Thank you, everyone, for calling in to the Dear Prudence Show with host, Amanda Grieme, medium Kim, Erik and me. The lines lit up like crazy. We took as many callers as we could, but Erik must be pretty popular because we had to leave a lot of you hanging. But don’t worry. When we start our weekly radio show, everyone will have plenty of opportunity to receive some Erik love and wisdom. 

I forgot to tell you guys that Rune, Bella and I enjoyed our weekend camping at the Lake Livingston KOA. We camped right at the edge of the lake where we enjoyed two magnificent sunsets. We also took our bikes to the state park to ride the trails. It had been a long time since I had ridden a bike, so I was a little nervous. On top of that, the gears weren’t adjusted properly and kept making this loud clacking sound. Since it has rained the night before, parts of the trails were muddy, so I had to hold the handles with a white-knuckled grip whenever I rode through deep, soggy ruts. A couple of times, I felt like I was hydroplaning and saw a face plant in my future, but I survived. The woods and wildlife were beautiful and, apart from those fleeting moments of panic, the ride was peaceful.

I hope you guys had a wonderful weekend, too! Next weekend, we’re going to Little Rock, Arkansas to visit my sister, Laura, and her husband, Jim. We drive down there Friday, celebrate her birthday Friday night and stay until Monday. I’ll try to post, but it depends on how busy Laura keeps us! Be sure to wish her (Laura White) a happy birthday on the 11th on her Facebook page!

Me: Jamie, how are you doing?

Jamie: I’m good. Just suffering from a head cold.

Me: Oh, you have a head cold? Aw.

Jamie: You can’t hear it?

Me: No, I can’t.

Jamie: I sound so nasally.

Me: In fact I was going to say how nice you look today. You should have a head cold more often!

Jamie: That’s what I usually tell people. If I’m looking nice, it’s probably because I’m not feeling good so I’ll glam it up.

Me (chuckling): Oh, okay. Well, I wanted to talk about one main subject, but for some reason, I have this one question that someone begged me to ask, but it will not take up a 20-minute video. “They say,” And I don’t know who these “they” people are, but they say a lot of stuff. “They say that we have cities on the dark side of the moon and that it’s an artificial satellite. There’s all sorts of proof that go into this including from astronauts who have actually been there.”

(Pause)

Erik: It’s not an artificial satellite.

(Long pause as Jamie listens)

Jamie: Well, first talk about the pictures you’re sending me. By the way, Erik says, “Hi Mom. I love you.”

Erik: Hi, to everyone for coming back for more. You know, you should really send questions in to my mom so that we can explore everything that you want to know.

Me: Yeah.

Erik: So, we’re talking about the moon right now, and the moon is not an artificial, manmade satellite. Buyah!

Jamie: Oh my god. Buyah. I totally forgot about that word.

I’m not even sure how to spell it.

Erik: In your face! But are there stations there? That’s what you’re really asking. There have been attempts to set up stations on the dark side of the moon. They don’t thrive very well. There are other stations that are not from humans that have also been on the darker side of the moon, but colonies or places to live? No.

Me: So nobody lives there right now? No beings?

(Long pause)

Jamie: What was the question again?

I repeat it.

Jamie: Like as in a colony?

Me: Even if it’s one person in a little station.

Erik: Yeah, there’s a one person little station there, but it’s not a colony.

Me: Okay, so there’s just a handful of entities there.

Jamie: He’s showing me playing a game of tag. Not everybody is on base at the same time.

Me: Okay.

Jamie: And sometimes there might be more, and then the game starts over and everyone’s gone. It has that kind of feeling to it. There’s no heavy traffic, though.

Me: When did we try to set up a station there?

Erik: When did we not?

Jamie: He’s looking at the 70s into the 80s, and then it pulled back or went dark during the 90s. Something wasn’t successful. Something wasn’t working. They found it easier to be space bound rather than moon bound.

Me: Why the dark side, though? That doesn’t make sense?

You’d forfeit the solar energy source.

Erik: Yes, it does. It can’t be monitored.

Me: Okay, by…?

Erik: People on Earth. It’s constantly out of sight.

Me: Okay. What were the purposes for the stations? The intended purpose.

Erik: For different reasons like contact with other alien beings, that was a good source. It was also the idea that we could watch space better, so having things mounted on the dark side of the moon allowed them to film and observe. It’s also for paying attention to the moon’s orbit, its gravitational qualities and its health. That’s changed drastically in the last thousands of years.

Me: In what way?

Erik: Its orbit has changed, and it seems to be going further away from the earth.

