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He spent years warning that this exact building was still a target — and running drills nobody wanted to do because of it. When the moment actually came, everything he'd built paid off in ways nobody could have predicted. Part of the 9/11 Stories series from The Conspiracy Podcast, marking 25 years since the attacks.

www.patreon.com/theconspiracypodcastThe first two episodes of this series told the story of the September 11th attacks. This episode turns to what's still argued about the World Trade Center collapse twenty-five years later, examining the physical evidence, the official NIST investigation, and the theories that have circulated since 2001.Sean, Eric , and Jorge work through NIST's official findings on the collapse of the Twin Towers — how the aircraft impacts stripped away fireproofing, why the structural failure took the shape it did, and the engineering behind it. They also examine the specific claims that have defined 9/11 conspiracy theories for two decades: reports of molten metal found in the wreckage weeks after the collapse, the speed at which the towers came down, the free-fall acceleration debate, and whether NIST's own data holds up against them.The episode then turns to World Trade Center Building 7 — a 47-story skyscraper that was never struck by an aircraft and collapsed that evening regardless. Building 7's collapse remains one of the most debated open questions connected to 9/11. The hosts cover NIST's official explanation, the competing University of Alaska Fairbanks engineering study that challenges it, and developer Larry Silverstein's "pull it" comment from a 2002 PBS interview, weighing what he has said the phrase meant against how it's been interpreted by skeptics since.The episode closes on the financial side of that day — the World Trade Center lease Silverstein signed six weeks before the attacks, and the insurance settlement that followed, both frequently cited in 9/11 truth movement discussions.New episodes of "9/11: Unanswered," The Conspiracy Podcast's series marking the 25th anniversary of September 11th, release every Tuesday through September 28th. Follow on Apple Podcasts and Spotify. Join the Patreon at patreon.com/theconspiracypodcast for early access and exclusive After Hours content.

For twenty-five years, one man spent his career warning the government about a threat almost nobody wanted to take seriously. Days before September 11th, he started a brand new job — one with an irony he couldn't have scripted himself. Part of the 9/11 Stories series from The Conspiracy Podcast, marking 25 years since the attacks.

A flight attendant on American Flight 11 spent the last 23 minutes of her life on the phone, calmly telling American Airlines everything she could about the hijacking underway around her — including actual audio from that call. Part of the 9/11 Stories series from The Conspiracy Podcast, marking 25 years since the attacks.

www.patreon.com/theconspiracypodcastTwenty-five years later, The Conspiracy Podcast is finally tackling it. "9/11: Unanswered" kicks off with the day itself — minute by minute, four flights, one morning that changed everything.It starts like any other Tuesday. Nineteen men move through four different airports — Portland, Boston, Newark, Washington Dulles — carrying box cutters and knives with blades under four inches, which was perfectly legal at the time. Ten of them get flagged by CAPPS, the era's passenger screening system, before they even board. Flagged, and let through anyway. Hosts Eric , Sean and Jorge pull apart exactly how that happened, working straight from the 9/11 Commission Report to keep the timeline accurate rather than relying on secondhand retellings.From there it's real time. Flight attendants Betty Ong and Amy Sweeney calling it in from the air as it's happening. Daniel Lewin, a former Israeli special forces officer, trying to stop his own hijacker before anyone on the ground even knows what's unfolding. The first plane hits the North Tower and the world assumes it's an accident — until the second one hits live on television, and there's no more room for that assumption. Then the Pentagon. Then United 93, where the passengers find out, mid-flight, exactly what happened to the other three planes and make a decision most of them never get the chance to think twice about.The episode also follows President Bush's morning at a Florida elementary school — the seven minutes in that classroom people are still arguing about twenty-five years later — through Air Force One and into the address that ended up shaping the next two decades of American foreign policy.This one ran long. Long enough that the hosts split it into two parts rather than cut corners on any of it. Part 2 picks up exactly where this one leaves off. Later episodes in the series get into what's still unresolved after twenty-five years — the Commission's own gaps, the disputed collapse of Building 7, and the questions around the Pentagon that never fully went away.New episodes of "9/11: Unanswered" drop every Tuesday through September 28th. Patreon members get early access to every episode in the series plus the full, extended After Hours cut. www.patreon.com/theconspiracypodcast

