In The Weeds: Episode 1

We got rumors and speculation, sobs and misdirection, strange, bizarre sightings, and we're- Well, well, well, as Jack Skellington, the hero of Halloweentown, once said, What's this? A new thing? With a new intro? Do we like the new intro? Probably not. I can work on it. But welcome to a new kind of episode that I'm trying out called In the Weeds. Clever, huh? Where I, Greg Carlwood, wade through whatever it is that's going on out there and share curious clips and compelling threads, and we just comb through the conspiratorial, cultural zeitgeist as best we can. I'm psyched about this. I come across so many weird stories or wild claims and just interesting ideas, little health-related things. The list really is endless. So I'm taking my guest curation skills and applying them to just general curation of all sorts of things that I think are on brand that I bookmarked this month in preparation. I wouldn't call it a clip show exactly, because a lot of the things that I might share are text-based rather than something to play. But here's what I'm thinking. It's going to be more casual than a usual THC episode, but tighter than a typical live stream. I'm picking 10 things from my big long list, and we'll take the first five for the free show and continue on to another five for the plus show. I know I recently reframed plus as something to be thought of in hours, and hopefully you'll give me some grace on this first one, because I don't know exactly how long it's going to be or how much I can talk about each one of these things myself before wanting to move on to the next one. But we're trying it out, and we're just going to see where we land. This is a proof of concept, let's say. Once it's out there, then we'll have a baseline, and we'll see what the plus people think and see if the first half is compelling enough to bring in some new subs for the full 10 items. If it's well-liked, I think this could be a thing that I block off the end of every month for. And in a perfect world, I would even do these with some of my colleagues. Maybe it's a good opportunity to get Gordon White or Chris Knowles involved, although Chris is pumping out a ton of stuff. A Lucifer's Tech graphic novel? Yes, please. Maybe Miguel Conner or Alex Sicaris wants to do one with me, or people I like a lot, but don't really put out the sort of stuff that I build interviews around, like Sam Tripoli or the War Mode guys or even the Gramerica guys. I would love to make this a hang once I set the table with the first one. We'll see. If it isn't obvious, I'm desperate for male companionship since the move, but all right, rain it in, boy. I also wanted to say that when I go to watch something these days, I find so much of it to be draining. So much of it is just different people commenting on the current five things that everyone's talking about. And that's what I'm hoping to avoid with this and really all the various kinds of solo shows. And I'm sure with this, of course, it's hard to avoid current events entirely, but I'm only looking to bring out some of what I consider to be angles and takes that are a bit more off the radar or more interesting than the majority of what I'm hearing about X, Y, or Z. So the intro song summed up what I might consider some of the categories pretty well. But for the sake of it, let me just elaborate. So I want to go out of my way to pepper in stories that are high strangeness related or bizarre encounters, things we haven't been able to make as much room for in recent years. Along with all sorts of threads that I pass by, it just seems like the algorithms really know what gets me. So let's lean in. And I want to try to bring in at least a few positive things that we don't actually see that often. Maybe not today, but some kind of creative solutions for things or life hacks or something that's just cool and not so dark and heavy. I also see so much about new toxic things found in corporate food or some new food scandal We might even see food crime of the month become a thing. On the flip side, there's positive health things I see from biohackers or natural living folks, and sometimes they're quite esoteric. We'll pepper those in too. I like the idea of an extracurriculars block where I can just talk about the best media I've been consuming. Books, movies, TV, games. Of course, keeping it with things that are on brand and probably more fun to discuss when I have a co-pilot. But still, you know, right now, all I'm really liking is Fallout. It's gory and very dire, but somehow they keep it light. I don't know. So I also thought about how often lately people ask me whatever happened to so-and-so. Well, maybe I do a where-are-they-now thing once in a while. It's also common for me to do an interview and then afterwards think, ah, I wish I would have said this or that, or I'll see some new information that's relevant right after I post a new show. So maybe it'll be common to see some sort of supplemental thing related to one of the monthly episodes, one of the monthly interviews. Also, you know, I'm not huge on following disclosure news, but we might do a little of that. It's so weird because it's like there's a lot happening in disclosure and nothing happening at the same time. But maybe when a new whistleblower comes out, we'll take five minutes to just run through what they're claiming, shrug our shoulders, and move on. These are the sorts of things that I think THC fans would be interested in but don't conform to the two-hour interview format that is largely about a guest's work. So I also thought about a higher side 2020 segment, going back and finding something that guests said in the past that was particularly prophetic or when there are predictions that are made months or years ago and it becomes time to assess those. Well, we should make room for those kind of follow-ups and Clip Genie can probably help me find predictions that I forgot about. Now, not all these things are involved today, but if I find myself lacking, these are the sort of prompts I would give myself. And I just want to kind of let it come together organically and not box myself in. And it's going to take a few episodes to chisel this block of clay into something that people like, but we got to start somewhere. And I'm just going to try to have some fun with it and keep it moving. It's not complicated. I shouldn't over-explain it. I already set up 10 things, so let's dive in and see what we got. All right. Well, the first one is topical. The whole country's going through this crazy cold snap thing. And like every time we have these situations where people are assessing the snow, is this natural? Is this plasticky kind of stuff? Does it react like snow and ice should react to, say, fire? Now, I'm out of the snow game. I haven't been in snow since like right after high school. So in my mind, it's hard to make an assessment because I could see sublimation being a thing, obviously, but also I could see that you should get some ice to melt with fire. Either way, if it was just about the fire and ice, I'd probably leave it alone. But this gets more interesting. This first clip, let's just get into it. All right. Get right over here. I'll show them what we did right there. That's what we did. We tried to heat the top up to melt the ice off the top of my garage area right here. We're going to see if we can't melt this snow because nothing's coming off. We're just going to use 20-0 gauge first. That's crazy. That's crazy. Put some oxygen to it