Strange But True Military Stories

Every now and again you hear a story so OUTRAGEOUS that you think there's no way in hell it isn't made up. Well, that counts double in the military where strange things are abound. Cam and Izzy focus their eagle-eyed attention during this week's episoe on all those stories that sound to incredible to possibly be true (but most of them are!). 

They wrap out the episode with new-fangled game of “No Way That Happened!” Izzy tries his best at this video game focused game. Will he emerge victorious? Only time will tell.

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Episode Transcript

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In time, in time, there'sa gut to follow to make it true.
Mister, let me let me getthis thing cut. Start kicked off
by asking you who's who's the mostlegendary ranger to you? Legendary ranger?

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Oh, I mean time appropriately,we just lost colonel Lieutenant Colonel Ralph Pucket,
who was one of the like bestrangers who has ever lived. As
far as I talk about a manwho has dedicated his life to the men

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and during his service and well wellwell after, Colonel Ralph Pucket is the
Medal of Honor recipient and who actuallygot it recently in his old age,
when he was in his nineties,he got the Medal of do he recently
passed away. I think it wasa couple of days at the time of
this recording. But as far asone of the most influential best arranger figures

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out there, it's probably gonna bethat guy. Wow. Yeah, I'm
looking at this is that we're recordingthis, I'm looking at the Google.
One day ago. Colonel Robson MiddleHonor dies at ninety seven. Wow,
ninety seven. Yeah, I believehe got the Meddle of Hoorner in like
twenty twenty like twenty twenty one forhis efforts in the Korean War. Wow.

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Yeah, so he was a legend. Yeah what did he do?
You know what he did? Youknow, can you summarize what he Basically,
they like held us. So theyhad this hilltop you know in Korea,
it was all battles of hilltops,because that's all Korea is is just
hilltops hills. Yeah, but theylike held off wave after wave after wave
of Chinese onslaughts. And and hewas injured during it all, but they

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still held off everybody. It wassome crazy I'm sure you could look up
his Medal of Honor recipient and thenthe battle itself in Korea of what he's
known for. Yeah, but itwas like some outstanding ranger achievement. But
yeah, as far as ultimate Rangersgo, that guy is like that story
there's like sometimes you really you readit and it's unbelievable. Wow. Yeah,

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yeah, it's yeah, it's uh, you want to be These are
guys to look up to, Likethe actions and these specific you know,
specific incidents are things to look upto, things to admire, and and
that's kind of that's kind of dovetailsinto our discussion today the the the episode
is there's no way right, there'scrazy, amazing things and a lot of

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times that takes the form of valorin battle that you just don't like.
You just don't believe that they coulddo these things that, you know,
if I could, I guess mythe uh super Chad green Beret. I
feel like Roy Benavidez is always theone that comes to mind first and foremost,
guys. Yeah, the Gigachad.Yeah, so that's what we're talking

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about today, folks. We're gladyou could join us. By the way,
team we got a bunch of greatcontent on our pop culture Field manual
YouTube, can go check that out. We're doing game reviews and a bunch
of other great stuff. We havea TikTok. Now we're gonna get some
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here there, everywhere, and nowwe're gonna talk about some unbelievable stuff.

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Oh yeah, believe it. Well. We got a couple of stories here
for y'all, some of them onthe topic of valor, some of them
on the topic of mystery and juststrange. But there's stories none of the
left and nonetheless run the left,none of the left, none of the
left, because these stories are actuallyright. But we're gonna tell them to

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you, and it's your you canbelieve them or not. But these are
real stores. I don't even care. You don't even care. But starting
off with story number one, whichis about which is about a pilot,
a single pilot P fifty one Mustangfighter plane escorts a bomber squadron and takes

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on thirty to forty German fighters,defeats and drives them away, successfully protecting
the bombers. So here is whathappened. And that's you know, just
reading that tagline is you're like,how that's like a movie or a video
game or something that didn't actually happen. This is it seems like the kind
of story that you tell as anexample of how awesome you wish the army

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or the military could be. Youknow, you don't actually it's like a
fictionalized It doesn't seem real. Yeah, yeah, well this is what happened
January nineteen forty four James H.Howard and I like how it includes like
names and everything. James H.Howard and Scott squadron of P fifty one
Mustang we're escorting American escort. We'rea escorting American got into combat over Germany

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with ninety Nazi fighter planes. Aftera short battle, all of the German
fighters were either driven off or shutdown, but Howard found himself alone,
separated from the rest of his squadron, and became the sole escort for the
bombers, and then became forty Germanfighters. For the next thirty minutes,
Howard a viciously attacked the German planes, with the astonished bomber cruise looking on

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in awe. He shot down ordamaged at least six enemy aircrafts, received
in return only a single bullet throughthe wing. Running dangerously low on fuel,
remembering this was all happening over Germanyand with half of his guns jammed,
Howard continued fighting and forced the enemyaway the bombers were safely escorted.
He didn't brag about his amazing feeton return till the Barmber Cruise during the

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inquiry revealed his identity and what happenedto the public got to know about it.
I know that didn't sound grammatically correctin some spots, but what was
You're not gonna be narrating any audiobooksanytime soon. Yeah, no, no,
no, but crazy, that's crazy. I mean yeah, in World
Wars do you got to think aboutthe tech of those planes, like a

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lot of it. You know,they didn't have missiles. You know a
lot of those they didn't have likeguided missile systems right right, like we
have all today. It was alllike dog fighting as far as like you
know, getting in close switching toswitching to guns. What's the quote to
close missile switching the guns? Ohyeah, yeah, yeah, man.