www.patreon.com/theconspiracypodcastJoin the boys as they trace Al-Qaeda's origins from the Soviet-Afghan War to the eve of September 11th, 2001. Hosts unpack how Osama bin Laden and Palestinian scholar Abdullah Azzam built Maktab al-Khidamat, the recruitment network that seeded al-Qaeda's formal founding in a Peshawar house in August 1988 — with just fifteen men on its original roster.The episode connects the dots most true crime and history podcasts miss: how the 1993 WTC bomber Ramzi Yousef's uncle, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, quietly financed that attack before becoming the architect of 9/11 himself. Listeners get the full arc — bin Laden's betrayal by the Saudi monarchy during the Gulf War, his exile in Sudan, the alliance with the Taliban, the 1998 embassy bombings in Kenya and Tanzania, and the USS Cole attack — plus a deep dive into the unsettling human details rarely covered elsewhere: the hijackers' bizarre flight school behavior (including an abandoned Cessna left on a Miami taxiway), documented drinking and strip club visits that contradict their professed extremism, and two eerie traffic stops — including one just two days before the attacks — that could have changed everything.The episode closes on the edge of history: September 10th, 2001, with nineteen men in place and no one yet knowing what the next morning would bring.This is essential setup for the show's upcoming four-part 9/11 25th anniversary series, launching later this month.

www.patreon.com/theconspiracypodcastOnce the gold standard of American aviation, Boeing built its reputation on a simple promise: "If it's not Boeing, I'm not going." In this compilation, the guys trace how that promise unraveled — from the Wright Brothers' first 120-foot flight in 1903 to a company now facing federal fraud charges, congressional testimony, and a body count that refuses to stay in the "coincidence" column.The crew digs into Boeing's merger with McDonnell Douglas and the culture shift that followed, the 737 MAX's MCAS system and the two crashes that grounded a fleet worldwide, and the DOJ settlement that left victims' families fighting over scraps while executives walked away with golden parachutes. Then there's the door. The infamous mid-air blowout on an Alaska Airlines flight that sent the story right back into the headlines — and right back to a familiar name.At the center of it all is John Barnett, a 28-year Boeing quality inspector turned whistleblower, found dead in his truck mid-testimony against the company he spent decades defending. Add in a second whistleblower, Joshua Dean, gone under equally strange circumstances just weeks later, and the guys lay out every angle — corporate negligence, cover-up, and yes, the theory that somebody wanted these men silenced for good.Is this simply a case of a company too big to face real consequences? Or is something darker keeping the truth grounded? Buckle up — literally — for this one.Originally recorded in two parts in August 2024.

www.patreon.com/theconspiracypodcastIn Part Two, Sean, Jorge, and Eric dive straight into the theories that have kept the Isdal Woman's case alive for over half a century.She died in a Norwegian valley under at least eight false identities, and fifty-five years later, no one still knows who she really was. Was she a Cold War intelligence operative, her movements lining up suspiciously close to Norway's top-secret missile testing sites while the country's secret police quietly opened their own file behind the scenes? Was she connected to a Swiss banker infamous for financing Nazi sympathizers and extremist causes across decades? Was she an international fraudster running a long con across the continent, or a woman working discreetly for a clientele who had every reason to stay silent after her death? And underneath every theory sits the same unanswered question: was it suicide, or murder?The guys also break down the forensic science that's chipped away at the mystery over the years — isotope analysis narrowing down where she may have grown up, DNA testing tracing a maternal line to a part of the world none of her fake passports ever claimed — and how a fifty-year-old cold case turned into one of the most successful true crime podcasts ever made. Tens of thousands of amateur investigators from around the world are still hunting for answers today, still combing through old sketches and hotel records, still trying to finish what Norwegian police gave up on decades ago. And even after all that science, all that attention, and all those true believers, the Isdal Woman remains buried under a name that was never hers.Let us know your theory. Who was she, and what really happened in Ice Valley?

