In this week's strange news segment: Ben, Matt and Noel discover their old conspiracy about VPNs might actually be true. Ben introduces the crew to the latest troubling updates on an orgasm cult. Noel explains how a Kit-Kat heist leaves more questions than answers. Matt shares news about the White House 'ballroom' construction drawing more attention, as it turns out Ben was *not* joking about a secret bunker. Kash Patel sure got hacked. All this and more in our weekly strange news segment.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:26):
Hello, Welcome back to the show. My name is Matt, my.
Speaker 3 (00:29):
Name is Noel.
Speaker 4 (00:30):
They called 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 too, our strange news program the Evening it publishes Welcome, Welcome,
Welcome to April sixth A quick update, just a little
(00:52):
bit of housekeeping, fellow conspiracy realist. Your boys are going
to be on the road very soon. Will be recording
not from our usual houses, caverns or Heidi holes or bunkers, uh,
but we will actually be recording in a place called
Baja mar. Are we all excited?
Speaker 3 (01:11):
The Bahama Bunker. It's a Bahama Bunker, bunk down, and.
Speaker 4 (01:19):
I'm gonna meet a Flamingo, I'm gonna chat with a McCaw.
You know, We're gonna go out to some cool restaurants,
soak some cool views. And we're gonna find some Uh,
we're always gonna find some conspiracies.
Speaker 3 (01:31):
Afoot, right, Barry treasure. We've been promised Berry treasure.
Speaker 4 (01:34):
I would love it.
Speaker 2 (01:36):
Yeah, Berry treasure hopefully as long as flooding isn't an
issue that's pretty close to or we're just you know,
sea level it's a thing.
Speaker 4 (01:45):
Yeah, we're gonna be on it. We're gonna sea level set.
And we love buried treasure because we we actually prefer
bury treasure folks to treasure just out in the open
because we like to earn stuff. We like to do
our fortunes, you know what.
Speaker 2 (02:02):
And it's not considered treasure unless it's fully wet.
Speaker 3 (02:06):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (02:06):
Yeah, wow, we learned that. You come on comedy.
Speaker 3 (02:12):
I'm just going to use my imagination.
Speaker 4 (02:13):
Also, touching a pile of wet coins is a very
specific nightmare of mind, so thank you for that one.
Speaker 3 (02:21):
I saw an internet video the other day where it
was like, uh, this is the archaeologist that I wanted
to be. And it's just someone dusting off like a
treasure chest and opening up and it's like full of coins,
and this is the archaeologist I became. And it shows
someone scooping a litterbox. I think we can all identify
with those kinds of broken.
Speaker 4 (02:38):
Dreams, yes, yes, or at least Shyamalan dreams. Right now,
as we're recording, one thing you need to know at
the top, especially some of our pals like Privacy Guide
may already be aware of this. If you are in
the United States, uh, or wherever you are, if you're
listening uh to this program, be a VPN. We mentioned
(03:01):
this earlier. Please be aware that Tulsi Gabbard and other
members of the intelligence apparatus here at Uncle sam Land
are being kind of cagey about whether using a VPN
can strip you of constitutional protections warrantless surveillance. Yeah, so
(03:22):
using a VPN, which could make you private, can make
you a target.
Speaker 2 (03:27):
This is something that's been talked about for a while,
the potential for VPN usage to be linked by you know,
organizations like the ones they represent, to some kind of
organized crime, to some kind of illicit activity, and again
just making that connection on paper in that way, you know,
(03:48):
and then deciding, hey, this is this is another potential
marker for someone who's doing something nefarious.
Speaker 4 (03:54):
Yeah, it's another flag.
Speaker 3 (03:56):
How do they how do they feel about people trafficking
and copious amounts of crypto? Is that cool? Is that okay?
Speaker 4 (04:03):
I'm sure it's on who you are.
Speaker 3 (04:04):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (04:05):
To be frank, we're very much in the rules for
thee not rules for me situation. So what say we
pause for a word from our sponsors, give everybody a
chance to check on their VPN subscriptions, and when we
come back, we'll return with a phenomenal article from Wired.
(04:29):
And we have returned with great thanks to Dell Cameron,
journalist who specializes in security over at Wired. Here's the deal.
We all know what a VPN is at this point.
This proxy network is.
Speaker 3 (04:46):
Let's be stand for I believe virtual Okay, that makes sense. Sorry,
I've never known.
Speaker 4 (04:53):
Yeah, no, no, no, it's It's totally fine, man, because
these are things that or this is a tech that
was actually pioneered by researchers associated with the US government
in the first place, of course, and it's done a
lot of good for people who, you know, live in
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authoritarian regimes, people who are concerned about their personal information
being captured, exposed, hacked, et cetera.
Speaker 3 (05:23):
Or just people trying to get Italian content on Netflix
when they're in the wrong.
Speaker 4 (05:26):
Zone right right, or people who not to put it
too on the nose, but people who might be in
Japan saying, dang it, I paid for this streaming service,
why can't I watch it here?
Speaker 2 (05:40):
Or just somebody who just doesn't want creepizoids looking at
you and going, oh what are you?
Speaker 3 (05:45):
What are you doing?
Speaker 4 (05:47):
Right?
Speaker 3 (05:47):
Bots?
Speaker 4 (05:48):
Or meatbags? Yeah?
Speaker 3 (05:49):
Well, and guys, I got a wonder too, because it
certainly seems that streaming services like HBO Max or whatever
the hell it's called now are wise to this kind thing,
and you cannot consume their content out of bounce using
a VPN. So if HBO is doing it, I got
to wonder what are the other workarounds that have, you know,
(06:12):
kind of crept into the scenes that maybe we're not
aware of in terms of that feeling of security behind
a VPN.
Speaker 4 (06:20):
You know, it's interesting to this recent debate because, as
as our pals a Wired point out, and I'm sure
a lot of us already knew this, several federal agencies
in the past, including the NSA and the FBI and
the FTC Federal Trade Commission, they have explicitly recommended that
(06:41):
people use VPNs to protect their privacy and now we
have to ask what their motivation was for co signing
That so hard because technically, you know, you could use
a VPN to violate some intellectual property rights. That's not
the kind of thing the FBI or Secure Ority Agency
would normally co sign. So why was this the cookie
(07:05):
they wanted people to pull from the cookie jar? H
It looks like it looks like it might be a setup.
Speaker 2 (07:13):
Yeah, exactly, unless they they had some way to work
directly with specific VPNs. You know, we've we've been sponsored
by at least one VPN, looking at you, Nord. But
if they had some way in with that organization or
with their back end, they could encourage people right to
(07:33):
use VPNs and then, thinking they're safe, do the things
they're not supposed to do, then those, uh, the other
organizations can just get say hey got jack Exactly.
Speaker 3 (07:44):
Thought it's another one of those the law lagging behind
technology things, because I would argue that it seems to
me anyway that some uses of VPNs is patently skirting
the law a little bit. Like, for example, there are
certain states that require age verification for consuming adult content websites,
and if you can spoof it and make the website
think that you're in another state, then technically you're circumventing
(08:08):
the laws of your state. But it's a sticky, kind
of great sticky god a gray area, right whether or
not you're breaking the law or not.
Speaker 4 (08:18):
It's a bag of badgers. And personally, I've never gooned.
That hard to know about that. Thank you to Robert
Evans for teaching me the phrase goon. But it is
definitely possible to your point, Noel. We also know there
are things like the superbox, which a fellow conspiracy realist
wrote to us about recently, things that can themselves, as
(08:42):
technology at base, not be a problem, not break the law. However,
the software you can add to it, or indeed the
software required to make it work, can itself be a
violation of the law. This is all This conversation is
something great for fans of tech stuff. If you want
(09:02):
to learn more, check out that show. This also brings
us to a potential conspiracy because we know there is
a controversial warrantless surveillance program in the United States, which
means the US government intercepts huge quantities of electronic communication
(09:24):
from people overseas. Now, your VPN works because, as Nol said,
it spoofs your address, It takes your breadcrumbs to different places,
right to different servers, and mingles them in an interstate
of other distinct traffic, which means from Uncle Sam's logic
(09:46):
that VPN servers can carry communication from foreign actors, some
of whom may not be on the up and up.
This is part of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act. It's
set to a expire sometime in April, and Congress is
all in it tizzy about whether or not this should
(10:08):
be renewed.
Speaker 3 (10:11):
So there is maybe an argument that VPN's not always
good for national intelligence and security, right, if we're going
to be the devil's advocate about it, that it is
a conversation larger than just individual privacy at the end
of the day.
Speaker 4 (10:28):
Yeah, well, put, I mean, we know that there is
a great deal of stuff they don't want you to know.
Oh my god, he said the title of stuff they
don't want you to know In this realm, especially with Congress,
they are seeing things that the public is not aware of,
and in many cases members of Congress, reps and Senate
(10:51):
alike are not allowed to speak about this publicly. We
know that this kind of surveillance is always historically going
to be weaponized, if not just flagrantly misused. So yeah,
be careful with your VPNs. We don't have any news
right now on which specifically are the bad ones, but
(11:12):
we can tell you especially high powered, high auctane governments
like the United States or China, they have a lot
more toys in their toolkit than people are aware. Even
then what snowed and revealed.
Speaker 3 (11:25):
Also shout out to Malvad my personal favorite VPN, and
shout out to matt As who we work with, who
hipped us to that when we were far afield abroad
in order to feel a little more at home. I
use that and it's actually I mean, it's so popular
and VPNs have been to the point you may have
been about are both of you that we did add
(11:46):
for ads for them all that ads have been all
over the New York subways. I mean, it is absolutely
a mainstream thing. And now we're running into that weird
crossover where maybe retroactively might not be so okay.
Speaker 4 (11:59):
Right, the ideas to obscure online activity and your breadcrumb
trail from Hansel and Gretel. Then this stuff loses a
lot of value if it turns out the people you're
attempting to hide from are able to just sneak in
another back door and find you. And that seems to
be in some degrees the case. If you are a
(12:22):
privacy expert or researcher, we would love to hear your
input on this conspiracydiheartradio dot com. While we're talking about
compromising online communications, guys, can we please, just for the
rest of us in the audience, talk a little more
about our guy, Cash Big Cash FBI director Cash Bettel.
Speaker 3 (12:45):
Did you see his dance video where he's doing dance?
I found it, Dar, I found it endearing. Do but
it's not the kind of thing that a big posturimacho
dude wants floating out there on the internet.
Speaker 4 (12:58):
Right, So we allude to this lightly, I think in
an episode or maybe in strange news or listener mail
at the end. But his Gmail account did get hacked
by an Irotian group called Hondala.
Speaker 2 (13:14):
Can we just say, no, matter who you are, that sucks.
It sucks just getting your Gmail hacked.
Speaker 3 (13:19):
It's not fun.
Speaker 4 (13:20):
No, it's not fun, especially considering how widely adopted Gmail
accounts were when everybody was still trying to figure out
digital literacy. Right, the rules of the road for that.
Speaker 2 (13:33):
Well, and back when Google was trying not to be evil,
those were the good days.
Speaker 3 (13:38):
No man, what a letter had That was what a
golden time.
