August 28, 2025 • 47 mins
Phlounder responds to Ben's earlier point about Friday news stories. A friendly Chef also named Ben prompts a conversation between Matt and Noel about tricorders. Dan B answers questions about Mango the Parrot with, first-hand experience from Blackpool. Also Cryptid Hunters. All this and more in this week's listener mail segment.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:25):
Hello, welcome back to the show. My name is Matt,
my name is Noel.
Speaker 3 (00:29):
They called me Ben.
Speaker 4 (00:30):
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the evening. This publishes Welcome to August twenty eighth, twenty
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twenty five, August flew by. I can't believe it, guys,
it's almost over. I'm gonna miss Yeah.
Speaker 2 (00:57):
Finally let's get out of it joint. It's going to
be nice and cool soon.
Speaker 4 (01:03):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (01:03):
Fall is on the way. Yeah, we already got our
first like fake out fall, which Atlanta as notorious for.
But hopefully the next one sticks around.
Speaker 4 (01:12):
Hope springs eternal, right, and we always end our program
hoping that you will join the show, fellow conspiracy realist,
and luckily everyone follows through with this.
Speaker 3 (01:26):
We love it.
Speaker 4 (01:27):
If you just email us for a random factor. If
you give us a call with something on your mind.
A lot of this will inspire episodes in the future.
So we're going to hear about cryptid Hunters. We got
a real life update on Mango, the drug pusting parrot
from earlier. But before we do any of that, what
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We are jumping to the phone lines immediately today, guys,
we've got some great stuff. The first message is from
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our old pal Chef Ben. For anybody else listening that
isn't Chef Ben. I know we're getting a lot of
Chef Ben, but congratulations to you. Chef Ben. You've been
calling in a lot with some great stuff, including today's
family story that's tangentially related to a discussion we had
on the show. So let's listen to Chef Ben's story here.
Speaker 5 (03:44):
Good morning, fellows, Chef Ben in Chicago. That's always feel
free to use this on your show. You were talking
about people losing the ability to do stuff analog because
of cell phones and susion. You brought up back to instrument.
My dad at the chemist for Tis, but he was
a chemist for now chemical for years, and then he
(04:05):
went and taught high school chemistry, and then he invented
a thing in conjunction with TI that he is essentially
a chemistry lab diagnostic tool. So what it does called
the lab Quest. Now, what it does is, rather than
running an experiment and using a thermometer or voltimeter or
(04:25):
one of these other litmus paper that kind of thing,
and recording your result of the experiment, this device, which
originally connected directly and physically to a TIA two or
a TIAD three, had a series of chrobes on it.
It would take those measurements for you. So as a student, yes,
you're still learning how to do the experiment, how to
run the experiment with the I set, an Erlinmeyer flat
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and all of that kind of stuff, what those things are.
You can still run an experiment. What the lab Quest
does is it just records the data for you and
gives you a lot more options. It's streamlined. It gives
you a lot more options for collating that data and
stuff like that. Now, the joke always was even before
my dad developed this technology with TI and then with
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the company who took it over and manufactured it and
sort of moved it away from TI and they have
their own software. Now, whatever the joke was that he
was doing step one towards the Star Trek tricorder. Ideally
you would have a completely probe free device that would
remotely take these sensor readings. We're not there yet. My
(05:31):
dad's been working for this company with this device and
the series of devices for twenty two years now. I
want to say, not quite there yet. However, if slash,
when we arrive at a position in our technological development
where we have a Star Trek tricorder, I want it
recorded right now. My dad is the one who started
(05:52):
that full ball over. Thank you so much. It's good
to have you in the car with me.
Speaker 4 (05:57):
Take care awesome, I love that side off.
Speaker 3 (06:00):
Good to be in your car man.
Speaker 2 (06:02):
Yeah, oh, thank you Chef Ben for that message. Dude,
your dad invented a dang tricorder.
Speaker 3 (06:10):
What up?
Speaker 2 (06:11):
You don't get to say that very often. Come on, guys,
let's give it up. What should we call Chef Ben's dad,
father of Ben, father of Chef.
Speaker 3 (06:23):
Master, chef, senior, chef, I don't know, fortunate.
Speaker 2 (06:27):
Chef Ben, daddy. I like that. Let's go with that,
Chef Ben Daddy. Good job, buddy, he invented this thing
called lab quest, and you guys, I just put a
link in the chat so we can look at it,
the original one and how it would actually connect up
to one of these TI Well it it's not this
original one. It's very similar to this one because this
is when the company Vernier, I suppose, purchased the technology
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from Texas Instruments. But very cool looking. It's just gotten
up down left right, okay, back menu and probably initiate
and whatever. That other button is pretty simple stuff, but dang,
it's cool. The idea that you could connect one device
up to a bunch of other sensor devices and then
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get all that data even as a student, right just
in a classroom setting, makes me very very happy. It
also took me down a little bit of a tricorder thing,
you guys. You can look up right now on the
website the Wandcompany dot com their tricorder.
Speaker 3 (07:29):
And uh, this is a Star Trek thing.
Speaker 2 (07:34):
This is a Star Trek thing.
Speaker 3 (07:35):
So this is like get share for the non initiator
out there. I didn't know. I had to google it
real quick.
Speaker 2 (07:39):
Oh I'm sorry, I'm sorry. Tricorder is the thing that
you would see in Star Trek a device. It's a
medical device. I suppose that often the medical personnel, the
person who is on the away team, right going down
to another planet or going over to another spaceship or something,
they would pull this thing out and get sensor readings
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every possible thing you could imagine, right the are there
oxygen levels here?
Speaker 3 (08:06):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (08:06):
Is there radioactivity over there? Oh what's wrong with that person?
Oh let's scan you know, their vital functions. We could
do it all with our tricorder. But the one I
just put in there is like the original one from
the original Star Trek series, which is kind of fun.
It looks almost like it would be a what does
that look like to you?
Speaker 3 (08:24):
Get GPS? Sort of like a handheld GPS kind of thing.
Speaker 2 (08:28):
Well, that's what the next generation. Okay, now you guys
correct me if I'm wrong. I'm I think I thought
it was the next generation folks who had the one
that you're talking about.
Speaker 3 (08:38):
Sorry, I was looking at the original link that you said.
This looks like a like a adding machine or something.
I don't know exactly how to describe it, like a
weird old timey camera or something.
Speaker 2 (08:50):
Yes, yeah, it's got that leather case you know it
feels like, oh uh huh, but that's the way it
was envisioned the first time around with Star Trek, and
then by the time we got to the next generation,
it's that kind of fold open looking thing. And sorry
to talk about tricorder so much. Yaw, somebody is just
either turning this off or are rolling their eyes so hard.
(09:13):
There's the other one that a company called Factory Entertainment
created as like a toy tricorderh but it just shows
you all the different things and readings you could get
with it. And we've talked in the past about the
kind of advanced technology that's been rumored that, you know,
ultra wealthy people have those beds, those med beds that
(09:35):
could fix you, like the ones out of what is
that movie we I always forget up in what is
the name of the place where they lived all the
rich people and everybody's down there?
Speaker 4 (09:46):
Oh oh and yes, where Matt Damon's in it.
Speaker 2 (09:51):
Yep, yep, yeah, yep, South Afric title.
Speaker 4 (09:57):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, it's something It's gonna kill. It's from
the guy who made District nine. Right.
Speaker 2 (10:02):
Yes, my head keeps saying Eternium, that's right.
Speaker 3 (10:06):
So you're so close. If it's not that, it's damn close,
it's clous.
Speaker 4 (10:11):
No, we're stopped, guys, were stopping everything.
Speaker 3 (10:14):
It's elysium alium. What is that? Is an elysium like
the Roman paradise kind of or that's the Alysian fields.
Speaker 2 (10:24):
Oh yeah, I think so. Oh yeah, I know we've
talked about all these things at length in previous episodes.
Just put pointing it out there to imagine that if
you could design something like this at the time when
Texas Instruments, you know, who knows how many probably several
decades ago, was really getting that TI eighty two eighty
three series off the ground, and then you felt something
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like this, just imagining what it could be like now, right,
And uh, one last link of putting in the chat guys,
this is the same company that now has taken over
the lab Quest situation that father of Chef Ben created.
This is the lab Quest three. It runs about four
hundred dollars. It now is a micro USB cable that
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I suppose you could plug into any old other computer
or other machine and then on the bottom of it
you could kind of see I don't know exactly what
they would call all of these inputs here but it
looks like inputs for five or more different devices that
you'd be able to plug into that have sensors, right,
or something that's collecting collecting information then sending the information
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to this data collector.
Speaker 3 (11:31):
It's pretty interesting how far technology like this has come.
I recently bought this like body scanner scale where it
connects to an app on your phone and you stand
on it and you hold this like sensor that's attached
to like a retractable cable, and you hold your arms
out and then it does a full scan of like
all of your water content, your bone density, the mus
(11:53):
subcutaneous fats, visceral fats, like skeletal mass, lean mass, all
this stuff. And it's pretty accurate from what I understand,
And it's just I don't know, I was just looking
for some more metrics. But it's pretty neat. It's this
company called a Hume, but it's very affordable. It's just surprising, how,
you know, these types of things that maybe in the
past where relegated to science labs, are much more you know,
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available than to the consumer.
