Boozed and Confused dives into the topics you never knew existed. Join us every Monday to drink & discuss all things paranormal, conspiracy, mystery, and just plain weird.
Episodes
Tuesday Aug 23, 2022
Tuesday Aug 23, 2022
Warren Jeffs’s name has only been in the national news since the 2000s (helped by recent documentary Keep Sweet) but his involvement in the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints has spanned decades. This week, Matt and Carolanne talk about the man with more than 60 kids, 78 wives, and a dark story.
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This week's booze of choice: Golden State Cerveza + Smithwicks
Sources:
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warren_Jeffs
- https://msmagazine.com/2010/07/27/polygamist-warren-jeffs-can-now-marry-off-underaged-girls-with-impunity/
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fundamentalist_Church_of_Jesus_Christ_of_Latter-Day_Saints#History
- https://www.womenshealthmag.com/life/a40231460/warren-jeffs-children-keep-sweet/
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lost_boys_(Mormon_fundamentalism)
- https://www.cnn.com/2007/US/law/11/20/jeffs.sentence/
- https://www.brielldecker.com/about-1
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hWmsoCIuDn4
- https://www.cnn.com/2015/09/30/us/warren-jeffs-son-speaks-out/index.html
Monday Aug 15, 2022
Monday Aug 15, 2022
Last week it was announced that Amazon would be buying iRobot, the maker of Roomba, for $1.7B. What would Amazon want with your robot vacuum friend? Your valuable home data. This week, Matt and Carolanne talk about privacy concerns with Amazon's acquisition of Roomba.
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This week's booze of choice: Sam Adam's Oktoberfest
Sources:
- https://www.cnbc.com/2022/08/05/amazon-to-acquire-maker-of-roomba-vacuum-for-roughly-1point7-billion.html
- https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/amazon-privacy-lobbying/
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_mergers_and_acquisitions_by_Amazon#Acquisitions
- https://thehill.com/business-a-lobbying/business-a-lobbying/590788-amazon-meta-report-record-2021-lobbying-spending/
- https://www.statista.com/statistics/934089/worldwide-robotic-vacuum-cleaner-market-share/#:~:text=iRobot%20is%20the%20leading%20robotic,of%2046%20percent%20in%202020
- https://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/nation-now/2017/07/25/roomba-plans-sell-maps-users-homes/508578001/
- https://techcrunch.com/2022/08/05/amazon-is-buying-irobot-for-1-7b/
- https://www.businessinsider.com/amazon-roomba-vacuums-most-dangerous-threatening-acquisition-in-company-history-2022-8
- https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/25/technology/roomba-irobot-data-privacy.html
- https://www.wired.com/story/amazon-irobot-roomba-acquisition-data-privacy/
Monday Aug 08, 2022
Monday Aug 08, 2022
After two encounters with the Tallahassee police department over weed, Rachel Hoffman was encouraged by investigator Ryan Pender to become a confidential informant and have potential felony charges reduced or dropped. Rachel was murdered during the sting operation and a cover-up and smear campaign followed quickly thereafter by the parties responsible for her death. This week, Matt and Carolanne talk about the murder of Rachel Hoffman.
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This week's booze of choice: Revolution's Hazy Hero
Sources:
- https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2012/09/03/the-throwaways
- https://www.wtxl.com/news/remembering-rachel-hoffman-s-murder-years-later/article_ea518ee8-52c9-11e8-ae8f-27670182aced.html
- https://www.tallahassee.com/story/news/2018/05/06/10-years-later-rachel-hoffmans-death-makes-police-informants-safer/580595002/
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Rachel_Hoffman
- https://www.pumphreylawfirm.com/blog/rachels-law-what-it-means-for-confidential-informants/
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=euhN57b2Ayg
Tuesday Aug 02, 2022
Tuesday Aug 02, 2022
It feels like every few months we’re teased with something in news headlines about Alzheimer’s research progress being made, but there's little follow-up. This week, Matt and Carolanne talk about "fraudulent" Alzheimer's research from Sylvain Lesne that's potentially derailed 16 years of progress.
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This week's booze of choice: Kirkland's IPA and Goose Island's 312 Lemonade Shandy
Sources:
- https://www.science.org/content/article/potential-fabrication-research-images-threatens-key-theory-alzheimers-disease
- https://www.nbcnews.com/science/science-news/alzheimers-theory-undermined-accusations-fabricated-research-rcna39843
- https://www.theguardian.com/society/2022/jul/23/alzheimers-study-fraudulent
- https://www.businessinsider.com/alzheimers-manipulated-data-wasted-research-science-investigation-ab56-2022-7
- https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2022/07/alzheimers-disease-data-fraud-sylvain-lesne/670995/
Monday Jul 25, 2022
Monday Jul 25, 2022
Technology seems to get smarter and smarter with each passing day. Have we finally created truly feeling and sentient artificial intelligence? One ex-Google employee seems to think so. Join Carolanne and Matt as they explore the case of Google’s LaMDA and Blake Lamoine.
