What happened to Granger Taylor?
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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

JBS BS: The John Birch Society

EPISODE 89 | JBS BS: The John Birch Society
History is full of those who became tyrants or aspired to become one. Even in a country like the United States in the fairly enlightened 20th century, there were those who thought that, well, actually, their vision of how things should be was the best one, and that they should probably just be in charge. And if you opposed them, they said all sorts of disagreeable things about you. And sometimes they just outright lied.
Welcome to the John Birch Society, where anything and everything goes in the life and death struggle against international Communism. And they are kind of the foundation of today's far right.
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02:10 - Candy-Coated Commie Hater - Candy maker Robert Welch Jr. was a smart guy, but also a hardcore Baptist and rabid anti-Communist
04:37 - Birch the Baptist Spy - Angry Baptist zealot John Birch became a spy in China during WWII, getting killed by Communists just after Japan surrendered; Welch was inspired, founding the John Birch Society in 1958 along with Fred Koch, Robert Waring Stoddard, Harry Lynde Bradley and anti-Semite Revilo P. Oliver, who went pretty much full Nazi later on
09:32 - Red Scares - Marxism's beginnings, the First Red Scare (1919-1920), bans and deportations, the Immigration Act of 1924, the Second Red Scare (1947-1958), loyalty oaths, the Communist Party outlawed, the Black List
15:04 - JBS BS - Conspiracy theories aplenty, America was "great" in the year 1900, created the water fluoridation freakout, Dr. Strangelove, membership grew while Welch got weirder, other far righter groups not so supportive, Barry Goldwater set the stage for Reagan, the Soviet Negro Republic pamphlet
23:28 - Go Your Own Way - The Birchers started to lose supporters in the 70s and 80s, the ultra-conservative US Taxpayers Party splits off and then becomes the Constitution Party, the American Heritage Party split from them and then became the Christian Liberty Party - both foundational to the Tea Party movement
29:48 - Fellow Travelers - Jim Gilchrist is a fan of the American Heritage Party, so is Alex Jones lapdog Jerome Corsi, who eats heartily from the conspiracy buffet; the JBS pushes Agenda 21 CTs, keeps records on political voting records; some think Trumpism is basically Bircherism
Music by Fanette Ronjat
More Info: 
Who Was John Birch? - 1961 Time Magazine article
Robert Welch, Founder of Birch Society, Dies at 85
The New American (the JBS magazine)
JBS Freedom Index
The Constitution Party website
Christian Liberty Party website
America at the Turn of the Century: A Look at the Historical Context
The John Birchers’ Tea Party
Tea party: Dark side of conservatism on Poltico
The Tea Party, the John Birch Society, and the Fear of "Mob Rule"
The Tea Party Movement as a Modern Incarnation of Nativism in the United States and Its Role in American Electoral Politics, 2009-2014 paper
The John Birch Society Is Back
Flight from reason - Thomas Patterson looks at the threat to Democracy in ‘How America Lost Its Mind’
Today’s right-wing conspiracy theory mentality can be traced back to the John Birch Society
Today’s Paranoid Right Has Surpassed the John Birch Society
It Didn’t Start with Trump: The Decades-Long Saga of How the GOP Went Crazy
How the John Birch Society radicalized the American Right
The fringe group that broke the GOP’s brain — and helped the party win elections on Vox
American Psychosis: A Historical Investigation of How the Republican Party Went Crazy by David Corn
Robert Evans's Behind the Bastards podcast
Behind the Bastards episodes about the John Birch Society:  Part One & Part Two
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Weird AI Yankovic (Not-So-Scary AI Futures)

