I decided to become a GSI firstly to challenge myself to try and teach and second because I had the opportunity to teach a course that is aimed at supporting those underrepresented in the field and that's something that I strongly believe in. The most transformational thing was probably the gain in confidence I got from being able to teach and also work on my presentation and communication skills. I've gained a better perspective for myself on kind of future career in terms of academia versus industry and I also gained a closer relationship with the professor that I worked with which is really useful for mentors and potential letters of recommendation. Working with the faculty was interesting because in Discover Computer Science the GSI is the main instructor. I only worked with the faculty member about once a month talking but she was very supportive and it was really great because I think she is a mentor to me now so that was really nice. If you're considering becoming a GSI I would say don't hesitate to apply. I think it's really great experience and you also learn a bit more about yourself along the way.


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Alternative news, science, abduction, UFOs, alien counters and lessons from the visitors. These are all subjects that I am very interested in and I'm glad to know that you are too. Whitley Strieber is an American writer best known for his horror novels, The Wolf and the Hunger and for communion, a non-fiction account of his experiences with non-human entities. He has maintained a very dual career as an author of fiction and an advocate of paranormal concepts through his best-selling non-fiction books, his unknown country website and his internet podcast called Dreamland. If you'd like to find out more about him or sign up and subscribe to his website and more go to unknowncountry.com. And with that, I welcome Whitley back to the show. It's great to have you. It's great to be back. I'm so excited and looking forward to another terrific kind of conversation. Yeah, me as well. Thank you so much. And I just want to start out by saying, I know that something special happened on June 13th that you were born and so your birthday is coming up and early happy birthday to you, Whitley. How do you plan to spend your birthday or celebrate? Well, first of all, I was born so long ago, I can't remember. I remember it, but I'm gonna spend it with my family. My most recent grandson was born the day before. But he's three instead of 76. And so it's his third birthday, it's the 12th. And right before he was born, his mama said, then I'm not gonna make it till tomorrow. And I said, that's not a problem, honey. So he's on the 12th and I'm the 13th. Well, that's beautiful, Gem and I. So summer birthday, that's very nice. And four months ago was the last time you were on the show. Can you give me an update about, so that was basically in the winter, here we are heading into the summer. What are you diving into right now? I know you said you're really, really busy being interviewed, which thrills me by the way, you should be. Like everybody, I think, should be wanting to hear more about you and your work. What's new in your life right now? Well, the world has changed a lot for months specifically. There's been so much UFO material released in one way or another, either by Lou Elizondo or by official sources within the government that it's now become impossible to believe rationally that they aren't real. I mean, there's one physicist who said, obviously doesn't know much about, much about electronic siting systems. He said, oh, well, they must be, they're obviously birds and it's just an illusion that they appear to be going that fast. Of course, when you're taping something through an infrared site, one of the things that they work very, very hard on in the defense industry is to make sure that those sites can track things down to the hundredth of a kilometer in speed so that when the missile is fired, it won't miss. So obviously they're not birds and the cameras aren't experiencing an optical illusion. And another one said, oh, well, they're just reflections on the cockpit windows. But I think that since the cameras are not in the cockpits that both of these guys, I'm not gonna say their names because they must be a little embarrassed by now. Well, one of them sets show stacks probably not embarrassed but the other one is probably embarrassed. So what's basically happening is that we have to face the fact that these unknown objects that we've all seen are real. And but what does real mean? That's where nobody's stopping. Everybody's going on to, oh, they're alien spacecraft, presumably with little men hunched up in them and flying around right next to each other. What? We don't know that.  We don't have any evidence that they are from another world. We don't know, we absolutely don't even know if they are real in the way that we think of things as real. We know that they can be detected by infrared sensitive cameras because they therefore they're giving off heat in this world or they wouldn't be seen. They can be detected by radar at times, but not always. They can disappear without warning though. Now, what does that tell us? It's a fascinating question because when we don't understand something, we say, oh, well, they just disappear. But there's a reason for it of some kind. The reason is that they have a cloaking technology. We've got cloaking technology. It's quite wonderful ones that one type that I don't know if it's deployed by the United States but it is by some other countries where tiny cameras can be kind of painted on a surface and little tiny screens kind of painted on another surface. When you turn this on, the cameras send the image from above the thing to the surface below. And below it looks like it's just disappeared. It's quite amazing stuff. Now it doesn't work obviously up close but with an airplane, it's an excellent form of visual camouflage. Not gonna fool radar or anything. In any case, things like that exist with us. If somebody is getting here from a long distance, well, maybe things like that, more sophisticated things like that can also exist. And I'm talking about a personal experience with that in a couple of minutes. The other possibility, there are two really, that they're coming from another dimension, another reality. We don't know enough about that to even know whether or not that's possible. But it doesn't seem to be barred by anything that we understand about the way reality works. And there are plenty of physicists who would say that this is possible because there are many parallel universes, possibly some of them even occupying essentially the same space we are but in a slightly different way. There's yet a third possibility that's developed just recently that's fascinating. And that is, we have always thought that wormholes that enabled you to go from one part of the universe to another instantaneously were essentially impossible because you have to bend the whole universe in order to make two parts of it touch together even briefly. And to do that, you obviously need more energy than is in the universe, you can't bend it, you have to be, so we're not gonna get that. But recently there have been a couple of papers suggesting that it is possible to make a wormhole that's human traversable. Now, if we think that's possible now, what if somebody's 100 years ahead of us? Or a thousand or a million, it might be ordinary for them. When we see aliens walking into our living rooms, they might have just walked out of their own living rooms on the other side of the universe. And these devices that we see might be disappearing and reappearing, not because they're going into a parallel universe or being clipped but because they are literally crossing the vastness of this universe in an instant. Isn't it fun to think about things like this? I just have it, I have such fun with this. I have to admit, I am having a lot of fun right now because my mind is really turning over because of all of these provocative questions that are coming up, I love good questions. And what about the possibility about the government? About the government, I'm sure you have talks about this or read about this, the government possibly having programs where they come in and they can literally take you or stop time, there are abductions on that level. What are your intentions about that? I don't know much, I don't think, I'm not sure the government knows much about the government anymore. And the reason being that they have been, we have this system of classification and secrecy which is compartmentalized by need to know. You get to know something if you need to. But here's the problem, who decides that? And there's a lot of politics, I'm sure, behind the scenes about who gets need to know on various things because that's power. And anytime information is power and anytime that's involved and you've got a big bureaucracy, everybody's toying around with everybody else's power. So I think that behind the scenes, we have entered anarchy. I think it's completely chaotic. I don't think anybody knows finally what's going on. I'll tell you, years ago, this whole thing that's happening now happened on a smaller scale in the sense that a Senate Select Committee on Intelligence back in the mid-90s was asking questions of the National Security Agency and some other alphabets what they knew about this subject of UFOs. I got pulled into it because of my family connections with the Roswell incident. And I'd written a book called Majestic that the people involved rightly suspected had things in it that were true. It was a novel because I don't have any documentation. It's not all true. It's some of its fiction, believe me, and a lot of it is pretty much what I understood from General Arthur Exxon and from my uncle at Colonel Edward Street. In any case, one of the things they found was an air force base that appeared to be a complete air force base, not a big one, a small air force base somewhere in the Midwest was what I understood was the case that wasn't actually on the Pentagon's list at all, a roster of American bases at all. And the people on it were being paid with what appeared to be checks from the United States Treasury, but that's not what they were coming from. Now, unfortunately, they clammed up on me and they didn't tell me any more than that. But if that's true, then Richard Dolan is probably not wrong. There probably is a whole breakaway civilization of some kind out there and it's possible that people who are in it are living among us. They wouldn't have to live in special housing or anything, they could live right here and be part of it. I don't know if that's true or not, but it's certainly worth thinking about. Yeah, yeah. And earlier you said that considering the different options of what's possible right now, including the wormhole, and that you mentioned that you have a personal story that you will share, what is that story? Well, it's a good story, I'll tell you. I've thought about it many times and I think it's probably written about it too, but I'll tell you. Years ago, right after the communion film was made, a documentary filmmaker called Drew Cummings came up to our cabin to make a documentary about the cabin