Falkville Metal Man Falkville Metal Man, a UFO story involving a police chief named Jeff Greenhaw who encountered a mysterious metallic figure in 1973. Joseph shares his book collection, including a recent short story titled "Is E.T. Really Here?" which is based on a dream and explores the concept of extraterrestrial life. As they delve deeper into the Falkville incident, they discuss the nature of the Metal Man's suit and the aftermath of the encounter, which led to ridicule and the eventual resignation of Greenhaw. JosephMLenard.us https://youtube.com/live/8NoUSDoc80k Transcript (AI transcription) hey Joseph, how are you doing today? Hanging in there, you know, like i always say, could be better, could be worse, right? Yeah, no kidding. Have you ever heard of the thing called the foxville metal Man? No, is that anything like the moth man that's a good that's a good tangent Welcome everybody to Mondo Frico. My guest today is Oh, Bill. all things they go fuck yourself a little bit. It could be actually uh in regards to the story, not to give too much away, but yeah, one person really did got themselves uh falked uh in falkville but uh we'll talk a little bit more about that but first joseph uh what's going on with you? Is that a new website joseph m leonard.usNo, I've had it for a while. That's my author site that my publisher put up since 2022. I just generally don't go with it a whole lot. You know, most books are sold through Amazon, so you just generally refer people there. There you go. Well, tell people… a couple of the books that you've written, because i know you've got a few out there, and it seems like every time i turn around, you write another book. I don't know how this happens. Yeah, I, uh, well, let me hold them up here a recent one is a short story, A Lasting Legacy. That's the soft cover. That's the hardcover. You know me. I like to do things differently. Yeah, I figured, you know, there's a few people that like hardcover. It don't cost me extra to have it available. So, you know, and this is the book of Kennedy, Project Carpe Diem. This is the hardcover version of this. I don't have the softcover copy. And of course, you remember,terror strikes coming soon to a city. That was there. That's the full short story. Yeah. A short story and the book Kennedy are both novelettes. Terror strikes is a full novel. And of course I have podcasting quick start guide, uh, how to write a book and get it published for those either looking to publish or to If you're an avid reader, just want to know what goes on behind the scenes of creating a book, hey, how to write a book and get it published is for you. Oh, there's the book of Kennedy. Kindle copy, pretty plain-looking version. And we're not talking about Kennedy the VJ from MTV days, are we? No. Nor are we talking RFK, JFK, or, right, or. or Jackie Onassis. None of the Kennedy clan. Kennedy is a female lead, which happens to be called Kennedy. And here's Christitutionalist Politics 3 of 4. There's four of those actually out now in the Christitutionalist Politics series, whichis in conjunction with my Christitutionalist podcast and my absolute latest book. I don't have a book, just have the printout. That's the thinnest book I've ever seen. It's the only page. That's the Kindle cover. It's only available as a Kindle e-book exclusive for 99 cents. It is Is E.T. Really Here? A Really Short Story. And that's what brings you here. Right, exactly. Is E.T. really here? Wow. Obviously, the cover is just a page, but how in-depth do you go into this E.T. business in that book? Not a lot. Not a lot. I just wanted a food for thought kind of thing. It's written weirdly. Yeah. for the right and you know i say because you're doing your sleep or something only a breakfast uh well it is like most of my books based on a dream i had. So, yeah. I didn't know that your books were all dream based that's is that the name of your publishing company, Dream Based Publishing? It should be, but no. Joseph M. Leonard Media. Yeah, unimaginative. It should be uhthought-provoking publishing. There you go. Yeah, I just had a a weird dream. I was back in school doing a naked because everybody always has no i was clothed. And so was the professor. I was doing a thesis on ETs. Are they really here? So it's a really, really short story. It's told in a weird way of a student in school doing a thesis paper, and they put their outline on the computer. They come in the next day it's vanished where did it go why did somebody turn the power off on him why did it go away why is he being censored? And that's the premise to start into the very short Weirdly told tale. Exactly. A little conspiracy stuff in there, too. So, again, just, you know, something short to try to get people thinking about these things. It's just a theory. Don't panic. It's not a real conspiracy. Well, that's great. Well, actually, Joseph, we're going to – we'll talk more about this ET business in