Jul 14, 2026 · 1 hr 7 min · 14 segments
Long before Oak Ridge, Tennessee became the home of the Manhattan Project, John Hendrix reportedly described a city filled with great buildings, factories, and thousands of workers. Was it an…
Tom FranklinHostI mean, the, the whole point, and this is where, where it's going to s- kind of start showing a difference in the branding, uh, as far as the way I go about doing things, is I...
I would, I'll, I'll be modest and say 50% of the stuff that you hear about Oak Ridge is, uh, speculation and garbage.
Um, the, there's very little evidence at this point to any of the base- baseless accusations about Oak Ridge.
And some of it will never be known because, quite frankly, Oak Ridge is actively part of our national security even now.
Could you give me a little bit of background on it? 'Cause I, I'm somebody who's not...
Could you g- give us or the listeners who don't know what it is that you're referring to a bit of, um, you know, a bit of a, uh, how would you say, like a biography piece on what Oak Ridge actually is and w- maybe, I mean, we don't know everything there, but what is known by the public as to what happens there?
And because of, of its location and some other things, um, the government went in and they, they acquired the land.
It was pr- it was all predicted very accurately, uh, which is part of the, the first, uh, installment that I'm working on right now.
... on John Hendrix, the prophet of, of, um, the prophet of, of Oak Ridge.
I mean, the, the whole point, and this is where, where it's going to s- kind of start showing a difference in the branding, uh, as far as the way I go about doing things, is I...
I would, I'll, I'll be modest and say 50% of the stuff that you hear about Oak Ridge is, uh, speculation and garbage.
Um, the, there's very little evidence at this point to any of the base- baseless accusations about Oak Ridge.
And some of it will never be known because, quite frankly, Oak Ridge is actively part of our national security even now.
Could you give me a little bit of background on it? 'Cause I, I'm somebody who's not...
Could you g- give us or the listeners who don't know what it is that you're referring to a bit of, um, you know, a bit of a, uh, how would you say, like a biography piece on what Oak Ridge actually is and w- maybe, I mean, we don't know everything there, but what is known by the public as to what happens there?
And because of, of its location and some other things, um, the government went in and they, they acquired the land.
It was pr- it was all predicted very accurately, uh, which is part of the, the first, uh, installment that I'm working on right now.
... on John Hendrix, the prophet of, of, um, the prophet of, of Oak Ridge.
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