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Speaker 1: From UFOs to psychic powers and government conspiracies. History is

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Speaker 2: Welcome back to the show. My name is Matt, my

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Speaker 3: They call me Ben. We're joined with our guest superproducer,

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Speaker 3: Max the Frey Train Williams. Most importantly, you are you.

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Speaker 3: and neighbors, Venezuelans and no Venezuelans alike. This is our

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Speaker 3: first listener mail segment of twenty twenty six. Welcome to Thursday,

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Speaker 3: January fifteenth. We are recording this on Wednesday, January seventh,

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Speaker 3: and I've got to tell you, guys, gents, it feels

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Speaker 2: Well, it's it's pretty great because you can find us,

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Speaker 3: Right right. So it's a work in progress. We wanted

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Speaker 3: received during our interim holiday break. As we said, with Netflix,

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Speaker 4: Yeah, well, some for everybody, mm hmm.

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Speaker 2: And don't forget the classics. We had a bunch of

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Speaker 2: those recently. We hope you enjoyed all of them as

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Speaker 2: we did listening back to them. Okay, it's so much

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Speaker 2: fun to look back just five years and see how

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Speaker 2: much the world has changed in every one of those.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean look back before the holidays. I think

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Speaker 2: We made a couple of sly remarks about how it

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Speaker 3: Something in the wind, Yeah, we all watered too, right, well,

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Speaker 3: thank you. And in the soil and in the refineries.

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Speaker 3: We just took some time with some friends and loved one.

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Speaker 4: Here we go.

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Speaker 3: We're gonna talk about so much cool stuff. Let's see.

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Speaker 3: We had a lot of responses about Elf in the Shelf.

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Speaker 3: Not ice spice, creepy posh, creaky and creepy.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, making so weird sounds.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, how about this. Let's take a break for a

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Speaker 4: Okay, so now that you're on this frozen lake, I

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Speaker 3: You can also use a router, now there you go.

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Speaker 4: No, it's for something. So yeah, we've been talking a

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Speaker 4: And our live show we did at our air fests

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Speaker 4: k J. Being from upstate New York, I'm familiar with

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Speaker 4: the eerie sounds ice can make. It sounds like a

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Speaker 4: humongous rubber band being snapped, as well as other pings

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Speaker 4: in this case, it is one of the evil empires

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Speaker 4: power even further. Thanks for a great podcast, kJ. So

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Speaker 3: I don't know, and water complicates it as mean, think

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Speaker 3: There are so many sounds that have yet to be

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Speaker 3: and the world's top experts will go, I don't know,

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Speaker 3: maybe it's this. Maybe the ice is fartened around, you're

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Speaker 4: The kind of thing that like and I know you're

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Speaker 4: itchened up to weigh in, Matt, something can happen way

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Speaker 3: Just in a fun way. It's not a fun butt lay.

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Speaker 4: He stepped on him. It is the demonstration of God's power.

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Speaker 3: And one of the returning compliments to our show, Thank you,

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Speaker 3: fellow conspiracy realist, is five stars. Love these guys. I

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Speaker 2: Welcome, just out here tooting on the mic for you.

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Speaker 3: Sorry, it's a more gentle fart. It's more of it's

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Speaker 4: I did see other posts about this. It does appear

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Speaker 4: A small mercy for you this Thanksgiving morning. The ministry

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Speaker 3: Wow.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, it takes all kinds.

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Speaker 2: I just wonder how often our pastor cleanses himself, you know,

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Speaker 2: in between your application.

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Speaker 3: Oh, he's got some opinions of the days I imagine,

435
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Speaker 3: you know, on helping you was God's.

436
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Speaker 4: Warrior, gets rid of the good, the good.

437
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Speaker 3: Vibes like Sampson cutting the hair right.

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Speaker 4: Exactly by the way, guys, speaking of Samson, Yeah, I

439
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Speaker 4: watched Half Baked with my kid the holiday break. I

440
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Speaker 4: love it. Some of it didn't age super well, but

441
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Speaker 4: the boy boy was still really funny. And I'll never

442
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Speaker 4: I'll always associate with you, guys.

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Speaker 3: Yes, Cuban be.

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Speaker 4: Really good. It's really funny. Okay, let's take a break

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Speaker 4: here where a response and then we'll come back with a

446
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Speaker 4: couple more segments of messages from you.

447
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Speaker 2: And we've returned jumping straight to the phone lines. Guys,

448
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Speaker 2: we did our episode on the Elf on the shelf. Yes,

449
00:25:05,040 --> 00:25:08,480
Speaker 2: talked about that character and a cavalcade of other characters

450
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Speaker 2: within Santa's Christmas universe.

451
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Speaker 4: It's Christmas Pantheon on the Extended Christmas Universe.

452
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Speaker 2: It was created by Lumis Stella Incorporated.

453
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Speaker 3: You're in Marietta, Georgia.

454
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Speaker 2: That's right. We've also talked about just you know, Santa

455
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Speaker 2: Rudolph in the the old school hits that we've been

456
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Speaker 2: living with for way before two thousand and four to

457
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Speaker 2: two thousand and five.

458
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Speaker 3: The Mule lads, are you kidding me?

459
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Speaker 2: Leck that window, my guy, dude, dude, Yes, let us

460
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Speaker 2: jump quickly sniff that storway. Sorry to miss Betty Brown

461
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Speaker 2: who sent us this quick message just around how she

462
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Speaker 2: handles Christmas time and Santa presence versus presence that kids

463
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Speaker 2: know are purchased. So if you are still within the

464
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Speaker 2: Santa verse and whatever your journey is, however old you are,

465
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Speaker 2: maybe skip this one because there is some behind the

466
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Speaker 2: scenes stuff to talk about you. So Santa spoilers ahead,

467
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Speaker 2: here we go.

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Speaker 6: Hi, this is Beattie Brown. I just listened to the

469
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Speaker 6: elf on the shelf thing as far as Santa believing

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Speaker 6: in Santa Claus. Every year for my kids, I always

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Speaker 6: they get one. Each of us gets one present from

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Speaker 6: Santa Claus. The rest they know are purchased because they

473
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Speaker 6: help Christmas shops. But I always get everyone, including myself,

474
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Speaker 6: one present from Santa Claus that they don't know about,

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Speaker 6: and I wrap it in different wrapping paper from all

476
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Speaker 6: the other presents. So under the tree there's one thing

477
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Speaker 6: wrapped in a special wrapping paper from Santa to each

478
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Speaker 6: of us. It helps keep the joy alive. Have a

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Speaker 6: good Christmas buy.

