85 Seconds To Midnight

The Doomsday Clock moves to 85 seconds to midnight, and we ask why 2026 feels so tense in our bones instead of just on our screens. We weigh AI-fueled paranoia, renewed Kurt Cobain forensic claims, and the federal pressure on the Catholic Church while you text in with what it all feels like from real life. 
• Doomsday Clock at 85 seconds and why it hits differently than the 1980s fears 
• End times as a destination versus end times as a state of mind 
• AI images, bots, and the sense that reality is getting harder to trust 
• Kurt Cobain in 2026 and the new forensics claims around heroin levels and oxygen deprivation 
• What modern forensic tech can change and what it cannot 
• Seattle grunge nostalgia and why record stores still matter 
• Easy Street Records, local venues, and the romance of physical media 
• RICO pressure on the Catholic Church and what a legal precedent could mean for everyone 
• Graduation season, parenting transitions, and listener shout-outs 
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You can send us a text at 775-990-5151 
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Transcript

Welcome And What’s Ahead

VO 0:00

Welcome to U.S. Phenomenon, where possibilities are endless. Put down those same old headlines. It's time to expand your mind and question what if. From paranormal activity to UFOs, Bigfoot sightings, and unsolved mysteries. This is U.S. Phenomenon.

Doomsday Clock And End Times

Listener Texts On Living In Fear

Seattle Grunge And Cultural Memory

Kurt Cobain Forensics And The Math

Record Stores And A Lost Era

RICO And The Catholic Church

Mario 0:19

From the Pacific Northwest in the shadow of the 1962 World's Fair, the Space Neal. Good evening, good morning, good afternoon, wherever the case may be for you. This is US Phenomenon. I'm your host, Mario Magagna. Thanks for hanging out with us. If you're not a subscriber to the podcast and you're listening to us on one of our radio affiliates, go to my website onairmario.com to click on the podcast button. Alright. It's that easy. It's easy to find us. We're all over the place. We can't be missed. We cannot be missed. Thank you for being with us and thanks for hanging out with us. If you're a part of the show, thank you so much. Tonight, we're not just going to look at the headlines. We're going to actually look at the architecture of collapse. We're going to talk about why the end times isn't just Sunday morning sermon anymore. It's scientific times and geopolitical reality. We're going to look at the ghost of Seattle, Kurt Cobain, and why thirty-two years later, the forensics math is finally breaking the official story. And finally, a look at the federal hammer fallen on the Catholic Church, not for theology, but for racketeering. The lines are open. You can send us a text at 775-990-5151. Send us a text if you want to hear. We want to hear from you. Is I can't wait to talk about this whole situation going on with uh it's just interesting between the the president of the United States and the Pope. I mean, I don't know if it's really fight, but I mean, do you really pick on the Catholic Church? 1.2 billion Catholics? I don't know that you really pick on that entity. I mean, they've been around for a long time, longer than the country has been a thing. So uh I'm interested to see where this all goes. But uh let's continue. Um let's just start off with the big clock. Back in January, the bulletin of the atomic scientific scientist moved the doomsday clock up to 85 seconds to midnight. We're closer to the end than we were during the Cuban Missile Crisis. Why in 2026? We've got these political, you know, these political crises, these intersectional AI bots. I mean, is this really what we're talking about right now? I mean, yes, it is. It's you got the AI thing. It felt like Skynet and like Terminator 2 or 3 or Terminator 2 for sure. Uh and you know, that that whole situation. And now let's uh pass the turning test of the flying color uh, you know, uh, you know, between the wars that are going on right now in the different regions, uh threatening to global end times? I mean, how is this how are we closer now than we ever were back in the like the 80s? I mean, we all remember those times. If you're listening at one of our radio affiliates across the platform, I'm pretty sure everybody remembers the 80s and Star Wars and you know, I mean, the Reagan stuff, and he how he had just the theatrical stuff going on, and I mean, do we really believe that Star Wars was gonna work? You know, I mean, I do you remember being a kid doing those, you know, sh I don't want to say shelter in place, but duck and cover under your knee through your desk during those war times? I mean, talk about if you're from the Pacific Northwest region, back in the day when Boeing went through and disguised itself during those times, during those, to you know, make sure that they weren't gonna get bombed. You know? I mean, this is crazy to think that we live in a uh in a region that could could be hit for you know for some type of war if if if we're talking end times. I mean, we got military installations around the Pacific Northwest that could be hit, that could be uh affect the region. But why 2026 though, right? I mean, but look at the cultural sides. People are flocking to the end? The narrative, because of the current world feels hollow. Whether you're looking at 2026 as a end times or