#241 – From Bikes to exploring UFO Secrets: Congressional Hearings, John Wick 4 and Saying Goodbye to Ari Shaffir's Podcast

Welcome back to another episode of Spun Today! I'm your host, Tony Ortiz, and we have a jam-packed show for you today. We'll be diving into the world of UFOs and government cover-ups, talking about the latest John Wick installment, and saying farewell to a beloved podcast. But first, I want to thank our amazing listeners for their support. If you're enjoying the show, there are multiple ways you can show your support, from buying merchandise on our website to becoming a patron. And don't forget to leave us a rating and review - we love hearing from you!

Now, let's jump right in. We'll be discussing the recent congressional hearings on UFOs and the startling revelations brought forth by credible witnesses. You'll hear excerpts from none other than Congressman Matt Gaetz, who has been at the forefront of these investigations. You won't want to miss this eye-opening conversation.

Next, we'll dive into the world of cinema as we review the highly anticipated John Wick 4.

We'll also be bidding a bittersweet farewell to Ari Shaffir's Skeptic Tank. As a fellow podcaster, I'll be sharing my thoughts on the impact this show has had on the comedy landscape and why it will be missed.

But that's not all! We'll also be taking a trip down memory lane as I recount my recent bike tour in the stunning Hudson Valley. I'll share my experiences on the trail, from the challenges I faced to the amazing support I received from Bike New York.

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Bike New York Hudson Valley Ride: https://www.bike.nyc/events/discover-hudson-valley-ride/

House holds hearing on UFOs, government transparency | full video https://www.youtube.com/live/SNgoul4vyDM?si=3LIU1a4iiLC61o1o

U.S. recovered non-human 'biologics' from UFO crash sites, former intel official says https://www.npr.org/2023/07/27/1190390376/ufo-hearing-non-human-biologics-uaps

Blink-182's Tom DeLonge Discusses Congress' UFO Hearings on Social Media https://www.msn.com/en-us/music/celebrity/blink-182-s-tom-delonge-discusses-congress-ufo-hearings-on-social-media/ar-AA1fzRyc

John Wick: Chapter 4 - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt10366206/?ref_=ttfc_fc_tt

Goodbye Ari Shaffir's Skeptic Tank Podcast https://youtu.be/4qMmIAdCosM?si=3zwJjut0q6hURBkK

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SHOW NOTES

[00:13:05] Completed 30-mile bike tour, signed up for another ride. Whistleblowers testify about government cover-up of UFOs.

[00:28:47] "Conspiracy theories and unanswered questions in congressional hearing on UFOs."

[00:52:13] Ari Shafir cancels popular podcast, disappoints fans.

[00:59:56] Behind the scenes of Ari Shafir's podcast.

EPISODE TRANSCRIPT

Tony [00:00:18]:

