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"Why do scientists keep dying? Yep, we can't make jokes because it's a serious topic. I wouldn't make a joke even if I could because it's a serious topic and I don't make jokes about serious topics. A couple of weeks ago, on February 27th, a retired two-star general walked out of his house in..."
[0:00] Why do scientists keep dying?
[0:02] Yep, we can't make jokes because it's a serious topic.
[0:05] I wouldn't make a joke even if I could
[0:08] because it's a serious topic
[0:10] and I don't make jokes about serious topics.
[0:12] A couple of weeks ago, on February 27th,
[0:14] a retired two-star general walked out of his house
[0:17] in Albuquerque, New Mexico and never returned.
[0:20] He left his phone on the counter,
[0:21] he left his glasses on the table,
[0:23] but he took his .38 revolver, his wallet,
[0:26] and his hiking boots.
[0:27] His wife came home an hour later
[0:28] and the house was completely empty.
[0:30] That was a couple of weeks ago.
[0:32] The FBI is still looking for him
[0:34] and they have found absolutely nothing.
[0:36] His name is William Neal McCaslin
[0:37] and for the last three decades,
[0:39] he ran some of the most classified research programs
[0:42] in the United States Air Force.
[0:43] McCaslin wasn't some desk jockey,
[0:46] as they call them, who retired and moved to the desert.
[0:49] He was a commander of the Air Force Research Laboratory
[0:52] at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Ohio,
[0:55] where he oversaw $2.2 billion a year
[0:58] in military science and technology programs.
[1:01] That's a lot of responsibility.
[1:03] To put that into context,
[1:04] the AFRL is the Air Force's entire science wing.
[1:08] Every experimental weapon, every next generation aircraft,
[1:11] every piece of technology the Air Force
[1:13] hasn't yet told us of flows through that laboratory
[1:17] with McCaslin and Dexter.
[1:19] Dexter's probably there as well.
[1:21] McCaslin was the person in charge of all of that.
[1:23] Advanced propulsion systems, directed energy weapons,
[1:26] hypersonic research, next generation sensors,
[1:28] stuff that's talked about now in disclosures,
[1:31] but used to be talked about in tabloids, all right?
[1:34] Scary stuff.
[1:34] Before that, McCaslin ran the Space-Based Laser Project,
[1:38] which is a thing, apparently,
[1:40] and served as chief engineer on the GPS program
[1:43] and held leadership positions at Kirtland Air Force Base
[1:46] and the Pentagon, my favorite shape.
[1:48] He has degrees from the Air Force Academy, MIT, and Harvard.
[1:54] This is a man who spent 30 years
[1:56] inside the most classified rooms
[1:58] in the country, and then one Thursday morning,
[2:00] he walked into the New Mexico desert
[2:01] with a f***ing revolver, and nobody has seen him since.
[2:05] That's honestly terrifying.
[2:06] And I, personally, with the help of you,
[2:09] will get to the bottom of it.
[2:10] Just kidding.
[2:11] This is a very dark rabbit hole we're going down,
[2:13] and it's scary.
[2:15] Don't, you know, we love to see a fella in STEM.
[2:18] We love to see a gal in STEM,
[2:19] but mother of God, shit's getting scary out there.
[2:21] Now, the name Wright-Patterson means something
[2:23] if you follow certain corners of the internet.
[2:26] It was headquarters.
[2:28] For Project Blue Book,
[2:29] the military's official UFO investigation
[2:31] that ran from 1952 to 1969,
[2:34] and for decades, there's been a rumor
[2:36] that wreckage from the Roswell crash from 1947
[2:39] was shipped there to study.
[2:41] Kirtland Air Force Base, kind of a big deal.
[2:44] And in 2016, somebody from one of those corners
[2:46] of the internet put that connection into writing.
[2:49] Tom DeLonge, the guitarist for Blink-182.
[2:53] He also went on to found a UFO disclosure organization.
[2:56] That is the correct Tom DeLonge.
[2:57] By the way, yes, and he can rip, I think.
[3:00] I mean, I guess.
[3:01] I'm not a big Blink-182 guy.
[3:03] I'm more of a Vladimir Owen type guy.
[3:11] In 2016, Tom DeLonge sent an email to John Podesta,
[3:14] who at the time was Hillary Clinton's campaign chairman.
[3:18] That email ended up on WikiLeaks,
[3:20] and in it, DeLonge quote wrote,
[3:22] he is very, very aware,
[3:24] as he was in charge of all the stuff.
[3:26] When Roswell crashed, they shipped it to the laboratory
[3:29] at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base.
[3:31] General McCaslin was in charge of that,
[3:32] an exact laboratory up to a couple years ago.
[3:35] He not only knows what I'm trying to achieve,
[3:38] he helped assemble my advisory team.
[3:40] He's a very important man.
[3:41] That's a WikiLeaks email, quote.
[3:44] I don't think that's how Tom DeLonge sounds, but you know.
[3:46] McCaslin wasn't just mentioned in these emails.
[3:49] His personal email, gmail.com,
[3:54] shows up in the Podesta archive,
[3:55] confirming the time zone for a DeLonge-Podesta meeting
[3:58] on January 25th, 2016.
[4:00] I was playing Feed and Grow Fish that day.
[4:02] Also, probably a smart idea to bleep,
[4:04] and blur his personal email address.
[4:07] His wife Susan's email accepted the Google Calendar invite
[4:09] for the same meeting.
[4:11] They were both active participants and not bystanders,
[4:13] and DeLonge was name-dropping them.
[4:15] They were coordinating logistics directly
[4:17] with Podesta's office.
