10 Regular Things We Should All Stop Mistaking For Aliens
The Cracked Podcast
Literally Media
4.6 • 3.5K Ratings
🗓️ 24 February 2020
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Summary
Alex Schmidt is joined by comedians & alien comedy experts David Christopher Bell (Gamefully Unemployed, "Fox Mulder Is A Maniac") and Moujan Zolfaghari (Mission To Zyxx, 'At Home With Amy Sedaris'). They’re digging into the most common lazy media tropes, frustrating hoaxes, and generally confusing myths about aliens. So throw on some headphones, increase your media literacy, and be ready to spot the REAL signs of extraterrestrials, if and when we ever get them.
Footnotes: https://www.cracked.com/podcast/10-regular-things-we-should-all-stop-mistaking-aliens/
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| 0:00.0 | Study at the World's Only Film School dedicated entirely to comedy. |
| 0:04.6 | The only one. |
| 0:05.6 | The Harold Rames Film School at the Second City is looking for diverse applicants of all experience levels and backgrounds. |
| 0:12.0 | Apply by May 18th for the year-long program starting this fall in Chicago. |
| 0:16.7 | Go to RamesFilmschool.com or call 312-883-1241 to schedule a tour or to attend their next open house. |
| 0:30.0 | Hey there folks, welcome to another episode of the Cracked Podcast. |
| 0:39.8 | The podcast all about why Being Alive is more interesting than people think it is. |
| 0:43.7 | My name is Alex Schmitt. |
| 0:44.7 | I'm also known as Schmitty the Clam. |
| 0:45.9 | I'm also known as Schmitty the Champ. |
| 0:47.4 | And I am also also glad that whenever I am facing hard times, I can lean on uplifting and spiritual songs like this one. |
| 0:55.6 | Just remember that you're standing on a planet that's evolving and revolving at 900 miles an hour. |
| 1:05.2 | That's all butting at 90 miles a second so it's wrecking. |
| 1:09.2 | A son that is the source of all our power. |
| 1:12.7 | That song is called Galaxy Song. |
| 1:14.5 | It's from the Final Monte Python movie, which was a sketch movie called Monte Paifan's The Meaning of Life. |
| 1:19.8 | The song has Eric Idol leading Terry Jones, RIP. |
| 1:23.4 | Anyway, it's Idol leading Jones' character through a thoughtful exploration or a universe. |
| 1:28.1 | And to me, it peaks with its ending because its ending is this killer joke. |
| 1:32.6 | So remember when you're feeling very small and insecure. |
| 1:36.9 | How amazingly unlikely is your boat. |
| 1:40.7 | And pray that there's intelligent life somewhere up in space. |
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