Grab a Snapple™ and make sure your tips are frosted, we’re going back to the distant, far off time of the decade right before Y2K ended everything. The decade kicked off with a shaky start, as distrust in the government boiled over leading to all sorts of interests in what we all perceived was being hidden from us. In this episode, we are joined by Artist and illustrator Brian Giordano as we take a closer look at all the weirdness and fringe topics which fascinated the consensus culture of America. It’s a totally, majorly good time.
Brian Giordano is an illustrator and designer who explores themes of childhood trauma through the lens of early 90’s nostalgia, ufology, folklore, and the paranormal. He is interested in using the language of hope and futurism instilled in the Sci-fi genre to focus on concepts of mental health in relation to enforced gender roles and societal expectations. In the spring of 2024, he and his partner Virginia released UFOLOJOY, a wonderful, quirky, brilliant magazine which takes the best aspects of Ufology and the paranormal and presents them in a beautiful new way! Be sure to follow Brian on Instagram, his partner Virginia on Instagram as well as check out the Instagram page of Ufolojoy! And to get yourself a copy of UFOLOJOY by clicking below!
Show Notes
- Satanic Panic
- Hollywood & History: The Debate Over “JFK”
- The legacy of ‘JFK’ at 30: Conspiracy Nation
- The JFK 100 – One Hundred Errors of Fact and Judgment in Oliver Stone’s JFK
- Jim Marrs – if ya wanna see what a late 90s website looks like, this’ll do
- William Cooper
- Behold a Pale Horse by Bill Cooper
- How William Cooper and his book ‘Behold a Pale Horse’ planted seeds of QAnon conspiracy theory
- JFK: Destiny Betrayed – Oliver Stone’s documentary follow up to his narrative film JFK
- American Conspiracy: The Octopus Murders Revisits the Death of Danny Casolaro
- Spook Wars in Cyberspace
- Real Enemies: Conspiracy Theories and American Democracy, World War I to 9/11 by Katheryn Olmsted
- Bob Lazar
- Fire in the Sky
- The Betty Andreasson Affair
- Abduction by Aliens or Sleep Paralysis? – The Roper Poll
- X-Files Spreadsheet viewers guide for Newbies – This is amazing
- Resource for New X-Files viewers – Click the Mytharc Only list, that’s the real meat and potatoes of the X-Files
- The Fox and the Faculty X Files – Excellent personal insights from AP Strange about the show which defined a decade
- My Story by Ray Santilli – The guy who brought us Alien Autopsy tells his story. BONUS – Check out the website that hosts this story, peak 90s webdesign here
- Alien Autopsy: Fact or Fiction? – Watch the whole thing which captured a nation’s imagination
- Uncovering the Alien Autopsy – Documentary
- The Truth Was Out There: On the Legacy of Art Bell
- The Ultimate Art Bell Collection & Art Bell Somewhere In Time – Pretty exhaustive albeit hard to navigate
- The Art Bell Archive – The Ultimate Art Bell Collection in chronological order
- The Ultimate Art Bell Podcast Feed – A good collection of Art episodes
- The Continuing saga of Mel’s Hole
- The Frantic Area 51 caller and the person claiming to have faked it
- Art Bell talks to Harlot the Witch and someone the next day is not too happy about it
- Disinformation company
- Oh hey. Ya wanna read what academia has to say about Conspiracy Theories? Tuck in.
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