The world follows the bizarre saga of a hantavirus outbreak aboard the Dutch-flagged MV Hondius. Is a new pandemic on the way? A small-town mayor in Georgia attempts to fire the entire police force. The ongoing data center controversy. All this and more in this week's strange news segment.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:26):
Hello, welcome back to the show. My name is Matt,
my name is Nola.
Speaker 3 (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 tuning
in to our strange news program the evening it publishes
Welcome one and all to May eighteenth, twenty twenty six.
(00:52):
It's a time to be alive. I don't know if
it's a great time, but it's definitely a time where
people are alive. And we wanted to talk about a
couple of things at the open before we get to
some very important updates and some very strange news that
is largely being ignored. First things First, guys, you know
(01:14):
how when people work in local politics, they often have
a number of side gigs, right like your controller, your
county commissioner, your school board people, even your mayors might
have another job as an investor. I was going to
say driving for Uber or driving that's controller stuff.
Speaker 2 (01:34):
Yeah, maybe I was just unaware of that.
Speaker 4 (01:36):
I didn't.
Speaker 2 (01:36):
I don't think about that. When I think about local government,
I imagine them in an office like all the time.
Speaker 3 (01:42):
Right, yeah, and that's the way it should be on paper.
But of course this is American and one of the
most American things we can do is diversify our portfolio, right,
get more income revenue streams. This is a story we
wanted to mention at the top. Aileen Wang Island Wang
if you prefer, is the mayor of Arcadia in California,
(02:07):
where she was elected mayor in twenty twenty two, and
it turns out she is no longer the mayor. She
has resigned because she was working for the government of China.
Speaker 2 (02:20):
In like spying capacity.
Speaker 3 (02:23):
In in that. You know, I was thinking about this
because we had a brief conversation about it not too
too long ago. You can act as a foreign agent
of another country in these United States, but you have
to disclose that you're doing so, and she did not.
Mayor Wang did not.
Speaker 2 (02:44):
Wait wait wait, yes, you can't disclose that and then
become mayor, right Like, that's not you know, happen.
Speaker 4 (02:51):
It's gonna be.
Speaker 3 (02:51):
Tough for your campaign, you know what I mean? What
are you running on?
Speaker 5 (02:54):
You guys like China? Me too.
Speaker 3 (02:59):
This was this was an issue because it's a violation
of a couple of federal laws. Because the entire time
that she was mayor, and probably before she was elected
in twenty twenty two, she had been secretly functioning as
a servant of the Chinese government, so they would do
(03:21):
things like promote pro Chinese government propaganda through a website
titled get this Guy's US NewsCenter.
Speaker 2 (03:30):
What Yeah, kind of reminds me of our discussions before
about police stations, like specifically Chinese police stations that were
kind of hidden in the US in a couple of
places to watch over Chinese Americans. And I wonder. I
saw a tiny piece about this been just now, and
(03:52):
it looks like there's about fifty thousand people that live
in her city that she was running. I do wonder if, like,
what proportion of those people are, you know, originally from China.
Speaker 3 (04:02):
Yeah, there is a high Chinese diaspora in Arcadia specifically,
So it makes sense if we're Uncle Gi, it makes
sense to touch a mayor like this. The exact. The
exact stuff she pleads guilty to are the idea that
she received and executed directives from the government of China
(04:27):
officially to post content on this website that said China
is great. She also would regularly seek permission from Chinese
government officials to post content, and we don't know what
she was doing behind the scenes as far as maybe
identifying problematic dissidents or academics. We do know that our partner,
(04:51):
a guy named Mike Sun Yauning Sun. He was working
with her, and he has already been sentenced to twenty
months in prison after pleading guilty to bribery. So our
concern here is not necessarily the official charges. It's like
when Capone went down for tax evasion. Our concern is
(05:12):
all of the other stuff, perhaps targeting Chinese American citizens
and threatening their families abroad. This stuff happens. The spy
game is real. So best of luck to the people
of Arcadia. I think we've got one other story to
mention right here at the top.
Speaker 2 (05:29):
Oh yeah, if that's not disturbing enough, let's quickly go
to a double murder trial that filled up all of
the youtubes for a time. There a couple of years back,
three years ago to be exact, a gentleman named Alex
Murdau who was accused of killing his wife and son.
He went to court and he was handed two life
(05:51):
sentences and he was convicted of killing his wife and son. Well, apparently,
according to News Today as we're recording on Wednesday, that
conviction has been overturned and there has to be a
new trial because according to the South Carolina Supreme Court,
the justices thought that Becky Hill, the call Itton County
(06:13):
Clerk of Court quote, egregiously attacked Murdaw's credibility and his defense,
thus triggering the presumption of prejudice, which meant it was
essentially a mistrial. It's it's it didn't work.
Speaker 3 (06:26):
Out, so it's procedural. It's not. It's not a collection
of the facts. It's a rejection of the way the
facts were discovered and presented.
Speaker 4 (06:36):
Got a lot of due process. Sorry, guys, I know
I've been real down on the courts lately, but stuff
like this doesn't make me much more up on them.
Speaker 3 (06:47):
Hey, Noel, I'm right there with you, bud, because look,
as I've always said, I love clowns. I'm a fan
of clowns. I like clowns in their place. The ring
race should be separate from the clowns, and unfortunately sco
this is compromised.
Speaker 4 (07:01):
Shoes, big shoes to film.
Speaker 2 (07:05):
Speaking of clowns, please check out Zack Zucker or Jack Tucker.
One of the most amazing. I believe he self styles
himself a clown, but he is a stand up. But
he is also a clown. And it is amazing because
you you just have to see it understand it. It's
it's like, it's kind of like prop comedy, but with
(07:27):
a producer, like an engineer who's in the back of
the house triggering samples and lights and all kinds of stuff,
and then a comedian on stage working directly with those samples.
Speaker 4 (07:37):
Does he wear a big red nose? No?
Speaker 5 (07:40):
Does he have funny shoes?
Speaker 2 (07:42):
He does. He has a very funny outfit with lots
of accoutrement.
Speaker 4 (07:45):
Okay, you were losing me, man, but yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 3 (07:51):
Also, speaking of the opposite of funny outfits, do you
guys see that roast of Kevin Hart?
Speaker 2 (07:56):
Oh God, please, please, oh boy please, so many things
to think about. Yeah, but Kat Williams just just Cat Williams.
Speaker 3 (08:08):
Oh yeah, just k Williams friends. Were they doing like
a wrestling thing about hating each other?
Speaker 5 (08:15):
Or what?
Speaker 3 (08:15):
You watch it, folks and then write to us and
tell us what you think conspiracy at iHeartRadio dot com.
These guys, that was wild?
Speaker 4 (08:22):
Who's that young Danny McBride fellow Shane gillis sorry? I
love that this well, I mean, come on, he's occupying
a similar space. He just said some real nasty things
about our coworker, Chelsea Handler.
Speaker 3 (08:35):
He did, but it's also a roast, so you're supposed
to say that.
Speaker 4 (08:39):
Yeah, but it was like it's calling into I mean,
people are like a little up in arms about it. It was.
It was gnarly.
Speaker 2 (08:44):
I mean, she is in Epstein files. She did have
dinner with a bunch of folks in Epstein. I'm just saying, sorry,
just saying, where.
Speaker 5 (08:52):
Are we going?
Speaker 4 (08:54):
I'm just acknowledging that this happened.
Speaker 2 (08:55):
Where we bring all this up? Was just to say,
on Netflix right now you can watch Murder Murders a
Southern Scandal and learn all about that trial. If you
don't know about it yet for some reason, it's out there.
If you want to learn about it for now, keys,
why don't we take a break and then come back
with some strange news.
Speaker 3 (09:12):
Oh and while we're on the break, folks, please do
check out our earlier episodes about Chinese infiltration of the
United States. So just going to ruin your afternoon real quick,
and we'll be right back hopefully nobody we've described so
far as the hauntavirus.
Speaker 6 (09:29):
Uh oh, and we have returned.
Speaker 3 (09:40):
Okay, you have probably survived COVID. If you are listening
to tonight's Strange News program, you have also probably had
some of those dark nights of the soul PTSD things
when you heard about the outbreak of a certain variety
of hauntavirus on a Dutch cruise ship. Let's get into it.
(10:04):
I know we mentioned this previously in our in our
Strange News segment last week, I believe maybe even the
week before that, because this has been going on for
some time now.
Speaker 4 (10:19):
Ben something to do with rat feces. Ah, yes, okay,
we'll get into it. Yeah, I say, I'm honestly I
had not I did not know much about this. I'm
going to learn along with everyone.
Speaker 3 (10:30):
We're going to learn along together. This is okay, So
you're going to read these breathless headlines folks, and you're
going to be incredibly irritated or maybe a little bit scared.
I was talking with the guys off Mike, folks, and
I am under the weather. I was being a paranoid
(10:51):
entity for a time, convinced maybe I had haunted virus.
And that's because in April of this year, twenty twenty six,
as we record on Wednesday, May thirteenth, in April twenty
twenty six, a Dutch cruise ship named the MV Hondius.
Hopefully that's a coincidence.
Speaker 4 (11:15):
Hunt vehicle. Yes, the good ship haunt them, Yes, absolutely so.
Speaker 3 (11:19):
The Andyes virus is part of a genus of viruses
called Ortho hantavirus. You can read all about this at
your leisure in any number of free to read credible sources.
The Andies virus is different because, out of all the
haunt of virus, it is the one thing it's in
(11:43):
Chile and Argentina. It is the one thing that humans
can spread to each other from this terrible pokemon deck.
As you noted, No, it is primarily spread by rats,
rat feces, rats saliva. The villain in the addes for
this virus is the long tailed pigmy rice at or
(12:08):
if you want to sound Harry Potter about it, the
oulig Rhizomus longa cadutas.
Speaker 4 (12:15):
Six specto patrona very much.
Speaker 3 (12:18):
So it's like a Cardi B's real name. Oh, that
sounds like a Harry Potter spell.
Speaker 2 (12:21):
And it's a it's an adorable looking little little rods
like you know, well, if you ever had a hamster
or a gerbil or anything growing up as a kid,
maybe in your school or maybe at home, you when
you see something like that scurrying around in the wild, you're.
Speaker 3 (12:39):
Like, oh, look how cute this little dude is, and don't.
Speaker 4 (12:41):
Come here, little guy.
Speaker 2 (12:42):
And that's that's the least what I do. And I
make that exact voice. And one of the other things
that you can get the hunter virus from, or or
this syndrome frum is a tiny little bite or a
tiny little scratch from one of these cute things.
Speaker 4 (12:56):
Yeah, just remember that. And so there's what bacteria on there,
the virus, the virus exists within them.
Speaker 3 (13:04):
And then it's kind of like how certain certain forms
of infection that are very bad for humans can be
carried without serious effect by other species of animal.
Speaker 5 (13:18):
Right And this.
Speaker 3 (13:20):
This is fascinating because, first off, one thing a lot
of people get confused is that they hear, oh, the
Haundias is a Dutch cruise ship, right, so maybe it's
leaving that area of the world. That's not entirely correct.
It left Argentina on April first, and because it was
(13:41):
in Argentina, that's where the rats probably got in, or
someone exposed to their shenanigans got in. A passenger aboard
died from the virus on April eleventh. We also know
that this this virus is very rare and general. It
takes a lot of close contact for it to transmit
(14:05):
from human to human. Other hauntavirus franchises don't do this.
But as we look at the timeline, what we're going
to see is a cycle of death. The who the
guy who dies on April eleventh is. His death is
(14:26):
kind of covered up, and they stop just a few
days later at a remote archipelago named Tristan dot Kuna.
If you've read Atlas of Remote Islands, you're probably familiar
with this. Six more they allow six more people to
hop on the ship, and they're still keeping the cadaver
(14:46):
of that unfortunate elderly dutch Man aboard. They don't take
his body off of the craft until days later, on
April twenty fourth, when they hit the island of Saint Helena,
and his his wife also disembarks. More than two dozen
other passengers also leave and say hey, we're gonna We're
(15:09):
gonna stop here. We do have to note that this
was ultimately going to Antarctica, so some people had already
planned to depart for Saint Helena at that time. But
then we see we see the game pandemic if you
remember that one. Guys like how Mattagascar always is always
the toughest one to infect.
Speaker 4 (15:31):
Oh yeah, yeah, oh yeah.
Speaker 2 (15:32):
I quickly want to bring up this theory that was
floating around for a while and was even mentioned, I
think on the Daily Show about the possibility that the
people that were on that cruise ship that contracted the
virus were allegedly bird watching at a landfill when they
contracted the virus. This was kind of a thing that
was put out there by the officials attempting to track down,
(15:55):
you know, this virus, and they noted that there was
a place that they went to and I can't say
this right, Ushuaia ushuaya u s h u ai A.
Speaker 3 (16:07):
Yeah, and that's where the ship left. That was their
disembarkation or that's where they're embarked from.
Speaker 4 (16:13):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (16:13):
Yes, there's a particular landfill there that apparently quote attracts
eye catching birds, and this couple was there checking out birds.
