I start talking about the kids in Zimbabwe encountering the aliens right at the beginning of the interview. I share how I was initially introduced to the story while working on my first documentary back in 1997. Spielberg himself suggested I look into the case, but at the time, I was skeptical. It was only much later, about 10 years down the line, that I finally began to delve into the story. The accounts of the children, their synchronicity and the seriousness of their message made it impossible to dismiss.

It's an incredible story, man. Imagine, nearly 100 school children in broad daylight, all claiming to have witnessed and interacted with these UFOs. And the same message being conveyed by these extraterrestrials about technology being a problem and the way we're using it could ruin the earth. This is not something you hear every day.

And you have to consider, we're currently sending spaceships into orbit ourselves, exploratory robots to Mars, and are deeply involved in exploring our solar system. So the idea of alien encounters isn't as far-fetched as we might initially think. There's a lot of universe out there, after all.

It remains a remarkable story that I still find myself returning to time and time again. What happened at Ariel School in Zimbabwe in the 90s, it's one of the most compelling UFO stories out there. It's almost surreal, but far too many consistent accounts to outright dismiss.

We started getting into the weird stuff happening in universities around 2014. That's when all this safe spaces, microaggressions, and trigger warnings stuff started showing up. I mean, before then, those terms didn't even exist. It was in 2015 when it really took off, and we've been exploring why ever since. That's when we took a deep dive into the topic on the podcast.

Man, I gotta tell you, we've been cranking out so many episodes I've lost track of all the specifics. I don't have the exact timestamp for episode #1574, right here, right now. But, the best way to get that info is to hop onto the podcast platform you use, like Spotify or Apple, and pull up the episode. They'll have the full run time listed. It's a wild world of podcasting, my friend.