September 18, 2024 • 34 mins
Ronny Chieng covers the second assassination attempt on Donald Trump, which has the Secret Service scrambling, the media up in arms, and JD Vance struggling to find a Democrat to blame. After a deposited bear in Central Park and a brain-eating worm, RFK is being investigated for decapitating a dead whale. Jordan Klepper and Ronny sit down to ask: What is wrong with this dude? Also, former U.S. Army Counterintelligence Special Agent Luis Elizondo sits down with Ronny to discuss his career researching nonhuman intelligence and his new book, “Imminent: Inside the Pentagon's Hunt for UFOs.”
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Speaker 3 (00:37):
Hey, wolcome to the Emmy Award winning Daily Show. I'm
Emmy Award winner Ronnie Chang. Please address me as such.
We've got so much to talk about tonight. Donald Trump
had a very busy weekend. Republicans wants you to tone
your rhetoric down, you bastards, and RFK Jr is still
doing RFK JR things.
Speaker 4 (00:56):
So let's get into today's headlines.
Speaker 3 (01:03):
Ever since Joe Biden dropped out for being old as shit,
lots of people have been saying, what about Donald Trump?
He's also an old man. But listen, Trump has energy. Okay,
look how much he got done this weekend. He held
a rally, he started at a crypto company you definitely
should put all your money into, and he got in
nine hoes of golf, well five hose. That was a
(01:24):
bit of an interruption.
Speaker 1 (01:26):
Tonight, the Chili new details in the apparent second assassination
attempt on Donald Trump.
Speaker 3 (01:31):
Yo again, Hey, will you people stop trying to assassinate
Donald Trump. Not only is it morally wrong, but you're
also just giving him more things to brag about. They
only tried to kill Overham Lincoln once. That makes me
twice as great as him. But yes, this weekend, a
crazy person tried to hunt Donald Trump in his natural
habitat his golf course.
Speaker 5 (01:52):
Investigators say a Secret Service agent monitoring the woods ahead
of mister Trump as he played golf on Sunday, saw
a rifle barrel through the tree line and open fire.
Speaker 6 (02:02):
The subject, who did not have line of sight to
the former president, fled the scene.
Speaker 1 (02:07):
He did not fire or get off any shots. At
our agents.
Speaker 5 (02:12):
Cell phone record show he had been in place at
the edge of the golf course for nearly twelve hours.
Speaker 3 (02:17):
This guy managed to walk into Trump's golf course and
stay there undetected for twelve hours. Okay, and I don't
know if you've thought about this, Trump, but maybe you
should consider building, you know, like a wall, Like I
don't know if you're like a.
Speaker 4 (02:32):
You know, a wall guy. Just just think about it.
Speaker 3 (02:34):
But by the way, have you noticed that the news
reports are all like a herrowing neo tragedy, sending chills
through a nation, And meanwhile everyone you actually know is like, oh.
Speaker 4 (02:46):
Oh yeah, yeah, I saw that.
Speaker 3 (02:48):
Yeah. I mean we have to act like it's a
big deal. But he doesn't really have the same impact
of the first one. You know, It's kind of like
Black Panther two. You're like, yeah, I guess I'll see it.
I mean, how's that going to work?
Speaker 4 (03:00):
Now?
Speaker 3 (03:00):
The Cicco Service is getting a lot of heat for
letting that guy get this far, but don't worry that
taking action.
Speaker 5 (03:05):
As part of that increase focus on security, the Palm
Beach County Sheriff now says that mar A Lago behind
me has the highest security level possible, equivalent to when
Donald Trump was president.
Speaker 3 (03:16):
That's right, the highest security level possible. It goes security,
maximum security, and then Homer Loane level. I'm talking paint
cans on the stairs, scary movies playing really loud, a
codboard cutout of Trump in the windows, moving back and forth,
and if things get really bad, Trump's scary old friend
will show up.
Speaker 4 (03:35):
And protect him.
Speaker 3 (03:36):
Now, the motive of the assassin remains unclear, so we'll
have to look at who might have a reason to
be angry at Donald Trump.
Speaker 6 (03:45):
On Sunday, three hours before the attempt, on his life.
Trump blaired I hate Taylor Swift on Truth's Social reacting
to her bombshell endorsement of Kamala Harris O.
Speaker 3 (03:57):
Donald tweeting, I hate Taylor Swift. That's dangerous. I mean
I would I would rather buy one of those hesbolop
pages than tweet I hate Taylor Swift. I think I
think Trump needs to stick to racism.
Speaker 4 (04:07):
It's less divisive.
Speaker 3 (04:09):
But the assassin this weekend was probably not a swiftye. Okay,
he doesn't fit them. Swifty is on nonviolent. They prefer
the cyber bully you until you kill yourself. So why
did this guy come for Trump? I mean, according to JD. Vans,
Trump's VP and the worst thing that happened to cat
ladies since feline aids. Democrats made him do it.
Speaker 7 (04:30):
The left needs to tone down the rhetoric and needs
to cut this crap out. We cannot tell the American
people that one candidate is a fascist and if he's elected,
it is going to be the end of American democracy.
Speaker 3 (04:44):
Yeah, liberals, stop accurately describing Trump. Okay, you're putting him
in danger when you repeat the things he says verbato.
But Jdvans has a point. The left needs to stop
calling its political opponents fascist. Okay, you don't see Donald
Trump doing that all the time.
Speaker 1 (05:03):
She's a Marxist, she's a fascist.
Speaker 8 (05:06):
She's a Marxist communist fascist socialist.
Speaker 1 (05:09):
We have a fascist person running.
Speaker 9 (05:11):
There's a radical left Marxist communist fascist. She's a Marxist
communist fascist person.
Speaker 3 (05:22):
But that last one it felt like he ran out
of woods. The end it is she's a Marxist communist
fascist dermatologist. I mean, Trump has called Kamala fascist so
much I'm not sure he knows her name. It's like
when you say to a coworker, oh hey, hey, yeah,
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good to see you, my fascist buddy. Don't forget the
rules of slurs either. Okay, you can use the word
if you are one. That's why I can call someone
else ronnie, but you can't call me ronnie. Okay, that's
our words. But look, whether or not you think the
rhetoric should be toned down, it's just not something that
Trump and Vents actually believe in. I mean, for the
past week, the city of Springfield has been overrun with
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bomb threats after Trump and Vents claimed that Haitian immigrants
are eating everyone's cats and dogs, which there is no
evidence of. I mean, people love posting photos of their food. Okay,
so we would have.
Speaker 4 (06:15):
Seen it by now.
Speaker 3 (06:17):
But when Trump was asked about those bomb threats, he
didn't seem too concerned.
Speaker 5 (06:22):
Did you announce the bomb threats in Springfield, Ohio?
Speaker 1 (06:26):
I don't know what happened with the bomb threats.
Speaker 9 (06:29):
I know that it's been taken over by illegal migrants.
Speaker 3 (06:34):
Yeah, the guy who wants everyone to believe he's super
concerned about political violence came even bring himself to say
he's against bomb threats. I mean, what more information are
you waiting for. It's a bomb threat. You need to
know who the bomb was going to vote for. I mean,
I can't believe this guy is saying that. Very fine
bomb threats on both sides. You know this isn't a
trick question. This is a layup for politicians. So I
(06:57):
do support the troops. So do you like Killo Swift
to say yes, it's laom so Well, any of the
heater rhetoric in this country change. Probably not, But there
was at least one moment over the weekend that offered
a glimmer of hope.
