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

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

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Speaker 3: They call me Ben. We're joined as always with our

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Speaker 3: are you. You are here. That makes this the stuff

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Speaker 3: to our program for listener mail the evening it publishes

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Speaker 3: Welcome to Thursday, October tenth. Now we're recording this on

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Speaker 3: October seventh, so by the time you hear this will

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Speaker 3: be at sea and we'll be singing the same chance

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Speaker 3: we always seeing during listener mail. When we say Ruda,

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Speaker 3: you say see yeah Vegas, and we say Ruda you

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Speaker 4: Wear that out when we're at when we're sure, when

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Speaker 3: Okay, got my attempt for Ruda bega call of response

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Speaker 3: we will workshop it. I love the sea shanty idea. Luckily,

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Speaker 3: We've got none other than Tennessee's own Dylan Fagan with

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Speaker 5: Welcome back, everybody to a beautiful Chris Fall evening. It's

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Speaker 4: Duncas rose a fastball and wow, look at that baby fly.

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Speaker 4: Who we wait a minute, Hm hmm.

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Speaker 2: The ball just fell straight down? Is that even possible?

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Speaker 2: Looks like it really made a crater.

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Speaker 3: Poetry Poetry of the Mega Creative, one of the fastest

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Speaker 2: I cannot wait for the compilation, just all of these

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Speaker 3: company IGU. We've got so much stuff to get to here, guys.

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Speaker 3: I know there are a lot of things we've heard

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Speaker 3: from you, our fellow conspiracy realists that that really spoke

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Speaker 3: to us in various ways, a little bit of breaking

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Speaker 3: news of our own. And we asked a question gin previously,

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Speaker 3: I believe it was on it was either listener mail

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Speaker 3: or Strange News, asking about, uh, the inner workings of

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Speaker 3: tobacco companies. Wait, was that in? What was that an episode?

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Speaker 3: What was that? Where do we mention it was recently?

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Speaker 4: to read, I really hadn't given it too much thought

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Speaker 2: We we posed a question whether or not we think

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Speaker 3: I was asking if you could, if you you know,

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Speaker 3: called it was, Oh, it was it was Atlas Network. Aha,

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Speaker 3: That's that's what I was asking, Because they put so

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Speaker 4: They need a R company to help them workshop that

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Speaker 3: No kid, all right, we'll take a quick break for

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Speaker 4: And we've returned with an email, and I think was

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Speaker 4: jump right in, Dear esteemed gentlemen, this is so kind

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Speaker 4: gods of podcasting and champions of conspiracy. That deserves an

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Speaker 4: umrah right there, or a chance or a seat. Wonderful,

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Speaker 4: very very kind nemesis. In the recent episode, you wondered

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Speaker 4: if tobacco companies were compliant with anti smoking legislation. Having

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Speaker 4: British American Tobacco, I can confirm that both are highly compliant,

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Speaker 4: And I immediately when I heard this, just like I

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Speaker 4: And I think he clearly felt the same way. Apparently

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Speaker 4: Wow, it's wild. I guess it's also kind of wild

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Speaker 4: that these companies even still exist, but that's a whole

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Speaker 4: Fortunately it was a modern building with good ah VAC,

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Speaker 4: beginning to introduce smoking restrictions. Smoking on trains had just

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Speaker 4: there was no in office smoking, only in designated outdoor areas.

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Speaker 3: Nemesis. This is the part that was really interesting to me.

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Speaker 3: I mean, just led such a fascinating life and this

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Speaker 4: By you can't smoke it.

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Speaker 3: Right, the smoky the smoky rooftop makes so much more

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Speaker 3: sense because that's when you crack the big deals with

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Speaker 3: this is the juice. This is a vag choice right here.

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Speaker 4: And Ben, I'll just add too. I think you and

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Speaker 4: you don't smoke them. If you got them, they better

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Speaker 4: I believe it was Ford.

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Speaker 3: But the anecdote I heard back in the car stuff

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Speaker 2: Well, I just like the idea that you could keep

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Speaker 4: Yes, that's incredible, you know the deal got made. You

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Speaker 3: Or something bad's on the horizon. Why is he up there?

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Speaker 4: It depends on the length and the and the color

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Speaker 3: Which is yeah, it's crazy, like how many people smoke it?

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Speaker 4: That's a lot of coffin nails right there.

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Speaker 3: Or is that sure?

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Speaker 4: And I would agree fragility of the paper. Absolutely, no,

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Speaker 4: it's it's wild. Also, smoking is really bad, and it's

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Speaker 4: it's something I've struggled with in the past, and it

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Speaker 4: is definitely wild to me. They are churning out this

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Speaker 4: I will never get over the macabre images that are

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Speaker 4: They got a bit would have to be hold on

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Speaker 2: Their weather balloons. They are you got weather balloons.

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Speaker 3: Right, kind of similar to what we sent over the

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Speaker 4: That's true. Another reason why this story is relevant and fascinating.

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Speaker 7: Hey, the lasagna caidia, it's under the Rue de Begas.

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Speaker 7: I repeat, the lasagnaka is under the Rue de Begas.

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Speaker 4: Ben how do you feel about a lasagna case? Is

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Speaker 3: I love it? Mystery color message received? Where go? We're green,

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Speaker 2: How did it get under the roota begas? Though? That's

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Speaker 7: Now?

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Speaker 4: Are we talking placed underneath a dug up rutebega or

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Speaker 3: Then you'd have to I like the Tom Waits reference,

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Speaker 4: Can we also just say that rebury the rude begas

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Speaker 4: we rebury the roota begas. Guys.

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Speaker 2: I think it's I think it's even deeper than all this.

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Speaker 4: That's that's what the that's what you got to get at.

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Speaker 3: If you have ricata in the casada and you cut

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Speaker 3: Every time you don't hear us live on the air, folks,

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Speaker 4: The noodles could take the place of the rice. You

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Speaker 2: In twenty sixteen, Spoon University wrote an article about how

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Speaker 4: thinly rolled.

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Speaker 2: Yeah frozen farritos in the freezer section for all you

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Speaker 2: buy them.

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Speaker 3: They're about the size of a pack of cigarettes.

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Speaker 8: You buy them at pats of twenty Yeah, yeah, yeah right,

441
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Speaker 8: and then uh, you know you can all see self

442
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Speaker 8: heating technology like those sick Bento boxes in Japan where

443
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Speaker 8: you know, I can use the context clues.

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Speaker 4: That sounds amazing.

445
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Speaker 2: Wait, you're you're describing our other products, the faikito.

446
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Speaker 3: Uh yes, the Fikito. We have a whole product line

447
00:23:08,240 --> 00:23:13,920
Speaker 3: that is technically pun based. However, we we stand by it.

448
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Speaker 3: I almost went in to the accent of that guy,

449
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Speaker 3: and I think you should leave, and I stand by it.

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Speaker 2: Look, we're being entirely too silly, guys. We need to

451
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Speaker 2: get something super serious now.

452
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Speaker 4: You promised us further silliness off.

453
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Speaker 3: And switch. Thank you to I gu farritos and more.

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Speaker 3: Uh yeah, let's get Let's get super serious. Okay, like

455
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Speaker 3: you were saying.

456
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Speaker 2: Super serious, Let's jump to our episode on the Kaikora Lights.

457
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Speaker 2: It's been a while since we put that one out,

458
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Speaker 2: but that one is still in the back of all

459
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Speaker 2: of our minds. I'm sure it was just one of

460
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Speaker 2: those episodes so mysterious it just makes you go, what

461
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Speaker 2: could this have been? Well, I think we might have

462
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Speaker 2: an answer from Chef Touey. That's not the name you

463
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Speaker 2: called in with, but we are going to call you

464
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Speaker 2: Chef Tooey for this uh with an important piece of insight.