EPISODE 88 | Weird AI Yankovic (Not-So-Scary AI Futures)
Guest: Josh Bachynski, AI consultant
AI is here and it's here to stay. And despite all the hand wringing and doom-and-gloom predictions, the AI-powered future actually looks pretty bright. AI is already being used in a number of applications, and more are on the way. 
Josh Bachynski and I talk about the inherent ethics of intelligence; AI/robot bees, burgers and beers; AI's predictive capabilities, AI religions, the Singularity and the most probable futures we will see in the next 50 years.
Think of this as a counterbalance to our earlier talk The Skynet Matrix: AI Goes Rogue
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02:07 - The Five Worlds of AI - AI Fizzle, Futurama, AI-Dystopia, Singularia, Paperclipalypse; nice AI in pop culture - Max Headroom, Her (Samantha), Star Trek TNG (Data); philosophy points the way, making more trouble makes trouble, AI time scales, AI destables but also enables
14:35 - Current Uses for AI - RoboBees, predictive models, Falcon LLM
19:32 - Flippy the robot burger maker, AI bartenders, AI pizza makers, it's all robots, Intelligent X - AI/robot customized beer making, personal customization in all things; AI pattern recognition for credit card fraud, crime detection, football coaching; emotion detection, job interviews, police interrogations
27:23 - Long-term optimization strategies, Freakonomics, Beauty.AI for beauty contests, biases 
36:22 - AI Religions - Are we playing god, we're eternal because we're information, the noosphere, the divine as information, the Holy Spirit as an AI-like tool, spiritual machines
43:02 - Kurzweil's Singularity - Six stages: the Information Age, the Age of Computation, the Age of Spiritual Machines, the Age of Intelligent Machines, Computer-Human Symbiosis, the Age of Robots; cybernetics and augmentations are used today, possible timelines for the Singularity (2045?)
49:24 - The Road to Utopia - Another potential timeline for the future
Music by Fanette Ronjat
More Info:
The Moral Concept - Josh Bachynski's blog (email him at  joshbachynski@gmail.com)
Adapting to the AI Age podcast episode on Digital Signage Done Right (w/transcript)
AI Personas & Ethics podcast episode on Digital Signage Done Right (w/transcript)
Use AI to Create Content Today on Digital Signage Done Right
Five Worlds of AI
At Home in the Universe by Stuart Kauffman
Superintelligent AI is necessary for an amazing future, but far from sufficient
The Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI)
Top 10 Unusual but Brilliant Use Cases of Artificial Intelligence
Falcon LLM
The Most Unusual Uses of Artificial Intelligence
Flippy 2 by Miso Robotics
FLIPPY The AI Burger Flipping Robot (video)
Japan's robot bartenders: Last call for human service?
Cyberdog - Prague's robot wine bar
Pizzaiola - AI Based Robotic Pizza Maker
The weirdest uses of AI
How Carlsberg is using AI to help develop new beers
Intelligent X - customized AI and robotic beer making
EveryHuman - Create your scent with Algorithmic Perfumery
The Amazing Ways How Mastercard Uses Artificial Intelligence To Stop Fraud And Reduce False Declines
AI Is Now Analyzing Candidates' Facial Expressions During Video Job Interviews
Paragraphica - the lenless AI camera
Freakonomics - the Hidden Side of Everything website
Beauty.AI
Visions of AI Utopia
Beyond The Hype: Five Exciting AI Outcomes In The Next Five Years on Forbes
Gods in the machine? The rise of artificial intelligence may result in new religions
Entering the singularity: Has AI reached the point of no return? on The Hill
WTF is The Technological Singularity? on Hackernoon
Technological singularity on Transhumanism Wiki
Kurzweil Claims That the Singularity Will Happen by 2045
Ray Kurzweil website
Will Artificial Intelligence (AI) Benefit Humanity? – A Utopian View
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CSI: Conspiracy - Three Cold Cases (WIW 9)

EPISODE 87 | CSI: Conspiracy - Three Cold Cases (World Is Weird 9)
True crime is a popular genre, mainly because people love mysteries. Here are three cases from the conspiracy world that fit the bill, from three different decades and three different countries, where the weird and the unexplained meet head on. 
We’ll look at the Lead Masks Case from Brazil, the UK’s Zigmund Adamski case (sometimes called the first UFO murder), and the Yuba County Five, also known as “America’s Dyatlov”.
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02:26 - Killing Mask - The Brazilian Lead Masks Case (August 21, 1966)
17:31 - Working in the Coal Mine - The strange death of Zigmund Adamski (June 6, 1980)
24:35 - Misty Mountain Hop - America's Dyatlov: the Yuba County Five (February 24, 1978)
Music by Fanette Ronjat
More Info:
The Curious Case of the Lead Mask Deaths on Today I Found Out
The Mysterious “Lead Masks Case” on Ghost Theory
O caso das Máscaras de Chumbo (in Portuguese)
Mistério das máscaras de chumbo segue sem solução 54 anos depois (54-year anniversary of Lead Masks Case, in Portuguese)
Flying Saucer Review, March-April 1967
1966, August 17: The Lead Masks Mystery on Anomalies
Alien Abduction Claims in Yorkshire on BBC Inside Out
The mysterious disappearance and death of Zigmund Adamski - murder or Alien abduction? on Strange Outdoors
Alien abduction or KGB? The baffling case of the miner whose body was found on a pile of coal
Alan Godfrey UFO website
The Dyatlov Pass Incident: More Than a UFO Story episode
5 'Boys' Who Never Come Back in the Washington Post
Spooky or Not: The Yuba County Five
Let’s talk about it: Gary Mathias and his four friends
The haunting case of the Mathias Group (Yuba County Five) on Strange Outdoors
'Bizarre as Hell': The Disappearance of the Yuba County Five on Mental Floss
‘Yuba County Five’ uncovers more answers and even more questions about the 5 California men who went missing in 1978 on Podsauce
What Happened to the Yuba County Five? on Historic Mysteries
Yuba County Five Case Analysis | Unexplained Disappearance and Deaths video by Dr. Todd Grande
The Yuba County Five: Terror on the Mountain on The Crime Wire
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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