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Blink 182 front man’s UFO project $37 million in debt

caffeware

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In other words, the evil government is covering all kinds of mysterious alien stuff up for its own nefarious purposes. And interested personages were invited to help the good guys. For a few hundred bucks, people could get a piece of an "A+ investment offering" from To the Stars, to assist its efforts to pull back the veil from the government cover-up and bring brilliant new technologies—such as beamed energy propulsion—into public view.

Put another way, after a year of fundraising, Tom DeLonge's alien conspiracy business is $37.4 million in debt. The financial filing states that To the Stars intends to remain in business over the next 12 months by selling additional stock. Their website says they accept credit cards, if you're so inclined to help keep the effort afloat. Bear in mind that any financial returns may be beyond the reach of even The Phenomenon, given the company's existing debt.

https://www.arstechnica.com/science...nt-mans-ufo-project-37-million-in-debt/?amp=1
 

old

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The company has racked up a $37.4 million deficit, however, largely from a stock incentive plan for its employees.

Huh? I don’t understand what that means.
 
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TFGB

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Tom DeLonge$....what a joke.

George Knapp lost all credibility after backing this idiot.
 
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Kenpachii

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Huh? I don’t understand what that means.

Probably paid them in stock, which is worth x amount to help them spend more time and effort into the business.

Basically a lot of money that never existed. But labor probably did to some extent.

That's what i get out of it. How this raked up to 37m i have no clue.
 
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Mr Nash

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I remember seeing him on Joe Rogan's podcast once. Rogan's patience for his nuttiness was impressive.
 

Akuza89

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To be fair I knew something was off when he left blink 182 again... when they had just reformed...

He’s always been a weirdo Tom...
 

Ichabod

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Not surprising. I listened to his interview on the JRE and he sounded like a total snake oil salesman.
 

TrainedRage

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Here is DeLonge on Joe Rogan. He.... uh.... I mean call Roseanne a crazy all you want but this guy is on another level.

 
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Greedings

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I think...DeLonge actually believes what he’s selling/saying. He seems really in to it and not just trying to make money. He could just release an awful blink-182 album and make plenty.
 

TFGB

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I see they’ve finally created a padded out webpage/blog and removed all the ‘invest now’ buttons that were on the previous iteration.

It’s no different to a cult/religion.
 
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Airola

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It's funny though how people have forgotten all those government videos released (in part due to this) that clearly show UFOs.

The most memorable of which was this

Video shows apparent encounter between Navy pilot and UFO

But there were others.

Sure, UFOs are definitely real in the sense that whenever an object is flying and is unindentified it's a UFO. As long as they are just UFOs no-one can say anything about if they are of alien origin or not. The most likely scenario is they aren't. So far there haven't been any videos where we have actually been able to see what the object is. It's always just a dot or a light moving. The dots and lights people call UFOs as in alien origin UFOs are thought of alien origin UFOs only because they are so far away and so hard to identify or even see what it looks like. There are no pictures or video of an object that has landed or that is, say, at an altitude where airplanes can be identified. Every "alien outer space origin" UFO seems to be just far enough that we can say, yup, that's an unindentified flying object because we can't really see anything of it.
 
Here is DeLonge on Joe Rogan. He.... uh.... I mean call Roseanne a crazy all you want but this guy is on another level.



is there is one thing about joe rogan is good lord the guy cant go along with being funny. like i know he will go down as the most unfunny comedian that has ever lived but this mother fucker can not and i mean CAN NOT go along with something . what i mean is like he cant even go along with someones bullshit and make jokes and make it hilarious. this sour puss of a man is so fucking unfunny he cant bring like a shining comedic light on a funny situation and instead makes it drab and boring. i hate joe rogan and i want him to be eaten by a swarm of locusts that unfunny sack of shit. this stupid bald mother fucker also has made other unfunny people popular. he is nothing but a ball of just unfunny
 

Cybrwzrd

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Sure, UFOs are definitely real in the sense that whenever an object is flying and is unindentified it's a UFO. As long as they are just UFOs no-one can say anything about if they are of alien origin or not. The most likely scenario is they aren't. So far there haven't been any videos where we have actually been able to see what the object is. It's always just a dot or a light moving. The dots and lights people call UFOs as in alien origin UFOs are thought of alien origin UFOs only because they are so far away and so hard to identify or even see what it looks like. There are no pictures or video of an object that has landed or that is, say, at an altitude where airplanes can be identified. Every "alien outer space origin" UFO seems to be just far enough that we can say, yup, that's an unindentified flying object because we can't really see anything of it.

Exactly. We live in a world of cell phones filming 24/7 these days, yet somehow there seem to be less UFO sighting videos these days than there were back during the camcorder days of home video.
 

Rest

All these years later I still chuckle at what a fucking moron that guy is.
Here is DeLonge on Joe Rogan. He.... uh.... I mean call Roseanne a crazy all you want but this guy is on another level.


12 minutes in and he hasn't said a damn thing. The strangest thing is he doesn't come across as a nut in his mannerisms, you wouldn't know he's a lunatic until you start listening to him talk in circles without saying anything.
 

