You are now listening to Cryptid Cocktail Party.
Hey everybody, welcome back to another episode
of Cryptic Cocktail Party, a show where we have
a few drinks, share a few laughs, take a dive
into the unknown. I'm your host Dave, joined
as always by All Beef Daddy, aka Sarge. How's
it going, buddy? Hiya! What's up? You doing karate
now? Yeah, why not? Fair enough. I mean, I don't
actually know karate, and I feel like anyone
who did know karate would be able to beat me
up pretty handily. Meh. But I respect the hustle.
I think you'd hold your own. For like a minute.
I'd have to do a bear hug. Gotcha. I'd just have
to wrap my arms around them and lift them off
the ground. Get real Lenny from Mice and Men
with it. Yes. That would be my only move. How
you doing, bud? You looking good as always? Thank
you. Doing great. Doing great. Work is busier
than ever. I get to go back to California for
funsies. And yeah. How you doing? I'm fine. Nothing
new going on. It's just all the same stuff. Fair
enough. Yeah, I got nothing going on. I feel
like I don't normally. I feel like after seeing
dinosaurs the other weekend, I'm just not interested
in doing anything else. Yeah, like candy doesn't
taste as sweet anymore. The candy of life. Just
fucking over it, dude. Yeah, I got nothing going
on, dude. Everything is just... I felt that way
when the Bruins traded away Brad Marchand. Unacceptable.
You know what? These fucking assholes. I can
relate. Actually, I can't. I don't know anything
about sports. I have no idea what you just said
to me. It's like you're speaking a foreign language.
It's okay. You're better off, frankly, at this
point, because the Bruins are trash this year.
All right, Sarge. Before this episode starts,
we've got a couple things to go over. Okay. One
of them is that we got a listener story. Yes.
Emailed to us. And it kind of fits somewhat with
the topic of today's episode, in a way, sort
of. You'll figure it out. But yeah, you want
to? Yeah, let's do it. All right. So this comes
from Peter Quint. He's actually the host of another
podcast called Good Beer, Bad Movie Night. It's
pretty good. Check it out. Nice. His email reads,
Hi, Dave and Sarge. Here's one personal story
of the spooky kind. I grew up in rural northwest
Ohio, where it's very flat and corn as far as
the eye can see, and there aren't any lights
on the road, so it gets really dark out there.
One summer night when I was in high school, my
mom and I were driving home late at night when
we both saw a bright light in the sky in the
distance. We are far from any sort of airport,
and the only planes we ever see in the sky were
crop dusters during the day and nothing at night.
The light was so unusual we both mentioned and
giggled, saying it had to be a UFO. We just watched
it sort of hang out there in the sky. It was
really hard to judge how far away or how big
it was. It didn't really blink. It was just there.
The next instance, it was just gone, as if it
was never there to begin with. We didn't see
it streak away. We didn't see it change colors
or really move at all. It just vanished as if
a light switch had been turned off. That's it.
Not very impressive. It could have been anything.
It probably wasn't a UFO, but that moment is
delightfully burned in my brain as a quote -unquote
encounter. The story is real. Can't say for sure
that it was a UFO. And then he says he has two
more stories that he'll send us later. So there
you go. Nice. Send him. And you know what? I
kind of like that he didn't try and shoehorn
that into something. He was just like, it could
have been a UFO. It felt like it might have been.
I mean, to him, it was unidentified. I mean,
yeah. To the definition of the term, it was unidentified.
I actually had a similar situation when I was
overseas. It was real late at night and we were
doing a night kind of convoy training. And so
we drive into this like built up pretend compound
in Baghdad. You know, it's kind of built for
like training purposes. So we drive into it and
it's real late at night and I am fucking exhausted.
And so I'm in the turret. of my truck and i'm
like just trying to stay awake and i look out
in the distance and i see this like light kind
of it's almost like it's swaying in the sky okay
like a pendulum of light kind of not not because
it's just the light yeah and i'm just seeing
the light kind of move back and forth i'm like
planes don't do that helicopters what the fuck
is that thing and so uh i very excitedly after
the training exercise is over i very excitedly
I'm like talking to some of the guys and I'm
like, dude, I think I saw a UFO. And I like point
over to where it, I thought I saw it. And they're
like, you idiot. And I was like, what? And so
apparently, and I realize this now. You're going
to say some real, you're going to sound real
dumb, aren't you? Oh yeah. They put up balloons
in the sky with like lights on them. And the
balloons are attached to a cable that holds them
to the ground. Okay. And those balloons will
pick up disturbances in the air to indicate whether
incoming mortar rounds are being shot at us.
So that would explain why the light was kind
of like gently moving back and forth because
it was a fucking balloon. I mean, it was high
up. it was high up so in my defense to be fair
a lot of people mistake like mylar balloons and
shit like that for ufos so i mean you're not
it's not that too bad um all right so second
piece of some whatever that we need to go over
before we dive into the new business the second
order of business second order of business there
we go is uh we have a bit of wholesome content
wholesome content Yeah, so it's not really wholesome
content. What it is is I told everyone last week
that I would explain why we did the Christian
cocktail party thing. Oh, yes. For those of you
who don't follow us on Instagram, we received
one of the best reviews we could ever have ever
possibly wanted to get. It's so good. I give
this review five stars. Yeah, so I'll just read
it and then you'll understand why we did the
whole. Christian cocktail part. I think so. Uh,
this comes from a user on bean sprout, which
I don't ever use. So I'd never check it. And
I just randomly decided one day to see what was
up. This was four months ago that they posted
this. It says, uh, I came to learn about cryptids.