Speaker 10 (07:13):
President Biden Tonight spoke on the phone with Trump. The
White House describes the conversation as cordial, with Biden sharing
his relief that the former president is safe, and then
Trump thanking Biden for the call.
Speaker 3 (07:25):
Oh yeah, Joe Biden, I forgot about that guy. That's right,
he's the president. It's so nice when two eighty old
men can speak to each other on the last piece
of technology. They can truly understand. And I know you're thinking,
it would be great if we knew exactly what they
talked about on that call. Well, luckily we had the
(07:46):
Daily Show God hands on the very real audio recorded Hello, Hey.
Speaker 8 (07:52):
Johnny, it's me President Joe.
Speaker 1 (07:54):
Hi.
Speaker 8 (07:56):
Then has Biden blame's Joe, Brandy. I just want to say,
I'm glad you're safe. Directing Secretary service makes your mar
LAO completely secure.
Speaker 11 (08:06):
Thank you, Joe, And let me just say, please come back.
Huh please, Joe. This race has no fun without you.
Everyone is shooting at me. This black lady keeps laughing
at me in the debates. I need you, bat, Joe.
You had good times together.
Speaker 1 (08:22):
Didn't we.
Speaker 8 (08:22):
Of course we did. Donnie r Goes, she's us sinking
in my life purpose Nowadays, no one even pays attention
to me. Just yes day, phoot down furey stairs.
Speaker 1 (08:33):
Jill just walked over me.
Speaker 11 (08:34):
Then tell everyone you're back in the race. You can
call me a threat to democracy. I'll call you a
demented head of an international crime family. It'll be like
old times.
Speaker 8 (08:45):
Don't you think I want to They won't let me,
and she posts you shut my door and out a
baseball man.
Speaker 4 (08:53):
Sorry, Donnie, I gotta go.
Speaker 1 (08:55):
I gotta go to jd Vance.
Speaker 11 (08:57):
Just call women walking embryo bags. So I gotta deal
with that.
Speaker 8 (09:02):
Goodbye, Joe.
Speaker 12 (09:03):
Wait, Donnie, run away with me?
Speaker 8 (09:07):
What let me at going up tree at for five
o'clock we drive some small Latino country and run for
president there. Oh my god, is this really happening?
Speaker 11 (09:16):
Are you serious?
Speaker 3 (09:18):
Joe?
Speaker 8 (09:18):
I'm as serious as you represent democracy? Who you are?
Speaker 1 (09:22):
Old friends? You have that senator bitch.
Speaker 11 (09:25):
You have made me the happiest man alive.
Speaker 4 (09:30):
I'm so happy for them. When we come back, we'll
talk about the latest. Our case kind of above me
to poke with an animal.
Speaker 1 (09:36):
But don't go away.
Speaker 4 (09:56):
Welcome back there there we sho.
Speaker 1 (09:58):
It's t to d all Way.
Speaker 4 (10:00):
It's been going on for about sixty years.
Speaker 3 (10:02):
Now, And for me, the worst part was having to
hear about RFK Junior and all the weird things he
does with animals. I mean, we have to learn how
he grills goat skeletons, and how he picks up dead
bears and dumps in Central Park, and how his head
is a cemetery for brain eating worms. But last month
he dropped off the race, And thank Buddha because now
I don't have to listen to any more of his
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weird animal shit.
Speaker 4 (10:25):
Robert F.
Speaker 13 (10:26):
Kennedy Junior is now under federal investigation for allegedly decapitating
a dead whale and taking the head home.
Speaker 4 (10:34):
What is going on? It's good?
Speaker 3 (10:37):
Is there any animal on earth you won't mutilate? I mean,
keep that creep the hell away from Mudang. Now he's
under federal investigation for whale beheading, and I have so
many questions. I mean, for instance, how do you know
where the head starts? I mean, where does the tide go?
Does it go like up here? Is it like down
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after the fins? I mean the whole animal a head.
And also I didn't even know the government had an
agency for whale crimes. They must have been so happy
to get this case. I mean, I bet that morning
they're like, guys, guys, I think we're gonna have to
shut down. It's just not enough whale crimes to justify
a budget. So you're all fired in three two. Whoa wait,
(11:22):
hang on the phone is waying? Yes, yes, yes, you
can be right there.
Speaker 4 (11:27):
Yes, okay, we might have to rearrange our schedule, but
I just wait for us.
Speaker 3 (11:30):
And by the way, if you're wondering how he brought
the whalehead home, well it's as gross as you think.
Speaker 13 (11:37):
The longtime conservationist allegedly saw the head off a dead
whale back in nineteen ninety four after it washed up
on a Massachusetts beach. Kennedy reportedly cut off the whale's
head and then bungee courted it to the roof of
the family minivan before driving it across state lines.
Speaker 12 (11:53):
To bring it back to his New York homb so he.
Speaker 4 (11:56):
Could study the school.
Speaker 13 (11:58):
Rfk's daughter Kick Kennedy originally shared the fishy anecdote more
than a decade ago.
Speaker 6 (12:03):
She said, every time they accelerated, quote, whale juice poured
into the windows.
Speaker 3 (12:10):
How can you be in the same family as Ted
Kennedy and still have the worst driving story in the family.
RFK Junior keeps saying that vaccines caused as health problems,
but hey, maybe you think it's from inhaling, kai exhaust
and shamougism for eight hours. My big question is what
the hell did RFK do with the whales head?
Speaker 12 (12:31):
I mean, I sold the great head to be.
Speaker 1 (12:36):
Wait?
Speaker 4 (12:39):
Who said that?
Speaker 12 (12:42):
Who said that to that honey whaler who scours the
one Duxies for its blobby bees?
Speaker 3 (12:49):
Okay, wait, hold on, some sort of old timey fisherman.
Speaker 12 (12:53):
Sure don't you see the beard the pipe?
Speaker 4 (12:56):
Let's I don't need a whole sea shanty? Okay? Are
you saying that you buy whaleheads from RFK Jr? Why
would you do that?
Speaker 2 (13:06):
Well, if you know of a better way to get
whale juice, I more ears, two legged land lover.
Speaker 3 (13:12):
Okay, king, just tell me what do you even do
if a whales head?
Speaker 2 (13:15):
What don't I do with them? The oil fuse the
gas lamps from Vantucket. Their bones make fine corsets for
the lasses of New Bedford, and the blowholes are nature's fleshlight.
Speaker 4 (13:26):
Okay, Wow, that's that is gross.
Speaker 12 (13:29):
Oh someone likes to kink.
Speaker 2 (13:31):
Shame, don't they huh, get with the times, man, it's
eighteen twenty four.
Speaker 12 (13:37):
The point is I need more whaleheads, So spread the
word across the seven seas.
Speaker 2 (13:42):
Gold to balloon to any green horde who brings me
the skull of the lemarthen.
Speaker 4 (13:46):
Okay, I don't think the balloons are legal tender anymore.
Speaker 2 (13:49):
Okay, fine, crypto then either way it'll buy you many
a blowhole for the lonely nights that seed.
Speaker 3 (13:57):
Listen, old timey sailor. Decapitating whales is wrong.
Speaker 12 (14:00):
It doesn't have to be a whale. Any creature of
the sea will earn you mean treasure.
Speaker 2 (14:05):
The tentacles of an octopus, the jaws of a great white,
the head of the orphan clownfish they call Nemo, and
an extra the balloon to any man who brings me
the giant.
