Discussions of everything cannabis and beyond. Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/the-strain/support
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The Strain: Post Show Recaps of the FX Vampire Series
The Strain Recaps LIVE after Guillermo Del Toro's FX Vampire Series with Rob Cesternino and Josh Wigler
LIVE Recaps of FX’s “The Strain”
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The Strain After Show recaps, reviews and discusses episodes of FOX's The Strain. Show Summary: Dr. Ephraim Goodweather, the head of the CDC's New York-based Canary Project, is called upon to investigate when an airplane lands with everybody on board dead. What his team discovers is a viral outbreak that has similarities to an ancient strain of vampirism. As the virus begins to spread, Goodweather works with his team and a group of the city's residents to wage a war that could hold humanity' ...
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The podcast that explains why so many people believe ridiculous conspiracy theories. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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This funny and feisty feminist filmmaker duo host a podcast called The Sister(s) Strain which touches on the female experience in our modern society and the current strain on positive sisterhood.
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The Violet Hour presents - THE ELMWOOD STRAIN. A traumatized woman reluctantly returns to her dying hometown to find the stoner friends she abandoned are hooked on a strange new drug — with bizarre, seemingly supernatural qualities. Learn more at www.VioletHourMedia.com
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Welcome to "J.R. Strain: The Podcast," the captivating podcast that takes you on a thrilling journey through the life and experiences of Jim Strain, the Director of Cultivation for the JR Strain cannabis brand. Join us as we delve into Jim's extraordinary transition from the underground black market to the legalized cannabis industry in the beautiful West Kootenay region of British Columbia, Canada. In this podcast, Jim Strain opens up about his remarkable path, sharing stories of his early ...
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No one despises a woman standing fully and firmly in her truth, taking up space, and using her voice, like a misogynistic man who believes women owe him their youthful beauty and exist entirely to appease his superficial/patriarchal male gaze... We we're so excited to launch the intro to our upcoming podcast, finally pressing record on the feminine…
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New! Unidentified--What Barney and Betty Hill actually saw (it wasn't a UFO)
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32:12The final part of our story of the Hills' strange encounter. We discuss the cheap hatchet job that Saint Carl Sagan did on the Hills' story, which came out quite tawdry in spite of Sagan's good intentions. Plus, we provide our suggestion for the best bet as to the real-life phenomenon that generated the Hills' legendary experience. Hosted on Acast.…
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Coming Soon!!! Join your favorite, feisty, feminist filmmaker duo in this fun yet informative dialogue on all things the feminine experience!The Sisters Strain által
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New! Unidentified--The aliens attempt to kidnap Darth Vader
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29:31This episode, we deep dive into a TV movie adaptation of the Barney and Betty Hill story, starring and produced by James Earl Jones. An interesting film, and well intended, we examine the ways that it compromised the Hills' own conclusions about their experience in favor of a story designed to normalize interracial couples for a mainstream 1970s US…
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New! Unidentified--Interracial relationships and alien abduction in 1960s America
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32:17Barney and Betty's story goes public, and the US media decides they made up this alien story because of how hard it was to be an interracial couple in 1960s America. It's infuriating. Enjoy! theparanoidstrain.com facebook.com/groups/theparanoidstrain patreon.com/theparanoidstrain Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.…
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New! Unidentified--Dreams, hypnosis, and the first American alien abduction
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28:09Barney and Betty Hill had a weird night on September 19, 1961. Of that there's no doubt. But in this episode we investigate how the mid-century embrace of hypnosis as a psychological tool may have helped to generate the abduction story that would set the stage for the abduction mania of future decades. theparanoidstrain.com facebook.com/groups/thep…
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New! Unidentified--Barney, Betty, and the UFO they saw
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28:35We're ready to take on the story of Barney and Betty Hill, whose UFO encounter launched the abduction phenomenon, and whose personal story is even more fascinating. More on the Hills in two weeks. theparanoidstrain.com facebook.com/groups/theparanoidstrain patreon.com/theparanoidstrain Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.…
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New! Unidentified--No ETs for Christmas
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33:27We're back for 2025. This episode, we wrap up the story of The Seekers, the failure of their 1950s UFO prophecy, and the book that made them famous. We also dive into the ways cognitive dissonance theory interacts with other prophetic movements, including the early Christians. See you in two weeks. theparanoidstrain.com facebook.com/groups/theparan…
