EPISODE 171 | A Thousand Universes: Public Transportation Weirdness

Even in the urban transportation space, usually reserved for city dwellers, NUMTOTs, NUMTOAs, and other transit geeks, conspiracy and weirdness manage to infiltrate. There’s the GM Streetcar Conspiracy, which might explain why the US has crap public transport. There’s the story of the Tucker 48, an innovative car that got shut down before is could get up and running. There are early electric vehicle rumors and other ways we might have made cars better, but powerful people made other choices for us all. Dieselgate showed that even big companies lie for profit. And then there are the histories and mysteries of underground networks – subways, tubes, metros – filled with oddities, ghost stations, and even a few actual ghosts.

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1. 03:02 - L.A. State of Mind - The GM Streetcar Conspiracy
2. 13:53 - Trouble's Braids - The Tucker 48
3. 23:19 - Drive My Car - The GM EV1, Tom Ogle, Dieselgate
4. 31:40 - Down in the Tube Station at Midnight - NYC Subway oddities, London Underground oddities and hauntings
5. 45:50 - Give Up the Ghost - Ghost stations around the world, Berlin's Geisterbahnhöfe

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More Info

• GM and the Red Cars
• Kennedy, 60 Minutes, and Roger Rabbit: Understanding Conspiracy-Theory Explanations of The Decline of Urban Mass Transit by Martha J. Bianco, Portland State University, 1998
• Why do traffic reduction schemes attract so many conspiracy theories? in The Guardian
• What Caused the Tucker Automobile Corporation to Fail? paper
• Top 10 Automotive Conspiracies: Scandals, Myths, and Urban Legends in AutoGuide
• 10 Secrets of the New York City Subway on Atlas Obscura
• Ghost stations: abandoned subways around the world on Love Exploring
• The weird afterlife of the world's subterranean 'ghost stations' in The Guardian
• Full list of the London Underground's abandoned 'ghost stations' including one 50 miles from the city on My London
• Abandoned Tube Stations
• London Underground’s 7 Most Haunted Stations on The Serpent's Pen
• 7 of Paris’ Abandoned Metro Stations and Abandoned Tunnels with Vintage Trains on Untapped Cities

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EPISODE 170 | Loose Screws: 9/11 Conspiracy Theories

A little under two weeks ago was the 25th anniversary of the attacks in New York City and at the Pentagon on September 11, 2001. So perhaps it is now time to take a quick look at some of the chatter that has gone on about those events.

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1. 01:16 - That Day - The events of Tuesday, September 11, 2001
2. 07:28 - Can't Get You Out of My Head - Jewsdidit, Larry Silverstein, famous near-misses, controlled explosions, the Pentagon, MIHOP, Marc Birnbach, LIHOP, a new Pearl Harbor, stock puts, NORAD, bomb-sniffing dogs, hijackers not dead, info silos
3. 23:46 - The Face of the Earth - The schlockumentary "Loose Change", "Unfastened Coins", The Onion, the 9/11 Truth movement supersizes, Iran liked 9/11 CTs
4. 30:40 - Shadow Stabbing - WTC Building 7, asbestos, no planes at all, space lasers and dustification
5. 38:13 - Smooth Criminal - Cui bono, Cold War clarity, repercussions of 9/11, resources for debunking conspiracy theories

• Music by Fanette Ronjat

More Info:

• Seven Resources Debunking 9/11 Conspiracy Theories
• From 9/11 to the 2016 Election: How Conspiracy Theories and the Collapse of Truth Fueled a Resurgence of Antisemitism
• Antisemitic Conspiracies About 9/11 Endure 20 Years Later
• “What about building 7?” A social psychological study of online discussion of 9/11 conspiracy theories
• Certainty 9 / 11 conspiracy theories and psychosis
• How 9/11 truthers planted the seeds for QAnon
• Unfastened Coins website

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EPISODE 169 | Harping on about HAARP, 5G & More

Radio waves are invisible and yet somehow carry sound and signal. They are used for transmitting messages, codes, news, and music. They enable us to speak to one another using small portable devices, and even access the internet. They are used to help us know our position on the ground with pretty darn good accuracy, and they allow us to study the depths of space.

So, surely they can be used for other things as well? Like controlling the weather, brainwashing humans, activating viruses, and much more.

Because, when you don’t know how anything works, then everything is a conspiracy. Or could be, right?

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1. Video Killed the Radio Star - HAARP, CTs about it
2. Radio Silence - Radio waves, scalar fields, zero point energy, pseudomedicine
3. On My Radio - The Free Energy Suppression conspiracy theory
4. Radio Ga Ga - Radiophobia, electromagnetic hypersensitivity

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