www.patreon.com/theconspiracypodcastPart Two. Columbus discovered America. The Liberty Bell rang out on July 4th, 1776. The defenders of the Alamo were freedom-loving heroes who chose to die rather than surrender. And Pocahontas fell in love with a brave English soldier and saved his life with the power of nature and music.These are the stories that made it into the movies, the federal holidays, the theme parks, and the history books. They're taught to every American child as fact. And in this episode, Eric, Jorge, and Sean are asking the question nobody wants to ask: what if most of them aren't true?From the real history of Christopher Columbus and the colonization of the Americas, to the origin of the Liberty Bell's name, to what the Texas Revolution was actually fought over, to the true story of the real woman behind the Pocahontas myth — the guys dig into who built these legends, when, and why.Some of these myths are embellished. Some are invented. And at least one is considerably darker than the version you grew up with.Eight American myths. Two weeks. Happy 250th America.

Support the show: www.patreon.com/theconspiracypodcastThe search for Noah's Ark doesn't end with the story — it ends in the mountains of eastern Turkey. In Part 2, Eric, Jorge, and Sean pick up where they left off and dive into the physical evidence: a 515-foot boat-shaped formation sitting 18 miles south of Mount Ararat, ground-penetrating radar scans revealing angular structures 20 feet underground, and 2024 soil tests showing organic matter nearly three times higher inside the formation than outside. They cover Ron Wyatt — the nurse anesthetist who spent 22 years and 25 trips convinced he'd found the ark — and the two scientists who came after him and ended up on opposite sides. The guys also get into the Black Sea catastrophe theory, the alternative mountain candidates, and all six major theories on what the ark actually was — or wasn't. Core drilling is planned for 2025 and 2026, and the three hosts agree: whatever the results show, there's no question something happened. The flood was real. Whether the boat is still out there is another story.

www.patreon.com/theconspiracypodcastThe Ark of the Covenant vanished from history in 586 BC — and for 2,600 years, everyone from ancient pharaohs to Nazi SS officers has been searching for it. In Part 2 of their deep dive, Jorge, Eric, and Sean break down the most compelling theories about where the world's most powerful relic actually ended up.The guys go inside Ethiopia's extraordinary claim — where 45 million Orthodox Christians believe the Ark sits inside a tiny, heavily guarded chapel in Axum, protected by a single monk who takes its secrets to his grave. They unpack the Kebra Nagast, the tale of King Solomon and the Queen of Sheba, and why the most fully developed theory in history might also be the most flawed.Then they dig into the Copper Scroll — an actual treasure map discovered in the Dead Sea caves listing 64 hidden locations and billions of dollars in sacred relics. Could the Ark be buried somewhere in the Judaean wilderness? Is it still hidden beneath the Temple Mount in Jerusalem, right under the Dome of the Rock? Or did the Babylonians simply melt it down for gold centuries ago?The episode also covers the Nazi occult — the real Himmler, the real Ahnenerbe, and why the most militarized regime in modern history sent government-funded expeditions to track down a biblical artifact. Spoiler: they didn't find it either.By the end, Jorge, Eric, and Sean land on where they think the Ark actually is — and the answer is both the simplest and most deflating theory of all.Topics covered:The Ethiopian claim and the Chapel of the Tablet in AxumThe Kebra Nagast, King Solomon, and Menelik IGraham Hancock's The Sign and the Seal and the Elephantine theoryThe Book of 2 Maccabees and the Mount Nebo caveThe Copper Scroll and the Dead Sea treasure mapThe Temple Mount theory — still buried in Jerusalem?Himmler, the SS Ahnenerbe, and the Nazi hunt for the occultDid the Ark ever have real powers — or was it just a very important box?Haven't listened to Part 1 yet? Go back and start there — Jorge, Eric, and Sean cover what the Ark was, what it could do, and the moment it disappeared from the historical record.Subscribe, leave a review, and join the Patreon for more.

