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ALIEN THEORISTS THEORIZING

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Ever wondered if UFO sightings are government cover-ups, if ancient civilizations had alien architects, or if fringe science might actually be onto something? Alien Theorists Theorizing is where wild speculation meets seasoned storytelling.Join The Theorists as they wade through the BS and get inspired by the possibilities with open minds, and open beers. It’s a free-form, open-minded, comedic roundtable discussing, Aliens, UFOs, UAPs, Ancient Astronauts, Bigfoot, Cryptids, The Supernatural,

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67:15

Tehran Lights, McAfee's Last Tweet & the Shart Heard...

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2026/10/05

Fifty years after Iranian fighter jets chased a blazing light across the skies over Tehran, the city looked up again. On a quiet September night, drivers on a busy highway filmed a strange swept-wing craft lit up end to end, hanging silently above the traffic. With the region at war and fears about nuclear programs at their peak, the timing raises an old question: do these visitors always show up wherever the bombs are?Across the world, a darker anniversary comes back to the surface. A tech mogul

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70:43

The Nahanni Valley | Case File 390

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2026/09/28

Deep in the rugged, subarctic wilderness of Canada’s Northwest Territories lies a jagged scar of towering limestone canyons and untamed rapids. Accessible almost entirely by floatplane or treacherous river expeditions, this vast expanse is breathtakingly beautiful and steeped in a sinister, century-old reputation. To the Indigenous Dene peoples, parts of this wilderness have long carried deep taboos, whispered to harbor evil spirits, strange warm-water tropical valleys, and a fierce, vanished tribe

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65:07

Flock Cameras | Case File 389

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2026/09/21

Mounted inconspicuously on suburban utility poles, streetlamps, and highway overpasses, an army of small, solar-powered black cylinders is quietly watching. In just a few years, one company has transformed from a niche neighborhood security startup into a nationwide surveillance network, blanketing American towns with automated license plate readers. Logging billions of scans every month, these AI-driven cameras don't just read license plates; they record bumper stickers, vehicle colors, and

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60:53

The Ruins of Great Zimbabwe | Case File 388

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2026/09/14

Rising from the rolling savannas of southern Africa stands a sprawling medieval fortress carved entirely of granite—constructed without a single drop of mortar. The grand capital of a vanished trading empire that once spanned continents, boasts thirty-foot dry-stone walls and towering conical structures that have held their ground for nearly a thousand years. For centuries, early European colonizers refused to accept that Indigenous African hands had built such architectural perfection, fabricating

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69:03

The White River Monster | Case File 387

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2026/09/07

Beneath the murky, slow-moving currents of Arkansas’s White River lies one of the American South’s most enduring aquatic enigmas. First documented during the Civil War when it reportedly overturned a Confederate transport boat, the creature resurfaced with a vengeance in 1937, spotted by hundreds of eyewitnesses who described a massive, gray-skinned beast the size of a boxcar.The sightings became so frequent and feverish that in 1973, the Arkansas State Legislature took the unprecedented step of

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65:25

The Disappearance of Jason Landry | Case File 386

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2026/08/31

On a freezing December night in 2020, a 21-year-old Texas State University student packed his bags, loaded his car, and began the drive home to Missouri City for the holidays. He never arrived. In the early morning hours, his vehicle was found wrecked and abandoned on a desolate, unpaved gravel road in Caldwell County, Texas—miles off his intended route, with the lights still on and the keys still in the ignition.The scene grew exponentially stranger with every passing hour. Scattered along the

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82:15

Magic Chang, Costco Rage, and Byron Returns | PH 54

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2026/08/24

Braden, Zel and Byron crack a few beers (three in, and Zel's already "high school right now") for a wide-ranging, unfiltered hang. Topics include: training for a triathlon while definitely not training for a triathlon, the case for a 24-episode Lord of the Rings miniseries, home winemaking chemistry gone wrong (cork taint is real, folks), the mythical "Magic Chang" beer of Thailand, a Costco cart-swinging folk hero, getting into it with a stranger at a kids' connect-four

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73:00

Trenches, Tranches, and the Singularity | PH 53

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2026/08/17

The boys are finally back in the same room after a summer of wildfires, vacations, and triathlon training got in the way. Zel recaps his race getting cancelled (not for the smoke, allegedly) right as a new fire broke out near Summerland, BC — which somehow leads to a deep dive on 150 years of fire suppression, "super fires," and who's really to blame for the haze rolling up from Washington.From there it's full chaos mode: leaked memos hint the government might finally have to let UAP

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69:12

Guy Fieri Didn't Swallow | PH 52

ALIEN THEORISTS THEORIZING ·

2026/08/10

Zel no-shows for a "surprise" camping trip, Spider-Man: Brand New Day gets three spideys out of three, and the boys go deep on the Guy Fieri swallowing conspiracy. From there it's COINTELPRO and hip-hop, El Grande Americano stealing the show in Lucha, Conor McGregor's comeback odds, and a very detailed Coke Zero customer service complaint. Plus: kids, YouTube algorithms gone wrong, and keeping your eyes on the skies.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy &

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64:59

UFO Crash Retrievals | Case File 385

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2026/08/03

For decades, the idea of intact extraterrestrial craft hidden in subterranean military vaults was relegated to the fringes of science fiction and late-night radio. But in recent years, those wild whispers crossed the threshold into congressional committee rooms. A wave of high-ranking whistleblowers—former intelligence officers, defense officials, and decorated veterans—have stepped forward under oath, testifying to the existence of clandestine, multi-decade crash retrieval and reverse-engineering

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70:23

Smoke Screens, Super Pigs & the Denzel Doctrine | PH 51

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2026/07/27

The boys are scattered, the internet's garbage, and Zell's nowhere to be found — but that won't stop a full power hour of unfiltered tangents. Wildfire smoke gets reverse-engineered into a UFO cover story (and a possible Bigfoot fire-starting conspiracy), JD Vance squirms on Rogan, Braden plots a mayoral run against a guy named Kermit, AM radio gets buried, and the trio settles once and for all whether Denzel Washington is even an actor or just a vibe. Loose, unhinged, and 100% off the

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54:55

New UAP File Drops, the Tyler Robinson Prelim Fallout...

