As former high-level CIA operatives, John Sipher and Jerry O'Shea would create fake conspiracies around the world. Now, with the help of experts, they execute their own fun and fearless investigation into conspiracy theories past and present to assess what's real. And how. And why. - Executive Producers: Adam Davidson, John Sipher, Jerry O'Shea & Jonathan Stern - Associate Producer: Rachel Harner - A production of Honorable Mention and Abominable Pictures
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Live tunes by The Implausible Schmendrick, played with just one instrument and one voice.
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Russian Disinformation (with Michael Weiss)
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How did the Russians get so good at the disinformation game, how do they do it, and who's doing it for them?Kirjoittanut iHeartPodcasts
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The Private Life of a Spy (with Jen Banbury)
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Adam’s wife has a lot of personal CIA questions for John & Jerry.Kirjoittanut iHeartPodcasts
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Does the CIA Control the Media? (with Philip Mudd)
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If not the CIA, then maybe the FBI? How about both? Philip Mudd worked for both agencies and then resigned and he has the answers. Including whether RFK Jr.'s suspicions about Operation Mockingbird are valid.Kirjoittanut iHeartPodcasts
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Jerry and John reflect on how intelligence services employ honey traps — snaring assets using sex.Kirjoittanut iHeartPodcasts
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How the Brain Is Built for Conspiracies (with David Eagleman)
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Are our brains wired to believe in conspiracy theories? Brain expert David Eagleman (“Inner Cosmos”) tells John & Jerry how, and how to break through.Kirjoittanut iHeartPodcasts
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The Trump Loyalty Test (with Tim Miller)
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Former Republican National Committee spokesman Tim Miller tells John & Jerry what it's like trying to meet the requirements of membership of today's Republican party.Kirjoittanut iHeartPodcasts
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Patrick Ewing and the Frozen Envelope (with Chris Ballard)
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The 1985 NBA Draft was one of the most controversial in NBA history. How did The New York Knicks land first pick and get Patrick Ewing? Was it rigged? Sports Illustrated writer Chris Ballard might know the answer.Kirjoittanut iHeartPodcasts
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The Simpsons (with Bill Oakley & David Silverman)
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Two Simpsons legends explore the theory that The Simpsons either predicts the future or causes the future, perhaps in cahoots with the CIA. Then they ask John & Jerry inside-CIA questions they always wanted to know.Kirjoittanut iHeartPodcasts
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The Elites (with Evan Osnos)
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Who are these “elites” that are running everything? And don’t we all aspire to be elite anyway?Kirjoittanut iHeartPodcasts
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Adam Davidson usurps the podcast with questions he always wanted to ask about the CIA, starting with Surveillance Detection Runs.Kirjoittanut iHeartPodcasts
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Getting Out (with Brent Lee and Sander van der Linden)
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Brent Lee went deep down the rabbit hole of conspiracy theories then climbed himself out. Too much of it didn’t add up, especially the idea of crisis actors faking mass shootings and the election of Trump.Kirjoittanut iHeartPodcasts
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Sandy Hook Crisis Actors (with Representative Eric Swalwell)
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The school shootings in America have been real. We discuss how the concept of them being faked with crisis actors is completely impossible, but why some people spread the conspiracy theory and why others choose to believe it. And what's behind that politically.Kirjoittanut iHeartPodcasts
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Minisode - Satanists and Stalinists
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Marjorie Taylor Greene thinks the Catholic Church is too nice, and also run by Satanists. A Florida deputy sheriff writes disinformation for Russia. Stalin - Never Stop Applauding. And Keep Zimbabwe Great Again. And a dig at Ted Cruz, because that always plays.Kirjoittanut iHeartPodcasts
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Hunter Biden’s Laptop Part 3: Return of the Laptop (with Doug Wise)
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The laptop is back, thanks to the recent Hunter Biden court case. John and Jerry, two of The Dirty 51 (signers of a letter written by former intelligence officials warning of Russian elections interference via the laptop Giuliani was hawking) are joined by another signer, former CIA officer Doug Wise, and podcast legend Adam Davidson to catch up to…
