In Research Of
109 episodes - English - Latest episode: 28 days ago - ★★★★★ - 222 ratingsThe show where we watch the 1970s TV show "In Search Of..." and look at possible explanations the producers didn't consider.
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S04E10 - Pompeii (Explicit)
March 29, 2024 19:28 - 2 hours - 92.3 MBJeb and Blake join Leonard Nimoy's search for Pompeii! (Well - is it really about finding Pompeii? Or is it about finding a possibly Christian cross in Pompeii? Tune in and find out!) Links: Depictions of the crucifixion in Medieval Art People debating the cross at Pompeii Christian graffiti at Pompeii House of the Faun - Pompeii About that "lost Legion" thing Discovery and rediscovery of Pompeii Giuseppe Fiorelli Terentius Neo Lupinar Villa of Mysteries Dinosyian ...
S04E09 - The Abominable Snowman
February 23, 2024 17:04 - 2 hours - 96 MBJeb and Blake track the last cryptozoology episode of the original In Search Of… as we join the late Peter C. Byrne in a search for "The Abominable Snowman." Imagining the Wild Man: Yeti Sightings in Folktales and Newspapers of the Darjeeling and Kalimpong Hills More on Tom Slick - MonsterTalk Monty Python "abattoir" sketch Searching for Sasquatch (affiliate link) Article about Byrne still "hunting" in his 90s. The Eternal Return Bigfoot Map Jeff Wayne's War of the World...
S04E08 - Mexican Pyramids
February 01, 2024 13:35 - 2 hours - 104 MBJeb is right at home as we go In Search Of... Mexican Pyramids! Links from research Sacrifice City Great Pyramid of Cholula Templo Mayor Ruz' Palenque Dissertation The Christmas Robbery of the Century Secrets of the Maya Temple (1958) Museo (2018) movie about the robbery - affiliate link Mystery of the Meridas Ciudad Maya nightclub Music/Art film tied to the nightclub site Operation PBSuccess - CIA and Guatemala Mystery film we think MAY have source...
Bonus: Joe Nickell on The Shroud of Turin
December 17, 2023 18:45 - 1 hour - 45 MBDr. Joe Nickell recalls his experiences working on the Season 4 episode of In Search Of… dealing with The Shroud of Turin. note: This interview will be cross-posted to MonsterTalk. The interview contents will be identical, but the framing intro/outro will be unique to the respective shows. In Research Of… (Patreon) In Research Of (free feed) In Search Of… The Shroud of Turin (YouTube) Joe Nickell covered by The Daily Mail That's Incredible! segment on THE AMITYVILLE HORROR. (...
S04E07 - The Shroud of Turin
November 22, 2023 17:38 - 2 hours - 117 MBJeb and Blake unwrap the mystery of the shroud of Turin! (Which might, it turns out, be neither a shroud, nor from Turin - talk amongst yourselves!) Link to ISO on YouTube: While it lasts! The bucket brigade saves the shroud in re-creation... NFA - A return to "the Night Gallery?" Young Joe Nickell at work in Alan Landsburg's NYC apartment: The Rev. Francis Filas (1931 - 1985 - NYT OBIT) Prescriptive Linguistics Descriptive Linguistics Overview of use of Christ in Medieval Art...
S04E06 - The Lost Colony of Roanoke
August 26, 2023 13:12 - 2 hours - 87.5 MBS04E06 - The Lost Colony of Roanoke The ISO team take us back to Colonial Virginia to investigate the cold-case of the lost colony of Roanoke. Jeb and Blake learn about armadas, plays, and rock diaries. Beach Action Nimoy Fashion Alert! The Money Shot... Blake thinks the ISO actor is giving off Keenan Wynn vibes. And we've already discussed the ties between Rod Serling, Leonard Nimoy, Night Gallery, and more, so the visual similarities to this scene and Planet of the Apes mi...
