You are now listening to Cryptid Cocktail Party. Hey everybody, welcome back to another episode of Cryptic Cocktail Party, a show where we have a few drinks, share a few laughs, take a dive into the unknown. I'm your host Dave, joined as always by All Beef Daddy, aka Sarge. How's it going, buddy? Hiya! What's up? You doing karate now? Yeah, why not? Fair enough. I mean, I don't actually know karate, and I feel like anyone who did know karate would be able to beat me
up pretty handily. Meh. But I respect the hustle. I think you'd hold your own. For like a minute. I'd have to do a bear hug. Gotcha. I'd just have to wrap my arms around them and lift them off the ground. Get real Lenny from Mice and Men with it. Yes. That would be my only move. How you doing, bud? You looking good as always? Thank you. Doing great. Doing great. Work is busier than ever. I get to go back to California for funsies. And yeah. How you doing? I'm fine. Nothing
new going on. It's just all the same stuff. Fair enough. Yeah, I got nothing going on. I feel like I don't normally. I feel like after seeing dinosaurs the other weekend, I'm just not interested in doing anything else. Yeah, like candy doesn't taste as sweet anymore. The candy of life. Just fucking over it, dude. Yeah, I got nothing going on, dude. Everything is just... I felt that way when the Bruins traded away Brad Marchand. Unacceptable. You know what? These fucking assholes. I can
relate. Actually, I can't. I don't know anything about sports. I have no idea what you just said to me. It's like you're speaking a foreign language. It's okay. You're better off, frankly, at this point, because the Bruins are trash this year. All right, Sarge. Before this episode starts, we've got a couple things to go over. Okay. One of them is that we got a listener story. Yes. Emailed to us. And it kind of fits somewhat with the topic of today's episode, in a way, sort
of. You'll figure it out. But yeah, you want to? Yeah, let's do it. All right. So this comes from Peter Quint. He's actually the host of another podcast called Good Beer, Bad Movie Night. It's pretty good. Check it out. Nice. His email reads, Hi, Dave and Sarge. Here's one personal story of the spooky kind. I grew up in rural northwest Ohio, where it's very flat and corn as far as the eye can see, and there aren't any lights on the road, so it gets really dark out there.
One summer night when I was in high school, my mom and I were driving home late at night when we both saw a bright light in the sky in the distance. We are far from any sort of airport, and the only planes we ever see in the sky were crop dusters during the day and nothing at night. The light was so unusual we both mentioned and giggled, saying it had to be a UFO. We just watched it sort of hang out there in the sky. It was really hard to judge how far away or how big
it was. It didn't really blink. It was just there. The next instance, it was just gone, as if it was never there to begin with. We didn't see it streak away. We didn't see it change colors or really move at all. It just vanished as if a light switch had been turned off. That's it. Not very impressive. It could have been anything. It probably wasn't a UFO, but that moment is delightfully burned in my brain as a quote -unquote encounter. The story is real. Can't say for sure
that it was a UFO. And then he says he has two more stories that he'll send us later. So there you go. Nice. Send him. And you know what? I kind of like that he didn't try and shoehorn that into something. He was just like, it could have been a UFO. It felt like it might have been. I mean, to him, it was unidentified. I mean, yeah. To the definition of the term, it was unidentified. I actually had a similar situation when I was overseas. It was real late at night and we were
doing a night kind of convoy training. And so we drive into this like built up pretend compound in Baghdad. You know, it's kind of built for like training purposes. So we drive into it and it's real late at night and I am fucking exhausted.
