Hey, 92%ers, my name is Luke Lamanah, and the Kelsey's have graciously let me come on here to tell you about my new podcast.

It's called Redacted, Declassified Mysteries.

And every week on Redacted, we dive deep into astonishing true stories of secrets, lies, and deception inside the world's most powerful institutions.

While your mind may go to conspiracy theories like deflategate and the tuck rule game, redacted focuses on real documented cases

that have been buried in classified files for decades, combining my passion for storytelling

and my experiences working in military intelligence,

I pull back the curtain on covert government experiments, bizarre assassination attempts, and so much more.

It's the kind of stuff that makes you go, how have I not heard about this before?

I'm about to play you a clip from redacted Declassified Mysteries with me, Luke Lamana.

But while you're listening, be sure to follow the show on the Wondery app or wherever you get your podcasts.

At 10.35 p.m. on January 3, 1961, a physicist named Ed Valario pulled up to a secret nuclear

test site in the Idaho desert. Ed had received an emergency call about an explosion at the nuclear

reactor known as SL1. No one had been able to contact the three men who were working that night.

Valario waved it as partner who was waiting for him in front of the reactor building.

The two men grabbed their gas masks and rushed inside.

They hurried up three flights of winding stairs that led toward the reactor's control room,

past pipes and motors and condensers,

towards the cramp nerve center that controlled the reactor. The building was completely silent,

save for the frantic static from their Geiger counters. Valario glanced down and saw the needle

pointing to maximum radiation levels. He'd never seen levels that high before.

When Valario opened the control room door, his heart skipped a beat. The scene inside was

total devastation, twisted metal scattered across the floor, clouds of steam hovering above

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