September 15, 2025 • 51 mins
US authorities raid a Hyundai battery plant in Georgia, detaining nearly 500 workers and sparking an international crisis with South Korea. The QAnon Queen of Canada is arrested. The rise of teenage assassins in Sweden. US tech companies are complicit in mass surveillance across China. The good and bad of LSD. All this and more in this week's strange news segment.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
From UFOs to psychic powers and government conspiracies. History is
riddled with unexplained events. You can turn back now or
learn this stuff they don't want you to know. A
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Speaker 2 (00:26):
Hello, welcome back to the show.
Speaker 3 (00:27):
My name is Matt, my name is Nola.
Speaker 4 (00:29):
They call me Ben. We're joined as always with our
super producer Dylan the Tennessee pal Fagan. Most importantly, you
are you. You are here. That makes this the stuff
they don't want you to know. If you are listening
to our strange news program The Evening it publishes, Folks,
friends and neighbors, Welcome to Monday, September fifteenth, twenty twenty five.
(00:53):
We have so much to get to where we're going
to figure it out as we go along. As Bill
O'Reilly once said, we're working live. We want to keep
this short. So just so everybody knows there are robber
bees in British Columbia.
Speaker 2 (01:09):
What are robber bees?
Speaker 4 (01:11):
Well, thanks to our friends at CBC News, particularly the
journalist Lauren Vanderdene, we know that robber bees are invading
apiary shops. Apery just being the fancy name for bee keepers,
robber bees, that's a description for bees that try to
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take honey from another colonies hive. Now, we are not
aparist correct so far.
Speaker 3 (01:40):
Not that I know. Nonetheless, I have a secret be
certification hanging on somewhere. I don't think. I don't remember
taking that class.
Speaker 2 (01:46):
The answer is not yet. But we are aware that
that's kind of a.
Speaker 4 (01:50):
Move on behalf of the bees, not on behalf of
the bee keepers. Right now, this is a story that
is very close to Dylan as well as to ourselves,
because we love a heist and we love a bee,
and we love some money.
Speaker 2 (02:07):
Yeah, honey's one of the best things you can put
on some yogurt.
Speaker 4 (02:09):
Let's go, let's go. That's our cold open, and we
have returned. We've got a lot of breaking news happening
as we're recording. We're going to get into some conversations
about commando operations that reached the Western world recently. We
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were on the fence off air about whether or not
we were going to give a real pill, a real
scumbag any kind of attention.
Speaker 2 (02:42):
Just no.
Speaker 4 (02:44):
An evil person went to jail after building an empire
based on sexual exploitation. They've been sentenced to twenty seven
years in federal prison, but it's not who you're thinking of.
I hate that to say that it's not Epstein List related.
Speaker 3 (03:03):
How did I miss this? I don't think I know
who you're talking about.
Speaker 2 (03:06):
Ben, it's adult entertainment related.
Speaker 3 (03:09):
Oh dear. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (03:10):
A guy named Michael James Pratt pled guilty in June
in federal court in San Diego for being an absolute
pos Now, we try to keep this a PG thirteen
show except for our terrible jokes, which are probably in
general not suited for the public. We just want you
to know that the wheels of justice may grind slow,
(03:33):
but exceedingly fine. Now with that news, and you can
find it on your own. There's tons of AP articles
and government statements about this. There is something that we
wanted to open the show with regarding the actions of
ICE here in the United States. As we were coming
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in to record over the weekend, we learned that a
town in Georgia got hit in a way that in
a conspiracy you could argue that triggered geopolitical tensions or
added more octane to the fire. There is a Hondai
factory out in a small town in Georgia called Label.
(04:22):
Have we ever been to label?
Speaker 2 (04:23):
You?
Speaker 4 (04:23):
Guys?
Speaker 3 (04:24):
I've never even heard of it.
Speaker 2 (04:25):
No, but you've come pretty close if you've ever visited
Savannah in that whole area down there on the coast
of Georgia.
Speaker 4 (04:33):
Yeah. Back in twenty twenty three, Hondai Motor and LG
Energy said they were going to team up to make
a ton of money and a ton of cars. Right,
they made a four point three billion US dollar investment,
and on September fourth, twenty twenty five, we're recording on
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September ninth, by the way, folks, American law enforcement conducted
in immigration braed. Now, we've heard a lot about these
raids occurring across the United States. In this case, the
Hondai Motor Group Metaplant America, which is its technical name.
(05:14):
It was rated and approximately something between four hundred and
seventy five to a little south of five hundred workers
were detained, and Homeland Security itself described this as the
largest immigration enforcement operation at a single location. They got
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a ton of people, over three hundred Korean nationals on
visas by the way, to supervise the creation and the
deployment and the operation of this plant. And we'll tell
you what, folks, this was a very difficult day to
be a diplomat.
Speaker 2 (05:55):
Yeah, well, it's a really tough situation too, because it's complicated.
Some of the people who got caught up in that
raid did have visas that were valid and good to go.
Some of the people who were caught up in that
raid were overstaying those visas. Right, there's each individual human
being that ends up in that four hundred and seventy
five you know, human being group has their own situation, right,
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So then it becomes extremely complicated as you go through.
Let's say, as the South Korean diplomats fly here immediately
and begin negotiating and trying to figure out how the
heck do we fix this, because this doesn't look good
for anybody. This isn't good for a large number of
human beings, and they're all working to make you money,
Uncle Sam, by the way, with car sales and with
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all of the manufacturing and everything, and an entire community
that got built up around that facility, right, I mean,
there's some great stories in here just about the South
Korean families that literally grew a town out of nothing
because of that that one hun Dai facility there. And
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it's all just to say it's complicated, it's not fun,
and it doesn't look great, especially considering the giant energy
deal that was made between the US and South Korea
and July for again hundreds of billions of dollars.
Speaker 4 (07:14):
Right, let's talk about that. So in July twenty twenty
five ROK South Korea they spent about one hundred billion
dollars in US energy and then additionally they made an
investment to the tune of three hundred and fifty billion
dollars generically in the United States. And they did this
(07:36):
as a quid pro quo. It was, it was an
olive branch in expectation that there would be a lowering
of tariff rates imposed by the United States. We further
need to establish how the provenance of this, which is
just the fancy word for origin story. So the origin
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story is that ICE needs to justify the massive investment
in its own apparatus. Right, Anybody familiar with any sort
of federal level agency understands that if you don't seem
to spend all the money that is in your budget,
your budget will be cut the next year. And that
(08:19):
leads to a lot of hilarious time zone dependent frantic
conversations around the end of October, Right, now we know
that a Marine Corps veteran who is currently running for
the twelfth Congressional District of Georgia, going by the name
of Tory Brandham, went to the public and said, acting
(08:45):
upon her own cognizance, she had her safety concerns and
she had heard rumors whispers in the wind about undocumented
people working at this facility, and so she started recording conversations,
being a little spoopy doop about stuff, and then took
(09:07):
everything she gathered submitted it to the ICE website, and
then ICE made the call. Now at this time, we
have to be completely honest. There's going to be a
lot of scuttle but about the type of visa, right,
there is a specific type of visa that is fairly
limited that allows people with a high high level of
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acumen technical expertise to be in a place for a
very contained amount of time.
Speaker 2 (09:40):
Thing that we had heard about.
Speaker 4 (09:42):
It's around ninety days. It's around ninety days. And the
idea here is that the South Korean nationals, who are
the boffins in this case, would get in show you
how to make the thing happen, build the house with you,
and then they would return. Idea be that their company,
(10:04):
Hondai would would probably later send them to do something
very similar in another country, because that's how it works
when you're at that level of expertise. The issue now
is that the South Korean government is super dupe's pissed.
(10:25):
That's I'm using the technical term in international relations. Another
one would be they see this as bellicose activity on
the side of Uncle Sam, and there are more questions
to come.
Speaker 2 (10:40):
Well, yeah, what the question is, why the hell would
you do this? If you look at what Stephen Schrank said.
He's the lead Georgia agent if the homeland security investigations,
because we talked about ice in homeland or new kind
of one thing doing their doing their business.
Speaker 4 (10:55):
And he was a SAC for this, by the way,
special agent in charge.
Speaker 2 (10:59):
Okay, all right, well there you go, SAC Stephen Schrenk.
Let's get that on a business card somewhere. Here's a
quote from the AP News article I'm looking at. He
says that some of the detained workers had illegally crossed
the US border, while others had entered the country legally
but had expired visas or had entered on a visa
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waiver that prohibited them from working He said that most
of the people detained were taken to an immigration detention
center in Folkeston, Georgia, near the Florida state line. None
has been charged with any crimes yet. And yeah, this
was reported on the eighth of September, so yesterday. As
we record all of this stuff, all this huge action, right,
(11:41):
all the money spent, the man hours, all the resources,
all that stuff to detain you know, almost five hundred people,
maybe over five hundred people, Send them somewhere else and
not charge anybody.
Speaker 4 (11:55):
Right, we want to thank three journalists in particular from
the AP article we're referencing, that be Russ Bynum, Kate Brumbach,
and Hung Jen Kim. We know that of the officially
detained four hundred and seventy five people, more than three
hundred were South Korean nationals. We also just explain everybody,
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this is not a place that makes cars. This is
a place that makes batteries. And this occurs in step
with other larger concerns in the technological arms race. So
let's hold for a moment some empathy, and let's say
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you are the Foreign Minister of South Korea and you
get this wild ass call.
Speaker 3 (12:48):
Dylan.
Speaker 4 (12:49):
I hope there was an appropriate sound cue, and you
have to go to the US government and say, first off, guys,
what's going on. You know what I mean? I thought
you guys liked technological aptitude.
Speaker 2 (13:03):
I thought you liked money.
