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your normal band they can't possibly be from this planet yet they call Madison their home base
the earthlings are a music and arts collective known for their intergalactic blend of electronic
sonic rock psychedelic indian space rock whoa anchored by the set of twins and i don't mean
to Gemini the earthlings are set to the are set to land in Delavan Wisconsin for the contact
modality expo on May 2nd and UFO's consciousness universal love and composting are all on the
table for Madison's otherworldly band here with us tonight before liftoff is Elliott Gilphillian
of the earthlings Elliott welcome to maxing radio thank you rocker glad to be here oh my gosh
you know Elliott you we've known each other for a long time i'm going to tell a little story
because you know Elliott used to deliver maximum music magazines way back in the day right yeah
now normally a lot of the people they would they would deliver they would come pick up their papers
in a car right not Elliott no he came on a bike right yeah the trailer yeah and pick up the
sort of it all really throughout the winter yeah right yeah giant tires and it was it was
electric too so that would kind of help you right was it electric bike oh thanks oh no you were
100% yeah yeah i couldn't believe it that's Elliott and so there you go i just want to tell
that thank you so much thank you yeah i love we're calling that above and beyond yeah
delivering on Willie Street and just yeah it's a pleasure you know bringing bringing all the stuff
going on with music to the neighborhood you know it's so joyous joyous gig uh Elliott tell us
about your band the earthlings breaking out of the egg in 2012 what's the backstory the back story
was um we kind of had this circle of friends they had been doing music together and uh
Mount Horov and um con the area blue man's medicine and uh there'd been just like a few bands where
we we built up and we had a thing going a real you know following and a set and then people would
move off and uh then i just kind of started hanging out with my buddies uh Jerry and Austin and uh
and Luke and Chuckie and they were in a pop punk band called the last few yeah okay and so we were
just hanging and chilling and um you know just mulling about you know just enjoying each other's
company and music and uh you know Jerry wanted to like reboot this other band that had been the thing
and it's like oh you know i'm kind of tired of bands like you know they just fall apart and it's like
what's the point of building i just want to make some music you know i just want to dig in so we're
like let's make a band where theoretically it's just everybody in the world so there can never be a
show with people that show out because whoever's there in the band head well that makes sense that's
that's the music collective part then right yeah that's the spirit of it now it's all making sense
coming in just like a comment uh your your brothers in the band right yeah my brother Noah
talk about your brother and uh having your brother in the band and how that works yeah uh it's
it's amazing yeah he's uh he's such a lovely fella Noah right total whiz kid yeah Noah uh he's
amazing total um engineering and like synthesizer sound creation um he's really gonna got the mind
of the arranger and um he's been yeah total a fulcrum and uh a centerpiece the holds are being together
now brothers you're in the music what role did your parents play in your musical upper he
right yeah they they definitely encourage us to do music and we would sing in my dad would play
guitar and piano and uh you know and church the music was um part of the whole thing big part of it
of course and yeah i was encouraged to uh join uh the wish at band so i was pricing the load
yeah yeah multiple times a week yep just up there ripping it some delay on the 12 string
nice oh yeah they were always super encouraging and yeah i think they were all biggest fans uh basket
ET yeah uh running for president in in 2028 what's that all about well you know um i was really
hoping mom domin was gonna run right i love that guy um but i really respect uh that he's like
hey i'm in new york i got a job to do here yeah i got some momentum and he's not really in it to play
the game okay you know about it so i respect that it that was i mean it was pretty much holding out
for him uh and then when he said he wasn't running i just said you know i've thought about this
enough times um shit is bad enough stuff's bad enough out here that like you know if the alarm
bot the bell's on going off right now yeah you know we're gonna then they're never gonna go off
so i'm i'm just gonna go for it you know and just have a strong platform not trying to win
necessarily but i i think that the entire war and pro earth um agenda just needs to be put out
there i see for people to come around you know i feel like there's a lot of quarrels about
different little things but i think right now we just need a big aperture to like as humans
as people as creatures on this planet you know we need to find a way to get along because it's a
finite planet right just give up greed just give it up yeah it's scary it's hard to do it though you
know we got to ease people into you know we got to give them pies and you know make them comfortable
and you know make them feel secure you know because that greed is insecurity in a way right now
contact modality expio it's a weekend convention in delivant at the lake one resort they got speakers
and sessions on topics like consciousness telepathy UFO contact much more the theme this year is
harmonic ascension and the earthlings are the entertainment on Saturday night may second you
guys are perfect for this talk about contact modality expio and uh what breakout sections are
you going to attend um well yeah it was really a synchronicity thing uh i'll send it up there
just kind of stumbled across it uh last year with a friend and it was like oh my god did you go