www.patreon.com/theconspiracypodcastPart 1 was the rise. This is the fall.We pick up in the '90s, when the world that had made Michael Jackson started turning on him. The tabloids had a field day. The hyperbaric chamber. The Elephant Man's bones. A baby dangled off a balcony in Berlin. One by one, the story of the greatest entertainer who ever lived began to curdle into something else entirely.Then came the allegations.A dentist who drugged his own kid to get a confession. A $20 million demand to stay quiet. A 2003 documentary that aired to 48 million people and changed everything. A trial with 14 counts, a circus outside the courthouse, and a jury that came back not guilty — on every single one.And then, four years later, a rented mansion in Holmby Hills. A doctor on his phone with a cocktail waitress. A call to 911 that came 90 minutes too late. And the most famous human being on earth, gone at 50.We get into the death, the theories, the $400 million lawsuit still pending, and the question nobody has a clean answer to — was it negligence, a cash grab, a conspiracy, or all three?We also give you our takes. Unfiltered.00:00 — Intro, Patreon shoutouts 03:00 — Part 1 recap & where we left off08:00 — "Wacko Jacko" — the tabloids turn on him & the hyperbaric chamber truth09:00 — The Elephant Man bones stunt that went horribly wrong10:00 — Blanket over the Berlin balcony — the guys debate it11:00 — Jordan Chandler 1993: the Rent-A-Wreck call that started everything12:00 — The dentist dad who drugged his own kid to get a confession13:00 — Evan Chandler demands $20 million — the guys call it immediately15:00 — The LAPD raid, the Asia tour collapse & the world's worst PR agent16:00 — The $15.3 million settlement & the "innocent men don't pay" debate19:00 — Martin Bashir's documentary airs to 48 million people20:00 — The hand-holding interview — the guys watch it, react to it24:00 — Macaulay Culkin & Corey Feldman defend Michael25:00 — Tom Sneddon reopens the case & Neverland gets raided again26:00 — The 2005 trial: 14 counts, pajamas in court & the circus outside29:00 — The jury acquits on all 14 counts — not even one30:00 — "I hate this place. I never want to see it again." — Michael leaves Neverland forever32:00 — James Safechuck: the Pepsi commercial kid & what he alleged34:00 — Wade Robson: testified for Michael in 2005, then flipped in 201341:00 — Leaving Neverland wins an Emmy, music gets pulled worldwide42:00 — The estate sues HBO and wins — Neverland Firsthand rebuttal44:00 — The train station that wasn't built yet — the key credibility dispute45:00 — Leaving Neverland 2 drops in 2025 & the $400 million lawsuit47:00 — The death: propofol, insomnia & "give me the milk"51:00 — The night of June 24th — drug after drug, nothing works52:00 — Murray on the phone with a cocktail waitress while Michael stops breathing53:00 — CPR on the bed with one hand — the 911 call that came too late54:00 — Pronounced dead at 2:26 PM — the coroner rules homicide55:00 — Murray convicted, gets 4 years, walks in 2 & moves to Trinidad57:00 — Theory 1: AEG held a $17 million life insurance policy on Michael59:00 — Theory 2: He faked his death — the Elvis parallel01:01 — Theory 3: Murdered for the catalog — Paris & La Toya speak out01:03 — Theory 4: Sony silenced him — follow the money01:04 — Theory 5: The never-ending lawsuit machine & the $400 million cash grab01:09 — Final takes: did he do it? Who killed him? The guys give their verdicts01:19 — Murray should've gotten more time — unanimous agreement01:20 — The Matthew Perry & Prince parallel — why the story made them sad01:21 — Most famous person of all time? MJ vs. Jordan vs. Alexander the Great

