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Crackpot Theories
by Sinead Lynch
Everyone has their own theories about what's really going on behind the scenes of their favourite media, but Crackpot Theories is dedicated to the most insane, the most unlikely and the most baffling of theories. Be sure to wear a tinfoil hat when listening, you never know what government agents think we're getting too close to the truth...
Episodes
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S2 Episode Twelve: Tempting the Devil with Horror
Back from hiatus with some more horror content! We all know the legacy of the famous 'cursed' films... The Omen, The Exorcist, Poltergeist etc. But could the bad vibes surrounding those films been deliberately attracted by another set of iconic films? Ones that involved notorious fan of the…
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S2 Episode Eleven: The Elder Scrolls Shifting Reality and Subliminal Beats
This week featuring Eric Holden from The Goblin's Corner podcast sees us discussing Skyrim's creepy reality-shifting Dragonborn and deep diving into the psyche of Alduin the World-Eater. Bonus theory: are all of Lady Gaga's biggest hits secretly referencing the Elder Scrolls? Is the Wobbajack a...
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S2 Episode Ten: The Dark Future of the Muppets
Why do the struggling-for-survival fantasy creatures of the Dark Crystal look and sound so much like Muppets? Same production company or something more sinister? Can you really go from modern day television hijinks to magical dystopia simply by shooting Beaker into the sun? Featuring special…
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S2 Episode Nine: Fiddler on the Death Star
Could the expansive lore of Star Wars have its roots in the most down-to-earth musical of all time, Fiddler on the Roof? Are Leia's hairstyles a reflection of her East-European heritage? Are there six degrees of separation between Yoda and Yente? Discussion with guest star Shai Korman!
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S2 Episode Eight: The Wicker Man, or The Island of Painfully Slow Contract Killers?
Do the residents of Summerisle really believe that burning one policeman to death in a big wicker effigy is going to help their crops, or is that just a cover for what they're REALLY up to? And how did it get burned? We never found out....
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S2 Episode Seven: Les Miserables and Terminator, an Unlikely Connection
What could a super-popular genre-defining musical like Les Miserables have in common with the uber-violent techo-horror Terminator franchise? One robotic stone-faced man-machine hunting his quarry, leaving bodies in his wake and fixated on one particular person: John Connor/Jean Valjean. Guests...
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S2 Episode Six: Disney's Random Decisions
After a short hiatus we are back with more nonsense! Disney has been making some strange decisions lately that seem to be popular with absolutely no-one. What's behind these choices? And what has it got to do with Pokemon? Or Twitch?
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S2 Episode Five: The Complex World of Fancy Glass
In a slightly unusual turn, this week sees us discussing the ins and outs of glass chemistry with BillieBBillie, an expert on the subject. Big Pharma is one thing, Big Glass is something else!
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S2 Episode Four: The Highly Inappropriate World of Charmkins
This episode sees us trying to make sense of the beautifully animated but uncomfortably subtexted Charmkins OVA, made to promote the short-lived Charmkins toy line. Did the people making this cartoon genuinely not realize how much innuendo made it into the finished product? Or was this a…
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S2 Episode Three: The Barbie Supremacy
This week tackles that monolith of blonde ambition, Barbie! How could one personality hold down such a vast array of jobs, contacts, fashion trends and phases of existence over the course of seven decades? Your mistake is in assuming that Barbie is just one person... Featuring special guest and...
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S2 Episode Two: Mulholland Drive, makes more sense than you think....
In our second episode of season 2, we discuss the notoriously nonsensical film Mulholland Drive and attempt to do the impossible...explain it in a way that makes total sense! Hobos behind diners, mysterious band-less clubs, terrible hitmen, amnesia and no-one likes the coffee, how do we turn this...
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Season Two Episode One: Carrie and Matilda, closer than they appear...
Crackpot Theories is back for a second season with a slightly tweaked format and a whole new collection of silly fan theories! To kick things off, Sinead and special guest BillieBBillie discuss the possibility of family ties between blood-soaked scapegoat Carrie White and bookworm wunderkind...
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Episode Thirty-Four: Dragging in the name of the Lord
Our second episode of Drag Race (because we are mildly obsessed) sees us wondering if Beyonce is some sort of blood-sacrifice demanding God, if certain drag queens are capable of astral projection and if the worlds of Pokemon and Drag Race are more closely related than we realize... Note: Due to...
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Episode Thirty-Three: Gravity Falls is Too Much, Man
In this episode, we manage to merge the happy-go-lucky world of Gravity Falls with the misery pit that is Bojack Horseman through two characters that share a voice actress: Mabel Pines and Sarah Lynn. Do the parallels between these two characters go further than just a common voice? Is it…
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Episode Thirty-Two: Black Mirror! What if technology but even worse?
Is it possible to make the dark and gritty 'technology bad' series Black Mirror even more disturbing and depressing than it already is? Of course! In this episode we connect a few dots and we find a handy scapegoat to blame for all of humanity's misfortunes in the series; Capitalism! From rogue...
