Let us start with a case of the debunkies: No, depressed people aren’t apparently more realistic than us normos.

From there, friends, we look to the skies. Tom takes us back through X-Files history while looking at the current appropriations budget and finds people are finally taking this whole alien thing more seriously. Is that a great thing? Here’s a little ditty covering that angle for you academic journal fans. For his part, Pete talks through a listener submission that mixes the highest levels of academic achievement with Game of Thrones. Everything is going to be fine. 

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