Cemetery at Midnight

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 [http://www.soundlightfrequency.com/] See omnystudio.com/listener [https://omnystudio.com/listener] for privacy information.

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 [http://www.soundlightfrequency.com/] See omnystudio.com/listener [https://omnystudio.com/listener] for privacy information.

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 [http://www.soundlightfrequency.com/] See omnystudio.com/listener [https://omnystudio.com/listener] for privacy information.

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 [http://www.soundlightfrequency.com/] See omnystudio.com/listener [https://omnystudio.com/listener] for privacy information.

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 [http://www.soundlightfrequency.com/] See omnystudio.com/listener [https://omnystudio.com/listener] for privacy information.