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  • On Shakey Ground: More Shakespeare Authorship

    On Shakey Ground: More Shakespeare Authorship
    Apr 23 2025
    EPISODE 135 | On Shakey Ground: More Shakespeare Authorship Guest: Scott Jackson, Mary Irene Ryan Executive Artistic Director of Shakespeare at the University of Notre Dame, current president of the Shakespeare Theatre Association (STA), stage actor and director On the anniversary of Shakespeare's life and death (both), a look at some of the more fringe of fringe theories as to who "really" wrote the plays and sonnets attributed to the "Man from Stratford". Like what we do? Then buy us a beer or three via our page on Buy Me a Coffee. Review us here or on IMDb. And seriously, subscribe, will ya? SECTIONS 02:56 - A recap of the Oxfordian Theory, the film "Anonymous", the Declaration of Reasonable Doubt, people asking questions11:48 - The Prince Tudor Theory, Parts 1 & 2, most people don't take any of this seriously20:32 - Shakespeare was Italian - Crollalanza/Scrollalanza/M. Florio, John Florio25:22 - S. was Sicilian, most plots existed before, S. was Jewish, paintings as proof, S. was both Italian and Jewish, shades of Shylock, the performance approach; S. was Cervantes, S. had a weak chin, S. was Irish (Patrick O'Toole or William Nugent), S. was an Arab (Shaikh Zubayr)37:06 - S. was a woman (Queen Elizabeth, Mary Queen of Scots, Anne Whateley, Anne Hathaway, Mary Sidney Herbert, Emelia Lanier/Aemilia Bassano), the Dark Lady of the Sonnets, Shakespeare CTs are like fan fiction44:08 - A committed Stratfordian because it was a single hand Music by Fanette Ronjat More Info Who Wrote Shakespeare? Shakespeare Authorship 101Behind the Quill: Debating the Shakespeare AuthorshipGreene's Jealousy of Shakespeare 8 Shakespeare Conspiracy TheoriesTop 18 Reasons Why Edward de Vere (Oxford) Was ShakespeareDebunking the Oxfordian Claims about Shakespearean AuthorshipThe Declaration of Reasonable Doubt“Prince Tudor” Theory Began in 1932…Southampton and the Tudor Rose TheoryPrince Tudor and the SonnetsAll Is True by Mike A’Dair (Prince Tudor 2)Professor claims Shakespeare was ItalianWas Shakespeare Italian?John Florio – The Anglified Italian Who Invented William ShakespeareWas Shakespeare a Believing Jew?The Secret Jewish History of William ShakespeareThe secret connection between Cervantes and ShakespeareShakespeare and Cervantes: Two geniuses and one death dateShakespeare’s Irish connectionsShakespeare Was An IrishmanQadhafi: Shakespeare Was an Arab Named Shaykh ZubayrWas Shakespeare a Woman?Unmasking ShakespeareWas Shakespeare Actually This Jewish Woman?Amelia Bassano: The True Shakespeare? on SnopesFact check: No evidence that Aemilia Bassano wrote all of Shakespeare’s playsIn search of Shakespeare's dark ladyHow reading Shakespeare could help stop conflict in the Middle EastFinding Shakespeare on the Skeptoid podcastThe Shakespeare Apocalypse Follow us on social: FacebookTwitterBluesky Other Podcasts by Derek DeWitt DIGITAL SIGNAGE DONE RIGHT - Winner of a 2022 Gold Quill Award, 2022 Gold MarCom Award, 2021 AVA Digital Award Gold, 2021 Silver Davey Award, 2020 Communicator Award of Excellence, and on numerous top 10 podcast lists. PRAGUE TIMES - A city is more than just a location - it’s a kaleidoscope of history, places, people and trends. This podcast looks at Prague, in the center of Europe, from a number of perspectives, including what it is now, what is has been and where it’s going. It’s Prague THEN, Prague NOW, Prague LATER
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  • Behind the History Mysteries

    Behind the History Mysteries
    Apr 9 2025

    EPISODE 134 | Behind the History Mysteries

    Guest: Neil Laird, Emmy-nominated TV producer (Discovery, BBC, PBS, History, National Geographic), author of the Prime Time novel series

    TV has so many of these Secrets of..., Mysteries of... shows, you have to wonder how they keep the stories fresh and compelling. Well, wonder no more, as Emmy-nominated producer Neil Laird takes us behind the camera on some of the many shows he's produced to kick off the start of our sixth year.

