176: Back in the Basement

After an unplanned absence, Bob and Chad are back in the basement. Beer was had and topics were discussed, including the former chief of the US Government's UAP research agency (AARO) putting out an Op-Ed claiming that there is ZERO evidence of aliens.

See Sean Kirkpatrick's Op-Ed here.

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Episode Transcript

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This is the most important audience.It may not be the biggest, but
it is the most important audience.I mean, where else are you gonna
hear? Cold? And two zigzags? Baby? That's all we need.
I mean, why wouldn't you?Why my wife married me? And
that was the now you had kias? Yes, all three? What's up

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you beautiful bastards. Welcome to thebasement hangout. Coming to you from somewhere
in American suburbia. My name ischatted with me as always is fun and
we apologize for the late publisher ofthis episode. But I've been in Russia
interviewing Putin. That will be onour website. And how did your interview

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with Putin go? It was amazing, was it? Yes? Very hospitable.
Yeah, I slept on the trumppea bed. Did he sound like
this? Actually yes, he wasvery flemmy. He was always clearing his

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throat of flem Why is that?I don't know. I haven't figured that
out. When when you got there, were they playing music? Not this?
But yes? Yeah, not this? No, not fuck you bitch,
I mean that doesn't sound right.It was other stuff, a lot
of vodka warm, which I'm nota big fan of okay, warm vodka

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sounds disgusting. They offered, youknow, ladies to be in the room,
but I said no because I'm ahappily married man. That's good because
they would have used that against youlater. Yeah, I'm sure they were
videoing. They would have made surethat what you reported was positive if they
had you on video with phorse right, So I made sure I slept in

(02:07):
my suit like didn't even you knowdecloth. That's very good. So what
questions did you ask? All thegood ones? I can't tell you now
because you got to watch the interview. Dude, where are you publishing this?
Not on the basement hang out dotcat? Well then I should know.
I know I'm telling you now.Why do you think I'm not here
earlier in the week, Man,I should know what the questions are.
I'm jet lagged. No, Butseriously, uh, we do apologize for

(02:34):
this late episode. Yes, especiallyto our new super fan. Shout out
to Patrick. Motherfucker, he isour man. Are you saying his name
correctly? Is it not? Ithink it's there A Why No, it's
Ian. Well I probably shouldn't say. I don't want to like doctor true

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you said no, I'll probably haveto bleep his last name. Actually,
yeah, you should do that.I don't want our millions of fans looking
him up and doxing him and threateninghim, you know what I mean,
Like, you're not the super fanI am, correct, you bitch,
which they all would they would be, you know, just like, yeah,
I am the super fan, goddamnit. Not Patrick whatever his name

(03:21):
is exactly. So anyway, wedid have an episode planned for earlier in
the week. Bob wasn't gonna beable to make it. Yeah, I
was in Russia. He was inRussia. We had a guy coming on
who said that he had encounters witha Gugway sasquatch, which is is that

(03:42):
an Indian sasquat, a Kree namefor a face eater sasquatch. He had
had multiple encounters. Did they eathis face? No, but he said
he saw one twice eating the face. No, but somehow just knows that
that was a face eater sasquay.Would have been a very interesting interview.
John Stewart was going to fill infor you the alien interview guy from the

(04:04):
Apple Show and no, not fromthat the Daily Show, No, the
other Patrick Patrick Stewart. John Stewart, but unfortunately the interviewee was a no
show. I was also down hardwith a stomach flu that I can't even

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describe to you. What was comingout of my backside. That's the new
COVID variant. Man. It waslike death. I would much rather have
COVID than what I had. Itwas twenty four hours long, and it
was twenty four hours of hell.So did you do courtesy flush in like
another bathroom? Where did you blowyour like you and your wife's bathroom up

(04:48):
the master? No? I camedown to the basement, dude, just
sat in the tub with just foryou. I left the remnants. I
did see many impacts of dude wipesin the track, not that that's not
abnormal for you. You probably alsosaw a spray bottle of chlorox there too.

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I did, but I thought thatwas from like the lady who cleans.
No, that was from me.What are you cleaning your ass?
Was it clorox? Dude? Afterwhat was going on in there during those
twenty four hours, I came downhere when I was like with it and
just sprayed the shit out of thattoilet and let it soak. Yeah,
it's smart because that I mean,I don't even know what happened. It
was like the aliens just put likethe shit in me, man, the

(05:32):
real bad shit. So it wasuh, was it black? You want
me to get into detail. No, not really, I guess. But
if it's black, they say that'sblood. Dude, you're bleeding. It
wasn't black. Yes, it was. I saw it. You're bleeding from
your hate? Yo. I wasmore than god, guess it. I

(05:54):
was a lot more than that.So did you eat something that made you
sick or what do you think itwas? I don't know. My son
had it, and he, uh, he kind of came to me,
like the morning of school, likehe got up for school. He came
downstairs and he's like, I don'treally feel well. My stomach's hurting.
He was all nonchalant as he is. I feel kind of weak. I

(06:15):
was like, all right, Iguess you should stay home. But he
didn't give me any indication of whata nightmare was. And then he's dealing
with it. He went back tobed, he came came out. We're
like, do you want to eat? He's like, no, I don't
think I can eat again, verynonchalant, and we're like Okay, I
gave him some tombs or whatever.Did that help? I don't know.
He doesn't say shit, dude.Did he swallow him like a huge pillardy

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to him? No? I gotthe chewable things. Yeah, those are
good. And uh that was it, you know, and it's kind of
like yeah. The next day's likeI don't feel completely normal, but I'm
better. I was like, man, this is like nothing. I got
it. And I was in bed, sweating, rocking in the fetal position.
I wish we had videos or thebasement hangout or blowing water out my

