September 30, 2025 • 38 mins
Episode 205 of The Soap Box Champion Podcast, hosted by Kraig Delaney discusses several conspiracy theories and strange coincidences, beginning with the unusual media focus on kids playing chess and a detailed account of synchronicities involving the number 33 following the assassination of Charlie Kirk. He connects the number 33 to a pastor's sermon titled "Murder of a Watchman [Ezekiel 33]" and a break in his writing that led him to a YouTube video where the number 330 and the death of a celebrity’s wife at age 33 appeared. Delaney also explores a major conspiracy theory suggesting Kirk was killed by an explosive lavalier microphone, drawing parallels to the Israeli explosive pager attack and the involvement of billionaire Bill Ackman, who has ties to Israel. The episode concludes with a segment about crickets, providing facts and a mathematical formula to determine the temperature based on their chirping speed.
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Speaker 1 (00:14):
What's going on out there? Creature in the backyard. Here,
there's a piece in the backyard. I's coaching.
Speaker 2 (00:32):
This is the Soapbox Champion podcast.
Speaker 1 (00:39):
It is the Soapbox Champion Podcast. It's Tuesday, September thirtieth,
twenty twenty five. This is episode two O five of
the Soapbox Champion Podcast. He's coaching, recorded live from FEMA
Region five, Heart of Bean in corn Country. Hey, we're
(01:00):
just We're just like you. You guys. You know, my
name is Craig Delaney. What's up with kids and chess
right now? Have you guys seen a lot of kids
playing chess in the media recently? Last week I saw
a piece on the news about a young boy who
was on the circuit beating seasoned chess champions. Neat right. Sure.
(01:25):
I don't remember his name or where I saw it,
because it was no big deal at the time. I
just saw it, you know, Why would I take note?
Speaker 2 (01:31):
You know?
Speaker 1 (01:33):
But then over the weekend I saw two more stories,
identical stories about a young person on the circuit beating
season chance chess champions. One was a little girl. It's
just strange. I don't care about chess. I wasn't looking
for this, but it was shown three different children playing
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chess against adults, like some sort of phenomenon. Just strange.
Have you seen these stories? What shouldn't there be one
in a lifetime? Why am I seeing three in a week?
It's either fake or there's a reason. I don't know
what it is. It's just strange. I firmly believe there's
(02:14):
a reason for everything. It's it's not cheap making, editing,
producing and getting new stories out like these. And the
fact that I saw three versions of the very same story,
and and a random story at that just weird. Something
else weird. I couldn't wait to tell you about. Several days,
(02:37):
almost a week, I guess, after Charlie Kirk was assassinated,
I received a text for a friend of mine who's
a Baptist pastor in a neighboring town. The nicest guy,
but truly an asset to the community. And I mean
that now I don't attend that church any longer. And
there's no drama behind that. There's just nothing to it.
(02:59):
There's nothing there.
Speaker 3 (03:00):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (03:00):
Poke it all you want, it's just not Sometimes you
just change up what you do the end. But the
last time I received A text message from him was
on December twenty second of twenty nineteen. Right, I consider
him a friend, he considers me a friend. We see
each other, et cetera, but we don't text often. But
(03:21):
I received a message from him on September fifteenth, containing
a YouTube blank to one of his sermons, and then
this message from him saying, quote, hey, bro, here's the
message from yesterday in response to Charlie kirk assassination. Would
love to hear your thoughts end quote. So that would
have been five days after Kirk was killed. Right. I
(03:45):
was in the car when I received that message, and
I didn't want to watch it right then. It was inconvenient,
so I said text him back. I put quote thank you, Daniel,
can't wait to listen to it. End, quote the end.
And it took me a while to get to it,
for no other reason that I'm busy with all sorts
of things, and it just took a while to listen,
(04:08):
even though I was looking forward to it. Legitimately, I
listened to his message on Wednesday the twenty fourth, the
day after my episode two hundred and four from Tuesday
the twenty third, My episode was entitled Patel's thirty three
in the TikTok Conspiracy. Remember that was the title of
(04:28):
that episode. And in that episode, I spent time talking
about the number thirty three, the magic number. You guys,
you've been around, you know, and it's still worth a
listen to that episode right now. The number thirty three
pops up a lot and often is said to signify something.
In that episode, I compared it to the death card
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in a tarot deck. And most people assume that if
the death card is pulled, it's a terrible sign. But
that's not always the cave in tarot, and I'm not
an expert, I promise you the death card could actually
represent the death of something negative in your life, or
the death of a bad habit. It's not always negative,
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but thirty three is something. A lot of the time,
it's referred to as the liar's number, signifying deceit or lies.
But again, much like the death card, not always and
it was referenced by Cashptel, and I pointed that out,
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saying after he said the following After Kirk was killed,
the suspect was taken into custody at ten pm local time.
In less than thirty six hours, thirty three to be precise. Okay,
In the hundreds of times the number thirty three was
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used during COVID, we talked about that too. Thirty three
is a sign. So that episode Tuesday, the next day
the show is done, I can relax. I'm free for
about a week. I finally took time to watch that sermon.
I grabbed my phone, went to that message to find
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the link, and I did find it. The title of
the video he sent me, Murder of a Watchman, Ezekiel
thirty three. I shook my head by myself out loud
and said, no way. Ezekiel thirty three outlines the prophet
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Ezekiel's role as a watchman for Israel, emphasizing themes of responsibility, repentance,
and divine judgment. God appoints Ezekiel to warn the people
of impending judgment, holding him accountable for delivering the message faithfully.
If he fails, he shares the guilt, but if he
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warns them, he is blameless. The chapter stresses that individuals
are responsible for their own sins. The righteous who turn
us in will face judgment, while the wicked who repent
will live. Remember, God takes no pleasure in the death
of the wicked, but desires their repentance none. Nonetheless, Ezekiel
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thirty three also addresses Jerusalem's fall, confirming Ezekiel's prophecies and
critiques the people's hypocrisy they listen to his words but
do not act on them. It underscores God's justice, mercy,
and the need for genuine repentance. Hey, this isn't a
(07:45):
religious podcast, guys, No, it's not. It's not. But if
something needs to be talked about, well I'm gonna talk
about it because I Can's my podcast. I do what
I want. I'm not a Jesus nut, but I'm not
agnostic either. I'm not into numerology as much as I
talk about thirty three. I'm into synchronicities. Thirty three pops
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up way too much for me not to wonder and
to add crazy on top of crazy. Let me tell
you my podcast routine. First, I'll go into this office,
I'll sit down. I'll stare out this giant window for
a few minutes and admire the view. I can see
my driveway. Down the end of my driveway, the American
(08:31):
flag down there in a giant bean field across the road.
