Sound, Light & Frequency

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Has the U.S. government been conducting a slow-drip UFO disclosure campaign through Hollywood movies and television for more than 70 years? The new podcast Sound, Light & Frequency tackles that mind-blowing question through an ongoing investigation hosted by two Hollywood insiders: Bryce Zabel and Brent Friedman, both successful writer/producers with hundreds of credits. Bryce and Brent publicly share, for the first time, the full account of their surreal encounter with a “Man in Black” who offered them a deal to use their primetime alien-invasion drama series, Dark Skies, to spread UFO truths. Each episode takes listeners behind the scenes of iconic films and TV series, connecting what’s been portrayed on screen to what might be happening in real life—and asking whether other creators were offered “the deal,” too.

  1. 21h ago

    Deal or No Deal

    In “Deal or No Deal,” Bryce Zabel and Brent Friedman move their investigation from personal testimony into corroboration. After weeks of telling the story of the Dark Skies premiere party, the mysterious man who claimed to be from Naval Intelligence, and the offer to trade inside UFO information for story cooperation, they bring in their first outside witness: filmmaker Brett Leonard, who says he experienced his own version of Hollywood’s strangest possible pitch meeting. For Bryce and Brent, this is no longer just a story they remember — it becomes part of a broader pattern. The episode asks the question at the heart of Sound, Light & Frequency: were Hollywood creators ever approached, influenced, or guided by people claiming access to the real UFO secret? Leonard’s account opens the door to a larger conversation about disclosure, disinformation, myth-making, and manipulation — and whether “the deal” was a one-time anomaly or one example of a hidden relationship between entertainment and the intelligence world. As the title suggests, “Deal or No Deal” is about choice: whether to engage, whether to believe, and whether to risk being used. Bryce and Brent revisit the strange terms of the alleged offer made to them during the Dark Skies era, then compare it to Leonard’s experience to ask what may have been happening behind the scenes as UFO mythology moved from classified rumor to mainstream entertainment. To learn more: www.SoundLightFrequency.com See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

    1h 8m

  2. May 28

    Cemetery at Midnight

    Cemetery at Midnight is the moment the Sound, Light & Frequency origin story moves from strange Hollywood anecdote into something far larger. After the mysterious J.C. crashed the Dark Skies premiere party claiming to be from the Office of Naval Intelligence, Bryce Zabel and Brent Friedman found themselves pulled into a second encounter — this time at their North Hollywood production offices, where J.C. arrived with a superior and an even more unsettling agenda. What had begun as a party-crasher story now became organized, deliberate, and impossible to easily dismiss.  In this episode, Bryce and Brent recount being told that the Moon sits at the heart of UFO secrecy, and that the “secrets of the universe” may somehow involve sound, light, frequency — and a strange gold-like substance presented as a clue. From there, the conversation opens into 2001: A Space Odyssey, Apollo, Buzz Aldrin, hidden lunar history, and the enduring symbolic power of the Moon in both science fiction and real-world secrecy. Then comes the proposal that gives the episode its title: a midnight cemetery meeting with an “Admiral,” where the real deal would supposedly be put on the table. For Bryce and Brent, this was the turning point — the moment they had to decide whether they were being offered disclosure, disinformation, or something even more dangerous. To learn more: www.SoundLightFrequency.com See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

    1h 21m

  3. May 21

    Burn the Negative

    This week on Sound, Light & Frequency, Bryce Zabel and Brent Friedman finally open the file on a Hollywood story they have kept private and closely guarded for nearly three decades. It begins during the making of Dark Skies, their NBC alien-invasion series, at the exact moment when their dream job became a corporate pressure cooker. What followed was not just a normal network/studio battle over notes, wardrobe, or story points. It was a behind-the-scenes collision between UFO mythology, Hollywood power, franchise ambition, and two writers trying to protect the creative heart of their own series while realizing that forces far larger than they were had suddenly taken an interest. For years, Bryce and Brent stayed quiet because the stakes were real, the players were powerful, and the consequences could have ended more than a television show. Now, as part of their commitment to tell the full Sound, Light & Frequency story with transparency, they lay out what happened chronologically, carefully, and with the receipts they still have. It’s inside-Hollywood drama at its strangest: aliens, secrecy, studio politics, men in black, and a story so wild it sounds like fiction — except it happened to them. And once you hear it, you’ll understand why it has never been told publicly before… until now. To learn more: www.SoundLightFrequency.com See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

