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Walking Pod #1 — I didn't quit! Plus, UFO Blues :/
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Transcript
Podcasting in Winter
00:00:01
Speaker
Hello and welcome back to UFO Focus Podcast. I'm your host, Isaiah. And if the sound quality and ambience sound a little different than usual, that's because I'm recording this while I'm on a walk in the New England winter cold up a hill at the moment.
00:00:27
Speaker
which I realize is not the ideal time to record. But as you've probably noticed, I haven't posted in a while.
Delayed Episodes and Apologies
00:00:34
Speaker
And I really wanted to get something up to sort of address that and check in. And I keep avoiding it. And so I thought, you know, maybe I'll just do it while I'm on this walk. So please excuse the sniffling and panting and crunching and traffic and crunching underfoot, that is, of snow and traffic. And anyway, I'll try to keep it short, too. So first of all, thanks for tuning back in. It's great to have you. um I haven't quit the podcast.
Journalism Challenges in Nonprofit Sector
00:01:10
Speaker
I've just... I mean, honestly, the main thing is I've... my...
00:01:16
Speaker
work work involves journalism covering the nonprofit sector. And as you may have heard, the nonprofit sector is under attack under the Trump administration in many ways actually. But that's not what this podcast is about. But that is where the bulk of my energies have been going in recent weeks. And I don't see any let up anytime soon. So, you know, that's the
UFO Blues and Anxiety
00:01:50
Speaker
main thing. The other thing, more existentially, is I kind of got the UFO blues. And I want to talk about that more at length, because I think it's actually a good conversation to have.
00:02:04
Speaker
within the community of people who are interested in this topic. Let's put it that way. Because this is a difficult topic. it you know It's funny, a while back like there was ah an email that went out to various sort of extended family members of mine ah saying like, oh, Isaiah's got this podcast. And that was great. And one of the responses I saw was like,
00:02:32
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and And please, don't get me wrong, there is no offense taken here. But it was kind of like, yeah, like, it's good to have other things to sort of think about, you know, in these troubling times, really, you know, referring to the ascendancy of of Trump and my family.
00:02:54
Speaker
And again, I take no offense at this. um But like, it's it's just kind of funny to me because the implication is like, oh, UFOs must be a kind of fun you know, I don't know, in some way maybe relaxing distraction from how awful the world can seem right now.
Confusion Over UFO Events and Whistleblowers
00:03:19
Speaker
And I'm sure for many that is the case. God bless them. For me, it is not the case. I find UFOs increasingly, what's the word? um Well, the subject is is, makes me nervous, makes me anxious, makes me,
00:03:38
Speaker
uh concerned makes me distracted um you know the underlying possibility of non-human intelligence on earth that's uh i don't know to me that's not something to be sort of taken lightly but yeah so i sort of got the UFO blues for a while. where um Because here's how I would characterize, at least to my experience, um the last, let's say, month of UFO sort of stuff, news, incoming. I would characterize it as mind-bogglingly confusing. I mean, we had the New Jersey drones. What the hell was that all about?
00:04:30
Speaker
I still have no idea. And always by the way, all you people were like, Trump's going to reveal the truth on day one. What did he do? He came out, first of all, he did it on day one. Then he comes out with this statement that um it was all FAA authorized. They were doing research and other things. Thanks, Mr. President. So all you How are you fools who thought that the biggest liar known to humankind was going to just set ablaze the torch of truth? Well, tat-tat-tat, that's what you get. But anyway, Dan, gosh, what else? I mean, now there's a new alleged whistleblower, purported whistleblower. This guy, Jason, oh, come on.
00:05:24
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For some reason, Jason Barber, edit. The name, in fact, is Jacob Barber. For some reason, I just have a total mental block with this guy's name. I feel like David Grush. I knew it immediately, but this guy, anyway, it's neither here nor there. What to make of his account? I don't know. I don't know. I haven't researched it deeply enough.
00:05:51
Speaker
um Off the cuff, Micah Hanks, who was my guest on the first episode of this podcast, he has raised various red flags on his podcast, the Micah Hanks program. I think very highly of Micah and his thinking and his logic. So I defer to him, but that's what I would say is that's a red flag to me is that Micah sees red flags.
Defining 'Evidence' and 'Proof' in UFOs
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Which, by the way,
00:06:24
Speaker
What I really wanna talk about sometime soon is these words we use like evidence, proof, but we use evidence a lot. And I think evidence means a lot of different things that can mean different things or does mean different things to different people. So and's let's put a flag in that, shall we? But not a red flag, a good flag.
Amusing Wildlife Encounter
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Speaker
Anyway, I haven't given up on the, po oh, and As I'm recording this, I am coming upon the neighborhood wild turkeys who are behind this. i They just always make me happy to run into these turkeys. These guys are amazing. They don't really give a hoot about us humans walking by. But in the spring, the males puff themselves up into these brilliant displays. It's beautiful. and Anyway, let me just walk through these turkeys.
00:07:24
Speaker
Anyway, on a closing note, um so I have not given up the podcast yet.
Podcast Future and Listener Engagement
00:07:30
Speaker
How long will I keep it going? I don't know. I don't know. Maybe a really long time. Maybe I'll decide. I don't have, it's not the time right now, but you know, let's take it one podcast at a time, right? Thank you all for tuning in. And I look forward very much to
00:07:54
Speaker
just getting deep into it the next time we talk. Oh, and please share this podcast. Be great to grow the listenership and would also encourage me to post more frequently. And um please feel free to drop me a line via email at ufofocuspodcast at proton.me. And I think that's it. Bye.