February 23, 2026 • 58 mins
Competitive eating legend Takeru Kobayashi (long suspected to perhaps have superpowers) discloses why he retired. Ben and Matt learn that, not to be outdone by former US President Obama, current US President Trump vows to expose evidence of aliens. Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor is arrested -- but not for the Epstein files. Join Ben and Matt for all this and more in this week's strange news segment.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:26):
Hello, Welcome back to the show. My name is Matt.
Our colleague Noel is on an adventure but will return shortly.
Speaker 3 (00:34):
They call me Ben. We're joined as always with our
super producer Dylan the Tennessee pal Fagan. Most importantly, you
are you. You are here. That makes this the stuff
they don't want you to know. It's time for our
weekly strange news segment. So if you are tuning in
the evening, this program publishes Welcome Friends and Neighbors to
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February twenty third, twenty twenty Matt Dylan. If we could,
I'd like to start out with a bittersweet fond farewell.
Is that all right?
Speaker 2 (01:12):
Okay?
Speaker 3 (01:13):
Awesome? Okay, So remember that time, Matt uh as a
period you and I were hanging out and I got
super weirdly into competitive eating.
Speaker 2 (01:23):
I remember your your talks about the Black Widow specifically.
Speaker 3 (01:27):
Yes, yes, yeah, you remember. So we have to bid
a fond farewell to one of the best in the game.
This is breaking strange news that Hiro Kobyashi, a legendary
competitive eater, has retired because he no longer feels fullness
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nor hunger. Oh, I know.
Speaker 2 (01:52):
He this this is the guy. This is the one.
Speaker 3 (01:55):
Yeah, he's the guy that people believed had a physiological
I don't want to call it abnormality, but a physiological
difference that allowed his stomach to distend into other parts
of his body such that he could eat more than
a human should eat. And we got Dylan popping in.
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I know you've got opinions on this, Tennessee.
Speaker 2 (02:20):
It makes me sad.
Speaker 4 (02:21):
I mean, it's just a lot of changes the last
few years and competitive eating between that and then Joey
Chestnut going for the vegan hot dogs and not being
able to be part of Nathan's. But I once saw
a video where Kobyashi ate like three gigantic bowls are
amen and then lifted up his shirt.
Speaker 2 (02:40):
Dude had a six pack?
Speaker 3 (02:42):
Crazy? What yeah?
Speaker 2 (02:46):
Yeah, what is he teaching his body to do?
Speaker 3 (02:49):
He's You can check out the older YouTube explorations over
our pal. Kobyashi again one of the best in the game.
He will eat gigantic amounts of food and then be
on a treadmill forever. And that's as that was his
whole day.
Speaker 2 (03:08):
Ben. According to the Yahoo Sports article you posted, he
is still the current record holder for rice balls twenty
pounds in half an hour.
Speaker 3 (03:18):
Don't forget about the lobster rules.
Speaker 2 (03:20):
Yeah, forty one in ten minutes. And oh oh the
last one.
Speaker 3 (03:26):
Yeah the brains right, cow brains.
Speaker 2 (03:31):
Seventeen point seven pounds in fifteen minutes.
Speaker 3 (03:34):
Oh that is more than a pound every sixty seconds. God,
this guy is just cool man, And you know, take
care of yourself, stay mentally physically fit. You have moved
beyond hunger and moved beyond fullness, Kobyashi, you will be remembered.
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That is one of our That is the stuff we
had to establish before we got to Epstein, before we
got to freedom of speech, before we got to social media,
and the concept of one point two quintillion dollars, which
is apparently a real number.
Speaker 2 (04:12):
Yeah, sure it's a real number. Yeah, and you owe
it to us, So have fun.
Speaker 3 (04:19):
What about this, guys, What if we take a quick
break for a word from our sponsors and then maybe
talk a little bit about the Epstein news.
Speaker 2 (04:28):
Yes, and we've returned Ben the Black Widow. Yes, real name,
Lee Sun Kyung or Sonya Thomas. Yes, that is the
person I most fondly remember you speaking of just about
how again insane it is that someone of just a
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relatively small stature can just magically put that stuff away.
It's incredible.
Speaker 3 (04:57):
I mean, I still, I'll say it on air. I'm
fine with it. I still think you should enter a
hot food contest. I would love to see you on
hot ones, Matt. I would love to see you it
in a more serious competition, you know what I mean.
I bet you could rock some Scovilles, my guy.
Speaker 2 (05:15):
It's not about the competition, man, It's about going inside
and exploring yourself and finding that that inner fire. I
don't need competition for that. I could do that on
my own.
Speaker 3 (05:27):
Great, that's the promo, I say, we do it, no notes,
ten ten, Let's get you in there. Man. We also knew.
Speaker 2 (05:36):
Speaking of doing it on their own. Let's chill to
the UK. Oh yeah, who's actually tried to prosecute people
for the Epstein files? What people should get prosecuted? You say,
United Kingdom? Okay? Why? How well? This is this is
a brand new News Again. Recording on February twentieth, twenty
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twenty six. This is us the live feed that The
Guardian does often for a big news story. You can
look it up right now. Andrew Mountbatten Windsor arrested King
Charles says law must take its course as ex prints
taken into custody live you could find this, it's really cool,
a bunch of live updates. Yeah, thank you for sharing this.
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Look at that.
Speaker 3 (06:21):
It's it's for us. This is an audio podcast. Check
out our video episodes on Netflix, but for us. Just
so you know, there is an unfortunate picture Prince Andrew
in the Guardian that you that you linked here, Matt,
could you.
Speaker 2 (06:41):
To see it? Yeah, Dylan, why don't you describe it?
Speaker 1 (06:45):
Dylan?
Speaker 3 (06:45):
Could you describe how Andy is looking at this one?
Speaker 1 (06:49):
Well?
Speaker 4 (06:49):
I think one of the things that makes it is
the red eye from the flash looks like a man
whose problems have finally finally caught up with him.
Speaker 2 (07:00):
Yep, just leaned back as he's being driven around in
some ridiculously fancy vehicle, and he's got his hands up
almost almost steepling close to it, maybe just clasping.
Speaker 3 (07:12):
He's edging towards steepling for sure, mister Burns. Yeah, yeah,
and also the red flash in the right eye, the
look of surprise very much a candid photo. The red
flash might be due to possibly an ocular implant. Who
are we We can say this guy definitely just got arrested, right.
Speaker 2 (07:39):
Yes, so we're recording on Friday. He was arrested on
Thursday on suspicion of misconduct in public office by police
who are investigating the Prince's dealings with Jeffrey Epstein. The
police had been assessing. This is reading directly from the
Guardian's updates here. The police have been assessing allegations that
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at Prince, former Prince Andrew had shared sensitive information with
Epstein while he was a UK trade envoy. They come
from the documents that were released in the US through
the should we call it a quote investigation that the
Department of Justice is doing.
Speaker 3 (08:19):
Let's call it the concept of an investigation, ah.
Speaker 2 (08:22):
The idea of a conset of theiation everyone, Yeah, sure, sure, sure, sure,
But this is really happening a person that is, for
all intents and purposes, and as we've talked about on
the show before, in some ways above the law, because
you have to have a willingness to prosecute someone, especially
like royalty or someone who's in the upper echelons of
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government or a corporation. It's that white collar crime kind
of thing that we've talked about many times on this show.
You have to have the willingness to do it because
it could affect you if you're in a lower level position,
even if you're in Law and Force or the Justice Department,
you can get affected by folks in that echelon.
Speaker 3 (09:06):
It's also interesting to any student of history that the
disclosure of sensitive government information is what finally triggered the
arrest right its it reminds a lot of us of
the I mean, you guys remember the time when al
Capone went down not for organized crime, but for tax evasion.
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You can get people on the money. So it appears
that the UK government obviously is aware of the accusations
against the Andy, but I don't respect him enough to
call him a prince. But they they're aware of the accusations, right,
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of this terrible sexual atrocities, but they're getting him. We're
disclosing non sexual information as a trade envoy.
Speaker 2 (10:05):
Yeah, stuff that could be really useful to make lots
of money if you already have lots of money, right,
there's some really you know, there's some strong statements coming
out from everywhere, including from the King, literally the king,
the real the actual king, the one that is standing
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as a king.
Speaker 3 (10:27):
Yeah, you know, the one guy on the planet who
doesn't have to have a passport.
Speaker 2 (10:32):
Yeah, he's just cause I'm the king. Let me in.
Speaker 3 (10:37):
Did's your boy? Oh? Yeah?
Speaker 2 (10:41):
But also messages from like Virginia Geoffrey's family, right, who
is one of the primary people that came forward with
the allegations and with the information, just saying that no
one is about the law and we can actually see
that this is this kind of action taking against someone
like this shows everybody else that these folks aren't untouchable,
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except you know, if you maybe look towards the people
in the United States who have been accused in raft
up and a lot of this stuff, and you know,
have been shown on let's say powerpoints that the FBI
put together as primary contributors to the trafficking ring. There
was somebody on the top of a PowerPoint that I
saw recently, and I think he might be the standing
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president of the United States. Weird. There's this other thing
that's going on just with the former Prince Andrew's stuff.
His homes are being searched. And again, this is the
kind of thing, at least in America, when you hear
about someone like, oh, I don't know his actual name,
puff Puff Daddy, Shawn Combs, Shawn Combs, When Shawn Combs,
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somebody who is that well known and seemingly that powerful,
when they have their homes searched, it is it is
such a big deal because it's not it's in some
weird way not supposed to happen because of kind of
the corruption that exists in a lot of places. To
see it occur, I think is just super notable.
Speaker 3 (12:10):
Also hopefully good news. We have to be clear, these
investigations and these searches of Andy's home, right are they're
pretty massive. They're going to be pretty in depth because
this guy is the definition of upper crust. He has
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one of his homes has thirty rooms. This is not
going in and doing a kick door on a studio
apartment or a shotgun house. There's a lot of stuff
in there.
Speaker 2 (12:41):
Right, and send up shop for a while.
Speaker 3 (12:44):
Right, Yeah, Yeah, we're gonna have to spend some time
on this one. And again, it's just it's so curious
to me that this person has done evil things or
definitely peers to have done evil things to vulnerable people,
and did not get in trouble until there was another
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accusation against him. So at least our European friends are
holding people accountable in some way. Maybe. Yeah, I'm on
record with some strident opinions about how ridiculous the idea
of a royal family is, and I'm not backing down
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from him. I'm sorry, British friends. It's weird. It's a
weird tribal system and as Matt said, no one should
be above the law.
Speaker 2 (13:38):
Completely agree. Let's jump really quickly to AP News just
so you can look that up if you like. Police
search former Prince Andrew's home a day after his arrest.
