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Caller: Right, and I thank you for that. I am lying low at the moment. My former employers have had enough of me and I them. But they have sent their lackeys from the CIA and the NSA to search for me, saying that the knowledge in my head is a danger to national security. Hah! They shall search in vain!

Ret Ball: Ha ha! What can we do for you tonight, Megiddo?

Caller: I just wanted to let you know that the situation with Mars has gotten worse.

Ret Ball: Ah yes! Mars. For some of our listeners out there that are just tuning in, you need to realize that the color of Mars is changing. I myself have seen this with my own telescope. Our friend Megiddo here, has enlightened us on this subject.

Caller: Thanks, Ret. I’ll make this short so my burst transmissions are not traced. But the CIA and the right wing conspiracy know about this. They’re covering it up and are in fact planning to send a rapid development space mission to the planet to make contact with the enemy and finalize their plans for world domination. They’re putting together a set of Boeing Delta Vs with common booster cores that will fling their communications satellite towards Mars on a fast fly-by. This will put them in contact with the masters that are rapidly converting Mars as a base of operations in this solar system.

Ret Ball: Really? How do you… no, I know better than to ask.

Caller: Thanks, Ret. You are a trooper. But I’m telling everybody now. Prepare, be prepared. The world as we know it is about to disintegrate.

Ret Ball: Wow! Thanks, Megiddo, we’ll keep our listeners posted. Next caller is Ben from Dayton, Ohio. Ben, go ahead you are on the Truth Nationwide.

Caller: Ha ha, Jesus H. Christ, Ret! That guy was so whacked he probably wears an aluminum foil hat on his head!

Ret Ball: Ah caller, you must be new to the Truth Nationwide. Megiddo has been with us for years. And indeed he does wear an aluminum beanie. He discovered years ago that the remote viewing technology of the CIA can track him otherwise. But to all my listeners, I say this: More times than not Megiddo has predicted something that has actually come to pass.

Caller: Well, if you ask me, he is nuts.

Reference to mission to Mars forwarded to higher security cell for breach evaluation.

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