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Yeah, when we think top guntoday, it's a lot of air battles
are done miles away because we justwe lock on, we fire. You
know, it's a lot of likeground to air, air to ground stuff
or and if it's air to air, I feel like one element has technological
superiority over the other one. Soit's not really even a fair fight that
has dog fighting hasn't happened in along time. And World War Two you

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had to know, you think aboutit. You had to know your plane,
You had to really know it's capabilities. You had to know your capabilities,
and you had to have this justgodlike situational awareness not just around you
like in a land based situation,but an air based situation you ford left
right up, down all around andit's constantly evolving, right, So I

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would love to hear about like,you know, I don't have him here,
but it would be great to dosome research and find it, like
the minute by minute account of whatthat must have been like, and just
the massive amount of focus, youknow that you would have to have in
every at every moment of the day, the nerves of steel, just focusing

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on what you're doing and never thinkingof yourself, never thinking, oh my
god, I'm gonna die here,Oh my god, he's got you know,
he's behind me or whatever. Idon't even know how you do that,
man, he must have. Yeah, it's crazy not to mention the
chaos that probably dogfights look like.Yeah, like you have a limited back
then you have like a cockpit likeating all around you at high speeds,
pulling g's, you know, multiplemachine guns because when people are shooting,

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like those bullets have to go somewhere, so you could be accidentally taking somebody's
rounds. Kind of the thought processthat pops my mind as far as as
like a mental image or a mentalvideo that's like going on, is could
you imagine like medieval wars, likewhen everybody's like even in the movies you
watch like those battles for medievals,like sword on sword, when there's just
this gaggle of people swinging shit,and like you're fighting one guy and all

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it takes is somebody to turn aroundand see your back turned and he comes
in and just smashes your head infrom behind and then you're just gat and
you didn't even like have a fightingchance. Yeah, you didn't even see
it coming. Yeah. Yeah,it's like total chaos like that. I
can only imagine that's like a dogfightand to have like be out numbered thirty
to one, you know, fortyto one. Yeah, I love what

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I I love the Anywhere says thathe didn't really brag about or anything,
which with pilots, I feel likethey have this reputation that the cops super
confident, kind of bragging houses kindof guys. They really know they he
gotta be confident to fly a fighterjet, you know, and take on
that kind of technology and that kindof stress. But the fact that it

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was the other crews that talked tohim, that you know, that told
about his exploits, that's really cool. He's a humble guy, and that
makes it that you want, Yeah, you want good things like that to
happen to people like that. Soabsolutely really cool. Man, Well kicking
it off, that's story number one. Yeah, story number two. I
love stories from North Korea because Ifeel like, maybe more so, it's

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been talked about in recent years,and I'm sure there's a good amount of
war history books that have been written, but I feel like they call it
the forgotten War, you know whatI mean, It's it's just this crazy
time in history that Yeah, thiswas crazy war that was brutal. It
was brutal, it was only threeyears long. But man, there's so
many stories that can come out ofthat. Yeah, but this one is

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In nineteen fifty one, after ayear of fighting Korea, the United States
forces were at a stalemate in theNorth Korean Army and the People's Liberation Army.
Jack G. Hansen was a machinegun into the thirty first Infantry Regiment
of the US Army on June seven, nineteen fifty one. Hanson and the
rest of f Company's f companies dugIn Hill Position was being overwhelmed by North
Korean infantry. The company withdrew,leaving Hanson and four others as rear guard

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to cover their retreat. The fourothers all got wounded and were forced to
crawl the safety, leaving just Hansonwith his machine gun, standing alone against
an entire company. Yeah, againstwhat an entire company couldn't stand against,
So it was just him. Theexact details of what happened is not known,
since all the Americans had withdrawn andthe North Koreans were either dead or

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otherwise unavailable for comment. What wedo know is that two hours later,
the Americans return in force and retookthe position. They found Hanson's body dead
in front of his machine gun nestwith all his animal expended. In his
right hand was an empty pistol,and in his left hand was a mache
covered in blood. In front ofhim lay approximately twenty two dead enemy soldiers,

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riddled with bullets and with blade ones. Oh my god, I can't
even imagine, man, like thethe most intense situation that you've ever been
in, right, and all thatmight go through your head or doesn't go
through your head. You know,I've you know, you and I have

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been in you know, kind ofstressful wartime situations. But nothing like this,
and I feel like there maybe therecould be interviews that we could,
you know, with people that havesurvived things like this Medal of Honawares.
But there has to be a placethat your mind go to, goes to
that maybe it's just this acceptance likeeverything else falls away and there's just kind

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of like this purity in what's happening. It's just bodies against bodies, it's
just men against men. There's nonational stuff, there's no morality, there's
no there's no other kind of principlesinvolved. It's just killed or be killed.
Yeah, And I have to imaginethat there's something about that situation that
you know, it's just like you, I just feel like you have to

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let it all go. And maybepsychologists would do a better job of explaining
you have to let it all goand just just do you know, and
then whatever happens happens. Yeah.Yeah, I mean, I just am
trying to imagine myself like as areturning force, like being that point man
and coming over top seeing him andthen just like looking over and just seeing

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this war path. Like to me, that is one of the bad most
that is one of the most motivatingthings I can think of and just being
like, I don't know, he'syou know, taking that body back.
First of all, that's like thisguy. Preserve that guy. You know,
he needs the highest honors for that. That's just man man mono emano.

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That's like one of the most motivatingthings I can think of, and
just thinking to myself like I wantthat. Yeah, yeah, yeah,
and I and you know what youryour reaction camera, and I think that
that's a unique reaction among you know, I would include myself in that in
that group of like to see thatis motivating. There may be other people
that that we would see that they'relike, oh my god, I'm so

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glad I wasn't here. Yeah,and it's because it's just you. You
can't assume anything because there's different kindsof personalities and stuff like that. But
yes, no, my god,it's so yeah, it's yeah, it's
a yeah you want It's like it'slike legend it's like legendary. It is
why we watch movies like Hacks AreRidge or you know, all these other

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horror movies. That's that's what safedistance. Yeah, exactly. We want
to experience at least a little bitof what must have gone through you know
uh what he must have gone through, you know what I mean. That's
like old school Viking mentality. Yes, I will die here in bad and

