Baseless Conspiracies Ep. 195: Prussiagate and Hitler's Bloodline with Tim S (Burn Notice)

Jon Herold and Zak Paine welcome guest Tim S (Burn Notice) for one of the more sprawling episodes of the show, tracing what the guest calls "Prussiagate," a decades spanning theory that a Prussian aristocratic bloodline has been quietly steering global power since the 1800s. Ambassadors, banking collapses, the Federal Reserve, Operation Paperclip, and the rise of modern China all get pulled into the narrative as the guest lays out his research from the "1871" and "Council of the Gods" series. Naturally, things eventually veer into stranger territory involving Adolf Hitler, a certain physical trait he may have shared with a few other infamous historical figures, and whether that trait says anything meaningful about power, trauma, or just very unfortunate genetics. Expect Jon and Zak's usual chemistry, some genuinely wild historical tangents, and a level of specificity you were not expecting going into a Monday night show.