WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:03.339 You are now listening to Cryptid Cocktail Party. 00:00:40.880 --> 00:00:42.700 Hey everybody, welcome back to another episode 00:00:42.700 --> 00:00:44.460 of Cryptic Cocktail Party, a show where we have 00:00:44.460 --> 00:00:46.479 a few drinks, share a few laughs, take a dive 00:00:46.479 --> 00:00:48.579 into the unknown. I'm your host Dave, joined 00:00:48.579 --> 00:00:52.659 as always by All Beef Daddy, aka Sarge. How's 00:00:52.659 --> 00:00:56.939 it going, buddy? Hiya! What's up? You doing karate 00:00:56.939 --> 00:01:00.399 now? Yeah, why not? Fair enough. I mean, I don't 00:01:00.399 --> 00:01:02.780 actually know karate, and I feel like anyone 00:01:02.780 --> 00:01:04.920 who did know karate would be able to beat me 00:01:04.920 --> 00:01:08.420 up pretty handily. Meh. But I respect the hustle. 00:01:08.540 --> 00:01:11.040 I think you'd hold your own. For like a minute. 00:01:11.159 --> 00:01:16.000 I'd have to do a bear hug. Gotcha. I'd just have 00:01:16.000 --> 00:01:18.000 to wrap my arms around them and lift them off 00:01:18.000 --> 00:01:21.640 the ground. Get real Lenny from Mice and Men 00:01:21.640 --> 00:01:25.879 with it. Yes. That would be my only move. How 00:01:25.879 --> 00:01:28.219 you doing, bud? You looking good as always? Thank 00:01:28.219 --> 00:01:32.560 you. Doing great. Doing great. Work is busier 00:01:32.560 --> 00:01:35.180 than ever. I get to go back to California for 00:01:35.180 --> 00:01:40.379 funsies. And yeah. How you doing? I'm fine. Nothing 00:01:40.379 --> 00:01:44.500 new going on. It's just all the same stuff. Fair 00:01:44.500 --> 00:01:48.000 enough. Yeah, I got nothing going on. I feel 00:01:48.000 --> 00:01:50.239 like I don't normally. I feel like after seeing 00:01:50.239 --> 00:01:53.540 dinosaurs the other weekend, I'm just not interested 00:01:53.540 --> 00:01:56.620 in doing anything else. Yeah, like candy doesn't 00:01:56.620 --> 00:02:00.920 taste as sweet anymore. The candy of life. Just 00:02:00.920 --> 00:02:06.670 fucking over it, dude. Yeah, I got nothing going 00:02:06.670 --> 00:02:09.629 on, dude. Everything is just... I felt that way 00:02:09.629 --> 00:02:12.490 when the Bruins traded away Brad Marchand. Unacceptable. 00:02:13.050 --> 00:02:16.129 You know what? These fucking assholes. I can 00:02:16.129 --> 00:02:19.590 relate. Actually, I can't. I don't know anything 00:02:19.590 --> 00:02:21.490 about sports. I have no idea what you just said 00:02:21.490 --> 00:02:22.949 to me. It's like you're speaking a foreign language. 00:02:22.949 --> 00:02:24.949 It's okay. You're better off, frankly, at this 00:02:24.949 --> 00:02:26.729 point, because the Bruins are trash this year. 00:02:27.610 --> 00:02:30.069 All right, Sarge. Before this episode starts, 00:02:30.189 --> 00:02:34.210 we've got a couple things to go over. Okay. One 00:02:34.210 --> 00:02:36.669 of them is that we got a listener story. Yes. 00:02:36.810 --> 00:02:40.069 Emailed to us. And it kind of fits somewhat with 00:02:40.069 --> 00:02:43.250 the topic of today's episode, in a way, sort 00:02:43.250 --> 00:02:45.590 of. You'll figure it out. But yeah, you want 00:02:45.590 --> 00:02:49.490 to? Yeah, let's do it. All right. So this comes 00:02:49.490 --> 00:02:51.370 from Peter Quint. He's actually the host of another 00:02:51.370 --> 00:02:53.629 podcast called Good Beer, Bad Movie Night. It's 00:02:53.629 --> 00:02:56.710 pretty good. Check it out. Nice. His email reads, 00:02:56.909 --> 00:02:59.469 Hi, Dave and Sarge. Here's one personal story 00:02:59.469 --> 00:03:02.120 of the spooky kind. I grew up in rural northwest 00:03:02.120 --> 00:03:04.719 Ohio, where it's very flat and corn as far as 00:03:04.719 --> 00:03:06.639 the eye can see, and there aren't any lights 00:03:06.639 --> 00:03:08.560 on the road, so it gets really dark out there. 00:03:08.900 --> 00:03:11.120 One summer night when I was in high school, my 00:03:11.120 --> 00:03:13.120 mom and I were driving home late at night when 00:03:13.120 --> 00:03:15.120 we both saw a bright light in the sky in the 00:03:15.120 --> 00:03:17.900 distance. We are far from any sort of airport, 00:03:18.020 --> 00:03:20.080 and the only planes we ever see in the sky were 00:03:20.080 --> 00:03:22.560 crop dusters during the day and nothing at night. 00:03:22.879 --> 00:03:25.219 The light was so unusual we both mentioned and 00:03:25.219 --> 00:03:28.020 giggled, saying it had to be a UFO. We just watched 00:03:28.020 --> 00:03:30.210 it sort of hang out there in the sky. It was 00:03:30.210 --> 00:03:32.110 really hard to judge how far away or how big 00:03:32.110 --> 00:03:34.830 it was. It didn't really blink. It was just there. 00:03:34.930 --> 00:03:37.629 The next instance, it was just gone, as if it 00:03:37.629 --> 00:03:39.930 was never there to begin with. We didn't see 00:03:39.930 --> 00:03:42.270 it streak away. We didn't see it change colors 00:03:42.270 --> 00:03:44.870 or really move at all. It just vanished as if 00:03:44.870 --> 00:03:47.250 a light switch had been turned off. That's it. 00:03:47.370 --> 00:03:50.030 Not very impressive. It could have been anything. 00:03:50.229 --> 00:03:53.229 It probably wasn't a UFO, but that moment is 00:03:53.229 --> 00:03:58.129 delightfully burned in my brain as a quote -unquote 00:03:58.129 --> 00:04:01.069 encounter. The story is real. Can't say for sure 00:04:01.069 --> 00:04:03.830 that it was a UFO. And then he says he has two 00:04:03.830 --> 00:04:06.469 more stories that he'll send us later. So there 00:04:06.469 --> 00:04:10.129 you go. Nice. Send him. And you know what? I 00:04:10.129 --> 00:04:13.169 kind of like that he didn't try and shoehorn 00:04:13.169 --> 00:04:15.830 that into something. He was just like, it could 00:04:15.830 --> 00:04:17.970 have been a UFO. It felt like it might have been. 00:04:18.209 --> 00:04:21.769 I mean, to him, it was unidentified. I mean, 00:04:21.790 --> 00:04:25.589 yeah. To the definition of the term, it was unidentified. 00:04:26.490 --> 00:04:28.750 I actually had a similar situation when I was 00:04:28.750 --> 00:04:31.889 overseas. It was real late at night and we were 00:04:31.889 --> 00:04:37.470 doing a night kind of convoy training. And so 00:04:37.470 --> 00:04:41.970 we drive into this like built up pretend compound 00:04:41.970 --> 00:04:44.610 in Baghdad. You know, it's kind of built for 00:04:44.610 --> 00:04:48.689 like training purposes. So we drive into it and 00:04:48.689 --> 00:04:52.089 it's real late at night and I am fucking exhausted. 00:04:52.649 --> 00:04:57.000 And so I'm in the turret. of my truck and i'm 00:04:57.000 --> 00:04:59.540 like just trying to stay awake and i look out 00:04:59.540 --> 00:05:03.000 in the distance and i see this like light kind 00:05:03.000 --> 00:05:05.759 of it's almost like it's swaying in the sky okay 00:05:05.759 --> 00:05:09.480 like a pendulum of light kind of not not because 00:05:09.480 --> 00:05:12.100 it's just the light yeah and i'm just seeing 00:05:12.100 --> 00:05:13.959 the light kind of move back and forth i'm like 00:05:13.959 --> 00:05:16.079 planes don't do that helicopters what the fuck 00:05:16.079 --> 00:05:19.279 is that thing and so uh i very excitedly after 00:05:19.279 --> 00:05:21.959 the training exercise is over i very excitedly 00:05:22.269 --> 00:05:24.670 I'm like talking to some of the guys and I'm 00:05:24.670 --> 00:05:27.589 like, dude, I think I saw a UFO. And I like point 00:05:27.589 --> 00:05:30.050 over to where it, I thought I saw it. And they're 00:05:30.050 --> 00:05:34.110 like, you idiot. And I was like, what? And so 00:05:34.110 --> 00:05:38.769 apparently, and I realize this now. You're going 00:05:38.769 --> 00:05:40.149 to say some real, you're going to sound real 00:05:40.149 --> 00:05:42.350 dumb, aren't you? Oh yeah. They put up balloons 00:05:42.350 --> 00:05:44.990 in the sky with like lights on them. And the 00:05:44.990 --> 00:05:47.790 balloons are attached to a cable that holds them 00:05:47.790 --> 00:05:50.350 to the ground. Okay. And those balloons will 00:05:50.350 --> 00:05:53.050 pick up disturbances in the air to indicate whether 00:05:53.050 --> 00:05:56.569 incoming mortar rounds are being shot at us. 00:05:58.290 --> 00:06:00.750 So that would explain why the light was kind 00:06:00.750 --> 00:06:03.129 of like gently moving back and forth because 00:06:03.129 --> 00:06:07.189 it was a fucking balloon. I mean, it was high 00:06:07.189 --> 00:06:10.689 up. it was high up so in my defense to be fair 00:06:10.689 --> 00:06:13.649 a lot of people mistake like mylar balloons and 00:06:13.649 --> 00:06:15.449 shit like that for ufos so i mean you're not 00:06:15.449 --> 00:06:18.550 it's not that too bad um all right so second 00:06:18.550 --> 00:06:22.829 piece of some whatever that we need to go over 00:06:22.829 --> 00:06:25.269 before we dive into the new business the second 00:06:25.269 --> 00:06:27.250 order of business second order of business there 00:06:27.250 --> 00:06:32.110 we go is uh we have a bit of wholesome content 00:06:32.110 --> 00:06:37.459 wholesome content Yeah, so it's not really wholesome 00:06:37.459 --> 00:06:40.300 content. What it is is I told everyone last week 00:06:40.300 --> 00:06:43.120 that I would explain why we did the Christian 00:06:43.120 --> 00:06:46.740 cocktail party thing. Oh, yes. For those of you 00:06:46.740 --> 00:06:49.259 who don't follow us on Instagram, we received 00:06:49.259 --> 00:06:53.300 one of the best reviews we could ever have ever 00:06:53.300 --> 00:06:56.560 possibly wanted to get. It's so good. I give 00:06:56.560 --> 00:06:59.439 this review five stars. Yeah, so I'll just read 00:06:59.439 --> 00:07:03.240 it and then you'll understand why we did the 00:07:03.240 --> 00:07:06.740 whole. Christian cocktail part. I think so. Uh, 00:07:06.860 --> 00:07:09.899 this comes from a user on bean sprout, which 00:07:09.899 --> 00:07:13.019 I don't ever use. So I'd never check it. And 00:07:13.019 --> 00:07:14.920 I just randomly decided one day to see what was 00:07:14.920 --> 00:07:17.199 up. This was four months ago that they posted 00:07:17.199 --> 00:07:21.600 this. It says, uh, I came to learn about cryptids. 