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Speaker 3: This is March tenth, twenty twenty five. If you are
Speaker 3: hearing our Strange news segment as it publishes now full disclosure.
Speaker 3: We wanted to get to this before we dive in
Speaker 3: to our regularly scheduled programming. Guys, we had a run
Speaker 3: of classic episodes quite recently as we were on the road,
Speaker 3: and I can't thank our listeners enough for reaching out
Speaker 3: and just checking in and saying, hey, are you guys okay?
Speaker 3: So if it's all right with you, I think maybe
Speaker 3: we make a little space just to give people the lowdown,
Speaker 3: the quick skinny.
Speaker 4: A dark week, as they say in the industry. Yeah,
Speaker 4: I mean, as honestly, it's one of these things where
Speaker 4: we probably should have foreseen that that was going to
Speaker 4: happen and talked about in advance. But we had all
Speaker 4: the intentions of doubling down and doing all the regular episodes,
Speaker 4: but time zones and travel schedules and things just life,
Speaker 4: you know, got in the way, and so we figured
Speaker 4: this was a reasonable substitute.
Speaker 5: We'd super think everyone for rolling with it.
Speaker 4: But yeah, we were in various places for extended period
Speaker 4: of time, show.
Speaker 5: Related, un show related. Yeah, it was quite quite the adventure.
Speaker 2: Oh yes, our time in New York was fantas you guys.
Speaker 2: We kept talking about that show, and then we put
Speaker 2: on this thing where there's a giant video of propaganda
Speaker 2: stuff from the government playing while Noel and his friends
Speaker 2: played insanely cool music in this space. We got on stage,
Speaker 2: we did a whole live show, We did an amazing
Speaker 2: sketch written by Sir Ben Bolin, then we had an
Speaker 2: interview with an awesome person. It was just a great time.
Speaker 4: Yeah, And I mean Ben's sketch that he wrote is
Speaker 4: sort of like a bit of a send up of
Speaker 4: They Live, but kind of taking it from a visual
Speaker 4: thing with the sunglasses or the glasses that show you
Speaker 4: the truth behind advertising to headphones and an audio.
Speaker 5: Kind of version of that world.
Speaker 4: And had the immense pleasure of kind of doing some
Speaker 4: sound design for it, and we triggered it live with
Speaker 4: like cues, like a play.
Speaker 6: It was really cool, and we're actually going to publish
Speaker 6: the whole thing, complete with the sketch that we're going
Speaker 6: to kind of tweak a little bit for podcast consumption,
Speaker 6: but super excited to for y'all to check that out and.
Speaker 3: Credit where due. Matt, that was your original pitch for
Speaker 3: the for the show. We don't want to we don't
Speaker 3: want to spoil it too too much. Please do tune in.
Speaker 3: As we were saying, Matt, we interview justin Richmond. We
Speaker 3: just can't say enough good about that guy. And we
Speaker 3: can't say enough thankful and you know, grateful stuff about
Speaker 3: everybody who checked in. We haven't gotten black bagged yet.
Speaker 3: I think all of us avoided getting into cults so far. Tonight,
Speaker 3: we're going to learn about some very strange news that
Speaker 3: you may have missed in the headlines. We're going to
Speaker 3: see a teacher with a side gig. We're going to
Speaker 3: explore some dangerous stories about child fighters, severed human hands.
Speaker 3: We're going to go to space at the very end,
Speaker 3: but perhaps for now, just since we're getting back into
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Speaker 3: and then can I introduce you guys to some mice
Speaker 3: I'm really into.
Speaker 5: Only if they're fuzzy. I like mice. They're wooly, That's
Speaker 5: the word I was looking for.
Speaker 3: They're wily mice.
Speaker 5: We'll be right back, all right.
Speaker 3: So, over the years, if you are a longtime listener
Speaker 3: or a fellow nerd, you have perhaps heard of the
Speaker 3: continuing efforts and statements about de extincting certain animals.
Speaker 4: Now, way, I thought of that lately, right, like Winddo's
Speaker 4: coming back apparently, is that right?
Speaker 3: Maybe?
Speaker 5: Okay?
Speaker 3: Yeah? Maybe? And you're you're absolutely right there. No one
Speaker 3: of the continual uh subjects that gets brought up when
Speaker 3: we're talking about de extinction bringing back a species that
Speaker 3: has left this earthly plane. We always talked about mammoths.
Speaker 3: Mammoths are like the cooler version of elephants. Yeah.
Speaker 2: They got the tusks, like the big old tusks.
Speaker 5: Like the Fleetwood Mac album.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and they got that them feet with Wait, how
Speaker 2: does it go the feet with the hoofs fur, then
Speaker 2: the boots.
Speaker 5: With the fur.
Speaker 4: It's the boots with the fur, yes, and the apple
Speaker 4: bottom jeans.
Speaker 5: The whole floor was looking at her. That's the lookly mammoth.
Speaker 3: Yes, yes, very much.
Speaker 2: So.
Speaker 3: Mammoths were around when early humans were very much in
Speaker 3: the game, and mammoths are much larger than the common
Speaker 3: African or Asian elephant you would see today. Humans are
Speaker 3: the reason mammoths are gone. So human civilization has been
Speaker 3: trying to, you know, sort of make up for that
Speaker 3: by bringing mammoths back by leveraging DNA technology and some
Speaker 3: very very smart science to possibly use an elephant as
Speaker 3: a surrogate parent, right, because elephants and mammoths are just
Speaker 3: close enough that, you know, like horses and mules exactly.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but it requires genetic manipulation of the elephants themselves
Speaker 2: over time, the right iterations, then you have mabies. Then
Speaker 2: you alter the genes a little more, and then it's
Speaker 2: a little closer to a mammoth.
Speaker 5: It's weird.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's a growth in increment, right, That's how we
Speaker 3: arrive at mammoth actual. The first iterations, when successful, are
Speaker 3: going to be elephants that are increasingly exhibiting mammoth traits. Right,
Speaker 3: you can't all of a sudden have a mammoth out
Speaker 3: of whole cloth and to understand how this works without
Speaker 3: getting too too deep into the the science here, too
Speaker 3: too deep into the roota begas of those pursuits. We
Speaker 3: can tell you there are other ways to figure out
Speaker 3: or solve for some of these DNA questions. And that's where,
Speaker 3: oddly enough, mice come into the game. Just recently, a
Speaker 3: private company based in Dallas, Texas, called Colossal Biosciences. They
Speaker 3: broke a news cycle, at least for nerds, because they said,
Speaker 3: all right, we're going to sort of do a use case.
Speaker 3: We're going to prove that you can bring certain mammoth
Speaker 3: like traits back into the waking world. And they did
Speaker 3: it not with elephants, which are much more expensive to
Speaker 3: experiment upon. They did it with rodents. This is where
Speaker 3: we get wooly mammoth like mice. They're not mammoth sized mice,
Speaker 3: which would be way cooler and a little more frightening. Instead,
Speaker 3: they have they exhibit the DNA sequences that allowed the
Speaker 3: mammoth to have its amazing tolerance for cold climates.