(07:01):
ass every ten minutes, like itwas insane. And I was like,
my son either didn't get as badas me, or he is a he's
more of a man than I am. He's probably more of a man.
I think you're probably right. Yeah, we all we all want our kids
to be two point zero. Hemight be two point five. So did
you like stay hydrated with liquid ivyor no? I drink water basically,

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so you're probably dehydrated. I wenttwenty four hours without eating a single bite,
which I haven't done in like twentyyears. So what's the first thing
you ate? A slice of pizza? Was it good? Cheese or it
was Dominoes. Oh yeah, exactly. I was very unhappy about it,
but that's what was in the fridge, right, So it wasn't even fresh,

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no, no, In fact,I was working hard and didn't have
a lot of time for lunch,so I went up and grabbed whatever I
could find, which was Domino's pizza. It wasn't even like it was just
cheese pizza with ham. There wasn'teven pepper or anything. Yeah, sad,
I threw it in the air fryer. How that to go? And

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I didn't even have time to wait. So when I took it out,
it wasn't even completely done. Itwas like lukewarm. It was disgusting because
you obviously weren't excited to eat becauseyou felt like shit still. But you
know, you know, I wasactually very excited to eat, but I
was so busy at work that Ididn't have time. You need time for
yourself, it's very important. Imean I usually have lots of time,
but this has been a rough week. So anyway, we didn't we weren't

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able to put out an episode.We apologize for that, and then I
must say, unfortunately, this comingweek is going to be difficult too,
because Valentine's Day falls on the nightthat we usually record, Yes, record
and Happy Wife, Happy Life.That means it's going to be a great
week because we're super excited for Balni. So if you buy her roses at

(08:52):
Costco right now, they're still cheap. It's going to be a great week
for us. But for our listeners, they're going to have to go without.
Oh God, see what I'm saying. And I can hear Patrick right
now, mother fucker. Yeah,you bad and all the other super fans.
We're sorry, we apologize, don'tthrow us down the drain for it.

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Not yet. So what's going onwith you? Man? You've had
some calamities occur recently. Well,I told you that talk about that was
a bitch. So I did confirmwith the water company that it's so.
My waters went back to normal,which is way fucking high. So I'm
hoping that it's really not normal.I hope it's less than normal. My

(09:33):
usage because we have gold water whereI live. It's very expense. Yeah,
and yeah, my wife hit adeer going seventy. My car's all
fucked up. Jesus, her car, thankfully. Did you get a quote?
No, no, we went andthey like, will send you the
quote. They haven't fucking sent it. What's your deductible five yeah, five

(09:54):
hundred, So that's not too bad, not too good neither. Yeah.
So I remember I gave advice along time ago. Put these deer whistles
in your car. Now, I'mthinking. So the body shop guy was
like, those deer whistles make thedeer stop. So if the side of
the road, it's all good.But this fucking deer was in the middle

(10:15):
of the road. So was thedeer whistle on the car. They're on
both vehicles, cause I remember Ihad a deer coming from your house,
So it's possible that the deer juststopped and that's why your wife hit it.
And the you know, the brightsor the just lights, like they
just stopped because they're blinded and theycan't see ship. So I don't I
mean, I don't know. Idon't know if I want them to stop,
run or what the I've never seenone in the middle of the road.

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They're normally on the side like aboutto go. Then they fucking went
last time, So yeah, Ican't win. Well, what can I
say? Man? But without thedeer whistle, they might run in in
the road because they're normally on thesides, like eating and peeing and pooping,
right right, What else are theydoing? Uh, reciprocating, They

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multiply like rabbits reciprocating. Yeah,what the hell does that mean? Adult
favors? Dude, releasing the Idon't think you meant reciprocating neither, di
I, But it doesn't matter.They're you know, they're they're getting the
buck off and then they're having baby. True, all right, reciprocating sexual
pleasures. What other calamities have occurred? Or is that it? I can't

(11:26):
remember in the scheme of things.That's not bad. No, it's first
world problems, which you know,glad to have correct correct. It's something
else happened. I can't remember.I don't know. I'm trying to think
we had our he go out.It's still out, still out. The
part that we need to fix.Our goddamn furnace is on back order till

(11:48):
March because of China. So we'rebasically we've been without heat for the majority
of the winner, basically mid Januarythrough March no heat. But you seem
stronger now, your skin's cleared up. Oh, that's because of all the
shipping I did. I released allthe poisons. Yeah, you gave yourself

(12:09):
like all the wings and briskets andribs. I cleaned out all those goddamn
poisons. And what are you cookingthis weekend? And brisk of the bowl.
By then, you won't be there. I'm gonna stop by. Actually
I've planned it. You were supposedto be here, man, I'm gonna
come. I invited like thousands ofpeople, and you you were like the

(12:37):
guest of honor. Dude. Youwere like, I'm gonna I'm gonna show
up and sign titties. It wasjust kind of expected that you would be
here, right, and then you'renot gonna be here. I'm gonna show
up. How are you gonna pull? I'm just gonna you don't live that
far away. I'm gonna come backfor like an hour or two. I
don't know. You should bring uhthe family with you? I would.
I don't know if that's gonna happen. So, yeah, don't get any

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details, but I may not enjoythe company. So so on our menu
this weekend is a hundred wings fromthe club you belong to. Yeah,
those ons are money? Did youget fucking what's the hot ass shit I
always give you. They didn't haveit on the menu, no, yeah,
yeah, you got to put itin the notes. Man, they
don't. They don't have it onthe menu because people have died. Maybe

