In the first half, guest host Richard Syrett joined financial expert Mel Mattison to discuss "The Great Taking," the idea that global elites are planning to confiscate all financial assets. At the heart of the conversation was the concept of ownership, with Mattison revealing that the public's common understanding of stock ownership diverges sharply from the legal realities. He explained that while individuals believe they "own" stock, they do not actually hold the legal title to those shares. Instead, they possess what is called a "security entitlement," recorded electronically by the Depository Trust and Clearing Corporation (DTCC), a largely unknown but dominant financial intermediary.
Mattison claimed that in extreme circumstances, such as a financial collapse, creditors can claim assets held in brokerage accounts. This means that if a brokerage firm or intermediary goes bankrupt, investors may lose their stocks to creditors, a scenario he termed "The Great Taking." This concept was first detailed by David Rogers Webb, a hedge fund manager turned whistleblower who uncovered these legal vulnerabilities and subsequently moved to Sweden amid his concerns.
The discussion expanded to the growing trend of "tokenization," where not only stocks and bonds but all assets—including real estate and private businesses—are being converted into digital tokens on blockchains. Mattison described tokenization as a critical step toward consolidating asset control: "They want to expand this, not just to stocks and bonds, but literally… homes, real estate, car loans… The tokenization of everything." He warned that this shift could enable creditors to seize a broader range of assets without the need for new legislation. "Nothing would need to go through Congress," he cautioned.
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In the second half, author and historian Courtney Mclnvale explored the intersections of war, trauma, and the paranormal. Her research and storytelling focus on the ways in which historical events, especially conflicts like the American Civil War, leave emotional and spiritual imprints on places, shaping hauntings that persist across generations. McInvale emphasized that haunted history is about honoring the stories of people and understanding our connection to the past. Her personal history includes growing up in a haunted New England home investigated by Ed and Lorraine Warren.
McInvale pointed out that emotionally heavy places, especially battlefields and sites of mass tragedy, retain an energy that even skeptics can sense. She identified war as a "hotbed of every human emotion," where fear, grief, anger, and adrenaline converge rapidly amid intense suffering and death. The American Civil War, she noted, is uniquely intense, with nearly 640,000 casualties over four years. "They were fighting their friends, their brothers, their family, their fellow Americans," she said. The closeness of the conflict added "an extra sense of tragedy" that continues to resonate.
One of the most haunted battlefields McInvale discussed is Chickamauga, the first National Military Park in America and site of the deadliest battle in the Western theater of the Civil War. Visitors and researchers report a range of paranormal experiences, including hearing a Confederate victory march, seeing soldiers playing in the woods, and sightings of spectral figures such as a widow searching for her missing husband. The battlefield also harbors folklore about cryptids like "Green Eyes," believed to steal souls of the dying. McInvale shared a personal encounter near the spot where Confederate General John Bell Hood was shot, recounting how she and her husband heard a male voice say "hello" at exactly 2pm, the time Hood was wounded, suggesting a "crossing of time" or a paranormal imprint.