We're back. Sorry for the absence. We missed you. We're talking today about Wayne Simmons, a regular talking head on Fox News and in other media outlets who cited his decades as a deep cover CIA operative to lend credence and gravitas to his opinions in the wake of 9/11. But something didn't add up about him to many, and the unraveling of his narra…

We're back on the subject of UFOs, UAPs, or whatever the heck you wanna call them. Soon, the deadline for a full report on what the government knows about unidentified flying objects is approaching. We talk about them, about our previous discussion of the To The Stars Academy, and what to make of the increasing evidence that something we don't unde…

This week we're talking about personality tests! There are many different ways people analyze their personalities or search for personalized information and advice, from the less scientific (horoscopes and the like) to a more data-driven approach (the Myers-Briggs). We look at several different systems that people use to break down their personalit…

This week we're talking about NFTs, the latest crypto-blockchain-thingy that's got everyone swept up into a frenzy. What is an NFT? Well, it's kind of like a limited edition thing, like a trading card, that lives on the blockchain of a cryptocurrency. What it is to different people is more complicated. It's a collectible, an investment, or trying t…

This week we're talking about a notable art feud, all started around the creation of the blackest black paint ever. Devised by Anish Kapoor, vantablack is the legendary darker-than-dark paint that sparked anger and controversy when he declared sole ownership and rights to use it. This spawned anger, commentary, and a pretty hilarious troll in respo…

When you think of your beloved sleepytime tea, probably the last thing you think of is bizarre utopian cults. Boy, do we have a story for you. With incidental connections to the Kellogg family who we've talked about in the past, Celestial Seasonings has an odd history that they don't particularly like to talk about with the cult of Urantia, a belie…

This week we're talking about a "documentary" which is available online which purports to tell the story of a real life time traveler. "Confessions of a Time Traveler: The Man From 3036" is on Amazon Prime, and you could watch it right now. It's hard to tell exactly how seriously it wants you to take it, and we had a bunch of feelings about it. But…

This week, we're talking about The Republic of Molossia, a micronation in Nevada that has been in the works for 40 years. Its co-founder and current leader, His Excellency President Grand Admiral Colonel Doctor Kevin Baugh, founded the nation with a friend at a young age and it has been through a turbulent series of wars, coups, takeovers and re-es…

This week, in this new year of 2021 where everyone's hoping for a bit of good luck, we're hoping you'll appreciate that your luck could not be worse than Roy Sullivan. The Guinness world record holder for most recorded lightning strikes (seven! or eight, depending on which ones you count), Roy Sullivan's story is a reminder of how improbably bad yo…

This week we're talking about something that we're surprised we hadn't heard about. It's a disturbing story of the true life behind the glamorous and beloved front of Flordelis De Souza, a Brazilian entertainer and politician that doesn't seem to have cracked the front page here in America. She was seen as the equivalent of the Mother Theresa in Ri…

This week we're talking about gangstalking. If you haven't heard of it before, you're not alone, but it's a bit on the fringe, and it's a concerning concept. People who believe they're victims of gangstalking feel harassed and threatened by seemingly everyone -- at home, in the store, at work -- and they see themselves as the targets of a coordinat…

This week we're talking about the spoopy abandoned town known as "Helltown" Ohio. A small part of a larger surrounding town, it's been abandoned for about 40 years. It was roped off and inaccessible, and spawned several legends about what happened that made the town close up. We talk about the rumors and lore, as well as the truth of what really ha…

This week, we're celebrating the month of spooptober with special guest Kerstyn, talking about something truly terrifying. An ancient and evil force, which neither man nor god could contain. The torturer of untold billions of souls, it knows no country and is unbound as it sweeps the globe in search of those to twist into its hideous grasp. Grab yo…

This week, we're kicking off Spooptober with an episode about our amazing, weird, creepy brains. The brain is a long-lasting mystery and spoop symbol. Mad scientists with brains in jars or putting them in monsters' heads hasn't helped. But today we're talking about the odd ways the brain works, the ways in which it breaks, and some of the amazing t…

This week, we're talking about Ted Kaczynski. But not necessarily the Ted Kaczynzki story you know. Our special guest Kerstyn is here to talk with us about some of the more formative experiences that may have contributed to his development that are a lesser known part of the story, as well as breaking down some of the elements of his well-known man…