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i'll Uh so I had your boyactually do the order since I'm not a
member of the club because I'm notfancy like you, and uh, you
bitch, and I'm just gonna payhim back. And actually several of the
guys in the neighborhood, uh basicallyponied up to split the cost. Yeah,
you know you shouldn't pay himuck it. Take the money from everyone and

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be like, what are you talkingabout? Yeah, it was a party
for you, dude. So ahunter Wings. It's a split between dry
Rub Old Bay Dry Rub? Whichhave you had those? There? Are
they good? No? Yeah,they're good? Yeah, okay, Old
Bye, Old Bay Dry Rub,Barbecue Buffalo and another one. I can't
remember. Hold on, what's thename of that shit because you got to

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tell them. I'll tell you rightnow. Uh was it called fire or
something? Hold on, I'm lookingit up. I forgot God damn it.
How can I not remember this?You know it's Diablo Diablo. Yeah,
but yeah, they don't fucking likeadvertise it because it burns. So
if we ask, will they giveit to us on the side, tell
them you want a big ass sideof doublin sauce. Okay, I'll do

(14:24):
that. So the hunter wings,uh, the platter of cold cut sandwiches,
the veggie platter, the cheese platter, and then I'm gonna do a
brisket with probably rolls on the side. So hopefully that's enough. What are
you doing man for your things sinceyou're not coming here, you bitch?

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So I've actually had uh, bitch. I'm the one who groes to the
grocery store normally, and all ofa sudden, my wife's going so I
have no fuck, Yeah she's goingto It feels very uneasy because I'm like,
even tonight you're coming to my houseafter this. I don't know what
the fuck she's going to Aldie,I know, but I don't know what.
I'm the one who cooks, andshe's she's got my wife going to
Aldi with her. No, soAldi is money as shit. So you

(15:05):
know the McDonald's hash browns that arefrozen, Yeah, for like six of
them. It's like four fifty atHarris the tit Harris teeter at all do
you get a huge ass like thirtyrack for like two dollars. So that's
like the one thing I was like, aldi is the ship. But then
I stopped in there all the time. They don't have them all the time.

(15:26):
So I do know this. Yourwife gave my wife a pork I
don't know if it was a porkbutt or what it was. It was
like this big oh yeah, yeah, that shit's fucking insane. Yeah,
that's what is that. It waslike six dollars. It's it's two dollars.
What And it's like so when Iso it's basically a piece of a

(15:48):
pork shoulder, very small. Youput it in the crock pot. It's
like sitting in liquid. That's whatshe did. When I tasted when my
wife did it, I was like, my I like got to press like
my pork shoulder as shit when Ismoke a Porsche her for like eighteen hours,
so it comes it comes marinated.Yeah, but it's sitting in there
for I don't even know, cooklike weeks. So my wife did that.
She took that that your wife gaveher, put it in the crock

(16:11):
pot for hours and hours and hours. When it was done, she pulled
it and then made pork tacos withflower soft tortillas and she like did some
onions that she pickled and corn anda bunch of other stuff. It was

(16:34):
phenomenal that shit. I was.I was depressed, honestly, I was
like, yeah, this makes mypork short of tastes like shit that we
smoked for like literally like lap crowdtoo, have been like sixteen to eighteen,
patting ourselves on the back, likesleeping with the thermometer on my chest
like checking, like I'm in thestall for it right Like uh yeah,

(16:56):
So I was like I want toI want to be able to do it
with a big ass, like fuckingtwelve pound pork shoulder. But I don't
know what the fuck that is.So basically just stick it in a bag,
a trash bag with tons of marinadefor like a week. Yeah,
but what's in the bag, Likewhat is that spices? And I don't
know because the flavor was like poppingin my mouth, I'm like what the

(17:17):
fuck? I will say it wasthose we like the best tacos I've had.
Like you can start a you canstart a street taco business. Yeah,
that shits, And it was Ithink she told me it was two
dollars, but who fucking knows,Like, I don't even think she knows.
It's gotta be more than two bucks, dude. I mean, a
twelve ten to twelve pound pork shouldera giant is like thirteen dollars, So
that shit's little. I think maybemaybe you're right, that's crazy. But

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yeah, it was good ship,dude. But you know the dude that
saw her, Jorge, right,yeah, so I've given him my pork
shoulder a couple of times, andhe's not a huge pork fan. Now
I know why because I think he'seating the that's like a it's a what's
the pork shit on tacos? Whatdo you mean? Like the not carne
i sauda. It's like the shipat Chipotle. What's the pork version.
That's what that is. I don'tknow, but it's like marinated and carnitas.

(18:06):
Yeah, that's carnita's okay, Ithink, yeah, yeah, that
makes sense. So it's got moreflavor. But it's like because we just
do the smoke flavor with yeah,with rub and then yeah and I even
put more rub when I like pullit. But that shit's like exploding in
your fucking mouth. Yeah yeah,well, hey, you learn something new
every day. Man, I don't, but I want to do it.

(18:26):
So then my wife's like, youdon't need to do the smoker anymore that
I want to do the smoker,right, that's the problem. Yeah,
I'm like, this shit, what'sthe point? Right? Like if my
wife were to stick a brisket inthe oven and wrap it and then it
comes out much better than mine thatI do twenty four hours on the smoker,
I don't know how I feel aboutthat. Well, that's happening.