the rays of the digital currency, the mark of the beast, the mark of a new era, the collective institute, that we are at the end of a cycle. It's a phenomenon of mass anticipation. Is it fear? Or is it just desperation, if it's just deep-seated hope for the great reset that isn't corporate or spiritual? You can send your text in at 775-990-5151. I mean, think about it. You know, some of these movies that were done back in the day, you know, the Skynet, SkyTelnet, or whatever that thing was back in the, you know, the Terminator movies. Everyone talking about these AI uh generated photos of the president, depicting of uh a higher power of Jesus Christ. You know, it's just we are living in a very interesting time. I I I I I don't know. I mean, it is definitely interesting times that we're living in. And we're not talking, I'm I I don't want to get too biblical because I'm I that I'm not. But man, the I have to put down the phone, try not to watch too much news, even on vacation. I had no idea what was going on. I'm checking the textboard and Sarah sending a text from oh, Ohio, listening in. Wow, thank you for streaming us uh via the uh via the app over at our flagship station KVI. Thank you. Uh Mario, it isn't just news. Uh my kids are even asking why the world feels so tense. What, yeah, what do you tell your kids these days? It feels like we're just waiting for the balloon to pop. Uh Mark from Las Vegas, thanks for listening in. Uh, from he's formerly from the 206, but he's uh in Vegas on vacation and listening on uh the um on our flagship station, streaming us on uh KVI. Thank you very much. Uh the 85 second warning is a scare tactic to keep us compliant, Mark. I hear you. But the scare tactic aligned with the reality of the food supply, the breakdown of the trust of leaders, the fear becoming a survival instinct. What do you guys think? Is end times a destination uh or a state of mind? Keep those texts coming in at 775-990-5151. I'll I'll be honest with you. I'm 48. I I'm not ready for end times. And I this is a conversation I had with my dad a long time ago. And end times is when end times is, right? It's not our job to be for us to make the end times come. It's our job to make sure we're ready for end times. But that's just me. And and and sometimes for those who may be not spiritual and maybe not uh of some type of whatever, religion or whatever the case may be, um maybe end times is when you're when you go, when you expire. That could be end times for those who may not believe in uh of uh uh of another plane where you may go to heaven or hell afterwards. Not my place to judge. But it sure does feel like we're in some tense times. That is for sure. You know, I I I just I can't I can't explain it enough. Uh you talk about gas prices, you talk about the uh the new wars that we've entered. Um and and look, I I feel like we the stuff that's going on just doesn't feel good, if that makes sense. And I can see why the tensions are running tough. And that's why it's our job to ask the questions. What the hell's really going on right now? You know, I'm not just you know, not trying to get political. Is this what we want? You know, I thought we were uh, you know, humanitarian, is you know, uh but yes, it is interesting times. When the text key coming in, we'll you know, we will continue our conversations this evening. We're gonna talk about the Kurt Cobain thing as well and why the forensic uh situation has really uh kind of popped to the surface again. Um so we'll get into that as well. So if you're into the music, Pacific Northwest, grunge, you maybe you grew up in the grunge era. Uh this area is rich for musical talent. You know, talk about some of the greats out of here. The composer, uh, songwriter, um Quincy Jones. You had uh you had you know tons of other artists that came through here. We'll also talk about the uh the Sonic work out of here. How about the Heart? Uh another Pacific Northwest band, uh, and then all the grunge bands, you know, Nirvana, you know, Mud Honey and the Presidents of the United States. I just the list is long and long going. Um you know, you got Pearl Jam. It just the list is so rich. And what's interesting growing up uh in the South End, a kid in the South End, you just you really didn't have that I didn't have that opportunity. I feel like I missed out on some really interesting times growing up where I didn't have the opportunity to go to these shows and um and be a part of them just because the kids from the South End just I I wasn't aware, you know, and and maybe you you had that opportunity. Uh I'd love to hear from you on the text line. Um, but again, it just it just feels like uh as we continue talking about that, I I want to transition. If you want to, you know, still have a conversation about end times, please let me know. Send us a text, 775-990-5151. But yeah, to talk about the grunge, the music era, just so rich back in the day, the sonic growing up, the kind of like the the forefathers, you the Jimi Hendricks, you know, the heart, these bands weren't doing what the 90s bands were doing. Like they they got big fast, right? So they weren't doing the club gigs like the 90s grunge uh bands were doing, where they were you know going through and going to these different local bands, these different clubs to do shows, going on the college radio stations to get heard and to get that vibe, going to give that buzz. So many college radio stations back