[4:18] So it's pretty official, crazy stuff.
[4:20] Now, why is the Hillary Clinton-Podesta connection important?
[4:23] Well, obviously the conspiracy corners, Wright-Patterson,
[4:25] UFOs, all this stuff.
[4:27] Okay, conspiracy, that's what this whole thing is about.
[4:29] There's a bunch of people who have gone missing,
[4:30] who are tied to strange, bizarre things,
[4:33] and when McCaslin disappeared,
[4:34] on February 27th, the internet went exactly where you'd expect.
[4:38] Because on February 19th, just eight days before he vanished,
[4:41] President Trump ordered the declassification of UFO files.
[4:45] This is about UFOs, all right, guys?
[4:46] This is about zero-point energy.
[4:49] This is about the horrors of the man-made institution of science.
[4:53] And eight days after that, the general who Tom DeLonge said
[4:56] was in charge of the Roswell material is gone.
[4:59] It's bizarre.
[5:00] There's a bunch of little loose pieces all over the place,
[5:03] and we're gonna try to connect,
[5:04] some of them in a respectful, obviously, way,
[5:07] because this is too bizarre not to talk about,
[5:10] but there's not a lot of information to tie it all together
[5:13] to truly understand what is going on.
[5:17] Ross Coulthart, an investigative journalist
[5:18] who covers UAPs for News Nation,
[5:21] called it a, quote,
[5:22] grave national security crisis.
[5:24] Congressman Eric Burleson went on the Weaponized podcast
[5:27] on March 13th and confirmed,
[5:29] General McCaslin definitely is connected to the UAP topic.
[5:33] So there's plenty of people,
[5:34] tying those threads.
[5:35] Well, General McCaslin definitely is connected to the UAP topic.
[5:40] McCaslin's wife, Susan, has been posting on Facebook
[5:43] since the disappearance,
[5:44] and she is pushing back on almost every single theory.
[5:48] She wrote,
[5:48] She said,
[5:55] She even joked,
[6:00] Maybe the best hypothesis is that aliens beamed him up to the mothership.
[6:04] That's honestly a really fun way to look at it.
[6:07] I feel for her.
[6:07] That sounds terrible.
[6:09] That sounds very traumatic,
[6:10] that her husband just walked away and left,
[6:12] and all these people on the internet,
[6:13] including myself, are saying,
[6:15] Well, aliens, I guess?
[6:18] I don't really know.
[6:19] Do you know?
[6:19] Because I don't know.
[6:20] It seems suspicious, though.
[6:21] And it also seems like it's worth talking about,
[6:23] in all honesty.
[6:24] So she's refuting some of the more conspiratorial things,
[6:26] but she's also disputing the medical framing as well.
[6:30] The Silver Alert announcing his going missing cited medical issues,
[6:33] but she said,
[6:34] She says he was sharp and not disoriented,
[6:36] and she did describe him as at some risk,
[6:39] but never said what that risk was.
[6:41] So his wife is denying the UFO theories,
[6:43] the kidnapping theories,
[6:44] and the dementia theories all at once,
[6:47] while being someone who was herself in the Podesta meeting
[6:50] and whose own email is in the WikiLeaks archive.
[6:54] So there's some level of legitimacy as to her involvement in all of this,
[6:58] this sort of web.
[6:59] And she's saying that none of the explanations fit.
[7:01] You may believe the official story.
[7:03] Maybe you don't.
[7:04] If you go on Reddit right now and search for McCaslin,
[7:07] you'll find threads in r forward slash UFOs,
[7:09] r forward slash aliens and r forward slash conspiracy.
[7:13] Web sleuths have been running this shit for weeks,
[7:16] running it back.
[7:16] One comment on r forward slash aliens,
[7:19] which Military.com actually cited in their coverage.
[7:22] Military.com, by the way,
[7:24] a major defense publication pulling from r forward slash aliens says,
[7:28] it's crazy how all the scientists go missing when they discover science
[7:32] that could change the world.
[7:33] It's a little strange.
[7:34] It's a little fucking strange on r forward slash UFOs.
[7:38] The dominant theory is that McCaslin disappeared because of Trump's
[7:42] declassification directive.
[7:43] Trump ordered the release of UFO files on the 19th of February.
[7:47] McCaslin vanished eight days later.
[7:50] And to people in those communities,
[7:52] I suppose there's no such thing really as a coincidence, which is it is odd.
[7:55] Also, where are those files? Did you release anything?
[7:57] We invaded Iran instead.
[8:00] I think we invaded Iran and didn't get any more on the Epstein files.
[8:03] The what files? Who who didn't self?
[8:07] I don't remember, guys.
[8:08] Who's this? A beacon of truth in dark times.
[8:11] Interesting. So we have zero answers and we are left
[8:14] with a 68 year old general who ran one of the most classified programs
[8:18] in the Air Force walking into the desert with a loaded revolver and nobody,
[8:22] not even his wife and Heimer, not the FBI,
[8:25] not the 700 homeowners they've canvassed can tell you why.
[8:29] One of the things that drives the conspiracies with all of this is the other
[8:33] deaths of whistleblowers that are mysterious, like the Boeing whistleblowers
[8:36] deaths or last year, a 26 year old open A.I.
[8:39] researcher named Sushir Balaji was found dead in his San Francisco apartment
[8:43] one month after agreeing to testify against open A.I.
[8:47] Balaji had published a paper arguing
[8:50] that open A.I.'s use of copyrighted data wasn't fair use,
[8:53] which is the core of a massive lawsuit. His death was ruled.
