Strange Talk S5E07 Ep. 132 Coffins, Cryptids, and Spy Pigeons; Oh My!

As the clock strikes 9pm, the airwaves crackle to life with the sinister hum of Strange Talk. This week, Alyx and Ginelle dive into the latest weird news from around the globe. 
We kick things off with a shocking story out of Thailand where a woman was found alive and moving inside her coffin after being taken to a Buddhist temple for cremation. From there, we hop over to California, where surf break cameras recently spotted mysterious UFO-like objects hovering over the coastline like they're taking up surfing or scouting for a beach vacation. 

The headlines only get wilder as we go. A record-breaking football match took place 1,800 meters above Earth (yes, in the sky), Guinness World Records turns 70 and reveals a bunch of unclaimed world record titles waiting for brave souls to grab them, and a former pilot did the most pilot thing ever by turning an old airplane into a two-bedroom apartment on the campus of his flight school in Alaska.

Then we climb right off the edge, literally, with Columbia Sportswear’s viral campaign daring flat-Earthers to find the edge of the Earth and take a picture there, and Russia’s new bio-drone program featuring computer-chipped “spy pigeons” straight out of the strangest Cold War sequel imaginable. Finally, we wrap up with a look at what Bigfoot hunters get right in scientifically studying our squatchy cryptid.

It’s bizarre, it’s funny, it’s spooky, and it’s packed with the campy, cobwebbed chaos your Thursday night has been waiting for.Music for this episode includes the Strange Talk Intro by Star Silk, Infernal Sky by Karl Casey, and backing tracks by LoFiGeek.

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (01:25):
Good evening, and welcome to the hour dedicated to talk
about all things strange, weird and paranormal. You're listening to
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to earth. The introtact of this episode, of most of
our episodes, is the Strangehock intro by Star Silk. I'm
your host, Alex.

Speaker 2 (01:46):
I am Janelle.

Speaker 1 (01:48):
Yeah, Beck, we're back. Alex and Janelle are back with
weird news. Yeah, breaking weird news, breaking weird news. Yeah yeah,
would you uh, would you like to kick off our
weird news? We decided on this one we're gonna start
with our like more spooky ones and then descend into chaos.

Speaker 2 (02:10):
Yes, you know, keep it with the heavy and with
the light.

Speaker 1 (02:14):
Yeah. So light is a feather, stiff as a board,
something like that.

Speaker 2 (02:19):
That for mine, starting out with stiff as a ward,
because mine's about a lady that was found alive after
she was uh you know, sent to a Buddhist temple
for cremation.

Speaker 1 (02:30):
Glad they caught that.

Speaker 2 (02:32):
In time yes. So this actually happened to a woman
in Thailand. She was found alive in her coffin at
a Buddhist temple and was saved from organ donation and
cremation only because, by the way, her brother did not
have the death certificate yet. Oh no, yeah, so it

(02:57):
could have It could have got bad real quick.

Speaker 1 (03:00):
They need I'm gonna guess what happened is they were
like getting ready to harvest the organs and then they
were like, oh, we need the death certificate to do this.

Speaker 2 (03:06):
We don't have it.

Speaker 1 (03:07):
And he was like, I don't have that, yeah, and
they're like, oh, we gotta go fix that, and then
they like went to go get it and they were like, oh,
you're wick Are you doing right right?

Speaker 2 (03:17):
So unfortunately I'm terrible with pronunciations. But this happened in
a province just outside a Bangkok at a Buddhist temple.
As we mentioned, there was a video posted. No I
have not watched the video, but it was something where
she is lying like in a white coffin in the
back of a pickup truck, which I'm assuming that's like

(03:39):
her brother taking her to be like dropped off. But
these are done a little differently there than they would hear,
and it shows that she was slightly moving her arms
and head. Oh. The temples kind of like general and
financial affairs manager was the one that sort of did

(03:59):
the interview and said, like, yeah, her brother, she's a
sixty five year old woman. Brother drove her to us
to be cremated and he heard a faint knocking from
inside the coffin. Oh, He's like, I was a bit surprised,
so I asked them to open the coffin, and everyone
was startled. She was opening her eyes slightly and knocking

(04:20):
on the side of the coffin, so they were like,
she must have been knocking for some time. Oh, this
is what they think was potentially happening. Her brother had
this this journey to like get this whole thing going
was like pretty crazy. It sounds like her brother was
a caregiver and she's been bedridden for like two years. Yeah,

(04:43):
and she all of a sudden became unresponsive and I
stopped breathing for like two days. So he's like, she's
must she must have passed on. Like it's spent time,
she's passed on.

Speaker 1 (04:55):
So it's like it's almost like she had like a
little coma or something, and so they thought she might
gone exactly and she wakes up and just starts knocking
on the coffin like hey, wait, no, no, no.

Speaker 2 (05:06):
No, no, hold on, I don't know why I'm in here.
He took a three hundred mile journey to a hospital
in Bangkok where she had expressed to have her organs
uh donated, and the hospital wouldn't accept her body because
he did not have the death certificate.

Speaker 1 (05:25):
So it is when they went to go get the organs,
they were like, we need the certificate.

Speaker 2 (05:30):
Right, And when he went to have her cremated, they
also were like, no, we need to have the official
death certificate like for us to do the cremation. And
this was like while he was explaining they needed the
DEA certificate, he heard the knocking.

Speaker 1 (05:45):
Oh my god.

Speaker 2 (05:47):
He's like, sir, we can't take this for cremation. We
still need a death certificate. He's like, why do I
hear knocking?

Speaker 1 (05:55):
Okay, this is like I don't think this is the
case at all, but this like the way that this
is described so sets it up like this guy was
just trying to get rid of her, but then he
didn't have the death certificate and so he was like, oh, no, oops,
it was an accident, Like I don't think that's what
happened here, but the way this is laid out sounds.

Speaker 2 (06:13):
Like that it for sure is I can see it
being a dark comedy. Oh yeah, this would be other
like like taking care of his sister and he's like, oh,
she's passed on, and like a bunch of like just
goofy things happened.

Speaker 1 (06:25):
But then like this is like a weekend at Bernie's
follow up exactly exactly.

Speaker 2 (06:31):
But yeah, so the temple's death like assessed her, sent
her to a hospital for treatment, and the abbot said
the temple would cover her medical expenses.

Speaker 1 (06:40):
So that's where that's where we currently are. Yeah goodness.

Speaker 2 (06:49):
Apparently. Also so that happened like August of this year.

Speaker 1 (06:53):
Uh huh.

Speaker 2 (06:55):
And last year in June they said Nebraska woman was
actually declared dead at her nursing home and then was
breathing like two hours later. So oh wow, I don't
I don't know what's going on, but it seems like, yeah,
just the body stops for a while. Now, her supposedly
not breathing for two days is crazy.

Speaker 1 (07:17):
It's very wide. But that they must have been like
it was like it must have been such shallow breasts
that they couldn't hear it or something.

Speaker 2 (07:25):
That's what I'm thinking. I'm thinking it must have just
been so shallow and then like you don't see like
chess movement or like you probably didn't really like feel
you know, yeah, like any sort of like exhale. I
little surprised the hospital didn't confirm she had actually passed.

