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Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Could the Government Keep Knowledge of Aliens a Secret?' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2023-08-04. Transcript available.

But the question is, like, why would we assume that it's a biological entity?
It doesn't have any windows. It's this round thing that looks like a tic-tac.
If there is some sort of advanced propulsion system, some revolutionary way of
moving through space and time
that the U.S. government has developed, you know, in some black ops program,
that seems very likely impossible.
That seems more likely than aliens visiting us.
But there's more than one incident, and there's a lot of these things.
And the possibility of alien life in the universe, although we've never
experienced it, seems rational.
It seems very rational.
And if you were going to study an emerging civilization that is both primitive
and warlike,
and yet insanely technologically advanced, to the point where they have nuclear
weapons,
they can transmit video through the sky, they have propaganda, they have
tracking of their citizens,
like, that's us. That's us right now.
And while we are these territorial, primal beings with fucking nuclear weapons,
this would be a good time to start exposing yourself.
Yes.
And to stop this nonsense.
Insanity.
Yeah. And look, the reason why we named the rooms of our club Fat Man and
Little Boy
is because in UFO lore, that's when they started showing up.
After the detonation of the atomic bombs in Japan, that's when the UFO sightings
ramped up.
And they ramped up mostly in the U.S., right?
Yes.
So that's interesting, because the U.S. was the one with the nuclear power.
And we were the one who was doing a lot of fucking testing.
Yeah.
And also, we have all these military bases.
Who the fuck has more military bases than us?
No one.
Who has more nuclear weapons pointed at other people than us?
We have them all over the place.
And there's all these multiple sightings and eyewitness accounts of, like, very
credible people
who say these things have hovered over military bases.
It'd be pretty cool if these aliens were benevolent overlords.
And they were like, hey, my children.
Yeah.
Or maybe even so advanced intellectually that the concept of an overlord is
preposterous.
And they're just biological management.
They're just, they're just the gardeners tending to make sure the weeds don't
get out of hand
and just, like, let this process continue to play itself out.
Because this process of technological innovation is, it's the everything that
humans do.
Yeah.
It's what we do at the pinnacle of our creation is we make better technology.
Well, I always wonder about fractals and whether or not, like, this idea of
this being a simulation,
this being, you know, like, we are kind of replicating, we are creating
machines
and doing our best to create them in our own image, right?
Yes.
And that's interesting, you know, because the mythologies that we subscribe to
are the idea
that this God that we pray to made us in his image.
And we're doing the same thing now with robots and computers.
And that's an interesting thing that we seem to have this sort of paradigm,
this idea that
that's the scaffolding for the way we think, right?
And to what end?
And why are we doing that?
Maybe it's the creation of a new life.
It's the creation of a new life form.
But has it already happened?
But has it already happened?
Are we the result of that impulse that happened way longer, a long time ago?
I think we are the shit-throwing chimps that are going to become the nuclear
physicists.
That's what I...
We are the shit-throwing chimps from 2001 that become Oppenheimer.
Yeah.
And then I think this thing that we become is integrated with technology.
It's probably some sort of a hybrid.
It's some sort of a cyborg.
That's wild.
Because I think we're already, like, on the verge of merging.
You know, all this talk of, like, Neuralink and all these various things.
We watched this video the other day of this guy who is Googling questions and
getting answers
in his head with his headpiece on.
Have you seen that thing?
Yeah.
Yeah.
That's so crazy.
Incredible.
Right?
So how long before that is...
Like, that's Pong.
I know.
But that's...
And then you have the Unreal 4 engine in 2023 that looks like a movie.
No, no, no.
Like, how long before that technology gets to the point where it's just supremely
advanced?
And we literally are like gods.
But my question really is also the idea that that's engineering, right?
That's a tool.
It's innovation.
But there's engineering.
So there are two aspects to it.
One is getting information faster and stuff, which doesn't get you closer to
the truth,
but it gets you information faster.
There are endless facts.
But more importantly, I always wonder, like, why we are given this...
I really believe that human potential is pretty much infinite.
Whatever you can imagine and beyond, we can do.
And we are doing.
We seem to be doing this.
