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Stuff They Don't Want You To Know
From UFOs to psychic powers and government cover-ups, history is riddled with unexplained events. You can turn back now or learn the Stuff They Don't Want You To Know ... an audio podcast from iHeartRadio.
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Encyclopedia of Assassinations
Carl Sifakis
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CLASSIC: The Hidden History of Assassins, Chapter One: An Origin Story
The Travels of Marco Polo
Marco Polo
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CLASSIC: The Hidden History of Assassins, Chapter One: An Origin Story
The Big Short
Michael Lewis
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The Legacy Program, Chapter Two: How Aliens (Could) Work
The Graduate Survival Guide
Anthony ONeal
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CLASSIC: Plastics, Microplastics and Conspiracy
Stuff You Should Know
Josh Clark
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The Legacy Program, Chapter One: Fact and Fiction
How to Lose a Dunlap Belly
Dexter Poin
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Strange News: Strange News: Spy Nuns, Fart Cures, Cow Tools and More
Holy Blood, Holy Grail
Michael Baigent
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CLASSIC: The Shugborough Inscription Cipher
The Da Vinci Code
Dan Brown
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CLASSIC: The Shugborough Inscription Cipher
Anson's Gold
George Edmunds
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CLASSIC: The Shugborough Inscription Cipher
Media Control, Second Edition
Noam Chomsky
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My Momma Told Me, With Langston Kerman and David Gborie
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (Millennium Series)
Stieg Larsson
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Listener Mail: Terrors of Adoption, Black Sludge is Poop, the Dangers of an AI-driven, 'Teacherless' Classroom
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Ghost Stories for Kids Age 9 - 12
Short Spooky and Scary Horror Stories to Tell at a Campfire, Halloween, or Whenever It Gets Dark
A fiction anthology book which contains a version of the La Llorona tale that was used as an example in the podcast, mentioned to be a fictional adaptation of the legend.
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This comes to us from 12 Ghost, which is a fiction anthology that came out in December that Matt UEP along with Aaron Manky.
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Episode: La Llorona is Older Than You Think
A fiction anthology book which contains a version of the La Llorona tale that was used as an example in the podcast, mentioned to be a fictional adaptation of the legend.
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This comes to us from 12 Ghost, which is a fiction anthology that came out in December that Matt UEP along with Aaron Manky.
Do check out 12 Ghost if you if you get a chance, if you if you like spooky fiction, you'll notice that the the character who is telling us the story pronounces it La Llorona instead of La Llorona.
Trick or Treat (FFM) An Explicit Short Erotica Novella
A Halloween Erotica
It is a book of erotic poetry, which has been sampled on other podcasts to great effect. It was mentioned as one of two books he was releasing.
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Oh, but I also have that one. That's the next one. This is the children's book. No, the children's book is just about doing right. Keep separate. Keep separate. No, the erotic poetry.
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Episode: Michael Talks to Errbody, with Michael Colyar
It is a book of erotic poetry, which has been sampled on other podcasts to great effect. It was mentioned as one of two books he was releasing.
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Oh, but I also have that one. That's the next one. This is the children's book. No, the children's book is just about doing right. Keep separate. Keep separate. No, the erotic poetry.
The erotic book is called In the Wet Spot, Blue Erotica by MC Butternut.
The Stingman Diet
Lose weight fast - All food groups allowed - Leads to long term weight loss - 75 tasty recipes included
It was described as one of the best books about the ABSCAM case, detailing the operation and those involved, including the mayor of Camden, Angelo Aracheti.
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This whole story, like this book is nuts. It is really worth your time if you if you if you like reading books, check it out.
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Episode: Conspiracy, Congress and Crime: The ABSCAM Story
It was described as one of the best books about the ABSCAM case, detailing the operation and those involved, including the mayor of Camden, Angelo Aracheti.
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This whole story, like this book is nuts. It is really worth your time if you if you if you like reading books, check it out.
He is said to have been a really foul mouth, cursed like a sailor. He was a megalomaniacal person, extremely taken with himself.
They knew where each other stood, essentially, like, look, we're both after the bag, right?
I think he's I think Aracheti is the one who was quoted in that book as saying larceny is in my blood or something like that.
He also said, look, I'll be your rabbi. I'll give you Atlantic City without me. You do nothing.
Tales of the Big Bend
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It Can Happen Here
White Power and the Rising Threat of Genocide in the US
It was briefly recommended in relation to the discussion about ghosts and the importance of perspective, possibly alluding to its subject matter.
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check out It Could Happen Here by our pal Robert Evans
— Episode: How Ouija Boards Work
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Episode: How Ouija Boards Work
It was briefly recommended in relation to the discussion about ghosts and the importance of perspective, possibly alluding to its subject matter.