Speaker 1 (14:15):
Squid of the deep, so I can make.
Speaker 8 (14:17):
Her my bride.
Speaker 4 (14:18):
What did you just say, You gonna marry a squid?
Speaker 12 (14:21):
What I say about kick chovy?
Speaker 3 (14:22):
Man?
Speaker 4 (14:25):
You sound like you really know r K Jr. Really
really well. Okay, so are you gonna be voting for him? No?
Speaker 12 (14:32):
I collect the separate heads of whales. I'm not a lunatic.
Speaker 4 (14:37):
Old timey sail everybody. When we come back, Louise.
Speaker 14 (14:43):
Aridondo be joining on the shelf and don't go away. Hey,
welcome bout that daily show.
Speaker 3 (15:04):
My guest to night is the former head of the
secretive Pentagon unit that study UFOs. He's written the best
selling book Imminent Inside the Pentagon's Hunt for UFOs. Please
welcome Louis Alesondo. Okay, so you know, thanks well coming
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on the show. Louis, thank you for having me my
honorn privilege. Yeah, it's really nice to take a break
talking about divisive American politics to talk about what is
going on.
Speaker 4 (15:42):
It's aliens.
Speaker 1 (15:43):
Well, first of all, we don't call them aliens anymore.
That's kind of a politically incorrect term. We now call
them in the Pentagon NHI, non human intelligence.
Speaker 3 (15:54):
Okay, maybe you should probably give you your bona fides
a bit. You well, you are, you ran in you
are in intelligence and count intelligence.
Speaker 1 (16:04):
Yeah. So after college, I spent some time. I went
into the United States Army, spent some time in military intelligence,
and then from there I was recruited into some special
activity programs where I became a special agent in counter
intelligence investigating terrorism and espionage. In two thousand and nine,
early two thousand and nine, I was brought in to
run counter intelligence for that program what is now known
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as a TIP, the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program, and
later on I wound up being one of its senior members.
Speaker 3 (16:33):
Right, so you are a military man, a veteran, you
are intelligence officer, count intelligence officer, a grown adult. By
your own words, you're also a fat based person.
Speaker 4 (16:47):
You've said that in interviews.
Speaker 1 (16:50):
But I'm also proof that you don't have to be
intelligent to be an intelligence Well.
Speaker 4 (16:53):
No, I wouldn't go.
Speaker 1 (16:54):
Let me just put that out there.
Speaker 4 (16:55):
Okay, well, let me put this out there.
Speaker 1 (16:57):
What is going on?
Speaker 4 (16:58):
These aliens?
Speaker 8 (17:00):
So?
Speaker 1 (17:00):
What is alien?
Speaker 4 (17:01):
What's going on that's aliens?
Speaker 14 (17:02):
What?
Speaker 3 (17:02):
What is this?
Speaker 1 (17:03):
So the US government for many decades has been investing
a lot of tax payer money looking into this this
topic here, and it turns out that there are absolutely
technologies that are coming into our controlled US airspace over
our sensitive military installations, may have the ability to interfere
with our nuclear equities. And yeah, it's real. And not
only are pilots picking it up and reporting it. Also
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we've got on electro optical data like gun camera footage
flear footage and also radar data. And it's not just here.
It looks like it's pretty pervasive all over the world.
Speaker 4 (17:34):
Now, so what there's aliens. There's aliens, aliens on right
now and doing shit. What they're doing?
Speaker 1 (17:45):
How you put those two words together, I'm not sure that.
Speaker 3 (17:48):
I'm not sure necessarily that aliens come go okay, so
what arey doing?
Speaker 4 (17:53):
What they're doing here? What are you doing?
Speaker 1 (17:55):
So it appears that they're very interested in our technology.
We don't know yet. I want to be very clear.
Speaker 3 (18:00):
They came here and they don't want to look at
my iPhone sixteen. No, but they've got shit that flew
across the stars they don't care about.
Speaker 1 (18:07):
They are very interested in our military equities and capabilities,
and also our nuclear technology. And I think what's for me,
what was most compelling is that in some cases you
had literally literally near misses of US combat aircraft coming
within fifteen feet of these objects, in some cases literally
splitting a combat formation right down the middle. These are
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things that can do things that none of our vehicles
can replicate. Their performance capabilities are far beyond anything that
we have, and quite frankly, there's not a whole lot
we can do about it right now.
Speaker 3 (18:42):
So beyond a shadow of a doubt that you've seen
the evidence the aliens.
Speaker 1 (18:47):
Oh, the governments already come out. Look, you have a
former director of National Intelligence, a former director of CIA,
a former president of the United States, all coming out
and saying officially, yeah, there's something to this. I mean,
these things look like they are definitely interested in our stuff.
And furthermore, when the government first came out with their
(19:07):
new UFO program called Arrow, their first report said, yeah,
there's one hundred and forty three of these incidents, but
we expect these numbers to go down as we figure
them out. The next report that came out there was
over three hundred. The next report there's now over eight hundreds.
So the numbers increasing, not decreasing.
Speaker 3 (19:22):
Okay, So why is this getting buried in the cycle
or something? Because Donald Trump says, I hate Taylor Swift.
So we just never see this stuff because when you presidents,
the government has said these things at around, so their.
Speaker 1 (19:34):
In life is problem. It's a bureaucracy. Look, the men
and women find men and women of the Pentagon and
the US government doing credible work, and most of the
time we are a lot better off as a society
because of the professionalism. Unfortunately, in this particular case, the
bureaucracy was a problem. We continue to try to get
alarm bells up to the Secretary of Defense over and
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over again, but there was this layer of these proverbial
praetorian guards that didn't want I want to tell the
Secretary Defense that we were spending taxpayer money looking into
these things and oh, by the way, turns out they're real.
Speaker 3 (20:08):
Okay, are you, with all due respect, is there any
chance that you would accidentally describing the synopsis to Independence
Day because that's the movie that was in the movie,
they couldn't get to the dude because they wouldn't listen.
So you're telling me aliens are going to take over
because of US government bureaucracy.
Speaker 1 (20:26):
Well, I certainly hope that's not the case. I think,
you know, when we look at this issue here, this
has been going on for decades. This has been going
on since the late nineteen forties. I want to say
that people go, wait a minute, you're talking about Roswell.
Was Roswell? Reel was Roswell?
Speaker 4 (20:39):
Wil It was absolutely okay, So what was that Roswell?
Speaker 1 (20:45):
There was a crash. It was of a vehicle that
had broken into two pieces, and it was recovered by
the United States government, taken to a secure military installation,
and then from there it went out to certain locations.
What is in that book I'm allowed to talk about
that went through the Pentagony view process, so I am
legally able to talk about it. There are things that
I'm still not yet allowed to talk about.
Speaker 4 (21:05):
Well, those things tell us those things.
Speaker 1 (21:09):
Well, let's see here. I don't know. I do not
look good in an orange jumpsuit, so I gotta be
very careful, Like.
Speaker 3 (21:15):
Are you're gonna look good in whatever jumps with the
aliens put on you? Better?
Speaker 4 (21:18):
We better be.
Speaker 3 (21:20):
This is the It sounds like, well, battling aliens and
bureaucracy here? Can we I don't know if we can
fight a two front one on this? Can we choose
a side to fight here?
Speaker 1 (21:28):
I think I'd prefer to fight aliens if I had
to choose between bureaucracy, to be honest with.