Speaker 5: What are they for, Ben, What do we need these
Speaker 5: these beasts for funies? Yeah?
Speaker 2: I want some of these guys. Yeah, I want them
Speaker 2: just hanging out in my house.
Speaker 3: Okay, we got to real life Pokemon. You know, here
Speaker 3: at the end of history. If you pull up a
Speaker 3: picture of the wooly mouse, then you'll see, and I
Speaker 3: use this word very rarely, they're just the cutest, you
Speaker 3: know what I mean, Like I I finally figured out
Speaker 3: what cute is, and it's because of the wooly mouse.
Speaker 3: They've got this hu uh. They've got crazy looking uh
Speaker 3: anime esque hair. It's of a lighter blonde, brownish tone.
Speaker 3: They also have a much higher tolerance for cold temperature
Speaker 3: than the colder temperatures than your average garden variety lab mouse.
Speaker 4: Okay, so like they're more resilient in the tundra. So
Speaker 4: I guess we can set them free out there and
Speaker 4: they can make their little mouse willly mouse lives in
Speaker 4: that climate.
Speaker 5: I mean, I guess. I still just don't fully understand
Speaker 5: the point.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and it's a good question. The point is this.
Speaker 3: The point is proving that it is possible to identify
Speaker 3: and mess with certain DNA sequences. So if we take
Speaker 3: the Asian elephant, the closest living relative of the mammoth,
Speaker 3: we immediately have a bunch of hard questions to solve,
Speaker 3: for like, how do we what traits, what sort of
Speaker 3: genetic light switches do we flip on or off to
Speaker 3: get us closer to the mammoth. And in proving this
Speaker 3: or in figuring out if it's feasible at all, this
Speaker 3: company looked at DNA sequences related to the length of hair,
Speaker 3: thickness of hair texture, the amount of body fat, and
Speaker 3: they said, all right, if we can figure out how
Speaker 3: this works in a mouse, maybe we can take the
Speaker 3: same thing that we figured out with the mice or
Speaker 3: the rodent and transfer that to the elephant.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's amazing. They are proving that they can edit
Speaker 2: specific genes and have the outcome right of what they
Speaker 2: want for the elephant to mammoth, and they did it
Speaker 2: in the mice and just being able to change the
Speaker 2: hair that much. If you look at the side by
Speaker 2: side picture and the specific Guardian article that you linked to,
Speaker 2: Ben Sure, it's incredible to see the two different creatures
Speaker 2: that are the same creature, just with a couple of.
Speaker 3: Edits, Yeah, just a few edits away. Still, I think
Speaker 3: their ears look chipped like that because they probably got
Speaker 3: tagged for some sort of material sampling. But if you
Speaker 3: go to the Guardian article by Nicola Davis on March fourth,
Speaker 3: twenty twenty five, you'll see a pretty great breakdown of
Speaker 3: how they look different and why. And I will also
Speaker 3: take us just a step further. You guys gain a
Speaker 3: little conspiratorial here. They might be able to cure baldness
Speaker 3: right at this point, like, uh, baldness in humans if
Speaker 3: you can, if you can mess with us specifically as
Speaker 3: as the company reports, if you can mess with genes
Speaker 3: like FGF five fibroblast growth factor five, or like if
Speaker 3: you can if you could switch that on. If the
Speaker 3: ethics don't stop us, when have they ever? Well, maybe
Speaker 3: we could get at a monkey's pause situation with anybody
Speaker 3: who is uh looking to avoid male pattern baldness. It's
Speaker 3: a Faustian bargain. What if you could get that gene
Speaker 3: switched and you get hair back on the top of
Speaker 3: your head, right, but you also get hair everywhere else.
Speaker 5: I was going to say, werewolf rules, Yeah, from x men,
Speaker 5: I got.
Speaker 2: Plenty of chester here. I don't need any more, thank
Speaker 2: you very much, but I would love some more on
Speaker 2: the top head.
Speaker 4: Do you guys think we're really fast approaching as this
Speaker 4: stuff kind of you know, improves exponentially that boutique gene
Speaker 4: swapping gatica type situation I talked about.
Speaker 5: I think so too.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Unfortunately, I mean approaching.
Speaker 4: Where you stand unfortunately or fort right. I'm wondering how
Speaker 4: you yeah please.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, yeah, I say unfortunately because current sociopolitical regimes
Speaker 3: indicate that early adopters will not necessarily be people who
Speaker 3: need life changing genetic therapy. It will more so be
Speaker 3: people who are already very advantaged in their societies. Right,
Speaker 3: and then the entry point for democratizing that, for getting
Speaker 3: a gadagas situation, as you mentioned, and I love that reference,
Speaker 3: it will be the military. It'll be the one percenters,
Speaker 3: and then it'll be the military, and then we'll have
Speaker 3: just some very weird super soldiers for a couple decades.
Speaker 2: I want to just this is such a weird situation,
Speaker 2: This concept of carrying out these experiments on elephants, yea.
Speaker 2: The lab mice in this, as we talked about in
Speaker 2: previous episodes, are bred by companies. You know, thousands, hundreds
Speaker 2: of thousands, millions of these mice are bred by companies
Speaker 2: across the world to be experimented on. And many of
Speaker 2: them who are experimented on don't make it. And that's
Speaker 2: kind of a that's kind of the thing, or at
Speaker 2: least they don't make it out very well, right, The
Speaker 2: experiment goes a little a little awry. And that's the
Speaker 2: case in this situation too, where you know, I think
Speaker 2: they said, well, here's a quote from Beth Shapiro, the
Speaker 2: chief science officer of Colossal. She said, the efficacy of
Speaker 2: the edits varied, but many individuals were one hundred percent
Speaker 2: for all attempted edits. But now imagine doing those kinds
Speaker 2: of edits on elephants. There aren't that many of them, right, l.
Speaker 3: Not with that attitude, now, okiddy, we could. You're right,
Speaker 3: You're right. The elephants, the elephant populations are endangered. I
Speaker 3: love that you're mentioning Beth Shapiro in full disclosure. The paper,
Speaker 3: the paper on this, like the paper of note, has
Speaker 3: yet to be published, but people have people have read this,
Speaker 3: People like Robin Lovell Badge, who is head of stem
Speaker 3: cell Biology and Developmental Genetics Laboratory over at the Francis
Speaker 3: Crick Institute in London. Krick is famous for his work
Speaker 3: with DNA. Just side reference there. One thing that level
Speaker 3: Badge points out is that we still don't know the
Speaker 3: full extent of this genetic futsery, right. We still don't
Speaker 3: know whether in generation two or generation three there will
Speaker 3: be some kind of Shyamalan plot twist hidden in the DNA,
Speaker 3: because right now, as we record, public knowledge tells us
Speaker 3: that it's less like flipping one switch to immediately give somebody,
Speaker 3: say green eyes right or higher than average bone density. Instead,
Speaker 3: you flip one switch and it triggers a number of
Speaker 3: still unknown other related switches. So the jury's out, and
Speaker 3: it's going to be expensive to use elephants as a
Speaker 3: way to bridge the gap toward mammoths, but hopefully it happens.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it would be cool. But they are only dealing
Speaker 2: with the what the cosmetic changes, right, the things that
Speaker 2: alter the way the body functions. They're not altering the
Speaker 2: behavioral stuff like, and nobody knows what a welly mammoth does,
Speaker 2: how is it different from an elephant? And what do
Speaker 2: you got to change to get that?