00:07:21.620 --> 00:07:24.100 And while I enjoyed that aspect of these, they 00:07:24.100 --> 00:07:26.579 felt the need to shove their woke pseudo historical 00:07:26.579 --> 00:07:29.920 history into the podcast. They claim they aren't 00:07:29.920 --> 00:07:32.990 a political podcast. Yet when people get annoyed 00:07:32.990 --> 00:07:35.069 with them shoving their politics into the episodes, 00:07:35.230 --> 00:07:38.410 they call them fascists. They research all this 00:07:38.410 --> 00:07:40.790 stuff about cryptids, but don't take time to 00:07:40.790 --> 00:07:43.589 research Christianity and see why many believe 00:07:43.589 --> 00:07:46.410 in it. Here's a start evidence that demands a 00:07:46.410 --> 00:07:49.089 verdict by Josh McDowell. And that's the whole 00:07:49.089 --> 00:07:54.930 review. I mean, no notes. They're right in a 00:07:54.930 --> 00:07:57.889 sense that we don't study Christianity and take 00:07:57.889 --> 00:07:59.329 the time to figure out why people believe in 00:07:59.329 --> 00:08:01.480 it. But also, I don't think we've ever, we've 00:08:01.480 --> 00:08:04.040 never been annoyed by people being annoyed by 00:08:04.040 --> 00:08:07.079 the fact that we say things to say our beliefs 00:08:07.079 --> 00:08:09.779 on this show, especially not enough to call them 00:08:09.779 --> 00:08:13.060 fascists on the show. I think it's kind of a 00:08:13.060 --> 00:08:17.339 wild flex to hear us rail against racism and 00:08:17.339 --> 00:08:20.720 the subjugation of people. Yeah. And, and, and 00:08:20.720 --> 00:08:24.199 find that that in like interpret that as an immediate 00:08:24.199 --> 00:08:27.139 attack on your belief system. Like maybe, I don't 00:08:27.139 --> 00:08:29.220 know, you believe in the wrong thing. Is what 00:08:29.220 --> 00:08:31.420 we said was bad for you. I just want to know 00:08:31.420 --> 00:08:34.860 what they mean by pseudo -historical history. 00:08:35.500 --> 00:08:37.940 Fucking, I have no idea what that means, but 00:08:37.940 --> 00:08:40.500 it's great. Yeah, we don't make up history. We 00:08:40.500 --> 00:08:44.019 just find the actual sources of history and use 00:08:44.019 --> 00:08:48.460 them. But is this show woke? I don't think. I 00:08:48.460 --> 00:08:50.139 don't think we're woke. I think we're like, you 00:08:50.139 --> 00:08:54.700 know, anti -racism. We're just normal human beings. 00:08:55.699 --> 00:08:57.899 That's all we are. We're just people. We frown 00:08:57.899 --> 00:09:01.480 on, I don't know, stealing Native American folklore 00:09:01.480 --> 00:09:03.879 and turning it into your entertainment. Well, 00:09:03.899 --> 00:09:05.840 see, that's pretty woke, Sarge. I don't know 00:09:05.840 --> 00:09:08.340 if I can. Oh, okay. Now that you say it like 00:09:08.340 --> 00:09:11.740 that, I hear it. I also like that he was immediately 00:09:11.740 --> 00:09:15.000 associated all of that with anti -Christian behavior. 00:09:16.399 --> 00:09:18.100 You know, dude, that's just how they are, man. 00:09:18.200 --> 00:09:21.000 It's just... It's the silliest shit I've ever 00:09:21.000 --> 00:09:23.179 heard. Okay, buddy. Okay. All right, let's move 00:09:23.179 --> 00:09:25.159 on. You ready to dive in today's episode? Yeah, 00:09:25.200 --> 00:09:27.399 hold on. Let me just grab my Bible so that I 00:09:27.399 --> 00:09:31.899 can continue to study. All right. This episode 00:09:31.899 --> 00:09:33.580 got away from me. It's going to be a little bit 00:09:33.580 --> 00:09:37.330 longer than our normal ones probably. Which is 00:09:37.330 --> 00:09:39.230 good. People say they want longer episodes, so 00:09:39.230 --> 00:09:41.470 this one's for you guys. It's so big, in fact, 00:09:41.590 --> 00:09:45.950 that it's going to be two parts. Yes! Two -parter! 00:09:46.710 --> 00:09:50.129 Yeah, we're going to be covering something that's 00:09:50.129 --> 00:09:51.549 kind of in the realm of things we've covered 00:09:51.549 --> 00:09:54.490 before, and that is the Secret Space Program. 00:09:55.210 --> 00:09:57.889 There are several Secret Space Programs, but 00:09:57.889 --> 00:10:01.730 we're going to cover a specific person. His name 00:10:01.730 --> 00:10:04.679 is Captain Mark Richards. Are you familiar with 00:10:04.679 --> 00:10:07.799 him at all or anything that he's? No, no. A name 00:10:07.799 --> 00:10:10.899 doesn't ring a bell. Okay. You're in for a wild 00:10:10.899 --> 00:10:12.899 fucking ride, dude. You're not ready for anything 00:10:12.899 --> 00:10:15.879 I'm about to tell you. So for those of you who 00:10:15.879 --> 00:10:17.860 may be unfamiliar with who this is, and there's 00:10:17.860 --> 00:10:19.220 probably a lot of you listening who do know who 00:10:19.220 --> 00:10:21.139 he is and know where this story is heading. So 00:10:21.139 --> 00:10:24.120 get ready to hear Sarge's reaction to all of 00:10:24.120 --> 00:10:26.779 it. Captain Mark Richards is a whistleblower 00:10:26.779 --> 00:10:29.120 with decades of experience in interstellar warfare. 00:10:29.759 --> 00:10:32.379 alien diplomacy, and classified military ops 00:10:32.379 --> 00:10:34.379 the public has never been allowed to know about. 00:10:34.840 --> 00:10:38.360 He's led missions across the solar system, commanded 00:10:38.360 --> 00:10:41.259 advanced off -world technology, and worked alongside 00:10:41.259 --> 00:10:43.840 non -human allies to defend Earth from threats 00:10:43.840 --> 00:10:46.740 that, again, you probably wouldn't know about. 00:10:46.820 --> 00:10:50.379 Which, I mean, makes sense. It's all secret science. 00:10:50.820 --> 00:10:55.039 Yeah, yeah. So that probably stands to reason 00:10:55.039 --> 00:10:56.700 why you probably would be unfamiliar with him. 00:10:57.080 --> 00:10:59.559 Right, right. No, he's got to maintain his cover. 00:10:59.620 --> 00:11:01.519 I understand. Yeah, but Sarge, we're going to 00:11:01.519 --> 00:11:03.519 change all that. I'm going to make you very unfamiliar. 00:11:07.039 --> 00:11:09.759 We're going to be exposed. With Captain Mark 00:11:09.759 --> 00:11:12.539 Richards. All right, so Mark Richards was born 00:11:12.539 --> 00:11:15.919 in 1953 into a highly classified world of covert 00:11:15.919 --> 00:11:18.379 military activity and alleged extraterrestrial 00:11:18.379 --> 00:11:21.460 contact, all thanks to his father, Major Ellis 00:11:21.460 --> 00:11:26.419 Lloyd Ragers Jr. Major Richards was a career 00:11:26.419 --> 00:11:28.779 military officer and was heavily involved in 00:11:28.779 --> 00:11:31.080 secret defense projects during the Cold War. 00:11:31.360 --> 00:11:34.940 According to later interviews and some documents 00:11:34.940 --> 00:11:37.200 circulating in some of the more fringe parts 00:11:37.200 --> 00:11:40.559 of the internet, Major Richards was not only 00:11:40.559 --> 00:11:43.340 aware of non -human intelligences, but actively 00:11:43.340 --> 00:11:46.179 worked alongside them as part of an international 00:11:46.179 --> 00:11:49.539 security alliance operating outside of conventional 00:11:49.539 --> 00:11:54.779 government oversight. Secret Space Pilgrim. Here 00:11:54.779 --> 00:11:57.639 it comes. So it's no surprise that the Major, 00:11:57.840 --> 00:11:59.899 that's how I'm going to refer to Mark's dad going 00:11:59.899 --> 00:12:02.460 forward. The Major. Pretty much groomed Mark 00:12:02.460 --> 00:12:04.759 from an early age to pretty much follow in his 00:12:04.759 --> 00:12:07.679 footsteps. I mean, you can't just pass this kind 00:12:07.679 --> 00:12:09.679 of information to some random ding dong. You 00:12:09.679 --> 00:12:12.179 got to keep this in your circle of trust. Everyone 00:12:12.179 --> 00:12:15.980 knows that military history is, I mean, military 00:12:15.980 --> 00:12:19.139 power is mostly passed through heredity. Yeah. 00:12:19.179 --> 00:12:21.769 Is that not how it works? That's how it works 00:12:21.769 --> 00:12:25.210 in North Korea. It makes sense to me. Yeah. But 00:12:25.210 --> 00:12:27.769 according to Mark, his exposure to all the classified 00:12:27.769 --> 00:12:30.250 programs and alien contacts began pretty much 00:12:30.250 --> 00:12:32.590 as soon as this dude could walk or talk. In one 00:12:32.590 --> 00:12:35.009 of Mark's more notable claims, he talked about 00:12:35.009 --> 00:12:37.450 how he attended an interstellar conference in 00:12:37.450 --> 00:12:40.669 England in 1961 at the ripe old age of eight 00:12:40.669 --> 00:12:43.509 where he got to meet a nine -foot -tall raptor 00:12:43.509 --> 00:12:46.330 prince. Now, what's a raptor, you may be asking 00:12:46.330 --> 00:12:49.570 yourself? Sarge, you ever seen Jurassic Park? 00:12:50.279 --> 00:12:55.240 Yes. Now think that. But he's got a crown. Yeah. 00:12:56.460 --> 00:12:59.700 With a lot of purple. Yeah. Just imagine the 00:12:59.700 --> 00:13:03.840 blue from Jurassic World, but smart. Technologically 00:13:03.840 --> 00:13:07.059 advanced and apparently pretty politically complex. 