The Gaslight Hour Episode 14: Don't go i...

Joe and Dexter actually kinda sorta talk about a Grayzone article about the war in Bosnia, but end up so stuck in the details that we only really get to it tangentally.| That article is here: https://thegrayzone.com/2022/12/30/declassified-intelligence-files-bosnian-war/ If you a ... Show More

Joe and Dexter are supposed to talk about a Grayzone article about the war in Bosnia, but just end up talking about the history of the Balkans instead. We mostly talk about Serbia and Croatia. There will be a part 2. If you are an Ustaše enjoyer, please email in your thoughts to ... Show More

a month ago Joe and Dex recorded an episode covering the raid at mar-a-lago for some reason and discuss the framing tactics of the media. I was going to try my damndest to find a john keel reference in here but I have failed   sounds by Deepsoy 

Leah finally takes on her arch-nemesis; the two-faced, arrogant, cold-hearted… moon. And despite her lunar love, Chelsea gets roped into the destruction. Together, they plot to crack it like an egg, vaporise it into nothingness and drill into it with a giant jackhammer… all while ... Show More

Will we ever get to stop hearing about Dr. Fauci? Does anyone even remember COVID anymore? These are the sorts of profound questions that define our times. I will not be answering them. Instead, I want to tell you a Very Young Heretics story about how the pagan gods found their w ... Show More

We are the descendants of an ancient civilization; one which mastered technology, mapped the cosmos, and understood our relationship with the natural world. Our ancestors traveled the world and built enormous structures. They scaled their creations into cities. They shared a comm ... Show More

The universe just keeps getting weirder and weirder, man. New data from the James Webb Space Telescope might actually be the most important news story that no one's talking about. It invites us to consider whether we're going to freak out, like the Commies, or rejoice in the glor ... Show More

Turning the Earth into a cube, the gift that just keeps giving. Last episode we had fish bowl spaceships, this time we have sea monsters!If you thought cubifying the Earth couldn’t get more wacky, you’re in for a treat. In the Dead Planets Society season finale, Leah Crane and Ch ... Show More

Michael Shermer is the Founding Publisher of Skeptic magazine, the host of the podcast The Michael Shermer Show, and a Presidential Fellow at Chapman University where he teaches Skepticism 101. For 18 years he was a monthly columnist for Scientific American. He writes a weekly Su ... Show More

It's our latest roundup of science news! This time, with Ailsa Chang of NPR's All Things Considered, who joins us to discuss three stories that take us on a journey through space — from the sounds of Earth's magnetosphere, to the moons of Jupiter, to a distant phenomenon NASA cal ... Show More

Heaven and hell, Judgement Day, monotheism — these ideas all came from one ancient Persian religion: Zoroastrianism. Also: Sky Burials. Zoroastrians put their dead on top of a structure called The Tower of Silence where vultures devour the body in a matter of hours. It’s clean, e ... Show More

How long do humans have left on Earth? As species go, humanity has had a brief, incredibly transformative run here on Earth. We've mined resources, farmed food, hunted animals, built cities and polluted ecosystems across the globe. There's no denying we've also made tremendous te ... Show More

Kathleen’s putting her New Scientist membership to good use and bringing back Cool News Rundown: Science Edition! Then, Bethany tells the story behind her all-time favorite urban legend, the “Well to Hell” and the “screams” that came out of it. Plus, a crazy scary story from Kath ... Show More