Speaker 3: Right? What would be for instance, how would they interact
Speaker 3: with smell, right or other sensory input. Those are those
Speaker 3: are questions that are much more complicated to answer, and hopefully,
Speaker 3: hopefully we get there, you know what I mean. I
Speaker 3: don't know. I don't know how expensive it is to
Speaker 3: launch an experiment with elephants in particular. I do know
Speaker 3: that we I'm going to do a quick segue here,
Speaker 3: just because of we're running in time. I do know
Speaker 3: that we're seeing some exciting times with human and animal
Speaker 3: interactions overall. By the way, you guys, we did successfully
Speaker 3: call it. Rising egg prices in the United States have
Speaker 3: sparked a trend of renting chickens called.
Speaker 2: It makes sense, makes total sense on points.
Speaker 5: As per usual, I.
Speaker 2: Went to my local publics and they literally didn't have
Speaker 2: eggs except for the little tiny containers that have six
Speaker 2: and they were crazy expensive, and there were literally four
Speaker 2: of those containers on the shelf when I went with
Speaker 2: my son.
Speaker 3: Did you pick any up?
Speaker 2: Yeah, we needed eggs.
Speaker 5: It's funny.
Speaker 4: At the leadle near my house where I shop, they
Speaker 4: had plenty of eggs, but there was a two per
Speaker 4: customer maximum, and so of course I bought two and
Speaker 4: then my dear friend was over for dinner who was
Speaker 4: a huge egg fan, and I offered her one of
Speaker 4: my two dozen eggs and she was thrilled.
Speaker 3: Taking the relationship to the next thing. Yeah, yeah, I
Speaker 3: got you some eggs.
Speaker 5: Uh huh.
Speaker 7: You know bl frym sprambloom, make one of those things
Speaker 7: out of a cardboard and you drop from the top
Speaker 7: of a building like in a science class with them.
Speaker 5: No, that's no, they're too precious for that.
Speaker 3: We know this is happening in New Hampshire. At least
Speaker 3: you go to the BBC. There's a great video and
Speaker 3: article up there now from a couple of days ago.
Speaker 3: Christine and Brian Templeton of golf Town or Joffstown, New Hampshire,
Speaker 3: have created a business called Rent the Chicken. They say, look,
Speaker 3: we will give you hens and we will feed the hens.
Speaker 3: We'll teach you how to not let them die. We'll
Speaker 3: rent them out for six months and during that six
Speaker 3: month period for about six hundred bucks, you can collect
Speaker 3: all the fresh eggs that you wish or that these
Speaker 3: chickens will produce. For the record, if you're looking at
Speaker 3: one hen, that's about six eggs a week per them.
Speaker 3: So two hens can produce a dozen eggs per week,
Speaker 3: and then you have to do the math, like, at
Speaker 3: what point does the grocery store become so expensive that
Speaker 3: one hundred bucks a month for a lot of eggs
Speaker 3: makes more financial sense, dude?
Speaker 2: And then you can have a side hustle with eggs,
Speaker 2: you know, like imagine the people who would flock I'm
Speaker 2: using that word on purpose to your hour to get.
Speaker 5: Them eggs behind you, guys.
Speaker 4: I was recently rewatching some old Simpsons episodes on a flight,
Speaker 4: and there's an episode where Homer gets the idea of
Speaker 4: collecting grease. He wants to become a grease smogule, and
Speaker 4: in order to do that, he just buys all this
Speaker 4: bacon and just saves the grease. And then Barna informs
Speaker 4: him that he is spending way more money on bacon
Speaker 4: than he could possibly ever make with grease. So I
Speaker 4: think being an egg mogul this is definitely superior than
Speaker 4: being a grease mogul.
Speaker 5: For now, I yield by time.
Speaker 3: For now, there's always a hustle, right, There's always there's
Speaker 3: always something happening as we record. Right now, the United
Speaker 3: States government is considering literally selling off a ton of
Speaker 3: government buildings, so we see the rise of the wooly mice.
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Speaker 3: a cavalcade of other news you may have missed.
Speaker 4: And we have returned with the aforementioned cavalcade that was
Speaker 4: promised by Ben.
Speaker 5: I'm going to make good on that, buddy, I don't know.
Speaker 4: I'll start with a couple of weird ones. I guess
Speaker 4: all three of these are weird, but some are a
Speaker 4: little more upsetting. Than weird, So we'll start with the.
Speaker 5: Yeah, still slightly upsetting but weird story out of Ireland.
Speaker 4: A bird flying over a school yard apparently dropped some
Speaker 4: human remains onto a playground.
Speaker 5: Very David Lynchian, y'all.
Speaker 4: This sounds like the inciting incident of like some sort
Speaker 4: of weird, spooky artsy noir film like Blue Velvet that
Speaker 4: starts with like the severed year being found. The remains
Speaker 4: in question a human hand, which was discovered at a
Speaker 4: schoolyard in Ireland and is thought to have belonged I'm
Speaker 4: sorry this is also upsetting, belonged to a child according.
Speaker 3: To Yeah, this is like a twelve year old male.
Speaker 4: That's correct, that potentially was injured significantly in a gasoline
Speaker 4: can explosion, is what I've seen in some of the
Speaker 4: chatter on Reddit.
Speaker 5: I don't know that that's been confirmed yet.
Speaker 4: In the statement that People Magazine received, the National Police
Speaker 4: and Security Service of Ireland, the guide is Guard Yeah
Speaker 4: exactly said that they were alerted to the discovery of
Speaker 4: partial human remains at a premises in Darndale, Dublin on Friday,
Speaker 4: Dale Darlin, Darndale, Dale, Darndale, Dublin.
Speaker 3: Guys, Okay, so far be it for me to make
Speaker 3: light of the surely storied history of Darndale, Dublin. But
Speaker 3: Darndale is just an amazing name.
Speaker 5: It's fantastic.
Speaker 4: I wanted to point that that sounds like it should
Speaker 4: be a neighbor of Springfield in Shelbyville.
Speaker 5: You know, you darn Darndale.