That is talking about the search of the Royal Lodge,
which is the thirty room home that you're mentioning there, Ben,
but a couple other places too. They're also searching another
place where he is currently living. I guess you say.
Speaker 3 (14:00):
This, oh, Sandrin Haddon, Yes, or as we Americans would say, Sandringham, Sure,
Sandra Ham mistake the private retreat of King Charles the Third.
This is about one hundred and eighty five clicks north
of London, so it's in the middle of nowhere.
Speaker 2 (14:21):
So weird. He's waiting for another place called wood Farm
where he no wait wood for wood Farm is where
he is currently living. Yeah, and they searched that place already,
but he's waiting for another place, Marsh Farm, to be
ready so we can move into Marsh Farm.
Speaker 3 (14:36):
But also, what does that mean. I'm here at the
other farm and I'm waiting for the help to make
marsh Farm prepared.
Speaker 2 (14:47):
Think about that downgrade though, from the Royal Lodge to
the wood Farm now to the Marsh.
Speaker 3 (14:52):
Ooh, probably a statement. Definitely. British journalists are going to
be reading some tea leaves over that. Do you think
he's going to go to jail?
Speaker 2 (15:03):
I I something tells me no. But again, that's just
that's what I've learned over the course of my forty
some years on this planet. People like that just don't
go to jail. But we have seen a few of them,
and so maybe maybe it could happen. He did spend
eleven hours in custody and that was just you know,
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he's getting I guess interrogated. I wish he could have
heard our How to Resist Interrogation episode poor guy in time,
we didn't.
Speaker 3 (15:33):
You know, we got to work on our publishing strategy.
But also we've got to exercise empathy for those poor
knuckleheads who had to arrest a member of one of
the most dangerous organized crime syndicates in all of human history.
And now you have to Now you have to, like,
(15:55):
ask that guy if you want some tea, you have
to try to kick it with him real quick and
befriend him. It's not going to happen.
Speaker 2 (16:03):
Are we talking about the Epstein organization or the other one?
Speaker 3 (16:07):
Oh, the Royal Family?
Speaker 2 (16:08):
Yes, oh, okay, okay, oh.
Speaker 3 (16:11):
Yeah, just to be clear, just dangerous organized prime syndicate
historically speaking.
Speaker 2 (16:19):
That is weird to think about.
Speaker 3 (16:20):
Ben not saying the current We have not met the
current members, but they get a jacket, they have a
track record. You don't so eleven hours in custody. But
you right now are a bit skeptical of the idea
of this guy being incarcerated over a long period of time.
Speaker 2 (16:42):
Well, according to the authorities, he's still under investigation. He's
just released as of this moment, right and they're still
searchings properties, they're still looking into other stuff. I'm assuming
and his counterparts within the Epstein organization. And perhaps the
most important aspect of all of this, and the reason
why maybe he will go to jail, is because well, well,
(17:04):
let's talk about it, Ben. A UN body has come
forward and has stated that they believe information that's come
out through the Epstein Files release may meet the definition
of crimes against humanity, which is, as we know, a
whole other level of actions that can be taken against
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people persons who commit crimes against humanity. It's a whole
other thing, right, And if you want to read about this,
you can head over to Al Jazeer if you want
to title is UN panel says Epstein abuses may constitute
crimes against humanity, And if you want to read the
entire thing, you can search for flawed Epstein Files disclosures
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undermine accountability for grave crimes against women and girls UN experts.
This is like a PR piece that was put out
on the sixteenth of February and it just goes into
I guess I can read some of it from the
al jazer article, so we get an understanding. It says
on Tuesday, the independent experts appointed by the UN Human
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Rights Council release a statement in response to the millions
of files released by the US government related to Epstein,
It says, so grave is the scale, nature, systematic character,
and transnational reach of these atrocities against women and girls,
that a number of them may reasonably meet the legal
threshold of crimes against humanity. And just continuing the quote there,
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all the allegations contained in the Epstein files are egregious
in nature and require independent, thorough, and impartial investigation, as
well as inquiries to determine how such crimes could have
taken place for so long.
Speaker 3 (18:48):
Yeah, well said, we will see if those words result
in actions. We'd also like to share with you, folks,
response from the standing President Donald Trump asked board Air
Force one about Andy's arrest. He describes it as a
shame and a very sad thing. He fully says, we'll
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give you a quote here. We're not going to do
the voice quote. I think it's very sad. I think
it's so bad for the royal family. It's very very
sad to me. It's a very sad thing. King Charles
is obviously coming to our country very soon. He's a
fantastic man, he went on to say. And this is
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the omami, folks, He went on to say, quote, it's
really interesting because nobody used to speak about Epstein when
he was alive, but now they speak. But I'm the
one that can talk about it because I have been
totally exonerated. I did nothing. End quote your post. Oh
(19:54):
I mean come on, wow, Yeah, yeah, that's that's what
he said. We also understand that, uh, the Royal family
officially did not get word in advance of this arrest.
Speaker 2 (20:13):
Yeah, it just happened. Yeah, yeah, what's telling. That's pretty telling.
I think they didn't give a heads up. I don't know.
Speaker 3 (20:21):
I think they got a heads up and just decided.
Speaker 2 (20:26):
To say they didn't, right.
Speaker 3 (20:28):
Yeah, it's a weird tribal system.
Speaker 2 (20:32):
Yeah. Sorry, Sir King Charles or whatever they call him,
we got to go after your brother. Man. He's like
it's really bad. He's like, ah fine, Yeah. King Charles
put out a statement that said, like, we're gonna the
law must be going forward. And it does sadden me
and it's terrible, but I gotta do it.
Speaker 3 (20:52):
I wonder about Andy's social media presence just at look.
We are going to do an episode on the Epstein
Files revelations. Folks. We hope you tune in. It's not
going to be appropriate for all listeners, just to be honest,
but it does pull in so many existing threads of conspiracy.
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And again, maybe this is the most important point. Just
at the risk of sounding like a broken record, this
guy did not get arrested for sexual crimes. He's currently
been arrested and is currently being investigated for tradecraft for
insider information, for saying like, hey, you're into cobalt, right,
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you might want to invest in this mine in Afghanistan
or something like that. That's what he's getting in trouble for,
not the other unclean stuff. Yep.
Speaker 2 (21:57):
And just to the point of nobody was talking about
scene before he did he say before he died, that's
what you said. Just to remind people, if you go
back in our feeds, look to January twenty nineteen in
our first episode how Jeffrey Epstein Broke the law and
got away. And that's to point out two things. We
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didn't make episodes prior to that. And we've been around
since what two thousand and nine, two eight thousand and nine,
like early early, we didn't make an episode before that,
and that's because there wasn't enough information out in the
public to really even make an episode the way we
do with research and you know, doing these episodes the
way we do them. But we did make one in January,
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and we noticed that it wasn't that popular an episode
at first. I don't know if you remember this, Ben,
just people didn't know much about it.
Speaker 3 (22:51):
Right, Yeah, Well that's our remit. You know, it can't
always be fun, affectionate goodbyes to the world's best competitive eaters.
Sometimes we do have to get in the trenches and
report on the stuff they don't want you to know.
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And luckily, for now in the United States, we are
able to do so. We're able to say all of
our dumb ideas and weird invented catchphrases all the live
long day for now. Unfortunately, as we're gonna mention, I
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think after the break, that may not be the case forever.
Matt Dylan, our pal Steve isn't saving anything for this.
Speaker 2 (23:42):
Swim back you mean, mister Colbare.
Speaker 3 (23:47):
We'll be right back.
Speaker 2 (23:54):
And we've returned. Now, we're not going to spend a
lot of time on this because if you look at
the YouTube numbers, you can tell that a lot of
people are paying attention to what's going on with Stephen
Colbert and all the other late night hosts happening right now.
You can just see how many people are glued to
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their small screens to check that stuff out. Now, we
have no numbers on let's say, the broadcast data for
how many people watch CBS or NBC or whatever whichever
channel late at night. Sure, but like the broadcast numbers,
we don't have. But we can see through these social
media sites and other alternative platforms where their content gets posted,
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and it appears that if you, let's say, let's say,
as the FCC for example, okay, for some reason strong
arms in one way or another, one of these late
night hosts, let's say, is Stephen Colbert into or at
least the organization that owns Stephen Colbert's show, You can
strong on our them into not having a specific person
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on for an interview. So then that late night host assides, well,
we'll just put it up on our social media channel instead.
You could see the effect. The effect is if the
FCC says no, you can't do something, everybody else, a
lot of other people on this planet say we need
to see that thing that you don't want us to see.
Speaker 3 (25:25):
We call it the streisand effect, right, that's it. It's
an ancient internet lore. At this point, Yes, per Steve,
his top brass over at CBS, said that he should
not interview an up and coming politician from Texas named
James Talarrico. Steve is already going to leave the show.
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He's been wet beefed for a while, and so he
is again quoting Gatige here, he's not saving any thing
for the swim back. And as soon as these folks said, hey,
you can't talk to this guy, he said, hey, also,
I'm leaving later. I don't care. I'm not even mad.
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I'm going to do what I watch.
Speaker 2 (26:15):
He had a thing and I watched it, and yeah,
at least in the first I don't even know what
day it was, honestly that it came out. I just
see it when it shows up on YouTube like most
other people. I'm assuming he he threw in I guess
a promo for another CBS show at some point, but
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he was like, watch it or don't. I'm gone in May.
Speaker 3 (26:38):
Right, Yes, I saw that too, and also CBS said that.
CBS responded, they said, we did not prohibit the Late
Show from airing this interview. Instead, our our legal boffins
talked about the what we call the equal time rule
the FCCS as this thing where you know, if you
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have the if you have Dylan Tennessee Paal Fagan from
the Rude Bega Party speaking about the joys of rude vegas,
then in the interest of that equal time, then you've
got to have Noel, the severely anti rude bega person Brown.
You got to have that guy on to talk about
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why he thinks rude begas are terrible, you know. And
we've asked both of them about this off air, yes, well.
Speaker 2 (27:34):
And the concept there appears to be noble in one aspect,
the idea that you can't have an organization broadcast specifically
broadcast organization that runs either broadcast television or radio. You
can't have a single host or a company one of
those broadcast organizations come forward and only support let's say
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the Democratic side, sure, you know, the Democratic Party, and
only have on people who want to talk positive about that,
and then completely not get the other perspective that is
kind of noble and cool, and the idea that we
would have multiple perspectives on one of these one of
these shows that makes sense. It is getting weird and
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Sema Colbert talked about is on the show. It is
different when you get into cable, you get into social media,
you get into even late night shows, because late night
talk shows have kind of not had that same kind
of rule applied to them. And that goes back to
late night TV. Why you can get away with other
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stuff when it gets later in the day, at least
here in the United States, rather than show stuff on
daytime TV.
