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Speaker 1 (00:00):
From UFOs to psychic powers and government conspiracies. History is
riddled with unexplained events. You can turn back now or
learn the stuff they don't want you to know. A
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Speaker 2 (00:25):
Hello, welcome back to the show. My name is Matt,
my name is Noel.
Speaker 3 (00:30):
They call me Ben. We're joined, as always with our
super producer, Dylan, the Tennessee Pal Fake's back. Most importantly,
you are here. That makes this the stuff they don't
want you to know. Now before we begin, we're recording
this on Wednesday, January fourteenth. You're going to be hearing
(00:50):
this on Monday, January nineteenth before we begin. I think
it'd be super cool to hear from you ten See,
because you've been you've been traveling, you've been on the
road and off the road, and we've been sending you
weirdly rudabaga coded messages, coded as thank you no as
(01:13):
Noel would say, uh sow or codd.
Speaker 4 (01:16):
Yeah. We like to all the messages we send our
dusted and rude beegum.
Speaker 3 (01:20):
So, uh, Dylan, how you doing man?
Speaker 5 (01:23):
I'm good.
Speaker 6 (01:23):
I know it's two weeks into the new year, but
happy New Year.
Speaker 3 (01:27):
Happy New Year too.
Speaker 4 (01:28):
You can say Happy New Year to us anytime.
Speaker 5 (01:30):
Thank you.
Speaker 3 (01:31):
Yeah, you can always say it in August, by the way,
eating a lot.
Speaker 4 (01:35):
Of conk, yeah, yeah, contract conk.
Speaker 5 (01:41):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (01:41):
I was in I was in the Virgin Islands and
I did the lobster.
Speaker 5 (01:45):
They do not skimp on the lobster there.
Speaker 3 (01:48):
Nice yeah. And also, uh, Virgin Islands, don't get it twisted, folks,
not owned by Richard Branson at this.
Speaker 5 (01:56):
Time, one of them owned by Richard Branson. You might
be one is.
Speaker 3 (02:02):
Who doesn't own one island here.
Speaker 5 (02:06):
Richard call us again. We love the we love the cruise.
Speaker 4 (02:08):
What's island between billionaire friends?
Speaker 3 (02:11):
I know it's just you know, it's another loose diamond
in the bag.
Speaker 2 (02:17):
It's early days, but we might be going back on
a cruise.
Speaker 4 (02:21):
Well, we're going somewhere. We're going to the Bahamas, right.
Speaker 3 (02:24):
Yes, we're also we we might get a second date
with Sir Richard Branson. We're quite excited about that. What's
one island but another loose diamond in the bag of badgers, folks.
As we as we begin our strange news program, we
wanted to get in front of this at the top,
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there have been two deaths. Uh that that recently hit
the news and stood out to us one of the
first ones we should start off with. And I can't
believe I almost texted you guys about this, but I can't.
I've got to stop texting you guys late at night.
It's it's the author of Chariots of the Gods, a
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formative figure in our young lives, honestly part of the
inspiration for this show. Eric Vaughan Danikin.
Speaker 4 (03:21):
He's come up recently in some recent Strange News discussions.
What was that about or was it on an episode?
Speaker 2 (03:30):
We were talking a lot about three I, Atlas and.
Speaker 3 (03:37):
Naki. Yeah, thank you, Tennessee. Yeah, actually, I believe I
can't speak for everyone. I believe that Annaki. The Anaki
episode is ultimately decades later, it comes about because of
the work of Eric von Danakan, who is by far,
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or was by far, the primary Western champion of ancient
alien theory.
Speaker 5 (04:08):
Right, Yeah, he was. He was the guy.
Speaker 2 (04:11):
He's at least one of the guys that you remember
most if you ever watched an episode of Ancient Aliens,
at least the early ones. He was all over that thing,
and his accent because he was Swiss, just amazing. The
way he would speak was beautiful. And we heard about
this from Swissinfo dot c H when they were at
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least one of the first outlets to report on it,
and then it hit all the American and you know,
British papers and those that we tend to look at.
And according to I think it was his daughter. He
died of old age at interlock in Conton Burn Hospital,
so at the age of ninety.
Speaker 5 (04:51):
So he he.
Speaker 2 (04:52):
Lived a long time and who knows where he is
right now, hopefully like old.
Speaker 4 (04:56):
Age of ninety And imagine imagining him hanging out with
the uh with the you know, the lea tes I hope.
Speaker 3 (05:03):
So also, guys, this dude was super big for a
specific genre of hip hop as well. Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah,
Uh Chariots of the Gods, ancient Aliens. Eric von Danikin
von Danakin rhymes with so many things, Uh check out
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check out old backpacker hip hop, because there's a lot
of stuff where they'll drop a Eric von Danakin always
keep it real or you a man or a mannequin?
Uh yeah, different stuff like that, like it. Yeah, Now
we have to be clear. Von Danakin was a controversial figure. Uh.
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Mainstream science rejected the vast majority of his propositions and
his beliefs.
Speaker 7 (05:55):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (05:55):
But hell of a storyteller, and seemed to be acting
in good faith, by which by which I mean he
believed what he was saying, So he was not necessarily
out there drifting. This was an honest perspective of his own.
Speaker 4 (06:14):
Well, speaking of good faith, guys, would you say that
a lot of these beliefs of his enter into the
realm of spiritualism and faith and you know, kind of
outside of the realms of pure science.
Speaker 3 (06:29):
I would I would say that, Well, the thing with humans,
Noll is typically as they age, they tend to get
a little bit more spiritual no offense than any humans
in the crowd. But yeah, there was definitely there was
definitely a thread of a deeper philosophy to some some
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things similar to Graham Hancock or God Save Us, David Ike.
You know, the claims grow, they proliferate, especially when they're
not questioned.
Speaker 2 (07:07):
Yeah, but man, he he made forty nine books out
of it, seventy five million copies, thirty different languages.
Speaker 5 (07:15):
His books were translated.
Speaker 3 (07:16):
Into prolific and successful author So he's definitely selling books.
And I guess we shouldn't. That's a great point, Matt.
I guess we shouldn't read too many tea leaves of personality,
just like in our episode on Peter Teal. But yeah,
an author who definitely made a living doing so, it
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does feel like he believed it. Or maybe he was
Merlin in Mark Twain's Connecticut Yankee and King Arthur's Court,
remember where the unnamed protagonist the Yankee see some guy
who thinks he's doing magic and has that moment where
he says, holy crap, this guy actually Merlin actual believes
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that he can do spells. So maybe it's just the
confidence with which the late Von Danakin held his views.
Speaker 4 (08:09):
I mean, we talking about all the time, it's so
hard to intuit someone's level of belief because we are
so often faced with weaponized belief systems, and you know,
in government, people throwing around, you know, religious ideology, whether
or not they themselves fully believe it or not. And
it's something that's nearly impossible to prove that someone does
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or does not believe the thing that they are espousing.
So it does lead to a lot of cynicism surrounding
belief systems.
Speaker 3 (08:41):
Absolutely, I mean it's I love that point, Noel, because
it reminds us about one of the most difficult things
in the US legal system, which is the proof of intent.
Not it's easy to prove what was or was not done,
but it is much more difficult. It's a much taller
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milkshake to figure out.
Speaker 4 (09:05):
Actual malice.
Speaker 3 (09:06):
Yeah, what people intended, right, and intention does not indemnify
one from consequence.
Speaker 4 (09:13):
Is why the libel laws are so tricky over here,
because it's very, very nigh impossible to prove that someone
said something with ill intent. And you, I think the
whole crux there is that lack of the ability to
prove belief.
Speaker 2 (09:27):
Oh yeah, well, hey, guys, speaking of intent and ancient aliens,
what do you think the intent was of Giorgio Suculos
when he first did his hair like that and went
on camera.
Speaker 4 (09:38):
I think it was the producers beige looking guy.
Speaker 5 (09:42):
He's awesome.
Speaker 2 (09:43):
Georgioulos is awesome and his hair is just intense.
Speaker 3 (09:48):
I was that thing called, I want to say alien
Con a few years back, and the word on the
street is George was known as a part like you
would go to house parties in you know, in cities
where there was a local conference or a live show,
(10:09):
and then he would I can't confirm this, okay, but
I heard this guy would rock up to a house party,
find all the free available booze and goodies, and then
immediately try to hit on groupies that were hanging around,
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and if they weren't there.
Speaker 4 (10:32):
He would ghost rock on to the next one, rock
on to.
Speaker 3 (10:35):
The next one. Speaking of which we were talking about
authors before you got a little bit derailed, we do
also need to mention another another legend who has passed.
Scott Adams, the creator of Dilbert. He is probably best
known to most of us for the creation of the
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legendary comic strip Dilbert. However, he got into some real
weird philosophical territory later online.
Speaker 4 (11:07):
He espoused some pretty gnarly stuff if I'm not mistaken.
Speaker 3 (11:11):
Oh yes, yeah, yeah yeah. He his cartoon got canceled
by hundreds and hundreds of newspapers. So he had achieved
the catbird seat of old cartoonsy the dog bird seat.
Well done. He had achieved the dog bird seat of syndication.
(11:32):
So you can make a little comic strip and then
five days, six days a week, you would be published
throughout the contiguous United States. And indeed beyond. He got
dropped after he made some pretty clearly racist remarks. He
pivoted to become a sort of guess life advice guru,
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like a Jordan Peterson type figure. In some ways he
has passed away as well. Do you guys remember Dilbert.
Speaker 4 (12:07):
We were talking about this off air. I jokingly said
that dog Bert was an agent of the deep state.
But that was really all I could, uh, you know,
impart onto my memories of Dilbert. I just know that
they were in an office and it was very kind
of office space quoted. Sorry, there was a certain you mentioned, uh,
(12:28):
what's the word purgatory nature to this office that they occupied,
like they could never really escape and it was meant
to sort of lampoon the drudgery of office work before
things like the office and uh and office space.
Speaker 2 (12:43):
Well, according to Vice President jd Vance, guys, this is
quote a quote from NBC News.
Speaker 3 (12:52):
Are you going to do the South Park voice?
Speaker 5 (12:54):
No, I'm not. This is just I'm going to read
this just straight.
Speaker 2 (13:00):
He says that Adams was a true American original and
a great ally to the President of the United States
and the entire administration.
Speaker 3 (13:09):
To quote Dogbert whoof Yeah, And to quote Chuck Palinook,
I am Jack's lack of surprise. So we do want
to we want to be clear these are people in
the zeitgeist. Obviously Won Danakan meant a lot to us,
meant a lot to the show. Obviously Dilbert was a
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phenomenal cartoon strip, and obviously there is a lot of
strange news for us to get to this evening, guys,
let's call an audible. Since we are already speaking of
the dead, let's say we take a break, and then Noel,
(13:51):
can you bring us back in with this story about
this viral Chinese app?
Speaker 4 (13:56):
I think I must, since you put it that way,
And we're back and once again speaking of the dead,
not ill of the dead, and we're hoping that no
one's dead at all, and that you're checking in on
this Chinese app called are You Dead? Soon to undergo
(14:18):
a name change after this app, aimed at folks with
a quote solitary lifestyle, went viral over there in China.
It's essentially an app designed for folks living alone with
a subscription model that allows them to have people who
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are the followers of theirs, and they check in with
the push of a virtual button to let people know
that they have in fact not died, not choked on
a microwave meal, or two things, caught the corner of
a kitchen counter, I've.
Speaker 3 (14:57):
Fallen and I can't get up.
Speaker 4 (14:58):
It's similar to that for sure. And then in my
mind immediately went to, you know how this might be
useful for elderly parents.
Speaker 3 (15:04):
Absolutely, Two things real quick here. First, subscription model.
Speaker 4 (15:12):
Yeah, well, you know that's the that's the world we're
living in. I'm not sure what the fee is, but
there is a fee involved. The app has been up
to now called Silima. I'm not in sure that the
Chinese pronunciation would go, but that does roughly translate to
are you dead in English. They refer to it as
(15:32):
a lightweight safety tool created for anyone choosing a solitary lifestyle.
This is from the apps developers. It essentially requires setting
up an emergency contact sending automatic notifications if the user
hasn't checked in via the app for consecutive days. According
to its official platform on why Bo, which is the
(15:54):
very popular Chinese social media network, the company is launching
a rebrand, changing its name to dem dem UMW don't
have an English translation for that, but this is what
they have to say. After extensive consideration, the Silame app
will officially adopt the global brand name Demmu for its
(16:15):
forthcoming new release. Uh. The app jumped to the top
of Apple's paid app charts this week after some reporting
on it. I imagine because of the name. It's a
little bit, you know, hot button kind of thing.
Speaker 3 (16:30):
I think it's like Nie or something like that. I'm
getting the tone wrong.
Speaker 4 (16:36):
I think you're doing.
