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Speaker 1 (00:00):
From UFOs to psychic powers and government conspiracies. History is
riddled with unexplained events. You can turn back now or
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Speaker 2 (00:26):
Hello, welcome back to the show. My name is Matt,
my name is Noah.
Speaker 3 (00:30):
They call the Ben. We're joy with our super producer Max,
the freight Train Williams. Most importantly, you are you. You
are here. That makes this the stuff they don't want
you to know. If you are tuning into our strange
news program The Evening, it publishes Welcome to June fifteenth,
twenty twenty six. Guys. A big shout out to Olive Garden.
Speaker 4 (00:53):
Yeah, yeah, I mean we're all family at Olive Garden.
What a tagline, What a genius bit of marketing. It's
the thing that always comes to mind. What's going on
with Olive Garden? Are they? Are they finally out of breadsticks?
Speaker 3 (01:06):
Well, it's a tagline up there with Checkers Infamous. You
got to eat one of our favorite taglines on this show.
They are involved in a crazy story. We're gonna give
you just a little bit to we the appetite, you know,
just like a breadstick before you get your yeah, before
you get your fetichini. So coming to us from ABC
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four News. We have learned on Tuesday, June ninth that
a man was charged in a forced marriage and satanic
ritual after police responded to a call from an olive garden.
That's a headline.
Speaker 4 (01:45):
Lots of untack there, I mean, so did he have
you know? I ask so many questions? Did he like reserve?
Did he have one of the private rooms, like for
a birthday party?
Speaker 3 (01:54):
Like?
Speaker 4 (01:55):
U what are we talking here?
Speaker 3 (01:56):
This is this is where it gets a little bit
more are serious than the headline would indicate. So a
main resident named Daniel Ulay I believe that's how we
pronounce it. O U E L L E T. Daniel
Ulay had had apparently forced his victim to marry him,
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threatened her with a firearm, claimed a religious cult was
chasing them, and then he grabbed the woman's arm during
the incident and cut her hand as part of a
satanic ritual in Kittery, Maine. However, the court documents showed
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that someone was able to get word to the police.
Police in New Hampshire had received a call to an
olive Garden restaurant in a town called Newington and the Pencil.
They did this after Pennsylvania State Police received a report
from a woman who was tracking her daughter's cell phone
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that was the victim, so they did go apprehend and
Olive Garden did the right thing. Investigators searched Oulay's vehicle
where they found a Satanic Bible and a sweatshirt that's
I don't know why they noted it that way. They
were like a Satanic Bible and also a sweatshet.
Speaker 4 (03:23):
Was it a Satanic sweatshirts?
Speaker 3 (03:27):
It remains under investigation.
Speaker 4 (03:29):
And also, I'm sorry, Ben, Satanic Bible has this come
up before? Is there one official I mean? Or is
this just like a Satanic adjacent Bible. I've heard of
the Satanic verses. I don't know about this, right, And.
Speaker 3 (03:46):
You've heard of, you know, the Saint James Bible or
the LDS Bible. Those are all they are all sorts
of variations and spins on this. But for Oolay, the
investigators are probably not experts in religious quandaries, which I
think you'll do later. Yeah, in the occult, which we'll
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get to later. But it does appear again that all
of our Garden did the right thing. And unless you think, folks,
that we are discriminating against any religion. We can tell
you that we very much do not here on stuff
they don't want you to know, but we can no
longer say the same for the Pentagon. What if we
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pause for a word from our sponsors. Guys, we're back.
I think this is going to be a fun one,
but an interesting one from all, for all of us
and hopefully for you listening along at home, fellow conspiracy realists.
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It turns out that the Pentagon of the United States,
our own Department of Defense, has done something arguably unconstitutional.
Just yeah, just I know. Just recently they cut their
official list of recognized military faiths. So here in the
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US Armed Services, people of all faiths are accepted, And
until quite recently the DoD had a huge list of
what they recognized as faiths for service members. It was
a list of like two hundred and eleven, and now
it's been cut down to thirty one. In one throat.
Speaker 4 (05:40):
Guessing, Satanism was never on there, ben and it certainly
isn't now.
Speaker 3 (05:44):
Well, there are a few I think they'll interest us.
We're getting this faikes to Raven vond over at MSN.
The title of this article every faith the Pentagon just
dropped from its recognized religion list, and guys, it's okay
with everybody. I'd like to read a few of these
and just let's stop when we run into one we
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haven't heard of. Because I have not heard of a
lot of these. I don't think I could name to
hundred eleven religions, even counting Christian denominations. Here we go.
Atheism is out. Atheism is no longer recognized as a
legitimate affiliation, and yeah, I guess you could see why,
because atheism rejects the idea of religious belief. The second
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one is interesting Asatru. Have you, guys ever heard of Asatru?
Speaker 4 (06:32):
No, I was going to say a first one that
popped for me, no idea. It sounds pretty interesting, though,
I'm curious.
Speaker 3 (06:39):
Tell me, have you heard of Asatrum?
Speaker 2 (06:44):
It's I don't know. It sounds Nordic to me, but
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (06:50):
Yeah, no, you nailed it, man. It's pre Christian, Norse
and Germanic religious tradition in kind of like a mixtape
remix revival. Know like you, I had never heard of this,
but it does come on the heels of a statement
from September of twenty twenty five when Pete Hegsath said,
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we're singling out Nordic pagans specifically. We don't want those
things recognized.
Speaker 2 (07:19):
Oh, there's an interesting thing going on with I don't
know if it's that specific religion, but a revival of
Nordic worship like Odin Frey, these kind of the pantheon
there associated with white supremacyish movements and some of the
nationalism kind of things. I do wonder if that's something
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It has something to do with that.
Speaker 3 (07:44):
Quite possibly, and that's a great point to you know,
the to day type people who are eternally trying to
resurrect a they say resurrect, but really what they're trying
to do is create a belief system that confirms their racist,
you know, ideology.
Speaker 4 (08:03):
Well, and the message here, Ben would be, we want
our white supremacists to be the good old fashioned Christian kind.
Speaker 3 (08:10):
Yeah, yeah, you know the ones we know.
Speaker 4 (08:14):
And like, none of this is pagan, no right.
Speaker 3 (08:18):
A lot of a lot of other respectable, credible religious
systems caught some strays here, guys. Deism, which is one
of the most easy to get along with belief systems. Ever,
you're just saying I think not sure about that God,
not sure about that. They're like, I think there is
a God, And then you say, what about the details,
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think of Ah, we're more in a big idea religion.
Speaker 4 (08:44):
I'm not gonna lie, Ben, I'm curious of of you'all's thoughts.
But that's certainly kind of more or less where I
find myself. It's the closest thing I could say that
I would espouse would be I think there's something, don't
know what it is, don't know what to call it.
I'm okay with that.
Speaker 3 (08:58):
What do you think about universal As to Unitarianism.
Speaker 4 (09:01):
I know they were real nice people and they used
their community their community hall to host punk shows when
I was growing up, So they always were cool in my.
Speaker 2 (09:09):
Book, they they were they removed Unitarian.
Speaker 4 (09:13):
I know, yeah, as they are.
Speaker 2 (09:18):
The Humanist grandparents were a big part of Unitarian universy community.
Speaker 4 (09:23):
Focused, always hosted AA meetings and stuff like. Really, I
always found them to be very lovely, uh, lovely people. Dang.
Speaker 2 (09:30):
And what was the other one you said, Ben.
Speaker 3 (09:32):
Humanists are removed as well, which is I think you
could say it's it's kind of related to you. You
they're a non theistic worldview, and they say, look, we
don't need the supernatural to be good people. And by
the way, a lot of these religions we just named
have been recognized in US courts. They've gotten the protection
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of a religious system or institution.
Speaker 4 (09:58):
The i r.
Speaker 3 (09:58):
S recognizes a lot of these. Uh. There was also
tax purposes like for tax like for braks or like,
and that can be misused like in Catholicism or scientology.
Speaker 4 (10:10):
There's shots fired. Indeed, Ben, can I just ask for quote,
what does this mean? Is this like mean you're not
allowed to talk about or to espouse these religions if
you are in the government or is it just them
sort of drawing a lie in the sand and saying
we don't recognize these as legitimate, Like does it mean
something functional for members of the bureaucracy or of the military.
Speaker 3 (10:35):
Yeah, not a bad question there, No, because it's like
so many other moves from this administration could be seen
as arguably performative, symbolic, a little bit of red meat
political theater to shore up votes for the mid terms.
But this is the functional difference. If you are if
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your faith is recognized by the Pentagon, then you have
the ability to to access chaplain services. You can request
specific religious accommodations. Right, So, for instance, I follow Islam,
so no pork in my MREs. This is very basic
functional stuff. It's very important to people who practice these faiths.
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When you enlist in the US Armed Forces, you are
asked to identify a religious preference that gets put on
your permanent file, gets put on your dog tags. For
a lot of people. If your religion isn't there or
isn't recognized, it means that a chaplain cannot be formally
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assigned to support you. It also means that if you
have any dietary requirements or you have any important religious observations,
if your belief system is not recognized, you don't get
any of that.
Speaker 2 (11:51):
And also it's not on your dog tag anymore, right,
or you have to put down one of the thirty
one approved religions on your dog tag. So like imagine
if you're getting buried and it's just your body found
right with those military ideas on you, it can it
could be a big deal.
Speaker 3 (12:09):
Right Yeah, again, because they it won't be put on
your dog tag if it's if it's one of these
no longer recognized religions and let's think about that number,
two hundred and eleven all the way down to a
little more than thirty. This also New Age churches got banned. Druids.
I didn't know. I didn't know there was a contingent
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of druids in the military services. But America's melting pot
rose Crucians, Shamans, spiritualists, various denominations of Wiccan traditions, and
then members of something called the Troth. Do you, guys
ever hear about the Troth?
Speaker 4 (12:47):
No, but it sounds like the name of a space
depot in Starfield.
Speaker 2 (12:51):
Yeah, it sounds like they added an R to they
removed an age, added inn R to thought.
Speaker 3 (12:57):
Yeah, right, or they called it the broth and said
they had to rework the thing. The Troth is. It's
interesting because it's like how sharps are skinheads against racism.
The Troth, to your earlier point, Matt, is a specific
reaction within the larger sphere of Norse dramatic paganism that
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exists to explicitly distance itself from white nationalist interpretations of paganism.
Speaker 2 (13:28):
Oh wow, so they took that one off.
Speaker 3 (13:32):
They were like, nah, nope, nope.
Speaker 2 (13:34):
Wait, guys, is this just a cost cutting measure so
they don't have to hire so many clerics of different
uh chaplains of different religions to be there to actually
like help the service members.
Speaker 3 (13:50):
I wish that were the case, but I think it's
something deeper. I think it's pushing the US closer to
Christian nationalist society. And the reason it's inherently unconstitutional is
because on paper, we've always made a big deal about
the separation of church and states. So you can have
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any religion you want, is the idea. Right, as long
as your religion is not explicitly telling you to break
the law or harm other people, you can do things
like become a conscientious objector right like Quakers, for instance,
who would not take certain wartime roles in US conflicts.
(14:33):
This is yeah, this is deeper than I think a
little cost cutting. I think it is again a political
dog whistle, but it also indicates what appears to be
an administration wide push toward an increasingly theocratic state.
Speaker 4 (14:53):
They're not even saying the loud part quietly. They're just
kind of screaming it from the rooftops. What is it
that PEGSGEF has that very specific brand of kind of
I don't know as the word crusading Christianity that he espouses,
that he had, that tattoo that he has that frankly
it has vaguely white supremacist vibes at the very least
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to it. But it's a very specific representation Christian reconstruction.
There you go, and he has made no secrets about
wanting to be a Christian conqueror.
Speaker 3 (15:24):
Yeah, making America Christian nation built on Biblical law, at
least that's what That's what his critics will say. We
just I think it's important for us to talk about
this one because it is so cartoonishly opposed to what
the founding father said. You know, It's just it's as
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bizarre as using giant fire tornadoes to clean up oil spills,
which is another real thing. That's a say it sure is?