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Speaker 3: Miss Betty, thank you so much. This is this is

481
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Speaker 3: first off, this is a get out of my head thing,

482
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Speaker 3: classic move, Betty. I don't talk about my family too

483
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Speaker 3: much on air, but you will. We got the call

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Speaker 3: just as I said, but we will. Uh. But I

485
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Speaker 3: have to confess this is without coming in personal anecdote.

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Speaker 3: This is a practice that is pretty common in some

487
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Speaker 3: folks I know off air, especially close family members, where

488
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Speaker 3: you say honestly like garlands and missiletoe and tensil aside.

489
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Speaker 3: I've had conversations with family members who say, well, we

490
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Speaker 3: we busted our humps here. We know that Santa is

491
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Speaker 3: kind of the first conspiracy kids learn about. And one

492
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Speaker 3: of my one of my buddies, said, he said, I

493
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Speaker 3: didn't come from a Christian background, Ben, I want my

494
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Speaker 3: kids to know that I gave them the cool gifts.

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Speaker 3: So Santa gets a fun one, Dad and mom got

496
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Speaker 3: you the other ones.

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Speaker 2: That makes a lot of sense. That was similar in

498
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Speaker 2: my household too. The really cool stuff came from the

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Speaker 2: parents or the cousins, or you know, an aunt or

500
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Speaker 2: an uncle. But then there's one special one the night

501
00:28:13,960 --> 00:28:16,960
Speaker 2: he probably ended up playing with more than the expensive

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Speaker 2: stuff you know that came from Santa. Feel that for sure.

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Speaker 3: Yeah.

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Speaker 4: Did you see the news about this GOP lawmaker whoever?

505
00:28:26,720 --> 00:28:29,879
Speaker 4: The Christmas break posted ai pictures of him beating the

506
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Speaker 4: crap out of Santa Claus. Why? Yeah, that was the

507
00:28:33,320 --> 00:28:35,320
Speaker 4: question a lot of people were asking. It was in

508
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Speaker 4: reference to the War on Christmas, but it seemed like

509
00:28:37,640 --> 00:28:40,480
Speaker 4: he didn't quite get the memo the War on Christmas

510
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Speaker 4: actually entails. He was truly waging war on Santa Claus.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, Christ I.

512
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Speaker 4: Think is his name?

513
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Speaker 2: Dude?

514
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Speaker 3: He didn't even have one of his people check on

515
00:28:52,200 --> 00:28:53,800
Speaker 3: that one after they produced.

516
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Speaker 4: He was just having some fun with his kids.

517
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Speaker 3: But you know, well, maybe he's just having some fun

518
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Speaker 3: with his kid.

519
00:29:00,160 --> 00:29:02,120
Speaker 4: It's maybe. But it's like when you post it on

520
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Speaker 4: your official lawmaker page with a message that said something like,

521
00:29:07,360 --> 00:29:09,680
Speaker 4: when you find out the North Pole is trying to

522
00:29:09,720 --> 00:29:14,360
Speaker 4: bring more bureaucratic overreach and unfunded mandates down the chimney,

523
00:29:14,520 --> 00:29:20,880
Speaker 4: this guy's Christmas cheer. The people run Indiana, not the bureaucrats.

524
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Speaker 3: Why did you do it as a joke about unionization

525
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Speaker 3: and elves bringing elves.

526
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Speaker 2: Over here trying to get better hours? Yeah, what about presence?

527
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Speaker 4: It's also our first exposure to slave labor. It's a conspiracy,

528
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Speaker 4: and it's our first exposure to like these unpaid elf workers.

529
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Speaker 4: There's no discussion of the fair wage for the elves.

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Speaker 3: They're happy about it is the narrative, right, They just

531
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Speaker 3: can't wait. And also, what are they doing in March

532
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Speaker 3: as we established an elf on the shelf as a

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Speaker 3: part of the surveilled State. The elf on the shelf

534
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Speaker 3: is working Thursday through or wait, Thanksgiving through Christmas Day.

535
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Speaker 3: That's when they're snitching. And then they're back. They're back

536
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Speaker 3: in the North Pole, right, So what are they doing

537
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Speaker 3: in March?

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Speaker 4: Presumably the worker elves are working year round, and I

539
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Speaker 4: to get the output required to gift you know, every

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Speaker 4: child in the known world.

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Speaker 3: I'm going to write this down future.

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Speaker 2: Do you guys listen to Comedy Bang Bank Still?

543
00:30:23,240 --> 00:30:25,400
Speaker 4: I saw Still. I stopped it. I need to read it.

544
00:30:25,400 --> 00:30:27,560
Speaker 4: I needed not because I didn't love it. I just

545
00:30:27,720 --> 00:30:29,360
Speaker 4: you know how it is. I only have room for

546
00:30:29,400 --> 00:30:31,400
Speaker 4: so many podcasts, but Delight.

547
00:30:31,520 --> 00:30:35,520
Speaker 2: Like, oh dude, oh he's incredible. I can't get enough

548
00:30:35,600 --> 00:30:37,520
Speaker 2: of that show still, and they every year they do

549
00:30:37,560 --> 00:30:42,480
Speaker 2: their best of and they went back and gosh, I see.

550
00:30:42,520 --> 00:30:48,080
Speaker 2: I particularly like Lord Lapkus's Ho the elf character. That

551
00:30:48,200 --> 00:30:51,160
Speaker 2: is like going against the grain up there in the

552
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Speaker 2: North Pole. It's pretty wonderful. And then maybe think about

553
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Speaker 2: that with everybody's happy but everyone but Ho Ho right exactly.

554
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Speaker 3: Yeah, I am literally writing this down in the book

555
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Speaker 3: of future episodes. I wonder what they're doing in March.

556
00:31:05,600 --> 00:31:07,560
Speaker 3: Maybe we can get some of the Bang Bang folks

557
00:31:07,600 --> 00:31:11,440
Speaker 3: on to explain it to us.

558
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Speaker 2: Wet Day, let's have him one for Wet Day. I

559
00:31:18,560 --> 00:31:22,240
Speaker 2: love those. Hey, let's stay in the Christmas spirit.

560
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Speaker 3: For a moment. Sure, maybe a little difference between the

561
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Speaker 3: North Pole and the US.

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Speaker 2: Perhaps, but let us let us jump to another Christmas

563
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Speaker 2: like festival, a holiday festival that occurs in February, though,

564
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Speaker 2: because it hasn't happened yet, it's coming up, and it's

565
00:31:41,680 --> 00:31:44,600
Speaker 2: something we learned from Alpha Flight in a message he sentenced,

566
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Speaker 2: So let's go ahead and jump to that message.