(18:49):
That's the problem. Hey, itis what it is. You know,
sometimes shit's just better when you don'tcook it, because usually, yeah,
yeah, that's true. Usually I'llbring up a rack of ribs or several
racks of ribs, or a briskertor whatever's going on, and I'll try
it, and I'll be like,eh, it's not my best, and
everybody else is, and I'm alwayswondering, are they just humoring me?
No, last time you did ribsat I ate that was your best.

(19:11):
See, that's the thing. Itried it, and I was like Yeah,
they're they're pretty decent. Now youwere like, oh yeah, and
you know what's funny is I mentionedyou put it in your oven. I
finished those in the oven. Butthat's fine. I think that's normal.
I mean, but I've never donethat before, and those were the best
according to you. Yeah, theywere fucking bombed, So there's something to
be said. So why did youput them in the oven? Do you

(19:33):
have an issue or no? Becauseit was raining cats and dogs and I
didn't want to keep going in andout. So once I read once you
reach that point where the smoke flavorsin and you can't get any more like
two to three hours, yeah,and you can't get any more smoke flavor
at that point, you're just youknow, your ribs are just in an
oven, They're just in a smoker. No, it was the humidity in
the beginning of the cook obviously couldbe actually, yeah, because that changes

(19:56):
everything. Yeah, so yeah,I mean I didn't do anything different other
than that. Well. The otherthing is, when you're cooking, you're
smelling the fucking smoke for like eightto eighteen hours or whatever. How long
is your bridge get twenty four hours? Twenty yeah, twenty hours. Yeah,
so sometimes, And I used todo with mesquite and I couldn't even

(20:18):
eat what I cooked until the nextday. And I liked it so much.
But mosquite's too strong. I thinkthat's what I believe as well.
But if I didn't smell it forhours and hours and hours and I took
food and ate it, I likeit. But when you're cooking it,
it's weight. Like I felt sickone time. Yeah, too much smoke.

(20:41):
I don't know. That's why Ihad to go to Hickory. Ever
since I moved to the pellet smoker, I'm always wishing for more smoke flavor.
So you got to put one ofthose tubes in there. I don't
know how that works. So it'sso it's a it's they you can cold
smoke salmon. I remember that shitI showed you. It's a tube you
fill up with pellets and you gota light one end with like a blow

(21:03):
torch, not you can't do itwith like a normal lighter, and then
you put it. So this iswhat I did. I did a port
shoulder on Monday because I had itlike ready and it was like at the
date. Yeah, and I didn'teven eat it. I pulled it and
frozen, because it does nothing comparedto that Aldi fucking carna or whatever what
was it called carneades. Yeah,so I don't even know what the fuck
I'm gonna do with it, butyou put if you put the tube in

(21:26):
any your grill whatever, it'll sitthere and smoke for like four to six
hours. Did you hear about Jason'sblow torch steak. No, So Eric
was telling us that. He waslike, oh, you you you wouldn't
believe the blow blow torch steak.Apparently Jason smoked a steak for like fifteen
or twenty minutes and then used ablow torch to see her spit up on

(21:51):
the outside, and Eric said,this shit is amazing, Like, you
wouldn't believe the blow torch steak.Interesting. I think you got to try
that next. I have a blowtorch, but I've been only doing pecanas.
Do it tonight the last pekanya youdid pekanya? Yeah, that's the only
way on the on the spike.That was phenomenal. But I don't have

(22:12):
any like fresh steaks ready to blowtorch. Yeah you do, no,
but I got dog food you knowwhat? Give me? Uh those fucking
chicken necks or whatever you got theraw chicken necks for my dogs. I'm
not sure those are gonna come outthe same way. My dogs love that

(22:33):
ship. By the way, Ithink we should taste one. No,
it's raw, dude, No we'regonna cook. No, cook it not
raw. I'm not saying to eatit raw. It's just a bone with
some meat on a neck is cartilage. It's it's bone cartilage with meat on
it. You don't want to eatthat. I'm hungry, bitch. Yeah,
I don't know, man, Sowait, what's on your menu for
this weekend for the Super Bowl?I don't fucking know because I don't go

(22:56):
to the grocery, know my own. So you got people come it over
to your house with the super Bowland you don't know what you're gonna cook?
Yes, is your wife doing that? I have a pack of wings
I pulled from the freezer today.But she's like, so it's very sad.
She's like, stop going to Costcoand Sam and I love that shit.
So I'm like, wait, youwent to all did you get Begels?

(23:17):
She's like no, Like, well, what the fuck we need Bengels?
That's like our main staple in ourhouse for the kids. No cream
cheese. They don't have Philadelphia creamcheese. So wait, you're not allowed
to go anymore. I don't know, man, my life is all fucked
up right now. I'm definitely Ialmost went today, and well I wish

(23:37):
you had. You could have gottenmy brisket for me. Well, you
said you were going, and that'swhy I was like wondering if you're there.
I remember you texted me you atCostco. If I had time to
go, I was gonna go becauseI had to like buy a new easy
I went to New Jersey, Philadelphialike two weeks ago. My easy pass
it wasn't registering like every time,I said, unpaid, unpaid taking the
picture and shit right, So Ihad to get a new easy Pass,

(23:57):
so I had to return all theold one. Are you gonna have to
pay a fine every time for that? I've gotten letters saying that if I
don't take action, because they're readingmy license plate and they're bailing me.
But if I don't take action,they're gonna start bailing me more. But
I don't know. I'm not quitesure. Okay, well hopefully not.
But I had like six old easypasses. So I put them all in

(24:18):
like a huge ball of foil andmailed them in today. But you know
what's really dumb about that is weshould be moving away from easy passes.
They can take a picture of theplate and send us a bill in the
mail all you need to do.But you get a discount if you have
the easy pass. I know.But all they should be doing is selling
everybody. You set up an onlineaccount, put a form of pain,