And so I'm in the turret. of my truck and i'm like just trying to stay awake and i look out in the distance and i see this like light kind of it's almost like it's swaying in the sky okay like a pendulum of light kind of not not because it's just the light yeah and i'm just seeing the light kind of move back and forth i'm like planes don't do that helicopters what the fuck is that thing and so uh i very excitedly after the training exercise is over i very excitedly
I'm like talking to some of the guys and I'm like, dude, I think I saw a UFO. And I like point over to where it, I thought I saw it. And they're like, you idiot. And I was like, what? And so apparently, and I realize this now. You're going to say some real, you're going to sound real dumb, aren't you? Oh yeah. They put up balloons in the sky with like lights on them. And the balloons are attached to a cable that holds them
to the ground. Okay. And those balloons will pick up disturbances in the air to indicate whether incoming mortar rounds are being shot at us. So that would explain why the light was kind of like gently moving back and forth because it was a fucking balloon. I mean, it was high
up. it was high up so in my defense to be fair a lot of people mistake like mylar balloons and shit like that for ufos so i mean you're not it's not that too bad um all right so second piece of some whatever that we need to go over before we dive into the new business the second order of business second order of business there we go is uh we have a bit of wholesome content wholesome content Yeah, so it's not really wholesome
content. What it is is I told everyone last week that I would explain why we did the Christian cocktail party thing. Oh, yes. For those of you who don't follow us on Instagram, we received one of the best reviews we could ever have ever possibly wanted to get. It's so good. I give this review five stars. Yeah, so I'll just read it and then you'll understand why we did the whole. Christian cocktail part. I think so. Uh, this comes from a user on bean sprout, which
I don't ever use. So I'd never check it. And I just randomly decided one day to see what was up. This was four months ago that they posted this. It says, uh, I came to learn about cryptids. And while I enjoyed that aspect of these, they felt the need to shove their woke pseudo historical history into the podcast. They claim they aren't a political podcast. Yet when people get annoyed with them shoving their politics into the episodes,
they call them fascists. They research all this stuff about cryptids, but don't take time to research Christianity and see why many believe in it. Here's a start evidence that demands a verdict by Josh McDowell. And that's the whole review. I mean, no notes. They're right in a sense that we don't study Christianity and take the time to figure out why people believe in
it. But also, I don't think we've ever, we've never been annoyed by people being annoyed by the fact that we say things to say our beliefs on this show, especially not enough to call them fascists on the show. I think it's kind of a wild flex to hear us rail against racism and the subjugation of people. Yeah. And, and, and find that that in like interpret that as an immediate attack on your belief system. Like maybe, I don't know, you believe in the wrong thing. Is what
we said was bad for you. I just want to know what they mean by pseudo -historical history. Fucking, I have no idea what that means, but it's great. Yeah, we don't make up history. We just find the actual sources of history and use them. But is this show woke? I don't think. I don't think we're woke. I think we're like, you know, anti -racism. We're just normal human beings. That's all we are. We're just people. We frown on, I don't know, stealing Native American folklore
and turning it into your entertainment. Well, see, that's pretty woke, Sarge. I don't know if I can. Oh, okay. Now that you say it like that, I hear it. I also like that he was immediately associated all of that with anti -Christian behavior. You know, dude, that's just how they are, man. It's just... It's the silliest shit I've ever heard. Okay, buddy. Okay. All right, let's move on. You ready to dive in today's episode? Yeah, hold on. Let me just grab my Bible so that I
can continue to study. All right. This episode got away from me. It's going to be a little bit longer than our normal ones probably. Which is good. People say they want longer episodes, so this one's for you guys. It's so big, in fact, that it's going to be two parts. Yes! Two -parter! Yeah, we're going to be covering something that's kind of in the realm of things we've covered before, and that is the Secret Space Program. There are several Secret Space Programs, but
we're going to cover a specific person. His name is Captain Mark Richards. Are you familiar with him at all or anything that he's? No, no. A name doesn't ring a bell. Okay. You're in for a wild fucking ride, dude. You're not ready for anything I'm about to tell you. So for those of you who may be unfamiliar with who this is, and there's probably a lot of you listening who do know who he is and know where this story is heading. So get ready to hear Sarge's reaction to all of
it. Captain Mark Richards is a whistleblower with decades of experience in interstellar warfare. alien diplomacy, and classified military ops the public has never been allowed to know about. He's led missions across the solar system, commanded advanced off -world technology, and worked alongside non -human allies to defend Earth from threats that, again, you probably wouldn't know about. Which, I mean, makes sense. It's all secret science.
Yeah, yeah. So that probably stands to reason why you probably would be unfamiliar with him. Right, right. No, he's got to maintain his cover. I understand. Yeah, but Sarge, we're going to change all that. I'm going to make you very unfamiliar. We're going to be exposed. With Captain Mark
Richards. All right, so Mark Richards was born in 1953 into a highly classified world of covert military activity and alleged extraterrestrial contact, all thanks to his father, Major Ellis Lloyd Ragers Jr. Major Richards was a career military officer and was heavily involved in secret defense projects during the Cold War.
According to later interviews and some documents circulating in some of the more fringe parts of the internet, Major Richards was not only aware of non -human intelligences, but actively worked alongside them as part of an international security alliance operating outside of conventional government oversight. Secret Space Pilgrim. Here it comes. So it's no surprise that the Major, that's how I'm going to refer to Mark's dad going
forward. The Major. Pretty much groomed Mark from an early age to pretty much follow in his footsteps. I mean, you can't just pass this kind of information to some random ding dong. You got to keep this in your circle of trust. Everyone knows that military history is, I mean, military power is mostly passed through heredity. Yeah. Is that not how it works? That's how it works
in North Korea. It makes sense to me. Yeah. But according to Mark, his exposure to all the classified programs and alien contacts began pretty much as soon as this dude could walk or talk. In one of Mark's more notable claims, he talked about how he attended an interstellar conference in England in 1961 at the ripe old age of eight where he got to meet a nine -foot -tall raptor prince. Now, what's a raptor, you may be asking yourself? Sarge, you ever seen Jurassic Park?