[8:56] His parents allege a cover up and are demanding an FBI investigation.
[9:01] And once again, we had the Boeing whistleblowers.
[9:03] Colin Barnett and Joshua Dean both died within two months of each other
[9:06] in early 2024, and both were actively involved in legal proceedings against Boeing.
[9:11] Barnett was a quality control inspector who'd worked at the company for 32 years.
[9:15] Dean was an auditor at a Boeing supplier,
[9:18] Spirit Aerosystems, who'd flagged defects in 737 Max fuselage.
[9:22] This is back when the Boeing ship was just falling apart.
[9:25] Barnett was found with a gunshot wound in his truck and a hotel parking lot
[9:29] in the middle of a multi-day deposition and eight months before
[9:33] Casslin vanished, a 60 year old material scientist named
[9:36] Monica Risa disappeared as well while hiking in the Angeles National Forest.
[9:41] Risa worked at Aerojet Rocketdyne, which is a real name of a company
[9:45] somehow, where she invented a patented nickel based super alloy called
[9:49] Mandeloy, which is an alloy that is designed to withstand the extreme heat
[9:53] inside of a rocket engine and built specifically to end American
[9:57] dependence on Russian rocket technology.
[10:00] Professionally, she went by the name Monica Jacinto and her
[10:03] name caught the attention of the Air Force Research Laboratory,
[10:06] which funded the programs that depended on her alloy.
[10:09] And the person who oversaw that funding was the director of AFRL Space Vehicles
[10:14] Directorate at Kirtland Air Force Base from 2001 to 2004.
[10:19] And that person was William Neil McCaslin.
[10:22] On June 22nd, 2025, Risa went hiking the Mount Waterman
[10:27] Trail with two experienced companions.
[10:29] She became separated from the group and was never seen again.
[10:33] Search teams deployed helicopters,
[10:34] cadaver dogs, drones and ground penetrating radar across months of searching,
[10:39] and they found absolutely nothing, no trace, no body, no gear.
[10:44] Two people connected to the same classified
[10:46] materials research program are both gone eight months apart.
[10:50] And four days after Risa vanished,
[10:52] a 53 year old woman named Melissa Casillas disappeared from Tulpa, New Mexico.
[10:57] Casillas worked at Los Alamos National Laboratory.
[10:59] Both she and her husband were L.A.
[11:01] and L.A.
[11:03] employees, employees of the Los Alamos National Laboratory.
[11:05] Los Alamos, deep rabbit hole, by the way.
[11:07] On June 26th, she drove her husband to work,
[11:09] came back home after forgetting her security badge, dropped off a sandwich
[11:13] to her daughter around 1 p.m. and by 2.18 in the afternoon,
[11:17] she was last seen walking down a state highway with a backpack on her shoulder.
[11:21] Her car and her purse were found at home.
[11:24] So were both of her phones, her personal cell and her government issued
[11:27] phone, and both had been completely wiped and factory reset.
[11:31] And she has not been seen.
[11:33] Since it's an unbelievable amount of coincidences.
[11:36] She wiped her phones before disappearing.
[11:38] Conveniently, four days after a rocket
[11:40] scientist vanished on a hiking trail 60 miles away.
[11:42] Conveniently, material scientists and the guy who founded the one guy
[11:47] in October of twenty twenty five, Jacob Pritchard, a 34 year old analyst at
[11:51] the Air Force Research Laboratory at Wright Patterson Air Force Base,
[11:54] the same base McCaslin once commanded, by the way, a colleague.
[11:59] First Lieutenant Jamie Gustavus, then his own wife.
[12:03] Jamie Pritchard.
[12:04] And then he himself.
[12:06] Officially, it was treated as a domestic incident.
[12:08] And honestly, that's probably what it was.
[12:10] Just because it's a, you know, super top secret, insane Air Force
[12:15] conspiracy zone doesn't mean people don't do murders.
[12:19] And then in December of twenty twenty five,
[12:21] a forty five year old scientist named Jason Thomas, the assistant director
[12:25] of chemical biology at Novartis, who held active contracts with the Department
[12:28] of Defense, walked away from his home in Wakefield, Massachusetts, vanished another
[12:32] guy.
[12:33] The body was recovered from a lake on March 17th, two thousand and twenty six.
[12:36] Cause of death still pending.
[12:38] Then in just a few days ago, on March twenty third, Congressman Tim Burchett
[12:43] of Tennessee went on record with The Daily Mail, which is the most reputable
[12:47] source of information and news in the world.
[12:49] Tim says that he believes there is a pattern just because somebody is
[12:53] an elected official doesn't mean that their opinion becomes the official opinion
[12:57] or the best opinion or the rational opinion or the logical opinion.
[13:00] That is true.
[13:02] But more and more.
[13:03] People are questioning this.
[13:04] More and more is starting to pile up and less and less is adding up.
[13:10] Tim said, quote, The numbers seem very high in these certain areas of research.
[13:14] I think we'd better be paying attention.
[13:16] And I don't think we should trust our government.
[13:17] Hey, Tim, member of the government.
[13:19] I agree.
[13:20] Burchett claims that intelligence agencies
[13:22] have actively thwarted attempts to find out what happened to these researchers.
[13:26] He claims that is there any evidence of that?
[13:29] There is a lot of evidence of intelligence
[13:32] agencies thwarting attempts to find out what has happened recently.
[13:36] Take the entire FBI that doesn't actually
[13:39] investigate anything at all and hasn't in the last two years.
[13:44] Either way, it's in scary.
[13:46] The through line for all of this is
[13:50] that people who know things that threaten powerful interests die.