Speaker 4 (13:04):
What we agreed on earlier. Did you not get the
checked Yeah, yeah, yeah yeah. And the US is like, oh,
that's in the past or whatever. This is the way
it works when you get kicked out of a country,
like when you are a persona non grata. The way
it's supposed to work is that you get a flight
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back to your country of origin. Now that has not
been occurring. To be completely clear, this is not an
ideological point. This is an operational point. There are people
who have never been to South Sudan and never wanted
to go, and they're being shipped off like a creat
x over there without consent, honestly, often without legal counsel.
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So South Korea said, okay. The reason they hurried across
the Pacific was to say, okay, these are South Korean citizens,
these are nationals, these are our guys. We need a
charter flight back to South Korea, and we need it
post haste because if you Uncle Sam have decided to
(14:10):
get all squirrely and weird about this. You're not going
to be the ones who shamel at us, you know
what I mean.
Speaker 2 (14:16):
That's right, they're getting froggy, and they're getting froggy.
Speaker 4 (14:19):
And David Attenberg, what is.
Speaker 3 (14:21):
It wax that strong?
Speaker 2 (14:26):
That's clounce, No sclouns.
Speaker 4 (14:32):
Oh God help me. If any Tarry's a feeling frogged, Yeah, wax,
that's Scott.
Speaker 3 (14:36):
That's the best. It always Liz rent Free in my head,
but I can never remember what the words are.
Speaker 2 (14:42):
I said that directly to and Michael Key's face, and
he just kind of stared at me. I quoted his
own thing to him. Whoops, he forgot.
Speaker 3 (14:50):
He did a lot of sketches.
Speaker 4 (14:53):
It's often weird to hear yourself quoted back to yourself.
And Kegan's great, by the way. Check out his work on.
Speaker 3 (15:01):
Thirteen Days of ALLABEI.
Speaker 4 (15:03):
Yeah, maybe phenomenal. And we also know this is occurring
in stepped with some breaking news that we mentioned last
week in our listener mail program. If you think stuff
is bad here in the US, the government of Israel
has fired upon the capital of Cutter and fired upon
(15:25):
Doha in what is still sort of fog of war
as we're recording, we're keeping our finger on the pulse
of the news. The official explanation targeting leaders of Hamas
and the official confirmation, depending upon which government you inquire of,
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is that the US greenlit this because the US has,
as we all know, a military base in the area.
Speaker 2 (15:52):
It's weird. It's one of those things that you don't expect.
Speaker 3 (15:56):
To see on a news feed.
Speaker 2 (15:57):
It's just it's a kind of a wild move, and
you know they're saying it's in response to something, right,
like that's why they took action. Guys. It's kind of weird,
and it kind of makes the connection. You tell me,
I'm seeing a connection between this story, the Red Sea
Cables story, and the story that we talked about. I
(16:22):
can't remember when, maybe a week or two ago, about
the Microsoft Azure servers and Israel's mass surveillance of Gaza
and trying to figure out where in all of that,
if any of it's actually connected, and then to the
direct strike allegedly on HAMAS leaders they're in Doha.
Speaker 4 (16:42):
I don't know the or the Irodian strike on US
military base by contained, which the US did just between
US and the NSA one hundred percent green light. We
also have. Yeah, this is why I wanted to tease
this in our listener mail. These things don't occur in
(17:03):
a vacuum. That's why we appreciated your correspondence, HR, and
that's why we wanted to bring this story and why
we foreshadowed it A little bit Cutter is officially understandably pissed.
Let us also consider, however, that upon US encouragement, HAMAS
(17:25):
leaders met in Doha to negotiate a ceasefire in the
Gaza Strip. So Uncle Sam told them where to go.
There's no way around it. That was a That was
a proposed meeting spot that was supposed to be kind
of Switzerland the Middle East, and now the rules of
(17:49):
the game have changed part way through the game. A
conspiracy is indeed a foot. There is so much more
to get to, especially when we're talking about shenanigans. We've
been tracking a story for a long time regarding Western
based folks and what the Western based companies I should say,
(18:10):
what they do or do not know about where their
products go. We don't even have time to talk about
the unilateral murder of civilians in international waters on behalf
of the of the US forces, including most recently the
(18:32):
huge seizure of cocaine out in the Pacific. We also
don't have time to talk about the flotilla going toward Gaza,
as we record here on September ninth. We do know
that friend of the show, the creator of Colonial Outcast,
Greg Stoker, is a board the flotilla and politics aside,
(18:56):
let's just keep it tilling. It's bad for people to die,
and it's shameful that that has become a hot take.
Speaker 3 (19:05):
I mean, it's not that it's even a hot take.
It's just like so numbed by all this stuff, whether
it be the shootings or these you know, conflicts, or
it's just so easy to get so overwhelmed that you
can't even process it or even register each individual life
because it can just break you. Then you got to
figure out a way to strike the balance, you know.
(19:27):
I mean, we like to maintain empathy but also not
to be crushed by the weight of it. You know.
I'm not trying to be soap boxy about it, but
it's just it's really soul sucking.
Speaker 4 (19:38):
M It's like, you know, it's like a recent story
from MPR that I feel stood out to all of
us about what is now being called the school shooting industry.
Things are happening quickly, Things are rightly making people anxious.
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We want to hear your thoughts this and this series
of events that we are clearly connecting, and not without reason.
The connections may become more clear as we proceed across
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Speaker 2 (20:23):
And we've returned. There is an entire just as you
mentioned right there at the end there, Ben, there is
an entire episode we have to do on the school
shooting industry. We found an MPR article here titled the
school shooting industry is worth billions and it keeps growing.
It as heard on All Things Considered. Meg Anderson is
the author. There is posted on September eighth, and it
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is all about the companies that are designing and selling
things to schools across the United States to protect children
from school shooters. Surveillance equipment, walls that are fortified weapons
for officers who are going to be there, you know,
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to have stashed somewhere on hand at the school in
case something goes down.
Speaker 4 (21:10):
Mandatory training for educators who yes again, cannot say no
and will not get a break from their regular duties.
Speaker 2 (21:18):
And kids like my son and my girlfriend's daughter, who
are both at school today going through an active shooter
drill as we speak. They are finishing up classes and
doing that as like, hey, everybody, let's pretend like somebody's
got a gun and rolling through the school. What do
we do? And then they go through all the stuff
(21:39):
using the material shooter.
Speaker 3 (21:40):
Drills I believe is what they call them.
Speaker 2 (21:42):
Right, mm hmmm. I think they call a full lockdown
or something like that.
Speaker 3 (21:46):
I get text messages from the school district every time
something like that happens at my kid's school, and it's
multiple times a week, and lately, and my kid just
started driving, and it's like going through the TSA to
get into to get into the school every morning. So
they're constantly late and it's not their fault and it's
(22:06):
like they don't have pre check. I mean, but it's insane.
They just started instituting all this stuff this year.
Speaker 2 (22:11):
Yeah, and it's all changing. It's going to continue to
change because guess what, there is a lot of money
in it. But you know, on one hand, it's great
that there's preparedness and safety right as especially as a
parent or just as a thinking person, you want to
protect people, especially kids, and we read the news, we
see all the terrible things happening. There are ways to
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increase safety, but it is certainly is weird that it's
a huge industry of its own that's being built up.
You know, it just feels odd. I think we should
do a whole episode on the details there, because most
of this is just you know, emotion coming out and
feeling some of the creepiness with your child dealing with
the stuff. Well, let's leave that there for now. We'll
(22:57):
come back to it at a later date. Let's jump
to something a little little more out there, a little
more thought provoking. Guys. Ten years ago, on our YouTube channel,
Conspiracy Stuff, we made several episodes about drugs. One of
them was titled three Hallucinogens that Might Cure Addiction. It's
a fantastic episode and you should check it out. Very
(23:19):
excellent work by our colleague mister Ben Bollin there on camera.
It's one of the stand up volog episodes, and we
go deep on things like ketamine and things like magic
mushrooms and potentially LSD and all these other psychedelics that
were ten years ago on the table as potentially a
drug therapy for addiction for things like that. Then we've
(23:43):
talked over the years, I don't even know how many times,
guys on Strange News and listener mail and in a
couple one off episodes, we've talked about the potential for
psychedelics to play a role at least in helping someone
who is dealing with addiction or anxiety or name your
thing that's some one's going through that is based in
(24:03):
a mental place. These drugs potentially and have our thoughts
to potentially hold the key in some way. Well, there
is new research coming out right now. ABC News reported
on it on September fourth. You can look it up.
It's titled LSD Show's Early Promise as a potential anxiety treatment.
Speaker 3 (24:23):
It's fascinating. I guess it seems like lately the conversation
is more revolved around psilocybin yes, and the idea of
microdosing and stuff that I didn't realize you can microdose
LSD as well, Like yeah, comes in all kinds of
different formats. But in my mind, in the past, it's
always been such an all encompassing, scary, overwhelming hallucinogen. And
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it's something that I've stayed away from for a very
long time because the last handful of times I've done it,
and when I was younger, it wasn't good. It was
just too much, and I'm like, I got too much
going on in my mind to deal with that. But
I did find out as a friend of mine in
New York who gets these gel tabs and cuts them
into tiny, tiny little fragments and you can take a
very nondescript dose that acts similarly to microdosing on psilocybin.
(25:08):
And he reports a lot of the same things. And
I know this is not illegal, you know, clinically approved process,
but it is the same stuff and it's nice to
see some support for that. Well.
Speaker 2 (25:18):
Interestingly enough, this study, rather than focusing on microdosing, is
focusing on giving people a one time dose of LSD
that is much higher in the one hundred to two
hundred microgram.
Speaker 3 (25:31):
Dosage heroic dose.
Speaker 2 (25:33):
Yes, this is just a preliminary trial, right, and it
was published in Jama Medical Journal, and it is saying
a single dose of this lab made LSD like chemical
So imagine the way delta nine and eight and ten
and all those things are kind of like THD, kind
of like analog. Yeah, it's very similar, but it's the
(25:54):
lab creative well like LSD's a laboratd thing, but it's
a it's a whole separate thing. So it's not lysergic
acid in the way.
