#114 Politicians And UFOs
MCMANUS (Formerly Mind Shift) with Erwin & Aaron McManus
Erwin McManus + Aaron McManus
4.8 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 19 May 2026
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Aaron McManus and Erwin Raphael McManus return to the Mind Shift podcast after a long hiatus shaped by personal transition, instability, and unexpected disruption. Erwin shares what it has been like to be houseless for the past six months after selling his home in November, while he and Aaron reflect on the chaos of moving, a break-in at Erwin’s old house, temporary living arrangements, and the stress of trying to keep life and work moving while everything felt unsettled.
In this episode, Aaron and Erwin talk openly about the challenges of living in a city, navigating privacy, dealing with stalkers, and realizing how much their open-door lifestyle had blurred necessary boundaries. They reflect on safety, home, family, and the strange emotional weight of transition, while also moving into broader conversations about politics, friendship, capitalism, polarization, and the difficulty of staying honest and grounded in a divided culture.
Erwin also shares personal stories of UFO sightings experienced by his family, connecting them to the recent release of declassified government documents and the shifting public conversation around unexplained phenomena. Throughout the conversation, Aaron and Erwin return to the importance of authenticity in communication, honest dialogue, resilience, and finding a healthy center in a world increasingly shaped by extremes, suspicion, and disconnection.
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to the Mindshift podcast. My name is Aaron McManus, and I'm here with my dad, |
| 0:03.4 | Erwin Raphael McManus. How are you doing today? I'm doing good, but I think that we have added to the conspiracy of alien abductions. Yeah, maybe. It's been, goodness, I think it's been four or five months since our last episode. It's been almost all of 2026. We have to give just a quick, well, I'm just going to give a quick apology. |
| 0:23.9 | We didn't mean to ghost you. |
| 0:26.9 | It's been a busy few months. |
| 0:29.0 | We've been really working hard since the last podcast. |
| 0:33.6 | And so now we're sitting in a house that is not yours or mine. |
| 0:39.3 | And sitting in a friend's house shooting this podcast. |
| 0:42.0 | It's been a year of transitions, it feels like. |
| 0:45.4 | And not the kind that the left one to talk about. |
| 0:49.5 | Sorry, I'm sorry. |
| 0:50.6 | I'm already off to a strong start. |
| 0:53.4 | I will say. |
| 1:11.2 | I'll take faith. Since we're being completely irreverent here. We're not being irreverent. And politically incorrect. I'm going to say I've been I've been houseless for six months. Well, you haven't been houseless. You just, you sold your house. We sold our house back in November. But like, okay. And we moved into your home. We kicked you out. Should we just talk? Can we just preface? I think we should go into all the, we should just yap. We're just going to tell you where we've been. If you don't want to know anything about our personal lives, just skip this part. And you pick up the next one. There will be a next one. There will be a next, there will, because we're not leaving here until Jacob has some work to do. |
| 1:30.0 | Sweet Jacob. part. And you pick up the next one. There will be a next one. There will be a next, there will, because we're not leaving here until Jacob has some work to do. |
| 1:30.0 | Sweet Jacob. We hired him to edit his pod and then we didn't shoot one for six months. |
| 1:37.4 | Pretty much. Poor guy. He's been doing other things. We're going to blame on the editing. |
| 1:42.2 | He does other things. He he really does a huge part of |
| 1:44.9 | it is the massive transitions that we've been in moving out of our home during the holiday season |
| 1:53.2 | but okay do you want to start there yeah no you graciously giving us your place for three months |
| 1:58.7 | was it three months almost Almost three months, yeah. |
| 2:01.2 | About 10, 11 weeks, close enough. |
| 2:03.4 | Okay, so end of August is your birthday. |
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