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This week's booze of choice: Warpigs Brewing Foggy Geezer Hazy IPA
Sources:
- https://twitter.com/cajundiscordian
- https://cajundiscordian.medium.com/is-lamda-sentient-an-interview-ea64d916d917
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kgCUn4fQTsc
- https://blog.google/technology/ai/lamda/
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LaMDA
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turing_test
- https://www.engadget.com/blake-lemoide-fired-google-lamda-sentient-001746197.html?src=rss
- https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/06/11/google-ai-lamda-blake-lemoine/
Tuesday Jul 19, 2022
Tuesday Jul 19, 2022
For years, Saudi Arabia has been buying up farmland across the world as they run out of water to sustain their agriculture industry. One unlikely place they’re fond of for their crops? Arizona. This week, Matt and Carolanne talk about Saudi Arabia’s love affair with Arizona that worsens the existing water crisis.
This week's promo: PNW Haunts and Homicides
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This week's booze of choice: Voodoo Ranger Juicy IPA
Sources
- https://epic.uchicago.edu/insights/water-shortages-threaten-the-economy-and-our-food-supply/#:~:text=Water%20shortages%20currently%20affect%20more,the%20West%20is%20also%20persistent.
- https://earth.org/arizona-water-shortage/#:~:text=The%20Arizona%20water%20shortage%202021,the%20Colorado%20River%20to%20plummet.
- https://new.azwater.gov/news/articles/2022-27-05
- https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/19/magazine/the-water-wars-of-arizona.html
- https://www.12news.com/article/news/local/water-wars/saudi-arabia-arizona-farm-alfalfa-1940/75-c7eb6295-3c5e-4b7e-8989-fbf4d41c6aa7
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irrigation_in_Saudi_Arabia
Monday Jul 11, 2022
Monday Jul 11, 2022
On July 6th, the Georgia Guidestones were destroyed after what local officials call “an act of terrorism”. This week, we dive into the mystery behind “America’s Stonehenge” and who built it.
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This week's booze of choice: Voodoo Ranger Juicy IPA and Sierra Nevada Sunny Little Thing
Resources to help those affected by the Highland Park IL mass shooting: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1BaSX9cfR_JE1xNsC_Hw01mDe_vnbVwqEj9v3mN3tbos/
Sources:
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgia_Guidestones
- https://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/history-archaeology/georgia-guidestones/
- https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/georgia-guidestones-became-magnet-conspiracy-theorists-rcna37279
- https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/nobody-knows-how-to-interpret-this-doomsday-stonehenge-in-georgia-5592082/
- https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/georgia-guidestones-destroyed-in-an-explosive-attack-180980383/
Monday Jun 27, 2022
Monday Jun 27, 2022
You’ve probably heard more about Ginni Thomas, the wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, in the past few months than you have in your entire lifetime. Join Matt and Carolanne this week to talk about the most controversial supreme court justice spouse in modern history.
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This week's booze of choice: Kirkland Small Batch Whisky and The Finnish Long Drink
Sources:
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anita_Hill#Allegations_of_sexual_harassment_against_Clarence_Thomas
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Heritage_Foundation#Trump_administration
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberty_Central
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Groundswell_(group)
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Council_for_National_Policy
- https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/2022/06/10/ginni-thomas-election-arizona-lawmakers/
- https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/03/25/thomas-texts-recusal-worse/
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Eastman
- https://www.cnn.com/2022/04/06/politics/justice-clarence-thomas-wife-ginni-poll-recusal/index.html
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ginni_Thomas
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lifespring
Wednesday Jun 22, 2022
Wednesday Jun 22, 2022
The Johnstown Flood killed 2,209 Pennsylvanians in 1889, caused by the catastrophic failure of the South Fork Dam. Join Matt and Carolanne this week as they talk about one of the deadliest floods in American history.
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This week's booze of choice: Revolution's A Little Crazy and Ruffino Limonata Wine Spritz
Sources
- https://www.google.com/maps/@40.3157463,-78.9276442,3a,75y,134.4h,63.61t/data=!3m8!1e1!3m6!1sAF1QipNyozvgS_OtAtGRhlCRgFSbzOl_CY8zJNBd0kOR!2e10!3e11!6shttps:%2F%2Flh5.googleusercontent.com%2Fp%2FAF1QipNyozvgS_OtAtGRhlCRgFSbzOl_CY8zJNBd0kOR%3Dw203-h100-k-no-pi0-ya8.511984-ro-0-fo100!7i8704!8i4352
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnstown_Flood
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Fork_Fishing_and_Hunting_Club
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grandview_Cemetery,_Johnstown
- https://www.history.com/news/how-americas-most-powerful-men-caused-americas-deadliest-flood
- https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/the-johnstown-flood#:~:text=The%20South%20Fork%20Dam%20in,Conemaugh%20and%20Stony%20Creek%20Rivers.
Monday Jun 13, 2022
Monday Jun 13, 2022
PPP loans were created as a safety net for businesses during the beginning of COVID, promising to cover payroll and other expenses of businesses while the world came to a stop. Who knew that having billions of dollars from the US Government available with little to no vetting could lead to one of the greatest mass fraud schemes in modern history?
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This week's booze of choice: Kirkland Citra Hop Session IPA
Sources
- https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/justice-department/biggest-fraud-generation-looting-covid-relief-program-known-ppp-n1279664
- https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/justice-department/new-covid-fraud-prosecutor-steps-effort-convict-people-stole-billions-rcna19536
- https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/man-convicted-27-million-ppp-fraud-scheme
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paycheck_Protection_Program#Fraud
- https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/woman-pleads-guilty-438-million-covid-19-relief-fraud-scheme
- https://www.arnoldporter.com/en/general/cares-act-fraud-tracker