Stuff They Don't Want You To Know

Like, did you ever read that Chuck Palahniuk book Lullaby? It was all about this African spirit that causes the infants to pass away in their cribs.

Like, did you ever read that Chuck Palahniuk book Lullaby? It was all about this African spirit that causes the infants to pass away in their cribs.

Like, did you ever read that Chuck Palahniuk book Lullaby? It was all about this African spirit that causes the infants to pass away in their cribs.

Mark Krolansky has a great book called Salt, where he created the least creative thing about the book is the name. But it looks at the history of Salt and how Roman soldiers were paid in Salt, which is where we get the phrase, cough it up to pay for something or worth his Salt, which I don't know if people still say that.

Shout out to Mark Kulansky, author of the book, Salt's Redid, if you haven't yet.

Mark Krolansky has a great book called Salt, where he created the least creative thing about the book is the name. But it looks at the history of Salt and how Roman soldiers were paid in Salt, which is where we get the phrase, cough it up to pay for something or worth his Salt, which I don't know if people still say that.

The Encyclopedia of Assassinations by Carl Sifakis explores both attempted and successful assassinations throughout human history and across the planet.

The Encyclopedia of Assassinations. Available at any arcane bookstore near you. Right. By Carl Sifakis.

Are you friends with Neil Strauss, author of Rules of the Game, a bunch of other...

Are you friends with Neil Strauss, author of Rules of the Game, a bunch of other...

Are you friends with Neil Strauss, author of Rules of the Game, a bunch of other?

And this is mentioned in Bodilino which is a fiction but yeah, you know with some historical truths peppered in there.

Bodilino is by a Nauther named Umberto Echo and it's about this guy who's just an absolute dirtbag but he rises to fame and examines some of the way that a grain of truth would give rise to an entire world of rumors and lies but one of the things they do mention in that book is the paradise of the assassins where there's a character who says you know I saw these guys saying they went to paradise but what they were doing was just sort of standing there in chains doped up.

And this is mentioned in Bodilino which is a fiction but yeah, you know with some historical truths peppered in there.

And this is mentioned in Bodilino which is a fiction but yeah, you know with some historical truths peppered in there.

Bodilino is by a Nauther named Umberto Echo and it's about this guy who's just an absolute dirtbag but he rises to fame and examines some of the way that a grain of truth would give rise to an entire world of rumors and lies but one of the things they do mention in that book is the paradise of the assassins where there's a character who says you know I saw these guys saying they went to paradise but what they were doing was just sort of standing there in chains doped up.

it's largely inspired by a wonderful book that was written a few years ago called Brilliant Green the surprising history and science of plant intelligence by a plant neurobiologist named Stefano Mancuso along with journalist Alessandra Viola

I reread part of Brilliant Green and I went out on this patio I have where I'm living now just watched the plants move

but it's largely inspired by a wonderful book that was written a few years ago called Brilliant Green the surprising history and science of plant intelligence by a plant neurobiologist named Stefano Mancuso along with journalist Alessandra Viola

I reread part of Brilliant Green and I went out on this patio I have where I'm living now just watched the plants move and I want to get kind of meta with this in the in the small amount smarter than us man I mean they know what they want you can't say that about every human that's what I mean it's a system it's a very honed system that's all I'm saying so part of my question is this is also a setup for for an episode I think we could visit in the future but part of my question for you guys this is not to trick you into an interview this is a series of me asking you and our fellow conspiracy realist what you think part of my question here before we get to the meta aspect is simply put this if ever there were a widespread academic recognition of plants having some sort of legal right not just the tree that owns itself you know out in Athens, Georgia but something like something that says for legal purposes destroying a forest is the same thing as mass murder what would that mean for the world do you think that's even a thing that should or could happen I don't think it could but should it well it is illegal to set forests on fire unless you're a logging corporation or like a company that like owns it and can just like do it unchecked but it's a very interesting question because some of the things that I'm fascinated by involve being able to take of these things that these plants provide and if all of a sudden the plant had this personhood you'd have to like ask permission or something but if you want to take the hippie kind of dippy perspective it's like the plants want you to eat them like the psilocybin wants you to eat them like they're part of this system of the earth like in terms of like that the work of these like underground networks of like electrically communicating kind of synapses that are mushrooms that are this like kind of circle of life and existence and like they're not, I won't go so far as to say that they're there for us but like they are a way of interacting with them you eat a plant you're not killing the plant exactly because it's just gonna regrow itself it's like cutting a lizard's tail off like the ones that they regrow so I think it's fascinating but even vegetarians who are so anti-factory farming and stuff they're all about eating plants and they're the ones that have the most aggressive opinions on life of any of us so it's a very interesting question I don't know the answer Matt what do you think dude?