Speaker 4 (13:42):
And I'm emphasizing Gmail account here because the account does
not appear to have been touching FBI systems, you know what,
you know what I mean.
Speaker 3 (13:52):
Back from money was just a content creator.
Speaker 4 (13:54):
It wasn't like k Petel sixty nine, sir for boy
with an eye at FBI dot gov. It was his
Gmail account. It looks like this was a lot of
his older stuff before he became FBI director.
Speaker 3 (14:10):
Back when he was just a content creator.
Speaker 4 (14:13):
Yeah, back when he's just a content creator. So, as
we're recording, the United States has always been offering up
to ten million dollars for information on foreign hackers targeting
critical infrastructure. Last week, right before we came into record,
(14:33):
the Department of State has offered a new a new
bounty we could call it on these folks. If you
sign up for signal or you go to wait for it, guys,
their tour based tip line, the onion router right, another
VPS or the kind of the operating architecture VPS, then
(14:58):
you will see that the FBI in the States Department
really want, really, really want these Irodians. I don't know
what to make of it. I think it's time, it's
well pastime for every Internet user to assume that anything
you put online is going to be visible to someone.
Speaker 3 (15:21):
Christy no Holmes husband, Sorry, I just yeah, well, boy,
the weirdest timeline as well, weirdest timeline.
Speaker 4 (15:28):
I think they had an arrangement.
Speaker 3 (15:30):
I think this is certainly that's possible. But how does
that stuff just get you know, I mean to your point, Ben, No, no,
uh no. Presumption of privacy whenever anything on the Internet
is concerned would be the smart way of playing it.
Speaker 4 (15:44):
Did you see that f MK meme?
Speaker 3 (15:48):
No f Mary Kill? Oh boy, who gets who does
what to whom?
Speaker 4 (15:53):
Mary is the husband? Uh F is the alleged fair partner,
and Kill is of course a dog.
Speaker 3 (16:03):
Oh of course. And I've heard a lot of jokes
about sweater puppies.
Speaker 4 (16:06):
Oh geez. Yeah, And we're not gonna obviously, you know,
we're not gonna yuck somebody's yum. But that's a really
weird story and it is sex related. So maybe before
we end this first act of our weekly Listener Mail
segment we give an update on a little outfit called
(16:26):
One Taste. We're talking about this off air One Taste.
I asked you guys if you were aware of what
One Taste is, and you both immediately were like, oh yeah,
because there's documentary on Netflix. They've been in the news
for a while. Their idea is to educate and enlighten
(16:48):
people about the practice of what they call orgasmic meditation.
M Now, when did you guys first hear about this?
Speaker 3 (16:57):
I just moments ago.
Speaker 2 (17:00):
I just learned about it this morning when I read
the headline and then look through the article. This person
who again feels pretty similar to other stuff we've seen
where there's a bit of a I'm not going to
say the S word. This is a health and wellness
organization that seemed to have some other motives going on,
with at least a few people at the top.
Speaker 4 (17:21):
Yeah. The article that came out pretty recently just gosh
yesterday by Philip Marcello writing for AP News. This is
an update on One Taste, which is in retrospect to
terrible name. One of the leaders, the co leader, was
(17:43):
just sentenced this previous Monday. As we record on Wednesday,
April first to nine years in federal prison for forced
labor forced labor crimes really and also ordered to forfeit.
Twelve million seven victims were awarded roughly eight hundred and
(18:04):
ninety thousand dollars in restitution because what they were doing
was ultimately commensurate to sex trafficking. They were finding these
people in vulnerable places. A lot of the attendees were
well to do, male identifying individuals, and the idea was
(18:25):
that you can achieve orgasmic meditation through a specific type
of digital manipulation. To put it in very physician esque.
Speaker 3 (18:39):
So like graphing calculators. We're talking Nintendo ds, we're talking fingering.
Oh che yees, yes, yes, of course.
Speaker 2 (18:46):
The quote from that article is says a centerpiece was
quote orgasmic meditation or om here's where it gets weird,
which was carried out by men manually stimulating women in
a group setting.
Speaker 4 (18:58):
Right and a lot of time these women were not
essentially willing participants. So the reason one everybody know about
that ap article is that there are there are things
like this out there, and they skirt past the law,
they skirt past public notice so quickly. This is indeed
(19:20):
a conspiracy and I believe it was our colleague in
the podcast space going by Rotten Mango, who did an
excellent two part deep dive on one Taste. So please
check please check out that show for more information, and please,
please please, always be worry of an organization, even if
(19:44):
it's not religious, any organization that attempts to be a
little cultish, you know what I mean, if they give
you the vibe, listen to your gut and just go
find something that doesn't try to force you into uncomfortable situations. Gosh, guys,
(20:05):
I'm just I'm so happy that there is justice done.
Another co leader has yet to be sentenced, but has
been convicted. It's a crazy world. Be safe out there,
and please write to us and let us know any
situations you have found where maybe it's like CrossFit esque,
(20:26):
maybe it's meditation esque, any situations you have found that
turned out to be in practice cults. We're gonna pause
for a word from our sponsors and will return with
more strange news.
Speaker 3 (20:45):
And we have returned. Guys. We love a heist. I
think that's how we preface. That's how we preface most
of these segments. When a good old weird heist comes up.
We all talk about the who we'd be in the
high situation. As we all know, I'm the bag man,
whatever that means. In this particular heist that we're going
(21:05):
to talk about today, it's kind of Easter adjacent. Thieves
stole twelve tons of KitKat bars in a European chocolate heist.
For the books, four hundred thousand chocolate bars weighing around
twelve tons fell off the back of a truck. As
they say, not really fell off. Was removed from.
Speaker 4 (21:28):
Okay, and as a kit Cat enthusiast, no, I read
this lightly, but I didn't go past the headlight as
a Kitcat enthusiast. When we say the bars, are we
talking about the full package of four bars or the
individual four bars that are in the past.
Speaker 3 (21:45):
Well, they're definitely not breaking them off. I think they
were removed in their entirety. This is a bulk shipment
from the factory in I want to say, it's on
its way to Poland the Nestley company, as we know,
(22:09):
the Swiss firm Nestley commented in a post on X
the Everything app that, in fact, yes this is true.
We can confirm that twelve tons of kit Kat products
were stolen while in transit between our factory in central
Italy and their destination and Poland. We are working closely
with local authorities and supply chain partners to investigate. The
(22:29):
good news, there are no concerns for customer safety and
supply is not affected. Thank you for your attention to
this matter. Oh nice, Now it just says thank you.
It just says thank you.
Speaker 4 (22:43):
So how do you how do you fence this?
Speaker 3 (22:45):
How do you fence this? Indeed, been through a whole
bunch of Easter baskets and make up a bunch of
you just stack them in Easter baskets and then distribute them.
And you ever ever here in Atlanta, I don't know
if it's like this in other parts of the country.
You ever roll around Atlanta and see like just little
kind of mom and pop pop ups on the side
of the road selling Easter baskets under like a little
(23:07):
tent situation, you know, like a you know, not a
tent tent, like one of those little awning things with
the sticks on the side. Yeah, similar to how you
might see a roadside fruit stand or something.
Speaker 4 (23:17):
We gather Valentine's Day right Valentine's Place. We see it
often roadside, or maybe they know the owner of a
gas station in the fark corner of the parking lot.
Speaker 3 (23:28):
Just soapen, just so, and I'm ser sure that you're getta.
Oh absolutely, there's one in particular down the street from
me where sometimes it'll be fruits. Sometimes they'll be selling
like jams and jellies, are even even doing barbecues, you know,
and selling dogs or or like you know, grillables. But yes,
you also will see seasonal pop ups like this, you know,
selling Easter baskets or Valentine's date streets. So I'm obviously
(23:50):
joking that would take a lot. You'd have to have
a real big operation to fence four hundred and thirteen
thou seven hundred and ninety three candy bars through Easter baskets.
It's a good question, Ben, and not one that is
entirely addressed here. In twenty twenty five, KitKat, according to Today,
became F One's official chocolate bar F one the movie
(24:13):
The Chocolate Bar.
Speaker 2 (24:15):
Wait, so, like, do you think this could be some
kind of racing heist?
Speaker 3 (24:19):
I think it's a fast I think it's a too fast,
too furious kind of sitch. Yeah, yeah, no, it says,
with the collaboration launching during the f ones seventy fifth
anniversary and Kitkat's ninetieth anniversary. So I think that the
implication here is that these were whoa, we're the commembories
like ya style. Okay, I don't know about that, man.
(24:42):
This might just be in aside from today here letting
us know, you know, the scoop on what's going on
with kit Kat as a brand. But these these f
one branded kit Kat bars are in the shape of
race cars and patently unbreakable, so it sort of goes
against the the the aesthetic of the traditional Kitcat. So
(25:03):
I'm a little confused here, guys.
Speaker 2 (25:05):
I think it's an inside job. This is all just
some kind of PR scheme. That truck is going to
be recovered very soon.
Speaker 4 (25:13):
I do like that because nol, I love the you
introduced me to the Wall Street Journal article how a
massive Kitcat heist turned into crisis pr gold, So I
think there might be something to Matt's point there.
Speaker 3 (25:28):
Yeah, let's let's let's exactly get it right, guys. Sorry,
this was behind the paywall for me, and I did
just realize that I pay for the damn Wall Street Journal.
So I'm gonna freaking use my subscripts and get behind
the wall here because this does appear to be the
quintessential rundown of all of the details surrounding the story.
Let's see infidel trait d Yeah it is. It is
(25:52):
April first, April one, April Fool's Day, as we as
we record, and it was confirmed by a spokesperson that
the heist wasn't an earthly April Fools joke. Yes, it
really happened, he said, taking their cue from Nestley. Other
companies soon joined in with some social media spoofing. We
would like to share our thoughts and condolences with KitKat
following their sad news an account for Domino's Pizza in
(26:12):
the UK posted Monday morning. Then it added on a
completely unrelated note, We're pleased to announce we'll now be
selling a kit Cat pizza. So there we go. We
got some humor going on here related to how this
could be fenced. And by the way, speaking of the
day that we sit here and record this, maybe we
could do a little round table of some of the
fun pr April Fools gags that we've seen today. But
(26:34):
my kid got me good. As they always do. Laid
their hand on my shoulder this morning. Look me in
the eye, Sid, Dad, is something I've been thinking about.
I want to talk to you about. Would you be
mad if I dropped out of school? And yes, yes,
I would be mad. The hag gotcha, punks got well.
Speaker 4 (26:50):
I got to tell you guys as well. This reaction
is perfect. Also, don't steal a bunch of KitKat bars.
If you're gonna do a massive heightst go for something different.
But I'm kind of over.
Speaker 3 (27:03):
April Fools same. I find it mean spirited.
Speaker 4 (27:07):
I do find it mean spirited. You know it was
fun back in previous years. I had a brief prank
gig for our pals, Chuck and Josh over its stuff
you should know. And I think Chuck is still mad
at me about it though it was for the record,
Chuck Josh's idea.