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Episode Thirty-One: Hannibal, Eating People Across Multiple Timelines
In the fourth episode that sees us discussing cannibalism for some reason, we try to get to the bottom of Hannibal Lecter's amazing skillset and the multiple lifetimes' worth of obscure talents he's managed to build up in a relatively short space of time. Is Hannibal capable of skipping through...
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Episode Thirty, Mini Episodes: Burning Chocolate, Sparking Joy and Getting Hammered
Episode Thirty sees us recovering from the fish-related trauma of last week by shooting wildly into the wind with some short, barely there theories. Theory One: Is there a reason beyond putting together the leftover scraps of chocolate that goes into creating Cadbury's flakes? Theory Two: Do all...
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Episode Twenty-Nine: Padak, Finding Nemo Delicious
This week's episode finds Sorika bravely confronting her fish phobia to talk about the link between happy colourful Pixar classic Finding Nemo and grim as hell sushi-bound Korean film Padak. Whereas one is a sweet ocean adventure where natural predators coexist peacefully beside their prey, the...
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Episode Twenty-Eight: Winnie the Child Catcher
Are the shenanigans of Winnie the Pooh and his woodland friends as sweet and wholesome as they appear to be? Or is the entirety of Hundred Acre Wood just a very complex honey trap to tempt a small child into abandoning the human world for the realm of the fairies? Where are Christopher Robin's...
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Episode Twenty-Seven: He's not the Antichrist, He's a Very Naughty Boy
This episode is a deep dive into one of Sinead's favourite childhood films, horror classic The Omen. Is Damien truly the literal spawn of Satan, or is he a relatively normal kid who just happens to have terrible adoptive parents? Is there a doomsday cult manipulating circumstances around this…
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Episode Twenty-Six: Breaking Basketball in High School Musical
This week sees us connecting the dots between gritty meth drama bomb Breaking Bad and super-shiny tweenage bait High School Musical. Does High School Musical make more sense when you put it in the context of a burnout's fever dream? Does crystal meth make you have intense recollections of your...
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Episode Twenty-Five: Natural Disasters and the Kaiju that cause them
Natural disasters are well-known for not being especially cinematic, so Hollywood has had to ignore scientific fact in order to create a spectacle. But what if in the world of disaster movies, from Dante's Peak to 2012 and beyond, kaiju were responsible for each and every eruption, tremor and...
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Episode Twenty-Four: Mulan's Rise to Ultimate Power
Episode Twenty-Four sees us musing over the inspirational tale of Fa Mulan (specifically the Disney version) and wondering if this is possibly the origin story of one of China's most formidable Empresses? Both Wu Zetian and Empress Cixi have mysterious pasts, is it possible one of them (or both…
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Episode Twenty-Three: Mad Max, Beyond Symbolism
Episode Twenty-Three sees us discussing the Mad Max quadrilogy; is this a surface-level apocalypse or is there something more biblical going on under all that leather, sand and screaming? And on another note, what did Sorika do that was so bad that it made someone make a film featuring all of her...
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Episode Twenty-Two: Sweet Valley Hell
Sweet Valley High is much more than a series of mildly tawdry romance-and-high-school-drama books; it's a rite of passage for many a young girl before she moves on to VC Andrews and Stephen King. But something is rotten at the heart of Sweet Valley...why does one of the twins have so many dead...
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Episode Twenty-One: Wibbly-Wobbly Timey-Wimey Witcher
Episode Twenty-One sees us talking about The Witcher, about whether it truly takes place in an alternate fantasy universe or are we really seeing our earth after apocalyptic disaster? Is there truly magic going on or is it a combination of science and nuclear physics that just look like magic?…
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Episode Twenty: Animal Crossing through the Underworld
Episode Twenty is a surprisingly wholesome theory, thanks to our special guest and his vast knowledge of world mythology and cultural symbols. Is Animal Crossing more than a superficially adorable plot-free time sink? Is the game perhaps the story of numerous animal spirits banding together to…
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Episode Nineteen: The Terror, the Ultimate Bad Ending
This week's episode sees us tackling AMC's The Terror, a show about an Arctic expedition that goes wrong in all the most glorious ways. But could this version of events be just one of many possibilities? Is the cruel god toying with the lives of these men just a person doing a murder run on a…
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Episode Eighteen: Luna Lovegood and the Backwards-Talking Dwarf
In episode eighteen we discuss whether noted kook and patron saint of this podcast Luna Lovegood has a history in another media franchise, a franchise that is a haven for fellow noted kooks. Are the owls what they seem? Is the Quibbler full of secret codes disguised as crackpot theories? Who…
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Episode Seventeen: The Horror in Hello Kitty
Hello Kitty is the very definition of cutesy-pie aesthetic, but somewhere in between socially anxious bunnies, lazy eggs, death metal red pandas and a really weird connection to Yoshiyuki 'Kill 'Em All' Tomino, the Sanrio company splits off in very strange directions. Could there be something…
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Episode Sixteen: Snow White and the Propaganda Machine
So the prince just happened to come across the heir to the throne in a forest with seven friendly little men just after the reigning monarch of the country 'fell to her death?' A likely story! In this episode, we deduce that the romantic lead in the Disney film is telling us all a big pack of lies.
