
Play Ball!: Sportspiracies
04/26/23 • 47 min
EPISODE 83 | Play Ball!: Sportspiracies
Guest: Mark Fitzhenry, EFL teacher in Prague, co-founder of the Imperfectionists improv group
Sport seems to almost lend itself to rumor, innuendo and conspiracy thinking with accusations of wrongdoing, curses that plague a team for years and even the occasional crossover of the geopolitical and athletic worlds.
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SECTIONS
- 03:12 - BASEBALL - The Curse of the Bambino
- 07:01 - The Black Sox Curse, the Curse of the Billy Goat, the Reds throw a key game
- 13:36 - The Curse of the Colonel with the Hanshin Tigers in Osaka, Japan
- 15:23 - AMERICAN FOOTBALL - The Patriots, Spygate and Deflategate
- 24:46 - FOOTBALL (SOCCER) - Barcelona goal is code to Syrian rebels, 1966 World Cup - England & West Germany vs. South America
- 34:29 - 1978 World Cup in Argentina
- 38:09 - BASKETBALL - The 1985 draft lottery and the frozen envelope
- Music by Fanette Ronjat
More Info:
- The Imperfectionists FB page
- The Imperfectionists Instagram page
- The 'Curse of the Bambino,' explained
- The Black Sox Scandal
- Forget What You Know About the Black Sox Scandal
- The Billy Goat Curse - The Curse Is Broken!
- The Curse of Colonel Sanders
- An End To Japan Team's 'Curse Of Col. Sanders'?
- The Spygate scandal's impact on the New England Patriots and the NFL
- What really happened during Deflategate? Five years later, the NFL's 'scandal' aged poorly
- A timeline of Patriots scandals: Spygate, Deflategate and other controversial incidents under Bill Belichick
- Football's Most Bizarre: Barcelona Sending Coded Signals to Syrian Rebels?
- Why not everyone remembers the 1966 World Cup as fondly as England
- Remembering Argentina 1978: The Dirtiest World Cup Of All Time
- The dark story of the murderous dictatorship behind Argentina's 1978 World Cup win
- The Ewing Conspiracy
- The 1985 Patrick Ewing, Knicks, David Stern ‘Frozen Envelope’ Conspiracy... Proved!
- Knicks have a dubious NBA Lottery history
- What If the Knicks Never Won the 1985 Draft Lottery?
- Rigging the NBA Draft
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EPISODE 83 | Play Ball!: Sportspiracies
Guest: Mark Fitzhenry, EFL teacher in Prague, co-founder of the Imperfectionists improv group
Sport seems to almost lend itself to rumor, innuendo and conspiracy thinking with accusations of wrongdoing, curses that plague a team for years and even the occasional crossover of the geopolitical and athletic worlds.
Like what we do? Then buy us a beer or three via our page on Buy Me a Coffee. #ConspiracyClearinghouse #sharingiscaring #donations #support #buymeacoffee
You can also SUBSCRIBE to this podcast.
Review us here or on IMDb!
SECTIONS
- 03:12 - BASEBALL - The Curse of the Bambino
- 07:01 - The Black Sox Curse, the Curse of the Billy Goat, the Reds throw a key game
- 13:36 - The Curse of the Colonel with the Hanshin Tigers in Osaka, Japan
- 15:23 - AMERICAN FOOTBALL - The Patriots, Spygate and Deflategate
- 24:46 - FOOTBALL (SOCCER) - Barcelona goal is code to Syrian rebels, 1966 World Cup - England & West Germany vs. South America
- 34:29 - 1978 World Cup in Argentina
- 38:09 - BASKETBALL - The 1985 draft lottery and the frozen envelope
- Music by Fanette Ronjat
More Info:
- The Imperfectionists FB page
- The Imperfectionists Instagram page
- The 'Curse of the Bambino,' explained
- The Black Sox Scandal
- Forget What You Know About the Black Sox Scandal
- The Billy Goat Curse - The Curse Is Broken!
- The Curse of Colonel Sanders
- An End To Japan Team's 'Curse Of Col. Sanders'?
- The Spygate scandal's impact on the New England Patriots and the NFL
- What really happened during Deflategate? Five years later, the NFL's 'scandal' aged poorly
- A timeline of Patriots scandals: Spygate, Deflategate and other controversial incidents under Bill Belichick
- Football's Most Bizarre: Barcelona Sending Coded Signals to Syrian Rebels?
- Why not everyone remembers the 1966 World Cup as fondly as England
- Remembering Argentina 1978: The Dirtiest World Cup Of All Time
- The dark story of the murderous dictatorship behind Argentina's 1978 World Cup win
- The Ewing Conspiracy
- The 1985 Patrick Ewing, Knicks, David Stern ‘Frozen Envelope’ Conspiracy... Proved!
- Knicks have a dubious NBA Lottery history
- What If the Knicks Never Won the 1985 Draft Lottery?
- Rigging the NBA Draft
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Other Podcasts by Derek DeWitt
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Reptiles of the Mind: The Reptilian Conspiracy
EPISODE 82 | Reptiles of the Mind: The Reptilian Conspiracy (Big 'Uns 7)
The conspirasphere thrives on the idea that things are not what they seem to be on the surface. And for some, the very people around us are not what they seem. Why, they might not even be human, at all.
Some of the supposed “people” you see are actually shapeshifting aliens, possibly from somewhere in Orion, maybe from inside the hollow earth. In their true form, they are humanoid reptiles, and they thrive on pain and suffering. These loathsome creatures are either part of an ongoing, yet secret, struggle for control of our world, or they have already taken control of the reins and are farming us for their own purposes. You can see proof of this in some video footage where famous people’s eyes temporarily look like a lizard’s before snapping back to normal.
