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Welcome in to this special minisode bonus episode here of UAP.

Stephen Deiner back with you here on the Unidentified Alien podcast for this quick little hit before the congressional hearings happen tomorrow.

I'm actually just about to head out to the airport

as we speak so I can fly from South Florida here to Washington, D.C. in just a little bit. But

before I left for the airport, literally in like the next 20 minutes, I have to leave. But I really

wanted to come on here. I felt compelled to do this, to just do, like I said, quick little

mini-so to get a few things off my chest that I think are kind of lingering in the air

before we actually sit down and see these hearings happen tomorrow. Now, I could have done this

very easily as some type of video on social media and put it up on Twitter or TikTok or YouTube. And I'll probably

still do something along those lines. But I wanted to make this accessible to everybody. I know

not everybody gets onto social media, which is completely fine. So I wanted to make this as accessible

as possible, which is why I figured, you know what? Not everything I do has to be 45 minutes to an hour long, right?

So I figured let's do a little bonus episode here today, just a few minutes to kind of set the table for these little lingering things that are still on my mind before the hearing.

One thing I wanted to get to, the really main thing on my mind here before I fly away in a little bit is the negativity that's surrounding this hearing before anything even happens.

I want to read a tweet here, actually, from Ryan Graves, who just put this out a little while ago.

And I really couldn't agree more with his assessment here.

He wrote, of course, you know who Ryan Graves is.

He was at the first hearing and we all know his story.

He goes, my hope for the UAP hearing tomorrow is that it promotes the importance of this topic to the new administration.

There is currently much opportunity to build support for this topic and see real change. And I retweeted that and wrote my

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