and so forth to support the film. And we had, my wife had an uncanny ability to choose people to come up to the cabin who would have experiences there. It was quite extraordinary. And so she had made some good choices as it turned out and of two people in particular, Lori Barnes and secretary who was also an experiencer and Raven Dana who is a lifelong experiencer to this day. And they were there, there was another woman there as well, Drew Cummings and his wife were there and the following thing happened. Now I will add that my son and I were sleeping in the woods, we were camping out because two of the women who were there were using his bedroom because we only had one guest room. So Anne was upstairs in bed. The two women were in Andrew's room and Raven was alone in the guest room. Drew and his wife were in the living room on a full out couch. Andrew and I were in the woods. And the following thing happened. In the middle of the night, oh, I might add that Drew had a low light camera on the video camera pointing down the hallway in hopes of picking something up. In the middle of the night, Raven Dana was awakened by something jumping, dropping down onto her bed. She opened her eyes and at first she thought, my God, a raccoon's gotten in. And then she remembered, wait a minute, at least got all the windows screwed closed. I had all the screens screwed closed and there were alarm systems all over the place. You can imagine why. I mean, I was a bit on edge about things that went bump in the night because in my life they actually were there. Anyway, then she realized, just no, it's one of Whitley's little men. And she saw this being with these great big black eyes and it reached out his hand and she held its hand. She touched its hand and she said, Whitley, the most wonderful energy came out of its hand into my body. I know that very well. It's a wonderful feeling to be touched by this level of presence. It's lovely. This kind of pulsating low level electricity goes through your body and you know right away that it's really healthy. It's really a good feeling. And, but it also immobilizes you. You can't move while it's happening. It overcomes your nervous system. So she's there with that. And she hears in her mind, what can I do to help you? And she says aloud, you could walk down that hall, which of course was where the camera was. So then it leaves the room. And Lori Barnes and Raven Dana, I mean, Lori Barnes and the other lady, they see it and it wakes them up and they see it. Then it goes down the hall and Drew Cummings wakes up and sees this little man standing beside the bed and it scares the living daylights out of him. Whereupon the head turns into the head of a hawk. And it's like a, they react like that. They can do things to your mind.  If a blowfish feels threatened, it blows itself up and makes itself. Well, the same way, if they feel threatened, these little beings feel threatened, they turn to the head of a hawk. Beings feel threatened. They turn into something scary. Do they actually shape shift or? Oh, I have no idea what's going on there. That's way beyond where we are now. I'm only telling you what people can see. I talk about this experience a lot in my book, A New World, because it's an important experience because there's a communication going on here. He's saying all kinds of things about himself, about the world, about who he is, and it related to another appearance that he had made a few months before at another house up the road and so on and so forth. So it's very complex what's going on. Then he disappears. Now that's about four o'clock in the morning. Dawn comes and Andrew and I come up across the little hill out of the woods. And we see now the house before us, the deck with the pool in it, and the cabin, side of the cabin.  And as it looks like a small hooded figure that's translucent. Now it goes out across the backyard and races off into the trees, but it doesn't go through the trees. It goes around them. So you see it moving very quickly and sort of darting around the trees and then it's gone.  Now here's what probably happened. When it disappeared before Drew Cummings' eyes, it had done something that made light move around it. That would take control of gravity in its immediate personal space.  As soon as Andrew and I appeared, you had had to get out of there. And because the room's gonna fill up with people in a few minutes and someone's gonna step on it or hit it or something because it was there. You just couldn't see it. So it released enough of the energy to enable it to move. That's when the heat was released into the room and Drew and his wife thought the room, the bed had caught on fire, but not so much that you could see it clearly and that's why it was still translucent when it ran off into the woods. What we're looking at here is a remarkable being with a story to tell, a very complex story about Horace and about time and about his place in the world, which I go into in a new world a lot, but we're also looking at some very real technology that we can almost understand on that fascination. Yeah, that is incredible. And I did love the book, by the way. Beautiful of the audible too. Worth it, really worth it. And some great stories in there. So compelling, I think, some of the things you bring up in the book that cause us to question what we consider reality, including how the dead commune with the visitors and the various visitors and the experiences that you've had and taking all sorts of shape and form. And it also strikes me, as you tell this story, how sentient they are, how empathetic in a way to touch somebody and cause them to feel so many good feelings and to care enough to ask the question, what can I do for you? Of course you can. And then proceed to not do it because there was never anything on the video. We didn't find a thing. Is that right? I have had now over 30 years of trying to get a picture, a video, anything. The visitors show up in this house fairly frequently, sometimes even physically, although not. Sometimes that I can see them. I can often feel them and they will touch me and so forth and so on. But when they show up, the surveillance cameras, you know what happens to them? They turn off. They look like they're still on. In other words, they still appear to be functioning. There's nothing saying the camera turned off or anything because when I turn them off, the app on my phone will immediately tell me that the cameras are off. But that doesn't happen. But then the next morning, you'll see the images are being taken and then suddenly it's just blank for 20 minutes or so and then it starts again. And why? Because they were here and they didn't want to bother with dealing with being invisible or whatever. While they were here, only did I see them? I sometimes will have a tiny memory, but not much. But what I do get out of it is a lot of wonderful ideas and every book I've written since Annie passed away, which are Afterlife Revolution, A New World, and Jesus and New Vision, is because of this relationship, which is in part with her, in part with a whole lot of people who were physical and aren't now or are not at the moment. And what I consider to be beings of unknown origin who are not in a physical state, usually, but can be if they wish. Some time ago, you talked about how the visitors told you that there is an organic quality in our skulls that dampens telepathy and that they were prophesizing or giving you the information this is going to fade. Do you have any updated information on that? Are we in a trajectory right now of our telepathy coming fully into play? Well, that's an interesting question because I hadn't remembered that, but you're right. I do remember saying that and they did say that to me and that they would fade. And that could be an explanation for the fact that almost without noticing it, I think, a lot of people are beginning to become telepathic, very subtly, it's not noticeable. I know it's happening to me and it's rather startling when I'm with somebody and I think something and then they respond to it as if I've said it. And that happens not frequently, but I'd say in the past month it's happened three or four times and two years ago it never happened. So they're picking up on something and I'm picking up on something from there. It's so subliminal that we're not conscious of it yet but I think that may very well be happening slowly. It better hurry up because we're getting into a major environmental crisis here. I mean, you've got a drought problem in the Western United States that's catastrophic or in another year if this drought hasn't broken, this is gonna be a major disaster.  Yeah, and we've always said water is, well, we're water too just like the earth is and needed water is incredibly important. There's a reason why it's as within so without. So yeah, I really hear you. And I hope that we are becoming more compassionate because of everything we've gone through to start to create some solutions to these issues that affect everybody. We better because we're running out of time and the days of climate change denial are over. We have to face the fact that that was a mistake and we gotta do something about it right now because it's already essentially too late. There's gonna be a lot of disruption because of it over the next year to 50 years. Hopefully we'll get a handle on it though. We're very clever. We got a lot of ways. We got a lot of tricks up our sleeves that we haven't even tried to use yet. So I think we will get a handle on it once we get going. The implant that the visitors left inside of you. In my year ago. Yeah, you once said that you use the implant for research. I know in your books you talk about, I can't even imagine this experience of seeing words almost being typed by behind your eyes. But yeah, I'm curious about the research. What kind of research do you use and how do you employ the implant? Well, there's two ways. The first way is sort of, I think, synchronicity. It's right here. It's in my ear. And if I think about something I need in terms of research, no matter how obscure it is, if it's findable, it'll show up in my life in one way or another, usually within 24 hours. And often quite immediately. The other way is that a little more complex that when I am working, I'm not writing right now, but when I am, a slit will open up in my eye and you can see words racing through it at right next speed. Now I've had this explained to me very carefully. And what it does is this. The mind has stored inside it in its unconscious areas a lot of information that it can't access directly. And what this object does is it finds that and brings it forward and puts it into an area of the mind that's closer to consciousness.  The interesting thing about the implant is it was put in my ear in 1989. And all of those years, I never knew a thing about how to use it until after Annie passed away. And then suddenly I began to be able to figure it out. And it started when I began to notice the slit in my eye and the words racing through it. And then I started to want to write a historical model. And I didn't understand at the time that perhaps from her side, Annie was encouraging me to do that in order to learn how to use the implant. And I started writing the novel, it's called In Hitler's House. And it's a pretty deep historical novel written from the viewpoint of a young man who knows Hitler. I mean, it's not real, it's all fiction. In the early 30s, journaling about it in the 1970s, now that he's an old man. And he's at first duped by, he's a German-American kid on a trip in Germany during, in the early 30s, which is a very common thing to do in those days. And he meets Hitler by accident and gets involved with him.  