Welcome to Scatterbrain Podcast - Episode 119: UFOs in the Atomic Age. If you are "a believer", then good on you. You will enjoy this episode. If not, then you really need to listen because these facts of history will change your mind. You'll enjoy the conversation regardless. Thanks for spending your time with us everyone! If you are new to the madness, welcome! We truly appreciate all of our listeners. First off though, we blather a bit about Dan's new friend, "The Algorithm", deep-sleepers, a...
Jul 14, 2022•1 hr 13 min•Season 3Ep. 119
Welcome to Scatterbrain Podcast Episode 118! This could almost be called "The Anvil Episode, Vol. 2" because we discuss the recent Anvil show here in San Diego and review Anvil's Latest album, "Impact is Imminent". But instead, we're calling this "Banter Vol. 7" because we talk about all kinds of other topics also: Rocky Marciano, whether or not humans should be flying, full-automated freight trucks, the James Webb telescope, and more. We're all over the place this week, but this IS Scatterbrain...
Jul 07, 2022•59 min•Season 3Ep. 118
Bonus Episode: Vol. 4 is here! Please forgive us. Happy summer everyone! (c)2022 Scatterbrain Productions
Jun 30, 2022•38 min
Welcome one and all to Scatterbrain Podcast Episode 117: Edgar Cayce "The Sleeping Prophet". We recorded this episode two days late, so this is coming to you late. Better late than never, right? We talk about going viral, a newer Swiss death metal band, a famous old-school German thrash band, and their new album releases ( it's a two review episode and I'm out of time, so listen to find out who ) Then we discuss a man that Dan thinks is a charlatan: Edgar Cayce, AKA "The Sleeping Prophet". Or is...
Jun 24, 2022•1 hr 10 min•Season 3Ep. 117
Welcome to Episode 116! You are in for a treat! It's another installment of SOG! This is Vol. 3, "At The Studio." We recorded this gem... well... at the studio. It's short and, uh... sweet? It's a behind-the-scenes look at Ian's sometimes incoherent babbling, and Dan's bottomless well of patience. You will probably be able to actually HEAR Dan rolling his eyes. Some may say Ian is unbalanced. But can an unbalanced person write so eloquently in the third person like this? Ian is telling me, "No."...
Jun 16, 2022•35 min•Season 3Ep. 116
Welcome to Scatterbrain Podcast Episode 115! This week, things get a little serious. We talk about cults: what comprises a cult, the common characteristics of cults members and cult leaders, and why people would even consider joining a cult. Then we discuss the details around the Heaven's Gate cult and the mass suicide that took place in Rancho Santa Fe in 1997. But first, we make amends with Mr. Cruise and review Decapitated's latest release, "Cancer Culture". Please don't forget to subscribe, ...
Jun 09, 2022•1 hr 13 min•Season 3Ep. 115
Welcome to Scatterbrain Podcast Episode 114: Emperor Norton. First off, we review the new album, "A Call To Arms" by old-school Wisconsin-based death-metalers, Jungle Rot. Then, after the guys apologize profusely to a great man, a man's man, a true American hero and icon, the greatest human to have ever lived, the best actor in history... we talk about the only Emperor Of The United States ( and Protector of Mexico ), Emperor Norton I. He may have been a little off in the head, but he was a good...
Jun 02, 2022•41 min•Season 3Ep. 114
Welcome to Scatterbrain Podcast Episode 113! This week, we are joined by San Diego-based black metal band and U.S. National winners of the 2022 Wacken Metal Battle, Mythraeum. We learn about the history of the band, the recording of their first album "The Inevitable Return", and the forthcoming release of their new EP. We love supporting the metal scene, especially our local San Diego scene. Please do what you can to help the guys from Mythraeum get to Wacken (in Germany) by contributing to thei...
May 26, 2022•1 hr 6 min•Season 3Ep. 113
Welcome to Scatterbrain Podcast Episode 112: Drowned In Sleep/Lucid Dreaming. We review yet ANOTHER Brazilian band, Drowned, and their new album, "Recipe Of Hate". Then, we talk about some of our favorite albums from past reviews. Thrash is more than just a musical style, it's lifestyle. Our topic this week is dreams and dreaming. More specifically, lucid dreaming. Is it really something that we can all do? When you are dreaming, have you ever realized in the dream that you are in fact dreaming?...
May 19, 2022•1 hr 18 min•Season 3Ep. 112
Welcome to Scatterbrain Podcast Episode 111: Marie Curie. First: We kick things off by reviewing the blackened Hungarian death-metal band, Needless, and their most recent offering, "The Cosmic Cauldron". ( https://needlessofficial.bandcamp.com, and/or Instagram: (@needless_metal) ) Then: She was a genius. Sure. She did important work in science. Yes. She is universally honored and respected for her dedication to her work, and her many discoveries. Of course. But, did you know she was also the tr...
May 12, 2022•58 min•Season 3Ep. 111
Welcome to Scatterbrain Podcast Episode 110! This week, we learn interesting facts about space, including the difference between meteors, meteorites, and asteroids. Then we review Human Cull's latest release, "To Weep for Unconquered Worlds". We also discuss and pontificate over "extreme music" as a genre. Finally, we discuss fear vs aversion vs phobia, and some strange phobias you may not have heard of before. Where do phobias come from and what can people do to rid themselves of this extreme f...
