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my name is race hobbs and i am the

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co-owner of kgra digital broadcast media

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in 2007 i attended some mufon meetings

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i had a long-standing interest in the

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ufo subject

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and had actively investigated and

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researched ufos

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for many many many years and i thought

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that you that utilizing mufon would

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really help enhance my investigation

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skills

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so i started to go to some local

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meetings and um

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i wound up joining mufon

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and in a roundabout way got my own

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section and became a section director

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for him pretty pretty short order

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had my own club building my own group my

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own investigation group all the while

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doing investigations

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um building my investigation portfolio

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with mufon

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and was really enjoying it quite a bit

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you know it was really

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um you know sort of uh you know my thing

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to be in public relations and dealing

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with people

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meeting people a lot and uh and so

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i was really flourishing really well

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doing really good investigations the

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the group was just getting bigger and

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bigger we would have anywhere from 10 to

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30 people every month

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coming to the meetings from you know 150

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miles away 200 miles away to come to our

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meetings before

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um i really enjoyed it a lot i uh

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i thought of ways to get the word out

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about what we were doing i discovered

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unfortunately when i began my

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career with mufon was right about the

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time that they had

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engaged in contracts with robert bigelow

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anyone who's in the movement and has

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followed this

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uh you know over the course of time

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knows about

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how bigelow engaged in a contract with

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mufon and so forth and

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and the fallout from that whole thing

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was just awful for mufon

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and i felt like we had you know sort of

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turned into

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more of a a group of people that were

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set

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in place to defend mufon than we were to

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investigate mufon

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there was a lot of hack and a lot of

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talk about how mufon doesn't release any

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of its information

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so i thought well

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i did fm radio for many years

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from a young age and

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i've had this interest in ufos and i

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just sort of had this idea to kind of

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marry the two together

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so i set out to learn about podcasting

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and digital broadcasting and and just

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kind of took in as much as i could as

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fast as i could

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and i created a show called eyewitness

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radio

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and i had a co-host royce fitzgerald was

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one of my co-investigators he was my

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chief investigator at the time

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and um and he came on board with my

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co-host and we built a studio and a

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spare room in my home

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and and we started broadcasting

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eyewitness radio

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on on an existing network and

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everything was great it was growing we

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were getting a local following here in

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the arkansas northwest arkansas region

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uh the northwest section of arkansas

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mufon was really instrumental in

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supporting us and getting exposure up

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in the northwest arkansas section and um

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and was we kind of sort of over a course

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of about a year

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began to develop a big following in the

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midwest

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and um and it was really a lot of fun

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and it was really gaining momentum and

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then i kind of ran into some contractual

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conflicts where

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agreements were passed down to us and we

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really weren't cool with those

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agreements man so we just decided to

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back away from that network

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and kind of fall back and figure out

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what we wanted to do with the little

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and uh so when we left this network

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wasn't very happy with this at all

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um they uh that i guess they kind of

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looked because i

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assisted them a lot with audio work and

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with uh

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information and uh we were a mufon

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sponsored show so you know when we left

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i think they were afraid that we're

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going to pull mufon from them

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and that we were going to pull their

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listeners from them if we went somewhere

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else and

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and it's a competitive world media is

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very competitive

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i mean it is it's it's it's cut throat

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to an extent and um and really

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to to wrap all this up to sort of

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bottleneck this

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i got pissed off at what they were

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saying and i said i'm gonna go do my own

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thing i'm gonna go

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do it the way i want to do it and so

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brainstorming meetings began and i

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pulled some partners together and we all

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had to agree on one thing or we wouldn't

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i wouldn't be partners with them and

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that was

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what we're going to do here is not ego

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driven we're going to have an

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attitude of we want the boots on the

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ground we want

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people doing the work we want to

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highlight people doing the work

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no matter how insignificant as long it

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was as it was

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purposed and uh and to sort of just

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get away from all the hacking and the

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arguing and the

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the belittling and the you know the the

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skeptic

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fights and all that stuff let's leave

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all this over to the side

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and let's focus on positive things and

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the movement needed it i thought

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and um so i partnered up with some of my

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friends and we started the kgra

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on i think it was it was

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uh february the 28th 2011 when it was

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and we went on the air on

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march the 28th and uh

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we've been rolling ever since with it

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it's and it's in it really it's still

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it's in its infancy however

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we have gained such great strides in

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such a short amount of time it doesn't

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seem that way

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although i still have to keep myself

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sort of grounded

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because we have a long long long way to

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with this project that i began and

