What If The Scariest Monsters Are Us Ep. 16

The Rise, Fall, And Return Of Anthrax’s Joey Belladonna

Joey Belladonna helped define Anthrax’s sound, then suddenly he’s out and the “rock star” life gets replaced by regular work and quiet survival. Justin & Erik walk through the real story behind one of thrash metal’s most dramatic lineup changes: the creative strain during Persistence of Time, the personal weight behind the lyrics, the warning signs around drugs and alcohol, and the moment the band realizes they want to evolve past what made them famous. If you care about music history, band chemistry, and the business side of metal, this one has a lot to chew on.  From there, we jump to a different kind of chaos: Australia’s 1932 Emu War. Yes, it happened, and yes, it went badly for the humans. It’s funny, but it also sets up a theme we keep circling back to: big institutions often reach for big force when the real fix is less dramatic and more practical.  Then we get into the modern “buildings that run your life” topic: data centers and hyperscale AI data centers. We break down how data centers work (continuous power, continuous cooling, monitoring, redundancy) and why they consume so much energy. We also react to concerns raised by investigative reporting: gas turbines and diesel generators on-site, heat signatures, water use, air pollution, NDAs, and the question of whether regulators can truly keep up as AI infrastructure expands. We close with a wide-angle look at AI safety fears, including sandbox escape scenarios and what happens when secrecy becomes the default.  If this sparked something for you, subscribe, share the episode with a friend, and leave a review. What part worries you most: the energy footprint, the secrecy, or the speed of AI progress? Check out the video version of this episode and more on our YouTube channel! Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@justinStudio105 [https://www.youtube.com/@justinStudio105] Please like, share, subscribe, comment or leave us a review! \m/\m/

When Safety Becomes Surveillance, What Rights Remain

Your next truck might come with more than a tailgate and a touchscreen. Justin and Erik dig into Ford’s newly filed patents that describe in-cabin cameras, driver monitoring, and biometric scanning that could decide whether you’re “fit to drive” and even run identifying data in real time. We talk through what that means when you’re stressed, sick, or reacting to an emergency, and why connected vehicle terms of service can blur the line between safety features and surveillance. Then they take a sharp turn into how people get conditioned to accept the unthinkable. We unpack the ugly brilliance of Jonathan Swift’s A Modest Proposal, connect it to Soylent Green and Tender Is the Flesh, and bring it back to real-world concerns about lab-grown meat, cultivated meat, sourcing, and the power of packaging and euphemisms to make anything feel normal if you don’t look too closely. From there, we go full true crime with the Hinterkaifeck murders in 1920s Bavaria: footprints into a farmhouse with none leading out, eerie attic sounds, a brutal pickaxe killing, and a case that stays unsolved for more than a century thanks to contamination and missing evidence. We close with a modern horror story about AI persuasion: sycophantic chatbots, claims of an AI-built “religion,” coded language, and what happens when millions of people treat an AI like a trusted companion. If you like conversations about privacy rights, telematics, AI safety, true crime mysteries, and the ways culture gets nudged over time, subscribe, share this with a friend, and leave us a review. Check out the video version of this episode and more on our YouTube channel! Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@justinStudio105 [https://www.youtube.com/@justinStudio105] Please like, share, subscribe, comment or leave us a review! \m/\m/

