April 16, 2026 • 37 mins
In this week's listener mail segment: Xevious Wrecks hips Ben and Noel to 'hillbilly toothpicks', a euphemism for raccoon penises, inspiring the guys to never see the internet again. Uncle Bosco explores how you can hack encounters with police by using the alias 'FNU LNU' (spoiler, you get in situations). Jameson reveals a conspiracy afoot with the world's standing record for IQ tests. Sergeant Will proposes that at least a few UFOs are obscure, spooky rigid airships. In our Letters From Home, Trogoldyte shares a phenomenal real-life encounter with rutabagas.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
From UFOs to psychic powers and government conspiracies. History is
riddled with unexplained events. You can turn back now or
learn the stuff they don't want you to know. A
production of iHeartRadio.
Speaker 2 (00:26):
Hello, and welcome back to the show.
Speaker 3 (00:27):
My name is Noel, and now our colleague Matt is
on an adventure will be returning soon. They called me Ben.
We're joined as always with our super producer Dylan the
Tennessee pal Fagan. Most importantly, you are here. That makes
this the stuff they don't want you to know. If
you are tuning in to our listener mail program the
Evening it publishes Welcome to April sixteenth, twenty twenty six,
(00:52):
and Noel, We've got a bunch of rapid fire, crazy
ones today. I was thinking, if you're okay with it,
we start with something kind of gross.
Speaker 2 (01:04):
Let's rip the band aid off and pick the scab. Yeah, sorry, sorry,
I'm really sorry.
Speaker 3 (01:08):
I had to get Well, let's pick our teeth. How
about this? Tell us what you think afterwards, folks. We
couldn't think of a better way to open the show
than with a word from our good pal Zvius Rex,
who introduces us to a fact we never wanted to
learn about raccoons. Here it goes. Greetings, Ben, Matt, Nol,
(01:30):
and Dylan. First use this as you wish. You may
call me Zvius Rex. That's Zvius with an X and
rex like a car wreck. Just listened to your story
mentioning RFK Junior's road kill forging tale or tales. I
had a brain blast, shout out Jimmy neutron and recalled
(01:51):
a memory from a way's back in my sixty years.
All right, here we go, folks, there's the deep water
quote from Zvius. The use for a raccoon penis can
be referred to as a hillbilly toothpick googly. I found
the attached video, which we're not going to play for you, folks,
but in short, it involves the use of the baculum
(02:12):
of the penis in fashioning a toothpick. The baculum, Zvius
helpfully notes, is a cardilinag just part that gives the
penis rigidity when needed. So anyway, enough Internet for today.
Ed you have also helpfully, I guess, Zvius linked us
directly to the meat eater dot com, which gives you
(02:33):
a step by stuff video on how to make a
raccoon baculum toothpick. Love the podcast Codeeme Zvius, Rex Rudebega Lovers, Unite.
Speaker 2 (02:43):
Man and shout out to our buddy Sean Titone, who
heads up the Meat Eater podcasts. That's right, network with
us here at iHeart super super cool stuff and super
super weird gross stuff. It would seem as well. The
old raccoon penis bone trick.
Speaker 3 (02:59):
Ah, Yes, the old raccoon penis bump trick and brief
side note here. I don't know how much we want
feedback on this one, but heck roll the dice folks
don't make it. Sorry, we asked. If you have had
experience with the hillbilly toothpick, feel free to email us
and tell us a little bit about it. I can't
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believe this is how we're starting up, but we are.
Oh man, well Ben.
Speaker 2 (03:24):
It reminds me too of the infamous prairie oyster. Yes, yeah,
the of course that is, I believe buffalo testicles that
are consumed in certain regions of these here United States.
Speaker 3 (03:37):
Yeah, And it's all about the seasoning and the sauces,
and if you get a.
Speaker 2 (03:41):
Piece stuck in your teeth, you can always pick it
out with the hill billy toothpick.
Speaker 3 (03:45):
There we go, solved and solved. We're going to be
right back after a word from our sponsors.
Speaker 2 (03:56):
And we have returned with a piece of correspondence from
ode name Uncle Bosco. This very good one writing to
us about police databases. Hello, says Uncle Bosco. I hope
you are doing well. We hope the same for you.
Police use various databases to store a variety of types
of information. When entering a person into their respective system,
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first name and last name are virtually always mandatory fields. However,
in some cases they don't have a person's full name,
such as guy in a blue jacket named Quincy, and
in this case they will input the person's name as
Quincy LNU, with NU standing for a last name unknown. Similarly,
they may only have something like I received a message
from someone who said her name was missus Hinderman, in
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which case they will put the name as Fnu Hindaman,
with FNU standing for first name unknown. In the event
they get something like there was a person wearing a
unicorn first suit standing on the corner, and they have
no choice but to use the name fn U lnu
of course, first name unknown. Last name. I had a
colleague with family roots in Singapore use fnulen U as
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his alias when he was in challenging situations. The number
of exact or partial hits a police officer will get
when querying that name just completely overwhelms the system. While
a few clarifying questions may be asked, no one wants
to dig into possible hits from across the nation and
being everything from victim to suspects, to deceased person to
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witness to other. Now I understand John or Jane Doe
is used frequently in the US, but I do know
a few American agencies use the Fnulenu convention to match
up with some international partners, so your mileage may vary
in the US, but when abroad. Quick tip when picking
an alias, use something you can remember easily. I always
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recommend use your middle name and your mother's maiden name.
If that surname is already the one you use, use
a grandparent's surname that differs from yours. Also, practice signatures,
you don't have to think about it when asked to
sign in. Have fun and be saved, Uncle Basco. This
is not legal advice to y'all. This is not legal advice.
Speaker 3 (06:08):
We are not lawyers. Do not try this at home.
And if you get yourself in a situation, we know
people get in situations, please feel free not to reference
us directly to law enforcement.
Speaker 2 (06:21):
And if you do, feel free to use our respective aliases.
Speaker 3 (06:25):
Max Powers, Astronaut with a Secret and of course the Bagman, The.
Speaker 2 (06:29):
Bagman or Neil's bort and Jonathan Strickland, Oh.
Speaker 3 (06:32):
Yes, and of course Jonathan Strickland. By the way, feel
free anytime you have an issue or a complaint with
this podcast to email our twenty four to seven complaint
department Jonathan Strickland at iHeartRadio dot com. He can't wait
to hear from you. I forgot about that one. Yeah,
we've been doing that for years. Oh yeah, did I
(06:54):
tell you? I tell you know that. Years into consentually
making strict our complaints apartment on this and other shows,
I finally checked with him about.
Speaker 2 (07:06):
It was the What was the result there?
Speaker 3 (07:11):
He does not think it is that it is as
hilarious as we do.
Speaker 4 (07:14):
Well.
Speaker 2 (07:15):
We've also made him our tech support email address, so
if you have any problems with your outlook, please do
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Speaker 3 (07:24):
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Speaker 2 (07:37):
Or at ask doctor strick at iHeartRadio dot com.
Speaker 3 (07:40):
He's a man of many emails. I think we should
go to one other thing. Since we're talking about connective
tissue in our podcast universe, this is one for our
fellow Ridiculous Historians. It is an email from our pal
Jamison and Noel. You and Dylan and I were talking
(08:00):
a little bit about this off air. You recall that
not too long ago on Ridiculous History, we looked at
the history of the IQ test, the intelligence quotient test
that so many kids academic careers hinge upon, you know,
and they're kissing cousins like the SAT and the Act.
