Mission Implausible
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Do you want to know the truth behind the world’s wildest conspiracy theories? Former CIA officers John Sipher & Jerry O’Shea try to determine where misinformation is coming from, when we’re being lied to and when a conspiracy theory is an actual real conspiracy. In the world of espionage, they were part of creating conspiracies. Now they and their circle of experts probe what’s true and when we’re being manipulated. New episodes every week. Watch Mission Implausible on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@MissionImplausiblePod
- Executive Producers: Adam Davidson, John Sipher, Jerry O'Shea & Jonathan Stern. Producer: Rachel Harner
- A production of Honorable Mention and Abominable Pictures
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The Five Eyes: Can It Survive (with Richard Kerbaj)
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Aug 17, 2026 |
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No More Secrets: AI and the Future of Espionage (with Adam Davidson)
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Aug 09, 2026 |
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The Corruption of American Intelligence (with Julia Curlee)
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Aug 02, 2026 |
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The National Security Council Purge (with Julia Curlee)
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Jul 26, 2026 |
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CIA's Best-Kept Secret: It Was Fun (with Paul Kolbe & Doug Wise)
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Jul 19, 2026 |
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Trump’s Presidential Payday (with Adam Davidson)
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Jul 12, 2026 |
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Did the CIA Poison the World’s Best Goalkeeper at the 1970 World Cup? (with Gabriel Gatehouse) - Part 2
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Jul 05, 2026 |
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Did the CIA Poison the World’s Best Goalkeeper at the 1970 World Cup? (with Gabriel Gatehouse) - Part 1
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Jun 28, 2026 |
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Inside the Kremlin's Playbook: How Russia Really Works (with Michael Carpenter)
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Jun 21, 2026 |
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What the CIA Knows About Iran That Washington Keeps Getting Wrong (with Mark Fowler)
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Jun 14, 2026 |
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Swinging at Curveball: When You Want It Bad, You Get It Bad (with Bob Drogin)
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Jun 07, 2026 |
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How Everyone Else Sees America (with Gabriel Gatehouse) - ENCORE
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May 31, 2026 |
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The Hawaiian Cult that raised Tulsi Gabbard (with Christine Gralow) - ENCORE
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May 24, 2026 |
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Hunting Weapons of Mass Destruction (with Andy Weber)
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May 17, 2026 |
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How the CIA Decides What’s Legal (with James Petrila)
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May 10, 2026 |
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Crypto: The Trump Family Business (with Zach Everson)
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May 03, 2026 |
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Serving in the Middle East, then Writing About It (with Ilana Berry)
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Apr 26, 2026 |
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Modern Conspiracy Culture: How Real Scandals Fueled False Narratives (with Kathryn Olmsted)
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Apr 19, 2026 |
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The Terrible Thing People Say When They Think No One Is Listening (with Ben Palmer)
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Apr 12, 2026 |
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What the Steele Dossier Got Right—and Why It Still Matters (with Christopher Steele)
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Apr 05, 2026 |
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Havana Syndrome Is Real - and They Tried to Bury It (with Michael Weiss) - Part Two
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Mar 29, 2026 |
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Havana Syndrome Is Real - and They Tried to Bury It (with Michael Weiss) - Part One
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Mar 22, 2026 |
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The CIA Analyst Who Knows Why Intelligence Fails (with David McCloskey)
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Mar 15, 2026 |
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The Singularity War and How to Hack Minds (w/ Anthony Vinci)
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Mar 08, 2026 |
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The Art of the Pardon: How The Dept. of Justice Became a Favor Bank (with Liz Oyer)
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Mar 01, 2026 |
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The Midterm Power Grab (w/ Will Sommer)
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Feb 22, 2026 |
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What Ghislaine Maxwell Knows and Why She’s Being Protected (with Tara Palmeri & Adam Davidson)
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Feb 15, 2026 |
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Alex Jones and the Conspiracy Economy (with Jordan Holmes)
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Feb 01, 2026 |
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Eating Bugs, Shooting Bobby Kennedy, The Deadly Double: Conspiracy Theory Grey Areas (with Adam Tod Brown)
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Jan 25, 2026 |
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The Overlooked Radicalization Crisis: How Women Become Extremists (with Leah Sottile)
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Jan 18, 2026 |
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From Hollywood to Human Rights: The Real Cost of Conspiracy Thinking (with Stephanie March)
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Jan 11, 2026 |
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Wellness to Weaponization: How Women Are Drawn into Conspiracy Extremism (with Noelle Cook)
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Jan 04, 2026 |
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What Fresh Hell: 2025 in Conspiracy Theories and Disinformation
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Dec 28, 2025 |
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When Did We Decide the Government is Hiding Aliens? (with Garrett Graff)
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Dec 21, 2025 |
