Our American Alchemist this week is John S. Herrington, Ronald Reagan's Secretary of Energy, who ran America's nuclear weapons complex at the height of the Cold War.
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John joined Reagan as a volunteer advance man in the 1960s. He later served as Assistant Secretary of the Navy, head of White House personnel, and Secretary of Energy from 1985 to 1989. In this episode, John takes us inside Reagan's cabinet: the stealth fighter he found hidden in his own budget, the Strategic Defense Initiative and Edward Teller's nuclear-powered space laser, Reagan's "throw deep" approval of the Superconducting Super Collider, and the secret Taiwanese nuclear weapons program the U.S. shut down. He also takes on the UFO question. He says the Navy's UAP videos are real, but calls a Reagan-era alien story "total B.S." and challenges David Grusch and others to show hard evidence.
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Timestamps:
0:00 - Introduction
1:28 - Brent Friedman's Story
4:26 - Interview Preview
6:28 - Sponsors (Zocdoc)
8:14 - Meeting Ronald Reagan
10:11 - Reagan and SDI Opposition
11:21 - Reagan's Diaries and Speeches
13:02 - Strategic Defense Initiative Explained
15:48 - Edward Teller and Excalibur
17:33 - Green Fireballs Document
18:47 - UFOs, Navy Videos and Faith
21:28 - Herrington Denies Brent's Story
24:49 - The Greenbrier Bunker
27:26 - Brent Friedman Responds
29:43 - The 1981 Veranda Conversation
33:04 - Underground Facilities in West Virginia
35:13 - Polygraph and Money Questions
36:12 - Why Brent Went Public
39:01 - David Grusch
41:36 - The Politico Journalist
44:32 - UFOs at Nuclear Sites
46:09 - Harald Malmgren's UFO Debris
49:06 - A Secret Budget Item
49:23 - Sponsors (Qualia)
50:59 - F-117 and Skunk Works
52:30 - UFOs as Spy Plane Cover
53:15 - Oak Ridge Document
53:53 - Garry Nolan's Ubatuba Sample
56:57 - Reagan's 1974 UFO Sighting
58:26 - Otherworldly or Man-Made
59:23 - Battle of Los Angeles and Secrecy
1:00:34 - AI and Deepfakes
1:01:26 - Stratton, Lacatski and Lazar
1:03:31 - UFOs at Pantex and Fukushima
1:05:07 - Bobby Ray Inman
1:06:06 - UFOs and the Ocean Floor
1:07:26 - CIA's Hollywood Liaison
1:09:00 - Limits on Elected Leaders
1:10:32 - Exotic Propulsion and Submarines
1:11:28 - Nuclear Airplanes and Project Orion
1:12:43 - Nuclear Tests and Roswell
1:13:37 - The Question of Evidence
1:15:37 - Palomar Observatory Transients
1:17:13 - Parapsychology and Precognition
1:18:30 - Trump and Disclosure
1:20:25 - Cold Fusion
1:21:26 - Spies at the Energy Department
1:22:38 - PROMIS Software and Bill Richardson
1:24:09 - Genesis Mission and Underfunded Programs
1:25:57 - Public Fear of Nuclear Power
1:27:10 - SAIC and Bobby Ray Inman
1:29:01 - High-Energy Physics and UFOs
1:31:01 - Marco Rubio on UAP
1:32:54 - Atomic Energy Act and Rickover
1:35:13 - Seafloor Recovery and Puthoff's Hypothesis
1:37:55 - The CIA, Gaffney and Casey
1:40:17 - Closing and Reagan Keepsakes
1:42:45 - Brent on the Hazing Theory
1:44:18 - DOE Roswell UFOs as an Initiation
1:47:43 - Consciousness and Initiation