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check out It Could Happen Here by our pal Robert Evans
The Protestant Ethic and the "Spirit" of Capitalism
and Other Writings (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics)
It was discussed in the context of how the Protestant work ethic and capitalism played a role in the development of prosperity theology, highlighting the idea of outward signs of God's favor.
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In 1905, a very important author named Max Weber published The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism. And in this, he said specifically that Protestants have a different approach to labor and...
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Episode: CLASSIC: The Sordid, Secret World of Televangelist...
It was discussed in the context of how the Protestant work ethic and capitalism played a role in the development of prosperity theology, highlighting the idea of outward signs of God's favor.
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In 1905, a very important author named Max Weber published The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism. And in this, he said specifically that Protestants have a different approach to labor and that this approach to labor is crucial to the development of capitalism and industrialization.
The Disease of the Health and Wealth Gospels
It was mentioned as a critique of health and wealth gospels, written by a prominent Pentecostal scholar.
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There's a guy named Gordon Fee, a prominent Pentecostal scholar who wrote a book called The Disease of Health and Wealth Gospels.
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Episode: CLASSIC: The Sordid, Secret World of Televangelist...
It was mentioned as a critique of health and wealth gospels, written by a prominent Pentecostal scholar.
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There's a guy named Gordon Fee, a prominent Pentecostal scholar who wrote a book called The Disease of Health and Wealth Gospels.
Find Me (WITSEC Book 1)
It was discussed and described as a book that details the inner workings of the federal witness protection program, including the process of choosing a new identity.
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And this dude just, he's got, he lays it out for you. Here's some things you should do when considering changing your name.
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Episode: Witness Protection: Facts and Fiction
It was discussed and described as a book that details the inner workings of the federal witness protection program, including the process of choosing a new identity.
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And this dude just, he's got, he lays it out for you. Here's some things you should do when considering changing your name.
Keep your current initials or same first name if possible.
...he also wrote a book all about witness protection and he talks about this.
...is titled WITSEC, W I T S E C colon inside the federal witness protection program.
...he describes all the weird stuff they do to get witnesses to court safely...
The Bermuda Triangle Mystery Solved
It was used to debunk claims made by Charles Berlitz, and stated that the lost military vessels were likely fishing vessels.
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In 1995 an American author named Larry Cush published The Bermuda Triangle Mystery Solved.
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Episode: CLASSIC: What is the Dragon's Triangle?
It was used to debunk claims made by Charles Berlitz, and stated that the lost military vessels were likely fishing vessels.
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In 1995 an American author named Larry Cush published The Bermuda Triangle Mystery Solved.
He says that the military vessels that were mentioned that as we alluded to earlier were actually just fishing vessels.
Anthter Steamer for Clothes, 1500W Powerful Standing Garment Steamer with Roll Wheels, 2.4L Water Tank for 90 Mins Continuous Steaming, 35s Fast Heat-up, Perfect for Commercial and Household Use
A short story was written by William T. Stead which had many similarities with the Titanic sinking, and later on Stead himself was a passenger on the Titanic.
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there was another writer in 1886 a British writer named William T. Stead who had a short story called How the Atlantic Mail Steamer Went Down
— Episode: CLASSIC: Titanic Conspiracies
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Episode: CLASSIC: Titanic Conspiracies
A short story was written by William T. Stead which had many similarities with the Titanic sinking, and later on Stead himself was a passenger on the Titanic.
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there was another writer in 1886 a British writer named William T. Stead who had a short story called How the Atlantic Mail Steamer Went Down
more than a decade later, Stead was a passenger on the Titanic and he was one of the around 1500 who did not make it
The Perfect Crime (Blake Wilder FBI Mystery Thriller Book 25)
It was discussed in the podcast as a research paper that explored a legal loophole in Yellowstone National Park, where a person could potentially get away with murder due to jury selection issues.
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In his research, he discovered a strange loophole in US law specifically concerning Yellowstone.
— Episode: CLASSIC: Inside America's Zone of Death
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Episode: CLASSIC: Inside America's Zone of Death
It was discussed in the podcast as a research paper that explored a legal loophole in Yellowstone National Park, where a person could potentially get away with murder due to jury selection issues.
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In his research, he discovered a strange loophole in US law specifically concerning Yellowstone.
He was hoping that they would close this loophole before the paper went out.
That is the loophole Dr. Kautz talking about.
, said the shotgun to the head.
It was mentioned as an excellent book of poetry, likely read by one of the hosts, during a discussion on the creative nature of writing and coding.
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That's an excellent book of poetry
— Episode: Is AI coming for you?
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Episode: Is AI coming for you?
It was mentioned as an excellent book of poetry, likely read by one of the hosts, during a discussion on the creative nature of writing and coding.
