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Review of Ancient Aliens S13E13 "The Artificial Human"

8/31/2018

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​After thirteen episodes and sixteen hours of television—since three episodes were double-length—the thirteenth season of Ancient Aliens comes to a close with an episode devoted to killer robots. This has nothing to do with space aliens, really, but it is symptomatic of the slow mission creep that has infected Ancient Aliens over the many years since it ran out of ways to repackage the thin gruel of Chariots of the Gods over and over again. Originally, Ancient Aliens was a show about the ancient astronaut theory. More recently, as producer Kevin Burns confirmed to the New York Times, it became a pseudo-Gnostic search for God. More recently still, with the rise of its Alien Con sci-fi convention spinoff and the transformation of Ancient Aliens into a lifestyle brand, the show has become a sort of all-purpose dumping ground for geek culture as filtered through a theosophical, pseudo-spiritualist lens.
More frequently as the years go by, we now get episodes that are only tangentially related to aliens but which are firmly ensconced in the concerns of geek culture, with increasing discussions of artificial intelligence, transhumanism, time travel, superheroes, and other staples of popular science fiction and the speculative science that follows in its wake.
 
It is certainly no coincidence that this episode comes less than a year after popular culture churned through another cycle of stories about dangerous robots, from the replicants of the Blade Runner sequel to the violent alien robot of the Lost in Space Netflix reboot, and the human-like AI robots on everything from Silicon Valley to Elementary. And it’s only a few months after folklorist Adrienne Mayor announced that ancient “robots” (accounts of automata) would be the subject of her next book. That’s just about the length of the Ancient Aliens production schedule, from breaking episodes to airing them. It’s probably also worth noting that Kevin Burns is a producer on Lost in Space, and scenes from the show are used in cross-promotion in the episode, and a chunk of the show interviews production team members about their fake robot.
 
Two hours, however, taxes even my seemingly infinite patience, so I will do as I have done with the last couple of two-hour specials. Instead of following along closely segment-by-segment as I do with the one-hour shows, I am going to try to hit the highlights and discuss the episode more thematically. This goes double for this episode since robots are not really one of my areas of interest, and the show already did this topic in 2015 with their episode “Aliens and Robots,” in which much of the material in the current episode was previously discussed.
HOUR ONE
Anyway, the show opens with one of those robots dressed up with a fake human-like face, the one that the Saudis made a citizen. The robot, for my money, never overcomes the uncanny valley and has a creepy air about it, particularly with the back of its head open to show the moving parts. The show engages in some halfhearted questions about whether intelligent robots should be granted human rights. It’s basically a freshman dorm-room bullshit session, raised to the level of cable TV self-seriousness, but it’s nothing that Futurama didn’t do better and faster with a throwaway gag. It’s also basically the plot of half of the science fiction stories of the 1950s, and those tended to be both deeper and more thoughtful than this collection of pointless soundbites.
 
When the show occasionally remembers that it is about ancient astronauts, they repeat claims from the last episode that robots were the first alien visitors to the Earth. Their tour of ancient robots doesn’t quite follow the expected path. It starts at Abydos in Egypt and tells the story of Osiris’s death, dismemberment, and resurrection, which they turn into the basest material reading possible: They imagine he is a robot and that, like C3PO in Star Wars, he was a robot who was dismantled and rebuilt. So how did he father children? Who knows? But a chunk of this segment is nearly identical to one from their two-hour Egypt episode a few weeks ago, and even closer to  “Aliens and Robots” where the same claims appeared.
 
Any story of an artificial lifeform becomes proof of a robot. The golem legend is cited, as are the automata created by Hephaestus. They show the robot form of Talos from the Jason and the Argonauts movie, but they neglect to note that the robot version is a late one, replacing the first story—that he was a man from the Bronze Age, later confused into “a man made of Bronze.” They claim that Pandora, the first woman, was a robot, though again without answering the question of how this robot conceived and bore children, let alone all of the human race. Apparently, for them “robots” are genetically engineered beings, not just assembled automata. Definitions have never been their strong suit.
 