S04E05 - Immortal Sharks
July 17, 2023 15:44 - 1 hour - 65.6 MBWe're going to need a bigger boat! Jeb and Blake head to Australia to investigate the idea that Great White sharks are immortal! Links: 1977 San Diego article about Sea World's shark exhibit Article about weird things allegedly found inside sharks. Henri Bource - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henri_Bource Groo the Wanderer NFA - on the beach! Sharks are famous for their teeth - and Nimoy's have improved since season one as well. Nimoy just walking on the beach manages to attrac...
S04E04 - UFO Australia
May 16, 2023 17:25 - 2 hours - 85.7 MBJeb and Blake have a look at the Season 4 episode UFO AUSTRALIA which covers the Kaikoura UFO Sighting and the disappearance of Frederich Valentich. Retrospective of the Kaikoura UFO sighting Better version of the video than what is in the episode Westall UFO case (Blake mentioned - but is not in ep) Skeptical Inquirer (McGaha & Nickell) Transcript of the Valentich air traffic discussion Psychic Hippie Lawyer article Nimoy Fashion Alert shot on location at the San Fernando Aeros...
S04E03 - The Amityville Horror
April 02, 2023 14:21 - 2 hours - 105 MBJeb, Blake and Alex French go in research of The Amityville Horror! Typewriters 101 site History vs Hollywood: Amityville History of the House The Warren Omission The Calamityville Horror The Dictionnaire Infernal Nimoy gives us the calm and rational look in the midst of so much weirdness! So many faceless re-enactors in this one! Horror writer Jay Anson and his trusty typewriter! And this episode is quite notable for giving us a look at Father Mancuso from the book....
S04E02 - Carlos, The Most Wanted Man in the World
March 02, 2023 14:09 - 2 hours - 91.8 MBJeb and Blake look back at the ISO team's coverage of the global manhunt for the terrorist known as "Carlos." This episode gets an Explicit tag because of language. Nimoy Fashion Alert: Dr. Frederick Hacker (Obit) Carlos - aka The Jackal (Wiki) Raid on Entebbe (Wiki) Carnaby Street, England (Wiki) Friendship University, Russia (Wiki) News story about how Carlos got his name Nydia Toban (Obit) Carlos's Lawyer/"wife"
S04E01 - Tidal Waves
January 31, 2023 16:06 - 1 hour - 74.7 MBAdditional background material on this episode is available for Patrons. Jeb and Blake wade into the first episode of season 4 of In Search Of... to learn a thing or two about tsunamis. (Yes, the producers actually said that they called it "tidal waves" because if they'd used "tsunami" Americans wouldn't have bothered to find out what it was about. I remember being taught the "new" term during my basic education. -B) Lots of good footage, interviews, reenactments, and science in this on...
Season 3 Wrap-up
December 29, 2022 19:39 - 1 hour - 52.1 MBBlake and Jeb discuss their thoughts on the third season of In Search Of... Things get... weird.
S03E24 - King Tut
November 30, 2022 21:19 - 1 hour - 70.6 MBJeb and Blake head out into the valley of the kings to learn more about King Tut. History of the Valley of the Kings Pyramid Secrets (IRO S02E09) Significance of pyramids (Benben) The Colossi of Memnon (the singing statue) Nimoy Fashion - in the desert Demotic writing Example of Cartouche: James Lew - martial artist & actor The complex history of the Noah's Ark Hoax (article by Jim Lippard) (featuring Gerald Larue)<-different link Same story covered by LA Times ...
S03E23 - Sodom and Gomorrah
October 16, 2022 01:05 - 2 hours - 87.6 MBWe're joined by Dr. Nathan French to discuss the Biblical tale of Sodom and Gomorrah and the ISO team's efforts to examine archaeological evidence supporting its actual historical existence. Nimoy Fashion: Dr. Avrahamm Biran (1909 - 2008) The concept of Biblical Maximalism The big dig at Ebla where the library of clay tablets was found. In 1976 Giovanni Pettinato claimed tablets found at the dig contained the names of five cities of the plain including Sodom and Gomorrah. Mode...