Speaker 3 (16:41):
There you go, Oh, I went down on the tone.
So anyway, I screwed up the mandard. But yeah, are
you dead?
Speaker 4 (16:46):
Uh?
Speaker 3 (16:47):
The second question here real quick, and Matt, sorry if
I'm monopolizing. This was to uh a little bit of
a personal anecdote. You know, this is going to be
common for all of us or a lot of us,
sadly in the audience tonight, members of the Worst Club ever.
My biological father this time around is a widower, and
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me and old Colonel Kurtz have an agreement that every
twenty four hours will check in just so I know
the old monster is still kicking. It is Eldritch. Ways,
so we'll literally have a version of this and I
think a lot of Again, I'm not unique in this regard.
I think a lot of us will have a deal
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with an older relative, a parent, or an estranged or
distant family member where they will let you know that
they are alive. And this app is simply providing a
commodified solution to that, right, I think that's right.
Speaker 5 (17:49):
Well, Ben, have I got news for you.
Speaker 2 (17:51):
There's this brand new app being launched very soon called Domumu.
And with this app, with the touch of a button,
you can check in with your loved ones. I just
feel if do you, guys think there's is there any
better way to ensure that your app is going to
have interaction with it? Then if you don't interact with
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our app, people are going to think you're dead. So
you better your phone a.
Speaker 3 (18:17):
Lot dead man switch and also it's a that was
a great too. It's a dead man switch and it's
also uh. It also reminds me a little bit of
uh dating apps and the way those things are gamified. Right,
what was it was? It remind me, guys, was a
(18:39):
bumble or hinge that wanted to be the app you
eventually delete?
Speaker 5 (18:44):
Hinge h hinge.
Speaker 4 (18:46):
I think that is some of their marketing speak.
Speaker 3 (18:48):
Yeah, I'm just pictured a pitch for the renamed app
here that says internally to the kids, it says, don't worry.
Eventually you can delete this.
Speaker 4 (19:01):
Well, yeah, no, for sure. And the thing is, though
this isn't really targeted at the elderly in the In
Chinese society, there are an estimated thirty percent of the
population living solitary lives by choice or maybe not. This
is according to the Global Time so that's around two
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hundred million single person households. So this very much is
a product of Chinese society. I'd be very curious to
see what those numbers are here. And I say this
as someone who lives alone currently. I do have a
kid that you know, pops through couple couple two three
days a week. But in general I am one of
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these solitary living individuals.
Speaker 2 (19:46):
Well, no, if you want to set us up, you
just add Ben and I and Dylan as your contacts
and you demumu the heck out of us.
Speaker 4 (19:53):
I wonder if de mumu's a nonsense word. I think
apps are really prone to using nonsense words so that
they don't impart too much traversity, perhaps because I think
of the scillame thing. Are you dead yet? Might have
been a little too spicy.
Speaker 3 (20:06):
You're also you're also never alone while Matt and I
are here.
Speaker 4 (20:10):
Man, guys, if I'm not complaining, that's great living alone rules.
Speaker 3 (20:14):
I can see whatever. I walking to Jesus Man, I
was just back. I appreciate it.
Speaker 4 (20:18):
Tell us if you don't, I don't feel I don't
feel any kind of way. Sure whatever, I get it. Sometimes,
you know, you do get lonely. But that's interesting to
think about whether these things are by choice or you know,
if people are isolated. Right, so, I could certainly see
a demand for a thing like this, and this.
Speaker 3 (20:35):
Is Yeah, it reminds me of the It may be
related to the lying flat movement or the tongue ping phenomenon,
where younger people specifically are rejecting intense demands of society
and just saying I'm going to live a low effort life.
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I'm going to be minimalist. I'm not gonna strive for
you know, the whole nine ninety six competitive work culture.
It's comparable to the hikiko mori I think they're called
in Japan.
Speaker 4 (21:11):
Yeah, but those are a very extreme version of what
we're talking about here.
Speaker 3 (21:15):
Shut right, right, Yeah, the shut it the folks who
kind of went off into the ocean by themselves, right,
So this is a lifeline. And I hear you man,
Are you Dead is a real weird name for that,
Like you say, it's very.
Speaker 4 (21:38):
It's a little on the nose, little on the nose.
And one user told Al Jazeera, who have been citing
some of the quotes from here in a piece Chinese
app are you Dead? To change name after surgeon popularity?
A user told them maybe some conservative people and that's
obviously referring to traditional uh, you know, members of society
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who support Mayorge. And I know that China also has
got the confusion. Yes, but also isn't there an issue
with population? Wasn't there like a one child thing.
Speaker 3 (22:08):
The one child Yeah, the one child policy has the
pendulum is swung back.
Speaker 4 (22:14):
That's what I mean. There's it's now like they're having
are they want you to have more children now? And
I think they're paying you to do so.
Speaker 3 (22:21):
Yeah, but not enough to have a kid.
Speaker 4 (22:24):
But there's not something we've discussed, but there is this
pendulum swing and there's even like a yeah you get
a little bonus if you have another kid.
Speaker 3 (22:30):
There's a gender disparity it's a whole bag of badgers.
Speaker 4 (22:33):
It's the whole thing. And this individual goes on to
say it will make us unmarried people feel more at
ease to spend our lives. And I think we've all
heard the saddest way to go being like dying alone
in your apartment having choked on some food or something
and no one there to find you, and then you get, like,
you know, eaten by your cats. But I think that's
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a bit of a cliche. And again, living alone is
not like some sort of weird death sentence in and
of itself. It's indeed a fine way to exist if
that's what you want.
Speaker 3 (23:06):
Indeed, for a lot of us in the crowd, it's
the ideal living situation.
Speaker 4 (23:13):
And I just wanted to briefly mention a story that
I had qu'ed up for a last time that we
didn't get to. But then you've got some scoop on
this one. A bluefin tuna in Tokyo at a very
very famous fish market known as the Toyosu Fish Market,
which apparently our buddy Jonesy over at weird af News said,
there's a really cool documentary about this market and its
(23:35):
history and apparently it's about to move to a new
location because it's fallen into disrepair. But that's its own
thing at this market. The Kyu Mora Corporation bought at
auction a Pacific bluefin tuna for five hundred and ten
point three million yen on New Year's morning. That would
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be an estimated three point two million dollars the way
in at two hundred and forty three kilograms. It was
caught off of Oma by Toyo kazu Ito, a fisherman
from Oma and Mari Prefecture, and then taken to sushu
Zon maiz Tzuki head Restaurant for dismantling. Let's just say so, Ben,
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you said you said there was something to this. Oh,
just you know, getting a really dope piece of fish.
Speaker 7 (24:27):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (24:27):
Yeah, And I love the numbers we're kicking here, So
if you if you break down, we said three point
two million USD right, all told, that's like five thousand,
nine hundred and eighty one dollars per pound. Yeah, that's insane,
it's insane. It's a big win for the fish market,
(24:49):
for the sushi industry. It's a shame for the fish though.
I don't think the fish would be happy to hear
about what's going on. All right, here's the conspiracy of
you guys, just real quick, because I know we have
to move on. This is part of a tradition, the
ideas that you he goes back to a guy named
(25:12):
Kyoshi Kimura and who is the.
Speaker 4 (25:14):
Head of that corporation, Yes, corporation, Yes, sir.
Speaker 3 (25:18):
Just so and so this guy is not only like
buying or paying the highest price for the fish, but
it's a spectacle. It's a Kentucky derby of sorts. You know,
this sort of sets the bar for fish prices in
the calendar year.
Speaker 4 (25:39):
That is interesting, Ben, because it does say that kymoora
corporation said it's going to sell the tuna cuts at
usual prices with a one piece limit per customer at
a and also hold a public cutting show. Yeah, it's
sushi is on my main branch, which is a chain
of restaurants. I mean a chain with like obviously a
(26:01):
high and if a chain, yes on what's already happened.
So that was just about last week. Have you ever
seen one of those videos guys online? They do it
locally here. Actually, there's a really incredible sushi place that
was called what was it called? They moved it. It
was in downtown Decatur for a while and now they
have another location. It doesn't matter. They will do these sushi,
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these tuna cutting videos, and it's insane. These things are
like Leviathans. They're so huge. And you to see somebody
absolutely dismantling one of these creatures with such precision and
all these really specialty knives and stuff, it's something to
be whole. So to your point, bend, this is very
much a spectacle. Dave Gershin of the Pew Charitable Trust
(26:43):
International Fisheries Team points to a twenty seventeen recovery plan
as having, you know, being successful. This idea of adopting
long term fish management fishery management policies in order to
make bluefin tuna less threatened. So it has apparently been
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close to a dangerous level. Yes, you know, scarcity. But
I'll tell you I'd love, you know, if I were
to go to Tokyo, I would I would gladly pay
for a piece of that beast. I do love a
piece of tuna, good piece of tuna. So that's it
for me, guys.
Speaker 3 (27:21):
Let's take a quick break.
Speaker 4 (27:22):
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stop sending butt plugs to ba Rain. Don't do it,
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They have not yet invaded Toronto strongly worded, Ben, they
are strongly worded. I hate that we have to explicitly
say the US is yet to evade Toronto or has
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not at the time of our recording on Wednesday, January fourteenth.
Just keep that with you, right, like Johnny Depp said
in Life's Too Short, Just hold that inside you and
realize that the Department of War is sending very weird
letters to be a.
Speaker 4 (28:35):
Big talk about Canada from that department, A lot.
Speaker 3 (28:38):
Of big talk. And you know, does the guilty dog bark?
Why they concerned with the butt lugs? All right?
Speaker 4 (28:46):
So well, what is the deal though, Like, what isn't
the idea that they're sending them to American troops.
Speaker 3 (28:56):
Or yeah, it's at a naval base bah Rain. That
was the issue, And the folks who run the store
called bongjiebont Are are pretty pretty chill. I think I
hope a lot of people who run sex positive stores
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are very chill. They didn't know where the plugs were
going until they got the letters. And if you go
to outfits like CP twenty four dot com, you can
hear directly from one of the co founders of the
store who says, quote, we didn't even know it was
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going to Bahrain until it came back to us months later,
and it just kind of unraveled this whole hilarious moment.
Speaker 4 (29:48):
And maybe we're bearing the leads slightly. The issue there
would be that Bahrain is not particularly sex.
Speaker 3 (29:53):
Positive, right, and the issue is, you know, naval bases hopefully,
Oh okay, we got veterans in the crowd, so I'm
not going to do the navy stereotype jokes.
Speaker 4 (30:06):
What the butt stuff is not cool?
Speaker 3 (30:09):
That will quite the opposite my friend about.
Speaker 4 (30:12):
Saying it, wouldn't the perception be that it is not
masculine in some fashion, that like there's a sense that
you know, real men don't put stuff in their butts.
Speaker 3 (30:20):
Oh my god, every marine in the crowd, every former
Army member is is laughing aloud. No, the the Navy
gets pooped on hard for allegations. It's a weird thing.
Speaker 4 (30:37):
But but yeah, okay, that makes sense. But also these
are this is like hearsay, and this is not the
kind of thing that the Navy really wants people to
talk about. In quick question, but would a supplier of
butt plugs technically be a butt plug plug?
Speaker 7 (30:49):
Oh, it would be a butt plug plugk And we
don't we don't want to take away from some horrifying
intern all activities, internal injustices and cover ups that occur
in the US Armed Forces.
Speaker 3 (31:06):
In fact, guys, I think that could be an episode
in the future. There's a lot of not just hidden
not just hidden injustices, but there are murders that have
been covered up, things that are clearly not suicides.
Speaker 4 (31:24):
Assault, sexual assaults.
Speaker 3 (31:26):
Absolutely, God, there was a twist, but we had to
say it. There was a turn. Yeah, that is true,
and while we're going we will do that as an episode.
Please check it out in the future, folks. And while
we are on the subject of darker things, also first off,
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don't assault people. Secondly, don't rob graves. Did you guys
hear about what went down in Pennsylvania? No, this guy
got found robbing braves in Pennsylvania. I've put a link
here in our notes. Let's go to KTV dot com
courtesy of journalist Mark Schulfouro writing for AP. You can
(32:14):
see a picture of the perp. But apparently the cops
found bones and skulls in the backseat of a car
near an abandoned cemetery on the outskirts of Philly, and
that led them checking the car, led them to a
basement filled with body parts, and they found the instigator,
(32:38):
or the guy they like for hasn't been convicted, a
thirty four year old named Jonathan christ gerlac wow christ
as your middle name.
Speaker 4 (32:47):
Some ed gean kind of stuff. We're talking mummified remains, hands.
Speaker 3 (32:51):
And feet, Chilton's remains as well. Yeah, and some of
these were older, some of these were a little bit
more fresh. We don't entirely know the motivation of this individual.
I'm bringing it up because it's such a strange story.
