HeyJaredCocktails and Conspiracies
"Cocktails & Conspiracies" is a thought-provoking podcast that delves deep into the world of conspiracies, uncovering the facts behind the myths.
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- Sep 18, 2026
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3 Million AI Models and One Very Convenient Week 🍸 Ep 213 (opens the original)
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In this episode, Shane Skwarek and Tim Philipps unpack the AI doom campaign that hit in twelve days: Bernie Sanders and Greg Casar’s Ban Artificial Superintelligence Act, Jacob Coxon’s Anthropic resignation and a quiet X account at nine-figure views, Dario Amodei’s “Pace the Frontier” essay, and Netflix’s The AI Doc dropping the night they recorded. Then the hour turns to what the scare leaves out — Hugging Face’s 3 million open-source AI models, why frontier labs at OpenAI and Anthropic might w
Cote: The UFO Photo That Has Never Been Debunked 🍸 Ep 211 (opens the original)
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In 1971, a government surveyor named Sergio Loaiza was 10,000 feet above Lake Cote in Costa Rica, mapping land for a hydroelectric project, when his camera caught one frame he never saw with his own eyes — a solid, metallic disc hovering over the water. It sat quietly for years until it worked its way into the national press, and it's still called one of the clearest, most scrutinized UFO photographs ever taken. This week, documentary filmmakers Adam Pillon and Megan Woomer join Cocktails & Cons
Lindsay Clancy & the Case That Put the System on Trial 🍸 Ep. 211 (opens the original)
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A case with no mystery about who still produced a martyr. Shane Skwarek and Mister Philipps are back from the summer break on the Lindsay Clancy trial — not to call the jury’s slip, but to ask why the reaction outran the crime. They give her defense the room it asked for: hospitalizations, McLean, a stack of scripts, Patrick’s forgiveness letter, postpartum psychosis as the frame. Then they lean on it. Three separate acts. A built window with takeout and a pharmacy. A phone call in the middle. A
Mothman Mystery: Point Pleasant's Sightings, Science, and the Silver Bridge 🍸 Ep. 210 (opens the original)
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For over a year, people in Point Pleasant, West Virginia reported the same strange sighting: a large gray figure with red eyes and a massive wingspan near an abandoned WWII munitions site. Then, in December 1967, the Silver Bridge collapsed into the Ohio River — and the sightings stopped almost entirely. This week, Shane and Tim work through the full case: the original 1966 witnesses, the leading scientific explanations (a rare sandhill crane, and a toxic-contamination parallel out of Le Roy, Ne
The Belief Audit: 9/11, Epstein, Aliens, Time Travel — What Actually Holds Up 🍸 Ep. 209 (opens the original)
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Cameras down, drinks poured, no guest between them tonight — Shane Skwarek and Tim Philipps go off script to grade the conspiracies they've spent 200+ episodes building a case for. They open on 9/11: the still-redacted files, the collapse of Building 7, and whether an absence of paperwork is proof of anything at all. From there it drifts into Epstein, JFK, and the pattern of missing records that seems to follow nearly every major story — and into the UFO disclosure drip-feed, where the timing of
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