I hear you with the Simon Parks stuff. He was just too much of a nut for me. Alien lover...

However, this guy appears to be straight up. He is just a little wonky and at times hard to follow.

I guess it is all down to how your gut feels about it. His stories are pretty out there.

For me, when I found him, he filled in some gaps I had already had from my understanding of American history. After listening and following his story, those gaps became much more clear.

For one, I used to get goose bumps thinking about a rag tag bunch of colonialists with no training defeated THE WORLD SUPERPOWER, England. It is such an amazing story, almost too much to believe is true. Think "ANT meet BOOT", kind of hero story.

When you take off the patriot glow, it seems much more likely that our founding fathers (maybe not all) struck a deal with the Crown. The colonies desperately needed money, the bank of England was happy to finance the deal, the Crown retains ghost control, and we think we won. Win-Win, right?

Once you are open to going down that rabbit hole, things start to fall into place.