But to write a novel like that, you have to be able to write the journal as if it was written by someone who actually lived then. It's a very major research challenge. And that was when I noticed the slit going through. And finally, it was going so well. It was astonishing. And every time I needed some kind of obscure piece of information about Hitler would pop up out of the most improbable places.  And I asked it one day, who are you? And the writing slowed down and it said very clearly came across, it's me and, and then it sped up again. And when it's, what it's doing is it's going into my deep mind and drawing information that I've basically stored there out and bringing it forward. That's the second thing it does. The first thing is the synchronicities. You have a research tool like that and you can go to town. Jesus' new vision is deeply researched and more than even then new world or afterlife revolution because I've gotten good at this and using this thing. And there's never been a book like Jesus about Jesus like that book. Jesus' new vision is absolutely a new, literally a new vision and it's all because of the implant that it's, that it's there. Incredible. It sounds like you've got such so much support for doing what you came here to do. Yeah, I've got a team on my side that's up. You talk about a five star team and boy, I've got a good team led by my girl. She's, she's over there and she's doing this boy. She's on it. She's on this. And your connections with Anne these days, what are those like? I didn't hear you. Can you say again? Your connections with Anne these days. Anne said, one of the first things Anne said once we had reestablished contact and I had actually been convinced it was real. She did it very cleverly using other people first so that I couldn't say that it was just my imagination. As she knew I would say if I got the chance, she said, I'm not Anne anymore, but I will always be Anne for you. Now, what does that mean? It means that obviously we do reincarnate. And if you think about it, the soul that's behind Debbie has done this before. So that soul is not Debbie. Debbie is the projection into the stream of time. And I'm not, I'm whittly. I'm a projection of this, another soul into the stream of time. Anne was a projection of a soul into the stream of time. But, and for all I know, she could be reincarnated now. In fact, I have reason to believe she is. The soul has basically created another body in the world. But that doesn't mean the soul is outside of time. Souls are like fishermen and the bait is the body and that they've dropped into the stream of time. And all of the, if everything coming past us in time is observed and experienced by the bait until finally big fisher comes along and eats the bait. And then we're dead. And the soul pulls the empty hook out of the water and eventually throws another body in and another life. It has another life and it builds experiences. And who knows, there might be souls that have more than one body going at the same time. Maybe a whole race of them. Right. You don't know. I mean, we don't know how it works, I'm just guessing kind of that it works something like that. Right. Well, in your, one of your books called A New World, you talk about having this experience where all of a sudden you're plunged into five synchronistic parallel lives all at once. And the thing is you're lucid during the experience that you're aware of all these simultaneous lives. Can you talk about that? What was that like? That was a little disorienting. I didn't expect that to happen. The first thing that happened was it was a very rainy December night in about 2007, as I recall. And there's a description of it on unknown country in my, in Whitley's journal. I think if you go to Whitley's journal the search engine and Google or search parallel lives in the Whitley's journal section, you'll find it. In any case, these lights showed up outside the apartment window. Just over, they couldn't have been more than a few hundred feet up. And you could see that there were just as stable and still as they could be. And the clouds were just rushing past. And so it was, and rain was pouring down. And they were there and we could see the lights.  There was only a certain angle where we could see the lights and then they weren't there. And finally, we went back to sleep because we figured, well, it's the visitors. And by that time, it was the early 2000s, I mean, 2007 we were used to the visitors in our lives. And we didn't know why they were there. Then suddenly, I guess an hour or so later, I wake up and I'm aware of the fact that things are different. I think to myself, what is going on here? It's like I'm in another apartment. I get up and I try to go into the living room and everything's changed around. And I don't remember this part very well, except I do remember that there were like potted plants in the living room. And I have no, we have no potted plants. There was all kinds of stuff, weird stuff going on. And then I found myself in another reality, walking on a pier with my son and my wife had died in that reality. And there were, I don't remember all five of them in detail without having reviewed them this been more than 10 years. But there were a number of different realities. And the physics of that is pretty clear. I mean, we do, there are apparently many different worlds and many different lives, versions of our lives unfolding in those different worlds. So I guess, I mean, it was just a kind of a breakdown or somebody pulled off the blinders for a little while and I was living in a whole bunch of different lives at the same time and five's enough. Boy, I'm telling you, I don't want any more than that. It was terrible, terrible confusion, but it was also a wonderful experience. People always say, oh God, how could he live like this? And the answer is, if you want an adventure, this is definitely the life to be in. It's a good, Annie used to say, I always hoped I would have an interesting life. I had no idea what I was getting into when I met you. But all the strange stuff, it didn't really start. There was a lot of it in my childhood, but I had blocked that all. But then Annie came into my life and it started again, right away almost. We didn't realize it at the time, but as soon as we got together, it started. You've used shamanic drumming, I understand to connect to the visitors. Can you talk about the shamanic drumming? What kind of effect has it had for creating contact? Once I did that with a wonderful man who died very young, sadly, Peter Fro. He was the boyfriend of someone who was pretty deeply involved in this stuff called Dorna Ruffner. And they were up at our cabin with some other people. And Peter was really into shamanic drumming and was he good? He was very good. And we went out in the backyard and he was drumming and we were all dancing and it got really intense. And it was like, all of a sudden, I wasn't dancing, someone was dancing me. And we all felt like that we were really moving. And suddenly these meteors started coming across the lawn at just above eye level, leaving bright little things leaving smoke trails. And we're watching these things and I'm the only one who knows anything about astronomy. So they were all just assuming they were meteors and I was saying, no, they're not meteors. They don't go past it at eight feet trailing smoke. This is something very weird here. And this kept on until we stopped the drumming and then it stopped. And it was just sort of earth energies becoming very intense or maybe, I don't know what exactly, how exactly to explain it, but it was a wonderful experience. So interesting to me because they say that the shamans and the indigenous people have always been connected to those from other worlds, that this is part of their reality. And so it makes sense to me using some shaman tools, including drumming, that it could create that kind of effect, that kind of connection. Yeah. Well, I was at a private family ceremony, very intense one on the Pine Ridge Reservation with some of the coda. And you know, a UFO showed up in the middle of it and they sort of just didn't care. You know, all of us from the Anglo world, we're all looking up at it in an amazing, the natives, Americans, you know, it was just part of life.  And I asked one of them, do you see that? And I said, yeah, it's probably some FBI drone.  And he just didn't care. But you know, and that's because it's not because they're not curious, but because they're just used to it. Right. It's just part of life. Yes, yeah. In your book, the key, a true encounter, something that you learn from your wise visitor is in this quote, which is, sin is about the denial of the right to thrive. Hey, that's very powerful. Sin is about the denial of the right to thrive. And of all the lessons that you yourself learned from the visitors about humility, what are the latest lessons? What overall for you is the message regarding humility right now? The message right now regarding humility is don't forget it. Don't forget it. Be humble, be respectful of the other person always. And now as far as the journey that is implied by the statement that the master of the key made, that journey leads directly to Jesus and new vision because I discovered that this experience of the visitors is very reflective. If you're a bad person and you're not leaving an examined life and you're not really working toward the good, the experience can get very rough. It's very rough anyway, very often. I mean, because it's initiatory, they're trying to overturn your entire vision of reality and you can't do that without being pretty rough at times. That's why in shamanism, you speak of shamanism, shamanic initiation, real shamanic initiation is a serious business.  But at the same time, once you have passed through the land of the dead, you're a changed person. And we have shamanic initiations all the time in our world. You know what they are? They are when people die and are brought back from death by medicine. I make that point in afterlife revolution because every single time that happens and a person has a near death experience, that's a shamanic initiation. It happened to Anne and it changed their life completely.  