They also talk about the Shinto belief that technology has some kind of animating spirit, but this is a philosophical, not a factual, position. They introduce it to speculate, poorly, about whether technology can be conscious, whether robots might be said to be alive, and whether we should trust artificial intelligence to run our lives. These are all freshman philosophy questions—indeed, my actual freshman philosophy class two decades ago discussed them—and the presentation seems almost designed to seem mind-blowing to viewers who are high on substances are speculating about reality, the future, and, just, life, man.
 
Much of the second half hour is devoted to Giorgio Tsoukalos participating in demonstrations of various robots at UCLA which are meant to be impressive, and would be on a PBS documentary, but pale in comparison to their sci-fi counterparts and the supposed technology of space aliens. This is interspersed with material drawn from earlier episodes, notably the scurrilous rumors about Pope Sylvester II and demons that spread in response to his efforts to reform the Church and investigate Islamic learning. The stories were false, but Ancient Aliens is happy to repeat any lie that lets them revel in the idea that demons were really aliens. They relate the incident when Facebook had two computers talk to each other and they developed their own language before the plug got pulled. By weird coincidence, last week Bobcat Goldthwait’s Misfits & Monsters did a comedic episode based on this same incident that more thoughtfully probed the question of whether we would be better off if we shut down the computers before they develop the ability to outsmart us. Goldthwait at least remembered something Ancient Aliens did not—technology needs power, and we can always cut off the power supply.
 
The show pretends that Indian stories of flying machines were an “extraterrestrial robot army similar to the drones we are using today,” though this is predicated on the idea that it was impossible for ancient Indians to imagine flying machines without seeing them, though eighteenth and nineteenth century Europeans did this quite easily without seeing an airplane.

At the end of the first hour, I wondered why so many professors, scientists, and engineers agreed to appear on and lend their credibility to this show. Is it for self-aggrandizement or a misguided idea that they are educating the audience even when their words are chopped up to support claims about space aliens? 
HOUR TWO
​There is no clean break between hours, but they start the second hour by the clock with the story of a Chinese automaton first discussed in “Aliens and Robots.” (I discovered that text in an Edwardian book and published it in my Foundations of Atlantis in early 2015, and it showed up on Ancient Aliens a few months later. You can read it here.) Following this, the show discusses sex robots and the ancient astronaut theorists trip over themselves to defend the practice of men satisfying themselves with fembots rather than trying to develop the social skills needed to form relationships with real human women. They tell us that men have biological imperative to want to fuck inanimate objects and that this is perfectly normal and planned by the aliens. Linda Moulton Howe, the show’s lone female ancient astronaut theorist, says that becoming sexually aroused by robots shows that we as a species want to become like the robots. I will just leave this as it is and let you fill in your own jokes about geeks, nerds, sexual frustration, and robot sex toys. 

​Much of the rest of the third half-hour discusses cyborgs and neural links to merge humans and computers. The show presents opinions on why this is both good and bad, and they suggest that Elon Musk is right to be afraid of technology taking over our minds. The show uses clips of a Star Trek movie to discuss space probes becoming conscious, and then it moves on to ask whether our DNA is an artificial computer code operating us as “organic robots,” a concept introduced last week, to which they offer little that they did not already discuss in last week’s very similar segment. The new material this week involves the claim that the aliens programmed us to have a fetish for building humanlike robots with the goal of sending these robots into space. So why didn’t the aliens just send their own robots and save several billion years’ worth of farming and husbandry to get to this point? Who knows? Last week sending planets with DNA on meteors was the efficient way to colonize the galaxy, and this week growing your own Chia-bots to launch into space to do the colonizing is the better plan. Those sneaky aliens keep changing their grand vision from week to week, and it’s hard to keep up.
 
The last half hour revolves around the question of using robots to explore other planets and star systems, and it asks whether space aliens are similarly sending their own robots to Earth. This leads to speculation that humanity may be replaced by machines as we become “post-biological.” The show imagines a sort of Ship of Theseus future where humans are piece by piece replaced by silicon until nothing organic remains. The narrator speculates that this is a “master plan,” for which it is fairly clear that the “aliens” are really meant as a cypher for God, space a synecdoche for heaven, and the transformation into a machine a substitute for the age-old desire for the perfected bodies of the heavenly realm.