And while I enjoyed that aspect of these, they
felt the need to shove their woke pseudo historical
history into the podcast. They claim they aren't
a political podcast. Yet when people get annoyed
with them shoving their politics into the episodes,
they call them fascists. They research all this
stuff about cryptids, but don't take time to
research Christianity and see why many believe
in it. Here's a start evidence that demands a
verdict by Josh McDowell. And that's the whole
review. I mean, no notes. They're right in a
sense that we don't study Christianity and take
the time to figure out why people believe in
it. But also, I don't think we've ever, we've
never been annoyed by people being annoyed by
the fact that we say things to say our beliefs
on this show, especially not enough to call them
fascists on the show. I think it's kind of a
wild flex to hear us rail against racism and
the subjugation of people. Yeah. And, and, and
find that that in like interpret that as an immediate
attack on your belief system. Like maybe, I don't
know, you believe in the wrong thing. Is what
we said was bad for you. I just want to know
what they mean by pseudo -historical history.
Fucking, I have no idea what that means, but
it's great. Yeah, we don't make up history. We
just find the actual sources of history and use
them. But is this show woke? I don't think. I
don't think we're woke. I think we're like, you
know, anti -racism. We're just normal human beings.
That's all we are. We're just people. We frown
on, I don't know, stealing Native American folklore
and turning it into your entertainment. Well,
see, that's pretty woke, Sarge. I don't know
if I can. Oh, okay. Now that you say it like
that, I hear it. I also like that he was immediately
associated all of that with anti -Christian behavior.
You know, dude, that's just how they are, man.
It's just... It's the silliest shit I've ever
heard. Okay, buddy. Okay. All right, let's move
on. You ready to dive in today's episode? Yeah,
hold on. Let me just grab my Bible so that I
can continue to study. All right. This episode
got away from me. It's going to be a little bit
longer than our normal ones probably. Which is
good. People say they want longer episodes, so
this one's for you guys. It's so big, in fact,
that it's going to be two parts. Yes! Two -parter!
Yeah, we're going to be covering something that's
kind of in the realm of things we've covered
before, and that is the Secret Space Program.
There are several Secret Space Programs, but
we're going to cover a specific person. His name
is Captain Mark Richards. Are you familiar with
him at all or anything that he's? No, no. A name
doesn't ring a bell. Okay. You're in for a wild
fucking ride, dude. You're not ready for anything
I'm about to tell you. So for those of you who
may be unfamiliar with who this is, and there's
probably a lot of you listening who do know who
he is and know where this story is heading. So
get ready to hear Sarge's reaction to all of
it. Captain Mark Richards is a whistleblower
with decades of experience in interstellar warfare.
alien diplomacy, and classified military ops
the public has never been allowed to know about.
He's led missions across the solar system, commanded
advanced off -world technology, and worked alongside
non -human allies to defend Earth from threats
that, again, you probably wouldn't know about.
Which, I mean, makes sense. It's all secret science.
Yeah, yeah. So that probably stands to reason
why you probably would be unfamiliar with him.
Right, right. No, he's got to maintain his cover.
I understand. Yeah, but Sarge, we're going to
change all that. I'm going to make you very unfamiliar.
We're going to be exposed. With Captain Mark
Richards. All right, so Mark Richards was born
in 1953 into a highly classified world of covert
military activity and alleged extraterrestrial
contact, all thanks to his father, Major Ellis
Lloyd Ragers Jr. Major Richards was a career
military officer and was heavily involved in
secret defense projects during the Cold War.
According to later interviews and some documents
circulating in some of the more fringe parts
of the internet, Major Richards was not only
aware of non -human intelligences, but actively
worked alongside them as part of an international
security alliance operating outside of conventional
government oversight. Secret Space Pilgrim. Here
it comes. So it's no surprise that the Major,
that's how I'm going to refer to Mark's dad going
forward. The Major. Pretty much groomed Mark
from an early age to pretty much follow in his
footsteps. I mean, you can't just pass this kind
of information to some random ding dong. You
got to keep this in your circle of trust. Everyone
knows that military history is, I mean, military
power is mostly passed through heredity. Yeah.
Is that not how it works? That's how it works
in North Korea. It makes sense to me. Yeah. But
according to Mark, his exposure to all the classified
programs and alien contacts began pretty much
as soon as this dude could walk or talk. In one
of Mark's more notable claims, he talked about
how he attended an interstellar conference in
England in 1961 at the ripe old age of eight
where he got to meet a nine -foot -tall raptor
prince. Now, what's a raptor, you may be asking
yourself? Sarge, you ever seen Jurassic Park?
Yes. Now think that. But he's got a crown. Yeah.
With a lot of purple. Yeah. Just imagine the
blue from Jurassic World, but smart. Technologically
advanced and apparently pretty politically complex.
