Topic: Michigan

The host recaps a previous interview with Andrew Johnson regarding 9/11 and cold fusion, which received high ratings from the subscriber community. Upcoming "Higher Side Meetups" are announced for locations including Michigan City, Indiana; Brentwood, California; and Sao Paolo, Brazil. The episode concludes with a musical segment and a final warning about the persistence of digital predators.

The show concludes with a review of the Higher Side Meetups calendar, featuring events in Arizona, New Hampshire, North Carolina, New Zealand, and Indiana. Carlwood also mentions virtual meetups for Qortal, a privacy-focused crypto project. He ends the year with a message of optimism, encouraging listeners to maintain positive energy despite potential "psy-ops" or attacks from the controller class during the holiday season.

The episode wraps up with a review of recent guest performances and a look at the success of anonymous writers on Substack. The host promotes upcoming listener meetups in Kansas City, New Hampshire, and Michigan via highersidemeetups.com, emphasizing the importance of building local networks to combat isolation. The show concludes with a final thank you to Plus members and a musical outro.

The host reviews the 4.6 rating given by Plus members to the Shannon Taggart interview on spiritualism. A list of upcoming "Higherside Meetups" is announced for June and July 2024, including events in Casa Grande, Pasadena, Kansas City, and New Hampshire. Listeners are encouraged to visit highersidemeetups.com to coordinate local gatherings and expand their networks.

The host announces several upcoming community meetups in Michigan, California, Minnesota, North Carolina, and Florida. One notable event in Palm Bay, Florida, includes a live demonstration on maintaining small gas-powered equipment to foster self-reliance. Listeners are encouraged to use the meetup calendar to network and build local support systems in case of future societal disruptions.

In a final defense of his editorial choices, the host emphasizes that his show is built on exploring controversial ideas without necessarily endorsing them. He advocates for individualistic spirituality and the "Golden Rule" over organized religious orthodoxy, which he blames for global conflict. The segment concludes with announcements for upcoming listener meetups in Oregon, Virginia, and Michigan, encouraging community building among the "Higher Side" audience.

The host reads the upcoming THC meetup schedule for October 2023, including events in Colorado, New York, Michigan, and Indiana. He notes that several meetups coincide with a solar eclipse and expresses a hope that the episode's release during the celestial event provides "extra oomph" for the show's reach. The episode closes with a listener-submitted song and a final sign-off challenging "counterculture co-opters."

Nick Pino details his transition from a citizen journalist investigating toxins like heavy metals in Flint, Michigan, to a specialist in electromagnetic fields (EMFs). He cites early influences such as Mercola.com and Stephanie Seneff's work on glyphosate. Pino notes his current collaboration with scientists and lawyers, including Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who are pursuing lawsuits against the telecom industry regarding brain tumors allegedly caused by cell phone use.

The visibility of the Chicago skyline from across Lake Michigan at a distance of 40 miles is used as evidence against the globe model. According to standard curvature calculations, the city should be significantly below the horizon. The authors also touch upon the simultaneous invention of the microscope and telescope, suggesting these tools introduced optical distortions that shaped modern scientific perception.

The rise of Rockefeller-funded medicine led to a systematic scrubbing of homeopathic history from medical school curricula and hospital origins. Institutions like Johns Hopkins have historically framed homeopathy as a heresy or sect to maintain the dominance of the pharmaceutical industry. This "hijacking" of history limits modern healthcare choices by obscuring the past success of alternative modalities.

The discussion turns to a specific guest named Brian who claimed to have grown up near an area in Michigan called Witch's Hollow where reptilians lived underground. Brian's brother reportedly discovered a hole in the ground containing a dismembered head and later encountered a reptilian guarding the entrance. Brian originally contacted Merkel regarding his work deprogramming victims of Satanic Ritual Abuse (SRA).

Tony Merkel reflects on the possibility that the Michigan reptilian encounters involved portals to other worlds rather than just physical caves. He questions the motives of these entities, noting that while Brian's brother perceived the reptilians as "good" for killing a witch, they could be practicing deception. The segment explores the idea that non-human entities may have complex agendas similar to human lying.

Dr. Usher recounts his introduction to Steiner's work while studying at the University of Michigan under physicist Ernst Katz. After discussing Soviet parapsychology research and telepathic spies, Katz directed Usher toward Steiner's teachings on morality and consciousness. Usher subsequently discovered Steiner's detailed explanations of chakras as higher sense organs used to perceive spiritual and soul phenomena.

Analysis of vote counting in Michigan, Wisconsin, and Pennsylvania highlights vertical jumps in vote totals for Joe Biden that professional statisticians deem impossible. The hosts dispute the narrative that mail-in ballots were exclusively for Biden, noting that many Trump supporters also used mail-in options due to COVID-19 concerns. This segment focuses on the lack of random sampling in the discovered tranches of votes.

Host Greg Carlwood introduces the Higher Side Chats, a podcast exploring esoteric layouts, energy vortexes, and ancient megaliths. Guest Chad Stemke, author of Stargate Detroit and Mystic Michigan, joins the program to discuss his years of investigating urban portals and sacred landscapes. Stemke’s research focuses on how modern cities are built atop ancient Native American sites and the symbolism hidden within these urban environments.

The Great Lakes region contains several "vortex" areas, including the Lake Michigan Triangle and the Marysburg Vortex, where ship and plane disappearances exceed those of the Bermuda Triangle. Stemke highlights documented magnetic anomalies on navigational charts and the discovery of underwater stone circles. These sites are often associated with UFO sightings, cryptozoological encounters, and equipment failures.

In 1978, college student Stephen Kubacki disappeared while skiing near Lake Michigan, leaving only footprints that ended abruptly on the ice. He reappeared 14 months later in Pittsfield, Massachusetts, wearing new clothes and having no memory of the intervening time. Kubacki later became a psychiatrist and authored a complex book, "God, Man, and Existence," filled with mathematical equations.

Chad Stemke introduces "Project Great Lakes," an initiative to catalog and connect hundreds of stories regarding anomalies in the region. He suggests that ancient structures like the underwater henge in Lake Michigan may have served as solar clocks to predict the opening of magnetic portals. Stemke invites other researchers to collaborate and visit his website to explore his findings on Michigan's esoteric history.

To make alchemy accessible, Emmons developed DIY collection kits and video tutorials. She details a specific method of burying Ormus in the ground for a lunar month to energize it, sharing an anecdote from a contact in Michigan who claimed that burying metal tools in the earth helps them maintain their sharpness longer.

Anna Clark provides historical context for Flint, Michigan, describing it as the birthplace of General Motors. While the city has lost half its population and many auto jobs, Clark highlights its remaining cultural assets, including the University of Michigan-Flint and the state's largest planetarium. The discussion establishes Flint as a city defined by both its industrial past and its current community of 100,000 residents.