Dismantling New Age cults, wellness grifters, and conspiracy-mad yogis. At best, the conspirituality movement attacks public health efforts in times of crisis. At worst, it fronts and recruits for the fever-dream of QAnon. As the alt-right and New Age horseshoe toward each other in a blur of disinformation, clear discourse, and good intentions get smothered. Charismatic influencers exploit their followers by co-opting conspiracy theories on a spectrum of intensity ranging from vaccines to ch ...
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Each episode, Dan and Jordan take a look at some clips from that day's Alex Jones Show and struggle to make sense of what they find.
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A one stop podcast for all things creepy.
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PARANOID PLANET is a podcast about conspiracy theories, paradigm shifts, and critical thinking that offers serious and lighthearted conversations with people who believe in conspiracy theories, and with the skeptics who critique them. We also explore historical, philosophical, artistic, psychological, and scientific themes related to conspiracies and the study of knowledge. Whether you are an avid conspiracy follower or a hardened skeptic, our aim is to help you become a better critical thin ...
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This Line Isn’t Secure is an actual play Delta Green podcast blending high production value, immersive sound design, and slow-burning dread. Inspired by Archive 81 and Malevolent, it drags listeners into a world of conspiracies, cosmic horror, and paranoia. Nothing stays hidden forever.
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Greetings, creatures! We are Paranoia Percentage: a podcast about cryptids, conspiracy theories, and everything weird. Won't you join our little world? The Pdubs Team: Digital Artist - Kalie Hard Editor - Rachelle IT Support - Ziro https://www.twitch.tv/zlro Photographer - Bethaney Brown https://www.instagram.com/bethaneybrown/?hl=en
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Welcome to the Explosomagico Podcast Network: a diverse collection of humorous shows filled with rad jingles, fun segments, and empty promises. Explosomagico is guaranteed to make you more attractive to your gender of choice.
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For the conspiracy curious, the highly skeptical, the generally bewildered, and other refugees from the post-truth era, we go down the rabbit hole so you don't have to.
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From The Greenpoint Palace bar in Brooklyn, New York writers and bartenders, Rita and Marisa, have intimate conversations with an eclectic mix of people from all walks of life about their passions, paranoia and perspectives. Featured guests could be artists or authors, exterminators or private investigators, or the person sitting next to you at the bar.
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A podcast about Application Security DevSecOps and AppScan. Twice a month, we aim to bring you some technical insights, assorted facts and the latest news from the world of HCL AppScan. Our underlying mission is to deliver continuous application security to the masses.
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How does the crucible apply to the 21 first century
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This podcast will make you happy. You know this is true, because The Computer tells you so. The Computer is your friend. Trust The Computer. Paranoia is a tabletop RPG first released in 1984 by West End Games, now published by Mongoose Publishing. The original version was created by Greg Costikyan, Dan Gelber, and Eric Goldberg. Five players will struggle to survive, thrive, and most importantly, to be happy. Happiness is mandatory. Unhappiness is treason. This podcast has a discord! You can ...
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A Cybersecurity Lawyer and an IT Specialist helping to demystify the world of cybersecurity. The language and terminology of cybersecurity is oftentimes intentionally confusing and hard to keep up with even for experienced professionals. Each week, we will break down different topics in the cybersecurity, data security, and privacy fields to help you be able to keep up. Understanding cybersecurity has never been more important to everyday life, but also never more difficult to do.
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Randy Taylor became a soldier to serve America. But he was forced to live a life plagued by paranoia, secrecy and isolation. For years, Randy hid his true identity while risking his life in the United States Army. This is his harrowing, untold story. Unfit for Service is an 8-episode series with new episodes publishing Monday mornings. Series launches with the first two episodes on October 21. Unfit for Service is a production of Wavland and Vespucci and is hosted by Eric Marcus. “Exposes th ...
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Join Liam Hemsworth in conversation about his high-stakes thriller, Paranoia. Hemsworth stars as a young employee at a tech company, caught in a dangerous game of corporate espionage between the world’s two most powerful tech billionaires (Harrison Ford and Gary Oldman).
