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20260713-Eastern Expedition - Live on Lady Babylon with Dr. Ammon Hillman @ladybabylon666

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God damn it. It's good to see you. >> [music] >> You're Indiana Jonesing it and that's fantastic. >> [music] >> In the field on a mission. >> It took me like 3 days but I'm already here in [music] Istanbul right now. We decided to engage with another expedition. Cuz obviously it's an ongoing inquiry to see some some some territories [music] before everybody comes here. >> People don't Don't you think it's amazing to watch the courage of stamping out into the void? >> My mission will be um to create a route

That we will follow in Turkey and also drop off the Black Sea. >> Going to be right there for your consultant at any moment. Just call me up. You know what I mean? >> I would love for for anybody that want to engage with us in real time. >> Stay safe but be real, too. >> [music] >> You son of a gun. Did he fall asleep? Said people, I want you to send Bruno a dream vision right now because he's sleeping. It's like I guarantee it. It's

Like 3 you know, 3:00 a.m. his time. Is that what he said? Oh, there he is. Look, Bruno. We walk you. We walk you out of your slumber now, people. People, be very be very nice to >> I'm >> Yeah. There he is. Bruno, we hear that you are in the field now. In the field on a mission. On a mission. Tell us where you are and what you're doing.

>> Okay, Lou Ammon. Thank you for for having me. Good meet you. It's possible you're here. That's Yeah. I'm here in two minutes. Well, hello everybody. Uh well, I'm in Turkey. It took me like uh 3 days but I'm already here in Istanbul right now.

Um we came here by Well, we are two people now. Um Well, as you know, Ramon, we are uh in the in this Stones and Serpent project, which is a documentary film that we started to record. >> Okay, hang on. Hang on. Hang on before you go on about Stones and Serpent. I want to ask you a question I want to ask you a question. Um do you know who founded I think you said it's called Istanbul.

>> Istanbul? >> Maybe. Yeah. Do you know who founded this What do you call it again? Istanbul. Who founded that [\\h__\\h] place? >> I don't know. >> Oh, that's why we're The The Megarians, my friend. Oh god, near

Athens, they sent out a colony up to a place that they decided to call Byzantium. And it has a long, long glorious Greek history. So, underneath the place that you are in the Middle Ages that you're looking at as you go through the bazaar and stuff, underneath that, please remember that there is a very, very significant

Thracian influenced Greek culture right at the bottom of everything you're doing. Okay. Now, tell me, you've got a trip planned. What's the plan? What came up? What So far, what are you thinking? >> Okay. Well, right now, I just woke up. It's 4:21 a.m. here. We have uh 9 hours, I guess. I'm in the future 9 hours. So, well, in a nutshell, it would be like um as we are doing this documentary um for a year right now uh we decided to engage with another expedition. It might sound a bit like

Not easy I mean, it's not easy to explain the actual why in the production wise but it's very obvious to explain it from the perspective of the actual content we are doing in the in the project. Cuz obviously it's an ongoing inquiry and a lot of things that we kind of um talk even last year with you, Amon during the expedition in Greece um was pointing towards the east. So, even when we were there, we were thinking that we might be kind of forced to to actually to go

All the all the way all the way with the project to come back here to this part of the world. So, what is happening now um because I'm right here just just by myself now and with another partner that is uh doing the whole logistic in the field and helping me with the cameras and and stuff cuz we are recording also. The thing is um last year we we we did a um as we are an independent production. We did a bit of um mistakes in in let's say

As we are we were filming along the way we were talking with you at the same time we were actually filming cuz also like this year it was like very quick how it happened like the opportunity to actually travel. Um we made these mistakes. I made mistakes like a field um coordination mistakes like I I didn't know some distances, some permits you will need um I had some connections but not in specific spots that it would be I mean, if I had it before it would

You know, it would be so much easier. But right now, I have more more I've been talking with people here. I know people in Europe, and now what I'm doing is like I'm coming first. I mean, before the whole team arrives in October cuz I have a bunch of meetings. And also, I'm doing the scouting of distances, pyramids, um

And and and well, to be honest the meeting part of the the whole meetings with this people that I'm engaging with here in Turkey and in Greece and in Malta Island. Um it required kind of that I'm actually here in person to see some some some territories before everybody comes here. So, it became like part of of some of kind of logistics, me being here at right now. I had the opportunity. It was like from one day to another. I had the flight ticket like four four days before I mean

I had four days to plan the whole thing. It was an opportunity I had and I took it. So, right now I'm here. >> You're you're Indiana Jonesing it, and that's fantastic. You know, it's a I'm sure it's a lot to produce what you're trying to produce. And you know you're you're you know >> Especially if you are not an expert on I mean, right now uh and during this this first part of the year, I've been surrounding myself with people that are are doing this kind of stuff um

Um let's say professionally. So, right now I'm I'm I'm kind of uh what I I guess what I'm trying to do now is um not to make the same mistakes I did last year. >> Are you going to Are you going to meet up with the Vina somewhere while you're over in the neighborhood? >> Vina Vina lives in Chile. That's why I I I I connect with her. But she she I don't know if she's going to be because as I was telling you I'm this was literally uh a decision that I

Had to take in 3 days. Yeah. Everything was in October. So I actually should be in Chile probably in in in these 3 months because I have to record with Fina something which is um crucial for the whole thing. Fina is is is is engaging with the project uh a lot more than just the the conversation we had. And she lives in Chile. I mean, she comes here, but she actually is living in Chile for the past year and a half. That's why I found her.

