Mike Damante: Punk Rock and UFOs

Open Minds UAP News

Alejandro Rojas

Documentary, Government, Society & Culture, Science

4.2 • 671 Ratings

🗓️ 2 April 2019

⏱️ 83 minutes

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Summary

Mike Damante is a journalist, author, and teacher. He is the author of the books "Punk rock and UFOs: True Believers" and "Punk Rock and UFOs: Cryptozoology Meets Anarchy." Mike worked for the Houston Chronicle as a copy editor, writer, reporter, and web producer. He currently produces their "MIKED" music blog and has interviewed bands and musicians like Bad Religion, blink-182, Taking Back Sunday, Tom DeLonge, Tegan and Sara, Aerosmith, B.o.B, and countless others. He currently teaches Journalism and English in Houston, TX. In this episode, we talk to Mike about the crossroads of Punk Rock and UFOs, and his perspective on the UFO phenomenon as a mainstream journalist. Like everyone interested in UFOs, Mike has also been following the developments related to Tom DeLonge’s To The Stars Academy (TTSA). Mike lends the unique view of also having followed Tom DeLonge’s music career as a music journalist and blogger. Visit Mike’s website and get his books at www.PunkRockandUFOs.com.

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0:00.0	The
0:07.0	The Hello and welcome to Open Mind UFO Radio.
0:43.7	This is your host Alejandro Rojas, and I am here with my good buddy, Martin busy dude Willis.
0:52.9	Yeah.
0:54.3	Yeah, a little busy. Keep them busy out there, huh? But that's a good thing. Yep, yep, yep. Martin busy dude Willis. Yeah. Yeah.
0:54.8	A little busy out there, huh?
0:56.2	But that's a good thing.
0:57.2	Yep.
0:57.7	Yep.
0:58.2	Oh, I got to keep this brain busy.
1:00.0	Boy, I'll tell you.
1:01.2	Yeah.
1:01.4	If you don't keep your brain busy, it goes too mush.
1:05.4	Or dark places.
1:06.9	Oh, yeah.
1:08.3	That's even worse.
1:09.7	There's a lot of dark places to go.
1:11.6	So let's keep you busy.
1:13.1	We'll keep your brain busy.
1:14.2	So speaking of which, you know, I need to, I want to start mentioning this at the beginning
1:20.2	of the show because I don't mind, but I want people to know, you know, at the beginning,
1:24.3	the first segment of the show here with me and Martin for the first about
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