UFO Whistleblowers: An American Tradition, Part Two - Bill Cooper
In the EXTRA-long second part of my series looking at the lack of credibility of previous UFO "whistleblowers" in order to evaluate the reliability of recent claims made before Congress, I look at Bil...
17 Okt 20231h 34min
UFO Whistleblowers: An American Tradition, Part One - Donald Keyhoe and John Lear
We haven't had a congressional hearing on UFOs since 1966. Recently, a whistleblower named David Grusch testified before Congress about a government cover-up of the spacecraft and alien bodies they've...
3 Okt 20231h 10min
Raging Against the Machine: Thoughts on Technofear and Luddism
In a somewhat unorthodox episode, I share some meandering thoughts on modern technology and concerns about its potential harms, looking at some historical examples that may offer insights into the tec...
19 Sep 202348min
The Hunt for Lost Nazi Gold Trains
In the final installment of my series exploring the legends behind Indiana Jones films, I look at both the reality and the myth of Nazi gold trains, specifically looking at the tragedy behind the Hung...
5 Sep 202343min
The Piltdown Fraud: Fundamentalists' Favorite Fake Fossil
In this standalone episode, I tell the story of the most successful and famous hoax to ever disgrace the field of paleontology, a fraud widely used by Creationists to discredit evolutionary science, b...
22 Aug 202349min
The Forging of the Crystal Skulls
In this new standalone installment of my now long-running series on the lore explored in Indiana Jones films, I look at the fabled crystal skull forgeries, claimed to be Pre-Columbian Mesoamerican art...
8 Aug 202344min
The Source of the Fountain of Youth Myth
In another episode on myths that drove European conquistadors, I trace the Eurasian legend of the Fountain of Youth to the New World and find that it afterward became a historical myth, erroneously cl...
25 Jul 202342min
The Search for Cities of Gold
In this standalone episode, I once again explore a topic central to an Indiana Jones film! In this one, I look at how the rumors of hidden cities of gold animated conquistadors in the 16th century, ho...
11 Jul 202344min
