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The Nuclear Chicken War

How frozen chicken led us down the path to environmental catastrophe.

June 14, 2022

This is a preview of a premium episode! If you like our content, please become a patron to get more bonus episodes like this one, and all of our public episodes ad-free as well. In the 1950s, Senator Fulbright from Arkansas politely told a gathering of NATO countries that he would ...


Modern Slavery in a Texas Flight School

How a sketchy aviation academy drove a foreign student to suicide.

May 30, 2022

This is a preview of a premium episode. If you like our content, please become a patron to get more premium episodes like this one, as well as all of our public episodes ad-free! We're talking about an aviation school in Denton, Texas that is accused of driving a Chinese student to ...


China Plane Crash - Part 2

In this episode we interview a Boeing 737 pilot.

April 13, 2022

For reasons which become apparent as the conversation unfolds, our guest is introduced as just “Alex”. Together with this experienced Boeing 737 pilot, we address a very important issue: mental health in aviation and the stigma surrounding it. If you like our content, please subscribe to our ...


China Plane Crash – Part 1

A pilot and a passenger discuss the China Eastern Airlines MU-5735 crash.

April 7, 2022

Together we’ll analyze the horrific details of the tragedy, we’ll go over a brief history of Boeing and we’ll look at similar plane crashes based on the information revealed so far by the investigators. If you like our content, please subscribe to our premium episodes ! We’ll also a ...


Dyatlov Pass – Mystery Solved

What really happened to the Dyatlov hikers?

March 13, 2022

In 1959 a group of Russian hikers disappeared in the Ural mountains. Months later their bodies were found, showing signs of mutilation, exposure to strange chemical substances, and exposure to radiation. We examine a new theory in this episode that we think solves this decades-old Russian mystery, involving the US Cold War spying fligh ...