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Speaker 9: Here we go, fellas. Good morning, it is a beautiful

466
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Speaker 9: Monday in Chicago. This is Chef Ben. Just wanted to

467
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Speaker 9: let you know. I know what the Kai Kora lights are.

468
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Speaker 9: They are Imperial probe droids sent to this planet on

469
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Speaker 9: a regular basis to keep an eye on the descendants

470
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Speaker 9: of a clone who went a wall and settled on

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Speaker 9: this planet. Here's how I know this. I agree that

472
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Speaker 9: that accent that they have in New Zealand is delightful,

473
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Speaker 9: wonderful accent. It's not a New Zealand accent. It's Mandalorian.

474
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Speaker 9: It's an accent that has been passed down generationally from

475
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Speaker 9: Django Fett, who was the original progenitor of all of

476
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Speaker 9: the Clones. There's documentation in the Clone Wars of Clones

477
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Speaker 9: going a wall and just laying their weapons down. Man,

478
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Speaker 9: they had enough, they were tired. They decided they wanted

479
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Speaker 9: to just settle on a planet, have kids. Ps. If

480
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Speaker 9: I was making a Clone army, I would make it sterile.

481
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Speaker 9: But that's just me. And these clones just lived their lives.

482
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Speaker 9: They just said, you know what, I'm done. I'm done

483
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Speaker 9: fighting for the MP I was fighting for the Republic

484
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Speaker 9: and that was honorable, and now it's turned into the

485
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Speaker 9: empire and I can't support this. If you look at

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Speaker 9: the wonderful documentary about the indigenous people in that whole

487
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Speaker 9: Polynesian kind of area, Moana, her father has that same

488
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Speaker 9: Mandalorian accent, and I believe is directly descended from an

489
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Speaker 9: escaped clone. Somebody who went a wall, left the war,

490
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Speaker 9: settled on this planet. And so that area of the world,

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Speaker 9: I'm sure is under imperial observation, you know, on the regular,

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Speaker 9: to make sure that the clones and the descendants of

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Speaker 9: the clones are not going to pose any sort of

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Speaker 9: a threat to the greater galaxy. As long as we're

495
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Speaker 9: planet bound here, we're actually fine. The Imperial probe droids

496
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Speaker 9: will just keep an eye on us and make sure

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Speaker 9: that we're not planning any sort of an uprising. Look,

498
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Speaker 9: I'm just blowing the lid right off of this. I'll

499
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Speaker 9: be the truth teller in this. Thanks everything, you guys do,

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Speaker 9: Take care, Thank you.

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Speaker 2: I can only imagine some of the messages we're gonna

502
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Speaker 2: get from them also spawned from that message.

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Speaker 4: I mean, given the like Disney of it all, it

504
00:26:08,640 --> 00:26:11,760
Speaker 4: does make sense that these worlds, these universes would be bound,

505
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Speaker 4: you know, Milana and Star Wars, and I want to

506
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Speaker 4: see the official crossover where all.

507
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Speaker 3: This stuff is fully realized, all things rise must converge. Yeah,

508
00:26:20,040 --> 00:26:24,760
Speaker 3: it's gonna happen. I mean, the money is just the

509
00:26:24,800 --> 00:26:27,960
Speaker 3: money is too present and too possible. Also, statistically, for

510
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Speaker 3: any naysayers, fellow conspiracy realist in the crowd, keep in mind,

511
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Speaker 3: there were a lot of clones in the Clone Wars.

512
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Speaker 4: Sure were the whole army of them in fact.

513
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Speaker 3: So it's not like the Jedi. It's not like they're

514
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Speaker 3: just a few. Comparatively to the size of the galaxy.

515
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Speaker 3: There were tons of clones, so who knows where they

516
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Speaker 3: ended up?

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Speaker 4: Did y'all? Did either of you finish watching that Alien

518
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Speaker 4: Earth series on Hulu?

519
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Speaker 2: I don't want to be it down.

520
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Speaker 4: It got bad.

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Speaker 2: I got to the second episode and I was like, Okay,

522
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Speaker 2: what are we doing here?

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Speaker 3: I haven't checked it out.

524
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Speaker 4: I was on board for about maybe three episodes, and

525
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Speaker 4: then I just wanted to see it through. But it

526
00:27:03,800 --> 00:27:07,080
Speaker 4: gets real oddly not good. But the Disney of it

527
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Speaker 4: all too. This was a Disney production, and there's these weird,

528
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Speaker 4: like kind of forced tie ins with Peter Pan and

529
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Speaker 4: also ice Age the movie. Like it's just like you

530
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Speaker 4: could make one argument that Noah Holly is doing it

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Speaker 4: as this kind of like grounding force in the world

532
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Speaker 4: of the show, but it feels like a Disney tie

533
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Speaker 4: and where they're like, maybe people will be reminded to

534
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Speaker 4: go stream the original Peter Pan because of this, or

535
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Speaker 4: watch ice Age the movie. Yeah, it's super weird. Yeah.

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Speaker 2: Who's the actor that plays the brother.

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Speaker 4: He's not good in this. I like if he was

538
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Speaker 4: in a really good episode of Black Mirror called Shut

539
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Speaker 4: Up and Dance, the one where he's getting trolled by

540
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Speaker 4: this like you know this like emoji like laughing kind

541
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Speaker 4: of cringe faces thing. He's excellent in that. That's the thing.

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Speaker 2: I really like him.

543
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Speaker 4: And the other guy was in Black Mirror too. He

544
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Speaker 4: was in the one about the lock Locke Hennery, which.

545
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Speaker 2: And he's I just don't know what's happening. I just

546
00:27:59,760 --> 00:28:02,720
Speaker 2: don't understand whatever is happening in that show, because there's

547
00:28:03,359 --> 00:28:07,400
Speaker 2: all of the pieces seem incredible anyway.

548
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Speaker 4: Agree, always wanted to bring it up because of the

549
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Speaker 4: Disney diet.

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Speaker 2: Well back to the Mandalorian Okay, because that's what's important here,

551
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Speaker 2: because we're talking about the Kaikorolites and these probes, these

552
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Speaker 2: dang probes that are keeping an eye on us. Well,

553
00:28:19,320 --> 00:28:21,600
Speaker 2: some of us don't like having an eye kept on us,

554
00:28:22,560 --> 00:28:26,919
Speaker 2: so we need to find a way. I don't know.

555
00:28:27,040 --> 00:28:29,359
Speaker 2: It's a wonderfully silly message and we do appreciate it.

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Speaker 2: Chef Ben your actual name, And We've got one more

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Speaker 2: message here before we move on to our next segment.

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Speaker 2: This message was going to be in last week's Listener

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Speaker 2: Mail episode, but we had to cut it for time,

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Speaker 2: and I'm just giving you the credit here, Ben. You've

561
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Speaker 2: you discovered this, and this is some really important news,

562
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Speaker 2: biological news, like we always we're always interested when there's

563
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Speaker 2: news about corvids, right.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, this up there with the Mandalorian revelations.

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Speaker 2: It really is.

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Speaker 10: I guess this is Salmon Hand's big fan of the show.

567
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Speaker 10: I just wanted to call and share with you all

568
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Speaker 10: this news story that I saw, and as a biologist,

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Speaker 10: I found it quite concerning. But anyway, apparently crows across

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Speaker 10: the United States have lost the ability to communicate, and

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Speaker 10: scientists are frantically trying to find the cause. I'll seat

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Speaker 10: myself out.

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Speaker 3: No, stay, you're in the right place. I was in it.

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Speaker 7: I was there.

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Speaker 2: There's a there's a teeny tiny cat me out at

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Speaker 2: the end of that. I'm gonna play the just the

577
00:29:41,840 --> 00:29:47,880
Speaker 2: very end. It's so great. Uh, maybe laugh out loud.