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it will be glorious. You killingme, You're doing me a favor,
you know. So yeah, yeah, you're sending me to eternal glory by
doing this. That's like, yeah, I can't even imagine that, but
man, what a story I couldhave. I'm trying to just picture that
scene in my head, and it'sjust like, yeah, yeah, that's

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crazy. Man. We got acouple of those, couple of great stories.
We're gonna we're gonna we're gonna stickwith the heroic stuff for a little
bit longer, folks, but thenwe'll move into the more kind of maybe
wild or supernatural or classified kind ofthings. Sure for sure. So next
story, story number three. Oneman army takes on and defeats five hundred
meters of German trenches and machine gunnests. Here's what happened during World War

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One. Dominic quote unquote Fats seriously, it's his nickname was Fats McCarthy was
an Australian soldier who fought in Gallipoli, Glopol, Gallipoli, Gallipoli and France.
August nineteen eighteen. McCarthy commanded acompany in northern France. When the
battalion on his left frank left flankwas held down by a heavily fortified German

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trench full of machine guns. FatsMcCarthy took three men with him to deal
with this German trench. For aguy named Fats McCarthy could really move.
He outpaced his guys, avoided heavyfire from the German guns, and neutralized
the first machine gun nests before theother guys could even catch up with him.
Without pausing, Fats continued as oneman blitzkrieg on the entire German trent

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system. Armed with only a standardrival and many grenades, He very likely
resupplied himself off the enemy as hewent along. Fats McCarthy captured five machine
guns, killed twenty two Germans,and captured fifty Germans. He secured half
a kilometer of German trunk systems allby himself. Unbelievable, Damn Fats.

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Yeah, Fats, where do yougo? Fats? I think about situations
like this, and you know everybodyhas different You never know how you're going
to react in a situation like this. You hope that your training takes over.
You hope that you would be oneof the ones that would be able
to push forward. But how manyguys, Like what if like more soldiers
were like this, Like how easilywould would victories come if more dudes were

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like this guy, Fats McCarthy,you know what, Yeah, just I
don't know. I mean you watchedlike a lot of pop culture, like
many especially World War One pieces,like many of the people did not want
to go over that dress line.Yeah, man, yeah, And I
get it, you know, yeah, No, I get it too.
It was like, I don't thinkit was a real noble like service.

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Wasn't like a noble thing yet,was it? Back in World War two?
World War one's kind of those interestingones where if you watch have you
seen They Shall Not Grow Old?Yeah? Jackson, Yeah, Jackson's color
version. Yeah. Yeah, theyinterviewed a lot of those guys and and
and I don't know, it's kindof one of those things where it starts
off so super patriotic, and thenas the war drags on, you're thinking,

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like, why are we doing this? I feel like maybe that's a
common experience throughout history. But thenthere's a lot of stories of guys coming
back and it's like they didn't knowwhat to do with them. They had
this influx of males coming back intothe society and it's like they gotta have
jobs, they gotta have something todo, and and I think that was
hard for a lot of them.So it's it's kind of the that's kind
of the tragedy of warfighter guys orwar fighters in general. You know,

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I wonder if he was in theEMU Wars, the Great EMU Wars.
I hope not. That would bea plemish on his otherwise sterling career.
Yeah, I mean it was,he was, It said it was Australian.
Yeah, yeah, that's the wholepoint was of the EMU Wars was
like, let's these guys don't havejobs anymore, let's give them a job.
Let's have them kill birds. Yeah, and they and they couldn't do

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that. That didn't go to doit. That's terrible. Yeah, rough
emit world, but yeah, that'sI mean, it's unbelievable just to think
in the trench system, because knockingout a trench it's a battle. It
is uh, it is not aneasy it's an actual formalized battle. Drill.
Yes, that's right, Yeah,that's either's uh entering clear trend is

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it? Battle drill seven seven?I believe it's off the top of my
head. Battles eight of them,right, there's eight. Ah, nice
battle drill seven enter trenching skureful Iremember? Uh so Yeah, No,
it's actually not that easy, andit's super sketchy because like you have to

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follow the contours of the trend systemand there's all these corners. You basically
get in there and you just clearit with superior firepower. What we're talking
about man right now? Yeah,if you ever watched that combat footage from
the trench system, Oh, it'ssomething else, man. And like I
say, when you're clearing, yeah, it's seek you be outside. Yeah,

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yeah, you watch some of thebody And when I say you clear
with superior firepower, like you don'tknow what's around the corner. Instead of
just popping your head around and takinga peek, you're literally as you're turning
the corner, you're just putting yourgun and shooting it as fast as you
can, clearing by fire I andjust you know, hope nobody's there.

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Yeah, it's absolutely nuts. Butyeah, I couldn't imagine, you know,
going through an entire trend system becauseat that point, first of all,
one man against fifty, like anynormal thinking guy was like, there's
one of them, there's fifty ofus. Yeah, you know, how
do you I don't know how youjust like justify like giving up against one
man, but you know, ina trench system, it's super shitty and

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you're just like, this guy's killinga lot of people. You know,
I'm just gonna give up. Yeah, yeah, I guess so. Yeah,
And I feel like that might thatmight have been a common occurrence where
once you get you know, youget injured or your position gets taken over,
and you get a chance to surrender, You're probably gonna want to surrender.
You're like the via mofter, theSS or whatever, and you're like

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super hardcore or whatever. You're thinking, Okay, i'll get taken prisoner,
I'll get i'll get food, I'llchill out, and then eventually maybe i'll
get returned home. Yeah. Yeah, they can't kip me forever, right,
Yeah. Yeah, we got anotherone here. It's this is also
from I think it's also from WorldWar Two, but this is one more

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heroic star and then we'll get intosome of the crazy kooky stuff. We've
got the Philadelphia Sperient. We're goingto talk about her in a second.
But in June nineteen forty four,Private Herbert F. Christian. I love
how they always include their middle initialsinitial official. It is very official.
Herbert F. Christian was on patrolin central Italy with twelve other men when

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they were ambushed by a forest ofabout sixty enemy soldiers with three tanks at
a range of only thirty yards.Upon initial contact, a tank sheared off
his right leg above the knee.Oh my god, see I'd be done
after that. That'd be the endof my Yeah, yeah, no,
man, I could have begin.That's probably like a shell too, you
know what I'm talking about, Likea shell just goes right through your leg.