Does it sound? Does it sound like a made up headline?
You guys?
Speaker 4 (15:59):
So how many of them do these days? It's hard
to say it does?
Speaker 2 (16:03):
I still, I just I can't get over they took Rescrucianism,
Resicrucianism out of there just after having conversations about it,
knowing their major universities in the US that are based
upon or based around that religion. It's just that's crazy
to me. I'm sorry to break that segue, Ben, it's
just the some of the things on that list are baffling.
Speaker 3 (16:27):
Yeah, very much, so very targeted. We know that the
Pentagon has started reworking some things. They started rolling back
a little bit. They were originally targeting LDS members as
well Latter day Saints, but it turns out there are
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a lot of people who are members of the Mormon
Church in politics, who make laws, and so their voice
mattered enough for the Pentagon to rework their list of
religious designations. I've got to get to the fire tornado though,
because it's so ridiculous. So it as we were coming
in today. This comes to us from Science Daily, courtesy
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of Texas A and M University. Here's the submarine. Researchers
have shown that controlled fire squirls can clean up oil
spills faster and more cleanly than traditional burning methods. So
if you make a fire tornado, they found it consumes
up to ninety five percent of the oil from a spill,
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It cuts the emissions of soot and all that nasty
stuff by forty percent, and it could theoretically nip these
oil spills in the bud and burn them out before
they reach sensitive marine habitats. So that's where we're at
twenty twenty six. It's time for the fire tornadoes. I
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don't know we'll actually do it, but yeah.
Speaker 4 (18:00):
To give it a shot, you know what I mean.
Speaker 3 (18:02):
This is such a shrug, hold my beer, what else?
What else? Kind of thing. But if it works, and
you can read the study online, if it works, the
the boffins proposing this are credible. I don't think they're
a bunch of arsonists or firebugs. Nowhere in anything I
(18:23):
read about this, did anybody say anybody from Texas, A
and M say also fires are cool and tornadoes are cool?
Like that's not in their conclusion. They think it will
genuinely help address some serious issues.
Speaker 2 (18:39):
Well, and also, we all universally know that tornadoes and
fires are cool unless you've been inside one or the
other or both simultaneously.
Speaker 3 (18:49):
Right, Yeah, yeah, we don't know. Maybe there's a weird
aggregate effect where somebody survives the tornado and then survives
a fire, but then they get them both at once,
and they say, actually they kind of balance out. It's
a blue vibe. It's sort of like an Olive Garden,
Olive Garden, the Firestorm family. Guys, We've got we've got
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other stuff we can't get to, especially the story of
David Rush, which I think we mentioned a little bit.
But there are some updates on a a real con
artist of a CIA officer. Maybe we could save that
for next week. We've got one.
Speaker 2 (19:25):
Well, can you give us a taste?
Speaker 3 (19:27):
Yeah, yeah, of course. Go to New York Times. This
this is a few days old, but we've got some
pretty pretty impactful updates here. Good at New York Times,
and you'll see, uh, you'll see a headline FBI arrest
CIA official with forty million dollars in gold bars in
his home, along with multiple fancy watches. Use diamonds, pretty
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much loose diamonds because because here's what happened.
Speaker 4 (19:56):
It's key.
Speaker 3 (19:57):
Yes, this, this guy, David Rush, is still in jail.
He is being charged with stealing public money by filing
fraudulent timesheets. He was a former senior executive service level
employee at quote a US government agency end quote cool.
Mean he had a senior position at the CIA, one
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of the good ones. Oh yeah, and his home got searched,
especially when he was look he got jammed up because
he was doing some con artist stuff and he lied
about his little CV. We still have no idea really
how he got around the background checks to get his clearance.
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But from last November to March, so November twenty twenty
five to March of this year, mister Rush went to
his bosses at the CIA and asked for and received
quote a significant quantity of foreign currency and tens of
millions of dollars in gold bars. Those are our loose
diamonds for work related expenses end quote. That's That's what
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I think is. That's what's really sticking, guys. I think
this is a bigger story in the future. Imagine if
we went to our bosses and said, we've got some
work related expenses, can we have gold bars? The CIA
literally keeps untold hordes of precious metals for sensitive overseas operations.
Speaker 2 (21:33):
John Wick, shit it so much, is right?
Speaker 3 (21:36):
I wonder what it is markers like right now for Rush.
But yeah, I think we should look into that one further,
perhaps in the future, maybe maybe an episode. A big
shout out to our reporters Devlin Barrett and Julian E.
Barnes if you want to check out their article again
New York Times FBI arrest CIA official with forty million
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in gold bars in his home. It goes deeper and
deeper and deeper, and will be right back.
Speaker 4 (22:12):
And we're back then. What a climactic end to your segment.
Speaker 3 (22:16):
There here to help you.
Speaker 4 (22:17):
Oh my gosh, blushing over you. I hope to even
bring a fraction of the heat that you brought with
your strange news segment today. Got a couple of fun ones.
One that I'm gonna lead with that I think is
going to be something that we're all going to enjoy
digging into. We've certainly over the years referenced and heard
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tale of the Denver Airport, and I think a handful
of us have even passed through that bad boy. I
don't think I have, certainly not in a way that
I noticed anything bizarre, and if I did, it was
probably just a quick layover or something like that. But
I actually don't think I have been there. But it
has long been, I guess, since it's an veiling in
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nineteen ninety five, the subject of a lot of conspiracy
theories surrounding some unusual art, perhaps a little bit of
an unconventional layout of its runways. We're going to get
into some of these in a minute. And a giant
sculpture of a blue horse with red eyes that many
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people connect to the horsemen of the apocalypse. Well, with
all that talk low these many years, it seems that
finally the administrators, the stewards of the Denver Airport have
decided to just lean on in by saying that they
plan to open some of the subterranean tunnels underneath the
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airport and turn into something of a conspiracy museum experience. Yeah,
they're planning to spend seven hundred million dollars on pedestrian
walkways connecting the different terminals of the Denver International Airport,
throwing in touches of conspiracy theory history, many of which
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directly referenced some of the ones that have spread about
the airport for many, many years. Piece here in the
Colorado in by Nate Trella, walkways will take passengers through
core of den conspiracies. The project announced May twenty six,
calls for converting old baggage tunnels to give passengers a
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way to get between the terminal and all of the concourse.
So sorry, the concourses, not the terminals, as I originally said,
without using the underground trains, which apparently have been the
subject of a lot of criticism over the years for
not being particularly efficient. Since the airport opened back in
ninety five, the only way to get to concourses B
and C was by utilizing that apparently woefully outdated train system.
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Concourse A can be reached through an above ground walkway.
Construction of these walkways is expected to begin next year
and wrap up the following year twenty twenty nine at
the latest. We don't have an overall spend in mind,
but some estimates and media reports do establish a range
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from three hundred to seven hundred million. The may yeah,
it's not a cheap project, The mayor of Denver, Mike Johnston,
said in a statement. We've heard loud and clear that easier,
more reliable ways to move between the concourses has been
top priority for people traveling in and out of d
e N. So he's sort of burying the lead a
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little bit. But I mean, I guess for folks that
aren't into the conspiratorial side of things, this is just
a convenience that is very welcome. He goes on, these
new pedestrian walkways would deliver on that giving folks more
flexibility while we continue building one of the best connected
airports in the world. And who knows, maybe along the way,
travelers will finally get a closer look at the underground
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tunnels and decide for themselves what's fact and what's fiction.
I love these guys, pretty fun guys.
Speaker 3 (26:09):
Yeah, guys, did you did we ever talk about this?
Just for context? Years ago, when we were in our
YouTube days, we did a video about the conspiracies you're
mentioning there noel with the Colorado Airport or Denver Airport,
and we received, Matt, I bet you remember this. We
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received a very nice email from the people at I
guess it was their PR department who said they watched
our video and they invited us to come explore the
airport with them. And I'm still bummed that our bosses
wouldn't let us go.
Speaker 4 (26:47):
I wish we could go. That's so cool. Have either
of y'all passed through this hub?
Speaker 3 (26:53):
I have I have on a long layover heading somewhere else.
And because it's so far out of the match as too,
and because it's so far away from Denver proper, it's
like one of those airports where unless you have a
really long long layover, you kind of just have to
stay there.
Speaker 4 (27:14):
Guys, I for one, have never left an airport during
a layover. I'm just too scared to do it. That's risky, right,
It always feels risky. It always feels risky, and short
of it being like, you know, an overnight layover, I
just won't chance it. The only place I've been really
tempted to do it was in Amsterdam for reasons. But
the biggest speculation surrounding these underground tunnels has been this
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idea that there's some sort of chud type creatures that
live down there. That's me editorializing talking about cannibalistic humanoid
underground dwellers. The more popular theory would be lizard people
always a favorite, or aliens of some stripe. The most
prominent theories that these entities live below the airport, occupying
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a network of tunnels built long ago before the above
ground portions of the airport were constructed. And to your point, Ben,
it's obvious that this pr operation behind the Denver Airport
has been leaning into this for some time and this
is just an extension of that lean in. You gotta
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love it, though, you do, you do here's another thing
you gotta love. Taxpayers aren't going to pay a dime
for this reconstruction. It's gonna be all funded. The bill
will be footed by you know, profits from the airport itself.
Speaker 2 (28:36):
Guys, we know this concept of hiding something most effectively
in plane site is by doing in plane site. So
if we are going to create these things, you go
through the areas that have these high traffic, scary, creepy
things that might exist down there. What if they play
that up even further and it's almost like a tourist
attraction to go through that thing. And then you've got
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actual aliens that can just hang out, go.
Speaker 4 (29:03):
To and fro like Halloween horronites at that can out
and jump scare you, and.
Speaker 3 (29:09):
You encourage everybody. I like this idea because you encourage
all the humans visiting to dress up, and that way
the aliens can move inconspicuously.
Speaker 4 (29:19):
Well, think about how much tourism revenue comes into you know,
Area fifty one and adjacent communities and all of the
you know, UFO themed restaurants and bars and stuff in
that community. It makes a whole lot of sense. And
I also do like the fact that, as we know,
most of these more outlanders conspiracy theories. We enjoy talking
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about them because they're a good time. They're a fun
hang there. It's a great thought experiment, And I just
think we all want to believe, but probably don't believe,
that there are lizard people occupying the underground tunnels beneath
the airport, or that it was established as a home
base and operating head quarters for the Illuminati, you know,
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or the Freemasons, whatever amorphous cabal's maybe you know.
Speaker 2 (30:08):
In question here, I would just say no, I think
I do believe personally that there are underground secure facilities
beneath this particular airport.
Speaker 4 (30:18):
Like Bunkers' No, that's now, that's that's one that I
think you're right that does have some sand and we'll
talk about that one in a second time.
Speaker 3 (30:24):
Please, they're for CEG continuance of government.
Speaker 4 (30:27):
Just putting that out there as like long lines building
type stuff. Yeah, I'm with you one hundred percent, But
that is a different category of conspiracy than you know,
spooky aliens and listen.
Speaker 3 (30:38):
Yeah, that's more actual conspiracy as opposed to conspiracy theory.
But yeah, there are a lot of subterranean things there,
especially Colorado and Colorado is prime real estate for creepy
government stuff. Shout out to Norrad. Also, hey, I'm glad
you mentioned Bluesifer Bluecifer, that huge sculpture in an episode
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we did on Ridiculous History about inventors who died by
their own hands, and unfortunately the sculptor who created Blucifer
died when the thing fell on them.
Speaker 4 (31:11):
Well, let's get to the bottom of that. It is
locally known affectionately, like we said, as Blucifer, it is
just called Mustang, and the artist is Luis Himanez, who
did sadly perish under the weight of bluey Blucifery. Let's
see it has been you know, it's sort of like
it is really spooky looking, especially at night, because you
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can really see the outline of it's like ribs, and
it's got quite a rictus grin, and it's you know,
the one lit or I guess one on each side,
bright red, shiny eyeball. It really does look sinisters hell.
