11 Bizarre Psy-Ops Real Governments Tried To Pull Off

The Cracked Podcast

Literally Media

Comedy Interviews, Comedy

4.6 • 3.5K Ratings

🗓️ 30 March 2020

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

Alex Schmidt is joined by comedians/podcasters Adam Tod Brown (Unpopular Opinion) and Jeff May (Sideshow’s Side Show) for the strangest, silliest, oddest psychological warfare ever plotted by national governments. Discover tales of elected officials and professional militaries dreaming up pranks, toys, holograms, and more bizarre tools for crushing their enemies...even if the execution of those plots would boggle the mind.

Footnotes: https://www.cracked.com/podcast/13-insane-psy-ops-real-governments-tried-to-pull-off/

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0:00.0	Hey there folks, welcome to another episode of the Cracks podcast.
0:14.0	The podcast all about why being alive is more interesting than people think it is.
0:17.9	My name is Alex Schmidt.
0:18.9	I'm also known as Shmitty Deklam.
0:20.0	I'm also known as Shmitty Deklam.
0:21.7	And I am also excited to be among friends today.
0:25.9	Here's today's topic.
0:27.1	Our topic is insane siops, real governments tried to pull off.
0:32.3	One more time that is insane siops, real governments tried to pull off.
0:37.7	Because one way being alive is more interesting than people think it is, is that most world
0:41.6	governments have kicked around the idea of an elaborate prank that they hoped could change
0:46.6	the geopolitical landscape.
0:48.4	Because a siop is a psychological operation, right?
0:51.4	And it's an attempt to fool people or trick people or accomplish something that will change
0:56.4	the balance of things without fighting a war or doing something bigger like that.
1:00.9	And these stories are fun in their strangeness and their wildness.
1:05.4	Also there is some creepy factor because it's just creepy when the government is doing
1:09.1	stuff you don't know about.
1:10.6	And I think any government is very faceless and very hard to connect with.
1:14.6	So it's good to be around buddies when you can relax yourself and be very, very chill and
1:18.7	happy and all that stuff.
1:20.2	And I am around buddies this week, two fantastic guests, two of my favorite people just in general,
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