Unlocked! We round out our series on the Falun Gong by talking through the surreal rise of The Epoch Times, the money behind all their weird YouTube videos, and their fruitful partnership with Steve Bannon. Also: what is actually up with that whole organ harvesting thing?

UNLOCKED: Episode 286: Falun Gong Part 3: Crazy Rich Asians

We interview former Epoch Times writer Steve Klett about his time working for the Falun Gong-owned newspaper in 2016. We discuss his experience with a Dutchman, potential labor trafficking, and what it means to be a human bot.

Follow Steve's new Mark Fisher podcast on Patreon, YouTube, or Anchor:

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youtube.com/@LostFuturesPodcast
podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/lost-futures

UNLOCKED: Episode 288: Falun Gong Part 3.5

We’re joined by booze journalist Dave Infante (twitter.com/dinfontay) to talk about the hidden history of the Coors family and their funding of the New Right — plus, developments at Anchor Brewing.

Dave is the editor of Fingers (www.fingers.email), an independent newsletter about drinking in America, and a contributing editor and columnist for VinePair.

Episode 307: Lite Power

We talk to Alex Press about her reporting on the ongoing WGA & SAG-AFTRA strikes, with additional commentary from some of the striking entertainment workers we met on the picket lines in LA and NYC.

Special thanks to the following for speaking to us:
Bex Taylor-Klaus
Catherine Schetina
Jess McKenna
John Hodgman
Max Calder

Read Alex's piece on the strikes in Jacobin here: https://jacobin.com/2023/07/hollywood-writers-actors-strike-studios-streaming

Chapo Trap House

Bonus: WGA/SAG Strike Update

Repeat guest Devin O’Shea regales the boys with a tale straight from ‘90s conspiracy theory culture. It concerns the prolific parapolitical researcher and St. Louis native Kenn Thomas. Thomas’ magazine Steamshovel Press made him a minor celebrity and earned mentions in The New Yorker, Time, Newsweek, and The Smithsonian. The magazine was also a source of inspiration for the writers of The X-Files. In 1996, Thomas published his career-defining book: The Octopus: The Secret Government and the Death of Danny Casolaro. The book weaves a complex tale of a massive conspiracy involving a journalist who died in an apparent suicide, Native American reservations, a state-of-the-art-security program, a source named Danger Man, the Contras, the Shah of Iran, and a private security firm called “Wackenhut.”

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Music by Pontus Berghe and Nick Sena. Editing by Corey Klotz.

Episode Written by Devin O'Shea
https://twitter.com/devintoshea

Episode 245: Kenn Thomas, The Octopus, and ‘90s Paranoia feat. Devin O’Shea

Naomi Klein, author of 'The Shock Doctrine' and the upcoming 'Doppelganger: A Trip Into Mirror World', joins us to talk about QAnon, "diagonalist politics", and why people keep confusing her with Naomi Wolf online.

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Naomi Klein: https://twitter.com/NaomiAKlein / https://linktr.ee/naomiklein

Music by Pontus Berghe. Editing by Corey Klotz.

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Episode 246: Age of Doppelgangers feat Naomi Klein

In 1989, in the bustling seaport of San Pedro, California, Jackie Hernandez began to experience strange phenomena in her newly rented bungalow.  Lights would turn on and off.  Objects would move.  A heavy breathing could be heard rattling in the attic above her laundry room.  After a neighbor experienced the activity herself, she encouraged Jackie to reach out to a team of Ghost Hunters she had recently seen on TV.  What would follow was a year-plus long investigation that included everything from full-figured apparitions, to dripping ectoplasm.  Jake and Brad provide a comprehensive look at either the best evidence of a poltergeist ever captured on video, or perhaps the first ‘found footage’ horror movie ever made.

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The Spectral Voyager theme composed by Nick Sena.

Additional music by Pontus Berghe and Jake Rockatansky.

Jackie Hernandez dramatizations performed by Katie Amis. 

Editing by Corey Klotz.

QAA’s website: http://qanonanonymous.com

The Spectral Voyager Episode 5:  The Haunting of Jackie Hernandez (Sample)

The creators of HBO’s Telemarketers discuss the Fraternal Order of Police’s involvement in a billion dollar telemarketing scam.

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767 Teaser - Can We Count On Your Support for the FOP?

The deposition of Michael James Lindell AKA Mike Lindell AKA Mike Pillow. Some sort of drone he calls a "Wireless Monitoring Device" (WMD) designed to monitor voting machines. MyPillow's lumpy pillows. All this and more on this week's MyPillowTalk with MyQAA.

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Music by Pontus Berghe. Editing by Corey Klotz.

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Premium Episode 227: Mike Lindell's Lumpy Pillows (Sample)

On October 4th FEMA, in conjunction with the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), will conduct a nationwide test of the Emergency Alert System (EAS) and Wireless Emergency Alerts (WEA). 

For those of us in the normie world, this is a dull bureaucratic event. But conspiracists, it’s something much more — a potentially catastrophic event. One that will spread illness and disease that may even transform people into zombies. 

In this episode, we dive into the conspirituality gurus who started this bonkers rumor, how it borrowed from earlier conspiracy theories, and how it took a life on its own among online conspiracists.

REFERENCES

FEMA and FCC Plan Nationwide Emergency Alert Test for Oct. 4, 2023
https://www.fema.gov/press-release/20230803/fema-and-fcc-plan-nationwide-emergency-alert-test-oct-4-2023

What are the ingredients of Pfizer’s covid-19 vaccine?
https://www.technologyreview.com/2020/12/09/1013538/what-are-the-ingredients-of-pfizers-covid-19-vaccine/

Jim Bakker Is Now Using His End Times Broadcast to Warn About Zombies
https://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/jim-bakker-is-now-using-his-end-times-broadcast-to-warn-about-zombies/

Chromosome 1p36 deletion syndrome
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/medgen/334629

Zombie Apocalypse: Can the Undead Teach the Living How to Survive an Emergency?
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4612174/

Pfizer vaccine does not contain graphene oxide
https://apnews.com/article/fact-checking-430816913228

If It Sounds Like a Quack...: A Journey to the Fringes of American Medicine by Matthew Hongoltz-Hetling

Episode 249: October 4th 5G Zombie Apocalypse

Will & Hesse bring you Horrotober Ghoulvie Screamset, a selection of Horror film bangers for this October. We start with two all-time classics of the genre: George Romero’s “Night of the Living Dead (1968) and Tobe Hooper’s “The Texas Chainsaw Massacre” (1974). Both films redefined the genre into heightened levels of gruesome nihilism, creating vivid reflections of charnel-house America while serving up ghouls galore for your puerile titillation. 

As always, the first episode of this miniseries is free for all to listen, all subsequent episodes will be for subscribers only at: www.patreon.com/chapotraphouse

Movie Mindset

Movie Mindset 12 - Road Trip! Horrifying Rides of Romero & Hooper

Conspiracy theories, melted online communities and cursed media — we pry open the cracks in consensus reality and journey into the hidden worlds below. The QAA Podcast is a mix of reporting, comedy, and history hosted by Jake Rockatansky, Travis View, and Julian Feeld along with co-hosts Annie Kelly, Liv Agar and Brad Abrahams. Formerly known as the QAnon Anonymous podcast.