Speaker 3 (28:48):
Yeah, I mean that's a great point we see. I
want to step back and respond to that. So we
see the importance of something like equal time in older media,
especially because there are authoritarian regimes that will crush descent.
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It's the old joke from the Soviet era. Someone says,
how are things in Saint Petersburg and the other guy says,
I can't complain, that's the uh, it's funnier in Russian.
But the issue is that with this idea of equal time,
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we're also seeing an entry point into eroding the truth,
eroding factual statements. So if, for instance, I, as a
pro round earther, go on a show, does that mean
that we must also have a guy who believes the
Earth is case of da shaped come on right after
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or show up with me like we we say, ah,
you know, we jibbo we jibb. But at the end
there's a mutual respect and no, there's not. The earth
is not round, so how do we make space for that?
The issue is that the legislation has yet to catch
up with the new means of communication. So your algorithm
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on any social media platform, folks, it is not practicing
equal time. It is increasingly bubbling you into this Matroshka
doll of weirder and weirder. Beat me here, Dylan weirder, weirder.
And it's not meant to educate you. It's meant to
push you to buy a thing or to exhibit a
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certain behavior. With that being said, we're huge fans of Steve.
He's doing the right thing. I don't know, man, do
you think the late night show model is on the
way out as broadcast sort of declines?
Speaker 2 (30:55):
Oh, I'm not an expert on that, but I know
the money. The money isn't there for the broadcast side
as much anymore. I would just say somebody like a
Stephen Colbert will be just fine without a broadcast show,
And he was just fine on his cable program for
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a long time, and I think anybody who's at that caliber,
no matter where they are, right, no matter what outlet
or platform, they're going to be just fine. Yeah, I
do want to. I'm looking at it's so funny to
read this from CBS News. So it's about CBS and
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the parent organization of CBS and actions taken because of
statements that were put out by the FCC, but then
CBS reporting on it saying I'm just gonna read this.
In a statement to CBS News on Wednesday, that is
just a few days before we're recording here, White House
spokesman Davis Ingele called Colbert quote a pathetic train wreck
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with no talent and terrible ratings, which is exactly why
CBS canceled his show and is booting him off the
airwaves unquote. To hear that as the response, right, or
as an official statement from an administration, Yeah, and I know,
I know we've heard worse from the standing potus himself
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and from other you know, people in there and spokespeople.
Speaker 3 (32:24):
It is just.
Speaker 2 (32:26):
It's so weird. I don't know how you can have
that opinion. I don't know how you can hold that opinion. Uh,
genuinely right.
Speaker 3 (32:35):
Yeah, the performative aspect of it, the WWE raw trash
talking kind of, there's definitely theater at play. And speaking
of theater, speaking of statements from the administration, Oh yeah,
we got to break the news, folks. Maybe it's finally
happening Tennessee. Can you give us like a fire alarm
(32:57):
kind of thing or some like defcom warning, perfect, I'm scared, perfect, Well,
it's definitely happening. Per the current US President Donald Trump.
He went on a social media platform called truth Social
and officially ordered leaders of multiple US government agencies to
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quote begin the process of identifying and releasing end quote
government files on UAPs and UFOs. So literally any other
files but the Epstein files.
Speaker 2 (33:36):
Wait, wait, wait.
Speaker 3 (33:40):
And here's why. Here's why I was. I think I
was talking to you guys about this off air. Unfortunately
I had to miss our last listener mail segment. But
he I think he's directly responding to the statements by
former President Barack Obama. Oh yeah, the Neil deGrasse Tyson
(34:01):
answer about aliens, and then it got memified and it
went viral and people didn't listen to the context. I
think that's what the current president is reacting to because
many hates that guy.
Speaker 2 (34:16):
Yeah, I was, oh man, I had a I had
this up on my phone earlier today and the statement
that I saw was directly well, I saw a President
Obama talked about it, and people really seem to like that.
So hey, I want to be liked. So hey, let's
release these files, which you know, it's just it's just sad, man,
(34:37):
but you know that's okay. Here here's the weird thing. Yeah,
it would be amazing if this kind of order could
actually come forward and we could actually get the real
what do we call the straight poop on the UAPs,
that would be incredible. I don't know that the president
has the power to declassify the Special Access Program documents
(35:01):
and things like that, but maybe he does not.
Speaker 3 (35:04):
Really, not really, Sorry, Americans don't like to hear it,
but we have to say it. The commander in chief,
the president, as a role has is not a superhero,
does not function as a king. Now, if we were
(35:27):
say King Charles the third right and it was say
the fourteen hundreds, that we could do whatever wild stuff
we wanted, no one would check us until they killed
us and a revolution occurred.
Speaker 2 (35:41):
Wait, wait, wait, can King Charles do the same thing
for the UK's UAP files.
Speaker 3 (35:49):
I imagine historically the royal family prefers not to be
read on certain things.
Speaker 2 (35:59):
Well they can't. They don't want to be exposed, right,
Reptilian thing I get?
Speaker 3 (36:03):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, stay warm.
Speaker 2 (36:07):
Just kidding, I'm kidding.
Speaker 3 (36:08):
I'm kidding, all right, Matt skidding. So no, they're they're
a human. I'm sure, dude.
Speaker 2 (36:17):
I was thinking, bet. I was thinking about that again
today because, uh, Camille don Gianni beloved comedian and people
made fun of for some reason for getting in shape. Uh,
he's he. I was watching some things. I think he
has a new special out and he just put it
on Instagram and it's just one of those thoughts he had.
You could tell on his notes app that he's reading
on stage and he and I don't want to retell
(36:40):
in any of his jokes, and I would recommend you
go look it up. But he just made the observation
that only Caucasian people, white people get the different hair
colors and the different eye colors, and he's like everybody
else gets the exact same one, and what's going on there?
And he's he's making jokes about it. But then the
more and more I'm thinking about it, I'm going, oh, crap,
I maybe maybe it's maybe we're really the bad hybrids.
Speaker 3 (37:06):
At least theanital at least the sciences in on that one. Look,
I am torn about the sincerity of any disclosure proposal.
To be quite honest, it feels very jam tomorrow, jam yesterday,
(37:26):
never ever jammed today.
Speaker 2 (37:28):
It.
Speaker 3 (37:29):
We have, we have had conversations, interview segments with very storied,
very motivated, very brilliant people who are convinced that there
is something out there and that thing will be revealed,
and I hope they are correct. Again, please check out
our interviews with folks like Jeremy Corbell, you know, just
(37:49):
a phenomenal documentarian. We also, I just feel like it
gets weaponized.
Speaker 2 (37:58):
So oh yeah, well it's confusing as hell. I'm gonna
keep saying this. I'm still rewatching the X Files in
season five. Now, if you rewatch this whole thing, Uh,
it goes back to the like double and triple bluff concept, right,
Like there's the UAP thing or the UFO thing to
(38:20):
cover up the actual military industrial complex like darpest stuff,
but then that stuff is used to cover up the
actual yeah, uin' the UFO encounter and all that, and
just like trying to figure out which side of the
coin we are flipping too and which one is the
real one. I don't even know how we can get
(38:41):
through all of.
Speaker 3 (38:42):
That stuff at this point, right, the post truth environment
some have called it. We would we would love to
hear your thoughts, especially if you are an extra terrestrial.
Uh would be that'd be amazing? Right?
Speaker 5 (38:55):
Yeah, well, some of the if some of this stuff
is real, then theoretically you can probably hear this or
somehow translate this or just receive the energy and pull
what you need to out of it and know, we
want to know, and.
Speaker 2 (39:11):
Is it is there anything we can do?
Speaker 3 (39:15):
Yeah, we're here in peace. To be clear. Okay, if
you are listening and this is your first time hearing
things from Earth, we are not the top brass. Should
be clear. We would love to meet you. We just
want to learn more, and if you have some ideas
on how we can help you out, just pitch him.
(39:36):
You know we're approachable.
Speaker 2 (39:39):
Please, please, we'll just reach a little more of a
harmonious existence on this planet. That would be cool, and
please don't terraform it. And just take over that. That's
not nice.
Speaker 3 (39:48):
Here's a dune thing. Good friend of the show, our pal,
Michael Render aka Killer Mike, asked a great question a
while back. He said, why don't we have more black
voices in the disclosure movement? Why don't we have more
non white people on the History Channel talking about aliens?
Speaker 2 (40:11):
So that's a good question.
Speaker 3 (40:12):
I think we're going to work on. I think Mike
is going to work on a UFO.
Speaker 2 (40:20):
Feature film, Oh no way called jordans Man. That will
be Oh Ben, can you tell us a little bit
about that and how to find it because you've recently
went on conversa.
Speaker 3 (40:32):
Right right, Yeah. Conversation with Killer Mike is a wide
ranging show by the legendary activist and musician. He's spoken
with a lot of people. His right hand man is
a friend of ours, Ramsey Yount. Just absolute dream team there.
(40:53):
If you want to check out some of the recent
conversations on Conversy, we can't recommend and highly enough the
conversation with Payne Lenzi, who is also appearing or reappearing.
He's a bro of ours. He's reappearing on stuff they
don't want you to know. In an interview very soon
(41:13):
about season two of his show, High Strange fell into
newscaster voice. But no, High Strange is awesome obviously, Matt.
I think you. Dylan and I had just a fantastic
time when we hung out with Mike earlier. So hopefully
(41:35):
folting tune in and catch my pal Matt Frederick up
on conversate in the near future, assuming.
Speaker 2 (41:44):
They called me and asked me to do it, assuming
your schedule.
Speaker 3 (41:49):
Also assuming that we don't get in trouble for our
social media footprint, Matt, what should we take a break
for a word from our sponsors and then real quick
talk about a bummer thing on social media? Is that quat? Yeah?
Speaker 2 (42:01):
And some good news and.
Speaker 3 (42:03):
Some good news, yes, always a little bit of sugar
with the poison. And we have returned now, as you know,
longtime fellow conspiracy realist, longtime constant listeners. We've been talking
a lot about ridiculous names like homeland security. We've also
(42:27):
been talking about the dangers posed by new technology and
outdated legislation. Right now, as we're recording, the news is out.
Social media sites are being asked to or being subpoenat.
In some cases, they're being asked to report quote anti
(42:50):
ICE accounts?
Speaker 2 (42:54):
Yeah, what does that mean?
Speaker 3 (42:57):
That's the issue, right, because does that mean you put
a funny meme about maybe someone who works for ice
slipping and falling, just classic three Stooges physical comedy, and
then that gets called anti ice. Homeland Security has sent Google,
Meta and other companies in that sphere hundreds of subpoenas
(43:20):
for further information on accounts that comment or track or
remark upon Immigration and Customs enforcement or ICE. We've got
a great article about this that came to us via
The New York Times by Shira Frankel and Mike Isaac.
