Rebelliously Curious with Chrissy Newton: UFOs, Science, Culture and Futurism

Today on Rebelliously Curious, I'm joined by Lana Mills-Sowchuk, a participant in the Canadian legal action surrounding Project MKUltra and an advocate for victims of government experimentation.
For Lana, this story is deeply personal. It begins with an envelope containing her father Ivor's medical records, discovered in March 1984, and a family's decades-long search for answers about what happened to him at Montreal's Allan Memorial Institute.
Those records describe 54 high-voltage electroshock treatments, 54 grand mal seizures, and 36 days of insulin-induced comas. What began as a family's attempt to understand a devastating chapter in their father's life eventually became a fight for accountability.
Today, we're exploring Ivor's story, the Canadian connection to MKUltra, the lasting impact on his family, and Lana's ongoing pursuit of justice.
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Today I'm joined by U.S. Congressman Eric Burlison, a leading voice in the fight for UAP disclosure. We're discussing government secrecy, political influence, David Grusch's departure from Rep. Burlison's team, Grusch's UAP motivations, and why international cooperation (including Canada) could be critical to uncovering the truth.
With competing narratives shaping the disclosure debate, who controls the information, and how do we get real answers? 
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Today I'm joined by Rear Admiral Tim Gallaudet, a retired U.S. Navy officer and oceanographer. He previously served as acting Undersecretary and Assistant Secretary of Commerce and acting Administrator and Deputy Administrator of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), and he's one of the most prominent voices in the UAP conversation.
His new book, Holding Fast in Heavy Seas, explores leadership, uncertainty, and how to navigate difficult situations when you don't have all the answers.
Today, we're going beyond UAPs in the sky, into questions about secrecy, national security, the military-industrial complex, USOs, and the extraordinary claims surrounding possible underwater activity.
What is real? What isn't? And how do we find the truth when the evidence is incomplete?
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A recent study suggests Gen Z is the generation most likely to believe in UFOs, and they're also the generation growing up surrounded by UAP stories across news and social media. But what happens when the government starts releasing more and more information about UFOs?
Does transparency build trust, or can it actually create more suspicion? Today, I'm joined by Yaniv Regev, political theorist and author of The Bulwark article, "Why the Trump Administration Is Telling Us So Much About UFOs." We're talking transparency, populism, Gen Z and UAPs, conspiracy theories, and whether the Trump administration is helping answer the UAP enigma or firehosing the topics to the public. 
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On June 30 of this year, the House Oversight Task Force on the Declassification of Federal Secrets held a congressional hearing examining one of the CIA's most controversial covert programs: Project MKUltra. More than 50 years after the program was exposed, lawmakers revisited questions about secret human experimentation, accountability, and whether the legacy of MKUltra still has implications today.
Joining me is Stephen Kinzer, award-winning journalist, historian, former New York Times foreign correspondent, and author of Poisoner in Chief, the definitive book on the CIA MKUltra program. 
In this conversation, we'll discuss what the hearing revealed, what history tells us about the program, whether the CIA's pursuit of mind control worked, and how advances in neuroscience, artificial intelligence, and brain-computer interfaces are reshaping the conversation around influence, manipulation, and human consciousness.
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