Lizard People: Comedy and Conspiracy Theories

Ever hear the one about Natalie Wood? You know, how she was a brilliant actor and beloved mother and died under mysterious circumstances??? Jimmy Fay is back on the 'cast and she's got a theory about how Natalie Wood really died. A theory that is both tragic and UPSETTINGLY NORMAL. But along the way we have some classic goofs about Christopher Walken impressions, mouth blood, the patriarchy, finding meaning in chaos, and wordplay.

Time to pull out the ol What If machine, because the fellas of improv group Dopetown 3000 have a theory that will potentiall change how you think about your entire life. The theory? What if Kanye West's conservative pivot and erratic behavior are part of an elaborate piece of performance art? What if Kanye has been planning this every step of the way? What if we're all just locked in a room with a coyote, metaphorically? Greg and Zora know a whole lot about the history of performance art, about Kanye lyrics, and about how to freakin RAP. And you'll get all that and more in this surprisingly sweet episode.

In 2016, a group of American diplomats at the US embassy in Cuba got sick. Weird sick. Many reported dizziness, memory loss, headaches, hearing problems, and more. But what happened to these intrepid civil servants? And could their sickness be tied to something nefarious? Mel Cowan thinks so, and Mel Cowan is very very smart. Mel has a theory that is so devious, so terrifying, so confusing, that it will change how you think about microwaves forever. Prepare to learn about political intrigue, audio engineering, the navy, Tanganyika, bugs, and puppies. Oh my god this puppy.

Look, the title of this episode kind of says it all. Cait Raft is a brilliant writer and comedian and she has a personal theory that Bradley Cooper's version of the film A Star Is Born doesn't actually take place in our universe. Her theory is a real sci-fi mind-freak, you're gonna love it. Along the way we discuss Saturday Night Live, the definition of country music, terrorism, Dolly Parton. Drag Race, Nicholas Sparks, and cocaine. You will never watch a film the same way again.

Well, Dave Child is back. And this time he's bringing with him some theories on what might really be going on with the Men In Black. If you think you know MIB from the films starring the entertainment industry's most charming man Will Smith, think again! Stories about the mysterious dudes in black suits get way stranger than anything Hollyweird could come up with. This week we're talking flying saucers, mystical weirdos, the American government, and the nature of belief. It's a doozy of an ep, let's just say that.

Ok so did you know that after Jesus was resurrected he allegedly stayed on earth for another MONTH? Just HANGING OUT??! The last days of our buddy Jesus Christ are truly shocking when you get down to the nitty gritty. But the theories about what might have happened to his body when it disappeared from his tomb get even more shocking. The biblically literate and hysterically funny Holly Laurent and Greg Hess stopped by to talk JC and religion in general this week, and it was an absolute delight. Get ready to parse the gospels and roast the disciples with us!

You might have heard somewhere about Michael Jordan's gambling habit. Boy oh boy, did it get habitual for a while there. But there's someone we don't talk about when we talk about MJ's golf wagers, and that's his papa James Jordan. Because some people out there in the dark corners of the sports internet believe that James Jordan's tragic death was the result of some jerk mob guys collecting on a debt that MJ owed. And one of those people is hilarious comedian and writer James Mastraieni! Yes, JM has some thoughts about MJ's betting problem, and also some thoughts on cannabis, South Carolina, and the mob. And he also has some personal perspective on how gambling addiction can really mess your stuff up. It's fun, it's thoughtful, it's Michael Jordan's dad.

Have you seen the sign? Do you know all that she wants? Do you live in a happy nation? That's right, this week we're taking a deep dive into the reggae-euro-pop band Ace of Base. Specifically, Ace of Base's secret neo-Nazi agenda. Adam Tod Brown joins us from the Unpops network to lay out his own personal theory that the chipper Swedes are in fact nazi nasties whose dark past reveals their ties to white nationalism. But whether they're nazis or not, we can all agree that Ace of Base was deeply, unsettlingly weird.

It's our live London show! And the conspiracies are as thick as the smoke was in Victorian times or something. That was a thing right? Anyway our guests are the delightful and hilarious Brona and Tom, and they're bringing that classic British heat to the stage. We talked about the animal rights organization PETA, and their extremely weird tactics for getting people to go vegan. Their tactics are so weird, in fact, that they just might be covering up the hidden agenda of Big Meat!

The elusive Sasquatch has entranced a nation with it's grainy videos and big ol' footprints. But where did Bigfoot come from? Are there multiple Bigfeet? And if the Bigfeet have always been with us, what did the people who lived here before European colonization think about them? This week we're joined by host of the Woman of Size podcast Jana Schmieding, who's asking the important questions. We talk about ambiguous poo piles, white neighbors, and how America can start decolonizing its cryptids. Get ready to LEARN, honey!