like you would. Put it on the cut of creature metal. So if you're taking a welding torch straight to snow, I don't know what's supposed to happen, but I thought this was interesting because he starts with trying to heat up the underside of a roof, a tin roof. Well, that should surely melt snow and ice and have it slide off. So I find this to be somewhat interesting. The comments, of course, are filled with people saying this is a totally normal reaction. But look at this part. We don't need to hear it. I guess we should hear it because this is mostly an audio audience. So in some parts, it's doing what you might expect. And in other parts, it's not really making any effect at all. But let's move on because that isn't the only thing. So here is the master list, really. Owen Schroyer, he is showing this snowball that is just sitting on his fireplace on the logs of the fire and nothing is happening. I find that to be an interesting one. But this is where we also get interesting. So people are noticing that the snowfall is not sticking to trees and that sort of thing. Let's just listen to this. It's 40 seconds. I want you to notice the bullshit. Why the grass not covered like the ground is? Because the earth is still too warm. Naturally, they forcing this shit. It might get a little bit. It's not covering like the ground is covering. What's making the grass so special? Because it's fucking real. Normally, that's what get covered first. It get dusted first. Look at it. It's not even sticking to the trees like that. That's what I'm saying. Look at that. Y'all know how it looks, especially up in the north. Y'all know exactly. I do find that to be interesting. I think the ground gets covered first, usually. In fact, if my memory serves correctly, usually the grass, the natural ground gets covered by snow first, and it's the asphalt that typically doesn't because it takes longer to make the roads cold. This is one of those things where I just don't know. Every single time we have a weather event, there's going to be these claims, and then there's these comments and addendums that make me feel like a real idiot that I should know more about it. But weather manipulation is a thing, so we have to consider it. And if we're moving on, all right, another topical one. Now, everybody's talking about ice. I get it. I think this is really messed up. What's going on? One of the weirdest parts about it to me is just the state-level resistance to the federal agents, but congratulations to them because they found a way to put militarized police on the streets and have huge segments of the population not care because they just don't think it applies to them. And if you want to get troops on the streets, that's kind of how you have to do it. Obviously, this is the thing that conspiracy people have been paranoid about forever. We should not have troops on the streets like this at all. There's better ways to handle this issue. In fact, I saw some assessments that said, if you go back and read the Jade Helm documents that we were all worried about, it is essentially what they're doing. You could, if you wanted to solve this problem, which we created, of course, they created Problem Reaction Solution, you could just go to the employers and say, hey, we're going to 10x the fines for employing illegal immigrants. Or you could stop the fraud and the benefits. I think we should just go back to the simple thing where if you get caught up in an interaction with a police officer and they find out that you're not a citizen, then you go back. But we don't need to go door to door. We don't need to do raids. There's less confrontational, less aggressive, less violent ways to go about it. Again, I also keep in mind that I can't get too worked up about things that I see through the screen. It is a lens designed to make me and everyone else emotional about these things. And when I realized that the two people who have been killed, their names are pretty good. What? Pretty good. Is that really coincidental or am I being played here? This isn't relevant really. But going back to Charlie Kirk, I've been looking at that with new eyes. Apparently there is a big Hollywood special effects guy who was on the scene and there's some weird stuff with his neck. Now he never had a great jawline, but there's some weird thing with his neck where it looks like there might be some padding there. The thing that's most conclusive to me about the squib special effects narrative is this image I saw of him leaning back in the chair and his back fat is like four inches of back fat. It's a complete right angle over the chair. That is not what a person's back looks like. But if you have a pack of blood taped to your back and it's resting on the chair when you lean back, now we're talking. So I'm less sure about that. Obviously his wife is just really nuts. She either is unemotional because she never loved him and was always a plant or she's unemotional because he's not dead. I don't know what to think about that, but all irrelevant tangents. Me just ranting here, but this is why I brought up ICE at all. So this post is the Neuralink ICE Connection, Prisoners Used for Brain Chip Testing. They say there's a lot of rumors going around that Neuralink centers are popping up near ICE detention centers and other prison facilities such as Alligator Alley across the U.S. Apparently a lot of ICE detainees are disappearing in these Neuralink testing facilities, meaning they're being used as test subjects to develop the brain chip technology. This would not surprise me. This is a playbook as old as time. People in custody used for exotic experiments, whether it's mental hospitals or prisons or orphanages, they do this all the time. So it only makes sense, though it is just a theory, an idea. And then I go down to the comments and they say, look up Dre dossier on Substack. She's been entertaining this theory and other plausible theories involving shady players like Larry Ellison buying TikTok and possibly buying CNN. So I did check her out. Now, this video is nine minutes. That's a lot of time to play. I realize shows that usually play clips, keep it to under a minute. I'm going to play five minutes of this because I think the five first five minutes are pretty compelling. So I came across some jarring information tonight and I just I have to tell someone about it. So I've been keeping tabs on Neuralink a lot lately, Elon Musk's brain chip company, because with all of the 1930 style propaganda coming from the White House as of late, I just have this really bad feeling that Elon Musk might be our Dr. Joseph Mangle. And here's why. First of all, if you haven't already, please go follow me over on Substack, the Dre dossier. It's free. The link is in my bio. This full video is going to be posted there along with a deeper dive and with all of my sources cited. So please go subscribe. So in July of 2025, this year, Elon Musk announced that Neuralink needs to go from seven brain implants to about a thousand implants by the end of 2026. Now that's about 993 people over the course of what, 15 months now, who would be willing to get an experimental brain surgery? That's like 60 some odd patients a month. And at the rate in which it took him to get seven done feels nearly impossible, if you ask me. Now there are a couple things that have been bothering me, especially about these Neuralink sites, because they have approved through the FDA two sites in the United States, one which is in Phoenix, Arizona at the Barrow