← The Matt Walsh Show
The Matt Walsh Show
Ep. 1768 - Here's What Nobody's Telling You About The "Missing Scientists" Cases
00:44:02
Loading summary
Transcript37 lines
- [00:01]
A
Shipping, billing, admin, payroll, marketing. You're managing all the things, so why waste time sending important documents the old fashioned way? Mail and ship when you want, how you want with stamps.com print postage on demand 247 and schedule pickups from your office or home. Save up to 90% with automated rate shopping. That's why over 1 million small businesses trust Stamps.com go to Stamps.com and use code podcast to try Stamps.com risk free for 60 days.
- [00:30]
B
Beginning in the early 1960s, one after another, former Nazi scientists and engineers were targeted for assassination in an Israeli intelligence operation called Operation Damocles. The scientists had taken new jobs developing rockets for Egypt, and it was very clear that Mossad, Israel's intelligence agency, didn't want that program to continue. So Mossad agents sent mail bombs, organized drive by shootings, and in one case managed to make a prominent arms dealer named Heinz Krug disappear completely. As New York Times reported at the time, quote the expert Dr. Krug, who once held a top post with a Stuttgart research institute for jet propulsion physics, disappeared in Munich on Tuesday. He was last seen leaving his Munich office for an appointment. Operation Damocles was ultimately a successful program. It terrified Nazi scientists and it certainly made the idea of working for Egypt much less appealing. It was also good practice for Mossad, which went on to conduct many more assassinations of foreign scientists, most recently in Iran. Just a few years ago, towards the end of Trump's first term, the Mossad managed to kill Iran's nuclear scientists using a remote controlled AI enabled machine gun that was hidden in the back of a pickup truck that was parked on the side of the freeway, which there it is, right there. Israeli spies program the AI to compensate for the machine gun's movement in the back of the pickup truck as well as the input delay from the remote operation of the weapon. So when the scientists drove by, all the Mossad agent had to do was press the button and shoot him. And at the time, Iran had no idea what had happened. They assumed that snipers had been hiding near the freeway. Initial media reports suggested that a gun battle had taken place, and for their part, the Mossad contributed to this confusion by blowing up the pickup truck once the target was dead. Now, we sometimes hear about these kinds of operations when they're conducted by our own intelligence services or intelligence agencies that work with the CIA like the Mossad. That makes sense. It's effective propaganda that sounds like you're reading a spy thriller, and people on our side like to brag about successful operations. At the same time, it's very rare to hear about similar operations that are conducted by foreign governments within our borders. And there's only two possible reasons for that. Either foreign governments aren't conducting any assassination operations on US Soil, or they're conducting those operations without being detected, or at least without our government telling us about them. Now, especially with the war in Iran underway, it's not hard to wonder whether indeed American researchers are being targeted without the government telling us. And in recent days, as you've probably heard, there's a lot of concern about this possibility. It's gone mainstream and now the White House is involved. Watch.
- [03:19]
C
Retired Major General William Neil McCaslin was last seen in his home in New Mexico in late February.
- [03:26]
D
My husband is missing tonight.
- [03:28]
C
His case is at the center of swirling online conspiracies over the deaths or disappearances of at least 10 scientists that have caught the attention of the White House.
- [03:37]
B
I just left the meeting on that subject, so pretty serious stuff.
- [03:42]
C
An FBI spokesperson now confirms the Bureau is spearheading the effort to look for connections into the missing and deceased scientists. So far there's no evidence linking the cases. But among the disappearances fueling speculation online, Monica Reza, a former NASA scientist who vanished this past summer while hiking in California, and Alabama based anti gravity researcher Amy Catherine Eskridge, whose death in 2022 was ruled a suicide. Others have ties to nuclear research, aerospace programs and classified projects.
- [04:13]
A
That's definitely something I think this government and administration would deem worth looking into.
- [04:18]
C
McCaslin's disappearance has drawn a lot of attention because at one point he worked inside an Air Force base in Ohio, long rumored to house extraterrestrial debris, despite repeated Air Force denials. And his wife wrote on Facebook, it seems quite unlikely that he was taken to extract very dated secrets from him.
