(BEST OF) Instinct to Extinction: How VR, AR, XR will Replace Humans (July 7, 2026)

Tom Thompson is the host of Strange Brew Podcast. He joins Ryan for a Halloween special to discuss some of the following: vampire and werewolf disease, astral projection, telepathy and telekinesis, demonic evolution, shadow people, how monsters and superstitions may be universally named different things even though mean very little outside their respective communities, and how science and the metaphysical are actually one in the same. Also, how possession and spirit communication is handled in Japan.

Dawn Lester, author of the new book " A Fresh Look at Childhood Illness," joins Ryan to discuss what really makes children ill, if even a term such as that, or disease, means what we assume. Here are a few of the many topics discussed:

A lot of people are talking about Non Human Intelligence recently, though many of them are personally Non Intelligent Humans. Another UFO document dump has revealed a black triangle that went viral everywhere as hard evidence despite it being a rendering, not an actual photograph, and also a fence with some kind of fuzz or hair at Skinwalker Ranch. Luckily BAASS (Bigelow Aerospace Advanced Space Studies) was there to investigate the very place that, at the time, Robert Bigelow owned. That report found more stories of midgets and average height humanoids, along with every category of tourist attraction under the paranormal listing. It was submitted to government and released under the public implication that this was confirmation of a coverup. It wasn't. Meanwhile, the same nuclear-UFO narrative from the 1960s is being spun once again while many simultaneously fear nuclear war once more; a war many think will lead to a draft and widespread black outs. Better get those powdered survival foods! Additionally, has anyone noticed that the argument about beating the Chinese or Russians to reverse engineered technology is identical to the same talking points about data centers and AI?

There seems to be an increase in online claims and speculation that every modern civilization and culture is the byproduct of people with dark skin. Specifically, black Africans. The origins of this are rooted in pseudo historical works, flawed science, assumptions and myths, and the evolution of a movement against European centrism. Some of it is also rooted in misidentification of very basic theological and mythological symbolism. For example, the black Buddha is not an African. He represents the void.; the shadow self that one must explore if they wish to transform into the golden Buddha. Other words, to achieve enlightenment, one must go within the self to conquer their demons and accept who they truly are. The same literal interpretations of black Buddha are applied to the androgynous nature of Baphomet, with people delete that it is a literal hermaphrodite. But the ‘blacks founded all civilization’ narrative, from Sweden to China, is only the racial version of ‘every dead person is alive’ and ‘every woman is actually a man’. This is currently playing out with Jews, claiming that they built America, and whites claiming that they, not blacks, built the world. It's all very stupid.

Are data centers being built for Internet fun, are they a hoax, or are they being used to build a body and language system to process an alien intelligence? Chris Michaels and Ryan Gable sit down for a shared show to discuss this and much more, including how UFOs, vaccines, NASA photos, nuclear bomb videos, etc., are sketches, computer models, interpretations, and fake respectively.