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It reminds me in a bit in a way about
our earlier tales of resurrection men. We don't know what
it was doing with the bodies. He was charged with
one hundred counts eat of abuse of a corpse and
receiving stolen property desecrating public monuments, also tangentially related. I
(33:37):
heard an amazing statement about Pepe Silvia from Always Sunny
in Philadelphia.
Speaker 4 (33:44):
Okay, what was that?
Speaker 3 (33:45):
That's that We're doing another twist? Okay, So remember the
conspiracy episode.
Speaker 5 (33:50):
Where Red Threadboard, Yes, he doesn't exist.
Speaker 3 (33:56):
Well, here's the thing. According to Charlie Day, the actor
who plays Charlie in Always Sonny, he apparently, due to
Charlie's illiteracy, he was misreading Pennsylvania as pepe Sylvia and
that's why he thought everything was connected and everything kept
(34:20):
going back to Pepe Sylvia.
Speaker 5 (34:23):
Amazing.
Speaker 3 (34:24):
I didn't.
Speaker 4 (34:24):
How does that? How does that fold back into this
grave robbing store?
Speaker 3 (34:27):
It doesn't. Okay, it both take place in Pennsylvania.
Speaker 4 (34:32):
Can I just say, without trying to cast dispersions on
somebody just for their appearance, does this dude not look
like the kind of guy that would have gotten swept
up in some satanic panic stuff back in the day.
Speaker 3 (34:41):
He's got the neck tattoos, is what it is Yeah.
Speaker 2 (34:44):
Yeah, well in his hair, he looks like he would
be an incredible lead singer of a band which makes really.
Speaker 4 (34:50):
Black metal bands.
Speaker 3 (34:51):
Yes, I'm not saying that he's not handsome.
Speaker 2 (34:53):
I'm just said he wouldn't. I'm said he didn't go
that route. Maybe he did and.
Speaker 5 (34:57):
This was just a side project or side gig, but
five yeah.
Speaker 4 (35:02):
Do you don't want to find out what he intended
to do with this stuff because it's like, was it
jewelry involved? Was he? I mean, what's what's the what's
the end game here?
Speaker 3 (35:10):
Right? We don't know?
Speaker 1 (35:12):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (35:12):
He he did cooperate with investigators. He showed them the
graves in this in this cemetery that he stole from.
He's currently jammed up on a million dollar bond us.
There is no lawyer listed in the court records at
(35:33):
the time. He might have to get a public defender.
There's not really any uh any update on motive. It's look,
he was hitting up the largest abandoned burial ground in
the United States, at least according to the one of
(35:55):
the nonprofit volunteer organizations that tries to upkeep it, the
Friends of Mount Mariah Cemetery. It's one hundred and sixty
acres one hundred and fifty thousand gravesites. He probably would
have kept going. We don't know what his project was.
We don't know what's going to happen to him. Our
main takeaway here is, guys, just don't rob grapes.
Speaker 2 (36:17):
No, Yeah, that look it looks like they uncovered after
a search they found that he was trying to just
sell them, like he was selling skulls to people online.
Speaker 4 (36:27):
Well, and that's I don't know if you guys have
ever encountered this. I once was buying a drum machine
from a guy that I met on the internet or
on like some forum, and I went to his house
and he had a pretty significant collection of human skulls.
So that is a thing people do, and it is
very illegal to transport across you know, state lines.
Speaker 3 (36:46):
You can own a human skull, you can't own it.
Sound so you shouldn't a shrunken head. But you know,
there's nothing wrong with a little yorick now and then,
as far as the law is concerned.
Speaker 4 (36:58):
But that's the deal. It's to own it, but it's
illegal to transport them. Human room. There's this weird little
like the yeah minutia around you know the law concerning
you know, the same the broker ing of human remains.
Speaker 3 (37:11):
Like back in the days of the resurrection men. Again
the weird laws in parts of Western Europe that said
it's not illegal to dissect the corpse, but it is
illegal to a choir a corpse. So look, it's just
it's gross stuff. It's gross for the surviving family members
(37:35):
and loved ones. They did find pacemakers, jewelry linked to
the cadavers, linked to the graves. We don't know the
motive yet. We'll update if we hear more. But we
do have another home rate that we have to talk
about before we move on. It's a very important one.
(37:56):
It concerns the living, friends, neighbors, countryfolk. The FBI, Federal
Bureau of Investigation, has crossed a bit of a rubicon,
as we record. They have rated the home of a
Washington Post reporter. Let's go to the Guardian and let's
(38:18):
all get worried together, so play along with us. At home.
There is a journalist named Hannah Nathanson in at A N.
S O. N lives in Virginia. FBI came down hard.
They they raided her home in the early hours of Wednesday,
(38:41):
as we record like this morning before going in to
record strange news. The Washington Post called it quote highly
unusual and aggressive end quote, and various you know, press
freedom groups, journalist rights supporters, actually people who sup or
at the Constitution. They excoriated this. They condemned it. It's
(39:06):
it's violating the concept of journalism. Critics say, now, have
you guys heard about this?
Speaker 5 (39:12):
Yeah, this is.
Speaker 2 (39:14):
This is extremely complex, right, I mean, and part of
me personally comes down on the you can't do that.
Speaker 5 (39:23):
You can't raid.
Speaker 2 (39:25):
A journalist's home and take her phone in garment, watch
and look at all of her devices in her home
and you know, find evidence on her just because she's
got sources that you don't like, right, Because that's what
it's about.
Speaker 3 (39:42):
Right, This, this did occur with a warrant. You can
call it rubber stamp Warren if you wish. This was
an attempt to gather information and reveal sources from the
journalist because she was quote obtaining and report wording classified
and illegally leaked information from a Pentagon contractor. They also
(40:07):
go on to note that the leaker is currently behind bars.
And when I'm saying they just to be clear who
I'm quoting here is Pam Bondi, the current Attorney General
of the United States, talking on social media on x
dot Com. It's it's pretty it's pretty frightening stuff because
(40:32):
it reminds me of the earlier conversations regarding how the
Pentagon has chosen to treat journalists.
Speaker 2 (40:40):
Yeah, overall, Like, right, how many stories have we talked
about over the past couple of months?
Speaker 3 (40:46):
About as many as we're allowed to, Man, dude.
Speaker 2 (40:49):
I know, but it's got to be at least three
or four specifically about who can report what out of
the Pentagon, right and where they can be located.
Speaker 4 (40:58):
As from briefings, et setup.
Speaker 2 (41:00):
In this case, we have a journalist who began obtaining sources.
She would talk to people, and then those sources would
talk about her and say, hey, you can give your
your information to her if you want to speak up.
Let's say, if you're deep inside a government organization like
the Pentagon, or maybe you're one of the over one
(41:22):
thousand other sources that she had gained access to who
were inside government organizations.
Speaker 3 (41:27):
I think sixty nine.
Speaker 2 (41:29):
Yeah, I think that's why she was dangerous to the administration, right,
And that's why they needed to do a show force
here and just say, hey, if you're inside one of
our organizations, you cannot talk to journalists about this classified stuff,
or this is going to happen both to you in
the case of this primary source that's being talked about
(41:50):
here in the Guardian and reported on, or the journalist
who's putting stuff in newspapers.
Speaker 3 (41:56):
Yeah, and this brings us to another bag of badgers.
This brings us to quite a tall milkshake, a real
pickle journalism and the security or anonymity of sources. Now,
a lot of us in the crowd tonight have heard
these concerns before. This is not unique. This is again,
how do I put it, It's crossing a rubicon of
(42:20):
things that are have long been considered inherent to the
democratic experiment of the United States. So this is a
worrying flag. This is a sign We've got a little
bit long on here. There's so much more to talk about,
but I got to commend the work of Richard Luscomb
(42:42):
and Jeremy Barr and of course Hannah and Nathanson. We
are going to keep an eye on this one because
I agree it is definitely for a regime that loves
political theater. This is definitely an attempt to set an example.
We're gonna pause. We're not going to get to a
(43:03):
lot a lot of other weird stuff, including the EPA,
but we'll we'll return with more of that perhaps in
the future. For now, let's take a break for a
word from our sponsors and return with more strange news.
Speaker 5 (43:20):
And we've returned.
Speaker 2 (43:21):
Well, guys, hey, at least journalists aren't being summarily executed
in our country yet, so you know, we've got a
time window here before that happens, at least because we
just talked about shrunken heads or Sansas. We wanted to
bring up a story that we saw coming out of
Ecuador that was particularly grizzly. So warning here, I suppose.
Speaker 3 (43:46):
I think, I mean, we just did talk about a
grave robber.
Speaker 2 (43:50):
Yeah we did, so, Uh, people have been If you're.
Speaker 3 (43:57):
Anybody who was worried earlier, has probably already a hot Yeah.
Speaker 2 (44:02):
This is this is your post disturbing content apology instead
of a setup. But here we go. This is coming
to us from AP News, the Associated Press, and it
was posted on January eleventh, twenty twenty six, coming to
us out of Quito, Ecuador, five human heads were found
(44:23):
hanging from ropes on a beach in southwestern Ecuador, according
to police there. Apparently it is a part of a
wave of violence related to drug trafficking. Now, we've talked
before about the country of Ecuador and how it is
going through some pretty pretty tough times because of the
differing drug trafficking routes that are now happening.
Speaker 5 (44:44):
Talked about how.
Speaker 2 (44:45):
You know, you've got Columbia right there smackdab between Venezuela
and Ecuador, and you know Panama of course, we talked
about and where the drugs actually end up exiting out
of Colombia, and how that's changing a lot, and how
that has really changed the landscape of let's say, groups
(45:06):
who are totally cool with some criminal activity. Generally you
would use the word gangs associated with out our cartels,
and that is happening a lot in Ecuador. According to police,
this incident had something to do with a conflict between
two of these different criminal gangs or these groups, right,
these cartels, and I'm just reading directly from this ap article.
(45:30):
Drug trafficking networks with links to transnational cartels are active
in the area and have used fishermen and their small
boats for their illicit activities. A dispute for territory and
control of drug trafficking routes has triggered violent episodes across
the Manobe Province, which is where this place, Puerto Lopez
is located. You can read more about this in the
(45:52):
AP News. Particularly grizzly and just a really horrendous thing
to discover. If you imagine just going out on the
beach and seeing five heads hanging there from ropes. Yeah,
I don't want to talk about this much more, guys,
anything to say about the heads.
Speaker 3 (46:10):
It's like some yeah, it's it's it's definitely a line
of sand of warning. As we said earlier, it's it's
quite grizzly.
Speaker 4 (46:20):
It also aligned with the sunset talk and how a
head is the ultimate warning because you know exactly who
or what set that head belonged to.
Speaker 3 (46:28):
It's also interesting in that it shows it shows a
vin diagram that we've always suspected between law enforcement and
organized crime up to a certain point. And the thing
is that brutality, like any other disease, is contagious, right,
(46:50):
so these actions are unconscionable and they're grabbing headlines because
of course they're human heads on stakes. However, we have
to remember that there's much more to the headline, and
I think it'd be worth exploring getting under the hood
(47:10):
of Ecuador here.
Speaker 2 (47:12):
Oh yeah, oh, we should definitely do a larger episode
on that, Ecuador and Venezuela and all of that. It'll
kind of be an update to our episode on Panama
and and that will area right where the drugs flow.
Speaker 3 (47:25):
Yeah, get out of my head. Yeah, let's do an
episode on Ecuador. We had show, we got an episode
on that as well.
Speaker 2 (47:34):
Yeah. Well, hey, speaking of getting into things, what about
getting into our electronic devices? Guys, Let's go to ABC
Denver channel seven to hear some reporting from Maggie Brian
about something super cool, something we've talked about on the
show before. Colorado's latest Right to Repair a law, which
(47:54):
went into effect on January first, forces device manufacturers again.
Hear that forces device manufacturers to share specific parts, tools, software,
and manuals to fix broken devices. This law covers everyday
electronics and appliances like phones, laptops, dishwashers, vag right to
(48:14):
Repair stuff right yes, and sewing machines.
Speaker 3 (48:17):
And LaserDisc and uh.
Speaker 2 (48:21):
Yes, machine fax machines, it's your whole palm pilot.
Speaker 3 (48:28):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (48:28):
The previous thing we discussed on this was things like
farm equipment, right, yes.
Speaker 3 (48:32):
Pharmacy huge. Uh.
Speaker 2 (48:35):
In this case, look, Denver's just pushing the needle. Okay,
Colorado says, hey, we're gonna we're gonna move this forward
a little bit. At least now you can repair your phone.
And this is also stated here and it is very important.
This latest law includes exemptions for marine vessels, aviation motor vehicles,
(48:55):
medical devices, certain safety and security equipment, and video game consoles.
So congratulations Sony.