Speaker 3 (26:00):
Two c I are one of those lab chemical equivalents
that were kind of popular some years ago.
Speaker 2 (26:06):
I don't know those. This one is called MM one
two zero or MM one twenty, got it. So it's
a single oral pharmaceutical dosage given one time and then
people who took this study, there were one hundred and
ninety eight adults who you know, took some dosage. They
had a varying dosage that they gave some folks and
(26:27):
then a placebo, and they found that after twelve weeks
of studying these folks twelve weeks one dose, they found
that the generalized anxiety, at least as reported by these
these folks improved by about five to six points more
than a placebo when they took that one hundred to
two hundred milligram dosage one time. And again we're talking
(26:49):
about generalized anxiety here, so it's it's generalized anxiety. Guys.
I don't know how you would describe it other than
what the words together imply.
Speaker 4 (26:58):
Just they're explicable. Bad vibe.
Speaker 2 (27:01):
That's a really good way to put it. Yes, that's
that's what I hear. Yes, just in general, just not
feeling great about a lot of stuff and anything that's
going down. It would be incredible if there was some
kind of prescription you could get where you literally go in,
you know, once every couple of months, twice three times
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a year, take a dose, and now you're back on
track and you're no longer suffering from a lot of
the again, kind of like the the change your brain
can put on you sometimes.
Speaker 3 (27:32):
I mean people report that from taking what they would
call like ego obliterating doses of LSD, like a one
time thing where all of a sudden, everything hits a
little different, or you make these connections that are very meaningful,
or you just find a new way of reframing things
like addiction. But it's also like it's fascinating. I'd love
to are there any reports from of these experiences and
(27:55):
like what resulted or like like actual you know, on
the ground reports, or are we looking at like more
database stuff.
Speaker 2 (28:02):
What I found is just a small write up and
then you can you can actually go to jama and
look at the thing. I did not pay for it
to look at the entire study. Here's a quick quote
from somebody who was involved, Harriet DeWitt, amazing PhD. Professor
in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Neuroscience at the
University of Chicago. Quote is, all forty people assigned to
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the two hundred milligram dose reported perceptual changes that may
be part of the therapeutic effect. We don't know, but
it wasn't necessarily an adverse effect.
Speaker 4 (28:34):
I just like we would we would also like more funding.
Speaker 2 (28:38):
Yeah, and more d if that's cool, please. I don't know,
it's just fascinating thing. We don't know anything yet. Phase
three trials are underway right now, so we'll no more,
you know, in a couple of maybe years. And then
I wanted to do a little juxtaposition with that story
and this other one come out of the Guardian. Four
(28:58):
hikers on magic mushrooms, one with debilitating high rescued in
New York.
Speaker 3 (29:05):
Saw that one man set and setting like Ben likes
the same, the raw wilderness. Maybe isn't the best place
to take that amount?
Speaker 2 (29:15):
Yeah, who knows. And the juxtaposition is just to show
that these types of drugs are not to be taken lightly. Right.
It is the set and setting thing that we've discussed
before on this show. Make sure you know where you're
who you're with.
Speaker 4 (29:29):
Yeah. Yeah, these four four, these poor for folks ingested
their psychedelics out in the Strait of Macau and they
started walking.
Speaker 2 (29:40):
Yeah, here's a quote for the article. They were found.
They're in the Catskills Mountains there in New York and
they were lost there. There was an emergency satellite call
that said, hey, there's a group of four hikers lost
near a Giant Ledge in the Slide Mountain wilderness.
Speaker 3 (29:57):
This is called Giant Ledge. Is the yeah place? Yeah,
in the Slide Mountains wilderness. The sound like very you
gotta see, you.
Speaker 4 (30:06):
Gotta get there, you got you'll know what they're talking.
I believe it. Non American listeners, we know this sounds
like beat me here, Dylan bullshit. But consider also the
Grand Canyon, which measures up to the hype.
Speaker 2 (30:20):
Well, yeah, I've never been to this specific area Giant Ledge,
but there are elevations ranging from eleven hundred feet to
twenty six hundred feet with sheer cliffs and drops. Now
imagine being supper high on mushrooms.
Speaker 3 (30:36):
Yikes, the anxiety is thinking about it.
Speaker 2 (30:38):
According to the article, complicating matters for the group of
hikers was the fact that they had also lost their
car keys. Sorry to laugh at it.
Speaker 3 (30:47):
It is funny. My Buddy Jonesy on the we to
Day f News podcast talked about this, and I believe
there's a twist. Didn't they find the car keys in
like a really odd place that like some people that
are way too high on acid might have of hitting them,
like like put yourself in the situation where like, well
you got to get rid of the car keys, man,
you know, I mean it's like.
Speaker 2 (31:05):
Well, who knows. And and it was probably a terrifying
experience for these guys. Is under a log or something,
or they found one of those bags, like a sling
bag or something and it just had the keys in it.
Here's a quote. Rangers provided a courtesy ride to the
subject's rental lodging that's where they were staying. They added
that ranger Russell Martin hiked back up the following day
(31:28):
and found a sling bag with the keys under a
log in tall ferns. So good on you, Ranger Martin.
Speaker 3 (31:36):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (31:37):
Yeah. He also said, I'm not an expert in mushrooms,
but these gentlemen definitely rode highs and lows.
Speaker 3 (31:43):
It's very diplomatic.
Speaker 2 (31:47):
There you go. That's all for me, guys.
Speaker 3 (31:50):
You know, be careful out there.
Speaker 2 (31:53):
Well, anything that has amazing potential for the positive probably
has potential for a negative too. So, as we've said
before on the show, just just think, think really hard
before you do something like that, but also try and
be open to the possibility that something like that could hold.
Speaker 3 (32:12):
A key to helping people.
Speaker 5 (32:14):
All Right, we'll be right back, and we return with
today's last segment on the Strange News.
Speaker 3 (32:25):
Weekly podcast from Stuff They Don't Want You To Know. Guys,
I really am excited about this one. It's intense, it's
a little heavy. I do think that it is worth
an episode on its own, and that is largely because
I immediately asked the question when I saw this story.
Sweden has a crime problem. Sweden just seems and I
know that's totally cleared. It's absolutely gender overgeneralizing, and you
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know there's crime everywhere, but it just seems like such
a lovely, idyllic place with like, you know, socialized medicine,
and everyone's just very happy. Apparently the you know, the
quality of life is very good. But yeah, as it
turns out, apparently gang warfare like organized crime is up
in a big way in the country of Sweden, and
(33:10):
teen girls are being used as assassins in these really
brutal and bloody turf wars. This is real, This is
very real. CBS News had this report that came out
just a couple of days ago. Teenage girls are hiring
themselves as hit women in Sweden's organized crime war, keen
(33:31):
to prove they are more deadly and ruthless than young men.
And that's according to prosecutors who are trying to put
the crack down on this type of activity. I had
a case involving a fifteen year old girl, said prosecutor
Ada Arnell, recruited to shoot someone in the head. She
was able to choose the type of mission she wanted,
(33:54):
in other words, to aim at the guy's door or
his head. She chose the head. She was arrested with
a seventeen year old male accomplice who pulled the trigger,
leaving the victim clinging for life after being shot in
the next stomach and legs. Apparently this is part of
an absolute epidemic there of young teenage women or young
(34:15):
teenage girls putting themselves forth to offer their services to
what's being described here as mobsters organized criminals through encrypted
messaging sites. Often it is an issue surrounding the law
as well, because if they are under the age of eighteen,
(34:37):
it is harder for them to prosecute kids under fifteen.
In particular, you're seeing even more of shootings and bombings,
they say are at a nearly daily occurrence. Organized crime
often recruiting teenagers as young as fifteen, which is the
age of criminal responsibility, to do their dirty work on
some of these encrypted apps like Telegram in general. Are
(35:00):
Nell says young kids are thirsty for blood on these
chats and to kind of, I don't know, echo the
point that I was making earlier, at least my perception,
and maybe y'all's too. Sweden has historically had a very
low crime rate, but these gangs which have emerged over
the last a little less than two decades round fifteen years,
have changed the landscape with you know, drug trafficking, weapons, trafficking,
(35:27):
human trafficking, things like welfare fraud, which I wouldn't really
think would be in the realm of organized crime, but
I guess over there it's maybe a little more lucrative.
But no, that's not true. Over here, I suppose there's
welfare fraud or trying to defraud elderly folks of their
you know, social security and things like that. It's I
guess it's sort of similar. So it's gotten so bad
(35:47):
that the government is now referring to it as a
systematic threat. Oh yeah, here's an interesting detail here. There
apparently have been infiltrations into the actual government or the
structure that runs Sweden's welfare system, as well as local politics.
Politicians are rather being bought off and bribed and perhaps
(36:07):
even crooked from, you know, as working directly with some
of these gangs, as well as the education system and
the juvenile detention care system. A lot of these networks
operate in the same similar fashion to terrorist cells, as
well as having networks that extend outside of the boundaries
(36:28):
of Sweden, so you're seeing you know, or orchestrated assassinations,
shootings in timidations, bombings that are contracted out through these
encrypted sites. I really do. There is there's a lot
more to this, y'all. I just wanted to bring up
because I was not aware of this problem over there.
And again I know that I have probably a bit
(36:48):
of a rose colored glasses, you know, perspective on Sweden.
But Ben, you were telling me when we talked about
this off mic, that this is not exclusively within Sweden.
This is something that's extending even beyond its borders to
who I believe, Denmark.
Speaker 4 (37:01):
Yep, that's correct, got it.
Speaker 2 (37:03):
Oh, this is weird. There's there's stuff in here about
crime organizations I've never heard of. Oh, I guess that's
what is that weird? Yeah, of course we've probably never
heard of these. These are crime organizations that are operating
in Sweden, but again, as you said before, from another place,
but operating in Sweden and other countries like Denmark, like
(37:24):
the Rumba Crime Organization r u MBA.
Speaker 3 (37:28):
The Foxtrot crime network.