Like, think about how crazy that is.
I can wear a headset and I can do things with my mind and look up the answer.
That's insane.
That's magic.
It's crazier than magic.
But there's a way to measure that and quantify that and replicate that.
So it's not magic.
I can do it and I can tell you exactly how I get there, which is even crazier.
So what is that leading us to?
It is nudging us closer.
It's like the...
I think it's very significant that we're getting a better understanding of what
it's like to be someone else.
It's really hard to say that a Yanomamo Indian or whoever it might be thinks
about things differently than I do when I know so much about how all these
human beings, like someone in Iran, someone in Jordan, laughs and cries and bleeds
at the same thing I do.
You know, being prejudiced based on what that person looks like over there is
becoming harder and harder to justify, where it was before we knew about that,
we were like, well, those people over there are quote unquote savages or they're
this, that and the other thing.
And I do think that we are getting a better understanding of what it's like to
be each other and being nudged in the same direction.
I'm not saying we don't become tribal.
I think that's true too.
But why?
And it's interesting to think about where that's leading us, to what
understanding, to what understanding.
And then when we have that understanding, what are we going to do about that?
Right.
And are we going to pull it together?
And are the aliens here to make sure that we don't fuck it up?
Yeah.
Yeah.
That's the beautiful idea.
The terrible idea is that it's all us.
And then it's all a big ruse and it's all just drones that we're doing because
we don't want China and Russia to know about it.
But we have insane propulsion systems that operate on gravity.
Yeah.
I think it is us.
I hate to tell you.
But it seems like both.
It seems like us and it also seems like there's some shit that we just don't
understand.
And I don't know if those people are telling the truth.
Because if the people that are telling the truth that there's biological
entities, and this is what Jackie Gleason said that Nixon told him.
And Nixon took him on.
They were drinking.
You know that famous story?
No.
Who knows if it's true?
It's a legend.
But the legend is that Jackie Gleason and Nixon were drinking.
And that Nixon said, you want to see some fucking aliens?
And they get on Air Force One and they fly to some Air Force base.
And they go to a place where they have a crashed UFO and they have biological
beings that are in freezers.
And Jackie Gleason sees this.
And Jackie Gleason after that has a house built in upstate New York that looks
like a UFO.
He became obsessed with UFOs after that.
There was a house.
It was actually for sale at one point in time.
What the fuck?
Yeah.
So he has this house that he had shaped like a UFO.
And this is like, who knows if this is a true story.
Yeah.
Right?
Because it's like, it was kind of sort of disputed.
His ex-wife told the story or something like that.
I forget.
I think that kind of thing is actually impossible to keep secret.
No, I don't think so.
Really?
No, I don't think so at all.
You think generational, like generations of government bureaucrats can keep
something a secret?
Sure.
I don't think so.
They tell the people at the very highest level know about it.
It's very few people.
It's all very compartmentalized.
They monitor everyone's phone calls, everyone's emails, everything everyone
does.
Impossible.
At a top secret clearance level?
No way.
Impossible.
I don't think you're right.
Totally impossible.
You're definitely not right.
I think it's impossible.
Listen, man, they can keep secrets.
When?
Which ones?
People at high levels of military can keep secrets.
Yeah, but they're always rotating out.
They're retiring.
They're dying.
Yeah, and they probably wind up fucking Hillary Clinton and a lot of those
dudes.
Hey, listen, dude.
This is not conspiracy social club.
This is the Joe Rogan experience.
I am not willing to relinquish the idea that they can keep that secret.
Well, that's because it's fun to believe in.
Yeah, but it's not just it's fun to believe in.
It is possible.
It's a physically possible thing to do, especially if you have the right people
and they're indoctrinated
in the right way with top secret clearance.
And by the way, it's not like these people don't tell their friends.
And it's not like there's a bunch of stories floating around because there are.
There's a shitload of stories floating around.
That's what I'm saying.
But why would you like I would never keep that a secret.
I'd be like, hey, you got fucking aliens.
Here's the thing.
When you have senators and congressmen who find out about this and they find
out that military
contractors are the ones who have access to this stuff because the back
engineering program
has to involve someone who has the capability of recreating this.