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um and it's been a wild ride i can say

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that for

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for sure up to this point

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but that's how it started in a nutshell

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i thought that the movement needed

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something better and that you know you

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go

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to these paranormal sites these networks

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and it looks like uh a used car salesman

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in his off hours playing a clown

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puked up a bunch of his business cards

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on a website you know

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you go there and you know you click on

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this it's not even current it's like

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five years old this person doesn't have

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the show here anymore

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and on and on and so i wanted to set out

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to make a clean website user-friendly

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website

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and i wanted to get some of the most

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important people that i believed in

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on that website and on the show on the

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network

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don't like that word

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i changed to station um

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last year because i think network is

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played out you know

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everywhere you look there's some kind of

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a network and there ain't but one show

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you know i don't know what you're

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networking buddy but you know

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i'm confused over here so we just

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to say we're a station because that's

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what we are we're a digital broadcasting

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station man

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and it's important for us to be looked

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at and viewed

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as an officially you know licensed

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broadcast station

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we're not just some thrown together

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website

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uh you know that claims to be something

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they're not

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our attitude is we want the boots on the

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ground as i said before

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but not they don't necessarily have to

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be hosts it's not it's not that

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important for it to be

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for for our host and people on our

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network to be so

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polished and and so we i don't want them

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to be involved in listening to other

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radio hosts and learning how

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talk radio works and why we say what we

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say i'll take care of that

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i'll tell you what to say and how to say

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be delivered better

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to just deliver this information that

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you want to get to the public

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and that's that's that's how we do it

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a matter of having professional talk

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it's a matter of having professional

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boots on the ground

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doing the work firsthand so that you are

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hearing second or third or fourth hand

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know you're hearing it from people who

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actually have done the work and been

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and you know there's no question that

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these folks aren't armchair researchers

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you know people just trying to pretend

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like they're doing the good work these

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folks

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are doing the good work and they work

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very hard and i'm proud of all of them

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it's interesting that you uh that you

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asked that because

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i was actually on air as a

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fm broadcaster air personality dj if you

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when i kind of had my first ufo

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encounter kind of a thing

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and i was uh it was the summer of 1990

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and i was doing in a shift on the

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local rock station in fort smith and

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a guy called me it was you know getting

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close to time for me to get off work it

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was probably around 11 11 30.

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and he called from a mobile phone in his

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and he said that he was on i-10 which

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he gave me his positions about 10 miles

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give or take

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away from me over across the border in

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perched upon this big

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sort of plateau in fort smith one of the

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highest points in fort smith

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and i could pretty much see a 360 degree

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panoramic view of the city

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from where we were the guy who called

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was

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giant object over his head with a bright

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light on the front of it

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and i said what does it look like and he

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said man it looks like a submarine

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like a gigantic submarine or a blimp or

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something

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no sound with this just

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incredibly bright light on the front of

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it not on the back

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or you know like a rocket or and it's

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there's no noise

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no anything it's just dead signing and i

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was like

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holy crap so i could see this from there

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i'm sure so

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i was like hang on i put him on hold and

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i run out of the studio

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run out of the sales door in the back

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and there it was

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just hanging right there off the sky

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maybe 30 degrees

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um the thing

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the closest thing i can match it to

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would be like a welded light but

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way bigger i would say it would take

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a beach ball to completely cover up the

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light and you know the brightness and

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everything

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of it at arm's length you know you'd

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have to hold a beach ball out there to

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cover up

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all that the core of it was probably the

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size of a golf ball but it just was so

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bright

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that in fact was what made the guy

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notice that something was above him

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because he was driving and he was at a

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stoplight

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and he could see the shadows moving

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under the trees beside him

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moving so whatever was emitting this

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light was

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moving above him so he pulled over we

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went through the light pulled over and

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saw it

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so i for i'm watching this light drift

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across the horizon nice and slow

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i can't see what's attached to it but i

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could see the light

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that he was looking at and i was just

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watching it i forgot i was on the air

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station went dead air i um

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i run back into the station and i throw

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in the longest song i can find just

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right off the bat there's thousand cds

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there but i know molly hatchet

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his dreams i'll never seize about eight

343
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or nine minutes i throw it in

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hit play grab the phone are you still

345
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there he was like dude what what is that

346
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thing

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you know what i mean i said dude i have

348
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no idea

349
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i saw it i totally said you see what you

350
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see what you see i saw it

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but i didn't see what it was attached to

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and um

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and it's it's interesting that that that