- [04:40]
B
Now, whenever there's a confusing and alarming story like this, the worst thing you can do as a media organization is broadcast a superficial drive by report. And that's exactly what NBC just did in that clip we played. If you're going to suggest that shadowy assassins are taking out American scientists, or might be, then you can't spend 60 seconds on the topic and then move on. It's. It's too important for that kind of treatment now to be clear. This is obviously a story worth pursuing looking into. It's also a story that's extremely easy for media outlets to mess up. For the most part, they want the number of dead or missing scientists to keep increasing because that creates more drama. And as a result, they're, they're not doing a deep dive into each one. Instead, they're making you think that every single case is equally suspicious, which just isn't true. There's a lot of distraction going on here for one reason or another, and it's drawing attention away from the cases that deserve a second look. So today we're gonna go one by one through all of these cases, all the scientists who have allegedly been killed or who died under suspicious circumstances. We'll talk about everyone who was just mentioned, the NBC report and many others, and we'll, we'll do our best to look at it objectively and figure out if there might be something going on here. So we'll start with Amy Eskridge, because on the surface, she's the most disturbing case. Although when you dig into it, there are a lot of issues with the narrative that that's circulating around. So Amy Eskridge died in Huntsville, Alabama on June 11, 2022 at the age of 34. The cause of death was a gunshot to the head, which was determined to be suicide. Shortly before her death in 2020, Eskridge claimed that she was preparing to present major findings on anti gravity research, quote, unquote, which has relevance to UFOs and their propulsion systems. Although she needed approval from NASA. And to this end, Eskridge started a now defunct website called the institute for exotic science, which she said would provide a public facing Persona to disclose anti gravity technology. Eskridge was also involved in her father's company, holocron engineering, which was supposedly developing a triangle anti gravity craft, although they didn't get very far. Anti gravity research, for the record, is not an established branch of science, and Eskridge had no published papers in any peer reviewed publication. Now, it's not to say that peer review is the most important thing, but it doesn't, it does make it clear that she was not an established leading u. S. Scientist or anything like that. Now, in any event, according to Eskridge, she was on the verge of a big breakthrough and somebody wanted to stop her. A month before her death, according to a UFO investigator named Frank Milburn, Eskridge reportedly sent a text message to a friend warning that her life was in danger. And the alleged text read in part, if you see any report that I killed myself, I most definitely did not. If you see any report that I overdosed myself, I most definitely did not. The dominoes are being lined up all over again. Obviously that's a very conspicuous thing for somebody to write shortly before they die of a gunshot wound to the head on the one hand, it could indicate exactly what it says, that this person was being harassed by people who wanted her dead. On the other hand, you need context for a text message like that, because it's also possible that this woman was simply paranoid and mentally unwell. And to make that determination, you need context. David Wilcock, the paranormal content creator, also repeatedly said that he wasn't suicidal. And according to police, he just shot himself on April 20th when they responded to a residence where he was located. So maybe you could fold that into this overall story, or maybe not. So with that in mind, here's a podcast interview featuring Eskridge several years before her death, in which she talks about how a suspicious Lexus pulled up near her apartment complex. She describes the apartment complex as low income and says that a high end blacked out Lexus is an unusual site in the parking lot. And supposedly this Lexus is part of the larger plan to harass her. And so you listen to this carefully and assess her credibility. Watch.
- [08:58]
E
Within two minutes of me saying, hey, we should walk over there later and take a picture of the license plate, we were still standing there at the window looking at it, talking about it. And an Eastern European looking mother with a black beanie dressed all in Black, in his 50s or 60s, walked out of the apartment directly across from ours holding a license plate. And he opened the trunk of the Lexus and he took out some tools and he changed the license plate right in front of our faces. And then he walked back to his apartment and he put the old license plate on the front patio and went inside, left it outside, and it was literally like, come get the license plate. I have more. I have more where this came from. Come get the license plate. And then after that, the Lexus started tailing me. And every time I saw the Lexus, it had a different license plate. It would be like Alabama plates, a different state plate. It would be random dealer plates, none of which were local, just like cardboard temporary dealer plates, none of which were any local dealers. Every time I saw it, it was different plates. It would follow me to the gas station to go get beard. I would go get beer at the gas station, and that Lexus follows me. And even my ex called an Uber once. He called an Uber. The Lexus pulled out from the spot across the parking lot from our apartment, drove over to our apartment and said, hey, I'm your Uber, here to pick you up. The license matched in the Uber app, but they didn't have an Uber sticker or a Lyft sticker. You can't drive Uber if you don't have an Uber sticker. Like, over the past, this has been going on for, like, I don't know, four or five years. And over the past 12, 12 months, it's been, like, escalating, escalating, like, more aggressive, more invasive, digging through my pantage, like, digging through my underwear drawer, and sexual threats over the past, like, three to six months. And now I'm like, I have to publish. I have to publish because, like, it's only gonna get worse until I publish. There's no way out of this. There's no way out of this up situation until I publish.
