GTTU 118: Close Encounters of Every Kind

Guide to the Unknown

Kristen Anderson and William Rogers

Tv & Film, Arts, Comedy

4.7 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 7 February 2020

⏱️ 77 minutes

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Summary

On Episode 118 of Guide to the Unknown: We’ve all heard of Close Encounters of the Third Kind. Sure, it’s an iconic, historic Steven Spielberg movie, but it’s also one of the real ways that ufologists classify interactions with aliens! Kristen explains the original three, as defined by J. Allen Hynek, and Will dives into the later additions! There are RULES RULES RULES in the world of UFO study! We round out the show with some good solid movie talk! Can you believe neither of us had seen the movie before this show? For full sources and links, visit www.TalkBomb.com/news/gttu118 Find links to every podcast app/twitter account, and every episode at TalkBomb.com/GTTUPod And consider helping us fund the show on Patreon!

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0:00.0	In Alan Moore's iconic Swamp Thing run,
0:03.1	which is probably behind us somewhere here.
0:05.2	No, it's not because I barred it, never gave it back.
0:06.9	I think I lost it.
0:07.6	There's a mopf.
0:09.1	Wow! Hello, welcome to Guide to the Unknown. I'm Kristen. And I'm her little brother,
0:18.8	William. That's right. And this week we are going to be talking about the Heinex scale, which you may know better as the close encounter scale,
0:27.0	featured in the movie Close Encounters of the Third Kind.
0:29.0	Which we also both watched, yeah, for the first time.
0:32.0	A major gap in our horror knowledge yeah
0:35.0	our sci-fi knowledge yeah I kind of can't believe it and I'm ashamed to admit it I know
0:42.2	it's really weird especially considering it's one of our mom's favorite movies I remember hearing her say that like a whole bunch of whatever favorite movies would come up I guess your kids and stuff and yet I'd never seen it I didn't even know that. You brought that up over
0:54.4	text when we were watching the movie separately. I did not know that this was one
1:00.0	of mom's favorite movies and I think that that's really cool. I know I know when I was
1:04.1	watching this I was like mom's cool. I knew mom was cool anyway but still I was like this is a
1:07.9	fun thing for her to be very into. And sidebar another thing that you pointed out, our mom's birthday is February 17th, the
1:16.2	runtime of close encounters of the third kind. And there are multiple versions, but we watch the same one,
1:20.9	I believe it's the director's got,
1:22.5	two hours and 17 minutes.
1:23.9	Two 17.
1:24.7	Synchronicity, numbers.
1:26.5	That's right, so we told our mom
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