Hola a todos! Preston here

Hi All!

Greg, I am a big fan of your show. I have been listening since January of this year or so and have very much enjoyed your shows. You are more intelligent than you give yourself credit but it is your humility that makes this show one of such quality. I respect what you have accomplished here and will continue to follow your work.

Your show has introduced me to subjects that I would have never otherwise considered - while I understand you took some flak for bringing on Donald Marshall, I thank you for taking a chance with him, because he presented some ideas that, while sounding crazy, certainly have some evidence to back him up. I found the photo of Salvador Dali holding up a vril with a surgery table in the background to be some of the strongest corroborating evidence (let's not forget Tila Tequila, of course) and would like to explore that more. If I can leave any input, it would be to please bring on someone who might have some more insight into Donald Marshall's revelations.

Furthermore, I have been exploring the work of another guest you brought on, Harry Hubbard. He is a goldmine for information and I would certainly like to see him brought on again, possibly with an old partner of his, Paul Schaffranke (a specialist in ancient Hebrew, Greek, and Latin, as well as old Phoenician script) - Hubbard has a video on his channel from 1997 of him and Paul giving a talk in Denver on the Dead Sea Scrolls and they do a fairly good job at establishing a more accurate date for their origination (more like 1100AD due to the type of Hebrew script - with Latin grammar - and vermilion sheep skin material used instead of papyrus). I recommend the three and a half hours in total for both videos for your listeners who enjoy alternative points of view on history ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZVT1h1C0Xp0 - the first part of the talk that features the oldest map in existence of Atlantis) ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=emUkL_WP3z8&t=7527s - the workshop they gave that details ancient coins and the dead sea scrolls). Hubbard's work is outstanding but he makes a point of elaborating all the evidence he has available before making his conclusion - something that requires patience for the Youtube scholar, but is definitely worth it to understand where he is coming from.

About me, I hail from the Great Pacific Northwest (sp. Seattle, WA) but have lived in Georgia, Texas, Normandy (France), and am now in Colombia, traveling for an indefinite period of time in South America. I was doing my graduate thesis on UFOs in Mexico as a study in folklore and social history when I fell down the proverbial rabbit hole of conspiracy theories, listening to Coast to Coast AM during the summer of 2015 while work as a field analyst in various apple orchards in Washington state. While I very much enjoyed learning from the various guests on C2C, I eventually found myself only downloading shows (yes you can do that if you subscribe, which is much better than staying up until 4 am to hear the whole show) that did not feature George Noory as a host, much preferring the voices of occasional hosts George Knapp and Richard Syrett. I always found something wrong with Noory and I couldn't quite put my finger on it until a month or so of listening to him. He is dogmatic in certain areas concerning the military and law enforcement and avoids certain areas of discussion. When a certain recent guest of yours pointed him out as a disinformation agent, along with the likes of Alex Jones, I couldn't help but agree. I have made a comment on the comments section of that guest's show that I agree that Jim Marrs, also, must be a disinformation agent. That leads me to what I have been thinking about recently as a possible resource for other listeners.

I do not want to create a list of people or researchers within the alternative community who could be disinformation agents but a methodology for people to use in identifying what techniques a disinformation agent might use to lead people down the wrong path. At the same time, however, I think disinformation agents ultimately strengthen the rest of us within the alternative community. Those I have found for myself to be disinformation agents usually provide good information - the problem lies in what they don't say, it isn't that they are even lying, but that they are trying to get us to focus away from a certain point of truth. I have become a much stronger skeptic now that I know what the lies look like within our community that is rife with disinformation. Here are some questions, for example, I would propose as a model for analysis of new information:

- Does the way the person presenting this information make me anxious in any way? (i.e. does their tone of voice border on yelling? Does it sound like Bill O'Reilly when he is trying to piss you off during his show on Fox News?) Furthermore, I know for myself that I personally get anxious over hearing of environmental destruction, like chemicals being dumped into a fresh water river or high levels of cesium-137 being found in fish meat caught off the West Coast of the US - how can we verify this information and is it as dire as it sounds?

- Does the information presented by this person resonate with what I know to be true? If it conflicts with it, how so? Does this cast into doubt other information that this person is presenting or does it hold up under closer inspection?

Just a few thoughts, thanks for reading!

Preston