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Speaker 2: I was sitting here putting it in the system. Here

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Speaker 2: we go.

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Speaker 10: I'll seat myself out.

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Speaker 4: I love it.

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Speaker 3: Question for doctor Vankman, did you go to that guy's

583
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Speaker 3: house and force him to write that joke?

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Speaker 4: No, The only thing that forced him to write that

585
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Speaker 4: joke was the spirit of pure inspiration.

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Speaker 3: You can complete the fifth you're a cat? Yeah, I

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Speaker 3: handible lecter over here.

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Speaker 2: We appreciated that so much.

589
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Speaker 3: Yeah, yes, what a joy.

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Speaker 2: And go ahead and try that one out on your

591
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Speaker 2: friends and family. That seems like a great joke.

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Speaker 4: It's almost like to the level of like Norm MacDonald

593
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Speaker 4: anti humor, where it's just so deadpan and straight you're

594
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Speaker 4: almost along for the ride, and then it just like

595
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Speaker 4: I almost missed the punch. I almost missed the punchline.

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Speaker 4: But then I realized that he stopped and he wasn't

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Speaker 4: actually telling me more about this research, and then there

598
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Speaker 4: must be something amiss.

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Speaker 3: And we got a lot of We got a lot

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Speaker 3: of jokes and jocularity in recent correspondence, which will probably

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Speaker 3: get to later on today.

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Speaker 2: Oh yeah, for sure.

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Speaker 4: It also just seemed like something that totally could be true, right,

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Speaker 4: I'm sorry, it's like like colony call apps or something,

605
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Speaker 4: you know, like.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, if retelling, I would add a couple of parts

607
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Speaker 2: in the middle there to support the thesis or the

608
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Speaker 2: concept that the crows have lost communication like some findings.

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Speaker 3: Perhaps like like they're not responding to calls from other

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Speaker 3: animals or birds, like they're any the owls or human

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Speaker 3: researchers ultra specific.

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Speaker 2: And then finally, yeah.

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Speaker 3: Go into the crows specifically different, still trying to find

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Speaker 3: the cause.

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Speaker 4: That's very good. Oh my goodness, that makes me happy.

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Speaker 2: Well, we we have a ton more amazing voicemails, so

617
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Speaker 2: please keep sending those in. They're incredible. Y'all are hilarious,

618
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Speaker 2: And I know we're just having mostly fun in this

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Speaker 2: part of the episode, but there's some very serious things

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Speaker 2: that you guys have been writing too. I think this

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Speaker 2: is just part of our coming down from some of

622
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Speaker 2: the serious to we've been hitting.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, it's a bit of a cleanse. Yes, it's okay.

624
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Speaker 2: Maybe doing that for the next week.

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Speaker 4: Appreciate it like it truly is restorative when you write

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Speaker 4: in with these things. So oh call in of course.

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Speaker 2: Yes, Oh you know what we mentioned I think Ben

628
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Speaker 2: in our last listener Maile episode that Oz woman called

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Speaker 2: in about the Rudebega festival in Minnesota place called Askov.

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Speaker 2: I think we mentioned it, but we didn't talk about

631
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Speaker 2: it much. Is there is just to remind everybody, a

632
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Speaker 2: rude bega festival that happens annually in Askov, Minnesota, that's

633
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Speaker 2: a sko V and it happens in August. You can

634
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Speaker 2: look it up. You can find a Facebook page about it, right,

635
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Speaker 2: and you can find these things that they specialize in

636
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Speaker 2: there at the rude Bega festival called Abuskivas. And these

637
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Speaker 2: are delicious spherical pancakes of Danish descent.

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Speaker 3: Incredible. I like how you said of Danish descent.

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Speaker 2: Yes, that's where they arose and that is where they

640
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Speaker 2: continue to thrive. But they are now also in Minnesota.

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Speaker 4: Well, if you want to go, you better go ahead

642
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Speaker 4: and ask of in advanced.

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Speaker 3: Yeahs and os woman. As you pointed out, we did.

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Speaker 3: I don't think we played it, but we did mention that.

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Speaker 3: In our previous Weekly Listener mail segment. You also noted

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Speaker 3: that every every town or village of any size in

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Speaker 3: Minnesota has a specialized festival, and we would love to

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Speaker 3: learn about all of those as well.

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Speaker 4: Minnesota state fairs are famous. Yeah, yeah, just for like

650
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Speaker 4: all the weird fried stuff, and I mean that is

651
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Speaker 4: absolutely a specialty of that stuff.

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Speaker 3: I love it. I love the idea of any place

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Speaker 3: that you can just you can be driving on a

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Speaker 3: state road, hopefully not an interstate. State roads are the

655
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Speaker 3: better way to see the country, and then you pull

656
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Speaker 3: over and someone's like, hey, welcome to our town. This weekend,

657
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Speaker 3: we're entirely about cheese curds. Here's your hat, here's your apron.

658
00:33:50,040 --> 00:33:54,960
Speaker 3: Remember the magic word is pasteurized. Oh, here's some fried

659
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Speaker 3: butter for the road. Yeah.

660
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Speaker 2: Did I tell you guys about my recent cheese curd experience.

661
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Speaker 3: I know about the squash festival, but I didn't hear

662
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Speaker 3: about the cheese curd thing.

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Speaker 2: Okay, so attended a squash festival in Wisconsin. Yeah, but

664
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Speaker 2: you know, flew into Minneapolis over there and drove through

665
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Speaker 2: like Duluth, Minnesota, part.

666
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Speaker 3: Of the country incredible, incredible year or two.

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Speaker 2: Oh yeah, and so we went to this this festival

668
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Speaker 2: where my girlfriend played a bunch of music. Then as

669
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Speaker 2: we're leaving, we're like, oh, we're in Minnesota. We got

670
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Speaker 2: to get some cheese curds. We asked around. There were

671
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Speaker 2: only two restaurants basically on this route because we were

672
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Speaker 2: in the middle of nowhere, that had cheese curds, and

673
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Speaker 2: the people were adamant. You go to this place because

674
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Speaker 2: it's got the best cheese curds around.

675
00:34:44,840 --> 00:34:47,840
Speaker 4: It's like the Philly cheese steak argument, right, everyone their favorite.

676
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Speaker 2: Yeah, oh yeah. So we went in. There's a ruckus

677
00:34:50,880 --> 00:34:53,160
Speaker 2: going on there, so everybody's excited. There's just so much

678
00:34:53,239 --> 00:34:56,239
Speaker 2: excitement in this tiny little place, right, it's filled up

679
00:34:56,280 --> 00:34:59,120
Speaker 2: to the brim. Parking lots filled. We go in there,

680
00:34:59,160 --> 00:35:01,319
Speaker 2: we order some cheese c the kids love them. They're

681
00:35:01,400 --> 00:35:04,680
Speaker 2: so good. Then as we're leaving, we're starting to notice,

682
00:35:04,680 --> 00:35:07,919
Speaker 2: like it's the cheese curs were amazing and going down,

683
00:35:07,920 --> 00:35:09,920
Speaker 2: but there's this weird like flavor. This were a taste

684
00:35:10,120 --> 00:35:12,400
Speaker 2: we see on the sign that we could not see

685
00:35:12,480 --> 00:35:16,040
Speaker 2: from the side. We were coming from from the festival. Uh,

686
00:35:16,160 --> 00:35:17,919
Speaker 2: they were having a little festival of their own.

687
00:35:18,360 --> 00:35:19,319
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, it was.

688
00:35:19,440 --> 00:35:21,240
Speaker 2: The annual testicle Festival.

689
00:35:22,440 --> 00:35:22,600
Speaker 7: Man.