(08:24):
At the very end of that episode, we had a
conversation about the person who is allegedly the world record
holder for the highest IQ and this is what Jamison
is responding to. He says, when I heard two seventy
six that's the world IQ record, I thought that had
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to be way too high. To even be possible. It
seems like the IQ test was done on the basis
of how well you can lie to people coming in
high Okay, coming in high, All right, here's what happened.
So the claim is that a person named Junghun Kim
from South Korea has the world's highest IQ rated at
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two seventy six, or anybody who's aware of how IQ
quotients are determined, that is an incredibly high number, to
say the very least. This is something a lot of
skeptics have reacted to, and Jamison has healthfully linked us
to skeptics dot stack exchange dot com, which talks about
(09:30):
this and says there's a problem with a lot of
the websites reporting this. First off, as you and I know, well,
the Guinness Book of World Records is a heck of
a lot of fun, but it's also, you know, not
the most scientifically accurate measurement society out there.
Speaker 2 (09:49):
Well no, I mean, as we know, and you can
listen then on an episode of Ridiculous History, we talked
about this. It was in fact started by the Guinness
company Guinness of Guinness the Drink as a way to
solve pub arguments.
Speaker 3 (10:02):
Yes, to help drunk people stop fighting. Basically, it's one
of those thoroughly confusing but somewhat inspiring stories of a
business pivoting like Hoche, like exactly get out of my
mind palace, like how Michelin. Michelin went from tires to
find dining to great success.
Speaker 2 (10:22):
So it's all about being a first to market with.
Speaker 3 (10:24):
An idea, you know, yeah, yeah, And this is this
is where the story of doctor Kim gets really interesting.
Critics are leging that a lot of the sources citing
this claim are places like Guinness BOOKA, World Records, or
Christian newspapers, so it's almost it's almost like a meme
(10:44):
or a factoid that started floating around. A factoid is
something that appears to be a fact but is actually
not true. We see some hot take comments in the
skeptic forums. One of my favorites is claiming an IQ
of two hundred and seven is a self defeating claim,
as it by definition implies an intelligence present in only
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one of ten to the thirty first power individuals. Anyone
with such high intelligence should immediately realize the silliness of
such a claim, both in terms of its statistical absurdity
and the clear impossibility of establishing such a fact.
Speaker 2 (11:22):
Well, doesn't it sort of speak to the fallibility of
the test like this as we talked about in Ridiculous History,
and like how it's not not that difficult to gain
such a test.
Speaker 3 (11:31):
Yeah, and the comment finishes, ergo, anybody claiming an IQ
of two hundred and seventy six does not in fact
have an IQ of two hundred and seventy six. There
you go. Makes sense. And we also know that we
talked about this a little bit too, and I think
it's worth repeating. We know that IQ tests run into
some of the same problems that fiction writers run into.
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One of the big rules of effective writing is that
any character you make can inherently be no more intelligent
than the author creating that character. And that's why sometimes
you'll see like genius police procedurals or mysteries where the
most intelligent person that everybody is in awe of is
(12:15):
actually not that impressive, you know what I mean, Like
they're solving these clues that are really just a word backwards,
and everybody is going, oh my god, this guy's a savant,
not particularly and IQ tests arguably run into the same
issue because to measure intelligence. First you have to understand it,
which human beings still don't really understand the concept. And
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then secondly, to make an accurate intelligence test, you would
logically have to be the absolute smartest people out there.
So we're not saying the folks who originally like Bene,
we're not saying he was a thunderhead by any means,
but he probably wasn't the smartest guy on the planet
at the time.
Speaker 2 (12:59):
Yeah, because, I mean, the thing that we talk about
on the Ridiculous History episode is that these IQ tests
don't measure things like intuition or measure things like experiential intelligence.
You know, it's a very by the number is kind
of black and white reflection of a particular type of
smarts that often is more a test of how well
you take tests than how smart you actually are.
Speaker 3 (13:22):
Yeah. Yeah, we talked a little bit about our own
testing experience. I'll admit I'm I'm not above feeling a
little smug if I do well on those kinds of tests.
But no, let's say we go to Tennessee, Tennessee. What's
your take on IQ test.
Speaker 5 (13:37):
I see the self defeating angle of it that if
you think you have a super high almost three hundred IQ.
You probably don't, right, It's.
Speaker 3 (13:47):
Usually going to be the more humble people that have
the The people who are very intelligent also tend to
listen more than they speak, and they also probably don't
outside of MENSA, they probably don't put a lot of
stock in these imperfect testing methods.
Speaker 2 (14:05):
Well, and I mean a big part of true functional
intelligence is knowing what you don't know, yes, or knowing
that you don't know it, and trying to be curious
and trying to always learn more. And such an outrageously
high test would indicate someone that, like is you know,
some sort of high mind level genius that has nothing
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left to learn, which is you know, again quite self
defeating at the end of the day.
Speaker 3 (14:30):
Yeah, And then that takes us to a side note
on MENSA. I had thought about joining MENSA back in
the day, just because, like so many other entities, love validation.
But MENSA apparently has become has gone come under fire
repeatedly for decades due to various controversies, especially accusations of
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elitism and toxicity. People called it a circle jerk culture.
And we also know you know that various chapters of
MENSA have recorded national outrage by promoting things that are
perceived to be racist or eugenicist.
Speaker 2 (15:12):
That was another thing that came up in the Ridiculous
History discussion, just about how these types of tests are
often weaponized in that way, in a similar fashion to
things like phrenology that are used to other entire groups
of people through pretty spurious data points.
Speaker 3 (15:27):
Exactly. Yeah, and that's not even adding their own controversy
with the way they test for MENSA membership, the cost
of the test has come under fire. People are just
like with other IQ tests, critics are concerned that these
tests from MENSA are not actually accurately measuring all types
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of talent, so they're a barrier to entry for people
who do have high intellectual potential but maybe have specific
learning disabilities. Right, because, as we said, it has a
lot of our fellow conspiracy villists. You have probably encountered this.
There are people who are absolutely brilliant, but they're not
great at taking tests in a timed format, for instance.
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There are also people who are not the brightest crayon
in the box, to put it diplomatically, but they're very
well trained on the nature of taking a test, you
know what I mean.
Speaker 2 (16:21):
Ben, I'd love to really quickly wrap this one up,
or at least for my part in reading a Reddit
post that I just found in our Korea is doctor
Jung Jun Kim, a fraud slash scammer allegedly highest IQ
two seventy six. Let's see. Recently he began posting daily
on Twitter x and promoting politics of other nations, for
(16:41):
example Elon Musk, Trump and a German political party, which
many may find strange. He apparently deleted a particularly problematic
post there. Wanted to verify his identity by posting different proofs,
irl images, et cetera. Maybe something was off and he
decided to delete it. He also claims this is the
interesting part to be part of the Giga Society, a
club were on many people with at iq greater than
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one ninety are members, and apparently there are only nine
members worldwide. The official website of this club, gigasociety dot com,
dates back to two thousand and nine. On this website,
they warned that there are frauds and scammers using the
same organization name. Junghun Kim claims to be the head
of the Giga Society, but he made this website, which
is not the original one and was only created in
(17:23):
twenty twenty two. Gigasociety dot net for a lot of
the alleged members of the society. You can also find
very little information other than websites linked to him, which
are often about cryptocurrency and AI stuff. Also, the poster
goes on who, by the way, goes by the handle
(17:46):
Magas ninety four, Maguz ninety four. There is more inconsistent
and strange stuff about him, and I find it all
really weird and think that he is probably a fraud
scammer trying to get money with crypto scams or something,
but I might be wrong, who knows. Since my Korean
skills are not that great, it's hard for me to
do research on this individual through other forms of Korean media.
