S5 Ep25: This is Rational? Ziz LaSota and her "Rationalist Fleet"

Strange and Unexplained with Daisy Eagan

True Crime, Society & Culture, Science

4.1 • 10K Ratings

🗓️ 4 December 2025

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

For some, the life that's offered online, from video games, live streams, or chat boards, may feel safer than the one offered out there in the real world. But for Ziz LaSota and her small band of followers, when their online discourse moved into the real world, they created a real world that was, in fact, very, very dangerous.

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2:15.4	Strangers, this episode makes brief mention of suicide and sexual assault. Please take care while listening.
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