690
00:35:22,880 --> 00:35:27,399
Speaker 2: So they were cooking testicles, deep frying testicles all day

691
00:35:27,440 --> 00:35:30,120
Speaker 2: long while we were at the squash festival. And then

692
00:35:30,160 --> 00:35:32,799
Speaker 2: we got cheese curds cooked and what I'm assuming is

693
00:35:32,840 --> 00:35:33,640
Speaker 2: the same.

694
00:35:33,480 --> 00:35:39,239
Speaker 3: Test oi oil. Yeah, okay, the Prairie oyster grease. Well,

695
00:35:39,239 --> 00:35:41,000
Speaker 3: now you've had a coolinary experience.

696
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Speaker 4: Would you eat a testicle, Matt, I don't know.

697
00:35:45,560 --> 00:35:46,000
Speaker 7: I don't know.

698
00:35:47,239 --> 00:35:51,160
Speaker 8: I have a Yeah, you have it, knowingly.

699
00:35:51,400 --> 00:35:54,200
Speaker 4: Faced with one, and it looked interesting, like I like liver,

700
00:35:54,680 --> 00:35:57,800
Speaker 4: well like odd things from now. Yeah, it's not for everybody,

701
00:35:57,840 --> 00:36:00,160
Speaker 4: but I for some reason, I imagine a testicle has a

702
00:36:00,200 --> 00:36:01,640
Speaker 4: livery quality to I don't know what.

703
00:36:01,800 --> 00:36:04,200
Speaker 3: It's definitely, I mean be kind of like eating other

704
00:36:04,320 --> 00:36:07,479
Speaker 3: kinds of other sorts of awful for us. For us,

705
00:36:07,520 --> 00:36:11,319
Speaker 3: probably it's more a cultural moray thing rather than like

706
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Speaker 3: a health concern. I mean, I know, bull penis is

707
00:36:14,560 --> 00:36:17,600
Speaker 3: a delicacy in some places, and you know what, not

708
00:36:17,719 --> 00:36:20,439
Speaker 3: my jam more bull penis for you folks for sure.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, do you fair bigs? Have you vaughon Biggs, Will you.

710
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Speaker 4: All time lord of the Rings out takes?

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Speaker 2: That's what what you guys are like? Did you eat testicles?

712
00:36:34,760 --> 00:36:38,279
Speaker 3: I was thinking also like McCarthy Red Scare, you know,

713
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Speaker 3: the senator taps the mic, Mister Frederick, Have you or

714
00:36:42,760 --> 00:36:46,480
Speaker 3: will you ever eat bull testicles? Have you associated with

715
00:36:46,520 --> 00:36:49,960
Speaker 3: people who consume bull testicles or with a bull that

716
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Speaker 3: has testicles presently or in the past?

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00:36:53,560 --> 00:36:55,080
Speaker 4: Would you eat my testicles?

718
00:36:55,360 --> 00:36:59,000
Speaker 3: Ah, that's a that's a Hoover question. That's a Herbert

719
00:36:59,040 --> 00:36:59,680
Speaker 3: Hoover question.

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Speaker 2: All right, guys. I always think of like an oversized

721
00:37:03,160 --> 00:37:05,200
Speaker 2: cherry tomato, you know, the pop that.

722
00:37:05,960 --> 00:37:07,759
Speaker 4: I have to cut my cherry tomatoes because I don't

723
00:37:07,840 --> 00:37:09,640
Speaker 4: like the pop. I don't want the pop. Best part,

724
00:37:09,640 --> 00:37:10,399
Speaker 4: I don't like the pop.

725
00:37:10,760 --> 00:37:13,200
Speaker 3: I don't like the pop pop for us. Yeah, sure,

726
00:37:13,360 --> 00:37:15,879
Speaker 3: it depends on how you cook them. I've no raw

727
00:37:15,920 --> 00:37:16,480
Speaker 3: and a salad.

728
00:37:16,520 --> 00:37:18,320
Speaker 4: I just it's too poppy for me, so I sliced

729
00:37:18,360 --> 00:37:19,080
Speaker 4: them down the middle.

730
00:37:19,200 --> 00:37:26,440
Speaker 3: I'm pretty sure I eat sliced testicle or something.

731
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Speaker 4: I guess you're always eating interesting stuff when you're on

732
00:37:29,920 --> 00:37:33,040
Speaker 4: the road. You're always like looking for the odd local delicacies,

733
00:37:33,080 --> 00:37:34,640
Speaker 4: and that's like a thing that you do.

734
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Speaker 5: This next break is going to be brought to you

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Speaker 5: by minnetaka Oysters.

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Speaker 2: Oh yeah, Lake minnetaka all right, we'll be right back

737
00:37:48,320 --> 00:37:49,480
Speaker 2: with more messages from you.

738
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Speaker 3: And we have returned. As we said earlier, there's a

739
00:37:57,520 --> 00:37:58,920
Speaker 3: lot of stuff that we're not going to get to

740
00:37:59,040 --> 00:38:01,879
Speaker 3: in this week's listener mail segments. We're going to hold

741
00:38:01,920 --> 00:38:05,160
Speaker 3: it for next week because we have so much more stuff.

742
00:38:05,200 --> 00:38:08,120
Speaker 3: Oh we should mention this, guys before we get into

743
00:38:08,160 --> 00:38:11,400
Speaker 3: our last act here. We are going to be running

744
00:38:11,480 --> 00:38:15,960
Speaker 3: some classic episodes over the like over about a week

745
00:38:16,040 --> 00:38:18,400
Speaker 3: or so. We're really excited to share those with you.

746
00:38:18,680 --> 00:38:21,320
Speaker 3: And primarily it's going to be is a weird sentence

747
00:38:21,320 --> 00:38:23,480
Speaker 3: for us to say. Primarily it's going to be because

748
00:38:23,840 --> 00:38:28,120
Speaker 3: we are in international waters, right, We're on the High Seas,

749
00:38:28,680 --> 00:38:31,040
Speaker 3: so we want to make sure we can always create

750
00:38:31,080 --> 00:38:33,600
Speaker 3: the best possible show for you. So we will be

751
00:38:33,760 --> 00:38:35,440
Speaker 3: kind of out of break, but we're going to make

752
00:38:35,480 --> 00:38:39,040
Speaker 3: it back to the United States. Business is normal, don't worry.

753
00:38:39,200 --> 00:38:42,200
Speaker 4: Right, you'll have an episode from the High Seas, yes,

754
00:38:42,360 --> 00:38:45,040
Speaker 4: waiting for you in your podcast feed.

755
00:38:45,600 --> 00:38:50,640
Speaker 3: Absolutely, and we work pretty pretty diligently as a team

756
00:38:50,719 --> 00:38:54,640
Speaker 3: to strike the right balance of different episodes. We don't

757
00:38:54,680 --> 00:38:58,040
Speaker 3: want one week to be entirely depressing, we don't want

758
00:38:58,040 --> 00:39:02,520
Speaker 3: one week to feel entirely like meaningless, whimsical stuff. But

759
00:39:02,560 --> 00:39:06,279
Speaker 3: we love it. We love all that. And when we

760
00:39:06,360 --> 00:39:11,879
Speaker 3: did a really dark episode about snuff films, we asked you,

761
00:39:12,000 --> 00:39:14,880
Speaker 3: our fellow conspiracy realist and the most important part of

762
00:39:14,880 --> 00:39:19,879
Speaker 3: the show, to if the spirit moved you, give us

763
00:39:19,920 --> 00:39:22,000
Speaker 3: a little bit of a pick me up, give us

764
00:39:22,040 --> 00:39:25,440
Speaker 3: a little bit of a nice thing, some eye bleach,

765
00:39:25,520 --> 00:39:28,520
Speaker 3: be that pet photos or terrible jokes. And as we

766
00:39:28,600 --> 00:39:33,160
Speaker 3: tease previously there right before the break, you came through, folks,

767
00:39:33,239 --> 00:39:35,600
Speaker 3: thank you so much. So we thought at the end

768
00:39:35,600 --> 00:39:37,879
Speaker 3: of this we would share some of these responses. We're

769
00:39:37,880 --> 00:39:39,200
Speaker 3: not going to get to all of them because we

770
00:39:39,239 --> 00:39:42,040
Speaker 3: did receive a lot. How about we go with some

771
00:39:42,239 --> 00:39:43,799
Speaker 3: jokes first? Does that sound good?

