The Nonsense Bazaar

In the conclusion of our series on Biosphere two, we meet the eight people who lived inside the biosphere for two years during "mission one" and look at the absurd (and completely avoidable) struggles they faced inside, money-man Ed Bass realizes John Allen might not know what he's talking about, and Steve Bannon LARPs as a Navy SEAL. 

We begin our dive into the truly bizarre story of Biosphere 2, a three-acre mini-Earth in which eight theater nerds sealed themselves for two years in the early 90's. It didn't go great. While you may have heard of Biosphere 2, it's a solid bet that you've only heard one side of the story. In part one we look at the man behind Biosphere 2, the so-called genius John Allen (also known by his pen-name as Johnny Dolphin), his commune Synergia Ranch, and how they song-and-danced their way into the hundreds of millions of dollars they used to build the Biosphere. Strap in, folks, this one gets silly. 

We take a look into one of the more ridiculous sagas of the "Satanic Panic" in which swaths of scared Christians somehow became convinced that the CEO of Procter and Gamble pledged eternal allegiance to Satan on a secret episode of the Phil Donahue show.

Sequoyah and Willow look into the strange and stupid saga of the bizarre "UFO" patents filed by the Navy between 2016 and 2020 that purport to show operable UFO-like vehicles and technology which defy the laws of physics.    Check out the reporting done by Brett Tingley and Tyler Rogoway for TheDrive.com here: https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/31798/the-secretive-inventor-of-the-navys-bizarre-ufo-patents-finally-talks