The Impossible Archive

A collage of sorts.

Sources:

“Rip Van Winkle” performed by the Famous Theatre Company with the Hollywood Studio Orchestra: https://archive.org/details/lp_rip-van-winkle_the-famous-theatre-company-the-hollywood-s/disc1/01.01.+Rip+Van+Winkle.mp3

Trailer for “Ancient Aliens,” S03E11: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2065068/

“You’re a Grand Old Flag” performed by the American Quartet (1917): https://archive.org/details/78_youre-a-grand-old-flag_american-quartet-geo-m-cohan_gbia0238326b/

Douglas MacArthur’s speech at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, May 12, 1962: https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/e/gazetteer/places/america/united_states/army/usma/macarthur/1962_speech_to_the_corps.html

“Independence Day,” dir. Roland Emmerich (1996)

MIDI file of “My Country, ’Tis of Thee”: https://www.cpdl.org/wiki/index.php/My_country,_%27tis_of_thee_(Traditional)

“Rip Van Winkle” read by Ed Begley: https://archive.org/details/lp_rip-van-winkle_ed-begley-washington-irving/disc1/01.01.+Rip+Van+Winkle%2C+Pt.+1.mp3

"Stars and Stripes Forever" performed by Sousa's Band (c. 1898): http://cylinders.library.ucsb.edu/search.php?queryType=@attr+1=1020&num=1&start=1&query=cylinder6713

Benjamin Franklin, "Articles of Belief and Acts of Religion" (1728): https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Franklin/01-01-02-0032

Eddie and Bill swap ghost stories, go off on a few tangents, and go over the latest reporting on the Pentagon/UFO/Blink-182 story.

They discuss this article by Bryan Bender: https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2021/05/28/ufos-secret-history-government-washington-dc-487900

Check out the Wide Atlantic Weird podcast: https://anchor.fm/cian-gill

More on the haunted Blacksmith Tavern in Glastonbury: https://thecutmag.wordpress.com/2008/10/28/blacksmiths-ghosts-2/

Who's the real protagonist in the recent UFO kerfuffle: the Department of Defense, or the "invisible college" it funded?

Bill and Eddie discuss a recent article by Jason Colavito: https://newrepublic.com/article/162457/government-embrace-ufos-bad-science

In the previous episode, Bill and Eddie discussed this New Yorker article, which Colavito is rebutting: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021/05/10/how-the-pentagon-started-taking-ufos-seriously

The article Colavito cites re: Luis Elizondo's belief in a "demon [anti-demon?] cabal": https://newrepublic.com/article/158823/tom-delonge-warped-ufo-aliens

Joe Rogan's interview with David Fravor: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eco2s3-0zsQ

Bill and Eddie introduce themselves and how they became interested in The Weird. Then they walk through a major New Yorker article on UFOs. 

You can read Gideon Lewis-Kraus's article here: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021/05/10/how-the-pentagon-started-taking-ufos-seriously

Here's the 2017 New York Times article that kickstarted the current UFO moment: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/16/us/politics/pentagon-program-ufo-harry-reid.html

Reporting from The Intercept casting doubt on Luis Elizondo's past: https://theintercept.com/2019/06/01/ufo-unidentified-history-channel-luis-elizondo-pentagon/