In this week's strange news segment: Ben and Matt explore a billionaire's mission to save Pablo Escobar's Hippos. Also, western oil profits skyrocket as the conflict in Iran continues, triggering drama in OPEC. But Ku-wait one second... the FBI investigated Bigfoot? What happened at the White House? Also, an epidemic of disappearing Chinese scientists. Tune in to learn more.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
From UFOs to psychic powers and government conspiracies. History is
riddled with unexplained events. You can turn back now or
learn the stuff they don't want you to know. A
production of iHeartRadio.
Speaker 2 (00:26):
Hello, welcome back to the show. My name is Matt.
Our colleague Nol is on an adventure, but will be
returning shortly.
Speaker 3 (00:34):
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 weekly strange news program the evening it publishes,
let us be the first to welcome you to May fourth,
(00:56):
twenty twenty six.
Speaker 2 (00:58):
We've got so worth be with you.
Speaker 3 (01:01):
Right right. It's an old code, but it checks out. Yeah,
it's gonna be May, and you know, shout outs to
Justin Timberlake. Aside, Matt always love to begin our weekly
strange news program with some good news, and maybe and
on some good news as well. So we've got a
(01:22):
breaking story from an old obsession of mine and many
other people's. Remember that time Poplo Escobar got so famous
and so powerful that he almost became the state power
of Columbia.
Speaker 2 (01:36):
You know the name is ringing a bell of some sort. Hmmm,
why don't you tell us more about this guy?
Speaker 3 (01:44):
It's a sniffing a line for sure. Pablo Escobar famous,
infamous for a lot of things. He is the basis
of so much folklore about narco traffickers, Colombian drug lord, terrorist,
later a politician, founder of the Mediine cartel, a street name,
(02:05):
the King of Cocaine. One of the wealthiest outright criminals
in history. We're talking like thirty billion dollars net worth
by the time he died. And you know, he got
into a lot of things that people don't necessarily encounter
when they hear the true crime stories about him. One
(02:26):
of those things was he was desperate to find recreation
and new, unusual fun stuff to do. One of the
fun things, or the things that he thought was fun
to do, was to import odd mass hippopotamusis the most
dangerous non human land animal. He brought them in to Columbia.
(02:48):
He died, is his life.
Speaker 2 (02:50):
Well wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait, sure,
we'll wait. Were the hippos a defensive maneuver? Was that
the idea put hippos all around the commun and make
sure like they're on the front lines.
Speaker 3 (03:05):
They were actually a recreation thing for his visitors and
for his family because like Michael Jackson, he got a
private zoo, and he originally imported four hippos for his
private zoo in the early nineteen eighties. And then when
(03:25):
the Great Cartel and the Great Escobar fell, he had
this massive compound that had primarily human security. They left
and the hippos from the zoo, along with the other creatures,
wandered his unattended estate. As you probably know, folks, if
tuned into ridiculous history, these hippos are enterprising creatures. They
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broke out of the estate. They roamed the outside area
because look, if you see a hippo in person, you
don't want to fight it. So a lot of like
the wild animal experts of Columbia see these guys and
say nope, nope, not today, not on a Wednesday, this.
Speaker 2 (04:05):
Mass just kind of leave them alone basically who they are.
Speaker 3 (04:08):
Yes, yeah, So they became a real life invasive species
and have mystified and troubled Columbia ever since. Because the ecology,
the biome of Columbia here is perfect for hippos to
breed right now are good news before we get into
the strange news is the following Matt Tennessee, a billionaire
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from India has decided to do the right thing. A
not Ambani is going to take eighty of the so
called cocaine hippos and rescue them. Kind of cool. They
were going to be cold and we're going to be murdered.
Speaker 2 (04:50):
Dang.
Speaker 3 (04:51):
Yeah, but it's not their fault. You know, they weren't
in the cartel. They're just hippos in a strange land,
a strange poe and a strange land.
Speaker 2 (05:00):
I do wonder just that motivation to raise your hand
and say, hey, you know what, I'll take the hippos.
I'm thinking about the logistics of getting the hippos somewhere. Yeah,
building the place where you're going to attempt to contain
hippos my god.
Speaker 3 (05:19):
Yeah, they don't like to be contained. They're very Dixie chicks.
They're wide open spaces, yes, but.
Speaker 2 (05:26):
One must somewhat contain the hippos if you're going to
put them somewhere, right bless, you have the same problems
that occurred on Pablo Escobar as a state. So I mean,
I'm just thinking about, Oh my god, the food, the
amount of kilos of food that they will need on
a daily basis.
Speaker 3 (05:44):
They're runtime.
Speaker 4 (05:45):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (05:46):
We want to shout out CNN's journalist Annabella Gonzolez as
well as Fernando Ramos. The thing is, folks, this is
the guy who can save the hippos. He has founded
a conservation center called Vantara. This is not his first
wildlife rescue Rodeo. Vontara has more than one hundred and
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fifty thousand animals from over two thousand wildlife species. Aside
from the like putting the maritime construction aside, this guy's
basically building Noah's Ark, and so he's bringing not two hippos,
but eighty. They take every Folks, take every logistical note
Matt just made and times it by eighty, he says.
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He says something that really stands out. He says in
a social media post, these eighty hippos did not choose
where to be born, nor did they create the circumstances
they now face. These animals are living, sentient beings, and
if we have the capacity to save them through a
safe and humane solution, we have the responsibility to try.
Right on, man.
Speaker 2 (06:53):
Yep, right on. Well, the hippos really are cool animals,
and I only remember it from our planet Earth days
spend back at Discovery really getting into the hippo universe
and watching these creatures just hanging out and I guess
what you'd call a large pond or you know, almost
a lake, and just how incredible they are. But well,
(07:18):
the other thing that strikes me from those documentaries is
the danger that you were talking about, the top that
they present. But you know, hey, you're right, good news.
Speaker 3 (07:30):
Good news for the hippos overall, also good news for
the local population in that area of Columbia, because how
great is it to wake up and you've got all
your regular day to day human problems, but now you
have one less You don't have to worry about a
hippo ambush, which has been front of mind for those
folks for a long time.
Speaker 2 (07:51):
It reminds you of the Jurassic Park scene. And no
spoilers necessarily here. I think it was in the trailer,
but there's an instance where the veloci raptor wrangler fellow,
which we know now we're probably more like utah raptors,
not tiny little velociraptors, but he's in. He is attempting
to not really hunt the raptors, but he is going
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in through their enclosure, and he spies that one one
raptor out in the distance, just a little ways away
from him in the front, and then another one comes
at him from the side. But I just imagine those
now being hippos superimposed over that scene, and I just
imagine his famous line, clever girl. That's it.
Speaker 3 (08:35):
Yeah, and this is a clever guy. So thank you
for the good news and not I'm bani. We have
so much more strange news to get to. We're going
to endeavor to end on a good note in this
week's program. Before we do any of that, we're gonna
pause for a word from our sponsors, and then we're
gonna dive into the what do you think the Texas
(08:58):
Tea Bubbling Crew? Where do we Let's.
Speaker 2 (09:01):
Take a big old sip, and we've returned, heading our
way out of the good news portion, We're gonna we're
gonna tread through some deep waters here. Let's begin with
a piece coming out of Sky News on April twenty eighth,
(09:22):
twenty twenty six, that's yesterday. As we're recording the title
of the article is oil giant BP announces huge rise
in profits in first results since Iran War. Let's jump
into it a little bit, ben and then we'll pause
in between. Has some discussion here. There's just a lot
to get through. The oil and gas producing giant BP
(09:44):
has recorded more than a doubling of profits as it
benefits from high prices from the Iran war. BP has
recorded more than doubling of profits as it benefits from
the Iran war. Just wanted to repeat that part because
just really letting that sinc in. Just as the as
(10:06):
the premise of this concept an oil company benefiting from war,
it goes on. Oil prices have soared since early March
as at tax led to the effective closure of the
Strait of Horror, moves through which about a fifth of
the world's oil and liquefied natural gas flows. The first
three months of BP's financial year, that's January February March
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show its underlying profits hit three point one nine to
eight billion. This is even better than analyst predictions of
two point seven billion and a year earlier in twenty
twenty five. In that same timeframe, their profits came out
at one point three eight one billion, so again a
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doubling year over year. Not I mean, some things have changed,
but the primary thing that's changed is the US Israel
war against Iran.
Speaker 3 (10:58):
So it started on February twenty eighth exactly.
Speaker 2 (11:02):
So here's the big thing. It made such high profits
during those three months, with oil averaging about eighty two
dollars and eighty cents a barrel for the benchmark Brint crude,
which means, as you just said, Ben, BP has not
yet fully benefited from the expensive oil that is happening
(11:24):
right now that is topping well over one hundred dollars
a barrel. When we last checked today, it was around
one hundred and four dollars per barrel for that benchmark crude,
which makes you realize, oh, like that number doesn't even
reflect the big one that will be coming out very
soon for the next couple of quarters for BP and
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likely several other large gas producing multinational corporations. The article
goes on to say BP has not been badly hit
by war in the Middle East because most of its
production is in North America, which means it can benefit
from those higher prices while experiencing minimal disruption from the
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strait of horror moves closure, which is hitting a lot
of other companies oil companies, both national and international corporations,
which puts BP kind of in that catbird seat. It
means that BP and others like them are strategically poised
to really make crazy profits while others are suffering. As
(12:35):
of this recording, BP's share price was up about two
and a half percent. That's again yesterday, Tuesday, April twenty eighth,
which is just great news for shareholders, just great news.
And it may you may ask yourself, wait, am I
a shareholder? Am I?
Speaker 3 (12:53):
Sure? You might not know if you are depending upon
your retirement investment options because pensions are gone in the
United States. So now you have a four oh one
k that can often be a black box if you
do not pay attention to it.
Speaker 2 (13:08):
A part of some huge mutual fund. Because we do
know the folks who are reaping the rewards. Name a
couple here, sure, State Street Corporation, Fisher Asset Management, black
Rock Incorporated. Oh wait here, here are the good ones
we always mentioned because they're always on these lists. Goldman Sachs,
Morgan Stanley, the Royal Bank of Canada, Sick and again,
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dozens and dozens of mutual funds.
Speaker 3 (13:34):
Oh, Canada is getting basically Norway with it.
Speaker 2 (13:37):
Oh yeah, yeah, oh oh yeah. The article goes on
to make the pretty obvious statement that the longer oil
prices remain elevated again at over one hundred dollars a barrel,
the worse the cost of living for everyone else is
going to be on households and on businesses. Mm hmm,
(13:57):
mostly mostly households. That's that's the one. You're in that,
I'm in, Ben's in, We're all in, Dylan's in that one.
We're all in a household right now. And it's gonna
get worse for us, but it's going to keep getting better.
It seems like. In fact, the energy price cap, that
is the amount of money you are likely to spend
on energy as either a homeowner or one that lives
(14:19):
in a place, it's expected to rise by hundreds of
dollars in July for everybody.
Speaker 3 (14:26):
Nice for ever. Yeah, we know that so many people
in the world overall are saying, I have so much
extra money. Oh yeah, where do I could I spend this? Somewhere?
I do want to share, Matt, because I know we've
both been following this story. These developments great interest, perhaps
from different angles, but I want to share a phenomenal
(14:47):
quote from the current CEO BP, Meg O'Neill. This gives
us a look inside just how demanding corporations can be.
You would think this is, as we said, a year
over year absolute when you would think there would be
a little bit of crowing, a little bit of congratulations,
(15:08):
a little bit of hey guys, steady on right, let's
go further in.
Speaker 2 (15:13):
Like a company wide email that's just like says all
the great things that are in your company's email signature.
Speaker 3 (15:18):
Right right after saying don't worry about rumors. So BP
says in their statement by CEO O'Neill says something that
doesn't sound very celebratory. Instead it sounds demanding to my perspective. Quote, overall,
our business continues to run well. This was another quarter
(15:39):
of strong operational and financial delivery, and we made further
progress towards our twenty twenty seven targets. So not even
acknowledging that a war in which thousands have already died
made a bumper crop for these people, instead saying, yeah,
we're on the way because we got some crazy plan
(16:01):
for twenty twenty seven. Thank you for the beep, Dylan,
you know what I mean, like looking towards the future.
Speaker 2 (16:08):
Yeah, oh yeah, well least helpful way they're looking towards Venezuela. Baby.
Oh yeah, Straighthord moves has nothing to do with that
because they are quote actively pursuing authorization for cross border
natural gas projects in Venezuela, just as a reminder, and
that hasn't panned out yet. That's just getting started. Hm.
Speaker 3 (16:26):
And also shout out good dues again. FedEx and UPS
I believe have vowed that they are going to refund
the tariff expenses you paid really ship through them. They
say that, but you know, BP says a lot of
stuff too, blah blah, and the US say a lot
of stuff. That's crazy to have two entities talking about
(16:50):
the same series of events in the good very clearly
like Susian level contradictory ways.
Speaker 2 (16:58):
Yeah yeah, oh Ben. One other thing BP said, according
to that article is that their effective tax rate on
profits last year in twenty twenty five was effectively again
they use that word effectively, around sixty nine percent. So
tax on profits last year of sixty nine percent, you
know what they said it was this year so far?