​As we move toward the end, the show discusses self-replicating robots and some of the current technologies that point in that direction, with Nick Pope absolutely gleeful that 3-D printers are like the replicator from Star Trek. I get the sense that Star Trek is very important to people working on Ancient Aliens. The show asks whether humans or aliens might explore by sending small probes to other worlds and then having the probe’s 3-D printers print out robots and equipment once there. Talking heads speculate that this happened to Earth and somehow that makes us cyborgs. It isn’t quite clear how, but it seems that they think our DNA was 3-D printed.
 
Then the show discusses transhumanism, but they’ve done that before. David Childress then adds, apropos of nothing, that space aliens beamed the idea to create cyborgs and robots into the minds of scientists because, as he proves with each increasingly scripted appearance, humans aren’t capable of having coherent thoughts without being coached. This is a callback to the frequent claim on the show that originality and intelligence are an illusion and that all intellectual breakthroughs are the result of space aliens shooting thought beams into the sleeping minds of those most open to them, or, as a better writer put it: “When, after infinities of chaos, the first men came, the Great Old Ones spoke to the sensitive among them by moulding their dreams; for only thus could Their language reach the fleshly minds of mammals.”

​In the last minutes, the show asks if technology will so far outstrip us that it will come to be worshiped as gods. The Twilight Zone did that in its “Old Man in the Cave” episode, and did it more thoughtfully. We hear that humans will soon be able to digitize consciousness, but as I mentioned last week, that’s pointless. The copy of you that gets preserved digitally isn’t you; it’s a copy. Since the copy can exist at the same time that you still live, you are not the copy and will never experience whatever it does, even if it has your memories. Nevertheless, physicist Michio Kaku claims otherwise, or appears to as edited, and literally says that these copies are actually our “souls” and can be “laser-pointed” for light-speed journeys to computers on other worlds. It is a modern version of the old belief that a photograph could steal a person’s soul because it copies one’s image.
 
William Henry tells us that this is the fulfillment of “Christian prophecy,” for the Cloud where data is stored “perfectly corresponds” to the cloud that Jesus will ride in on at the Second Coming. It’s an appropriate way to end the show a few weeks after Kevin Burns conceded to the New York Times that Ancient Aliens is a show about God. The aliens are angels, and technology is heaven. The Bible is just a user manual full of unread terms and conditions for merging us with the great Steve Jobs in the sky. The final words talk about how humans are unique and appeal to the sense of separation and specialness that creationists maintain proves evolution to be a demonic hoax designed to overthrow the comforts of divine revelation.
 
And that’s a wrap on Season Thirteen, a season that on and off screen saw Ancient Aliens break its traditional format, shill for the Russians, admit that their show is about the search for God, and finally concede that in the end, they really just want to talk about their favorite sci-fi and pretend it’s all real.

45 Comments
Hal
8/31/2018 10:26:19 pm

By my count 13 different scientists from major universities and even NASA were on the show giving out real information yet not a single complimentary word in this biased review. All that’s mentioned about them is that they are seeking fame or stupid.

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An Anonymous Nerd
9/1/2018 07:07:41 pm

As a general rule folks who know what they're talking about are on the show to say things that are tangential at best to the argument of the show.

If the general rule applied in this episode, as I suspect it did, mentioning them at all wouldn't be terribly relevant to a review.

-An Anonymous Nerd

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DR GREER
9/5/2018 05:42:50 am

Send me some money and i will show you an alien fetus and summon some strange lights with laser pens.

Princess
9/1/2018 08:23:28 am

_even when their words are chopped up to support claims about space aliens?_

Is there some definitive proof space aliens do not exist?

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Joe Scales
9/1/2018 09:53:03 am

"Is there some definitive proof space aliens do not exist?"

Certainly not. Just like there is no proof that Pluto doesn't have a chocolatey caramel center.

No onto more important matters.