What up? What up, folks? What's going on? Welcome to the Spun Today podcast, the only podcast that is anchored in writing, but unlimited and scope. I'm your host, Tony Ortiz, and I appreciate you listening. In this episode, I speak about my Hudson Valley Bike Tour experience, which I completely forgot to tell you guys about a few episodes back. I also speak about the latest congressional hearing on UFOs. I also speak about watching John Wick Four. And lastly, wrap up by saying goodbye to Ari Shafir's Skeptic Tank podcast. Stick around for all that good stuff. But first, I wanted to tell you all about a way that you can help support this podcast if you so choose. Your support really means a lot. It helps me keep the lights on in the proverbial Spontane studios and really does help motivate me to continue doing what I love, which is putting out more episodes, more content, and making even more time to write. 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They'll distribute your show to Spotify, Apple podcasts, YouTube, and all the other podcasters that you choose instantaneously and Seamlessly. Again, go to Lipsin.com and use the promo code Spun spun to get two months free. Or use the affiliate link that's in the episode notes. Again. That's Lipsin.com promo code spun. Take that great podcast idea from out of your head and put it out into the world. The Hudson Valley Bike tour in 2023, sponsored by the good folks over at Bike New York. Now. I've done the Hudson Valley bike tour a couple times in the past. First time with my brother. Shout out to David Spun today, Alum, as well as with my friend Pablo. Shout out to Pablo. Also spun today. Alum. It was actually the very first Bike Tour marathon that I ever got involved in that I ever did and I think I've told the story here in the podcast, but just a quick recap of that one. I think it was back in 2012. I want to say maybe 2013, but I think 2012 and I just got my bike. I wanted to get into riding. I went out to train with my brother and Pablo, who were already into cycling. A couple of times I went out with them, but I didn't take it seriously. At the time, I was dating my girlfriend, now wife Zoila. At the time I was dating my girlfriend and now wife Zoila. Shout out to Zoila. Also spontanerella. And we were actually in a long distance relationship. I lived in New York and she was living in Massachusetts at the time. So what we would do is every weekend we would alternate, either she would come down to New York or I would go up to Massachusetts. The weekends is when David and Pablo would go training for this Hudson Valley Bike Tour that we signed up for. So I did happen to go with them a couple times, literally probably like twice, but didn't do much training at all and spent the time instead chilling with my girl. I figured I would just will myself through it, will myself through the marathon, which we signed up for the 55 miles version of the Tour. Long story short, my brother and Pablo finished hours before me in the middle of, or at least when I was in the middle of the Tour. We all got alerts on our phones of a monsoon or tornado warning or some shit like that in the area, and it just started pouring rain. So literally for 15, 20 miles, plus it was just pouring rain nonstop. So I had to deal with that. Plus the fact that, again, I was completely out of cycling shape and hours behind everyone else by the time I finished, which I actually did finish. The folks at Bike New York, which again sponsor and put together these events, they were breaking down the Finish Line Festival, which lasts again hours after the entire race is completed and is filled with food and booze and music and stuff like that for people to just wind down and chill after the race. They were literally breaking everything down, like the tents and food stations and all that, by the time I finally crossed the finish line. So that's my experience with the very first Hudson Valley Tour that I did then I did it once after that. I think 2019 ish I think it was the last Tour I did before the Pandemic, where we took a few years off and I did that one with Pablo, went a lot smoother. We actually signed up for the 30 miles one, which leads me to 2023. So the way it works is that you have the option to sign up for one of four paths, if you will, or course lengths rather you can sign up for a 15 miles run, a 30 miles run, a 55 miles run, or a hundred mile run. I think this is a 75 miles run option, actually. Or I might be misremembering that. I think it's 1530, 55 and 100 the century mile run, which will never see me on it. So 2019, we did the 30 miles. This year, in 2023, we signed up for the same. And if you guys remember, I signed up for the five borough last year. And when we were literally about to head to the event, I realized both my tires were completely flat for some reason, and they just wouldn't take air no matter what we did. And instead of going all the way there hoping that there were, like, an open bike shop or that they could fix my issue, we bitched out and didn't do the five borough. Similarly, for this latest Hudson Valley 2023 tour, I checked my bike the night before, and I had a flat tire. I was like, what the fuck? I had just a week before, the weekend before, picked it up from getting a full tune up. So the bike should be in as pristine condition as possible. So I checked my bike the night before, see that? It has a flat in the bike room of my building. It has one of those electric air pumps for all the bikes. I fill it up, like, all right, I'm good. Good thing I checked. So tomorrow, I just got to wake up, grab my bike, and bounce. The next morning, flat tire again. I'm like, what the