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the ufo stuff kind of

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went hand in hand with radio um

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and that kind of started my active

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interest in mufon i mean not in mufon

358
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my active interest in ufos and

359
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i began a little investigation group in

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the river valley right there where

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you know down there in fort smith where

362
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it's from river valley investigations

363
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and you know some like-minded friends

364
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and all just started getting together

365
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and going out and

366
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you know we would hear from a friend or

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a friend or a friend of a friend or an

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aunt or an uncle

369
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you know when they saw something i don't

370
00:13:22,150 --> 00:13:20,720
care how old it was i just wanted to

371
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start interviewing people and talking

372
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about this and and

373
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you know started reading books going to

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the library and you know pulling out

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books and

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um that was a big part of it was the

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library

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because when you would check these books

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out you would always be a conversation

380
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around it you know what i mean and

381
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people up there checking out books

382
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around you and things

383
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i met a lot of people at the library who

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actually had an interest

385
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people who had sightings the library was

386
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a great place to really

387
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kind of network you know back then in

388
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you know the early 90s

389
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we didn't have the internet you know i

390
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think it was prodigy

391
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or something you know aol was still you

392
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know

393
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but the libraries is where it was all at

394
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and um and then so when i started the

395
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kgra

396
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fundamentally it was natural for me to

397
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be coming from a ufo perspective i'm not

398
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a ghost hunter

399
00:14:16,949 --> 00:14:16,399
i'm not a ghost investigator or uh you

400
00:14:20,150 --> 00:14:16,959
know

401
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i'm not spiritualist none of that stuff

402
00:14:23,750 --> 00:14:22,160
and i've never you know really been into

403
00:14:24,150 --> 00:14:23,760
the bigfoot thing although i believe

404
00:14:25,829 --> 00:14:24,160
it's

405
00:14:27,509 --> 00:14:25,839
highly probable that it there's

406
00:14:30,150 --> 00:14:27,519
something out there

407
00:14:31,590 --> 00:14:30,160
but i'm not sure you know about all of

408
00:14:34,949 --> 00:14:31,600
the other investigation

409
00:14:35,350 --> 00:14:34,959
type you know genres but ufos did it for

410
00:14:40,389 --> 00:14:35,360
me

411
00:14:42,069 --> 00:14:40,399
science fiction kid you know star trek

412
00:14:45,110 --> 00:14:42,079
and star wars and

413
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always you know have followed sort of a

414
00:14:48,230 --> 00:14:46,320
belief

415
00:14:50,310 --> 00:14:48,240
that these things were real once i

416
00:14:52,710 --> 00:14:50,320
started investigating

417
00:14:53,910 --> 00:14:52,720
i learned that i had a great uncle who

418
00:14:55,910 --> 00:14:53,920
was a pilot

419
00:14:57,269 --> 00:14:55,920
in the in the air force for many many

420
00:15:00,389 --> 00:14:57,279
many years flew in world war ii

421
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test piloted sabres and and he told my

422
00:15:04,310 --> 00:15:01,600
mother

423
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that he had been buffeted his his flight

424
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squadron had been buffeted by objects

425
00:15:10,310 --> 00:15:07,920
you know at high altitude

426
00:15:12,470 --> 00:15:10,320
and and i kind of akin this the the

427
00:15:14,710 --> 00:15:12,480
story he told her to the one that

428
00:15:16,310 --> 00:15:14,720
uh gordo cooper tells about when you

429
00:15:16,949 --> 00:15:16,320
know he was flying the saber and they

430
00:15:18,710 --> 00:15:16,959
were

431
00:15:21,030 --> 00:15:18,720
buffeted by these objects at high

432
00:15:23,430 --> 00:15:21,040
altitudes it's quite possible that my

433
00:15:24,389 --> 00:15:23,440
great uncle ray could have flown with

434
00:15:26,069 --> 00:15:24,399
gordo cooper

435
00:15:28,470 --> 00:15:26,079
you know for all out he died before i

436
00:15:31,509 --> 00:15:28,480
was born um

437
00:15:33,829 --> 00:15:31,519
but he was decorated a pilot and very

438
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well respected and

439
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and i have to believe that if he told my