May 05, 2022•1 hr 9 min•Season 3Ep. 110
Scatterbrain Podcast Episode 109: Banter Vol. 6 is a real chat-show. A blather-fest. A cluster-talk, if you will. We talk about gentrification and the disappearance of affordable housing, over-population, greed, the amount of gold on Earth, sulfur mining, and much more! Squeak, squeak, squeak! Then we review the new album from another killer Texas death-metal project: Visions Of Annihilation. Directly tied to one of our favorite bands ( and friends of the show ), Kryptic Mutation. Thanks for lis...
Apr 27, 2022•55 min•Season 3Ep. 109
Welcome to Scatterbrain Podcast Episode 108! This week we talk about issues with social media, the Bay Area Strikes Back show, being prepared vs. hoarding, and more, before getting into this week's album review: "Diabolical", the latest from Germany's thrash legends, Destruction. Then we talk about the strange UFO sightings and alien encounters associated with the 1996 Varginha Incident. Is this a hoax or was there a government cover-up? Listen for yourself and come to your own conclusion. Thank...
Apr 21, 2022•1 hr 24 min•Season 3Ep. 108
Welcome to Scatterbrain Podcast with Ian and Dan. Episode 107; Alien Abductions - Part One: The Artist & The Farmer. After we catch up about some metal news, Ian's latest trip to Colorado, space signals, and spacetime paradoxes, we challenged ourselves and review TWO new albums this week: Meshuggah's "Immutable", and Descent's "Order Of Chaos". Then, we focus on firsts: the first person to openly take a maligned and widely ridiculed subject seriously, then spend almost four decades interview...
Apr 14, 2022•1 hr 23 min•Season 3Ep. 107
Welcome, faithful Scatterbrains, to Scatterbrain Podcast Episode 106: An Introduction to Alien Abductions! This week, Ian takes some time away from family to join us from Colorado. In this episode, we review "Antiorthodox", the latest from Evansville, Indiana's Forthright. Then, we piggyback on last week's topic of alien implants, and discuss the phenomenon of alien abductions. Some of these stories are obviously nonsense, but some have more evidence to back them up and require a deeper look. Jo...
Apr 07, 2022•59 min•Season 3Ep. 106
Hello Scatterbrains! Welcome to episode 105! We're happy you're here for yet more comedy, metal, and high-strangeness! This week we review the new album "Psychic Rot" by east coast power-violence trio Backslider, and talk about a few "pinnacle" albums from some bands we are sure you've heard of before. Then the guys tackle the contentious and polarizing issue of alien implants. UFO believers and debunkers alike can't really get a handle on this one... it's just too scary and weird for anyone to ...
Mar 31, 2022•55 min•Season 3Ep. 105
Hello Scatterbrains: Welcome back for another episode of Scatterbrain Podcast! This week, in Episode 104, we are joined once again by our friend Marianne from Death Is Everything podcast. In this episode, we talk about some other fun and interesting things, including this crazy video . Next we review "Common Sense", the latest release from Costa Rican thrashers, Chemicide . Finally, we talk about Sokushinbutsu, the strange process of self-mummification. What is it and why did people adopt this p...
Mar 23, 2022•58 min•Season 3Ep. 104
Welcome to Scatterbrain Podcast - Episode CIII: Claustrofobia in The Library Of Alexandria. Thank you to all of our listeners world wide! We are now listened to in 28 countries! We are truly grateful. This week we give due props to the amazing band *Claustrofobia, and their killer new album, "Unleeched" Then we delve into the facts about The Library Of Alexandria. This ancient repository of knowledge and learning is widely believed to have been destroyed by Julius Caesar during his civil war of ...
Mar 16, 2022•1 hr 7 min•Season 3Ep. 103
Welcome to Scatterbrain Podcast Episode 102: Technology of the Ancients. This week we review "Let the World Burn", the latest release from old-school Bay Area thrashers, Vio-lence. We also talk about "Timewave Zero" from Blood Incantation. Then we talk about technology: Ancient technologies such as the "Antikythera Mechanism", modern technologies invented earlier than you might expect, and technologies invented independently and in parallel by more than one person. What will remain long after we...
Mar 09, 2022•1 hr 26 min•Season 3Ep. 102
Welcome to Scatterbrain Podcast episode 101: UFO Chronology Vol. 6. It's been over one year since Vol. 5, so we went big. This is a long one, but listen all the way through because the ending is a trip! Thanks everyone! We'll see you next week!
Mar 02, 2022•1 hr 59 min•Season 3Ep. 101
WE DID IT! 100 ( official ) Scatterbrain Podcast episodes! This week we go on and on about... well, US! Enjoy! Thanks for listening everyone. We truly appreciate our Scatterbrain Army. Special thanks goes to Kryptic Mutation, Pile Of Priests, CDi, Metal Assault Records, Death Is Everything Podcast, The Last Podcast You'd Want, and the late Jimmy Stewart for contributing to our highly anticipated 100th episode. You guys rock! Find us wherever you listen to podcasts as well as on Instagram, Twitte...