00:13:07.139 --> 00:13:09.860 But thankfully... Very savvy. Yeah. They entered 00:13:09.860 --> 00:13:12.000 into an alliance with a few select human factions. 00:13:12.080 --> 00:13:14.019 So thank God we're not fighting against them. 00:13:14.059 --> 00:13:16.000 They are fighting with us. All right. So that 00:13:16.000 --> 00:13:17.440 should make you feel a little better. Thank God 00:13:17.440 --> 00:13:22.159 indeed. Yeah, so it was at this event that basically 00:13:22.159 --> 00:13:24.879 marks the beginning of what would lead to Mark's 00:13:24.879 --> 00:13:26.559 lifelong involvement with non -human entities 00:13:26.559 --> 00:13:29.940 and off -world operations, the Seeker Space Program. 00:13:30.340 --> 00:13:34.879 Now, under the mentorship of the Major, Mark 00:13:34.879 --> 00:13:37.580 was... balls deep in covert military protocol 00:13:37.580 --> 00:13:40.759 protocols intelligence operations and what he 00:13:40.759 --> 00:13:43.440 later described as quote -unquote cosmic politics 00:13:43.440 --> 00:13:46.500 some of his early education in this field was 00:13:46.500 --> 00:13:49.539 exposure to cold war era psychic warfare research 00:13:49.539 --> 00:13:53.200 things like uh experimental programs and telepathy 00:13:53.200 --> 00:13:55.519 remote viewing mind control which were all areas 00:13:55.519 --> 00:13:58.120 the men who stare at goats yeah it's all areas 00:13:58.120 --> 00:14:00.019 that overlapped with some of the real life initiatives 00:14:00.019 --> 00:14:02.980 being worked on both by the u .s and the soviets 00:14:03.340 --> 00:14:05.480 Soviet defense agencies during the time we covered 00:14:05.480 --> 00:14:08.720 a bunch of these already, like the actual programs. 00:14:08.799 --> 00:14:11.500 If you want to learn more about those, uh, you 00:14:11.500 --> 00:14:12.700 can go ahead and find them. I don't remember 00:14:12.700 --> 00:14:15.340 the names of what they were, but there's some 00:14:15.340 --> 00:14:20.480 MK ultra majestic 12. Yeah. It's like, it's like 00:14:20.480 --> 00:14:22.320 we did like the Montauk project and shit like 00:14:22.320 --> 00:14:25.679 that. Like it's that kind of shit. Yeah. Yeah. 00:14:25.740 --> 00:14:28.039 The, the fake shit, the stuff that isn't actually 00:14:28.039 --> 00:14:30.879 real. No, it's real dude. So very real. Very 00:14:30.879 --> 00:14:33.720 real. Now, uh, as he got older, In his early 00:14:33.720 --> 00:14:37.059 teens, I believe, I think is what I read. Richards 00:14:37.059 --> 00:14:40.019 was enrolled in a joint human -alien military 00:14:40.019 --> 00:14:43.860 training program, specifically an elite academy 00:14:43.860 --> 00:14:47.080 developed in coordination with the Raptors. Now, 00:14:47.159 --> 00:14:50.179 this program, which is entirely hidden from public 00:14:50.179 --> 00:14:53.250 record, so... good luck fact -checking me, was 00:14:53.250 --> 00:14:56.090 said to combine advanced combat training, psychological 00:14:56.090 --> 00:14:59.330 conditioning, and diplomatic instruction designed 00:14:59.330 --> 00:15:01.889 to prepare human cadets for service in what would 00:15:01.889 --> 00:15:05.649 later be referred to as Secret Space Program. 00:15:08.850 --> 00:15:12.149 I want to know, in these joint exercises, did 00:15:12.149 --> 00:15:17.570 they wear matching uniforms? Did they make specific 00:15:17.570 --> 00:15:20.649 uniforms for the Raptors? Yeah. I don't know. 00:15:21.129 --> 00:15:25.090 I assume in my head, I just picture like, like 00:15:25.090 --> 00:15:28.309 Mark Richards on a motorcycle. And then the rest 00:15:28.309 --> 00:15:30.309 of the Raptors running behind him, just like 00:15:30.309 --> 00:15:37.629 fucking. This is what I picture. A bunch of Raptors 00:15:37.629 --> 00:15:40.090 and really shiny boots, but with like holes cut 00:15:40.090 --> 00:15:42.570 out for their talons. And their tail. Yeah. And 00:15:42.570 --> 00:15:45.690 their tail for the pants. Yeah. Now in conjunction 00:15:45.690 --> 00:15:49.159 with his military and psychic training. Mark 00:15:49.159 --> 00:15:51.519 also cultivated himself a pretty broad skill 00:15:51.519 --> 00:15:54.019 set. He became fluent in multiple languages, 00:15:54.159 --> 00:15:57.879 both terrestrial and extraterrestrial. He trained 00:15:57.879 --> 00:16:00.620 extensively in fencing and martial arts. He mastered 00:16:00.620 --> 00:16:03.259 various forms of advanced weaponry and served 00:16:03.259 --> 00:16:07.019 as a test pilot for prototype aircrafts. And 00:16:07.019 --> 00:16:08.740 academically, this dude's fucking crushing it. 00:16:08.799 --> 00:16:12.039 He was described as an honor student and a genius 00:16:12.039 --> 00:16:15.179 tactical theorist with a deep understanding of 00:16:15.179 --> 00:16:18.649 strategic operations. history, and interspecies 00:16:18.649 --> 00:16:21.669 diplomacy. Now, by the time he finished college 00:16:21.669 --> 00:16:24.649 in the 70s, Mark Richards had reportedly already 00:16:24.649 --> 00:16:27.029 been involved in several low -level off -world 00:16:27.029 --> 00:16:29.850 assignments and had been marked for command within 00:16:29.850 --> 00:16:35.730 an international secret task force that operated 00:16:35.730 --> 00:16:38.330 beyond conventional nation -state boundaries. 00:16:39.179 --> 00:16:41.580 That must've been really tough. Like flying to 00:16:41.580 --> 00:16:44.000 Mars, then coming right back to study for your 00:16:44.000 --> 00:16:47.740 finals. Challenging. I'm assuming this had to 00:16:47.740 --> 00:16:52.200 be like a joint college for humans. Raptors. 00:16:52.220 --> 00:16:53.779 I like, there's no way you're just going to fucking 00:16:53.779 --> 00:17:03.940 like be you. I can't imagine that that's what's 00:17:03.940 --> 00:17:05.720 going on. It has to be. I didn't look into what 00:17:05.720 --> 00:17:08.200 college he went to or, you know, like I, I'd 00:17:08.200 --> 00:17:10.140 be interested to know what the mascot for that 00:17:10.140 --> 00:17:12.680 college would be. Cause like when your student 00:17:12.680 --> 00:17:15.460 body is Raptors, like you feel like you need 00:17:15.460 --> 00:17:21.279 to get tougher than that, you know, unless they're, 00:17:21.279 --> 00:17:23.619 unless this is college fighting T -Rexes, unless 00:17:23.619 --> 00:17:26.980 this college is based in Toronto and then, okay, 00:17:27.039 --> 00:17:28.700 then they could just keep the name. Yeah. Then 00:17:28.700 --> 00:17:32.579 you're fine. So it was this foundation that would 00:17:32.579 --> 00:17:35.339 define the course of Mark Richards life from 00:17:35.339 --> 00:17:37.960 this point forward. Richards would enter what 00:17:37.960 --> 00:17:41.980 he described as active service in a clandestine 00:17:41.980 --> 00:17:45.960 interplanetary defense network, a coalition of 00:17:45.960 --> 00:17:48.299 human and non -human forces working to protect 00:17:48.299 --> 00:17:51.440 Earth from external threats and shape its role 00:17:51.440 --> 00:17:56.920 in a broader cosmic sense. So, by the mid -70s, 00:17:56.940 --> 00:17:59.599 Mark Richards' covert service has officially 00:17:59.599 --> 00:18:02.700 begun. His early assignments included work as 00:18:02.700 --> 00:18:05.279 an officer in the Vietnam War, but with a dual 00:18:05.279 --> 00:18:08.430 purpose. One involving conventional military 00:18:08.430 --> 00:18:11.970 operations and the other centered on extraterrestrial 00:18:11.970 --> 00:18:14.349 reconnaissance and recovery efforts hidden under 00:18:14.349 --> 00:18:16.750 the guise of traditional conflict. That's kind 00:18:16.750 --> 00:18:19.809 of weird. Why is that so weird, Sarge? What about 00:18:19.809 --> 00:18:24.250 this is weird? 1961, he said he was what, eight 00:18:24.250 --> 00:18:28.710 years old? Sure. Okay, so 10 years from that 00:18:28.710 --> 00:18:31.569 is 1971, which means he would have been 18. The 00:18:31.569 --> 00:18:35.750 Vietnam War ended in 74. So he would have been 00:18:35.750 --> 00:18:38.230 an officer at like 21 years old? How does that 00:18:38.230 --> 00:18:40.930 work? Because he's fucking a genius. Are we not 00:18:40.930 --> 00:18:42.369 paying attention to anything I just said? Oh, 00:18:42.369 --> 00:18:44.450 right. You know what? I forgot about being a 00:18:44.450 --> 00:18:46.970 pathological liar who's good at karate. Forgot 00:18:46.970 --> 00:18:49.670 about that part. Also, his dad's a major, and 00:18:49.670 --> 00:18:51.869 what we already discussed is that the way the 00:18:51.869 --> 00:18:55.730 military works, yeah, it's called nepotism. Your 00:18:55.730 --> 00:18:59.809 firstborn son gets your officer candidacy. Yeah. 00:18:59.869 --> 00:19:02.279 That's what happens. That's how I always assumed 00:19:02.279 --> 00:19:06.400 it worked. Now, following Vietnam, Richards transitioned 00:19:06.400 --> 00:19:09.019 into full -time service within what was described 00:19:09.019 --> 00:19:11.140 as an off -world branch of military intelligence. 