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Chris
Yeah.
Jesse
Even when you're holding onto something as solid as a deck of cards.
Gerb
Because you talked about how just. And to this day I've been trying to think about how you did that. And I just have no idea. I have no idea where I was tricked or where I'm not remembering or where that happened. I just. I have no idea.
Chris
I've seen him do the thing with the glass where the glass just moves out. It's probably the simplest thing, but I fucking love it. Or the straw floats out and the straw's floating.
Gerb
I mean, I'd never seen a magic show before.
Jesse
Yeah.
Gerb
I really hadn't even seen card tricks.
Jesse
Yeah. Not a lot of people have. They've seen videos of it, but seeing it in person is way different because you're always. You're one step removed on video. So it's like watching a stage show and you go, oh, there's smoke and mirrors, there's trapdoors. Right. But then when it's in front of you, all those variables seem to disappear and you're just left with nothing to it.
Chris
Yeah. The close up is crazy.
Jesse
You have the frustrating thing happen to you where your suspension of disbelief is unwilling. Yeah. It's not willing. You're not like, oh, I'll suspend it for the sake of the trick. You're like, no, I've exhausted my resources. I don't know how you did that.
Gerb
Yeah. On the videos you can stop it, go back frames, try to investigate and
Jesse
you can see how it. I did that on video. That particular one. There's certain tricks that, like you have to cut around or certain tricks that you have to like, do, like. If you look at mentalism, most of the stuff happens off camera and then when the cameras are rolling, it's a lot of wordplay. I'll say that we never met before today, right? You know, like these type of things and you're like. It creates the illusion that you didn't set anything up. And then you go, we didn't set anything up. Right. But you don't know that you were set up if you've handed me your phone before, you know, because I was doing some pre show magic trick to you and I did something and you're like, well, I blew your mind. But now I have all this secret information on you that I'm going to reveal throughout the next hour. And, you know, and, and, and, you know, play look at me and think of this thing and like do all these, you know, performative bits. Which is fine, but yeah, it's not actual minor any.
Gerb
Well, I think you have a point about the, the shows being in person because, like, I haven't felt that amount of awe in like a interaction with a person since I was a kid. Like, I was, I was on the edge of my seat when you were doing those tricks. It all culminated with the, the plastic bar. I boggled my mind because Luigi walked in. That's the first thing I told Luigi
Jesse
and he's like, oh, yeah, yeah, been there, done that. Speaking of which, here, I'll give you, I'll give you a little demonstration. Not on, not an actual magic, but more on how magicians can use magic to obtain information and then how that is perceived to people watching. So, for instance. All right, just go ahead and just take a card out. Yep. Anyone?
Gerb
I got a game out.
Jesse
Sorry. Yeah, no worries.
Gerb
Okay, I'm hiding the number from you.
Jesse
Yeah, just have a look at it. You got it? Put it back. All right. But at this point, there's no way any of us know what that card is. Well, sorry, you guys know I have no idea what this card is, Correct?
Chris
All right,
Jesse
so, all right, just think of this card. Just think of it. If it's going to be like a bit of a poker face scenario. So I don't want you to give away any information. Okay. But I'm going to try to read from your facial expressions or your sort of micro expressions, anything that I can to try and determine what the card is. Is it. Don't answer. Is it red or black? So your right eye, when I said black, moved slightly. I'm going to assume it's black. Is it a club Or a spade. Now, okay, so, so now you're, you're, you're trying to mask.
Gerb
Right?
Jesse
And so it tells me it's a spade. Once again. Okay, now is it a picture card or a number card? Okay, it's a number card. All right, Is it high or low? High or low? It's low. So it's a low spade. Is that correct? Yeah. Okay, there's a free choice. You could have chosen any card. All right, right here, look at this. On the finger.
Chris
What the. What the.
Jesse
Is that it? Four spades. All right, so now here's, here's the thing. So I didn't actually read your micro expressions. This is all performative. I already knew what card you chose. How? Well, there's two ways that I can know that. Either I force the card upon you or I peek the card after. Right. There's two ways to do that. So if I force the card on you, even though it felt like that was a free, completely free choice, it wasn't. It felt free. It wasn't. Right. So this is a force. So now you're being given the card that I want you to. So now that I have information that you don't know I have, I can ask you to hide that information from me. And now I can see what that looks like.
Chris
Oh, for later, read the tell.
Jesse
Okay, so now I have information on what your tells are. And this, for magicians or mentalists or even CIA is really, really valuable information. So having inside information and being able to ask people questions you know the answers to, and then seeing how they dance around the answers, knowing they're trying to avoid what the truth is, you can see if they're lying or if they're telling the truth.
Gerb
So even the, Even the card you offered it, you know, that's a fresh pack.
Jesse
Yeah.
Gerb
You opened it, you cut the deck once, spread it, and of jokers included, what, 54 cards in there. You offered me up the one you wanted me to pick, and I tried to game out what you wanted me to pick and choose a different one. So I just don't know how I was led to pick the one card you wanted me to.
Jesse
It blows my mind. Isn't that interesting, though? Yeah, but that's the whole crux of the trick, because if you knew that that was even in play, that I was, and you suspected I was trying to force you a card, so you went in a different direction. But if you knew that that card was forced, you know, that would change the dynamic of the, of how I was sort of Trying to read that information. And so it's really interesting because you take magic and I just apply it to the whole ic, you know, space. And I go, oh, my God. Like, they're literally doing magic tricks. Yeah. And you see it on these interviews. You see it, you know, when you talk to them in person. You know. You know they know things, but they're playing dumb.
Gerb
Yeah.
Chris
Yeah.
Jesse
And so, you know, I. When I do magic tricks to these people, you know, I get to see. Thank you. Thank you. I get to see what their tells are before the podcast.
Chris
Mm.
Jesse
Yeah. And then I grill them on these questions. Probably shouldn't even be saying this on camera, you know, because they might be watching this. But that's the idea, right? Is that you get to. And then. Now I understand. Yeah. You know how they shift in their seat when they're trying to hide information or. You know what I mean? So it helps.
Gerb
Well, even you. You told me I was giving off micro expressions after you said that. When I was answering, I felt like my eye twitching, and I said, oh, crap, am I giving it away?
Jesse
And you slightly were. That's the thing, too. That's the other psychological subject.
Gerb
Thank you very much.
Jesse
Thank you.
Chris
Thank you.
Jesse
Thanks. Yeah, there is. There is like, a whole psychological layer to trying to hide things. So it's, you know, don't think of a black cat type idea. Same thing happens. And. And also, there's, like, certain. I learned this from a friend, Spidey. He does. He has this behavioral arts channel. He, like, looks at people lying, but when people scratch their nose. So when you're lying, it actually, like, increases the blood flow to your face, which sl. And this is where the Pinocchio lie comes from, because your. Your nose slightly swells, like, on a microscopic level. And so that's why people would. But it doesn't mean it's a lie. They're just trying to dance around something else.
Gerb
So has there ever been anybody you've had on the pod that. Because you're able to gauge out their micro expressions or when they're lying, you have just known. Are feeding you a bunch of baloney?
Jesse
No, because you can't tell what they're lying about.
Gerb
Okay.
Jesse
You can only tell there's, like, some inconsistency in what they're saying. So, like, you know, like, lie detectors, famously aren't lie detectors. Right.
Gerb
It just measures your heart rate. Cortisol levels.
Jesse
Yeah, exactly. So it's telling you, oh, this person is stressed. You don't know what about. It could be about trying to hide the truth.
Gerb
Right.
Jesse
But it could also be about this reminds them of when they were a kid and they got beat up for saying this or. Yeah. Whatever that is.
Gerb
Yeah, I know. We talked about this, too. Jesse just kind of guess on your
Jesse
pod that you felt may have been
Gerb
kind of taking you for a ride. We talked about that as well. And we talked about just the guest that you had the hardest time taking their story at face value was Charles hall, for sure.
Chris
Are we in the pod right now?
Jesse
Yeah. Break that wall.
Chris
Yeah. Well, Chris and I did Charles hall together when. Jesus, that sounds weird. We did an interview with Charles hall
Gerb
when Chris was telling Luigi and I when I was out here last time. And that's when Chris was doing impressions of some other prominent figures in the subject, too, that Luigi and I were just loving.
Jesse
Yeah. Yeah. Who's this? Who's I. Who's I impersonating? Bledsoe about the hormones.
Gerb
Luigi was cackling all time, man.
Jesse
It's just like the way he's so soft spoke and he's like, oh, thank you. I've seen so many of his videos and, like, you just see these lights, these, you know, these. I don't know what they are. But then you hear his, like, soft voice in the background. Thank you. Trailing off at the end of the videos.
Chris
Yeah.
Gerb
There's the kind of infamous video, like, the last contact of him doing that.
Jesse
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. He always says, cut the football chatter. Cut the. Yeah, cut the football chatter. Yeah. What do you make of that? What do you make of, like, all that stuff?
Gerb
Well, Jesse and I were talking about this last night. You know, he is Die Hard wants to talk to Tim Taylor.
Chris
Yeah.
Gerb
That seems to be the biggest number one. Yeah.
Jesse
To this puzzle, because at least that's your way. Whale.
Chris
It is, I think.
Jesse
Yeah, Yeah. I think it'll happen.
Chris
I put him on. I made a vision board and he's on it.
Jesse
Cut to Jesse's shrine with candles and, like, Tim Tannic Satanic. Yeah. Like Pentagram.
Chris
Oh, it sounds so creepy because it seems I really want to do it. Yeah. He's the intersection between trippy stuff and then real nuts and bolts era space. But, like, really trippy stuff. Not even just like, UFO work.
Gerb
Like lady.
Chris
Like time travel and, you know, there's.
Gerb
Oh, yeah, the Bermuda T. Townsend Brown stuff.
Jesse
Yeah. The fact that his name came up at Charles hall thing was interesting, too. Like, Mary Therese's wife was just like Timothy.
Chris
And Bledsoe said that she. He was writing a book with Townsend Brown's Daughter.
Jesse
Have you contacted her who was writing a book?
Chris
Tim Taylor.
Jesse
Oh, wow. And didn't Townsend Brown's daughter leave some type of Amazon review on his book?
Chris
Yes, yes. So there is a connection there.
Jesse
There's definitely a connection, yeah.
Gerb
Have you reached out to the daughter?
Chris
I have. Well, she was on a phone call in my original Towns Brown documentary and so we'll occasionally talk on the phone and she's fascinating.
Jesse
That's so wild. Yeah, he's just such a. I think it's more of like he's this weird puzzle piece that you don't know where to put in the puzzle. And that's what's so intriguing about this. This man is like, it's not necessarily how he's tied together with everything, but just like what, like what is his role here? He seems like this transient sort of goes wherever he wants entity. But at the same time I get the feeling might be an experiencer from having, you know, so much interest in the topic and talking to Streber, what's his face, Charles hall and all these other experiencers. Bledsoe, I don't know. I don't know what to make of him.
Gerb
It's weird because Tim Taylor doesn't cross over into my lane of studying the programs at all. Like Tim Taylor's name never comes up.
Jesse
He's an aerospace corp.
Chris
Right?
Jesse
Right.
Gerb
Yeah, NASA. But still in terms of like actual program efforts, his name has never really come up as a key player ever. Which is interesting because then he's gallivanting around with Bledsoe, with Charles Hall.