But thankfully... Very savvy. Yeah. They entered
into an alliance with a few select human factions.
So thank God we're not fighting against them.
They are fighting with us. All right. So that
should make you feel a little better. Thank God
indeed. Yeah, so it was at this event that basically
marks the beginning of what would lead to Mark's
lifelong involvement with non -human entities
and off -world operations, the Seeker Space Program.
Now, under the mentorship of the Major, Mark
was... balls deep in covert military protocol
protocols intelligence operations and what he
later described as quote -unquote cosmic politics
some of his early education in this field was
exposure to cold war era psychic warfare research
things like uh experimental programs and telepathy
remote viewing mind control which were all areas
the men who stare at goats yeah it's all areas
that overlapped with some of the real life initiatives
being worked on both by the u .s and the soviets
Soviet defense agencies during the time we covered
a bunch of these already, like the actual programs.
If you want to learn more about those, uh, you
can go ahead and find them. I don't remember
the names of what they were, but there's some
MK ultra majestic 12. Yeah. It's like, it's like
we did like the Montauk project and shit like
that. Like it's that kind of shit. Yeah. Yeah.
The, the fake shit, the stuff that isn't actually
real. No, it's real dude. So very real. Very
real. Now, uh, as he got older, In his early
teens, I believe, I think is what I read. Richards
was enrolled in a joint human -alien military
training program, specifically an elite academy
developed in coordination with the Raptors. Now,
this program, which is entirely hidden from public
record, so... good luck fact -checking me, was
said to combine advanced combat training, psychological
conditioning, and diplomatic instruction designed
to prepare human cadets for service in what would
later be referred to as Secret Space Program.
I want to know, in these joint exercises, did
they wear matching uniforms? Did they make specific
uniforms for the Raptors? Yeah. I don't know.
I assume in my head, I just picture like, like
Mark Richards on a motorcycle. And then the rest
of the Raptors running behind him, just like
fucking. This is what I picture. A bunch of Raptors
and really shiny boots, but with like holes cut
out for their talons. And their tail. Yeah. And
their tail for the pants. Yeah. Now in conjunction
with his military and psychic training. Mark
also cultivated himself a pretty broad skill
set. He became fluent in multiple languages,
both terrestrial and extraterrestrial. He trained
extensively in fencing and martial arts. He mastered
various forms of advanced weaponry and served
as a test pilot for prototype aircrafts. And
academically, this dude's fucking crushing it.
He was described as an honor student and a genius
tactical theorist with a deep understanding of
strategic operations. history, and interspecies
diplomacy. Now, by the time he finished college
in the 70s, Mark Richards had reportedly already
been involved in several low -level off -world
assignments and had been marked for command within
an international secret task force that operated
beyond conventional nation -state boundaries.
That must've been really tough. Like flying to
Mars, then coming right back to study for your
finals. Challenging. I'm assuming this had to
be like a joint college for humans. Raptors.
I like, there's no way you're just going to fucking
like be you. I can't imagine that that's what's
going on. It has to be. I didn't look into what
college he went to or, you know, like I, I'd
be interested to know what the mascot for that
college would be. Cause like when your student
body is Raptors, like you feel like you need
to get tougher than that, you know, unless they're,
unless this is college fighting T -Rexes, unless
this college is based in Toronto and then, okay,
then they could just keep the name. Yeah. Then
you're fine. So it was this foundation that would
define the course of Mark Richards life from
this point forward. Richards would enter what
he described as active service in a clandestine
interplanetary defense network, a coalition of
human and non -human forces working to protect
Earth from external threats and shape its role
in a broader cosmic sense. So, by the mid -70s,
Mark Richards' covert service has officially
begun. His early assignments included work as
an officer in the Vietnam War, but with a dual
purpose. One involving conventional military
operations and the other centered on extraterrestrial
reconnaissance and recovery efforts hidden under
the guise of traditional conflict. That's kind
of weird. Why is that so weird, Sarge? What about
this is weird? 1961, he said he was what, eight
years old? Sure. Okay, so 10 years from that
is 1971, which means he would have been 18. The
Vietnam War ended in 74. So he would have been
an officer at like 21 years old? How does that
work? Because he's fucking a genius. Are we not
paying attention to anything I just said? Oh,
right. You know what? I forgot about being a
pathological liar who's good at karate. Forgot
about that part. Also, his dad's a major, and
what we already discussed is that the way the
military works, yeah, it's called nepotism. Your
firstborn son gets your officer candidacy. Yeah.
That's what happens. That's how I always assumed
it worked. Now, following Vietnam, Richards transitioned
into full -time service within what was described
as an off -world branch of military intelligence.
He then attained the rank of Navy Captain and
was assigned to a classified unit operating beyond
Earth. One of his first major operations in this
role took place in July of 1976. This mission,
later referred to as the Battle of Chinagates,
involved a direct confrontation with a remnant
faction of Nazi German elites who had allegedly
escaped justice after World War II and formed
an alliance with hostile reptilians. Now, the
reptilians and the raptors are two separate things.
All right, so raptors are good, reptilians bad.