Speaker 3: Sticking with this, it's my new It's gonna be my
Speaker 3: new curse word substitution. Instead of damn it, I'll just
Speaker 3: say Darndale, yeah, or you could say Shucksville, you know.
Speaker 4: The statement did add according to people that the state
Speaker 4: pathologist was told about this discovery and the body part
Speaker 4: was removed for examination and DNA analysis which will help
Speaker 4: the police organization and confirming the identity and determine the
Speaker 4: course of the investigation.
Speaker 5: It does remain ongoing.
Speaker 4: When this was dropped by a bird on the schoolyard
Speaker 4: at around ten thirty am local time, there were fortunately no
Speaker 4: children at play. They were off on break for their
Speaker 4: midterm break. Yeah to your point. Been The Irish Independent
Speaker 4: reported that the severed hand displayed signs of injury and
Speaker 4: may have belonged to a local twelve year old boy
Speaker 4: who was injured from a gas can explosion the evening before.
Speaker 4: And you know, I was actually listening to this podcast
Speaker 4: that I enjoy where I heard this. It's called weird
Speaker 4: af News with Jonesy. Check it out. It's fun. And
Speaker 4: he pointed out that like, well, actually in real time,
Speaker 4: like asked the question and then discovered the answer. I know,
Speaker 4: you can reattach fingers. Can you reattach an entire hand?
Speaker 4: And there is a procedure for doing that, although the
Speaker 4: mobility and full you know, motor functioning of the hand
Speaker 4: would be severely.
Speaker 3: Limited, and it's super time sensitive, very time sensitives.
Speaker 4: At that point, it does say likely this injury occurred
Speaker 4: the night before, so you know, forensics surely, you know,
Speaker 4: took the hand from the scene, and I would imagine
Speaker 4: did anything they could to preserve it, knowing that they knew.
Speaker 5: So hopefully it's returned to its young owner. I mean, gosh, do.
Speaker 3: We know what kind of bird?
Speaker 5: Though no, no indication was to these species of.
Speaker 4: Bird we're talking about here, I'm picturing a very like
Speaker 4: an African swallow maybe two towing it on a line.
Speaker 3: I'm picturing something carnivorous, right, because we know raptors in Ireland.
Speaker 3: I think there are also some vultures, but its in
Speaker 3: eagle Yeah, eagle hawk raptors. Yeah, like there wouldn't be
Speaker 3: an owl would probably not be interacting at that point. Uh,
Speaker 3: you know they're they're kind of night boys.
Speaker 5: So yeah.
Speaker 4: Some of the some of the comments on the People
Speaker 4: magazine website, which they make very clear that they do
Speaker 4: not endorse the opinions and views shared by readers in comments.
Speaker 4: One of the very first ones man after my own heart,
Speaker 4: person human after my own heart. How very David Lynch.
Speaker 4: But then this one I find very fascinating. Did the
Speaker 4: bird eat the child? There is little transparency in the story.
Speaker 4: We have no idea if this builder is a type
Speaker 4: of raptor or not, nor did we know how young,
Speaker 4: slash small the child was. Raptors like eagles and hawks
Speaker 4: are large enough to snatch up children under four years old.
Speaker 5: Good points.
Speaker 4: Oh, also, I know, I know it is a little
Speaker 4: finger wagging at people, which, by the way, our dear
Speaker 4: friend Jordan Rundog yes, used to I believe right for people.
Speaker 4: I'm not sure if he was a staff writer or not,
Speaker 4: but I mentioned to him how lately people like I
Speaker 4: don't know if you guys see this or follow it
Speaker 4: or it pops up on any of your feeds. But people,
Speaker 4: the species are the mag people the magazine mainly are
Speaker 4: focusing these days on the darkest, most bummer of stories.
Speaker 4: And I think he said that there's an inside joke
Speaker 4: among folks that maybe have worked there that I think
Speaker 4: they refer to it as like sad people or.
Speaker 5: Something like that.
Speaker 4: But AnyWho, I did think that was a bizarre and
Speaker 4: Lynchian story that I just wanted to lead with, so
Speaker 4: nothing much to maybe discuss there, much more so in
Speaker 4: these other stories, the second of which also involves a school.
Speaker 5: Actually, all three.
Speaker 4: Of my stories today involve strange occurrences at schools. In
Speaker 4: this next one, a teacher at a Salinas County school
Speaker 4: was put on leave and has apparently returned to the
Speaker 4: classroom after being accused of selling test enhancing pills to students.
Speaker 4: This is a tricky story, and there's no name's name,
Speaker 4: which I think is good because this is kind of
Speaker 4: like a situation where there could be some I don't know,
Speaker 4: maybe someone trying to get this teacher in trouble. Maybe
Speaker 4: there's a grudge or something we don't know, But a
Speaker 4: lot of this information comes from text messages that were
Speaker 4: received from a particular student by their parents. A high
Speaker 4: school math teacher in California. This is coming from fourteen
Speaker 4: news dot Com was on leave and under investigation for
Speaker 4: allegedly trying to sell pills to his students. I'm getting
Speaker 4: these messages from my daughter that her teacher is selling
Speaker 4: drugs in classroom to enhance homework and test performance, and
Speaker 4: I just thought, maybe she's taking it out of context,
Speaker 4: said the student's mother, who didn't want to be named
Speaker 4: or named their child, of course, and goes on to
Speaker 4: say this is appalling. There is no way a teacher
Speaker 4: is doing this, to put that onto teenagers who are
Speaker 4: still learning, their brains are still developing, and you're normalizing
Speaker 4: drug use within a classroom in the middle of a
Speaker 4: fentanyl crisis. It's absurd. The lack of judgment to me
Speaker 4: is astounding. So if true, if these were in fact
Speaker 4: active ingredient containing narcotics of some kind, stimulants, whatever, all
Speaker 4: of that holds true, and the judgment or lack thereof
Speaker 4: point also holds true. In this alternate scenario which the
Speaker 4: police have put forth, that it's possible that this was
Speaker 4: just a silly joke the teacher was playing. Apparently, when
Speaker 4: one student asked the teacher what was in the pills,
Speaker 4: the teacher said it was a secret.
Speaker 3: Okay, fast forward to court your order, I plead.
Speaker 4: Silly joke, yeah exactly, And I was selling the tests
Speaker 4: or sorry, I believe the.
Speaker 5: Study homework enhancing variety and.
Speaker 4: The test enhancing variety five and ten, respectively dollars American
Speaker 4: list price though sorry more so five for homework, twenty
Speaker 4: five for test dancing. Yeah, and also recommended taking fifteen
Speaker 4: a week for maximum ethics.
Speaker 5: Yeah. I asked what is in them?