ALIEN THEORISTS THEORIZING ·

2026/07/20

It's a stripped-down Power Hour edition of the show — no Mongoose, just Braden, Dan, and Zel riffing through a stacked news week. The Department of War just dropped a fourth tranche of UAP footage straight from the White House site, and the Theorists break down the new star-shaped IR anomaly, a possible mid-frame near-collision, and why "official government disclosure" might just be the world's best-funded misinformation campaign. Then it's over to the Tyler Robinson preliminary

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60:05

The Khara-Hora Shaft | Case File 384

ALIEN THEORISTS THEORIZING ·

2026/07/13

High in the North Caucasus mountains of Kabardino-Balkaria, a landslide once tore open a hole no wider than a dinner plate — and what lay beneath it defied every explanation the men who found it could offer. A narrow shaft plunges forty meters through solid rock, its walls polished smooth and fitted with two-hundred-ton blocks locked together so precisely that not even a blade can slide between the seams. No natural cave on Earth looks like this. No known civilization in the Caucasus had the tools

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45:24

Jacko The Ape Boy | ATT Confidential

ALIEN THEORISTS THEORIZING ·

2026/07/06

n 1884, a British Columbia newspaper reported that railway workers had captured a four-foot-tall, ape-like creature near Yale, BC — they called him Jacko. This week, the Theorists dig into one of Canada's oldest and strangest cryptid cases: a supposed juvenile sasquatch caged and put on public display over a century before Bigfoot became a household name. Was Jacko a genuine cryptozoological discovery lost to history, an escaped circus animal, or one of the 19th century's great hoaxes? The

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116:05

The Death of Charlie Kirk | Case File 383

ALIEN THEORISTS THEORIZING ·

2026/06/29

On a bright September afternoon in 2025, a 31-year-old activist stepped onto a stage in front of three thousand people at Utah Valley University — and into the sightline of a gunman perched on a rooftop more than a hundred yards away. A single shot cracked across the Orem campus, and one of the most polarizing voices in modern American politics was gone before the crowd even understood what they had witnessed.What followed was not closure, but chaos. A botched early announcement that a suspect was

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79:25

The Deaths on Aconagua | Case File 382

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2026/06/22

In the thin, freezing air of January 1973, an elite eight-member expedition set out to conquer the highest peak in the Western Hemisphere. But what was meant to be a triumph of endurance quickly spiraled into one of the most harrowing and heavily debated tragedies in mountaineering history. Ambushed by a ferocious, sudden storm near the summit, the team fractured under the pressure of extreme altitude, leading to the bizarre and agonizing deaths of leader Janet Johnson and NASA engineer John

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66:34

The Great Cryptid State Debate | Case File 381

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2026/06/15

Across the vast expanse of the American landscape, every region guards its own local nightmares. From the dense, pine-scented woods of New Jersey to the muddy, mist-shrouded banks of the Ohio River, communities have long shared encounters with creatures that defy the laws of biology. But these aren't just campfire stories anymore. In a fascinating intersection of folklore and local pride, a growing movement has seen state governments formally debating, and sometimes officially adopting, these

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65:41

Return to Plum Island, The Lonestar Tick | Case File 380

ALIEN THEORISTS THEORIZING ·

2026/06/08

Just off the coast of Long Island, a heavily restricted animal disease center has served as a fortress of federal agricultural defense since 1954, studying dangerous foreign pathogens to protect American livestock. However, the facility's geographic proximity to Old Lyme, Connecticut, where Lyme disease was first identified in the 1970s,has long fueled curiosity about the origin of tick-borne illnesses. This curiosity has intensified with the recent, aggressive expansion of the Lone Star tick

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72:34

The Artemis Missions | Case File 379

ALIEN THEORISTS THEORIZING ·

2026/06/01

What are The Artemis Missions? Great human achievement, or a sophisticated hoax?With the successful splashdown of Artemis II fresh in our rearview, the path to the stars is no longer a distant dream, it’s an active, aggressive roadmap. Under a radically overhauled strategy, NASA has shifted into high gear, aiming for an unprecedented launch cadence that will fundamentally change humanity's relationship with the cosmos. The upcoming Artemis III mission, slated for late 2027, has been entirely

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75:35

Holy Relic Heists | Case File 378

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2026/05/25

In the quiet northern hills of the Czech Republic, inside the ancient Basilica of Saint Lawrence, an 800-year-old sanctuary was quietly shattered. An intruder breached the security of the shrine, targeting its most sacred treasure: the skull of Saint Zdislava of Lemberk, a medieval noblewoman revered for her miraculous healings and deep compassion. When authorities finally tracked down the culprit, they uncovered a plot that reads less like a standard burglary and more like a macabre psychological

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