Does that make sense? You following? Duly noted.
Okay. You made a face when I brought up Nazi
German elites. Were you good? Yeah, I was just
thinking, of course, fucking Nazis always got
their hand in something. I learned that from
a very well -made documentary called Iron Skies,
where the Nazis built a base on the moon. Okay.
Is that not true? No, from what I understand,
it was a documentary. It was very well shot.
Found footage documentary. Found footage, okay.
Now, according to Richards, these Nazi reptilian
forces were trying to kick off catastrophic geological
events, a series of artificially induced earthquakes
designed to weaken Earth's tectonic stability
and open what they called a quote -unquote dimensional
gate. Now, if successful... This gate would have
allowed an invading force to enter Earth's atmosphere
undetected and unchallenged. Oh, and also their
base of operations was located under the ice
in Antarctica because of course, why wouldn't
it be? Under the ice on a continent, on a land
continent. So they were under the ice on the
ground. Yes, it's thick. Okay. It's believable.
You have to get to the ground to... under the
ice to get to the... To the ground that's thousands
of feet below it. Yeah. I mean, you can't just
build a foundation for a building on top of ice.
You got to dig it into the ground. You got to
dig down. I get it. Science. All of this rings
very true. Yeah. I don't see any problems with
this so far. So on July 27th, 1976, strange lights
and unexplained aerial disturbances were observed
over the city of Tangshan, China. Hours later,
a massive 7 .8 magnitude earthquake just decimated
the region. Tens of thousands of people died,
but according to Richards, this quake was no
natural disaster. It was the result of the Nazi
reptilian experimental tectonic weapon being
activated. The seismic chaos, he said, was intended
to serve as cover for mass abductions and covert
troop deployments through the dimensional portal.
counter -offensive unit and his father the major
led the ground assault on the hidden antarctic
base to destroy the quake generating weapon while
mark was tasked with uh aerial uh interdiction
now despite mark being only 23 years 23 years
old at the time he was given command of one of
the most advanced vehicles available now this
was a starship named minerva Are you ready to
learn about Minerva? Yes. Yes. I am so confident
in the truthfulness of all of this stuff that
I hope to one day fly in Minerva myself. Oh,
well, you're about to learn something. I don't
think you'll be able to. I'm sorry, bud. Oh,
okay. See, Minerva wasn't just your run -of -the
-mill, boilerplate, milquetoast starship. Minerva
was grown from a bio -organic ET technology,
was fully conscious, and said to be over 40 ,000
years old. The ship could bond telepathically
with its pilot and rejecting those who are mentally
or emotionally incompatible. So nine other human
candidates before Richard had died attempting
to interface with Minerva's neural system. But
luckily, this guy, who's good at fencing, And
martial arts. And martial arts was also mentally
stable enough, even though he was an officer
in the Vietnam War at the age of 14, apparently.
He's super smart. All these tracks. Yeah, so
like you said, Richards was able to successfully
form a sort of symbiotic connection with Minerva,
becoming the only human able to pilot it without
dying. You know what he had to do? He had to
seduce Minerva. Is that what it is? I kind of
think he fucked this ship. I'm almost 100 % sure
that this dude got real weird with it. Real fast.
I'll take the joystick, but first you need to
take mine. The thing about Minerva too is that
I'm assuming it's a, she, I'm going to say Minerva
is a girl name. Is that Minerva is a girl's name.
So I'm glad that you are a woman's name. Let's,
let's be as woke as possible. I don't know. Well,
maybe 40 ,000 years old is not old in Minerva
species time. Oh, okay. We don't know how long
Minerva lives for like a baby Yoda situation.
Yeah, exactly. Okay. Uh, my mistake for assuming
your age representation, maybe they're around
the same age. We don't know. It could be like,
There could be like 23 in Minerva years, like
40 ,000 could be young adult. Yeah, they're a
great couple. So Minerva's intelligence extended.
beyond like flight coordination and shit like
that. It acted autonomously when it felt it needed
to, even refusing to allow Richards to engage
in missions that it deemed unnecessarily dangerous,
which I feel like you don't want that in the
middle of a combat situation. You don't want
your ship or any tool you have to just become
autonomous. It feels unnecessary. It feels problematic.
Yeah. According to Richards, Minerva perceived
its human crew as emotionally volatile, and in
many cases, it would intervene for their own
good. Now, despite this, however, it followed
Richards into combat without hesitation during
the China Gates mission. Now, together, Richards
and Minerva entered the battlefield over Tangshan,
joining a formation of top -secret aerospace
fighters, some of them human -built, others were
of ET origin. Got it. So you got, like, in the
skies above China... You got Minerva and Richards,
and on the ground of Antarctica, you got the
Major and the ground troops fighting separately.
The conflict escalated pretty rapidly as portals
started to breach Earth's spatial integrity.
Ultimately, though, the mission was deemed a
success. The dimensional gate was closed, the
tectonic weapon was destroyed, and the alliance
between the Nazis and their reptilian allies
were disrupted. The cost, however, was pretty
high. The earthquake still killed an estimated
250 ,000 people. But according to Richards and
his allies, the death toll could have been in
the billions if this invasion had been successful.
