Latest / UFOS & PARANORMAL WITH PRESTON DENNETT / Interview with Experiencer/Filmmaker John Yost
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- 0:00Speaker 1: Hello, everyone. My name is Preston Dennett, and welcome to
- 0:03Speaker 1: a new episode of UFOs and the Paranormal. Doing something
- 0:06Speaker 1: a little different today. I don't think I've ever done
- 0:08Speaker 1: this quite before, but I've got on a couple of guests.
- 0:12Speaker 1: Dolly Saffron. You know, she's the subject of my book Symmetry,
- 0:15Speaker 1: a true UFO Adventure. She's a lifelong contact, d fully conscious,
- 0:21Speaker 1: has not needed hypnosis to recover her memories. She lives
- 0:25Speaker 1: them live as they occur, and has had a lifetime
- 0:29Speaker 1: of experiences with grays, tall whites, and many other different
- 0:35Speaker 1: types of ets healing events. She learned how to pilot
- 0:38Speaker 1: the craft. Well you probably know this if you've watched
- 0:41Speaker 1: my YouTube channel done a bunch of interviews with Dolly.
- 0:45Speaker 1: So welcome Dolly, thank you. And also, as you can see,
- 0:51Speaker 1: we do have another guest, and this is John Yost,
- 0:54Speaker 1: who has made quite a recent splash in this field
- 0:58Speaker 1: with his film, his documentary Alien Abduction Answers, which I
- 1:04Speaker 1: haven't seen yet. I do plan to see it, but
- 1:08Speaker 1: we have him here so he can tell us all
- 1:10Speaker 1: about it. I do know it's been pretty well received
- 1:13Speaker 1: with great reviews by let's see Kathleen Martin and Jacques Vallet,
- 1:18Speaker 1: and certainly Whitley Strieber and Grant Cameron. So yeah, he's
- 1:23Speaker 1: making the rounds. He's having an effect. I think that's
- 1:26Speaker 1: why I'm absolutely honored to have him on the show.
- 1:30Speaker 1: So thank you very much, John for coming on the show.
- 1:34Speaker 2: I am very grateful to both Dollie and to yourself, sir,
- 1:38Speaker 2: for sharing your time, and I thank your viewers as well.
- 1:41Speaker 2: Thank you, thank you.
- 1:42Speaker 1: I have great kudos for anyone who steps into this
- 1:45Speaker 1: field searching for answers and helping to publicize it and
- 1:50Speaker 1: educate people. So I'm absolutely delighted to have you.
- 1:54Speaker 2: Thank you, sir.
- 1:55Speaker 1: So I thought we would just start I always when
- 1:59Speaker 1: I interview someone, I've interviewed a lot of people, I'm
- 2:01Speaker 1: just fascinated by a person's own experiences and what drew
- 2:04Speaker 1: them into this field. So I thought we could start
- 2:07Speaker 1: with that, because I do believe you had some of
- 2:09Speaker 1: your own personal experiences with i'll call the phenomena, even
- 2:13Speaker 1: I really don't like that word. I think these are
- 2:16Speaker 1: just human experiences that millions of people are having. So yeah,
- 2:19Speaker 1: I'm interested to see how you're started and what you
- 2:23Speaker 1: thought of it.
- 2:25Speaker 2: Well, first off, I think that you have your finger
- 2:30Speaker 2: right on it. I do think it is a human experience.
- 2:33Speaker 2: I think that it is prolific. I think that what
- 2:35Speaker 2: we're going to find out is most of us have
- 2:38Speaker 2: had a brush with other and either through denial, or
- 2:44Speaker 2: through ignorance, or through fear, we haven't recognized it. Some
- 2:50Speaker 2: of it is purposeful and some of it is unconscious
- 2:54Speaker 2: resistance to it. So I think you're supremely correct in that, sir.
- 3:00Speaker 2: I was completely surprised by that. I would have told
- 3:04Speaker 2: you I would have scoffed at the entire situation, and
- 3:08Speaker 2: my sarcastic retorts were really a defensive mechanism on my part.
- 3:18Speaker 2: What had happened was this, I was seven years old,
- 3:24Speaker 2: and I grew up in Pennsylvania, and I was born
- 3:28Speaker 2: in nineteen sixty six, and in August of nineteen seventy four,
- 3:34Speaker 2: when I was seven years old, I was awakened in
- 3:39Speaker 2: the middle of the evening. Now I lived in my
- 3:42Speaker 2: parents' home, of course, on the second floor. My family
- 3:45Speaker 2: was not wealthy, so we didn't have central air conditioning
- 3:48Speaker 2: or anything like that. The windows were open, and I
- 3:52Speaker 2: had been awakened. I was drone. If you will, and
- 3:58Speaker 2: I'll embarrass myself by making the noise. It was kind
- 4:01Speaker 2: of like this undulating drone, like a that sort of thing.
- 4:09Speaker 2: And I sat up and I was I was disturbed,
- 4:13Speaker 2: I was angry, I was tired. I'd been playing all day, right,
- 4:17Speaker 2: seven years old. Was summer, it was summer vacation. And
- 4:23Speaker 2: I kind of wiped the sleep from my eyes and
- 4:26Speaker 2: I went to the bathroom and you know, I'm getting
- 4:29Speaker 2: a glass of water, and the water is pouring for
- 4:31Speaker 2: a very long time, and I don't understand why that's happening.
- 4:34Speaker 2: I remember noting that it was taking too long, and
- 4:38Speaker 2: I don't know why. And then at some point I
- 4:41Speaker 2: turned off the water and I went to the bathroom
- 4:43Speaker 2: door and I opened the door. Now, something incredible happened
- 4:49Speaker 2: in that doorway facing me. My seven year old mind
- 4:54Speaker 2: told me I was looking at a character I'd seen
- 4:58Speaker 2: a thousand times on television, a character named Ultra Man.
- 5:03Speaker 2: Now he had it's a Japanese television show, and he
- 5:06Speaker 2: was a giant silver guy with an oblong head in
- 5:10Speaker 2: these huge eyes. And I loved Ultraman. I have to
- 5:13Speaker 2: tell you something. I leave he was a hero of mine.
- 5:15Speaker 2: I thought he was. You know, he fought the bad
- 5:17Speaker 2: guys and the monsters, and so I dug Ultraman, so
- 5:21Speaker 2: there was no fear. And we got very very close,
- 5:27Speaker 2: and I mean honestly, like nose to nose. And then
- 5:33Speaker 2: something happened. I felt myself falling. And the way I
- 5:40Speaker 2: the way I describe it as this. If you or
- 5:42Speaker 2: some of your audience have ever been on a beach
- 5:45Speaker 2: and the water comes up over your ankles and as
- 5:47Speaker 2: it goes back out, as it retreats back to the water,
- 5:50Speaker 2: it slowly pulls away the sand underneath it, and you
- 5:53Speaker 2: feel it like you're falling backwards. That's the way he
- 5:56Speaker 2: felt for me. And I was petrick. I was. I
- 6:01Speaker 2: was very terrified, and I flailed like a drowning man.
- 6:07Speaker 2: And when I did, I literally laid hands on this
- 6:10Speaker 2: character I and there was this huge flash of light
- 6:14Speaker 2: and I felt like I was moving in there was
- 6:16Speaker 2: all this light, and I saw green and blue and
- 6:18Speaker 2: purple and magenta and all this and I'm I'm I'm
- 6:21Speaker 2: whirling around. I felt like it was moving, but I
- 6:24Speaker 2: could not tell. And I'm looking and I can't see.
- 6:27Speaker 2: And then I'm in the middle of this thing. And
- 6:28Speaker 2: as I kind of come back to my senses. I
- 6:32Speaker 2: am still in this fight, but something very strange has happened.
- 6:37Speaker 2: I am now kind of interpolated with this ultraman I
- 6:45Speaker 2: am now with my back in the hallway and his
- 6:49Speaker 2: back is in the bathroom. And there's a split second
- 6:55Speaker 2: there where I'm like, what the heck has happened? You know?
- 6:57Speaker 2: But I'm in the middle of this, and I go
- 6:59Speaker 2: to hit him. And what I do and I say him,
- 7:03Speaker 2: I don't know, it's a hymn, you know, this ultramant guy.
- 7:09Speaker 2: He raises his hand, he touches me right here on
- 7:15Speaker 2: my left shoulder, and what he does, there's this brilliant
- 7:19Speaker 2: flash of light. I feel this energy on my shoulder
- 7:23Speaker 2: and my chest, and that's almost like a you know,
- 7:25Speaker 2: if you're standing, you know, halfway into an ocean and
- 7:28Speaker 2: a wave hits you in the chest and knocks you down,
- 7:30Speaker 2: you know, down. That's the way I felt. Behind me
- 7:33Speaker 2: are these hardwood stairs that go that lead to the
- 7:37Speaker 2: first floor. And I fall ugly, I mean up and
- 7:41Speaker 2: over and banging off walls and this, and I lay
- 7:44Speaker 2: in a heap on the bottom landing and I am
- 7:52Speaker 2: screaming my head off like a Banshee and my parents.
- 7:56Speaker 2: They had a first floor bedroom. They come running around,
- 7:59Speaker 2: they see me and my father. He's a big guy,
- 8:03Speaker 2: and he says, you know, what the hell is going on?
- 8:05Speaker 2: And I'm saying screamings, you know, through sobs. There's ultraman upstairs.
- 8:10Speaker 2: He's in my bedrooms up My father bounds up the stairs.
- 8:13Speaker 2: My mom is looking at her son, just in a heap,
- 8:17Speaker 2: and I'm sabbing, and I'm sobbing so much that i
- 8:19Speaker 2: can't really speak, you know, like you can't catch your breath,
- 8:22Speaker 2: and she's trying to console me of how there my
- 8:24Speaker 2: father's slamming doors upstairs. And after some time he comes
- 8:29Speaker 2: to the top of the stairs and he looks down
- 8:32Speaker 2: and he's just I mean, he's overtired, he's disgusted, he's
- 8:37Speaker 2: upset because of course there's nothing there, right, right, So
- 8:42Speaker 2: my parents, after some time, take me to the top
- 8:45Speaker 2: of the stairs and take me into my room and
- 8:47Speaker 2: they do what parents do, you know. They look in
- 8:50Speaker 2: the closet, right, there's nothing in the closet. They look
- 8:52Speaker 2: under the bed, see there's nothing, and they land me
- 8:56Speaker 2: down and I'm kind of still whimpering, but I am
- 9:00Speaker 2: so exhausted at this point, and the only thing I
- 9:03Speaker 2: could surmise is that, you know, all that adrenaline pumping
- 9:06Speaker 2: through my body just wiped me out and I just
- 9:10Speaker 2: passed out. Well, the next day, I have to date myself.
- 9:17Speaker 2: You know, kids today you can't get them off a
- 9:19Speaker 2: sofa because they're you know, with the screens. But you know,
- 9:22Speaker 2: back in the seventies, during the summer vacation, you grabbed
- 9:26Speaker 2: a waff when you ran outside. You played all day
- 9:28Speaker 2: until you're called you in for dinner. That was the
- 9:31Speaker 2: way it was. And that's what I did. And I
- 9:35Speaker 2: felt like I had been beaten up. But you know,
- 9:38Speaker 2: I just played the day and my mom called me
- 9:40Speaker 2: in for dinner and she said, listen, you're disgusting. It
- 9:46Speaker 2: was it was. It was August, as I said, it
- 9:49Speaker 2: was very fairy, humid, and so she's I don't want
- 9:52Speaker 2: to take a bath. You know, I'm a little boy.
- 9:54Speaker 2: And she's struggling with me my T shirt and she's
- 9:58Speaker 2: looking at all the contusions the bruises on my body,
- 10:02Speaker 2: and she gets to my left shoulder and she pauses
- 10:07Speaker 2: and she says, oh my god, honey, what happened here?