Speaker 3 (31:49):
You think it'd be weird for the pilots executing a
landing especially, but also, I mean the story I remember
us researching on Ridiculous History that the sculptor was paid
homage to his uh to the neon shop that his
father ran. But obviously you got something like this, You
got a story like this. Conspiracy theories are going to
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proliferate like mad.
Speaker 2 (32:12):
Well, you look at the thing and then you realize
that it severed its creator's artery in his leg and
made him ped to death in his studio creating it
bro Yeah, sacrifice right.
Speaker 4 (32:28):
Well, and there are some theories this is obviously easily debunked.
Or some believe that its eyes didn't start glowing red
until after its creator had had been killed. I mean
we're having Hey, he paid the blood price, and uh, yeah,
it made the eyes glow. Back to the one I'd mentioned,
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this notion that it contains the headquarters for the ultimate
big bats of conspiracy theories, the Illuminati and or the
New World Order and or you know, the Freemasons, any
mishmash of all of these things. There have been theories
about this circulating for many years, referring specifically to some
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of those bunker type situations that are incredibly valid speculations
that those exist for different reasons. But as we know,
in a with a lack of information, you know whatever,
the speculation thrives. So this theory specifically stems from a
time capsule that was buried on the grounds and set
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to be opened in twenty ninety four that contains some
Free Mason related symbols, which also, of course has ties
to this concept of the Illuminati, a secret society dating
back to eighteenth century Europe. Another reason that this one
had a lot of staying power was that the airport
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went way over budget than was originally projected and it
took a lot longer to build, so conspiracy theorists believe
that it took Illuminati money to finish the job when
they ran out of budget. The first five buildings reportedly
weren't built correctly, but instead of demolishing them, they were
supposedly buried and more buildings were built on top of them,
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giving the Illuminati an opportunity for a secret underground layer.
So let's jump to the one that you guys mentioned
that has the most sand rumors that there is something
of an end of the world bunker buried beneath the
Denver Airport. There is, indeed, as we mentioned, this is
the whole point of the story. A large network of
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underground tunnels with a train running between the concourses and
a long defunct automated baggage moving system. But some people
believe that their true purpose is to hide and to
offer a paths footpaths between a network of underground bunkers.
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Of course, the speculation again die back into lizard people
in alien life forms. But to your point, Matt and Ben,
this much more likely is a way of a preserving
continuity of government in the event of some sort of
you know, apocalyptic event. Well, we know these places exist.
We have evidence that these types of things absolutely exist.
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Long lines building in New York. We talked recently about
one on Strange News.
Speaker 2 (35:26):
Well, let's say you gotta you want to build a
brand new, extremely secure underground facility. Let's say somewhere immediately
adjacent to the White House. What do you got to
build on top of it?
Speaker 4 (35:38):
An airport?
Speaker 2 (35:39):
No, a giant freaking ball, or or you know, you
want to build a huge underground safe facility kind of
in the middle of nowhere. Well, you got.
Speaker 4 (35:51):
To build an airport and off No, it's true, in the
airport's there. So I think we're on board that that's
highly likely, but we certainly don't have any direct proof
of that. The official Denver tourism website says that other
theories speculate this is from the Leisure and Travel old piece,
by the way, Dive into the Strange Conspiracy Surrounding Denver
International Airport by Andrea Romano. And yes, the tourist board
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does say that other theories speculated the tunnels lead directly
to the North American Aerospace Defense Command or nor AD,
located at Peterson SPA Peterson Space Force Space, around ninety
kilometers to the south of the airport in Colorado Springs.
Speaker 3 (36:33):
I was just looking at the map, you guys. That's
why I went dark for a second, because this is
a fun game we always like to play. Fellow conspiracy realist,
you can pull up your map and if you check
out Cheyenne Mountain Space war Station like Noel mentioned, you
will see that it's about an hour and a half
south of Denver International Airport, which makes it perfect planning.
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Let's say you've got some politicos or high value folks
on the East coast and stuff goes sideways and the
bombs begin to fall. Then they're a hop, skip and
a jump right away from one of the most secure
facilities outside of that ballroom or whatever it is underneath it.
Speaker 4 (37:14):
Yeah, no, that's definitely true. The same article that I
mentioned also does point out though that it would have
taken much longer than the airport has been around to
construct a tunnel of that length that would have stability
unless it was pre existing infrastructure, like speculated about some
of the underground tunnels underneath the airport.
Speaker 2 (37:35):
So maybe not, but unless you had something like the
boring company with billionaire that was like all about.
Speaker 3 (37:47):
Like Tesla in the hyperloop or something. But it would,
you know, to your point, it would have to be.
It would be a work of such infrastructure to get
subterranean and to do it secretly, that's all. So yeah, kicker,
you can do it secretly. It's like one of the
main things I keep going back to here. We know
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the time I gave in terms of transport distance is
just surface area. So driving on the streets of Colorado,
it'll take you an hour and a half to get
from point A to point Z. But what if you
had a helicopter, right, what if you landed the airport
and you had a puddle jumper or something like that.
I mean by which I mean just a small craft
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like a Sessna. Could you land at could you land
over it? Nor at? Quite possible?
Speaker 4 (38:34):
Quite possibly indeed, And I think one of our favorite
and most visual examples of conspiracy theories surrounding the Denver
Airport are the art pieces outside of I keep calling
him Bluey Blucifer. There are some pretty wild murals. One
of which I always point to features this gestapo looking
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like a character out of Pink Floyd's the Wall, wearing
a gas mak kind of a borderline like Nazi type
hat and uniform, wielding a kalashnikov with a bayonet on
it in one hand and swinging a giant razor sharp
shiny saber in the other. On the tip of the
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saber is a dove of peace, and stylized on the
other side of the saber is just like there's like
old women clutching dead babies. It's an odd choice, guys,
for a piece of public art, I would, I would say,
and it is called something along the lines of Children
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of the World Dream of Peace, and it is just
quite intense, to say the least. There's another little frame
that just shows children huddled under blankets laying in piles
of bricks that appear to be bricks born of rubble
from demolition of their homes. It is just a real bummer.
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And then along the top you got you got yourself
a rainbow flying across the top edge of the piece.
It is a real choice and it is by the
artist Leo Tenguma. So whoever commissioned all this stuff, including Blucifer,
definitely was down with some seriously dark imagery. And then
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the last thing, and not least is this notion that
if you look at an aerial view of the way
that the runways are laid out, it creates something resembling
the swastika. But that's kind of just usually the way
runways are laid out, if I'm not mistaken, like in
a circular like kind of you know, zig zagging pattern
in order to maximize the space. That's it, guys, that's
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my time. The second one that I was going to mention,
but I had a feeling we would we would go
to town with this one is just that they pray
priest who was formerly an exorcist for the Catholic Church,
was playing a little too fast and loose with his
idea of what demons were, saying that they were likely
aliens and UFOs and the Catholic Church has said bye
(41:02):
bye and severed ties with this man. Is that what
it takes to get kicked out of the Catholic Priestill.
Speaker 3 (41:10):
Gabe was very successful for many years. We ran into
him while we were investigating exorcisms previously, and that guy
was accusing people of being possessed for reading Harry Potter.
So I wonder if there's more to the story we
can look to in the future.
Speaker 4 (41:25):
Yeah, this is a guy named Monsignor Stephen Rosetti who'd
been working at the Washington Archdiocese over the past fifteen years.
As you heard it right, an exorcist, and we have
talked in the past about how that definitely still is
a thing, and there are folks you know who work
within the Catholic Church that specialize in that. Apparently he
just was straying a little too far from their dogma
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regarding how the devil plays his dirty tricks, and UFO's
apparently doesn't enter into it.
Speaker 2 (41:56):
Can I read a quote from his May twenty ninth
Facebook posts.
Speaker 4 (42:01):
Because I know that you are. I know that you
were digging on this one too.
Speaker 2 (42:03):
Heckya, This is a quote from Monsignor Rossetti. There's a
danger here as an exorcist, I wanted to raise that danger,
and that is that demons like to hide. They don't
want us to know what they're doing, because they're more
effective when we don't realize it. They can kind of
get in your head, you know, and manipulate things in
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the world to influence us to do evil. It's my
personal belief that probably many, if not most, of these
UFO sightings are in fact.
Speaker 4 (42:33):
Demons, definitely speed demons, those things be zipping around, zipping
and zipping. And this was a man who was even
you know, in the good company I imagine of other
prolific exorcists, considered to be highly prolific, having conducted hundreds
of these things as well as something referred to as
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deliverance sessions, which I guess is a little different than
an exorcist. He was also a licensed psychologist, uh and
and seems to have a real proclivity for a for
the occult and made these made these connections, and the
leadership did not seem to like it.
Speaker 2 (43:13):
Dude, can we just talk about how it's.
Speaker 4 (43:17):
Oh and Jay Advance, by the way, is also said
that he believes UFOs are demons. So this is this
guy isn't alone. That's fascinating.
Speaker 2 (43:23):
There's something to this concept of being obedient to the
church rather than being obedient to the teachings or the
I don't know of the religion. He he made another statement.
This is another statement read really fast. He says, I
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ask forgiveness for any ways that I have not been
faithful to the teachings of the Church's magisterium, particularly in
the cited video on aliens and the demonic. I believe
it is of the utmost importance to be obedient to
the Church, and I will continue to endeavor to subject
all that I do in the Center to be thus obedient.
Speaker 4 (44:07):
Yeah. Yeah, thrown around that obedience, that word definitely makes
your skin crawl us a little bit. And last thing
for me, there's a piece from Slate by Molly Olmsted
that lays out this potential. I mean, it's highly specuative,
of course, that there might be something deeper at play,
and she says to the uninitiated, it's a bit confusing
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that a religious official whose job description includes warding off
demons could get in so much trouble for simply speculating
that there could be a demonic link to what are
by definition unexplained aerial phenomena. Is there some grand conspiracy here?
Does Rosetti know too much? Scandalous as that sounds, there's
actually something less supernatural and more terrestrial playing out here.
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This is to your point as well, Matt, about that
word a power struggle between the Catholic Church and influencer
priests who have successfully harnessed the internet's algorithms. I yield
my time, Ben, What do you think about this? This
is a fascinating cross section of social media influencing the
kind of stuff we was read me for us ufology,
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you know, unexplained phenomenon and of course religion.
Speaker 3 (45:16):
Yeah, please do folks go back and check out our
multiple episodes on exorcism, both in Western canon of Dogma
and around the world. You may also appreciate something really
weird we found, folks, which is that for a while,
not too long ago, global exorcisms were actually on the rise.
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The Catholic Church was green lighting way more. Also, magisterium
just means the church's ability to say what is real
about God. That's what makes him the authority. So that's
why he's saying he's going to be obedient, or that's
why he's kiss him but too.
Speaker 4 (45:53):
And I think we all implied it, but I maybe
buried some stats here a little bit. He is hugely
successful on various social media platforms, with fifty thousand followers
on Facebook and TikTok and more than one hundred and
forty nine thousand followers on Instagram, and he spends a
lot of his time putting out content and writing posts
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about demons and their various methods of trickery. Pretty interesting, guys.
I think this is a fascinating thing, and I'm curious
to see the fallout from this and if there are
other examples of religious influencers who are technically part of
the Catholic Church getting a little too big for their
breeches and getting kind of, you know, having their wings clipped.
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Let's take a quick break here we're from our sponsor,
and then we'll be back with one more bit of
strange news.
Speaker 2 (46:49):
And we've returned one last shout out to Ryan Bethea
and the Exorcist Files in our own mister Chandler Mays
and Father Carlos Martin's well, I remember exploring that subject
with those guys as well. Guys, we are going to
head to the island of Nantucket, just off the coast
of Massachusetts, once a whaling hub of note, now a secluded.
Speaker 4 (47:13):
Place known for their nectars.
Speaker 2 (47:15):
Yes, where the average home price hovers around four million dollars. Hmmm,
nectar nectar.
