There is this obsessive literalism that the show has taken on where there is no room for imagination. There's no room for art or storytelling, it must literally be what's depicted and of course through their funhouse mirror whatever being depicted is literally an alien. I said at one of the alien kind of events that all religious experiences were misinterpreted alien encounters. They do this good like any stories or any legends or any piece of art and you know it's the certitude of their explanation always just sort of drives me crazy. It denies humanity as we know what to exist in every form. Why did certain animals create certain or were part of such myths? What other cultures have similar animals
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.