I have a pet theory about what makes Giorgio Tsoukalos and Ancient Aliens so dangererous they needed to be deleted from Rogan/Spotify. Essentially Ancient Aliens is more scientific and intellectually rigorous than anything you read in mainstream news or any of the narratives that drive policy, and it exists as a constant source of embarassment to anyone whose job is to prop those narratives up. It is profoundly subversive.

The people I know who get mad about it get really mad about it, because it is the satire to end all satire. Ancient astronaut theory is a fully consistent ideology and critical theory with at least as much applicability as any critical theory. I could easily write persuasive word for word transcriptions of any of their episodes for any current social issue and it would be as rigorous as the criteria for whatever else people already believe.

When you add a philosophical layer of Pascal's Wager meets Roko's Basilisk - Ancient Aliens may well be the pinnacle of human achievement.

Wow, yeah there's got to be something else that's causing these to be pulled down. Like maybe one of the advertisers in the episode isn't aligned with or allowed by Spotify. Or maybe Joe played a small clip of music that Youtube didn't catch but Spotify did and doesn't have the rights to play. I remember in a lot of those earlier episode Joe would play a lot of videos and random things sometimes with music.