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Y0YEpisode 20 - The Exploitation of NasubiIn the late 1990s, Japan was suffering a recession and many people were desperate. Few would have put themselves through what poor Nasubi had to endure however.
With ambitions of a career as a stand-up comedian, the young man entered a game show where he would essentially be tortured for over a year, all for the cameras.2023-01-291h 20Y0YEpisode 19 - The Franklin ExpeditionIt's Christmas so settle in for a suitably chilly episode as AJ and Matt dive into another maritime mystery.
In the 19th Century, a northwest passage through modern day Nunavut in Canada to more easily access eastern Asia was of the utmost importance to the British navy. One such voyage, led by Sir John Franklin, was equipped with the latest technology and an experienced and able crew, and yet the two ships and all the sailors upon them vanished and were never heard from again!2022-12-251h 43Y0YEpisode 18 - Alfred LoewensteinOn July 4th, 1928, eccentric Belgian financier Alfred Loewenstein boarded his private plane for a short hop across the English Channel, but between take off and landing the world's third richest man vanished without a trace.
Join an incredibly drunk Matt and AJ as they explore the possibilities of an Agatha Christie-esque locked room mystery!
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You can also follow us on Instagram if you so desire.2022-10-301h 21Y0YEpisode 17 - El FaustoWhat caused four men to vanish while on a routine boat trip between two of the Canary Islands? Why did they refuse assistance when they were found four days later? Matt and AJ answer all to a diminishing degree of accuracy...
Sources:
https://medium.com/lessons-from-history/el-fausto-the-fishing-boat-that-disappeared-three-times-54e15817c476
http://www.micinexin.net/2018/07/30/fausto-tres-desapariciones-inexplicables/
https://www.reddit.com/r/UnresolvedMysteries/comments/8tbc62/the_mystery_of_fishing_boat_fausto/
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Y0YEpisode 16 - Satoshi Nakamoto and BitcoinBitcoin is known today as the ubiquitous cryptocurrency, but the identity of its creator, who owns an untouched wallet of millions of Bitcoin making them the 15th richest person in the world, has never been revealed... or has it?
Join Matt and AJ for a relatively topical episode which looks at a trial that has concluded not long ago which throws some interesting light on the case.
Also join us for a guide to the Australian accent, the fidelius charm from Harry Potter, and the intriguing love life of AJ's dad!2022-06-121h 23Y0YEpisode 15 - The ¥300m AffairIn 1968, someone in Japan pulled off one of the most audacious heists the country has ever seen. Who was this person and how did they get away with it? Matt and AJ try (and fail) to answer this question.
Sources: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/300_million_yen_robbery
https://www.irishexaminer.com/world/arid-20216592.html
https://moneyweek.com/363610/10-december-1968-the-300-million-yen-robbery2022-06-051h 10Y0YEpisode 14 - The Loch Ness MonsterIs there any truth to the rumour of a titanic beast lurking in the depths of Scotland's largest body of water? Matt and AJ look into the murky lake and leave no stone unturned.2022-05-2958 minY0YEpisode 13 - Mary CelesteWhen the small crew of the sailing ship Mary Celeste set off for her final voyage in the mid 19th century, they could have no idea they would soon become part of the most infamous disappearance in maritime history...
Sources: https://www.britannica.com/technology/ship/Shipping-in-the-19th-century
https://www.rmg.co.uk/stories/topics/life-sea-age-sail
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mutiny_on_the_Bounty#Bligh's_open-boat_voyage
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brigantine
https://archive.org/details/storyofmaryceles0000fayc/page/n321/mode/2up
...2022-05-221h 09Y0YHallowe'en Special - Our paranormal experiencesIn this special episode for Hallowe'en, Matt and AJ talk about their own paranormal experiences, from invisible feet tickling entities, to a speak that speaks to you, Y0Y has seen its fair share of ghosts over the years!Hopefully it will not now be too long until season 2 is ready to go, we've become much busier since the pandemic has, well not ended, but at least become significantly less bad, and so we've decided to work to an entirely different release schedule - we'll be releasing a few episodes at a time weekly and calling that...2021-10-311h 11Y0YEpisode 12 - The disappearance of Richey Edwards**TRIGGER WARNING** This episode contains discussions of mental health, self-harm and suicide. If you are struggling, please visit Mind who have tons of help with mental health. Please also visit Missing People to learn more about searching for people who have disappeared.
In 1995, the Manic Street Preachers were planning to embark on a tour of the USA to promote their critically acclaimed and unrelentingly bleak third album, the Holy Bible. As lead singer James Dean Bradfield prepared to fly to America to do a press tour, the band's lyricist and rhythm guitarist, Richey Edwards, checked out of...2021-06-132h 20Y0YEpisode 11 - Half-Life 3In 2007, the gaming world held its breath as it counted down to the release of the final episodic instalment to the main Half-Life game series. Gordon Freeman and game-developer, Valve's, story came to prominence with the release of the original Half-Life in 1998, the release of the sequel, Half-Life 2, in 2004 and then 2 more episodes continuing Gordon's story set to end with the final Half-Life 3, or Half-Life 2 episode 3, in December 2007.
But that game has never been released! The story ends on a cliffhanger, press releases were made to hype the Christmas release of that final instalment, but Valve devolved...2021-05-301h 29Y0YEpisode 10 - Unfavourable SemicircleIn 2015, a mysterious YouTube channel appeared and began uploading videos at an alarming rate. Some were only a few seconds long, some lasted hours. Some were silent, some had audio soundscaping, some contained the muffled voice of a man reading out numbers and letters. The sequences of images were seemingly random selections of what looks like abstract computer art...
