UFO of GOD (Premium E311)
Jake hands in a frantic book report on Chris Bledsoe’s detailed memoir as a lifelong UFO experiencer. The hosts perform passages from the book and discuss why science fiction and Christianity complement each other so well.
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The daughter is such a specifically NC type of person. There's an ineffable quality to the voice that I've only heard from a small handful of NC people that are all very similar to one another in an odd combination of ways
The consultant thing might be true, they did film the movie at the school
I lived in Wilmington at this time and never heard about this. Also, The Conjuring filmed there and I was an extra
waiting on the easter 2026 update
Holy shit, how did I miss the Chris Bledsoe episode? Went way down that rabbit hole a couple years ago, and boy was I disheartened.
As much as I love Sagan, flatland isn't his analogy. It was a Victorian short story written as an allegory for the pitfalls of the British class system. Nerds just love it and use it as a science communication tool
Y'all really need a goto "UFO Guy" for episodes like this. I'm guessing Brad wasn't available.
The whole "near death experience makes you more sensitive to the paranormal" thing reminds me a lot of Chad Daybell, it's apparently a big thing in Mormonism too.
Pasulka wrote a very good book on UFOs called American Cosmic
I would recommend anyone that wants a much more in-depth analysis of Chris Bledsoe’s experiences check out tanner boyle’s substack Getting Spooked, with the caveat that most of the articles are unfortunately paywalled. There are some murky intelligence connections (Tanner Boyle specifically researches about UFOs as intelligence agency operations a la Richard Doty and Paul Bennewitz). And there is a long diversion about DW Pasulkas, who has A LOT of weird shit going on in her own right.
naming your podcast “bledsoe said so” is giving “bob loblaw’s law blog”
You know it isn’t a bad story, crazy the whole family is a part of it, but at least he’s not the head of some cult.
Excrement episode! I haven’t heard Travis be so lighthearted and silly in ages it seems.
ALL my 17 year old babies…, GONE!
ayo? *tractor beam noises*
this guy would be an AMAZING traveling poet or storyteller in Ancient Greece lmao
damn I love owls and I’m kinda half the way he is about them but with corvids…
exactly when I heard « I screamed back at the pain to make it stop » is when I thought he would be a really good fiction writer if he didn’t think the fiction he wrote was real life…
also Liv don’t be so mean to ao3… she’s had a hard life !
America’s national pastime is not baseball, but “deducing Mormonism from first principles”…
Jake… 368 pages?! you deserve a medal tbh, hero of the pilled people podcast🎖️
literally only at 13:40(timestamp, not time of day) and I can already tell this entire book is gonna be full of remixed and/or rejected Doctor Who plotlines… this guy lowkey seems like a verison of someone I could’ve turned into if I were born earlier than I was and had less access to mental healthcare…
took a break from listening for a while because there’s already a bit too much crazy in my own head, still kept the Patreon the same, I’m glad to see yall enjoying losing your minds as well lol
Getting everyone but the kids Applebee's is a special level of evil.
Getting misinformation from Liv via a past lover real is something. String theory, like many other models that have come and are, have large short comings or doesn’t help us with anything meaningful in this reality (yet?). As a person with a phd in physics, I can speak about a good education that discusses the philosophy, history and people of the subjects I have learned. There are models that are wrong but give us an insight into the kind of creative thinking that resulted what we now believe to be true. Also, there have been some amazing findings that have no practical application but were a useful applications of the brain. The people who study advanced physics and math are pretty interesting. I had the privilege of learning about physics and chatting about life from these odd fellows who have dedicated their life to exploring abstract thought. They were not all good or of equal quality in their transmission of the knowledge they held but I have definitely learned how to think outside of the box from them.
I would absolutely read the overwrought Wile E. Coyote memoir.
They are hopefully releasing a movie that has been already made and is being sat on: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coyote_vs._Acme
Investigate 311!
This episodes takes me back to some deeply cursed robot voiced YouTube videos, ca. 2011-2012
My physics 101 professor in 2001 was a string theorist. He was explaining some aspect of how light travels through the air and stopped himself mid sentence to say, in a thick Austrian accent "but ahhctually zis is not cohrrect becauws zehr ah eeleven die-menshhhions"
Professor Scratchansniff?
