Monster House Presents.

It's part of our summer flashback series.

This week, we're traveling back to May of 2015.

At the time, we were planning to try and do a cruise with archaeologist Dr. Ken Fader,

but that didn't work out.

Yet this week, I'll actually be

going on a similar cruise with some of our skeptical colleagues in cooperation with Brian

Dunning's Skeptoid podcast. So if you're attending that, be sure and say hello. It's really

interesting to me when I go back and see how various structural elements are the show of change,

and I'm going to have to slap an explicit tag on this one because I can't remember ever

talking to Ken Fader without needing one.

Ken's a real friend of our show, and we'll be talking to him again soon to discuss his

newest book.

He's a real pioneer in the fight against pseudo-archiology, and his books are a tremendous

resource for anyone interested in such topics.

Check out the show notes for links.

Monster Talk.

My family didn't have cable TV for much of my youth, but my great aunt and uncle did,

and I would often walk over to their house to watch the kind of shows which thrilled me

with their discussion of monsters, mysteries, and magic.

The king of these shows was in search of. It was hosted by Leonard Nimoy, and could any casting choice of better

occluded skepticism than having that paragon of logic and reason? Star Trek's Mr. Spock,

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