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Minisode - This Week in Crazy - 6/24/24
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Crazy claims of the week: Hunter Biden's prosecution was a red herring; Cheap Fakes; and Emmanuel Macron's wife is a man. Plus The Epoch Times and new congressional Republicans put on Intelligence Committee.Kirjoittanut iHeartPodcasts
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The Jade Helm Invasion (with Dan Lamothe)
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Routine military training exercises, in the eyes of paranoid extremists, were a pretense for Obama to have the U.S. take over Texas. Which... uh... does't it already have?Kirjoittanut iHeartPodcasts
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Minisode - The Orkney Conspiracy
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Some people believe Alaska and Hawaii belong to Russia. Mainly Russians believe that.Kirjoittanut iHeartPodcasts
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The Biden Crime Family Hoax (with Lev Parnas) - Part Two
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Part Two of our interview with the Russian-Israeli-American “businessman” who, when partnered with Rudy Giuiliani, tried and failed to come up with dirt on the Bidens for Trump. And he's got a long list of names of the others who were in on it.Kirjoittanut iHeartPodcasts
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The Biden Crime Family Hoax (with Lev Parnas) - Part One
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A Russian-Israeli-American “businessman,” partnered with Rudy Giuiliani, tried and failed to come up with dirt on the Bidens for Trump. It was all Russian disinformation.Kirjoittanut iHeartPodcasts
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Are gold-painted street performers in Pakistan actually spying on its citizens? John & Jerry look at this trend in the context of Pakistan's history, and recall some of their own surveillance stories.Kirjoittanut iHeartPodcasts
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Minisode - The Bombing of the Chinese Embassy in Belgrade
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One time when the CIA got it very wrong (with John Sipher, Jerry O'Shea and Adam Davidson)Kirjoittanut iHeartPodcasts
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Justin Trudeau is Fidel Castro’s Illegitimate Son (with Jon Lovett)
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Were Margaret Trudeau's “borders” open to Cuba? (with Jon Lovett)Kirjoittanut iHeartPodcasts
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The Deepest State (with Mark Zaid)
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We’re ALL The Deep State. Whistleblowers, whistleblowees, and the people who defend them. (with Mark Zaid)Kirjoittanut iHeartPodcasts
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This week, an attempted coup in Germany was stopped. A "prince" believed that a bureaucrat loophole could restore his lineage to power and reboot Germany to its pre-WW2 glory.Kirjoittanut iHeartPodcasts
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What's the Deal with Congress?! (with Denver Riggleman)
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Guest Denver Riggleman gripes about his time as a sane Republican in Congress and how he was shunned for his morality. How Jerry was recruited into the CIA. And how to win a bar fight.Kirjoittanut iHeartPodcasts
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The conspiracy to protect Trump's lie about how it was the Ukranians who interfered with the 2016 election and not the Russians. How people rationalize taking money from Saudi Arabia. And two Russian spies were caught in Germany. (with Adam Davidson)Kirjoittanut iHeartPodcasts
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Politics! (with David Corn)
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Is there a conspiracy to spread conspiracy theories? (with guest David Corn and suprise dramatic readings!)Kirjoittanut iHeartPodcasts
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Unidentified Anomalous Phenomenon (aka UFOs) (with Michael Ian Black and Seth Shostack)
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When did UFOs become "UAPs" and, as always, why is the government hiding them? (with Michael Ian Black and Seth Shostack)Kirjoittanut iHeartPodcasts
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In this minisode, John & Jerry look at the battle happening right now over FISA. How did it snare Trump's squad and do the blockers understand how many lives it saves?Kirjoittanut iHeartPodcasts
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Is “Stranger Things” a true story? (with Mike Rothschild and Christopher Garetano)Kirjoittanut iHeartPodcasts
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Havana Syndrome: Part Two (with Marc Polymeropoulos)
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What has the government acknowledged and what are they doing about it? (with Marc Polymeropoulos)Kirjoittanut iHeartPodcasts
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Havana Syndrome: Part One (with Jon Lee Anderson)