Dark Star

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i think tom has good intentions / faith in his project
he's just not smart enough to articulate the actual "evidence" or science behind the process.

seems like he's blindly being used as a posterboy/image by people higher up in this project.
sad, given the fact the funding is probably fully on the back of tom being the face of it all.
 
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TFGB

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Tom’s at the helm in this...he’s not being used by anybody.

I was already aware that he would be using everyone’s ‘investments’ to pay himself $100,000 a year, every year...so basically he’s asking for ‘donations’ to fund his life, and some people fell for it. (Just like any other cult/religion)

I wasn’t aware, however, that more of the investments that the naive are giving him, will be used to pay back a loan that he made to TTS from a company he already owns....$600,000 in fact.

There’s also this little stipulation in the small print:

“If the offering size were to be less than $5 million and above the $1 million minimum, TTS AAS would adjust its use of proceeds by reducing planned growth of employee headcount, reducing operational costs, and slowing down projects or not making investment in projects. The company is also required under the loan to Our Two Dogs, Inc. to repay 10% of the net proceeds from funds raised in this offering, up to $400,000 in this scenario.”

More info here.
 

Catphish

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is there is one thing about joe rogan is good lord the guy cant go along with being funny. like i know he will go down as the most unfunny comedian that has ever lived but this mother fucker can not and i mean CAN NOT go along with something . what i mean is like he cant even go along with someones bullshit and make jokes and make it hilarious. this sour puss of a man is so fucking unfunny he cant bring like a shining comedic light on a funny situation and instead makes it drab and boring. i hate joe rogan and i want him to be eaten by a swarm of locusts that unfunny sack of shit. this stupid bald mother fucker also has made other unfunny people popular. he is nothing but a ball of just unfunny
His new Netflix special is pretty fucking funny. 👍
 
I remember seeing him on Joe Rogan's podcast once. Rogan's patience for his nuttiness was impressive.

He says the powers at be confide in him because he has 'a service' that he can provide, implying that no one else in pop culture (or the world at large I guess) is fit to. Absolute nut job
 
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12 minutes in and he hasn't said a damn thing. The strangest thing is he doesn't come across as a nut in his mannerisms, you wouldn't know he's a lunatic until you start listening to him talk in circles without saying anything.

Read his AMA on AboveTopSecret where he promised for ages to reveal actual concrete information and didn't offer up a single shred. Such a shill
 
I think...DeLonge actually believes what he’s selling/saying. He seems really in to it and not just trying to make money. He could just release an awful blink-182 album and make plenty.

He blatantly says he's in to make money. He has a book deal, I think a movie deal and all sorts of other business interests trading off of 'there's definitely Aliens breh I've seen them! Buy my stuff!'
 
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Greedings

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He blatantly says he's in to make money. He has a book deal, I think a movie deal and all sorts of other business interests trading off of 'there's definitely Aliens breh I've seen them! Buy my stuff!'

You’re right. I read more about it since this thread. He hoodwinked me. Fortunately I’m not an idiot but I still believed he was genuine.
 
You’re right. I read more about it since this thread. He hoodwinked me. Fortunately I’m not an idiot but I still believed he was genuine.

I did initially too because I loved the band and he seemed like a chill guy with a sincere passion for Extraterrestrial Life. But as you say, do a little digging and you quickly realise he's using his fame to play you and it's not a passion to him, it's a business first and foremost
 
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TFGB

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I'd never heard of Joe Rogan as I'm not into the whole YouTube culture, but I stumbled upon him while researching Tom DeLonge's claims a while back. He had a guest on called Mick West and they were discussing Tom shortly after his appearance on Joe's show.

Joe described Tom as " a combination of deceptive and delusional" and I have to agree. Watch it here from 2:12:30 onwards. (they do continue discussing Tom for a while after the water bottle/Indiegogo topic)

 

DeepEnigma

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They could have given me half that, and I would have saved them the other half by saying, "you are wasting your time."
 

NickFire

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Who the hell would loan him 37 million dollars? lmfao...
There's always a sucker it seems. Poor state of RI lent Curt Shilling butt loads of money. Even as a Sox fan who loved what he did in 04, I fully expected that to backfire like it did. Winning a world series does not mean you are a great video game businessman and creator. Apparently singing songs does not mean you are a great whatever this guy actually does. Who woulda thought?
 

oagboghi2

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is there is one thing about joe rogan is good lord the guy cant go along with being funny. like i know he will go down as the most unfunny comedian that has ever lived but this mother fucker can not and i mean CAN NOT go along with something . what i mean is like he cant even go along with someones bullshit and make jokes and make it hilarious. this sour puss of a man is so fucking unfunny he cant bring like a shining comedic light on a funny situation and instead makes it drab and boring. i hate joe rogan and i want him to be eaten by a swarm of locusts that unfunny sack of shit. this stupid bald mother fucker also has made other unfunny people popular. he is nothing but a ball of just unfunny
Wtf is this?
 
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