Nish Kumar

Pure, purely funny insane conspiracy theories.

I always loved, there was an American conspiracy theory that the Beatles were a kind of covert drug dealing operation.

They were designed to trick American kids into getting into drugs.

And the reason for that was the quality

Queen of England was presiding over a drug dealing empire.

That was a conspiracy theory that went round in the States in the 1960s.

But the all-time greatest conspiracy theory is that Saddam Hussein had a Stargate.

And the reason that we went to war in Iraq in the early 2000s is because he had Stargate-like technology.

And the thing that I really remember from reading...

reading this theory is that the person who wrote the stuff about it said Saddam Hussein has a Stargate brackets like the film I feel like that is basically the plot of Stranger Things

I haven't seen Stranger Things, so I don't know if that's right.

I mean, that's a little bit... That was basically the premise of this.

I mean, I think there is like a sad core to this, which is this person was almost like so trusting in their government that they couldn't believe that their government was going to war on spurious ground.

But they said that Saddam Hussein was using the Stargate to get alien weapons.

Now, I will say there is as much evidence of Saddam Hussein's alien weapons as there was of his weapons of mass destruction that Colin Powell brought to the UN that we've ever seen in the years since the Iraq war.

But yeah, I was obsessed with that theory.

At no point did he wade in and say, Saddam Hussein had a Stargate and that's why we invaded the world.

Oh yeah, of course, Paul McCartney died.

That was a big one.

He died in a car crash in, I think, 66, maybe 67.