(24:40):
put a credit card in there orwhatever. You tell them what your fucking
license plate is. You go throughall the tools and they just build your
credit card. There's no need forstupid ass easy passes anymore. It's so
dumb. But you know why myshit wasn't registering. I realized why it's
been happening for years. I havethat rain sensor like black, oh yeah
dots, and I had it rightin the middle of that. So I'm

(25:03):
assuming it was it's like my issue. Yeah, you're at fault. So
when I go to the car wash, when I pull in this this New
Jersey. I was in New Jersey, I think Dodds should find you since
it's your fold. So what's crazyis on the way there, it was
like, or even in Maryland,it's like easy pass six dollars, non
easy pass like thirteen dollars. Sohopefully everything flows through. But I haven't

(25:25):
seen it hit yet. Yeah,yeah, they should do away with the
easy pass, do mass. Imean, when I roll up to the
car wash, I don't have thisfunction, but in her car, when
it's all nasty from salt, Iroll up and I see on the screen
her license plate number pop ups likeright when you So if they have it,
obviously the fucking easy pass millionaires billionaireshave it. Oh yeah, they
definitely have it. How many ofour YouTube watchers are I'm sure they're all

(25:48):
very I think we have We've gotwe have two different communities of users.
Where listeners, I guess this isa better world, women and transgenders,
mostly women, hot women, allright, they love us? Uh No.
I think we have people that listento our audio podcast, and then

(26:11):
we have people that watch the YouTubeversion and the audio podcast. People,
from what I gather, appreciate thiskind of banter more than the UFO shit
and the YouTube people want the YouTubewant the UFO shit. And right now,
like I can hear people unsubscribing fromYouTube even though we haven't published this,

(26:36):
I can still hear it, right, it's happening now. So but
the question is do we care?No, No, we don't. We're
just living in the basement. Correct. We do what we do. So
if you want to unsubscribe, goahead, but take your children's phone and
subscribe. For every unsubscriber, weneed like three subscric correct. But actually,

(27:03):
the last episode we did where weinterviewed the uh jail guy, the
jail guy, we had a commenton our YouTube channel and I'm trying to
recall this from memory, and mymemory is not good, but it was
something about I thought, actually thisis what it was. I thought this
episode was gonna suck, but thisis actually one of your best episodes ever.

(27:30):
Yes, I really appreciated it.What's funny, though, is that
episode on YouTube has shit no fuckingviews. Did you put ufim in title?
You should have put jailhouse jailhouse unlX con reviews jailhouse video And that
was like at the very end,right, No, it's got like one

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hundred and something views, which isreally bad, ye because if you look
at our last few before that,it's thousands of views and we're not up
to hundreds of thousands or millions.You know, YouTube's not our main thing,
but Jesus to go from like twothousand, three thousand, six thousand,
eight thousand views down to like onehundred and twenty yeah, because it's

(28:15):
not UFO and YouTube measures like theclick through rate. People that come across
your thumbnail right and they either clickto watch or don't. So our episode
prior to that, which if Iremember correctly, was shit I forget his
name, but it was a UFOthing, the click through rate was like

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twelve percent, which is considered reallygood. This one is zero point nine
percent. So what does that mean? We got to just pigeonhole ourselves into
fucking UFOs. I think you shouldhave made the title uf X con reviews
UFI video. But the problem withthat is people click on and expect the

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UFO thing. It's not, sothey click off immediately, and YouTube doesn't
like that punish you. I thinkyour dog's he's a sasquad. My dog's
right now. That may not makeit into the microphones, but sounds like
a howling wolf. I have tobe really bad. Okay, let's take

(29:22):
a break. Since Bob has aurinary track, confection. It's this damn
budd light. All right, we'reback, beautiful bastards. So on the

(30:04):
UFO tip Bob. This is oldnews in the UFO community, but it's
new to us because we haven't talkedabout it yet. So what is it?
Uh? You remember Kirkpatrick? Hewas the former recently former head of
a r O right Arrow Arrow?What does that stand for? Again?

(30:30):
Automatic ass replication? What is theO stand observance? How did you how
did you recall that off the topof your head. I'm just smart,
clearly. So he put out aan opinion piece in Scientific American, Uh,
shortly after retiring from Arrow and hebasically so did he retire? He

(30:56):
was fired, he retired, supposedlyretired, he resigned, resigned. Yes,
I don't think they've appointed his replacementyet, or if they have,
I just don't know about it.But he left and then did this opinion
piece in Scientific American where he basicallylays down the gauntlet. Dude, he
says that it's all fucking bullshit fake. So he's a Midwest and there's a

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lot of reaction out there. Youknow that he's a deep state player,
you know, I mean that isdeep state arrow just trying to, like,
you know, make it sound fake, hide the truth, et cetera,
et cetera. All right, letme read this for you and you

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tell me what you think. CarlSagan popularized the maxim that extraordinary claims require
extraordinary evidence. This advice should notbe optional for policymakers. In today's world
of misinformation, conspiracy driven decision making, and sensationalist dominated governance, our capacity

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for rational, evidence based critical thinkingis eroding with deletarious consequences for our ability
to effectively deal with multiplying challenges ofever increasing complexity. That's a very word
heavy. Yeah, deletarious bad.Why didn't you say bad? Because deletarious

(32:27):
is more complicated? I guess itis scientific America? Yes? Is America
American? American't as director of theDepartment of Defense's All Domain Anomaly Research Office
or what did you call it again? As automatic ass replication observance, Yes,