And the medical community and the scientific community to deny the existence of the soul are actually engaged in a mass initiation of the species without realizing it. They're turning all these people who have near NDE's and survive, they bring them back from the dead into shamans. That's really true. Every single person that I know who's had a near death experience that is accurate, they have lost the sense of fear of death and gained the ability to really appreciate and live a full life. And in addition, they almost to a person come back with brand new gifts. People who were, I know somebody who worked for the government and suddenly came back and was an artist. I know somebody was an engineer and he got dengue fever from mosquito, almost died. While I was brought back in another country and suddenly like, you know, is this incredible psychic and can see things and they come back with abilities they never had before when they cross over. Yeah, and became what you would think of as a hidden master. She became that. And I knew it and she knew it, but, you know, she had remarkable skills, a remarkable insight into other human beings. And after she finally left her body, I don't really want to say died because that's not exactly right. After she left her body for the last time, she became an extraordinary teacher. She always was a teacher. She was, she loved teaching. And she had a master's in teaching from a very fine teaching college called the Bank Street College of Education. And she loved to teach. And now she's still a teacher. In fact, a lot of people get in touch with her and they, you know, if she can get through to them, she'll teach them. But you don't teach by explaining, like all these people who have guides, I always wonder about that because that's not real teaching. Teaching is what Jesus did. You know, the gospel of Thomas is a very interesting gospel. It's, it was pushed out of the cannon because it's, it just doesn't fit. The canonical gospels teach as Jesus is an instructor. But the gospel of Thomas, Jesus, he will tell you, don't pray. Don't believe anything I say. Don't, don't fast. Don't ignore the dietary restrictions, all of that. In other words, what he's saying is think for yourself. Think for yourself. And that's why I'm very iffy about guides who are telling us what to think. Because Annie is the teacher now. She never tells you what to think. She gets you to think for yourself in very creative ways. Does that mean that she asks questions that compel you to start to follow your own path? She, she causes you to end up with questions you can't leave alone and also can't answer. That's what she does. And she's very, very good at it. I'm very lucky to have a teacher like that in my life. Yeah, remarkable. I know that you meditate twice a night and you've said that if you don't at 11 p.m. and 3 a.m. then the visitors are gonna come and they'll start doing things to wake you up. Yeah, that's right. That's still true. It's still true. How has this twice daily meditation changed your life? Completely. Completely. Yeah, I also now do it at one o'clock in the afternoon and they want me to do it right after waking up in the morning. But so far I haven't done that. And, but because there's one thing. Once I start at one of the sessions starts, I never will stop, be able to stop it again in my life but they'll make me do it. And I love that actually. Because it seems, there's so much care being taken here for this little guy. And I think it's because they figured that if he's a test case, if we can get him on the road, we know for sure that anyone can do it. So that's kind of what I think there. Anyway, yeah, 11 and three. Now, they don't do much at 11 o'clock. I always do that one anyway. The hard one is the 3 a.m. or that's hard. Because I don't have an alarm system going off on purpose. I want it to be an organic relational thing. And they do too, I'm sure. And I've been pretty good lately but I went through a period of, they really scared the hell out of me a few, about a month ago and I quit for, I decided, I said one night, I said, I'm quitting. I'm not gonna do the 3 a.m. or any more because you scared me so bad. And I, discovered that there was another technique available. They would not let me sleep at all. I just didn't get to sleep that night. I couldn't sleep. And I don't know if they were doing it or it was me not wanting to give up the meditation or exactly what it was, our combination. But I started again the next night. And normally, I don't know if it's different people or what on the other side, because normally if I don't wake up, someone will bounce me on the shoulder or blow on me or they make a school bell ringing in the living room and stuff. There's all kinds of things but they're basically fairly gentle. Then every once in a while, there are things that there's someone who comes along here who's not gentle and really scares the hell out of me. I don't like that very much, but I'm gonna live with it because this is all a learning experience. And I understand that that is not necessarily bad because when that happens, I have the chance to step back from it and take an objective look at it and to say that I don't have to be identified with my own fears. I don't have to fear this. I don't actually have to fear anything. What I need to do is to step back from my life and be behind my life, looking at my life from the outside. And those give me a chance to do that. And that's very valuable to me. So I've gone from being so angry about it that I wouldn't meditate to thinking that, while I'm certainly not asking for it guys, if it does come again like that, I'm going to understand why it was done. And you're still doing the sensing exercise. What is the sensing exercise? Well, the sensing exercise is something I learned two ways. I learned it in the Griggy Foundation. And if you read Madame John DeSaltzman's book, The Reality of Being, you'll see it described very carefully and very well a number of times in that book. What it does is you take your attention basically and you place it on your body, on the sensation of your body. Now, Annie showed me after she passed away that when we do this, we can actually be seen in the other level of reality because it changes our visibility and it makes our nervous system glow for them as soon as the attention is placed on it. And then they can come to you and you can attract teachers if you're patient. It took me 15 years for the visitors to show up after I started doing it in 69 and they showed up in December of 85. And they never left me again since then. But, so it takes patience. It's like they're not gonna necessarily, we live in this consumer society and we expect immediate results. And so, I do the sensing exercise at three o'clock in the morning one time and nothing happens, then screw them. I'm not interested in the visitors anymore. They don't care about me. Try 15 years, then you may see something in any case. That's why I do it. The Garjeev method is about separating the attention from letting the thoughts flow and at the same time broadening the attention to include the body. And this is called in the Garjeev work, the double arrow of attention. And it evolves from the sensing exercise which is just the foundation of it into a much more complex and much richer experience of being, having a larger attention and a more objective attention in life. From the visitor standpoint, it's a way of announcing your presence and enabling them to find you.   In the one that the visitors prefer, you do it, you know, you go first to your toes, the ball of your foot, the arch, the heel, and it's much more detailed because that means that it's giving them more time to see your presence and to detect where you are. I think, I think from their standpoint, this does not, this is not, this looks like a sort of a rushing highway full of, you know, almost impossible to make anything out because they're looking at time from the outside, looking in and we're inside the stream of time and that river runs fast. That's fascinating. I love that. So we get a glow and that's a beautiful way if we will continue that practice for the visitors to also hopefully find us too. Well, they find us, yeah, exactly. And they'll find you sooner or later, maybe sooner rather than later because you're dead will too, any will. And if you're, if you attract her attention, you'll know it right away. She's not shy about it and she's, I'll give you an example of what I mean. There's a psychic, a very powerful psychic who she's private about herself and she sees occasionally she'll see people, not ghosts, but she sees them sort of in a ghostly way outside of herself, another is not in her head. And she kept seeing this woman and she drew a picture over the woman and she sent it to Jeff Kreikl, my co-author in Supernatural who's also very close to her, they're friends. Not because of me, she didn't recognize the person and she said, have you ever seen this person? Do you know who this is? And Jeff didn't know, he didn't recognize it. And then he sent it on to Diana Posocco, the author of American Cosmic, who's also a friend of our little community. And Diana immediately said, Jeff, that's Anne Streeter. And they sent it to me and it's Anne. It's a perfectly beautiful picture drawing of Anne and so I realized that Anne had gone to her for the purpose of becoming connected with her and also for everyone else, for me and everyone else to know that this was real.  Yes, I'm here. We'll finish, because I've got to absolutely finish in 10 minutes, okay? Here's the story of the white moth. In January, Annie died on August the 11th, 2015. In January of that year, she started trying to get me to memorize a poem called The Song of Wandering Angus by W.B. Yates. And I wondered at that time, why didn't she want me to memorize this poem so bad? And she cried when I couldn't do it. So it was real serious and I started working on that. And after she died, I memorized the poem because I had not forgotten that. And then I was at a UFO conference in the Ozark Mountain UFO Conference. My surveillance camera started barking and saying, here in the house, it's full of surveillance cameras, as you may imagine. I always hope against hope they'll make a mistake. They never do, but you never know. Anyway, it started sending me texts saying that their movement is protecting movement.  I do not make the connection. But someone at the conference looked at it and said, quickly, I'm a guy, he's a very psychic guy, and he says, I have a feeling that that's not an ordinary moth. I don't know what else to tell you. So I come home and it's being moth, and I'm looking for a dead moth in my house because I'm concerned. I don't want to open my closet and find dust instead of clothes at some point or holds in them. No moth. So then it goes on and I'm at a conference with Diana Posoka at her university and I'm giving a speech and I'm talking about Anne and suddenly the thing beeps and there's the white moth again. And now I make the connection because I'm dumb, but I'm not that dumb. So I make the connection.  And the camera that a text comes through and we look and it's the white moth again. And then I remembered something. Her favorite short story of mine is called the white moths. And it's about an old woman who dies and is in the process of discovering that she's dead. And I thought, the white moths, the white moth, the poem, and here's the poem.  