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Speaker 2: Welcome back to the Daily Show. My guest to night
Speaker 2: is an actor who starts in a new.
Speaker 3: Broadway play Yellow Face. Please welcome my good friend Daniel
Speaker 3: day Care.
Speaker 2: Wow, what a warm house. Everybody loves you, man, you're
Speaker 2: the man. Well, everyone loves Ronnie. Who doesn't love Ronnie Chang?
Speaker 3: That's that's forcing it, that's forcing it. So yeah, you uh,
Speaker 3: one of those guys who's become so rich and famous
Speaker 3: to do Broadway now to get your kicks.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's it. I'm slumming it in theater because you came.
Speaker 2: You came from theater I did.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I started my training here in New York.
Speaker 2: Uh and uh.
Speaker 4: I went to drama school here at n y U
Speaker 4: and uh.
Speaker 2: That's where oh yeah n yu.
Speaker 4: Uh and so uh and so yeah, I did theater
Speaker 4: for a number of years before heading out to l A.
Speaker 3: Right. And so this was that your that's where you
Speaker 3: learn your craft. And you were running around town just
Speaker 3: being a theater kid in New York City.
Speaker 2: Yeah, whatever, little I know I learned here?
Speaker 3: Yeah, well I learned about little, but definitely I wish,
Speaker 3: you know, we all could learn as little as union
Speaker 3: fact and what does this play about.
Speaker 4: Uh so, it's a semi autobiographical play. I don't know
Speaker 4: if you know the playwright, David Henry Wall.
Speaker 2: Legend legendary what I want.
Speaker 4: Yeah, Uh, he wrote a play called m Butterfly that
Speaker 4: ended up winning a Tony and uh and uh. At
Speaker 4: the time, in the late eighties, there was a play
Speaker 4: called Miss Saigon that came to the US, and that
Speaker 4: play was famous because it was a white actor playing
Speaker 4: an Asian role with taped.
Speaker 2: Up eyelids and all that kind of stuff, as they should.
Speaker 2: That's right, that's right, and that's no, that kind it
Speaker 2: kind of is. So he ended up protesting that, David
Speaker 2: David Henry Wong.
Speaker 4: Yeah, so he ended up protesting that and then ended
Speaker 4: up this this play is about him writing a play
Speaker 4: where he actually, for his next play, it's a little
Speaker 4: bit meta, he ends up mistakenly hiring a white actor
Speaker 4: to play an Asian lead in his own play. And
Speaker 4: so that's what this show is about, right, I play
Speaker 4: David Henry Wong.
Speaker 2: Sure, and that actually is based only a true story, right.
Speaker 4: Yeah, So, so much of this play is actually based
Speaker 4: on true events, the Mess Saigon stuff, and uh, you know,
Speaker 4: he actually wrote a play called Phase of Value right
Speaker 4: after that, which was based on Miss Saigon, and that
Speaker 4: play the story of the casting of that play is
Speaker 4: in this play.
Speaker 2: Okay, so this is an inception.
Speaker 3: This play inception, and I guess you just get attracted
Speaker 3: to extremely convoluted plot lines.
Speaker 2: I lost, And that's right.
Speaker 3: And the idea, one of the main themes of the
Speaker 3: play is the idea of whether or not people of
Speaker 3: different races can play other races as actors. So the
Speaker 3: if we go to the source of the inception, the
Speaker 3: genesis of it was Jonathan Price playing Asian a half
Speaker 3: Asian man in Miss Saigon. That's right, and that's what
Speaker 3: caused the initial and David Henri Juan, being an Asian
Speaker 3: American activist, kind of spoke out about it. Yeah, and
Speaker 3: then he accidentally casted a white guy to play Yeah.
Speaker 3: Because but I guess what is your stance on that
Speaker 3: as a as a actor, a respected actor in the
Speaker 3: theater community.