fuck? I'm literally thinking, someone in my building's fucking with me or something. I'm thinking my tire. What is going on? I fill it up again, take my bike, load it up to the bike racks, we head out to Hudson Valley. It's about an hour and a half, 2 hours away from us. We get there, park the car, grab my bike, flat tire again. What the fuck? And we're already there. I'm like, fuck it. Let's just walk over there and see if there's a bike fixing station, thankfully. And again, shout out to the good folks at Bike New York and Trek, which actually had a bike fixing station set up there. And there were a few people online waited my turn, and basically they replaced the tube of the tire. They said the tube was actually fine. They found some shards within the rim itself, which seemed to be every time I would fill it up, it would stay full. But once I would park the bike and let it sit for a while, those little shards would empty the air very, very slowly. Which was the other interesting thing, because this continually kept happening. But only after I would park the bike, I could ride the bike, fill it up with air, ride the bike for 1015 20 miles while we were training, and it would be fine. But then after I parked the bike, the next day would be empty. So it was only when it sat. So I was good for the race, for the marathon, rather. And we got going. It was a nice run. It was super hot. Hudson Valley is very hilly, which while I was doing it, reminded me why I had this false memory of I liked it more than doing the five borough. Although the five borough is dope because it's like you get to ride through all five boroughs, streets, tunnels, bridges that are all close to traffic. So you get to see different parts of the city in that way. But then you have to cross the Verizono Bridge at the end, which is a bitch. Such a long, steep incline. And the Hudson Valley is different in that one. It's not close to traffic. So you are in streets and stuff like that with traffic. But it's Hudson Valley. It's not as populated as New York City, for example. And it's very scenic, a lot of greenery. You do cross a bridge, at least one. You ride through a park for a long length of it, but you're also in streets and it's very hilly. You have a lot of hills, a lot of ups and downs. Ups and downs, ups and downs. Not as long as, for example, the Verdel Bridge, but there's just so many of them. So while I was doing, I was reminded of not liking Hudson Valley then. So remember I signed up for the 30 miles one this time. Again, I'm at around mile 25, maybe 26 ish having a tough time, tired. I had trained for it, but just tired. Fucking dealing with all the hills. It's super hot and humid. But I'm close to the end, right? It's like 25, 26 miles in. And then my fucking quad tightens up on both my legs at first. So I have to get off the bike. It has happened to me before. So if it hasn't happened to you before, I'll try to describe it. It's picture the way your knees lock, or like your elbows lock if you stretch them out and you just lock them in place. Picture your quad, the muscle on your quad, right? So your thighs, the top of your thighs. Picture those locking and tightening up, which then makes your leg straighten out. And you can't bend it because it's locked in place, your quad. So I have to get off the bike and literally with my hand rubbing the muscle, just rubbing it, rubbing it, punching it, trying to get it to unlock. Like yo. Let's go. What the fuck? It's such a weird, uncomfortable feeling. And it happens from muscle exhaustion. Usually, though, after you could walk it off, you could rub it out. And you see people while you're riding going through the same thing. They pull over to the sides, take a breather. It happened to me, actually, my first time doing the Hudson Valley in that 55 miles run happened to me multiple times. And it was scary because I didn't know what the fuck it was. This time I knew what it was, but I was just so done. I had thought about quitting, like, 10 miles before and just dealing with hill after hill after hill, up and down, up and down, up and down, and no excuses. I completely bitched out. I'm three to 4 miles away from the finish line. My quads tightened up. It's not know. I try for a while, not loosening up. So I physically couldn't ride. And I wound up calling in reinforcements. Shout out again to the good folks at Bike New York. They do give you the option. If you get hurt, if you get sick or anything like that, you can call the coordinators of the event, and they'll send a van or something to pick you up and take you the rest of the way, which ultimately is what I wound up doing. And it's after I made the call, I had to wait probably ten minutes or so after making the call, 1015 minutes. So I'm there. I'm still rubbing it out, starting to feel better. I'm like, fuck, I think I can make it now. But I had already called them. Some people riding by, and the cycling community is pretty cool in that they look out for each other. Everybody that passed by were like, oh, you're okay? You good? You need anything? And give me words of encouragement to each other. One dude passed by. He was like, dance. Got to be near, bro. We're close by. I think it's just over that one more hill and that's it. The rest is, like, downhill from here. But I had already bitched out. I had called, the car was on the way, and I even text with the person. They told me to text them my location, told them, should I bike a little bit and then let them know where I'm at when they get closer? Should I try to go a little bit more? And they said, no, just stay where you're at, because that's the direction that we gave them. So, yeah, I did that.

