14. Is the Earth hollow? With Rob Auton
What links Adele, the Nazis, and Yorkshire theme park Lightwater Valley? That’s right, it’s hollow Earth theory! The Earth’s core is 2,900km below ground, and we humans have only ever dug 12.2km down. So beyond some scientists guessing what’s down there (and what do they know, really) we are none the wiser about what sits at the centre of our world. James and Jol are this week joined by comedian, poet and podcaster Rob Auton, to dig down into hollow earth theory. Inspired by a ride on ‘The Rat’ at the aforementioned Lightwater Valley, Rob’s been fascinated by the concept of hollow earth theory since childhood/for at least one whole week. The boys unearth the intricacies of this, on the surface, strange theory, and discuss what could really be down there: An advanced race? A sun? Laser quest!? Rob Auton brings his brand new show, The Crowd Show, to venues nationwide from 1st October as part of his biggest UK tour to date. More info and tickets available at robauton.co.uk Once a week with us not enough? Join us in the Tier 4 Platinum circle. Subscribers to Tier 4 Platinum circle will get an extra episode every week, where we’ll be discussing new developments in the world of conspiracies, extended tangents and subscribers get the exclusive opportunity to get in touch and tell us what we’ve got wrong. Plus, subscribers get all episodes of the show completely ad-free. Visit the New Conspiracist show page on Apple Podcasts and hit ‘try free’ at the top of the page to start your free trial. A Somethin' Else & Sony Music Entertainment production. Find more great podcasts from Sony Music Entertainment at sonymusic.com/podcasts To bring your brand to life in this podcast, email podcastadsales@sonymusic.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
20 Sep 202250min
13. Is Big Pharma hiding the cure for cancer? With Kat Arney
This week’s episode asks a question that over a quarter of Americans believe to be true. That’s right, 1 in 4 Americans believe that Big Pharma; a cabal of evil corporations, dodgy physicians and sneaky regulators, has actually found a cure for cancer, but is keeping schtum to make money. But is this really true? To separate the truth from the nonsense, this week James and Jol are joined by science writer and broadcaster Kat Arney. Kat is perfectly placed to settle the score on Big Pharma, having worked at Cancer Research UK for 12 years. In a wide-ranging conversation that covers bleach, dyslexic mice, and eye-watering sums of money, James, Jol and Kat tackle Big Pharma head on, leaving no conspiracy-shaped stone unturned. Kat Arney is the author of Rebel Cell: Cancer, Evolution and the Science of Life. This episode was recorded before the announcement of the passing of HRH Elizabeth II. Once a week with us not enough? Join us in the Tier 4 Platinum circle. Subscribers to Tier 4 Platinum circle will get an extra episode every week, where we’ll be discussing new developments in the world of conspiracies, extended tangents and subscribers get the exclusive opportunity to get in touch and tell us what we’ve got wrong. Plus, subscribers get all episodes of the show completely ad-free. Visit the New Conspiracist show page on Apple Podcasts and hit ‘try free’ at the top of the page to start your free trial. A Somethin' Else & Sony Music Entertainment production. Find more great podcasts from Sony Music Entertainment at sonymusic.com/podcasts To bring your brand to life in this podcast, email podcastadsales@sonymusic.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
12 Sep 202249min
12. Does the British Establishment have our best interests at heart? With Marina Hyde
The British Establishment: benevolent leaders who want the very best for their subjects? Or egotistical, power-hungry maniacs who want nothing more than status and authority? This is what James and Jol are asking in this week’s episode. (No points awarded for guessing Jol’s point of view…) And who better to join them than premier columnist Marina Hyde, who’s been more or less seeking the answer to this very question in her Guardian articles over the past 20 years. Expect to hear Marina’s withering takes on Boris Johnson, the Westminster Bubble, the government’s response to Covid, and much more. Marina Hyde’s new book What Just Happened?! Dispatches from Turbulent Times is out on October 6th. Once a week with us not enough? Join us in the Tier 4 Platinum circle. Subscribers to Tier 4 Platinum circle will get an extra episode every week, where we’ll be discussing new developments in the world of conspiracies, extended tangents and subscribers get the exclusive opportunity to get in touch and tell us what we’ve got wrong. Plus, subscribers get all episodes of the show completely ad-free. Visit the New Conspiracist show page on Apple Podcasts and hit ‘try free’ at the top of the page to start your free trial. A Somethin' Else & Sony Music Entertainment production. Find more great podcasts from Sony Music Entertainment at sonymusic.com/podcasts To bring your brand to life in this podcast, email podcastadsales@sonymusic.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
