Unusual Practice

Last episode, we gave you eleven names. We promised to go deeper. Since then, the list has grown to thirteen, and Congress has said more names are coming. The FBI briefing deadline passed with no public answers. And one city keeps appearing in this story: Huntsville, Alabama, the Rocket City, where researchers die.

In this episode, we go all the way inside Amy Eskridge, the 34-year-old antigravity researcher who died in Huntsville in June 2022 with burns on her hands, a month after she'd already written down that if anything happened to her, it wasn't an accident.

We go into Amy's most extraordinary claim: that the craft governments have been hiding aren't alien. They're us. From 47,000 years in the future. Returned after an apocalypse. Trying to warn us about something we are still in time to stop.

IN MEMORY

Amy Catherine Eskridge, 34 - Institute for Exotic Science, Huntsville, Alabama

Joshua LeBlanc, 29 - NASA Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, Alabama

And to Ning Li - who found something first, and carried it into silence.

And to the ten others still missing or gone ... may there be answers

Eleven scientists. NASA. MIT. Caltech. Los Alamos. The nuclear weapons complex. The Air Force. All DEAD or missing between 2023 and 2026.

The White House called it "pretty serious stuff." The FBI opened an investigation. Congress wants answers.

But why did it take two years, and a missing general, for anyone in power to pay attention?

IN MEMORY OF GREAT MINDS

This episode is dedicated to the researchers, scientists, and engineers whose work pushed at the edges of what we think is possible -and who are no longer here.

Michael David Hicks — NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory 

Frank Maiwald — NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory

Matthew James Sullivan — U.S. Air Force Intelligence 

Nuno F.G. Loureiro — MIT Plasma Science & Fusion Centre

Carl Grillmair — California Institute of Technology / NASA 

Jason Thomas — Novartis Research 

Amy Catherine Eskridge — Institute for Exotic Science, Huntsville

And to those not yet found : Monica Jacinto Reza, Anthony Chavez, Melissa Casias, Steven Garcia, William Neil McCasland...may you come home.

And the list continues!

Everyone's panic-searching "AI taking jobs” , but host Charli is asking the question nobody else will: what if AI didn't steal your career, it just exposed that you were already checked out?

Backed by Gallup's bombshell finding that 80% of the global workforce is disengaged, this episode of Unusual Practice connects the AI anxiety spiral to a deeper meaning crisis hiding underneath it...and it gets uncomfortably personal.

Charli dismantles the AI fear narrative and replaces it with the one conversation your career counsellor, your therapist, and your LinkedIn algorithm have all been too polite to start. If you've ever felt a quiet flicker of relief at the idea of your job disappearing then this episode is for you, and you already know it. 

Unusual Practice: rewiring minds, disrupting the narrative - new episodes on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, and all major platforms.

There's a specific kind of disorientation that only comes with real success: you built the thing, you run the thing, and somehow the thing is running you.

This episode dismantles the psychological trap of accumulated success- the slow drift from a life you designed to a subscription you're paying with your autonomy, and why the higher your status, the harder it becomes to notice the cage. 

Pulling from behavioral research on CEO identity capture, the philosophy of wei wu wei, pre-colonial African concepts of personal authority, and documented patterns in how successful institutions eventually imprison their founders, this is the episode for the leader who has everything on paper and can't shake the feeling that none of it was quite what they meant to build. 

The keys aren't lost. But finding them requires going into a room most leaders have been avoiding for years.

You didn't build a team. You built an audience.

This episode exposes the hidden architecture of how high-performing leaders accidentally fill their organizations with people who are professionally dependent rather than genuinely driven, and why the difference is almost impossible to see from the inside.

Drawing on organizational psychology, the science of homophily, and the documented paradox of narcissistic leadership, we break down how the most successful executives quietly engineer cultures of approval, what "managing the subscription" actually looks like in your org chart, and the three tests that separate real players from very well-dressed ghosts.

Essential listening for any leader who hasn't heard genuinely uncomfortable feedback in the last ninety days ... and is starting to wonder why.

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Why Scaling is Often a Sophisticated Form of Avoidance

3 Part series for professionals.

Most CEOs scaling into new markets aren't executing a strategy but rather running from a question.

This episode deconstructs the psychology behind expansion as avoidance: why high-performing leaders confuse movement with progress, how "overthinking the next opportunity" becomes a sophisticated dodge for the one decision that actually matters, and what behavioral economics, Stoic philosophy, and a century of leadership research reveal about the real cost of building faster than you think.

If your company is growing but something feels fundamentally off, this episode is the conversation your board won't have with you. For founders, CEOs, and senior leaders who suspect their biggest obstacle isn't the market but the meeting they keep postponing with themselves.

What if your trauma isn't something that happened to you... it's something you've been performing?