Speaker 3 (27:26):
You mentioned that, and I think I also followed that
up with mentioning how folks are still mad at Chuck
for a prank he pulled on April Fool's Day on
the retire movie Crush podcast, where he had a friend
of the show Kevin Pollock impersonate Christopher walkin for an
entire episode of a fraudulent interview, and when you know,
(27:47):
listeners were hipped to it. Pollock is known for his
walking impression. They were none too pleased because they felt
a little bit you know, manipulated and led to I
think it's a bit of an extreme reaction. It was
all in good fun if you listen clearfully, he's obviously
walkinging it up to the point of absurdity.
Speaker 4 (28:05):
But it's like a classic Nixon impression.
Speaker 3 (28:07):
And Ben can I also say that I think that
anti April Fools sentiment is probably stronger now than ever,
given how AI is just April foolsing us like every
day of the damn year, and people are feeling kind
of manipulated just by the Internet at large, and also
with the advent of all the fake news and stuff
flooding our various feeds. So I do get it. Last
(28:31):
thing here a person who heads up a PR consultancy agency,
Andrew Bloch and associates Andrew Block himself. The titular said
that it's a masterclass in public relations. By leaning in
to the misfortune of a lot of stolen chocolate, the
company embraced the opportunity and turned it into a positive.
(28:51):
He points out or the piece points out that there
was a time where a company like this wouldn't have
publicized the incident at all and would have left it
to the authority to break a story like this. But
now even bad news is good news, and it can
be spun into an opportunity to elevate the brand, which
it seems to me like what they've done.
Speaker 2 (29:11):
Well, how the heck do you break through all of
the other stuff flying across everybody's screens.
Speaker 3 (29:18):
You can't.
Speaker 2 (29:19):
It's difficult to get any attraction with an advertisement, right.
There is a tendency for people to just skip right
past those. Let's say, if it's in a you know,
YouTube video or something, or if it's in your scroll,
how do you get somebody's attention to let them know
about some special new thing that's happening with crime? Well,
well no, But if it's a major news story and
now a ton of other outlets are talking about your
(29:41):
specific thing, now people are gonna know about it. People
might even mention it while you're hanging out or while
you're chatting.
Speaker 3 (29:48):
People might even break themselves off a piece of that
kit cat bar because they all of a sudden get
that in flood of nostalgia and reminded that they like
the you know, the crunchy and chocolatey treat. Can we
also take this opportunity to say that I think that
American kit cat bars are pretty mid and that the
Japanese kit cat bars are incredible and creative and they
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are just more, you know, a cornucopia of flavors. And
if you are lucky enough to live near like a
super h Mart or other kind of Asian grocery store,
do get you to that place and try out some
of these incredible flavors. Ben, do you have any favorites
off the top of the dome?
Speaker 4 (30:26):
Oh my gosh, Noel, thank you for asking. Yeah, I
have to. I have to spend a certain amount of
time in Japan most years. So you're right. You're absolutely correct.
Kit kat is way more popular culturally in Japan, and
part of it is because of a pun. Right, So,
(30:46):
kito kato sounds similar to kitto katsu, which translates despite
the accident. It translates to something like surely you will win.
So a lot of kids get these as a good
luck charm in advance of very important exams. Right their
equivalent of the sat I love that cool and Tennessee
(31:10):
and I here need to shout out our old days
playing dungeons and dragons together. When our pals Lauren and
Annie from a Saver rocked up to us with a Dylan,
what was it? It was if they may have done
their own heist. It was like a garbage bag full
(31:30):
of Japanese KitKat flavors and Dylan. You want to shout
out one of your favorites.
Speaker 3 (31:35):
Yeah, Ocean Salt. That one was really good, and they
don't make it anymore.
Speaker 4 (31:39):
Not to be confused with Ocean Dream, because due to
Japanese US translations or Japanese English translations, a lot of
the flavors on the Japanese kitkats are not going to
sound like food. There's stuff whisper of harmony, you know.
Speaker 2 (31:57):
Well, the macho one is, in my opinion, the best.
Speaker 3 (32:00):
It's the bomb It's fabulous. It really does give proper
macha flavor, as well as wasabi, the wasabi variety, the
umeshu or plum wine idol, the Japanese sake. If we're
getting into more savory ones or like kind of boozy
type ones and they don't actually contain booze, we've got
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another even there's multiple matchas. Matt, I'm not sure if
you knew that there are multiple machas. We've got dark
Macha Macha laate uji Mata, then of course in the
sweet kind more sweet, we've got strawberry cheesecake, blueberry cheesecake,
roasted soybean, Hokkaido melon, and then much like you know
a hype Beast brand, they do a lot of very
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limited window exclusive drops as well.
Speaker 4 (32:47):
No, I've heard rumors of I haven't personally tried this.
When I have to go back, I'll check it out.
But I've heard rumors of a Durian kit cat. I
don't know if that was. I don't know if that
was a permanent addition to the line. But if you
were ever in Japan, folks do a high the to
a combini or convenience store, get your kitkats to bring
(33:08):
it back to this high story. So these are limited
run kitkats for F one right.
Speaker 3 (33:15):
Unclear, unapologize it's not entirely clear. The the Today Show
right up that I read just kind of pivoted to
writing about this F one tie in and showed a
picture of it. No, wait a minute, No, no, that
is correct. Ben, thank you very much. And that is interesting.
That is extra interesting that it was a specific kind
(33:38):
of collectible kit cat. I wonder if it's just a coincidence, though,
I gotta wonder.
Speaker 4 (33:43):
Yeah, did they know specifically what was in the truck
because they may have been or what was in you know,
the collection of the bars they hoisted. Because if you're
trying to steal limited, limited edition things at that level,
aren't you kind of breaking the market? Won't it be
tougher for you to fence this? I mean, is there
(34:06):
a billionaire Willie Wonka style who's out there going? I
won't to the if one kit kats?
Speaker 3 (34:12):
Well to really do it, right, Ben, you got to
sit on them for a while.
Speaker 4 (34:17):
Okay, now we come through a third party, maybe your
favorite podcast for Rick going back.
Speaker 3 (34:23):
Out into the market once the exclusivity, Oh my gosh,
you know what I mean? Yeah, let them appreciate, let
them appreciate the value.
Speaker 4 (34:32):
Like Less Grossman, I recently rewatched Tropic Thunder phenomenal, like
Less Grossman quietly saying all right, we'll let the star
get killed, We'll do a scholarship. We'll wait till a
few years down the road. We quietly make an insurance claim.
Speaker 3 (34:50):
These crioks are playing the long games, and I did
just read the basic statement that didn't really have any
humor from kit Kat. But they also made some subsequent
social media posts saying we've always encouraged people to have
a break with KitKat, but it seems thieves have taken
the message too literally, while also praising the criminal's exceptional
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taste and pointing out that cargo theft, however, is an
escalating issue for businesses of all sizes. As we know
that to be the case because we keep coming out
with these stories we had like what was it a
there's a cheese heeist or something. I believe in recent
memory that there's been a handful of advice we jump
We jump on them anytime we get the chance. Guys,
(35:34):
I gotta wonder, I think we maybe went long enough
with this one kit Cat story. But I will just say,
just as a quick aside, another story that I was
considering going into also involves chocolate and a recall of
quote male enhancement chocolate that was recalled because they may
contain quote deadly amounts of viagra.
Speaker 4 (35:57):
Whoa right, right?
Speaker 3 (36:00):
Right?
Speaker 2 (36:01):
Is that? The whole thing where like it's called a doctor.
If it's more than four hours, is that why it
is deadly than here?
Speaker 3 (36:07):
Let's see a priapism. Yes. On Thursday, the FDA announced
that California based gear Isle is voluntarily recalling two chocolate products,
gold Lion Aphrodisiac chocolate and ilum Sex Chocolate, which sounds
like a frickin industrial band. After testing, you, guys, I
gotta go.
Speaker 4 (36:25):
I'll be right back. I gotta, I gotta right to
the chocolate tears.
Speaker 3 (36:29):
There you go. No, the willy wankers of them of
the world send it to me after it, thank you
so much. Be After testing revealed undeclared Sildenaphil and Tadala
phil marketing online as dietary supplements, the products contain prescription
drugs that can cause a quote life threatening drop in
(36:50):
blood pressure when combined with nitrates found in heart medications.
The ftar, guys, I swear to god, we've also talked
about another boner bear boner. Well there was that one,
but then there was another. I swear like one that
accidentally made its way into some chocolate in the past,
because this kind of rang familiar to me. But well,
we'll get to that ilum Sex Chocolate. That is my
(37:12):
next goth project. I swear that's so good. Marketing online
its dietary selement. The pro yes sorry, already said that
the recalled products include the gold Lion sachet and it
gives the the lot number because that's important in case
you know you have one of these, So do check
that out if you are in possession of this product
u PC seven nine five eight four seven nine one
six two seven nine.
Speaker 4 (37:33):
K yes, sir, don't uh with just absolutely asking for
a friend. What is that lot number again?
Speaker 3 (37:39):
Yeah? A seven nine five eight four seven nine one
six two seven nine expiration dates June twenty twenty seven.
The illum Sex Chocolate Booster with UPC one hundred two
four four eight five seven eight nine one one expiration
December twenty fifth, twenty twenty seven. Wow, he's got a
lot of shelf life on it. Gear Isle reports thus
far no adverse consumers should immediately stop using the products
(38:02):
and return them for a refund, as gear Isli is
actively notifying customers by letter to coordinate returns and refunds.
The FDA said, so, yeah, I think we'll just just
leave it. Leave it there. There was an Apache helicopter
that did a fly by over Kid Rock's house and
that led to some yet dose go on.
Speaker 4 (38:24):
Then there were two.
Speaker 3 (38:25):
Okay, well, we've got a video of one that I've seen,
and I do believe it led to some disciplinary measures
that were then sort of walked back. That's my understanding
there Where is Kid?
Speaker 4 (38:40):
Where is Jaw? Yeah? Just so you know, folks, we
personally do not have the juice or the problems that
would require a H sixty four apaches to buzz us.
Speaker 3 (38:55):
Nope, and I think we're totally cool with it staying
that way. Let's take a quick break here, a word
from our sponsor, and then we'll come back with more
strange news.
Speaker 2 (39:09):
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like flacid but machine together as flusine. And we can
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Speaker 3 (39:28):
Uh okay, no, what are you talking? I was laughing
inside and I didn't externalize it. That's very funny and
very I think it's a million dollar idea. I'm fully
behind behind you on this.
Speaker 2 (39:40):
Hey, Kia know the drill in these parts. Here we go.
It is launch day as we record on April first,
for the Artemis two mission. This is a super exciting
thing that's about to happen. It's happening this evening, hopefully
round seven pm. This is a four person human man
mission to fly around the Moon, to give it a
(40:02):
little orbit and then come back. It's the second test mission.
That's why they call it Artemis two. It's super exciting,
it's super cool. I dropped the kids off today at
the bus stop and I asked two other little boys
who were there, Hey, you guys excited for the Moon
mission today? And they're like, what Moon mission?
Speaker 3 (40:19):
Who? What? Huh? What even is the Moon?