- 10:13Speaker 2: I'm looking around and I say, from mom, I told
- 10:16Speaker 2: you was the ultraman. She looked very sad, and she
- 10:24Speaker 2: give a little kiss on the forehead, said it'll be okay,
- 10:28Speaker 2: It'll be okay. A couple of days later, my father
- 10:32Speaker 2: is taking me to our family doctor and we're pulling
- 10:38Speaker 2: into the parking lot and he says to me, now, listen,
- 10:41Speaker 2: when we get in there, I don't want to hear
- 10:44Speaker 2: anything about this ultraman guy. Okay, you keep that to yourself.
- 10:48Speaker 2: And you know, as I stated a couple of times,
- 10:51Speaker 2: I'm seven years old, so I have no idea the
- 10:53Speaker 2: import of this. Why I would tell him whatever I said, Okay, Dad,
- 10:58Speaker 2: you know I love my dad. And so the doctor
- 11:04Speaker 2: is doing a cursory look. And remember this a couple
- 11:06Speaker 2: of days later, so all of my bruises are yellowing
- 11:10Speaker 2: and you know, healing this sort of thing, and he
- 11:13Speaker 2: gets to my shoulder, my left shoulder, and he says, oh, Sport,
- 11:18Speaker 2: what the heck happened here? And I start to blurt out, well,
- 11:21Speaker 2: you know, there was this guy. My father is in
- 11:23Speaker 2: the corner and he is giving me, you know, the eye,
- 11:29Speaker 2: the eye. But once again, I wasn't afraid of my dad.
- 11:32Speaker 2: But I mean, you know, back in the seventies, your
- 11:35Speaker 2: father gave you the eye. You know what the heck
- 11:37Speaker 2: that meant? Shut your darn mouth anyway, So I said, oh,
- 11:44Speaker 2: I was just playing. I got hurt. I don't know.
- 11:47Speaker 2: And so the doctor he took some time with it,
- 11:50Speaker 2: the mark, and he manipulated it and tried to see
- 11:55Speaker 2: if there was liquid, and it asked me if it hurt,
- 11:57Speaker 2: you know, and so on and so on, and then
- 11:59Speaker 2: afterwards gave me a lollipop and I walked out the
- 12:02Speaker 2: door my dad. We were returning home. And as we
- 12:07Speaker 2: pulled into the driveway my parents home, uh, my father
- 12:16Speaker 2: took a different tone with me, and he said, now listen.
- 12:21Speaker 2: He lowered his voice and he said, now listen to me.
- 12:26Speaker 2: I never ever want to hear about this ultraman guy again.
- 12:31Speaker 2: You shut your damn mouth. I don't want to hear.
- 12:34Speaker 2: I don't want you scared your mother, I don't want
- 12:36Speaker 2: you scared your sisters. You shut up about it, very sternly,
- 12:41Speaker 2: and that and that's the first moment that I felt afraid,
- 12:45Speaker 2: you know what I mean, like almost like I had
- 12:47Speaker 2: done something wrong right, and I, you know, and I
- 12:51Speaker 2: have no idea of why this isn't whatever. And I said,
- 12:54Speaker 2: you know, short, okay, dad, But now I mean I
- 12:56Speaker 2: got it before, I didn't get it. I got it
- 12:58Speaker 2: this time. And so I lied about it my entire life.
- 13:03Speaker 2: Now people have said to me, well, well you know,
- 13:05Speaker 2: come on, you're a teenager, a young man. Well this
- 13:09Speaker 2: is what happened. It evolved into something. You know, I'm
- 13:12Speaker 2: looking at Dolly and she's wearing glasses, and so this
- 13:17Speaker 2: is what I want to share with you. How this is.
- 13:20Speaker 2: It's almost like muscle memory. You know, this morning, you
- 13:22Speaker 2: didn't get up and say, hmm, I determine it's a
- 13:26Speaker 2: good idea if I should see clearly today, so I
- 13:29Speaker 2: shall put my spectacles on it. That never happened. That
- 13:32Speaker 2: process never happened. What happened is you sat up and
- 13:34Speaker 2: rubbed your eyes and said, oh crap, I can't see anything.
- 13:36Speaker 2: Put them on right. That was it, and you didn't
- 13:38Speaker 2: think about it. So I lied all through my childhood.
- 13:42Speaker 2: And then I was very active in sports in high
- 13:44Speaker 2: school and university, and you know, people would say, hey,
- 13:46Speaker 2: I was what the heck? And I a shark bit me,
- 13:50Speaker 2: I got hit by lightning, somebody shot me.
- 13:54Speaker 1: You could just go back for a second. So was
- 13:56Speaker 1: this a mark that stayed on your shoulder that you
- 14:00Speaker 1: visibly see or.
- 14:01Speaker 2: It's yes, actually in the film you see it. It's
- 14:04Speaker 2: it's very raised. It changes color, it changes temperature. It's
- 14:12Speaker 2: a lot of people say they see a different shape
- 14:15Speaker 2: in the film. We outlined it so everybody can see it.
- 14:17Speaker 2: But I mean it's raised it to me, to me personally,
- 14:21Speaker 2: it looks like a thumb print, looks like but it's large.
- 14:25Speaker 2: I have big hands and it's like maybe an engine
- 14:29Speaker 2: a half long.
- 14:31Speaker 1: Is it ever painful?
- 14:33Speaker 2: No? Right, never painful, scan, none of it. I'm sorry.
- 14:38Speaker 3: Did you have a skinne?
- 14:41Speaker 2: No, No, I never did. I never did, And I'll
- 14:44Speaker 2: explain why in a second here, So a few more
- 14:48Speaker 2: quick questions. Yes, sir, yes, sir.
- 14:50Speaker 1: You know when you see this Ultra man guy, was
- 14:53Speaker 1: he short? Was he your?
- 14:55Speaker 2: Or? Good? Good? Good call. One of the things that
- 14:58Speaker 2: I remarked h and I have remarked other people is
- 15:02Speaker 2: that kind of the surprising thing is is that I
- 15:04Speaker 2: was the smallest kid in my class until high school,
- 15:09Speaker 2: and Ultraman was as giant and he was as big
- 15:11Speaker 2: as me, so he was little. We were eyed. I
- 15:14Speaker 2: literally these two tiny people.
- 15:17Speaker 1: And was he an accurate representation of.
- 15:20Speaker 2: Oh, yes, yes, I saw, I saw a miniature Ultraman.
- 15:24Speaker 2: He was silver, he had the same sort of eyes everything.
- 15:28Speaker 2: Did you have.
- 15:29Speaker 3: Mental communication with him at all? Did you hear in kop.
- 15:34Speaker 2: At that moment? No? No, and and and I think, honestly,
- 15:40Speaker 2: I think that those these these kind of clarifications are
- 15:43Speaker 2: going to come into the second part of this thing.
- 15:46Speaker 2: I'll tell you the rest, and I think, oh, you'll say, oh,
- 15:49Speaker 2: well that's the answer, that's why, all.
- 15:50Speaker 1: Right, But before you do, let me I just do
- 15:52Speaker 1: have a few quick interesting you say age seven, because
- 15:57Speaker 1: I've heard that age come up quite a bit, and
- 16:00Speaker 1: this sounds to me like a screen memory. I'm sure
- 16:03Speaker 1: you've probably heard at this time, because I've heard people
- 16:05Speaker 1: describe Teddy Bears, clowns, superheroes, arby dolls. To hear you
- 16:13Speaker 1: say Ultraman kind of fits in with some of the
- 16:15Speaker 1: stories I have heard of other people.
- 16:18Speaker 2: Yes, sir, I do.
- 16:19Speaker 1: Find that interesting. And so this experience wasn't at all scary.
- 16:22Speaker 2: For you, well up until the point when I felt
- 16:27Speaker 2: myself slipping and then all of the lights and the flashing,
- 16:31Speaker 2: and then I was literally I'm telling you, I laid
- 16:34Speaker 2: my hands on this character, you know, in a struggle.
- 16:40Speaker 1: All right, did you have any dreams or anything following
- 16:43Speaker 1: that incident about.
- 16:46Speaker 2: You know that incident many times? All right?
- 16:51Speaker 1: Can you share what they were about?
- 16:56Speaker 2: All of them? All of them were just a reek
- 17:00Speaker 2: counting over and over again of these steps. And I
- 17:02Speaker 2: could in my dream I said to myself, don't open
- 17:06Speaker 2: that bathroom door. Don't open that bathroom door. He's out there,
- 17:09Speaker 2: he's out there. Don't do it, don't do it. And
- 17:12Speaker 2: all of my dreams were unsatisfactory in that they all
- 17:19Speaker 2: ended in that kind of dervish, the whirling lights that
- 17:23Speaker 2: I could not I could not understand, and I was
- 17:27Speaker 2: frustrated because I was struggling to try to understand was
- 17:30Speaker 2: I moving, what those lights were or why I felt
- 17:33Speaker 2: this way like I was falling? Yeah, they were just
- 17:37Speaker 2: very Have.
- 17:38Speaker 3: You had any inclination or have you had to come
- 17:41Speaker 3: to you about what was actually happening since then? Innother words,
- 17:45Speaker 3: have you made sense of it since that day? I?
- 17:52Speaker 2: Yes, That's why I made the film. I'm not trying
- 17:57Speaker 2: to be I'm not trying to obvious gate. In fact,
- 17:58Speaker 2: I want to tell you the rest. But what had
- 18:02Speaker 2: happened was and I think this is key and with
- 18:05Speaker 2: this it'll all make sense. If you allow me to
- 18:07Speaker 2: just tell you this little keystone, then you'll go, oh,
- 18:10Speaker 2: that makes it, and then these answers will fall into place.
- 18:13Speaker 2: So what I had happened is I lied all my life.
- 18:16Speaker 2: I lied to my wife, I lied to my kids,
- 18:19Speaker 2: never told anybody. And the evolution of that obvious gation
- 18:26Speaker 2: changed from my dad told me to anything, and I
- 18:33Speaker 2: mean anything in the world would have been better to
- 18:37Speaker 2: say than hey, you know what, I was abducted. I
- 18:41Speaker 2: didn't want to do that, the lost credibility, I would
- 18:44Speaker 2: have lost friends. I was certain, and that was kind
- 18:47Speaker 2: of like this touchstone that I did not want to
- 18:50Speaker 2: get close to the older I became. And then you know,
- 18:53Speaker 2: it was always I don't want to say it was
- 18:55Speaker 2: front of mine. It was a very clear memory. I
- 18:57Speaker 2: always had absolute clarity except for that worlding and how
- 19:02Speaker 2: we got interpolated. And that leads me to present day.
- 19:09Speaker 2: So throughout my life, to my best knowledge, I never
- 19:13Speaker 2: had any other encounters. Right about three and a half
- 19:19Speaker 2: years ago, four years ago, I was on a shoot,
- 19:23Speaker 2: a regular shoot. This is what I have to share
- 19:25Speaker 2: with you. So I grew up, went to school, university.
- 19:28Speaker 2: I worked under the jurisprudence of the Treasury Department. I
- 19:33Speaker 2: was a US customs broker. I traveled the world. I
- 19:36Speaker 2: moved people, intellectual properties, and money amongst all kinds of
- 19:41Speaker 2: different nations, and navigated all the trade agreements throughout these
- 19:45Speaker 2: nations and paid duties and taxes, et cetera. I did
- 19:48Speaker 2: that for ten years, federally licensed under the Commissioner of
- 19:53Speaker 2: the US Treasury Department, and it just lost its hues
- 19:56Speaker 2: and became a job at job. And I always had
- 20:02Speaker 2: a dream of being in film and television. So this
- 20:04Speaker 2: is shoot thirty five years ago. I'm an old guy anyway,
- 20:11Speaker 2: So I got I got involved in film and television.