[13:54] And that's true.
[13:57] That's that's there's a lot of history of that happening because you just it makes
[14:01] sense. It just makes sense.
[14:02] People don't go down without a fight.
[14:04] And the death of one rando is, you know,
[14:08] not as important as the interests of the company.
[14:11] You know, guys, invest, invest, invest.
[14:15] Yes, McCaslin isn't the only mysterious
[14:19] circumstance surrounding a very important scientist.
[14:22] Back in December of twenty twenty five, three months before McCaslin vanished,
[14:26] we have the case of Nuno Luriero. Luriero is in his kitchen in Brookline,
[14:31] Massachusetts, making dinner with his wife.
[14:33] Their two daughters are in the living room playing cards.
[14:35] Luriero is a forty seven year old man,
[14:37] director of MIT's Plasma Center and the Fusion Center and one of the most
[14:42] respected fusion researchers alive. You've got fusion and you've got fission.
[14:47] I know exactly what both are, but I'm not going to tell you here
[14:52] because you'll just have to learn that on your own.
[14:54] His work focused on magnetic reconnection and plasma turbulence,
[14:57] the physics that would make fusion energy possible.
[15:00] Harnessing fusion energy possible because fusion energy obviously is possible.
[15:04] It is the reaction that powers the sun.
[15:07] If you can do it on Earth in a controlled
[15:09] way, you can solve the energy crisis and, you know, the conspiracies around free
[15:14] energy, death, all that stuff. There's no carbon emissions from it.
[15:17] There's no meltdown risk and you can get almost unlimited fuel from seawater.
[15:22] Luriero was one of the people trying to make that happen.
[15:25] He ran a center with two hundred and fifty researchers across seven buildings.
[15:28] And his most recent work was using
[15:30] quantum computing algorithms to simulate plasmoid behavior.
[15:34] Eleven months earlier, Joseph Biden, the president of the United States
[15:38] of America, handed him the Presidential Early Career Award,
[15:41] which is the highest honor the US government can give to a young scientist.
[15:44] I've actually got one. I'm just kidding.
[15:46] I'm just kidding. I shouldn't joke.
[15:48] So Luriero's doorbell rings and tragically, his 12 year old daughter gets up to check.
[15:53] She sees a man in the lobby who appears
[15:55] to be carrying a package wearing a yellow vest, dark clothing and a hat.
[15:59] Nuno follows.
[16:00] The daughter to the door and tells her to come back inside.
[16:03] She then hears three or four gunshots and finds her father on the ground and watches
[16:07] the suspect get into a parked vehicle and drive away.
[16:10] Luriero was shot in the chest, abdomen and both legs.
[16:13] And six shell casings were found on the lobby floor.
[16:16] And he died at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center the next morning.
[16:20] And obviously, within 48 hours before anyone knew who pulled the trigger or what
[16:24] exactly happened, the conspiracy machine was already running.
[16:28] Ira Stoll published a post claiming that
[16:30] Luriero was Jewish and had been targeted for his support of Israel.
[16:33] Canadian researcher named Casey Babb
[16:35] created a viral post that said this Jews worldwide are being hunted and
[16:39] and enlisted this and the Brown and MIT attacks from the days before as evidence.
[16:45] You see, two days before Luriero was someone had opened fire at Brown University,
[16:50] two students and wounding nine in a classroom during a review session.
[16:54] And all of this was looped up and folded into the exact same narrative with this,
[16:59] you know,
[17:00] unclear sort of motive.
[17:02] Some of it was true. Some of it was not true.
[17:04] Obviously, these things just get blown out of proportion all the time.
[17:08] And the conspiracies run wild.
[17:10] What we do know is the man that killed Nuno Luriero was named Claudio Valente.
[17:15] He was Portuguese, not Iranian.
[17:18] OK, not a political operative or a known foreign agent.
[17:22] Known, not known.
[17:24] He was a physicist, or at least he had trained as one.
[17:27] And Valente and Luriero had attended the same program
[17:30] Instituto Superior Technico in Lisbon from 1995 to 2000.
[17:35] Valente graduated first in his class with a 19 out of 20.
[17:38] And that was ahead of Luriero.
[17:40] And before university, he'd represented Portugal in the International
[17:43] Physics Olympiad, which is apparently a thing.
[17:47] That's crazy.
[17:48] They got physics Olympics.
[17:49] He came to Brown University in 2000 for a physics Ph.D.
[17:53] And his one friend there was a classmate
[17:55] named Scott Watson, who later told reporters that Valente hated Brown and hated
[18:00] Providence. Valente left after three semesters and then for 22 years produced
[18:06] no research, didn't do shit, sat on his fucking thumb with it in his butt,
[18:11] had no academic position, no professional trail that anybody could find.
[18:15] He did get a green card for the diversity
[18:17] visa lottery in 2017 and was living in Miami by the time of the attacks.
[18:21] But the DOJ investigation remains ongoing and they still haven't explained what he
[18:26] did during those two decades or how he supported himself or what the was going
[18:30] on other than he was just angry at his ex class people.
[18:34] On December 13th, 2015, Valente walked into room 166 at Brown's Boris and Holly
[18:39] buildings, the same building where he'd taken classes 25 years earlier.
[18:43] And he opened fire on a room of students in an optional economics review session.
[18:48] Ella Cook, who was 19 years old,
[18:50] Muhammad Aziz Umar Zakav, who was 18 years old and wounded nine others.
[18:55] Police recovered 44 casings from the crime scene.
[18:58] And then two days later, he drove to Brookline
[19:00] and killed Riero at his front door.
