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Speaker: Hello, and welcome back to UFO Focus. I'm your host, Isaiah. And folks, I know it's been a little while since the last episode, and but, well, I gotta tell you, it has been stressful little period here, especially the last week.
Speaker: I don't want to get into too much of the gory details, but for a reason I'll explain in a second. First, I should just say, welcome back. Thank you so much. I'm so glad you're listening. And welcome to a bunch of new listeners, which is awesome.
Speaker: um For those of you... What was I going to say who don't know? um
Speaker: I suspect at least a few of those listeners ah probably tuned in after hearing me on That UFO Podcast, which happens to be And I say this with consideration and with much respect to a bunch of other podcasts but my single one favorite UFO podcast really kind of inspired me to try and do throw my hat in the ring see what I could contribute ah that's That UFO Podcast with ah with Andy McGrellan who's just the nicest guy in the world and so dedicated to this topic and to exploring and trying to
Speaker: get to the bottom of things and seeking truth. Just a great guy. So anyway, Andy does a listener call in and I called in and we talked and i really enjoy the conversation.
Speaker: hope Andy did too. And you can listen to that. I'll put a link in the show notes, of course. Now, by the way, we've got a blinker situation here.
Speaker: A light just blinked at me twice. Now, Here is the complication. There are freaking wicked lightning bugs out right now up here this time of year.
Speaker: And if you think you're so smart, oh, um I would immediately know a lightning bug from like a UFO. Yeah, you know what? They're all over the place. Some of them, my dad is an entomologist and he told me this means something, but I forget what.
Speaker: Some fly low to the ground. Others fly high up at like above the treetops. I'm looking at one right now doing that. So, you know, against the dark sky, it's blinking. i mean, what, you know, it takes a minute sometimes.
Speaker: I don't mind. Oops. Now, wait a minute. I'll just tell you, I am reporting live from a field in New Hampshire in this beautiful, clear night. And so it's always possible. I'm stargazing.
Speaker: It's always possible. I'll see a UFO. Oh, and quite frankly, i don't want to... Yes, I'm following objects in the sky and looking to see if they happen to make like crazy 90-degree turns.
Speaker: But to be honest, i at least right now, very happy that they don't. I don't need to see no UFO right now.
Speaker: I don't need to see something seemingly defying the laws of physics Freaking me out. Challenging my conception of reality. Not this week.
Speaker: And I'll tell you why. so ah So I live in Boston, Massachusetts with my wife and our three-month-old daughter. And our landlord, we've been there five years.
Speaker: Our landlord is suddenly trying to kick us out. Like, pronto. And we've tried to kind of negotiate. The guy lives upstairs. The guy lives there. He's met our baby.
Speaker: Okay? and he's now And he's recruited. i shouldn't be laughing, but it's kind of funny. He's recruited his nephew. as like the the like in four He's an older older guy.
Speaker: And he's recruited his nephew, this guy, Lewis. And Lewis let me just say, to to call Lewis ah a Cro-Magnon is an insult to the Cro-Magnon, if you know what I'm saying.
Speaker: ah And both of these guys
Speaker: are total idiots. I mean, these guys are dumb. Dumb. Like, they told us, they told us this week that the birth of our daughter violated the lease.
Speaker: Well, guess what? In the state of Massachusetts, that shit is illegal. Totally illegal. you can't This is unambiguous. You can't do that.
Speaker: um But these idiots didn't check.
Speaker: Then, I'll tell you one more that they did. I'll tell you one more. They said that they were going to offer us a new lease starting in like a week. And they said um it was going to include a rent increase of, drumroll now,
Speaker: $8,500 second drum roll per month. That's right. $8,500 extra monthly. um Completely ridiculous, but also stupid.
Speaker: I feel confident, supremely confident in our overall legal case, but boy, the stress this has put on me and my family, my wife,
Speaker: And, you know, ah enough about that, but I will, I just want to say for anybody out there who is experiencing or has experienced, you know housing insecurity, and that is so many Americans, right? That's so many of us actually least experience housing insecurity so easily, you know?
Speaker: um Anyway, I just want to say, boy, I feel for you. uh, I just hope you and i and all of us can do our best to use the resources available to us.
Speaker: And often there are resources and that might include your community, your family, your friends who might even just have advice, you know, um, Yeah, hopefully we can all just ah do our best to protect our families and stand up for ourselves.
Speaker: It's insane to me that we live in the richest country in the world and huge percent of us live with no real security in our housing.
Speaker: Unacceptable. So anyway... um That's been going on. It's super stressful, but guess what? We're going to be okay. And we're really lucky in that regard.
Speaker: So again, my my heart goes out to just anybody who whose housing is threatened. It's just wrong. um
Speaker: It's wrong that... Oh, you know what? Let me say one more thing about this. Let me just go on a little rant. Because I said I live in Massachusetts. And when you say you live in Massachusetts, people inevitably... Or at least, I don't know, maybe Massachusetts people, i don't know, go like, oh Massachusetts has really, really good land. Like, the law is really in favor of the tenants in Massachusetts.
Speaker: Look... As I will explain it in a second, Massachusetts does have better than average ah tenant protections. But the idea is that like even in you know liberal Massachusetts, like, oh, the landlord can hardly do anything.
Speaker: No, the landlord can raise your rent by $10 million every year. every year If he wants to. There's no restriction on that. he just One year, he has to you you get to pay whatever you had to pay when you signed the lease.
Speaker: Or whatever. you know That's it. Landlords have... ah you know The situation is not that tenants are just sitting around you know telling the landlords, let them eat.
Speaker: cake or whatever. Anyway.
Speaker: Anyway, there is ah so much UFO stuff to talk about. I'm really eager. ah i know I said last time that the next thing was going to be a deep dive into the Nimitz.
Speaker: We are going to do that. But i I really want to dig into this Wall Street Journal stuff. I don't know if you've heard this already, but the Wall Street Journal has put out, i think, still just one of ah an apparent series of articles sort of kind of trying to debunk the whole UFO thing. It's fascinating. I've got a lot to say about it.
Speaker: If you want the short, the very short answer is total bullshit. um But very interesting bullshit. So um I want to get to that next. But as I'm sure you all can understand, right now my priority is just making sure that my family is safe and not being harassed or intimidated or pushed out of anywhere faster than then is our right. And that's all going to be taken care of.
Speaker: Things are going to be okay. Luckily, the law is on my side. and I may have a couple aces But, yeah.
Speaker: but yeah It's going be okay, but thanks for your patience, and I'll talk to you soon. And take care of each other out there.
Speaker: When the shit goes down, you better be ready. shit goes down, you better be ready. When the shit goes down, everybody be ready.
Speaker: be ready on board.
