Tales From The Rabbit Hole – Conspiracy Culture Conversations with Mick West

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Episode 28 – Brian Dunning: Skeptoid, Conspiracies Declassified, and Science Friction

Brian Dunning is a prolific skeptical podcaster with his award-winning show "Skeptoid" coming up on its 700th episode. Read More

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Episode 27 – Michael Shermer: Conspiracies and Conspiracy Theories — The Great Courses

Dr Michael Shermer is founder of The Skeptics Society, and editor-in-chief of its magazine Skeptic. He's written several books on science and skepticism and his latest work is an audio-only 12-part course on Conspiracies. Read More

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Episode 26: UFO Jesus – Disclosure, the Nimitz Tic-Tac, and UFO Evidence

UFO Jesus is a popular advocate of UFO “disclosure”, the belief that the US Government is close to revealing that it knows that some UFOs actually are the result of alien visitors. We talk about... Read More

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Episode 25 – Jason Bermas: Producer of Loose Change, Shade, Invisible Empire

Jason Bermas is a producer, writer, and YouTuber, best known for conspiracy documentaries such as Loose Change, Fabled Enemies, Shade, and Invisible Empire. Loose Change was a seminal documentary for the 9/11 “Truth” movement, and... Read More

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Episode 24: Nick Pope – Area 51, UFOs and UFOlogy

Nick Pope is a journalist and media commentator who writes and talks a lot about the UFO phenomenon. He is perhaps best known for a role he undertook for the British Government from 1991 to... Read More

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Episode 23 – Ian/TheoryQED: UFOs, Government Cover-ups, and Alien Visitors.

Ian goes by the name TheoryQED on Metabunk and his YouTube Channel, where he posts about UFOs. Unlike me, and definitely unlike my last guest (Seth Shostak), Ian thinks there's something highly significant to the UFO phenomenon Read More

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Episode 22 – Seth Shostak: SETI Senior Astronomer on the Search for ETs, UFO “Disclosure”, and Storming Area 51.

Seth Shostak is the Senior Astronomer for the SETI Institute and former Director of Center for SETI Research. A popular science communicator, Seth has hosted SETI’s weekly radio show (and now podcast) Big Picture Science... Read More

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Episode 21: Donald Friedman – Engineer at the World Trade Center After 9/11

Donald Friedman, P.E., F.ASCE, is a professional engineer with more than 25 years of experience in the investigation, analysis, and restoration of landmark buildings. He has taught engineering at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, the University of... Read More

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Episode 20 – JM Talboo: Debunker of 9/11 Debunkers

JM Talboo runs the web site http://911debunkers.blogspot.com subtitled "Debunking the Debunkers of the 9/11 Truth Movement". His focus is on debunking people like me. Read More

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Episode 19 – Mike Rothschild: Decline of QAnon, Death of Epstein, and other Conspiracies.

Mike Rothschild is a writer who is an expert on a variety of conspiracy theories, in particular QAnon. We discuss the drawn-out decline of the QAnon theory, prosperity scams, and the theories around the death... Read More

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Episode 18 – Paradigm Shift – A Student With Questions about 9/11 and the Possibility of Explosives

Paradigm Shift had made many posts about 9/11, and the need, as he sees it, for a new investigation to look into the possibility of explosives being used to bring down the twin towers. Read More

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Episode 17: Willie – Rabbit Hole Escapee (ETRH – Preface)

Willie was one of the first people that I interviewed for my book Escaping The Rabbit Hole. He’s a former believer in theories from 9/11 being an “inside job”, to chemtrails. His story forms the... Read More

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Episode 16: Adam Taylor – Retired 9/11 Truth Activist

Adam Taylor was very active in the 9/11 truth movement for ten years from 2007 to 2017. He's still very much in favor of a new investigation and thinks there are many unanswered questions about the events of 9/11. Read More

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Episode 15: Brad – Mathematics vs. Conspiracy Theories

Brad is an electrical engineer and an expert in mathematics. He also likes to consider that an idea might be true before rejecting it, no matter how extreme. This led him very briefly down the rabbit hole of checking to see if the earth was actually round like a ball, or might it possibly be flat. Read More

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Episode 14: Rory – Flat Earth Debunking and Spiritual Journeys

Rory has an extensive series of videos on YouTube debunking Flat Earth, focusing on simple ways of demonstrating that there’s a curve. But he’s also got a very interesting life story as a traveler, both... Read More

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Episode 13 – Professor David Keith – Geoengineering Research and the Chemtrails Conspiracy Theory

Professor David Keith is a well-known expert in the largely theoretical field of geoengineering (deliberately modifying the Earth's climate) who has become an often demonized target for conspiracy theorists who think that the climate is actually being secretly modified using "chemtrails." Read More

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Episode 12: Paul – Escape from Planet X

Paul is a former promoter of the Planet X conspiracy theory. Planet X (or Nibiru) is a supposed rogue planet that some people claim they can observe near the sun. Supposedly the existence of this planet is being covered up by the government because it's about to cause the end of the world. Read More

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Episode 11: Jim Lee – Chemtrails, Geoengineering, Conspiracies, and Semantics

Jim Lee used to be a fairly hardcore conspiracy theorist, deep into things like Chemtrails and doomsday comets. Now he’s less deep down the rabbit hole, but has managed to create one of his own.... Read More

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Episode 10: Jen Senko – Director of “The Brainwashing of my Dad”

Jen Senko is the director of the documentary film The Brainwashing of my Dad, released in 2016. The film tells the story of how her father had a drastic change in personality after slowly getting sucked into a rabbit hole of conservative talk radio Read More

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Episode 9: Joe – Former Chemtrail Conspiracist, Current New World Order Conspiracist

Joe is someone I’ve known online for nearly ten years, back when he was a believer in the chemtrails conspiracy theory. Over a few years, I managed to talk him out of that one. He’s... Read More

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Episode 8: Sasha: Chatting with a Flat Earther

I met Sasha at the Flat Earth conference a couple of weeks ago. During the debate she asked an interesting question about the moment that made us commit to the Earth being flat (or, in my case, a globe). Read More

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Episode 7: Flat Earth Exit the Matrix Expo

In this episode, I report back from my trip to the "Exit the Matrix" Flat Earth Expo in Las Vegas, where I gave a presentation, had a debate, and talked to a lot of Flat Earth believers. Read More

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Episode 6: Tim Osman, Debunker and Conspiracist

I first became aware of “Tim Osman” from his work debunking the Flat Earth theory. He’s done some amazing work there with highly visual demonstrations of the curve of the Earth using drone footage. But... Read More

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Episode 5: Dan, Former Apocalyptic Prepper

Dan used to be convinced that some kind of drastic collapse of society was just around the corner. But then he stopped. Read More

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Episode 4: Stian Arnesen, the 9/11 Alaska Report and the Science of 9/11

In this second part of my extended conversation with Stian Arnesen (first part here) we delve deeper into 9/11. Firstly we discuss the Alaska report on World Trade Center Building 7. This is a report... Read More

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Episode 3: Stian Arnesen, 9/11, Crop Circles, and Debunkers

Stian Arensen has been involved in the 9/11 Truth community for a number of years, and in the last year or so has been questioning some of the underpinnings of that community. Stian has also... Read More

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Episode 2: Mike Rothschild, discussing QAnon

Mike Rothschild is a journalist, researcher, debunker of conspiracy theories and fringe beliefs, and an expert on the QAnon theory. Read More

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Episode 1: Introduction & The Ex Conspiracy Theorist

In this first episode of Tales from the Rabbit Hole, I give a brief introduction and then talk to my first guest, Jon, an ex-conspiracy theorist Read More