But then now they're officials who take tourists on this
bird watching kind of excursion thing or whatever you want
to call it, just hanging out. They're saying, we do
this from a really safe area. It has nothing to
(16:34):
do with the landfill itself. They did not contract it there.
It's just one of these crazy things that we get
into now where some official story will come out and
then it's immediately said that, no, that's not the truth,
and we already have two conflicting potential narratives to choose
to believe.
Speaker 3 (16:54):
Yes, yeah, this is very much the fog of war situation,
or reminds me, and I hope it reminds a lot
of us of the early days about COVID. Right the
days of the COVID epidemic. We're actually seeing some of
the same misinformation be deployed for political leverage in various
(17:15):
conversations or various political and media outlets. I want to
go back to the people who left the ship. I
said more than two dozen right when they land in
Saint Helena. It's actually twenty nine people. This does count
the cadaver and those disembarked passengers. The passengers who leave
(17:37):
this vessel in Saint Helena. They are from twelve different countries, okay,
and they all made it home. Guys, before contact tracing began,
contact tracing was never I mean, it happened here in
the US during the COVID pandemic, but it was never
on the level of you know, developed countries. They're catching
(17:58):
strays on that one.
Speaker 4 (18:00):
I feel like it's worth mentioning some of the rumors
circulating that seem pretty plausible that our f K junior
relatively recently fired all of the employees of a CDC
branch that is responsible for inspecting sanitary conditions on cruise.
Speaker 3 (18:19):
Also the US withdrew from the World Health Organization.
Speaker 4 (18:22):
Oh yeah, it feels like the documentation surrounding the firing
is very very very plausible. Snopes was not able to
independently verify the previous list roster of employees versus current
but everything about it does seem to indicate this is
entirely likely. And you know, whether it's directly responsible for
(18:44):
this kind of thing, it's certainly doesn't bode well or indicates,
you know, better conditions moving forward. You know, these kinds
of things being nipped in the butt. It's just I
don't know, man, When I'm hearing about these cruise ship outbreaks,
I'm also thinking, like plague rats on the ships bringing
the bubonic plague, you know, to the.
Speaker 3 (19:02):
Historically, it's a it's a banger vector for infection if
you are a disease. I mean, let's got to have
some inspectors, you know, oh gosh, or maybe we should
have some experts who have a job to prevent outbreaks
and pandemics, uh of them some kind of maybe for
controlling diseases.
Speaker 4 (19:22):
Uh like that.
Speaker 3 (19:23):
Yeah, So let's fast forward. Let's go back to the timeline.
It's April twenty eighth. Another passenger, a German national, fall
sick on board as the ship is sailing for Cape Verde.
That's off of that's off of Africa's west coast. It's
a country a lot of people forget about. Fast forward
just a few days ago. It's May second. This person
(19:46):
who was exhibiting pretty rough symptoms dies on board. This
makes her the third fatality, I want to say. And
then we see that there is a pause sative hauntavirus
test performed on a British Man who left the ship
and was in a South African hospital, who quickly responds
(20:11):
and says, hey, we're going to figure out what's going
on on this ship. We can only imagine how stressed
out the crew is and because it's still they're remit
they have to work together in these very close quarters.
And then, as we were talking about this previously, the
cruise ship gotten a standoff with various countries and ports
(20:32):
of coal and they were saying, hey, can we evacuate
more sick people or people who are showing symptoms of something,
and the governments generally said no. They said, we'll send
someone on the ship to help you, but you guys
have to stay on the ship. And this is where
the crew starts getting ill, including obviously the ship's doctor.
(20:55):
And then more people are evacuated. They're flowing to specialized
hospitals in Europe. When we talked about this previously, the
ship was trying to get into the Canary Islands, but now,
health authorities by May seventh in Switzerland, Britain, Netherlands, France, Singapore,
(21:15):
South Africa and other places are starting to do contact
tracing because people are getting sick. If you are haunt
of virus, the andes virus or a n d V
as we call it, then you are winning the pandemic lottery.
This stuff is getting nasty.
Speaker 2 (21:34):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (21:35):
We just had as we were going into record, we
just had two patients who may have contracted haunt to virus.
We have them in Emery Hospital and are Fair Metropolis
of Atlanta. They are in quarantine. They are being monitored.
(21:56):
A lot of people in local conversation, I certainly I
know some my sources were panicking about it, but other
people were saying, hey, you know, just like the guys
are joking about CDC. Now, everybody loves having the CDC here.
Until the CDC starts to do its job, which is
to quarantine people and study their afflictions.
Speaker 2 (22:18):
Well, at least they won't have to drive very far
to get to Emory. They're literally right there.
Speaker 3 (22:23):
They're literally right there. We know that they went from
the airplane to ambulances that were under the auspice of
Grady University hospital. They went to Emory University, which is
very close to several of us recording. Now, I don't know. So, look,
(22:44):
this is an episode in the future. Possibly, I hope
not to be honest, but as we're recording, guys, people
are racing around the clock to make a vaccine for
the soundy strain just in case. And I have to
ask you and all of us together tonight, what do
we think. Do we think this is another pandemic or
(23:06):
do we think this is just an unfortunate outbreak. It
seems like it's difficult to transmit.
Speaker 4 (23:11):
It seems like it's the unforced it's the ladder from
all the sources that I've been seeing. So I'm cautiously optimistic.
Speaker 2 (23:18):
Yeah, I don't know, man, That's it's pretty crazy stuff.
Speaker 3 (23:23):
It's also much more dangerous than coronavirus. By the way,
the kill raid is far high.
Speaker 2 (23:29):
Oh, the kill rate is thirty ten.
Speaker 4 (23:33):
Yeah, if you.
Speaker 2 (23:36):
Maybe this is the right time to bring it up. Yeah,
if you don't mind. There's a little rumor going around
the internet that this hauntavirus thing was talked about. It
may have been predicted in the past, and many of
us when we heard hauntavirus. We were like, huh, I've
heard that before. I don't know in what context what
was that from? And then some of us like me realized, oh,
(23:59):
that's from nineteen ninety eight. That's from the X Files movie,
the original the X Files movie in nineteen ninety eight.
Speaker 3 (24:06):
Yeah, so we're that was only three years after, by
the way, the virus is officially discovered, which wasn't until
nineteen ninety five.
Speaker 4 (24:15):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (24:15):
And here is a little clip that you may have seen.
We'll just play a teeny tiny bit of it. This
is from that movie Molder speaking with someone who is
trying to give him important information.
Speaker 4 (24:28):
Yeah. It was a deadly virus spread by field mice
in the southwestern United States several years ago. According to
the newspaper, FEMA was called out.
Speaker 7 (24:35):
To manage and outbreak up the hand of virus. Are
you familiar with what the Federal Emergency Management Agency's real
power is? FEMA allows the White House to spend constitutional
government upon declaration of a national emergency.
Speaker 4 (24:50):
Think about that.
Speaker 7 (24:51):
Why is an agency with such broad sweeping power doing
managing a small viral outbreak in suburban Texas.
Speaker 4 (24:58):
You're saying it was such a small outbreak. No, I'm
saying it wasn't that Sills.
Speaker 5 (25:05):
Yeah, shout out to X files.
Speaker 4 (25:07):
Ye, shout again that FEMA. It ain't for nothing. They're
all wrapped up in a lot of the conspiracy talk
over the years, and that we know some folks who
worked with FEMA in the past.
Speaker 3 (25:20):
As far as we can tell, they're not part of
the conspiracy advertised in that X Files episode or that
X Files film from nineteen ninety eight. But again, are
you sure haunted? Well, I'll ask them again, maybe individuals?
All right, yeah, right, It's deeper than skin. It's the
system they're keeping us in. It's always been true, so
(25:41):
being discovered in nineteen ninety five, right, Hopefully lessons learned
from uh the COVID pandemic will prevent this from spiraling
out of control. But again, these are international passengers. There's
already some scary stuff hel happening with the staff and
passengers of Kalm airlines, right, as people spread when they
(26:04):
are asymptomatic, when they may be able to transmit this
thing in close quarters. This does feel like we might
be on the horizon of an episode just about hauntavirus.
Maybe correct some fact and fiction and maybe explore some
of those conspiracies for now.
Speaker 5 (26:23):
Guys.
Speaker 3 (26:23):
I know we ran a little bit long on this one,
but really appreciate it. It is incredibly important. Please check
out the excellent New York Times piece that published a
few days back. Should you worry about hauntavirus by Nina
Agrowl and Danny Bloom, Go check that out at New
York Times and write to us with your thoughts conspiracydiheartradio
(26:45):
dot com. Ugh, guys, I'm already. I don't want to
be paranoid, but I am feeling under the weather. Can
we take a break for a word from our sponsors
and Noel? Can we please get to something less pandemic
or less world ending.
Speaker 2 (27:01):
I'll do my very best right, yes, But while we
take that break, search the Epstein files for preparing for pandemics.
Speaker 4 (27:19):
And we've returned. Okay, I got two stories for us today.
I'm gonna lead with this one that kind of dovetails
with some of what you were talking about earlier then,
just about maybe a little bit of government overreach and
or underreach, you know, failing upward, underachieving local governments. Okay,
(27:40):
we were talking about you were talking about a mayor.
Speaker 3 (27:43):
Yes, in Arcadia, convinced, convicted now of being a Chinese spy.
Speaker 4 (27:50):
Okay, well, this mayor isn't that we know of a
Chinese spy. But little powermat though, right, little power mad,
it would seem. And we don't have all the details yet,
but I'm just this is going to be one to follow,
I think because it's super fascinating. The mayor of a
small town in our fair state of Georgia, Coohuta, unilaterally
(28:12):
fired the entire police department and didn't tell them. He
literally notified them, I guess his office did with a
printed sign that was posted on the door of the
police department that read as follows, Effective eight thirty am
five six, twenty twenty six, per Mayor Ron Shanick, the
(28:34):
PD has been dissolved and all personnel have been terminated.
If you need law enforcement, contact Whitfield County non emergency
number at number Hey seven oh six. That's my uh,
that's that's not far from my hometown. It's the same
area code wow red type And it's like in a
(28:55):
laminated one of those like sleeves with the whole bunch
is built into the size.
Speaker 3 (29:01):
It looks a little ad hoc prous oh boy does it.
Speaker 4 (29:04):
Ever. Mayor Ron Shanick appears to have had some beef
with individual members of the Kahuta PDE something about his wife,
but we don't know exactly what was said, but apparently
some members of the police department posted some content he
(29:28):
found offensive regarding his wife, who is a county clerk.
And basically, you know, members of the pg higher ranking
officials are saying that this is an absolute personal vendetta
that that this man has, you know, waged against the
(29:50):
entire department. So there's a lot of kerfuffle being made
of this in Cohuta. Uh, the city Council convened for
a special meeting to reinstate the PDE. And now it
would appear that while technically within his rights, it is
also technically within the rights of the city Council to
(30:11):
remove Mayor Ron Shanick for his uh this behavior here
is Shanick again. It's very good, No, it's true. So
there's a couple of pieces from local news sources news
Channel nine ABC there in Kohuta. I'm just gonna read
(30:33):
a couple of bits from this piece by Jackhai. Spikes
says we're digging into Kahoota's charter, as the small town
remains without a police department Thursday and the council calls
for the mayor's resignation. A sign posted to the front
door greeted Khutah officers Wednesday morning, notifying them the department
had been dissolved via the order of Mayor Shanook Shanick,
(30:54):
I'm sorry, I'm still thinking about Mortal Kombat too. We
were talking about We took questions to Mayor Ron Shanick
about conflict of interest and retaliation, but he denied that
was the reason for his decision. We continue our efforts
to get updated comments from the town council that has
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called for a special meeting to vote on the resignation
of the mayor and the reinstatement of the PD. This
meeting did take place, i believe, and we've got a
little more information from the same news source, news Channel nine.
Now that the Kahudah Police Department is reinstated, will the
mayor face consequences. Cahudah residents are asking what the next
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steps are for the town after the city council voted
to reinstate the police department. We took some of their
concerns to the town's attorney, including questions over whether the
mayor would keep his position despite allegedly violating Cahudah's charter.
And here are some of the questions and some of
the responses. Will the mayor face consequences for his actions?
No comment? Okay, we did confirm with Attorney Brian Rayburn
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that Mayor Ron Shanik broke the to charter rules when
he dissolved the whole department without the city council's approval.
What the section of the charter does is lay out
this is the response from Rayburn. What the section of
the charter does, this is Rayburn is lays out what
has to happen for that to occur. The first thing
that would have to happen is the mayor will have
to provide a written notice for all five council members.
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I think this is a scratch on the service of
the corruption in our county, Resident Leroy Fletcher. Sorry, Leroy
Fletcher said, And I think there's more if they dig around.
Councilperson Andy Lopez said, it's kind of an unusual meeting
since the two people that are in charge or not here.
I drew the short straw but we did want to
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give the opportunity for the community to speak. This was
a standing room only a community meeting that was attended.