S03E22 - Brain Power
September 17, 2022 19:53 - 2 hours - 87.5 MBWe are joined again by Alex French to discuss "Brain Power." No kids were harmed, but some hosts were shaken. The ISO episode contains outdated wording about cognitive states that are now considered offensive. Our podcast episode steers clear of that but we wanted you to be aware if you decided to watch the original episode. Nimoy Fashion: Discussed in this episode: The Raimondi Stele (Jeb discusses flipping it to see different interpretation) Discussion of Haeckle's Embryos (Amazo...
S03E21 - Ghostly Stakeout
August 27, 2022 22:56 - 1 hour - 79.8 MBJeb and Blake drag Alex French back into the studio to endure a "ghostly stakeout" with the sultry voiced Sylvia Browne. Haunted Lives (Tobe Hooper, Nimoy, Sylvia Browne) The Dead Files - S01E09 Scandal in the South (episode set in Blake's hometown of Cartersville, GA) 1972 Akai Video Camera Sylvia Browne - self-proclaimed psychic - and she started a church! Site of first "haunting" in renovated farmhouse (which burned in the 1980s) Near the village of Jenner Antoinette ...
S03E20 - Diamond Curse
August 01, 2022 02:53 - 2 hours - 97.9 MBA look at the Hope Diamond and other allegedly cursed gems from recent history. DeBeers slogan (1947) predates Bond book (1956) and is different: A Diamond Is Forever | Diamonds Are Forever The Gift - anthro book about reciprocity Superman and the giant spider story - Kevin Smith Osiander's preface to Copernicus Robert Conrad (the actor) famous battery ads from 1979 David Trampier - artist for D&D PHB The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins Recent TV adaptation of same The...
S03E19 - Noah's Flood
June 30, 2022 23:35 - 2 hours - 90.7 MBWe're joined by Sharon Hill to look into the vital 1970s question: Was Noah's Ark Real? (And does it disprove Darwin's theory of evolution through natural selection?) spoilers: No and No. The episode opens with "footage" (re-creations, repurposed footage) of the famous 1889 Flood. The footage in the movie appears to be from a short film called The World that Perished (1977) but we couldn't find a version of that to share. The 1976 film In Search of Noah's Ark is available (in poor q...
S03E18 - The Angel of Death
June 18, 2022 14:47 - 1 hour - 65.3 MBWe follow Nazi Hunter Simon Weisenthal as he hunts the notorious war criminal Josef Mengele. Simon Wiesenthal - wiki Josef Mengele - wiki Dr. Ellen Lingens - wiki Juan Domingo Peron - wiki The Big Gun - Gerald Bull, Saddam Hussein and the Mossad Read about Escape from Sobibor - this is an amazing story There is the "real" ODESSA and then there's the fictional novel and film The ODESSA FIle. Shadow over Günzburg What really happened to Mengele? Britannica Return to that ...
S03E17 - Psychic Sea Hunt
May 17, 2022 01:08 - 1 hour - 53.9 MBThe In Search Of team heads of to Santa Catalina island to hunt for underwater archaeology guided only by "remote viewers" Ingo Swann and Hella Hammid. Nimoy Fashion: Links from our Discussion: Robert Ballard Titanic search cover for military submarine research The Mobius Group The JASON Group Stephan Schwartz paper on the use of remote viewing in Archaeology Stephan A. Schwartz's website Alexander the Great's tomb (wikipedia) - it also recently showed up in a certain Marv...
S03E16 - The Money Pit Mystery (EXPLICIT)
April 11, 2022 00:53 - 1 hour - 62.7 MBWe include a warning in the intro to this one. It's got an explicit tag. That's for language because this one brought out some strong feelings, but that's all explained in the intro. What's not explained in the intro is that my audio is pretty awful in this one. Once again Skype decided to randomly use my laptop's microphone instead of my podcasting mic. This is the last time that will happen because I've ditched the laptop in favor of a more powerful machine with no internal microphone!...