In this episode of Unusual Practice, host Charli goes after one of the most protected ideas of our time: the belief that naming your pain is the same as healing it. With sharp cultural critique, real psychology, and zero therapy-speak, this episode unpacks why trauma has become the most viral identity on the internet, and what it actually costs you to live there.

From the neuroscience of schema maintenance to a Japanese concept of suffering that the Western wellness industry has never heard of, this is the conversation about mental health, identity, and self-awareness that nobody with a healing aesthetic wants to have.

If you've ever wondered whether your story is serving your life or just explaining why you can't have one, then this episode is for you. Unusual Practice: the podcast that rewires minds and disrupts the narrative. 

You've researched it. You've planned it. You've made the list, color-coded the folder, and opened seventeen browser tabs. And somehow, nothing has actually happened. This episode is about that. That overthinking isn't preparation, it's protection. Protection from the moment you find out whether the thing actually works. We go deep into the neuroscience, drag Hamlet and Leonardo da Vinci into it, and land somewhere useful. Thi is the honest conversation smart people rarely have with themselves.

In 2026, the U.S. President announced the release of government alien files - on social media. Where did that go? Guess wars are distracting enough!

This episode goes past the headline and into the actual documented record: the USS Nimitz encounter confirmed by radar and classified for 13 years, the Soviet nuclear facility where missiles began launching themselves while UFOs circled overhead, the congressional testimony of a U.S. intelligence official who claimed the government recovered non-human biological matter and said he feared for his safety after going public.

We also go ancient to the Nazca lines, the Dogū figurines, the Wandjina, and get brutally honest about what it all says about us, our weapons, and the things we'd rather stay distracted from. Not a conspiracy episode. A critical thinking one. All sources linked below.

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Sources:

U.S. Air Force Project Blue Book (National Archives, declassified) — Pentagon UAPTF Report, June 2021 (dni.gov) — U.S. House Oversight UAP Hearings, July 2023 & September 2025 (congress.gov) — David Grusch Congressional Testimony, July 2023 — USS Nimitz Tic-Tac Encounter — Commander David Fravor, 60 Minutes, CBS, 2017 — Soviet UAP Program "The Network" — Dr. Boris Shurinov, UFOs in the USSR — Usovo Nuclear Incident — George Knapp, Mystery Wire; referenced in U.S. House Oversight Committee hearings — Malmstrom AFB 1967 — Robert Salas Congressional Testimony, 2023 — Belgian UFO Wave 1989–90 — SOBEPS Reports; Belgian Air Force declassified radar data — Westall 1966 — Dandenong Journal archive; witness testimonies via Westall '66 documentary — Petrozavodsk 1977 — Soviet Academy of Sciences investigation reports — Nazca Lines — Yamagata University AI geoglyph study, 2024 (National Geographic) — Jacques Vallée — Passport to Magonia (1969); Confrontations (1990) — Federation of American Scientists — Nuclear Notebook 2025 (fas.org) — New START Treaty expiration — Arms Control Association, February 2026 — UN Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (un.org/disarmament) — The Galileo Project — Prof. Avi Loeb, Harvard University (galileo.harvard.edu)

Series Finale.

If this is about security ...why does it keep requiring more land? If it's about nuclear weapons ... why does the only undeclared nuclear power face no consequences?

If it's about terrorism ... why did a former Al-Qaeda commander get a presidential handshake? And if it's about religion ... whose God exactly keeps winning? Because it isn't the God of the people dying. It never was.

In this final episode of The Arrangement, a special 8-part series from Unusual Practice, we close the complete account and then we say the honest thing that most closes with poetry instead of truth.

This series was made because enough people asked for clarity in a landscape of noise. It was an honour to try. Follow Unusual Practice wherever you listen.

Sources:

1. ICJ ruling Israeli occupation illegal July 2024 — International Court of Justice

   https://www.icj-cij.org/case/192

2. Israel nuclear weapons — estimated 90 warheads — Federation of American Scientists

   https://fas.org/issues/nuclear-weapons/status-world-nuclear-forces/

3. IAEA assessment on Iran — no organised weapons programme pre-strikes

   https://www.iaea.org/newscenter/statements/iaea-director-general-statement-on-iran

4. Iran nationwide protests 2025 — Human Rights Activists News Agency

   https://www.iranhr.net/en/articles/

5. Netanyahu identifies with Greater Israel vision — Times of Israel August 2025

   https://www.timesofisrael.com/netanyahu-greater-israel-vision-2025/

6. Yemen humanitarian crisis — UNHCR ongoing documentation

   https://www.unhcr.org/en-us/yemen-emergency.html

7. US national debt $36 trillion — US Treasury

   https://fiscaldata.treasury.gov/datasets/debt-to-the-penny/

8. Peace Now — Israeli settlement annexation as central goal

   https://peacenow.org.il/en/

9. Eisenhower farewell address full text

   https://www.eisenhowerlibrary.gov/research/online-documents/farewell-address