- [11:31]
B
So the problem here is that really what she's saying doesn't make much sense. I mean, there's no logical reason why somebody would do any of this. If she's a threat to somebody because of her research, it doesn't make much sense for them to send Alexis and change its license plates in front of her or moonlight as her Uber driver or break into her house or look through her underwear drawer. She also doesn't mention any police report or any surveillance footage or anything. She's asking us to take her word for all of this. You might say, well, the Lexus driver is trying to intimidate her so that she doesn't publish her research. These people are supposedly sinister enough that they're capable of murdering her, and yet they held off for several years hoping they could scare her by changing some license plates around. But if that's the case, you have to ask, why didn't she simply publish her groundbreaking research online? Why did she feel the need to wait for NASA or peer review or anything like that? Why would these shadowy figures allow her to talk about their pressure campaign online for years before they took her out? These are all important questions, and no major news outlets are remotely interested in answering them. One of the things you need to be careful about as you read stories about these scientists is that a lot of outlets are extremely sloppy with details. Many of them are probably using AI to generate their stories. For example, as you can see here, the Daily Mail reported, quote, journalist Michael Shellenberger testified before a public hearing on unidentified anomalous phenomena that Eskridge was murdered by a private aerospace company in the U. S. Because she was involved in the UAP conversation. Now, when I read that quote, I did a double take because Michael Shellenberger is a serious journalist. We cite his work on the show all the time. And if he did the research and concluded that Eskridge had been murdered by a private aerospace company, then I'd be very inclined to at least take that story seriously. But if you pull up the actual testimony, Shellenberger didn't say anything like that. The attribution is just completely wrong. It's just not right. He didn't say anything about Eskridge or how she was supposedly murdered. In reality, the claim came from a retired UK intelligence officer named Frank Milburn, who got in touch with Eskridge before her death. And he told investigators that in his view, Eskridge was indeed being harassed. In fact, he claimed that Eskridge had been targeted with a directed energy weapon is what he said. So. So who is Frank Milburn? Well, he's also the source for the alleged text message where Eskridge says that she's not suicidal. As it turns out, he's a British paratrooper veteran, an intel officer who claimed that his. The late 1980s, the British special Forces shot down a non human craft in Northern England, Melbourne. Who, you know, doesn't have firsthand knowledge of the shoot down, but he claims that he spoke to an MI6 officer named codename John and the UK Air Force crew that fired on the UFOs which were supposedly traveling at hypersonic speeds. So that's where this all comes from. This is from the Daily Mail. According to Milburn, quote, John said they were tasked to secure and retrieve the craft in the north of England. They were flown in by helicopter. They established a cordon, a perimeter, and they approached the craft. He didn't describe the craft, he just said it was obvious that it was non human and it was obvious that there were occupants who had fled the scene on foot or whatever you call it. He said then it became a task of tracking down these beings to try to bring them into custody. Part of the unit was left protecting the craft. They would have left maybe six to eight blokes to cording the craft and others who would have been on foot, quad bikes or four by fours trying to track down these entities that escaped from it with helicopters supporting. He said after that it was totally passed over. He said scientists and technicians came in and it was completely out of our hands. We were flown away by helicopter and we knew nothing after that. So we don't get a description of the ufo. We're only told that the aliens ran away and that there was a hot pursuit of some kind involving quad bikes, like something out of a movie, and then the whole thing was just dropped. The government didn't kill John to keep him quiet or anything like that, so he, he just told all his friends. Put simply, Frank Milburn has a history of making unverifiable, outlandish, Hollywood style claims. And now he's making another one. He's, he's saying that this woman was hit with a mysterious energy beam and harassed and targeted for assassination. So it's simply not much to go on. Well, the numbers don't lie. Financial stress in this country is through the roof. And if debt is crushing you, you're not alone. But doing nothing doesn't fix it. It just lets interest keep bleeding you dry. You don't need another loan. You don't need bankruptcy court. You need a real plan. Luckily, our sponsor, done with debt can help. They don't offer gimmicks. They build smart, personalized strategies that actually reduce what you owe. Whether you're facing 10,000 in debt or 10 times that. Their goal is simple. Get your payments down and your freedom back. Debt is horrible. It ruins lives and opportunities. But you can start doing something about it today. Take five minutes for a free consultation. Lay out your situation. See what's possible. Because no matter how bad it feels right now, you don't have to stay stuck there. Go to donewithdt.com that's donewithdebt.com now. On the other hand, there are disappearances that are obviously worth a deeper investigation. Consider the case of 29 year old Joshua LeBlanc as a NASA scientist who worked on rockets and nuclear propulsion. Last summer he died in a car accident and here's how local news reported on his death at the time. Watch.
