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The Comical Heathen S2 E9: Talking UFOs with Ben Radford
Show Notes
On June 25 2021 the Office of the Director of National intelligence issued a report called "Preliminary Assessment: Unidentified Aerial Phenomena." This generated some media interest and some buzz around the topic of UFO's. So we here at The Comical Heathen thought this would be a good time to bring in an actual expert, so today we present my conversation with author Ben Radford. Ben is a Research Fellow at the Center for Inquiry, having covered many topics in addition to UFOs, such as ghosts, chupacabra, and Killer Clowns. This episode includes guest co-host Jesse Pimpinella, a phone call from Ian Harris, and my rant about why I think UFO's should be called U-WTF-O's.
*Ben's website: http://benjaminradford.com/
*Ben's podcast, Squaring the Strange: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/squaring-the-strange/id1226273233
*Jesse's website: https://www.jessepimpinella.com/
*Jesse's podcast, At the Grown-up's Table: https://www.jessepimpinella.com/podcast
Show notes:
*The actual UAP report: https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/20973253-uap-20210625
*Press release from CFI, "Keep UFO Reporting Grounded in Reality, Advise Skeptics": https://centerforinquiry.org/press_releases/keep-ufo-reporting-grounded-in-reality-advise-skeptics/?fbclid=IwAR2dX8OV9JkMkKGs_Cm4bU3jV8F6Wh_sKmhHbk62aXKaO4b_Y8rvnLeLwLY
*Mick West's page mentioned by Ben: https://www.metabunk.org/home/
*Ben's book about Killer Clowns: Bad Clowns (https://smile.amazon.com/gp/product/0826356664/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o00_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1)
*Article about man who thought moon was UFO, "Police say UFO was just the Moon": http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/wales/7489457.stm?fbclid=IwAR3fReWiuE4JwQX0V3sHnWzJSJ5SGHz6qWee2S1KXV5y7v9QkRFpqVFXB5s
*Pareidolia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pareidolia
*Occam's razor: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occam%27s_razor
*The Comical Heathen Live Show at the Kansas City Fringe: https://kcfringe.org/2021-shows/the-comical-heathen/
*Get a Comical Heathen coffee mug at Jerry's merch shop: https://www.etsy.com/shop/JerryJaffeComedyShop?ref=simple-shop-header-name&listing_id=624456037
Email us: [email protected]
This is an ad-free and independently produced podcast. Please consider donating via this link (to our other podcast): https://www.goldstarclassroom.com/
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By comicalheathenShow Notes
On June 25 2021 the Office of the Director of National intelligence issued a report called "Preliminary Assessment: Unidentified Aerial Phenomena." This generated some media interest and some buzz around the topic of UFO's. So we here at The Comical Heathen thought this would be a good time to bring in an actual expert, so today we present my conversation with author Ben Radford. Ben is a Research Fellow at the Center for Inquiry, having covered many topics in addition to UFOs, such as ghosts, chupacabra, and Killer Clowns. This episode includes guest co-host Jesse Pimpinella, a phone call from Ian Harris, and my rant about why I think UFO's should be called U-WTF-O's.
*Ben's website: http://benjaminradford.com/
*Ben's podcast, Squaring the Strange: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/squaring-the-strange/id1226273233
*Jesse's website: https://www.jessepimpinella.com/
*Jesse's podcast, At the Grown-up's Table: https://www.jessepimpinella.com/podcast
Show notes:
*The actual UAP report: https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/20973253-uap-20210625
*Press release from CFI, "Keep UFO Reporting Grounded in Reality, Advise Skeptics": https://centerforinquiry.org/press_releases/keep-ufo-reporting-grounded-in-reality-advise-skeptics/?fbclid=IwAR2dX8OV9JkMkKGs_Cm4bU3jV8F6Wh_sKmhHbk62aXKaO4b_Y8rvnLeLwLY
*Mick West's page mentioned by Ben: https://www.metabunk.org/home/
*Ben's book about Killer Clowns: Bad Clowns (https://smile.amazon.com/gp/product/0826356664/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o00_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1)
*Article about man who thought moon was UFO, "Police say UFO was just the Moon": http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/wales/7489457.stm?fbclid=IwAR3fReWiuE4JwQX0V3sHnWzJSJ5SGHz6qWee2S1KXV5y7v9QkRFpqVFXB5s
*Pareidolia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pareidolia
*Occam's razor: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occam%27s_razor
*The Comical Heathen Live Show at the Kansas City Fringe: https://kcfringe.org/2021-shows/the-comical-heathen/
*Get a Comical Heathen coffee mug at Jerry's merch shop: https://www.etsy.com/shop/JerryJaffeComedyShop?ref=simple-shop-header-name&listing_id=624456037
Email us: [email protected]
This is an ad-free and independently produced podcast. Please consider donating via this link (to our other podcast): https://www.goldstarclassroom.com/