(rooster crows) (lion roars) (logo bangs) (wheel clicks) – Welcome to “Good Mythical More.” Can you tell when an alien abduction or encounter story is real? – Yes. – Without seeing or talking to the alien itself? – Yes. – We can. – But first, we’re donating $1,000 to Color of Change to aid in their mission to help people respond effectively to injustice in the world around us. Color of Change leads campaigns that build real power for black communities. Their work challenges injustice, holds corporate and political leaders accountable, commissions research on systems of inequality, and advances solutions for racial justice to transform our world. Please join us in giving at colorofchange.org. – And check out their website. There’s lots of great stuff to learn there. Saying that from personal experience. Okay, so we got our ping pong paddles ready. UFA and U, eh? No. – [Both] UF-heck no. – All right, hit us with a UF-anecdote. – [Stevie] In 1973, two men in Pascagoula? – Yeah, Pascagoula, Mississippi? – [Stevie] Mississippi. – Yeah, I been there. My dad lived there for a while. – [Stevie] Really? – Yep. – Do you know about this story? – My dad’s never talked to me about aliens. – M-I-S-S-I-S-S-I-P-P-I. – What? – MI-S-S-I-S-S-I-P-P-I. – Yep. – Pascagoula is also that Ray Stevens song, with the, the squirrel went berserk in the First United Church in the little, old town of Pascagoula. – Yeah. – Yep. – Ray Stevens. – [Stevie] Not an obvious lyric. – Nope. – [Stevie] 1973, two men, they were fishing, they were in Pascagoula. – Down in Pascagoula. – [Stevie] They were allegedly abducted by aliens. The men say the aliens subjected them to an examination and described the aliens as having robotic slit mouths and crab-like pincers, which, by the way, pincers, I just had never heard that that was a thing, and you guys have always said pincers on crabs, and I thought you were being southern. – No, we were being scientific. – [Stevie] Yeah, ’cause, one would think. – We were being technically correct. – [Stevie] Pinchers. – Oh, pinchers? – [Stevie] I just, I mean, the claws, crab claws, but then I would think pinchers ’cause they pinch, but pincers. – Yeah, pincers. – [Stevie] Never knew, never knew. – Okay, the things that I’m focusing on here are the pincers. – What about the robotic slit mouths? – And the robotic slit mouths. – Those two things don’t go together. – Yeah, I mean, there’s not a lot of dexterity in pincers. – Are we trying to determine if this actually happened? – I don’t know, Rhett. – And Stevie knows the answer? – Well, is this a made up encounter? Is it made up by us, or is it made up by the person that we’re quoting on the internet who made it up? You know. – So you don’t believe any of these encounters. Can we just start there? – I believe aliens… I don’t know what I believe, but I hope… I don’t even know what I hope. – What do you hope, man? – I mean, certainly, aliens could exist. Certainly, aliens, and of course, that’s just what we call them. They call us aliens, too, whenever we go visit them. – That’s right, you ever think about that? You’re just as much a alien to them as they are to you. – I mean, they’ve gotta be out there. – Statistics. – Statistically, they’re out there, I believe. I wanna believe. – But have they visited? – Those dudes in Pascagoula with the pincers? – That’s where I’d go. – UF-heck-no. – If I showed up, if I showed up. – You’d go to some fishermen? – I’d be like, what’s a cool place? What kinda people should we contact? Should we, like, go to the official government bodies? – People that no one would believe, right. – Or should we go to the guys fishing? I’m going to the fishermen. I think this happened. – I think they go to the people who won’t be believed. – Well, that is a mistake they often make. – Fishermen are known liars. – Mm-hm. – Period, end of story. So this is true. – [Stevie] You know who’s from Mississippi? Tig Notaro. She is very funny. I highly recommend her podcast “Don’t Ask Tig.” It is very, very funny. – All right, so this is a Stevie rec. – [Stevie] Yeah. – Cool, cool, cool. – [Stevie] Yeah, it’s a real story, maybe, possibly. But pincers or pincers? – But what about those Air Force videos that they finally released, man? And those guys are sitting there, watching. – That’s UFO, that’s real. I haven’t looked into it. I’ve got too many other existential questions to answer before I start digging into that. Let’s hear another. – [Stevie] Man, Tig Notaro is so funny. (man laughs) I mean, I could just listen to her podcast all day long. – What’s happening here? – [Stevie] I was just thinking