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Side Stories: Disclosure Daze w/ Alaska Thunderfuck 5000

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Henry vs. Disclosure Day — A Personal Reckoning

Side Stories: Disclosure Daze w/ Alaska Thunderfuck 5000 · Jun 17, 2026 Arts

Henry Zabrowski delivers a passionate, heartfelt monologue about why Steven Spielberg's Disclosure Day disappointed him so deeply — not just as a bad movie, but as a betrayal of the childlike wonder that drew him to UFO lore in the first place. The film is set in a world where disclosure is still a surprise, but Henry's lived reality is one where it already happened and the answer was blurry dots.

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Daredevil Death Week: Sketchy Lewis, Free Solo, Bungee Fail

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Ed Larson brings three simultaneous daredevil fatalities: Andy Lewis, known as 'Sketchy,' holds multiple Guinness World Records for slacklining and performed at Madonna's 2012 Super Bowl halftime show, yet died in a base-jumping accident in Utah. Separately, a free solo climber fell into a volcanic crater in Yemen, and a bungee jumper died after her cord was never attached. Henry and Ed treat these deaths with a mixture of genuine respect and philosophical acceptance — daredeviling, they argue, has always required occasional fatalities as proof of concept. The deeper critique, however, is about the industry's structural collapse: Evel Knievel had production crews, televised coverage, and people whose job was ensuring the stunt worked. Today's daredevils are solo Instagram performers with 411K followers and nobody checking their equipment. The segment also gives Henry his first pivot into the Disclosure Day critique by comparing how daredevils abandoned centralized media just as Spielberg is now championing it.

Sports
Daredevil Death Week — A Reckoning

Side Stories: Disclosure Daze w/ Alaska Thunderfuck 5000 · Jun 17, 2026 Sports

Slackliner Andy 'Sketchy' Lewis — who performed at Madonna's 2012 Super Bowl halftime show and held multiple Guinness World Records — died in a Utah base-jumping accident. He wasn't alone: a free solo climber fell into a volcanic crater and a bungee jumper died when her cord wasn't attached. Henry and Ed argue the real culprit is that daredeviling moved from television crews to solo Instagram accounts.

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