We examine Ancient Aliens' claim that extraterrestrials guided Joan of Arc, explore how faith and morale shaped her role in the Hundred Years War, and discuss how turning her into a political symbol erases her agency.
Sep 29
1 hr 30 min
We examine the alleged binary message from the Rendlesham Forest UFO encounter, its missing evidence and mythical island coordinates, then connect Ancient Aliens' chosen messengers to Silicon Valley's billionaire saviour politics.
Sep 22
1 hr 29 min
Scott returns from parental leave for a bleak news catch-up and listener corrections on Yellowstone, aspirin, Soviet labour awards, Scooby-Doo and Thanos, with his soundboard ready and his willingness to admit fault under review.
Sep 15
1 hr 15 min
A retired history professor is convinced telepathic aliens who can't use a toaster are quietly replacing humanity, and we trace that goofy panic straight back to a very old and very dangerous idea.
Jun 16
1 hr 9 min
Tristan and guest Stanford take apart the UFO-lore claim that seven-foot praying-mantis aliens run a hidden hierarchy over human abductions, following it from one historian's hypnosis sessions through sleep paralysis to the management class it's quietly describing.
Jun 9
1 hr 20 min
Tristan and guest Sarah Davis Baker explore the bizarre history of the Georgia Guidestones, debunking claims of alien population control to reveal a legacy of eugenics, 17th-century hoaxes, and explosive right-wing infighting.
Jun 2
1 hr 11 min
Ancient Aliens claims Nikola Tesla's death ray was real and the government hid the alien tech, but the secret vault contained a Wheatstone bridge, Donald Trump's uncle filed the debunking report, and the lone-genius myth has been doing real political damage ever since.
May 26
1 hr 39 min
Tartaria, the TikTok conspiracy theory that claims a globe-spanning civilization was buried by a mud flood in 1850, is a Russian nationalist psyop that survives because capitalism already erased the workers who actually built the pretty buildings.
May 19
1 hr 44 min
Ancient Aliens claims Leonardo da Vinci got his inventions telepathically from aliens; we trace the great man theory of history from Thomas Carlyle through Francis Galton coining eugenics straight to Peter Thiel's embryo selection, by way of a tank that doesn't work.
May 12
1 hr 11 min
Phil and Kevin guest-host as Tristan unpacks how a Pacific island culture's medieval revolt against feudal extraction got rebranded by Ancient Aliens as a failed alien hybrid experiment, with a side trip through the Blavatsky to Lovecraft to von Däniken pipeline that put eugenics-flavored cosmology on basic cable.
May 5
1 hr 34 min
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