The Black Dahlia killing captivated a nation and freaked out LA real bad. Elizabeth Short's murder is still technically unsolved, but Joey Bergren and Justin Sherman think they just might have found the guy. All with the help of that guy's son! In this episode, we attempt to solve the 70 year old murder case with a journey through freaky sex parties, nasty VD doctors, and a shaky grasp on how dark a joke can be before it's messed up. Plus, a dramatic reading of a very polite email. PS, content warning for murder and sexual assault in this one!

This darn president. Some people love hate him, some people love him, but pretty much everyone can agree that he wishes he could ride a horse shirtless with Vladimir Putin. But is Trump's close relationship with Russia more than it seems? Are those hotel interests just fronts for an even creepier and more treasonous tie?

If only Tupac has lived to today. The brilliant rapper, writer, actor, and activist was killed in a Las Vegas shooting in 1996, depriving the world of a whole bunch of great music and poetry and smartness. But there are some who believe that we don't know the whole story behind Tupac's death. People like comedian Cara Meyers, who thinks Tupac maybe never died at all. She thinks he just may be living a beautiful carefree life in Cuba...

She's a pop star. She's a model. She's a nihilist YouTube influencer. She's a robot. She's… the product of a manipulative narcissistic madman? Y'all who the HECK is Poppy? Comedian and podcaster Max Lasser stopped by to try to get to the bottom of this internet mystery.

Ready to get your brain squished up and shoved through a pasta press? Because this episode is gonna cook your noodle. Lee Rubenstein, writer and teacher and very smart dude, is here to explain the theory of Roko's Basilisk. A basilisk, obvs, is a mythical creature that kills you if you look at it. And Roko's version is an artificial intelligence from the future that may or may not be punishing us retroactively because we hindered it's creation by talking about it.

Conspiracy theories surround Britney Jean Spears like flies around an empty frappucino cup. Was she in league with the Bush Administration? Is she actually a clone? Can she even sing??! And most poignant, is she trapped in an endless childlike limbo created by her dad and a shady lawyer? This week Rachel is back on the 'cast to discuss the possibility that Britney Spears has not had an authentic moment of freedom since 2008.

Do you believe in birds? Well then you, my friend, are a chump. See Kyle Kenyon knows something that The Powers That Be don't want you to know, something that might just lead to the greatest cover-up in history. He knows that birds are actually drones. Well, most birds. Well, there used to be more real birds but now some of them are fake. Well, when we say fake… Listen, it's complicated.

Now picture this - you're a 1st century Roman emperor with a restless populace to control. Sects of jews were fighting each other and the empire. How are you gonna chill out Rome's Judean subjects without killing everybody? Well if you're smart, maybe you make up a religious leader who wants everyone to be peaceful and non-violent and to render unto Caesar. Maybe you invent Jesus.

Have you heard The Hum? If you live in Taos, Bristol, Los Feliz, or Auckland, perhaps The Hum has become part of your life. Perhaps The Hum has even... driven you mad! This week we deal with the spooky phenomenon that's irritating folks all over the world, with the ever delightful hosts of the podcast Ghost Town.

The Buffett Boys are in town, and nothing will ever be the same again! The delightful hosts of The Parrothead Podcast came on the podcast to try to convince us all that Jimmy Buffett is so incredibly powerful that he was able to break the Bambino's Curse and lead the Red Sox to victory in the World Series. When you mix music and magic anything can happen, is basically their argument. It's a treat!

In 2013, Vice News brought a documentary crew, three Harlem Globetrotters, and Dennis 'The Worm' Rodman to North Korea. What happened there… changed the world forever. Or maybe it didn't? Regardless, delightful comedians and hosts of the podcast Dunktown Anastasia and Agata came by to talk Rodman and Kim Jong Un. Turns out that the unlikely friendship between the dictator and the volatile basketball star might be more than it seems.

Our guest this week is fan favorite (and creator of the Lizard People logo!) Ashlyn Anstee. Ashlyn is an animator and she knows some truly fascinating secrets about the secret world of animation. But one secret in particular fascinated her so much that she had to come back on Lizard People - the rumor that every Pixar movie is connected and they all exist in the same world!

You hear about the teenage boys who died mysteriously on train tracks and the series of shady deaths that knocked off three alleged witnesses? WELL YOU'RE ABOUT TO! Improviser and soothing-voiced comedian Cory Webster stopped by to tell the fascinating and also very sad tale of Kevin Ives and Don Henry, two kids whose deaths have been linked to meth, murder, the Clinton Body Count, marijuana overdose, and a missing tarp.