(17:19):
What's that effectively forty three percent. Oh dang, good for you, BP.
Oheah crap.
Speaker 3 (17:27):
Also, can somebody check on the word effectively check it's back,
because it's carrying a lot in those sentences. You know
what I mean? Effectively, my need a chiropractor. We're kidding,
don't go to chiropractice. Everybody's getting strays today, man, everybody's
getting a strange out today.
Speaker 2 (17:42):
Well that that word effectively I don't have you know,
I'm no comptroller.
Speaker 3 (17:46):
Okay, not mission that I believe in, you bro.
Speaker 2 (17:50):
But it has to do with all the various taxes
that a company like BP deals with when they're operating
in all these different places. And there are specific windfall
taxes when you operate in cert in countries there that
are levied specifically on profits. And you know Russia and
Ukraine is in there as well. Like issues with that,
(18:10):
Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, they're having it. BP's dealing with
a lot, you guys. But again, they did a great job.
They lowered their effective tax rate. Amazing, amazing. Yeah, Just
a quick little we're talking about some quotes here, Just
a quick quote from the same article. This one comes
from a person named Patrick Gaily who is the head
(18:34):
of News Investigations at NGO Global Witness. NGO Global Witness,
that sounds weird to me. A non governmental organization, Global Witness.
That's just so generic. Good quote though here it is
oil companies destroy the climate, push up the cost of living,
and rake in billions in profits while innocent civilians die.
(18:58):
It's well overdue the we make oil companies pay for
the damage they're doing. If they broke it, they need
to fix it. It's clear they can afford to God, Yeah.
Speaker 3 (19:09):
Yeah, I mean it's correct. It's not gonna happen. It
is correct.
Speaker 2 (19:13):
It's not gonna happen.
Speaker 3 (19:14):
It's kind of like it's kind of like when you
have a quite precrude, precocious child clearly point out the
problems in society and say something like one of the
questions I love. I get this often on career days
is hey, if all those big buildings in the city
are empty at night, why do people have to sleep outside?
(19:36):
And I'm like, oh, god, kid.
Speaker 2 (19:38):
Hey, great observation, great question.
Speaker 3 (19:41):
Why don't we just give people a place to sleep?
You know what I'm going to tell you this middle
school is gonna be weird for you, And I can't
wait for you to become an anarchist. Oh and when
you hit college, Oh man, you'll be insufferable.
Speaker 2 (19:56):
Don't listen to Rage against the Machine. You'll get two
woke too fast. It'll all be over.
Speaker 3 (20:02):
Do it now. Fourth, if you were listening to this
show for some reason, Rage against the Machine, tell your parents.
Ben and Matt said it was okay.
Speaker 2 (20:11):
Oh god, it's like that band you know, twenty thirty
years later is actively I was gonna say radicalizing me,
but not really, just you know, just in my mind.
Speaker 3 (20:26):
And if you want to escalate it a little bit.
As you're going through high school kids, check out Immortal Technique.
Speaker 2 (20:33):
Oh no, don't do it. Don't do that one.
Speaker 3 (20:35):
Well oh god, oh come on man, it's so good.
Speaker 2 (20:38):
Dead pres and yeah, el who else.
Speaker 3 (20:41):
Hit us up for a playlist? Folks, We got you.
And it runs across runs across genres and borders, just
like the oil trade. Oh I brought it back.
Speaker 2 (20:52):
You did, you did, Ben? While we're here, let's remain
in the oil fields. Oh but instead of you know,
all the giant reserves in the US and other parts
of the world that aren't being affected by the strait
of hormones. Let's jump to the Middle East and talk oil.
(21:12):
Little something coming out of Al Jazeera today, Actually it
was posted quote UAE leaves OPEK in below to oil
cartel amid war on Iran. Let's get the first statement
out of the way so we understand what all of
that means. Here we go, The United Arab Emirates, that's
UAE has announced its decision to quit two international oil cartels,
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the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries commonly known as OPEK,
as well as OPEK Plus. That's a secondary OPEK that
was made after the original was formed. They're doing this
to focus on national interests, dealing a heavy blow to
the oil exporting groups at a time when the US
Israel war on Iran has caused a historic energy shock
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and rattled the gl global economy. Rattled the global economy
of course, with the exception of BP, you know, oil
companies not dependent on the straight of horror moves. And
of course the defense contractors and weapons manufacturers and some
other key sectors. Oh and also the shareholders in general.
The shareholders they're doing great somehow.
Speaker 3 (22:19):
Oh nice? Oh good? We should send them a card?
Should we should send them like a giving Tuesday card
or something that's greed great idea. We also need to
explain really quick, folks, because I know this can be confusing.
So you hear all kinds of international organizations or institutions
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like G seven or G seven plus in certain number
here of other other countries. The mean girls like OPEK
is entirely founded not to propagate oil, but to restrict
oil supplies and to fix prices. That is why OPEK exists.
OPEC Plus is a franchise. It's a spinoff like ted
(23:01):
X from Ted talks OPEC plus like right now, OPEC
Proper has twelve countries, primarily from the Emmy from the
Middle East, soon to have eleven, soon to have eleven,
right they're breaking up. Shout out Uee, shout the Emirates.
OPEC Plus is a spinoff that has ten more countries
(23:24):
with it, also oil producers. But like Russia is not
OPEK Proper, Russia's OPEC plus.
Speaker 2 (23:30):
Yes, well, and very interestingly, if you look at those
member states for both of the cartels, and they are
actually cartels, they're called cartels.
Speaker 3 (23:39):
They're fine with us saying it as well.
Speaker 2 (23:41):
We checked, Yes, price fixing organizations or price fixing handshake deal. Basically,
if you look at OPEK, the original Saudi Arabia is
the number one crude oil production country in that group
with eight point nine to six million barrels of oil
produced per day. Number two is Iraq with three point
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eight six million barrels. Then you've also got Iran, Kuwait, Nigeria, Libya, Venezuela, Algeria, Congo, Gabon,
Equatorial Guinea, and for a short time the UAE. But
the UAE was producing two point nine to two million
barrels of oil per day, coming in at number four
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in the hierarchy there of production.
Speaker 3 (24:28):
It's a big loss for an impact. And also additionally, folks,
you have to we have to recognize that a lot
of our fellow astute conspiracy realists just at a moment
where we went what Libya from earlier, Venezuela, Libya from earlier,
Venezuela from earlier. You can kill a person, but you
(24:48):
can't kill an industry. So as soon as Gadafia Madudo
went down, the folks in these boardrooms immediately conspired to
slice up the pie dude.
Speaker 2 (25:01):
And you might also hear Iraq on that list and
Iran and Kuwait, Wait, aren't these Kuwaits? Yeah?
Speaker 3 (25:11):
Aren't these kuwait one? Yeah?
Speaker 2 (25:13):
Wait one second. I seem to remember a war in
Iraq a long time ago when George Bush Senior was president,
had something to do with Iraq and Kuwait when we
went over there. I seem to remember an invasion of
Iraq another time that the US did. I seem to
remember a current war in Iran. This is weird. It
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feels like there's some kind of deep connection between the
US military and some of these Opeq countries.
Speaker 3 (25:43):
And that's our show, folks. Thank you so much for
tuning it. No, you're You're absolutely on the money, dude.
We've talked about this low these many years. The answers
are apparent for anyone who is looking at the facts,
who is following the money, who has not been successfully
brainwashed by one ideology or another. The money moves Black
(26:06):
Monday Murders is one of the best fictional adaptations of
what is happening now throughout the world. It will affect you,
it will touch you. It does not really matter who
you vote for now. You should still vote right, and
you should vote your conscience whatever works out best for
you, your community, your household, your idea of how the world
(26:27):
should be. But you also need to understand there is
an entirely separate echelon of voting and influence. As Carlin
once noted George Carlin, a philosopher often confused with a
stand up comedian, it's a club and you are not
in it, right, And this is what we're seeing when
the rubber hits the road. Confessions of economic hit Man.
(26:50):
I'm just gonna say it. Look up the book, man. No,
it's happening now, Ben.
Speaker 2 (26:54):
I have heard from this guy named Zach and the
structure is set. You'll never change it with a ballot pull.
I've heard that once.
Speaker 3 (27:06):
Yeah, Professor de la Rocca.
Speaker 2 (27:09):
Oh, yes, okay, But voting is important.
Speaker 3 (27:13):
Voting is important because democracy is eternally imperiled, especially now
as we approach what I would call the neo feudalism
of technogarchy. Not to throw out too many fancy words,
but that's the best way to put it. Especially as
we approach that, we see that the people in power
(27:33):
love the sheep's wull of appearing to exercise the democratic process,
but fight tooth, tentacle and claw to prevent democracy in action.
So again, this is more a. I know this sounds
like a very political point, but please note, folks that
Matt Tennessee and yours truly are not citing specific parties here.
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We're telling you how the system purports to operate is
inherently different from how the system actually operates. So if
we're in charge of the UAE and we see all
this crap in the wind, and we know that we
have an economy incredibly reliant on a single, single palpable resource,
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then logically, if we game it out, we're going to
do everything we can to make sure the UAE subsist
as a sovereign entity. We're not going to stand on
a sinking boat. Have you ever been to a house
party and the vibe is bad, Remember you can just leave.
The vibe got bad, and the UA said, I'm going,
(28:41):
you know, I have a good time. Guys, good luck
with this sinking shit.
Speaker 2 (28:47):
Oh yeah, there is something to be noted here from
that same article from Al Jazeera. He's going to read
this to see what we think about this, says. Additionally,
the UAE and Saudi Arabia have an increasingly competed over
economic issues and regional politics, particularly in the Red Sea area.
The two countries had joined together in a coalition to
(29:09):
fight against Yemen's Iran backed Hoothy rebels in twenty fifteen. However,
that coalition broke down into recriminations in late December when
Saudi Arabia bombed what it described as a weapons shipment
bound for you many separatists backed by the UAE. I
don't know the full context of all that, and I
(29:30):
need to brush up on some reporting, probably from Al
Jazeera and some other outlets and maybe Katari news, just
things that are coming out of there, because I know
weird stuff has gone down. I know Katar got out
of Opek fairly recently. Yeah, well there's some weird stuff
going on with Opek. The primary thing I was thinking
(29:51):
about ben and I haven't made the connection fully here,
but Saudi Arabia is the big dog in Opek.
Speaker 3 (29:59):
Big dog. You got to eat bro Big dog's.
Speaker 2 (30:02):
Gotta eat big dog. Also noticed that the US is
doing a lot of intervention in the Middle East and
countries that are not Saudi Arabia but are a part
of its you.
Speaker 3 (30:11):
Know, cartel influence.
Speaker 2 (30:14):
And then I remembered that thing. What was that thing
that happened in two thousand and one or something went down. Uh,
it was like a nine to eleven. We found out
much later after that that a lot of the folks
potentially involved or accused to be involved in that were
from Saudi Arabia, And there were later revelations that Saudi
(30:36):
Arabian intelligence may have been involved in the planning of
some of that. And it's making me wonder how much
that action could actually be related to oil and actions
that are being taken in the sphere of influence out
there in Saudi Arabia. Yeah, and then how much that
could be in some weird way or response to what's
(30:57):
happening even now in Iran.
Speaker 3 (31:00):
I would suggest, or my old professors would suggest that
we all consider this not in terms of isolated one
off instances or in terms of isolated one off reactions.
What we're studying instead is a mechanism of response and
interaction and engagement. So, in the case of Saudi Arabian
(31:21):
and raising excellent points here, it is proven, though not
widely acknowledged in Western media, that the back channels are
quite active. So Saudi intelligence is working closely with Mossad,
Saudi intelligence is working closely with American intelligence, and what
(31:41):
the Saudi government is saying publicly, either to the larger
global order or to its domestic population, definitely does not
match what they are saying in those back rooms. Right.
The Middle East is a bag of badgers. A lot
of that is due to colonialism, that is inescapable and
(32:02):
resource extraction. But also we have to remember that a
lot of the divisions far predate European colonialism. Like these
different tribes and clans were very beefed up with each
other well before BP got into the game, and BP
(32:23):
leveraged the chaos as BP is doing now to great effect.
Speaker 2 (32:29):
Man, that makes a lot of sense, Ben.
Speaker 3 (32:31):
I wish it didn't. I wish it didn't.
Speaker 2 (32:34):
I do wonder about the UAE getting out of OPEK
and whether or not that could be some kind of
reading of the writing on the wall when you look
at those OPEC member states and you look at the
top group that's all been attacked by the US or
by Western forces, and perhaps them just saying, hey, we're
(32:57):
not a target. We're gonna do our own thing over here.
So yeah, go ahead, and you guys move up, you
do what you need. Hey, we're just gonna step out.
Speaker 3 (33:05):
Like when J. Cole blowed out of the Kendrick Drake
Beef just said, hey, hey, you guys do your thing.
Speaker 2 (33:12):
I would call it a century.
Speaker 3 (33:14):
Yeah. But also also with that, I know we're running
along on this when, folks, there's much more to get
to in this story. You also need to be aware
to that earlier point about public statements versus true desired outcomes.