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Speaker 5: Hey guys, here, this is listening to your episode most

568
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Speaker 5: recent listener mail and you mentioned all of the crazy

569
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Speaker 5: Christmas folklore and now I guess Winter Times folklore. It's

570
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Speaker 5: on our neck of the woods, so I am obviously Canadian,

571
00:32:12,600 --> 00:32:17,120
Speaker 5: but also have some Dutch background, although the Dutch Christmas

572
00:32:17,160 --> 00:32:22,800
Speaker 5: is buck wild to take a little a little bit

573
00:32:22,800 --> 00:32:28,120
Speaker 5: from Encanto, we don't talk about shot speak. So basically

574
00:32:30,200 --> 00:32:33,680
Speaker 5: the Canadian stuff is pretty pretty much similar to you guys,

575
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Speaker 5: except for one weird French notable exception, and that's when

576
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Speaker 5: you go say bonjou to venom Dnju in Quebec, which

577
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Speaker 5: I can only really describe him as a mixture between

578
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Speaker 5: a snowman and the kegler else and he is one

579
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Speaker 5: party dude and worth looking out as part of the

580
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Speaker 5: Quebec Festival like the Winter Festival. Yeah, honestly, if you're

581
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Speaker 5: ever in Montreal, oh, it's a good hang. But yeah,

582
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Speaker 5: Bama is the pretty sweet dude.

583
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Speaker 2: Oh man, Alpha Flight, you have no idea how much

584
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Speaker 2: of a rabbit hole we are going down with Bonam

585
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Speaker 2: now that we have learned about the Quebec Winter Carnival,

586
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Speaker 2: the Winter Carnival, guys, holy mackerel, this is so much fun.

587
00:33:21,960 --> 00:33:25,680
Speaker 2: And Bonam a big old snowman that runs around and

588
00:33:25,880 --> 00:33:29,600
Speaker 2: just get as as Alpha Flight says, gets the party going.

589
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Speaker 3: It's got a sash. Look, Alpha Flight, first off, thank

590
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Speaker 3: you again for the shout out to one of the

591
00:33:38,040 --> 00:33:42,800
Speaker 3: best superhero teams in all of Marvel Comicdom. Comicdom. That's right.

592
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Speaker 3: Uh this guy, Oh, he's got his sash, he's got

593
00:33:46,280 --> 00:33:51,040
Speaker 3: his fun hat, and he's uh he's timeless.

594
00:33:51,560 --> 00:33:55,680
Speaker 2: Well yeah, a lot like these Christmas characters that we're encountering, right,

595
00:33:55,720 --> 00:33:59,560
Speaker 2: they live forever, They've always been there. It's just Bonham

596
00:33:59,760 --> 00:34:03,600
Speaker 2: first came in nineteen fifty four or fifty five and

597
00:34:03,760 --> 00:34:07,640
Speaker 2: made his appearance known, and now he is with us forever.

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Speaker 3: And he's a chalky boy too. Seven feet tall, four

599
00:34:11,080 --> 00:34:13,960
Speaker 3: hundred pounds of pack snow, which is interesting that it's

600
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Speaker 3: not in the metric system. I guy parties.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, for sure, you could go to Carnival dot QC

602
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Speaker 2: dot c A to learn more about Bonholme and learn

603
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Speaker 2: about all the excitement that happens right before the big carnival,

604
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Speaker 2: which is when Bonoma is really doing his thing.

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Speaker 4: I don't know that they have an equivalent mascot type figure.

606
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Speaker 4: But when I was a little kid living was when

607
00:34:35,400 --> 00:34:38,240
Speaker 4: I was a small German boy, I remember a distinct,

608
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Speaker 4: very exciting period in Germany and the region where I

609
00:34:41,520 --> 00:34:47,160
Speaker 4: live called fashing Carnival or Fashnacht, which goes from November

610
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Speaker 4: eleventh up until ash Wednesday, so roughly still a winter carnival,

611
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Speaker 4: or you know, early winter carnival. And you made like

612
00:34:54,640 --> 00:34:57,400
Speaker 4: paper mache heads and all kinds of crazy stuff, and

613
00:34:57,440 --> 00:35:01,880
Speaker 4: there's revelry and various let's see chance and lots of

614
00:35:01,920 --> 00:35:05,320
Speaker 4: different parade floats and something called a boot which is

615
00:35:05,360 --> 00:35:08,560
Speaker 4: a barrel shaped lectern for giving satirical speeches, and people

616
00:35:08,640 --> 00:35:11,080
Speaker 4: wear all kinds of crazy costumes and it's very mardy

617
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Speaker 4: gra coded. But I think there's probably, you know, connection

618
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Speaker 4: between these seasons.

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Speaker 3: I love all these parties so cool.

620
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Speaker 2: There's a lot to learn about and has some cool origins,

621
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Speaker 2: just about celebrating before a crazy harsh winter or like

622
00:35:26,280 --> 00:35:28,440
Speaker 2: you know, as you're going through a crazy harsh winter,

623
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Speaker 2: getting through it, preparing for it, all those good things

624
00:35:32,760 --> 00:35:36,720
Speaker 2: there is. Just if you look at the bonom page

625
00:35:36,760 --> 00:35:38,920
Speaker 2: down here, I'm going to read this part because I

626
00:35:38,920 --> 00:35:41,040
Speaker 2: don't know enough about it. Maybe somebody else can write

627
00:35:41,040 --> 00:35:43,279
Speaker 2: in tell us more. Maybe if you're from Quebeca or

628
00:35:43,360 --> 00:35:46,719
Speaker 2: somewhere around there that celebrates the carnival, it says ur

629
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Speaker 2: bonom is quite different than the inanimate straw or wooden

630
00:35:50,960 --> 00:35:53,680
Speaker 2: European bonom that is sacrificed at the end of each

631
00:35:53,719 --> 00:35:57,440
Speaker 2: carnival a wicker man to symbolize rebirth and the return

632
00:35:57,480 --> 00:36:00,839
Speaker 2: of spring. It's very interesting. There is a sacrifice that's

633
00:36:00,920 --> 00:36:04,200
Speaker 2: very common, right, as we've talked about before, sacrifice of

634
00:36:04,200 --> 00:36:09,520
Speaker 2: an fig of some sort. Shout out to Bohemian growth.

