This episode, Eric Schiller and I get weird. We talk UFOs, encounters with strangeness, Carlos Castaneda, Internet dating, peeping the naked cosmic mystery, being the Mary Sue of your fan fiction of reality, “the slipperiest possible thing,” reality TV and the nature of human drama. Is it time to start a funky freaky space cult? What’s really going on behind the curtain of reality? Spoiler alert: we don’t know. Do you know? Spoiler alert: no you don’t.
Do you have any spooky stories of strange encounters to share? Let’s talk about it. Or you can tweet our tweeter @NowOrNeverCast.
Dedicated to Robert Stack.
Corrections
I said Carl Jung was the founder of “analytic psychology” but I should have said “analytical psychology.” Sorry, analytical psychology.
I said “Cardio Rhythm” by Falling Stars in the end credits but it’s the other way around. Cardio Rhythm is the artist. Sorry, Cardio Rhythm.
Music
Intro:
- “What If” by Illocanblo & Csum (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0)
- “CLIF” by Glass Boy (CC BY-ND 3.0)
Transitions:
- “Falling Stars” by Cardio Rhythm (CC BY-NC-ND 3.0)
Closing:
- “Feel No Other” by Ixtlan (CC BY-NC-SA 3.0)
- “Underdog” by Black Ant (CC BY 3.0)
Works Sampled
- roswell.WAV provided by ERH (CC BY 3.0)
- Excerpt from Flatland by Edwin Abbot Abbott, read by Ruth Golding. Provided by LibriVox. (Public Domain)
- Thanks to the Internet Archive for the UFO interviews in the opening — and I guess to whoever in MUFON leaked them. But also kind of shame on you because those were supposed to be anonymous.
- Thanks to the Old Time Radio Researchers Group for the X-Minus One clips.
- X-Minus One – “The Man In The Moon” (CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 US)
- X-Minus One – “The Outer Limit” (CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 US)
- Beyond Tomorrow – “The Outer Limit” (Public Domain probably)
SFX
- dirt.wav by Andrew Duke (CC BY 3.0)
- glitch-08-jeniusjelinek_(suonho).wav by suonho (CC BY 3.0)
- DeepScan.mp3 by Noirenex (CC0 1.0)
- glitchys.wav by gumballrimpoche (CC0 1.0)
- Transformers Type SFX by hykenfreak (CC BY 3.0)
- glitch_10_gliciosi_(suonho).wav by suonho (CC BY 3.0)
- Glitch sound, static noise by scenes (CC0 1.0)
- scifi_scare_a.aiff by realtheremin (CC0 1.0)
- Magical portal open by alanmcki (CC BY 3.0)
- Glass5 by juskiddink (CC BY 3.0)
- JM_FX_Matrix Sound 01.wav by Julien Matthey (CC0 1.0)
- nightmarez 01.aif by Robert Bar (Sampling Plus 1.0)
- Space Horror atmosphere loop by PearceWilsonKing (CC BY 3.0)