Speaker 1 (07:44):
Like I mean, I guess have the death they already did, yeah,
due diligence. I being like, yeah, we can't take that
without the death Certicut, Like we need somebody to you know,
declare this before we can do anything.

Speaker 2 (07:54):
But I guess maybe things all the different there. But
when you think that would be a hospital, yeah, well
I think it's some sort of medical professional, Like I
don't work there.

Speaker 1 (08:04):
Yeah, I wonder because like I know, sometimes only certain
people can declare you know, time of death exactly exactly.
So I'm sure that's at least at least part of it.

Speaker 2 (08:14):
Yeah, but no, there's a picture ever being loaded up
and up in an ambulance yeah on the article.

Speaker 1 (08:20):
So yeah, so well, hopefully she's getting some good care
and I'm sure she's like thank god you did not
have that death certificate exactly.

Speaker 2 (08:31):
I do appreciate the temple stepping up as well and
being like, we're just going to cover medical expenses.

Speaker 1 (08:36):
So yeah, they're probably like, this is wild. Let us
just let us help you. Oh my gosh, yes, yes,
oh for sure. So yeah, that is a that's a
horrible way to wake up. It truly is.

Speaker 2 (08:50):
And I can't imagine like your dan for two years,
you know, quality of life, it's already iffy, and then
you just wake up and you're like, I'm in a box.
That's like, what's going on?

Speaker 1 (09:02):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (09:04):
Wild, But I think your story is more state side.

Speaker 1 (09:10):
Yeah, it's more state side. It's it's it's wild, but
not in the same way. This article is coming from
Pete Thomas for The Wind. It's about a mysterious object
appearing in the sky over California surf Spot, so for
people who are into surfing. Surf Line has live cameras

(09:30):
that are positioned over the surf breaks around the world,
and before dawn Thursday, one camera captured footage that appears
to show mysterious objects over Ventura, California, and they apparently
posted this video with didn't see that on the forecast,
which is hilarious. But yeah, the footage was visible for

(09:52):
anybody viewing the cameras feed, and it looks like two objects.
They look saucer in shape and kind of at one
point kind of like blend together in the video. This
footage was captured at four forty six a m. And
this article was posted on December fourth, so very recent. Yeah,

(10:12):
apparently everybody started commenting on it with theories very quickly.
One of the the caption on says didn't see that
in the forecast. In the actual video that they posted
has text over it that says, don't think the surflying
cams were meant to see this, which actually, let's let's
watch this real quick. I don't know if there's any
audio on this, but oh there is audio. It's music,

(10:37):
though I'm gonna mute that. Oh yeah, I'm kind of
I was like, I was kind of starting to like
watch in and out and it moves very slowly. I
don't know what that is. It almost looks like, oh, okay,

(11:03):
this is it's getting to the part now where I
think it merges into one. I think, oh, oh, it
like it's like multiples for a second. Oh, and the
way this is moving is like not normal. Uh, it's
like it's moving back and forth. That is bizarre. That

(11:29):
is super bizarre.

Speaker 2 (11:31):
Oh, I'm curious. So like it does look like it's
a little cloudy.

Speaker 1 (11:37):
Yeah, it does look cloudy, so like it could be
something like reflecting off of it.

Speaker 2 (11:41):
Well, I do know that there is some phenomena where
it's called like sprites if you're familiar with like that.

Speaker 1 (11:48):
Yeah, and it's.

Speaker 2 (11:49):
Like they're similar to like lightning, but not exactly. It's
like electrical discharge and they're called sprites because they do
kind of like pop up and like flicker and sort
of like do a weird like little trail down. Yeah. Almost,
so like when it gets multiple, it reminded me of that.
But then leading up into it, I have no idea
what that is.

Speaker 1 (12:11):
My favorite is one of these comments, uh has the
alien EMOGENI on it, and it just says, probably searching
for our swells, but we already have crowded breaks. And
then someone else said they were here for the Superman. Uh. Yeah,
that is a wild There is a space SpaceX facility

(12:35):
out there, so it could be like maybe they were
launching something. There's like a bunch of different things that
could maybe explain that. But uh, yeah, that is.

Speaker 2 (12:43):
If anyone correlated, like yeah, some thing going on at
the same time, that could be like a little bit
more explain like aerial.

Speaker 1 (12:50):
Yeah, I'm sure Movefon's looking into it. But it is.
It is a cool video, and I will make sure
we share that to our INSTAGRAMR page and stuff like
that because it's neat even if it ends up just
being you know, that is one of the weirdest like
possible like UFO videos I've ever seen. Honest, I've never
seen something move and then like the multiples like that.

Speaker 2 (13:13):
Right, And it does make you wonder, is it just
potentially if it is one thing where the two just
like visible for a moment and then all of a sudden,
it's like as it gets closer towards the ground or
the ocean, all of a sudden it's like, oh, no,
we need to like make you aware of.

Speaker 1 (13:28):
Like it's this whole radius. Yeah, potentially, like curious about it. Yeah,
that's interesting, it is. Yeah, is our next article is
uh equally interesting also in a different way. Uh maybe
actually the aliens were here checking out, you know, They're

(13:49):
they're here to surf and they're here to maybe play
football because this is from interesting engineering. They decided to
have a record breaking football match at eighteen thousand meters
above earth. And when I say football, where you know
it's soccer because in America we call it soccer for
some reason, everyone else calls it football, So we need

(14:10):
to fix that so it's less confusing. But uh, this
is wild looking because you're like, how are they going
to play above the earth because they need a field.
They had to suspend a field that high. Can you
imagine if you kicked the ball off of that it's
gone right?

Speaker 2 (14:33):
Yeah, like it is literally just like some of the
photos I'm trying to see, like how like what's holding
it up?

Speaker 1 (14:38):
Honestly, it is suspended by what looks like rope. I'm
assuming it's got to be like a certain grade of
rope so that they don't you know, like launch all
these people. And it looks like it looks like the
players have parachutes on just in case you'd have to
have me strapped to like I like, so it doesn't

(14:59):
look like it does not look like they are strapped
to the field. They are just on the field. They
just have parachutes. If they fall out and that is.

Speaker 2 (15:06):
Wild A man jumping No.

Speaker 1 (15:08):
Yeah, So this article says football has officially left the ground. Literally.
A team of Russian daredevils just staged a full match
eighteen thousand, eighteen hundred, sorry, eighteen hundred, eighteen thousand wild
be wild, eighteen hundred meters in the sky on a
field dangling from a hot air balloon. So it was
dangling from a hot air balloon.

Speaker 2 (15:31):
I just zoomed out of like some of the pictures.
I was like, how was it up there? I saw
an airplane go past them.

Speaker 1 (15:40):
Oh, I can't wait. I can't wait to give you
the video. It says it began as an audacious idea
by Russian gymnasts and extreme sports athlete Serge Boitsov, has
now become a viral global spectacle and a newly validated
world record. They had a full match. It was staged
on a swaying platform dangling beneath a massive hot air balloon,

(16:03):
turning a simple kick about into one of the most
dangerous sports experiments ever attempted. Oh my gosh, this is wild.
I would not do this.

