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 Young

Website: folkstory.com

His congregation: LiveOakGoleta.org

Mythological Studies: Pacifica.edu

Campbell archives: opusarchives.org/joseph-campbell-collection/

Joseph Campbell Foundation: jcf.org

Dominic Steavu

Faculty page: eastasian.ucsb.edu/people/faculty/dominic-steavu/