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Wide open spaces. 

If the Chicks have taught us anything through their musical musings it's that such spaces are pretty neat. Or maybe terrible? Honestly I couldn't tell you any other lyrics to that particular song.

But in any case, where else on this planet can you find more spaces of a wide open nature than the open ocean? I struggle to think of any. I personally find the open ocean utterly terrifying, but maybe sailor's dig it? At least most of it...

On this episode we're discussing The Bermuda Triangle! This topic falls into a group with quicksand and falling coconuts of "things I worried an inordinate amount about as a child". Batten down the hatches matties!

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Music:

Intro: Alien visitors

Ads: The Bounty Hunter

Outro: Trip with a UFO

From: https://soundtrackuniverse.com

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Sources:


http://www.physics.smu.edu/pseudo/BermudaTriangle/evwjones.html
https://archive.org/details/bermudatriangle00berl/page/96/mode/2up
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bermuda_Triangle#cite_note-Gaddis,1964-9
https://www.chinasona.org/Thiaoouba/Bermuda-triangle.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Bermuda_Triangle_incidents
https://www.livescience.com/23435-bermuda-triangle.html

You might argue that you can't really call a podcast bi-weekly when you constantly miss your upload date. I would heartily refute this argument if I could think of a single defense beyond "huff my shorts".

Where's the beef? 

This is the famous philosophical quandary posed by the almighty burger sorceress known only as Wendy. And how to answer such a weighty question? Unfortunately I can't tell you. I can tell you where a very small percentage of the beef is though. It's lying dead in a field after being mutilated under mysterious circumstances.

In this episode we're discussing Cattle Mutilation. I suppose when you're a cattle rancher in a rural part of the US you've got a lot of time to consider who or what might have goofed around with your cattle corpses.

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Music:

Intro: Alien visitors

Ads: The Bounty Hunter

Outro: Trip with a UFO

From: https://soundtrackuniverse.com

Hear from an expert in online literacy: https://omny.fm/shows/factually-with-adam-conover/why-critical-thinking-can-t-beat-misinformation-an

Sources:

Mad Cow Disease and Cattle Mutilations? — Our Strange Planet

Close Encounters of the Herd Kind: UFOs, Aliens & Cattle Mutilation, page 1 (abovetopsecret.com)

Detectives perplexed by mysterious Oregon cattle mutilations - oregonlive.com

'Not One Drop Of Blood': Cattle Mysteriously Mutilated In Oregon : NPR

The Mysterious History of Cattle Mutilation - HISTORY

Cattle mutilation - Wikipedia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chupacabra

Are you really late anymore if you've been so consistently for three uploads? Only God can say.

In any case we are back for the second part of our exploration of the JFK assassination. A lesser (but maybe more punctual) person would make a joke about how it's going to be mind-blowing. I strive for jokes only slightly more elevated. I'm thinking between the Blue Collar Comedy tour and the New Yorker.

What do you get when you cross a New Orleans businessman and an Attorney General with a somewhat loose grasp on reality? The unedited Zapruder film of course!

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Music:

Intro: Alien visitors

Ads: The Bounty Hunter

Outro: Trip with a UFO

From: https://soundtrackuniverse.com

Hear from an expert in online literacy: https://omny.fm/shows/factually-with-adam-conover/why-critical-thinking-can-t-beat-misinformation-an

Sources:


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassination_of_John_F._Kennedy
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_F._Kennedy
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kennedy_family
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassination_of_John_F._Kennedy#Official_investigations
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_F._Kennedy_assassination_conspiracy_theories
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warren_Commission
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zapruder_film
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_House_Select_Committee_on_Assassinations
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/President_John_F._Kennedy_Assassination_Records_Collection_Act_of_1992
https://www.schooltube.com/media/Zapruder+FilmA+JFK+Assassination+%5BHD%5D/1_3pmydxgt
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dictabelt
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Umbrella_man_(JFK_assassination)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trial_of_Clay_Shaw

I regret to inform you that I can't make a joke about uploading a day late two episodes in a row. Therefore there will only be this humorless acknowledgement of my failure.

You know what's not humorless? Assassination!

Wait, that can't be right...

On this episode we're talking about The JFK Assassination. Hold on to your butts or butt like protrusions, we're only scratching the surface in this two parter!

