Episode 280 – Conspiracy Rumors about Trump Staging His Assassination Attempts
Episode Summary: First, some fun news bits on Knight Rider’s K.I.T.T., how cats land on their feet, and a Times…
read moreEpisode 271 – What Can the Taos Hum Teach Us?
Episode Summary: First, Ben and Celestia discuss some significant passings — Erich von Däniken and Scott Adams, each skeptical cautionary…
read moreEpisode 268 – Daniel Reed on Vegetable Man and Gray Barker
Episode Summary: First, Ben and Celestia ruminate on past Key Bridge conspiracy theories, RFK Jr.’s latest efforts to destroy public…
read moreEpisode 263 – The Tylenol Presser and Sailing Stones with Brian Dunning
Episode Summary: Much of our intro segment is spent with Celestia gnashing her teeth about the recent Trump-RFK-Oz press conference…
read moreEpisode 251 – Incredible Tales of Survival!
Episode Summary: After some current events about dire wolves, dire outbreaks of measles, and dire science denial in the White…
read moreEpisode 249 – Grab Bag: Remembering Joe Nickell, real-time folklore, “transgender mice,” and RFK Jr. vs. measles
Episode Summary: Ben has been on a cruise, and brings back an interesting story on how quickly rumors and conspiracy…
read moreEpisode 241 – Wildfire Conspiracies with Gail de Vos
Episode Summary: This week Pascual is back, talking to Celestia about the Onion’s purchase of Info Wars, shady testosterone offers,…
read moreEpisode 237 – Watery Weirdness
Episode Summary: First a few current events involving a Taylor Swift guitar (or not), the Nazca Lines, a giant naked…
read moreStS Episode 232 – Brace yourselves. We talk politics.
Episode Summary: Need I even write a summary here? Maybe for listeners who have been in a coma for the…
read moreStS Episode 25: Conspiracy Theories ‘They’ Don’t Want You to Know About
Episode Summary: Conspiracy Theories THEY Don’t Want You to Know About (released September 28, 2017) Ben ruminates on the blowup…
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