Tag: After Dark

On this edition of the DragonKing Dark podcast from WhenItWasCool.com, host Karl Stern takes a look at the Grand Illusion. What is that? It was a song by Styx in the 1970s, but it is so very relevant today. The media, especially social media, has created a very fake, very false narrative that we have all bought…

There is a book on the subject, and Johnny Cash even sang about it, but what is the real truth behind the White Witch of Rose Hall, Jamaica? As it turns out, there is some truth and a lot of fiction behind the supposed Witch of Rose Hall, which is a popular tourist destination on…

There is a real problem rising in society that the news — nor the courts — are fully ready for: evidence manipulation. In an age where even a novice with a computer can Photoshop pictures, produce near professional quality video and special effects, and then drop them into the sea of social media, what are we to…

After the landmark and record setting past three episodes of the DragonKing Dark podcast, as you might imagine, host Karl Stern has gotten a ton of feedback. On this episode, we work through some of the email responses to the past three shows which, in themselves, raise some interesting new questions and perspectives. We continue our…

Life is weird sometimes…obviously. You are listening to a show that airs on the Dark Matter Radio Network so, of course, you know this. Following on the heels of two of our most popular shows ever, we slow down this episode for a cautionary tale. A story about a man so dedicated to his job…

Following on the heels of last weeks popular Contrarians Are Ruining Society episode, this show kicks it up a notch. This show was previewed by several people who raved about it. The show is titled “The Problem is You” and you will probably laugh, applaud, and you might even get angry — but hopefully it will make…

If you haven’t hopped aboard the DragonKing Dark express in a while, might I request that you give the next two episodes a listen. Host Karl Stern has had enough with the “argumentative for the sake a argument” sect of society and lets it loose on them. Over the next two episodes Karl discusses how, somehow,…

On this edition of the DragonKing Dark podcast, host Karl Stern once again catches up with the what’s happening in the news of the odd, science, and the bizarre. Topics include the death of Stephen Hawking and his works in science and thoughts on the topic of God. Are violent video games causing children to…

We focus on a listener-requested topic for this week’s DragonKing Dark podcast. What is time? Is it even real? Is it a construct of the human mind only for measuring motion — or is it a real testable part of the fabric of the Universe? The answer isn’t as clear as we would like for it…

On this episode of the DragonKing Dark podcast, we take a second look at the devil in rock music. This time, not just fringe super hardcore death metal, but in popular mainstream music. Then, we play the only known voice recording of Aleister Crowley, who we talked about last episode as we continue our look…

This is the first of an ongoing series of DragonKing Dark shows exploring the idea of Satan and the Devil in popular culture. This week’s show explores how Satan has been used both seriously and as a storytelling device in popular music over the years. This topic will continue next week as well, but this…

On this episode of DragonKing Dark, host Karl Stern takes a look at the news of the strange, weird, and odd and focuses on one particular article discussing the problem of why we haven’t found extraterrestrial life yet. If the universe is so vast, and thus should contain lots of life, why haven’t we seen…

This edition of DragonKing Dark is something else. The first half of the show is fine as host Karl Stern reads some listener emails and has a serious discussion about the line between life and death with listener feedback. Then the second half of the show we do news of the weird and odd, and…

It’s the epic 100th episode of DragonKing Dark! On this episode, host Karl Stern looks back at the 100 episodes so far and addresses the question — Has his mind changed about any of this? Does he now believe in Bigfoot? Are UFOs a real thing? Does he believe in ghosts now? Is he more…

In recent news, a group of Chinese scientists have successfully cloned twin monkeys. And on this edition of DragonKing Dark, host Karl Stern will discuss the fact, fiction, hype, and myth about the modern day mad science of cloning things. Karl also takes a look at the question on everyone’s mind — are we next?

Host Karl Stern is back for this week’s episode of the DragonKing Dark podcast — once again talking news and notes from recent weeks. Karl continues to follow the story and fallout of the revelation of the government’s former UFO program with new commentary by scientists and why they, admittedly, don’t care. Then, a website…

On this episode of the DragonKing Dark podcast, host Karl Stern takes a look at weird and odd stories in the news. This week we again seek out UFO sightings in the news, there is now evidence that a disease killed off the Aztecs, and if you enjoyed our episode on Russian experimentation on zombie…

On this episode of the DragonKing Dark podcast, host Karl Stern takes the show back to its origins with “what’s in the news?” This week we have two UFO stories, including a video from Mexico of a vertical UFO. We discuss the recent video of the ghost of a hanged man in the UK and,…

On the first DragonKing Dark podcast of 2018, host Karl Stern cleans out the mailbag which features a variety of topic requests for the new year and several questions and even accusations! We talk UFOs, Karl is accused of being a conspiracy theorist, how skeptics have hijacked that name, and the one supernatural or unexplained…