Be on the field, there's a tree line that breaks
just a little bit, and the view will give one
of the best Southern Indiana sunsets you could ask for,
right here from my office window. After I'm satisfied with that,
you know, I start researching and writing for the show.
(08:54):
I'll take notes all throughout the week and on my
cell phone to remind me to look into something or
to bring it up different things on each episode. And
then I'll go over these notes while I'm in the
office and decide how I'll present each one in each
episode and write a rough outline so I don't lose
my train of thought midway through recording like I've done before.
(09:17):
I will usually do this routine on Sunday, you know,
like Sunday night, early evening or Monday afternoon. This week
it was Sunday. Keep in mind, I try to speak
each episode between forty five minutes to an hour. I
don't like an hour. Remember there's a reason I do everything.
I don't like an hour. When you hear the term
(09:39):
an hour, it becomes something you think an hour. I
don't have an hour to dedicate to listening to something,
But magically everyone's got forty five minutes. You see the
trick there the weirdness strange right, how our brain works,
It just does work that way. So when I sit
down to write the show, I want to knock it
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out in one sitting. And it takes hours, believe it
or not. Why cause I take so much time to
check facts and find facts and make sure I'm not
spreading disinformation. So I'll be in here for a while.
I'll bring a drink in with me, and I won't
leave the office. Once I get up and walk out
(10:22):
of this room, it's over, you guys. Every time, there
are hundreds of things to do right outside that door,
and I'll start to do them and the show will
never get done. But I do take breaks, more like
a mind break, and that consists of drinking coffee, tire
water or whatever I brought in, and I'll usually close
my podcast windows. I'll get on YouTube or rumble and
(10:46):
I'll watch something totally opposite at what I talk about
on the show and what I'm telling you happened on Sunday.
During a break from writing about Easy Gill thirty three
and the number thirty three, YouTube throws up a bunch
of videos that thinks I might want to watch. It's
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usually pretty right. One of them was titled Wayne Static
Died in this abandoned dirt house. Okay, it was from
a channel called Lamont at Large. And from what I
can see, this man named Lamont travels to places and
when he's there, he'll walk around them and talk about them. Interesting.
(11:29):
In this video, he travels to a house where Wayne
Static died from an accidental overdose on pills. I know
I'm going somewhere here. Wayne Static was the vocalist and
guitarist from a band I enjoyed very much called Static X.
And they're still around. But it's weird now. The video
was just under ten minutes long, and I figured that's
(11:51):
a good break. I'll watch this one. At almost six
minutes in, he talks about Static's wife, Tara find him dead.
And I heard this. She woke about it around three
thirty that afternoon. Okay, there it is three thirty, the
number thirty three. I know, I know it ain't much.
(12:14):
I forgot all about it, you know, three thirty not
exactly thirty three, but it's there undeniably. But I'm aware
it's been on my mind, so I'm aware that I'm
probably just seeing it too much, you know, seeing reading
too much into it, but then it's not all to
close the video, Lamont simply puts a picture up of
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Wayne and his wife Tara and included the text quote.
On January thirteenth, twenty twenty six, Wayne Static's wife, Tara Ray,
died from suicide at the age of thirty three. I'm
just saying, I'm just saying, all right, are we talking
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about Charlie Kirk. I don't know, I don't know. I
don't know. It's too much, it's all became too much.
The waters are as muddy as I've ever seen waters be.
There are so many conspiracies, each one crazier than the
last one. I've heard he was a hologram and that
was a hologram projector not a camera that the guy
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stood on the chair to take down. I've heard his
wife was in on it, and there was a trapdoor,
and Charlie is alive. They they did it to make
a martyr of him. The drone thing, the hand signals
the second actual sniper, and then the kid becomes the
fall guy. Uh. The lavalier might be the most believable one.
Have you seen this? This suck conspiracy. I'm not I'm
(13:44):
not gonna cover this like I want to get to
the bottom of it, but the video speaks to me.
The conspiracy goes like this, Kirk's Lavalier Mike was actually
an explosive projectile. That's why this shot was at that
quote impossible angle that keeps haying. Now, I would never
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consider this viable before twenty twenty four. Why the Israeli
explosive pagers? Now it gets interesting, right remember them? Explosive
pagers were used in September of twenty twenty four on
an attack on Hesbola in Lebanon linked to a sophisticated
operation attributed to Israel, though Israel is still not officially
(14:32):
claimed responsibility. The pagers, primarily gold Apollo AR nine twenty
four models, were reportedly manufactured by BAC Consulting, a Hungarian
firm under licensing agreement with gold Apollo, a Taiwanese company. However,
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evidence suggests Israeli intelligence, likely Mosad, whose name keeps coming
up by the way, tampered with the pagers before they
reached Lebanon. A shell corporation BAC Consulting was allegedly set
up to facilitate the operation, embedding small amounts of explosives
plastic explosives and invisible detonators within the pager batteries. These
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modifications were designed to evade detection and were supported by
fake online backstory, including fake stories and posts on social
media to deceive has Bullis, you know, their checks of
their items. And it worked. Matter of fact, it worked
very well. They killed at least thirty seven people and
(15:38):
injured over three thousand in just two days. That's real
life now. That happened last year, supposedly by Israel and
Will and with Israel wanting to star fight and kill
just about anyone who looks and him. Funny right now,
Charlie Kirk was probably on a lite. You see the connection.
(16:03):
Still wouldn't believe it. But that video, you guys, if
you keep all this in mind and you see this video,
go watch it. One guy rushes to Kirk and another
one slides over a table to get to Kirk and
appears to grab something off Charlie Kirk and immediately hands
it to the other guy, who then turns and runs away,
leaving the scene all within like five seconds of the shot.
(16:29):
All of this makes Tyler Robinson the Patsy explaining why
absolutely nothing adds up about him nothing, and it sort
of makes sense of Matt Robinson, Tyler's father being eligible
to receive over one million dollars in reward money for
turning his own son in. And that money, by the way,
came from a few different sources, a couple of conservative activists,
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the FBI, and huh one million dollars from billionaire Bill Ackman.
Oh He's the founder in CEO of Pershing Capital Management.
This is a hedge fund he started in two thousand
and four. He's known as a activist investor, and that
means he often takes big stakes in companies and then
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pushes for change in how they are run. In January
of twenty twenty four, Akman and his wife Nary Oxman
bought about a four point nine percent steak in the
Tel Aviv Stock Exchange as part of a secondary offering.
The proceeds from the offering were being used by the
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Tel Aviv Stock Exchange to invest in its technology infrastructure.