5 Sep 20221h 1min
11. How deep did the Jimmy Savile cover up run? With Meirion Jones
After Jimmy Savile’s death in 2011, reports began to emerge that he had sexually abused hundreds of people throughout his life. Savile had been one of the country’s best-known entertainers, a darling of the BBC, commanding audiences of millions on shows like Top of the Pops and Jim’ll Fix It. Surely his criminal activities were known by those close to him? Just how deep did the cover up run? James and Jol are this week joined by journalist Meirion Jones, who’s Newsnight investigation into the suspected paedophilic crimes of Savile was famously dropped at the 11th hour, not long after Savile’s death. He also happens to be James’s boss. Meirion reveals who at the BBC knew what at the height of Savile’s fame, and opens up about the Newsnight scandal that engulfed the BBC in 2011, resulting in Meirion becoming the news rather than just reporting on it. Meirion Jones is the editor of The Bureau of Investigative Journalism and features in the Netflix documentary Jimmy Savile: A British Horror Story. Email us your thoughts on Hello@Newconspiracist.com Once a week with us not enough? Join us in the Tier 4 Platinum circle. Subscribers to Tier 4 Platinum circle will get an extra episode every week, where we’ll be discussing new developments in the world of conspiracies, extended tangents and subscribers get the exclusive opportunity to get in touch and tell us what we’ve got wrong. Plus, subscribers get all episodes of the show completely ad-free. Visit the New Conspiracist show page on Apple Podcasts and hit ‘try free’ at the top of the page to start your free trial. A Somethin Else & Sony Music Entertainment production. Find more great podcasts from Sony Music Entertainment at sonymusic.com/podcasts To bring your brand to life in this podcast, email podcastadsales@sonymusic.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
29 Aug 202248min
10. Can Prince Andrew Sweat? With Self Esteem
Whilst James and Jol perspire in London's second heatwave, now seems like the perfect time to revisit Prince Andrew’s infamous 2019 claim that he can’t sweat. And joining the boys this week to dispel fiction from fact is pop sensation Rebecca Lucy Taylor, AKA Self Esteem. James, Jol and Self Esteem pick apart Prince Andrew’s claim that an overdose of adrenaline from the Falkland’s War means that he is unable to sweat. Is the Duke of York actually incapable of crying from his armpits, or is this a royal conspiracy? Expect to hear Self Esteem’s views on male privilege, her invitation to the Platinum Jubilee, and of course, sweating. Self Esteem’s critically-acclaimed album Prioritise Pleasure has recently been nominated for the Mercury Music Prize, and tickets to her tour are available from https://www.selfesteem.love/ Email us on Hello@Newconspiracist.com with your own theories and feedback on the podcast. A Somethin' Else & Sony Music Entertainment production. Find more great podcasts from Sony Music Entertainment at sonymusic.com/podcasts To bring your brand to life in this podcast, email podcastadsales@sonymusic.com Once a week with us not enough? Join us in the Tier 4 Platinum circle. Subscribers to Tier 4 Platinum circle will get an extra episode every week, where we’ll be discussing new developments in the world of conspiracies, extended tangents and subscribers get the exclusive opportunity to get in touch and tell us what we’ve got wrong. Plus, subscribers get all episodes of the show completely ad-free. Visit the New Conspiracist show page on Apple Podcasts and hit ‘try free’ at the top of the page to start your free trial. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
22 Aug 202251min
9. Has Alex Jones been smoking his own supply at Infowars? With Paul Chowdhry