So I just want to take a quick moment to say
thank you, Captain Mark Richards, for saving
us this time. Thanks, Captain. You're truly just
really valuable and not at all pathological lying.
I can tell that you're kind of getting angry.
I feel like you're getting a little mad. You
know, it's not even anger. It's just utter contempt.
Okay. At how little this man thinks of people's
mental faculties. Okay. Just none of this is
like remotely close to possible. We don't know.
That's all secret. I keep forgetting that. I
keep forgetting that. I don't understand what
you're not understanding about the secret and
secret space program is Sarge. Right. That was
my mistake. He's a whistleblower. He's not, you
know, he's not, he can't, he can't come out with
a bunch of classified documents. That'd be insane.
Oh yeah. No, he's, he's one. He's a hundred percent
of whistleblower. It's just tooting away. Now,
it was this operation that solidified Richard's
status within the secret command structure. He
was recognized not just for his tactical competence,
but for the unique bond he had formed with Minerva,
the sentient spaceship, which would play huge
roles in many of his later missions. So, in the
months following the Battle of China Gates, Richard
was elevated to a more strategic role within
the secret space program. His success during
that mission and his compatibility with Minerva
had made him a unique asset. He wasn't just a
soldier anymore. He was one of the only humans
capable of coordinating ET technology with human
command structures. And that capability would
be tested again in September of 1977 during a
large -scale conflict that would become known
as the Battle of Harvest Moon. You familiar with
the battle? You've heard about this? You've seen
this shit? You heard about this? I feel like
that was the original title for Star Wars. No,
it was Blue Harvest. It was the original title
of Star Wars. My mistake. The events leading
up to this operation began when a long -range...
Oh, my God. Why can't I say this word? Now, the
events leading up to this operation began when
long -range reconnaissance units in the secret
space program detected the mobilization of an
alien fleet in the outer solar system. Like you
do. Yeah. SSP intelligence confirmed that a coalition
of hostile ET species was amassing near Saturn.
I'm sorry. Are we just going to blow past the
fact that you abbreviated secret space program?
Yeah. Sorry. You want to take that again? Here
we go. No, no, no. I like it. I like it. The
SSP. One more time. All right. intelligence confirmed
that a coalition of hostile species was messing
near the SSP. Yeah. Preparing for an assault
on earth's moon. Now, sorry, you're probably
thinking, why would they want to attack the moon?
Right? Well, their target wasn't the moon itself,
obviously, but a classified installation on the
moon known as the Rockefeller base. Oh, of course
the Rockefellers are involved. Why didn't I think
about that sooner? Hopefully the Bilderberg group
is up there. Maybe even the Illuminati. It's
possible. We'll find out. And the Rothschilds.
We'll find out, won't we? The Queen of England.
This base is a secret lunar colony established
through a breakaway... established through breakaway
technology, post -war Nazi engineering, and corporate
black funding. The base served as both a staging
ground for interplanetary missions and a critical
defense node within the Earth -Moon security
system, which I'm sure you're familiar with.
We all know that now. Yeah, the EMSS. Yeah. Yeah.
Of course, everyone knows the EMSS, the Earth
-Moon security system. When the threat of this
attack became imminent, Richards and his father,
the Major, were brought in to coordinate Earth's
response. Major Dad. What made this mission different
than the others was the emergence of an unexpected
ally. Can you guess who this ally could be? Martians.
No. That's such an easy guess. Why would you
even say it? Like, come on. That's obvious. It's
not a mistake. It was a fleet of advanced Nazi
flying saucers that were thought to have been
destroyed in the aftermath of World War II. This
is what I saw in Iron Sky. Okay. Yes. Now we're
getting somewhere. Now, even though this Nazi
breakaway faction has been up to this point historically.
adversarial, they viewed the alien invasion force
as a greater threat and agreed to join in on
the defense of the moon. So together, the SSP,
the Nazis, and a whole host of alien allies teamed
up and organized an orbital defense operation
with Mark and Minerva tasked with frontline defense
during the initial strike phase, I guess you
would call it. Now, what followed next was one
of the most intense recorded battles in the history
of the SSP. In his post -mission debrief, Mark
described the battle as, quote, a scene beyond
fiction. Now, this conflict only lasted 90 seconds
in real time, but encompassed the destruction
of entire fleets, the deaths of thousands of
beings, and the obliteration of ships that represented
planet -scale economic investments. With the
battle taking place in the space surrounding
the moon and briefly on its moon surface, like
near the Seager base. Mark described the assault
as overwhelmingly chaotic. Weaponized gravity,
plasma artillery, and telepathic disruption were
all deployed in what he called, quote, a convergence
of the best science of a dozen civilizations,
end quote. Good? Yep. Okay. Can I ask? Yeah.
And this is just a minor detail, but the bad
guys in this, since the Nazis had teamed up with
everyone, were they fighting space Jews? The
ones that Marjorie Taylor Greene's afraid of?
I mean, I'm sure this is all some sort of fucked
up dog whistle. Anti -Semitic. There's no way
it's not. The enemy aliens. We tried to make
peace with them. But they refused to eat bagels.