One of the other residents there said, there's no accountability,
whether it's the police department or the council itself. We
have things here. They are not only questionable, but are
downright li eagle cool trouble right there in River City, guys,
right right there in River City. Never mind the corn
(33:07):
crib right and we've got to go. We've got to
tell you, folks, this is a soap opera. This is
going to be a documentary waiting to happen because Noel,
in what I've been seeing as this story was developing,
Apparently this power mad attempt to dissolve the entire law
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enforcement community comes because the mayor's wife, Pam Senick, was
fired for creating a hostile work environment. But then, just
just like when Larry David said he quit Saturday Night
Live and showed up the next day like nothing happened,
missus Schnick just continued working after being fired and still
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had access to all kinds of personal info. Okay, I
didn't this, Ben, Thank you so much. This is good.
Speaker 3 (33:57):
Then here's the thing, this all before the headline news breaks,
and then the mayor of the town met with the
police chief, a guy named Greg Fowler, and the towt
what's described as the town attorney, Brian Rayburn, and they said, look,
we had quote open dialogue, a good faith mediation, so
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everything is cool. And then a week after that the
mayor tried to fire everybody.
Speaker 4 (34:24):
So, Ben, you must have done some extra digging there,
because the ape piece that I read about this didn't
mention any of that, so I guess it was a
separate news item. And I'm really surprised that none of
that came up and either of the local pieces about this.
So good on you, Ben, and thank you for that context.
I think that's huge and absolutely speaks to a bit
(34:44):
of rot, perhaps at the core, or at the very least,
some gross negligence and incompetence on all sides of governments
here in this little Georgia town of Gohuta, good.
Speaker 3 (34:55):
Faith, open dialogue, give it a week, Tut tut to
tut touch.
Speaker 4 (35:01):
Indeed, Matt, what do you think about all this business?
Speaker 2 (35:04):
I just think it's crazy. You can have somebody that
has some kerfuffle going on with his spouse, I guess,
or there's some complaint about his spouse, and you have
enough power to go, oh, hey, police department, are you fired.
That's crazy to me that that's even a possibility. No
checks and balances on the individual, whoever that is, you know,
a mayor or whatever position they hold. That's crazy. You
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can fire an entire police department.
Speaker 4 (35:30):
There's another quote from Attorney Bill speak who weighed in
on this in the first piece I mentioned from news
Channel nine, saying the mayor has in fact the authority
to do it, you know, based on their town bylaws.
The mayor is the executive and as such has all
the executive power with him. I mean, it's the same
way that like, you know, Trump as the chief executive
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of the US government can pretty unilaterally everyone serves quote
unquote at his pleasure, which is problematic in and of itself, and.
Speaker 3 (35:59):
Does cabinet or any executive branch position.
Speaker 4 (36:02):
But it seems like, you know, a lot of this again,
as we talked about off on the show, is a
matter of decorum, and it's like this just isn't done
until it is uh, and it just requires some to
give a little teaser about our next story. Some pretty
big kahonas to pull something well, oh nice. Usually you
would not have collective responsibility for the action of a
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single individual, says UGA political science professor Charles Bullock, unless
that action were indeed affirmed and encouraged or directed by
the chief and supported by other members. So it does
seem like this mayor punished the entire agency for the
perceived slights committed by a select few.
Speaker 5 (36:47):
Or maybe their response to it.
Speaker 3 (36:49):
Because I want to be very diplomatic about this, folks,
it is possible that some of us in the audience
have been in committed relationships or romance. Take relationships where
your partner does something where they are definitely in the wrong,
and despite the fact that they are clearly in the wrong,
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you feel it is your responsibility as their partner to
back them up.
Speaker 5 (37:15):
You know what I mean?
Speaker 3 (37:16):
For the team, right, Like your partner hits a car
and it's clearly their fault and you have to pretend
like it's not clearly their fault, or they get mad
at you for doing the appropriate things like.
Speaker 4 (37:30):
That where the girlfriend keeps picking fights with dudes and
then he's got to fight them and he doesn't grudging
every time, but he's like.
Speaker 3 (37:38):
Okay, all right, I forgot about that one, but yeah,
that's a perfect comparison. All The issue is when you
are it doesn't matter what government position you hold, right,
a mayor is a very big deal, but any government
position shouldn't. My question for you guys is this, should
your job or your vocation, your responseibility to others. Should
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that not take precedence over helping out your partner if
they did something wrong. It sounds like, I don't we
don't have the details. We don't know what they meant
by hostile work environment.
Speaker 4 (38:14):
I mean, it doesn't sound great. It definitely any conflict
that sounds like do you know who I am?
Speaker 2 (38:20):
Sounds like some people that maybe got a little bit
of power over nine hundred people in the town, and
we're like, yeah, you do what we say.
Speaker 4 (38:31):
Yeah, even a little bit of power can corrupt you know.
Speaker 3 (38:35):
Actually, you know it's weird because, uh, I've long thought
that there's a weird there's an inverse relationship in some
ways to power and willingness to use it. Like the
people who have the smallest amount of power most likely
to trip dude, right, The people who have the largest
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amount of power often are very careful and spirit with its.
Speaker 4 (39:00):
Yeah, except when they're not good as yet, well good
if they're good at right now. People who have.
Speaker 3 (39:08):
A small, like a modicum of power, think someone at
the d m V or d DS as it's called
in Georgia, they're having a bad day, they're happy the
power tripping.
Speaker 2 (39:19):
Well, you know, folks at the top, they've been honed
over years, nay decades, nay centuries to wield that power.
And those loro pianas that they press down on everybody's
necks do we know those?
Speaker 4 (39:33):
Aren't I dump Max Plummer walks. That's okay, No, I
want to know what is that?
Speaker 7 (39:38):
Like?
Speaker 4 (39:39):
Is that a magic car?
Speaker 2 (39:39):
Like Jeff? It's it's one of the shoes that billionaires wear,
and you know ultra multimillionaires like bezos and well who's
that Beckham? David Beckham.
Speaker 4 (39:51):
Oh, but not the ones that Trump makes all his
cabinet members wear. That's different.
Speaker 3 (39:54):
No, okay, they're the ones.
Speaker 2 (39:56):
They're the ones that billionaires walk around in to not
look like they're such a billionaire. But also, let you know,
if you know.
Speaker 3 (40:02):
Right, like shirts or like how very wealthy people have
a secret achalog of clothing. Also, here's a challenge to
all the billionaires in the crowd. Thank you folks for
tuning in, But are you really that important if you
still have feet and shoes? Aren't feet and shoes for
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poor people?
Speaker 2 (40:25):
Step your game up, They're well on their way. Get
those feet.
Speaker 4 (40:32):
Less thought you were doing. I thought you were doing
an ad there. Step your game up with shoes shoe feet, which,
by the way, Ben, I gotta say, somebody beat you
to the punch on manufacturing those. They are out there
in the world. These are shows we know we were
ahead of the we manifested man.
Speaker 2 (40:47):
Where we're going, guys, we don't need shoes or feet.
We're just going to be inside data centers.
Speaker 4 (40:52):
We don't even have a dreamt We just need to
be torsos or iron.
Speaker 3 (40:56):
We could cut out the torsos. Let's just uh, let's
just autumn, you know what, Let's automate billion.
Speaker 4 (41:02):
In futura at the time, heads and jars, brains. Who
needs the faces even.
Speaker 3 (41:07):
The whole head?
Speaker 5 (41:07):
You know? Uh?
Speaker 3 (41:09):
Anyway, check out our previous episodes because we just did
an insane riff of inside jokes that we've had for
a long time. No, we have to ask on behalf
of the audience. Uh, where do you see these uh
shindek agains going? Like, but what's the end result here?
Is this guy going to keep his job?
Speaker 4 (41:28):
I'm just eating I'm just I'm popcorn eating gift. Uh,
you know, on the edge of my seat about this one. Now,
I think I think he's probably gonna get Lego voted out.
It does seem like they have he had the power
maybe to do what he did, and then the council
had the power to reinstate them and also seems to
have the power to remove him, which just you know
how it should work when this kind of overreach and uh,
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personal score settling enters into politics.
Speaker 3 (41:55):
Something the federal government.
Speaker 4 (41:56):
Wouldn't that be nice? Wouldn't that be nice if there were,
you know, to say, a road, a path forward like
impeachment that does It doesn't seem to stick for whatever.
Speaker 3 (42:06):
There are a couple of amendments. There are actually quite
a few amendments to the Constitution. I keep thinking about
the twenty fifth one.
Speaker 4 (42:13):
Yeah, that's one that keeps popping up on the social
medis for sure, let's get to it, guys. That was
a much more in depth conversation than I was expecting,
and that was an awesome one. But I'm just gonna
read this headline and just give a quick and dirty
and also a little bit of trigger warning here for
anyone who owns a pair of testicles, whether they're attached
to you or otherwise, this may be a little triggering
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for you. I'm just gonna read this head ready, and
I'm just gonna read this headline from Fox News. Ball
maxing is electrifying, addictive, euphoric, and transcendental. According to those
pursuing bigger balls, eye balls are natural enough. Mm hmmmm hmmm.
And why would one do this?
Speaker 3 (42:54):
What pray tell?
Speaker 4 (42:55):
Yeah, let's see. So folks are responding to a pretty
gnarly social media trend where men are injecting their scrotums
with fluids, often saline or other substances, one of which
is called a sergalub. Well, now let's see what ser
galube is. This is a lubricant, that's what it is.
(43:20):
It's just a lubricant that you can buy on Amazon.
It is, I guess, a personal lubricant, sort of like astroglide,
surgical lubricant, sterile, bacteriolospecteriostatic.
Speaker 3 (43:34):
I'll have you know.
Speaker 5 (43:35):
That's my gentleman's lubricant.
Speaker 4 (43:37):
Indeed perfectly safe to inject directly into your scrotum. At
least that's what these folks would have you think. But
science says otherwise, guys, Science says otherwise. Why are they
doing this, you might ask, Well, apparently it is for
the appearance of larger testicles oftentimes, according to proponent of
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this technique, the size of melons, watermelons. You ask, Oh,
it's the cantlopes. I think we're more talking about cantaloon.
That is what I have heard. I have heard cantalopes.
It's harmless because it's just quote saline, just salt water.
It's absorbed by the body. No big deal. Uh this
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is and apparently you have to do it repeatedly because
it just it inflates them like balloons for just a
tough period of a couple of days. If not sure why,
they just.
Speaker 2 (44:33):
Want so they can go to the gym and do
their squat thrusts for all the other bros. And the
bros will be like, oh, man, look at the well.
Speaker 4 (44:41):
It's about bulge, my friend. It's about no pun intended,
a bit of peacocking. I don't think I'm demographic no,
I don't think.
Speaker 2 (44:49):
It straight into the tip.
Speaker 4 (44:51):
I told you, man, I told you, I gave the warning.
I did my benny thing.
Speaker 3 (44:55):
I wish I could make my balls smaller, but the
science just isn't.
Speaker 2 (44:58):
You know.
Speaker 4 (44:58):
Here's the thing then, And that's the thing that I've
seen a lot of folks discussing this story bring up,
especially dudes. Wouldn't having giant balls just make your penis
appear smaller by comparison.
Speaker 3 (45:09):
You look like a little tanuki.
Speaker 4 (45:12):
Oh man, everybody watched Pompoco about the magical Would they
use their testicles? This is part of the lore. By
the way of these Japanese magical creatures, they can use
their balls for all kinds of things. Also shout out,
I know I was ragging on it off their matt
and I give you the opportunity here to defend your boys.
The boys. But there was a guy in the most
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recent episode in an old Folks Home for Soups that
had one single large testicle that he just dropped down
and used as a lassu or kind of a bolo.
Speaker 2 (45:44):
It was both testicles, yes, and he used them like
like songbongs, no love sausage.
Speaker 5 (45:51):
Yeah, he's no love sausage.
Speaker 3 (45:52):
Though, do check out the graphic novel series if you
have not read it, if you think the the adaptation
is edgy, or if you have problems with the adaptation,
read the source material.
Speaker 5 (46:04):
It is like.
Speaker 3 (46:06):
It's in C seventeen compared to the PG thirteen. You're scene.
Speaker 4 (46:10):
So I've heard. I do have volume one, which I
am gonna finally check out. It's in my stack. I
got a stack, guys, real quick. I said. Science wasn't
on board with this. That is because of things like infection, cellulitis, abscesses, sepsis,
severe pain and obviously swelling which seems like a feature,
not a bug, and bruising because that skin's gonna expand
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we know the bualb skin is pretty malleable. But god
dang a melon, severe pain, tissue death aka necrosis from
compromised blood flows, scarring and chronic deformity, damage to testicles,
and of course infertility. Shout out to the sperm race
coming up in San Francisco. Blood clots, embolism, systematic reactions
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of if non sterile material or other substances are used. Guys,
don't inject things into your penis. Don't do it, I say, guys.
I mean, you know, the boys.
Speaker 2 (47:04):
Don't inject things into your boys, don't do it.
Speaker 4 (47:07):
We'll leave it at that. I think we can all
agree that this is pretty dumb. Let's take a little
break here, worth more sponsors than come back with our
last pieces of strange news for today.
Speaker 2 (47:27):
And we've returned, jumping right to it. February nineteenth, twenty
twenty six, truth Social the President of the United States,
based on the tremendous interest shown, I will be directing
the Secretary of War and other relevant departments and agencies
to begin the process of identifying and releasing government files
related to alien and extraterrestrial life, unidentified aerial phenomena, and
(47:50):
unidentified flying objects.
