58:17 And use it for our own benefit so that's great and in terms of the show you're doing an excellent job of bridging the gap between traditional radio, add a podcasting evolution i think much better than other shows that people be familiar with but. But this has been a lot of fun. You are a gentleman and a scholar, the master of your domain and a champion of the people. Thanks again and take care yourself out there! Thank you. You have a great time. And once again my love to all your listeners and all the listeners that I share with you. Thank you so much. Likewise. Take care man Alright, Hireside Chatters! The legendary Clyde Lewis doing what a Clyde Lewis does best. I got a lot of respect for him and his taxing schedule and his talent to be able to keep up with it all And as i sort of said in the beginning the real catalyst for getting him on was some of these space related stories and I wanted to hit them all in one show... ...and we did that even though it was pretty quick
59:15 But the Sunspot Observatory story is pretty weird. Shutting down the observatory, having an evacuation, closing the post office and then saying it was just because some janitor was looking at child porn? Eh... I don't know something very weird happened there I mean, as he said it was more than just sunspot. Several eyes on the sky went down at the same time but he mentioned a massive coronal hole in the Sun and we've had a lot of guests that feel like the Sun is maybe different from what we think it is Neil Kramer talked about his meditation and astral projection examinations of the Sun And he considers it to be some type of portal that beings come in and out of
1:00:00 Well, maybe it is and maybe it briefly opened and they tried to keep as many eyes off It as they could assuming some they knew about it in advance I'm open to that then we had the neutrinos being expelled from Antarctica story. Well clearly That's a detection of the inner Sun but not everyone's clued into the hollow earth truth You also heard that quick mention of Russian scientists observing colliding stars but actually wondering if it might be a spaceship armada headed our way. I mean that's pretty interesting of course there isn't much more to say than just that sentence, but its worth filing away in the fringe stuff bin because apparently they're asking that question pretty openly in Russian media
1:00:49 So overall, this was to me a great blend of wild provocative stories which I think we all like. It is why we're here but also the beginning of the show was important to me because i want to align with people in this community that avoid the party politics stay true to the alternative but have some intellectual honesty like have some level of reason to the stuff they're looking at It's a fine line. It might even sound like an oxymoron to some people, rational conspiracy researcher whatever! I might not be able to define the particular flavor that i like all i can do is present it to you and highlight it when it comes out in a way that i like no two people agree on everything but as conspiracy culture drifts to all these new places the earth is flat the president is our hero q and on sphere bean alliances
1:01:44 There's just a lot of very popular conspiratorial sagas that I'm not feeling. And I thought the start of this talk with Clyde was a good reaffirming of where in the soup, I want to be. Look we'll talk about anything here! The wildest of the wild sure let's do it but i think the last two years have really jumped the shark for conspiracy culture which is saying a lot But I do love that phrase and if you don't know it's a phrase that comes from an old Happy Days episode where the plot line is that Fonzie is going to jump over a shark on his motorcycle. Well, that's pretty ridiculous and outside of the box of what Happy Day was about... And just by having that one episode it sort of deflated what people enjoyed about this show
1:02:32 We all know that. I think we've seen ridiculous sequels to movies or remakes to movies that actually hurt the enjoyment of the original That's kind of how i have felt about what's been popular, I've looked in the mirror and I would put something like the QAnon stuff In our conspiratorial jump-the shark moment box And I will probably do a show at least one about anything that pops up in conspiracy culture That's what this is an aggregate but there are still things that resonate with me and things that don't Yes, I know conspiracy has always had a level of insanity to it. I love that! I'm here to preserve that We've always had whistleblowers and charlatans and all that stuff But i never saw them as the leaders of the community like they are now I feel like they've elbowed their way To the front Like let's take a classic conspiratorial example Of a pretty out there thing Like saying Hillary Clinton is a lizard person with Kuru On one level
1:03:32 It's probably not true, but I'm actually open to it because fuck her. I don't really mind going too far in our criticisms of career criminal politicians—I don't mind that at all! I mind the conspiracy community rallying around the president because that's a bait and switch like i've never seen and I think it's harmful. Sorry, I don't mean to talk Trump & Hillary still two years in like every other asshole out there And maybe I don't want to give specifics on every little thread, but broadly getting back to this show. I like how Clyde has conducted himself through some really rocky changes and i just wanted to give him the nod give him the high five and have him on to talk about not only navigating that terrain but also some of the wild stuff that has been out there lately that is really being drowned out by mainstream political conspiracy talk
1:04:29 I think that's the best way to put what i'm trying to say. To quote Clyde in this show, he says point blank it has always been The State vs You and BAM! Put that on a goddamn t-shirt because to me... That is fashionable in any season We are The Little Guy trying to figure out what dark shit they're up too What weapons are being used against us and how we can curtail the damage We're trying to look into those files they quarantine and that involves a lot of speculation but there is a purpose to it. So when you talk about that stuff I think conspiracy has a real core of usefulness, and yes, an element of conspiratainment...I'm okay with being both! But if you look at the craziest THC episodes they're usually followed up by something more practical or academic