www.patreon.com/theconspiracypodcastThe FULL Pyramids Compilation (5 EPs in one)The show's 100th episode. What started as a milestone special turned into five full episodes, hours of debate, and one of the most spirited arguments in podcast history. Now it's all in one place.Eric, Sean, and Jorge dive headfirst into the greatest mystery in human history: Who built the Great Pyramids of Giza — and how the hell did they do it?Part 1 — The History: Before the conspiracies, lay the foundation. The Nile River, the Old Kingdom, the pharaohs, and a timeline that puts the Great Pyramid in perspective. It was built before coins, before paper, before the domestication of horses in Africa — and Cleopatra was closer in time to us than to the pyramids.Parts 2 & 3 — Sean's Episodes: Sean comes in swinging with 20 pages of things that don't add up. The Great Pyramid's near-perfect alignment with True North (off by 0.05 degrees — more precise than the Washington Monument). Pi and the Golden Ratio embedded in its dimensions. The Earth's own proportions mirrored in its geometry. Impossible 80-ton granite slabs. Sealed doors discovered by robots. Salt deposits in the Queen's Chamber. And the burning question: if it was just a tomb, where's the body?Part 4 — Eric's Episode: Eric fights back. He makes the case that mankind — skilled, organized, and wildly underestimated — built the pyramids with no alien assistance. He brings evidence: the workers' village, Machu Picchu, the Great Wall of China, the Hoover Dam. His thesis? Human ingenuity has always defied what seems impossible.The Update: Two weeks after Episode 100 aired, news broke of a massive underground complex discovered beneath Giza using satellite radar — interconnected chambers, spiraling shafts, and cylindrical voids stretching nearly two kilometers underground. We had to come back. Everything's on the table again.History, mystery, bad diagrams, and a few things we still can't explain. Buckle up.00:00:00 - Welcome & why we saved the pyramids for Episode 10000:07:00 - "Who built the pyramids and how did they do it?"00:11:00 - The Nile River: ancient Egypt's lifeline00:19:00 - The Step Pyramid & Pharaoh Djoser00:26:00 - Pharaoh Khufu and the Great Pyramid of Giza00:35:00 - Why did they stop building pyramids?00:38:00 - Cleopatra was closer to us than to the pyramids00:46:00 - Were the pyramid workers slaves?01:13:00 - The pyramid's alignment with True North01:25:00 - Over 1,000 pyramids exist around the world01:32:00 - 0.05 degrees off True North — more precise than the Washington Monument01:39:00 - Alignment with Orion and Sirius01:48:00 - Pi appears in the pyramid's dimensions01:55:00 - The Golden Ratio in the pyramid's proportions02:02:00 - The pyramid encodes Earth's exact proportions02:03:00 - The pyramid's coordinates match the speed of light02:11:00 - The King's Chamber: 80-ton granite ceiling slabs02:17:00 - The empty sarcophagus — no body, no explanation02:23:00 - Electromagnetic anomalies inside the King's Chamber03:09:00 - The Queen's Chamber: sealed doors discovered by robot03:25:00 - Tomb or energy generator?03:33:00 - Quartz in the granite walls generating electricity03:41:00 - Could sound and vibration have moved the stone blocks?04:07:00 - The Sphinx: water erosion theory and its true age04:14:00 - Hidden chamber beneath the Sphinx04:35:00 - Were the pyramids built by humans alone?04:55:00 - The Great Wall of China vs. the pyramids05:15:00 - The Coral Castle: one man, no machinery, 1,000 tons of coral05:35:00 - Lost technology: the real reason we can't explain the pyramids?05:56:00 - BREAKING: Underground structure discovered beneath Giza06:00:00 - Satellite radar reveals hidden chambers and spiraling voids06:08:00 - Ancient energy grid theory06:14:00 - "The most significant discovery at Giza in over 50 years"06:24:00 - Final verdicts from all three hosts