The Milo and Moose Show Episode 17 Preview

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In recent times Moose and I haven't spoken as much before recording as we used to, so our previews will start to vary in style. They'll be more like 'teasers' as they'll reveal our trains of thought rather than directly setting up the next episode. So the stuff mentioned below might not come up in our next episode, but it should still help to give you a feel for my thought process. Milo out. 

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Everybody loves a good conspiracy theory and you'd be hard pressed to find somebody who doesn't harbor some sort of irrational suspicion about the world around them. Whether it's that a secret society predetermines politics, that fossil fuel companies are secretly obstructing cold fusion research or that Barack Obama is a lizard-man we all have our beliefs. 

Please don't watch this video, I'm only linking it so I can use the pic

There are so many to list, from the variety of 9/11 theories suspecting that it was an inside job, to the various theories about who really killed JFK, every major event is open to many interpretations. The thing I find most fascinating about them is that many of the one's that appear the most insane, are often only poorly articulated versions of genuinely plausible ones. For instance this talk by Larry Lessig suggests that the most powerful nation on earth is dominated by an invisible group of obscenely wealthy people, and many students, extremists and social outcasts feel the same way.

Same fears, same opinions but different presentations, and that's what I find most fascinating about conspiracies theories. You can always find a way to make them plausible, and I'd be lying if I claimed that I never seriously considered that Tupac might still be alive. 

This website says its a hoax, don't tell me what to believe internet!

Saying that I like to imagine that Illuminati does in fact exist and are overseen by a still living Tupac, and they get their kicks by sneaking occult imagery into hip-hop videos.

The best things about conspiracy theories is that they are very hard to prove wrong, and very easy to believe in. I defy you to watch one illuminati video or 9/11 cover up documentary without, even for a second, feeling a sensation that can only be described as: weed-induced wonder. Oh and while this has been very American-centric, it's simply because your seekers of truth tend to be "louder" than ours. I'm looking at you Princess "it was an assassination" Diana theorists.... 

Our next episode is due to hit our RSS feed on Sunday 12th June. 

P.P.S. A note to the illuminati: please don't hurt us. Think of this episode as our way of helping you to continue hiding in plain sight.

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The Milo and Moose Show Episode 14 Preview

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“Are you different?”

“Yeah, I’m different”

“How?”

“Well things that used to bother me, don’t bother me that much anymore. The world seems smaller, and I keep waiting for something to happen and I have to remind myself that when it doesn’t happen that that’s normal.”

John Crichton, Farscape Season 4 Episode 17 “A Constellation of Doubt”

The above quotation is from the sci-fi show Farscape, a series about an astronaut who ends up on the run with an assortment of aliens after becoming adrift in another galaxy. One of the speakers, John Crichton, describes how his extra-terrestrial experiences have changed him. He has been through all manner of mad and crazy events and, as the episode attests, no doubt suffers from PTSD. Nevertheless it's still a believable response to how humans would, and have, responded to life back on earth after experiencing the wonders of space first hand.  

This Arthur C. Clarke quote pops up when you load XCOM; a game about aliens who want to enslave us.

The short film 'Overview' replicates John’s feelings although where he has anxiety, the astronauts interviewed have an almost spiritual and euphoric peace. It is in this crucible between anxiety and optimism our next episode will take place, as we’ll wildly share and speculate about the secrets of outer space.  

In the next episode of The Milo and Moose Show we’ll be looking to discuss these issues and more, from our own views on exploring space to bigger and almost impossible to answer questions about the ramifications for our species as a whole. I can’t promise that alien sex won’t come up. The episode will be available on this blog, Soundcloud, Stitcher and the rest on Sunday 1^st May.

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[Update 17/04/2016] Well this topic didn't quite turn out as being as stimulating or as interesting as we hoped so we have shelved it for now, and instead have recorded a rant about the Panama Papers leak. On the one hand it started becoming weirdly and mind-numbingly academic, and on the other hand neither of us was 100% and so the topic massively suffered as a result. If anyone asks though, it's because we are now serious journalists so NPR, Sarah Koenig and others need to back the fuck up.

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Our ability to form  memories is one of the things in this world that many of us takes for granted, and yet can be defective without raising concern. It's not uncommon for people both young and old to say that they have forgotten something because of their "bad memory", or to claim that they absolutely remember doing "that specific thing" despite no one else being able to verify it. 

So what happens when the tehcnology arrives that allows us to identitfy the memory sectors of the brain and directly affect them? Well a number of us would need to get better excuses and harder evidence! 

During our next episode we will be discussing "memory" and what's been shared so far has been a few thoughts Milo has had in the midst of his research. He's also been looking at John Locke's idea that what we remember about ourselves makes us who we are as individuals, which, on the flipside, also means that if you can't remember doing something, it wasn't you who did it!

That's pretty extreme and a lot of people smarter than us have argued about it in the centuries since ol' Locke became an angry bald man on Lost, nevertheless it could be an angle we take.  

Pictured: The philosopher John Locke...

We are yet to collate our research yet, however whatever happens we can promise that it'll be an episode worth remembering. Milo will see himself out...

Our next episode will delivered via the cutting edge techno-magic of "streaming", on Sunday 17th April.

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