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as director of the Department of theDefenses. Say it again. I
think I said automated ass replication observance. Yes. Charged by Congress in twenty
twenty two to help bring science basedclarity and resolution to the long standing mysteries
surround incredible observations of UAP also knownas UFOs. I experienced this erosion up

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close and personal, and it wasone factor in my decision to step down
from the position last December. Afterpainstakingly assembling a team of highly talented and
motivated personnel and working without a developirrational, systematic and science based approach to
investigate these phenomena, our efforts wereultimately overwhelmed by sensational but unsupported claims that

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ignored contradictory evidence yet captured the attentionof policymakers basically meaning Congress and the public
during legislative battles and dominating the publicnarrative. The result of this whirlwind of
tall tales, fabrication, and secondhandor third hand retail of the same was

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a social media frenzy and a significantamount of congressional and executive time and energy
spent on investigating these so called claims, as if we didn't have anything better
to do. The conspiracist's story goessomething like this go ahead. The US

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has been hiding and attempting to reverseengineer as many as twelve UFOs from as
early as the nineteen sixties correct andperhaps earlier this great cover up and conspiracy
failed to produce any salient results,and consequently the effort was abandoned to some
private sector defense contractors to continue thework. Sometime later, the story continues,

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those private sector contractors wanted to bringthe whole program back under the US
government auspices. Apparently the CIA stoppedthis supposed transfer back to the US government.
All of this is without substantiating aevidence, but alas belief in a
statement is directly proportional to the volumein which it is transmitted and the number

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of times it is repeated, repeated, not the actual facts. During a
full scale, year long investigation ofthis story, which has been told and
retold by a small group of interconnectedbelievers and others with possibly less than honest
intentions, none of whom have firsthand accounts of any of this, ERRO

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discovered a few things, and nonewere about aliens. Who were they about
don't know. First No record existsof any president or living DoD or intelligence
community leader knowing about this alleged program, nor any congressional committee having such knowledge.
This would speak volumes if this casewere following typical procedure, Because it

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is inconceivable that a program of suchimport would not ever have been briefed to
the fifty to one hundred people atthe top of the US government over the
decades of its existence. Second,this narrative has been simmering for years and
is largely an outgrowth of a formerprogram at the DoD's Defense Intelligence Agency called

(36:25):
the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program ora TIP, which was heavily influenced by
a group of individuals associated with businessmanand longtime ufologist Robert Bigelow, founder of
Bigelow Airspace. In two thousand andnine, then Senator Harry Reid asked the

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Secretary of Defense to set up aspecial access program to protect the alleged UAPUFO
material that a TIP proponents believed theUS government was hiding. Declined to do
so after a review by the Officeof the Undersecretary of Defense for Intelligence and
DIA concluded that not only did nosuch material exist, but taxpayer money was

(37:10):
being inappropriately spent on paranormal research atthe Skinwalker Ranch in Utah. This is
well documented in open sources, particularlyin no particularly in records available to DIA's
Electronic Foyer reading room. After thenegative response by secdef Senior Senator Read then

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enlisted the help of then Senator JosephLieberman to request that the Department of Homeland
Security set up an SAP for thesame purpose. The Administrative Special Access Program
Proposal package was informed by the sameindividuals who had been associated with a TIP.
Aero's archival research has located the administrativeProposal for the DHS Special Access Program,

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complete with the participants, which hasbeen declassified. Basically, what he's
saying there is that Robert Bigelow.Have you heard of Robert bige So he's
a big UFO guy, he's abillionaire our company. Yeah, And he's
the one who pushed Harry Reid,remember him, he was the Democratic Majority

(38:20):
leader for a while, pushed himto do this, and then they put
all their own people in and they'vebeen kind of regurgitating this information ever since.
And he's saying that it's this smallgroup of individuals that just keeps talking
about this and making it become truth. But he's saying it's not real.
He's saying there's just no evidence ofany of this shit. Finally, the

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key purveyors of this narrative have knownone another for decades. In the early
two thousands, Several members of thissmall group also participated in a study erroneously
characterized by the same participants as havingbeen sponsored by the White House on the
possible societal impact of disclosing the existenceof extraterrestrials to the public, with the

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authenticity of the above mentioned concealed governmentprogram taken as its baseline assumption, so
assuming that it was all real.The think tank in question was a futures
enterprise that often worked on fringe studies, and many of the individuals involved with
the study also worked for Bigelow Aerospacein support of the a TIP program.

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This is longer than I thought itwas reading this. Aero thoroughly investigated these
claims as part of its congressional mandatedmission and not only technically evaluate contemporary UAP
observations, but also review historical accountsgoing back to the nine forties. One

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of my last acts before retiring wasto sign Errow's Historical Record Report, Volume
one, which is currently being preparedfor delivery to Congress and the public.
The report demonstrates that many of thecirculating allegations described above derived derived from an
inadvertent or unauthorized disclosures of legitimate USprograms or related R and D that have

(40:19):
nothing to do with extraterrestrial issues ortechnology. In other words, a lot
of these things may be US programsweapons programs, but not UFOs that have
nothing to do with UFOs. Someare misrepresentations, and some derived from pure
unsupported beliefs. In many respects,the narrative is a textbook example of circular
reporting, with each person relaying whatthey heard, but the information often ultimately

(40:45):
being sourced to the same small groupof individuals Bigelow, all the same people,
the UFO celebrities, Which is yourtheory anyway, it was, And
then I read this and I waslike, no, fuck, because I
want to believe dude. So what'sa dude that always puts the shit with
the stamp on it? Oh,Corbel, Yeah, Corbell, this is