Neurological Institute, and the other which is in Miami, Florida, which is at the University of Miami, which has a big neurological brain study program. Both of those cities also have really, really large ICE detention centers very close by. Now, yes, in Miami, they have Alligator Alcatraz, but they also have Chrome Detention Facility, which is like their super large one where a lot of the intake usually goes through. From December of 2024 to February of 2025, there have been three deaths once a month at Chrome Detention Facility, and all of them had to do with neurological symptoms like brain hemorrhages and seizures and vomiting and the like. Not unlike what a lot of the outcomes of the monkeys that Elon Musk used to operate on looked like, just for the record. Now there's a different kind of pattern that's equally concerning in Phoenix, Arizona. So Neuralink operates, like I said, at the Barrow Neurological Institute, and then right nearby there are major ICE detention facilities, Eloy and Florence. Now the amount of time spent in solitary confinement at these Arizona facilities went from 14 days in 2024, which has been a pattern since like 2021, to 38 days in 2025 as the average. Like that's a 271% increase. 38 days is more than a month with no witnesses, no oversight, no documentation of what's happening. And all of this just so happens to be going on and increasing right when Neuralink is also trying to desperately scale up their operations so they can stay competitive with other countries. So those patterns have been bothering me for quite some time now, right? Especially with the alligator Alcatraz now like missing hundreds of detainees that that have no record and like all of it. So I decided to dig a little deeper tonight and I went to usaspending.gov, which is this website where you can search for all of the federal contracts that are made public. So you can search for anything related to, I don't know, the Department of Defense and Neurosurgery for instance. And that's when I noticed something kind of weird happening because Honolulu kept coming up a lot with DOD contracts and neurological surgery, like over and over and over again. And I'm thinking to myself, why Honolulu? Like what's going on in Honolulu? I mean, all of them were from the Department of Defense and they were all for these different neurological services, neurological procedures, neurological surgery practices, like, and they were all ramping up starting in 2025. And the company that was getting all of these contracts was called NIR LLC. And the work was being performed out of Triple Army Medical Center, which is this really big military hospital in Honolulu. I'm thinking to myself like, okay, well maybe this is just normal medical family military care. Like I, but when I went to look up NIR LLC to see if I could learn more about them, there was nothing about them online. There's no company website. There's no physician names, nothing on them. I mean, for a medical contractor who's doing so many neurological surgery procedures with federal money, not having so much as a website feels odd. But then at the very bottom of the Google search, I saw a link to a map quest that said NIR and it had like a little point of where it was. So I clicked the link and it showed NIR LLC at the location of 888 South King Street in Honolulu. Now, if you were to look up NIR LLC on any other map, nothing comes up. But when you type in 888 South King Street, Honolulu, something does come up and that something is Straub Medical Center, which is one of Hawaii's largest civilian hospitals that has a major neurology and neurosurgery department. So now I'm really confused, right? Because why is their billing address a commercial office building, but then they're actually operating out of a civilian hospital with a huge neurosurgery center, but then the Department of Defense is paying them for services at a military hospital all on the same island. Like this feels like a paper trail that's being obfuscated on purpose a little bit. I'm thinking, well, maybe does Neuralink operate out of Honolulu, Hawaii? And I just didn't know about it. And I look it up and no, Hawaii isn't listed on the official trials site. It's just Miami, Florida and Phoenix, Arizona, and then Toronto, Canada. I'm thinking to myself, well, just because the FDA doesn't know about it doesn't mean that it's not necessarily happening. So I decided to go on LinkedIn to see if I can find anybody who has Neuralink listed as their current employer and also lives in Honolulu, Hawaii. And that's when I find two people. First one is a clinical project manager who works at Neuralink and lives in Honolulu, Hawaii. And it looks like she's been with Neuralink for a few years now. And I looked at her job responsibilities and it said trial site management, implementation of clinical trials, management and oversight of external vendors, negotiating and building relationships with organizations. She manages trial sites and external vendors, but Hawaii isn't an official Neuralink trial site. So what you doing, sis? The other person I found was this guy who runs something called Hang 10 Capital, and he lives in Honolulu, Hawaii. And it's a private equity firm that also runs out of Honolulu, Hawaii. And they invest in things like fintech and food startups. But I looked at their portfolio and saw Neuralink listed. All right, so we have some smoking guns in Honolulu. But I'm thinking to myself, okay, so if the thesis here is that something sauce is going on with Neuralink and the operation facilities being close to ICE detention centers, does this fit that thesis? Like, is there an ICE detention facility near these, you know, medical facilities in Honolulu? And oh boy, did I regret asking that question. Apparently, in February of 2025, ICE had signed an agreement to start housing detainees at FDC Honolulu. Wow, right? So that's six and a half minutes. I mean, I could just play the next three minutes. Who cares? She's cooking with gas here, I think. So let's just go on. That's a 992 bed detention center facility. Like, I didn't know about, did anybody else know about this? And then I found an article from July 2025 that was talking about this and was saying that detainees were being transferred to Hawaii from Florida and Arizona detention facilities, the exact two states where Neuralink trials had started. And so I looked at the distance between FDC Honolulu and Straub Medical Center, you know, where NIR LLC actually operates from apparently, and it's eight miles, a quick 15 minute drive. And to make things worse, the same time in February of 2025, when that agreement was being signed between ICE and Honolulu, Elon Musk's doge was still in the White House. You remember that? And they had apparently, while they were there, had fired 20 FDA employees that month in February. And so I looked up which department they were from, and they were from none other than the Office of Neurological and Physical Medicine Devices. Yeah, the exact office that oversees Neuralink's clinical trials. Anyone else feeling a little bit queasy? Or is that just me? Yeah, so we'll stop it there. But wow, that's really good research. And I would say like everything that I'm talking about today, you got to take it with a grain of salt. If I was going to go and dive into every one of these claims and try to verify them, I would never get this done. So we are just seeing what's out there. We're in the weeds, guys. We're in the weeds. But that's scary. You