Speaker 2 (40:22):
But they just had no idea what was happening. And
it made me think about previous times that I was
not alive for. But I have certainly watched and read
and seen a whole bunch of reporting on the excitement
and the propaganda surrounding the Moon missions back in the
day in the sixties. And just knowing that NASA's official trailer,
(40:42):
like the launch trailer that they put out with this,
you know, a ton of production value, super exciting, feels
a little bit like American propaganda. It only had like
two hundred and thirty thousand views on YouTube, which is
a lot, but really nothing compared to what you imagine
the hype for something like this would be. It's just
very puzzling. I suppose to me there's going to be
(41:05):
more Moon missions with Artemis. They will eventually be launching
Artemis three, hopefully in twenty twenty seven, if Blue Origin
and the other folks there the private side of it
can get their orbiters in order. They're not ready yet
to have human beings go down onto the Moon and
then come back and meet back with the Artemis orbiter.
(41:26):
All stuff that you just should keep on your radar
because it's happening right now. Next up, we are going
to talk about a story involving the White House, but
we're going back in time to get us there. So
we're beginning in June of twenty twenty with a Guardian article.
I'm going to read directly from it. It's titled first
(41:50):
Thing with America Ablaze. The President retreated to the bunker
directly here. Fires burned close to the White House in Washington,
DC on Sunday night as a sixth day of national
demonstrations over police brutality and the killing of George Floyd
brought fresh unrest to the Capitol. The President of the
United States spent Sunday firing off messages such as strength
(42:12):
and law and order, but otherwise made little public comment
on the unfolding national crisis. It has been reported that
on Friday night, as protesters neared the White House, the
President and his family were rushed to a special secure
bunker that is not known to have been used since
the days after September eleventh, two thousand and one. This
(42:33):
is just a news story, guys, that I didn't even
really clock at the time when it was happening. I
don't think we mentioned it or talked about it. But
this is a small, little blip in history. In June
twenty twenty, the President and the family were moved to
a secure bunker in the White House. Let's move on
to twenty twenty one. This is CNN politics. The President
(42:55):
said whoever leaked info on his White House bunker s
day should be executed. Book claims the President of the
United States told a number of his advisers in twenty
twenty that whoever leaked information about his stay in the
White House bunker in May of that year, had committed
treason and should be executed for sharing details about the
episode with members of the press. This is according to
(43:17):
a new book written by Michael Bender, a Wall Street journalist.
Speaker 3 (43:22):
Reporter.
Speaker 2 (43:23):
Bender writes, quote, the President boiled over about the bunker
story as soon as they arrived and shouted at them
to smoke out whoever had leaked it. It was the
most upset some of his aides had ever seen the president.
The President yelled whoever did that they should be charged
with treason, They should be executed. The book reads the
president had attempted to publicly downplay the bunker incident in
(43:43):
the days that followed, seeking in a radio interview at
the time to explain his presence in the bunker as
an inspection rather than a retreat for his own safety.
Now we're hitting those two just to just to mention
that the bunker underneath the White House is kind of
an open secret. And if you look up information about
(44:06):
this this very hardened, very safe bunker beneath the White House,
you will notice that it is underneath the East Wing,
the wing of the White House that was destroyed in
twenty twenty five and is now being rebuilt and is
costing lots and lots of money. And on this show,
we kind of jokingly speculated about all of the things
(44:26):
that could be beneath the new ballroom.
Speaker 3 (44:29):
Ooh, for the record, I was well.
Speaker 2 (44:31):
We were joking. We were joking about uses of whatever
hardened structure we imagined would be placed under there, because
you wouldn't do that kind of renovation to the White House,
especially for that amount of money, without putting something there,
something that has strategic use, in this case a bunker.
The weird thing is that the bunker has been there
(44:54):
since since during World War Two, and then it was
updated after World War Two to make it better suitable
to withstand nuclear attacks, and it has been consistently updated
throughout all the years since the nineteen forties. And we
don't know what those updates and renovations mean. We don't
know how deep it is. It's highly classified. It is
(45:16):
something that we are not really supposed to know about,
especially not think about on a regular basis. It shouldn't
be pinging our minds, at least according to the folks
who have built the bunker and want to keep the
President and others in the White House safe One little
note there. The bunker was not utilized by President Bush
(45:38):
when the September eleventh attacks were occurring. It was used
by Dick Cheney. As if we all remember, the President
at the time was at a school in Florida, but
the Vice President was moved to the special bunker.
Speaker 4 (45:53):
H makes you think so also, to be fair, I
can't believe I'm in this position. But to be fair,
ideally you don't want both of those offices together in
the same place in a time of.
Speaker 2 (46:07):
Crisis, for sure, Oh, most definitely. The bunker is called
the Presidential Emergency Operations Center or the PEOC. Interesting Engineering
did a big write up about it on June third,
twenty twenty A look inside the US President's top secret
White House Bunker. This is where you can learn all
(46:28):
about this thing when it was created under Franklin D. Roosevelt,
and then Truman updated it for you know, the nukes
and all that stuff.
Speaker 3 (46:38):
It says.
Speaker 2 (46:38):
The modern PEOC is equipped with state of the art
communications equipment that allows the President to communicate with government
offices outside in the event of any White House security breach,
any violation of the Washington DC Air Defense Identification Zone
P fifty six airspace. The President and another staff will
be relocated to the Executive Briefing Room next to the
(46:59):
p EOC, And we're assuming the entrance to the bunker
is in that briefing room, you know, the one where
you see all the media gathered and asking folks questions
up there, and then the folks say, h, a stupid journalist,
you know that one.
Speaker 3 (47:13):
Is this the kind of place maybe even that could
be utilized if there was some sort of revolt? And
is this a place the president might go and seek
refuge like it from internal forces as well? I'm just
saying like I'm picturing historical precedent for that kind of thing.
Speaker 2 (47:28):
Well, as we said in June twenty twenty, the president
was taken or retreated to this bunker when there was
what appeared to be and uprising by the people because
they were so angry about George Floyd and injustices and
things that were occurring. There were mass protests across the
country at that time, and there were enough human beings
(47:51):
that were angry out on the streets right in front
of the White House actually that it was utilized for
that god and then knowing that it was being used
for that seemed to be a hit to the ego
of the president.
Speaker 3 (48:01):
So because he was being a chicken.
Speaker 2 (48:05):
I don't know, I don't know what I don't know
what it means. I don't know how we felt. We
hear what he said through you know that reporter from
the Wall Street Journal, But.
Speaker 3 (48:15):
Who knows.
Speaker 2 (48:16):
This is all culminating to a brand new news story
from March thirtieth, twenty twenty six. The President gives details
about secret massive military complex being built under White House ballroom.
This is from the New York Post, written by Ryan King.
The President of the United States confirmed Sunday, March twenty
(48:37):
ninth that a quote massive military complex is being built
under the White House Ballroom, providing new details about the
secret project exposed in a recent lawsuit. Because guys, there
are lawsuits over this thing, this ballroom that's being built,
because of how the demolition went, because of how quickly
the construction was underway, because it is a historic building
(48:58):
that represents a lot of things, the iconic majesty of
the White House, at least according to many. Let's just
keep going here. The White House Ballroom is set to
sit over the Doomsday bunker that was built in the night.
But again it was a doomsday bunker built in the
nineteen forties, yep, to keep presidents safe in times of war.
(49:20):
And here's a direct quote from the President speaking on
this while on Air Force One. Now, the military is
building a big complex under the ballroom, which has come
out recently because of a stupid lawsuit that was filed.
But the military is building a massive complex under the ballroom,
and that's under construction, and we're doing very well. We
have all bulletproof glass and we have drone proof roofs, ceilings. Unfortunately,
(49:45):
we're living in an age when that's a good thing.
Speaker 3 (49:49):
Did he really have to spill all that? And I mean,
doesn't that seem a little loose lipped? Well, but it
was already out of those public sphere we watched.
Speaker 2 (50:00):
That's fair, that's it. And that's kind of the point here.
It's always kind of been out in the public sphere.
Even very shortly after the thing was constructed or plans
were proposed, it was known that it was there. The
details are what matters, right, get it? How can you? Yeah,
the interesting engineering piece is very interesting. But there is
(50:24):
a New York Times piece that goes into more detail.
There's a lot of information that is floating around out
there about it, which we can imagine poses a bit
of a danger, because if you know how to get
into the thing, or the weaknesses of the thing, you
can circumvent the reasons for its existence, you know, which
wouldn't be good for those folks.
Speaker 3 (50:45):
Guys.
Speaker 2 (50:45):
The last thing I wanted to mention here after the
bunker is that a little thing is happening, and it
reminds me of your VPN story, Ben. It's this desire
to expose everyone in different ways so that the government
itself and perhaps private contractors who work directly with the government,
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know who you are, what you do, and even how
you vote. So let's move to this really quickly. According
to the AP News on March thirty first, twenty twenty six,
is the title the President of the United States signs
order directing creation of a national voter List, a move
already facing lawsuit threats. The executive order, which voting law
(51:31):
experts say violates the Constitution by attempting to seize state's
power to run elections, is the latest in a torrent
of efforts from the president to interfere with the way
Americans vote based on false allegations of fraud. The president
has repeatedly lied about the outcome of the twenty twenty
presidential election campaign and the integrity of state run elections,
(51:51):
asserting again on Tuesday that he won three times in
citing accusations of voter fraud that numerous audits, investigations, and
courts have debunked. The order recently signed on Tuesday, calls
for the Department of Homeland Security, working in conjunction with
the Social Security Administration, to make the list of eligible
(52:12):
voters in each state. It also seeks to bar the
US Postal Service from sending absentee ballots to those not
on each state's approved list.
Speaker 3 (52:23):
I saw a piece this morning that was basically saying
this is pretty dead and on arrival because of various reasons,
like there's no oversight of the US Postal Service directly
by the administration or by the President, and also there's
just so many things that are represented in this executive
(52:44):
order that just are kind of not a thing.
Speaker 4 (52:47):
That's correct NOL. It's also coming in conjunction, speaking of
Bannon's flood, the zone concept that's coming in conjunction the
story I wanted us to get to well lot to
save later right now, as we were court on Wednesday,
April first, No April fools, the President of the United
States is breaking protocol and going to hear oral arguments
(53:11):
over restricting birthright citizenship at the Supreme Court. So I'm
with you, nol. This is due to not even moral grounds,
but due to the way state interacts with federal levels
of government. This is a sticky wicket. I know, we've
all been watching this, this voter roll thing. You know,
(53:33):
it might sound obtuse to a lot of our fellow
casual readers, but this is a problem.
Speaker 2 (53:42):
Oh yeah, but as the zone floods, that water also
starts to leak out, and the water starts to go
down because again going to the ap news here, on
March thirty first, a federal judge agreed to permanently block
the current presidential administration from impla menting a presidential directive
to end federal funding for the national public radio and
(54:05):
public broadcasting services. So that's kind of awesome.
Speaker 3 (54:09):
It win a little win, Yeah, it is.
Speaker 4 (54:12):
Yeah, if the executive branch does one to eighty and
starts obeying the courts.
Speaker 2 (54:17):
Hey, hey, we do have to acknowledge that there are
issues with any state run media, right, that's any country
or any the official media coming out of a country
that is seen as a public service or as a
way to get out official messaging. That's we're not saying
that's what MPR and PBS is. We're just saying there
are potential problems there that exist, and we understand why
(54:39):
people may have that view, right, but it doesn't mean
they need to go away. I don't think that's just
my opinion.