It is quite possible, and a lot of analysts friends
of ours have been looking into this. It is quite
(33:36):
possible that the UAE is exercising kind of a bargaining
move right, kind of los so, kind of saying, uh, yeah,
we're gonna leave unless we're the strange news is audio, So, folks,
what you need to know I'm doing is that pretending
to walk away. I'm sort of like incesciently putting my
(33:57):
head back over my shoulder. We're gonna leave opek less
unless of what yeah right, unless we get what we want.
So grateful that we're bringing this up. I know it's
got to be on so many of our minds, fellow
conspiracy realists not.
Speaker 2 (34:16):
But how could this be? My only thing is, how
could this even be on our minds when such a
high level thing like the correspondence dinner shooting, and then
the following release of the manifesto, and then the you know,
all of the zone flooding that is occurring right now.
It does feel like this is kind of slipping underneath
(34:36):
the rest of it because there is an active conflict,
an active hot zone, military action, war, whatever you want
to call it. There's so much going on that this
stuff isn't at least maybe I'm just missing the parts
of the news and the shorts on Instagram and all
the other stuff where people are discussing opek and moves
(34:57):
like that, or BP's profits. I just don't watch enough
of the market Watch and all of those things. I'm
sure it is being discussed, but it's being discussed by
folks who pay attention to those things. You know, it's
not hitting the zeitgeist in the same way.
Speaker 3 (35:12):
I'll give you a source that I'll give us all
a source that is worth your time. It's called Stratford Intelligence.
I know, yes, yeah, s t R A t fo R.
Check out Stratford Intelligence. They definitely have an angle. They
are Western based and they come from that perspective. But
that will give you some insight, folks that you're simply
(35:35):
not going to see on your news source Djure, on
your ground news, or your conservative news or your liberal news.
Even the economist is not as good as Stratford.
Speaker 2 (35:48):
Amazing, Thank you Ben, well as all of us create
accounts with Stratford. Let's take a quick break here, a
word from our sponsor. We're not sponsored by Stratford, but
we'll be right back when more Strange.
Speaker 3 (36:05):
And we have returned. Fellow conspiracy realists, welcome back to
a weekly Strange news segment. Now I know what a
lot of us are saying, fellow conspiracy realist. I've got
a specific take on this stuff that Ben and Matt
and Tennessee are reporting here. I want to go on
the internet and have my ideas treated as just what
(36:26):
they are, ideas, so people won't associate me as a source,
because we know, unfortunately a lot of times, especially now,
people will react not to the substance or merit of
an idea, but to the source of that idea. Right, So,
if you don't like someone then they have a good idea,
you're going to dismiss it until you hear it from
(36:46):
another place, right, Dude.
Speaker 2 (36:48):
It's like if a journalist that you're having an interview
with baths directly from a manifesto and your response is
you're a journalist.
Speaker 3 (36:59):
That that's interesting, mister Ike, because we were quoting you
in that question. So look, you can still get away
with this in a lot of places as long as
you're not too high value a target. But soon you
will not be able to get away with it. In Greece,
who is speed running a police state? That is right.
(37:20):
The nation of Greece is set to ban anonymity on
all social media. Their Digital Governance minister said the major
problem behind anonymity is toxicity. And now I want to
be honest, folks, I agree with that. Shout out to
the journalist over at your Active san Ritis, Michael Aplos,
(37:40):
who is breaking the story about about Greece cracking down
on being anonymous online, and they're raising great points. I'm
still more on the side of anonymity being important, not
to sound too news, but now more than ever, anonymity
(38:03):
is power right because it's one of the last vestiges
of privacy.
Speaker 2 (38:08):
I hear you, and I totally see that point. I
think I do not think you're wrong. This is a
really tough thing to argue because we know that that
anonymity that can be such a power is used as
a power by people for terrible.
Speaker 3 (38:24):
Things one hundred percent. Man. Yeah, Like in our YouTube days,
I used to have a thing where I think we
both did where we would have to sit down and
let people know that we actually do read the comments,
and that led us to some delightful situations where I'm like,
you know, that's a great point about the eighteen hundreds
US policy towards the gold standard butt Surf ninety nine
(38:48):
x sixty nine, we appreciate your time. And then butt
Surf ninety nine x sixty nine would write back and say,
oh my gosh, guys, here's another paper I think we
should read, and I'm like, what is your real they do?
I can't call you butt when we meet in person,
and mister sixty nine, oh good.
Speaker 2 (39:08):
Way, Hey now that works that dope.
Speaker 3 (39:11):
Yeah. But also to your point, yeah, it encouraged we
know you and I have read studies that prove when
people feel they are not personally identified with a statement,
they will tend to go extra right. They'll say things
that they would not have said if you knew for sure.
(39:31):
Hey that's Noel Brown.
Speaker 2 (39:34):
Oh yeah, the thing I'm thinking about is that this
type of the loss of anonymity we're discussing is primarily
on things like social media accounts, in comment sections, in
places where you are accessing the Internet in the way
the folks, the Googles of the world hope that you
(39:56):
are accessing the Internet and using the same sites and
apps and things. Right. We are not talking about losing
the anonymity when you're using the Onion router to access
other parts of the Internet, right, because that would be impossible.
You cannot do that, at least at this point, I
don't think, because those are the realms in the Internet
(40:18):
that is the where the terrifying stuff happens, where anonymity
truly is like a part of some evil means of
getting things done that are you know, abhorrent to humanity.
We're talking of course, about child abuse, We're talking about
(40:39):
selling of humans. We're talking about like the really truly
icky stuff, weapons deals, things like that, which are real
and do happen via a form of the Internet, just
not the world Wide Web version of it. And you
know interconnected apps that we use that are all forward.
Speaker 3 (40:56):
Facing, right, Yeah, we're talking about specifically a social media ban,
so they're a social media ban on anonymity and we again, folks.
You can tell this has been a real pickle, a
real sticky wicket for us in for years at this point,
(41:16):
over a decade now, we've been asking a question that
essentially boils down to freedom versus security, right, and this
is a question that the smartest minds on the planet
have never been able to answer. If they are asking
a good faith pretty much everybody who thinks they have
the answer is asking in bad faith and trying to
(41:38):
get whatever their predetermined opinion was to make sense for them.
Shout out Peter Thiel Palaeer, don't get us, but thanks
for tuning in.
Speaker 2 (41:49):
I mean, I've been I could see how this theoretically
could counteract the types of instances we've seen where someone
who is involved in, let's say, a school shooting had
previously made some kind of remarks publicly via social media
that would tend to lead someone into thinking, hey, perhaps
(42:10):
this person needs to be looked at, or at least
maybe not fully investigated, but at least checked out by
some authority.
Speaker 3 (42:19):
Escalated past the automated Hoover sectioning and up to getting
like a Steve the Intern or an analyst a human
to look at it and say, hey, is this guy
really aiming for the McDonald's in a month? Yeah, and
we have a small army of people who do that.
Speaker 2 (42:37):
Oh yeah, but you are also you're talking about restricting
that anonymity that might lead someone to post something that
they feel strongly about, but that maybe goes counter to
let's say, what an administration would want you to think
about or say, or you know, a company would want
(43:00):
you to say out loud. And if we're talking about
unmasking those folks, we really are talking about restricting open
thought in a lot of ways.
Speaker 3 (43:12):
Right freedom of speech, what does it entail? What protections,
roles and responsibilities are included? So back to our guy,
the Minister of Digital Governance who was quoted in this
your active article is named Demitrius Papas di Guieru. I
excuse my pronunciation. Not a native Greek speaker, still learning English.
(43:33):
I love it though, you guys did a great job
on that one. Demitra says, quote, in ancient Greece, everyone
could express their opinion openly and by name. They would
raise their hand and share their view. This should inspire
us as we shape a new digital democracy. Inspiring words, right,
(43:54):
and I love the citation of exactly the problem with
freedom of speech that we're discussing exploring here tonight. The
issue is everything else. This statement doesn't say that we
just brought up right like what if you what if
you live in Cyprus, right in Turkey and Greece are
(44:15):
still very beefed over that one. What if you live
in Cyprus and you have an opinion that one of
those governments doesn't like they can get you? Also add
to that, Greece is I'll say it. I love Greek food,
I love Greek culture, I've got I actually have several
Greek friends. Naming the number would make me sound somehow discriminatory,
(44:36):
but I know Greek people. I kind of understand Greece
and idiots cartoonishly corrupt, like who should hold the keys
on identities? Here? Is it a country that is so
corrupt it routinely fumbles the bag with the EU? Is
(44:56):
it the place? Is it the country where the average
citizen will tell you you are stupid for paying taxes
and you could just get around it? Are these the
Are these the involuble leaders of the next stage of
digital democracy? I am Jack's lack of enthusiasm. I am
Jack's preponderance of cynicism.
Speaker 2 (45:18):
It is interesting to see this concept of democracy, republic, democracy,
like all these things kind of just happen. They've been
doing it for a longer, much longer time than fifty years.
Speaker 3 (45:32):
They Yeah, we're the young kids, so.
Speaker 2 (45:35):
Like just seeing at this point, like where where where
that society is going? And this is headed and you
know what is the what can we glean as the
younger folks in the group here, It's that alsocratic method
thing really does feel like a good call.
Speaker 3 (45:55):
Yeah, yeah, Also, we want to hear your thoughts conspiracy.
I heard dot com. But we do have one thing
to say aside from this great debate, and we do
need your help with this one, folks, freedom versus security.
Please let us know if you can solve the riddle
with one important caveat there is a single entity that Tennessee,
(46:21):
Matt and yours truly never want to be identified a myth,
a legend, an awesome hang. It's bigfoot, just wet bigfoot,
feed on, you know, come on. We learned recently thanks
to some great work by Andrew Daniels writing for Popular Mechanics.
We tease this in a previous episode, well, an episode
(46:47):
that may be publishing either right before this or soon
after the demonic possession of LaToya Ammon's and family. It's
a true story. The FBI secretly investigated Bigfoot. So if
you're ever worried about where your tax dollars go, just
know sometimes we're doing cool stuff.
Speaker 2 (47:09):
Now hold on a second.
Speaker 3 (47:11):
Kuwait a second, Yeah.
Speaker 2 (47:12):
Kuwaite a second. The FBI investigated four real Z's Bigfoot. Yes, yeah,
when was this been?
Speaker 3 (47:21):
So you can go to one of our favorite sites.
Still somehow not a sponsor of stuff they don't want
you to know. The FBI Vaults, which is a compilation
of FOYA Freedom of Information Act request. They have a
relatively short read file. It's twenty two pages on Bigfoot
and it is documenting an investigation dating back to the seventies.
(47:46):
But it didn't go It didn't fully get attention until
quite recently. The FBI Vault, it's so worth your time.
It's so weird, folks, because you will see scans were
PDFs of files that are in handwriting, so they can
sometimes be difficult to read. Matt and I can confirm this.
(48:07):
We spend a lot of time on the FBI vault
site and other related sites. What what you can find
in there, if you know what you're looking for, is astounding, phenomenal, terrifying,
little bit inspiring. The FBI apparently concluded that one Bigfoot
(48:27):
is dead and two Bigfoot might have been real.
Speaker 2 (48:33):
Yeah, okay, are we talking Are we talking about agents
out in the field looking for Bigfoot or are we
talking about forensics? What what are we looking at here?
Speaker 3 (48:44):
Let's build up to it. So we've got to We've
got to give you a quote. It's a little bit long,
but you can read this a popular Mechanics as well
as on the FBI site, and you can read Bigfoot's
official file. This is from Peter c. Burn, the director
of the Bigfoot Information Center and Exhibition. He says, will
(49:04):
you kindly to set the record straight once and for
all inform us if the big if the FBI has
examined hair which might be that of a Bigfoot, when
this took place, if it did take place, what the
results of the analysis were. Please understand that our research
here is serious. This is dated nineteen seventy six. This
(49:26):
is typical language for what you would read in a
FOIA request. And now we see Yeah.
Speaker 2 (49:33):
Does that mean Peter c. Burn sent hair to the
FBI or somebody sent hair to the FBI for analysis.
Speaker 3 (49:42):
Yeah, he says. He says, we do not often come
across hair which we are able to identify. And the
hair that we have now about fifteen hairs attached to
a tiny piece of skin, is the first we've obtained
in six years which we feel maybe of importance. And
the FBI wrote back and they said, you can also
(50:02):
see like a little scan of the hair. They say,
we primarily conduct exams for law enforcement agencies and connection
with criminal investigations, but for you guys as a treat,
we're going to dig into it. We are going to
analyze this stuff, just like that old scalp that the
(50:24):
Sherpas claimed was the Yetti or Bible snowman, remember that one.
Speaker 2 (50:28):
So it stinks that Scully wasn't working there yet in
seventy six, seventy seven.
Speaker 3 (50:35):
I mean, I respect Scully, but I identify with Molder, you know.
Speaker 2 (50:39):
Yeh yeh yeah, yeah.
Speaker 3 (50:40):
If we have Molder in there, Molder would be all
over this one. Come up, we need the Fox, call
in the Fox. Here's the deal. This is kind of
a hokey thing. But ultimately, if you believe the FBI,
they concluded that the lab now of the hairs was
(51:03):
not from a hominid of some sort nor from a humanoid.