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And then we've got a ton of folks backing this
up to seventy six i Q does not exist. Most
serious institutions assessing IQ will stop at one sixty because
it's already such a small sample from the average intelligence.
And Ben I love a little follow up on that,
because we talk about this some regiculous history that it's
all about the sample size, it's all about comparing yourself
to people who take the test.
Speaker 3 (18:28):
Yeah, exactly. You don't get an absolute score. This is
rated in what we call standard deviation. Right, like picture
of Bell curve, and most people are going to be
within a few degrees of the middle right of the
top of the curve. And then as you go toward
lower scores, deviating further from the norm of people who
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take the test, then you'll see the population start to
winnow down. Same thing when you get into the higher
ranges of the curve. It makes sense, that's why it's
called standard deviation. But it also can give people a
lot of without understanding how the test works. It can
give a lot of people bad feelings about themselves, or
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it can give them maybe a little bit of an
overinflated sense of their abilities.
Speaker 2 (19:17):
Right. And one last thing from the same thread coming
from Golitzen Nosenko psychologists with many years experience in general
mental aptitude testing. To be able to give such a
precise number, you need to be able to differentiate him
from someone else with a two seventy seven IQ and
someone with a two seventy five IQ, So you have
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to find enough of them to ensure you are not
measuring esoteric knowledge or other elements of test error. But
what you're meant to be measuring intelligence IQGMA, whatever you'd
like to call it. So you're gonna need a lot
of people at that level to provide a normative sample.
And even then, there's a ton of issues with psychometric construction, validity, reliability,
et cetera. And a person that intelligent would likely anticipate
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the skepticism and show the methodology behind their claim, or
simply not make it at all, or not partake in
such a measure knowing its fallibility exactly.
Speaker 3 (20:09):
Yeah, well put, fellow conspiracy realists. So there we leave it, folks.
We want to hear your thoughts on that as well.
Please check out our ridiculous history episode IQ test are
kind of dumb, big thanks to ZVS Rex, Uncle Bosco, Jamison,
what say you no? We pause for a word from
our sponsors, and then we head to the voicemails.
Speaker 2 (20:30):
Oh my gosh, let's do it.
Speaker 3 (20:37):
And we have returned with something out there for the
aviation nerds and UFO nerds alike. Welcome home, folks. We're
going to hear from Sergeant Will.
Speaker 4 (20:48):
Hey, this is Sergeant Will calling up a couple of guys.
You already know who I am, but whatever, you guys
should do an episode on ridgid to hould airships. I
think half of the UFO sightings that we see flying over,
especially in triangular formations stuff like that, is most likely
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these things with some type of camouflage technology. So I
think when we see them, were's there's a problem with
the camo, and that's what I believe they are. Just
look it up and then, you know, let me know
what you guys come up with, because I think you
guys would do a good report on it. It's basically
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kind of like a it's like a neutral buoyancy rigid
hulled aircraft. Basically it can fly, it can be large.
It's kind of like a blimp, but there's a rigid
hole on it. And then you know, if you applied
some type of boost technology to it, I'm sure it
can fly out at high speed if necessary. So yeah,
(22:01):
I mean, I'm you know, I'm not trying to call
out special operators or anything like that, but I'm just
saying it seems like a very very feasible explanation for
some of these sloop slow moving objects that people see
with the lights, you know that are lower altitude and stuff.
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And checking out maybe mapping territory, tobiography, maybe checking out civilians,
maybe testing out ability. One of the things is if
you're testing out a stealth aircraft, you need to make
sure that it's not a visible over you know, populated areas,
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so you've got to fly it over some some people,
just like that Jersey stuff or New York stuff where
all those drones came over and on the governments is like, well,
we don't know those, yeah, man, Okay, check it out, man,
all right, have a good one. Buck.
Speaker 3 (23:02):
Well, there we have it, folks. Thank you to Sergeant
will Noel. This goes in a lot of places, and
it's pretty interesting to hear from someone in the military
talking about this because we've been speculating about this for
quite some time, and I've got to share one of
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the pictures that I know we immediately think of what
we hear rigid holed airships And there's a reason for it.
Speaker 2 (23:30):
Man, this is all new to me. Ben. You linked
to a fascinating piece from Popular Communications magazine from back
in two thousand and four talking about like miles long
airships that are used for spying purposes that are like
I mean, that's like the size of a frickin' town.
That's give it to me, man, I'm very unfamiliar with.
Speaker 3 (23:52):
This, folks. I'm gonna share one of my favorite pictures
of aircraft because as an aviation nerd, this will give
you a chuckle. Please look up various angles of the
air Lander ten. All right, nol, I'm gonna put you
on the spot. What's your first reaction when you see
this butthole? This thicker than a.
Speaker 2 (24:15):
Bolo, big old frickin' dumper. I am triggered. I am triggered.
Speaker 3 (24:21):
Ben looks like two bobcats and a tight sack fighting.
You know what I mean?
Speaker 2 (24:26):
I do, I do weird that we.
Speaker 3 (24:29):
Both know it.
Speaker 2 (24:30):
That hate to see you go, but I love watching
you walk away, right, So.
Speaker 3 (24:34):
That laugh aside, and please give yourself a chuckle. Check
out the Airlander ten. That laugh aside. This is a
huge issue, as as you mentioned that. That link I
posted earlier breaks down some stuff from Popular Communications magazine
way back in two thousand and four. We know that
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we know the world's governments have indeed experimented with high
altitude airships. Because once you get those bad boys up there,
you're in the catbird seat. You have this immense view
you have, depending on the surveillance gear you have, you
can reach into a lot of information that otherwise would
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have been very difficult to get. This article specifically pertains
to a V shaped airship bigger than a baseball diamond,
that can rise to an altitude of one hundred thousand feet.
It was a joint JP Aerospace in USAF US Air
Force project to build a spy in the sky, a
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spoop in the sky. This was called the Ascender. This
is again just one specific example, but the founder of
the company, John Powell, at the time said, the full
size station in our grand vision is two miles across unreal, right, right,
it's just getting it up there. And it's also you know, technically,
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if everything works, this is more affordable for the Pentagon too,
because that neutral buoyancy means once you get to a
certain altitude, it's just going to float there, you know
what I mean, like a balloon that's running out of helium.
Speaker 2 (26:16):
Perhaps, Yeah, And it would appear that a reason that
these types of airship projects are becoming more attractive to
the Pentagon is that they're pretty cost effective. Yes, exactly.
Speaker 3 (26:26):
And this might sound crazy to a lot of US
outside of obviously Sergeant will Tennessee Dole and myself. But
a recent piece of news broke that again convinces me
US technology is far past what the public is aware of.
Have you guys heard of something called ghost Murmur? That's
(26:50):
a sick name, right and I'm here for it. So
ghost Murmur is, yes, an amazing name. It comes to
us courtesy of the CIA. The news just broke today
as we're recording on Wednesday, April eighth. It's an explanation
of how Uncle Sam was able to rescue that down
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pilot in Iran. Remember that happened just recently. The aviator
is back in the US was rescued. He has not
been publicly identified. We just know he's a highly respected
colonel who went by the handle Dude forty four Bravo.
His F fifteen East Strike Eagle was brought down in
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the southwest of Isfahan and there was this frantic race
to figure out what happened. There were two people on
board the craft. One ejected safely and was rescued by
military helicopters the same day. The second officer was injured.
This guy's two hundred miles behind enemy lines. He has
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only a handgun for protection. He has to evade capture.
He has to practice sayre basically in the Baronilderness for
thirty six hours while an extremely dangerous government is hunting him.
He was finally found and was retrieved by a team
of bandos in an operation that still remains murky today.