Akman has publicly said he believes Israel has strong long
term economic growth potential, and he described the Tel Aviv
Stock Exchange investment as a vote of confidence in the
Israeli economy. After buying into that, he reportedly said it
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might be the best investment he's ever made, reflecting his
optimism about Israel's economics resilience amid regional conflict. Since the
Hamas attacks on October seventh, and that was in twenty
twenty three, Akman has been vocal about what he views
as uprising anti Semitism, especially on university campuses in the US.
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He criticized Harvard, amongst others, over how they've handled student
statements and protests about Israel. He stated that he considers
himself pro Israeli, while also saying it's not inconsistent to
be pro Palestinian because he frames his stance in more
terms of being anti terrorists. Okay. His wife, Nary Oxman,
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is Israeli born. She's a designer, academic, and professor, giving
her and him personal ties to Israel. He has said
that his family was quote very supportive of Israel end quote,
and that some of his motivations and concerns like anti
Semitism come from his own upbringing. The rumor and just
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a rumor, guys, so don't go talking about it yet.
Is that Benjamin Netahu himself called Charlie Kirk recently to
offer him money and asked that he become more supportive
of Israel in his speaking. The rumor also goes on
to say Kirk said no, and it was supposedly not
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long after Kirk said the following on the PDP podcast
hosted by Patrick Bett David.
Speaker 2 (19:31):
So, I've been Israel many times, the whole country's fortress.
When I first heard this story. I still have the
same gut instinct that I did initially. I find this
very hard to believe. I'm gotta be careful the way
I say this. They're going to try to ethnically cleanse guys.
They're talking about basically removing two point five million people
from there. Okay, there are some serious questions, Here's Patrick.
Speaker 1 (19:50):
Enough enough the rumors and the finger pointing. Why don't
we have facts? What? Why don't we have a crime scene.
Why don't we have a full report. Why don't we
have forensic evaluations? Why don't we have trajectory mock ups?
Where's the bullet? Did we ever find the bullet? Why
does Utah County Land Records and real estate Sites list
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six eighty three West nine to twenty five South Street
in Aorum, Utah as a parcel owned by six eighty
three properties ownership since twenty twenty one. That doesn't sound
like anything we should be concerned about, right, The internet
produces almost nothing about six eighty three Properties. Funny too,
(20:35):
how the name of the property management company is just
the address of this one parcel of land in Orum. Well,
this parcel just happens to be where Tyler Robinson's mystery
gun was found hidden in the bushes. Six eighty three
Capital Management, not Properties, is an investment advisor managing public securities.
(20:59):
It files with the sec investing in various companies. Odd
but I can't find a relationship. But Pallenteer appears in
the portfolio of six eighty three Capital Management. As in
six eighty three Capital owns shares of Palenteer. For example,
one of the holdings shown is pltr Pallenteer for six
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point of that portion of their portfolio. You remember Palenteer.
They landed the ten billion dollar contract with the US Army.
They signed a major ten year enterprise agreement with the Army,
consolidating many smaller contractors and positioning itself as a central
player in military AI and data systems. Six eighty three
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Properties owns just one property, and it's named after the
one property, the one where Tyler Robinson stashed his rifle.
And before I forget six point eighty three, Capital Management
was explicitly authorized by Russian President Vladimir Putin to buy
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Russian securities via a presidential decree on March seventeenth, twenty
twenty five. But I'm sure it's nothing. Oh sorry, I
got I got sidetracked. I was asking questions. Where was
I Oh? Yeah, why don't we have a capable and
honest FBI. Why is twenty twenty five in the United
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States and people are getting assassinated? Maybe Adam Carolla answered
that the other day.
Speaker 3 (22:35):
For me, when you start getting into this guy's evil,
well then we're going to a different place because the disagreement,
whether it's a Thanksgiving with your niece and your nephew,
if you if you you know, you're a Steelers guy
and they're Ravens fans, that's that's fine. That's how the
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world comes down. We come down to everyone's a fan
of some and you're a Chevy guy. I'm a Ford guy.
You know, whatever we do. But if you're a Chevy
guy and I'm an evil guy and you're a Pittsburgh guy,
and I'm an evil guy and you like anchovies on
your pizza and I'm an evil guy. Well, at some
point I can't come to Thanksgiving and an extreme point,
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I wouldn't need to be put down. And that's that's
the problem. And I think that's the division that we're
talking about, which is the right and the left. Go, oh,
there's you guys sling just as much mud as we do, right,
but we're calling people stupid or low iq or slow
or sleepy or whatever he's doing. You're going with the
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evil part, and that's when the bullets start flying.
Speaker 1 (23:47):
You know. I like Adam Carolla and I believe he's right.
We're at that next level and we have to back
away from it. We have to rewind, rewind and remember
what we're all about. Peace, love, and happiness, baby basically.
But all that just starts with peace. I don't think
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there's much peace left in the United States, and that
should concern all of us. We definitely have crossed a line. First,
we have to admit that there is a line, and
then we have to all agree to take about five
steps back away from that line. How do we do that?
(24:31):
What do we do well? The we is made up
of a bunch of ues, and it starts with you.
You do that, you be the first, or you be
the twelfth or the twenty eighth person to do that,
and then eventually we're all doing that. The problem isn't
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you know, oh we don't get along. No, it's that's
not the problem. The problem is why we don't get
a And that's the constant bombardment of rhetoric and propaganda
doing exactly what rhetoric and propaganda are supposed to do,
get you to change your way of thinking so that
you act a certain way going forward. And it's worked.
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What you see is it working? Think for yourself. You
want peace, be peaceful, You want violence, well, then be violent.
It's you, it's me, it's us. Stop falling for all
the garbage. Stop watching Fox News, stop watching MSNBC, stop
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watching CNN. You weren't born thinking the way you do today.
You didn't grow up acting this way. It was learned. Okay,
So who's the teacher. Well, that's mainstream media. Now, it's
the government since twenty twelve, that's black Rock, other nations
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that wish you harm. That's Chuck Schumer, that's Lindsey Graham,
Elizabeth Warren, Maxine Waters, Nancy Pelosi, Marjorie Taylor Green, Lauren Bobert.
Stop being mesmerized by these people. It has stop. These
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aren't politicians, They're pawns. Then they all act like I
just they act like fools, They act like idiots, And
I just named the all star cast. Schumer, Graham, Warren, Waters, Pelosi, Taylor, Green,
Bobert clowns every single one of them. Guys, Alexa keeps
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you yelling at me, and she's yelling about Alexa Plus.