Speaker 4 (37:30):
Yeah, well, not as fun as this happen, nah nah.
Speaker 2 (37:33):
But headed by people names like Raua Majied and I.
Speaker 3 (37:37):
Believe that's Sweden's one of Sweden's most wanted criminals, who
is designated by the US Treasury as being responsible for
a massive swath of the illegal drug trade in Sweden.
Speaker 4 (37:52):
And a full two thirds of the people that are
documented in these crimes. The kids have also been victims themselves,
largely of sexual violence. Just to be clear, this is
this is not something like hit Girl from kick Ass.
Speaker 3 (38:08):
Absolutely no, there's no romanticization implied here whatsoever. And we
certainly have seen these kind of tactics as far as
child soldiers, as far as other you know, gangs here
in the United States, you know, initiation, the situations where
a young child in order to join a gang, maybe
the West Coast type situation is what you might be
familiar with, going out and shooting a rival gang member
(38:30):
in order to earn their stripes. So this is absolutely
not unique, but I just it's a little interesting specifically
that they're young women and as the setting just seems
very very unusual to me. But again, I know, no
place in the world is immune from from criminal.
Speaker 4 (38:46):
Enterprise, especially now with decentralized operational networks. Consider also, as
terrible as is to say it, consider also the grooming
networks in places like the United Kingdom, throughout Turkey, throughout
Eastern Europe, and indeed throughout Germany.
Speaker 2 (39:03):
Well, yeah, that's I think that's the thing I'm feeling
a little puzzled about because this Ismail Abdoh was arrested
in Turkey and so and he is I guess going easy.
They call him transnational criminal organization. And then the other person,
Raba Majid, He's Iranian born, Kurdish Swedish, which is an
(39:26):
interesting thing, and then operating from various other countries in
that you know, generalized area, super generalized area. But it
is it's interesting that they're not Swedish gangs, right or
if you imagine, I don't know how to describe that
better than it's just not what in my mind expected
when I'm hearing like Swedish organized crime.
Speaker 4 (39:49):
Right. Yeah, And that's that's a point that we need
to emphasize here because wrapped up in these observations act
is a this data. There's also a lot of xenophobia.
That's why we're mentioning the United Kingdom, right, and the
idea of let's say it, the idea of South Asian
(40:11):
grooming gangs or drug cartels, right, or Albanian mafia from taken.
The idea is that if you find a villain that
you can put a face on and other them. Then
your society is not as bad. It's just those pesky foreigners,
and that's happening right now. Do check out our full
(40:31):
episode on Japan's far right. Spoiler Russia is paying for it.
Speaker 2 (40:35):
Read the news about the US, you know.
Speaker 3 (40:39):
Percent, and if you dig deeper, there's a lot of
sources about this. So I think we maybe roll this
out into maybe a deeper dive down the line where
there are some interviews and perspectives from some young people
that were recruited into these organizations, oftentimes due to drug
addicted parents, abusive home lives, you know, finding their way
(41:01):
into drug addiction themselves, using some of these connections in
order to finance their own drug addiction and that slippery
slope of like going from say, you know, low level
drug dealing to literally, you know, murdering people for pay.
Speaker 4 (41:15):
Yeah, agreed.
Speaker 3 (41:17):
I guess we'll put a pin in that one for now.
And I'd love to just quickly before we wrap today,
move on to a story that Matt hipped me to
about the QAnon queen. Y'all, she's back. Remember this Canadian
that the woman that kind of designated herself or declared
herself the Queen of Canada and was telling.
Speaker 4 (41:35):
I want to thank everybody who reached out to us
regarding this story. We got a lot, of course.
Speaker 3 (41:40):
That we did. Yeah it was Matt, he told me
about it. But yeah, I know for sure, it's a
story we've been following. I think the way I put
it was, we've been following this character's journey. There's a
whole situation where she took up residency in this abandoned
school in a town where nobody wanted her, and there
was this kind of simmering sort of feeling of like,
(42:00):
is this a Waco type situation? Gun control is a
big deal in Canada, and this arrest that we're talking
about today stemmed from a potential gun charge. And it
did turn out, I don't know what you guys saw,
but that the guns that were recovered were actually replicas,
(42:22):
which means they would be non lethal, I assume, But
they still did detain this woman in Saskatchewan. Romana Didulo,
the QAnon inspired conspiracy theorist who has basically received the
support from a lot of big figurehead types online in
the QAnon community, and who basically started her own group
(42:45):
called the Kingdom of Canada, where she seemingly has been
responsible for ruining some members' lives in declaring that all
of their debts were null and void and were absolved.
And this led to a lot of people losing their
homes and you know, having their utilities shut down and
all of that stuff. But she had been living in
the village of Richmond in Saskatchewan for the past two
(43:08):
years and apparently posted this arrest live as a stream
on her telegram channel. And in the video you can
see three armed officers entering a room and asking her
to put the phone down and learning her to the
fact that she is under arrest. This was the Royal
Canadian Mounted Police, who, to what I was saying earlier,
seized four replica handguns after searching the building and eight
(43:32):
RVs on the property.
Speaker 2 (43:36):
No. I first learned about this in twenty twenty two
when you brought it to us on Strange News. You interesting,
we've been.
Speaker 3 (43:43):
Talking about this the Travails of the Q and on
Queen for a hot minute now.
Speaker 2 (43:48):
Well, then one of the stories you brought in twenty
twenty three was that they she stole an RV.
Speaker 3 (43:54):
That's right, she did love an RV there was a
bit of a low speed RV chase type situation. You're
not wrong, Matt, but do you understand Guys, did you
read any deeper or see anything? It seems like is
this a technicality? I mean, are are replicas functioning? Aren't
they just meant? Isn't that sort of the deal? They're
just sort of that they've got the firing pins removed
(44:14):
and they aren't actually lethal.
Speaker 2 (44:17):
It's a little weird because we're talking about terminology that
is not specifically US.
Speaker 3 (44:24):
That's true.
Speaker 2 (44:24):
So there are like airsoft style guns that are replicas
of like let's say an AK forty seven or a
glock or something like that. It looks like it, except
it's got a little red tip on the end and
it shoots little pellets.
Speaker 3 (44:38):
You remember that scene in a snatch? Yeah, maybe it
was Lockstock and like this, my gun says desert eagle,
you know whatever, and yours says replica, And then they
zoom in and you see the letters. And so that
was my first exposure to the idea of a replica weapon,
which I think it was implying that it doesn't fire.
But then there is a part of me too that
because of maybe the regionalism of the of the terminology.
(44:59):
Maybe it's just me it's like a knockoff, or it's
some kind of weapon that does fire. It just looks
like a specific type of weapon. But they that did
seem to be enough to get her, though it doesn't
appear that any charges have been filed, and she has
been a thorn in the side of the Canadian Mounted
Police for some time now. So I don't know, Ben,
(45:21):
with some of the sources that the listeners threw our way,
did you clock any more details than I've gleaned here.
Speaker 4 (45:27):
Yeah, as you said, more to common. Perhaps we could
make this an episode. There is a journey, as Matt outlined,
that you've been following for some years. So again, we
want to thank everybody who contacted us regarding this, especially
the cryptic messages blowed up by social media that just
said the queen is dead and thank you folks for
(45:51):
keeping us on our toes.
Speaker 2 (45:52):
One thing I did find, guys, is that there was
there was some charge related to intimidating people incluing a
police officer.
Speaker 3 (46:01):
They've been talking about that since the like there was
a whole standoff kind of situation back when they took
up residency in this abandoned school, and I assumed that
they would have you been run out of town on
a rail. But this is the first indication, at least
as far as I'm concerned, that that seems to have
taken and that they've just been there this whole time.
(46:21):
This is weird and there was implied intimidation. And I
thought that in that story there were guns involved, that
they had weapons, and that they were posted up on
rooftops or something. But now the details are I think
we maybe it's a really good point. Then maybe we
collect a lot of this stuff and maybe see what happens,
because there is really no further information as to what.
(46:43):
It does say that six of her followers were also arrested, So.
Speaker 2 (46:48):
Yeah, yeah, it's a tale of being taken in and
while we don't know the entire jury trial process, in
a diamond process there in Canada, she was brought in
and she elected to go to a trial by jury, right,
and of course, well because of that thing, Because of
doing that, it means you're not going to be in
(47:09):
court for a while, so you're let out. You have
very specific stipulations, like don't go near the people that
you intimidated, and don't go back to the place where
you've been running a cult, and don't possess weapons. And
apparently it was just a situation where maybe one or
two of those conditions were not met, and then she
(47:31):
found herself arrested again and again.
Speaker 4 (47:34):
Northern Neighbor Just to jump in here, Northern Neighbors. We
are also well aware of how this ties into what
is sometimes called the Sovereign Citizen movement. That is another
piece of the pie that we look forward to exploring.
So thanks again to everybody who wrote it.
Speaker 3 (47:52):
Yeah, and I'm sorry. I just found another source from
the CBC that does have a little bit more information.
She was granted bail and that's an update. Actually, this
is just from yesterday, so though the original story was
from over the weekend.
Speaker 2 (48:06):
Let's see, Oh gosh, okay, So.
Speaker 3 (48:07):
Says here she did elect to go to the trial
by jury. This is a preliminary increase. She's scheduled to
appear in court on September the seventeenth. Says. A dozen
supporters in white hats showed up to greet Dedulo on
Monday morning as she returned to court in Swift Current, Saskatchewan,
for a bail hearing after spending the weekend in custody
for the team, secure the Royal puppies and the funds.
(48:31):
You know who to get a hold of. The Doulo said,
what secure the Royal puppies and the funds? Oh, you
know who to get a hold of. She then adds
in this they have no jurisdiction zero. Okay, let's follow
up on this, guys. This is fascinating stuff. This does
(48:52):
seem like it's gonna because I don't understand what the
charge is like. It seems like it was all in
the pretense of weapons charges, but then they only uncovered
these replicas. Doesn't even say what she was charged with.
It just says that she received bail. That's very interesting.