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But the New York Post and The Independent broke the story.
They found him with a secret technology called ghost Murmur.
Ghost Murmur is sci fi level stuff. It uses. Get this,
there's a quote from The Independent. It uses long range
quantum magnetometry technology that measures magnetic fields to trace the
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electromagnetic signals produced by a human heartbeat, and it can
sense this hundreds of miles away. Then it pairs with
AI software to isolate that heartbeat from distracting background noise
and pinpoint its source. So if they want to find
someone hiding in the middle of nowhere, unless they're very
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far under around very shielded, ghost Murmur can find you.
Speaker 2 (29:04):
That's kind of spooky, right, ghost Murmer sounds like the
name of like a Tom Clancy video game.
Speaker 3 (29:09):
It really does. Yes, that's pretty cool, man, mission.
Speaker 2 (29:12):
I have no doubt in my mind that some of
these UAP reports are exactly that, and then people have
been saying that for years. I believe there's a mention
here about one of these types of crafts being tested
near area fifty one.
Speaker 3 (29:25):
Yes, yeah, I believe you're correct, going back to that
two thousand and four article. When you look at the
timeline of how these things get tested, how the prototypes
get constructed, it matches up with a lot of UFO
or UAP reports. The thing we're referencing here in particular, folks,
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is American era West seven seven, right.
Speaker 2 (29:52):
For sure. And there's a report from an individual who
claims to have seen one of these and described it
as an elongated black bloe imp invisible except when illuminated
by lightning flashes. And you know that reminds me of
is the Jordan Peel film. Nope, the UFO or the
alien in that is very blimp like and very much
hovers behind hides behind the clouds like an airship would.
(30:16):
It didn't really occur to me until we started having
this conversation how much sense a lot of this makes.
Not to mention that I think I've mentioned to you
not to mention, but I'm mentioning the one time I
sort of saw what appeared to be something along the
lines of a UAP, and it was very elongated and
blimp like. It was hovering over the like over Nebraska,
(30:38):
over these like planes in Nebraska, and I swear I'd
never seen anything like it. But when I'm remembering back
to it, it was totally this oblong shape.
Speaker 3 (30:47):
Got to dig up that tape for us. I know, man,
it's around So yeah, yeah, we think. Well, Sergeant will
all to say, I agree with you. This may not
explain all UAP, but it definitely explains a few cases
at the very least. And there's a reason why people
don't talk about these kinds of surveillance craft as often
(31:08):
as they should. They're so cool, they're so strange, and
they only work when people don't really acknowledge them. This
ghost murmur thing, which I think is a great argument
for technological suppression. This was developed by our friends at
Skunk Works thanks to Lockheed Martin. They have tested it
(31:29):
on Blackhawk helicopters, and I think they want to use
it in the future once they can figure out the
technical details. They want to use it in the future
on F thirty five fighter jets. Wow, with this, we're
going to pause, We'll take one more word from our sponsors,
and then maybe we wrap up with a positive root
a begas story.
Speaker 2 (31:50):
Let's do it, and.
Speaker 3 (31:56):
We have returned with another voicemail. This is a letter
from home, courtesy of our pal Troglodyte and Tennessee. I
thought this one would stand out to you in particular.
Speaker 6 (32:09):
Hey guys, Troglodite, love your show. You can use whatever
I say on the air. I wanted to give you
some good news and that I have tried my first
rude bega. In the city that I live in, there
is a route Beega days where a local farmer brought
his rout of begas to just give away at the
local Whole Foods And I took it home and it
(32:32):
tasted like a rude bega. Thank you, have a good night.
Speaker 3 (32:38):
I love the way you in there, Troglodyte. It sounds
very much like stand up, like that's my time, Thank you,
good night. Tasted like a rude biga.
Speaker 2 (32:46):
Come on, man, that's like saying the snosberries tastes like snosberry.
Speaker 3 (32:51):
What I also like about this is clearly, Trogolodite, you
live in a better neighborhood than us. These people are
just giving out free Ruda begas on the street. That's
a Donnie la Boy move.
Speaker 2 (33:04):
It really is quite a Donnie the Boy move. Dare
we say a flex? Dare we say? Dare we say?
Speaker 3 (33:10):
And at this point, since we have just a little
bit of extra time here, as we're keeping this kind
of short, Tennessee, if you're comfortable, I would love for
you to share with the audience your inspiration for the
world of the rut de Bega.
Speaker 2 (33:24):
Yeah. It was.
Speaker 5 (33:26):
We were looking for a phrase to say to start recording,
and for some reason I said time to dig up
the rude Begas. And since then I've tried to create
an alternate universe filled with.
Speaker 2 (33:38):
Characters like the Rude Bega verse a rua verse.
Speaker 5 (33:42):
Yeah, and Donnie will sell you a Rudebega or he'll
say that you can buy Donnie lacoin his new name
coin and you can buy many rudebigas.
Speaker 3 (33:52):
Perfect.
Speaker 1 (33:52):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (33:52):
Donnie la Boy is the real stutoci, creator of bitcoin,
and it's all for his international Ruda Bega operation. Have
you guys, as we're building this universe in conjunction with IGU,
have you guys tried any rutabagas recently.
Speaker 2 (34:07):
I've still yet to try a rude beega, and frankly,
I think the mystery. To our previous discussion about Banksy
and your voice, Satoshi, I think I like the mystery
better than the knowing.
Speaker 5 (34:17):
Then have you tried a rude bega?
Speaker 6 (34:19):
I have?
Speaker 2 (34:20):
I have.
Speaker 3 (34:20):
I've also, but that's partially because for a while I've
had a strange habit of going to various farmers' markets
or what you would call like region specific or ethnic
grocery stores, and I make a deal with myself where
I'll buy the responsible things, the staples, the grains, you know,
(34:42):
the juices and the coffees, but then I buy experimental
stuff as well. I have my own kind of grocery store,
skunk works, and that's how I ran into ruta begas,
because I'll walk through the produce section, especially like our
decab farmers market is great for this, walk through their
huge produce section and find something that looks incredibly unfamiliar
(35:03):
and then see if you can figure out how to
cook it. It doesn't always work for me, but I'm
not a Michelin star chef. Do you guys ever play
games like that?
Speaker 2 (35:10):
Always?
Speaker 3 (35:11):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (35:12):
Play stupid games. Win stupid prizes.
Speaker 5 (35:14):
I've never tried rudebaga, but one of our lovely listeners
sent us images of a rudebigga case idea, which really
piqued my interest.
Speaker 3 (35:22):
Oh yes, yeah, two great things that taste great together.
So maybe as we're getting closer through spring into summer,
we can get together at whomever's house has the sickest
backyard and throw a Rudebega party thanks to do It.
I don't know what that will entail exactly, but who
(35:42):
doesn't love starting a new tradition. As we said, folks,
we're going to keep this one short. We've got to
be on the move a little bit today. But big,
big thank you to everybody who wrote in called hit
us up on the line. So big thank you to Jamison,
Sergeant Will Troglodyte, Zus Rex, Uncle Bosco, and spoiler for you,
(36:03):
fellow conspiracy realist Jill. We absolutely loved your message to us.
We're saving that for next week because we have a
little more digging that we want to do. We hope
that you joined us, folks, for our episodes, for our
strange news, for our listener mail in the future, and
we try to be pretty easy to find out in
(36:24):
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Speaker 2 (00:26):
Hello, and welcome back to the show.
Speaker 3 (00:27):
My name is Noel, and now our colleague Matt is
on an adventure will be returning soon. They called me Ben.