When white moths were on the wing and the moth like stars were flickering out, I dropped the berry in a stream and caught a little silver trout. When I laid it on the floor and went to blow the fire aflame, something rustled on the floor and someone called me by my name. It had become a glimmering girl with apple blossom in her hair who called me by my name and faded through the brightening air. Though I am old with wandering in hollow lands and hilly lands, I will find where she has gone and kiss her lips and take her hands and walk in long dappled grass and pluck till time and times are done the silver apples of the moon, the golden apples of the sun. That's Annie's message. And I think I gotta go. That was so beautiful. That was, I can't imagine a more incredible ending. Thank you so much for sharing all of that, for being you Whitley. Every time I have you on this show, it is like having the most incredible meal in the world. And so I just honor and treasure you.  Two last words from Anne. Love easily. Love easily. I shall, I shall take that to heart. Thank you. Well, folks, what, what, what an amazing show we've had today. Again, if you would like to find out more about Whitley Strieber, go to unknowncountry.com. And I end today's show with this quote from Robin Sharma.  Subscribe to Dare to Dream podcast so you can hear this number one transformation conversation. And my guest next week is Anthony Teresa, a master psychic visionary and gifted clairvoyant who's going to help listeners with any of their life's challenges. He has led an incredible life. So I can't wait to get to connect with him. And if you love listening to this conversation audio wise, join us so you can actually see us on YouTube. 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Good morning everybody. Welcome back to another vlog. I did a little workout. I've been addicted to my bathtub lately I just can't get enough of it and now I'm on my way to get my nails done. I have a nail appointment It's actually close to noon now. Oh, okay. Well Anyways, we'll chat later. Bye Non-relaxing pedicure of my life I just have to laugh like I obviously still I tipped each of them like $20. It's totally fine but Whoa, I feel Beat up. She massaged my shin bones for like 10 minutes straight.  So it's a funny experience It's all good. I'm finished now. My nails are so freaking cute as you saw So what I think I might do is stop and get a smoothie from sunlight It's like up on sunset and while I'm in the area I might as well But also parking in that area and just anywhere on sunset and just anywhere in Hollywood slash West Hollywood in general It's kind of a nightmare, but I don't know I'm on my period and that's what I'm craving right now So I might have to swing by anyways nails done. Okay on to the next fun activity of the day Let's flash back to this soul cycle class lol All right, we're back in the car. I got the mint chocolate chip smoothie I've never had it before but I've seen people get it and it looks really good. So let's try it Okay, it's very fresh mint like to me. It doesn't taste like mint chocolate. It mostly just tastes like mint Interesting does anyone else chew their smoothies like I have to chew it. That's pretty good I'll give it like a eight out of ten not what I expected, but I should have because it's healthy You know, so okay, then I head home and I will check in with you guys later But successful me day out. Love that for me. Good morning. It's a couple days later I just finished my hot girl walk for the day. I walked for probably like two and a half miles or so made myself my favorite smoothie It's a very questionable color this morning. I don't know what's going on with that I don't think I added enough spinach just got out of the shower and now I'm gonna actually Try these lashes that I actually saw from one of my friends who was in town visiting last weekend and She was telling me about these things and how they really work for her And they're called flutter habit lashes and you order these sets of lashes and they're like they stay on for a week Supposedly cuz like listen listen I took my lash extensions off because I felt like I'd become like reliant on them and now I'm fine like I'm over it But I do miss the lashes I do miss not having to spend a lot of time getting ready. I have like super sparse wand eyelashes and I've been using this grande lash Grand lash Serum for a little bit. I've also heard good things about a few other ones But that's just the one that I bought like I don't know I'm missing it I might have to re-enter my lash extension error. We'll see but I'm gonna try this in the meantime So it says that I need eyebrow scissors for this But you need the lashes the adhesive tweezers and then scissors you remove them you prep them You apply the adhesive and then you apply them like under Your eyelid instead of on top like other lash extensions do so we're gonna try this. I'm kind of scared There's four sections per eye and then I guess you like trim them as necessary I hope this doesn't take too long because I'm actually FaceTiming with Alexa in like 30 minutes But I figured I would try this in the meantime. We'll see got the scissors.  You have it. So I mean if these last you around a week then This should last you six weeks. So this would be really iconic if it works They looked great on my friend That's the other thing because I was like where are you getting your extensions done? And she was like they're these lashes that I put on myself and I was like, huh? So that's where this whole thing started. Okay, so we're gonna remove it Is this entertaining at all? It's whatever probably not Then you gently remove the sort of like adhesive that sticks it to that little card thingy So we're gonna take that off This feels like it's gonna be a lot, but if you only have to do it once a week I guess it's not that bad Then you put the adhesive on it. They also have like a tutorial. I think this I paid for my own money By the way, I think it was like $35 $25 something like that pretty good price in my opinion Okay, so take the adhesive Oh, it's opposite. Okay, so you put it on top of the lash. How much do I put covering the entire base of the lash? Oh dear. Okay, and I remember my friend saying to like let it get tacky similar to, you know, regular strip lashes And then you apply it to the underside of your natural eyelashes I don't know why that just feels so wrong, but like what's the difference? I don't know. Okay, pray for me I definitely don't think I blended that smooth enough There's like chunks of spinach salad in my smoothie The lash segment should sit as close and parallel to your lash waterline as possible, but not touch your waterline Oh dear god. This angle? Tragic, but I'm sorry. This is just what has to be done. Okay Here I go Well It's not going well besties. I remember my friend telling me too that if it gets in your eye it burns, so that's great Okay, I think I did it actually. Oh Um, okay, here's where we're at so far. We've had a couple casualties I have definitely like leaked glue all over the place I have also gotten it in my eye and I would strongly not recommend that, but I'm on I'm like getting the hang of it I'm on the last little bit for the first eye, so I guess I'll Try to recoup honestly, maybe I should have filmed it because it was kind of funny I was just sitting there like I think it's getting a little easier I have like 15 minutes until my FaceTime call, so I don't actually know why I'm like this as a person Like I just always wait Until right before I have to do something and then I'm like, let me serve that task I've been thinking about for a long time, but I was just so curious about this. I had to try it so far It's pretty cute. I mean, I'll obviously need to like update on how it, you know, lasts and holds up and stuff But so far not bad. Okay It's like so much harder to do the inner quarter Oh, no It's not going well. I think I need more glue Frank. Maybe if I do it like this Went in the eye Wait went in the eye.  I'm determined. I'm going to get this Hold a few moments later. It's soon as I turned off the camera. Of course. I did it So here's the first eye I will say you can feel these like a lot because it's like underneath especially this inner corner one It's really kind of bothering me, but I'm going to try to work past that I'll do the second eye and then we'll check in and see like what the final product looks like But they are very very cute Drew just came in here and he was like, I like it It looks like you just got your lashes done. I was like, I know so I mean so far so good I just don't know how like practical this is. We'll see right. I did it. Here is the final look It's not bad. I like this eye better than this eye. This like inner corner one looks kind of weird But that's just me being picky. I don't know. I I think I might like keep playing around with it I think I might need to keep playing around with it, but so far it's pretty good I'll like obviously update you in vlogs as I go along, but like not bad. Okay. Let's get on FaceTime How are you? Good morning. It's two days later and um my lashes I was gonna report are still going strong, but This morning. Oh my god I'm like still just so like uptight because it took me two hours to reapply these because basically I'll keep this short and sweet because I feel like this has already been long enough about these lashes But I noticed that like one of them was maybe coming loose or something like that and it was starting to irritate my eye I noticed it probably like last night and I was just like whatever I'll just go to bed and I'll fix it in the morning And I even remember waking up in the night and being like, oh, I just want to rip this thing off Like it feels like you're wearing strip lashes to bed if that makes sense So it's like not the most comfortable thing in the entire world So I got this morning walked Leila did her thing and then I was like, okay Let me just really quickly since it only took me like 20 minutes last time Let me just take these off and reapply them It took me two hours. I literally was sitting there for two hours I was getting so much glue in my eye.  Then I finally got them Like going and I wasn't burning myself in my eyes. It literally feels like squeezing a lemon in your eye Like it's painful and I was like, okay I've got this and I got this eye going and I was like something doesn't look right And I realized that I put the ones from this eye on this eye So then I had to take them off, start all over again. Anyways got them done I don't know if I can say much about the lasting power of these When I looked at the package, it actually says that they only last up to five days instead of a week And mine lasted like two before they started kind of coming undone But I tried to put a little more glue on there this time. So like hopefully it'll look okay But drew keeps being very sweet and reassuring and being like they look really good And I think they do too. So anyways, that's the update But it's almost 9 a.m.  This is actually the print is called farmers market. We're taking it to the farmers market So I don't know if that's like chewy. Oh my god. I saw someone on twitter yesterday say that now The phrase hot girl walks is like cringy or something and I'm like, you know what? That's fine.  It's like Whatever. I'm sure I've said that about things before but we're gonna go for a hot girl walk. Okay. Let's go Oh, yeah, we have to bring our dog inside Oh my goodness Let's go inside.  