Speaker 4 (49:07):
Speaking of ve did y'all hear that somebody jail broke
the PS five and that Sony is not happy about it.
Speaker 3 (49:16):
I thought they were gonna send the guy a high five.
Speaker 2 (49:19):
Well no, but really, but no. Imagine like if you
own a PS five and you go into that store, right,
and you see all of those brand new, shiny, awesome
titles that you're just oh, you just want to try,
you want to play the Ghosts game that you're playing.
Speaker 5 (49:35):
Ben.
Speaker 2 (49:36):
I think about that one a lot. I remember opening
the PS five app store and looking at that because
it was advertised and pushed on the front, and you
look at the price tag, and you go, ah, how
can I justify this? How can I do this? But
then of course I go through and I'll buy like
three things for that same price because I go on
all of a sudden, I feel some sort of way
(49:56):
and I'm like, I reserve it.
Speaker 3 (49:59):
You broke this, you know what I mean. There's a big,
big bit of psychology to that, and I think what
we're well, we're also talking about, Matt is You're getting
to just a phenomenally fascinating point. Now we all know
that my car stuff evenings and days have made me
(50:20):
even more radicalized into the idea of an ownership versus
subscription right, yeah, And I think we're all I don't
think I'm unique in that. I think we're all on board.
And we hope you are too. Folks. We are as
a society in the West, in the United States, we
are being pushed the average entity away from ownership and
(50:45):
towards subscription. It is going to Dylan, Man, I love you,
will you please beat me here? We have to say it.
A subscription based society is being stupid and bad. What
you've got to own stuff? Come on right to repair?
Why is this even a thing? Why does this have
to be a thing?
Speaker 4 (51:05):
How how is it an?
Speaker 3 (51:08):
What's next? The right to poop?
Speaker 4 (51:10):
Bad for us, be great for them.
Speaker 5 (51:13):
It's so good for them.
Speaker 2 (51:14):
Oh, and this is something that's in this article for
Maggie Bryan over at ABC. Let's just quote the article again.
Democratic State Rep. Breonna Titone sponsored all three of Colorado's
laws expanding repair rights. She said while working to pass
the bill, she and other co sponsors faced pushback from
large corporations. And here's a quote from her. They don't
(51:35):
want to comply, or they want to comply to a
certain degree. That was one of the reasons why this
bill was delayed. It was mainly because of Apple, because
they needed time to change their iPhone design to actually
be able to comply. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (51:52):
Also, I mean play adopts a lessons check our episode
on that if you buy something and animate option, you
should be able to own it. The very first book
illegally unfairly pulled off the Amazon Kindle was indeed nineteen
eighty four Boo by George Orwell, you have when you
(52:17):
buy something, you have a right to own the thing.
This is just meloca. This is just so ridiculous.
Speaker 2 (52:24):
So when you look at an object. Let's say a
smartphone that you purchase. I'm looking at mine right now,
and you notice there doesn't seem to be a simple
way to open this.
Speaker 3 (52:35):
Thing by design? Yeah it was crazy, Yeah yeah, Ed.
You can also what do we call it? You void
your warranty if you attempt at home repairs or if
you take it to a third party repair person.
Speaker 5 (52:49):
How could you betraying me?
Speaker 2 (52:51):
After all we've been through the Mother Corporation.
Speaker 3 (52:55):
I stole your data from Instagram and you do me
like this.
Speaker 5 (53:00):
I get birth to that phone? How dare you take
it to time? I'm sorry?
Speaker 4 (53:05):
Do you mind if I backtracked for like two seconds?
Speaker 3 (53:07):
Please?
Speaker 4 (53:07):
PlayStation thing? I just think it's like a digital version
of what we're talking about here. This is fascinating. Apparently,
a Star Wars racing game that released back in twenty
nineteen is now fetching hundreds of dollars on eBay because
its code is reportedly crucial to fire off. And I'm
reading from IGN here a new method of jail breaking
(53:29):
PlayStation five, which would unlock the ability to play illegally
pirated games and prevent the system from doing those online handshakes. Yep,
that check that you have you know whatever that you
have the right to play whatever game.
Speaker 3 (53:44):
It's like that old I love these loopholes, guys, because
it's like that that legendary phone freaking thing that happened
by accident, the captain front whistle that could perfectly perfectly hacked.
The telephonic system that was back when you.
Speaker 4 (53:59):
Would actually use touch tone sounds to make things happen.
Speaker 3 (54:03):
Yeah, ed this we see again, hopefully we see a
beachhead here and we see a larger a larger movement.
If you buy something, you should have the right to
repair it. And I believe in our previous conversations I
had been on record speaking with uh, speaking with some
(54:26):
folks who have dealt with the Drayconian policies of some
farm manufacturing outlets. And I really appreciate you bringing that up, Noel.
It's not talked about enough in the United States. Matt.
I want to go back to you, though, real quick,
with the list of exceptions. You said certain security technology.
Speaker 5 (54:49):
Yes, safety and security equipment.
Speaker 3 (54:51):
Oh all right, well that kind of makes sense because.
Speaker 2 (54:56):
Okay, all right, the medical industry hardware thing is Oh.
Speaker 5 (55:03):
There is a story in there, guys.
Speaker 3 (55:05):
Yeah, that's an episode. It vaguely makes sense because it's
such a vague description. We need to hear the actual
list of the devices that don't that are exempt from
right to repair.
Speaker 5 (55:17):
Yeah, yeah, we do, but we're not going to get
them today. You know, we are going to get what
are we going to get today?
Speaker 2 (55:24):
One final little piece of news because I found it
to be delightful, and I.
Speaker 4 (55:30):
Don't want a delightful night.
Speaker 3 (55:31):
I hope we find it delightful, certainly.
Speaker 5 (55:33):
Oh, I hope you do.
Speaker 2 (55:35):
I did, And now I give them to you here.
It is ready ready.
Speaker 4 (55:39):
To received with them.
Speaker 2 (55:42):
According to Futurism and Frank Landimore, a story published on
January thirteenth, the day before we are recording in Vidio,
Ceo says everyone should stop being so negative about aid.
Speaker 4 (56:00):
Take can you guys, it's your problem?
Speaker 3 (56:05):
Hey, did you see.
Speaker 2 (56:06):
We're trying to build a massive Ponzi scheme here?
Speaker 3 (56:11):
Peter would agree this is the best way to fight
the Antichrist. I was clocking some of those statements as well.
Speaker 4 (56:19):
Tone deaf way that he put this forth.
Speaker 3 (56:21):
I'm curious, Yeah, yeah, it just just everybody for precedent.
It reminds me of an earlier headline a little bit
before we started the show where the town prior would
run into the village and say, everybody's panicing about this
plague thing.
Speaker 4 (56:39):
You know, I know what's the big deal?
Speaker 2 (56:42):
Think you tell us to stop manufacturing it and creating
giant centers for the plague.
Speaker 3 (56:47):
I'll kiss a pustual when I want.
Speaker 2 (56:50):
Guys, you have no idea how much of the global
economy is wrapped up in these plague factories.
Speaker 3 (56:56):
We're basically as plagues were propped up the economy. That's right.
We talked to the king. He's bullish on plague. Dude.
Speaker 5 (57:04):
Okay, so so he looked.
Speaker 3 (57:06):
Out the window for a while during his speech. But whatever,
oh god, we could get away with it. Keep it in.
Speaker 2 (57:14):
Sometimes you gotta have a fart, even when you're there
talking to all the oil executives. You just gotta let
one fly, and you only need a couple of feet
of space, you know, depending on Here. Here's a quote, guys,
really quickly. Yeah, here's a quote from Jensen Wang, who
(57:34):
is the CEO there at Nvidia. He says he was
talking to no priors a podcast. Shout out to you
podcast fellow podcast quote, I think we've done a lot
of damage with very well respected people who have painted
a doomer narrative, end of the world narrative, science fiction narrative.
(57:54):
And I appreciate that many of us grew up and
enjoyed science fiction. But it's not helpful. It's it's not
helpful to the people. It's not helpful to the industry.
That's that's me talking out of the quote here, that's me,
the guy talking to you, And it's not helpful to society.
It's not helpful to the governments.
Speaker 3 (58:13):
Wait, so is that is that quote not helpful to
the industry? Is that part of the actual quote.
Speaker 2 (58:18):
It's not helpful to the industry, it's not helpful to society,
it's not helpful to the governments. That I was just
pointing out that the man saying this quote is a
part of all of those things now in not in
some not so small way.
Speaker 3 (58:31):
Yeah, oh yeah, video legendary. Actually, this is why I
love our our strange news segments, guys, because this informs
episodes and we have we need an Nvidia episode. It's
just massive.
Speaker 4 (58:45):
Did you all Grock That Grock is now going to
be incorporated into the Pentagon Systems.
Speaker 5 (58:51):
Yeah, seems like a great idea.
Speaker 4 (58:53):
Yeah, the least guardrailed, most hitlery loving AI platform and
by most accounts of the worst.
Speaker 3 (59:01):
One, it's not great. And I just want to give
due respect to Tennessee man. We're recording remotely, and I
see your mute sign popping on and off, which lets
me know that you're getting a little heated up. I
love it.
Speaker 6 (59:14):
I always get heated about AI. I just want I
saw another headline that the Microsoft CEO would really appreciate
if you'd stop calling it slop this year.
Speaker 4 (59:23):
Yes, can we just turned the temperature down a little bit? Guys?
Speaker 6 (59:26):
On A I saw other people saying that Microsoft is
currently making a slop rating system, which I really love.
Speaker 5 (59:33):
Yeah, micro slops new sloperating system.
Speaker 3 (59:37):
The Tennessee Pal, friends and neighbors, guys, ermager, everybody stop
being so worried about A or It's probably gonna be fine.
I'm sure it'll be just five anience.
Speaker 4 (59:53):
Fiction guys, by the way, I mean, can I just
say too that Elon Musk and talking about incorporating rock
into these pening on syste and his view of the future.
He wants to turn Star Trek into a reality Starfleet Academy,
and he literally says we want to turn science fiction
into science fact. So this notion that science fiction, to
(01:00:15):
this notion that science fiction is somehow entirely separated from reality,
is incredibly tone deaf.
Speaker 3 (01:00:22):
It's definitely dismissive. We we will definitely need more context,
which will find I believe in our semiconductor and Nvidia episode.
Speaker 2 (01:00:35):
Yeah wait, no, wasn't there another story you had about
slop right?
Speaker 4 (01:00:39):
No, there was a there's apparently some monkeys on the
loos in Missouri and there's a hunt for them, and
AI images flooding the internet are creating a real wrench
in the work, some monkey wrench perhaps in their efforts
to catch these monkeys because of like, you know, false
images of them, you know, doing monkey stuff in places
that they aren't actually.
Speaker 3 (01:01:00):
Wow, monkey stuff. I love reindeer games.
Speaker 4 (01:01:03):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (01:01:03):
There was also a woman hospitalized after being triggered by
a pluribus ad on a smart fridge.
Speaker 5 (01:01:11):
What I think, don't get a cartfridge.
Speaker 4 (01:01:14):
They'll get a cartfridge.
Speaker 3 (01:01:15):
Yeah, yeah, uh, but do hang out with us. And actually,
you know what, let's amend that. Folks. If you are
listening to this show on your smart refrigerator, thank.
Speaker 5 (01:01:28):
You is almost bad. You need to use it.
Speaker 3 (01:01:34):
The avocado started bad. Just do it so that we
make the Wakamuligator the musical. Yeah, I'm writing it down,
Nolan'm pointing at you. I can't. I don't know if
we had the right eye line, but I'm pointing at
you or writing down. Refrigerator the musical. This is going
to be big, the.
Speaker 2 (01:01:55):
Crooning fridge only from LG.
Speaker 3 (01:01:57):
Let's do it, guys, Let's make it happen. We're gonna
text Tim Robinson right now and Zach Caanan, the guy
who doesn't get enough credit for co writing this show.
We can't wait to hang out with you, folks. We
have so much more strange news to get to. I'm
really happy to report I don't keep it vague for
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Speaker 2 (00:25):
Hello, welcome back to the show. My name is Matt,
my name is Noel.
Speaker 3 (00:30):
They call me Ben. We're joined, as always with our
super producer, Dylan, the Tennessee Pal Fake's back. Most importantly,
you are here. That makes this the stuff they don't
want you to know. Now before we begin, we're recording
this on Wednesday, January fourteenth. You're going to be hearing
(00:50):
this on Monday, January nineteenth before we begin. I think
it'd be super cool to hear from you ten See,
because you've been you've been traveling, you've been on the
road and off the road, and we've been sending you
weirdly rudabaga coded messages, coded as thank you no as
(01:13):
Noel would say, uh sow or codd.
Speaker 4 (01:16):
Yeah. We like to all the messages we send our
dusted and rude beegum.