in the day. Today's Rock, former Today's Rock, Katie 89.9 FM KGRG was one of them uh playing uh a lot of those songs back in the day. Um but what's interesting is when we look back 32 years, it's been that long. We've lived with without Kirk Cobain. He took his own life in the greenhouse at his Seattle home. But in 2026 has a massive uptick in a controversial way. Why? Because the science has caught up and uh um between uh Michael Wilkins and Brian, uh report have released this year has fundamentally changed the math. We've they've looked at the blood, at the the morphine levels that would make it physically impossible for a human to put down the syringe and roll up his sleeve and pick up the shotgun and do horrific things to himself. We're talking about an amount of heroin at 1.52 milligrams. This is the tr this is about triple lethal dose by several addicts. We're talking about what about 1.52 milligrams. That's triple lethal dose even for a severe addict. But the real kicker in 2026 on this update is the oxygen deprivation finding. New forensic models suggest that Kurt Cobain's body was already in the process of shutting down minutes before the shot was fired. That points to a stage stage points to a st uh points to a stage scene. Now, why did a Seattle Police PD still sit on this? Is it because they thought he was just a druggy junkie? Is it because the truth would implicate people who are now untouchable in the music industry? Or is this a 30-year cover-up of an institutional incompetence? I don't know that about if it's that, but uh let's take uh a few seconds to go to the text line 775-990-5151. I don't know, man. If I had an opportunity to talk to Tom Grant, who had these files there's gotta be something. I I just I think it's basically a done deal. Look, the the case was closed. There is the body was cremated, you can't go back. The evidence is the evidence. If you have the forensic evidence that you have, then sure, go back and go through it. Make sure it's thorough. I believe at the time, and I will I will stand by this, that the Seattle PD police department had what they had, and they did everything they could to fully go through this. There may have been some steps that may that others may think have been missed, but that's what forensics is for, to go back and go through the stuff. And if they've missed something because it wasn't be able to find under the naked eye, and now that we have the science and technology to move that forward, great, do that. It is interesting to me in these times that this is available now, and that's what's so great that more cases can be solved that way. If you have not subscribed to the podcast, go to your favorite podcasting platform to find us. If you're not a subscriber, we'd love for you to be a subscriber. Um, it's free, no commercials, just a full podcast, uninterrupted, and just it's a it's a treat. You get the podcast experience. Uh go to go to my website, onairmario.com, to subscribe or go to your favorite podcasting platform and just search US Phenomenon with Mario McGagna. You can find us on Apple, Spotify, Intune, iHeart, Google Play. Just search US Phenomenon with Mario Magana. So let's go to the text line. Um I love uh talking about this Kirk Cobain uh cover up here. Uh Jen from Seattle says, uh, I'd lived through the 90, the 90 the 90s. We all knew he knew it didn't add up. Okay. I I can see that. Uh the police just wanted wanted the junkie story to be over. And Grunge Grungehead 88 texts the hen. Oh thanks, Grungehead 88. If they lied about Kurt Cobain, what else did they lie about in the 90s? That's the core of it, isn't it? It's the foundation, is the lie. The whole house is it was crooked. I don't know. I mean, look, I was not a part of the 90s scene like maybe you guys were. We're seeing a generation of researchers who weren't even born in the 90s using modern tech to dismantle old narratives. And that's that's okay because that the the forensic the the technology, like I said just a few minutes ago, wasn't there. If we have new technology, you need to go through the evidence to comb through it that is forensics, that's going to fine-tooth through this stuff. Great. But let's not put the blame on on old technology and old ways to do you know crime fighting. Uh I mean that that's just yeah. I get it. I mean, I understand. I don't think that I I I I I believe in our police force. I just don't think that this is something that you would you would catch that there was a huge cover-up. You know what I mean? I may maybe, but I I'm not, I don't know. I I think that they were trying to do their best with what they had. Let's just be honest in that regards. They weren't messing around, they were just trying to get the job done. For those who uh are uh huge into um the grunts scene, tons of stuff to that are going around. I mean, you can head to some of your favorite spots to still be a part of that scene. Record stores, that's where it's at. If you had a chance to go and hang out at a record store, uh no shameless plug, or it's not, I mean, uh one of my favorites, you know, I live in West Seattle, or maybe you don't know that. But Easy Street Records, um, great place. Play still plays live music, they have local bands come through. Um, a lot of history in that place. And if you want to take a uh like I I like to call it like you're almost going back in time, right? You get to go back in time and just be a part of something