635
00:36:09,680 --> 00:36:15,640
Speaker 3: Shout out yeah, shout out to European history. I love

636
00:36:15,680 --> 00:36:18,720
Speaker 3: the Bohemian grove. Shout out Alpha Flight. You might also

637
00:36:18,880 --> 00:36:22,759
Speaker 3: enjoy our episode from years back on the origins of

638
00:36:22,840 --> 00:36:27,320
Speaker 3: Christmas as celebrated in the West as well. As if

639
00:36:27,360 --> 00:36:30,600
Speaker 3: you want to get into some ridiculous history, our episodes

640
00:36:30,640 --> 00:36:37,399
Speaker 3: on Christmas traditions from ridiculous history. Spoiler, it's wild, there's

641
00:36:37,440 --> 00:36:40,680
Speaker 3: a poop log, there's everything, you know. I feel like

642
00:36:40,760 --> 00:36:45,680
Speaker 3: Stefan Bill Hayter's old character on Saturday Night Live, going, Oh,

643
00:36:45,719 --> 00:36:50,520
Speaker 3: it's Christmas in Europe, It's Christmas in Latin America. You

644
00:36:50,719 --> 00:36:53,960
Speaker 3: can't wait to hear the stuff they have for you. Actually,

645
00:36:54,680 --> 00:36:57,719
Speaker 3: I think we should go celebrate the end of the

646
00:36:57,800 --> 00:37:01,919
Speaker 3: year parties in another country one time, just one time.

647
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Speaker 3: Let's find one.

648
00:37:02,719 --> 00:37:08,719
Speaker 2: Let's do it. They've got everything, Cagatillo. All right, Well, hey,

649
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Speaker 2: that's it for this segment of Listener Mail. We'll be

650
00:37:11,280 --> 00:37:13,000
Speaker 2: right back with more messages from you.

651
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Speaker 3: And we have returned. This is the final act of

652
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Speaker 3: our listener Mail segment, folks. I thought we would start

653
00:37:26,200 --> 00:37:30,120
Speaker 3: with a big thank you to a couple of people

654
00:37:30,640 --> 00:37:33,399
Speaker 3: in particular. We'll give you their names and then we'll

655
00:37:33,640 --> 00:37:36,840
Speaker 3: we'll dive into what they said. We got a great

656
00:37:36,880 --> 00:37:39,839
Speaker 3: history lesson from Bonita C who hit us up over

657
00:37:39,880 --> 00:37:43,040
Speaker 3: on the social meds. We got a series of great

658
00:37:43,120 --> 00:37:47,520
Speaker 3: letters from Noah's F and B. We'll call it F

659
00:37:47,640 --> 00:37:50,600
Speaker 3: and B. And then we got a big thank you

660
00:37:50,719 --> 00:37:53,600
Speaker 3: letter from Malaysia and maybe we can close with that one,

661
00:37:54,080 --> 00:37:57,000
Speaker 3: but let's kick it off this way. Do you guys

662
00:37:57,040 --> 00:38:00,000
Speaker 3: remember our episode years back on Africville.

663
00:38:00,960 --> 00:38:03,680
Speaker 4: Yes, and that came up again recently, I believe.

664
00:38:03,960 --> 00:38:09,440
Speaker 3: Yes, yeah, it did. This This is a story the

665
00:38:09,560 --> 00:38:13,120
Speaker 3: Sith and the Jedi won't tell you. We should give

666
00:38:13,200 --> 00:38:17,759
Speaker 3: a quick summary here. Africvil was a small community of

667
00:38:18,960 --> 00:38:25,560
Speaker 3: African descended Nova Scotian residents in Halifax, Okay, out in Canada.

668
00:38:25,640 --> 00:38:27,719
Speaker 3: So we're still kind of staying in Canada with this one.

669
00:38:28,400 --> 00:38:30,920
Speaker 3: And this episode stood out to all three of us

670
00:38:31,440 --> 00:38:35,279
Speaker 3: fellow conspiracy realists because it's literally hidden history. This is

671
00:38:35,280 --> 00:38:39,320
Speaker 3: where Bonita c comes in. Bonita listened to the show

672
00:38:39,480 --> 00:38:43,759
Speaker 3: and said, great job on Africvil. One of the reasons

673
00:38:43,920 --> 00:38:47,640
Speaker 3: this is especially awful behavior is because it was a

674
00:38:47,680 --> 00:38:51,239
Speaker 3: free black village there. To begin with, those were the

675
00:38:51,280 --> 00:38:55,560
Speaker 3: black loyalist The British Crown promised black people in the

676
00:38:55,640 --> 00:38:59,880
Speaker 3: America's freedom and land in Canada for their support in

677
00:39:00,200 --> 00:39:03,120
Speaker 3: the British side of the American War of Independence. Then

678
00:39:03,160 --> 00:39:05,480
Speaker 3: it became a thing they tried to back out of

679
00:39:05,680 --> 00:39:10,520
Speaker 3: before leaving, and those who were stuck behind, were left

680
00:39:10,560 --> 00:39:14,879
Speaker 3: in Canada in an inhospitable region with no support. Halifax

681
00:39:14,880 --> 00:39:18,480
Speaker 3: at the time had a government imposed bounty on scalping

682
00:39:18,600 --> 00:39:23,200
Speaker 3: the indigenous population, and they also this early government of

683
00:39:23,239 --> 00:39:26,600
Speaker 3: Halifax made it clear that white supremacy was a law

684
00:39:26,640 --> 00:39:29,920
Speaker 3: that would be enforced, and they also brought the loyalists

685
00:39:29,960 --> 00:39:32,640
Speaker 3: there and that they didn't give these people land because

686
00:39:32,640 --> 00:39:36,520
Speaker 3: of white supremacy. This is not just stuff they don't

687
00:39:36,520 --> 00:39:40,040
Speaker 3: want you to know. Some Nova Scotians right now don't

688
00:39:40,160 --> 00:39:44,000
Speaker 3: understand that there's entire history of black people that built

689
00:39:44,160 --> 00:39:48,200
Speaker 3: up the area, and maybe we paused there because I

690
00:39:48,239 --> 00:39:51,920
Speaker 3: think it's interesting. I haven't re listened to our Afrodville research,

691
00:39:52,280 --> 00:39:56,200
Speaker 3: but it is something pretty common in colonialism, where you

692
00:39:56,320 --> 00:40:00,000
Speaker 3: promise one group of people something and then you leave

693
00:40:00,120 --> 00:40:02,840
Speaker 3: them out to dry. I'm thinking of like as recently

694
00:40:02,840 --> 00:40:06,560
Speaker 3: as Mong tribes in the Vietnam War, or of course Kurdistan.

