Bill Pruitt, a former producer forĀ The ApprenticeĀ whose NDA just expired after 20 years,Ā writes in SlateĀ that Donald Trump used the n-word during the production of the show ā€” and there are tapes of him doing it.

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    I recall reading the Saganā€™s Demon Haunted World and the section dedicated to this ā€œphenomenonā€. The self convincing and conviction to these events was pretty amazing to read about from a curiosity prospective. The letters he would receive were pretty far out there.

    My matter of fact father swears late one night while grading logging roads in a remote area in the 70s, he saw a big bright light in the sky that he couldnā€™t explain and it moved in ways he didnā€™t expect.

    Being out in the wilderness Iā€™m sure it wasnā€™t a comfortable situation for him. I still wonder what he saw but thankfully there was no accompanying abduction story to go with it in his case. These types of stories and shows did get his a attention forever after as a result.

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      I personally think there must be some truth to the phenomenon as a whole. But I canā€™t stand the grifters who sidle up seeking attention or money after a time.

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      While Iā€™m not sure about the lights alone, Iā€™ve read that more often than not those that claim to have been abducted recently had surgery where they were ā€œput under.ā€ The idea is that theyā€™re ā€œrememberingā€ the lights and shapes of the doctors being over them while they dream, but because they already had the surgery some time ago they believe this is a new event that just happened to them.