It was of deer family origin. That's what they wrote
back to Burn. But they did seriously investigate it. It's
so cool. It makes me wonder what other kakamamie strange
things the FBI has investigated. Some guy writes to you
and says, I'm a time traveler. We're gonna meet yesterday
(51:27):
to talk about this, right. Oh God, I know that
you have that beautiful mind moment and you're thinking, Oh,
that was the guy I talked to.
Speaker 2 (51:37):
Oh dude, I've wanted to talk with you about something, Ben.
I don't want to go on a giant tangent.
Speaker 3 (51:42):
Sure.
Speaker 2 (51:43):
When's the last time you watched T two Judgment Day.
It's been years and years.
Speaker 3 (51:49):
It has been years and years.
Speaker 2 (51:51):
Okay, rewatch it recently? Okay noticed the time because of
that that we looked. I'm not spoiling things here. That
is a time travel movie. It is based on time travel,
and you got accept that to accept everything else in
the movie. Upon rewatching, I realized that the tech used
to create the first robots and the AI thing, and
(52:16):
even the microchip that's recovered from when the first terminator dies.
That's the thing that creates everything. So in order for
the Terminator to be created, it had to first go
back in time. Yes, And I just started thinking about
I racked my brain on that for so long, trying
to work out how does it actually function in this
(52:37):
world that the robots were created by the robot that
was not there until it was created.
Speaker 3 (52:44):
It just.
Speaker 2 (52:46):
Love, it makes me feel something about this, Yeah, because.
Speaker 3 (52:49):
I had mentioned this to you guys previously, the old
idea that there is a future, actual AI, right, that
is beyond linear time and that is nudging current events
and past events to guarantee its own creation. Right, And
we deal with this a lot in sci fi. I
(53:11):
know that a great deal of some of our favorite
writers and creators a shoe time travel altogether, like Dan
Harmon hates that stuff. Like Dan hates it, But it's
a fascinating thing because it's a rumpic debasement. Right, It's
like a puzzle. It's a brain breaker, but it is
(53:32):
still something worth investigating until civilization understands it. It is
right now, right now, folks, as we're recording on Wednesday,
April twenty ninth, twenty twenty six. It is impossible to
prove that AI from some future is not in fact
screwing with the present to ensure its own creation. We
(53:53):
can't prove that is not true. Which is just like
it's like the hottest sauce Matt loves. It's like the
sesame sauce for me. It's got that omami of what if.
Speaker 2 (54:03):
Yeah, dude, it's like that. It's like holding a really
important event with a bunch of really important people in
it at a hilton with no security because you need
a ballroom.
Speaker 3 (54:19):
Yeah yeah. Let's pause for a word from our sponsors,
and then we'll go right into that phenomenal segue. We've returned.
The White House Press Club is historically a good time, right.
It's like a it's a very light version of a
(54:39):
Friars Club roast. You know, you've got a president who
comes up. They're cool. They used to have stand up
comics and everybody would get a little piece, a lot
of crowd work, right, all in good fun and all
to support the idea of democracy. Recently, the United States
experienced one of the most controversial White House press club events.
Speaker 2 (55:03):
Very strange stuff that went down. It's been covered endlessly
in the news because it was the biggest news story
that occurred.
Speaker 3 (55:11):
I think it was faked. I think the assassination attempt
was faked.
Speaker 2 (55:17):
It is let's put it this way. It's very weird
how everything went down without ben me personally saying I
think it was faked. I think it is very strange
that it was at a hotel where somebody, like the
alleged shooter there was able to go stay in a
(55:39):
hotel where this event was going to take place, bring
weapons into that hotel only a few days before the event,
and then carry those weapons down into the exact spot
where this event is being held, and get close enough
to the point where secret service near one of the
main entrances stops it. Okay, that's weird as hell that
(56:03):
that could even be allowed to occur.
Speaker 3 (56:05):
All right, Well, I think I think it is important
to notice that it's always note that we must not
jump to malice when things can be explained via incompetence
or negligence. However, if you guys want me to step
it back, I would cite OJ Simpson if I killed them.
(56:26):
This is how I would do it. So if I
faked ed assassination attempt to shore up support and to
shore up distractions, then this is pretty much how I
would pull that off.
Speaker 2 (56:41):
And if I released a manifesto that is in some
ways pretty horrifying, in other ways seems to be a
highly reasoned human being talking about things in fact, making
arguments and counter arguments to reasons why not to do it?
In all these things. And it is with a you know,
(57:04):
a school teacher.
Speaker 3 (57:06):
Right, we're talking about thirty one year old Cole Thomas Allen,
who has been apprehended, has not been convicted, who was
not shot by the shot shot Yeah, did make it out,
and there.
Speaker 2 (57:17):
Is even though five shots were fired and one police
officer was hit and according to Sky and a bunch
of other outlets was potentially hit by another secret Service agent.
Speaker 3 (57:28):
Might have been some friendly fire. The manifesto has not
been proven to be that of Cole Thomas Allen, but
officials now outside of court are attributing it to him,
criticizing the policies of the current administration. Whoever writes the
manifesto refers to themselves as the friendly Federal assassin. But
(57:50):
this would be the third apparent attempt on the life
of current US president since twenty twenty four. There was
the Butler Pennsylvania attempt, there was the September twenty four
attempt in West Palm Beach, and now this is added
to This is added to the pile. A lot of
(58:11):
people have apparently been trying to assassinate this current president.
This is also interesting for fellow presidential buffs and history nerds.
It's the second assassination attempt at that Washington Hilton. The
first one was when someone attempted to assassinate an actor
(58:31):
named Ronald Reagan, who played his biggest role pretending to
be the president of the United States. Ooh, Ronald, everybody's
catching strays today, Man Wilson six. So we have eyes
on that. A lot of the news is linking this is.
First off, obviously we're happy the president is not dead.
(58:55):
We live in the United States. You don't have to
agree with the people in charge, obviously, but if it's
a democracy, means you have to use certain mechanisms to
make your voice heard. I think we don't wish death
on most people.
Speaker 2 (59:11):
Oh, absolutely, Thank goodness, nobody was hurt. There were a
lot of prominent journalists in there, including Wolf Blitzer, who
used the bathroom and heroically from a phone, let everybody
know what's going on. Watch the Daily Show.
Speaker 3 (59:22):
They have a great signess. Yeah, yeah, John did a
great job on that.
Speaker 2 (59:25):
One features the insult comic talk that you may be
familiar with, very very funny things in the light of
something potentially tragic and scary. It is highly strange to
me again that the talking points coming out of this
were not about how to better secure a location where
(59:48):
you're going to have prominent individuals and more on. Hey,
we are working on a highly secured location to have
these types of events, and we need to focus on
that and how important that is and how much money
we need for that thing, you know, just something that
was already a goal for an administration being the thing
(01:00:10):
that is most benefiting from this occurrence.
Speaker 3 (01:00:13):
Exactly. Yeah. Again, if I were genially, not specifically, like
if I were going to do a little bit of Shenanigan, ree,
if I were to create a situation, this is a
great way to do it. Like this is really a
not twenty in the game, you know, So it's like
(01:00:36):
kind of convenient. Again, We're glad, nobody's hard, nobody's dead
shout out to democracy. Let's keep the American experiment going.
Speaker 4 (01:00:45):
But also but also kol wait a second, Ben, Ben,
wait a second before we go. Yeah, Dylan shared something
in the chest that we need to look at really quickly.
Speaker 2 (01:00:57):
You want to describe it.
Speaker 3 (01:00:58):
Yeah, let's pull it up, Dylan, Can you describe it
for us?
Speaker 5 (01:01:02):
Man, Well, it may be from the X Files, and
it may be Molder examining a m Yes, yeah, a
kind of female sasquatch. Why don't we say that.
Speaker 2 (01:01:19):
Prominently female sasquatch?
Speaker 3 (01:01:21):
Should I love it? That prominently female sasquatch?
Speaker 2 (01:01:25):
This is I remember that shot, by the way.
Speaker 3 (01:01:28):
I remember too, and I remember they had to give
him glasses so it would take it seriously. But also
know that he was looking at the boobs. I didn't
tell you guys.
Speaker 6 (01:01:37):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (01:01:38):
Yeah, I don't talk too much about this kind of stuff.
But when I was over in Thailand, I was helping
out at this elephant sanctuary SQ Sanctuary, and I had
not spent time with a bunch of elephants up close.
You guys know, elephants have boobs, right, what like in
(01:01:58):
the sasquatch picture that we're looking at now, elephants have
female elephants have boops.
Speaker 2 (01:02:05):
Oh, I don't want this in my brain.
Speaker 3 (01:02:09):
Ben, Oh, that's great, So let me give you a picture.
Speaker 2 (01:02:12):
No, no, no, no, no.
Speaker 3 (01:02:13):
Yeah, we've got to we we have to just just look. Well,
we'll keep it brief. And this is now because you
didn't in joke for us. I've just got to show
you one picture. I promise it's not as disquieting as
it sounds. Okay, all right, here we go, I trust you.
Oh weird? Okay, oh see, oh my god, Okay, yeah, yeah,
(01:02:43):
it's it's a it's a thing.
Speaker 6 (01:02:44):
They look kind of like computer graphics, like psgra kind
of yeah.
Speaker 3 (01:02:50):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (01:02:51):
I I don't know why. I've been to the zoo
a lot.
Speaker 3 (01:02:56):
I know. Okay, we're gonna stop sharing there. We have
way too much to do.
Speaker 2 (01:03:03):
There is way too much elephant anatomy going on in
some of those diagrams.
Speaker 3 (01:03:07):
There beautiful, very intelligent creatures.
Speaker 2 (01:03:11):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (01:03:12):
Hung out with them extensively, and did have that moment
where I was asking somebody who lives in the area.
I was like, is this is this like a normal thing?
And they said, oh yeah, man, oh yeah yeah.
Speaker 2 (01:03:27):
Don't let homelander near any zoos exactly.
Speaker 3 (01:03:31):
Yeah, new rule. We're booking it.
Speaker 6 (01:03:33):
Hey guys, just two quick follow ups on Bigfoot if
that's cool.
Speaker 3 (01:03:37):
Oh oh yeah, yeah.
Speaker 6 (01:03:39):
That molder photo you know, and my look funny. But
you know a lot of people think that the Patterson
Gillman film shows a female.
Speaker 3 (01:03:46):
That's right, they do. Good call Tennessee.
Speaker 6 (01:03:49):
And also there's an IMDb rating for the Patterson Kimlin film.
Speaker 3 (01:03:53):
What.
Speaker 6 (01:03:54):
Yeah, you can rate it on IMDb seven point four.
Speaker 2 (01:03:56):
Iun Well, let's just remind people that you can look
that up on your own. But that is probably the
most famous footage of an alleged sasquatch out there and controversial. Yeah,
we did. We have talked about it extensively on one
of our Bigfoot episodes, whichever one that was.
Speaker 3 (01:04:16):
Yeah, at this point. Yeah, I mean look at the
movement of the arms really in the gate.
Speaker 2 (01:04:21):
Yeah, yeah, look it up. And some of the allegations
that have come out well after the film was released.
Speaker 3 (01:04:29):
Yes, and some of those allegations include confessions. Just to
be very diplomatic about that one, we had stuff we
were not going to have time to get to today.
But we're excited for you to join us in the future. Yes,
two spooks two CIA officers did die in Mexico in
a counter narcotics operation. Yes, Chinese scientists have been dying
(01:04:51):
mysterious deaths as well. There are chemical leeks that we
have to get to. And we learned about extreme style biting,
and then we, oh, I guess good news, kind of
good news. I'm on the fence about this one, Matt.
We learned that several Buddhist monks were very cool in
(01:05:11):
Sri Lanka.
Speaker 2 (01:05:12):
Yeah, you're talking about all the cannabis were found with.
Speaker 3 (01:05:16):
They did get arrested for over one hundred and ten
kilograms of cannabis and their luggage, twenty two Buddhist monks.
But they seem like a chill hanging right, Yeah.
Speaker 2 (01:05:28):
They seem so cool. Hey man, monastery plus cannabis.
Speaker 3 (01:05:33):
Right.
Speaker 2 (01:05:34):
Look, I'm not even a weed guy, but let's go.
Speaker 3 (01:05:36):
Neither neither of us are. Yeah, and also, because these
are holy people, they probably wouldn't try to pure pressure
you to smoke with them. They would just be like,
hey man, do you want to have some snacks?
Speaker 2 (01:05:50):
It makes you wonder if they're growing somewhere on the
grounds and monastery. They wouldn't do that, right, they have to. Yeah,
you kind of have to. I've got one more thing
that just came through. It's hot off the presses as
we're recording right here. Let's just slip this one under
the radar if you don't mind, look this up on
your own. This from AP News on April twenty eighth,
(01:06:12):
twenty twenty six. Former Fauci advisor indicted for allegedly concealing
communications related to COVID nineteen research. It's about a guy
named doctor David Morenz, who is currently seventy eight years old.
He's accused of using his private email to intentionally circumvent
public records laws while employed at the National Institutes of Health.
(01:06:35):
The Justice Department is alleging that he concealed or destroyed
records of discussions related to COVID nineteen research grants, including
an effort to revive a controversial coronavirus grant. It's very
interesting stuff and.