772
00:39:44,680 --> 00:39:46,440
Speaker 4: It does, We're already on a joke roll.

773
00:39:46,520 --> 00:39:50,440
Speaker 3: Let's hear some more, all right, The shepherd says, bonjours,

774
00:39:50,440 --> 00:39:54,600
Speaker 3: stuff guys, let me do it a different voice, stuff guys. Boy.

775
00:39:54,680 --> 00:39:57,640
Speaker 3: That stuff movie episode was a rough one to get through,

776
00:39:57,680 --> 00:40:00,799
Speaker 3: but towards the end, Sir Ben and wow, okay, thank

777
00:40:00,840 --> 00:40:03,560
Speaker 3: you invited us all to offer some jokes to light

778
00:40:03,600 --> 00:40:06,719
Speaker 3: in the mood. Here's my offering. Why should you never

779
00:40:06,840 --> 00:40:08,560
Speaker 3: fart in an elevator?

780
00:40:08,600 --> 00:40:10,560
Speaker 4: Something about lift?

781
00:40:10,800 --> 00:40:14,680
Speaker 3: No no, no, he's so close levels because it is

782
00:40:14,680 --> 00:40:18,320
Speaker 3: wrong on so many levels. Hey, all the best, the Shepherd,

783
00:40:18,400 --> 00:40:22,160
Speaker 3: Thank you the Shepherd. And then we have Kyle. We're

784
00:40:22,160 --> 00:40:25,239
Speaker 3: gonna call you, sir Kyle. We'll pick up. We'll call

785
00:40:25,280 --> 00:40:28,800
Speaker 3: you Baron, Kyle, Baron. Kyle writes in and says, hey, boys,

786
00:40:29,000 --> 00:40:31,959
Speaker 3: first time, long time, cool, big fan of the show.

787
00:40:32,000 --> 00:40:34,320
Speaker 3: It happened for years. Just listen to the Stuff film

788
00:40:34,400 --> 00:40:36,759
Speaker 3: episode and heard you guys ask for a little pick

789
00:40:36,760 --> 00:40:39,600
Speaker 3: me up after such heavy subject matter. So here's a

790
00:40:39,680 --> 00:40:42,480
Speaker 3: joke I believe I made up myself, but very well

791
00:40:42,520 --> 00:40:45,239
Speaker 3: could exist already. I came up with it after an

792
00:40:45,239 --> 00:40:47,640
Speaker 3: older friend of mine told me that her father was

793
00:40:47,680 --> 00:40:51,200
Speaker 3: a police officer who had to retire when he got dementia.

794
00:40:51,840 --> 00:40:54,799
Speaker 3: Stand up voice. A police officer with dementia called me

795
00:40:54,840 --> 00:40:57,520
Speaker 3: over the other day. He comes up to the window

796
00:40:57,560 --> 00:41:00,120
Speaker 3: and says, do you know why I pulled you over for?

797
00:41:01,239 --> 00:41:06,880
Speaker 11: Oh, dear, get it? Because he has Oh yeah, okay,

798
00:41:07,239 --> 00:41:09,000
Speaker 11: I get it. It's kind of sad, kind of a

799
00:41:09,040 --> 00:41:11,319
Speaker 11: sad joke that I feel bad for that cop.

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00:41:11,719 --> 00:41:14,279
Speaker 3: Yeah, it is what it's a pretty sad one. So

801
00:41:14,320 --> 00:41:17,040
Speaker 3: here's a lighter one. Kevin from Saint Louis writes in

802
00:41:17,120 --> 00:41:20,040
Speaker 3: and says, hey, gang, I'm listening to yesterday's stuff. They

803
00:41:20,080 --> 00:41:22,960
Speaker 3: don't want you to know, podcasts about snuff films, and

804
00:41:23,000 --> 00:41:26,080
Speaker 3: it's some real heavy. Thanks for the beep, Dylan. I'm

805
00:41:26,080 --> 00:41:28,239
Speaker 3: writing to answer your call to lighten the mood with

806
00:41:28,320 --> 00:41:31,600
Speaker 3: my favorite joke. What's the difference between roast beef and

807
00:41:31,680 --> 00:41:34,920
Speaker 3: pea soup? Anybody can roast.

808
00:41:34,600 --> 00:41:36,520
Speaker 4: Beef, ye.

809
00:41:38,200 --> 00:41:44,760
Speaker 3: Would be.

810
00:41:43,680 --> 00:41:46,040
Speaker 4: Oh no, see, I'm thinking peeing pea soup, so it

811
00:41:46,080 --> 00:41:48,279
Speaker 4: would be green. In my imagining of this.

812
00:41:49,920 --> 00:41:53,319
Speaker 2: Would it be tell us your fresh.

813
00:41:55,480 --> 00:41:58,720
Speaker 3: You have to be careful for something with barley soup?

814
00:41:59,360 --> 00:42:05,239
Speaker 3: Obviously obviously Kevin from sat the answer, The answer is fu.

815
00:42:06,520 --> 00:42:07,319
Speaker 4: The answer.

816
00:42:08,560 --> 00:42:10,120
Speaker 2: Straight up three being chili.

817
00:42:11,000 --> 00:42:21,359
Speaker 12: Oh gosh, just straight straight upon, Kevin says, well, I

818
00:42:21,360 --> 00:42:23,320
Speaker 12: didn't write these, I'm.

819
00:42:23,200 --> 00:42:25,280
Speaker 4: Just talking about passing large objects.

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00:42:26,239 --> 00:42:31,000
Speaker 6: Yes, I hope that brought the mood up a bit,

821
00:42:31,080 --> 00:42:32,400
Speaker 6: says Kevin, And thank you.

822
00:42:32,480 --> 00:42:34,520
Speaker 3: I think it did. Thank you for all you do.

823
00:42:34,680 --> 00:42:36,000
Speaker 3: Keep up the good work.

824
00:42:36,440 --> 00:42:36,560
Speaker 2: Uh.

825
00:42:36,760 --> 00:42:41,240
Speaker 3: And then We've got more that are a little bit more. Gosh,

826
00:42:41,239 --> 00:42:44,080
Speaker 3: We've got so many great pet pictures. Shout out to

827
00:42:44,680 --> 00:42:48,840
Speaker 3: ghost Rock Heart and Penny, the newest addition to their family.

828
00:42:49,440 --> 00:42:54,160
Speaker 3: Shout out to longtime listener Blue Skies, who sent us

829
00:42:54,600 --> 00:43:00,600
Speaker 3: multiple pictures of her cat looking astonished. Look he just

830
00:43:01,040 --> 00:43:04,279
Speaker 3: dumbly surprised, not guilty the way cats often look, but

831
00:43:05,239 --> 00:43:07,600
Speaker 3: looking like you know what he looks like in this picture.

832
00:43:07,680 --> 00:43:11,000
Speaker 3: He looks like that guy who got caught hugging the

833
00:43:11,080 --> 00:43:16,000
Speaker 3: lady at the Coldplay concert. Oh yeah, look, yeah, yeah,

834
00:43:16,080 --> 00:43:18,080
Speaker 3: deer in headlights exactly, but like a kneebelung.

