To celebrate the one year anniversary of the Make Me A Fan Podcast and the 50th episode, I sat down to do a recap of all past episodes, tell what I’ve learned, and explain the future of the podcast. It’s been a great year. Thank you for listening. visit the new podcast at www.brainsickpod.com    

MKultra was a secret CIA project. Under MKultra, the CIA gave itself the authority to research how drugs could: “promote the intoxicating effects of alcohol;” “render the induction of hypnosis easier;” “enhance the ability of individuals to withstand privation, torture and coercion;” produce amnesia, shock and confusion; and much more. Many of these questions were investigated using unwitting test subjects, like drug-addicted prisoners, marginalized sex workers and terminal cancer patients–”people who could not fight back,” in the words of Sidney Gottlieb, the chemist who introduced LSD to the CIA.MKUltra wasn’t one project, as the US Supreme Court wrote in a 1985 decision on a related case. It was 162 different secret projects that were indirectly financed by the CIA, but were “contracted out to various universities, research foundations and similar institutions.” In all, at least 80 institutions and 185 researchers participated, but many didn’t know they were dealing with the CIA.Many of MKUltra’s records were destroyed in a 1973 purge, and many had been destroyed throughout the program as a matter of course. But 8,000 pages of records–mostly financial documents that were mistakenly not destroyed in 1973–were found in 1977.

What is déjà vu? Is it a medical condition, brain fart, or a glitch in the matrix? We explore!What is déjà vu? Is it a medical condition, brain fart, or a glitch in the matrix? We explore!What is déjà vu? Is it a medical condition, brain fart, or a glitch in the matrix? We explore!

The flat earth conspiracy is quickly becoming the most popular theory today. Rappers, basketball players, and even politicians are coming forth claiming they believe the earth is flat. The theory holds that Earth is a disc with the Arctic Circle in the center and Antarctica, a 150-foot-tall wall of ice, around the rim. NASA employees, they say, guard this ice wall to prevent people from climbing over and falling off the disc. Today we explore this theory, the “facts”, and what lies beyond the ice wall!

Carl Panzram — a tattooed, 6-foot-tall giant of a man with cold gray eyes — stowed away on a ship bound for Angola around 1920 to work as a merchant seaman. After arriving in Lobito Bay, he hired a half-dozen local guides for a crocodile-hunting expedition. But Panzram had other prey on his mind. As their canoe wended its way down the river, he shot each crew member dead before feeding their corpses to the hungry crocodiles lurking below.That was just one of many crimes, including 21 murders and more than 1,000 rapes of young boys and men, Panzram admitted to committing. Unlike charming and cunning serial killers Ted Bundy or Rodney Alcala, Panzram remained brutally honest. “For all of these things, I am not the least bit sorry,” he seethed in his autobiography, penned from his prison cell. “I hate the whole damned human race including myself.”But could he really be that bad? Today we tell the tale of history's most sadistic killer.

What is 9 feet tall, super hairy, and the hide and seek champion of the world? Bigfoot! Or the term "Sasquatch" which came from the Chehalis IndiansThe first use of "Bigfoot" can be traced back to a construction worker named Jerry Crew who brought a plaster cast of a huge animal-like footprint he had found in the muck of Bluff Creek Valley into a local newspaper office in Northern California. On October 5, 1958 The Humbolt Times printed the headline "New 'Sasquatch' found - it's called Bigfoot," Is Bigfoot real? What exactly is he? A Ground sloth? A troll? A Giant leprechaun? What about Bigfoot genitalia and homosexuality in the Bigfoot communities? Is the plural form of Bigfoot Bigfoots or Bigfeet?We explore some very interesting theories and come up with some theories of our own with the help of bigfoot lover Charlie Bussian and get some sceptical views on why Bigfoot isn’t real from Adam Schmalfeldt.

"You can't rape a prostitute, can you?"That was a quote from the Butcher Baker, Robert Hansen. He was a serial killer and rapist who, in the 1980s, targeted prostitutes and topless dancers in Alaska. After soliciting them, he would abduct them and take them to a meat shack by bush plane. He stated that he would let them live if they submitted to his sexual fantasies. The ones who didn't were raped anyway, then stripped naked and set loose in the wilderness where he would hunt them with a .223 hunting rifle. Carrie joins me on today's episode to try to get into the mind of this serial killer and also what to do if you are naked in the woods of Alaska being hunted by a lunatic.

Once found only in hipster health food stores, organic food is now a regular feature at most supermarkets, except aldis apparently. And that's created a bit of a dilemma in the produce aisle.Are they safer? More nutritious?Today Carrie and I Discover the difference between organic foods and their traditionally grown counterparts when it comes to nutrition, safety and price.www.makemeafanpodcast.com    

The Oakland County Child Killer is an unidentified serial killer responsible for the murders of at least two girls and two boys in  Oakland County, Michigan in 1976 and 1977. His victims were left in broad daylight, facing populated buildings, even next to the police department. Who committed these crimes? The suspect list is long and the detail get crazy. Hopefully someone listening will have a clue as to who the killer is or perhaps an armchair detective can help solve this 40 year old cold case.

Tales of Reptilian humanoids have been around forever. Some believe that the reptilian conspiracy originated in the fiction of Conan the Barbarian creator Robert E. Howard’s "The Shadow Kingdom"  in August 1929, or in Maurice Doreal’s pamphlet entitled "Mysteries of the Gobi" in the 1940s.What does this have to do with a hollow earth? And how exactly is the earth hollow? Which pole hole is the anus and which is the mouth? How big of a dick was Moses? We discuss both the hollow earth and the reptilian fan requested conspiracies on this episode. www.makemeafanpodcast.com