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    1. 02:18 - How he got into the biz, how it works,
    2. 08:37 - You need a hook, the business is dying, In Search of..., don't ignore the woo crowd
    3. 19:07 - What on Earth?, structuring the shows, History's Greatest Mysteries, Errol Morris changes documentaries, reenactments in docs, "JFK" uses documentary techniques for fiction, cinéma vérité vs. direct cinema, Blair Witch
    4. 26:27 - How can we trust what we see?, the industry is getting democratized but many people lose their jobs, modern hybrid docuseries with fictional techniques in reenactments (Rise of Empires: Ottoman, etc.), after the hook you live or die on the story you tell, no one wants to watch a textbook
    5. 32:43 - Blowing Up History (Unearthed) and using computer reconstructions, video games like Assassin's Creed and Mafia as educational tools, get the audience to trust the journey, conspiracy belief is emotional and personal, the audience responds with fact-checking, don't forget Israel on your maps
    6. 38:59 - The future of docuseries, streaming needs less content than network, formats are changing, the How to Become a.... trilogy, a specific point of view instead of objective distance, the Prime Time series and Gay Ancient History
    • Music by Fanette Ronjat

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    • DIGITAL SIGNAGE DONE RIGHT - Winner of a 2022 Gold Quill Award, 2022 Gold MarCom Award, 2021 AVA Digital Award Gold, 2021 Silver Davey Award, 2020 Communicator Award of Excellence, and on numerous top 10 podcast lists.
    • PRAGUE TIMES - A city is more than just a location - it’s a kaleidoscope of history, places, people and trends. This podcast looks at Prague, in the center of Europe, from a number of perspectives, including what it is now, what is has been and where it’s going. It’s Prague THEN, Prague NOW, Prague LATER
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  • Cult Pop Suicide: Japanese Cults

    Cult Pop Suicide: Japanese Cults
    Mar 26 2025
    EPISODE 133 | Cult Pop Suicide: Japanese Cults Japan is a land of many contradictions - very forward-looking but also retrograde. And when it comes to the spiritual side of things, quite a few people seem to fall for various cults, scammers and charlatans. And just offbeat beliefs, like that Jesus' brother died on the cross while He moved to Aomori Prefecture in northern Honshu, where he married and taught and lived until 106. Like what we do? Then buy us a beer or three via our page on Buy Me a Coffee. Review us here or on IMDb. And seriously, subscribe, will ya? SECTIONS 04:52 - Hey Mister Banjo - The Yamagishi Society07:28 - Hotaru no Hikari (Light of the Fireflies) - Mahikari, the World True Light Civilization Religious Organization10:34 - Nagaragawa Enka (The Enka of the Nagara River) - Life Space Movement, shakty pat and a mummy15:44 - Katatsumuri Samba (Snail Samba) - Ho No Hana Sanpōgyō, the Flower of Buddhist Teaching; Hogen Fukunaga and Yogesh Gandhi donate money to the DNC, kick off Chinagate23:54 - Orokamono (Fool) - Pana-Wave Laboratory, electromagnetic waves, Tama-chan the arctic seal, a police standoff and the end of the world33:50 - Doctor Head's World Tower - Happy Science, EL Cantare, gods from Venus, Komei No Kai sells water, Happy Science gets political, sets records, gets in beefs and embraces MAGA, pioneers "spiritual vaccines"43:41 - Lunatic Doll: Ansatsu Keikoku (Assassination Warning) - Aum Shinrikyo