You're Wrong About - Halloween History with Chelsey Weber-Smith

Black cats and goblins and broomsticks and ghosts/ Covens of witches with all of their hosts/ You may think they scare me, you're probably right/ But American Hysteria's Chelsey Weber-Smith is on the show tonight. It's a tale of mischief, mayhem, and adults trying to keep their kids safe by nailing meat to the walls. What is Halloween? Can there be treats without tricks? And does it really count if no one's house gets egged?

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Native America Calling - Thursday, October 24, 2024 – IHS patients risk paying medical costs out of pocket

Every year, thousands of Native Americans are going without the health care they’re entitled to or are risking costly medical bills for treatment that should be covered. A new report by KFF Health News focuses on the Purchased/Referred Care program in which patients seek outside treatment that IHS doesn’t offer. The report says the PRC program denied more than $550 million in payment requests from outside medical facilities in 2022, putting patients on the hook financially. Some tribes with resources are able to establish tribally-run care. Others are working on tribal health insurance programs. We’ll get a look at the problem facing those relying on IHS, and what can be done to solve it.

Stuff They Don't Want You To Know - Listener Mail: The Hybrid Sheep Conspiracy, A Kentucky Homicide and Theory on Exploding Pagers

Jasper, DJ and multiple other Conspiracy Realists reach out with first-hand knowledge on the bizarre hybrid sheep conspiracy. Mystery drones swarm US airspace. Max The Unblind hips the guys to an unfolding homicide in Kentucky, and T Bone provides an alternate theory on the exploding pagers attack. All this and more in this week's listener mail segment.

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It Could Happen Here - Economists Win Worst Nobel Prize Yet, Asked to Please Stop

Mia and James discuss Daron Acemoglu, Simon Johnson and James A. Robinson's recent fake economics Nobel won for being to first economists to discover that history exists.

Sources:

https://www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=10.1257/aer.91.4.938

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/2378023118773614
https://www.nber.org/papers/w10481
https://academic.oup.com/qje/article-abstract/117/4/1231/1875948
https://www.nobelprize.org/uploads/2024/10/advanced-economicsciencesprize2024.pdf
https://www.nobelprize.org/uploads/2024/10/advanced-economicsciencesprize2024.pdf
https://pubs.aeaweb.org/doi/pdfplus/10.1257/aer.91.5.1369

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Stuff They Don't Want You To Know - Sportswashing: Why Saudia Arabia Suddenly Loves Golf

Whether you love it or hate it, there's no denying: golf is one of the world's most popular -- and most lucrative -- sports. In recent years the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia has raised global eyebrows as they pour billions of dollars into their own golfing initiative: LIV. Supporters find this move par for the course (get it?), yet critics allege there's a larger conspiracy afoot. Join Ben, Matt and Noel as they dive into the strange allegations surrounding Saudi Arabia, golf, and 'sportswashing.'

They don't want you to read our book.: https://static.macmillan.com/static/fib/stuff-you-should-read/

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Native America Calling - Wednesday, October 23, 2024 – Ways to improve rural Native voting access

Nevada is the first state to extend electronic ballots to tribal members. It allows them to register and vote from their own homes, giving rural Native voters an alternative to traveling miles to their nearest polling or ballot drop-off site. It’s an idea that other states remain wary of. In Alaska, efforts to improve voting among Native voters remain elusive. Opposition from Republican state lawmakers killed a bill eliminating witness signatures on absentee ballots. On a conservative talk show, the Alaska House Speaker admitted she opposed it because it would have favored U.S. Rep. Mary Peltola, a Democrat and the only Alaska Native in Congress. Rep. Peltola calls it "a concerted effort to silence" Native votes. We'll discuss progress and continuing hurdles for Native voters.

Ologies with Alie Ward - Confectionology (CANDY) with Susan Benjamin

Licorice opinions! War chocolate! Candy corn origins, circus peanut secrets, the sourest sourballs, and your great aunt’s purse. Stay until the very end for the biggest shocked laugh I have ever had on this show. The incredibly charming author, journalist, candy historian, and Confectiologist Susan Benjamin chats about everything from apothecary origin stories, ethnobotany, having horehound on hand, the warheads that could save you, vegan candy controversy, sugar sources from beets to corn, Turkish temptations, Roman flim-flam, marzipan mini-sculptures, sugar plum ballets, what she gives out for Halloween candy. and the best way to enjoy treats if you're trying to stay healthy. An absolute instant classic. 

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It Could Happen Here - How Trump Rigged an FBI Investigation for Brett Kavanaugh

Mia, Sophie and Robert relive the horror of the Kavanaugh hearings and discover how Trump made the FBI conduct a fake "investigation" to clear him.

Sources:

https://www.whitehouse.senate.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/KavanaughReport_final.pdf

https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/donald-trump-brett-kavanaugh-misogyny.html

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/10/08/kavanaugh-trump-white-house-fbi-report/

https://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-world/national/article214604235.html

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/25/us/politics/joe-biden-anita-hill.html

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/10/08/kavanaugh-trump-white-house-fbi-report/

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Stuff They Don't Want You To Know - CLASSIC: The 9 Angles: Does Satan have a “military”?

While the vast majority of people identifying as Satanists don’t buy into the idea of a nefarious, evil entity opposed to the forces of good, there are a few genuine theistic Satanists out there. Join the guys as they explore the strange story of the organization known as “The Nine Angles” in tonight's Classic episode.

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