S03E15 - Animal ESP
March 19, 2022 23:20 - 2 hours - 92.3 MBBlake and Jeb are joined again by Alex French to discuss the tantalizing possibility that animals may possess powers of ESP! 1973 Habitrail Ad Cat Roulette Blackfish - documentary about Sea World & Orcas (AMZ) King's Island and the Brady Bunch (News story - 46 years later) The 68–95–99.7 rule (statistics - wikipedia) Six-Sigma (business - wikipedia) J. B. Rhine (wikipedia) Origin of the domestic dog (wikipedia) Hans Esser (obit) Dr. William Broad (news article) ...
S03E14 - Dreams and Nightmares
February 21, 2022 16:16 - 1 hour - 81.2 MBJeb and Blake are joined again by Alex French to discuss Dreams and Nightmares. Will there be weird video effects and creepy dream re-creations? Does Spock love a syllogism? Tune in and find out! Nimoy Fashion Alert: Research Links: CIA Spy Cat Shakespeare in the Bush (article) Dr. Allan Hobson(1933 - 2021) Dr. Rosalind Cartwright (1922 - 2021) - a book she wrote on this topic (Amz affiliate link). Note the "EEG" pattern on her lab coat! Ted Spagna dream...
S03E13 - Lost Vikings (Explicit)
January 16, 2022 21:19 - 1 hour - 61.8 MBEXPLICIT TAG - this episode contains a lot of swearing and complaining. Blake and Jeb go in search of a lost Norse settlement in Canada, but discover that the real treasure isn't Vikings, and it definitely isn't the racist bullshit you meet along the way. Links: Thomas E. Lee - professor whose weird (racist) theories are at the heart of this episode "Hammer of Thor" - monument/dry-stack/possible Inuksuk at end of episode Sveinbjörn Beinteinsson - Icelandic Heathenry Rev...
TEASER: Not Jeb's Maya
December 24, 2021 15:14 - 1 minute - 1.22 MBThis is a teaser for a Patreon Exclusive - NOT JEB'S MAYA. For nearly a year I've been wanting to take advantage of the amusing wordplay possibility made possible by Jeb's name and academic focus. So, I present to you: Not Jeb's Maya, a respectful homage to NPR's Wait, Wait, Don't Tell Me. (With all due apologies to Peter Sagal.) Get the whole episode and more exclusive content at: http://patreon.com/inresearchof
S03E12 - Sherlock Holmes
December 23, 2021 16:36 - 1 hour - 81.5 MBJeb and Blake are joined by Ken Feder (Frauds, Myths & Mysteries , Fifty Sites) to discuss the question of whether Sherlock Holmes was largely a real person - namely Arthur Conan Doyle. The Great Game - the playful (usually) exploration of the idea that Sherlock was real Michael Saler, As If Sherlockian and author Peter Lovesey wandering in the "western docks." Sherlockian Stanley MacKenzie in front of part of his collection of memorabilia. Holmes' deerstalker comes from actor Sidne...
S03E11 - Indian Astronomers
December 03, 2021 15:33 - 2 hours - 117 MBJeb and Blake examine the idea that the builders of Cahokia's "Woodhenge" might have had links with the Maya. Some things we discuss in this episode: Cahokia Mound 72 Recent paper on the Mounds of Cahokia Dr. Warren Wittry Dr. Wittry discovered the woodhenge that is a large part of the focus of this episode. The active dig shown in the episode: Nimoy Fashion Alert: Hovenweep National Monument Dr. Ray Williamson More on Ray And a BOOK he wrote Casa G...
Ghostbusters Bonus - Part 2 Preview
November 20, 2021 22:07 - 11 minutes - 7.69 MBJeb and Blake continue their look at the 1984 film Ghostbusters. The full version of this has an additional 90 mins of coverage and is available at our Patreon page for as little as $2/month.