Jesse
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Chris
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Gerb
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Chris
Come join us. Sam's Club. I think he was part of some. Well, I think the program is probably a misnomer and I think there are probably a lot of different. You know, you have this phenomena which is sort of multifaceted, and then you have whatever's going on with Dan Sherman, like, with the, you know, like humming a tone. Yeah, exact. Project Preserve Destiny is definitely stepwise different than reverse engineering A craft is the stuff you're tracking. And so those two things are different. And then is there some sort of, you know, like, looking glass style time travel thing? Like probably, you know, if you take Wild Bazaar face value, they were at least looking at little time perturbations, you know, and then, you know, is there some group that thinks it can time travel? Like, there's a. There's a. He wrote a book called Launch Fever. It's his autobiography. And he writes about flying back and forth from between Florida and the Bahamas. And he says time moved differently there. And it's all. To me, it's like all this, like, weird coded language. Like it's island time and it's really strange.
Jesse
Oh, that's. That's an interesting way to see it.
Chris
And then simultaneously, he's telling Chris Bledsoe's son that, like, he's part of this time travel group and Townsend Brown was the president of it. And Townsend Brown always conceived of himself as a time traveler. Like, I literally asked Townsend Brown's daughter, like, what is. If your father is a time traveler, what is he up to now? And she goes, he's probably rearranging the math on the most frontier science to make sure we don't blow ourselves up. And then you think about the UFO nukes thing is so crazy.
Jesse
Some sort of time traveling superhero that's saving us all from imminent doom.
Chris
Yeah, right.
Jesse
Or this idea. Also, did you ever ask Malmgren about Tim?
Chris
So Malmgren, at the end of his life was going really deep on Townsend Brown, right? And was like, had all these like, notes on him and he apparently so. He said he had a foreign intelligence source that gave him documentation of Townsend Brown collaborating with Tesla on some gravity stuff, which is crazy. And, like, I couldn't get too much deeper than that. So, you know, I don't know. And then on Tim Taylor, I don't think I ever asked him. I pro. I probably, knowing me, I probably did. And then he probably didn't say anything. That's why I don't remember.
Jesse
But.
Chris
Yeah.
Jesse
Interesting.
Chris
Yeah.
Gerb
Are we all in solidarity that Malm Green was likely CIA?
Chris
Yeah.
Jesse
I don't know enough to put him in that category, but I'll trust both of your judgments, I think.
Chris
I think.
Jesse
For sure, yeah.
Chris
Because he was in. He's talking about Primakov and Dobryn and. And Pompidou, like a global stage sort of guy. And then he was at Yale and. And at Oxford before that. And then he was living at. He had Paul Mellon's walking stick at his apartment. And I'm holding it. Paul Mellon founded the CIA. And then he goes, my best friend Tom Farmer or whatever. And then you look up Tom Farmer. He was the General Counsel of the CIA.
Jesse
It would be a big oversight not to have him in the CIA.
Gerb
He had IDA as kind of his NOC position to the Institute for Defense
Chris
Analyses, which he literally said was a cover for his work on the National Security Council. So this whole Deedeen Johnson takedown around him not working on the National Security Council, he already addressed before he died with this other interview of Robin Laird. So.
Jesse
Wow. I'm still blown away that you got that interview.
Chris
Yeah, I am, too, man. I felt it. Felt like really like it. Yeah, it did. Yeah. Yeah.
Gerb
What would you guys say are the most important interviews you guys have done?
Jesse
I think Malm Grin is probably the most important interview any of us have done. Yeah. One of them, at least. At the very top.
Chris
Yeah. Mal grand or Crush for me,
Jesse
I mean, I would. I would push that question off to you. You've only done. You've only done a handful on camera.
Gerb
Yeah, I definitely. Off camera stuff.
Jesse
Yeah.
Gerb
And like, we talked about it beforehand, specifically about Air Force stuff. That's.
Jesse
That's like.
Gerb
That's my Tim Taylor to get specific people on camera that have worked in those programs.
Chris
What about you, Chris?
Jesse
Most important? Yeah. I don't know. It's hard to say because that would. That would mean that you would have to acknowledge that what they're saying is a sort of agreeable truth. Right. Where I'm.
Chris
Or not. It has a ripple effect.
Jesse
Sure. Yeah. Yeah, yeah. That's that's true. That's true. I would say. I think, you know, it's gonna set. People can make what they want of it. But I think Lou was a really important interview for the trajectory of my channel. You know, him coming early onto the channel obviously got a lot of eyes on a channel, and so, you know, believe or don't believe anything Lou says. Regardless of that, first of all, he, you know, he took his time to come here and be on the podcast. Always be thankful he did that. But the offset of that was now that this, you know, created some type of eventful thing where now people look at the podcast differently, like, oh, this is, you know, he's getting big guests. And so after that, I was able to, you know, get some really interesting people, even whistleblowers such as Jeremy Weeks come on. And. And so I think it was important in the trajectory of my channel, and it felt serendipitous the way it happened, too, I would say. But Jeremy Weeks is another one. Jeremy Weeks is one that.
Chris
Yeah, it's a trippy story.
Jesse
Yeah. So super trippy. But actually, maybe Peter Curry.
Chris
Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Jesse
I feel like that one kind of. Even though it did pretty well, I still think it went under the radar with, you know, what we're proposing and what was brought forward. Like it was some physical evidence. It was physical evidence.
Chris
Wild.
Jesse
It's, you know, we're not. It's not hearsay. It's physical evidence.
Chris
Yeah.
Jesse
It doesn't prove aliens, but it's anomalous physical evidence that we. That we have.
Chris
And anomalous physical evidence that's biological. It's not. Just usually you hear like, oh, we did mass spec on, you know, this material and that has isotope ratios, you know, whatever. You're talking about a hair.
Jesse
Yeah.
Chris
I was pulled off the being.
Jesse
And what. What trips me out more is how it corroborates his story and not the other way around. So it wasn't like he had this hair tested, and they were like, oh, it's half Asian, half Basque. It's blond, it's immune to AIDS without the CCR5 gene deletion. And then he goes, oh, yeah, you know, I had a blonde and an Asian naked alien in my room. And that's not how it happens. It was that story first, and then you get this hair back. That actually kind of corroborates what the heck this guy's saying. Like, that, for me, was the big oh, my God moment. It wasn't even, like, the anomalous nature of the hair. It was like that. It corroborated his anomalous story. This is the skiff. No windows, no WI fi, and ideally no one quietly collecting your data in the background. Which brings us to your phone. See, most people think of their carrier as just the company that gives them bars. But traditional carriers have access to way more than that. Your number, your metadata, your location patterns, your account information. In a world where data gets leaked, sold, brokered and tracked, that should make everybody a little uncomfortable. Kape is America's privacy first mobile carrier. It gives you premium reliable cell service, but it's built from the ground up around privacy and security. One of their features I think is genuinely wild, is identifier rotation. Your phone has an IMSI, basically a unique subscriber ID tied to your SIM. Kape can rotate that identifier every 24 hours. So to the network you look like a different subscriber every day. They also give you two secondary text only numbers so you don't have to hand out your real number to every app, website, store, delivery service, or random form that asks for it. And unlike traditional carriers that hold onto your metadata, Kape deletes call and text metadata after 24 hours. So if you watch Area 52 and you care about privacy, go to Cape Co Area 52 and use code AREA52 for 33% off your first six months. That's Cape Co Area 52. Code AREA52 for 33% OFF your first six months. Thank you to Kape for sponsoring this video.
Gerb
How did you get in contact with him in the first place? And did you fly him in from Australia?
Jesse
I did. Wow. Yeah, flew him in from Australia. I got in contact with him through. What's his name? Horace Drew. So Horace Drew was the geneticist who, who did the tests, the genetic test on the hair. He's also been in and around the UFO space quite a lot. He's worked with Bill Chalker, who wrote the book Hair of the Alien. Bill Chalker, who's like a respected UFO researcher in Australia. And Horace was also the person who introduced me to Jeremy Weeks. He was the one who decoded Jeremy's initial binary sequence after. You know, I think it was Linda Molt Howe. She, she didn't know what to do with it. She. It resembled binary. She didn't really know how to read it. Took horse like a few weeks and then.
Gerb
Yeah.
Jesse
And then cj, you know, came out. Yeah.
Gerb
But yeah, outside of Tim Taylor, who would like your guys's three dream guests currently living be that you guys would do Anything to get on your pods.
Jesse
Okay, let's do, let's do one at a time. Okay, you first.
Chris
Oh, man.
Jesse
No Tim Taylor. Yeah, no Tim, that's already vision board. Thank you, sir.
Chris
It's funny because it's either like, you know, I either want to interview, you know, people like Spielberg or like, you know, people who are like in the, like, you know, really clearly, like know more than they let on, like have, you know, clearly have some interesting sources. I think that would be really cool. And it's either that or like, I always never know how to answer that because it used to be like more high signal people and now it's like, you know, I've my audience kind of hated on this, but I love this interview I just did with this guy Rolf, this Doe guy. He was. I disagree with him about Doe oversight when it comes to UFOs. Yeah, but the. I like somebody who's experienced something kind of ontologically trippy, but then they can also make sense of it in some greater theoretical framework. So anybody like that. And I felt like Malm Grim was like that too, where you had to like meta perspective of like being able to make sense of it. You were like an actor in the world. You weren't just identifying with the experience in this way that, you know, that's, that's the only thing and you're sort of like, you know, I don't know, like, like, like selling everything off of that.
Jesse
Experience, return philosopher.
Chris
Experience return philosopher. Yeah, but being able to make sense of it and you've experienced something really trippy.
Gerb
Yeah, yeah, Spielberg's a good one.
Jesse
Spielberg's a great answer.
Gerb
You could get so much value out of even just asking him, hey, why did you include Lockheed and TRW in Close Encounters? Why did you have those crates? He probably would have some interesting answers
Jesse
the whole Project Serpo trip. Yeah.
Gerb
Tell me about the lore behind the Abyss creatures.
Jesse
Yeah, yeah. Well, I mean, he. That was James Cameron, but. Oh, oh, that's. But still, I mean, Spielberg was a producer. Yeah, but Spielberg was a producer on Back to the Future.
Gerb
Yeah, right.
Jesse
You know, and then obviously ET Is another one that is pretty on the nose in terms of like, you know, them studying this being and whatnot. Yeah. I think in that same vein, if we were to stick around, you know, the entertainment industry, I think Chris Carter for me, would be a big one.
Gerb
Yeah, that's a good one.
Jesse
Yeah. Because same questions go to him in the season finale that Tim Taylor mentions in American Cosmic or what's her book?
Chris
American Cosmic.
Jesse
American Cosmic.
Chris
Where they're taken to the.
Jesse
Yeah. And he's like, does this place look familiar? And they're like, well, this is actually a season finale of X Files, and it's an actual range. So he must have had. Especially after that pilot episode.
Gerb
Yes, yes. One episode, one Deep Throat.
Jesse
That's.
Gerb
That's the biggest it, dude.
Jesse
It. They go to an Air Force base and they see testing of like light triangles blipping around. And then this triangle, massive, you know, what looks like a TR3B or, you know, military.
Gerb
Very similar. Very similar.
Jesse
And after that, immediately it was like freak of the Week for like.
Gerb
Yeah.
Jesse
I don't know how many seasons.
Gerb
Creature features.
