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Jiminy Christmas.

Welcome back to Behind the Bastards, a podcast that for whatever reason is about aliens right now.

Look, folks, after three straight weeks of Oprah, I needed something fun.

So we did a couple of book episodes on aliens.

And then I fell down a rabbit hole.

And so this week we're bringing back one of our favorite guests, the great Brandy Posey.

Brandy, welcome to the show.

Do you believe in aliens?

Well, that's a good question because like what is an alien, I guess, is how do you want to define it? And also, do you believe in multiple dimensions? Because these are, I, you know what, that's exactly the answer I hope for.

Kind of not so much the dimension stuff. We're going to be talking about, we're going to be talking about a real act of bastardry that's kind of at the very beginning.

Well, not the beginning, kind of the middle point, but it's foundational to the UFO culture that gave us the X-Files.

Like, we are talking about the stuff that became the X-Files, which started as a disinformation campaign.

And a lot of it can be tied specifically

to an Air Force intelligence guy named Richard Doty,

who was basically brought in to mentally abuse and destroy

a basically decent,

possibly definitely too credulous guy

who started finding evidence of like recording evidence of like secret

air force research.

And so the Air Force was like, let's convince this guy, it's all aliens.

And they kind of destroyed his mind.

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