395: Joe DiMaggio of the Slide Rule

Published: Feb. 24, 2018, 9:08 p.m.

We return to bad 1950s science fiction for our latest Rocket Surgery installment, which features 1959\u2019s \u201cThe Cosmic Man.\u201d There\u2019s a UFO the likes of which we\u2019ve never seen, in the form of a ping-pong ball in a canyon. Army men and a world-famous scientist that even little kids recognize joust over whether the UFO should be used as a weapon or to benefit all of humanity. And meanwhile, there\u2019s John Carradine checking in to a mountain lodge in an outfit that is not at all like what an alien would wear his first time on Earth.