Crackpot Theories
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
46 episodes
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...
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Season 2
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Episode 12
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1:11:35
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 bigges...
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Season 2
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Episode 11
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51:44
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...
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Season 2
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Episode 10
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52:48
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 Yent...
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Season 2
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Episode 9
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49:30
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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1:27:49
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 o...
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Season 2
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Episode 7
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42:09
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 Twitc...
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Season 2
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Episode 6
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57:34
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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Season 2
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Episode 5
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55:51
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...
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Season 2
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Episode 4
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35:24
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 Barbi...
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Season 2
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Episode 3
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49:00
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, amn...
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Season 2
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Episode 2
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1:03:05
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...
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Season 2
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Episode 1
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1:02:41
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 ...
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Season 1
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Episode 34
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1:02:51
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...
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Season 1
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Episode 33
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47:14
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...
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Season 1
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Episode 32
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50:13
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 spa...
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Season 1
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Episode 31
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53:32
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 choco...
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Season 1
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Episode 30
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1:01:05
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 ...
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Season 1
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Episode 29
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1:01:14
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 r...
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Season 1
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Episode 28
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55:15
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 doo...
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Season 1
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Episode 27
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1:04:27
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 crysta...
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Season 1
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Episode 26
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49:31
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 re...
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Season 1
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Episode 25
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51:25
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 my...
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Season 1
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Episode 24
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1:01:49
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 ...
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Season 1
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Episode 23
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54:30
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 Va...
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Season 1
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Episode 22
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53:48