58:12 People who are way smarter than downer to kind of gave him his ideas and used him as a public face for interesting ideas that they wanted to see but not take on themselves is evidence of this is that, never wrote a book alone and isaac. Nathan isaac he hired a private investigator to go and try to find out more about downer than apparently the private investigators conclusion is that this is consistent with. a person who is kind of a cutout of sorts. And that is such a weird claim, I know nothing about it except that I read it on his website recently and I can't seem to get in touch with him to ask him more about it but what do you think about that? Obviously Ilana Freeland wrote the biography of Downard and Downards work seems to be kinda shepherded along by other people... You never met them though did ya?
59:10 I believe he died in March of 1998, and that was several years before I really had any interest in a awakening if you like to say it that way of any of this stuff. I never did meet him however I have interacted with Michael Hoffman going on 25 years. It's got to be...I've been aware of his work for that long early on I would have been just amongst a lot of people trying to reach out to him via email but I've asked him this question directly. I've asked Jim Brandon this question directly, the answer that they give me is that Donner was a real guy. I mean first of all... You've asked this question? I find it odd you would even ask- Why were you curious about why would you think such a thing? Right because Hoffman on his website
1:00:00 many years back, and he's had several websites. The first one was you know Hoffman-info.com and then it became Revisionist History so I don't know what permutation of the website or if it's still available but I remember him addressing this somewhere on the website so for the first time It was not like I had thought oh Downard can't be real. It was rather that I saw that question tackled on his website somewhere And he responded by saying He Was Real And the answer I've gotten from both the two, and by the way it's not that Downard never wrote a book on his own. It's rather that he never published it on his own but who has published a book on their own? If you've published a book maybe now through Amazon you could just write it and put it up there yourself but if you got a publisher your not publishing the book on your own nobody publishes a book on their own they all have to be edited
1:00:50 And in some cases, the editing is quite substantial. And in some cases I think with respect to Downard it's probably the case that the editing that was done was for the most part for readability and for style, and possibly to restructure some of the points that were delivered in ways that might have presented them. Like today, I mean if we were to go back over what we talked about, and I were to say let's publish this just as it is probably would make sense to bring together various strands like if I say oh I forgot about this and add on something about Epstein or whatever It would probably make sense to group all the stuff together And so I think some of
1:01:29 that was done has that as a very plausible reason. But again, yeah I never did meet Downer but I take it that of the group of people who were closely associated with him at least two of them that i've had and by the way Jim Brandon I have literally checked this in my email He and I go all the way back to 2012. So, I've literally interacted with him going on 13 years. I've interacted with Hoffman for over 20. being straight with me. It's a shame that Downard's files were essentially, I think they were left to his niece and i believe that the files ended up being not preserved because the niece didn't have... Here we go! Yeah isn't it a shame? It's a real shame and the thing is Jim almost
1:02:26 took them but he didn't have at the time a means of retrieving them because Shelby Downer traveled in an air stream, had all this stuff mobile and essentially it was just like hey do you have a place for this air stream? And at the time wherever in the world wherever in the country he was Jim did not have the resources to get it to keep it to store it. To go through it and its real shame But also Richard Spence, I think we may have even talked about him. He was a professor and even though or still is a professor he wrote an investigative look into Downard's life himself if you look up Richard Spence and Spence he concluded that while he couldn't
1:03:06 And he went back into genealogical records and all that stuff. His opinion, and I think an academic is probably better suited to this task than a private investigator because a private investigator is going to specialize in what's happening... If Downard were alive somewhere today you might hire a private investigator to find him but if you wanna know whether somebody in the past existed you wanna hire a genealogist, you wanna hire a historian. That's what Spence is and Spence concluded that he likely did exist Although he does say that some of the claims that Downard makes, like he's not saying yeah. Yeah, he existed and everything that he said has my seal of approval because he admitted in a rather funny part
1:03:48 first exploration, Spence that I read about Downard. He said his Carnivals of Life and Death, that's the title of the book that Downard wrote first he said was so absurd to him when he first read it then he just threw the book against a wall you know? He was reading it and was so upset by the claims but he kept picking it up and he said there is just something compelling about it and he had to look into Downard and I'm pretty sure about the name of the professor. I actually talked to the guy a few years back as well I can't remember why, but it had something to do with Downard and I asked him something. But my impression is that Spence concluded that he really did exist and I would simply put it to you that... And I don't doubt for one second that Isaac... Because let's face it if we're standing on the outside looking in
1:04:36 We have no, I always say this. If you were to see a UFO walking out of your house right now then you tell me about it. Right? I mean...I've developed a relationship with you to a certain extent these last few times. I trust that you weren't lying to me but at the same time i might go yeah but maybe the light was bad maybe he got hit on the head maybe he was under the influence right So I wouldn't necessarily just accept the claim, even though I would accept at face value your honesty. But for claims that are in the past, we are certainly on the outside looking in. So I don't begrudge the antecedent skepticism one bit and if he hired a private investigator and the investigator said...I would simply in response to that say maybe a private investigator isn't the person you'd really want to look into it and if you want a fuller picture look at the work of somebody like Spence talk to somebody like Downard
1:05:33 I'm sorry talk to somebody like Hoffman, you know who's open and if it you know Like just ask him. I mean, I think hoffmann has been pretty available Now, of course you can say well he's lying but that to me carries no weight. I've known Hoffman for too long to say that he's just conducted a massive fraud on this point for decades. Right well you know conspiracy people gonna conspiracy and they're gonna wonder and i should maybe look into this more because Richard Spence... He co-wrote Empire the Wheel with my guy Walter Bosley so I have it in there but I'm glad I asked because I am just intrigued by the fact that other people have asked this question. It's just odd, but man what a whirlwind really had a good time talking to you so in terms of trying to find some place to land on this crazy ride remind people just about your ongoing work where they can clue into what you got going on and follow the sub stack i think which is the main thing you're doing now