00:19:11.819 --> 00:19:14.720 He then attained the rank of Navy Captain and 00:19:14.720 --> 00:19:17.579 was assigned to a classified unit operating beyond 00:19:17.579 --> 00:19:20.779 Earth. One of his first major operations in this 00:19:20.779 --> 00:19:25.059 role took place in July of 1976. This mission, 00:19:25.180 --> 00:19:27.940 later referred to as the Battle of Chinagates, 00:19:28.039 --> 00:19:30.519 involved a direct confrontation with a remnant 00:19:30.519 --> 00:19:33.640 faction of Nazi German elites who had allegedly 00:19:33.640 --> 00:19:36.559 escaped justice after World War II and formed 00:19:36.559 --> 00:19:38.900 an alliance with hostile reptilians. Now, the 00:19:38.900 --> 00:19:41.019 reptilians and the raptors are two separate things. 00:19:41.519 --> 00:19:44.240 All right, so raptors are good, reptilians bad. 00:19:44.859 --> 00:19:47.339 Does that make sense? You following? Duly noted. 00:19:47.500 --> 00:19:49.910 Okay. You made a face when I brought up Nazi 00:19:49.910 --> 00:19:53.710 German elites. Were you good? Yeah, I was just 00:19:53.710 --> 00:19:56.369 thinking, of course, fucking Nazis always got 00:19:56.369 --> 00:19:59.809 their hand in something. I learned that from 00:19:59.809 --> 00:20:04.269 a very well -made documentary called Iron Skies, 00:20:04.369 --> 00:20:08.289 where the Nazis built a base on the moon. Okay. 00:20:09.150 --> 00:20:14.670 Is that not true? No, from what I understand, 00:20:14.730 --> 00:20:16.150 it was a documentary. It was very well shot. 00:20:16.269 --> 00:20:18.589 Found footage documentary. Found footage, okay. 00:20:18.890 --> 00:20:23.650 Now, according to Richards, these Nazi reptilian 00:20:23.650 --> 00:20:26.329 forces were trying to kick off catastrophic geological 00:20:26.329 --> 00:20:29.549 events, a series of artificially induced earthquakes 00:20:29.549 --> 00:20:31.750 designed to weaken Earth's tectonic stability 00:20:31.750 --> 00:20:34.769 and open what they called a quote -unquote dimensional 00:20:34.769 --> 00:20:38.559 gate. Now, if successful... This gate would have 00:20:38.559 --> 00:20:41.500 allowed an invading force to enter Earth's atmosphere 00:20:41.500 --> 00:20:45.420 undetected and unchallenged. Oh, and also their 00:20:45.420 --> 00:20:48.680 base of operations was located under the ice 00:20:48.680 --> 00:20:51.539 in Antarctica because of course, why wouldn't 00:20:51.539 --> 00:20:56.819 it be? Under the ice on a continent, on a land 00:20:56.819 --> 00:21:00.259 continent. So they were under the ice on the 00:21:00.259 --> 00:21:04.140 ground. Yes, it's thick. Okay. It's believable. 00:21:04.299 --> 00:21:07.200 You have to get to the ground to... under the 00:21:07.200 --> 00:21:11.579 ice to get to the... To the ground that's thousands 00:21:11.579 --> 00:21:14.180 of feet below it. Yeah. I mean, you can't just 00:21:14.180 --> 00:21:16.259 build a foundation for a building on top of ice. 00:21:16.299 --> 00:21:17.619 You got to dig it into the ground. You got to 00:21:17.619 --> 00:21:21.259 dig down. I get it. Science. All of this rings 00:21:21.259 --> 00:21:24.420 very true. Yeah. I don't see any problems with 00:21:24.420 --> 00:21:29.059 this so far. So on July 27th, 1976, strange lights 00:21:29.059 --> 00:21:31.619 and unexplained aerial disturbances were observed 00:21:31.619 --> 00:21:34.839 over the city of Tangshan, China. Hours later, 00:21:34.920 --> 00:21:38.880 a massive 7 .8 magnitude earthquake just decimated 00:21:38.880 --> 00:21:41.380 the region. Tens of thousands of people died, 00:21:41.519 --> 00:21:43.799 but according to Richards, this quake was no 00:21:43.799 --> 00:21:47.099 natural disaster. It was the result of the Nazi 00:21:47.099 --> 00:21:50.000 reptilian experimental tectonic weapon being 00:21:50.000 --> 00:21:53.440 activated. The seismic chaos, he said, was intended 00:21:53.440 --> 00:21:56.400 to serve as cover for mass abductions and covert 00:21:56.400 --> 00:21:58.680 troop deployments through the dimensional portal. 00:22:04.089 --> 00:22:06.509 counter -offensive unit and his father the major 00:22:06.509 --> 00:22:08.849 led the ground assault on the hidden antarctic 00:22:08.849 --> 00:22:11.730 base to destroy the quake generating weapon while 00:22:11.730 --> 00:22:15.569 mark was tasked with uh aerial uh interdiction 00:22:15.569 --> 00:22:19.910 now despite mark being only 23 years 23 years 00:22:19.910 --> 00:22:22.490 old at the time he was given command of one of 00:22:22.490 --> 00:22:26.130 the most advanced vehicles available now this 00:22:26.130 --> 00:22:29.660 was a starship named minerva Are you ready to 00:22:29.660 --> 00:22:35.579 learn about Minerva? Yes. Yes. I am so confident 00:22:35.579 --> 00:22:39.599 in the truthfulness of all of this stuff that 00:22:39.599 --> 00:22:43.519 I hope to one day fly in Minerva myself. Oh, 00:22:43.539 --> 00:22:45.400 well, you're about to learn something. I don't 00:22:45.400 --> 00:22:47.299 think you'll be able to. I'm sorry, bud. Oh, 00:22:47.359 --> 00:22:49.720 okay. See, Minerva wasn't just your run -of -the 00:22:49.720 --> 00:22:52.289 -mill, boilerplate, milquetoast starship. Minerva 00:22:52.289 --> 00:22:55.410 was grown from a bio -organic ET technology, 00:22:55.789 --> 00:22:59.230 was fully conscious, and said to be over 40 ,000 00:22:59.230 --> 00:23:02.750 years old. The ship could bond telepathically 00:23:02.750 --> 00:23:05.849 with its pilot and rejecting those who are mentally 00:23:05.849 --> 00:23:09.930 or emotionally incompatible. So nine other human 00:23:09.930 --> 00:23:12.630 candidates before Richard had died attempting 00:23:12.630 --> 00:23:15.789 to interface with Minerva's neural system. But 00:23:15.789 --> 00:23:22.029 luckily, this guy, who's good at fencing, And 00:23:22.029 --> 00:23:25.769 martial arts. And martial arts was also mentally 00:23:25.769 --> 00:23:29.049 stable enough, even though he was an officer 00:23:29.049 --> 00:23:32.029 in the Vietnam War at the age of 14, apparently. 00:23:32.289 --> 00:23:35.549 He's super smart. All these tracks. Yeah, so 00:23:35.549 --> 00:23:38.089 like you said, Richards was able to successfully 00:23:38.089 --> 00:23:41.130 form a sort of symbiotic connection with Minerva, 00:23:41.150 --> 00:23:44.950 becoming the only human able to pilot it without 00:23:44.950 --> 00:23:48.029 dying. You know what he had to do? He had to 00:23:48.029 --> 00:23:52.640 seduce Minerva. Is that what it is? I kind of 00:23:52.640 --> 00:24:02.059 think he fucked this ship. I'm almost 100 % sure 00:24:02.059 --> 00:24:05.839 that this dude got real weird with it. Real fast. 00:24:05.980 --> 00:24:09.440 I'll take the joystick, but first you need to 00:24:09.440 --> 00:24:13.700 take mine. The thing about Minerva too is that 00:24:14.689 --> 00:24:16.849 I'm assuming it's a, she, I'm going to say Minerva 00:24:16.849 --> 00:24:19.650 is a girl name. Is that Minerva is a girl's name. 00:24:19.730 --> 00:24:21.890 So I'm glad that you are a woman's name. Let's, 00:24:21.890 --> 00:24:24.490 let's be as woke as possible. I don't know. Well, 00:24:24.589 --> 00:24:28.250 maybe 40 ,000 years old is not old in Minerva 00:24:28.250 --> 00:24:31.849 species time. Oh, okay. We don't know how long 00:24:31.849 --> 00:24:34.009 Minerva lives for like a baby Yoda situation. 00:24:34.309 --> 00:24:37.970 Yeah, exactly. Okay. Uh, my mistake for assuming 00:24:37.970 --> 00:24:42.549 your age representation, maybe they're around 00:24:42.549 --> 00:24:44.190 the same age. We don't know. It could be like, 00:24:44.349 --> 00:24:47.549 There could be like 23 in Minerva years, like 00:24:47.549 --> 00:24:50.609 40 ,000 could be young adult. Yeah, they're a 00:24:50.609 --> 00:24:54.690 great couple. So Minerva's intelligence extended. 00:24:55.549 --> 00:24:57.809 beyond like flight coordination and shit like 00:24:57.809 --> 00:25:00.329 that. It acted autonomously when it felt it needed 00:25:00.329 --> 00:25:03.109 to, even refusing to allow Richards to engage 00:25:03.109 --> 00:25:06.069 in missions that it deemed unnecessarily dangerous, 00:25:06.190 --> 00:25:08.009 which I feel like you don't want that in the 00:25:08.009 --> 00:25:09.549 middle of a combat situation. You don't want 00:25:09.549 --> 00:25:11.809 your ship or any tool you have to just become 00:25:11.809 --> 00:25:15.589 autonomous. It feels unnecessary. It feels problematic. 00:25:16.130 --> 00:25:19.569 Yeah. According to Richards, Minerva perceived 00:25:19.569 --> 00:25:22.509 its human crew as emotionally volatile, and in 00:25:22.509 --> 00:25:24.730 many cases, it would intervene for their own 00:25:24.730 --> 00:25:27.130 good. Now, despite this, however, it followed 00:25:27.130 --> 00:25:29.690 Richards into combat without hesitation during 00:25:29.690 --> 00:25:32.710 the China Gates mission. Now, together, Richards 00:25:32.710 --> 00:25:35.109 and Minerva entered the battlefield over Tangshan, 00:25:35.230 --> 00:25:37.890 joining a formation of top -secret aerospace 00:25:37.890 --> 00:25:40.490 fighters, some of them human -built, others were 00:25:40.490 --> 00:25:43.529 of ET origin. Got it. So you got, like, in the 00:25:43.529 --> 00:25:46.569 skies above China... You got Minerva and Richards, 00:25:46.690 --> 00:25:50.849 and on the ground of Antarctica, you got the 00:25:50.849 --> 00:25:53.670 Major and the ground troops fighting separately. 