    57 min

  4. May 14

    All About the Woo

    In the aftermath of the latest government UFO file release, Bryce and Brent decide to zig while everyone else is zagging. Rather than parsing another slow-drip document dump, they ask what may be waiting beyond the photos, videos, craft, crash retrievals, propulsion theories, and “show me the saucers” frustration. This episode turns from the nuts-and-bolts case for UFO reality toward the stranger territory of the woo factor — the part of the phenomenon that includes telepathy, synchronicity, remote viewing, out-of-body experiences, apparitions, orbs, time slips, prophetic dreams, poltergeists, cryptids, hitchhiker effects, and the unsettling possibility that the phenomenon may respond when we pay attention to it.  Using H.P. Lovecraft, Charles Fort, Jacques Vallée, John Keel, The Mothman Prophecies, Skinwalker Ranch, and a shelf full of deeply weird movies as portals, Bryce and Brent explore whether aliens, the paranormal, and the afterlife may not be separate mysteries at all. Brent lays out his theory that consciousness, energy, sound, light, and frequency may be the connective tissue between them, while Bryce recalls his own eerie Mothman Prophecies encounter in an Agoura Hills parking lot, when a menacing stranger in a long black duster walked past him and his young son carrying the exact obscure book Brent had just urged him to read. Then the episode goes intensely personal. Brent describes a lifetime of impossible-to-file experiences, including witnessing six strangers die violently in front of him, a death outside the Dark Skies production offices that seemed to involve a soul or life-force passing through him, and a terrifying daylight bedroom attack by an Old Hag/Witch Rider entity that he insists was not sleep paralysis. Bryce adds his own uncanny “power of three” story from writing A.D. After Disclosure with Richard Dolan, before the conversation widens to Twin Peaks, Phenomenon, Picnic at Hanging Rock, Annihilation, Solaris, Coherence, The Nines, and A Ghost Story. The result is one of the show’s strangest and most revealing hours: an argument that the UFO mystery may not only be about what flies above us, but what looks back through consciousness itself. To learn more: www.SoundLightFrequency.com See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

    1h 9m

  5. May 7

    Spielberg's Closing Argument

    Steven Spielberg is 79—turning 80 the week before Christmas—and we’re marking the moment with our first-ever guest: Ernest Cline, author of Ready Player One, the book Spielberg loved enough to turn into a movie. Together, we’re looking straight at Spielberg’s return to UFO storytelling with Disclosure Day, opening June 12—a film he teased at CinemaCon with a line that feels like a dare: “I believe this movie is going to answer questions and this movie is going to cause a lot of people to ask a lot of questions. All you need to get from beginning to end is a seat belt.” From there, the episode becomes a three-way conversation: Bryce lays out the big question—after 30+ projects involving alien contact and non-human intelligence, is Disclosure Day Spielberg’s “closing argument,” and what does that even mean? Brent pushes the pattern-recognition angle, arguing that Spielberg’s contact stories track the cultural temperature of the moment—wonder, fear, paranoia, secrecy—and that Disclosure Day is arriving at a time when the public is finally ready to ask harder questions. And Ernie brings the inside perspective: what it’s like to collaborate with Spielberg up close, why his curiosity about the unknown feels genuine, and why—whether this new film is “truth,” “fiction,” or something in between—Spielberg may be the one filmmaker who can make the entire world lean forward at the same time and say: Okay… so what now? To learn more: www.SoundLightFrequency.com See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

    1h 1m

  6. Apr 30

    Unified Field Theory of Conspiracy

    What happens when the Roswell crash, the Kennedy years, and Hollywood storytelling all collide? In this episode of Sound, Light & Frequency, Bryce and Brent use the Showtime Roswell film as their portal into one of America’s most enduring mysteries: what really happened in New Mexico in 1947, and how that event may have echoed all the way into the Camelot era. They revisit how their own NBC series Dark Skies boldly fused JFK and UFO lore in what Bryce calls “an atom collider of conspiracy,” asking whether history’s most famous secrets may be more connected than we’ve been told. Along the way, the hosts share a terrific personal JFK-and-Marilyn Monroe story from inside old Hollywood circles, examine why Roswell continues to grip the culture nearly eighty years later, and wander into some modern mystery-making as Brent casts a skeptical eye toward CERN and today’s scientific gatekeepers. It’s an episode about crashed saucers, presidential shadows, pop culture, and the strange way the past keeps refusing to stay buried. For more information: SoundLightFrequency.com See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