What does it all mean, if anything? What's with the connection to Greek and Roman mythology? Why does Matt sound suspiciously like the muffled voice in the videos? None of this will be revealed in the podcast, but...2021-05-161h 10Y0YEpisode 9 - The Wisbech ArsonistIn the Spring of 2010, the small English market town of Wisbech suffered a spate of deliberately started fires in vacant buildings. Nobody was harmed in the fires, but plenty of the buildings were listed as part of the town's signature architecture dating back to Georgian times. With most of the fires situated on main roads within the town, rumour soon started to spread that a single culprit was responsible, but nobody has ever been charged in relation to these specific fires.
Join AJ and Matt in discussing the bizarre, little-known history of the town Matt grew up...2021-05-021h 17Y0YEpisode 8 - Twin Galaxies and the Donkey Kong ConspiracyBilly Mitchell was an arcade gaming superstar, as synonymous with the craft as Pele was with football, and he held the world record for the high score on Donkey Kong for nearly twenty years. Mitchell was the poster boy for Twin Galaxies, a company organising competitive arcade gaming and paving the way for videogames to become the lucrative tour de fource we know them as today.
But in the mid 2000s an unassuming man from Washington came out of nowhere to beat Billy's record. Steve Wiebe had no idea of the can of worms he had opened...2021-04-181h 37Y0YEpisode 7 - Göbekli Tepe11,000 years ago, our ancestors were still in the stone age, and had yet to develop agriculture. So, how did they come to build a massive stone structure overlooking the plains of the cradle of civilisation in modern day Turkey?
Göbekli Tepe is impossibly old, given our understanding of civilisation, but there it stands for all to see. Who built it and what for? Most intriguingly of all, why was it deliberately buried about a thousand years after its construction?
Support us on Buy Me a Coffee to get more content and help u...2021-04-041h 12Y0YEpisode 6 - DejimaFor over 200 years, Japan had a strict isolationist policy where natives were not allowed to leave and foreigners were not allowed to enter. The one exception was Dejima; an artificial island off the coast of Nagasaki, built to allow traders from a select few nations to do limited business with the mainland. But why was this in place, and what was the legacy of Dejima?
AJ tells Matt all about the period's politics and the hosts discuss what it's like to live in an island nation that cuts off its access to the rest of the world...2021-03-2157 minY0YEpisode 5 - The World Cup TheftWhen football came home in 1966, England suffered international embarrassment when the Jules Rimet Trophy was stolen from an exhibition in London. The trophy was later recovered by the dog Pickles, one of history's goodest boys, but nobody knows who stole it and where it went during that time!
The Trophy seems rather coveted as it was stolen again from Rio De Janeiro in 1983, never to be found. Has it been melted down or destroyed, or could it still be out there, waiting for a canine detective to discover it once more?
Support us on Buy...2021-03-0748 minY0YEpisode 4 - Cicada 3301In 2012, a seemingly innocuous online puzzle blossomed into a worldwide scavenger hunt. The person, or organisation, behind the puzzles is known only as 3301 accompanied with a cicada logo, but their ability to create the puzzles with such complexity, which include an automated phoneline, real-life locations for some puzzles and a mysterious coded book has lead to people questioning who they are and what exactly are they trying to achieve with all this?
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In this bonus episode, AJ and Matt chat about their favourite representations of aliens in films, as a bonus to the Fermi Paradox episode. This episode was recorded remotely as AJ had to self-isolate and doesn't have the quite the array of recording tech Matt has, and neither host has a spectacular internet connection...
Follow us on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook!2021-02-1239 minY0YEpisode 3 - The Fermi ParadoxAJ and Matt attempt to answer the biggest mystery as we come up to Valentine's Day; why are we alone?
Our home galaxy, the Milky Way, has been around for billions of years, and given how (relatively) quickly life was able to develop on Earth, it should be teeming with extra-terrestrial life. But despite that, we, as a species, have never seen conclusive evidence life, much less intelligent life, exists anywhere else, so what might be hiding it from view?
Are they too far away, too alien, too stupid, too clever or are we really...2021-02-071h 40Y0YEpisode 2 - MH370None of the 227 passengers onboard the routine flight from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing knew anything was amiss as the plane took off in the early hours of March 8th, 2014. Less than an hour later the flight disappeared from radar screens and into one of the greatest mysteries ever...
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MH370 Australian documentary: https...2021-01-241h 37Y0YEpisode 1 - The Dyatlov Pass IncidentWelcome to the first episode of Y0Y! This time we're talking about the Dyatlov Pass Incident, when a group of hikers took to the Urals in 1959 and never came back...
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Weekly Wrestling PodcastWeekly Wrestling Podcast Ep. 26 - '3 Year Anniversary'Pro Wrestling News Part 1 w/ Matthew, Landon & Alex - 1:31
Barrie Wrestling Live Podcast w/ Fight or Flight, John Greed, Anthony Fiasco & Jaze Hartless - 51:28
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EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW WITH MATT RIDDLE (@riddletuf7) -
Matt Riddle makes his first ever appearance on the Weekly Wrestling Podcast to talk about his upcoming debut at Alpha-1 Wrestling's 'King of Hearts 2016' in August versus Josh Alexander, PWG 'BROLA' 2016, working for EVOLVE, Beyond & other promotions + transition from UFC, WWE...2016-07-073h 53