Pat Daugherty (@RotoPat) joins Charles, Alex, and the all-knowing AutoCritic A.I. to learn the true objective worth of every Radiohead album.

147 - Every Radiohead Album Ranked! (ft. Pat Daugherty)

Dimitri and Khalid talk with music producer/researcher @KhristKoopa about the career of German scientist Franz Anton Mesmer and his theories of “animal magnetism” that took late 18th century France by storm, including: Mesmerism as precursor to Spiritualism, the ain’t nuttin’ new overlaps between Serious Science and metaphysics throughout history, Mesmer’s confirmed membership in the Bavarian Illuminati, discovering a field of “invisible fire” more subtle than ether, Mesmer’s remarkable rizz, running group “seances” in Paris, curing the blindness of piano prodigy Maria Theresia von Paradis, hanging out with Mozart, Jesuits lurking on the periphery, the Illuminati’s passion for tactical PR and ARGs, early theories of the subconscious, yet another Ben Franklin deboonking saga, noting the real phenomenon of hypnosis operating within Mesmer’s “magnetic” therapy, tracing the legacy of magnetism through Freud up to modern mind control, and how the under-examined sex magick teachings of African-American occultist Pascal Beverly Randolph and his Hermetic Brotherhood of Luxor/Light influenced Helena Blavatsky and Aleister Crowley. 
Part 1 of 2.

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Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/artist/2Uz9CUAY7NAIlTSQ3lYj8o
Blog articles about Mesmer: https://swimpool.blog
Bandcamp: https://underworlddustfunk.bandcamp.com

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[#140] IN THE MOUTH OF MESMER: Illuminating the Origins of Magnetism & Mind Control ft. Khrist Koopa

Part of our live reactions to the breaking news of Donald Trump’s indictment.

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Chapo Trap House

719 Teaser - Trump Indicted

Matt Christman goes off live on http://www.twitch.tv/chapotraphouse
Topics: What happens when you die.

Grill Stream

243 - Spoiler Alert: What Happens When You Die 03.24.23

We take a trip to Israel with Noah Kulwin and talk about Israeli political culture, Netanyahu, liberalism, money, and the Judicial Overhaul. Truly, Israel is a land of contrasts!

Tickets for the final Year of the Smile show in Austin, TX: prekindle.com/event/53167-trueanon-austin

Transcript of Yair Netanyahu telling his friends they can have sex with his girlfriend: haaretz.com/israel-news/2018-01-11/ty-article/the-full-transcript-of-yair-netanyahus-wild-tel-aviv-night/0000017f-e544-d62c-a1ff-fd7ff4de0000

Episode 281: Next Year In Jerusalem

It’s a fan cam episode for our favorite tech columnist, Brian Merchant, who had two pieces come out recently that are back-to-back bangers. First is about why all the people making and selling AI keep talking about being afraid of their own creations. It’s Frankenstein meets sorcerer's apprentice but as a marketing strategy for their own power (and their unique ability to control that power). Second is about what all these people should actually be afraid of. As history shows us, there is more than one way to crash a computer.

Article we discuss
••• Afraid of AI? The startups selling it want you to be | Brian Merchant https://www.latimes.com/business/technology/story/2023-03-31/column-afraid-of-ai-the-startups-selling-it-want-you-to-be
••• Silicon Valley elites are afraid. History says they should be | Brian Merchant: https://www.latimes.com/business/technology/story/2023-03-24/column-how-afraid-should-silicon-valley-be 

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245. Shook Ones (Tech Style)

Yeah I'm thinking we're back. Back with a big one. Back with Bono. He wrote a memoir called Surrender: 40 Songs, One Story and we're podcasting all about it. Well, not all about it, but about half of it, because Bono's book is so meaty that it requires a two-part podcast. We dig into Bono's early life in bubblin' Dublin, the crucial single week where he asked out his wife and joined U2, his political awakening and initial transition into "foreign dignitary," and the time he made a Parmesan cheese sandwich at Paul McGuinness's house. It's a wild ride, and an Irish one. Missed you guys :)

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Songs in the episode:
"With Or Without You (8-Bit U2 Cover)" - 8-Bit Misfits
"Teenage Kicks" - The Undertones
"I Will Follow" - U2
"Sunday Bloody Sunday" - U2
"Pride (In The Name of Love)" - U2
"Do They Know It's Christmas?" Band Aid
"Where The Streets Have No Name" - U2
"Where The Streets Have No Name (Live)" - The Killers
"Big Boy" - Viagra Boys and Jason Williamson
"The Fly" - U2

And Introducing

#116 BONO! pt. 1

"I Was A Teenage Conspiracy Theorist," The Atlantic magazine playfully titled a 2020 essay. "Choose your reality: Trust wanes, conspiracy theories rise," reported The Associated Press in 2022. "Do You Know Someone Who Believes in Conspiracy Theories? We Want to Hear About It," wrote The New York Times last year.

Fears of "conspiracy theories" are a common trope in the U.S. media, a worry that's grown more acute with the rise of QAnon, anti-vaxx sentiment, anti-semitism and a host of other dangerous theories that unduly rot brains throughout the country. To a great extent, this understandable: Many ideas that meet the definition of "conspiracy theories" are, indeed, baseless and dangerous and can direct people's political energy and resources into wasteful, racist, and downright stupid rabbit holes.

But that fact shouldn't delegitimize or foreclose all skepticism of those in power, but too often the term "conspiracy theory" is used to do just that. Repeatedly, media lump together so-called conspiracy theories, regardless of their accuracy, rationale, and ideology: at once, UFO chasers, QAnon, and the Black Panther Party being subject to FBI disruption are somehow placed in the same category of paranoid kooks. At the same time, unproven, and often debunked ideas advanced by media that also meet the definition of "conspiracy theories" — such as Saddam Hussein being behind 9/11 or so-called Havana syndrome — are treated as unassailable, meriting ongoing investigation, limitless resources, and of course, utmost solemnity.

On this episode, we detail the double standards applied to conspiracy theories inside and outside of the realm of U.S. corporate media. We’ll examine the development of the concept of conspiracy theories and the media's selective invocations of the term to discredit real grievances directed at American power and the U.S. government, and moreover, how power-friendly conspiracies — namely those focused on Enemy States like the Havana Syndrome narrative — are permitted to fester and grow without pushback because their red yarn dot connecting implicates the right lists of Acceptable Bad Guys.

Our guest is Jacobin writer Branko Marcetic.

Episode 180: Havana Syndrome and the Power of Mainstream, Acceptable Conspiracy Theories

Matt Christman goes off live on http://www.twitch.tv/chapotraphouse
Topics: The Jetsons, More Gulf War trading cards

248 - Wifi-Connected Vat-Grown Human Husks 05.05.23

Dimitri and Khalid return to the deep well of questions from the Grotto of Truth Discord, starting with two big ones: possible similarities between the German Wandervogel movement and today’s youth-oriented climate activism, as well as the lurking influence of eugenics in environmental discourses; then a nuanced assessment of Whitney Webb’s work on Jeffrey Epstein and her analysis of the criminal deep state networks that supported him (and some thoughts about recent critiques of Webb for being an “Alex Jones-style” conspiracist who won’t call out capitalism).

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[#148] GROTTO OF TRUTH Q&A XX, Part One

Matt Christman goes off live on http://www.twitch.tv/chapotraphouse
Topics: Dialectic history, Spanish Civil war, Meditation & Mindfulness, Social media husks, Reconstruction failures & Benjamin Butler

254 - Anti-Antidisestablishmentarianism 06.22.23

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245. Shook Ones (Tech Style)

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