Operação Prato: Brazil's Bizarre UFO Investigation
From 1977 to 1978 the Brazilian Air Force investigated a series of alleged UFO sightings, with multiple witnesses, in and around a city called Colares, located in northern Brazil. The official investi...
13 Nov 202056min
Listener Mail: A Mysterious Curse, Conversion Therapy, and the Murder of the Notorious B.I.G.
A caller shares a strange story of a possible curse. The guys explore the dark side of so-called conversion therapy. And a voicemail inspires the gang to finally begin exploring the controversial, con...
12 Nov 202051min
QAnon and Conflict Journalism, with Jake Hanrahan
In this episode, the guys sit down with seasoned conflict journalist Jake Hanrahan to hear his first-hand accounts of covering stories all too often ignored or misrepresented in the west -- as well le...
11 Nov 20201h 18min
CLASSIC: Cults (You’ve Never Heard Of)
What's the difference between a cult and a religion? What are some of history's strangest cults? Are there any secret cults in the modern day? In this week's classic episode, Ben and Matt are (acciden...
10 Nov 202049min
Strange News: How To Drop Your Own Charges, The Oreo Doomsday Vault, and City-wide Exorcisms
Confronted with multiple criminal charges, one New Hampshire woman came up with an innovative -- and bizarre -- plan: she impersonated a prosecutor and dropped the charges against herself. Nabisco has...
9 Nov 202053min
Why does the US let Saudi fugitives flee the country?
On August 19th, 2016 Saudi national and college student Abdulrahman Sameer Noorah was charged with first degree manslaughter for fatally hitting a 15 year old girl named Fallon Smart with his car in P...
6 Nov 202058min
Listener Mail: Narconon and Scientology, Getting Kicked out of the Freemasons, and the Disappearance of Rebecca Coriam
Critics allege the rehabilitative program known as Narconon is a front for Scientology. Masons chime in to confirm that yes, you can get kicked out of the Masons. The disappearance of former cruise li...
5 Nov 202057min
Natural Disaster and Revolution
The history of human civilization is, in many ways, a history of conflict. Empires rise and fall, countries come and go, and humanity soldiers on. Yet multiple investigations have found a troubling co...
4 Nov 20201h
