High(er) Strangeness w/Eric Bickernicks

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EPISODE 116 | High(er) Strangeness w/Eric Bickernicks

Guest: Eric Bickernicks, writer, author of High Strangeness and Higher Strangeness

What does a guy who's made novelty songs, short comedy videos, an indie film for $32k, kettle corn aplenty, and a novel about art theft do next? If he's Eric Bickernicks, he writes two books about UFOs, hoaxes, alien thoughts, UFO cults, gullibility and Cape Cod.

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SECTIONS

1. 02:49 - High/Higher Strangeness and other books, pranksters, unintended consequences, UFO cults, Cape Cod minus buzzards
2. 13:16 - Aliens and fiction become folklore, truly alien aliens
3. 19:42 - Crop circles, re-hoaxing, not bright guys, Hanlon's Razor, emotional processing is conservative, lazy writing, fridge logic, butts in seats, good writing can happen, fold-your-laundry content, ignorance is a right
4. 32:56 - Believe in God never really goes away, we've evolved to be paranoid, nihilism is stressful
5. 40:45 - Rampant existentialism, keeping busy, novelty songs, kicking Weird Al's ass, A Dead Guy

• Music by Fanette Ronjat

More Info

• A Dead Guy - the website of Eric Bickernicks
• High Strangeness has its own website
• Eric Bickernicks on Amazon
• Rampant Existentialism
• alt.sex - Eric's indie film
• The Defectives - Eric and another guy's novelty songs
• Dr. Demento website
• More of Eric's Crap
• The Buzzards Bay Coalition
• Buzzards Bay Brewing - because why not?
• The New England Science Fiction Association, Inc. - the genre bullies who reject Eric
• 9 Outrageous Pranks in History
• 7 of History's Greatest Pranks
• The Merry Pranksters And the Art of the Hoax - NYT
• The Logistical Challenges of a Supersize Acid Test: On the Merry Pranksters’ Trips Festival
• THIS IS AMERICA: Twilight of a Merry Prankster
• Research Books - Pranks!
• UFOs Keep Appearing in the News. Here’s Why We Can’t Quit Them - Scientific American
• UFO Mania Is Out of Control. Please Stop. - Washington Post
• List of UFO-related hoaxes on Wikipedia
• 4 INFAMOUS UFO HOAXES REVEALED | The Proof is Out There - video
• Alien 'Hoaxes' That Went Viral From Roswell's Flying Saucers to Mexican & Australian X-Files - Spyscape
• Crop circles: Cynical hoax, natural phenomenon or proof of alien life? - The Independent
• Crop Circles: The Art of the Hoax - Smithsonian
• Circlemakers - website for people who make crop circles
• Hanlon’s Razor: Not Everyone is Out to Get You
• Fridge Logic on TV Tropes
• The 5 Basic Laws of Human Stupidity
• The Stupidity Quotient by Dennis L. Holeman, The Systems Perspective
• The Darwin Awards website
• Are Americans Just Stupid? - Psychology Today
• The reason why America has become 'uniquely stupid'
• Stupid People: Our Society is Succumbing
• Why Do Stupid People Rule the World?
• Stupid People Are Surprisingly Confident - How Stuff Works
• Bonhoeffer’s “theory of stupidity”: We have more to fear from stupid people than evil ones - Big Think

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