Michael Dean is BACK and he's been watching sitcoms from the 80's, baby! Friend of the show (and inventor of the term Hemphead Nation) has a theory about the sitcom that launched young Robin Williams to superstardom and helped cement bland earth-angel Gary Marshall as a major producer. Yes, it's Mork and Mindy. And Michael thinks the show may have been a plot by the US government to get us all comfy cozy with the idea of living with aliens.

What do you add when you're ready to upgrade a podcast? Booze and an audience. And we had both at Lizard People's first ever live show! Plus our guests were the amazing improv team Area 51 (Sarah Claspell, Dickie Copeland, and Jessica Jean Jardine) and they really put things over the top.

The Kardashians are back baby! Are they eclipsing Bey and Jay to become the first family of conspiracy theories? Also, does Drake suck? All these questions and more will be answered on this extremely gossip-y episode of Lizard People.

The list of suspects in the death of pop star Michael Jackson grows ever longer. Soon it might even include… you??? Nah just playing. Todd McClintock is back on the podcast and he has an explosive theory about who might really be behind the slaying of MJ. Yes, good ol Todd thinks Sega did it. Sega. Maker of console and cabinet video games. That Sega.

What's the deal with aliens? Folks have close encounters with them all the time, but they always look different and want different things and won't fess up about whether they're just angels or not. Aliens are a mystery! But Cody Ziglar, podcast producer and gifted writer/director, thinks he might know what's up with our goggle eyed buddies from outer space. Namely, that they're not from outer space at all.

Ever get an ear worm stick in your head? One of those tunes you just can't stop singing? Ever think that maybe there's a terrifying ominous conspiracy behind it involving the Catholic Church and every great composer of classical music and also the International Standards Organization? Because that's what Jess McKenna thinks! And she's pretty much a musical genius so you have to listen to what she says.

Can you even imagine a story that combines swingers, head injuries, America's first family of scandal, tragic murder, and the ultimate baby daddy drama?! If you can't you're in luck, because comedy genius and podcast darling Carl Tart is here to tell you that very story. Carl suspects that Khloe Kardashian's papa may in fact be OJ Simpson, and he's got the facts to back it up. Along the way we also talk about whether football is worth it, who Playboy Carti actually is, and of course brunch.

Once again, friend of the show Ben Dietzel has learned the error of his ways. First he thought the earth was hollow. Then he realized it was flat. Then he learned that not only is it flat, there are no actual forests! Yes, Brainy Boy Ben is back and he's here to argue that the things we think of as trees are just pale bushy imitations of the real thing, trunks of which still dot the landscape. What do those real trees look like now? You're just gonna have to listen to find out.

Ever heard of 'Britain's Roswell'? If you haven't, maybe it's because ~they~ don't want you to. But Colton Dunn wants you to hear about it, because Colton is both a talented actor AND a professional truth teller. What happened in Rendlesham Forest is still a mystery, but it definitely involves the US military, weird lights in the sky, possible rabbit warrens, maybe tons of LSD, Christmas egg nog, and more spooky details.

Do you love Hollywood gossip? How about celebrity drama? Do you wish that the tea about famous people also included just a sprinkle of the supernatural? Ooh honey, this is your episode. The delightful Jen Zaborowski (of We Need To Talk About Britney) stopped by to give us all the hot hot goss about how Keanu Reeves and Brent Bolthouse are totally vampires and have been covering it up for centuries. Plus we also get into Keanu's sexy creepy home, how weird it is to be over 30 in LA, and of course The Hills

This episode is hard to describe. Oh everything started out normal enough - our guest was the gentle genius of podcasting Matt Gourley, host of Superego and I Was There Too (among a million other podcasts). Matt was desperate to tell the world the truth about the Illuminati and its most artistic member, H.R. Giger, illustrator of alien sex machines.

How old is Lorde? You know, the shockingly young pop-music sensation who won a Grammy as a teen and took the world by storm with her clever lyrics and stadium rock vocals? Like 22? WRONG. Stevie Nelson is convinced that Lorde is actually a 40-year-old masquerading as a teen for the publicity. Stevie (who's also a genius actor/comedian/artist) has a lot of evidence to support Lorde being a big fake faker, and she shares it on this episode.

What connects shark attacks in Egypt, lizards in Iran, and an endangered vulture in Saudi Arabia? Why, nothing but the fact that they're all trained spies sent by Mossad to snoop on Israel's enemies!!! This wild and wooly theory comes to us courtesy of the insanely funny Zach Reino, and it's a whopper. There have been many incidences of weird camera wearing animals around Israel, and we get into all the possibilities of what might be going on.