Jesse
Exactly. Yeah.
Gerb
Well, that craft, the artwork from that. I talk about this all the time. Was was commissioned to an art forensic artist named Bill McDonald. He also designed a lot of the craft for, like, Roswell depictions and so forth. But Bill McDonald, that craft, he called it the XF131 Super Sentinel. And that was based off of a meeting with two Lockheed and two Northrop engineers at a Denny's in Antelope Valley in 1992. These engineers worked out of Helendale and Tejon.
Chris
What?
Gerb
So you can look up the original artwork. It's called the Tehachapi triangle, dated 1992 from Bill McDonald. This is allegedly a real craft.
Chris
That's crazy.
Jesse
I didn't know that.
Gerb
And I've talked to Bill McDonald as well, who won't give up the engineers names. But, you know, as according to him, this is a real craft.
Jesse
Might have been in this diner right here.
Chris
There you go. The other thing about the X Files is they were real. You know, the guy Bannister was this guy at the FBI. Ironically, Lee Harvey Oswald was working out of his building at 554 Camp street or 544 Camp street in New Orleans, which is crazy. But he is the X Files guy. He was the guy. Like this guy Fred Chrisman worked under him. He was another FBI guy who showed up at the Maury island incident, which was literally like, adjacent to the Kenneth Arnold sighting, which was another UFO experience where somebody said his dog got killed by UFO slag coming down or whatever.
Jesse
Yeah.
Chris
So it's this weird. So, yeah, to your point, like, the X Files was a thing. He's paying homage to this real thing.
Jesse
Yeah. And then, I mean, even you look at Nick Pope, who is, you know, kind of the Scully or the molder of the UK at the UFO desk for the mod, which is interesting, too. He had a 1, 800 number. Essentially. It was like this phone number that you would call in. And you know, I don't know what to make of that. I didn't know what to make of that when he told me. And like, that does sound like a position they would just give someone to like. All right, you just do this. But then accidentally falling into some real stuff.
Chris
Well, it's like the weird desk at the CIA.
Jesse
Exactly.
Chris
That they say, you know, they say Kit Green was on it. Then they say Ron Pandolfi took over.
Jesse
Yeah. It seems like a lot of weird desk. Yeah, they seem. But like, that one almost seemed performative to me.
Chris
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Jesse
Public number. But then in. In that same vein, like you're getting calls from actual experiencers and he's actually going out and seeing these things.
Chris
Y.
Jesse
Right. Which I think is. You know, I would. I would have loved to have that job. That's like a dream job.
Chris
Yeah.
Gerb
Have you reached out to Chris Carter?
Jesse
I don't know how I've had like, people I know try to reach out to him. Him. David Duchovny. Oh, nice. Yeah. What's her name? Jillian Anderson. I'd love to talk to any of them. I'm sure David Duchovny would probably have some really interesting stories.
Chris
Well, I think he's a UFO skeptic is what I hear.
Jesse
Oh, that's interesting. That would make for a good conversation then. Yeah. I wonder if he's still a skeptic.
Chris
I think it's tough now. Right. Like, especially if you're always associated with that. And then you see all this stuff coming out in the news and everybody's coming up to you being like, oh, you're the guy here, Fox Mulder. And then he's. He probably has. He probably feels some pressure to have the correct view on it. And like now I do think the consensus is shifting. Five, six years ago, I don't think it was, you know, popular to say you believe in this stuff. But now.
Jesse
How many times do you think he just ended a conversation with. Well, truth is out there.
Chris
Yeah, yeah, definitely.
Gerb
But often that's a good choice.
Jesse
Or like the. The dude who is smoking. The Smoking Man. Yeah, the episodes.
Gerb
Yeah.
Jesse
Yeah.
Gerb
That's like.
Jesse
He probably knows some shit.
Gerb
Yeah. Mulder's legacy contact. They've been here. They've been here for a long time, guys.
Chris
But they also say that like alien hybrids, chain smoke or whatever. Like that's like.
Jesse
That's so wild.
Chris
Yeah.
Jesse
Hilarious. How about you?
Gerb
My number one would have just be boring. It. It would be, of course, Dave Grush. But in conversation with Dave Grush, not so much an interview, but more so like a fireside chat type situation. Just like, like three, four hours of talking about legacy programs and legacy.
Jesse
Have you not had that conversation with Dave Grush?
Gerb
That's not. That's not my story to tell.
Jesse
Okay, no, but that you said, like, that would be your number one thing you'd like to do. Yes. Oh, I see. I see.
Gerb
Yeah. To do like a. A video, right? To sit down, like, three, four hours.
Jesse
Oh, I see, I see.
Gerb
Just.
Chris
I would pay to watch that.
Jesse
I would too.
Gerb
That would be. That would be my number one dream. I mean, all the way from like, Roswell prior to today.
Jesse
I feel like. I feel like it'd be dangerous for Dave Grusch to sit down with you.
Chris
Yeah, yeah.
Jesse
Same reason Dave Grush wouldn't probably sit down with Bob Lazar, where it's like, you guys are going to talk about some stuff that, like, literally you shouldn't be talking about. Yeah, of course.
Gerb
Because, like, I've never had a clearance. I can cross lines that he can't without being thrown in jail.
Jesse
Should have a button with him. Yeah, like slap the button when you're getting too close to that line because,
Gerb
like, I can cross lines that, you know, he will be imprisoned and made an example of if he cross.
Jesse
If he.
Gerb
He crosses. So I have ability to cross those lines.
Jesse
So.
Gerb
Yeah, you're right.
Jesse
It could be hell of a way to send an invite
Gerb
conversation.
Chris
So let's do it.
Jesse
You know, that.
Gerb
That would be. That would be my dream. Just of. Of any guest living. Living or dead.
Chris
It'd be amazing. I would love to.
Jesse
All right, let's go down the list. Who else?
Chris
I think that if that conversation's happened, it would be a sign that we've made a lot of progress because, you know, like, he could be super open about a lot of, like, the deeper stuff. Yeah, it'd be like a very good
Gerb
indicator or dates and program evolution, which I just think with how much information has flooded the zone, would be really helpful just to have like a clear and concise. This is how some of the legacy programs were founded. This is how they work. This is what they've evolved into.
Chris
Well, you're doing the open source version of what he did at the uap. Atf, I think, is, you know, he was known as like, this really, like, you know, his mind was a steel trap and he was just this like, big database of like, all this stuff,
Jesse
you know, but you're both kind of like, cut from the Same cloth. Yeah, yeah. That's what I'm saying is like when you put two phones together and just had AI talk to each other, it
Gerb
would be a great conversation.
Chris
That would be.
Gerb
I'd be really intrigued to.
Jesse
Dude, both of you. Nerding out on acronyms would be the best. You could probably host an hour long podcast where you say no words.
Gerb
We could, yeah.
Jesse
We could speak in shorthand, entirely in code and acronyms.
Gerb
That would be a dream.
Jesse
Oh, dude. Right here in this. Dino, let's set it up.
Gerb
I would love to.
Jesse
This is going to be an extremely busy month.
Gerb
I have to watch 104 soccer games,
Chris
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Jesse
It's a lot.
Gerb
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My number two. Oh, man, Ideal guests. So tough. I think maybe somebody at the like, okay, if there is still a majestic 12, you know, like Helen Coker. Yeah, Well, I would put somebody like a Bobby Ray Inman on it and I'd love to interview somebody like at that level where they have somewhat of a top of the pyramid view. You know, you always hear these like, analogies of like, you know, it's like a bunch of blind men touching an elephant or different parts of an elephant. And it's really hard to like piece together what's actually going on. And you even had, you know, when Jake came on my show and Ross's, it was like, I'm the fingertips, you know, and it's like we don't have all the context. And to me, the most interesting stuff isn't the, like, functional, like what's going on in the form of crash retrieval program. Like, I'm pretty sure that is going on. It's the metaphysical truth behind it. What is going on? What is reality? Yeah, yeah.
Jesse
That we're touching. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Who would. And you. You think Bobby Raymond would be the closest one to give you a broader sort of.
Chris
I don't. That's where. I don't know. And it's interesting because I think with like the MALM Grin thing, like, in retrospect, I think he was. Had much wider of a scope than I ever would have ever imagined. Thank you.
Jesse
Thank you. Sorry. Very good.
Chris
So, yeah, so I think like you never know with these people. You don't know. You know, maybe like there's a. And then you would guess because he was. I think he was. Thank you. Well, he's NSA director and deputy director. Yeah.
Gerb
Just insanely spooky. Now if you were to interview. Oh, thank you, sir. If you were to interview.
Jesse
That one has cheese.
Chris
Yeah. Oh, no, that, that one did.
Jesse
No, it doesn't. This has sauce on it, I think.
Chris
No, it's got a little bit of cheese. Oh, it does.
Gerb
Oh, no.
Chris
Oh, it's all good.
Jesse
Do we have one without cheese? We do. Nice. Oh, nice.
Chris
Amazing.
Jesse
They'll start yet.
Chris
Thank you.
Jesse
Finding a little bit.
Chris
Cut that out a little bitch.
Jesse
We're finding out the deepest.
Gerb
The deepest secrets of Jesse.
Jesse
The deepest bowels of Jesse's.
Chris
Which one is which?
Jesse
This one here.
Chris
Thank you. ICU is going to target me with some cheese now.
Gerb
So Jesse, if you were to interview Bobby Ray Inman.
Jesse
Yeah, of course.
Gerb
Infamously, Jay Anderson has and gotten some eclectic sound bites out of him.
Chris
Yeah.
Gerb
What would you do differently or ask differently to try and pry more answers out of him? Because I'm of the mind of you. That.
Jesse
Great question. You should do this.
Chris
That is a great question. I, I think, I think you'd have to hit on. Touch on real specifics.
Gerb
Right.
Chris
As far as, you know, overlap that he's had in his career with specific people where it seems like, you know, they've. But even then these guys are trained professionals and I think we're especially him and you. It's like these people are running your questions through a filter of like, can talk about, can't talk about. If I, If I can't talk about it, I'm going to ex. You know, if I'm going to look like a sycophant in the future, I'm going to express openness on the thing I can't talk about. And it's a computation and they're professionals at that shit.
Jesse
Yeah.
Chris
And so like, you really have to read the body language. But I do think if you want to, you know, kind of, you know, make them squirm a little bit, you gotta, you know, bring up specifics. I think around like, you know, overlap. But even then you're going off of things that are like, you have two or three data points, you know, and it's, it's ultimately, it's like an open source. Knowledge on this stuff is a fucking minefield. Yeah.
Jesse
And all you're going to get is like a little smile out of the corner of their mouth when you ask like some cute question. They go like, in the back of their mind they're like, you have no idea.
Gerb
You could have a whole conversation about his time as director of Neuro100, the National Underwater Reconnaissance.
Chris
Well, he formed Neuro, right? No.
Gerb
Nero was formed in 1969 out of the need to coordinate Navy and CIA DS&T reconnaissance activity. So up until 1974, NEURO was a tug of war between the Navy and DS and T. And I can't remember the specific Secretary of the Navy that kind of wagered some control back. But yeah, around that time frame, Andrew Zhou.
Chris
Well, I'd also want to ask about his time at saic, specifically his interest in psychotronic weapons.
Jesse
Yeah.
Gerb
Wagon Hut as well.
