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Fixation Rotation

Fixation Rotation

by Jessica & Sarah

Science Society & Culture

A History of Pyramid Schemes and MLMs

MLMs vs. Pyramid Schemes… What is the difference? This week we dive deep into the History of the Pyramid Scheme and ultimately Multi-Level Marketing and learn that the difference between the two may not be as obvious as one may think… Have a good topic we should fixate on or want to reach out? Find us here: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/fixationrotationpod/ Tik Tok: https://www.tiktok.com/@fixationrotationpod Email: fixationrotationpod@gmail.com YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@FixationRotationPod Sources: Think and Grow Rich on If Books Could Kill Podcast: https://open.spotify.com/episode/66Sn5YcLfDswWUPBtC3bMa?si=56fdc51712a447d4 Little Bosses Everywhere by Bridget Read: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/715421/little-bosses-everywhere-by-bridget-read/ https://antimlmcoalition.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/coercive-techniques-brooks.pdf https://www.britannica.com/event/New-Thought https://www.amway.ca/en_CA/about-amway/history?utm_source=google&utm_medium=cpc&utm_campaign=IV_G_S_Brand_Negative_CA&utm_term=amway%20mlm&net=g&device=c&gad_source=1&gad_campaignid=19333216048&gbraid=0AAAAApG0jB4WeKwtVUhv9szb3HGlm3_Rp&gclid=CjwKCAjwwrPVBhA1EiwAv_YO-Sl9iJQljS2MlXn-h1JTMA68OU7p7VChB1FJTgn_T7Ujtt51h_GKJhoC85sQAvD_BwE ----------------------------------------------------------------- Music from #Uppbeat (free for Creators!): https://uppbeat.io/t/moire/space-ranger License code: L62L0XQV3IFXKQRO

The Reptilian Conspiracy Theory

Have you ever wondered if the world is actually run by a cabal of lizard people who sustain themselves by feeding on negative human emotions? Us either. Let’s get weird. Sister Episode: The Nephilim Listen on Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/fixation-rotation/id1647416261?i=1000596450541 Listen on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/episode/42TeSefhtMC9aN8Z6Mhvy7?si=e4977da1c1b74245 Sources: The Biggest Secret by David Icke The 12th Planet by Zecharia Sitchin The Role of Early Trauma in the Formation of Belief in Reptilian Conspiracy Theories: A Psychoanalytic Perspective — Agnieszka M. Dixon (2023) https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/bjp.12856 Public Policy Polling — Conspiracy Theory Survey (2013) https://www.publicpolicypolling.com/polls/democrats-and-republicans-differ-on-conspiracy-theory-beliefs/ Everything causes cancer? Beliefs and attitudes towards cancer prevention among anti-vaxxers, flat earthers, and reptilian conspiracists — The BMJ (2022) https://www.bmj.com/content/379/bmj-2022-072561 Have a good topic we should fixate on or want to reach out? Find us here: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/fixationrotationpod/ TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@fixationrotationpod Email: fixationrotationpod@gmail.com

Lefties

Lefties unite! Today, Sarah takes us on a journey about left-handedness. Why does it exist? What challenges do left-handed people face? Are they clumsier than right-handed people? Come join us down the rabbit hole and find out! Have a good topic we should fixate on or want to reach out? Find us here: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/fixationrotationpod/ Tik Tok: https://www.tiktok.com/@fixationrotationpod Email: fixationrotationpod@gmail.com YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@FixationRotationPod

The Roswell Incident

We're venturing into full-on bizarre territory this week as we discuss The Roswell Incident! This story has it all: aliens, spaceships, secret cold war projects, and a special shoutout to Fredericton, NB. And although Sarah has been reading about Roswell since 1999 (note: she was 9 years old), she learns many new facts about this conspiracy. Have a good topic we should fixate on or want to reach out? Find us here: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/fixationrotationpod/ Tik Tok: https://www.tiktok.com/@fixationrotationpod Email: fixationrotationpod@gmail.com Sources: https://www.history.com/articles/kenneth-arnold https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H4AxRTzASxE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gK5vjLVDOiE https://content.time.com/time/subscriber/article/0,33009,986565-3,00.html https://science.howstuffworks.com/space/aliens-ufos/history-roswell-incident.htm https://ia601607.us.archive.org/20/items/DTIC_ADA326148/DTIC_ADA326148.pdf https://media.defense.gov/2010/Oct/27/2001330219/-1/-1/0/AFD-101027-030.pdf https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m9lTaQMvDvs https://books.google.ca/books/about/The_Roswell_Incident.html?id=ni4RAAAACAAJ&redir_esc=y