I can hear you speak She's whispering My little farmers market boy Yes Work it Okay, we're back from the farmer's market. It is Hosty out there signing that hot. It's just like we were like right in the sun And oh my god. It was so hot. Okay First thing we got I'll show you is the flowers. We got zinnias this week. Look how gorgeous these are These are absolutely stunning. We're gonna try to fit this in here. So wish us luck. We definitely need a bigger vase There we go. We got oh I'm excited about these. This is called at natural combo on instagram And um, we got some sesame chips and we got some dips. I was trying really hard not to break these but I definitely broke a lot of them in the bag, but like Delicious and then we got two of their dips. We got the babaganouche and a tricolor dip It has pesto sundried tomato French feta olive oil apple cider vinegar and salt These look Heavenly, so we'll eat these with the crackers. Um, we got a yellow nectarine for me A white peach for drew and then I got a pluot It's so cute. I like definitely over get like I over order fruit at the farmer's market So I tried to keep it minimal and then I got these three little baby sugar plums So freaking cute So we're gonna Eat those up this week and we've made a goal for ourselves to cook dinner every single night this week I know for most of you you probably do that. Um, but we are addicted to ordering postmates So we're trying not to do that Um, we definitely like at the beginning of our relationship cooked every single night And then we discovered postmates and like everything went downhill So anyways, we got a bunch of like veggies and fruits and stuff We got some bok choy. This looks delicious. So we'll have to figure out like what we'll do with that We got an eggplant and we saw a recipe where you like cut it in half And then you kind of like score it And then you spread like miso paste and some other stuff on it. So that looks good through dancing in the bedroom He's a miso boy.  Yep.  It's our favorite. We got two Curry chicken pot pies. We've had these before and they were delicious. Drew's obsessed with having these for lunch It's so freaking good. I had a bite of it. We also got this last time and it was insane We got the pecan sweet potato pie. Do you say pecan or pecan? I think saying pecan is the southern thing and then he also had a banana pudding which looked Insane-o. So we got all of that. Is that the healthiest thing in the world? No No, that's what that's like the classic banana pudding. All right, then I got some peppers for myself I'll probably, Drew doesn't really love like peppers and onions, but I do So I'll probably put these in like a taco salad or something But I got a little orange one a little red one and a purple one I had never had a purple bell pepper before I don't think so We'll see how that goes. Oh my god.  They're called Harry's berries.    Yeah, probably and then the last thing we got is some berries because they didn't have strawberries So we got this pack of delicious farmers market berries. I'm so excited. Oh, they've kind of moved around Let me do some maneuvering here And here they are we have blueberries a mix of I don't know if these are called white raspberries or yellow raspberries And then some blackberries So I'll have these in like my yogurt parfaits this week and just like on the side with like lunch and for snacks and stuff And aren't these so gorgeous. So that's our farmers market hall And we're probably just gonna chill for the remainder of the day Um, I have a really busy couple of weeks coming up because I haven't mentioned this in a vlog yet But I'm going back to the uk I'm so excited. I'm leaving drew forever. I have fun with leila and muh I'm gonna go to the uk after work anyway No, but for real you you are like you told me to go. Oh, yeah I said anytime you have the opportunity to go yeah So because he only started his new job like a few months ago and he's like entering a really busy season at work He's not able to take time off So Alexa and I have decided we're gonna go back together and then drew and I are gonna try to go Maybe like in the springtime for our anniversary. I'm so happy for them. Just kidding But we're gonna take um our own trip in the springtime and we're excited about that But yeah, we just kind of decided I was supposed to go back in june and then we randomly moved to la so that got postponed And now is the time so we're leaving in a couple of weeks. I'm so excited. I'm of course gonna be vlogging I'll also be doing some stuff for my main channel But I am gonna like try to just take it easy a little bit with that Um last time I definitely just like stretch myself way too thin It's like trying to document everything instead of just like enjoying my time So it'll be like a good mix It'll be me documenting my time and then also just enjoying myself and like a little bit of work a little bit of play It's gonna be so fun and I get to have Alexa with me and honestly I'm even more excited this time because we get to fly together because last time I was coming from Arizona She was coming from la so this time we both get to leave from la which is exciting We haven't done that since we went to hawaii. So it'll be really fun Before we eat breakfast or make breakfast we're gonna try some of these dips Should we try the sesame crackers by themselves? Because of my pyrosmia all the taste is like burnt Baba ganoush Cheers Cheers I got way more than you Pesto feta sundry tomatoes We'll just just eat these for breakfast and so I mean to be fair it's 11 o'clock, but let's make some food This is my very simple breakfast. This is what I was in the mood for I just realized I have strawberries and strawberry jam, but it's fine and um, unfortunately I think I might be getting sick I do have a bit of a scratchy throat and I had a Sort of a scratchy throat at the beginning of when drew got sick But then it kind of went away and then I was like, okay I'm for sure gonna get sick like I was just waiting and waiting and waiting And I like wasn't seeing friends and stuff because I was like I'm gonna be sick Like I don't want to you know spread my germs to anyone and like now it's actually happening But I think that's gonna do it for this vlog because I probably I'm just gonna like take a bath after this and relax I'm gonna eat my breakfast. Oh, we did start a league of their own last night and we like it so far So we'll probably like binge that take a nap just enjoy the rest of our sunday But hopefully you enjoyed watching this vlog. Thank you so much for being here and Probably all I'm gonna talk about for the next couple weeks is going to england, but I don't care. I'm so excited. I can't wait and I will see you in the next one. Bye


Your neighborhood chevron gas station invites you to Let George do it! Brought to you by the makers of climate tailored chevron supreme gasoline and RPM compounded motor oil. Let George do it! That's the slogan George Valentine hung in his office when he got out of the army with an idea and not much money to back it up. When a client shows up with a problem, George is happy. When no client appears, George is still happy. The worry department is handled by his secretary Claire and her brother Sonny. Right now George is sitting in his office when suddenly he hears a commotion outside. Claire, hey Claire come in here. What's the matter Mr. Valentine? Oh what's all that noise about? There's a crowd outside our office Billy. Really? Oh I wonder what's wrong? No, it must be some celebrity. Yeah there, they're getting autographed. Golly, look at the mob. It must be someone very famous, maybe it's the president. Poor Donald Duck. I'm going downstairs to see. No Claire you stay here, that mob will tear you to pieces. I got it, I got his autograph. Sonny! Sonny look at your shirt, it's in shreds.  Look, see Jimmy Jones. Jimmy Jones? Jimmy Jones? Jeepers, don't you even know who he is? Wait a minute, don't tell me, let me guess. I know he's a fullback for Notre Dame. A player named Jones on the Notre Dame squad? Oh now I know, of course. Jimmy Jones, he's an actor, he plays in cowboy pictures. He's not just an actor, he's a hero. Mr. Valentine, you know Thunderbolt don't you? I don't think I've ever had the pleasure. Oh Thunderbolt's as famous as Jimmy Jones. It's his horse. Did you get his autograph too? Well the crowd's practically gone. Now maybe we can get a little work done in this office. That is, if you feel up to it Sonny. Thank you for your pardon, but I'm looking for George Valentine. Well, you found him, come right on in. You're Mr. Valentine. That's right. Say, haven't we met before, your face looks awfully familiar. You know I was just going to say the same thing to you. Your face looks awfully familiar too. Mr. Valentine is Jimmy Jones. You've seen him in the movie. Oh, well sure of course. Sonny, is this your hero? Sonny. Sonny. He's petrified. Jimmy Jones. Standing right in front of me. He's one of your many fans, Mr. Jones. Well, that's awfully nice of you, Sonny. May I shake your hand? My, my hand. This is your hand, Sonny. Come on, put it out. Glad to know you, Sonny. I'll never wash it again. And this is Sonny's sister, my secretary, Claire Brooks. Ah, don't shake her hand. Look what it did to Sonny. Mr. Valentine, I've heard about you and I'm hoping that maybe you can help me. Well, I've never failed anyone yet. Sit down, Mr. Jones. I wish you'd call me Jimmy. I hope Claire and Sonny won't mind, but this matters a little confidential. It's nothing I'm ashamed of, understand, but I've got to keep it quiet for business reasons. Well, you can trust us, Jimmy. Oh, you've nothing to worry about on that score, Mr. Jones. We won't say a word. I'd die first.  Now go right ahead. Well, the trouble is the kids like me. Maybe they like me because I like them. I'm crazy about kids, George, and I'd never want to disappoint them. I just can't let them down. Well, of course not. Why would you let them down? Maybe you've heard. I was raised in an orphanage, the Brookdale orphanage. And every year, Thunderbolt and I put on a benefit performance for them. Naturally, they expect me to be there this year, too. Naturally. And they'll expect to see me riding my horse Thunderbolt, naturally.   Cross my heart. We promise. Well, go ahead, Jimmy. What's the matter? Well, I'm afraid of horses. You're what? Oh, you can't be. Suffer and cat. You see, we were shooting a picture in something frightened Thunderbolt. He shied and stumbled. He threw you? That's right, and then he stepped on me. Oh, how awful. Oh, it was an accident. Thunderbolt didn't mean to hurt me, but I was laid up for a long time. After that, I just couldn't get up enough nerve to ride him. Well, for that matter, to ride any horse. But, Jimmy... I know it sounds silly, George. I keep telling myself that, but it doesn't do any good. Oh, sure. Sure, I understand. What about your career? Well, since the accident, they have a double who does the riding for me. Oh, I see. If this came out, you'd be through in pictures. Oh, that's not important. Think of the kids. Why, if they found out, they wouldn't believe in anything anymore. Well, that settles it, Jimmy. You can't make a personal appearance at the Brookdale orphanage this year. You can't take the chance. But, George, those kids are looking forward to it.  