Jesse
Something we don't hear about often either. And maybe, maybe this is just. I don't hear about it much. But what about the Russians? Are they not doing any underwater reconnaissance? I believe they're doing like water crash retrieval or like water even. Like what, like what Neuro is doing. Like, don't they have their own. We never hear anything from them in terms of the oceans. We always hear, you know, crash.
Gerb
I think one of the questions is, is did the Americans beat them to the punch? Because under Neuro, like the Ivy Bells programs and basically various programs to put reconnaissance sensors and activities on the seabed across the entire globe. Maybe we beat them there. So we have denied territory with a lot of the oceans.
Chris
I think they have to have a program because they have nuclear subs. And if you have nuclear subs, then you're going to attract this stuff no matter what.
Jesse
Yep.
Chris
And that's, you know, I think it's a true, true above land, it's true below and then, or underwater. And then they also have this mountain range called the Yamanto Mountain range where they seem to study sort of extended electrodynamics.
Jesse
I was like, they're Area 51.
Chris
It is, it's A nickel mine. It's near Kazakhstan.
Jesse
That's the. The dude who was on Ross Coultard's show. He had. There's this lady, she was like, this opera singer. Her father was a janitor, what she thought was a janitor. And then when he died, he left her with, like, all of these files. And it's a book filled with diagrams of UFOs and, like, trippy science.
Chris
Yeah.
Jesse
And they refer to the ufo Gina.
Gerb
Oh, Jean.
Jesse
Yeah. Yeah. That was fascinating. I was like, oh, my gosh. Like. And, you know, Ross told me, to this day, no one's been like, oh, that's fake. Or like, there was no. There's been no debunks. No.
Chris
Well, the Russians also. There's this great book, guys, Tom August on that talks about this basically great race to, like, take over the tech of Kamler. Stop. Like, the Secret Nazi.
Gerb
Oh, yeah.
Chris
And if you look at the Avrocar project in the us it was literally this, like, we tested flying saucers. That is not, like, debatable. And they couldn't fly due to this thing called the Kiwanda Effect. But we got all these, like, guys from Kamler Stab the Secret Nazi stuff, like Mita, and we stole all Victor Schauberger's IP using Army counterintel stuff. All of these guys that we're working on reported flying saucers in Nazi Germany. We took over here through Avrocar counterintel, other. Other means. And so they, I think, got a lot of this stuff, too. They were called, like, the, you know, the Habermal designs or the Habermal project. And I think there is. There are exotic lineages of science in both. In both places. And then on the. You know, are they interested in underwater stuff? Dennis Asperg, you know, the Baltic Sea anomaly said that, you know, had a presence out there. Well, yeah. I mean, the Baltic Sea is obviously of very strategic importance, and it seems like they're interested in this. An object underwater.
Jesse
That makes sense. Okay. Number two. Oh, me. Thank you. Thank you.
Chris
Thank you.
Jesse
Everything okay? Everything's delicious. You know, I don't know if I'd go towards, you know, anybody that I don't know are. We. Are. This is living like. Living like we'd have an opportunity to. I think Dan Burrish.
Gerb
Nice.
Jesse
Yeah. Yeah. Dan Burrish would be a big. And obviously, you know, Bob Lazar is up there. I think he's everyone's number one. Yeah, but Dan Burrish, I think, because he's limited himself to not doing any of these interviews ever. Like, you Know, since the early 2000s when he came out. I think he would probably have. I don't. I don't even know how that would go down. There's so many weird stories I hear around Dan Burch and, like, that he's under house arrest somewhere in Canada, and that, like, do not approach. Like, he's being literally babysat by, like, ex MJ12, like, type cats that you can't even get close to.
Chris
Ex MJ12 guys are babysitting him.
Gerb
Like, MJ12 deputies, essentially.
Jesse
Yeah. Like, you, like, enforcement army. Like, once you're out of the MJ12 scope, you're not allowed to just lead a normal life. Ideal. You're under, like. Like a mafia type district surveillance. And so he's got, like. Yeah, that type of activity.
Chris
His story is, though, one of the weirdest.
Jesse
So strange because there are things that, like, corroborate other people's accounts. Incredibly, there are credible. You know, the fact that. Where was that university that he went to to, like, do the public speaking event on molecular biology?
Gerb
I can't remember.
Jesse
And that's on paper.
Chris
Yeah.
Jesse
You know, like, he was.
Chris
And it was Stony Brook.
Jesse
Yeah. And then. And which is, you know, a place where a lot of really bright minds went to discuss things.
Chris
Extremely bright minds. It's like a center of, like, really spooky physics, I think that's right.
Jesse
Yeah. So. And then afterwards, to have his, you know, schooling completely erased. Not unlike Bob Lazar, where you can't track him. But we do have this talk that he did at this really prestigious, you know, school. And so, you know, how do. How do people reconcile those two facts? Like, you have really, really interesting corroborative evidence of this guy being who he says he is, even. And then, you know, take it a little further. He also got into the program kind of the same way that Bob did through Edward Teller. Yeah.
Gerb
Teller.
Chris
Yeah. He recruited him.
Jesse
Yeah. And.
Chris
Or according to him.
Jesse
But then.
Chris
And then there's also, I think, a photo of him with Mike McConnell, who's NSA director. Navy admiral.
Jesse
Yeah.
Gerb
Clint from Night Shift is pretty positive on that, but I don't think it's conclusive yet. Okay. But he's really high confidence on it. But I don't. I don't think it's been definitive because
Chris
this researcher, Brian Jackson, says that McConnell viewed him like a son, the son he never had. And then his son died in a weird way. And it's like they swapped souls or something. And I. I don't know what to make of it.
Jesse
It's Also interesting is that Burch claimed that these. These beings were sort of us from the future. Right. These two different timelines that have, like, separated, and that both of them ended up being these breakaway civilizations on, you know, Zeta or whatever, Orion, and that they're trying to help us steer clear of what is, like, imminent doom for this planet, which would have been having Hillary Clinton elected.
Gerb
No way.
Jesse
Yeah. That's like. That's the one thing that would have, like, screwed our planet up was having Hillary elected. Now, if you look at Hillary and, you know, we talk to a lot of people, it seems like she was going to be the disclosure. There were efforts to do that. Right. So it kind of corroborates what Dan was saying. Whereas, like, oh, that might have absolutely destroyed our timeline.
Chris
I have to say, for some reason, that is hilarious. It's like Hillary Clinton is the apocalyptic. Right, right.
Jesse
And, like. Yeah. To no one's surprise, I think.
Chris
Yeah, yeah, yeah, of course. Yeah, naturally.
Jesse
Yeah. I mean, and what. I mean, there's probably an Epstein connection to be made there, too. You know, I'd be curious to know if Epstein was interested at all in Dan Burrish or Bob Lazar.
Chris
We should search that.
Jesse
We should search it up. Let's do right now.
Chris
Okay.
Gerb
Jesse, could you pass me the ketchup, please?
Chris
Got you, brother.
Jesse
Sir. Because I mean, just be careful. Bob. Bob. Early 90s would have been, like, a celebrity.
Gerb
Right, right.
Jesse
And this guy, you know, Epstein, was obviously highly interested in trippy physics. So what did you tell me yesterday about, like, the Los Alamos scientists, the physicist?
Chris
So Epstein has, like, hours recorded with this guy, Steve Bannon, who's probably a spook himself.
Jesse
And, you know, he's like, Trump's guy, right?
Chris
Trump's guy. Operative from the 20 from 2016 era. And they're talking and he goes, why'd you, you know, put Zorro Ranch, where it is, in New Mexico? And he starts going on about retired Los Alamos physics physicists being in the proximity, and he want him wanting to have conversations with these guys. And you're like, what the fuck? Like, who's literally targeting our most sensitive programs? And by the way, Bill Richardson, I think, was Secretary of Energy under Bill Clinton. I believe he was a Clinton crony for sure. And, like, he was governor of New Mexico. And so I think that there's some sort of connection there, too.
Jesse
Let's see.
Gerb
Let's see, Bob.
Jesse
Oh, there's a lot of Lazar, but then, like, there's this artist and Karen Lazar. There's all These. So I'm just gonna look under Bob Lazarus. No results under Bob Lazar, but plenty of results under just Lazar. I'm sorry, Bob. I'm not trying to imply that, you know, if you're listening, just if they were speaking about him, but if they were speaking about him as well, because, you know, he sends out feelers.
Chris
Look up. Look up Casimir, which is zero point energy. Because I. I've heard rumors that Epstein was obsessed with the Kazimir.
Jesse
So K A Z I, M I,
Chris
R C A S I M I
Jesse
R. Couldn't have been further. Casimir loading. Oh, weird.
Chris
Come up.
Jesse
No, it's just my phone just, like, bugged out.
Chris
Classic. When you look up Epstein's interest in 0.9.
Jesse
Dude, I'm telling you, everything's frozen right now. I can't do anything on my phone.
Chris
That happened to me in my McKinnon interview, which hopefully will be out by.
Jesse
Yeah, Gary McKinnon.
Chris
Yeah, yeah, yeah. And I filmed it. Yeah, I was like, I can't move. My phone is completely frozen.
Gerb
You got him to your studio?
Chris
Yeah, yeah, that happened to me too. No, no, I went out to uk. Wow.
Jesse
One more time here,
Gerb
dude. I really look forward to that.
Jesse
Well, it's out, so you can watch it.
Chris
It's out now.
Gerb
Oh, yeah, it's out.
Chris
I should not watch it in the future now.
Jesse
It comes up a lot. But Anthony Casimir is a name. And then Hernando Quellar, Huxley. Casimir. Okay, and so these are all names.
Chris
No. What about Casimir effect? E, F, F, E, C, T. I
Jesse
know how to spell fact, Jesse.
Chris
The T, H. Yeah. What about anti gravity? That's interesting.
Jesse
That'll probably come out.
Chris
Let's see that. Oh, gravity. He holds these gravity conferences or whatever, but one result. Okay, where?
Jesse
Pulling it up now. So from Robert Kuhn to Jeffrey Epstein, an exchange between. So it starts with Jeffrey being like, I deeply appreciate your strong intention with the bold interviews of the best physicists to be quote, unquote, closer to the truth about our universe and its basic physical mysteries. Below is my new J. Fizz published article. Oh, this is Dr. Yuri Grybove. Sorry about that. I was wondering. And then I guess Jeffrey was cc'd on this. So this is going. Yeah, they're talking about breakthroughs. And. He goes, I waited years. This opportunity. My model predicts the matter antimatter, anti gravity, etc, that was simply stupidly forbidden to publish in the most of. In the most of distant physical journals. Why stupid? Because this barrier existed without any experimental verification of the opposite case. Matter, antimatter, attractive gravity. But now it is published and links his publication which might be interesting to look into.
Chris
That is interesting. I wonder why he says attractive gravity. Because that's what gravity is. I think of repellent gravity as being anti gravity or something.
Jesse
Oh, yeah. Maybe A and B. The A wave and the B wave. And so then Robert Kuhn writes and cc's Jeffrey and says, as you know, Jeffrey and Closer to the Truth. So it sounds like an organization are collaborating on a major series for PBS on breakthroughs in mathematics and other areas. And we surely want to feature you in one or more mathematics episodes, hopefully so. Okay. He was also very strange.
Chris
And we should look up closer to the tree.
Jesse
Yeah. Gripov is a physicist slash artist in Germany with a Idiosyncratic multiverse theory. Idiosyncratic multiverse theory.