Dolphin Mothers

Some people are Horse Girls but today we discover that Sarah is a Dolphin Girl. This week we dive into the surprisingly complicated world of dolphins, and if daily dolphin life isn't already complicated enough, dolphin motherhood turns it into an extreme sport. Sources Janik, V. M., & Sayigh, L. S. (2013). Communication in bottlenose dolphins: 50 years of signature whistle research. Journal of Comparative Physiology A, 199(6), 479–489. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00359-013-0817-7 Janik, V. M., Sayigh, L. S., & Wells, R. S. (2006). Signature whistle shape conveys identity information to bottlenose dolphins. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 103(21), 8293–8297. Sayigh, L. S., El Haddad, N., Tyack, P. L., Janik, V. M., Wells, R. S., & Jensen, F. H. (2023). Bottlenose dolphin mothers modify signature whistles in the presence of their own calves. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 120(27), e2300267120. Wells, R. S. (2000). The bottlenose dolphin: Social relationships in a fission–fusion society. In J. Mann, R. C. Connor, P. L. Tyack, & H. Whitehead (Eds.), Cetacean Societies: Field Studies of Dolphins and Whales (pp. 199–225). University of Chicago Press. Krützen, M., Mann, J., Heithaus, M. R., Connor, R. C., Bejder, L., & Sherwin, W. B. (2005). Cultural transmission of tool use in bottlenose dolphins. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 102(25), 8939–8943. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0500232102 Fahlman, A., van der Hoop, J., Moore, M. J., Levine, G., Howle, L. E., & Wells, R. S. (2018). Field energetics and lung function in wild bottlenose dolphins, Tursiops truncatus, in Sarasota Bay, Florida. Royal Society Open Science, 5(2), 171200. Lyamin, O., Pryaslova, J., Kosenko, P., & Siegel, J. (2007). Behavioral aspects of sleep in bottlenose dolphin mothers and their calves. Physiology & Behavior, 92(4), 725–733. Williams, T. M., Friedl, W. A., & Haun, J. E. (1993). The physiology of bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops truncatus): Heart rate, metabolic rate and plasma lactate concentration during exercise. Journal of Experimental Biology, 179, 31–46. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). (2025, March 6). Common bottlenose dolphin. Robeck, T. R., Steinman, K. J., Yoshioka, M., Jensen, E., O’Brien, J. K., Katsumata, E., Gili, C., McBain, J. F., Sweeney, J., & Monfort, S. L. (2005). Estrous cycle, ovarian activity, and serum concentrations of reproductive hormones in the bottlenose dolphin. Biology of Reproduction, 72(2), 336–346. Noren, S. R. (2008). Infant carrying behaviour in dolphins: Costly parental care in an aquatic environment. Functional Ecology, 22(2), 284–288. Noren, S. R. (2013). Altered swimming gait and performance of dolphin mothers: Implications for interactions with tuna purse-seine fisheries. Marine Ecology Progress Series, 482, 255–263. Have a good topic we should fixate on or want to reach out? Find us here: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/fixationrotationpod/ Tik Tok: https://www.tiktok.com/@fixationrotationpod Email: fixationrotationpod@gmail.com