Speaker 3 (01:06:52):
We would love your opinion on this one, folks. Yeah,
that's a mic drop moment.
Speaker 2 (01:06:57):
That might be just going to hide it in here.
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Speaker 2 (00:26):
Hello, welcome back to the show. My name is Matt.
Our colleague Nol is on an adventure, but will be
returning shortly.
Speaker 3 (00:34):
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 weekly strange news program the evening it publishes,
let us be the first to welcome you to May fourth,
(00:56):
twenty twenty six.
Speaker 2 (00:58):
We've got so worth be with you.
Speaker 3 (01:01):
Right right. It's an old code, but it checks out. Yeah,
it's gonna be May, and you know, shout outs to
Justin Timberlake. Aside, Matt always love to begin our weekly
strange news program with some good news, and maybe and
on some good news as well. So we've got a
(01:22):
breaking story from an old obsession of mine and many
other people's. Remember that time Poplo Escobar got so famous
and so powerful that he almost became the state power
of Columbia.
Speaker 2 (01:36):
You know the name is ringing a bell of some sort. Hmmm,
why don't you tell us more about this guy?
Speaker 3 (01:44):
It's a sniffing a line for sure. Pablo Escobar famous,
infamous for a lot of things. He is the basis
of so much folklore about narco traffickers, Colombian drug lord, terrorist,
later a politician, founder of the Mediine cartel, a street name,
(02:05):
the King of Cocaine. One of the wealthiest outright criminals
in history. We're talking like thirty billion dollars net worth
by the time he died. And you know, he got
into a lot of things that people don't necessarily encounter
when they hear the true crime stories about him. One
(02:26):
of those things was he was desperate to find recreation
and new, unusual fun stuff to do. One of the
fun things, or the things that he thought was fun
to do, was to import odd mass hippopotamusis the most
dangerous non human land animal. He brought them in to Columbia.
(02:48):
He died, is his life.
Speaker 2 (02:50):
Well wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait, sure,
we'll wait. Were the hippos a defensive maneuver? Was that
the idea put hippos all around the commun and make
sure like they're on the front lines.
Speaker 3 (03:05):
They were actually a recreation thing for his visitors and
for his family because like Michael Jackson, he got a
private zoo, and he originally imported four hippos for his
private zoo in the early nineteen eighties. And then when
(03:25):
the Great Cartel and the Great Escobar fell, he had
this massive compound that had primarily human security. They left
and the hippos from the zoo, along with the other creatures,
wandered his unattended estate. As you probably know, folks, if
tuned into ridiculous history, these hippos are enterprising creatures. They
(03:46):
broke out of the estate. They roamed the outside area
because look, if you see a hippo in person, you
don't want to fight it. So a lot of like
the wild animal experts of Columbia see these guys and
say nope, nope, not today, not on a Wednesday, this.
Speaker 2 (04:05):
Mass just kind of leave them alone basically who they are.
Speaker 3 (04:08):
Yes, yeah, So they became a real life invasive species
and have mystified and troubled Columbia ever since. Because the ecology,
the biome of Columbia here is perfect for hippos to
breed right now are good news before we get into
the strange news is the following Matt Tennessee, a billionaire
(04:33):
from India has decided to do the right thing. A
not Ambani is going to take eighty of the so
called cocaine hippos and rescue them. Kind of cool. They
were going to be cold and we're going to be murdered.
Speaker 2 (04:50):
Dang.
Speaker 3 (04:51):
Yeah, but it's not their fault. You know, they weren't
in the cartel. They're just hippos in a strange land,
a strange poe and a strange land.
Speaker 2 (05:00):
I do wonder just that motivation to raise your hand
and say, hey, you know what, I'll take the hippos.
I'm thinking about the logistics of getting the hippos somewhere. Yeah,
building the place where you're going to attempt to contain
hippos my god.
Speaker 3 (05:19):
Yeah, they don't like to be contained. They're very Dixie chicks.
They're wide open spaces, yes, but.
Speaker 2 (05:26):
One must somewhat contain the hippos if you're going to
put them somewhere, right bless, you have the same problems
that occurred on Pablo Escobar as a state. So I mean,
I'm just thinking about, Oh my god, the food, the
amount of kilos of food that they will need on
a daily basis.
Speaker 3 (05:44):
They're runtime.
Speaker 4 (05:45):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (05:46):
We want to shout out CNN's journalist Annabella Gonzolez as
well as Fernando Ramos. The thing is, folks, this is
the guy who can save the hippos. He has founded
a conservation center called Vantara. This is not his first
wildlife rescue Rodeo. Vontara has more than one hundred and
(06:09):
fifty thousand animals from over two thousand wildlife species. Aside
from the like putting the maritime construction aside, this guy's
basically building Noah's Ark, and so he's bringing not two hippos,
but eighty. They take every Folks, take every logistical note
Matt just made and times it by eighty, he says.
(06:33):
He says something that really stands out. He says in
a social media post, these eighty hippos did not choose
where to be born, nor did they create the circumstances
they now face. These animals are living, sentient beings, and
if we have the capacity to save them through a
safe and humane solution, we have the responsibility to try.
Right on, man.
Speaker 2 (06:53):
Yep, right on. Well, the hippos really are cool animals,
and I only remember it from our planet Earth days
spend back at Discovery really getting into the hippo universe
and watching these creatures just hanging out and I guess
what you'd call a large pond or you know, almost
a lake, and just how incredible they are. But well,
(07:18):
the other thing that strikes me from those documentaries is
the danger that you were talking about, the top that
they present. But you know, hey, you're right, good news.
Speaker 3 (07:30):
Good news for the hippos overall, also good news for
the local population in that area of Columbia, because how
great is it to wake up and you've got all
your regular day to day human problems, but now you
have one less You don't have to worry about a
hippo ambush, which has been front of mind for those
folks for a long time.
Speaker 2 (07:51):
It reminds you of the Jurassic Park scene. And no
spoilers necessarily here. I think it was in the trailer,
but there's an instance where the veloci raptor wrangler fellow,
which we know now we're probably more like utah raptors,
not tiny little velociraptors, but he's in. He is attempting
to not really hunt the raptors, but he is going
(08:14):
in through their enclosure, and he spies that one one
raptor out in the distance, just a little ways away
from him in the front, and then another one comes
at him from the side. But I just imagine those
now being hippos superimposed over that scene, and I just
imagine his famous line, clever girl. That's it.
Speaker 3 (08:35):
Yeah, and this is a clever guy. So thank you
for the good news and not I'm bani. We have
so much more strange news to get to. We're going
to endeavor to end on a good note in this
week's program. Before we do any of that, we're gonna
pause for a word from our sponsors, and then we're
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(08:58):
Tea Bubbling Crew? Where do we Let's.
Speaker 2 (09:01):
Take a big old sip, and we've returned, heading our
way out of the good news portion, We're gonna we're
gonna tread through some deep waters here. Let's begin with
a piece coming out of Sky News on April twenty eighth,
(09:22):
twenty twenty six, that's yesterday. As we're recording the title
of the article is oil giant BP announces huge rise
in profits in first results since Iran War. Let's jump
into it a little bit, ben and then we'll pause
in between. Has some discussion here. There's just a lot
to get through. The oil and gas producing giant BP
(09:44):
has recorded more than a doubling of profits as it
benefits from high prices from the Iran war. BP has
recorded more than doubling of profits as it benefits from
the Iran war. Just wanted to repeat that part because
just really letting that sinc in. Just as the as
(10:06):
the premise of this concept an oil company benefiting from war,
it goes on. Oil prices have soared since early March
as at tax led to the effective closure of the
Strait of Horror, moves through which about a fifth of
the world's oil and liquefied natural gas flows. The first
three months of BP's financial year, that's January February March
(10:28):
show its underlying profits hit three point one nine to
eight billion. This is even better than analyst predictions of
two point seven billion and a year earlier in twenty
twenty five. In that same timeframe, their profits came out
at one point three eight one billion, so again a
(10:48):
doubling year over year. Not I mean, some things have changed,
but the primary thing that's changed is the US Israel
war against Iran.
Speaker 3 (10:58):
So it started on February twenty eighth exactly.
Speaker 2 (11:02):
So here's the big thing. It made such high profits
during those three months, with oil averaging about eighty two
dollars and eighty cents a barrel for the benchmark Brint crude,
which means, as you just said, Ben, BP has not
yet fully benefited from the expensive oil that is happening
(11:24):
right now that is topping well over one hundred dollars
a barrel. When we last checked today, it was around
one hundred and four dollars per barrel for that benchmark crude,
which makes you realize, oh, like that number doesn't even
reflect the big one that will be coming out very
soon for the next couple of quarters for BP and
(11:47):
likely several other large gas producing multinational corporations. The article
goes on to say BP has not been badly hit
by war in the Middle East because most of its
production is in North America, which means it can benefit
from those higher prices while experiencing minimal disruption from the
(12:10):
strait of horror moves closure, which is hitting a lot
of other companies oil companies, both national and international corporations,
which puts BP kind of in that catbird seat. It
means that BP and others like them are strategically poised
to really make crazy profits while others are suffering. As
(12:35):
of this recording, BP's share price was up about two
and a half percent. That's again yesterday, Tuesday, April twenty eighth,
which is just great news for shareholders, just great news.
And it may you may ask yourself, wait, am I
a shareholder? Am I?
Speaker 3 (12:53):
Sure? You might not know if you are depending upon
your retirement investment options because pensions are gone in the
United States. So now you have a four oh one
k that can often be a black box if you
do not pay attention to it.
Speaker 2 (13:08):
A part of some huge mutual fund. Because we do
know the folks who are reaping the rewards. Name a
couple here, sure, State Street Corporation, Fisher Asset Management, black
Rock Incorporated. Oh wait here, here are the good ones
we always mentioned because they're always on these lists. Goldman Sachs,
Morgan Stanley, the Royal Bank of Canada, Sick and again,
(13:31):
dozens and dozens of mutual funds.
Speaker 3 (13:34):
Oh, Canada is getting basically Norway with it.
Speaker 2 (13:37):
Oh yeah, yeah, oh oh yeah. The article goes on
to make the pretty obvious statement that the longer oil
prices remain elevated again at over one hundred dollars a barrel,
the worse the cost of living for everyone else is
going to be on households and on businesses. Mm hmm,
(13:57):
mostly mostly households. That's that's the one. You're in that,
I'm in, Ben's in, We're all in, Dylan's in that one.
We're all in a household right now. And it's gonna
get worse for us, but it's going to keep getting better.
It seems like. In fact, the energy price cap, that
is the amount of money you are likely to spend
on energy as either a homeowner or one that lives
(14:19):
in a place, it's expected to rise by hundreds of
dollars in July for everybody.
Speaker 3 (14:26):
Nice for ever. Yeah, we know that so many people
in the world overall are saying, I have so much
extra money. Oh yeah, where do I could I spend this? Somewhere?
I do want to share, Matt, because I know we've
both been following this story. These developments great interest, perhaps
from different angles, but I want to share a phenomenal
(14:47):
quote from the current CEO BP, Meg O'Neill. This gives
us a look inside just how demanding corporations can be.
You would think this is, as we said, a year
over year absolute when you would think there would be
a little bit of crowing, a little bit of congratulations,
(15:08):
a little bit of hey guys, steady on right, let's
go further in.
Speaker 2 (15:13):
Like a company wide email that's just like says all
the great things that are in your company's email signature.
Speaker 3 (15:18):
Right right after saying don't worry about rumors. So BP
says in their statement by CEO O'Neill says something that
doesn't sound very celebratory. Instead it sounds demanding to my perspective. Quote, overall,
our business continues to run well. This was another quarter
(15:39):
of strong operational and financial delivery, and we made further
progress towards our twenty twenty seven targets. So not even
acknowledging that a war in which thousands have already died
made a bumper crop for these people, instead saying, yeah,
we're on the way because we got some crazy plan
(16:01):
for twenty twenty seven. Thank you for the beep, Dylan,
you know what I mean, like looking towards the future.
Speaker 2 (16:08):
Yeah, oh yeah, well least helpful way they're looking towards Venezuela. Baby.
Oh yeah, Straighthord moves has nothing to do with that
because they are quote actively pursuing authorization for cross border
natural gas projects in Venezuela, just as a reminder, and
that hasn't panned out yet. That's just getting started. Hm.
Speaker 3 (16:26):
And also shout out good dues again. FedEx and UPS
I believe have vowed that they are going to refund
the tariff expenses you paid really ship through them. They
say that, but you know, BP says a lot of
stuff too, blah blah, and the US say a lot
of stuff. That's crazy to have two entities talking about
(16:50):
the same series of events in the good very clearly
like Susian level contradictory ways.
Speaker 2 (16:58):
Yeah yeah, oh Ben. One other thing BP said, according
to that article is that their effective tax rate on
profits last year in twenty twenty five was effectively again
they use that word effectively, around sixty nine percent. So
tax on profits last year of sixty nine percent, you
know what they said it was this year so far?
(17:19):
What's that effectively forty three percent. Oh dang, good for you, BP.
Oheah crap.