Speaker 4 (47:22):
Of the elite. Yes, so sweet.
Speaker 2 (47:25):
Here we see a story posted in NBC Boston by
Jeff Sapperstone. I'm not going to read the title yet.
Let's just get into the story. A woman named Megan Perry,
who at the time was wearing a quote clean Water
is a Human Right t shirt, went to the podium
at a Nantucket school committee meeting with a plate of
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brownies and offered said brownies to the committee members. She said,
quote they do have a non detect level of x
lax in them. But I figured, since we're okay with
a non detect level of pfact that's forever chemicals, it
would probably be okay. So again, here are some brownies.
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They have non detectable levels of x slax in them.
Please have some.
Speaker 4 (48:13):
Is this like a like a in protest? Like I
don't understand you're trying to make a point here.
Speaker 2 (48:18):
Yes, Perry says she was trying to make a point
in protest of Nantucket's proposed turf project. This is a
synthetic turf. You guys remember us talking about that a
little while back, about specifically soccer players, right, m soccer
players and the little bits of the p fast that
ends up getting into the mouths and or like on
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the bodies of children playing soccer.
Speaker 4 (48:40):
Because they be sliding and stuff, right and just like
grinding on that, you know, yeah.
Speaker 2 (48:45):
Yes, yes, She says she's concerned about the synthetic field
and the levels of p fast or forever chemicals that
will be in them the field for reasons we talked
about with kids playing on it, but also for stuff
that's underneath the field. The field sits over the island's
water aquifer, the water aquifer of Nantucket Island, an aquifer
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that is very important when you were surrounded by ocean
waters that are very salty, and you can't drink that
stuff without a lot of money and time. So that
makes sense. She's worried that there might be a chemical
leakage or something that would contaminate the water supply of
the town. Now we've got a ton of PFASs maybe
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potentially in our aquifer that gives us all potable water
here's the thing. Voters already approved the project. Construction, however,
is stalled while the Nantucket Public School System and the
Nantucket Land and Water Council, which is a local environmental
advocacy group, negotiate an agreement on a testing regime for
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this artificial turf field. It is. It was stated here
by Jeff none of the brownies were eaten. However, the
district was planning to file a report with local police.
This lady tried to give us x lax brownies, but
again she let them know what was in it. And
I think that's part of the protest.
Speaker 3 (50:10):
It's poop with a point. I like poop with a right.
Speaker 2 (50:14):
Right, I you know, I think that is a good point.
And we're only bringing this story up just to show
that it is probably worth our time to examine the
allowable levels of terrible carcinogenic toxic chemicals that we allow
into all of our things, including our water, our building materials,
you know, our fields, everything. We should probably examine it
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as deeply as we can and make sure there are
extremely strong support structures and regulatory bodies that can prevent
companies and I guess school districts from making decisions for
all of us that may be against our best interest,
which would be our health. Okay, next, we're moving on
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to another other local story. You guys, we're keeping at local.
We're heading to Atlanta, Georgia. This comes to us from
Atlanta News. First written by Sarah Hammond on June eighth,
twenty twenty sixth. Lawmakers pushing Marta for answers after recent
string of violence. What what, let's get into it. There's
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a new push for answers from the Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid
Transit Authority after a string of violence at its stations,
this time from state lawmakers. The pressure comes after two
stabbings and a shooting in the week of June first,
That is last week as we record this on June tenth,
at twelve thirty seven pm. I don't know why I'm
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doing that, okay, police said.
Speaker 3 (51:43):
Forty two Eastern time folks.
Speaker 4 (51:45):
Eastern time time.
Speaker 2 (51:47):
Police said forty two year old Anthony Gresham is now
behind bars after what they're calling a targeted shooting on
a MARTA train on Friday, June fifth. It was the
latest incident in a string of violence on board trains
and sites stations. The shooting came one day after the
federal government announced its intention to investigate Marta in the
wake of two recent stabbings, one of which left Margaret
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sam Swan, who was sixty six years old dead. Her
daughter Shaney, is pushing for more security. There's stuff that
the Senate majority leader and the House majority leader here
in Georgia, these are state legislat legislators. They sent a
letter to MARTA's CEO demanding details on how the agency
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is going to improve safety. They want to know what
actions have been taking, especially ahead of the twenty twenty
six FIFA World Cup. Oh wait, wait a second, you guys,
hold on, why would this be a big story. People
get hurt all the time in this city and every
other city. There's violent crimes that occur every day, every hour.
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Why are we talking about this story. Do you think
it has something to do with that FIFA World Cup?
Speaker 3 (52:57):
Why do you think there have been so many Do
you think there have been infrastructure improvements like those oh gosh,
those glass doors that keep getting busted and make the
city look bad. Why do you think that there are
more law enforcement officers posted at these at these various venues.
The World Cup, by the way, is not going well
for the US thanks to those really harsh visa and
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immigration laws.
Speaker 2 (53:20):
Right by the way, this state probe comes less than
a week after the current presidential administration announced it opened
an investigation into Marta surrounding its safety and security.
Speaker 4 (53:33):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (53:33):
Yeah, yeah again. I think it all has to do
with FIFA in World Cup, and it makes me wonder
how much a city like Atlanta can use the World
Cup as an excuse use to put more fund.
Speaker 3 (53:44):
Aid as political capital. Yeah, I mean, look at the Olympics.
Everybody loves that park that nobody has gone to since
nineteen ninety six.
Speaker 2 (53:54):
Yeah well yeah, well then I've been there a couple
of times talking about Yeah, well they used to shaking
these there, or maybe they still do.
Speaker 4 (54:02):
Yeah, I mean, if you've vain exactly regular dog walk,
it's very nice, parking.
Speaker 2 (54:10):
Very There's a show called on the Bricks or something
like that that you Yeah, I still like that place.
But really, but to your point.
Speaker 3 (54:20):
There's there is a tremendous window of opportunity for any government,
especially if you're in the South where things are a
little bit more conservative fiscally. This gives you a golden
opportunity to say, hey, there's a reason that we're using
taxpayer money this way and it'll actually bring billions of
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dollars to our local economy because people around the world
are going to visit to watch the premiere matches of
the planet's most popular sport. Problem is they're not selling
tickets like they want it.
Speaker 2 (54:56):
But yes, but it is an opportunity to get more
of those tax dollars funnel directly to Marta to improve
things that they want to get improved. But they don't
have the budget for right, So you need a story
like this to run. You need stories like this to
run and make people truly believe and feel that using
these trains is unsafe, right, make you afraid of it
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so that you will even push or agree with the
fact that, oh, my taxes have to go up a
little bit to fund Marta.
Speaker 4 (55:26):
Well, MARTA's already been undergoing some renovations and they've been
there's been talk of having some expansions being financed. But
our good buddy Nick Benson, who has actually won a
really cool contract to have a mural put up in
one of the biggest kind of hub stations, five point Station,
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that whole project was scrapped, So you got to wonder
if maybe there was some dodginess in some of those
initial dollars and this is a good way of maybe
clawing some of them back.
Speaker 2 (55:58):
I mean, it's not about having amazing art by Nick
Benson in our stations. It's about having more than one
hundred officers spread out all over the stations from Denver
and having all these MARTA officers work extended shifts on
match days specifically.
Speaker 4 (56:15):
Gotcha, it's a little more of a short term mand
aid for a specific reason rather than infrastructure improvements that
would actually benefit citizens.
Speaker 2 (56:24):
Yep, last quick thing, guys. Straight out of the Kurham case,
We've got something coming out of Brazil. There was a
thirty seven year old woman who spent fourteen months convincing
a family she was a twelve year old girl in
need of adoption. Crazy story. We're not going to have
time to get into the whole thing right now. It's
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just a weird story. It's a weird story about a
family who believed the story of this woman who claimed
to be a twelve year old. Again, she's thirty seven
years old. In reality, it's a family that believed her,
and then the people around that family that did not
believe her, and they were asking questions and then it
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was found out. The truth was uncovered.
Speaker 3 (57:12):
Yeah, Matt, can you give me a few more details here,
just to whit the appetite a bit. Did this person,
this thirty seven year old, did they meet the family
physically or was it more of an online thing?
Speaker 2 (57:27):
Yeah? They This family brought her in, okay they Yeah,
fourteen months she was living with them. They wanted to
adopt her formally, but people around the family said, hey,
that is not a twelve year old girl. Okay, here
we go. Here's the stories.
Speaker 4 (57:42):
You can look it up.
Speaker 2 (57:43):
It's coming out of Vice. Written by Ashley Fike. This
thirty seven year old woman allegedly spent fourteen months convincing
a family she was a twelve year old girl. June
fifth was when is written. This person drank from a
baby bottle, She used a pacifier, She faked night terrors.
It all started when this thirty seven year old woman
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approached a pastor in the Brazilian state of Santa Caterina
and presented herself as a runaway. She said her name
was Gabriella. She said she came from an abusive home
in a different part of the country. The congregation then
took her in and began paying for her, supporting her financially,
and looked for a family who would adopt her. They
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found a family, and it's a couple. They paid for
her medications, including Mountjarro type two diabetes medication for adults.
They threw her a twelfth year birthday party, and they
again they wanted to adopt her. And you may ask yourself,
and this is all Ashley's writing, you may ask yourself
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how a thirty seven year old woman pulled this off
with a family. As you're saying, Ben, they got to
see her face on the daily. Well, this person had
an answer for that. She claimed to have been forced
hormone treatments as a child, which altered her appearance, and
that years of abuse from her father aged her prematurely.
Speaker 4 (59:08):
Matt, this is crazy. This is the exact plot of
a kind of schlocky horror movie from the two thousands
called Orphan, where it's a young girl who's estonian and
convinced is a family played by Vera Farmiga and Peter
Scarsgard to adopt her, but it turns out she has
something called hypo pituitarism, which is a rare hormonal disorder
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that stunted her physical growth and caused proportional dwarfism, and
that she was actually a thirty three year old woman.
And then of course she gets up to crazy horror shenanigans.
But that is like the same plot. Well, that's crazy.
Speaker 2 (59:42):
There's something I think, Ben, I think this is before
Nola even you were around when we were doing old, old,
old videos. We did one on this thing called the
Kurham Case, and I think we made an audio podcast
on so you know about this nool. But we covered
this a long time ago about it's insane thing where
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there was a nanny cam that was picking up transmissions
from a different house and it was two boys in
cages and they looked to just be filthy and stuck
in these cages. They were finally found and discovered. Then
it was discovered that it was the mother and people
around the mother that were like influencing her. And one
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of the people influencing her was what is her name,
ben Caterina?
Speaker 3 (01:00:29):
Oh right, yeah, uh, what is her name?
Speaker 2 (01:00:33):
Clara? Now Clara Morova is the mom.
Speaker 3 (01:00:36):
Yeah, Clara Morova is the mom, and the Barbara Scarlova
Scarlova that's right, Scarlova, And this is in Checklislovakia later
and she's the one who impersonated quite successfully a thirteen
year old girl. Yes, and she routinely did this on
a serial basis, and then she disappeared.
Speaker 2 (01:00:58):
She was posing it as a thirteen year old boy.
I remember this.
Speaker 4 (01:01:02):
Yeah, yeah, So maybe the plot of the movie that
I'm talking about is actually kind of it definitely inspired
by that story. Boy or Boy. There's some parallels there
that gave me the shows. I'm like, where have I
heard this before? But now that you're mentioning the nannycam story,
that one's coming back to me too. I may have
blacked that one out a bit, guys, because that one
is incredibly disturbing.
Speaker 3 (01:01:19):
Do check it out audio. Our video is out there
wherever you want to find it. Our audio adaptation of
the video is from twenty eighteen. It's just called the
Kurham cult Kuurim Dude.
Speaker 2 (01:01:32):
It's a crazy story and it's just reminded me a
lot of that. Thankfully, the person in our story out
of Brazil didn't influence a family to abuse their children.
