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May 17, 2022

Archive: JFK Part 6

PENULTIMATE! It does not, as a young Jesuit believed, mean "better than ultimate". It means "the one before the last one." Which is what we have here. Some more discussions of the impact of JFK conspiracizing prior to the fin...

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May 11, 2022

Archive: JFK Part 5

This time, we focus not on Oliver Stone, but rather the real guy whom his movie portrayed as a fearless, untouchable campaigner for the truth--former New Orleans District Attorney Jim Garrison. Our analysis of the man's caree...

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May 5, 2022

Archive: JFK Part 4

Part 4, which includes the end of our Stone/Costner courtroom takedown, as well as a discussion of a bunch of other conspiracies that somehow Stone managed not to regurgitate in that scene. Year 5 coming in a matter of weeks....

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April 26, 2022

Archive: JFK Part 3

Third part of JFK inbound. This one features one of the highlights of our cross-country conspiracy trek of 2017, an interview with Stephen Fagin of the 6th Floor Museum in Dallas, which we insist you visit if you find yoursel...

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April 20, 2022

Archive: JFK Part 2

Part 2, better late than never. This episode covers Lee Harvey Oswald's desperate attempt to make his life matter in some way by murdering a President in broad daylight. We cover Oswald's crime, attempted escape, capture, int...

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April 12, 2022

Archive: JFK Part 1

Lo, we have entered the time prophesied--the time between episode arcs...the time...of the ARCHIVE! Seriously, though, we're once again breaking down one of our old, big, long shows into bite-sized chunks, to give you somethi...

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March 25, 2022

Complete Secret Societies - Part 4

Masons, Illuminati, Wrapup, and Bonus Material

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March 24, 2022

Complete Secret Societies - Part 3

Rosicrucians through a lot of the Masons

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March 23, 2022

Complete Secret Societies - Part 2

Cathars through most of Rosicrucians

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March 22, 2022

Complete Secret Societies - Part 1

Eleusynian Mysteries through Cathars

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March 15, 2022

New: Secret Societies I, Part 21 - The Illuminati 2

You're not gonna believe this--but this is actually the final episode of the secret societies series. I know . Which means that next week, as promised, and almost a year to the day from when we started this thing, we will be ...

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March 2, 2022

New: Secret Societies I, Part 21 - The Illuminati 1

Off-schedule, but on-topic, we bring you the first of two Illuminati episodes to wrap up this epic series. This one's the story of the actual, real-life 18th-century group whose brief but influential existence led them, throu...

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Feb. 8, 2022

New: Book Report--Illuminatus!

Comin' in HOT! We just got Dana Unicorn's lines a day or so ago, and yet here we are, presenting a complete, piping-fresh episode right out of the oven. We'd say it's like your grandmother used to make, but we think it's unli...

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Feb. 1, 2022

State of the Podcast--2022

Just a quick check-in. Dana is briefly out of commission (but 100% ok and on the mend), so we're stopping by briefly to let you know what to expect out of the next year or so of your favorite conspiracy theory podcast. See ac...

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Jan. 6, 2022

The Paranoid Strain Orchestra presents: 9116--The Rock Opera, Disc 2

Welcome to “Disc 2” of what, as far as we know, is the first ever two-and-a-half-hour podcast episode that is actually a full-on rock opera. Please note there’s a first “disc”--be sure you download that one, and listen to it ...

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Jan. 6, 2022

The Paranoid Strain Orchestra presents: 9116--The Rock Opera, Disc 1

Welcome to “Disc 1” of what, as far as we know, is the first ever two-and-a-half-hour podcast episode that is actually a full-on rock opera. Please note there’s a second “disc”--be sure you download that one, too. We’ve been ...

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Jan. 4, 2022

Not an episode--But something special is coming out this Thursday.

Just a quick teaser for our release on 1/6. Can't wait for you to hear it. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

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Dec. 22, 2021

New: Secret Societies I, Part 20 - The Freemasons 6

We've reached the end of the Masons section, which means we're covering the sad story of the masons versus the various fascisms that dominated the pre WWII period. The tale is super-interesting, but isn't quite what the freem...

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Dec. 7, 2021

New: Secret Societies I, Part 19 - The Freemasons 5

Here we have perhaps our favorite of this Masons series, covering everything from the supposed coverup of the masonic murder of Mozart (alliteration!) to a Catholic-sponsored expose of Masonic evil that includes a ghostly, pi...

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Nov. 24, 2021

New: Secret Societies I, Part 18 - The Freemasons 4

Here's where the Masons story runs smack into 'MURICA! From the founding fathers' relationship to the Craft, to the very strange interplay between Mormonism (the most American religion of faiths) and Freemasons, and finally t...

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Nov. 10, 2021

New: Secret Societies I, Part 17 - The Freemasons 3

As you can probably tell by our episode art, this here is the episode where we find out why the Freemasons caused the French Revolution. Or rather, we find out why, just after the revolution, a whole lot of people began to th...

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Oct. 27, 2021

New: Secret Societies I, Part 16 - The Freemasons 2

In this second part of our dive into the world's most successful secret society, we go deep into the early history of the Freemasons, as well as the pageantry behind their initiation ceremonies. Plus, we BLOW THE LID off of a...

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Oct. 13, 2021

New: Secret Societies I, Part 15 - The Freemasons 1

So we've finally reached a secret society that surely every listener to this show has already heard of, the Freemasons. To be totally honest here, we approached this topic more out of a sense of duty than out of genuine excit...

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Sept. 28, 2021

New: Secret Societies I, Part 14 - The Rosicrucians and Foucault's Pe…

We're fourteen goddamned episodes into this seemingly never-ending cavalcade of secret society information, and there are, at minimum, seven or eight episodes to go. We'd apologize for how long this series is getting, but we'...

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