Speaker 3 (21:34):
Okay, So in the book you say that, and by
the way, I mean, I read the book and it's
it's a very uh it's a pattern, it's it's very
well written.
Speaker 4 (21:43):
It's easy to follow.
Speaker 3 (21:45):
Like in it, you say, like the best case scenario
right now is that aliens on national security threat issue.
Speaker 1 (21:54):
It is just to determine if something is a threat.
It's really a very simple calculus. It's capabilities versus intent.
Now we've seen some of the capabilities, we still have
no idea the intent, So therefore we don't know if
it's a threat. But let me give you a very
quick analogy. Here. You probably live in a great lovely area,
just like your audience here. Do you lock your door?
Speaker 4 (22:14):
Live in New York City?
Speaker 1 (22:14):
So no, no, really, do you lock your front doors?
Speaker 4 (22:17):
That's aliens here right now in New York City. Is
you're gonna say, yeah, I do lock my front.
Speaker 1 (22:20):
Those so and most people do. And let's say you
lock your windows and you turn it on your alarm.
Let's say one Sunday morning, you come downstairs, I have
a hot cup of coffee, your tea, and despite your
doors being locked, in your window and your alarm on,
there's now size twelve muddy boot prints in your living
room floor and your carpet that weren't there the night before. Now,
no one's been hurt, nothing's out of place, but despite
you doing all this other stuff and locking doors and
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making sure the alarm's on. They're an outfootprints in your
living room carpet that weren't there the night before. My
question to you is is that a threat? And so
my response is from a national security perspective, I was
wearing my national security hat. It could be if it
wanted to be. So we probably should figure out how
it's getting into the house.
Speaker 3 (22:57):
You'll probably move at that point, we should all that apartment.
There's bootprints, they're still walking around.
Speaker 1 (23:03):
So these things are are We are encountering them over
controlled US air space, like I said, over sensitive military installations,
and so from a national security perspective, we've got to
figure out what these things are.
Speaker 4 (23:13):
No ship, no ship. We got to figure out what's
got you.
Speaker 3 (23:16):
See, you're saying you're being very professional and being very technical,
and you're being very calm as an intelligence officer, and
then you're saying that aliens said that we don't know
what they want?
Speaker 7 (23:24):
What what?
Speaker 4 (23:25):
Okay?
Speaker 3 (23:25):
What do? What should people take away from this as
aliens and what look when you see it?
Speaker 4 (23:29):
Shoot on site? No?
Speaker 1 (23:30):
No, no, no, don't do that. I would recommend not
doing that. I think what what people need to know
Right now? US government is taking this topic very seriously.
There's there's several pieces of legislation that are going through
through Congress right now. There are members in both the
House and the Senate that had been briefed by whistleblowers
on this topic, people who have been part of certain
efforts UAP efforts in the past.
Speaker 3 (23:52):
You should is not getting mixed up the Border Act,
right because that when you say aliens, I don't think
they really know which ones you're talking.
Speaker 1 (23:58):
Well, we're these, I mean yeah, if you have illegal
aliens and you've got aliens, yeah, right.
Speaker 2 (24:06):
Right.
Speaker 4 (24:06):
So so there's acts coming out as legislation.
Speaker 3 (24:10):
What legislating against intergalactic aliens?
Speaker 1 (24:14):
Well, I think the idea is to open the door
for whistleblowers to come out and be able to have
a protected conversation with Congress, so Congress can then have
a conversation with American people. I think that's really what
this is about. And certainly I think there's certain people
in By the way, for the first time, this is
a bipartisan issue. You've got both liberals and conservatives on
the hill. Can you believe it, of all things UAP right.
Speaker 3 (24:36):
No, See, that's the most off assed thing you said,
right right, that is not who would have thought I'll
believe aliens.
Speaker 4 (24:44):
Right, there's no way these guys are working together.
Speaker 1 (24:47):
They are, I swear to God, I can't say who
they are, but their names have already been I think
in the press quite a bit. But on both sides,
they are taking this topic very seriously. A lot of
these folks have military backgrounds.
Speaker 3 (24:59):
Why don't they just let it out, Just let the
news out, Tell people to show them the freaking show
them the photo of the alien selfie with the president,
and then let's get it out.
Speaker 1 (25:08):
There, let's handle We've spent many decades backing ourselves into
a corner on this conversation, and the government has said
publicly what its position is. Now it's in a situation
where it's having to unwind that conversation and say, look, folks,
we haven't always been completely forthcoming and truthful with you.
And that's a hard conversation to.
Speaker 4 (25:27):
Have when you talk about that's aliens. Have the conversation, there's.
Speaker 3 (25:30):
Aliens, there's aliens. That's aliens. All right, Well, can we
can we stop them?
Speaker 1 (25:40):
Well? I don't know, I mean, that's not a question
for me. That's a question for kind of a.
Speaker 4 (25:44):
Question for you.
Speaker 3 (25:45):
I think you're the only one who can, because it
sounds like your aditude also seems to be like, yeah,
they're here, I've seen them. They have capabilities beyond an understanding,
and nothing much we can do about it. So you know,
keep watching Paramount plus and what we're supposed to do
about this now.
Speaker 1 (26:01):
I think, Look, I personally think Americans can handle the
truth about this topic. I think it's it is. I mean,
we can joke a lot about it, but the reality
is is that these things, whatever they are, wherever they're from,
alien this is real.
Speaker 4 (26:12):
Yeah, so you real, all right.
Speaker 1 (26:15):
Yeah, it's real whatever it is.
Speaker 3 (26:17):
Okay, Well, is that a chance that if the government
tells people aliens are real and shows them, will unite
together in a global effort to defeat them?
Speaker 1 (26:23):
And well, you know, there were there. There was a
famous speech by by Reagan back in the eighties where
he's by.
Speaker 4 (26:30):
Bill Pullman in Independence.
Speaker 1 (26:34):
And him, Yeah that's right, where they said that if
if if the truth of this came out, it would
probably unite the world.
Speaker 4 (26:40):
But we need it. Now, let's go aliens, let's go. Now,
this is the time.
Speaker 14 (26:47):
This is the time.
Speaker 4 (26:47):
We got a lot of shit going down. Now, Aliens
come aliens, and now I'm down for aliens. Now, okay,
if we look.
Speaker 1 (26:54):
Uniting Congress is already a big enough challenge. Let's let's
get these folks on the same sheet of music. Let's
get the briefings they need, and then let them have
a conversation with their constituents.
Speaker 3 (27:03):
You're talking about paperwork, I'm talking about aliens.
Speaker 1 (27:07):
The government survives off of paperwork. It is a bureaucracy, unfortunately,
so we have to look, there's a there's a I've
always said there's a there's a right way to do things,
and you can do also it right now, but they're
not necessarily the same thing. Doing things right and right
now may not be you know, the same the same.
Speaker 3 (27:24):
Thing you mean as aliens, and you want to go
through bureaucracy until unite Congress before you can fight the aliens.
Speaker 4 (27:30):
Fight the aliens, get the aliens out.
Speaker 1 (27:32):
I think there's opportunity here. In the last seven years,
I think we've come further on this conversation than we
have the last seventy. There are elements now in the
government that want this conversation to occur. They want the
American people to know. Look, this is the worst kept
secret at this point, probably in the US government. I mean,
it's it's pathetic the fact that so many people now
are in our militaries, are intelligence communities, have even in
(27:54):
some cases come up close and personal with these things.
