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Citations Needed is 100% listener funded. When you become a supporter, as always, you'll get access to over 130 news briefs, extensive show notes for every episodes and more fun stuff like live interviews or bring a nose back. We will be talking primarily about two TV series, the history channels, ancient aliens, and Netflix's ancient apocalypse. And joining us in just a little bit to discuss this will be Dr. David S. Anderson, an archaeologist and assistant professor at Radford University in Virginia.

On this Live Show Beg-a-Thon, recorded on May 17, we discuss the pop culture phenomenon and appeal of pseudoarchaeology in its many forms, from fraudulent alternative history books like Erich von Däniken's 1968 book, Chariots of the Gods? Unsolved Mysteries of the Past, to television series like "Ancient Aliens" and "Ancient Apocalypse."

Alongside guest Dr. David S. Anderson, we discuss how phony "what if?" theories often go beyond the goofy, guilty pleasure premises of extraterrestrial visitors and lost civilizations to promote Eurocentric, racist pap and a mindless distrust of "the scientific establishment" in the stupidest and least productive way possible.