It was just this case of someone for some reason
doing this. There's more information coming out. There are a
couple of stories you can find that are translated from
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Portuguese and you can get a few more details. It's
just tough to know how much of it is fully
be believed. That's why we're using the Vice article, just
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Speaker 4 (00:53):
Yeah, yeah, I mean we're all family at Olive Garden.
What a tagline, What a genius bit of marketing. It's
the thing that always comes to mind. What's going on
with Olive Garden? Are they? Are they finally out of breadsticks?
Speaker 3 (01:06):
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They are involved in a crazy story. We're gonna give
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four News. We have learned on Tuesday, June ninth that
a man was charged in a forced marriage and satanic
ritual after police responded to a call from an olive garden.
That's a headline.
Speaker 4 (01:45):
Lots of untack there, I mean, so did he have
you know? I ask so many questions? Did he like reserve?
Did he have one of the private rooms, like for
a birthday party?
Speaker 3 (01:54):
Like?
Speaker 4 (01:55):
U what are we talking here?
Speaker 3 (01:56):
This is this is where it gets a little bit
more are serious than the headline would indicate. So a
main resident named Daniel Ulay I believe that's how we
pronounce it. O U E L L E T. Daniel
Ulay had had apparently forced his victim to marry him,
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threatened her with a firearm, claimed a religious cult was
chasing them, and then he grabbed the woman's arm during
the incident and cut her hand as part of a
satanic ritual in Kittery, Maine. However, the court documents showed
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that someone was able to get word to the police.
Police in New Hampshire had received a call to an
olive Garden restaurant in a town called Newington and the Pencil.
They did this after Pennsylvania State Police received a report
from a woman who was tracking her daughter's cell phone
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that was the victim, so they did go apprehend and
Olive Garden did the right thing. Investigators searched Oulay's vehicle
where they found a Satanic Bible and a sweatshirt that's
I don't know why they noted it that way. They
were like a Satanic Bible and also a sweatshet.
Speaker 4 (03:23):
Was it a Satanic sweatshirts?
Speaker 3 (03:27):
It remains under investigation.
Speaker 4 (03:29):
And also, I'm sorry, Ben, Satanic Bible has this come
up before? Is there one official I mean? Or is
this just like a Satanic adjacent Bible. I've heard of
the Satanic verses. I don't know about this, right, And.
Speaker 3 (03:46):
You've heard of, you know, the Saint James Bible or
the LDS Bible. Those are all they are all sorts
of variations and spins on this. But for Oolay, the
investigators are probably not experts in religious quandaries, which I
think you'll do later. Yeah, in the occult, which we'll
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get to later. But it does appear again that all
of our Garden did the right thing. And unless you think, folks,
that we are discriminating against any religion. We can tell
you that we very much do not here on stuff
they don't want you to know, but we can no
longer say the same for the Pentagon. What if we
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pause for a word from our sponsors. Guys, we're back.
I think this is going to be a fun one,
but an interesting one from all, for all of us
and hopefully for you listening along at home, fellow conspiracy realists.
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It turns out that the Pentagon of the United States,
our own Department of Defense, has done something arguably unconstitutional.
Just yeah, just I know. Just recently they cut their
official list of recognized military faiths. So here in the
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US Armed Services, people of all faiths are accepted, And
until quite recently the DoD had a huge list of
what they recognized as faiths for service members. It was
a list of like two hundred and eleven, and now
it's been cut down to thirty one. In one throat.
Speaker 4 (05:40):
Guessing, Satanism was never on there, ben and it certainly
isn't now.
Speaker 3 (05:44):
Well, there are a few I think they'll interest us.
We're getting this faikes to Raven vond over at MSN.
The title of this article every faith the Pentagon just
dropped from its recognized religion list, and guys, it's okay
with everybody. I'd like to read a few of these
and just let's stop when we run into one we
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haven't heard of. Because I have not heard of a
lot of these. I don't think I could name to
hundred eleven religions, even counting Christian denominations. Here we go.
Atheism is out. Atheism is no longer recognized as a
legitimate affiliation, and yeah, I guess you could see why,
because atheism rejects the idea of religious belief. The second
(06:28):
one is interesting Asatru. Have you, guys ever heard of Asatru?
Speaker 4 (06:32):
No, I was going to say a first one that
popped for me, no idea. It sounds pretty interesting, though,
I'm curious.
Speaker 3 (06:39):
Tell me, have you heard of Asatrum?
Speaker 2 (06:44):
It's I don't know. It sounds Nordic to me, but
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (06:50):
Yeah, no, you nailed it, man. It's pre Christian, Norse
and Germanic religious tradition in kind of like a mixtape
remix revival. Know like you, I had never heard of this,
but it does come on the heels of a statement
from September of twenty twenty five when Pete Hegsath said,
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we're singling out Nordic pagans specifically. We don't want those
things recognized.
Speaker 2 (07:19):
Oh, there's an interesting thing going on with I don't
know if it's that specific religion, but a revival of
Nordic worship like Odin Frey, these kind of the pantheon
there associated with white supremacyish movements and some of the
nationalism kind of things. I do wonder if that's something
(07:43):
It has something to do with that.
Speaker 3 (07:44):
Quite possibly, and that's a great point to you know,
the to day type people who are eternally trying to
resurrect a they say resurrect, but really what they're trying
to do is create a belief system that confirms their racist,
you know, ideology.
Speaker 4 (08:03):
Well, and the message here, Ben would be, we want
our white supremacists to be the good old fashioned Christian kind.
Speaker 3 (08:10):
Yeah, yeah, you know the ones we know.
Speaker 4 (08:14):
And like, none of this is pagan, no right.
Speaker 3 (08:18):
A lot of a lot of other respectable, credible religious
systems caught some strays here, guys. Deism, which is one
of the most easy to get along with belief systems. Ever,
you're just saying I think not sure about that God,
not sure about that. They're like, I think there is
a God, And then you say, what about the details,
(08:40):
think of Ah, we're more in a big idea religion.
Speaker 4 (08:44):
I'm not gonna lie, Ben, I'm curious of of you'all's thoughts.
But that's certainly kind of more or less where I
find myself. It's the closest thing I could say that
I would espouse would be I think there's something, don't
know what it is, don't know what to call it.
I'm okay with that.
Speaker 3 (08:58):
What do you think about universal As to Unitarianism.
Speaker 4 (09:01):
I know they were real nice people and they used
their community their community hall to host punk shows when
I was growing up, So they always were cool in my.
Speaker 2 (09:09):
Book, they they were they removed Unitarian.
Speaker 4 (09:13):
I know, yeah, as they are.
Speaker 2 (09:18):
The Humanist grandparents were a big part of Unitarian universy community.
Speaker 4 (09:23):
Focused, always hosted AA meetings and stuff like. Really, I
always found them to be very lovely, uh, lovely people. Dang.
Speaker 2 (09:30):
And what was the other one you said, Ben.
Speaker 3 (09:32):
Humanists are removed as well, which is I think you
could say it's it's kind of related to you. You
they're a non theistic worldview, and they say, look, we
don't need the supernatural to be good people. And by
the way, a lot of these religions we just named
have been recognized in US courts. They've gotten the protection
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of a religious system or institution.
Speaker 4 (09:58):
The i r.
Speaker 3 (09:58):
S recognizes a lot of these. Uh. There was also
tax purposes like for tax like for braks or like,
and that can be misused like in Catholicism or scientology.
Speaker 4 (10:10):
There's shots fired. Indeed, Ben, can I just ask for quote,
what does this mean? Is this like mean you're not
allowed to talk about or to espouse these religions if
you are in the government or is it just them
sort of drawing a lie in the sand and saying
we don't recognize these as legitimate, Like does it mean
something functional for members of the bureaucracy or of the military.
Speaker 3 (10:35):
Yeah, not a bad question there, No, because it's like
so many other moves from this administration could be seen
as arguably performative, symbolic, a little bit of red meat
political theater to shore up votes for the mid terms.
But this is the functional difference. If you are if
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your faith is recognized by the Pentagon, then you have
the ability to to access chaplain services. You can request
specific religious accommodations. Right, So, for instance, I follow Islam,
so no pork in my MREs. This is very basic
functional stuff. It's very important to people who practice these faiths.
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When you enlist in the US Armed Forces, you are
asked to identify a religious preference that gets put on
your permanent file, gets put on your dog tags. For
a lot of people. If your religion isn't there or
isn't recognized, it means that a chaplain cannot be formally
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assigned to support you. It also means that if you
have any dietary requirements or you have any important religious observations,
if your belief system is not recognized, you don't get
any of that.
Speaker 2 (11:51):
And also it's not on your dog tag anymore, right,
or you have to put down one of the thirty
one approved religions on your dog tag. So like imagine
if you're getting buried and it's just your body found
right with those military ideas on you, it can it
could be a big deal.
Speaker 3 (12:09):
Right Yeah, again, because they it won't be put on
your dog tag if it's if it's one of these
no longer recognized religions and let's think about that number,
two hundred and eleven all the way down to a
little more than thirty. This also New Age churches got banned. Druids.
I didn't know. I didn't know there was a contingent
(12:29):
of druids in the military services. But America's melting pot
rose Crucians, Shamans, spiritualists, various denominations of Wiccan traditions, and
then members of something called the Troth. Do you, guys
ever hear about the Troth?
Speaker 4 (12:47):
No, but it sounds like the name of a space
depot in Starfield.
Speaker 2 (12:51):
Yeah, it sounds like they added an R to they
removed an age, added inn R to thought.
Speaker 3 (12:57):
Yeah, right, or they called it the broth and said
they had to rework the thing. The Troth is. It's
interesting because it's like how sharps are skinheads against racism.
The Troth, to your earlier point, Matt, is a specific
reaction within the larger sphere of Norse dramatic paganism that
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exists to explicitly distance itself from white nationalist interpretations of paganism.
Speaker 2 (13:28):
Oh wow, so they took that one off.
Speaker 3 (13:32):
They were like, nah, nope, nope.
Speaker 2 (13:34):
Wait, guys, is this just a cost cutting measure so
they don't have to hire so many clerics of different
uh chaplains of different religions to be there to actually
like help the service members.
Speaker 3 (13:50):
I wish that were the case, but I think it's
something deeper. I think it's pushing the US closer to
Christian nationalist society. And the reason it's inherently unconstitutional is
because on paper, we've always made a big deal about
the separation of church and states. So you can have
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any religion you want, is the idea. Right, as long
as your religion is not explicitly telling you to break
the law or harm other people, you can do things
like become a conscientious objector right like Quakers, for instance,
who would not take certain wartime roles in US conflicts.
(14:33):
This is yeah, this is deeper than I think a
little cost cutting. I think it is again a political
dog whistle, but it also indicates what appears to be
an administration wide push toward an increasingly theocratic state.
Speaker 4 (14:53):
They're not even saying the loud part quietly. They're just
kind of screaming it from the rooftops. What is it
that PEGSGEF has that very specific brand of kind of
I don't know as the word crusading Christianity that he espouses,
that he had, that tattoo that he has that frankly
it has vaguely white supremacist vibes at the very least
(15:14):
to it. But it's a very specific representation Christian reconstruction.
There you go, and he has made no secrets about
wanting to be a Christian conqueror.
Speaker 3 (15:24):
Yeah, making America Christian nation built on Biblical law, at
least that's what That's what his critics will say. We
just I think it's important for us to talk about
this one because it is so cartoonishly opposed to what
the founding father said. You know, It's just it's as
(15:48):
bizarre as using giant fire tornadoes to clean up oil spills,
which is another real thing. That's a say it sure is?
Does it sound? Does it sound like a made up headline?
You guys?
Speaker 4 (15:59):
So how many of them do these days? It's hard
to say it does?
Speaker 2 (16:03):
I still, I just I can't get over they took Rescrucianism,
Resicrucianism out of there just after having conversations about it,
knowing their major universities in the US that are based
upon or based around that religion. It's just that's crazy
to me. I'm sorry to break that segue, Ben, it's
just the some of the things on that list are baffling.