Speaker 4 (27:56):
Wait, yeah, okay, this is okay, this is crazy. Anyway,
imminent is.
Speaker 1 (28:05):
Imminent?
Speaker 4 (28:05):
Is available? Now? I wish you could.
Speaker 3 (28:08):
We could talk for hours about this big malait everybody.
Speaker 4 (28:12):
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We've got so much to talk about tonight. Donald Trump
had a very busy weekend. Republicans wants you to tone
your rhetoric down, you bastards, and RFK Jr is still
doing RFK JR things.
Speaker 4 (00:56):
So let's get into today's headlines.
Speaker 3 (01:03):
Ever since Joe Biden dropped out for being old as shit,
lots of people have been saying, what about Donald Trump?
He's also an old man. But listen, Trump has energy. Okay,
look how much he got done this weekend. He held
a rally, he started at a crypto company you definitely
should put all your money into, and he got in
nine hoes of golf, well five hose. That was a
(01:24):
bit of an interruption.
Speaker 1 (01:26):
Tonight, the Chili new details in the apparent second assassination
attempt on Donald Trump.
Speaker 3 (01:31):
Yo again, Hey, will you people stop trying to assassinate
Donald Trump. Not only is it morally wrong, but you're
also just giving him more things to brag about. They
only tried to kill Overham Lincoln once. That makes me
twice as great as him. But yes, this weekend, a
crazy person tried to hunt Donald Trump in his natural
habitat his golf course.
Speaker 5 (01:52):
Investigators say a Secret Service agent monitoring the woods ahead
of mister Trump as he played golf on Sunday, saw
a rifle barrel through the tree line and open fire.
Speaker 6 (02:02):
The subject, who did not have line of sight to
the former president, fled the scene.
Speaker 1 (02:07):
He did not fire or get off any shots. At
our agents.
Speaker 5 (02:12):
Cell phone record show he had been in place at
the edge of the golf course for nearly twelve hours.
Speaker 3 (02:17):
This guy managed to walk into Trump's golf course and
stay there undetected for twelve hours. Okay, and I don't
know if you've thought about this, Trump, but maybe you
should consider building, you know, like a wall, Like I
don't know if you're like a.
Speaker 4 (02:32):
You know, a wall guy. Just just think about it.
Speaker 3 (02:34):
But by the way, have you noticed that the news
reports are all like a herrowing neo tragedy, sending chills
through a nation, And meanwhile everyone you actually know is like, oh.
Speaker 4 (02:46):
Oh yeah, yeah, I saw that.
Speaker 3 (02:48):
Yeah. I mean we have to act like it's a
big deal. But he doesn't really have the same impact
of the first one. You know, It's kind of like
Black Panther two. You're like, yeah, I guess I'll see it.
I mean, how's that going to work?
Speaker 4 (03:00):
Now?
Speaker 3 (03:00):
The Cicco Service is getting a lot of heat for
letting that guy get this far, but don't worry that
taking action.
Speaker 5 (03:05):
As part of that increase focus on security, the Palm
Beach County Sheriff now says that mar A Lago behind
me has the highest security level possible, equivalent to when
Donald Trump was president.
Speaker 3 (03:16):
That's right, the highest security level possible. It goes security,
maximum security, and then Homer Loane level. I'm talking paint
cans on the stairs, scary movies playing really loud, a
codboard cutout of Trump in the windows, moving back and forth,
and if things get really bad, Trump's scary old friend
will show up.
Speaker 4 (03:35):
And protect him.
Speaker 3 (03:36):
Now, the motive of the assassin remains unclear, so we'll
have to look at who might have a reason to
be angry at Donald Trump.
Speaker 6 (03:45):
On Sunday, three hours before the attempt, on his life.
Trump blaired I hate Taylor Swift on Truth's Social reacting
to her bombshell endorsement of Kamala Harris O.
Speaker 3 (03:57):
Donald tweeting, I hate Taylor Swift. That's dangerous. I mean
I would I would rather buy one of those hesbolop
pages than tweet I hate Taylor Swift. I think I
think Trump needs to stick to racism.
Speaker 4 (04:07):
It's less divisive.
Speaker 3 (04:09):
But the assassin this weekend was probably not a swiftye. Okay,
he doesn't fit them. Swifty is on nonviolent. They prefer
the cyber bully you until you kill yourself. So why
did this guy come for Trump? I mean, according to JD. Vans,
Trump's VP and the worst thing that happened to cat
ladies since feline aids. Democrats made him do it.
Speaker 7 (04:30):
The left needs to tone down the rhetoric and needs
to cut this crap out. We cannot tell the American
people that one candidate is a fascist and if he's elected,
it is going to be the end of American democracy.
Speaker 3 (04:44):
Yeah, liberals, stop accurately describing Trump. Okay, you're putting him
in danger when you repeat the things he says verbato.
But Jdvans has a point. The left needs to stop
calling its political opponents fascist. Okay, you don't see Donald
Trump doing that all the time.
Speaker 1 (05:03):
She's a Marxist, she's a fascist.
Speaker 8 (05:06):
She's a Marxist communist fascist socialist.
Speaker 1 (05:09):
We have a fascist person running.
Speaker 9 (05:11):
There's a radical left Marxist communist fascist. She's a Marxist
communist fascist person.
Speaker 3 (05:22):
But that last one it felt like he ran out
of woods. The end it is she's a Marxist communist
fascist dermatologist. I mean, Trump has called Kamala fascist so
much I'm not sure he knows her name. It's like
when you say to a coworker, oh hey, hey, yeah,
(05:43):
good to see you, my fascist buddy. Don't forget the
rules of slurs either. Okay, you can use the word
if you are one. That's why I can call someone
else ronnie, but you can't call me ronnie. Okay, that's
our words. But look, whether or not you think the
rhetoric should be toned down, it's just not something that
Trump and Vents actually believe in. I mean, for the
past week, the city of Springfield has been overrun with
(06:05):
bomb threats after Trump and Vents claimed that Haitian immigrants
are eating everyone's cats and dogs, which there is no
evidence of. I mean, people love posting photos of their food. Okay,
so we would have.
Speaker 4 (06:15):
Seen it by now.
Speaker 3 (06:17):
But when Trump was asked about those bomb threats, he
didn't seem too concerned.
Speaker 5 (06:22):
Did you announce the bomb threats in Springfield, Ohio?
Speaker 1 (06:26):
I don't know what happened with the bomb threats.
Speaker 9 (06:29):
I know that it's been taken over by illegal migrants.
Speaker 3 (06:34):
Yeah, the guy who wants everyone to believe he's super
concerned about political violence came even bring himself to say
he's against bomb threats. I mean, what more information are
you waiting for. It's a bomb threat. You need to
know who the bomb was going to vote for. I mean,
I can't believe this guy is saying that. Very fine
bomb threats on both sides. You know this isn't a
trick question. This is a layup for politicians. So I
(06:57):
do support the troops. So do you like Killo Swift
to say yes, it's laom so Well, any of the
heater rhetoric in this country change. Probably not, But there
was at least one moment over the weekend that offered
a glimmer of hope.
Speaker 10 (07:13):
President Biden Tonight spoke on the phone with Trump. The
White House describes the conversation as cordial, with Biden sharing
his relief that the former president is safe, and then
Trump thanking Biden for the call.