it's largely inspired by a wonderful book that was written a few years ago called Brilliant Green the surprising history and science of plant intelligence by a plant neurobiologist named Stefano Mancuso along with journalist Alessandra Viola

I reread part of Brilliant Green and I went out on this patio I have where I'm living now just watched the plants move

One of my favorite books by Swedenborg is called Earths in the Universe Also known by some other long name I can't remember But it's a fascinating read and talks about spirits and aliens on other planets in our solar system As well as other unknown planets

The writing takes a bit to get used to and can be confusing But even removed from the religious context I still suggest giving it a look It can be quite entertaining Al

One of my favorite books by Swedenborg is called Earths in the Universe, also known by some other long name I can't remember, but it's a fascinating read and talks about spirits and aliens on other planets in our solar system as well as other unknown planets.

The writing takes a bit to get used to and can be confusing, but even removed from the religious context I still suggest giving it a look. It can be quite entertaining.

One of my favorite books by Swedenborg is called Earths in the Universe Also known by some other long name I can't remember But it's a fascinating read and talks about spirits and aliens on other planets in our solar system As well as other unknown planets

The writing takes a bit to get used to and can be confusing But even removed from the religious context I still suggest giving it a look It can be quite entertaining

I found that one week I'd be writing about the car business. The next week I'd be writing about the drugs business. I gradually came to see that the two actually were perhaps more similar than people normally recognize.

Narconomics How to Run a Drug Cartel

I found that one week I'd be writing about the car business. The next week I'd be writing about the drugs business. I gradually came to see that the two actually were perhaps more similar than people normally recognize.

Narconomics: How to Run a Drug Cartel

I found that one week I'd be writing about the car business. The next week I'd be writing about the drugs business. I gradually came to see that the two actually were perhaps more similar than people normally recognize.

Narconomics How to Run a Drug Cartel

To make, for instance, a kilo of cocaine. You need about a ton of coca leaf and that ton once it's all dried out in a country like Columbia will fetch perhaps $400.

Now the kilo in the United States will fetch about $100,000.

If there is a disruption to some sort of supply and Walmart runs that supply chain...Tom uses the example of like a bad harvest year for apples. Apple growers in that case, they can't increase their prices because Walmart is the only buyer.

You can learn more about this in a book called Base Nation, How U.S. Military Bases Abroad, Harm America and the World by David Vine.

Obviously, the guy's got a slant, but his numbers are on point in terms of the number of bases.

You can learn more about this in a book called Base Nation, How U.S. Military Bases Abroad, Harm America and the World by David Vine.

You can learn more about this in a book called Base Nation, How U.S. Military Bases Abroad, Harm America and the World by David Vine.

Obviously, the guy's got a slant, but his numbers are on point in terms of the number of bases. I don't know if I completely agree with his opinion of what those all those bases are doing.

There's another book, Permaculture, Principles and Pathways Beyond Sustainability, where Dave... I guess I shouldn't call him Dave... we haven't met David Holmgren lays out 12 more specific principles.

There's another book, Permaculture, Principles and Pathways Beyond Sustainability, where Dave I guess I shouldn't call him Dave. We haven't met David Holmgren lays out 12 more specific principles.

I just recently, in preparation as I was listening to this classic episode, I rewatched Christian Bale's American Psycho based on the great novel by Brett Easton Ellis.

if you thought the movie was not for the faint of heart, stay away from that book.

That is some unclean dark material right there.

if you thought the movie was not for the faint of heart, stay away from that book. That is some unclean dark material right there.

I just recently, in preparation as I was listening to this classic episode, I rewatched Christian Bale's American Psycho based on the great novel by Brett Easton Ellis.

if you thought the movie was not for the faint of heart, stay away from that book.

