Episodes

  • Flouride is Poisoning Us with Jamie Macrae

    Flouride is Poisoning Us with Jamie Macrae
    Jan 20 2026
    Fluoride, pasteurised milk, bottled water, vapes - if you wanted to control society using liquids, where would you even start? Michelle and Jamie take the long-running fear that “they’re putting something in the water” and run with it, unpacking how everyday substances became vessels for anxieties about government power, health, trust, and who gets blamed when things go wrong. With the groundwork laid, Jamie and Michelle shift from analysis to invention, designing a product they'd want to introduce to the market given half a chance and a budget.

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    58 mins
  • Made Up Conspiracy: Cleopatra & the Sydney Opera House with Edward Spence

    Made Up Conspiracy: Cleopatra & the Sydney Opera House with Edward Spence
    Jan 13 2026
    Cleopatra collides with the Sydney Opera House as Michelle and guest Edward Spence spin a playful theory linking ancient curses, lost royalty, and one very suspiciously musical landmark

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    6 mins
  • We Live in a Simulation with Edward Spence

    We Live in a Simulation with Edward Spence
    Jan 6 2026
    We might be living in a simulation - but if we are, wow, whoever's running it is doing an astonishing amount of admin. Michelle is joined by longtime friend and game designer Edward Spence to take the simulation theory seriously and start stress-testing it, from the computing power needed to render the universe to the number of writers it would take to storyboard a single human life. As the conversation unfolds, reality begins to resemble a sprawling writer’s room, complete with NPCs, branching storylines, personality archetypes, cheat codes, and the occasional mid-season rewrite. What emerges isn’t proof that none of this is real, but a growing appreciation for just how much coordination, labour, and narrative intent would be required to fake it.

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    1 hr
  • Made Up Conspiracy: Oprah & the Titanic with Tristan Bernays

    Made Up Conspiracy: Oprah & the Titanic with Tristan Bernays
    Dec 30 2025
    Michelle and guest Tristan Bernays have a big task: fuse Oprah and the Titanic into a conspiracy so outlandish it practically winks at you from the depths. The result is a cheeky, free-wheeling detour where big feelings, bigger billionaires, and bottom-of-the-ocean ambitions collide.

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    2 mins
  • Santa is Real with Jamie Macrae

    Santa is Real with Jamie Macrae
    Dec 23 2025
    Santa survives because we all agree to keep the magic alive. In this episode, Michelle and Jamie take that agreement seriously and start asking what would need to happen behind the scenes for Santa to actually function at scale. The North Pole quickly falls apart under scrutiny, giving way to discussions about supply chains, labour, secrecy, alternative bases, franchising models, and whether it would be easier to hide Santa in a rainforest, on a cruise ship, or in plain sight. By the time they’re done, Santa’s less a jolly loner and more a CEO with a staffing crisis and a very tight delivery window.

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    1 hr and 27 mins
  • Made Up Conspiracy: Beyonce & the Eiffel Tower with Lucy Foster

    Made Up Conspiracy: Beyonce & the Eiffel Tower with Lucy Foster
    Dec 16 2025
    In today’s made-up conspiracy, Michelle is joined by guest Lucy Foster to dream up how and why Beyoncé is linked to the Eiffel Tower.

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    2 mins
  • Walt Disney is Cryogenically Frozen with Lucy Foster

    Walt Disney is Cryogenically Frozen with Lucy Foster
    Dec 9 2025
    Michelle and her guest, writer/director Lucy Foster, pull apart the classic rumour that Walt Disney is cryogenically frozen under Pirates of the Caribbean and the idea that Frozen was named to bury “Walt Disney frozen” in search results. How did film about sisters accidentally became the internet’s greatest SEO distraction theory? The pair dig into what cryonics actually involves, whether living forever is even worth it if your people don’t come with you, and all of the people who have to be in on it to make it work.

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    59 mins
  • Made Up Conspiracy: Einstein & Coca-Cola with Dr. Leila Nashef

    Made Up Conspiracy: Einstein & Coca-Cola with Dr. Leila Nashef
    Dec 2 2025
    Michelle and Dr. Leila Nashef attempt to stitch together a conspiracy between Albert Einstein and Coca-Cola, quickly landing on the idea that a teenage Einstein invented the drink before the recipe was stolen by an ominous early Big Soda. From there, the theory accelerates until, by the end - they’ve conjured a version of Einstein who isn’t just a physicist but a human drinks dispenser.

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    4 mins