Lizard People: Comedy and Conspiracy Theories

Bitcoin is one of the great mysteries of the internet age. Who exactly created it? Where is it going? How did it blow up so fast? What the fudge is a blockchain and why don’t I have one? The delightful Sam Balter (of the equally delightful podcast Weird Work) joins to talk about cryptocurrency and the possibility that the OG cryptic coin was created by - get this - a artificial intelligence. Yes, Sam thinks that a true AI lurks inside the internet like some sort of Smaug, but with bandwidth instead of gol

16 Mar 20181h 1min

Lyme disease blows. It hurts, its scary, it comes from a rude ass bug sucking on your blood. But could it be more than that? Could it be… a government superweapon accidentally leaked into the population from a creepy Nazi lab in Connecticut! Alie Ward, preternaturally charming podcast host, dares to ask the big questions! We talk about bug facts, scary science, how human cells work, the cutest types of bacteria, and terrifying swimming deer.

9 Mar 201859min

Ah, the enigmatic Elon Musk. Inventor, businessman, stunt-puller… alien? There’s a theory floating around the internet that Elon is not what he seems - that he may in fact be a higher being from another world who’s infiltrated our own to bring us technology beyond our wildest dreams. But is he doing this because he’s a nice guy? Or because he enjoys playing god? Or is he just a regular nerd with grandiose ideas and a head for business?

2 Mar 201857min

Every morning, unmarked planes take off from McCarran International Airport, bound for Air Forces bases all around Nevada. Every evening they return. Where do they go in between? Winston Carter knows where. The mysterious planes, the lights in the sky above Area 51, the long complex history of the Cold War space race - all these things come together in a conspiracy theory so original, it will blow your freakin mind.

23 Feb 201850min

What’s the moon’s deal, honestly? We’re supposed to believe it just floats up there effecting the tides and whatnot? Yeah right. Our guest this week - the extremely funny and opinionated Matt McCarthy - knows the shocking truth about what the moon is really doing up there, and it ain’t just floating. No, Matt is convinced that the moon is hollow, it’s full of aliens and gadgets, and we’re all DUMB SHEEPLE for thinking otherwise.

16 Feb 20181h 9min

‘Just swipe your cheek and spit into a jar and we’ll tell you all about your ancestors’ they said. ‘We’ll sequence your DNA, it’ll be fun’ they said. But what aren’t ~they~ telling you??? The extremely talented and funny writer/performer/producer Dani Rosenberg stopped by to educate us all about what sites like Ancestry.com and 23AndMe are really doing with all that DNA. Guess what? It might be nefarious!!!

9 Feb 201857min

The earth is flat. This is a fallacy believed by human beings throughout time, and without reason. And yet for all the things that make no goddamn sense about flat Earth theory, people persist in insisting that it is a disc, that gravity is fake, and that the moon and sun for sure don’t work like you think they do. People like this week’s guest, very funny comedian and open minded man Ben Dietzel.

2 Feb 20181h 1min

Stalin. Putin. Saddam Hussein. Melania Trump. What do these three public figures have in common? They’re all rumored to use body doubles! The controversy over Melania’s possible impersonators started in October of 2017 with video of her looking weird and plastic-y at a press converence, and it’s been bubbling ever since. And our guest, podcaster and feminist and truly brilliant writer/director Lindsay Stidham, is convinced that Melania employs one or more body doubles to serve in her place.

26 Jan 201855min