Silvano Colombano Wonders If We're Doing It Wrong—S2 Bonus Interview
Wild Thing is re-releasing its bonus interviews! Silvano Colombano, a long-time NASA scientist, argues that the search for extraterrestrial...
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Wild Thing is a podcast about the strange and unusual things that capture our imaginations. It’s about the relationship between science and society. It’s about wild places, wild people, and...
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Aliens and Art with Frank Buffalo Hyde—S2 Bonus Interview
Wild Thing is re-releasing its bonus interviews! UFOs, aliens, other-worldly beings—all have appeared in art over the centuries (including,...
Sara Seager Explains Exoplanets—S2 Bonus Interview
Wild Thing is re-releasing its bonus interviews! While we hypothesized about exoplanets for years, it wasn't until recently that we could co...
Abel Méndez Talks About the Arecibo Telescope—S2 Bonus Interview
Wild Thing is re-releasing its bonus interviews! 2020 - already not a great year - was made worse for astronomers when the Arecibo Telescope...
"Ancient Aliens" with David Anderson—S2 Bonus Interview
Wild thing is re-releasing its bonus interviews! David Anderson likes the idea of aliens but he’s not a big fan of the TV show Ancient Alien...
Sarah Stewart Johnson Marvels at Mars—S2 Bonus Interview
Wild Thing is re-releasing its bonus interviews! Sarah Stewart Johnson is a planetary scientist who has worked on several Mars missions and...
Talking About Aliens with Neil deGrasse Tyson—S2 Bonus Interview
Wild Thing is re-releasing its bonus interviews! Astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson gives his perspective on the rare earth hypothesis, the...
A Conversation with Joe Scott—S2 Bonus Interview
Wild Thing is re-releasing its bonus interviews! In a wide-ranging conversation, Joe Scott, (host of the popular YouTube series Answers With...
Life on Venus?—S2 Bonus Interview
Wild Thing is re-releasing its bonus interviews! In September 2020, just days before this podcast launched, scientists announced that they m...
Letters From Listeners—S1 Bonus
Wild Thing is rereleasing its bonus episodes! In Ep. 2 of Wild Thing , I mentioned that people went crazy about the gorilla. They even wrote...
The Saucy Side of Sasquatch—S1 Bonus Interview
**THIS EPISODE CONTAINS EXPLICIT MATERIAL** Wild Thing is re-releasing its bonus interviews! We talk to Virginia Wade, author of a series of...
Revisiting Harry & the Hendersons—S1 Bonus Interview
Wild Thing is re-releasing its bonus interviews! We hear from William Dear—director of "Harry & the Hendersons"—about how he tried to captur...
Remembering Jeff Meldrum—S1 Bonus Interview
On September 10, 2025, Jeff Meldrum passed away after a battle with brain cancer. I interviewed him multiple times for the first season of W...
Talking with Bob Gimlin—S1 Bonus Interview
Wild Thing is re-releasing its bonus interviews! Hear an extended conversation with Bob Gimlin, half of the famous duo that shot the Patters...
In Memory of Peter Byrne—S1 Bonus Interview
In memory of Peter Byrne, the longest-surviving member of the Four Horsemen of Sasquatchery. After looking for Bigfoot for decades, the 97-y...
S3 E9: An Atomic Future
What were the long-term effects of the SL-1 explosion? Nuclear power is a shrinking part of America’s energy picture; accidents and fear hav...
S3 E8: Risky Business
Incidents like Chernobyl and Fukushima are often what comes to mind when we think about nuclear energy. Thankfully, events like these actual...
S3 E7: Half-Life
The aftermath of SL-1 highlighted a problem that we still haven’t solved, despite decades of searching for a solution: what to do with the w...
S3 E6: You Look Radiant
As firefighters and medical personnel staged operations at SL-1, a plume of radioactive gas silently made its way over the Idaho desert, cre...
S3 E5: Trust Issues
The only three people who really knew what had transpired at SL-1 were dead, and it would take months to determine what likely happened—plen...