440
00:15:37,829 --> 00:15:37,360
mother that that he was telling the

441
00:15:39,829 --> 00:15:37,839
truth

442
00:15:41,509 --> 00:15:39,839
you know this is one of these stories

443
00:15:42,550 --> 00:15:41,519
where you know a report from a real

444
00:15:44,150 --> 00:15:42,560
pilot

445
00:15:46,230 --> 00:15:44,160
is kind of sort of handed down through

446
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the family and um

447
00:15:51,030 --> 00:15:49,040
it came from someone who nobody would

448
00:15:53,269 --> 00:15:51,040
expect to lie about something like that

449
00:15:54,069 --> 00:15:53,279
you know you just don't uh there's

450
00:15:57,590 --> 00:15:54,079
really no reason

451
00:15:59,670 --> 00:15:57,600
for them to and um so

452
00:16:02,150 --> 00:15:59,680
my mother she's a cherokee indian and

453
00:16:02,870 --> 00:16:02,160
she's all she finds it very puzzling

454
00:16:04,790 --> 00:16:02,880
that people

455
00:16:07,189 --> 00:16:04,800
don't they have a hard time believing

456
00:16:10,710 --> 00:16:07,199
that ufos are real or ets are real

457
00:16:12,310 --> 00:16:10,720
or sky people um and all of my cherokee

458
00:16:12,629 --> 00:16:12,320
relatives feel that way they're like you

459
00:16:14,230 --> 00:16:12,639
know

460
00:16:16,629 --> 00:16:14,240
they they just don't understand why we

461
00:16:19,509 --> 00:16:16,639
don't accept it and just

462
00:16:20,150 --> 00:16:19,519
exist with it and and you know and and

463
00:16:22,550 --> 00:16:20,160
sort of

464
00:16:25,430 --> 00:16:22,560
embrace it and those that have the

465
00:16:27,430 --> 00:16:25,440
opportunity to engage in the good ones

466
00:16:29,350 --> 00:16:27,440
uh you know are lucky and those who come

467
00:16:31,990 --> 00:16:29,360
across the bad ones what they would call

468
00:16:34,790 --> 00:16:32,000
skin walkers or these entities that they

469
00:16:36,550 --> 00:16:34,800
are nefarious and don't have uh your

470
00:16:40,150 --> 00:16:36,560
best intentions at heart which

471
00:16:41,670 --> 00:16:40,160
they do believe uh uh exists

472
00:16:43,509 --> 00:16:41,680
you know they they just really find it

473
00:16:46,710 --> 00:16:43,519
perplexing man that we don't

474
00:16:49,430 --> 00:16:46,720
um uh believe in it and it's and i

475
00:16:50,150 --> 00:16:49,440
you know i get that you get that we get

476
00:16:52,389 --> 00:16:50,160
that because

477
00:16:53,829 --> 00:16:52,399
we gather at big conferences we come to

478
00:16:55,509 --> 00:16:53,839
talk about this stuff

479
00:16:57,269 --> 00:16:55,519
if it ever happens we're not going to be

480
00:16:57,910 --> 00:16:57,279
the ones that come off the hinges it's

481
00:17:00,389 --> 00:16:57,920
going to be

482
00:17:02,069 --> 00:17:00,399
all the normal people who are sort of

483
00:17:05,029 --> 00:17:02,079
still plugged in

484
00:17:05,990 --> 00:17:05,039
and so i guess to bring everything back

485
00:17:08,870 --> 00:17:06,000
to it

486
00:17:09,510 --> 00:17:08,880
ufos for me has always been what drives

487
00:17:11,590 --> 00:17:09,520
me

488
00:17:13,829 --> 00:17:11,600
and um i just really want to do

489
00:17:15,829 --> 00:17:13,839
something positive for the ufo movement

490
00:17:17,110 --> 00:17:15,839
something that's going to be lasting

491
00:17:21,029 --> 00:17:17,120
long when i'm

492
00:17:23,110 --> 00:17:21,039
you know uh you know gone on to glory

493
00:17:24,870 --> 00:17:23,120
as we begin our third season we really

494
00:17:29,029 --> 00:17:24,880
want to refine

495
00:17:30,710 --> 00:17:29,039
our craft there are a lot of people who

496
00:17:32,630 --> 00:17:30,720
are copying our business model

497
00:17:34,390 --> 00:17:32,640
new networks and new stations starting

498
00:17:37,750 --> 00:17:34,400
and i think that's awesome

499
00:17:39,909 --> 00:17:37,760
the more competition means

500
00:17:41,590 --> 00:17:39,919
more word and more messages are getting