Speaker 3 (16:27):
Yeah, very much, so very targeted. We know that the
Pentagon has started reworking some things. They started rolling back
a little bit. They were originally targeting LDS members as
well Latter day Saints, but it turns out there are
(16:47):
a lot of people who are members of the Mormon
Church in politics, who make laws, and so their voice
mattered enough for the Pentagon to rework their list of
religious designations. I've got to get to the fire tornado though,
because it's so ridiculous. So it as we were coming
in today. This comes to us from Science Daily, courtesy
(17:11):
of Texas A and M University. Here's the submarine. Researchers
have shown that controlled fire squirls can clean up oil
spills faster and more cleanly than traditional burning methods. So
if you make a fire tornado, they found it consumes
up to ninety five percent of the oil from a spill,
(17:32):
It cuts the emissions of soot and all that nasty
stuff by forty percent, and it could theoretically nip these
oil spills in the bud and burn them out before
they reach sensitive marine habitats. So that's where we're at
twenty twenty six. It's time for the fire tornadoes. I
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don't know we'll actually do it, but yeah.
Speaker 4 (18:00):
To give it a shot, you know what I mean.
Speaker 3 (18:02):
This is such a shrug, hold my beer, what else?
What else? Kind of thing. But if it works, and
you can read the study online, if it works, the
the boffins proposing this are credible. I don't think they're
a bunch of arsonists or firebugs. Nowhere in anything I
(18:23):
read about this, did anybody say anybody from Texas, A
and M say also fires are cool and tornadoes are cool?
Like that's not in their conclusion. They think it will
genuinely help address some serious issues.
Speaker 2 (18:39):
Well, and also, we all universally know that tornadoes and
fires are cool unless you've been inside one or the
other or both simultaneously.
Speaker 3 (18:49):
Right, Yeah, yeah, we don't know. Maybe there's a weird
aggregate effect where somebody survives the tornado and then survives
a fire, but then they get them both at once,
and they say, actually they kind of balance out. It's
a blue vibe. It's sort of like an Olive Garden,
Olive Garden, the Firestorm family. Guys, We've got we've got
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other stuff we can't get to, especially the story of
David Rush, which I think we mentioned a little bit.
But there are some updates on a a real con
artist of a CIA officer. Maybe we could save that
for next week. We've got one.
Speaker 2 (19:25):
Well, can you give us a taste?
Speaker 3 (19:27):
Yeah, yeah, of course. Go to New York Times. This
this is a few days old, but we've got some
pretty pretty impactful updates here. Good at New York Times,
and you'll see, uh, you'll see a headline FBI arrest
CIA official with forty million dollars in gold bars in
his home, along with multiple fancy watches. Use diamonds, pretty
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much loose diamonds because because here's what happened.
Speaker 4 (19:56):
It's key.
Speaker 3 (19:57):
Yes, this, this guy, David Rush, is still in jail.
He is being charged with stealing public money by filing
fraudulent timesheets. He was a former senior executive service level
employee at quote a US government agency end quote cool.
Mean he had a senior position at the CIA, one
(20:19):
of the good ones. Oh yeah, and his home got searched,
especially when he was look he got jammed up because
he was doing some con artist stuff and he lied
about his little CV. We still have no idea really
how he got around the background checks to get his clearance.
(20:41):
But from last November to March, so November twenty twenty
five to March of this year, mister Rush went to
his bosses at the CIA and asked for and received
quote a significant quantity of foreign currency and tens of
millions of dollars in gold bars. Those are our loose
diamonds for work related expenses end quote. That's That's what
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I think is. That's what's really sticking, guys. I think
this is a bigger story in the future. Imagine if
we went to our bosses and said, we've got some
work related expenses, can we have gold bars? The CIA
literally keeps untold hordes of precious metals for sensitive overseas operations.
Speaker 2 (21:33):
John Wick, shit it so much, is right?
Speaker 3 (21:36):
I wonder what it is markers like right now for Rush.
But yeah, I think we should look into that one further,
perhaps in the future, maybe maybe an episode. A big
shout out to our reporters Devlin Barrett and Julian E.
Barnes if you want to check out their article again
New York Times FBI arrest CIA official with forty million
(21:58):
in gold bars in his home. It goes deeper and
deeper and deeper, and will be right back.
Speaker 4 (22:12):
And we're back then. What a climactic end to your segment.
Speaker 3 (22:16):
There here to help you.
Speaker 4 (22:17):
Oh my gosh, blushing over you. I hope to even
bring a fraction of the heat that you brought with
your strange news segment today. Got a couple of fun ones.
One that I'm gonna lead with that I think is
going to be something that we're all going to enjoy
digging into. We've certainly over the years referenced and heard
(22:40):
tale of the Denver Airport, and I think a handful
of us have even passed through that bad boy. I
don't think I have, certainly not in a way that
I noticed anything bizarre, and if I did, it was
probably just a quick layover or something like that. But
I actually don't think I have been there. But it
has long been, I guess, since it's an veiling in
(23:00):
nineteen ninety five, the subject of a lot of conspiracy
theories surrounding some unusual art, perhaps a little bit of
an unconventional layout of its runways. We're going to get
into some of these in a minute. And a giant
sculpture of a blue horse with red eyes that many
(23:22):
people connect to the horsemen of the apocalypse. Well, with
all that talk low these many years, it seems that
finally the administrators, the stewards of the Denver Airport have
decided to just lean on in by saying that they
plan to open some of the subterranean tunnels underneath the
(23:44):
airport and turn into something of a conspiracy museum experience. Yeah,
they're planning to spend seven hundred million dollars on pedestrian
walkways connecting the different terminals of the Denver International Airport,
throwing in touches of conspiracy theory history, many of which
(24:09):
directly referenced some of the ones that have spread about
the airport for many, many years. Piece here in the
Colorado in by Nate Trella, walkways will take passengers through
core of den conspiracies. The project announced May twenty six,
calls for converting old baggage tunnels to give passengers a
(24:29):
way to get between the terminal and all of the concourse.
So sorry, the concourses, not the terminals, as I originally said,
without using the underground trains, which apparently have been the
subject of a lot of criticism over the years for
not being particularly efficient. Since the airport opened back in
ninety five, the only way to get to concourses B
and C was by utilizing that apparently woefully outdated train system.
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Concourse A can be reached through an above ground walkway.
Construction of these walkways is expected to begin next year
and wrap up the following year twenty twenty nine at
the latest. We don't have an overall spend in mind,
but some estimates and media reports do establish a range
(25:17):
from three hundred to seven hundred million. The may yeah,
it's not a cheap project, The mayor of Denver, Mike Johnston,
said in a statement. We've heard loud and clear that easier,
more reliable ways to move between the concourses has been
top priority for people traveling in and out of d
e N. So he's sort of burying the lead a
(25:41):
little bit. But I mean, I guess for folks that
aren't into the conspiratorial side of things, this is just
a convenience that is very welcome. He goes on, these
new pedestrian walkways would deliver on that giving folks more
flexibility while we continue building one of the best connected
airports in the world. And who knows, maybe along the way,
travelers will finally get a closer look at the underground
(26:02):
tunnels and decide for themselves what's fact and what's fiction.
I love these guys, pretty fun guys.
Speaker 3 (26:09):
Yeah, guys, did you did we ever talk about this?
Just for context? Years ago, when we were in our
YouTube days, we did a video about the conspiracies you're
mentioning there noel with the Colorado Airport or Denver Airport,
and we received, Matt, I bet you remember this. We
(26:30):
received a very nice email from the people at I
guess it was their PR department who said they watched
our video and they invited us to come explore the
airport with them. And I'm still bummed that our bosses
wouldn't let us go.
Speaker 4 (26:47):
I wish we could go. That's so cool. Have either
of y'all passed through this hub?
Speaker 3 (26:53):
I have I have on a long layover heading somewhere else.
And because it's so far out of the match as too,
and because it's so far away from Denver proper, it's
like one of those airports where unless you have a
really long long layover, you kind of just have to
stay there.
Speaker 4 (27:14):
Guys, I for one, have never left an airport during
a layover. I'm just too scared to do it. That's risky, right,
It always feels risky. It always feels risky, and short
of it being like, you know, an overnight layover, I
just won't chance it. The only place I've been really
tempted to do it was in Amsterdam for reasons. But
the biggest speculation surrounding these underground tunnels has been this
(27:37):
idea that there's some sort of chud type creatures that
live down there. That's me editorializing talking about cannibalistic humanoid
underground dwellers. The more popular theory would be lizard people
always a favorite, or aliens of some stripe. The most
prominent theories that these entities live below the airport, occupying
(27:59):
a network of tunnels built long ago before the above
ground portions of the airport were constructed. And to your point, Ben,
it's obvious that this pr operation behind the Denver Airport
has been leaning into this for some time and this
is just an extension of that lean in. You gotta
(28:19):
love it, though, you do, you do here's another thing
you gotta love. Taxpayers aren't going to pay a dime
for this reconstruction. It's gonna be all funded. The bill
will be footed by you know, profits from the airport itself.
Speaker 2 (28:36):
Guys, we know this concept of hiding something most effectively
in plane site is by doing in plane site. So
if we are going to create these things, you go
through the areas that have these high traffic, scary, creepy
things that might exist down there. What if they play
that up even further and it's almost like a tourist
attraction to go through that thing. And then you've got
(28:59):
actual aliens that can just hang out, go.
Speaker 4 (29:03):
To and fro like Halloween horronites at that can out
and jump scare you, and.
Speaker 3 (29:09):
You encourage everybody. I like this idea because you encourage
all the humans visiting to dress up, and that way
the aliens can move inconspicuously.
Speaker 4 (29:19):
Well, think about how much tourism revenue comes into you know,
Area fifty one and adjacent communities and all of the
you know, UFO themed restaurants and bars and stuff in
that community. It makes a whole lot of sense. And
I also do like the fact that, as we know,
most of these more outlanders conspiracy theories. We enjoy talking
(29:41):
about them because they're a good time. They're a fun
hang there. It's a great thought experiment, And I just
think we all want to believe, but probably don't believe,
that there are lizard people occupying the underground tunnels beneath
the airport, or that it was established as a home
base and operating head quarters for the Illuminati, you know,
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or the Freemasons, whatever amorphous cabal's maybe you know.
Speaker 2 (30:08):
In question here, I would just say no, I think
I do believe personally that there are underground secure facilities
beneath this particular airport.
Speaker 4 (30:18):
Like Bunkers' No, that's now, that's that's one that I
think you're right that does have some sand and we'll
talk about that one in a second time.
Speaker 3 (30:24):
Please, they're for CEG continuance of government.
Speaker 4 (30:27):
Just putting that out there as like long lines building
type stuff. Yeah, I'm with you one hundred percent, But
that is a different category of conspiracy than you know,
spooky aliens and listen.
Speaker 3 (30:38):
Yeah, that's more actual conspiracy as opposed to conspiracy theory.
But yeah, there are a lot of subterranean things there,
especially Colorado and Colorado is prime real estate for creepy
government stuff. Shout out to Norrad. Also, hey, I'm glad
you mentioned Bluesifer Bluecifer, that huge sculpture in an episode
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we did on Ridiculous History about inventors who died by
their own hands, and unfortunately the sculptor who created Blucifer
died when the thing fell on them.
Speaker 4 (31:11):
Well, let's get to the bottom of that. It is
locally known affectionately, like we said, as Blucifer, it is
just called Mustang, and the artist is Luis Himanez, who
did sadly perish under the weight of bluey Blucifery. Let's
see it has been you know, it's sort of like
it is really spooky looking, especially at night, because you
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can really see the outline of it's like ribs, and
it's got quite a rictus grin, and it's you know,
the one lit or I guess one on each side,
bright red, shiny eyeball. It really does look sinisters hell.
Speaker 3 (31:49):
You think it'd be weird for the pilots executing a
landing especially, but also, I mean the story I remember
us researching on Ridiculous History that the sculptor was paid
homage to his uh to the neon shop that his
father ran. But obviously you got something like this, You
got a story like this. Conspiracy theories are going to
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proliferate like mad.
