Alien Invasion: How Little Green Men Took Over

Every Little Thing

Gimlet

Comedy, Education, Science

4.6 • 4.6K Ratings

🗓️ 23 September 2019

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Images of little green aliens are everywhere: Area 51, bongs, your ‘90s chain wallet. But why did we start depicting extraterrestrials that way? ELT uncovers the moment that beamed little green aliens into our homes (and hearts). Guests: sociologist of science Pierre Lagrange; Kentucky resident Bill Thomas; literature professor Roger Luckhurst. Special thanks to caller Willie. Thanks also to Sarah Scoles and Geraldine Sutton Stith. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:27.0	You've reached every little thing's help line for earthlings.
0:34.0	Leave your humanoid question after the beep.
0:37.0	For our habe a factual emergency. I've been thinking all this time, where did the green
0:49.2	alien start? How did we get this? Have we seen a green alien before the little green guy
0:56.3	Tired to find out thank you for us this is Willie bye-bye Hello? Hello, Flora? We come in peace. That's what they say. That's what they say.
1:17.0	Let's hope so.
1:18.0	Describe the Green Alien you're thinking of.
1:22.0	Describe the green alien.
1:24.0	Well, kind of like a little person with a big head,
1:26.0	I don't know about three and a half feet tall,
1:30.0	unusual long skinny arms, big eyes, kind of like a marsupial, but much bigger.
1:38.0	And some of them have a big belly.
1:41.0	Okay, so a knee-high verdant alien.
1:44.0	Yes.
1:45.0	Also known as a little green man.
1:48.0	Yes.
1:49.0	Where do you see these LGM?
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