Speaker 4: Well, I think it requires a lot of thought whatever
Speaker 4: whatever you decided to do. And I think part of
Speaker 4: the reason there was so much controversy around it then
Speaker 4: and now is because it was just assumed that people
Speaker 4: of color would not be able to play themselves, and
Speaker 4: that it was okay for people who were not African Americans, say,
Speaker 4: to be to put on blackface and then you know,
Speaker 4: pretend to be African American. And it's the same thing
Speaker 4: with Asian Americans. But you know, we're in a situation
Speaker 4: right now where there's so many great Asian American performers,
Speaker 4: you being among them, you know.
Speaker 2: Right, And so.
Speaker 4: There is absolutely no reason why Asian performers should not
Speaker 4: be playing Asian characters now, you know. I think the
Speaker 4: thing that gets a little bit more nuanced now is
Speaker 4: whether we should be nationality specific among Asian Americans. And
Speaker 4: that is an interesting question too, like should people of
Speaker 4: Japanese descent only be able to play people characters who
Speaker 4: are Japanese, or even more nuanced, should they be able
Speaker 4: to Japanese American characters who have no connection to being
Speaker 4: Japanese nationals. So these are really interesting questions and one's
Speaker 4: worth exploring.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and as as president of all actors, what is
Speaker 3: the answer?
Speaker 2: Can we played or not? Well?
Speaker 4: Honestly, like, I have an opinion about it, and it's
Speaker 4: kind of a hot take, but I.
Speaker 2: Think so, clicks, let's go, here's what I think no.
Speaker 2: I think I think that we shouldn't be limited.
Speaker 4: To playing people of our own nationality because you know,
Speaker 4: I always think about the eight year old who's watching TV.
Speaker 4: Can an eight year old or ten year old watching
Speaker 4: TV tell that I'm not Japanese or you're not Chinese
Speaker 4: or you know, if they cannot, And there are a
Speaker 4: couple of criteria that I actually think about. Is this
Speaker 4: character historically based? Is there a cultural significance to a
Speaker 4: particular country in the character that's been played, or is
Speaker 4: there a language requirement that requires a level of authenticity,
Speaker 4: or is it based on a real character that that
Speaker 4: that is of that ethnicity. If those things are in place,
Speaker 4: I do think it's really important that the actor be
Speaker 4: of that same nationality or of that same specific ethnic origin.
Speaker 4: But if not, and we're talking especially about Asian Americans,
Speaker 4: then I think it's perfectly fine for someone who's not, say, Korean,
Speaker 4: to play a Korean American because if we're just playing Americans,
Speaker 4: that's the emphasis, right, because you know, we're not talking
Speaker 4: about people of specific countries and those specific things.
Speaker 3: So for example, someone who looks like me, why can
Speaker 3: I play extremely good looking person? Well, you know, why
Speaker 3: should I be limited.
Speaker 2: That's a different conversation.
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, so you know you've been you've been in
Speaker 5: show business for like almost eighty five years now, So
Speaker 5: like what based on your you know, I hate to
Speaker 5: ask the generic questions, but.
Speaker 3: Like you actually have the authority and perspective to talk
Speaker 3: about this.
Speaker 2: So what how have you felt.
Speaker 3: The industry has changed since when you first started when
Speaker 3: you're running around Hell's Kitchen.
Speaker 2: Oh, back in the old days, running around with Charlie Chaplin,
Speaker 2: that's right.
Speaker 4: So when movies just started getting sound. Uh, you know,
Speaker 4: we've made a lot of progress, we really have. Like
Speaker 4: when I first started in this industry, there was a
Speaker 4: common uh uh misunderstanding that Asians were not funny. Like
Speaker 4: like back in the nineties, people thought, oh, Asian people
Speaker 4: are not funny.
Speaker 2: It's but there are no Asian comedians out there.
Speaker 4: And it took people like Margaret Cho Ken Jung and
Speaker 4: you and and Jimmy o'yang and so many others just
Speaker 4: to show that, yeah, we we've always been out there,
Speaker 4: we just haven't been seen that way. So, you know,
Speaker 4: so we had that misperception. You know, there's been a
Speaker 4: lot of stereo types that we've worked under. For a
Speaker 4: long time, but we're breaking through them. The fact that
Speaker 4: you're here right now hosting this show is a big
Speaker 4: break through it, you know, it's true.