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Encore: Upon a Red Horse, Part V
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1:12:07The last part of our encore presentation. hope you enjoyed it--see you next week. In which Fletcher slowly loses what matters most to him, secures his legend, and goes down, senselessly, in a hail of bullets. Full lyrics, credits, and gorgeous fold-out album style artwork (it's a .zip file): https://drive.google.com/file/d/1zj0Mbk4JNrHajuAwHC3fOGzY…
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Encore: Upon a Red Horse, Part IV
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53:45Part IV of our re-post of the best thing we've done. In which Fletcher finally gets on the radio, tells us what 2001: A Space Odyssey is really about, and sees his life begin to fall apart. theparanoidstrain.com facebook.com/groups/theparanoidstrain Listen to the music as an album on Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/paranoidstrainorchestra/sets/u…
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Encore: Upon a Red Horse, Part III
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44:44In part 3, we discuss our hero's magnum opus. theparanoidstrain.com facebook.com/groups/theparanoidstrain Listen to the music as an album on Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/paranoidstrainorchestra/sets/upon-a-red-horse-act-iii-the-red-horse-and-the-sword patreon.com/theparanoidstrain Like it? Please do spread the word. Hosted on Acast. See acast…
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Encore: Upon a Red Horse, Part II
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54:13Part 2 of our repeat posting of Upon A Red Horse in honor of the New Year. Original liner notes follow In which Fletcher, our hero, becomes a big deal in the UFO world. And reveals what really happened to JFK. theparanoidstrain.com facebook.com/groups/theparanoidstrain Listen to the music as an album on Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/paranoidst…
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Encore: Upon a Red Horse, Part I
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52:05Because it's the holidays, and because we know many of you haven't had the chance to hear it, we re-present the best thing we've ever done. Part 1 of 5. The original liner notes follow: In which we hear the origin story of Marvell James Fletcher. theparanoidstrain.com facebook.com/groups/theparanoidstrain Listen to the music as an album on Soundclo…
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New! Unidentified--When UFO prophecy fails. Big time.
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28:33It's time for us to review one of the most fascinating after-effects of the UFO mania that followed the Arnold sighting. We'll learn how some incredibly lucky social scientists wrote a book about perhaps the world's first apocalyptic new age UFO cult, the Seekers. It's cognitive dissonance a go-go on this week's Paranoid Strain. We're skipping next…
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New! Unidentified--The fascinating forgery of the MJ-12 UFO documents
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31:24The lion's share of today's episode concerns the weird story of the MJ-12 (or Majestic-12) documents, which first surfaced in the early 80s, and purported to trace the government's UFO coverup back to the Harry Truman administration. Only, like, they were fake. We also talk about cognitive dissonance in advance of our next big story, on the 1950s U…
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New! Unidentified--Art Bell's time travelers and antichrists
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1:28:32Yes, this is part of our Unidentified UFO series, but it's also just a super-sized digression to share with all of you some of the craziest stuff Art Bell ever put on the air--the Time Traveler and Antichrist call-in shows of the late 90s and early 2000s. I hope you enjoy this very odd compilation as much as I enjoyed putting it together for you. B…
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New! Unidentified--From the High Desert...it's time for Art Bell
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29:07After a little housekeeping to wrap Roswell, we kick off what will be a regular visit to the library of the greatest conspiracy and weird stuff broadcaster in history, Art Bell. We'll hear how he shaped a young Jesuit, what made him so great, and how his show featured some of the most interesting Roswell stuff of all. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com…
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New! Unidentified--Roswell--It wasn't aliens, dummies.
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31:43As the episode subtitle implies, we're gonna talk about why the Roswell "aliens" were almost certainly military test dummies. While we're at it, we'll explain why that's true in spite of the fact that those dummy tests didn't happen til years after Roswell. How? By explaining what science now knows about how memory works and--more importantly--does…
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New! Unidentified--Roswell: The mortician's tale, and the little alien bodies
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28:36Continuing our skeptical look at Roswell, this time examine the story told by town mortician Glenn Dennis--a fascinating combination of real events, confabulations, and total crap. We also look into the eyewitness reports of little--well, not green men, but kinda orange? Anyway, eyewitnesses claimed they saw little dead aliens. But they didn't. We …
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New! Unidentifed--So, what really happened at Roswell?