Speaker 4: The text message to the parent that screenshot it here,
Speaker 4: and he said it's a secret. So even if silly joke, y'all,
Speaker 4: the point about the a fentanyl epidemic and normalizing drug use,
Speaker 4: we know a lot of young people take things like
Speaker 4: riddling off label, you know, literally black market so that
Speaker 4: they can grind out studying with all the pressure that's
Speaker 4: put on tests, on these high high pressure tests. So
Speaker 4: to have a teacher even as a joke whatever, they
Speaker 4: were really awful.
Speaker 3: That's also three hundred and seventy five dollars a month
Speaker 3: just for the test enhancement pills. If it's if you
Speaker 3: have to take at least fifteen and they are twenty
Speaker 3: five US dollars of pop, right, that's three hundred and
Speaker 3: seventy five US dollars. That's egregious. Sell cheaper drugs, oh,
Speaker 3: one hundred percent.
Speaker 4: And I tend to believe the idea that this was
Speaker 4: some sort of.
Speaker 5: Off the you know, off the joke.
Speaker 4: Yeah, but like, yeah, I don't think any money exchanged hands, y'all.
Speaker 4: But the point remains from another teacher, another a student's parent. Now,
Speaker 4: if they see a teacher joking, even joking about that
Speaker 4: kind of situation, then what kind of example is that
Speaker 4: setting for our children?
Speaker 5: I think it's atrocious. He doesn't know these children's.
Speaker 4: Medical history, he doesn't know what their allergies are, and
Speaker 4: he's hawking a secret pill that they could then take
Speaker 4: and something really horrible could happen.
Speaker 5: Again, I think it was.
Speaker 4: More of like a gag where he would never actually
Speaker 4: have given them to the students. But not very smart
Speaker 4: on the part of the teacher, even if he like,
Speaker 4: what's the joke there, what's the teachable moment there?
Speaker 5: It's just pretty gross.
Speaker 4: Like in terms of the normalization of drugs, with the
Speaker 4: implication there of saying, you know, it's just an authority figure.
Speaker 5: I don't know.
Speaker 2: Well, it's also a story that was told to a
Speaker 2: parent by a student, right right. And the official update
Speaker 2: that was given by the principal of the school is
Speaker 2: that the Salina's police department and the human resources department
Speaker 2: of the school work together investigated and they quote found
Speaker 2: no findings in the staff member is returning to the campus.
Speaker 3: I saw that, yeah, And it's also it's also perhaps
Speaker 3: if we game it through, it could be one of
Speaker 3: those things where the teacher is making a joke that
Speaker 3: gets taken out of context or gets extrapolated beyond its
Speaker 3: original scope. And maybe the whole answer was the reason
Speaker 3: I'm bringing up the math here. Maybe the whole answer was,
Speaker 3: if you can't afford the pills, I have something that's
Speaker 3: even better than drugard, which is studying. And here are
Speaker 3: some resources. Because look, we are severely pro teacher and
Speaker 3: pro education on stuff they don't want you to know.
Speaker 3: We have close family members who are or were during
Speaker 3: their lives educators. Of note, Teachers are not in it
Speaker 3: for the money, you know what I mean, not like
Speaker 3: those fancy guys do an improv comedy. They're in it
Speaker 3: because they want to make the world a better place,
Speaker 3: and usually they're going to have a great sense of humor,
Speaker 3: very approachable people. They just worked so hard, can't we though?
Speaker 4: Agree though, Like, I'm not trying to throw any teachers
Speaker 4: under the bus here that even if this were a
Speaker 4: joke and it did have the teachable kind of punch
Speaker 4: line that you're describing, ben just a little in poor
Speaker 4: taste given the situation, the circumstances that we're living in.
Speaker 3: Yeah, sure, yeah, yeah, I'm.
Speaker 2: Just skeptical that it happened at all.
Speaker 5: I agree with you there too, Matt. I do agree
Speaker 5: with you there too.
Speaker 4: It does sound like the main source was one student,
Speaker 4: So I'm really sorry if I made this blew this
Speaker 4: out of proportion. I just thought even the reporting of
Speaker 4: it is interesting. But yeah, I certainly was never implying
Speaker 4: that I thought this actually happened, or that there was
Speaker 4: a teacher slinging drugs per se. But yeah, no, I
Speaker 4: think it's a very good point. Although sure is specific,
Speaker 4: isn't it, Like I mean, the kid was saying it
Speaker 4: was in a plastic baggie, there are two different ones.
Speaker 4: Had the price point I mean, if you're going to
Speaker 4: make up a lie about a teacher, like it's an
Speaker 4: odd one.
Speaker 3: Let's go to TikTok, which is clearly the world's number
Speaker 3: one source of unbiased, fact based news, and let's see
Speaker 3: what TikTok says.
Speaker 5: Yes, absolutely, and.
Speaker 3: If we're all are doing bad, if we're od TikTok, right,
Speaker 3: maybe maybe we could check out another true story you found,
Speaker 3: which is of definitely not a bad joke, but no
Speaker 3: arguably something that is a much more dangerous conspiracy.
Speaker 4: Really rough, guys, I don't know if you remember, there's
Speaker 4: a series of like underground like internet videos called.
Speaker 5: Bum fight Fights. Yeah, back in the day, it was
Speaker 5: just awful.
Speaker 4: It was literally, you know, folks rounding up unhoused people
Speaker 4: and paying them money to like beat the crap out
Speaker 4: of each other. And apparently something like that, it's very
Speaker 4: much been happening. And another the last story was in California.
Speaker 4: This is in another I guess not really an educational facility,
Speaker 4: but a you know, child youth detention centers I guess
Speaker 4: what you might call it for juv for a juvie
Speaker 4: one hundred percent. And there have been reports more than reports, actually,
Speaker 4: there have been indictments or at the very least arraignments.
Speaker 4: In a case of officials there, I guess what you
Speaker 4: would call security staff that type of position. I've apparently
Speaker 4: been encouraging young people inside its facility in Downey, California
Speaker 4: to fight each other in gladiator style battles. Thirty officers
Speaker 4: have been charged in connection with what are being called
Speaker 4: by the BBC gladiator fights they sometimes encouraged inside of
Speaker 4: California Youth Center. According to the state's Attorney General. Charges
Speaker 4: against them are including child endangerment, abuse, conspiracy, and battery.
Speaker 4: And that's according to Attorney General Rob Bonta's official press
Speaker 4: release that came out this week. There have been an
Speaker 4: estimated sixty nine fights documented at Los Padrinos Juvenile Hall
Speaker 4: there in Downy from July to December of twenty twenty three,
Speaker 4: and an investigation into these brawls started after footage from
Speaker 4: one of these fights was leaked, which led to officials
Speaker 4: discovering one hundred and forty three victims involved in this
Speaker 4: organized fighting, ranging from ages twelve to eighteen years old.
Speaker 5: Wow, that's just not good man.