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No, I mean it says thata tank sheared off is right,
like I must have ran it overor something. I'm in my mind.
I'm sheared off his right knee.Well, I mean he got okay,
he lost it. We can dothe details exactly. H Yeah, he
lost below the right need's gone.Despite losing a leg, Christian quickly propped
himself up and killed three enemy soldiers. With his submachine gun. Maimed and

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bleeding, he began shuffling toward theenemy while the rest of his patrol used
the distraction he provided to cover theirretreat. Christian made it to within ten
yards of the nearest nip position enemyposition, firing as he went, and
killed yet another enemy soldiers. TheGermans poured all their firepower, including some
twenty millimeters anti aircraft guns, athim until he finally died. That Jesus,

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right there, man, that's awarrior. That is that is a
warrior's death. I can't like,I'm I'm sure. I mean, I've
never been injured. You know,I got very lucky, but uh,
nothing nothing like that. But youknow, you I've seen, you know,
there's a couple of videos I've seenfrom Ukraine about like dudes getting their

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foot blown off and just seeing thepsychological, uh you know, impact of
that, like seeing your own footturn into turn into mush essentially. I
saw this one video of literally thisgrenade going off or a drone dropping an
explosive on this guy's position and they'rein a firefight and literally his foot just

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completely explodes and he looks down andit's like he's wearing a goper and he
looks down at his foot and itis burger meat. He's just it doesn't
sound like he's in pain, youknow. I'm sure the shock of seeing
that, just like your body,like you feel something, you know,
you feel a jolt of it,of the over pressure, and then you
just look down. I'm sure it'snot painful at first, like I'm sure
the shock that's in ye. Andbut he is screw like doing the weirdest

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scream where it's I think he's screamingbecause he sees it, but he doesn't
believe it. But like it's itdoesn't sound like there's pain in his voice.
Huh. Yeah, So I can'teven imagine like the psychological like most
people I feel like, would dothat that the guy does in the video
is just screaming bloody murder. Yeah, but it doesn't sound like this guy

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does that. Yeah, he decidedhe made there was that there had to
be that the shock or whatever,that moment where he's like, I'm dead,
I'm dead. Yeah, might aswell take as many as them as
possible. Yeah, yeah, yeah, there's yeah, there it's a it's
and it's crazy and he did hisit's so you know what I think about,

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man, it's I think about theliterally millions of other people or you
know, like other stories, thousands, hundreds of thousands of stories where it's
not as dramatic as all this.It's like, dude, get shot in
the leg and die, your criesin pain, crawls back to his position,
doesn't do anything else. Or guygets his leg blown off and then

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slowly lays their and dies. Iguess I don't know. I don't know
why that's such a like a magnificentthought to me, but it's, uh,
it's just like I guess that maybethat's why these stories stick out because
he didn't do that. He didn'tjust cry out and lay down and die.
Yeah, it's just an anomaly,you know. And he's just like,
all right, I think it hasa big thing. Like I think

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it all goes back to like acceptance, like you said, like you're just
like dude, especially in World Warwas World War two? Yeah, you
know, battlefield medicine isn't that good. You know, you're like, they're
probably I'm probably gonna die anyways,Like I just got my leg blown off,
clean off. Uh yep, mightas well. I'm I'm dead.

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I'm dead, and I might aswell make something out of it. Yeah,
And it's like a split decision.But I you know, it's hard
to talk about these things because you'rejust like, what would I do?
Yeah, and you can only youcan only think about it, and it's
like, I hope I never haveto I hope I have to decide.
Yeah, order the fascination. Man, most of us will ever be in

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this type of situation ever, Yeah, for real. But I mean,
hats off to this. It's anunbelievable story. Yeah. Yeah, so
many more like it too, man, But uh, you want to talk
about some kooky, crazy stuff.Yeah, let's talk about some unbelievable stories
that you just don't believe because you'relike, these aren't honorable, but just
because they're like what, Yeah,they're just kind of strange. This is

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a controversial one though, The onewe're going to talk about next, the
Philadelphia Experiment, because I remember seeingthe movie. There was a movie in
the eighties about this literal little thing, and uh, the guy it's like
it's like a time time travel movie. It's nineteen eighty for the Philadelphi Experiment,
and they're on the ship and allthe stuff starts going off and it's

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and they panic and him and hisbuddy both jump off the ship, and
it ends up being they end upgoing forward in time or they get separated.
Dude ends up in the eighties andhe has to go and find out
what happened, and then he goesback to reverse the experiment and destroy it,
you know, to make sure thathis buddy never gets like thrown off

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into you know, into the intothe abyss of time. Yeah, but
good, good classic. I thinkthey made a sequel, which, oh
my god, they did a bunchof stuff. Malcolm mcdell field of Experiment
too. Oh, Final Countdown.That's we'll talk about that in a second.
But okay, this apparently is somethingthat really happened. Yeah, well,
I mean, okay, no confirmed. This is said to be true

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because I found I found out aboutthe Philadelphia Experiment from a military horror movie,
whereas obviously it's about you know,Nazi scientists and World War two working
on something, and they briefly mentionedlike this piece of technology within that movie,
and they're like, yeah, it'sbased off of the Philadelphia Experiment put

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at a larger level, And Iwas like, what the hell's the Philadelphia
Experiment. What movie were you watching? Do you remember? Okay, let
me see here. It was movieabout Nazi ghosts in a bunker, which
is of casting a wide net.Outpost Outpost two thousand and eight, it's