Radium

Everyone get your radium-laced tonics and dust off your grade 12 chemistry books, we are deep diving into radium this week! We chat about Marie Curie (GOAT), how Sarah needs to watch HBOs Chernobyl, and the dark history of the Radium Girls. If you're reading this, please note we had a few audio issues in this episode which have been fixed for future episodes so we are sorry to any audiophiles out there. Sources: https://www.history.com/articles/radium-cures-health-fad-early-20th-century https://www.history.com/articles/radium-girls-workplace-safety https://www.orau.org/health-physics-museum/collection/radioactive-quack-cures/index.html https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC5595405/#s1 Obsessive Genius: The Inner World of Marie Curie https://www.amazon.ca/Obsessive-Genius-Barbara-Goldsmith/dp/0393051374 Radium Girls by Kate Moore: https://books.google.ca/books/about/The_Radium_Girls.html?id=XUXwtAEACAAJ&redir_esc=y Have a good topic we should fixate on or want to reach out? Find us here: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/fixationrotationpod/ Tik Tok: https://www.tiktok.com/@fixationrotationpod Email: fixationrotationpod@gmail.com

We're Back! (But it's a little different)

Welcome to Fixation Rotation Podcast with Sarah and Jessica! After a two year hiatus from our last podcast, You Can't Get to Heaven in a Miniskirt, we're back with something new! Escape the headlines and join us down the rabbit hole in our weird and wonderful obsessions. Have a good topic we should fixate on or want to reach out? Find us here: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/fixationrotationpod/ Tik Tok: https://www.tiktok.com/@fixationrotationpod Email: fixationrotationpod@gmail.com

We're Going on Hiatus (plus bonus Story Time With Sarah)

Hi everyone! We wanted to thank you all from the bottom of our hearts for listening to our baby podcast. We are going on hiatus for now - life has gotten too busy to keep going but we are hoping to come back with a renewed vigour once everything slows down. Please stay subscribed to the feed and when we come back it it will pop up for you! In the meantime, keep on flirting in your miniskirts. Shoutout to Rachel Scanlon. You can find her on Instagram here: https://www.instagram.com/rachelscanloncomedy/

The Book of Enoch

Bonus Episodes on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/heaveninaminiskirt Today we venture into the Apocrypha with a discussion about The Book of Enoch, and all of it's strangeness. Sarah reads the first section in the SLUT translation (Sarah Living Universal Translation) and she is on fire! We love 2 drink Sarah! We also discuss the history of this book and the question the whole canon of scripture like the lovely heathens we are! Shout out to Wrabel and his amazing song "The Village": https://www.instagram.com/wrabel/ Check out our episode on the Nephilim: https://open.spotify.com/episode/42TeSefhtMC9aN8Z6Mhvy7?si=00ca11b66fe5419d Bible Verses Discussed: 1 Enoch 1-36 Links: https://www.amazon.ca/1-Enoch-George-Nickelsburg/dp/0800699106 https://www.britannica.com/topic/First-Book-of-Enoch https://www.gotquestions.org/book-of-Enoch.html https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FsVQnspOkkY&ab_channel=ReligionForBreakfast https://www.amazon.ca/Lost-Prophet-Enoch-Influence-Christianity/dp/1905048181 https://youtu.be/FsVQnspOkkY?si=LRBgld1wkVGbhX8c: Find us at: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/heaveninaminiskirt/ Website: heaveninaminiskirt.com

The Book of Esther

Get your sharpened 75 foot polls out! This week we're continuing our trend of reading books of the bible through our own translation, the Sarah Living Universal Translation (the SLUT). Tangents include biblical birth control, midwifery, and Jess's lack of knowledge about world events. Where to find us: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/heaveninaminiskirt/ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@heaveninaminiskirt Website: https://www.heaveninaminiskirt.com/ Shoutouts: Mae Martin: https://www.instagram.com/hooraymae/ Josh Szeps: https://www.instagram.com/joshszeps/ Bible Verses Discussed: The Book of Esther Links: https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1388&context=insights#:~:text=The%20book%20of%20Esther%20is,there%20are%20no%20scroll%20fragments https://medium.com/lessons-from-history/esther-used-contraception-and-so-did-most-women-in-the-bible-gasp-d7fae04fe2d3 https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1388&context=insights#:~:text=The%20book%20of%20Esther%20is,there%20are%20no%20scroll%20fragments.

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