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Jonestown - The Monster | 125 Feb 18, 2019

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Don’t drink the Kool-Aid. We’ve all heard it, heck most of us have said it. An anachronism from the 80's that has come to simply mean to not completely buy into an idea whether good or bad. But the roots of the phrase are so much more severe…so much more frightening. Whether it be by their own hand or forcibly – these poor souls died in the steaming jungles of Jonestown, Guyana at the order of their leader. A maniacal, drug addicted cult leader named Jim Jones. In this first of two episodes we explore the man responsible. How could one man hold that much power over his followers? What would compel a man to ask almost 1,000 people to lay down their lives? Are monsters born monsters or do they turn into them? We dive into all of those light questions this week. Plus, Conspiracy Bot grows his business as people are actually buying his product (we don’t know who), Joe Peck is back on the show for the 2nd week in a row (we don’t know how), and Kevin Crispin makes his triumphant return with special guest Chris Marcum (we don’t know why). All of that and more on the podcast that wasn’t at Jonestown, but one of our favorite albums is Sam’s Town - Hysteria 51.Special thanks to this week’s research sources:Research Assistant – Raymond Walden IVBooksRaven: The Untold Story of the Rev. Jim Jones and His People | Tim ReitermanVideosReturn to Jonestown- Survivors revisit site 40 years after the tragedy | Sunday NightJonestown: Life and Death of Peoples Temple | DocumentaryJonestown: Paradise Lost | DocumentaryA People's Temple Meeting With Jim Jones - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kUE5OBwDpfsWebsitesEncyclopedia Britannica - https://www.britannica.com/event/Jonestown-massacreWikipedia - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JonestownWikipedia - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_JonesThe Guardian - https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/nov/17/an-apocalyptic-cult-900-dead-remembering-the-jonestown-massacre-40-years-onTime - http://time.com/longform/jonestown-aftermath/Rolling Stone - https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/jonestown-jim-jones-bodies-memorial-756320/Rolling Stone - https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/jonestown-13-things-you-should-know-about-cult-massacre-121974/Biography -https://www.biography.com/people/jim-jones-1036760PBS - https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/jonestown-bio-jones/ThoughtCo – https://www.thoughtco.com/jim-jones-and-the-peoples-temple-1779897Alt Jonestown – https://jonestown.sdsu.edu/?page_id=14026

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Alex Jones: Conspiracy’s Con Man | 124 Feb 11, 2019

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What’s the best way to sell erectile dysfunction pills? Claim 9/11 was an inside job! Well, at least that’s the tact that Alex Jones takes. Jones and his InfoWars network have been consistently putting out looney tunes conspiracy theories for two decades. But they aren’t just talking reptilians and new world order. Jones has taken it to the next level; from accusing Sandy Hook shooting victims of being crisis actors to propagating the famous #pizzagate hoax. Jones has built an empire on lies and the pain of others. This week we bring on the guys from Knowledge Fight to look into this grifter. Is he a true believing nut job, or a confidence man just trying to hawk his various snake oils? Plus, Wesley Willis makes an appearance on the show (bonus points if you know who that is), Conspiracy Bot releases his own line of booze (rubbing alcohol anyone?), and speaking of 90’s technology (looking at you C-Bot) the fellas talk Win-Amp. All of that and more on the podcast that doesn’t turn the freakin’ frogs gay, but does have a favorite song about frogs (looking at you Wesley Willis) – Hysteria 51.You can Find Dan and Jordan from Knowledge Fight at their Website - https://knowledgefight.com/TeePublic page for H51 gear!https://www.teepublic.com/stores/hysteria-51?ref_id=4106

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The Kardashev Scale | 123 Feb 04, 2019

