More Like Ancient FAILiens

Is your boss an alien? Probably not out of the question, right? Anyway, Jesse Plemmons thinks his boss is an alien and decides the best course of action is to kidnap her (this is not an endorsement). Toby and Brandon are joined by Failiens producer Gabby Lombardo to talk about the Yorgos Lanthimos movie, Bugonia. If you are considering getting your hair cut in a moving car, watch this movie first!For more about Gabby Lombardo, visit https://www.instagram.com/gabby.lombardoMore Like Ancient Failiens is a Grab Bag Collab production. Subscribe to GBC to get episodes early and ad-free, hear bonus episodes, and access other great GBC podcasts. Visit GBC here: https://www.grabbagcollab.com/Sign up to listen here: https://grabbag.supportingcast.fm/more-like-ancient-failiensOr get all of Grab Bag Collab's great shows including Failiens content here: https://grabbag.supportingcast.fm/bundle

Was there a more iconic duo in the 1990s than Fox Mulder and Dana Scully? Toby and Brandon don’t think so, and they’re talking about the X-Files, perhaps the most popular television series about UFOs and the paranormal. To look at the show, they discuss the much-beloved episode Jose Chung’s From Outer Space (season 3, episode 20), a comedic nesting doll of UFO tropes and stories, starring Hollywood Squares legend Charles Nelson Reilly.More Like Ancient Failiens is a Grab Bag Collab production. Subscribe to GBC to get episodes early and ad-free, hear bonus episodes, and access other great GBC podcasts. Visit GBC here: https://www.grabbagcollab.com/This week's bonus just for subscribers: If you wonder how much of a pain in the ass it is to be a former president, look no further than the furor over an offhand comment Obama made about aliens being real. He later explained that he didn’t think those aliens had actually ever visited Earth, but maybe he’d just jumpstarted DISCLOSURE. Brandon and Toby talk about this unfortunate incident and the recent prediction market bullishness about President Trump releasing the government’s UFO files.Sign up to listen here: https://grabbag.supportingcast.fm/more-like-ancient-failiensOr get all of Grab Bag Collab's great shows including Failiens content here: https://grabbag.supportingcast.fm/bundle

Are we humans really smart enough to come up with the GENIUS STUFF? The Ancient Astronaut Theorists have their doubts and, despite themselves, stumble upon some interesting ideas. Toby and Brandon are joined by Stuff They Don’t Want You To Know host Matt Frederick in a wide-ranging discussion that’s sort of about The Genius Factor (Season 9, Episode 4). We have Hammurabi’s thoughts on divorce, a repository of all the wisdom of humans or perhaps the Universe, and mushrooms that make you see elves!You can find Matt on Stuff They Don’t Want You To Know: https://podcasts.apple.com/es/podcast/stuff-they-dont-want-you-to-know/id732915228You can also find the show on Netflix by searching for “Stuff They Don’t Want You To Know”You can find More Like Ancient FAILiens early and ad-free along with many other great podcasts at Grab Bag Collab! Visit grabbagcollab.com to join. Also!!!! We have a Failiens bonus episode out today at www.grabbagcollab.com, just for subscribers! In this unhinged bonus hang, Brandon, Toby, and special guest Matt Frederick spiral from Ancient Aliens nonsense into “can we trust reality anymore?” while dunking on deepfakes, internet slop, and the very concept of truth.

What if the entities that ancient peoples called gods were in fact aliens? Mind blown, right? It all started with Chariots of the Gods, the book by Erich von Daniken and then the film based on that book. Comedian John Hodgman joins Brandon and Toby to discuss the movie version and so much more. Witness the birth of the gods were aliens weirdness as the Ancient Astronaut Theorists did, with B-roll and weird 70s music.Subscribe to hear this and other great podcasts early and ad free at ⁠grabbagcollab.com⁠.For more about John Hodgman, visit: ⁠https://www.johnhodgman.com/⁠

Part two of Brandon and Toby’s discussion with journalist Keith Kloor about the documentary film, The Age of Disclosure. In this episode, we discuss Lu Elizondo and The Observables (not a band, alas), the time Keith made Lu sad, and bubbles that warp both space and time. Plus, the culinary delights of roadkill.You can read Keith’s reporting about issues we talk about here:https://www.poynter.org/reporting-editing/2021/ufos-once-consigned-to-conspiracy-theories-have-landed-in-mainstream-american-journalism/https://www.wired.com/story/will-the-new-york-times-ever-stop-reporting-on-ufos/https://gen.medium.com/americas-enduring-obsession-with-ufos-b582ca8f86cbhttps://issues.org/ufos-wont-go-away/https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/ufos-keep-appearing-in-the-news-heres-why-we-cant-quit-them/https://www.spytalk.co/p/star-drek-ufo-crank-luis-elizondohttps://theintercept.com/2019/06/01/ufo-unidentified-history-channel-luis-elizondo-pentagon/https://keithkloor.substack.com/p/why-ufos-will-never-ever-go-awayMore Like Ancient Fail-iens is published early and ad-free over at www.grabbagcollab.comFollow Grab Bag Collab on Instagram and Facebook.