Speaker 3 (07:25):
Oh yeah, Joe Biden, I forgot about that guy. That's right,
he's the president. It's so nice when two eighty old
men can speak to each other on the last piece
of technology. They can truly understand. And I know you're thinking,
it would be great if we knew exactly what they
talked about on that call. Well, luckily we had the
(07:46):
Daily Show God hands on the very real audio recorded Hello, Hey.
Speaker 8 (07:52):
Johnny, it's me President Joe.
Speaker 1 (07:54):
Hi.
Speaker 8 (07:56):
Then has Biden blame's Joe, Brandy. I just want to say,
I'm glad you're safe. Directing Secretary service makes your mar
LAO completely secure.
Speaker 11 (08:06):
Thank you, Joe, And let me just say, please come back.
Huh please, Joe. This race has no fun without you.
Everyone is shooting at me. This black lady keeps laughing
at me in the debates. I need you, bat, Joe.
You had good times together.
Speaker 1 (08:22):
Didn't we.
Speaker 8 (08:22):
Of course we did. Donnie r Goes, she's us sinking
in my life purpose Nowadays, no one even pays attention
to me. Just yes day, phoot down furey stairs.
Speaker 1 (08:33):
Jill just walked over me.
Speaker 11 (08:34):
Then tell everyone you're back in the race. You can
call me a threat to democracy. I'll call you a
demented head of an international crime family. It'll be like
old times.
Speaker 8 (08:45):
Don't you think I want to They won't let me,
and she posts you shut my door and out a
baseball man.
Speaker 4 (08:53):
Sorry, Donnie, I gotta go.
Speaker 1 (08:55):
I gotta go to jd Vance.
Speaker 11 (08:57):
Just call women walking embryo bags. So I gotta deal
with that.
Speaker 8 (09:02):
Goodbye, Joe.
Speaker 12 (09:03):
Wait, Donnie, run away with me?
Speaker 8 (09:07):
What let me at going up tree at for five
o'clock we drive some small Latino country and run for
president there. Oh my god, is this really happening?
Speaker 11 (09:16):
Are you serious?
Speaker 3 (09:18):
Joe?
Speaker 8 (09:18):
I'm as serious as you represent democracy? Who you are?
Speaker 1 (09:22):
Old friends? You have that senator bitch.
Speaker 11 (09:25):
You have made me the happiest man alive.
Speaker 4 (09:30):
I'm so happy for them. When we come back, we'll
talk about the latest. Our case kind of above me
to poke with an animal.
Speaker 1 (09:36):
But don't go away.
Speaker 4 (09:56):
Welcome back there there we sho.
Speaker 1 (09:58):
It's t to d all Way.
Speaker 4 (10:00):
It's been going on for about sixty years.
Speaker 3 (10:02):
Now, And for me, the worst part was having to
hear about RFK Junior and all the weird things he
does with animals. I mean, we have to learn how
he grills goat skeletons, and how he picks up dead
bears and dumps in Central Park, and how his head
is a cemetery for brain eating worms. But last month
he dropped off the race, And thank Buddha because now
I don't have to listen to any more of his
(10:23):
weird animal shit.
Speaker 4 (10:25):
Robert F.
Speaker 13 (10:26):
Kennedy Junior is now under federal investigation for allegedly decapitating
a dead whale and taking the head home.
Speaker 4 (10:34):
What is going on? It's good?
Speaker 3 (10:37):
Is there any animal on earth you won't mutilate? I mean,
keep that creep the hell away from Mudang. Now he's
under federal investigation for whale beheading, and I have so
many questions. I mean, for instance, how do you know
where the head starts? I mean, where does the tide go?
Does it go like up here? Is it like down
(10:57):
after the fins? I mean the whole animal a head.
And also I didn't even know the government had an
agency for whale crimes. They must have been so happy
to get this case. I mean, I bet that morning
they're like, guys, guys, I think we're gonna have to
shut down. It's just not enough whale crimes to justify
a budget. So you're all fired in three two. Whoa wait,
(11:22):
hang on the phone is waying? Yes, yes, yes, you
can be right there.
Speaker 4 (11:27):
Yes, okay, we might have to rearrange our schedule, but
I just wait for us.
Speaker 3 (11:30):
And by the way, if you're wondering how he brought
the whalehead home, well it's as gross as you think.
Speaker 13 (11:37):
The longtime conservationist allegedly saw the head off a dead
whale back in nineteen ninety four after it washed up
on a Massachusetts beach. Kennedy reportedly cut off the whale's
head and then bungee courted it to the roof of
the family minivan before driving it across state lines.
Speaker 12 (11:53):
To bring it back to his New York homb so he.
Speaker 4 (11:56):
Could study the school.
Speaker 13 (11:58):
Rfk's daughter Kick Kennedy originally shared the fishy anecdote more
than a decade ago.
Speaker 6 (12:03):
She said, every time they accelerated, quote, whale juice poured
into the windows.
Speaker 3 (12:10):
How can you be in the same family as Ted
Kennedy and still have the worst driving story in the family.
RFK Junior keeps saying that vaccines caused as health problems,
but hey, maybe you think it's from inhaling, kai exhaust
and shamougism for eight hours. My big question is what
the hell did RFK do with the whales head?
Speaker 12 (12:31):
I mean, I sold the great head to be.
Speaker 1 (12:36):
Wait?
Speaker 4 (12:39):
Who said that?
Speaker 12 (12:42):
Who said that to that honey whaler who scours the
one Duxies for its blobby bees?
Speaker 3 (12:49):
Okay, wait, hold on, some sort of old timey fisherman.
Speaker 12 (12:53):
Sure don't you see the beard the pipe?
Speaker 4 (12:56):
Let's I don't need a whole sea shanty? Okay? Are
you saying that you buy whaleheads from RFK Jr? Why
would you do that?
Speaker 2 (13:06):
Well, if you know of a better way to get
whale juice, I more ears, two legged land lover.
Speaker 3 (13:12):
Okay, king, just tell me what do you even do
if a whales head?
Speaker 2 (13:15):
What don't I do with them? The oil fuse the
gas lamps from Vantucket. Their bones make fine corsets for
the lasses of New Bedford, and the blowholes are nature's fleshlight.
Speaker 4 (13:26):
Okay, Wow, that's that is gross.
Speaker 12 (13:29):
Oh someone likes to kink.
Speaker 2 (13:31):
Shame, don't they huh, get with the times, man, it's
eighteen twenty four.
Speaker 12 (13:37):
The point is I need more whaleheads, So spread the
word across the seven seas.
Speaker 2 (13:42):
Gold to balloon to any green horde who brings me
the skull of the lemarthen.
Speaker 4 (13:46):
Okay, I don't think the balloons are legal tender anymore.
Speaker 2 (13:49):
Okay, fine, crypto then either way it'll buy you many
a blowhole for the lonely nights that seed.
Speaker 3 (13:57):
Listen, old timey sailor. Decapitating whales is wrong.
Speaker 12 (14:00):
It doesn't have to be a whale. Any creature of
the sea will earn you mean treasure.
Speaker 2 (14:05):
The tentacles of an octopus, the jaws of a great white,
the head of the orphan clownfish they call Nemo, and
an extra the balloon to any man who brings me
the giant.
Speaker 1 (14:15):
Squid of the deep, so I can make.
Speaker 8 (14:17):
Her my bride.
Speaker 4 (14:18):
What did you just say, You gonna marry a squid?
Speaker 12 (14:21):
What I say about kick chovy?
Speaker 3 (14:22):
Man?