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How We're Targets for Influence Operations (with Tamsin Shaw)
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Dec 14, 2025 |
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Human Organs and Wellness Scams (with Scott Carney)
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Dec 07, 2025 |
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How to Escape the Maga Cult (with Rich Logis & Erica Roach)
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Nov 30, 2025 |
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MKUltra: CIA’s Secret Mind Control Experiments (with Stephen Kinzer)
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Nov 23, 2025 |
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Epstein International (with Tara Palmeri & Adam Davidson)
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Nov 16, 2025 |
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Bigfoot and Bigfoot Erotica (with Laura Krantz)
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Nov 02, 2025 |
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How Are Comedians Such Threats to Authoritarians (with Trae Crowder)
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Oct 26, 2025 |
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The Abuse of the Department of Justice (with Ken Dilanian)
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Oct 19, 2025 |
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Artificial Intelligence: What Do We Want from It & What Does It Want from Us? (with Adam Davidson)
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Oct 12, 2025 |
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Opus Dei: A Real Conspiracy (with Gareth Gore) - Part Two (ENCORE)
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Oct 05, 2025 |
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Opus Dei: A Real Conspiracy (with Gareth Gore) - Part One (ENCORE)
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Sep 28, 2025 |
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The Army of God (with Stephanie McCrummen) (ENCORE)
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Sep 21, 2025 |
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Did CIA Kill JFK? (with Gus Russo) (ENCORE)
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Sep 14, 2025 |
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Can We Trust the Experts? (with Tom Nichols) (ENCORE)
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Sep 07, 2025 |
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Everyone Controls the Weather But Nobody Does Anything About It (ENCORE)
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Aug 31, 2025 |
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Trae Crowder, The Liberal Redneck (ENCORE)
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Aug 24, 2025 |
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Russian Interference in the 2016 Election (with Susan Miller)
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Aug 10, 2025 |
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Astroturf, Trolls and Misinformation (with Darren Linvill) - Part Two
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Jul 27, 2025 |
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Astroturf, Trolls and Misinformation (with Darren Linvill)- Part One
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Jul 20, 2025 |
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Texas Democratic Senate Candidate Terry Virts - Part One
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Jul 13, 2025 |
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America Is Attacking America (with Terry Virts) - Part One
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Jul 06, 2025 |
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From Spy to Spy Novelist (with David McCloskey)
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Jun 29, 2025 |
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Analysts vs. Operations in The Middle East (with David McCloskey)
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Jun 22, 2025 |
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Extremist Groups (with more Will Sommer)
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Jun 15, 2025 |
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The Conspiracy Business: What Do We Do Now? (with Will Sommer)
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Jun 08, 2025 |
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The South African Perspective - Part Two (with Robyn Curnow)
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Jun 01, 2025 |
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The South African Perspective - Part One (with Robyn Curnow)
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May 25, 2025 |
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Weapons of Mass Destruction (with Valerie Plame)
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May 11, 2025 |
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Get Ready for Martial Law (with Joe Walsh)
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May 04, 2025 |
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Alpha Male Brent Terhune
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Apr 27, 2025 |
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"Bad Astronomer" Phil Plait
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Apr 20, 2025 |
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Michael Ian Black Has the Answers
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Apr 13, 2025 |
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JFK Assassination Convert Phil Robinson
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Mar 30, 2025 |
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The First Two Months (with Mike Rothschild)
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Mar 23, 2025 |
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Encore Presentation: The Deepest State (with Mark Zaid)
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Mar 02, 2025 |
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The Cult of Trump (with Steven Hassan)
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Feb 16, 2025 |
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How Easy Is It for Our Government to Pull off More Conspiracies? (with Tim Weiner)
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Feb 09, 2025 |
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The JFK Assassination: A New Clue, Never Before Revealed (with David Reuben)
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Jan 26, 2025 |
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Codes & Ciphers & Puzzles (with A.J. Jacobs)
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Jan 19, 2025 |
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More Religion and Conspiracy Theories (with Drew McCoy)
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Jan 05, 2025 |
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Religion and Conspiracy Theories (with Drew McCoy) - Part 1
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Dec 29, 2024 |
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ENCORE: The Simpsons: Does the CIA Tell Them How to Predict the Future? The Answer May Surprise You!