Speaker 3 (17:27):
Also, can somebody check on the word effectively check it's back,
because it's carrying a lot in those sentences. You know
what I mean? Effectively, my need a chiropractor. We're kidding,
don't go to chiropractice. Everybody's getting strays today, man, everybody's
getting a strange out today.
Speaker 2 (17:42):
Well that that word effectively I don't have you know,
I'm no comptroller.
Speaker 3 (17:46):
Okay, not mission that I believe in, you bro.
Speaker 2 (17:50):
But it has to do with all the various taxes
that a company like BP deals with when they're operating
in all these different places. And there are specific windfall
taxes when you operate in cert in countries there that
are levied specifically on profits. And you know Russia and
Ukraine is in there as well. Like issues with that,
(18:10):
Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, they're having it. BP's dealing with
a lot, you guys. But again, they did a great job.
They lowered their effective tax rate. Amazing, amazing. Yeah, Just
a quick little we're talking about some quotes here, Just
a quick quote from the same article. This one comes
from a person named Patrick Gaily who is the head
(18:34):
of News Investigations at NGO Global Witness. NGO Global Witness,
that sounds weird to me. A non governmental organization, Global Witness.
That's just so generic. Good quote though here it is
oil companies destroy the climate, push up the cost of living,
and rake in billions in profits while innocent civilians die.
(18:58):
It's well overdue the we make oil companies pay for
the damage they're doing. If they broke it, they need
to fix it. It's clear they can afford to God, Yeah.
Speaker 3 (19:09):
Yeah, I mean it's correct. It's not gonna happen. It
is correct.
Speaker 2 (19:13):
It's not gonna happen.
Speaker 3 (19:14):
It's kind of like it's kind of like when you
have a quite precrude, precocious child clearly point out the
problems in society and say something like one of the
questions I love. I get this often on career days
is hey, if all those big buildings in the city
are empty at night, why do people have to sleep outside?
(19:36):
And I'm like, oh, god, kid.
Speaker 2 (19:38):
Hey, great observation, great question.
Speaker 3 (19:41):
Why don't we just give people a place to sleep?
You know what I'm going to tell you this middle
school is gonna be weird for you, And I can't
wait for you to become an anarchist. Oh and when
you hit college, Oh man, you'll be insufferable.
Speaker 2 (19:56):
Don't listen to Rage against the Machine. You'll get two
woke too fast. It'll all be over.
Speaker 3 (20:02):
Do it now. Fourth, if you were listening to this
show for some reason, Rage against the Machine, tell your parents.
Ben and Matt said it was okay.
Speaker 2 (20:11):
Oh god, it's like that band you know, twenty thirty
years later is actively I was gonna say radicalizing me,
but not really, just you know, just in my mind.
Speaker 3 (20:26):
And if you want to escalate it a little bit.
As you're going through high school kids, check out Immortal Technique.
Speaker 2 (20:33):
Oh no, don't do it. Don't do that one.
Speaker 3 (20:35):
Well oh god, oh come on man, it's so good.
Speaker 2 (20:38):
Dead pres and yeah, el who else.
Speaker 3 (20:41):
Hit us up for a playlist? Folks, We got you.
And it runs across runs across genres and borders, just
like the oil trade. Oh I brought it back.
Speaker 2 (20:52):
You did, you did, Ben? While we're here, let's remain
in the oil fields. Oh but instead of you know,
all the giant reserves in the US and other parts
of the world that aren't being affected by the strait
of hormones. Let's jump to the Middle East and talk oil.
(21:12):
Little something coming out of Al Jazeera today, Actually it
was posted quote UAE leaves OPEK in below to oil
cartel amid war on Iran. Let's get the first statement
out of the way so we understand what all of
that means. Here we go, The United Arab Emirates, that's
UAE has announced its decision to quit two international oil cartels,
(21:36):
the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries commonly known as OPEK,
as well as OPEK Plus. That's a secondary OPEK that
was made after the original was formed. They're doing this
to focus on national interests, dealing a heavy blow to
the oil exporting groups at a time when the US
Israel war on Iran has caused a historic energy shock
(21:59):
and rattled the gl global economy. Rattled the global economy
of course, with the exception of BP, you know, oil
companies not dependent on the straight of horror moves. And
of course the defense contractors and weapons manufacturers and some
other key sectors. Oh and also the shareholders in general.
The shareholders they're doing great somehow.
Speaker 3 (22:19):
Oh nice? Oh good? We should send them a card?
Should we should send them like a giving Tuesday card
or something that's greed great idea. We also need to
explain really quick, folks, because I know this can be confusing.
So you hear all kinds of international organizations or institutions
(22:39):
like G seven or G seven plus in certain number
here of other other countries. The mean girls like OPEK
is entirely founded not to propagate oil, but to restrict
oil supplies and to fix prices. That is why OPEK exists.
OPEC Plus is a franchise. It's a spinoff like ted
(23:01):
X from Ted talks OPEC plus like right now, OPEC
Proper has twelve countries, primarily from the Emmy from the
Middle East, soon to have eleven, soon to have eleven,
right they're breaking up. Shout out Uee, shout the Emirates.
OPEC Plus is a spinoff that has ten more countries
(23:24):
with it, also oil producers. But like Russia is not
OPEK Proper, Russia's OPEC plus.
Speaker 2 (23:30):
Yes, well, and very interestingly, if you look at those
member states for both of the cartels, and they are
actually cartels, they're called cartels.
Speaker 3 (23:39):
They're fine with us saying it as well.
Speaker 2 (23:41):
We checked, Yes, price fixing organizations or price fixing handshake deal. Basically,
if you look at OPEK, the original Saudi Arabia is
the number one crude oil production country in that group
with eight point nine to six million barrels of oil
produced per day. Number two is Iraq with three point
(24:04):
eight six million barrels. Then you've also got Iran, Kuwait, Nigeria, Libya, Venezuela, Algeria, Congo, Gabon,
Equatorial Guinea, and for a short time the UAE. But
the UAE was producing two point nine to two million
barrels of oil per day, coming in at number four
(24:25):
in the hierarchy there of production.
Speaker 3 (24:28):
It's a big loss for an impact. And also additionally, folks,
you have to we have to recognize that a lot
of our fellow astute conspiracy realists just at a moment
where we went what Libya from earlier, Venezuela, Libya from earlier,
Venezuela from earlier. You can kill a person, but you
(24:48):
can't kill an industry. So as soon as Gadafia Madudo
went down, the folks in these boardrooms immediately conspired to
slice up the pie dude.
Speaker 2 (25:01):
And you might also hear Iraq on that list and
Iran and Kuwait, Wait, aren't these Kuwaits? Yeah?
Speaker 3 (25:11):
Aren't these kuwait one? Yeah?
Speaker 2 (25:13):
Wait one second. I seem to remember a war in
Iraq a long time ago when George Bush Senior was president,
had something to do with Iraq and Kuwait when we
went over there. I seem to remember an invasion of
Iraq another time that the US did. I seem to
remember a current war in Iran. This is weird. It
(25:36):
feels like there's some kind of deep connection between the
US military and some of these Opeq countries.
Speaker 3 (25:43):
And that's our show, folks. Thank you so much for
tuning it. No, you're You're absolutely on the money, dude.
We've talked about this low these many years. The answers
are apparent for anyone who is looking at the facts,
who is following the money, who has not been successfully
brainwashed by one ideology or another. The money moves Black
(26:06):
Monday Murders is one of the best fictional adaptations of
what is happening now throughout the world. It will affect you,
it will touch you. It does not really matter who
you vote for now. You should still vote right, and
you should vote your conscience whatever works out best for
you, your community, your household, your idea of how the world
(26:27):
should be. But you also need to understand there is
an entirely separate echelon of voting and influence. As Carlin
once noted George Carlin, a philosopher often confused with a
stand up comedian, it's a club and you are not
in it, right, And this is what we're seeing when
the rubber hits the road. Confessions of economic hit Man.
(26:50):
I'm just gonna say it. Look up the book, man. No,
it's happening now, Ben.
Speaker 2 (26:54):
I have heard from this guy named Zach and the
structure is set. You'll never change it with a ballot pull.
I've heard that once.
Speaker 3 (27:06):
Yeah, Professor de la Rocca.
Speaker 2 (27:09):
Oh, yes, okay, But voting is important.
Speaker 3 (27:13):
Voting is important because democracy is eternally imperiled, especially now
as we approach what I would call the neo feudalism
of technogarchy. Not to throw out too many fancy words,
but that's the best way to put it. Especially as
we approach that, we see that the people in power
(27:33):
love the sheep's wull of appearing to exercise the democratic process,
but fight tooth, tentacle and claw to prevent democracy in action.
So again, this is more a. I know this sounds
like a very political point, but please note, folks that
Matt Tennessee and yours truly are not citing specific parties here.
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We're telling you how the system purports to operate is
inherently different from how the system actually operates. So if
we're in charge of the UAE and we see all
this crap in the wind, and we know that we
have an economy incredibly reliant on a single, single palpable resource,
(28:20):
then logically, if we game it out, we're going to
do everything we can to make sure the UAE subsist
as a sovereign entity. We're not going to stand on
a sinking boat. Have you ever been to a house
party and the vibe is bad, Remember you can just leave.
The vibe got bad, and the UA said, I'm going,
(28:41):
you know, I have a good time. Guys, good luck
with this sinking shit.
Speaker 2 (28:47):
Oh yeah, there is something to be noted here from
that same article from Al Jazeera. He's going to read
this to see what we think about this, says. Additionally,
the UAE and Saudi Arabia have an increasingly competed over
economic issues and regional politics, particularly in the Red Sea area.
The two countries had joined together in a coalition to
(29:09):
fight against Yemen's Iran backed Hoothy rebels in twenty fifteen. However,
that coalition broke down into recriminations in late December when
Saudi Arabia bombed what it described as a weapons shipment
bound for you many separatists backed by the UAE. I
don't know the full context of all that, and I
(29:30):
need to brush up on some reporting, probably from Al
Jazeera and some other outlets and maybe Katari news, just
things that are coming out of there, because I know
weird stuff has gone down. I know Katar got out
of Opek fairly recently. Yeah, well there's some weird stuff
going on with Opek. The primary thing I was thinking
(29:51):
about ben and I haven't made the connection fully here,
but Saudi Arabia is the big dog in Opek.
Speaker 3 (29:59):
Big dog. You got to eat bro Big dog's.
Speaker 2 (30:02):
Gotta eat big dog. Also noticed that the US is
doing a lot of intervention in the Middle East and
countries that are not Saudi Arabia but are a part
of its you.
Speaker 3 (30:11):
Know, cartel influence.
Speaker 2 (30:14):
And then I remembered that thing. What was that thing
that happened in two thousand and one or something went down. Uh,
it was like a nine to eleven. We found out
much later after that that a lot of the folks
potentially involved or accused to be involved in that were
from Saudi Arabia, And there were later revelations that Saudi
(30:36):
Arabian intelligence may have been involved in the planning of
some of that. And it's making me wonder how much
that action could actually be related to oil and actions
that are being taken in the sphere of influence out
there in Saudi Arabia. Yeah, and then how much that
could be in some weird way or response to what's
(30:57):
happening even now in Iran.
Speaker 3 (31:00):
I would suggest, or my old professors would suggest that
we all consider this not in terms of isolated one
off instances or in terms of isolated one off reactions.
What we're studying instead is a mechanism of response and
interaction and engagement. So, in the case of Saudi Arabian
(31:21):
and raising excellent points here, it is proven, though not
widely acknowledged in Western media, that the back channels are
quite active. So Saudi intelligence is working closely with Mossad,
Saudi intelligence is working closely with American intelligence, and what
(31:41):
the Saudi government is saying publicly, either to the larger
global order or to its domestic population, definitely does not
match what they are saying in those back rooms. Right.
The Middle East is a bag of badgers. A lot
of that is due to colonialism, that is inescapable and
(32:02):
resource extraction. But also we have to remember that a
lot of the divisions far predate European colonialism. Like these
different tribes and clans were very beefed up with each
other well before BP got into the game, and BP
(32:23):
leveraged the chaos as BP is doing now to great effect.
Speaker 2 (32:29):
Man, that makes a lot of sense, Ben.
Speaker 3 (32:31):
I wish it didn't. I wish it didn't.
Speaker 2 (32:34):
I do wonder about the UAE getting out of OPEK
and whether or not that could be some kind of
reading of the writing on the wall when you look
at those OPEC member states and you look at the
top group that's all been attacked by the US or
by Western forces, and perhaps them just saying, hey, we're
(32:57):
not a target. We're gonna do our own thing over here.
So yeah, go ahead, and you guys move up, you
do what you need. Hey, we're just gonna step out.
Speaker 3 (33:05):
Like when J. Cole blowed out of the Kendrick Drake
Beef just said, hey, hey, you guys do your thing.
Speaker 2 (33:12):
I would call it a century.
Speaker 3 (33:14):
Yeah. But also also with that, I know we're running
along on this when, folks, there's much more to get
to in this story. You also need to be aware
to that earlier point about public statements versus true desired outcomes.
