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All right, we are live. Well I've recorded, So Christy Newton,
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who are you and what do you do?
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I am a writer and podcaster and TV host, But
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for first and foremost, I started as a podcaster. I
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moved into a writer. I write for The Debrief, which
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is a science and technology news outlet that's really read
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around the world, but mainly in North America and in Europe.
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I host a show on Discovery Channel called Alien Encounters
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Factor Fiction, and I've been podcasting for about four years
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with my podcast for Belliesly Curious with Christy Newton that
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focuses on futurism, science and UFOs.
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Thank you.
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It's true though, I am like superally like everyone, superly
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is not even a word. I am very excited when
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it comes to about science and technology. So you know,
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I'm an average person, I would say average jing just
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looking for answers and just curious and want to learn
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more and always want to grow and learn. So that's
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what that podcast is really about, interviewing experts, and I mean,
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you know, really selfishly sometimes just asking questions I want
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to know that my listeners or viewers want to know,
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and and just in finding out and discovering with everybody.
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Absolutely it's and I've listened to a few episodes as
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oh and listened and I thought it was great, So
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thank you. I think what's awesome about it is that
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it gives you a perspective, well for Americans, because we're
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ridiculous a lot of times, but anyway, when it comes
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down to that, we aren't real good at looking outward
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at the rest of the world. And I feel like
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just even as a gateway, the the even just the
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Instagram kind of opens people's eyes to like facts like
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and I reposted it today, I think, but it was
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that do you even realize China has a space station
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and the national security implications with that and just every
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and we just don't know.
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Well, we kick them out of our space station, right,
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I would say us as a Canadian but North American base,
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you do contribute a lot with our space program and
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robotics to t NASA and to many different other space programs.
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But yeah, we kicked them out because of national security
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issues we thought we had. So they went and built
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their own Apple looking store space station. And it's beautiful,
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like it really is. It's gorgeous inside like it it
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looks so high tech. It looks like you've walked into
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an Apple store. So they're out there competing along with
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India and in Russia and all the larger countries in
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our foreign adversaries are competing in a space race right now.
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That isn't always spoken about.
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Maybe within our communities, but I think in the larger
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scheme of things, I think we forget that it is
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a space race because it's been so commercialized.
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Absolutely for sure. Yeah, there's a few space stations out there.
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I just think people understand.
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That, and there's so many different space programs. Kenya has
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a space program. You know, a lot of people didn't
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know that.
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But to be honest, I don't blame people for not knowing.
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Like this is.
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My job is to find out those things in to
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write about it, and I'm looking at stuff every day,
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so that's why. But if I wasn't, i'd probably be
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along with everybody else finding out those little infan nuggets.
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That's why sometimes I put it on Twitter because I
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even find it so interesting. Like for example, the day
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before they go China, the Chinese government, but before they
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even announce, well they'll say there is a space mission,
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but they won't announce the astronauts until a day before
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they go, which I think is like really interesting, really interesting,
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and that's tradition. And I haven't dug in why that's tradition,
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and maybe I should for another piece, but I think
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it's just it's so interesting. I love watching what China does.
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It's fascinating to me.
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Yeah, I do it quite often. I have another podcast
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that's a national security podcast, so I get absorb a
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bunch of that. So, but what that being said, what
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so I always ask every every guest I've ever had,
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is what is your gateway to this world? Like you know,
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whether it's crypton encounters, uphone encounters, you know, anything.
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It's my gateway gateway to it?
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Or yeah, like meaning like you're like, how you really
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got into the the high you know this genre? That's
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what I'll call it.
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No fair enough. I think I'm just always been curious.
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But when I was a little girl, my dad showed
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me a picture of a UFO that he took with
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a group of people when he had a group sighting.
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And I remember looking at that.
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Photo and being so curious and it like lit up
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everything inside of me and wanting to know what it
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was and trying to understand it and like and like,
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how could this be?
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And what does that mean?
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And like and even at just such a young age,
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so curious, and my dad said, Chrissy, like, you won't
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understand until you get older, and I remember thinking, like,
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but I want to know now, like I don't understand
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what this means.
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And the photo was very artistic the way that it looked.
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And I need to get it's a it was a negative,
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and so I have to be able to I have
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we have that negative and my dad's safe and I'm
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going to blow it up at one day when he
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gives it to me, and yeah, and I'll make it
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into an art piece.
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And we've been chatting about that.
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Now.
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I have some other things that he's given.
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Me that he's collected over the years related to U
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stuff and or artifacts or things like that, and so
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i've yeah, or just like government paperwork that we weren't
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sure if it was, if it was real or not,
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like all of those things. So my dad really was
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my gateway to it and his curiosity and fascination and
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just you know, my parents are just really normal Canadians
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that are very curious, left to travel, love history, love science.
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My mom was interested in neurology, you know, and she
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was a social worker. It kind of makes sense at times,
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and she wanted to learn how her brain operated and
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why it did. And I remember her telling me things
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when I was a kid, and then us traveling together
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as a family. So really just super curious family that
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loves to learn and really.