I went like physically to to the spot where an Athenian philologist were, which is the only one in in Chile. >> That's That's amazing. People don't Don't you think it's amazing to watch the courage? To watch the courage of of uh stamping out into the void. I mean, how many of you could go, "Okay, I'm going to we're going to go produce something in Turkey. We're going to go to some of these sites, which by the way, I'm hoping that you'll be able to go to Pamukkale and wander around and get

Bitten in the mountains by Oh God. The vipers that they've got. Oh. Jesus. What a way to go. Now, listen. Uh we're sending you out there and I want to make sure that you get plenty of plenty of, you know, mental and support, all kinds of, you know, mental >> [sighs] >> hopefulness coming from the congregation because the congregation watches your work and follows it. And so now they've got a little bit of an insight into what's coming up and I hope that you'll be hitting

The sites where the Baptism of Purple first originated. I hope that you'll be hitting those and and I hope that Satanic congregation will be flying next to you in your Does anything If anything weird happens, you have to let me know, okay? Right is it >> [laughter] >> Do we have any requests from the congregation? Is there anything that you would like to ask Bruno while he is here telling us about the documentary that he is going to be working up in the new episode, Stones

And Servants. What's your plan, by the way, for the big What's the big picture? How many episodes? What are you looking at? >> Um you mean the the the the whole documentary project? >> Yeah, like how are you going to fold this in? >> [snorts] >> Okay. So

>> [Clears throat] >> this will be like a um a small crew here, obviously now than before. Um the plan is that the we are going to meet in Lesbos the whole team in October because um if somebody saw our trailer um you know that we were traveling with an artist musician slash uh magician and slash

The greatest driver of all times Duran. So he's living in Lesbos after we were in the uh doing the the whole recording last year he decided that he wanted to beat his island since his Maltese island and he went to be Greece now. He changed like something changed in him, I guess. And it's all related with the movie. And the thing is, I mean, not with the movie, I guess, with the whole experience we had in especially in some of the Greek islands over there. And he

Went to live in one of those islands, which uh is uh Lesbos. So, I'm not very far from him right now, and we decided to actually start from there when the whole team is already gathered. The whole team, I mean, um my brother, he's which is the director, Lucas, uh Nico, which is the co-director, um Martin, which is right here with me now, myself. Um we have two women that are working with us also, Turkish and Greece and Greek, I'm sorry. Um and all of us will be meeting in Lesbos in October. So, before that, my

Mission will be um to create a route that we will follow in Turkey. And in some islands of the of the western eastern, sorry, uh side of the Aegean, the part the Greek part and the Turkish part. And also top of the Black Sea. So, as I don't want to make any mistake now as I did last year, many of them. I mean, I I uh I'm a bad organizer sometimes. >> And I want to actually do a location In the same spirit, Bruno, I want to keep

In close touch with you. Anything that you need from me. Oh, God. I need to be right here so that we can talk and so that I can say, "Hey, you know, go here." I'm I mean, we have open communications. I've got a >> [snorts] >> I'm excited for this. I'm really excited for this. Satanic >> you so much. And you always you always have been there for us. I mean, when we were traveling last year, it was uh it was a big part of it, you know.

This the material of the actual movie. And I just want to say like um I've been meeting some some very nice people from the congregation has been writing to me on the Instagram and sometimes in YouTube. Just want to say thank you. And also to leave the the world because I was having actually a good conversation when I was in a plane the other day with well, I don't know if you Ariel is called in Instagram. And she told me about this place that I'm studying now about Lagina. And actually it was um

Very much near to a route that I was planning to do. So what I'm trying to say is like I would love for anybody that want to engage with us in real time um to do it. We we are going to be sharing everything that is going on in the in this um work that I'm doing the field work that I'm doing first. We are actually shooting the official YouTube footage. >> And Bruno And Bruno will probably get to Pergamum, right people? Which people, come on. If you're going to go over there if you're

Going to go over Anybody from Satanic Congregation, if you're even going to be in the neighborhood in the western in the eastern Mediterranean, jump in. Jump in. Go meet him. Right? Say hi. I'm so-and-so. Give Bruno a big hug. Do it Try to scare him. Do it in some scary way. You know what I mean? And and you know, I don't know. People, I think that that would be really that would be very museum-like. It'd be nerdy but in a cool way. And Bruno, I have extreme envy for what you're doing

And for having the guts to do it and to just go out there and get it done. So, um I I'm going to be right there for your consultant at any moment. Just kind of just you know, we got to work out something where you can just call me up. You know what I mean?

>> Yeah, I'm on I will be in touch. >> Okay, good. So, people Bruno will be in and out if you can think about him in your dreams. Send him some good inspiration. Bruno, uh uh stay safe. Stay safe, but be real, too. So, balance. Love it Love it. Oh, and by the way, people Bruno's a black. Don't forget Bruno's a black belt. So, um you you know, you can throw three of us maybe. Rush him from three different directions. Right? Try to take him down.

Practice the punk. Okay, I'm going to try to get Eunice into a fistfight sometime. People, um thank you for coming. Bruno, we'll see you. >> Thank you, I'm on. Thank Thanks everybody. Bye. >> Okay. You're welcome. God damn it. It's good to see you. Get him out of here.