00:25:53.930 --> 00:25:57.150 The conflict escalated pretty rapidly as portals 00:25:57.150 --> 00:25:58.890 started to breach Earth's spatial integrity. 00:26:00.049 --> 00:26:01.950 Ultimately, though, the mission was deemed a 00:26:01.950 --> 00:26:04.509 success. The dimensional gate was closed, the 00:26:04.509 --> 00:26:07.130 tectonic weapon was destroyed, and the alliance 00:26:07.130 --> 00:26:09.109 between the Nazis and their reptilian allies 00:26:09.109 --> 00:26:12.049 were disrupted. The cost, however, was pretty 00:26:12.049 --> 00:26:14.809 high. The earthquake still killed an estimated 00:26:14.809 --> 00:26:18.250 250 ,000 people. But according to Richards and 00:26:18.250 --> 00:26:20.710 his allies, the death toll could have been in 00:26:20.710 --> 00:26:23.289 the billions if this invasion had been successful. 00:26:23.509 --> 00:26:25.670 So I just want to take a quick moment to say 00:26:25.670 --> 00:26:28.309 thank you, Captain Mark Richards, for saving 00:26:28.309 --> 00:26:33.089 us this time. Thanks, Captain. You're truly just 00:26:33.089 --> 00:26:38.410 really valuable and not at all pathological lying. 00:26:39.610 --> 00:26:42.230 I can tell that you're kind of getting angry. 00:26:42.349 --> 00:26:45.890 I feel like you're getting a little mad. You 00:26:45.890 --> 00:26:50.210 know, it's not even anger. It's just utter contempt. 00:26:50.549 --> 00:26:54.650 Okay. At how little this man thinks of people's 00:26:54.650 --> 00:27:00.750 mental faculties. Okay. Just none of this is 00:27:00.750 --> 00:27:06.630 like remotely close to possible. We don't know. 00:27:06.670 --> 00:27:10.740 That's all secret. I keep forgetting that. I 00:27:10.740 --> 00:27:12.599 keep forgetting that. I don't understand what 00:27:12.599 --> 00:27:13.940 you're not understanding about the secret and 00:27:13.940 --> 00:27:16.700 secret space program is Sarge. Right. That was 00:27:16.700 --> 00:27:18.599 my mistake. He's a whistleblower. He's not, you 00:27:18.599 --> 00:27:20.539 know, he's not, he can't, he can't come out with 00:27:20.539 --> 00:27:22.039 a bunch of classified documents. That'd be insane. 00:27:22.400 --> 00:27:25.059 Oh yeah. No, he's, he's one. He's a hundred percent 00:27:25.059 --> 00:27:32.769 of whistleblower. It's just tooting away. Now, 00:27:32.769 --> 00:27:35.809 it was this operation that solidified Richard's 00:27:35.809 --> 00:27:38.289 status within the secret command structure. He 00:27:38.289 --> 00:27:40.789 was recognized not just for his tactical competence, 00:27:41.089 --> 00:27:43.589 but for the unique bond he had formed with Minerva, 00:27:43.589 --> 00:27:45.630 the sentient spaceship, which would play huge 00:27:45.630 --> 00:27:49.509 roles in many of his later missions. So, in the 00:27:49.509 --> 00:27:51.569 months following the Battle of China Gates, Richard 00:27:51.569 --> 00:27:54.029 was elevated to a more strategic role within 00:27:54.029 --> 00:27:57.839 the secret space program. His success during 00:27:57.839 --> 00:28:00.019 that mission and his compatibility with Minerva 00:28:00.019 --> 00:28:03.579 had made him a unique asset. He wasn't just a 00:28:03.579 --> 00:28:06.000 soldier anymore. He was one of the only humans 00:28:06.000 --> 00:28:09.000 capable of coordinating ET technology with human 00:28:09.000 --> 00:28:11.920 command structures. And that capability would 00:28:11.920 --> 00:28:15.759 be tested again in September of 1977 during a 00:28:15.759 --> 00:28:18.079 large -scale conflict that would become known 00:28:18.079 --> 00:28:21.720 as the Battle of Harvest Moon. You familiar with 00:28:21.720 --> 00:28:23.319 the battle? You've heard about this? You've seen 00:28:23.319 --> 00:28:26.069 this shit? You heard about this? I feel like 00:28:26.069 --> 00:28:28.329 that was the original title for Star Wars. No, 00:28:28.490 --> 00:28:30.990 it was Blue Harvest. It was the original title 00:28:30.990 --> 00:28:34.750 of Star Wars. My mistake. The events leading 00:28:34.750 --> 00:28:38.150 up to this operation began when a long -range... 00:28:38.150 --> 00:28:40.609 Oh, my God. Why can't I say this word? Now, the 00:28:40.609 --> 00:28:42.630 events leading up to this operation began when 00:28:42.630 --> 00:28:45.250 long -range reconnaissance units in the secret 00:28:45.250 --> 00:28:47.750 space program detected the mobilization of an 00:28:47.750 --> 00:28:50.549 alien fleet in the outer solar system. Like you 00:28:50.549 --> 00:28:54.190 do. Yeah. SSP intelligence confirmed that a coalition 00:28:54.190 --> 00:28:57.990 of hostile ET species was amassing near Saturn. 00:28:58.930 --> 00:29:00.970 I'm sorry. Are we just going to blow past the 00:29:00.970 --> 00:29:05.150 fact that you abbreviated secret space program? 00:29:05.609 --> 00:29:13.029 Yeah. Sorry. You want to take that again? Here 00:29:13.029 --> 00:29:14.890 we go. No, no, no. I like it. I like it. The 00:29:14.890 --> 00:29:20.069 SSP. One more time. All right. intelligence confirmed 00:29:20.069 --> 00:29:23.609 that a coalition of hostile species was messing 00:29:23.609 --> 00:29:26.650 near the SSP. Yeah. Preparing for an assault 00:29:26.650 --> 00:29:28.630 on earth's moon. Now, sorry, you're probably 00:29:28.630 --> 00:29:30.789 thinking, why would they want to attack the moon? 00:29:30.890 --> 00:29:34.049 Right? Well, their target wasn't the moon itself, 00:29:34.309 --> 00:29:36.910 obviously, but a classified installation on the 00:29:36.910 --> 00:29:39.750 moon known as the Rockefeller base. Oh, of course 00:29:39.750 --> 00:29:42.410 the Rockefellers are involved. Why didn't I think 00:29:42.410 --> 00:29:47.079 about that sooner? Hopefully the Bilderberg group 00:29:47.079 --> 00:29:51.640 is up there. Maybe even the Illuminati. It's 00:29:51.640 --> 00:29:54.160 possible. We'll find out. And the Rothschilds. 00:29:54.160 --> 00:29:56.180 We'll find out, won't we? The Queen of England. 00:29:56.259 --> 00:29:59.880 This base is a secret lunar colony established 00:29:59.880 --> 00:30:03.559 through a breakaway... established through breakaway 00:30:03.559 --> 00:30:06.960 technology, post -war Nazi engineering, and corporate 00:30:06.960 --> 00:30:10.420 black funding. The base served as both a staging 00:30:10.420 --> 00:30:12.779 ground for interplanetary missions and a critical 00:30:12.779 --> 00:30:15.160 defense node within the Earth -Moon security 00:30:15.160 --> 00:30:17.279 system, which I'm sure you're familiar with. 00:30:17.339 --> 00:30:23.160 We all know that now. Yeah, the EMSS. Yeah. Yeah. 00:30:23.240 --> 00:30:26.480 Of course, everyone knows the EMSS, the Earth 00:30:26.480 --> 00:30:30.119 -Moon security system. When the threat of this 00:30:30.119 --> 00:30:32.680 attack became imminent, Richards and his father, 00:30:32.779 --> 00:30:35.440 the Major, were brought in to coordinate Earth's 00:30:35.440 --> 00:30:46.119 response. Major Dad. What made this mission different 00:30:46.119 --> 00:30:48.720 than the others was the emergence of an unexpected 00:30:48.720 --> 00:30:55.220 ally. Can you guess who this ally could be? Martians. 00:30:55.460 --> 00:30:59.190 No. That's such an easy guess. Why would you 00:30:59.190 --> 00:31:01.049 even say it? Like, come on. That's obvious. It's 00:31:01.049 --> 00:31:04.049 not a mistake. It was a fleet of advanced Nazi 00:31:04.049 --> 00:31:06.150 flying saucers that were thought to have been 00:31:06.150 --> 00:31:09.009 destroyed in the aftermath of World War II. This 00:31:09.009 --> 00:31:12.190 is what I saw in Iron Sky. Okay. Yes. Now we're 00:31:12.190 --> 00:31:15.289 getting somewhere. Now, even though this Nazi 00:31:15.289 --> 00:31:18.430 breakaway faction has been up to this point historically. 00:31:19.620 --> 00:31:22.319 adversarial, they viewed the alien invasion force 00:31:22.319 --> 00:31:24.599 as a greater threat and agreed to join in on 00:31:24.599 --> 00:31:27.619 the defense of the moon. So together, the SSP, 00:31:27.619 --> 00:31:30.940 the Nazis, and a whole host of alien allies teamed 00:31:30.940 --> 00:31:33.440 up and organized an orbital defense operation 00:31:33.440 --> 00:31:35.980 with Mark and Minerva tasked with frontline defense 00:31:35.980 --> 00:31:39.619 during the initial strike phase, I guess you 00:31:39.619 --> 00:31:43.259 would call it. Now, what followed next was one 00:31:43.259 --> 00:31:45.660 of the most intense recorded battles in the history 00:31:45.660 --> 00:31:49.269 of the SSP. In his post -mission debrief, Mark 00:31:49.269 --> 00:31:51.829 described the battle as, quote, a scene beyond 00:31:51.829 --> 00:31:56.089 fiction. Now, this conflict only lasted 90 seconds 00:31:56.089 --> 00:31:58.750 in real time, but encompassed the destruction 00:31:58.750 --> 00:32:01.529 of entire fleets, the deaths of thousands of 00:32:01.529 --> 00:32:04.250 beings, and the obliteration of ships that represented 00:32:04.250 --> 00:32:07.890 planet -scale economic investments. With the 00:32:07.890 --> 00:32:09.910 battle taking place in the space surrounding 00:32:09.910 --> 00:32:13.089 the moon and briefly on its moon surface, like 00:32:13.089 --> 00:32:15.849 near the Seager base. Mark described the assault 00:32:15.849 --> 00:32:19.150 as overwhelmingly chaotic. Weaponized gravity, 00:32:19.309 --> 00:32:25.130 plasma artillery, and telepathic disruption were 00:32:25.130 --> 00:32:28.589 all deployed in what he called, quote, a convergence 00:32:28.589 --> 00:32:31.170 of the best science of a dozen civilizations, 00:32:31.549 --> 00:32:39.269 end quote. Good? Yep. Okay. Can I ask? Yeah. 00:32:39.579 --> 00:32:42.859 And this is just a minor detail, but the bad 00:32:42.859 --> 00:32:47.359 guys in this, since the Nazis had teamed up with 00:32:47.359 --> 00:32:53.539 everyone, were they fighting space Jews? The 00:32:53.539 --> 00:32:55.220 ones that Marjorie Taylor Greene's afraid of? 00:32:55.319 --> 00:32:57.519 I mean, I'm sure this is all some sort of fucked 00:32:57.519 --> 00:33:02.019 up dog whistle. Anti -Semitic. There's no way 00:33:02.019 --> 00:33:08.299 it's not. The enemy aliens. We tried to make 00:33:08.299 --> 00:33:12.420 peace with them. But they refused to eat bagels. 