So who would that be?
That would be the people that make jets.
If you got someone who's making you a fucking stealth bomber and you have a
crashed UFO,
those are the people that you want discussing like what kind of things you've
recovered
from a fucking alien crash.
And can this be replicated?
No.
Here's the problem with your whole theory.
Don't you know me, motherfucker?
Because you don't know.
You might be wrong.
This is your wrong?
No.
No, no, no.
Don't say you're wrong because you don't know that I'm wrong.
This is the problem with your theory.
Ready?
Okay, go ahead.
I'm sorry.
And I love that you want to believe in this and so do I.
But here's the problem.
Okay.
There's no law.
There's no written law that says I'm not allowed to talk about aliens.
And I mean at the level, the top levels of clearance, like the most secret
level, there is no
world where if I'm a government official and I take a bunch of pictures and I
come before
Congress and I go, here's my evidence.
I'm blowing the whistle.
There are real aliens.
You don't think they would go after you for violating your top secret clearance?
No, because it's not violating my top secret clearance.
But it would be.
Nope.
I don't think you're right.
Because I'd never go to jail for that.
Because I'd be like, you're going to put me in jail for exposing what everybody
wants
to know, the whole world would be like, holy shit, you guys get this a secret?
But that's assuming that you have access to that material to extract it from
wherever
the people, maybe, maybe not.
Maybe those are the kind of people that wouldn't do that, Brian.
Listen, my friend.
You fucking communist.
I don't like the way you think.
I'm blowing.
I'm shredding your UFO.
No, you're not.
You think you are.
But you're just using these establishment talking points.
You're allowed to talk about UFOs and you never get in trouble.
You sound like your dad.
Come on, man.
First step in the end of the show, they'll beam me up.
You're a CIA stooge.
I'll call my dad right now.
And you're in here spreading propaganda to the faithful listeners.
Listen to me.
Listen to me.
There are no aliens.
And if there are, we'd know about it because it's not against the law.
If there is, you're going to come back on and dress like a clown.
Agreed?
Agreed.
That's my bets I'm making with everybody now.
I'll dress up like a clown.
You've got to dress like a clown.
I'll do it.
I'll do it.

Could the Government Keep Knowledge of Aliens a Secret?

But the question is, like, why would we assume that it's a biological entity?
It doesn't have any windows. It's this round thing that looks like a tic-tac.
If there is some sort of advanced propulsion system, some revolutionary way of
moving through space and time
that the U.S. government has developed, you know, in some black ops program,
that seems very likely impossible.
That seems more likely than aliens visiting us.
But there's more than one incident, and there's a lot of these things.
And the possibility of alien life in the universe, although we've never
experienced it, seems rational.
It seems very rational.
And if you were going to study an emerging civilization that is both primitive
and warlike,
and yet insanely technologically advanced, to the point where they have nuclear
weapons,
they can transmit video through the sky, they have propaganda, they have
tracking of their citizens,
like, that's us. That's us right now.
And while we are these territorial, primal beings with fucking nuclear weapons,
this would be a good time to start exposing yourself.
Yes.
And to stop this nonsense.
Insanity.
Yeah. And look, the reason why we named the rooms of our club Fat Man and
Little Boy
is because in UFO lore, that's when they started showing up.
After the detonation of the atomic bombs in Japan, that's when the UFO sightings
ramped up.
And they ramped up mostly in the U.S., right?
Yes.
So that's interesting, because the U.S. was the one with the nuclear power.
And we were the one who was doing a lot of fucking testing.
Yeah.
And also, we have all these military bases.
Who the fuck has more military bases than us?
No one.
Who has more nuclear weapons pointed at other people than us?
We have them all over the place.
And there's all these multiple sightings and eyewitness accounts of, like, very
credible people
who say these things have hovered over military bases.
It'd be pretty cool if these aliens were benevolent overlords.
And they were like, hey, my children.
Yeah.
Or maybe even so advanced intellectually that the concept of an overlord is
preposterous.
And they're just biological management.
They're just, they're just the gardeners tending to make sure the weeds don't
get out of hand
and just, like, let this process continue to play itself out.
