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A lighthearted look at conspiracies and their theorists... or deep state shills working to obfuscate the truth? You decide.
This week we're going back to the mid-80s to read some WWN. Out on the streets hypercolour might have been king, but below the waves the world belonged to fugly mermaids.
You can always rely on The Hypothetical Institute for your up-to-the-minute news coverage. This week we're talking about the Olympics, transphobic brainworms and Dr Raygun.
This week we're talking about the failed assassination of Donald Trump and the myriad conspiracies it has spawned. This was recorded a few days after the shooting so feel free to marvel at our prescient analysis and ignore the non-prescient bits.
Why did 1000s of people come out and say they wanted to assault an 11 year old girl? We get to the bottom of the Lexi Bonner videos which went viral across the soc meds and in the playgrounds of the UK (and apparently Australia). With some slight diversions reminiscing about a dead shark and the sunglasses from They Live.
It's a very timely episode as we discuss Kate Middleton and wonder what we need to do to get a Daily Mail Photoshop commenter gig.
In the news:
Kevin Kelly.
What happens when you send cancer into space?
Why is Elon Musk smearing Haitian refugees?
This week we imagine what would happen if the idle rich listened to too much FM radio sports bant and decided to finance an Olympics where everyone was juiced to the gills. Wait, we didn't imagine it, it's really happening? Fantastic!
This week we're talking about TayTay and her journey from unwarranted alt-Right icon to right-wing outrage machine boogeyman - all while she continues to pump out banger upon banger.