- [17:04]
A
Joshua LeBlanc grew up in New Iberia, but he was working in Huntsville at NASA as an electrical engineer. His family reported him missing earlier this week. His car was found Tuesday afternoon two hours away from his home with no signs of him anywhere. Joshua LeBlanc was well known in New Iberia where he graduated from Catholic High and later attended and graduated from UL Lafayette. His family tells me he last communicated with them at 4:32am Tuesday. They also told me he never showed up for a job that he loved that morning as well. What we do know about his disappearance is this. Alabama authorities did track his Blue Tesla Model 3. According to the Tesla car data, it stopped for four hours at the Huntsville International Airport. Airport, which is about 12 minutes from his apartment. The data shows his car left the airport, traveled west on Alabama back roads before crashing in Florence, Alabama Tuesday 2:00pm the car was discovered and a body inside, but the body was found burned beyond recognition according to family members. But the case has only raised more questions. LeBlanc phone, his personal belongings and even his dog were all left behind in his Huntsville apartment. Family members say the detour and disappearance don't match anything Joshua had planned for that day. And now they believe he may have been abducted from his home.
- [18:27]
B
Now, by itself, does any of this reporting prove or even suggest that LeBlanc was targeted by an intelligence agency? No, it doesn't. Nor does it make much sense for someone to use a Tesla to kill him since Teslas have cameras that are constantly recording. And while the family has their concerns, it's also possible that they're mistaken. But given the circumstances, you'd think the authorities would have investigated and come up with some kind of explanation for what LeBlanc was doing and why he would have left his phone behind. Normally, it's not hard to figure out these kinds of basic details, but in this case, none of those details have been forthcoming. Maybe now that it's getting more attention that that will change. And then there's another case. NBC mentioned the disappearance of 68 year old Y US Air Force Major General William Neil McCaslin. And this is where the cases are worth paying more attention to now. Unlike Eskridge, McCasland had an established scientific career. According to the New York Post, he served in senior Pentagon role roles involving nuclear science, space research and defense initiatives. He also commanded the Air Force Research Laboratory at New Mexico's Wright Patterson Air Force Base, where wreckage from the 1947 Roswell crash was purportedly shipped. Well, the Air Force has denied that. During his career, McCaslin also oversaw research at Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico, which was famous for its work developing the first atomic bomb. And Congressman Eric Burleson of Missouri says that he had contacted McCaslin concerning his research into UFOs. And according to the Post, quote, Mc Hasslein also appears in the WikiLeaks dump of Hillary Clinton campaign manager John Podesta's emails. Former Blink 182 singer Tom DeLonge was in frequent contact with Podesta regarding UFOs and identified McCaslin as his insider source on you on alien intel. Leaked calendar notification showed a meeting scheduled between Podesta, DeLonge and McCasland on January 24, 2016. Now, on February 27 of this year, McCasland, an experienced hiker, left his home in Albuquerque without his phone or prescription glasses. All he took with him, apparently was his wallet and his hiking boots and a.38 revolver. Now, before leaving at 10am he spoke to repairmen at his home. His wife left for a doctor's appointment at 11am 11:10am to be precise. And by the time she returned an hour later, he was missing. A couple hours later, his wife called 911.
- [20:50]
D
Listen, this is April. How may I help you? Hi, April, my name is Susan Wilkerson. My husband is missing, okay. And it's been about three hours and I have some indication that he must have planned not to be found. He's left his phone, he changed his clothes and I don't know what. I think he's on foot. All of our cars and bicycles are in the garage. I left for a doctor's appointment at about 11:10 and he was here at that time at the house. And I got back from that at noon and he was gone. He turned it off and left it behind, which seems kind of deliberate because he's always got his phone. He has a smartwatch. I don't know if that's with him or not. Has he ever done this before? Never. Nothing even remotely like it. He's a retired Air Force major general. He's very responsible, but he's also facing some medical issues. Do you have any video at your home? No. Has he been diagnosed with any mental disorders or anything like that? Well, we've been seeing a doc for both physical and mental in terms of anxiety, short term memory loss, lack of sleep. The same doc I went to see today. Other than saying if his brain and body keep deteriorating, he didn't want to live like that, but it seemed to me that was just a man, I hate how this is going kind of thing because I told him, yes, you do. Yes, you do. Okay, we're going to send some deputies up to talk to you, see if we can search a little bit and see what's going on. Okay, sure.