Because this process of technological innovation is, it's the everything that
humans do.
Yeah.
It's what we do at the pinnacle of our creation is we make better technology.
Well, I always wonder about fractals and whether or not, like, this idea of
this being a simulation,
this being, you know, like, we are kind of replicating, we are creating
machines
and doing our best to create them in our own image, right?
Yes.
And that's interesting, you know, because the mythologies that we subscribe to
are the idea
that this God that we pray to made us in his image.
And we're doing the same thing now with robots and computers.
And that's an interesting thing that we seem to have this sort of paradigm,
this idea that
that's the scaffolding for the way we think, right?
And to what end?
And why are we doing that?
Maybe it's the creation of a new life.
It's the creation of a new life form.
But has it already happened?
But has it already happened?
Are we the result of that impulse that happened way longer, a long time ago?
I think we are the shit-throwing chimps that are going to become the nuclear
physicists.
That's what I...
We are the shit-throwing chimps from 2001 that become Oppenheimer.
Yeah.
And then I think this thing that we become is integrated with technology.
It's probably some sort of a hybrid.
It's some sort of a cyborg.
That's wild.
Because I think we're already, like, on the verge of merging.
You know, all this talk of, like, Neuralink and all these various things.
We watched this video the other day of this guy who is Googling questions and
getting answers
in his head with his headpiece on.
Have you seen that thing?
Yeah.
Yeah.
That's so crazy.
Incredible.
Right?
So how long before that is...
Like, that's Pong.
I know.
But that's...
And then you have the Unreal 4 engine in 2023 that looks like a movie.
No, no, no.
Like, how long before that technology gets to the point where it's just supremely
advanced?
And we literally are like gods.
But my question really is also the idea that that's engineering, right?
That's a tool.
It's innovation.
But there's engineering.
So there are two aspects to it.
One is getting information faster and stuff, which doesn't get you closer to
the truth,
but it gets you information faster.
There are endless facts.
But more importantly, I always wonder, like, why we are given this...
I really believe that human potential is pretty much infinite.
Whatever you can imagine and beyond, we can do.
And we are doing.
We seem to be doing this.
Like, think about how crazy that is.
I can wear a headset and I can do things with my mind and look up the answer.
That's insane.
That's magic.
It's crazier than magic.
But there's a way to measure that and quantify that and replicate that.
So it's not magic.
I can do it and I can tell you exactly how I get there, which is even crazier.
So what is that leading us to?
It is nudging us closer.
It's like the...
I think it's very significant that we're getting a better understanding of what
it's like to be someone else.
It's really hard to say that a Yanomamo Indian or whoever it might be thinks
about things differently than I do when I know so much about how all these
human beings, like someone in Iran, someone in Jordan, laughs and cries and bleeds
at the same thing I do.
You know, being prejudiced based on what that person looks like over there is
becoming harder and harder to justify, where it was before we knew about that,
we were like, well, those people over there are quote unquote savages or they're
this, that and the other thing.
And I do think that we are getting a better understanding of what it's like to
be each other and being nudged in the same direction.
I'm not saying we don't become tribal.
I think that's true too.
But why?
And it's interesting to think about where that's leading us, to what
understanding, to what understanding.
And then when we have that understanding, what are we going to do about that?
Right.
And are we going to pull it together?
And are the aliens here to make sure that we don't fuck it up?
Yeah.
Yeah.
That's the beautiful idea.
The terrible idea is that it's all us.
And then it's all a big ruse and it's all just drones that we're doing because
we don't want China and Russia to know about it.
But we have insane propulsion systems that operate on gravity.
Yeah.
I think it is us.
I hate to tell you.
But it seems like both.
It seems like us and it also seems like there's some shit that we just don't
understand.
And I don't know if those people are telling the truth.
Because if the people that are telling the truth that there's biological
entities, and this is what Jackie Gleason said that Nixon told him.
And Nixon took him on.
They were drinking.
You know that famous story?
No.
Who knows if it's true?
It's a legend.
But the legend is that Jackie Gleason and Nixon were drinking.
And that Nixon said, you want to see some fucking aliens?