Speaker 3 (01:20):
So, uh, Dylan, how you doing man?
Speaker 5 (01:23):
I'm good.
Speaker 6 (01:23):
I know it's two weeks into the new year, but
happy New Year.
Speaker 3 (01:27):
Happy New Year too.
Speaker 4 (01:28):
You can say Happy New Year to us anytime.
Speaker 5 (01:30):
Thank you.
Speaker 3 (01:31):
Yeah, you can always say it in August, by the way,
eating a lot.
Speaker 4 (01:35):
Of conk, yeah, yeah, contract conk.
Speaker 5 (01:41):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (01:41):
I was in I was in the Virgin Islands and
I did the lobster.
Speaker 5 (01:45):
They do not skimp on the lobster there.
Speaker 3 (01:48):
Nice yeah. And also, uh, Virgin Islands, don't get it twisted, folks,
not owned by Richard Branson at this.
Speaker 5 (01:56):
Time, one of them owned by Richard Branson. You might
be one is.
Speaker 3 (02:02):
Who doesn't own one island here.
Speaker 5 (02:06):
Richard call us again. We love the we love the cruise.
Speaker 4 (02:08):
What's island between billionaire friends?
Speaker 3 (02:11):
I know it's just you know, it's another loose diamond
in the bag.
Speaker 2 (02:17):
It's early days, but we might be going back on
a cruise.
Speaker 4 (02:21):
Well, we're going somewhere. We're going to the Bahamas, right.
Speaker 3 (02:24):
Yes, we're also we we might get a second date
with Sir Richard Branson. We're quite excited about that. What's
one island but another loose diamond in the bag of badgers, folks.
As we as we begin our strange news program, we
wanted to get in front of this at the top,
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there have been two deaths. Uh that that recently hit
the news and stood out to us one of the
first ones we should start off with. And I can't
believe I almost texted you guys about this, but I can't.
I've got to stop texting you guys late at night.
It's it's the author of Chariots of the Gods, a
(03:12):
formative figure in our young lives, honestly part of the
inspiration for this show. Eric Vaughan Danikin.
Speaker 4 (03:21):
He's come up recently in some recent Strange News discussions.
What was that about or was it on an episode?
Speaker 2 (03:30):
We were talking a lot about three I, Atlas and.
Speaker 3 (03:37):
Naki. Yeah, thank you, Tennessee. Yeah, actually, I believe I
can't speak for everyone. I believe that Annaki. The Anaki
episode is ultimately decades later, it comes about because of
the work of Eric von Danakan, who is by far,
(04:01):
or was by far, the primary Western champion of ancient
alien theory.
Speaker 5 (04:08):
Right, Yeah, he was. He was the guy.
Speaker 2 (04:11):
He's at least one of the guys that you remember
most if you ever watched an episode of Ancient Aliens,
at least the early ones. He was all over that thing,
and his accent because he was Swiss, just amazing. The
way he would speak was beautiful. And we heard about
this from Swissinfo dot c H when they were at
(04:31):
least one of the first outlets to report on it,
and then it hit all the American and you know,
British papers and those that we tend to look at.
And according to I think it was his daughter. He
died of old age at interlock in Conton Burn Hospital,
so at the age of ninety.
Speaker 5 (04:51):
So he he.
Speaker 2 (04:52):
Lived a long time and who knows where he is
right now, hopefully like old.
Speaker 4 (04:56):
Age of ninety And imagine imagining him hanging out with
the uh with the you know, the lea tes I hope.
Speaker 3 (05:03):
So also, guys, this dude was super big for a
specific genre of hip hop as well. Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah,
Uh Chariots of the Gods, ancient Aliens. Eric von Danikin
von Danakin rhymes with so many things, Uh check out
(05:24):
check out old backpacker hip hop, because there's a lot
of stuff where they'll drop a Eric von Danakin always
keep it real or you a man or a mannequin?
Uh yeah, different stuff like that, like it. Yeah, Now
we have to be clear. Von Danakin was a controversial figure. Uh.
(05:46):
Mainstream science rejected the vast majority of his propositions and
his beliefs.
Speaker 7 (05:55):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (05:55):
But hell of a storyteller, and seemed to be acting
in good faith, by which by which I mean he
believed what he was saying, So he was not necessarily
out there drifting. This was an honest perspective of his own.
Speaker 4 (06:14):
Well, speaking of good faith, guys, would you say that
a lot of these beliefs of his enter into the
realm of spiritualism and faith and you know, kind of
outside of the realms of pure science.
Speaker 3 (06:29):
I would I would say that, Well, the thing with humans,
Noll is typically as they age, they tend to get
a little bit more spiritual no offense than any humans
in the crowd. But yeah, there was definitely there was
definitely a thread of a deeper philosophy to some some
(06:51):
things similar to Graham Hancock or God Save Us, David Ike.
You know, the claims grow, they proliferate, especially when they're
not questioned.
Speaker 2 (07:07):
Yeah, but man, he he made forty nine books out
of it, seventy five million copies, thirty different languages.
Speaker 5 (07:15):
His books were translated.
Speaker 3 (07:16):
Into prolific and successful author So he's definitely selling books.
And I guess we shouldn't. That's a great point, Matt.
I guess we shouldn't read too many tea leaves of personality,
just like in our episode on Peter Teal. But yeah,
an author who definitely made a living doing so, it
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does feel like he believed it. Or maybe he was
Merlin in Mark Twain's Connecticut Yankee and King Arthur's Court,
remember where the unnamed protagonist the Yankee see some guy
who thinks he's doing magic and has that moment where
he says, holy crap, this guy actually Merlin actual believes
(08:00):
that he can do spells. So maybe it's just the
confidence with which the late Von Danakin held his views.
Speaker 4 (08:09):
I mean, we talking about all the time, it's so
hard to intuit someone's level of belief because we are
so often faced with weaponized belief systems, and you know,
in government, people throwing around, you know, religious ideology, whether
or not they themselves fully believe it or not. And
it's something that's nearly impossible to prove that someone does
(08:32):
or does not believe the thing that they are espousing.
So it does lead to a lot of cynicism surrounding
belief systems.
Speaker 3 (08:41):
Absolutely, I mean it's I love that point, Noel, because
it reminds us about one of the most difficult things
in the US legal system, which is the proof of intent.
Not it's easy to prove what was or was not done,
but it is much more difficult. It's a much taller
(09:02):
milkshake to figure out.
Speaker 4 (09:05):
Actual malice.
Speaker 3 (09:06):
Yeah, what people intended, right, and intention does not indemnify
one from consequence.
Speaker 4 (09:13):
Is why the libel laws are so tricky over here,
because it's very, very nigh impossible to prove that someone
said something with ill intent. And you, I think the
whole crux there is that lack of the ability to
prove belief.
Speaker 2 (09:27):
Oh yeah, well, hey, guys, speaking of intent and ancient aliens,
what do you think the intent was of Giorgio Suculos
when he first did his hair like that and went
on camera.
Speaker 4 (09:38):
I think it was the producers beige looking guy.
Speaker 5 (09:42):
He's awesome.
Speaker 2 (09:43):
Georgioulos is awesome and his hair is just intense.
Speaker 3 (09:48):
I was that thing called, I want to say alien
Con a few years back, and the word on the
street is George was known as a part like you
would go to house parties in you know, in cities
where there was a local conference or a live show,
(10:09):
and then he would I can't confirm this, okay, but
I heard this guy would rock up to a house party,
find all the free available booze and goodies, and then
immediately try to hit on groupies that were hanging around,
(10:30):
and if they weren't there.
Speaker 4 (10:32):
He would ghost rock on to the next one, rock
on to.
Speaker 3 (10:35):
The next one. Speaking of which we were talking about
authors before you got a little bit derailed, we do
also need to mention another another legend who has passed.
Scott Adams, the creator of Dilbert. He is probably best
known to most of us for the creation of the
(10:58):
legendary comic strip Dilbert. However, he got into some real
weird philosophical territory later online.
Speaker 4 (11:07):
He espoused some pretty gnarly stuff if I'm not mistaken.
Speaker 3 (11:11):
Oh yes, yeah, yeah yeah. He his cartoon got canceled
by hundreds and hundreds of newspapers. So he had achieved
the catbird seat of old cartoonsy the dog bird seat.
Well done. He had achieved the dog bird seat of syndication.
(11:32):
So you can make a little comic strip and then
five days, six days a week, you would be published
throughout the contiguous United States. And indeed beyond. He got
dropped after he made some pretty clearly racist remarks. He
pivoted to become a sort of guess life advice guru,
(11:58):
like a Jordan Peterson type figure. In some ways he
has passed away as well. Do you guys remember Dilbert.
Speaker 4 (12:07):
We were talking about this off air. I jokingly said
that dog Bert was an agent of the deep state.
But that was really all I could, uh, you know,
impart onto my memories of Dilbert. I just know that
they were in an office and it was very kind
of office space quoted. Sorry, there was a certain you mentioned, uh,
(12:28):
what's the word purgatory nature to this office that they occupied,
like they could never really escape and it was meant
to sort of lampoon the drudgery of office work before
things like the office and uh and office space.
Speaker 2 (12:43):
Well, according to Vice President jd Vance, guys, this is
quote a quote from NBC News.
Speaker 3 (12:52):
Are you going to do the South Park voice?
Speaker 5 (12:54):
No, I'm not. This is just I'm going to read
this just straight.
Speaker 2 (13:00):
He says that Adams was a true American original and
a great ally to the President of the United States
and the entire administration.
Speaker 3 (13:09):
To quote Dogbert whoof Yeah, And to quote Chuck Palinook,
I am Jack's lack of surprise. So we do want
to we want to be clear these are people in
the zeitgeist. Obviously Won Danakan meant a lot to us,
meant a lot to the show. Obviously Dilbert was a
(13:31):
phenomenal cartoon strip, and obviously there is a lot of
strange news for us to get to this evening, guys,
let's call an audible. Since we are already speaking of
the dead, let's say we take a break, and then Noel,
(13:51):
can you bring us back in with this story about
this viral Chinese app?
Speaker 4 (13:56):
I think I must, since you put it that way,
And we're back and once again speaking of the dead,
not ill of the dead, and we're hoping that no
one's dead at all, and that you're checking in on
this Chinese app called are You Dead? Soon to undergo
(14:18):
a name change after this app, aimed at folks with
a quote solitary lifestyle, went viral over there in China.
It's essentially an app designed for folks living alone with
a subscription model that allows them to have people who
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are the followers of theirs, and they check in with
the push of a virtual button to let people know
that they have in fact not died, not choked on
a microwave meal, or two things, caught the corner of
a kitchen counter, I've.
Speaker 3 (14:57):
Fallen and I can't get up.
Speaker 4 (14:58):
It's similar to that for sure. And then in my
mind immediately went to, you know how this might be
useful for elderly parents.
Speaker 3 (15:04):
Absolutely, Two things real quick here. First, subscription model.
Speaker 4 (15:12):
Yeah, well, you know that's the that's the world we're
living in. I'm not sure what the fee is, but
there is a fee involved. The app has been up
to now called Silima. I'm not in sure that the
Chinese pronunciation would go, but that does roughly translate to
are you dead in English. They refer to it as
(15:32):
a lightweight safety tool created for anyone choosing a solitary lifestyle.
This is from the apps developers. It essentially requires setting
up an emergency contact sending automatic notifications if the user
hasn't checked in via the app for consecutive days. According
to its official platform on why Bo, which is the
(15:54):
very popular Chinese social media network, the company is launching
a rebrand, changing its name to dem dem UMW don't
have an English translation for that, but this is what
they have to say. After extensive consideration, the Silame app
will officially adopt the global brand name Demmu for its
(16:15):
forthcoming new release. Uh. The app jumped to the top
of Apple's paid app charts this week after some reporting
on it. I imagine because of the name. It's a
little bit, you know, hot button kind of thing.
Speaker 3 (16:30):
I think it's like Nie or something like that. I'm
getting the tone wrong.
Speaker 4 (16:36):
I think you're doing.
Speaker 3 (16:41):
There you go, Oh, I went down on the tone.
So anyway, I screwed up the mandard. But yeah, are
you dead?
Speaker 4 (16:46):
Uh?
Speaker 3 (16:47):
The second question here real quick, and Matt, sorry if
I'm monopolizing. This was to uh a little bit of
a personal anecdote. You know, this is going to be
common for all of us or a lot of us,
sadly in the audience tonight, members of the Worst Club ever.
My biological father this time around is a widower, and
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me and old Colonel Kurtz have an agreement that every
twenty four hours will check in just so I know
the old monster is still kicking. It is Eldritch. Ways,
so we'll literally have a version of this and I
think a lot of Again, I'm not unique in this regard.