Now, you have nothing more to worry about, Jimmy. I'm in complete charge. I was hoping you'd say that. I'll tell them you had a nervous breakdown or something. You can send Thunderbolt with one of his trainers. Oh, but they want to see me ride him. The kids will never forgive me. Now, you leave that to me, will you, Jimmy? I'll take care of them. I know just how to handle kids. Mrs. Martin is the superintendent of the orphanage. She's in the play yard with the children now, but I'll get it for you, Mr. Valentine. Oh, thanks, Miss. Just tell her it's about Jimmy Jones. I'm sort of taking charge of things for her. Oh, you know Jimmy Jones. Yes, of course. Oh, I'd love to have his autograph. Oh, are you anybody? Uh, no, nobody much. Would you tell Mrs. Martin we're here? Oh, yes, of course. Yes, make yourself right at home. I'll only be a minute. Mrs. Valentine, what are you going to tell Mrs. Martin? Just that Jimmy's been working too hard, and that he can't appear here, that's all. There's nothing to it. Oh, those poor kids. Oh, now, Claire, you're making too much of this. You're as bad as Jimmy.  He's got to protect his career. But he means so much to them. Now, listen, Claire, he can't appear at the benefit.  Anyway, the kids are more interested in seeing his horse. That's not true. Well, Jimmy can stand over some ice cream and cake. That'll get him. Just fill up their stomachs, and they'll be happy. Mr. Valentine, how can you be so hard-boiled? I just face facts, that's all. Oh, I'm going to wait outside. Claire. I prefer fresh air. Women. Oh, hello. What's your name? Where do you live? Well, I... How old are you? Well, hey, now, hold everything. Why the third degree, honey? What? Do you always talk in questions? What? Now, wait a minute. Look, we're not getting anywhere this way. My name is George. Never mind the rest. Now, come on. Tell me something about yourself. I've got a pet mouse. Oh, yeah. A white one with a long tail. Really? What's his name? George. George? Well, what a coincidence. I just named him George. Oh, I see. Well, thank you, honey. That's quite a compliment. Do you know any games? Games? Well, now, let's see. I used to play some games with my nieces. What are... What are nieces? Well, nieces are... Well, they're... What are people?  So that makes them my nieces. You get it? I don't have any uncle. Oh, well, that's tough, honey. But I have a brother. Well, wonderful. I always say there's nothing like a brother. Why, that's a million times better than an uncle. Jimmy Jones is my brother. Jimmy Jones? He told all us kids he'd be our big brother. So now we each have a family, don't we? Oh, yeah, sure. Look, honey, how would you like another brother? Could you use two? Someone like... Well, like me. Oh, no. You wouldn't like me for a brother? No. I'm going to marry you. Well, that's settled. Do you want me to teach you a game? Game? Yeah, I'd love it. We could play horsey. Well, that sounds exciting. What do I do? You get down on the floor on your hands and knees. Do I have to? So don't you want to play with me? Okay, honey, you win. Now what? Now I get on your back. All right, here we go. Hang on, honey. Hard boil, Mr. Valentine. Oh, Claire, we're playing horsey. You make a beautiful horse. Oh, thank you. Claire, this is the girl I'm going to marry. Oh, congratulations. Mrs. Valentine. Mrs. Martin will see you now. She's in her office if you'll get follow me. Okay, thanks. Bye, honey. Goodbye, George. See you in about 16 years. Don't forget now. Don't forget. Cute, cute. Her office is on the other side of the play yard. Just wait a minute. Look, I won't bother Mrs. Martin. You give her a message for me, will you? All right. Just tell her that I personally guarantee that Jimmy Jones will be here for the benefit. And furthermore, he'll be on his horse, too. Mr. Valentine, I have Mr. Jones on the phone for you now. Oh, thanks, Claire. Hello, Jimmy. Hello, George. What's on your mind? Now listen, Jimmy, you can't let those kids down. Why, they believe in you. Why, they think you're their big brother. Sounds as though you've been out to the orphanage, George. Well, now look, you know me, Jimmy. I'm not sentimental or anything like that, but... Well, I can't have her disappointed. She named her mouse after me. Her what? Yeah. It's the first time I've ever had a mouse named after me. George, what are you talking about? Just this. You've got to ride Thunderbolt at the benefit. But, George, I told you since the accident every time I see a horse, I shake. What'll that do to the kids? Oh, gosh. You're right, Jimmy. No, we can't let them see you that way. Hey, wait a minute. You're in the movies. You use a double, don't you? What about him? Oh, I thought of him, but it won't work. He's built like me, but he doesn't look like me. The kids are get-wise. Well, then all we have to do is to find a double that looks like you. It's a synth, Jimmy. Leave it to me. Oh, what an office force. What's the matter with you two? All you have to do is to find a man who looks like Jimmy Jones. Well, what was wrong with Red Prescott? His nose turns up and his hair is red. Well, then what about Stanley Burns? Why, he was born on a horse. Yeah, I could see that all right. But his legs bend south and the other bends north. What about Mr. Manning? It's a similarity even if his face is a little long. I told you to find someone who looks like Jimmy, not his horse. Oh, well, it's no use, Mr. Valentine. I give up. But it's just a simple little job. Find a man about six feet tall with dark wavy hair and blue eyes, a nose that's reasonably straight, not too much chin. Mr. Valentine. What's the matter? Don't you realize who you're describing? Sure, Jimmy Jones. Someone else, too. Huh? You. Hey, that's right. Mr. Valentine, you do look like him. I noticed it the first time I met you. Why, you could be brothers. Why, that's terrific. Claire, get Jimmy on the telephone right away. Tell him I found his double. I think you found the right person, George. I know I found the right person. But is it someone we can trust? Trust? Why, this man is a soul of honor. And what's more, he's got plenty of courage and a heart of gold, pure gold. Hey, sounds tremendous. Well, I don't like to brag, Jimmy, but if you would have pinned me down, I'd say he is tremendous. Who is? Me. You. Sure. Remember how familiar we look to each other?  Oh, that's where I saw you. Yeah, of course. Well, that's wonderful, George. You don't know how relieved I am. Well, I told you I'd come through with wine colors, Jimmy. Now, be at my office tomorrow morning. Okay, thanks a million, George. Go on, Jimmy. Well, it's all set. See, there ought to be a good fee in this for me. Oh, I'm sure there will be, Mr. Valentine. Gee, Mr. Valentine, I can hardly wait for the benefit. I can just see it dashing into the arena on Thunderbolt. Yeah, it'll be a big moment, all right. The kids will be clapping and yelling their heads off, and I'll come dashing into the arena, riding on... on Great Caesar's Ghost. Mr. Valentine, what is it? What's the matter? I just remembered. What's wrong? I've never been on a horse in my life. Well, it'll take George a minute or so to figure out what to do in this situation. Meanwhile, I wonder how many of you folks can be sure your cars are ready for winter. In many parts of the West, wherever winter means cold or rain, there will be an epidemic of car troubles this year. Most folks are driving the same old cars, you see, and they're bound to be a little less reliable, simply because they're another year older. So here's a good tip. Drop in at your favorite chevron gas station and let the chevron dealer check over your car. He's an expert, and because he's in business for himself, making you a regular customer means a lot to him. So you can bet he'll give your car the best of care. You probably need winter-grade RPM motor oil, or new windshield wiper blades, the battery may need recharging, or your tires could stand a retread job. Whatever it is, find out now before the weather gets really bad. Stop in at your neighborhood chevron gas station this weekend. Now George had to find a double for Jimmy Jones, someone who looked like Jimmy and could ride Thunderbolt. It finally dawned on all of them that George himself resembles Jimmy, but then he suddenly remembered that he's never been on a horse in his life. Now it's a few minutes later. Oh, that's fine, Mr. Valentine, that's great. You offered to take his place, and you've never even been on a horse. Well, there's nothing to it, Mr. Valentine. I'll teach you how to ride. Sure, lots of times. Is he very active? Oh, yeah, he's a very spirited animal. Oh, spirited animal, that's what I thought. You're not getting cold feet. Oh, no, no, no, of course not. But those kids will expect to see someone who can at least stay on the top side of the horse. You've got nothing to worry about, Mr. Valentine. I'll teach you how to ride. Sonny's really very good. Our grandfather raised horses in the country. My grandfather raised cane in the city. Come on, Mr. Valentine, let's get started right away. Now look, Sonny, I want to start nice and easy, understand? Oh, sure, just leave it to me. I'll have you riding like an old cow hen. Come on. Okay, Claire? Yes, Mr. Valentine. Goodbye. Goodbye, Mr. Valentine. Should I meet you somewhere for dinner? Yeah, make a Joe's hamburger hut.  Yes, sir, something in toys for the young man? Oh, no, not for me, for him. For him? A toy for the gentleman? Yeah, he wants something. Sonny, not so loud. People are listening. Oh, I'll whisper it. Mr. Valentine wants a... He does? Yeah. Yeah, I just want him to get the feel of it. Oh, I see. Well, very well. Second down to the left. Tricycles, scooters, kiddie cars, and hobby horses. Hey, you were okay on that hobby horse, Mr. Valentine. Now for your second lesson. Oh, but do you think I'm ready to ride this horse, Sonny? Oh, sure. Okay, then. Boost me up. Okay. There you go. Thanks. Now, put your feet in the stirrups, Mr. Valentine. My good. Yeah, that's right. Press your knees in. My good. Yeah, that's good. Now, hold onto the reins with your left hand. That's right. Oh, you look fine, Mr. Valentine. Okay, here we go. Oh, that's good. That's swell. Hang on, Mr. Valentine.  Oh, Sonny. I'm getting dizzy. Sonny, I can't see anything. Sonny, help. Stop this merry-go-round. He's a beautiful animal, isn't he, Mr. Valentine? Yeah. Cute. Very cute. His name's Tornado. Oh, sure. How do you do, Tornado? Mr. Valentine, come on down out of the haymow. He won't hurt you. Sonny, I don't think he likes me.  Come on. Get up on him. But do you think I'm ready for a real live horse? The only way we can find out is to try. Come on. Hey, he's up awfully high, isn't he? He's no higher than most horses. Well, couldn't I try one of the smaller models first? Like that one over there? Mr. Valentine, that's a Shetland pony. You don't want to ride him. Why not? He has a very kind face. Come on now. Get up on Tornado. All right. Nice Tornado. Stand still, boy. Stand still. Sonny, tell him to stand still. It's okay. Just jump up on him. Well, maybe he won't like it. He's used to it. Go ahead, Mr. Valentine. Put one foot in the stirrup and swing the other one over. All right. Here I go. Mr. Valentine, wait. I think I'll make it. But Mr. Valentine... It's all right, Sonny. Sonny, what's happened to this horse? Where's his head? Get down, Mr. Valentine. He put the wrong foot in the stirrup. Is that it? I thought there was something wrong. Now try it again. Remember, your left foot in the stirrup, your right foot swings over. Oh, it's no use, Sonny. You can't teach an old horse new tricks. He's not old. No, but I am. Come on now. Let's get back to the office. But Mr. Valentine, what about the benefit? How will you be able to take Mr. Jones' place and ride Thunderbolt? Well, it's no use, Sonny. I can't do it. Jeepers, I wish I could ride Thunderbolt. Well, so do I. I'd like nothing better than to have... Sonny. Why not? Huh? Of course. There's our answer. You will ride Thunderbolt. But, George, I don't get it.  