know, we should care about that. Any human being should care about that. It doesn't matter if someone is a citizen or not. You can't be grabbed off the street and used for trials in a brain chip situation. Funny enough, I mentioned Fallout, the only good show on right now. And a major theme is mind control brain chips and the development of them and basically taking any person you can find and trying to use them to experiment on. Wow. Okay, so that is a big one. There's also this is supplemental, but from the conspiracy subreddit, this is someone actually, J Money himself, posting about alligator Alcatraz specifically. And he says, I'm looking for answers or data on this story. I've been seeing rumors, claims that one third of the people held at this detainment center are missing. The claim is about 1200 people who are detained here are now missing. They weren't released back into the US. They weren't sent back to their original home country. I'm also hearing claims that 120 ICE agents in Chicago were found to be former IDF soldiers. Now that's a little nuts. I'm also hearing claims that planes are flying into open ocean, dropping bodies into the sea, and these bodies are sometimes found washed up on shore, handcuffed together. I'm not a Democrat or Republican. I don't vote. It's a double-sided coin, yada, yada. What if Biden's job was to flood America with immigrants by creating open border policies? And then Trump's job was to create ice. He didn't create ice, but use ice, create detention facilities. And this whole thing could be human trafficking, organ harvesting. John McAfee said the US Department of Immigration is the largest human traffickers in the world. When Biden was in office, hundreds of thousands of children who crossed the border went unaccounted for. Open border policies led to large-scale human trafficking. Now ICE is another government program that is also being used for human trafficking. They're being paid for each person they capture. These people are then taken to the detainment facilities. Eventually, these people go missing. Yada, yada. Just supplemental material. But man, it's just like, how can you know 1,200 people are missing and they're not sent to their home country? I just don't know how you can verify that they weren't sent back to their home country. It's the same with all this stuff. Ever since Kids in Cages, these claims get made and they sound pretty huge in terms of the numbers and the impact. But it's just a claim. So I don't doubt that there's abuses going on. I just kind of am not really hanging my hat on all these little details. But something to keep a watch on, I would say. All right. So now let's just have some fun. This is a post from this Twitter account. I follow Hustle Bitch. Now, Hustle Bitch every single day is posting things that are just over the top. I don't know how a person could really access all this stuff, get all this information. Some of it's probably bullshit. And again, take it with a grain of salt. But this says former soldier says she saw a forbidden map inside a U.S. military room and it wasn't just Earth. I will let her speak for herself rather than reading his description. When I was stationed in Iraq, I used to have to go into a lot of different rooms that had a lot of computers and screens to do a lot of different things for whatever reason that we were in there. One time, I went into a room that had like this guy was sitting there with three computer screens. And on one of his computer screens, there was a map. And the map was not a map of the Earth. It looked like a map of the Earth. But it caught my attention. Because when I looked at it, it just like looked the wrong shape, right? So I started looking at it. And I was like, the Earth was like in the middle. And there was shit outside of it. Now this was a room that that map would literally not have been in. Like there was no way that this map... I've told this story on my TikTok before. There is no way that this map was in this room. Like it wasn't real. There was no... These computers were not allowed to have people's cute little backgrounds and shit on them. And this wasn't a cute little background. It was a map that was being monitored. Anyway, he was doing something. I was waiting for him to do something. And he notices me just completely fucking lost in this map because I'm... My flabbers were aghasted. I was realizing that this was a map. And in the middle, I saw all of the countries of the world that we know. And there was shit on the outside. So I'm looking, right? I'm like, what the fuck is this? Because it said shit that I was... Why does that say Asgard, right? Anyway, so I'm looking at it. And I'm like, what the... Right? And he looks at me and just very matter of fact, it was like, no one's gonna believe you. And I just like... I was like, damn it. I know. Fuck. Anyway, I think about that a lot. Wild, right? So when she says all the countries are in the middle of this map, I'm thinking it's got to be like a flat earth map. Or just, you know, any 2D map. It's not like she's looking at a globe. So of course, in the comments, there's all these flat earthers that are talking about Terra Infana, this idea that the ice ring around what we know is the flat earth, it's basically the UN map, is just one part of it. And there's many lands outside of that ice ring. Like, we really are contained, you know, to use Charles Ford's word, we're property. We are in a pen. We're in a giant pen that is maybe only one-fifth of the actual land of this material plane. That's obviously one take. If you're not a flat earther, I still think this is super compelling. The fact that she says one was labeled Asgard. I mean, I'm interested. I'm interested. I don't know what to make of it. It's just fun. Her flabbers were gasted, guys. What are you going to do when your flabbers are gasted? These are things we have to take with a grain of salt. This could be just clout chasing and all that, trying to get attention. Okay, now let's go to something that is very Fordian. I just thought this was fun. Now, I like going to Phantoms and Monsters when I want to read weird stuff. We have had Lon Strickland on the show a couple of times. His last appearance was kind of eh, because he couldn't really remember any stories at all. I was like, tell us about one of your favorite recent stories. I don't know. Okay, well, I got a couple here bookmarked. I guess I'll read them for you. Whatever. So maybe the best way to get Phantoms and Monsters content on THC is for me to just curate it and do it myself in these sorts of situations. So the day it rained blood in Chatham County, North Carolina, an 1884 mystery that science could not explain. One of my favorite Fordian things is strange stuff falling from the sky, like the Kentucky meat shower. This is the blood rain. In 1884, on a clear day in rural Chatham County, North Carolina, witnesses watched red liquid fall from the sky and soak a field as if it were blood, which began as a terrifying omen for a local sharecropper. It soon drew attention of newspapers and a respected university chemist. More than a century later, the incident remains one of the most unsettling, unexplained atmospheric events on record. On an otherwise cloudless day in 1884, Bass Laster, a sharecropper living in the county, noticed a single drop of red liquid splashed on the ground near her feet. Moments later, more followed. For nearly a full minute, a blood-colored rain fell from the open sky, striking the earth