There was a small String Theory group in the Physics Dept at UW Madison when l was there. The other grad students (myself included) gave them a small amount of shit for it, but didn't really ostracize them as "not physicists". (Angela Collier's youtube channel has some good pieces on how String Theory is infuriatingly terrible physics communication, but honest physics).
I imagine Liv’s statement about there “being no string theorists” is actually a statement about how string theory isn’t a very active topic at the moment. There are topics relevant and adjacent to string theory under study by the same people who were doing string theory a decade or so ago (“string theorists”…though you would typically say “high energy theorists”), but they aren’t actually studying string theory. Also, to add to what you said: It’s not correct to say that string theory is “debunked.” It just reached a point where little meaningful progress can be made without experimental input.
The blue album has an alien on the cover THREE ELEVEN THREE THREE ELEVEN
I instantly feel old. The episode just started. Woooahhhh Amber is the color of your energyyyy
Going to theater school w/ a dude who claims he almost played Gambit is some super Jake content, love it. Re: whatever is up w this guy, the owls and gangstalking are classic Communion (Whitley Strieber, not the Pope kind)!
Yeah I mean they really follow all the classic patterns, right down to meeting "Our Lady of Space" offering One Weird Trick to try to get other people to believe them.
I’m always fascinated by the chemistry of two con artists meeting and immediately syncing up. The fact that MUFON and Discovery both decided that this guy wasn’t worth a relationship is telling. They should still have fed those kids though.
right?! that shit was fucked up you can’t bait and switch the kids with Applebees like that
“That J Smith, that Jo Jo” sent me into stitches
I miss Julian :( but at the same time I’m glad Liv is back
Of course in the vastness of the cosmos with more star systems than grains of sand on our little planet or even infinite alternate planes all teasing the possibility of a universe peopled with beings of all forms & descriptions it'd be just our luck to get stuck with the "That one's alone, let's see how many others they can get to believe THIS shit lmao" aliens. Also regarding string theory it's not so much straightforwardly discredited or disproven as that it slammed into an insurmountable mathematical & experimental wall, sorta like if one of a detective's main suspects in a case turned out to only speak a language no one's ever heard of and lives inside the goddamn sun. He mighta still done it, but you're not questioning or catching that guy anytime in the next millennium or ten so uhhhh maybe it was one of these other suspicious characters who hopefully merely speak Sumerian and live in the Mariana Trench.
Idk if anyone else has mentioned this in the comments, but there was some article or book that came out years ago that likened the sighting of UFOs mainly in western/European cultures as a kind of sublimated fear of being colonized (as the colonizers). Just thought that was an interesting take
This is a valuable line of thought in that ironically the circulating canard about reports being mostly confined to Europe & North America is itself a form of eurocentric misapprehension; Latin America is the region with far & away the highest incidence of people reporting bizarre contraptions overhead, but it's all taken down in Spanish or Portuguese so most English-speakers assembling datasets never even realize hardly anyone else has been bothering to go collect them. (Japan is way up there, too, but that situation's a bit messier in this regard.)
I think you guys should do a Return of Spygate style episode given that the admin seems to be going after some of the characters from season 1 of QAnon. Comey already indicted but various Trumpworld figures have been attacking Clapper, Obama and Monaco. Lisa Page and Brennan have been subpoenaed. And I think I saw someone from Trumpworld attacking Page in the same breath as Andrew McCabe. I think this is all prime Jake material
Also, not a recommendation but the whole owls/UFO connection goes very deep! There's this huge book called "The Messengers: Owls, Synchronicity and the UFO Abductee" by Mike Clelland that has some interesting theories and a huge directory of anectodal experiences collected from abductees and such. But the book is needlessly long and naively pilled (as opposed to critically pilled... like Brad and Jake lol) so I wouldn't necessary recommend it. Maybe noodle through the first 100 pages to get some of the theoretic juice, aka why owls
ooooh shit does it have to do with Athena/ancient Greek mythology?