S3 Bonus - Ghostbusters (part 1)
November 14, 2021 19:24 - 2 hours - 91.6 MBJust in time for H̶a̶l̶l̶o̶w̶e̶e̶n̶ Thanksgiving, we bring you the first part of our 2-part coverage of the classic 1984 film Ghostbusters. This is one of our favorite movies and we wanted to get this special out to you before Halloween but life conspired against us meeting that deadline. But with the new sequel dropping in just about a week, we figure the movie still has some relevance. ;) We'll be back with Indian Astronomers very soon. In the meantime, grab your Proton Packs and PKE ...
S03E10 - Bermuda Triangle Pirates
October 09, 2021 21:24 - 1 hour - 69.3 MBeb and Blake hoist the Jolly Roger and set sail to the Caribbean to look for unsuspecting rich tourists in fancy 1970s yachts. A lot of this episode is based on the writing of Carl Hiaasen - his newspaper work, not his many successful novels. We see Carl here (RIGHT) with beer-drinking FLORIDA MAN (LEFT). This episode deals, primarily, with a few key missing boat cases: The Saba Bank (also, see the attached PDFs for contemporary coverage of missing ships in this episode) The Pir...
Theme Music
September 29, 2021 15:19 - 30 seconds - 454 KBI recently appeared on a podcast called The Plastic Plesiosaur Podcast. They asked me for a copy of the theme to this show and I realized I never made that available? So... here it is! The music is by Greig Johnson and the singing is by Rachel Lackey. The lyrics are by me, Blake Smith. And in case you have trouble following them for your sing-alongs, here they are: "In Research of" We talk and have some fun They shared ideas But not the only ones We share the facts That the s...
S3 Bonus - Raiders of the Lost Ark - Part 2
September 19, 2021 12:23 - 12 minutes - 8.77 MBJeb and Blake continue their coverage of the influential film Raiders of the Lost Ark. Part two of this session is exclusive to our wonderful Patrons. Full show notes includes additional images and material with background on the science and nonsense behind this movie. Quftis: "men from the Upper Egyptian town of Qift who were trained and became skilled excavators and foremen who went on to work for other foreign missions in Egypt, as well as in Palestine" From OxfordHandbook artic...
S03E09 - Monster Hunters
September 12, 2021 22:28 - 2 hours - 98.2 MBJeb and Blake tackle the Ooky world of Monster Hunters. Nimoy in the forest shadows... Peter Byrne and Tim Dinsdale - two legendary monster hunters meet. Monsters in the intro to this episode are from the TV film Manbeast! Myth or Monster For reasons I can't explain, some of the images in this episode reminded me of 1970s album covers... Arch Buckley 2007 Obituary Warren Thompson 2013 Obituary Al Berry 2013 Reminiscence Ron Moorhead (Sierra Sounds) We ha...
S03 Bonus - Raiders of the Lost Ark - part 1
August 22, 2021 16:59 - 1 hour - 74 MBJeb and Blake discovered that S03E08 - The Great Lakes Triangle - has disappeared into a temporal anomaly. But we dare not leave you adrift in Lake Eerie, so instead we usher you through a mysterious temple to a VHS tape on a stone pedestal... as we go in research of RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK. Discussed in this episode: The story conception tapes of Raiders (Lucas, Spielberg, Kasden) Same thing, but performed by actors Secret of the Incas (Affiliate Link) Whole film https://www.y...
S03E07 - Siberian Fireball
July 30, 2021 17:00 - 2 hours - 91.8 MBJeb and Blake consider the possibility that the Tunguska Event was caused by an extraterrestrial atomic craft. An old friend returns. A SciFi icon cameos. Atoms are split. Mr. Leonard Nimoy! Charles Cole Ronald Oriti And Dr. Isaac Asimov News about Golden Globes scandals Asteroid Monitoring (NASA) Tunguska in Pop Culture (Wiki) Basic coverage of Tunguska and theories (Wiki) Leonid Kulik Thomas R. Atkins (A Fire Came By) Amz Author's Page (Affiliate Lin...