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31:01We're back a week late, but I hope you agree it's worth it. Having heard the pro-UFO version of Roswell last time, we now seek to learn why so many dedicated investigators have looked into this situation and decided it's sound and fury signifying nothing. We've got a couple more episodes worth of Roswell stuff in the pipeline, and I look forward to…
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Hey. We need an extra week coming back from summer, so here's a little taster of Dana Unicorn doing something silly to tide you over. See you next week. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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New! Unidentified--The Roswell incident (as told by an expert UFO believer)
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43:26This time, we hear the full story of Roswell--or, at least, the full story as it's told by those who are convinced that a UFO crashed there. This is audio captured during the great 2017 Paranoid Strain road trip, and we heartily thank Dennis Balthaser for allowing us to record and share his expertise with you. While we may disagree with his conclus…
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New! Unidentified--The pre-UFOs that set the stage for Roswell
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30:26Roswell is right around the corner, but first let's consider the unidentified objects that appeared in the night skies before everybody decided they were shaped like saucers. To wit, we'll cover The War of the Worlds, the foo fighter phenomenon, a strange tale of crashed Martians in late-19th Century Texas, and much more. Next time--we go full Rosw…
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New! Unidentified--Where are all the aliens? (The Fermi Paradox and Drake's Equation)
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37:24We're fully on the UFO beat now, and addressing one of the most vexing questions asked by any scientist in the previous century--Enrico Fermi's question about aliens. That is, "Where is everybody"? We explore many solutions that have been proposed for this conundrum, and also investigate fellow scientist Frank Drake's equation that seeks to quantif…
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New! Unidentified--The 66 trillion year-old Shabazz UFO, and the still-unidentified Oumuamua
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31:14As promised, we're finally talking about UFOs in the UFO series. This time, we cover the long-overdue return of the Mother Plane prophesied by the Nation of Islam, as well as the decidedly odd interstellar object discovered back in 2017, that seemed briefly as if it might be a sign of extraterrestrial intelligence, Oumuamua. Hosted on Acast. See ac…
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New! Unidentified--Wait, is Cthulhu just an Ancient Alien?
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32:25On our way out of the ancient aliens door, we explore a few miscellaneous but still really interesting sub-topics, including out-of-place artifacts, the Ancient Aliens TV show and its discontents, and finally a book that suggests, convincingly, that HP Lovecraft's cosmic horrors were a major inspiration for Erich von Daniken's bullshit, and everyth…
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New! Unidentified--Graham Hancock, Ancient Aliens, and the Chad Rogaine Experience
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37:21We discuss the woe-is-me posturing of non-scientist Graham Hancock, and his ludicrous theories about an advanced civilization wiped out by the last ice age, which spread its knowledge far and wide, and thus is responsible for all of the ancient structures we normally credit to people like the Egyptians, the Mayans, etcetera. I should mention we had…
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New! Unidentified, Episode 9: Nibiru needs gold--and sperm, for some reason
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37:25This is the end of the Zecharia Sitchin part of this very weird series. But there's still more Ancient Astronauts to come. This time, we learn more about the Annunaki, and how apparently they need human gametes. These Nibiru aliens are straight-up freaks, yo. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.…
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New! Unidentified, Episode 7: Fear of a 12th planet--Nibiru and the Ancient Astronauts
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37:55We're continuing our tour through the life's work of Zecharia Sitchin, this time exploring in-depth his very strange rendition of the ancient Babylonian Creation myth. According to Zechy, an unknown 12th (Why 12th? It's weird) planet did a bunch of shit to our inner solar system, including creating the Earth and Moon, before retreating back on its …
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New! Unidentified, Episode 7: Zecharia Sitchin's made-up Ancient Aliens history
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36:08We finally introduce arguably the second-most-important ancient aliens conspiracy theorist, shipping executive, amateur researcher, and adorable little old man Zecharia Sitchin. He's just as wrong and bull-headed as von Daniken, but we find him both more imaginative and more pleasant than his Swiss rival. Plus, we have an expert, Dr. David Miano, w…
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New! Unidentified, Episode 6: It was the Ancient Alien, with the Crystal Skull, in the Metal Library
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37:02Somehow, we're still talking about Ancient Aliens, This time, we're continuing with our examination of Philip Coppens' work in this area. We consider his best arguments for the idea, find them wanting, and then tear apart the crystal skull and metal library nonsense. Come on along. It's a good time. See you in two weeks. Hosted on Acast. See acast.…
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New! Unidentified, Episode 5: Do the Ancient Aliens enthusiasts have a point?
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28:41Don't let our title fool you. We haven't gone soft on the horsefeathers that is Ancient Aliens theory. But in this episode, we do find the best, most rigorous book on the topic written by an enthusiast, try to give him the benefit of the doubt, and then realize that his worldview is still fatally flawed. Plus, we talk strawmen versus steelmen argum…
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New! Unidentified, Episode 4: O-negative blood type? You're probably an Ancient Alien
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36:32Episode 4 is all up in that Basque. Ok, so that joke deson't work. But the episode does! Learn why von Daniken acolyte Nick Redfern is pretty sure the Basque people of Northern Spain and Southern France are totes aliens, you guys. Oh, and if you have a "negative" instead of a "positive" blood type--guess what? You're an ET, too. Come explore this v…
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New! Unidentified, Episode 3: Jesus Christ, Ancient Astronaut
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32:30We're still digging down into the Erich von Daniken rabbit hole, touching on some other authors who have followed EvD's lead in speculating about the extrarrestrial origins of the stories underpinning Judaism and Christianity. In other words, you're about to learn why Jesus isn't just your co-pilot--he's in charge of the whole goddanged UFO. Also, …
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New! Unidentified, Episode 2: Ancient Aliens, Chariots of the Gods, and the Swiss Felon
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32:52Introductions done, we dive into our first subject in this grand UFO series--that is, Ancient Aliens and the man most responsible for bringing them to us, Erich Von Daniken. In addition to being a hilariously self-regarding fabulist, EVD is also just a very weird dude with quite a checkered legal past. We get into all of that, as well von Daniken's…
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New! Unidentified, Episode 1: In which we narrowly evade an anal probing
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29:30Seems like we've been promising this for ages, but it's finally here. Welcome to our next (very) long series, which we've called "Unidentified", because we think it's a cool name, but also because if we just called it "UFOs", or something, we'd be selling our ambition short. Yes, we're going to cover all of the standard "are aliens visiting us" stu…
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New! Quick-ish hit! Paul is Dead? Part 2
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34:55And here's the second part of our rundown of the Paul is Dead musical conspiracy theory. In this episode, we consider the long-term implications of this brief mania, as well as the modern conspiracists who just won't let it go. UFOs start in two weeks. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.…
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New! Quick-ish hit! Paul is Dead?