Speaker 2 (12:18):
Now. That is an awesome piece of equipment you've got there.
I don't know enough about it, but that sounds amazing.
Can we run a test at some point where the
next time you go and get a physical or something like,
get all that data and then test out what that
thing is reading like the day of you know, so
you're like, Okay, how accurate is this thing? Because that
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sounds incredible.
Speaker 3 (12:40):
Yeah, And like I said, at the very least, it
gives you some benchmarks, even if it's not like one
hundred percent accurate, but all the reviews are pretty good
and it does seem to compare with some of the
really high end lab type results. So yeah, I will
definitely do that and let you guys.
Speaker 2 (12:51):
That's that's stinking awesome. Lastly, on the track orders, guys,
on that Factory Entertainment tricorder you can buy it for
eight hundred dollars plus shipping.
Speaker 3 (13:04):
Wow. Yeah that's the replica, right, Yeah, really cool. Yeah,
it's cool looking. It's got a screen and everything. I
was actually thinking, you know, how the original lightsaber was
made from like an old camera flash bulb or housing
for a camera flash. When I was looking at this
to your point, Matt, I was like, this looks familiar,
like it's made of some object that we're aware of.
(13:26):
Apparently completely custom made, but some of the buttons on
it were like from automotive type of buttons that could be,
but it was custom built housing and you know, plastic
sort of situation. That's so neat.
Speaker 2 (13:39):
I love this stuff. I just want a real one, guys.
I want to be doctor Beverly Crusher. It's what I've
always wanted to be, is what I've always said.
Speaker 3 (13:46):
I want a pit boy and go for portable scanner devices.
That's what I want. Super Stoked about Fallout season two.
By the way, they're finally heading to New Vegas in
this one, y'all.
Speaker 2 (13:56):
Oh snap, that's exciting. Oh my gosh. Well, guys, I
had another message here from Flounder I wanted to put
out there, but I think we might save that for
Strange News at least our discussion of it. Let's why
don't we play the message from Flounder and then just everybody,
you should be aware we're going to talk about what
(14:17):
Flounder is saying on the next Strange News episode because
it's going to be like linked up with that directly.
Speaker 7 (14:23):
So here we go, gentlemen, this is Flounder with a pH.
I'm not sure if it was on your shoe or
someone else. But someone once said that interesting news stories
that people don't really want the public talking about are
often released on a Friday afternoon. Well, Friday, August twenty seconds,
it seemed to happen the Maxwell Gislaine Maxwell transcript was released,
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and so that's my conspiracy number one. Conspiracy number two
is I'm really having a game theory mind melt right
now with her comments. It seems to me that she's
denying everything, which calls into question whether everything actually is true.
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But the one that really caught me was Prince Andrew
stating that Prince Andrew definitely didn't do this stuff. It
seems like Prince Andrew was one of them that it's
a given what he was doing. So when she says
Prince Andrew didn't do it, then I question the Clinton
comment and the Trump comment and everything else. Anyway, feel
(15:32):
free to use this on air if you like, but
it's kind of long winded. Anyways, Thanks guys, appreciate what
you do.
Speaker 3 (15:39):
I think they all did it. I'm sorry, I don't
believe a word any of these people say.
Speaker 2 (15:45):
Well, that's the really tough thing here, right, because we're
theoretically going to her as someone who does know what happened, right,
But the way that she was approached, the people that
approached her, under the pretext and context that she was approached,
how can you trust that what she's saying is real?
(16:07):
Is the actual thing? Why you don't pay somebody to
give you an interview, right, if you're a journalist or something,
you don't pay anybody to give you an interview. That
way you can trust that what they're saying is not
going to be manipulated by a gift or by you know,
being moved to a new facility or something that we
talked about previously, Ben, I think you brought that up
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in chapter two of the e Fscene update. This is
all you know related here. We were kind of waiting
for this to come out and to see these transcripts
and see if there was anything there, And it appears
somebody at least wants us to know and believe that
absolutely nothing happened. Nothing happened. I'm waving my hands at
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the camera to Jedi mind trick us all for.
Speaker 3 (16:52):
Sure, he did it? Yeah, Joys you're looking for.
Speaker 2 (16:56):
Yeah, Well, again, we're not going to go into the
specifics of that transcript and what was said, maybe until later,
perhaps next week, but we will get into it. Don't worry,
we will. For now, we're gonna say thank you, Chef Ben,
Chef Ben's father and flounder, and we'll be right back
with more messages from you.
Speaker 3 (17:18):
All right, And we've returned with a couple of fun
messages from you, Yes, you a couple of them. Actually,
let's start with one from Danny. Hi, Matt nole Ben.
My name is Danny, So. I used to work at
this warehouse that sold these things called stoveguards. A guard
(17:39):
for your stove love A good descriptive name, basically to
keep your stove top clean. I need one of those.
I'm just now remembering an order slip I had taken
a picture of, and the address listed was for the
Cryptid Hunters of North America. I had no idea such
a place existed. And why are they ordering a stoveguard?
Why wouldn't they? It seems like a great DIVI are
(18:00):
they so busy hunting cryptives? They have a kitchen for breaks?
Speaker 7 (18:04):
Sure?
Speaker 3 (18:04):
Why not? HQ needs a little breakroom. I'm attaching a
photo of the order slip. Also, I don't want to
do Scryptid Hunters of North America but yeah, I was
eventually laid off from Stoveguard because, not surprisingly, not a
lot of people are buying these things, because I mean,
you can just clean your freaking stovetop. Lol. Anyway, I
just wanted to share this with you because I thought
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it was funny. I collect a lot of funny names
of roads and cities on these order slips, which I
probably wasn't allowed to do. HEIDK. I love your show
so much, and I also listened to Ridiculous History. Thank
you so very much, Danny. Let's see it was what's
a cursory Google of Cryptid Hunters of North America? Yield,
(18:48):
Let's see. Okay, they do have a Facebook, they are
in LLC. Apparently don't have a dot com.
Speaker 2 (18:58):
I found a member on x that goes by Frosty Dragon,
but the screen name, according to the search here is
Horny Frosty smh okay.
Speaker 3 (19:09):
And the Facebook page is not available right now. Please
excuse our progress got the little guy with the wrench,
so it does not appear that Cryptid Hunters of North
America is particularly active, but it's good time. I just
thought it was a silly, funny email, Suri, so thank
you for that. I will move on to a slightly
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more serious topic, but also with sid lightheartedness to it.
This one comes from his Holy Hams, he demands it. Apparently,
that's how the email concludes. So let's jump right in.
This is regarding the hype around the asteroid that will
arrive in November three I Atlas, and how this is
(19:53):
drastically affecting the fringe communities, the TikTok conspiracy theorists.
Speaker 2 (19:58):
I don't want to stop you right there. It is
either a comet or an alien spaceship. Okay, those are
the only two options.
Speaker 3 (20:06):
Okay, So do you feel very strongly about this matter?
And I respect that. In fact, I love it. I
love the passion. One set is concerned that it is
filled with aliens on their way to harvest the monotomic
gold monotomic, gold monotomic. That's the word gold inside each
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human didn't know about that. I am convinced this is
slang for semen. Okay, that is our precious bodily fluids,
if anyone has seen Doctor Strangelove. But hey, this only
got worse when the asteroid vented water, letting us know
that not only were they aliens, but they were squid
based aliens who intend to rescue their squid brethren from
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the ocean and make elithid like hybrids when they arrive.
In other words, this as far as I got in
the game. By the way, it's bad ass. The opening
to Balder's Gate three is now a documentary, The Little Eyeworms.
Did you play Balder'sgate three?
Speaker 6 (21:06):
Guys?
Speaker 2 (21:06):
No, I did not, but somebody, yeah, Ben, you've played
it several times.
Speaker 5 (21:11):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (21:12):
Yeah, it's a it's a replayable game, and if you're
you don't have to know dungeons and dragons or be
very experienced with it to have a blast, but if
you do, there are a ton of Easter eggs there.
So yeah, very very much worth it. It's a it's
a game that you can you can do a million things.
Speaker 3 (21:29):
In I started it, got through the first cut scene
that's talking they're talking about hair, which is where this
like lovecrafty and kind of squid, you know, cuthulhu esque
demon deploys these like little eyeworms into the into our
heroes or our protagonists. I don't know. I'm I think
I need to play it on PC or on a
bigger screen because it does get a little small it's
(21:49):
like top down in the text. It's kind of small,
and I was having a little hard time following, but
I'm really excited to give it another shot. It's come
highly recommended. Also, uh uh, Clare Obscure Expedition thirty three
kind of pulled me away, so time to give it
another go.
Speaker 4 (22:03):
I do have to give a PSA to all our
fellow conspiracy realist gamers in the crowd, especially if you
game with your family and your kiddos and your loved ones,
please be aware. Boulders Gate three is a phenomenal game.
It is also an extremely horny game. Yes, you're super
duper horny, like you're hearing me now, folks, but it
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goes past what I sound like.