And they get on Air Force One and they fly to some Air Force base.
And they go to a place where they have a crashed UFO and they have biological
beings that are in freezers.
And Jackie Gleason sees this.
And Jackie Gleason after that has a house built in upstate New York that looks
like a UFO.
He became obsessed with UFOs after that.
There was a house.
It was actually for sale at one point in time.
What the fuck?
Yeah.
So he has this house that he had shaped like a UFO.
And this is like, who knows if this is a true story.
Yeah.
Right?
Because it's like, it was kind of sort of disputed.
His ex-wife told the story or something like that.
I forget.
I think that kind of thing is actually impossible to keep secret.
No, I don't think so.
Really?
No, I don't think so at all.
You think generational, like generations of government bureaucrats can keep
something a secret?
Sure.
I don't think so.
They tell the people at the very highest level know about it.
It's very few people.
It's all very compartmentalized.
They monitor everyone's phone calls, everyone's emails, everything everyone
does.
Impossible.
At a top secret clearance level?
No way.
Impossible.
I don't think you're right.
Totally impossible.
You're definitely not right.
I think it's impossible.
Listen, man, they can keep secrets.
When?
Which ones?
People at high levels of military can keep secrets.
Yeah, but they're always rotating out.
They're retiring.
They're dying.
Yeah, and they probably wind up fucking Hillary Clinton and a lot of those
dudes.
Hey, listen, dude.
This is not conspiracy social club.
This is the Joe Rogan experience.
I am not willing to relinquish the idea that they can keep that secret.
Well, that's because it's fun to believe in.
Yeah, but it's not just it's fun to believe in.
It is possible.
It's a physically possible thing to do, especially if you have the right people
and they're indoctrinated
in the right way with top secret clearance.
And by the way, it's not like these people don't tell their friends.
And it's not like there's a bunch of stories floating around because there are.
There's a shitload of stories floating around.
That's what I'm saying.
But why would you like I would never keep that a secret.
I'd be like, hey, you got fucking aliens.
Here's the thing.
When you have senators and congressmen who find out about this and they find
out that military
contractors are the ones who have access to this stuff because the back
engineering program
has to involve someone who has the capability of recreating this.
So who would that be?
That would be the people that make jets.
If you got someone who's making you a fucking stealth bomber and you have a
crashed UFO,
those are the people that you want discussing like what kind of things you've
recovered
from a fucking alien crash.
And can this be replicated?
No.
Here's the problem with your whole theory.
Don't you know me, motherfucker?
Because you don't know.
You might be wrong.
This is your wrong?
No.
No, no, no.
Don't say you're wrong because you don't know that I'm wrong.
This is the problem with your theory.
Ready?
Okay, go ahead.
I'm sorry.
And I love that you want to believe in this and so do I.
But here's the problem.
Okay.
There's no law.
There's no written law that says I'm not allowed to talk about aliens.
And I mean at the level, the top levels of clearance, like the most secret
level, there is no
world where if I'm a government official and I take a bunch of pictures and I
come before
Congress and I go, here's my evidence.
I'm blowing the whistle.
There are real aliens.
You don't think they would go after you for violating your top secret clearance?
No, because it's not violating my top secret clearance.
But it would be.
Nope.
I don't think you're right.
Because I'd never go to jail for that.
Because I'd be like, you're going to put me in jail for exposing what everybody
wants
to know, the whole world would be like, holy shit, you guys get this a secret?
But that's assuming that you have access to that material to extract it from
wherever
the people, maybe, maybe not.
Maybe those are the kind of people that wouldn't do that, Brian.
Listen, my friend.
You fucking communist.
I don't like the way you think.
I'm blowing.
I'm shredding your UFO.
No, you're not.
You think you are.
But you're just using these establishment talking points.
You're allowed to talk about UFOs and you never get in trouble.
You sound like your dad.
Come on, man.
First step in the end of the show, they'll beam me up.
You're a CIA stooge.
I'll call my dad right now.
And you're in here spreading propaganda to the faithful listeners.
Listen to me.
Listen to me.
There are no aliens.
And if there are, we'd know about it because it's not against the law.
If there is, you're going to come back on and dress like