What it Means To Be Human

Dan Zetterstrom / Double Barrel
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  1. UFOs Are Just the Latest Costume | Joshua Cutchin on Fairies, Fiction & the Phenomenon

    2D AGO

    UFOs Are Just the Latest Costume | Joshua Cutchin on Fairies, Fiction & the Phenomenon

    In this episode of What It Means to Be Human, Dan sits down with Joshua Cutchin — folklorist, paranormal researcher, composer, and one of the most original thinkers working in the strange today. Joshua has spent years tracing the hidden threads between UFOs, fairy lore, near-death experiences, altered states, ghost stories, and the deep symbolic structures that shape human experience. His work asks an unsettling but increasingly unavoidable question: what if these phenomena are not separate at all, but different expressions of the same underlying mystery? Together, Dan and Joshua explore the strange feedback loop between fiction and reality, and why stories may do more than […]

    1h 22m
  2. Thomas Jane Is Looking for Answers | Reality, NHI & The Hard Problem of Consciousness

    APR 1

    Thomas Jane Is Looking for Answers | Reality, NHI & The Hard Problem of Consciousness

    In this episode of What It Means to Be Human, Dan sits down with Thomas Jane, actor, writer, and researcher… to explore a topic that sits at the edge of science, philosophy, and human identity: non-human intelligence and the limits of reality itself. This isn’t a conversation about lights in the sky. It’s about something far deeper. Thomas shares how a personal experience in 2011 shattered his worldview and sent him down a path of studying UFO phenomena, consciousness, and the nature of perception.  Together, they explore: • Why our brains may be interfaces, not truth-tellers • The idea that consciousness could be fundamental, […]

    1h 32m
  3. A UFO Theory that Changes Everything: Chains of the Sea

    MAR 25

    A UFO Theory that Changes Everything: Chains of the Sea

    This week, Dan takes a deep dive into Chains of the Sea — a little-known sci-fi novella from the 1970s that has quietly shaken the UFO world after being recommended by former Pentagon insider Lue Elizondo. On the surface, it’s a story about alien contact. But underneath, it presents something far more unsettling: Through the lens of this story, we explore a radically different framework for the phenomenon — one that moves beyond “nuts and bolts” craft and into something stranger, more abstract, and potentially far more disturbing. Could UFOs be polymorphic, shapeshifting intelligences? Could reality itself be layered in ways we don’t perceive? […]

    35 min
  4. UAP Update: Obama, Trump and the New Dirty Disclosure

    MAR 14

    UAP Update: Obama, Trump and the New Dirty Disclosure

    This week, Dan and Roz dig into the strange new phase of UFO disclosure, starting with Trump’s claim that Barack Obama revealed classified information about aliens. From there, they trace the bigger picture: Obama’s long history of carefully provocative UFO comments, the buried records sitting in the Obama presidential library, and why Trump’s promise to “release the files” may be less straightforward than it sounds. Along the way, they unpack the difference between release and declassify, ask whether this is genuine transparency or dirty disclosure, and explore what Congress, Gillibrand, and the wider UFO community are actually doing with the moment. Also in this episode: This […]

    1h 9m
  5. UFO Encounters and the Stories Behind Blue Book with Michael Avon Oeming #paranormal #comics

    MAR 4

    UFO Encounters and the Stories Behind Blue Book with Michael Avon Oeming #paranormal #comics

    What can comic books teach us about UFO encounters? In this episode, Dan speaks with Eisner and Harvey Award–winning comic creator Michael Avon Oeming, known for his work on Powers, Thor, and Hellboy. Michael joins the show to discuss his acclaimed series Blue Book and Red Book, which bring real UFO cases to life through powerful visual storytelling. Together they explore some of the most fascinating mysteries in UFO history. From the Betty and Barney Hill abduction to the strange events of Dyatlov Pass, sightings in China and Russia, and the challenge of separating fact from myth in the world […]

    1h 34m
  6. A Second Chance at Goodbye with Roz Mugford

    FEB 27

    A Second Chance at Goodbye with Roz Mugford

    What if death isn’t the end? And what if love finds a way to reach us anyway? In this deeply personal episode of Contact, producer and co-host Roslyn Mugford shares her own story. After the passing of her stepdad Jack in January 2024, Roz experienced something she still struggles to fully explain — a vivid dream filled with overwhelming love and what felt like an unspoken apology. Hours later, she learned he had died during the night. What followed were moments that felt less like coincidence and more like connection: signs, synchronicities, and eventually, birds landing gently in her hand […]

    18 min
  7. Michael Ian Black on UFOs, Consciousness, and Peter Thiel

    FEB 18

    Michael Ian Black on UFOs, Consciousness, and Peter Thiel

    What happens to the human story if we get conclusive proof we’re not alone? This week, we’re joined by comedian, actor, writer, and podcaster Michael Ian Black (Wet Hot American Summer, Have I Got News For Your Ears) for a wide-ranging, deeply human conversation about UFOs/UAP, consciousness, and the strange edges of reality. Michael shares a high school “orb/fireball” sighting that still haunts him.. made even stranger by the fact that the other witnesses don’t remember it. From there, we go big: why the “nuts and bolts” don’t interest him as much as what the phenomenon means for humanity, how testimony (especially near-death experiences) shifted his worldview, and why the most […]

    1h 25m
  8. UAP Update: Nazca Mummies Debunked, FLIR Orbs, Pluribus Breakdown

    FEB 12

    UAP Update: Nazca Mummies Debunked, FLIR Orbs, Pluribus Breakdown

    Season Two starts exactly how we like it: coming out swinging. Dan and Roz are back to break down the latest in UAP culture and credibility, starting with a military FLIR clip of “orbs” that might be something extraordinary… or might be birds (yes, we’re devastated too). Then we dive into the Nazca mummies saga, where the internet’s favorite “alien bodies” run headfirst into niche expertise: skeletal radiologists and bioanthropologists pointing out bone grafts, amputations, mismatched growth plates, and why “unknown DNA” doesn’t necessarily mean “alien”. From there, we take a sharp left into Pluribus (Vince Gilligan’s unsettling hive-mind thought experiment): a virus delivered through a decoded signal, a […]

    1h 33m
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  • Creator
    Dan Zetterstrom / Double Barrel
  • Years Active
    2025 - 2026
  • Episodes
    25
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    © 2025 What It Means to Be Human
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