501
00:17:44,150 --> 00:17:41,600
spread you know more information is

502
00:17:47,029 --> 00:17:44,160
getting out there

503
00:17:48,789 --> 00:17:47,039
and so our attitude is is to bring it i

504
00:17:50,710 --> 00:17:48,799
mean we're ramping it up this year we're

505
00:17:54,070 --> 00:17:50,720
moving towards tv

506
00:17:55,909 --> 00:17:54,080
uh you know we've got uh the kjtv.com

507
00:17:57,990 --> 00:17:55,919
staged and ready to go we're working on

508
00:18:00,789 --> 00:17:58,000
video and getting producers and

509
00:18:03,029 --> 00:18:00,799
equipment and and um we want to start

510
00:18:06,549 --> 00:18:03,039
taking people live in the field

511
00:18:09,830 --> 00:18:06,559
all over the world egypt peru bolivia

512
00:18:11,830 --> 00:18:09,840
turkey um wherever

513
00:18:13,029 --> 00:18:11,840
the news is breaking and wherever the

514
00:18:14,710 --> 00:18:13,039
news is happening

515
00:18:16,549 --> 00:18:14,720
is where we want to send our people and

516
00:18:18,789 --> 00:18:16,559
where we want to send you

517
00:18:19,669 --> 00:18:18,799
so that's what we're trying to do this

518
00:18:23,430 --> 00:18:19,679
year

519
00:18:25,830 --> 00:18:23,440
um as well as stay ahead of the game

520
00:18:27,830 --> 00:18:25,840
because you can't sort of sit back and

521
00:18:29,830 --> 00:18:27,840
reward yourself with you know

522
00:18:31,270 --> 00:18:29,840
this is great we've done great yada yada

523
00:18:32,470 --> 00:18:31,280
yada you know

524
00:18:34,310 --> 00:18:32,480
the way i look at it we haven't done

525
00:18:36,070 --> 00:18:34,320
[\h__\h] yet we've got a long way to go

526
00:18:38,630 --> 00:18:36,080
we've got a lot of work to do

527
00:18:39,590 --> 00:18:38,640
it's time to bear down and get after it

528
00:18:43,190 --> 00:18:39,600
um

529
00:18:45,510 --> 00:18:43,200
it's uh it's a lot of work because

530
00:18:46,789 --> 00:18:45,520
there's not a lot of big ufo events to

531
00:18:50,390 --> 00:18:46,799
work on

532
00:18:53,270 --> 00:18:50,400
so you know we really focus on

533
00:18:55,350 --> 00:18:53,280
conspiracies we focus on everything and

534
00:18:57,830 --> 00:18:55,360
all the mysteries of the world

535
00:19:00,150 --> 00:18:57,840
are not off the table any mystery is not

536
00:19:02,310 --> 00:19:00,160
off the table with us

537
00:19:04,230 --> 00:19:02,320
i'm bringing in several new shows from

538
00:19:05,510 --> 00:19:04,240
around the world

539
00:19:08,870 --> 00:19:05,520
we're looking forward to working with

540
00:19:10,870 --> 00:19:08,880
the star the star child skull project

541
00:19:12,630 --> 00:19:10,880
as well as bringing in some

542
00:19:15,990 --> 00:19:12,640
correspondence from

543
00:19:17,830 --> 00:19:16,000
australia some correspondents from japan

544
00:19:19,350 --> 00:19:17,840
and uh and we're looking at one from

545
00:19:21,190 --> 00:19:19,360
germany as well

546
00:19:23,350 --> 00:19:21,200
because we want to bring people in real

547
00:19:25,669 --> 00:19:23,360
time here in the states

548
00:19:27,750 --> 00:19:25,679
the information that may or may have not

549
00:19:28,549 --> 00:19:27,760
made it to the united states from around

550
00:19:30,150 --> 00:19:28,559
the world

551
00:19:31,830 --> 00:19:30,160
there are a lot of great cases from

552
00:19:32,630 --> 00:19:31,840
australia and a lot of them we've heard

553
00:19:34,390 --> 00:19:32,640
from

554
00:19:36,630 --> 00:19:34,400
but really there's a lot of them that we

555
00:19:39,830 --> 00:19:36,640
haven't heard the details about

556
00:19:40,789 --> 00:19:39,840
and or from the witnesses about these

557
00:19:43,510 --> 00:19:40,799
cases

558
00:19:44,310 --> 00:19:43,520
some really bizarre stuff you know like

559
00:19:47,270 --> 00:19:44,320
i've never

560
00:19:48,470 --> 00:19:47,280
investigated a case where someone's

561
00:19:50,230 --> 00:19:48,480
driving down the road

562
00:19:51,510 --> 00:19:50,240