- 20:14Speaker 2: And so I've done a ton of stuff in front
- 20:17Speaker 2: of the camera. I've directed, I've produced, I've written, you know,
- 20:21Speaker 2: all across the country.
- 20:23Speaker 3: Real quick, What types of things were you writing and producing?
- 20:26Speaker 2: Sure? Sure? As a sidebar, you can find me on
- 20:31Speaker 2: IMDb dot com and you can see all kinds of stuff.
- 20:34Speaker 2: But most of my stuff is just running the mill.
- 20:36Speaker 2: Liked stuff that you'd find on Food Channel, stuff that
- 20:41Speaker 2: you find on History. You know, battle in the bulge,
- 20:44Speaker 2: World War two cooking shows. I did a thousands, if
- 20:49Speaker 2: not three thousand commercials for all kinds of different things,
- 20:52Speaker 2: everything from attorneys to car dealers, to credit cards to whatever.
- 20:57Speaker 2: I mean, I'm just a guy in the business. I
- 20:59Speaker 2: was never a star. Don't want to be a star.
- 21:02Speaker 2: Think of me like a blue collar worker, don't. I
- 21:04Speaker 2: don't own IBM, but I'm that guy who makes the
- 21:08Speaker 2: printed circuit board. So I work for IBM. So that's
- 21:11Speaker 2: that's what I did. So you would have seen it
- 21:13Speaker 2: or bumped into it at some point because they were
- 21:15Speaker 2: all across the country. So I was on a shoote
- 21:19Speaker 2: a regular run in the mill shoot, and I was
- 21:21Speaker 2: producing in a place called Borrego Springs, California. I don't
- 21:25Speaker 2: know if you've ever been there, but it's very flat.
- 21:29Speaker 2: It's very arid, as you know then, and we had
- 21:33Speaker 2: run of this big house to keep the crew and
- 21:37Speaker 2: the cast altogether, because you know, it's like herding cats.
- 21:40Speaker 2: I don't want people to get lost out there. And
- 21:44Speaker 2: we had done a night shoot and come back in
- 21:49Speaker 2: it's late, you know, one thirty two o'clock in the morning,
- 21:53Speaker 2: and I'm inside with the crew and we're making sure
- 21:57Speaker 2: that we have duplicates of all the film, because we
- 22:00Speaker 2: don't want to go to the different coast to do
- 22:01Speaker 2: editing and somebody lose something. The rest of everybody. There
- 22:05Speaker 2: were about fifteen people with us, seventeen people with us,
- 22:08Speaker 2: and they were out there was a pool behind the
- 22:10Speaker 2: house that we rented, and they were having a night cap.
- 22:14Speaker 2: So I walk out at some point and somebody hands
- 22:17Speaker 2: me a glass and they're gonna make a toe. So
- 22:18Speaker 2: I raise my glass and there's a glint of light
- 22:23Speaker 2: in the glass and in my mind, my mind is
- 22:28Speaker 2: immediately trying to identify what I saw. And I said, oh, well,
- 22:31Speaker 2: that's the moon. You know, that's system. And then I went,
- 22:33Speaker 2: wait a second. I checked myself. I said, wait a second,
- 22:36Speaker 2: that's not the moon. Tonight's the full moon. I know
- 22:38Speaker 2: because I can't. I set this shoot up so we
- 22:41Speaker 2: could control the lights. We have these big light banks
- 22:43Speaker 2: so we can control the light. There's no moon out tonight.
- 22:46Speaker 2: And I dropped my glass. And as I dropped my glass,
- 22:49Speaker 2: I see above the house. I'm facing the house, the
- 22:51Speaker 2: pools behind me. Above the house, about thirty feet in
- 22:55Speaker 2: the air, is this kind of blue green, self luminous
- 23:01Speaker 2: odd shaped thing, and I I'm do you remember that
- 23:08Speaker 2: old show?
- 23:09Speaker 1: Uh?
- 23:10Speaker 2: What is it? Lost in space? It does not compute,
- 23:12Speaker 2: does not This is my mind. I'm like, what the
- 23:14Speaker 2: hell is that? And then my mind is searching for,
- 23:19Speaker 2: you know, an association, and I say, oh, that's a
- 23:22Speaker 2: that's a get well balloon, like a milar balloon, like
- 23:24Speaker 2: a get well or a happy birthday. And then my
- 23:27Speaker 2: mind checks myself again, says no, that is as big
- 23:29Speaker 2: as a volkswagon. What. And one of my camera guys, Scott,
- 23:34Speaker 2: he was sitting right here, and I grab him and
- 23:35Speaker 2: I turn him and he says, oh my god. And
- 23:38Speaker 2: as he does, the rest of the people around the
- 23:42Speaker 2: pool say, oh my god, what is that? Is that
- 23:46Speaker 2: a UFO? Well, my god? Is that a kite? Is
- 23:49Speaker 2: that a drone? But all this other stuff, this whole
- 23:52Speaker 2: buzz is happening now. This little preamble took six seconds.
- 23:58Speaker 2: This is going on, and as they is, we all
- 24:00Speaker 2: focus our attention on this thing. And as I am
- 24:05Speaker 2: focused on it, it zigzags. And I mean to tell you,
- 24:10Speaker 2: I have never in my life seen anything move that
- 24:12Speaker 2: damn fast. It's exactly and stopped right above my head.
- 24:18Speaker 2: And I don't know how long it was there. I
- 24:22Speaker 2: don't know if it was like a second or manute,
- 24:25Speaker 2: I don't know. I don't know, but something occurred in
- 24:29Speaker 2: that instant. That feeling of the sand slipping out from
- 24:35Speaker 2: under my feet charred me. I had not felt that
- 24:41Speaker 2: feeling like that since I was a little boy of seven.
- 24:45Speaker 4: Oh wow.
- 24:47Speaker 2: And I became immediately terrified. And I when when I
- 24:56Speaker 2: say afraid, I mean like this kind of afraid. I
- 24:58Speaker 2: don't know if you have ever been this cold, or
- 25:01Speaker 2: this afraid or this you know, embarrassed. This hungover where
- 25:07Speaker 2: your inside, your literal organs are shaking, and that's the
- 25:11Speaker 2: way I was. And then it kind of zipped about
- 25:15Speaker 2: twenty feet away. Everybody is still talking, Oh my god,
- 25:18Speaker 2: do you see this? How fast it most? Blah blah
- 25:20Speaker 2: blah blah. And then it just drifts off into the desert.
- 25:23Speaker 2: And there were, like I said, there were like fifteen
- 25:25Speaker 2: seventeen people there looking at it, all talking about it,
- 25:30Speaker 2: and it was very flat so we could watch it.
- 25:32Speaker 2: And then eventually it blinked out. People are humming about it, and.
- 25:40Speaker 3: What if you have a camera?
- 25:42Speaker 2: Of course not all the cameras and everything else are
- 25:45Speaker 2: inside right, I just told you we were downloading all
- 25:47Speaker 2: this stuff. We figured we were, you know, done for
- 25:50Speaker 2: the day, and their shoot had nothing to do with
- 25:53Speaker 2: any of this stuff. I mean, so I am, I
- 25:58Speaker 2: am dying inside, and I make some stupid comment everybody.
- 26:04Speaker 2: I say, well, you young whipper snappers can hang out all
- 26:11Speaker 2: night and drink. I've got I've got business to do.
- 26:14Speaker 2: I got to write reports. And I went to the
- 26:19Speaker 2: room that was mine and I barricaded the door. I
- 26:29Speaker 2: took the bed and I slid it across the room,
- 26:33Speaker 2: and I took all my luggage and I threw it
- 26:36Speaker 2: up on top of the bed and I sat in
- 26:39Speaker 2: a corner on the floor, and I bawled my eyes out,
- 26:47Speaker 2: and it was horrible. And you have to understand that
- 26:55Speaker 2: this was not a fifty year old guy dealing with something.
- 27:00Speaker 2: This was a seven year old kid who had never
- 27:03Speaker 2: dealt with anything, and so it was horrible. And the
- 27:09Speaker 2: more I cried, the more angry I became. And let
- 27:15Speaker 2: me push in on that a little bit. In my business, Okay,
- 27:18Speaker 2: as a producer, you have to be very left brain.
- 27:22Speaker 2: Li're very very anal retentive. You know boxes being checked,
- 27:26Speaker 2: you know you're moving a lot of money. Usually it's
- 27:28Speaker 2: not yours. So you know, of course the audit trail
- 27:31Speaker 2: has to be perfect. You have to be very you
- 27:33Speaker 2: have to be really on top of it. And me
- 27:35Speaker 2: losing control is unacceptable, unacceptable, and I'm really good at
- 27:40Speaker 2: my job. So I was enraged with myself, and I
- 27:47Speaker 2: realized I could not show this to anyone. Of course,
- 27:50Speaker 2: nobody knows about me and my dark secret. And I
- 27:54Speaker 2: didn't really connect these two things all. I just I
- 27:57Speaker 2: just knew that that was the same feeling. And so
- 28:02Speaker 2: the next morning I didn't sleep at all. Next morning,
- 28:05Speaker 2: I took hot showers, angry. I was gonna go outside.
- 28:08Speaker 2: I was gonna chick ass, right, And I grab a
- 28:11Speaker 2: coffee and I go to the sliding doors and I
- 28:14Speaker 2: cannot walk outside. I am inexplicably petrified of big sky.
- 28:25Speaker 2: Can't do it just And now now I am so angry,
- 28:30Speaker 2: I am so livid at myself, unforgiving. I'm forced to
- 28:37Speaker 2: embarrass myself and wake up two guys who because I
- 28:41Speaker 2: have to go look for locations that day I can
- 28:46Speaker 2: go outside. I have to go with two guys. Now
- 28:50Speaker 2: their gun is looking at me a little side eye
- 28:52Speaker 2: because they I've worked. I've worked for Rhino. I've been
- 28:55Speaker 2: in the business for over thirty three years, but I've
- 29:00Speaker 2: worked for this president production company, Rhino Pictures, for thirteen.
- 29:04Speaker 2: These people know me very very well, and they even
- 29:08Speaker 2: made some silly remark about, well, John, you're just you're
- 29:11Speaker 2: not going to listen to our opinions anyway, why are
- 29:14Speaker 2: you making us go? And so I somehow get through
- 29:20Speaker 2: the last three days of the shoot, and thanks to
- 29:24Speaker 2: some very strong triple distilled Irish whiskey, I make it
- 29:28Speaker 2: back to the coast. But when I get off the plane,
- 29:34Speaker 2: my family and friends they know something's wrong with me.
- 29:39Speaker 2: It got so bad, Preston that I would get to
- 29:43Speaker 2: work very early and wait right beside the door in
- 29:46Speaker 2: my truck and wait for somebody to come so I
- 29:48Speaker 2: can run out and walk with him inside the building.
- 29:52Speaker 2: I could not be alone under that sky.
- 29:55Speaker 1: And Okay, what you're doing, I mean, why nothing.
- 30:01Speaker 2: Think nothing, blind terror, blind terror. I'm not trying to
- 30:06Speaker 2: blind terror. No. No, at this point you have to
- 30:09Speaker 2: understand I am not. And this is what this whole
- 30:12Speaker 2: film is about. It's about me trying to cope with
- 30:14Speaker 2: this and try to figure this out.
- 30:16Speaker 3: You know, you were in a full blown existential crisis.
- 30:18Speaker 2: Right, I could not. And and here's the thing, A
- 30:25Speaker 2: smarter person, a smarter person would have looked for help.
- 30:29Speaker 2: I'm not a smart guy.