Resolved: The Blade Runner reboot was the worst movie ever made.

Discuss...

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BIGNICK
9/1/2018 11:01:39 am

Fact: Geostorm is the worst movie ever made.

Human beings would melt before the air was hot enough to ignite natural gas underground.

An Anonymous Nerd
9/1/2018 07:00:07 pm

[Resolved: The Blade Runner reboot was the worst movie ever made. ]

While I can't tell you what your preferences should be, I do need to point out that it wasn't a reboot or remake: It was a sequel.

-An Anonymous Nerd

Matt
9/3/2018 09:25:05 am

That would actually be The Last Jedi, by a very wide margin.

Joe Scales
9/3/2018 10:43:31 am

Star Wars became unwatchable the very moment the Ewoks showed up. Then they went back and ruined the original versions of even the good ones.

Jason Colavito link
9/1/2018 10:33:21 am

The operative word there is "claims." In context, my comments refer back to the warrant "claims about space aliens interfering in Earth's history," not to whether space aliens exist.

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An Anonymous Nerd
9/1/2018 07:05:10 pm

[_even when their words are chopped up to support claims about space aliens?_

Is there some definitive proof space aliens do not exist?]

That isn't the issue. The issue isn't whether or not they exist it's that the show makes claims about them that are easily disproven, or for which better explanations exist. Or both.

Unfortunately it's a near-mathematical certainty that they do exist someplace. Or have. But acknowledging that has nothing to do with the claims made by the show.

-An Anonymous Nerd

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Aaa
9/2/2018 06:06:36 am

_Unfortunately it's a near-mathematical certainty that they do exist someplace._

Unfortunately???

An Anonymous Nerd
9/2/2018 09:45:53 am

[Unfortunately???]

I may well be alone among nerds in that I would rather Humans be alone in the universe. I'd just rather not deal with the potential consequences or implications of the alternative.

But like I said, I know I'm in the minority of my people. Oh well!

-An Anonymous Nerd

Aaa
9/2/2018 03:20:57 pm

_I'd just rather not deal with the potential consequences or implications of the alternative._

The alternative has long ago taken place and is taking place right now. If you are true nerd then you should not be afraid of books. Read Neale Donald Walsch (Conversations with God, books 3 and 4), Dolores Cannon (Custodians, Keepers of the Garden), Billy Meier (Message from the Pleiades, volumes 1-4), etc.

An Anonymous Nerd
9/2/2018 11:24:26 pm

[The alternative has long ago taken place and is taking place right now.]

Based upon your recommended reading list, you appear to be a believer in UFOs, alien contacts, and the like.

The kind of stuff that makes for cool fiction but is not reality. Attempts to prove otherwise always have failed.

[If you are true nerd then you should not be afraid of books.]

My lack of interest in your reading list does not mean I am afraid of books. Most of your list appears to consist of UFO/alien abduction type stuff -- fiction masquerading as fact that has been capably debunked one way or another over many years and for which I have no patience. One of them was a straight-up religious text which, typically, have little value unless the reader shares the religious system of the text, or is using it as source material for something else. (Like looking at The Bible for purposes of debunking Ancient Aliens folks say about what's in it.)

The bizarre implication that I must be afraid of books if I have no interest in those you recommend, though, is likely to be an effective tactic in this day and age.

-An Anonymous Nerd

AAA
9/3/2018 04:23:59 am

_is likely to be an effective tactic in this day and age._

It could be an effective tactic if there would be some kind of a battle going on. There is none from my side. It is up to you if you read the books or not and you have already announced your decision.

An Anonymous Nerd
9/3/2018 11:00:15 pm

[It could be an effective tactic if there would be some kind of a battle going on. There is none from my side.]

Your side's been pretty clear actually that you consider it exactly that. Note the insults Mr. Colavito and, to a lesser degree me, have been subject to -- and the constant, angry references to debunked claims repackaged as though they were something new.

-An Anonymous Nerd

Aaa
9/4/2018 10:28:35 am

_Based upon your recommended reading list, you appear to be a believer in UFOs, alien contacts, and the like._

There is nothing to believe, aliens are a fact. But again you would have to read books that are not in line with your current worldview. For me personally more I read slowly a full picture became clear. Before started reading bookst I had no ideas about aliens.

