The Dewars Debate Video Play-by-Play
Here are some screenshots from the YouTube video of the debate I did for Vice Magazine, with explanatory captions.
I swear this is me. This is the pre-debate interview.
Just like we used to box before Lincoln-Douglas debates in high school.
The camera crew got me a little drunk for this.
I am infallible!
I have a title card! I will fuck shit up!
Product placement shot. I sit so demurely
next to a bottle of Dewars.
I had imagined I would be standing behind a podium.
If I had known it was a seated debate on a raised stage,
I wouldn't have dressed like Leggy McLeggerson.
Dr. Stanton Friedman is a nuclear physicist who
believes in UFOs. He was very nice.
That doesn't mean he isn't batshit-crazy.
I will cut you with my Occam's Razor!
The debate was actually about forty minutes long.
(The video is about six minutes, including the musical intro).
I am fucking shit up!
The part in which I suggest that Cold War spy operations
were responsible for many UFO sightings made it into the
video. A coincidence that flying saucers sightings happened
contemporaneously to human development of satellites, Communist
paranoia, and popular obsession with space and technology?
I got some good closing words in there about UFO sightings
being best explained by combination of fabrication, delusion,
and misperception of prosaic events. Of course, Stanton had a
ten-minute slideshow of flying saucer photos, blacked-out
government documents, and, weirdly, photos of dirt samples.
A little alien invasion never hurt anyone.
And then there was the drinking.
Go here to watch the video for yourself.
I swear this is me. This is the pre-debate interview.Just like we used to box before Lincoln-Douglas debates in high school.
The camera crew got me a little drunk for this.
I am infallible!
I have a title card! I will fuck shit up!
Product placement shot. I sit so demurely next to a bottle of Dewars.
I had imagined I would be standing behind a podium. If I had known it was a seated debate on a raised stage,
I wouldn't have dressed like Leggy McLeggerson.
Dr. Stanton Friedman is a nuclear physicist who believes in UFOs. He was very nice.
That doesn't mean he isn't batshit-crazy.
I will cut you with my Occam's Razor!
The debate was actually about forty minutes long. (The video is about six minutes, including the musical intro).
I am fucking shit up!
The part in which I suggest that Cold War spy operations were responsible for many UFO sightings made it into the
video. A coincidence that flying saucers sightings happened
contemporaneously to human development of satellites, Communist
paranoia, and popular obsession with space and technology?
I got some good closing words in there about UFO sightings being best explained by combination of fabrication, delusion,
and misperception of prosaic events. Of course, Stanton had a
ten-minute slideshow of flying saucer photos, blacked-out
government documents, and, weirdly, photos of dirt samples.
A little alien invasion never hurt anyone. And then there was the drinking.
Go here to watch the video for yourself.
posted by JenIsFamous at 1/22/2007 11:31:00 AM
2 Comments:
Maybe if they had Prozac back then there wouldn't have been so many UFO sightings... Except for the saucers flying through kitchens at disobedient husbands... lol...
Let's think about this logically for a second, shall we? Some alien life forms picked up a broadcast of "I Love Lucy" and decided to come on over to our solar system to check it out. These aliens have a spaceship that is more aerodynamic than a bumblebee and, what's more, gets several light years to the gallon while burning clean fuel. (Or maybe no fuel at all.) Forgetting for a moment that, as often as not, these creatures are remembered by the (allegedly) caught and released as having been about a meter high, macrocephalic, grey (always grey, even if the stereotype is of little green men), and, remarkably, undressed and therefore conveniently devoid of distinguishing genitalia. .. um, does it make any sense to you at all that a race of extraterrestrial beings capable of navigating through the cold vaccuum of outer space and communicating telepathically would not have thought to invent an oral thermometer?
I mean, c'mon--enough already with the anal probes. Whenever I hear these folk who claim to have been abducted going on about the anal probes, I think, "This is bullshit. A human being with even a rudimentary understanding of high school biology understands enough basic anatomy to know how those further on down the food chain fuck and shit and give birth, without needing to perform a dissection or sodomy. No advanced race needs to poke around your a-hole just because Chewbacca here put a nickel in your ear and you didn't shit a gum ball."
Ridiculous!
Of course, that's just my opinion. But I sure as shit hope I'm right.
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