This is what you might call a sequel episode, since we’re not only revisiting the Fresno Nightcrawlers (thanks to some hot tips from a listener), we’re also checking in on “just James,” the anonymous UFO-Tuber. Also, yes, we’re finally covering 3I/Atlas. Sometimes, you gotta hold your nose and jump onto the bandwagon.

Highlights:

Turns out we were wrong about the Fresno Nightcrawler video

Tom connects high strangeness to Oscar Wilde’s “all art is useless” philosophy - neither art projects or genuine cryptids are fundamentally “useful”

But, hey, check out this fresh footage of the thylacine!

An update on our favorite UFO-Tuber, in which he receives a threatening letter from an unnamed foreign government

How 3I/Atlas is a cosmic Rorschach test — basically, people self-select into three camps: it’s definitely not aliens, it might be aliens, and it’s definitely aliens

A favorite theory that the object is broadcasting frequencies to upgrade everyone’s DNA

But also, what we already know for sure is super cool and weird

Science is best at breaking its own models (looking at you, James Webb Space Telescope)

The Vegetable Lamb of Tartary (go ahead and Google it)

What we don’t have nearly enough of, is patience

The three flavors of wonder: art projects are wonderful, real phenomena are wonderful, and not knowing which is its own kind of wonderful

Highlights:And in the epilogue:

A (relatively) heated debate about “main character syndrome”

The paradox of being both profoundly valuable and completely worthless

How to find truth at the intersection of contraries

P.S. If you encounter any vegetable lambs, please feed them. They’re supposed to starve dramatically for theological reasons.

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