that maybe you missed. And and for myself, that I I definitely tend to go there just to hang out. You got the the light poles where you get to see all the different um bands that were they had their your flyers on the the poles. And if you're from the Pacific Northwest, or if you grew up in the Seattle area, maybe you didn't, it was illegal to put those things on the poles. And so they have some of these things to commemorate some of the things that were going on in that uh during that time period. And in the club scene here with uh all the artists were was huge. Like you just couldn't miss it. There was something going on at the OK Hotel or you know, the crocodile or the underground. These places were just full of life. You def you definitely still see some of that night. I don't call it nightlife, but those nights where these local bands had that opportunity. And that's what that's what you know. You get when you you you check out a record store, and if you get a chance to go over to Easy Street Records, it's it's fantastic. Go find yourself a record, you can find cheap records. You know, they got record day coming up and And what's cool about that is you get a b you know there's gonna be limited editions and people wait, camp overnight. It just that feel that I think a lot of that uh that buying that media has lost since we've gone to the digital age. And you you still it's so it's so kind of romantic where you get to have that, to be a part of something that's still kind of like old school, the record, feeling it, touching it, seeing it, and uh, and maybe you even taking part, you know, being uh part of uh a local band and watching them while you're picking out a record or having breakfast there. They do they do serve breakfast. And th those are some of the things I really do enjoy about not you know, someone who didn't get to grow up in that period. I mean, I grew up in that period, but I just wasn't listening to Grunge and I didn't really appreciate it because I was more listening to RB and hip hop back in those days, you know. So my music palette hadn't really shifted until my mid to late 20s, and even then, you know, just having a better appreciation for some of these amazing artists uh that were growing up in our time period here in the the Pacific Northwest. Um what's interesting to me is that that there's been a an uptick between um you know the United States. I I don't know if it's an uptick, and I know there the there had you know the images that the the president post posted out there recently in regards to depicting himself as you know as what some would say Jesus Christ, the AI generated photo. What's really going on? Why, why do I feel like it's like the church versus the state, the Vatican versus you know the state of uh United States? Let's take a final look at this. And and what's interesting to me is because you think about this, you got 1.2 billion Catholics. I mean, it's a lot of Catholics, not just in the United States, but worldwide. You know, it's it's it's it's a big one. You're talking about a big institution in regards to uh to an organization that's just very large, and they have been around for some time. You know, they've you know they have been around since the Roman times. I mean, they had been here and had continued to evolve as a church. Astrology was a part of the church, it's not a part of the church anymore. You know, they're not using the stars as they once were, and uh, you know, the church has evolved and changed and had controversies and popes pass away and new popes come in. And the Vatican has just always been its own thing. They're its own entity for those who may not. Most people understand that. And as we're getting to into, you know, what's been uh this week has just been an interesting time to see that the the United States and the Vatican have been going back and forth via the social webs. You're talking about a Pope, you know, saying some stuff, the president saying some stuff. It's it's it's kind of unprecedented. I don't I don't know that you mess with the Catholic Church, period, right? I don't know that I'd be uh messing with the Catholic Church. In fact, you know, like I said, finally we'll talk about you know look at war against the church. But it's not a war, you you think. It's not theology, it's about Rico. In the last year, we've seen the United States government treat the Catholic Church like a criminal family. Federal prosecutors are using statutes against the church. And it isn't about the religious body, but the the coordinated enterprise designed to obstruct justice and to hide billions in assets. Why is this happening now? Is this long overdue cleaning out the house? Or is the government setting a precedent? If they can use the RICO against the largest religious institution in on earth, they can use it against your local community group, your nonprofits, or your political organizations. This is low fare at its most extreme. We're watching the secular state finally attempt to swallow the spiritual state. I'm interested to see how this is gonna play out for the church and how this is gonna play out for the government. You're talking about a lot of Catholics? You're talking about one of the most powerful churches around. I just I don't know. I don't see I don't know. I I'm interested to see how this is gonna play out. I don't I I don't have an opinion, but either way, in regards to the church, I am not a practicing