What Fresh Hell: 2025 in Conspiracy Theories and Disinformation
Our team gives their analysis of a disturbingly familiar year in power and politics, normalization and surprises. Much of it was predictable, some was worse, and some was worse that worse. Yet conspir...
28 Dec 202550min
When Did We Decide the Government is Hiding Aliens? (with Garrett Graff)
We didn't always assume the government was hiding aliens. The Manhattan Project was a crash course in how to run a secret program. Some secrets were real and necessary. Some were real and needing expo...
21 Dec 202545min
How We're Targets for Influence Operations (with Tamsin Shaw)
An expert on psychological manipulation and politics, including Nazi propaganda and Stassi, NYU professor Tamsin Shaw studies conspiracy theories and how they might be changing with the internet and A...
14 Dec 202551min
Human Organs and Wellness Scams (with Scott Carney)
Organ transplants, ice baths, Russian propaganda, RFK Jr.'s science denialism... Scott Carney has investigated in depth about where lies the truth and who is taking advantage of our ignorance. Watch M...
7 Dec 202538min
How to Escape the Maga Cult (with Rich Logis & Erica Roach)
"Leaving MAGA" is a community for those who have left the movement, or have doubts and remorse about staying in MAGA but are afraid to leave. Rich Logis and Erica Roach tell their stories of falling i...
30 Nov 202545min
MKUltra: CIA’s Secret Mind Control Experiments (with Stephen Kinzer)
How CIA became the largest purveyor and owner of LSD in the world and, in the process, destroyed lives and introduced psychedelics to The Counterculture. Watch Mission Implausible on YouTube: https://...
23 Nov 20251h
Epstein International (with Tara Palmeri & Adam Davidson)
" There are things we feel like we know that we we can't even say. It is even worse. worse. It is even more people." Journalist Tara Palmeri and our own Adam Davidson have been writing and podcasting ...
16 Nov 202553min
Bigfoot and Bigfoot Erotica (with Laura Krantz)
Investigator Laura Krantz (the Wild Things podcast) knows about everything Bigfoot, including Bigfoot erotica, the CIA's supposed relationship with the cryptid, and how Bigfoot can be a gateway drug t...
2 Nov 202538min
