Freelance writer, researcher and historian Robert Skvarla is the guest on this episode of the show. You may know him as the smoking alien from Twitter. This interview was most definitely a close encounter of the informative kind.

Topics include: Pennsylvania, fringe topics, X Files, 90s paranormal and conspiracy boom, writing, hidden American culture, Trump, left vs right wing conspiracy material, propaganda, Edward Bernays, misinformation, Havana Syndrome, narrative wars, defense contracts, civil liberties, truth, inner enemy, DHS accused of being too woke, DHS INA, Project 2025, right wing new turn against intelligence and DOJ, government contingency plans, Rex 84, McCarthyism, concentration camps, conspiracy concepts derive from true histories of oppression, culture wars, political campaign noise, being online, Twitter, micro celebrity, new student protests, crime statistics inaccurate and used for political benefit