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what Corbell is doing. The OperationalMission Congress as a signed ERA is important.
Accumulating observations by highly trained US militaryand other credible personnel of unidentified anomaloust
phenomena at or near sensitive national securityareas and active and activities calls for a

(41:28):
serious effort to understand what's going on. Simply put unidentified quote is unacceptable,
particularly in these times of heightened geopoliticaltension. In other words, we can't
have unidentified craft, whether it's China, Russia, UFOs. We have to
figure out what the X going onright. Part of the problem we face

(41:50):
today, however, is that themodern media cycle drive stories faster than sound
research, science, and peer reviewtimelines can validate them. More worrisome is
the willingness of some to make judgmentsand take actions on these stories without having
seen or even requested supporting evidence,an omission that is all the more problematic

(42:12):
when the claims were so extraordinary.Some members of Congress prefer to opine about
aliens to the press rather than givenevidence based briefing on the matter. Members
have a responsibility to exhibit critical thinkingskills instead of seeking the spotlight. As
of the time of my departure,none, let me repeat, none of

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the conspiracy minded quote unquote whistleblowers inthe public eye had elected to come to
Errow to provide their quote unquote evidenceand statement for the record, despite numerous
invitations. So they you know whohe's talking about there, new Brush.

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No, I did not know that. Yeah, read he's naming him without
naming him as of the time ofmy departure, none, let me repeat,
none of the conspiracy minded whistleblowers,who's the number one whistleblower right now
Grush in the public eye have electedto come to Arrow to provide their evidence.
Now Grush has claimed he reached outto Arro and got no response.

(43:22):
Maybe he's saying nobody has reached outto us, not even Congress. Well
they're not the whistleblowers. They're listeningto the whistleblowers, right, But can
they present whatever they they are scientificevidence to congress erro Yeah, Well,
he's saying that they're producing a report, but they don't have any scientific evidence
of UFOs, is what he's saying. Well, it's proving that there's nothing.

(43:45):
Well, how do you prove anegative. Well, they studied all
this shit that we've been watching thinkingit's UFOs. Well, you can study
shit and you can say we don'tknow what that is. But saying we
don't know what that is doesn't meanit's a UFO. So how do you
prove that it's not a UFO?Saying they don't know what it is does
proves the uFocus it's unidentified flying onI mean it's alien craft, right,

(44:06):
right, Yeah, they don't.Saying you don't know what it is doesn't
prove that it's an alien. Buthe's saying he doesn't know what it is.
Then, But what he's saying isthere is still no evidence of aliens.
Right. All these people are comingforward saying it's aliens, it's aliens,
it's aliens. But he's saying,there is no proof of any reverse
engineering program, aliens in custody,discs none of this stuff. We haven't

(44:28):
seen any of this, and yetit's going. The cycle is going,
going, going, But he doesn'tknow what it is either. That's what
he's basically saying. Anyone that wouldrather be sensationalist in the public eye than
bring their evidence to the one organizationestablished in law, with all the legal
process and security framework established to protectthem their privacy and the information and to

(44:53):
investigate and report our findings is suspect. In other words, if you haven't
gone to ARROW, why haven't you? Yeah, why haven't they? I
can assure you, as its formerdirector, that Arrow is unwaveringly committed to
harness science and technology to bring unprecedentedclarity to these fascinating, important and stubborn

(45:15):
mysteries, and to do so withmaximum transparency. Its talented staff and team
of supporting scientists are at this verymoment striving in collaboration with the armed forces,
intelligence community, government agencies, nationallaboratories, scientific community, academic community,
and soon the general public, tocollect and analyze hard measurable data i

(45:39):
e. Extraordinary evidence in this heretoforeeyewitness rich but data poor field. The
AERO team will go wherever the datatakes it without fail and will not be
swayed by any attempts to influence itsfindings. Otherwise, science cannot be left
on the side of the road inthe ad dash to uncover some great conspiracy.

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Carl Sagan would expect no less,and neither should the American people.
M strong, strong, Like Isaid, he laid down the gauntlet now
immediately the UFO community just boom.This guy is a deep state actor.
He's trying to hide the evidence likethey all have ever since. You know
Roswell and this is bullshit. Sowhy did he step down? We think

(46:27):
he was forced, Well, hejust said here he stepped down. One
of the reasons he stepped down becausehe's tired of the bullshit. Like,
no matter what they do, everybodyjust says, oh, you're full of
shit because you're not saying it's UFO. But they're the experts. I don't
know, man, It's like,which, what do who you believe?
I don't fucking know, dude,that's got a problem. Ross coltheart who's

(46:49):
saying he's got sources telling him shitlike there's a a giant UFO that's so
big they couldn't move it, sothey built stuff on tiling it, but
he won't tell us where it is. You've got Elisondo telling us things like,
imagine if everything you thought was realwas not And he worked for a

(47:12):
tip supposedly, Yeah, but wedon't know if he did. I don't
know. No, So as faras I know, nobody's been able to
show the evidence that he did.So there's and Mick West. And I'm
not saying that I'm with Micwest.I'm not saying I believe Kirkpatrick. I'm
not saying I believe Grush and coldHeart. I don't fucking know what to

(47:32):
believe. It's all very frustrated tome. All I know is this is
what I do know. We're alwaysshown fucking Jellyfish UFO videos. Yea,
yeah, I don't know about thatone. And shit where you're just like,
yeah, what is that. That'sa little odd, But you can't
verify that it's not something normal justby looking at it. We never see