But want seriously debunk something? Build another great pyramid using just ropes and pulleys and only physical labor and no technology. If you do that then you have proven me wrong.

An Anonymous Nerd
9/4/2018 06:38:21 pm

[There is nothing to believe, aliens are a fact.]

Mathematical certainty is not the same as fact, first of all. Second of all your reading list requires one to believe not just that aliens exist somewhere but that they are here, now, and have been, and like to do things like abduct us. Those are two very different concepts.

And yes "believe" is the appropriate word here because the evidence that's cited uniformly is better explained by things other than aliens, ghosts, etc.

[But want seriously debunk something? Build another great pyramid using just ropes and pulleys and only physical labor and no technology. If you do that then you have proven me wrong.]

I've provided reading lists on this issue that recommend material that, if consumed, demonstrate that more is known about the building of the pyramids than commonly is assumed by folks who believe as you do, and that it was well within the capabilities of the Ancient Egyptians. I've for example linked to stuff about the village the builders lived in, cited books that go into some detail on a lot of this stuff and document their evidence carefully, etc.

My reading list is fact-based, and evidence-based, and yours is belief- or presumption-based. It really is that simple.

Remember when I told you about angrily asserting the same debunked claims over and over again? That's what those who believe as you believe do and that's what makes its way into your books. I've read enough in the genre to know all-too-well the contents.

It was I suppose my fault for assuming your query about my "unfortunately" was a sincere, curious query and not a lure/excuse to restate tired, debunked claims. I will in the future be more cautious on this blog.

-An Anonymous Nerd

Josh
9/19/2018 10:21:31 am

Look up what burden of proof is. While life in the universe probably exists, statistically it almost has to exist elsewhere in our galaxy, there’s no evidence that it does exist, let alone has visited Earth. These are claims with nothing to back them up. Anecdotes aren’t evidence.

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A Buddhist
9/1/2018 11:46:40 am

Jason Colavito: There is a difference between the Golem of Jewish tradition and Gollum from the Lord of the Rings.

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Americancool"disco"dan
9/1/2018 01:08:15 pm

I find your comment strangely...torqulent.

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Machala
9/1/2018 12:31:43 pm

I have long imagined that if there were extraterrestrial civilizations advanced enough for inter-galactic travel that they would also have the wherewithal and prescience to utilize AI for their explorations. Why risk one of your own when you can build robots to do all the dangerous work ?

If a civilization were so advanced that they could transcend time and space, wouldn't it be logical that they would use AI to do the exploration for them ? Maybe all those ancient astronauts and "strange gods" were really robots ? Maybe all those "flying saucers" and alien spacecraft are 'unmanned' drones programmed millions of earth years ago to explore the universe ?
No space monsters, no ancient astronauts, no angels and demons, no deus ex machina, just sophisticated circuitry .....Or, maybe all of this is all just a figment of our hyper-imaginations ?

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Aaa
9/1/2018 01:20:10 pm

Have you read Billy Meyer’s “Message from the Pleiades” volumes 1-4. Doubtful he communicated with robots. Why leave all the fun and dangerous stuff to robots?

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AMERICANCOOL"DISCO"DAN
9/1/2018 01:44:59 pm

I agree. It's VERY unlikely that he communicated with robots.

CriticalThinker
11/3/2018 08:25:52 am

Billy Meyer's nonsense has been well debunked.

Take your pick of resources that thoroughly rip him apart: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=Billy+Meyer’s+fake+ufos

Riley V
9/3/2018 03:43:19 pm

I like your idea. An advanced civilization (like us in the 1970s) would send out drones like messages in bottles. Maybe millions of them. Place some kind of explanation on them that says they can be returned for a deposit.

Then wait. Wait a long time. Remind your offspring of what you did so they know to wait as well.

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Machala
9/3/2018 05:45:12 pm

Sort of like Coming of the Messiah in Judaism or the Second Coming in Christianity. Only this would be....The Return of the Robots !