This week, we're talking about a few people who are local legends. The kind of people who are interesting, eccentric, or just radiate personality. We're talking about Cleveland's own "Superpimp" a fixture of the club scene, as well as the late 19th century self-appointed "Emperor of the United States" and the two dogs associated with him. This epis…

This week we're talking about predictive text AI models, specifically the new kid on the block: GPT-3. Most of us are familiar with chat bots: smarter child, Tay, and others that have been accessible for humans to interact with. Historically, they haven't been all that convincing, but all of that is beginning to change. While still not necessarily …

Disclaimer up front: This is a very sad, disturbing, and explicit episode. It all starts in 2010, when Sarah Lawrence student Talia Ray informs her dorm mates that her dad is getting out of prison and will be coming to stay with them. In the dorm. It would be the first instance in a decade-long campaign of manipulation, abuse, and tragedy. Lawrence…

This week we're talking about 5G, the latest wave in cellular evolution that is bound to make it to your phone within a few years. Every time there's a new "G" there's some kind of fear and paranoia around it, and 5G is already feared in this particularly uncertain time. We talk about what 5G is, what the conspiracy theories are, and also what you …

This week we're talking about some cryptography, hacking, and the crazy days where the phone company in the US was practically a god. We're joined by our most excellent guest and friend Kerstyn, who set out to answer the question: Does it ever really happen where those crazy scofflaw hackers are so good they get recruited by the feds? The answer to…

This week we're talking about the story of the 1925 Nome serum run with our special guests Laura and TJ! The times were dark: Nome was experiencing the beginnings of an outbreak of diptheria. A serum was needed to treat it, and children were falling ill and dying. It was too cold, too far, at a bad time of year, and the only way to get that critica…

This week we're doing our first remote Goose Chase with our friend and previous guest, Dan. We're talking about end of the world theories! Sometimes religious, or based on aliens, or technology gone awry, the world has been predicted to end many times now, sometimes by the same people over and over again. We talk about some notable predictions and …

This week, we're looking into Be Scofield, the self-described guru hunter who infiltrates, investigates, and covers cults and cult-like groups. She has been involved in writing about some familiar groups and people, such as Teal Swan, who we covered in a previous episode. And she claims to be instrumental in dismantling and disrupting groups around…

Today we're back for episode 101 and talking about Cleveland's infamous 1974 10-cent beer night. The Cleveland Indians promoted cheap beer and drew a huge crowd, but it was a game destined for tragedy. Bad blood off the Indians' last week's game against the Rangers and a whole bunch of taunting brought 25,000 angry Cleveland fans out to give it bac…

We finally did it. Big old episode 100. We never thought we would be doing this for this long, but we're so glad to still be doing it. We still enjoy it, and we hope you all do. In this episode we look back on the first 99 episodes and issue some updates to some things that changed after we last talked about them. A couple of bad guys got theirs, s…

This week, in the midst of the craziness outside in the world, we're looking at weird nature as a means of inspiration that life, you know, finds a way. We're talking about strange plants that function in interesting ways and prove out exactly how interesting plants can be. Even though they can't think, they do have an incredible appearance of inte…

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This week we're talking about Marion Stokes. Ever heard of her? If you have, 10 points for you, you were paying more attention than we were. Marion was an activist, a television presenter, an intellectual, and a collector and archivist of lots of things. We don't want to spoil this one, but her greatest accomplishment would span 33 years and produc…

This week we're talking about someone who you've probably heard a bit about: Grigory Rasputin. Known as the Mad Monk, and major influencer to the Romanov family, Rasputin will forever be enshrined in a certain amount of mystery. That's by design, too: He certainly made deliberate attempts to generate a certain amount of mystique, and lots of storie…

This week we're talking about number stations. If you watched LOST while it was on the air, you might recognize the idea: radio stations around the world which seem to do little more than spit out a series of numbers every now and then, read by a human voice or sometimes just tones. People have speculated lots about what they're for and what they d…

If you're looking at this message, you owe a chunk of your experience with computers to Ada Lovelace, the mother of modern computing. All the way back in the 1830s, she saw the beginning of where computers might be headed, and yet it would take almost 120 years for anyone to notice her genius. Tonight, a love letter to the history of the computer d…

