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We hope you all made it through the holidays intact! We're launching into 2024 with the promised part 2 of our conversation with Karl Mamer from the Conspiracy Skeptic podcast. There's plenty about Douglas MacArthur, deadbeat sovereign citizen dads, and the Grifeter Queen herself, Romana Didulo. Find Karl on Mastodon mas.to/@skepticsbookoflists@c.im Buy The Conspiracy Skeptic's Book of Lists www.a...

In the hallowed tradition of Anna Sorokin and former US representative George Santos, and all the other people claiming to be something they’re not, there’s a thriving class of people claiming to have royal blood. Like the guy from Colorado who claimed to be the King of England, or the other guy from Maryland who claims to be King of the Isle of Man, and essentially everyone who’s ever claimed to...

A few weeks ago a paper was published in the journal Archaeological Prospection that the Gunung Padang site in Indonesia is not, as is generally believed, around 2 thousand years old. And that it is actually closer to 20,000 years old. For $5 a month, you can help support the show and listen to our full premium episodes. You'll also get access to all of our past subscriber only episodes, which is...

We’re joined again today by Darren Drda! We talked last time about his most recent book, New Age Wasteland. We spent some time with a few ghosts and ghouls operating in the New Age space and then dug into the Woo to Q pipeline. Today we’ll spend some time on a few of the more recent influencers in the New Age movement. We also want to shed some light on what might be some of the better ideas comin...

Happy Halloween everybody! For a special treat, we're watching one of the absolute worst films ever made, the 2020 cinematic abortion, Trump vs the Illuminati. For $5 a month, you can help support the show and listen to our full premium episodes. You'll also get access to all of our past subscriber only episodes, which is pretty cool. https://www.patreon.com/wetwired Trump vs the Illuminati comes...

We're taking a break this week, so we thought we'd re-release a timeless episode from the archives. This one is about the amorphous dimensions of what we call QAnon, some thoughts about why it's so hard to categorize, and the implications for detecting disinformation. ------ We’ve been trying to figure out how many people actually buy into QAnon ideas. If you just lurk on the off brand video sites...

We’re talking with filmmaker Christopher Bell about his docuseries Miss Me Yet. Chris brings the horror and absurdity of the George W. Bush years back to life as he tells the story of a political heir who becomes president, is branded a liar and war criminal by many, and finally drifts into the semi-reclusive painterly life. Miss Me Yet is currently showing on Means TV. https://means.tv/programs/m...

We're joined again by the lovely Thomas Lecaque, historian, educator, author, and destroyer of pop culture. Our winding conversation comes together around the core of ahistory that both fuels and is created by political grifters who would willingly do a fascism so long as they can make a few bucks. We talked a bit about the myth of Christopher Columbus, so we held this episode back for a week or s...

The Romeikes, a white, evangelical Christian family who fled Germany to the US seeking the religious freedom to homeschool their seven children. Now DHS is deporting them, and conservatives all of a sudden love asylum seekers—at least the right kind. Next we catch up on what's happening with Tim Ballard, ousted CEO of Operation Underground Railroad, and the focus of the largely fictional but still...

We take a look at the crimes of Senator Bob Menendez and his wife, Nadine. Next, we talk about White nationalists crashing city council meetings with racist rants. We wrap things up with a review of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas' longstanding membership in the Bohemian Club and the chummy photo he took at Bohemian Grove with billionaire libertarian mouth breather David Koch and liberal lov...

This is our final installment for this round of conversations with Bradley Plaisier. Wherein we wrap up our coverage of UFO disclosures. Bradley then does his damnedest to Bigfoot pill us before exposing us to the glorious works of Chuck Tingle. Argue with Bradley about Bigfoot on Twitter: https://twitter.com/bpleasies For $5 a month, listen to the rest of this episode and get an extra few subscri...

Bradley Plaisier is back to finish our conversation about the history of UFO disclosure. Along the way, we get into the catastrophic fallout from the global war on terror, the Ebola hoax at Burning Man, modern government UFO investigations, and having the right sort of disillusionment. Find Bradley on Twitter: https://twitter.com/bpleasies Music: Five Miles to Kansas City - Melody Ayres-Griffiths...

We're talking with artist, author, musician, and former cult member Darrin Drda. Darrin came by to tell us about his book New Age Wasteland: A Look Inside at the Dark Side of "Woo". We talk about the commodification of spirituality, the value of direct knowledge, that capitialism is the conspiracy, and how all this fits into what Darrin calls the "Temple of Woo". Buy Darrin's book: https://www.ama...