Speaker 2 (16:14):
You couldn't even like pay me to like lay on
that field up there.

Speaker 1 (16:19):
What I secured in what would be more wild if
this did not set a world record? I would have questions.

Speaker 2 (16:25):
Yeah, that would have been the crazy part where they're like, listen,
somebody already did it, but they got to like nineteen
hundred meters.

Speaker 1 (16:31):
Yes, Oh my gosh, all right, I'm gonna watch the video.
Oh my gosh. So it's got like it's got metal
under it, and there's one person up there. Yeah, so
it's just the two having their matt Oh my gosh,
they're pushing each other, so it's them. They have a
ref who has a camera as well. I did just
see him throw a yellow card. Yeah, and there's airplanes
going by, I'm assuming also getting footage.

Speaker 2 (16:53):
You did just see a ball fly off of the
edge of it.

Speaker 1 (16:56):
So they did kick it off. Okay, hold on, I'm
rewatching this. Can you imagine you're sitting in your yard
and suddenly a ball comes flying off just down.

Speaker 3 (17:08):
And where that he did not even come from.

Speaker 1 (17:14):
Oh my gosh, this is wild. I again, I would
never do this, never will say.

Speaker 2 (17:21):
It does make you feel a little better knowing that
they are just like professionals and this is just like
a thing they do. So I well, hopefully, well, how
to use the parachutes and all that stuff.

Speaker 1 (17:35):
See that's what I was wondering, is it's like, I
hope they know how you do that? Yeah, Like you
just can't get like a stranger up there and you're like,
guess what, Yeah, two.

Speaker 2 (17:46):
Soccer players, good luck?

Speaker 1 (17:49):
That is absolutely wild. I would never Yeah. So anyway,
I thought that was interesting. I don't know, that's a
cool new new world record.

Speaker 2 (18:01):
That is a cool name.

Speaker 1 (18:02):
How do people come up with these records?

Speaker 2 (18:06):
I don't know. I'm not one hundred percent sure. But
that does lead into the article that I found where
speaking of world records, Guinness just turned well it's having
it's a seventieth anniversary. Yes, apparently the publication it was

(18:26):
first It released its first volume in August of nineteen
fifty five. So I didn't realize Guinness has been a
rap for that long. I mean, I.

Speaker 1 (18:39):
Guess that makes sense. Yeah, I just I guess.

Speaker 2 (18:42):
It's one of those things where I don't know. I
thought it's either been here since the dawn of time
or it happened, you know, a little later. But because
of it being their seventieth seventieth anniversary, they have unveiled
seventy uncle records.

Speaker 1 (19:01):
Ooh, okay, all right, what do we? What do we?
What are some things that we could attempt exactly? Maybe not, but.

Speaker 2 (19:08):
Somebody yes, so as some of these they did break
it down where they're like, hey, these ones might be
a little easier, which I can read them, and I'm like,
how are these not been done yet? But okay, most
will be cushions sat on in one minute, most high
fives and thirty seconds. Okay, you know, most kisses in

(19:32):
thirty seconds by.

Speaker 1 (19:33):
A fair Janelle. Let's attempt it.

Speaker 2 (19:36):
Let's go. I think I think we can do this one.
Most leaf frog jumps in one hour by a team
of two.

Speaker 1 (19:43):
Oohout, okay, we should do that one move. We should
do it in Loveland.

Speaker 2 (19:48):
Okay, for sure, most seat drops on a trampoline in
one hour. Okay, Anchoby's eaten in one minute.

Speaker 1 (19:58):
I feel like nobody's attempted to that one just because
nobody wants to do it, like they're fine people, but
they're salty, right.

Speaker 2 (20:05):
And then there's also most stackable potato based chips crisps,
excuse me eating in one minute? Okay, most tennis balls
held in one hand.

Speaker 1 (20:15):
I would not succeed at that. I have tiny hands.

Speaker 2 (20:18):
Yeah, most T shirts put on in thirty seconds. This
is individual. This is not it's not a group. And
it's not two people put on T shirts. This is
not it's not a two people think. And this is
what's interesting. One fastest time to ascend the height of
Everest by bicycle.

Speaker 1 (20:33):
So you don't have to go up Everest, but you
have to ascend the height of Everest. It doesn't have
to be on Everest in theory.

Speaker 2 (20:39):
See, I think that I think you're the first one
to figure out that loophole. Maybe maybe you just figured
out the loophole that so like you're looking at that
like I'm not riding my bike up Everest. I think
you just found the loop.

Speaker 1 (20:51):
Do you remember when they were talking about building a
space elevator. We could, in theory, get a stationary bike,
put it on the space elevator and just pedal that
while it launches us up, and then we're sending the
height of Everance while not even really like, yeah, like
doing anything. Maybe there's a loophole.

Speaker 2 (21:09):
Yeah, maybe maybe maybe that is happening.

Speaker 1 (21:14):
This is why I don't have a world record. This
is why we do not have world records yet no Frogmanfest. True,
we have some ideas about leapfroggin we do we do.

Speaker 2 (21:24):
We can do that leapfrog and thing. I think, do
you know what? I think we got to talk to
somebody at the Frogmenfest about that and be like, listen,
actually have an opportunity here.

Speaker 1 (21:32):
I think Jeff is going to come on soon to
talk about the festival. I was email him with them
the other day. Yeah, so actually when I talked to him,
I'll be like, hey, Jeff, I've got a great idea
for twenty six what if we attempt a world record there?

Speaker 2 (21:46):
If you are also interested, if you go to the
Guinness World Records dot com website, you can take part
in a quiz to see what styled a record breaker.
You are five simple questions.

Speaker 1 (22:00):
So they were like.

Speaker 2 (22:02):
Guinneth World Records dot com. It is currently on their
home page. I believe sincere and it'll give you, yeah,
and it'll give you some uh records that you might
be able to actually break.

Speaker 1 (22:15):
Yeah, I'm doing it while we're here. Oh, it's only
five questions. Yeah, it takes thirty seconds. Hey, let's let's
take this real quick, all right, Let's see what we got.
The first question I got is when facing a tough challenge,
how do you tackle it? Let's see, Uh, none of
these are really.

Speaker 2 (22:35):
What I would do.

Speaker 1 (22:35):
I think I'm going with thinking outside the box. Since
I was immediately like, you don't actually have to go
up everest, I think that is definitely Like, so it's
just the height. Yeah, it's The second question here is
which of these activities sounds like you at your record
breaking best. It's definitely a lot not long distance or
durance race for me. I'm not speed knitting.

Speaker 2 (23:01):
I feel like I think I understand what that one's
implying against the clock, Like if you give me a
lego set, you're like, you gotta get it done.

Speaker 1 (23:08):
In this amount of time.

Speaker 2 (23:09):
Yeah, all right, you know I think that's what it's implying.

Speaker 1 (23:13):
I'm gonna go with memorizing because I think I think
that's what I got there.

Speaker 4 (23:17):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (23:17):
The third question is in any groups you're part of,
which role has your name written all over it?