695
00:40:07,320 --> 00:40:09,839
Speaker 2: Those are great examples. I don't know enough about them

696
00:40:09,880 --> 00:40:14,279
Speaker 2: to comment on it, but I think specifically, just right now, guys,

697
00:40:14,280 --> 00:40:16,360
Speaker 2: my son is learning about a lot of indigenous peoples

698
00:40:16,400 --> 00:40:19,040
Speaker 2: here in the United States, and there's just so many

699
00:40:19,040 --> 00:40:24,480
Speaker 2: examples of specific groups that were told specific things and

700
00:40:24,520 --> 00:40:26,720
Speaker 2: then it's just swept out from under their feet before

701
00:40:26,800 --> 00:40:27,680
Speaker 2: they can get anything.

702
00:40:28,520 --> 00:40:32,480
Speaker 3: Yeah, one hundred percent, it's a jam tomorrow, jam yesterday,

703
00:40:32,520 --> 00:40:35,960
Speaker 3: but never ever jam today's situation. And yeah, this is

704
00:40:36,000 --> 00:40:40,200
Speaker 3: a downer after some fun chats about Christmas stuff, which

705
00:40:40,239 --> 00:40:43,520
Speaker 3: obviously we love, but it is important to remember history

706
00:40:43,560 --> 00:40:46,240
Speaker 3: is closer than it looks in the rear view mirror.

707
00:40:46,640 --> 00:40:49,600
Speaker 3: The consequences of this are carrying on today, and it's

708
00:40:49,640 --> 00:40:54,480
Speaker 3: not just the United States that has continuing conversations about

709
00:40:54,480 --> 00:40:57,520
Speaker 3: the concept of reparations. Does that make sense? M hm,

710
00:40:58,160 --> 00:41:01,600
Speaker 3: So thank you again, not just you, Benita see, but

711
00:41:01,680 --> 00:41:05,240
Speaker 3: everybody who is writing into us on the social meds.

712
00:41:05,880 --> 00:41:11,320
Speaker 3: We've got time for one more email from a series

713
00:41:11,360 --> 00:41:15,200
Speaker 3: of emails from our pal, Noah's FMB, and I think

714
00:41:15,239 --> 00:41:19,440
Speaker 3: we all saw the correspondence as we responded Noah, you

715
00:41:19,520 --> 00:41:23,040
Speaker 3: were on fire Man. You sent us some great links,

716
00:41:23,080 --> 00:41:26,600
Speaker 3: several of which will inspire I think full episodes in

717
00:41:26,640 --> 00:41:31,840
Speaker 3: the future. We talk a lot about Russian oligarchs, especially

718
00:41:31,880 --> 00:41:36,080
Speaker 3: when windows come into play, the physical windows, not the

719
00:41:36,120 --> 00:41:43,359
Speaker 3: operating system. But we've never done an episode, a full

720
00:41:43,400 --> 00:41:48,319
Speaker 3: episode on Russian oligarchs and guys I think Noah is

721
00:41:48,360 --> 00:41:51,840
Speaker 3: going to inspire us to do it with a story

722
00:41:52,200 --> 00:41:55,880
Speaker 3: that they sent which is older but wasn't widely reported

723
00:41:56,120 --> 00:42:01,040
Speaker 3: in the United States. It's about Russian investment in American

724
00:42:01,080 --> 00:42:01,880
Speaker 3: tech companies.

725
00:42:02,680 --> 00:42:06,319
Speaker 2: Oh, that's great. We are about to speak with Jake again, right,

726
00:42:06,400 --> 00:42:08,480
Speaker 2: mister Hanrahan, Well, oligarchs.

727
00:42:08,640 --> 00:42:10,680
Speaker 3: I wrote to him today. Let's see as he written back.

728
00:42:11,440 --> 00:42:16,160
Speaker 2: That's fantastic. So hmm, maybe we can ask him about

729
00:42:16,160 --> 00:42:17,480
Speaker 2: this specific thing.

730
00:42:18,120 --> 00:42:22,960
Speaker 3: Yes, our buddy does does specialize in sad oligarchs. Do

731
00:42:23,160 --> 00:42:25,759
Speaker 3: check out his show. We're excited to have him on

732
00:42:26,080 --> 00:42:29,920
Speaker 3: for an interview. I just I can't believe we have

733
00:42:30,080 --> 00:42:33,399
Speaker 3: not done an episode about Russian oligarchs yet.

734
00:42:33,680 --> 00:42:34,960
Speaker 4: I was just gonna say the same thing. We've had

735
00:42:35,000 --> 00:42:36,680
Speaker 4: a cut, We've had a handful of those. Can't believe

736
00:42:36,680 --> 00:42:39,880
Speaker 4: we haven't done this yet. Topics of late I know.

737
00:42:40,280 --> 00:42:44,399
Speaker 3: Yeah, we're rediscovering ourselves. We have Bermuda triangle. We had

738
00:42:44,600 --> 00:42:47,960
Speaker 3: let's see whatever heads trunk and heads. Oh, good call there.

739
00:42:47,960 --> 00:42:52,040
Speaker 3: And Noel, Yeah, we also have this oligarch thing. I

740
00:42:52,080 --> 00:42:54,400
Speaker 3: don't even I don't know if we should get into

741
00:42:54,440 --> 00:42:58,040
Speaker 3: it yet because the story dates back so far, like

742
00:42:58,160 --> 00:43:00,840
Speaker 3: one of the earlier quotes we found, or one of

743
00:43:00,840 --> 00:43:05,280
Speaker 3: the earlier stories that Noah shared with us is about

744
00:43:05,440 --> 00:43:10,640
Speaker 3: how Russian investors Facebook connect and group on. If you

745
00:43:10,680 --> 00:43:14,480
Speaker 3: remember group on, we're conspiring.

746
00:43:13,920 --> 00:43:15,200
Speaker 4: Treat you by job roll tickets.

747
00:43:15,719 --> 00:43:21,200
Speaker 3: Right there we go, We're conspiring to to really wash

748
00:43:21,280 --> 00:43:23,960
Speaker 3: the money. It reminds me of that old wrap line,

749
00:43:24,000 --> 00:43:26,799
Speaker 3: I'm running to the laundry like there's something smelly on me.

750
00:43:27,880 --> 00:43:34,600
Speaker 3: Russian oligarchy was tremendously successful laundring money through all these

751
00:43:34,640 --> 00:43:41,319
Speaker 3: different all these different avenues, and I we gotta save it.

752
00:43:41,640 --> 00:43:43,640
Speaker 3: Can we make the audible call? Can we save this

753
00:43:43,680 --> 00:43:44,800
Speaker 3: for an episode?