Supposedly this is new to me. It's an Amazon's improved
AI powered edition of its Alexa voice assistant, and my
device is keep hollering at me and reminding me that exists,
and with a new voice to tempt me. Hey, it's Alexa.
(27:24):
Notice anything different. I've got a new voice and a
ton of new features thanks to Alexa Plus.
Speaker 2 (27:30):
Try the free upgrade and discover what else I can
do for you. Just say Alexa, let's get started.
Speaker 1 (27:37):
Unlike the original Alexa, which depends on pre set instructions,
I guess, Alexa Plus employs generative AI using big language
models such as Amazon's Nova and others from others such
as Anthropic. This supports a more natural conversational interactions, greater
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con text knowledge, and better memory for user preferences. Some
of the key traits Amazon said is with natural language instructions,
you can book restaurants, book Uber trips, purchase tickets through Ticketmaster,
or control smart home appliances using technologies such as a
doll e. It also produces images from text based papers,
(28:24):
which I don't Why do people brag about that? Who cares? Remember?
They will remember user information for unique replies and presets,
individualized news summaries from sites such as The Washington Post
and Reuter's Propaganda. Cost and availability you ask available for
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nineteen ninety nine a month, which is a lot, you guys,
that's a lot for what that is. But that's a
big butt. It's free for Amazon Prime subscribers with first
access for beta testers. It's being released to gadgets including
the Echo Show, eight, ten, fifteen, and twenty one. Sounds
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great except for one thing. From what I understand, Alexa
will also play ads from time to time with Alexa Plus,
So therefore I'm not in and now steif for sports.
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In nineteen seventy six, the Boston Red Sox were playing
the New York Yankees and Carlton Fisk hit a game
winning home run in the twelfth inning of Game six
of the World Series. What makes it legendary wasn't just
the homer. It was how he waved the ball fare
hopping and gesturing as if the ball would follow his hand.
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Cameras captured that moment and it became one of the
first instant replay highlights that made fans feel like they
were part of history. Fun Fact later said he didn't
intentionally waive it fair like that. It just came naturally
in the heat of the moment. And that's gonna do
it for this week as But now the SPC quote
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of the Week quote the best way to predict the
future is to invent it end quote that was by
a man named Alan k. Kay is a pioneering computer
scientist born in nineteen forty best known for object oriented programming.
He helped develop concepts that underpin modern programming languages like
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small Talk, Java and Python, and graphical user interfaces GUIs.
He contributed to early ideas that led to today's personal
computers with Windows icons and menus NAT and now it's
time for sugar the sugars. It contains activate this taste receptors.
(31:01):
That's right. Here is a you're you're about to open
your brain and uh, you're gonna reserve some space for
something you never thought you needed. Brain space for crickets. Yeah,
crickets the bugs. Crickets are a type of insect that
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falls under the grilladie family. They are related to grasshoppers
and katie DIDs. Most cricket species are active at night,
making them nocturnal. Male crickets are well known for their
characteristic chirping, which is produced by rubbing their wings together.
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This process is termed stridulation. Stridulation, it's hard, talking's hard. Yes.
Chirping serves various functions to attract females, established territory and
alert competitors. Surprisingly, the speed of chirping can indicate the temperature.
(32:05):
More on that in a minute. Crickets can be found
in meadows, woods, caves, and even in residential homes. Here
in southern Indiana we have what they call spider crickets,
and there are normally in older homes that have sort
of unfinished basements where it's cool and damp. Maybe, from
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what I understand, spider crickets aren't harmful or anything. But
they look terrifying. Their crickets with like legs on steroids,
these great tall legs. They look like spiders and they jump.
They jump at you. They'll bounce off of you. But
they won't harm you. They're fine. They're just creepy. They
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prefer shelter in dark, damp spots during late e late
hours and daylight hours rather than emergent night. Crickets are omnivores.
They will eat plants, fungi, occasionally small insects. They also
play a crucial role in the food chain, serving us
prey for birds, reptiles, and smaller mammals. In certain nations,
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such as China and Thailand, crickets are kept as pets,
appreciated for their songs, and are even featured in cricket
fighting events. When I was a teenager, a cricket appeared
in my bedroom and I kept him and I named
him Trinket, And at night he would chirp and it
would put me to sleep. Crickets will eat potatoes. If
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you take the skin off potato, cut it in half,
they'll just dine off that forever, you know. So I
did that, and I put it in the corner of
my bedroom, and that little cricket was with me for
a long time. I know it's weird, I know, but
it was so soothing and unique when I turned the
lights out at night and it would start chirping. I
know there's a lot of things about you, about me
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you don't know. But anyway, in literature and folklore, crickets
actually represent good fortune. Also consumed does a sustainable source
of protein by weirdos with cricket flower gaining traction and
wellness foods, and it's tried to gain traction for years now.
No one's fallen for it just yet in the modern world.
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And that's already more than you ever knew about crickets.
But I'm telling you that's not all. I have two
pieces of cricket trivia for you. First, at the end
of each Soapbox Champion podcast episode, you will hear a
small section of audio under the Soapbox Champion production screen.
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The 's the very last thing you see in video.
It's the very last thing you hear each episode, and
it's what I call night sounds and prominently featuring cricket sounds. Second,
the reason this is the reason all that, just so
I could tell you this the reason that crickets are
this week's sugar segment so that I can tell you
(34:59):
I have a math formula for you that will blow
your mind. When outside in the evening, when the crickets chirp,
pay attention. Count the number of cricket chirps in fifteen seconds.
After you count those chirps, add forty to that number.
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Then this will accurately give you the current temperature in fahrenheit.
I know it sounds crazy, but it's true, and we're
going to practice. Ready, I have fifteen second clip of
nighttime outside. I'm gonna play it. Now, count the chirps,
then add forty. Ready, three, two, one? Did you get it?
(36:02):
I counted six chirps. I add forty, making it forty
six degrees when that clip was recorded. Cool. Right, that's
gonna do it for this week's Sugar Shun Gang No
(36:23):
Sugar Joe, and that's gonna do it for episode two
hundred and five of the Soapbox Champion podcast. Thanks for listening, everyone,
cricket lovers and the like. Hope you learned something. Remember
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know what else if I figured out rips now that
I'm thirty. Uh, the rain, dude, I get it now.
And homies were like, yeah, we needed this rain, because
(38:10):
we did. Dude, my lawn was looking fucking parsed.
Speaker 2 (38:13):
Dude, the next up, I'm gonna be saying it's not
the heat, it's the humidity, or some shit like that.
What's going on out there? Creature in the backyard. Here,
there's a piece in the backyard. I's coaching.