has a real bad attitude, the sarin gas attacks of March 20, 1995 plus other crimes before and after54:26 - Japanese police are unprepared for NRMs, online suicide cults, hikikomori Music by Fanette Ronjat More Info Expo 2025 websiteApples, boogie and shamisen: A Brief look at Japanese Popular Music during the Allied OccupationKazuya Kosaka & the Wagon Masters - Hey Mister Banjo‘Rokabiri’: The Music That Shook Japan on Japan NakamaGlow of the Fireflies/Hotaru no hikari songJapanese Enka MusicNagaragawa Enka song performed by Junko IshiharaKatatsumuri Samba song by Onyanko ClubOrokamono song by Masahiko KondoThe World Tower song by Flipper's GuitarBlack Hole song by Mari HamadaKeeping the Faith: Christ’s Tomb in Aomori and Japanese Religion on Nippon.comThe Grave of Jesus Christ on Travel JapanThe 5 Scariest Japanese Cults on Japan Daily10 Bizarre Japanese Cults You’ve Probably Never Heard Of on ListverseRise of Japanese cults on BBCJapanese Society and Religion on the Eve of the 21st Century by MAEKAWA MichikoWhatever happened to Yamagishi? in Japan TimesThe Yamagishi Association: successful, moneyless, leaderless network of communes in Japan and elsewhere on Lowimpact.orgSukyo Mahikari North America websiteWorld Divine Light websiteJapanese Cults–Koji Takahashi and the Life Space Movement on Japan PoweredThe Corpse And The Cult in NewsweekLife Space Movement (Shakty Pay Guru Foundation) Raided in Japan on Center for Studies on New ReligionsLife Space guru denies suggesting man leave hospital on Japan TimesA battle over mummified body renews worry about Japan cults on DeseretNewsHo No Hana Sanpogyo on Apologetics Index1996 United States campaign finance controversy on WikipediaNew Religious Movement Raided in Japan: Ho No Hana on CESNURHonohana foot-cult guru gets 12 years for fraud on Japan TimesPana Wave Laboratory on World Religions and Spirituality ProjectDoomsday cult makes waves in Japan in The GuardianProbing Pana Wave's natureThe Latest Japanese Cult Panic in Religion in the NewsPana Wave at the Cult Education InstituteA nation's fate is sealed - Guardian article on Tama-chanForeigners seek same rights as seal on Japan TimesPana Wave: Doomsday and Tama-chan the Seal videoPana Wave picturesHappy Science websiteJapan’s infamous ‘happy’ cult sets sights on the United StatesThe Happy Science Religious Movement Claims to Hold the Cure for COVID-19A Japanese Cult That Believes Its Leader Is an Alien From Venus Is Speaking at CPACHow a fringe religious movement in Japan built a pro-Trump social media empireHappy Science Is the Laziest Cult Ever on ViceWhy is Japan the ideal country according to the Alt-Right movementJapan's rising right-wing nationalism videoConsideration of the Status of Conspiracy Theories in Japan Based on Attempts at Regime Destruction Overseas in International Information Network AnalysisQAnon Is Alive and Well in JapanAum Shinrikyo: The Japanese cult behind the Tokyo Sarin attack on BBCChronology of Aum Shinrikyo's CBW Activities paperAum Shinrikyo report at the Ministry of JusticeRevisiting Aum Shinrikyo: New Insights into the Most Extensive Non-State Biological Weapons Program to DateAleph official website (in Japanese)Aum Sect/Shoko Asahara on Cult Education InstituteReligion-Making in Japan’s Courts of LawConspiracy Theories and Their Believers in Contemporary JapanNew Religions in JapanYearning for spiritual leadership, Japan has spawned a rash of apocalyptic religions and ominously popular sects at the Cult Education ...
