Editor's Note: Hey, it's Matt. Almost a year ago I was bombarded by messages from this guy who I made the mistake of being nice to named Craig. He wanted me to post this blog that he had written about UFO conspiracies. Begrudgingly, I did it thinking it would shut him up, but apparently he only has a a year-long snooze setting because I heard from him again. Again he asked me to not "censor" his work and present it in it's original condition regardless of any grammatical mistakes or typos. So, here it is... ___________________________________________ Hows it going, this is Craig. I have decided to emerge from the shadows after I wrote my exposé of the U.S. government's attempts to cover the numerous, very obvious examples of extraterrestrial life. While I was in hiding I received word from anonymous sources that people want to know why it is that I wear a tin-foil hat. Having to ask that question in the first place means that you in fact do not have...

The United States Surgeon General has announced that teenagers vaping has become a full on epidemic. First of all, we're using the word "epidemic" a little liberally. Polio was an epidemic. In this humble podcaster's/blogger's/amateur archaeologist's opinion, a bunch of 16-year olds cranking some Mango Juul pods does not an epidemic make. Is it a problem? Sure it is, but we as a society let it get this way because we sounded the alarm that vaping is bad for you. Do you know what makes a teenager who is looking to take any opportunity to rebel against their parents and/or authority figures want to go out and start puffing more steam than Old Faithful? Telling them that vaping is bad. This happens with everything, with booze and cigarettes being prime examples. If something is deemed bad and dangerous, it becomes cool. So let's make it uncool, by having adults tell them it's awesome. I want every parent out there to start taking up vaping. If y...

We can all breathe a sigh of relief. The Russians, Earth's resident super-villains, can't build robots. Russia's state television tried to show off a new "hi-tech robot" that ultimately turned out to be nothing more than a guy in a robot costume that you can actually purchase online. If that sounds ridiculous enough to be the plot of a an episode of The Simpsons,   that's because it was  (a great episode by the way). If there's one way that humans as a species is going to meet their demise, it's a robot uprising. The whole thing would just be poetic, we developed the very thing that would someday destroy us. Fortunately the leaders in international robottery (I just made that word up, please credit me after all further uses) are the Japanese and Americans.  These folks aren't doing anything too crazy with robots. We Americans build robots that vacuum the floor so that our lazy asses don't have to and the Japanese are all about building ...

Matt read an article about an Australian podcast that helped solve a cold case murder and received international press, so he tries to solve three cold cases in what truly amounts to a shameless attempt at upping his subscriber count.

I was perusing Twitter stumbled across this. When @trvisXX brings his very own rollercoaster.... #LIVEatPruCenter pic.twitter.com/GO9qBrxVcw — Prudential Center (@PruCenter) November 25, 2018 If you need help in breaking down that video, that's rapper Travis Scott with a roller coaster on-stage. Cool right? Wrong! Unless you think plagiarism is cool! I present to you the one and only Tommy Lee on HIS roller coaster.   Yup. Mr. Lee was the originator of onstage roller coasters and I'll be damned if he doesn't get credit for this. I can leave with some level of injustice but this I can;t tolerate look at this statement from Travis Scott's people: UPDATE: In a statement, a legal representative for Travis Scott said: "Tommy didn’t invent the concept of a roller coaster on stage and there’s no legal basis for his accusatory outburst." https://t.co/br2PigmTbk — Consequence of Sound (@consequence) November 29, 2018 Please tell me ...

A southern California mom is all upset because her 5 year-old daughter was" name shamed" by an airline employee. This would be a sad story of an adult ridiculing a child for something they didn't have any say in, but then you learn what the kid's name is... ...it's Abcde. Y'know, like the first five letters of the alphabet in order. After learning that piece of info I'm all onboard with this shaming. Not at the kid's expense, but at the mom's. I love a good bit of shaming. Apparently that's not a popular stance in the ultra-soft times we live in, but a good-dose of public shaming can be a good way to call attention to something or be an impetus for positive change. The reason this mom gave her kid such a ridiculous name was for attention. Did she want the kid to be special? Probably. However, more importantly, she wanted people to think that SHE was special or at the very least somewhat interesting. What I can't stand about peopl...

I love myself a good cult story,  I've talked about that before , and so I found myself watching a documentary series on the Jonestown Massacre. I've read and watched a lot of material on Jonestown over the years and I've come to a formal conclusion: Jim Jones was an unsavory character. As controversial an opinion as that may be, it's the truth. Like all good cult leaders, Jim Jones started out as a creepy kid. He held elaborate funerals for roadkill. I know that this was in like the 30s, but a red flag should have been raised right then and there. Sane people don't do anything with roadkill except scoop it up with a shovel and fling it into their neighbor's yard. Still, no one said anything and that lead to ol' Jonesy starting one of the first integrated churches in Indiana, before moving to California. I've heard California referred to as "The Land Of Fruit And Nuts" so maybe Jim Jones drank the Kool-Aid with which he has become synon...