Speaker 2 (00:32):
This is the Soapbox Champion podcast.
Speaker 1 (00:39):
It is the Soapbox Champion Podcast. It's Tuesday, September thirtieth,
twenty twenty five. This is episode two O five of
the Soapbox Champion Podcast. He's coaching, recorded live from FEMA
Region five, Heart of Bean in corn Country. Hey, we're
(01:00):
just We're just like you. You guys. You know, my
name is Craig Delaney. What's up with kids and chess
right now? Have you guys seen a lot of kids
playing chess in the media recently? Last week I saw
a piece on the news about a young boy who
was on the circuit beating seasoned chess champions. Neat right. Sure.
(01:25):
I don't remember his name or where I saw it,
because it was no big deal at the time. I
just saw it, you know, Why would I take note?
Speaker 2 (01:31):
You know?
Speaker 1 (01:33):
But then over the weekend I saw two more stories,
identical stories about a young person on the circuit beating
season chance chess champions. One was a little girl. It's
just strange. I don't care about chess. I wasn't looking
for this, but it was shown three different children playing
(01:54):
chess against adults, like some sort of phenomenon. Just strange.
Have you seen these stories? What shouldn't there be one
in a lifetime? Why am I seeing three in a week?
It's either fake or there's a reason. I don't know
what it is. It's just strange. I firmly believe there's
(02:14):
a reason for everything. It's it's not cheap making, editing,
producing and getting new stories out like these. And the
fact that I saw three versions of the very same story,
and and a random story at that just weird. Something
else weird. I couldn't wait to tell you about. Several days,
(02:37):
almost a week, I guess, after Charlie Kirk was assassinated,
I received a text for a friend of mine who's
a Baptist pastor in a neighboring town. The nicest guy,
but truly an asset to the community. And I mean
that now I don't attend that church any longer. And
there's no drama behind that. There's just nothing to it.
(02:59):
There's nothing there.
Speaker 3 (03:00):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (03:00):
Poke it all you want, it's just not Sometimes you
just change up what you do the end. But the
last time I received A text message from him was
on December twenty second of twenty nineteen. Right, I consider
him a friend, he considers me a friend. We see
each other, et cetera, but we don't text often. But
(03:21):
I received a message from him on September fifteenth, containing
a YouTube blank to one of his sermons, and then
this message from him saying, quote, hey, bro, here's the
message from yesterday in response to Charlie kirk assassination. Would
love to hear your thoughts end quote. So that would
have been five days after Kirk was killed. Right. I
(03:45):
was in the car when I received that message, and
I didn't want to watch it right then. It was inconvenient,
so I said text him back. I put quote thank you, Daniel,
can't wait to listen to it. End, quote the end.
And it took me a while to get to it,
for no other reason that I'm busy with all sorts
of things, and it just took a while to listen,
(04:08):
even though I was looking forward to it. Legitimately, I
listened to his message on Wednesday the twenty fourth, the
day after my episode two hundred and four from Tuesday
the twenty third, My episode was entitled Patel's thirty three
in the TikTok Conspiracy. Remember that was the title of
(04:28):
that episode. And in that episode, I spent time talking
about the number thirty three, the magic number. You guys,
you've been around, you know, and it's still worth a
listen to that episode right now. The number thirty three
pops up a lot and often is said to signify something.
In that episode, I compared it to the death card
(04:51):
in a tarot deck. And most people assume that if
the death card is pulled, it's a terrible sign. But
that's not always the cave in tarot, and I'm not
an expert, I promise you the death card could actually
represent the death of something negative in your life, or
the death of a bad habit. It's not always negative,
(05:13):
but thirty three is something. A lot of the time,
it's referred to as the liar's number, signifying deceit or lies.
But again, much like the death card, not always and
it was referenced by Cashptel, and I pointed that out,
(05:34):
saying after he said the following After Kirk was killed,
the suspect was taken into custody at ten pm local time.
In less than thirty six hours, thirty three to be precise. Okay,
In the hundreds of times the number thirty three was
(05:54):
used during COVID, we talked about that too. Thirty three
is a sign. So that episode Tuesday, the next day
the show is done, I can relax. I'm free for
about a week. I finally took time to watch that sermon.
I grabbed my phone, went to that message to find
(06:15):
the link, and I did find it. The title of
the video he sent me, Murder of a Watchman, Ezekiel
thirty three. I shook my head by myself out loud
and said, no way. Ezekiel thirty three outlines the prophet
(06:36):
Ezekiel's role as a watchman for Israel, emphasizing themes of responsibility, repentance,
and divine judgment. God appoints Ezekiel to warn the people
of impending judgment, holding him accountable for delivering the message faithfully.
If he fails, he shares the guilt, but if he
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warns them, he is blameless. The chapter stresses that individuals
are responsible for their own sins. The righteous who turn
us in will face judgment, while the wicked who repent
will live. Remember, God takes no pleasure in the death
of the wicked, but desires their repentance none. Nonetheless, Ezekiel
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thirty three also addresses Jerusalem's fall, confirming Ezekiel's prophecies and
critiques the people's hypocrisy they listen to his words but
do not act on them. It underscores God's justice, mercy,
and the need for genuine repentance. Hey, this isn't a
(07:45):
religious podcast, guys, No, it's not. It's not. But if
something needs to be talked about, well I'm gonna talk
about it because I Can's my podcast. I do what
I want. I'm not a Jesus nut, but I'm not
agnostic either. I'm not into numerology as much as I
talk about thirty three. I'm into synchronicities. Thirty three pops
(08:08):
up way too much for me not to wonder and
to add crazy on top of crazy. Let me tell
you my podcast routine. First, I'll go into this office,
I'll sit down. I'll stare out this giant window for
a few minutes and admire the view. I can see
my driveway. Down the end of my driveway, the American
(08:31):
flag down there in a giant bean field across the road.
Be on the field, there's a tree line that breaks
just a little bit, and the view will give one
of the best Southern Indiana sunsets you could ask for,
right here from my office window. After I'm satisfied with that,
you know, I start researching and writing for the show.
(08:54):
I'll take notes all throughout the week and on my
cell phone to remind me to look into something or
to bring it up different things on each episode. And
then I'll go over these notes while I'm in the
office and decide how I'll present each one in each
episode and write a rough outline so I don't lose
my train of thought midway through recording like I've done before.
(09:17):
I will usually do this routine on Sunday, you know,
like Sunday night, early evening or Monday afternoon. This week
it was Sunday. Keep in mind, I try to speak
each episode between forty five minutes to an hour. I
don't like an hour. Remember there's a reason I do everything.
