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Brian Keating. Welcome to the show, man. It's a great pleasure to be here, Sean. It's been a while. I've been hoping to come on. A couple years in the making, right? I don't know. But, yeah, we were talking out there. I think I've been tracking you for like two or three years and you finally made it. Yeah, it's kind of scary to hear that Sean Ryan's been tracking you, but I'll take that, my friend.

Oh, man, but, yeah, lots of shit going on right now.

A lot of stuff going on right now.

What do you think about all this alien stuff?

You know, it's, it's either the most exciting time to be alive, or it's going to be the most depressing time to be alive. You know, it's either the most exciting time to be alive or it's going to be the most depressing time to be alive. You know, it's like, imagine you keep asking a girl out. She said, yeah, soon, soon, I'll disclose my intentions to you. And you know, you're just kind of waiting in the wings. And you keep hearing things are going to happen. It's going to come out. Finally, we're going to know the truth.

And the whole community is thinking about things and is excited about things. And then, I'm sorry to say,

I'm just been completely underwhelmed. This last release by President Trump and Department of War,

Pete Higgs-soe. I tore through that like a kid on, you know, Christmas morning or as soon as it came out.

What did you find?

I found, you know, really it's a nice round number.

I found like zero.

I found zero that really interested me.

And worse than that, I found things that were, you know, your background, you're used to dealing with kind of like sci ops and a good friend,

my friend, Chad Hosh, he was in the siops. He was in U.S. Army, served in the area. You know,

they have exposure to things, right? They're going to prime me for certain things. I call these

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