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just called Outposts. Yeah, Ithink there's like a sequel, but yeah,
Outposts, yep, that's it.But anyways, so it's about like
Nazi ghosts. But anyways, theymentioned the Philadelphia Experience in this tiny machine
and that's what created the ghosts,like they were trying to do like active
cloaking. But this, allegedly inthe fall of the Philadelphia Experience was allegedly
real thing. I found this articlewritten about it on the Navy Dot mail

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website of the library. So we'relike, it's obviously acknowledged by the Navy
to some extent, but this isallegedly what happened. And the fall of
nineteen forty three, a US Navydestroyer was made invisible and teleported from Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania, to Norfolk, Virginia,in an incident known as the Philadelphia

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Experience. An experiment records in thearchive branches of the Naval History and Heritage
Command have been repeatedly searched, butno documents have ever been located which confirmed
the event or any interest in theNavy in attempting such an achievement. So
you know, obviously this happened inforty three. This is like during the

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Einstein days, right right, becauseEinstein did he was working with the Navy
or with the with the US military. They brought a bunch of scientists o
pop Operation paper Clip or maybe thatwas afterwards, but yeah, maybe that
was appen But here there's a littleexcerpt in this article, which was the
Office of Naval Research. The ONRhas stated that the use of force field
to make ships or her crew invisibledoes not conform to known physical laws.

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N R also claims that doctor AlbertEinstein's unified field theory was never completed.
During nineteen forty three's last forty four, Einstein was part it was a part
time consultant with the Navy's Bureau ofOrdnance, undertaking theoretical research on explosives and
explosions. There's no indication that Einsteinwas involved in research relevant to invisibility or

(29:26):
to teleportation. So yeah, heworked with the Navy, just not on
making boats, not selling that weknow of. That's the thing is if
anything like this, even closely orremotely close to this was to happen back
in the day before digital logs orwhatever, they actually burned, if they
could burn this stuff and they wouldbe no record whatsoever, and then eventually

(29:49):
the people involved with it they dieand then it's just it's like it never
happened. The government. Here's nocell phones back then, you know,
yeah, he can't. No onewas just let me pull on my iPhone
record this video, because I thinkone of the most important things, because
you know, in the beginning itjust states that there's like, no,
the Navy hasn't confirmed this event,and there's no documents to support it.

(30:11):
But supposedly this is important. Thisis why it's in the true stores.
Supposedly the crew of a civilian merchantship, which was the S S Andrew
Andrew fear Seth, observed the arrivalvia teleportation of the Eldridge into the Norfolk
area. Because you just imagine likethis ship. I don't know if it
was like, you know, justappeared out of nowhere or it's like moving

(30:36):
and it just comes out of likethis, you know, it just somehow
like wipe appears, you know whatI'm talking about. Yeah, Yeah,
And if you're sitting there and you'relike, what the hell it's coming out
of nowhere? The ship is justpopping out of a hole in the wall,
you know. Uh, that's whyI mean. And it was said
that they recorded it on their theirtheir their log and so that's kind of

(30:56):
the only evidence that this actually happened. But that like this is nineteen fourty,
you know, they could have easilyburned those seized those documents. It's
a very interesting thing. Yeah,I love that. It seemed like the
government kind of I don't know,they playing fast and lose to the laws.
Not that they still don't, butit was kind of the wild West

(31:18):
they had, so they had allthese weird experiments that they spent taxpayer dollars
on, like men who stere atgoats or you know, operation or is
it mk ultra that kind of stuff, like let's just let's just throw stuff
at the wall and see what sticks. I mean, the idea that I
was something in this article talks aboutde gauzing. Some Reasears of erroneously concluded

(31:42):
that de gauzing has a connection withmaking an object Invisible degauzing is a process
in which a system of electrical cablesare installed around the circumfass of a ship's
hull, running from bout a sternon both sides. A measured electrical currn
is passed through these cables to cancelthe ship's magnetic fields. So this is
kind of like making it quote quoteinvisible to things like radar or radio radio

(32:04):
signals, not that they would actuallyphysically become invisible, but I mean,
I think this is one of thosethings where it's it's a it's like a
fantastical idea, like we would loveinvisibility is one of those classic fantasy sci
fi ideas to become physically invisible.Is it captures the imagination we have.

(32:30):
We have types of invisibility technology nowadays. I think there was a we did
enough the Cloaks where it's a panelson a tank that would project certain images
that would in essence kind of makeyou think you were looking at yeah,
this is whatever was around it andstuff, and they could you could program
them. But you know, theidea of like of teleportation and whatnot.

(32:54):
It's a it's a maybe a littletoo fantastical, but maybe that's just what
they want us to think. That'sexactly what they want to think. There
you go thin, get outside ofthe box. Yeah yeah, but all
in all, I mean the Philadelphiaexperiment, I feel like since you have
if you your first time hearing aboutit, I mean it happened so early

(33:14):
ago. It's like, Okay,well this technology was available back then,
like what's available now that we don'tknow about? Right? Du dun?
Yeah exactly? Can we just canwe take a couple of minutes, can
we talk about aliens because yeah,I like a couple of years ago.
Well, yeah, because they're ifthey do exist, they're a bunch of
idiots. But just like ghosts,just like ghosts, Yeah, we're surrounded

(33:37):
by idiots. But didn't they acknowledge? So do the do the United States
government actually acknowledge that UFOs exist?And to what extpts? Okay, yeah,
I I you know you want blowsmy mind or at least chaps my
ass. Is the fact that likethis is a big deal. We've been

(33:58):
going, We've going decades or evencenturies not knowing. Right. There was
there was debates that the Pyramids wereyou know, we're built by by extraterrestrials
and just casually the US Navy,and after years of like, you know,
you have Area fifty one, whichis one of the most secluded military

(34:19):
installations in the nation, and thenyou have all these, you know,
all these movies and pop culture piecesabout aliens and denial after denial after denial,
and then randomly they're just like,oh, yeah, by the way,
UFOs do exist, and here's avideo of them. All right,
see you guys later. And thennobody was like super surprised. I mean
nobody was like, oh my god, this is life shattering, Like there