Speaker 4 (47:53):
About the website Doo doo doo.
Speaker 2 (47:55):
This is a true social post from February nineteenth, twenty
twenty six.
Speaker 4 (47:59):
But did you see they made a website?
Speaker 2 (48:00):
Yes, Oh, there's a fun website you guys. You can
go check it out. It's at war dot gov slash
ufo slash ufo and bringing back to.
Speaker 4 (48:12):
The UFOs guys, no more of that woke UAP talk.
Speaker 2 (48:15):
That's right, but we're not going to talk about that
because reminder, less than ten calendar. Days after that truth
social post was made, the US and Israel began bombing Iran,
including a strike that killed one hundred and seventy five people,
many of them school children. So we're gonna treat it
like a distraction. Check it out if you want again,
war dot gov. Instead, we're gonna stick with local news,
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local news, everybody. We're gonna jump to an article that
was published in Politico on May ninth by Arianna Skibel,
as well as an article that was posted on Tom's
Hardware by Luke James on May tenth. And it's about
Georgia local news. You guys, I'm not gonna We're like, we're.
Speaker 4 (49:00):
Real heavy on Georgia local news today. I love that.
Speaker 3 (49:02):
Once we be for good stuff.
Speaker 2 (49:04):
Uh not today. We're not gonna name these articles yet.
We'll tell you at the end because it kind of
gives everything away. These are pretty long titles of articles.
Here we go to begin the story, we jump to
Fayette County, Georgia. The county was telling residents to stop
watering their lawns to conserve water. This request came after
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homeowners in a subdivision reported unusually low water pressure. You know, guys,
the kind of thing. We turned the water on at
full blast, and it just goes like trickle.
Speaker 4 (49:35):
Count for its hails a little bit sometimes do a
little bit of.
Speaker 2 (49:37):
A hot mm hmm, a little bit of nothing. When
the county, Fayette County investigated, it found the cause. It
wasn't folks drowning their lawns or washing their cars or
taking long showers. In fact, it wasn't any activity generally
associated with human beings wasting water. It was a data center.
A data center twenty miles south of Atlanta in Fayetteville.
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It had been drawing roughly twenty nine million gallons of
the county's water through connections to the county's water supply,
two connections that the county didn't even know existed.
Speaker 3 (50:15):
I drink your milkshake.
Speaker 4 (50:17):
I drink yes, I drink it. Yes.
Speaker 2 (50:24):
So hopefully by the end of this you'll be nice
and furious. Even if you're not yet, you will be
at the end. Here we go. According to the original
Politico report that we mentioned there, this company, Quality Technology
Services or QTS. They sorry, they're a developer. They are
owned by Blackstone, Yes, that Blackstone. They're the ones constructing
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or you know, finalizing construction on a six hundred and
fifteen acre Fayetteville campus. Here's what they owed. Guy, how
much do you think you owe for taking twenty nine
millions of county water? If you like, just imagine your
water bill? How much is twenty nine million gallons?
Speaker 4 (51:08):
Hundreds of thousands of dollars? Probably?
Speaker 2 (51:10):
Right, it's not as bad as I would have fought. Okay,
it's it's only one hundred and forty seven thousand, four
hundred and seventy four dollars.
Speaker 4 (51:18):
Okay, I was, yeah, okay, fair.
Speaker 2 (51:20):
Still, that's quite a bit of money for a water billy.
They call it unmetered consumption.
Speaker 4 (51:27):
Yeah, mine's in the fifty to sixty dollars a month ish, right, yeah.
Speaker 2 (51:31):
Yeah, yeah. So this company QTS is doing the construction. Again,
Blackstone owed one hundred and forty seven thousand dollars in
unmetered consumption. But here's the kicker, guys, the county did
not and I repeat, did not find the company any
money for this unmetered consumption. Why we'll get into it.
Speaker 4 (51:53):
They don't want to poke the bear. They know which
side the bread spared.
Speaker 2 (51:57):
Uhh, We're gonna continue this article again. Thanks so much
to Luke James over at Tom's Hardware who wrote this.
You can look it up. Here's the title. AI Data
Center project secretly sucked twenty nine million gallons of water
over fifteen months before detected by residents complaining about low
water pressure. Officials refused to find builders of massive six
point two million square foot facility over unauthorized water use.
Speaker 4 (52:19):
They could it have stopped it secretly sucked.
Speaker 2 (52:22):
Yeah, that's a big, big ass title. Didn't need to
be that long, man. Okay, let's jump to this. The
QTS Fayetteville campus, which is also known guys as Project Excalibur,
it's among the largest data center. It's among the largest
data center developers in the county. It is currently comprised
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of thirteen buildings totally approximately six point two million square feet,
and their plans for sixteen buildings by the time they're
finished with a build out. QTS said it expects to
invest one billion dollars in the project. Oh oh, that's
why the county didn't find them, because they're going to
invest one billion dollars in the county. Construction began in
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twenty twenty three isn't expected to be done for another
three to five years.
Speaker 4 (53:11):
Devil's in anyone. Yeah, a little bit, A little bit.
Speaker 2 (53:15):
QTS told Politico the twenty nine million gallons were consumed
during temporary construction activities including concrete work, dust control, and
site preparation. So it has nothing to do with filling
up the data center. This is just building a giant
freaking facility twenty nine million.
Speaker 4 (53:37):
How come we don't hear that surrounding other types of
construction projects, U usually gets covered up more. Maybe that's true.
I wouldn't have thought that a construction project is that. Yeah,
water use heavy.
Speaker 2 (53:50):
Yeah, well, or you know, you pay for it so
the county can prepare for that massive amount of water
to be used and people's water pressure won't go down.
Probably just tell people you're gonna do it. The company guys, though,
they're reassuring everyone. They're saying, you know, once this data
centers up and running, guys, it's a closed loop system.
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The cooling system that they're gonna have there, it recirculates
the same water. It doesn't draw from the municipal supply
all the time booming.
Speaker 5 (54:18):
Yeah, yeah, nothing.
Speaker 2 (54:20):
Bad is gonna happen. All the water they're gonna need
is for bathrooms and kitchens.
Speaker 3 (54:24):
That's it.
Speaker 4 (54:26):
Yeah, fucking right, only good can happen.
Speaker 3 (54:30):
Only good things. Sniffer the bad ones.
Speaker 2 (54:33):
Guys, I know we're going along. We're just gonna keep
going here. We're almost done with this. It is just
crazy to see that there's a discrepancy between between what
QTS is now retroactively saying, hey, we used water for
this long, while the county is saying, oh, no, they
appear to have used it for this long. It's it's
a little strange. QTS says, oh, they were using that water,
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those illegal hookups they had for nine to fi fifteen months.
However the county is saying, oh, it was only about
four months of illegal water usage. Think about the difference
between fifteen months of water usage for twenty nine million
gallons and four months of water usage for twenty nine
million gallons. That is a crazy rate if it's the
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lower number to use twenty nine million gallons of water
in that time.
Speaker 3 (55:24):
It's also to the point where they could argue that
they did not knowingly do this, that oh, hey, wires
get crossed. There are a lot of moving parts, and
that's something that possibly compromised members of the local government
might support. So Matt in your research and with the
people we've talked to, do we have a general vibe
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on how people feel about the local government. Do they
think they're in bed with this operation?
Speaker 2 (55:52):
Oh gee, people are so happy to have a data center, guys,
that's all it is everyone around the world. Just look
at your local news wherever you live. People are so
excited about these data center.
Speaker 4 (56:03):
Are you being sarcastic?
Speaker 2 (56:04):
What I'm saying? We can't wait for these things to
come in and use more energy than the entirety of
the state combined. It's cool. We all want this. We
all want all the water and all of the energy
to go to generating memes and writing things and tracking
everything we do. That's it's all we've ever wanted as
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a species.
Speaker 4 (56:25):
And giving you a good recipe for chocolate chip cookies.
Speaker 2 (56:29):
Oh yeah, and they'll let us know all the things
we want to hear, all the things we want to hear.
Speaking of things we want to hear, check it out. Sorry,
I'm a little pissed off at these guys. Here we go.
Let's just let's just keep it going here. Despite the
unauthorized connections, Fayette County opted not to find the company.
Oh here, it is again. Vanessa said it out loud.
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Vanessa Tigert, t I g e Ert. She's a part
of the county, and this is what she said. They're
our largest customer and we have to be partners. It's
called customer service. Gonna go ahead and throw a big
old skew to that one, because imagine if you owed
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one hundred and fifty dollars on your water bill. You
think the county is gonna say, oh, you're a valued
customer and we get it.
Speaker 4 (57:18):
They'll shut you off after one mispayment. Yeah, yeah, and
then charge you another fee to reconnect it. Plus what
you if I owe.
Speaker 3 (57:27):
If I owe a local government two hundred and thirty
four dollars, it's my problem. If I owe the local
government two billion dollars, it's now the government's problem.
Speaker 2 (57:37):
It's just it's the kind of thing that's happening in
local local governments across the United States right now, where
people are licking boots and all about this money that's
coming in. And we get it. Local governments need money sometimes,
you I mean, you need money for everything. It's true,
but look at the bigger picture. Is what I would
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say to anybody who's considering signing something or voting for
something where these things are coming in, really search your
soul and think about it, because it's clear these things
are bad news for everyone for everyone. Here's the cool thing, guys,
Fayetteville has already moved to restrict data center growth. They
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voted on that before any of this happened. The city
council banned new data centers in every zoning district earlier
this year. Or it's called Ordnance twenty six O Dash twelve,
you can check it out. There's a separate proposal that
came in through this thing that I think you guys
are gonna love, the name Crow Holdings. Crow Holdings came through.
(58:42):
They wanted to develop a huge thing. That proposal was
denied by the city's Planning Commission back in January.
Speaker 4 (58:49):
Who's the CEO and then that skeletor yeah, I know, right, dude, Sorry.
Speaker 2 (58:55):
But they ended up withdrawing an appeal to that decision
back in March, so that's not going to happen. Another
cool thing in Georgia, the Georgia's Public Service Commission froze
Georgia Power's base rates all the way through twenty twenty eight.
And that is to prevent these data centers from shifting
all the electricity costs to us, the individuals, the humans,
(59:16):
the customers, the not so valued customers that we all are. Okay,
but they did do that for.
Speaker 4 (59:22):
Us, our data centers, like the new like neoprene factories.
I like, no, man, it's not pollution, it's like the opposite. Yeah,
it's extraction, but it's still there's that same nimbi attitude,
and there's that same partner mentality of like coming into
the community and selling a bill of goods only to
(59:44):
then just usurp everything and or give people cancer. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (59:50):
Yep, last thing here, guys. This QTS campus is projected
to generate somewhere between one hundred and fifty million to
two hundred million dollars annually in property tax revenue. Just
in property tax revenue. Again, you can see why local
governments are so into these things. Fayetteville is one of
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at least fifty cities across the US that currently have
active bands on new data center construction, with four adopting
permanent prohibitions, according to US Data Center Moratorium Tracker. In
the whole point of this entire story today, hopefully getting
you a little frustrated angry is to send you to
a website, datacenter bans dot com. If you head on
(01:00:34):
over to datacenter bands dot com, you can track legislation
and things that are happening across the states and it
will show you. You can click on your state and
you can find out what's happening with these things and
whether or not you physically need to go take some
action and stand in a room with a bunch of
people sitting at a desk, all deciding to vote for
(01:00:57):
data centers. No matter what you say, but at least
you'll be there and at least you'll your voice will
be heard. Well.
Speaker 4 (01:01:02):
Another reason it made me think of that episode we
just did on the Cancer Alley in Louisiana was that
the ultimate, like I guess, mitigation that came from government
was no more expansion, no more building new ones. But
it's like the genies already out of the bottle at
that point, and it's like the damage is done.
Speaker 2 (01:01:24):
Have you guys ever driven from Atlanta to Peachtree City?
Probably probably much reason to go to peach Tree City.
We have some family over there. That's why I've traveled
that way.
Speaker 4 (01:01:33):
I know that I know that sort of isn't that
kind of data center alley like corridor.
Speaker 2 (01:01:39):
Well, this QTS campus is one that if you've ever
made that trip, you will know what it is. It's
on the right hand side as you're heading towards Pchtree
City from Atlanta, and it is just one of the
largest things of this kind that you'll ever see. And
you can't even see part of it that past the
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stuff that's visible from the highway there, Highway fifty four.
And it's just nuts. It's nuts that we're doing this
to ourselves and we got to stop it somehow, one
way or another.
Speaker 3 (01:02:15):
That's all for me, guys, and that's all from us
this evening. Folks, Thank you, as always so much for
tuning in. Big thanks to our super producer, Dylan the
Tennessee pal Fagan, and big thanks to you in advance
for joining us on the show. We cannot wait to
hear your thoughts on the hantavirus, corruption in Georgia, data centers,
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Speaker 2 (00:26):
Hello, welcome back to the show. My name is Matt,
my name is Nola.