- 30:31Speaker 3: Well, that has nothing to do with anything. When you're
- 30:33Speaker 3: in the middle of a crisis, you're boxed in, you're internalized,
- 30:37Speaker 3: and you can't see outside of yourself at all. You're
- 30:39Speaker 3: you're reeling with a playing reel, as you will, of
- 30:44Speaker 3: a movie that you've been playing and playing blaying your
- 30:47Speaker 3: entire life. And it's really hard to turn that movie
- 30:49Speaker 3: off when you're in crisis. So yeah, it has nothing
- 30:52Speaker 3: to do with fear, has nothing to do with how
- 30:54Speaker 3: smart you are at all. It has to do with
- 30:57Speaker 3: whether you're done with it or not yet. And people
- 31:00Speaker 3: don't realize that crisis needs you have to evolve through
- 31:04Speaker 3: the crisis. And when you're done with it, then you
- 31:06Speaker 3: start looking outward and you start evaluating.
- 31:09Speaker 1: So, okay, go on, so well before you do, could
- 31:12Speaker 1: I sorry, sorry, John, but I'm curious because you know,
- 31:16Speaker 1: we had this experience at age seven. How did you
- 31:20Speaker 1: interpret that? Did you just not think about it? Did
- 31:22Speaker 1: you think at any point this was et related until
- 31:26Speaker 1: I mean, when did you start connecting the dots here.
- 31:29Speaker 2: I knew that it was something other, but to me,
- 31:34Speaker 2: the category or the bucket that I put it in
- 31:37Speaker 2: was it was a bully. It was a bully. Wow,
- 31:41Speaker 2: I got beat up by a bully. That was it.
- 31:43Speaker 2: And I don't know if you've ever been picked on, Preston,
- 31:46Speaker 2: but like I said, I was the smallest kid in
- 31:48Speaker 2: my class until high school, so I had ample opportunity
- 31:52Speaker 2: to be picked on. So it was just one of
- 31:54Speaker 2: those things. Now, now this fear, by the way, thank
- 31:59Speaker 2: you very much Dolly for your comments. You possess something
- 32:02Speaker 2: I do not, which is wisdom, and in that particular
- 32:05Speaker 2: say I had no wisdom at all. So and this
- 32:11Speaker 2: was compounded because I am no longer the smallest kid
- 32:17Speaker 2: in my class. I'm about six three and two hundred
- 32:20Speaker 2: and seventy pounds, so I very rarely feel uncomfortable or
- 32:27Speaker 2: nervous round anything, right, And for me to feel that
- 32:32Speaker 2: kind of unmitigated fear is intolerable, intolerable, and so I
- 32:39Speaker 2: was very very It started to poison everything I touched.
- 32:44Speaker 2: I couldn't communicate with people. I was shut down. I'm
- 32:49Speaker 2: you know, I'm usually a very outgoing guy. Because of
- 32:51Speaker 2: my business. I couldn't really talk. I had problems. I
- 32:55Speaker 2: had a lot of problems. And so the position I
- 33:00Speaker 2: took was when I finally said, you know, I'm sick
- 33:03Speaker 2: and tired of being sick and tired. Right, I said, look,
- 33:10Speaker 2: you were not as smart. This is where this is
- 33:12Speaker 2: where I was singing. I know, Dolly, you and I
- 33:14Speaker 2: differ on this, but this is let me just say
- 33:16Speaker 2: this because it'll make sense to you. I think. I said, look,
- 33:19Speaker 2: you are nobody special, you are nothing smart. There must
- 33:23Speaker 2: be people with experiences like this. There must. Now I'm
- 33:26Speaker 2: not unlike Preston, I'm not interested at this point in
- 33:30Speaker 2: my story. I'm not interested at all in their experiences.
- 33:33Speaker 2: I'd give a shit. Okay, what I'm interested is, how
- 33:37Speaker 2: the hell do you live your life with this? How
- 33:42Speaker 2: can anybody in their how can they go grocery shopping
- 33:46Speaker 2: and not look around like the world is asleep? Holy crap, guys,
- 33:50Speaker 2: do you know there's a reality here that is total
- 33:53Speaker 2: in conflict with what you think is reality? Okay, that's
- 33:56Speaker 2: where my mind was. Okay, all right, Okay. So I
- 34:01Speaker 2: started to read a little bit, and what I realized was,
- 34:06Speaker 2: even though some of these accounts were interesting and frightening,
- 34:15Speaker 2: but they lacked they lacked any kind of heart. For me,
- 34:19Speaker 2: I needed some sort of human contact to make it
- 34:24Speaker 2: real to me. I had to have somebody stare me
- 34:26Speaker 2: in the eye and tell me. So I started at
- 34:30Speaker 2: that point to try to find people who had had
- 34:33Speaker 2: experiences and I wanted to talk to them. And that
- 34:38Speaker 2: led me to interviewing a few people. I mean, the
- 34:41Speaker 2: interviewing is what I do for a living, so I
- 34:43Speaker 2: would interview it and I would offer them a tape
- 34:45Speaker 2: of it. I said, listen, you can have this, you know.
- 34:47Speaker 2: And then after hearing a few of those, that kind
- 34:49Speaker 2: of gave me a little bit of courage, and I
- 34:51Speaker 2: started to talk about myself and share that with them
- 34:54Speaker 2: and ask them for their input. And then that led
- 34:57Speaker 2: me to something that I know, to you two seems
- 35:02Speaker 2: because of who you are, it seems completely obvious. To me.
- 35:08Speaker 2: It was not. I could remember detail for detail everything
- 35:13Speaker 2: that happened, except how in the world did I get
- 35:19Speaker 2: switched around with that character? How is my back in
- 35:23Speaker 2: the hallway? What happened? We didn't dance, we didn't hug,
- 35:27Speaker 2: I was, you know, swinging at him. How the hell
- 35:29Speaker 2: did that happen. So in those groups of people that
- 35:37Speaker 2: I started to talk to, somebody said, listen, you should.
- 35:42Speaker 2: There's a way to do this, and there are people
- 35:45Speaker 2: who specialize in these regressions that can be very good
- 35:49Speaker 2: and whatever. And I have to tell you once again,
- 35:52Speaker 2: I'm just being honest with you. I lied my entire life,
- 35:55Speaker 2: so I tell the truth all the time. Now I
- 35:59Speaker 2: thought it was bullshit. I said, come on, you're gonna
- 36:02Speaker 2: hypnotize me. They can't. You can't get in here. There's
- 36:05Speaker 2: no freaking way. And then they introduced me to a woman.
- 36:10Speaker 2: And maybe you guys know her, I don't. I didn't
- 36:12Speaker 2: know her. Her name is Deb's Shocked. She has a
- 36:17Speaker 2: global practice and she works with a lot of abductees
- 36:23Speaker 2: or people who say they're contact ees or this sort
- 36:25Speaker 2: of thing. And she's been around for decades and she
- 36:30Speaker 2: does quantum hypnosis. Now, once again, all of this completely
- 36:35Speaker 2: above my head. I don't know anything about that. I
- 36:37Speaker 2: don't know, and I'm thinking it's all crap. And then
- 36:40Speaker 2: I need her. And remember I'm about six y three.
- 36:43Speaker 2: This woman is like an elf. She's a tiny, little
- 36:45Speaker 2: diminutive thing. And I am not a misogynist in any way,
- 36:48Speaker 2: shape or form. I grew up with five women, which
- 36:51Speaker 2: means I can cook and clean and so better than anybody.
- 36:54Speaker 2: But some of the smartest ladies I know in my life.
- 36:58Speaker 2: It wasn't that. It was just that I, for some
- 37:00Speaker 2: reason my mind said, there's no way this little, tiny
- 37:04Speaker 2: person is going to be able to help me with
- 37:06Speaker 2: something that's so big that I can't even address. I
- 37:10Speaker 2: can't wrap my arms around. And she looked at me
- 37:13Speaker 2: with this little impish smile, and she said, we'll see.
- 37:18Speaker 2: And then she said to me, she said, look, John,
- 37:21Speaker 2: the truth of the matter is, I'm not going to
- 37:22Speaker 2: do anything to you, She said, I'm going to teach
- 37:25Speaker 2: you how to relax. You have spent your entire life
- 37:31Speaker 2: building this emotional blister around you. This is how you've
- 37:37Speaker 2: ostracized people, keep them in arm's length so they won't
- 37:40Speaker 2: get too close to you, so they won't ask you
- 37:42Speaker 2: important questions. This is you, This is all you, and
- 37:46Speaker 2: so only you can get to this. And when you
- 37:49Speaker 2: finally relax enough, you're going to walk down that hallway
- 37:51Speaker 2: that you built, and you're going to unlock that door
- 37:54Speaker 2: that you locked, and then you're going to walk in
- 37:57Speaker 2: and open up that filing cabinet. Just all you're going
- 38:00Speaker 2: to do is observe and report. So we'd had a
- 38:08Speaker 2: couple of practice sessions where you know, take you back
- 38:10Speaker 2: to your you know, your most beautiful memory about Christmas
- 38:14Speaker 2: or whatever, you know, and I was completely amazed how
- 38:18Speaker 2: vivid the colors were, and I could recall what my
- 38:20Speaker 2: sisters were wearing that morning, and my mom said to me,
- 38:23Speaker 2: and I really built it, really built a big confidence
- 38:28Speaker 2: that this modality worked. And so finally I was thinking
- 38:34Speaker 2: we were ready to do a session, and I had
- 38:37Speaker 2: an idea. This is the first moment that I had
- 38:40Speaker 2: an idea for a film. And what it was is
- 38:44Speaker 2: that I have been suffering so much, and it was
- 38:50Speaker 2: crippling that I realized that there must be other people
- 38:56Speaker 2: out there who had never said a word. Much to
- 39:01Speaker 2: your point of the very beginning President, that this is
- 39:04Speaker 2: almost like a universal sort of thing. A lot of people, yeah,
- 39:09Speaker 2: that they had never said a word, that they had
- 39:11Speaker 2: lived with certain fears or phobias their entire life, that
- 39:14Speaker 2: they would never ever breathe, breathe a question about this.
- 39:20Speaker 2: And I thought, look, if I can ask these questions
- 39:24Speaker 2: and I can be there, Scaramuch, I can be their fool,
- 39:28Speaker 2: I can look like an ass. I'll ask these questions,
- 39:31Speaker 2: I'll find out these answers, and maybe maybe they can
- 39:35Speaker 2: sit in the safety of their living room safety. They're
- 39:38Speaker 2: so fin be able to turn it off, you know,
- 39:40Speaker 2: just like your friend President. You said, had to take
- 39:43Speaker 2: it and bite sizes. I said, maybe that will help
- 39:47Speaker 2: somebody else, because I'm starting to get confidence that I
- 39:50Speaker 2: was going to find some peace. And this is so desperate,
- 39:54Speaker 2: so desperate to find that piece. So Dabs didn't want
- 39:58Speaker 2: to do it. She didn't want to do it. She said, Look, kid,
- 40:02Speaker 2: this is not a carnival. We're not playing some damn
- 40:05Speaker 2: game here. You know this is We're dealing with your psyche,
- 40:09Speaker 2: your soul, your you know, consciousness. You know this is
- 40:12Speaker 2: dangerous territory. We could screw this up, and I want
- 40:16Speaker 2: to be very very careful, especially because you have so
- 40:18Speaker 2: much trauma that you bent up all these years. But
- 40:21Speaker 2: then I described to her what I what I intended.
- 40:28Speaker 2: And you know, if you don't know debts, let me
- 40:30Speaker 2: just say this. You've probably heard this term of christ consciousness.
- 40:36Speaker 2: You know, she's one of these people who give shirt
- 40:38Speaker 2: off her back for you. She's very service to others. Person.
- 40:42Speaker 2: She only cares about the health and welfare of other people.
- 40:45Speaker 2: She's just a loving, loving person, you know, one of
- 40:48Speaker 2: those people that you automatically want to hug. And so
- 40:53Speaker 2: I ap peeled to her on that level and she
- 40:56Speaker 2: said okay. But then then she was very very strict,
- 40:59Speaker 2: and I mean, nobody else could be there and everything else.
