After recording without Mal last week (which she graciously calls her "favorite episode yet"), we’re pleased as peaches all three of us could be back together to run through a bunch of headlines that promised more than they delivered.

Oh, except for the giant squid. That thing was awesome.

Episode Highlights:

* Tom declines to share details about his past life (and promises to tell us off-air, which he did by the way — in case you needed a little envy on your way in)

* A clickbait article called "Is This The Tomb of Jesus?" about….some pollen

* So we take a detour into the history of Jesus's purported burial sites worldwide, including claims in Japan where locals believe Jesus fled across Siberia, became a rice farmer, and died at age 106. No, we’re not making this up.

* The first-ever footage of a living colossal squid, captured 600 meters beneath the sea by a research vessel — actually as cool as it sounds

* We know nothing about our oceans

* Mal worries we’ll get bored by all the fantastic discoveries. Jordan suggests that “boredom is a choice”

* A comically underwhelming story about "strange writing in the desert"

* This inspired a conversation about pareidolia — our tendency to see meaningful patterns (like faces) in random stimuli

* Has the balance shifted in the West? Are the materialists now in a shrinking minority?

* How to face difficult times with spiritual centering

* Developing "cosmic trust" even when life feels like being a fish "ripped out of the water, tagged, and thrown back in" (a metaphor courtesy of Kelly Chase, friend of the show)

* Tarot's Tower card: sometimes structures must fall to make way for something better

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