Speaker 3 (00:29):
They call me Ben. We're joined as always with our
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are you. You are here. That makes this the stuff
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Welcome one and all to May eighteenth, twenty twenty six.
(00:52):
It's a time to be alive. I don't know if
it's a great time, but it's definitely a time where
people are alive. And we wanted to talk about a
couple of things at the open before we get to
some very important updates and some very strange news that
is largely being ignored. First things First, guys, you know
(01:14):
how when people work in local politics, they often have
a number of side gigs, right like your controller, your
county commissioner, your school board people, even your mayors might
have another job as an investor. I was going to
say driving for Uber or driving that's controller stuff.
Speaker 2 (01:34):
Yeah, maybe I was just unaware of that.
Speaker 4 (01:36):
I didn't.
Speaker 2 (01:36):
I don't think about that. When I think about local government,
I imagine them in an office like all the time.
Speaker 3 (01:42):
Right, yeah, and that's the way it should be on paper.
But of course this is American and one of the
most American things we can do is diversify our portfolio, right,
get more income revenue streams. This is a story we
wanted to mention at the top. Aileen Wang Island Wang
if you prefer, is the mayor of Arcadia in California,
(02:07):
where she was elected mayor in twenty twenty two, and
it turns out she is no longer the mayor. She
has resigned because she was working for the government of China.
Speaker 2 (02:20):
In like spying capacity.
Speaker 3 (02:23):
In in that. You know, I was thinking about this
because we had a brief conversation about it not too
too long ago. You can act as a foreign agent
of another country in these United States, but you have
to disclose that you're doing so, and she did not.
Mayor Wang did not.
Speaker 2 (02:44):
Wait wait wait, yes, you can't disclose that and then
become mayor, right Like, that's not you know, happen.
Speaker 4 (02:51):
It's gonna be.
Speaker 3 (02:51):
Tough for your campaign, you know what I mean? What
are you running on?
Speaker 5 (02:54):
You guys like China? Me too.
Speaker 3 (02:59):
This was this was an issue because it's a violation
of a couple of federal laws. Because the entire time
that she was mayor, and probably before she was elected
in twenty twenty two, she had been secretly functioning as
a servant of the Chinese government, so they would do
(03:21):
things like promote pro Chinese government propaganda through a website
titled get this Guy's US NewsCenter.
Speaker 2 (03:30):
What Yeah, kind of reminds me of our discussions before
about police stations, like specifically Chinese police stations that were
kind of hidden in the US in a couple of
places to watch over Chinese Americans. And I wonder. I
saw a tiny piece about this been just now, and
(03:52):
it looks like there's about fifty thousand people that live
in her city that she was running. I do wonder if, like,
what proportion of those people are, you know, originally from China.
Speaker 3 (04:02):
Yeah, there is a high Chinese diaspora in Arcadia specifically,
So it makes sense if we're Uncle Gi, it makes
sense to touch a mayor like this. The exact. The
exact stuff she pleads guilty to are the idea that
she received and executed directives from the government of China
(04:27):
officially to post content on this website that said China
is great. She also would regularly seek permission from Chinese
government officials to post content, and we don't know what
she was doing behind the scenes as far as maybe
identifying problematic dissidents or academics. We do know that our partner,
(04:51):
a guy named Mike Sun Yauning Sun. He was working
with her, and he has already been sentenced to twenty
months in prison after pleading guilty to bribery. So our
concern here is not necessarily the official charges. It's like
when Capone went down for tax evasion. Our concern is
(05:12):
all of the other stuff, perhaps targeting Chinese American citizens
and threatening their families abroad. This stuff happens. The spy
game is real. So best of luck to the people
of Arcadia. I think we've got one other story to
mention right here at the top.
Speaker 2 (05:29):
Oh yeah, if that's not disturbing enough, let's quickly go
to a double murder trial that filled up all of
the youtubes for a time. There a couple of years back,
three years ago to be exact, a gentleman named Alex
Murdau who was accused of killing his wife and son.
He went to court and he was handed two life
(05:51):
sentences and he was convicted of killing his wife and son. Well, apparently,
according to News Today as we're recording on Wednesday, that
conviction has been overturned and there has to be a
new trial because according to the South Carolina Supreme Court,
the justices thought that Becky Hill, the call Itton County
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Clerk of Court quote, egregiously attacked Murdaw's credibility and his defense,
thus triggering the presumption of prejudice, which meant it was
essentially a mistrial. It's it's it didn't work.
Speaker 3 (06:26):
Out, so it's procedural. It's not. It's not a collection
of the facts. It's a rejection of the way the
facts were discovered and presented.
Speaker 4 (06:36):
Got a lot of due process. Sorry, guys, I know
I've been real down on the courts lately, but stuff
like this doesn't make me much more up on them.
Speaker 3 (06:47):
Hey, Noel, I'm right there with you, bud, because look,
as I've always said, I love clowns. I'm a fan
of clowns. I like clowns in their place. The ring
race should be separate from the clowns, and unfortunately sco
this is compromised.
Speaker 4 (07:01):
Shoes, big shoes to film.
Speaker 2 (07:05):
Speaking of clowns, please check out Zack Zucker or Jack Tucker.
One of the most amazing. I believe he self styles
himself a clown, but he is a stand up. But
he is also a clown. And it is amazing because
you you just have to see it understand it. It's
it's like, it's kind of like prop comedy, but with
(07:27):
a producer, like an engineer who's in the back of
the house triggering samples and lights and all kinds of stuff,
and then a comedian on stage working directly with those samples.
Speaker 4 (07:37):
Does he wear a big red nose? No?
Speaker 5 (07:40):
Does he have funny shoes?
Speaker 2 (07:42):
He does. He has a very funny outfit with lots
of accoutrement.
Speaker 4 (07:45):
Okay, you were losing me, man, but yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 3 (07:51):
Also, speaking of the opposite of funny outfits, do you
guys see that roast of Kevin Hart?
Speaker 2 (07:56):
Oh God, please, please, oh boy please, so many things
to think about. Yeah, but Kat Williams just just Cat Williams.
Speaker 3 (08:08):
Oh yeah, just k Williams friends. Were they doing like
a wrestling thing about hating each other?
Speaker 5 (08:15):
Or what?
Speaker 3 (08:15):
You watch it, folks and then write to us and
tell us what you think conspiracy at iHeartRadio dot com.
These guys, that was wild?
Speaker 4 (08:22):
Who's that young Danny McBride fellow Shane gillis sorry? I
love that this well, I mean, come on, he's occupying
a similar space. He just said some real nasty things
about our coworker, Chelsea Handler.
Speaker 3 (08:35):
He did, but it's also a roast, so you're supposed
to say that.
Speaker 4 (08:39):
Yeah, but it was like it's calling into I mean,
people are like a little up in arms about it. It was.
It was gnarly.
Speaker 2 (08:44):
I mean, she is in Epstein files. She did have
dinner with a bunch of folks in Epstein. I'm just saying, sorry,
just saying, where.
Speaker 5 (08:52):
Are we going?
Speaker 4 (08:54):
I'm just acknowledging that this happened.
Speaker 2 (08:55):
Where we bring all this up? Was just to say,
on Netflix right now you can watch Murder Murders a
Southern Scandal and learn all about that trial. If you
don't know about it yet for some reason, it's out there.
If you want to learn about it for now, keys,
why don't we take a break and then come back
with some strange news.
Speaker 3 (09:12):
Oh and while we're on the break, folks, please do
check out our earlier episodes about Chinese infiltration of the
United States. So just going to ruin your afternoon real quick,
and we'll be right back hopefully nobody we've described so
far as the hauntavirus.
Speaker 6 (09:29):
Uh oh, and we have returned.
Speaker 3 (09:40):
Okay, you have probably survived COVID. If you are listening
to tonight's Strange News program, you have also probably had
some of those dark nights of the soul PTSD things
when you heard about the outbreak of a certain variety
of hauntavirus on a Dutch cruise ship. Let's get into it.
(10:04):
I know we mentioned this previously in our in our
Strange News segment last week, I believe maybe even the
week before that, because this has been going on for
some time now.
Speaker 4 (10:19):
Ben something to do with rat feces. Ah, yes, okay,
we'll get into it. Yeah, I say, I'm honestly I
had not I did not know much about this. I'm
going to learn along with everyone.
Speaker 3 (10:30):
We're going to learn along together. This is okay, So
you're going to read these breathless headlines folks, and you're
going to be incredibly irritated or maybe a little bit scared.
I was talking with the guys off Mike, folks, and
I am under the weather. I was being a paranoid
(10:51):
entity for a time, convinced maybe I had haunted virus.
And that's because in April of this year, twenty twenty six,
as we record on Wednesday, May thirteenth, in April twenty
twenty six, a Dutch cruise ship named the MV Hondius.
Hopefully that's a coincidence.
Speaker 4 (11:15):
Hunt vehicle. Yes, the good ship haunt them, Yes, absolutely so.
Speaker 3 (11:19):
The Andyes virus is part of a genus of viruses
called Ortho hantavirus. You can read all about this at
your leisure in any number of free to read credible sources.
The Andies virus is different because, out of all the
haunt of virus, it is the one thing it's in
(11:43):
Chile and Argentina. It is the one thing that humans
can spread to each other from this terrible pokemon deck.
As you noted, No, it is primarily spread by rats,
rat feces, rats saliva. The villain in the addes for
this virus is the long tailed pigmy rice at or
(12:08):
if you want to sound Harry Potter about it, the
oulig Rhizomus longa cadutas.
Speaker 4 (12:15):
Six specto patrona very much.
Speaker 3 (12:18):
So it's like a Cardi B's real name. Oh, that
sounds like a Harry Potter spell.
Speaker 2 (12:21):
And it's a it's an adorable looking little little rods
like you know, well, if you ever had a hamster
or a gerbil or anything growing up as a kid,
maybe in your school or maybe at home, you when
you see something like that scurrying around in the wild, you're.
Speaker 3 (12:39):
Like, oh, look how cute this little dude is, and don't.
Speaker 4 (12:41):
Come here, little guy.
Speaker 2 (12:42):
And that's that's the least what I do. And I
make that exact voice. And one of the other things
that you can get the hunter virus from, or or
this syndrome frum is a tiny little bite or a
tiny little scratch from one of these cute things.
Speaker 4 (12:56):
Yeah, just remember that. And so there's what bacteria on there,
the virus, the virus exists within them.
Speaker 3 (13:04):
And then it's kind of like how certain certain forms
of infection that are very bad for humans can be
carried without serious effect by other species of animal.
Speaker 5 (13:18):
Right And this.
Speaker 3 (13:20):
This is fascinating because, first off, one thing a lot
of people get confused is that they hear, oh, the
Haundias is a Dutch cruise ship, right, so maybe it's
leaving that area of the world. That's not entirely correct.
It left Argentina on April first, and because it was
(13:41):
in Argentina, that's where the rats probably got in, or
someone exposed to their shenanigans got in. A passenger aboard
died from the virus on April eleventh. We also know
that this this virus is very rare and general. It
takes a lot of close contact for it to transmit
(14:05):
from human to human. Other hauntavirus franchises don't do this.
But as we look at the timeline, what we're going
to see is a cycle of death. The who the
guy who dies on April eleventh is. His death is
(14:26):
kind of covered up, and they stop just a few
days later at a remote archipelago named Tristan dot Kuna.
If you've read Atlas of Remote Islands, you're probably familiar
with this. Six more they allow six more people to
hop on the ship, and they're still keeping the cadaver
(14:46):
of that unfortunate elderly dutch Man aboard. They don't take
his body off of the craft until days later, on
April twenty fourth, when they hit the island of Saint Helena,
and his his wife also disembarks. More than two dozen
other passengers also leave and say hey, we're gonna We're
(15:09):
gonna stop here. We do have to note that this
was ultimately going to Antarctica, so some people had already
planned to depart for Saint Helena at that time. But
then we see we see the game pandemic if you
remember that one. Guys like how Mattagascar always is always
the toughest one to infect.
Speaker 4 (15:31):
Oh yeah, yeah, oh yeah.
Speaker 2 (15:32):
I quickly want to bring up this theory that was
floating around for a while and was even mentioned, I
think on the Daily Show about the possibility that the
people that were on that cruise ship that contracted the
virus were allegedly bird watching at a landfill when they
contracted the virus. This was kind of a thing that
was put out there by the officials attempting to track down,
(15:55):
you know, this virus, and they noted that there was
a place that they went to and I can't say
this right, Ushuaia ushuaya u s h u ai A.
Speaker 3 (16:07):
Yeah, and that's where the ship left. That was their
disembarkation or that's where they're embarked from.
Speaker 4 (16:13):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (16:13):
Yes, there's a particular landfill there that apparently quote attracts
eye catching birds, and this couple was there checking out birds.
But then now they're officials who take tourists on this
bird watching kind of excursion thing or whatever you want
to call it, just hanging out. They're saying, we do
this from a really safe area. It has nothing to
(16:34):
do with the landfill itself. They did not contract it there.
It's just one of these crazy things that we get
into now where some official story will come out and
then it's immediately said that, no, that's not the truth,
and we already have two conflicting potential narratives to choose
to believe.