Speaker 4 (23:23):
Uh?

Speaker 1 (23:23):
Oh, this one's hard, This one is a tough one.
I'm I'm a little bit of all these. I'm gonna
go with the motivator who Okay, it depends on kind
of like who you're paired with exactly. It's like you
can you kind of fill in maybe where you need
that is exactly. That's why I'm going with the motivat
because usually I'm all right, we're just gonna handle this,
We're gonna get it done, and like it's gonna be fine.

(23:44):
Question number four is can you tell us which type
of challenge you would most enjoy? Still, again, definitely not endurance.
I am not good.

Speaker 2 (23:52):
I think the stunt one is for us either, just
based on the responses to the speed test to be fun.

Speaker 1 (23:58):
But I think rafting is my answer on this one.
I'd make the Mona Lisa look like adoodle. That is
bold words. Also, the picture next to this one has
somebody with roller skates on that are high heels, which
is wild. I have never seen that before. Yeah. And
then the fifth and final question is, lastly, how do
you personally define success? And our options are pushing yourself

(24:22):
so far you high five your limits on the way past,
leaving the competition in the disk in the dust, mastering
a skill so well you make the experts look like amateurs,
or creating something so unique even your family can't say
it's been done. Before. I'm torn between mastering or creating
on here. Because I love a whole plethora of hobbies.

(24:44):
I would not say I'm usually a master at any
of them because I like doing so things.

Speaker 2 (24:48):
Yeah, you'd have to pick almost one.

Speaker 1 (24:51):
Yeah, which would be the other? I'm gonna go with
the other one. All right, let's see what I let's
see who we got here.

Speaker 2 (24:58):
I went with the A because I'd like to push
the though.

Speaker 1 (25:00):
Yeah, gosh, oh oh, what is this airplane? I got congratulations?
You are an artistic technician. You're a rare mix of
solid craftsmanship and creative sparkle, whether performing, designing, or building.
Your attention to detail and expressive edge bring to life
an exciting and beautiful contradiction. Shine on you, crazy diamond.
What are your.

Speaker 2 (25:20):
What are your records? Below that?

Speaker 1 (25:22):
Oh? The ones that is recommending for me is fastest
time to ice slash frost one hundred cupcakes individual, fastest
time to make a loom band bracelet, or most origami
cranes made in three minutes. Those sound fun. I feel
like those are ones that I could possibly take on.

Speaker 2 (25:41):
Okay, I don't know how I got mine?

Speaker 1 (25:44):
Would you get?

Speaker 2 (25:45):
I got congratulations? You are a power performer. You're a
force of nature, combining explosive speed with raw strengths.

Speaker 1 (25:55):
I'm a five three lady with no Maybe that's your skill.
Maybe maybe it makes you stealthy.

Speaker 2 (26:02):
Maybe it says, whether you're racing against the clock or
powering through a physical challenge, you thrive when the pressure
is on and the pace is fast.

Speaker 1 (26:09):
Maybe that's what it is. It was just like you
need some pressure to make some weird steady.

Speaker 2 (26:15):
Okay. The first one is for this distance swimming in
twenty four hours. That is with the team. Oh, with
a team twist. I can't swim. Not that one.

Speaker 1 (26:24):
Maybe this is how you learn. You're like, I'm gonna
get this gold. I'm gonna I'm gonna get the record.
Fur this distance to bounce a coin into a cup. Oh,
I can see you're doing that one. You do that?

Speaker 2 (26:35):
Okay, one, That one seems fine. Furthest standing jumps forward.

Speaker 1 (26:41):
Yeah, five three, it's gonna make that real hard.

Speaker 2 (26:44):
Okay. I can click a button that says want more,
and it will give me other Oh.

Speaker 1 (26:48):
Yeah, so mine also down at the bottom. As it continues,
uh says uh, you could be building the largest electric
toothbrush or the fastest garden shed and I'm like, yeah,
that's the kind of weird stuff I would just be doing.

Speaker 2 (27:00):
So if you want it, you can also Oh yeah,
like different category. Yeah, like there's some that are under
sixteen seconds, so my category falls under passion. Ah oh,
there's one with a friend slash pet at the end.

Speaker 1 (27:15):
Yeah, I know that one's so much fun. That's mine.

Speaker 2 (27:18):
I technically falls underneath power, but I do want to
look at with the pet slash friend. Okay, Fastest one
hundred m by a human wheelbarrow, fastest ten kilometer three
legged mixed.

Speaker 1 (27:36):
They guess best fun.

Speaker 2 (27:38):
Yeah. Longest duration to keep five balloons in the air. Oh,
we got it, we can do it. What is the is?

Speaker 1 (27:46):
So there's no current record. Yeah, that's the longest duration
to keep a balloon. We could go for three seconds
and we'd already have the record. I mean we probably
wouldn't keep it long, but no, I have to say
I have to make an account to get details. But okay,
I most leat frogs. I'm not water moved. Most what
butter moved?

Speaker 2 (28:06):
Sorry? Let just kiss I'm laughing. Most water moved using
a sponge one minute by a team of two.

Speaker 1 (28:12):
Oh that was a really ugly laugh. It really got me.
You're fine, okay better.

Speaker 2 (28:18):
Most eggs cracked in thirty seconds with one hand, team
of two.

Speaker 1 (28:21):
We got ooh god, I could I could do They
just have to be cracked. Yeah, it doesn't matter if
the shells in there, because then I'm just like grabbing
a handful and slamming that on the ground. Like. This
is why I need I need some boundaries here because
otherwise I'm like, oh, I can do that. I'll just
give them a thing of eggs. I'll dump it on
the ground. They're cracked. What do you want?

Speaker 2 (28:42):
Okay? So I looked at the power thing. One of
them is fastest time to climb the height of everest
on stairs. I could potentially potentially.

Speaker 1 (28:52):
Do that again if you get a StairMaster, put it
in the space.

Speaker 2 (28:54):
Elevator, exactly, put it in the space elevator. Fastest distance
by leaf frog jump in one hour. That's the team
of it.

Speaker 1 (29:03):
A leap frog jump.

Speaker 2 (29:04):
Leap frog. It seems like a lot of people don't
leap frog.

Speaker 1 (29:08):
I okay, so how are we defining a leap frog
jump here? Does it have to be like over another person?

Speaker 2 (29:15):
That's how I was picturing.

Speaker 1 (29:16):
That's how I was picturing it. But then I suddenly,
let me, let me look that up real quick.

Speaker 2 (29:21):
Most drinking cans crushed with feet in one minute female,
and then there is a male category. If I'm doing that,
I am setting up in only fans, and I will
make it paid content. I want lambursement for that cans
with my feet. I want financial This one's not even
for the record. This one is for the content. This

(29:44):
one is just for content.

Speaker 1 (29:46):
If it breaks the record, great, you're getting paid either way.

Speaker 2 (29:52):
I don't think you get paid when you make a
world record.