Why don't you tell him, Mr. Valentine? Now, Claire, I'll handle this in my own way. Jeepers, Mr. Jones, please let me ride Thunderbolt. I can handle him honest. Just ask my sister. Well, you keep quiet, Sonny. You see, Jimmy, I'm afraid that someone might catch you on that I'm not you. Oh, do you think so? Well, I suppose there'll be reporters there. Yeah, I imagine so. And what if they find out? They'd ruin everything. Please, Mr. Jones, I know Thunderbolt, and I'll get along okay. Yes, Sonny's very good with horses. He's been riding since he was a baby. But how can we work at Sonny's? It certainly doesn't look like me. Well, Jimmy, I got this all figured out. Now, look, it's simple. You walk out and talk to the kids. You know, make a speech. Yeah. Then I imagine they'll begin yelling for Thunderbolt. Oh, you didn't count on that. Well, fine, fine. Now then, when that happens, you say you brought Thunderbolt along all right, but that you'd like to feel like a kid again and sit in the audience with them. Go on, then, what happens? Well, then you say, how about one of you kids riding Thunderbolt? Who'd like to try it? Uh-huh. Now then, Sonny is sitting right in the front row. You can't miss him. And when you say, who'd like to ride Thunderbolt, Sonny jumps up and yells, let me, Mr, let me. Let me, Mr, let me. Yeah, that's the idea. And Jimmy, no matter how many kids yell, you choose Sonny. Understand? Oh, of course. I wouldn't dare take a chance on someone who didn't know horses. Now, how does it sound, Jimmy? It sounds okay, George, but you're sure nothing will go wrong? Listen to him.  Why, what could possibly go wrong? Did you ever see so many children in all your life, Mr. Valentine? It looks as if all the kids in town are here. All except Sonny. Now, stop worrying about Sonny. He'll show up. But he should be here now. What's happened to him? Well, I know he went to a movie early this afternoon. Then I think he planned to buy some riding boots. Riding boots? I can't save this place for a much longer. Why can't he be on time? Oh, just be patient, Mr. Valentine. But they're getting ready to start the show. Oh, where is that boy? Well, it's not like that. It's not like that. Where is that boy? Well, it's not like Sonny to be late. Well, it's your fault, Claire. You should have brought him over with you. That's right. Blame me for it. I always get... Oh, Mr. Valentine, they're going to begin. Here comes Jimmy Jones now. Oh, where's that Sonny? Oh, I can't imagine what's keeping him. Now, all this much, it means to me to be here again. You know, every year, I look forward to my visit to the Brookdale Offinitz because it's just like coming home again for me. Where is he? Where's that Sonny? Hey, what if he doesn't show up? But I didn't come here to make a speech. I just wanted to say hello to all my friends, to all my little brothers and sisters. Mr. Valentine, you have to ride Thunderbolt. Oh, that's impossible. I don't even know on which side to get on. Now, is there anything I can do for you, Claire? Mr. Valentine. Claire, think of something. You can't let one of them ride him. It would be dangerous. It would be dangerous for me, too. Now, take it easy, kid. Take it easy. Take it easy. That's it. Thunderbolt is here all right, but look, I'm sort of tired of riding. I want to sit down here with the rest of you, with my friends. Here it comes. How about one of you rides in Thunderbolt? Mr. Valentine. Who would like to ride it? Mr. Valentine. Come on, who wants to ride Thunderbolt? Mr. Here's someone who wants to ride Thunderbolt.  Claire, Claire, stop pushing me. You've got to go now. George has no other way out here. Now, Claire. Come on, you've got to do it.  George. Hello, Jimmy. How do you feel? What's happened to Son? He just didn't show up. But, George, what are we going to do? The kids are waiting. Now, Claire. I guess you'll have to, George. I'm sorry, Jimmy. I'd like to. Really, I would, but I... Well, I just can't. Now, George. What do you mean? What are you talking about? What's the matter with you, George? Nothing, except that I've never been on a horse in my life. Oh, I... You've never been on a horse in your life. That's right. Oh, this is a fine time to tell me, what about all these kids are waiting? Listen, Jimmy, I'd never be able to get up on them. But, George, you said... And if I did get up on them, I'd never be able to stay there. But you said...  Oh. I ought to wring your neck. Now, that won't help any. But what am I going to do? Well, tell him you just noticed that Thunderbolt is in this bowl. Yeah. Tell him he has a headache. Who ever heard of a horse with a headache? He's a very unusual animal. These kids believe in me. Well, they've been looking forward to this day for months. Then why don't you ride Thunderbolt? Me? Yes, you. All right, I will. Mr. Jones, you can. I can't let these kids down. I'll ride him if it kills them. Mr. Valentine, stop him. Oh, Mr. Valentine, he's getting up on Thunderbolt. Mr. Valentine. Oh, I can't look. Play yard on the teeter totter. Oh. Why didn't you stay in the arena? Well, I just couldn't take it. But George, it was all right. Jimmy was magnificent. What happened? He rode Thunderbolt just as though nothing had ever gone wrong. The kids went wild. Yeah, I heard them screaming, but I thought the worst. Jimmy's looking for you. He wants to talk to you. Oh, yeah, I'll bet he does.  But he's anxious to see you. Anxious to break my neck. Oh, not George. But what else would he want to see me for? I was certainly a lot of help to him. Just when he needed me, I failed him. No, George.  Of course not. Oh, it's all right. Go ahead. Don't hold back. Tell me what you think. Well, I think... Please don't say it, Claire. I don't want to hear it. This has been a very happy day for me, George. The pleasant change to see you this way. What way? I don't get it. Well, you're usually so sure of yourself. But now you're...  You mean... You mean you'd like to take me in your arms? Well... Well, if you have any kind of an urge, Claire, don't suppress it. It isn't good for you. Oh, George, you're wonderful. Say that again. Oh, George, you're wonderful. Say that again. Oh, George, you're wonderful. Say that again. Why do you talk about acting? Well, your acting makes mine look silly. Acting? Who's acting? Why, do you know you really had me convinced that you were afraid to ride Thunderbolt? And that's just what you wanted me to think, wasn't it, George? Yes, yes. That's exactly what I wanted you to think, all right. Sure, you had to trick me into riding Thunderbolt. Trick you? You know that once I got on him, I'd get my confidence back and I'd be cured. Oh, yes, of course. That's why I had mine, all right. George! Well, it was wonderful psychology, George. I don't know how I can thank you. Oh, well, that's all right, Jimmy. Forget it. Glad to help you out. George, are you trying to make me believe it was all an act? Oh, of course. What else? Why, I'm crazy about horses. There's nothing I like better than to ride on a really spirited merry-go-round. I know that, George. But I couldn't let on even to you, Claire. I was afraid you might give it away. Oh, see? Sure, I had to make the act look good, didn't I, Jimmy? Why, of course. Uh, will you excuse me now, Mrs. Martin wants to say something? Oh, sure, Jimmy. Go right ahead. But stick around. I have something to show you. Well, it was all an act, huh? It was a natural act. Then you really like horses? Like them? Why, I love them. There's nothing I like better than a brisk candy down the bridal path. And to think that I bothered to feel sorry for you. Hey, Mr. Valentine, when does it start? When do I write Thunderbolt? Sonny, what happened to you? Where have you been? Oh, I want to see Jimmy Jones and Thunderbolt in their new picture. But, Sonny, that was this morning. Yeah, I know, but it was so good I stayed to see it four times. Oh, Sonny. Never mind, Sonny. We didn't need you. We got along okay, didn't we, Claire? Hmm. Say, I'll bet I'll be able to get a good fee out of this. How much do you think I can stick him for?  Oh, the police are there. George, George, oh, I'm glad you didn't leave. Come with me. I got a little present for you. A present? I was afraid you wouldn't accept any money from me, George. That would be just like him, wouldn't it, Claire? How well you know him. So I decided to give you something else. Give me something else? A little present. I think you'll like him, George. Like him? He's a full brother to Thunderbolt. A horse? Of course, he's a little wild yet, but think of the fun you'll have breaking him in. Meanwhile, neighborliness, it always seems to me, is as American as hot dogs at a ball game. Most of us can spot it right away. And appreciate it, too. It's one reason, I think, why many motorists like to drive into Chevron gas stations. They're all locally run, you know. Since they're home folks, Chevron dealers are mighty accommodating. Every time you stop at a cream green and burgundy station, you know you're trading with a chap who's in business for himself. Anxious to please you because his success depends upon it. And there's another point worth remembering. Every Chevron gas station carries RPM-compounded motor oil, and climate-tailored Chevron supreme gasoline. They all honor Chevron credit cards, too. So just about everything a motorist looks for, he'll find at those neighborly Chevron gas stations. Try them when you're out for a drive this weekend. Well, next week, George finds himself in the middle of a lot of excitement. You'll probably hear him say something like this. Mr. Valentine. Yes? How are you feeling? Oh, fine. Great. Never felt better. Yeah? Well, enjoy your help while you got it. It won't last. That's all? Get out of town, Mr. Valentine. Mr. Valentine, what was that all about? What was it? The same fellow who's been warning me right along. He's still worried about my health. Chevron gas stations all through the west invite you to be with us again next week for another chapter of Let George Do It. Brought to you by the makers of Chevron supreme gasoline and RPM-compounded motor oil. Let George Do It starring Robert Bailey as George with Francis Robinson as Claire and Eddie Firestone Jr. as Sonny is written by Pauline Hopkins produced and directed by Owen Vincent. Others in the cast were Harry Bartell as Jimmy Jones, Nina Clowden as the girl and Whitfield as the child and Stanley Waxman as the floor walker. The music was composed and conducted by Charles Dent. You're announcer John Heaston. 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