Catholic anymore. I used to go. I I know, I know, I know when you go to church, I mean you get back in the rhythm of things. You kinda sit down, stand up, do the cross, do your whole thing, yeah. I would say it was one of those old school when hit the holidays, like you know, Easter would have been the last one for me. But yeah. Taking a look from the text message uh from Father Mike, brave of you to uh send a text in the church needs purification. Ooh. But the state. But the state's motives are rare, rarely pure. I think you hit the hit it on the nail with that one, father. Leo from Texas writes in who's listening to us, who is a KVI listener on our flagship station 570 KVI, who uh moved from Washington down to Texas. Hey, good for you. Uh shout out to our uh our good friend uh and alumni, uh Kirby Wilbur, living in Texas as well. Hopefully, Kirby was able to help you get your uh selves situated down there. Uh Leo, I had an opportunity to go down to Texas and see our good friend uh uh Kirby and Kent from uh our old uh radio station KPLZ. So that was awesome. That was nice to get to have lunch with those guys. I'll have to post it uh if you're interested in seeing the picture. Uh Leo says from Texas, uh Mario, connect the dots, the end times, the death of the icon, the distraction of the church. It's all about removing our anchor. That's a heavy thought, Leo. That's a heavy thought. If you take away our future, end times, the heroin for Kurt Cobain, and the faith of church, what's less? What's left? Really, what's left? I I I need something, you know. You know, I can find Bigfoot out there these days. You know, I mean, where's he at? Where is he hanging out at? Oh, that's right. He's getting he just got a new job. He's been unemployed for 17 years. Said he's got a new job. He did send us a we did get a text message from uh Squatch uh uh sending saying, hey, I'm excited to be employed again with the Sonics. I can't wait to be the mascot. That's right. I almost forgot that the mascot for the Sonics was Sasquatch. How could you forget? You don't forget about Squatch. That guy was awesome, right? Falling from the rafters like at the old Seattle Coliseum, now known as Climate Pledge. Oh, yeah, those were great times. Um I just I just remember having so many memories. I mean, you're talking about a generation of kids who have no idea what it's like to go see men's professional basketball. You definitely have uh an amazing uh women's NBA product. You have a couple championships underneath their belt. Um so but that's cool. I mean, uh I'm excited for you, Squatch, to uh actually have a gig again. What have you been doing for the last 17 years? I know everyone's trying to find you out in the streets. Well, maybe not in the streets, but in the woods. A lot of people have seen you. Thank you for sending your text in at 775-990-5151. What what's been one one of the things that hits me the most about the end times, the Catholic Church? Is it really necessary to go after the Catholic Church? What's the motive? Are we looking at a political time that is just it doesn't feel it feels like and I say this like we're at that like precipice of like the break, right? It just doesn't feel like we know what's going on, and a lot of us are just turning a blind eye to a lot of it, and it's like, ah, it's gonna it's gonna go away. It hasn't though. Like, what if something does happen? Like, what if there is another situation where something tragic? What if it comes to these soils? Like out of sight, out of mind, right? I know people are complaining about gas prices, you know that everyone's complaining about these different things that are going on, but it's not us for I don't know. I I just I have a hard time with thinking about end times because I'm like, I ain't ready to go. I got so much to do, so much hosting to do. You know, I just I just don't see that it's that. So thanks thank you for sending your text in at 775-990-51551. Yeah, wow, I can't even talk. It's 990 775 9905151. Wow. Here's what I say, we're gonna go to the text line here in a second. If it's end times, I'm writing it to the wheels fall off. I just couldn't enjoy it. Uh, we're getting another text message um that's coming in. Uh Stephen from Kent. Uh Stephen, thanks for uh sending a text message. Uh you grew up outside of the PNW, always wanted to live here, had an opportunity to move here for work, married, two kids. That's awesome. Loved and wished I could have been a part of the grun scene, but love hanging out in the Pacific Northwest with the nature of beauty. But it's so cool to be able to go to these different record stores or go to local concerts as well. That's cool. Thanks, uh Steven, for uh hanging out with us uh and sending a text message. In at 775-990-5151. From our friends from the ocean shores, thank you for sending a text message in. Um they are from the formal 206 and said they loved the grunge scene back in the day to be able to go to a concert for five bucks, hang out with friends, and and and do these different shows and get to see Nirvana and Mud Honey and just be a part of that scene. Man, so jealous, so jealous. It was ironic looking back when that time period happened and then the tragic passing of Kirk Cobain. My friends and I mourned for such a long time. We spent and became such good and close friends to this day. We still hang out, we still do a dinner together pre the anniversary death of Kurt Cobain.