about how funny Tig Notaro is. Sorry. Here’s another story. – She’s got a plan. – [Stevie] Miley Cyrus claims that she was chased by a UFO while driving in San Bernardino. She described it as a glowing, yellow, flying snowplow. – In San Bernardino? – [Stevie] You heard of it. – Mm, San Bernardino. – Miley Cyrus? – Miley, I can believe that. – This seems like something that she would- – She said a snowplow? – Talk about unabashedly, but I’m gonna say we made this up, but I’m not gonna be surprised if I’m wrong. – I think that the snowplow part in San Bernardino, I think somebody who wrote this was thinking about, like, when am I gonna get to go back to Big Bear, and if I go to Big Bear, there’s snow up there, and I gotta go through San Bernardino. You know what I’m saying? (Rhett clicks tongue) That’s what happened. – Yeah, you’re trying to get in their minds, in the mind of the liars that work for us. – [Stevie] You know what else happens in San Bernardino? – Mm, Tig Notaro. – [Stevie] Raves. – Oh. – [Stevie] No, I don’t know. – Raves? – [Stevie] I’ve been driving through San Bernardino, listening to Tig Notaro’s podcast, but no. Raves. You know what they do at raves? – Bad things. – Honestly, I don’t. Never been to a rave. – I’m joking, they drink a lot of water. – [Stevie] Uh-huh, they drink a lot of water, which might lead to seeing some UFOs. But, yeah, apparently, this is a real story. – Oh. – Man, we’re both wrong. – Okay, she went out to a rave. – [Stevie] Well, I don’t know if she went to a rave, but. – San Bernardino, but LA’s got raves. – [Stevie] Yeah, but I think San Bernardino has cheaper facilities. – Like big warehouses. – [Stevie] Yes, yes. I’ve forgotten the name of the production company. Not Golden Boys. Nick knows it, Nick’s a rave-goer. Where are you, Nick? Okay. – [Nick] I don’t know. – Okay, fine. (Rhett laughs) Sure, sure, sure, sure, sure. – Nick says he doesn’t know. – I don’t know. – But he looks very suspicious. – [Stevie] 1996, 42-year-old, you’re familiar, you guys, woman from Reno, disappeared, three days. Search parties found her car parked in the La Quinta Inn parking lot. She was found sleeping with her eyes open. – That’s called being dead. – And couldn’t speak for hours upon waking. She claimed that a flying saucer took control of her vehicle with a glowing red light with no other recollection of her experience. – Okay. Is this a police report? When you talk about, like, she’s waking up, she’s asleep with her eyes open, and this is a third-party account, so I’m saying yeah. – I think this one’s fake. – When the police show up and say that you’re sleeping with your eyes open, I buy it. – [Stevie] It’s fake. – Oh. (paddle clatters) – I don’t know how to formulate strong feelings or beliefs about extraterrestrial life. – Yeah, I know. You mean would they, like, just go to individual people who may or may not be under the influence of something, and then probe them and stuff? – I just think the distances between us and these other galaxies is so vast that the technology required in order to do it, like, our civilization’s been around for a pretty good while, and we’re not even close to getting out of our own solar system. You know, that’s like, we haven’t even gotten to another planet yet as people, and we probably won’t before we destroy ourselves. – So you’re saying, like, you’re, like, talking about, like, the amount of time it’s taken for us to evolve to the point where we’ve evolved when you take into account the big bang, that other people wouldn’t have had enough time to evolve? – No. – It would’ve had to have been very accelerated? – That’s not what I’m saying. I’m saying that the distance from us to other people, other beings is so vast, and the technology that it would be required in order to get there is so advanced that I’m not sure that intelligent life is even capable. Like, you have to have an intelligent life that survives long enough to get to that level of technology, and then decides to meet with us, one of trillions of options. Just don’t know if it’s happened yet. Definitely could happen, but I just think… Statistically speaking, there’s definitely gotta be other life out there, right? But, statistically speaking, the chances that they’ve made contact with us, so, so, so little, so small. – I think, before they made contact, there would be a lot of observation, and over the course of that observation, I think they would lose interest. I don’t think they would go all the way to, like, probing rednecks, you know? You can be incognito, and come to enough conclusions to not wanna, what’s the symbol for