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How advanced is our civilization? Hot Pockets? Check. Cat memes? Check. Total control of our planet’s resources, weather, and energy? Well…we’ll get back to you. That’s the basic premise of the Kardashev Scale. It’s a simple test to judge a civilization’s technological advancement. The scale ranges from 0 (we’re a 0.7) to a 6 or 7 (think omnipotent beings). This week we explore where we are, where we’re (hopefully) going, and how we can get there. Plus, Conspiracy Bot gives himself an upgrade to SUPER C (he’s been playing too much NES), the neighborhood cats are back in his cross-hairs (he drank a bottle of Malört), and we talk how Pluto has gotten the shaft (#teamPluto). All of that and more on the podcast that didn’t know you in high school, but if we had we would have beat up any other podcasts that made fun of your Magic the Gathering collection – Hysteria 51.Special thanks to this week’s research sources:Research Assistant – Raymond Walden IVBooks:Evolving the Alien: The Science of Extraterrestrial Life by Jack Cohen and Ian StewartParallel Worlds: A Journey Through Creation, Higher Dimensions, and the Future of the Cosmos by Michio KakuWizards, Aliens, and Starships by Charles L. AdlerVideo:Michio Kaku: 3 types of Civilizations - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6GooNhOIMY0The Kardashev Scale - Type I, II, III, IV & V Civilization – Documentary - https://bit.ly/2DQgZQqWebsites:Futurism - https://futurism.com/the-kardashev-scale-type-i-ii-iii-iv-v-civilizationWikipedia - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kardashev_scaleWikipedia - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_energy_consumptionWikipedia - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikolai_KardashevCuriosity - https://bit.ly/2sIiZ7eGaia - https://www.gaia.com/article/type-one-kardashev-scaleTass - http://tass.com/science/896683

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Nuclear Boy Scout: Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Build a Nuclear Reactor | 122 Jan 28, 2019

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Teenagers nowadays. No respect for their elders. I mean, as teens in our day we were walking uphill (both ways) to school in the snow. We didn’t have cellphones, we had pagers. If we needed a nuclear reactor, we built it in our backyard! Well, not all of us – but this week’s subject certainly tried. David Hahn was just another suburban kid, up until he MacGyver’d up a breeder reactor in his mom’s shed using not much more than a bunch of smoke detectors and old clocks. This week we dive into the how, where, and why of David Hahn – affectionately known as the Nuclear Boy Scout. Plus, we learn why Conspiracy Bot has a thing for Wheel of Fortune (hint: it’s the repartee), we learn how many smoke detectors you can buy without raising an eyebrow (hint: it’s a lot), and for some reason C-Bot actually helped with this week’s show (hint: it involves homemade nuclear power). All of that and more on the podcast that’s never built a nuclear reactor, but that definitely reacts nuclearly (is that a word?) on occasion – Hysteria 51.Special thanks to this week’s research sources:Research Assistant – Raymond Walden IVBooks:The Radioactive Boy Scout: The Frightening True Story of a Whiz Kid and His Homemade Nuclear Reactor by Ken SilversteinVideo:The Nuclear Boy Scout (2003) –documentary by Bindu MathurThe Radioactive Boy Scout: The Frightening True Story of a Whiz Kid - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ij1ohDmme3sWebsites:CS Monitor - https://www.csmonitor.com/2004/0316/p16s03-bogn.htmlWikipedia - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_HahnThe Daily Mail - https://dailym.ai/2HvWXyHHarper's Magazine - https://harpers.org/archive/1998/11/the-radioactive-boy-scout/Fox News - https://www.foxnews.com/story/radioactive-boy-scout-charged-in-smoke-detector-theftFBI - https://vault.fbi.gov/david-hahn/David%20Hahn%20Part%2001%20of%2001/viewARS Technica - https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2017/03/radioactive-boy-scout-died-of-alcohol-poisoning-not-radiation-father-says/Dangerous Laboratories - https://www.dangerouslaboratories.org/radscout.htmlThe News Stack - https://thenewstack.io/memories-life-radioactive-boy-scout/Tributes - http://www.tributes.com/obituary/show/David-Charles-Hahn-103989982The Boy Scouts of America – https://www.scouting.org/Mysterious Universe – https://bit.ly/2sP25DWHomeland Security News Wire – http://www.homelandsecuritynewswire.com/no-boy-scout-cannot-build-backyard-nuclear-reactor

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Dulce Underground Base: Alien Base or Absolute BS? | 121 Jan 21, 2019

