It‘s Probably (not) Aliens! Podcast
1) The Gospel According to the House Hippo
Tristan and Scott return to debunk the theory that angels were aliens by exploring some truly lazy linguistics, explaining how it connects to modern disinformation, and revealing how a Canadian TV ad ...Show More
2) Dramatic_Fart.mp3
A hyped-up discovery of a 'fart planet' becomes a perfect case study for how the sausage of science actually gets made, from statistical uncertainty to the pressures of academic life.
3) Corrections: We Are The Liberal Joe Rogan Now
The hosts kick off a new season by correcting their past mistakes, leading to a chaotic journey through Canadian stereotypes, Mormon theology, the dangers of validating delusions, and the correct pron...Show More
4) The One Where We Finally Talk About Garrus
A delightfully meandering Q&A session where hosts Scott and Tristan answer listener questions about aliens, research, and inexplicably, Scooby-Doo direct-to-DVD movies, while accidentally revealing th...Show More
5) Montauk: The Conspiracy Theory That Inspired Better Fiction
Two doofuses unravel how a retired radar station on Long Island transformed into an alleged hotbed of psychic research and time travel experiments through the power of profitable dreaming and creative...Show More
6) The Great New Jersey Drone Panic of 2024
A deep dive into the 2024 New Jersey drone panic that reveals how our fears about new technology keep making us see threats in the sky, from mysterious airships in the 1890s to car-sized drones over t...Show More
7) Ancient Aliens Can't Melt Stone Beams
Ancient Aliens claims Scottish forts were melted by alien death rays, but the real story involves sophisticated Iron Age engineering, experimental archaeology from the 1930s, and the surprising connec...Show More
8) The Ancient Greek Scientist Who Didn't Build a Death Ray
In which we discover that while Archimedes didn't have a death ray, his real inventions were way more metal than focusing some mirrors at boats.
9) Ancient Aliens Really Need To Stop Making Things Up About Alexander (the Great)
A deep dive into how ancient astronaut theorists transformed a clever medieval military tactic involving hot sand and shields into a made-up story about UFOs stopping Alexander the Great's army in Ind...Show More
Ancient Aliens Really Need To Stop Making Things Up About Alexander (the Great)
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10) Thunder Gods Don't Need Plasma Rifles
A humorous takedown of Ancient Aliens' claims that mythological super-weapons were alien technology, showing how these legendary artifacts actually represented divine authority, natural forces, and cu...Show More