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"Speaking of Psychology" is an audio podcast series highlighting some of the latest, most important and relevant psychological research being conducted today. Produced by the American Psychological Association, these podcasts will help listeners apply the science of psychology to their everyday lives.
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Welcome to NVUS Alien—where conspiracies get cosmic and the truth is never boring. From MK-Ultra to UFOs, cults to coverups, we’re pulling back the curtain on the strange, the shadowy, and the straight-up supernatural. It’s true crime with a tinfoil twist. Paranormal meets paranoia. And absolutely no topic is too taboo. Buckle up, babe. Sh*t’s about to get weird. Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/nvus-alien--4798594/support.
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In May of 1980, the sleepy streets of Norco, California were turned into an all-out war zone in what is one of the most violent bank robberies in American history. From LAist Studios in collaboration with Futuro Studios comes the new podcast—Norco ’80 based on the book by Peter Houlahan. Listen as host and producer Antonia Cereijido tells the unbelievable true story about God, guns, survivalism and the bank robbery that changed policing in America forever. Using eyewitness testimony and neve ...
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Take a deep dive into History’s biggest moments with Tom Holland & Dominic Sandbrook. Explore the stories of History’s most brutal rulers, deadly battles, and world-changing events. From the rise and fall of the Roman Empire, the Nazi conquest of Europe, and Hitler’s evil master plan for world domination, to the French Revolution, the sinking of the Titanic, or the Norman Conquest of England in 1066, Tom and Dominic bring the past to life with gripping storytelling and expert analysis, as th ...
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Conspiracy Theories, Pseudohistory, and the Truth that They try to keep locked up.
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In the shadows of the digital world, where anonymity is power and information is currency, battle lines are drawn not with bullets but with code. This show takes listeners deep into the heart of cyberspace’s most high-stakes confrontations — where rogue programmers exploit vulnerabilities, corporations scramble to secure their data empires, and government agencies wage invisible wars across invisible lines. It’s a realm shaped by encryption, espionage, whistleblowers, and wild ambition. From ...
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Dungeons + Drama Nerds is a podcast produced by Todd Brian Backus, Percy Hornak, and Nicholas Orvis, three dramaturgs interested in the intersection of theatre and tabletop role-playing games (TTRPGS). Episodes release weekly alternating between Actual Play and Commentary episodes investigating a certain TTRPG system. Season 2 will feature: Blades in the Dark, Bluebeard's Bride, Kids on Bikes, Oh Dang! Bigfoot Stole My Car With My Best Friend's Birthday Present Inside!, and Lancer. Season 1 ...
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A podcast for those that deal with any form of a mental illness or substance abuse. Mr. Joe explores topics such as anxiety, bipolar disorder, obsessive compulsive disorder, schizoaffective disorder, depression, borderline personality disorder, and narcissism. This is the first podcast of it’s kind, as Mr. Joe provides his audience with ”real” life scenarios, sharing the uncomfortable truth about his mental health experiences. He shares his own history of substance abuse, which also includes ...
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Welcome to The Horror Double Bill, where we pair classic and modern horror films to explore the dark, the horrifying and the bizarre. Inspired by the legendary BBC2 horror double bills of the 1970s and 1980s, each week we discuss two films that share twisted themes, unsettling atmospheres, or strange connections From the shadowy corridors of black and white classics to the paranoia-fueled chaos of the 21st-century, we take a deep dive into what makes these films memorable and the social cont ...
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Through both audio AND video episodes, the hosts of WASD dive into the most bizarre, original and innovative releases of the indie game scene. See also: WASD Podcast: ZOMBIE MINECRAFT SHOOTER SURVIVAL PORNO MAHJONG.
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For decades, Kurt Calabrese lived in the shadow of his father, Frank “The Breeze” Calabrese Sr., one of the Chicago Outfit’s most feared hitmen and loan sharks. Raised in a home ruled by violence, paranoia, and control, Kurt grew up knowing that loyalty wasn’t a choice, it was survival. In 2007, the Family Secrets Trial exposed 18 unsolved murders and a laundry list of heinous crimes that had terrorized Chicago for decades. Based on wiretap evidence from Kurt’s brother Junior, the case led t ...