Speaker 3 (22:29):
I'm saying. You believe this man when he says the game.
Speaker 2 (22:33):
Is now we know why you've played it so much better,
just to try to feel something fair.
Speaker 3 (22:41):
Horniness is a feeling. It counts. His Holy Hams continues.
On the opposite side, there is a cab. I love
how His Holy Hams just expresses all this this fact,
but I appreciate the wording. I think it's fun. On
the opposite side, there is a cabal of believers who
state that this can't be aliens because space is indeed
water and nothing can survive in the depths of the
(23:05):
Star Ocean. Do y'all know about the Star Ocean? Is
this a New Friends.
Speaker 2 (23:11):
Another game series?
Speaker 3 (23:13):
Well, it sounds it'd be a great one. Yeah, right.
Speaker 4 (23:20):
Also, just the phrase sounds like a poetic license, you know,
like referring to deep space as the ink, like.
Speaker 3 (23:27):
Sailing you know, through outer space, the idea like what
is it solar sales and all of that kind of stuff. Yeah,
what Star Ocean? The game, Matt, I don't know about
this one? Was this old?
Speaker 2 (23:37):
I want to say it's a JRPG that's been around
for a long time. Well, it's a great name made
several of them check it out.
Speaker 3 (23:47):
Going on. They believe these would be demons and devils
trying to break open the firmament in the same way
that Venus and Mercury are also maliciously trying to do
so because they are fallen angels and planets aren't real. Okay, um, nope,
moving on. I wish I were making this up. It
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sounds like a great sci fi fantasy novel series. Boy
does it. Ever? My question after all of this is
where do we go wrong? Clearly, this is a reflection
of the nature of our social media world, where all
opinions are truth and valid. If you are trying to
interject reality, you are merely conspiring against the naked God
who sits upon the firmament with his holy hands pressed
(24:30):
against the glass in love, which is why they call
it the moon. This is some satirical right here. It's
got a bit I just I love the wording, I
love the turn of phrase, and the idea of his
holy hands pressed against the glass being the moon. I
liken this vision to the pin up painted on the
Inola Gay. But as a wizened old man with a
(24:51):
flowing beard and open robes sitting on top of a
glass dome makes for an entertaining, if not blasphemous visual,
I am nothing without him, as Bmth once saying, I
heard it from a few of these individuals. I followed
science and logic, but as soon as I realized that
God cannot exist in this type of world, I rejected
it and started discovering the truth. Another said, if God
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isn't real, and we are simply spinning on a ball
in the middle of a vast empty space, then that
is cruelty to its extreme, and I couldn't live with
that concept. What I understand is mostly marketing from these
influencers to keep their fan bases rabbit. It also means
that people take their thoughts as gospel. And while I'm
pretty sure I'd be stoked to have elithid masters implant
a squid larvae in my brain so I can become
(25:38):
a part of the hive mind, I know it isn't
going to happen. Perhaps the Emperor of mankind was correct
in his ways. This is merely observational entertainment purposes only.
Of course, Now, if you excuse me, I must attend
Mass for his holy right ass cheek alrighty gets cranky
if you don't recognize him with twenty plus minutes of
(25:59):
reverend as prayers. Thus baton Eton spoke, and thus he
did release the observers to share any of these missives
to the masses, so to they may be saved or
at least giggle with this quaint nose sniff that passes
for amusement. Have an astastic day. His holy hams demand
it is.
Speaker 2 (26:21):
This Baron Eaton. We know Baron Eton.
Speaker 3 (26:24):
Yeah, sorry, I thought the sign off was his Holy Hams,
and I think I mistook that, but yes, that is correct.
This is this is baron eton ah bar Pretty cool stuff.
For all this silliness, I don't really have much to add.
I just thought it was a romp.
Speaker 2 (26:40):
You know, Well I got something to add.
Speaker 3 (26:43):
Give it to us.
Speaker 2 (26:44):
We've been we've been following along this whole three eye
Atlass thing for a while now, and we've got three
pretty awesome observations of it thus far in the James
Webb telescope that ben you have been to before it
went up into space, which is awesome. That thing recently
(27:05):
took a look at it, and there's something published in
Space three hours ago as we record, and it is
talking about the chemical makeup that was discovered to be
in there. Really interesting. It's got all the things that
you'd expect a comet to have, primarily water, which is interesting, water, ice,
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carbon dioxide, carbon monoxide, and the stuff called carbonyl sulfide,
which is, as space puts it, smelly. The cool thing
about this comet as that it's the highest ratio of
carbon dioxide to water that's ever been observed in any
comet that Earth based dwellings have seen. Which makes it different, right,
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doesn't make it aliens, but it sure makes it different.
And if we head over to Harvard and check out
what you know, our professor has to say, who's been
talking about, there's a whole bunch. He's lowering his chances
that this thing is actually extraterrestrial intelligence, but he is
noting that it's kind of weird. The last thing I
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read about it from him is that rather than a
lot of the light source you know, being emitted on
the back the coma of this comet, the like tail
that comets get because that's where the off gassing is
occurring as it's flying closer and closer to the Sun,
and that's where that's actually the part that's illuminated by
the Sun's rays. In this case, he's talking about how
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this sucker seems to have some kind of light source
at the front of it, which sounds like headlights to me.
Speaker 3 (28:38):
Cout, Oh, it's a craft, definitely a craft, but I
don't know. I don't know either, but it's fun to
think about and we'll find out one way or another
sooner or later. The huge thanks to Danny and Baron
Eton worshiper of his Holy Hams for writing him. We're
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and then come back with our final messages from you
for today's listener.
Speaker 4 (29:05):
Now, and we have returned, but we have not returned alone.
We are joined with Dan B and a parrot named
Mango that will recognize from earlier and I'm still kind
of on the fence about Mango, especially with our upcoming
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episodes on the ability to speak with animals. Please tune
in for that that's gonna be wild.
Speaker 3 (29:34):
This is Mango, the narc parrot, right yah.
Speaker 4 (29:37):
Stool pigeon, the soul of a stool pigeon, And this
is this is what our pal Dan had to say. Hey,
you mentioned Mango the parrot. Blackpool is my hometown and
thanks to my unfortunate history with addiction, I know some
of the people on the periphery of that case. I
didn't realize it was international news. It's pretty hilarious to
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be caught because of your parrot saying two for twenty
five ha. Just a reminder of folks for that story,
there was this huge drug bust in Blackpool over in
the UK, and part of how the bust came to
be it hinges on this drug dealer's pet parrot, and
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the parrot was seen like playing with cash because it
made the drug dealers laugh. They would teach it drug
terms that would recite back to them, and then it
also happily recited those terms to law enforcement, so they
were able to bust it, bust up the ring because
this parrot, you know, a little bit of a Judas
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kind of turned on his crew.
Speaker 3 (30:46):
This Judas a pariot.
Speaker 4 (30:52):
So now our our pal Dan gives us some more
context saying the following, some more contexts that you may
not No, Unfortunately, Blackpool is absolutely rife with addiction. We
have the highest overdose rate in the United Kingdom and
the highest concentration of off licenses liquor stores per head
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of population. Will pause there, just for a lot of
us fellow Yanks in the crowd. I'm always confused still
if I'm in that part of the world and I
see those stores that just say off license, what it
means is they have a license to sell you booze,
but only if you walk away with it, so you
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can't hang out at the liquor store. That's a different license.
I guess that's that would make it a pub license.
Uh anyway, Yeah, I don't know, man, I'm too square.
You guys remember that for years, like well into college,
I thought package stores in the US sold packages.
Speaker 2 (31:54):
They still do. You just got to put some liquor
in there, I guess.
Speaker 4 (31:58):
But I was like, I was like, why are all
these shady box places out here? How come no one
is walking out with a box. They're just smoking?
Speaker 2 (32:10):
Yeah, so many loiterers outside the box store?
Speaker 3 (32:13):
Right? Is that a lot? Is that a legal thing
like you here in Georgia? Or are they are they
called that in other places? Or is this like a remnant?
I think we've discussed.
Speaker 4 (32:23):
Yeah, it's it's a it's a legacy thing. But also
I genuinely thought that people were just waiting outside because
there was a new box about to drop, you know,
like new sneakers. So it's like, ooh, buddy, I got
to get the corrugated version. Anyway, love story short.
Speaker 2 (32:43):
Did you guys hear about that? I don't think. We
talked about on Strange News and it kept falling off
on my list. The corrugated cardboard people and the cardboard
sellers and how they created their own cartel and rose
they've risen prices since the pandemic on all cardboard for
all packaging like togetherling. What's Georgia Pacific, the big one
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that's near us. Yeah, yeah, they're only one of like
seven or more companies that all just skyrocketed the price
of cardboard. But that's increased the prices of everything because
that includes the pieces that have to get shipped to
get something assembled. Right, it's crazy.
Speaker 4 (33:21):
We should do an episode on the pandemic price fixing conspiracy,
which is very much real.
Speaker 3 (33:26):
Compared to agree. Yeah, it's funny too, because I mean,
even like we we forget that the idea of a
cartel isn't always drug related and it's not inherently illegal,
but it sure sounds shady no matter how you slice it.