KK Tipton
9/3/2018 08:52:03 pm

Star Trek The Motion Picture 1979

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3nkegWQe1ZM

An Anonymous Nerd
9/1/2018 06:58:38 pm

Regarding geek culture: While this term has no specific, agreed-upon definition that I'm aware of, I've never considered Ancient Aliens to be part of it. My take always has been that this whole genre steals cool fiction that folks like me produce, or consume, or both, then pretends it's real, and repackages it for other folks who scorn folks like me.

[The Gollum legend is cited]

I suspect you mean the animated constructs of folklore that, to the modern mind,are kinda/sorta like robots. That usually is rendered as "golem." "Gollum" is a humanoid creature from JRR Tolkein's writings.

-An Anonymous Nerd

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Americancool"disco"dan
9/1/2018 07:16:50 pm

Scorning the third person to post a correction is always appropriate.

"the show has become a sort of all-purpose dumping ground for geek culture as filtered through a theosophical, pseudo-spiritualist lens.
More frequently as the years go by, we now get episodes that are only tangentially related to aliens but which are firmly ensconced in the concerns of geek culture, with increasing discussions of artificial intelligence, transhumanism, time travel, superheroes, and other staples of popular science fiction and the speculative science that follows in its wake."

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Jason Colavito link
9/1/2018 08:37:21 pm

I don't suppose it occurs to you that I'm not glued to the comments section. I look at it when I get to it.

AMERICANCOOL"DISCO"DAN
9/1/2018 09:31:22 pm

Wasn't addressing you.

JasonColavito@outlook.com link
9/1/2018 08:34:38 pm

Ah, the joys of autocorrect. I probably misspelled golem and it turned it into the Tolkien character. I'll fix it.

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Jason Colavito link
9/1/2018 09:54:49 pm

How weird. I wonder why the comment deleted my name and posted in the wrong place. It's always something with the website, isn't it?

AMERICANCOOL"DISCO"DAN
9/1/2018 11:38:15 pm

Wasn't addressing you.

Dan
9/2/2018 12:00:37 am

The end is nigh.

Wouldn’t you agree?

👹

Dan
9/2/2018 12:25:55 am

That was for you, “AmericanCoolDickHead”.

American"cool"DiscoDan
9/2/2018 12:26:52 pm

The publishing of the email instead of the name apparently happened to Joe Scales a couple days ago, if that's what happened.

My post apparently went through twice. The first time I skipped the verification process, the second time I did not.

Hi, Dan! I've always considered "Dickhead" rather strong language. What say you?

Joe Scales
9/2/2018 12:43:46 pm

Yeah, the email domain gets added to the log in name sometimes when submitting a post. Happened twice to me. Folks might want to save their hate mail though, if so inspired. The address as it appears is no viable avenue to yours truly.

E.P. Grondine
9/2/2018 10:35:55 pm

from the Daily Grail -

Trying to understand superstition rationally is like trying to pick up something made of wood by using a magnet.

Philip Pullman

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AmericanSiriusly?
9/2/2018 11:27:59 pm

Don't walk under a ladder because you'll get something dropped on you, if not the entire ladder if you bump it.

A black cat is a witch's familiar.

Step on a crack, like produces like and breaks your mother's back.

Just try picking up a 7'4'' Injun with a magnet!

As Art Linklater might have said if he'd lived long enough, "Old people find the darndest things on the internet."

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AmericanCool"Disco"Dan
9/4/2018 01:11:18 pm

Mr. Grondine,

I have been unable to find the Gil Scott Heron quote you mentioned. Could you cite the source? TIA!

p.s. Are you a jelly fellow or a syrup cowboy?

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Joe Scales
9/4/2018 09:17:07 pm

Perhaps it was televised?

AmericanCool"Disco"Dan
9/4/2018 11:27:16 pm

I applaud his insistence on a straw, presumably to make a rather bizzare activity somewhat "safer". A sensible course of action for a devotee of Bradley Fukerton III.

But a pathetic ending for any random old man. Jeez Louise!


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