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E178 - Jesse Michels: What UFO Sightings Reveal About Power, Technology, and the Unknown | Jesse Michels
So it's like you would show a care for your former self or for your former...
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E178 - Jesse Michels: What UFO Sightings Reveal About Power, Technology, and the Unknown | Jesse Michels
You know, it doesn't have to be you from the future.
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E178 - Jesse Michels: What UFO Sightings Reveal About Power, Technology, and the Unknown | Jesse Michels
It can be, like, you know, your species or whatever.
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E178 - Jesse Michels: What UFO Sightings Reveal About Power, Technology, and the Unknown | Jesse Michels
And if you think about, like, North Sentinel Island or a super remote pygmy tribe.
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E178 - Jesse Michels: What UFO Sightings Reveal About Power, Technology, and the Unknown | Jesse Michels
So, like, North Sentinel Island is this island off the coast of India, and they've basically, like, they don't know the rest of the world exists.
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E178 - Jesse Michels: What UFO Sightings Reveal About Power, Technology, and the Unknown | Jesse Michels
Like, they exist, like, literally on a complete island.
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E178 - Jesse Michels: What UFO Sightings Reveal About Power, Technology, and the Unknown | Jesse Michels
They're protected.
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E178 - Jesse Michels: What UFO Sightings Reveal About Power, Technology, and the Unknown | Jesse Michels
They have protected status under the Indian government.
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E178 - Jesse Michels: What UFO Sightings Reveal About Power, Technology, and the Unknown | Jesse Michels
A couple of missionaries tried to go there in the early 20th century, and they got, like, shot with arrows.
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E178 - Jesse Michels: What UFO Sightings Reveal About Power, Technology, and the Unknown | Jesse Michels
And...
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E178 - Jesse Michels: What UFO Sightings Reveal About Power, Technology, and the Unknown | Jesse Michels
For all we know, the North Sentinelese have, like, a myth of aliens encountering them, right?
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E178 - Jesse Michels: What UFO Sightings Reveal About Power, Technology, and the Unknown | Jesse Michels
Where they're, like, talking about, like, these missionaries, like, you know, they were pale and they looked like us, but not fully like us, you know?
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E178 - Jesse Michels: What UFO Sightings Reveal About Power, Technology, and the Unknown | Jesse Michels
And...
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E178 - Jesse Michels: What UFO Sightings Reveal About Power, Technology, and the Unknown | Jesse Michels
They might think that they're from some other star system, but Occam's Razor, you know, the easiest, shortest path explanation is definitely that they're related to you.
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E178 - Jesse Michels: What UFO Sightings Reveal About Power, Technology, and the Unknown | Jesse Michels
If they look like you and they're showing up in proximity to you, they show a care about your survival.
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E178 - Jesse Michels: What UFO Sightings Reveal About Power, Technology, and the Unknown | Jesse Michels
You know, in certain cases when the gamete collection occurs with these abduction cases, so, you know, Barney Hill, which we talked about.
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E178 - Jesse Michels: What UFO Sightings Reveal About Power, Technology, and the Unknown | Jesse Michels
He reluctantly, you know, it's very embarrassing to admit because this was the 60s and this was a very repressed version of America.
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E178 - Jesse Michels: What UFO Sightings Reveal About Power, Technology, and the Unknown | Jesse Michels
He admitted that, you know, semen samples were taken from him.
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E178 - Jesse Michels: What UFO Sightings Reveal About Power, Technology, and the Unknown | Jesse Michels
And so then you get into these weird speculation about like, are we in this like intergenerational breeding program?
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E178 - Jesse Michels: What UFO Sightings Reveal About Power, Technology, and the Unknown | Jesse Michels
Because sometimes the communications between the beings and the humans are like, you know, we experienced a nuclear holocaust and we need to renew our biodiversity or, you know, yeah, things aren't looking great on our planet.