Speaker 4 (33:37):
Yeah, the maple syrup cartel. Check out our episode on that.
That was a weird one that surprised us. I would also, Yeah,
I long have suspected that Atlanta restaurants who have the
same type of cuisine operate in h in a price
fixing cartel manner, at least here in the city. I'm
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looking at you, everybody who makes butter chicken coos.
Speaker 3 (34:02):
No true.
Speaker 4 (34:03):
Also, I have no idea why Brianni is so expensive,
probably the same deal in Black Bull. Let us know,
back to Black Bull, these are some facts that tell
us the harrowing reality of the situation on the ground.
Dan says, quote, we also have in Black Bull the
lowest life expectancy at seventy three years old for men.
That's a full fourteen years lower than the life expectancy
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for women in Chelsea, which is a really rich part
of London. For at least, those were the statistics when
I was doing a study for geography class about fifteen
years ago. I suspect it's only gotten worse since then.
And then Dan, you continue with some things I think
a lot of us in the US would be unfamiliar with.
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You say, a lot of seaside towns in the United
Kingdom are really impoverished. They used to be rich because
during the Industrial Revolution, towns would close all their factory
for a week for maintenance, and then the workers would
top the train to places like Blackpool so quick little vacation,
kind of like growing up in the Southeast, you might
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drive down to Florida right for a summer vacation, just
a nice long weekend or something like that. So each
town would have a different week. So this meant there
was a steady supply of working class tourists across the
entirety of summer. But then cheap flights abroad became a thing,
so nobody comes to Blackpool when they can go to
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Benedorm in Spain for the same price. Benedorm shout out
to you. I don't know if we'll make it there,
but maybe we could do a show there because we're
getting back on the road, which we'll talk about in
a second. So, Dan, you say Blackpool I think is
in a particularly bad place when it comes to heroin
and crack cocaine because of its location. It's pretty close
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to Liverpool and Manchester, which are major centers for organized crime,
particularly Liverpool where I'm currently living. Gangs don't make money
in these cities because there's too much supply and not
enough demand, so instead they go to smaller towns like
Blackpool where they can flood the market and force out
any local dealers with violence. That's what happened in the
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mang Go case. The gang wasn't based in Blackpool as
far as I know, says Dan. They were just dealing
there anyway. Sorry for the long message. I just felt
compelled to say something because you guys mentioned my small hometown.
Speaker 3 (36:32):
We wrote back.
Speaker 4 (36:33):
To Dan and Dan We're still waiting to hear some
answers on questions. One of the questions that I think
we've talked about a little bit in the past is
how the hell do so many hard drugs make it
to the United Kingdom in the first place. Like, we've
been to these areas, they're very heavily surveilled, right, you
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can't grow large scale coca or poppy in these climates,
So how are the drugs getting in?
Speaker 3 (37:04):
Right?
Speaker 2 (37:04):
They have to be paying someone off boats boats?
Speaker 4 (37:09):
Sorry, I get I'm like, why there are so many
CCTV cameras. The location tracking is bonkers, even more so
than here in the States. So it feels like some
faction of people in power must be willfully refusing to
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prosecute a lot of this stuff.
Speaker 2 (37:32):
Yeah, just looking the other way, no doubt.
Speaker 4 (37:35):
Yeah, I hate to sound cynical about it, but it
does very much feel like that could be the case.
And this also made me think of a series that
we could do. Maybe not for this show, or maybe
it's an episode, but it's something that I think will
speak to a lot of us in the audience tonight.
There are there is such abandonment going on rural areas
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now across the world, right as more people live in cities.
I feel like a lot of what sometimes is called
flyover country here in the United States is being forgotten.
I was in some towns in Japan recently that were
ghost towns, right, like the kind of places where they
There's one place where the government was going to shut
(38:22):
down the train line and they kept it open because
there is one school age kid who still lives in
that town, just one. They have to take the train
to another town just to go to school, so the
train is just running for that kid. I don't know
what's going to happen with these massive population shifts.
Speaker 3 (38:42):
You guys, like you.
Speaker 4 (38:44):
Go to Italy, rural Italy, and you see the same thing.
There's so many places that are abandoned. So my question
to you all is, have you guys encountered some of
these ghost towns or abandoned towns recently on a road
trip or travels.
Speaker 3 (38:58):
No, not not so much personally, but I am aware
that they exist, and I do find them fascinating and
would love to explore some with y'all. Sometime.
Speaker 2 (39:07):
Yeah, guys, I think this may have happened before. Let
me know if it did. I was listening to that
show Radio Rental Against, one of my favorites on the planet,
and there was a story in there about an abandoned
amusement park, but not like the ones that we've heard about.
You know, there are a couple famous abandoned amusement parks
that were a big deal and then just kind of
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were left to rock. This was like a smaller if
you imagine a smaller one, just randomly in the middle
of nowhere in this town that kind of had been
run down. And it was a very harrowing story about
some of these structures just appearing in the middle of
the woods, in this very rural area where there were campsites,
where if you weren't in the know, you would have
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you have no idea that there was civilization there once,
and there are still structures just out in the middle
of the woods, which is creepy.
Speaker 3 (39:58):
I love that.
Speaker 4 (39:58):
I love finding still cases out in the middle of
the woods.
Speaker 3 (40:03):
It is a bad thing. But you sent me a
picture and a really creepy poem about one of those
very things. Ben. I believe that you discovered in your wanderings,
and you were responding to an odd piece of music
I sent you that I was working on, and I'll
never forget it. It spooked me the frick out. I
love that.
Speaker 4 (40:21):
I love that track. You said as well, it's very evocative. Yeah,
I played what I'm writing horror stories.
Speaker 2 (40:28):
But I'm sure you're not supposed to go up those, right,
or you're not supposed to Okay, okay, I should have
left that cryptic pause there, But yeah, we can't wait
to hear about the strange stuff you find in the woods.
Speaker 3 (40:43):
Folks.
Speaker 4 (40:44):
Be safe and be respectful, of course. I've also you know,
in my head, I've been kicking around the idea of
this kind of limited series and calling it Abandoned America.
And then you know, we could go to other places,
other countries as well, But I, like, you know, I'm
just eternally fascinated with these places that have become forgotten,
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and I don't know what will happen to them in
the future. You know, we have so many stories here
in the US of towns that were booming and then
an industry failed, right like coal, for example, or an
interstate was built and the districting was let's be honest,
(41:26):
often economically corrupt or racially based or incentivized, and then
those towns die. And then you know before that the
training going the wrong direction would spell doom and disaster
for your town. So it's not quite stuff they don't
want you to know, but it is stuff of great
interest to us, and we would love to hear from
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you in this regard, especially if you have experience in
urban exploration. What do you think do you guys think
we can pitch accounting to just let us go off
for like a month and explore these things?
Speaker 2 (42:02):
Yeah? Yes, because yes, because I am seeing a giant
list on Wikipedia here of stuff that's happening or like
places in Georgia alone that are like abandoned towns, neglected towns,
barren sites, abandoned sites, really.
Speaker 3 (42:20):
Interesting abandoned Georgia dot com.
Speaker 2 (42:22):
Right, Yeah, well, yeah, there's that. There's a ton of it. Yeah,
there's even some stuff in forsythe oh ha for scythe
County's we're coming is. We've talked about that extensively on
this shows where I grew up. They are listing the
town that is underneath or was once underneath Lake Laniar.
Speaker 3 (42:41):
There Okay, yeah, there is a lot.
Speaker 4 (42:44):
I mean, history is a palimpsest, right and every time
you take a step, you are walking over the dead,
whether that is a dead place, a dead person, a
dead thing. I have taken this in a weird direction.
Speaker 1 (42:56):
Guys.
Speaker 4 (42:56):
Sorry, I'm still a little bit of out of it here.
So we'll on a nice letter from home. Uh, do
remember to write to us about your favorite abandoned town
or ghost town facts. All right, so here's our letter
from home. As a lifelong resident of Altoona, Pennsylvania, I
agree Altuna pizza is an abomination against Anunaki and man
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Dirk Lancer time jockey tagline, dissentegrading your ancestors for a
better tomorrow?
Speaker 3 (43:27):
Is this the cold topping pizza? What are we talking here?
Speaker 4 (43:30):
This is I believe it was Matt you mentioned Altuna
pizza when we were talking about because we're talking about
Pittsburgh pizza. Altuna style pizza.
Speaker 2 (43:40):
Is dough a little bit, but it's always in a square.
That's very important, a square.
Speaker 4 (43:50):
And the cheese approach, it's not molzarella or anything like that.
It's American cheese, like straight up craft singles. Yes, and
they just grow it on at the end.
Speaker 2 (44:01):
Yeah, there's a there's a little slice of green pepper
usually underneath that geese, and maybe even some pepperoni if
you're nasty. But mostly.
Speaker 3 (44:11):
It sounds like something that you see on like a
meme page like boys who Cook, you know, or the.
Speaker 4 (44:18):
Or the the sub the unendingly inspiring subreddit, kitty food
port or in various freshman dorms of your local weed dealer.
Speaker 2 (44:31):
Right. Yeah, Sometimes all you got to craft single and
you know something you would consider dough.
