Real History with Melissa Podcast (.xml Format)

--{"Nick Heys -- Inverted World"}-- Nick Heys of Heys Reviews - Nick's trip to Vietnam, and his delayed return home. Nick and Melissa discuss Christopher Priest's Inverted World. What was the world like? What one word best describes the story? Priest's novel The Prestige, and Christopher Nolan's movie. Time, memory. The next book we cover is Vernor Vinge's Rainbow's End. Nick and Melissa decide that Arthur C. Clarke's four-novel Space Odyssey series, starting with 2001: A Space Odyssey will follow Rainbow's End.

--{"Sarah Tacoma: German New Medicine, Herbs, and Homeopathy"}-- Who is Sarah Tacoma? How did she get interested in herbalism? What led to her studies and practice of German New Medicine? What obstacles does she face in practicing herbalism? Homeopathy, healing modalities, and more.

--{"Dr. James Giordano - Brain Games: The Battle for the Mind"}-- A conversation with Dr. James Giordano - an opportunity to learn a little about neuroscience and neurotechnology (neuroS/T), and neuroweapons. MISO/PSYOPS, cognitive warfare, Havana Syndrome, DARPA's Narrative Networks - Let's break down the word Technology. More to come: future discussion(s) on cognitive enhancements, dual-use, neuroethics, free will, transhumanism, post-humanism.

--{"Neil Foster: Burn, Freeze, Die! Depopulate, already!"}-- An elderly dementia patient was killed without consent in Canada - Israel and US against Iran; possibility of conscription - Vulnerabilities to the food supply - Is there a connection between data center expansion and cloud seeding for rain? - Transgender driver's licenses. You're not in Kansas anymore. - Air conditioners contribute to climate change and so do wood burning stoves.

--{"Dom and Chris Waterson: Sheep Farm"}-- Chris and Dom from Sheep Farm! What got Chris and Dom started seeking truth and answers? UFOs, JFK, an alternative way of viewing events. - Chris saw a UFO as a child. How did this affect him? - What is Todmorden in West Yorkshire known for? - What is Chris's favorite horror movie, and Dom's favorite movie? - 1967, proposed measures to reduce fertility from a William Shockley speech. - The Beatles, Jane Asher, bloodlines; conversations with Mike Williams, and Matt Sergiou - Who was William Sargant and how is he connected to Ewen Cameron, Sydney Gottlieb, the CIA, and MKUltra. - Dom's term 'cultural Manchurian candidates.' - Chaos, Tom O'Neill writes about Charles Manson, the Beach Boys, Sharon Tate, the CIA, and some very interesting connections. - Dom is about to release a book he has written entitled Traitors: The Plandemic Politicians.

--{"Chris Fogarty: The Perfect Holocaust, Ireland 1845-1850"}-- How did Chris Fogarty begin to investigate what we have called the Irish Potato Famine or the Great Hunger? What was the involvement of the British military in removing food from Ireland? Who was William Cobbett and what did he say and write about Ireland? Who was William Wilde? How was the FBI involved in the arrest of Chris Fogarty and his wife Mary? What is happening to the Palestinians? How did Chris and Mary get to know Norm Finkelstein? AIPAC and the money received by elected officials. The problem with Zionism.

--{"Nick Heys: A Scanner Darkly"}-- How does the film A Scanner Darkly measure up to the novel? Why was Melissa reluctant to read the novel? - Drug crisis in America and across the world. - Phillip K. Dick's mental illness, a posthumous possible diagnosis. - What does VALIS stand for? - Next: Nick and Melissa will read Inverted World by Christopher Priest. - Should the next novel by Neal Stephenson's The Diamond Age or Rainbow's End by Vernor Vinge?

--{"Neil Foster: Meatspace and Rentable Meatwads"}-- Kim Leadbeater, the UK's assisted dying bill - UPS: Cold chain logistics - What is RentAHuman.ai and what is a Meatwad? - Ecocide Scotland - "Gender Affirming Care" - Excess deaths caused by cold homes.

--{"Robert Smith-Hald: Heavy Metal"}-- Parents: Language warning for children. - Who is Robert Smith-Hald? Growing up in the Camphill Movement. - How did American Robert meet his Scottish wife, and how did they end up living in Norway? - Making art, music, beer. - What are signs of heavy metal toxicity? The Andy Cutler Protocol for chelation from heavy metal toxicity. How did detoxing from heavy metal poisoning affect Robert's musical abilities?

--{"Don, Blue, and aka Devin"}-- How did Blue and Don meet? What interests drew them together? How many animals do they have? Is Devin ever without her sword? Stories about individuality, homestead life, how food affects us, taking care of animals, and all the different ways people can live. Challenges, lessons, joy.

--{"That Hideous Strength: Real Life is Meeting"}-- Greg Gorsuch shares some thoughts about the chapter title "Real Life is Meeting" - What is the Other that enters into relationships? - Masculine and feminine within relationships.

--{"Neil Foster"}-- UPS and the union - SAFE Food Act of 2025 - Soylent Green, humans as fertilizer - J.B. and Jennifer Pritzker - Epstein and intelligence agencies - Venezuela and drugs, Maduro, the Axis of Socialism, Donroe Doctrine, etc. - Universal Basic Income - U.S. retirement at 67 - Forever wars - Movie, Land of the Blind - Politicians and their predilections - Generation Alpha - Are young people choosing religion? - Steve James in the UK, transgender ideology.

--{"The Bloody Conclusion of That Hideous Strength"}-- Does Mark escape the N.I.C.E.? Is he reunited with Jane? What does Merlin do to help the Director? What happens to Miss Hardcastle, Wither, Frost, and Lord Feverstone?

--{"LateAmble Ramble"}-- When are Nick and Melissa finishing up C.S. Lewis' That Hideous Strength? Modernism, post-modernism and the Academy. Who were the Inklings and what was C.S. Lewis' affiliation with them? George Orwell's review of this book. Spirituality and religion. What did Alan Watt say about the individual and religion?