Speaker 3: True.
Speaker 1: Yeah, well yeah that's great.
Speaker 3: Yeah, what can I What can I say?
Speaker 2: I'm making history of every dig.
Speaker 4: Joke and bow and yang on SNL for instance, like
Speaker 4: first Asian American cast member and there you know, well.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's the context in which I know you. You've
Speaker 3: always been very supportive everyone. I first met you at
Speaker 3: the Comedy Celler. You're always very cool to the new guys,
Speaker 3: and so I really appreciate, you know, you being a
Speaker 3: mentor and showing us the ropes and looking out for
Speaker 3: us and all that.
Speaker 2: So thank you to yourself and the old.
Speaker 3: Jews and that they Kim And uh, you know this
Speaker 3: this one, this one play was actually a yellow face
Speaker 3: was was already Uh it's been mounted before in two
Speaker 3: thousand and seven, right, so this is like a re.
Speaker 2: Mounting of the play.
Speaker 3: So do you feel like it's it just as you
Speaker 3: feel the relevant the context of it is different now, yeah,
Speaker 3: like it was first put on in two thousand and seven.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's only twenty twenty four now.
Speaker 4: Yeah, And I actually think it's as relevant, if not
Speaker 4: more so, because the stuff David was talking about and
Speaker 4: trying to address in two thousand and seven wasn't really topical. Then.
Speaker 4: He was actually ahead of the curve and talking about
Speaker 4: things like you know, ethnic authentic casting. You know, people
Speaker 4: now kind of see like, well, of course, that's that's
Speaker 4: what we should be doing, but back then they didn't
Speaker 4: think that. So now, in the wake of George Floyd
Speaker 4: and BLM and you know, stop Asian Hate, there is
Speaker 4: more of an awareness of, you know, what's appropriate culturally
Speaker 4: and what we should be trying to aspire to.
Speaker 2: And so what's crazy.
Speaker 4: About this show is that there are a lot of
Speaker 4: real life figures, very prominent people like Dick Caviott and Frank.
Speaker 2: Ollu here in the Yeah characters.
Speaker 4: Yeah, And during the time when David was protesting, they
Speaker 4: were on the other side of the issue. They were
Speaker 4: supporting yellow face casting. But you know, now they've all
Speaker 4: changed their minds and said, you know what, we've evolved
Speaker 4: one the subject, and they they're a direct barometer of
Speaker 4: how far we've come. It's a great testament to all
Speaker 4: of them that they're willing to be in this play
Speaker 4: and and say.
Speaker 2: Yeah, we we we made the wrong call on that one.
Speaker 3: And you know, anything you want to say that Jonathan
Speaker 3: Price putting tape on his eyes or you want to
Speaker 3: call him, I will say it's the platform. This is
Speaker 3: a direct quote.
Speaker 2: From the play. Jonathan.
Speaker 4: Mister Price is an excellent actor.
Speaker 2: Okay, wait enough to play Asian.
Speaker 4: But I feel bad for him too because he you know,
Speaker 4: he he was doing what he thought was right at
Speaker 4: the time.
Speaker 2: I bet we just put tape on your eyes and
Speaker 2: play Asian. But I think if you were to ask,
Speaker 2: hasn't tried to do that? I'm doing it right now. Well, well, yeah,
Speaker 2: thanks so much.
Speaker 3: You know I could talk two hours, but you got
Speaker 3: the plate, actually do We're taping this before the play,
Speaker 3: mister Kim, very gracious for the great act Dollar generation,
Speaker 3: the Shopper cheek Bones on television.
Speaker 1: We'll go away.
Speaker 2: Production of Yellow Face.
Speaker 3: It's curently in previews and we'll open Ontober first. Have
Speaker 3: a card names theater now they Kim, everybody. My guest
Speaker 3: tonight is the former head of the secretive Pentagon unit
Speaker 3: that studied UFOs. He's written the best selling book Imminent
Speaker 3: Inside the Pentagon's Hunt for UFOs. Please welcome, Louis Alesondo. Okay,
Speaker 3: so you know, thanks for coming on the show, Louis.