Chris
Oh, one of my number one interviews. Transurfing reality. Vadim Zeland.
Jesse
Oh, yeah.
Chris
I want to interview that guy.
Jesse
So we talk about that a lot.
Chris
I love that book. And he's, He's. I think people say it might be a collection of people. There's one photo of him with these huge sunglasses on. Nobody knows who he is. Disappeared.
Jesse
Really? Oh, yeah. There isn't there?
Gerb
No.
Jesse
I was thinking of stock in the Wild Pendulum. I'm thinking of the other guy.
Chris
It's Hawk Bentoff. He died in a plane crash.
Jesse
Yeah, he's probably. Yeah, he's super trippy. He's on an interview I watched once and I was like, this guy kind of like, knows a lot.
Chris
He knows a ton. Yeah, he was like the Israeli version of Puharich and they were like, very close. And then. Yeah, a lot of people said, are
Jesse
you convinced Buharis wasn't also with ties to Israel? I mean, he was working really closely with.
Chris
I think he was CIA. And I think the CIA and Assad have always been really close.
Jesse
Not a buddy. Buddy. Yeah. Yeah. That's an interesting cat. Too large.
Chris
Extremely interesting. Yeah.
Jesse
All right. What about you? GERB number two.
Gerb
This will be another kind of boring one compared to what you guys said. But it would be a man by the name of Edward C. Aldrich, also known as Pete Aldrich.
Jesse
This guy was a ghost guy.
Gerb
No, we talked a little bit about it last night. But this guy was a secretary of the Air Force and undersecretary of the Air Force. His CV is equatable only to somebody like Bobby Ray Inman or Donald Kerr. I mean, this guy was CEO of the Aerospace Corporation.
Jesse
He was Tim Taylor.
Gerb
He was a senior, I think, board Member at LTB Aerospace, which was eventually transitioned to E Systems, which was a CIA shell company, and then bought up by Raytheon. But as far as I understand it, Edward C. Aldrich was pretty instrumental during his time as undersecretary of the Air Force for helping programs kind of morph legacy programs and take advantage of expanding SAP security controls to kind of hide itself within other programs and program cover offices. And there's actually a very real tangible observation of this. I can't believe this is unclassified, but if you find a document called the History of safaa, which is the administrative assistant to the Secretary of the Air Force, which is a pretty high level position within the Air Force, specifically the headquarters of the Air Force, there were what was known as outside activities within the safaa. And these were created in Pete Aldridge's time. Not necessarily created, but kind of morphed in Pete Aldridge's time, which was a collection of Air Force activities that existed outside of the Air Force that the Air Force had administrative and operational control over. Now, the interesting thing about this is these programs that were stuffed under SAF aa. The administrative assistant to the Secretary of the Air Force by Aldrich bypassed the SAF aa's special access program oversight channels, which is the safety S A H A Z. Sorry, I mean staff aaz. My mistake. Which is info slash I was gonna correct.
Chris
Yeah, yeah, me too. I was actually offended.
Gerb
And so that. That's like a.
Jesse
That's like a big.
Gerb
That's like a big light bulb going off that under Aldrich, he kind of morphed these outside activities under cover offices that bypass traditional special access program oversight channels. That's like a really big, like red alert that.
Jesse
Where did you get that information from?
Gerb
From that public history. And that was doing stuff for my Air Force video, which a lot of it talked about SAF aa because that SAF AA position, two senior positions there, a man by the name Russell E. Weiler and William E. McClure are likely. One of them is likely the gatekeeper that Chris Mellon was talking about back in 2024. Do you remember when Chris Mellon hosted.
Jesse
Yes.
Gerb
Do you remember when Chris Mellon took to Twitter, he posted an image in response to Sean Kirkpatrick leaking Chris Mellon and Kirkpatrick signal dms. It was Chris Mellon talking to a senior USG official and saying, hey, I think we tracked down the SES Senior Executive Service gatekeeper in the Air Force named Redacted thanks to some work by like a good guy named Alex Katz and myself. It's either former SAF, AAH sensitive activities Russell Wyler or AAC William E. McClure most likely. So it's really interesting there.
Jesse
It.
Gerb
I would love to. Of course he wouldn't speak about it, but to understand that that roll under like, no comment.
Jesse
Yeah, you got me. No comment.
Chris
I've had a couple of that.
Gerb
Yeah. I think one of the big conversations that needs to happen next, at least in my lane with the legacy programs, is finding out how they morphed and evolved from what you could consider The Manhattan Project 2.0 to a blind man touching the elephant.
Chris
Yeah.
Gerb
And I think that's a very critical
Chris
milestone and why there are no physics. This also should be. There's a. There's this video I just did with Eric Weinstein and Eric Davis. And Eric Weinstein is like, you're telling me these crafts break physics and there are no physicists on the program? And Eric Davis goes, yeah, I checked with the guy. You know, I was exploring this through NIDS and you know, and OS app and you know, met with a lot of these people, met with five people on the crash Retrieval program and they all said it was just material scientists and no physicists. And Weinstein, I think rightly so, is like, I know like some of the smartest people in the country and they have no idea any of this stuff is real. Like, why are you, if you're like struggling to get it to work, at least in its most vital form, the way it was working as the NHI had it working or what, whatever.
Jesse
Well, I don't know there. What's the reason?
Chris
There is no good reason. It's actually like a brain dead policy.
Jesse
If you had to think of a reason, what would it be? They're afraid of some like shifting tech gets out of hand. Everybody has a hold of it.
Chris
It would be something like with the invention of the atom bomb, not only did like instrumental, like experimental physics become dangerous, but theoretical physics itself became extremely dangerous.
Jesse
Yeah. And compartmentalized, you know, certain science itself. Exactly.
Chris
The literally like the top, like the top layer of like, you know, think. Think of theoretical physics as like the guardrails to reality. Like they literally, and this is the kind of Weinstein narrative somewhat is like string theory was pushed out as like a limited hangout where like you bump up against the right stuff and they farm you out. And maybe that. Then they, you know, I see they
Jesse
work with you, they extract you.
Chris
He thinks Renaissance technologies, this hedge fund that. This guy Jim Simons, who contributed to fundamental physics with the Chern Simons equation and also was an NSA code breaker and then starts this hedge fund called the Medallion fund, which does 30% year over year returns since 1989. Literally made $100 billion.
Jesse
Oh, my God. 1989, you say?
Chris
Yeah, yeah, exactly. And has the collection of like, it has all the most differential geometers in the country. They all go there and you have to sign an NDA for life once you go and you're like, you're in or you're out sort of thing. And then Stony Brook, he oversees. He was Stony Brook, and he also oversees Brookhaven National Labs. So is this kind of iron triangle. And then the guy, David Spergle is the guy who runs the Simons foundation, and he did the NASA UAP review panel. He was in charge of it in 2022. This is a lot of crazy connections.
Gerb
I mean.
Jesse
Whoa.
Chris
The interesting thing is it's crazy.
Jesse
Holy.
Gerb
It seems like the programs used to have top minds and physicists, right?
Jesse
Yeah.
Gerb
Like a premium example of that we were talking about with, with Kingman, like Jesse said. But that Chris mellon exchange is Dr. Ed Dahl. Dr. Ed Dahl was a primary figure named in the Kingman crash by primary witness Arthur Stancil Jr. And Dr. Ed Dahl was a premier physicist that, you know, worked on the Manhattan Project, and according to Stancil, was a. Was a pretty important figure to the early efforts of legacy programs. He would go on to serve as like, executive senior VP for TRW on their mission systems group component and so forth. So it seems like over time that,
Jesse
that, that, yeah, mid century had a lot of. Had a lot of these guys, and then something happened to where they were. Like, we cannot have these guys. And so I wonder what that was. Whether that's an event, you know, some type of leak, or whether it was just the, you know, taking that information, projecting it forward and being like, what happens if this gets into the wrong hands type deal? And we need to really clamp on this. The only way we can do that is to have people who don't understand what they' at look at this stuff.
Chris
Yes.
Jesse
Because otherwise it breaks reality for everyone.
Chris
And the number one string theorist over the last 50 years is a guy named Ed Witten. He's known as, like, the Michael Jordan of string theory. Like, he's so much more advanced and smarter than anyone else. His father was working on anti gravity at Martin Corporation's RIAS division, which was literally their. Their anti gravity division group. And he's on. He's giving an interview for the, I think American Institute of Physics. And he's on video saying, wright Airfield commissioned me to do gravity. And now if you email him, he's like 103 or something. He goes, I can't talk about that. I'm so sorry. It is wild.
Jesse
It's funny you mentioned Michael Jordan, because I am to string theory what Michael Jordan is to string theory.
Chris
Me as.
Gerb
Okay, Jesse, number three, who's your.
Jesse
Who's your third? Before we get to number three, I got a question for both. Sure. Have you ever had to cut something out of a podcast?
Chris
Yeah.
Jesse
Based on, like, classified stuff. They said you can't put that in
Chris
there because it's classified.
Jesse
I went too far. I shouldn't have said that.
Chris
No, no.
Gerb
I've cut stuff out. Out of my. What I perceive as my own safety lines across that. I don't really want to attract the ire of certain individuals.
Jesse
Of your own self.
Chris
Yeah.
Jesse
So not.
Gerb
Because I don't really do.
Jesse
No, you don't do that.
Gerb
No, but I. I've cut stuff out, like, of what I say at the end.
Jesse
So while editing, you're listening to yourself and you go, wait a second.
Gerb
Yeah, like, maybe I should do this.
Jesse
Really?
Gerb
It happens.
Chris
I mean, think about the. That, you know, where it's like, you
Jesse
know, he's like, I get it.
Chris
Everything's like a shot across the bow.
Jesse
But he's also so bold in these videos, I can't imagine what he's holding back. Yeah.
Gerb
A good example is in the. In the Air Force Project, I put forward the name Terry Phillips as the gatekeeper. People should know in the same sentence as Glenn Gaffner, right?
Jesse
Yeah.
Gerb
There's other names there that right now I just. I do am a little too worried to talk about.
Jesse
Yeah, right. Because they're bad people.
Gerb
Terry Phillips is pos. A real bastard.
Jesse
But what does that acronym stand for?
Gerb
Hey, I don't have a test on the channel.
Jesse
It might be the only acronym I know, but.
Gerb
Yeah, just stuff that I kind of worry if I put out there, I'll either attract the ire of people I don't want to attract and kind of take their fire, or I'm just kind of worried from. For myself.
Jesse
I would not assume that they haven't heard about you. That's true. How about you?
Chris
There is one instance I can think of where somebody was like, this would, like, endanger lives if you put this out. And it's like. And it was like. I think it was like a reasonable.
Jesse
Who was the guest? Can you say who the guest was?
Chris
I don't know, I feel, I feel. No, I feel like if I. No, it wasn't owl, but I feel like if I said it would be
Jesse
a stupid blow up.
Chris
What's that?
Jesse
People would blow him up.
Chris
Yeah.
Jesse
So it's a him.
Chris
Yeah. I've liked not that many female guys, but.
Jesse
Wow.
Chris
Yeah.
Jesse
But. And that just Lives of whom? Of the people involved in what he was talking about. Anywhere near it?
Chris
Yeah. Yeah. Because I, you know, I don't.
Jesse
How many syllables in their name? Yeah. All right. I don't know.