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31:38We're back! But we're not doing UFOs yet. First, we're doing a two-parter on one of the most famous music-related conspiracies in modern history--that is, the sudden mania that gripped The Beatles fandom, who for very confusing reasons in 1969 started thinking that Paul McCartney had secretly died and been replaced with a doppelganger, whose voice …
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To keep you company while we work on new content, we're breaking apart one of our classic episodes into digestible chunks. Enjoy one of our personal favorite episodes, and we'll be back with you in the new year with great new stuff. www.theparanoidstrain facebook.com/groups/theparanoidstrain theparanoidstrain at gmail patreon.com/theparanoidstrain …
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To keep you company while we work on new content, we're breaking apart one of our classic episodes into digestible chunks. Enjoy one of our personal favorite episodes, and we'll be back with you in the new year with great new stuff. www.theparanoidstrain facebook.com/groups/theparanoidstrain theparanoidstrain at gmail patreon.com/theparanoidstrain …
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To keep you company while we work on new content, we're breaking apart one of our classic episodes into digestible chunks. Enjoy one of our personal favorite episodes, and we'll be back with you in the new year with great new stuff. www.theparanoidstrain facebook.com/groups/theparanoidstrain theparanoidstrain at gmail patreon.com/theparanoidstrain …
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To keep you company while we work on new content, we're breaking apart one of our classic episodes into digestible chunks. Enjoy one of our personal favorite episodes, and we'll be back with you in the new year with great new stuff. www.theparanoidstrain facebook.com/groups/theparanoidstrain theparanoidstrain at gmail patreon.com/theparanoidstrain …
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To keep you company while we work on new content, we're breaking apart one of our classic episodes into digestible chunks. Enjoy one of our personal favorite episodes, and we'll be back with you in the new year with great new stuff. www.theparanoidstrain facebook.com/groups/theparanoidstrain theparanoidstrain at gmail patreon.com/theparanoidstrain …
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To keep you company while we work on new content, we're breaking apart one of our classic episodes into digestible chunks. Enjoy one of our personal favorite episodes, and we'll be back with you in the new year with great new stuff. www.theparanoidstrain facebook.com/groups/theparanoidstrain theparanoidstrain at gmail patreon.com/theparanoidstrain …
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Complete Qanon: How We Got Here--Part 7
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1:51:03They're finally here! The big, huge files that taken together make up the full Qanon series. There are seven in total, Collect them all! patreon.com/theparanoidstrain Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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1: J.R. Strain: The Podcast S1E1 P2 [Jim's Grow Story]
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59:57Welcome to "J.R. Strain: The Podcast," the captivating podcast that takes you on a thrilling journey through the life and experiences of Jim Strain, the Director of Cultivation for the JR Strain cannabis brand. Join us as we delve into Jim's extraordinary transition from the underground black market to the legalized cannabis industry in the beautif…
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Complete Qanon: How We Got Here--Part 6
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2:17:57They're finally here! The big, huge files that taken together make up the full Qanon series. There are seven in total, Collect them all! patreon.com/theparanoidstrain Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Complete Qanon: How We Got Here--Part 5
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2:42:59They're finally here! The big, huge files that taken together make up the full Qanon series. There are seven in total, Collect them all! patreon.com/theparanoidstrain Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Complete Qanon: How We Got Here--Part 4
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2:30:49They're finally here! The big, huge files that taken together make up the full Qanon series. There are seven in total, Collect them all! patreon.com/theparanoidstrain Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Complete Qanon: How We Got Here--Part 3
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3:05:27They're finally here! The big, huge files that taken together make up the full Qanon series. There are seven in total, Collect them all! patreon.com/theparanoidstrain Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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