The Basement: Bryce Zabel | Disclosure Day, Dark Skies, and Hollywood UFO Deals
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What is the background of Bryce Zabel in Hollywood?
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Today we're talking with Bryce Sable. He created five primetime TV series, ran the Emmys, and was a CNN correspondent before his Hollywood career.
In 1996, Bryce made an NBC show called Dark Skies.
It was about a secret government cover-up of UFOs. I remember the show. And it's amazing how many things it got right 30 years ago. And while he was making it, the cover-up came to him. Men who said they were Navy intelligence showed up at his house and his office. They wanted to feed him real secrets to write into the show.
When the government shows up at my door, all they want is back taxes.
Yeah, join the club. Today we're covering his career, his books, and his new podcast, which asks whether the government has been hiding the truth about UFOs inside our movies for 70 years. There's one more thing those men asked him to do. Meet a stranger at a cemetery at midnight. Wild story. After our talk, I'll come back for a quick analysis of our conversation. Let's go down to the basement. Hey, you can watch The Y Files on Spotify. New video episodes every Monday and Friday. And premium subscribers get fewer ads, which means fewer interruptions when things start getting weird. Bryce, welcome to The Basement.
Hey, it's great to get in The Basement. I mean, I want to thank you so much for letting me into this special place to talk about all these things we're going to talk about. It's a great set, folks. I mean, this is really wonderful. I appreciate that. It's great. And I know you're just starting The Basement, so I'm really happy to be in the inaugural class of these people.
Yes, you are. Thank you. It's a very small fraternity. Yes, but growing. But growing, unless this is our last one, we'll see. How are Patrick and Einstein doing?
Whoa, there's a callback. Well, the truth of the matter is, those are my endangered desert tortoises that we have. And that's, I mean, this is amazing. I'm reeling from the thing because... We don't have them anymore. One of them ran away. What? And one of them died, but they've been replaced by two other turtles, Wendy and Lilith. So the guys are gone, and the women are in. Okay. And, you know, I don't think of myself as a responsible pet owner, per se. My son's excellent at it, for example, but not me. And my wife Jackie and I, we say... endangered desert tortoises are good because half the year you don't have to do anything but put them in a box right that's all you do to them yeah you just put them in the box and hibernate them and then the other half of the year just you know gets give them some cut up zucchini and some lettuce and let them let them party how long do they live long time right so long that um it'll be my grandkids probably that end up uh having to deal with them wow i'm sorry one ran away he
maybe he's happy. I mean, that's what we like to tell ourselves, you know, because they do, they can burrow, they can get under our fence. I think that's what our original fence, that one got away. And the other one, it's a sad story. And I, I, I don't, I don't know why I would tell it here, but I will.
What was the significance of the NBC show Dark Skies?
Um, during the, um, The COVID pandemic, I always used to put every year when they came out of hibernation, I would get some kind of coconut core kind of thing that you'd spread around. And it was all ground very nice. It was a cushy landing for them, right?
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
What is the background of Bryce Zabel in Hollywood?
0:00–4:25
2
What was the significance of the NBC show Dark Skies?
4:25–5:47
3
How did Bryce Zabel get involved with UFOs?
5:47–20:40
4
What strange encounter did Bryce Zabel have during the production of Dark Skies?
20:40–1:25:33
5
What challenges did Bryce Zabel face with the Navy regarding writing scripts?
1:25:33–1:26:14
6
What bizarre request was made involving a cemetery at midnight?
1:26:14–1:27:02
7
How did the production of Dark Skies change due to external pressures?
1:27:02–1:28:03
8
What implications does Steven Spielberg's work have on UFO narratives?
1:28:03–2:58:07
Speakers
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