Also by: George Summers History of the Court The concept of an international court to judge war crimes was suggested during the Paris Peace Conference following World War I. The first model fell out of use with the isolationism and economic crash of the 1930s and war in the 1940s, and was dissolved […]
MKUltra was a series of CIA experiments, mostly illegal, carried out on human subjects between the 1950s and 1970s. It formally began on the orders of CIA director Allen Dulles on April 13, 1953 and was headed by Sidney Gottlieb. The intent of the experiments was either to develop mind control techniques, better torture and […]
Today’s episode of Conspiracy! is part two of our look into the Sandy Hook school shootings, and we’ve included part one from last week here as well. We recorded this well over a month ago and it’s been on the calendar for this day ever since. We didn’t expect it to be as unfortunately […]
The year was 1975. The Miami Showband–one of the most popular showbands in Ireland for the preceding decade and consisting of three Presbyterians, two Roman Catholics and one member of the Church of Ireland, thereby bridging an important cultural gap at the time–was heading home for a gig in Bainbridge, Northern Ireland (with the […]
Today’s episode of Unpopular Opinion features Keith Carey of the Mean Boys podcast, and he and Adam are talking about riots. Specifically, some of the stupider things white people have rioted over in recent years. Historically, whenever there’s a riot or violent protest over something that should legitimately be rioted over, like police violence […]
Adam and Brett welcome Alex Schmidt (Cracked Podcast) and John Fahy (Profiles In Eccentricity podcast) to talk about the Hawaii nuclear warning scare and few other famous false alarms from history. Hawaii Nuclear Warning Scare So this one time–two weeks ago–Hawaii spent 38 minutes expecting an incoming ballistic missile. This was chalked up […]
Gentrification. Hoo boy. We are and have been seeing it all around the country, and it’s especially bad in California where Unpops has its home, and it’s pretty bad on most of the west coast overall–we even did a whole episode about Samantha’s home base, Portland, Oregon a while ago. So we’ve talked about […]
Has an entire society of aliens been living on Earth since the 1950s? Did we make a secret deal with those aliens in the 1970s that we’ve since come to regret? We talk about it on this episode! The Greys Over the last several years, researchers have unearthed plenty of evidence that the […]
On this episode, we delve into one of the weirdest and most brutal crimes of the ’80s…the Chicago Rippers. In a nearly 17-month span beginning in late May 1981, several women disappeared or were found murdered in Chicago and the surrounding suburbs. On Saturday morning, May 15, 1982, real estate agent Donald Stibbe, arrived for […]
Black Mirror is back! And we talk about it! But in a mostly spoiler free way! Your guests are Travis Clark and Vanessa Gritton. Also Brett is back from Australia! Wooooo yay Brett! There are no sources this week because we’re just talking about Black Mirror. But you can watch it on Netflix! […]
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