This is what you might call a sequel episode, since we’re not only revisiting the Fresno Nightcrawlers (thanks to some hot tips from a listener), we’re also checking in on “just James,” the anonymous UFO-Tuber. Also, yes, we’re finally covering 3I/Atlas. Sometimes, you gotta hold your nose and jump onto the bandwagon.

Highlights:

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  Turns out we were wrong about the Fresno Nightcrawler video

  
  


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  Tom connects high strangeness to Oscar Wilde’s “all art is useless” philosophy - neither art projects or genuine cryptids are fundamentally “useful”

  
  


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  But, hey, check out this fresh footage of the thylacine!

  
  


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  An update on our favorite UFO-Tuber, in which he receives a threatening letter from an unnamed foreign government

  
  


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  How 3I/Atlas is a cosmic Rorschach test — basically, people self-select into three camps: it’s definitely not aliens, it might be aliens, and it’s definitely aliens

  
  


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  A favorite theory that the object is broadcasting frequencies to upgrade everyone’s DNA

  
  


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  But also, what we already know for sure is super cool and weird

  
  


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  Science is best at breaking its own models (looking at you, James Webb Space Telescope)

  
  


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  The Vegetable Lamb of Tartary (go ahead and Google it)

  
  


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  What we don’t have nearly enough of, is patience

  
  


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  The three flavors of wonder: art projects are wonderful, real phenomena are wonderful, and not knowing which is its own kind of wonderful

  
  

Highlights:And in the epilogue:

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  A (relatively) heated debate about “main character syndrome”

  
  


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  The paradox of being both profoundly valuable and completely worthless

  
  


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  How to find truth at the intersection of contraries

  
  

P.S. If you encounter any vegetable lambs, please feed them. They’re supposed to starve dramatically for theological reasons.

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