- 41:02Speaker 2: So thank god. You know, I worked for a big company.
- 41:05Speaker 2: You know, it's not two guys named Larry and a van.
- 41:08Speaker 2: You know, we have all the toys. So we had
- 41:10Speaker 2: to set up all these remote cameras. Nobody could be
- 41:12Speaker 2: in the building. I had a daisy chain all these
- 41:14Speaker 2: batteries and everything else. And the session took over six
- 41:18Speaker 2: and a half hours. And at the end of that session,
- 41:25Speaker 2: I knew that that was an ultraman and I knew
- 41:31Speaker 2: that I had been taken many times, and I knew
- 41:36Speaker 2: I had not been taken on any ship at all,
- 41:42Speaker 2: and I knew a lot of things. I knew what
- 41:44Speaker 2: those colors were, and I knew and it was I
- 41:49Speaker 2: had to have somebody drive me home. I was so
- 41:51Speaker 2: wiped out and I couldn't look at that footage. I
- 41:56Speaker 2: couldn't look at it for weeks, and then I could
- 41:58Speaker 2: well get a little bit by little bit a little
- 42:01Speaker 2: bit and then finally look at it.
- 42:04Speaker 3: Were you taken? Seriously?
- 42:07Speaker 2: I was taken underground. It was a vast, vast cavern,
- 42:14Speaker 2: and the way the immensity was like this. I'm sure
- 42:17Speaker 2: that both of you have been into a stadium at
- 42:19Speaker 2: some point in your life. If I walked you out
- 42:22Speaker 2: into the middle of a stadium at you know, at midnight, dark,
- 42:27Speaker 2: no lights, and just left you there and there was
- 42:29Speaker 2: not a soul in there, that's the kind of immensity
- 42:31Speaker 2: that I'm talking. It was gigantic, and I could tell
- 42:34Speaker 2: that it was underground. I could smell and feel the
- 42:37Speaker 2: moisture in the air. And at the very apex of
- 42:41Speaker 2: the top part of this dome or whatever there was,
- 42:46Speaker 2: there was an opening, but it was irregular, and I
- 42:49Speaker 2: could see like stalagmite stalagtites, and there was there was
- 42:52Speaker 2: a light outside, but it wasn't directly above. It was
- 42:55Speaker 2: you know, kind of off one side. And so I
- 43:01Speaker 2: hope I answered your question. I apologize I got lost there,
- 43:05Speaker 2: Thank you Christmas. So at the end of that, I
- 43:15Speaker 2: then felt compelled to really assemble this film with the
- 43:22Speaker 2: entire idea of asking questions that contact ees or abductees ask,
- 43:29Speaker 2: you know, for example, we address screen memories, we address
- 43:35Speaker 2: why me, we address missions, we address why am I
- 43:39Speaker 2: afraid of the dark? Or why do I have these
- 43:41Speaker 2: uncontrollable fears? And even though I am in the film,
- 43:47Speaker 2: this is it's a question I'm searching. And the film
- 43:51Speaker 2: differs from other documentaries. And I'm sure that both of
- 43:53Speaker 2: you have seen a thousand of them. But I have
- 43:57Speaker 2: to tread. I have to tread carefully here because as
- 44:00Speaker 2: I as I said, I'm not a smart guy, so
- 44:02Speaker 2: I'm going to use the wrong words. But hear me
- 44:04Speaker 2: out here. I'm speaking to you from the heart. Most
- 44:08Speaker 2: of the people who make documentaries about UFOs, aliens or
- 44:13Speaker 2: something like this, they're usually really smart investigators, and for
- 44:23Speaker 2: the most part, they're not experiences, or maybe they became
- 44:25Speaker 2: experiences after they became involved in the thing, but they're
- 44:29Speaker 2: not filmmakers, right, So what they do is they create
- 44:33Speaker 2: these narratives that like are third party. So you kind
- 44:36Speaker 2: of see a clip and you hear Walter winshow in
- 44:38Speaker 2: the background, you know, back then night game, farte that
- 44:41Speaker 2: sort of thing. So when you leave, when you leave,
- 44:43Speaker 2: your brain is filled with information maybe you never knew,
- 44:47Speaker 2: and so you're you're educated, but you're not healed. I
- 44:54Speaker 2: am a filmmaker. I make TV shows and films and commercials.
- 44:57Speaker 2: So what I did was my film is immersive. From
- 45:02Speaker 2: the very first frame, the viewers are inside the experience.
- 45:07Speaker 2: They're like, you know, in my pocket or on my shoulder,
- 45:10Speaker 2: and they experience this tremendous fear, this trauma. And we
- 45:14Speaker 2: start off. You know, one of my critics, well several
- 45:17Speaker 2: of my critics, a lot of people, they kind of
- 45:22Speaker 2: pooh pooh it because they think of it as like remedio.
- 45:24Speaker 2: And when I try to share with them, is this,
- 45:26Speaker 2: I say, look, you know, as evolved as you're thinking,
- 45:29Speaker 2: is I'm addressing the world, and the world at large
- 45:34Speaker 2: at large is ignorant. And I don't mean that in derogatory,
- 45:38Speaker 2: since I mean that is an unknowing, right. So when
- 45:42Speaker 2: you're ignorant, that breeds fear. Right. So I start the
- 45:47Speaker 2: world off where the world is, and I respect them
- 45:50Speaker 2: for where they were because that's where I was. And
- 45:53Speaker 2: then we shepherd them through that fear, accepting it as real,
- 45:58Speaker 2: but showing the alter point and understanding it. And as
- 46:02Speaker 2: we get to the other side. There's more and more
- 46:05Speaker 2: confidence and more and more peace to and it leads
- 46:09Speaker 2: to some semblance of understanding.
- 46:13Speaker 3: In that understanding. In that understanding, is it a positive
- 46:18Speaker 3: understanding or just a negative?
- 46:21Speaker 2: Okay, no, it's not. It's not neutral, and it's not negative.
- 46:24Speaker 2: It is a positive understanding. I start the film in
- 46:28Speaker 2: fear and I end it with hope. And what is that?
- 46:34Speaker 2: Ah well, let me say this way. Let me answer
- 46:37Speaker 2: your question this way. My film is called Alien Abduction Answers, right,
- 46:42Speaker 2: And I take a lot of guff for that. Oh
- 46:44Speaker 2: I'm the answer man. No, no, no, I'm looking for
- 46:47Speaker 2: the answers. That's the point. And so what happens is
- 46:50Speaker 2: that I have understood realized that your experience is different
- 46:55Speaker 2: than my experience is different. Some experiences are very of this,
- 46:59Speaker 2: very very simwhere some of the we're very very different.
- 47:01Speaker 2: And that's there's a lot of variables there, and I've
- 47:03Speaker 2: come to some uh. And part of that is I
- 47:06Speaker 2: address that in the film as well, about trying to
- 47:08Speaker 2: have all the answers claiming. You know, I kind of
- 47:11Speaker 2: laugh a little bit about the younger people who say,
- 47:13Speaker 2: my truth. I'm old enough to realize you know, well, okay,
- 47:16Speaker 2: that's an opinion that no one else shares. That's why yours. So.
- 47:21Speaker 2: But but what I try to which I have a
- 47:23Speaker 2: real empathy now for folks, because what they're doing is
- 47:26Speaker 2: they're grappling with things that they may not understand or
- 47:29Speaker 2: they understand this much of it, and they're trying to
- 47:31Speaker 2: translate it into words, and then they try to very clunkily,
- 47:35Speaker 2: you know, express to other people, and so's lost in
- 47:37Speaker 2: the translation.
- 47:38Speaker 3: So the real quick question, has it occurred to you
- 47:45Speaker 3: that what you're doing? And I respect it, totally respected, right, Uh,
- 47:51Speaker 3: have you figured yet that the journey, the journey that
- 47:55Speaker 3: you took, and the journey that everybody took that you've
- 47:58Speaker 3: interviewed and put in to your movie, every one of
- 48:01Speaker 3: your journeys is extremely personal and then it takes each
- 48:05Speaker 3: and every one of you on your own to walk
- 48:07Speaker 3: through it. And then I see you gathering them to
- 48:11Speaker 3: help each other walk through it. Is that what you
- 48:13Speaker 3: were trying to do.
- 48:16Speaker 2: I didn't know that that's what I was doing, because
- 48:19Speaker 2: this really is a true journey, because you know, some
- 48:22Speaker 2: documentaries they kind of had a presupposition at the end.
- 48:26Speaker 2: I didn't. I was like, I have no freaking out
- 48:29Speaker 2: idea where this is going to take me. But I
- 48:30Speaker 2: need to know. But that's exactly the way it ended,
- 48:35Speaker 2: or not ended, but completed that vision. That idea was
- 48:39Speaker 2: that everybody was here to help each other. That in fact,
- 48:41Speaker 2: it has to be not emerging but in the simulation
- 48:46Speaker 2: of all of this information, because the truth is within
- 48:50Speaker 2: there completely. So it is very necessary for Dolly to speak. That,
- 48:54Speaker 2: it's very necessary for Preston's speaking. It's very because we
- 48:58Speaker 2: have to. If you don't mind, I'll just share this
- 49:01Speaker 2: with you. My mind goes to a silly little example
- 49:05Speaker 2: I've used before. The premise is that we take the
- 49:08Speaker 2: three smartest people in the world. Right, so we already
- 49:11Speaker 2: know that the three smartest people. We throw them in
- 49:13Speaker 2: the dark room. We say, hey, what's in there? Somebody
- 49:15Speaker 2: says it's a spear, it's a whip, it's a boulder.
- 49:18Speaker 2: What are you talking about? You turn them the light.
- 49:19Speaker 2: It's an elephant, right, Okay, So here, as a filmmaker,
- 49:24Speaker 2: I press in for nuances. So let's press in. We've
- 49:27Speaker 2: already determined that they're the smartest people in the world,
- 49:29Speaker 2: so they're not giving you errant comments. They're really giving you.
- 49:33Speaker 2: They're perfect assertation of the facts that they have. The
- 49:37Speaker 2: second thing is this, they're wrapping their arms around as
- 49:40Speaker 2: much as of the phenomenon as they can. Okay, so
- 49:44Speaker 2: they're doing everything within their power to do that. Number Three,
- 49:48Speaker 2: they're trying to translate these images into something they understand,
- 49:52Speaker 2: because remember they're bereft of some of their senses. It's dark,
- 49:55Speaker 2: and we as humans, we are bereft of some of
- 49:58Speaker 2: these filters the truly true process this information. And then
- 50:04Speaker 2: they're trying to translate that into an imperfect medium language.
- 50:09Speaker 2: And then they spotted out to us outside in the hallway,
- 50:12Speaker 2: and now we have to retranslate it into something. But
- 50:15Speaker 2: the moral to that story is, to your point, Dolly,
- 50:19Speaker 2: we need that person who said it was a spear
- 50:22Speaker 2: and a whip and a boulder to kind of assemble
- 50:25Speaker 2: this truth together. This is why it is so important
- 50:29Speaker 2: for us to come together in unity to try to
- 50:34Speaker 2: really come to grips with this, because what we're dealing with,
- 50:38Speaker 2: even the stuff that we do understand, is a piece
- 50:40Speaker 2: of this and we need to understand much much much more.
- 50:45Speaker 2: Ask you another question, christmss.
- 50:47Speaker 3: Have you determined on your own if there is a
- 50:52Speaker 3: way to you, You and each one of us, everybody
- 50:57Speaker 3: have an ability to wake up your mind so that
- 51:00Speaker 3: you can initiate a communion or a conversation. That's what
- 51:08Speaker 3: you came in contact with.