yeah yeah i went last year just as a spectator oh okay participant yeah and uh yeah i was just
my heart was so open to my mind was so it invigorated inspired i've kind of um shied away from
ufology and um like sci fi conventions and the like okay uh just because like the experiences
i've had uh i corner taken seriously yeah so you know i was like you have all experience yeah yeah
so like when it's like i'm thinking about i was just real is this you know whatever you know
and and all the hoopla you know it's just kind of sad it gets my mind frazzled right
you're ahead in the past yeah um and i kind of just made a point last year that you know um i was
just going to open up a bit and not be so critical and analytical and just experience and hear
what people had to say you know and be there for it and you know it not all of it do i understand or
or or they have different degrees of what they're going to bring something from that line of inquiry
uh huh but i think um yeah at this point in time we need to have open lines of inquiry uh to allow
our experiences our unique experiences that we have to be expressed in a safe space without you
know um so confinality is that safe space and you can go all the same people with their varying
degrees of yeah of uh UFOs and consciousness yeah talk about consciousness i know that's an
an important oh yeah part of it all yeah i think consciousness is at the heart of you know
what's going on with the UFO phenomena um from my personal experiences um there's always been a
direct sense of connection and almost a sense of awareness from these beings uh that
the way it aligns with your thought process and the timing of thoughts that arise feelings that
arise and then this these subtle subtle ways that they show like we're we're in here you know
that we're not just on the on the screen as we see it in three dimensions that they're you know
and that consciousness is that thing that's outside of space in time you know we're we're we before
we were born where do we go after you know that those are good questions yeah yeah and it seems like
those yeah that's very much where this is all going yeah and you guys are playing Saturday night
mm-hmm like what's the what's the venue like down there so everybody kind of gets done with sessions
and you guys are the party yeah on me second yeah so yeah we're gonna be playing like in the ballroom
like the main hall mm-hmm and yeah just celebrating bringing everyone together rising the vibration
and then actually we're gonna be we're proceeding a sky watch with Chris Blitz so I don't know if
you're familiar with him at all no uh he wrote this book called UFO of God and um he's got amazing
story it's it's so intense it's so wild but um his story is so heartfelt and yeah when I met him
last year you know you kind of get an intuitive energetic sense of where someone's at and you
can tell that really like it's this universal love that um he's got this connection with these
beings um and readily you know has experiences with them um so yeah we're gonna go out there together
with the intention of your universal peace in contact as ambassadors of earth uh to these entities
and you know maybe they'll come in and say hey who knows we'll be talking about composting too
I don't stop I mean it's it's a subtext to everything you're you're a big composter here
in Madison um talk about that for just a few seconds yeah um I kind of got to a point you know
a few years ago in the f-35s were coming in um I got really active in uh you know the anti-war
movement and uh into attending you know these different talks and stuff and educating myself on
all of it and really got bogged down and I you know um just found these blocked doors where I
you know be making these inquiries and got this real sense of just there's not a communication going
and uh you know there's a lot of burnout in that in that line of work you know because there's so much
put into it so much money that's you know to keep in the war machine going and keeping people you
know in line about that and uh I kind of just hit my it was just like bang on my head on the wall
and uh you know I had seen a number of UFOs up to that point and had kind of gotten this and then
looking into it you know you realize okay if they really wanted to do something you know they would
you know um but they're trying to more subtly move us along but I was at that point
had a sense of guys what the heck what's going on like I'm going out here doing c5s like
asking you to come down and explain it or whatever and you know it's just kind of like come on guys
what what's going on here but while you're letting this go on like this you know like you're looking
at god like come on how could you let all this horrible shit get uh you have all the power in the
world you know um and so I just was at a moment of defeat really and I was walking through the garden
and I walked past this uh this plant and I looked over at it and I had this just kind of like clear
thought that was just kind of came right to the fore that was like oh if you want to understand
what it is that what we are then understand how that plant perceives you and what that relationship is
wow yeah and there you go and you got in the composting yeah well hey that's all the time we
got tonight for you guys but how do we keep up with the earthlings online do you have a website uh
yeah we have uh an instagram uh in a facebook and uh a band camp with uh with all of our
attracts on it that you can download it for name your price Elliott thank you so much for stopping
in the studio tonight to chat about the earthlings your performance coming in up at contact
modality expio next weekend we really appreciate it uh let's check out one more we have one more
song from these guys color world color world and this is uh uh well actually it's a couple of
years old it's with pink halo it's a collaboration let's check it out this is color world with
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