More Like Ancient FAILiens

“Close Encounters of the Third Kind” with Pedro Mendes

Brandon and Toby welcome back Pedro Mendez to dissect Steven Spielberg's 1977 UFO classic. They dig into the film's chaotic family dynamics, aliens with a grudge against kitchen appliances, and a guy who abandons his kids to board a spaceship without a second thought. Plus: how the movie helped cement modern UFO lore and whether Spielberg should maybe think twice before going full disclosure on late night TV. More Like Ancient Failiens is a Grab Bag Collab production. Subscribe to GBC to get this great show's episodes early and ad-free, hear bonus episodes, and access other great GBC podcasts. Visit GBC here: https://www.grabbagcollab.com/ [https://www.grabbagcollab.com/] Or get all of Grab Bag Collab's great shows including Failiens content here: https://grabbag.supportingcast.fm/bundle [https://grabbag.supportingcast.fm/bundle]

Bugonia with Gabby Lombardo

Is your boss an alien? Probably not out of the question, right? Anyway, Jesse Plemmons thinks his boss is an alien and decides the best course of action is to kidnap her (this is not an endorsement). Toby and Brandon are joined by Failiens producer Gabby Lombardo to talk about the Yorgos Lanthimos movie, Bugonia. If you are considering getting your hair cut in a moving car, watch this movie first! For more about Gabby Lombardo, visit https://www.instagram.com/gabby.lombardo [https://www.instagram.com/gabby.lombardo] More Like Ancient Failiens is a Grab Bag Collab production. Subscribe to GBC to get episodes early and ad-free, hear bonus episodes, and access other great GBC podcasts. Visit GBC here: https://www.grabbagcollab.com/ [https://www.grabbagcollab.com/] Sign up to listen here: https://grabbag.supportingcast.fm/more-like-ancient-failiens [https://grabbag.supportingcast.fm/more-like-ancient-failiens] Or get all of Grab Bag Collab's great shows including Failiens content here: https://grabbag.supportingcast.fm/bundle [https://grabbag.supportingcast.fm/bundle]

Contact with Janet Varney

Remember how useless 4th grade math seemed? Well, who’s laughing now because Aliens have made contact by beeping prime numbers at us? Oh yeah, and they also sent a Hitler video. Anyway, we’re talking the 1997 movie Contact with special guest Janet Varney. Matthew McCounaghey’s mane has never been finer. Follow Janet on Instragram: https://www.instagram.com/thejvclub/?hl=en [https://www.instagram.com/thejvclub/?hl=en] More Like Ancient Failiens is a Grab Bag Collab production. Subscribe to GBC to get episodes early and ad-free, hear bonus episodes, and access other great GBC podcasts. Visit GBC here: https://www.grabbagcollab.com/ [https://www.grabbagcollab.com/] Subscribers can also get a bonus episode with more from Janet Varney! Sign up to listen here: https://grabbag.supportingcast.fm/more-like-ancient-failiens [https://grabbag.supportingcast.fm/more-like-ancient-failiens] Or get all of Grab Bag Collab's great shows including Failiens content here: https://grabbag.supportingcast.fm/bundle [https://grabbag.supportingcast.fm/bundle]

X Files and Jose Chung’s From Outer Space

Was there a more iconic duo in the 1990s than Fox Mulder and Dana Scully? Toby and Brandon don’t think so, and they’re talking about the X-Files, perhaps the most popular television series about UFOs and the paranormal. To look at the show, they discuss the much-beloved episode Jose Chung’s From Outer Space (season 3, episode 20), a comedic nesting doll of UFO tropes and stories, starring Hollywood Squares legend Charles Nelson Reilly. More Like Ancient Failiens is a Grab Bag Collab production. Subscribe to GBC to get episodes early and ad-free, hear bonus episodes, and access other great GBC podcasts. Visit GBC here: https://www.grabbagcollab.com/ [https://www.grabbagcollab.com/] This week's bonus just for subscribers:  If you wonder how much of a pain in the ass it is to be a former president, look no further than the furor over an offhand comment Obama made about aliens being real. He later explained that he didn’t think those aliens had actually ever visited Earth, but maybe he’d just jumpstarted DISCLOSURE. Brandon and Toby talk about this unfortunate incident and the recent prediction market bullishness about President Trump releasing the government’s UFO files. Sign up to listen here: https://grabbag.supportingcast.fm/more-like-ancient-failiens [https://grabbag.supportingcast.fm/more-like-ancient-failiens] Or get all of Grab Bag Collab's great shows including Failiens content here: https://grabbag.supportingcast.fm/bundle [https://grabbag.supportingcast.fm/bundle]

Super 8 with Alex Steed

A group of plucky kids with emotionally stunted fathers battle an alien who’s just looking for a little empathy. Yes, we are discussing JJ Abrams’s Super 8 with special guest Alex Steed. We’re not going to bother listing the themes at play, but let’s just say we touch on making movies as a kid, how the actor who vomits all the time in this movie grew up to play JD Vance, and prominent directors’ UFO credulity. Also, mashed potatoes. Mountains of them.  For more about Alex Steed, visit: ⁠ [https://www.instagram.com/alexsteed/?hl=en]https://www.instagram.com/alexsteed/?hl=en⁠ [https://www.instagram.com/alexsteed/?hl=en%E2%81%A0]More Like Ancient Failiens is a Grab Bag Collab production. Subscribe to GBC to get episodes early and ad-free, hear bonus episodes, and access other great GBC podcasts. Visit GBC here: https://www.grabbagcollab.com/ [https://www.grabbagcollab.com/]