Randi alternatively claimed this tape was either altered by Byrd to defame him, or it was actually part of a police sting designed to entrap actual child predators.

He can't have it both ways, so seems to me Randi was just flailing for excuses after the tape was produced through discovery.

Listener question we answered on this episode: what evidence is there that James Randi was a pedophile?

The evidence comes from a defamation suit against Randi, as covered in this Baltimore Sun article. There's also a folder simply titled "Randi's Pedophilia" in Marcello Truzzi's archive at EMU.

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You know the drill by this point: Bradley, Emily, Reid, and Tanner discuss assorted things & continue working our way through listener questions. Today that involves getting sidetracked by Canadian news before tackling a question about James Randi, (cont.) tannerfboyle.substack.com/p/24-gnome-6...

From Episode 1 of Swords Into Plowshares. This show rocks.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=wyWm...

"Discordian warlocks and unstable informants" is too 2022. "狐狸和老鼠" is what we're saying in 2026.

Mainstream journalism is mostly just a vanity career for Ivy League trust fund kids who don't need the work but want to feel like important members of society. No grand conspiracy is required for them to administer propaganda — they do it to advance their own class interests.

Here’s a good block list: bsky.app/profile/did:...

The top post on here mentioning “gaza”… Bluesky has a liberals problem

Gaza war dead. Are you fucking joking? Gaza war dead?

AIPAC treats the US government like its own personal karaoke machine. As long as they keep paying for the room then they get to pick what songs everyone has to sing.

Has Israel given us a number of how many Palestinian children they are going to need to kill before they feel they got a fair measure of revenge?

The U.S. establishment is so one sided in its support of Israeli apartheid that when Israeli soliders intentionally shot journalist Shireen Abu Akleh in the head, killing her, most politicians still didn't unequivocally condemn the murder. She was a U.S. citizen.

From my notes: Whenever I talk about the rapidly increasing number of US military bases and operations surrounding China I get empire simps telling me “But the people in those countries WANT us there!” Okinawa shows it’s always been a nonconsensual relationship disguised as a consensual one.

Remember when a Union-Busting Lawyer to Host Biden’s 1st Fundraiser in 2020?

We will see if he is serious. Didn't he just end a railroad strike?

Heads up y’all. Sally Albright is back following people again.