Speaker 4 (44:38):
All you've got is a few bond grips, some craft
singles and a dream.
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That's It's all it takes. Yeah, that's all it takes.
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That's all it takes is the dream, the hope, the
promise of abandoned towns, weird pizza, alien craft, oh Man,
try quarters, cryptid hunters, all this stuff and more. We
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We are jumping to the phone lines immediately today, guys,
we've got some great stuff. The first message is from
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our old pal Chef Ben. For anybody else listening that
isn't Chef Ben. I know we're getting a lot of
Chef Ben, but congratulations to you. Chef Ben. You've been
calling in a lot with some great stuff, including today's
family story that's tangentially related to a discussion we had
on the show. So let's listen to Chef Ben's story here.
Speaker 5 (03:44):
Good morning, fellows, Chef Ben in Chicago. That's always feel
free to use this on your show. You were talking
about people losing the ability to do stuff analog because
of cell phones and susion. You brought up back to instrument.
My dad at the chemist for Tis, but he was
a chemist for now chemical for years, and then he
(04:05):
went and taught high school chemistry, and then he invented
a thing in conjunction with TI that he is essentially
a chemistry lab diagnostic tool. So what it does called
the lab Quest. Now, what it does is, rather than
running an experiment and using a thermometer or voltimeter or
(04:25):
one of these other litmus paper that kind of thing,
and recording your result of the experiment, this device, which
originally connected directly and physically to a TIA two or
a TIAD three, had a series of chrobes on it.
It would take those measurements for you. So as a student, yes,
you're still learning how to do the experiment, how to
run the experiment with the I set, an Erlinmeyer flat
(04:49):
and all of that kind of stuff, what those things are.
You can still run an experiment. What the lab Quest
does is it just records the data for you and
gives you a lot more options. It's streamlined. It gives
you a lot more options for collating that data and
stuff like that. Now, the joke always was even before
my dad developed this technology with TI and then with
(05:11):
the company who took it over and manufactured it and
sort of moved it away from TI and they have
their own software. Now, whatever the joke was that he
was doing step one towards the Star Trek tricorder. Ideally
you would have a completely probe free device that would
remotely take these sensor readings. We're not there yet. My
(05:31):
dad's been working for this company with this device and
the series of devices for twenty two years now. I
want to say, not quite there yet. However, if slash,
when we arrive at a position in our technological development
where we have a Star Trek tricorder, I want it
recorded right now. My dad is the one who started
(05:52):
that full ball over. Thank you so much. It's good
to have you in the car with me.
Speaker 4 (05:57):
Take care awesome, I love that side off.
Speaker 3 (06:00):
Good to be in your car man.
Speaker 2 (06:02):
Yeah, oh, thank you Chef Ben for that message. Dude,
your dad invented a dang tricorder.
Speaker 3 (06:10):
What up?
Speaker 2 (06:11):
You don't get to say that very often. Come on, guys,
let's give it up. What should we call Chef Ben's dad,
father of Ben, father of Chef.
Speaker 3 (06:23):
Master, chef, senior, chef, I don't know, fortunate.
Speaker 2 (06:27):
Chef Ben, daddy. I like that. Let's go with that,
Chef Ben Daddy. Good job, buddy, he invented this thing
called lab quest, and you guys, I just put a
link in the chat so we can look at it,
the original one and how it would actually connect up
to one of these TI Well it it's not this
original one. It's very similar to this one because this
is when the company Vernier, I suppose, purchased the technology
(06:49):
from Texas Instruments. But very cool looking. It's just gotten
up down left right, okay, back menu and probably initiate
and whatever. That other button is pretty simple stuff, but dang,
it's cool. The idea that you could connect one device
up to a bunch of other sensor devices and then
(07:10):
get all that data even as a student, right just
in a classroom setting, makes me very very happy. It
also took me down a little bit of a tricorder thing,
you guys. You can look up right now on the
website the Wandcompany dot com their tricorder.
Speaker 3 (07:29):
And uh, this is a Star Trek thing.
Speaker 2 (07:34):
This is a Star Trek thing.
Speaker 3 (07:35):
So this is like get share for the non initiator
out there. I didn't know. I had to google it
real quick.
Speaker 2 (07:39):
Oh I'm sorry, I'm sorry. Tricorder is the thing that
you would see in Star Trek a device. It's a
medical device. I suppose that often the medical personnel, the
person who is on the away team, right going down
to another planet or going over to another spaceship or something,
they would pull this thing out and get sensor readings
(08:00):
every possible thing you could imagine, right the are there
oxygen levels here?
Speaker 3 (08:06):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (08:06):
Is there radioactivity over there? Oh what's wrong with that person?
Oh let's scan you know, their vital functions. We could
do it all with our tricorder. But the one I
just put in there is like the original one from
the original Star Trek series, which is kind of fun.
It looks almost like it would be a what does
that look like to you?
Speaker 3 (08:24):
Get GPS? Sort of like a handheld GPS kind of thing.
Speaker 2 (08:28):
Well, that's what the next generation. Okay, now you guys
correct me if I'm wrong. I'm I think I thought
it was the next generation folks who had the one
that you're talking about.
Speaker 3 (08:38):
Sorry, I was looking at the original link that you said.
This looks like a like a adding machine or something.
I don't know exactly how to describe it, like a
weird old timey camera or something.
Speaker 2 (08:50):
Yes, yeah, it's got that leather case you know it
feels like, oh uh huh, but that's the way it
was envisioned the first time around with Star Trek, and
then by the time we got to the next generation,
it's that kind of fold open looking thing. And sorry
to talk about tricorder so much. Yaw, somebody is just
either turning this off or are rolling their eyes so hard.
(09:13):
There's the other one that a company called Factory Entertainment
created as like a toy tricorderh but it just shows
you all the different things and readings you could get
with it. And we've talked in the past about the
kind of advanced technology that's been rumored that, you know,
ultra wealthy people have those beds, those med beds that
(09:35):
could fix you, like the ones out of what is
that movie we I always forget up in what is
the name of the place where they lived all the
rich people and everybody's down there?
Speaker 4 (09:46):
Oh oh and yes, where Matt Damon's in it.
Speaker 2 (09:51):
Yep, yep, yeah, yep, South Afric title.
Speaker 4 (09:57):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, it's something It's gonna kill. It's from
the guy who made District nine. Right.
Speaker 2 (10:02):
Yes, my head keeps saying Eternium, that's right.
Speaker 3 (10:06):
So you're so close. If it's not that, it's damn close,
it's clous.
Speaker 4 (10:11):
No, we're stopped, guys, were stopping everything.
Speaker 3 (10:14):
It's elysium alium. What is that? Is an elysium like
the Roman paradise kind of or that's the Alysian fields.
Speaker 2 (10:24):
Oh yeah, I think so. Oh yeah, I know we've
talked about all these things at length in previous episodes.
Just put pointing it out there to imagine that if
you could design something like this at the time when
Texas Instruments, you know, who knows how many probably several
decades ago, was really getting that TI eighty two eighty
three series off the ground, and then you felt something
(10:45):
like this, just imagining what it could be like now, right,
And uh, one last link of putting in the chat guys,
this is the same company that now has taken over
the lab Quest situation that father of Chef Ben created.
This is the lab Quest three. It runs about four
hundred dollars. It now is a micro USB cable that
(11:06):
I suppose you could plug into any old other computer
or other machine and then on the bottom of it
you could kind of see I don't know exactly what
they would call all of these inputs here but it
looks like inputs for five or more different devices that
you'd be able to plug into that have sensors, right,
or something that's collecting collecting information then sending the information
(11:30):
to this data collector.
Speaker 3 (11:31):
It's pretty interesting how far technology like this has come.
I recently bought this like body scanner scale where it
connects to an app on your phone and you stand
on it and you hold this like sensor that's attached
to like a retractable cable, and you hold your arms
out and then it does a full scan of like
all of your water content, your bone density, the mus
(11:53):
subcutaneous fats, visceral fats, like skeletal mass, lean mass, all
this stuff. And it's pretty accurate from what I understand,
And it's just I don't know, I was just looking
for some more metrics. But it's pretty neat. It's this
company called a Hume, but it's very affordable. It's just surprising, how,
you know, these types of things that maybe in the
past where relegated to science labs, are much more you know,
(12:15):
available than to the consumer.
Speaker 2 (12:18):
Now. That is an awesome piece of equipment you've got there.
I don't know enough about it, but that sounds amazing.
Can we run a test at some point where the
next time you go and get a physical or something like,
get all that data and then test out what that
thing is reading like the day of you know, so
you're like, Okay, how accurate is this thing? Because that
(12:38):
sounds incredible.
Speaker 3 (12:40):
Yeah, And like I said, at the very least, it
gives you some benchmarks, even if it's not like one
hundred percent accurate, but all the reviews are pretty good
and it does seem to compare with some of the
really high end lab type results. So yeah, I will
definitely do that and let you guys.
Speaker 2 (12:51):
That's that's stinking awesome. Lastly, on the track orders, guys,
on that Factory Entertainment tricorder you can buy it for
eight hundred dollars plus shipping.