I think a lot of us will have a deal
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with an older relative, a parent, or an estranged or
distant family member where they will let you know that
they are alive. And this app is simply providing a
commodified solution to that, right, I think that's right.
Speaker 5 (17:49):
Well, Ben, have I got news for you.
Speaker 2 (17:51):
There's this brand new app being launched very soon called Domumu.
And with this app, with the touch of a button,
you can check in with your loved ones. I just
feel if do you, guys think there's is there any
better way to ensure that your app is going to
have interaction with it? Then if you don't interact with
(18:12):
our app, people are going to think you're dead. So
you better your phone a.
Speaker 3 (18:17):
Lot dead man switch and also it's a that was
a great too. It's a dead man switch and it's
also uh. It also reminds me a little bit of
uh dating apps and the way those things are gamified. Right,
what was it was? It remind me, guys, was a
(18:39):
bumble or hinge that wanted to be the app you
eventually delete?
Speaker 5 (18:44):
Hinge h hinge.
Speaker 4 (18:46):
I think that is some of their marketing speak.
Speaker 3 (18:48):
Yeah, I'm just pictured a pitch for the renamed app
here that says internally to the kids, it says, don't worry.
Eventually you can delete this.
Speaker 4 (19:01):
Well, yeah, no, for sure. And the thing is, though
this isn't really targeted at the elderly in the In
Chinese society, there are an estimated thirty percent of the
population living solitary lives by choice or maybe not. This
is according to the Global Time so that's around two
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hundred million single person households. So this very much is
a product of Chinese society. I'd be very curious to
see what those numbers are here. And I say this
as someone who lives alone currently. I do have a
kid that you know, pops through couple couple two three
days a week. But in general I am one of
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these solitary living individuals.
Speaker 2 (19:46):
Well, no, if you want to set us up, you
just add Ben and I and Dylan as your contacts
and you demumu the heck out of us.
Speaker 4 (19:53):
I wonder if de mumu's a nonsense word. I think
apps are really prone to using nonsense words so that
they don't impart too much traversity, perhaps because I think
of the scillame thing. Are you dead yet? Might have
been a little too spicy.
Speaker 3 (20:06):
You're also you're also never alone while Matt and I
are here.
Speaker 4 (20:10):
Man, guys, if I'm not complaining, that's great living alone rules.
Speaker 3 (20:14):
I can see whatever. I walking to Jesus Man, I
was just back. I appreciate it.
Speaker 4 (20:18):
Tell us if you don't, I don't feel I don't
feel any kind of way. Sure whatever, I get it. Sometimes,
you know, you do get lonely. But that's interesting to
think about whether these things are by choice or you know,
if people are isolated. Right, so, I could certainly see
a demand for a thing like this, and this.
Speaker 3 (20:35):
Is Yeah, it reminds me of the It may be
related to the lying flat movement or the tongue ping phenomenon,
where younger people specifically are rejecting intense demands of society
and just saying I'm going to live a low effort life.
(20:56):
I'm going to be minimalist. I'm not gonna strive for
you know, the whole nine ninety six competitive work culture.
It's comparable to the hikiko mori I think they're called
in Japan.
Speaker 4 (21:11):
Yeah, but those are a very extreme version of what
we're talking about here.
Speaker 3 (21:15):
Shut right, right, Yeah, the shut it the folks who
kind of went off into the ocean by themselves, right,
So this is a lifeline. And I hear you man,
Are you Dead is a real weird name for that,
Like you say, it's very.
Speaker 4 (21:38):
It's a little on the nose, little on the nose.
And one user told Al Jazeera, who have been citing
some of the quotes from here in a piece Chinese
app are you Dead? To change name after surgeon popularity?
A user told them maybe some conservative people and that's
obviously referring to traditional uh, you know, members of society
(21:59):
who support Mayorge. And I know that China also has
got the confusion. Yes, but also isn't there an issue
with population? Wasn't there like a one child thing.
Speaker 3 (22:08):
The one child Yeah, the one child policy has the
pendulum is swung back.
Speaker 4 (22:14):
That's what I mean. There's it's now like they're having
are they want you to have more children now? And
I think they're paying you to do so.
Speaker 3 (22:21):
Yeah, but not enough to have a kid.
Speaker 4 (22:24):
But there's not something we've discussed, but there is this
pendulum swing and there's even like a yeah you get
a little bonus if you have another kid.
Speaker 3 (22:30):
There's a gender disparity it's a whole bag of badgers.
Speaker 4 (22:33):
It's the whole thing. And this individual goes on to
say it will make us unmarried people feel more at
ease to spend our lives. And I think we've all
heard the saddest way to go being like dying alone
in your apartment having choked on some food or something
and no one there to find you, and then you get, like,
you know, eaten by your cats. But I think that's
(22:55):
a bit of a cliche. And again, living alone is
not like some sort of weird death sentence in and
of itself. It's indeed a fine way to exist if
that's what you want.
Speaker 3 (23:06):
Indeed, for a lot of us in the crowd, it's
the ideal living situation.
Speaker 4 (23:13):
And I just wanted to briefly mention a story that
I had qu'ed up for a last time that we
didn't get to. But then you've got some scoop on
this one. A bluefin tuna in Tokyo at a very
very famous fish market known as the Toyosu Fish Market,
which apparently our buddy Jonesy over at weird af News said,
there's a really cool documentary about this market and its
(23:35):
history and apparently it's about to move to a new
location because it's fallen into disrepair. But that's its own
thing at this market. The Kyu Mora Corporation bought at
auction a Pacific bluefin tuna for five hundred and ten
point three million yen on New Year's morning. That would
(23:55):
be an estimated three point two million dollars the way
in at two hundred and forty three kilograms. It was
caught off of Oma by Toyo kazu Ito, a fisherman
from Oma and Mari Prefecture, and then taken to sushu
Zon maiz Tzuki head Restaurant for dismantling. Let's just say so, Ben,
(24:20):
you said you said there was something to this. Oh,
just you know, getting a really dope piece of fish.
Speaker 7 (24:27):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (24:27):
Yeah, And I love the numbers we're kicking here, So
if you if you break down, we said three point
two million USD right, all told, that's like five thousand,
nine hundred and eighty one dollars per pound. Yeah, that's insane,
it's insane. It's a big win for the fish market,
(24:49):
for the sushi industry. It's a shame for the fish though.
I don't think the fish would be happy to hear
about what's going on. All right, here's the conspiracy of
you guys, just real quick, because I know we have
to move on. This is part of a tradition, the
ideas that you he goes back to a guy named
(25:12):
Kyoshi Kimura and who is the.
Speaker 4 (25:14):
Head of that corporation, Yes, corporation, Yes, sir.
Speaker 3 (25:18):
Just so and so this guy is not only like
buying or paying the highest price for the fish, but
it's a spectacle. It's a Kentucky derby of sorts. You know,
this sort of sets the bar for fish prices in
the calendar year.
Speaker 4 (25:39):
That is interesting, Ben, because it does say that kymoora
corporation said it's going to sell the tuna cuts at
usual prices with a one piece limit per customer at
a and also hold a public cutting show. Yeah, it's
sushi is on my main branch, which is a chain
of restaurants. I mean a chain with like obviously a
(26:01):
high and if a chain, yes on what's already happened.
So that was just about last week. Have you ever
seen one of those videos guys online? They do it
locally here. Actually, there's a really incredible sushi place that
was called what was it called? They moved it. It
was in downtown Decatur for a while and now they
have another location. It doesn't matter. They will do these sushi,
(26:22):
these tuna cutting videos, and it's insane. These things are
like Leviathans. They're so huge. And you to see somebody
absolutely dismantling one of these creatures with such precision and
all these really specialty knives and stuff, it's something to
be whole. So to your point, bend, this is very
much a spectacle. Dave Gershin of the Pew Charitable Trust
(26:43):
International Fisheries Team points to a twenty seventeen recovery plan
as having, you know, being successful. This idea of adopting
long term fish management fishery management policies in order to
make bluefin tuna less threatened. So it has apparently been
(27:06):
close to a dangerous level. Yes, you know, scarcity. But
I'll tell you I'd love, you know, if I were
to go to Tokyo, I would I would gladly pay
for a piece of that beast. I do love a
piece of tuna, good piece of tuna. So that's it
for me, guys.
Speaker 3 (27:21):
Let's take a quick break.
Speaker 4 (27:22):
Here a word from our sponsor and then we'll come
back with more strange news for you.
Speaker 3 (27:30):
And we have returned now not to be boot liquors
or butt liquors, but we do want to let you know.
What are the stories we missed in a previous Strange
News program is the following. The US Department of War
has notified a sex store in Toronto several times to
(27:54):
stop sending butt plugs to ba Rain. Don't do it,
don't want them you, They've said a couple of letters.
They have not yet invaded Toronto strongly worded, Ben, they
are strongly worded. I hate that we have to explicitly
say the US is yet to evade Toronto or has
(28:17):
not at the time of our recording on Wednesday, January fourteenth.
Just keep that with you, right, like Johnny Depp said
in Life's Too Short, Just hold that inside you and
realize that the Department of War is sending very weird
letters to be a.
Speaker 4 (28:35):
Big talk about Canada from that department, A lot.
Speaker 3 (28:38):
Of big talk. And you know, does the guilty dog bark?
Why they concerned with the butt lugs? All right?
Speaker 4 (28:46):
So well, what is the deal though, Like, what isn't
the idea that they're sending them to American troops.
Speaker 3 (28:56):
Or yeah, it's at a naval base bah Rain. That
was the issue, And the folks who run the store
called bongjiebont Are are pretty pretty chill. I think I
hope a lot of people who run sex positive stores
(29:17):
are very chill. They didn't know where the plugs were
going until they got the letters. And if you go
to outfits like CP twenty four dot com, you can
hear directly from one of the co founders of the
store who says, quote, we didn't even know it was
(29:40):
going to Bahrain until it came back to us months later,
and it just kind of unraveled this whole hilarious moment.
Speaker 4 (29:48):
And maybe we're bearing the leads slightly. The issue there
would be that Bahrain is not particularly sex.
Speaker 3 (29:53):
Positive, right, and the issue is, you know, naval bases hopefully,
Oh okay, we got veterans in the crowd, so I'm
not going to do the navy stereotype jokes.
Speaker 4 (30:06):
What the butt stuff is not cool?
Speaker 3 (30:09):
That will quite the opposite my friend about.
Speaker 4 (30:12):
Saying it, wouldn't the perception be that it is not
masculine in some fashion, that like there's a sense that
you know, real men don't put stuff in their butts.
Speaker 3 (30:20):
Oh my god, every marine in the crowd, every former
Army member is is laughing aloud. No, the the Navy
gets pooped on hard for allegations. It's a weird thing.
Speaker 4 (30:37):
But but yeah, okay, that makes sense. But also these
are this is like hearsay, and this is not the
kind of thing that the Navy really wants people to
talk about. In quick question, but would a supplier of
butt plugs technically be a butt plug plug?
Speaker 7 (30:49):
Oh, it would be a butt plug plugk And we
don't we don't want to take away from some horrifying
intern all activities, internal injustices and cover ups that occur
in the US Armed Forces.
Speaker 3 (31:06):
In fact, guys, I think that could be an episode
in the future. There's a lot of not just hidden
not just hidden injustices, but there are murders that have
been covered up, things that are clearly not suicides.
Speaker 4 (31:24):
Assault, sexual assaults.
Speaker 3 (31:26):
Absolutely, God, there was a twist, but we had to
say it. There was a turn. Yeah, that is true,
and while we're going we will do that as an episode.
Please check it out in the future, folks. And while
we are on the subject of darker things, also first off,
(31:48):
don't assault people. Secondly, don't rob graves. Did you guys
hear about what went down in Pennsylvania? No, this guy
got found robbing braves in Pennsylvania. I've put a link
here in our notes. Let's go to KTV dot com
courtesy of journalist Mark Schulfouro writing for AP. You can
(32:14):
see a picture of the perp. But apparently the cops
found bones and skulls in the backseat of a car
near an abandoned cemetery on the outskirts of Philly, and
that led them checking the car, led them to a
basement filled with body parts, and they found the instigator,
(32:38):
or the guy they like for hasn't been convicted, a
thirty four year old named Jonathan christ gerlac wow christ
as your middle name.
Speaker 4 (32:47):
Some ed gean kind of stuff. We're talking mummified remains, hands.
Speaker 3 (32:51):
And feet, Chilton's remains as well. Yeah, and some of
these were older, some of these were a little bit
more fresh. We don't entirely know the motivation of this individual.
I'm bringing it up because it's such a strange story.
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It reminds me in a bit in a way about
our earlier tales of resurrection men. We don't know what
it was doing with the bodies. He was charged with
one hundred counts eat of abuse of a corpse and
receiving stolen property desecrating public monuments, also tangentially related. I
(33:37):
heard an amazing statement about Pepe Silvia from Always Sunny
in Philadelphia.