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Dulce, New Mexico: population 2,743…ABOVE GROUND! That’s right, according to some there is a secret base under Dulce that houses everything from classified US technology to reptilians. According to those same folks Dulce is one of the many underground facilities that Reptilians use to run experiments on humans. Oh, and there was a huge underground battle there between aliens and the US military. The aliens managed to win because they had advanced ray guns. And from there….the story REALLY starts to get strange. This week we grab our tinfoil hats and go down the reptilian hole as we explore the Dulce Underground Base. Plus, Conspiracy Bot stays sober long enough to do some writing (surprisingly true), we learn there is a Starbucks on Venus that employed Conspiracy Bot (not true at all), and Kevin Crispin is back in the lower 4th (fun and true)! All of that and more on the podcast that’s never fought reptilians underground, our battles have always taken place on Outworld (Reptile wins!) – Hysteria 51.Special thanks to this week’s research sources:Research Assistant – Raymond Walden IVBooks:The UFO Casebook by Kevin D RandleProject Beta: The Story of Paul Bennewitz, National Security, and the Creation of a Modern UFO Myth by Greg BishopUnderground Alien Bio Lab At Dulce: The Bennewitz UFO Papers by Timothy Green BeckleyCosmic Top Secret: America's Secret Ufo Program - New Evidence by William F. Hamilton IIIOmni Magazine September 1983 Vol 5, No. 12Video:Underground Bases, Reptilians and the Battle for Humanity -Phil Schneider (DVD), Phil Schneider}Deep Underground Military Bases (DVD),The 6th Day (Movie)The Underground - Darcy Weir (Documentary)Paul Bennewitz and The Undergruond “ALIEN” Base at Dulce - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XGojARi558sPhilllip Schneider - Underground Alien Bases- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xedmfAgx8egPrisoners of the Dulce Base by Sherry Shriner - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kiU6_l5mWJUGeorge Knapp: The True Story of Paul Bennewitz and Dulce Base - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ri-k3oWS3kQWebsites:UFO Casebook - https://www.ufocasebook.com/dulce.htmlWikipedia - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dulce_BaseRationalWiki - https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Dulce_baseThe Black Vault - http://www.theblackvault.com/documentarchive/the-dulce-base-in-dulce-new-mexico-the-subterrene/The Black Vault - https://www.theblackvault.com/casefiles/leaked-underground-dulce-base-alien-photo-thomas-costello/Express - https://www.express.co.uk/news/weird/765840/Alien-base-Tonto-National-Forest-The-Black-Vault-US-Forest-Service-FOISacred Texts - http://www.sacred-texts.com/ufo/dulce.htmBBS Radio – https://bbsradio.com/cgi-bin/webbbs/arch_config.pl?md=read;id=639Reptoid – http://www.reptoids.com/Vault/ArticleClassics/dulceTEChistory.htmDocumentary Tube – http://www.documentarytube.com/articles/phil-schneider–the-man-behind-the-alien-agendaDocumentary Tube – http://www.documentarytube.com/articles/max-spiers-all-the-conspiracy-theoriesSupernatural Magazine – http://supernaturalmagazine.com/articles/the-strange-saga-of-paul-bennewitz-and-the-undergruond-alien-base-at-dulce

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Bob Lazar: Area 51 & Flying Saucers- An Interview With Jeremy Corbell | 120 Jan 14, 2019

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Bob Lazar is on the Mount Rushmore of names in the UFO world. He (virtually on his own) brought the existence of Area 51 to the forefront by telling his story of working on real UFOs in the 80's. If a podcast, website, or movie is covering UFOs they can’t do a complete job without mentioning Bob. The challenge is he pretty much STOPPED talking to the press and giving interviews for more than 20 years. Then, came along documentarian Jeremy Corbell. He has produced a new documentary on Lazar with his FULL cooperation. This week we interview Jeremy about his experiences, if and why he believes the story, and a whole lot more. Plus, we somehow work John Lear into the discussion (you’ll see), Conspiracy Bot compares himself to Dr. Phil (he’s more like Judge Judy), and :spoiler alert: Mickey Rourke doesn’t join the show (C-Bot was disappointed). All of that and more on the podcast that isn’t on the Mount Rushmore of podcasts, but is on the Mount Rushmore of Mount Rushmores (in our own mind) – Hysteria 51.

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Antikythera Mechanism – The World’s First Computer? | 119 Jan 07, 2019

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Imagine finding shipwreck from thousands of years ago and among the rest of the debris finding a laptop with instructions on how to use it. That’s ALMOST exactly what happened when the Antikythera Mechanism was found. OK, so it wasn’t exactly a laptop, but many refer to it as the world’s first analog computer. And no matter how you classify it, it certainly doesn’t fit the time frame it dates back to. How did the ancient Greeks create a machine so advanced that another example of its intricacies wouldn’t be found in the world for another century and a half? We attempt to get to the bottom of it or at least blame the aliens this week. Plus, the fellas talk about THEIR first computer, we’re able to compare the mechanism to both a magic 8-ball and Grays Sports Almanac, and Conspiracy Bot quotes bad 90’s music. All of that and more on the podcast that’s never built a fully functional computing machine that can output correct data (but we have Conspiracy Bot) - Hysteria 51.Special thanks to this week’s research sources:Research Assistant - Raymond Walden IVBooks:The Antikythera Mechanism: The History and Mystery of the Ancient World’s Most Famous Astronomical Device Kindle Edition by Charles River EditorsA Portable Cosmos: Revealing the Antikythera Mechanism, Scientific Wonder of the Ancient World by Alexander JonesDecoding the Heavens: A 2,000-Year-Old Computer--and the Century-long Search to Discover Its Secrets by Jo MarchantVideo:Technological Marvels of the Ancient World Season 1 ep 3 - ComputingMichael Wright - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4eUibFQKJqINova: Ancient ComputerWebsites:Wikipedia - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antikythera_mechanismNova: Ancient ComputerThe Antikythera Mechanism Research Project - antikythera-mechanism.grMental Floss - http://mentalfloss.com/article/81445/15-intriguing-facts-about-antikythera-mechanismThe Smithson - https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/decoding-antikythera-mechanism-first-computer-180953979/Vox - https://www.vox.com/science-and-health/2017/5/17/15646450/antikythera-mechanism-greek-computer-astronomy-google-doodleScience Daily - https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/07/080731143422.htmLive Science - https://www.livescience.com/55168-antikythera-mechanism-had-user-manual.html

