Bobo and Flex: ‘The Aliens Are Coming’

Sally Ward | She/Her

Bobo and Flex bring you weekly podcasts to challenge your critical thinking skills, give you tips for dating and answer big life questions through deliciously engaging discussion. 

This week, I listened to ‘The Aliens Are Coming’. The hosts talk astral projection, other dimensions, the nature of reality, shrooms, WitchTok, as well as aliens. Flex reminds you “to spend more time feeding into your spiritual self than your virtual self.” 

Re: aliens, Bobo talks about ‘directed panspermia’—the theory that microorganisms were put on earth by other civilisations. It hasn’t been disproven and the more I know I don’t know, the more I’ll believe things that used to sound crazy to me. 

Flex’s insight from Tik Tok reveals that there are regular looking people who believe they are being inhabited by aliens. These aliens want us to ‘increase our vibrations.’  

From here, the hosts navigate the potential for mushrooms to elevate you to other dimensions. I love hearing women talk about drugs; it’s something I seem to exclusively get from certain male podcasters and their dude fans. 

They acknowledge carefully that drugs are dangerous because no one knows the contents of their brain. For some, psychedelics result in psychosis. This is what I like about the show—it’s like, let’s discuss stuff that won’t be talked about in school, without romanticising substances that are definitely not for everybody. Flex concludes that an aspect of drug taking is simply giving yourself permission to sit somewhere for eight hours and ponder existence—which you could do without drugs. 

Spending two months in lockdown, watching the world burn like Octavia Butler predicted in Parable of the Sower (1993), has made me reassess things. We’ve had to collectively re-adjust our expectations for ourselves and our dreams while we continue to sit exams like we’re fine with a big F. I need help to come-to-terms; Bobo and Flex are putting in the work. 

They’re also on a “quest to decolonise our minds,” sharing their experiences as black women living in Australia and New York. They’ll let you know if it’s actually not your place to talk. 

In this episode (for example), Bobo outlines her ability to speak multiple of Johannesburg’s 11 languages and the fact that she’s got words for emotions that don’t exist in English. She explains that in Western environments, “you have to assimilate your really big spectrum of emotions into...a very small one.” 

I don’t think much about aliens and I probably wouldn’t get on the spaceship to Mars. I am now of the opinion that I would be silly if I believed that human existence is the only existence. This is humbling and provides me with a delightful dose of escapism at a time when our options for escape are limited by the saturation of bad, bad news. 

Why not think outside of earth and remind yourself that whatever happens, there is a chance we are living in a simulation controlled by aliens. 

‘Bobo and Flex’ is available on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Patreon and Sound Cloud.

Here are my favourite episodes: 

‘How to live gully before the world ends’

‘Is moral superiority making you lonely?’

‘So, how are we going to end racism?’

‘Friendship + Social Media // Are You a Trash Friend?’

‘Sex, Orgasms & Eating Ass’