Speaker 4 (33:44):
Okay, what was that?
Speaker 3 (33:45):
That's that We're doing another twist? Okay, So remember the
conspiracy episode.
Speaker 5 (33:50):
Where Red Threadboard, Yes, he doesn't exist.
Speaker 3 (33:56):
Well, here's the thing. According to Charlie Day, the actor
who plays Charlie in Always Sonny, he apparently, due to
Charlie's illiteracy, he was misreading Pennsylvania as pepe Sylvia and
that's why he thought everything was connected and everything kept
(34:20):
going back to Pepe Sylvia.
Speaker 5 (34:23):
Amazing.
Speaker 3 (34:24):
I didn't.
Speaker 4 (34:24):
How does that? How does that fold back into this
grave robbing store?
Speaker 3 (34:27):
It doesn't. Okay, it both take place in Pennsylvania.
Speaker 4 (34:32):
Can I just say, without trying to cast dispersions on
somebody just for their appearance, does this dude not look
like the kind of guy that would have gotten swept
up in some satanic panic stuff back in the day.
Speaker 3 (34:41):
He's got the neck tattoos, is what it is Yeah.
Speaker 2 (34:44):
Yeah, well in his hair, he looks like he would
be an incredible lead singer of a band which makes really.
Speaker 4 (34:50):
Black metal bands.
Speaker 3 (34:51):
Yes, I'm not saying that he's not handsome.
Speaker 2 (34:53):
I'm just said he wouldn't. I'm said he didn't go
that route. Maybe he did and.
Speaker 5 (34:57):
This was just a side project or side gig, but
five yeah.
Speaker 4 (35:02):
Do you don't want to find out what he intended
to do with this stuff because it's like, was it
jewelry involved? Was he? I mean, what's what's the what's
the end game here?
Speaker 3 (35:10):
Right? We don't know?
Speaker 1 (35:12):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (35:12):
He he did cooperate with investigators. He showed them the
graves in this in this cemetery that he stole from.
He's currently jammed up on a million dollar bond us.
There is no lawyer listed in the court records at
(35:33):
the time. He might have to get a public defender.
There's not really any uh any update on motive. It's look,
he was hitting up the largest abandoned burial ground in
the United States, at least according to the one of
(35:55):
the nonprofit volunteer organizations that tries to upkeep it, the
Friends of Mount Mariah Cemetery. It's one hundred and sixty
acres one hundred and fifty thousand gravesites. He probably would
have kept going. We don't know what his project was.
We don't know what's going to happen to him. Our
main takeaway here is, guys, just don't rob grapes.
Speaker 2 (36:17):
No, Yeah, that look it looks like they uncovered after
a search they found that he was trying to just
sell them, like he was selling skulls to people online.
Speaker 4 (36:27):
Well, and that's I don't know if you guys have
ever encountered this. I once was buying a drum machine
from a guy that I met on the internet or
on like some forum, and I went to his house
and he had a pretty significant collection of human skulls.
So that is a thing people do, and it is
very illegal to transport across you know, state lines.
Speaker 3 (36:46):
You can own a human skull, you can't own it.
Sound so you shouldn't a shrunken head. But you know,
there's nothing wrong with a little yorick now and then,
as far as the law is concerned.
Speaker 4 (36:58):
But that's the deal. It's to own it, but it's
illegal to transport them. Human room. There's this weird little
like the yeah minutia around you know the law concerning
you know, the same the broker ing of human remains.
Speaker 3 (37:11):
Like back in the days of the resurrection men. Again
the weird laws in parts of Western Europe that said
it's not illegal to dissect the corpse, but it is
illegal to a choir a corpse. So look, it's just
it's gross stuff. It's gross for the surviving family members
(37:35):
and loved ones. They did find pacemakers, jewelry linked to
the cadavers, linked to the graves. We don't know the
motive yet. We'll update if we hear more. But we
do have another home rate that we have to talk
about before we move on. It's a very important one.
(37:56):
It concerns the living, friends, neighbors, countryfolk. The FBI, Federal
Bureau of Investigation, has crossed a bit of a rubicon,
as we record. They have rated the home of a
Washington Post reporter. Let's go to the Guardian and let's
(38:18):
all get worried together, so play along with us. At home.
There is a journalist named Hannah Nathanson in at A N.
S O. N lives in Virginia. FBI came down hard.
They they raided her home in the early hours of Wednesday,
(38:41):
as we record like this morning before going in to
record strange news. The Washington Post called it quote highly
unusual and aggressive end quote, and various you know, press
freedom groups, journalist rights supporters, actually people who sup or
at the Constitution. They excoriated this. They condemned it. It's
(39:06):
it's violating the concept of journalism. Critics say, now, have
you guys heard about this?
Speaker 5 (39:12):
Yeah, this is.
Speaker 2 (39:14):
This is extremely complex, right, I mean, and part of
me personally comes down on the you can't do that.
Speaker 5 (39:23):
You can't raid.
Speaker 2 (39:25):
A journalist's home and take her phone in garment, watch
and look at all of her devices in her home
and you know, find evidence on her just because she's
got sources that you don't like, right, Because that's what
it's about.
Speaker 3 (39:42):
Right, This, this did occur with a warrant. You can
call it rubber stamp Warren if you wish. This was
an attempt to gather information and reveal sources from the
journalist because she was quote obtaining and report wording classified
and illegally leaked information from a Pentagon contractor. They also
(40:07):
go on to note that the leaker is currently behind bars.
And when I'm saying they just to be clear who
I'm quoting here is Pam Bondi, the current Attorney General
of the United States, talking on social media on x
dot Com. It's it's pretty it's pretty frightening stuff because
(40:32):
it reminds me of the earlier conversations regarding how the
Pentagon has chosen to treat journalists.
Speaker 2 (40:40):
Yeah, overall, Like, right, how many stories have we talked
about over the past couple of months?
Speaker 3 (40:46):
About as many as we're allowed to, Man, dude.
Speaker 2 (40:49):
I know, but it's got to be at least three
or four specifically about who can report what out of
the Pentagon, right and where they can be located.
Speaker 4 (40:58):
As from briefings, et setup.
Speaker 2 (41:00):
In this case, we have a journalist who began obtaining sources.
She would talk to people, and then those sources would
talk about her and say, hey, you can give your
your information to her if you want to speak up.
Let's say, if you're deep inside a government organization like
the Pentagon, or maybe you're one of the over one
(41:22):
thousand other sources that she had gained access to who
were inside government organizations.
Speaker 3 (41:27):
I think sixty nine.
Speaker 2 (41:29):
Yeah, I think that's why she was dangerous to the administration, right,
And that's why they needed to do a show force
here and just say, hey, if you're inside one of
our organizations, you cannot talk to journalists about this classified stuff,
or this is going to happen both to you in
the case of this primary source that's being talked about
(41:50):
here in the Guardian and reported on, or the journalist
who's putting stuff in newspapers.
Speaker 3 (41:56):
Yeah, and this brings us to another bag of badgers.
This brings us to quite a tall milkshake, a real
pickle journalism and the security or anonymity of sources. Now,
a lot of us in the crowd tonight have heard
these concerns before. This is not unique. This is again,
how do I put it, It's crossing a rubicon of
(42:20):
things that are have long been considered inherent to the
democratic experiment of the United States. So this is a
worrying flag. This is a sign We've got a little
bit long on here. There's so much more to talk about,
but I got to commend the work of Richard Luscomb
(42:42):
and Jeremy Barr and of course Hannah and Nathanson. We
are going to keep an eye on this one because
I agree it is definitely for a regime that loves
political theater. This is definitely an attempt to set an example.
We're gonna pause. We're not going to get to a
(43:03):
lot a lot of other weird stuff, including the EPA,
but we'll we'll return with more of that perhaps in
the future. For now, let's take a break for a
word from our sponsors and return with more strange news.
Speaker 5 (43:20):
And we've returned.
Speaker 2 (43:21):
Well, guys, hey, at least journalists aren't being summarily executed
in our country yet, so you know, we've got a
time window here before that happens, at least because we
just talked about shrunken heads or Sansas. We wanted to
bring up a story that we saw coming out of
Ecuador that was particularly grizzly. So warning here, I suppose.
Speaker 3 (43:46):
I think, I mean, we just did talk about a
grave robber.
Speaker 2 (43:50):
Yeah we did, so, Uh, people have been If you're.
Speaker 3 (43:57):
Anybody who was worried earlier, has probably already a hot Yeah.
Speaker 2 (44:02):
This is this is your post disturbing content apology instead
of a setup. But here we go. This is coming
to us from AP News, the Associated Press, and it
was posted on January eleventh, twenty twenty six, coming to
us out of Quito, Ecuador, five human heads were found
(44:23):
hanging from ropes on a beach in southwestern Ecuador, according
to police there. Apparently it is a part of a
wave of violence related to drug trafficking. Now, we've talked
before about the country of Ecuador and how it is
going through some pretty pretty tough times because of the
differing drug trafficking routes that are now happening.
Speaker 5 (44:44):
Talked about how.
Speaker 2 (44:45):
You know, you've got Columbia right there smackdab between Venezuela
and Ecuador, and you know Panama of course, we talked
about and where the drugs actually end up exiting out
of Colombia, and how that's changing a lot, and how
that has really changed the landscape of let's say, groups
(45:06):
who are totally cool with some criminal activity. Generally you
would use the word gangs associated with out our cartels,
and that is happening a lot in Ecuador. According to police,
this incident had something to do with a conflict between
two of these different criminal gangs or these groups, right,
these cartels, and I'm just reading directly from this ap article.
(45:30):
Drug trafficking networks with links to transnational cartels are active
in the area and have used fishermen and their small
boats for their illicit activities. A dispute for territory and
control of drug trafficking routes has triggered violent episodes across
the Manobe Province, which is where this place, Puerto Lopez
is located. You can read more about this in the
(45:52):
AP News. Particularly grizzly and just a really horrendous thing
to discover. If you imagine just going out on the
beach and seeing five heads hanging there from ropes. Yeah,
I don't want to talk about this much more, guys,
anything to say about the heads.
Speaker 3 (46:10):
It's like some yeah, it's it's it's definitely a line
of sand of warning. As we said earlier, it's it's
quite grizzly.
Speaker 4 (46:20):
It also aligned with the sunset talk and how a
head is the ultimate warning because you know exactly who
or what set that head belonged to.
Speaker 3 (46:28):
It's also interesting in that it shows it shows a
vin diagram that we've always suspected between law enforcement and
organized crime up to a certain point. And the thing
is that brutality, like any other disease, is contagious, right,
(46:50):
so these actions are unconscionable and they're grabbing headlines because
of course they're human heads on stakes. However, we have
to remember that there's much more to the headline, and
I think it'd be worth exploring getting under the hood
(47:10):
of Ecuador here.
Speaker 2 (47:12):
Oh yeah, oh, we should definitely do a larger episode
on that, Ecuador and Venezuela and all of that. It'll
kind of be an update to our episode on Panama
and and that will area right where the drugs flow.
Speaker 3 (47:25):
Yeah, get out of my head. Yeah, let's do an
episode on Ecuador. We had show, we got an episode
on that as well.
Speaker 2 (47:34):
Yeah. Well, hey, speaking of getting into things, what about
getting into our electronic devices? Guys, Let's go to ABC
Denver channel seven to hear some reporting from Maggie Brian
about something super cool, something we've talked about on the
show before. Colorado's latest Right to Repair a law, which
(47:54):
went into effect on January first, forces device manufacturers again.
Hear that forces device manufacturers to share specific parts, tools, software,
and manuals to fix broken devices. This law covers everyday
electronics and appliances like phones, laptops, dishwashers, vag right to
(48:14):
Repair stuff right yes, and sewing machines.
Speaker 3 (48:17):
And LaserDisc and uh.
Speaker 2 (48:21):
Yes, machine fax machines, it's your whole palm pilot.
Speaker 3 (48:28):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (48:28):
The previous thing we discussed on this was things like
farm equipment, right, yes.
Speaker 3 (48:32):
Pharmacy huge. Uh.
Speaker 2 (48:35):
In this case, look, Denver's just pushing the needle. Okay,
Colorado says, hey, we're gonna we're gonna move this forward
a little bit. At least now you can repair your phone.
And this is also stated here and it is very important.
This latest law includes exemptions for marine vessels, aviation motor vehicles,
(48:55):
medical devices, certain safety and security equipment, and video game consoles.
So congratulations Sony.
Speaker 4 (49:07):
Speaking of ve did y'all hear that somebody jail broke
the PS five and that Sony is not happy about it.
Speaker 3 (49:16):
I thought they were gonna send the guy a high five.