probe? – [Stevie] It sounds like a reality TV show, Probin’ Rednecks. – But that Dr. Steven Greer, with his documentaries and stuff, I’ve got the app, you know, where you connect with aliens via meditation, because, yes, the technology is not based in this physical plane. – Dimension. – There’s a way that they can connect. Like, they can travel great distances using, yeah, on a different plant, on some sort of astral plane, or whatever, and then, so, maybe there are people who can interact with that on some level. If they make contact with us, that’s how they’ve done it. That’s why I think that’s believable. – Let’s hear that one, Stevie? – [Stevie] How many people watching, do you feel like, have made contact with your podcast “Ear Biscuits?” – Well, you can make contact with our “Ear Biscuit” podcast. – How’s it compare to Tig Notaro’s podcast? – On the astral plane? – Well, what I’ve done is, I brought all of the Tig Notaro “Don’t Ask Tig” fans to this more just to hear me say that Tig was from Mississippi, and I enjoy her podcast, but ultimately so that they would go listen to “Ear Biscuits,” because they are podcast listeners who enjoy comedy. – But who’s funnier? – [Stevie] Oh, who’s funnier? – Yeah, right, right, right. – [Stevie] Right, right, right, right, right, right, right. – Just give your honest opinion. – [Stevie] Right, right. – She’s had a lot of guests on her show. – You’re not gonna answer. – [Stevie] In 2013, Russell Crowe. – Okay. – Mm. – [Stevie] Posted a video he found of glowing red and yellow objects in the sky over a marina. (Stevie laughs) I’m sorry, I looked at the word marina, and it was not coming to me. – Mare-ina. – Yeah, mare-ina. – Marinade? – [Stevie] Seriously, mare-ina. – I’m marryin’ her. – [Stevie] In Australia, and said they were UFOs. Experts later said it was probably a reflection from a yacht. – Yeah, but you got the, like, American military files being opened up. I mean, you’ve got people in objective places legitimizing the unknown nature of these flying objects. – People like Russell Crowe? – And Russell. – Did you say Russell Crowe? – Yeah. – Russell Crowe. – She said Russell Crowe. – Yeah. – We talking about plump Russell Crowe, or svelte Russell Crowe? – [Stevie] What did he look like in 2013? – It depends on, I think he was transitioning at that point. – Okay. – We saw him at an airport. He had changed quite a bit. – I’ve got at least one friend who has sincerely seen light phenomenon in the sky. – Yeah. – And I believe his sincerity. I know he was sincere, and I believe it, that’s what I’m saying. – Yeah, I agree with that, and so I think that Russell Crowe definitely saw this stuff, and I think it’s real. – Yeah, I believe Russell Crowe did this. – [Stevie] We have the very video that he was talking about. – Oh, yes, all right, so we’re right. (eerie music) It doesn’t seem real so far, the way this is presented. What? This is. – [Rhett] So it’s pictures. – [Stevie] I am so confused by this. – This is a joke? (people laugh) What? I don’t understand. Was he making… Was this a skit? Does he do skits on his Twitter feed? That was the official Russell Crowe? – [Stevie] Yeah. – He paid someone to edit this together. – [Kearney] No, that was, like, security footage, if I may, and those, that was time lapse footage, so that was, like, taken throughout different parts of the night. – Oh. – But the way that it’s edited undermines the whole thing. – [Stevie] Yeah. – Like it’s on a TV show. – Like it’s on a TV show, yeah. – There is something interesting about that, though. It’s definitely an alien. – [Link] What is that? – I mean, there’s always an explanation. I mean, I just think there’s almost always, if not always, a better explanation for this stuff other than aliens, but that one Air Force video where the guys are like, this thing is moving in non-Newtonian ways, you know? – Yeah, they’re talking to each other. – Yeah, and it’s just like, what? – And you can tell that they’re kinda freaked out about it. – Yeah, I still think it’s more likely that there’s an explanation that has nothing to do with extraterrestrials, but I really wanna know what that explanation is. – Maybe, one day, we will. – Maybe we should ask Russell Crowe. – Dwayne The Rock Johnson has a great podcast. (Stevie laughs) – Okay. – [Stevie] Says when he was 12 years old, he was walking home from school when a bright flash of light knocked him to the ground. He thought the light may have been an angel, but decided it must’ve been an alien because angels aren’t violent. – Well, first of all, never assume that. – Mm-hm, okay. – Second of all, is