[19:03] Then he drove to a storage unit in Salem, New Hampshire, recorded four confession
[19:07] videos in Portuguese, totaling 11 minutes and 15 seconds, and then himself in the head.
[19:13] In the videos, he said, I am not going to apologize because
[19:17] during my lifetime, no one sincerely apologized to me.
[19:20] Then he said, I am sane and called mental illness explanations as bullshit excuses.
[19:26] The DOJ later said that Valente showed no remorse during the recording.
[19:30] And on the contrary, exposed his true
[19:33] nature when he blamed innocent, unarmed children for their deaths at his hands.
[19:38] So it doesn't seem like Luriero was killed
[19:40] by Iran or some kind of shadow government or anyone trying to suppress fusion
[19:45] research. He was killed by a inexplicably crazy person,
[19:50] former classmate who graduated first in their shared program and then failed
[19:53] at everything after and spent 25 years building a grudge that ended with three
[19:57] dead and nine wounded across two attack sites within three days.
[20:00] So, uh, yeah, I'm not sure.
[20:03] I don't know if I buy that, to be honest with you guys.
[20:06] I I don't know.
[20:07] That doesn't really make a lot of sense to me.
[20:09] So maybe comment down below.
[20:11] A lot of important people have been just dying.
[20:13] And maybe it is not.
[20:14] There is no coincidence.
[20:15] There's no conspiracy, but I'm really hungry right now.
[20:18] And I think it's clouding my judgment.
[20:21] Now, three months back in the future to February 2026 again, a fellow by the name
[20:27] of Carl Grillmare, a 67 year old Caltech
[20:31] astrophysicist, was also inexplicably murdered.
[20:35] Carl was an astrophysicist who had spent
[20:37] nearly 30 years at the Infrared Processing and Analysis Center.
[20:40] And he led the 2007 paper that was the first to capture enough light
[20:44] from exoplanets to identify molecules in their atmospheres.
[20:48] He discovered dozens of stellar streams
[20:50] and faint trails of stars left behind by galaxies colliding with the Milky Way.
[20:55] Pretty fucking insane shit.
[20:57] One hundred and forty seven peer review papers.
[21:00] That's a lot. Plus a NASA Exceptional Scientific Achievement
[21:04] Medal, which sounds pretty cool, too.
[21:06] Grillmare lived in Llano, California, which is a remote community in the Antelope
[21:10] Valley, and he chose it for the dark skies, kept a home observatory with several
[21:16] telescopes and spent his free time flying small aircraft on a Sunday morning.
[21:20] Deputies found him on his front porch
[21:22] with a gunshot wound to the torso, and he was pronounced dead at the scene.
[21:26] The suspect was Freddie Snyder, a twenty nine year old who lived two
[21:30] miles down the road.
[21:31] Detectives say the two men didn't know
[21:34] each other and no motive has been released.
[21:37] But Grillmare had called the police about Snyder before.
[21:40] On December 20th, twenty twenty five, five days before Luriero was.
[21:44] Grillmare called the police to tell them
[21:45] that someone was trespassing on his property.
[21:48] Deputies found Snyder nearby carrying a loaded, unregistered rifle.
[21:52] He claimed he was on his way to the post office.
[21:54] Post office was in the opposite direction from where he was walking.
[21:57] So he was probably not on his way to the post office.
[22:00] He was arrested.
[22:01] But the judge who handled the case, Osman Abbasi, dismissed the charges under
[22:05] a California law that allows judges to drop cases in furtherance of justice,
[22:10] deciding a gun safety course was sufficient for a man caught trespassing
[22:14] on a scientist's property with a loaded, unregistered rifle and told a story
[22:18] about the post office that didn't match which direction he was walking.
[22:21] To me, that doesn't exactly make that much sense.
[22:24] But oh, well, I guess Snyder had a court date set for February 5th and didn't show up.
[22:29] They didn't.
[22:30] They didn't issue a warrant.
[22:31] Nobody went looking after him.
[22:33] And 11 days later, Grillmare was dead on his porch.
[22:35] A Substack writer named Jessica Reid Krause,
[22:38] who has nearly half a million subscribers, published a piece titled A Second
[22:43] Scientist Shot Dead on the Front Porch of His California Home.
[22:47] She wrote, two respected scientists versed in planetary catastrophes were shot
[22:51] at their homes within weeks of each other and media just scraped right over it,
[22:55] which is completely true.
[22:56] And you guys don't have any idea how many people have emailed me
[23:00] about this and, you know, tagged me in tweets or whatever.
[23:05] And I'm trying to find the connections, but it's like this.
[23:07] There's got to be a cabal of some kind that I'm not privy to to really.
[23:11] It seems like maybe people are fucking insane potentially, but they are like, no,
[23:17] I'm actually sane and I'm killing I'm I don't know.
[23:20] But this is the timeline that people are pointing to.
[23:22] Luriero, December 15th, Grillmare, February 16th, McCaslin, February 27th.
[23:28] It's it's a short period
[23:29] of time for some pretty high profile science related people to all just
[23:34] disappear or die, die mainly and then disappear.
[23:38] One, neither the case of Grillmare nor
[23:40] Luriero seems from the official story like a conspiracy.
[23:44] Both have explanations, insane ones that, you know, this could absolutely happen.
[23:49] This has happened before.
[23:50] It's just the fact that these are really high profile science people.
[23:53] That's the reason why it looks bizarre and conspiratorial in the clustering of it is
[23:59] because it has people talking and McCaslin just disappeared.
[24:03] And he's involved in plenty of conspiracy adjacent things.
