A Thousand Episodes Of Weird Things, AI, And Space

About this episode

The hosts celebrate what is probably the thousandth episode of Weird Things by reflecting on how the show started as a pushback against mean-spirited debunking and grew into a long-running space for curious, skeptical conversation about the unknown. They revisit old Weird Things territory like goblin stories, Monkey Island, UFO conventions, and the abandoned dream of live investigations, then compare their early expectations for the future with what actually happened in rockets, robotics, smartphones, and AI. Much of the episode focuses on the present AI moment: whether machine consciousness is meaningful, why simulation theory still has appeal, how persistent voice agents and specialized…