This is God's, Ghosts, and UFOs. My name is Jordan, and I came up with the name of this show,

so I think it's only fair that my co-hosts explain what is about. Oh, okay. Fine with me. But first,

maybe introduce yourself? Yeah, good idea. I'm Mallory, and my day job is mostly comedy,

which I think qualifies me to talk about the nature of existence. Foundationally, and I'm Tom, and I'm a musician and an author. And can I also just say that you tell stories like there's a crackling fire next to you all the time? All right, Tom, since we're getting all cozy, what's this show about? Well, it's in the title, isn't it? God's ghosts and UFOs. It's not like these phenomena

are separate from us. I think of what Alan Watts said. Consciousness is neither an isolated soul

nor the mere function of a single nervous system, but of that totality of interrelated stars and galaxies

that makes a nervous system possible. Yeah. Tom's quoting Alan Watson,

I'm going to quote the great Rupal,

when he said,

God is the word we use for that which cannot be described.

That's what we're talking about here.

Miracles and mysteries and things that go bump in the night.

We're just a group of big-hearted nerds with magnifying glasses.

Exactly.

Let's talk about format.

Every week, we're going to cover something relevant from the news.

With maybe a loose definition of news.

Let's say current events with a particular event.

And then maybe we'll get into a discussion about a related topic, or maybe we'll take a deeper dive.

And sometimes we'll bring in someone who knows way more about the thing than we do.

Yes, but even when it's just us, we promise it'll be a good time.

I mean, come on. Do you really want to talk about one more political fart?

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