[24:07] Fusion research is one thing.
[24:08] McCaslin, that's like that's like the the treasure trove
[24:12] of conspiracies over the last 100 years, basically.
[24:15] So, yes, there are official explanations and maybe we should believe them
[24:19] because it's not like there's ever been a time when a scientist was killed fighting
[24:24] something that was conspiratorial that turned out to be real.
[24:28] That's never happened before.
[24:29] Well, except for in March of 1989, another scientist closely related to fusion
[24:35] and just unbelievable power science was murdered in a very bizarre,
[24:42] unusual, but also completely logical and rational way.
[24:46] It seems to just happen to these people
[24:49] because how many scientists are there that even do this shit?
[24:51] They keep getting killed.
[24:53] Stanley Pons and Martin Fleischmann said they produced excess heat in a jar
[24:57] of heavy water using a palladium
[25:00] electrode and a battery that is cold fusion.
[25:03] Have you seen the Fallout TV show?
[25:04] It's kind of dog shit going to be real, but cold fusion.
[25:07] Pretty cool.
[25:08] Now, if it was real, this means obviously limitless clean energy for essentially
[25:13] nothing, no nuclear reactors, no radioactive waste, just in jars and batteries and shit.
[25:18] And now the scientific establishment had spent decades and billions of dollars
[25:22] trying to achieve fusion the hard way with massive reactors and superconducting
[25:27] magnets. And if two chemists in Utah had done it
[25:29] with a jar, that meant that every fusion lab in the world,
[25:32] including MIT's, had been spending money on the entirely wrong approach.
[25:37] So the big geniuses at MIT tried
[25:39] to replicate the experiment and their own data showed something, something
[25:43] interesting, excess heat in the deuterium oxide calorimetry.
[25:47] Not definitive, but it's something, guys, the calories, they're calorieing.
[25:51] But a fellow by the name of Eugene Malov saw something different.
[25:55] Malov was MIT's chief science writer at the time.
[25:58] So he had access to all their drafts and reports, et cetera.
[26:02] And he noticed that the report changed
[26:03] between July 10th and July 13th over a period of three days.
[26:07] In the July 10th draft, the calorimetry curve showed excess heat above baseline.
[26:11] But in the July 13th version, the curve had been shifting downward.
[26:15] The excess heat had disappeared.
[26:17] Both drafts, by the way, if you want to look at them, still exist.
[26:19] Here they are. You can compare them side by side.
[26:22] The shift is visible.
[26:24] But while this is happening, MIT's plasma fusion center threw a party.
[26:28] They called it the wake for cold fusion.
[26:30] They even had commemorative coffee mugs made.
[26:33] They started celebrating before the tests that they were celebrating had finished.
[26:37] Ron Parker, the head of the lab, publicly called his own data worthless.
[26:41] Malov resigned from MIT over the discrepancy and wrote a book called Fire
[26:45] from Ice, laying out the case that Pons and Fleischmann's results were real
[26:49] and had been suppressed. Arthur C.
[26:51] Clarke wrote the introduction and called it the only good book on the subject.
[26:55] And he helped fund Malov's next project,
[26:58] a magazine called Infinite Energy, that he ran for the next 15 years while
[27:01] lobbying the DOE for a second review of cold fusion.
[27:05] By the way, the Department of Energy,
[27:07] the Atomic Energy Council, all of these institutions that came
[27:10] into existence post World War Two hand in hand with the CIA.
[27:14] They are hyper compartmentalized.
[27:16] And if you think the CIA has things that are classified,
[27:21] there are born black compartmentalization beyond what you can even comprehend.
[27:27] OK, guys, private classification goes so
[27:32] much deeper than public classification, governmental programs.
[27:35] I mean, it is insane.
[27:36] Born secret programs, 1948 and on.
[27:40] It is a rabbit hole.
[27:41] That's so interesting.
[27:42] And I might do a video on it, maybe one of these days.
[27:45] But by 2004, the Department of Energy agreed to a second review.
[27:48] Their last review was in 1989.
[27:50] Then on May 14th, 2004, someone beat Eugene Malov to death.
[27:55] It happened at his childhood home
[27:57] in Rich, Connecticut. He'd been renting the house out and recently evicted
[28:01] the tenants and went back to clean the place up when a man named Chad Schaefer,
[28:05] who he had just kicked Chad's parents out, showed up and confronted him.
[28:10] Schaefer pled guilty and got 16 years in prison.
[28:13] Second suspect, Moselle Brown, was convicted of murder and sentenced to 58
[28:18] years and a third, Candace Foster, pled guilty to obstruction.
[28:22] Case closed, except in January 2025, Brown's conviction was overturned.
[28:27] Prosecutors had hidden their deal
[28:29] with the key witness, which is a Brady violation.
[28:32] And as of right now, March 2026, that case is still pending retrial.
[28:36] So the murder of Eugene Malov is technically
[28:39] still unresolved for one of the two people convicted of it.
[28:43] The conspiracy theory is that Malov was silenced before the DOE review.
[28:47] And that's probably not true.
[28:49] The evidence points to a confrontation, a perfectly logical and sound.
[28:54] You know, violence happens every single day.
[28:56] It's just the timing with the DOE review appears to be a coincidence.
[29:00] Yada, yada, bada bing, bada boom.
[29:02] It always seems like it's there's a convenient excuse for something happening
[29:06] that's way less interesting and way less fucking terrifying in all honesty.
[29:10] But most importantly, way less interesting.
[29:13] That being said, the two drafts still exist and the shift
[29:16] in the calorimetry curve is documented and visible in side by side comparisons.