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Who has it? Where did they get it? Is it real? (with Jon Lee Anderson)Kirjoittanut iHeartPodcasts
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Hunter Biden's Laptop : Part Two (with Adam Kinzinger)
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Who are The Dirty 51? And why were John & Jerry on the cover of The New York Post? (with Adam Kinzinger)Kirjoittanut iHeartPodcasts
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Hunter Biden's Laptop: Part One (with Asha Rangappa and Denver Riggleman)
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Isn’t it Russian disinformation? Was Guiliani a “useful idiot”? (with Asha Rangappa and Denver Riggleman)Kirjoittanut iHeartPodcasts
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Israeli Russian-Eating Egyptian Sharks
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Is it safe to go back in the water of The Red Sea?Kirjoittanut iHeartPodcasts
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Elite Doomsday Bunkers at Denver International Airport
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What did the government secretly build under the Denver Airport and what's the password to get in when the s**t comes down?Kirjoittanut iHeartPodcasts
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Adam Kinzinger of the Congressional January 6 Committee
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How lonely is it to be one of only two Republicans who's willing to say that the election wasn't stolen and storming The Capital was wrong?Kirjoittanut iHeartPodcasts
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Chemtrails Are Making Us Horny and/or Infertile
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What are those white clouds that come out of airplanes and how can we blame everything bad on them?Kirjoittanut iHeartPodcasts
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Bill Gates' Microchip Plan
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So Bill Gates started Covid to create a need for vaccines that were a Trojan Horse for putting microchips in people to track them? And this was a better plan than just using cell phones because... ?Kirjoittanut iHeartPodcasts
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What's the absolute least cost-effective way to start a forest fire and how did they pull it off?Kirjoittanut iHeartPodcasts
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As former high-level CIA operatives, John Sipher and Jerry O'Shea would create fake conspiracies around the world. Now, with the help of experts, they execute their own fun and fearless investigation into conspiracy theories past and present to assess what's real. And how. And why.Kirjoittanut iHeartPodcasts
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UnfinishedBusinessWithTheImplausibleSchmendrickEpisode6RichardDreyfus Welcome to episode 6, a reltively short one this week because I only had a half hour in the morning to record the tunes so I chose two short ones. These I wrote very soon after purchasing my first ever relatively cheap ukulele last year, which has now been replaced by my first ev…
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UnfinishedBusinessWithTheImplausibleSchmendrickEpisode5BrightWhiteLies Here's episode five for you. While I was just at the end of recording the first tune some dogs starting barking outside, see if you can hear them, I think they kind of fit. These two songs are the only two I've ever written using only a synthesizer, acoustic instruments were my …
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UnfinishedBusinessWithTheImplausibleSchmendrickEpisode4BodyAndBlood Here's episode four. Very recent tunes these two, one written by candle light because of a power cut, and because acoustic guitars don't require electricity, and one I wrote just today, kind of, the lyrics are a poem I wrote a few days ago on a train, after hearing a rustling newsp…
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UnfinishedBusinessWithTheImplausibleSchmendrickEpisode3BraveandBrightandCallMeTommy Here's Episode Three, hopefully it doesn't send you into a bout of the sads. Bit of a heavy subject in teh first song, "Brave & Bold", which is about aids and death and horrible horrible times, but it's also about humanity and bravery and boldness, it's not all down…
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UnfinishedBusinessWithTheImplausibleSchmendrick Episode 2 Edmund J and Sweet Nothings So, welcome to episode two, which includes a tune about the great Edmund Jacobsen and a little Ukulele tune about peaceful protests and planting flowers. Edmund Jacobsen being a psychologist who worked on relaxation methods for people who are incerdibly tense, not…
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UnfinishedBusinesswithTheImplausibleSchmendrickEpisode1EugeneWesley Hello and welcome to episode 1 of "Unfinished Business with the implausible schmendrick", the implausible schmendrik being a music project type thing that I'm working on mostly on my own but with occasional help from some other folks when I can rope them in. The aim of this podcast…
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