- [22:40]
B
So he has both mental and physical issues. He's retired. He's given indications that he might not want to continue on with his life tragically, and his wife believes he doesn't want to be found. And he left with a gun. The police dispatched a helicopter with an infrared scanner to try to find him, but they said it was too hot outside for the scanner to be useful. Quote, the mountain was just lit up like a candle. Sheriff said we couldn't differentiate from heat signatures and the heat from the rocks. So again, the simplest explanation is clear. You can easily make the case that in all likelihood this elderly man with mental health problems may have committed suicide or become incapacitated while he was on a hike or attacked by an animal or fallen or any number of possibilities. There aren't any indications that he was actively involved in any high level research or was on the verge of any kind of breakthrough at all. What makes this case interesting is that in a relatively short period of time, several other people with connections to national laboratories basically went missing the same way. Within around 10 months they all disappeared without taking their cell phones with them. Some of them had weapons. So let's go through those cases starting with 78 year old Anthony Chavez, A research and development engineer who also worked at Los Alamos, spent most of his career working on a dual axis radiographic hydrodynamic test facility which is involved in nuclear weapons research. And Chavez had long retired. He hasn't been working since 2017. Like McCaslin, Chavez was last seen leaving his home on foot with his car parked in the driveway. Only unlike McCaslin, Chavez left behind his wallet. He was reported missing in May of 2025 and still has not been located despite an extensive search for him. And then three months after Chavez disappeared, 48 year old contractor Steven Garcia also went missing. And he disappeared in pretty much the same way. He was last seen on Aug. 28 leaving his home in Albuquerque at 9am carrying only his gun, leaving his wallet and his keys behind. Police said they had some reason to believe that he may have been a danger to himself.
- [24:42]
F
Watch, this one is chilling to me because as you said, it echoes Neil McCaslin's disappearance right down to the state.
- [24:51]
B
It's like the same thing.
- [24:52]
F
The same thing. The state of New Mexico. So Steven Garcia, I mean he had a top security clearance at Casey nsc.
- [24:59]
B
Is that per a source though?
- [25:00]
C
A source said that.
- [25:01]
F
Is that per source? Yes, per source that was close to Garcia. But look where he worked at Casey NSC. I mean they manufacture 80% of non nuclear components that go into building military nuclear weapons. And I mean he oversaw tens of millions of dollars of assets, equipment, some classified, some not. I mean we don't know what was going on in this guy's head. Right? The officials had said that he may have been a danger to himself. He was seen carrying a gun. And it sounds crazy, but between Garcia and General McCaslin I have to wonder. And again, I know this sounds crazy, but it could be an option here. I mean is, is the government doing this? Are, are they taking out their own people because of xyz?
- [25:51]
B
Now the Albuquerque facility of the Kansas City National Security Campus manufactures most of the non nuclear components that are used in weapons at the same time. A property custodian isn't the most essential employee in that facility. So it's not clear to anyone why he would be a potential target for any reason. But again, the similarity of these disappearances is striking. And then there's another disappearance to add to the list. The case of 53 year old Melissa Cassius, who also worked at Los Alamos. And Melissa Cassios was not a UFO researcher or a nuclear weapons expert. She was an administrative assistant. There's no indication one way or another that she had access to sensitive information or research at all. She was last seen in June of 2025 entering her car in the afternoon after shopping downtown. She reportedly dropped lunch off for her daughter before saying she was going to work from home. It's the last site there you can see investigators have since recovered a pair of shoes that match the ones that she was wearing. They've also discovered that her phone has been factory reset. But based on this information, if we're being honest, There are about 10 million explanations for why she might be missing. The most likely explanation, of course, is that she was attacked by a criminal who had no idea where she worked. And when that happens, contrary to what you might see on television, it's actually not easy for police to figure out who did it. I mean, think about the Nancy, the Nancy Guthrie case, which is still unsolved. If the the FBI can't find out what happened to Nancy Guthrie, then the odds are low that anyone's going to be able to track down a Rand administrative assistant. People are much, much less safe than we might like to think. It's one of the reasons we have the second amendment. But the fact that we have so many people, all of them affiliated with