This week Brian spends some pre-show prep time playing Zelda, and then does his best to make Angelo feel bad about subscribing to Amazon Prime. The duo also ponder if Apple has become a luxury brand for rich people, the amazing storage medium of magnetic tapes, Doom 2's last secret, and taking a step back from all our distractions. When the discussion shifts to the paranormal, our hosts take a look at Luis Elizondo’s Medium article about the stigma of paranormal belief, and then take a look at the evacuation of an observatory that started off as excited and ended up being sort of boring.

Links:

• Pelé - Wikipedia
• Apple's iPhone XS and XR could leave out mainstream consumers - Business Insider
• Why the Future of Data Storage is (Still) Magnetic Tape - IEEE Spectrum
• Doom 2’s impossible secret is discovered, 24 years later - Polygon
• Thinking About Attention -- Walk with Me - YouTube
• Why Social Stigma About Unexplained Phenomena Holds Humanity Back
• FBI Locks Down, Evacuates AURA Solar Observatory in New Mexico
• Why the FBI Mysteriously Closed That New Mexico Observatory