Episode 250: The Giant of Kandahar feat Noah Kulwin & Brendan James (Blowback Podcast)

A 1930s California cult that prefigured QAnon and posited a world-shattering battle between the "Secret Rulers" and "The Sponsors". Its leader, Arthur Bell, enlisted people in the "Universal Service C...

26 Jul 20227min

Translating Q drops, organizing "stop the steal" rallies, forming splinter cults, and worshiping Michael Flynn. It looks like Japan has quite an assortment of Q followers. To help us figure them out, ...

24 Jul 202259min

Paul McCartney is dead. Or so believe a group of people who have been developing the idea since the late 60s. We explore how The Beatles’ rise to fame as a pop band was accompanied by conspiracy theor...

18 Jul 20225min

In the 1970s a new method of helping the poorest people in the world emerged: microlending. The idea is to give the very poorest people, those who live on less than two dollars per day, very small loa...

15 Jul 20226min

The mysterious monument known as the Georgia Guidestones — "America's Stonehenge" — was recently destroyed. We cover how it was built in 1980 on a grazing pasture, why it created controversy, and its ...

13 Jul 20221h 3min

MIT professor Nicolas Cage ushers in the apocalypse. This time with numerology, scenes of horrifying carnage, a time capsule, goth children, and aliens/angels that look straight out of Buffy the Vampi...

8 Jul 20229min

Reactions by QAnon followers and influencers. More opsec fuckups. And Ron Watkins' ghost campaign. Travis, Julian Liv and Annie explore the fallout from Q's flimsy return. Subscribe for $5 a month to...

6 Jul 20221h

For most of the 20th century, the causes of peptic ulcers were a mystery to scientists and doctors. The most popular theory was that it was a disease caused by stress. The mystery was finally unravele...

2 Jul 20223min