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  • Keel Hauled: UAP Update

    Keel Hauled: UAP Update
    Mar 12 2025
    EPISODE 132 | Keel Hauled: UAP Update Recent revelations, reports, videos and hearings have been leading up to what many UAP folks call Disclosure. Some interesting things have come out, and a whole lot of nonsense as well. Spoiler: UFOs are real. Apart from that single fact, no one really has any hard evidence for anything else. So, they speculate. Like what we do? Then buy us a beer or three via our page on Buy Me a Coffee. Review us here or on IMDb. And seriously, subscribe, will ya? SECTIONS 03:00 - Bullet Train to Iowa - AATIP, UFO into UAP into UAP, Luis Elizondo, Harry Reid, Robert Bigelow, Christopher Mellon leaks a video in 2017, the DoD confirmed, more videos (Gimbal, Go Fast, FLIR1), the UAP Task Force, triangles, spheres, acorns and metallic blimps07:28 - UAPTF Report (June 2021), more data needed, AOIMSG, HISCCC hearing (May 2022), more data needed, AARO, NDAs for whistleblowers negated, Disclosure is being slow-walked, more video footage11:52 - Grey Area - Project Blue Book, Evangelicals, Kenneth Arnold, flying saucers, Roswell & Project Mogul, UFOs as cover story, scammers15:36 - A Singularity - The UFO ecosystem - Brad Steiger's The Reality Game, 18 theories about UFOs (including the Magic Theatre, the Overlord Theory, John Keel's Ultraterrestrials)19:31 - The "Extraterrestrial Almanac", Tim Burchett has a press conference, everyone has a theory22:33 - Bread and Circus - Congressional hearing (July 2023), David Fravor and Ryan Graves, David Grusch makes some amazing claims but offers no evidence, Grusch jumps on board with the interdimensional crowd, Grusch had had some troubles in the past, NASA creates the Director of Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena Research (Sept. 2023), hardcore Christians think it's all demons, true believers on both sides29:55 - The Underwhelming - The Disclosure Project, Dr. Steven Greer, ARVs & the Wilson Memo, To the Stars Academy becomes To the Stars, Inc., Skinwalkers at the Pentagon, Jay Stratton has a book deal thanks to Dan Farah, Luis Elizondo writes Imminent: Inside the Pentagon's Hunt for UFO which has more than a few problems (remote viewing, nosy orbs), the Collins Elite & Legacy Program38:14 - Personal Prometheus - AARO's report (March 2024), NASA's report (April 2024) - more data needed and stop bothering witnesses, Congressional hearing in November 2024 with Lue Elizondo, Dr. Tim Gallaudet, Michael Gold - more videos, people being threatened, an international arms race to back-engineer UAP tech, some tech in the hands of private companies42:18 - Michael Shellenberger talks about SAPs, USAPs, TUOs and NHIs; Immaculate Constellation (formed in 2017) describes all sorts of UAPs (like boomerangs, triangles, and irregular/organic), Blue Force technology, verbal dancing48:03 - Apocalyptical - Lauren Boebert is an idiot, UAP fans were not happy with Disclosure's progress, Grusch had a lot more to say, aliens are really evil transdimensional entities, Greer says they eat human souls while we sleep and also cries a lot51:15 - Is it all disinfo? Are they all nuts? Are "they" really demons? Wild notions of what "full disclosure" will finally reveal (a real Conspiracy Theory of Everything [CTOE]), it's a vast spiritual war among creatures made of conscious energy54:43 - Theorem - What we really know:- UAPs (and USOs) are real, some Evangelicals hate all this talk because they really do think they are demons and try to keep it all quiet; other ideas, less and less likely; the New York Post's video "Spooky Hustlers", those first three videos started it all but Brian Dunning examines them in "The UFO Movie They Don't Want You to See" Music by Fanette Ronjat More Info EPISODE 31 | Scammers, Inc.: MJ-12, Bennewitz & SerpoEPISODE 29 | The Notorious M.I.B.EPISODE 32 | A View to Vril (Valiant Thor bit around 21:29) EPISODE 99 | A Bridge Too Far: The Mothman Visits Point PleasantEPISODE 23 | Signs, Grudges & Blue Books: Early UFOlogyEPISODE 35 | A Field Guide to AliensEPISODE 74 | Red Alert: UFOs as Threat!EPISODE 94 | Peek-A-Boo: Project Star GateEPISODE 17 | Project Blue Beam: Abandon Hope All Ye Who Research HereTimeline of Major UFO/UAP Events at New Space EconomyUAP articles and videos on UAP on The Black Vault (147 pages!)FOIA documents about AATIP'AATIP' explored: A brief look inside the government's top-secret UFO program on SYFYWatch the Pentagon's three declassified UFO videos taken by U.S. Navy pilotsEstablishment of Unidentified Aerial Phenomena Task Force at the DoDUAP Task Force documentsUAP Task Force reportA PHILOSOPHICAL ANALYSIS OF THE UAPTF’s PRELIMINARY ASSESSMENT ON UFOs By Adrian G. RudnykDoD Announces the Establishment of the Airborne Object Identification and Management Synchronization Group (AOIMSG)AOIMSG briefing cardMore AOIMSG documentsAARO website with many linksThe Pentagon got hundreds of new reports of UFOs in 2022, a government report says on NPRThe Roswell Report: Case Closed from US Air Force HQ, published in ...
