Stuff They Don't Want You To Know

But if you want to learn more about Fomenko's theories, you can buy his books.

There are seven volumes and they're like 600, 700 pages long each.

I have not actually read Fomenko's work. I have read reviews of it. I have read the words from supporters and of course words from people who don't agree with him.

Maybe I should give it a shot. Maybe I should come back after I've read all seven volumes of History: Fiction or Science.

It'll take up a whole space in your house.

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.

There's a guy named Gordon Fee, a prominent Pentecostal scholar who wrote a book called The Disease of Health and Wealth Gospels.

And this dude just, he's got, he lays it out for you.

he also wrote a book all about witness protection and he talks about this.

Shout out to a Plain Dead by Elizabeth Greenwood. That's probably the best book written on the subject.

And she has actually written the definitive book on this on the history of the code. It's called Seal of Authority.

So if you really want to dive deep into this topic and learn about all the, you know, behind the scenes secrets of the comics industry, that's a great place to start.

And I also remember and I'm not going to be able to summon the name of this book. But when I was in like middle school, we were assigned to read a book about the San Francisco earthquake.

It was a novel that took place during and around the San Francisco earthquake.

It just sounded it sounded like another another country, another time.

I think it's called disaster disaster from Dan Kurzman.

I want to say it like took place in Chinatown.

And so it's titled a field guide to the mystery beasts of the British Isles from back in 2005.

But it was just it's just it's great. And in particular, I think you pointed out here, Ben, the names of these creatures, each individual one is just a delight.

It's so so wonderful.

And the the interesting thing about that article in particular is that it laundry list other alleged cryptids non feline in the UK.

So if you are not familiar with cryptos, zoology in the in the United Kingdom, then do check out that article.

In 1898, known as Futility or Wreck of the Titan, it was a guy named Morgan Robertson...

...it was revised by the author in 1912 after the Titanic sank to make the ship a little bigger, a little different, yeah just like make it a little more similar to the events of the Titanic probably to sell copies.

you can also read a book called "The Grand Chessboard" by a guy named Brzezinski, which I cannot believe I pronounced correctly. Fascinating dude and book.

It's a horror story called The Men from Portlock, which is by an excellent writer named Laird Barron.

If you enjoy horror, then do check out his short stories and, you know, have a source of light nearby if you're easily spooked.

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.

The loophole is still not fixed as we record this.

He got a reply. The U.S. attorney did write back to him.

The U.S. attorney says it's not my power to change the law.

It is called The Martyrdom of Thomas Merton and Investigations published in 2017.

So it's relatively recent.

It's by two authors, David Martin and Hugh Turley.

And they, I think I said, you know, they walk through circumstances surrounding Merton's demise, but that's not true. They dive in.

This book is obsessively researched and they poke serious, serious holes in the official story.

In Broner von Braun's book, he mentioned the position in the Martian government. It takes the title of Elon, which is basically the leader of Mars, I believe is what it means.

The Martian government was directed by 10 men, the leader of whom was elected by universal suffrage for five years and entitled Elon.

No sooner had the door closed than the light went out, greatly to Hubbard's consternation. For he felt that this might be some sort of trap. He was about to make a rush for the door when Holt suddenly appeared across the table from him against a milky luminous background.

Hello, Glenn. How goes it? How on earth? I mean, Mars, did you get here so fast, Colonel? I'm not really here at all, Grindholt. What you see is my astral body. We're talking by Martian telephone and that includes television.

Hubbard was almost speechless with amazement at the full-sized colored stereoscopic telepicture for he would have bet his bottom dollar that Holt was really present.

That's an excellent book of poetry.

And Dust of the Apricot in 1844.

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.

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.

So let's look at the arguments of a fellow named Ignatius Loyola Donnelly.

Congressman from Minnesota in the late 1800s, he argued this very point. He said that there once existed in the Atlantic Ocean opposite the mouth of the Mediterranean Sea, a large island was a remnant of another Atlantic continent known as Atlantis.

He said that Plato's description, which is often taken to be a fable, was the straight poop that it was actual history.

And that modern man first rose from barbarism to civilization in Atlantis.

And then he said that the Atlanteans established colonies around the world.

And in his book, Crossfire, he argues that Kennedy was trying to rein in the Federal Reserve, which is the issuing quasi governmental entity here in the US, the one that issues the currency.