Yes. Now think that. But he's got a crown. Yeah. With a lot of purple. Yeah. Just imagine the blue from Jurassic World, but smart. Technologically advanced and apparently pretty politically complex. But thankfully... Very savvy. Yeah. They entered into an alliance with a few select human factions. So thank God we're not fighting against them. They are fighting with us. All right. So that should make you feel a little better. Thank God
indeed. Yeah, so it was at this event that basically marks the beginning of what would lead to Mark's lifelong involvement with non -human entities and off -world operations, the Seeker Space Program.
Now, under the mentorship of the Major, Mark was... balls deep in covert military protocol protocols intelligence operations and what he later described as quote -unquote cosmic politics some of his early education in this field was exposure to cold war era psychic warfare research things like uh experimental programs and telepathy remote viewing mind control which were all areas the men who stare at goats yeah it's all areas that overlapped with some of the real life initiatives
being worked on both by the u .s and the soviets Soviet defense agencies during the time we covered a bunch of these already, like the actual programs. If you want to learn more about those, uh, you can go ahead and find them. I don't remember the names of what they were, but there's some MK ultra majestic 12. Yeah. It's like, it's like we did like the Montauk project and shit like that. Like it's that kind of shit. Yeah. Yeah. The, the fake shit, the stuff that isn't actually
real. No, it's real dude. So very real. Very real. Now, uh, as he got older, In his early teens, I believe, I think is what I read. Richards was enrolled in a joint human -alien military training program, specifically an elite academy
developed in coordination with the Raptors. Now, this program, which is entirely hidden from public record, so... good luck fact -checking me, was said to combine advanced combat training, psychological conditioning, and diplomatic instruction designed to prepare human cadets for service in what would later be referred to as Secret Space Program. I want to know, in these joint exercises, did they wear matching uniforms? Did they make specific uniforms for the Raptors? Yeah. I don't know.
I assume in my head, I just picture like, like Mark Richards on a motorcycle. And then the rest of the Raptors running behind him, just like fucking. This is what I picture. A bunch of Raptors and really shiny boots, but with like holes cut out for their talons. And their tail. Yeah. And their tail for the pants. Yeah. Now in conjunction with his military and psychic training. Mark also cultivated himself a pretty broad skill set. He became fluent in multiple languages,
both terrestrial and extraterrestrial. He trained extensively in fencing and martial arts. He mastered various forms of advanced weaponry and served as a test pilot for prototype aircrafts. And academically, this dude's fucking crushing it. He was described as an honor student and a genius tactical theorist with a deep understanding of strategic operations. history, and interspecies
diplomacy. Now, by the time he finished college in the 70s, Mark Richards had reportedly already been involved in several low -level off -world assignments and had been marked for command within an international secret task force that operated beyond conventional nation -state boundaries. That must've been really tough. Like flying to Mars, then coming right back to study for your finals. Challenging. I'm assuming this had to be like a joint college for humans. Raptors.
I like, there's no way you're just going to fucking like be you. I can't imagine that that's what's going on. It has to be. I didn't look into what college he went to or, you know, like I, I'd be interested to know what the mascot for that college would be. Cause like when your student body is Raptors, like you feel like you need to get tougher than that, you know, unless they're, unless this is college fighting T -Rexes, unless this college is based in Toronto and then, okay,
then they could just keep the name. Yeah. Then you're fine. So it was this foundation that would define the course of Mark Richards life from this point forward. Richards would enter what he described as active service in a clandestine interplanetary defense network, a coalition of human and non -human forces working to protect Earth from external threats and shape its role in a broader cosmic sense. So, by the mid -70s, Mark Richards' covert service has officially
begun. His early assignments included work as an officer in the Vietnam War, but with a dual purpose. One involving conventional military operations and the other centered on extraterrestrial reconnaissance and recovery efforts hidden under the guise of traditional conflict. That's kind of weird. Why is that so weird, Sarge? What about this is weird? 1961, he said he was what, eight years old? Sure. Okay, so 10 years from that is 1971, which means he would have been 18. The
Vietnam War ended in 74. So he would have been an officer at like 21 years old? How does that work? Because he's fucking a genius. Are we not paying attention to anything I just said? Oh, right. You know what? I forgot about being a pathological liar who's good at karate. Forgot about that part. Also, his dad's a major, and what we already discussed is that the way the military works, yeah, it's called nepotism. Your firstborn son gets your officer candidacy. Yeah.
That's what happens. That's how I always assumed it worked. Now, following Vietnam, Richards transitioned into full -time service within what was described as an off -world branch of military intelligence. He then attained the rank of Navy Captain and was assigned to a classified unit operating beyond Earth. One of his first major operations in this
role took place in July of 1976. This mission, later referred to as the Battle of Chinagates, involved a direct confrontation with a remnant faction of Nazi German elites who had allegedly escaped justice after World War II and formed an alliance with hostile reptilians. Now, the reptilians and the raptors are two separate things. All right, so raptors are good, reptilians bad. Does that make sense? You following? Duly noted. Okay. You made a face when I brought up Nazi
German elites. Were you good? Yeah, I was just thinking, of course, fucking Nazis always got their hand in something. I learned that from a very well -made documentary called Iron Skies, where the Nazis built a base on the moon. Okay. Is that not true? No, from what I understand, it was a documentary. It was very well shot. Found footage documentary. Found footage, okay.