Speaker 2: No, it does make me wonder. Okay, do you guys
Speaker 2: have the thing where if you're in a really bad
Speaker 2: mood or you're feeling down, a little bit of aggression,
Speaker 2: like getting out a little bit of aggression actually helps
Speaker 2: stabilize your mood. Is that I think you either.
Speaker 4: Hit like a heavy bag or a willing participant, you
Speaker 4: know what I mean, or it's lift some weights or
Speaker 4: something and not be coerced by you know, youth detention
Speaker 4: officials to beat the crap out of my fellow you
Speaker 4: know kids.
Speaker 5: Sorry, I know that's not what you're doing. I know
Speaker 5: that's not what you're suggesting, Matt.
Speaker 2: I just yeah, what I'm suggesting is I wonder if
Speaker 2: some kind of like martial arts training with the mental
Speaker 2: and like almost quasi spiritual thing that goes into that
Speaker 2: training would be a massive benefit for chill who are
Speaker 2: in detention centers like this, where you get that that
Speaker 2: training and you get aggression out in a you know,
Speaker 2: a positive way.
Speaker 4: It teaches you how to focus it differently and also
Speaker 4: how to respect it. And if my understanding of you know,
Speaker 4: those kinds of classes for young people, it's a lot
Speaker 4: of it. It's about knowing when you know how to
Speaker 4: pick your battles and using it as a last resort.
Speaker 4: And having respect for your opponent and things like that, right.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and for your teacher. So I do, yeah, I
Speaker 2: want all right, just quote.
Speaker 4: Just to give you more of a sense of it.
Speaker 4: It does seem like these videos where it's not clear
Speaker 4: yet as to whether they were being sold or streamed
Speaker 4: or whatever. But watching the videos from that press release
Speaker 4: from Bonta, the Attorney General, the officers look more like
Speaker 4: referees or audience members at a prize fight, not adults
Speaker 4: charged with the care.
Speaker 5: And supervision of young people.
Speaker 4: The officers don't step in, don't intervene, and don't protect
Speaker 4: their charges. Our department is coming from the La County
Speaker 4: Probation Department, which runs the facility, says our department sought
Speaker 4: the assistance of law enforcement authorities when misconduct was discovered.
Speaker 4: Since then, we have fully collaborated with our law enforcement partners.
Speaker 5: Two of the teens.
Speaker 4: Involved have hired lawyers and they're you know, this is
Speaker 4: obviously a really sticky situation for the county, you know,
Speaker 4: and the authorities they're running the facility. So yeah, one
Speaker 4: of the teens was seen being attacked in one of
Speaker 4: the videos, a sixteen year old, and this is a
Speaker 4: person who is being represented by a lawyer named Jamal Tewson,
Speaker 4: who also said the other teams he represented were attacked
Speaker 4: multiple times in a single day at the facility, one
Speaker 4: of the clients being left unconscious and with potential TBIs
Speaker 4: or traumatic brain injuries. Pretty nasty stuff, y'all. So I
Speaker 4: think that's my time. If anybody, I don't know, if
Speaker 4: you can ben any thoughts on teen fighting rings.
Speaker 3: Yeah, many co co combat is non ideal, and there's
Speaker 3: a long historical precedent of it, so maybe it's something
Speaker 3: we explore in the future.
Speaker 4: Unfortunately, good point, and it probably you know, it's not
Speaker 4: something I really thought about until I saw this story,
Speaker 4: But I imagine in places where there is less oversight, man,
Speaker 4: mar you know, we've just been talking about that region
Speaker 4: a lot lately. If this kind of thing isn't even
Speaker 4: more widespread, like if there's human trafficking for the purposes
Speaker 4: of ill gotten gains, this could well be a thing
Speaker 4: that people are doing.
Speaker 5: You know, I don't know, it just occurs to me.
Speaker 4: Let us take a quick break here, a word from
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Speaker 4: strange news from mister Frederick.
Speaker 2: We've returned guys, are you as stoked as I am
Speaker 2: for lunar commerce?
Speaker 3: You absolutely know I am. It's unfair for you to
Speaker 3: ask me on air, but yeah, I actually almost texted
Speaker 3: text to you guys with some of the I don't know.
Speaker 3: We should call them big wins, right, these are big wins.
Speaker 3: Just the math of getting to the Moon is crazy.
Speaker 2: This is massive, you guys. It's almost mass effect level massive.
Speaker 2: We're on the moon. A private company has successfully landed
Speaker 2: a lander on the Moon. It was in orbit around
Speaker 2: the Moon. It was on autopilot, then it went into
Speaker 2: autopilot landing mode, and it successfully with all of its tripods,
Speaker 2: landed on the Moon.
Speaker 3: It is the first.
Speaker 2: Time a private company has put a spacecraft on the
Speaker 2: Moon without you know, immediately crashing or falling over and
Speaker 2: being able to use its instruments the way it wanted to. That.
Speaker 3: We know about. That, we know about We have to
Speaker 3: say that just you're right, get in front of it.
Speaker 2: You're right, you're right. But this is super We're exciting.
Speaker 2: It happened the last Sunday as we're recording right now,
Speaker 2: March second. The company's name is Firefly Aerospace. The lander
Speaker 2: is called the Blue Ghost which is kind of cool
Speaker 2: to named after a rare species of firefly.
Speaker 5: Just kind of dope. They kind of missed the opportunity
Speaker 5: to call it space ghost.
Speaker 3: Oh that's a really good point.
Speaker 5: I don't know, I'm just saying blue ghost.
Speaker 3: That's a really good point, though. Somebody right to.
Speaker 5: Them for that comment. Card. Sorry, Matt carry Out.
Speaker 2: I watched the clip this morning of Conan on Space
Speaker 2: Ghost Coast. Yeah, the space ghost sees a little ant
Speaker 2: and is crawling on him and he shoots it and
Speaker 2: he's like, you know, destroys the ant, and there's another
Speaker 2: ant and he says, oh, the ant has returned. The
Speaker 2: ghost ant is to avenge his brother or to avenge
Speaker 2: himself or whatever.
Speaker 5: Any what a weird and wonderful show. Glorious.
Speaker 2: Okay, but back to space in the moon. This is huge,
Speaker 2: you guys, because this thing was carrying a drill, a
Speaker 2: vacum and quote other experiments for NASA, and it was
Speaker 2: the first successful attempt in NASA's very interesting thing they've
Speaker 2: got going on right now called the Commercial Lunar Payload
Speaker 2: Services Program, which is attempting to get a bunch of
Speaker 2: private companies to compete with each other to get to
Speaker 2: the Moon and get that science slash commerce going very
Speaker 2: very again. I can't I can't overemphasize how awesome it
Speaker 2: is that this happened. You can watch a video that
Speaker 2: was edited from footage that this thing, the Blue Ghost
Speaker 2: took as it descended from orbit and landed on the Moon,
Speaker 2: and it's we're talking four K footage, baby, We're talking.