[29:20] MIT never conducted an internal
[29:21] investigation into how or why the data changed between the 10th and the 13th and
[29:25] the.
[29:26] However, cold fusion party is confirmed by multiple attendees.
[29:30] They had commemorative mugs made.
[29:32] Malo seem to be correct about the suppression and very unlucky about the tenants.
[29:38] So that's really bizarre. Or maybe it's not.
[29:40] I get my cold fusion research and information from the fallout television show.
[29:47] So, yeah, the government has been known to
[29:50] suppress things and classify things that are important for the American people to know.
[29:55] And outside of our own domestic operations,
[29:59] it's pretty normal for scientists who are studying this type of thing to get.
[30:03] But it isn't about free energy.
[30:05] It's more so about nuclear bombs, for example,
[30:08] the Iranian nuclear scientists, motorcycle assassins, magnetic car bombs drive by.
[30:14] I mean, in November of 2020, Israel used an AI controlled machine gun,
[30:18] a modified FN mounted on a robotic platform inside a parked Nissan pickup truck
[30:23] on a residential street outside.
[30:25] They did some fucking breaking bad shit.
[30:27] So governments definitely kill scientists for sure.
[30:30] But not all scientists are created equal.
[30:32] And some are making allegedly making nuclear bombs.
[30:36] I don't know anything about science or nuclear bombs.
[30:38] The thing that's so interesting about these things that creates the conspiracy
[30:41] theories is these people are doing really important work that would make everybody's
[30:45] lives a lot better if it just can solve an issue or whatever.
[30:49] But it's going to ruin the bottom line
[30:50] of some government or some, you know, oligarch or whatever.
[30:54] So when you solve.
[30:55] A murder like this and the case is closed and it's mysterious,
[30:59] there's, you know, unanswered questions, loose and strings.
[31:03] It's really interesting.
[31:06] And comment down below what you guys what you think.
[31:09] Is it too mysterious?
[31:11] I don't have any idea either way.
[31:13] I hope we learn more about McCaslin very
[31:15] soon because he's really the only one that's truly unsolved.
[31:19] What happens when there are not just one or two unsolved, but rather twenty
[31:25] or five unsolved murders surrounding this type of thing?
[31:28] GEC Marconi was the biggest defense electronics company in the United Kingdom
[31:32] with over two hundred and fifty thousand employees and one of the first listings
[31:35] on the FTSE 100, which is a big deal in the 1980s.
[31:39] They were building some of the most
[31:40] sensitive weapons systems in the Western world.
[31:43] The Stingray torpedo, a lightweight anti submarine weapon with computer aided
[31:47] guidance, was a major Ministry of Defense contract with hundreds of millions of LB's
[31:52] pounds, apparently what the British people call money.
[31:55] And they were simultaneously working on
[31:57] components of Reagan's Strategic Defense Initiative.
[32:00] But everyone was calling Star Wars space
[32:03] based missile defense, satellite radar and electronic warfare systems the kind
[32:07] of work that required Official Secrets Act clearance and positive vetting
[32:10] for British intelligence.
[32:12] Now, between 1982 and 1990,
[32:15] twenty five scientists and engineers connected to those programs died.
[32:21] A journalist named Tony Collins, no relation to my wife at Computer Weekly,
[32:25] UK's leading I.T. trade publication, started getting reports in the mid 80s
[32:30] of deaths, an engineer here, a programmer there, the kinds of deaths that show up
[32:36] in the back pages of a local newspaper and never really make national news.
[32:41] This guy kept a list.
[32:43] By 1987, the deaths were coming three and four in the same month.
[32:47] And the methods weren't usual.
[32:50] These weren't people swallowing pills or
[32:52] stepping in front of traffic, albeit neither of those things are that usual.
[32:55] But by the time he published his book, Open Verdict in 1990,
[32:59] the list had twenty five names on it.
[33:01] Collins later submitted Freedom of Information requests to the M.O.D.,
[33:05] the Ministry of Defense, asking about the deaths.
[33:07] Government's first response came more than six months late and didn't even
[33:11] acknowledge his application, which is a legal requirement under FOI Freedom
[33:16] of Information law. Coroners ruled seven of them sides.
[33:19] Seven received open verdicts, meaning the coroner could not determine how they died.
[33:23] Four were ruled accidents.
[33:25] Two were ruled misadventure.
[33:28] Nearly a third of the cases,
[33:30] the coroners looked at the evidence and they didn't know what the f*** happened.
[33:34] So what were the methods surrounding this?
[33:36] Arshad Sharif was 26 years old and he
[33:39] worked for Marconi on satellite based submarine detection.
[33:42] In October of 1986, he drove from London to a public park
[33:46] in Bristol, not far from where another Marconi employee
[33:49] named Vimal Dashbhai had died just weeks earlier.
[33:53] He tied one end of a nylon rope
[33:55] to a tree and the other end around his neck.
[33:58] Then he got in his car and floored it.
[34:01] The car ripped forward and pulled his head off.
[34:04] A metal rod was found on the floor near
[34:07] the pedals, possibly used to jam down the accelerator.
[34:10] And he'd been acting strangely for days
[34:13] and paying for things with unusually large banknotes.
[34:16] That was ruled a suicide by popping your f***ing head off like you're trying
[34:21] to pull your tooth out with a door. That's f***ing crazy.
[34:25] Dashbhai, the man who died weeks before Sharif in the same city,
[34:29] was a 24 year old software engineer who worked on torpedo guidance systems for Marconi.