Now, according to Richards, these Nazi reptilian forces were trying to kick off catastrophic geological events, a series of artificially induced earthquakes designed to weaken Earth's tectonic stability and open what they called a quote -unquote dimensional gate. Now, if successful... This gate would have allowed an invading force to enter Earth's atmosphere undetected and unchallenged. Oh, and also their base of operations was located under the ice in Antarctica because of course, why wouldn't
it be? Under the ice on a continent, on a land continent. So they were under the ice on the ground. Yes, it's thick. Okay. It's believable. You have to get to the ground to... under the ice to get to the... To the ground that's thousands of feet below it. Yeah. I mean, you can't just build a foundation for a building on top of ice. You got to dig it into the ground. You got to dig down. I get it. Science. All of this rings very true. Yeah. I don't see any problems with
this so far. So on July 27th, 1976, strange lights and unexplained aerial disturbances were observed over the city of Tangshan, China. Hours later, a massive 7 .8 magnitude earthquake just decimated the region. Tens of thousands of people died, but according to Richards, this quake was no natural disaster. It was the result of the Nazi reptilian experimental tectonic weapon being
activated. The seismic chaos, he said, was intended to serve as cover for mass abductions and covert troop deployments through the dimensional portal.
counter -offensive unit and his father the major led the ground assault on the hidden antarctic base to destroy the quake generating weapon while mark was tasked with uh aerial uh interdiction now despite mark being only 23 years 23 years old at the time he was given command of one of the most advanced vehicles available now this was a starship named minerva Are you ready to learn about Minerva? Yes. Yes. I am so confident in the truthfulness of all of this stuff that
I hope to one day fly in Minerva myself. Oh, well, you're about to learn something. I don't think you'll be able to. I'm sorry, bud. Oh, okay. See, Minerva wasn't just your run -of -the -mill, boilerplate, milquetoast starship. Minerva was grown from a bio -organic ET technology, was fully conscious, and said to be over 40 ,000 years old. The ship could bond telepathically with its pilot and rejecting those who are mentally
or emotionally incompatible. So nine other human candidates before Richard had died attempting to interface with Minerva's neural system. But luckily, this guy, who's good at fencing, And martial arts. And martial arts was also mentally stable enough, even though he was an officer in the Vietnam War at the age of 14, apparently.
He's super smart. All these tracks. Yeah, so like you said, Richards was able to successfully form a sort of symbiotic connection with Minerva, becoming the only human able to pilot it without dying. You know what he had to do? He had to seduce Minerva. Is that what it is? I kind of think he fucked this ship. I'm almost 100 % sure that this dude got real weird with it. Real fast. I'll take the joystick, but first you need to
take mine. The thing about Minerva too is that I'm assuming it's a, she, I'm going to say Minerva is a girl name. Is that Minerva is a girl's name. So I'm glad that you are a woman's name. Let's, let's be as woke as possible. I don't know. Well, maybe 40 ,000 years old is not old in Minerva species time. Oh, okay. We don't know how long Minerva lives for like a baby Yoda situation. Yeah, exactly. Okay. Uh, my mistake for assuming your age representation, maybe they're around
the same age. We don't know. It could be like, There could be like 23 in Minerva years, like 40 ,000 could be young adult. Yeah, they're a great couple. So Minerva's intelligence extended. beyond like flight coordination and shit like that. It acted autonomously when it felt it needed to, even refusing to allow Richards to engage in missions that it deemed unnecessarily dangerous, which I feel like you don't want that in the
middle of a combat situation. You don't want your ship or any tool you have to just become autonomous. It feels unnecessary. It feels problematic. Yeah. According to Richards, Minerva perceived its human crew as emotionally volatile, and in many cases, it would intervene for their own good. Now, despite this, however, it followed Richards into combat without hesitation during
the China Gates mission. Now, together, Richards and Minerva entered the battlefield over Tangshan, joining a formation of top -secret aerospace fighters, some of them human -built, others were of ET origin. Got it. So you got, like, in the skies above China... You got Minerva and Richards, and on the ground of Antarctica, you got the Major and the ground troops fighting separately. The conflict escalated pretty rapidly as portals started to breach Earth's spatial integrity.
Ultimately, though, the mission was deemed a success. The dimensional gate was closed, the tectonic weapon was destroyed, and the alliance between the Nazis and their reptilian allies were disrupted. The cost, however, was pretty high. The earthquake still killed an estimated 250 ,000 people. But according to Richards and his allies, the death toll could have been in the billions if this invasion had been successful.