Speaker 3 (13:04):
Wow. Yeah that's the replica, right, Yeah, really cool. Yeah,
it's cool looking. It's got a screen and everything. I
was actually thinking, you know, how the original lightsaber was
made from like an old camera flash bulb or housing
for a camera flash. When I was looking at this
to your point, Matt, I was like, this looks familiar,
like it's made of some object that we're aware of.
(13:26):
Apparently completely custom made, but some of the buttons on
it were like from automotive type of buttons that could be,
but it was custom built housing and you know, plastic
sort of situation. That's so neat.
Speaker 2 (13:39):
I love this stuff. I just want a real one, guys.
I want to be doctor Beverly Crusher. It's what I've
always wanted to be, is what I've always said.
Speaker 3 (13:46):
I want a pit boy and go for portable scanner devices.
That's what I want. Super Stoked about Fallout season two.
By the way, they're finally heading to New Vegas in
this one, y'all.
Speaker 2 (13:56):
Oh snap, that's exciting. Oh my gosh. Well, guys, I
had another message here from Flounder I wanted to put
out there, but I think we might save that for
Strange News at least our discussion of it. Let's why
don't we play the message from Flounder and then just everybody,
you should be aware we're going to talk about what
(14:17):
Flounder is saying on the next Strange News episode because
it's going to be like linked up with that directly.
Speaker 7 (14:23):
So here we go, gentlemen, this is Flounder with a pH.
I'm not sure if it was on your shoe or
someone else. But someone once said that interesting news stories
that people don't really want the public talking about are
often released on a Friday afternoon. Well, Friday, August twenty seconds,
it seemed to happen the Maxwell Gislaine Maxwell transcript was released,
(14:48):
and so that's my conspiracy number one. Conspiracy number two
is I'm really having a game theory mind melt right
now with her comments. It seems to me that she's
denying everything, which calls into question whether everything actually is true.
(15:09):
But the one that really caught me was Prince Andrew
stating that Prince Andrew definitely didn't do this stuff. It
seems like Prince Andrew was one of them that it's
a given what he was doing. So when she says
Prince Andrew didn't do it, then I question the Clinton
comment and the Trump comment and everything else. Anyway, feel
(15:32):
free to use this on air if you like, but
it's kind of long winded. Anyways, Thanks guys, appreciate what
you do.
Speaker 3 (15:39):
I think they all did it. I'm sorry, I don't
believe a word any of these people say.
Speaker 2 (15:45):
Well, that's the really tough thing here, right, because we're
theoretically going to her as someone who does know what happened, right,
But the way that she was approached, the people that
approached her, under the pretext and context that she was approached,
how can you trust that what she's saying is real?
(16:07):
Is the actual thing? Why you don't pay somebody to
give you an interview, right, if you're a journalist or something,
you don't pay anybody to give you an interview. That
way you can trust that what they're saying is not
going to be manipulated by a gift or by you know,
being moved to a new facility or something that we
talked about previously, Ben, I think you brought that up
(16:28):
in chapter two of the e Fscene update. This is
all you know related here. We were kind of waiting
for this to come out and to see these transcripts
and see if there was anything there, And it appears
somebody at least wants us to know and believe that
absolutely nothing happened. Nothing happened. I'm waving my hands at
(16:49):
the camera to Jedi mind trick us all for.
Speaker 3 (16:52):
Sure, he did it? Yeah, Joys you're looking for.
Speaker 2 (16:56):
Yeah, Well, again, we're not going to go into the
specifics of that transcript and what was said, maybe until later,
perhaps next week, but we will get into it. Don't worry,
we will. For now, we're gonna say thank you, Chef Ben,
Chef Ben's father and flounder, and we'll be right back
with more messages from you.
Speaker 3 (17:18):
All right, And we've returned with a couple of fun
messages from you, Yes, you a couple of them. Actually,
let's start with one from Danny. Hi, Matt nole Ben.
My name is Danny, So. I used to work at
this warehouse that sold these things called stoveguards. A guard
(17:39):
for your stove love A good descriptive name, basically to
keep your stove top clean. I need one of those.
I'm just now remembering an order slip I had taken
a picture of, and the address listed was for the
Cryptid Hunters of North America. I had no idea such
a place existed. And why are they ordering a stoveguard?
Why wouldn't they? It seems like a great DIVI are
(18:00):
they so busy hunting cryptives? They have a kitchen for breaks?
Speaker 7 (18:04):
Sure?
Speaker 3 (18:04):
Why not? HQ needs a little breakroom. I'm attaching a
photo of the order slip. Also, I don't want to
do Scryptid Hunters of North America but yeah, I was
eventually laid off from Stoveguard because, not surprisingly, not a
lot of people are buying these things, because I mean,
you can just clean your freaking stovetop. Lol. Anyway, I
just wanted to share this with you because I thought
(18:25):
it was funny. I collect a lot of funny names
of roads and cities on these order slips, which I
probably wasn't allowed to do. HEIDK. I love your show
so much, and I also listened to Ridiculous History. Thank
you so very much, Danny. Let's see it was what's
a cursory Google of Cryptid Hunters of North America? Yield,
(18:48):
Let's see. Okay, they do have a Facebook, they are
in LLC. Apparently don't have a dot com.
Speaker 2 (18:58):
I found a member on x that goes by Frosty Dragon,
but the screen name, according to the search here is
Horny Frosty smh okay.
Speaker 3 (19:09):
And the Facebook page is not available right now. Please
excuse our progress got the little guy with the wrench,
so it does not appear that Cryptid Hunters of North
America is particularly active, but it's good time. I just
thought it was a silly, funny email, Suri, so thank
you for that. I will move on to a slightly
(19:31):
more serious topic, but also with sid lightheartedness to it.
This one comes from his Holy Hams, he demands it. Apparently,
that's how the email concludes. So let's jump right in.
This is regarding the hype around the asteroid that will
arrive in November three I Atlas, and how this is
(19:53):
drastically affecting the fringe communities, the TikTok conspiracy theorists.
Speaker 2 (19:58):
I don't want to stop you right there. It is
either a comet or an alien spaceship. Okay, those are
the only two options.
Speaker 3 (20:06):
Okay, So do you feel very strongly about this matter?
And I respect that. In fact, I love it. I
love the passion. One set is concerned that it is
filled with aliens on their way to harvest the monotomic
gold monotomic, gold monotomic. That's the word gold inside each
(20:27):
human didn't know about that. I am convinced this is
slang for semen. Okay, that is our precious bodily fluids,
if anyone has seen Doctor Strangelove. But hey, this only
got worse when the asteroid vented water, letting us know
that not only were they aliens, but they were squid
based aliens who intend to rescue their squid brethren from
(20:50):
the ocean and make elithid like hybrids when they arrive.
In other words, this as far as I got in
the game. By the way, it's bad ass. The opening
to Balder's Gate three is now a documentary, The Little Eyeworms.
Did you play Balder'sgate three?
Speaker 6 (21:06):
Guys?
Speaker 2 (21:06):
No, I did not, but somebody, yeah, Ben, you've played
it several times.
Speaker 5 (21:11):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (21:12):
Yeah, it's a it's a replayable game, and if you're
you don't have to know dungeons and dragons or be
very experienced with it to have a blast, but if
you do, there are a ton of Easter eggs there.
So yeah, very very much worth it. It's a it's
a game that you can you can do a million things.
Speaker 3 (21:29):
In I started it, got through the first cut scene
that's talking they're talking about hair, which is where this
like lovecrafty and kind of squid, you know, cuthulhu esque
demon deploys these like little eyeworms into the into our
heroes or our protagonists. I don't know. I'm I think
I need to play it on PC or on a
bigger screen because it does get a little small it's
(21:49):
like top down in the text. It's kind of small,
and I was having a little hard time following, but
I'm really excited to give it another shot. It's come
highly recommended. Also, uh uh, Clare Obscure Expedition thirty three
kind of pulled me away, so time to give it
another go.
Speaker 4 (22:03):
I do have to give a PSA to all our
fellow conspiracy realist gamers in the crowd, especially if you
game with your family and your kiddos and your loved ones,
please be aware. Boulders Gate three is a phenomenal game.
It is also an extremely horny game. Yes, you're super
duper horny, like you're hearing me now, folks, but it
(22:28):
goes past what I sound like.
Speaker 3 (22:29):
I'm saying. You believe this man when he says the game.
Speaker 2 (22:33):
Is now we know why you've played it so much better,
just to try to feel something fair.
Speaker 3 (22:41):
Horniness is a feeling. It counts. His Holy Hams continues.
On the opposite side, there is a cab. I love
how His Holy Hams just expresses all this this fact,
but I appreciate the wording. I think it's fun. On
the opposite side, there is a cabal of believers who
state that this can't be aliens because space is indeed
water and nothing can survive in the depths of the
(23:05):
Star Ocean. Do y'all know about the Star Ocean? Is
this a New Friends.
Speaker 2 (23:11):
Another game series?
Speaker 3 (23:13):
Well, it sounds it'd be a great one. Yeah, right.
Speaker 4 (23:20):
Also, just the phrase sounds like a poetic license, you know,
like referring to deep space as the ink, like.