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Likes to talk.
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And debate and are very opinionated in many ways. So good,
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I'm bad, right, you know, And that's who we are,
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and we do love to tell stories, like my mom
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and all of us are really great storytellers, and my
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dad is specifically, So that's where it.
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All came from.
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And never thought I would be here now, But you know,
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I really do think things happen for a reason, and
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my passion as a child for many different things are
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happening now in my forties more than they would have
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happened in my twenties because I think I'm maybe ready
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for these conversations and have a little bit more insight
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on life than I obviously did in my twenties.
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Right, So, have you had any encounters yourself.
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I've had experience.
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Yeah, I've had experiences with high strangeness with my dad
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in our house and with somebody else as well too,
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but you know, and something I still can't explain. But
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it wasn't UAP related. I'd probably say it was more
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ghost phenomena, and I'd have been asking people in that
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community a little bit like what is this, so you know,
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and then I think I've had something else with my
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ex boyfriend. But I believe that was probably more atmospheric
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than anything else. And it was super cool but seeing
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it in the sky, so yeah, it technically was a UFO,
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but how do we define UFO. I don't know if
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it was off planet or what it was, right, and
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that is the challenge. But it was unidentified, but I
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think it was atmospheric. The way that it was it
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was flying in it had like I didn't even have
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a smoke trail, but it had like a burning or
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but the.
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Back of it.
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But oh sorry, I did have a smoke trum my fault.
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But it was very very tiny, wasn't long, and it
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was moving ever so slowly, but it had like a
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little look like a little fireball at the end of it.
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And so for me when I kept looking at it
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and I was pointing it to now an X, but
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I was pointing to my boyfriend at the time, and I.
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Was like, what is that?
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And we were staring at it and go figure, you
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don't have your phone to be able to record it.
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Of course, right, it's a backyard UFO. And you're more like,
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you know, in that whole moment when you see something
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you're so puzzled and your brain is trying to figure
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out what it is, and then you end up in
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those moments trying to put what is reality together, you
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end up missing those moments to film it, for sure.
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Agreed, Now what besides that, how did how did your
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like professional career, where did it start? And like how
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did you how did you get where you're at? Yeah?
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For sure, so really it started. I've worked in public
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relations before journalism, in podcasting, in hosting. For about gosh
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seventeen years. I ran a PR agency that worked in entertainment, lifestyle, business, philanthropy.
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The only thing I haven't done is government relations. Funny enough,
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maybe one day still, who knows, Cray, You never know.
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I do find it interesting, and so there's been many
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different areas And when twenty seventeen hit with Louella Zondo,
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people were, you know, talking about it, and people within
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the UFO space in Canada and Toronto, where like Chrissy,
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you can help, like you can do something, you know,
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because you're a pr person. And I was just like
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before that, Previously I was asked and I said, I can,
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I will get blacklisted from media. I said, I can't.
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I have people that work for me. Have I got
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to survive that to pay my own mortgage, and so
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I couldn't. But when twenty seventeen hit, I was like,
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you know what, it's shifted. It's in the mainstream narrative.
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I can contribute meaningfully now without feeling a form of
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ridicule that it would not be able to work and
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keep my livelihood. So I started doing that. I started
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contributing and then learning more, meeting people, and then what
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ended up happening is the debrief opened up, and I
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remember going, who the heck are these guys. I've never
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heard of this outloud before, and so I asked friends
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that knew of them and knew them to McMillan, jb Andias,
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Christopher Plane and Micah Hanks, and we're like, yeah, we'll
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connect you. And started talking to them and started podcasting
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with them and working on the YouTube side of stuff.
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And then you know, they asked me later on would've
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become a partner, and I said, yeah, for sure, but
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trying to contribute in many ways from I've been very
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fortunate to work with Shakavala on two of his books,
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doing pr still currently and also just being able to
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write and do things I really love and expressing that
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side of me that I've always probably have wanted up
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probably but always wanted to do. And so really podcasting
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is what brought me into it, but public relations was
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my initial for SLEEP and they're all interconnected in so
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many ways.
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Of course, absolutely what are your what are so? Because
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there is a I mean there's a border obviously Canada
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and the US, but we don't I don't think we
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down here again looking outward, don't talk much about the
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fact that programs that we have a lot of times
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you guys up there have like a you know, a
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cousin sister brother program, right, so like uh, like Project
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Magnet things like that.
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Project Magnet was based more on magnetism and looking at
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UFOs from a magnetism science.
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Perspective and more of a science perspective.
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And then we had Project second story that was more
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from a national defense, but we do. We do mirror
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a lot of those programs. It's probably smart that I
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shouldn't say probably, it is smart that we do that
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because we are sister and countries compared to what people
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might want to debate.
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Now that might.
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Change again in four years, let's see. But you know,
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we are and we do share a lot of information
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with each other. We have defended each other and have
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collaborated with each other within our science and defense communities
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for years. Fun fact, I never knew this and I
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would have to double check it. But my best friend