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That's an excellent book of poetry
Anathema (The Eating Woods)
It was discussed in the context of a lack of transparency and the ability to control the past; a group of people can change history in a non-transparent way, comparing that to the potential of AI.
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sort of like in Neil Stevenson's anathema. There's this conspiracy, there are these groups of people called there's a group of people called retors and they have the ability to change the past and the...
— Episode: Is AI coming for you?
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Episode: Is AI coming for you?
It was discussed in the context of a lack of transparency and the ability to control the past; a group of people can change history in a non-transparent way, comparing that to the potential of AI.
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sort of like in Neil Stevenson's anathema. There's this conspiracy, there are these groups of people called there's a group of people called retors and they have the ability to change the past and they do it in a non-transparent way and the rest of the world only kind of notices that they exist when they screw something up because when they screw up the things get strange, right?
The Threat Matrix
The FBI at War in the Age of Global Terror
It was mentioned as one of the author's other works, but no further details were given about the book itself.
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He has written other books, including The Threat Matrix, The FBI at War, Angel is Airborne and The First Campaign.
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Episode: CLASSIC: Top-secret Bunkers with Garrett Graff
It was mentioned as one of the author's other works, but no further details were given about the book itself.
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He has written other books, including The Threat Matrix, The FBI at War, Angel is Airborne and The First Campaign.
Angel is Airborne
JFK's Final Flight from Dallas
It was mentioned as one of the author's other works, but no further details were given about the book itself.
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He has written other books, including The Threat Matrix, The FBI at War, Angel is Airborne and The First Campaign.
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Episode: CLASSIC: Top-secret Bunkers with Garrett Graff
It was mentioned as one of the author's other works, but no further details were given about the book itself.
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He has written other books, including The Threat Matrix, The FBI at War, Angel is Airborne and The First Campaign.
First Campaign
A Guide to Civil War in the Mountains of West Virginia 1861
It was mentioned as one of the author's other works, but no further details were given about the book itself.
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He has written other books, including The Threat Matrix, The FBI at War, Angel is Airborne and The First Campaign.
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Episode: CLASSIC: Top-secret Bunkers with Garrett Graff
It was mentioned as one of the author's other works, but no further details were given about the book itself.
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He has written other books, including The Threat Matrix, The FBI at War, Angel is Airborne and The First Campaign.
The Almost Romantic
A Fake Engagement/Marriage of Convenience Romance (How to Date Book 3)
It was a 1920 study on feeblemindedness that was used to promote eugenic ideals, with the idea that it was a dangerous, high class of mental defectiveness.
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There was a Canadian physician and eugenicist named Helen McMurkey who issued these reports on feeble mindedness between 1907 and 1918 and published a study in 1920 called The Almosts, a study of feeb...
— Episode: The Overpopulation Conspiracy
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Episode: The Overpopulation Conspiracy
It was a 1920 study on feeblemindedness that was used to promote eugenic ideals, with the idea that it was a dangerous, high class of mental defectiveness.
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There was a Canadian physician and eugenicist named Helen McMurkey who issued these reports on feeble mindedness between 1907 and 1918 and published a study in 1920 called The Almosts, a study of feeble minded, a study of the feeble minded.
And the idea was that feeble mindedness was this really dangerous high class of mental defectiveness. People that could on first glance pass as normal, but were therefore an even greater threat to society and had to be stopped. Every mental defective is a potential criminal, she wrote.
Who Killed Betsy? Uncovering Penn State University's Most Notorious Unsolved Crime.
It was described as the best collected source of information on the case, as the author was present since the start of the investigation and interviewed many involved parties.
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If you're at all familiar with this case first off, if you haven't read Kevin Donovan's book I would say that is probably the best collected source of this information because the guy has been there s...
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Episode: Who killed the Shermans? Part Two: Suspects and Qu...
It was described as the best collected source of information on the case, as the author was present since the start of the investigation and interviewed many involved parties.
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If you're at all familiar with this case first off, if you haven't read Kevin Donovan's book I would say that is probably the best collected source of this information because the guy has been there since pretty much day one, right? And he's talked to a person we're going to introduce now in the court of public opinion and amateur sleuths.
Our Inheritance in the Great Pyramid, Ed
The book was discussed and it was said that it revealed the date of the apocalypse, with some humour about what one might do about it.
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There's a book called Our Inheritance of the Great Pyramid, also published in the 1800s, revealed to use to use our patented air quote, revealed the date of the apocalypse.
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Episode: CLASSIC: What about the other pyramids?
The book was discussed and it was said that it revealed the date of the apocalypse, with some humour about what one might do about it.
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There's a book called Our Inheritance of the Great Pyramid, also published in the 1800s, revealed to use to use our patented air quote, revealed the date of the apocalypse.
If you could glean the date, then maybe you can prevent it. What are you going to do about it? Drink more water and less soda. Wear more sunscreen.
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