Speaker 3 (54:46):
All right.
Speaker 2 (54:47):
That's all for me this week, guys.
Speaker 4 (54:49):
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Welcome to April sixth A quick update, just a little
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bit of housekeeping, fellow conspiracy realist. Your boys are going
to be on the road very soon. Will be recording
not from our usual houses, caverns or Heidi holes or bunkers, uh,
but we will actually be recording in a place called
Baja mar. Are we all excited?
Speaker 3 (01:11):
The Bahama Bunker. It's a Bahama Bunker, bunk down, and.
Speaker 4 (01:19):
I'm gonna meet a Flamingo, I'm gonna chat with a McCaw.
You know, We're gonna go out to some cool restaurants,
soak some cool views. And we're gonna find some Uh,
we're always gonna find some conspiracies.
Speaker 3 (01:31):
Afoot, right, Barry treasure. We've been promised Berry treasure.
Speaker 4 (01:34):
I would love it.
Speaker 2 (01:36):
Yeah, Berry treasure hopefully as long as flooding isn't an
issue that's pretty close to or we're just you know,
sea level it's a thing.
Speaker 4 (01:45):
Yeah, we're gonna be on it. We're gonna sea level set.
And we love buried treasure because we we actually prefer
bury treasure folks to treasure just out in the open
because we like to earn stuff. We like to do
our fortunes, you know what.
Speaker 2 (02:02):
And it's not considered treasure unless it's fully wet.
Speaker 3 (02:06):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (02:06):
Yeah, wow, we learned that. You come on comedy.
Speaker 3 (02:12):
I'm just going to use my imagination.
Speaker 4 (02:13):
Also, touching a pile of wet coins is a very
specific nightmare of mind, so thank you for that one.
Speaker 3 (02:21):
I saw an internet video the other day where it
was like, uh, this is the archaeologist that I wanted
to be. And it's just someone dusting off like a
treasure chest and opening up and it's like full of coins,
and this is the archaeologist I became. And it shows
someone scooping a litterbox. I think we can all identify
with those kinds of broken.
Speaker 4 (02:38):
Dreams, yes, yes, or at least Shyamalan dreams. Right now,
as we're recording, one thing you need to know at
the top, especially some of our pals like Privacy Guide
may already be aware of this. If you are in
the United States, uh, or wherever you are, if you're
listening uh to this program, be a VPN. We mentioned
(03:01):
this earlier. Please be aware that Tulsi Gabbard and other
members of the intelligence apparatus here at Uncle sam Land
are being kind of cagey about whether using a VPN
can strip you of constitutional protections warrantless surveillance. Yeah, so
(03:22):
using a VPN, which could make you private, can make
you a target.
Speaker 2 (03:27):
This is something that's been talked about for a while,
the potential for VPN usage to be linked by you know,
organizations like the ones they represent, to some kind of
organized crime, to some kind of illicit activity, and again
just making that connection on paper in that way, you know,
(03:48):
and then deciding, hey, this is this is another potential
marker for someone who's doing something nefarious.
Speaker 4 (03:54):
Yeah, it's another flag.
Speaker 3 (03:56):
How do they how do they feel about people trafficking
and copious amounts of crypto? Is that cool? Is that okay?
Speaker 4 (04:03):
I'm sure it's on who you are.
Speaker 3 (04:04):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (04:05):
To be frank, we're very much in the rules for
thee not rules for me situation. So what say we
pause for a word from our sponsors, give everybody a
chance to check on their VPN subscriptions, and when we
come back, we'll return with a phenomenal article from Wired.
(04:29):
And we have returned with great thanks to Dell Cameron,
journalist who specializes in security over at Wired. Here's the deal.
We all know what a VPN is at this point.
This proxy network is.
Speaker 3 (04:46):
Let's be stand for I believe virtual Okay, that makes sense. Sorry,
I've never known.
Speaker 4 (04:53):
Yeah, no, no, no, it's It's totally fine, man, because
these are things that or this is a tech that
was actually pioneered by researchers associated with the US government
in the first place, of course, and it's done a
lot of good for people who, you know, live in
(05:13):
authoritarian regimes, people who are concerned about their personal information
being captured, exposed, hacked, et cetera.
Speaker 3 (05:23):
Or just people trying to get Italian content on Netflix
when they're in the wrong.
Speaker 4 (05:26):
Zone right right, or people who not to put it
too on the nose, but people who might be in
Japan saying, dang it, I paid for this streaming service,
why can't I watch it here?
Speaker 2 (05:40):
Or just somebody who just doesn't want creepizoids looking at
you and going, oh what are you?
Speaker 3 (05:45):
What are you doing?
Speaker 4 (05:47):
Right?
Speaker 3 (05:47):
Bots?
Speaker 4 (05:48):
Or meatbags? Yeah?
Speaker 3 (05:49):
Well, and guys, I got a wonder too, because it
certainly seems that streaming services like HBO Max or whatever
the hell it's called now are wise to this kind thing,
and you cannot consume their content out of bounce using
a VPN. So if HBO is doing it, I got
to wonder what are the other workarounds that have, you know,
(06:12):
kind of crept into the scenes that maybe we're not
aware of in terms of that feeling of security behind
a VPN.
Speaker 4 (06:20):
You know, it's interesting to this recent debate because, as
as our pals a Wired point out, and I'm sure
a lot of us already knew this, several federal agencies
in the past, including the NSA and the FBI and
the FTC Federal Trade Commission, they have explicitly recommended that
(06:41):
people use VPNs to protect their privacy and now we
have to ask what their motivation was for co signing
That so hard because technically, you know, you could use
a VPN to violate some intellectual property rights. That's not
the kind of thing the FBI or Secure Ority Agency
would normally co sign. So why was this the cookie
(07:05):
they wanted people to pull from the cookie jar? H
It looks like it looks like it might be a setup.
Speaker 2 (07:13):
Yeah, exactly, unless they they had some way to work
directly with specific VPNs. You know, we've we've been sponsored
by at least one VPN, looking at you, Nord. But
if they had some way in with that organization or
with their back end, they could encourage people right to
(07:33):
use VPNs and then, thinking they're safe, do the things
they're not supposed to do, then those, uh, the other
organizations can just get say hey got jack Exactly.
Speaker 3 (07:44):
Thought it's another one of those the law lagging behind
technology things, because I would argue that it seems to
me anyway that some uses of VPNs is patently skirting
the law a little bit. Like, for example, there are
certain states that require age verification for consuming adult content websites,
and if you can spoof it and make the website
think that you're in another state, then technically you're circumventing
(08:08):
the laws of your state. But it's a sticky, kind
of great sticky god a gray area, right whether or
not you're breaking the law or not.
Speaker 4 (08:18):
It's a bag of badgers. And personally, I've never gooned.
That hard to know about that. Thank you to Robert
Evans for teaching me the phrase goon. But it is
definitely possible to your point, Noel. We also know there
are things like the superbox, which a fellow conspiracy realist
wrote to us about recently, things that can themselves, as
(08:42):
technology at base, not be a problem, not break the law. However,
the software you can add to it, or indeed the
software required to make it work, can itself be a
violation of the law. This is all This conversation is
something great for fans of tech stuff. If you want
(09:02):
to learn more, check out that show. This also brings
us to a potential conspiracy because we know there is
a controversial warrantless surveillance program in the United States, which
means the US government intercepts huge quantities of electronic communication
(09:24):
from people overseas. Now, your VPN works because, as Nol said,
it spoofs your address, It takes your breadcrumbs to different places,
right to different servers, and mingles them in an interstate
of other distinct traffic, which means from Uncle Sam's logic
(09:46):
that VPN servers can carry communication from foreign actors, some
of whom may not be on the up and up.
This is part of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act. It's
set to a expire sometime in April, and Congress is
all in it tizzy about whether or not this should
(10:08):
be renewed.
Speaker 3 (10:11):
So there is maybe an argument that VPN's not always
good for national intelligence and security, right, if we're going
to be the devil's advocate about it, that it is
a conversation larger than just individual privacy at the end
of the day.
Speaker 4 (10:28):
Yeah, well, put, I mean, we know that there is
a great deal of stuff they don't want you to know.
Oh my god, he said the title of stuff they
don't want you to know In this realm, especially with Congress,
they are seeing things that the public is not aware of,
and in many cases members of Congress, reps and Senate
(10:51):
alike are not allowed to speak about this publicly. We
know that this kind of surveillance is always historically going
to be weaponized, if not just flagrantly misused. So yeah,
be careful with your VPNs. We don't have any news
right now on which specifically are the bad ones, but
(11:12):
we can tell you especially high powered, high auctane governments
like the United States or China, they have a lot
more toys in their toolkit than people are aware. Even
then what snowed and revealed.
Speaker 3 (11:25):
Also shout out to Malvad my personal favorite VPN, and
shout out to matt As who we work with, who
hipped us to that when we were far afield abroad
in order to feel a little more at home. I
use that and it's actually I mean, it's so popular
and VPNs have been to the point you may have
been about are both of you that we did add
(11:46):
for ads for them all that ads have been all
over the New York subways. I mean, it is absolutely
a mainstream thing. And now we're running into that weird
crossover where maybe retroactively might not be so okay.
Speaker 4 (11:59):
Right, the ideas to obscure online activity and your breadcrumb
trail from Hansel and Gretel. Then this stuff loses a
lot of value if it turns out the people you're
attempting to hide from are able to just sneak in
another back door and find you. And that seems to
be in some degrees the case. If you are a
(12:22):
privacy expert or researcher, we would love to hear your
input on this conspiracydiheartradio dot com. While we're talking about
compromising online communications, guys, can we please, just for the
rest of us in the audience, talk a little more
about our guy, Cash Big Cash FBI director Cash Bettel.
Speaker 3 (12:45):
Did you see his dance video where he's doing dance?
I found it, Dar, I found it endearing. Do but
it's not the kind of thing that a big posturimacho
dude wants floating out there on the internet.
Speaker 4 (12:58):
Right, So we allude to this lightly, I think in
an episode or maybe in strange news or listener mail
at the end. But his Gmail account did get hacked
by an Irotian group called Hondala.
Speaker 2 (13:14):
Can we just say, no, matter who you are, that sucks.
It sucks just getting your Gmail hacked.
Speaker 3 (13:19):
It's not fun.
Speaker 4 (13:20):
No, it's not fun, especially considering how widely adopted Gmail
accounts were when everybody was still trying to figure out
digital literacy. Right, the rules of the road for that.
Speaker 2 (13:33):
Well, and back when Google was trying not to be evil,
those were the good days.
Speaker 3 (13:38):
No man, what a letter had That was what a
golden time.
Speaker 4 (13:42):
And I'm emphasizing Gmail account here because the account does
not appear to have been touching FBI systems, you know what,
you know what I mean.
Speaker 3 (13:52):
Back from money was just a content creator.
Speaker 4 (13:54):
It wasn't like k Petel sixty nine, sir for boy
with an eye at FBI dot gov. It was his
Gmail account. It looks like this was a lot of
his older stuff before he became FBI director.
Speaker 3 (14:10):
Back when he was just a content creator.