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Speaker 4: I got an Apollo here somewhere, y'all. I think he's

836
00:43:22,160 --> 00:43:23,800
Speaker 4: kind of curled up in a corner. He's so tiny

837
00:43:23,840 --> 00:43:25,800
Speaker 4: I can't find him, but he's here in spirit.

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00:43:26,160 --> 00:43:30,319
Speaker 3: Awesome Shout out to Apollo, Meadow, doctor Vankmin, and of

839
00:43:30,320 --> 00:43:33,680
Speaker 3: course the cat with a thousand names. So we've got

840
00:43:33,719 --> 00:43:37,320
Speaker 3: another letter from Chesapeakachu. We're just running through these quick set,

841
00:43:37,800 --> 00:43:40,720
Speaker 3: right chessap Pikachu. You said, hi fella, as I finished

842
00:43:40,760 --> 00:43:43,200
Speaker 3: this Stuff Films episode and wanted to send some good

843
00:43:43,200 --> 00:43:47,000
Speaker 3: news your way, some very hopeful climate news. I've been

844
00:43:47,000 --> 00:43:49,719
Speaker 3: trying to balance out my feed with hopeful stuff and

845
00:43:49,800 --> 00:43:51,719
Speaker 3: this has really been helping me. And you know what,

846
00:43:51,880 --> 00:43:55,040
Speaker 3: Chesa Pikachu been doing the same. And I think all

847
00:43:55,040 --> 00:43:57,480
Speaker 3: of us in our own ways. Here's the good news

848
00:43:58,160 --> 00:44:03,120
Speaker 3: that you sent us. From good, good, Good co the

849
00:44:03,239 --> 00:44:06,239
Speaker 3: United Nations confirmed that the ozone layer is on track

850
00:44:06,280 --> 00:44:09,719
Speaker 3: to make a full recovery by mid century thanks to

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00:44:09,800 --> 00:44:10,880
Speaker 3: international action.

852
00:44:11,520 --> 00:44:12,280
Speaker 4: That's great news.

853
00:44:12,320 --> 00:44:13,080
Speaker 3: But isn't that great?

854
00:44:13,280 --> 00:44:15,759
Speaker 4: What about all the deregulation. Is that going to set

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00:44:15,840 --> 00:44:16,200
Speaker 4: us back?

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00:44:17,360 --> 00:44:21,400
Speaker 3: That's the question. It's on track, it's not done. But

857
00:44:21,440 --> 00:44:22,800
Speaker 3: that big Oh.

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00:44:22,680 --> 00:44:24,239
Speaker 4: That's amazing. That's a great It's one of the best

859
00:44:24,280 --> 00:44:25,800
Speaker 4: headlines I've heard in weeks.

860
00:44:25,920 --> 00:44:29,480
Speaker 3: That's awesome. Yeah, because we remember we were all around

861
00:44:29,560 --> 00:44:33,279
Speaker 3: at some level when people worried about that big atmospheric

862
00:44:33,280 --> 00:44:37,640
Speaker 3: butthole over the South Pole, just the missing area where

863
00:44:37,640 --> 00:44:41,319
Speaker 3: the ozone should be and how depleted it was, and

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00:44:41,520 --> 00:44:46,320
Speaker 3: luckily collective action on a global level slowly but surely

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Speaker 3: improved the situation.

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Speaker 4: Well, and I would say shout out to Greteth Tunberg

867
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Speaker 4: who just got released as well, who was home safe

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Speaker 4: after being detained in her protests, and Gaza for Gaza

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Speaker 4: and supplying aid. But she's always been a huge part

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Speaker 4: of that discourse that you're talking about, you know. Yeah,

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Speaker 4: it's a bad rap and people she's very divisive to

872
00:45:05,239 --> 00:45:07,279
Speaker 4: some people. But I just think, you know, someone's got

873
00:45:07,280 --> 00:45:08,680
Speaker 4: to screen that stuff from the rooftop.

874
00:45:09,120 --> 00:45:13,160
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's weird when someone's a public figure because sometimes

875
00:45:13,160 --> 00:45:16,720
Speaker 3: you don't really understand the root of why someone dislikes them,

876
00:45:16,880 --> 00:45:20,439
Speaker 3: you know what I mean, Like, there's a lot to it. Also,

877
00:45:20,680 --> 00:45:24,160
Speaker 3: shout out to the other members of the Gaza flotilla

878
00:45:24,280 --> 00:45:27,400
Speaker 3: who have successfully secured their release. We're thinking of a

879
00:45:27,440 --> 00:45:32,160
Speaker 3: lot of veterans from the US Armed Forces. Yeah, and

880
00:45:32,239 --> 00:45:36,800
Speaker 3: also Chesapikachu adds on a personal note that she's started

881
00:45:36,880 --> 00:45:40,960
Speaker 3: volunteering with kittens and sent us pictures of the kittens.

882
00:45:41,200 --> 00:45:45,560
Speaker 3: That's awesome. You close Chesa Pikachu with saying it's cheesy,

883
00:45:45,600 --> 00:45:48,160
Speaker 3: but a better world as possible and things are bad

884
00:45:48,280 --> 00:45:51,920
Speaker 3: but aren't as out of hand as they see. I

885
00:45:51,960 --> 00:45:54,319
Speaker 3: don't know about the last part, Chesapikachu, but I think

886
00:45:55,160 --> 00:45:58,040
Speaker 3: your four pals here can agree that, yes, a better

887
00:45:58,080 --> 00:46:01,640
Speaker 3: world is possible, as she corny as it may sound,

888
00:46:01,760 --> 00:46:04,920
Speaker 3: and I think we're unapologetically cheesy and corny. We're like

889
00:46:04,920 --> 00:46:07,360
Speaker 3: that side dish at the Korean barbecue joint, you know,

890
00:46:07,520 --> 00:46:11,120
Speaker 3: the cheese corn. Yes, it's amazing, it's one of the

891
00:46:11,120 --> 00:46:11,800
Speaker 3: best parts.

892
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Speaker 4: What a great idea.

893
00:46:13,239 --> 00:46:14,560
Speaker 3: We should go get cheesy corn.

894
00:46:14,600 --> 00:46:17,560
Speaker 4: We should go get Korean barbecue. That's a great group activity.

895
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Speaker 3: Yeah, that's an awesome one. We're actually going to do

896
00:46:19,920 --> 00:46:21,920
Speaker 3: that later next week too, or this weekend.

897
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Speaker 4: You're right, we literally booked. They have a Korean barbecue

898
00:46:24,239 --> 00:46:27,719
Speaker 4: steakhouse on the Queen Mary. What's it called again, the

899
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Speaker 4: Valiant Lady.

900
00:46:28,760 --> 00:46:33,319
Speaker 3: Yes, yes, that's a Valiant lady. We also got a

901
00:46:33,360 --> 00:46:36,480
Speaker 3: great bit of trolling. Trolling is one of our favorite

902
00:46:36,560 --> 00:46:39,880
Speaker 3: genres of affection. So thanks to the folks who sent

903
00:46:40,080 --> 00:46:45,800
Speaker 3: us photoshopped pictures of us and they won't really translate

904
00:46:45,840 --> 00:46:49,040
Speaker 3: to audio, but the day was made. We also want

905
00:46:49,080 --> 00:46:51,520
Speaker 3: to give some time to really thoughtful letter we got

906
00:46:51,520 --> 00:46:54,719
Speaker 3: from a guy named Uncle Bosco, and Uncle Bosco's unfortunately

907
00:46:54,760 --> 00:46:58,279
Speaker 3: speaking from some deep experience. He says, my heart goes

908
00:46:58,280 --> 00:47:00,839
Speaker 3: out to you all. Delving into the stuff is quite

909
00:47:00,880 --> 00:47:04,200
Speaker 3: simply detrimental to your wellness. Please don't do this kind

910
00:47:04,280 --> 00:47:06,600
Speaker 3: of research because you feel you have an obligation to

911
00:47:06,680 --> 00:47:09,040
Speaker 3: your listeners. I'm a huge fan of the show and

912
00:47:09,120 --> 00:47:11,560
Speaker 3: of each of you individually, and I look forward to

913
00:47:11,600 --> 00:47:14,759
Speaker 3: each and every episode you release. The reality is, as

914
00:47:14,840 --> 00:47:17,320
Speaker 3: much as your listeners feel close to you, your only

915
00:47:17,360 --> 00:47:21,200
Speaker 3: obligation is to your family, partners, and close friends. This

916
00:47:21,320 --> 00:47:24,080
Speaker 3: kind of material damages people in ways that are very

917
00:47:24,120 --> 00:47:27,920
Speaker 3: difficult or impossible to heal from. Your listeners should not

918
00:47:28,000 --> 00:47:31,400
Speaker 3: take precedence over your ability to be whole people capable

919
00:47:31,400 --> 00:47:34,280
Speaker 3: of fully participating in the lives of your loved ones.