There's something missing here, y'all. Let's keep an eye on it.
(49:16):
That's all from me today.
Speaker 4 (49:18):
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I think you had a good idea. We should do
it again? Is that okay to say on air?
Speaker 2 (50:45):
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Speaker 2 (00:26):
Hello, welcome back to the show.
Speaker 3 (00:27):
My name is Matt, my name is Nola.
Speaker 4 (00:29):
They call me Ben. We're joined as always with our
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friends and neighbors, Welcome to Monday, September fifteenth, twenty twenty five.
(00:53):
We have so much to get to where we're going
to figure it out as we go along. As Bill
O'Reilly once said, we're working live. We want to keep
this short. So just so everybody knows there are robber
bees in British Columbia.
Speaker 2 (01:09):
What are robber bees?
Speaker 4 (01:11):
Well, thanks to our friends at CBC News, particularly the
journalist Lauren Vanderdene, we know that robber bees are invading
apiary shops. Apery just being the fancy name for bee keepers,
robber bees, that's a description for bees that try to
(01:31):
take honey from another colonies hive. Now, we are not
aparist correct so far.
Speaker 3 (01:40):
Not that I know. Nonetheless, I have a secret be
certification hanging on somewhere. I don't think. I don't remember
taking that class.
Speaker 2 (01:46):
The answer is not yet. But we are aware that
that's kind of a.
Speaker 4 (01:50):
Move on behalf of the bees, not on behalf of
the bee keepers. Right now, this is a story that
is very close to Dylan as well as to ourselves,
because we love a heist and we love a bee,
and we love some money.
Speaker 2 (02:07):
Yeah, honey's one of the best things you can put
on some yogurt.
Speaker 4 (02:09):
Let's go, let's go. That's our cold open, and we
have returned. We've got a lot of breaking news happening
as we're recording. We're going to get into some conversations
about commando operations that reached the Western world recently. We
(02:33):
were on the fence off air about whether or not
we were going to give a real pill, a real
scumbag any kind of attention.
Speaker 2 (02:42):
Just no.
Speaker 4 (02:44):
An evil person went to jail after building an empire
based on sexual exploitation. They've been sentenced to twenty seven
years in federal prison, but it's not who you're thinking of.
I hate that to say that it's not Epstein List related.
Speaker 3 (03:03):
How did I miss this? I don't think I know
who you're talking about.
Speaker 2 (03:06):
Ben, it's adult entertainment related.
Speaker 3 (03:09):
Oh dear. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (03:10):
A guy named Michael James Pratt pled guilty in June
in federal court in San Diego for being an absolute
pos Now, we try to keep this a PG thirteen
show except for our terrible jokes, which are probably in
general not suited for the public. We just want you
to know that the wheels of justice may grind slow,
(03:33):
but exceedingly fine. Now with that news, and you can
find it on your own. There's tons of AP articles
and government statements about this. There is something that we
wanted to open the show with regarding the actions of
ICE here in the United States. As we were coming
(03:58):
in to record over the weekend, we learned that a
town in Georgia got hit in a way that in
a conspiracy you could argue that triggered geopolitical tensions or
added more octane to the fire. There is a Hondai
factory out in a small town in Georgia called Label.
(04:22):
Have we ever been to label?
Speaker 2 (04:23):
You?
Speaker 4 (04:23):
Guys?
Speaker 3 (04:24):
I've never even heard of it.
Speaker 2 (04:25):
No, but you've come pretty close if you've ever visited
Savannah in that whole area down there on the coast
of Georgia.
Speaker 4 (04:33):
Yeah. Back in twenty twenty three, Hondai Motor and LG
Energy said they were going to team up to make
a ton of money and a ton of cars. Right,
they made a four point three billion US dollar investment,
and on September fourth, twenty twenty five, we're recording on
(04:53):
September ninth, by the way, folks, American law enforcement conducted
in immigration braed. Now, we've heard a lot about these
raids occurring across the United States. In this case, the
Hondai Motor Group Metaplant America, which is its technical name.
(05:14):
It was rated and approximately something between four hundred and
seventy five to a little south of five hundred workers
were detained, and Homeland Security itself described this as the
largest immigration enforcement operation at a single location. They got
(05:35):
a ton of people, over three hundred Korean nationals on
visas by the way, to supervise the creation and the
deployment and the operation of this plant. And we'll tell
you what, folks, this was a very difficult day to
be a diplomat.
Speaker 2 (05:55):
Yeah, well, it's a really tough situation too, because it's complicated.
Some of the people who got caught up in that
raid did have visas that were valid and good to go.
Some of the people who were caught up in that
raid were overstaying those visas. Right, there's each individual human
being that ends up in that four hundred and seventy
five you know, human being group has their own situation, right,
(06:19):
So then it becomes extremely complicated as you go through.
Let's say, as the South Korean diplomats fly here immediately
and begin negotiating and trying to figure out how the
heck do we fix this, because this doesn't look good
for anybody. This isn't good for a large number of
human beings, and they're all working to make you money,
Uncle Sam, by the way, with car sales and with
(06:41):
all of the manufacturing and everything, and an entire community
that got built up around that facility, right, I mean,
there's some great stories in here just about the South
Korean families that literally grew a town out of nothing
because of that that one hun Dai facility there. And
(07:01):
it's all just to say it's complicated, it's not fun,
and it doesn't look great, especially considering the giant energy
deal that was made between the US and South Korea
and July for again hundreds of billions of dollars.
Speaker 4 (07:14):
Right, let's talk about that. So in July twenty twenty
five ROK South Korea they spent about one hundred billion
dollars in US energy and then additionally they made an
investment to the tune of three hundred and fifty billion
dollars generically in the United States. And they did this
(07:36):
as a quid pro quo. It was, it was an
olive branch in expectation that there would be a lowering
of tariff rates imposed by the United States. We further
need to establish how the provenance of this, which is
just the fancy word for origin story. So the origin
(07:58):
story is that ICE needs to justify the massive investment
in its own apparatus. Right, Anybody familiar with any sort
of federal level agency understands that if you don't seem
to spend all the money that is in your budget,
your budget will be cut the next year. And that
(08:19):
leads to a lot of hilarious time zone dependent frantic
conversations around the end of October, Right, now we know
that a Marine Corps veteran who is currently running for
the twelfth Congressional District of Georgia, going by the name
of Tory Brandham, went to the public and said, acting
(08:45):
upon her own cognizance, she had her safety concerns and
she had heard rumors whispers in the wind about undocumented
people working at this facility, and so she started recording conversations,
being a little spoopy doop about stuff, and then took
(09:07):
everything she gathered submitted it to the ICE website, and
then ICE made the call. Now at this time, we
have to be completely honest. There's going to be a
lot of scuttle but about the type of visa, right,
there is a specific type of visa that is fairly
limited that allows people with a high high level of
(09:32):
acumen technical expertise to be in a place for a
very contained amount of time.
Speaker 2 (09:40):
Thing that we had heard about.
Speaker 4 (09:42):
It's around ninety days. It's around ninety days. And the
idea here is that the South Korean nationals, who are
the boffins in this case, would get in show you
how to make the thing happen, build the house with you,
and then they would return. Idea be that their company,
(10:04):
Hondai would would probably later send them to do something
very similar in another country, because that's how it works
when you're at that level of expertise. The issue now
is that the South Korean government is super dupe's pissed.
(10:25):
That's I'm using the technical term in international relations. Another
one would be they see this as bellicose activity on
the side of Uncle Sam, and there are more questions
to come.
Speaker 2 (10:40):
Well, yeah, what the question is, why the hell would
you do this? If you look at what Stephen Schrank said.
He's the lead Georgia agent if the homeland security investigations,
because we talked about ice in homeland or new kind
of one thing doing their doing their business.
Speaker 4 (10:55):
And he was a SAC for this, by the way,
special agent in charge.
Speaker 2 (10:59):
Okay, all right, well there you go, SAC Stephen Schrenk.
Let's get that on a business card somewhere. Here's a
quote from the AP News article I'm looking at. He
says that some of the detained workers had illegally crossed
the US border, while others had entered the country legally
but had expired visas or had entered on a visa
(11:19):
waiver that prohibited them from working He said that most
of the people detained were taken to an immigration detention
center in Folkeston, Georgia, near the Florida state line. None
has been charged with any crimes yet. And yeah, this
was reported on the eighth of September, so yesterday. As
we record all of this stuff, all this huge action, right,
(11:41):
all the money spent, the man hours, all the resources,
all that stuff to detain you know, almost five hundred people,
maybe over five hundred people, Send them somewhere else and
not charge anybody.
Speaker 4 (11:55):
Right, we want to thank three journalists in particular from
the AP article we're referencing, that be Russ Bynum, Kate Brumbach,
and Hung Jen Kim. We know that of the officially
detained four hundred and seventy five people, more than three
hundred were South Korean nationals. We also just explain everybody,
(12:17):
this is not a place that makes cars. This is
a place that makes batteries. And this occurs in step
with other larger concerns in the technological arms race. So
let's hold for a moment some empathy, and let's say
(12:37):
you are the Foreign Minister of South Korea and you
get this wild ass call.
Speaker 3 (12:48):
Dylan.
Speaker 4 (12:49):
I hope there was an appropriate sound cue, and you
have to go to the US government and say, first off, guys,
what's going on. You know what I mean? I thought
you guys liked technological aptitude.
Speaker 2 (13:03):
I thought you liked money.
Speaker 4 (13:04):
What we agreed on earlier. Did you not get the
checked Yeah, yeah, yeah yeah. And the US is like, oh,
that's in the past or whatever. This is the way
it works when you get kicked out of a country,
like when you are a persona non grata. The way
it's supposed to work is that you get a flight
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back to your country of origin. Now that has not
been occurring. To be completely clear, this is not an
ideological point. This is an operational point. There are people
who have never been to South Sudan and never wanted
to go, and they're being shipped off like a creat
x over there without consent, honestly, often without legal counsel.