Yes, as we begin the fourth year of Conspiracy Clearinghouse, we will finally take a look at the Reptilian conspiracy theory, which was actually the inspiration for starting this podcast in the first place, but it was just too big and too weird to tackle back in 2020. You could argue that the previous 81 episodes have been preparing us for this one.
This is our third anniversary episode!
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SECTIONS
- 03:06 - I Don't Like Spiders and Snakes - Blavatsky, Robert E. Howard, G. Warren Shufelt digs L.A.
- 07:56 - Serpentine Fire - Maurice Doreal & the Emerald Tablets of Thoth, Ken Johnson's V., pop culture, Robinsons Galleria in Quezon City has a secret
- 15:23 - Crawling King Snake - David "Son of the Godhead" Icke changes careers
- 23:03 - Song of the Black Lizard - Icke expands his mythology
- 26:09 - Alligator Twist - A breakdown of Reptilian "facts", Pizzagate gets in the mix
- 32:17 - The Union of the Snake - Stewart Swerdlow, bloodlines, the Council of 13, the Pindar, the Committee of 300 and the Round Table
- 38:49 - Big Lizard in My Backyard - Reptilian symbols, the Vatican, etymology
- 42:39 - Long Snake Moan - The Queens of Orion, Adam and Eve and sexy time; the pine cone spin path
- 45:00 - Fattening Frogs for Snakes - Signs of Reptilian possession, transdimensional demons
- 49:04 - Snake Song - Anthony Warner of Nashville celebrates Christmas 2020 with a bomb, California Christian surfer Matthew Coleman thought his kids were Reptilians; Dutch politician Thierry Baudet hates lots of things, including Reptilians
- Music by Fanette Ronjat
More Info
- Lizard people: the greatest political conspiracy ever created on Vox
- The Illuminati, QAnon, Lizard People, and Other Bizarre Conspiracy Theories on Spyscape
- The Emerald Tablets of Thoth The Atlantean as PDF
- Gold-Filled Tunnel Legend Didn’t Pan Out at LA Times
- Map of the Lost Lizard City under Los Angeles
- Mapping Indigenous LA: Placemaking Through Digital Storytelling
- Alice Dixson + That Robinsons Galleria Snake: How the Urban Legend Came to Life
- David Icke on 9/11 and lizards in Buckingham Palace theories on BBC
- David Icke on Wogan video
- Icke 1991 interview with Gay Byrne on Irish TV post-Wogan video
- David Icke website
- Conspiracy theorist Icke cheered by thousands at anti-lockdown demo
- A Study of Reptilians by Aurora025
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Sound Advice: A440 vs. A432
EPISODE 84 | Sound Advice: A440 vs. A432
Guest: Andrew Currie, Owner & Lead Sound Engineer of Mechanizer Studios
Today, most musicians use 440Hz as the reference pitch for orchestras, but they use to use all sorts of different ones, especially 432Hz. Wow, that’s interesting, I guess. But even something as seemingly innocuous as international musical pitch standards can be fair game for the conspirasphere.
Sure, maybe the switch happened because of the physical properties of musical instruments as they warm up. Or maybe it was all part of a plan to separate humanity from the healing frequencies of the universe, making us both more aggressive and more docile. And maybe this evil plan was hatched by none other than Reich Minister of Propaganda for the Nazis, Joseph Goebbels.
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SECTIONS
- 03:01 - A tree falls in a forest, how hearing works, pseudoscience in the house, downtuning to 432Hz
- 08:13 - Sound engineering basics, pursuing the better sound, Neil Young's island
- 13:34 - The A440Hz standard, ISO 16, temperature alters pitch, 440Hz to 432Hz & 432Hz to 440Hz, acclimating to a subset of experience
- 22:05 - Some very strange baskets for 432Hz - universal harmony, aggression, Nazis and their apologists
- 30:13 - Leonard Horowitz - dentist & "sound healer", 528Hz as the universal love constant, Joseph Puleo & the Solfeggio frequencies
- 37:30 - Cymatics makes pretty patterns
- 41:27 - 432Hz important to you? No problem.
- Music by Fanette Ronjat
More Info:
- Mechanizer Studios website
- Mechanizer YouTube channel
- Mechanizer on Instagram
- Mechanizer Studios on Facebook
- The Importance of 432Hz Music on Omega 432 (a true believer site)
- The great 440 Hz conspiracy, and why all of our music is wrong
- Exploring Music Mysteries: What Is 440Hz Conspiracy? on Ultimate Guitar
- The “432 Hz vs. 440 Hz” conspiracy theory
- The 432Hz 'God' Note: Why Fringe Audiophiles Want to Topple Standard Tuning
- Fact Check-Debunking social media claims about A=432Hz and A=440Hz musical pitches on Reuters
- Nope, 432 Hz is not the “frequency of universe”
- A=432Hz, the math, the myth, the legend
- 432 Hz: Does the tuning standard make music better?
- A=432HZ: TRUTH, LIES AND CREATIVE STORY TELLING by Rich Goodhart
- THE TRUTH ABOUT 432HZ MUSIC (NOT AS SPECIAL AS YOU THINK)
- Does Conspiracy Extend to Musical Scale? on Henry Makow's website
- Leonard Horowitz webshite
- 432 Hz and 528 Hz EXPLAINED: The Most Powerful Frequencies in The Universe video
- All Solfeggio Frequencies – Healing Miracle Tones
- Solfeggio Frequencies on the Skeptoid Podcast
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