U.S. agencies make waves with a declaration that the current President -- and all his businesses -- can never be audited. Fish take parasitic and embarrasing rides in the ... backs of manta rays. In Germany (and the United States), legacy automakers may shift to manufacturing hardware for the defense industry. All this and more in this week's strange news segment.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 3 (00:18):
Hello, Welcome back to the show. My name is Matt.
Speaker 4 (00:21):
My name's name, they called me, but we're joined as
old words with our super producer Dylan the Tennessee paal Vega.
Most importantly, you are here.
Speaker 2 (00:30):
You are here.
Speaker 4 (00:32):
That makes this the stuff they don't want you to know.
If you are tuning in to our strange news program,
the evening to publish is let us welcome you to
May twenty fifth, twenty twenty six. Guys, Oh, guys, we
just had an election in Georgia, or a vote.
Speaker 2 (00:54):
I would say, yeah, it was all I think we
were talking to you of Mike how They were a
ton of very weinted ballot questions, not like ballot measures,
just almost like you know, yeah, did you know this
guy is steely money?
Speaker 3 (01:08):
Did you know?
Speaker 2 (01:09):
Maybe it's happened in the past, but I just I'd
never really clocked them being quite that, like you know, nippy, yeah,
snippy and slanted. Not that I disagree with any of them.
They were sort of like asking about uh public uh
interest in data centers, for example, but the way it
was phrased was just clearly anti data center, you know,
(01:31):
and obviously we all have our perspectives on that. And
then another one of them was about political officials being
allowed to stock trade, but specifically referenced corruption and insider trading.
There was one that was like, should there be a
tax increased so that billionaires get more money? And yeah,
(01:52):
it was that's the one. Thanks I was, I was,
I was dancing around it way because I couldn't remember.
Speaker 3 (01:57):
Yeah, a tax increase so billionaires get more money.
Speaker 4 (02:02):
Get so for a lot of people who go to
vote in these United States, and please do vote while
you're still able to do so. For a lot of us,
it's usually going to be a pick this person, right,
here's the position, Which person do you like for it?
(02:23):
But this is one of the first times, you guys,
that I've just seen these did you know questions? That
seems quite unusual.
Speaker 2 (02:33):
I thought so too. And it must have to do
with what party you're registered as as to which ones
show up for you, because I can't imagine serving up
some of these questions to registered Republicans.
Speaker 4 (02:42):
Maybe they get their own point. Where's my UFO question,
where's my UAP question? Where's my did you know about
the UAP releases and clicks?
Speaker 2 (02:53):
Yes or no?
Speaker 3 (02:54):
On those guys. I've got a quick did you know?
And it's actually part of strange news today? Did you know?
In Video's market capitalization has officially surpassed the entire economy
of Germany?
Speaker 2 (03:11):
Wow? Including Volkswagen.
Speaker 4 (03:13):
Yeah, well, buddy, the entire one. Because we we had
a game back in the day, fellow conspiracy realist where
when we were I almost said severely YouTube, But when
we were only YouTube and maybe Apple Video, we would
study the metrics and we would look at the populations
(03:37):
of countries and we kept a list of or I
kept a list of the amount of subscribers to the
conspiracy stuff YouTube channel versus the populations of other countries.
And Matt, you remember this, uh, and we have we
have to congratulate in video.
Speaker 2 (04:00):
Oh yeah, and Germany.
Speaker 3 (04:02):
And Germany of me. Well, here's the to that the
projected twenty twenty six GDP of Germany is around five
point four or five trillion dollars, and as of mid May,
(04:23):
in Vidia's market value is five point seven trillion dollars,
And when we're talking about politics and influence and potential corruption,
it is kind of weird that that company's CEO, Jensen Wang,
took a little trip with the President of the United
States to visit China recently. So when you just imagine,
you know, somebody who wields that amount of economic power
(04:47):
joining along on a very special diplomatic trip, it's just
it's just weird.
Speaker 2 (04:52):
Maybe can I just answer a question that I've had
and not bothered looking up the answer to for quite
some time. Market Cap means the total market value of
all available public shares for a company. It's as simple
as that. I just never really thought to look it up.
Current share price times number of outstanding shares equals market cap.
Speaker 4 (05:11):
Yeah, how big is the pizza? How do we slice
the pie?
Speaker 2 (05:14):
And I guess in my mind too, I always heard
market cap and thought it represented some sort of ceiling
like a cap, But no, it's capitalization. It just means
all the all the moneyes capitalism. Baby, I'm a humanist.
Speaker 4 (05:27):
Givin onybe the last.
Speaker 2 (05:30):
She's got a great.
Speaker 3 (05:33):
Let's let's throw this out here just as one little
last thing, because that that market capitalization in pounds is
four point eight nine trillion, okay, and less we think
in Nvidia is the only one that is creeping up
to these same levels. Let's just look at Alphabet with
four point one two trillion, Apple with three point seventy
(05:54):
five trillion again pounds. H well, that's kind of weird.
Microsoft to point six y one trillion, Amazon two point
four to six trillion pounds.
Speaker 2 (06:05):
It's just well, it's technocracy type stuff. I mean, we're
talking about literally these companies being wielding the same, if
not exceeding, the levels of control and leverage that actual
countries have, and CEO is essentially taking on the same
position as nation leaders.
Speaker 4 (06:23):
And everyone played along at home. I just want to
answer a question I know a lot of us had.
How do we take great British pounds and convert them
to US dollars. The British pound is doing a little
bit better in the very occult financial currency trading market,
(06:47):
so think of it as one pound equals one point
three four dollars sterling?
Speaker 2 (06:55):
Wait, no, not do? And what is it? What are
the sterling meme? When people say pounds sterling over so
but so they have a silver what's the word silver
standard as opposed to our imaginary gold standard, which as.
Speaker 4 (07:07):
They used to But those those folks, oh.
Speaker 5 (07:09):
My god, it must just be a historical party.
Speaker 4 (07:11):
They used to use peppercorn as currency.
Speaker 3 (07:15):
Of course, yeahells. It's just weird to me how closely
tied all of these companies are, and in the tech
and in the services they provide. And then when you
think about something like the European Union, right, that's supposed
to be a whole coalition of countries that are working together.
And if you just imagine in video and app Alphabet, Apple, Microsoft,
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Amazon as some kind of union of tech companies like
you were saying, Ben, when you look at it all together,
the GDP of Europe's five largest economies Germany, UK, France,
Italy and Spain is around eighteen point one four trillion dollars.
That's US. And then in video Alphabet, Apple, Microsoft, Amazon
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together is well over that twenty point eighty one trillion
dollars US. So like if they were a some kind
of union of countries, they are bigger than the EU.
Speaker 2 (08:13):
It's wild. By the way, pound sterling is a historical
remnant referring to medieval silver coin, and it was a
silver standard.
Speaker 4 (08:22):
Yes, and it's There are a couple of other opening
stories we're not going to be able to get to
as we're emerging into strange news, but hey, shout out
to everybody who had a heck of a time in
DC on January sixth. You might not just get pardoned,
(08:43):
you might also get compensation from Uncle Sam. There are
also some Scooby Doo wine heist we like to talk about.
Speaker 2 (08:53):
Oh and if anyone out there put down some money
for the Trump Mobile T one device that has been
struggling to to materialize. By the way, if you're into
that whole saga, you should follow Penguins zero on YouTube,
who signed up for the T one device and has
been calling their customer support asking where it is, well
into a year past its supposed delivery window. The Trump
(09:16):
Mobile website apparently has a significant security glitch vulnerability that
has exposed anyone who made an order on that site
to having all of their precious details scooped up by anyone.
Coffee Zilla and Penguin Zero both were contacted by a
sort of white hat hacker who exposed this vulnerability, and
(09:39):
it's apparently quite quite bad, and no one's data there
is safe. And also nobody has a T one device yet,
by the way, oh no.
Speaker 4 (09:46):
And we won't be able they're not going to get them,
by the way, and we won't be able to audit
whatever financial shenanigans occurred because the US Department of just
this has just issued a declaration that the IRS can
never audit a tax return past or president from the
(10:10):
current president of the United States or any companies affiliated.
There are already so many stories we're missing, and let's
take a break for a word from our sponsors. When
we return with more strange news, we'll dive into the
idea of forever bands on past tax returns and audits.
(10:38):
And we are back. The Department of Justice here in
the United States has issued, i would say, a statement blanket,
that declaration forever barring the Internal Revenue Service, those are
our tax folks from auditing the current presidents past tax returns.
(11:02):
As I said right before it went to the break,
this is something that was slipped in to a widely
criticized agreement that is creating a one point seven billion
USD fund to compensate people who are allies of the president.
Speaker 2 (11:21):
Yeah, and it seems like a real quid pro quo
situation with the President agreeing to drop his multi billion
dollar lawsuit against the IRS.
Speaker 3 (11:33):
Yeah, who knew you could just sue the pants off
the IRS and.
Speaker 2 (11:37):
Get them to do whatever you want.
Speaker 4 (11:40):
Let's go to Sam Levine, writing for The Guardian, New
York based journalists. Please do check out this article in full.
The US Justice Department forever bars IRS from auditing Trump's
past tax returns. There's a there's a bigger story here.
It's technically an and you can read it in full online.
(12:03):
It is endorsed and signed by a guy named Todd.
Blanche two d's and Todd last name Blanche B L
A N C h E. Current acting Attorney General and
folks just behind the curtain. I almost said current acting
eternal general. And that's part of the implication. You like
(12:25):
it that way, yeah, or just you know ring Raith
type dude? Right, They say the government is the US
government is quote forever barred and quote precluded from examining
the tax returns of not only the current president, but
also the tax returns of his family, any company related
(12:45):
to him, and the Trump Company itself.
Speaker 6 (12:49):
On what grounds the flip I don't understand. I mean,
it just seems like the ultimate get out of jail
free card, like the implication of corruption is overt.
Speaker 4 (13:02):
Please check out our previous episode on the law that
Russia passed applying to any Russian president because immunity right,
very much so, or it's declared immunity.
Speaker 5 (13:21):
This is I'm done with pardons too, by the way, guys,
I mean not that they were ever great, but they
just I mean it's like absolving someone of a thing
that to anyone else.
Speaker 2 (13:37):
Would would would would land them in prison or.
Speaker 4 (13:39):
A pardon is okay. So this is interesting. I'm glad
you're bringing this up. To a pardon technically means that
people are often going to be saying, yes, I did
the crime. So if if you check out shows like
Wrongful Conviction with Jason Flamm Good Friend of Hours, you'll
(14:01):
see that there are people who have been wrongfully convicted
of crimes they did not commit, and they have refused
things like pardons because that would part of the deal
would require them to say that they did a thing
they did not do.
Speaker 2 (14:16):
I did not know that. Do you still see what
I'm saying though, too, where it's just like with the
wave of a hand, you're making a crime like no
longer a crime, But just what does that mean for
the rest of us when it's wielded with such abandon
you know what I mean? Like it has been like
another example of just how decorum was the only thing
keeping things in order. Not that past presidents haven't done
(14:38):
totally self serving and jacked up pardons as well.
Speaker 4 (14:41):
And going back to your excellent point there noal we
have to recommend. I have to recommend an excellent article
from the New York Times to be all fancy pants
in Northeastern it's called prisons to pardons to payouts. January
sixth rioter are elated at Trump's one point eight billion
(15:04):
dollar fund. The never audit meeting is part of this thing.
Speaker 2 (15:10):
So how is that money distributed? Like, who's entitled to it?
What are the metrics or the whatever the conditions?
Speaker 4 (15:18):
Right, I'm with you there. I'm still waiting on my
tariff refunds. How do you think that's gonna work out?
Speaker 2 (15:25):
That's the tariffs that we paid and that then the
companies are getting reimbursed for, but not us who have
already paid them. So it's basically like they're getting paid twice.
Speaker 4 (15:36):
Yes, yeah, it's clever math and it's kind of a
weird super villain thing to do. It is definitely being
seen by a lot of people as a heist. And
I'd love to mention, just just for all of us
who tune in to Strange News to hear about heist,
I'd love to mention one headline before we move on
(15:59):
to our main story here that really stood out made
me think of you guys. I think this will give
you a chuckle. This is from the Telegraph, where the
journalist Nick Squires writes, quote waiter puts a quirk and
British woman's Scooby doo wine heist.
Speaker 2 (16:18):
Good headline writing. Tell me Mark, I got it.
Speaker 4 (16:22):
We're we're audio for this. So I just want everybody
to know I did get a couple of knots. So
this this heist it comes from Okay.
Speaker 2 (16:33):
Oh, I gave my nod and verbal approval and thank you.
I appreciate you so much. I know you didn't write
the headline, but it's quality.
Speaker 4 (16:42):
Yeah, yeah, shout out again to Nick Squires. We we
learned this story via Nick. A British woman and her
serbian accomplice went to the United States and dressed up
in what I could discribe as sketch comedy level costumes
(17:03):
to attempt to steal tens of thousands of dollars worth
of wine. These folks stole literally twenty four thousand dollars
single bottles of wine. And you guys know, I don't
know much about wine, are you guys? Wine guys? Are
your winos?
Speaker 2 (17:22):
I drink what they put in front of me.
Speaker 3 (17:23):
The only one I know is Camous as a famous.
If you want a famous cable of wine, you gets Camus.
That's all I know.
Speaker 4 (17:31):
I do. Recall some friends of mine were in a
fancy restaurant one time and they were convinced, based on
the waiters pronunciation, that they were ordering Parmesan wine and
not pull Mussholt wine.
Speaker 2 (17:49):
Well I have asked for clarification.
Speaker 4 (17:51):
Yeah, I think they were kind of shook. They were
also my parents.
Speaker 3 (17:55):
So pour it on your caesar salad.
Speaker 4 (17:59):
Just pour it on my caesar or my cazer. So look,
that's a great heist. Please look that up. This is
sort of a palate cleanser. We like to start on
something positive and end on something positive. But that heist
story we just mentioned is an entry point to a
(18:19):
very real heist that may be occurring right now. Guys,
we've been talking quite a bit offline and on air
about the danger of data centers in the United States,
and sent this along a little bit before we were
recording this program. Yeah, Lake Tahoe is fancy, right, so.
Speaker 2 (18:44):
I've heard never been, but it does. It does usually
come across that way, like as a vacation spot for
the for the well to do.
Speaker 4 (18:51):
And we'll give you a headline here. Nearly fifty thousand
Lake Tahoe residents have one year to find new power
as their utility pivots to data centers. That is the
headline from tech Spot on May thirteenth, twenty twenty six.
Speaker 2 (19:10):
That is quite the pivot, like, no more, no more customers,
We're done with y'all. We're exclusively serving the data center.
Speaker 4 (19:18):
Imagine if you guys, you guys probably have Georgia Power,
right something like that. Yeah, So imagine Georgia Power wrote
you a very polite breakup letter, yeah, and said it's
not you, it's me. Just next year your lights go off.
Speaker 2 (19:34):
What does this mean? Functionally though? I mean, you know,
I mean it's not I know, it's not exactly a monopoly.
Usually there's a handful of utilities, but in some areas
there's really only like the the one. What's what do
you do? You can't exactly start a power company.
Speaker 3 (19:50):
Well, it's weird because there are options now at this
point to theoretically be off the grid somewhat, right if
you if you got one of those, yeah, the solar
raised battery back like the Tesla thing like, you could
do that with significant investment, right, that would cost a
(20:10):
crap ton of money, especially if you're not getting incentive.
Speaker 2 (20:13):
Have they not? I think they did away with a
lot of those, right or guess that's state by state,
But there used to be federal incentives for those kinds
of things. But I have to imagine that a lot
of that stuff's been kyboshed.
Speaker 3 (20:24):
They'd probably if you tried to set that up, they'd
probably make you help you pay for the you know,
give energy to the data centers, folks.
Speaker 4 (20:32):
It reminds me of the It reminds me of the
big weird to do about collecting rain water. You guys know,
it's illegal to just have an open barrel by the
side of your house in some states rainwater.
Speaker 2 (20:49):
I didn't know that, but that makes sense that it
would be state by state. I also do know that
to your point, Matt, with the off the grid kind
of situation, there are cases, at least in the past
where you could sell excess energy back to the grid.
That is correct.
Speaker 4 (21:02):
Yeah, if you had a solar power in particular, you
were able to in some cases sell it back to
the grid. That's not exactly what's happening here, uh, because
I would have not. Yeah. Because so Lake Tahoe for
a lot of us in the US who are not
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spending a lot of time in that region, we hear
Tahoe or Tahoe as a as a tourist hub, right,
we hear it as a fancy pants ski resort, casino
hangout place.
Speaker 3 (21:40):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (21:41):
Yeah, it has millions of visitors every year. It's it's
the place where you would least expect something like this
to occur because usually the wealthier going to be able
to tip the scales a bit.
Speaker 2 (21:58):
Here. Here's what we know.
Speaker 4 (22:00):
We're doing this with a tip of the hat to
Fortune Magazine, also to East Bay Times and to tech Spot.
The Nevada or Nevada if you prefer, utility company in
question is called in the energy and for decades and
decades they have supplied most of the electricity for the
(22:22):
Lake Tahoe area. They sold that area to a place
called Liberty Utilities. It's a company out of California, And
they said in the energy said, Hey, everybody in Lake Tahoe,
how you doing. Hope it's going well. Hope you're warm,
(22:43):
Hope you're happy. Hope the slopes are snowy and nice.
We're not going to give you any more power after
May twenty twenty seven. So it's not happening now, but
they made an official, transparent announcement. The the big debate
is why they're cutting off the power. Before we get
(23:06):
to the official statement of Envy Energy, can we all
guess where that electricity is going? Can we all guess
what he's building in there?
Speaker 3 (23:18):
Is it a new area? Fifty one?
Speaker 4 (23:21):
Oh, Matt, I wish, I wish? Maybe actually maybe kind
of because it's the construction of data centers, a big
problem looming on the horizon here in our own state
of Georgia. The idea is that the energy supplier for
the Lake Tahoe region is going to be selling the
(23:47):
energy they create, their output, which is partially taxpayer funded,
to data centers. This is something that we can kind
of correlate, I can Charlie day Red string it, you know,
on a conspiracy board, because Google, Apple, and Microsoft have
already either built or are planning to build facilities in
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the Tahoe Reno Industrial Center, which is just east of Reno.
This is crazy because, as we know, Lake Tahoe, despite
being called a lake, is in a part of the
world where there's not that much water to begin with,
and the energy is you know, pretty hard one.
Speaker 2 (24:34):
Yeah, yeah, I mean it's I know that it is
on the border or straddles the border between Nevada and California,
and some of the towns in Lake Tahoe or in
California and some are in Nevada. So I got to wonder,
is it that stretch from like desert mountain regions up
to like snowy you know, peaks, So maybe there's some
drought issues as well. Hmmm.
Speaker 3 (24:54):
I'm looking at the map on Google over here. Everybody
Alphabet's map of this area, and the way you're describing
is actually exactly what I'm seeing. It feels like it's
just kind of one third of Lake Tahoe hanging out
in Nevada. But there's definitely like things like the inclined
village over there. But on the Yeah, but on the
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Nevada side, it's very much a lot of desert and
mountainous regions to the east.
Speaker 4 (25:23):
Yeah, this is something that we are pinging or we're flagging.
We're putting it on the record for next year, for
twenty twenty seven, which is racing headlong over the horizon
towards you as you listen to this strange news program.
Before we move on, there's a lot of stuff we
can't get to. Maybe this is an episode in the future.
(25:47):
I'd like to read a little bit of Envy Energy's
official response. Their statement. If that's okay, I'll continue. It
goes like this quote. Recent coverage has raised questions about
Envy Energy's role in providing power to liberty utilities customers
(26:08):
in the Lake Tahoe basin. We want to assure our customers,
communities and stakeholders have clear and accurate information. And then
from there, env energy dot Com goes into what I
would describe as a daredevil hallway fight level of conversational
(26:31):
and marketing.
Speaker 2 (26:32):
Parker.
Speaker 4 (26:33):
They do say, first and most importantly, customers will not
lose power. They're saying that their agreement and their activities.
Supplying the vast majority of electricity to a lot of
these people was always meant to be a temporary agreement.
That's a verbatim quote from them. They also say their
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agreement dated back more than a decade and that data
centers did not influence their decision.
Speaker 2 (27:05):
But guys, I don't believe I don't believe them. I mean,
it's certainly a good excuse to exercise that, you know,
rug pull right, I don't yah, it's a good excuse. No,
not a good excuse, but one that exists.
Speaker 3 (27:22):
You know, what's looking really good right now? Guys, These
these things created in most part by the Rural Electrification
Administration back during Franklin D. Roosevelt's time, These things called
electric cooperatives that are that are owned by the folks
(27:43):
who pay to be members and get power. The things
that aren't owned by massive corporations that can do those
kinds of things. Ben, Well, maybe they can. They just
theoretically they have to get approval by the members, who
are the people who.
Speaker 2 (27:57):
Wouldn't pay for the power.
Speaker 4 (27:59):
The got to see Valley authority in my heart and
Dylan's heart just palpitated a bit. Thank you for mentioning that, Yes.
Speaker 3 (28:10):
That's what I'm a part of. I'm not a part
of Georgia Power anymore. I'm a part of a co
op now, and it is, in my opinion, at least
from what I've experienced thus far, way better than being
beholden to a massive corporation.
Speaker 4 (28:21):
Right like a Credit Union versus Wells Fargo.
Speaker 2 (28:25):
We said it.
Speaker 4 (28:26):
There's an episode on this in the future, folks, so
stay tuned for that. We went a little bit long
on here. I really appreciate it, guys. There are stories
we didn't get to, but there are some stories that
have to take precedent, and one of them is but
holes in the ocean. We'll be right back after word
(28:46):
from our sponsors.
Speaker 2 (28:57):
And we're back. You know, Ben, every time I look
out over that beautiful, glistening sea, I just think about
how many fish buttholes are being invaded by tiny symbiotic parasites.
Speaker 4 (29:10):
I love you, man. This is like, this is a
conversation we had holding hands, like at the shore of
the Pacificair.
Speaker 2 (29:20):
I sort of stole that bit from The Mighty Boosh
where it's like a mountain man type character and he
says every time I look out on them woods. I
just think about all the little animal penises.
Speaker 3 (29:32):
This is definitely something the Boys should have covered in
their season finale.
Speaker 2 (29:38):
Yeah, because they they've got nothing but time to wrap
up all these plot I'm gonna's reintroduce some fish buttholes
into the equation.
Speaker 4 (29:48):
I've got Yeah, I guess technically the eighth hour.
Speaker 2 (29:51):
I'm good lord.
Speaker 4 (29:52):
There should have been twelve episodes. It could have done it.
I'm gonna do uh the cartoonish stereotypical thing thing. Folks,
please check out the graphic novel. It is divisive. It
is in C. Seventeen.
Speaker 2 (30:05):
It is worth your read.
Speaker 4 (30:07):
Also, we have been updating each other on The Boys, uh,
the show, the adaptation of the novel on Amazon. And
one of the things that absolutely rocked us was our
coworker friend of the show, Langston.
Speaker 2 (30:26):
Yeah, yeah, back up as a cowboy. Well he was,
he was his character, he was the guy he was shooting.
Speaker 3 (30:36):
We had to wait seven episodes, Langston for you to
show back up, but you finally did. And you think
you doing that, You nailed it.
Speaker 2 (30:43):
Bro. Uh.
Speaker 4 (30:44):
So we're we're talking about buttholes and fish, and of
course that makes us think of the boys, But know
where are we going.
Speaker 2 (30:54):
With this one?
Speaker 4 (30:55):
I just saw the headlight I have. I have no
idea what this is about.
Speaker 2 (31:00):
Well I'll I'll read it to you straight from the headlines,
ripped from the headlines. As they say this fish hitches,
rides and manta rays buttholes. I just got a love
the buttholes in quotes. Clearly that is the word choice
used in this new research. According to new research, scientists
suspect that the behavior could harm the manta rays, suggesting
(31:22):
a complex relationship between remoras aka succerfish and that can
sometimes be parasitic. This came up in our most recent recording,
the Red Hot Chili Pepper song Blood Sugar, Sex Magic.
The first line in that is blood sugar suckerfish in
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my dish? How many pieces do you wish? I've always
is he referring to Ramorra's suckerfish. I've never heard it before.
I just just recalled that song lyric to me. Remoras,
which are often called soccerfish because of their suction, like
organs that live a top their little heads. It allows
them to stick onto various marine animals and catch rides,
(32:06):
often like whales, rays, and dolphins. So they kind of
exist as these hitch hiking little little buggers. But it
turns out to the les absolutely. That's right. That guy
with the buttthhole mouth right, it's not too strings ringed.
Speaker 4 (32:27):
It's like a human tapeworm. That Yeah. Also, blood sugar
sex magic is clearly about the British Empire's departure from
the silver standard.
Speaker 2 (32:39):
Yeah, it does good that Anthony Keatis is a thinker.
So yeah, travel around as hitch hikers. We know there
are other creatures symbiotic in nature, less parasitic, perhaps, like
certain what is it, brill shrimp, maybe the ones that
lit hang onto whales teeth and clean you know, clownfish
as well. I think that's right. Seems like a less
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hospitable or charitable version of that arrangement.
Speaker 4 (33:05):
This is not symbiosis, This is not mutualism.
Speaker 2 (33:08):
This is straight up parasite activity parasitism.
Speaker 4 (33:12):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (33:13):
Sometimes they risen for the parasitism. Sometimes they say, or
at least this piece I'm reading to from Scientific rather
Smithsonian magazine, written by Margarita Bossi. Uh, sometimes they take
a deep dive where the sun doesn't shine in ka
the butthole.
Speaker 3 (33:32):
Oh, I'm looking at the picture on Smithsonian of this
very thing you're talking about. It's clearly a fish.
Speaker 2 (33:49):
Having a little poker round.
Speaker 4 (33:50):
It is not Ai and shout out to Margarita Bossi,
the journalists providing this.
Speaker 2 (33:57):
Matt I got. I'm not gonna lie. I had to
take a minute to understand what I looking at.
Speaker 4 (34:02):
Cartoon guy, I am the dumbest entity that any of
us know. I had no idea that manta rays have
a rear exit, but it makes sense. I don't know
if it works like a human butthole, but I do know. Gosh,
darn guys, that thing is really in there.
Speaker 2 (34:25):
It's it's going for it.
Speaker 4 (34:26):
Manyeah, it's like the version of it. I want to
keep this a family show. It's past the wrist. It's
like what Jimmy Page did to that poor groupie. Oh
Jesus with the shark.
Speaker 3 (34:41):
Yeah, but I don't even know that story.
Speaker 7 (34:45):
Imagine, everybody, come on, Richard Gere, Hamsters, let's really go
the deep here and and put ourselves in the position
of this manta ray.
Speaker 2 (34:55):
Place ourselves inside the man the other way around, the
other way around.
Speaker 3 (35:00):
You're a manta ray. You've got these incredible fin like
structures on the sides of your body. You can glide
through the ocean like this majestic creature that you are.
You may even have a stinger in the back to
protect yourself from things.
Speaker 4 (35:15):
Like Steve Irwin.
Speaker 3 (35:17):
But yeah, oh jeez, all right, but in your undercarriage,
in this soft area where you excrete, yes, funnel into
your mouth as you glide through, you have you have
no way of preventing this this fish from climbing up
inside of you, and then you can't get it out.
Speaker 4 (35:37):
And they got a manta ray is not a sting ray.
To be clear, that was for a very very dark joke.
But we also need to be clear, uh to to
your point, guys, it's not a butthole. It's kind of
like a birdhole.
Speaker 2 (35:57):
It's so, but it's a butthole of vagina. It's a
combo exactly said. And this behavior, again, Smithsonian mag points out,
is called chloacal diving. Sounds like a delightful activity like spelunking.
Speaker 4 (36:12):
I'm sure there's a subreddit for it.
Speaker 2 (36:14):
It's gotta be. Oh boy, oh boy. So we've got
some commentary from David Schiffman, who's an independent marine conservation
biologist and an author based in Washington, d C. He
did not have to do with the study that we're
going to cite in just a minute, but he's got
a thing or two to say about this situation. My
first reaction was a combination of amazement and horror. Same
(36:36):
David Shiftman, It's so cool that remoras can do that,
but I imagine it's no fun for the manta o kid.
Remoras are a group of eight fish species that are
part of the A. Shnadai or A. Kennadaie family, and
they're small fellas. They can range from about twelve inches
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to about forty three inches, so comparatively, you know, they're
little guys in the can get in there. They are slender,
they have slender bodies, and of course, as we mentioned earlier,
typically historically they've just caught rides by using their little
suckers to get you know, attached to those manta rays
and other aquatic creatures that are larger than them. Huge
(37:17):
manta rays, by the way, can have wingspans, is how
it's referred to. Because they do look like birds of
the sea. Yeah they are, and also birds have kuoikas
up to twenty six feet. These are massive and to
your point, bend majestic creatures. Let's see who did the
research this comes from. Oh I love this name. I
(37:37):
just love the concept of this. Marine Megafauna Foundation and
the Manta Trust. Researchers looked at survey data. Oh sorry,
these are the organizations that the researchers conducting the study
looked into to gather their data. They looked at data
collected by these groups between twenty ten and twenty twenty five,
(37:58):
a known manta ray aggregation sites including places near Florida,
the Maldives, and Mozambique. This analysis revealed seven observations of
chloaqual diving. So this is like kind of rare behavior,
it would seem. The co author of the study, Emily Jaeger, said,
the remorras are pretty much as wide as the kloika is,
(38:21):
so it's fully filling that opening, filling that hole. Let's
just to cite the here we go, I should have
I buried the lead here slightly. This study was published
May eleventh in the journal Ecology and Evolution, where researchers
described several instances of these remorras burrowing their ways deep
(38:43):
inside the manta raise cloikas in an activity dubbed Chloiqal diving.
I'm not sure what we're supposed to do with this information.
Speaker 4 (38:51):
Guy, It's just everybody check your Manta raise. Everybody go
over to the shore and check your Manta raise Chloacal area,
check their Australia and make sure there's not a remora
inside of it. Also, I think Noel one of the
big takeaways, but this feels like a parable. One of
(39:14):
the big takeaways is really that we know very little
about what goes on in the ocean. It's the number
one place. Shout out to the Megafauna organization you mentioned earlier.
It's one of the only places left on Earth where
you could find large, unusual, unidentified creatures. But also anytime,
(39:39):
anytime someone who is not the deep is talking to
you about the ocean, they should acknowledge that we don't
know very much about it.
Speaker 2 (39:48):
The Tepe's not even allowed to set one toe in
that ocean. No, Sam Jackson, the manna a shark's gonna
f m up and do that speech from the Bible.
Definitely in the Bible. Take away here, Yeah, the takeaway here,
truly from a conservation point of view, comes to us
(40:09):
from Brook Fleming a biologist at the New Jersey Institute
of Technology who also wasn't involved in the study, and
she said, if they do that in the kloka opening,
which is likely much more sensitive than other parts of
the manta raised body, it could cause really severe damage
and influence reproduction and also, to your point, Matt, excretion
(40:29):
of waste over time, So bad news for the mantas,
it would seem relatively where you gotta wonder is this
like learned behavior? Is this evolutionary?
Speaker 4 (40:41):
Is it specific to the manta or are they just
getting up in every buttthle possible. You know it? It
reminds me a bit of the simoutha e segua. It's
a parasite that replaces fish's tongues. Do you guys remember
what I'm talking about. It's nightmare fuel.
Speaker 2 (41:04):
No one else's nightmare fuel. The inside of a goose's
mouth has got weird roses, sharp white teeth. So everybody
check out what is street named or ocean named? The
tongue eating louse? And Noel, thank you dude for.
Speaker 4 (41:23):
Hurting my wholesome love of manta race. Oh my gosh,
I only see them from the top in the front.
You know what I mean, what's going.
Speaker 2 (41:35):
On down there? Exactly went a little long on that one,
but we'll just do a quick mention of a recent
robot band that has been implemented on Southwest Airlines after
after a handful of incidents where customers bought seats for
their humanoid robots, which caused confusion and you know, disturbances,
(41:56):
I suppose they have officially banned these humanoid and animal
like robots in an official policy. Yeah, I just had
an animal like or human like robots in the cabin
or as check baggage, regardless of size. The company defines
a human like robot as any robot designed to resemble
(42:17):
or imitate a human in its appearance, movement, or behavior.
Southwest uses a similar definition for animal like robots. All
other robots like toys must fit within a carry on
size bag and comply with existing battery restrictions, which, by
the way, vary from airline to airline. I believe it
is a TSA regulation that you're not allowed to have
(42:39):
lithium batteries in your carry on or i'm sorry, in
your check baggage because, as we know, they can overheat,
they can cause you know, fires, and on different flights,
depending on the airline. Oftentimes they won't allow you to
use them on board at all. They have to be stowed,
you know, for the duration of the flight. Some have
(42:59):
different guidelines where they just don't allow you to plug
them up to onboard charging receptacles, but you are allowed
to use them, but they aren't allowed to be I
think they have to be removed from your baggage because again, yeah,
if you don't see it, they could cause a huge
I mean, the fire of any kind if you have
a pressure a cabin.
Speaker 4 (43:19):
Yeah, if you have one of those one of those
smart suitcases that travel bags that has a battery of
this nature in it, you will get checked. You do
have to remove it in the United States.
Speaker 2 (43:33):
I think that's right. So this does seem to dovetail
with some regulations regarding lithium ion batteries. And I just
think it's interesting because it just represents another way that
we're starting to see like regular life affected by all
of this kind of new, weird future tech and it's
(43:54):
just gonna get weirder.
Speaker 3 (43:55):
Couldn't agree more.
Speaker 2 (43:56):
Yeah, that's all I got, guys. Let's take a quick
break here where from our sponsor, and then we'll come
with our last segment of strange news for the day.
Speaker 3 (44:10):
And we've returned, gentlemen, Before I get into this next
actual piece of strange news, I want to read something.
This is from a company's official website, and we will
hear the name of the company at the end, so
you can look it up and read it for yourself
if you wish. Armament production accounted for an ever growing
(44:33):
proportion of the company's revenues up to the start of
the war. In the summer of nineteen forty one, the
board of management, chaired by William Kissel, no longer envisioned
a swift end to the war or an imminent return
to producing civilian vehicles. The most important line of business
was truck production, whilst passenger car manufacturing was in decline
(44:56):
and virtually came to a standstill by the end of
nineteen forty two, the company was now focusing on the
manufacture and assembly of military components for the Army, Navy,
and Air Force. New staff were needed to handle the
increased armament production because many workers were fighting on the
front lines. Initially, the company recruited women in order to
(45:17):
cope with the required unit volumes. However, as staff numbers
were still too low, a decision was made to use
forced laborers. These prisoners of war, abducted civilians and detainees
were housed close to the plants. Workers from Eastern Europe
and prisoners of war were interned in barracks camps with
poor prison like conditions. Concentration camp detainees were monitored by
(45:42):
the s S under inhumane conditions. They were loaned out
to companies in exchange for money. In nineteen forty four,
almost half of dimer Benz's sixty three thousand, six hundred
and ten dimer Benz employees were civilian, forced laborers, prisoners
of war, or concentration camp detainees. After the war, Daimler
(46:03):
Benz admitted its links with the Nazi regime and also
became involved in the German industry foundations Initiative Remembrance, Responsibility
and Future, whose work included the provision of humanitarian aid
for former forced laborers.
Speaker 2 (46:17):
So that's reparations basically of a kind. Like literally the
way Trump is paying the oppressed jan sixers. This is like.
Speaker 4 (46:29):
The way I remember it. It was pretty fucking performative.
Thank you for the beat there, DYLI.
Speaker 2 (46:34):
That's fair. That's fair well.
Speaker 3 (46:36):
Whatever it was, it is currently on the group dot
Mercedes dash Benz dot com website, the official Mercedes Benz
group website. It is part of their history and they
at least have it on their website right well.
Speaker 2 (46:50):
I've found in general German companies and German institutions they
don't shy away from that type of painful and inconvenient history,
which you gotta respect they did.
Speaker 4 (47:00):
They did a good job with that. One German conspiracy
realist just thank you for telling history boldly and correctly.
Do also want to as a side note before we
get into this. Before we get into this story, please
do check out the second part of our series on
(47:22):
ridiculous history called The Bizarre Saga of New Coke. And
if you want some spoilers, just search Fanta Coca Cola
World War two.
Speaker 3 (47:31):
Absolutely good plug. Let's jump back to your own news
with the headline from Cars to Defense Mercedes Benz signals
Opennes to military sector. We're going to read directly from
this thanks to Sonya Yasel, who wrote this on May seventeenth,
twenty twenty six. While Germany's automotive sector is coming under
(47:54):
growing pressure, defense companies are increasingly eyeing its factories, skilled
worker and industrial expertise. In a recent interview with The
Wall Street Journal, the Mercedes Benz chief Ola Collenius said
the company would be open to supporting Europe's growing defense efforts.
Before we continue by stating that history at the top
(48:17):
and then getting into this, we are not saying that
is the same thing that's happening now. We are just
pointing out that there is a history in manufacturing companies,
not just in Germany during World War Two, but in
every country when there is a wartime, companies that manufacture
things like cars, like furniture, like everything. These voters anything,
(48:41):
these folks will be the ones. These again skilled laborers,
people who understand how to mass produce things. Factories that
can mass produce things, They get tapped to produce the
things necessary to blow sit up. And we're just point
out that this.
Speaker 2 (49:00):
Purposed, right kind of hmm, yeah.
Speaker 3 (49:03):
Well sure, yeah, you gotta you gotta be able to
manufacture right in a factory, manufacturer stuff.
Speaker 4 (49:08):
If you have the infrastructure, now all you have to
do is make some tweaks, which is way easier than
building an entirely new infrastructure. Car stuff got really into
this backag.
Speaker 2 (49:20):
Historical wartime flips like this happen and all the time
when the.
Speaker 4 (49:24):
War economy spends up. That's what's happening.
Speaker 3 (49:27):
So here's why it's creepy and crazy. This is a
quote from the Mercedes Benz chief Ola Collenius. I don't
know if I'm saying that right, K A L L
E N I U S. Here's the quote. The world
has become more unpredictable, and I think it's quite clear
that Europe needs to strengthen its defense capabilities. If we
(49:51):
can play a positive role in that, we would be
prepared to do so. Okay, okay, here's the thing. Mercedes
Benz makes a whole lot of money making cars, but
because of the type of economy that we all live
in where profits are necessary, when you've got a huge
(50:14):
corporation like that, you've got to increase those profits. When
you're not selling as many cars, right or those cars are,
the money you're bringing in is not exceeding the amount
that folks need you or want you to make, even
if it's more right month over month, quarter over quarter,
stuff goes wrong. That's what's happening right now in the
car manufacturing industry. Across the world, not just in Germany,
(50:39):
not just in the US, everywhere, And here's Mercedes is
just one right in this article, they're also pointing to Volkswagen.
Look up the history of Volkswagen. They are also exploring
possible opportunities to get into defense production. The world is
looking on as the Vultas. Wagon CEO Oliver Bloom has
(51:02):
said the company plans to decide later this year whether
military transport vehicles could be produced at one of their plans,
while also stating that Volkswagen would not be manufacturing weapons
or tanks. Right, We're not doing tanks, transport vehicles.
Speaker 4 (51:18):
Transport vehicles all right, if I happen to transport guns.
But come on, what's a what's a little bit of
murtar between friends? It's it's interesting that because I would
propose for all of us listening. I mean, obviously, the
defense industry profits when it's draped in the flag of patriotism.
(51:41):
That's that's how the business works. But we do have
to point out that there has been a long economic
decline in the nation of Germany, and spinning up to
a war economy is actually ethics, society, economically, it's it's
an historically proven solution to that problem.
Speaker 3 (52:04):
I know, it's got to feel weird when Nvidia's market
cap is bigger than your entire GDP as we were
talking about at the top of the show. Let's jump
to another company. Rhine Metal is that era. They're a
defense company and they're examining whether or not some of
the current automotive stuff maybe the factories could be fully
(52:28):
converted for defense production, as in, hey, you guys don't
need to make as many cars anymore, we could really
use those, So maybe we'll just buy or take over
your factory and start doing what we want to do there.
So yeah, here it is. The company Rhine Metal is
reportedly considering taking you over entire factories from car makers
who are facing current economic pressures. Also, there's an aerospace
(52:55):
and defense company called Hensoalt HGN sol DT. They've been
actively recruiting the skilled workers from suppliers such as Continental
Ag and Bosch Bosch. I think is how you say
that Bosch Bosch. Yeah, so that this whole situation pretty weird.
One more story we got to get to.
Speaker 2 (53:14):
This.
Speaker 3 (53:15):
One's from The Guardian, written by Alex Daniel May seventeenth,
twenty twenty six JLR, which is Jaguar land Rover and
General Motors I nine hundred million pound contract to build
new range of military trucks. Jaguar land Rover and General
Motors are considering an expansion in the UK defense via
(53:37):
this giant military contractor, as carmakers seek to exploit a
spending boom by NATO countries racing to rearm again. NATO
countries racing to rearm. We've talked about this a couple
of times. There's a lot of talk in Germany and
many other countries in that area of Europe, including the UK,
(53:59):
just saying, hey, we need to up our defense spending.
That dude who's been lampooned on snl UK a bunch
Keir Starmer has just recently talked about committing five percent
of GDP to defense by twenty thirty five. Everybody's saying,
we gotta make more weapons, we gotta spend more on weapons,
we gotta get ready for this big battle that's coming.
(54:21):
They all see in just off in the distance, a
massive global conflict, and I gotta say it's kind of
hard not to see it.
Speaker 2 (54:30):
Got to agree with you there, man, there's.
Speaker 3 (54:32):
A whole bunch you can read in here, just really
interesting stuff. JLR has not produced military vehicles since the
classic land Rover Defender line closed its factory a decade ago.
The new Defender model is built at a plant in Slovakia.
General Motors is tabling a bid in partnership with BAE Systems,
(54:53):
which is a British defense company as well, also partnering
with NP aerospace manufacturer that maintains the existing land Rover fleet.
They're all talking about building trucks right now. We talked
about Mercedes one. I'm talking about these guys trucks that
are for war but don't cause explosions and death inherently, right.
Speaker 4 (55:16):
It's kind of it reminds me, you guys, of the
news that popped back in April twenty twenty six. Last month,
Long time coming. Uncle Sam the Pentagon over across the
pond has asked General Motors and Ford to get back
into the wartime economy as well. The reasoning being that
(55:41):
there has been a tremendous expenditure of hardware right with
the Iran conflict. And it's strange because it always happens
you go to the existing infrastructure first and you either
destroy it or you attempt to turn it to your means.
(56:01):
And if we're being coldly logical here, we have to
put ourselves in the mind the shoes or the engines
or the tires of these auto manufacturers and say, hey,
if stuff does go pear shaped, how many Mercedes Benz
(56:21):
are we going to sell versus army trucks?
Speaker 2 (56:25):
Right?
Speaker 4 (56:25):
What is the best for us? That's the question.
Speaker 3 (56:28):
There's some kind of connection here to the Remorra in
the Kloaca, but I don't know exactly what it is, but.
Speaker 4 (56:35):
It's pretty visual. I think it's pretty obvious.
Speaker 2 (56:37):
Bett.
Speaker 4 (56:39):
I think it's past the wrist at this point.
Speaker 3 (56:43):
Yeah, just gonna leave a couple more things from this
article from the Guardian. Ineos, which is a company I
didn't know much until I saw one on display at
a Toyota dealership a couple of years back. Ineos Carmaker.
They make the grenadier four by four grenadeier maybe g
R E N A d I E R for the
(57:04):
civilian market. That I saw one of these, it looks
like kind of a military transport vehicle when you see
one in the wild. They're also hoping for a contract
in partnership with with another defense company SMT. We got
other bidders, defense manufacturer Babcock. They're using a modified Toyota
model to make some of these trucks. The Germany military
(57:28):
firm Rhyne Medal is connected with Mercedes. We talked about
that General Dynamics, which is another defense firm. They're going
to use a Ford pickup to make their trucks.
Speaker 2 (57:40):
It's just.
Speaker 3 (57:47):
The level of discomfort I feel just watching it all happen,
and watching the money change hands, and just watching it
all occur in real time. As something that occurs every
time before a major conflict begins and then ramps up
like crazy as the hot war kicks off. It is
weird to sit in a place where it seems like
(58:09):
maybe we're already in a world war, and somebody will
say we already were at this time, but nobody declared it.
Speaker 4 (58:16):
Yet, right, you know, sure historians. But what I think
we're all experiencing here is on a local level, it's
it's the petrocore, right, It's the smell right before the
rain drops and the ass goes out of the clouds. Sorry,
the Manta ray thing stuck with me, dude, Yes, but.
Speaker 3 (58:37):
Yeah, talking of ass out of clouds, this is the
last little tiny thing. This is from CNBC Spencer Kimball,
May eighteenth to twenty twenty six. Nextra Energy will buy
Dominion Energy. Ben This makes me think about your story
you talked about already in an all stock deal that
is valued at nearly sixty seven billion dollars. Not real money,
(59:01):
no United seven billion.
Speaker 4 (59:04):
Somebody pull that guy over, pull this gretadier over. He's
not fit to drive seven billion.
Speaker 3 (59:12):
But for real. Nextra Energy will buy Dominion Energy sixty
seven billion dollars, uniting two leading players in the race
to meet growing electricity demand from data centers that run
artificial intelligence. Dominion Dominion is the utility responsible for powering
the world's largest dat data center market in Northern Virginia.
(59:34):
It has a market cap of more than fifty billion dollars.
Speaker 2 (59:37):
Next trail number nope.
Speaker 3 (59:40):
Nextra is the biggest renewable energy developer in the United States.
The Florida Extra Well, Hey, you're you're gonna well, I'll
tell you a little something in a second here, buddy,
The Florida headquartered Power Company is also the largest utility
in the S and P five hundred at a market
cap of more than one hundred and ninety billion dollars.
Speaker 4 (01:00:03):
And and to interject here on behalf of our brother,
the Tennessee pal Uh Dylan, you point out that all
these numbers are small fries in comparison to the market
cap of our parent company, Illumination Global Unlimited.
Speaker 3 (01:00:19):
Turn on the lane. Oh oh yeah, Well he was
talking about that when we were mentioning Apple and all
these jokers that have four trillion dollars of a market capital. Insanity.
It's just the IGU was so much bigger than that.
Do you have no idea?
Speaker 4 (01:00:33):
You guys, have no idea.
Speaker 3 (01:00:34):
It's fine, it's fine.
Speaker 1 (01:00:37):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (01:00:37):
The deal will create the largest regulated electric utility in
the world. And really uh huh huh, Noel, you'll be
happy to hear this.
Speaker 2 (01:00:48):
Okay.
Speaker 3 (01:00:49):
Nextra shareholders will own seventy four point five percent of
the combined company, while Dominion investors will own twenty five
point five percent.
Speaker 2 (01:00:58):
Is an extra evil, get rid of it.
Speaker 4 (01:01:02):
Not just yet, not just yet, not just yet, but
also yes.
Speaker 3 (01:01:09):
Though a major developer of renewables. As we said earlier,
Nextra has also ramped up investment in natural gas during
this current administration of the United States presidency, and it's
now playing a leading role in the push to expand
nuclear energy in the US. NEXTRA announced a deal with
Alphabet's Google last year to reopen the mothballed Dwayne Arnold's
(01:01:32):
nuclear plant in Iowa. Yes, yes, because what is Alphabet
planning to do. It's planning to build more than thirty
data center hubs across the United States, specifically for AI.
Speaker 2 (01:01:46):
Demand should have hell on at that extra I actually
don't have it anymore. What was I thinking?
Speaker 3 (01:01:52):
Well, congratulations and sorry.
Speaker 2 (01:01:56):
Yeah, hey they're evil apparently, so it's good that I'm not.
Speaker 3 (01:02:00):
It's all right, Hey, blood, money is money, man, Come
on this America. Now, this is America. This is America. Okay,
all right, Well that's it for me, and that's it
for us.
Speaker 4 (01:02:13):
Fellow conspiracy realist, thank you, as always so much for
tuning in to our weekly Strange News segment. We can't
wait to hear your thoughts on the bizarre saga of Tahoe,
especially if you live in or like twenty eight other
million people per year visit the place and have a
great time. I think there's a conspiracy in action. We'd
(01:02:35):
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weird with it. We'd love to hear your thoughts on
the wartime economies that are spinning up as we record,
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That makes this the stuff they don't want you to know.
If you are tuning in to our strange news program,
the evening to publish is let us welcome you to
May twenty fifth, twenty twenty six. Guys, Oh, guys, we
just had an election in Georgia, or a vote.
Speaker 2 (00:54):
I would say, yeah, it was all I think we
were talking to you of Mike how They were a
ton of very weinted ballot questions, not like ballot measures,
just almost like you know, yeah, did you know this
guy is steely money?
Speaker 3 (01:08):
Did you know?
Speaker 2 (01:09):
Maybe it's happened in the past, but I just I'd
never really clocked them being quite that, like you know, nippy, yeah,
snippy and slanted. Not that I disagree with any of them.
They were sort of like asking about uh public uh
interest in data centers, for example, but the way it
was phrased was just clearly anti data center, you know,
(01:31):
and obviously we all have our perspectives on that. And
then another one of them was about political officials being
allowed to stock trade, but specifically referenced corruption and insider trading.
There was one that was like, should there be a
tax increased so that billionaires get more money? And yeah,
(01:52):
it was that's the one. Thanks I was, I was,
I was dancing around it way because I couldn't remember.
Speaker 3 (01:57):
Yeah, a tax increase so billionaires get more money.
Speaker 4 (02:02):
Get so for a lot of people who go to
vote in these United States, and please do vote while
you're still able to do so. For a lot of us,
it's usually going to be a pick this person, right,
here's the position, Which person do you like for it?
(02:23):
But this is one of the first times, you guys,
that I've just seen these did you know questions? That
seems quite unusual.
Speaker 2 (02:33):
I thought so too. And it must have to do
with what party you're registered as as to which ones
show up for you, because I can't imagine serving up
some of these questions to registered Republicans.
Speaker 4 (02:42):
Maybe they get their own point. Where's my UFO question,
where's my UAP question? Where's my did you know about
the UAP releases and clicks?
Speaker 2 (02:53):
Yes or no?
Speaker 3 (02:54):
On those guys. I've got a quick did you know?
And it's actually part of strange news today? Did you know?
In Video's market capitalization has officially surpassed the entire economy
of Germany?
Speaker 2 (03:11):
Wow? Including Volkswagen.
Speaker 4 (03:13):
Yeah, well, buddy, the entire one. Because we we had
a game back in the day, fellow conspiracy realist where
when we were I almost said severely YouTube, But when
we were only YouTube and maybe Apple Video, we would
study the metrics and we would look at the populations
(03:37):
of countries and we kept a list of or I
kept a list of the amount of subscribers to the
conspiracy stuff YouTube channel versus the populations of other countries.
And Matt, you remember this, uh, and we have we
have to congratulate in video.
Speaker 2 (04:00):
Oh yeah, and Germany.
Speaker 3 (04:02):
And Germany of me. Well, here's the to that the
projected twenty twenty six GDP of Germany is around five
point four or five trillion dollars, and as of mid May,
(04:23):
in Vidia's market value is five point seven trillion dollars,
And when we're talking about politics and influence and potential corruption,
it is kind of weird that that company's CEO, Jensen Wang,
took a little trip with the President of the United
States to visit China recently. So when you just imagine,
you know, somebody who wields that amount of economic power
(04:47):
joining along on a very special diplomatic trip, it's just
it's just weird.
Speaker 2 (04:52):
Maybe can I just answer a question that I've had
and not bothered looking up the answer to for quite
some time. Market Cap means the total market value of
all available public shares for a company. It's as simple
as that. I just never really thought to look it up.
Current share price times number of outstanding shares equals market cap.
Speaker 4 (05:11):
Yeah, how big is the pizza? How do we slice
the pie?
Speaker 2 (05:14):
And I guess in my mind too, I always heard
market cap and thought it represented some sort of ceiling
like a cap, But no, it's capitalization. It just means
all the all the moneyes capitalism. Baby, I'm a humanist.
Speaker 4 (05:27):
Givin onybe the last.
Speaker 2 (05:30):
She's got a great.
Speaker 3 (05:33):
Let's let's throw this out here just as one little
last thing, because that that market capitalization in pounds is
four point eight nine trillion, okay, and less we think
in Nvidia is the only one that is creeping up
to these same levels. Let's just look at Alphabet with
four point one two trillion, Apple with three point seventy
(05:54):
five trillion again pounds. H well, that's kind of weird.
Microsoft to point six y one trillion, Amazon two point
four to six trillion pounds.
Speaker 2 (06:05):
It's just well, it's technocracy type stuff. I mean, we're
talking about literally these companies being wielding the same, if
not exceeding, the levels of control and leverage that actual
countries have, and CEO is essentially taking on the same
position as nation leaders.
Speaker 4 (06:23):
And everyone played along at home. I just want to
answer a question I know a lot of us had.
How do we take great British pounds and convert them
to US dollars. The British pound is doing a little
bit better in the very occult financial currency trading market,
(06:47):
so think of it as one pound equals one point
three four dollars sterling?
Speaker 2 (06:55):
Wait, no, not do? And what is it? What are
the sterling meme? When people say pounds sterling over so
but so they have a silver what's the word silver
standard as opposed to our imaginary gold standard, which as.
Speaker 4 (07:07):
They used to But those those folks, oh.
Speaker 5 (07:09):
My god, it must just be a historical party.
Speaker 4 (07:11):
They used to use peppercorn as currency.
Speaker 3 (07:15):
Of course, yeahells. It's just weird to me how closely
tied all of these companies are, and in the tech
and in the services they provide. And then when you
think about something like the European Union, right, that's supposed
to be a whole coalition of countries that are working together.
And if you just imagine in video and app Alphabet, Apple, Microsoft,
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Amazon as some kind of union of tech companies like
you were saying, Ben, when you look at it all together,
the GDP of Europe's five largest economies Germany, UK, France,
Italy and Spain is around eighteen point one four trillion dollars.
That's US. And then in video Alphabet, Apple, Microsoft, Amazon
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together is well over that twenty point eighty one trillion
dollars US. So like if they were a some kind
of union of countries, they are bigger than the EU.
Speaker 2 (08:13):
It's wild. By the way, pound sterling is a historical
remnant referring to medieval silver coin, and it was a
silver standard.
Speaker 4 (08:22):
Yes, and it's There are a couple of other opening
stories we're not going to be able to get to
as we're emerging into strange news, but hey, shout out
to everybody who had a heck of a time in
DC on January sixth. You might not just get pardoned,
(08:43):
you might also get compensation from Uncle Sam. There are
also some Scooby Doo wine heist we like to talk about.
Speaker 2 (08:53):
Oh and if anyone out there put down some money
for the Trump Mobile T one device that has been
struggling to to materialize. By the way, if you're into
that whole saga, you should follow Penguins zero on YouTube,
who signed up for the T one device and has
been calling their customer support asking where it is, well
into a year past its supposed delivery window. The Trump
(09:16):
Mobile website apparently has a significant security glitch vulnerability that
has exposed anyone who made an order on that site
to having all of their precious details scooped up by anyone.
Coffee Zilla and Penguin Zero both were contacted by a
sort of white hat hacker who exposed this vulnerability, and
(09:39):
it's apparently quite quite bad, and no one's data there
is safe. And also nobody has a T one device yet,
by the way, oh no.
Speaker 4 (09:46):
And we won't be able they're not going to get them,
by the way, and we won't be able to audit
whatever financial shenanigans occurred because the US Department of just
this has just issued a declaration that the IRS can
never audit a tax return past or president from the
(10:10):
current president of the United States or any companies affiliated.
There are already so many stories we're missing, and let's
take a break for a word from our sponsors. When
we return with more strange news, we'll dive into the
idea of forever bands on past tax returns and audits.
(10:38):
And we are back. The Department of Justice here in
the United States has issued, i would say, a statement blanket,
that declaration forever barring the Internal Revenue Service, those are
our tax folks from auditing the current presidents past tax returns.
(11:02):
As I said right before it went to the break,
this is something that was slipped in to a widely
criticized agreement that is creating a one point seven billion
USD fund to compensate people who are allies of the president.
Speaker 2 (11:21):
Yeah, and it seems like a real quid pro quo
situation with the President agreeing to drop his multi billion
dollar lawsuit against the IRS.
Speaker 3 (11:33):
Yeah, who knew you could just sue the pants off
the IRS and.
Speaker 2 (11:37):
Get them to do whatever you want.
Speaker 4 (11:40):
Let's go to Sam Levine, writing for The Guardian, New
York based journalists. Please do check out this article in full.
The US Justice Department forever bars IRS from auditing Trump's
past tax returns. There's a there's a bigger story here.
It's technically an and you can read it in full online.
(12:03):
It is endorsed and signed by a guy named Todd.
Blanche two d's and Todd last name Blanche B L
A N C h E. Current acting Attorney General and
folks just behind the curtain. I almost said current acting
eternal general. And that's part of the implication. You like
(12:25):
it that way, yeah, or just you know ring Raith
type dude? Right, They say the government is the US
government is quote forever barred and quote precluded from examining
the tax returns of not only the current president, but
also the tax returns of his family, any company related
(12:45):
to him, and the Trump Company itself.
Speaker 6 (12:49):
On what grounds the flip I don't understand. I mean,
it just seems like the ultimate get out of jail
free card, like the implication of corruption is overt.
Speaker 4 (13:02):
Please check out our previous episode on the law that
Russia passed applying to any Russian president because immunity right,
very much so, or it's declared immunity.
Speaker 5 (13:21):
This is I'm done with pardons too, by the way, guys,
I mean not that they were ever great, but they
just I mean it's like absolving someone of a thing
that to anyone else.
Speaker 2 (13:37):
Would would would would land them in prison or.
Speaker 4 (13:39):
A pardon is okay. So this is interesting. I'm glad
you're bringing this up. To a pardon technically means that
people are often going to be saying, yes, I did
the crime. So if if you check out shows like
Wrongful Conviction with Jason Flamm Good Friend of Hours, you'll
(14:01):
see that there are people who have been wrongfully convicted
of crimes they did not commit, and they have refused
things like pardons because that would part of the deal
would require them to say that they did a thing
they did not do.
Speaker 2 (14:16):
I did not know that. Do you still see what
I'm saying though, too, where it's just like with the
wave of a hand, you're making a crime like no
longer a crime, But just what does that mean for
the rest of us when it's wielded with such abandon
you know what I mean? Like it has been like
another example of just how decorum was the only thing
keeping things in order. Not that past presidents haven't done
(14:38):
totally self serving and jacked up pardons as well.
Speaker 4 (14:41):
And going back to your excellent point there noal we
have to recommend. I have to recommend an excellent article
from the New York Times to be all fancy pants
in Northeastern it's called prisons to pardons to payouts. January
sixth rioter are elated at Trump's one point eight billion
(15:04):
dollar fund. The never audit meeting is part of this thing.
Speaker 2 (15:10):
So how is that money distributed? Like, who's entitled to it?
What are the metrics or the whatever the conditions?
Speaker 4 (15:18):
Right, I'm with you there. I'm still waiting on my
tariff refunds. How do you think that's gonna work out?
Speaker 2 (15:25):
That's the tariffs that we paid and that then the
companies are getting reimbursed for, but not us who have
already paid them. So it's basically like they're getting paid twice.
Speaker 4 (15:36):
Yes, yeah, it's clever math and it's kind of a
weird super villain thing to do. It is definitely being
seen by a lot of people as a heist. And
I'd love to mention, just just for all of us
who tune in to Strange News to hear about heist,
I'd love to mention one headline before we move on
(15:59):
to our main story here that really stood out made
me think of you guys. I think this will give
you a chuckle. This is from the Telegraph, where the
journalist Nick Squires writes, quote waiter puts a quirk and
British woman's Scooby doo wine heist.
Speaker 2 (16:18):
Good headline writing. Tell me Mark, I got it.
Speaker 4 (16:22):
We're we're audio for this. So I just want everybody
to know I did get a couple of knots. So
this this heist it comes from Okay.
Speaker 2 (16:33):
Oh, I gave my nod and verbal approval and thank you.
I appreciate you so much. I know you didn't write
the headline, but it's quality.
Speaker 4 (16:42):
Yeah, yeah, shout out again to Nick Squires. We we
learned this story via Nick. A British woman and her
serbian accomplice went to the United States and dressed up
in what I could discribe as sketch comedy level costumes
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to attempt to steal tens of thousands of dollars worth
of wine. These folks stole literally twenty four thousand dollars
single bottles of wine. And you guys know, I don't
know much about wine, are you guys? Wine guys? Are
your winos?
Speaker 2 (17:22):
I drink what they put in front of me.
Speaker 3 (17:23):
The only one I know is Camous as a famous.
If you want a famous cable of wine, you gets Camus.
That's all I know.
Speaker 4 (17:31):
I do. Recall some friends of mine were in a
fancy restaurant one time and they were convinced, based on
the waiters pronunciation, that they were ordering Parmesan wine and
not pull Mussholt wine.
Speaker 2 (17:49):
Well I have asked for clarification.
Speaker 4 (17:51):
Yeah, I think they were kind of shook. They were
also my parents.
Speaker 3 (17:55):
So pour it on your caesar salad.
Speaker 4 (17:59):
Just pour it on my caesar or my cazer. So look,
that's a great heist. Please look that up. This is
sort of a palate cleanser. We like to start on
something positive and end on something positive. But that heist
story we just mentioned is an entry point to a
(18:19):
very real heist that may be occurring right now. Guys,
we've been talking quite a bit offline and on air
about the danger of data centers in the United States,
and sent this along a little bit before we were
recording this program. Yeah, Lake Tahoe is fancy, right, so.
Speaker 2 (18:44):
I've heard never been, but it does. It does usually
come across that way, like as a vacation spot for
the for the well to do.
Speaker 4 (18:51):
And we'll give you a headline here. Nearly fifty thousand
Lake Tahoe residents have one year to find new power
as their utility pivots to data centers. That is the
headline from tech Spot on May thirteenth, twenty twenty six.
Speaker 2 (19:10):
That is quite the pivot, like, no more, no more customers,
We're done with y'all. We're exclusively serving the data center.
Speaker 4 (19:18):
Imagine if you guys, you guys probably have Georgia Power,
right something like that. Yeah, So imagine Georgia Power wrote
you a very polite breakup letter, yeah, and said it's
not you, it's me. Just next year your lights go off.
Speaker 2 (19:34):
What does this mean? Functionally though? I mean, you know,
I mean it's not I know, it's not exactly a monopoly.
Usually there's a handful of utilities, but in some areas
there's really only like the the one. What's what do
you do? You can't exactly start a power company.
Speaker 3 (19:50):
Well, it's weird because there are options now at this
point to theoretically be off the grid somewhat, right if
you if you got one of those, yeah, the solar
raised battery back like the Tesla thing like, you could
do that with significant investment, right, that would cost a
(20:10):
crap ton of money, especially if you're not getting incentive.
Speaker 2 (20:13):
Have they not? I think they did away with a
lot of those, right or guess that's state by state,
But there used to be federal incentives for those kinds
of things. But I have to imagine that a lot
of that stuff's been kyboshed.
Speaker 3 (20:24):
They'd probably if you tried to set that up, they'd
probably make you help you pay for the you know,
give energy to the data centers, folks.
Speaker 4 (20:32):
It reminds me of the It reminds me of the
big weird to do about collecting rain water. You guys know,
it's illegal to just have an open barrel by the
side of your house in some states rainwater.
Speaker 2 (20:49):
I didn't know that, but that makes sense that it
would be state by state. I also do know that
to your point, Matt, with the off the grid kind
of situation, there are cases, at least in the past
where you could sell excess energy back to the grid.
That is correct.
Speaker 4 (21:02):
Yeah, if you had a solar power in particular, you
were able to in some cases sell it back to
the grid. That's not exactly what's happening here, uh, because
I would have not. Yeah. Because so Lake Tahoe for
a lot of us in the US who are not
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spending a lot of time in that region, we hear
Tahoe or Tahoe as a as a tourist hub, right,
we hear it as a fancy pants ski resort, casino
hangout place.
Speaker 3 (21:40):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (21:41):
Yeah, it has millions of visitors every year. It's it's
the place where you would least expect something like this
to occur because usually the wealthier going to be able
to tip the scales a bit.
Speaker 2 (21:58):
Here. Here's what we know.
Speaker 4 (22:00):
We're doing this with a tip of the hat to
Fortune Magazine, also to East Bay Times and to tech Spot.
The Nevada or Nevada if you prefer, utility company in
question is called in the energy and for decades and
decades they have supplied most of the electricity for the
(22:22):
Lake Tahoe area. They sold that area to a place
called Liberty Utilities. It's a company out of California, And
they said in the energy said, Hey, everybody in Lake Tahoe,
how you doing. Hope it's going well. Hope you're warm,
(22:43):
Hope you're happy. Hope the slopes are snowy and nice.
We're not going to give you any more power after
May twenty twenty seven. So it's not happening now, but
they made an official, transparent announcement. The the big debate
is why they're cutting off the power. Before we get
(23:06):
to the official statement of Envy Energy, can we all
guess where that electricity is going? Can we all guess
what he's building in there?
Speaker 3 (23:18):
Is it a new area? Fifty one?
Speaker 4 (23:21):
Oh, Matt, I wish, I wish? Maybe actually maybe kind
of because it's the construction of data centers, a big
problem looming on the horizon here in our own state
of Georgia. The idea is that the energy supplier for
the Lake Tahoe region is going to be selling the
(23:47):
energy they create, their output, which is partially taxpayer funded,
to data centers. This is something that we can kind
of correlate, I can Charlie day Red string it, you know,
on a conspiracy board, because Google, Apple, and Microsoft have
already either built or are planning to build facilities in
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the Tahoe Reno Industrial Center, which is just east of Reno.
This is crazy because, as we know, Lake Tahoe, despite
being called a lake, is in a part of the
world where there's not that much water to begin with,
and the energy is you know, pretty hard one.
Speaker 2 (24:34):
Yeah, yeah, I mean it's I know that it is
on the border or straddles the border between Nevada and California,
and some of the towns in Lake Tahoe or in
California and some are in Nevada. So I got to wonder,
is it that stretch from like desert mountain regions up
to like snowy you know, peaks, So maybe there's some
drought issues as well. Hmmm.
Speaker 3 (24:54):
I'm looking at the map on Google over here. Everybody
Alphabet's map of this area, and the way you're describing
is actually exactly what I'm seeing. It feels like it's
just kind of one third of Lake Tahoe hanging out
in Nevada. But there's definitely like things like the inclined
village over there. But on the Yeah, but on the
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Nevada side, it's very much a lot of desert and
mountainous regions to the east.
Speaker 4 (25:23):
Yeah, this is something that we are pinging or we're flagging.
We're putting it on the record for next year, for
twenty twenty seven, which is racing headlong over the horizon
towards you as you listen to this strange news program.
Before we move on, there's a lot of stuff we
can't get to. Maybe this is an episode in the future.
(25:47):
I'd like to read a little bit of Envy Energy's
official response. Their statement. If that's okay, I'll continue. It
goes like this quote. Recent coverage has raised questions about
Envy Energy's role in providing power to liberty utilities customers
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in the Lake Tahoe basin. We want to assure our customers,
communities and stakeholders have clear and accurate information. And then
from there, env energy dot Com goes into what I
would describe as a daredevil hallway fight level of conversational
(26:31):
and marketing.
Speaker 2 (26:32):
Parker.
Speaker 4 (26:33):
They do say, first and most importantly, customers will not
lose power. They're saying that their agreement and their activities.
Supplying the vast majority of electricity to a lot of
these people was always meant to be a temporary agreement.
That's a verbatim quote from them. They also say their
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agreement dated back more than a decade and that data
centers did not influence their decision.
Speaker 2 (27:05):
But guys, I don't believe I don't believe them. I mean,
it's certainly a good excuse to exercise that, you know,
rug pull right, I don't yah, it's a good excuse. No,
not a good excuse, but one that exists.
Speaker 3 (27:22):
You know, what's looking really good right now? Guys, These
these things created in most part by the Rural Electrification
Administration back during Franklin D. Roosevelt's time, These things called
electric cooperatives that are that are owned by the folks
(27:43):
who pay to be members and get power. The things
that aren't owned by massive corporations that can do those
kinds of things. Ben, Well, maybe they can. They just
theoretically they have to get approval by the members, who
are the people who.
Speaker 2 (27:57):
Wouldn't pay for the power.
Speaker 4 (27:59):
The got to see Valley authority in my heart and
Dylan's heart just palpitated a bit. Thank you for mentioning that, Yes.
Speaker 3 (28:10):
That's what I'm a part of. I'm not a part
of Georgia Power anymore. I'm a part of a co
op now, and it is, in my opinion, at least
from what I've experienced thus far, way better than being
beholden to a massive corporation.
Speaker 4 (28:21):
Right like a Credit Union versus Wells Fargo.
Speaker 2 (28:25):
We said it.
Speaker 4 (28:26):
There's an episode on this in the future, folks, so
stay tuned for that. We went a little bit long
on here. I really appreciate it, guys. There are stories
we didn't get to, but there are some stories that
have to take precedent, and one of them is but
holes in the ocean. We'll be right back after word
(28:46):
from our sponsors.
Speaker 2 (28:57):
And we're back. You know, Ben, every time I look
out over that beautiful, glistening sea, I just think about
how many fish buttholes are being invaded by tiny symbiotic parasites.
Speaker 4 (29:10):
I love you, man. This is like, this is a
conversation we had holding hands, like at the shore of
the Pacificair.
Speaker 2 (29:20):
I sort of stole that bit from The Mighty Boosh
where it's like a mountain man type character and he
says every time I look out on them woods. I
just think about all the little animal penises.
Speaker 3 (29:32):
This is definitely something the Boys should have covered in
their season finale.
Speaker 2 (29:38):
Yeah, because they they've got nothing but time to wrap
up all these plot I'm gonna's reintroduce some fish buttholes
into the equation.
Speaker 4 (29:48):
I've got Yeah, I guess technically the eighth hour.
Speaker 2 (29:51):
I'm good lord.
Speaker 4 (29:52):
There should have been twelve episodes. It could have done it.
I'm gonna do uh the cartoonish stereotypical thing thing. Folks,
please check out the graphic novel. It is divisive. It
is in C. Seventeen.
Speaker 2 (30:05):
It is worth your read.
Speaker 4 (30:07):
Also, we have been updating each other on The Boys, uh,
the show, the adaptation of the novel on Amazon. And
one of the things that absolutely rocked us was our
coworker friend of the show, Langston.
Speaker 2 (30:26):
Yeah, yeah, back up as a cowboy. Well he was,
he was his character, he was the guy he was shooting.
Speaker 3 (30:36):
We had to wait seven episodes, Langston for you to
show back up, but you finally did. And you think
you doing that, You nailed it.
Speaker 2 (30:43):
Bro. Uh.
Speaker 4 (30:44):
So we're we're talking about buttholes and fish, and of
course that makes us think of the boys, But know
where are we going.
Speaker 2 (30:54):
With this one?
Speaker 4 (30:55):
I just saw the headlight I have. I have no
idea what this is about.
Speaker 2 (31:00):
Well I'll I'll read it to you straight from the headlines,
ripped from the headlines. As they say this fish hitches,
rides and manta rays buttholes. I just got a love
the buttholes in quotes. Clearly that is the word choice
used in this new research. According to new research, scientists
suspect that the behavior could harm the manta rays, suggesting
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a complex relationship between remoras aka succerfish and that can
sometimes be parasitic. This came up in our most recent recording,
the Red Hot Chili Pepper song Blood Sugar, Sex Magic.
The first line in that is blood sugar suckerfish in
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my dish? How many pieces do you wish? I've always
is he referring to Ramorra's suckerfish. I've never heard it before.
I just just recalled that song lyric to me. Remoras,
which are often called soccerfish because of their suction, like
organs that live a top their little heads. It allows
them to stick onto various marine animals and catch rides,
(32:06):
often like whales, rays, and dolphins. So they kind of
exist as these hitch hiking little little buggers. But it
turns out to the les absolutely. That's right. That guy
with the buttthhole mouth right, it's not too strings ringed.
Speaker 4 (32:27):
It's like a human tapeworm. That Yeah. Also, blood sugar
sex magic is clearly about the British Empire's departure from
the silver standard.
Speaker 2 (32:39):
Yeah, it does good that Anthony Keatis is a thinker.
So yeah, travel around as hitch hikers. We know there
are other creatures symbiotic in nature, less parasitic, perhaps, like
certain what is it, brill shrimp, maybe the ones that
lit hang onto whales teeth and clean you know, clownfish
as well. I think that's right. Seems like a less
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hospitable or charitable version of that arrangement.
Speaker 4 (33:05):
This is not symbiosis, This is not mutualism.
Speaker 2 (33:08):
This is straight up parasite activity parasitism.
Speaker 4 (33:12):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (33:13):
Sometimes they risen for the parasitism. Sometimes they say, or
at least this piece I'm reading to from Scientific rather
Smithsonian magazine, written by Margarita Bossi. Uh, sometimes they take
a deep dive where the sun doesn't shine in ka
the butthole.
Speaker 3 (33:32):
Oh, I'm looking at the picture on Smithsonian of this
very thing you're talking about. It's clearly a fish.
Speaker 2 (33:49):
Having a little poker round.
Speaker 4 (33:50):
It is not Ai and shout out to Margarita Bossi,
the journalists providing this.
Speaker 2 (33:57):
Matt I got. I'm not gonna lie. I had to
take a minute to understand what I looking at.
Speaker 4 (34:02):
Cartoon guy, I am the dumbest entity that any of
us know. I had no idea that manta rays have
a rear exit, but it makes sense. I don't know
if it works like a human butthole, but I do know. Gosh,
darn guys, that thing is really in there.
Speaker 2 (34:25):
It's it's going for it.
Speaker 4 (34:26):
Manyeah, it's like the version of it. I want to
keep this a family show. It's past the wrist. It's
like what Jimmy Page did to that poor groupie. Oh
Jesus with the shark.
Speaker 3 (34:41):
Yeah, but I don't even know that story.
Speaker 7 (34:45):
Imagine, everybody, come on, Richard Gere, Hamsters, let's really go
the deep here and and put ourselves in the position
of this manta ray.
Speaker 2 (34:55):
Place ourselves inside the man the other way around, the
other way around.
Speaker 3 (35:00):
You're a manta ray. You've got these incredible fin like
structures on the sides of your body. You can glide
through the ocean like this majestic creature that you are.
You may even have a stinger in the back to
protect yourself from things.
Speaker 4 (35:15):
Like Steve Irwin.
Speaker 3 (35:17):
But yeah, oh jeez, all right, but in your undercarriage,
in this soft area where you excrete, yes, funnel into
your mouth as you glide through, you have you have
no way of preventing this this fish from climbing up
inside of you, and then you can't get it out.
Speaker 4 (35:37):
And they got a manta ray is not a sting ray.
To be clear, that was for a very very dark joke.
But we also need to be clear, uh to to
your point, guys, it's not a butthole. It's kind of
like a birdhole.
Speaker 2 (35:57):
It's so, but it's a butthole of vagina. It's a
combo exactly said. And this behavior, again, Smithsonian mag points out,
is called chloacal diving. Sounds like a delightful activity like spelunking.
Speaker 4 (36:12):
I'm sure there's a subreddit for it.
Speaker 2 (36:14):
It's gotta be. Oh boy, oh boy. So we've got
some commentary from David Schiffman, who's an independent marine conservation
biologist and an author based in Washington, d C. He
did not have to do with the study that we're
going to cite in just a minute, but he's got
a thing or two to say about this situation. My
first reaction was a combination of amazement and horror. Same
(36:36):
David Shiftman, It's so cool that remoras can do that,
but I imagine it's no fun for the manta o kid.
Remoras are a group of eight fish species that are
part of the A. Shnadai or A. Kennadaie family, and
they're small fellas. They can range from about twelve inches
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to about forty three inches, so comparatively, you know, they're
little guys in the can get in there. They are slender,
they have slender bodies, and of course, as we mentioned earlier,
typically historically they've just caught rides by using their little
suckers to get you know, attached to those manta rays
and other aquatic creatures that are larger than them. Huge
(37:17):
manta rays, by the way, can have wingspans, is how
it's referred to. Because they do look like birds of
the sea. Yeah they are, and also birds have kuoikas
up to twenty six feet. These are massive and to
your point, bend majestic creatures. Let's see who did the
research this comes from. Oh I love this name. I
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just love the concept of this. Marine Megafauna Foundation and
the Manta Trust. Researchers looked at survey data. Oh sorry,
these are the organizations that the researchers conducting the study
looked into to gather their data. They looked at data
collected by these groups between twenty ten and twenty twenty five,
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a known manta ray aggregation sites including places near Florida,
the Maldives, and Mozambique. This analysis revealed seven observations of
chloaqual diving. So this is like kind of rare behavior,
it would seem. The co author of the study, Emily Jaeger, said,
the remorras are pretty much as wide as the kloika is,
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so it's fully filling that opening, filling that hole. Let's
just to cite the here we go, I should have
I buried the lead here slightly. This study was published
May eleventh in the journal Ecology and Evolution, where researchers
described several instances of these remorras burrowing their ways deep
(38:43):
inside the manta raise cloikas in an activity dubbed Chloiqal diving.
I'm not sure what we're supposed to do with this information.
Speaker 4 (38:51):
Guy, It's just everybody check your Manta raise. Everybody go
over to the shore and check your Manta raise Chloacal area,
check their Australia and make sure there's not a remora
inside of it. Also, I think Noel one of the
big takeaways, but this feels like a parable. One of
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the big takeaways is really that we know very little
about what goes on in the ocean. It's the number
one place. Shout out to the Megafauna organization you mentioned earlier.
It's one of the only places left on Earth where
you could find large, unusual, unidentified creatures. But also anytime,
(39:39):
anytime someone who is not the deep is talking to
you about the ocean, they should acknowledge that we don't
know very much about it.
Speaker 2 (39:48):
The Tepe's not even allowed to set one toe in
that ocean. No, Sam Jackson, the manna a shark's gonna
f m up and do that speech from the Bible.
Definitely in the Bible. Take away here, Yeah, the takeaway here,
truly from a conservation point of view, comes to us
(40:09):
from Brook Fleming a biologist at the New Jersey Institute
of Technology who also wasn't involved in the study, and
she said, if they do that in the kloka opening,
which is likely much more sensitive than other parts of
the manta raised body, it could cause really severe damage
and influence reproduction and also, to your point, Matt, excretion
(40:29):
of waste over time, So bad news for the mantas,
it would seem relatively where you gotta wonder is this
like learned behavior? Is this evolutionary?
Speaker 4 (40:41):
Is it specific to the manta or are they just
getting up in every buttthle possible. You know it? It
reminds me a bit of the simoutha e segua. It's
a parasite that replaces fish's tongues. Do you guys remember
what I'm talking about. It's nightmare fuel.
Speaker 2 (41:04):
No one else's nightmare fuel. The inside of a goose's
mouth has got weird roses, sharp white teeth. So everybody
check out what is street named or ocean named? The
tongue eating louse? And Noel, thank you dude for.
Speaker 4 (41:23):
Hurting my wholesome love of manta race. Oh my gosh,
I only see them from the top in the front.
You know what I mean, what's going.
Speaker 2 (41:35):
On down there? Exactly went a little long on that one,
but we'll just do a quick mention of a recent
robot band that has been implemented on Southwest Airlines after
after a handful of incidents where customers bought seats for
their humanoid robots, which caused confusion and you know, disturbances,
(41:56):
I suppose they have officially banned these humanoid and animal
like robots in an official policy. Yeah, I just had
an animal like or human like robots in the cabin
or as check baggage, regardless of size. The company defines
a human like robot as any robot designed to resemble
(42:17):
or imitate a human in its appearance, movement, or behavior.
Southwest uses a similar definition for animal like robots. All
other robots like toys must fit within a carry on
size bag and comply with existing battery restrictions, which, by
the way, vary from airline to airline. I believe it
is a TSA regulation that you're not allowed to have
(42:39):
lithium batteries in your carry on or i'm sorry, in
your check baggage because, as we know, they can overheat,
they can cause you know, fires, and on different flights,
depending on the airline. Oftentimes they won't allow you to
use them on board at all. They have to be stowed,
you know, for the duration of the flight. Some have
(42:59):
different guidelines where they just don't allow you to plug
them up to onboard charging receptacles, but you are allowed
to use them, but they aren't allowed to be I
think they have to be removed from your baggage because again, yeah,
if you don't see it, they could cause a huge
I mean, the fire of any kind if you have
a pressure a cabin.
Speaker 4 (43:19):
Yeah, if you have one of those one of those
smart suitcases that travel bags that has a battery of
this nature in it, you will get checked. You do
have to remove it in the United States.
Speaker 2 (43:33):
I think that's right. So this does seem to dovetail
with some regulations regarding lithium ion batteries. And I just
think it's interesting because it just represents another way that
we're starting to see like regular life affected by all
of this kind of new, weird future tech and it's
(43:54):
just gonna get weirder.
Speaker 3 (43:55):
Couldn't agree more.
Speaker 2 (43:56):
Yeah, that's all I got, guys. Let's take a quick
break here where from our sponsor, and then we'll come
with our last segment of strange news for the day.
Speaker 3 (44:10):
And we've returned, gentlemen, Before I get into this next
actual piece of strange news, I want to read something.
This is from a company's official website, and we will
hear the name of the company at the end, so
you can look it up and read it for yourself
if you wish. Armament production accounted for an ever growing
(44:33):
proportion of the company's revenues up to the start of
the war. In the summer of nineteen forty one, the
board of management, chaired by William Kissel, no longer envisioned
a swift end to the war or an imminent return
to producing civilian vehicles. The most important line of business
was truck production, whilst passenger car manufacturing was in decline
(44:56):
and virtually came to a standstill by the end of
nineteen forty two, the company was now focusing on the
manufacture and assembly of military components for the Army, Navy,
and Air Force. New staff were needed to handle the
increased armament production because many workers were fighting on the
front lines. Initially, the company recruited women in order to
(45:17):
cope with the required unit volumes. However, as staff numbers
were still too low, a decision was made to use
forced laborers. These prisoners of war, abducted civilians and detainees
were housed close to the plants. Workers from Eastern Europe
and prisoners of war were interned in barracks camps with
poor prison like conditions. Concentration camp detainees were monitored by
(45:42):
the s S under inhumane conditions. They were loaned out
to companies in exchange for money. In nineteen forty four,
almost half of dimer Benz's sixty three thousand, six hundred
and ten dimer Benz employees were civilian, forced laborers, prisoners
of war, or concentration camp detainees. After the war, Daimler
(46:03):
Benz admitted its links with the Nazi regime and also
became involved in the German industry foundations Initiative Remembrance, Responsibility
and Future, whose work included the provision of humanitarian aid
for former forced laborers.
Speaker 2 (46:17):
So that's reparations basically of a kind. Like literally the
way Trump is paying the oppressed jan sixers. This is like.
Speaker 4 (46:29):
The way I remember it. It was pretty fucking performative.
Thank you for the beat there, DYLI.
Speaker 2 (46:34):
That's fair. That's fair well.
Speaker 3 (46:36):
Whatever it was, it is currently on the group dot
Mercedes dash Benz dot com website, the official Mercedes Benz
group website. It is part of their history and they
at least have it on their website right well.
Speaker 2 (46:50):
I've found in general German companies and German institutions they
don't shy away from that type of painful and inconvenient history,
which you gotta respect they did.
Speaker 4 (47:00):
They did a good job with that. One German conspiracy
realist just thank you for telling history boldly and correctly.
Do also want to as a side note before we
get into this. Before we get into this story, please
do check out the second part of our series on
(47:22):
ridiculous history called The Bizarre Saga of New Coke. And
if you want some spoilers, just search Fanta Coca Cola
World War two.
Speaker 3 (47:31):
Absolutely good plug. Let's jump back to your own news
with the headline from Cars to Defense Mercedes Benz signals
Opennes to military sector. We're going to read directly from
this thanks to Sonya Yasel, who wrote this on May seventeenth,
twenty twenty six. While Germany's automotive sector is coming under
(47:54):
growing pressure, defense companies are increasingly eyeing its factories, skilled
worker and industrial expertise. In a recent interview with The
Wall Street Journal, the Mercedes Benz chief Ola Collenius said
the company would be open to supporting Europe's growing defense efforts.
Before we continue by stating that history at the top
(48:17):
and then getting into this, we are not saying that
is the same thing that's happening now. We are just
pointing out that there is a history in manufacturing companies,
not just in Germany during World War Two, but in
every country when there is a wartime, companies that manufacture
things like cars, like furniture, like everything. These voters anything,
(48:41):
these folks will be the ones. These again skilled laborers,
people who understand how to mass produce things. Factories that
can mass produce things, They get tapped to produce the
things necessary to blow sit up. And we're just point
out that this.
Speaker 2 (49:00):
Purposed, right kind of hmm, yeah.
Speaker 3 (49:03):
Well sure, yeah, you gotta you gotta be able to
manufacture right in a factory, manufacturer stuff.
Speaker 4 (49:08):
If you have the infrastructure, now all you have to
do is make some tweaks, which is way easier than
building an entirely new infrastructure. Car stuff got really into
this backag.
Speaker 2 (49:20):
Historical wartime flips like this happen and all the time
when the.
Speaker 4 (49:24):
War economy spends up. That's what's happening.
Speaker 3 (49:27):
So here's why it's creepy and crazy. This is a
quote from the Mercedes Benz chief Ola Collenius. I don't
know if I'm saying that right, K A L L
E N I U S. Here's the quote. The world
has become more unpredictable, and I think it's quite clear
that Europe needs to strengthen its defense capabilities. If we
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can play a positive role in that, we would be
prepared to do so. Okay, okay, here's the thing. Mercedes
Benz makes a whole lot of money making cars, but
because of the type of economy that we all live
in where profits are necessary, when you've got a huge
(50:14):
corporation like that, you've got to increase those profits. When
you're not selling as many cars, right or those cars are,
the money you're bringing in is not exceeding the amount
that folks need you or want you to make, even
if it's more right month over month, quarter over quarter,
stuff goes wrong. That's what's happening right now in the
car manufacturing industry. Across the world, not just in Germany,
(50:39):
not just in the US, everywhere, And here's Mercedes is
just one right in this article, they're also pointing to Volkswagen.
Look up the history of Volkswagen. They are also exploring
possible opportunities to get into defense production. The world is
looking on as the Vultas. Wagon CEO Oliver Bloom has
(51:02):
said the company plans to decide later this year whether
military transport vehicles could be produced at one of their plans,
while also stating that Volkswagen would not be manufacturing weapons
or tanks. Right, We're not doing tanks, transport vehicles.
Speaker 4 (51:18):
Transport vehicles all right, if I happen to transport guns.
But come on, what's a what's a little bit of
murtar between friends? It's it's interesting that because I would
propose for all of us listening. I mean, obviously, the
defense industry profits when it's draped in the flag of patriotism.
(51:41):
That's that's how the business works. But we do have
to point out that there has been a long economic
decline in the nation of Germany, and spinning up to
a war economy is actually ethics, society, economically, it's it's
an historically proven solution to that problem.
Speaker 3 (52:04):
I know, it's got to feel weird when Nvidia's market
cap is bigger than your entire GDP as we were
talking about at the top of the show. Let's jump
to another company. Rhine Metal is that era. They're a
defense company and they're examining whether or not some of
the current automotive stuff maybe the factories could be fully
(52:28):
converted for defense production, as in, hey, you guys don't
need to make as many cars anymore, we could really
use those, So maybe we'll just buy or take over
your factory and start doing what we want to do there.
So yeah, here it is. The company Rhine Metal is
reportedly considering taking you over entire factories from car makers
who are facing current economic pressures. Also, there's an aerospace
(52:55):
and defense company called Hensoalt HGN sol DT. They've been
actively recruiting the skilled workers from suppliers such as Continental
Ag and Bosch Bosch. I think is how you say
that Bosch Bosch. Yeah, so that this whole situation pretty weird.
One more story we got to get to.
Speaker 2 (53:14):
This.
Speaker 3 (53:15):
One's from The Guardian, written by Alex Daniel May seventeenth,
twenty twenty six JLR, which is Jaguar land Rover and
General Motors I nine hundred million pound contract to build
new range of military trucks. Jaguar land Rover and General
Motors are considering an expansion in the UK defense via
(53:37):
this giant military contractor, as carmakers seek to exploit a
spending boom by NATO countries racing to rearm again. NATO
countries racing to rearm. We've talked about this a couple
of times. There's a lot of talk in Germany and
many other countries in that area of Europe, including the UK,
(53:59):
just saying, hey, we need to up our defense spending.
That dude who's been lampooned on snl UK a bunch
Keir Starmer has just recently talked about committing five percent
of GDP to defense by twenty thirty five. Everybody's saying,
we gotta make more weapons, we gotta spend more on weapons,
we gotta get ready for this big battle that's coming.
(54:21):
They all see in just off in the distance, a
massive global conflict, and I gotta say it's kind of
hard not to see it.
Speaker 2 (54:30):
Got to agree with you there, man, there's.
Speaker 3 (54:32):
A whole bunch you can read in here, just really
interesting stuff. JLR has not produced military vehicles since the
classic land Rover Defender line closed its factory a decade ago.
The new Defender model is built at a plant in Slovakia.
General Motors is tabling a bid in partnership with BAE Systems,
(54:53):
which is a British defense company as well, also partnering
with NP aerospace manufacturer that maintains the existing land Rover fleet.
They're all talking about building trucks right now. We talked
about Mercedes one. I'm talking about these guys trucks that
are for war but don't cause explosions and death inherently, right.
Speaker 4 (55:16):
It's kind of it reminds me, you guys, of the
news that popped back in April twenty twenty six. Last month,
Long time coming. Uncle Sam the Pentagon over across the
pond has asked General Motors and Ford to get back
into the wartime economy as well. The reasoning being that
(55:41):
there has been a tremendous expenditure of hardware right with
the Iran conflict. And it's strange because it always happens
you go to the existing infrastructure first and you either
destroy it or you attempt to turn it to your means.
(56:01):
And if we're being coldly logical here, we have to
put ourselves in the mind the shoes or the engines
or the tires of these auto manufacturers and say, hey,
if stuff does go pear shaped, how many Mercedes Benz
(56:21):
are we going to sell versus army trucks?
Speaker 2 (56:25):
Right?
Speaker 4 (56:25):
What is the best for us? That's the question.
Speaker 3 (56:28):
There's some kind of connection here to the Remorra in
the Kloaca, but I don't know exactly what it is, but.
Speaker 4 (56:35):
It's pretty visual. I think it's pretty obvious.
Speaker 2 (56:37):
Bett.
Speaker 4 (56:39):
I think it's past the wrist at this point.
Speaker 3 (56:43):
Yeah, just gonna leave a couple more things from this
article from the Guardian. Ineos, which is a company I
didn't know much until I saw one on display at
a Toyota dealership a couple of years back. Ineos Carmaker.
They make the grenadier four by four grenadeier maybe g
R E N A d I E R for the
(57:04):
civilian market. That I saw one of these, it looks
like kind of a military transport vehicle when you see
one in the wild. They're also hoping for a contract
in partnership with with another defense company SMT. We got
other bidders, defense manufacturer Babcock. They're using a modified Toyota
model to make some of these trucks. The Germany military
(57:28):
firm Rhyne Medal is connected with Mercedes. We talked about
that General Dynamics, which is another defense firm. They're going
to use a Ford pickup to make their trucks.
Speaker 2 (57:40):
It's just.
Speaker 3 (57:47):
The level of discomfort I feel just watching it all happen,
and watching the money change hands, and just watching it
all occur in real time. As something that occurs every
time before a major conflict begins and then ramps up
like crazy as the hot war kicks off. It is
weird to sit in a place where it seems like
(58:09):
maybe we're already in a world war, and somebody will
say we already were at this time, but nobody declared it.
Speaker 4 (58:16):
Yet, right, you know, sure historians. But what I think
we're all experiencing here is on a local level, it's
it's the petrocore, right, It's the smell right before the
rain drops and the ass goes out of the clouds. Sorry,
the Manta ray thing stuck with me, dude, Yes, but.
Speaker 3 (58:37):
Yeah, talking of ass out of clouds, this is the
last little tiny thing. This is from CNBC Spencer Kimball,
May eighteenth to twenty twenty six. Nextra Energy will buy
Dominion Energy. Ben This makes me think about your story
you talked about already in an all stock deal that
is valued at nearly sixty seven billion dollars. Not real money,
(59:01):
no United seven billion.
Speaker 4 (59:04):
Somebody pull that guy over, pull this gretadier over. He's
not fit to drive seven billion.
Speaker 3 (59:12):
But for real. Nextra Energy will buy Dominion Energy sixty
seven billion dollars, uniting two leading players in the race
to meet growing electricity demand from data centers that run
artificial intelligence. Dominion Dominion is the utility responsible for powering
the world's largest dat data center market in Northern Virginia.
(59:34):
It has a market cap of more than fifty billion dollars.
Speaker 2 (59:37):
Next trail number nope.
Speaker 3 (59:40):
Nextra is the biggest renewable energy developer in the United States.
The Florida Extra Well, Hey, you're you're gonna well, I'll
tell you a little something in a second here, buddy,
The Florida headquartered Power Company is also the largest utility
in the S and P five hundred at a market
cap of more than one hundred and ninety billion dollars.
Speaker 4 (01:00:03):
And and to interject here on behalf of our brother,
the Tennessee pal Uh Dylan, you point out that all
these numbers are small fries in comparison to the market
cap of our parent company, Illumination Global Unlimited.
Speaker 3 (01:00:19):
Turn on the lane. Oh oh yeah, Well he was
talking about that when we were mentioning Apple and all
these jokers that have four trillion dollars of a market capital. Insanity.
It's just the IGU was so much bigger than that.
Do you have no idea?
Speaker 4 (01:00:33):
You guys, have no idea.
Speaker 3 (01:00:34):
It's fine, it's fine.
Speaker 1 (01:00:37):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (01:00:37):
The deal will create the largest regulated electric utility in
the world. And really uh huh huh, Noel, you'll be
happy to hear this.
Speaker 2 (01:00:48):
Okay.
Speaker 3 (01:00:49):
Nextra shareholders will own seventy four point five percent of
the combined company, while Dominion investors will own twenty five
point five percent.
Speaker 2 (01:00:58):
Is an extra evil, get rid of it.
Speaker 4 (01:01:02):
Not just yet, not just yet, not just yet, but
also yes.
Speaker 3 (01:01:09):
Though a major developer of renewables. As we said earlier,
Nextra has also ramped up investment in natural gas during
this current administration of the United States presidency, and it's
now playing a leading role in the push to expand
nuclear energy in the US. NEXTRA announced a deal with
Alphabet's Google last year to reopen the mothballed Dwayne Arnold's
(01:01:32):
nuclear plant in Iowa. Yes, yes, because what is Alphabet
planning to do. It's planning to build more than thirty
data center hubs across the United States, specifically for AI.
Speaker 2 (01:01:46):
Demand should have hell on at that extra I actually
don't have it anymore. What was I thinking?
Speaker 3 (01:01:52):
Well, congratulations and sorry.
Speaker 2 (01:01:56):
Yeah, hey they're evil apparently, so it's good that I'm not.
Speaker 3 (01:02:00):
It's all right, Hey, blood, money is money, man, Come
on this America. Now, this is America. This is America. Okay,
all right, Well that's it for me, and that's it
for us.
Speaker 4 (01:02:13):
Fellow conspiracy realist, thank you, as always so much for
tuning in to our weekly Strange News segment. We can't
wait to hear your thoughts on the bizarre saga of Tahoe,
especially if you live in or like twenty eight other
million people per year visit the place and have a
great time. I think there's a conspiracy in action. We'd
(01:02:35):
love to hear from some marine biologist, you know, get
weird with it. We'd love to hear your thoughts on
the wartime economies that are spinning up as we record,
So reach out and touch faith. You can find us
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Speaker 3 (01:03:05):
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cool nickname and let us know if we can use
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We are the entities that read each piece of correspondence
we receive. Be well aware, yet unafraid. Sometimes more and
more often, the void writes back, there are a couple
of stories we weren't able to get to. We're going
to have to save them for next week. But everybody,
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