I don't like an hour. When you hear the term
(09:39):
an hour, it becomes something you think an hour. I
don't have an hour to dedicate to listening to something,
But magically everyone's got forty five minutes. You see the
trick there the weirdness strange right, how our brain works,
It just does work that way. So when I sit
down to write the show, I want to knock it
(10:01):
out in one sitting. And it takes hours, believe it
or not. Why cause I take so much time to
check facts and find facts and make sure I'm not
spreading disinformation. So I'll be in here for a while.
I'll bring a drink in with me, and I won't
leave the office. Once I get up and walk out
(10:22):
of this room, it's over, you guys. Every time, there
are hundreds of things to do right outside that door,
and I'll start to do them and the show will
never get done. But I do take breaks, more like
a mind break, and that consists of drinking coffee, tire
water or whatever I brought in, and I'll usually close
my podcast windows. I'll get on YouTube or rumble and
(10:46):
I'll watch something totally opposite at what I talk about
on the show and what I'm telling you happened on Sunday.
During a break from writing about Easy Gill thirty three
and the number thirty three, YouTube throws up a bunch
of videos that thinks I might want to watch. It's
(11:06):
usually pretty right. One of them was titled Wayne Static
Died in this abandoned dirt house. Okay, it was from
a channel called Lamont at Large. And from what I
can see, this man named Lamont travels to places and
when he's there, he'll walk around them and talk about them. Interesting.
(11:29):
In this video, he travels to a house where Wayne
Static died from an accidental overdose on pills. I know
I'm going somewhere here. Wayne Static was the vocalist and
guitarist from a band I enjoyed very much called Static X.
And they're still around. But it's weird now. The video
was just under ten minutes long, and I figured that's
(11:51):
a good break. I'll watch this one. At almost six
minutes in, he talks about Static's wife, Tara find him dead.
And I heard this. She woke about it around three
thirty that afternoon. Okay, there it is three thirty, the
number thirty three. I know, I know it ain't much.
(12:14):
I forgot all about it, you know, three thirty not
exactly thirty three, but it's there undeniably. But I'm aware
it's been on my mind, so I'm aware that I'm
probably just seeing it too much, you know, seeing reading
too much into it, but then it's not all to
close the video, Lamont simply puts a picture up of
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Wayne and his wife Tara and included the text quote.
On January thirteenth, twenty twenty six, Wayne Static's wife, Tara Ray,
died from suicide at the age of thirty three. I'm
just saying, I'm just saying, all right, are we talking
(13:00):
about Charlie Kirk. I don't know, I don't know. I
don't know. It's too much, it's all became too much.
The waters are as muddy as I've ever seen waters be.
There are so many conspiracies, each one crazier than the
last one. I've heard he was a hologram and that
was a hologram projector not a camera that the guy
(13:21):
stood on the chair to take down. I've heard his
wife was in on it, and there was a trapdoor,
and Charlie is alive. They they did it to make
a martyr of him. The drone thing, the hand signals
the second actual sniper, and then the kid becomes the
fall guy. Uh. The lavalier might be the most believable one.
Have you seen this? This suck conspiracy. I'm not I'm
(13:44):
not gonna cover this like I want to get to
the bottom of it, but the video speaks to me.
The conspiracy goes like this, Kirk's Lavalier Mike was actually
an explosive projectile. That's why this shot was at that
quote impossible angle that keeps haying. Now, I would never
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consider this viable before twenty twenty four. Why the Israeli
explosive pagers? Now it gets interesting, right remember them? Explosive
pagers were used in September of twenty twenty four on
an attack on Hesbola in Lebanon linked to a sophisticated
operation attributed to Israel, though Israel is still not officially
(14:32):
claimed responsibility. The pagers, primarily gold Apollo AR nine twenty
four models, were reportedly manufactured by BAC Consulting, a Hungarian
firm under licensing agreement with gold Apollo, a Taiwanese company. However,
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evidence suggests Israeli intelligence, likely Mosad, whose name keeps coming
up by the way, tampered with the pagers before they
reached Lebanon. A shell corporation BAC Consulting was allegedly set
up to facilitate the operation, embedding small amounts of explosives
plastic explosives and invisible detonators within the pager batteries. These
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modifications were designed to evade detection and were supported by
fake online backstory, including fake stories and posts on social
media to deceive has Bullis, you know, their checks of
their items. And it worked. Matter of fact, it worked
very well. They killed at least thirty seven people and
(15:38):
injured over three thousand in just two days. That's real
life now. That happened last year, supposedly by Israel and
Will and with Israel wanting to star fight and kill
just about anyone who looks and him. Funny right now,
Charlie Kirk was probably on a lite. You see the connection.
(16:03):
Still wouldn't believe it. But that video, you guys, if
you keep all this in mind and you see this video,
go watch it. One guy rushes to Kirk and another
one slides over a table to get to Kirk and
appears to grab something off Charlie Kirk and immediately hands
it to the other guy, who then turns and runs away,
leaving the scene all within like five seconds of the shot.
(16:29):
All of this makes Tyler Robinson the Patsy explaining why
absolutely nothing adds up about him nothing, and it sort
of makes sense of Matt Robinson, Tyler's father being eligible
to receive over one million dollars in reward money for
turning his own son in. And that money, by the way,
came from a few different sources, a couple of conservative activists,
(16:52):
the FBI, and huh one million dollars from billionaire Bill Ackman.
Oh He's the founder in CEO of Pershing Capital Management.
This is a hedge fund he started in two thousand
and four. He's known as a activist investor, and that
means he often takes big stakes in companies and then
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pushes for change in how they are run. In January
of twenty twenty four, Akman and his wife Nary Oxman
bought about a four point nine percent steak in the
Tel Aviv Stock Exchange as part of a secondary offering.
The proceeds from the offering were being used by the
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Tel Aviv Stock Exchange to invest in its technology infrastructure.
Akman has publicly said he believes Israel has strong long
term economic growth potential, and he described the Tel Aviv
Stock Exchange investment as a vote of confidence in the
Israeli economy. After buying into that, he reportedly said it
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might be the best investment he's ever made, reflecting his
optimism about Israel's economics resilience amid regional conflict. Since the
Hamas attacks on October seventh, and that was in twenty
twenty three, Akman has been vocal about what he views
as uprising anti Semitism, especially on university campuses in the US.
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He criticized Harvard, amongst others, over how they've handled student
statements and protests about Israel. He stated that he considers
himself pro Israeli, while also saying it's not inconsistent to
be pro Palestinian because he frames his stance in more
terms of being anti terrorists. Okay. His wife, Nary Oxman,
(18:42):
is Israeli born. She's a designer, academic, and professor, giving
her and him personal ties to Israel. He has said
that his family was quote very supportive of Israel end quote,
and that some of his motivations and concerns like anti
Semitism come from his own upbringing. The rumor and just
(19:04):
a rumor, guys, so don't go talking about it yet.
