Banks Are Buying Your Neighborhood, Part II
It's true: financial institutions are, indeed, buying up homes and turning them into rentals. But should this be a cause for concern? In the second part of this two-part series, the guys look at the s...
5 Aug 20221h 6min
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 Aug 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 Aug 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 Aug 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 Aug 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 Jul 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 Jul 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 Jul 202252min