Speaker 1 (29:54):
I think you just well, if you're putting on only
fans in this case, you are, I would hope, right,
that's why I'm doing Yeah, I feel like yeah doing it,
but like surprise, right now we're doing it, right, doing it?
I guess it would be so fun to have a
world record. Maybe maybe we gotta practice are keeping balloons

(30:16):
off the ground because I loved that game as a kid. Yeah,
I feel like balloon's one up in one minute, I
would not be good. I got asthma.

Speaker 2 (30:28):
Fastest time to assemble mister potato head and under sixteen
seconds fast. It's time to make a passa necklace under
sixteen second Syeah. I'm sure like there's parameters to all
of these, but I just don't have an account.

Speaker 1 (30:39):
Yeah, I'm not. I'm not digging into all of it
until I'm ready to go on. Yeah, that's yes. What
were yours?

Speaker 2 (30:47):
Passion?

Speaker 1 (30:47):
Passion? Yeah? Mine? Mine? I'm in the artistic technician category,
which I feel like fits me. I'm I'm all about
doing some weird stuff. Most cinema's visited in one month,
most coffee how visited one? Oh?

Speaker 2 (31:01):
Fortune cookie's eating? Yeah, most fortune cookies eating in one minute.

Speaker 1 (31:06):
I don't. How is that one? Passion?

Speaker 2 (31:09):
I don't if you really like fortune cookies, I got.

Speaker 1 (31:13):
Fastest time to make a burrito. Long tobes are in
this one. Most antobies eaten in one minute. Longest scream
by an individual you got. I do not because I
have asthma, but I want to see that one.

Speaker 2 (31:27):
We'll just get you a couple puffs of it inhaler.
We'll get you one of those cans of air beforehand. Yeah,
you'll just you just go.

Speaker 1 (31:34):
Uh. Fastest time to build a castle in minecaft craft
survival mode with a mouse and keyboard. The d is
cut off for some reason. Keyboard, keyboard, keyboard. That's what
I was reading it because I thought I was gonna
say key tar, and I was like, how do you what?
This is fun?

Speaker 2 (31:50):
It's time to make a burrito. Yeah, makes its great.
I love all of the Technically.

Speaker 1 (31:54):
I could be done in five seconds. If I'm just
slapping some cheese and a tortilla. I feel like most
cinema's visit in one month would be sick.

Speaker 2 (32:02):
That's what I mean. Like, there's definitely parameter to all
of these, for sure. I want to know about the
leap frog though. That's pretty cool.

Speaker 1 (32:09):
Yeah, I got questions about the leap frog. So we're
we'll have to get some answers from uh, you know,
Guinness on the My next article I have, I feel
like actually goes along really well with me getting this. Uh.
These these weird passion ones. Uh. This is from Popular Science. Uh.
A pilot turned an old plane into a two bedroom apartment.

(32:34):
John Kottwiki jokes that converting an aluminum plane in Alaska
is the worst idea that a person could possibly have. Uh.
This article is from Laura Canary Canary one of the two.
This picture looks amazing by the way, it is a
full plane in the Then this picture there's snow all

(32:54):
around and it has the Aura Borealis above it, and
the plane does vaguely look like it's on fire, but
I think that's actually from the Christmas lights behind them
on a tree. But it does look very cool. I'm
wondering how this plane got here, if they towed it here,
or how it ended up there. But let's dig into
the article and maybe it'll tell us. I think he

(33:15):
just bought it. Oh so, he was a flight instructor
and former commercial airline pilot John Catt Wiki happened upon
a DC six air freighter for sale in twenty twenty two.
He knew it was the perfect plane to transform into
an overnight rental. However, once he made the purchase, my
first thought, he said, was my god, what if I done?

(33:36):
Which is I feel like what I say anytime I
start doing anything. So I am already on this guy's
side where I'm like, yeah, starting frog call. The plane
was built in nineteen fifty six. It is a one
hundred and seventeen foot wide, one hundred and eight foot
long cargo plane, and I had spent its days carrying
freight and fuel to remote villages in Alaska before retiring

(33:59):
from Now it sits on cot Wiki's one hundred and
fifteen acre property in Big Lake, Alaska as a two bedroom,
one bath Airbnb unit. It's also used by students at
caught Wiki's Fly eight m, a flight school which he
runs on site. So that I guess that explains how
the plane got there. Uh, yeah, he just apparently he

(34:21):
just came up with this plan. Here's a quote from
him here that says, I didn't start off with a
ton of construction experience, so building a runway and cabins
for students undergoing training was a steep learning curve for me. Still,
the airplane was a totally different kind of ballgame. Suddenly
I'm working inside of a metal tube that's round instead
of square. Yeah. Apparently he took six months finding the

(34:46):
right plane to do this.

Speaker 2 (34:47):
With this can of magic, you can't have like a
little bingh heap plan or like you need to have room.

Speaker 1 (34:54):
Yeah. And apparently this type of aircraft in particular is
known for its ruggedness and reliability, which is ideal fit
for Alaska's extreme an unforgiving environment. Apparently people were actually
offering him planes for free. But it was stuff like
it hit crash on a remote island in the allusions
Oh yeah, so yeah forty years ago and it's completely

(35:15):
corroded and he's like, well that's not yeah.

Speaker 2 (35:18):
I don't need some integrity to it, like you know.

Speaker 1 (35:23):
Yeah. Uh So apparently they had to drive five hours
north to a location in Fairbanks, Tou. They spent four
days disassembling the aircraft and loading its parts on trailers.
They had to dismantle it. He'd load his truck with
a good socket set for tightening and untightening nuts and bolts,
some to Walt Power tools, a generator and air compressor

(35:44):
to Power's equipment, a plasma cutter, reciprocating saws and grinders
for slicing through metal. So it was him and his girlfriend,
Stephanie Blanchard. So they basically had to fully deconstruct it
and then put it back together. The plus side is
you don't have to be an airplane mechanic to put
it back together because you're not using it in the sky.
So as long as it is a like it's together,
you can then insulate it and make it into you know,

(36:07):
into a livable space. He put most of it up
on YouTube apparently his builds, because sometimes he was building
a negative twenty degrees fahrenheit.

Speaker 2 (36:20):
Oh I believe that.

Speaker 1 (36:21):
Yeah. Uh. It looks like he kept a lot of
the windows intact, which is cool.

Speaker 2 (36:28):
H it does.

Speaker 1 (36:29):
It looks like kind of like the main sort of
like where we would be seated is open for like
the most part. Yeah, he tried to keep what he could.

Speaker 2 (36:38):
Yeah, like living room, dining room all seemed to be
there and those kinds of things. So that is very interesting. Yeah,
I feel like it would be awesome too that it's
there for his students.

Speaker 1 (36:49):
Yes, well, yeah, that's great. Yeah, And I just think
it's just super cool.

Speaker 2 (36:57):
That is so neat.

Speaker 1 (36:59):
I'm just going through all the time.

Speaker 2 (37:02):
Too, I'm like, huh.

Speaker 1 (37:05):
Uh. They he did keep the captain and co pilot
chairs intact, along with many of the retro switches and
original flight controls. I'm assuming they're not connected to anything anymore.
God forbid, you're staying in this and somebody like knows
how to turn the plane on and they just take
off with you in this.