Is that Benjamin Netahu himself called Charlie Kirk recently to
offer him money and asked that he become more supportive
of Israel in his speaking. The rumor also goes on
to say Kirk said no, and it was supposedly not
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long after Kirk said the following on the PDP podcast
hosted by Patrick Bett David.
Speaker 2 (19:31):
So, I've been Israel many times, the whole country's fortress.
When I first heard this story. I still have the
same gut instinct that I did initially. I find this
very hard to believe. I'm gotta be careful the way
I say this. They're going to try to ethnically cleanse guys.
They're talking about basically removing two point five million people
from there. Okay, there are some serious questions, Here's Patrick.
Speaker 1 (19:50):
Enough enough the rumors and the finger pointing. Why don't
we have facts? What? Why don't we have a crime scene.
Why don't we have a full report. Why don't we
have forensic evaluations? Why don't we have trajectory mock ups?
Where's the bullet? Did we ever find the bullet? Why
does Utah County Land Records and real estate Sites list
(20:13):
six eighty three West nine to twenty five South Street
in Aorum, Utah as a parcel owned by six eighty
three properties ownership since twenty twenty one. That doesn't sound
like anything we should be concerned about, right, The internet
produces almost nothing about six eighty three Properties. Funny too,
(20:35):
how the name of the property management company is just
the address of this one parcel of land in Orum. Well,
this parcel just happens to be where Tyler Robinson's mystery
gun was found hidden in the bushes. Six eighty three
Capital Management, not Properties, is an investment advisor managing public securities.
(20:59):
It files with the sec investing in various companies. Odd
but I can't find a relationship. But Pallenteer appears in
the portfolio of six eighty three Capital Management. As in
six eighty three Capital owns shares of Palenteer. For example,
one of the holdings shown is pltr Pallenteer for six
(21:23):
point of that portion of their portfolio. You remember Palenteer.
They landed the ten billion dollar contract with the US Army.
They signed a major ten year enterprise agreement with the Army,
consolidating many smaller contractors and positioning itself as a central
player in military AI and data systems. Six eighty three
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Properties owns just one property, and it's named after the
one property, the one where Tyler Robinson stashed his rifle.
And before I forget six point eighty three, Capital Management
was explicitly authorized by Russian President Vladimir Putin to buy
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Russian securities via a presidential decree on March seventeenth, twenty
twenty five. But I'm sure it's nothing. Oh sorry, I
got I got sidetracked. I was asking questions. Where was
I Oh? Yeah, why don't we have a capable and
honest FBI. Why is twenty twenty five in the United
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States and people are getting assassinated? Maybe Adam Carolla answered
that the other day.
Speaker 3 (22:35):
For me, when you start getting into this guy's evil,
well then we're going to a different place because the disagreement,
whether it's a Thanksgiving with your niece and your nephew,
if you if you you know, you're a Steelers guy
and they're Ravens fans, that's that's fine. That's how the
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world comes down. We come down to everyone's a fan
of some and you're a Chevy guy. I'm a Ford guy.
You know, whatever we do. But if you're a Chevy
guy and I'm an evil guy and you're a Pittsburgh guy,
and I'm an evil guy and you like anchovies on
your pizza and I'm an evil guy. Well, at some
point I can't come to Thanksgiving and an extreme point,
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I wouldn't need to be put down. And that's that's
the problem. And I think that's the division that we're
talking about, which is the right and the left. Go, oh,
there's you guys sling just as much mud as we do, right,
but we're calling people stupid or low iq or slow
or sleepy or whatever he's doing. You're going with the
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evil part, and that's when the bullets start flying.
Speaker 1 (23:47):
You know. I like Adam Carolla and I believe he's right.
We're at that next level and we have to back
away from it. We have to rewind, rewind and remember
what we're all about. Peace, love, and happiness, baby basically.
But all that just starts with peace. I don't think
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there's much peace left in the United States, and that
should concern all of us. We definitely have crossed a line. First,
we have to admit that there is a line, and
then we have to all agree to take about five
steps back away from that line. How do we do that?
(24:31):
What do we do well? The we is made up
of a bunch of ues, and it starts with you.
You do that, you be the first, or you be
the twelfth or the twenty eighth person to do that,
and then eventually we're all doing that. The problem isn't
(24:54):
you know, oh we don't get along. No, it's that's
not the problem. The problem is why we don't get
a And that's the constant bombardment of rhetoric and propaganda
doing exactly what rhetoric and propaganda are supposed to do,
get you to change your way of thinking so that
you act a certain way going forward. And it's worked.
(25:18):
What you see is it working? Think for yourself. You
want peace, be peaceful, You want violence, well, then be violent.
It's you, it's me, it's us. Stop falling for all
the garbage. Stop watching Fox News, stop watching MSNBC, stop
(25:45):
watching CNN. You weren't born thinking the way you do today.
You didn't grow up acting this way. It was learned. Okay,
So who's the teacher. Well, that's mainstream media. Now, it's
the government since twenty twelve, that's black Rock, other nations
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that wish you harm. That's Chuck Schumer, that's Lindsey Graham,
Elizabeth Warren, Maxine Waters, Nancy Pelosi, Marjorie Taylor Green, Lauren Bobert.
Stop being mesmerized by these people. It has stop. These
(26:36):
aren't politicians, They're pawns. Then they all act like I
just they act like fools, They act like idiots, And
I just named the all star cast. Schumer, Graham, Warren, Waters, Pelosi, Taylor, Green,
Bobert clowns every single one of them. Guys, Alexa keeps
(26:59):
you yelling at me, and she's yelling about Alexa Plus.
Supposedly this is new to me. It's an Amazon's improved
AI powered edition of its Alexa voice assistant, and my
device is keep hollering at me and reminding me that exists,
and with a new voice to tempt me. Hey, it's Alexa.
(27:24):
Notice anything different. I've got a new voice and a
ton of new features thanks to Alexa Plus.
Speaker 2 (27:30):
Try the free upgrade and discover what else I can
do for you. Just say Alexa, let's get started.
Speaker 1 (27:37):
Unlike the original Alexa, which depends on pre set instructions,
I guess, Alexa Plus employs generative AI using big language
models such as Amazon's Nova and others from others such
as Anthropic. This supports a more natural conversational interactions, greater
(27:59):
con text knowledge, and better memory for user preferences. Some
of the key traits Amazon said is with natural language instructions,
you can book restaurants, book Uber trips, purchase tickets through Ticketmaster,
or control smart home appliances using technologies such as a
doll e. It also produces images from text based papers,
(28:24):
which I don't Why do people brag about that? Who cares? Remember?