(13:49):
So South Korea said, okay. The reason they hurried across
the Pacific was to say, okay, these are South Korean citizens,
these are nationals, these are our guys. We need a
charter flight back to South Korea, and we need it
post haste because if you Uncle Sam have decided to
(14:10):
get all squirrely and weird about this. You're not going
to be the ones who shamel at us, you know
what I mean.
Speaker 2 (14:16):
That's right, they're getting froggy, and they're getting froggy.
Speaker 4 (14:19):
And David Attenberg, what is.
Speaker 3 (14:21):
It wax that strong?
Speaker 2 (14:26):
That's clounce, No sclouns.
Speaker 4 (14:32):
Oh God help me. If any Tarry's a feeling frogged, Yeah, wax,
that's Scott.
Speaker 3 (14:36):
That's the best. It always Liz rent Free in my head,
but I can never remember what the words are.
Speaker 2 (14:42):
I said that directly to and Michael Key's face, and
he just kind of stared at me. I quoted his
own thing to him. Whoops, he forgot.
Speaker 3 (14:50):
He did a lot of sketches.
Speaker 4 (14:53):
It's often weird to hear yourself quoted back to yourself.
And Kegan's great, by the way. Check out his work on.
Speaker 3 (15:01):
Thirteen Days of ALLABEI.
Speaker 4 (15:03):
Yeah, maybe phenomenal. And we also know this is occurring
in stepped with some breaking news that we mentioned last
week in our listener mail program. If you think stuff
is bad here in the US, the government of Israel
has fired upon the capital of Cutter and fired upon
(15:25):
Doha in what is still sort of fog of war
as we're recording, we're keeping our finger on the pulse
of the news. The official explanation targeting leaders of Hamas
and the official confirmation, depending upon which government you inquire of,
(15:45):
is that the US greenlit this because the US has,
as we all know, a military base in the area.
Speaker 2 (15:52):
It's weird. It's one of those things that you don't expect.
Speaker 3 (15:56):
To see on a news feed.
Speaker 2 (15:57):
It's just it's a kind of a wild move, and
you know they're saying it's in response to something, right,
like that's why they took action. Guys. It's kind of weird,
and it kind of makes the connection. You tell me,
I'm seeing a connection between this story, the Red Sea
Cables story, and the story that we talked about. I
(16:22):
can't remember when, maybe a week or two ago, about
the Microsoft Azure servers and Israel's mass surveillance of Gaza
and trying to figure out where in all of that,
if any of it's actually connected, and then to the
direct strike allegedly on HAMAS leaders they're in Doha.
Speaker 4 (16:42):
I don't know the or the Irodian strike on US
military base by contained, which the US did just between
US and the NSA one hundred percent green light. We
also have. Yeah, this is why I wanted to tease
this in our listener mail. These things don't occur in
(17:03):
a vacuum. That's why we appreciated your correspondence, HR, and
that's why we wanted to bring this story and why
we foreshadowed it A little bit Cutter is officially understandably pissed.
Let us also consider, however, that upon US encouragement, HAMAS
(17:25):
leaders met in Doha to negotiate a ceasefire in the
Gaza Strip. So Uncle Sam told them where to go.
There's no way around it. That was a That was
a proposed meeting spot that was supposed to be kind
of Switzerland the Middle East, and now the rules of
(17:49):
the game have changed part way through the game. A
conspiracy is indeed a foot. There is so much more
to get to, especially when we're talking about shenanigans. We've
been tracking a story for a long time regarding Western
based folks and what the Western based companies I should say,
(18:10):
what they do or do not know about where their
products go. We don't even have time to talk about
the unilateral murder of civilians in international waters on behalf
of the of the US forces, including most recently the
(18:32):
huge seizure of cocaine out in the Pacific. We also
don't have time to talk about the flotilla going toward Gaza,
as we record here on September ninth. We do know
that friend of the show, the creator of Colonial Outcast,
Greg Stoker, is a board the flotilla and politics aside,
(18:56):
let's just keep it tilling. It's bad for people to die,
and it's shameful that that has become a hot take.
Speaker 3 (19:05):
I mean, it's not that it's even a hot take.
It's just like so numbed by all this stuff, whether
it be the shootings or these you know, conflicts, or
it's just so easy to get so overwhelmed that you
can't even process it or even register each individual life
because it can just break you. Then you got to
figure out a way to strike the balance, you know.
(19:27):
I mean, we like to maintain empathy but also not
to be crushed by the weight of it. You know.
I'm not trying to be soap boxy about it, but
it's just it's really soul sucking.
Speaker 4 (19:38):
M It's like, you know, it's like a recent story
from MPR that I feel stood out to all of
us about what is now being called the school shooting industry.
Things are happening quickly, Things are rightly making people anxious.
(19:58):
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of events that we are clearly connecting, and not without reason.
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Speaker 2 (20:23):
And we've returned. There is an entire just as you
mentioned right there at the end there, Ben, there is
an entire episode we have to do on the school
shooting industry. We found an MPR article here titled the
school shooting industry is worth billions and it keeps growing.
It as heard on All Things Considered. Meg Anderson is
the author. There is posted on September eighth, and it
(20:45):
is all about the companies that are designing and selling
things to schools across the United States to protect children
from school shooters. Surveillance equipment, walls that are fortified weapons
for officers who are going to be there, you know,
(21:05):
to have stashed somewhere on hand at the school in
case something goes down.
Speaker 4 (21:10):
Mandatory training for educators who yes again, cannot say no
and will not get a break from their regular duties.
Speaker 2 (21:18):
And kids like my son and my girlfriend's daughter, who
are both at school today going through an active shooter
drill as we speak. They are finishing up classes and
doing that as like, hey, everybody, let's pretend like somebody's
got a gun and rolling through the school. What do
we do? And then they go through all the stuff
(21:39):
using the material shooter.
Speaker 3 (21:40):
Drills I believe is what they call them.
Speaker 2 (21:42):
Right, mm hmmm. I think they call a full lockdown
or something like that.
Speaker 3 (21:46):
I get text messages from the school district every time
something like that happens at my kid's school, and it's
multiple times a week, and lately, and my kid just
started driving, and it's like going through the TSA to
get into to get into the school every morning. So
they're constantly late and it's not their fault and it's
(22:06):
like they don't have pre check. I mean, but it's insane.
They just started instituting all this stuff this year.
Speaker 2 (22:11):
Yeah, and it's all changing. It's going to continue to
change because guess what, there is a lot of money
in it. But you know, on one hand, it's great
that there's preparedness and safety right as especially as a
parent or just as a thinking person, you want to
protect people, especially kids, and we read the news, we
see all the terrible things happening. There are ways to
(22:33):
increase safety, but it is certainly is weird that it's
a huge industry of its own that's being built up.
You know, it just feels odd. I think we should
do a whole episode on the details there, because most
of this is just you know, emotion coming out and
feeling some of the creepiness with your child dealing with
the stuff. Well, let's leave that there for now. We'll
(22:57):
come back to it at a later date. Let's jump
to something a little little more out there, a little
more thought provoking. Guys. Ten years ago, on our YouTube channel,
Conspiracy Stuff, we made several episodes about drugs. One of
them was titled three Hallucinogens that Might Cure Addiction. It's
a fantastic episode and you should check it out. Very
(23:19):
excellent work by our colleague mister Ben Bollin there on camera.
It's one of the stand up volog episodes, and we
go deep on things like ketamine and things like magic
mushrooms and potentially LSD and all these other psychedelics that
were ten years ago on the table as potentially a
drug therapy for addiction for things like that. Then we've
(23:43):
talked over the years, I don't even know how many times,
guys on Strange News and listener mail and in a
couple one off episodes, we've talked about the potential for
psychedelics to play a role at least in helping someone
who is dealing with addiction or anxiety or name your
thing that's some one's going through that is based in
(24:03):
a mental place. These drugs potentially and have our thoughts
to potentially hold the key in some way. Well, there
is new research coming out right now. ABC News reported
on it on September fourth. You can look it up.
It's titled LSD Show's Early Promise as a potential anxiety treatment.
Speaker 3 (24:23):
It's fascinating. I guess it seems like lately the conversation
is more revolved around psilocybin yes, and the idea of
microdosing and stuff that I didn't realize you can microdose
LSD as well, Like yeah, comes in all kinds of
different formats. But in my mind, in the past, it's
always been such an all encompassing, scary, overwhelming hallucinogen. And
(24:44):
it's something that I've stayed away from for a very
long time because the last handful of times I've done it,
and when I was younger, it wasn't good. It was
just too much, and I'm like, I got too much
going on in my mind to deal with that. But
I did find out as a friend of mine in
New York who gets these gel tabs and cuts them
into tiny, tiny little fragments and you can take a
very nondescript dose that acts similarly to microdosing on psilocybin.
(25:08):
And he reports a lot of the same things. And
I know this is not illegal, you know, clinically approved process,
but it is the same stuff and it's nice to
see some support for that. Well.
Speaker 2 (25:18):
Interestingly enough, this study, rather than focusing on microdosing, is
focusing on giving people a one time dose of LSD
that is much higher in the one hundred to two
hundred microgram.
Speaker 3 (25:31):
Dosage heroic dose.
Speaker 2 (25:33):
Yes, this is just a preliminary trial, right, and it
was published in Jama Medical Journal, and it is saying
a single dose of this lab made LSD like chemical
So imagine the way delta nine and eight and ten
and all those things are kind of like THD, kind
of like analog. Yeah, it's very similar, but it's the
(25:54):
lab creative well like LSD's a laboratd thing, but it's
a it's a whole separate thing. So it's not lysergic
acid in the way.
Speaker 3 (26:00):
Two c I are one of those lab chemical equivalents
that were kind of popular some years ago.