So I just want to take a quick moment to say thank you, Captain Mark Richards, for saving us this time. Thanks, Captain. You're truly just really valuable and not at all pathological lying. I can tell that you're kind of getting angry. I feel like you're getting a little mad. You know, it's not even anger. It's just utter contempt. Okay. At how little this man thinks of people's mental faculties. Okay. Just none of this is like remotely close to possible. We don't know.
That's all secret. I keep forgetting that. I keep forgetting that. I don't understand what you're not understanding about the secret and secret space program is Sarge. Right. That was my mistake. He's a whistleblower. He's not, you know, he's not, he can't, he can't come out with a bunch of classified documents. That'd be insane. Oh yeah. No, he's, he's one. He's a hundred percent of whistleblower. It's just tooting away. Now, it was this operation that solidified Richard's
status within the secret command structure. He was recognized not just for his tactical competence, but for the unique bond he had formed with Minerva, the sentient spaceship, which would play huge roles in many of his later missions. So, in the months following the Battle of China Gates, Richard was elevated to a more strategic role within the secret space program. His success during that mission and his compatibility with Minerva had made him a unique asset. He wasn't just a
soldier anymore. He was one of the only humans capable of coordinating ET technology with human command structures. And that capability would be tested again in September of 1977 during a large -scale conflict that would become known as the Battle of Harvest Moon. You familiar with the battle? You've heard about this? You've seen this shit? You heard about this? I feel like that was the original title for Star Wars. No, it was Blue Harvest. It was the original title
of Star Wars. My mistake. The events leading up to this operation began when a long -range... Oh, my God. Why can't I say this word? Now, the events leading up to this operation began when long -range reconnaissance units in the secret space program detected the mobilization of an alien fleet in the outer solar system. Like you do. Yeah. SSP intelligence confirmed that a coalition of hostile ET species was amassing near Saturn.
I'm sorry. Are we just going to blow past the fact that you abbreviated secret space program? Yeah. Sorry. You want to take that again? Here we go. No, no, no. I like it. I like it. The SSP. One more time. All right. intelligence confirmed that a coalition of hostile species was messing near the SSP. Yeah. Preparing for an assault on earth's moon. Now, sorry, you're probably thinking, why would they want to attack the moon?
Right? Well, their target wasn't the moon itself, obviously, but a classified installation on the moon known as the Rockefeller base. Oh, of course the Rockefellers are involved. Why didn't I think about that sooner? Hopefully the Bilderberg group is up there. Maybe even the Illuminati. It's possible. We'll find out. And the Rothschilds. We'll find out, won't we? The Queen of England.
This base is a secret lunar colony established through a breakaway... established through breakaway technology, post -war Nazi engineering, and corporate black funding. The base served as both a staging ground for interplanetary missions and a critical defense node within the Earth -Moon security system, which I'm sure you're familiar with. We all know that now. Yeah, the EMSS. Yeah. Yeah. Of course, everyone knows the EMSS, the Earth
-Moon security system. When the threat of this attack became imminent, Richards and his father, the Major, were brought in to coordinate Earth's response. Major Dad. What made this mission different than the others was the emergence of an unexpected ally. Can you guess who this ally could be? Martians. No. That's such an easy guess. Why would you even say it? Like, come on. That's obvious. It's not a mistake. It was a fleet of advanced Nazi flying saucers that were thought to have been
destroyed in the aftermath of World War II. This is what I saw in Iron Sky. Okay. Yes. Now we're getting somewhere. Now, even though this Nazi breakaway faction has been up to this point historically. adversarial, they viewed the alien invasion force as a greater threat and agreed to join in on
the defense of the moon. So together, the SSP, the Nazis, and a whole host of alien allies teamed up and organized an orbital defense operation with Mark and Minerva tasked with frontline defense during the initial strike phase, I guess you would call it. Now, what followed next was one of the most intense recorded battles in the history of the SSP. In his post -mission debrief, Mark described the battle as, quote, a scene beyond
fiction. Now, this conflict only lasted 90 seconds in real time, but encompassed the destruction of entire fleets, the deaths of thousands of beings, and the obliteration of ships that represented planet -scale economic investments. With the battle taking place in the space surrounding the moon and briefly on its moon surface, like near the Seager base. Mark described the assault
as overwhelmingly chaotic. Weaponized gravity, plasma artillery, and telepathic disruption were all deployed in what he called, quote, a convergence of the best science of a dozen civilizations, end quote. Good? Yep. Okay. Can I ask? Yeah. And this is just a minor detail, but the bad guys in this, since the Nazis had teamed up with everyone, were they fighting space Jews? The ones that Marjorie Taylor Greene's afraid of? I mean, I'm sure this is all some sort of fucked
up dog whistle. Anti -Semitic. There's no way it's not. The enemy aliens. We tried to make peace with them. But they refused to eat bagels. But ultimately, the hostile feat was defeated, the Rockefeller base was saved, and Earth's presence on the moon remained secure. Well, I'm glad the Rockefellers are safe, because God knows they've been through enough. I don't think they're there. I think the base is just named that. It's a weird
name for a base. Is it? Yeah, because normally we name bases after, like, I don't know, heroes? Well, maybe they did something in the secret space program before this that I don't know about. Back during the steampunk era, steam powered locomotives that could go to space. Dude, you got to remember, it's all secret. That's true. I don't know why they named these things the way they do. Maybe they help. I don't know, dude.