Speaker 2 (32:12):
Well, you look at the thing and then you realize
that it severed its creator's artery in his leg and
made him ped to death in his studio creating it
bro Yeah, sacrifice right.
Speaker 4 (32:28):
Well, and there are some theories this is obviously easily debunked.
Or some believe that its eyes didn't start glowing red
until after its creator had had been killed. I mean
we're having Hey, he paid the blood price, and uh, yeah,
it made the eyes glow. Back to the one I'd mentioned,
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this notion that it contains the headquarters for the ultimate
big bats of conspiracy theories, the Illuminati and or the
New World Order and or you know, the Freemasons, any
mishmash of all of these things. There have been theories
about this circulating for many years, referring specifically to some
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of those bunker type situations that are incredibly valid speculations
that those exist for different reasons. But as we know,
in a with a lack of information, you know whatever,
the speculation thrives. So this theory specifically stems from a
time capsule that was buried on the grounds and set
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to be opened in twenty ninety four that contains some
Free Mason related symbols, which also, of course has ties
to this concept of the Illuminati, a secret society dating
back to eighteenth century Europe. Another reason that this one
had a lot of staying power was that the airport
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went way over budget than was originally projected and it
took a lot longer to build, so conspiracy theorists believe
that it took Illuminati money to finish the job when
they ran out of budget. The first five buildings reportedly
weren't built correctly, but instead of demolishing them, they were
supposedly buried and more buildings were built on top of them,
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giving the Illuminati an opportunity for a secret underground layer.
So let's jump to the one that you guys mentioned
that has the most sand rumors that there is something
of an end of the world bunker buried beneath the
Denver Airport. There is, indeed, as we mentioned, this is
the whole point of the story. A large network of
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underground tunnels with a train running between the concourses and
a long defunct automated baggage moving system. But some people
believe that their true purpose is to hide and to
offer a paths footpaths between a network of underground bunkers.
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Of course, the speculation again die back into lizard people
in alien life forms. But to your point, Matt and Ben,
this much more likely is a way of a preserving
continuity of government in the event of some sort of
you know, apocalyptic event. Well, we know these places exist.
We have evidence that these types of things absolutely exist.
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Long lines building in New York. We talked recently about
one on Strange News.
Speaker 2 (35:26):
Well, let's say you gotta you want to build a
brand new, extremely secure underground facility. Let's say somewhere immediately
adjacent to the White House. What do you got to
build on top of it?
Speaker 4 (35:38):
An airport?
Speaker 2 (35:39):
No, a giant freaking ball, or or you know, you
want to build a huge underground safe facility kind of
in the middle of nowhere. Well, you got.
Speaker 4 (35:51):
To build an airport and off No, it's true, in the
airport's there. So I think we're on board that that's
highly likely, but we certainly don't have any direct proof
of that. The official Denver tourism website says that other
theories speculate this is from the Leisure and Travel old piece,
by the way, Dive into the Strange Conspiracy Surrounding Denver
International Airport by Andrea Romano. And yes, the tourist board
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does say that other theories speculated the tunnels lead directly
to the North American Aerospace Defense Command or nor AD,
located at Peterson SPA Peterson Space Force Space, around ninety
kilometers to the south of the airport in Colorado Springs.
Speaker 3 (36:33):
I was just looking at the map, you guys. That's
why I went dark for a second, because this is
a fun game we always like to play. Fellow conspiracy realist,
you can pull up your map and if you check
out Cheyenne Mountain Space war Station like Noel mentioned, you
will see that it's about an hour and a half
south of Denver International Airport, which makes it perfect planning.
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Let's say you've got some politicos or high value folks
on the East coast and stuff goes sideways and the
bombs begin to fall. Then they're a hop, skip and
a jump right away from one of the most secure
facilities outside of that ballroom or whatever it is underneath it.
Speaker 4 (37:14):
Yeah, no, that's definitely true. The same article that I
mentioned also does point out though that it would have
taken much longer than the airport has been around to
construct a tunnel of that length that would have stability
unless it was pre existing infrastructure, like speculated about some
of the underground tunnels underneath the airport.
Speaker 2 (37:35):
So maybe not, but unless you had something like the
boring company with billionaire that was like all about.
Speaker 3 (37:47):
Like Tesla in the hyperloop or something. But it would,
you know, to your point, it would have to be.
It would be a work of such infrastructure to get
subterranean and to do it secretly, that's all. So yeah, kicker,
you can do it secretly. It's like one of the
main things I keep going back to here. We know
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the time I gave in terms of transport distance is
just surface area. So driving on the streets of Colorado,
it'll take you an hour and a half to get
from point A to point Z. But what if you
had a helicopter, right, what if you landed the airport
and you had a puddle jumper or something like that.
I mean by which I mean just a small craft
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like a Sessna. Could you land at could you land
over it? Nor at? Quite possible?
Speaker 4 (38:34):
Quite possibly indeed, And I think one of our favorite
and most visual examples of conspiracy theories surrounding the Denver
Airport are the art pieces outside of I keep calling
him Bluey Blucifer. There are some pretty wild murals. One
of which I always point to features this gestapo looking
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like a character out of Pink Floyd's the Wall, wearing
a gas mak kind of a borderline like Nazi type
hat and uniform, wielding a kalashnikov with a bayonet on
it in one hand and swinging a giant razor sharp
shiny saber in the other. On the tip of the
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saber is a dove of peace, and stylized on the
other side of the saber is just like there's like
old women clutching dead babies. It's an odd choice, guys,
for a piece of public art, I would, I would say,
and it is called something along the lines of Children
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of the World Dream of Peace, and it is just
quite intense, to say the least. There's another little frame
that just shows children huddled under blankets laying in piles
of bricks that appear to be bricks born of rubble
from demolition of their homes. It is just a real bummer.
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And then along the top you got you got yourself
a rainbow flying across the top edge of the piece.
It is a real choice and it is by the
artist Leo Tenguma. So whoever commissioned all this stuff, including Blucifer,
definitely was down with some seriously dark imagery. And then
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the last thing, and not least is this notion that
if you look at an aerial view of the way
that the runways are laid out, it creates something resembling
the swastika. But that's kind of just usually the way
runways are laid out, if I'm not mistaken, like in
a circular like kind of you know, zig zagging pattern
in order to maximize the space. That's it, guys, that's
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my time. The second one that I was going to mention,
but I had a feeling we would we would go
to town with this one is just that they pray
priest who was formerly an exorcist for the Catholic Church,
was playing a little too fast and loose with his
idea of what demons were, saying that they were likely
aliens and UFOs and the Catholic Church has said bye
(41:02):
bye and severed ties with this man. Is that what
it takes to get kicked out of the Catholic Priestill.
Speaker 3 (41:10):
Gabe was very successful for many years. We ran into
him while we were investigating exorcisms previously, and that guy
was accusing people of being possessed for reading Harry Potter.
So I wonder if there's more to the story we
can look to in the future.
Speaker 4 (41:25):
Yeah, this is a guy named Monsignor Stephen Rosetti who'd
been working at the Washington Archdiocese over the past fifteen years.
As you heard it right, an exorcist, and we have
talked in the past about how that definitely still is
a thing, and there are folks you know who work
within the Catholic Church that specialize in that. Apparently he
just was straying a little too far from their dogma
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regarding how the devil plays his dirty tricks, and UFO's
apparently doesn't enter into it.
Speaker 2 (41:56):
Can I read a quote from his May twenty ninth
Facebook posts.
Speaker 4 (42:01):
Because I know that you are. I know that you
were digging on this one too.
Speaker 2 (42:03):
Heckya, This is a quote from Monsignor Rossetti. There's a
danger here as an exorcist, I wanted to raise that danger,
and that is that demons like to hide. They don't
want us to know what they're doing, because they're more
effective when we don't realize it. They can kind of
get in your head, you know, and manipulate things in
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the world to influence us to do evil. It's my
personal belief that probably many, if not most, of these
UFO sightings are in fact.
Speaker 4 (42:33):
Demons, definitely speed demons, those things be zipping around, zipping
and zipping. And this was a man who was even
you know, in the good company I imagine of other
prolific exorcists, considered to be highly prolific, having conducted hundreds
of these things as well as something referred to as
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deliverance sessions, which I guess is a little different than
an exorcist. He was also a licensed psychologist, uh and
and seems to have a real proclivity for a for
the occult and made these made these connections, and the
leadership did not seem to like it.
Speaker 2 (43:13):
Dude, can we just talk about how it's.
Speaker 4 (43:17):
Oh and Jay Advance, by the way, is also said
that he believes UFOs are demons. So this is this
guy isn't alone. That's fascinating.
Speaker 2 (43:23):
There's something to this concept of being obedient to the
church rather than being obedient to the teachings or the
I don't know of the religion. He he made another statement.
This is another statement read really fast. He says, I
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ask forgiveness for any ways that I have not been
faithful to the teachings of the Church's magisterium, particularly in
the cited video on aliens and the demonic. I believe
it is of the utmost importance to be obedient to
the Church, and I will continue to endeavor to subject
all that I do in the Center to be thus obedient.
Speaker 4 (44:07):
Yeah. Yeah, thrown around that obedience, that word definitely makes
your skin crawl us a little bit. And last thing
for me, there's a piece from Slate by Molly Olmsted
that lays out this potential. I mean, it's highly specuative,
of course, that there might be something deeper at play,
and she says to the uninitiated, it's a bit confusing
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that a religious official whose job description includes warding off
demons could get in so much trouble for simply speculating
that there could be a demonic link to what are
by definition unexplained aerial phenomena. Is there some grand conspiracy here?
Does Rosetti know too much? Scandalous as that sounds, there's
actually something less supernatural and more terrestrial playing out here.
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This is to your point as well, Matt, about that
word a power struggle between the Catholic Church and influencer
priests who have successfully harnessed the internet's algorithms. I yield
my time, Ben, What do you think about this? This
is a fascinating cross section of social media influencing the
kind of stuff we was read me for us ufology,
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you know, unexplained phenomenon and of course religion.
Speaker 3 (45:16):
Yeah, please do folks go back and check out our
multiple episodes on exorcism, both in Western canon of Dogma
and around the world. You may also appreciate something really
weird we found, folks, which is that for a while,
not too long ago, global exorcisms were actually on the rise.
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The Catholic Church was green lighting way more. Also, magisterium
just means the church's ability to say what is real
about God. That's what makes him the authority. So that's
why he's saying he's going to be obedient, or that's
why he's kiss him but too.
Speaker 4 (45:53):
And I think we all implied it, but I maybe
buried some stats here a little bit. He is hugely
successful on various social media platforms, with fifty thousand followers
on Facebook and TikTok and more than one hundred and
forty nine thousand followers on Instagram, and he spends a
lot of his time putting out content and writing posts
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about demons and their various methods of trickery. Pretty interesting, guys.
I think this is a fascinating thing, and I'm curious
to see the fallout from this and if there are
other examples of religious influencers who are technically part of
the Catholic Church getting a little too big for their
breeches and getting kind of, you know, having their wings clipped.
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Let's take a quick break here we're from our sponsor,
and then we'll be back with one more bit of
strange news.
Speaker 2 (46:49):
And we've returned one last shout out to Ryan Bethea
and the Exorcist Files in our own mister Chandler Mays
and Father Carlos Martin's well, I remember exploring that subject
with those guys as well. Guys, we are going to
head to the island of Nantucket, just off the coast
of Massachusetts, once a whaling hub of note, now a secluded.
Speaker 4 (47:13):
Place known for their nectars.
Speaker 2 (47:15):
Yes, where the average home price hovers around four million dollars. Hmmm,
nectar nectar.
Speaker 4 (47:22):
Of the elite. Yes, so sweet.
Speaker 2 (47:25):
Here we see a story posted in NBC Boston by
Jeff Sapperstone. I'm not going to read the title yet.