(34:43):
are things that we don't know thatare not from you know, that are
that defy the laws of physics,that are from out of space. It's
like it blew my mind when itcame out, and like people were more
concerned about like, you know,eating tide pods than they were like knowing
about aliens. I think it's ridiculous. Yeah, it's funny because I just

(35:06):
want to know. I'm looking atsome some random articles. This is like
last year, middle of last yearthat this came out, and it was
like yeah, sure, yeah,I just want to know what else was
happening in politics or in the widerworld at the same time that this became
smoke screens. Like listen, guys, we got to distract people. Let's
talk about the whole alien thing fora little while. Yeah, we'll release

(35:27):
some classified records. You know,that'll be good. It's pretty harmless,
you know. It's just some lightsmoving really fast in the sky. So
they I don't think they've confirmed becauseyou saw like the whole thing in Mexico
thing where they said they had likethe alien body. Yeah, and it
just looked like a piece of ceramic. But like you know, they're saying
they're biopsying, and it's like,first of all, why would well,
out of all advanced countries, whywould Mexico have this. Nothing against Mexico,

(35:52):
But like you know, like Ihandle their own citizens, going to
handle alien technology, Yeah, theycan order to handle the border. How
they're going to handle like that wasyeah. So, uh, but I
am up for I believe in aliens. I know you don't, but I
believe in aliens. But uh,the Navy didn't confirm that there's aliens.

(36:17):
They just confirmed UFOs, which arealso known as there's another name for them,
which is like the now new term. Yeah, yeah, new term
for UFOs. Yeah, it's likee's something. Yeah, let's see news
uh U a P and a phenomenon. Yeah, okay, So it's like,

(36:44):
hey, I mean like anything thatyou don't know, like you can't
identify, you know, it's technicallya UFO because it's an unidentified flying object
to like, yeah, like aflock of seagulls in the air. Technically
you're like what is that? Like, technically that's that's a UFO. So
but uh yeah, they just youknow, they're like, yeah, there's

(37:06):
things that we couldn't explain. Havea nice day, all right. Yeah,
so it's just it's a little bitthere's no But then they had like
this, they had like this wholecourt thing where like the pilots that were
routinely flying this mission, you know, testified that like, oh yeah,
there's totally aliens and things we can'texplain that we've encountered, numero, not

(37:29):
like one you know, not likeone flight We're like, what was that
flying ice cream machine? It waslike it was like, hey, we've
seen this dozens of times. Adamn thing about it, but yeah,
it blows my mind. Yeah,I don't know, man, I think
uh I think we're I think weare alone in this universe, and if

(37:50):
we're not, then we're obviously gettingIt's the stand up compe is the stand
up comedy routine where he's like,we're getting like the drunk college students where
they're like, ey, on Fridaynight, you guys go to Earth.
Yeah, man, he's like andthat's why you can see whenever they have
him on the tables, they alwayslooked really stoned or owlves are hanging open.
Uh. Yeah, man, Igot finals in the morning. Yeah.

(38:13):
I always wonder. It's just like, okay, like, are we
so not developed that we're just likekind of like watching an ant farm.
Oh do you think we're the bugs? You know? To them, Yeah,
like we're the bugs and they're like, huh, let's kind of see
what's good. You want to stopmy Earth on the way home and get
Yeah, see what the Kardashians areup to, you know, in the

(38:37):
world. Yeah, I don't know, but aliens are an interesting thing.
I'm excited for the next couple ofyears. I don't know. I don't
know why I told you my UI told you my abductee guy from Oregan
story, right, Cameron every timeyou do this. Every time you say

(38:57):
I've told you about such and such, it's always some really wild, crazy
thing, and I'm like, no, you have never told me about the
guy in Oregon that told me thathe was I was on a Ranger snowboarding
trip and like this guy claimed tobe abducted by UFOs and talk to us
for like an hour. To evertell this story, man, it's no,
none of the sounds familiar. ButI also have an extremely bad memory.

(39:22):
Why do you tell it, man? Because this sounds f I mean,
yeah, very briefly, because westill got to talk about Nazis being
meth heads. But no, soyeah, I was on a single Rangers
retreat when I was in regiment,and they would take us like all these
different locations. They took us toMount Baker one time in Oregon and we
were all renting snowboards and you know, we're driving GFAs, but you're the

(39:46):
g the government vehicles gv's, sothey have like government plates. And like
we're at the snowboard shop right outsidethe mountain and it was like in the
morning time because we were getting readyto hit and there's this guy, super
weird guy just sitting in his carand we're playing like pearl Jam and all
the doors are open, and helike, here's the music. And he
gets out and he like walks upto our thing. He's like nice music

(40:08):
man, and we're like cool,but like he's got he's pretty fat,
really dirty. He's wearing flip flops. It's like thirty degrees outside. And
then he's got like I don't knowif they're tattoos or just like sharpie marker
all over his hands, like inlittle drawings, and he's wearing a dog
collar. And I'm like, sohe's just talking to me, and I'm

(40:30):
you know me, I'm a niceguy. I'm just like talking to him,
and he asks us for a somebodyasked for He asked for a lighter.
He's like, anybody got a lighterbecause he had a cigarette in his
mouth, and we're like no,man, Like you know, rangers don't
really smoke. If you smoke,you're you're kind of weird. All we
all chewed tobacco. But he's likeyeah, he's He's like, no,

(40:52):
I got a lighter. And heeven after asking us for a lighter,
he pulls out this giant, buttane torch out of his pants and just
like you to light the cigarette andthen puts it back in his pants,
like inside of his pants. Andthen he's just like standing there and he
won't leave us alone, and thenhe just goes, I think the aliens
are gonna come get me again.I'm like what, And then he just

(41:13):
starts talking to us about how thealiens have come and he's been abducted numerous
times, and he had a dogwith him and he just let the dog
run around and like it was goingaround and sniffing people, and he's like,
yeah, I just feel super badbecause every time they come get me,
the dog has to go to thepend and have to go rescue here.
And then the dog like went upto my buddy and sniffed them and