Chris
And then. And then a couple of other times. But you never know if it's classified, you know, like, if it's like. Because it's classified or.
Jesse
Right. But I've had to cut out something.
Chris
Yeah.
Jesse
John Ramirez.
Chris
Interesting.
Jesse
Yeah. It was the only time I've ever had to cut out something. You know, I've all. I haven't done that many government officials. I haven't had that many government officials that I know of. But, you know, Lou was one. I got to say that, like, when he went in, he's like, you ask me anything, I don't want any of the questions beforehand and I'll respond how I can respond. Although he was very evasive in a lot of the questioning, he never asked me to cut anything out.
Gerb
And he has a playbook of responses.
Jesse
That's right. Yeah. And you can tell when you listen to it. A lot of people just roll their eyes halfway through. They're like, we're not getting anything out of this guy. He's air type. But John Ramirez did. There was things that we touched on, and this was around the time Matt Brown had come out with the Immaculate Constellation document. So you can extrapolate from that what you will. I won't get into it. But there was some discussions there that he had to double check.
Chris
Yeah.
Jesse
And got back to me with a negative. Yeah. I have to. He's like, I'm not sure about this. Let me just check. And when he got back, he's like, no, 100%, you got to cut that out. He's like. I was told Peter sternly cannot talk about this. Which.
Gerb
Which is interesting because of course, his part was cut out of the Age of Disclosure. Right. And I know he talked about the same things on Age of Disclosure.
Jesse
Ah, that's probably why.
Chris
Oh, interesting.
Gerb
Also because he started. He does get.
Jesse
I mean, it's. It's intelligence. It's related to intelligence gathering, which is what he did his whole life.
Gerb
It's an asymmetric capability.
Jesse
Exactly. And it's very Sensitive.
Gerb
Yes.
Jesse
And something being used currently. So it's probably. It's literally national security. Reasonable. Yeah. Nothing to do with like spooky UFO stuff, but I mean potentially a little bit adjacently, but yeah.
Chris
Yeah.
Jesse
Okay. Number three. Number three.
Chris
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Jesse
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Chris
Fuel to start whatever's next.
Gerb
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Jesse
Let's go.
Chris
I gotta thank you guys. You guys go first.
Jesse
I'll think all time.
Chris
I would do. I would want to interview the Pope.
Jesse
It's a good one, the current one.
Chris
Yeah. I actually have a crazy story.
Jesse
Leo too. He's. He's an American.
Chris
He's an American fun podcast and there's just all this stuff around the Vatican knowing stuff about UFOs.
Jesse
Having a slice of Chicago deep dish with him. Oh wow.
Chris
Yeah.
Jesse
Sick.
Chris
Yeah, it would be sick. Yeah,
Jesse
that's a great.
Chris
And. And like I just think there's so much. There's the magenta crash like was under, you know, I think was it Pius,
Jesse
Pope pius XII the 12th.
Chris
Like it was like, you know, under his jurisdiction and so. And then he helped back channel this, the information back to fdr. Yeah.
Jesse
After the war. Yeah. Because he would have been, you know, part of the axis. And then during the crash.
Chris
Totally.
Jesse
And then you have the crash. Yeah.
Chris
Yeah. Thank you. And then you have Pasulka talking about access to the Vatican archives and you know her going with Tim Taylor and hinting that they know much more than meets the eye. You're all good.
Jesse
Yeah. No, and. And the whole, you know, you look at the institution and you look at obviously like we'd mentioned like you'd mentioned like with Diana, like a lot of the research and the words they use and stuff that was potentially changed in the translation to sort of mask a lot of this stuff. Like the word cloud apparently was actually like object or something. And like.
Chris
Yeah.
Jesse
And so they replaced it with cloud
Chris
and Roman flaming blazing Roman shields or
Jesse
whatever, drums and whatnot.
Chris
And then. And they have in the. I think it's like the Roughland translation is like St. Anne's Cathedral. There's once a year within the grounds of the Vatican there is a UFO research group that meets up and discusses stuff. So I went, I'm coming out with a Vatican and UFOs documentary about the magenta crash. And I interviewed Marconi's grandson Who says that Marconi was part of Rs33. And this is. This is the most embarrassing part of. So I. I'm in the Vatican as part of this, like, you know, event. It's like some, like, interdisciplinary faith thing or whatever that I was invited.
Jesse
How did you get access to this?
Chris
So this dude that reached out around my Peru mummies doc was connected with Kirsan Ilyam Zinov.
Jesse
Yeah, the president.
Chris
The President.
Jesse
And Micronesia or whatever. I forget that.
Chris
Of Kalmykia. Yeah. Please get it right, Chris.
Jesse
My apologies.
Chris
They are population of 300,000 and they're beautiful people.
Jesse
Nothing.
Chris
No, definitely not. All right. And. And he got this, like, elaborate, beautiful. So he was also president of the World Chess Federation. Fide. Yeah. It was like being president of FIFA. You mean everyone. And he's the man. He's the nicest, coolest guy. I bonded with him. Like, I was like, this guy's a. So cool. And, you know, maybe, you know, they have different standards of, you know, he might. He might not have done everything above board as dictator of his country. I'm not gonna, like, you know, comment on that, but I gotta.
Jesse
That was one of the most groundbreaking episodes that I've ever seen. Just like, on another note, and I'll let you finish, but that was insane, dude. The seeing you up there on like, some type of political throne next to, like, this president. You know, it, dude. It's so, so, so surreal to see.
Chris
And he said so many insane things in that interview.
Jesse
So many insane.
Chris
He said he spent a ton of time with Kissinger, and Kissinger seemed to know a lot about the UFO stuff.
Jesse
Oh, yeah.
Chris
And he said that there was a president of another country who he was friends with who got abducted on a fishing trip but was afraid to speak about it. And I'm like, I know this guy's not, you know, maybe. Maybe there's like a little bit of embellishment. So there's. He's not lying. Yeah, he's not lying there.
Jesse
And more. More than his own experience is these little interactions with other world leaders and stuff that really goes like, oh, this is just a boys club.
Chris
Yes.
Jesse
Of like, of information. Like, these guys love sort of sharing these little winks at each other.
Chris
Yeah.
Jesse
Oh, yeah. Their bodies.
Chris
Yeah.
Jesse
Like, this type of deal, like, it really cements that for me. When I watched that interview, I was like, oh, yeah. Once you're in, you're in.
Chris
Totally, totally.
Jesse
Yeah.
Chris
Anyway, so, yeah. So, okay, so this guy who hooked me up with that interview, he was so. Yeah. So he had this invite to this Vatican event or whatever. And it was like faiths of all. You know, it was like every religion or whatever representatives would go or whatever. And Kirsten was there and he had this big chess piece that he wanted to give to the Pope. And the Pope ended up like kind of scurrying off and then.
Jesse
Not a fan of chess.
Chris
What's that?
Jesse
Not a fan of chess?
Chris
Yeah, not a fan of chess, apparently. I didn't care. Yeah, yeah. No, he didn't like, engage with anybody. And. But then there are some people, like, left over from the event, like, who were in it, you know, some official looking cardinals or whatever who are walking kind of the grounds and like shaking hands or whatever. And so dude that invited me and Kirsan are like huddled up there and I see them talking to one of them. And so I go up and shake the guy's hand briefly, like, you know, meet him for a second. And he gives him the chess piece. Cause he's a representative of the Pope. And then they kind of walk off. And then somebody comes to me after he goes, you know who that was? He shook, you know, his hand you shook. I go, no. He goes, that was the Cardinal Secretary of State, which is the number two to the Pope and has more political power than the Pope. The Pope is like the figurehead. And this is like. This is like the dictionary. Complete fumble. I couldn't ask him about you, but I don't. I don't know what the guy's face looks like.
Gerb
Yeah.
Jesse
You don't have a set of trading cards with all the car.
Chris
No, I don't. And so I. So I. I'm like, oh. And then I'm like, in the back of my head, I'm like, well, at least he probably doesn't know anything about UFOs. And then I find out like a week or two later that like, in certain instances he's expressed interest and ufo. But you know what?
Jesse
Something.
Chris
What's that?
Jesse
He knows something in.
Chris
He knows something.
Jesse
Something of interest.
Chris
And so. But anyways, I. I still. I want to. I want to interview one of you.
Jesse
One of the red guys or the white guy. That's. That's a really good.
Gerb
Yeah, I can't wait for that, Doc.
Chris
Yeah. Yeah.
Jesse
It's gonna be fun. Super exciting.
Chris
It's gonna be cool.
Jesse
Oh, man. Yeah. Especially because since you made the reverse of that dock with the sort of like Satan worshipping rocket builders, now you have like the. The dichotomy here, which is really interesting. I would. I would also have a religious figure, but mine would be the. I heard about, you know, this Carthusian monk that apparently lives in, like, Vermont.
Gerb
Where did we hear that?
Jesse
Jon Stewart.
Gerb
Okay. Yeah, okay. Yeah, I remember that. When he was on your paw.
Jesse
Yeah. And a lot of people are going to roll their eyes at the. At the sound of this guy's name. Jon Stewart. I love the guy. I think he's fun. He's hilarious, and he's got gumption, and he just doesn't give a shit. You know, he even considers himself a useful idiot, which I think is a refreshing take.
Chris
It is refreshing. No, it's. It's better than the people who don't know.
Gerb
It's like, I disagree with John on a lot, but I'd love to get dinner with him. He just seems like somebody who. Who you would enjoy spending time around in a personal setting.
Jesse
Definitely. And he. And he's a showman, obviously. He's ex wrestler, politician, car salesman, used car salesman. He loves.
Chris
I was up late last night because he has this video he came out with saying Whitley Streamer is a CIA age. He goes, this is gonna break the news of 2026. And you find out that he's quoting William Cooper, Behold a pale horse. Yeah, I texted. I texted Whitley. I was like, is this legit, dude? And he's like. He goes, that's absolutely nuts. Like, And Whitley's saying, it's absolutely nuts. He. Man, it's absolute.
Gerb
How many times did John refer to himself in the third person?
Chris
I don't. Know, but your episode with him was amazing, and I think it showed how deep, at least in that isolated context. The alien interview.
Jesse
Yeah.
Chris
That guy knows his shit.
Jesse
He's done a lot of legwork on that specific video and probably uncovered potentially some of the most. I mean, he came up with a list of names that were in that room, and those names he then independently sought to verify one by one, and was met every single time with either a, I'm not talking about this, don't call here again, or, you know, that was my husband. He would never talk about work. So it was. It was really interesting. Like, you looked at it and you go, oh, there's definitely something here. But then he mentions these. So apparently how this goes down is the CIA or the DIA at the time, hires remote viewers to remote view, you know, targets or whatever. Now they're getting pulled in the direction of this monastery in northeastern United States. And this tall, this sort of big white building is what they're saying. Something you're seeing is that the people that are there are going to help you. Those are the people you need. Right. So they were sought out by first of all, remote viewers. Now I reached out to Joe McMonagle about this because that would have been roughly around his time. He said it rings a bell. He would get back to me. And he got back to me and he was like, no, we. We were actually tasked for a monastery in that area. But it had something to do with like hauntings, which is also really trippy. And I think it had to do with. It was like. It was a private thing. It wasn't like a government thing. So it was like post Stargate. But regardless, he said these two, they took six of them and they had them work as counter intel. It's sort of remote viewers and train them. And then two of them were really talented. And those two were flown out to S4 apparently meant to communicate with this being. And so John said he has a guy on the inside. He won't tell me his name. And I've. I like credit to him because I've in person too. I was like, just give me the name. Like give me, give me something. Dude, I gotta go. I gotta go see this guy. I find out the name of the monk but not the name of the person who interviewed the monk. So that part still is a little nebulous. But apparently this Monk is like 90 some years old, he's in good health, still alive, and spilled the beans and said. Yeah to you. He spilled the beans. No, to this. To the guy that John was getting his information from.
