The Laziest Space Alien Grifter OF 1947 | TMT 142
Too Many Tabs with Pearlmania500
Alex Pearlman
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🗓️ 24 August 2025
⏱️ 95 minutes
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Mrs. P tackles the quack William R. Ferguson (1900-1967) and how he got thousands of people to join his UFO doomsday cult and sell his Shake Weight in one of America's earliest Pyramid schemes. In between trips to Mars and Venus with the Alien Demon Khauga the law eventually catches up with him and he's forced to confront his crimes and prove his special powers.
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0:00 - Intro - Old Time Alien Scams
0:58 - Evil Aliens, UFO Cult, and Shake Weight Pyramid Scheme
6:37 - Absolute Relaxation all the way to Mars
23:38 - Horrible Midwest Food, Chat GPT, Fleetwood Mac
34:11 - Where do are old Myths Come From?
41:01 - Khauga Takes William to Mars
48:52 - The Tiki Bar in Delaware
54:19 - Where did the Martians Come From?
1:05:21 - The Shake Weight that Built a Pyramid Scheme
1:17:59 - His Cult Gets Arrested by Chicago PD
1:29:47 - What Happens after Death?
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Alien scams. That's right. And we're not just talking about Instagram alien scammers. |
| 0:04.9 | They do come up. We're talking about old-timey ones. This episode has it all. |
| 0:09.1 | Chicago taxi drivers that meditated so hard they went to Mars, a Delaware teaky bar. |
| 0:14.3 | And of course, a multi-level marketing scheme. Because it's quack month, baby. It's quack month. |
| 0:19.5 | And what do we cover here? We cover quacks all |
| 0:22.0 | August because Mrs. Promania does her research and she does that by opening tabs. How many |
| 0:26.8 | tabs did she open this time? Too many tabs. Remember to smile. Welcome to Too many tabs, a podcast where a husband and wife duo sit across from each other in a room. |
| 0:41.2 | And one of them does research on a topic and then tells the other one all about it for your listening and maybe even viewing pleasure. |
| 0:48.3 | My name is Alex Pearlman, also known as Pearl Mania 500 sitting across this room we have. |
| 0:52.9 | Mrs. Pearl Mania 500. |
| 0:54.1 | And Mrs. Promania 500 did her research on a topic this week. William R. Ferguson, you ever heard of him? No, of course. Why would I ever? I don't know. But he believed in aliens. And he built a cult based around the fact that aliens have charged him with special powers. Okay. And then he used that to build a pyramid scheme to sell shake weights filled with magic |
| 1:12.7 | water to heal the world. |
| 1:13.9 | Okay. |
| 1:14.4 | Okay. |
| 1:15.6 | Okay. |
| 1:17.5 | I'm very excited. |
| 1:19.1 | I'm very excited. |
| 1:20.3 | Thank you. |
| 1:21.1 | Thank you for giving me the elevator pitch. |
| 1:23.8 | I'm incredibly excited to hear about an alien cult pyramid scheme shakeweight combination. |
| 1:30.2 | From the 1900s. |
| 1:31.4 | From the 1900s, I have, okay, so there's a button on this podcast that we used to hit infrequently, but we did used to remember that it was there. |
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