Have you ever gone metal detecting and found a twisted piece of wire? Well, Giorgio Tsoukalos has and it was at a skip site near Roswell, NM! I know, right? Toby and Brandon are joined by podcaster Michel Gagne to get a handle on the Ancient Aliens episode “The Relics of Roswell” (S15:E2). This one has it all: a budding love story, some industrial grade aluminum and explosive cratering! Plus a dramatic Zoom call…For more about Michel, visit: ⁠https://www.paranoidplanet.ca/More Like Ancient Fail-iens is published early and ad-free over at www.grabbagcollab.comFollow Grab Bag Collab on Instagram and Facebook.

What is it like to be an academic, talking about your legitimate research only to have it woven into a story of extraterrestrial interference in human history? This bonus episode features two conversations that Brandon and Toby had with experts featured on Ancient Aliens who aren’t ancient astronaut theorists! First, they talk with Jonathan Young, the curator of the Joseph Campbell Archives. In the second interview they chat with Dominic Steavu, associate professor of East Asian Languages and Cultural Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara.You can learn more about our guests here:Jonathan YoungWebsite: folkstory.comHis congregation: LiveOakGoleta.orgMythological Studies: Pacifica.eduCampbell archives: opusarchives.org/joseph-campbell-collection/Joseph Campbell Foundation: jcf.org Dominic SteavuFaculty page: eastasian.ucsb.edu/people/faculty/dominic-steavu/

Ever notice that the Sphinx’s head is kind of small compared to its body? Unsurprisingly, the Ancient Astronaut Theorists are on top of it and so much more. Journalist Maggie Rahr joins Brandon and Toby to delve into The Mysteries of the Sphinx. That’s Season 9, Episode 2. Be amazed by the Blinking Eye of the Lord, intrigued by the theory that ancient sarcophaguses (sarcophagi?) might be teleportation devices to other dimensions, confounded by some English guy who thinks the Sphinx is actually a dog, and other weird stuff. Listen to Maggie’s award-winning podcast, Carrie Low Vs. here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/carrie-low-vs/id1589263927 More Like Ancient Fail-iens is published early and ad-free over at www.grabbagcollab.com Follow Grab Bag Collab on Instagram and Facebook.

Supposedly there was a period in pre-history where the planet was like Lord of the Rings. Can this be true? Toby and Brandon are joined by Jack Brewer to look into this. It turns out the answer is that, no, it is not true. But it’s not the destination, it’s the journey. We meet the giant Denisovans, the little Hobbits (not the going-on-a-quest type), and a guy traipsing around Europe with a replica of a skull that someone else found in a cave. We’re talking about Protoypes, Season 11, Episode 10. For more about the Emma Woods case, listen to Strange Arrivals, season 3, episodes 6-8. For more about Jack Brewer, visit: https://ufotrail.blogspot.com/ and https://www.expandingfrontiersresearch.org/ More Like Ancient Fail-iens is published early and ad-free over at www.grabbagcollab.com Follow Grab Bag Collab on Instagram and Facebook.

We are back at Skinwalker Ranch, where there is apparently an interdimensional portal somewhere, or something like that. Regardless, Toby and Brandon are joined by Erica Lukes for part two of their examination of The Mystery of Skinwalker Ranch (Season 15, Episode 10). We have a perp line-up of wolves, Skinwalkers who can alter their own DNA and an incident at Dead Man’s Curve! Also, dudes hanging out in fields holding guns.For more about Erica Lukes and Expanding Frontiers, visit: https://www.expandingfrontiersresearch.org/More Like Ancient Fail-iens is published early and ad-free over at www.grabbagcollab.comFollow Grab Bag Collab on Instagram and Facebook.

Brandon went to Antarctica, but didn't see any giant pyramids, under-ice Nazi cities, or even have his boat attacked by a squadron of laser-firing alien craft. That's not the Antarctica that the Ancient Astronaut Theorists hold dear to their hearts. Anyway, you get the picture. We're talking about the Pyramids of Antarctica on this week's More Like Ancient Failiens.More Like Ancient Fail-iens is published early and ad-free over at www.grabbagcollab.comFollow Grab Bag Collab on Instagram and Facebook.

Ayahuasca and aliens, two great tastes that go great together? Maybe. While they don’t take ayahuasca or see any aliens, Brandon, Toby, and musician Aimee Mann try to work through an episode that is light on UFOs, but heavy on tenuous thematic connections. Other topics include whether angels’ wings depicted in art would actually work anatomically, poltergeists poppin’ bottles, and multiple universes.For more about Aimee Mann, visit: aimeemann.comMore Like Ancient Fail-iens is published early and ad-free over at www.grabbagcollab.comFollow Grab Bag Collab on Instagram and Facebook.