Rebroadcasting a popular season finale from several years ago. Aliens are the quintessential sci-fi topic. Leah admits she used to watch <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ALF_(TV_series)" target="_blank">Alf</a>. Brian watched Alf too! We all did. Was The History Channel ever really respectable? The true utopian technology prophets will tell us when everything has been illuminated at the same time. Is it possible that…UPDATED SHOW NOTESAncient Aliens is doing live shows now, on tour: <a href="https://bit.ly/46rjfsE">https://bit.ly/46rjfsE</a> Ancient Aliens on the History Channel: <a href="https://www.history.com/shows/ancient-aliens">https://www.history.com/shows/ancient-aliens</a>

085 THE DEMONTIME (Kathryn Krick, your local exorcist in the park; guest Sam Kestenbaum) [April 2022]

Weird Religion is a podcast for people who think religion is weird but love it anyway. Your hosts, Leah Payne and Brian Doak, are both professors, authors, and pop culture aficionados, whose interests range from archaeology and history and linguistics to LARPing and The Walking Dead. Episodes tackle some piece of media highlighting the wonderful weirdness of religious experience—a documentary, a television show, a Twitter scandal—and use that as a &quot;thread&quot; on which to hang reflections on a wide variety of topics. Cults. The perils of fame within the evangelical world. Church attendance. Atheism. Gamer communities. Millennials and avocado toast. It's all here.