around her cabin and leaving dark stains across the soil. By the time the strange shower ended, the red liquid had soaked an area roughly 50 feet wide and 70 feet long, nearly a tenth of an acre. Witnesses described the splatters as thick and finger-sized, unlike ordinary rain. To her, the event felt deeply personal and ominous. She believed the sky itself had delivered a sign of death or misfortune. Word of the incident spread quickly. A local physician examined the site and collected samples. I'm skipping ahead. At the time, this was an isolated farm country where outside attention was rare. Even so, the incident refused to fade into rumor. Three weeks later, Professor Francis P. Vendable, a chemist from the University of North Carolina, decided to investigate. Though he initially treated the story as a curiosity, he later wrote that there was insufficient interest to justify a visit. Traveling by... Oh, sorry. He later wrote that there was sufficient interest to justify a visit. Traveling by horseback, he examined the site and spoke directly with Laster, noting that she remained frightened and emotionally shaken, convinced the event was a sign of evil or death. Let's just go all the way to the reports, the scientific documentation here. So, this guy published his findings in a scientific journal of the era after personally visiting the site, and his key conclusions were, the material deposited was biological in nature, and chemical and microscopic analysis indicated it was partially decomposed blood. No atmospheric animal or human explanation could be supported by the evidence. Crucially, he did not dismiss the event, and said he formally recorded it as an unresolved anomaly, stating that he had no plausible theory to explain blood falling from a cloudless sky. Great story, right? So, interesting and unique. I thought one of the most interesting parts was that it was decomposed blood. Not even fresh blood, because I guess you could say, well, maybe a flock of birds ran into an airplane, and it took a minute to fall from the sky, and then it was just a bunch of blood hitting the ground. But no, I mean, it doesn't seem like a conventional explanation works in this case. So, I wanted to throw it out there. Obviously, I'm not going to solve it, but it is a fun one. And it's one I hadn't heard before. We always go Kentucky meat showers, frog falls, fish falls, but this blood rain was new. Now, to move on to the next one, this is another thing that I got from phantoms and monsters, but it's more recent, because as I've always said in these interviews, we're talking about things that are so old, hundreds of years old sometimes. What are we going to figure out about that? So many, the whole mindset of people was different back then. So, it's really hard to put a lot of trust in those reports. But this one is pretty interesting. Residents of Pennsylvania reported numerous close encounters with UFOs, low-level orbs, Bigfoot, and cryptids during 2025. Did you know last year there was a big old density of weird, high-strangest events in Pennsylvania? Because I certainly didn't. And I'm going to try to skip ahead here, because this is from Stan Gordon. Stan Gordon is not someone I've heard of before. That's fine. But I want to give him credit. Stan Gordon's UFO anomaly zone, 24-hour UFO and Bigfoot cryptid sightings hotline. So, if you've got sightings, send them to sightings at stangordon.info. He could be a good guest for me, because maybe he can summarize a lot of these things. He's got a Thunderbirds category. Bigfoot, cryptozoology, all this stuff. So, in Pennsylvania, he says that he's been researching UFO sightings and Bigfoot encounters there since 1959. It's been over 66 years. He has still not personally seen a UFO or Bigfoot, but has interviewed countless credible witnesses who reported some very strange encounters that cannot easily be dismissed. So, what happened recently? Let's jump down to this list of things that he has here. This is a very long article. It'd be nuts for me to read it all. But here is a synopsis of some of the interesting and strange incidents from last year that Stan investigated or that were forwarded to him by experienced researchers. So, January 20th, at about 8.30pm, the witness was walking to a grocery store. Unfortunately, the man had forgotten his cell phone, of course. In the northern sky, he noticed a large orange orb that was suddenly solid and glowing. The sphere was moving slowly across the sky and then almost stopped. It suddenly moved extremely fast for a distance and then suddenly stopped again. The bright orange object then zoomed across the sky towards the west and moved out of sight. It was a cold evening and the sky was clear. What I like about this, the reason I included it, is because these are short paragraphs that are pretty rapid fire and I don't even think I can read. I'm scrolling down here. There's 10 just in January, but he has in parentheses what the event is. So, we can just say, that was an orb in the sky. Five days later, another event where three orbs were on the ground that rose into the sky. And then, here we go, possible Bigfoot howls a few days later. I'm not going to read an account of Bigfoot howls. You know, let's find something a little better than that. Okay. Also on the same day, a white thunderbird. Submitted by researcher Kevin Paul, a witness reported seeing an unusually large white bird over Rice's Landing beside the Mon River. The incident took place about 2 p.m. The witness was standing outdoors at a time when she saw the creature flying at rooftop level. The huge winged creature was described as pure white and feathered. It had a head, neck, and feathers of a raptor with pale yellow legs. The wingspan was estimated to be between 12 and 15 feet. The witness could clearly make out the individual feathers at the wingtips. It was carrying something long and slender, black in color, about six feet long. Had it been summer, the witness said, one would think it was a black snake. The witness is quite familiar with raptors commonly seen here and says it was not a hawk, owl, or bald eagle. She said it did not have a long neck like a blue heron. It flew very gracefully with minimal wing movement. Well, tell Dr. Pollack that we got another case of charged flight. Wild, though. I love thunderbird stories, pterodactyl stories. They're out there. So then the next one is a little bit on the long side, but it's about a thunderbird on the ground. Let's just jump to the description. The witness described this huge bird as being all black with at least a 10 to 11 foot wingspan. The wings looked like that of an eagle. He did see some white color mixed in with the black feathers at the tip of the tail. The head of the creature was facing him. As it rose upward, he saw what might have been the tail that looked to be about four feet long. He also saw possible legs. The creature stood approximately six and a half to seven feet tall. The physical features that caught his attention was the eyes of the creature. They appeared diamond shaped and about seven inches across and were glowing a bright red. As he got closer to the creature, the brighter they became. He said the glow was luminous and like a taillight on a vehicle. The witness had been hunting for years and said this was not normal eyeshine like what you'd see in the headlights with a deer. The entire encounter lasted about 15 to 20 seconds. This area around the chestnut ridge has a long history of thunderbird