00:33:12.940 --> 00:33:16.700 But ultimately, the hostile feat was defeated, 00:33:16.980 --> 00:33:19.299 the Rockefeller base was saved, and Earth's presence 00:33:19.299 --> 00:33:21.640 on the moon remained secure. Well, I'm glad the 00:33:21.640 --> 00:33:24.019 Rockefellers are safe, because God knows they've 00:33:24.019 --> 00:33:25.960 been through enough. I don't think they're there. 00:33:26.019 --> 00:33:28.920 I think the base is just named that. It's a weird 00:33:28.920 --> 00:33:33.000 name for a base. Is it? Yeah, because normally 00:33:33.000 --> 00:33:36.599 we name bases after, like, I don't know, heroes? 00:33:37.339 --> 00:33:39.140 Well, maybe they did something in the secret 00:33:39.140 --> 00:33:41.140 space program before this that I don't know about. 00:33:41.359 --> 00:33:46.380 Back during the steampunk era, steam powered 00:33:46.380 --> 00:33:49.099 locomotives that could go to space. Dude, you 00:33:49.099 --> 00:33:52.119 got to remember, it's all secret. That's true. 00:33:52.240 --> 00:33:53.619 I don't know why they named these things the 00:33:53.619 --> 00:33:56.079 way they do. Maybe they help. I don't know, dude. 00:33:56.099 --> 00:33:58.619 Anyways, but following his successful leadership 00:33:58.619 --> 00:34:01.180 during the Harvest Moon conflict, Captain Mark 00:34:01.180 --> 00:34:03.660 Richards was assigned command of one of one of 00:34:03.660 --> 00:34:09.460 Earth's most secretive. Secretive Interagency 00:34:09.460 --> 00:34:13.519 Operations, which is Operation Moondust. Now, 00:34:13.559 --> 00:34:15.940 this was originally established to recover and 00:34:15.940 --> 00:34:19.260 study unidentified aerial technology. Moondust's 00:34:19.260 --> 00:34:22.119 scope had expanded by the late 1970s to include 00:34:22.119 --> 00:34:24.880 extraterrestrial contact, intelligence gathering, 00:34:25.099 --> 00:34:28.039 and technology retrieval under extreme conditions. 00:34:28.059 --> 00:34:31.440 So in 1978, Richards led one of the program's 00:34:31.440 --> 00:34:34.909 most critical missions. See, a UFO had crashed 00:34:34.909 --> 00:34:37.809 in the mountains in Bolivia, drawing the attention 00:34:37.809 --> 00:34:40.110 of multiple covert groups, including foreign 00:34:40.110 --> 00:34:42.510 special forces, private intelligence contractors, 00:34:42.769 --> 00:34:46.570 and suspected non -human operatives. The area 00:34:46.570 --> 00:34:49.929 became a flashpoint in the global shadow war 00:34:49.929 --> 00:34:52.849 for advanced alien technology. So Richards was 00:34:52.849 --> 00:34:54.809 placed in command of the U .S. retrieval team. 00:34:55.500 --> 00:34:58.559 And their objectives were two things. Secure 00:34:58.559 --> 00:35:01.559 the downcraft and container neutralize any remaining 00:35:01.559 --> 00:35:04.280 threats in the area. Now, according to post -mission 00:35:04.280 --> 00:35:07.340 accounts, Richard's unit successfully repelled 00:35:07.340 --> 00:35:09.739 rival teams and recovered the alien vehicle. 00:35:10.019 --> 00:35:13.579 What made this operation especially significant 00:35:13.579 --> 00:35:21.619 was there were survivors. So he was... So the 00:35:21.619 --> 00:35:24.679 crash survivors were described as small insectoid 00:35:24.679 --> 00:35:27.300 beings. They were unfamiliar to Richards or his 00:35:27.300 --> 00:35:28.820 team. It's like a new species of alien that they've 00:35:28.820 --> 00:35:33.300 never come across. And rather than resist, the 00:35:33.300 --> 00:35:36.440 creature surrendered peacefully, reportedly traumatized 00:35:36.440 --> 00:35:39.300 and disoriented. They later became Casey and 00:35:39.300 --> 00:35:42.019 the Sunshine Band. I don't know what that means. 00:35:43.119 --> 00:35:46.380 Do a little dance. Make a little love. Get down. 00:35:46.460 --> 00:35:52.650 I know what that is. it's not my fault that you 00:35:52.650 --> 00:35:54.510 don't know good music I know who they are but 00:35:54.510 --> 00:35:57.650 I don't understand why these traumatized and 00:35:57.650 --> 00:36:01.070 disoriented insectoid aliens would become Casey 00:36:01.070 --> 00:36:04.190 and the Sunshine Band because obviously every 00:36:04.190 --> 00:36:06.429 time someone goes through a traumatic experience 00:36:06.429 --> 00:36:13.150 you immediately turn to disco and funk I'm going 00:36:13.150 --> 00:36:15.110 to let you sit in that I'm going to let you sit 00:36:15.110 --> 00:36:21.559 in that it's in your shame Now let me get through 00:36:21.559 --> 00:36:23.619 this sentence. Richards facilitated communication 00:36:23.619 --> 00:36:27.000 with them and negotiated their safety, offering 00:36:27.000 --> 00:36:29.900 them political asylum under a secret Earth alliance 00:36:29.900 --> 00:36:31.920 in exchange for information and technological 00:36:31.920 --> 00:36:37.119 cooperation. This event was seen internationally 00:36:37.119 --> 00:36:39.900 as a diplomatic milestone. Richards just wasn't 00:36:39.900 --> 00:36:41.639 recovering hardware. He was building alliances 00:36:41.639 --> 00:36:44.579 with off -world species and broadening humanity's 00:36:44.579 --> 00:36:48.269 network of non -human partners. Okay? Yeah. Okay. 00:36:49.570 --> 00:36:53.170 And then they played that funky music, white 00:36:53.170 --> 00:36:56.369 boy. Okay, so one year later, in August of 1979, 00:36:56.969 --> 00:37:00.409 Richards was given command of a long -range peacekeeping 00:37:00.409 --> 00:37:03.650 assignment deep within the asteroid belt. A diplomatic 00:37:03.650 --> 00:37:05.769 summit was scheduled to take place on Vesta, 00:37:05.889 --> 00:37:07.949 which was one of the largest asteroids in the 00:37:07.949 --> 00:37:10.989 belt that was designated a neutral site by multiple 00:37:10.989 --> 00:37:15.610 interstellar factions. Commanding an Orion -class 00:37:15.610 --> 00:37:17.789 battleship, which is a massive nuclear -powered 00:37:17.789 --> 00:37:20.710 deep space vessel, Richards was tasked with ensuring 00:37:20.710 --> 00:37:23.469 the safety of the proceedings and serving as 00:37:23.469 --> 00:37:27.030 Earth's military envoy there. The peace talks 00:37:27.030 --> 00:37:30.250 involved numerous alien species, each with conflicting 00:37:30.250 --> 00:37:33.210 agendas and somewhat volatile histories amongst 00:37:33.210 --> 00:37:35.869 one another. So Richards was expected to maintain 00:37:35.869 --> 00:37:38.989 neutrality, oversee security protocols, and manage 00:37:38.989 --> 00:37:42.639 any potential sabotage attempts. During the summit. 00:37:42.860 --> 00:37:44.840 Yeah. I mean, you got to be careful when you 00:37:44.840 --> 00:37:50.940 have the Ugnaughts and the Sand People. You got 00:37:50.940 --> 00:37:53.539 to keep them separated. Yeah. Are they called 00:37:53.539 --> 00:37:55.300 the Tusken Raiders? I feel like calling them 00:37:55.300 --> 00:37:56.760 Sand People is a little... The Tusken Raiders, 00:37:56.840 --> 00:37:58.420 right. It's a little... Right. But I feel like 00:37:58.420 --> 00:38:00.860 that's a racist term. I believe Sand People is 00:38:00.860 --> 00:38:02.980 the preferred. I think... Is it? I don't know. 00:38:03.519 --> 00:38:04.940 I never looked at it. It might be the other way 00:38:04.940 --> 00:38:06.440 around, actually, now that I think about it. 00:38:06.519 --> 00:38:08.639 But Raider is such a negative connotation. Anyway, 00:38:08.900 --> 00:38:12.500 the Tuscan peoples and the Ugnaughts do not get 00:38:12.500 --> 00:38:16.460 along. So the mission escalated when a hostile 00:38:16.460 --> 00:38:20.239 insectoid faction, unrelated to the Bolivia bugs, 00:38:20.460 --> 00:38:23.719 launched a surprise ambush on the asteroid during 00:38:23.719 --> 00:38:25.860 the summit. Their objective was to assassinate 00:38:25.860 --> 00:38:28.260 key representatives and disrupt the treaty process. 