(41:34):
it was really friendly, and thenall of a sudden, it just started
growling at him. And I'm like, hey, can you like control your
dog or something. And he's like, that's weird. She only does that
to bad people. Are you guysbad people? And then I was like,
no, we're not bad people,but uh, we work for the
government. And he's like nah,I'm like look at the plates. And

(41:55):
he goes and it says like USgovernment on it, and then he like
kind of starts backing up up,He's like, he's like, I gotta
go, and he just like startsrunning away and then he like the dogs
like chasing after him, and itwas just the weirdest thing ever. Yeah,
Origin, dang man, you knowwhat this is? Sounding familiar?
You told me that. Yeah,the bututane torch and then him finding out

(42:16):
you guys work for the government.That sounds familiar. I think you have
mentioned this. Okay, Well that'sI'm glad I could remind you. Yeah,
well, I'll tell you what doyou wanna Since we're running long time,
we can talk about Nazis being methheads, or we can talk about
the lost nuclear bomb. I wantto talk about the lost nuclear bomb because

(42:37):
the the Nazi meth heads. I'mlooking at the article and the research that
he did. It's probably gonna betoo much to go into this bomb thing.
Really, however, does intrigue mebecause I'm a big fan, not
a big fan, but it's Ithink it's the military lends itself to military
blunders like this, and I justthink it's hilarious that they lost an entire

(43:00):
nuclear bomb, a hydrogen bomb,no less. Yeah, no, this
was I couldn't believe this, tobe honest, looking and doing research for
this episode, I was just googlingrandom thoughts that came to my head that
I'm like, there's no way thishappened, and then bam, it would
pop up and actually did. Andthis was actually one of those things.

(43:22):
So why don't you go ahead andtalk about what happened here? Well,
let me read the little snopsis wegot. On February fifth, nineteen fifty
eight, and eighty six fighter jethad a mid air collision with a B
forty seven bomber carrying a Mark fifteenhydrogen bomb during a training exercise. The
pilot of the F eighty six managedto eject before his jet disintegrated, and

(43:44):
the damaged bomber managed to make aHarrying emergency landing at Hunter Army Airfield,
but not before it jettisoned the seventhousand, six hundred pound bomb into the
waters around Wassaw Island so that itcould lighten its load and prevent the bomb
from exploding in the event that theycrashed. A ten week mission, you
know what, just you know,you gotta control when those things explode.

(44:07):
A ten week surge mission by onehundred Navy personnel was unable to only one
hundred was unable to trace where thebomb fell. There are conflicting reports as
to just how catastrophically dangerous the bombis. The initial claims a by the
government were that it contained a dummytrigger, it didn't pose a threat unless
it was disturbed. That is exactlywhat I would expect the government to say

(44:28):
to cover its own But in nineteenninety four document was declassified that told a
different story. According to nineteen sixtysix congressional testimony by then Assistant Secretary of
Defense W. J. Howard tothe US Congressional Joint Committee on Atomic Energy,
the lost weapon was a complete,fully functional bomb with a nuclear capsule.
If this is the case, thebomb does indeed contain a plutonium trigger.

(44:51):
The resulting explosion would be a fireballwith the radius of over a mile
and a thermal radiation for up toten miles at that distance or at distance
yeah. And in two thousand andfour, a private team led by retired
Air Force Lieutenant Colonel Derek Duke discoveredhigh levels of radiation off the tip of
Little Tybee that aligned with descriptions ofwhere the bomb was possibly dropped, but

(45:13):
a later investigation by the Air Forcedetermined that the radiation came from natural deposits
of monozite in the sand. Onetheory floating out there is that the bomb
was recovered by Soviet submarine and thatis why it was never been located.
That wouldn't be very good, andin twenty fifteen, Satirical news I posted
a phony story about a vacation inCanadian family finding the bomb while scuba diving

(45:34):
in it being finally retrieved. Alas, this is not true and it's probably
still out there. That's the morelikely scenario. The thing that I hate
that's weird about this is that theylike were they that I guess they must
have been that panicked or procedures wentthat fast that they couldn't retrace their steps
and triangulate where they dropped that bomboff. You know, it couldn't have

(45:57):
been that big a radius. No, I don't think so. You know
what. The thing that blows mymind, that's why the hell that you
would have a real life bomb duringa training exercise, right? You know,
I have seventy six pounds of juststuff of just just I mean,
what's the point of carrying that bombif you just needed to wait to see

(46:19):
how it affected the plane, Like, whose call was that? Have you
ever done any training you know thatwasn't like designated as a live fire.
Have you ever went into you know, like a training area that was meant
for blanks and loaded live ammunition.I've never done that, you know.
Yeah. It's just yeah, Ifeel like that is as military as it

(46:44):
gets. You know, somebody shouldhave lost their job, but they probably
didn't. But yeah, no,that that story is unbelievable. There was
actually a couple days ago an articlecame out, I think it was from
CNN that like a that a guy, a Florida man was arrested or using
a lost nuclear bomb to power hishouse. Florida man. And I was

(47:06):
like, a man, yeah,Florida man. Stress again. I looked
at the sound and it's just ayou know, about one hundred mile drift
to get to Florida from Wassaw Sound, And yeah, I was like this
is that could be that bomb?But then I really then they confirmed that
this was a made up story,and I was like, there's your bomb
right there, John Doe got it. Florida man has it Florida. Man,

(47:30):
oh man, that's I love Ilove our military. I mean,
the military is full of people,and so you add an extra layer of
tension and drama when you put thingslike this into the mix, like weapons
of mass destruction or chemicals or differentweird experiments. There's we've talked a lot
about different government does some crazy stuff, man, and they they really You

(47:52):
think that they've gotten worse or better, but they've always been the same,
man. The government has always beendoing shady stuff. If always from trying
to keep things from us. They'veall and they'll never admit to it,
you know. No. The otherthing that changed is the is the year.
Yeah and yeah, yeah, let'sever admit to it until it becomes
irrelevant like that, exactly exactly.Well, those are our stories, folks.