encounters. So these are all in the same state, same area, just in January of last year. Then there's one in Youngstown in February that is small orbs. Great. Then also in February, odd shaped object low off the ground. So this is a man who is skeptical of UFO stories, but this object had been hovering, it was about 30 to 40 feet above the ground shaped like an older type of Christmas ornament that was solid with a red colored center. There's also an orange light on it in a smaller white halo like area. The object was motionless while under his observation. Now here's one that is of a small Bigfoot. Also in February, the witness was outside letting her dogs do their thing at 10, 15 a.m. The dogs quickly returned to the door and went to the back of the house. Then the witness opened the door. She noticed a bipedal creature running across the field over by the wood line. The dogs were incredibly upset as they began to whine and they headed towards a hiding place in the house. The creature the woman saw was estimated to be four and a half to five feet tall. It was covered with light brown fur. It had black fur on its rump and it looked toward the witness a few times, then ran off into the woods. That is kind of like the thing that I saw when I was a kid. Now this one includes a photograph, typical, not sorry, photograph, a drawing. This is a drawing and it is a kind of a typical Bigfoot with a six pack and glowing red eyes. But this is another sighting. Nothing super crazy about this. Just saw a Bigfoot sitting on a tree stump. The creature was estimated to have been about eight feet tall. Hmm. And then we go to March and someone in Youngstown again near the Chestnut Ridge area saw two small flat vertical discs near the ground. This woman says she was out at a, she was, uh, the power was out from a storm and she was sitting in her home in the dark at a table with a lit candle. Her attention was drawn about 50 yards away near the corner of the woods. When she saw something that she told me shook her up, she described seeing two objects that looked like thin dinner plates. They were both upright in a vertical position. They were both bright, but did not reflect any light. One was a burnt orange color. The other object was white. The witness said she watched them for several minutes. She said the object stayed about three or four feet above the ground in the same general area, but moved around as if they were playing tag. Then they just kept moving around. The object suddenly disappeared and were not seen again. She said she had the windows closed and heard no sound. And her dogs did not seem to be aware of the lights. Yeah. So we are barely into March. I'm probably going to only read ones that are exceptional, but this guy did a great job of putting a one sentence summary before getting into it. So March 26th, the day after my birthday, a solid triangle hovering over a business area in daylight. Then going to April, three objects in the sky in Adams County. This one is a little short. So it was about 8 45 PM with some light in the sky when a witness observed that she, what she thought was a satellite moving across the sky. The object, however, was too low in altitude for a satellite. It was moving at about the altitude of a commercial aircraft. It was moving slowly and continually like a satellite. Seconds later, a similar smaller object appeared behind the main object. So close, they almost blended as they moved at the same speed. Suddenly, five seconds later, the second object vanished. The main object kept moving steadily. Then seconds later, another third similar object appeared in front of the main one. Moments later, the object in front vanished, followed by the main object also vanishing. Also in April in Fayette County. Someone saw something zigzagging and glowing under the water. Then in May, same area, dog man, close encounter about 13 to 14 feet away. This woman saw a creature like a large black German shepherd standing on its hind legs. And she watched it walk around the garden area, never dropping on all fours. The creature stood at least seven to eight feet tall. The witness stated again that it looked like a very tall German shepherd. She saw long black hair and arms and legs, and it had an apparent snout and pointed ears. What stood out was that the creature had very bright red eyes. Always, always red eyes. Just glow in general. I think that has to do maybe with the charge and an ability to pop into our reality. It's weird. So this one going to, what's the seventh month? June? July? Mysterious tall gliding object. July. They're sitting around a campfire having a conversation. People were looking in this certain direction and one of the witnesses stood up, saw they were seeing something odd moving between two vehicles not far away. The man sat down quietly as the witness I talked with asked if he also saw it. The man said he did not know what it was. The witness was shaken. The man decided to call it a night. And another person in the group noticed that something was wrong and began to ask what happened. The witness said it was hard to describe the object they saw. It was a cylinder shape that stood about 10 to 12 feet tall, silver and gray color. At the top was what looked like a large inverted bowl about two feet in diameter. The area was darker in color. Whatever it was floated around rather than walked. The witness said it shimmered even in the dark like some type of energy surrounded the entire shape. The witness tried to make, tried to talk to the man the next morning, but said he just wanted to forget about it. Okay. So we're halfway through the year in this list of strange accounts looking at my time. I got to move it along. So also in July, a cylindrical wingless object. Now that one is a photograph. Then also in July, a thunderbird sighting similar to the ones I read before, but this says it was more like a swimming motion rather than a soaring motion. It was undulating, not flying. It was like a plasma fluid light. It was like a plasma fluid look while the body looked solid. The area around the body was like smoky. They say very interesting. A little while later, actually the same day, someone saw a blue orb in the trees. Then five days later, someone saw a huge football shaped shadow above their vehicle on the road. And then a few days later after that, a small orb touched a woman. And he says, this is a fascinating and important case. You can go here to read the full detailed report. We're not going to do that right now. Then another orb a few days later, and then luminous object moved across, across the chestnut ridge. Then in August, possible Bigfoot activity on a farm measured a track that was 16 to 17 inches long. Then a metallic looking orb in the sky. Then an orb inside the house near the window. Same month, we have strange sounds coming from the woods and an orb scene. Then in September, mysterious creature crossed the road. This guy said he knew it wasn't a deer or a bear or a dog. It walked on all fours, dark colored between brown and black. It was on all fours, close to the height of a horse. Very lengthy, thin, muscular, long legs with a snout, head like a dog or wolf. It had very long back legs and a good three feet under the belly to the road as it walked on all fours. Then another Bigfoot sighting. Then in October, winged humanoids. I love winged humanoids, much like the Thunderbird, but humanoid. They just say they saw it. Multiple sightings of winged humanoids on their property over the