It's worth a read. I don't know, man' We are
(43:45):
so fortunate to have grown up before every kid ended
up being on social media.
Speaker 2 (43:52):
Yeah, uh yeah, I would agree. I can't read this article, Ben,
because I don't have access to the New York Times.
Speaker 3 (43:59):
But ah yeah, New York Times and paywalls. Do they
support journalism or do they endanger it? Well?
Speaker 2 (44:08):
It sucks. I mean, I imagine all the people that want
to read this, and they're I just I cannot afford
you New York Times because right you're the next thousandth
subscription I have to pay for.
Speaker 3 (44:19):
Oh, gosh, yeah, the forest of subscription trees for sure.
Here's what's happening Google, Reddit, Discord Rip, by the way,
and Meta. They are getting these subpoenas that are asking
for identifying details on accounts. So let's say let's say Dylan,
(44:44):
not to pick on you, but let's say Dylan has
an account called pals Forever, and pals Forever is on Instagram,
and every so often pals Forever says, I don't think
ICE agents should shoot innocent civilians.
Speaker 2 (45:03):
And then we identify Dylan and oh god, that's terrifying.
Speaker 3 (45:09):
Identify and track. Some of these tech companies, they can
choose whether or not to provide this information, and they
have said that they always read the request carefully before
they decide whether or not they will comply. And in
some cases, they notify the people that are getting, you know, questions,
(45:32):
so they might say, hey, pals Forever, sorry, man, they're
jamming us up. They want to know a lot about you,
so just be careful with your emoji reacts for a minute.
Speaker 2 (45:46):
This is uh, this weird stuff. We just talked about
DOGE and how much of our personal information as US
citizens was scooped up by that agency and then put
into a singular database. So at least that's alleged according
to some congressional oversight committees, it would be weird to
(46:09):
then match that stuff up with social accounts, right right.
Speaker 3 (46:14):
And it'd be devilishly easy to do. So now we
do have a quote from Google, a response to the
New York Times here, and we're going to share this
with you, and please play the parkour along with us
and tell us what sticks out to you about this statement.
Here we go again. Quote. When we receive a subpoena,
(46:37):
our review process is designed to protect user privacy while
meeting our legal obligations. We inform users when their accounts
have been subpoenaed, unless under legal order not to or
in an exceptional circumstance. We review every legal demand and
push back against those that are overbroad.
Speaker 2 (47:00):
Sorry I didn't huh huh.
Speaker 3 (47:03):
And well that's the thing, okay, So everybody playing along
at home, you caught that little Shyamalan plot twist, right,
We inform you if you're being subpoena unless we are
told not to inform you. Pals forever.
Speaker 2 (47:22):
You know, they're they're commissioning all these new detention centers
and I'm trying to imagine how many, you know, folks
who are getting picked up by ice right now for
their purposes would actually go into those detention centers. Feels like,
if you build it and you spend you know, hundreds
of millions of dollars on them, you got to put
(47:43):
some people in there.
Speaker 3 (47:44):
I'm also going to make this a political point, and
we don't want to be too navel gaizy about it,
but just from a logical perspective, if the move is
to deport a ton of people, why build facilities to
hold a ton of people.
Speaker 6 (48:04):
Yeah, because the court's been the courts are all jammed up.
Oh okay, great, cool, Sure, No, I hear what you're saying.
But this looks like permanent housing.
Speaker 2 (48:19):
Yeah, that's the thing. Some feels off about it.
Speaker 3 (48:24):
Interior motive.
Speaker 2 (48:26):
Well, it's tough because you go for and you make
a bunch of statements about it, and then you get
flagged and then YouTube says or whoever says, I guess
we need to inform you guys.
Speaker 3 (48:43):
And for the record, folks, we have never been mandated
not to talk about something, not to look into things.
We have received in the past over these low these
many years, we have received what I would very diplomatic
polite check its every.
Speaker 2 (49:03):
Source really from who?
Speaker 3 (49:06):
Well, before an episode of the show, we do, you know,
for instoks, we might have someone say, hey, I'm from
this is an example. We're making this up. This did
not happen, but as an example, we might do an
episode about scientology and we might receive a very nice,
polite email from COS and one of their reps saying, hey,
(49:30):
big fan of the show, just checked just checked out
your recent episode. You guys keep keeping on. Wow.
Speaker 2 (49:38):
Yeah, yeah, we haven't received anything directly from Brendan Carr
yet though, so I guess we're okay.
Speaker 3 (49:46):
Well, hope springs eternal. Right before we before we end here,
I've got to ask you guys. Do you have we
all three at passports? Right? Correct? Dude, Dylan, you have
a passport? Right?
Speaker 2 (50:03):
Yes? Yes, I do? Yes? All right.
Speaker 3 (50:07):
Well, if I was passport control, I would not have
liked that pause.
Speaker 2 (50:10):
I know, I know, oh boy oh, but I wanted.
Speaker 3 (50:14):
To ask you guys, and I want us to hear
from the audience too. Have you all ever considered getting
a second passport? And if so, what are your chances.
Speaker 2 (50:24):
Like from another country?
Speaker 3 (50:25):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (50:28):
I don't know how. I don't think I could do that.
Speaker 3 (50:31):
Do you have do you qualify for one of those
like EU ancestry laws or anything like Irish heritage or
I think Polish Heritage works too.
Speaker 2 (50:44):
If I do, I'm unaware.
Speaker 3 (50:48):
Nice, I've been looking at these second passports. We definitely
need to try to get it, but the golden parachute
passports are so expensive. I don't know.
Speaker 2 (51:01):
It's not gonna happen in my lifetime. You'll think so, well, no,
not unless Amazon decides to make a documentary about our
first year on Netflix or something for seventy five million
dollars and we get a significant cut. Then yeah.
Speaker 3 (51:16):
Again. I'm only going to say this at the end
of this program because Matt, you and Dylan have had
to hear me yell about this way too much. Today.
It's the last time I'll say it. The time has come.
We should round up everyone named Jeff. We can do
that with big data. We just need to check in
(51:36):
on all the Jeffs.
Speaker 2 (51:39):
I know so many good Jeffs.
Speaker 3 (51:40):
Though I know I'm not saying yes, the Jeffs are
a good and kind people overall.
Speaker 5 (51:48):
If you round up all the Jeffs, you might be
your redneck what Foxworthy.
Speaker 2 (51:55):
That's one of the primary good Jeffs.
Speaker 3 (51:57):
I know, it's like one of the top five Jeffs,
top eight.
Speaker 2 (52:04):
Oh boy.
Speaker 3 (52:05):
Yeah. So there is no humor like Dallo's humor. There
is no whistle like a graveyard whistle. Russia has ordered
Google to pay one point two quintillion dollars. That's more
money than exists.
Speaker 2 (52:19):
Yeah, that's real. That's actually you're gonna have it, that's
the thing, right.
Speaker 3 (52:23):
I wonder how Google responded to that particular subpoena really quickly.
Speaker 2 (52:28):
Before we get out of here, I want to give
some good news because everything feels so just darn right
gross and evil and bad. Right now, some great news
coming out of Japan. This comes to us from AP
News and Mari Yamaguchi, written on February twentieth, twenty twenty six.
I'm gonna read instead of reading the title, I'm just
going to go directly into the article. With a population
(52:50):
of two point eight million, Osaka is Japan's third largest
city that serves as a Western Japanese capital. Most of
Japan's main public infrastructure was built during the rapid post
war economic growth and urban development In Osaka Regional commercial
Hubs started earlier than many cities, and its water pipes
and other infrastructure are also aging earlier. So there's a
(53:13):
problem in Osaka and that that infrastructure is old and
it needs to be updated and it's going to cost
a lot of money. But here's an amazing thing that
just occurred from the article. Osaka has received a hefty
gift of gold bars worth five hundred and sixty million
yen that's three point six million US from some anonymous
(53:37):
so and so and asked for its specific use to
fix the city's water pipes.
Speaker 6 (53:44):
Cool.
Speaker 2 (53:45):
It's freaking awesome.
Speaker 3 (53:47):
It's awesome. It's sad that it had to come about
that way, but it's awesome that it happened, you.
Speaker 2 (53:54):
Know, agreed, Agreed.
Speaker 3 (53:56):
It is kind of like it is it not kind
of like reading those feel good stories or the daytime
TV pseudo news reports where they say something like, oh,
this philanthropist has just paid for one hundred children to
have free lunch at school. Yeah, great, we're not going
to take away from you. But also, why are you
(54:19):
letting kids go hungry in the first few Like, well,
I don't know, man, but.
Speaker 2 (54:24):
That person's awesome and in this case, awesome. Whoever this
is donated twenty one kilograms or forty six pounds of gold,
just gave it away and said, hey, this is to
help with the water pipes. Here's the bad news. Okay
Osaka needs to renew a total of two hundred and
fifty nine kilometers or one hundred and sixty miles of
(54:47):
water pipes, and to renew a two kilometer or one
point two mile segment of water pipes, it costs around
five hundred million yen or three point two million dollars.
So the it got enough for a two kilometer segment
of water pipes, they just need two hundred and fifty
seven more kilometers.
Speaker 3 (55:07):
And also it I don't know he staggering. I guess
it is. You're correct. The infrastructure around the world is
collapsing in a lot of places. But also, and I
don't want to be, you know, the negative entity in
the room here. I don't want to be a storm
cloud about it. But it's kind of sketchy, right, you
(55:29):
could have just donated the yen just but now gold,
now it's gold bars. Is this some sort of like
yokai curse? Is this some sort of folklore thing? Is
there a rumpel Stiltskin. That's what I'm asking. Is this
like a monkey's paw situation? Like who has just bars
of gold?
Speaker 2 (55:49):
Like that is a John Wick character that means, well,
you know, and is sick and tired of these old pipes.
But or it's also an investment because the price of
gold is probably going to rise. We know it fluctuates
quite a bit and recently, but it will probably rise
in the way that let's say the yen or the
(56:10):
US dollar won't.
Speaker 3 (56:12):
Right, especially during I've never figured this one out, but
especially during times of economic instability, those tangible precious metals
do tend to rise. Your silver, your gold, titanium, platinum,
things like that. But it is you know, it is
cool to say that because during during the coming economic chaos,
(56:39):
gold probably will experience more of an appreciation. So if
Osaka takes that sketchy, sketchy, beautiful donation and they just
hold on to it, then they'll end up with more
money than they had at the beginning. That's an excellent point.
Speaker 2 (56:56):
Yeah, maybe a couple maybe maybe even a kilometer of pipes.
Speaker 3 (57:01):
Maybe even half a kilometer of pipes. Folks, thank you
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We can't wait to hear your thoughts about all this stuff.