Speaker 1: Thank you for having me my honored privilege.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's really nice to take a break talking about
Speaker 3: American politics to talk about what is going on as aliens.
Speaker 1: Well, first of all, we don't call them aliens anymore.
Speaker 1: That's kind of a politically incorrect term. Who we now
Speaker 1: call them in the Pentagon NHI non human intelligence.
Speaker 3: Okay, maybe you should probably give you your bona fides
Speaker 3: a bit. Well, you ran you in intelligence and count intelligence.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so after college, I spent some time. I went
Speaker 1: into the United States Army, spent some time in military intelligence,
Speaker 1: and then from there I was recruited into some special
Speaker 1: activity programs where I became a special agent in counter intelligence,
Speaker 1: investigating terrorism and espionage. In two thousand and nine, early
Speaker 1: two thousand and nine, I was brought in to run
Speaker 1: counter intelligence for that program what is now known as
Speaker 1: a TIP, the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program, and later
Speaker 1: on I wound up being one of its senior members.
Speaker 3: Right, so you a military man, veteran, you are intelligence officer,
Speaker 3: content intelligence officer, a grown adult by your own words,
Speaker 3: You're also a fat based person.
Speaker 2: You've you've said that in in interviews, but.
Speaker 1: I'm also proof that you don't have to be intelligent
Speaker 1: to be an intelligence.
Speaker 2: Well no, I wouldn't go.
Speaker 1: Let me just put that out there.
Speaker 2: Okay, Well, let me put this out there.
Speaker 1: What is going on?
Speaker 2: These aliens? Aliens? So? What is alien? What's going on?
Speaker 2: That's aliens?
Speaker 3: What? What is this? So?
Speaker 1: The US government for many decades has been investing a
Speaker 1: lot of tax payer money looking into this this topic here,
Speaker 1: and it turns out that there are absolutely technologies that
Speaker 1: are coming into our controlled US airspace, over our sensitive
Speaker 1: military installations, may have the ability to interfere with the
Speaker 1: nuclear equities. And yeah, it's real. And not only are
Speaker 1: pilots picking it up and reporting it. Also we've got
Speaker 1: on electro optical data like gun camera footage, flear footage,
Speaker 1: and also radar data. And it's not just here. It
Speaker 1: looks like it's pretty pervasive all over the world.
Speaker 3: Now, So what there's aliens? Aliens aliens on right now
Speaker 3: and doing shit? What they're doing?
Speaker 1: How you put those two words together, I'm not sure
Speaker 1: that I'm not necessarily aliens.
Speaker 2: Come go, Okay, so what they're doing? What they're doing here,
Speaker 2: what are you doing?
Speaker 1: So it appears that they're very interested in our technology.
Speaker 1: We don't know yet. I want to be very clear.
Speaker 2: They came here.
Speaker 3: They don't want to look at my iPhone sixteen. No,
Speaker 3: but they've got shit that flew across the stars they
Speaker 3: don't care about.
Speaker 1: They are very interested in our military equities and capabilities,
Speaker 1: and also our nuclear technology. And I think what's for me,
Speaker 1: what was most compelling is that in some cases you
Speaker 1: had literally literally near misses of US combat aircraft coming
Speaker 1: within fifteen feet of these objects, in some cases literally
Speaker 1: splitting a combat formation right down the middle. These are
Speaker 1: things that can do things that none of our vehicles
Speaker 1: can replicate. Their performance capabilities are far beyond anything that
Speaker 1: we have, and quite frankly, there's not a whole lot
Speaker 1: we can do about it right now.
Speaker 3: So, beyond a shadow of a doubt that you've seen
Speaker 3: the evidence, the aliens.