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  • Hotlantis: The Lost Continent

    Hotlantis: The Lost Continent
    Feb 26 2025
    EPISODE 131 | Hotlantis: The Lost Continent We all love mysteries, and Atlantis is one of the biggest ones. Was it a real place or just an allegory? If real, then where was it? Many people have spent a lot of time and money trying to discover the answer to that question. Like what we do? Then buy us a beer or three via our page on Buy Me a Coffee. Review us here or on IMDb. And, seriously, subscribe, will ya? SECTIONS 02:22 - Let the Mermaids Flirt with Me - Plato's Timaeus and Critias describe Atlantis, Utopia, probably just an allegory, Tertullian's "On Baptism", Elysium, Plato references Solon08:44 - When the Levee Breaks - Atlantias by Hellanicus of Lesbos, the disaster at Helike, Altantipedia14:00 - Mediterranean Sundance - Crantor believed it, the Pillars of Hercules, in the Mediterranean: Santorini (Thira), the Minoans, Robert Graves thought it was Pharos, Robert L. Scranton liked Lake Copais, other Med locales21:08 - Atlantic - Ignatius Donnelly and Pierre-Marie Termier chose the Azores, hyperdiffusionism, Otto Muck thought about the Mid-Atlantic Range and the Carolina Bays, Bory de Saint-Vincent liked the Canary Islands (and pillow lava), Jorge Maria Ribero-Meneses considered the Cachucho Plateau, some liked the Spartel Bank, Paul Dunbavin liked the the Irish Sea, Stel Pavlou changes the timeline, the Richart Structure in Mauritania28:48 - Abraham Ortelius drew a map, Athanasius Kircher expanded that work and thought Atlantis connected North America with Africa31:02 - New World - Edgar Cayce's visions pointed to Bimini, the Bimini Road, the Blake Plateau, the Sargasso Sea, J.M. Allen thinks of the Incans and Bolivia, mythological places, Antarctica 36:40 - Underwater Love - Olaus Rudbeck preferred Sweden, Jürgen Spanuth like Northern Europe, Helena Blavatsky's Theosophy and root races, Jörg Lanz von Liebenfels and Guido von List create Ariosophy ("the wisdom of the Aryans"), the Nazis took that ball and ran with it41:33 - Palace of the Brine - CTs like ancient aliens, the Vatican, the Illuminati; Tony O’Connell of Atlantapedia's central Mediterranean theory, my own take on it all Music by Fanette Ronjat More Info Atlantipedia website Timaeus By Plato Critias By Plato Finding Atlantis in the depths of Plato On Baptism by TertullianAtlantis isn’t real, but here are all the places it could have been in Popular ScienceAtlantis on History.comAtlantis at National Geographic Atlantis - An Investigation on StorymapsTop 10 Amazing Facts About the Lost City of AtlantisThe ‘truth’ behind Atlantis – Christopher Gill on Plato’s Atlantis StoryWhere is the Lost City of Atlantis — and Does it Even Exist? in DiscoverIs Atlantis Real? The Truth Behind the Atlantis MythWas there a real Atlantis? on How Stuff WorksPlato’s Atlantis Before Plato on Beachcombing's BIzarre HIstory BlogWHO ELSE WROTE ABOUT ATLANTIS?Findings on Santorini Point to “Lost Island of Atlantis” OriginsHow the Ancient Greek City of Helike Was Destroyed and RediscoveredWrath of a God or Nature: The Demise of HelikeWhat Are the Pillars of Hercules Mentioned in Greek Mythology?The Pillars of Heracles at the Plato ProjectHow the Discovery of ‘Atlantis’ Made Big News Then Faded AwayThe Mysteries of Lake Copais and the Island Fortress of GlaThe Sunken City That Might Be AtlantisAtlantis Location Hypothesis10 mysterious locations to find the lost city of AtlantisWHERE IS ATLANTIS?: PILLARS OF HERACLES, A SEA OF MUD AND MONSTERS IN THE DEEPAtlantis, Lake Tritonis, and PharosIgnatius L. Donnelly in the Scholarly Community Encyclopedia Master of Disaster, Ignatius Donnelly in the Public Domain ReviewAre the Misty Peaks of the Azores Remnants of the Legendary Atlantis?The Canary Islands And The Atlantis LegendPillow basalt more than a kilometer above sea levelLost city of Atlantis believed found off SpainThe Mystery of Carolina BaysLocation hypotheses of AtlantisHunting Atlantis TV show“Be Vewy Quiet. I’m Hunting Atlantis.”What Exactly Is the Eye of the Sahara, aka the Richat Structure?Ancient Saharan Origins of East African Bantus: The Land of Atlantis and EgyptAtlantis on the Green SaharaThe Infamous Map of Atlantis on Cryptid CampfireHow the imaginary island of Atlantis was mapped on VoxBimini Road/The Lost City of AtlantisWhy Some People Think Bimini Road Is A Lost Highway To Atlantis on All That's InterestingEp. 128 | Estimated Prophets: Nostradamus & CayceThe Island of Atlantis DiscoveredThe Blake Plateau: A Southern TreasureDeep Sea Corals: The depths of the Blake PlateauEp. 103 | Down in Bermuda, It’s Easy to Believe: The Devil’s TriangleThe Sargasso Sea: why this ‘golden floating rainforest’ urgently needs protecting at GreenpeaceMysteries of the Sargasso SeaAtlantis: The Andes Solution : The Discovery of South America As the Legendary Continent of Atlantis by John Blashford-SnellExploring Atlantis and LemuriaIs Atlantis in AntarcticaAtlantis on the H. P. Lovecraft WikiSwedish Visions of ...