But ultimately, the hostile feat was defeated,
the Rockefeller base was saved, and Earth's presence
on the moon remained secure. Well, I'm glad the
Rockefellers are safe, because God knows they've
been through enough. I don't think they're there.
I think the base is just named that. It's a weird
name for a base. Is it? Yeah, because normally
we name bases after, like, I don't know, heroes?
Well, maybe they did something in the secret
space program before this that I don't know about.
Back during the steampunk era, steam powered
locomotives that could go to space. Dude, you
got to remember, it's all secret. That's true.
I don't know why they named these things the
way they do. Maybe they help. I don't know, dude.
Anyways, but following his successful leadership
during the Harvest Moon conflict, Captain Mark
Richards was assigned command of one of one of
Earth's most secretive. Secretive Interagency
Operations, which is Operation Moondust. Now,
this was originally established to recover and
study unidentified aerial technology. Moondust's
scope had expanded by the late 1970s to include
extraterrestrial contact, intelligence gathering,
and technology retrieval under extreme conditions.
So in 1978, Richards led one of the program's
most critical missions. See, a UFO had crashed
in the mountains in Bolivia, drawing the attention
of multiple covert groups, including foreign
special forces, private intelligence contractors,
and suspected non -human operatives. The area
became a flashpoint in the global shadow war
for advanced alien technology. So Richards was
placed in command of the U .S. retrieval team.
And their objectives were two things. Secure
the downcraft and container neutralize any remaining
threats in the area. Now, according to post -mission
accounts, Richard's unit successfully repelled
rival teams and recovered the alien vehicle.
What made this operation especially significant
was there were survivors. So he was... So the
crash survivors were described as small insectoid
beings. They were unfamiliar to Richards or his
team. It's like a new species of alien that they've
never come across. And rather than resist, the
creature surrendered peacefully, reportedly traumatized
and disoriented. They later became Casey and
the Sunshine Band. I don't know what that means.
Do a little dance. Make a little love. Get down.
I know what that is. it's not my fault that you
don't know good music I know who they are but
I don't understand why these traumatized and
disoriented insectoid aliens would become Casey
and the Sunshine Band because obviously every
time someone goes through a traumatic experience
you immediately turn to disco and funk I'm going
to let you sit in that I'm going to let you sit
in that it's in your shame Now let me get through
this sentence. Richards facilitated communication
with them and negotiated their safety, offering
them political asylum under a secret Earth alliance
in exchange for information and technological
cooperation. This event was seen internationally
as a diplomatic milestone. Richards just wasn't
recovering hardware. He was building alliances
with off -world species and broadening humanity's
network of non -human partners. Okay? Yeah. Okay.
And then they played that funky music, white
boy. Okay, so one year later, in August of 1979,
Richards was given command of a long -range peacekeeping
assignment deep within the asteroid belt. A diplomatic
summit was scheduled to take place on Vesta,
which was one of the largest asteroids in the
belt that was designated a neutral site by multiple
interstellar factions. Commanding an Orion -class
battleship, which is a massive nuclear -powered
deep space vessel, Richards was tasked with ensuring
the safety of the proceedings and serving as
Earth's military envoy there. The peace talks
involved numerous alien species, each with conflicting
agendas and somewhat volatile histories amongst
one another. So Richards was expected to maintain
neutrality, oversee security protocols, and manage
any potential sabotage attempts. During the summit.
Yeah. I mean, you got to be careful when you
have the Ugnaughts and the Sand People. You got
to keep them separated. Yeah. Are they called
the Tusken Raiders? I feel like calling them
Sand People is a little... The Tusken Raiders,
right. It's a little... Right. But I feel like
that's a racist term. I believe Sand People is
the preferred. I think... Is it? I don't know.
I never looked at it. It might be the other way
around, actually, now that I think about it.
But Raider is such a negative connotation. Anyway,
the Tuscan peoples and the Ugnaughts do not get
along. So the mission escalated when a hostile
insectoid faction, unrelated to the Bolivia bugs,
launched a surprise ambush on the asteroid during
the summit. Their objective was to assassinate
key representatives and disrupt the treaty process.
Richards and his crew quickly responded. Utilizing
the Orion ship's heavy weapons systems and Minerva's
rapid deployment capabilities, they intercepted
and destroyed the attacking vessels. No delegates
were harmed, the summit continued as planned,
and the peace agreement was finalized under the
protection of Earth's contingent. So for his
actions on Vesta, Richards was commended by both
human and non -human leadership, solidifying
his reputation as a commander capable of operating
under extreme conditions in high -risk political
situations. At the ripe old age of 20, 26. He's
like not even in his 30s. I just want to draw
attention. Yeah, this is a guy who has done more
in his 20s than most people have done in their
entire lives. Yeah. No. It's pretty remarkable.
Yeah. I'm proud of him. Yeah. Some would say
it's almost unbelievable. Almost. Almost. But
the most significant and controversial mission
of his career was still ahead of him. So this
is something you probably heard of. I would assume.
