S4: Bonus - Believe it or Not! With Blake Smith

S4: Bonus - Believe it or Not! With Blake Smith

What do you believe – and why do you believe it?  When it comes to the paranormal, Blake and Richard disagree on just about everything. Blake is a self-described materialist while Richard rules nothing out. Which makes the fact that they are friends the hardest thing to believe of all. But they are. In an age of AI anarchy and looming “Disclosure”, how can anyone know what to believe? Richard and Blake waste no time finding out. First, they debate Richard’s Disgusting Martini and Blake’s Odd Date Night Rituals. Then they tackle the eternal questions: Is Bigfoot a bear? Is Mothman a barn owl? Can you really profile a serial killer? And what would Blake do if he saw a poltergeist? Before the night is through, they dissect The Men Who Stare At Goats, The Girl From Ipanema, the “Barney” song as an instrument of torture, Richard’s Danny Robbins impression, Shadow People, R.E.M (and REM), the gaps in materialism, the solution to alien abductions – and why Mezcal tastes like Band-Aids!

“I know more than one super-skeptical person who is unsettled by the commonalities that people report from Ayahuasca. Having your ego dissolve, seeing clockwork elves and snake imagery… Very common things that happen, and it’s like: ‘That bothers me’.”
–- Blake Smith, co-host of MonsterTalk: The Science Show About Monsters

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