Speaker 3 (16:54):
Yes, yeah, this is very much the fog of war situation,
or reminds me, and I hope it reminds a lot
of us of the early days about COVID. Right the
days of the COVID epidemic. We're actually seeing some of
the same misinformation be deployed for political leverage in various
(17:15):
conversations or various political and media outlets. I want to
go back to the people who left the ship. I
said more than two dozen right when they land in
Saint Helena. It's actually twenty nine people. This does count
the cadaver and those disembarked passengers. The passengers who leave
(17:37):
this vessel in Saint Helena. They are from twelve different countries, okay,
and they all made it home. Guys, before contact tracing began,
contact tracing was never I mean, it happened here in
the US during the COVID pandemic, but it was never
on the level of you know, developed countries. They're catching
(17:58):
strays on that one.
Speaker 4 (18:00):
I feel like it's worth mentioning some of the rumors
circulating that seem pretty plausible that our f K junior
relatively recently fired all of the employees of a CDC
branch that is responsible for inspecting sanitary conditions on cruise.
Speaker 3 (18:19):
Also the US withdrew from the World Health Organization.
Speaker 4 (18:22):
Oh yeah, it feels like the documentation surrounding the firing
is very very very plausible. Snopes was not able to
independently verify the previous list roster of employees versus current
but everything about it does seem to indicate this is
entirely likely. And you know, whether it's directly responsible for
(18:44):
this kind of thing, it's certainly doesn't bode well or indicates,
you know, better conditions moving forward. You know, these kinds
of things being nipped in the butt. It's just I
don't know, man, When I'm hearing about these cruise ship outbreaks,
I'm also thinking, like plague rats on the ships bringing
the bubonic plague, you know, to the.
Speaker 3 (19:02):
Historically, it's a it's a banger vector for infection if
you are a disease. I mean, let's got to have
some inspectors, you know, oh gosh, or maybe we should
have some experts who have a job to prevent outbreaks
and pandemics, uh of them some kind of maybe for
controlling diseases.
Speaker 4 (19:22):
Uh like that.
Speaker 3 (19:23):
Yeah, So let's fast forward. Let's go back to the timeline.
It's April twenty eighth. Another passenger, a German national, fall
sick on board as the ship is sailing for Cape Verde.
That's off of that's off of Africa's west coast. It's
a country a lot of people forget about. Fast forward
just a few days ago. It's May second. This person
(19:46):
who was exhibiting pretty rough symptoms dies on board. This
makes her the third fatality, I want to say. And
then we see that there is a pause sative hauntavirus
test performed on a British Man who left the ship
and was in a South African hospital, who quickly responds
(20:11):
and says, hey, we're going to figure out what's going
on on this ship. We can only imagine how stressed
out the crew is and because it's still they're remit
they have to work together in these very close quarters.
And then, as we were talking about this previously, the
cruise ship gotten a standoff with various countries and ports
(20:32):
of coal and they were saying, hey, can we evacuate
more sick people or people who are showing symptoms of something,
and the governments generally said no. They said, we'll send
someone on the ship to help you, but you guys
have to stay on the ship. And this is where
the crew starts getting ill, including obviously the ship's doctor.
(20:55):
And then more people are evacuated. They're flowing to specialized
hospitals in Europe. When we talked about this previously, the
ship was trying to get into the Canary Islands, but now,
health authorities by May seventh in Switzerland, Britain, Netherlands, France, Singapore,
(21:15):
South Africa and other places are starting to do contact
tracing because people are getting sick. If you are haunt
of virus, the andes virus or a n d V
as we call it, then you are winning the pandemic lottery.
This stuff is getting nasty.
Speaker 2 (21:34):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (21:35):
We just had as we were going into record, we
just had two patients who may have contracted haunt to virus.
We have them in Emery Hospital and are Fair Metropolis
of Atlanta. They are in quarantine. They are being monitored.
(21:56):
A lot of people in local conversation, I certainly I
know some my sources were panicking about it, but other
people were saying, hey, you know, just like the guys
are joking about CDC. Now, everybody loves having the CDC here.
Until the CDC starts to do its job, which is
to quarantine people and study their afflictions.
Speaker 2 (22:18):
Well, at least they won't have to drive very far
to get to Emory. They're literally right there.
Speaker 3 (22:23):
They're literally right there. We know that they went from
the airplane to ambulances that were under the auspice of
Grady University hospital. They went to Emory University, which is
very close to several of us recording. Now, I don't know. So, look,
(22:44):
this is an episode in the future. Possibly, I hope
not to be honest, but as we're recording, guys, people
are racing around the clock to make a vaccine for
the soundy strain just in case. And I have to
ask you and all of us together tonight, what do
we think. Do we think this is another pandemic or
(23:06):
do we think this is just an unfortunate outbreak. It
seems like it's difficult to transmit.
Speaker 4 (23:11):
It seems like it's the unforced it's the ladder from
all the sources that I've been seeing. So I'm cautiously optimistic.
Speaker 2 (23:18):
Yeah, I don't know, man, That's it's pretty crazy stuff.
Speaker 3 (23:23):
It's also much more dangerous than coronavirus. By the way,
the kill raid is far high.
Speaker 2 (23:29):
Oh, the kill rate is thirty ten.
Speaker 4 (23:33):
Yeah, if you.
Speaker 2 (23:36):
Maybe this is the right time to bring it up. Yeah,
if you don't mind. There's a little rumor going around
the internet that this hauntavirus thing was talked about. It
may have been predicted in the past, and many of
us when we heard hauntavirus. We were like, huh, I've
heard that before. I don't know in what context what
was that from? And then some of us like me realized, oh,
(23:59):
that's from nineteen ninety eight. That's from the X Files movie,
the original the X Files movie in nineteen ninety eight.
Speaker 3 (24:06):
Yeah, so we're that was only three years after, by
the way, the virus is officially discovered, which wasn't until
nineteen ninety five.
Speaker 4 (24:15):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (24:15):
And here is a little clip that you may have seen.
We'll just play a teeny tiny bit of it. This
is from that movie Molder speaking with someone who is
trying to give him important information.
Speaker 4 (24:28):
Yeah. It was a deadly virus spread by field mice
in the southwestern United States several years ago. According to
the newspaper, FEMA was called out.
Speaker 7 (24:35):
To manage and outbreak up the hand of virus. Are
you familiar with what the Federal Emergency Management Agency's real
power is? FEMA allows the White House to spend constitutional
government upon declaration of a national emergency.
Speaker 4 (24:50):
Think about that.
Speaker 7 (24:51):
Why is an agency with such broad sweeping power doing
managing a small viral outbreak in suburban Texas.
Speaker 4 (24:58):
You're saying it was such a small outbreak. No, I'm
saying it wasn't that Sills.
Speaker 5 (25:05):
Yeah, shout out to X files.
Speaker 4 (25:07):
Ye, shout again that FEMA. It ain't for nothing. They're
all wrapped up in a lot of the conspiracy talk
over the years, and that we know some folks who
worked with FEMA in the past.
Speaker 3 (25:20):
As far as we can tell, they're not part of
the conspiracy advertised in that X Files episode or that
X Files film from nineteen ninety eight. But again, are
you sure haunted? Well, I'll ask them again, maybe individuals?
All right, yeah, right, It's deeper than skin. It's the
system they're keeping us in. It's always been true, so
(25:41):
being discovered in nineteen ninety five, right, Hopefully lessons learned
from uh the COVID pandemic will prevent this from spiraling
out of control. But again, these are international passengers. There's
already some scary stuff hel happening with the staff and
passengers of Kalm airlines, right, as people spread when they
(26:04):
are asymptomatic, when they may be able to transmit this
thing in close quarters. This does feel like we might
be on the horizon of an episode just about hauntavirus.
Maybe correct some fact and fiction and maybe explore some
of those conspiracies for now.
Speaker 5 (26:23):
Guys.
Speaker 3 (26:23):
I know we ran a little bit long on this one,
but really appreciate it. It is incredibly important. Please check
out the excellent New York Times piece that published a
few days back. Should you worry about hauntavirus by Nina
Agrowl and Danny Bloom, Go check that out at New
York Times and write to us with your thoughts conspiracydiheartradio
(26:45):
dot com. Ugh, guys, I'm already. I don't want to
be paranoid, but I am feeling under the weather. Can
we take a break for a word from our sponsors
and Noel? Can we please get to something less pandemic
or less world ending.
Speaker 2 (27:01):
I'll do my very best right, yes, But while we
take that break, search the Epstein files for preparing for pandemics.
Speaker 4 (27:19):
And we've returned. Okay, I got two stories for us today.
I'm gonna lead with this one that kind of dovetails
with some of what you were talking about earlier then,
just about maybe a little bit of government overreach and
or underreach, you know, failing upward, underachieving local governments. Okay,
(27:40):
we were talking about you were talking about a mayor.
Speaker 3 (27:43):
Yes, in Arcadia, convinced, convicted now of being a Chinese spy.
Speaker 4 (27:50):
Okay, well, this mayor isn't that we know of a
Chinese spy. But little powermat though, right, little power mad,
it would seem. And we don't have all the details yet,
but I'm just this is going to be one to follow,
I think because it's super fascinating. The mayor of a
small town in our fair state of Georgia, Coohuta, unilaterally
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fired the entire police department and didn't tell them. He
literally notified them, I guess his office did with a
printed sign that was posted on the door of the
police department that read as follows, Effective eight thirty am
five six, twenty twenty six, per Mayor Ron Shanick, the
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PD has been dissolved and all personnel have been terminated.
If you need law enforcement, contact Whitfield County non emergency
number at number Hey seven oh six. That's my uh,
that's that's not far from my hometown. It's the same
area code wow red type And it's like in a
(28:55):
laminated one of those like sleeves with the whole bunch
is built into the size.
Speaker 3 (29:01):
It looks a little ad hoc prous oh boy does it.
Speaker 4 (29:04):
Ever. Mayor Ron Shanick appears to have had some beef
with individual members of the Kahuta PDE something about his wife,
but we don't know exactly what was said, but apparently
some members of the police department posted some content he
(29:28):
found offensive regarding his wife, who is a county clerk.
And basically, you know, members of the pg higher ranking
officials are saying that this is an absolute personal vendetta
that that this man has, you know, waged against the
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entire department. So there's a lot of kerfuffle being made
of this in Cohuta. Uh, the city Council convened for
a special meeting to reinstate the PDE. And now it
would appear that while technically within his rights, it is
also technically within the rights of the city Council to
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remove Mayor Ron Shanick for his uh this behavior here
is Shanick again. It's very good, No, it's true. So
there's a couple of pieces from local news sources news
Channel nine ABC there in Kohuta. I'm just gonna read
(30:33):
a couple of bits from this piece by Jackhai. Spikes
says we're digging into Kahoota's charter, as the small town
remains without a police department Thursday and the council calls
for the mayor's resignation. A sign posted to the front
door greeted Khutah officers Wednesday morning, notifying them the department
had been dissolved via the order of Mayor Shanook Shanick,
(30:54):
I'm sorry, I'm still thinking about Mortal Kombat too. We
were talking about We took questions to Mayor Ron Shanick
about conflict of interest and retaliation, but he denied that
was the reason for his decision. We continue our efforts
to get updated comments from the town council that has
(31:15):
called for a special meeting to vote on the resignation
of the mayor and the reinstatement of the PD. This
meeting did take place, i believe, and we've got a
little more information from the same news source, news Channel nine.
Now that the Kahudah Police Department is reinstated, will the
mayor face consequences. Cahudah residents are asking what the next
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steps are for the town after the city council voted
to reinstate the police department. We took some of their
concerns to the town's attorney, including questions over whether the
mayor would keep his position despite allegedly violating Cahudah's charter.
And here are some of the questions and some of
the responses. Will the mayor face consequences for his actions?
No comment? Okay, we did confirm with Attorney Brian Rayburn
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that Mayor Ron Shanik broke the to charter rules when
he dissolved the whole department without the city council's approval.
What the section of the charter does is lay out
this is the response from Rayburn. What the section of
the charter does, this is Rayburn is lays out what
has to happen for that to occur. The first thing
that would have to happen is the mayor will have
to provide a written notice for all five council members.
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I think this is a scratch on the service of
the corruption in our county, Resident Leroy Fletcher. Sorry, Leroy
Fletcher said, And I think there's more if they dig around.
Councilperson Andy Lopez said, it's kind of an unusual meeting
since the two people that are in charge or not here.
I drew the short straw but we did want to
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give the opportunity for the community to speak. This was
a standing room only a community meeting that was attended.
One of the other residents there said, there's no accountability,
whether it's the police department or the council itself. We
have things here. They are not only questionable, but are
downright li eagle cool trouble right there in River City, guys,
right right there in River City. Never mind the corn
(33:07):
crib right and we've got to go. We've got to
tell you, folks, this is a soap opera. This is
going to be a documentary waiting to happen because Noel,
in what I've been seeing as this story was developing,
Apparently this power mad attempt to dissolve the entire law
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enforcement community comes because the mayor's wife, Pam Senick, was
fired for creating a hostile work environment. But then, just
just like when Larry David said he quit Saturday Night
Live and showed up the next day like nothing happened,
missus Schnick just continued working after being fired and still
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had access to all kinds of personal info. Okay, I
didn't this, Ben, Thank you so much. This is good.