    55 min

  7. Apr 23

    We Are Watching You

    During prep for Sound, Light & Frequency, Bryce Zabel and Brent Friedman are digging through old Dark Skies files when they stumble on two artifacts they’d almost forgotten existed—objects so specific, and so unsettling, that they instantly revive a feeling they thought they’d outgrown: paranoia. Not the famous envelope. Not the party-crasher story. Something else. Something that arrives at exactly the wrong moment in their lives—right as a network series is being born—and seems to speak in a voice that doesn’t feel like fandom at all. Thirty years later, rediscovered in a file drawer, it still lands like a cold hand on the neck. To make sense of what they’ve found, Bryce and Brent take a sideways detour into the eerie Amazon cult favorite The Vast of Night, a film built out of sound, light, and frequency—and out of the creeping dread that comes when an ordinary channel suddenly carries an impossible message. If you’ve ever felt your brain “tune” itself toward the unknown—listening too closely, replaying a moment, wondering who else might be listening—this is the exact mood they’re living in again, right now. And then the story turns: because whatever these artifacts are, there are two of them, they arrive days apart, and they don’t just unsettle Bryce and Brent—they seem to change the terms of the relationship, as if someone is watching from the edge of the frame and wants them to know it. Who sent them? Why? And what does it mean that the message waited thirty years to come back into their hands? Tune in to find out what Bryce and Brent uncovered—and why it still gets under their skin. For more information: SoundLightFrequency.com See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

    51 min

  8. Apr 16

    Majic Kingdom

    In “Majic Kingdom,” Bryce and Brent ask an uncomfortably fun question: why does Disney keep showing up in the UFO story? Bryce starts with the modern reality—Disney isn’t a historical footnote, it’s the current epicenter of alien storytelling, “industrializing” non-human intelligence across Disney+ through Marvel, Star Wars, and the Fox-era franchises in its orbit. From there, they rewind to 1953’s CIA-sponsored Robertson Panel and its blunt talk about “training” and “debunking,” including the suggestion to use television and motion pictures and explicitly naming Disney as a partner. The episode then dives into the “two 1995 whoppers”: the wildly pro-UFO Tomorrowland lobby film Alien Encounters from New Tomorrowland (with lines that sound like a government briefing) and a two-week Disney UFO conference that flew in major speakers… yet apparently drew an audience of only about a dozen because Disney didn’t promote it at all, raising the question: what was it really for? Then Bryce opens a personal Hollywood door: his mentor Bill Asher—TV comedy legend who unexpectedly directed the 1957 Cold War saucer morality play The 27th Day, built around abductees from rival nations handed world-ending capsules and forced into an “if they push first, do we?” dilemma. Asher’s Rat Pack proximity becomes more than name-dropping when Bryce recounts Bill’s firsthand JFK/Marilyn Monroe story: a July 1960 party at Peter Lawford’splace, JFK and Marilyn disappearing to the pool house for hours, returning with Marilyn wearing JFK’s shirt, and later JFK—drunk—stopping traffic on PCH shouting he’s going to be President, with Bill dispatched to haul him back inside before it hit the papers. Layered on top is the UFO whisper: Bill’s account of Sammy Davis Jr. describing “small silver discs” that hovered, darted, and then—Bill’s word—“poof!” vanished. Finally, the episode lands on one of the strangest broadcast moments in UFO history: Major Donald Keyhoe on CBS’s Armstrong Circle Theatre in 1958, starting to “disclose” something never disclosed—only to have his mic cut while the camera stayed on him, leaving America watching his lips move in silence. Bryce reads what Keyhoe later said he’d been about to reveal—claims of working with a congressional committee on official secrecy and that open hearings would prove UFOs are “real… under intelligent control”—and then shares CBS’s chilling justification: the program had been “carefully cleared for security reasons,” and the network had to enforce “predetermined security standards.” It’s a perfect capstone for an episode about Disney, narrative power, and the eternal question: when it comes to UFOs, who gets to tell the story—and who gets to turn the sound off? For more information: SoundLightFrequency.com See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Has the U.S. government been conducting a slow-drip UFO disclosure campaign through Hollywood movies and television for more than 70 years? The new podcast Sound, Light & Frequency tackles that mind-blowing question through an ongoing investigation hosted by two Hollywood insiders: Bryce Zabel and Brent Friedman, both successful writer/producers with hundreds of credits. Bryce and Brent publicly share, for the first time, the full account of their surreal encounter with a “Man in Black” who offered them a deal to use their primetime alien-invasion drama series, Dark Skies, to spread UFO truths. Each episode takes listeners behind the scenes of iconic films and TV series, connecting what’s been portrayed on screen to what might be happening in real life—and asking whether other creators were offered “the deal,” too.

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