They will remember user information for unique replies and presets,
individualized news summaries from sites such as The Washington Post
and Reuter's Propaganda. Cost and availability you ask available for
(28:45):
nineteen ninety nine a month, which is a lot, you guys,
that's a lot for what that is. But that's a
big butt. It's free for Amazon Prime subscribers with first
access for beta testers. It's being released to gadgets including
the Echo Show, eight, ten, fifteen, and twenty one. Sounds
(29:07):
great except for one thing. From what I understand, Alexa
will also play ads from time to time with Alexa Plus,
So therefore I'm not in and now steif for sports.
(29:28):
In nineteen seventy six, the Boston Red Sox were playing
the New York Yankees and Carlton Fisk hit a game
winning home run in the twelfth inning of Game six
of the World Series. What makes it legendary wasn't just
the homer. It was how he waved the ball fare
hopping and gesturing as if the ball would follow his hand.
(29:49):
Cameras captured that moment and it became one of the
first instant replay highlights that made fans feel like they
were part of history. Fun Fact later said he didn't
intentionally waive it fair like that. It just came naturally
in the heat of the moment. And that's gonna do
it for this week as But now the SPC quote
(30:15):
of the Week quote the best way to predict the
future is to invent it end quote that was by
a man named Alan k. Kay is a pioneering computer
scientist born in nineteen forty best known for object oriented programming.
He helped develop concepts that underpin modern programming languages like
(30:38):
small Talk, Java and Python, and graphical user interfaces GUIs.
He contributed to early ideas that led to today's personal
computers with Windows icons and menus NAT and now it's
time for sugar the sugars. It contains activate this taste receptors.
(31:01):
That's right. Here is a you're you're about to open
your brain and uh, you're gonna reserve some space for
something you never thought you needed. Brain space for crickets. Yeah,
crickets the bugs. Crickets are a type of insect that
(31:25):
falls under the grilladie family. They are related to grasshoppers
and katie DIDs. Most cricket species are active at night,
making them nocturnal. Male crickets are well known for their
characteristic chirping, which is produced by rubbing their wings together.
(31:45):
This process is termed stridulation. Stridulation, it's hard, talking's hard. Yes.
Chirping serves various functions to attract females, established territory and
alert competitors. Surprisingly, the speed of chirping can indicate the temperature.
(32:05):
More on that in a minute. Crickets can be found
in meadows, woods, caves, and even in residential homes. Here
in southern Indiana we have what they call spider crickets,
and there are normally in older homes that have sort
of unfinished basements where it's cool and damp. Maybe, from
(32:26):
what I understand, spider crickets aren't harmful or anything. But
they look terrifying. Their crickets with like legs on steroids,
these great tall legs. They look like spiders and they jump.
They jump at you. They'll bounce off of you. But
they won't harm you. They're fine. They're just creepy. They
(32:47):
prefer shelter in dark, damp spots during late e late
hours and daylight hours rather than emergent night. Crickets are omnivores.
They will eat plants, fungi, occasionally small insects. They also
play a crucial role in the food chain, serving us
prey for birds, reptiles, and smaller mammals. In certain nations,
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such as China and Thailand, crickets are kept as pets,
appreciated for their songs, and are even featured in cricket
fighting events. When I was a teenager, a cricket appeared
in my bedroom and I kept him and I named
him Trinket, And at night he would chirp and it
would put me to sleep. Crickets will eat potatoes. If
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you take the skin off potato, cut it in half,
they'll just dine off that forever, you know. So I
did that, and I put it in the corner of
my bedroom, and that little cricket was with me for
a long time. I know it's weird, I know, but
it was so soothing and unique when I turned the
lights out at night and it would start chirping. I
know there's a lot of things about you, about me
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you don't know. But anyway, in literature and folklore, crickets
actually represent good fortune. Also consumed does a sustainable source
of protein by weirdos with cricket flower gaining traction and
wellness foods, and it's tried to gain traction for years now.
No one's fallen for it just yet in the modern world.
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And that's already more than you ever knew about crickets.
But I'm telling you that's not all. I have two
pieces of cricket trivia for you. First, at the end
of each Soapbox Champion podcast episode, you will hear a
small section of audio under the Soapbox Champion production screen.
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The 's the very last thing you see in video.
It's the very last thing you hear each episode, and
it's what I call night sounds and prominently featuring cricket sounds. Second,
the reason this is the reason all that, just so
I could tell you this the reason that crickets are
this week's sugar segment so that I can tell you
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I have a math formula for you that will blow
your mind. When outside in the evening, when the crickets chirp,
pay attention. Count the number of cricket chirps in fifteen seconds.
After you count those chirps, add forty to that number.
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Then this will accurately give you the current temperature in fahrenheit.
I know it sounds crazy, but it's true, and we're
going to practice. Ready, I have fifteen second clip of
nighttime outside. I'm gonna play it. Now, count the chirps,
then add forty. Ready, three, two, one? Did you get it?
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I counted six chirps. I add forty, making it forty
six degrees when that clip was recorded. Cool. Right, that's
gonna do it for this week's Sugar Shun Gang No
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Sugar Joe, and that's gonna do it for episode two
hundred and five of the Soapbox Champion podcast. Thanks for listening, everyone,
cricket lovers and the like. Hope you learned something. Remember
fifteen seconds, count the chirps, add forty. I do this
every Tuesday six thirty PM Central standard time and audio form.
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And I try to release new episodes a little earlier
in video to entice you to watch video. And you
can watch those over on the Soapbox Champions. Uh, the
Soapbox Champions Rumble channel. Head over to rumble dot com.
Subscribe to my channel, please and thank you. If all
that's not enough of me, follow me on social media
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all them things, especially Facebook and X. I tend to
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Just do it's fine. Got an idea for a topic,
or an entire episode, or or sugar topic, got a complaint, whatever,
Leave a voicemail for the podcast state one two six
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even if you don't take care of yourself in one another,
no matter what your political affiliation, no matter what their's
Talk again next Tuesday and I'll see you. Do you
know what else if I figured out rips now that
I'm thirty. Uh, the rain, dude, I get it now.
And homies were like, yeah, we needed this rain, because
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we did. Dude, my lawn was looking fucking parsed.
Speaker 2 (38:13):
Dude, the next up, I'm gonna be saying it's not
the heat, it's the humidity, or some shit like that.
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