The Uncover Up Conspiracy Cast

If television and movies have taught us anything, it's that good guys won't break under torture, and bad guys confess the truth under torture. As it turns out, television and movies may have steered us wrong on both counts. Continuing their examination of the Witch Hunt disaster, Lee and Nathan discuss how in order to protect an absurd belief, you need to add more absurdity. And if you add enough...

On this "Junk Drawer" episode, Lee and Nathan look at some odd little stories that were interesting enough to discuss, but not big enough for their own episodes. On this edition, Nathan discusses the world's first mass media panic, Lee examines a time there was a conspiracy that almost an entire country was in on, and then Nathan looks at a UFO sighting with a twist.

On this episode, Lee and Nathan look at how the idea of the "witch" started to form in Europe in the 15th century. In particular, they look at one of the most influential books on how to identify, interrogate, prosecute and punish people accused of witchcraft - the Malleus Maleficarum, or the "Hammer of Witches". Humans are dangerous when they're frightened...

On this episode, Lee and Nathan attempt to go back in time to investigate the Salem witch trials of the late 17th century, and end up going all the way back to Ancient Greece to debate the nature of knowledge and the problem of evil.

Starting in 2016, American and Canadian embassy workers began to show strange and alarming symptoms. Could it be evidence of a new secret weapon? Lee, Nathan and special guest pod person Dr. Shelly Lesher from the "My Nuclear Life" podcast try to figure it out...

On this episode, Lee and Nathan hang out in 18th and 19th century Europe, where groups of fancy French people are at strange parties, gathered around a steel tank and collapsing into fits. This episode gets a little weird - listener discretion advised.

On this episode, Lee, Nathan and special guest pod person Dr. Shelly Lesher (from the "My Nuclear Life" podcast) discuss the possibility that microwaves could be weaponized into a mind control apparatus that could cause you to hear voices inside your head. Also, there's some discussion of irradiating monkeys, but no monkeys were harmed in the making of this episode.

Was Rasputin a depraved occultist charlatan who lied his way in to the Russian royal family, or a gifted holy man with the divine power to heal? On this episode Lee and Nathan try to answer that question, and also spend a surprisingly long time trying to establish how Rasputin smelled.

What if there was a third path, an alternative to official religion and scientific rationality? On this episode, Nathan and Lee start their exploration into the hidden world of the occult, and discuss some of the history and the practices that are associated with the modern occult movement. This topic is only going to get weirder from here...

One of the most important and interesting conspiracy-themed films ever is John Carpenter's 1988 sci-fi masterpiece "They Live". On this episode, Lee and Nathan summarize the plot of the movie, and along the way get into Slavoj Zizek, Plato, ideology, and epic Greek poetry. They also ask the question: what's the appropriate amount of paranoia?

On this episode, Lee and Nathan take a look at the belief that the world is secretly controlled by reptiles from space that can mimic humans. Their conclusions aren't as reassuring as you might expect...

On this episode, Lee and Nathan check into the reservation desk at the world's most sinister airport, and investigate the conspiracy theory that the artwork on the walls of the DIA is hinting at something sinister in the underground tunnels below...

On this episode, Lee and Nathan take an investigative look at a couple of examples of people who claimed to be from the future. Then, they attempt to talk about some physics, before finishing off with a few philosophical paradoxes that time travel creates. Also, they get into a discussion of the multiverse. There is another universe somewhere in which they didn't, though...

On this episode Lee and Nathan discuss the "Brotherhood of Eternal Love" - a group that decided what the world needed was a massive LSD trip to get itself in the right frame of mind. Along the way we discover that, as much as Nathan enjoys discussing octopus and squids, Lee enjoys discussing hashish smuggling even more.

It's time for another cryptid hunt! This time, Lee and Nathan dive to the bottom of the deep sea to look for the mythic creature that, legend has it, can pull a ship to its doom. They also spend a bunch of time talking about epistemology and the nature of knowledge, because they're nerds.

On this episode, Lee and Nathan turn their eyes to the skies to discuss whether there is anything behind the idea that we are being poisoned from above by those little white lines that come out of jet planes...

On this episode, Lee investigates the role of Russian intelligence agencies in the 2016 American election, and explains why you should really think twice before clicking on a link in a strange email...

On this episode, Nathan exorcises the idea that ghosts are manifestations of mental substance that survive after we shed our mortal coils. Boo!

Did the American Navy fight flying saucers from the centre of the earth at the South Pole in 1947? That's a complicated question. And it's going to require a complicated answer...

On this nostalgic episode, Lee and Nathan discuss the sinister legend of a mysterious video game that appeared in Portland in 1981. Was it real? Was it part of a CIA mind control experiment? What was Lee's high score on Street Fighter II? Two of those three questions will be answered on this episode...

On this not-cheerful episode, a world-weary Lee and Nathan look back at the history of biological weapons and examine a month in the fall of 1950 in which the American government carried out a massive germ experiment on the people of San Francisco without their consent or knowledge.

On this episode, Nathan and Lee examine three historical examples of Soviet disinformation campaigns in order to try to help understand our current situation. And they end the episode very concerned about our current situation...

On this episode, Lee and Nathan start by trying to explain a recent Facebook disinformation campaign, but they begin the explanation in 1881, and only get up to 1955 before they realize they had accidentally recorded an episode about the history of the KGB...

On this episode Nathan looks back to 2015, a simpler time when thousands were terrified that the American federal government was about to use the US Army to invade Texas and impose martial law. Did it happen? Listen and find out... Also, no. No it didn't happen.

On this episode, Lee, Nathan and special guest pod person Dr. Alena Papayanis discuss the recent "Free Britney" movement, as well as the disturbing aspects of fame and celebrity. During the episode, Lee goes from being indifferent to pop culture to getting very worked up about pop culture...