last five years. Then strange sounds of orbs nearby. Glowing sphere passes through a wall in October. This is crazy, right? Blue orb moves downhill also in October. A shimmering tall figure. These next two are crazy. You can already see if you're watching rather than listening. You can see the sketch of this other creature below, but a shimmering tall figure. Witness saw something out of the corner of her eye. Look towards a wooded location about 150 feet away. She sees what looks like a near solid figure. Then seconds later, it becomes wavy or shimmery. Call Chris Knowles. Moments later, it goes back to being more solid, then back to shimmer. After occurring three or four times, it vanishes. The tall shape was a beige color, about seven to eight feet tall, five to six feet wide, only seen for three or four seconds. Now here is a strange deer-like creature. This drawing is wild. It just looks like almost like an alien gray head on a deer, like a small head on a wide deer. But they say that it just disappeared. They were looking at it. It wasn't a deer exactly, and then it just disappeared. Circular object, low off the ground also in October. Two tiny orbs in September, and then more UFO activity in November and December. Wow. So yeah, I bookmarked that without reading every single case. Figured I'd just do it with you guys, and that's wild. Pennsylvania. Keep your head on a swivel out there, guys. All right. Now, maybe we're not going to be able to get... No, this is my number five. Okay, so the first one with the ice, that was just bonus. But now we're at number five. I am going to show my ignorance here because I am so much not a sports fan that I can't even identify major athletes. I've heard some of the names before. I don't even know all the names of the teams. After a few beers, my buddies start giving me shit, trying to have me guess what the mascot of a team is in a certain city, and I don't know. I just don't want that in my head. There's too much out there that I'm trying to pay attention to in sports, isn't it? So Dom Lucre. We know this account if you're on Twitter. So many things this guy puts out there. But this is a couple of different posts related to the claim that sports are fake. Now, this is Kyrie Irving. I know he's a big name in basketball, and I'm pretty sure that he's a flat earther. I'm not entirely positive. My buddy who's a flat earther, I believe, has sent me Kyrie Irving posts before. This is one minute. Now, is this AI? I don't know these guys enough to know if it would be or not, but listen. This whole celebrity idea is eroding. The whole fame idea is eroding. That shit was sold to us, y'all. You got people out here that are human that are acting every day of their life. They're not even real. They just on NPC shit every day. They acting. They don't even know. The world is a stage, dog, and it's a lot of terrible actors. It's a lot of terrible actors out here. The world is a stage. These are a lot of terrible fucking actors, dog. You know what I'm saying? I'm just going to say it. I'm just going to say it, dog. I'm just going to say it. I had to tell Spice beforehand I said it, but the whole idea of celebrity, bro, if you're not a real person and you can't stand on your morals and principles out here, move out the way. If you can't stand on any principles and morals out here as a person that's trying to see this world become better, move out the way for the time being. I'm not paying attention to all the, you know, the beefs going on or, you know, so he doesn't exactly say sports are script scripted and controlled, just reality in general. And I do put some stock in this. I find this stuff interesting because a guy like him has privileged access. And I think athletes are particularly interesting because they're not necessarily trying to be famous. They're not trying to be celebrities. They're not trying to go the Hollywood route. They're just really good at this game and they want to keep going and make money and be a professional. Fine. You know, no shade at that. But then you get kind of brought into that world and, you know, claims then get made. Here is the next one. Now this guy, this is one that I'm like, wow, is this, is this AI? Who is this guy? Larry Johnson, two-time NFL pro baller, Larry Johnson confirms that the NFL is entertainment. He explains the numerology that the elites incorporate into their scripts. He played for the Chiefs, Redskins, Dolphins, and Bengals. Let's hear it. It's six minutes. Probably not going to do the whole six minutes, but let's see. You know, football league, a little bit after I stopped playing, but my wife had her family over for a little get together and one of them put the game on. And it was at the Buffalo Bills, there were Broncos over time that they turned this game on. And I just looked at the score, knowing that I'm watching entertainment now, knowing that I've came out of this world, I was thoroughly entertained by the entertainment. The score was 30-30, which is if you know anything about masonry or Zionist numerology, you know how many times they put 33 and everything and anything they can get their hands on. They want to show you that they can control and manage things that have to do with people's lives. So I saw 30 and 30, three and three. So I saw that the Buffalo Bills could have had a pass interference call in the end zone that it wasn't called, even though it was blatant pass interference. Then I knew what time it was. The whole time, everybody thought the Buffalo Bills were going to win because of the quarterback's ability to have game-winning drives. And of course, his girlfriend or wife became pregnant and she showed everybody on the red carpet of the Golden Globes that she was pregnant alongside the other co-star of the movie Sinners, where she ends up pregnant. So they made it a big to-do that these two women who play Smoke and Stack's love interest were both pregnant almost at the same time. So they kind of got you to fall in love with the narrative of rooting for the Buffalo Bills. And plus, you felt sorry for them because if you remember the whole DeMar Hamlin situation, so you wanted them to eventually win. And then Marv Levy turned, I think, what, 100 years old? I thought Marv Levy was dead. But Marv Levy turns like 100 years old, some old, old age. And you thought that, okay, this would be the year that the Buffalo Bills finally break this curse. So a lot of people fell for this narrative. Even people who bet in Vegas or the Hard Rock, they fell for this narrative, this spell. But if you understand anything about occult symbolism, you know that Colorado is one of the biggest Masonic states in all of America. So you know what time it was when you saw that they gave the Denver Broncos that interception. When anybody who has ever played football, you know that since the ground can't cause a fumble, the ground also can't cause an interception, especially when the wide receiver had already had possession on the ball and his knee touched the ground. It should have been just Buffalo Bills ball. So there's two drives that they could have just won that game outright, but it wouldn't add it up to Zionist numerology. So then they get back-to-back pass interference calls, which I think they were pretty much legit, but it already sealed the deal. So then they told you, or Sean Payton told you, that Bo Nix suffered a broken ankle. Mind you, you see this man walk off the field. You see this man walk to say his last words to the opposing