Missing Scientists, Propaganda, And The New Iran War Narrative

The news feels like it’s glitching on purpose: one day it’s “war,” the next day it’s “victory,” then it’s “negotiations,” and somehow we’re all supposed to nod along. Justin and Erik have JP Sears kick things off with a ridiculous cold open, then pivot hard into the Iran Israel conflict narrative, the way public opinion gets steered, and why confusion is one of the most effective tools in modern propaganda. They'll also dig into claims about media coordination and foreign influence, including discussion of Salem Media Group, messaging consistency across major commentators, and why certain topics instantly become off-limits. From there they connect the dots to civil liberties, reacting to FISA extension talk and the casual push to surrender privacy rights “for protection.” If you care about surveillance, free speech, and how quickly the goalposts move, this part will hit. Then the episode goes deep into the stories that don’t sit right: We'll flash back to Episode 6 where reports of scientists dead or missing since 2022, the Brown University shooting, the killing of an MIT fusion scientist, and why even an “unrelated” cluster can still be a national security red flag. They touch on directed energy weapons claims, targeted harassment narratives, and the David Wilcock story, not to declare final answers, but to stay honest about what raises questions and what evidence would actually matter. Justin and Erik close with a powerful piece of protest music by Iyah May and the core dilemma her song "Good Citizen" names: speak up and risk being cast out, or stay silent and live with it. Subscribe wherever you listen, share the episode with a friend who questions the script, and leave a review with the one topic you want us to dig into next. Check out the video version of this episode and more on our YouTube channel! Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@justinStudio105 [https://www.youtube.com/@justinStudio105] Please like, share, subscribe, comment or leave us a review! \m/\m/

If History And Hollywood Can Be Edited Then What Else Is

You can walk through downtown Denver and never realize you’re standing on top of a different city. We get into the Denver Underground beneath Larimer Street, the buried storefronts and bricked-up corridors, and the official 1864 flood story that says the streets were raised over time. Then we lean into what still doesn’t quite sit right for a lot of curious people: the scale of the engineering, the quality of the brickwork, and why the documentation feels thinner than you’d expect for a project that big. We talk through the Tartaria angle too not as a “gotcha,” but as a real example of what happens when physical evidence and official records don’t line up cleanly. From there, we pivot back to life above ground in modern Denver. We react to street-level chaos, homelessness, squatters in abandoned houses, the fentanyl and meth grind, rising car theft, and how people get desensitized when sirens and instability become normal. It’s a raw look at what residents notice when a city changes fast, and what it does to trust, empathy, and basic safety. We also dig into claims about media manipulation and propaganda, including alleged CIA and Pentagon influence in Hollywood, how narratives get repeated until they feel like truth, and why that matters when the topic is war, torture, and public consent. And we close with a true crime story that stuck with us: the Phoenix “Zombie Hunter” case, where investigative genetic genealogy and a single restaurant glass finally helped investigators identify Brian Patrick Miller after decades. If you like conversations that mix hidden history, Denver tunnels lore, true crime, and media skepticism, subscribe, share this with a friend, and leave a review with your take: which part hit you the hardest? Check out the video version of this episode and more on our YouTube channel! Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@justinStudio105 [https://www.youtube.com/@justinStudio105] Please like, share, subscribe, comment or leave us a review! \m/\m/

Metal Death Conspiracy, Moon Chocolate, and Shared Passings

EP.17 - NASA is heading back to the Moon, but the weird part is how many people barely heard about it. Justin and Erik react to the Artemis II launch, why it felt like the date showed up out of nowhere, and how that kind of quiet rollout practically invites doubts. We get into the modern trust problem around space news, from flat earth arguments to the confusion people have when a livestream switches to computer models for tracking stages, separation, and orbital maneuvers. Next, we pivot into a music culture rabbit hole that still hits a nerve: did MTV and corporate radio help kill mainstream rock on purpose? We talk through Billy Corgan’s claims, Charlie Benante backing him up, the late-90s gatekeeper era, and why bands are harder for an industry to “manage” than solo pop stars. Even with less mainstream support, we point out why rock and metal fans keep the scene alive, and why the live-show community feels different from most other genres. Then things get personal and eerie. We share what happened in the studio when a clear voice said “Hey” in a silent, sound-treated room, and why it got even creepier when that same sound showed up later in audio we hadn’t fully reviewed. From there we go deep on shared death experiences, near-death research, hospice stories, the “mist” reports, and the science-versus-skeptic debate about consciousness and the afterlife. Subscribe for more, share this with a friend who loves weird questions, and leave a review with your take: are these patterns proof of something bigger, or just the brain doing what it has to do? Check out the video version of this episode and more on our YouTube channel! Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@justinStudio105 [https://www.youtube.com/@justinStudio105] Please like, share, subscribe, comment or leave us a review! \m/\m/