Anyways, but following his successful leadership during the Harvest Moon conflict, Captain Mark Richards was assigned command of one of one of Earth's most secretive. Secretive Interagency Operations, which is Operation Moondust. Now, this was originally established to recover and study unidentified aerial technology. Moondust's scope had expanded by the late 1970s to include extraterrestrial contact, intelligence gathering, and technology retrieval under extreme conditions.
So in 1978, Richards led one of the program's most critical missions. See, a UFO had crashed in the mountains in Bolivia, drawing the attention of multiple covert groups, including foreign special forces, private intelligence contractors, and suspected non -human operatives. The area became a flashpoint in the global shadow war for advanced alien technology. So Richards was placed in command of the U .S. retrieval team.
And their objectives were two things. Secure the downcraft and container neutralize any remaining threats in the area. Now, according to post -mission accounts, Richard's unit successfully repelled rival teams and recovered the alien vehicle. What made this operation especially significant was there were survivors. So he was... So the crash survivors were described as small insectoid beings. They were unfamiliar to Richards or his team. It's like a new species of alien that they've
never come across. And rather than resist, the creature surrendered peacefully, reportedly traumatized and disoriented. They later became Casey and the Sunshine Band. I don't know what that means. Do a little dance. Make a little love. Get down.
I know what that is. it's not my fault that you don't know good music I know who they are but I don't understand why these traumatized and disoriented insectoid aliens would become Casey and the Sunshine Band because obviously every time someone goes through a traumatic experience you immediately turn to disco and funk I'm going to let you sit in that I'm going to let you sit in that it's in your shame Now let me get through
this sentence. Richards facilitated communication with them and negotiated their safety, offering them political asylum under a secret Earth alliance in exchange for information and technological cooperation. This event was seen internationally as a diplomatic milestone. Richards just wasn't recovering hardware. He was building alliances with off -world species and broadening humanity's network of non -human partners. Okay? Yeah. Okay. And then they played that funky music, white
boy. Okay, so one year later, in August of 1979, Richards was given command of a long -range peacekeeping assignment deep within the asteroid belt. A diplomatic summit was scheduled to take place on Vesta, which was one of the largest asteroids in the belt that was designated a neutral site by multiple interstellar factions. Commanding an Orion -class battleship, which is a massive nuclear -powered deep space vessel, Richards was tasked with ensuring the safety of the proceedings and serving as
Earth's military envoy there. The peace talks involved numerous alien species, each with conflicting agendas and somewhat volatile histories amongst one another. So Richards was expected to maintain neutrality, oversee security protocols, and manage any potential sabotage attempts. During the summit. Yeah. I mean, you got to be careful when you have the Ugnaughts and the Sand People. You got to keep them separated. Yeah. Are they called the Tusken Raiders? I feel like calling them
Sand People is a little... The Tusken Raiders, right. It's a little... Right. But I feel like that's a racist term. I believe Sand People is the preferred. I think... Is it? I don't know. I never looked at it. It might be the other way around, actually, now that I think about it. But Raider is such a negative connotation. Anyway, the Tuscan peoples and the Ugnaughts do not get
along. So the mission escalated when a hostile insectoid faction, unrelated to the Bolivia bugs, launched a surprise ambush on the asteroid during the summit. Their objective was to assassinate key representatives and disrupt the treaty process. Richards and his crew quickly responded. Utilizing the Orion ship's heavy weapons systems and Minerva's rapid deployment capabilities, they intercepted
and destroyed the attacking vessels. No delegates were harmed, the summit continued as planned, and the peace agreement was finalized under the protection of Earth's contingent. So for his actions on Vesta, Richards was commended by both human and non -human leadership, solidifying his reputation as a commander capable of operating under extreme conditions in high -risk political situations. At the ripe old age of 20, 26. He's like not even in his 30s. I just want to draw
attention. Yeah, this is a guy who has done more in his 20s than most people have done in their entire lives. Yeah. No. It's pretty remarkable. Yeah. I'm proud of him. Yeah. Some would say it's almost unbelievable. Almost. Almost. But the most significant and controversial mission of his career was still ahead of him. So this is something you probably heard of. I would assume.
