I struggle with where to start stories. I heard Dan Carlin, one of the godfathers of podcasting, I heard him say on his last episode of Hardcore History that he’s addicted to context. He has stories he wants to tell and once he gets into them, the story changes so much that his original idea for one show on one topic turns into a six-part series on something else entirely. That’s how I feel about what I’m going to share with you right now. I’ve rewritten this several times, and each time it just got further and further away from me, to the point where I didn’t understand what I was even trying to communicate. So I’m just going back to basics, simplifying this for myself and for you. Honestly, you would have heard me rant for 45 minutes and go on tangent after tangent and try to tie a bunch of disparate points into one coherent message. But that wasn’t working for me, which means there’s no way it would have worked for you. Instead, I’m just gonna strip all that away - including the Reddit thread that initially inspired me to record this - but I’m gonna strip all that away and just be real. In episode 29, I spoke with Dan Willis. The first hour of that conversation Dan talked at length and in great detail about some of the hidden history of extraterrestrial contact with humanity and the process of disclosing that to the general public. But, when I contacted Dan about coming on the show, I didn’t mention this topic at all. I was much more interested in his work with Dr. Marcel Vogel on quartz crystals and the sacred geometry of water and how to structure it. Obviously Dan’s background beyond that is compelling, and if you heard that episode, you know why. He’s an ex-Navy guy whose professional travels have taken him many different places, including to Washington DC, where he testified in front of the National Press Club about what’s most commonly referred to as ETI, or extraterrestrial intelligence. He talked about human contact with ETI, deals cut between governments and ETI, technology embargoes with ETI, and so on. Honestly, I wasn’t expecting to talk about that in such great detail. I hadn’t prepared to talk about it. As I said, I was more interested in the other topics that we talked about in the second hour. Frankly, the disclosure topic doesn’t interest me much. It’s not because I don’t see any truth in the stories. I’m sure there’s something there. Where there’s smoke, there’s usually fire, right? My issue with this is the large group of people pushing for it, pushing for the truth to finally come out. But that group is pushing for this truth from a gang of corrupt authority figures. The people fighting for disclosure are fighting against an entity that has done nothing but hide, cloak, lie and kill to keep secrets. The more I think about disclosure, the more I think it’s just a matter of telling people what they want to hear, not necessarily what’s actually going on. It seems more like they’v spent all this time building up the fervor, creating another false reality beyond the veil, so that when the time came to “lift the veil”, when people started clamoring for some appeasement beyond this superficial bullshit we’ve all come to hate, that they’d have an answer for us. Honestly, it seems like just another distraction. It’s just another false construct being built for you, instead of being built by you. That’s the heart of the issue for me. It’s more hive-mind groupthink. It’s more humans externalizing their search for truth instead of internalizing it. The further out you go to search for truth, the further away from it you actually are. That’s why I got rid of everything I had initially written and rewritten. I had 15 pages of me tumbling down a rabbit hole that started with disclosure, then somehow got onto coronal mass ejections and reptilians and the whole Corey Goode stuff, and then I just got lost in it. The whole thing made no fucking sense. It was me trying to externalize. I was trying to turn chaos into order,