Speaker 2 (26:06):
I don't know those. This one is called MM one
two zero or MM one twenty, got it. So it's
a single oral pharmaceutical dosage given one time and then
people who took this study, there were one hundred and
ninety eight adults who you know, took some dosage. They
had a varying dosage that they gave some folks and
(26:27):
then a placebo, and they found that after twelve weeks
of studying these folks twelve weeks one dose, they found
that the generalized anxiety, at least as reported by these
these folks improved by about five to six points more
than a placebo when they took that one hundred to
two hundred milligram dosage one time. And again we're talking
(26:49):
about generalized anxiety here, so it's it's generalized anxiety. Guys.
I don't know how you would describe it other than
what the words together imply.
Speaker 4 (26:58):
Just they're explicable. Bad vibe.
Speaker 2 (27:01):
That's a really good way to put it. Yes, that's
that's what I hear. Yes, just in general, just not
feeling great about a lot of stuff and anything that's
going down. It would be incredible if there was some
kind of prescription you could get where you literally go in,
you know, once every couple of months, twice three times
(27:22):
a year, take a dose, and now you're back on
track and you're no longer suffering from a lot of
the again, kind of like the the change your brain
can put on you sometimes.
Speaker 3 (27:32):
I mean people report that from taking what they would
call like ego obliterating doses of LSD, like a one
time thing where all of a sudden, everything hits a
little different, or you make these connections that are very meaningful,
or you just find a new way of reframing things
like addiction. But it's also like it's fascinating. I'd love
to are there any reports from of these experiences and
(27:55):
like what resulted or like like actual you know, on
the ground reports, or are we looking at like more
database stuff.
Speaker 2 (28:02):
What I found is just a small write up and
then you can you can actually go to jama and
look at the thing. I did not pay for it
to look at the entire study. Here's a quick quote
from somebody who was involved, Harriet DeWitt, amazing PhD. Professor
in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Neuroscience at the
University of Chicago. Quote is, all forty people assigned to
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the two hundred milligram dose reported perceptual changes that may
be part of the therapeutic effect. We don't know, but
it wasn't necessarily an adverse effect.
Speaker 4 (28:34):
I just like we would we would also like more funding.
Speaker 2 (28:38):
Yeah, and more d if that's cool, please. I don't know,
it's just fascinating thing. We don't know anything yet. Phase
three trials are underway right now, so we'll no more,
you know, in a couple of maybe years. And then
I wanted to do a little juxtaposition with that story
and this other one come out of the Guardian. Four
(28:58):
hikers on magic mushrooms, one with debilitating high rescued in
New York.
Speaker 3 (29:05):
Saw that one man set and setting like Ben likes
the same, the raw wilderness. Maybe isn't the best place
to take that amount?
Speaker 2 (29:15):
Yeah, who knows. And the juxtaposition is just to show
that these types of drugs are not to be taken lightly. Right.
It is the set and setting thing that we've discussed
before on this show. Make sure you know where you're
who you're with.
Speaker 4 (29:29):
Yeah. Yeah, these four four, these poor for folks ingested
their psychedelics out in the Strait of Macau and they
started walking.
Speaker 2 (29:40):
Yeah, here's a quote for the article. They were found.
They're in the Catskills Mountains there in New York and
they were lost there. There was an emergency satellite call
that said, hey, there's a group of four hikers lost
near a Giant Ledge in the Slide Mountain wilderness.
Speaker 3 (29:57):
This is called Giant Ledge. Is the yeah place? Yeah,
in the Slide Mountains wilderness. The sound like very you
gotta see, you.
Speaker 4 (30:06):
Gotta get there, you got you'll know what they're talking.
I believe it. Non American listeners, we know this sounds
like beat me here, Dylan bullshit. But consider also the
Grand Canyon, which measures up to the hype.
Speaker 2 (30:20):
Well, yeah, I've never been to this specific area Giant Ledge,
but there are elevations ranging from eleven hundred feet to
twenty six hundred feet with sheer cliffs and drops. Now
imagine being supper high on mushrooms.
Speaker 3 (30:36):
Yikes, the anxiety is thinking about it.
Speaker 2 (30:38):
According to the article, complicating matters for the group of
hikers was the fact that they had also lost their
car keys. Sorry to laugh at it.
Speaker 3 (30:47):
It is funny. My Buddy Jonesy on the we to
Day f News podcast talked about this, and I believe
there's a twist. Didn't they find the car keys in
like a really odd place that like some people that
are way too high on acid might have of hitting them,
like like put yourself in the situation where like, well
you got to get rid of the car keys, man,
you know, I mean it's like.
Speaker 2 (31:05):
Well, who knows. And and it was probably a terrifying
experience for these guys. Is under a log or something,
or they found one of those bags, like a sling
bag or something and it just had the keys in it.
Here's a quote. Rangers provided a courtesy ride to the
subject's rental lodging that's where they were staying. They added
that ranger Russell Martin hiked back up the following day
(31:28):
and found a sling bag with the keys under a
log in tall ferns. So good on you, Ranger Martin.
Speaker 3 (31:36):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (31:37):
Yeah. He also said, I'm not an expert in mushrooms,
but these gentlemen definitely rode highs and lows.
Speaker 3 (31:43):
It's very diplomatic.
Speaker 2 (31:47):
There you go. That's all for me, guys.
Speaker 3 (31:50):
You know, be careful out there.
Speaker 2 (31:53):
Well, anything that has amazing potential for the positive probably
has potential for a negative too. So, as we've said
before on the show, just just think, think really hard
before you do something like that, but also try and
be open to the possibility that something like that could hold.
Speaker 3 (32:12):
A key to helping people.
Speaker 5 (32:14):
All Right, we'll be right back, and we return with
today's last segment on the Strange News.
Speaker 3 (32:25):
Weekly podcast from Stuff They Don't Want You To Know. Guys,
I really am excited about this one. It's intense, it's
a little heavy. I do think that it is worth
an episode on its own, and that is largely because
I immediately asked the question when I saw this story.
Sweden has a crime problem. Sweden just seems and I
know that's totally cleared. It's absolutely gender overgeneralizing, and you
(32:49):
know there's crime everywhere, but it just seems like such
a lovely, idyllic place with like, you know, socialized medicine,
and everyone's just very happy. Apparently the you know, the
quality of life is very good. But yeah, as it
turns out, apparently gang warfare like organized crime is up
in a big way in the country of Sweden, and
(33:10):
teen girls are being used as assassins in these really
brutal and bloody turf wars. This is real, This is
very real. CBS News had this report that came out
just a couple of days ago. Teenage girls are hiring
themselves as hit women in Sweden's organized crime war, keen
(33:31):
to prove they are more deadly and ruthless than young men.
And that's according to prosecutors who are trying to put
the crack down on this type of activity. I had
a case involving a fifteen year old girl, said prosecutor
Ada Arnell, recruited to shoot someone in the head. She
was able to choose the type of mission she wanted,
(33:54):
in other words, to aim at the guy's door or
his head. She chose the head. She was arrested with
a seventeen year old male accomplice who pulled the trigger,
leaving the victim clinging for life after being shot in
the next stomach and legs. Apparently this is part of
an absolute epidemic there of young teenage women or young
(34:15):
teenage girls putting themselves forth to offer their services to
what's being described here as mobsters organized criminals through encrypted
messaging sites. Often it is an issue surrounding the law
as well, because if they are under the age of eighteen,
(34:37):
it is harder for them to prosecute kids under fifteen.
In particular, you're seeing even more of shootings and bombings,
they say are at a nearly daily occurrence. Organized crime
often recruiting teenagers as young as fifteen, which is the
age of criminal responsibility, to do their dirty work on
some of these encrypted apps like Telegram in general. Are
(35:00):
Nell says young kids are thirsty for blood on these
chats and to kind of, I don't know, echo the
point that I was making earlier, at least my perception,
and maybe y'all's too. Sweden has historically had a very
low crime rate, but these gangs which have emerged over
the last a little less than two decades round fifteen years,
have changed the landscape with you know, drug trafficking, weapons, trafficking,
(35:27):
human trafficking, things like welfare fraud, which I wouldn't really
think would be in the realm of organized crime, but
I guess over there it's maybe a little more lucrative.
But no, that's not true. Over here, I suppose there's
welfare fraud or trying to defraud elderly folks of their
you know, social security and things like that. It's I
guess it's sort of similar. So it's gotten so bad
(35:47):
that the government is now referring to it as a
systematic threat. Oh yeah, here's an interesting detail here. There
apparently have been infiltrations into the actual government or the
structure that runs Sweden's welfare system, as well as local politics.
Politicians are rather being bought off and bribed and perhaps
(36:07):
even crooked from, you know, as working directly with some
of these gangs, as well as the education system and
the juvenile detention care system. A lot of these networks
operate in the same similar fashion to terrorist cells, as
well as having networks that extend outside of the boundaries
(36:28):
of Sweden, so you're seeing you know, or orchestrated assassinations,
shootings in timidations, bombings that are contracted out through these
encrypted sites. I really do. There is there's a lot
more to this, y'all. I just wanted to bring up
because I was not aware of this problem over there.
And again I know that I have probably a bit
(36:48):
of a rose colored glasses, you know, perspective on Sweden.
But Ben, you were telling me when we talked about
this off mic, that this is not exclusively within Sweden.
This is something that's extending even beyond its borders to
who I believe, Denmark.
Speaker 4 (37:01):
Yep, that's correct, got it.
Speaker 2 (37:03):
Oh, this is weird. There's there's stuff in here about
crime organizations I've never heard of. Oh, I guess that's
what is that weird? Yeah, of course we've probably never
heard of these. These are crime organizations that are operating
in Sweden, but again, as you said before, from another place,
but operating in Sweden and other countries like Denmark, like
(37:24):
the Rumba Crime Organization r u MBA.
Speaker 3 (37:28):
The Foxtrot crime network.
Speaker 4 (37:30):
Yeah, well, not as fun as this happen, nah nah.
Speaker 2 (37:33):
But headed by people names like Raua Majied and I.
Speaker 3 (37:37):
Believe that's Sweden's one of Sweden's most wanted criminals, who
is designated by the US Treasury as being responsible for
a massive swath of the illegal drug trade in Sweden.
