Gods, Ghosts & UFOs

Today it's just Tom and Jordan, bromancing their way along a philosophical journey through reincarnation, the nature of consciousness, and what life might lie beyond this mortal coil. Normally, we like to cover some headlines, but with Mal unable to join us this week, and considering the pretty big personal headline for Jordan (another baby!), we decided to forgo the typical format, and instead sp...

It’s not for nothing that “Gods” is the first word in the name of this show. Today, we’re talking about the Catholic Church's rigorous miracle verification process, and some (okay one in particular) truly bizarre holy relics. If we had to pick a theme, it would probably be the way humans imbue objects with meaning and power. Highlights: * Tom shares a recent article about the Catholic Church's con...

Alright alright, we’re back to UFOs. It wasn’t our fault Skywatcher released a “taxonomy” of nine different types of UFOs last week. And then, naturally, it only made sense to talk about abductions. “Abductions”? Who knows! We sure don’t. At the end, Mal teases her profound experience from a seven-day silent retreat that left her feeling "shaken up like a can of soda." Episode Highlights: * Skywat...

Today, we’re talking about increased sightings of a legendary dinosaur in the Congo, the CIA's psi-quest for the Lost Ark, and asteroids filled with DNA (basically). Highlights: * How the failed Kickstarter turned out to be a blessing in disguise * Mal teases an intense seven-day silent retreat experience that left her feeling "all shaken up like a can of soda" * Increased sightings of the Mokele-...

This week, Mal, Tom, and Jordan dive into the nature of time and some compelling video of a can of soda. Highlights: * A new University of Surrey study suggests time might flow in both directions * Is linear time an illusion we've constructed to process information? * That time Tom's daughter predicted a future accident * How our brains might be filters for reality rather than gatherers of informa...

The Biggest Podcast in the Universe For the inaugural episode of Gods, Ghosts & UFOs, it seemed fitting to tackle the subject that has been smashing into the walls of consensus reality like a battering ram. In late 2024, UFO sightings became so pervasive across so much of the country (and, if you were paying attention, in many other parts of the world, too) that the story made headlines in every m...

Gods, Ghosts & UFOs is the biggest podcast in the universe, where we talk about all the things they said weren't real. Every Friday, hosts Jordan, Tom, and Mal use stories from the "news" as conversation starters for occasionally absurd but always open-minded explorations into topics of high strangeness. All recovering materialists welcome! And, please, come share your own stories at godsghostsufo...

In Part Two of the RSS-warming series... Let's talk about cryptids, baby - Mal introduces her research on lesser-known cryptids from wildlife expert Forrest Galante Mokele Mbembe: The Congo Dinosaur - A sauropod-like creature with sightings dating back to a German captain in 1913 The Ozark Howler - Mal describes a nine-foot beast with "the tail of a cat and the body of a dog" and a horrifying howl...

In this non-episode... * An impossible question - Can we ever know if AI is conscious? Tom's immediate response: "I'm gonna say no.” * Turing tests - We thought conversation was the test of consciousness... until AI mastered it, revealing we never knew what we were asking in the first place. * But… "What is consciousness?" Mal points out we’ve essentially created a new species that doesn't share o...