Speaker 3 (23:27):
Sailing you know, through outer space, the idea like what
is it solar sales and all of that kind of stuff. Yeah,
what Star Ocean? The game, Matt, I don't know about
this one? Was this old?
Speaker 2 (23:37):
I want to say it's a JRPG that's been around
for a long time. Well, it's a great name made
several of them check it out.
Speaker 3 (23:47):
Going on. They believe these would be demons and devils
trying to break open the firmament in the same way
that Venus and Mercury are also maliciously trying to do
so because they are fallen angels and planets aren't real. Okay, um, nope,
moving on. I wish I were making this up. It
(24:07):
sounds like a great sci fi fantasy novel series. Boy
does it. Ever? My question after all of this is
where do we go wrong? Clearly, this is a reflection
of the nature of our social media world, where all
opinions are truth and valid. If you are trying to
interject reality, you are merely conspiring against the naked God
who sits upon the firmament with his holy hands pressed
(24:30):
against the glass in love, which is why they call
it the moon. This is some satirical right here. It's
got a bit I just I love the wording, I
love the turn of phrase, and the idea of his
holy hands pressed against the glass being the moon. I
liken this vision to the pin up painted on the
Inola Gay. But as a wizened old man with a
(24:51):
flowing beard and open robes sitting on top of a
glass dome makes for an entertaining, if not blasphemous visual,
I am nothing without him, as Bmth once saying, I
heard it from a few of these individuals. I followed
science and logic, but as soon as I realized that
God cannot exist in this type of world, I rejected
it and started discovering the truth. Another said, if God
(25:16):
isn't real, and we are simply spinning on a ball
in the middle of a vast empty space, then that
is cruelty to its extreme, and I couldn't live with
that concept. What I understand is mostly marketing from these
influencers to keep their fan bases rabbit. It also means
that people take their thoughts as gospel. And while I'm
pretty sure I'd be stoked to have elithid masters implant
a squid larvae in my brain so I can become
(25:38):
a part of the hive mind, I know it isn't
going to happen. Perhaps the Emperor of mankind was correct
in his ways. This is merely observational entertainment purposes only.
Of course, Now, if you excuse me, I must attend
Mass for his holy right ass cheek alrighty gets cranky
if you don't recognize him with twenty plus minutes of
(25:59):
reverend as prayers. Thus baton Eton spoke, and thus he
did release the observers to share any of these missives
to the masses, so to they may be saved or
at least giggle with this quaint nose sniff that passes
for amusement. Have an astastic day. His holy hams demand
it is.
Speaker 2 (26:21):
This Baron Eaton. We know Baron Eton.
Speaker 3 (26:24):
Yeah, sorry, I thought the sign off was his Holy Hams,
and I think I mistook that, but yes, that is correct.
This is this is baron eton ah bar Pretty cool stuff.
For all this silliness, I don't really have much to add.
I just thought it was a romp.
Speaker 2 (26:40):
You know, Well I got something to add.
Speaker 3 (26:43):
Give it to us.
Speaker 2 (26:44):
We've been we've been following along this whole three eye
Atlass thing for a while now, and we've got three
pretty awesome observations of it thus far in the James
Webb telescope that ben you have been to before it
went up into space, which is awesome. That thing recently
(27:05):
took a look at it, and there's something published in
Space three hours ago as we record, and it is
talking about the chemical makeup that was discovered to be
in there. Really interesting. It's got all the things that
you'd expect a comet to have, primarily water, which is interesting, water, ice,
(27:26):
carbon dioxide, carbon monoxide, and the stuff called carbonyl sulfide,
which is, as space puts it, smelly. The cool thing
about this comet as that it's the highest ratio of
carbon dioxide to water that's ever been observed in any
comet that Earth based dwellings have seen. Which makes it different, right,
(27:49):
doesn't make it aliens, but it sure makes it different.
And if we head over to Harvard and check out
what you know, our professor has to say, who's been
talking about, there's a whole bunch. He's lowering his chances
that this thing is actually extraterrestrial intelligence, but he is
noting that it's kind of weird. The last thing I
(28:09):
read about it from him is that rather than a
lot of the light source you know, being emitted on
the back the coma of this comet, the like tail
that comets get because that's where the off gassing is
occurring as it's flying closer and closer to the Sun,
and that's where that's actually the part that's illuminated by
the Sun's rays. In this case, he's talking about how
(28:31):
this sucker seems to have some kind of light source
at the front of it, which sounds like headlights to me.
Speaker 3 (28:38):
Cout, Oh, it's a craft, definitely a craft, but I
don't know. I don't know either, but it's fun to
think about and we'll find out one way or another
sooner or later. The huge thanks to Danny and Baron
Eton worshiper of his Holy Hams for writing him. We're
(28:59):
gonna take a quick break you're aware from our sponsor,
and then come back with our final messages from you
for today's listener.
Speaker 4 (29:05):
Now, and we have returned, but we have not returned alone.
We are joined with Dan B and a parrot named
Mango that will recognize from earlier and I'm still kind
of on the fence about Mango, especially with our upcoming
(29:27):
episodes on the ability to speak with animals. Please tune
in for that that's gonna be wild.
Speaker 3 (29:34):
This is Mango, the narc parrot, right yah.
Speaker 4 (29:37):
Stool pigeon, the soul of a stool pigeon, And this
is this is what our pal Dan had to say. Hey,
you mentioned Mango the parrot. Blackpool is my hometown and
thanks to my unfortunate history with addiction, I know some
of the people on the periphery of that case. I
didn't realize it was international news. It's pretty hilarious to
(30:00):
be caught because of your parrot saying two for twenty
five ha. Just a reminder of folks for that story,
there was this huge drug bust in Blackpool over in
the UK, and part of how the bust came to
be it hinges on this drug dealer's pet parrot, and
(30:22):
the parrot was seen like playing with cash because it
made the drug dealers laugh. They would teach it drug
terms that would recite back to them, and then it
also happily recited those terms to law enforcement, so they
were able to bust it, bust up the ring because
this parrot, you know, a little bit of a Judas
(30:44):
kind of turned on his crew.
Speaker 3 (30:46):
This Judas a pariot.
Speaker 4 (30:52):
So now our our pal Dan gives us some more
context saying the following, some more contexts that you may
not No, Unfortunately, Blackpool is absolutely rife with addiction. We
have the highest overdose rate in the United Kingdom and
the highest concentration of off licenses liquor stores per head
(31:13):
of population. Will pause there, just for a lot of
us fellow Yanks in the crowd. I'm always confused still
if I'm in that part of the world and I
see those stores that just say off license, what it
means is they have a license to sell you booze,
but only if you walk away with it, so you
(31:35):
can't hang out at the liquor store. That's a different license.
I guess that's that would make it a pub license.
Uh anyway, Yeah, I don't know, man, I'm too square.
You guys remember that for years, like well into college,
I thought package stores in the US sold packages.
Speaker 2 (31:54):
They still do. You just got to put some liquor
in there, I guess.
Speaker 4 (31:58):
But I was like, I was like, why are all
these shady box places out here? How come no one
is walking out with a box. They're just smoking?
Speaker 2 (32:10):
Yeah, so many loiterers outside the box store?
Speaker 3 (32:13):
Right? Is that a lot? Is that a legal thing
like you here in Georgia? Or are they are they
called that in other places? Or is this like a remnant?
I think we've discussed.
Speaker 4 (32:23):
Yeah, it's it's a it's a legacy thing. But also
I genuinely thought that people were just waiting outside because
there was a new box about to drop, you know,
like new sneakers. So it's like, ooh, buddy, I got
to get the corrugated version. Anyway, love story short.
Speaker 2 (32:43):
Did you guys hear about that? I don't think. We
talked about on Strange News and it kept falling off
on my list. The corrugated cardboard people and the cardboard
sellers and how they created their own cartel and rose
they've risen prices since the pandemic on all cardboard for
all packaging like togetherling. What's Georgia Pacific, the big one
(33:04):
that's near us. Yeah, yeah, they're only one of like
seven or more companies that all just skyrocketed the price
of cardboard. But that's increased the prices of everything because
that includes the pieces that have to get shipped to
get something assembled. Right, it's crazy.
Speaker 4 (33:21):
We should do an episode on the pandemic price fixing conspiracy,
which is very much real.
Speaker 3 (33:26):
Compared to agree. Yeah, it's funny too, because I mean,
even like we we forget that the idea of a
cartel isn't always drug related and it's not inherently illegal,
but it sure sounds shady no matter how you slice it.
Speaker 4 (33:37):
Yeah, the maple syrup cartel. Check out our episode on that.
That was a weird one that surprised us. I would also, Yeah,
I long have suspected that Atlanta restaurants who have the
same type of cuisine operate in h in a price
fixing cartel manner, at least here in the city. I'm
(33:58):
looking at you, everybody who makes butter chicken coos.
Speaker 3 (34:02):
No true.
Speaker 4 (34:03):
Also, I have no idea why Brianni is so expensive,
probably the same deal in Black Bull. Let us know,
back to Black Bull, these are some facts that tell
us the harrowing reality of the situation on the ground.