We're joined as always with our super producer Dylan the
Tennessee pal Fagan. Most importantly, you are here. That makes
this the stuff they don't want you to know. If
you are tuning in to our listener mail program the
Evening it publishes Welcome to April sixteenth, twenty twenty six,
(00:52):
and Noel, We've got a bunch of rapid fire, crazy
ones today. I was thinking, if you're okay with it,
we start with something kind of gross.
Speaker 2 (01:04):
Let's rip the band aid off and pick the scab. Yeah, sorry, sorry,
I'm really sorry.
Speaker 3 (01:08):
I had to get Well, let's pick our teeth. How
about this? Tell us what you think afterwards, folks. We
couldn't think of a better way to open the show
than with a word from our good pal Zvius Rex,
who introduces us to a fact we never wanted to
learn about raccoons. Here it goes. Greetings, Ben, Matt, Nol,
(01:30):
and Dylan. First use this as you wish. You may
call me Zvius Rex. That's Zvius with an X and
rex like a car wreck. Just listened to your story
mentioning RFK Junior's road kill forging tale or tales. I
had a brain blast, shout out Jimmy neutron and recalled
(01:51):
a memory from a way's back in my sixty years.
All right, here we go, folks, there's the deep water
quote from Zvius. The use for a raccoon penis can
be referred to as a hillbilly toothpick googly. I found
the attached video, which we're not going to play for you, folks,
but in short, it involves the use of the baculum
(02:12):
of the penis in fashioning a toothpick. The baculum, Zvius
helpfully notes, is a cardilinag just part that gives the
penis rigidity when needed. So anyway, enough Internet for today.
Ed you have also helpfully, I guess, Zvius linked us
directly to the meat eater dot com, which gives you
(02:33):
a step by stuff video on how to make a
raccoon baculum toothpick. Love the podcast Codeeme Zvius, Rex Rudebega Lovers, Unite.
Speaker 2 (02:43):
Man and shout out to our buddy Sean Titone, who
heads up the Meat Eater podcasts. That's right, network with
us here at iHeart super super cool stuff and super
super weird gross stuff. It would seem as well. The
old raccoon penis bone trick.
Speaker 3 (02:59):
Ah, Yes, the old raccoon penis bump trick and brief
side note here. I don't know how much we want
feedback on this one, but heck roll the dice folks
don't make it. Sorry, we asked. If you have had
experience with the hillbilly toothpick, feel free to email us
and tell us a little bit about it. I can't
(03:20):
believe this is how we're starting up, but we are.
Oh man, well Ben.
Speaker 2 (03:24):
It reminds me too of the infamous prairie oyster. Yes, yeah,
the of course that is, I believe buffalo testicles that
are consumed in certain regions of these here United States.
Speaker 3 (03:37):
Yeah, And it's all about the seasoning and the sauces,
and if you get a.
Speaker 2 (03:41):
Piece stuck in your teeth, you can always pick it
out with the hill billy toothpick.
Speaker 3 (03:45):
There we go, solved and solved. We're going to be
right back after a word from our sponsors.
Speaker 2 (03:56):
And we have returned with a piece of correspondence from
ode name Uncle Bosco. This very good one writing to
us about police databases. Hello, says Uncle Bosco. I hope
you are doing well. We hope the same for you.
Police use various databases to store a variety of types
of information. When entering a person into their respective system,
(04:19):
first name and last name are virtually always mandatory fields. However,
in some cases they don't have a person's full name,
such as guy in a blue jacket named Quincy, and
in this case they will input the person's name as
Quincy LNU, with NU standing for a last name unknown. Similarly,
they may only have something like I received a message
from someone who said her name was missus Hinderman, in
(04:42):
which case they will put the name as Fnu Hindaman,
with FNU standing for first name unknown. In the event
they get something like there was a person wearing a
unicorn first suit standing on the corner, and they have
no choice but to use the name fn U lnu
of course, first name unknown. Last name. I had a
colleague with family roots in Singapore use fnulen U as
(05:04):
his alias when he was in challenging situations. The number
of exact or partial hits a police officer will get
when querying that name just completely overwhelms the system. While
a few clarifying questions may be asked, no one wants
to dig into possible hits from across the nation and
being everything from victim to suspects, to deceased person to
(05:26):
witness to other. Now I understand John or Jane Doe
is used frequently in the US, but I do know
a few American agencies use the Fnulenu convention to match
up with some international partners, so your mileage may vary
in the US, but when abroad. Quick tip when picking
an alias, use something you can remember easily. I always
(05:49):
recommend use your middle name and your mother's maiden name.
If that surname is already the one you use, use
a grandparent's surname that differs from yours. Also, practice signatures,
you don't have to think about it when asked to
sign in. Have fun and be saved, Uncle Basco. This
is not legal advice to y'all. This is not legal advice.
Speaker 3 (06:08):
We are not lawyers. Do not try this at home.
And if you get yourself in a situation, we know
people get in situations, please feel free not to reference
us directly to law enforcement.
Speaker 2 (06:21):
And if you do, feel free to use our respective aliases.
Speaker 3 (06:25):
Max Powers, Astronaut with a Secret and of course the Bagman, The.
Speaker 2 (06:29):
Bagman or Neil's bort and Jonathan Strickland, Oh.
Speaker 3 (06:32):
Yes, and of course Jonathan Strickland. By the way, feel
free anytime you have an issue or a complaint with
this podcast to email our twenty four to seven complaint
department Jonathan Strickland at iHeartRadio dot com. He can't wait
to hear from you. I forgot about that one. Yeah,
we've been doing that for years. Oh yeah, did I
(06:54):
tell you? I tell you know that. Years into consentually
making strict our complaints apartment on this and other shows,
I finally checked with him about.
Speaker 2 (07:06):
It was the What was the result there?
Speaker 3 (07:11):
He does not think it is that it is as
hilarious as we do.
Speaker 4 (07:14):
Well.
Speaker 2 (07:15):
We've also made him our tech support email address, so
if you have any problems with your outlook, please do
hit up. Jonathan Strickland at iHeartRadio dot com.
Speaker 3 (07:24):
Or if you have personal problems, or if any other
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Speaker 2 (07:37):
Or at ask doctor strick at iHeartRadio dot com.
Speaker 3 (07:40):
He's a man of many emails. I think we should
go to one other thing. Since we're talking about connective
tissue in our podcast universe, this is one for our
fellow Ridiculous Historians. It is an email from our pal
Jamison and Noel. You and Dylan and I were talking
(08:00):
a little bit about this off air. You recall that
not too long ago on Ridiculous History, we looked at
the history of the IQ test, the intelligence quotient test
that so many kids academic careers hinge upon, you know,
and they're kissing cousins like the SAT and the Act.
(08:24):
At the very end of that episode, we had a
conversation about the person who is allegedly the world record
holder for the highest IQ and this is what Jamison
is responding to. He says, when I heard two seventy
six that's the world IQ record, I thought that had
(08:44):
to be way too high. To even be possible. It
seems like the IQ test was done on the basis
of how well you can lie to people coming in
high Okay, coming in high, All right, here's what happened.
So the claim is that a person named Junghun Kim
from South Korea has the world's highest IQ rated at
(09:06):
two seventy six, or anybody who's aware of how IQ
quotients are determined, that is an incredibly high number, to
say the very least. This is something a lot of
skeptics have reacted to, and Jamison has healthfully linked us
to skeptics dot stack exchange dot com, which talks about
(09:30):
this and says there's a problem with a lot of
the websites reporting this. First off, as you and I know, well,
the Guinness Book of World Records is a heck of
a lot of fun, but it's also, you know, not
the most scientifically accurate measurement society out there.
Speaker 2 (09:49):
Well no, I mean, as we know, and you can
listen then on an episode of Ridiculous History, we talked
about this. It was in fact started by the Guinness
company Guinness of Guinness the Drink as a way to
solve pub arguments.
Speaker 3 (10:02):
Yes, to help drunk people stop fighting. Basically, it's one
of those thoroughly confusing but somewhat inspiring stories of a
business pivoting like Hoche, like exactly get out of my
mind palace, like how Michelin. Michelin went from tires to
find dining to great success.
Speaker 2 (10:22):
So it's all about being a first to market with.
Speaker 3 (10:24):
An idea, you know, yeah, yeah, And this is this
is where the story of doctor Kim gets really interesting.
Critics are leging that a lot of the sources citing
this claim are places like Guinness BOOKA, World Records, or
Christian newspapers, so it's almost it's almost like a meme
(10:44):
or a factoid that started floating around. A factoid is
something that appears to be a fact but is actually
not true. We see some hot take comments in the
skeptic forums. One of my favorites is claiming an IQ
of two hundred and seven is a self defeating claim,
as it by definition implies an intelligence present in only
(11:05):
one of ten to the thirty first power individuals. Anyone
with such high intelligence should immediately realize the silliness of
such a claim, both in terms of its statistical absurdity
and the clear impossibility of establishing such a fact.
Speaker 2 (11:22):
Well, doesn't it sort of speak to the fallibility of
the test like this as we talked about in Ridiculous History,
and like how it's not not that difficult to gain
such a test.
Speaker 3 (11:31):
Yeah, and the comment finishes, ergo, anybody claiming an IQ
of two hundred and seventy six does not in fact
have an IQ of two hundred and seventy six. There
you go. Makes sense. And we also know that we
talked about this a little bit too, and I think
it's worth repeating. We know that IQ tests run into
some of the same problems that fiction writers run into.
(11:53):
One of the big rules of effective writing is that
any character you make can inherently be no more intelligent
than the author creating that character. And that's why sometimes
you'll see like genius police procedurals or mysteries where the
most intelligent person that everybody is in awe of is
(12:15):
actually not that impressive, you know what I mean, Like
they're solving these clues that are really just a word backwards,
and everybody is going, oh my god, this guy's a savant,
not particularly and IQ tests arguably run into the same
issue because to measure intelligence. First you have to understand it,
which human beings still don't really understand the concept. And
(12:40):
then secondly, to make an accurate intelligence test, you would
logically have to be the absolute smartest people out there.
So we're not saying the folks who originally like Bene,
we're not saying he was a thunderhead by any means,
but he probably wasn't the smartest guy on the planet
at the time.
Speaker 2 (12:59):
Yeah, because, I mean, the thing that we talk about
on the Ridiculous History episode is that these IQ tests
don't measure things like intuition or measure things like experiential intelligence.
You know, it's a very by the number is kind
of black and white reflection of a particular type of
smarts that often is more a test of how well
you take tests than how smart you actually are.
Speaker 3 (13:22):
Yeah. Yeah, we talked a little bit about our own
testing experience. I'll admit I'm I'm not above feeling a
little smug if I do well on those kinds of tests.
But no, let's say we go to Tennessee, Tennessee. What's
your take on IQ test.
Speaker 5 (13:37):
I see the self defeating angle of it that if
you think you have a super high almost three hundred IQ.
You probably don't, right, It's.
Speaker 3 (13:47):
Usually going to be the more humble people that have
the The people who are very intelligent also tend to
listen more than they speak, and they also probably don't
outside of MENSA, they probably don't put a lot of
stock in these imperfect testing methods.
Speaker 2 (14:05):
Well, and I mean a big part of true functional
intelligence is knowing what you don't know, yes, or knowing
that you don't know it, and trying to be curious
and trying to always learn more. And such an outrageously
high test would indicate someone that, like is you know,
some sort of high mind level genius that has nothing
(14:25):
left to learn, which is you know, again quite self
defeating at the end of the day.
Speaker 3 (14:30):
Yeah, And then that takes us to a side note
on MENSA. I had thought about joining MENSA back in
the day, just because, like so many other entities, love validation.
But MENSA apparently has become has gone come under fire
repeatedly for decades due to various controversies, especially accusations of
(14:53):
elitism and toxicity. People called it a circle jerk culture.
And we also know you know that various chapters of
MENSA have recorded national outrage by promoting things that are
perceived to be racist or eugenicist.
Speaker 2 (15:12):
That was another thing that came up in the Ridiculous
History discussion, just about how these types of tests are
often weaponized in that way, in a similar fashion to
things like phrenology that are used to other entire groups
of people through pretty spurious data points.
Speaker 3 (15:27):
Exactly. Yeah, and that's not even adding their own controversy
with the way they test for MENSA membership, the cost
of the test has come under fire. People are just
like with other IQ tests, critics are concerned that these
tests from MENSA are not actually accurately measuring all types
(15:48):
of talent, so they're a barrier to entry for people
who do have high intellectual potential but maybe have specific
learning disabilities. Right, because, as we said, it has a
lot of our fellow conspiracy villists. You have probably encountered this.
There are people who are absolutely brilliant, but they're not
great at taking tests in a timed format, for instance.
(16:10):
There are also people who are not the brightest crayon
in the box, to put it diplomatically, but they're very
well trained on the nature of taking a test, you
know what I mean.
Speaker 2 (16:21):
Ben, I'd love to really quickly wrap this one up,
or at least for my part in reading a Reddit
post that I just found in our Korea is doctor
Jung Jun Kim, a fraud slash scammer allegedly highest IQ
two seventy six. Let's see. Recently he began posting daily
on Twitter x and promoting politics of other nations, for
(16:41):
example Elon Musk, Trump and a German political party, which
many may find strange. He apparently deleted a particularly problematic
post there. Wanted to verify his identity by posting different proofs,
irl images, et cetera. Maybe something was off and he
decided to delete it. He also claims this is the
interesting part to be part of the Giga Society, a
club were on many people with at iq greater than
(17:01):
one ninety are members, and apparently there are only nine
members worldwide. The official website of this club, gigasociety dot com,
dates back to two thousand and nine. On this website,
they warned that there are frauds and scammers using the
same organization name. Junghun Kim claims to be the head
of the Giga Society, but he made this website, which
is not the original one and was only created in
(17:23):
twenty twenty two. Gigasociety dot net for a lot of
the alleged members of the society. You can also find
very little information other than websites linked to him, which
are often about cryptocurrency and AI stuff. Also, the poster
goes on who, by the way, goes by the handle
(17:46):
Magas ninety four, Maguz ninety four. There is more inconsistent
and strange stuff about him, and I find it all
really weird and think that he is probably a fraud
scammer trying to get money with crypto scams or something,
but I might be wrong, who knows. Since my Korean
skills are not that great, it's hard for me to
do research on this individual through other forms of Korean media.
(18:07):
And then we've got a ton of folks backing this
up to seventy six i Q does not exist. Most
serious institutions assessing IQ will stop at one sixty because
it's already such a small sample from the average intelligence.
And Ben I love a little follow up on that,
because we talk about this some regiculous history that it's
all about the sample size, it's all about comparing yourself
to people who take the test.
Speaker 3 (18:28):
Yeah, exactly. You don't get an absolute score. This is
rated in what we call standard deviation. Right, like picture
of Bell curve, and most people are going to be
within a few degrees of the middle right of the
top of the curve. And then as you go toward
lower scores, deviating further from the norm of people who
(18:48):
take the test, then you'll see the population start to
winnow down. Same thing when you get into the higher
ranges of the curve. It makes sense, that's why it's
called standard deviation. But it also can give people a
lot of without understanding how the test works. It can
give a lot of people bad feelings about themselves, or
(19:12):
it can give them maybe a little bit of an
overinflated sense of their abilities.
Speaker 2 (19:17):
Right. And one last thing from the same thread coming
from Golitzen Nosenko psychologists with many years experience in general
mental aptitude testing. To be able to give such a
precise number, you need to be able to differentiate him
from someone else with a two seventy seven IQ and
someone with a two seventy five IQ, So you have
(19:37):
to find enough of them to ensure you are not
measuring esoteric knowledge or other elements of test error. But
what you're meant to be measuring intelligence IQGMA, whatever you'd
like to call it. So you're gonna need a lot
of people at that level to provide a normative sample.
And even then, there's a ton of issues with psychometric construction, validity, reliability,
et cetera. And a person that intelligent would likely anticipate
(19:59):
the skepticism and show the methodology behind their claim, or
simply not make it at all, or not partake in
such a measure knowing its fallibility exactly.
Speaker 3 (20:09):
Yeah, well put, fellow conspiracy realists. So there we leave it, folks.
We want to hear your thoughts on that as well.
Please check out our ridiculous history episode IQ test are
kind of dumb, big thanks to ZVS Rex, Uncle Bosco, Jamison,
what say you no? We pause for a word from
our sponsors, and then we head to the voicemails.
Speaker 2 (20:30):
Oh my gosh, let's do it.
Speaker 3 (20:37):
And we have returned with something out there for the
aviation nerds and UFO nerds alike. Welcome home, folks. We're
going to hear from Sergeant Will.
Speaker 4 (20:48):
Hey, this is Sergeant Will calling up a couple of guys.
You already know who I am, but whatever, you guys
should do an episode on ridgid to hould airships. I
think half of the UFO sightings that we see flying over,
especially in triangular formations stuff like that, is most likely
(21:12):
these things with some type of camouflage technology. So I
think when we see them, were's there's a problem with
the camo, and that's what I believe they are. Just
look it up and then, you know, let me know
what you guys come up with, because I think you
guys would do a good report on it. It's basically
(21:36):
kind of like a it's like a neutral buoyancy rigid
hulled aircraft. Basically it can fly, it can be large.
It's kind of like a blimp, but there's a rigid
hole on it. And then you know, if you applied
some type of boost technology to it, I'm sure it
can fly out at high speed if necessary. So yeah,
(22:01):
I mean, I'm you know, I'm not trying to call
out special operators or anything like that, but I'm just
saying it seems like a very very feasible explanation for
some of these sloop slow moving objects that people see
with the lights, you know that are lower altitude and stuff.
(22:21):
And checking out maybe mapping territory, tobiography, maybe checking out civilians,
maybe testing out ability. One of the things is if
you're testing out a stealth aircraft, you need to make
sure that it's not a visible over you know, populated areas,
(22:42):
so you've got to fly it over some some people,
just like that Jersey stuff or New York stuff where
all those drones came over and on the governments is like, well,
we don't know those, yeah, man, Okay, check it out, man,
all right, have a good one. Buck.
Speaker 3 (23:02):
Well, there we have it, folks. Thank you to Sergeant
will Noel. This goes in a lot of places, and
it's pretty interesting to hear from someone in the military
talking about this because we've been speculating about this for
quite some time, and I've got to share one of
(23:22):
the pictures that I know we immediately think of what
we hear rigid holed airships And there's a reason for it.
Speaker 2 (23:30):
Man, this is all new to me. Ben. You linked
to a fascinating piece from Popular Communications magazine from back
in two thousand and four talking about like miles long
airships that are used for spying purposes that are like
I mean, that's like the size of a frickin' town.
That's give it to me, man, I'm very unfamiliar with.
Speaker 3 (23:52):
This, folks. I'm gonna share one of my favorite pictures
of aircraft because as an aviation nerd, this will give
you a chuckle. Please look up various angles of the
air Lander ten. All right, nol, I'm gonna put you
on the spot. What's your first reaction when you see
this butthole? This thicker than a.
Speaker 2 (24:15):
Bolo, big old frickin' dumper. I am triggered. I am triggered.
Speaker 3 (24:21):
Ben looks like two bobcats and a tight sack fighting.
You know what I mean?
Speaker 2 (24:26):
I do, I do weird that we.
Speaker 3 (24:29):
Both know it.
Speaker 2 (24:30):
That hate to see you go, but I love watching
you walk away, right, So.
Speaker 3 (24:34):
That laugh aside, and please give yourself a chuckle. Check
out the Airlander ten. That laugh aside. This is a
huge issue, as as you mentioned that. That link I
posted earlier breaks down some stuff from Popular Communications magazine
way back in two thousand and four. We know that
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we know the world's governments have indeed experimented with high
altitude airships. Because once you get those bad boys up there,
you're in the catbird seat. You have this immense view
you have, depending on the surveillance gear you have, you
can reach into a lot of information that otherwise would
(25:16):
have been very difficult to get. This article specifically pertains
to a V shaped airship bigger than a baseball diamond,
that can rise to an altitude of one hundred thousand feet.
It was a joint JP Aerospace in USAF US Air
Force project to build a spy in the sky, a
(25:39):
spoop in the sky. This was called the Ascender. This
is again just one specific example, but the founder of
the company, John Powell, at the time said, the full
size station in our grand vision is two miles across unreal, right, right,
it's just getting it up there. And it's also you know, technically,
(26:01):
if everything works, this is more affordable for the Pentagon too,
because that neutral buoyancy means once you get to a
certain altitude, it's just going to float there, you know
what I mean, like a balloon that's running out of helium.
Speaker 2 (26:16):
Perhaps, Yeah, And it would appear that a reason that
these types of airship projects are becoming more attractive to
the Pentagon is that they're pretty cost effective. Yes, exactly.
Speaker 3 (26:26):
And this might sound crazy to a lot of US
outside of obviously Sergeant will Tennessee Dole and myself. But
a recent piece of news broke that again convinces me
US technology is far past what the public is aware of.
Have you guys heard of something called ghost Murmur? That's
(26:50):
a sick name, right and I'm here for it. So
ghost Murmur is, yes, an amazing name. It comes to
us courtesy of the CIA. The news just broke today
as we're recording on Wednesday, April eighth. It's an explanation
of how Uncle Sam was able to rescue that down
(27:11):
pilot in Iran. Remember that happened just recently. The aviator
is back in the US was rescued. He has not
been publicly identified. We just know he's a highly respected
colonel who went by the handle Dude forty four Bravo.
His F fifteen East Strike Eagle was brought down in
(27:32):
the southwest of Isfahan and there was this frantic race
to figure out what happened. There were two people on
board the craft. One ejected safely and was rescued by
military helicopters the same day. The second officer was injured.
This guy's two hundred miles behind enemy lines. He has
(27:52):
only a handgun for protection. He has to evade capture.
He has to practice sayre basically in the Baronilderness for
thirty six hours while an extremely dangerous government is hunting him.
He was finally found and was retrieved by a team
of bandos in an operation that still remains murky today.
(28:14):
But the New York Post and The Independent broke the story.
They found him with a secret technology called ghost Murmur.
Ghost Murmur is sci fi level stuff. It uses. Get this,
there's a quote from The Independent. It uses long range
quantum magnetometry technology that measures magnetic fields to trace the
(28:36):
electromagnetic signals produced by a human heartbeat, and it can
sense this hundreds of miles away. Then it pairs with
AI software to isolate that heartbeat from distracting background noise
and pinpoint its source. So if they want to find
someone hiding in the middle of nowhere, unless they're very
(28:59):
far under around very shielded, ghost Murmur can find you.
Speaker 2 (29:04):
That's kind of spooky, right, ghost Murmer sounds like the
name of like a Tom Clancy video game.
Speaker 3 (29:09):
It really does. Yes, that's pretty cool, man, mission.
Speaker 2 (29:12):
I have no doubt in my mind that some of
these UAP reports are exactly that, and then people have
been saying that for years. I believe there's a mention
here about one of these types of crafts being tested
near area fifty one.
Speaker 3 (29:25):
Yes, yeah, I believe you're correct, going back to that
two thousand and four article. When you look at the
timeline of how these things get tested, how the prototypes
get constructed, it matches up with a lot of UFO
or UAP reports. The thing we're referencing here in particular, folks,
(29:48):
is American era West seven seven, right.
Speaker 2 (29:52):
For sure. And there's a report from an individual who
claims to have seen one of these and described it
as an elongated black bloe imp invisible except when illuminated
by lightning flashes. And you know that reminds me of
is the Jordan Peel film. Nope, the UFO or the
alien in that is very blimp like and very much
hovers behind hides behind the clouds like an airship would.
(30:16):
It didn't really occur to me until we started having
this conversation how much sense a lot of this makes.
Not to mention that I think I've mentioned to you
not to mention, but I'm mentioning the one time I
sort of saw what appeared to be something along the
lines of a UAP, and it was very elongated and
blimp like. It was hovering over the like over Nebraska,
(30:38):
over these like planes in Nebraska, and I swear I'd
never seen anything like it. But when I'm remembering back
to it, it was totally this oblong shape.
Speaker 3 (30:47):
Got to dig up that tape for us. I know, man,
it's around So yeah, yeah, we think. Well, Sergeant will
all to say, I agree with you. This may not
explain all UAP, but it definitely explains a few cases
at the very least. And there's a reason why people
don't talk about these kinds of surveillance craft as often
(31:08):
as they should. They're so cool, they're so strange, and
they only work when people don't really acknowledge them. This
ghost murmur thing, which I think is a great argument
for technological suppression. This was developed by our friends at
Skunk Works thanks to Lockheed Martin. They have tested it
(31:29):
on Blackhawk helicopters, and I think they want to use
it in the future once they can figure out the
technical details. They want to use it in the future
on F thirty five fighter jets. Wow, with this, we're
going to pause, We'll take one more word from our sponsors,
and then maybe we wrap up with a positive root
a begas story.
Speaker 2 (31:50):
Let's do it, and.
Speaker 3 (31:56):
We have returned with another voicemail. This is a letter
from home, courtesy of our pal Troglodyte and Tennessee. I
thought this one would stand out to you in particular.
Speaker 6 (32:09):
Hey guys, Troglodite, love your show. You can use whatever
I say on the air. I wanted to give you
some good news and that I have tried my first
rude bega. In the city that I live in, there
is a route Beega days where a local farmer brought
his rout of begas to just give away at the
local Whole Foods And I took it home and it
(32:32):
tasted like a rude bega. Thank you, have a good night.
Speaker 3 (32:38):
I love the way you in there, Troglodyte. It sounds
very much like stand up, like that's my time, Thank you,
good night. Tasted like a rude biga.
Speaker 2 (32:46):
Come on, man, that's like saying the snosberries tastes like snosberry.
Speaker 3 (32:51):
What I also like about this is clearly, Trogolodite, you
live in a better neighborhood than us. These people are
just giving out free Ruda begas on the street. That's
a Donnie la Boy move.
Speaker 2 (33:04):
It really is quite a Donnie the Boy move. Dare
we say a flex? Dare we say? Dare we say?
Speaker 3 (33:10):
And at this point, since we have just a little
bit of extra time here, as we're keeping this kind
of short, Tennessee, if you're comfortable, I would love for
you to share with the audience your inspiration for the
world of the rut de Bega.
Speaker 2 (33:24):
Yeah. It was.
Speaker 5 (33:26):
We were looking for a phrase to say to start recording,
and for some reason I said time to dig up
the rude Begas. And since then I've tried to create
an alternate universe filled with.
Speaker 2 (33:38):
Characters like the Rude Bega verse a rua verse.
Speaker 5 (33:42):
Yeah, and Donnie will sell you a Rudebega or he'll
say that you can buy Donnie lacoin his new name
coin and you can buy many rudebigas.
Speaker 3 (33:52):
Perfect.
Speaker 1 (33:52):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (33:52):
Donnie la Boy is the real stutoci, creator of bitcoin,
and it's all for his international Ruda Bega operation. Have
you guys, as we're building this universe in conjunction with IGU,
have you guys tried any rutabagas recently.
Speaker 2 (34:07):
I've still yet to try a rude beega, and frankly,
I think the mystery. To our previous discussion about Banksy
and your voice, Satoshi, I think I like the mystery
better than the knowing.
Speaker 5 (34:17):
Then have you tried a rude bega?
Speaker 6 (34:19):
I have?
Speaker 2 (34:20):
I have.
Speaker 3 (34:20):
I've also, but that's partially because for a while I've
had a strange habit of going to various farmers' markets
or what you would call like region specific or ethnic
grocery stores, and I make a deal with myself where
I'll buy the responsible things, the staples, the grains, you know,
(34:42):
the juices and the coffees, but then I buy experimental
stuff as well. I have my own kind of grocery store,
skunk works, and that's how I ran into ruta begas,
because I'll walk through the produce section, especially like our
decab farmers market is great for this, walk through their
huge produce section and find something that looks incredibly unfamiliar
(35:03):
and then see if you can figure out how to
cook it. It doesn't always work for me, but I'm
not a Michelin star chef. Do you guys ever play
games like that?
Speaker 2 (35:10):
Always?
Speaker 3 (35:11):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (35:12):
Play stupid games. Win stupid prizes.
Speaker 5 (35:14):
I've never tried rudebaga, but one of our lovely listeners
sent us images of a rudebigga case idea, which really
piqued my interest.
Speaker 3 (35:22):
Oh yes, yeah, two great things that taste great together.
So maybe as we're getting closer through spring into summer,
we can get together at whomever's house has the sickest
backyard and throw a Rudebega party thanks to do It.
I don't know what that will entail exactly, but who
(35:42):
doesn't love starting a new tradition. As we said, folks,
we're going to keep this one short. We've got to
be on the move a little bit today. But big,
big thank you to everybody who wrote in called hit
us up on the line. So big thank you to Jamison,
Sergeant Will Troglodyte, Zus Rex, Uncle Bosco, and spoiler for you,
(36:03):
fellow conspiracy realist Jill. We absolutely loved your message to us.
We're saving that for next week because we have a
little more digging that we want to do. We hope
that you joined us, folks, for our episodes, for our
strange news, for our listener mail in the future, and
we try to be pretty easy to find out in
(36:24):
this wide world. You don't have to call the CIA
and ask them to borrow a ghost murmer. All you
have to do is hit us up on the social meds.
Should thal sip, call us on a phone, or send
us an email.
Speaker 2 (36:36):
Oh my gosh, yes, please do. You can find us
on the lines at the handle Conspiracy Stuff or Conspiracy
Stuff Show, depending on your social media platform of choice.
Can also give us a telephone call one eight three
to three STDWYTK. Take a page out of the book
of Today's Callers and leave us a voicemail with a
nickname you'd like us to call you, as well as
(36:56):
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too could join the excellent company of Today's callers.
Speaker 3 (37:05):
And if you'd like to send us an email, we
are available twenty four hours a night, seven evenings a week.
Be well aware, yet unafraid. Sometimes the void writes back,
send us a random fact, get one in return, will
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