Jake (2:38)

It's like they're going to find like the alien nest where all of the scientists are kind of like strung up, waiting for facehuggers to get them.

Mike Rothschild (2:44)

Yeah, In a week and a half, you know.

Donald Trump (2:46)

Yeah, it's going to take the team about A week and a half to get to space.

Mike Rothschild (2:50)

Not two weeks, not one week.

Travis View (2:52)

I know.

Mike Rothschild (2:53)

Very specific.

Travis View (2:54)

Yeah. Usually when Trump is bullshitting and he doesn't really have an answer to something, he'll say, oh, we're going to have that in two weeks. But he's shortened his timeline. Maybe as he's getting older, he wants

Jake (3:02)

to look at that.

Mike Rothschild (3:03)

Desperate.

Donald Trump (3:04)

Yeah.

Mike Rothschild (3:04)

I mean, you know, it's like you get. You can't wait two weeks for Milani.

Jake (3:08)

Yeah.

Mike Rothschild (3:08)

That report or the health care plan, got to have it a week and a half.

Jake (3:11)

That's true.

Travis View (3:12)

Trump isn't the only official taking this seriously. The FBI has said that it's spearheading an effort to look for connections, working with the Department of Energy and the Department of Defense. FBI Director Cash Patel speaking to Fox News, even that their investigation could end in arrests.

FBI Director Cash Patel (3:27)

We started this process last week, and then we're going to look for connections, like you said, on whether there are connections to classified access, access to classified information and, or foreign actors. And then we will produce that information to the White House and the world because it's of such great public importance. And if there's any connections that lead to nefarious conduct or conspiracy, this FBI will make the appropriate arrest.

Julian Field (3:48)

God, I really, every time I see him, it's kind of unsettling. Like, he inspires so little confidence.

Travis View (3:56)

You know what I mean?

Julian Field (3:57)

It's like, I don't know if I, if I were being told something about my local town, among which, like, mysterious things had been occurring, like, everything is fine, don't worry. By this guy. I would immediately begin the Stephen King movie where I'm the protagonist.

Travis View (4:13)

Yeah.

Jake (4:13)

In addition to that, like, every time he shows up on the news, it looks like the announcer just said, like, and police are on the search for this man. And then, like, he always kind of looks, like, wild eyed, like, not sure why he should be there or like, maybe probably should be somewhere else.

Mike Rothschild (4:29)

It's like the personification of the record scratch meme.

Jake (4:32)

Yeah.

Mike Rothschild (4:33)

You might be wondering how I got here. So am I.

Jake (4:36)

What's just like, he looks like a police. Like, he looks like he's just been flashed by, like, the police lineup camera.

Mike Rothschild (4:41)

Yeah.

Travis View (4:41)

I don't know. I've also seen a lot more life in his eyes in the past. You know, just right now he looks like, yeah, we're going to, we're looking to it. We're going to arrest them all. We're going to get them, whatever. He just hates doing this media hit for some reason. Our elected Representatives are also on the case. House Oversight Chairman James Comer has suggested that the culprit could be America's geopolitical rivals.

House Oversight Chairman James Comer (5:03)

All the usual suspects, China, North Korea, Iran, Russia, they're all, you know, on the, on the suspect list. But there are a lot of, you know, Eastern European countries and other countries that, that could be involved as well. Or it could be a coincidence. We're going to try to do everything we can to find out and report back to the American people.

Mike Rothschild (5:23)

Or. Yeah, or it's these other Eastern European countries, could be Latvia, you know, Belarus.

Jake (5:30)

I feel like this is the first time I've ever heard them say like, or it could be a coincidence. Like usually they're very sure about their theory with these scientists. It sounds like they're leaving the possibility open that like nothing might be here. Maybe there was a reason they needed to go missing.

Mike Rothschild (5:45)

Yeah, I mean you can't see it obviously, but the look on his face as he's talking about this, he just looks like he doesn't even understand what he's talking about or why he's talking about it.

Travis View (5:55)

Yeah, I mean like I have a theory that like this administration and like even, like I said, even like you know, the elected representatives are like, are so thoroughly audience captured beyond merely attempting to serve the entrance of their constituents or anything like that. Like they are so fearful that they're willing to, they feel the need to entertain every wild idea that becomes popular on social media.

Mike Rothschild (6:17)

Yeah, because they know their, their voters do and they know that their donors do.

Travis View (6:20)

So the main speculation around this case relates to a cluster of scientists, engineers, defense linked researchers and lab employees who have died or disappeared. To some, the circumstances of these deaths and disappearance are suspicious. Some even go further to say that these individuals were killed or snatched away because of what they allegedly knew about UFOs, UAPs, exotic propulsion, nuclear secrets, aerospace programs, advanced energy war or classified government technology. Now, versions of the theory point to different culprits, perhaps US black budget programs, foreign intelligence services, defense contractors, UFO secrecy networks, or some vague deep state operation. The speculation has spun out in wild directions. But the event that sparked theories about a wider plot is a genuine and ongoing mystery. That is the February 2026 disappearance of retired Air Force Major General William Neal McCasland. General McCasland spearheaded Air Force research and has some past association with UFO UAP circles. The case inspired people to look for and connect older tragedies, including those related to the Jet Propulsion Lab figures, a Los Alamos employee and an MIT fusion scientist. So I Mean, this is. I think it's really the heart of it. I will go as we go into it, but my. My kind of theory, my kind of, like, take on this is that there's. There is one sort of like, strange disappearance about a guy who seems to have just walked off without explanation. And then. And then from that, people tried to, like similar cases which don't quite rise to the level of mysteriousness of this case.

Jake (7:49)

Yeah, we got people looking for missing scientists. What are you going to find in a world with, you know, however many billion people.

Mike Rothschild (7:56)

Yeah, you have, and I'm sure we'll get into this, but you have people looking for a pattern in these things that are very, very tangentially related. And of course, in the world of conspiracy theories, any kind of relation. No, no matter how tangential is like proof that these people work together side by side, and they all had secrets. And I mean, we're just finding signal and noise at this point.

Jake (8:19)

Plus, missing scientists feels like a movie plot we've seen a couple times before, so it's very easy. Like, that's usually act one. It's like the scientists have gone missing, you know? Cause the bad guys, I'm gonna tell

Julian Field (8:30)

you right now, I think it was the Umbrella Corporation.

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Julian Field (9:19)

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Jake (9:27)

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Julian Field (9:32)

Yes, we do. And Travis is actually crying right now, I think out of gratitude.

Travis View (9:36)

Maybe that's not true. The part about me crying, not. Not me being grateful.

Jake (9:40)

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