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Music:

Intro: Alien visitors

Ads: The Bounty Hunter

Outro: Trip with a UFO

From: https://soundtrackuniverse.com

Hear from an expert in online literacy: https://omny.fm/shows/factually-with-adam-conover/why-critical-thinking-can-t-beat-misinformation-an

Sources:


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassination_of_John_F._Kennedy
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_F._Kennedy
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kennedy_family
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassination_of_John_F._Kennedy#Official_investigations
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_F._Kennedy_assassination_conspiracy_theories
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warren_Commission
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zapruder_film
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_House_Select_Committee_on_Assassinations
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/President_John_F._Kennedy_Assassination_Records_Collection_Act_of_1992
https://www.schooltube.com/media/Zapruder+FilmA+JFK+Assassination+%5BHD%5D/1_3pmydxgt
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dictabelt
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Umbrella_man_(JFK_assassination)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trial_of_Clay_Shaw

I'M NOT LATE, YOU'RE LATE!!! 

I very intentionally didn't upload this episode on the normal day and made the extremely deliberate choice to upload it Thursday evening. I swear it on Devin's iridescent chitin.

Here at Sheeple HQ we're well-oiled (on massage Mondays at least) and organized much like the world's best militaries. As it turns our being disciplined isn't the only thing a huge military needs to thrive, it also needs Tom Cruise.

This episode we're discussing the Military Entertainment Complex, the little known but widely seen network of entertainment products sponsored by the US military. If it sounds weird, and perhaps a little dystopian, that's because it is!

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Music:

Intro: Alien visitors

Ads: The Bounty Hunter

Outro: Trip with a UFO

From: https://soundtrackuniverse.com

Hear from an expert in online literacy: https://omny.fm/shows/factually-with-adam-conover/why-critical-thinking-can-t-beat-misinformation-an

Sources:


Playing War: How the Military Uses Video Games - The Atlantic
Shall we play a game?: The rise of the military-entertainment complex | Salon.com
US Army pauses video game streams after accusations of violating free speech - The Verge
America's Army is finally closing for good | PC Gamer
Report: Defense Dept. paid NFL millions of taxpayer dollars to salute troops | PBS News Weekend
Report: At least 50 teams were paid by Department of Defense for patriotic displays - The Washington Post
How Hollywood became the unofficial propaganda arm of the U.S. military | CBC Radio
Military-entertainment complex - Wikipedia
How the U.S. military made 'Top Gun' and 'Top Gun: Maverick' possible - The Washington Post
Updated ‘Complete’ List of DOD Films | Spy Culture

The satirical, US based news outlet The Onion reused an article over 20 times since 2014, making only slight changes to the dates and location. It sounds like lazy journalism (and trust me, I would know) until you see the headline "'No Way To Prevent This,' Says Only Nation Where This Regularly Happens" with a picture of a school, place of worship or a grocery store. If you're American, that context alone was likely enough to figure out that this article is about mass shootings.

This episode we're doing a deep dive into mass shootings and why America seems to be uniquely stricken with them. We'll look at the real world circumstances, misinformation and conspiracies that surround these tragic, and yet predictable, events.

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Music:

Intro: Alien visitors

Ads: The Bounty Hunter

Outro: Trip with a UFO

From: https://soundtrackuniverse.com

Hear from an expert in online literacy: https://omny.fm/shows/factually-with-adam-conover/why-critical-thinking-can-t-beat-misinformation-an

Sources:


22 mass shootings. 374 dead. Here's where the guns came from | AP News
Past Summary Ledgers | Gun Violence Archive
Demographic Turning Points for the United States: Population Projections for 2020 to 2060
Uvalde school shooting
Many back strict gun laws, but opposition tends to be louder | AP News
Mass shootings in the United States - Wikipedia
Public Mass Shootings: Database Amasses Details of a Half Century of US Mass Shootings with Firearms, Generating Psychosocial Histories | National Institute of Justice
Sandy Hook lawsuits against Alex Jones on track to resume - ABC News
Alex Jones back on the hook for damages after bankruptcy judge sends Sandy Hook cases to Texas court
Alex Jones back on the hook for damages after bankruptcy judge sends Sandy Hook cases to Texas court
Conspiracy theorist Alex Jones found liable for defamation in Sandy Hook case : NPR
How to Prevent Gun Massacres? Look Around the World | The New Yorker