About this Episode
It's that time again - time look back at the year that was, and that was a year that was weird. Hine and Buckley have barely recovered from the horrific ordeal of looking back at 2024 but they bravely get their shit together just about enough to sift through the ragged tatters of weirdness that held together the fabric of reality of 2025.
The Vayse boys encounter the usual suspects: Lue Elizondo, Christopher Mellon, Eric Davis et al, and some new (to the Vayseverse) recurring characters: Mark Christopher Lee, Avi Loeb and the sinister genetics company Colossal Biosciences.
In this dizzying dance through to June of 2025 there are also highly strange encounters with egg shaped UFOs; wooly mice; twitchy dangling robots; foul mouthed relatives of his holiness the Pope; the wreckages of persistent bullshit-talking dullard, Elon Musk's childish, egotistical, spacefaring ambitions; soldiers on the moon... and some mother-fucking snakes on a mother-fucking plane... (recorded 22 January 2026)
Thanks to Unexplained Mysteries who do incredible work keeping a record of weird news stories and make these Weird Reviews possible.
January 2025
Do Scientists Think That Aliens Exist? - Nature.com
The Drake Equation - Wikipedia
Luis Elizondo - Wikipedia
UFO OF God by Chris Bledsoe - Good Reads
The Whistle Blower, Jake Barber, and the Egg UFO - News Nation
Christopher Mellon - Wikipedia
Doomsday Clock is Set To 89 Seconds to Midnight - The Bulletin
Director David Lynch dies at 78 - BBC News
Figures Walking Above Clouds - ABP Live
Brocken Spectre - Wikipedia
February 2025
Asteroid Collision Predicted - The Independent
SETI 30th Anniversary - The Conversation
Fortean Times
Contact - Wikipedia
X-Files - Wikipedia
Twin Peaks - Wikipedia
Independence Day
Clone Robotics Releases Creepy Video - New Atlas
Hellraiser - Wikipedia
Peru Mummies Have Human Teeth - MSN.com
Belief in the supernatural linked to higher stress and distress levels - News-Medical.net
March 2025
Vast City alleged to have been discovered beneath Giza Pyramids - The Mirror
The Controversial Case of Giza’s “Underground City” - Answers In Genisis
The US government has released the final batch of documents on the assassination of President John F Kennedy (JFK) - BBC News
Ten Findings from the Newly-Released JFK Assassination Records - Centre for Politics
Musk Outlines Ambitious Plan to Send Humans to Mars as Early as 2029
Musk Says First Mission to Mars Will Launch Next Year - BBC News
12 times rockets and spacecraft crashed and burned in 2025 - Space.com
Scientists Working on Making Woolly Mammoths Make Woolly Mice
April 2025
Secretive Russian military satellites release mystery object into orbit - Space.com
Pope Francis Died on 21 April 2025 - BBC News
Prophecy of the Popes - Euro News
What Pope Leo Just Said Shocked the World - Charisma
Pope 'Preparing' for First Contact with Aliens This Year, Says UFO Researcher - Mirror
Pizzagate at the Vatican - NY Mag
“I Confessed Everything Short of Murder” — Pope Leo’s MAGA Brother Bares All - The Letters From Leo
A Researcher Says the First UFO Really Crashed in Italy in 1933. And He Has Evidence - Popular Mechanics
Researchers claim Vatican archives hold UFO secrets - Cath News
Diana Walsh Pasulka - Wikipedia
Scientists Announce Dire Wolf Species Has Been Brought Back From Extinction After 10,000 Years - Time
‘They Didn’t De-extinct Anything’: Can Colossal’s Genetically Engineered Animals Ever Be the Real Thing? - The Guardian
Consortium for Space Genetics - Harvard
Jurassic Park - Wikipedia
KLAS News Reports that Jacques Vallee Has Stated That “Aliens are Killing People” - 8 News Now
Jacques Vallée
George Knapp - Wikipedia
Islanders say they cannot escape mysterious humming - BBC News
Yellowjackets - Wikipedia
May 2025
UAP Congressional Briefing on 1 May 2025 - Orbital Today
Unfortunately Lue’s Photo is Now 100% Officially Debunked
Pentagon’s UAP investigators exploring new options to better track and manage confidential reports - DefenseScoop
Russian tourist leaps to death fleeing ‘ghost’ in Pattaya - The Thaiger
Ghosts in Thai culture - Wikipedia
The New UK Disclosure Group Launches - Journalism.co.uk
Most Songs on a Digital Album - Guinness World Records
Unsold £1m album keeps royalties debate open - BBC News
Robbie Williams Breaks The Beatles' Chart Record - BBC News
The King of UFOs in the News - Raindance
The World’s Tallest Dog Met the World’s Smallest Dog - Smithsonian Mag
June 2025
Senior Army Official: 'We Spoke to a Soldier Astronaut on the Moon' - Mens Journal
25th Anniversary of the First Draft of the Human Genome - BBC News
Futurism reported on the Mystery over the rise of AI-fueled delusions
Man Found with 47 Venomous Vipers in Bag at Mumbai Airport - BBC News
Mumbai Arrest: 47 Venomous Vipers Found in Baggage Stuns Airport Security
Common Slow Worm - Wikipedia
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