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Speaker 2 (00:26):
Hello, Welcome back to the show. My name is Matt.
Our colleague Noel is on an adventure but will return shortly.
Speaker 3 (00:34):
They call me Ben. We're joined as always with our
super producer Dylan the Tennessee pal Fagan. Most importantly, you
are you. You are here. That makes this the stuff
they don't want you to know. It's time for our
weekly strange news segment. So if you are tuning in
the evening, this program publishes Welcome Friends and Neighbors to
(00:56):
February twenty third, twenty twenty Matt Dylan. If we could,
I'd like to start out with a bittersweet fond farewell.
Is that all right?
Speaker 2 (01:12):
Okay?
Speaker 3 (01:13):
Awesome? Okay, So remember that time, Matt uh as a
period you and I were hanging out and I got
super weirdly into competitive eating.
Speaker 2 (01:23):
I remember your your talks about the Black Widow specifically.
Speaker 3 (01:27):
Yes, yes, yeah, you remember. So we have to bid
a fond farewell to one of the best in the game.
This is breaking strange news that Hiro Kobyashi, a legendary
competitive eater, has retired because he no longer feels fullness
(01:48):
nor hunger. Oh, I know.
Speaker 2 (01:52):
He this this is the guy. This is the one.
Speaker 3 (01:55):
Yeah, he's the guy that people believed had a physiological
I don't want to call it abnormality, but a physiological
difference that allowed his stomach to distend into other parts
of his body such that he could eat more than
a human should eat. And we got Dylan popping in.
(02:18):
I know you've got opinions on this, Tennessee.
Speaker 2 (02:20):
It makes me sad.
Speaker 4 (02:21):
I mean, it's just a lot of changes the last
few years and competitive eating between that and then Joey
Chestnut going for the vegan hot dogs and not being
able to be part of Nathan's. But I once saw
a video where Kobyashi ate like three gigantic bowls are
amen and then lifted up his shirt.
Speaker 2 (02:40):
Dude had a six pack?
Speaker 3 (02:42):
Crazy? What yeah?
Speaker 2 (02:46):
Yeah, what is he teaching his body to do?
Speaker 3 (02:49):
He's You can check out the older YouTube explorations over
our pal. Kobyashi again one of the best in the game.
He will eat gigantic amounts of food and then be
on a treadmill forever. And that's as that was his
whole day.
Speaker 2 (03:08):
Ben. According to the Yahoo Sports article you posted, he
is still the current record holder for rice balls twenty
pounds in half an hour.
Speaker 3 (03:18):
Don't forget about the lobster rules.
Speaker 2 (03:20):
Yeah, forty one in ten minutes. And oh oh the
last one.
Speaker 3 (03:26):
Yeah the brains right, cow brains.
Speaker 2 (03:31):
Seventeen point seven pounds in fifteen minutes.
Speaker 3 (03:34):
Oh that is more than a pound every sixty seconds. God,
this guy is just cool man, And you know, take
care of yourself, stay mentally physically fit. You have moved
beyond hunger and moved beyond fullness, Kobyashi, you will be remembered.
(03:54):
That is one of our That is the stuff we
had to establish before we got to Epstein, before we
got to freedom of speech, before we got to social media,
and the concept of one point two quintillion dollars, which
is apparently a real number.
Speaker 2 (04:12):
Yeah, sure it's a real number. Yeah, and you owe
it to us, So have fun.
Speaker 3 (04:19):
What about this, guys, What if we take a quick
break for a word from our sponsors and then maybe
talk a little bit about the Epstein news.
Speaker 2 (04:28):
Yes, and we've returned Ben the Black Widow. Yes, real name,
Lee Sun Kyung or Sonya Thomas. Yes, that is the
person I most fondly remember you speaking of just about
how again insane it is that someone of just a
(04:50):
relatively small stature can just magically put that stuff away.
It's incredible.
Speaker 3 (04:57):
I mean, I still, I'll say it on air. I'm
fine with it. I still think you should enter a
hot food contest. I would love to see you on
hot ones, Matt. I would love to see you it
in a more serious competition, you know what I mean.
I bet you could rock some Scovilles, my guy.
Speaker 2 (05:15):
It's not about the competition, man, It's about going inside
and exploring yourself and finding that that inner fire. I
don't need competition for that. I could do that on
my own.
Speaker 3 (05:27):
Great, that's the promo, I say, we do it, no notes,
ten ten, Let's get you in there. Man. We also knew.
Speaker 2 (05:36):
Speaking of doing it on their own. Let's chill to
the UK. Oh yeah, who's actually tried to prosecute people
for the Epstein files? What people should get prosecuted? You say,
United Kingdom? Okay? Why? How well? This is this is
a brand new News Again. Recording on February twentieth, twenty
(05:58):
twenty six. This is us the live feed that The
Guardian does often for a big news story. You can
look it up right now. Andrew Mountbatten Windsor arrested King
Charles says law must take its course as ex prints
taken into custody live you could find this, it's really cool,
a bunch of live updates. Yeah, thank you for sharing this.
(06:19):
Look at that.
Speaker 3 (06:21):
It's it's for us. This is an audio podcast. Check
out our video episodes on Netflix, but for us. Just
so you know, there is an unfortunate picture Prince Andrew
in the Guardian that you that you linked here, Matt,
could you.
Speaker 2 (06:41):
To see it? Yeah, Dylan, why don't you describe it?
Speaker 1 (06:45):
Dylan?
Speaker 3 (06:45):
Could you describe how Andy is looking at this one?
Speaker 1 (06:49):
Well?
Speaker 4 (06:49):
I think one of the things that makes it is
the red eye from the flash looks like a man
whose problems have finally finally caught up with him.
Speaker 2 (07:00):
Yep, just leaned back as he's being driven around in
some ridiculously fancy vehicle, and he's got his hands up
almost almost steepling close to it, maybe just clasping.
Speaker 3 (07:12):
He's edging towards steepling for sure, mister Burns. Yeah, yeah,
and also the red flash in the right eye, the
look of surprise very much a candid photo. The red
flash might be due to possibly an ocular implant. Who
are we We can say this guy definitely just got arrested, right.
Speaker 2 (07:39):
Yes, so we're recording on Friday. He was arrested on
Thursday on suspicion of misconduct in public office by police
who are investigating the Prince's dealings with Jeffrey Epstein. The
police had been assessing. This is reading directly from the
Guardian's updates here. The police have been assessing allegations that
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at Prince, former Prince Andrew had shared sensitive information with
Epstein while he was a UK trade envoy. They come
from the documents that were released in the US through
the should we call it a quote investigation that the
Department of Justice is doing.
Speaker 3 (08:19):
Let's call it the concept of an investigation, ah.
Speaker 2 (08:22):
The idea of a conset of theiation everyone, Yeah, sure, sure, sure, sure,
But this is really happening a person that is, for
all intents and purposes, and as we've talked about on
the show before, in some ways above the law, because
you have to have a willingness to prosecute someone, especially
like royalty or someone who's in the upper echelons of
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government or a corporation. It's that white collar crime kind
of thing that we've talked about many times on this show.
You have to have the willingness to do it because
it could affect you if you're in a lower level position,
even if you're in Law and Force or the Justice Department,
you can get affected by folks in that echelon.
Speaker 3 (09:06):
It's also interesting to any student of history that the
disclosure of sensitive government information is what finally triggered the
arrest right its it reminds a lot of us of
the I mean, you guys remember the time when al
Capone went down not for organized crime, but for tax evasion.
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You can get people on the money. So it appears
that the UK government obviously is aware of the accusations
against the Andy, but I don't respect him enough to
call him a prince. But they they're aware of the accusations, right,
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of this terrible sexual atrocities, but they're getting him. We're
disclosing non sexual information as a trade envoy.
Speaker 2 (10:05):
Yeah, stuff that could be really useful to make lots
of money if you already have lots of money, right,
there's some really you know, there's some strong statements coming
out from everywhere, including from the King, literally the king,
the real the actual king, the one that is standing
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as a king.
Speaker 3 (10:27):
Yeah, you know, the one guy on the planet who
doesn't have to have a passport.
Speaker 2 (10:32):
Yeah, he's just cause I'm the king. Let me in.
Speaker 3 (10:37):
Did's your boy? Oh? Yeah?
Speaker 2 (10:41):
But also messages from like Virginia Geoffrey's family, right, who
is one of the primary people that came forward with
the allegations and with the information, just saying that no
one is about the law and we can actually see
that this is this kind of action taking against someone
like this shows everybody else that these folks aren't untouchable,
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except you know, if you maybe look towards the people
in the United States who have been accused in raft
up and a lot of this stuff, and you know,
have been shown on let's say powerpoints that the FBI
put together as primary contributors to the trafficking ring. There
was somebody on the top of a PowerPoint that I
saw recently, and I think he might be the standing
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president of the United States. Weird. There's this other thing
that's going on just with the former Prince Andrew's stuff.
His homes are being searched. And again, this is the
kind of thing, at least in America, when you hear
about someone like, oh, I don't know his actual name,
puff Puff Daddy, Shawn Combs, Shawn Combs, When Shawn Combs,
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somebody who is that well known and seemingly that powerful,
when they have their homes searched, it is it is
such a big deal because it's not it's in some
weird way not supposed to happen because of kind of
the corruption that exists in a lot of places. To
see it occur, I think is just super notable.
Speaker 3 (12:10):
Also hopefully good news. We have to be clear, these
investigations and these searches of Andy's home, right are they're
pretty massive. They're going to be pretty in depth because
this guy is the definition of upper crust. He has
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one of his homes has thirty rooms. This is not
going in and doing a kick door on a studio
apartment or a shotgun house. There's a lot of stuff
in there.
Speaker 2 (12:41):
Right, and send up shop for a while.
Speaker 3 (12:44):
Right, Yeah, Yeah, we're gonna have to spend some time
on this one. And again, it's just it's so curious
to me that this person has done evil things or
definitely peers to have done evil things to vulnerable people,
and did not get in trouble until there was another
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accusation against him. So at least our European friends are
holding people accountable in some way. Maybe. Yeah, I'm on
record with some strident opinions about how ridiculous the idea
of a royal family is, and I'm not backing down
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from him. I'm sorry, British friends. It's weird. It's a
weird tribal system and as Matt said, no one should
be above the law.
Speaker 2 (13:38):
Completely agree. Let's jump really quickly to AP News just
so you can look that up if you like. Police
search former Prince Andrew's home a day after his arrest.
That is talking about the search of the Royal Lodge,
which is the thirty room home that you're mentioning there, Ben,
but a couple other places too. They're also searching another
place where he is currently living. I guess you say.
Speaker 3 (14:00):
This, oh, Sandrin Haddon, Yes, or as we Americans would say, Sandringham, Sure,
Sandra Ham mistake the private retreat of King Charles the Third.