This week's episode is a very special one. The guest may be incarcerated, but his soul and his intellect are free as a bird. Jesse Ray Beaumont is an amateur horologist and full-time small-town scapegoat who is currently serving a life sentence for a crime he may not have committed. He's the subject of the popular podcast M-Towne. And he's very convinced that soy gives men big saggy tatas.

Michael and Patrick are two delightful tv writers on the show Trial and Error. Y2K is the fun and catchy nickname for the epidemic of fear around the year 2000. This episode is where it all goes down. See, programmers in the early days of computers decided to list dates with two digits, which made 1900 the same as 2000, which made everyone freak out and think that all computers would go bust at midnight on New Years Eve. That didn't happen.

Hey, how come they never found any bodies in the pyramids in Egypt? Like, if they were tombs where are all the bodies and decorations and stuff? If this question bothers you, then you have a lot in common with Suzi Barrett. The truly delightful writer/actor/comedian stopped by to drop some knowledge about what was really going on in those big geometric sons of guns.

Iran does NOT play when it comes to coups. So it makes sense that incumbent Mahmoud Ahmadinejad would have been nervous when protests broke out after he basically stole the 2009 election. But was he so nervous that he'd plan and execute the assassination of the world's most famous pop star just to distract the world media??? Idk, maybe!

On September 7th, 1996, we lost one of the greatest minds America has ever produced. Tupac Shakur was a brilliant rapper and writer, a budding actor, and a surprisingly great ballet dancer. He also had a lot of enemies. So when he was shot in a car in Las Vegas, most people assumed one of those nemeses was behind the murder. But Casey Feigh thinks different.

Jesus Christ of Nazareth was a pretty cool guy. He had a bunch of good ideas about being nice, having fun, treating people with respect, redistributing wealth, and so on. But for being basically the most famous person on earth, it's pretty weird that there's a 16ish year gap in his biography. But Ptolemy Slocum has a theory about where JC might have been. Ptolemy thinks that maybe, like so many teens, he went to find himself in India.

At first it's gonna seem like Dave Child (actor and comedian and wonderful person) doesn't believe his own conspiracy theory. But about halfway into this episode things got really weird. Maybe the Bohemian Grove is just a campground where rich old Republicans get together to pee outside. Or maybe it's something...stranger.

The sinking of the Titanic was one of the great tragedies of the 20th century, an accident that claimed many lives and inspired many movies. But what if it wasn't an accident? What if it was an elaborate plot involving a wealthy banker, the creation of the Federal Reserve, and a FREAKIN MUMMY! The delightful Conor Dowling joins us this episode to educate us all about how the American finance system works, and what really sank the unsinkable ship.

Jonestown is one of the great American tragedies, a cautionary tale about cults and the scary narcissists who run them. MKUltra was a freaky freewheeling military department that tried to give people psychic powers by dosing them with LSD. At first glance, you'd think they have nothing in common. But Drew Droege knows better than that. The magnetic actor and comedian believes that Jonestown was in fact a large scale outdoor MKUltra experiment gone terribly wrong!

In 1942 the Air Force opened a base in Montauk, New York. What happened next… will blow your mind. Colleen Watson, stand-up and comedy writer extraordinaire, has a theory on the dark secrets behind the 'air force' base and what was really going on there. A theory that involves DARPA, the Philadelphia Experiment, alien grays, genuine psychics, time travel tunnels, and the malicious torture and brainwashing of an entire town. And also nazi gold!!!

Where has Melania Trump been for the past month? Why did she just return? Was it because the White House got wind that we were releasing this episode that would blow the whole thing wide open and they had to get her back before we unmasked them???? PROBABLY! The outrageously brilliant Emily Schmidt is here to reveal the truth about where Melania was, who she was with, and who ahem what she was doing. Let's just say that Thelma and Louise ain't got nothing on Melania and Karen Zucker.

Did you enjoy the royal wedding? All those pretty dresses and weird traditions. Well then you got played by one of the most classic distraction techniques in the book. See there's a theory floating around that the British Royal Family aren't just weird because of history and inbreeding. They're weird because they're Reptilians.

If you think all those nazis really died or escaped to Argentina, well, open your eyes ya dang sheeple. There's a theory that nazis, aliens, and wooly mammoths are all living peacefully together inside the earth, in eternal sunshine and joy. It's nuts! But Marcy Jarreau, wildly talented comedian and podcast host, has a theory that just might convert you.

This guests in this episode are… THE FANS! That's right, it's our call-in show, and you people called in with some serious doozies. These conspiracy theories range from Kanye to Roseanne, MK Ultra to alien lights, ghost doggies to Elizabeth II eating little boys. We got Benn, Scott, Summer, 'Shawhan', and Max on the line, and you're gonna fall in love with every single one of them. Alexis and Katelyn sure did!