Speaker 2 (37:23):
One of the students, just like you're ready for a
little bit of practice.

Speaker 1 (37:26):
Just like I'm one hundred percent sure he disconnected that
stuff to make sure that they were not sure, you know,
taking a joy ride in his Airbnb.

Speaker 2 (37:34):
Right, Oh my gosh.

Speaker 1 (37:37):
I mean I guess they also couldn't do that because
then they would lose their pilot's license.

Speaker 2 (37:40):
But yeah, I will say it is more roomy than
what I would think it could be for like a
living space. Just like looking at it, you know, I
can see what he's saying, like when you're working more
in like a tube, You're like, how do we It's
like this? And yeah, and it's round in that, like
it's round all the way, not just like you know

(38:01):
it circonference life.

Speaker 1 (38:02):
So it's got a washer and dryer. Cool. He reused
the dome shaped pressure bulkhead that helps maintain cabin pressure.
He reused that as the headboard for the master bedroom
in the It's a king sized bed. Apparently this opened
up in August of twenty twenty two and people loved
it immediately. I think this is so cool. I think

(38:23):
plans are really neat, and I would love to stay there.
I have no idea when I would ever go to
Alaska for any reason, but if I can stay in
a plane I'm in, you might do it.

Speaker 2 (38:34):
I go for it.

Speaker 1 (38:36):
They also apparently his flight school there offers a scenic
flight tours amid the region's glacier Field Mountains mountains surrounds.
I think that'd be really cool. We can go see
the Oraborreealis chill in this plane. It has a little
deck on one of the wings. Yeah, so cool. Apparently

(38:57):
he has plans to turn a fourth plane into a
motor home to drive around the lower forty eight. The
idea is basically to get an old bus or motor
home and pull the body off of it. Then to
basically drop the airplane on top of the engine transmission crisis, Yeah,
and then connect the controls of the cockpit so I

(39:18):
can drive it down the highway from there. So he's
gonna use the that's amazing.

Speaker 2 (39:24):
Feel like I feel like somebody's gonna be like, sir, sir,
you can't drive a plane on the highway.

Speaker 1 (39:31):
Yeah, that is amazing. I want to go.

Speaker 2 (39:36):
That is so cool. Oh oh my goodness.

Speaker 1 (39:41):
I think your next article, you know, said the Skies goes,
we're going underground, underground. Yeah, yes, yes, we're going to
the sewers of Florida where we might belong more, we
might we might, but no, they a working crew out

(40:01):
of Florida, had like a little bit of a surprise
when they came across a five foot alligator siding in
one of the pipelines. So all those stories of you know,
alligators in the sewer are real, they're not.

Speaker 2 (40:18):
They're real. They're just they're not in New York City.
They're in Florida.

Speaker 1 (40:22):
Uh checks out, honestly, maybe some in New York but yeah, yeah,
especially it's a five footer they found too, So that's great. Yeah,
five footer. I mean that's terrifying, but it is. It is.

Speaker 2 (40:35):
It's one. It's basically one of me. Yeah, it was
in like a stormwater pipe. They dispatched some like robot
equipment with like a little camera.

Speaker 1 (40:46):
Yeah. I wouldn't go in there either for multiple reasons.
Won the sewage to the alligator.

Speaker 2 (40:53):
Yeah, So like what ended up happening was it sounds
like they were they were trying to look into why
there were like all these kind of like crazy that
kept appearing on like the roadway above, and so they're like,
we of course got to go like inspect this pipe.
And while they're going down there looking at it, they
came across the alligator. He's just like chilling.

Speaker 1 (41:10):
Oh my gosh. This picture that they first found of
him is amazing. It is like it's not quite a
night vision. It's like everything's just brown and it's the
light from this thing is just shining up at this
gator who just is kind of like, what are you
doing in my house? Why?

Speaker 2 (41:27):
I guess here I was sleeping. Yeah, yeah, and so yeah,
it was it was pretty great.

Speaker 1 (41:34):
And there is some like I think they have like
a whole video footage like of it, like eventually getting
up and kind of like turning back down the sewer.
Oh my gosh, oh, leave them alone. That's his house.

Speaker 2 (41:48):
Yeah. Well, and I understand what they're saying too, Like
they're going through this whole sewer line and it's usually,
like you said, pitch black, and then all of a sudden,
their eyes like reflect light. So they just see two
little glowing eyes and they're like, what the hell.

Speaker 1 (42:00):
Is that script It is just a gator in the sewers. Yeah,
so he just started wandering down the sewer.

Speaker 3 (42:07):
They kept following him.

Speaker 1 (42:13):
Yeah, they were like leaving all alone. Yeah, they are
calling him al. Apparently they are calling them al.

Speaker 2 (42:22):
So he just kept going and what ended up happening
was the reason they couldn't go any further was the
robot got stuck.

Speaker 1 (42:30):
You mean he he uh took it out.

Speaker 2 (42:35):
Yes, potentially he did a little He did a little thing.

Speaker 1 (42:39):
The thing was like under this photo says the light
at the end of the tunnel happened to be an alligator,
which is great.

Speaker 2 (42:46):
Yes, I people aren't like concerned. I guess they are
mildly concerned because they're trying to figure out how he
got in because this whole system that he's under is
under a city and it's like seventy five miles of
like underground piping. So they don't know how al got in.

Speaker 1 (43:07):
So they're not sure about that. That's a great question.

Speaker 2 (43:11):
There is apparently some like what they call storm water ponds,
uh huh, that's used to prevent flooding during storms. They
think he maybe could have got in through like one
of those.

Speaker 1 (43:23):
Yeah, but.

Speaker 2 (43:27):
Wow, he's a little alligator.

Speaker 1 (43:30):
I like the line in this article that this is
a quote from the officials that said, thank goodness, our
crews have a robot. Wrote officials, who didn't specify if
this particular specimen was under the influence of meth what now.
Oh oh, this is linking to an article that says
Tennessee police advised public over thread of meth gators from

(43:53):
twenty nineteen, So apparently that's an issue that's happened before
in Tennessee.

Speaker 2 (43:58):
I think what was happening is, and I could be
completely wrong, is like there have been some drug smuggling
things that have happened where.

Speaker 1 (44:08):
They have been.

Speaker 2 (44:08):
They will give the gator or some form of an
animal the stuff to swallow and then it travels. Yeah. Fact, guy,
I think this is I don't think this is a
cocaine beer situation.

Speaker 1 (44:22):
I think it's Hope not shesing it for drug smuggling.
I hope not let him live his best life in
the sewers.

Speaker 2 (44:28):
Yes, I do love the very last image of the
article because that was when they first saw him. Yeah,
well you see or his little eyes and he's just like.

Speaker 1 (44:38):
I also like that they circled it as if you
couldn't see the glowing eyes because there appears to be
for sids of eyes because his eyes are glowing in
the water. But they circled it as if you're not
going to see the two glowing dots at the end
of this pipe.

Speaker 2 (44:53):
The video is great. It's only about a minute long,
and it's it's literally just their approach to him and
he he's just he's just chilling. And then all of
a sudden, he's like, oh, I don't know what this
thing is. He gets up, he backs up, and he
kind of stares at it for a little bit.