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Graduation Season And Parenting Time

Taking The Show On The Road

Final Thoughts And How To Subscribe

Mario 34:52

We sit around the house, we have a wonderful meal, we listen to Unplugged, and we just light candles and we hang out. And it sounds a little crazy and cool. I mean, look, we're old now. I mean, we're you know, most of us who grew up in that time period are middle-aged adults. You know, we're we're middle-aged, we're hanging out, we're you know, we're we got families, we got kids, they're graduating. Speaking of that, I mean, mine's gonna graduate here soon. It's gonna turn 18 in a couple weeks. It's crazy to think that. I mean, how fast as parents it just goes by? Maybe you have your your kids gonna be graduating here soon. Are you ready for that transition? That's something that I've been thinking about as a parent, you know, being able to uh what the hell am I gonna do with that extra time? She goes away to college in the fall. You know, I just I'm not ready to be an empty nester, you know. And and I'm sure it's different for everybody else, you know, those who are still married to their significant others, and that, you know, you still have a couple kids, but not me. I'm just by myself, you know, single dad, you know, on the weekends, have, you know, your daughter come over, and it's a different transition. Uh yeah, just getting ready for that. So uh for all those kids getting ready to graduate, some of those are coming up here in a couple weeks in Eastern Washington. Uh, you know, congratulations, the class of 2026. That's crazy to think that. Um, and we'll get more into that as well. Um, if you would like to give your kid a shout out, uh, we'll do a graduation. Send your text, send me a voice text at 775-990-5151. I'll take those and we'll put them out there. Just make them uh a couple seconds, you know, 10 seconds, say, hey, my name's Mario. I'm calling from you know Seattle. I want to wish my my daughter Sophia a happy graduation. Uh you know, go, you know, whatever high school, Mount Rainier High School. That's where I went. So um, yeah, if you want to send your uh your shout out to your your your little kid or your your your little kid, your graduating kid, uh not so little so much anymore, right? Um send me a text. Uh I get all the texts and I answer each and every one of them. Uh 775-990-5151. And someone asked me the other day, my hey, hey Mar, you know what's interesting? Why isn't your your Text 9 not a 206? And uh it's a 775, and and basically it really boils back to just honoring the godfather of Paranormal Radio, uh Art Bell. Really, that's it's what it goes back to. So the 775 really ties back to Perrump, Nevada, uh, and that's why we we did that. And 5151, because it was simple, but also reminded me of Area 51. But remember, we are in the PMW. This is the home of the most paranormal activity from the uh Kenneth Arnold sightings to all the Bigfoot sightings that are been captured and uh put on maps that are all out there these days. I just it's awesome. Uh this summer we're gonna be uh taking the show on the road. If you're a local business and you'd like for us to uh be a part of that, uh definitely send me a text. We'd love to have you a part of the show. And we'll do the show live at your location. You can send me a text, say, hey Mario, we want you to uh do your show live at uh the saloon here in uh Snohomish County, or maybe you it's you're in uh ocean shores and you're a casino and you're like, Mario, we want you to do the show here. We'd happy to take the show on the road. Uh send me a text. Uh 775-990-5151. If you're a local business, you're like, Mario, we want you to do your show live here. Happy to do it. We want it we're gonna bring Sasquatch in the whole nine yards. UFOs, we'll bring the Grays, the whole nine yards. We'll bring them all out all in all in force. They may they not the the objects may appear to be uh fake and uh duped. Uh so if you're uh if you're like Mario, you found a Sasquatch and you're bringing one, I probably would be bringing Sonic the Sasquatch. Because let's be honest, I mean, he's been sitting on the unemployment line since you know 2007. So who knows what he's been up to other than chasing you know squirrels in the woods and you know taking people's camp food and you know things of that