Gerb
Have you reached out to this monk?
Jesse
No, and I know probably a lot of people have. I heard through, all through John that Rick Doty has like apparently like sent pizzas there and like letters and facts recently.
Chris
No way.
Jesse
Yeah. To like try and creepy. Yeah. And so that, that tells me is that, oh, Rick Doty also doesn't know about this and that he has a genuine interest or you know, some other nefarious connection. Yeah, you never know. You never know. But I just thought, thought dropping that name was kind of interesting and. But he has some other person on the inside that ended up writing a letter now I've penned a letter. I have a letter ready to go. I put the video out and I thought I'm gonna wait a bit because they're probably gonna get inundated with flooded. Yeah. And so I'm gonna wait a bit. But you can't contact them in any way. That disrupts their vow of silence. And you, I mean you can't Infer any type of COVID up conspiracy, anything outside of like perhaps historic, like historic purposes or faith purposes. Those are like, that's the bare minimum. But as soon as you talk about anything else, you're going to get shut down, shut up for good.
Gerb
So how did you approach it as a historical basis?
Jesse
Yeah, pretty much that I'm a researcher and that there were rumors circulating that during the cold war era that some people within certain agencies would have hired people with monistic ties to, you know, sort of aid in some of their operations. And now we're hearing more fringe sort of conversations around this matter. And I wanted to give you a chance to set the record straight about any involvement that you might have had during that time. You know, to correct the history books was like, you know the way. But I haven't sent it yet and I'm a little reluctant because I know that like if they don't answer, they're just gonna leave it on the bed.
Chris
I think you gotta do it though, because he's a 97.
Jesse
Yeah, but interesting, that guy. I'd like to talk to Monk. But how would you talk to him
Gerb
though if he's in a bowel of silence? Would you have to exchange?
Jesse
Apparently, allegedly. According to John, he broke his vow of silence to answer the questions. And that guy has been in contact with this monk's family for a long time.
Chris
Gotta find that guy.
Jesse
Yeah, he would have been, you know, the communicator, which is so crazy to think about. Wild. Yeah, yeah. And he, you know, he's saying some trippy stuff like you know how, how they were, you know, literally he was like listening to in his mind and like talking to the general, the sir colonel or whoever it was in the room at the same time. Like real time translating. That's so crazy.
Gerb
Wild.
Jesse
But you know, science fiction, reality. I don't know, but I would. Regardless, if this person is real, which I think he is, and if he's lying, I would love to hear a lie from a 95 year old monk. I would love nothing more.
Chris
Well, it makes intuitive sense. Like you have the telepathy tapes and you have like the idea of like one, one sense goes like all those kids are, they say autistic, but usually they're autistic. They're mostly non verbal.
Jesse
That's right.
Chris
And so this guy's taking a vow of silence. And so there's definitely something around like an accentuation of senses when something else goes. And spending that much time just hermetically sealed and meditating.
Jesse
Yeah, correct. They're in constant contemplation about God.
Chris
That's what they're doing. Your paradigm is going to look much more like one of these beings. Likely.
Jesse
Correct.
Chris
Or if not, it's going to be just deviated from a normal human beings. And you're going to throw a person like that at any entity to try to translate. For sure.
Jesse
Yeah. I guess that's the catch 22 about taking that vow of silence, is that you do accrue all of this amazing knowledge through your contemplative practices and your deep pondering of, you know, spirituality and the source and all of this. But at the same time, you have no outlet. You can't articulate it right.
Chris
Well, it's like this with like, Jesus and the Buddha and it's always like, ears to hear. Like, your communication is only as good as, like, the measurement instrument on the other side and how much it resonates. And so like, there's going to be this, like, translation error. Like if you get to a certain level of wisdom, like, it's inherently not going to, like, trickle down in this, like, one to one way.
Jesse
Yeah, yeah. Trippy.
Gerb
That'd be. I would love, love if you were able to get in contact with that monk.
Jesse
Yeah.
Chris
Who knows?
Jesse
He's definitely not watching this podcast, so we can say whatever we want.
Chris
Fuck that guy.
Gerb
I mean, even if he's not talking
Chris
about, like, the alien interview, probably strike me down right now.
Jesse
I think you'd probably have a better chance communicating with that person in an astral form.
Chris
Yeah.
Jesse
You know, and I think you suggested that or you.
Chris
I did. I told you. Hey, you should.
Jesse
Yeah. It was so funny because when I broke this, when I heard it first from John to Amar, our buddy Amar, he was in a monastery in the oldest monastery in the world, like St. Catherine's Monastery or something during that time. And I was like, whoa. I told him about this monastery. He's never been in a monastery. And it was the last day of the year. It was January 31st, and I was the last person he would talk to before the new year. And it was just like this weird, trippy synchronicity where we at number three.
Gerb
I think. So, yeah. You guys, you guys have the Pope.
Jesse
Another boring name.
Chris
Exactly.
Jesse
I'm going to say another four Major, major, Colonel because you guys have the
Gerb
Pope, you guys have monks.
Jesse
I, I.
Gerb
And then you got me. Who's going to say Donald Kerr. So that's like a huge step down, an interest.
Jesse
Who's Donald Kerr?
Gerb
Donald Kerr was, he was, you know, either director of the NRO altogether. Some. Some pretty senior elements of the NRO. He was within DS&T on MITRE, EG&G, special projects VP or director. Okay, this director of Los Alamos.
Jesse
Spook. Spook spooked. This guy might be nhi, the most
Gerb
juicy, robust CV I've ever seen in my life. But the problem is with some of this guys, just like the monk, Donald Kerr is ancient. So a lot of these guys, so is Bobby Ray Inman. It's kind of a race against time. Hopefully their testimony has been taken in and saved for historical purposes. But. But the guy's super old, and from what I understand, he's been one of the most ingrained legacy people, as you can just tell from his background.
Jesse
I would watch eight seasons of Gerb doing deathbed confessions.
Gerb
I've tried with multiple people, and they say they will tell me on their deathbed, but not pre record to release.
Chris
They don't know what they die exactly.
Jesse
They all think they're gonna live longer. Everybody who dies, guys thinks, oh, when I get out of this, I'm buying an RV and like, or I'm traveling the world. Yeah, this is it.
Gerb
There's one very specific person that has, in my opinion, one of the most worthy testimonies that must be heard. And he says, you know what? When I'm dying, I'll summon you to my deathbed and I'll tell you, but the guy's in really bad health, and so I don't want him to be gone. As my friend.
Jesse
And you don't want to be like, you're dying.
Gerb
Yeah, yeah. Well, I don't want him to go because, A, he's my friend and B, like, there's no guarantee we could have that conversation with, with his poor health.
Jesse
What's, what's making him so reticent in sharing that now that he's in decent health, does he not trust you, or does he not trust that the information will fall into the wrong reprisals?
Gerb
We, during the course of our communications, there have been several instances where, you know, some, some keys will be dangled above him saying, hey, you better stop, or like, we're taking away your pension. Because this guy retired at a very high level within a certain element of the armed forces, and, and he has family members that rely on him to live because of disability. So he's ultra worried because he's disabled himself. That pension gets taken away. He can't live. Those members of his family can't live either. So that's this big pain point that they love to target this guy.
Jesse
Seen bodies.
Gerb
Yes.
Chris
Whoa.
Gerb
We talked. That's the guy we talked about last time. Yeah, yeah.
Jesse
Seen bodies. Seen tech. Seen craft. Yeah.
Gerb
Seen our craft, too.
Jesse
Is this the same guy that Greer mentions? Did Greer ever meet this guy?
Gerb
You know, what I have to say about Greer and some of his testimonies that he's collected? Some people will be very shrewd and approach Greer from a doctor patient privilege, because, of course, Greer is a licensed doctor. And they'll enter into an agreement with Greer.
Jesse
What is he. I didn't know that.
Gerb
Yeah, they'll enter into an agreement with Greer where Greer is in a position of, like, a health caretaker.
Jesse
Yeah.
Gerb
And so all of their communications with Greer will be protected via hipaa. And so when Greer releases those, he's in direct violation of those laws. So Greer has collected and distributed testimony illegally on several occasions of people who approach him under the guidelines of hipaa, and he takes it upon himself to release that and talk about that, and that is both highly unethical and just wrong.
Jesse
And so. You didn't answer my question.
Gerb
I have no further comment to say there.
Jesse
All right.
Chris
Sounds like I did not get in this direction.
Gerb
A lot of people have come across Greer's desk.
Jesse
Yeah, sure. Yeah.
Chris
He was like, the guy.
Jesse
Including.
Gerb
Yeah. And of late, because there was a time at which, you know, like. Like we've talked about before, I think he did the right thing by platforming guys like McCandlish on, you know, the National Press Club in 2001 and the other one.
Chris
But.
Gerb
Yeah, 2023 with Mike Herrera, but also done the wrong thing of taking people's testimonies and expanding on them to suit his needs.
Jesse
Wow.
Chris
And probably.
Jesse
I don't know, that's a pretty big claim, too. And that's like, you know, is that something he's nervous about? Like, what is. What do you think? Like, what's. What's the.
Gerb
Like the hip. The hipaa. Violent issues.
Jesse
Yeah. Like, why.
Gerb
Why he's not. Because he's continued to do it.
Chris
Well, I. I think if. If you were trying to protect the program, I think you would use him now as a fly trap.
Gerb
He's been legally mandated to take down their documents because he's been threatened with legal action because of the HIPAA violation. And he still talks about them.
Chris
Yeah. And there's weird stuff that you've pointed out go missing and, like, really key interviews. Like, he did a great thing with Jonathan Makin and Stephen Greer just cut all these parts of the interview, and he's Also, I think Lord Admiral Hill Norton in the uk, who's head of the, you know, the. The naval fleet there.
Jesse
Well, thank you.
Chris
Thanks so much.
Jesse
Coffee soon. I'm good with coffee. Yeah. You good?
Gerb
I'm good for now, too.
Jesse
Thank you.
Chris
I, you know, James Fox got that interview, and then Stephen Greer was just like. Like, that's my interview. And he like, cut James Fox's parts of the interview.
Gerb
He did that with Quakeant as well. And I talked to James Fox about it. I said, hey, do you remember shooting this? And he said, yeah, of course. I was like, do you know Greer cut out all of your parts?
Jesse
He said, no.
Chris
So crazy.
Jesse
Wow.
Gerb
Because you can hear in the interview, not like the interview Greer posted to YouTube, but in the archives of the DPI archive, you can hear sort of the raw interview. And at certain parts, James Fox will start to ask a question, then it'll just cut that.
Chris
He's acting like it's him. It's like, come on, dude. It's okay.
Jesse
He can squat 700 pounds or whatever.
Gerb
Leg press?
Jesse
Yeah, leg press. Big difference there, actually. How much can you leg press, Trip? I don't know.