- 51:10Speaker 2: Yeah, I think that's a brilliant question. I'm sorry to
- 51:14Speaker 2: use the elephant example again, but I have learned. I
- 51:19Speaker 2: have learned even though I like to eat, as you
- 51:21Speaker 2: can tell, even though I like to eat, you can't
- 51:25Speaker 2: eat the elephant in one bite. So my first film,
- 51:29Speaker 2: my first film about this is Alien Abduction Answers, and
- 51:34Speaker 2: what it is is to laying out these landmarks that
- 51:36Speaker 2: people can find and say, ask these questions, maybe sometimes
- 51:41Speaker 2: in fear. You're so frozen, that's what I was. So
- 51:44Speaker 2: frozen that you're like a deer in the headlights, so
- 51:46Speaker 2: you can't move either way. Like to your point you
- 51:49Speaker 2: said in that crisis, there's no logic to anything. You're
- 51:53Speaker 2: just falling. You're falling your phone. So I'm trying to
- 51:55Speaker 2: help people there. So the first film takes people from
- 51:58Speaker 2: ignorance to some sense of understanding. The second film, which
- 52:03Speaker 2: I'm working on right now, is called Alien Abduction Awakening.
- 52:08Speaker 2: So the idea is is that after you have some
- 52:11Speaker 2: kind of semblance, some sort of idea of what's going on. Well,
- 52:14Speaker 2: now you can make decisions. You're no longer afraid. A
- 52:17Speaker 2: silly example would be like this. You walk into a
- 52:19Speaker 2: dark room and you see a figure in the corner.
- 52:22Speaker 2: You turn on the light. Ah, it's your jacket on
- 52:25Speaker 2: the chair. Okay, Well, now you don't have to be afraid.
- 52:29Speaker 2: You can make decisions and look, and all decisions are fair.
- 52:33Speaker 2: You can say, hey, I am never going to that
- 52:35Speaker 2: damn room again. That's a decision. You can say, Hey,
- 52:38Speaker 2: I'm going to hang up that jacket so this never
- 52:41Speaker 2: happens to me again. That's a decision. You can say, hey, listen,
- 52:45Speaker 2: that jacket doesn't even belong here. I'm gonna put it
- 52:47Speaker 2: in my winter. You can make decisions, you can participate,
- 52:51Speaker 2: and as soon as you learn that you can participate,
- 52:54Speaker 2: you take more and more of it. It becomes more
- 52:58Speaker 2: and more okay, and then you realize, oh, well, there's
- 53:00Speaker 2: a derivative to this, and there's a question I can
- 53:03Speaker 2: ask about this, and now I no longer have to
- 53:05Speaker 2: be afraid. One of my summary statements in the film,
- 53:08Speaker 2: there're a couple, but one of them is this, but
- 53:11Speaker 2: I can look at this now through the eyes of
- 53:13Speaker 2: a man no longer a boy, and I do not
- 53:16Speaker 2: have to be afraid. But I must deal with this
- 53:21Speaker 2: because it is the truth, and so now I have
- 53:24Speaker 2: to participate it, participate with it some way, somehow, you know,
- 53:31Speaker 2: long answer, I apologize, I'm irish if I had whiskey.
- 53:35Speaker 2: If I had whiskey, we'd be here trying.
- 53:38Speaker 3: To add something in the way you just said you
- 53:40Speaker 3: shining the light. Okay, that is a very good analogy,
- 53:44Speaker 3: algorom to what you're talking about. One of the things
- 53:48Speaker 3: that I was very blessed to have in my life
- 53:51Speaker 3: was guidance that you didn't have. And I had open
- 53:54Speaker 3: communication with my father, which he didn't have. One of
- 53:58Speaker 3: the things that he said to me, and I would
- 53:59Speaker 3: like to capacit to you right now, is that to
- 54:03Speaker 3: know all that is knowable and then proceed is the
- 54:08Speaker 3: greatest gift you give to yourself, because as you shine
- 54:11Speaker 3: the light on everything, as you look with the light,
- 54:14Speaker 3: your perspective changes, what you understand changes, and you start
- 54:19Speaker 3: to wear what you call wisdom in your psyche and
- 54:23Speaker 3: your ability and how you feel about things. And that's
- 54:28Speaker 3: how we learn period. Okay, And there's no bully in this.
- 54:33Speaker 3: You're the only person marking your trail. You, okay, And
- 54:38Speaker 3: so I just wanted you to know that that what
- 54:40Speaker 3: you're doing actually is trying to know all that is noble,
- 54:43Speaker 3: and you're proceeding, and I think that's fantastic. I'm glad
- 54:47Speaker 3: to see you doing it because I've met many people
- 54:50Speaker 3: and since I started coming out and talking to people
- 54:54Speaker 3: that don't do that, they live in absolute, abject, unbelievable
- 54:58Speaker 3: fear and it it is. It is heartbreaking, literally, and
- 55:04Speaker 3: I'm proud of you actually, because you're doing a good job.
- 55:07Speaker 2: You really are than you can.
- 55:09Speaker 1: I ask you, John, what what do you feel you
- 55:11Speaker 1: have gained from this experience? Is this something that you
- 55:15Speaker 1: wish didn't happen to you? Or how has it affected you?
- 55:18Speaker 1: Have you gained anything from all of these experiences.
- 55:23Speaker 2: About your first rodeo, I'm president. Well, first of all,
- 55:31Speaker 2: First of all, I can walk outside now, Yes, a
- 55:37Speaker 2: huge thing, A huge thing. I know it sounds stupid,
- 55:39Speaker 2: but for me it was hard. Also a couple of things.
- 55:48Speaker 2: I realized I'm not alone, which is a huge, huge thing.
- 55:55Speaker 2: I realized that this is a this is a communication
- 56:03Speaker 2: more than anything there is. And the reason that we
- 56:07Speaker 2: have these slips between that communication misunderstandings is there's a
- 56:15Speaker 2: myriad of reasons, but two of them is, first of all,
- 56:18Speaker 2: are fear because that clouds everything because it's so I mean,
- 56:21Speaker 2: I hate to use this return, it's so alien to us.
- 56:25Speaker 2: But the second thing is that it you know, so
- 56:28Speaker 2: many times you think about Earth. Okay, it's our planet.
- 56:32Speaker 2: We're humans, right, there are cultures on our planet that
- 56:36Speaker 2: we have a difficult time understanding. There's certain cultures that
- 56:39Speaker 2: if you belt very loudly after a meal, it's considered
- 56:41Speaker 2: a compliment. To me, it would be reprehensible. How could
- 56:44Speaker 2: you possibly do that? There? I would be considered rude,
- 56:46Speaker 2: which doesn't make any sense to me at all. It's
- 56:48Speaker 2: a non sequatour. So I've understood now that I need
- 56:53Speaker 2: to reserve my judgment and really masticate over these things,
- 56:57Speaker 2: because it just could be I could just be misunderstanding things. Also,
- 57:07Speaker 2: I've realized that there are there is a reason for
- 57:13Speaker 2: these contacts, a reason for this communication, and I truly believe.
- 57:22Speaker 2: I truly believe in my film you'll see that I
- 57:26Speaker 2: have Because I'm a filmmaker, I tell things and stories
- 57:31Speaker 2: I apologize. But one of the things I do is
- 57:34Speaker 2: I say this. I said, look, you know, when people
- 57:35Speaker 2: talk about answers, it's our ego that kind of wants
- 57:39Speaker 2: to say I own this idea, I own this answer,
- 57:44Speaker 2: And so we really can't do that. We have to
- 57:46Speaker 2: be much more open minded about it. And the example
- 57:49Speaker 2: I give is this elon Musk. Everybody knows who the
- 57:51Speaker 2: guy is. He wants to go to Mars. So this
- 57:53Speaker 2: little story is that he gets to Mars and up
- 57:56Speaker 2: the door goes and out of the port somebody from Kenya,
- 58:01Speaker 2: somebody from Asia, somebody who's on the volleyball team from Norway, right,
- 58:07Speaker 2: and they all come out, and there's a Martian and
- 58:10Speaker 2: the Martian guy comes out and he says, Okay, who's
- 58:12Speaker 2: the Earthlink? Everybody looks different, everybody's a different size. They
- 58:17Speaker 2: all are different because of their evolution and their origin
- 58:19Speaker 2: on the planet. And they might also have different motivations.
- 58:23Speaker 2: Maybe one is just exploration, maybe one is sight saying,
- 58:29Speaker 2: maybe one is conquest. Who knows. I mean, but right,
- 58:33Speaker 2: don't watch this. But the moral to the story is
- 58:35Speaker 2: that's one ship from one planet. If we accept that
- 58:40Speaker 2: life is prolific throughout the universe. There's no way that
- 58:43Speaker 2: any one person can have all that information. I'm not
- 58:47Speaker 2: saying that they don't own the relationship or the association
- 58:51Speaker 2: that they've had with the people that have contacted them,
- 58:54Speaker 2: of course, because I can't. I wasn't there. I didn't
- 58:56Speaker 2: share that. This is why you have to be very
- 58:58Speaker 2: very careful with the film. You're in the discernment in
- 59:01Speaker 2: your mind when you're listening. When you guys see the film,
- 59:03Speaker 2: you're going to see some of the folks that I interviewed.
- 59:09Speaker 2: They have little similarity, but most of them are very
- 59:12Speaker 2: very different, extremely different. And I had to scratch my
- 59:16Speaker 2: head a couple of times, like, wow, what does this mean.
- 59:19Speaker 2: It's only through this process that I have and by
- 59:22Speaker 2: the way, to your point, President, I have gained this
- 59:25Speaker 2: sort of empathy, this sort of understanding that this is
- 59:29Speaker 2: a huge, huge picture. And the thing I think, you
- 59:34Speaker 2: know what I think, honestly that my conclusion is is
- 59:40Speaker 2: that the original sin of humans is really our ego.
- 59:46Speaker 2: Think about this. Everybody who denies the phenomena, whatever the
- 59:50Speaker 2: reason is, is because of their ego, because they in
- 59:52Speaker 2: fact know better. And you guys are all wearing tinfoil
- 59:55Speaker 2: hats and you're idiots and I'm the smartest guy in
- 59:57Speaker 2: the room. Then think about this, the people who locked
- 1:00:01Speaker 2: on to that experience and then they only have the
- 1:00:03Speaker 2: one answer why because they're the only person. Come on,
- 1:00:07Speaker 2: this is a universal thing that's brushing up. So there's
- 1:00:10Speaker 2: more what's in the pot, what's in the way the ego,
- 1:00:13Speaker 2: and then take a look at this. Oh my goodness,
- 1:00:15Speaker 2: and this is the thing that breaks my damn heart
- 1:00:17Speaker 2: more than anything.
- 1:00:19Speaker 5: You have people who have these incredible experiences and it
- 1:00:24Speaker 5: changes their life, and then they allow their ego to
- 1:00:28Speaker 5: get in the way and they start these.
- 1:00:31Speaker 2: Things where only they have the answer and people have
- 1:00:35Speaker 2: to adhere to them, and you know, and they start
- 1:00:38Speaker 2: a cult or something like. Oh my god. It just
- 1:00:41Speaker 2: breaks my heart because it's like they took two steps
- 1:00:43Speaker 2: forward and eight steps back and then they hurt other
- 1:00:47Speaker 2: people by that. And that's why I say, listen, man,
- 1:00:49Speaker 2: this film is not about me. It's not about me
- 1:00:52Speaker 2: at all. It's not even about the bright shiny lights
- 1:00:54Speaker 2: in the sky. It's about you and you and you
- 1:00:57Speaker 2: and you and you and us. Because let me say this,
- 1:01:02Speaker 2: the bright shiny lights blink out, we're the only ones
- 1:01:06Speaker 2: in the left.
- 1:01:08Speaker 1: So how does your family feel about I mean, have
- 1:01:10Speaker 1: you talked to your parents? Have they had experiences?