Speaker 1: Oh, the governments already come out. Look, you have a
Speaker 1: former director of National Intelligence, a former director of CIA,
Speaker 1: a former president of the United States all coming out
Speaker 1: and saying officially, yeah, there's something to this. I mean,
Speaker 1: these things look like that's they are definitely interested in
Speaker 1: our stuff. And furthermore, when the government first came out
Speaker 1: with their new UFO program called Arrow, their first report said, yeah,
Speaker 1: there's one hundred and forty three of these incidents, but
Speaker 1: we expect these numbers to go down as we figure
Speaker 1: them out. The next report that came out there was
Speaker 1: over three hundred. The next report there's now over eight hundreds.
Speaker 1: So the numbers increasing, not decreasing.
Speaker 3: Okay, So why is this getting buried in the cycle
Speaker 3: or something because Donald Trump says, I hate Taylor Swift.
Speaker 2: So we just never see this stuff because when.
Speaker 3: You presidents, the government has said these things out around.
Speaker 1: So their in life is the problem. It's a bureaucracy. Look,
Speaker 1: the men and women find men and women of the
Speaker 1: Pentagon and the US government doing credible work, and most
Speaker 1: of the time we are a lot better off as
Speaker 1: a society because of the professionalism. Unfortunately, in this particular case,
Speaker 1: the bureaucracy was a problem. We continue to try to
Speaker 1: get alarm bells up to the Secretary of Defense over
Speaker 1: and over again, but there was this layer of these
Speaker 1: proverbial praetorian guards that didn't want to tell the Secretary
Speaker 1: of Defense that we were spending tax payer money looking
Speaker 1: into these things and oh, by the way, turns out
Speaker 1: they're real.
Speaker 3: Okay, are you, with all due respect, is there any
Speaker 3: chance that you accidentally describing the synopsis to Independence Day
Speaker 3: because that's the movie that was in the movie they
Speaker 3: couldn't get to the dude because they wouldn't listen. So
Speaker 3: you're telling me aliens are going to take over because
Speaker 3: of US government bureaucracy.
Speaker 1: Well, I certainly hope that's not the case. I think,
Speaker 1: you know, when we look at this issue here, this
Speaker 1: has been going on for decades. This has been going
Speaker 1: on since the late nineteen forties. I want to say
Speaker 1: that people go, wait a minute, you're talking about Roswell.
Speaker 1: Was Roswell real?
Speaker 2: Was Roswall will? It was?
Speaker 1: Absolutely okay?
Speaker 2: So what what was that Roswell?
Speaker 1: There was a there was a crash. It was a
Speaker 1: vehicle that had broken into two pieces, and it was
Speaker 1: recovered by the United States government, taken to a secure
Speaker 1: military installation, and then from there it went out to
Speaker 1: certain locations. What is in that book I'm allowed to
Speaker 1: talk about that went through the Pentagon review process, so
Speaker 1: I am legally able to talk about it. There are
Speaker 1: things that I'm still not yet allowed to talk.
Speaker 2: About Well those things tell us those things.
Speaker 1: Well, let's see here, I don't know. I do not
Speaker 1: look good in an orange jumpsuit, so I gotta be
Speaker 1: very careful, Like, are you.
Speaker 2: Gonna look good in whatever jumps to the aliens put
Speaker 2: on you?
Speaker 3: We better be This is the It sounds like, well,
Speaker 3: battling aliens and bureaucracy here?
Speaker 2: Can we I don't know if we can fight a
Speaker 2: two front one on this. Can we choose a side
Speaker 2: to fight here?
Speaker 1: I think I'd prefer to fight aliens if I had
Speaker 1: to choose between bureaucracy aliens to be honest with.
Speaker 3: But okay, so in the book you say that, and
Speaker 3: by the way, I mean, I read the book and
Speaker 3: it's it's a very it's a page tone, it's very
Speaker 3: well written, it's easy to follow. Like in it you say, like,
Speaker 3: the best case scenario right now is that aliens on
Speaker 3: national security threat.
Speaker 1: Issue is is to determine if something is a threat.
Speaker 1: It's really a very simple calculus. It's capabilities versus intent.
Speaker 1: Now we've seen some of the capabilities, we still have
Speaker 1: no idea the intent, So therefore we don't know if
Speaker 1: it's a threat. But let me give you a very
Speaker 1: quick analogy here. You probably live in a great lovely
Speaker 1: area just like your audience here. Do you lock your door?