Jamie: He shows me a—god, it’s a funny image. (To Erik) What’s that called? The merry-go-round thing, not the one with the horses.

Me: Yeah.

Jamie: And it’s metal, and the kids hang onto the bars, and then you can’t hold on, you pull back and your fingers slip and you fly away. It’s almost like gravity is losing its grip. It’s weird. I keep getting the image of an egg. He’s showing me the yolk in the egg. In the Earth, the core is in the center, but in the moon, the yolk or center of gravity is closer to the Earth while the white part points out into space.

Me: Oh, okay. So, will that have a drastic effect on us?

Erik: Yeah, it affects the weather, and it effects the tilt.

Jamie laughs and tilts her head.

Jamie: Sometimes he does things to see if I’ll copy him, and that was one of them. He goes (She tilts her head to the right.) I repeated it. That was the tilt of the Earth, everybody. There you go! There’s your visual.

I laugh.

Me: Will that endanger human life?

Erik: It can, but in thousands and thousands and thousands of years.

Phew!

Erik: It’s not anything that’s right up in our face, but as we explore and get the percentages and rates right—and he also shows me the other planets are pulling away from the Sun. It’s not like we’re getting closer and warmer and, yay.

Me: Yeah. Okay, one more question along this line. When will we colonize another planet?

Erik: Um, yesterday.

Me: Okay! In terms of linear time!

Erik: We’ve done that with Mars.

Me: Oh, we have?

Damn, our government is sneaky.

Erik: Yeah.

Me: When will the masses settle on another planet if ours goes to crap?

Erik: Give it a few more hundred years. In the grand scheme of things, it’s not that far away. We can inhabit space much quicker, Mom. We can do that shit right now. We can build that—BOOM! —Have a floating ship, awesome!

Me: Yeah.

Erik: But if we’re talking about another planet, the time it takes to dig, regulate temperature, have sustainable life systems in place—we CAN do it on Mars.

Me: What about a planet that’s more like Earth’s?

Erik: There are so many fucking planets. I don’t know why everyone things (in a girlie voice) “Oh, we’re one in a million!”

Jamie laughs.

Me: Well, how long would it take to get to the closest one?

Erik: With a wormhole or without one?

Jamie giggles.

Me: Whatever we can do, man. With a wormhole, I guess.

Jamie: In a year timeframe?

Me: Yeah.

Jamie: He’s talking about a 5-7 year travel time. What’s a light year? How much is that?

Me: It’s the distance light travels in one year. Pretty long because light, it goes fast! Do we have something picked out?

Erik: No.

Me: Okay, so that’s a ways off.

Erik: Yes.

Me: Will there be a situation where we kind of have to go because Mother Earth is like—

Erik: No.

Me: Or the sun’s about to implode, or—

Erik: Fuck, no. There will be people who are like (same girlie voice) “Oh, space living is the next thing. I have to really do that just in case. Risk management.”

Me: Mm hm.

Erik: So there will be civilians who go up and live years on satellite bases that orbit the earth, still using the earth’s gravitational pull and everything.

Me: Oh, okay, but as far as another planet in another—

Erik shakes his head.

Erik: No, that’s a little ways out.

Me: Okay. Well, I guess we filled up this video more than I thought. I was going to go on to a whole other topic, but I think I’ll do that for the next video. I have a few extra questions. When we do live on another planet, won’t there be fights over what country owns what planet? Will we have that whole thing going on?

Erik: By that time, space travel [and settlement] will be seen more as a United Nations thing rather than a United States thing. It’s not going to be like, “Hey, Germany did this,” or “Africa did this,” or “The United States…” There’ll be a united stance when we go to colonize because of the funding necessary and the amount of knowledge and information and the types of crafts that people have to offer. We’ll pull worldwide for that team.

Me: Okay. Wow, that’s fascinating. I just hope we take better care of the next planet than we have with the one we’re on now.

Erik: Amen! That’s such a good statement.

Me: We will. Surely we’ll be more evolved by that time.

Erik: Yes, we will. AND WOMEN WILL RULE THAT PLANET!

Jamie and I laugh.

Me: It’s about time, man! What about aliens? Will they live with us on the next planet?

Erik: They’ll be known, yes, but they won’t live on our planet because they have their own.

Me: All right. That was awesome! Thank you, Erik. Thank you, Jamie.

Erik (taking his bows): Thank you. Thank you everybody for watching.

Me: Anything else to say about this?

Erik: I’m excited about it. If people want to ask more about alien life, I’m up for it. It seems to be the hot ticket that people want to understand.

Me: They really do, yeah!