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2018 Year-End Review and Orson Welles - Dracula | 118 Dec 31, 2018

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Man, 2018 flew by fast. And what a crazy year it was for all of us at Hysteria 51. New network, award nominations, iTunes top 200, the list goes on. We could not have done it without all of you, so this week Producer Lisa and Brent take a look back at the year. They talk achievements, (holy crap there was actually more than 1), how much prettier Lisa is than John (duh), our war with LeVar Burton (only in our heads), and what 2019 has in store for the show. Oh, but it doesn't end there. Then you are treated to our tradition of our favorite Audio Drama of the Year. This time around it is a mouthful with The Mercury Theater on the Air, with Orson Welles presents – “Dracula”. So break out the garlic and sharpen some sticks for this year-end review on the podcast that isn't hosted by Vampires because we don't need a reason to suck even more, Hysteria 51.DraculaAdapted from the novel by Bram StokerCast:Orson Welles (Dr. John Seward, Count Dracula)Elizabeth Fuller (Lucy Westenra)George Coulouris (Jonathan Harker)Agnes Moorehead (Mina Harker)Martin Gabel (Dr. Van Helsing)Ray Collins (Russian Captain)Karl Swenson (Mate)

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Nazca Lines – Peruvian Artwork or Alien Runways? | 117 Dec 24, 2018

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The Nazca Lines are a group of ancient geoglyphs etched into desert sands of southern Peru. Made up of of over 10,000 lines, the figures are most visible from the air or nearby hilltops. The designs range from geometric patterns to animals and more. Why would an ancient culture spend the time and effort to etch out such elaborate and large designs? Is it simply an ancient artform? Were they an homage to the god(s) of the time? Or, were they an invitation…even a guide to a group viewing from the stars? We grab our brooms and dust off the Nazca Lines this week. Plus, the fellas talk about their favorite childhood art toys (Mainway’s Bag o’ Glass makes an appearance). Conspiracy Bot learns about yellow snow. And the merits of giving soldering irons to children is debated (it’s a good idea). All of that and more on the podcast that that’s never carved ornate messages into the earth for aliens, but we have written plenty of messages in snow…yellow snow - Hysteria 51.Special thanks to this week’s research sources:Research Assistant Raymond Walden IV,

BooksChariots of the Gods | Erich von Däniken ,

WebsitesRanker.com, Wikipedia, wanderlust.co.uk, History.com, Unmuseum.com, USA Today, Huffington Post, NPR, Ancient Aliens, Gaia (sort of), and – of course – HowStuffWorks.

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UFOs at Maury Island: MiB, JFK, and Dog Murder | 116 Dec 17, 2018

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In the wild world of UFOs it doesn’t take much for a story to take on a life of its own. A flash in the sky or a shadow turns into a close encounter. But sometimes they have a little more meat to them… dog meat. Along with one of the first known run-ins with the infamous Men In Black, the death of 2 investigators, and even a potential link to the JFK assassination. But why would a tale wilder than Roswell be nothing more than a footnote on a few UFO websites? Is it simply an elaborate hoax? Or are there larger forces at play that have been able to keep the truth from getting anywhere close to the surface? We head to Washington state and try to get to the middle of this UFO donut this week. Plus, Conspiracy Bot claims to have fans, the fellas learn what its like to wake up with no memories in Montana while waiting tables (again), and a blast from the past as Mark Frushour is back in the lower 4th after almost 100 episodes! All of that and more on the podcast that’s never had a dog killed by a UFO, but that would hunt E.T. to Zeta Reticuli and back if we did - Hysteria 51.

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