Strange News: AI Without Guiderails, A Tech Tycoon's Yacht Disaster, Putin Wants You To Move to Russia (Don't)
Controversial tech tycoon Mike Lynch temporarily goes missing after his luxury yacht sinks off the coast of Sicily. Elon Musks's social platform X raises concern with its recently-unveiled AI image ge...
26 Aug 202457min
CLASSIC: MKULTRA 201: The Conspiracies
Earlier, the guys explored the fact, fiction and speculation surrounding MKULTRA programs, during which the Central Intelligence Agency financed and directed multiple illegal experiments on US citizen...
23 Aug 202457min
CLASSIC: MKULTRA 101: The Basics
The rumors spread for decades: Somewhere in the US, our own government was conducting dangerous, heinous and illegal experiments on citizens from all walks of life. This conspiratorial tale seemed set...
22 Aug 202443min
What exactly is ectoplasm?
If you're a fan of ghosts and spirits -- not to mention the Ghostbusters franchise -- you've heard of ectoplasm. According to the true believers, this ghostly goop is the physical residue of entities ...
21 Aug 20241h 5min
CLASSIC: The Race to the Arctic: Who will control the poles?
Across the span of modern human history, the Arctic has been a desolate, dangerous wasteland of freezing ice, inaccessible waters and more than a bit of myth. Yet as the ice recedes, countries and cor...
20 Aug 20241h 1min
Strange News: Disney Goes Full Supervillain, Food Monopolies, Glitter on Mars and More
Imagine your wife dies on a Disney vacation, and their lawyers try to get your wrongful death lawsuit dismissed... because you signed up for a Disney+ trial subscription several years earlier. Corpora...
19 Aug 20241h 5min
Hostile Climate: The Home Insurance Crisis
Home insurance. Yeesh! For most folks, it's somewhere between a necessary evil and a snoozefest. If you're like most homeowners, you have insurance on your property -- policies issued to, in theory, p...
16 Aug 202455min
Listener Mail: Plastic Bottle Sabotage, Blackstone and DNA, Is Stockholm syndrome made up?
Sveriges baffles the crew when they ask whether the infamous Stocholm syndrome is entirely made up. Frederick wonders whether European manufacturers are intentionally sabotaging plastic bottles. The H...
15 Aug 202459min
