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In the 1930s, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt addressed the nation through a series of radio

broadcasts known as the Fire Side Chats. His aim was to reassure the common man that our society

would recover from its troubled times. What were far from 1930 and I deal with a different kind of

fire. For a new era of worldly frustration, we offer a fresh conversation. I'm Greg Karlwood,

and these are the Hire Side Chats. All right, Hire Side Chats are some sunny San Diego,

I'm Greg Karlwood, here to help you make a little more sense out of this weird world,

which is never an easy task. With so many things open to interpretation, high-strange

ness can oftentimes be pretty hard to define. We can also get caught up in traps of terminology

and category that can greatly affect how experiences are understood and take us off the course

of true understanding. Our visitations from unknown beings and jealous communication are alien

encounters. Our orbs of light messages from God are signals from our space brothers,

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