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  • Lost Cities of the New World

    Lost Cities of the New World
    Feb 12 2025
    EPISODE 130 | Lost Cities of the New World Guest: Neil Laird, Emmy-nominated TV producer (Discovery, BBC, PBS, History, National Geographic), author of the Prime Time novel series What's commonly called the "New World" is actually very old, and for a long time, people have been trying to track down supposedly lost locations in the Americas. While these folks have not succeeded, advances in technology are allowing us to make astonishing discoveries that are rewriting the history of human habitation in the Western Hemisphere. Like what we do? Then buy us a beer or three via our page on Buy Me a Coffee. Review us here or on IMDb. And seriously, subscribe, will ya? SECTIONS 03:07 - The Lost City of Z - Percy Harrison Fawcett finds Manuscript 512 and goes looking in the Amazon, the search for Fawcett gets LIDAR, new discoveries are made about old New World urban planning25:18 - The City of the Lost Monkey God - LIDAR again to the rescue, the jungle is difficult to navigate, rebranded as City of the Jaguar31:48 - El Dorado and the Fountain of Youth - Everyone wants gold, and who doesn't want to live forever?, these locations are cyphers, Mysteries of...., Shark Week, the Prime Time novels Music by Fanette Ronjat MORE INFO Neil Laird on IMDbPrime Time Travelers: A Satirical MM Adventure by Neil LairdPrime Time Pompeii by Neil LairdLost Trails, Lost Cities by Colonel Percy Harrison FawcettManuscript 512: 18th century evidence of a lost civilization in Brazil? by Jason ColavitoManuscript 512 textPercy Fawcett and the Lost City on History TodayThe Enduring Mystery Behind Percy Fawcett’s Disappearance on History.comLost Cities of the Amazon Discovered From the Air in SmithsonianThe Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon by David GrannThe Lost City of Z movieIndiana Jones and the Seven Veils by Rob MacgregorThe Lost City of the Monkey God: A True Story by Douglas PrestonExclusive: Lost City Discovered in the Honduran Rain Forest in National GeographicLa Ciudad Blanca: The White City of HondurasLure of the Lost City in National GeographicThe Lost City That’s Not Lost, Not a City, and Doesn’t Need to Be DiscoveredEl Dorado: Real history behind the legend on LiveScienceEl Dorado on National GeographicKhwaja Khadir and the Fountain of Life in the Tradition of Persian and Mughal ArtFlorida's Fountain of Youth on The Progress ReportFountain of Youth in Florida website Follow us on social: FacebookTwitterBluesky Other Podcasts by Derek DeWitt DIGITAL SIGNAGE DONE RIGHT - Winner of a 2022 Gold Quill Award, 2022 Gold MarCom Award, 2021 AVA Digital Award Gold, 2021 Silver Davey Award, 2020 Communicator Award of Excellence, and on numerous top 10 podcast lists. PRAGUE TIMES - A city is more than just a location - it’s a kaleidoscope of history, places, people and trends. This podcast looks at Prague, in the center of Europe, from a number of perspectives, including what it is now, what is has been and where it’s going. It’s Prague THEN, Prague NOW, Prague LATER
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  • The Fermi Paradox: Here Comes Nobody

    The Fermi Paradox: Here Comes Nobody
    Jan 29 2025