Speaker 2: It looks like what you imagine a mood landing should
Speaker 2: look like. And I'm just assuming it's real. I have
Speaker 2: to assume it's all real. It's cool, it's it's just
Speaker 2: for sure happened.
Speaker 3: It is real because just just Freddy who's asking clearly
Speaker 3: a valid question. You can go to multiple non biased
Speaker 3: objective sources for nerds who study the sky, the launches
Speaker 3: confirmed they got to the correct point. Their incredibly difficult
Speaker 3: math turned out to work this time. And even at
Speaker 3: that point, by the way human civilization, the smartest humans
Speaker 3: who know who spent their lives just tried to get
Speaker 3: to the Moon, they're still sort of rolling the dice.
Speaker 3: This is bleeding edge science, and the point you're bringing
Speaker 3: up here, Matt, is something we talked about in previous episodes,
Speaker 3: as well as strange news and listener mail. The monetization
Speaker 3: is the tricky thing, right. The pure science is being
Speaker 3: funded at least partially because there are some entities that
Speaker 3: expect some kind of financial return. Whatever the time window
Speaker 3: is on that ROI, there are clear realistic expectations that
Speaker 3: something will work out.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's one big old investment in this one lander,
Speaker 2: in this one company. NASA chucked out one hundred and
Speaker 2: forty five million dollars to make it happen, to launch it,
Speaker 2: and they paid forty four million in total for the
Speaker 2: science and tech on board, one hundred and one million
Speaker 2: for the delivery itself, which is still mind bonded, mind
Speaker 2: bogglingly expensive to get this thing to happen, but worth
Speaker 2: it because of the investment. We talked about how it
Speaker 2: carried a vacuum in a drill. The vacuum is to
Speaker 2: study moon dirt for analysis.
Speaker 5: Moon dirt, I don't funny.
Speaker 2: Moon dirt and debris and just the dust particles were
Speaker 2: a massive problem for the Apollo astronauts for those missions.
Speaker 2: If they actually happened, I think they did, maybe I
Speaker 2: don't know. So they're gonna analyze the dirt. See how
Speaker 2: we can mitigate that dirt in future missions, right how
Speaker 2: it's everywhere, Yeah, yeah, and even I think it has
Speaker 2: a special thing on board to cleanse itself of the
Speaker 2: moon dirt, which is pretty dope.
Speaker 3: Clean yourself up, Moonlander.
Speaker 2: Because it gets in all the sensors, it gets in
Speaker 2: all the cracks and all the things you don't want
Speaker 2: that in there. But it also carried a drill to
Speaker 2: go down about ten feet below the surface to study
Speaker 2: temperatures of the Moon's surface, which is pretty cool. And
Speaker 2: there's end quote other experiments for NASA, so we don't
Speaker 2: know what those are. It reminds me of the X
Speaker 2: thirty seven B. There's experiments on board for science.
Speaker 3: X thirty seven B finally got back on social media.
Speaker 2: That's kind of tight, isn't Oh yes, we're gonna talk
Speaker 2: about a picture that was shared in just a moment
Speaker 2: that was foreshadowing.
Speaker 5: Isn't that the name of Elon Musk and Grimes's baby.
Speaker 2: X thirty seven B does a joke, does a little joke.
Speaker 2: That's an awesome name.
Speaker 5: Oh no, it's basically that it's very close to that
Speaker 5: as it's actually something.
Speaker 4: It's they call him X for Shorty was the little
Speaker 4: little guy that was in the White House that said
Speaker 4: SpaceX we do whatever we want and you can't stop us,
Speaker 4: or whatever.
Speaker 5: He said, I shall.
Speaker 2: Name my child after this unmanned space shuttle that can
Speaker 2: stay in these It's like x A.
Speaker 3: E A dash XII.
Speaker 4: It's like the AE and on Ama by tool. It's
Speaker 4: that little I guess it's Greek.
Speaker 5: Yeah, also true, Yes, callback then I love flux.
Speaker 3: But as we're saying, this is a perhaps most perhaps
Speaker 3: most honestly this private entities partnership with one of the
Speaker 3: premier public entities and all of space exploration, perhaps it's
Speaker 3: best seen as a harbinger. Someone's doing the homework here,
Speaker 3: and I love Matt that we are more than once
Speaker 3: pointing out the vague, the vague reference to miscellaneous instruments,
Speaker 3: which probably means they're at a little bit too complicated
Speaker 3: to describe in a clean sentence for we land lubbers. Sure,
Speaker 3: maybe maybe there's stuff like spectrograph analysis. I'm just gonna
Speaker 3: throw some more science words, like what's a really science
Speaker 3: you word?
Speaker 5: Mitochondria? You got mitochondria is great?
Speaker 3: They got a mitochondria reader in cephalopathologic or gravitational The Jonkers.
Speaker 2: Well, see, I think you need some kind of microphones
Speaker 2: on there to study the lunar songs that the Apollo
Speaker 2: astronauts heard, because we got to figure out what the
Speaker 2: heck's going on there.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, hopefully they're doing a podcast with this lander, right,
Speaker 3: is the lander doing a podcast? No?
Speaker 2: No, no more podcasts, please a moon cast. But study
Speaker 2: the sounds. I think there might be some sounds, even
Speaker 2: though there's no atmosphere to send sounds out yet. Those
Speaker 2: astronauts heard songs anyway. Weird stuff. But let's just talk
Speaker 2: about this whole commerce thing because it goes further tomorrow.
Speaker 2: We're recording this on Wednesday, March fifth. Intuitive Machines, a
Speaker 2: second private company, is attempting to land their second lunar
Speaker 2: lander on the Moon. They tried last year and it
Speaker 2: was like a tripod situation, and when it landed successfully,
Speaker 2: it tipped over because one of the legs malfunctioned, And
Speaker 2: that's why Firefly gets that coveted first private lunar landing.
Speaker 2: But Intuitive Machines was there and they almost made it.
Speaker 2: A bunch of other companies have tried it and almost
Speaker 2: made it, but their landers have crashed or just haven't
Speaker 2: functioned properly. Intuitive Machines is putting their second one up there,
Speaker 2: and like hopefully it happened. You'll know by the time
Speaker 2: you hear this if it did or not, so you
Speaker 2: can search it up if you want to. It's Intuitive Machines.
Speaker 2: Their lander is called the Athena and it's also known
Speaker 2: as I Am Dash two. That's Intuitive Machines too. Pretty
Speaker 2: cool stuff, guys, and there are more to come just
Speaker 2: like this. There's another company called Eye Space that is
Speaker 2: going to be having another launch in May or early
Speaker 2: June to get up there and study things. The cool
Speaker 2: thing about Athena, I believe, and I may be getting
Speaker 2: this confused with Eye Space because I've read too much
Speaker 2: about these three together. I think the one from Intuitive
Speaker 2: Machines is going to be studying water content on the Moon.
