Toynbee Ideas in Kubrick’s 2001 Resurrect Dead on Planet Jupiter. No, that’s not some strange Fortean Mad Libs, it’s a message that, in various iterations, has been found across the world for over 30 years. Etched into streets, these “Toynbee Tiles” remain a mystery to investigators to this day. Who put them there? Are they all the product of the same person or group? What’s their intention? Does the hateful ideology found on a few of them apply to all of them? As usual we ask tough questions this week (and as usual we have a hard time answering them ¯_(ツ)_/¯ ). Plus, Conspiracy Bot has a new product line (frightening). The new product line is geared to children (more frightening). And he’s now calling people “daddy-o” (probably the most frightening). All of that and more on the podcast that wasn’t familiar with Toynbee Tiles, but WAS very familiar with KayBee Toys – Hysteria 51.
Special thanks to this week’s research sources:
Videos
Resurrect Dead: The Mystery of the Toynbee Tiles – https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1787791/
Websites
The Baltimore Sun – https://www.baltimoresun.com/news/bs-xpm-1994-10-19-1994292134-story.html
Toynbee tiles Wikipedia – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toynbee_tiles
Cyber Space Orbit – https://www.cyberspaceorbit.com/Toynbee2.htm
Atlas Obscura – https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/toynbee-tiles
Toynbee What Is It? – http://www.toynbeeidea.com/
Hidden City – https://hiddencityphila.org/2011/10/resurrect-philadelphia-the-true-home-toynbee-tiles/
NPR Pittsburgh – https://www.wesa.fm/post/look-down-how-toynbee-tiles-invaded-and-disappeared-pittsburgh-streets#stream/0
Old Post-Gazette (via Wayback Machine) – https://web.archive.org/web/20120331203625/https://old.post-gazette.com/pg/06151/694320-42.stm
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