Speaker 3 (33:57):
Then here's the thing, this all before the headline news breaks,
and then the mayor of the town met with the
police chief, a guy named Greg Fowler, and the towt
what's described as the town attorney, Brian Rayburn, and they said, look,
we had quote open dialogue, a good faith mediation, so
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everything is cool. And then a week after that the
mayor tried to fire everybody.
Speaker 4 (34:24):
So, Ben, you must have done some extra digging there,
because the ape piece that I read about this didn't
mention any of that, so I guess it was a
separate news item. And I'm really surprised that none of
that came up and either of the local pieces about this.
So good on you, Ben, and thank you for that context.
I think that's huge and absolutely speaks to a bit
(34:44):
of rot, perhaps at the core, or at the very least,
some gross negligence and incompetence on all sides of governments
here in this little Georgia town of Gohuta, good.
Speaker 3 (34:55):
Faith, open dialogue, give it a week, Tut tut to
tut touch.
Speaker 4 (35:01):
Indeed, Matt, what do you think about all this business?
Speaker 2 (35:04):
I just think it's crazy. You can have somebody that
has some kerfuffle going on with his spouse, I guess,
or there's some complaint about his spouse, and you have
enough power to go, oh, hey, police department, are you fired.
That's crazy to me that that's even a possibility. No
checks and balances on the individual, whoever that is, you know,
a mayor or whatever position they hold. That's crazy. You
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can fire an entire police department.
Speaker 4 (35:30):
There's another quote from Attorney Bill speak who weighed in
on this in the first piece I mentioned from news
Channel nine, saying the mayor has in fact the authority
to do it, you know, based on their town bylaws.
The mayor is the executive and as such has all
the executive power with him. I mean, it's the same
way that like, you know, Trump as the chief executive
(35:50):
of the US government can pretty unilaterally everyone serves quote
unquote at his pleasure, which is problematic in and of itself, and.
Speaker 3 (35:59):
Does cabinet or any executive branch position.
Speaker 4 (36:02):
But it seems like, you know, a lot of this again,
as we talked about off on the show, is a
matter of decorum, and it's like this just isn't done
until it is uh, and it just requires some to
give a little teaser about our next story. Some pretty
big kahonas to pull something well, oh nice. Usually you
would not have collective responsibility for the action of a
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single individual, says UGA political science professor Charles Bullock, unless
that action were indeed affirmed and encouraged or directed by
the chief and supported by other members. So it does
seem like this mayor punished the entire agency for the
perceived slights committed by a select few.
Speaker 5 (36:47):
Or maybe their response to it.
Speaker 3 (36:49):
Because I want to be very diplomatic about this, folks,
it is possible that some of us in the audience
have been in committed relationships or romance. Take relationships where
your partner does something where they are definitely in the wrong,
and despite the fact that they are clearly in the wrong,
(37:10):
you feel it is your responsibility as their partner to
back them up.
Speaker 5 (37:15):
You know what I mean?
Speaker 3 (37:16):
For the team, right, Like your partner hits a car
and it's clearly their fault and you have to pretend
like it's not clearly their fault, or they get mad
at you for doing the appropriate things like.
Speaker 4 (37:30):
That where the girlfriend keeps picking fights with dudes and
then he's got to fight them and he doesn't grudging
every time, but he's like.
Speaker 3 (37:38):
Okay, all right, I forgot about that one, but yeah,
that's a perfect comparison. All The issue is when you
are it doesn't matter what government position you hold, right,
a mayor is a very big deal, but any government
position shouldn't. My question for you guys is this, should
your job or your vocation, your responseibility to others. Should
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that not take precedence over helping out your partner if
they did something wrong. It sounds like, I don't we
don't have the details. We don't know what they meant
by hostile work environment.
Speaker 4 (38:14):
I mean, it doesn't sound great. It definitely any conflict
that sounds like do you know who I am?
Speaker 2 (38:20):
Sounds like some people that maybe got a little bit
of power over nine hundred people in the town, and
we're like, yeah, you do what we say.
Speaker 4 (38:31):
Yeah, even a little bit of power can corrupt you know.
Speaker 3 (38:35):
Actually, you know it's weird because, uh, I've long thought
that there's a weird there's an inverse relationship in some
ways to power and willingness to use it. Like the
people who have the smallest amount of power most likely
to trip dude, right, The people who have the largest
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amount of power often are very careful and spirit with its.
Speaker 4 (39:00):
Yeah, except when they're not good as yet, well good
if they're good at right now. People who have.
Speaker 3 (39:08):
A small, like a modicum of power, think someone at
the d m V or d DS as it's called
in Georgia, they're having a bad day, they're happy the
power tripping.
Speaker 2 (39:19):
Well, you know, folks at the top, they've been honed
over years, nay decades, nay centuries to wield that power.
And those loro pianas that they press down on everybody's
necks do we know those?
Speaker 4 (39:33):
Aren't I dump Max Plummer walks. That's okay, No, I
want to know what is that?
Speaker 7 (39:38):
Like?
Speaker 4 (39:39):
Is that a magic car?
Speaker 2 (39:39):
Like Jeff? It's it's one of the shoes that billionaires wear,
and you know ultra multimillionaires like bezos and well who's
that Beckham? David Beckham.
Speaker 4 (39:51):
Oh, but not the ones that Trump makes all his
cabinet members wear. That's different.
Speaker 3 (39:54):
No, okay, they're the ones.
Speaker 2 (39:56):
They're the ones that billionaires walk around in to not
look like they're such a billionaire. But also, let you know,
if you know.
Speaker 3 (40:02):
Right, like shirts or like how very wealthy people have
a secret achalog of clothing. Also, here's a challenge to
all the billionaires in the crowd. Thank you folks for
tuning in, But are you really that important if you
still have feet and shoes? Aren't feet and shoes for
(40:24):
poor people?
Speaker 2 (40:25):
Step your game up, They're well on their way. Get
those feet.
Speaker 4 (40:32):
Less thought you were doing. I thought you were doing
an ad there. Step your game up with shoes shoe feet, which,
by the way, Ben, I gotta say, somebody beat you
to the punch on manufacturing those. They are out there
in the world. These are shows we know we were
ahead of the we manifested man.
Speaker 2 (40:47):
Where we're going, guys, we don't need shoes or feet.
We're just going to be inside data centers.
Speaker 4 (40:52):
We don't even have a dreamt We just need to
be torsos or iron.
Speaker 3 (40:56):
We could cut out the torsos. Let's just uh, let's
just autumn, you know what, Let's automate billion.
Speaker 4 (41:02):
In futura at the time, heads and jars, brains. Who
needs the faces even.
Speaker 3 (41:07):
The whole head?
Speaker 5 (41:07):
You know? Uh?
Speaker 3 (41:09):
Anyway, check out our previous episodes because we just did
an insane riff of inside jokes that we've had for
a long time. No, we have to ask on behalf
of the audience. Uh, where do you see these uh
shindek agains going? Like, but what's the end result here?
Is this guy going to keep his job?
Speaker 4 (41:28):
I'm just eating I'm just I'm popcorn eating gift. Uh,
you know, on the edge of my seat about this one. Now,
I think I think he's probably gonna get Lego voted out.
It does seem like they have he had the power
maybe to do what he did, and then the council
had the power to reinstate them and also seems to
have the power to remove him, which just you know
how it should work when this kind of overreach and uh,
(41:51):
personal score settling enters into politics.
Speaker 3 (41:55):
Something the federal government.
Speaker 4 (41:56):
Wouldn't that be nice? Wouldn't that be nice if there were,
you know, to say, a road, a path forward like
impeachment that does It doesn't seem to stick for whatever.
Speaker 3 (42:06):
There are a couple of amendments. There are actually quite
a few amendments to the Constitution. I keep thinking about
the twenty fifth one.
Speaker 4 (42:13):
Yeah, that's one that keeps popping up on the social
medis for sure, let's get to it, guys. That was
a much more in depth conversation than I was expecting,
and that was an awesome one. But I'm just gonna
read this headline and just give a quick and dirty
and also a little bit of trigger warning here for
anyone who owns a pair of testicles, whether they're attached
to you or otherwise, this may be a little triggering
(42:34):
for you. I'm just gonna read this head ready, and
I'm just gonna read this headline from Fox News. Ball
maxing is electrifying, addictive, euphoric, and transcendental. According to those
pursuing bigger balls, eye balls are natural enough. Mm hmmmm hmmm.
And why would one do this?
Speaker 3 (42:54):
What pray tell?
Speaker 4 (42:55):
Yeah, let's see. So folks are responding to a pretty
gnarly social media trend where men are injecting their scrotums
with fluids, often saline or other substances, one of which
is called a sergalub. Well, now let's see what ser
galube is. This is a lubricant, that's what it is.
(43:20):
It's just a lubricant that you can buy on Amazon.
It is, I guess, a personal lubricant, sort of like astroglide,
surgical lubricant, sterile, bacteriolospecteriostatic.
Speaker 3 (43:34):
I'll have you know.
Speaker 5 (43:35):
That's my gentleman's lubricant.
Speaker 4 (43:37):
Indeed perfectly safe to inject directly into your scrotum. At
least that's what these folks would have you think. But
science says otherwise, guys, Science says otherwise. Why are they
doing this, you might ask, Well, apparently it is for
the appearance of larger testicles oftentimes, according to proponent of
(44:00):
this technique, the size of melons, watermelons. You ask, Oh,
it's the cantlopes. I think we're more talking about cantaloon.
That is what I have heard. I have heard cantalopes.
It's harmless because it's just quote saline, just salt water.
It's absorbed by the body. No big deal. Uh this
(44:22):
is and apparently you have to do it repeatedly because
it just it inflates them like balloons for just a
tough period of a couple of days. If not sure why,
they just.
Speaker 2 (44:33):
Want so they can go to the gym and do
their squat thrusts for all the other bros. And the
bros will be like, oh, man, look at the well.
Speaker 4 (44:41):
It's about bulge, my friend. It's about no pun intended,
a bit of peacocking. I don't think I'm demographic no,
I don't think.
Speaker 2 (44:49):
It straight into the tip.
Speaker 4 (44:51):
I told you, man, I told you, I gave the warning.
I did my benny thing.
Speaker 3 (44:55):
I wish I could make my balls smaller, but the
science just isn't.
Speaker 2 (44:58):
You know.
Speaker 4 (44:58):
Here's the thing then, And that's the thing that I've
seen a lot of folks discussing this story bring up,
especially dudes. Wouldn't having giant balls just make your penis
appear smaller by comparison.
Speaker 3 (45:09):
You look like a little tanuki.
Speaker 4 (45:12):
Oh man, everybody watched Pompoco about the magical Would they
use their testicles? This is part of the lore. By
the way of these Japanese magical creatures, they can use
their balls for all kinds of things. Also shout out,
I know I was ragging on it off their matt
and I give you the opportunity here to defend your boys.
The boys. But there was a guy in the most
(45:35):
recent episode in an old Folks Home for Soups that
had one single large testicle that he just dropped down
and used as a lassu or kind of a bolo.
Speaker 2 (45:44):
It was both testicles, yes, and he used them like
like songbongs, no love sausage.
Speaker 5 (45:51):
Yeah, he's no love sausage.
Speaker 3 (45:52):
Though, do check out the graphic novel series if you
have not read it, if you think the the adaptation
is edgy, or if you have problems with the adaptation,
read the source material.
Speaker 5 (46:04):
It is like.
Speaker 3 (46:06):
It's in C seventeen compared to the PG thirteen. You're scene.
Speaker 4 (46:10):
So I've heard. I do have volume one, which I
am gonna finally check out. It's in my stack. I
got a stack, guys, real quick. I said. Science wasn't
on board with this. That is because of things like infection, cellulitis, abscesses, sepsis,
severe pain and obviously swelling which seems like a feature,
not a bug, and bruising because that skin's gonna expand
(46:31):
we know the bualb skin is pretty malleable. But god
dang a melon, severe pain, tissue death aka necrosis from
compromised blood flows, scarring and chronic deformity, damage to testicles,
and of course infertility. Shout out to the sperm race
coming up in San Francisco. Blood clots, embolism, systematic reactions
(46:53):
of if non sterile material or other substances are used. Guys,
don't inject things into your penis. Don't do it, I say, guys.
I mean, you know, the boys.
Speaker 2 (47:04):
Don't inject things into your boys, don't do it.
Speaker 4 (47:07):
We'll leave it at that. I think we can all
agree that this is pretty dumb. Let's take a little
break here, worth more sponsors than come back with our
last pieces of strange news for today.
Speaker 2 (47:27):
And we've returned, jumping right to it. February nineteenth, twenty
twenty six, truth Social the President of the United States,
based on the tremendous interest shown, I will be directing
the Secretary of War and other relevant departments and agencies
to begin the process of identifying and releasing government files
related to alien and extraterrestrial life, unidentified aerial phenomena, and
(47:50):
unidentified flying objects.
Speaker 4 (47:53):
About the website Doo doo doo.
Speaker 2 (47:55):
This is a true social post from February nineteenth, twenty
twenty six.