Speaker 1 (45:10):
Yeah, he's probably like, leave me alone. I am busy.

Speaker 2 (45:13):
Yeah, he's like, this is a weird thing. And then
they got closer to him, first of all, rude around, Yeah,
and then he turns around and he starts like a
little sauntering off down his little tunnel, and he keeps
kind of like looking back to see if this is there,
and then he moves a little quicker and then he
just like eventually he loses him. Yeah, he loses him

(45:33):
in his little earth.

Speaker 1 (45:34):
Don't don't be chasing the alligators with your robot. He's
rude in his own home, no less, right, So that's wild.

Speaker 2 (45:46):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (45:48):
I do like how they're just kind of like he's
down there now, Yeah, I mean, well, how are they
gonna get him out? He's five feet long yep, Oh
my goodness, and who's going to go down there to
wrangle him? He was gonna go down there get the
angry gator out of the super.

Speaker 2 (46:03):
I will say, this little pipe system that we're talking
about too, it's not like huge. I don't think you
could fit a person in there. I think it would
take them. Actively.

Speaker 1 (46:12):
I'm gonna guess he was probably smaller when he got
in there.

Speaker 2 (46:15):
Potentially, Yeah, I think so too. I think he was
probably like a bit smaller. Somehow got through one of
those storm.

Speaker 1 (46:22):
Ponds out and now he's down there. For him to
be five feet, I mean, he's done something. Yeah, I
don't know.

Speaker 2 (46:30):
Assuming I'm assuming frogs or something, turtles or something's getting
in there and he maybe they'll.

Speaker 1 (46:37):
Start throwing food in there for.

Speaker 2 (46:41):
Be, Like, don't we just becoming He must be coming
in and out to get some of the storm ponds.
He should buy.

Speaker 1 (46:46):
Their mascot, just hire him onto the department, honestly, at that.

Speaker 2 (46:51):
Point, I mean, he can just be their official pipe inspector,
you know.

Speaker 1 (46:57):
Oh my gosh, Yeah, I have another wild article here.
This is one of my new favorite things that I've
ever seen. This article is coming from KGW eight or
so KGW dot com. It is a news site. This
article is from Devin Haskins and the title of it

(47:19):
is Columbia Sports where dares flat Earthers define the edge
of the Earth. In viral campaign, the Portland outdoor and
sportswear brand taps nostalgia, humor and a bit of mischief
in its boldest campaign in years. I am going to
play a tiny clip of this because they made a
commercial basically daring them define, like send them pictures of

(47:41):
the edge of the Earth. So I'm gonna play this
clip real quick. Might help if I unmute the site.
I muted it earlier because it kept auto playing and
scaring me. Oh, I really muted it. I muted it
in multiple ways. I'm not even sure how I did that.
Here we go.

Speaker 5 (48:00):
I'm Tim Boyle, I'm the CEO here at Columbia sports Ware.

Speaker 3 (48:02):
Arms crossed no nonsense with a message for flatter earths.

Speaker 5 (48:06):
You guys claim there's an end to the Earth.

Speaker 2 (48:08):
We'll just go snap a picture.

Speaker 5 (48:09):
A tongue in cheek challenge for the flat earth conspiracy theorists.

Speaker 2 (48:13):
Yes, just take a photo of the end of the earth.

Speaker 1 (48:15):
This that's actually a runtal and you win a prize. Absolutely.
You know.

Speaker 5 (48:20):
All you have to do is snap a photo of
the end of the Earth and we'll give you the company.

Speaker 1 (48:25):
Well it's not exactly the company you're thinking of.

Speaker 5 (48:28):
Well, there is some fine print. The company is a
group of assets that we have worth about one hundred
grand and the ownership is the company LLC.

Speaker 1 (48:40):
Yeah, so, as he just disclaimored, you can win the
company with it, but the company is just the LLC.
In this campaign, they're calling it Expedition Impossible, a tongue
in cheek challenge inviting anyone who still believes the planet
is flat to go prove it. And honestly, I appreciate that.

(49:04):
I think that is fantastic. I normally am like not
about marketing and stuff like that because I think it's
kind of gross, But this is awesome. Might as well
use your marketing to teach people something because unfortunately we're
still having to in twenty twenty five.

Speaker 2 (49:21):
What word case scenario? It gets people outside, Yeah, well,
you know, doing some stuff, and.

Speaker 1 (49:28):
Flatter earthers are probably not people who go outside very often.

Speaker 2 (49:32):
That might be what they're thinking, and this is going
to get them out there.

Speaker 1 (49:35):
His real challenge was, hey, flat earthers, go touch grass. Basically, basically,
this challenge is launched with an open letter from CEO
Tim Boyle in the New York Times and across Columbia's
social channels. It's a playful jab at conspiracy culture, but
also a reminder of what the brand says it does,
making gear built for just about anything, including expeditions to

(49:56):
imaginary planetary edges. So the video as it goes on,
I didn't play the whole thing as it's too and
I have been so long, but he basically says, well,
if you're going to go to the edge of the Earth,
it's going to be couldren and need some Columbia ware. Great. Uh.
I also love this quote from him here. This is

(50:17):
a message to flat earthers. I've seen your manifestos, admired
your diagrams, watched you stand proudly on your well flat ground.
So here's the deal. It's time to put your map
where your mouth is. And that's what he wrote. And
I think this is just great.

Speaker 2 (50:34):
It's so funny.

Speaker 1 (50:36):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (50:39):
I do love how they were talking about how like
a lot of this also came just from where they
were like, how do we promote our company when there's
like so many businesses that are kind of like similar
to ours, and apparently they were someone I'm assuming it
was Tim was walking past the Flat Earth Society's like office,

(50:59):
uh huh, based in London. That's when he was like,
wait a minute, Oh.

Speaker 1 (51:08):
My gosh, there's another quote from him here. When they
were talking about the legal fine print, because you have
to be careful with that stuff, he says, there was
lots of late night discussions about whether or not we
could pull it off, how we should talk about it.
It took some convincing, it took some arm wrestling contests,
and we won. I want to know what happened with

(51:29):
the arm wrestling contest.

Speaker 2 (51:30):
Yeah, I want to know what happened there.

Speaker 1 (51:31):
Who are they arm wrestling the Earth, the flat Earth,
all of the flat earthers at once? Wow, would break
a world record that has to be part of against yep.
Oh no, something else is auto playing. There's a lot
of history here, yeah, very much so. Somehow that site

(51:54):
is now going again. Okay, I'm mute to the site.
Somehow something else is auto playing on this site, KGW,
get your auto play under control here. I don't even
know what was playing. They're making sure you know. Oh
it's another article because it's one of those like forever
scrolling ones. Yeah, it's about a coffee shop closing, so
that's not even related or beer beer brand. Uh yeah, anyway,

(52:21):
I think this is super cool. I didn't have any
thoughts on Columbia before this, but I love this now
I do too.

