Introducing "IN RESEARCH OF"
b'This is a sample episode of our new show In reSearch Of, which I\'m co-hosting with Jeb Card.\\xa0I hope you\'ll consider subscribing.\\xa0I\'m planning to keep the regular IRO episodes free, but offer bonus content for Patreon supporters.\\nThis is the pilot episode of\\xa0In reSearch Of, the show where we watch\\xa0the original TV show IN SEARCH OF\\u2026 and consider some of the explanations that the producers chose not to present.\\nIn our inaugural episode, we watch the TV Special\\xa0In Search of Ancient Astronauts, a repackaged cut of a German documentary about Eric Von Daniken\'s book\\xa0Chariots of the Gods.\\xa0\\nWe want to thank Rachel and Chris Lackey for the theme music (And Greig Johnson!). They host the excellent show\\xa0Rachel Watches Star Trek.\\xa0\\nAlso, we want to credit Jason Colavito for his excellent research into this and many adjacent topics around the Ancient Astronauts and Ancient Aliens tropes of the past fifty years, including his book:\\xa0\\xa0The Cult of Alien Gods: H. P. Lovecraft and Extraterrestrial Pop Culture\\n(Seriously - check out this\\xa0link to Jason\'s article. He gives some great contemporary detail on the impact of this TV special such as "...\\xa0within 48 hours of the program\\u2019s broadcast, Bantam Books had sold 250,000 new copies of\\xa0Chariots of the Gods."\\xa0Amazing.)\\nOh - so as Jeb mentions, EVD is directly mentioned in the brainstorming session with Lucas, Spielberg, and Kasdan! You can check that out here.\\nWalter Conkrite\'s\\xa0UFO\'s Friend, Foe or Fantasy\\xa0UFO documentary\\nShow Notes:\\n\\nDr. Harold P. Klein worked for NASA and was a major figure in the Viking mission.\\n\\n\\nThe Baghdad Battery - no reason to believe this was ever used as a battery. More likely a scroll container. (Featured on Episode 16 - season 3 - of Mythbusters)\\n\\n\\nStar Trek Into Darkness\\xa0(you can watch the clip here)\\n\\n\\xa0Mesoamerican Sites:\\n\\nOlmec Heads\\n\\nTula\\n\\nTeotihuacan\\n\\nChichen Itza\\n\\nTiwanaku\\n\\nPiri Reis map\\n\\n\\nWernher Von Braun\\xa0\\n\\n\\nStonehenge\\xa0\\n\\n\\nHow did the ancients move stones?\\n\\nTheme music (updated!) is by Rachel Lackey & Greig Johnson.\\n\\xa0\\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices'