In this week's strange news segment: thousands die in the ongoing European heat wave. Sony removes films people already paid for without a refund. Poop crimes abound! Astrophysicist Avi Loeb heads the White House's new UFO council. Tech companies continue the 'AI' debacle, and the world collectively wonders: "Who is 'Mexican Batman'?" Tune in for all this and more.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:26):
Hello, welcome back to the show. My name is Matt,
my name is Noah.
Speaker 3 (00:30):
They call me Ben, and you can too. We're joined
as always with our super producer Dylan the Tennessee pal Faked.
Most importantly, you are you.
Speaker 4 (00:39):
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Speaker 3 (00:40):
That makes this the stuff they don't want you to know.
If you're tuning in to the Strange News, then welcome
to July sixth, Happy Happy Birthday, United States. And also
some quick notes about the weather. I know all three
of us. You guys may be no offense, a little
more daytime oriented than me, but it's true.
Speaker 4 (01:04):
It's true.
Speaker 3 (01:04):
It's murderous outside, bro.
Speaker 4 (01:07):
I think I mentioned this off Mike. I went from
my usual bike ride route the other day, and then
on the way back, I noticed that I was feeling
kind of nauseated and like weirdly like clammy. And then
I got into my car finally and looked, and it
was ninety six degrees. I think I nearly had a
heat stroke or heat exhaustion or something.
Speaker 3 (01:25):
It's like walking through hot suits ninety especially if.
Speaker 4 (01:28):
Those shivers, dude, And it's like that in New York too.
There's a heat wave coming in New York City. It's
going to be above one hundred and I think we're
experiencing a heat dome situation, guys, because I looked at
the calendar on the weather app and it looks like
as the days progresses, the number keeps going up, up, up, up,
and then it kind of holds it because there's no
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way for the heat to escape because of this dome
right right.
Speaker 3 (01:52):
And this place is inland enough that we don't get
the benefits of being off the coast. But unlike this
great segue, unlike our friends across the pond, a lot
of people in the United States have air conditioning and
don't consider it especially impressive. It's not a flex like
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having a pitech or a rolex or what have you.
It's a basic utility. And I was talking to several
fellow conspiracy realists who live in Europe, and the heat
wave there is frightening, because you guys, know we've been
Europe is known for many things, but air conditioning is
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not one of those.
Speaker 4 (02:36):
Yes, with New York, not no central a lot of
window units right or in Europe not even those. Sometimes
you just literally a window.
Speaker 3 (02:45):
Yeah, well, and yeah. One of our British friends was
explaining to me that there their housing is often so
old that it's an enormous, indeed unaffordable investment for a
lot of people to install HVAC or centralized air conditioning systems.
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This is a record breaking European heat wave, you guys.
If you go to even just like the meteorology nerds
such as ACI weather, you'll see articles like one that
released Monday, June twenty ninth. We're recording on Wednesday, July first.
The death toll from the heat wave alone is over
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one thousand people in France right now and probably rising
as we speak and the heat wave continues. People are
dying in Spain again due to the heat. We've seen
this before. The numbers are pretty frightening, guys.
Speaker 4 (03:45):
We know that.
Speaker 3 (03:48):
These cities like Paris and Frankfurt are experiencing ten day
stretches with temperatures eighteen to thirty degrees fahrenheit above what
is normal and expected.
Speaker 4 (03:59):
That is normal and unexpected.
Speaker 5 (04:02):
Well, and for the humans that are living in these
places that have the kinds of homes that we're talking
about here, that may think, hey, perhaps I can at
least get air conditioning in one room of my house
and keep that one a little cold.
Speaker 2 (04:16):
You guys know, the old school.
Speaker 5 (04:17):
Like in my head, I am imagining the ge window units,
these like old school ones that you'll see that'scross Atlanta.
Speaker 4 (04:25):
Mm hmm.
Speaker 5 (04:25):
Those those here cost about one hundred and eighty two
hundred dollars and that you could just go out and
get one. That's a lot of money, but it's not
it's not too much, right, But if you're in let's say,
small town in the UK right now, one of those
units is going for anywhere between four hundred pounds and
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six hundred and fifty pounds simply because the demand is
so high and there are so few of them.
Speaker 4 (04:52):
Wait because of gouging associated with the heat wave.
Speaker 3 (04:55):
Yeah, because of this heat would run on it. Yeah,
similar to like toilet paper or mass during the COVID pandemic.
Speaker 5 (05:01):
So just imagining if you're in that situation and now,
in order to essentially protect your own health, especially if
you've got someone vulnerable in your house or a child,
a baby, you've got to go drop six hundred and
fifty pounds that just seems untenable, which is.
Speaker 3 (05:18):
Closer and closer to one thousand US dollars for comparison.
And again, as Matt was saying, that is a window
unit that can maybe do make it livable in one
room of your domicile. To steal a phrase from Justice
Thomas exactly, and let's go to the experts, so you
know it's not just us doing podcastory. The World Health
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Organization Director General tedros Adano Gabress wrote on social media
earlier this past weekend, quote, Europe is the fastest warming
continent on Earth, heating at twice the global average. Right now,
one hundred and fifty million people are living under extreme heat.
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Hundreds of dyed schools are shut, grids are buckley.
Speaker 4 (06:08):
They're just not prepared for this.
Speaker 3 (06:10):
Yeah, and they, in all fairness, they shouldn't have had.
Speaker 4 (06:14):
To be if abnormal, I mean, these are anomalous weather patterns.
Soon to be less anomalous, it would seem as they
increase and exacerbate and.
Speaker 3 (06:25):
Hold water blob like I was talking earlier, Super El Nino.
Speaker 2 (06:29):
Yeah, we're dealing with all that.
Speaker 5 (06:31):
We got the wildfires just burning across lands across the world.
We've got those earthquakes. You see, there were four earthquakes
recently that were all seemingly connected, all within eight hours
of each other.
Speaker 3 (06:45):
And.
Speaker 4 (06:47):
Extreme temperature fluctuations could cause seismic activity. Right, is there
some thought behind that? Well, are they connected to climate
change or is this a whole other problem that we
need to.
Speaker 3 (06:59):
Yeah, the science, that's a good question. All the science
continues in that regard.
Speaker 4 (07:04):
But we do know we you know, we.
Speaker 3 (07:07):
Always like to begin our strange news segment with positive
news and.
Speaker 2 (07:11):
Positives being on fire in the reality.
Speaker 3 (07:16):
So the reality is to respond that that there is
some there is a little bit of good news in
that at least one of the children who was missing
in the terrifying Venezuelan earthquakes, including people have been deported
to Venezuela from the US. One child was found alive
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after missing for more than six days. Wow, from the rubble.
Speaker 4 (07:44):
Oh my god, I had pulled from the rubble.
Speaker 5 (07:45):
Yes, there was a father and son found like four
days after the whole thing went down. Can you guys
imagine that those two scenarios like just existing under that
rubble for that long attempting to survive.
Speaker 4 (07:59):
No, sir, I cannot. That sounds horrific and PTSD inducing.
Speaker 3 (08:04):
And hopefully more people will be found as survivors. So
let us know, folks, what your take is on this
frequency of seemingly connected earthquakes, as well as the future
of the climate. Real real, easy question to answer. It's
enough sometimes when you look at the world, to make
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you think maybe you should take things in your own hands,
maybe you should become a vigilante. We've got so much
to get to. We're gonna pause for a word from
our sponsors, and then we'll give you some rapid fire
strange news we have returned. First off, this is a
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quick when we recently, as you'll remember, Jens did an
episode that I think meant a lot to all of us.
It's called the End of Ownership. Thank you to all
our fellow conspiracy realists who responded, and thank you especially
to I believe it's our Palatomic Historian who hipped us
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to this one. I don't know if we all heard
about this, and it's a few days old, but we
talked about how when you purchase a digital thing like
a digital film or an ebook or what have you,
you are really purchasing. In the opinion of the issuing company,
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you are purchasing a license to enjoy it until they
changed their mind for any reason and we warned against it.
PlayStation Guys is now deleting five hundred and fifty one
movies from customers accounts, So people are paid for these
movies are getting the rug pulled.
Speaker 4 (09:52):
I would say, though, you know this is I'm not
trying to victim BLAMEE here, but who is buying movies
on PlayStation Network? There are more, there are better ways
to go about this. It just seems like an odd choice.
I didn't even know they sold movies on PlayStation Network.
Speaker 5 (10:07):
It's crazy to think that some people have to make
that hard choice, Like, Okay, I'm gonna play PlayStation I
know this about myself, so I'm gonna pay for that subscription.
Speaker 2 (10:16):
Fee, right.
Speaker 4 (10:16):
Oh, and then that's the ecosystem that I'm in, So maybe.
Speaker 2 (10:20):
That's all I can afford.
Speaker 6 (10:21):
That's a good point, like that Apple has the same
kind of sandbox of Elgish. Yeah, so what kind of
movies are being removed? The Terminator franchise, Rambo, First Blood,
The Deer Hunter. All of those are bangers and of course,
one of the best war movies out there.
Speaker 3 (10:40):
Bridget Jones's diary.
Speaker 4 (10:42):
That's very funny, very true, dude. The Deer Hunter. I
remember like going through my first really gnarly breakup and
seeing The Deer Hunter on TV and seeing these poor
SAPs stuck in these cages in Vietnam and being like, well,
at least it's not that bad. If you ever want
to feel good about your life, watch The Deer Hunter.
Speaker 3 (11:02):
There are so many jokes. I should not make out
air with that one, but yeah, you're absolutely right.
Speaker 2 (11:07):
Something about a revolver maybe Ben.
Speaker 4 (11:09):
Perhaps, Yes, that's a big moment city now.
Speaker 3 (11:12):
Indeed, there there's no mention of any refunds or what
you might call make goods for the affected users. Sony's
statement is quote, you'll no longer be able to access
your previously purchase content from Studio Canal, which I guess
is their sandbox, and it will be removed from your
video library. The films are going away due to our
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content licensing agreements.
Speaker 4 (11:37):
See, they should never have agreed to sell this exactly.
It's a bait and switch and the worst way, Like
I get it, and we can get irritated when things
are soon to be leaving Netflix. Okay, but I pay
a subscription and get a ton of other stuff for
that money. If I'm buying a piece of content and
paying money that I will never see back, that should
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be against the law. That ain't right. We know that
these deals dry up or the terms change, and the
collections go to maybe the network or the studio's new
streaming service, but that shouldn't be the same as buying
the license for You should have that or it shouldn't
be allowed to be a transaction option.
Speaker 3 (12:15):
Especially three quick points on that one. Sony had a
twenty twenty five profit, not gross, but profit of seven
point five three five billion US dollars just last year.
They've also recently said they're no longer going to be
making physical copies of games starting very soon.
Speaker 4 (12:37):
Well, the GTA six news is that there's going to
be no physical version of it. You might be able
to buy a case, but even the case just comes
with a download code. So I think physical versions of
stuff are going the way of the Dodo.
Speaker 3 (12:52):
Your collectors will be a metal box with maybe maybe
a map, a poster, a little bit of swag.
Speaker 4 (12:58):
Well, and GTA six is going to be such a
tone setter, like if they're doing it, this is the
new one, this is the way, you know what I mean?
That one's such a big high water mark.
Speaker 5 (13:08):
Have you guys seen the collector's versions of some of
these big box games, like the Halo whatever the newest
Halo was.
Speaker 2 (13:14):
When it came out, there was a.
Speaker 5 (13:16):
Mass Effect three bundle that comes with like helmets, you know, and.
Speaker 2 (13:20):
This crazy stuff.
Speaker 4 (13:21):
There was one for a Fallout that had like a
pit boy, like a like a yeah.
Speaker 5 (13:25):
And they're charging like a thousand bucks for these things,
and you can imagine there are people that will do that.
It does suck that there's no middle ground for I'm
sorry guys personally like me, where I've on my walls,
I've got old video game boxes and things that I
use as art, fun memories.
Speaker 4 (13:43):
Back when the covers were better looking than the games
and shaking you know.
Speaker 5 (13:47):
Well, it's that just kind of sucks, But I totally understand.
I guess the reasoning behind it, you know, And you're
gonna stop wasting a ton of resources unnecessarily, which is cool.
Speaker 4 (13:58):
And Ben, this is maybe a little bit of different conversation,
but it's back to the GTA thing. Another precedent that
they're setting is that there's a basic game price and
then the premium game price that gives you literal, built
in additional content. So when you're buying the quote unquote
basic game price, you're not even getting the whole game.
And we already know that DLC is already you know,
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iffy in and of itself. But to have like the
basic price not even have all the same missions that
the higher end version, that's a weird precedent that seems
very inherently different than just putting out DLC down the line.
Speaker 3 (14:34):
Agreed, it's a heck of a rug pool, right, because
we also know, like you were saying, Matt, we also
knew this physicality is meaningful for people.
Speaker 4 (14:43):
This leads me to.
Speaker 3 (14:45):
The third point of wanting to make four rap on
this one. I foresee and I hope we all foresee.
Speaker 1 (14:53):
Why.
Speaker 3 (14:53):
I foresee a resurgence in prioritization of physical media. We
are going to witness, I don't know how impactful it will be,
but will witness this huge rise of people who are
going to be saying, look, when we buy things, we
own them, just like so many of you are. Fellow
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conspiracy realists, wrote to us to say and vow after
our end of Ownership episode. Right now, it is not
illegal to by physical media, but you probably will be monitored.
There's an awkward segue, but it's a Joe Montana pass right.
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It's ugly, but it gets us across the line. We've
been seeing more and more news about flock cameras and
mass surveillance since our two part or two chapter series
on Flock. One thing I think some of us were
talking about with each other off air. This is not
necessarily Flock related, but it's very much in the same vein.
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An outfit called Bus Patrol has now put AI cameras
in tens of thousands of school buses, so kids who
ride school buses are now going to be monitored, and
according to an article published June twenty eighth in The Drive,
these cameras are now going to be turned into license
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plate readers for outside of the school bus to stop
people from illegally passing the buses, and then they're also
going to be fed to local law enforcement.
Speaker 4 (16:31):
See it's like a part of that that seems good,
you know, like keeping people you know accountable for doing
dumb stuff in traffic. I'm all about that. But then
it's this open ended access and opportunities to use this
stuff in ways that it was not intended, and there's
no way to opt out of because you're just out
in the world. You can't opt out of having your
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face or license scanned just by being, you know, a
human being walking around. There's no path to that.
Speaker 3 (16:59):
Yeah, this is going to have our claims to. Already
have forty thousand of these cameras deployed across twenty four states,
and they have some built in growth for any unethical investors.
They have built in growth because at least thirty states
legally would permit them, as in thirty states have no
law against this kind of stuff, even with the involvement
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of children being transported.
Speaker 4 (17:25):
I'm just.
Speaker 3 (17:28):
It's not great, this is what I'm saying.
Speaker 2 (17:31):
It's a weird thing.
Speaker 5 (17:31):
I was having a conversation with the ten year olds
here about what goes down on the bus, and I
was trying to take myself back to remembering the kinds
of things that went down on school buses. You guys
rode school buses for some time.
Speaker 4 (17:45):
You're bafely just a little bit. When I was younger,
like in elementary school, maybe for maybe only for one year.
Speaker 5 (17:50):
So personally I can speak to weird stuff going down
on buses even when you were a young kid, like
from kindergarten to fifth grade. You know, some of that
is if you speak to a psychologist general things that
kids get up to when they're exploring the world and
their bodies and all that other stuff.
Speaker 2 (18:08):
I would just bullying.
Speaker 5 (18:10):
I would just say there maybe is something worthwhile there.
But it wouldn't be for these types of organizations to
be monitoring kids and to have you know, all the
law enforcement having access. It would be something that maybe
a bus driver would be alerted, oh hey, something's going
down back there, and you could make a correction, rather
than having you know, a cop show up.
Speaker 3 (18:31):
Right and specifically, folks, these cameras that we're talking about,
they are installed often on what we call the stop
arm of your typical yellow, yellow school bus, weirdly manufactured
by a company named Bluebird. So the idea is the
camera swings out at a clock's people are trying to
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illegally pass that portable stop sign. But what's really happening
now is that they are reading the license plates people
or drivers, even if they're not actually doing anything.
Speaker 4 (19:04):
Oh, oh, so we're not talking about inside the bus
side of the bus. I thought that it does seem
like there was a potential.
Speaker 2 (19:13):
Broad Well, now that that makes sense because I like
that version.
Speaker 4 (19:17):
I like to stop armed version. I just don't like
how connected it is to other agencies and how it
can just be another forgive the pun arm of those surveillances.
Speaker 3 (19:28):
Yeah, check out for for media for more folks. Obviously
this will inevitably connect to flock as well.
Speaker 5 (19:36):
Well, that's genuine safety there. Not long ago, we had
somebody blow by a school bus, and you know, when
that arm's out, you are legally required to stop. And
when those lights are flashing and that stop sign comes out,
you gotta stop because there's kids getting on and off
of that thing. And I can like, that's a really
great thing. By the way, Bluebird it manufactures all the
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school buses I've ever ridden on.
Speaker 4 (20:01):
Same Yeah, same Ben, you were talking about Bluebird bus
the other day, and in some aspect of yeah, it's.
Speaker 3 (20:07):
Weird because this is outside of the scope of this
and our time is limited here. But if you want
to learn some fascinating stuff about Bluebird, check out what
happens to those buses in the US. When they are retired,
they become something called the English would be chicken busses
in a lot of Central America, which is one of
the easiest ways to get around. And that's the most
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time I ever spent technically on a Bluebird bus. The
drivers are crazy, just like taxi cab guys in New York,
but they're going around the mountains and the hollers and
the valleys, and they have made their peace with God.
I actually did have to hold chickens for somebody a
couple of times. The bluebird saga is fascinating. The AI
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surveillance networking is Orwellian, and again it's enough to make
you feel like you might take matters into your own hands,
which brings to one brief mention. We have to give
love the opinion on this because it has not been
super widely reported in a lot of English speaking media.
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There is a vigilante active in Lagos de Moreno in Mexico.
He has been called the Batman, or they have been
called the Batman of Lagos de Moreno. Got fed up
with the police having all this power and not really
enforcing it, and so this guy has started catching motorcycle
thieves in Mexico or scooter thieves operating at night, tracking
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down the suspects, and he doesn't kill them, but he
ties them up to lampposts, buy their stolen vehicles, and
he writes rata on their foreheads. If you go to
republicworld dot com, there's a great article about this from
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Nidhi Sidha where you can see pictures of some of
the thieves who have been duct taped to poles wild right, like.
Speaker 4 (22:10):
Yeah, but isn't that usually what you say to someone
who's yeah?
Speaker 3 (22:16):
And he'd also draws whiskers on their faces, so it's
a little cute.
Speaker 4 (22:19):
See, No, does he really is that true?
Speaker 2 (22:22):
I mean they were it?
Speaker 4 (22:24):
Uh what if he taped a big old hunk of
cheese type?
Speaker 3 (22:27):
I mean, at that point, it's the cheese costs. That's
all that's stopping us. But I I've got a question
for you guys. First off, I know that we might
not I think we may be roughly on the same
page about vigilantism in general, But would it not be
better to describe this guy or this person as the
spider man of the area because he's webbing people up?
Speaker 4 (22:49):
You know what? Our Buddy Jonesy on his weekly weird
News podcast said the exact same thing that involves sticky
substances causing crooks to be held hostage to poles and stuff.
That is very Spider Man. That's evens something you do
in the video game. Well, there's a thing where you
can do, a stealth thing. You web them and hang
them from the poles or from the telephone lines.
Speaker 5 (23:10):
Even more to the heart of it, guys, how much
money does this guy have If he's a billionaire, he's
a Batman, if he's just a run of the mill kids,
a duct tape spider Man.
Speaker 3 (23:22):
Yeah, that's not a bad point at all, you know,
And we'll move on to a word from our sponsors.
There's so much to get to do here. I'm fascinated
by vigilantes and real life perhaps problematic superheroes. Does this
guy work for the cartel? Has he been greenlit by
Mexico's shadow government to do this? We can tell you
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that as of June twenty eighth, five thieves, five separate thieves,
have been found duct taped separately and together two poles
over just the past ten days. So the pattern seems
to be escalating. Unless people stop stealing the motorcycles. We'll
be back after a word from our sponsors.
Speaker 4 (24:11):
And we're back and Ben, what a what a weird
coincidence and a perfect segue for another Batman related story.
This might not be the hero we deserve. It's just
the hero we got. It's not even really a hero
at all. This happened in Trinidad and Tobago where Wednesday
of this week or love last week. As we sit
and record on July, the first authorities, we're searching for
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a group of burglars or thieves. Your vigilancee Batman may
well have duct taped to a pole who were caught
on camera using a back hoo to try to steal
a cash machine. But they were captured bungling it so
hardcore and falling over themselves in you know classic pratfall
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Benny Hill fashion that has become kind of source of
a meme involving one of their striking resemblance to Batman.
It would appear that this fief was wearing a what
do you call those things a balaclava or like a
ski mask, a black ski mask, as well as a
all black duds and a black pawn show that seemed
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to be streaming in the wind like Batman's cape. In
the video, you can see this person absolutely falling over themselves,
tripping over debris after attempting to direct the back ho
in a predictable manner, and it seemed like they did
not have a good time. The Trinidad and Tobago Police
Service said that the suspects quote this is from AP
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by the way, efforts to remove the vault proved futile
after the arm of the backo sustained the use. I
don't think so many. I don't think they got there, no,
no where they even get this thing. They must have
stolen that too. Back to the AP, the suspects were
able to move the cash machine to the sidewalk with
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the backo. By the way, y'all, do we not know
that you don't steal cash machines, because even once you
get it to get into it is a whole other
heist that you do in the privacy of your own
garage or something. And usually if you do crack it open,
I think it like blasts everything with anchor. There's some
mechanisms built in where there's no good way to break open.
Speaker 3 (26:20):
It is extremely even you would have first off, you'd
have to function at scale to make it worth it
the equipment and expertise. And then secondly, because you would
have to function at scale, you would probably be limited
to a certain radius of vulnerable ATMs right that you
could take, and so inevitably you get caught. Check out
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our brain stuff video on why you shouldn't rob a
bank in general. By the way, the economics just aren't there.
Speaker 4 (26:46):
Well, it would seem that they did steal the back
the details of this, yeah, and some of the details
do seem like this was a crime of opportunity that
went horribly or I I mean, this is not, you know,
very very well thought out. It would seem because they
stole the back hoe from a nearby beach, it said, so,
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I don't think a whole lot of forethought went into
that unless they just knew that these back hoes were around.
There was a construction site, so there was a separate
part of the plot to steal the back ho and
then target the ATM. The suspects were able to move
the cash machine to a nearby sidewalk, but then the
back hose arm started glitching out and stopped working. Uh,
and they tried to manually lift the cash machine into
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a small truck. When that didn't work out, the suspects
gave up and sped off in what police believe was
also a storm.
Speaker 3 (27:37):
Well, I guess that's a way to keep it clean.
But also, no, everybody, uh is it not? Are there
not a finite number of baccos in Trinidad and Tobago?
Like it's an archipela one one would think without the
back capital.
Speaker 4 (27:55):
Of the world. No, no, And and a real funny
detail here is that this attempt, all on camera, appeared
to last more than ten minutes. So this was, you know,
a real comedy of errors. Guys. Well, speaking of crimes
of opportunity, is pooping in the pool a crime of opportunity?
Speaker 3 (28:14):
It's a crime of poor trinity.
Speaker 4 (28:20):
And the and the poo puns. The poo puns really
right themselves in this.
Speaker 5 (28:24):
Case, it does feel more like a necessity if it
happens right, or an emergency.
Speaker 4 (28:30):
Ah, you know what, what do they say? Necessity is
the mother of invention? That doesn't really apply here. Oh yes,
a pooh done it? Well, you get in a situations
a pooh done it? A poo pooh done it is?
How the the UK son coined this particular debacle involving
a serial pool pooper who was caught and admits to
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defecating in UK pools at least eighteen times.
Speaker 3 (28:56):
Okay, that's not that's not I that's a.
Speaker 4 (29:00):
That's more than a that's more than answering the call
of that's more than answering the call of nature.
Speaker 3 (29:04):
More than answering the call of pooty or duty, whatever
we wish, because you all, everybody has Look, we're not
going to judge it too much, folks, We're not making
this about ourselves. We're saying statistically, most living people have
been in a situation at some point. It's not your fault.
Maybe he ate the wrong thing, maybe he caught a bug,
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But noel, my guy eighteen times feels like a fetish
or premeditation or a certain a certain degree of agency.
Speaker 4 (29:37):
And this is not pool's plural. This is a single pool. Yeah,
the the the the the Newcastle Elman swimming pool in
mid Wales. I'm just gonna read from the sign because
as you know, sus as they are for hard news,
I think they probably are doing a fine job in
the reporting of this pooh done it in the filthy culprit,
they say, admitted fouling the water at least eighteen times,
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forcing the facility to shut on multiple occasions, leading staff
and swimmers disgusted. And there's a caption I love this
under the picture of the pool referring to pool bosses.
I love the idea of being a pool boss. Where
apparently baffled as human waste kept turning up in the
water at the Newcastle elman Emlyn excuse Me swimming pool
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in mid Wales. The repeated contamination sparked a police investigation.
After months of disruption, causing costs to mount and frustrations
to grow among regular users of the pool, detectives have
now revealed a nineteen year old man admitted to deliberately
defecating in a public swimming pool on multiple occasions. Any
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motive unclear. The motive remains unclear.
Speaker 5 (30:47):
You guys remember a long time ago, Ben, This might
have been in the video Exclusive days. There was this
concept of kids who were working, younger people who were
working as lifeguards who wanted to get off of work
and they would throw candy bars or they would surreptitiously
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get a candy bar into the pool and the way
it would die the way it would break down a
little bit after entering the water for a little bit
of time, somebody would notice scream thinking it was defecation,
and then they would get to close the pool down
for a little bit because you had to like drain
it or something, and they would not have to work
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for a couple hours.
Speaker 2 (31:34):
It seems like it was a full day.
Speaker 3 (31:37):
Yeah, because then you have to have some pretty deep
cleaning coordination, filtrating, you have to yeah, you have to
flush the system.
Speaker 4 (31:46):
But the.
Speaker 3 (31:49):
I do remember something about that, and it does make sense, folks,
because for a lot of especially younger people, this is
a summer job. You get bored, you know what I mean.
You might just be doing it because it looks good
on your big college applications. So if you can fudge
the rules a little bit, then why would you hesitate
hah haha.
Speaker 4 (32:10):
Fudge the pools a little bit, all right?
Speaker 3 (32:12):
Tip your servers everybody, Oh.
Speaker 4 (32:14):
You got to Yeah, no, for sure, don't poop and pools,
and don't foe poop and pools either. I think it's
the takeaway here. Spokesperson for the pool said the majority
of our customers were supportive and understanding that we took
the water safety measures seriously and closed, albeit also frustrated
at the frequency we thanked them for their support. And
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this is apparently causing some hardship for the folks in
charge of these pool bosses, who say our funds have
been depleted by these incidents and any donations or offers
of financial help would be greatly appreciated. So maybe we
should start to go fund me for this Emlin swimming
pool in mid Wales. Sorry Newcastle, Emlin and guys. I
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gotta say this story led me down a bit of
a Pooh done it kind of rabbit hole, which led
me to another story that I remembered seeing late last
week about people who are pooping at concert venues. Who
are these animals? Noah Kan I'm not familiar with his music,
but apparently he's quite popular, A bit of a folk
(33:16):
type artist is asking his audience to please not poop
at venues except in designated areas. Apparently there have been
multiple incidents at noahcan concerts where you know, fans have
dropped trou and taken a poop right there on the ground.
He says to the fans in a plea for sanity,
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if you have to poop at a show. Please, dear God,
just go to the bathroom. I've pooped my pants as
much as the next twenty nine year old, But you
guys got to understand there's a venue worker out there
with one hundred yard stare. After dealing with that, he added,
I pooped myself once in Charlottesville, but that's because I'm
dedicated to my craft. You just, yeah, you couldn't stop
(34:04):
the show. And this all stemmed from a social media
post that went viral of somebody actually photographing these little
nuggets on the ground and apparently the woman who's accused
of doing this, who has not been named, pooped on
the ground and then stepped in her own poop and
tracked it throughout the venue, leaving a trail of poop
(34:25):
that is disgusting. And just to wrap this part up here,
the woman who apparently posted the content had this to
say about it. Okay, so the person who did this
was one row in front of me in section AA.
If you've ever been a concert, you know the AA
is just the second set of alphabet rows. So that's
pretty still close up to the front on the floor,
usually on like a metal grate kind of especially if
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it's in a big old field kind of situation, which
it appears this cunsert was. I guess they didn't want
to miss a couple of songs to use the bathroom,
so they just straight up poop themselves, mind you, not
liquid or anything. In case anyone thinks this was an
accident and started picking picking, what does that mean?
Speaker 3 (35:06):
You do hear the rest of the quotation.
Speaker 4 (35:09):
That's where it wrapped up in this Boston dot Com article.
I wonder if well. Some of the other accounts of
this indicated that the woman got it on her foot
and smeared it all over the place as she ran
from her seat, and the TMZ article on the subject
(35:30):
interviewed the same woman, I believe, and they used the
term smear say as a joke about this kind of
you know, word of mouth discussion of this, you know,
concert floor pooping. But it would turn out that fans
of Noah kN are not the only ones exhibiting this
kind of troubling behavior. Olivia Rodrigo recently called out fans
(35:52):
who wore diapers to keep their front row seats. She
said this, I have been to certain concerts and certain
festivals where people but we're diapers so they can be
front row. And that's been an experience as a performer
that I have smelled. The implication being she is smelling
the excrements of her most diehard of fans, and as
(36:12):
the father of a die hard fan myself hopefully not
one who would ever resort to this kind of shenaniganry.
I'm getting that barricade spot is very, very very important
to some people. But just you know, I think there
should be limits, guys. I think there should be limits.
That's all I've gotten. Apologies to anyone who is triggered
(36:33):
by my poop centric stream there, but you know, I'm sorry, guys,
it wasn't liquid.
Speaker 3 (36:39):
Well. We also we also want to give you a
behind the scenes look. Transparency is important to us. We
encountered in this punishing heat a couple of disconnects of
our own. Thankfully no one has, I think, guys, nobody
is pooped at one of our live shows.
Speaker 4 (36:57):
Oh no. Our internet, though, however, has been the bed.
I think that might be what you're getting at about
the heat. We are we did. We are literally reconvening.
We are literally reconvening after an internet outage. So yeah,
and then this heat wave that we're experiencing here is
no joke and can absolutely cause power issues and all
kinds of stuff downstream.
Speaker 3 (37:19):
Well, we want to bring the show to you, not
to impersonate the USPS, but we what's the old? What's
the old? Like green lantern level valve of our friends
in the postal service?
Speaker 4 (37:33):
Neither rain rain orse, neither rain nor sleet nor liquid
poop hail. That's sorry, I keep saying liquid. I just
think it was a very funny distinction that the person
questioned made sure to point out that it was definitely
not liquid, so it was clearly on purpose.
Speaker 7 (37:50):
Not all poop has created equally no true that why
don't we take a quick break and here a wordmore sponsor,
then come back with the last segment in today's Strange
News episode.
Speaker 5 (38:07):
And we've returned, guys. I keep thinking about that concept
we talked about at the very top of this episode,
where PlayStation Network is taking down all of these bot
videos movies, and I looked online just to see how
much it would cost to get a giant hard drive
like an internal solid state drive for a PlayStation five,
(38:29):
thinking maybe you could write a script or find a
way to download those movies before they go.
Speaker 4 (38:34):
That would require a jail breaking situation, wouldn't it. Maybe
it could be done. I know that we've had stories
recently about you know, the right to repair and people
you know, writing their own jail break software for PlayStation
Now that was actually a story that hit the news
recently about PlayStations being terrified because someone had figured out
how to jail breaker. Sorry, I mean inter out, but
just picked my memory there.
Speaker 5 (38:56):
Well, just in the spirit of perhaps finding a way
to retain the stuff that we have purchased, at least
in some way from a large corporation like that. I
was looking at how much it would cost to buy
one of these big hard drives. I realized, guys, it
costs six hundred dollars right now on best buys website
to buy a PlayStation five Slim Console Digital Edition, So
(39:20):
like the lowest bar you can get for a PS five,
it costs six hundred dollars. With that, you get eight
hundred and twenty five gigs of space of hard drive space.
It costs also exactly six hundred dollars to buy a
four terobyte SSD that you would put inside your PS five.
Speaker 2 (39:39):
Isn't that crazy? The same cost.
Speaker 4 (39:41):
I didn't think mine was that much. I did get one,
but it's been a minute, but I swear I would
have remembered if it was quite that much. Granted I
don't have the slim version, but I imagine it's the same.
Maybe it was that much.
Speaker 5 (39:52):
Jes Louise a PlayStation five pro right now is nine
hundred bucks. It's crazy how much the price is on
these things have risen with all the conflicts and shortages
of the things required to make that.
Speaker 4 (40:06):
Have you seen, guys, the proposed or the announced pricing
for the Steam Machine, I believe is what it is called.
It's over one thousand dollars.
Speaker 3 (40:15):
It's the actual Steam deck or the French not the
dash manufactured comparison.
Speaker 4 (40:21):
Yeah, no, there's there's a Steam kind of console. I
believe it's called the Steam Machine. Maybe I'm getting the
name wrong, but it is over twelve hundred dollars. There
you go. It is definitely a cube like device. But
the apparently the stats are not even that impressive, and
you'd be much better off building yourself a gaming PC.
(40:42):
But yeah, man, all of these companies are having to
raise prices. Apple just announce they're raising the prices of
a lot of their laptops and peripherals and things like that.
And Xbox I think announced that they're definitely raising prices.
So this chip shortage is no joke.
Speaker 5 (40:54):
Good thing. We're in a record time of prosperity.
Speaker 4 (40:58):
Yeah, thank god.
Speaker 5 (41:03):
All right, Well, let's jump to one quick story here,
coming to us from Futurism, written by Frank Landimore on
June twenty third. Here's the title. Meta's program that spies
on every employee's computer just blew up in its face
in spectacular fashion. Let's learn about this. The chief technology
officer over there at Meta, Andrew Bosworth. He said that
(41:26):
the data that was being collected would be tightly controlled
in this fancy schmancy, very exciting employee spying program. However,
the company is now pausing their tracking program because sensitive
employee information was leaked internally. Now hear that again, leaked internally.
(41:47):
There was a security notice that was sent out on Monday,
June twenty second that said the exposed data included employees
full AI prompts and transcriptions, as well as performance data
and even private conversations they were having. The leak allowed
the data to be accessible by any employee inside Meta
(42:08):
kind of crazy in Meta has said that it's investigating
the incident and confirmed it has paused the program for
the time being, but you know they're keeping a lid
on things, they say. The program was dubbed the quote
Model Capability Initiative. Guess what it was trying to do? Guys,
(42:28):
spying on every employee like that? What do you think
they were? What do you think their goal was?
Speaker 4 (42:32):
Preductivity?
Speaker 3 (42:33):
No, to build a better mouse trap. There's been a
great deal of internal dissent, as we know, within Meta,
regarding the the idea that they're being forced to teach
an automated program or an algorithm to do their jobs.
(42:54):
So the obsessive monitoring is something they're fighting against. It
is therefore, or without reading all of the news here,
it is therefore quite possible that internal dissent led to
the leak.
Speaker 4 (43:08):
So they're training their robot replacements.
Speaker 3 (43:10):
Yeah, justice, Yes, dig the grave and teach uh, teach
your grave digger how to build a better shovel.
Speaker 5 (43:19):
Absolutely, Just to continue with Frank's writing here, he says
that this thing, the Model Capability Initiative, was intended to
gather data so metas AI models could quote learn how
people actually complete everyday tasks using computers exact exactly what
you said, Ben. It's just hearing it as like how
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people actually complete everyday tasks using computers.
Speaker 4 (43:43):
It's just when you put it like that, it sounds
totally innocuous, right.
Speaker 2 (43:48):
Sounds fine.
Speaker 5 (43:50):
We're just trying to make our really cool thing be
even better at them.
Speaker 4 (43:54):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (43:55):
Yeah, But as you said, Ben, there there was an
incredible amount of backlash internally at me when this was announced,
because it did come at a time when Meta was
firing people left and right to the tune of thousands
because they are trying to ai everything in shitify all.
Speaker 4 (44:11):
Of it in all of its theme, right.
Speaker 5 (44:17):
So that's why we led with that one. So we
are switching back to a different topic because we've got
two quick ones that connect to each other. Uh, pretty
cool stuff. Guys, our pal, not really our pal, the
guy we have spoken about much over the past year
and a half, roughly a VI lobe. We remember this guy,
(44:37):
former head of Harvard's astronomy department, now kind of doing
his own thing. He's got a super hot blog. Especially
when through I Atlas was around. My goodness, everybody was
just hanging on the words of every post that he
would make, because he tended to just say things out
loud on like put it out there on the Internet,
(44:59):
rather than waiting for some kind of review or some
you know, waiting for science to catch up to his concept.
I think that's why he was exciting to us. He
would put his concept out there and we could think
about it. It did muddy the waters a little bit
because a lot of outlets reported on him and what
he was writing. It made it seem a little more, hey,
this is actually happening, rather than hey, it's possible that
(45:22):
this could be the case. Does that make sense?
Speaker 4 (45:24):
Sure it does, But I mean, yeah, it's you know,
it's sort of the nature of the lack of barriers
for communication to some people use it better than others,
and some people potentially kind of are able to put
information out there that could be problematic. I guess yeah
to to some right, is that what the implication is?
Speaker 5 (45:44):
Yes, well, yeah, Well the exciting part for us was
that AAVI lobe was not afraid to say, hey, potentially
this is extra terrestrial intelligence of some sort or extra
dimensional or something that we may not fully understand yet.
It it that's tremendously exciting and cool. At least I
think that's the way we felt about and that's what
(46:05):
I felt about him. He has been tapped. Abby Lowe
has been appointed rather to HELM a new scientific Advisory
Council tasked with investigating the origins of mysterious orbs and
all the other stuff that's been reported by the Navy
and other militaries, not the Air Force because they're not
allowed to talk about it for some reason.
Speaker 4 (46:24):
Well, and just to remind folks, he is. He is
a credentialed astrophysicist, right like, this is a smart dude
with the bona fides, which is why him speaking out
on some of these fringier topics is turning heads.
Speaker 5 (46:38):
Yes, and Ben, I was trying to figure out how
I would how I would think about this thing that
he's been appointed to. They're calling it a White House panel.
It seems like this almost tiny little think tank or
a committee. If we were in the legislative branch doing this,
it would be some subcommittee on something.
Speaker 2 (47:00):
It's what it feels like to me. I don't know,
what do you? How would you describe it?
Speaker 3 (47:06):
Well, folks, first thing we have to understand is that
being On, As he said, a panel or being like
the leader or the czar of an initiative does not
mean you get that golden goose. It does not mean
you get top secret or compartmentalized security clearance. To Nole's point, obviously,
(47:28):
Professor Loeb is a big deal. We don't know him directly,
we know people who do work with him or work
for him, and he's he's a Harvard guy, he's an astrophysicist.
He has earned his stripes. But the question becomes, why
did he agree to this right? And what sort of
(47:51):
access will this position take? Will it be purely pr ceremonial,
will it be restricted to the the relatively scant data
out there now in the public sphere, or will he
be read onto stuff? And it's it's weird because it
comes up in every presidential election since World War Two?
(48:16):
Are there UFOs and multiple presidential candidates, some successful, some not,
have have pitched this as like red meat to an
ad on to say, hey, if you guys elect me,
I'll figure out this alien thing, And to date not
one has done it. So what do you think, Matt,
(48:37):
is this going to be? Is this going to result
in something?
Speaker 5 (48:42):
By now we know that we have to second, third,
and fourth guests ourselves when we're thinking about the motives
of things this administration or any administration does, right, we
have to we have to think about, what are the motives?
Why would you do this kind of thing. We do
know that one ex president went on a podcast and
talked about UAP Unidentified Anomalous phenomena, and then there was
(49:07):
all of a sudden a directive from the current administration
to look into these things, right, to form these kinds
of boards and to put out, you know, to create
a website that we've talked about before on our Strange
News episodes where they're posting the navy footage that has
been released and new things, and they're going to continue
to do that. Hopefully it is in the spirit of discovery.
(49:28):
But something as a part of that second guessing, third
guessing thing says it's not necessarily about that, and we've
talked before about it potentially being a distraction. I do
like Auvi's take. He's quoted here in this AP News
article that you can find right now. The title is
Harvard professor with polarizing alien theories is picked to lead
(49:49):
new White House UFO council. It's posted it on June thirtieth.
Auvi's quote is, it's like a detective story. It's a
lot of fun as long as you don't pay too
much attention to the critic or my dogs outside. I
apologize she's getting excited about squirrels getting excited about a
huge rest. Well, yeah, exactly. But I love that take
(50:09):
of someone in that position that is excited about the work.
We've experienced that in our lives. Right when you're excited
about a project you're working on, it changes how passionate
your work becomes on a daily, hourly, if not minute
to minute basis. Noel, in particular, I'm thinking about the
(50:30):
soundtrack you've been making for a new show, and I
just imagine how much passion you're pouring into that. And
I really hope that somebody like Avi would do the
same thing with this kind of position.
Speaker 4 (50:42):
Well, yeah, I mean, it does seem like he's coming
at it from that place, just given his willingness to
put his reputation on the line. You know, it just
seems like you wouldn't do that unless you fully believed
in what you were talking about.
Speaker 5 (50:58):
Agreed, And you may be wondering, Okay, So this is
a panel. It's not just Avi. Who else does he
have on here? According to this article, he has a
hand picked team of more than a dozen scientists and
UFO activists. There are several in here that are named
We know Timothy Galu day g A L l A
(51:18):
U d E T who. This person is a retired
rear admiral who has warned about UAP controlled by non
human intelligence. This is a man with loss of experience
who also claims that the United States government has recovered
crashed aircraft of some sort that is of unknown origin,
at least to the public unknown.
Speaker 2 (51:40):
He also has a guy on there named Ben lamb
b E N L A M M.
Speaker 5 (51:45):
And this is how it describes him. I don't know
anything about this person. I'll have to look him up,
or we'll have to look him up separately. It calls
him a billionaire working to revive extinct species. Do we
think this is the guy related to remember that company
we talked about guy that it was attempting to bring
the mammoth back.
Speaker 3 (52:03):
There are several but there's okay, but I hear what
you're saying there, Matt.
Speaker 2 (52:10):
Let's see colossal is the name Colossal is.
Speaker 3 (52:13):
The name of one of them for sure. And there
are the other folks looking for the uh Tasmanian tiger
and the oh gosh, of course the mammoth. There's another one.
The Dodo was one of our easiest projects.
Speaker 4 (52:29):
Uh yeah, oh, this is it.
Speaker 5 (52:31):
It's colossal and Ben Lamb is a part of it.
It's uh I remember looking this website Ben when we
we talked about that. It's it's this thing. So he's
on the board. I wonder what his expertise is when
it comes to you know, UAP and things like that,
or why he would be considered to be on the board.
Speaker 3 (52:49):
Probably a lot of money and a lot of access
to other people.
Speaker 2 (52:55):
I have a feeling you're right man.
Speaker 5 (53:00):
Okay, last thing, guys, because we're thinking about this and
what this panel is going to be doing, if there's
going to be effective at all, if it finds something.
What if it just finds some stuff that is just
private and super classified. That is happening right now. Last
story from Futurism, written by Victor Tangerman. On June twenty fourth,
(53:21):
twenty twenty six, SpaceX launches secretive new spacecraft shaped like
flying saucer.
Speaker 4 (53:28):
What here.
Speaker 2 (53:32):
All right?
Speaker 5 (53:33):
We just got a few details to just we can understand.
Less than two weeks after its blockbuster IPO, Elon Musk's
rocket company has chosen to keep its latest prototype test
launch under tight wraps. Why Very likely because the military
is involved.
Speaker 2 (53:50):
Uh oh.
Speaker 5 (53:51):
In the early morning hours of Tuesday, June twenty third,
a Falcon nine rocket launched a flying saucer shaped re
entry capsule dubbed Star All.
Speaker 2 (54:01):
I don't know what that. That either is epic or
sounds super ominous.
Speaker 4 (54:04):
I can't tell. There's Moonfall, there's that incredible, incredible film. Nah.
I don't mean to derail you, but it just occurred
to me, and I asked myself this question and immediately
answered it for myself. Do you think that maybe some
U A P sightings are secret SpaceX tests? And then
I answer, do you really think so?
Speaker 3 (54:24):
Yeah, it's obvious. It's obvious.
Speaker 4 (54:26):
No, no, no, I think. What I answered my own
question was they're not that sneaky or smart.
Speaker 5 (54:31):
Well, here here's the thing, and this is why it's interesting,
I believe because SpaceX likes the flaunt. Right to me,
it's an event, it's exciting. We need you to be hyped.
It's it's kind of like all the AI stuff. If
you aren't hyped and investors can't see that hype and
get metrics on that hype, then there's no valuation. Right
(54:53):
then it doesn't matter and nobody cares, and we're not
going to get millions and billions of dollars. So the
hype is vis to these kinds of startup initiatives that
don't really have a viable way to make money outside
of government contracts. This is why it's weird. Going back
to the article, despite a brief live stream of the
(55:13):
initial launch, we never got to watch the upper stage
reach space, and it shrouded most of the critical critical
parts of this mission in secrecy. SpaceX also likes to
do that because again, they've already got those military contracts
going on, they've got the all the NASA cooperation and
contracts involved. They're doing all the stuff right with their
(55:35):
reusable rockets. It's important work, it's cool work, but it's
got to be secretive to some extent while still building hype.
So fine line, they're having to go down there. Here's
here's where it gets a little weird. Victor, writing for
Futurism says, while we don't have official confirmation that Skyfall,
(55:57):
this weird UFO shaped thing, is meant to carry weapons
and supplies for the military. The Pentagon has long expressed
interest in the concept.
Speaker 4 (56:07):
Bro Skyfall is a James Bond movie. By the way,
yes that's what it's gott all and as a theme
and everything by Ainka Adele. Yes like be more original man.
Speaker 3 (56:19):
Additionally, folks outside of this program from our actual episodes,
if you if you want more weird history, do check
out how many programs in Russia or excuse me, the
Soviet Union and indeed the United States attempted to build
saucer shaped things right, circular craft and as far as
(56:43):
we can tell, tended to fail. They ran against various
hard what we would call material science or operational constraints.
That doesn't mean the idea is entirely where. That doesn't
mean the ideas and highly worth throwing out right, So so.
Speaker 4 (57:04):
It makes there were abandoned projects we've talked about in
the past where it was like a sort of a
circular craft with a dude standing in the middle, some
kind of hovercraft type thing. But it wasn't like a
you know, we wouldn't like, you know, go into the atmosphere,
it was.
Speaker 3 (57:18):
Yeah, well you wanted yeah right, yeah, yeah, So again
it makes sense like to finish that thought, like it
makes sense that someone would go back and look at
the research and look at the previous material constraints and say, well,
what if we can indeed build a better mouse trap,
Like after a certain after you get past you know,
(57:41):
a certain amount of atmosphere is having a bunch of
wings disadvantageous. Right, if we can get a little disk,
a little circle past say the bug limit or something,
then gravity where gravity kicks in or where gravity you know,
gets weird, then would it make if we could launch
(58:04):
it better?
Speaker 2 (58:05):
Right?
Speaker 3 (58:05):
Or if we could build a secret engine, would we
be able as a civilization to justify new research on this?
Or to your point earlier there, Matt.
Speaker 4 (58:18):
Is this a little bit of pr oh dude?
Speaker 3 (58:21):
Is it a little bit of Is it a little
bit of like.
Speaker 4 (58:23):
You know, it's that it's the it's the hype train
that you're talking about. Couldn't they build it where the
wings like were shed once it gets into orbit kind
of like they have to drop off the thrusters and
all of that, like if it were aditation.
Speaker 5 (58:34):
Possibly, but they're if they're using current SpaceX rocket technology,
then it just has to go straight up, doesn't need
no wings man. And this is meant to operate in
orbit because it is a micro gravity lab. Allegedly, according
to a SpaceX webcast, here's.
Speaker 3 (58:52):
Totally peaceful purposes.
Speaker 5 (58:54):
Yeah, oh so here here it is. SpaceX has developed
a new spacecraft called Starfall, which is at its core,
a micro gravity lab that researchers and entrepreneurs can leverage
to develop their products and innovations. There's a huge opportunity
to benefit life on Earth through micro gravity research and
(59:14):
in space manufacturing.
Speaker 3 (59:17):
This conclude, Yeah, public portion of our video. If you
do not have TCIs clearance, please exit the viewing facility
and report to your commander. If you do have TCIs,
let's see, let's make up some names, space ban TARO clearance,
then please continue.
Speaker 5 (59:38):
Oh yeah, well here's the deal.
Speaker 4 (59:41):
Guys.
Speaker 5 (59:42):
I think this whole Starfall thing talking about a microgravity lab,
I think it's all buckus. I think that's fake. I
think that's false, it's a cover story. I think the
real thing that Skyfall, Starfall, Skyfall, O.
Speaker 4 (59:56):
God, it is Starfall, and I was Skyfall is the
James Bond movie mistake.
Speaker 2 (59:59):
But well one of them.
Speaker 5 (01:00:02):
Hold on, let me just look at this one last time,
because they're calling it Starfall and Skyfall, So maybe there's
the typo in futurism, Victor, what are you doing?
Speaker 3 (01:00:14):
That's what That's what happens when you let Ai write.
Speaker 4 (01:00:17):
Stuff for you.
Speaker 2 (01:00:18):
Seriously.
Speaker 5 (01:00:19):
Well, okay, so I'm gonna say Starfall because they wouldn't
use a copywritten thing like that. Here's why I think
it's it's cover because there's an existing program with a
Defense Department large sum of money attached to it via
contract called Project Cargo, that would have SpaceX taking very expensive,
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very heavy things cargo that the military needs, sending it
up via rocket into orbit to send it super fast
somewhere else on the planet. And if you had a
thing that maybe looks like this re ent like just
a puck of a re entry vehicle. If you imagine
the ones that are used that were used by the
(01:01:04):
Apollo program, we were used most recently in the Moon mission.
There the bottom. Think about the bottom of those re
entry vehicles and how they're shaped, and that's just to
get through the atmosphere as it heads towards the ground.
Imagine if this thing is a part of this project
cargo to literally launch and send tanks, heavy equipment stuff
(01:01:27):
to build bases and shoot that wherever they want it
to go, only to fall through the atmosphere safely with
this new fangled machine and then land and get deployed
via the engineers wherever they are. That sounds way more
likely to me.
Speaker 2 (01:01:44):
Blunos skystole, what.
Speaker 4 (01:01:50):
A darlink, sky falls, Starfall, starfield. Give me a break, Elon,
do better with your branding.
Speaker 5 (01:01:58):
Just all kinds of craziness. Do look into this last
article that we're not going to read again futurism Joe Wilkins,
June twenty fourth, Amazon investigating its own employees for daring
to oppose AI data center.
Speaker 4 (01:02:13):
Just look into it.
Speaker 3 (01:02:14):
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Speaker 4 (01:02:46):
Doesn't Flock just sound like a social media platform already,
just like in the social mediafication of like branding, like
I could picture it like just like another version of snapchat,
this idea of like Remember was that thing you did
where you'd like Ray Restaurants four square? You know, Flock,
I could just anyway. You can indeed get in touch
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Speaker 2 (00:26):
Hello, welcome back to the show. My name is Matt,
my name is Noah.
Speaker 3 (00:30):
They call me Ben, and you can too. We're joined
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That makes this the stuff they don't want you to know.
If you're tuning in to the Strange News, then welcome
to July sixth, Happy Happy Birthday, United States. And also
some quick notes about the weather. I know all three
of us. You guys may be no offense, a little
more daytime oriented than me, but it's true.
Speaker 4 (01:04):
It's true.
Speaker 3 (01:04):
It's murderous outside, bro.
Speaker 4 (01:07):
I think I mentioned this off Mike. I went from
my usual bike ride route the other day, and then
on the way back, I noticed that I was feeling
kind of nauseated and like weirdly like clammy. And then
I got into my car finally and looked, and it
was ninety six degrees. I think I nearly had a
heat stroke or heat exhaustion or something.
Speaker 3 (01:25):
It's like walking through hot suits ninety especially if.
Speaker 4 (01:28):
Those shivers, dude, And it's like that in New York too.
There's a heat wave coming in New York City. It's
going to be above one hundred and I think we're
experiencing a heat dome situation, guys, because I looked at
the calendar on the weather app and it looks like
as the days progresses, the number keeps going up, up, up, up,
and then it kind of holds it because there's no
(01:49):
way for the heat to escape because of this dome
right right.
Speaker 3 (01:52):
And this place is inland enough that we don't get
the benefits of being off the coast. But unlike this
great segue, unlike our friends across the pond, a lot
of people in the United States have air conditioning and
don't consider it especially impressive. It's not a flex like
(02:14):
having a pitech or a rolex or what have you.
It's a basic utility. And I was talking to several
fellow conspiracy realists who live in Europe, and the heat
wave there is frightening, because you guys, know we've been
Europe is known for many things, but air conditioning is
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not one of those.
Speaker 4 (02:36):
Yes, with New York, not no central a lot of
window units right or in Europe not even those. Sometimes
you just literally a window.
Speaker 3 (02:45):
Yeah, well, and yeah. One of our British friends was
explaining to me that there their housing is often so
old that it's an enormous, indeed unaffordable investment for a
lot of people to install HVAC or centralized air conditioning systems.
(03:06):
This is a record breaking European heat wave, you guys.
If you go to even just like the meteorology nerds
such as ACI weather, you'll see articles like one that
released Monday, June twenty ninth. We're recording on Wednesday, July first.
The death toll from the heat wave alone is over
(03:27):
one thousand people in France right now and probably rising
as we speak and the heat wave continues. People are
dying in Spain again due to the heat. We've seen
this before. The numbers are pretty frightening, guys.
Speaker 4 (03:45):
We know that.
Speaker 3 (03:48):
These cities like Paris and Frankfurt are experiencing ten day
stretches with temperatures eighteen to thirty degrees fahrenheit above what
is normal and expected.
Speaker 4 (03:59):
That is normal and unexpected.
Speaker 5 (04:02):
Well, and for the humans that are living in these
places that have the kinds of homes that we're talking
about here, that may think, hey, perhaps I can at
least get air conditioning in one room of my house
and keep that one a little cold.
Speaker 2 (04:16):
You guys know, the old school.
Speaker 5 (04:17):
Like in my head, I am imagining the ge window units,
these like old school ones that you'll see that'scross Atlanta.
Speaker 4 (04:25):
Mm hmm.
Speaker 5 (04:25):
Those those here cost about one hundred and eighty two
hundred dollars and that you could just go out and
get one. That's a lot of money, but it's not
it's not too much, right, But if you're in let's say,
small town in the UK right now, one of those
units is going for anywhere between four hundred pounds and
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six hundred and fifty pounds simply because the demand is
so high and there are so few of them.
Speaker 4 (04:52):
Wait because of gouging associated with the heat wave.
Speaker 3 (04:55):
Yeah, because of this heat would run on it. Yeah,
similar to like toilet paper or mass during the COVID pandemic.
Speaker 5 (05:01):
So just imagining if you're in that situation and now,
in order to essentially protect your own health, especially if
you've got someone vulnerable in your house or a child,
a baby, you've got to go drop six hundred and
fifty pounds that just seems untenable, which is.
Speaker 3 (05:18):
Closer and closer to one thousand US dollars for comparison.
And again, as Matt was saying, that is a window
unit that can maybe do make it livable in one
room of your domicile. To steal a phrase from Justice
Thomas exactly, and let's go to the experts, so you
know it's not just us doing podcastory. The World Health
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Organization Director General tedros Adano Gabress wrote on social media
earlier this past weekend, quote, Europe is the fastest warming
continent on Earth, heating at twice the global average. Right now,
one hundred and fifty million people are living under extreme heat.
(06:05):
Hundreds of dyed schools are shut, grids are buckley.
Speaker 4 (06:08):
They're just not prepared for this.
Speaker 3 (06:10):
Yeah, and they, in all fairness, they shouldn't have had.
Speaker 4 (06:14):
To be if abnormal, I mean, these are anomalous weather patterns.
Soon to be less anomalous, it would seem as they
increase and exacerbate and.
Speaker 3 (06:25):
Hold water blob like I was talking earlier, Super El Nino.
Speaker 2 (06:29):
Yeah, we're dealing with all that.
Speaker 5 (06:31):
We got the wildfires just burning across lands across the world.
We've got those earthquakes. You see, there were four earthquakes
recently that were all seemingly connected, all within eight hours
of each other.
Speaker 3 (06:45):
And.
Speaker 4 (06:47):
Extreme temperature fluctuations could cause seismic activity. Right, is there
some thought behind that? Well, are they connected to climate
change or is this a whole other problem that we
need to.
Speaker 3 (06:59):
Yeah, the science, that's a good question. All the science
continues in that regard.
Speaker 4 (07:04):
But we do know we you know, we.
Speaker 3 (07:07):
Always like to begin our strange news segment with positive
news and.
Speaker 2 (07:11):
Positives being on fire in the reality.
Speaker 3 (07:16):
So the reality is to respond that that there is
some there is a little bit of good news in
that at least one of the children who was missing
in the terrifying Venezuelan earthquakes, including people have been deported
to Venezuela from the US. One child was found alive
(07:39):
after missing for more than six days. Wow, from the rubble.
Speaker 4 (07:44):
Oh my god, I had pulled from the rubble.
Speaker 5 (07:45):
Yes, there was a father and son found like four
days after the whole thing went down. Can you guys
imagine that those two scenarios like just existing under that
rubble for that long attempting to survive.
Speaker 4 (07:59):
No, sir, I cannot. That sounds horrific and PTSD inducing.
Speaker 3 (08:04):
And hopefully more people will be found as survivors. So
let us know, folks, what your take is on this
frequency of seemingly connected earthquakes, as well as the future
of the climate. Real real, easy question to answer. It's
enough sometimes when you look at the world, to make
(08:27):
you think maybe you should take things in your own hands,
maybe you should become a vigilante. We've got so much
to get to. We're gonna pause for a word from
our sponsors, and then we'll give you some rapid fire
strange news we have returned. First off, this is a
(08:53):
quick when we recently, as you'll remember, Jens did an
episode that I think meant a lot to all of us.
It's called the End of Ownership. Thank you to all
our fellow conspiracy realists who responded, and thank you especially
to I believe it's our Palatomic Historian who hipped us
(09:14):
to this one. I don't know if we all heard
about this, and it's a few days old, but we
talked about how when you purchase a digital thing like
a digital film or an ebook or what have you,
you are really purchasing. In the opinion of the issuing company,
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you are purchasing a license to enjoy it until they
changed their mind for any reason and we warned against it.
PlayStation Guys is now deleting five hundred and fifty one
movies from customers accounts, So people are paid for these
movies are getting the rug pulled.
Speaker 4 (09:52):
I would say, though, you know this is I'm not
trying to victim BLAMEE here, but who is buying movies
on PlayStation Network? There are more, there are better ways
to go about this. It just seems like an odd choice.
I didn't even know they sold movies on PlayStation Network.
Speaker 5 (10:07):
It's crazy to think that some people have to make
that hard choice, Like, Okay, I'm gonna play PlayStation I
know this about myself, so I'm gonna pay for that subscription.
Speaker 2 (10:16):
Fee, right.
Speaker 4 (10:16):
Oh, and then that's the ecosystem that I'm in, So maybe.
Speaker 2 (10:20):
That's all I can afford.
Speaker 6 (10:21):
That's a good point, like that Apple has the same
kind of sandbox of Elgish. Yeah, so what kind of
movies are being removed? The Terminator franchise, Rambo, First Blood,
The Deer Hunter. All of those are bangers and of course,
one of the best war movies out there.
Speaker 3 (10:40):
Bridget Jones's diary.
Speaker 4 (10:42):
That's very funny, very true, dude. The Deer Hunter. I
remember like going through my first really gnarly breakup and
seeing The Deer Hunter on TV and seeing these poor
SAPs stuck in these cages in Vietnam and being like, well,
at least it's not that bad. If you ever want
to feel good about your life, watch The Deer Hunter.
Speaker 3 (11:02):
There are so many jokes. I should not make out
air with that one, but yeah, you're absolutely right.
Speaker 2 (11:07):
Something about a revolver maybe Ben.
Speaker 4 (11:09):
Perhaps, Yes, that's a big moment city now.
Speaker 3 (11:12):
Indeed, there there's no mention of any refunds or what
you might call make goods for the affected users. Sony's
statement is quote, you'll no longer be able to access
your previously purchase content from Studio Canal, which I guess
is their sandbox, and it will be removed from your
video library. The films are going away due to our
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content licensing agreements.
Speaker 4 (11:37):
See, they should never have agreed to sell this exactly.
It's a bait and switch and the worst way, Like
I get it, and we can get irritated when things
are soon to be leaving Netflix. Okay, but I pay
a subscription and get a ton of other stuff for
that money. If I'm buying a piece of content and
paying money that I will never see back, that should
(11:57):
be against the law. That ain't right. We know that
these deals dry up or the terms change, and the
collections go to maybe the network or the studio's new
streaming service, but that shouldn't be the same as buying
the license for You should have that or it shouldn't
be allowed to be a transaction option.
Speaker 3 (12:15):
Especially three quick points on that one. Sony had a
twenty twenty five profit, not gross, but profit of seven
point five three five billion US dollars just last year.
They've also recently said they're no longer going to be
making physical copies of games starting very soon.
Speaker 4 (12:37):
Well, the GTA six news is that there's going to
be no physical version of it. You might be able
to buy a case, but even the case just comes
with a download code. So I think physical versions of
stuff are going the way of the Dodo.
Speaker 3 (12:52):
Your collectors will be a metal box with maybe maybe
a map, a poster, a little bit of swag.
Speaker 4 (12:58):
Well, and GTA six is going to be such a
tone setter, like if they're doing it, this is the
new one, this is the way, you know what I mean?
That one's such a big high water mark.
Speaker 5 (13:08):
Have you guys seen the collector's versions of some of
these big box games, like the Halo whatever the newest
Halo was.
Speaker 2 (13:14):
When it came out, there was a.
Speaker 5 (13:16):
Mass Effect three bundle that comes with like helmets, you know, and.
Speaker 2 (13:20):
This crazy stuff.
Speaker 4 (13:21):
There was one for a Fallout that had like a
pit boy, like a like a yeah.
Speaker 5 (13:25):
And they're charging like a thousand bucks for these things,
and you can imagine there are people that will do that.
It does suck that there's no middle ground for I'm
sorry guys personally like me, where I've on my walls,
I've got old video game boxes and things that I
use as art, fun memories.
Speaker 4 (13:43):
Back when the covers were better looking than the games
and shaking you know.
Speaker 5 (13:47):
Well, it's that just kind of sucks, But I totally understand.
I guess the reasoning behind it, you know, And you're
gonna stop wasting a ton of resources unnecessarily, which is cool.
Speaker 4 (13:58):
And Ben, this is maybe a little bit of different conversation,
but it's back to the GTA thing. Another precedent that
they're setting is that there's a basic game price and
then the premium game price that gives you literal, built
in additional content. So when you're buying the quote unquote
basic game price, you're not even getting the whole game.
And we already know that DLC is already you know,
(14:19):
iffy in and of itself. But to have like the
basic price not even have all the same missions that
the higher end version, that's a weird precedent that seems
very inherently different than just putting out DLC down the line.
Speaker 3 (14:34):
Agreed, it's a heck of a rug pool, right, because
we also know, like you were saying, Matt, we also
knew this physicality is meaningful for people.
Speaker 4 (14:43):
This leads me to.
Speaker 3 (14:45):
The third point of wanting to make four rap on
this one. I foresee and I hope we all foresee.
Speaker 1 (14:53):
Why.
Speaker 3 (14:53):
I foresee a resurgence in prioritization of physical media. We
are going to witness, I don't know how impactful it will be,
but will witness this huge rise of people who are
going to be saying, look, when we buy things, we
own them, just like so many of you are. Fellow
(15:14):
conspiracy realists, wrote to us to say and vow after
our end of Ownership episode. Right now, it is not
illegal to by physical media, but you probably will be monitored.
There's an awkward segue, but it's a Joe Montana pass right.
(15:34):
It's ugly, but it gets us across the line. We've
been seeing more and more news about flock cameras and
mass surveillance since our two part or two chapter series
on Flock. One thing I think some of us were
talking about with each other off air. This is not
necessarily Flock related, but it's very much in the same vein.
(15:58):
An outfit called Bus Patrol has now put AI cameras
in tens of thousands of school buses, so kids who
ride school buses are now going to be monitored, and
according to an article published June twenty eighth in The Drive,
these cameras are now going to be turned into license
(16:21):
plate readers for outside of the school bus to stop
people from illegally passing the buses, and then they're also
going to be fed to local law enforcement.
Speaker 4 (16:31):
See it's like a part of that that seems good,
you know, like keeping people you know accountable for doing
dumb stuff in traffic. I'm all about that. But then
it's this open ended access and opportunities to use this
stuff in ways that it was not intended, and there's
no way to opt out of because you're just out
in the world. You can't opt out of having your
(16:53):
face or license scanned just by being, you know, a
human being walking around. There's no path to that.
Speaker 3 (16:59):
Yeah, this is going to have our claims to. Already
have forty thousand of these cameras deployed across twenty four states,
and they have some built in growth for any unethical investors.
They have built in growth because at least thirty states
legally would permit them, as in thirty states have no
law against this kind of stuff, even with the involvement
(17:22):
of children being transported.
Speaker 4 (17:25):
I'm just.
Speaker 3 (17:28):
It's not great, this is what I'm saying.
Speaker 2 (17:31):
It's a weird thing.
Speaker 5 (17:31):
I was having a conversation with the ten year olds
here about what goes down on the bus, and I
was trying to take myself back to remembering the kinds
of things that went down on school buses. You guys
rode school buses for some time.
Speaker 4 (17:45):
You're bafely just a little bit. When I was younger,
like in elementary school, maybe for maybe only for one year.
Speaker 5 (17:50):
So personally I can speak to weird stuff going down
on buses even when you were a young kid, like
from kindergarten to fifth grade. You know, some of that
is if you speak to a psychologist general things that
kids get up to when they're exploring the world and
their bodies and all that other stuff.
Speaker 2 (18:08):
I would just bullying.
Speaker 5 (18:10):
I would just say there maybe is something worthwhile there.
But it wouldn't be for these types of organizations to
be monitoring kids and to have you know, all the
law enforcement having access. It would be something that maybe
a bus driver would be alerted, oh hey, something's going
down back there, and you could make a correction, rather
than having you know, a cop show up.
Speaker 3 (18:31):
Right and specifically, folks, these cameras that we're talking about,
they are installed often on what we call the stop
arm of your typical yellow, yellow school bus, weirdly manufactured
by a company named Bluebird. So the idea is the
camera swings out at a clock's people are trying to
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illegally pass that portable stop sign. But what's really happening
now is that they are reading the license plates people
or drivers, even if they're not actually doing anything.
Speaker 4 (19:04):
Oh, oh, so we're not talking about inside the bus
side of the bus. I thought that it does seem
like there was a potential.
Speaker 2 (19:13):
Broad Well, now that that makes sense because I like
that version.
Speaker 4 (19:17):
I like to stop armed version. I just don't like
how connected it is to other agencies and how it
can just be another forgive the pun arm of those surveillances.
Speaker 3 (19:28):
Yeah, check out for for media for more folks. Obviously
this will inevitably connect to flock as well.
Speaker 5 (19:36):
Well, that's genuine safety there. Not long ago, we had
somebody blow by a school bus, and you know, when
that arm's out, you are legally required to stop. And
when those lights are flashing and that stop sign comes out,
you gotta stop because there's kids getting on and off
of that thing. And I can like, that's a really
great thing. By the way, Bluebird it manufactures all the
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school buses I've ever ridden on.
Speaker 4 (20:01):
Same Yeah, same Ben, you were talking about Bluebird bus
the other day, and in some aspect of yeah, it's.
Speaker 3 (20:07):
Weird because this is outside of the scope of this
and our time is limited here. But if you want
to learn some fascinating stuff about Bluebird, check out what
happens to those buses in the US. When they are retired,
they become something called the English would be chicken busses
in a lot of Central America, which is one of
the easiest ways to get around. And that's the most
(20:29):
time I ever spent technically on a Bluebird bus. The
drivers are crazy, just like taxi cab guys in New York,
but they're going around the mountains and the hollers and
the valleys, and they have made their peace with God.
I actually did have to hold chickens for somebody a
couple of times. The bluebird saga is fascinating. The AI
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surveillance networking is Orwellian, and again it's enough to make
you feel like you might take matters into your own hands,
which brings to one brief mention. We have to give
love the opinion on this because it has not been
super widely reported in a lot of English speaking media.
(21:11):
There is a vigilante active in Lagos de Moreno in Mexico.
He has been called the Batman, or they have been
called the Batman of Lagos de Moreno. Got fed up
with the police having all this power and not really
enforcing it, and so this guy has started catching motorcycle
thieves in Mexico or scooter thieves operating at night, tracking
(21:36):
down the suspects, and he doesn't kill them, but he
ties them up to lampposts, buy their stolen vehicles, and
he writes rata on their foreheads. If you go to
republicworld dot com, there's a great article about this from
(21:56):
Nidhi Sidha where you can see pictures of some of
the thieves who have been duct taped to poles wild right, like.
Speaker 4 (22:10):
Yeah, but isn't that usually what you say to someone
who's yeah?
Speaker 3 (22:16):
And he'd also draws whiskers on their faces, so it's
a little cute.
Speaker 4 (22:19):
See, No, does he really is that true?
Speaker 2 (22:22):
I mean they were it?
Speaker 4 (22:24):
Uh what if he taped a big old hunk of
cheese type?
Speaker 3 (22:27):
I mean, at that point, it's the cheese costs. That's
all that's stopping us. But I I've got a question
for you guys. First off, I know that we might
not I think we may be roughly on the same
page about vigilantism in general, But would it not be
better to describe this guy or this person as the
spider man of the area because he's webbing people up?
Speaker 4 (22:49):
You know what? Our Buddy Jonesy on his weekly weird
News podcast said the exact same thing that involves sticky
substances causing crooks to be held hostage to poles and stuff.
That is very Spider Man. That's evens something you do
in the video game. Well, there's a thing where you
can do, a stealth thing. You web them and hang
them from the poles or from the telephone lines.
Speaker 5 (23:10):
Even more to the heart of it, guys, how much
money does this guy have If he's a billionaire, he's
a Batman, if he's just a run of the mill kids,
a duct tape spider Man.
Speaker 3 (23:22):
Yeah, that's not a bad point at all, you know,
And we'll move on to a word from our sponsors.
There's so much to get to do here. I'm fascinated
by vigilantes and real life perhaps problematic superheroes. Does this
guy work for the cartel? Has he been greenlit by
Mexico's shadow government to do this? We can tell you
(23:43):
that as of June twenty eighth, five thieves, five separate thieves,
have been found duct taped separately and together two poles
over just the past ten days. So the pattern seems
to be escalating. Unless people stop stealing the motorcycles. We'll
be back after a word from our sponsors.
Speaker 4 (24:11):
And we're back and Ben, what a what a weird
coincidence and a perfect segue for another Batman related story.
This might not be the hero we deserve. It's just
the hero we got. It's not even really a hero
at all. This happened in Trinidad and Tobago where Wednesday
of this week or love last week. As we sit
and record on July, the first authorities, we're searching for
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a group of burglars or thieves. Your vigilancee Batman may
well have duct taped to a pole who were caught
on camera using a back hoo to try to steal
a cash machine. But they were captured bungling it so
hardcore and falling over themselves in you know classic pratfall
(24:56):
Benny Hill fashion that has become kind of source of
a meme involving one of their striking resemblance to Batman.
It would appear that this fief was wearing a what
do you call those things a balaclava or like a
ski mask, a black ski mask, as well as a
all black duds and a black pawn show that seemed
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to be streaming in the wind like Batman's cape. In
the video, you can see this person absolutely falling over themselves,
tripping over debris after attempting to direct the back ho
in a predictable manner, and it seemed like they did
not have a good time. The Trinidad and Tobago Police
Service said that the suspects quote this is from AP
(25:39):
by the way, efforts to remove the vault proved futile
after the arm of the backo sustained the use. I
don't think so many. I don't think they got there, no,
no where they even get this thing. They must have
stolen that too. Back to the AP, the suspects were
able to move the cash machine to the sidewalk with
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the backo. By the way, y'all, do we not know
that you don't steal cash machines, because even once you
get it to get into it is a whole other
heist that you do in the privacy of your own
garage or something. And usually if you do crack it open,
I think it like blasts everything with anchor. There's some
mechanisms built in where there's no good way to break open.
Speaker 3 (26:20):
It is extremely even you would have first off, you'd
have to function at scale to make it worth it
the equipment and expertise. And then secondly, because you would
have to function at scale, you would probably be limited
to a certain radius of vulnerable ATMs right that you
could take, and so inevitably you get caught. Check out
(26:41):
our brain stuff video on why you shouldn't rob a
bank in general. By the way, the economics just aren't there.
Speaker 4 (26:46):
Well, it would seem that they did steal the back
the details of this, yeah, and some of the details
do seem like this was a crime of opportunity that
went horribly or I I mean, this is not, you know,
very very well thought out. It would seem because they
stole the back hoe from a nearby beach, it said, so,
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I don't think a whole lot of forethought went into
that unless they just knew that these back hoes were around.
There was a construction site, so there was a separate
part of the plot to steal the back ho and
then target the ATM. The suspects were able to move
the cash machine to a nearby sidewalk, but then the
back hose arm started glitching out and stopped working. Uh,
and they tried to manually lift the cash machine into
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a small truck. When that didn't work out, the suspects
gave up and sped off in what police believe was
also a storm.
Speaker 3 (27:37):
Well, I guess that's a way to keep it clean.
But also, no, everybody, uh is it not? Are there
not a finite number of baccos in Trinidad and Tobago?
Like it's an archipela one one would think without the
back capital.
Speaker 4 (27:55):
Of the world. No, no, And and a real funny
detail here is that this attempt, all on camera, appeared
to last more than ten minutes. So this was, you know,
a real comedy of errors. Guys. Well, speaking of crimes
of opportunity, is pooping in the pool a crime of opportunity?
Speaker 3 (28:14):
It's a crime of poor trinity.
Speaker 4 (28:20):
And the and the poo puns. The poo puns really
right themselves in this.
Speaker 5 (28:24):
Case, it does feel more like a necessity if it
happens right, or an emergency.
Speaker 4 (28:30):
Ah, you know what, what do they say? Necessity is
the mother of invention? That doesn't really apply here. Oh yes,
a pooh done it? Well, you get in a situations
a pooh done it? A poo pooh done it is?
How the the UK son coined this particular debacle involving
a serial pool pooper who was caught and admits to
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defecating in UK pools at least eighteen times.
Speaker 3 (28:56):
Okay, that's not that's not I that's a.
Speaker 4 (29:00):
That's more than a that's more than answering the call
of that's more than answering the call of nature.
Speaker 3 (29:04):
More than answering the call of pooty or duty, whatever
we wish, because you all, everybody has Look, we're not
going to judge it too much, folks, We're not making
this about ourselves. We're saying statistically, most living people have
been in a situation at some point. It's not your fault.
Maybe he ate the wrong thing, maybe he caught a bug,
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But noel, my guy eighteen times feels like a fetish
or premeditation or a certain a certain degree of agency.
Speaker 4 (29:37):
And this is not pool's plural. This is a single pool. Yeah,
the the the the the Newcastle Elman swimming pool in
mid Wales. I'm just gonna read from the sign because
as you know, sus as they are for hard news,
I think they probably are doing a fine job in
the reporting of this pooh done it in the filthy culprit,
they say, admitted fouling the water at least eighteen times,
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forcing the facility to shut on multiple occasions, leading staff
and swimmers disgusted. And there's a caption I love this
under the picture of the pool referring to pool bosses.
I love the idea of being a pool boss. Where
apparently baffled as human waste kept turning up in the
water at the Newcastle elman Emlyn excuse Me swimming pool
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in mid Wales. The repeated contamination sparked a police investigation.
After months of disruption, causing costs to mount and frustrations
to grow among regular users of the pool, detectives have
now revealed a nineteen year old man admitted to deliberately
defecating in a public swimming pool on multiple occasions. Any
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motive unclear. The motive remains unclear.
Speaker 5 (30:47):
You guys remember a long time ago, Ben, This might
have been in the video Exclusive days. There was this
concept of kids who were working, younger people who were
working as lifeguards who wanted to get off of work
and they would throw candy bars or they would surreptitiously
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get a candy bar into the pool and the way
it would die the way it would break down a
little bit after entering the water for a little bit
of time, somebody would notice scream thinking it was defecation,
and then they would get to close the pool down
for a little bit because you had to like drain
it or something, and they would not have to work
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for a couple hours.
Speaker 2 (31:34):
It seems like it was a full day.
Speaker 3 (31:37):
Yeah, because then you have to have some pretty deep
cleaning coordination, filtrating, you have to yeah, you have to
flush the system.
Speaker 4 (31:46):
But the.
Speaker 3 (31:49):
I do remember something about that, and it does make sense, folks,
because for a lot of especially younger people, this is
a summer job. You get bored, you know what I mean.
You might just be doing it because it looks good
on your big college applications. So if you can fudge
the rules a little bit, then why would you hesitate
hah haha.
Speaker 4 (32:10):
Fudge the pools a little bit, all right?
Speaker 3 (32:12):
Tip your servers everybody, Oh.
Speaker 4 (32:14):
You got to Yeah, no, for sure, don't poop and pools,
and don't foe poop and pools either. I think it's
the takeaway here. Spokesperson for the pool said the majority
of our customers were supportive and understanding that we took
the water safety measures seriously and closed, albeit also frustrated
at the frequency we thanked them for their support. And
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this is apparently causing some hardship for the folks in
charge of these pool bosses, who say our funds have
been depleted by these incidents and any donations or offers
of financial help would be greatly appreciated. So maybe we
should start to go fund me for this Emlin swimming
pool in mid Wales. Sorry Newcastle, Emlin and guys. I
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gotta say this story led me down a bit of
a Pooh done it kind of rabbit hole, which led
me to another story that I remembered seeing late last
week about people who are pooping at concert venues. Who
are these animals? Noah Kan I'm not familiar with his music,
but apparently he's quite popular, A bit of a folk
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type artist is asking his audience to please not poop
at venues except in designated areas. Apparently there have been
multiple incidents at noahcan concerts where you know, fans have
dropped trou and taken a poop right there on the ground.
He says to the fans in a plea for sanity,
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if you have to poop at a show. Please, dear God,
just go to the bathroom. I've pooped my pants as
much as the next twenty nine year old, But you
guys got to understand there's a venue worker out there
with one hundred yard stare. After dealing with that, he added,
I pooped myself once in Charlottesville, but that's because I'm
dedicated to my craft. You just, yeah, you couldn't stop
(34:04):
the show. And this all stemmed from a social media
post that went viral of somebody actually photographing these little
nuggets on the ground and apparently the woman who's accused
of doing this, who has not been named, pooped on
the ground and then stepped in her own poop and
tracked it throughout the venue, leaving a trail of poop
(34:25):
that is disgusting. And just to wrap this part up here,
the woman who apparently posted the content had this to
say about it. Okay, so the person who did this
was one row in front of me in section AA.
If you've ever been a concert, you know the AA
is just the second set of alphabet rows. So that's
pretty still close up to the front on the floor,
usually on like a metal grate kind of especially if
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it's in a big old field kind of situation, which
it appears this cunsert was. I guess they didn't want
to miss a couple of songs to use the bathroom,
so they just straight up poop themselves, mind you, not
liquid or anything. In case anyone thinks this was an
accident and started picking picking, what does that mean?
Speaker 3 (35:06):
You do hear the rest of the quotation.
Speaker 4 (35:09):
That's where it wrapped up in this Boston dot Com article.
I wonder if well. Some of the other accounts of
this indicated that the woman got it on her foot
and smeared it all over the place as she ran
from her seat, and the TMZ article on the subject
(35:30):
interviewed the same woman, I believe, and they used the
term smear say as a joke about this kind of
you know, word of mouth discussion of this, you know,
concert floor pooping. But it would turn out that fans
of Noah kN are not the only ones exhibiting this
kind of troubling behavior. Olivia Rodrigo recently called out fans
(35:52):
who wore diapers to keep their front row seats. She
said this, I have been to certain concerts and certain
festivals where people but we're diapers so they can be
front row. And that's been an experience as a performer
that I have smelled. The implication being she is smelling
the excrements of her most diehard of fans, and as
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the father of a die hard fan myself hopefully not
one who would ever resort to this kind of shenaniganry.
I'm getting that barricade spot is very, very very important
to some people. But just you know, I think there
should be limits, guys. I think there should be limits.
That's all I've gotten. Apologies to anyone who is triggered
(36:33):
by my poop centric stream there, but you know, I'm sorry, guys,
it wasn't liquid.
Speaker 3 (36:39):
Well. We also we also want to give you a
behind the scenes look. Transparency is important to us. We
encountered in this punishing heat a couple of disconnects of
our own. Thankfully no one has, I think, guys, nobody
is pooped at one of our live shows.
Speaker 4 (36:57):
Oh no. Our internet, though, however, has been the bed.
I think that might be what you're getting at about
the heat. We are we did. We are literally reconvening.
We are literally reconvening after an internet outage. So yeah,
and then this heat wave that we're experiencing here is
no joke and can absolutely cause power issues and all
kinds of stuff downstream.
Speaker 3 (37:19):
Well, we want to bring the show to you, not
to impersonate the USPS, but we what's the old? What's
the old? Like green lantern level valve of our friends
in the postal service?
Speaker 4 (37:33):
Neither rain rain orse, neither rain nor sleet nor liquid
poop hail. That's sorry, I keep saying liquid. I just
think it was a very funny distinction that the person
questioned made sure to point out that it was definitely
not liquid, so it was clearly on purpose.
Speaker 7 (37:50):
Not all poop has created equally no true that why
don't we take a quick break and here a wordmore sponsor,
then come back with the last segment in today's Strange
News episode.
Speaker 5 (38:07):
And we've returned, guys. I keep thinking about that concept
we talked about at the very top of this episode,
where PlayStation Network is taking down all of these bot
videos movies, and I looked online just to see how
much it would cost to get a giant hard drive
like an internal solid state drive for a PlayStation five,
(38:29):
thinking maybe you could write a script or find a
way to download those movies before they go.
Speaker 4 (38:34):
That would require a jail breaking situation, wouldn't it. Maybe
it could be done. I know that we've had stories
recently about you know, the right to repair and people
you know, writing their own jail break software for PlayStation
Now that was actually a story that hit the news
recently about PlayStations being terrified because someone had figured out
how to jail breaker. Sorry, I mean inter out, but
just picked my memory there.
Speaker 5 (38:56):
Well, just in the spirit of perhaps finding a way
to retain the stuff that we have purchased, at least
in some way from a large corporation like that. I
was looking at how much it would cost to buy
one of these big hard drives. I realized, guys, it
costs six hundred dollars right now on best buys website
to buy a PlayStation five Slim Console Digital Edition, So
(39:20):
like the lowest bar you can get for a PS five,
it costs six hundred dollars. With that, you get eight
hundred and twenty five gigs of space of hard drive space.
It costs also exactly six hundred dollars to buy a
four terobyte SSD that you would put inside your PS five.
Speaker 2 (39:39):
Isn't that crazy? The same cost.
Speaker 4 (39:41):
I didn't think mine was that much. I did get one,
but it's been a minute, but I swear I would
have remembered if it was quite that much. Granted I
don't have the slim version, but I imagine it's the same.
Maybe it was that much.
Speaker 5 (39:52):
Jes Louise a PlayStation five pro right now is nine
hundred bucks. It's crazy how much the price is on
these things have risen with all the conflicts and shortages
of the things required to make that.
Speaker 4 (40:06):
Have you seen, guys, the proposed or the announced pricing
for the Steam Machine, I believe is what it is called.
It's over one thousand dollars.
Speaker 3 (40:15):
It's the actual Steam deck or the French not the
dash manufactured comparison.
Speaker 4 (40:21):
Yeah, no, there's there's a Steam kind of console. I
believe it's called the Steam Machine. Maybe I'm getting the
name wrong, but it is over twelve hundred dollars. There
you go. It is definitely a cube like device. But
the apparently the stats are not even that impressive, and
you'd be much better off building yourself a gaming PC.
(40:42):
But yeah, man, all of these companies are having to
raise prices. Apple just announce they're raising the prices of
a lot of their laptops and peripherals and things like that.
And Xbox I think announced that they're definitely raising prices.
So this chip shortage is no joke.
Speaker 5 (40:54):
Good thing. We're in a record time of prosperity.
Speaker 4 (40:58):
Yeah, thank god.
Speaker 5 (41:03):
All right, Well, let's jump to one quick story here,
coming to us from Futurism, written by Frank Landimore on
June twenty third. Here's the title. Meta's program that spies
on every employee's computer just blew up in its face
in spectacular fashion. Let's learn about this. The chief technology
officer over there at Meta, Andrew Bosworth. He said that
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the data that was being collected would be tightly controlled
in this fancy schmancy, very exciting employee spying program. However,
the company is now pausing their tracking program because sensitive
employee information was leaked internally. Now hear that again, leaked internally.
(41:47):
There was a security notice that was sent out on Monday,
June twenty second that said the exposed data included employees
full AI prompts and transcriptions, as well as performance data
and even private conversations they were having. The leak allowed
the data to be accessible by any employee inside Meta
(42:08):
kind of crazy in Meta has said that it's investigating
the incident and confirmed it has paused the program for
the time being, but you know they're keeping a lid
on things, they say. The program was dubbed the quote
Model Capability Initiative. Guess what it was trying to do? Guys,
(42:28):
spying on every employee like that? What do you think
they were? What do you think their goal was?
Speaker 4 (42:32):
Preductivity?
Speaker 3 (42:33):
No, to build a better mouse trap. There's been a
great deal of internal dissent, as we know, within Meta,
regarding the the idea that they're being forced to teach
an automated program or an algorithm to do their jobs.
(42:54):
So the obsessive monitoring is something they're fighting against. It
is therefore, or without reading all of the news here,
it is therefore quite possible that internal dissent led to
the leak.
Speaker 4 (43:08):
So they're training their robot replacements.
Speaker 3 (43:10):
Yeah, justice, Yes, dig the grave and teach uh, teach
your grave digger how to build a better shovel.
Speaker 5 (43:19):
Absolutely, Just to continue with Frank's writing here, he says
that this thing, the Model Capability Initiative, was intended to
gather data so metas AI models could quote learn how
people actually complete everyday tasks using computers exact exactly what
you said, Ben. It's just hearing it as like how
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people actually complete everyday tasks using computers.
Speaker 4 (43:43):
It's just when you put it like that, it sounds
totally innocuous, right.
Speaker 2 (43:48):
Sounds fine.
Speaker 5 (43:50):
We're just trying to make our really cool thing be
even better at them.
Speaker 4 (43:54):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (43:55):
Yeah, But as you said, Ben, there there was an
incredible amount of backlash internally at me when this was announced,
because it did come at a time when Meta was
firing people left and right to the tune of thousands
because they are trying to ai everything in shitify all.
Speaker 4 (44:11):
Of it in all of its theme, right.
Speaker 5 (44:17):
So that's why we led with that one. So we
are switching back to a different topic because we've got
two quick ones that connect to each other. Uh, pretty
cool stuff. Guys, our pal, not really our pal, the
guy we have spoken about much over the past year
and a half, roughly a VI lobe. We remember this guy,
(44:37):
former head of Harvard's astronomy department, now kind of doing
his own thing. He's got a super hot blog. Especially
when through I Atlas was around. My goodness, everybody was
just hanging on the words of every post that he
would make, because he tended to just say things out
loud on like put it out there on the Internet,
(44:59):
rather than waiting for some kind of review or some
you know, waiting for science to catch up to his concept.
I think that's why he was exciting to us. He
would put his concept out there and we could think
about it. It did muddy the waters a little bit
because a lot of outlets reported on him and what
he was writing. It made it seem a little more, hey,
this is actually happening, rather than hey, it's possible that
(45:22):
this could be the case. Does that make sense?
Speaker 4 (45:24):
Sure it does, But I mean, yeah, it's you know,
it's sort of the nature of the lack of barriers
for communication to some people use it better than others,
and some people potentially kind of are able to put
information out there that could be problematic. I guess yeah
to to some right, is that what the implication is?
Speaker 5 (45:44):
Yes, well, yeah, Well the exciting part for us was
that AAVI lobe was not afraid to say, hey, potentially
this is extra terrestrial intelligence of some sort or extra
dimensional or something that we may not fully understand yet.
It it that's tremendously exciting and cool. At least I
think that's the way we felt about and that's what
(46:05):
I felt about him. He has been tapped. Abby Lowe
has been appointed rather to HELM a new scientific Advisory
Council tasked with investigating the origins of mysterious orbs and
all the other stuff that's been reported by the Navy
and other militaries, not the Air Force because they're not
allowed to talk about it for some reason.
Speaker 4 (46:24):
Well, and just to remind folks, he is. He is
a credentialed astrophysicist, right like, this is a smart dude
with the bona fides, which is why him speaking out
on some of these fringier topics is turning heads.
Speaker 5 (46:38):
Yes, and Ben, I was trying to figure out how
I would how I would think about this thing that
he's been appointed to. They're calling it a White House panel.
It seems like this almost tiny little think tank or
a committee. If we were in the legislative branch doing this,
it would be some subcommittee on something.
Speaker 2 (47:00):
It's what it feels like to me. I don't know,
what do you? How would you describe it?
Speaker 3 (47:06):
Well, folks, first thing we have to understand is that
being On, As he said, a panel or being like
the leader or the czar of an initiative does not
mean you get that golden goose. It does not mean
you get top secret or compartmentalized security clearance. To Nole's point, obviously,
(47:28):
Professor Loeb is a big deal. We don't know him directly,
we know people who do work with him or work
for him, and he's he's a Harvard guy, he's an astrophysicist.
He has earned his stripes. But the question becomes, why
did he agree to this right? And what sort of
(47:51):
access will this position take? Will it be purely pr ceremonial,
will it be restricted to the the relatively scant data
out there now in the public sphere, or will he
be read onto stuff? And it's it's weird because it
comes up in every presidential election since World War Two?
(48:16):
Are there UFOs and multiple presidential candidates, some successful, some not,
have have pitched this as like red meat to an
ad on to say, hey, if you guys elect me,
I'll figure out this alien thing, And to date not
one has done it. So what do you think, Matt,
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is this going to be? Is this going to result
in something?
Speaker 5 (48:42):
By now we know that we have to second, third,
and fourth guests ourselves when we're thinking about the motives
of things this administration or any administration does, right, we
have to we have to think about, what are the motives?
Why would you do this kind of thing. We do
know that one ex president went on a podcast and
talked about UAP Unidentified Anomalous phenomena, and then there was
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all of a sudden a directive from the current administration
to look into these things, right, to form these kinds
of boards and to put out, you know, to create
a website that we've talked about before on our Strange
News episodes where they're posting the navy footage that has
been released and new things, and they're going to continue
to do that. Hopefully it is in the spirit of discovery.
(49:28):
But something as a part of that second guessing, third
guessing thing says it's not necessarily about that, and we've
talked before about it potentially being a distraction. I do
like Auvi's take. He's quoted here in this AP News
article that you can find right now. The title is
Harvard professor with polarizing alien theories is picked to lead
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new White House UFO council. It's posted it on June thirtieth.
Auvi's quote is, it's like a detective story. It's a
lot of fun as long as you don't pay too
much attention to the critic or my dogs outside. I
apologize she's getting excited about squirrels getting excited about a
huge rest. Well, yeah, exactly. But I love that take
(50:09):
of someone in that position that is excited about the work.
We've experienced that in our lives. Right when you're excited
about a project you're working on, it changes how passionate
your work becomes on a daily, hourly, if not minute
to minute basis. Noel, in particular, I'm thinking about the
(50:30):
soundtrack you've been making for a new show, and I
just imagine how much passion you're pouring into that. And
I really hope that somebody like Avi would do the
same thing with this kind of position.
Speaker 4 (50:42):
Well, yeah, I mean, it does seem like he's coming
at it from that place, just given his willingness to
put his reputation on the line. You know, it just
seems like you wouldn't do that unless you fully believed
in what you were talking about.
Speaker 5 (50:58):
Agreed, And you may be wondering, Okay, So this is
a panel. It's not just Avi. Who else does he
have on here? According to this article, he has a
hand picked team of more than a dozen scientists and
UFO activists. There are several in here that are named
We know Timothy Galu day g A L l A
(51:18):
U d E T who. This person is a retired
rear admiral who has warned about UAP controlled by non
human intelligence. This is a man with loss of experience
who also claims that the United States government has recovered
crashed aircraft of some sort that is of unknown origin,
at least to the public unknown.
Speaker 2 (51:40):
He also has a guy on there named Ben lamb
b E N L A M M.
Speaker 5 (51:45):
And this is how it describes him. I don't know
anything about this person. I'll have to look him up,
or we'll have to look him up separately. It calls
him a billionaire working to revive extinct species. Do we
think this is the guy related to remember that company
we talked about guy that it was attempting to bring
the mammoth back.
Speaker 3 (52:03):
There are several but there's okay, but I hear what
you're saying there, Matt.
Speaker 2 (52:10):
Let's see colossal is the name Colossal is.
Speaker 3 (52:13):
The name of one of them for sure. And there
are the other folks looking for the uh Tasmanian tiger
and the oh gosh, of course the mammoth. There's another one.
The Dodo was one of our easiest projects.
Speaker 4 (52:29):
Uh yeah, oh, this is it.
Speaker 5 (52:31):
It's colossal and Ben Lamb is a part of it.
It's uh I remember looking this website Ben when we
we talked about that. It's it's this thing. So he's
on the board. I wonder what his expertise is when
it comes to you know, UAP and things like that,
or why he would be considered to be on the board.
Speaker 3 (52:49):
Probably a lot of money and a lot of access
to other people.
Speaker 2 (52:55):
I have a feeling you're right man.
Speaker 5 (53:00):
Okay, last thing, guys, because we're thinking about this and
what this panel is going to be doing, if there's
going to be effective at all, if it finds something.
What if it just finds some stuff that is just
private and super classified. That is happening right now. Last
story from Futurism, written by Victor Tangerman. On June twenty fourth,
(53:21):
twenty twenty six, SpaceX launches secretive new spacecraft shaped like
flying saucer.
Speaker 4 (53:28):
What here.
Speaker 2 (53:32):
All right?
Speaker 5 (53:33):
We just got a few details to just we can understand.
Less than two weeks after its blockbuster IPO, Elon Musk's
rocket company has chosen to keep its latest prototype test
launch under tight wraps. Why Very likely because the military
is involved.
Speaker 2 (53:50):
Uh oh.
Speaker 5 (53:51):
In the early morning hours of Tuesday, June twenty third,
a Falcon nine rocket launched a flying saucer shaped re
entry capsule dubbed Star All.
Speaker 2 (54:01):
I don't know what that. That either is epic or
sounds super ominous.
Speaker 4 (54:04):
I can't tell. There's Moonfall, there's that incredible, incredible film. Nah.
I don't mean to derail you, but it just occurred
to me, and I asked myself this question and immediately
answered it for myself. Do you think that maybe some
U A P sightings are secret SpaceX tests? And then
I answer, do you really think so?
Speaker 3 (54:24):
Yeah, it's obvious. It's obvious.
Speaker 4 (54:26):
No, no, no, I think. What I answered my own
question was they're not that sneaky or smart.
Speaker 5 (54:31):
Well, here here's the thing, and this is why it's interesting,
I believe because SpaceX likes the flaunt. Right to me,
it's an event, it's exciting. We need you to be hyped.
It's it's kind of like all the AI stuff. If
you aren't hyped and investors can't see that hype and
get metrics on that hype, then there's no valuation. Right
(54:53):
then it doesn't matter and nobody cares, and we're not
going to get millions and billions of dollars. So the
hype is vis to these kinds of startup initiatives that
don't really have a viable way to make money outside
of government contracts. This is why it's weird. Going back
to the article, despite a brief live stream of the
(55:13):
initial launch, we never got to watch the upper stage
reach space, and it shrouded most of the critical critical
parts of this mission in secrecy. SpaceX also likes to
do that because again, they've already got those military contracts
going on, they've got the all the NASA cooperation and
contracts involved. They're doing all the stuff right with their
(55:35):
reusable rockets. It's important work, it's cool work, but it's
got to be secretive to some extent while still building hype.
So fine line, they're having to go down there. Here's
here's where it gets a little weird. Victor, writing for
Futurism says, while we don't have official confirmation that Skyfall,
(55:57):
this weird UFO shaped thing, is meant to carry weapons
and supplies for the military. The Pentagon has long expressed
interest in the concept.
Speaker 4 (56:07):
Bro Skyfall is a James Bond movie. By the way,
yes that's what it's gott all and as a theme
and everything by Ainka Adele. Yes like be more original man.
Speaker 3 (56:19):
Additionally, folks outside of this program from our actual episodes,
if you if you want more weird history, do check
out how many programs in Russia or excuse me, the
Soviet Union and indeed the United States attempted to build
saucer shaped things right, circular craft and as far as
(56:43):
we can tell, tended to fail. They ran against various
hard what we would call material science or operational constraints.
That doesn't mean the idea is entirely where. That doesn't
mean the ideas and highly worth throwing out right, So so.
Speaker 4 (57:04):
It makes there were abandoned projects we've talked about in
the past where it was like a sort of a
circular craft with a dude standing in the middle, some
kind of hovercraft type thing. But it wasn't like a
you know, we wouldn't like, you know, go into the atmosphere,
it was.
Speaker 3 (57:18):
Yeah, well you wanted yeah right, yeah, yeah, So again
it makes sense like to finish that thought, like it
makes sense that someone would go back and look at
the research and look at the previous material constraints and say, well,
what if we can indeed build a better mouse trap,
Like after a certain after you get past you know,
(57:41):
a certain amount of atmosphere is having a bunch of
wings disadvantageous. Right, if we can get a little disk,
a little circle past say the bug limit or something,
then gravity where gravity kicks in or where gravity you know,
gets weird, then would it make if we could launch
(58:04):
it better?
Speaker 2 (58:05):
Right?
Speaker 3 (58:05):
Or if we could build a secret engine, would we
be able as a civilization to justify new research on this?
Or to your point earlier there, Matt.
Speaker 4 (58:18):
Is this a little bit of pr oh dude?
Speaker 3 (58:21):
Is it a little bit of Is it a little
bit of like.
Speaker 4 (58:23):
You know, it's that it's the it's the hype train
that you're talking about. Couldn't they build it where the
wings like were shed once it gets into orbit kind
of like they have to drop off the thrusters and
all of that, like if it were aditation.
Speaker 5 (58:34):
Possibly, but they're if they're using current SpaceX rocket technology,
then it just has to go straight up, doesn't need
no wings man. And this is meant to operate in
orbit because it is a micro gravity lab. Allegedly, according
to a SpaceX webcast, here's.
Speaker 3 (58:52):
Totally peaceful purposes.
Speaker 5 (58:54):
Yeah, oh so here here it is. SpaceX has developed
a new spacecraft called Starfall, which is at its core,
a micro gravity lab that researchers and entrepreneurs can leverage
to develop their products and innovations. There's a huge opportunity
to benefit life on Earth through micro gravity research and
(59:14):
in space manufacturing.
Speaker 3 (59:17):
This conclude, Yeah, public portion of our video. If you
do not have TCIs clearance, please exit the viewing facility
and report to your commander. If you do have TCIs,
let's see, let's make up some names, space ban TARO clearance,
then please continue.
Speaker 5 (59:38):
Oh yeah, well here's the deal.
Speaker 4 (59:41):
Guys.
Speaker 5 (59:42):
I think this whole Starfall thing talking about a microgravity lab,
I think it's all buckus. I think that's fake. I
think that's false, it's a cover story. I think the
real thing that Skyfall, Starfall, Skyfall, O.
Speaker 4 (59:56):
God, it is Starfall, and I was Skyfall is the
James Bond movie mistake.
Speaker 2 (59:59):
But well one of them.
Speaker 5 (01:00:02):
Hold on, let me just look at this one last time,
because they're calling it Starfall and Skyfall, So maybe there's
the typo in futurism, Victor, what are you doing?
Speaker 3 (01:00:14):
That's what That's what happens when you let Ai write.
Speaker 4 (01:00:17):
Stuff for you.
Speaker 2 (01:00:18):
Seriously.
Speaker 5 (01:00:19):
Well, okay, so I'm gonna say Starfall because they wouldn't
use a copywritten thing like that. Here's why I think
it's it's cover because there's an existing program with a
Defense Department large sum of money attached to it via
contract called Project Cargo, that would have SpaceX taking very expensive,
(01:00:44):
very heavy things cargo that the military needs, sending it
up via rocket into orbit to send it super fast
somewhere else on the planet. And if you had a
thing that maybe looks like this re ent like just
a puck of a re entry vehicle. If you imagine
the ones that are used that were used by the
(01:01:04):
Apollo program, we were used most recently in the Moon mission.
There the bottom. Think about the bottom of those re
entry vehicles and how they're shaped, and that's just to
get through the atmosphere as it heads towards the ground.
Imagine if this thing is a part of this project
cargo to literally launch and send tanks, heavy equipment stuff
(01:01:27):
to build bases and shoot that wherever they want it
to go, only to fall through the atmosphere safely with
this new fangled machine and then land and get deployed
via the engineers wherever they are. That sounds way more
likely to me.
Speaker 2 (01:01:44):
Blunos skystole, what.
Speaker 4 (01:01:50):
A darlink, sky falls, Starfall, starfield. Give me a break, Elon,
do better with your branding.
Speaker 5 (01:01:58):
Just all kinds of craziness. Do look into this last
article that we're not going to read again futurism Joe Wilkins,
June twenty fourth, Amazon investigating its own employees for daring
to oppose AI data center.
Speaker 4 (01:02:13):
Just look into it.
Speaker 3 (01:02:14):
That's all for me, guys, and that's all from Noel
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Doesn't Flock just sound like a social media platform already,
just like in the social mediafication of like branding, like
I could picture it like just like another version of snapchat,
this idea of like Remember was that thing you did
where you'd like Ray Restaurants four square? You know, Flock,
I could just anyway. You can indeed get in touch
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