Maybe. In late 1979. Whispers from deep within the intelligence community pointed to ongoing human experimentation at a facility long rumored to exist beneath Dulce, New Mexico, the Dulce Base. Now, according to insiders, there was a joint human -alien laboratory operated in violation of ancient interspecies treaties, and these reports suggested that non -consensual experiments were being conducted on abducted civilians by a rogue faction of grey aliens aided by compromised human
collaborators. The evidence, though classified, was considered credible enough to trigger a response from, you guessed it, Captain Richards and the Major. They were tasked with leading the operation, and according to... This is starting to sound like a band. Captain Richards and the Major.
This is like Captain and Tennille. Yeah. According to restricted briefings later shared in select intelligence circles, funding and logistical support for the raid came not... just from secret military channels, but allegedly from private financiers, including billionaire Ross Perot, who is said to have been appalled by the reports of human abuse. Honestly, the least surprising thing about this entire story is that Ross Perot is involved. If any of this were real, it would
be Ross Perot throwing money at aliens. Yeah, that's probably... Anyway, so in November of 97... Before you continue, I do want to... I know it sounded like I was making fun of this, but the Dulce underground bases that you were talking about, they're called DUMs. No, I know. It is the Dulce underground military base. I'm trying to just enlighten the audience. Gotcha. poo -pooing the underground bases by any stretch.
Well, no, they're real. And at the bottom of it in 1979, they were doing experiments on humans. Yeah. We all know this now. Yep. That's why I don't have wisdom teeth anymore. So in November of 1979, Richard's letter. Yeah, they put something in the water. Is that what it is? And so those of us who are enlightened beings never grew wisdom teeth. See, I can lie too. I don't think that's what the experiments were. Actually, we're going
to get into it right now. All right, fine. So in November of 1979, Richards led a multi -pronged assault on the base. Strike teams entered the facility through underground tunnels using experimental transport technology. What followed was described as brutal close quarters engagement through dark claustrophobic corridors. They were fighting against gray bile soldiers and genetically engineered
hybrids created in on -site laboratories. Richard's unit was tasked with locating and freeing human prisoners, many of whom were found emaciated and in critical condition. The team's neutralized enemy forces destroyed vital sections of the lab and successfully extracted dozens of survivors. The mission, again, classified as a success. Naturally. But details of the operation, obviously, they remained sealed. Can't just let the public know all about that. No, you can't tell the public
about it. That would ruin the secrecy and believability of this whole thing. Yeah, so by 1980, Captain Mark Richards had supposedly done pretty much it all. He was a master tactician in galactic war, the only human trusted to pilot Minerva, the sentient spaceship. Incredible. He'd flown missions through the asteroid belt, fought and fought with the Nazi saucers over the moon, and forged peace treaties with many alien species
light years from Earth. He was called the Pendragon of the Space Command, which is a title pulled from Arthurian legend and given to a man said to be humanity's greatest interstellar protector. He was a warrior, a peacekeeper, a peacemaker. He was also like a myth in motion. But now, Sarge, as I'm sure you guessed, None of this was real. I would believe you immediately because none
of this sounds real. Yeah, so what if every off -world mission, every alien alliance, every battle for Earth's survival was actually just a story told from behind bars? Because here's the truth, Sarge. Mark Richards is not a war hero. He is a convicted murderer serving life without parole in the California prison system since 1982. Now it all makes sense. He never served in the military.
His rank of captain is completely made up. There's no classified space fleet, no Raptor prints, no secret lunar base, the entire saga, the sentient ship, the Dolce raid, the asteroid diplomacy, not the asteroid diplomacy. That's fake too. This was all constructed over years of interviews, but not with government whistleblowers, not with
intelligence officers. but with Carrie Cassidy, a UFO disclosure vlogger and conspiracy influencer who built her platform, Project Camelot, on unverified testimony, shadowy insiders, and fringe beliefs. Richards gave her everything, every detail, every battle, every lie. And while he claimed to be humanity's last line of defense against alien invasion, the truth is that he's been in maximum security. since the Reagan administration. Now, do you want to know why? Because he murdered
a guy? Because in 1982, Mark Richards was convicted for orchestrating the brutal murder of Richard Baldwin as part of a delusional conspiracy known as the Pendragon Plot, which is what we are going to be covering next episode. Oh my God, I'm so excited. I'm so excited. This is amazing to me. This is... I love shit like this because... The only thing that makes absolute lunacy better is when it bleeds into real life and then the lunatic is faced with reality. Yeah, so basically
we'll get into it. Mark Richards, he had a failing business. He hired two kids and he convinced those two kids that he was going to become king of like the Bay Area. And he promised one of them lordship over an island by Alcatraz. He started a small cult and then murdered one of his best friends to steal all his money to fund the Pendragon plot. Just amazing. I'm so excited. This is not where I thought this was going and I'm very excited. So next week we'll cover the
reason why he's in jail and it's... It's great. It's beautiful. It's wonderful. I'm excited. We went from like conspiracy theory podcast to true crime podcast in two episodes. Yeah. I'm so looking forward to this next episode. It's, um, yeah, if, if the dude, so he, yeah, so he's been in prison for a long time since 82 and, um, Carrie Cassidy, who, if you don't know, bro, project Camelot is, it's like her YouTube channel.