Maybe. In late 1979. Whispers from deep within
the intelligence community pointed to ongoing
human experimentation at a facility long rumored
to exist beneath Dulce, New Mexico, the Dulce
Base. Now, according to insiders, there was a
joint human -alien laboratory operated in violation
of ancient interspecies treaties, and these reports
suggested that non -consensual experiments were
being conducted on abducted civilians by a rogue
faction of grey aliens aided by compromised human
collaborators. The evidence, though classified,
was considered credible enough to trigger a response
from, you guessed it, Captain Richards and the
Major. They were tasked with leading the operation,
and according to... This is starting to sound
like a band. Captain Richards and the Major.
This is like Captain and Tennille. Yeah. According
to restricted briefings later shared in select
intelligence circles, funding and logistical
support for the raid came not... just from secret
military channels, but allegedly from private
financiers, including billionaire Ross Perot,
who is said to have been appalled by the reports
of human abuse. Honestly, the least surprising
thing about this entire story is that Ross Perot
is involved. If any of this were real, it would
be Ross Perot throwing money at aliens. Yeah,
that's probably... Anyway, so in November of
97... Before you continue, I do want to... I
know it sounded like I was making fun of this,
but the Dulce underground bases that you were
talking about, they're called DUMs. No, I know.
It is the Dulce underground military base. I'm
trying to just enlighten the audience. Gotcha.
poo -pooing the underground bases by any stretch.
Well, no, they're real. And at the bottom of
it in 1979, they were doing experiments on humans.
Yeah. We all know this now. Yep. That's why I
don't have wisdom teeth anymore. So in November
of 1979, Richard's letter. Yeah, they put something
in the water. Is that what it is? And so those
of us who are enlightened beings never grew wisdom
teeth. See, I can lie too. I don't think that's
what the experiments were. Actually, we're going
to get into it right now. All right, fine. So
in November of 1979, Richards led a multi -pronged
assault on the base. Strike teams entered the
facility through underground tunnels using experimental
transport technology. What followed was described
as brutal close quarters engagement through dark
claustrophobic corridors. They were fighting
against gray bile soldiers and genetically engineered
hybrids created in on -site laboratories. Richard's
unit was tasked with locating and freeing human
prisoners, many of whom were found emaciated
and in critical condition. The team's neutralized
enemy forces destroyed vital sections of the
lab and successfully extracted dozens of survivors.
The mission, again, classified as a success.
Naturally. But details of the operation, obviously,
they remained sealed. Can't just let the public
know all about that. No, you can't tell the public
about it. That would ruin the secrecy and believability
of this whole thing. Yeah, so by 1980, Captain
Mark Richards had supposedly done pretty much
it all. He was a master tactician in galactic
war, the only human trusted to pilot Minerva,
the sentient spaceship. Incredible. He'd flown
missions through the asteroid belt, fought and
fought with the Nazi saucers over the moon, and
forged peace treaties with many alien species
light years from Earth. He was called the Pendragon
of the Space Command, which is a title pulled
from Arthurian legend and given to a man said
to be humanity's greatest interstellar protector.
He was a warrior, a peacekeeper, a peacemaker.
He was also like a myth in motion. But now, Sarge,
as I'm sure you guessed, None of this was real.
I would believe you immediately because none
of this sounds real. Yeah, so what if every off
-world mission, every alien alliance, every battle
for Earth's survival was actually just a story
told from behind bars? Because here's the truth,
Sarge. Mark Richards is not a war hero. He is
a convicted murderer serving life without parole
in the California prison system since 1982. Now
it all makes sense. He never served in the military.
His rank of captain is completely made up. There's
no classified space fleet, no Raptor prints,
no secret lunar base, the entire saga, the sentient
ship, the Dolce raid, the asteroid diplomacy,
not the asteroid diplomacy. That's fake too.
This was all constructed over years of interviews,
but not with government whistleblowers, not with
intelligence officers. but with Carrie Cassidy,
a UFO disclosure vlogger and conspiracy influencer
who built her platform, Project Camelot, on unverified
testimony, shadowy insiders, and fringe beliefs.
Richards gave her everything, every detail, every
battle, every lie. And while he claimed to be
humanity's last line of defense against alien
invasion, the truth is that he's been in maximum
security. since the Reagan administration. Now,
do you want to know why? Because he murdered
a guy? Because in 1982, Mark Richards was convicted
for orchestrating the brutal murder of Richard
Baldwin as part of a delusional conspiracy known
as the Pendragon Plot, which is what we are going
to be covering next episode. Oh my God, I'm so
excited. I'm so excited. This is amazing to me.
This is... I love shit like this because... The
only thing that makes absolute lunacy better
is when it bleeds into real life and then the
lunatic is faced with reality. Yeah, so basically
we'll get into it. Mark Richards, he had a failing
business. He hired two kids and he convinced
those two kids that he was going to become king
of like the Bay Area. And he promised one of
them lordship over an island by Alcatraz. He
started a small cult and then murdered one of
his best friends to steal all his money to fund
the Pendragon plot. Just amazing. I'm so excited.
This is not where I thought this was going and
I'm very excited. So next week we'll cover the
reason why he's in jail and it's... It's great.
It's beautiful. It's wonderful. I'm excited.