this what made the Rock the Rock? – That’s where he got his muscles from. – An encounter? – I mean, how old was he? Middle school? Dude had more muscles. – 12. – 12 years old, he had a lot more muscles than I do now. Well, than I’ve ever had. – He could beat both of us up at age 12. That picture that you brought up is age 15, because that kinda went around. – Yeah, okay. He got knocked down by a light? Angels can knock you down, Rock. – Yeah, they can, yeah. That’s the first thing. – I mean, you can be knocked down by an angel just as easily as a… I can hear him telling this story. – I think it’s fake though. – I think it’s real. – I can smell what the Rock is cooking, and I don’t think- – I think that the angel logic is something I could hear him saying. – Mm. – [Stevie] Nah, it’s fake. – Ah, all right. – [Stevie] He did say, in an interview, that he does believe aliens exist. He said, “I think they come in all forms, “and they increase when you drink.” (Rhett laughs) – Yeah, okay. Wink, wink, Dwayne. – All right, give me one more. – [Stevie] You want one last one? – I gotta redeem myself. – [Stevie] Okay. – What would it take, Stevie, Stevie, I’m asking you. – [Stevie] Yeah. – ‘Cause you don’t believe in aliens, do you? – ‘Cause I know you’re a skeptic. You’re a big skeptic. – [Stevie] No, I was tracking with what you were saying, yeah. I mean, I mean, aliens have to exist. – But if I were to say, tonight, we’re going to go to, like, a hillside. – [Stevie] And listen to Tig Notaro’s podcast. – First, yes, but then, after that, we’re gonna get into a meditation circle, and we’re gonna listen to this doctor tell us what to do, and we’re going to try to… I tried to do this by myself when I was on my camping trip by myself. I was in a hot tub, like, a natural hot spring, and I was trying to connect with aliens, but I was by myself, and I think that was the problem. I think, if we did it as a group, if you were there. – [Stevie] Is this part of our camping trip that the three of us are gonna go on? – Yeah, yeah, this is all the same thing, the camping trip, and then this happens. – [Stevie] Okay, so, now, there’s a hot tub. – It’s not hard for me. – It’s a natural hot spring. – To get to a place where I begin to believe that it could happen, but I think we can’t have any doubters in the group, Stevie, and I think you’d be like, this is BS, I don’t believe this. – [Stevie] Okay, so, now, you and Link are gonna go on a camping trip without me, and there’s gonna be a hot tub. – But you have to believe, Stevie. – But I’m just saying, can you go on an alien contact thing with us and believe? – [Stevie] Can I go in the hot tub with… Sure. No, no, I think I can. – We won’t get in the hot tub. You know, I mean, it was just a hot tub for one person. It was a small hot tub. It was shaped like a heart. – [Stevie] Oh, so now, we’re all getting in a heart-shaped singular person hot tub together? – Yeah, we’re taking turns. – Yeah, right, yeah. – [Stevie] No, I can… I mean, all of… We’ve done a few episodes about alien abduction stories, and, like, once you get into the research, and you’re reading these, like, long-ass stories that people are telling, of course, those stories seem fake, but you could really convince yourself that there’s something going on. – Mm, well, there’s only one way to find out. – But that’s with any conspiracy theories. – All you gotta do is convince Rhett that you can be convinced. Otherwise, he’ll be really annoyed, and it’ll ruin the whole camping trip. – I just want you to believe. – [Stevie] This is the last story that I’ve chosen for the day. – Okay. – [Stevie] In 1957, a Brazilian farmer claimed to have been abducted by a spacecraft surrounded by glowing purple light. According to him, he was rubbed down with a Viagra-like gel and mated several times with a beautiful, blonde humanoid creature who he believes went on to raise their baby on her home planet. – Whoa. – Wow. – Good lord. – Wow, Viagra-like jelly. – Give me a second. – They rubbed the Viagra jelly where? All over him? Why didn’t you start with this one? This could’ve been all in one. – We could’ve spent more time on this. Man, that’s a good story. – Please let this be real. – That’s definitely real, I hope it’s real, I hope it’s real. – Please, please. – [Stevie] Yeah, it’s real. – Yes. – Aw. Can we meet this guy? He’s the father of a whole species. – He’s not the one I wanna meet. (people laugh) Only a few days left to get the Mythical Snackiverse lunch box and thermos set. Join the third-degree quarterly or annual plan by March 31st. Visit mythicalsociety.com for details.