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Voyaging through the Universe of Science Fiction Television
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Welcome to the Drunken Conspiracy Podcast where beer and paranoia live in harmony with each other.
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A show exploring fringe Internet culture through the lens of neurotic paranoia. Media criticism, conspiracies, weeb trash, and a sprinkle of mysticism too.
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Brave film explorer comrades Joey Reinisch and Chris McCaleb journey to far the reaches of cinema. In each mission, they will analyze, report and criticize a film from THE CRITERION COLLECTION, hopefully maintaining their sanity in the presence of extreme motion picture brilliance...or something.
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Join host, Pellicle editor-in-chief Matthew Curtis, plus regular guests, as we explore the world of beer, pubs and everything else we love to drink in our sister podcast to www.pelliclemag.com
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The Violet Hour presents - BETWEEN THE DEVIL. Craving adventure, a young girl in 18th century Europe stows away aboard her father’s newly-christened merchant ship. Instead of adventure she finds terror on the high seas, as rampant paranoia grips the crew, and unseen malevolent forces commandeer the vessel for their own purposes. Learn more at www.VioletHourMedia.com
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Events at Verdurin, London and interviews hosted by Pierre d'Alancaisez. http://petitpoi.net/links/
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In 1992, hundreds of armed federal agents surrounded a family of white separatists in a ramshackle mountaintop cabin. Eleven days later, three people were dead—and the story of Ruby Ridge was just beginning. Journalist Ruth Graham explores a tragedy that’s become a foundational myth for the modern right, and finds some frightening lessons about power and paranoia. Get full access to Standoff: What Happened at Ruby Ridge with Slate Plus. Join to unlock the full season—plus ad-free listening o ...
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Welcome to LEPHT HAND — a channel for immersive philosophy, psychology, and politics. Created by Sereptie (Craig) from the Acid Horizon podcast, this channel is your gateway to informative essays, thought-provoking videos, and exclusive content from Sereptie's interdisciplinary coursework . Thank you for subscribing.
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Two young men, living the good life -- surrounding themselves with all the trappings of wealth and success. But their sun-kissed California lives are darkened by greed, paranoia and accusations of wrongdoing. What seemed to be paradise is tainted by mistrust and, ultimately, violence -- concealed for months by a convincing web of lies -- until a few determined investigators and a worried family unravel them to reveal a stunning story of deception. Hosted by Matt Gutman.
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The only Action-Movie Podcast by people who actually like action movies, Climax is a celebration of all things that go boom. Brought to you by three guys with a passion to show you the best in action movies one drunken, screaming rant at a time.
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Iron Sysadmin is a podcast about being a sysadmin, with a healthy dose of paranoia. We talk about IT news, and have a tendancy toward information security, as it applies to Operations. Our hosts have decades of experience in the field, from desktop support, networking, architecture, network engineering, windows, linux, and even some industrial automation.
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Conversations draws you deeper into the life story of someone you may have heard about, but never met. Journey into their world, joining them on epic adventures to unfamiliar places, back in time to wild moments of history, and into their deepest memories, to be moved by personal stories of resilience and redemption. Hosted by Richard Fidler and Sarah Kanowski, Conversations is the ABC's most popular long-form interview program. Every day we explore the vast tapestry of human experience, wea ...
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Questions like “What does this mean?” are central to our encounters with art. “How are these signs connected?” or “how do all symbols fit into an unstated scheme?” are the foundational concerns of aesthetics. Yet, when the same concerns crop up regularly in almost any other part of life, we give a clinical, pathological name: paranoia. These questi…
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In this installment, Dan and Jordan check back in to see how Alex is holding up in the ongoing Second Civil War, and how he responds to the news of the Minnesota lawmaker shootings.
