July 31, 2024

High(er) Strangeness w/Eric Bickernicks

44 minutes

EPISODE 116 | High(er) Strangeness w/Eric Bickernicks

Guest: Eric Bickernicks, writer, author of High Strangeness and Higher Strangeness

What does a guy who's made novelty songs, short comedy videos, an indie film for $32k, kettle corn aplenty, and a novel about art theft do next? If he's Eric Bickernicks, he writes two books about UFOs, hoaxes, alien thoughts, UFO cults, gullibility and Cape Cod.

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SECTIONS

02:49 - High/Higher Strangeness and other books, pranksters, unintended consequences, UFO cults, Cape Cod minus buzzards

13:16 - Aliens and fiction become folklore, truly alien aliens

19:42 - Crop circles, re-hoaxing, not bright guys, Hanlon's Razor, emotional processing is conservative, lazy writing, fridge logic, butts in seats, good writing can happen, fold-your-laundry content, ignorance is a right

32:56 - Believe in God never really goes away, we've evolved to be paranoid, nihilism is stressful

40:45 - Rampant existentialism, keeping busy, novelty songs, kicking Weird Al's ass, A Dead Guy

Music by Fanette Ronjat

More Info

A Dead Guy - the website of Eric Bickernicks

High Strangeness has its own website

Eric Bickernicks on Amazon

Rampant Existentialism

alt.sex - Eric's indie film

The Defectives - Eric and another guy's novelty songs

Dr. Demento website

More of Eric's Crap

The Buzzards Bay Coalition

Buzzards Bay Brewing - because why not?

The New England Science Fiction Association, Inc. - the genre bullies who reject Eric

9 Outrageous Pranks in History

7 of History's Greatest Pranks

The Merry Pranksters And the Art of the Hoax - NYT

The Logistical Challenges of a Supersize Acid Test: On the Merry Pranksters’ Trips Festival

THIS IS AMERICA: Twilight of a Merry Prankster

Research Books - Pranks!

UFOs Keep Appearing in the News. Here’s Why We Can’t Quit Them - Scientific American

UFO Mania Is Out of Control. Please Stop. - Washington Post

List of UFO-related hoaxes on Wikipedia

4 INFAMOUS UFO HOAXES REVEALED | The Proof is Out There - video

Alien 'Hoaxes' That Went Viral From Roswell's Flying Saucers to Mexican & Australian X-Files - Spyscape

Crop circles: Cynical hoax, natural phenomenon or proof of alien life? - The Independent

Crop Circles: The Art of the Hoax - Smithsonian

Circlemakers - website for people who make crop circles

Hanlon’s Razor: Not Everyone is Out to Get You

Fridge Logic on TV Tropes

The 5 Basic Laws of Human Stupidity

The Stupidity Quotient by Dennis L. Holeman, The Systems Perspective

The Darwin Awards website

Are Americans Just Stupid? - Psychology Today

The reason why America has become 'uniquely stupid'

Stupid People: Our Society is Succumbing

Why Do Stupid People Rule the World?

Stupid People Are Surprisingly Confident - How Stuff Works

Bonhoeffer’s “theory of stupidity”: We have more to fear from stupid people than evil ones - Big Think

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