Gerb
I don't leg press much because it. It doesn't do anything. It doesn't. How. How's leg press going to help you? And athletic movements, functional movements.
Jesse
We're a big guy. You don't do any weight training?
Gerb
I do a lot of weight training, but more so, like. More so compound movements instead of like a leg press.
Jesse
Like you're training deadlifts?
Gerb
Yes.
Jesse
Like how. How often?
Gerb
Jiu jitsu? Four times a week? Two times a week.
Chris
Wow. Whoa.
Gerb
As you could probably tell.
Jesse
So you're training six times a week. Where do you have time? That's crazy.
Chris
That's impressive.
Jesse
Well, I.
Gerb
You got to. To stay sane sometimes on this subject.
Jesse
I. I agree with you totally. I do. I do exercise. I do, like, three days a week,
Gerb
but I just love it. It helps calm the mind. There's something about matching up with, like, a worthy opponent in grappling and getting to a position where you could choke the life out of them. If you're not in a controlled sport environment, it's just like. There's nothing more satisfying than matching up against somebody worthy of skill and grappling
Jesse
and besting, I don't know, solving a puzzle,
Gerb
It's a very primal thing. I love it.
Chris
Playing bridge,
Jesse
chess, you know, a lot of people say it's really close.
Gerb
Yeah. You whooped my butt in chess last time we played.
Chris
Same.
Gerb
What do you guys do to. To stay sane and grounded in your spare time with this subject.
Jesse
I mean, what.
Chris
I used to surf and then I moved to Texas and I don't surf as much there.
Jesse
I used to surf in California. I know you went to like Portugal.
Chris
Yeah. Surf all the time.
Jesse
You're good at surfing.
Gerb
I'm like, okay, yeah, it's hard.
Chris
Amazing. But it is definitely really hard. But yeah, I'm like decent. It.
Jesse
No, it's cool.
Chris
Yeah.
Jesse
You ever encountered sharks?
Chris
No.
Jesse
As a Canadian, that's like our number one fear.
Chris
Oh my God.
Jesse
That's ours because we don't have them.
Chris
So we're like, yeah, it's like an abstract, not real fear. Like even where there are a ton of great whites in Northern California, I think the last like death due to a great white shark was like 2013 or something crazy like that.
Jesse
Oh, it's still not zero. Yeah,
Chris
but yeah, I don't know. Surfing, running now, more meditating. But I could use some more compartmentalization for sure. Like.
Jesse
Yeah.
Chris
Like it's definitely spend a lot of time on UFOs and.
Jesse
Yeah.
Chris
Crazy.
Jesse
Yeah. Cuz you gotta like, you gotta do so many things in between these episodes that people.
Chris
Yeah.
Jesse
Might not realize or might. Might think is a lot of people think. A lot of the brunt of the work is like having those conversations, holding court, coming up with questions. It's more than that. It's like, it's the amount of brain power it takes to devote to the subject on the off time. Like you gotta live a normal life. But then also I got a guest, I got three guests coming and they each got four books. I gotta read at least one of the books, you know, and so you're, you're catching up on reading during that time and then on top of that you're getting inundated with all sorts of other, you know, inquiries and future, you know, opportunities. And you're constantly like in this world and the second you let up, you feel like it starts. You know, like you want to maximize, you want to strike while the iron's hot type deal.
Chris
Yeah.
Jesse
And that's, that's tough. That's tough as it's a tough mental game to play. So maybe offsetting that with like physical activity is probably the healthiest.
Chris
But. Yep.
Gerb
Well, that's why I don't know about you guys, but I'm so thankful. I don't really spend time doing like news of the day stuff or kind of capturing news. I'm a bundle of nerds.
Jesse
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Chris
Like also, you're going to SW. Like with UFOs. You're going to swing at bad pitches if you don't do that. But you're definitely going to swing at bad pitches if you're trying to do like the hot new thing.
Jesse
We all. We already swing at bad pitches after doing research.
Chris
That's what I'm saying.
Jesse
That's very true. Yeah. Guys like vetted or even like the night shift guys. Like these guys covering or psychoactivo people covering, like the Today news. Like, to me, when I started this channel, I did it a little bit, maybe for two episodes.
Chris
Yeah. Yeah.
Jesse
I was like, all right, what's going on? Let's do a little roundup. And then I went, oh. And another thing happened. Another thing happened. I'm taking notes and I'm. Now I have to research because the second you don't, you look like a buffoon. And so I'm just like researching constantly because news is coming out daily about that stuff. And I'm like, there's no way I'll ever be able to keep up with this. I am the most easily psyopable person now because I have no time to research anything. And I'm constantly.
Chris
And you're bought in a priori to the whole topic, obviously.
Jesse
And I'm responding to every single story. And I'm giving my take and my take becomes shifted and molded according to, you know, the information. Yeah, exactly. That I'm consuming and stress. It like, heightened my anxiety.
Gerb
Right.
Jesse
To think about, did I have the right take on that? Did I say the right thing? Oh, I made a mistake. I should redact that. Like these stresses. You're like, my hat's off to those guys doing it.
Chris
Yeah.
Jesse
I'm glad people are out there covering that because there was a need for that type of content. I think a lot of people enjoy it. It. But it's not for me. It's something that. Yeah. Def. I don't have the heart. I don't know how to do it.
Chris
I feel like sometimes it reduce in its best form. It's like you're covering and amplifying stuff that like, needs to be amplified. Especially because, like, all this stuff gets drowned out often by like.
Jesse
That's true.
Chris
The World War iii. We might be like on the verge of, you know, other kind of prosaic political events. I think in its worst form, it's like Sports center for. Or TMZ for UFOs.
Jesse
Yeah. And it's like star.
Chris
You manage. That's right. And you manage to take this, like, topic that touches on, like, ontological truths, sacred truths, like, what is reality? Like, you know, itself, like, the most important questions, and you've managed to turn it into, like, this he said, she said, like, food fight thing. And it's like, come on.
Jesse
That's a good way of putting it, Jesse. Like, at best, it is something that, like, everybody kind of wants to be updated on and you have. And at worst, it's literally like high school drama. Yeah.
Chris
Yeah.
Jesse
So. Yeah, it. Man. I don't know how anybody doing that doesn't suffer from some type of, you know, offset depression anxiety, like, because that would affect me. I've been, you know, I've had my bouts of depression. I know. I was like. When I got started, I was like, no, no, no. Yeah, I gotta stay away from this. Like. And then when you.
Gerb
You view the topic and think about it, your knowledge is as wide as a ocean, but as deep as a puddle.
Jesse
Right.
Gerb
Because you don' time or ability to really specialize in various parts of the subject. And as we all know, it gets so weird so quick. And all of us focus and specialize in different aspects of this topic and, you know, we. We lack in knowledge of each other's topic and.
Jesse
Right.
Gerb
There's just so much to learn about various aspects of. Of this subject. You know, experiencers, science and physics, legacy program stuff.
Chris
It.
Gerb
It'd be so impossible to cover all of it at once.
Jesse
That's a good point, man.
Chris
Yeah.
Jesse
Well, I'm glad you guys are a part of it. It. Yeah, me too.
Gerb
Me too, man.
Chris
I'm very grateful.
Jesse
Yeah, same.
Chris
I'd feel crazy if you guys weren't around.
Jesse
I know. Yeah. You got an island. Yeah. Hey, hold on.
Chris
Don't leave me.
Jesse
One island, Jesse.
Chris
Jesus Christ.
Jesse
All right. Well, boys, this is delicious. And this is fun.
Chris
Yeah. This is so fun.
Jesse
Thanks for. Thanks for hanging out with me, the flying saucer. Appreciate it.
Chris
Oh, yeah. Thank you for having us.
Gerb
Thank you for having us.
Chris
Chris, it's great. Apple pie and burger.
Jesse
Yeah, it's delicious. All right, let's get the hell out of here.
Chris
Let's do it,
Jesse
Sam.
Date: July 17, 2026
In this lively, in-depth episode of AREA52 – DEBRIEFED, host Chris Ramsay invites UFO journalist Jesse Michels and analyst/researcher UAPGerb (aka “Gerb”) to the “Flying Saucer Diner” for a wide-ranging conversation. The trio explore the intersection of magic, intelligence operations, non-human intelligence (NHI), government secrecy, and the search for truth in the UFO/UAP field. Over diner fare, they swap investigative war stories, discuss their dream podcast guests, how the landscape of disclosure is changing, and the personal pressures of covering such an enigmatic, sprawling topic.
The conversation weaves from sleight-of-hand psychology into legacy government programs, the enigmatic roles of key figures like Tim Taylor, Bobby Ray Inman, and Dan Burisch, the Vatican’s secret UFO knowledge, and their own wishlists for interviews – all with candid humor, sharp insights, and a touch of skepticism.
Demonstrating Psychological Magic:
“All those variables seem to disappear and you’re just left with nothing to it.”
– Jesse, (01:21)
Information as Power in Magic and Disclosure:
“Having inside information and being able to ask people questions you know the answers to, and then seeing how they dance around... you can see if they're lying or telling the truth.”
– Jesse, (05:57)
On Peter Khoury’s Physical Evidence:
“It wasn’t even the anomalous nature of the hair, it was that it corroborated his anomalous story. That for me was the big ‘oh my god’ moment.”
– Jesse, (21:20)
On the Elusiveness of Key Government Figures:
“If there is still a Majestic 12... I’d love to interview someone like Bobby Ray Inman–have someone with a top of the pyramid view.”
– Chris, (35:35)
The Compartmentalization Problem:
"It seems the programs used to have top minds and physicists, mid-century. Then something happened and it was like, 'We cannot have these guys.' Was it an event, a leak, or just projections of what happens if this gets into the wrong hands?"
– Jesse, (61:36)
Religion, Transcendence, and the Vatican:
“I would want to interview the Pope. There’s so much — the Magenta crash, the Vatican archives, the knowledge they sit on about UFOs.”
– Chris, (68:13)
Personal Toll of UFO Journalism:
“If you view the topic and think about it, your knowledge is as wide as an ocean but as deep as a puddle… there’s just so much to learn… it’d be impossible to cover all of it at once.”
– Gerb, (97:19)
(Segment: 24:44–85:13)
(See deeper discussion between 24:44 and 85:13 for reasoning/context.)
This episode is a smorgasbord of high-level insider talk, psychological insight, and personal reflection on the origins and boundaries of both the UFO mystery and those who chase it. With three deeply knowledgeable voices, the conversation moves easily between serious investigation and light-hearted banter, demonstrating the camaraderie, skepticism, and wonder that keep this community pushing into the unknown.
| Timestamp | Segment/Topic | |-------------|----------------------------------------------------------| | 00:50–06:46 | Magic, psychology, intelligence parallels | | 18:23–21:20 | Top interviews and anomalous physical evidence | | 24:44–34:17 | Dream guests & fireside chat with Dave Grusch | | 35:17–43:05 | Behind the curtain: Inman, Kerr, global perspectives | | 58:17–62:08 | Why no physicists in crash projects?/Compartmentalization| | 68:13–74:32 | Vatican as gatekeeper, religious angles, secret archives | | 75:07–83:47 | The “silent” monk and monastic remote viewers | | 91:01–94:02 | Coping mechanisms, exercise, living the UAP life | | 96:43–97:47 | "High school drama" & reflecting on specialization |
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