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Encore: Love, jail, Jesus, and pubs — a tangled tale of four very different parents
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52:06Lech Blaine with the strange true story of his childhood, shaped by love, religious zealotry, and four wildly different parents. CW: descriptions of foster care and child removal. Lech grew up in a big family in country Queensland, where his dad Tom ran pubs for a living. He had six older siblings, who had come to the family as foster kids before h…
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Bug | This Line Isn't Secure S1 E12 | Delta Green: Impossible Landscapes Actual Play
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1:45:08New episodes premiere every other Thursday at 6 PM EST. All Links and Social Media: https://linktr.ee/nullproj Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thenullproject ---------- #DeltaGreen #ActualPlay #TTRPG #CosmicHorror #Lovecraftian #HorrorPodcast #TabletopRPG #RPGPodcast #Unnatural #NullProject #HorrorCommunity #RoleplayingGames #Tableto…
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From Serving to Dishing It Up, James Beard Award-winning Food & Drink Writer, Adam Reiner, Spills the Tea on the Hospitality Industry
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1:00:17Ever wondered what restaurant staff are really thinking when you sit down at their table? Adam—a veteran server turned James Beard Award-winning food writer (he won after this episode was recorded!) —pulls back the curtain on the high-stakes world of New York hospitality in this revealing conversation. From fabricating his resume to land his first …
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"Tonight we made history," grinned Zohran Mamdani as his supporters cheered with delight, "I will be your Democratic nominee for the mayor of New York City. His victory over disgraced former governor Andrew Cuomo in this primary election has made Mamdani, the 33-year-old fresh-faced Indian Muslim assemblyman from Queens, into a national sensation—a…
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When a sea change collides with messy midlife
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52:34For journalist Kate Halfpenny, moving to a beachside town during Melbourne's lockdowns seemed like the perfect way to unwind and escape her huge mortgage. Then she had to contend with the triple whammy of perimenopause, her husband's alcoholism and distance from family and friends. For the first time in her life, Kate had an empty house, no job com…
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Investigating the Gabby Petito Case with Psychic Insights
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1:22:47In this episode of the NVus Alien Podcast, Stephanie and I dive back into the Gabby Petito case, revisiting it through the lens of both psychic investigation and new developments stirred up by the recent Netflix documentary. We talk about how we first tuned into the case back in 2021, doing a psychic read in real time while the world was glued to t…
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579. The Irish War of Independence: Showdown in London (Part 4)
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1:07:07What were the terms of the Anglo-Irish Treaty, signed in December 1921, following negotiations between the UK and Sinn Féin? How was it received by the Irish people? What was the process by which it was agreed between Lloyd George, Winston Churchill, Michael Collins, and Arthur Griffith? Why did Éamon de Valera object to the treaty, and how did thi…
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Stability, Surgery & Mental Health (S8E58) 7-2-2025
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51:11Mr. Joe updates his audience on his previously scheduled surgery and offers strategies to prepare and recover from a surgical procedure. Mr. Joe provides several personal stories about his current vacation from employment, and also discusses the feeling of “nervousness” when your child is faced with failure. Please support Mr. Joe, so I can continu…
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How to be happier, with Sonja Lyubomirsky, PhD
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35:30Want to be happier? Some of our happiness level is due to genes or life circumstances, but research shows much of it is within our control. Sonja Lyubomirsky, PhD, talks about the habits and mindsets that lead to lasting happiness, the complex relationship between money and happiness, whether technology is making us less happy, and whether it’s pos…
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"Beyond the Nautilus: The Untold Legacy of League of Extraordinary Gentlemen" | Code Flix Season 2 Episode 16
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1:22:17Embark on an extraordinary journey with "The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen," where Victorian literature comes alive in a dazzling steampunk adventure. As a global war lurks on the horizon, a mysterious villain known as the Phantom orchestrates havoc, thrusting the world into chaos. In response, six iconic figures from classic tales unite as a s…
