Listener Mail: Food Deserts, Hijacking Planes, and the World's Most Dangerous Prisoners
Bad Ghost hips us to a recent plane hijacking, targeting a Walmart. Roadrunner asks where the world's most dangerous prisoners are kept. Lactrodectus inspires an upcoming episode on conspiracies surro...
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Modern Cults, Part II: The Creativity Movement, Kashi Ashram and Angel's Landing
What makes one belief system a religion, and another a cult? How can non-religious organization themselves be cults? In part two of this two-part series, Ben, Matt and Noel explore modern cultic organ...
14 Syys 202256min
CLASSIC: The Search For Noah's Ark
For centuries various groups claimed they'd discovered the remnants of Noah's Ark, the legendary wooden ship of Biblical fame. Despite controversy, skepticism and numerous dead ends, the search contin...
13 Syys 202240min
Strange News: Animal Attacks, Tragic Love with a Hologram, and NASA Plays Pool in Space
Turtles and turkeys attack humans. Kangaroos overrun a small Australian town. A man in Japan loses his hologram wife when a company stops supporting her software. Out in space, NASA's ambitious DART p...
12 Syys 202257min
Modern Cults, Part I: Black Hammers and More
What makes one belief system a religion, and another a cult? How can non-religious organization themselves be cults? In part one of this two-part series, Ben, Matt and Noel explore modern cultic organ...
9 Syys 202259min
Listener Mail: Rare Blood Types, PROMIS, and Poop in the Mail
A first-hand account of finding poop in the mail. A deep dive into the world of spycraft and software. An exploration of the facts behind rare blood types. All this and more in this week's listener ma...
8 Syys 202247min
Who's Hiding the Broccoli? A Conversation with Jordan Harbinger
Have you ever spoken with a spy? How do you use critical thinking to cut past the noise of mass media and propaganda? In today's interview, Ben, Matt and Noel welcome special guest Jordan Harbinger to...
7 Syys 202257min
CLASSIC: Is the Military on Drugs?
From the old stories of Viking Berserkers to the rise of the Assassins and more, humanity has spent millennia using drugs as a way to explore spirituality, repair the body -- and, sometimes, to gain a...
6 Syys 20221h 6min