We went from like conspiracy theory podcast to
true crime podcast in two episodes. Yeah. I'm
so looking forward to this next episode. It's,
um, yeah, if, if the dude, so he, yeah, so he's
been in prison for a long time since 82 and,
um, Carrie Cassidy, who, if you don't know, bro,
project Camelot is, it's like her YouTube channel.
rumble whatever the right way I gotta look her
up so she heard about him somehow I don't know
how but so she went and she goes to visit him
in prison and so she can't bring recording equipment
with her she goes and he tells her all this fucking
crazy bullshit and she writes it down and then
has to come back home and then immediately like
record and report on the interview she's been
having with him and this Mark Richards is kind
of crazy because in the weird right -wing QAnon
conspiracy theory world, they believe him wholeheartedly.
Oh, yeah. Wholeheartedly. These are people who
unquestioningly accept that two of every animal
were put on a large boat and saved from extinction.
So I'm not really surprised when they're like,
oh, you went into space and fought aliens? Checks
out. It's in a book. Yeah. It's gotta be real
there. And there's so, there's so much more to
this. Like, uh, yeah. So, uh, the Raptors, uh,
the Raptors that he, he met and fought with,
they are Raptors. They're just dinosaurs. They're
just straight up the dinosaurs from Jurassic
park. Uh, they are smart. Uh, what's funny is
that in Jurassic world, uh, when Chris Pratt's
on like those Raptors, only a couple of them
are CGI. The other, the other few are actual
Raptors. They love this shit. That would explain
why actual velociraptors are the size of turkeys,
yet in Jurassic Park they're the size of basketball
players. They had to scale them up to fit with
the raptors. That makes sense. Now it all makes
sense. They also love chocolate. Big fans of
chocolate. Also, if you've ever been to Walking
with Dinosaurs, you know the outside puppet thing?
Some of those raptors? Those are raptors. Pretty
fucking crazy right there. Of course they're
real. Why wouldn't they be? I'll send you some
stuff if you want to. I'm so excited. The Mark
Richard shit is fucking wild. And the murder
plot is even crazier. It's not even crazier obviously
because it doesn't involve fucking space shit
but it's good. The fact that he murdered someone
and thought he would get away with it. Being
this unbelievable about everything else. He was
going to become a king. Do you understand that?
It doesn't matter. You can get away with anything
if you're a king. No, that's true. That's true.
I'm, oh man, this is going to be the best. Yeah.
So buckle up. We're going to dip our toes into
true crime. It's still conspiracy shit, but it's
a little bit of true crime, but mostly conspiracy.
Yeah. We're not going to get into like the fucking
nitty gritty of like, and then he fucking. bashed
his brain. We'll gloss over all that. We don't
want to be too... We don't want to mix genres.
Alright, Sarge. I think that's it. If we go any
further, we're just going to end up talking about
the second episode. No, no, no. Let's hold off.
Very worth it. I'm very excited. I loved this
from start to finish. It seems like you were
real annoyed with me. No, no. I wasn't annoyed
with you at all. I was just like... I'm thinking
about the kinds of people who are taken in by
these sorts of things. Yeah. So it wasn't like
annoyed. It was like a deep sadness. Yeah. For
the lack of critical thinking that people have
where they can't just be like, this sounds silly.
Well, no, because he had an excuse for everything.
Like, yeah, his records were, you know, it was
all secret. So you can't provide it or, you know,
so, so he, he was arrested by the military themselves,
like on trumped up charges. We'll go into it
a little bit. Gotcha. On the next episode, but
they will tell, told Carrie that he was framed.
This is all part of the, this is still, still
all part of the secret space program. He did
something or other and they fucking threw him
in prison. I don't know if it was because he
blew the whistle on something. I don't really
remember. But he has an answer for everything.
I'm really looking forward to this part of it.
Yeah, but I mean, it's Carrie Cassidy. If you
don't think about her, she does not push back.
Nope. She just blindly accepts it. Yeah, dude,
it's wild. All right, so if I keep talking, I'm
just going to spoil it. So Sarge, is there anything
you want to plug before we sign off? Yeah, you
know, you can still get my coloring book. I know
I've been beating this drum forever, but it's
still relevant, unfortunately. So go to sargesupernormal
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Feel free to purchase it and take out your frustration
on the current administration with crayons. Or
fire. You can burn it, too. I wouldn't be sad.
Because you already bought it. Okay. Yeah, so
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stages. We're still working on everything. I
talked over you. What's the name of it again?
Say it again. I'm going to edit you out. Oh,
okay. Yeah, fuck me. No, it's called Dead Air
Syndicate. It was just the first name I came
up with. Maybe it'll change. I like it. I like
it a lot. That's a cool name. Yeah, it's a very
loose collective. It's not really a network.
Like -minded creators helping each other grow
and stuff like that. But you can follow that
on Instagram at Dead Air Syndicate. Just a couple
of podcasts with raging goals. Yeah. I think
that's it, though. Sarge, with that out of the
way, do you want to say goodbye and I love you?
You can find us all on the internet, by the way.
I said that already. You just Google Cryptid
Cocktail Party. So do it now. Alexa, Google Cryptid
Cocktail Party. Ah, now you can't get away from
it. Did you not hear what I said? Okay, so anyway,
goodbye, and I love you. I hate it here so much.