754
00:43:45,200 --> 00:43:49,120
Speaker 2: Sure? Well, just talking about that kind of stuff in

755
00:43:49,200 --> 00:43:51,520
Speaker 2: laundry money, I want to ask you, guys if you've

756
00:43:51,560 --> 00:43:57,040
Speaker 2: seen anything wonky happening in YouTube with ads? Have you

757
00:43:57,040 --> 00:43:59,600
Speaker 2: guys seen anything that feels like money is being washed

758
00:43:59,680 --> 00:44:05,160
Speaker 2: or something thing? Or I stumbled upon an ad accidentally.

759
00:44:05,520 --> 00:44:07,520
Speaker 2: I'll just give you the exact scenari soon. You understand.

760
00:44:07,840 --> 00:44:10,520
Speaker 2: I'm on my work computer, I'm not signed in through

761
00:44:10,560 --> 00:44:14,080
Speaker 2: any account. I'm on YouTube watching something from the Australian

762
00:44:14,120 --> 00:44:19,080
Speaker 2: Broadcasting Corporation. I get served an ad beforehand, and you're

763
00:44:19,080 --> 00:44:23,400
Speaker 2: gonna have to beat me on this. It is an

764
00:44:23,440 --> 00:44:27,279
Speaker 2: AI generated woman sitting on a couch. She turns to

765
00:44:27,320 --> 00:44:30,880
Speaker 2: the camera and says, last night my husband to me

766
00:44:31,000 --> 00:44:32,000
Speaker 2: for three hours.

767
00:44:32,280 --> 00:44:35,400
Speaker 3: I'm not kidding. Thanks for the beep, Dylan, Yeah, please.

768
00:44:35,440 --> 00:44:40,680
Speaker 2: Thanks for the beep. Dylan agreed, because that it says

769
00:44:40,800 --> 00:44:43,920
Speaker 2: audibly right, I'm not signed in, so YouTube doesn't know

770
00:44:43,960 --> 00:44:46,880
Speaker 2: if I'm a child or an adult or whoever watching

771
00:44:46,920 --> 00:44:50,840
Speaker 2: this thing, and it still serves this absolutely easily determined

772
00:44:50,840 --> 00:44:55,760
Speaker 2: to be AI generated ad on something crazy, not okay.

773
00:44:56,440 --> 00:45:01,080
Speaker 2: And then I look down on the Australian Broadcasting Corporations

774
00:45:01,239 --> 00:45:05,360
Speaker 2: video that I'm watching and there is a highly stylized

775
00:45:05,719 --> 00:45:09,600
Speaker 2: female figure giving fullatio to a tree, a very penis

776
00:45:09,640 --> 00:45:15,760
Speaker 2: shaped tree, and it's for a window tinting company, like

777
00:45:15,760 --> 00:45:19,919
Speaker 2: like commercial car window tinting. This is AI It's also

778
00:45:20,040 --> 00:45:23,560
Speaker 2: AI slop of some sort AI generated image. And I'm

779
00:45:23,600 --> 00:45:25,960
Speaker 2: just seeing that all of that stuff is somehow going

780
00:45:26,000 --> 00:45:30,160
Speaker 2: through whatever alphabet and Google is attempting to do with YouTube, right,

781
00:45:30,239 --> 00:45:34,879
Speaker 2: because as we know personally, guys, it's all about advertiser

782
00:45:34,960 --> 00:45:40,600
Speaker 2: safety on YouTube. We know this. That's where our hand

783
00:45:40,640 --> 00:45:42,719
Speaker 2: got slapped many a time because we were not safe

784
00:45:42,800 --> 00:45:43,839
Speaker 2: enough for advertisers.

785
00:45:43,840 --> 00:45:49,880
Speaker 3: But this whatever I took the YouTube course, we all get.

786
00:45:49,640 --> 00:45:52,239
Speaker 2: But like, it's just crazy to me that that kind

787
00:45:52,320 --> 00:45:55,160
Speaker 2: of junk, that slop can just make its way through

788
00:45:55,360 --> 00:45:57,919
Speaker 2: as long as the dollars are rolling through to pay

789
00:45:57,960 --> 00:45:58,279
Speaker 2: for it.

790
00:45:58,560 --> 00:46:01,960
Speaker 4: There's that terminification and I forget to coined it. It's

791
00:46:02,000 --> 00:46:04,799
Speaker 4: this dude that I just saw doing an interview. It's

792
00:46:04,800 --> 00:46:08,440
Speaker 4: I think he's like a media critic or something. But anyway,

793
00:46:08,560 --> 00:46:11,520
Speaker 4: the idea is that these platforms have gone through a

794
00:46:11,520 --> 00:46:15,080
Speaker 4: process of indentification that is multi layered. The first one

795
00:46:15,120 --> 00:46:18,000
Speaker 4: is they sell you a product that's the user. First,

796
00:46:18,040 --> 00:46:19,680
Speaker 4: we're going to protect your data, we're going to protect

797
00:46:19,680 --> 00:46:22,200
Speaker 4: your privacy, we're not going to serve you a bunch

798
00:46:22,239 --> 00:46:24,080
Speaker 4: of ads. And then of course eventually they do serve

799
00:46:24,120 --> 00:46:27,120
Speaker 4: your ads in a way that's really invasive and obnoxious,

800
00:46:27,160 --> 00:46:30,040
Speaker 4: and all the priority gets put on the sponsors. But

801
00:46:30,160 --> 00:46:32,920
Speaker 4: the next stage is this guy describes aification, is that

802
00:46:33,000 --> 00:46:36,480
Speaker 4: now the sponsors aren't even getting that treatment. So stuff

803
00:46:36,520 --> 00:46:40,319
Speaker 4: is totally coming through because it is no longer even

804
00:46:40,360 --> 00:46:45,080
Speaker 4: about brand safety or sponsor you know protection.

805
00:46:45,680 --> 00:46:49,120
Speaker 3: Yeah, we're talking about the Canadian writer Corey. Thanks Cory

806
00:46:49,160 --> 00:46:54,160
Speaker 3: doctor Rowe. That was yeah twenty twenty two. Oh, I'm

807
00:46:54,239 --> 00:46:59,360
Speaker 3: still so into this oligarchy idea because we can argue

808
00:46:59,360 --> 00:47:02,400
Speaker 3: we always hear the term oligarch thrown around with the

809
00:47:02,480 --> 00:47:06,040
Speaker 3: Russian kleptocracy, which just is a fancy way of saying

810
00:47:06,120 --> 00:47:10,560
Speaker 3: government run by thieves. However, I advance to all of

811
00:47:10,640 --> 00:47:14,719
Speaker 3: us listening that there is another oligarchy at play. It

812
00:47:14,800 --> 00:47:17,880
Speaker 3: is a tech oligarchy. It is the one responsible for

813
00:47:18,080 --> 00:47:21,120
Speaker 3: in poopification. Just to save you the beat there, Dylan,

814
00:47:21,480 --> 00:47:24,800
Speaker 3: this is the one. This is the oligarchy that people

815
00:47:24,880 --> 00:47:29,320
Speaker 3: need to be primarily concerned about here in the West today.