- 1:01:13Speaker 2: You know, you know, you're that kind of guy who
- 1:01:16Speaker 2: would see a cut and go that her? Is that her? Her? Well,
- 1:01:22Speaker 2: a couple of things, A couple of things. Both my
- 1:01:25Speaker 2: parents are past, God bless them. I suspect I never
- 1:01:32Speaker 2: talked to him, but I suspect my father had such
- 1:01:34Speaker 2: a visceral, vehement response that he must have had some
- 1:01:38Speaker 2: sort of brush with this thing whatever, this whatever, you know,
- 1:01:43Speaker 2: other and that's why he reacted so so over the top. I,
- 1:01:53Speaker 2: as I said, I lied about it or obvious scated
- 1:01:56Speaker 2: about it my entire life. So you know, I do
- 1:02:00Speaker 2: stuff across the country to around the world, and my
- 1:02:04Speaker 2: family knows that. You know, I'm in the business, right,
- 1:02:06Speaker 2: so you know, it's like, what are you doing? I'm
- 1:02:08Speaker 2: just you know, doing a shoot or whatever. So when
- 1:02:13Speaker 2: we got the film, we successfully negotiated for it to
- 1:02:16Speaker 2: be distributed by Virtual Films. I knew it was going
- 1:02:18Speaker 2: to be released and then I had a thought that
- 1:02:21Speaker 2: I never thought about, how is this going to affect
- 1:02:24Speaker 2: my family? But they didn't know. So I had to
- 1:02:29Speaker 2: have talk talk and well, the talk turned into several talks,
- 1:02:36Speaker 2: as you can imagine, and there were a lot of
- 1:02:38Speaker 2: this at the very beginning, and then I mean, and
- 1:02:43Speaker 2: then it took some dark, dark turns. I mean, there
- 1:02:45Speaker 2: were there were questions about the pressure that I was
- 1:02:48Speaker 2: under and work and things like this, or his dad
- 1:02:51Speaker 2: abusing drugs or or you know, anything that would be
- 1:02:55Speaker 2: a more palatable answer than your father has been, you
- 1:02:59Speaker 2: know what I mean. So and then that was very
- 1:03:02Speaker 2: hurtful to me because I'm still recovering. I mean, I
- 1:03:05Speaker 2: still get teary eyed, because you know, I always tell people,
- 1:03:09Speaker 2: I said, look, this body is not the result of
- 1:03:11Speaker 2: one double whopper, many many many over many years, and
- 1:03:17Speaker 2: so that healing process, that coming to terms with it
- 1:03:20Speaker 2: takes some time. And I lied about it for you know,
- 1:03:23Speaker 2: almost fifty years. So that occurred. I was just at
- 1:03:28Speaker 2: a wedding not too long ago, and there were people
- 1:03:30Speaker 2: that I've known my entire life who walked up right
- 1:03:33Speaker 2: here and talked past me and would not look at me,
- 1:03:37Speaker 2: would not would not recognize me as being present. But
- 1:03:42Speaker 2: I will tell you this, on the other side of
- 1:03:45Speaker 2: that coin, there are people that come out of the
- 1:03:47Speaker 2: woodwork that I've known on my life. Who over one
- 1:03:49Speaker 2: of these? Hey, John, And so you know, I guess
- 1:03:57Speaker 2: I can't answer your question. I can't say yes, you know,
- 1:04:00Speaker 2: but that's my answer.
- 1:04:03Speaker 1: I get it. Yeah, I feel like in some ways
- 1:04:06Speaker 1: I see parallels between you and me because I found
- 1:04:09Speaker 1: out you that those were real, not through personal experience,
- 1:04:11Speaker 1: but from the experiences of my family. And it was
- 1:04:15Speaker 1: a huge shock and it took me quite a bit
- 1:04:18Speaker 1: to come to grips with it. And that's kind of
- 1:04:19Speaker 1: why I started writing books, because I wanted to understand
- 1:04:22Speaker 1: it certainly, and I think, you know, having had such
- 1:04:28Speaker 1: a hard time with it, and I didn't even actually
- 1:04:29Speaker 1: experience it firsthand, I can only imagine how difficult it
- 1:04:33Speaker 1: is for someone who's you know, experiencing it. So, yeah,
- 1:04:37Speaker 1: bend you for you know, going there. Yeah, my family,
- 1:04:41Speaker 1: some of them weren't happy with me and didn't know what,
- 1:04:43Speaker 1: you know, like, what are you doing? This is important?
- 1:04:47Speaker 1: You need to know this, This is actually happening. This
- 1:04:50Speaker 1: is no joke.
- 1:04:52Speaker 2: Agreed, agreed, And you know what that that might be
- 1:04:55Speaker 2: a good segue to mention mister Whitley Strieber. I had
- 1:05:02Speaker 2: assembled the film and it was very emotional, very very emotional,
- 1:05:09Speaker 2: and for me it felt right. I was just I
- 1:05:12Speaker 2: was just so damned and determined to get it all
- 1:05:15Speaker 2: out there. But then I realized it was almost like
- 1:05:17Speaker 2: vomiting all this emotion over somebody and they wouldn't be
- 1:05:21Speaker 2: able to take it all in. It would be overwhelming
- 1:05:23Speaker 2: that they And I also wanted to make sure, like you, Preston,
- 1:05:26Speaker 2: I wanted to make sure that people who were not
- 1:05:29Speaker 2: familiar with the phenomena that they could approach it. And
- 1:05:32Speaker 2: I thought, son of a gun, this is you know.
- 1:05:35Speaker 2: So I had to separate myself from that very visceral,
- 1:05:38Speaker 2: you know, the effects that it was having on me,
- 1:05:42Speaker 2: to you know, a proper director, proper producer, and say, look,
- 1:05:46Speaker 2: this is uneven, and I need to I need to
- 1:05:49Speaker 2: make it edible. I needed to make it watchable. And
- 1:05:55Speaker 2: so I needed a counterpoint, for lack of a phrase,
- 1:06:00Speaker 2: I'm clunky here, like a sage voice. And I thought
- 1:06:05Speaker 2: about it and thought about it, and remember I told
- 1:06:07Speaker 2: you at the very beginning, I started to read a
- 1:06:08Speaker 2: little bit and Whitley Streeper's voice, you know, came up,
- 1:06:14Speaker 2: just because he's been around for so long and he
- 1:06:16Speaker 2: was so prolific, and so I I didn't know him.
- 1:06:20Speaker 2: Of course, I don't know anybody in the community. So
- 1:06:25Speaker 2: what I did was I asked a friend of a
- 1:06:27Speaker 2: friend and then Debs knew somebody. That shocked he knew somebody,
- 1:06:31Speaker 2: and we eventually got to and I'll tell you, I'll
- 1:06:33Speaker 2: tell you funny stories since you know it, Okay, The
- 1:06:37Speaker 2: first time I ever spoke to Whitley Streeper was on
- 1:06:40Speaker 2: the phone. I'm sorry, it was the Zoom and he
- 1:06:44Speaker 2: was very tough on me. And now, remember, I've met
- 1:06:47Speaker 2: with some of the biggest stars in the world. You know,
- 1:06:49Speaker 2: I'm talking about popular stars, Denzel Washington, you know, Christian Pine,
- 1:06:53Speaker 2: you know whatever to me, the Oliphant, et cetera, Rose
- 1:06:57Speaker 2: Aerie Dawson. And usually I'm very very nice. I'm an
- 1:07:00Speaker 2: affable guy, very nice to me. But he was tough,
- 1:07:04Speaker 2: and I thought, wow, you know, I'm kind of surprised.
- 1:07:09Speaker 2: I had no idea that what he was doing is
- 1:07:11Speaker 2: he was vetting me, right.
- 1:07:13Speaker 6: Because I I the film was released in May, and
- 1:07:20Speaker 6: I have met some very interesting individuals, and God bless
- 1:07:25Speaker 6: them all because I don't know what they're dealing with,
- 1:07:27Speaker 6: all of them, God bless them all.
- 1:07:29Speaker 2: But I've met some very interesting individuals who would not
- 1:07:32Speaker 2: be completely filled with integrity. Let's just say that. Let's
- 1:07:39Speaker 2: just say that because of the background or whatever. And
- 1:07:42Speaker 2: I think what he was doing was making damn sure
- 1:07:44Speaker 2: that I was not some jerk, you know, or some
- 1:07:47Speaker 2: guy working out of his van, or I just wanted
- 1:07:49Speaker 2: to steal his time, and so he vetted me pretty harsh.
- 1:07:53Speaker 2: And I have to tell you I was I was
- 1:07:56Speaker 2: such a sensitive position. I was such a damaged kid
- 1:08:00Speaker 2: that I took it personally. I thought, this guy hates
- 1:08:03Speaker 2: me so but no, but I told you, this is
- 1:08:07Speaker 2: a funny story. So I'm going to get to the
- 1:08:09Speaker 2: funny part right now. So here's the deal. So I
- 1:08:13Speaker 2: said to him, I said, mister Struber, let me send
- 1:08:15Speaker 2: you the questions up front that I would ask you.
- 1:08:18Speaker 2: And if you know, take a red marker you don't
- 1:08:20Speaker 2: like anything, cross it out if it's inappropriate. Whatever. So
- 1:08:23Speaker 2: what I did was I said about I told you
- 1:08:25Speaker 2: I was a biblic file off of off air. So
- 1:08:27Speaker 2: what I did was I purchased every single book he's
- 1:08:30Speaker 2: ever produced, every single one, all the fiction on the philosophy,
- 1:08:33Speaker 2: all of the all of the abduction contact, everything, and
- 1:08:37Speaker 2: I read every single every single word, and I put
- 1:08:41Speaker 2: together about sixty three sixty five questions, and I mean
- 1:08:45Speaker 2: detailed questions, very very deep, and I sent it to him.
- 1:08:50Speaker 2: He called me and he said, listen, I nobody has
- 1:08:54Speaker 2: ever really asked me some of these nuanced things. I okay, okay,
- 1:09:00Speaker 2: I agree to this interview. And I was very pleased.
- 1:09:04Speaker 2: And he didn't redline a single one. So I went
- 1:09:06Speaker 2: out to California and I thought, listen, it would probably
- 1:09:10Speaker 2: be a good idea if maybe we broke some bread
- 1:09:12Speaker 2: the night before. So we get a little bit of
- 1:09:14Speaker 2: a rapport because I don't know this man right, and
- 1:09:17Speaker 2: I really wanted him to not be thinking I don't
- 1:09:20Speaker 2: like this big egg headed kid, instead of oh this
- 1:09:25Speaker 2: is John. I had lunch with him yesterday, or had
- 1:09:26Speaker 2: dinner with him. So we did. And that's the part
- 1:09:30Speaker 2: that gets really funny. He was very sarcastic. He was
- 1:09:34Speaker 2: very funny, and he made fun of me the entire time.
- 1:09:38Speaker 2: I brey laughed the entire evening. It was charming. He
- 1:09:43Speaker 2: was quick, he was witty. I learned a few new
- 1:09:45Speaker 2: words from him. His lexicon is much larger than mine.
- 1:09:48Speaker 2: So it was a blessed evening. Right, So now I'll
- 1:09:52Speaker 2: tell you something that's very heartwarming about it. So the
- 1:09:55Speaker 2: very next day, you know, I have a big team,
- 1:10:00Speaker 2: lots of lights, make of people, the whole bit. And
- 1:10:02Speaker 2: he's commenting, wow, this is you know, big production. Yeah.
- 1:10:07Speaker 2: And so we get ready to shoot and I lean
- 1:10:09Speaker 2: there's actually a picture of me on sat leaning down
- 1:10:11Speaker 2: talking to and I say, mister t Sheeber, I just
- 1:10:15Speaker 2: want to tell you something, sir. I'm very grateful that
- 1:10:17Speaker 2: you're here. I'm not going to waste your time, sir,
- 1:10:20Speaker 2: and I'm going to make you look perfect. The lights
- 1:10:23Speaker 2: are right, the sound is right, this is all. And
- 1:10:26Speaker 2: I'm in the middle of my little diatribe. But he
- 1:10:28Speaker 2: grabs my arm. That was my forum. He looks at me,
- 1:10:33Speaker 2: this is John. I don't give it. Damn how I look.