(48:13):
We hope you believed them because they'reall true. Yeah, we also
hope you liked it. But nowbefore we go, let's transition to our
game here, and I am thegame master, so let me know if
you're ready, is he let's go. Okay, keeping with the theme of
our episode, this game is calledNo Way That Happened. I'm going to

(48:34):
tell you something about video games,and you tell me if it's true or
false. So easy, even easycan wrap up his video game add of
mind. We're gonna we're about tofind out, all right, So are
you ready? Good sir, Let'sdo this thing. Let's do it.
No warm up. Here it lookslike but here we go. Mario was
originally a carpenter and not a plumber. Oohoom, I'm sorry, I gonna

(49:02):
text from my wife. I'm gonnasay no, he was always a plumber.
I'm going to say ooh, hedefinitely was a tradesman because in Donkey
Kong he was a carpenter. Soyou are wrong. Oh really, Collie,
I never knew that. Oh wow, okay, well now you Hey,
I'm not a nerd, not thatmuch of a nerve guys. I'm

(49:23):
a cool, regular person. I'mjust not exactly it's not a big Nintendo
guy. But that's okay, becauselet's get into the next one. And
I know you might know this becauseyou played this game in front of me.
Wolfenstein led to the es RB,the video game rating the Video Game
Ratings Board. Gosh, Wolfenstein,that's an interesting bit of trivia. I

(49:47):
know that it's bloody. I'm tryingto remember when that was going on the
whole ESRB. This is so stupid. Yeah, the government rating system,
you know, and then they outPeggy sixteen or Peggy whatever over over in
the UK. I don't know,man, I'm gonna have to say.
I'm gonna say no, that wasnot the game. You are correct,

(50:09):
it was not the game. Thees RB was created because of Mortal Kombat.
Mortal Kombat, that's right, sobloody, yeah, so bloody today's
standards. I know it's crazy.All right, good job you got that
one. Moving right along. Minecraftis the best selling video game of all
time. Oh, man, I'mgonna say that's false because I think it's

(50:31):
minecrafts free to play? Isn't itwhat I thought? Minecraft? Does it
cost money? I thought it wasfree to play? Oh, I don't
know. I'm I mean, it'sso popular, man. See my instincts
say yes, but my heart saysno. So I'll go with my instincts.

(50:53):
I'll say yes. Way to trustyour gut. Yes, it is
true. Okay. It sold overtwo hundred million copies. Okay, so
it's not fair. Yeah. Ithought it was free too. I didn't
know you had to buy it.Okay in the game. In game store.
All the twelve year olds and thirteenyear olds play, Yeah, just
using their dad's credit card. Allright, loa. Croft was originally going

(51:15):
to be called Laura Cruz. Golly, sounds like one of those Uh well,
I don't know. Chris is apretty creative guy. He's got that
writer's mind craft Cruise Cameron Cruiz faththat's a good one, s c r
u Z. Yes, indeed,nice, I'm gonna say false. That

(51:37):
is false. It's always been LauraCroft. Ooh, it is actually true.
Core design animator Toby Gard wanted tomake an interactive movie starring a male
character looking for treasure in Egyptian pyramids. The character was deemed too close to
Indiana Jones and was quickly switched toa South American woman named Laura Cruz.

(51:59):
Cor ended up wanting a UK friendlyname, so Core employees dove into a
phone book and centered on settled onthe name Croft Croft. Hey, that's
funny that it's so arbitrary. Nowshe's a legendary character. I know.
They're like, we want this gameto sell, so she's got to be
British. That's fucked. And itworked, and it worked, moving right

(52:22):
along the video game industry is estimatedto be worth over one hundred billion dollars.
The video game industry. I meanthat may be false, but only
because it's more. But I'm gonnasay true, it's so much money.
I don't like this question. Tobe honest, it's false. It's estimated

(52:43):
to be worth over two hundred andforty two billion dollars. Why I don't
like this question just because it saysthe game is estimated to be worth over
one hundred billion dollars and two hundredand forty two billion dollars, in my
mind is well over over. It'sover one hundred you know, right.
My answer it's like I said before, I said, if it's wrong,

(53:05):
it's because it's way way more becausevideo games are multi billion dollar industry.
All right, we'll take it upwith Chris. Chris, you know what
to do. Send me that texttell me I'm wrong. So I'll just
give that one to you because yousaid it was over all right, final
one. Here we go. Areyou ready? Yep? Okay? Conan

(53:27):
O'Brien and Andy Richter is it Richeror Richter? Andy? Andy Richter have
cameos in Halo four. Oh mygosh dang Halo four. Oh man,
so many cameos, so many goodvoice actors in Halo three. I was
watching a video about it, likea little mini doc. I'm gonna say

(53:49):
yes, I'll see yes. Thatsounds so too too ridiculous to be false.
There you go, way to endstrong. It is indeed true.
Comedians Conan O'Brien and Andy Richter visitedthree four or three industries for a spoof
skit in an episode of Conan inwhich they recorded audio for doc workers aboard
a spaceship. This audio made itinto Halo four in a level cold shutdown.

(54:10):
You'll stand next to the You'll needto stand next to the two specific
dock workers for a couple of minutesto trigger their dialogue. Nice. I
like that easter. That's a nicelittle easter. So good job, buddy,
you did pretty good on this game. I hope you enjoyed it.
Hey, I always love thinking aboutvideo games and talking about video games.
So thanks Chris. Yeah, andthank you to the listeners. We hope

(54:34):
you enjoyed this episode. A lotof amazing and unbelievable stories. And I'm
sure there are so many more outthere, and so we'll probably have to
do another version of this one.Yeah, we can always have a part
two. We got a part twoto a lot a lot of our episodes.
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This is the end of the season, as we usually do. Yeah,

(54:57):
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