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the evidence that there was something real happening. And maybe there's something real happening, but the odds of it being a secret sonic weapon were really not very high. Now, could I be wrong and someday they'll find a secret sonic weapon? Sure, because unlike the news, I do not declare that something doesn't exist simply because I haven't seen it. What I did predict is that they wouldn't find…

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ed to." You know what I mean? We used to have an outdoor cat. It didn't come home. We don't know why, but there are mountain lions and all kinds of dangerous things out there, and outdoor cats disappear a lot. And sometimes they'll be gone for days and come back. Now if you had heard that the immigrants in your town were eating cats and then your cat disappeared, what would you tell people? "Uh oh, I think they got my cat. They may have eaten my cat."

Now that's how a mass hysteria starts. Because if you have a natural situation where cats disappear pretty much all the time, I mean outdoor cats, they don't last a long time where I live. So you could imagine that people would start hearing stories of other people losing their cats and presuming it was the immigrants, etc. So here's my best guess of what's really happening. My best guess is that there are a few legitimate claims of an immigrant eating an animal. Might have been a goose. Might even be one example or two where somebody ate an animal like a pet. Maybe. I wouldn't rule it out because I haven't seen it. And you're going to say to me, but Scott, we've seen the videos and the phone calls and stuff. Well, I don't trust anything anymore. I don't trust any videos. You don't know where they came from or what you're really lo

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oking at or whether it's been edited, whether it's AI. You can't tell. But my best guess is that there's a little bit to it, but the rest might be a mass hysteria. Because then people say, but my cat's missing for two hours. They got my cat. And then they complain about the cat and you hear about it, but they don't tell you later the cat came home in two hours. I think it might be that. But again…

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