Let's just get into the story. A woman named Megan Perry,
who at the time was wearing a quote clean Water
is a Human Right t shirt, went to the podium
at a Nantucket school committee meeting with a plate of
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brownies and offered said brownies to the committee members. She said,
quote they do have a non detect level of x
lax in them. But I figured, since we're okay with
a non detect level of pfact that's forever chemicals, it
would probably be okay. So again, here are some brownies.
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They have non detectable levels of x slax in them.
Please have some.
Speaker 4 (48:13):
Is this like a like a in protest? Like I
don't understand you're trying to make a point here.
Speaker 2 (48:18):
Yes, Perry says she was trying to make a point
in protest of Nantucket's proposed turf project. This is a
synthetic turf. You guys remember us talking about that a
little while back, about specifically soccer players, right, m soccer
players and the little bits of the p fast that
ends up getting into the mouths and or like on
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the bodies of children playing soccer.
Speaker 4 (48:40):
Because they be sliding and stuff, right and just like
grinding on that, you know, yeah.
Speaker 2 (48:45):
Yes, yes, She says she's concerned about the synthetic field
and the levels of p fast or forever chemicals that
will be in them the field for reasons we talked
about with kids playing on it, but also for stuff
that's underneath the field. The field sits over the island's
water aquifer, the water aquifer of Nantucket Island, an aquifer
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that is very important when you were surrounded by ocean
waters that are very salty, and you can't drink that
stuff without a lot of money and time. So that
makes sense. She's worried that there might be a chemical
leakage or something that would contaminate the water supply of
the town. Now we've got a ton of PFASs maybe
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potentially in our aquifer that gives us all potable water
here's the thing. Voters already approved the project. Construction, however,
is stalled while the Nantucket Public School System and the
Nantucket Land and Water Council, which is a local environmental
advocacy group, negotiate an agreement on a testing regime for
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this artificial turf field. It is. It was stated here
by Jeff none of the brownies were eaten. However, the
district was planning to file a report with local police.
This lady tried to give us x lax brownies, but
again she let them know what was in it. And
I think that's part of the protest.
Speaker 3 (50:10):
It's poop with a point. I like poop with a right.
Speaker 2 (50:14):
Right, I you know, I think that is a good point.
And we're only bringing this story up just to show
that it is probably worth our time to examine the
allowable levels of terrible carcinogenic toxic chemicals that we allow
into all of our things, including our water, our building materials,
you know, our fields, everything. We should probably examine it
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as deeply as we can and make sure there are
extremely strong support structures and regulatory bodies that can prevent
companies and I guess school districts from making decisions for
all of us that may be against our best interest,
which would be our health. Okay, next, we're moving on
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to another other local story. You guys, we're keeping at local.
We're heading to Atlanta, Georgia. This comes to us from
Atlanta News. First written by Sarah Hammond on June eighth,
twenty twenty sixth. Lawmakers pushing Marta for answers after recent
string of violence. What what, let's get into it. There's
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a new push for answers from the Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid
Transit Authority after a string of violence at its stations,
this time from state lawmakers. The pressure comes after two
stabbings and a shooting in the week of June first,
That is last week as we record this on June tenth,
at twelve thirty seven pm. I don't know why I'm
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doing that, okay, police said.
Speaker 3 (51:43):
Forty two Eastern time folks.
Speaker 4 (51:45):
Eastern time time.
Speaker 2 (51:47):
Police said forty two year old Anthony Gresham is now
behind bars after what they're calling a targeted shooting on
a MARTA train on Friday, June fifth. It was the
latest incident in a string of violence on board trains
and sites stations. The shooting came one day after the
federal government announced its intention to investigate Marta in the
wake of two recent stabbings, one of which left Margaret
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sam Swan, who was sixty six years old dead. Her
daughter Shaney, is pushing for more security. There's stuff that
the Senate majority leader and the House majority leader here
in Georgia, these are state legislat legislators. They sent a
letter to MARTA's CEO demanding details on how the agency
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is going to improve safety. They want to know what
actions have been taking, especially ahead of the twenty twenty
six FIFA World Cup. Oh wait, wait a second, you guys,
hold on, why would this be a big story. People
get hurt all the time in this city and every
other city. There's violent crimes that occur every day, every hour.
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Why are we talking about this story. Do you think
it has something to do with that FIFA World Cup?
Speaker 3 (52:57):
Why do you think there have been so many Do
you think there have been infrastructure improvements like those oh gosh,
those glass doors that keep getting busted and make the
city look bad. Why do you think that there are
more law enforcement officers posted at these at these various venues.
The World Cup, by the way, is not going well
for the US thanks to those really harsh visa and
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immigration laws.
Speaker 2 (53:20):
Right by the way, this state probe comes less than
a week after the current presidential administration announced it opened
an investigation into Marta surrounding its safety and security.
Speaker 4 (53:33):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (53:33):
Yeah, yeah again. I think it all has to do
with FIFA in World Cup, and it makes me wonder
how much a city like Atlanta can use the World
Cup as an excuse use to put more fund.
Speaker 3 (53:44):
Aid as political capital. Yeah, I mean, look at the Olympics.
Everybody loves that park that nobody has gone to since
nineteen ninety six.
Speaker 2 (53:54):
Yeah well yeah, well then I've been there a couple
of times talking about Yeah, well they used to shaking
these there, or maybe they still do.
Speaker 4 (54:02):
Yeah, I mean, if you've vain exactly regular dog walk,
it's very nice, parking.
Speaker 2 (54:10):
Very There's a show called on the Bricks or something
like that that you Yeah, I still like that place.
But really, but to your point.
Speaker 3 (54:20):
There's there is a tremendous window of opportunity for any government,
especially if you're in the South where things are a
little bit more conservative fiscally. This gives you a golden
opportunity to say, hey, there's a reason that we're using
taxpayer money this way and it'll actually bring billions of
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dollars to our local economy because people around the world
are going to visit to watch the premiere matches of
the planet's most popular sport. Problem is they're not selling
tickets like they want it.
Speaker 2 (54:56):
But yes, but it is an opportunity to get more
of those tax dollars funnel directly to Marta to improve
things that they want to get improved. But they don't
have the budget for right, So you need a story
like this to run. You need stories like this to
run and make people truly believe and feel that using
these trains is unsafe, right, make you afraid of it
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so that you will even push or agree with the
fact that, oh, my taxes have to go up a
little bit to fund Marta.
Speaker 4 (55:26):
Well, MARTA's already been undergoing some renovations and they've been
there's been talk of having some expansions being financed. But
our good buddy Nick Benson, who has actually won a
really cool contract to have a mural put up in
one of the biggest kind of hub stations, five point Station,
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that whole project was scrapped, So you got to wonder
if maybe there was some dodginess in some of those
initial dollars and this is a good way of maybe
clawing some of them back.
Speaker 2 (55:58):
I mean, it's not about having amazing art by Nick
Benson in our stations. It's about having more than one
hundred officers spread out all over the stations from Denver
and having all these MARTA officers work extended shifts on
match days specifically.
Speaker 4 (56:15):
Gotcha, it's a little more of a short term mand
aid for a specific reason rather than infrastructure improvements that
would actually benefit citizens.
Speaker 2 (56:24):
Yep, last quick thing, guys. Straight out of the Kurham case,
We've got something coming out of Brazil. There was a
thirty seven year old woman who spent fourteen months convincing
a family she was a twelve year old girl in
need of adoption. Crazy story. We're not going to have
time to get into the whole thing right now. It's
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just a weird story. It's a weird story about a
family who believed the story of this woman who claimed
to be a twelve year old. Again, she's thirty seven
years old. In reality, it's a family that believed her,
and then the people around that family that did not
believe her, and they were asking questions and then it
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was found out. The truth was uncovered.
Speaker 3 (57:12):
Yeah, Matt, can you give me a few more details here,
just to whit the appetite a bit. Did this person,
this thirty seven year old, did they meet the family
physically or was it more of an online thing?
Speaker 2 (57:27):
Yeah? They This family brought her in, okay they Yeah,
fourteen months she was living with them. They wanted to
adopt her formally, but people around the family said, hey,
that is not a twelve year old girl. Okay, here
we go. Here's the stories.
Speaker 4 (57:42):
You can look it up.
Speaker 2 (57:43):
It's coming out of Vice. Written by Ashley Fike. This
thirty seven year old woman allegedly spent fourteen months convincing
a family she was a twelve year old girl. June
fifth was when is written. This person drank from a
baby bottle, She used a pacifier, She faked night terrors.
It all started when this thirty seven year old woman
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approached a pastor in the Brazilian state of Santa Caterina
and presented herself as a runaway. She said her name
was Gabriella. She said she came from an abusive home
in a different part of the country. The congregation then
took her in and began paying for her, supporting her financially,
and looked for a family who would adopt her. They
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found a family, and it's a couple. They paid for
her medications, including Mountjarro type two diabetes medication for adults.
They threw her a twelfth year birthday party, and they
again they wanted to adopt her. And you may ask yourself,
and this is all Ashley's writing, you may ask yourself
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how a thirty seven year old woman pulled this off
with a family. As you're saying, Ben, they got to
see her face on the daily. Well, this person had
an answer for that. She claimed to have been forced
hormone treatments as a child, which altered her appearance, and
that years of abuse from her father aged her prematurely.
Speaker 4 (59:08):
Matt, this is crazy. This is the exact plot of
a kind of schlocky horror movie from the two thousands
called Orphan, where it's a young girl who's estonian and
convinced is a family played by Vera Farmiga and Peter
Scarsgard to adopt her, but it turns out she has
something called hypo pituitarism, which is a rare hormonal disorder
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that stunted her physical growth and caused proportional dwarfism, and
that she was actually a thirty three year old woman.
And then of course she gets up to crazy horror shenanigans.
But that is like the same plot. Well, that's crazy.
Speaker 2 (59:42):
There's something I think, Ben, I think this is before
Nola even you were around when we were doing old, old,
old videos. We did one on this thing called the
Kurham Case, and I think we made an audio podcast
on so you know about this nool. But we covered
this a long time ago about it's insane thing where
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there was a nanny cam that was picking up transmissions
from a different house and it was two boys in
cages and they looked to just be filthy and stuck
in these cages. They were finally found and discovered. Then
it was discovered that it was the mother and people
around the mother that were like influencing her. And one
(01:00:24):
of the people influencing her was what is her name,
ben Caterina?
Speaker 3 (01:00:29):
Oh right, yeah, uh, what is her name?
Speaker 2 (01:00:33):
Clara? Now Clara Morova is the mom.
Speaker 3 (01:00:36):
Yeah, Clara Morova is the mom, and the Barbara Scarlova
Scarlova that's right, Scarlova, And this is in Checklislovakia later
and she's the one who impersonated quite successfully a thirteen
year old girl. Yes, and she routinely did this on
a serial basis, and then she disappeared.
Speaker 2 (01:00:58):
She was posing it as a thirteen year old boy.
I remember this.
Speaker 4 (01:01:02):
Yeah, yeah, So maybe the plot of the movie that
I'm talking about is actually kind of it definitely inspired
by that story. Boy or Boy. There's some parallels there
that gave me the shows. I'm like, where have I
heard this before? But now that you're mentioning the nannycam story,
that one's coming back to me too. I may have
blacked that one out a bit, guys, because that one
is incredibly disturbing.
Speaker 3 (01:01:19):
Do check it out audio. Our video is out there
wherever you want to find it. Our audio adaptation of
the video is from twenty eighteen. It's just called the
Kurham cult Kuurim Dude.
Speaker 2 (01:01:32):
It's a crazy story and it's just reminded me a
lot of that. Thankfully, the person in our story out
of Brazil didn't influence a family to abuse their children.
It was just this case of someone for some reason
doing this. There's more information coming out. There are a
couple of stories you can find that are translated from
(01:01:53):
Portuguese and you can get a few more details. It's
just tough to know how much of it is fully
be believed. That's why we're using the Vice article, just
because we trust that somebody there is doing their homework. Yeah,
that's it for me, guys.
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