Tony [00:13:04]:

Stood in place.

If I had signed up for the 15 miles one, I would have been done with the Tour. 10 miles before, 11 miles before. Which is, again, not an excuse, but yeah, they picked me up, drove me the other three or 4 miles to the end. I cycled down to the Finnish Festival, and there you get to listen to live music, grab a beer, get some food, you get your finishing medal, which, again, had I signed up for the 15 miles one and bitched out before, the 15 miles I would feel bad about having. But if folks get it for the 15 miles, I'm definitely getting it for my 26 point whatever miles that I completed of the 30 and you also get a finishing T shirt and yeah, just relax for a while. Taking the lake, taking the bridge, the views, and it was ultimately a good time. And lastly, we signed up for a second ride this year, which we have never done before. We normally are like one and done for the year. We train up for a couple months prior to either the Hudson Valley or the five borough, and then we're done with riding until next year's season. But this year we opted into doing a second run. It's called the Twin Lights ride. It's in New Jersey, so definitely don't expect it to be as hilly as the Hudson Valley, although I've never done it before. But it's in Jersey and we'll definitely see. And we're doing another 30 miles there. So we'll definitely keep you folks posted on that after it happens. So far, as of this recording, in the end of August, after the Hudson Valley, I've only trained one more time. I think we did, I want to say 15 miles. 15 miles or maybe a 20 miles. 15 to 20 miles. So hoping to get at least two more training sessions in prior to the Twin Lights Ride, which again is October 1, but we shall see. We'll keep you guys posted. And that, folks, was my Hudson Valley 2023 tour experience. Congressional hearings on UFOs. On July 26, 2023, three military veterans testified as whistleblowers in front of Congress to blow the lid off of the government's secrecy and cover up when it comes to UFOs and alien life on other planets. And it was must see TV. Now, I don't know where you guys fall on the spectrum of do you think that we humans know the other species here on Earth are alone in the entire universe in existence or not? Me personally, I don't think we are. To quote Carl Sagan and Movie Contact, for example, where they re quote him, it would be an awful waste of space if we were alone. Do I know for sure? Can I point to some concrete evidence or proof that we're not alone? Of course not. I don't think any of us can. Hence the question, hence the allure of the topic of the subject. But I love this type of shit and have always been intrigued by it and not just the conspiratorial side, know, space and alien life and stuff like that. I just mean space stuff in general, whether it's Elon and what he's doing with SpaceX and changing the game in that realm, whether it's NASA, whether it's Neil degrasse Tyson and StarTalk radio Hubble's telescope images and so on and so forth. I'm just fascinated by it all. So when these three gentlemen testified and they aired it, it was an absolute treat for me. Now, for those of you who don't know, the three whistleblowers were again three military veterans, starting with Ryan Graves, which was the executive director of Americans for Safe Aerospace. Then we have retired Air Force Major David Grush. He was the main guy in this the main whistleblower here. And then we have retired Navy Commander David Fraver, which he, of the three is the only one that I knew of. He had been on Rogan's podcast. He had been on like Spreedman's podcast. He was the Navy pilot who famously was behind the Tic TAC footage video that exists that I'll link to in the episode notes, if you guys are interested in checking it out. But it was essentially he was flying his jet on a training mission, and they see this Tic TAC like device or something flying, I forget, 100, 200 yards away or something like that. And it's doing shit like going from 60,000 miles in the air or feet in the air rather, to 1ft above the water in a matter of seconds. Like things that defy what our known technology is capable of, with no signs of propulsion, et cetera, going super fast. And he was able to lock his radar, I think is the proper terminology there, although don't quote me on that, but he was able to lock into it and track its speed and its movement. Although he couldn't physically keep up with it, he was able to do so through the technology available on his jet. And that footage was released to the public some years back. I think it's from 2014 or something like that. And it's like one of those Holy Grail type of pieces of evidence that folks that are like the we're definitely not alone, aliens exist. 