Speaker 4 (14:25):
You sound like you really know r K Jr. Really
really well. Okay, so are you gonna be voting for him? No?
Speaker 12 (14:32):
I collect the separate heads of whales. I'm not a lunatic.
Speaker 4 (14:37):
Old timey sail everybody. When we come back, Louise.
Speaker 14 (14:43):
Aridondo be joining on the shelf and don't go away. Hey,
welcome bout that daily show.
Speaker 3 (15:04):
My guest to night is the former head of the
secretive Pentagon unit that study UFOs. He's written the best
selling book Imminent Inside the Pentagon's Hunt for UFOs. Please
welcome Louis Alesondo. Okay, so you know, thanks well coming
(15:33):
on the show. Louis, thank you for having me my
honorn privilege. Yeah, it's really nice to take a break
talking about divisive American politics to talk about what is
going on.
Speaker 4 (15:42):
It's aliens.
Speaker 1 (15:43):
Well, first of all, we don't call them aliens anymore.
That's kind of a politically incorrect term. We now call
them in the Pentagon NHI, non human intelligence.
Speaker 3 (15:54):
Okay, maybe you should probably give you your bona fides
a bit. You well, you are, you ran in you
are in intelligence and count intelligence.
Speaker 1 (16:04):
Yeah. So after college, I spent some time. I went
into the United States Army, spent some time in military intelligence,
and then from there I was recruited into some special
activity programs where I became a special agent in counter
intelligence investigating terrorism and espionage. In two thousand and nine,
early two thousand and nine, I was brought in to
run counter intelligence for that program what is now known
(16:27):
as a TIP, the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program, and
later on I wound up being one of its senior members.
Speaker 3 (16:33):
Right, so you are a military man, a veteran, you
are intelligence officer, count intelligence officer, a grown adult. By
your own words, you're also a fat based person.
Speaker 4 (16:47):
You've said that in interviews.
Speaker 1 (16:50):
But I'm also proof that you don't have to be
intelligent to be an intelligence Well.
Speaker 4 (16:53):
No, I wouldn't go.
Speaker 1 (16:54):
Let me just put that out there.
Speaker 4 (16:55):
Okay, well, let me put this out there.
Speaker 1 (16:57):
What is going on?
Speaker 4 (16:58):
These aliens?
Speaker 8 (17:00):
So?
Speaker 1 (17:00):
What is alien?
Speaker 4 (17:01):
What's going on that's aliens?
Speaker 14 (17:02):
What?
Speaker 3 (17:02):
What is this?
Speaker 1 (17:03):
So the US government for many decades has been investing
a lot of tax payer money looking into this this
topic here, and it turns out that there are absolutely
technologies that are coming into our controlled US airspace over
our sensitive military installations, may have the ability to interfere
with our nuclear equities. And yeah, it's real. And not
only are pilots picking it up and reporting it. Also
(17:26):
we've got on electro optical data like gun camera footage
flear footage and also radar data. And it's not just here.
It looks like it's pretty pervasive all over the world.
Speaker 4 (17:34):
Now, so what there's aliens. There's aliens, aliens on right
now and doing shit. What they're doing?
Speaker 1 (17:45):
How you put those two words together, I'm not sure that.
Speaker 3 (17:48):
I'm not sure necessarily that aliens come go okay, so
what arey doing?
Speaker 4 (17:53):
What they're doing here? What are you doing?
Speaker 1 (17:55):
So it appears that they're very interested in our technology.
We don't know yet. I want to be very clear.
Speaker 3 (18:00):
They came here and they don't want to look at
my iPhone sixteen. No, but they've got shit that flew
across the stars they don't care about.
Speaker 1 (18:07):
They are very interested in our military equities and capabilities,
and also our nuclear technology. And I think what's for me,
what was most compelling is that in some cases you
had literally literally near misses of US combat aircraft coming
within fifteen feet of these objects, in some cases literally
splitting a combat formation right down the middle. These are
(18:29):
things that can do things that none of our vehicles
can replicate. Their performance capabilities are far beyond anything that
we have, and quite frankly, there's not a whole lot
we can do about it right now.
Speaker 3 (18:42):
So beyond a shadow of a doubt that you've seen
the evidence the aliens.
Speaker 1 (18:47):
Oh, the governments already come out. Look, you have a
former director of National Intelligence, a former director of CIA,
a former president of the United States, all coming out
and saying officially, yeah, there's something to this. I mean,
these things look like they are definitely interested in our stuff.
And furthermore, when the government first came out with their
(19:07):
new UFO program called Arrow, their first report said, yeah,
there's one hundred and forty three of these incidents, but
we expect these numbers to go down as we figure
them out. The next report that came out there was
over three hundred. The next report there's now over eight hundreds.
So the numbers increasing, not decreasing.
Speaker 3 (19:22):
Okay, So why is this getting buried in the cycle
or something? Because Donald Trump says, I hate Taylor Swift.
So we just never see this stuff because when you presidents,
the government has said these things at around, so their.
Speaker 1 (19:34):
In life is problem. It's a bureaucracy. Look, the men
and women find men and women of the Pentagon and
the US government doing credible work, and most of the
time we are a lot better off as a society
because of the professionalism. Unfortunately, in this particular case, the
bureaucracy was a problem. We continue to try to get
alarm bells up to the Secretary of Defense over and
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over again, but there was this layer of these proverbial
praetorian guards that didn't want I want to tell the
Secretary Defense that we were spending taxpayer money looking into
these things and oh, by the way, turns out they're real.
Speaker 3 (20:08):
Okay, are you, with all due respect, is there any
chance that you would accidentally describing the synopsis to Independence
Day because that's the movie that was in the movie,
they couldn't get to the dude because they wouldn't listen.
So you're telling me aliens are going to take over
because of US government bureaucracy.
Speaker 1 (20:26):
Well, I certainly hope that's not the case. I think,
you know, when we look at this issue here, this
has been going on for decades. This has been going
on since the late nineteen forties. I want to say
that people go, wait a minute, you're talking about Roswell.
Was Roswell? Reel was Roswell?
Speaker 4 (20:39):
Wil It was absolutely okay, So what was that Roswell?
Speaker 1 (20:45):
There was a crash. It was of a vehicle that
had broken into two pieces, and it was recovered by
the United States government, taken to a secure military installation,
and then from there it went out to certain locations.
What is in that book I'm allowed to talk about
that went through the Pentagony view process, so I am
legally able to talk about it. There are things that
I'm still not yet allowed to talk about.
Speaker 4 (21:05):
Well, those things tell us those things.
Speaker 1 (21:09):
Well, let's see here. I don't know. I do not
look good in an orange jumpsuit, so I gotta be
very careful, Like.
Speaker 3 (21:15):
Are you're gonna look good in whatever jumps with the
aliens put on you? Better?
Speaker 4 (21:18):
We better be.
Speaker 3 (21:20):
This is the It sounds like, well, battling aliens and
bureaucracy here? Can we I don't know if we can
fight a two front one on this? Can we choose
a side to fight here?
Speaker 1 (21:28):
I think I'd prefer to fight aliens if I had
to choose between bureaucracy, to be honest with.
Speaker 3 (21:34):
Okay, So in the book you say that, and by
the way, I mean, I read the book and it's
it's a very uh it's a pattern, it's it's very
well written.
Speaker 4 (21:43):
It's easy to follow.
Speaker 3 (21:45):
Like in it, you say, like the best case scenario
right now is that aliens on national security threat issue.
