Episode #219 |01.28.25

Blink-182: Tom Was Right. Aliens Exist.

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In this episode

Everyone thought Blink-182’s Tom Delonge was a joke, until he proved them all wrong. This is the story of government control, aliens, an arrest, a plane crash, a cancer diagnosis, redemption, and of course; anti-authority punk rock.

Sources

Blink-182: Tales from Beneath Your Mom, by Blink-182 with Anne Hoppus

Tom Delonge interview with Kerrang!

Tom Delonge Leaves Blink-182 (Rolling Stone)

Blink-182’s Hoppus, Barker Blast ‘Ungrateful, Disingenuous’ Tom Delonge (Rolling Stone)

Blink-182’s Tom Delonge celebrates being right about aliens: ‘UFO hearings today made history’ (EW)

Glowing Auras and ‘Black Money’: The Pentagon’s Mysterious U.F.O. Program (NY Times)

‘Wow, What Is That?’ Navy Pilots Reported Unexplained Flying Objects (NY Times)

No Longer in Shadows, Pentagon’s U.F.O. Unit Will Make Some Findings Public (NY Times)

U.S. Finds No Evidence of Alien Technology in Flying Objects, but Can't Rule It Out, Either (NY Times)

U.S. Has No Explanation for U.F.O.s, Does Not Rule Out Aliens (NY Times)

At Congressional Hearing on UFOs, Lawmakers Press for Answers (NY Times)

Congress Orders U.F.O. Records Released but Drops Bid for Broader Disclosure (NY Times)

U.F.O.s Remain a Mystery to Lawmakers After Classified Briefing (NY Times)

Pentagon Review Finds No Evidence of Alien Cover-Up (NY Times)

NASA Appoints a U.F.O. Research Director (NY Times)

Blink 182’s Tom DeLonge Describes Alien Encounter, Says Authorities Tapped His Phone (Hollywood Reporter)

Culture Wars: How Spies Infiltrated Movies, Music, Art and More (Spyscape)

How Blink-182’s Tom DeLonge Became a U.F.O. Researcher (NY Times)

Tom DeLonge on UFO research: 'I wouldn't have left Blink-182 for something pie in the sky' (Sky News)

Every Blink-182 album ranked from worst to best (Louder)

Tom DeLonge on his mission to prove ‘Aliens Exist’ (To the Stars)

Proof of Aliens on Earth // 72 hrs with UFO Whistleblower David Grusch Under Oath in Congress (Yes Theory)

Unacknowledged (2017, dir. Michael Mazzola)

Monsters of California (2023, dir. Tom Delonge)

DISGRACELAND is a podcast about musicians getting away with murder and behaving very badly. It melds music history, true crime and transgressive fiction. Disgraceland is not journalism. Disgraceland is entertainment. Entertainment inspired by true events. However, certain scenes, characters and names are sometimes fictionalized for dramatic purposes.