AIPT Presents SciPhi Fest 2021
July 18, 2021 02:19 - 2 minutes - 1.63 MBAIPT Comics - is putting on a free online convention Sunday July 18th. The online convention starts at 10 am and I'll be participating in a couple of ways if you're interested. At noon, I've got a special interview with Stephen R. Bissette. You might know him as a key artist on Alan Moore's run of Swamp Thing in the 80s - but if you've been subscribing to BIG FOOTAGE the Patreon bonus cast, you'll know him as the author of CRYPTID CINEMA. I'll also be on at 3:30 pm with Jeb Card to d...
S03E6 - Cryogenics (Explicit)
July 11, 2021 16:32 - 2 hours - 90.9 MBJeb and Blake head into cold as we look at the episode titled "Cryogenics." Yes, there is a lot of legitimate discussion of the science of freezing - but there's also a lot of optimistic coverage of "Cryonics," the much more questionable idea of freezing people for a later thawing and restoration. CONTENT WARNING: This episode contains images of dead people, frozen semen, animal harm, terrible puns, and some naughty curse words. (You're welcome.) Discussed in this episode: Cryo...
S03E05 - Jack the Ripper
June 15, 2021 11:54 - 1 hour - 78.1 MBJeb and Blake crawl through the cobbled streets of 1978 television to find out what was going on when IN SEARCH OF went looking for Jack the Ripper. A lot of this episode is about "The Royal Conspiracy" - the idea that Prince Albert Victor (aka "Prince Eddy") was secretly Jack the Ripper. This was largely derived from a book called Jack the Ripper: The Final Solution, an ironic title since it turned out to be neither final nor the solution. This was written by Stephen Knight, who app...
Bonus - Jack the Ripper: The Pop-Culture References
June 01, 2021 00:20 - 1 hour - 60.6 MBJeb & Blake discuss the ways that Jack the Ripper has been adapted in fiction and documentary over the years. The strange convergence of Jack the Ripper, Sherlock Holmes, and The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde merge into a weird mix of fact and fantasy through the decades. A variety of media are discussed. And you can be sure that in the foggy gas-lit, cobbled streets of London there lurk some puns as well. A few references we'll hit in the show (with affiliate links): Yours Tr...
S03E04 - Water Seekers
May 12, 2021 20:22 - 2 hours - 89.4 MBGrab your sticks and join Jeb and Blake as they go looking for water flowing underground. Same as it ever was? Not hardly. Special content in this episode courtesy Sharon Hill. Be sure and check out her article on dowsing for water at Spooky Geology. The "earth, air, fire, and water" idea comes from Empedocles. Early in the episode Francis Hitching holds up a stack of paperbacks. I looked them all up (affiliate link to Amazon). The stack of books he puts down includes: Dowsing: One ...
S03E03 - Cloning
April 21, 2021 17:49 - 1 hour - 47.2 MBWe'll be taking a look at ISO's coverage of cloning in this episode. We'll be taking a look at ISO's coverage of cloning in this episode. Content warning (for ISO watchers) there is animal experimentation and surgery video in this TV episode. Jeb asked me to include a gif of the "groovy" 1970s video effects from this episode: In the 1970s the idea of "test tube babies" was still quite controversial, as evidenced by this opinion piece in the Berkeley Gazette (1978). The Weibe Tw...