national laboratories at one point or another, all disappearing in a relatively short frame, frame of time, is obviously worth further investigation. And that said, we do have to acknowledge that sometimes people die in strange ways. Sometimes people kill themselves sometimes. Sometimes people who say they aren't suicidal and they're not going to kill themselves do. In fact, that happens a lot. Sometimes they trip and fall while they're hiking. And sometimes these people tend to live near each other and work in the same kinds of places. Los Alamos alone employs well over 10,000 staffers. It's not unreasonable to think that two or three of them over the course of more than a year might become suicidal independent of one another. Recall that after January 6, several Capitol Police officers committed suicide. In fact, within months of January 6th, four officers killed themselves. The media tried to link that to January 6th itself. They were claiming that these all counted towards that day's death toll. A death toll that was actually just one Ashley Babbitt. Now, in that case, the attempt to draw a connection was absurd. Is this another example of that sort of thing, of an erroneous connection being drawn in order to prop up a media narrative? In the case of January 6, the made the media narrative was driven by politics. Of course, in this case is it's driven by if it is, if it is just a narrative, is it being driven by ratings, by clicks? We don't know yet. But let's keep going because there are more names to get through and I promised that we would go through this objectively and just give you all the facts. So we'll continue to do that. And again, some of them are worth a closer look. Fox reports that, quote, NASA materials engineer Monica Reza, who served as director of the materials Processing group at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, also remains missing after disappearing during a hike in California in June 2025. Reza is one of four cases that are linked to Los Angeles county, including Caltech's Carl Grillmayer and two other Jet Propulsion Lab experts, Frank Mywald and Michael David Hick. So let's take these in turn, starting with Reza, who, incidentally or not, worked on projects that were overseen by McCasland at one point. So the local Fox affiliate reports that, quote, Reza disappeared while hiking with a friend near Mount Waterman in the in the Angeles National Forest. According to her companion, they were roughly 30ft apart. When they made eye contact, she smiled and waved to indicate that she was fine. Moments later, when the friend turned around again, she had vanished. She disappeared in June of 2025, and her body still has not been found despite an extensive search and recovery effort. Now, right away, we should be able to point out the obvious, which is that it's extremely unlikely that a CIA assassin snatched her during this hike. I mean, if you're going to run an operation like that, it's probably a good idea to do it when the target is alone, not right next to their friend. So again, the default assumption here should be that she fell off a ravine or, you know, or something like that. I mean, that's the Occam's Razor. That's the simplest possible explanation. But the other missing scientists from Los Angeles county scientists are a little harder to explain away. So here is Carl Grillmere, the Caltech scientist. He was 67 years old, specialized in astrophysics at the Infrared Processing and Analysis center on campus. That center also partners with NASA. Grill mayor was a renowned scientist who's famous for his work on dark matter and galactic structures. As well as for discovering the existence of water on a distant exoplanet. A few months ago, he was shot to death on his front porch in Antelope Valley. Watch.
- [31:18]
D
The Caltech campus is in mourning tonight
- [31:21]
B
after a renowned astrophysicist was killed during a carjacking. Carl Grillmeier was described as a brilliant man, a man who helped us better understand our own planet and the vast universe that surround us. CBSLA's Hunter Sowards live at Caltech in Pasadena with the the very latest on this story. Hunter,
- [31:39]
F
Juan, Susie, Carl was known here on this campus for his humor and for his creativity. Those I spoke to today said this is not only a huge loss for loved ones, it's a huge loss for the entire field of science. Shock and sadness on the campus of Caltech as colleagues mourn the loss of groundbreaking astrophysicist and astronomer Carl Grillmeier.
- [32:03]
B
We are shocked. This was so unexpected. Carl was full of life.
- [32:08]
F
The 67 year old killed Sunday in the Antelope Valley spent decades devoted to understanding the galaxies, studying the Milky Way
- [32:15]
A
and making groundbreaking discoveries, helping scientists better understand our planet.
- [32:20]
F
According to the Los Angeles Sheriff's Department, they responded early Monday morning to a shooting in the town of Llano, southeast of Palmdale. They say around the same time, reports of a carjacking eventually led them to the suspect accused of shooting Groier, who was quickly arrested and charged with murder and carjacking.