This is about one hundred and eighty five clicks north
of London, so it's in the middle of nowhere.
Speaker 2 (14:21):
So weird. He's waiting for another place called wood Farm
where he no wait wood for wood Farm is where
he is currently living. Yeah, and they searched that place already,
but he's waiting for another place, Marsh Farm, to be
ready so we can move into Marsh Farm.
Speaker 3 (14:36):
But also, what does that mean. I'm here at the
other farm and I'm waiting for the help to make
marsh Farm prepared.
Speaker 2 (14:47):
Think about that downgrade though, from the Royal Lodge to
the wood Farm now to the Marsh.
Speaker 3 (14:52):
Ooh, probably a statement. Definitely. British journalists are going to
be reading some tea leaves over that. Do you think
he's going to go to jail?
Speaker 2 (15:03):
I I something tells me no. But again, that's just
that's what I've learned over the course of my forty
some years on this planet. People like that just don't
go to jail. But we have seen a few of them,
and so maybe maybe it could happen. He did spend
eleven hours in custody and that was just you know,
(15:24):
he's getting I guess interrogated. I wish he could have
heard our How to Resist Interrogation episode poor guy in time,
we didn't.
Speaker 3 (15:33):
You know, we got to work on our publishing strategy.
But also we've got to exercise empathy for those poor
knuckleheads who had to arrest a member of one of
the most dangerous organized crime syndicates in all of human history.
And now you have to Now you have to, like,
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ask that guy if you want some tea, you have
to try to kick it with him real quick and
befriend him. It's not going to happen.
Speaker 2 (16:03):
Are we talking about the Epstein organization or the other one?
Speaker 3 (16:07):
Oh, the Royal Family?
Speaker 2 (16:08):
Yes, oh, okay, okay, oh.
Speaker 3 (16:11):
Yeah, just to be clear, just dangerous organized prime syndicate
historically speaking.
Speaker 2 (16:19):
That is weird to think about.
Speaker 3 (16:20):
Ben not saying the current We have not met the
current members, but they get a jacket, they have a
track record. You don't so eleven hours in custody. But
you right now are a bit skeptical of the idea
of this guy being incarcerated over a long period of time.
Speaker 2 (16:42):
Well, according to the authorities, he's still under investigation. He's
just released as of this moment, right and they're still
searchings properties, they're still looking into other stuff. I'm assuming
and his counterparts within the Epstein organization. And perhaps the
most important aspect of all of this, and the reason
why maybe he will go to jail, is because well, well,
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let's talk about it, Ben. A UN body has come
forward and has stated that they believe information that's come
out through the Epstein Files release may meet the definition
of crimes against humanity, which is, as we know, a
whole other level of actions that can be taken against
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people persons who commit crimes against humanity. It's a whole
other thing, right, And if you want to read about this,
you can head over to Al Jazeer if you want
to title is UN panel says Epstein abuses may constitute
crimes against humanity, And if you want to read the
entire thing, you can search for flawed Epstein Files disclosures
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undermine accountability for grave crimes against women and girls UN experts.
This is like a PR piece that was put out
on the sixteenth of February and it just goes into
I guess I can read some of it from the
al jazer article, so we get an understanding. It says
on Tuesday, the independent experts appointed by the UN Human
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Rights Council release a statement in response to the millions
of files released by the US government related to Epstein,
It says, so grave is the scale, nature, systematic character,
and transnational reach of these atrocities against women and girls,
that a number of them may reasonably meet the legal
threshold of crimes against humanity. And just continuing the quote there,
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all the allegations contained in the Epstein files are egregious
in nature and require independent, thorough, and impartial investigation, as
well as inquiries to determine how such crimes could have
taken place for so long.
Speaker 3 (18:48):
Yeah, well said, we will see if those words result
in actions. We'd also like to share with you, folks,
response from the standing President Donald Trump asked board Air
Force one about Andy's arrest. He describes it as a
shame and a very sad thing. He fully says, we'll
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give you a quote here. We're not going to do
the voice quote. I think it's very sad. I think
it's so bad for the royal family. It's very very
sad to me. It's a very sad thing. King Charles
is obviously coming to our country very soon. He's a
fantastic man, he went on to say. And this is
(19:33):
the omami, folks, He went on to say, quote, it's
really interesting because nobody used to speak about Epstein when
he was alive, but now they speak. But I'm the
one that can talk about it because I have been
totally exonerated. I did nothing. End quote your post. Oh
(19:54):
I mean come on, wow, Yeah, yeah, that's that's what
he said. We also understand that, uh, the Royal family
officially did not get word in advance of this arrest.
Speaker 2 (20:13):
Yeah, it just happened. Yeah, yeah, what's telling. That's pretty telling.
I think they didn't give a heads up. I don't know.
Speaker 3 (20:21):
I think they got a heads up and just decided.
Speaker 2 (20:26):
To say they didn't, right.
Speaker 3 (20:28):
Yeah, it's a weird tribal system.
Speaker 2 (20:32):
Yeah. Sorry, Sir King Charles or whatever they call him,
we got to go after your brother. Man. He's like
it's really bad. He's like, ah fine, Yeah. King Charles
put out a statement that said, like, we're gonna the
law must be going forward. And it does sadden me
and it's terrible, but I gotta do it.
Speaker 3 (20:52):
I wonder about Andy's social media presence just at look.
We are going to do an episode on the Epstein
Files revelations. Folks. We hope you tune in. It's not
going to be appropriate for all listeners, just to be honest,
but it does pull in so many existing threads of conspiracy.
(21:18):
And again, maybe this is the most important point. Just
at the risk of sounding like a broken record, this
guy did not get arrested for sexual crimes. He's currently
been arrested and is currently being investigated for tradecraft for
insider information, for saying like, hey, you're into cobalt, right,
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you might want to invest in this mine in Afghanistan
or something like that. That's what he's getting in trouble for,
not the other unclean stuff. Yep.
Speaker 2 (21:57):
And just to the point of nobody was talking about
scene before he did he say before he died, that's
what you said. Just to remind people, if you go
back in our feeds, look to January twenty nineteen in
our first episode how Jeffrey Epstein Broke the law and
got away. And that's to point out two things. We
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didn't make episodes prior to that. And we've been around
since what two thousand and nine, two eight thousand and nine,
like early early, we didn't make an episode before that,
and that's because there wasn't enough information out in the
public to really even make an episode the way we
do with research and you know, doing these episodes the
way we do them. But we did make one in January,
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and we noticed that it wasn't that popular an episode
at first. I don't know if you remember this, Ben,
just people didn't know much about it.
Speaker 3 (22:51):
Right, Yeah, Well that's our remit. You know, it can't
always be fun, affectionate goodbyes to the world's best competitive eaters.
Sometimes we do have to get in the trenches and
report on the stuff they don't want you to know.
(23:11):
And luckily, for now in the United States, we are
able to do so. We're able to say all of
our dumb ideas and weird invented catchphrases all the live
long day for now. Unfortunately, as we're gonna mention, I
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think after the break, that may not be the case forever.
Matt Dylan, our pal Steve isn't saving anything for this.
Speaker 2 (23:42):
Swim back you mean, mister Colbare.
Speaker 3 (23:47):
We'll be right back.
Speaker 2 (23:54):
And we've returned. Now, we're not going to spend a
lot of time on this because if you look at
the YouTube numbers, you can tell that a lot of
people are paying attention to what's going on with Stephen
Colbert and all the other late night hosts happening right now.
You can just see how many people are glued to
(24:16):
their small screens to check that stuff out. Now, we
have no numbers on let's say, the broadcast data for
how many people watch CBS or NBC or whatever whichever
channel late at night. Sure, but like the broadcast numbers,
we don't have. But we can see through these social
media sites and other alternative platforms where their content gets posted,
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and it appears that if you, let's say, let's say,
as the FCC for example, okay, for some reason strong
arms in one way or another, one of these late
night hosts, let's say, is Stephen Colbert into or at
least the organization that owns Stephen Colbert's show, You can
strong on our them into not having a specific person
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on for an interview. So then that late night host assides, well,
we'll just put it up on our social media channel instead.
You could see the effect. The effect is if the
FCC says no, you can't do something, everybody else, a
lot of other people on this planet say we need
to see that thing that you don't want us to see.
Speaker 3 (25:25):
We call it the streisand effect, right, that's it. It's
an ancient internet lore. At this point, Yes, per Steve,
his top brass over at CBS, said that he should
not interview an up and coming politician from Texas named
James Talarrico. Steve is already going to leave the show.
(25:50):
He's been wet beefed for a while, and so he
is again quoting Gatige here, he's not saving any thing
for the swim back. And as soon as these folks said, hey,
you can't talk to this guy, he said, hey, also,
I'm leaving later. I don't care. I'm not even mad.
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I'm going to do what I watch.
Speaker 2 (26:15):
He had a thing and I watched it, and yeah,
at least in the first I don't even know what
day it was, honestly that it came out. I just
see it when it shows up on YouTube like most
other people. I'm assuming he he threw in I guess
a promo for another CBS show at some point, but
(26:35):
he was like, watch it or don't. I'm gone in May.
Speaker 3 (26:38):
Right, Yes, I saw that too, and also CBS said that.
CBS responded, they said, we did not prohibit the Late
Show from airing this interview. Instead, our our legal boffins
talked about the what we call the equal time rule
the FCCS as this thing where you know, if you
(27:01):
have the if you have Dylan Tennessee Paal Fagan from
the Rude Bega Party speaking about the joys of rude vegas,
then in the interest of that equal time, then you've
got to have Noel, the severely anti rude bega person Brown.
You got to have that guy on to talk about
(27:23):
why he thinks rude begas are terrible, you know. And
we've asked both of them about this off air, yes, well.
Speaker 2 (27:34):
And the concept there appears to be noble in one aspect,
the idea that you can't have an organization broadcast specifically
broadcast organization that runs either broadcast television or radio. You
can't have a single host or a company one of
those broadcast organizations come forward and only support let's say
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the Democratic side, sure, you know, the Democratic Party, and
only have on people who want to talk positive about that,
and then completely not get the other perspective that is
kind of noble and cool, and the idea that we
would have multiple perspectives on one of these one of
these shows that makes sense. It is getting weird and
(28:18):
Sema Colbert talked about is on the show. It is
different when you get into cable, you get into social media,
you get into even late night shows, because late night
talk shows have kind of not had that same kind
of rule applied to them. And that goes back to
late night TV. Why you can get away with other
(28:38):
stuff when it gets later in the day, at least
here in the United States, rather than show stuff on
daytime TV.
Speaker 3 (28:48):
Yeah, I mean that's a great point we see. I
want to step back and respond to that. So we
see the importance of something like equal time in older media,
especially because there are authoritarian regimes that will crush descent.