nature and spooking everybody out over by the Green River Gorge. Um, so yeah, we'd love to have you if you would love to have us, we'd love to take the show on the road. We'll be doing that. Um so we're excited about doing something like that as well. And and doing some more live stuff like on TikTok, things of that nature where you'll see us do a short US phenomenon quick cast, uh, is what we're gonna call those. Maybe we're out in the woods somewhere, maybe we're at a uh a local, uh, you know, local something or another, you know. Maybe we're at a local show where they're doing Bigfoot stuff or UFO things, or maybe it's the Men in Black uh phenomenon that they do down in uh Des Moines Marina. Maybe we'll be a part of that this year. Uh we definitely be taking the show on the road. We're not we're gonna keep we're gonna take it out of the box. And we're not talking like Cairo out of the box back in the day. Well, kind of, yeah. We we kind of that would be the same thing, but uh that's the plan. We're gonna take the show on the road. Um, so we're excited about that. So uh we appreciate you uh for hanging out with us on this lovely evening. Uh maybe you're just listening to us on the podcast, or maybe you're like driving down the road and you're like, I don't want to be a part of the podcast. How do I do that, Mario? Well, it's super simple. Just go to my website, onairmario.com, click on the podcast link. Now, if you're savvy and you have an iPhone or Android, you can go to your app store and you can download it. Maybe you're going to maybe you using Google Play, you can find us there, or iHeart or Spotify, Stitcher, Google Play. I mean, there uh it's available on all the platforms. Just search U.S. Phenomenon with Mario Magania. All right. Now, here's my take on a couple things. End times, move the clock up to 85 seconds. We're closer to the end times than we ever have been. Man, I'm not ready for that. I'm just not. You're telling me that I lived through two time periods, the 80s and now 2026, and I'm closer to end times. I'll be damned. I was I'm closer to end times for myself than I was back in the 80s. But I'll tell you, I was scared stiffless back in the 80s, though. You talk about, hey, we got nukes over here, we got nukes over here, I got this button. I'm not, we're not talking the Trump stuff, but I'm talking like it was like who had the bigger bomb, right? Back in those days. Being a child of the 80s was terrifying. Yeah, these serial killers running around here. Let's not even get into, if you're from the Pacific Northwest, let's not get into the UFOs and the Bigfoots. You still had you had Gary Ridgway living around here, killing people left and right in the 80s and 90s. I'm over here as a kid thinking this dude's coming to get me. I don't know. I guess I didn't fit the mold, right? You know, I didn't know I was a child growing up in those time periods. I was too busy playing, you know, guns and soldiers back in the day, making forts and hanging out and just being a kid, riding my bike, playing in the woods in, you know, in Des Moines. Just living the best life. Going down to Saltwater State Park and hanging out and just living life and going through the woods and getting scratched up and God knows, who knows what we saw in those woods back in the day. Just, I mean, there was no Bigfoot though. Maybe found some dirty magazines that someone left there, you know, some pig left behind, you know. Um just different times. That that's that's one thing I would say that made me fearful back in those days was like, man, the Russians, USSR wants to kill us. You know, that Cold War was real. But now that science, these guys at this, you know, have moved the clock the atomic clock up to 85 seconds, and we're closer now. This this is not our time. This man, we you know, we just went around the moon, the dark side of the moon. I'm not playing that stupid record for those who are Pink Floyd fans. Awesome. I'm not. I'm not gonna lie about it. I'm just not. I'm not a Pink Floyd fan. Okay. And I I get it. You know, you can the dark side of the moon, you play the record, la. Yeah, I get it. That's cool. That is cool. That there was there was a little something with that, okay? I get that. I'm just not a big Pink Floyd fan. Give me, you know, give me some Nirvana, give me some, you know, and there's some other