- [32:38]
B
The suspect who allegedly shot the scientist before apparently carjacking someone, has been identified as 29 year old Freddy Snider. Good luck finding a picture of him. For some reason the authorities haven't released one. I certainly couldn't find it. If they did release one, it's hard to find. According to local reports, Snyder had been arrested several months earlier for trespassing on Grilmare's property while armed with a rifle. And there's still no official motive. But hearing these facts, it's hard not to think of the murder of MIT Professor Nuno FG Lorero in front of his home in a Boston suburb. As you probably remember, a gunman shot the professor after killing two students at Brown University. In that case, it was pretty clear that the killer was upset that his career was a failure and he blamed Brown while also harboring jealousy for the professor's success. At the same time, the Brown shooter did kill himself. So we don't have a definitive understanding of his motive either. And some of these lists mention Michael David Hicks, who died in July of 2023. I've seen his name Come up at News Nation, the New York Post, Newsweek and other outlets. He was a veteran researcher at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory for more than two decades. There's no indication of how he died exactly. So there's not much to go on. No cause of death has been released. For all we know, he might have died hit by a car or died of a heart attack. A lot of outlets are adding his name and picture to other lists of missing or dead scientists. Which tells you something, that a lot of them are trying to pad the statistics a bit, trying to sell a narrative that may not be entirely true. And they're not. And many of these outlets don't really care if it's true or not because they want the narrative. They just want the clicks. This is, this is one, this is one aspect of the story. It's why it's worth looking into is the total breakdown in trust. We can't trust news outlets. You know, we know that we can't trust. Who can we trust? And so when something like this happens, it's. It's not clear what the actual facts are. And that's why we're trying to lay them out now. The magazine Unheard ran its own deep dive recently into several of these missing scientists. And while they're more skeptical about the narrative even than I am, they did include this paragraph on the origins of the story, which is pretty interesting. It's always important to try to figure out when everyone's talking about a particular topic where it began exactly. And here's what they came up with. Quote, where did this narrative even come from? The earliest article on this topic is dated March 22, was published in Daily Mail. It notes five missing scientists. Two days later, a website called the Liberty Line added another name, expanding the list to six. According to its X account, the website specializes in Philadelphia sports and whatever else comes to mind. Right wing media and influencers kept adding names until we reached Eskridge with old cases treated as breaking news. And finally the story made its way to Fox News and the White House briefing room. Now what's frustrating about this is that indeed there are several disappearances and deaths that are worth further investigation. I don't think any reasonable person can deny that we simply don't have many details about deaths that are obviously suspicious and that involve very high level scientists, including retired scientists. But by the same token, no reasonable person can deny that the tabloids and even some major media outlets that function as tabloids are mainly interested in turning this whole story into a circus. They're adding names to the list that obviously don't belong just so they can create paranoia and drive clicks. And in the process, they're distracting from some actual investigations that need to happen, particularly investigations into LeBlanc, McCaslin, Chavez, Garcia and Cassius. And show us the picture of the man who killed the Caltech scientists. Otherwise, as usual, a legitimate story is at risk of being derailed. Whether deliberately or not doesn't really matter. Anywhere worth going is worth going in good boots, which is a problem in a culture where grown men think sneakers and sweatpants count as formal wear. Well, Tacoba's fixes that by making quality western boots for everybody from ranchers and lifelong cowboys to first time boot buyers. We just want to look like adults again. Their boots are handcrafted and over 200 meticulous steps for broken in comfort right out of the box. No stiff miserable break in period. Pull them on and go to Kovas has timeless, tasteful silhouettes and premium genuine leathers from cowhide and goat to exotic ostrich and cayman. Whether it's your first pair or your 50th, they've got you covered for weddings, concerts, rodeos or work. I love my Tacovas. They're great quality, hold up super well against dirt, mud, you name it. I've got a couple pairs of them actually and they're comfortable enough not to leave me with annoying blisters after wearing them all day. Plus, the Kova's doesn't just sell high quality boots, they also have a wide array of denim elevated leather goods like wallets, belts and more. Everything at Taco's is crafted with the same attention to detail and timeless style. Right now get 10% off@tocovas.com Matt when you sign up for email and text, that's 10% off at t e c o v a s.com Matt tokovas.com Matt so you cite for details to Covas point your toes West. You can't pretend to live a serious life while you're sleeping on a joke of a mattress. That's what I always say. If you're waking up with a sore back, lousy sleep and no energy, well, it's time to make a change. At a certain point you gotta stop blaming your schedule and start blaming the bed. That's why I switched to Helix. Insomnia used to be a frequent struggle, so I took their Quick Sleep quiz and they matched me with a mattress built for how I actually sleep. It's been a real tangible upgrade from the old mattress I had before not waking up in the middle of the night anymore and I get out of bed, actually rested. Helix ships right to your door in the US you get a 120 night sleep trial, limited lifetime warranty, and it's the most awarded mattress brand reviewed by actual experts instead of influencers. If you want to take yourself and your life seriously, start with the thing you spend a third of your life on. Go to helixleep.comwalsh for 20% off site wide. That's helixsleep.comwalsh for 20% OFF site wide. Make sure you enter our show name after checkout so they know we sent you helix sleep.com Walsh now, yesterday we talked at some length about false flag, the false flag operation that took place in Charlottesville at the Unite the Right rally during Trump's first term. It was well funded, well organized, highly effective. Whole thing was engineered to give Democrats a pretext to suspend civil liberties, which they did. We might choose to believe that these kinds of operations don't take place on American soil, but they do all the time. At the same time, you have to be willfully blind to think that intelligence agencies, including potentially our own, wouldn't want to make certain people disappear. Or at the very least, they might lie about what happened to those people. Just the other day, for example, we were told that two CIA officers died in a tragic and very strange car crash in Mexico. Watch.