816
00:47:30,120 --> 00:47:33,239
Speaker 3: And I am so excited for us to do the

817
00:47:33,400 --> 00:47:37,600
Speaker 3: episode on this in the future. If it's all right, guys,

818
00:47:38,320 --> 00:47:40,719
Speaker 3: just to wrap on some good news. We'll get to

819
00:47:40,719 --> 00:47:43,040
Speaker 3: the rest of this as our journey through twenty twenty

820
00:47:43,080 --> 00:47:46,240
Speaker 3: six continues. It's all right to wrap on some good news.

821
00:47:46,520 --> 00:47:49,560
Speaker 3: I'd love to share a cool letter that we got

822
00:47:49,640 --> 00:47:51,239
Speaker 3: all the way out from Malaysia.

823
00:47:51,760 --> 00:47:55,080
Speaker 4: Oh man, I love a happy letter, especially from Malaysia,

824
00:47:55,480 --> 00:47:56,640
Speaker 4: and I love good news.

825
00:47:56,800 --> 00:47:58,160
Speaker 3: You know what I mean? Don't you like when you

826
00:47:58,200 --> 00:48:01,120
Speaker 3: get a text that's just a nice tech They're not

827
00:48:01,160 --> 00:48:03,319
Speaker 3: asking you to do anything. They're just saying, Hey, I

828
00:48:03,360 --> 00:48:04,359
Speaker 3: hope you have a good day.

829
00:48:04,680 --> 00:48:07,880
Speaker 4: It's nice. Yeah. I also love getting the Ben Boleen

830
00:48:08,640 --> 00:48:11,080
Speaker 4: Venezuelan invasion texts as well.

831
00:48:12,800 --> 00:48:15,440
Speaker 3: Gosh, sorry about that.

832
00:48:15,440 --> 00:48:18,279
Speaker 4: I'm joking. It's good to be on the cutting edge

833
00:48:18,280 --> 00:48:20,319
Speaker 4: of what's happening. But yeah, it is nice to get

834
00:48:20,400 --> 00:48:24,000
Speaker 4: just a little bit of a warm hug in text

835
00:48:24,080 --> 00:48:25,480
Speaker 4: or letter or any correspondence.

836
00:48:25,520 --> 00:48:28,720
Speaker 3: For sure, we love a little Ada boy. We're suckers

837
00:48:28,760 --> 00:48:32,840
Speaker 3: for We're suckers for sincere validation. This is so nice

838
00:48:32,960 --> 00:48:35,040
Speaker 3: and it gives us a chance to answer a question

839
00:48:35,120 --> 00:48:38,040
Speaker 3: that we love and spoiler it might be a question

840
00:48:38,120 --> 00:48:39,719
Speaker 3: that was on the mind of a lot of our

841
00:48:39,760 --> 00:48:43,360
Speaker 3: long term listeners when we began this listener mail program.

842
00:48:43,840 --> 00:48:49,279
Speaker 3: Hello there, std wytkt, says William. I just wanted to

843
00:48:49,320 --> 00:48:52,040
Speaker 3: thank you guys for all the great content you put out.

844
00:48:52,360 --> 00:48:55,280
Speaker 3: It's probably not a stretch to say you guys helped

845
00:48:55,320 --> 00:48:58,680
Speaker 3: save my sanity during the COVID lockdown years and have

846
00:48:58,800 --> 00:49:02,360
Speaker 3: continued to educate and to entertain me. Since I don't

847
00:49:02,360 --> 00:49:05,160
Speaker 3: have any story to share for your listener mail segment,

848
00:49:05,560 --> 00:49:08,560
Speaker 3: but maybe one day I'll have a conspiracy worthy of

849
00:49:08,640 --> 00:49:14,360
Speaker 3: further exploration. You can pausing here, William. You can always

850
00:49:14,360 --> 00:49:16,840
Speaker 3: write to us. Everybody can always write to us. We

851
00:49:16,920 --> 00:49:18,680
Speaker 3: just want to know what's on your mind. We love

852
00:49:18,719 --> 00:49:22,560
Speaker 3: an no pun left behind. You continue and say, by

853
00:49:22,600 --> 00:49:25,799
Speaker 3: the way, I still don't know what a ruta bega is.

854
00:49:26,080 --> 00:49:29,600
Speaker 3: Web searches and AI haven't helped me figure out what

855
00:49:29,680 --> 00:49:33,839
Speaker 3: you guys were always giggling about. And William's right, we

856
00:49:33,880 --> 00:49:37,360
Speaker 3: do giggle when it comes up. Is this an American

857
00:49:37,400 --> 00:49:40,920
Speaker 3: English thing? You asked, William? Is that something you don't

858
00:49:40,960 --> 00:49:45,320
Speaker 3: want us to know anyway? Happy holidays? William from Malaysia.

859
00:49:45,640 --> 00:49:48,000
Speaker 4: Does the Google algorithm in other parts of the world

860
00:49:48,120 --> 00:49:49,520
Speaker 4: not know what a route bega is?

861
00:49:49,760 --> 00:49:53,040
Speaker 3: I think it's the spelling, so okay, yeah, So a

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Speaker 3: couple of things here real quick, big Willie style. If

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Speaker 3: you permit the moniker, a rutabaga typically is going to

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Speaker 3: be spelled r u t a b a g a

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Speaker 3: for anybody new to the show. One of our favorite

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Speaker 3: parts of our weekly listener mail program is when our

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Speaker 3: pal Dylan literally the Tennessee pal Dylan fakean Uh continues

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Speaker 3: in beginning the Ruta Bega universe. The ruta bega is

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Speaker 3: our root vegetable. Let's think of it like a cross

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Speaker 3: between a turn up with some cabbage in the DNA.

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Speaker 4: Mm hmm yeah. Also known as a swede.

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Speaker 3: Yes, yes, just so.

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Speaker 4: It doesn't quite have the ring to it, but it's

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Speaker 4: still nice like a swede.