Speaker 4 (14:13):
Yeah, back when he's just a content creator. So, as
we're recording, the United States has always been offering up
to ten million dollars for information on foreign hackers targeting
critical infrastructure. Last week, right before we came into record,
(14:33):
the Department of State has offered a new a new
bounty we could call it on these folks. If you
sign up for signal or you go to wait for it, guys,
their tour based tip line, the onion router right, another
VPS or the kind of the operating architecture VPS, then
(14:58):
you will see that the FBI in the States Department
really want, really, really want these Irodians. I don't know
what to make of it. I think it's time, it's
well pastime for every Internet user to assume that anything
you put online is going to be visible to someone.
Speaker 3 (15:21):
Christy no Holmes husband, Sorry, I just yeah, well, boy,
the weirdest timeline as well, weirdest timeline.
Speaker 4 (15:28):
I think they had an arrangement.
Speaker 3 (15:30):
I think this is certainly that's possible. But how does
that stuff just get you know, I mean to your point, Ben, No, no,
uh no. Presumption of privacy whenever anything on the Internet
is concerned would be the smart way of playing it.
Speaker 4 (15:44):
Did you see that f MK meme?
Speaker 3 (15:48):
No f Mary Kill? Oh boy, who gets who does
what to whom?
Speaker 4 (15:53):
Mary is the husband? Uh F is the alleged fair partner,
and Kill is of course a dog.
Speaker 3 (16:03):
Oh of course. And I've heard a lot of jokes
about sweater puppies.
Speaker 4 (16:06):
Oh geez. Yeah, And we're not gonna obviously, you know,
we're not gonna yuck somebody's yum. But that's a really
weird story and it is sex related. So maybe before
we end this first act of our weekly Listener Mail
segment we give an update on a little outfit called
(16:26):
One Taste. We're talking about this off air One Taste.
I asked you guys if you were aware of what
One Taste is, and you both immediately were like, oh yeah,
because there's documentary on Netflix. They've been in the news
for a while. Their idea is to educate and enlighten
(16:48):
people about the practice of what they call orgasmic meditation.
M Now, when did you guys first hear about this?
Speaker 3 (16:57):
I just moments ago.
Speaker 2 (17:00):
I just learned about it this morning when I read
the headline and then look through the article. This person
who again feels pretty similar to other stuff we've seen
where there's a bit of a I'm not going to
say the S word. This is a health and wellness
organization that seemed to have some other motives going on,
with at least a few people at the top.
Speaker 4 (17:21):
Yeah. The article that came out pretty recently just gosh
yesterday by Philip Marcello writing for AP News. This is
an update on One Taste, which is in retrospect to
terrible name. One of the leaders, the co leader, was
(17:43):
just sentenced this previous Monday. As we record on Wednesday,
April first to nine years in federal prison for forced
labor forced labor crimes really and also ordered to forfeit.
Twelve million seven victims were awarded roughly eight hundred and
(18:04):
ninety thousand dollars in restitution because what they were doing
was ultimately commensurate to sex trafficking. They were finding these
people in vulnerable places. A lot of the attendees were
well to do, male identifying individuals, and the idea was
(18:25):
that you can achieve orgasmic meditation through a specific type
of digital manipulation. To put it in very physician esque.
Speaker 3 (18:39):
So like graphing calculators. We're talking Nintendo ds, we're talking fingering.
Oh che yees, yes, yes, of course.
Speaker 2 (18:46):
The quote from that article is says a centerpiece was
quote orgasmic meditation or om here's where it gets weird,
which was carried out by men manually stimulating women in
a group setting.
Speaker 4 (18:58):
Right and a lot of time these women were not
essentially willing participants. So the reason one everybody know about
that ap article is that there are there are things
like this out there, and they skirt past the law,
they skirt past public notice so quickly. This is indeed
(19:20):
a conspiracy and I believe it was our colleague in
the podcast space going by Rotten Mango, who did an
excellent two part deep dive on one Taste. So please
check please check out that show for more information, and please,
please please, always be worry of an organization, even if
(19:44):
it's not religious, any organization that attempts to be a
little cultish, you know what I mean, if they give
you the vibe, listen to your gut and just go
find something that doesn't try to force you into uncomfortable situations. Gosh, guys,
(20:05):
I'm just I'm so happy that there is justice done.
Another co leader has yet to be sentenced, but has
been convicted. It's a crazy world. Be safe out there,
and please write to us and let us know any
situations you have found where maybe it's like CrossFit esque,
(20:26):
maybe it's meditation esque, any situations you have found that
turned out to be in practice cults. We're gonna pause
for a word from our sponsors and will return with
more strange news.
Speaker 3 (20:45):
And we have returned. Guys. We love a heist. I
think that's how we preface. That's how we preface most
of these segments. When a good old weird heist comes up.
We all talk about the who we'd be in the
high situation. As we all know, I'm the bag man,
whatever that means. In this particular heist that we're going
(21:05):
to talk about today, it's kind of Easter adjacent. Thieves
stole twelve tons of KitKat bars in a European chocolate heist.
For the books, four hundred thousand chocolate bars weighing around
twelve tons fell off the back of a truck. As
they say, not really fell off. Was removed from.
Speaker 4 (21:28):
Okay, and as a kit Cat enthusiast, no, I read
this lightly, but I didn't go past the headlight as
a Kitcat enthusiast. When we say the bars, are we
talking about the full package of four bars or the
individual four bars that are in the past.
Speaker 3 (21:45):
Well, they're definitely not breaking them off. I think they
were removed in their entirety. This is a bulk shipment
from the factory in I want to say, it's on
its way to Poland the Nestley company, as we know,
(22:09):
the Swiss firm Nestley commented in a post on X
the Everything app that, in fact, yes this is true.
We can confirm that twelve tons of kit Kat products
were stolen while in transit between our factory in central
Italy and their destination and Poland. We are working closely
with local authorities and supply chain partners to investigate. The
(22:29):
good news, there are no concerns for customer safety and
supply is not affected. Thank you for your attention to
this matter. Oh nice, Now it just says thank you.
It just says thank you.
Speaker 4 (22:43):
So how do you how do you fence this?
Speaker 3 (22:45):
How do you fence this? Indeed, been through a whole
bunch of Easter baskets and make up a bunch of
you just stack them in Easter baskets and then distribute them.
And you ever ever here in Atlanta, I don't know
if it's like this in other parts of the country.
You ever roll around Atlanta and see like just little
kind of mom and pop pop ups on the side
of the road selling Easter baskets under like a little
(23:07):
tent situation, you know, like a you know, not a
tent tent, like one of those little awning things with
the sticks on the side. Yeah, similar to how you
might see a roadside fruit stand or something.
Speaker 4 (23:17):
We gather Valentine's Day right Valentine's Place. We see it
often roadside, or maybe they know the owner of a
gas station in the fark corner of the parking lot.
Speaker 3 (23:28):
Just soapen, just so, and I'm ser sure that you're getta.
Oh absolutely, there's one in particular down the street from
me where sometimes it'll be fruits. Sometimes they'll be selling
like jams and jellies, are even even doing barbecues, you know,
and selling dogs or or like you know, grillables. But yes,
you also will see seasonal pop ups like this, you know,
selling Easter baskets or Valentine's date streets. So I'm obviously
(23:50):
joking that would take a lot. You'd have to have
a real big operation to fence four hundred and thirteen
thou seven hundred and ninety three candy bars through Easter baskets.
It's a good question, Ben, and not one that is
entirely addressed here. In twenty twenty five, KitKat, according to Today,
became F One's official chocolate bar F one the movie
(24:13):
The Chocolate Bar.
Speaker 2 (24:15):
Wait, so, like, do you think this could be some
kind of racing heist?
Speaker 3 (24:19):
I think it's a fast I think it's a too fast,
too furious kind of sitch. Yeah, yeah, no, it says,
with the collaboration launching during the f ones seventy fifth
anniversary and Kitkat's ninetieth anniversary. So I think that the
implication here is that these were whoa, we're the commembories
like ya style. Okay, I don't know about that, man.
(24:42):
This might just be in aside from today here letting
us know, you know, the scoop on what's going on
with kit Kat as a brand. But these these f
one branded kit Kat bars are in the shape of
race cars and patently unbreakable, so it sort of goes
against the the the aesthetic of the traditional Kitcat. So
(25:03):
I'm a little confused here, guys.
Speaker 2 (25:05):
I think it's an inside job. This is all just
some kind of PR scheme. That truck is going to
be recovered very soon.
Speaker 4 (25:13):
I do like that because nol, I love the you
introduced me to the Wall Street Journal article how a
massive Kitcat heist turned into crisis pr gold, So I
think there might be something to Matt's point there.
Speaker 3 (25:28):
Yeah, let's let's let's exactly get it right, guys. Sorry,
this was behind the paywall for me, and I did
just realize that I pay for the damn Wall Street Journal.
So I'm gonna freaking use my subscripts and get behind
the wall here because this does appear to be the
quintessential rundown of all of the details surrounding the story.
Let's see infidel trait d Yeah it is. It is
(25:52):
April first, April one, April Fool's Day, as we as
we record, and it was confirmed by a spokesperson that
the heist wasn't an earthly April Fools joke. Yes, it
really happened, he said, taking their cue from Nestley. Other
companies soon joined in with some social media spoofing. We
would like to share our thoughts and condolences with KitKat
following their sad news an account for Domino's Pizza in
(26:12):
the UK posted Monday morning. Then it added on a
completely unrelated note, We're pleased to announce we'll now be
selling a kit Cat pizza. So there we go. We
got some humor going on here related to how this
could be fenced. And by the way, speaking of the
day that we sit here and record this, maybe we
could do a little round table of some of the
fun pr April Fools gags that we've seen today. But
(26:34):
my kid got me good. As they always do. Laid
their hand on my shoulder this morning. Look me in
the eye, Sid, Dad, is something I've been thinking about.
I want to talk to you about. Would you be
mad if I dropped out of school? And yes, yes,
I would be mad. The hag gotcha, punks got well.
Speaker 4 (26:50):
I got to tell you guys as well. This reaction
is perfect. Also, don't steal a bunch of KitKat bars.
If you're gonna do a massive heightst go for something different.
But I'm kind of over.
Speaker 3 (27:03):
April Fools same. I find it mean spirited.
Speaker 4 (27:07):
I do find it mean spirited. You know it was
fun back in previous years. I had a brief prank
gig for our pals, Chuck and Josh over its stuff
you should know. And I think Chuck is still mad
at me about it though it was for the record,
Chuck Josh's idea.
Speaker 3 (27:26):
You mentioned that, and I think I also followed that
up with mentioning how folks are still mad at Chuck
for a prank he pulled on April Fool's Day on
the retire movie Crush podcast, where he had a friend
of the show Kevin Pollock impersonate Christopher walkin for an
entire episode of a fraudulent interview, and when you know,
(27:47):
listeners were hipped to it. Pollock is known for his
walking impression. They were none too pleased because they felt
a little bit you know, manipulated and led to I
think it's a bit of an extreme reaction. It was
all in good fun if you listen clearfully, he's obviously
walkinging it up to the point of absurdity.
Speaker 4 (28:05):
But it's like a classic Nixon impression.
