Baseless Conspiracies Ep. 184: Call-In Show, UFOs, Woke Odyssey and Iran Strategy
Episode 184 is a call-in show, and the audience delivers. Jon Herold and Zak Paine open with a reaction to Christopher Nolan's Odyssey trailer, breaking down the DEI casting choices that put Elliot Page as Achilles and Lupita Nyong'o as Helen of Troy, and the Oscar diversity requirements that made it happen.
From there, the conversation covers the UFO file releases and Jon's concern that the slow rollout is setting up a future "alien creation story" op designed to replace God with extraterrestrials. A caller shares a strange experience with Fitbit's AI repeatedly telling her to "plug in"…
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