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Hannah Diviney made history in 2022 when she became the first person with a disability to film a sex scene for Australian television. Then she went viral when she confronted both Lizzo and Beyonce over an ableist slur in their song lyrics. When Hannah was growing up, the only people she saw on TV who used a wheelchair like her were Paralympians or …
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Purity, hypnosis and hiding — how a gay teen survived Opus Dei
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52:30Hollywood actor Tim Pocock was tricked by his dying, devout mother into undergoing gay conversion therapy. After she died, Tim finally learned how to be himself, without fear and self-loathing. Tim grew up under the thumb of his charismatic, pious mother. He went to a school with links to the controversial, secretive and conservative Catholic organ…
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Should we scrap the pint measure? Or is the very notion of doing so rooted in prejudices like classism? These were the questions I asked following the September 2024 publication of a study led by researchers at the University of Cambridge. Back then my focus was singular: why indeed did such a study focus specifically not just on beer, but on pubs?…
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Bonus Sample: Greta Thunberg’s “Super Power” Vs. Fascists and Liberals (Pt 2)
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5:23Greta Thunberg is a burr in the ass of the powerful throughout the world—and not only for rightwing sociopaths. Increasingly, as she grows up, learns more, and networks with other activists around the world, she’s become a scourge for liberals as well. Many of them would prefer she remain a child, providing a theatre of emotional catharsis for a cl…
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578. The Irish War of Independence: Bloody Sunday (Part 3)
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59:46What occurred on Bloody Sunday on 21 November 1920 - a turning point in the Irish War of Independence and one of the bloodiest and most brutal moments in Irish history? How many British Army Officers were assassinated on the instructions of firebrand political leader, Michael Collins, that morning? Then, how many civilians did the British army gun …
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Nietzsche and Klossowski: Consciousness, Parody, and the Origins of Thought
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9:05What if laughter, rage, or grief weren’t just emotional outbursts—but modes of knowing, ways in which being announces itself to us before thought arrives? In this short video, we descend into the tangled philosophies of Pierre Klossowski and Friedrich Nietzsche to ask: What if consciousness is not our origin, but our aftermath? Through Klossowski’s…
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Imperfect Paradise: Getting lost in Latina trad wife TikTok
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28:25During a flurry of election-related anxiety, Imperfect Paradise host Antonia Cereijido re-downloaded TikTok and fell down a very specific rabbit hole: Latina trad wife content. Videos of women waking up at three in the morning, making “lonche” for their husbands and espousing traditional lifestyles – have become popular and gone viral on social med…
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Episode Seven: Village of the Damned (1960) & Who Can Kill a Child (1976)
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1:11:18Episode Seven: Village of the Damned (1960) & Who Can Kill a Child (1976). There's something very wrong with the children.... Welcome to The Horror Double Bill, the podcast where we combine two films, and fall down several rabbit holes, to create something greater than the sum of its parts. First up is Village of the Damned, from 1960 starring Geor…
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Brief: Greta Thunberg’s “Super Power” vs. Fascists and Liberals (Pt 1)
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41:35Greta Thunberg is a burr in the ass of the powerful throughout the world—and not only for rightwing sociopaths. Increasingly, as she grows up, learns more, and networks with other activists around the world, she’s become a scourge for liberals as well. Many of them would prefer she remain a child, providing a theatre of emotional catharsis for a cl…
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Ep:5; Hypochondria| Ka Cabsashada Cudurrada
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40:48By Hamda Hussein
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In this installment, Dan and Jordan find Alex creating strong Russian propaganda, getting super into the police state and accindentally warming up to a black supremacist.