- [39:24]
C
This is what Mexican authorities say was a massive drug lab. Hidden in the woods, you can see rows of canisters, bags and ovens. A rare look inside a secret meth lab in northern Mexico. But tonight, what happened after the law enforcement operation is raising questions about U. S. Involvement in the crackdown. A source with knowledge of the matter tells NBC News two CIA officers along with two, two Mexican officials died following the operation this weekend in a car accident. Mexico's president Claudia Shanebaum is promising a thorough investigation.
- [39:59]
B
So this is like the line from Mission Impossible about how the US Government will disavow all knowledge if you're caught or killed. Everyone knows those CIA agents did not die in a car crash. But that's the COVID story the US Government is going with. And again, it happens all the time. And for that reason, we simply cannot be satisfied with the information we have so far about these missing or dead scientists. We don't know what's going on. It would be nice if I could end this monologue by saying, well, I've gotten to the bottom of it. Here's what's really happening. That would make for a. Make for a better title. Anyway, gotten to the bottom of this story. I haven't gotten to the bottom. I don't know. That's my conclusion, and I'll be honest with you, that we need an independent investigation, one that's not conducted exclusively by the government, into each of those deaths that I mentioned. Put all the facts out there. Let us debate the merits of every single case. Without transparency, bodies keep piling up. Theories multiply, tabloid articles spiral out of control. Most of them will be way off the mark. And in that environment, when an intelligence agency does take out one of its targets, no one, even the most discerning observer, will have any way of knowing. That will do it for the show today. Thanks for watching. Thanks for listening. Talk to you on Monday. Have a great weekend. Godspeed. I do believe that if people have
- [41:34]
D
committed treason against the United States of
- [41:37]
B
America, their statues should not be in the Capitol. History is written by the victors. And since the 1960s, we've been told, mostly by people whose ancestors didn't even live here during the war, that the south committed treason. But if the Confederates were traitors, then why was Jefferson Davis never put on trial for treason? What were Abraham Lincoln and Andrew Johnson afraid of? Do they know something you're not allowed to say? Today, it's time for the truth. So here it is. Robert E. Lee was a military genius and a man of immense honor. He was beloved by Americans from the north and south for a century after the war. This is the real history of the Civil War.
- [42:33]
A
Shipping, billing, admin, payroll, marketing. You're managing all the things, so why waste time sending important documents the old fashioned way? Mail and ship when you want, how you want with stamps.com print postage on demand 24. 7 and schedule pickups from from your office or home. Save up to 90% with automated rate shopping. That's why over 1 million small businesses trust stamps.com go to stamps.com and use code podcast to try stamps.com risk free for 60 days.
- [43:02]
B
You ever thought of just how much you really have to keep track of on the daily you've got 12 different passwords, your kids, sports schedules, a grocery list that never stops growing, among many other things. But for all the stuff we managed to remember, we often forget something much bigger. What happens to our families financially if something happens to us? The responsibility of protecting your loved ones and planning for the future is heavy. Trying to navigate life insurance on your own can be a Mess. Our sponsor, PolicyGenius, makes the process dramatically easier by acting as an online insurance marketplace, not an insurance company. So you can compare quotes from some of America's top insurers side by side, for free, actually understand what you're buying. Their licensed team works for you, not for the insurance carrier, so they care about your needs, your budget, your family. They help you figure out coverage amounts, prices and terms so there's no guesswork. PolicyGenius will help answer your questions, handle paperwork, and advocate for you throughout the process, which is why they've racked up thousands of five star reviews on Google and trustpilot. Protect your family with a policy that grows with your life. With Policygenius, you can see if you can find 20 year life insurance policies starting at just $276 a year for just a million dollars in coverage. Head to policygenius.com Walsh to compare life insurance quotes from top companies and see how much you could save. That's policygenius. Com. Walsh.