team's quarterback and then walk off. You don't see this man hobbling or limping. He showed no signs of a broken ankle. And the reason why they wanted you to know this is because if you know anything about numerology or gematria, the game stopped at 444 when the field goal was made. 444 in Sumerian numerology equals Masonic and Lucifer. So you just basically saw a free Masonic ritual. Number three kicks a field goal for three points and the score ends up being 33 to 30. That's a lot of threes. So if you look at the number 444 in Sumerian numerology, it also equals Lucifer, Masonic, and Jesus. So this whole time players talking about, I thank God, the Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ for doing this, da-da-da-da-da. It's numerology that they're fooling you with. They're double speaking through numerology. They mean Lucifer. Because most of these players that are doing these interviews after games, they're Freemasons or Prince Hall Freemasons or part of Black Greek organizations, which is the same thing as Freemasonry because Prince Hall Freemasons are the ones who founded all of the Black Greek organizations. Their rituals are the same. Their, you know, their behavior is the same. They're in the same organization. Mike Tomlin is a Kappa Alpha Psi. Same organization. So don't be fooled. In order for them to make a numeric ritual out of everything, that means the head coach has to be in on it. The offensive coordinator has to be in on it. And the defensive coordinator, has to be in on it. It is entertainment. It's a revenue sharing league. There ain't no reason for any team to go to the Super Bowl back to back to back and thinking they're going to be the best team and get all the best prizes and get all of the top dollars. It does not matter. The team that goes zero and 17 for four years straight is sharing the same amount of money with a Super Bowl team. It is not like MLB or NBA. It's a revenue sharing lead. So they have to put the best product on the field and they have to put the best presentation on the field so all teams can make money. So that's why it's controlled and managed by Masonry. And that's why I say Freemasonry is for mediocre white men because that's the ones who control it through the York right and Scottish right. They want to play God. It's an insecure brotherhood. It's a narcissistic brotherhood. It's men who are inadequate with their life situation and they want to play God. That's it. That's the only thing that we'll be able to control is sports and numbers. And if you don't know the difference between this matrix, this system and this numerology compared to what your system is, you are going to get caught in the wash when judgment happens. You won't know if it's the time for the Messiah or it's the time for the Antichrist because they'll do everything through numerology. They'll lay this entire narrative of fake prophecy through numerology. And the best way you can learn yourself and educate yourself, edify yourself through knowing and exposing this system is look how they do football games or games in general, not all games, but the big ones. Hmm. Yeah. So I'm 80% on board with that. I think that if there's anyone who would know, it'd be an NFL player. So when he says it's an entertainment league, I just go back to Brian too. We've had two interviews. The fix is in. I had stopped watching. Whoops. He said there were actually lawsuits where there were games that were determined to be rigged. And then the people who were season ticket holders sued. And in court, they said, look right here, it says you are watching entertainment. Did you see a game? Was a game performed for you? You have no reason to sue. Nowhere does it say that the game would be authentic. So I just like that. Obviously I have no dog in the fight of sports and this is the icing on the cake. So this is really what got me. These things all just came up at one time and I thought we could make a nice little package. This image, if you're seeing it, is all the quarterbacks looking at the Heisman. This image was released preseason. So it's not a hard image to find, but the thing about it is if you're looking at this, it seems as if when we zoom in on it, the two quarterbacks that are closest to the front are the quarterbacks of the Seahawks and the Patriots, which are the teams going to the Superbowl. So is this coincidence? Because that is a lot of guys, a lot of teams. I don't know how many teams there are, maybe 35, 40 teams. And you placed the two that end up at the Superbowl front and center closest to the Heisman. Is this a reveal of some kind? Was this accidentally done? It's very curious, but I love these little videos that are coming out now where athletes are saying the sports rigged. And it also makes me think of Polymarket. I love gambling. Let me just say that. I gamble on UFC and I gamble with my buddies about this, that, and basically everything we can. Who's going to finish their lunch first? I don't care. I love that kind of thing. But because I know nothing about sports, I don't really mess with anything but UFC. But Polymarket, this is a dangerous road to go down. We already know that a lot of politicians front run their investments based on legislation that they're going to pass. And I think Polymarket is basically just opening that up to any and all things. I remember when they were doing bets on who is going to be revealed to be the Night King in Game of Thrones. And it's like, what? That is something that is on paper that many people know the answer to. That's not up for debate. It's not a roll of the dice. That's just a very confirmable thing. And we're getting to that level now where people are betting on things like world events, like Venezuela being invaded. And it's just like insider knowledge. It's insider trading on real world events. So I find that to be a little bit more than a little bit shady. And there's a lot of podcasters out there now that are doing Polymarket ads. Very gross. Very gross. But all right, that is my first five items on the list. And that is a good one to go out on because it's not going to have the same impact next month. And it also relates to an upcoming interview I'm doing tomorrow, which will come out around the Super Bowl with a guy who's getting a lot of attention for recognizing that the 49ers are having a lot of injuries. And they're all the Achilles tendon, not all, but a lot of them are. They're snapped ligaments and tendons with no contact events is what he says. And the speculation is this is happening at the stadium because it's right next to a giant power plant putting out all sorts of EMFs, which so I got interested because clearly that's up my alley. And I like real world scenarios in which we can test the hypothesis of how dangerous EMFs are. I like situations that get more people to pay attention. And this is like a gift, I would say. So the guy who went and did the readings there and wrote this big article, he's getting a lot of attention. We have an interview booked. We talked on the phone the other day. He said I was the first person to reach out from a decently sized podcast that wasn't in the sports world. And then Joe Rogan mentioned him and then they were tagged together. And now I don't know. I'm thinking the interview is still going to happen, but it wouldn't be the first time I was ditched because in the meantime, a bigger show came along and wanted to do an interview. But that's interesting. 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