It is quite possible, and a lot of analysts friends
of ours have been looking into this. It is quite
(33:36):
possible that the UAE is exercising kind of a bargaining
move right, kind of los so, kind of saying, uh, yeah,
we're gonna leave unless we're the strange news is audio, So, folks,
what you need to know I'm doing is that pretending
to walk away. I'm sort of like incesciently putting my
(33:57):
head back over my shoulder. We're gonna leave opek less
unless of what yeah right, unless we get what we want.
So grateful that we're bringing this up. I know it's
got to be on so many of our minds, fellow
conspiracy realists not.
Speaker 2 (34:16):
But how could this be? My only thing is, how
could this even be on our minds when such a
high level thing like the correspondence dinner shooting, and then
the following release of the manifesto, and then the you know,
all of the zone flooding that is occurring right now.
It does feel like this is kind of slipping underneath
(34:36):
the rest of it because there is an active conflict,
an active hot zone, military action, war, whatever you want
to call it. There's so much going on that this
stuff isn't at least maybe I'm just missing the parts
of the news and the shorts on Instagram and all
the other stuff where people are discussing opek and moves
(34:57):
like that, or BP's profits. I just don't watch enough
of the market Watch and all of those things. I'm
sure it is being discussed, but it's being discussed by
folks who pay attention to those things. You know, it's
not hitting the zeitgeist in the same way.
Speaker 3 (35:12):
I'll give you a source that I'll give us all
a source that is worth your time. It's called Stratford Intelligence.
I know, yes, yeah, s t R A t fo R.
Check out Stratford Intelligence. They definitely have an angle. They
are Western based and they come from that perspective. But
that will give you some insight, folks that you're simply
(35:35):
not going to see on your news source Djure, on
your ground news, or your conservative news or your liberal news.
Even the economist is not as good as Stratford.
Speaker 2 (35:48):
Amazing, Thank you Ben, well as all of us create
accounts with Stratford. Let's take a quick break here, a
word from our sponsor. We're not sponsored by Stratford, but
we'll be right back when more Strange.
Speaker 3 (36:05):
And we have returned. Fellow conspiracy realists, welcome back to
a weekly Strange news segment. Now I know what a
lot of us are saying, fellow conspiracy realist. I've got
a specific take on this stuff that Ben and Matt
and Tennessee are reporting here. I want to go on
the internet and have my ideas treated as just what
(36:26):
they are, ideas, so people won't associate me as a source,
because we know, unfortunately a lot of times, especially now,
people will react not to the substance or merit of
an idea, but to the source of that idea. Right, So,
if you don't like someone then they have a good idea,
you're going to dismiss it until you hear it from
(36:46):
another place, right, Dude.
Speaker 2 (36:48):
It's like if a journalist that you're having an interview
with baths directly from a manifesto and your response is
you're a journalist.
Speaker 3 (36:59):
That that's interesting, mister Ike, because we were quoting you
in that question. So look, you can still get away
with this in a lot of places as long as
you're not too high value a target. But soon you
will not be able to get away with it. In Greece,
who is speed running a police state? That is right.
(37:20):
The nation of Greece is set to ban anonymity on
all social media. Their Digital Governance minister said the major
problem behind anonymity is toxicity. And now I want to
be honest, folks, I agree with that. Shout out to
the journalist over at your Active san Ritis, Michael Aplos,
(37:40):
who is breaking the story about about Greece cracking down
on being anonymous online, and they're raising great points. I'm
still more on the side of anonymity being important, not
to sound too news, but now more than ever, anonymity
(38:03):
is power right because it's one of the last vestiges
of privacy.
Speaker 2 (38:08):
I hear you, and I totally see that point. I
think I do not think you're wrong. This is a
really tough thing to argue because we know that that
anonymity that can be such a power is used as
a power by people for terrible.
Speaker 3 (38:24):
Things one hundred percent. Man. Yeah, Like in our YouTube days,
I used to have a thing where I think we
both did where we would have to sit down and
let people know that we actually do read the comments,
and that led us to some delightful situations where I'm like,
you know, that's a great point about the eighteen hundreds
US policy towards the gold standard butt Surf ninety nine
(38:48):
x sixty nine, we appreciate your time. And then butt
Surf ninety nine x sixty nine would write back and say,
oh my gosh, guys, here's another paper I think we
should read, and I'm like, what is your real they do?
I can't call you butt when we meet in person,
and mister sixty nine, oh good.
Speaker 2 (39:08):
Way, Hey now that works that dope.
Speaker 3 (39:11):
Yeah. But also to your point, yeah, it encouraged we
know you and I have read studies that prove when
people feel they are not personally identified with a statement,
they will tend to go extra right. They'll say things
that they would not have said if you knew for sure.
(39:31):
Hey that's Noel Brown.
Speaker 2 (39:34):
Oh yeah, the thing I'm thinking about is that this
type of the loss of anonymity we're discussing is primarily
on things like social media accounts, in comment sections, in
places where you are accessing the Internet in the way
the folks, the Googles of the world hope that you
(39:56):
are accessing the Internet and using the same sites and
apps and things. Right. We are not talking about losing
the anonymity when you're using the Onion router to access
other parts of the Internet, right, because that would be impossible.
You cannot do that, at least at this point, I
don't think, because those are the realms in the Internet
(40:18):
that is the where the terrifying stuff happens, where anonymity
truly is like a part of some evil means of
getting things done that are you know, abhorrent to humanity.
We're talking of course, about child abuse, We're talking about
(40:39):
selling of humans. We're talking about like the really truly
icky stuff, weapons deals, things like that, which are real
and do happen via a form of the Internet, just
not the world Wide Web version of it. And you
know interconnected apps that we use that are all forward.
Speaker 3 (40:56):
Facing, right, Yeah, we're talking about specifically a social media ban,
so they're a social media ban on anonymity and we again, folks.
You can tell this has been a real pickle, a
real sticky wicket for us in for years at this point,
(41:16):
over a decade now, we've been asking a question that
essentially boils down to freedom versus security, right, and this
is a question that the smartest minds on the planet
have never been able to answer. If they are asking
a good faith pretty much everybody who thinks they have
the answer is asking in bad faith and trying to
(41:38):
get whatever their predetermined opinion was to make sense for them.
Shout out Peter Thiel Palaeer, don't get us, but thanks
for tuning in.
Speaker 2 (41:49):
I mean, I've been I could see how this theoretically
could counteract the types of instances we've seen where someone
who is involved in, let's say, a school shooting had
previously made some kind of remarks publicly via social media
that would tend to lead someone into thinking, hey, perhaps
(42:10):
this person needs to be looked at, or at least
maybe not fully investigated, but at least checked out by
some authority.
Speaker 3 (42:19):
Escalated past the automated Hoover sectioning and up to getting
like a Steve the Intern or an analyst a human
to look at it and say, hey, is this guy
really aiming for the McDonald's in a month? Yeah, and
we have a small army of people who do that.
Speaker 2 (42:37):
Oh yeah, but you are also you're talking about restricting
that anonymity that might lead someone to post something that
they feel strongly about, but that maybe goes counter to
let's say, what an administration would want you to think
about or say, or you know, a company would want
(43:00):
you to say out loud. And if we're talking about
unmasking those folks, we really are talking about restricting open
thought in a lot of ways.
Speaker 3 (43:12):
Right freedom of speech, what does it entail? What protections,
roles and responsibilities are included? So back to our guy,
the Minister of Digital Governance who was quoted in this
your active article is named Demitrius Papas di Guieru. I
excuse my pronunciation. Not a native Greek speaker, still learning English.
(43:33):
I love it though, you guys did a great job
on that one. Demitra says, quote, in ancient Greece, everyone
could express their opinion openly and by name. They would
raise their hand and share their view. This should inspire
us as we shape a new digital democracy. Inspiring words, right,
(43:54):
and I love the citation of exactly the problem with
freedom of speech that we're discussing exploring here tonight. The
issue is everything else. This statement doesn't say that we
just brought up right like what if you what if
you live in Cyprus, right in Turkey and Greece are
(44:15):
still very beefed over that one. What if you live
in Cyprus and you have an opinion that one of
those governments doesn't like they can get you? Also add
to that, Greece is I'll say it. I love Greek food,
I love Greek culture, I've got I actually have several
Greek friends. Naming the number would make me sound somehow discriminatory,
(44:36):
but I know Greek people. I kind of understand Greece
and idiots cartoonishly corrupt, like who should hold the keys
on identities? Here? Is it a country that is so
corrupt it routinely fumbles the bag with the EU? Is
(44:56):
it the place? Is it the country where the average
citizen will tell you you are stupid for paying taxes
and you could just get around it? Are these the
Are these the involuble leaders of the next stage of
digital democracy? I am Jack's lack of enthusiasm. I am
Jack's preponderance of cynicism.
Speaker 2 (45:18):
It is interesting to see this concept of democracy, republic, democracy,
like all these things kind of just happen. They've been
doing it for a longer, much longer time than fifty years.
Speaker 3 (45:32):
They Yeah, we're the young kids, so.
Speaker 2 (45:35):
Like just seeing at this point, like where where where
that society is going? And this is headed and you
know what is the what can we glean as the
younger folks in the group here, It's that alsocratic method
thing really does feel like a good call.
Speaker 3 (45:55):
Yeah, yeah, Also, we want to hear your thoughts conspiracy.
I heard dot com. But we do have one thing
to say aside from this great debate, and we do
need your help with this one, folks, freedom versus security.
Please let us know if you can solve the riddle
with one important caveat there is a single entity that Tennessee,
(46:21):
Matt and yours truly never want to be identified a myth,
a legend, an awesome hang. It's bigfoot, just wet bigfoot,
feed on, you know, come on. We learned recently thanks
to some great work by Andrew Daniels writing for Popular Mechanics.
We tease this in a previous episode, well, an episode
(46:47):
that may be publishing either right before this or soon
after the demonic possession of LaToya Ammon's and family. It's
a true story. The FBI secretly investigated Bigfoot. So if
you're ever worried about where your tax dollars go, just
know sometimes we're doing cool stuff.
Speaker 2 (47:09):
Now hold on a second.
Speaker 3 (47:11):
Kuwait a second, Yeah.
Speaker 2 (47:12):
Kuwaite a second. The FBI investigated four real Z's Bigfoot. Yes, yeah,
when was this been?
Speaker 3 (47:21):
So you can go to one of our favorite sites.
Still somehow not a sponsor of stuff they don't want
you to know. The FBI Vaults, which is a compilation
of FOYA Freedom of Information Act request. They have a
relatively short read file. It's twenty two pages on Bigfoot
and it is documenting an investigation dating back to the seventies.
(47:46):
But it didn't go It didn't fully get attention until
quite recently. The FBI Vault, it's so worth your time.
It's so weird, folks, because you will see scans were
PDFs of files that are in handwriting, so they can
sometimes be difficult to read. Matt and I can confirm this.
(48:07):
We spend a lot of time on the FBI vault
site and other related sites. What what you can find
in there, if you know what you're looking for, is astounding, phenomenal, terrifying,
little bit inspiring. The FBI apparently concluded that one Bigfoot
(48:27):
is dead and two Bigfoot might have been real.
Speaker 2 (48:33):
Yeah, okay, are we talking Are we talking about agents
out in the field looking for Bigfoot or are we
talking about forensics? What what are we looking at here?
Speaker 3 (48:44):
Let's build up to it. So we've got to We've
got to give you a quote. It's a little bit long,
but you can read this a popular Mechanics as well
as on the FBI site, and you can read Bigfoot's
official file. This is from Peter c. Burn, the director
of the Bigfoot Information Center and Exhibition. He says, will
(49:04):
you kindly to set the record straight once and for
all inform us if the big if the FBI has
examined hair which might be that of a Bigfoot, when
this took place, if it did take place, what the
results of the analysis were. Please understand that our research
here is serious. This is dated nineteen seventy six. This
(49:26):
is typical language for what you would read in a
FOIA request. And now we see Yeah.
Speaker 2 (49:33):
Does that mean Peter c. Burn sent hair to the
FBI or somebody sent hair to the FBI for analysis.
Speaker 3 (49:42):
Yeah, he says. He says, we do not often come
across hair which we are able to identify. And the
hair that we have now about fifteen hairs attached to
a tiny piece of skin, is the first we've obtained
in six years which we feel maybe of importance. And
the FBI wrote back and they said, you can also
(50:02):
see like a little scan of the hair. They say,
we primarily conduct exams for law enforcement agencies and connection
with criminal investigations, but for you guys as a treat,
we're going to dig into it. We are going to
analyze this stuff, just like that old scalp that the
(50:24):
Sherpas claimed was the Yetti or Bible snowman, remember that one.
Speaker 2 (50:28):
So it stinks that Scully wasn't working there yet in
seventy six, seventy seven.
Speaker 3 (50:35):
I mean, I respect Scully, but I identify with Molder, you know.
Speaker 2 (50:39):
Yeh yeh yeah, yeah.
Speaker 3 (50:40):
If we have Molder in there, Molder would be all
over this one. Come up, we need the Fox, call
in the Fox. Here's the deal. This is kind of
a hokey thing. But ultimately, if you believe the FBI,
they concluded that the lab now of the hairs was
(51:03):
not from a hominid of some sort nor from a humanoid.
