Magical Mystery Radio: Conspiracy & Paranormal Review

Hypernormalisation is a nearly three-hour epic that leaps from subject to subject in a circuitous journey toward revelation. The film paints a vivid portrait of corporate control and increasing social insularity as it tries to make sense of our modern world's pervasive anxiety and uncertainty. In filmmaker Adam Curtis's world, we are minds in the matrix, doomed to feed the machine with our bodies and souls. [aka Magical Mystery Radio]

CITIZENFOUR documents two journalists' secret encounters with Edward Snowden as he hands over classified documents that provide evidence of mass indiscriminate and illegal invasions of privacy by the NSA. [aka Magical Mystery Radio]

"Two friends step into a crop circle. One emerges unaffected. The other decides to build a UFO with the help of an eccentric transsexual inventor." If that's not the greatest pitch ever we don't know what is. Adam and John discuss the 2014 documentary A FIELD FULL OF SECRETS.   [aka Magical Mystery Radio]

In 1966, hundreds of students, teachers, and local residents witnessed a flying saucer hover overhead, land, and take off again at incredible speed. What was it? Extraterrestrial visitation? Top secret experimental aircraft? Weather balloon? ALSO, John discusses his own grade school encounter with a flying disc.  [aka Magical Mystery Radio]

Stanley Kubrick's THE SHINING is: a) a confession of his participation in the hoaxed Apollo moon mission; b) a treatise on the genocide of the Native Americans; c) a meditation on the holocaust; d) all of the above; e) a frickin' horror movie. New favorite word: apophenia.   [aka Magical Mystery Radio]

The story that inspired STRANGER THINGS. Government conspiracy, kidnapped children, time travel, raging id monsters, aliens, drug-induced journeys to other worlds. This one's got it all! John and Adam discuss Christopher Garetano's indie documentary THE MONTAUK CHRONICLES. [aka Magical Mystery Radio]

Will the 2016 election be stolen? Is voter fraud a real problem? THE BEST DEMOCRACY MONEY CAN BUY is Greg Palast's infuriating expose of actual, confirmed, widespread voter suppression. If you're not angry you're not paying attention. Or you're on the wrong side.  [aka Magical Mystery Radio]

THE NIGHTMARE is a 2015 film documenting the testimonies of several people suffering from chronic sleep paralysis. It's a real-life NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET as otherworldly beings appear to taunt and terrorize these individuals, threatening to consume their very souls. John shares his personal experiences with sleep paralysis, offering a unique perspective on the film's portrayal of this horrifying phenomenon. [aka Magical Mystery Radio]

TOYNBEE IDEA / IN KUBRICK'S 2001 / RESURRECT DEAD / ON PLANET JUPITER // For over 25 years, mysterious tiles have appeared on busy streets from New York to Brazil. These tiles hint at an outrageous plan to resurrect everyone who's ever lived - on the surface of the gas giant Jupiter. What does the message mean? Who placed these tiles? Secret society? Reclusive genius? And what does all of this have to do with playwright David Mamet? Take a break from the current election madness and join us for a discussion into this incredibly strange and fascinating story of obsession, street art, synchronicity, and the outer limits of the human imagination.      [aka Magical Mystery Radio]

Is the federal income tax unconstitutional? Is it a fraud perpetrated by a cabal of sneaky elites pushing their self-serving agenda through nefarious means? That would be nice, wouldn't it? I mean, who loves paying taxes? Aaron Russo's America: Freedom to Fascism was a passion project for him. He put this thing together in the last years of his life as he struggled under a $2 million tax debt. He was certain he had found evidence of the unconstitutionality of the United States Federal Income Tax, and was determined to spread the word far and wide, calling for nothing short of revolution. More accurately, he was certain he had not found evidence of the constitutionality of the tax code. But does lack of such evidence equate with the illegitimacy of the income tax? [aka Magical Mystery Radio]

Turns out there's actual scientific evidence for the idea that we are all living in a carefully crafted simulation. Are we in fact merely sprites in a video game played by some disaffected teenager sitting on a cosmic bed in some "greater" reality? The Simulation Hypothesis is a documentary offering a brief overview of the theories and science behind this notion. It's not all as implausible as it sounds. [aka Magical Mystery Radio]

We risk the wrath of the Church of Scientology by discussing the film and book GOING CLEAR, as well as the twisted history of L Ron Hubbard and his pulp sci-fi religion. [aka Magical Mystery Radio]

DMT is a ubiquitous, naturally occurring compound that may be at the root of spiritual experience, the alien abduction phenomenon, even consciousness itself. So why is it taboo?  We discuss the film AND book, DMT: THE SPIRIT MOLECULE. [aka Magical Mystery Radio]

We discuss the intriguing and troubling documentary, ARCHITECTS & ENGINEERS FOR 9/11 TRUTH. From Wikipedia: Architects & Engineers for 9/11 Truth (AE911Truth) is an American non-profit organization of architects and engineers who dispute the results of official investigations into the September 11 attacks, including the 9/11 Commission Report.[3][4] [aka Magical Mystery Radio]

Easter in September! For no good reason, we discuss the mystery of the Shroud of Turin, the supposed burial cloth of Christ. More specifically, we talk about the 2004 documentary SECRETS OF THE SHROUD.  14th century forgery?  Hoax or holy relic? You decide... [aka Magical Mystery Radio]

Is civilization teetering on the edge of the greatest preventable disaster in human history? Collapse explores the theories and life of doomsayer, Michael Ruppert. Join John and Adam as they discuss Ruppert's dire predictions of Peak Oil, the inevitable collapse of modern societies, and how his doomed worldview sadly became a self-fulfilling prophecy.     [aka Magical Mystery Radio]

STRANGER THINGS was inspired by the real-life Montauk Project (its working title was MONTAUK). According to legend, thousands of young boys were abducted from the streets of New York in the 1970s and 80s, and subjected to bizarre mind control experiments.  In this special interview, filmmaker Christopher Garetano discusses his own journey down the rabbit hole. [aka Magical Mystery Radio]

CONSPIRACY OF SILENCE was a 1994 documentary exposing a child abuse and pedophilia ring that led to the highest levels of the United States government. Just before airing, the Discovery Channel abruptly pulled the film from its schedule. Why? Evidence suggests that the cable channel buckled under pressure from some very powerful Washington interests. John and Adam discuss the disturbing facts of the so-called "Franklin Coverup." [aka Magical Mystery Radio]

THE SECRET is an insidious, destructive force ruining the lives of millions. What's worse, there are some real truths at the root of its philosophy - you just can't see them through THE SECRET's noxious cloud of narcissistic new age hokum.  Adam and John discuss free will, the New Thought Movement, and the real secrets behind THE SECRET.  [aka Magical Mystery Radio]

Justin Smeja and a friend were hunting in the Sierras when they saw a seven-foot-tall hairy hominid they could not identify. So they shot it.   Then, after giving chase to the wounded creature, they encountered a couple of juvenile bigfoots (bigfeet?) and did what any responsible hunter would do in the same situation - shot one of them too.  Join John and Adam as they discuss DEAD BIGFOOT, an intriguing, infuriating documentary by first-time filmmaker Ro Sahebi. [aka Magical Mystery Radio]