100% folks. That's something that they always point to. So I knew of him. I did not know of the other two gentlemen I saw before watching, because I actually watched the entire it's two plus hours, two and a half hours plus of testimony in front of Congress. And I watched the entire thing. But before I did, I saw just clips of it online, on Instagram, on Twitter. And the main whistleblower, David Grush, honestly, based on the clips, just seemed like, for lack of a better word, whacked out. I was like, this guy just looks crazy. Something about him or the way he's answering things in, at least in these clips, I don't believe a word of what he's saying. Now, when you watch the entire thing in full context, he actually comes off as very poised, super knowledgeable and credible. Now that's just obviously I don't know for sure that's just maybe it's my bias, maybe it's wishful thinking, but that was my gauge of him after watching the full congressional hearing in its full context. I think one of the ways to know for sure if he's full of shit or not is if there's any follow up to many of the promises he made. Or promises might not be the right word, but the offerings he made during his testimony to the members of Congress, which was to provide additional information, specific names, specific proofs, but only under something called a skiff or skiff conditions. My understanding of what a Skiff is is that for highly sensitive matters or something like that, a Skiff is a room that's designed to block out any and all recording devices, electronics, phones, computers. Nothing is allowed in the Skiff itself. And he said in that type of top secret, secure setting, he would give them answers to some of the questions that they were asking, which he said, by military standards and protocol, he could not give publicly in a setting like this, which was the public congressional hearing, which was fascinating. But yeah, if he came through with all those things, then I think that just adds an additional layer of credibility to him and everything that he was alleging in the public hearings. Now, let me just get a couple of other fun things out of the way before I get into some more important takeaways. In my opinion. Not that the fun stuff is unimportant or anything, but you'll see what I mean. So first thing is shout out to Jeremy Corbell, which was sitting right there on the front row, right behind the whistleblowers. Jeremy Corbell, for those of you who don't know, is the leading researcher and investigator and documentarian of all extraterrestrial government cover up, UFO, et cetera, related stuff. And by leading, I mean my opinion, and one of the most credible and actually has journalistic integrity and site sources and famously did the Bob Lazar documentary, which is a good one for you guys to check out, so on and so forth. But, yeah, he was there in the front row. Definitely cool to see him there. Something hilarious was that Tom DeLong, the singer of Blink 182, was actually referenced in the congressional hearing. He had like a shout out kind of him and the company he started called to the Stars Media. And for those of you who don't know Tom DeLong, singer of Blink 182, he went on Rogan years ago, years ago, I want to say five, six, seven years ago, talking about he worked with government and he couldn't say with who. But there's these stories that are going to start breaking and that the government is rebranding UFOs to UAPs. And it's the first time I have personally ever heard the term UAP, which is Unidentified Aerial Phenomenon versus UFO, which is Unidentified Flying Object. And all this stuff in that he kind of came off like, this is one of the singers of Blink 182, of the band. He's off his rocker. Something's off. But then to hear him referenced in this congressional hearing, which is the most legit place that this conversation can be taking place, is a fucking congressional hearing, right? It's not a documentary. It's not a podcast. It's not happening on some side conversation radio show or something like that. It's under oath in front of the United States Congress. The subcommittee that's in charge of this type of stuff, that's in charge of defense and protecting the United States. So just his mention there was just like, what the fuck? Was he telling the truth the whole time? I just found that nuts. Now, here are some of the more important takeaways, and by important, I just mean more practical. Whether you believe in UFOs or aliens or not, these are important points to take away from the occurrence of this congressional hearing, regardless of where you stand. You had members like Congresswoman AOC, which is part of this subcommittee, AOC from New York and Congressman Andy Biggs from Arizona, specifically asking questions to the whistleblowers of where should they look for certain things, where should they look for certain information that backs up some of the testimony that he's giving? Where should they look for background related to this information, where can they find files, where can they find and get access to footage that he's referencing, where that backs up his claims, et cetera. Who can they speak to asking specific questions? Kind of like my takeaway from that was if they don't know and they're this oversight committee that's supposed to be regulating this type of shit, and they're asking in this matter of fact way of, yo, who or how the fuck can we get our hands on this type of information? They're completely blind and oblivious to what is going on, if it is in fact going on. So that was a big takeaway for me either way. Congressman Gates of Florida was another one who congressman Gates of Florida and I'm going to play the clip for you guys said the following in speaking to being turned away from trying to obtain information about a UAP event, here's some of what he had to say.