Speaker 2: It has it has a bunch of different sensors to
Speaker 2: study water. Super cool, and you know that's what the
Speaker 2: commerce stuff is all about, right, that water, the helium three,
Speaker 2: all of the various resources that can be extracted from
Speaker 2: the Moon and resources that can be used to build
Speaker 2: on the Moon.
Speaker 3: Right. Because it's a question we asked in a previous episode,
Speaker 3: is there any economic viability to transporting resources back to
Speaker 3: Tara or Earth. Yeah, or is the is the real
Speaker 3: opportunity for investment in leveraging materials on the lunar surface
Speaker 3: or on the Moon overall such that you can construct
Speaker 3: bulwarks or beachheads toward further exploration of the Solar system.
Speaker 3: And I think the ladder is where this smart money
Speaker 3: is right now. Because water is just so heavy. Why
Speaker 3: would you fly water back?
Speaker 2: But you could use that water to feed everybody.
Speaker 3: That's what I'm saying you for again, the ladder part.
Speaker 3: You want to not have to move water right or
Speaker 3: to move it as uh as little as possible. So
Speaker 3: if you can find potable water on the Moon, you
Speaker 3: have saved so much time, sweat and energy, because otherwise,
Speaker 3: you know, it's one of the heaviest things you have
Speaker 3: to launch with astronauts currently yep.
Speaker 2: And eventually you just turn that water into p via
Speaker 2: a human and then you turn that peed back into
Speaker 2: water on the lunar base.
Speaker 4: Can't pee in a mister coffee and get out tasters choice.
Speaker 3: Yeah, guys. Have you have you seen the new mister
Speaker 3: coffee machines? Though it's just straight up peak y'all?
Speaker 4: In Qatar where Ben and I were for ridiculous history.
Speaker 4: Shenanigan's the coffee machines there are not mister coffee, y'all,
Speaker 4: they're doctor Coffee.
Speaker 5: Yeah, you got the degree.
Speaker 2: Nice, nice. Just back to the moon, guys. Remember these
Speaker 2: are the unmanned missions by private companies happening right now
Speaker 2: this year. The next phase are going to be manned
Speaker 2: missions back to the Moon to really pursue some of
Speaker 2: the stuff based on the findings that these unmanned missions
Speaker 2: have discovered, so pretty crazy stuff. Let's jump to the
Speaker 2: X thirty seven B that we talked about just for
Speaker 2: a moment. There, the X thirty seven B, the unmanned
Speaker 2: tiny little space shuttle. It gets launched up into orbit
Speaker 2: and then stays there for over a year, as we
Speaker 2: talked about last time, hundreds and hundred of days, just
Speaker 2: doing its own thing.
Speaker 3: With a really secret little pickup bed.
Speaker 2: Yeah essentially, Yeah, a Toyota Tacoma sized payload who knows
Speaker 2: what it's doing, and it can do all kinds of
Speaker 2: very interesting maneuvers that the United States Space Force calls aerobraking,
Speaker 2: where it can change its orbit using minimal fuel, and
Speaker 2: it can probably do a lot more things than that,
Speaker 2: but they're willing to talk about that on X at
Speaker 2: least the Space Force which is at Space Force DoD
Speaker 2: by the way, if you want to follow. They shared
Speaker 2: a photograph taken from the X thirty seven B while
Speaker 2: it is in orbit, and it is a photograph of
Speaker 2: Earth and you can see I guess what is the
Speaker 2: underside of the X thirty seven B and a solar
Speaker 2: panel there. But it is the first time I think
Speaker 2: I've ever seen something from the X thirty seven B
Speaker 2: while in orbit. Can you guys recall anything else. That's
Speaker 2: the first time I've seen it.
Speaker 3: This is the first public visual content released regarding that.
Speaker 3: Now we know in our previous episodes like Space Ghost
Speaker 3: Return of X thirty seven B and our other episode
Speaker 3: few years before, we know that there's quite a lot
Speaker 3: of observation about its path, its orbit, and its changes
Speaker 3: in orbit. But if you go to if you are
Speaker 3: looking now for clear footage from the perspective of X
Speaker 3: thirty seven B, as you were pointing out, Matt, this
Speaker 3: is the only source. You can also see a bunch
Speaker 3: of pictures of X thirty seven B on the ground.
Speaker 3: There are some there are some boffins who have managed
Speaker 3: to take pictures of it on its flight path, but
Speaker 3: they're very they're very not great pictures, just being.
Speaker 2: Honest, heard heard, well, Earth looks just tiny, so precious.
Speaker 3: I like the color scheme though, That's what I would say.
Speaker 3: If we're flying into the Solar System, I'd be like,
Speaker 3: oh nice, look at that kind of blue one.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it has an atmosphere, you can tell by all
Speaker 2: the white cloudy.
Speaker 3: Bits, right right? Do we know the future of X
Speaker 3: thirty seven B here though, Matt, this has been a
Speaker 3: fascination of ours for quite some time now.
Speaker 2: I am not up on my X thirty seven B, C, D, E, F,
Speaker 2: or G knowledge. Right now?
Speaker 5: What do they call this? Wasn't the plane an X Men?
Speaker 5: The X wing?
Speaker 4: Yes, yeah, okay, I wonder if it's I don't know,
Speaker 4: never mind, sorry, no, no.
Speaker 3: No, you're right, you're right. The uh we're not going
Speaker 3: to pull the nerd card on this yet, but you
Speaker 3: are right. The X wing for the X Men, and
Speaker 3: they probably named it that just to just to keep
Speaker 3: the X theme going. The X thirty seven that we're
Speaker 3: talking about as an orbital test vehicle on manned like
Speaker 3: Matt was saying, and made by Boeing. Yes, been in
Speaker 3: the news recently, we can say no human passengers to
Speaker 3: our knowledge have ever been injured on an X thirty
Speaker 3: seven or the X thirty seven series, again primarily because
Speaker 3: it's an unmanned craft. But you know, let's take the
Speaker 3: wins where we find them.
Speaker 2: Ye Oh, people are always writing about it. I feel
Speaker 2: like once you learn about the X DASH thirty seven
Speaker 2: BAKA orbital test vehicle from Boeing, you can also just
Speaker 2: look up Boeing X DASH three seven because it will
Speaker 2: show you all the iterations of it. Well not all
Speaker 2: of them, but once you learn about it, it's one
Speaker 2: of the only things that matters in space. It's like,
Speaker 2: how what is it doing up There's building? Yeah, you
Speaker 2: could see something at least as a recording from nineteen
Speaker 2: forty five some website I've never heard of, and they
Speaker 2: just posted about it, and they are posting about what
Speaker 2: is it doing secretly up there? Hiding out in space
Speaker 2: for years? But yeah, exactly dude. All right, that's all
Speaker 2: I got guys. Space is cool. The Moon is about
Speaker 2: to get super commodified. Congratulations, we did it.
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