(29:08):
It's the old joke from the Soviet era. Someone says,
how are things in Saint Petersburg and the other guy says,
I can't complain, that's the uh, it's funnier in Russian.
But the issue is that with this idea of equal time,
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we're also seeing an entry point into eroding the truth,
eroding factual statements. So if, for instance, I, as a
pro round earther, go on a show, does that mean
that we must also have a guy who believes the
Earth is case of da shaped come on right after
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or show up with me like we we say, ah,
you know, we jibbo we jibb. But at the end
there's a mutual respect and no, there's not. The earth
is not round, so how do we make space for that?
The issue is that the legislation has yet to catch
up with the new means of communication. So your algorithm
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on any social media platform, folks, it is not practicing
equal time. It is increasingly bubbling you into this Matroshka
doll of weirder and weirder. Beat me here, Dylan weirder, weirder.
And it's not meant to educate you. It's meant to
push you to buy a thing or to exhibit a
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certain behavior. With that being said, we're huge fans of Steve.
He's doing the right thing. I don't know, man, do
you think the late night show model is on the
way out as broadcast sort of declines?
Speaker 2 (30:55):
Oh, I'm not an expert on that, but I know
the money. The money isn't there for the broadcast side
as much anymore. I would just say somebody like a
Stephen Colbert will be just fine without a broadcast show,
And he was just fine on his cable program for
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a long time, and I think anybody who's at that caliber,
no matter where they are, right, no matter what outlet
or platform, they're going to be just fine. Yeah, I
do want to. I'm looking at it's so funny to
read this from CBS News. So it's about CBS and
(31:38):
the parent organization of CBS and actions taken because of
statements that were put out by the FCC, but then
CBS reporting on it saying I'm just gonna read this.
In a statement to CBS News on Wednesday, that is
just a few days before we're recording here, White House
spokesman Davis Ingele called Colbert quote a pathetic train wreck
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with no talent and terrible ratings, which is exactly why
CBS canceled his show and is booting him off the
airwaves unquote. To hear that as the response, right, or
as an official statement from an administration, Yeah, and I know,
I know we've heard worse from the standing potus himself
(32:21):
and from other you know, people in there and spokespeople.
Speaker 3 (32:24):
It is just.
Speaker 2 (32:26):
It's so weird. I don't know how you can have
that opinion. I don't know how you can hold that opinion. Uh,
genuinely right.
Speaker 3 (32:35):
Yeah, the performative aspect of it, the WWE raw trash
talking kind of, there's definitely theater at play. And speaking
of theater, speaking of statements from the administration, Oh yeah,
we got to break the news, folks. Maybe it's finally
happening Tennessee. Can you give us like a fire alarm
(32:57):
kind of thing or some like defcom warning, perfect, I'm scared, perfect, Well,
it's definitely happening. Per the current US President Donald Trump.
He went on a social media platform called truth Social
and officially ordered leaders of multiple US government agencies to
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quote begin the process of identifying and releasing end quote
government files on UAPs and UFOs. So literally any other
files but the Epstein files.
Speaker 2 (33:36):
Wait, wait, wait.
Speaker 3 (33:40):
And here's why. Here's why I was. I think I
was talking to you guys about this off air. Unfortunately
I had to miss our last listener mail segment. But
he I think he's directly responding to the statements by
former President Barack Obama. Oh yeah, the Neil deGrasse Tyson
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answer about aliens, and then it got memified and it
went viral and people didn't listen to the context. I
think that's what the current president is reacting to because
many hates that guy.
Speaker 2 (34:16):
Yeah, I was, oh man, I had a I had
this up on my phone earlier today and the statement
that I saw was directly well, I saw a President
Obama talked about it, and people really seem to like that.
So hey, I want to be liked. So hey, let's
release these files, which you know, it's just it's just sad, man,
(34:37):
but you know that's okay. Here here's the weird thing. Yeah,
it would be amazing if this kind of order could
actually come forward and we could actually get the real
what do we call the straight poop on the UAPs,
that would be incredible. I don't know that the president
has the power to declassify the Special Access Program documents
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and things like that, but maybe he does not.
Speaker 3 (35:04):
Really, not really, Sorry, Americans don't like to hear it,
but we have to say it. The commander in chief,
the president, as a role has is not a superhero,
does not function as a king. Now, if we were
(35:27):
say King Charles the third right and it was say
the fourteen hundreds, that we could do whatever wild stuff
we wanted, no one would check us until they killed
us and a revolution occurred.
Speaker 2 (35:41):
Wait, wait, wait, can King Charles do the same thing
for the UK's UAP files.
Speaker 3 (35:49):
I imagine historically the royal family prefers not to be
read on certain things.
Speaker 2 (35:59):
Well they can't. They don't want to be exposed, right,
Reptilian thing I get?
Speaker 3 (36:03):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, stay warm.
Speaker 2 (36:07):
Just kidding, I'm kidding.
Speaker 3 (36:08):
I'm kidding, all right, Matt skidding. So no, they're they're
a human. I'm sure, dude.
Speaker 2 (36:17):
I was thinking, bet. I was thinking about that again
today because, uh, Camille don Gianni beloved comedian and people
made fun of for some reason for getting in shape. Uh,
he's he. I was watching some things. I think he
has a new special out and he just put it
on Instagram and it's just one of those thoughts he had.
You could tell on his notes app that he's reading
on stage and he and I don't want to retell
(36:40):
in any of his jokes, and I would recommend you
go look it up. But he just made the observation
that only Caucasian people, white people get the different hair
colors and the different eye colors, and he's like everybody
else gets the exact same one, and what's going on there?
And he's he's making jokes about it. But then the
more and more I'm thinking about it, I'm going, oh, crap,
I maybe maybe it's maybe we're really the bad hybrids.
Speaker 3 (37:06):
At least theanital at least the sciences in on that one. Look,
I am torn about the sincerity of any disclosure proposal.
To be quite honest, it feels very jam tomorrow, jam yesterday,
(37:26):
never ever jammed today.
Speaker 2 (37:28):
It.
Speaker 3 (37:29):
We have, we have had conversations, interview segments with very storied,
very motivated, very brilliant people who are convinced that there
is something out there and that thing will be revealed,
and I hope they are correct. Again, please check out
our interviews with folks like Jeremy Corbell, you know, just
(37:49):
a phenomenal documentarian. We also, I just feel like it
gets weaponized.
Speaker 2 (37:58):
So oh yeah, well it's confusing as hell. I'm gonna
keep saying this. I'm still rewatching the X Files in
season five. Now, if you rewatch this whole thing, Uh,
it goes back to the like double and triple bluff concept, right,
Like there's the UAP thing or the UFO thing to
(38:20):
cover up the actual military industrial complex like darpest stuff,
but then that stuff is used to cover up the
actual yeah, uin' the UFO encounter and all that, and
just like trying to figure out which side of the
coin we are flipping too and which one is the
real one. I don't even know how we can get
(38:41):
through all of.
Speaker 3 (38:42):
That stuff at this point, right, the post truth environment
some have called it. We would we would love to
hear your thoughts, especially if you are an extra terrestrial.
Uh would be that'd be amazing? Right?
Speaker 5 (38:55):
Yeah, well, some of the if some of this stuff
is real, then theoretically you can probably hear this or
somehow translate this or just receive the energy and pull
what you need to out of it and know, we
want to know, and.
Speaker 2 (39:11):
Is it is there anything we can do?
Speaker 3 (39:15):
Yeah, we're here in peace. To be clear. Okay, if
you are listening and this is your first time hearing
things from Earth, we are not the top brass. Should
be clear. We would love to meet you. We just
want to learn more, and if you have some ideas
on how we can help you out, just pitch him.
(39:36):
You know we're approachable.
Speaker 2 (39:39):
Please, please, we'll just reach a little more of a
harmonious existence on this planet. That would be cool, and
please don't terraform it. And just take over that. That's
not nice.
Speaker 3 (39:48):
Here's a dune thing. Good friend of the show, our pal,
Michael Render aka Killer Mike, asked a great question a
while back. He said, why don't we have more black
voices in the disclosure movement? Why don't we have more
non white people on the History Channel talking about aliens?
Speaker 2 (40:11):
So that's a good question.
Speaker 3 (40:12):
I think we're going to work on. I think Mike
is going to work on a UFO.
Speaker 2 (40:20):
Feature film, Oh no way called jordans Man. That will
be Oh Ben, can you tell us a little bit
about that and how to find it because you've recently
went on conversa.
Speaker 3 (40:32):
Right right, Yeah. Conversation with Killer Mike is a wide
ranging show by the legendary activist and musician. He's spoken
with a lot of people. His right hand man is
a friend of ours, Ramsey Yount. Just absolute dream team there.
(40:53):
If you want to check out some of the recent
conversations on Conversy, we can't recommend and highly enough the
conversation with Payne Lenzi, who is also appearing or reappearing.
He's a bro of ours. He's reappearing on stuff they
don't want you to know. In an interview very soon
(41:13):
about season two of his show, High Strange fell into
newscaster voice. But no, High Strange is awesome obviously, Matt.
I think you. Dylan and I had just a fantastic
time when we hung out with Mike earlier. So hopefully
(41:35):
folting tune in and catch my pal Matt Frederick up
on conversate in the near future, assuming.
Speaker 2 (41:44):
They called me and asked me to do it, assuming
your schedule.
Speaker 3 (41:49):
Also assuming that we don't get in trouble for our
social media footprint, Matt, what should we take a break
for a word from our sponsors and then real quick
talk about a bummer thing on social media? Is that quat? Yeah?
Speaker 2 (42:01):
And some good news and.
Speaker 3 (42:03):
Some good news, yes, always a little bit of sugar
with the poison. And we have returned now, as you know,
longtime fellow conspiracy realist, longtime constant listeners. We've been talking
a lot about ridiculous names like homeland security. We've also
(42:27):
been talking about the dangers posed by new technology and
outdated legislation. Right now, as we're recording, the news is out.
Social media sites are being asked to or being subpoenat.
In some cases, they're being asked to report quote anti
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ICE accounts?
Speaker 2 (42:54):
Yeah, what does that mean?
Speaker 3 (42:57):
That's the issue, right, because does that mean you put
a funny meme about maybe someone who works for ice
slipping and falling, just classic three Stooges physical comedy, and
then that gets called anti ice. Homeland Security has sent Google,
Meta and other companies in that sphere hundreds of subpoenas
(43:20):
for further information on accounts that comment or track or
remark upon Immigration and Customs enforcement or ICE. We've got
a great article about this that came to us via
The New York Times by Shira Frankel and Mike Isaac.