Speaker 3 (28:07):
And Ben can I also say that I think that
anti April Fools sentiment is probably stronger now than ever,
given how AI is just April foolsing us like every
day of the damn year, and people are feeling kind
of manipulated just by the Internet at large, and also
with the advent of all the fake news and stuff
flooding our various feeds. So I do get it. Last
(28:31):
thing here a person who heads up a PR consultancy agency,
Andrew Bloch and associates Andrew Block himself. The titular said
that it's a masterclass in public relations. By leaning in
to the misfortune of a lot of stolen chocolate, the
company embraced the opportunity and turned it into a positive.
(28:51):
He points out or the piece points out that there
was a time where a company like this wouldn't have
publicized the incident at all and would have left it
to the authority to break a story like this. But
now even bad news is good news, and it can
be spun into an opportunity to elevate the brand, which
it seems to me like what they've done.
Speaker 2 (29:11):
Well, how the heck do you break through all of
the other stuff flying across everybody's screens.
Speaker 3 (29:18):
You can't.
Speaker 2 (29:19):
It's difficult to get any attraction with an advertisement, right.
There is a tendency for people to just skip right
past those. Let's say, if it's in a you know,
YouTube video or something, or if it's in your scroll,
how do you get somebody's attention to let them know
about some special new thing that's happening with crime? Well,
well no, But if it's a major news story and
now a ton of other outlets are talking about your
(29:41):
specific thing, now people are gonna know about it. People
might even mention it while you're hanging out or while
you're chatting.
Speaker 3 (29:48):
People might even break themselves off a piece of that
kit cat bar because they all of a sudden get
that in flood of nostalgia and reminded that they like
the you know, the crunchy and chocolatey treat. Can we
also take this opportunity to say that I think that
American kit cat bars are pretty mid and that the
Japanese kit cat bars are incredible and creative and they
(30:11):
are just more, you know, a cornucopia of flavors. And
if you are lucky enough to live near like a
super h Mart or other kind of Asian grocery store,
do get you to that place and try out some
of these incredible flavors. Ben, do you have any favorites
off the top of the dome?
Speaker 4 (30:26):
Oh my gosh, Noel, thank you for asking. Yeah, I
have to. I have to spend a certain amount of
time in Japan most years. So you're right. You're absolutely correct.
Kit kat is way more popular culturally in Japan, and
part of it is because of a pun. Right, So,
(30:46):
kito kato sounds similar to kitto katsu, which translates despite
the accident. It translates to something like surely you will win.
So a lot of kids get these as a good
luck charm in advance of very important exams. Right their
equivalent of the sat I love that cool and Tennessee
(31:10):
and I here need to shout out our old days
playing dungeons and dragons together. When our pals Lauren and
Annie from a Saver rocked up to us with a Dylan,
what was it? It was if they may have done
their own heist. It was like a garbage bag full
(31:30):
of Japanese KitKat flavors and Dylan. You want to shout
out one of your favorites.
Speaker 3 (31:35):
Yeah, Ocean Salt. That one was really good, and they
don't make it anymore.
Speaker 4 (31:39):
Not to be confused with Ocean Dream, because due to
Japanese US translations or Japanese English translations, a lot of
the flavors on the Japanese kitkats are not going to
sound like food. There's stuff whisper of harmony, you know.
Speaker 2 (31:57):
Well, the macho one is, in my opinion, the best.
Speaker 3 (32:00):
It's the bomb It's fabulous. It really does give proper
macha flavor, as well as wasabi, the wasabi variety, the
umeshu or plum wine idol, the Japanese sake. If we're
getting into more savory ones or like kind of boozy
type ones and they don't actually contain booze, we've got
(32:21):
another even there's multiple matchas. Matt, I'm not sure if
you knew that there are multiple machas. We've got dark
Macha Macha laate uji Mata, then of course in the
sweet kind more sweet, we've got strawberry cheesecake, blueberry cheesecake,
roasted soybean, Hokkaido melon, and then much like you know
a hype Beast brand, they do a lot of very
(32:44):
limited window exclusive drops as well.
Speaker 4 (32:47):
No, I've heard rumors of I haven't personally tried this.
When I have to go back, I'll check it out.
But I've heard rumors of a Durian kit cat. I
don't know if that was. I don't know if that
was a permanent addition to the line. But if you
were ever in Japan, folks do a high the to
a combini or convenience store, get your kitkats to bring
(33:08):
it back to this high story. So these are limited
run kitkats for F one right.
Speaker 3 (33:15):
Unclear, unapologize it's not entirely clear. The the Today Show
right up that I read just kind of pivoted to
writing about this F one tie in and showed a
picture of it. No, wait a minute, No, no, that
is correct. Ben, thank you very much. And that is interesting.
That is extra interesting that it was a specific kind
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of collectible kit cat. I wonder if it's just a coincidence, though,
I gotta wonder.
Speaker 4 (33:43):
Yeah, did they know specifically what was in the truck
because they may have been or what was in you know,
the collection of the bars they hoisted. Because if you're
trying to steal limited, limited edition things at that level,
aren't you kind of breaking the market? Won't it be
tougher for you to fence this? I mean, is there
(34:06):
a billionaire Willie Wonka style who's out there going? I
won't to the if one kit kats?
Speaker 3 (34:12):
Well to really do it, right, Ben, you got to
sit on them for a while.
Speaker 4 (34:17):
Okay, now we come through a third party, maybe your
favorite podcast for Rick going back.
Speaker 3 (34:23):
Out into the market once the exclusivity, Oh my gosh,
you know what I mean? Yeah, let them appreciate, let
them appreciate the value.
Speaker 4 (34:32):
Like Less Grossman, I recently rewatched Tropic Thunder phenomenal, like
Less Grossman quietly saying all right, we'll let the star
get killed, We'll do a scholarship. We'll wait till a
few years down the road. We quietly make an insurance claim.
Speaker 3 (34:50):
These crioks are playing the long games, and I did
just read the basic statement that didn't really have any
humor from kit Kat. But they also made some subsequent
social media posts saying we've always encouraged people to have
a break with KitKat, but it seems thieves have taken
the message too literally, while also praising the criminal's exceptional
(35:11):
taste and pointing out that cargo theft, however, is an
escalating issue for businesses of all sizes. As we know
that to be the case because we keep coming out
with these stories we had like what was it a
there's a cheese heeist or something. I believe in recent
memory that there's been a handful of advice we jump
We jump on them anytime we get the chance. Guys,
(35:34):
I gotta wonder, I think we maybe went long enough
with this one kit Cat story. But I will just say,
just as a quick aside, another story that I was
considering going into also involves chocolate and a recall of
quote male enhancement chocolate that was recalled because they may
contain quote deadly amounts of viagra.
Speaker 4 (35:57):
Whoa right, right?
Speaker 3 (36:00):
Right?
Speaker 2 (36:01):
Is that? The whole thing where like it's called a doctor.
If it's more than four hours, is that why it
is deadly than here?
Speaker 3 (36:07):
Let's see a priapism. Yes. On Thursday, the FDA announced
that California based gear Isle is voluntarily recalling two chocolate products,
gold Lion Aphrodisiac chocolate and ilum Sex Chocolate, which sounds
like a frickin industrial band. After testing, you, guys, I
gotta go.
Speaker 4 (36:25):
I'll be right back. I gotta, I gotta right to
the chocolate tears.
Speaker 3 (36:29):
There you go. No, the willy wankers of them of
the world send it to me after it, thank you
so much. Be After testing revealed undeclared Sildenaphil and Tadala
phil marketing online as dietary supplements, the products contain prescription
drugs that can cause a quote life threatening drop in
(36:50):
blood pressure when combined with nitrates found in heart medications.
The ftar, guys, I swear to god, we've also talked
about another boner bear boner. Well there was that one,
but then there was another. I swear like one that
accidentally made its way into some chocolate in the past,
because this kind of rang familiar to me. But well,
we'll get to that ilum Sex Chocolate. That is my
(37:12):
next goth project. I swear that's so good. Marketing online
its dietary selement. The pro yes sorry, already said that
the recalled products include the gold Lion sachet and it
gives the the lot number because that's important in case
you know you have one of these, So do check
that out if you are in possession of this product
u PC seven nine five eight four seven nine one
six two seven nine.
Speaker 4 (37:33):
K yes, sir, don't uh with just absolutely asking for
a friend. What is that lot number again?
Speaker 3 (37:39):
Yeah? A seven nine five eight four seven nine one
six two seven nine expiration dates June twenty twenty seven.
The illum Sex Chocolate Booster with UPC one hundred two
four four eight five seven eight nine one one expiration
December twenty fifth, twenty twenty seven. Wow, he's got a
lot of shelf life on it. Gear Isle reports thus
far no adverse consumers should immediately stop using the products
(38:02):
and return them for a refund, as gear Isli is
actively notifying customers by letter to coordinate returns and refunds.
The FDA said, so, yeah, I think we'll just just
leave it. Leave it there. There was an Apache helicopter
that did a fly by over Kid Rock's house and
that led to some yet dose go on.
Speaker 4 (38:24):
Then there were two.
Speaker 3 (38:25):
Okay, well, we've got a video of one that I've seen,
and I do believe it led to some disciplinary measures
that were then sort of walked back. That's my understanding
there Where is Kid?
Speaker 4 (38:40):
Where is Jaw? Yeah? Just so you know, folks, we
personally do not have the juice or the problems that
would require a H sixty four apaches to buzz us.
Speaker 3 (38:55):
Nope, and I think we're totally cool with it staying
that way. Let's take a quick break here, a word
from our sponsor, and then we'll come back with more
strange news.
Speaker 2 (39:09):
And we've returned, guys. I got a couple pitches for
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like flacid but machine together as flusine. And we can
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Speaker 3 (39:28):
Uh okay, no, what are you talking? I was laughing
inside and I didn't externalize it. That's very funny and
very I think it's a million dollar idea. I'm fully
behind behind you on this.
Speaker 2 (39:40):
Hey, Kia know the drill in these parts. Here we go.
It is launch day as we record on April first,
for the Artemis two mission. This is a super exciting
thing that's about to happen. It's happening this evening, hopefully
round seven pm. This is a four person human man
mission to fly around the Moon, to give it a
(40:02):
little orbit and then come back. It's the second test mission.
That's why they call it Artemis two. It's super exciting,
it's super cool. I dropped the kids off today at
the bus stop and I asked two other little boys
who were there, Hey, you guys excited for the Moon
mission today? And they're like, what Moon mission?
Speaker 3 (40:19):
Who? What? Huh? What even is the Moon?
Speaker 2 (40:22):
But they just had no idea what was happening. And
it made me think about previous times that I was
not alive for. But I have certainly watched and read
and seen a whole bunch of reporting on the excitement
and the propaganda surrounding the Moon missions back in the
day in the sixties. And just knowing that NASA's official trailer,
(40:42):
like the launch trailer that they put out with this,
you know, a ton of production value, super exciting, feels
a little bit like American propaganda. It only had like
two hundred and thirty thousand views on YouTube, which is
a lot, but really nothing compared to what you imagine
the hype for something like this would be. It's just
very puzzling. I suppose to me there's going to be
(41:05):
more Moon missions with Artemis. They will eventually be launching
Artemis three, hopefully in twenty twenty seven, if Blue Origin
and the other folks there the private side of it
can get their orbiters in order. They're not ready yet
to have human beings go down onto the Moon and
then come back and meet back with the Artemis orbiter.