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Episode Fifteen: The Xenomorph was inside you all along...
Episode Fifteen sees us take an extra-deep dive into the world of the Xenomorphs! Chest-bursting, egg-laying, acid-for-blood space bugs, could they be closer than you think? As in, could they have been inside you all this time? Is this extended space opera just a microscopic power play being…
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Episode Fourteen: Rupaul's Drag Race, Drama Bombs, Non-Demonic Possession and Baking Madness?
Make sure to get good and limber for these epic stretches in logic! What possible theories could you make from a series that (arguably) takes place in reality? More than you think! Hunger Games-style sacrifices for the sake of drama, non-demonic possession by poltergeists and the surprising link...
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Episode Thirteen: Gundam, Transformers...Necromancy? MECHromancy!
Episode Thirteen finds an odd correlation between the mech franchises Mobile Suit Gundam and Transformers. Was there some accidental raising of the dead involved?
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Episode Twelve: Toddler TV Special! Pirates, Car Supremacy and the Apocalypse
Our second remotely-recorded episode once again tackles the frightening world of TV made for the pre-school demographic. Is Captain Hook in the magical equivalent of a nursing home in Jake and the Neverland Pirates? Where did all the humans go in Blaze and the Monster Machines? And why does...
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Episode Eleven: The Woman in Black, The Children in Mortal Danger
Episode Eleven is brought to you from two hosts in separate parts of the country, trying to puzzle out who really keeps leading the children to their doom in ghost story The Woman in Black. Note: The audio quality in this episode is not up to our usual standard because countrywide lockdowns have...
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Episode Ten: Where is the money going, Batman?
This week's episode sees us making the bold claim that Batman's dealings with his rogues gallery may be shadier than expected...controversial, we know! Featuring banter about prison riots, extremely dedicated method actors, people who write to serial killers and Wonder Woman getting a job.…
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Episode Nine: Murder She Wrote...Murder She Predicted?
Episode Nine sees Sorika tackle her first solo theory on popular whodunnit series Murder She Wrote. Jessica Fletcher, that nice old dear who seems suspiciously chill about being surrounded by murder, may have something else going on...
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Episode Eight: Disney Princesses, Dark Secrets
The archetypal Disney Princess is the ultimate example of the happy ending at play, but what little details are being left out of the stories? In this episode we examine the secret lives of two Disney icons, Belle and Cinderella. One a possible victim of political turmoil, the other a devil with…
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Episode Seven: Magical Girls, Living Batteries?
For this week's episode we dive into the sparkly wonderland of magical girls, from Sailormoon to Pretty Cure to Steven Universe. Could the secret behind the might of these frilly powerhouses be contained in the fabric of their gigantic skirts? Let's find out!
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Episode Six: In the Night Garden and Fireman Sam...Visions of Hell?
In the Night Garden and Fireman Sam are supposedly squeaky clean, colourful fun for the pre-school age bracket, but what dark secrets are lurking beneath those cheerful facades? Are the residents of the Night Garden being punished for their earthly sins? Is Derek Jacobi being held at gunpoint? Is...
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Episode Five: Thomas the Tank Engine's criminal empire
Thomas the Tank Engine lives on an island that seems suspiciously small and underpopulated to support so many trains...so what if the trains are innocent victims in some criminal mastermind's empire of evil? I always thought that Fat Controller was a shady character...
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Episode Four: CATS! What? Who? Why? How? Whuh?
With the debut of the new CATS film musical, we attempt to explain first of all what CATS is about (spoiler: it's very, very difficult...) and then we talk about our theory regarding Cat Mastervillain Macavity's true identity. Warning: This episode is very silly, even by our standards. Intro…
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Episode Three: Who is Santa, really? The answer will shock you...
A two-for-one episode, our first theory is the confusing tale of what Gandalf did once he left for the Gray Havens and what it has to do with Christmas... ...and what do The Santa Clause, Venom and The Exorcist have in common? More than you think!
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Episode Two: Jaws...who's the real villain here?
When JAWS was released it made people afraid to get into the water...but was it really the shark that scared them, or was it something else? Who's really behind the shenanigans in Amity Island's waters?
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Episode One: My Little Pony: Mutations, the Apocalypse and More
To date there are four distinct versions of cartoons in the My Little Pony franchise, but what if they were all connected on a single timeline that involves race wars, nuclear winter and pony-human hybrids? Welcome to Crackpot Theories, where everything is plausible until proven otherwise!
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
Everyone has their own theories about what's really going on behind the scenes of their favourite media, but Crackpot Theories is dedicated to the most insane, the most unlikely and the most baffling of theories. Be sure to wear a tinfoil hat when listening, you never know what government agents think we're getting too close to the truth...
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Sinead Lynch
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Everyone has their own theories about what's really going on behind the scenes of their favourite media, but Crackpot Theories is dedicated to the most insane, the most unlikely and the most baffling of theories. Be sure to wear a tinfoil hat when listening, you never know what government agents...
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