00:38:28.639 --> 00:38:31.389 Richards and his crew quickly responded. Utilizing 00:38:31.389 --> 00:38:34.349 the Orion ship's heavy weapons systems and Minerva's 00:38:34.349 --> 00:38:37.110 rapid deployment capabilities, they intercepted 00:38:37.110 --> 00:38:39.769 and destroyed the attacking vessels. No delegates 00:38:39.769 --> 00:38:41.769 were harmed, the summit continued as planned, 00:38:41.949 --> 00:38:43.789 and the peace agreement was finalized under the 00:38:43.789 --> 00:38:46.940 protection of Earth's contingent. So for his 00:38:46.940 --> 00:38:49.539 actions on Vesta, Richards was commended by both 00:38:49.539 --> 00:38:51.960 human and non -human leadership, solidifying 00:38:51.960 --> 00:38:54.980 his reputation as a commander capable of operating 00:38:54.980 --> 00:38:57.619 under extreme conditions in high -risk political 00:38:57.619 --> 00:39:02.239 situations. At the ripe old age of 20, 26. He's 00:39:02.239 --> 00:39:04.000 like not even in his 30s. I just want to draw 00:39:04.000 --> 00:39:08.360 attention. Yeah, this is a guy who has done more 00:39:08.360 --> 00:39:12.539 in his 20s than most people have done in their 00:39:12.539 --> 00:39:17.469 entire lives. Yeah. No. It's pretty remarkable. 00:39:18.590 --> 00:39:21.369 Yeah. I'm proud of him. Yeah. Some would say 00:39:21.369 --> 00:39:26.730 it's almost unbelievable. Almost. Almost. But 00:39:26.730 --> 00:39:28.909 the most significant and controversial mission 00:39:28.909 --> 00:39:31.690 of his career was still ahead of him. So this 00:39:31.690 --> 00:39:34.550 is something you probably heard of. I would assume. 00:39:34.610 --> 00:39:38.739 Maybe. In late 1979. Whispers from deep within 00:39:38.739 --> 00:39:40.820 the intelligence community pointed to ongoing 00:39:40.820 --> 00:39:43.920 human experimentation at a facility long rumored 00:39:43.920 --> 00:39:47.099 to exist beneath Dulce, New Mexico, the Dulce 00:39:47.099 --> 00:39:51.260 Base. Now, according to insiders, there was a 00:39:51.260 --> 00:39:54.760 joint human -alien laboratory operated in violation 00:39:54.760 --> 00:39:58.039 of ancient interspecies treaties, and these reports 00:39:58.039 --> 00:40:00.539 suggested that non -consensual experiments were 00:40:00.539 --> 00:40:03.340 being conducted on abducted civilians by a rogue 00:40:03.340 --> 00:40:06.920 faction of grey aliens aided by compromised human 00:40:06.920 --> 00:40:10.039 collaborators. The evidence, though classified, 00:40:10.380 --> 00:40:14.579 was considered credible enough to trigger a response 00:40:14.579 --> 00:40:18.429 from, you guessed it, Captain Richards and the 00:40:18.429 --> 00:40:21.389 Major. They were tasked with leading the operation, 00:40:21.630 --> 00:40:23.389 and according to... This is starting to sound 00:40:23.389 --> 00:40:25.829 like a band. Captain Richards and the Major. 00:40:28.030 --> 00:40:31.210 This is like Captain and Tennille. Yeah. According 00:40:31.210 --> 00:40:33.650 to restricted briefings later shared in select 00:40:33.650 --> 00:40:36.530 intelligence circles, funding and logistical 00:40:36.530 --> 00:40:38.929 support for the raid came not... just from secret 00:40:38.929 --> 00:40:41.610 military channels, but allegedly from private 00:40:41.610 --> 00:40:44.750 financiers, including billionaire Ross Perot, 00:40:44.809 --> 00:40:47.849 who is said to have been appalled by the reports 00:40:47.849 --> 00:40:50.170 of human abuse. Honestly, the least surprising 00:40:50.170 --> 00:40:53.190 thing about this entire story is that Ross Perot 00:40:53.190 --> 00:40:57.690 is involved. If any of this were real, it would 00:40:57.690 --> 00:41:01.349 be Ross Perot throwing money at aliens. Yeah, 00:41:01.369 --> 00:41:05.730 that's probably... Anyway, so in November of 00:41:05.730 --> 00:41:09.550 97... Before you continue, I do want to... I 00:41:09.550 --> 00:41:11.769 know it sounded like I was making fun of this, 00:41:11.869 --> 00:41:14.690 but the Dulce underground bases that you were 00:41:14.690 --> 00:41:18.269 talking about, they're called DUMs. No, I know. 00:41:18.269 --> 00:41:21.190 It is the Dulce underground military base. I'm 00:41:21.190 --> 00:41:23.429 trying to just enlighten the audience. Gotcha. 00:41:24.650 --> 00:41:27.670 poo -pooing the underground bases by any stretch. 00:41:27.869 --> 00:41:29.710 Well, no, they're real. And at the bottom of 00:41:29.710 --> 00:41:32.250 it in 1979, they were doing experiments on humans. 00:41:32.989 --> 00:41:37.909 Yeah. We all know this now. Yep. That's why I 00:41:37.909 --> 00:41:41.010 don't have wisdom teeth anymore. So in November 00:41:41.010 --> 00:41:46.309 of 1979, Richard's letter. Yeah, they put something 00:41:46.309 --> 00:41:48.849 in the water. Is that what it is? And so those 00:41:48.849 --> 00:41:51.090 of us who are enlightened beings never grew wisdom 00:41:51.090 --> 00:41:55.519 teeth. See, I can lie too. I don't think that's 00:41:55.519 --> 00:41:57.539 what the experiments were. Actually, we're going 00:41:57.539 --> 00:42:00.300 to get into it right now. All right, fine. So 00:42:00.300 --> 00:42:03.780 in November of 1979, Richards led a multi -pronged 00:42:03.780 --> 00:42:06.400 assault on the base. Strike teams entered the 00:42:06.400 --> 00:42:08.780 facility through underground tunnels using experimental 00:42:08.780 --> 00:42:13.159 transport technology. What followed was described 00:42:13.159 --> 00:42:16.039 as brutal close quarters engagement through dark 00:42:16.039 --> 00:42:19.119 claustrophobic corridors. They were fighting 00:42:19.119 --> 00:42:22.480 against gray bile soldiers and genetically engineered 00:42:22.480 --> 00:42:26.539 hybrids created in on -site laboratories. Richard's 00:42:26.539 --> 00:42:28.420 unit was tasked with locating and freeing human 00:42:28.420 --> 00:42:31.000 prisoners, many of whom were found emaciated 00:42:31.000 --> 00:42:34.039 and in critical condition. The team's neutralized 00:42:34.039 --> 00:42:36.139 enemy forces destroyed vital sections of the 00:42:36.139 --> 00:42:38.920 lab and successfully extracted dozens of survivors. 00:42:39.380 --> 00:42:42.320 The mission, again, classified as a success. 00:42:43.380 --> 00:42:46.340 Naturally. But details of the operation, obviously, 00:42:46.380 --> 00:42:48.769 they remained sealed. Can't just let the public 00:42:48.769 --> 00:42:50.829 know all about that. No, you can't tell the public 00:42:50.829 --> 00:42:54.610 about it. That would ruin the secrecy and believability 00:42:54.610 --> 00:42:58.949 of this whole thing. Yeah, so by 1980, Captain 00:42:58.949 --> 00:43:01.269 Mark Richards had supposedly done pretty much 00:43:01.269 --> 00:43:04.389 it all. He was a master tactician in galactic 00:43:04.389 --> 00:43:06.750 war, the only human trusted to pilot Minerva, 00:43:06.750 --> 00:43:09.570 the sentient spaceship. Incredible. He'd flown 00:43:09.570 --> 00:43:11.889 missions through the asteroid belt, fought and 00:43:11.889 --> 00:43:14.730 fought with the Nazi saucers over the moon, and 00:43:14.730 --> 00:43:16.550 forged peace treaties with many alien species 00:43:16.550 --> 00:43:19.469 light years from Earth. He was called the Pendragon 00:43:19.469 --> 00:43:21.769 of the Space Command, which is a title pulled 00:43:21.769 --> 00:43:24.949 from Arthurian legend and given to a man said 00:43:24.949 --> 00:43:27.550 to be humanity's greatest interstellar protector. 00:43:27.909 --> 00:43:31.110 He was a warrior, a peacekeeper, a peacemaker. 00:43:31.570 --> 00:43:34.650 He was also like a myth in motion. But now, Sarge, 00:43:34.769 --> 00:43:39.460 as I'm sure you guessed, None of this was real. 00:43:39.599 --> 00:43:42.420 I would believe you immediately because none 00:43:42.420 --> 00:43:45.300 of this sounds real. Yeah, so what if every off 00:43:45.300 --> 00:43:47.760 -world mission, every alien alliance, every battle 00:43:47.760 --> 00:43:50.760 for Earth's survival was actually just a story 00:43:50.760 --> 00:43:54.539 told from behind bars? Because here's the truth, 00:43:54.579 --> 00:43:57.940 Sarge. Mark Richards is not a war hero. He is 00:43:57.940 --> 00:44:00.980 a convicted murderer serving life without parole 00:44:00.980 --> 00:44:04.199 in the California prison system since 1982. Now 00:44:04.199 --> 00:44:06.579 it all makes sense. He never served in the military. 00:44:06.820 --> 00:44:10.199 His rank of captain is completely made up. There's 00:44:10.199 --> 00:44:12.639 no classified space fleet, no Raptor prints, 00:44:12.800 --> 00:44:16.260 no secret lunar base, the entire saga, the sentient 00:44:16.260 --> 00:44:18.719 ship, the Dolce raid, the asteroid diplomacy, 00:44:18.920 --> 00:44:21.719 not the asteroid diplomacy. That's fake too. 00:44:21.880 --> 00:44:24.820 This was all constructed over years of interviews, 00:44:24.920 --> 00:44:27.539 but not with government whistleblowers, not with 00:44:27.539 --> 00:44:31.239 intelligence officers. but with Carrie Cassidy, 00:44:31.360 --> 00:44:34.360 a UFO disclosure vlogger and conspiracy influencer 00:44:34.360 --> 00:44:38.500 who built her platform, Project Camelot, on unverified 00:44:38.500 --> 00:44:41.199 testimony, shadowy insiders, and fringe beliefs. 