It's worth a read. I don't know, man' We are
(43:45):
so fortunate to have grown up before every kid ended
up being on social media.
Speaker 2 (43:52):
Yeah, uh yeah, I would agree. I can't read this article, Ben,
because I don't have access to the New York Times.
Speaker 3 (43:59):
But ah yeah, New York Times and paywalls. Do they
support journalism or do they endanger it? Well?
Speaker 2 (44:08):
It sucks. I mean, I imagine all the people that want
to read this, and they're I just I cannot afford
you New York Times because right you're the next thousandth
subscription I have to pay for.
Speaker 3 (44:19):
Oh, gosh, yeah, the forest of subscription trees for sure.
Here's what's happening Google, Reddit, Discord Rip, by the way,
and Meta. They are getting these subpoenas that are asking
for identifying details on accounts. So let's say let's say Dylan,
(44:44):
not to pick on you, but let's say Dylan has
an account called pals Forever, and pals Forever is on Instagram,
and every so often pals Forever says, I don't think
ICE agents should shoot innocent civilians.
Speaker 2 (45:03):
And then we identify Dylan and oh god, that's terrifying.
Speaker 3 (45:09):
Identify and track. Some of these tech companies, they can
choose whether or not to provide this information, and they
have said that they always read the request carefully before
they decide whether or not they will comply. And in
some cases, they notify the people that are getting, you know, questions,
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so they might say, hey, pals Forever, sorry, man, they're
jamming us up. They want to know a lot about you,
so just be careful with your emoji reacts for a minute.
Speaker 2 (45:46):
This is uh, this weird stuff. We just talked about
DOGE and how much of our personal information as US
citizens was scooped up by that agency and then put
into a singular database. So at least that's alleged according
to some congressional oversight committees, it would be weird to
(46:09):
then match that stuff up with social accounts, right right.
Speaker 3 (46:14):
And it'd be devilishly easy to do. So now we
do have a quote from Google, a response to the
New York Times here, and we're going to share this
with you, and please play the parkour along with us
and tell us what sticks out to you about this statement.
Here we go again. Quote. When we receive a subpoena,
(46:37):
our review process is designed to protect user privacy while
meeting our legal obligations. We inform users when their accounts
have been subpoenaed, unless under legal order not to or
in an exceptional circumstance. We review every legal demand and
push back against those that are overbroad.
Speaker 2 (47:00):
Sorry I didn't huh huh.
Speaker 3 (47:03):
And well that's the thing, okay, So everybody playing along
at home, you caught that little Shyamalan plot twist, right,
We inform you if you're being subpoena unless we are
told not to inform you. Pals forever.
Speaker 2 (47:22):
You know, they're they're commissioning all these new detention centers
and I'm trying to imagine how many, you know, folks
who are getting picked up by ice right now for
their purposes would actually go into those detention centers. Feels like,
if you build it and you spend you know, hundreds
of millions of dollars on them, you got to put
(47:43):
some people in there.
Speaker 3 (47:44):
I'm also going to make this a political point, and
we don't want to be too navel gaizy about it,
but just from a logical perspective, if the move is
to deport a ton of people, why build facilities to
hold a ton of people.
Speaker 6 (48:04):
Yeah, because the court's been the courts are all jammed up.
Oh okay, great, cool, Sure, No, I hear what you're saying.
But this looks like permanent housing.
Speaker 2 (48:19):
Yeah, that's the thing. Some feels off about it.
Speaker 3 (48:24):
Interior motive.
Speaker 2 (48:26):
Well, it's tough because you go for and you make
a bunch of statements about it, and then you get
flagged and then YouTube says or whoever says, I guess
we need to inform you guys.
Speaker 3 (48:43):
And for the record, folks, we have never been mandated
not to talk about something, not to look into things.
We have received in the past over these low these
many years, we have received what I would very diplomatic
polite check its every.
Speaker 2 (49:03):
Source really from who?
Speaker 3 (49:06):
Well, before an episode of the show, we do, you know,
for instoks, we might have someone say, hey, I'm from
this is an example. We're making this up. This did
not happen, but as an example, we might do an
episode about scientology and we might receive a very nice,
polite email from COS and one of their reps saying, hey,
(49:30):
big fan of the show, just checked just checked out
your recent episode. You guys keep keeping on. Wow.
Speaker 2 (49:38):
Yeah, yeah, we haven't received anything directly from Brendan Carr
yet though, so I guess we're okay.
Speaker 3 (49:46):
Well, hope springs eternal. Right before we before we end here,
I've got to ask you guys. Do you have we
all three at passports? Right? Correct? Dude, Dylan, you have
a passport? Right?
Speaker 2 (50:03):
Yes? Yes, I do? Yes? All right.
Speaker 3 (50:07):
Well, if I was passport control, I would not have
liked that pause.
Speaker 2 (50:10):
I know, I know, oh boy oh, but I wanted.
Speaker 3 (50:14):
To ask you guys, and I want us to hear
from the audience too. Have you all ever considered getting
a second passport? And if so, what are your chances.
Speaker 2 (50:24):
Like from another country?
Speaker 3 (50:25):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (50:28):
I don't know how. I don't think I could do that.
Speaker 3 (50:31):
Do you have do you qualify for one of those
like EU ancestry laws or anything like Irish heritage or
I think Polish Heritage works too.
Speaker 2 (50:44):
If I do, I'm unaware.
Speaker 3 (50:48):
Nice, I've been looking at these second passports. We definitely
need to try to get it, but the golden parachute
passports are so expensive. I don't know.
Speaker 2 (51:01):
It's not gonna happen in my lifetime. You'll think so, well, no,
not unless Amazon decides to make a documentary about our
first year on Netflix or something for seventy five million
dollars and we get a significant cut. Then yeah.
Speaker 3 (51:16):
Again. I'm only going to say this at the end
of this program because Matt, you and Dylan have had
to hear me yell about this way too much. Today.
It's the last time I'll say it. The time has come.
We should round up everyone named Jeff. We can do
that with big data. We just need to check in
(51:36):
on all the Jeffs.
Speaker 2 (51:39):
I know so many good Jeffs.
Speaker 3 (51:40):
Though I know I'm not saying yes, the Jeffs are
a good and kind people overall.
Speaker 5 (51:48):
If you round up all the Jeffs, you might be
your redneck what Foxworthy.
Speaker 2 (51:55):
That's one of the primary good Jeffs.
Speaker 3 (51:57):
I know, it's like one of the top five Jeffs,
top eight.
Speaker 2 (52:04):
Oh boy.
Speaker 3 (52:05):
Yeah. So there is no humor like Dallo's humor. There
is no whistle like a graveyard whistle. Russia has ordered
Google to pay one point two quintillion dollars. That's more
money than exists.
Speaker 2 (52:19):
Yeah, that's real. That's actually you're gonna have it, that's
the thing, right.
Speaker 3 (52:23):
I wonder how Google responded to that particular subpoena really quickly.
Speaker 2 (52:28):
Before we get out of here, I want to give
some good news because everything feels so just darn right
gross and evil and bad. Right now, some great news
coming out of Japan. This comes to us from AP
News and Mari Yamaguchi, written on February twentieth, twenty twenty six.
I'm gonna read instead of reading the title, I'm just
going to go directly into the article. With a population
(52:50):
of two point eight million, Osaka is Japan's third largest
city that serves as a Western Japanese capital. Most of
Japan's main public infrastructure was built during the rapid post
war economic growth and urban development In Osaka Regional commercial
Hubs started earlier than many cities, and its water pipes
and other infrastructure are also aging earlier. So there's a
(53:13):
problem in Osaka and that that infrastructure is old and
it needs to be updated and it's going to cost
a lot of money. But here's an amazing thing that
just occurred from the article. Osaka has received a hefty
gift of gold bars worth five hundred and sixty million
yen that's three point six million US from some anonymous
(53:37):
so and so and asked for its specific use to
fix the city's water pipes.
Speaker 6 (53:44):
Cool.
Speaker 2 (53:45):
It's freaking awesome.
Speaker 3 (53:47):
It's awesome. It's sad that it had to come about
that way, but it's awesome that it happened, you.
Speaker 2 (53:54):
Know, agreed, Agreed.
Speaker 3 (53:56):
It is kind of like it is it not kind
of like reading those feel good stories or the daytime
TV pseudo news reports where they say something like, oh,
this philanthropist has just paid for one hundred children to
have free lunch at school. Yeah, great, we're not going
to take away from you. But also, why are you
(54:19):
letting kids go hungry in the first few Like, well,
I don't know, man, but.
Speaker 2 (54:24):
That person's awesome and in this case, awesome. Whoever this
is donated twenty one kilograms or forty six pounds of gold,
just gave it away and said, hey, this is to
help with the water pipes. Here's the bad news. Okay
Osaka needs to renew a total of two hundred and
fifty nine kilometers or one hundred and sixty miles of
(54:47):
water pipes, and to renew a two kilometer or one
point two mile segment of water pipes, it costs around
five hundred million yen or three point two million dollars.
So the it got enough for a two kilometer segment
of water pipes, they just need two hundred and fifty
seven more kilometers.
Speaker 3 (55:07):
And also it I don't know he staggering. I guess
it is. You're correct. The infrastructure around the world is
collapsing in a lot of places. But also, and I
don't want to be, you know, the negative entity in
the room here. I don't want to be a storm
cloud about it. But it's kind of sketchy, right, you
(55:29):
could have just donated the yen just but now gold,
now it's gold bars. Is this some sort of like
yokai curse? Is this some sort of folklore thing? Is
there a rumpel Stiltskin. That's what I'm asking. Is this
like a monkey's paw situation? Like who has just bars
of gold?
Speaker 2 (55:49):
Like that is a John Wick character that means, well,
you know, and is sick and tired of these old pipes.
But or it's also an investment because the price of
gold is probably going to rise. We know it fluctuates
quite a bit and recently, but it will probably rise
in the way that let's say the yen or the
(56:10):
US dollar won't.
Speaker 3 (56:12):
Right, especially during I've never figured this one out, but
especially during times of economic instability, those tangible precious metals
do tend to rise. Your silver, your gold, titanium, platinum,
things like that. But it is you know, it is
cool to say that because during during the coming economic chaos,
(56:39):
gold probably will experience more of an appreciation. So if
Osaka takes that sketchy, sketchy, beautiful donation and they just
hold on to it, then they'll end up with more
money than they had at the beginning. That's an excellent point.
Speaker 2 (56:56):
Yeah, maybe a couple maybe maybe even a kilometer of pipes.
Speaker 3 (57:01):
Maybe even half a kilometer of pipes. Folks, thank you
so much for tuning in. This has been strange news.
We can't wait to hear your thoughts about all this stuff.
We can't wait to hear your leads on strange things
going around in your neck of the global woods. You
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(57:25):
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