Speaker 4 (37:52):
And a full two thirds of the people that are
documented in these crimes. The kids have also been victims themselves,
largely of sexual violence. Just to be clear, this is
this is not something like hit Girl from kick Ass.
Speaker 3 (38:08):
Absolutely no, there's no romanticization implied here whatsoever. And we
certainly have seen these kind of tactics as far as
child soldiers, as far as other you know, gangs here
in the United States, you know, initiation, the situations where
a young child in order to join a gang, maybe
the West Coast type situation is what you might be
familiar with, going out and shooting a rival gang member
(38:30):
in order to earn their stripes. So this is absolutely
not unique, but I just it's a little interesting specifically
that they're young women and as the setting just seems
very very unusual to me. But again, I know, no
place in the world is immune from from criminal.
Speaker 4 (38:46):
Enterprise, especially now with decentralized operational networks. Consider also, as
terrible as is to say it, consider also the grooming
networks in places like the United Kingdom, throughout Turkey, throughout
Eastern Europe, and indeed throughout Germany.
Speaker 2 (39:03):
Well, yeah, that's I think that's the thing I'm feeling
a little puzzled about because this Ismail Abdoh was arrested
in Turkey and so and he is I guess going easy.
They call him transnational criminal organization. And then the other person,
Raba Majid, He's Iranian born, Kurdish Swedish, which is an
(39:26):
interesting thing, and then operating from various other countries in
that you know, generalized area, super generalized area. But it
is it's interesting that they're not Swedish gangs, right or
if you imagine, I don't know how to describe that
better than it's just not what in my mind expected
when I'm hearing like Swedish organized crime.
Speaker 4 (39:49):
Right. Yeah, And that's that's a point that we need
to emphasize here because wrapped up in these observations act
is a this data. There's also a lot of xenophobia.
That's why we're mentioning the United Kingdom, right, and the
idea of let's say it, the idea of South Asian
(40:11):
grooming gangs or drug cartels, right, or Albanian mafia from taken.
The idea is that if you find a villain that
you can put a face on and other them. Then
your society is not as bad. It's just those pesky foreigners,
and that's happening right now. Do check out our full
(40:31):
episode on Japan's far right. Spoiler Russia is paying for it.
Speaker 2 (40:35):
Read the news about the US, you know.
Speaker 3 (40:39):
Percent, and if you dig deeper, there's a lot of
sources about this. So I think we maybe roll this
out into maybe a deeper dive down the line where
there are some interviews and perspectives from some young people
that were recruited into these organizations, oftentimes due to drug
addicted parents, abusive home lives, you know, finding their way
(41:01):
into drug addiction themselves, using some of these connections in
order to finance their own drug addiction and that slippery
slope of like going from say, you know, low level
drug dealing to literally, you know, murdering people for pay.
Speaker 4 (41:15):
Yeah, agreed.
Speaker 3 (41:17):
I guess we'll put a pin in that one for now.
And I'd love to just quickly before we wrap today,
move on to a story that Matt hipped me to
about the QAnon queen. Y'all, she's back. Remember this Canadian
that the woman that kind of designated herself or declared
herself the Queen of Canada and was telling.
Speaker 4 (41:35):
I want to thank everybody who reached out to us
regarding this story. We got a lot, of course.
Speaker 3 (41:40):
That we did. Yeah it was Matt, he told me
about it. But yeah, I know for sure, it's a
story we've been following. I think the way I put
it was, we've been following this character's journey. There's a
whole situation where she took up residency in this abandoned
school in a town where nobody wanted her, and there
was this kind of simmering sort of feeling of like,
(42:00):
is this a Waco type situation? Gun control is a
big deal in Canada, and this arrest that we're talking
about today stemmed from a potential gun charge. And it
did turn out, I don't know what you guys saw,
but that the guns that were recovered were actually replicas,
(42:22):
which means they would be non lethal, I assume, But
they still did detain this woman in Saskatchewan. Romana Didulo,
the QAnon inspired conspiracy theorist who has basically received the
support from a lot of big figurehead types online in
the QAnon community, and who basically started her own group
(42:45):
called the Kingdom of Canada, where she seemingly has been
responsible for ruining some members' lives in declaring that all
of their debts were null and void and were absolved.
And this led to a lot of people losing their
homes and you know, having their utilities shut down and
all of that stuff. But she had been living in
the village of Richmond in Saskatchewan for the past two
(43:08):
years and apparently posted this arrest live as a stream
on her telegram channel. And in the video you can
see three armed officers entering a room and asking her
to put the phone down and learning her to the
fact that she is under arrest. This was the Royal
Canadian Mounted Police, who, to what I was saying earlier,
seized four replica handguns after searching the building and eight
(43:32):
RVs on the property.
Speaker 2 (43:36):
No. I first learned about this in twenty twenty two
when you brought it to us on Strange News. You interesting,
we've been.
Speaker 3 (43:43):
Talking about this the Travails of the Q and on
Queen for a hot minute now.
Speaker 2 (43:48):
Well, then one of the stories you brought in twenty
twenty three was that they she stole an RV.
Speaker 3 (43:54):
That's right, she did love an RV there was a
bit of a low speed RV chase type situation. You're
not wrong, Matt, but do you understand Guys, did you
read any deeper or see anything? It seems like is
this a technicality? I mean, are are replicas functioning? Aren't
they just meant? Isn't that sort of the deal? They're
just sort of that they've got the firing pins removed
(44:14):
and they aren't actually lethal.
Speaker 2 (44:17):
It's a little weird because we're talking about terminology that
is not specifically US.
Speaker 3 (44:24):
That's true.
Speaker 2 (44:24):
So there are like airsoft style guns that are replicas
of like let's say an AK forty seven or a
glock or something like that. It looks like it, except
it's got a little red tip on the end and
it shoots little pellets.
Speaker 3 (44:38):
You remember that scene in a snatch? Yeah, maybe it
was Lockstock and like this, my gun says desert eagle,
you know whatever, and yours says replica, And then they
zoom in and you see the letters. And so that
was my first exposure to the idea of a replica weapon,
which I think it was implying that it doesn't fire.
But then there is a part of me too that
because of maybe the regionalism of the of the terminology.
(44:59):
Maybe it's just me it's like a knockoff, or it's
some kind of weapon that does fire. It just looks
like a specific type of weapon. But they that did
seem to be enough to get her, though it doesn't
appear that any charges have been filed, and she has
been a thorn in the side of the Canadian Mounted
Police for some time now. So I don't know, Ben,
(45:21):
with some of the sources that the listeners threw our way,
did you clock any more details than I've gleaned here.
Speaker 4 (45:27):
Yeah, as you said, more to common. Perhaps we could
make this an episode. There is a journey, as Matt outlined,
that you've been following for some years. So again, we
want to thank everybody who contacted us regarding this, especially
the cryptic messages blowed up by social media that just
said the queen is dead and thank you folks for
(45:51):
keeping us on our toes.
Speaker 2 (45:52):
One thing I did find, guys, is that there was
there was some charge related to intimidating people incluing a
police officer.
Speaker 3 (46:01):
They've been talking about that since the like there was
a whole standoff kind of situation back when they took
up residency in this abandoned school, and I assumed that
they would have you been run out of town on
a rail. But this is the first indication, at least
as far as I'm concerned, that that seems to have
taken and that they've just been there this whole time.
(46:21):
This is weird and there was implied intimidation. And I
thought that in that story there were guns involved, that
they had weapons, and that they were posted up on
rooftops or something. But now the details are I think
we maybe it's a really good point. Then maybe we
collect a lot of this stuff and maybe see what happens,
because there is really no further information as to what.
(46:43):
It does say that six of her followers were also arrested, So.
Speaker 2 (46:48):
Yeah, yeah, it's a tale of being taken in and
while we don't know the entire jury trial process, in
a diamond process there in Canada, she was brought in
and she elected to go to a trial by jury, right,
and of course, well because of that thing, Because of
doing that, it means you're not going to be in
(47:09):
court for a while, so you're let out. You have
very specific stipulations, like don't go near the people that
you intimidated, and don't go back to the place where
you've been running a cult, and don't possess weapons. And
apparently it was just a situation where maybe one or
two of those conditions were not met, and then she
(47:31):
found herself arrested again and again.
Speaker 4 (47:34):
Northern Neighbor Just to jump in here, Northern Neighbors. We
are also well aware of how this ties into what
is sometimes called the Sovereign Citizen movement. That is another
piece of the pie that we look forward to exploring.
So thanks again to everybody who wrote it.
Speaker 3 (47:52):
Yeah, and I'm sorry. I just found another source from
the CBC that does have a little bit more information.
She was granted bail and that's an update. Actually, this
is just from yesterday, so though the original story was
from over the weekend.
Speaker 2 (48:06):
Let's see, Oh gosh, okay, So.
Speaker 3 (48:07):
Says here she did elect to go to the trial
by jury. This is a preliminary increase. She's scheduled to
appear in court on September the seventeenth. Says. A dozen
supporters in white hats showed up to greet Dedulo on
Monday morning as she returned to court in Swift Current, Saskatchewan,
for a bail hearing after spending the weekend in custody
for the team, secure the Royal puppies and the funds.
(48:31):
You know who to get a hold of. The Doulo said,
what secure the Royal puppies and the funds? Oh, you
know who to get a hold of. She then adds
in this they have no jurisdiction zero. Okay, let's follow
up on this, guys. This is fascinating stuff. This does
(48:52):
seem like it's gonna because I don't understand what the
charge is like. It seems like it was all in
the pretense of weapons charges, but then they only uncovered
these replicas. Doesn't even say what she was charged with.
It just says that she received bail. That's very interesting.
There's something missing here, y'all. Let's keep an eye on it.
(49:16):
That's all from me today.
Speaker 4 (49:18):
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know it's not the statute of limitations just yet, but
I'm sorry about the Honeybee heist. I think you really,
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