(41:26):
All stuff that you just should keep on your radar
because it's happening right now. Next up, we are going
to talk about a story involving the White House, but
we're going back in time to get us there. So
we're beginning in June of twenty twenty with a Guardian article.
I'm going to read directly from it. It's titled first
(41:50):
Thing with America Ablaze. The President retreated to the bunker
directly here. Fires burned close to the White House in Washington,
DC on Sunday night as a sixth day of national
demonstrations over police brutality and the killing of George Floyd
brought fresh unrest to the Capitol. The President of the
United States spent Sunday firing off messages such as strength
(42:12):
and law and order, but otherwise made little public comment
on the unfolding national crisis. It has been reported that
on Friday night, as protesters neared the White House, the
President and his family were rushed to a special secure
bunker that is not known to have been used since
the days after September eleventh, two thousand and one. This
(42:33):
is just a news story, guys, that I didn't even
really clock at the time when it was happening. I
don't think we mentioned it or talked about it. But
this is a small, little blip in history. In June
twenty twenty, the President and the family were moved to
a secure bunker in the White House. Let's move on
to twenty twenty one. This is CNN politics. The President
(42:55):
said whoever leaked info on his White House bunker s
day should be executed. Book claims the President of the
United States told a number of his advisers in twenty
twenty that whoever leaked information about his stay in the
White House bunker in May of that year, had committed
treason and should be executed for sharing details about the
episode with members of the press. This is according to
(43:17):
a new book written by Michael Bender, a Wall Street journalist.
Speaker 3 (43:22):
Reporter.
Speaker 2 (43:23):
Bender writes, quote, the President boiled over about the bunker
story as soon as they arrived and shouted at them
to smoke out whoever had leaked it. It was the
most upset some of his aides had ever seen the president.
The President yelled whoever did that they should be charged
with treason, They should be executed. The book reads the
president had attempted to publicly downplay the bunker incident in
(43:43):
the days that followed, seeking in a radio interview at
the time to explain his presence in the bunker as
an inspection rather than a retreat for his own safety.
Now we're hitting those two just to just to mention
that the bunker underneath the White House is kind of
an open secret. And if you look up information about
(44:06):
this this very hardened, very safe bunker beneath the White House,
you will notice that it is underneath the East Wing,
the wing of the White House that was destroyed in
twenty twenty five and is now being rebuilt and is
costing lots and lots of money. And on this show,
we kind of jokingly speculated about all of the things
(44:26):
that could be beneath the new ballroom.
Speaker 3 (44:29):
Ooh, for the record, I was well.
Speaker 2 (44:31):
We were joking. We were joking about uses of whatever
hardened structure we imagined would be placed under there, because
you wouldn't do that kind of renovation to the White House,
especially for that amount of money, without putting something there,
something that has strategic use, in this case a bunker.
The weird thing is that the bunker has been there
(44:54):
since since during World War Two, and then it was
updated after World War Two to make it better suitable
to withstand nuclear attacks, and it has been consistently updated
throughout all the years since the nineteen forties. And we
don't know what those updates and renovations mean. We don't
know how deep it is. It's highly classified. It is
(45:16):
something that we are not really supposed to know about,
especially not think about on a regular basis. It shouldn't
be pinging our minds, at least according to the folks
who have built the bunker and want to keep the
President and others in the White House safe One little
note there. The bunker was not utilized by President Bush
(45:38):
when the September eleventh attacks were occurring. It was used
by Dick Cheney. As if we all remember, the President
at the time was at a school in Florida, but
the Vice President was moved to the special bunker.
Speaker 4 (45:53):
H makes you think so also, to be fair, I
can't believe I'm in this position. But to be fair,
ideally you don't want both of those offices together in
the same place in a time of.
Speaker 2 (46:07):
Crisis, for sure, Oh, most definitely. The bunker is called
the Presidential Emergency Operations Center or the PEOC. Interesting Engineering
did a big write up about it on June third,
twenty twenty A look inside the US President's top secret
White House Bunker. This is where you can learn all
(46:28):
about this thing when it was created under Franklin D. Roosevelt,
and then Truman updated it for you know, the nukes
and all that stuff.
Speaker 3 (46:38):
It says.
Speaker 2 (46:38):
The modern PEOC is equipped with state of the art
communications equipment that allows the President to communicate with government
offices outside in the event of any White House security breach,
any violation of the Washington DC Air Defense Identification Zone
P fifty six airspace. The President and another staff will
be relocated to the Executive Briefing Room next to the
(46:59):
p EOC, And we're assuming the entrance to the bunker
is in that briefing room, you know, the one where
you see all the media gathered and asking folks questions
up there, and then the folks say, h, a stupid journalist,
you know that one.
Speaker 3 (47:13):
Is this the kind of place maybe even that could
be utilized if there was some sort of revolt? And
is this a place the president might go and seek
refuge like it from internal forces as well? I'm just
saying like I'm picturing historical precedent for that kind of thing.
Speaker 2 (47:28):
Well, as we said in June twenty twenty, the president
was taken or retreated to this bunker when there was
what appeared to be and uprising by the people because
they were so angry about George Floyd and injustices and
things that were occurring. There were mass protests across the
country at that time, and there were enough human beings
(47:51):
that were angry out on the streets right in front
of the White House actually that it was utilized for
that god and then knowing that it was being used
for that seemed to be a hit to the ego
of the president.
Speaker 3 (48:01):
So because he was being a chicken.
Speaker 2 (48:05):
I don't know, I don't know what I don't know
what it means. I don't know how we felt. We
hear what he said through you know that reporter from
the Wall Street Journal, But.
Speaker 3 (48:15):
Who knows.
Speaker 2 (48:16):
This is all culminating to a brand new news story
from March thirtieth, twenty twenty six. The President gives details
about secret massive military complex being built under White House ballroom.
This is from the New York Post, written by Ryan King.
The President of the United States confirmed Sunday, March twenty
(48:37):
ninth that a quote massive military complex is being built
under the White House Ballroom, providing new details about the
secret project exposed in a recent lawsuit. Because guys, there
are lawsuits over this thing, this ballroom that's being built,
because of how the demolition went, because of how quickly
the construction was underway, because it is a historic building
(48:58):
that represents a lot of things, the iconic majesty of
the White House, at least according to many. Let's just
keep going here. The White House Ballroom is set to
sit over the Doomsday bunker that was built in the night.
But again it was a doomsday bunker built in the
nineteen forties, yep, to keep presidents safe in times of war.
(49:20):
And here's a direct quote from the President speaking on
this while on Air Force One. Now, the military is
building a big complex under the ballroom, which has come
out recently because of a stupid lawsuit that was filed.
But the military is building a massive complex under the ballroom,
and that's under construction, and we're doing very well. We
have all bulletproof glass and we have drone proof roofs, ceilings. Unfortunately,
(49:45):
we're living in an age when that's a good thing.
Speaker 3 (49:49):
Did he really have to spill all that? And I mean,
doesn't that seem a little loose lipped? Well, but it
was already out of those public sphere we watched.
Speaker 2 (50:00):
That's fair, that's it. And that's kind of the point here.
It's always kind of been out in the public sphere.
Even very shortly after the thing was constructed or plans
were proposed, it was known that it was there. The
details are what matters, right, get it? How can you? Yeah,
the interesting engineering piece is very interesting. But there is
(50:24):
a New York Times piece that goes into more detail.
There's a lot of information that is floating around out
there about it, which we can imagine poses a bit
of a danger, because if you know how to get
into the thing, or the weaknesses of the thing, you
can circumvent the reasons for its existence, you know, which
wouldn't be good for those folks.
Speaker 3 (50:45):
Guys.
Speaker 2 (50:45):
The last thing I wanted to mention here after the
bunker is that a little thing is happening, and it
reminds me of your VPN story, Ben. It's this desire
to expose everyone in different ways so that the government
itself and perhaps private contractors who work directly with the government,
(51:08):
know who you are, what you do, and even how
you vote. So let's move to this really quickly. According
to the AP News on March thirty first, twenty twenty six,
is the title the President of the United States signs
order directing creation of a national voter List, a move
already facing lawsuit threats. The executive order, which voting law
(51:31):
experts say violates the Constitution by attempting to seize state's
power to run elections, is the latest in a torrent
of efforts from the president to interfere with the way
Americans vote based on false allegations of fraud. The president
has repeatedly lied about the outcome of the twenty twenty
presidential election campaign and the integrity of state run elections,
(51:51):
asserting again on Tuesday that he won three times in
citing accusations of voter fraud that numerous audits, investigations, and
courts have debunked. The order recently signed on Tuesday, calls
for the Department of Homeland Security, working in conjunction with
the Social Security Administration, to make the list of eligible
(52:12):
voters in each state. It also seeks to bar the
US Postal Service from sending absentee ballots to those not
on each state's approved list.
Speaker 3 (52:23):
I saw a piece this morning that was basically saying
this is pretty dead and on arrival because of various reasons,
like there's no oversight of the US Postal Service directly
by the administration or by the President, and also there's
just so many things that are represented in this executive
(52:44):
order that just are kind of not a thing.
Speaker 4 (52:47):
That's correct NOL. It's also coming in conjunction, speaking of
Bannon's flood, the zone concept that's coming in conjunction the
story I wanted us to get to well lot to
save later right now, as we were court on Wednesday,
April first, No April fools, the President of the United
States is breaking protocol and going to hear oral arguments
(53:11):
over restricting birthright citizenship at the Supreme Court. So I'm
with you, nol. This is due to not even moral grounds,
but due to the way state interacts with federal levels
of government. This is a sticky wicket. I know, we've
all been watching this, this voter roll thing. You know,
(53:33):
it might sound obtuse to a lot of our fellow
casual readers, but this is a problem.
Speaker 2 (53:42):
Oh yeah, but as the zone floods, that water also
starts to leak out, and the water starts to go
down because again going to the ap news here, on
March thirty first, a federal judge agreed to permanently block
the current presidential administration from impla menting a presidential directive
to end federal funding for the national public radio and
(54:05):
public broadcasting services. So that's kind of awesome.
Speaker 3 (54:09):
It win a little win, Yeah, it is.
Speaker 4 (54:12):
Yeah, if the executive branch does one to eighty and
starts obeying the courts.
Speaker 2 (54:17):
Hey, hey, we do have to acknowledge that there are
issues with any state run media, right, that's any country
or any the official media coming out of a country
that is seen as a public service or as a
way to get out official messaging. That's we're not saying
that's what MPR and PBS is. We're just saying there
are potential problems there that exist, and we understand why
(54:39):
people may have that view, right, but it doesn't mean
they need to go away. I don't think that's just
my opinion.
Speaker 3 (54:46):
All right.
Speaker 2 (54:47):
That's all for me this week, guys.
Speaker 4 (54:49):
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conspiracy realists, thank you for tuning in. We hope this
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I think I sent this to you before we were recording.
Some of my research into outer space stuff incidentally led
me to learn that there is indeed an adult space camp.
Oh my god, you but I think we should do it.
(57:02):
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