Listener Mail: The Airbag Black Market, Thermostat Shenanigans, and the Case of the Somerton Man
A caller prompts a conversation about the booming black market for airbags. It seems some power companies are using smart thermometers to mess with their customer's temperature settings. Over in Austr...
4 Elo 202250min
Banks Are Buying Your Neighborhood, Part I
Across the United States, would-be homebuyers are telling a similar story: after weeks or months of searching, they finally find a home they can afford -- only to be outbid by another buyer, often off...
3 Elo 20221h 4min
CLASSIC: Sports Conspiracies, Part I
Could it be possible that your favorite sports are fixed? Join the guys as they interview Brian Tuohy, author of The Fix is In, on the murky connections between sports, gambling, politics and organize...
2 Elo 202247min
Strange News: Fast Food Founder Buys Everyone Lottery Tickets, Holes in the Ocean Floor, Scary Algorithm Predicts Crime with 90% Accuracy
The founder of Raising Cane's Chicken Fingers buys a lottery ticket for all 50,000 of his employees. Observers are baffled by a series of mysterious holes in the ocean floor. Perhaps most disturbingly...
1 Elo 202252min
The Great Bitcoin Crash
To some, Bitcoin and similar cryptocurrencies are the future of finance, deregulated and free from the problems of the existing financial others. To critics, they're little more than a bad investment ...
29 Heinä 202255min
Listener Mail: Make More Poor, Banks Buy Your Neighborhood, The Future of Infrastructure
Poppy Hotdog asks whether the recent Supreme Court comes from an ulterior motive. Conspiracy Realists share experiences with a brutal -- at times conspiratorial -- housing market. Earth Shaman inspire...
28 Heinä 202256min
Is LaMDA alive? Part II
Recently, Google engineer Blake Lemoine made international news with his claims that the company's creation LaMDA - Launguage Model for Dialogue Applications - has become sentient. While Google does d...
27 Heinä 202252min
CLASSIC: Cannibalism: Fact and Fiction
Cannibalism is an ancient taboo, but how often has it actually occurred? Join the guys in this classic episode as they explore the grisly rumors and frightening facts behind history’s stories of canni...
26 Heinä 202239min