Speaker 4 (47:59):
But did you see they made a website?
Speaker 2 (48:00):
Yes, Oh, there's a fun website you guys. You can
go check it out. It's at war dot gov slash
ufo slash ufo and bringing back to.
Speaker 4 (48:12):
The UFOs guys, no more of that woke UAP talk.
Speaker 2 (48:15):
That's right, but we're not going to talk about that
because reminder, less than ten calendar. Days after that truth
social post was made, the US and Israel began bombing Iran,
including a strike that killed one hundred and seventy five people,
many of them school children. So we're gonna treat it
like a distraction. Check it out if you want again,
war dot gov. Instead, we're gonna stick with local news,
(48:39):
local news, everybody. We're gonna jump to an article that
was published in Politico on May ninth by Arianna Skibel,
as well as an article that was posted on Tom's
Hardware by Luke James on May tenth. And it's about
Georgia local news. You guys, I'm not gonna We're like, we're.
Speaker 4 (49:00):
Real heavy on Georgia local news today. I love that.
Speaker 3 (49:02):
Once we be for good stuff.
Speaker 2 (49:04):
Uh not today. We're not gonna name these articles yet.
We'll tell you at the end because it kind of
gives everything away. These are pretty long titles of articles.
Here we go to begin the story, we jump to
Fayette County, Georgia. The county was telling residents to stop
watering their lawns to conserve water. This request came after
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homeowners in a subdivision reported unusually low water pressure. You know, guys,
the kind of thing. We turned the water on at
full blast, and it just goes like trickle.
Speaker 4 (49:35):
Count for its hails a little bit sometimes do a
little bit of.
Speaker 2 (49:37):
A hot mm hmm, a little bit of nothing. When
the county, Fayette County investigated, it found the cause. It
wasn't folks drowning their lawns or washing their cars or
taking long showers. In fact, it wasn't any activity generally
associated with human beings wasting water. It was a data center.
A data center twenty miles south of Atlanta in Fayetteville.
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It had been drawing roughly twenty nine million gallons of
the county's water through connections to the county's water supply,
two connections that the county didn't even know existed.
Speaker 3 (50:15):
I drink your milkshake.
Speaker 4 (50:17):
I drink yes, I drink it. Yes.
Speaker 2 (50:24):
So hopefully by the end of this you'll be nice
and furious. Even if you're not yet, you will be
at the end. Here we go. According to the original
Politico report that we mentioned there, this company, Quality Technology
Services or QTS. They sorry, they're a developer. They are
owned by Blackstone, Yes, that Blackstone. They're the ones constructing
(50:49):
or you know, finalizing construction on a six hundred and
fifteen acre Fayetteville campus. Here's what they owed. Guy, how
much do you think you owe for taking twenty nine
millions of county water? If you like, just imagine your
water bill? How much is twenty nine million gallons?
Speaker 4 (51:08):
Hundreds of thousands of dollars? Probably?
Speaker 2 (51:10):
Right, it's not as bad as I would have fought. Okay,
it's it's only one hundred and forty seven thousand, four
hundred and seventy four dollars.
Speaker 4 (51:18):
Okay, I was, yeah, okay, fair.
Speaker 2 (51:20):
Still, that's quite a bit of money for a water billy.
They call it unmetered consumption.
Speaker 4 (51:27):
Yeah, mine's in the fifty to sixty dollars a month ish, right, yeah.
Speaker 2 (51:31):
Yeah, yeah. So this company QTS is doing the construction. Again,
Blackstone owed one hundred and forty seven thousand dollars in
unmetered consumption. But here's the kicker, guys, the county did
not and I repeat, did not find the company any
money for this unmetered consumption. Why we'll get into it.
Speaker 4 (51:53):
They don't want to poke the bear. They know which
side the bread spared.
Speaker 2 (51:57):
Uhh, We're gonna continue this article again. Thanks so much
to Luke James over at Tom's Hardware who wrote this.
You can look it up. Here's the title. AI Data
Center project secretly sucked twenty nine million gallons of water
over fifteen months before detected by residents complaining about low
water pressure. Officials refused to find builders of massive six
point two million square foot facility over unauthorized water use.
Speaker 4 (52:19):
They could it have stopped it secretly sucked.
Speaker 2 (52:22):
Yeah, that's a big, big ass title. Didn't need to
be that long, man. Okay, let's jump to this. The
QTS Fayetteville campus, which is also known guys as Project Excalibur,
it's among the largest data center. It's among the largest
data center developers in the county. It is currently comprised
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of thirteen buildings totally approximately six point two million square feet,
and their plans for sixteen buildings by the time they're
finished with a build out. QTS said it expects to
invest one billion dollars in the project. Oh oh, that's
why the county didn't find them, because they're going to
invest one billion dollars in the county. Construction began in
(53:06):
twenty twenty three isn't expected to be done for another
three to five years.
Speaker 4 (53:11):
Devil's in anyone. Yeah, a little bit, A little bit.
Speaker 2 (53:15):
QTS told Politico the twenty nine million gallons were consumed
during temporary construction activities including concrete work, dust control, and
site preparation. So it has nothing to do with filling
up the data center. This is just building a giant
freaking facility twenty nine million.
Speaker 4 (53:37):
How come we don't hear that surrounding other types of
construction projects, U usually gets covered up more. Maybe that's true.
I wouldn't have thought that a construction project is that. Yeah,
water use heavy.
Speaker 2 (53:50):
Yeah, well, or you know, you pay for it so
the county can prepare for that massive amount of water
to be used and people's water pressure won't go down.
Probably just tell people you're gonna do it. The company guys, though,
they're reassuring everyone. They're saying, you know, once this data
centers up and running, guys, it's a closed loop system.
(54:10):
The cooling system that they're gonna have there, it recirculates
the same water. It doesn't draw from the municipal supply
all the time booming.
Speaker 5 (54:18):
Yeah, yeah, nothing.
Speaker 2 (54:20):
Bad is gonna happen. All the water they're gonna need
is for bathrooms and kitchens.
Speaker 3 (54:24):
That's it.
Speaker 4 (54:26):
Yeah, fucking right, only good can happen.
Speaker 3 (54:30):
Only good things. Sniffer the bad ones.
Speaker 2 (54:33):
Guys, I know we're going along. We're just gonna keep
going here. We're almost done with this. It is just
crazy to see that there's a discrepancy between between what
QTS is now retroactively saying, hey, we used water for
this long, while the county is saying, oh, no, they
appear to have used it for this long. It's it's
a little strange. QTS says, oh, they were using that water,
(54:57):
those illegal hookups they had for nine to fi fifteen months.
However the county is saying, oh, it was only about
four months of illegal water usage. Think about the difference
between fifteen months of water usage for twenty nine million
gallons and four months of water usage for twenty nine
million gallons. That is a crazy rate if it's the
(55:20):
lower number to use twenty nine million gallons of water
in that time.
Speaker 3 (55:24):
It's also to the point where they could argue that
they did not knowingly do this, that oh, hey, wires
get crossed. There are a lot of moving parts, and
that's something that possibly compromised members of the local government
might support. So Matt in your research and with the
people we've talked to, do we have a general vibe
(55:46):
on how people feel about the local government. Do they
think they're in bed with this operation?
Speaker 2 (55:52):
Oh gee, people are so happy to have a data center, guys,
that's all it is everyone around the world. Just look
at your local news wherever you live. People are so
excited about these data center.
Speaker 4 (56:03):
Are you being sarcastic?
Speaker 2 (56:04):
What I'm saying? We can't wait for these things to
come in and use more energy than the entirety of
the state combined. It's cool. We all want this. We
all want all the water and all of the energy
to go to generating memes and writing things and tracking
everything we do. That's it's all we've ever wanted as
(56:25):
a species.
Speaker 4 (56:25):
And giving you a good recipe for chocolate chip cookies.
Speaker 2 (56:29):
Oh yeah, and they'll let us know all the things
we want to hear, all the things we want to hear.
Speaking of things we want to hear, check it out. Sorry,
I'm a little pissed off at these guys. Here we go.
Let's just let's just keep it going here. Despite the
unauthorized connections, Fayette County opted not to find the company.
Oh here, it is again. Vanessa said it out loud.
(56:51):
Vanessa Tigert, t I g e Ert. She's a part
of the county, and this is what she said. They're
our largest customer and we have to be partners. It's
called customer service. Gonna go ahead and throw a big
old skew to that one, because imagine if you owed
(57:12):
one hundred and fifty dollars on your water bill. You
think the county is gonna say, oh, you're a valued
customer and we get it.
Speaker 4 (57:18):
They'll shut you off after one mispayment. Yeah, yeah, and
then charge you another fee to reconnect it. Plus what
you if I owe.
Speaker 3 (57:27):
If I owe a local government two hundred and thirty
four dollars, it's my problem. If I owe the local
government two billion dollars, it's now the government's problem.
Speaker 2 (57:37):
It's just it's the kind of thing that's happening in
local local governments across the United States right now, where
people are licking boots and all about this money that's
coming in. And we get it. Local governments need money sometimes,
you I mean, you need money for everything. It's true,
but look at the bigger picture. Is what I would
(57:59):
say to anybody who's considering signing something or voting for
something where these things are coming in, really search your
soul and think about it, because it's clear these things
are bad news for everyone for everyone. Here's the cool thing, guys,
Fayetteville has already moved to restrict data center growth. They
(58:21):
voted on that before any of this happened. The city
council banned new data centers in every zoning district earlier
this year. Or it's called Ordnance twenty six O Dash twelve,
you can check it out. There's a separate proposal that
came in through this thing that I think you guys
are gonna love, the name Crow Holdings. Crow Holdings came through.
(58:42):
They wanted to develop a huge thing. That proposal was
denied by the city's Planning Commission back in January.
Speaker 4 (58:49):
Who's the CEO and then that skeletor yeah, I know, right, dude, Sorry.
Speaker 2 (58:55):
But they ended up withdrawing an appeal to that decision
back in March, so that's not going to happen. Another
cool thing in Georgia, the Georgia's Public Service Commission froze
Georgia Power's base rates all the way through twenty twenty eight.
And that is to prevent these data centers from shifting
all the electricity costs to us, the individuals, the humans,
(59:16):
the customers, the not so valued customers that we all are. Okay,
but they did do that for.
Speaker 4 (59:22):
Us, our data centers, like the new like neoprene factories.
I like, no, man, it's not pollution, it's like the opposite. Yeah,
it's extraction, but it's still there's that same nimbi attitude,
and there's that same partner mentality of like coming into
the community and selling a bill of goods only to
(59:44):
then just usurp everything and or give people cancer. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (59:50):
Yep, last thing here, guys. This QTS campus is projected
to generate somewhere between one hundred and fifty million to
two hundred million dollars annually in property tax revenue. Just
in property tax revenue. Again, you can see why local
governments are so into these things. Fayetteville is one of
(01:00:12):
at least fifty cities across the US that currently have
active bands on new data center construction, with four adopting
permanent prohibitions, according to US Data Center Moratorium Tracker. In
the whole point of this entire story today, hopefully getting
you a little frustrated angry is to send you to
a website, datacenter bans dot com. If you head on
(01:00:34):
over to datacenter bands dot com, you can track legislation
and things that are happening across the states and it
will show you. You can click on your state and
you can find out what's happening with these things and
whether or not you physically need to go take some
action and stand in a room with a bunch of
people sitting at a desk, all deciding to vote for
(01:00:57):
data centers. No matter what you say, but at least
you'll be there and at least you'll your voice will
be heard. Well.
Speaker 4 (01:01:02):
Another reason it made me think of that episode we
just did on the Cancer Alley in Louisiana was that
the ultimate, like I guess, mitigation that came from government
was no more expansion, no more building new ones. But
it's like the genies already out of the bottle at
that point, and it's like the damage is done.
Speaker 2 (01:01:24):
Have you guys ever driven from Atlanta to Peachtree City?
Probably probably much reason to go to peach Tree City.
We have some family over there. That's why I've traveled
that way.
Speaker 4 (01:01:33):
I know that I know that sort of isn't that
kind of data center alley like corridor.
Speaker 2 (01:01:39):
Well, this QTS campus is one that if you've ever
made that trip, you will know what it is. It's
on the right hand side as you're heading towards Pchtree
City from Atlanta, and it is just one of the
largest things of this kind that you'll ever see. And
you can't even see part of it that past the
(01:02:00):
stuff that's visible from the highway there, Highway fifty four.
And it's just nuts. It's nuts that we're doing this
to ourselves and we got to stop it somehow, one
way or another.
Speaker 3 (01:02:15):
That's all for me, guys, and that's all from us
this evening. Folks, Thank you, as always so much for
tuning in. Big thanks to our super producer, Dylan the
Tennessee pal Fagan, and big thanks to you in advance
for joining us on the show. We cannot wait to
hear your thoughts on the hantavirus, corruption in Georgia, data centers,
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Chinese spies and more. Please do not threaten the leader
of North Korea because they will apparently bomb us once
they figure out how to make a competent ICBM. You
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Speaker 4 (01:02:51):
Yeah, check us out on the internet by searching up
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Speaker 2 (01:03:00):
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