Pasulka's book "American Cosmic" is actually one of the best books on the alien encounter, second only to James D. Madden's "Unidentified Flying Hyperobjects", which builds on Pasulka's general direction. When I read Madden's book in 2023 I immediately wanted Jake and Brad to read it and would have brought you a copy if you'd done a live show in my city! But I think it'll be an easy sell to Jake at least because the guy's name is Madden!!! Jokes aside, they're both essentially a twist on the allegory of the cave. Whether it be a psychic, sociological, physical, geological, or religious phenomena, knowledge of the "UFO phenomenon" can be a tool for bettering our knowledge of our selves. That said, please still read Madden's book! He's an amazing teacher and an academic philosopher so it's all very serious but extremely readable! Multiple times throughout this episode I wished y'all had read that!
oh that’s wicked interesting
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Flatland is from a book by Edwin A Abbott, published in 1884. And it's pretty neat.
Hell yeah I was JUST thinking about that book the other day and how weirdly disquieting it was when they pass the miserable 1D beings trapped on a line but then the 0-dimensional being below even them is unexpectedly (but inevitably in hindsight) in this eternal manic spiritual ecstasy, but they can't convince it that anything but the perfectly self-contained divine oneness of its own consciousness exists because even their words reaching its infinitesimal point are indistinguishable from supposed proof of the infinite potentiality of its own imagination. Lil guy's doing just fine down there I guess but the whole thing really creeped me out (in a good way lol)
nick mullen would love this guy. i was genuinely so distracted during this episode because i couldn’t stop imagining all the potential rape jokes he’d make
My friends! We should be careful not to dismiss the Phenomena as crazy people ranting who “need medication”. Whether or not it’s real is no longer a question. Whether we accept that it’s real, however, is.
lol ok
Back with Eurovision requessssts
I've always liked the idea that the plan of these super intelligent beings from another planet/dimension is to convey their unhelpful general advice about "getting along" and "not using nukes" through people with no power to change anything.
It definitely doesn't make sense in terms of "interstellar diplomacy" but it makes a lot of sense in terms of "psych experiment"
Travis really cracking me up this episode. I had to stifle laughter when he said “meep meep” in the voice of a severely traumatized Wile E. Coyote so I wouldn’t accidentally wake anyone up. And I love how Jake’s infectious enthusiasm can get me interested in learning about even these weird grifters. It is sort of heartwarming that they’re in it together as a family, as long as it doesn’t end up in a remote compound with artificially flavored beverages I guess.
Wife in car accident…Signs dude!!!
The joke is so much better when you get it!
this kinda sounds like the Bill Paxton abduction movie
Frailty! Was thinking the same thing. Was the one son who ended up homeless the only one not to be pilled? I feel like there's more to this story.
One of my best friends to this day used to tell this story that his grandpa sold machine guns for a living but we weren’t allowed to ask his mom if it was true because she didn’t like that he did and would get upset. He never sold a single machine gun in his life
The Stares at Goats guys and Diana Pasulka? That’s a lot of spooked up individuals to have around you.
I believe Diana Pasulka, possible Vatican envoy, is a rabbit hole in herself.
Haven't listened yet but I'm so stoked, the ufo of GOD stuff has become more widespread on reddit in recent years and I've always been curious about it
Same!! I hope they cover more deepcut UFO stuff because the topic is sooo immense and becoming more and more mainstream.
Great story, Jake!
A Jake story!? Now I'm even more excited!
Maybe UFOs are just attracted to Protestantism
Sorry, but when you’re saving the pope, being visited by a glowing blue lady and rubbing shoulders with technical consultants on The Conjuring you’re deep into Catholic territory.
Dear Jake’s-Pilled-Friend, thank you orb-based content. I hope you get the help you need
liv agar
Liv Agar
Glad we are starting with 311
This is why we keep listening: to get to perfect, beautiful titles like this that should be Jodorowski films.
Agar of Liv
Liv Agar! (Sorry, couldn’t resist!😂)
Don't apologize, everyone liked that.
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