Speaker 1 (21:54):
It is just to determine if something is a threat.
It's really a very simple calculus. It's capabilities versus intent.
Now we've seen some of the capabilities, we still have
no idea the intent, So therefore we don't know if
it's a threat. But let me give you a very
quick analogy. Here. You probably live in a great lovely area,
just like your audience here. Do you lock your door?
Speaker 4 (22:14):
Live in New York City?
Speaker 1 (22:14):
So no, no, really, do you lock your front doors?
Speaker 4 (22:17):
That's aliens here right now in New York City. Is
you're gonna say, yeah, I do lock my front.
Speaker 1 (22:20):
Those so and most people do. And let's say you
lock your windows and you turn it on your alarm.
Let's say one Sunday morning, you come downstairs, I have
a hot cup of coffee, your tea, and despite your
doors being locked, in your window and your alarm on,
there's now size twelve muddy boot prints in your living
room floor and your carpet that weren't there the night before. Now,
no one's been hurt, nothing's out of place, but despite
you doing all this other stuff and locking doors and
(22:42):
making sure the alarm's on. They're an outfootprints in your
living room carpet that weren't there the night before. My
question to you is is that a threat? And so
my response is from a national security perspective, I was
wearing my national security hat. It could be if it
wanted to be. So we probably should figure out how
it's getting into the house.
Speaker 3 (22:57):
You'll probably move at that point, we should all that apartment.
There's bootprints, they're still walking around.
Speaker 1 (23:03):
So these things are are We are encountering them over
controlled US air space, like I said, over sensitive military installations,
and so from a national security perspective, we've got to
figure out what these things are.
Speaker 4 (23:13):
No ship, no ship. We got to figure out what's
got you.
Speaker 3 (23:16):
See, you're saying you're being very professional and being very technical,
and you're being very calm as an intelligence officer, and
then you're saying that aliens said that we don't know
what they want?
Speaker 7 (23:24):
What what?
Speaker 4 (23:25):
Okay?
Speaker 3 (23:25):
What do? What should people take away from this as
aliens and what look when you see it?
Speaker 4 (23:29):
Shoot on site? No?
Speaker 1 (23:30):
No, no, no, don't do that. I would recommend not
doing that. I think what what people need to know
Right now? US government is taking this topic very seriously.
There's there's several pieces of legislation that are going through
through Congress right now. There are members in both the
House and the Senate that had been briefed by whistleblowers
on this topic, people who have been part of certain
efforts UAP efforts in the past.
Speaker 3 (23:52):
You should is not getting mixed up the Border Act,
right because that when you say aliens, I don't think
they really know which ones you're talking.
Speaker 1 (23:58):
Well, we're these, I mean yeah, if you have illegal
aliens and you've got aliens, yeah, right.
Speaker 2 (24:06):
Right.
Speaker 4 (24:06):
So so there's acts coming out as legislation.
Speaker 3 (24:10):
What legislating against intergalactic aliens?
Speaker 1 (24:14):
Well, I think the idea is to open the door
for whistleblowers to come out and be able to have
a protected conversation with Congress, so Congress can then have
a conversation with American people. I think that's really what
this is about. And certainly I think there's certain people
in By the way, for the first time, this is
a bipartisan issue. You've got both liberals and conservatives on
the hill. Can you believe it, of all things UAP right.
Speaker 3 (24:36):
No, See, that's the most off assed thing you said,
right right, that is not who would have thought I'll
believe aliens.
Speaker 4 (24:44):
Right, there's no way these guys are working together.
Speaker 1 (24:47):
They are, I swear to God, I can't say who
they are, but their names have already been I think
in the press quite a bit. But on both sides,
they are taking this topic very seriously. A lot of
these folks have military backgrounds.
Speaker 3 (24:59):
Why don't they just let it out, Just let the
news out, Tell people to show them the freaking show
them the photo of the alien selfie with the president,
and then let's get it out.
Speaker 1 (25:08):
There, let's handle We've spent many decades backing ourselves into
a corner on this conversation, and the government has said
publicly what its position is. Now it's in a situation
where it's having to unwind that conversation and say, look, folks,
we haven't always been completely forthcoming and truthful with you.
And that's a hard conversation to.
Speaker 4 (25:27):
Have when you talk about that's aliens. Have the conversation, there's.
Speaker 3 (25:30):
Aliens, there's aliens. That's aliens. All right, Well, can we
can we stop them?
Speaker 1 (25:40):
Well? I don't know, I mean, that's not a question
for me. That's a question for kind of a.
Speaker 4 (25:44):
Question for you.
Speaker 3 (25:45):
I think you're the only one who can, because it
sounds like your aditude also seems to be like, yeah,
they're here, I've seen them. They have capabilities beyond an understanding,
and nothing much we can do about it. So you know,
keep watching Paramount plus and what we're supposed to do
about this now.
Speaker 1 (26:01):
I think, Look, I personally think Americans can handle the
truth about this topic. I think it's it is. I mean,
we can joke a lot about it, but the reality
is is that these things, whatever they are, wherever they're from,
alien this is real.
Speaker 4 (26:12):
Yeah, so you real, all right.
Speaker 1 (26:15):
Yeah, it's real whatever it is.
Speaker 3 (26:17):
Okay, Well, is that a chance that if the government
tells people aliens are real and shows them, will unite
together in a global effort to defeat them?
Speaker 1 (26:23):
And well, you know, there were there. There was a
famous speech by by Reagan back in the eighties where
he's by.
Speaker 4 (26:30):
Bill Pullman in Independence.
Speaker 1 (26:34):
And him, Yeah that's right, where they said that if
if if the truth of this came out, it would
probably unite the world.
Speaker 4 (26:40):
But we need it. Now, let's go aliens, let's go. Now,
this is the time.
Speaker 14 (26:47):
This is the time.
Speaker 4 (26:47):
We got a lot of shit going down. Now, Aliens
come aliens, and now I'm down for aliens. Now, okay,
if we look.
Speaker 1 (26:54):
Uniting Congress is already a big enough challenge. Let's let's
get these folks on the same sheet of music. Let's
get the briefings they need, and then let them have
a conversation with their constituents.
Speaker 3 (27:03):
You're talking about paperwork, I'm talking about aliens.
Speaker 1 (27:07):
The government survives off of paperwork. It is a bureaucracy, unfortunately,
so we have to look, there's a there's a I've
always said there's a there's a right way to do things,
and you can do also it right now, but they're
not necessarily the same thing. Doing things right and right
now may not be you know, the same the same.
Speaker 3 (27:24):
Thing you mean as aliens, and you want to go
through bureaucracy until unite Congress before you can fight the aliens.
Speaker 4 (27:30):
Fight the aliens, get the aliens out.
Speaker 1 (27:32):
I think there's opportunity here. In the last seven years,
I think we've come further on this conversation than we
have the last seventy. There are elements now in the
government that want this conversation to occur. They want the
American people to know. Look, this is the worst kept
secret at this point, probably in the US government. I mean,
it's it's pathetic the fact that so many people now
are in our militaries, are intelligence communities, have even in
(27:54):
some cases come up close and personal with these things.
Speaker 4 (27:56):
Wait, yeah, okay, this is okay, this is crazy. Anyway,
imminent is.
Speaker 1 (28:05):
Imminent?
Speaker 4 (28:05):
Is available? Now? I wish you could.
Speaker 3 (28:08):
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