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Loopholes Extra Episode 3
🕑 Added 2022-10-12 10:00:07 +0000 UTCHello there
The original plan with Loopholes Extra was to provide comparably light-lifting on weeks where things were difficult or a bit too much. Which would certainly describe this week.
However, and this is merely an observation rather than a complaint, it has already developed into something that requires as much (if not more) prep before recording, and - as you'll probably gather from the amount of media in it - same for the edit.
I rather like that though, as these are Patreon exclusives. Well, all of the episodes are presently Patreon exclusives, but the main episodes will be out in the real world once we've finished our negotiations with a platform, but the extra eps are presently planned to remain exclusives here. They don't feel like little add-ons, that's what I like about them. It is really an entirely stand alone sister project to the actual Loopholes eps, which would work as just that. You could just listen to these and not Loopholes, and it would still work as a properly produced series.
Appreciate that's self back-slapping, but I'll take any nice words this week, even from myself. Before this recording the only conversation I'd had since Saturday was with Alexa. I'll probably tell you about that in Cabin Fever.
So, hope you enjoy it. As always, this follows the original series of Arthur C Clarke's Mysterious World, but you needn't have seen it to follow along. If you have a hankering to watch it after listening to this, they're all on that YouTube. This is Episode 3 of the TV series, which is all about Ancient Intelligence...
Hope you are having a lovely week
Sending love as always
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Comments
Stewart Smith
Loving loopholes and these ACC extra ones are great. I have a vague connection to the Mitchell-Hedges skull because I was part of the team that put on the event in Edinburgh which showed it off in 2008. The conference was organised by the late Philip Coppens, a regular talking head on many of those History Channel ancient esoterotica shows. Somehow being an electronics engineer meant I was perfect to run the sound for the conference despite having no idea what I was doing. Anyway, it was 90% nonsense and I think the skull is almost certainly modern but it's still an amazing object to see (and photograph) especially if you grew up being scared of the titles for Mysterious World. https://edinburghguide.com/blog/philipcoppens/therealindianajonesbringstherealcrystalskulltoedinburgh-2620
I wonder what prompted Arthur C. Clarke to do this show? Was it just for the cash? Clarke was a serious SF writer who used a lot of real science in his stories, and as you pointed out in this episode he's a bit dismissive of the more outlandish claims made by the show.