    EPISODE 129 | The Fermi Paradox: Here Comes Nobody If we are not unique as a species, an intelligent one that builds civilizations, then there must be lots and lots of other civilizations out there in the galaxy and the rest of the universe beyond. But if so, where the hell is everybody? That’s the question at the heart of the Fermi Paradox. And this has kicked off a chain of reasoning and speculation that crosses disciplinary boundaries, and lets us start to envision, not just what might be out there, but where we ourselves want to go as a global civilization. Like what we do? Then buy us a beer or three via our page on Buy Me a Coffee. You can also SUBSCRIBE to this podcast. Review us here or on IMDb! SECTIONS 02:54 - First we feel, then we fall - The Fermi Paradox, the Drake Equation, the Wow! Signal, space is big09:22 - End here. Us then. Finn, again! - Abiogenesis, the Pulse-Transient Theory of Industrial Civilization, musings on the galactic situation18:48 - They lived and laughed and loved and left - The Great Filter, Von Neumann probes, the Berserker Hypothesis; loud, quiet and grabby aliens; the Dark Forest Hypothesis, the technological singularity, the Jevons Paradox and induced demand27:16 - The cross of your own cruelfiction - The Zoo Hypothesis, the Planetarium Hypothesis, the Deathworld Scenario, A Field Guide to Aliens, Calculating God and other science fiction, the Aestivation Hypothesis 34:34 - Three quarks for Muster Mark! - The Kardashev Scale, Sagan's addition, megastructures, Barrow's anti-Kardashev scale, Galántai's variation, the Urbanization Hypothesis, Kardashev's six scenarios, what to look for43:04 - He is cured by faith who is sick of fate - They're here, Greer and UAP folks, MJ-12, the SETI Paradox, we are looking, light is fast but has a limit47:38 - Let us leave theories there and return to here's hear - Joseph Campbell and where do we go from here? Music by Fanette Ronjat More Info Finnegans Wake glossesA skeleton key to Finnegans Wake by Joseph Campbell‘It never ends’: the book club that spent 28 years reading Finnegans Wake in The GuardianFinnegan’s Wake at 80: In Defense of the Difficult at LitHubWhy Finnegans Wake Is Better than UlyssesFermi’s Paradox on This American LifeSETI Institute websiteHumanity Responds to 'Alien' Wow Signal, 35 Years LaterThis Is How We Know There Are Two Trillion Galaxies In The Universe in ForbesThe Great Filter: a possible solution to the Fermi Paradox in AstronomyA list of solutions to the Fermi Paradox on It's only chemoAre We Alone in the Universe? Article looking at the Drake EquationHow Many Aliens Are There? A look at the Drake EquationDrake Equation: Estimating the Odds of Finding E.T. on Space.comTemplate for calculating answers to the Drake Equation on PBSThe Olduvai Theory: Toward a Re-Equalizing of the World Standard of LivingThe Berserker Hypothesis: The Darkest Explanation Of The Fermi ParadoxGrabby Aliens websiteDark Forest theory: A terrifying explanation of why we haven’t heard from aliens yetThe Dark Forest Hypothesis is Absurd'Zoo hypothesis' may explain why we haven't seen any space aliensWhere Is Everyone? 4 Possible Explanations for the Fermi Paradox at Singularity HubThe Kardashev scale: Classifying alien civilizations on Space.comKardashev Scale: What is it and where is Earth listed? on BBC Science FocusForecasting the progression of human civilization on the Kardashev Scale through 2060 with a machine learning approach reports in Scientific ReportsSETI: Musings on the Barrow ScaleA non-anthropocentric solution to the Fermi paradox in the International Journal of AstrobiologyAsymptotic burnout and homeostatic awakening: a possible solution to the Fermi paradox? in the Journal of the Royal SocietyPlanetary scientists suggest a solution to the Fermi paradox: Superlinear scaling leading to a singularity on Phys.orgThe Coming Technological Singularity: How to Survive in the Post-Human Era by Vernor VingeNovels with a focus on the Fermi Paradox / Great Filter? in r/printSFBeyond “Fermi’s Paradox” XVII: What is the “SETI-Paradox” Hypothesis? SETI urged to fess up over alien signals Steven Greer's website Follow us on social: FacebookTwitterBluesky Other Podcasts by Derek DeWitt DIGITAL SIGNAGE DONE RIGHT - Winner of a 2022 Gold Quill Award, 2022 Gold MarCom Award, 2021 AVA Digital Award Gold, 2021 Silver Davey Award, 2020 Communicator Award of Excellence, and on numerous top 10 podcast lists. PRAGUE TIMES - A city is more than just a location - it’s a kaleidoscope of history, places, people and trends. This podcast looks at Prague, in the center of Europe, from a number of perspectives, including what it is now, what is has been and where it’s going. It’s Prague THEN, Prague NOW, Prague LATER
