The origins of foot fetish website Wikifeet, the thriving community inhabiting it, and a very special reading of the first recorded foot fetish material - poems by Greek Poet Philostratus the Elder.
2024 is off to a great start. New Epstein documents drop, Mike Flynn tweets that #PizzagateIsReal, and craft retailer Etsy is being accused of selling 'bespoke children' on their marketplace.
Baby bottles, car seats, diapers, mommies, littles, and making a mess. We explore the online ABDL community with Lucy Valentine of the Boonta Vista Podcast.
This week, Allie Mezei joins us to bring us horrific tales from the real 'tissue trade', a feud between the bodies of the living and the dead that stretches all the way back to the eighteenth century.
We attended the X3 Porn Expo in Los Angeles thanks to our guest Zoë Ligon, author of 'Carnal Knowledge: Sex Education You Didn't Get In School', founder of the Spectrum Boutique sex shop and OnlyFans content creator.
Thomas Midgley Jr. invented two things that were used all over the world. Firstly, he invented leaded gasoline. The second invention is Chlorofluorocarbons or "CFCs."
The most prominent modern role playing video game is also the most modified by its fan base. Which means there's a massive scene of horny gamers scripting elaborate horny mods for The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim.
The United States' non-existent war in the Middle East. Taylor Swift being a psyop. A man decapitating his father because he believes in the Great Replacement conspiracy theory. A video game titled simply "Epstein".
Thomas Midgley, Jr. might be the one responsible for inventing leaded gasoline. But Robert Kehoe is the one responsible for protecting industry from uncomfortable questions about lead so that it could be used as long and widely as it was.
Anna Merlan - senior staff writer at Vice and author of REPUBLIC OF LIES - joins us to explore Gwyneth Paltrow's Gooposphere including her Netflix show Love, Sex and Goop.
Just a couple years after Thomas Midgely, Jr. invented leaded gas in the 20s, he followed up that achievement by inventing cholorflorcarbons or CFCs, which were sold by Du Pont under the brand name of Freon.
Google's gone to shit, Huma Abedin is dating George Soros' son, Brandon is going Dark and Epstein is out on Steam. We take a jaunt through our really cool world with guest Ed Zitron, tech reporter and host of the Better Offline podcast.
For the final episode of season 1 of the PERVERTS podcast we explored online "sissy" communities with June AKA Juniper of the Western Kabuki and Crate Diving Podcasts. What is sissification? Sissyology? Sissy school?
Brian Wansink was the Head of the Food and Brand Lab at Cornell University. He's perhaps most famous for the claim that if you take a larger plate to the buffet, you'll eat more than if you were to take a small plate.
What is UMMO? The greatest hoax of all time? A secret society with a mysterious agenda? An intelligence agency psyop? Or genuine contact from space aliens? Brad and Jake will attempt to answer these questions.
In the 1940s and 50s there was the great American comic book scare. Many serious adults warned that comic books were turning young people into illiterate, criminally violent, sexually deviant political extremists.
An Irish boy band called Boyzone sees their bad boy accuse other musicians of performing satanic rituals on stage. In Utah, a bill is advanced to criminalize "ritual abuse of a child" .
In this episode we discuss common criticisms of "anti-disinformation" reporting, the topics Travis wound up passing on, and listener stories. You had a lot to say about the Thomas Midgley Jr. series.
On March 6th, 2024, the Pentagon published a sixty-three page report on the AARO's findings in regards to whether our own government is in possession of extraterrestrial technology.
What if there was a video game so indistinguishable from the real world that anyone who played it began to wonder if their entire life was nothing more than a game?
Americans sure love being paranoid. And they're not always paranoid for sensible reasons, like ever-expanding corporate and governmental surveillance systems. Sometimes they're paranoid about natural and predictable astronomical events.
We discuss the shift in the podcast's cover art, theme song and name. Then we explore miracle cure-all 5D "med beds" and delve into the online community around "Skye Prince."
Even in the early conversations discussing the rapid growth of artificial intelligence, there was always the fear that it could potentially fall into the wrong hands. Unfortunately the QAA team is here to tell you that it has.
On this episode we talk to independent journalist Teddy Wilson of Radical Reports about the anti-chemtrails bills in Tennessee and other state legislatures.
So-called "Constitutional Sheriffs" fancy themselves as the real life version of Judge Dredd: the ultimate arbiters of the law according to their interpretation of the Constitution.
The Julian loyalists are facing off against the Western Rockatansky forces as veteran journalist Mike Prysner (Eyes Left Podcast, Empire Files) remains a neutral and unwavering eye.
Relatives of Michael Flynn tried and failed to sue CNN because they didn't like being associated with QAnon (despite saying "Where we go one we go all" on camera).
We dive into an online community hellbent on improving their physical appearance through bizarre techniques like pressing their tongue to the roof of their mouth, hitting themselves in the face, and taking experimental growth hormones.
A discussion of the corporatization of media, his departure from The Intercept, how stories get "killed" and how conspiracy theorists and MAGA supporters' claims about the media get their oxygen.
Mike Wendling is the National Digital Reporter for the BBC. He is the co-founder of the BBC's disinformation unit and was editor and presenter of BBC Trending.
In the late 19th century a Frenchman pulled off one of the greatest hoaxes of all time and inspired countless conspiracy theories about Freemasonry that still circulate today.
A paranoid, red scare conspiracy theory about a Japanese ultra-nationalist gang aiming to unite the African American population and overthrow the U.S. government. A flourishing proletarian literature scene driven to madness by the FBI.
Folks, they finally got him. A jury of Donald Trump's peers determined that he violated New York Penal Law 175-10 in the first degree. We chat about how the conspiracist right is reacting to the news.
Conspiracy theories about weather control and the California Drought don't hold a candle to the grim reality: a cabal of wealthy farmers controlling California's water and committing ecocide.
Self-exiled French conspiracy theorists attempt to set up a sovereign utopia in a desolate Bulgarian village called Mamarchevo. This turns into death threats, people getting scammed out of tens of thousands of euros.