[34:34] He was found 240 feet below the Clifton
[34:37] suspension bridge in Bristol with his trousers around his ankles and an
[34:41] unexplained needle sized puncture wound on his left buttock that the coroner's
[34:45] office said was a mystery then and still a mystery.
[34:49] Or it remains a mystery is the exact quote.
[34:51] But friends unanimously said that they did not believe he f***ed himself.
[34:55] James Sands loaded his car with two extra five gallon petrol cans, made a U-turn,
[35:00] drove at high speed into an empty restaurant, and the fireball that engulfed
[35:04] him was so intense they identified him through just dental records.
[35:08] Peter Piepel was found jammed under his car with his mouth on the exhaust pipe
[35:12] in a position that police said wasn't physically possible to get yourself into.
[35:17] Richard Pugh was found in his flat with his
[35:19] feet bound and a plastic bag over his head and a rope coiled around his body.
[35:24] And the coroner ruled that one.
[35:25] Well, misadventure.
[35:27] So, yeah, three deaths, couple of open verdicts.
[35:30] One of them was officially second misadventure.
[35:35] What does that mean?
[35:36] Alistair Beckham was a 50 year old software engineer working on SDI pilot
[35:40] programs for Plessy Defense Systems, who was described by his colleagues as
[35:43] highly secretive about his work after a normal Sunday afternoon of gardening.
[35:47] He went to his shed, attached electrical wires to his chest,
[35:51] plugged them into a wall, stuffed a handkerchief in his mouth and turned on the power.
[35:55] His wife said.
[35:56] She was entirely unconvinced.
[35:58] It was in hours after his death.
[36:00] Men from the Ministry of Defense arrived
[36:03] and removed documents and files from the house before any investigation had
[36:07] concluded, because he was working on top secret stuff.
[36:10] Right, guys?
[36:12] Where's that boot at?
[36:13] I like the boot.
[36:14] After Sharif's death, a Bristol coroner said this is past coincidence.
[36:19] I will not be completing this inquest until I know how two men with no connection
[36:23] to Bristol came to meet the same end here.
[36:26] Yeah, the guy has morals, maybe or something.
[36:28] Clive Jenkins, head of the union representing scientific and technical
[36:31] workers, called the deaths statistically incredible.
[36:34] And he knows statistics.
[36:35] He's a fucking science guy.
[36:36] Douglas Hoyle, a labor MP, went to Parliament and asked,
[36:40] does anyone really commit with his trousers halfway down?
[36:43] In 2022, though, one of these cases was solved.
[36:46] Shannie Warren, a 26 year old woman who worked for a company that was
[36:49] acquired by Marconi a week after her death, had been found drowned in 18 inches
[36:55] of water, gagged with her hands behind her back, bound and her feet tied and a noose
[37:00] around her neck for 35 years.
[37:03] Her death was listed as a part of the Marconi cluster.
[37:06] Then DNA evidence linked it to a convicted serial rapist named Donald
[37:10] Robertson, who had zero connection to Marconi or defense work.
[37:14] So at least one of the 25 was definitively unrelated.
[37:18] That still leaves 24 scientists working from the same company, working on the same shit.
[37:24] Just.
[37:25] And dying in an eight year window by methods that coroners can't explain.
[37:29] I don't know, dude, seems really, really scary, though.
[37:33] And it isn't just the U.K.
[37:34] How about the deaths and
[37:36] Indian nuclear science scientists?
[37:38] There's a lot of I don't want to be a nuclear scientist.
[37:40] I don't want anything to do with nuclear shit.
[37:42] All right. But fusion, I don't even know what any of that is.
[37:44] I said earlier, don't play that clip.
[37:46] Don't roll that clip. No, no, no, no.
[37:47] I didn't say that. You've got fusion and you've got fission.
[37:51] I know exactly what both are.
[37:53] I didn't say I don't know any of
[37:55] that stuff is all I have is this.
[37:59] I don't even know how to use it.
[38:00] Between 2009 and 2013, 11 Indian nuclear scientists died under what
[38:06] the government itself classified as unnatural circumstances.
[38:10] Two Ph.D. researchers at the Baba Atomic
[38:13] Research Center, Umang Singh and Partha Prateen Bagh burned to death in a third
[38:19] floor lab fire one kilometer from the nuclear reactors.
[38:23] We know from the demon corps people been known to die working
[38:27] on, you know, people been known to blow up and shit.
[38:29] OK, that's been happening for a long time.
[38:31] But Burns reports said that there was nothing flammable in the room.
[38:34] No fire extinguishers were on hand and the fire truck got lost and arrived.
[38:39] Forty five minutes late.
[38:40] Neither family has ever been told the cause of the fire.
[38:44] Then we have two engineers working on India's first nuclear submarine,
[38:47] the INS Arahant KK Joshi and Abhisheevam were found dead on railway tracks near
[38:54] the Naval Yard in Vizkapatnam.
[38:57] The source said that the men were not crushed by a train, although we've seen
[39:01] the videos of that happening in India and their families allege they were
[39:05] somewhere else and placed on the tracks afterwards.
[39:08] The Indian government said the deaths were unrelated.
[39:10] So there is historical precedence of scientists, science people in the nuclear
[39:16] trades and dying mysteriously and maybe getting maybe getting.
[39:21] I'm not saying it's a conspiracy.
[39:24] All right. But I'm also starting to question every thing I've ever been
[39:27] told officially by any government or organization that stands to gain
[39:31] anything from me not knowing the truth.
[39:34] So stick that in your pipe and smoke it.
[39:36] I'll you guys later.
[39:38] I mean, I'll talk to you guys later.
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