- 1:10:38Speaker 2: I really don't care at all. I just want to
- 1:10:40Speaker 2: tell the truth. And I really gave me pause. I thought, man,
- 1:10:48Speaker 2: what what a man filled with integrity? When I grow up,
- 1:10:52Speaker 2: I want to be you, sir. And it's it's funny
- 1:10:55Speaker 2: to me, I mean ironic. You know. I have pretty
- 1:10:59Speaker 2: much regular intact with mister Streeber, you know, like every
- 1:11:01Speaker 2: four or six weeks or something. You know, just let
- 1:11:03Speaker 2: him know. Okay, So the film is here, this is
- 1:11:05Speaker 2: what's going on here. We've won this award here, this
- 1:11:08Speaker 2: sort of thing. And I can't call him Whitley. I
- 1:11:12Speaker 2: would never say that we're friends. He and I are friends,
- 1:11:14Speaker 2: but we're very, very friendly, of course, but I can't
- 1:11:18Speaker 2: call him Whitley. I call him mister Streeber all the time.
- 1:11:22Speaker 2: And he makes fun of me. He teases the hell
- 1:11:26Speaker 2: out of me. I have to say he takes great
- 1:11:30Speaker 2: joy in that. So I love him. Yeah, I actually
- 1:11:34Speaker 2: adore the man.
- 1:11:36Speaker 1: This has been great. I mean, we could talk.
- 1:11:38Speaker 3: I have one last thing to ask you, this is
- 1:11:40Speaker 3: a big one, Yes, before we go. I want to
- 1:11:45Speaker 3: know in the end, as you surveil everything that you've
- 1:11:47Speaker 3: done and every thing you've thought and gone through, what
- 1:11:51Speaker 3: is it that you want from ets? What do you want?
- 1:11:56Speaker 2: What I want? I have to say that my premise
- 1:12:06Speaker 2: for the film was that my need to know outgrew
- 1:12:13Speaker 2: my fear. Okay, I have to say that I am
- 1:12:17Speaker 2: still in a quest for the answers. My last statement
- 1:12:21Speaker 2: in the film was this, I say this, and what
- 1:12:24Speaker 2: is it about these bright shiny lights in the sky
- 1:12:25Speaker 2: that make me want to be a better person. I
- 1:12:27Speaker 2: don't understand this perspective change. There's more I need to understand.
- 1:12:31Speaker 2: There's more I need to learn. How do I fit
- 1:12:33Speaker 2: into this puzzle? How do I help us achieve the
- 1:12:36Speaker 2: next level? Where do we go from here? What are
- 1:12:40Speaker 2: the next things? I mean, this can't just be communication
- 1:12:42Speaker 2: because you're my neighbor. Hey, nice yard. You know that's
- 1:12:46Speaker 2: not what it is. There's much more to this. There's
- 1:12:48Speaker 2: a reason that we're on this path, and I want
- 1:12:51Speaker 2: to I'm desperate to know those things, but no longer
- 1:12:55Speaker 2: under the mantle of fear, but one of just honest,
- 1:13:00Speaker 2: honest inquisition. I want to know. I want to know,
- 1:13:04Speaker 2: and I want I want to participate.
- 1:13:07Speaker 3: I will tell you something. I've been looking for you.
- 1:13:15Speaker 4: A ray of hope in my life, okay, because I've
- 1:13:19Speaker 4: run up against so many people whose rhetoric and belief
- 1:13:23Speaker 4: systems are and their egos are right in front of them,
- 1:13:27Speaker 4: and they don't see the forts for the trees at all.
- 1:13:30Speaker 3: And I have been searching and searching for and searching
- 1:13:33Speaker 3: for somebody who made sense of all of it. And
- 1:13:36Speaker 3: you do, sir, and thank you. I appreciate you a lot.
- 1:13:40Speaker 3: I didn't know what to expect. I didn't even John,
- 1:13:43Speaker 3: I didn't know who you were until today. No, no, no, no,
- 1:13:49Speaker 3: It's amazing to me. And my contact has been elbowing
- 1:13:55Speaker 3: me do this, do this, do this. And I'm grateful
- 1:13:58Speaker 3: to you, very grateful, thank you. Okay, I really appreciate it.
- 1:14:02Speaker 2: Thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you.
- 1:14:08Speaker 1: Yeah, I want to send you Dollar's book actually the book.
- 1:14:12Speaker 2: Oh, I would love that. I would love that.
- 1:14:15Speaker 1: I think you might enjoy it because a lot of
- 1:14:18Speaker 1: information that having interviewed so many people like you who've
- 1:14:23Speaker 1: had these experiences, Dolly's connected a lot of the dots
- 1:14:26Speaker 1: from me, So I think you might enjoy it.
- 1:14:28Speaker 2: Wonderful.
- 1:14:29Speaker 1: But yeah, I really enjoyed speaking with you, John.
- 1:14:31Speaker 2: It was true blessing, blessing to me, my friend. Thank you.
- 1:14:35Speaker 1: I appreciate you. I'm so excited about the success of
- 1:14:38Speaker 1: your film. So if you have anything else you want
- 1:14:39Speaker 1: to add, you know, you mentioned you're doing another film.
- 1:14:42Speaker 2: Or this is sure.
- 1:14:46Speaker 1: You want words too, that's awesome.
- 1:14:48Speaker 2: Yeah, when the best Documentary at UFO Expo and then
- 1:14:52Speaker 2: the film was shown at UFO con and I got
- 1:14:57Speaker 2: a huge response, and I've been contact by so many
- 1:15:00Speaker 2: people and I'll tell you this is the thing. This
- 1:15:03Speaker 2: is the highest praise for the film, not for me,
- 1:15:07Speaker 2: but for the film. Is that just people say, listen,
- 1:15:09Speaker 2: I couldn't talk to anybody about this, and this hurt
- 1:15:12Speaker 2: me so bad. Whenever I didn't know what to do
- 1:15:14Speaker 2: with it. I didn't know where to put it. I
- 1:15:16Speaker 2: watched this film and it really helped me. And I
- 1:15:20Speaker 2: just thought, God, isn't that like God's work? You know? Really,
- 1:15:25Speaker 2: it just is because this is not this is not
- 1:15:31Speaker 2: some sort of contact for you know, John Yost, no
- 1:15:34Speaker 2: mean gives a crap about me. This is a contact
- 1:15:37Speaker 2: us because we as a people have to make a decision.
- 1:15:42Speaker 2: We have to make a decision not to keep looking back,
- 1:15:45Speaker 2: but to look forward, and we have to look forward together.
- 1:15:48Speaker 2: This is the point. So yeah, so I yeah, I'm
- 1:15:54Speaker 2: very very blessed. The film is called Alien Abduction Answers.
- 1:15:57Speaker 2: It's on Amazon Prime and TV and Keino and Google
- 1:16:02Speaker 2: Plus and blah blah blah everywhere. It was released May
- 1:16:07Speaker 2: in North America this April fifteenth. Actually it'll be available internationally.
- 1:16:12Speaker 2: So I'm very happy about that. I am. I just look,
- 1:16:17Speaker 2: I can tell you I suffer from being truthful now
- 1:16:20Speaker 2: I spend a five hundred thousand dollars making this last film,
- 1:16:24Speaker 2: so when you see it, you'll see a film. It's
- 1:16:28Speaker 2: not you know, two cameras and this is a movie.
- 1:16:31Speaker 2: You'll see it. It's immersive. And I'm raising money for
- 1:16:36Speaker 2: my next film, and I don't know. I'm hoping.
- 1:16:39Speaker 7: Hell, I'm hoping that the material will allow me to
- 1:16:46Speaker 7: do that for the next one, because I think it's
- 1:16:47Speaker 7: really important, because I have an idea for a third
- 1:16:49Speaker 7: one too, which would be Alien.
- 1:16:51Speaker 2: The second one will be Alien Abduction Awakening, which is
- 1:16:56Speaker 2: taking this information and saying, oh my god, you know,
- 1:16:59Speaker 2: and now I'm part of it because I'll just I'll say,
- 1:17:02Speaker 2: as an aside, I know I'm going along press. I apologize.
- 1:17:05Speaker 2: But I thought when I closed the book on this film, right,
- 1:17:10Speaker 2: I felt a sense of completion, like, you know, I
- 1:17:14Speaker 2: dont with something that happened a long time ago, and
- 1:17:18Speaker 2: that's okay, and now I can just go back to
- 1:17:21Speaker 2: doing sports or whatever the heck. That's incorrect. The door
- 1:17:27Speaker 2: has been cracked and different things are happening. There's a
- 1:17:32Speaker 2: lot of stuff that's happening to me. But now I'm
- 1:17:35Speaker 2: not afraid. I'm cautious. I have to be honest, but
- 1:17:38Speaker 2: I'm cautious, but I am now able to go Okay,
- 1:17:42Speaker 2: now what does this mean? How does it? What is
- 1:17:44Speaker 2: this communicating to me? What am I supposed to be
- 1:17:45Speaker 2: thinking about this and putting into place? That's where people
- 1:17:48Speaker 2: are and the very next stage of this thing and
- 1:17:50Speaker 2: then the final film, not the final but like the
- 1:17:53Speaker 2: kind of conclusion to this sentence is a an abduction
- 1:17:56Speaker 2: ascension and the idea for that is not woo woo
- 1:18:00Speaker 2: in that sense. It's this. All of my films are
- 1:18:02Speaker 2: about us, people us, Okay, so we all share calmon
- 1:18:08Speaker 2: themes in our lives. I don't care what religion you are.
- 1:18:11Speaker 2: I don't care where you live. I don't care your
- 1:18:13Speaker 2: culture or if you like spicy food or not. Okay,
- 1:18:17Speaker 2: we all crawled on our bellies. We all finally got
- 1:18:22Speaker 2: up and held onto a sofa. We all toddled, we
- 1:18:26Speaker 2: all walked and fell and bumped our heads. We were
- 1:18:28Speaker 2: all children. This is where we are now as a race.
- 1:18:33Speaker 2: We kind of these children, and we have to understand.
- 1:18:38Speaker 2: And it's about time we grew up an adolesten. Adolescence
- 1:18:44Speaker 2: sucks me, It sucked for you. Guys. So this is
- 1:18:50Speaker 2: what my work is about. It's about us. So that's
- 1:18:53Speaker 2: the deal. I'm sorry it's too long. Again.
- 1:18:57Speaker 1: That was wonderful, true pleasure. Yeah, thanks John, that was awesome.
- 1:19:02Speaker 1: I'm glad, glad we had this conversation. Thank you for
- 1:19:05Speaker 1: your work. Thank you for both of you. God bless
- 1:19:07Speaker 1: you both.
- 1:19:08Speaker 5: Thank you.
- 1:19:10Speaker 1: Thank and anyone have anything else they want to add,
- 1:19:13Speaker 1: now's the time, all right, Well, thanks guys, that was
- 1:19:18Speaker 1: really wonderful. Thanks for watching UFOs and the Paranormal. This
- 1:19:22Speaker 1: is John Yost. His film is Alien Abduction Answers. Check
- 1:19:27Speaker 1: it out. It's award winning, it's quite well received. And
- 1:19:31Speaker 1: this has been Dolly Saffron, who's the subject of my
- 1:19:33Speaker 1: book Symmetry, who we probably already know. And that's it
- 1:19:37Speaker 1: for now. I'd like to always say, keep searching for
- 1:19:41Speaker 1: the truth, keep asking questions, and most important, keep having fun.
- 1:19:46Speaker 2: I know