Welcome to Roon Soup, a weekly podcast about magic, culture and the paranormal.

My name is Gordon and I shall be your host.

This week we welcome the one and only Richard Doleen to the show.

As you're very likely aware, Richard is the author and publisher of many books in the UFO field, as well as a radio host, trained historian,

and gifted public speaker.

We actually met out in the Central Australian Desert in May of this year and have the opportunity to

chat about what's right and what's wrong with what's known as the extraterrestrial

hypothesis or E.T.H. which for those of you who are unaware is the model for

you for you if a phenomena that asserts that a majority or possibly all cases

credible ones at least are best explained as encounters with beings from other planets, as in literally

extraterrestrial rather than say extra-dimensional, demonic, spiritual, earth-based, or under-Earth entities that predate mankind and all the other

non-E-T-H hypotheses

So yeah fantastic chat I recorded this in an Airbnb in Central Melbourne, so the sound quality isn't as good as I'd like on my end,

but I've cleaned it up as best I can and it's still very audible and very worth your time. Enjoy. Richard Dolan, welcome aboard.

Hi Gordon, it's so nice to be on your program.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, I'm super looking forward to this and I think a lot of people who are listening are probably familiar with your UFO origin story.

But we have a traditional first question I've ever been

I've ever been asked that.

First time I've ever been asked that.

My mother who's still around and would be happy to answer that question for you, would always say that I was special.

My mother was one of those who drilled into me the idea that I had unique capabilities and I think was actually really helpful

in giving me or helping me to develop a very good sense of myself.

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