Speaker 2 (49:19):
Well no, but really, but no. Imagine like if you
own a PS five and you go into that store, right,
and you see all of those brand new, shiny, awesome
titles that you're just oh, you just want to try,
you want to play the Ghosts game that you're playing.
Speaker 5 (49:35):
Ben.
Speaker 2 (49:36):
I think about that one a lot. I remember opening
the PS five app store and looking at that because
it was advertised and pushed on the front, and you
look at the price tag, and you go, ah, how
can I justify this? How can I do this? But
then of course I go through and I'll buy like
three things for that same price because I go on
all of a sudden, I feel some sort of way
(49:56):
and I'm like, I reserve it.
Speaker 3 (49:59):
You broke this, you know what I mean. There's a big,
big bit of psychology to that, and I think what
we're well, we're also talking about, Matt is You're getting
to just a phenomenally fascinating point. Now we all know
that my car stuff evenings and days have made me
(50:20):
even more radicalized into the idea of an ownership versus
subscription right, yeah, And I think we're all I don't
think I'm unique in that. I think we're all on board.
And we hope you are too. Folks. We are as
a society in the West, in the United States, we
are being pushed the average entity away from ownership and
(50:45):
towards subscription. It is going to Dylan, Man, I love you,
will you please beat me here? We have to say it.
A subscription based society is being stupid and bad. What
you've got to own stuff? Come on right to repair?
Why is this even a thing? Why does this have
to be a thing?
Speaker 4 (51:05):
How how is it an?
Speaker 3 (51:08):
What's next? The right to poop?
Speaker 4 (51:10):
Bad for us, be great for them.
Speaker 5 (51:13):
It's so good for them.
Speaker 2 (51:14):
Oh, and this is something that's in this article for
Maggie Bryan over at ABC. Let's just quote the article again.
Democratic State Rep. Breonna Titone sponsored all three of Colorado's
laws expanding repair rights. She said while working to pass
the bill, she and other co sponsors faced pushback from
large corporations. And here's a quote from her. They don't
(51:35):
want to comply, or they want to comply to a
certain degree. That was one of the reasons why this
bill was delayed. It was mainly because of Apple, because
they needed time to change their iPhone design to actually
be able to comply. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (51:52):
Also, I mean play adopts a lessons check our episode
on that if you buy something and animate option, you
should be able to own it. The very first book
illegally unfairly pulled off the Amazon Kindle was indeed nineteen
eighty four Boo by George Orwell, you have when you
(52:17):
buy something, you have a right to own the thing.
This is just meloca. This is just so ridiculous.
Speaker 2 (52:24):
So when you look at an object. Let's say a
smartphone that you purchase. I'm looking at mine right now,
and you notice there doesn't seem to be a simple
way to open this.
Speaker 3 (52:35):
Thing by design? Yeah it was crazy, Yeah yeah, Ed.
You can also what do we call it? You void
your warranty if you attempt at home repairs or if
you take it to a third party repair person.
Speaker 5 (52:49):
How could you betraying me?
Speaker 2 (52:51):
After all we've been through the Mother Corporation.
Speaker 3 (52:55):
I stole your data from Instagram and you do me
like this.
Speaker 5 (53:00):
I get birth to that phone? How dare you take
it to time? I'm sorry?
Speaker 4 (53:05):
Do you mind if I backtracked for like two seconds?
Speaker 3 (53:07):
Please?
Speaker 4 (53:07):
PlayStation thing? I just think it's like a digital version
of what we're talking about here. This is fascinating. Apparently,
a Star Wars racing game that released back in twenty
nineteen is now fetching hundreds of dollars on eBay because
its code is reportedly crucial to fire off. And I'm
reading from IGN here a new method of jail breaking
(53:29):
PlayStation five, which would unlock the ability to play illegally
pirated games and prevent the system from doing those online handshakes. Yep,
that check that you have you know whatever that you
have the right to play whatever game.
Speaker 3 (53:44):
It's like that old I love these loopholes, guys, because
it's like that that legendary phone freaking thing that happened
by accident, the captain front whistle that could perfectly perfectly hacked.
The telephonic system that was back when you.
Speaker 4 (53:59):
Would actually use touch tone sounds to make things happen.
Speaker 3 (54:03):
Yeah, ed this we see again, hopefully we see a
beachhead here and we see a larger a larger movement.
If you buy something, you should have the right to
repair it. And I believe in our previous conversations I
had been on record speaking with uh, speaking with some
(54:26):
folks who have dealt with the Drayconian policies of some
farm manufacturing outlets. And I really appreciate you bringing that up, Noel.
It's not talked about enough in the United States. Matt.
I want to go back to you, though, real quick,
with the list of exceptions. You said certain security technology.
Speaker 5 (54:49):
Yes, safety and security equipment.
Speaker 3 (54:51):
Oh all right, well that kind of makes sense because.
Speaker 2 (54:56):
Okay, all right, the medical industry hardware thing is Oh.
Speaker 5 (55:03):
There is a story in there, guys.
Speaker 3 (55:05):
Yeah, that's an episode. It vaguely makes sense because it's
such a vague description. We need to hear the actual
list of the devices that don't that are exempt from
right to repair.
Speaker 5 (55:17):
Yeah, yeah, we do, but we're not going to get
them today. You know, we are going to get what
are we going to get today?
Speaker 2 (55:24):
One final little piece of news because I found it
to be delightful, and I.
Speaker 4 (55:30):
Don't want a delightful night.
Speaker 3 (55:31):
I hope we find it delightful, certainly.
Speaker 5 (55:33):
Oh, I hope you do.
Speaker 2 (55:35):
I did, And now I give them to you here.
It is ready ready.
Speaker 4 (55:39):
To received with them.
Speaker 2 (55:42):
According to Futurism and Frank Landimore, a story published on
January thirteenth, the day before we are recording in Vidio,
Ceo says everyone should stop being so negative about aid.
Speaker 4 (56:00):
Take can you guys, it's your problem?
Speaker 3 (56:05):
Hey, did you see.
Speaker 2 (56:06):
We're trying to build a massive Ponzi scheme here?
Speaker 3 (56:11):
Peter would agree this is the best way to fight
the Antichrist. I was clocking some of those statements as well.
Speaker 4 (56:19):
Tone deaf way that he put this forth.
Speaker 3 (56:21):
I'm curious, Yeah, yeah, it just just everybody for precedent.
It reminds me of an earlier headline a little bit
before we started the show where the town prior would
run into the village and say, everybody's panicing about this
plague thing.
Speaker 4 (56:39):
You know, I know what's the big deal?
Speaker 2 (56:42):
Think you tell us to stop manufacturing it and creating
giant centers for the plague.
Speaker 3 (56:47):
I'll kiss a pustual when I want.
Speaker 2 (56:50):
Guys, you have no idea how much of the global
economy is wrapped up in these plague factories.
Speaker 3 (56:56):
We're basically as plagues were propped up the economy. That's right.
We talked to the king. He's bullish on plague. Dude.
Speaker 5 (57:04):
Okay, so so he looked.
Speaker 3 (57:06):
Out the window for a while during his speech. But whatever,
oh god, we could get away with it. Keep it in.
Speaker 2 (57:14):
Sometimes you gotta have a fart, even when you're there
talking to all the oil executives. You just gotta let
one fly, and you only need a couple of feet
of space, you know, depending on Here. Here's a quote, guys,
really quickly. Yeah, here's a quote from Jensen Wang, who
(57:34):
is the CEO there at Nvidia. He says he was
talking to no priors a podcast. Shout out to you
podcast fellow podcast quote, I think we've done a lot
of damage with very well respected people who have painted
a doomer narrative, end of the world narrative, science fiction narrative.
(57:54):
And I appreciate that many of us grew up and
enjoyed science fiction. But it's not helpful. It's it's not
helpful to the people. It's not helpful to the industry.
That's that's me talking out of the quote here, that's me,
the guy talking to you, And it's not helpful to society.
It's not helpful to the governments.
Speaker 3 (58:13):
Wait, so is that is that quote not helpful to
the industry? Is that part of the actual quote.
Speaker 2 (58:18):
It's not helpful to the industry, it's not helpful to society,
it's not helpful to the governments. That I was just
pointing out that the man saying this quote is a
part of all of those things now in not in
some not so small way.
Speaker 3 (58:31):
Yeah, oh yeah, video legendary. Actually, this is why I
love our our strange news segments, guys, because this informs
episodes and we have we need an Nvidia episode. It's
just massive.
Speaker 4 (58:45):
Did you all Grock That Grock is now going to
be incorporated into the Pentagon Systems.
Speaker 5 (58:51):
Yeah, seems like a great idea.
Speaker 4 (58:53):
Yeah, the least guardrailed, most hitlery loving AI platform and
by most accounts of the worst.
Speaker 3 (59:01):
One, it's not great. And I just want to give
due respect to Tennessee man. We're recording remotely, and I
see your mute sign popping on and off, which lets
me know that you're getting a little heated up. I
love it.
Speaker 6 (59:14):
I always get heated about AI. I just want I
saw another headline that the Microsoft CEO would really appreciate
if you'd stop calling it slop this year.
Speaker 4 (59:23):
Yes, can we just turned the temperature down a little bit? Guys?
Speaker 6 (59:26):
On A I saw other people saying that Microsoft is
currently making a slop rating system, which I really love.
Speaker 5 (59:33):
Yeah, micro slops new sloperating system.
Speaker 3 (59:37):
The Tennessee Pal, friends and neighbors, guys, ermager, everybody stop
being so worried about A or It's probably gonna be fine.
I'm sure it'll be just five anience.
Speaker 4 (59:53):
Fiction guys, by the way, I mean, can I just
say too that Elon Musk and talking about incorporating rock
into these pening on syste and his view of the future.
He wants to turn Star Trek into a reality Starfleet Academy,
and he literally says we want to turn science fiction
into science fact. So this notion that science fiction, to
(01:00:15):
this notion that science fiction is somehow entirely separated from reality,
is incredibly tone deaf.
Speaker 3 (01:00:22):
It's definitely dismissive. We we will definitely need more context,
which will find I believe in our semiconductor and Nvidia episode.
Speaker 2 (01:00:35):
Yeah wait, no, wasn't there another story you had about
slop right?
Speaker 4 (01:00:39):
No, there was a there's apparently some monkeys on the
loos in Missouri and there's a hunt for them, and
AI images flooding the internet are creating a real wrench
in the work, some monkey wrench perhaps in their efforts
to catch these monkeys because of like, you know, false
images of them, you know, doing monkey stuff in places
that they aren't actually.
Speaker 3 (01:01:00):
Wow, monkey stuff. I love reindeer games.
Speaker 4 (01:01:03):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (01:01:03):
There was also a woman hospitalized after being triggered by
a pluribus ad on a smart fridge.
Speaker 5 (01:01:11):
What I think, don't get a cartfridge.
Speaker 4 (01:01:14):
They'll get a cartfridge.
Speaker 3 (01:01:15):
Yeah, yeah, uh, but do hang out with us. And actually,
you know what, let's amend that. Folks. If you are
listening to this show on your smart refrigerator, thank.
Speaker 5 (01:01:28):
You is almost bad. You need to use it.
Speaker 3 (01:01:34):
The avocado started bad. Just do it so that we
make the Wakamuligator the musical. Yeah, I'm writing it down,
Nolan'm pointing at you. I can't. I don't know if
we had the right eye line, but I'm pointing at
you or writing down. Refrigerator the musical. This is going
to be big, the.
Speaker 2 (01:01:55):
Crooning fridge only from LG.
Speaker 3 (01:01:57):
Let's do it, guys, Let's make it happen. We're gonna
text Tim Robinson right now and Zach Caanan, the guy
who doesn't get enough credit for co writing this show.
We can't wait to hang out with you, folks. We
have so much more strange news to get to. I'm
really happy to report I don't keep it vague for
(01:02:19):
now that your three faithful correspondents here are going to
be technically around the world in sooner than we think.
And we're going to be sharing more details with that
as it comes. In the meantime, we can't wait to
hear from you. You can call us on a telephone,
you can find us online. You can always send us
(01:02:42):
an email, or you can tag us up on Netflix.
Speaker 4 (01:02:45):
Oh man, dude, Oh my gosh. Yes, please do watch
us on Netflix. You can also find us all over
the internet at the social media channels of your choosing
at the handle Conspiracy Stuff or Conspiracy Stuff Show.
Speaker 2 (01:02:57):
We also have a phone number. It is one H
three three STDWYTK. It's a voicemail system three minutes.
Speaker 4 (01:03:04):
Call it.
Speaker 2 (01:03:05):
You'll figure out what to do if you want to
send us an email.
Speaker 5 (01:03:08):
We are the entities.
Speaker 3 (01:03:10):
Read each piece of correspondence we receive. Be well aware,
yet unafraid. Sometimes the void writes back, there were active
volcanoes on the Moon when dinosaurs were alive. Conspiracy at
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