That is some unclean dark material right there.

a contractor agreed to pad that like add money to my monthly construction bill by $2,000 the contractor put the figure on his invoice as a cost for something like gravel culvert work after I paid the full amount of that invoice so everything including that extra $2,000 the contractor reimbursed me that extra $2,000 and I turned the money over to Henry to give to Clinton

you know Caesar had his Brutus Charles the first had Cromwell Clinton could profit from these examples if he crosses us

insisted that under the table payments would solidify our connections in state government

Clinton appeared unexpectedly at the end of some meeting

concluded again that Clinton and Susan had resumed an affair

a contractor agreed to pad that like add money to my monthly construction bill by $2,000 the contractor put the figure on his invoice as a cost for something like gravel culvert work after I paid the full amount of that invoice so everything including that extra $2,000 the contractor reimbursed me that extra $2,000 and I turned the money over to Henry to give to Clinton

you know Caesar had his Brutus Charles the first had Cromwell Clinton could profit from these examples if he crosses us

insisted that under the table payments would solidify our connections in state government

Clinton appeared unexpectedly at the end of some meeting

resumed an affair

a contractor agreed to pad that like add money to my monthly construction bill by $2,000 the contractor put the figure on his invoice as a cost for something like gravel culvert work after I paid the full amount of that invoice so everything including that extra $2,000 the contractor reimbursed me that extra $2,000 and I turned the money over to Henry to give to Clinton

you know Caesar had his Brutus Charles the first had Cromwell Clinton could profit from these examples if he crosses us

insisted that under the table payments would solidify our connections in state government

Clinton appeared unexpectedly at the end of some meeting

resumed an affair

He publishes a 550 page page book titled Judaism and Freemasonry, which I believe if I'm not mistaken, Ben had some pretty anti-Semitic to it.

It's a it's sort of a cover album of the idea that some hidden group influences the media, academia and political structures of not just Turkey, but the world to quote, erode the spiritual, religious and moral values of the Turkish people and make them like animals.

He publishes a 550 page page book titled Judaism and Freemasonry, which I believe if I'm not mistaken, Ben had some pretty anti-Semitic to it.

It's a it's sort of a cover album of the idea that some hidden group influences the media, academia and political structures of not just Turkey, but the world to quote, erode the spiritual, religious and moral values of the Turkish people and make them like animals.

He publishes a 550 page page book titled Judaism and Freemasonry, which I believe if I'm not mistaken, Ben had some pretty anti-Semitic to it.

It's a it's sort of a cover album of the idea that some hidden group influences the media, academia and political structures of not just Turkey, but the world to quote, erode the spiritual, religious and moral values of the Turkish people and make them like animals.

I was looking back just through your work and I realized I had, I've been watching you on television for quite a while. I think we all have. Specifically, I looked back at an episode of the Colbert Report. There's actually, I'm sure there's more than one.

And my goodness, that was wonderful. Thank you for doing that. It was an incredible experience.

I was looking back just through your work and I realized I had, I've been watching you on television for quite a while. I think we all have. Specifically, I looked back at an episode of the Colbert Report.

And my goodness, that was wonderful. Thank you for doing that. It was an incredible experience.

And I had worked on that book for two years and Colbert and did not... The joke which in retrospect is obvious about today's teenagers being the Pepsi generation and what they like to get up to.

He's also, he's super nice backstage. He was so nice. He came into the green room and he talked it all through and he's like, 'Have you ever seen the show? Do you know what the show is about?' And I'm going to be in character. My character is a total idiot.

My character hasn't read your book. My character doesn't understand anything.

I was looking back just through your work and I realized I had, I've been watching you on television for quite a while. I think we all have. Specifically, I looked back at an episode of the Colbert Report.

There's actually, I'm sure there's more than one. Maybe the only one that I saw and vividly remembered was when you were discussing a book that had recently come out, The Logic of Life. And my goodness, that was wonderful.

I had worked on that book for two years and Colbert and did not... The joke which in retrospect is obvious about today's teenagers being the Pepsi generation and what they like to get up to.

The joke did not occur to me. It occurred to Stephen in about three seconds.