rumble whatever the right way I gotta look her up so she heard about him somehow I don't know how but so she went and she goes to visit him in prison and so she can't bring recording equipment with her she goes and he tells her all this fucking crazy bullshit and she writes it down and then has to come back home and then immediately like record and report on the interview she's been having with him and this Mark Richards is kind of crazy because in the weird right -wing QAnon
conspiracy theory world, they believe him wholeheartedly. Oh, yeah. Wholeheartedly. These are people who unquestioningly accept that two of every animal were put on a large boat and saved from extinction. So I'm not really surprised when they're like, oh, you went into space and fought aliens? Checks out. It's in a book. Yeah. It's gotta be real there. And there's so, there's so much more to this. Like, uh, yeah. So, uh, the Raptors, uh, the Raptors that he, he met and fought with,
they are Raptors. They're just dinosaurs. They're just straight up the dinosaurs from Jurassic park. Uh, they are smart. Uh, what's funny is that in Jurassic world, uh, when Chris Pratt's on like those Raptors, only a couple of them are CGI. The other, the other few are actual Raptors. They love this shit. That would explain why actual velociraptors are the size of turkeys, yet in Jurassic Park they're the size of basketball players. They had to scale them up to fit with
the raptors. That makes sense. Now it all makes sense. They also love chocolate. Big fans of chocolate. Also, if you've ever been to Walking with Dinosaurs, you know the outside puppet thing? Some of those raptors? Those are raptors. Pretty fucking crazy right there. Of course they're real. Why wouldn't they be? I'll send you some stuff if you want to. I'm so excited. The Mark Richard shit is fucking wild. And the murder
plot is even crazier. It's not even crazier obviously because it doesn't involve fucking space shit but it's good. The fact that he murdered someone and thought he would get away with it. Being this unbelievable about everything else. He was going to become a king. Do you understand that? It doesn't matter. You can get away with anything if you're a king. No, that's true. That's true. I'm, oh man, this is going to be the best. Yeah. So buckle up. We're going to dip our toes into
true crime. It's still conspiracy shit, but it's a little bit of true crime, but mostly conspiracy. Yeah. We're not going to get into like the fucking nitty gritty of like, and then he fucking. bashed his brain. We'll gloss over all that. We don't want to be too... We don't want to mix genres. Alright, Sarge. I think that's it. If we go any further, we're just going to end up talking about the second episode. No, no, no. Let's hold off. Very worth it. I'm very excited. I loved this
from start to finish. It seems like you were real annoyed with me. No, no. I wasn't annoyed with you at all. I was just like... I'm thinking about the kinds of people who are taken in by these sorts of things. Yeah. So it wasn't like annoyed. It was like a deep sadness. Yeah. For the lack of critical thinking that people have where they can't just be like, this sounds silly. Well, no, because he had an excuse for everything. Like, yeah, his records were, you know, it was
all secret. So you can't provide it or, you know, so, so he, he was arrested by the military themselves, like on trumped up charges. We'll go into it a little bit. Gotcha. On the next episode, but they will tell, told Carrie that he was framed. This is all part of the, this is still, still all part of the secret space program. He did something or other and they fucking threw him in prison. I don't know if it was because he blew the whistle on something. I don't really
remember. But he has an answer for everything. I'm really looking forward to this part of it. Yeah, but I mean, it's Carrie Cassidy. If you don't think about her, she does not push back. Nope. She just blindly accepts it. Yeah, dude, it's wild. All right, so if I keep talking, I'm just going to spoil it. So Sarge, is there anything you want to plug before we sign off? Yeah, you know, you can still get my coloring book. I know I've been beating this drum forever, but it's
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really does. Yeah. Oh, I started a podcast network. Dead Air Syndicate. We're still in the very early stages. We're still working on everything. I talked over you. What's the name of it again? Say it again. I'm going to edit you out. Oh, okay. Yeah, fuck me. No, it's called Dead Air Syndicate. It was just the first name I came up with. Maybe it'll change. I like it. I like it a lot. That's a cool name. Yeah, it's a very loose collective. It's not really a network.
Like -minded creators helping each other grow and stuff like that. But you can follow that on Instagram at Dead Air Syndicate. Just a couple of podcasts with raging goals. Yeah. I think that's it, though. Sarge, with that out of the way, do you want to say goodbye and I love you? You can find us all on the internet, by the way. I said that already. You just Google Cryptid Cocktail Party. So do it now. Alexa, Google Cryptid Cocktail Party. Ah, now you can't get away from
it. Did you not hear what I said? Okay, so anyway, goodbye, and I love you. I hate it here so much.