Sekret Machines: War (Project Book Club w/ Chrissy Newton)
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Bryce Zabel
4.6 • 559 Ratings
🗓️ 24 August 2025
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Summary
In this episode of Project Book Club, Bryce Zabel and Chrissy Newton dive into Sekret Machines: Gods, Man & War by Tom DeLonge and Peter Levenda. The discussion unpacks how the book blends history, mythology, and modern-day accounts to explore humanity's long and complex relationship with non-human intelligence. Rather than presenting UFOs as a purely contemporary mystery, DeLonge and Levenda frame the phenomenon as deeply rooted in our collective past, stretching from ancient civilizations to present-day encounters. Bryce and Chrissy consider how the book challenges conventional thinking by drawing parallels between mythology and modern sightings, suggesting that what we've long described as gods, angels, or demons may share common ground with today's UAP reports. They reflect on the balance between hard evidence, cultural interpretation, and the ways secrecy has shaped public understanding of these mysteries. The episode invites listeners to consider how narratives of contact—both ancient and modern—may hold clues about who "they" are and why they continue to appear in human history. Ultimately, the conversation highlights the book's value as both a thought experiment and a serious attempt to reframe the UAP phenomenon. Bryce and Chrissy leave listeners with big questions about how history, spirituality, and disclosure intersect, setting the stage for future conversations that will continue to explore these intersections with open curiosity and rigorous discussion.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Project Book Club, where UFOs and UAP have close encounters with morning coffee. |
| 0:08.3 | Grab a fresh mug and enjoy our steaming hot takes on this month's book that deals with anomalous phenomena. |
| 0:15.6 | Brand new, classic, and often controversial. |
| 0:19.2 | We talk about the ideas and we read between the lines. Now here's |
| 0:24.1 | Bryce Zabel in Hollywood and Chrissy Newton in Toronto. Hey, good morning everybody and welcome back |
| 0:30.1 | to Project Book Club. I'm Bryce Sable and I'm here in sunny and extremely hot Los Angeles right |
| 0:36.3 | now with a strong cup of coffee that is also extremely hot. |
| 0:41.4 | So I think I'm ready. |
| 0:42.8 | Just might keep you up at night with this book we're about to talk to you about, though. |
| 0:47.1 | Joining me as always is my co-host, Chrissy Newton, who's over in Toronto. |
| 0:51.7 | And I just got to say, you've had a very busy month yourself, |
| 0:55.5 | haven't you? I've had such a busy month. I've been traveling. We were talking in last |
| 1:00.9 | podcast. I was in Wisconsin. And then I was in Virginia and I was at the Monroe Institute. |
| 1:07.9 | So that has, I'll just say, a very life-changing experience that I didn't know I was going to have. |
| 1:16.4 | I think I thought that it was going to be very amazing, but I didn't think it was going to be |
| 1:20.5 | life-changing. |
| 1:21.3 | Well, let's do a little background on that because I think a lot of people don't know anything |
| 1:25.0 | about the Monroe Institute. |
| 1:26.4 | So tell us what it is |
| 1:29.9 | and what you did when you got there. Yeah, for sure. So the Monroe Institute started in the 1970s |
| 1:36.8 | by a man named Bob Monroe. Bob Monroe was a broadcaster and had an out-of-body experience and was |
| 1:44.0 | going through different levels of consciousness. |
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