just a minute. Well, that's really good.weirdly Written, which is also a short story. A Lasting Legacy is written in journal entry style, so that's very different. The Book of Kennedy, Project Carpe Diem, written in all narrative, not one line of dialogue in it, which are all very different writing styles from my traditional Terror Strikes novel. Did you get an A in your class that you were taking for all that? That was all your homework. Well, I don't get to it. Yeah, I don't get to that part. But I think we're going to find out a little bit more about your knowledge of some E.T. business when we take this quiz. Quiz. Quiz. Quiz. I want you to email me that so I can make it my new download. My new ringtone, right? Oh, ringtone. You like that quiz? Yeah. Quiz. Manipulate it. Put it through AI and turn quiz into call. Call. There you go. So this is all… And Joseph…opted to not hear the story before taking the quiz, which I think is fantastic. It's very brave. But obviously, he's a very brave guy. He's got so many books out. So this is all about the Falkville Metal Man, which is a UFO story that came out a while back. I'm not going to say when because it could be one of the quiz questions. So these quiz questions start out easy. They get harder as we go along. And let's just see how you do. So the first question is, Who was the police chief who claimed to have encountered and photographed the Falkville Metal Man? I'll give you some choices so you don't have to just make up a name. I was going to go with John Doe, so good. Multiple choice will be helpful. All these are multiple choice. The first one is, so think about Falkville Metal Man and the police chief's name. Was it Dale Henderson? Was it Jeff Greenhaw? Was it?Robert L. Taylor, which is funny because you're Joseph M. Leonard, or was it Captain Shiny Pants McSparkle? Well, that last one sounds like a lot of fun, but Greenhaw sounds like a backwoods place kind of name, so let's go with that. Jeff Greenhaw is going to be your answer. Yeah. All right. Fantastic. That's correct. Whoa. Joseph ran out of the gate, right? Out of the gate. Woo. All right, we're done. I'm going to quit while I'm ahead. Well, we still got four more questions to go. So what common household camera… Now, this is not necessarily your phone, you know what I'm saying? So this goes back a little bit. What common household camera was used to take the four famous photographs of the Falkville Metal Man? Was it A, a Nikon SLR,B, a Polaroid, C, a potato connected to a pinhole, or D, a disposable 35-millimeter camera? Well, somewhere around here and probably in the attic, I still have an Olympus 35-millimeter camera. Way expensive for back in the day when I first got it. Really nice. Nikon's well-known, but I'm going to go with Polaroid. Polaroid. Let's see. It's two for two. Can you believe it? Oh, my goodness. Hey, folks, this isn't rigged. You don't know anything. You've never even heard of the Falkville Metal Man. No, this isn't rigged. He didn't share the questions or the answers ahead. No, it's not a quiz show kind of a scenario. Right. You know, like in the 60s where they were rigged. Jack Barry or whoever his name was. So, all right. Now, they get a little bit harder, although I thought that first one was pretty hard considering, you know, you had to know the guy's name, but.Let's get a little bit harder. What specific material did the police chief Greenhaw say the creature's reflective suit resembled? Because he's called the Falkville Metal Man. So A, highly polished chrome. B, aluminum foil. C, mercury on nickel. Or D, a tightly wrapped leftover lasagna. Now I'm hungry. Thanks. Yeah. I'm going to have to go to Olive Garden for a lasagna after this. But what immediately popped in my head when you asked the question was aluminum foils to go with tinfoil hats. So let's go with aluminum foil. Aluminum foil? Let's see. I'm so sorry. Your first one wrong. But they were a little bit harder. Actually, he described it as mercury on nickel. So I guess it had some kind of fluid nature to the suit, I guess. So he was a T-1. Exactly, yeah. He was like the Terminator, the T-1000, right? T-1000, that's what I meant, yes. So, all right, next question. What eventually happened to Jeff Greenhaw's role as police chief shortly after the incident and resulted in media scrutiny?All right, here's the choices. A, he was promoted to sheriff. B, he was transferred to a larger department. C, he resigned from his post. Or D, he was assigned full-time duty guarding the town's decorative garden gnome. My first thought was that he got elected mayor, but I'll say he got promoted to sheriff. Promoted to sheriff? Yes. if you're doing so good on the other ones. It's a little harder here. He resigned from his post. He was so ridiculed, I think, that he resigned from his post. All right. So we're two for two. This is the deciding factor. Last question. All right. Are you ready? I guess you are.