Speaker 2: Live in New York City?
Speaker 1: So no, no, really do you lock your front door
Speaker 1: and its perfect?
Speaker 2: That's aliens here right now in New York City. Is
Speaker 2: you're gonna say, yeah, I do love my front.
Speaker 1: Those so and most people do. And let's say you
Speaker 1: lock your windows and you turn on your alarm. Let's
Speaker 1: say one Sunday morning, you come downstairs, I have a
Speaker 1: hot cup of coffee, your tea, and despite your doors
Speaker 1: being locked, in your window and your alarm on, there's
Speaker 1: now size twelve muddy bootprints in your living room floor,
Speaker 1: in your carpet that weren't there the night before. Now,
Speaker 1: no one's been hurt, nothing's out of place. But despite
Speaker 1: you doing all this other stuff and locking doors and
Speaker 1: making sure the alarm's on, they're an outfootprints in your
Speaker 1: living room carpet that weren't there the night before. My
Speaker 1: question to you is is that a threat? And so
Speaker 1: my response is from a national security perspective. I was
Speaker 1: wearing my national security at it could be if it
Speaker 1: wanted to be. So we probably should figure out how
Speaker 1: it's getting into the house.
Speaker 3: You'd probably move at that point, we should probably get
Speaker 3: out of that apartment.
Speaker 2: There's bootprints. They're still walking around.
Speaker 1: So these things are we are encountering them over controlled
Speaker 1: US air space, like I said, over sensitive military installations,
Speaker 1: and so from a national security perspective, we've got to
Speaker 1: figure out what these things are.
Speaker 3: No ship, no shit, we got to figure out what's
Speaker 3: going You see, you're saying you're being very professional and
Speaker 3: being very technical and being very calm as an intelligence officer,
Speaker 3: and then you're saying that aliens said that we don't
Speaker 3: know what they want?
Speaker 1: But what what?
Speaker 2: Okay? What do what should people.
Speaker 3: Take away from this as aliens and what look when
Speaker 3: you see it shoot on site?
Speaker 1: No, no, no, no, don't do that. I would recommend
Speaker 1: not doing that. I think what what people need to
Speaker 1: know right now? The US government is taking this topic
Speaker 1: very seriously. They're there's several pieces of legislation that are
Speaker 1: going through through Congress right now. There are members in
Speaker 1: both the House and the Senate that had been briefed
Speaker 1: by whistleblowers on this topic. People who have been part
Speaker 1: of certain efforts UAP efforts in the past.
Speaker 3: Is not getting mixed up the Border Act, right, because
Speaker 3: that when you say aliens, I don't think they really
Speaker 3: know which ones you're talking.
Speaker 1: Well, were these? I mean yeah, if you have illegal
Speaker 1: aliens and you've got aliens, yeah.
Speaker 3: Right right, So so there's acts coming out, there's legislation,
Speaker 3: what legislating against intergalactic aliens?
Speaker 1: Well, I think the idea is to open the door
Speaker 1: for whistle blowers to come out and be able to
Speaker 1: have a protected conversation with Congress, so Congress can then
Speaker 1: have a conversation with American people. I think that's really
Speaker 1: what this is about. And certainly I think there's certain
Speaker 1: people in By the way, for the first time, this
Speaker 1: is a bipartisan issue. You've got both liberals and conservatives
Speaker 1: on the hill. Can you believe it? Of all things?
Speaker 1: UAP right now, See.
Speaker 3: That's the most oft ash thing you've said, right, that is,
Speaker 3: I'll believe aliens.
Speaker 2: Right. There's no way these guys are working together.
Speaker 1: They are, I swear to god. I can't say who
Speaker 1: they are, but their names have already been I think
Speaker 1: in the press quite a bit. But on both sides,
Speaker 1: they are taking this topic very seriously. A lot of
Speaker 1: these folks have military backgrounds, Why.
Speaker 2: Don't they just let it out, Just let the news out.