(47:58):
a high depth image of something whichyou know we have. If it's real,
you'd think we do, right,even if it wasn't real, we
would have whatever it is, Yeah, we'd have something. So I don't
know what to believe. And it'slike back and forth, back and forth.
Back. In one moment, I'msure it's real. The next moment,
I'm like, shit, this isall fake. Because your wife says

(48:19):
you're stupid. She'll say that regardless, Right, that's true. She's right.
You showed it. The fucking sasquatchdude. What the hell was his
name again? We'll say it again. Uh, I've expunged his name from
my mind. The fucking you knowwhat I'm talking about the h HG video
of Sasquatch and we're so convinced,and I was like, you guys are

(48:40):
idiots, and it's turned turns outit was him in a mask. Yeah,
I forgot his name. Like Isaid, I've expunged it from my
mind. So after listening to that, what do you think. Well,
he's saying he doesn't know what thefuck it is either, So that doesn't
tell me shit. Yeah, Imean right, y'ah. Not saying we
did scientific evidence that it's not aliens, he's saying they don't. Basically here,

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they don't know what it is either, right, So it's obviously aliens.
I side with you, it isaliens. I agree. I still
think these fucking videos it's like alienssomehow with like a laser pointer and dude,
because they move, so it's likeus with a cat. I don't
know. I've always thought this.I don't know how to grasp our mind

(49:27):
around it. But so a reportcame out saying that these ufa UFOs might
be a new or new to usunknown organism based in plasma. Did you
hear about that? No, youdidn't hear about that. Let me see
if I can pull it up realquick. What do you even based in
plasma? Like a plasma organism.I'm not going to find it. So

(49:52):
they're living aliens basically, yeah,Like the UFOs themselves are plasma organisms.
I mean, I've always been interestedin the rods. You ever heard of
that? The Yeah rods in thesky that always fucking floored me. Yeah,
let's see, can I find somethingextraterrestrial life in space? Plasmas in

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the thermosphere. Plasma's up to akilometer in size, behaving similarly to multicellular
organisms, have been filmed on tenseparate NASA Space Shuttle missions. That's just
from a random Google search. Anyway, We can talk about that next time.
But there's a study that came outthat claims that we may have plasmas

(50:38):
in our atmosphere, and that theway they behave is they're actually attracted to
like planes or radiation, which iswhy they're seen around like nuclear silos or
military operations. We're back during WorldWar two, the Foo fighter phenomenon.
That those might be plasmas, whichare kind of a life form that we

(51:00):
don't really understand, but that livein the outer atmosphere and basically are attracted
to these things like bugs are tolight. Kind of like that. Yeah,
which is interesting. So we can'tcapture one, No, I mean,
have we even tried. I don't. Yes, we have, of
course, we just don't know aboutit yet. That could be true,

(51:22):
So anyway, that's our UFO newsfor the day. We've done our UFO
job. Yeah, I feel likea ethologist. We basically towed the line
of the anti UFO guy. Basicallyaccording to ancient alien theorists, right,
that's what they always say on ancientaliens. Yes, according to the ancient
alien theorists, this aliens are real. Well that they built the pyramids.

(51:47):
You know, our old friend PrestonDennet is coming back on. Yeah,
how's he doing? I think he'sdoing all right, but you know he's
a real true believer. Well,he fucking at and if I was to
read that article to him, hewould puke in his mouth. Yes,
because we should do that. Wealready know how he feels about a era,

(52:08):
right, But I'd like to seewould you really want to hear me
read that whole article again? Justgive him the highlights. You don't have
to get all in detail like that. I think I need to read the
whole thing again. In fact,for this episode, I'm going to read
it right now. It's a littlelong winded, but it's very good information.
Yes, but I'd like to knowwas he forced to resign to did
he really say fuck this? Heclaims he said fuck this and then did

(52:30):
what, I don't have to havea high ass salary. Let me google
what what is Sean kirk Patrick doingit now? H On November seventh,

(52:50):
twenty twenty three, it was reportedthat Kirkpatrick would step down from director director
of ARROW. Since December twenty twentythree, Kirkpatrick joined the Bridge National Laboratory
as Chief Technology Officer for Defense andIntelligence programs. That he's still getting paid
bank so the deep state gave hima cush job to come out and say

(53:12):
that this is off because he hasthe information. We just figured it all
out. Yeah, he has UFOtech. God, Google's so smart is
it that he took the tech thathe learned of. Yeah, and he's
now building like shit for the USgovernment as a contractor. Correct, as
long as he's not building it forRussia. I still like the theory of
the US contractors had UFO tech figuredit out, didn't tell the US government,

(53:37):
and then they're hiding it from them. Like what was that shootout shit?
Yeah? Talked about Actually it wasJohn Stewart that brought that to light,
but not to us our new friend. No, he took it to
some other Yeah. What the fuckchannel that has like eight million subscriber or
whatever, because he wanted to exposeit to a bigger audience. Right,
this is the most important audience.It may not be the biggest, what

(53:59):
it is is the most important,honestly. So if you want to bring
your shit out, you need todo it here. Yeah, don't do
it to the eight million man,they're fucking I mean, where else are
you gonna hear? This is whereyou need to do. The other ones
are chikom right, correct, that'sfucking chikom Yes, correct. Never heard

(54:21):
a better fucking phrase. Ye.Also, you know this is where you'll
hear cold and two zig zags.Baby, that's all we need. I
mean, why wouldn't you Why mywife married me and that was now you
had keys, yes, all three? Very strong. Yeah. Okay,

(54:43):
So basement hangouts out, the basingof the and and and and and and wh