In our last episode, we talked about Duane the Great Writer, the purveyor of a series of online books and a philosophy that may well have been outright lifted from Eckankar and Paul Twitchell. We left off on the discovery that there is a massive other side to Duane's materials, and that's on YouTube. But it's not published by him. It's the channel …

In this episode, we're talking about something with a weirdly small and specific Google footprint. DuanetheGreatWriter.info is the home of something called the Worldwide Educators, or the NuPresentation foundation, and it is a treat for the eyes. The website contains a lot of information on what they represent, and maybe not in any particular order…

This week, we're talking about a park with a historically bad reputation, but don't hold that against it. Baltimore's Leakin Park has been the home of so many body dumps that it's been referred to as an unofficial/unregistered graveyard. We talk a bit about the history of the park, its years of activity, and some reasonable explanations for why thi…

Area 51 is back in the news lately after a Facebook event called "Storm Area 51" has attracted 1.4 million attendees. It's all tongue in cheek, of course... except it's got enough of attention to draw a response from the U.S. military and has made one town in Nevada mighty nervous. We're talking about the history of Area 51, a little bit on the off…

This week, we're talking about fruitcakes! Now at home, you're probably saying to yourself: "What?" We know. It's a strange launch point. But this is a fascinating episode. The fruitcake has been around for longer than we thought in more forms than we knew, and to make it even more interesting, fruitcakes were the center point of a truly astounding…

This week our super special guest Aubrey is back with a real mindbender of a topic. What would you say if we told you that a woman who has been dead for over 60 years is not only still around, but there are in fact around 734 million of her that have come and gone? Would you say that's bananas? We did. We're talking about a woman whose cells have l…

This week we're talking about something relatively sweet and nice where nobody gets hurt or dies or gets swindled. Isn't that nice? The Cottingley Fairies were first photographed in 1917 by two young girls. The story spread, until it reached the ears of some important people and swept the country with its charm. This story is an interesting one tha…

This week we're talking about MLMs, or multi-level marketing companies. You might know them more commonly as pyramid schemes, but don't tell them that. In particular, we're looking at a cross section of these companies that centers around essential oils. People take them as supplements, put them on their skin, put them in their food, infuse them in…

We're talking about something this week that is unlikely to ever happen again in the form that it did. Timecube.com is a relic of a different time and is now in fact defunct (still available on the Wayback Machine), but it was established by a man named Gene Ray to spread the truth, the real truth, about how much time is in a day. Four days within …

Humans -- we love fixing stuff as much as we love screwing it up in the first place. This week we're talking weird conservation, the odd strategies we have taken to try to revitalize animal populations. There are lots of them, all of them completely odd, and it says a lot about the insight and imagination of the people who work with these animal po…

Nature is a fascinating thing. It represents rejuvenation, isolation, fear, potential, and a thing to be bested by humankind. Sometimes it wins. We're talking about the Dyatlov Pass incident of 1959, where nine Russian hikers went into the wilderness, never to return. The discovery of their bodies only opened more mystery, and people are still deba…

This week, we've got Dan as our guest! Dan surprised us with a wonderfully detailed history of the works of a truly prolific artist: Bansky. He's a household name now, which is a far cry from his humble origins doing little-seen street art in Bristol. As he continued to produce, people took notice. His work has been in many major cities, on the bor…

We've talked about lots of people who claim a direct line to the divine, but this is one of the stranger ones, and whether you realize it or not, you might know some of her work. We're talking about J.Z Knight, a leader of a movement of new-age spiritualists 6000-members strong, even to this day. Channeling the 30,000 year old spirit of Ramtha, an …

This episode is a difficult one. We're talking about Incels, a term that refers to the involuntarily celibate. You've probably heard of them, as some of them have made headlines carrying out high-profile acts of violence. This is an internet community with some overlap with other online communities of (primarily) disgruntled men. But the Incels hav…

What year is it? This is an easy one, right? This can't possibly be a controversial question, right? Wrong. Various theories abound about "phantom time" and what year it really is, for reasons that are sometimes pretty obvious and in another case kind of ambiguous. What year is it really? Is history completely fabricated? How much do we really know…

This week we're talking about one of the craziest things you probably don't realize is happening now, right out of the mad science classics. An Italian neurosurgeon promises the world HEAVEN: The HEad Anastomosis VENture. A new body, attached to your head. It's the future. Then some people online question whether he's real at all. Is he a man or a …