records that I'd listen to, but and you would say, Oh Mario, I was like Beatles. I I mean, yeah, my my the genre's big, just not a big fan of the Pink Floyd. Just not my thing. But the fact that you know we just recently went to the moon, you see these pictures of the planet, and yeah, I and I hey if you're a flat earther, I just I I I cool do do you uh don't send a text message in. I I I don't want to hear from you. But here's what I'll say we're all on this planet, we're all human beings, right? I just can't imagine why we're out here killing each other. I mean, we just can't we all just get along, you know, like Rodney King said back in the day. I just it's time, like we're just one planet, man. It's just it's it's it's amazing to me that uh humans uh are fighting over real, you know, these I mean they're they are assets, right? These are assets that are needed for different countries, um and and we're running out of them. So I get it. You gotta fight for what you need. And I'm not gonna pull out a Beastie Boys like line. You gotta fight for your right, because I just not gonna do it, but uh it was the first thing that came to my my mind. I mean I would I would like to say that I am a recovering DJ in regards to being a top 40 DJ, someone who grew up in that time period, who's DJ'd and you know, done the that scene, you know, the you know, not some old school, like some clubs, but more of the wedding DJ situation and and being a part of that. It's just it is what it is. Um again, like I was saying as we get close to uh graduation time, I would love for you to send in your voice text messages so that we can collectively take those and put a show together. And I want to sprinkle those into the different shows that we have. Um again, you can send those voice memos text to 775-990-5151. Just simple, quick, 15 seconds. Hi, I'm Mario from the 206. I want to congratulate my daughter, Sophia Gorams. See that quick, that easy. As we get close to wrapping things up from the Pacific Northwest, I just want to thank you for uh taking the time. If you're listening on our radio affiliates, thank you so much for hanging out with us. Uh our you know, our our our our longtime uh radio affiliates, uh KOSW, uh K A P Y, and our flagship station, KVI, for those listening out to uh in our different uh different areas. Um it's so interesting to uh to go to those different areas and and and like be a part of those communities. And I haven't been to Ocean Shores in a while, but it's time to get back down there. So we'll we're definitely gonna make something happen this summer. Hang out in Ocean Shores. Uh like I said, if you're a doctor and you can fix my ear, let me know. I'd love to be able to hear out of my right side of my ear again. It's plugged. I mean, I put the earwax stuff in, it's still not helping. Um, yeah, so text me. You you can hit me up on my uh cell phone. I'll get it. 775-990-5151. Um, if you have a suggestion for a show uh as we get close to wrapping things up from the Pacific Northwest, like I said, email me. Mario at onairmario.com with your suggestion. Or if you're a local business, like I said, we'd love to hear from you. We'd love to be a part of your community as we get ready to take the show on the road. We're gonna do multiple shows in different locations, and they may be breweries, they may be haunted houses, they may be parks that are haunted, maybe we even take it up to Fort Flagler where it's haunted all over the place. Some great American great Americans and a lot of haunted places in the Pacific Northwest. Maybe we take it down to Al Qae Beach, to one of the most haunted places down there. Maybe we take it to the first original cemetery of Seattle. Maybe we take it down there. We have to do it there in daytime because uh I don't think I have enough security for some of the places in Seattle. Uh, like I said, as we wrap things up from the Pacific Northwest, I want to thank you for taking the time to listen. If you're not a podcast subscriber, please do so. Uh go to your favorite podcasting platform and search U.S. Phenomenon with Mario Magagna. Uh, for my entire team. Well, that'd be me and my daughter Sophia Magana. Thank you for being a part of the show. Uh, we'll see you next time.

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You're listening to U.S. Phenomenon with your host Mario Magagna.