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American novelist Ann Patchett reflects on Frank, Mike and Darrell, the men who made her, going a year without shopping and her power to make herself invisible (R) Ann Patchett is an acclaimed American novelist and the owner of an independent bookstore in Nashville. Ann has had three fathers — Frank, Mike and Darrell, who have each provided her wit…
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We Don't Have a Map: Rita and Marisa on Traveling, Work/Life Balance, and the Freedom Bartending Offers
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47:00Returning from six months of global adventures, Marisa reunites with Rita at the Greenpoint Palace Bar to share stories from her travels across Europe and Asia that transformed her perspective on what truly matters in life. When Marisa and her husband sold their restaurant, they made a deliberate choice not to wait for some distant retirement to se…
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“Dad went to war last night” read Vance Boelter's text to his family in the early hours of June 14. This was sent after his shooting rampage aimed at Democratic lawmakers, which left two dead and two critically wounded. Turns out Boelter is an ordained pastor in a church associated with the New Apostolic Reformation, which sees the world as a spiri…
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Unraveling the 'Verse: Firefly's Timeless Legacy | Code Flix Season 2 Episode 15
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2:16:46Join us as we blast off into the uncharted territories of space with Firefly, the series that redefined sci-fi television. Led by the enigmatic Captain Malcolm Reynolds, Serenity's crew navigates the perils of the 'Verse—outlawed, hunted, yet fiercely free. From the battle scars of the Browncoats to the haunting mysteries of River Tam's past, we de…
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Inside the six-day siege of the Iranian Embassy in London
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53:30In April 1980, a group of armed men invaded the Iranian Embassy in London, taking hostages, and issuing demands in the name of a cause almost no one had ever heard of. The 'Group of the Martyr', a collection of Iranian Arabs, wanted independence for their province of Iran, but their demands were impossible for the British Government to meet, and so…
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577. The Irish War of Independence: The Violence Begins (Part 2)
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1:04:37What was Sinn Féin’s totemic first move after winning a majority seat in 1917? Were the IRA’s methods during this early stages of the war as violent as they are commonly believed to have been? How sectarian was the IRA? What crucial strategy did the Irish adopt in order to overwhelm English efforts to re-establish control in Ireland? As a victor of…
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The psychology of wealth, empathy and entitlement, with Paul Piff, PhD
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45:00Can money make you mean? Most of us like to think we’d stay grounded if we were to become wealthy, but psychologists’ research suggests that money, status and power shape people’s beliefs and behavior – sometimes in surprising ways. Paul Piff, PhD, of the University of California, Irvine, talks about money, fairness and empathy; the relationship be…
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Mass murder, cannibalism and insanity — inside Mao's cultural revolution
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47:36China's cultural revolution was murderously violent and culturally devastating; millions of people, artefacts and ideas went up in smoke. So what's fuelling today's Neo-Maoist movement and nostalgia for that period? In 1966, the Chinese revolutionary leader Mao Zedong went to war against his own government. What followed was ten years of murderous …
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Liz Cameron was 18 years old when a stranger approached her in a book shop. It was the beginning of her induction into a cult, and it was an experience Liz barely survived. The process of brainwashing happened gradually, first came the love-bombing and the allure of finding a new purpose in life. Then came the isolation from friends and family, alo…
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In Evangelical homes across the United States, sex outside of marriage is a sin against God. So, when Abbi becomes pregnant at 16, her devout parents hide her away at the Liberty Godparent Home, a little-known facility for pregnant teens on the campus of Liberty University. The Home says it helps girls decide what comes next – whether that’s parent…
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Episode 9.4C: "INVASION: UFO" (part 4), feat. veteran UFO skeptic Robert Sheaffer
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2:45:57The one where we shoot down some unidentified objects with a cross section of American East coasters, dig up the remains of the infamous 1947 Roswell crashed "flying disc", and discuss the ideas and influence of Ufologists J. Allen Hynek, Jacques Vallée, Leslie Kean, and Avi Loeb, with Science writer and veteran UFO debunker, Robert Sheaffer. (This…
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He built a lucrative seminar empire in the 80s, owned an Italian Villa, founded a “spiritual university,” and travelled the world with a harem of handsome young initiates. Roger Hinkins claimed to be inhabited by another consciousness that he called “John the Beloved” and the “Mystical Traveller,” which taught the secrets of out-of-body experiences…
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#1050: Another Way Not To Cover Alex
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1:00:00In this installment, Dan tells Jordan about a road he went down recently thanks to stumbling onto a weird filing in his bankruptcy case, and what it reveals about bad approaches toward dealing with figures like Alex.
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