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Dec 25, 2024 |
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Syria / Havana Syndrome
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Dec 18, 2024 |
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Our National Intelligence
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Dec 11, 2024 |
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Can We Trust the Government? (with Adam Conover)
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Nov 27, 2024 |
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Shenanigans at 1100 Pennsylvania Avenue (with Zach Everson)
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Nov 20, 2024 |
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How the Election Affects the CIA
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Nov 13, 2024 |
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How Do Counterintelligence Professionals Assess Trump’s Relationship with Russia? - Part Two (with Peter Strzok)
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Nov 06, 2024 |
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The Lincoln Project (with Rick Wilson)
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Oct 30, 2024 |
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How Do Counterintelligence Professionals Assess Trump’s Relationship with Russia? - Part One (with Philip Auerswald and Peter Strzok)
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Oct 23, 2024 |
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Embedded with The Proud Boys on January 6th (with Nick Quested)
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Oct 16, 2024 |
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America the Hellhole? Russian Disinformation Today (with Michael Weiss)
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Oct 02, 2024 |
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Russian Disinformation Part Two: They're Still At It! (with Michael Weiss)
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Sep 25, 2024 |
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The Private Life of a Spy (with Jen Banbury)
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Sep 11, 2024 |
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Does the CIA Control the Media? (with Philip Mudd)
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Sep 04, 2024 |
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Honeytraps
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Aug 28, 2024 |
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How the Brain Is Built for Conspiracies (with David Eagleman)
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Aug 21, 2024 |
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The Trump Loyalty Test (with Tim Miller)
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Aug 14, 2024 |
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Patrick Ewing and the Frozen Envelope (with Chris Ballard)
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Aug 07, 2024 |
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The Simpsons (with Bill Oakley & David Silverman)
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Jul 31, 2024 |
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The Elites (with Evan Osnos)
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Jul 24, 2024 |
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CIA Q&A
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Jul 17, 2024 |
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Getting Out (with Brent Lee and Sander van der Linden)
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Jul 10, 2024 |
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Minisode - Satanists and Stalinists
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Jun 30, 2024 |
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Hunter Biden’s Laptop Part 3: Return of the Laptop (with Doug Wise)
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Jun 26, 2024 |
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Minisode - This Week in Crazy - 6/24/24
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Jun 24, 2024 |
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The Jade Helm Invasion (with Dan Lamothe)
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Jun 19, 2024 |
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Minisode - The Orkney Conspiracy
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Jun 12, 2024 |
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The Biden Crime Family Hoax (with Lev Parnas) - Part Two
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Jun 05, 2024 |
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The Biden Crime Family Hoax (with Lev Parnas) - Part One
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May 29, 2024 |
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Minisode - Surveillance
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May 27, 2024 |
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Minisode - The Bombing of the Chinese Embassy in Belgrade
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May 22, 2024 |
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Justin Trudeau is Fidel Castro’s Illegitimate Son (with Jon Lovett)
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May 15, 2024 |
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The Deepest State (with Mark Zaid)
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May 08, 2024 |
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Minisode - A Coup in Germany
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May 05, 2024 |
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What's the Deal with Congress?! (with Denver Riggleman)
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May 01, 2024 |
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Minisode - Doing Horrible Things and then Justifying It
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Apr 28, 2024 |
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Politics! (with David Corn)
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Apr 24, 2024 |
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Unidentified Anomalous Phenomenon (aka UFOs) (with Michael Ian Black and Seth Shostack)
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Apr 17, 2024 |
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Minisode: FISA - The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act
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Apr 15, 2024 |
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The Montauk Project
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Apr 10, 2024 |
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Havana Syndrome: Part Two (with Marc Polymeropoulos)
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Apr 03, 2024 |
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Havana Syndrome: Part One (with Jon Lee Anderson)
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Mar 27, 2024 |
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Hunter Biden's Laptop : Part Two (with Adam Kinzinger)
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Mar 20, 2024 |
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Hunter Biden's Laptop: Part One (with Asha Rangappa and Denver Riggleman)
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Mar 13, 2024 |
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Israeli Russian-Eating Egyptian Sharks
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Mar 06, 2024 |
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Elite Doomsday Bunkers at Denver International Airport
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Feb 28, 2024 |
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Adam Kinzinger of the Congressional January 6 Committee
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Feb 21, 2024 |
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Chemtrails Are Making Us Horny and/or Infertile
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Feb 14, 2024 |
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Bill Gates' Microchip Plan
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Feb 07, 2024 |
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Jewish Space Lasers
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Feb 07, 2024 |
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Introducing: Mission Implausible
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Jan 31, 2024 |