00:44:41.739 --> 00:44:44.159 Richards gave her everything, every detail, every 00:44:44.159 --> 00:44:46.739 battle, every lie. And while he claimed to be 00:44:46.739 --> 00:44:48.639 humanity's last line of defense against alien 00:44:48.639 --> 00:44:51.539 invasion, the truth is that he's been in maximum 00:44:51.539 --> 00:44:55.019 security. since the Reagan administration. Now, 00:44:55.039 --> 00:44:56.900 do you want to know why? Because he murdered 00:44:56.900 --> 00:45:00.719 a guy? Because in 1982, Mark Richards was convicted 00:45:00.719 --> 00:45:03.179 for orchestrating the brutal murder of Richard 00:45:03.179 --> 00:45:06.360 Baldwin as part of a delusional conspiracy known 00:45:06.360 --> 00:45:09.239 as the Pendragon Plot, which is what we are going 00:45:09.239 --> 00:45:12.820 to be covering next episode. Oh my God, I'm so 00:45:12.820 --> 00:45:17.440 excited. I'm so excited. This is amazing to me. 00:45:17.599 --> 00:45:22.920 This is... I love shit like this because... The 00:45:22.920 --> 00:45:26.119 only thing that makes absolute lunacy better 00:45:26.119 --> 00:45:29.380 is when it bleeds into real life and then the 00:45:29.380 --> 00:45:32.699 lunatic is faced with reality. Yeah, so basically 00:45:32.699 --> 00:45:35.719 we'll get into it. Mark Richards, he had a failing 00:45:35.719 --> 00:45:39.239 business. He hired two kids and he convinced 00:45:39.239 --> 00:45:41.280 those two kids that he was going to become king 00:45:41.280 --> 00:45:45.599 of like the Bay Area. And he promised one of 00:45:45.599 --> 00:45:50.599 them lordship over an island by Alcatraz. He 00:45:50.599 --> 00:45:54.920 started a small cult and then murdered one of 00:45:54.920 --> 00:45:57.699 his best friends to steal all his money to fund 00:45:57.699 --> 00:46:03.219 the Pendragon plot. Just amazing. I'm so excited. 00:46:03.699 --> 00:46:05.920 This is not where I thought this was going and 00:46:05.920 --> 00:46:08.539 I'm very excited. So next week we'll cover the 00:46:08.539 --> 00:46:12.940 reason why he's in jail and it's... It's great. 00:46:12.980 --> 00:46:14.400 It's beautiful. It's wonderful. I'm excited. 00:46:14.420 --> 00:46:18.960 We went from like conspiracy theory podcast to 00:46:18.960 --> 00:46:22.059 true crime podcast in two episodes. Yeah. I'm 00:46:22.059 --> 00:46:25.440 so looking forward to this next episode. It's, 00:46:25.440 --> 00:46:31.139 um, yeah, if, if the dude, so he, yeah, so he's 00:46:31.139 --> 00:46:33.820 been in prison for a long time since 82 and, 00:46:33.840 --> 00:46:37.420 um, Carrie Cassidy, who, if you don't know, bro, 00:46:37.480 --> 00:46:40.199 project Camelot is, it's like her YouTube channel. 00:46:41.289 --> 00:46:43.630 rumble whatever the right way I gotta look her 00:46:43.630 --> 00:46:48.150 up so she heard about him somehow I don't know 00:46:48.150 --> 00:46:51.030 how but so she went and she goes to visit him 00:46:51.030 --> 00:46:53.510 in prison and so she can't bring recording equipment 00:46:53.510 --> 00:46:56.929 with her she goes and he tells her all this fucking 00:46:56.929 --> 00:47:00.329 crazy bullshit and she writes it down and then 00:47:00.329 --> 00:47:02.829 has to come back home and then immediately like 00:47:02.829 --> 00:47:05.710 record and report on the interview she's been 00:47:05.710 --> 00:47:10.619 having with him and this Mark Richards is kind 00:47:10.619 --> 00:47:14.619 of crazy because in the weird right -wing QAnon 00:47:14.619 --> 00:47:19.719 conspiracy theory world, they believe him wholeheartedly. 00:47:19.860 --> 00:47:23.639 Oh, yeah. Wholeheartedly. These are people who 00:47:23.639 --> 00:47:26.679 unquestioningly accept that two of every animal 00:47:26.679 --> 00:47:30.780 were put on a large boat and saved from extinction. 00:47:31.179 --> 00:47:34.280 So I'm not really surprised when they're like, 00:47:34.360 --> 00:47:37.719 oh, you went into space and fought aliens? Checks 00:47:37.719 --> 00:47:40.420 out. It's in a book. Yeah. It's gotta be real 00:47:40.420 --> 00:47:42.719 there. And there's so, there's so much more to 00:47:42.719 --> 00:47:46.300 this. Like, uh, yeah. So, uh, the Raptors, uh, 00:47:46.519 --> 00:47:48.840 the Raptors that he, he met and fought with, 00:47:48.880 --> 00:47:51.000 they are Raptors. They're just dinosaurs. They're 00:47:51.000 --> 00:47:53.219 just straight up the dinosaurs from Jurassic 00:47:53.219 --> 00:47:57.199 park. Uh, they are smart. Uh, what's funny is 00:47:57.199 --> 00:48:00.460 that in Jurassic world, uh, when Chris Pratt's 00:48:00.460 --> 00:48:03.639 on like those Raptors, only a couple of them 00:48:03.639 --> 00:48:06.659 are CGI. The other, the other few are actual 00:48:06.659 --> 00:48:10.889 Raptors. They love this shit. That would explain 00:48:10.889 --> 00:48:14.849 why actual velociraptors are the size of turkeys, 00:48:14.849 --> 00:48:17.889 yet in Jurassic Park they're the size of basketball 00:48:17.889 --> 00:48:20.250 players. They had to scale them up to fit with 00:48:20.250 --> 00:48:23.809 the raptors. That makes sense. Now it all makes 00:48:23.809 --> 00:48:26.730 sense. They also love chocolate. Big fans of 00:48:26.730 --> 00:48:29.489 chocolate. Also, if you've ever been to Walking 00:48:29.489 --> 00:48:31.690 with Dinosaurs, you know the outside puppet thing? 00:48:32.289 --> 00:48:37.840 Some of those raptors? Those are raptors. Pretty 00:48:37.840 --> 00:48:39.579 fucking crazy right there. Of course they're 00:48:39.579 --> 00:48:43.880 real. Why wouldn't they be? I'll send you some 00:48:43.880 --> 00:48:46.539 stuff if you want to. I'm so excited. The Mark 00:48:46.539 --> 00:48:51.820 Richard shit is fucking wild. And the murder 00:48:51.820 --> 00:48:55.139 plot is even crazier. It's not even crazier obviously 00:48:55.139 --> 00:48:57.019 because it doesn't involve fucking space shit 00:48:57.019 --> 00:49:01.119 but it's good. The fact that he murdered someone 00:49:01.119 --> 00:49:03.579 and thought he would get away with it. Being 00:49:03.579 --> 00:49:05.940 this unbelievable about everything else. He was 00:49:05.940 --> 00:49:07.940 going to become a king. Do you understand that? 00:49:08.079 --> 00:49:09.739 It doesn't matter. You can get away with anything 00:49:09.739 --> 00:49:12.659 if you're a king. No, that's true. That's true. 00:49:13.559 --> 00:49:16.260 I'm, oh man, this is going to be the best. Yeah. 00:49:16.440 --> 00:49:18.880 So buckle up. We're going to dip our toes into 00:49:18.880 --> 00:49:21.559 true crime. It's still conspiracy shit, but it's 00:49:21.559 --> 00:49:23.239 a little bit of true crime, but mostly conspiracy. 00:49:23.579 --> 00:49:25.260 Yeah. We're not going to get into like the fucking 00:49:25.260 --> 00:49:28.820 nitty gritty of like, and then he fucking. bashed 00:49:28.820 --> 00:49:32.719 his brain. We'll gloss over all that. We don't 00:49:32.719 --> 00:49:35.579 want to be too... We don't want to mix genres. 00:49:36.239 --> 00:49:39.719 Alright, Sarge. I think that's it. If we go any 00:49:39.719 --> 00:49:40.900 further, we're just going to end up talking about 00:49:40.900 --> 00:49:43.760 the second episode. No, no, no. Let's hold off. 00:49:44.059 --> 00:49:47.420 Very worth it. I'm very excited. I loved this 00:49:47.420 --> 00:49:49.739 from start to finish. It seems like you were 00:49:49.739 --> 00:49:52.679 real annoyed with me. No, no. I wasn't annoyed 00:49:52.679 --> 00:49:56.000 with you at all. I was just like... I'm thinking 00:49:56.000 --> 00:49:58.440 about the kinds of people who are taken in by 00:49:58.440 --> 00:50:02.260 these sorts of things. Yeah. So it wasn't like 00:50:02.260 --> 00:50:06.460 annoyed. It was like a deep sadness. Yeah. For 00:50:06.460 --> 00:50:08.980 the lack of critical thinking that people have 00:50:08.980 --> 00:50:13.280 where they can't just be like, this sounds silly. 00:50:13.539 --> 00:50:15.300 Well, no, because he had an excuse for everything. 00:50:15.800 --> 00:50:18.320 Like, yeah, his records were, you know, it was 00:50:18.320 --> 00:50:20.579 all secret. So you can't provide it or, you know, 00:50:20.579 --> 00:50:24.579 so, so he, he was arrested by the military themselves, 00:50:24.599 --> 00:50:26.699 like on trumped up charges. We'll go into it 00:50:26.699 --> 00:50:29.320 a little bit. Gotcha. On the next episode, but 00:50:29.320 --> 00:50:32.800 they will tell, told Carrie that he was framed. 00:50:32.900 --> 00:50:35.860 This is all part of the, this is still, still 00:50:35.860 --> 00:50:37.719 all part of the secret space program. He did 00:50:37.719 --> 00:50:39.380 something or other and they fucking threw him 00:50:39.380 --> 00:50:41.059 in prison. I don't know if it was because he 00:50:41.059 --> 00:50:42.780 blew the whistle on something. I don't really 00:50:42.780 --> 00:50:45.630 remember. But he has an answer for everything. 00:50:46.289 --> 00:50:49.789 I'm really looking forward to this part of it. 00:50:49.869 --> 00:50:51.530 Yeah, but I mean, it's Carrie Cassidy. If you 00:50:51.530 --> 00:50:52.849 don't think about her, she does not push back. 00:50:53.889 --> 00:50:56.409 Nope. She just blindly accepts it. Yeah, dude, 00:50:56.449 --> 00:51:00.349 it's wild. All right, so if I keep talking, I'm 00:51:00.349 --> 00:51:02.530 just going to spoil it. So Sarge, is there anything 00:51:02.530 --> 00:51:05.010 you want to plug before we sign off? Yeah, you 00:51:05.010 --> 00:51:06.909 know, you can still get my coloring book. I know 00:51:06.909 --> 00:51:09.190 I've been beating this drum forever, but it's 00:51:09.190 --> 00:51:13.110 still relevant, unfortunately. So go to sargesupernormal 00:51:13.110 --> 00:51:17.480 .com. $9 .99. No tariffs involved, thankfully. 00:51:18.820 --> 00:51:21.159 Feel free to purchase it and take out your frustration 00:51:21.159 --> 00:51:24.300 on the current administration with crayons. Or 00:51:24.300 --> 00:51:26.679 fire. You can burn it, too. 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Did you not hear what I said? Okay, so anyway, 00:52:42.260 --> 00:52:46.360 goodbye, and I love you. I hate it here so much.