Kurt Schiller, the founder and editor-in-chief of Blood Knife magazine, joins us to talk about remaking the internet so it's fit for humans again. Subscribe to Blood Knife https://www.patreon.com/bloodknife Follow Kurt and Blood Knife https://twitter.com/mechanicalkurt https://twitter.com/BloodKnifeMag If you liked this episode, consider supporting us on Patreon. For $5 a month, get two extra subs...

DeSantis' Keystone Kampaign hits another snag with the unintentional dump of sensitive campaign memos. Down south, Argentina sees the rise of another goofy populist. Javier Milei, economist, television personality, dog spiritualist, and neo-Tantric sex guru came in first in their August 13 Presidential primary. For $5 a month, listen to the rest of this episode and get an extra few subscriber only...

We’re continuing our recent coverage of UFO disclosures and the UFO disclosure movement. We’ll be talking some more about a few of the players in the recent US House hearing on UFOs. But, to put all that in context, we’ll look back into the history of UFO disclosures. And that history is wild. What we find is a wilderness of secret government programs, psychological warfare, inveterate liars, true...

This is a sample of a premium episode. To listen to the entire episode and hear our other premium only content, subscribe at patreon.com/wetwired. DeSantis’ campaign is getting to the tire fire stage. After raising around $20 million when he launched his campaign, now his big donors are leaving. Now he's fired a third of his staff in a move that his campaign is strategically calling a "reset". Jus...

UFOs everybody! People are seeing them, the Deep State is hiding them, and a small bunch of patriots are tying to blow the whistle. A couple of weeks ago on July 26, the House Subcommittee on National Security, the Border, and Foreign Affairs held a hearing to get to the bottom of all this. Some reading: https://apnews.com/article/ufos-uaps-congress-whistleblower-spy-aliens-ba8a8cfba353d7b9de29c3d...

This is a sample of a premium episode. To listen to the entire episode and hear our other premium only content, subscribe at patreon.com/wetwired. We’re joined by Brent Lee, co-host of the Some Dare Call It Conspiracy podcast, to talk about how he fell down the conspiracy theory rabbit hole and how he got back out. Along the way we talk about Pizzagate, 9/11 truthers, RFK Jr, the Great Reset, and...

Easily the worst movie ever to perform so well in the box office, Sound of Freedom is a fantastical retelling of the extra-governmental exploits of Tim Ballard. Ballard, taking to heart the conviction that every problem can be solved with a gun, travels to Columbia, to set up his own Epstein island as a sting operation to catch pedophiles. Along the way, Ballard, who believes no amount of entrapme...

This is a sample of a premium episode. To listen to the entire episode and hear our other premium only content, subscribe at patreon.com/wetwired. In this episode, we’re joined by Daniella Mestyanek Young, the author of Uncultured. She was born a third generation member of an influential family, within The Family International, better known as the Children of God cult. She escaped at fifteen, put...

We’re joined by journalist Devin Thomas O’Shea. Devin has been published in The Nation, Slate, Jacobin, and Lapham’s Quarterly—among quite a few others. We talk about some St. Louis lore, the 1877 Railroad Strike, the short-lived workers' revolution, and the local gentry's revenge after the strike was put down. We wrap things up with a run past some of the more recent creatures to crawl out of Mis...

We're joined by Kacey, host of the Cult Vault Podcast. In about an hour and a half we managed to cover the troubled teen industry, Incels, Christian Science, Jordan Peterson, and even a little bit about Lumeria. Follow Kacey and the Cult Vault podcast: https://twitter.com/CultVaultPod https://www.youtube.com/@CultVaultPod Music in this episode: Lex Villena - Dark Twenty (CC BY 4.0) Lex Villena - O...

This episode is dedicated to all of you out there who’ve once moved into a new neighborhood and thought it might be a good idea to meet and talk to your neighbors online instead of in person. What could go wrong, right? With trying to have a parasocial relationship with people who live down the street? This is where Nextdoor comes in. Music: Airglow - Spliff and Wesson (CC-BY) Airglow - New Touch...

The big news for everyone is that the deep state is striking back! Last Friday, on June 9, the Department of Justice revealed details about the 38 felony counts against Trump. Jack Smith, the special prosecutor for the DOJ, is accusing Trump of blowing off or outright lying to the FBI, ignoring DOJ subpoenas requesting the return of classified and top secret materials, and of showing off some of t...