920
00:47:34,840 --> 00:47:37,680
Speaker 3: I've previously told you about the segment of my career

921
00:47:37,840 --> 00:47:41,080
Speaker 3: when I was screening print, video and audio media for

922
00:47:41,160 --> 00:47:45,160
Speaker 3: Obscenity and the decade's long struggle I've had with PTSD.

923
00:47:45,320 --> 00:47:48,560
Speaker 3: Because of this, my family, my wife, and my kids

924
00:47:48,680 --> 00:47:51,360
Speaker 3: all lost out. Because I felt it was my obligation

925
00:47:51,560 --> 00:47:55,080
Speaker 3: to keep doing that work for about fourteen months, it

926
00:47:55,160 --> 00:47:57,839
Speaker 3: was not worth it. I regret that decision every day.

927
00:47:58,360 --> 00:48:00,799
Speaker 3: You guys are amazing, and I truly value all your

928
00:48:00,840 --> 00:48:03,399
Speaker 3: episodes and all the work you all pour into each one.

929
00:48:03,800 --> 00:48:05,840
Speaker 3: I would hate to think you felt obligated to me

930
00:48:05,920 --> 00:48:09,120
Speaker 3: and other listeners to literally put yourself in harm's way.

931
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Speaker 3: So thank you, Thank you very much. There, Uncle Bosco.

932
00:48:13,239 --> 00:48:15,799
Speaker 3: You also didn't leave us without a dope joke. To

933
00:48:15,840 --> 00:48:19,480
Speaker 3: step two, you said, here's a PG rated Halloween themed

934
00:48:19,600 --> 00:48:21,960
Speaker 3: joke for you. Now I didn't. I haven't read this

935
00:48:22,040 --> 00:48:24,520
Speaker 3: one fully, you guys. I thought we could explore together

936
00:48:24,560 --> 00:48:28,200
Speaker 3: on AIRIC. Here we go. Two bees decide to go

937
00:48:28,239 --> 00:48:31,040
Speaker 3: trick or treating and after much debate, they decided to

938
00:48:31,120 --> 00:48:34,080
Speaker 3: dress up as ghost. Off they set on their first

939
00:48:34,080 --> 00:48:37,320
Speaker 3: trick or treating adventure. As they were approaching one house,

940
00:48:37,360 --> 00:48:39,880
Speaker 3: they saw a group of wasp toilet paper a house

941
00:48:40,160 --> 00:48:43,680
Speaker 3: and they immediately decided to clean up the hooligan wasps mess.

942
00:48:44,200 --> 00:48:46,640
Speaker 3: The old praying mantis who lived in the house saw

943
00:48:46,680 --> 00:48:49,360
Speaker 3: the whole thing, and when the two bees finished cleaning

944
00:48:49,440 --> 00:48:52,160
Speaker 3: up and rang the doorbell, the old mantis opened the

945
00:48:52,160 --> 00:48:55,360
Speaker 3: door and said, well, I've never seen such a nice

946
00:48:55,400 --> 00:49:00,800
Speaker 3: pair of boo bees before in all my years. There

947
00:49:01,600 --> 00:49:10,560
Speaker 3: is not a clap slow enough movies. Yeah, and ends

948
00:49:10,560 --> 00:49:12,399
Speaker 3: with Uncle Bosco. You ind with I hope you all

949
00:49:12,400 --> 00:49:15,480
Speaker 3: are doing well. Thanks man. If you struggle with flashbacks,

950
00:49:15,520 --> 00:49:18,840
Speaker 3: please seek professional assistance. I'm a huge supporter of em

951
00:49:18,960 --> 00:49:21,040
Speaker 3: d R, as it was what finally got me on

952
00:49:21,080 --> 00:49:23,839
Speaker 3: the road to recovery. Please take care of yourselves and

953
00:49:24,040 --> 00:49:28,600
Speaker 3: each other. So what a thoughtful message, right, That's very thoughtful,

954
00:49:28,640 --> 00:49:31,399
Speaker 3: and that's this is just a small slice of all

955
00:49:31,440 --> 00:49:35,640
Speaker 3: of the people who have taken the time to taking

956
00:49:35,719 --> 00:49:38,120
Speaker 3: the time from you know, from your own day to

957
00:49:38,800 --> 00:49:41,799
Speaker 3: reach out to us with a message that gives us

958
00:49:41,800 --> 00:49:45,399
Speaker 3: a chuckle or that tells us to keep going. People

959
00:49:45,400 --> 00:49:48,040
Speaker 3: who send us very sincere correspondence with you know, just

960
00:49:48,160 --> 00:49:51,759
Speaker 3: jokes aside, checking in and always welcome to do that.

961
00:49:51,800 --> 00:49:54,920
Speaker 3: We're we're grateful you're here. We're gonna wrap in a moment,

962
00:49:55,400 --> 00:49:59,960
Speaker 3: but before we do, we wanted to share a little

963
00:50:00,080 --> 00:50:04,120
Speaker 3: bit of what we'll call a teaser message from our

964
00:50:04,280 --> 00:50:09,560
Speaker 3: pal Steve. Steve, you say Hi, we're listeners on the show.

965
00:50:09,640 --> 00:50:12,080
Speaker 3: We normally listen to you during drives in the car.

966
00:50:12,320 --> 00:50:14,640
Speaker 3: It's the only podcast I can find that my girlfriend,

967
00:50:14,680 --> 00:50:17,680
Speaker 3: my daughter and I can agree on research and presentations

968
00:50:17,680 --> 00:50:20,560
Speaker 3: on point able to keep our attention. I'll be on

969
00:50:20,680 --> 00:50:23,800
Speaker 3: the cruise with my girlfriend as well as my parents

970
00:50:23,840 --> 00:50:28,200
Speaker 3: and looking forward to seeing and meeting you. Steve also

971
00:50:28,400 --> 00:50:31,640
Speaker 3: has a little bit of a possible surprise while we're

972
00:50:31,680 --> 00:50:34,560
Speaker 3: on board, and Steve will maintain OPSEC We don't want

973
00:50:34,600 --> 00:50:39,000
Speaker 3: to blow up your spot, but we got your back, man.

974
00:50:38,680 --> 00:50:42,120
Speaker 3: We can't wait to see what unfolds.

975
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Speaker 4: Steve.

