Is Elon Musk purposefully tanking Twitter to create an Elon fanboy utopia?
Are these the last days of Twitter? That’s what a lot of people are suggesting online. But might Elon Musk purposefully be trying to rid Twi...
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The New Conspiracist
QAnon. Pizzagate. Flat earth. The Great Replacement. Conspiracy theories are swirling around like never before – tormenting mistrust, infecting our politics, and even tearing families apart....
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20 of 46 episodes20. Was the covid vaccine one big conspiracy? With James O’Brien
Remember when Bill Gates tried to vaccinate the world against the coronavirus in order to microchip us all? Or was the World Health Organisa...
19. Is the $2bn psychic medium industry a scam? With Rachel Fairburn
With Halloween just around the corner, we here at New Con HQ are turning our attention to the world of psychic mediums. But the psychic list...
18. Was Paul McCartney replaced by a lookalike? With Deborah Frances-White
In June this year one of the world’s most famous musicians headlined Glastonbury. It was hailed as a history-making set, spanned nearly thre...
17. Did the government tank the economy to line the pockets of the hedge funds? With Duncan Weldon
It’s a *Special Topical Episode* this week, as we look at whether Kwasi Kwarteng’s recent mini-budget was done to specifically tank the Brit...
16. Is there a gay agenda? With Larry Dean
According to some of the religious right, gays want to, among other heinous things, recruit children, dismantle the institutions of family a...
15. Did Hitler only have one ball? With Richard Herring
If witty World War II songs are to be believed (and why wouldn’t they be) then Adolf Hitler, one of the twentieth century’s most evil people...
Introducing…This Is History: A Dynasty To Die For, with Dan Jones
Power, greed, religion and sex: historian Dan Jones brings the drama of medieval history alive through compelling stories, larger-than-life...
14. Is the Earth hollow? With Rob Auton
What links Adele, the Nazis, and Yorkshire theme park Lightwater Valley? That’s right, it’s hollow Earth theory! The Earth’s core is 2,900km...
13. Is Big Pharma hiding the cure for cancer? With Kat Arney
This week’s episode asks a question that over a quarter of Americans believe to be true. That’s right, 1 in 4 Americans believe that Big Pha...
12. Does the British Establishment have our best interests at heart? With Marina Hyde
The British Establishment: benevolent leaders who want the very best for their subjects? Or egotistical, power-hungry maniacs who want nothi...
11. How deep did the Jimmy Savile cover up run? With Meirion Jones
After Jimmy Savile’s death in 2011, reports began to emerge that he had sexually abused hundreds of people throughout his life. Savile had b...
10. Can Prince Andrew Sweat? With Self Esteem
Whilst James and Jol perspire in London's second heatwave, now seems like the perfect time to revisit Prince Andrew’s infamous 2019 claim th...
9. Has Alex Jones been smoking his own supply at Infowars? With Paul Chowdhry
As Alex Jones coughs up nearly $50m for defamation of the parents of Sandy Hook victim Jesse Lewes, the time is right for James, Jol and the...
8. Can GCHQ see my nudes? With Hannah Khalique-Brown
The UK’s largest, best funded, and most sinister spy agency, GCHQ are tasked with gathering information and keeping the UK’s communications...
7. Did the One-Inch Punch Kill Bruce Lee? With Sanjeev Bhaskar
Bruce Lee – legendary martial artist, actor and director died on 20 July 1973 at the age of 32 in the middle of filming. Many believe he die...
6. Why don’t women’s clothes have pockets? With Caroline Criado Perez
Have you ever noticed how women’s clothes have very few if any pockets? Is it the fault of ‘big handbag’? The patriarchy? Or do women simply...
5. Who Shot JFK? With David Schneider
Did Lee Harvey Oswald act alone in killing JFK? The most widely believed conspiracy theory in America, and the one you've all been waiting f...
4. Did Aliens build the pyramids? With Ola Labib
Rising stand-up comedian and NHS Clinical Pharmacist Ola Labib joins James and Jol to take-down the theory that the Egyptian pyramids were b...
3. Greta Thunberg is a Time Traveller with Rosie Holt
Comedian Rosie Holt takes time out of her busy schedule mocking Conservative MPs to ponder the existence of time travel with James and Jolyo...