It was of deer family origin. That's what they wrote
back to Burn. But they did seriously investigate it. It's
so cool. It makes me wonder what other kakamamie strange
things the FBI has investigated. Some guy writes to you
and says, I'm a time traveler. We're gonna meet yesterday
(51:27):
to talk about this, right. Oh God, I know that
you have that beautiful mind moment and you're thinking, Oh,
that was the guy I talked to.
Speaker 2 (51:37):
Oh dude, I've wanted to talk with you about something, Ben.
I don't want to go on a giant tangent.
Speaker 3 (51:42):
Sure.
Speaker 2 (51:43):
When's the last time you watched T two Judgment Day.
It's been years and years.
Speaker 3 (51:49):
It has been years and years.
Speaker 2 (51:51):
Okay, rewatch it recently? Okay noticed the time because of
that that we looked. I'm not spoiling things here. That
is a time travel movie. It is based on time travel,
and you got accept that to accept everything else in
the movie. Upon rewatching, I realized that the tech used
to create the first robots and the AI thing, and
(52:16):
even the microchip that's recovered from when the first terminator dies.
That's the thing that creates everything. So in order for
the Terminator to be created, it had to first go
back in time. Yes, And I just started thinking about
I racked my brain on that for so long, trying
to work out how does it actually function in this
(52:37):
world that the robots were created by the robot that
was not there until it was created.
Speaker 3 (52:44):
It just.
Speaker 2 (52:46):
Love, it makes me feel something about this, Yeah, because.
Speaker 3 (52:49):
I had mentioned this to you guys previously, the old
idea that there is a future, actual AI, right, that
is beyond linear time and that is nudging current events
and past events to guarantee its own creation. Right, And
we deal with this a lot in sci fi. I
(53:11):
know that a great deal of some of our favorite
writers and creators a shoe time travel altogether, like Dan
Harmon hates that stuff. Like Dan hates it, But it's
a fascinating thing because it's a rumpic debasement. Right, It's
like a puzzle. It's a brain breaker, but it is
(53:32):
still something worth investigating until civilization understands it. It is
right now, right now, folks, as we're recording on Wednesday,
April twenty ninth, twenty twenty six. It is impossible to
prove that AI from some future is not in fact
screwing with the present to ensure its own creation. We
(53:53):
can't prove that is not true. Which is just like
it's like the hottest sauce Matt loves. It's like the
sesame sauce for me. It's got that omami of what if.
Speaker 2 (54:03):
Yeah, dude, it's like that. It's like holding a really
important event with a bunch of really important people in
it at a hilton with no security because you need
a ballroom.
Speaker 3 (54:19):
Yeah yeah. Let's pause for a word from our sponsors,
and then we'll go right into that phenomenal segue. We've returned.
The White House Press Club is historically a good time, right.
It's like a it's a very light version of a
(54:39):
Friars Club roast. You know, you've got a president who
comes up. They're cool. They used to have stand up
comics and everybody would get a little piece, a lot
of crowd work, right, all in good fun and all
to support the idea of democracy. Recently, the United States
experienced one of the most controversial White House press club events.
Speaker 2 (55:03):
Very strange stuff that went down. It's been covered endlessly
in the news because it was the biggest news story
that occurred.
Speaker 3 (55:11):
I think it was faked. I think the assassination attempt
was faked.
Speaker 2 (55:17):
It is let's put it this way. It's very weird
how everything went down without ben me personally saying I
think it was faked. I think it is very strange
that it was at a hotel where somebody, like the
alleged shooter there was able to go stay in a
(55:39):
hotel where this event was going to take place, bring
weapons into that hotel only a few days before the event,
and then carry those weapons down into the exact spot
where this event is being held, and get close enough
to the point where secret service near one of the
main entrances stops it. Okay, that's weird as hell that
(56:03):
that could even be allowed to occur.
Speaker 3 (56:05):
All right, Well, I think I think it is important
to notice that it's always note that we must not
jump to malice when things can be explained via incompetence
or negligence. However, if you guys want me to step
it back, I would cite OJ Simpson if I killed them.
(56:26):
This is how I would do it. So if I
faked ed assassination attempt to shore up support and to
shore up distractions, then this is pretty much how I
would pull that off.
Speaker 2 (56:41):
And if I released a manifesto that is in some
ways pretty horrifying, in other ways seems to be a
highly reasoned human being talking about things in fact, making
arguments and counter arguments to reasons why not to do it?
In all these things. And it is with a you know,
(57:04):
a school teacher.
Speaker 3 (57:06):
Right, we're talking about thirty one year old Cole Thomas Allen,
who has been apprehended, has not been convicted, who was
not shot by the shot shot Yeah, did make it out,
and there.
Speaker 2 (57:17):
Is even though five shots were fired and one police
officer was hit and according to Sky and a bunch
of other outlets was potentially hit by another secret Service agent.
Speaker 3 (57:28):
Might have been some friendly fire. The manifesto has not
been proven to be that of Cole Thomas Allen, but
officials now outside of court are attributing it to him,
criticizing the policies of the current administration. Whoever writes the
manifesto refers to themselves as the friendly Federal assassin. But
(57:50):
this would be the third apparent attempt on the life
of current US president since twenty twenty four. There was
the Butler Pennsylvania attempt, there was the September twenty four
attempt in West Palm Beach, and now this is added
to This is added to the pile. A lot of
(58:11):
people have apparently been trying to assassinate this current president.
This is also interesting for fellow presidential buffs and history nerds.
It's the second assassination attempt at that Washington Hilton. The
first one was when someone attempted to assassinate an actor
(58:31):
named Ronald Reagan, who played his biggest role pretending to
be the president of the United States. Ooh, Ronald, everybody's
catching strays today, Man Wilson six. So we have eyes
on that. A lot of the news is linking this is.
First off, obviously we're happy the president is not dead.
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We live in the United States. You don't have to
agree with the people in charge, obviously, but if it's
a democracy, means you have to use certain mechanisms to
make your voice heard. I think we don't wish death
on most people.
Speaker 2 (59:11):
Oh, absolutely, Thank goodness, nobody was hurt. There were a
lot of prominent journalists in there, including Wolf Blitzer, who
used the bathroom and heroically from a phone, let everybody
know what's going on. Watch the Daily Show.
Speaker 3 (59:22):
They have a great signess. Yeah, yeah, John did a
great job on that.
Speaker 2 (59:25):
One features the insult comic talk that you may be
familiar with, very very funny things in the light of
something potentially tragic and scary. It is highly strange to
me again that the talking points coming out of this
were not about how to better secure a location where
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you're going to have prominent individuals and more on. Hey,
we are working on a highly secured location to have
these types of events, and we need to focus on
that and how important that is and how much money
we need for that thing, you know, just something that
was already a goal for an administration being the thing
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that is most benefiting from this occurrence.
Speaker 3 (01:00:13):
Exactly. Yeah. Again, if I were genially, not specifically, like
if I were going to do a little bit of Shenanigan, ree,
if I were to create a situation, this is a
great way to do it. Like this is really a
not twenty in the game, you know, So it's like
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kind of convenient. Again, We're glad, nobody's hard, nobody's dead
shout out to democracy. Let's keep the American experiment going.
Speaker 4 (01:00:45):
But also but also kol wait a second, Ben, Ben,
wait a second before we go. Yeah, Dylan shared something
in the chest that we need to look at really quickly.
Speaker 2 (01:00:57):
You want to describe it.
Speaker 3 (01:00:58):
Yeah, let's pull it up, Dylan, Can you describe it
for us?
Speaker 5 (01:01:02):
Man, Well, it may be from the X Files, and
it may be Molder examining a m Yes, yeah, a
kind of female sasquatch. Why don't we say that.
Speaker 2 (01:01:19):
Prominently female sasquatch?
Speaker 3 (01:01:21):
Should I love it? That prominently female sasquatch?
Speaker 2 (01:01:25):
This is I remember that shot, by the way.
Speaker 3 (01:01:28):
I remember too, and I remember they had to give
him glasses so it would take it seriously. But also
know that he was looking at the boobs. I didn't
tell you guys.
Speaker 6 (01:01:37):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (01:01:38):
Yeah, I don't talk too much about this kind of stuff.
But when I was over in Thailand, I was helping
out at this elephant sanctuary SQ Sanctuary, and I had
not spent time with a bunch of elephants up close.
You guys know, elephants have boobs, right, what like in
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the sasquatch picture that we're looking at now, elephants have
female elephants have boops.
Speaker 2 (01:02:05):
Oh, I don't want this in my brain.
Speaker 3 (01:02:09):
Ben, Oh, that's great, So let me give you a picture.
Speaker 2 (01:02:12):
No, no, no, no, no.
Speaker 3 (01:02:13):
Yeah, we've got to we we have to just just look. Well,
we'll keep it brief. And this is now because you
didn't in joke for us. I've just got to show
you one picture. I promise it's not as disquieting as
it sounds. Okay, all right, here we go, I trust you.
Oh weird? Okay, oh see, oh my god, Okay, yeah, yeah,
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it's it's a it's a thing.
Speaker 6 (01:02:44):
They look kind of like computer graphics, like psgra kind
of yeah.
Speaker 3 (01:02:50):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (01:02:51):
I I don't know why. I've been to the zoo
a lot.
Speaker 3 (01:02:56):
I know. Okay, we're gonna stop sharing there. We have
way too much to do.
Speaker 2 (01:03:03):
There is way too much elephant anatomy going on in
some of those diagrams.
Speaker 3 (01:03:07):
There beautiful, very intelligent creatures.
Speaker 2 (01:03:11):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (01:03:12):
Hung out with them extensively, and did have that moment
where I was asking somebody who lives in the area.
I was like, is this is this like a normal thing?
And they said, oh yeah, man, oh yeah yeah.
Speaker 2 (01:03:27):
Don't let homelander near any zoos exactly.
Speaker 3 (01:03:31):
Yeah, new rule. We're booking it.
Speaker 6 (01:03:33):
Hey guys, just two quick follow ups on Bigfoot if
that's cool.
Speaker 3 (01:03:37):
Oh oh yeah, yeah.
Speaker 6 (01:03:39):
That molder photo you know, and my look funny. But
you know a lot of people think that the Patterson
Gillman film shows a female.
Speaker 3 (01:03:46):
That's right, they do. Good call Tennessee.
Speaker 6 (01:03:49):
And also there's an IMDb rating for the Patterson Kimlin film.
Speaker 3 (01:03:53):
What.
Speaker 6 (01:03:54):
Yeah, you can rate it on IMDb seven point four.
Speaker 2 (01:03:56):
Iun Well, let's just remind people that you can look
that up on your own. But that is probably the
most famous footage of an alleged sasquatch out there and controversial. Yeah,
we did. We have talked about it extensively on one
of our Bigfoot episodes, whichever one that was.
Speaker 3 (01:04:16):
Yeah, at this point. Yeah, I mean look at the
movement of the arms really in the gate.
Speaker 2 (01:04:21):
Yeah, yeah, look it up. And some of the allegations
that have come out well after the film was released.
Speaker 3 (01:04:29):
Yes, and some of those allegations include confessions. Just to
be very diplomatic about that one, we had stuff we
were not going to have time to get to today.
But we're excited for you to join us in the future. Yes,
two spooks two CIA officers did die in Mexico in
a counter narcotics operation. Yes, Chinese scientists have been dying
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mysterious deaths as well. There are chemical leeks that we
have to get to. And we learned about extreme style biting,
and then we, oh, I guess good news, kind of
good news. I'm on the fence about this one, Matt.
We learned that several Buddhist monks were very cool in
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Sri Lanka.
Speaker 2 (01:05:12):
Yeah, you're talking about all the cannabis were found with.
Speaker 3 (01:05:16):
They did get arrested for over one hundred and ten
kilograms of cannabis and their luggage, twenty two Buddhist monks.
But they seem like a chill hanging right, Yeah.
Speaker 2 (01:05:28):
They seem so cool. Hey man, monastery plus cannabis.
Speaker 3 (01:05:33):
Right.
Speaker 2 (01:05:34):
Look, I'm not even a weed guy, but let's go.
Speaker 3 (01:05:36):
Neither neither of us are. Yeah, and also, because these
are holy people, they probably wouldn't try to pure pressure
you to smoke with them. They would just be like,
hey man, do you want to have some snacks?
Speaker 2 (01:05:50):
It makes you wonder if they're growing somewhere on the
grounds and monastery. They wouldn't do that, right, they have to. Yeah,
you kind of have to. I've got one more thing
that just came through. It's hot off the presses as
we're recording right here. Let's just slip this one under
the radar if you don't mind, look this up on
your own. This from AP News on April twenty eighth,
(01:06:12):
twenty twenty six. Former Fauci advisor indicted for allegedly concealing
communications related to COVID nineteen research. It's about a guy
named doctor David Morenz, who is currently seventy eight years old.
He's accused of using his private email to intentionally circumvent
public records laws while employed at the National Institutes of Health.
(01:06:35):
The Justice Department is alleging that he concealed or destroyed
records of discussions related to COVID nineteen research grants, including
an effort to revive a controversial coronavirus grant. It's very
interesting stuff and.
Speaker 3 (01:06:52):
We would love your opinion on this one, folks. Yeah,
that's a mic drop moment.
Speaker 2 (01:06:57):
That might be just going to hide it in here.
Speaker 3 (01:07:00):
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