S03E02 - Tornadoes
April 13, 2021 12:00 - 1 hour - 50.6 MBGet to your shelters and turn on your weather radios as Jeb and Blake watch IN SEARCH OF...'s episode on Tornadoes. Discussed in this episode: NOAA Dr. Ernest Agee National Severe Storms Lab (NSSL) Twister (1996) - Amazon Affiliate Link John Weaver Bob Davies-Jones Kelvin Droegemeir Edwin Kessler Poorly lit Nimoy Fashion:
S03E01 - UFO Captives
April 12, 2021 20:25 - 1 hour - 80.9 MBJeb and Blake have a close encounter of the In Search Of... kind. We look at two UFO abduction cases that you may not have heard of - and that definitely have more details to them than ISO covers. Flying Saucers and the Three Men (Amazon Affiliate Link) Communion (AAL) King Kong 76 animatronics Above Top Secret - Isaac Koi (UFO Barrister) Catalina UFO Case on YouTube APRO CUFOS NICAP MUFON They're not in the episode but if you'd like to learn about Betty & Barne...
Whoops! MonsterTalk happens.
March 20, 2021 20:16Sorry! It's very easy to accidentally post to the wrong feed when you run multiple podcasts. I was trying to get out the door to take care of a family situation and didn't realize I'd posted the newest MonsterTalk episode to the IRO feed. But don't worry! New IRO content is on the way. Jeb and I already have several episodes of Season 3 in the can and I'm hard at work to get them out the door to you. Thanks for all the new Patreon subscribers and for the new reviews! I hope you e...
Preview: S2 Bonus - Close Encounters of the Third Kind
March 11, 2021 15:24 - 27 minutes - 18.8 MBSeason 2 of IRO is over and we take a few hours to talk about the movie Close Encounters of the Third Kind. There's three more hours of discussion beyond what's in this preview and you can get access to that as well as our other Patreon exclusives by subscribing here.
The MonsterTalk Library
March 08, 2021 15:52If you want to skip the back story - just click here: http://bit.ly/monstertalkbooks Listeners have been asking for us to compile all the books we've talked about into a single page for years now. I hadn't had the time before now, but thanks to my current "non-employment" situation, I decided to try and do it right. I've designed the page to plug in Google spreadsheet and display via a Data Table. This means as we add more content, it will automatically update without having to do a...
IRO S2 Wrap Up
February 25, 2021 15:14 - 1 hour - 46.1 MBJeb and Blake stare at spreadsheet graphs - and what could be better? Fashion Forensics. A look at season 3. Tease of our next Bonus Episode. And more! Note: The fashion forensics segment needs visuals. Those are in the attached PDF but if I can make time I will knock together a little video to make it better. If I manage it, you'll know first.
S02E24 - The Garden of Eden
February 09, 2021 00:58 - 2 hours - 110 MBJeb and Blake go looking for The Garden of Eden and bring along professor Nathan French of the Miami University, Ohio to shed some extra insight during the journey. Nathan is the author of And God Knows the Martyrs (affiliate link) and is Associate Professor of Comparative Religion at Miami. Meanwhile back in Eden... Nimoy walks in the Garden with a bible and his wholly white vestments. The Tomb of Eve Jedha in Star Wars Ashurban-appalling? Bahrain: ...
Brother, can you spare an iTunes review?
January 19, 2021 05:16Hey there listener! I hope you're enjoying the show. Jeb and I have several in the can and have started recording on Season 3. It would be a big help if you could take a few minutes and give us a positive review on iTunes or your podcast platform of choice. We'd really appreciate it. If you hate the show - we care about that too, but would prefer you send us a detailed post card with all your complaints. ;) Hope 2021 turns out to be a good year for all of us. Be safe, and stay tuned fo...
S02E23 - The Coming Ice Age
January 19, 2021 05:01 - 2 hours - 148 MBJeb and Blake are joined by climate scientist Dr. John Cook to discuss this infamous episode of In Search Of... You may have noticed that since the 1970s we did not descend into a frozen ice age. In fact - quite the opposite. Dr. Cook was kind enough to join us to talk about both the history of the science discussed in this episode, and the many challenges of dealing with science denialism. It's a treat of a discussion. In addition to his work teaching at George Mason University, Cook...