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In Research Of

William Blake Smith

The 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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02:50:29

S03E11 - Indian Astronomers

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2021/12/03

Jeb 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 Grande Robert Hicks of

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11:12

Ghostbusters Bonus - Part 2 Preview

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2021/11/20

Jeb 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.

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02:13:23

S3 Bonus - Ghostbusters (part 1)

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2021/11/14

Just 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 Meters

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01:40:58

S03E10 - Bermuda Triangle Pirates

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2021/10/09

eb 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 Pirate Lady (found

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0:30

Theme Music

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2021/09/29

I 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 show sometimes lacked

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12:47

S3 Bonus - Raiders of the Lost Ark - Part 2

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2021/09/19

Jeb 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 article on Egyptian

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02:23:04

S03E09 - Monster Hunters

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2021/09/12

Jeb 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 have more material on Doc

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01:47:48

S03 Bonus - Raiders of the Lost Ark - part 1

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2021/08/22

Jeb 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

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02:13:46

S03E07 - Siberian Fireball

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2021/07/30

Jeb 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 Link) The Jomon Period (Japan)

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02:22

AIPT Presents SciPhi Fest 2021

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2021/07/18

AIPT 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 discuss

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02:12:22

S03E6 - Cryogenics (Explicit)

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2021/07/11

Jeb 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: Cryogenics is NOT

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01:53:44

S03E05 - Jack the Ripper

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2021/06/15

Jeb 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 appears in the

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01:28:14

Bonus - Jack the Ripper: The Pop-Culture References

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2021/06/01

Jeb & 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 Truly, Jack

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02:10:10

S03E04 - Water Seekers

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2021/05/12

Grab 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 Man's Way by J

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01:08:45

S03E03 - Cloning

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2021/04/21

We'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 Twins (Josephine

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01:13:39

S03E02 - Tornadoes

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2021/04/13

Get 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:

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01:57:54

S03E01 - UFO Captives

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2021/04/12

Jeb 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 & Barney Hill, Blake highly

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Whoops! MonsterTalk happens.

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2021/03/20

Sorry! 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 enjoy Season

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27:25

Preview: S2 Bonus - Close Encounters of the Third Kind

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2021/03/11

Season 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.

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The MonsterTalk Library

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2021/03/08

If 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 lot of

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