Cargill Might Be The Worst Company You've Never Heard Of
While you may have never heard of Cargill, you almost certainly have bought some of their products. Cargill is the largest privately held company in all of the United States. And,from their humble beg...
12 Jun 51min
Listener Mail: Game Show Spies, Free Tech is Orwellian Surviellance, Flock is Terrifying and You Should Be Worried
Boozy inspires Ben to propose an investigation into all game show hosts for possible espionage. Swearing In asks why so many tech giants are selling hardware at a loss -- is this part of the surveilla...
11 Jun 1h 1min
Can You Count on Numerology?
Math is probably the closest thing humans have to a universal language. Through understanding numbers and their relationships, humanity has been able to learn endless truths about reality -- and these...
10 Jun 1h 6min
CLASSIC: The Open Skies Treaty
In this week's Classic episode, Ben, Matt and Noel return to a bizarre harbinger of chaos to come: on November 22, 2020, the United States withdrew from the Treaty on Open Skies. This treaty, signed i...
9 Jun 59min
Strange News: Kimchi vs. Microplastics, Vladimir Putin Spends Billions on Longevity, Mysterious Sewer Denizens, A Silent Facebook Protest, and More
Could fermented cabbage save humans from microplastics? What's going on with Putin's secretive, multi-billion dollar life extension project? Over in New York, multiple strange people seem to be poppin...
8 Jun 55min
The Lucy Letby Case, with Amanda Knox
It's often said that the modern world has two separate courts: the actual court of legal proceedings -- and the much less reliable court of public opinion. Neonatal nurse Lucy Letby is no exception: d...
5 Jun 1h 18min
Listener Mail: Blood Sacrifice and Sports, HipHop as Literature, the Caldor Burn Scar Area and More
S proposes that some modern sports get very close to human sacrifice. Flea asks the gang for recommendations on 'good' HipHop. Laney, the editor of the Tahoe Daily Tribune, asks for more visibility on...
4 Jun 1h
The True Story of Aleister Crowley
Depending on whom you ask, Aleister Crowley was: a genius, a conman, a criminal, a philosopher, a prophet, the greatest magician of the modern age, or all of the above. But what was he really like? In...
3 Jun 1h 14min