and they see an object in the field to

563
00:19:53,270 --> 00:19:51,520
the left to the right

564
00:19:55,110 --> 00:19:53,280
and your headlights the closer you get

565
00:19:56,950 --> 00:19:55,120
to it your headlights start bending

566
00:19:59,110 --> 00:19:56,960
towards the object

567
00:20:00,950 --> 00:19:59,120
and you literally drive off into a ditch

568
00:20:02,390 --> 00:20:00,960
because your equilibrium is going off

569
00:20:03,909 --> 00:20:02,400
you think you have to counter those

570
00:20:04,710 --> 00:20:03,919
lights going that way and you're turning

571
00:20:06,310 --> 00:20:04,720
the car

572
00:20:08,470 --> 00:20:06,320
and you're actually staying dead

573
00:20:09,750 --> 00:20:08,480
straight it's your light that's moving

574
00:20:11,750 --> 00:20:09,760
and you don't realize what happened to

575
00:20:12,950 --> 00:20:11,760
you hit the ditch and then this object

576
00:20:15,190 --> 00:20:12,960
lifts off

577
00:20:16,149 --> 00:20:15,200
and it's like you know holy cow that

578
00:20:17,830 --> 00:20:16,159
just happened

579
00:20:20,870 --> 00:20:17,840
i've never heard of anything like that

580
00:20:22,870 --> 00:20:20,880
ever happening here in the united states

581
00:20:23,909 --> 00:20:22,880
i think that there are so many stories

582
00:20:25,909 --> 00:20:23,919
around the world

583
00:20:27,590 --> 00:20:25,919
that have slipped through the cracks

584
00:20:28,549 --> 00:20:27,600
that we have a department now that's

585
00:20:30,070 --> 00:20:28,559
looking for people

586
00:20:31,909 --> 00:20:30,080
correspondents and boots on the ground

587
00:20:34,310 --> 00:20:31,919
willing to come to report once a week

588
00:20:36,230 --> 00:20:34,320
once a month whenever they can to our

589
00:20:39,029 --> 00:20:36,240
listeners on the kgra

590
00:20:41,110 --> 00:20:39,039
um you know to bring news in real time

591
00:20:42,950 --> 00:20:41,120
as well as cold cases from around the

592
00:20:44,950 --> 00:20:42,960
world that are very interesting

593
00:20:47,029 --> 00:20:44,960
and very compelling and also for

594
00:20:48,630 --> 00:20:47,039
researchers who are doing the work

595
00:20:50,070 --> 00:20:48,640
to you know maybe spark something in

596
00:20:52,549 --> 00:20:50,080
them hey i worked on a case

597
00:20:53,430 --> 00:20:52,559
you know that had that same phenomena

598
00:20:55,110 --> 00:20:53,440
and they can

599
00:20:57,190 --> 00:20:55,120
link up with this guy that's doing the

600
00:21:00,870 --> 00:20:57,200
story and get more information

601
00:21:03,590 --> 00:21:00,880
in real time we really want to go

602
00:21:05,830 --> 00:21:03,600
completely international this year with

603
00:21:08,070 --> 00:21:05,840
correspondents from around the world

604
00:21:09,750 --> 00:21:08,080
live on the station so you'll be able to

605
00:21:13,029 --> 00:21:09,760
see that coming this year

606
00:21:15,110 --> 00:21:13,039
as well as uh more television and video

607
00:21:16,230 --> 00:21:15,120
we're going to take it to the to the to

608
00:21:18,549 --> 00:21:16,240
the world uh

609
00:21:19,430 --> 00:21:18,559
in a way that we've never done before

610
00:21:21,190 --> 00:21:19,440
and um

611
00:21:22,789 --> 00:21:21,200
so i think streaming video is going to

612
00:21:23,270 --> 00:21:22,799
be a real big part of what we do this

613
00:21:25,190 --> 00:21:23,280
year

614
00:21:27,909 --> 00:21:25,200
as well that's one of the most exciting

615
00:21:31,510 --> 00:21:29,990
so i'm really looking forward to that as

616
00:21:33,669 --> 00:21:31,520
well as the new faces and the new

617
00:21:36,710 --> 00:21:33,679
personalities that are going to come

618
00:21:38,070 --> 00:21:36,720
to the kgra to you know to talk to our

619
00:21:38,950 --> 00:21:38,080
listeners and to the people all over the

620
00:21:41,830 --> 00:21:38,960
world

621
00:21:44,470 --> 00:21:41,840
it's a wonderful time to be in my chair