As Alex Jones coughs up nearly $50m for defamation of the parents of Sandy Hook victim Jesse Lewes, the time is right for James, Jol and their guest Paul Chowdhry to dip their toe into the fetid waters of 'crisis actors', school shootings and the catch all conspiracy hell that is Infowars. Expect to hear how Jones became a multi-millionaire conspiracy theorist, what happened in his trial, and Paul's really mean impression of the reddest man in broadcasting. And have you ever wondered how conspiracy theories spread on tiktok? We have thoughts... Paul Chowdhry is a multi-award-winning stand-up comedian, actor, and writer. In August 2019, his record-breaking stand-up tour show, Live Innit, was released as an Amazon Prime original special in 200 countries worldwide. Paul will be on the road with his new show 'Family Friendly' in October. You can get tickets on his website https://paulchowdhry.com/ Email us on Hello@Newconspiracist.com with your own theories and feedback on the podcast. A Somethin' Else & Sony Music Entertainment production. Find more great podcasts from Sony Music Entertainment at sonymusic.com/podcasts To bring your brand to life in this podcast, email podcastadsales@sonymusic.com Once a week with us not enough? Join us in the Tier 4 Platinum circle. Subscribers to Tier 4 Platinum circle will get an extra episode every week, where we’ll be discussing new developments in the world of conspiracies, extended tangents and subscribers get the exclusive opportunity to get in touch and tell us what we’ve got wrong. Plus, subscribers get all episodes of the show completely ad-free. Visit the New Conspiracist show page on Apple Podcasts and hit ‘try free’ at the top of the page to start your free trial. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
15 Aug 202243min
8. Can GCHQ see my nudes? With Hannah Khalique-Brown
The UK’s largest, best funded, and most sinister spy agency, GCHQ are tasked with gathering information and keeping the UK’s communications safe. So obviously Jol and James are asking… Can GCHQ see my nudes? (never shying away from the important questions - ed) Fittingly, James and Jol are joined this week by Hannah Khalique-Brown, an actor who has played a fledgling GCHQ coder on screen AND written an essay on conspiracy theories. Regular listeners will be unsurprised to learn that James is no stranger to the work of GCHQ… after working at Wikileaks and then on the NSA files leaked to the Guardian by Edward Snowden many would be concerned if he wasn’t on a GCHQ watch list. Expect to hear in this episode how GCHQ spyware is named after Smurfs, how James got top secret files out of the UK after British spies made them destroy the copies they had in the UK, and extracts from Hannah’s university essay on… conspiracy theories. Hannah stars as Saara Parvin in Channel 4’s new cyber warfare drama, The Undeclared War, making her the perfect guest to discuss the supposed snooping powers of GCHQ. Email us your thoughts on Hello@Newconspiracist.com Once a week with us not enough? Join us in the Tier 4 Platinum circle. Subscribers to Tier 4 Platinum circle will get an extra episode every week, where we’ll be discussing new developments in the world of conspiracies, extended tangents and subscribers get the exclusive opportunity to get in touch and tell us what we’ve got wrong. Plus, subscribers get all episodes of the show completely ad-free. Visit the New Conspiracist show page on Apple Podcasts and hit ‘try free’ at the top of the page to start your free trial. A Somethin Else & Sony Music Entertainment production. Find more great podcasts from Sony Music Entertainment at sonymusic.com/podcasts To bring your brand to life in this podcast, email podcastadsales@sonymusic.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
8 Aug 202248min
7. Did the One-Inch Punch Kill Bruce Lee? With Sanjeev Bhaskar
Bruce Lee – legendary martial artist, actor and director died on 20 July 1973 at the age of 32 in the middle of filming. Many believe he died in mysterious circumstances. Some believe he was killed by Chinese gangsters, others that he was assassinated by Shaolin monks and some say that he was poisoned to death. But one popular theory is that he was killed by the One-Inch Punch (also known as Dim Mak or the Touch of Death). What is it? Is it possible? And is this what offed Mr Lee at such a young age? Jolyon Rubenstein, James Ball and their special guest Sanjeev Bhaskar explore how you train to deploy such a punch, how it has endured in popular culture (‘Kill Bill’ anyone?) and why Bruce Lee’s family seem particularly cursed. Email us on Hello@Newconspiracist.com with your own theories and feedback on the podcast. A Somethin Else & Sony Music Entertainment production. Find more great podcasts from Sony Music Entertainment at sonymusic.com/podcasts To bring your brand to life in this podcast, email podcastadsales@sonymusic.com Once a week with us not enough? Join us in the Tier 4 Platinum circle. Subscribers to Tier 4 Platinum circle will get an extra episode every week, where we’ll be discussing new developments in the world of conspiracies, extended tangents and subscribers get the exclusive opportunity to get in touch and tell us what we’ve got wrong. Plus, subscribers get all episodes of the show completely ad-free. Visit the New Conspiracist show page on Apple Podcasts and hit ‘try free’ at the top of the page to start your free trial. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
1 Aug 202250min