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  • Estimated Prophets: Nostradamus & Cayce

    Estimated Prophets: Nostradamus & Cayce
    Jan 15 2025
    EPISODE 128 | Estimated Prophets: Nostradamus & Cayce Even though almost none of the things that prophets say will happen actually do, we still persist in believing in the capability anyway. We do not like to change out minds very much. Two of the biggest prophets that still hold sway today over Western culture are Nostradamus and Edgar Cayce, and we’ll take a look at each one in turn. Like what we do? Then buy us a beer or three via our page on Buy Me a Coffee. You can also SUBSCRIBE to this podcast. Review us here or on IMDb! SECTIONS 02:35 - Built to Last - Nostradamus' career and style, Virgilianised syntax, Les Prophéties and the Mirabilis Liber 06:53 - Aoxomoxoa - Into the 20th century, Erika Cheetham, "The Man Who Saw Tomorrow", some prophecies 12:48 - Blues for Allah - The King of Terror wears a blue turban, more prophecies, modern rehashings and interpretations, Over Sixty's Travel Trouble section for 202522:13 - Shakedown Street - Nostrafakers, Mabus the 3rd Antichrist, Ray Mabus, Dennis "prophetofrevenge" Markuze, John "rogue scholar" Hogue28:38 - Ship of Fools - Nostrascams, Gangnam Style, Rudolf Hess uses Nostradamus32:08 - American Beauty - Edgar Cayce gets his voice back, starts a lucrative career as the Sleeping Prophet and has weird food ideas36:01 - In the Dark - Cayce sells pseudomedical "cures", then loses it in 1932, makes lots of predictions and travels around in time, the "root race" and polygenesis, Atlantis and more42:14 - Wake of the Flood - Cayce's Earth Changes, Lori Toye's I Am America maps, Gordon-Michael Scallion's prophetic doomsday maps, billionaires start buying land Music by Fanette Ronjat More Info EPSIODE 53 | Time to Get Ill - DST, Y2K & 2012Episode 08 | Time Cube - Four Is the Loneliest NumberEntry for Nostradamus on the Museum of Hoaxes websiteA translation of Nostradamus propheciesMore translations of the prophecies Nostradamus’s Cherry Jelly recipe on Tasting HistoryNostradamus Predicted 9/11 on the Museum of HoaxesCrystalinks prophecies pageNostradamus' 2025 predictions revealed on OverSixtyDennis Markuze - The Prophecies of Nostradamus HogueProphecy websiteAn Idiot's Biography - John HogueEdgar Cayce on CrystalinksEdgar Cayce’s life & readings page on his official websiteEdgar Cayce: The Would-Be Sleeping ProphetEarth Star magazineArizona Corporation Commission Finds Payson Couple Defrauded Elderly InvestorThe Shocking Doomsday Maps Of The World And The Billionaire Escape Plans in Forbes Follow us on social: FacebookTwitterBluesky Other Podcasts by Derek DeWitt DIGITAL SIGNAGE DONE RIGHT - Winner of a 2022 Gold Quill Award, 2022 Gold MarCom Award, 2021 AVA Digital Award Gold, 2021 Silver Davey Award, 2020 Communicator Award of Excellence, and on numerous top 10 podcast lists. PRAGUE TIMES - A city is more than just a location - it’s a kaleidoscope of history, places, people and trends. This podcast looks at Prague, in the center of Europe, from a number of perspectives, including what it is now, what is has been and where it’s going. It’s Prague THEN, Prague NOW, Prague LATER
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