Congressman Matt Gaetz [00:25:12]:

Several months ago, my office received a protected disclosure from Eglin Air Force Base indicating that there was a UAP incident that required my attention. I sought a briefing regarding that episode and brought with me Congressman Birchett and Congresswoman Luna. We asked to see any of the evidence that had been taken by flight crew in this endeavor and to observe any radar signature, as well as to meet with the flight crew. We were not afforded access to all of the flight crew, and initially we were not afforded access to images and to radar. Thereafter, we had bit of a discussion about how authorities flow in the United States of America. And we did see the image, and we did meet with one member of the flight crew who took the image. The image was of something that I am not able to attach to any human capability, either from the United States or from any of our adversaries. And I'm somewhat informed on the matter. Having served on the Armed Services Committee for seven years, having served on the committee that oversees DARPA and advanced technologies for several years. When we spoke with the flight crew. And when he showed us the photo that he'd taken, I asked why the video wasn't engaged, why we didn't have a FLIR system that worked. Here's what he said. They were out on a test mission that day over the Gulf of Mexico. And when you're on a test mission, you're supposed to have clear airspace, not supposed to be anything that shows up. And they saw a sequence of four craft in a clear diamond formation for which there is a radar sequence that I and I alone have observed in the United States Congress. One of the pilots goes to check out that diamond formation and sees a large floating, what I can only describe as an orb. Again, like I said, not of any human capability that I'm aware of. And when he approached, he said that his radar went down. He said that his FLIR system malfunctioned and that he had to manually take this image from one of the lenses. And it was not automated in collection, as you would typically see in a test mission. So I guess I'll start with Commander Fravor. How should we think about the fact that this craft that was approached by our pilot had the capability of disarming a number of the sensor and collection systems on that craft?

Commander David Fravor [00:27:47]:

I think this goes to that national security side. And you can go back through history of things showing up at certain areas and disabling our capabilities, which is disheartening. And for us, like I said, it completely disabled the radar on the aircraft when I tried to do. And the only way we could see it is passively, which is how he got that image. So I think that's a concern on what are these doing, not only how do they operate, but their capabilities inside to do things like this?

Congressman Matt Gaetz [00:28:11]:

And how should we think about four craft moving in a very clear formation equidistant from one another in a diamond in all of the phenomenon? Perhaps, Mr. Grave, that you've analyzed, have we ever seen multiple craft in a single formation?

Commander David Fravor [00:28:30]:

I have one particular case, and that was during the Gimbal incident. The recording on the At FLIR system shows a single object that rotates. You hear the pilots refer to a fleet of objects that is not visible on the FLIR system. And that was something that I witnessed during the debrief as part of the radar data on this.

Tony [00:28:47]:

So I'm going to cut it off there. You guys can definitely go listen to the rest of it, and I encourage you to, just for the full context. But again, my main takeaway there is how in the dark or how competing interests are at play. Right. So you have the military industrial complex. I'm going to just name it that, although it's comprised of folks both in the government sector, the private sector that comprise some of these entities, and groups that may or may not be concealing information, but. Whoever was on the opposite side of who, as Congressman Gates said, they had to reinform them on how the hierarchy of power I'm paraphrasing the hierarchy of power flows in the United States government, and only then was he able to get some of the information that he was seeking. Whoever's on the opposite side of that, whatever that entity is, whatever quote unquote team they're playing for, that's what I found fascinating about that little exchange there. Who are they? Why are they keeping it on the wraps, and how are they keeping it on the wraps? More importantly, which leads to my next takeaway here. You have the chairman of the subcommittee I think it was the chairman I want to say Congressman Chafitz, but I could be wrong there. Someone double checked me on that, but was pissed about the fact and he shared how the Pentagon fails their audits yearly. They failed their audits five years in a row, and they have billions of dollars unaccounted for completely, just like we don't know where that money is, as well as over 60% of its assets, of its known assets, also unaccounted for. And it's just aside from the fact that they fail their audit on a yearly basis, like, there's nothing else after that. For example, I'll give you a general vague example. I work in finance, as some of you know, for an institution that does work with auditors. And if we fail something within an audit, changes have to be implemented immediately. Proof of those changes, follow ups to make sure those changes work, possible fines, so on and so forth. It doesn't just stop at the audit being failed. You know what I mean? So, again, who are those folks in the Pentagon or on the other side of those failed audits that apparently have no accountability? And are those unaccounted for? And this is where the conspiracy theory comes in are those unaccounted funds going towards these shadow government programs? Now to Mr. Grush's .1 of his statements. Again. Mr. Grush being the main whistleblower. When asked by Congresswoman macy macei may be saying that incorrectly. Mace? Macy when asked what agencies, what government contractors, et cetera should be called in to a congressional hearing like this one to discuss programs and how they're being funded, et cetera. Like where's the money coming from and what programs exist within this realm. Gersh said that he could give that information immediately after the hearing. He couldn't give it in a public setting, but he said that he can provide them a list of hostile and also non hostile witnesses immediately after the congressional session in, again, one of those skiff settings or whatever, at which point a lot of the people that were there in tenants, they, like, WooHooed and clapped. And it was a moment. But again, that shadowy governmental cover up type of thing, that's where I have the more practical, regardless, on if you believe there's aliens or not, or that has anything to do with anything, those questions still remain. And Congressman Burleson from Missouri, which was very know there, he definitely doesn't believe in aliens or anything like that, came out the gate with that type of demeanor and statement. He asked questions like, could these retrieve the vehicles? Because Grush also alluded to the fact that we have shot down and retrieved some of these UAPs as well as non human biologics, quote, unquote, that's what he called it, and crafts. So Congressman Burleson asked, you know, could these just be weapons and vehicles from other secret departments within the government that we just don't know of? Which, again, ties back to my initial or my main concern and takeaway here, or my practical concern and takeaway here, which is, if that's the case, who's running the show there? And circling back to what Grush says, which is that the US has beings or quote, unquote, non human biologics and crafts in their possession, a lot of people after the fact were questioning like, what the fuck does non human biologics mean? A cow is technically a non human biologic. He needed to elaborate there, but obviously he didn't. Now, Grush did allude to that. The shot callers within this realm of this shattery government, whatever you want to call it, are a mix of folks that are in the government and folks that are out of the government and part of major corporations. He also referenced something called the Gang of Eight, which sounded interesting to me. I was meaning to look into it, but I haven't yet. So if any of you guys listening know what that is, definitely hit me up and let me know. But yeah, man, what a tangled fucking web we weave, what an interesting time we live in as well. But yeah, I definitely recommend that you folks check out the if you're interested in this kind of thing, but just from a historical perspective. It's the first time that a topic like this related to UFOs and UAPs was openly and honestly spoken about in a congressional setting like this, with the most arguably not even arguably, with the most credible witnesses and whistleblowers ever in the history of the whole UFO folklore scene, if you will. So just from a historical perspective, it's an unprecedented event that occurred. And if you're interested in this topic, this type of thing in and of itself, then it's definitely a fascinating watch. And I will link to the full congressional hearing in the episode notes, but you guys can easily find it on YouTube if you just search for it. But I'll definitely link to it in the episode notes to make it easier for you guys. And that, folks, was my little recap and review of the congressional hearings on UFOs John Wick Four. By all accounts, the fourth and final installation in the John Wick series, although it does end spoiler alert, with a slight nod to the actual ending not being all that it seems. And they actually foreshadowed as much in the final jousting scene leading up to the end. But John Wick Four here is the official synopsis john Wick uncovers a path to defeating the High Table. But before he can earn his freedom, Wick must face off against a new enemy with powerful alliances across the globe and forces that turn old friends into foes. And as we like to do here on the sponsored podcast, I want to shout out the writers. Because if we don't shout out the writers here on the sponsored a podcast that is anchored in writing, who will? John Wick Four was written by Shay Hatton, Michael Finch and Derek Kohlstad. Shout out to the writers. Now, I wanted to start off by sharing with you guys a fun fact that you may not know, which is that the muscle car that John Wick drives in John Wick Four is a 1971 Plymouth CUDA. And it's in the movie because in the first John Wick, for example, john Wick drove a 69 Mustang, which is a badass muscle car, but was also like a gift from his wife in the movie. But the fun fact is that Joe Rogan had always mentioned in his podcast after the first 2nd, 3rd John Wick, that the real badass muscle car that John Wick should be driving is the Plymouth CUDA. The 1971. And when Brogan had the director Chad Stahelski on the pod, he confirmed as much that the reason why he put the Plymouth CUDA into John Wick Four was because of Rogan. So I thought that was pretty dope. Shout out to podcast, man. Shout out to that fucking reach. Another fun fact that I learned on that