Speaker 3: Tell people to show them the freaking show them the
Speaker 3: photo of the alien selfie with the president, and then
Speaker 3: let's get it out there.
Speaker 1: Let's handle We've spent many decades backing ourselves into a
Speaker 1: corner on this conversation, and the government has said publicly
Speaker 1: what its position is. Now it's in a situation where
Speaker 1: it's having to unwind that conversation and say, look, folks,
Speaker 1: we haven't always been completely forthcoming and truthful with you.
Speaker 1: And that's a hard conversation.
Speaker 3: When you talk about that's aliens. Have the conversation that's aliens.
Speaker 3: There's aliens. That's aliens. All right, Well, can we can
Speaker 3: we stop them?
Speaker 2: Well? I don't know.
Speaker 1: I mean, that's not a question for me.
Speaker 2: That's a question for I'm not a question for you.
Speaker 3: I think you're the only one who can because it
Speaker 3: sounds like your ADU also seems to be like, yeah, here,
Speaker 3: I've seen them. They have capabilities beyond an understanding, and
Speaker 3: nothing much we can do about it. So you know,
Speaker 3: keep watching Paramount plus. And I don't know what they're
Speaker 3: supposed to do about this now.
Speaker 1: I think, look, I personally think Americans can handle the
Speaker 1: truth about this topic. I think it's it is. I mean,
Speaker 1: we can joke a lot about it, but the reality
Speaker 1: is is that these things, whatever they are, wherever they're from,
Speaker 1: this is real.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so you know real?
Speaker 1: All right, Yeah, it's real whatever it is.
Speaker 3: Okay, Well, is that a chance that if the government
Speaker 3: tells people aliens are real and shows them, will unite
Speaker 3: together in a global effort to defeat them, and we'll both.
Speaker 1: You know, there were there There was a famous speech
Speaker 1: by by Reagan back in the eighties where he's.
Speaker 2: By Bill Pullman in Independence.
Speaker 1: And him, Yeah, that's right, where they said that if if,
Speaker 1: if the truth of this came out, it would probably
Speaker 1: unite the world.
Speaker 2: But we need it. Now, let's go aliens, let's go.
Speaker 3: Now.
Speaker 1: This is the time, the reality is, this is the time.
Speaker 2: We got a lot of shit going down.
Speaker 3: Now, Aliens, come, aliens, and now I'm down for aliens.
Speaker 2: Now, okay, if week, look.
Speaker 1: Uniting Congress is already a big enough challenge. Let's let's
Speaker 1: get these folks on the same sheet of music. Let's
Speaker 1: get the briefings they need, and then let them have
Speaker 1: a conversation with their constituents.
Speaker 2: You're talking about paperwork. I'm talking about aliens.
Speaker 1: The government survives off of paperwork. It is a bureaucracy, unfortunately,
Speaker 1: So we have to look, there's a there's a I've
Speaker 1: always said, there's a there's a right way to do things,
Speaker 1: and you can do also it right now. But they're
Speaker 1: not necessarily the same thing. Doing things right and right
Speaker 1: now may not be you know, the same the same thing.
Speaker 3: You mean as aliens, and you want to go through
Speaker 3: bureaucracy until unite Congress before you can fight the aliens.
Speaker 2: Fight the aliens, get the aliens out.
Speaker 1: I think there's opportunity here. In the last seven years.
Speaker 1: I think we've come further on this conversation than we
Speaker 1: have the last seventy. There are limits now in the
Speaker 1: government that want this conversation to occur. They want the
Speaker 1: American people to know. Look, this is the worst kept
Speaker 1: secret at this point, probably in the US government. I mean,
Speaker 1: it's it's pathetic the fact that so many people now
Speaker 1: are in our militaries, are intelligence communities, have even in
Speaker 1: some cases come up close and personal with these things.
Speaker 2: Wait, yeah, okay, this is okay, this is crazy. Anyway,
Speaker 2: imminent is of imminent is available now. I wish you could.
Speaker 2: We could talk for hours about this thing about wait wait, everybody.
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