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Speaker 2: It can bring out some sweetness too, which is really cool,

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Speaker 2: almost like a sweet potato kind of thing, those root

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Speaker 2: vegetables that have that natural sugar going on.

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Speaker 4: A little beat, like I like, yeah, intense, yeah, roasted

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Speaker 4: with the sweetness.

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Speaker 3: We have parsnip esque. Yeah. I think it's got a

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Speaker 3: lot of a lot in common with parsnip, but parsnip's

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Speaker 3: a little bit more bitter.

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Speaker 4: A little bit more rootie or a little bit more

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Speaker 4: stemy kind of you know. It can be tough.

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Speaker 3: To cook, William. You can also replace mashed potatoes with

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Speaker 3: mashed rutabaga. Please follow us for more rudabaga recipes through email.

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Speaker 2: We got a we got a recipe for a rutabaga casserole.

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Speaker 3: Yes, yeah, I forwarded that to Dylan. Actually I should

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Speaker 3: have been doing other things, but it was like, stop everything,

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Speaker 3: the email can wait. I'm not getting on the call yet. Dylan.

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Speaker 3: You have to know. H.

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Speaker 2: Thank you for doing the needful bit, thank you for

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Speaker 2: doing that what you just said.

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Speaker 4: In Scotland, rudabagas are referred to as nips and they

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Speaker 4: have a delightful dish that sounds like I want to

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Speaker 4: track called nieps and tatties, where the tattoos are the

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Speaker 4: Scots word for potatoes and meats are mashed rutabagas. And

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Speaker 4: there's another version of that where you can mine those

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Speaker 4: two ingreen and referred to the combo as clap shot.

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Speaker 3: Whoa yep. Now you might be asking yourself, William. You

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Speaker 3: might be saying, guys, I am sold. How did I

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Speaker 3: not know more about this earlier? Well, we'll tell you

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Speaker 3: it's a conspiracy. You see, the rootabaga is a is

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Speaker 3: a cool season crop and as a very long growing season,

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Speaker 3: so big agriculture went to easier things to cultivate. And

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Speaker 3: we're bringing the rudabaga back. It's twenty twenty six. That's

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Speaker 3: going on our vision board. We're also bringing back the

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Speaker 3: idea of vision boards.

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Speaker 4: I remember that we used to talk about the vision

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Speaker 4: board all the time. At the end of ridiculous history,

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Speaker 4: we should bring it back. It was because of a Pinterest.

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Speaker 4: I think now apparently Pinterest is just a hive of

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Speaker 4: scum and AI sloppery. Oh no, yeah, it's been like

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Speaker 4: you can no longer find any real or very difficult

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Speaker 4: to find real images that are generated by humans. Everything

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Speaker 4: is just it's been like infested with Aila.

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Speaker 2: Where will I get my interior design ideas well?

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Speaker 4: Yeah, human beings.

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Speaker 3: I do want to point out, folks, we were ahead

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Speaker 3: of the curve because the stuff they don't want you

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Speaker 3: to know logo had six fingers on it way before. Hey,

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Speaker 3: I slopped from pinterest.

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Speaker 2: Oohs, as did the Gravity Falls logo. Unfortunately you know

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Speaker 2: that when we created our logo.

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Speaker 3: But big thanks to our brother in arms, the legendary

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Speaker 3: Paul Mission Controlled Decands, who helped bring that vision to life.

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Speaker 3: And big thanks to you for joining us. Folks. We're

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Speaker 3: so excited again that you're hanging out with us. Stay

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Speaker 3: tuned as we proceed through the week, you're going to

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Speaker 3: hear a couple more classic episodes. You're going to hear

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Speaker 3: more strange news, more listener mail. I can't even remember

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Speaker 3: which of our episodes are publishing by the week that

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Speaker 3: this comes out. Oh gut intuition memories from the future.

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Speaker 3: Let's see. Oh we've got some we got some neat stuff. Noel,

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Speaker 3: you mentioned trunk and heads.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, that was a romp for sure.

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Speaker 3: The Sansas right. So join us, folks. We'd love to

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Speaker 3: hear from you. You can find us on Netflix. You

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00:54:10,560 --> 00:54:13,040
Speaker 3: can call us on a phone line, you can send

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Speaker 3: us an email. You can always contact us on the

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Speaker 3: social meets.

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Speaker 4: You sure can. And before I tell you how to

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Speaker 4: do that, I just wanted to add one little rudegga tidbit.

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Speaker 4: This may have come up in the past, but I

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Speaker 4: had to do this for the sake of our guest

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Speaker 4: super producer Max the Freight Train Williams in Ithaca, New York.

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Speaker 4: There is something called the International Rudebega Curling Championship that

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Speaker 4: started in December of nineteen ninety seven, where people try

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Speaker 4: out the new Rudebega crop by rolling them into like

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Speaker 4: a you know, a pitch that is a circular goal,

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Speaker 4: much like the delightful Olympic Winter Olympic sport of curling

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Speaker 4: that Max loves so well.

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Speaker 3: Check out our episodes on curling if you have Ridiculous

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Speaker 3: history as well. It's a few part series.

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Speaker 4: And in the meantime, you can indeed find us on

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Speaker 4: the social meds at the hand conspiracies level. We exist

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Speaker 4: on Facebook with our Facebook group here's where it gets crazy,

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Speaker 4: on xfka, Twitter and on YouTube with video content glor

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Speaker 4: for your apprusing enjoyment on Instagram and TikTok where conspiracy

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Speaker 4: stuff show.

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Speaker 2: We have a phone number. It is one eight to

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Speaker 2: three three std WYTK. Turn those letters into numbers. Give

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Speaker 2: the number a call. You'll find our voicemail system. You've

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Speaker 2: got three minutes. Give yourself a cool nickname and let

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Speaker 2: us know within the message if we can use your

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Speaker 2: name and message on the air. If you got other

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Speaker 2: things to say, stuff you want to put down with words,

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Speaker 2: why not send us an email.

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Speaker 3: We are the entities the read each piece of correspondence

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Speaker 3: we receive. Be well aware, yet o't afraid. Sometimes the

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Speaker 3: void rights back. What do we going to write back with? Well,

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Speaker 3: it depends on what you say to us. Play the game.

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Speaker 3: Tell us if you want a random fact or a

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Speaker 3: random poem. We love this kind of stuff. Twenty four

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Speaker 3: hours in evening, seven nights a week. Guys, I just

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Speaker 3: found an excellent poem about Rude Bega's by an author

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Speaker 3: named law La Grace Weldon. What is it Anna hit

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Speaker 3: us up? Find out We'll see you in the dark.

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