976
00:50:43,239 --> 00:50:48,560
Speaker 3: You also mentioned the allegations about the Tartarian Empire. The

977
00:50:48,600 --> 00:50:52,360
Speaker 3: Tartarian Empire, as we all remember, is something we explored

978
00:50:52,480 --> 00:50:55,840
Speaker 3: in a previous episode. I can't remember how long ago,

979
00:50:56,320 --> 00:50:59,279
Speaker 3: but do check out. Well, you know what, let's just

980
00:50:59,280 --> 00:51:05,520
Speaker 3: find it. Our Tartarian conspiracy episode came out around this

981
00:51:05,680 --> 00:51:09,680
Speaker 3: time last year or two years ago, guys, Almost exactly

982
00:51:09,760 --> 00:51:12,440
Speaker 3: two years ago to the day. On October eleventh, twenty

983
00:51:12,480 --> 00:51:16,200
Speaker 3: twenty three, we published the Tartarian Conspiracy. Do you guys

984
00:51:16,239 --> 00:51:16,959
Speaker 3: remember that one?

985
00:51:17,080 --> 00:51:17,560
Speaker 9: I do not.

986
00:51:18,719 --> 00:51:20,719
Speaker 2: I do. I remember this very well. We found a

987
00:51:20,719 --> 00:51:23,800
Speaker 2: bunch of video we were sent a bunch of TikTok

988
00:51:23,880 --> 00:51:29,160
Speaker 2: and Instagram videos. I actually shot a social Tartarian like

989
00:51:29,239 --> 00:51:33,040
Speaker 2: conspiracy video that we never published. Guys in New York

990
00:51:33,080 --> 00:51:34,800
Speaker 2: City because you could look around at a bunch of

991
00:51:34,840 --> 00:51:37,920
Speaker 2: buildings and then find the modern ones right, and then

992
00:51:37,920 --> 00:51:40,440
Speaker 2: there's one old construction somewhere amongst them, and you.

993
00:51:40,400 --> 00:51:46,320
Speaker 3: Go, oh, yeah, this is uh yeah, that's a good point.

994
00:51:46,360 --> 00:51:51,240
Speaker 3: Because the Tartarian episode, which I think still holds up. Unfortunately,

995
00:51:51,280 --> 00:51:56,280
Speaker 3: it got weaponized by a lot of very bad faith actors,

996
00:51:56,440 --> 00:51:59,759
Speaker 3: especially in the world of anti Semitism. But at its heart,

997
00:51:59,840 --> 00:52:06,400
Speaker 3: it's really a story about lost empires and architectural conspiracy

998
00:52:06,560 --> 00:52:09,360
Speaker 3: is often called the QAnon of architecture. So if you

999
00:52:09,400 --> 00:52:11,560
Speaker 3: want a neat deep dive that's a little off the

1000
00:52:11,560 --> 00:52:15,279
Speaker 3: beaten path of other conspiracies, do check out our episode

1001
00:52:15,400 --> 00:52:17,399
Speaker 3: on that. We like.

1002
00:52:19,040 --> 00:52:21,680
Speaker 2: It's an alternate Atlantean lo Marian thing.

1003
00:52:22,120 --> 00:52:24,399
Speaker 3: Yeah, exactly, well said. You know, it's all it's all

1004
00:52:24,880 --> 00:52:29,560
Speaker 3: mudslides that bring about the end of that empire. And

1005
00:52:29,719 --> 00:52:32,320
Speaker 3: I remember in the episode, we were trying to figure

1006
00:52:32,320 --> 00:52:37,719
Speaker 3: out where all the confusion originated from initially, and one

1007
00:52:37,760 --> 00:52:40,160
Speaker 3: of the best lines in that episode is, to put

1008
00:52:40,160 --> 00:52:43,680
Speaker 3: it bluntly, a lot of maps sucked at that time

1009
00:52:43,719 --> 00:52:44,280
Speaker 3: in history.

1010
00:52:44,520 --> 00:52:47,680
Speaker 2: Accurate limited, limited maps.

1011
00:52:47,640 --> 00:52:53,120
Speaker 3: Limited maps in both terms of availability and accuracy. So

1012
00:52:53,719 --> 00:52:57,000
Speaker 3: we are going to call it to day. We've got

1013
00:52:57,040 --> 00:53:00,279
Speaker 3: a pack for a trip, We've got an activigate, get

1014
00:53:00,600 --> 00:53:04,439
Speaker 3: so close to the horizon and adventures ahead. We can't

1015
00:53:04,480 --> 00:53:07,600
Speaker 3: wait to hear from you. Thanks to everybody who gave

1016
00:53:07,680 --> 00:53:10,400
Speaker 3: us an email, hit us up online, gave us a call.

1017
00:53:10,600 --> 00:53:13,440
Speaker 3: We'll end with one last joke. Hey guys, why can't

1018
00:53:13,440 --> 00:53:17,600
Speaker 3: you tell kleptomaniac's metaphors because those folks take literally?

1019
00:53:19,040 --> 00:53:23,840
Speaker 4: Oh all right, Regular Amelia Adelias.

1020
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Speaker 3: Thanks to Steve, Thanks to everyone who wrote to us

1021
00:53:27,640 --> 00:53:30,359
Speaker 3: post snuff film, Thanks to Chef Twey, thanks to Sam

1022
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Speaker 3: and Hands Nemesis Mystery Caller, and thanks to you for

1023
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Speaker 3: tuning in with a big thanks to our super producer

1024
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Speaker 3: Dylan Tennessee Paalfagan. We'd love to have you on the

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Speaker 3: show in future explorations. You can give us a call.

1026
00:53:42,360 --> 00:53:44,520
Speaker 3: You can always send us an email. You can always

1027
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Speaker 3: find us on the lines right.

1028
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Speaker 4: You can find us at the handle Conspiracy Stuff on

1029
00:53:48,040 --> 00:53:50,720
Speaker 4: Facebook with our Facebook group Here's where it gets crazy

1030
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Speaker 4: on ex fka, Twitter, and on YouTube. You can also

1031
00:53:54,080 --> 00:53:58,200
Speaker 4: find us the handle Conspiracy Stuff Show on Instagram and TikTok.

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00:53:58,960 --> 00:54:01,279
Speaker 2: We have a phone number. It is one eight three

1033
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Speaker 2: three st d WYTK. When you call in, give yourself

1034
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Speaker 2: a cool nickname and let us know if we can

1035
00:54:07,040 --> 00:54:09,680
Speaker 2: use your name and message within your message. If you'd

1036
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Speaker 2: like to do instead send us an email, you can

1037
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Speaker 2: do that.

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00:54:12,640 --> 00:54:15,680
Speaker 3: We are the entities that read each piece of correspondence

1039
00:54:15,680 --> 00:54:18,920
Speaker 3: we receive. Be well aware yet unafraid. Sometimes the void

1040
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Speaker 3: writes back. It takes everybody writes in to ask for

1041
00:54:22,280 --> 00:54:26,400
Speaker 3: a random fact. We'll give you one proactively right now, folks.

1042
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Speaker 3: The reason that no living political official nor president in

1043
00:54:30,840 --> 00:54:33,320
Speaker 3: the United States can have their face on the currency

1044
00:54:33,680 --> 00:54:38,120
Speaker 3: is entirely because of a Treasury official named Spencer Clark

1045
00:54:38,239 --> 00:54:43,600
Speaker 3: in eighteen sixty six who went wild and put his

1046
00:54:44,280 --> 00:54:46,400
Speaker 3: put his own face on the currency while he was

1047
00:54:46,440 --> 00:54:49,479
Speaker 3: in charge, because Congress sent him a note that just said,

1048
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Speaker 3: put Clark on the bill and they met, of course

1049
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Speaker 3: the famous Clark from Lewis and Clark, William Clark, but

1050
00:54:56,680 --> 00:54:58,840
Speaker 3: Spencer just ran with it. So that's why we can't

1051
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Speaker 3: have you know, Donald Trump or Barack Obama or Bill

1052
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Speaker 3: Clinton on the currency. So for that and more random knowledge,

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Speaker 3: find us out here in the dark Conspiracy at iHeartRadio

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Speaker 2: Stuff they Don't Want you to Know is a production

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