Dan says, quote, we also have in Black Bull the
lowest life expectancy at seventy three years old for men.
That's a full fourteen years lower than the life expectancy
(34:27):
for women in Chelsea, which is a really rich part
of London. For at least, those were the statistics when
I was doing a study for geography class about fifteen
years ago. I suspect it's only gotten worse since then.
And then Dan, you continue with some things I think
a lot of us in the US would be unfamiliar with.
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You say, a lot of seaside towns in the United
Kingdom are really impoverished. They used to be rich because
during the Industrial Revolution, towns would close all their factory
for a week for maintenance, and then the workers would
top the train to places like Blackpool so quick little vacation,
kind of like growing up in the Southeast, you might
(35:10):
drive down to Florida right for a summer vacation, just
a nice long weekend or something like that. So each
town would have a different week. So this meant there
was a steady supply of working class tourists across the
entirety of summer. But then cheap flights abroad became a thing,
so nobody comes to Blackpool when they can go to
(35:32):
Benedorm in Spain for the same price. Benedorm shout out
to you. I don't know if we'll make it there,
but maybe we could do a show there because we're
getting back on the road, which we'll talk about in
a second. So, Dan, you say Blackpool I think is
in a particularly bad place when it comes to heroin
and crack cocaine because of its location. It's pretty close
(35:54):
to Liverpool and Manchester, which are major centers for organized crime,
particularly Liverpool where I'm currently living. Gangs don't make money
in these cities because there's too much supply and not
enough demand, so instead they go to smaller towns like
Blackpool where they can flood the market and force out
any local dealers with violence. That's what happened in the
(36:17):
mang Go case. The gang wasn't based in Blackpool as
far as I know, says Dan. They were just dealing
there anyway. Sorry for the long message. I just felt
compelled to say something because you guys mentioned my small hometown.
Speaker 3 (36:32):
We wrote back.
Speaker 4 (36:33):
To Dan and Dan We're still waiting to hear some
answers on questions. One of the questions that I think
we've talked about a little bit in the past is
how the hell do so many hard drugs make it
to the United Kingdom in the first place. Like, we've
been to these areas, they're very heavily surveilled, right, you
(36:55):
can't grow large scale coca or poppy in these climates,
So how are the drugs getting in?
Speaker 3 (37:04):
Right?
Speaker 2 (37:04):
They have to be paying someone off boats boats?
Speaker 4 (37:09):
Sorry, I get I'm like, why there are so many
CCTV cameras. The location tracking is bonkers, even more so
than here in the States. So it feels like some
faction of people in power must be willfully refusing to
(37:29):
prosecute a lot of this stuff.
Speaker 2 (37:32):
Yeah, just looking the other way, no doubt.
Speaker 4 (37:35):
Yeah, I hate to sound cynical about it, but it
does very much feel like that could be the case.
And this also made me think of a series that
we could do. Maybe not for this show, or maybe
it's an episode, but it's something that I think will
speak to a lot of us in the audience tonight.
There are there is such abandonment going on rural areas
(38:01):
now across the world, right as more people live in cities.
I feel like a lot of what sometimes is called
flyover country here in the United States is being forgotten.
I was in some towns in Japan recently that were
ghost towns, right, like the kind of places where they
There's one place where the government was going to shut
(38:22):
down the train line and they kept it open because
there is one school age kid who still lives in
that town, just one. They have to take the train
to another town just to go to school, so the
train is just running for that kid. I don't know
what's going to happen with these massive population shifts.
Speaker 3 (38:42):
You guys, like you.
Speaker 4 (38:44):
Go to Italy, rural Italy, and you see the same thing.
There's so many places that are abandoned. So my question
to you all is, have you guys encountered some of
these ghost towns or abandoned towns recently on a road
trip or travels.
Speaker 3 (38:58):
No, not not so much personally, but I am aware
that they exist, and I do find them fascinating and
would love to explore some with y'all. Sometime.
Speaker 2 (39:07):
Yeah, guys, I think this may have happened before. Let
me know if it did. I was listening to that
show Radio Rental Against, one of my favorites on the planet,
and there was a story in there about an abandoned
amusement park, but not like the ones that we've heard about.
You know, there are a couple famous abandoned amusement parks
that were a big deal and then just kind of
(39:28):
were left to rock. This was like a smaller if
you imagine a smaller one, just randomly in the middle
of nowhere in this town that kind of had been
run down. And it was a very harrowing story about
some of these structures just appearing in the middle of
the woods, in this very rural area where there were campsites,
where if you weren't in the know, you would have
(39:50):
you have no idea that there was civilization there once,
and there are still structures just out in the middle
of the woods, which is creepy.
Speaker 3 (39:58):
I love that.
Speaker 4 (39:58):
I love finding still cases out in the middle of
the woods.
Speaker 3 (40:03):
It is a bad thing. But you sent me a
picture and a really creepy poem about one of those
very things. Ben. I believe that you discovered in your wanderings,
and you were responding to an odd piece of music
I sent you that I was working on, and I'll
never forget it. It spooked me the frick out. I
love that.
Speaker 4 (40:21):
I love that track. You said as well, it's very evocative. Yeah,
I played what I'm writing horror stories.
Speaker 2 (40:28):
But I'm sure you're not supposed to go up those, right,
or you're not supposed to Okay, okay, I should have
left that cryptic pause there, But yeah, we can't wait
to hear about the strange stuff you find in the woods.
Speaker 3 (40:43):
Folks.
Speaker 4 (40:44):
Be safe and be respectful, of course. I've also you know,
in my head, I've been kicking around the idea of
this kind of limited series and calling it Abandoned America.
And then you know, we could go to other places,
other countries as well, But I, like, you know, I'm
just eternally fascinated with these places that have become forgotten,
(41:06):
and I don't know what will happen to them in
the future. You know, we have so many stories here
in the US of towns that were booming and then
an industry failed, right like coal, for example, or an
interstate was built and the districting was let's be honest,
(41:26):
often economically corrupt or racially based or incentivized, and then
those towns die. And then you know before that the
training going the wrong direction would spell doom and disaster
for your town. So it's not quite stuff they don't
want you to know, but it is stuff of great
interest to us, and we would love to hear from
(41:46):
you in this regard, especially if you have experience in
urban exploration. What do you think do you guys think
we can pitch accounting to just let us go off
for like a month and explore these things?
Speaker 2 (42:02):
Yeah? Yes, because yes, because I am seeing a giant
list on Wikipedia here of stuff that's happening or like
places in Georgia alone that are like abandoned towns, neglected towns,
barren sites, abandoned sites, really.
Speaker 3 (42:20):
Interesting abandoned Georgia dot com.
Speaker 2 (42:22):
Right, Yeah, well, yeah, there's that. There's a ton of it. Yeah,
there's even some stuff in forsythe oh ha for scythe
County's we're coming is. We've talked about that extensively on
this shows where I grew up. They are listing the
town that is underneath or was once underneath Lake Laniar.
Speaker 3 (42:41):
There Okay, yeah, there is a lot.
Speaker 4 (42:44):
I mean, history is a palimpsest, right and every time
you take a step, you are walking over the dead,
whether that is a dead place, a dead person, a
dead thing. I have taken this in a weird direction.
Speaker 1 (42:56):
Guys.
Speaker 4 (42:56):
Sorry, I'm still a little bit of out of it here.
So we'll on a nice letter from home. Uh, do
remember to write to us about your favorite abandoned town
or ghost town facts. All right, so here's our letter
from home. As a lifelong resident of Altoona, Pennsylvania, I
agree Altuna pizza is an abomination against Anunaki and man
(43:20):
Dirk Lancer time jockey tagline, dissentegrading your ancestors for a
better tomorrow?
Speaker 3 (43:27):
Is this the cold topping pizza? What are we talking here?
Speaker 4 (43:30):
This is I believe it was Matt you mentioned Altuna
pizza when we were talking about because we're talking about
Pittsburgh pizza. Altuna style pizza.
Speaker 2 (43:40):
Is dough a little bit, but it's always in a square.
That's very important, a square.
Speaker 4 (43:50):
And the cheese approach, it's not molzarella or anything like that.
It's American cheese, like straight up craft singles. Yes, and
they just grow it on at the end.
Speaker 2 (44:01):
Yeah, there's a there's a little slice of green pepper
usually underneath that geese, and maybe even some pepperoni if
you're nasty. But mostly.
Speaker 3 (44:11):
It sounds like something that you see on like a
meme page like boys who Cook, you know, or the.
Speaker 4 (44:18):
Or the the sub the unendingly inspiring subreddit, kitty food
port or in various freshman dorms of your local weed dealer.
Speaker 2 (44:31):
Right. Yeah, Sometimes all you got to craft single and
you know something you would consider dough.
Speaker 4 (44:38):
All you've got is a few bond grips, some craft
singles and a dream.
Speaker 3 (44:43):
That's It's all it takes. Yeah, that's all it takes.
Speaker 4 (44:46):
That's all it takes is the dream, the hope, the
promise of abandoned towns, weird pizza, alien craft, oh Man,
try quarters, cryptid hunters, all this stuff and more. We
cannot wait to hear from you, folks. Thank you, as
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