Feb 23, 2022•1 hr 31 min•Season 3Ep. 100
Welcome to Scatterbrain Podcast - "UFOs, Spacetime, & Technology: The Expanded E.T. Hypothesis". (c) 2022 by Ian Mesplay. Thank you for listening everyone! We will be back next week with episode #100! It's been a strange and overly-eventful last four months, but we'll be back on track and back to our usual format of music reviews and cool topics in March. It's called Scatterbrain Podcast for a reason, people. Stagnant and predictable we are not! Note: The sound you hear at the end of this mi...
Feb 19, 2022•10 min
What's up Scatterbrains? Welcome to Scatterbrains on the Go, Vol 2.5! We're doing something a little different this week. This isn’t the normal weekly episode, but instead is a modified version of the “Scatterbrains on the Go” series, where we record live on a phone while out and about. Why Vol 2.5, you ask? To be explained in the episode. This should probably be titled episode 100, but we need to give episode 100 it's own special treatment. So we're not including this in the normal numbering sc...
Feb 16, 2022•39 min
Welcome to Scatterbrain Podcast - Episode 99-ish. "99-ish" because, well, you ever have one of those weeks where nothing seems to go right? It's been one of those. In fact, this is the episode that almost wasn't. We seriously considered skipping this week. This episode WAS supposed to be the 5th and final installment in our Metal Assault Series. This episode WAS supposed to be an interview with Dave Barrett, vocalist for Socal melodic death metal band Voices of Ruin . We had a great interview wi...
Feb 10, 2022•36 min•Season 3Ep. 99
Published in The Hill; January 4th, 2022. Written by Opinion Contributor Marik Von Rennenkampff: "UFOs, the Channel Islands, and the Navy's 'Drone Swarm' Mystery". Anyone with moderate intellect who has done even minimal objective research into the UFO/UAP phenomena over the last eight decades has known that UFOs are real, and SOME of them are "not of this Earth". It doesn't matter what you think, feel, or want to believe about this topic. It's been a reality that you need to come to terms with....
Feb 05, 2022•8 min
Welcome to Episode 98: Scatterbrains On The Go, Vol. 2. A night on the town with Marianne from Death Is Everything Podcast. This was recorded on what would have been Stanley's 13th birthday (Dec. 1st, 2021) at a brewery in San Diego, and it is freaking hilarious! A nice lady, a respectable family man, and an obnoxious degenerate. What more could you ask for? Good times! Enjoy! It's pretty damn funny. We'll be back next week with our final installment of our Metal Assault Records Series (No. 5), ...
Feb 02, 2022•1 hr 6 min•Season 3Ep. 98
Welcome to Scatterbrain Podcast's Metal Assault Records 12th Anniversary Metal-Fest Promo Month No. 4: Episode 97 with Sea Of Snakes. This week we continue our collaboration with Andrew from Metal Assault Records ( metalassaultla.com ) and interview Jason, vocalist from LA's Sea Of Snakes. They will be playing on the day two show (Feb. 13th, 2022 at Transplants Brewing Co., Palmdale CA.), so get your tickets now ($20.00 for one day, or $40.00 for the whole ear-wrecking weekend!) because time is ...
Jan 26, 2022•40 min•Season 3Ep. 97
Welcome to Scatterbrain Podcast: Episode 96. This week with special guests Bone Maggot. This is our 3rd instalment of our Metal Assault Records 12th Anniversary-Fest Series. All leading up to the metal apocalypse at Transplants Brewing Co. (Palmdale, CA.) on Feb. 12th and 13th, 2022. Bone Maggot will be there playing live on Feb. 12th to wreck your ear-holes! This band is something special. We aren't missing this. Oh hell no! Check out their new album "Internal Hate", released Nov. 18, 2021. It ...
Jan 19, 2022•47 min•Season 3Ep. 96
Welcome to Scatterbrain Podcast Episode 95: Brazil is Metal with Claustrofobia (the Metal Assault Records 12th Anniversary Show No. 2)! This week we welcome back Andy from Metal Assault Records to talk more about the upcoming 12th year anniversary Metal-Fest being held at Transplants Brewing Co. in Palmdale CA., February 12th - 13th, 2022. And we also welcome to the Scatterbrain family Marcus ( guitarist/vocalist ) of the kick-ass Brazilian-born, Las Vegas-based band Claustrofobia. We talk about...
Jan 12, 2022•48 min•Season 3Ep. 95
Welcome to Scatterbrain Podcast Episode #94! We are pleased to announce that we are media partners with Los Angeles based Metal Assault Records ( https://metalassaultrecords.com ) for their 12th Anniversary 2-day Metal-Fest being held at Transplants Brewery ( Transplants Brewing Co., transplantsbrewing.com, 40242 La Quinta Ln. #101, Palmdale, CA. 93551 ) February 12 - 13th, 2022. Two days of beer and metal! 16 bands over two days, with fine craft beer for you to enjoy! What could be better? Toda...
Jan 05, 2022•37 min•Season 3Ep. 94