Speaker 2 (52:30):
I think that's so much fun. Like I said, I
think it's a neat idea. I also feel like it's
something that like everyone could semi get behind as well,
where they're like, I kind of want to see what
crazy pictures people end up coming up with.

Speaker 1 (52:44):
Oh, I'm sure there can get so many pictures. Is
the part where I'm like, yeah, his quote and it's
less fun. It says, we just want to make sure
as it relates to flat earthers, we like them, so
they have an idea or concept. That's fine. We want
them to buy Columbia stuff too. They'll need it if
they're going to go to the ends of the earth. Okay,

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I guess he has to say that, you know.

Speaker 2 (53:09):
For reasons that is true. That is true. Uh No,
his his little commercial is very cute.

Speaker 1 (53:15):
It's very funny. Yeah, it's very funny. We got two
more articles to squeeze through real quick because we're getting
close to the end of the hour. Yeah. Our next
one is from Unexplained Mysteries, which you know, we've we've
had some on here before that they kind of, you know,
butchered some of the research. But I don't know if
they can butcher the research on this one. This one's

(53:37):
from TK Randall and it is Russia creates biodrone spy
pigeons with computer chips.

Speaker 2 (53:45):
I knew it.

Speaker 1 (53:47):
Birds are not real, or they are real, but they
are spies. A bizarre new experiment has seen entire flocks
of pigeons fitted with remote controlled computer chips. Oh. This
is a new experiment at state linked Moscow neuro technology

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firm NEERI. By implanting neural chips inside of the brains
of pigeons, boffins have succeeded in creating flocks of birds
that can be remotely controlled, thus enabling their flight roots
to be directed from afar. Each bird is equipped with
a tiny solar powered backpack that tracks them and receives signals.

(54:31):
According to the firm, any bird can be potentially fitted
with the same technology. This is wild.

Speaker 2 (54:39):
I feel a little bit bad now because I don't
know why. When I thought they were talking about like
remote control computer chips. It was not going to be
like an implant in the bird. But now that it is,
I'm like, oh, well looks bad.

Speaker 1 (54:53):
Is it implanted?

Speaker 2 (54:55):
Yes, that's what it implies.

Speaker 1 (54:57):
Yeah, implanted new neural chips. Oh yeah, yeah, I was like,
where did I read that? They have a quote here
that says for transporting heavier payloads, we plan to use
ravens for coastal monitoring seagulls. Oh, for heavier payloads. They're
gonna use ravens for coastal monitoring seagulls and for large

(55:20):
marine territories Albatross's said company founder Alexander Panov.

Speaker 4 (55:26):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (55:27):
This article does point out the implications of this are concerning,
as larger birds could be equipped with small explosive payloads
and potentially used to fly into and blow up enemy
targets on the battlefield. Yeah. This points out, you know,
as if regular drones weren't enough of a problem in Ukraine,
imagine the difficulty in defending a position against flocks of
explosive birds descending on you from the sky. Yeah. I've

(55:52):
got a lot of questions about this. I don't think
it's good to be messing with birds like this. I
just looked at this company's website because I was lacarious.
I'm like, is this like actually a thing?

Speaker 2 (56:02):
And sure enough, on their homepage there's this thing called
Pathia and Elvis and it's an omniscent rodent gamer channeling
telepathy and baboon. Like, I don't know what half the
stuff is. And then they have like these little gadgets
where it's like headbands and headphones and yeah, like I

(56:25):
don't know. They do have like a neuro implants, power, telepathy,
a lot control, infinite knowledge and superpowers.

Speaker 1 (56:39):
Yeah, I don't know. I don't know what's happening here.

Speaker 2 (56:44):
I'm so confused.

Speaker 1 (56:46):
I don't know. This is crazy. Uh. Our last group
develops article. I was like, we'll go ahead and get
their last one real quick, since we're almost at the
end of the hour. This one's from Popular Science and
it's what bigfoot hunters get right and very wrong. This
is from Andrew Paul. Bigfooters often I've never seen it
called bigfoters. It's usually squatchs. Bigfooters often employ credible scientific

(57:10):
methods in their searches. This article says bigfoot remains firmly
in the realm of cryptozoology along with the likes of
the Luckness Monster. However, its pursuers often are not the
stereotypical crackpots depicted across pop culture. According to two social scientists,
they frequently rely on widely accepted, reliable methods and tools
to search for the elusive sasquatch. This quote here says

(57:31):
they spend weekends, weeks, and even months in the field.
This work is skillful behavior, as they need to detect,
collect and analyze the merest traces, remnants and residues of
the presence of the unknown to science. Animal Cardiff University
researcher Jamie Lewis said in a recent profile. Along with
Sheffield University social scientists Andrew Bartlett, Lewis has spent more

(57:52):
than three years conducting interviews with over one hundred and
fifty individuals for their recent book, Bigfooters and Scientific Inquiry
on the Borderlands of Legitimate science. Subjects included the aforementioned
hunters often referred to as bigfooters again I've always heard
it squatchs uh, television personalities, skeptics, and even the late
primatologist Jane Goodall. Lewis and Bartlett now contend that while

(58:14):
a small subsect of cryptozoologists subscribe to far fetched, extraterrestrial, interdimensional,
or supernatural Bigfoot theories. The vast majority simply theorize a
still undiscovered great ape may still roam regions such as
the Pacific Northwest. I super appreciate this. One of the
main reasons we haven't done a Bigfoot episode here is
because there are a lot of people who believe some

(58:34):
really wild things about Bigfoot that I don't think are
true at all. There are so many people that are
like I've heard people say that Bigfoot's actually an angel
or like Bigfoot is, you know, cane roaming the earth,
and I'm like, it is way more likely that is
an undiscovered Grade eight right, right, So it is true.
I appreciate it. I enjoy the discourse. Yeah, oh, I

(58:57):
think it's fun. For sure.

Speaker 2 (58:58):
It's fun. I can see where they could potentially get
that idea.

Speaker 1 (59:02):
But it's fun. But I don't want to be spreading
misinformation too heavy.

Speaker 2 (59:06):
Yeah, sometimes feeling a little too heavy, And you know,
it is nice to see that they are bringing that up. Yeah,
for sure.

Speaker 1 (59:16):
Next week's episode, after this one, we're gonna have on
Kelly Curtis, who is a parapsychologist who is about to
get her pH d. And I'm really excited about that
because she is heavy about talking about, you know, like
the science of you know, these sort of things, and
so I really appreciate that. I love cryptozoology. I think
it's super fun, but I always want it to be

(59:38):
rooted in science and not just like, well it's this
way because I say so, because believe this, you know whatever, right,
so well, and.

Speaker 2 (59:45):
That's kind of like the point of it. It's the
mystery behind it is that it is something unknown yet, Yeah,
but there is still that like element of like a
scientific almost truth behind that. Yeah, like it is a
plausible thing, you know, it is unknown for now. It
is unknown for now, yeah, exactly.

Speaker 1 (01:00:06):
And that's perfect time, maybe because we just hit the
top of the hour, so we got through all our
weird news and we're gonna go ahead and sign off
for the night. So good night and good luck. You
are listening to Radio Art Effect on sixteen sixty and
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