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

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Speaker 1: riddled with unexplained events. You can turn back now or

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Speaker 1: learn the stuff they don't want you to know. A

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Speaker 1: production of iHeartRadio.

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

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Speaker 2: my name is Noel.

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

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Speaker 3: super producer, Dylan, the Tennessee Pal Fake's back. Most importantly,

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Speaker 3: you are here. That makes this the stuff they don't

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Speaker 3: want you to know. Now before we begin, we're recording

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Speaker 3: this on Wednesday, January fourteenth. You're going to be hearing

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Speaker 3: this on Monday, January nineteenth before we begin. I think

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Speaker 3: it'd be super cool to hear from you ten See,

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Speaker 3: because you've been you've been traveling, you've been on the

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Speaker 3: road and off the road, and we've been sending you

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Speaker 3: weirdly rudabaga coded messages, coded as thank you no as

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Speaker 3: Noel would say, uh sow or codd.

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Speaker 4: Yeah. We like to all the messages we send our

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Speaker 4: dusted and rude beegum.

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Speaker 3: So, uh, Dylan, how you doing man?

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Speaker 5: I'm good.

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Speaker 6: I know it's two weeks into the new year, but

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Speaker 6: happy New Year.

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Speaker 3: Happy New Year too.

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Speaker 4: You can say Happy New Year to us anytime.

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Speaker 5: Thank you.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, you can always say it in August, by the way,

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Speaker 3: eating a lot.

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Speaker 4: Of conk, yeah, yeah, contract conk.

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Speaker 5: Yeah.

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Speaker 6: I was in I was in the Virgin Islands and

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Speaker 6: I did the lobster.

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Speaker 5: They do not skimp on the lobster there.

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Speaker 3: Nice yeah. And also, uh, Virgin Islands, don't get it twisted, folks,

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Speaker 3: not owned by Richard Branson at this.

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Speaker 5: Time, one of them owned by Richard Branson. You might

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Speaker 3: Who doesn't own one island here.

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Speaker 5: Richard call us again. We love the we love the cruise.

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Speaker 4: What's island between billionaire friends?

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Speaker 3: I know it's just you know, it's another loose diamond

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Speaker 2: It's early days, but we might be going back on

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Speaker 2: a cruise.

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Speaker 4: Well, we're going somewhere. We're going to the Bahamas, right.

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Speaker 3: Yes, we're also we we might get a second date

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Speaker 3: with Sir Richard Branson. We're quite excited about that. What's

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Speaker 3: one island but another loose diamond in the bag of badgers, folks.

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Speaker 3: As we as we begin our strange news program, we

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Speaker 3: wanted to get in front of this at the top,

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Speaker 3: there have been two deaths. Uh that that recently hit

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Speaker 3: believe I almost texted you guys about this, but I can't.

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Speaker 3: I've got to stop texting you guys late at night.

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Speaker 3: It's it's the author of Chariots of the Gods, a

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Speaker 3: formative figure in our young lives, honestly part of the

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Speaker 3: inspiration for this show. Eric Vaughan Danikin.

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Speaker 4: He's come up recently in some recent Strange News discussions.

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Speaker 4: What was that about or was it on an episode?

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Speaker 2: We were talking a lot about three I, Atlas and.

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Speaker 3: Naki. Yeah, thank you, Tennessee. Yeah, actually, I believe I

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Speaker 3: can't speak for everyone. I believe that Annaki. The Anaki

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Speaker 3: episode is ultimately decades later, it comes about because of

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Speaker 3: the work of Eric von Danakan, who is by far,

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Speaker 3: or was by far, the primary Western champion of ancient

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Speaker 5: Right, Yeah, he was. He was the guy.

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Speaker 2: He's at least one of the guys that you remember

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Speaker 5: So he he.

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Speaker 2: Lived a long time and who knows where he is

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Speaker 3: So also, guys, this dude was super big for a

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Speaker 3: Uh Chariots of the Gods, ancient Aliens. Eric von Danikin

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Speaker 3: we have to be clear. Von Danakin was a controversial figure. Uh.

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Speaker 3: Mainstream science rejected the vast majority of his propositions and

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Speaker 3: But hell of a storyteller, and seemed to be acting

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Speaker 4: Well, speaking of good faith, guys, would you say that

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Speaker 3: I would I would say that, Well, the thing with humans,

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Speaker 3: You know, the claims grow, they proliferate, especially when they're

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Speaker 2: Yeah, but man, he he made forty nine books out

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Speaker 5: His books were translated.

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Speaker 3: Into prolific and successful author So he's definitely selling books.

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Speaker 3: And I guess we shouldn't. That's a great point, Matt.

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Speaker 3: Absolutely, I mean it's I love that point, Noel, because

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Speaker 3: Yeah, what people intended, right, and intention does not indemnify

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Speaker 4: Is why the libel laws are so tricky over here,

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Speaker 4: because it's very, very nigh impossible to prove that someone

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Speaker 2: Oh yeah, well, hey, guys, speaking of intent and ancient aliens,

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Speaker 4: I think it was the producers beige looking guy.

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Speaker 3: I was that thing called, I want to say alien

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Speaker 4: He would ghost rock on to the next one, rock

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Speaker 3: The next one. Speaking of which we were talking about

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Speaker 3: also need to mention another another legend who has passed.

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Speaker 4: He espoused some pretty gnarly stuff if I'm not mistaken.

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Speaker 3: Well done. He had achieved the dog bird seat of syndication.

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Speaker 4: We were talking about this off air. I jokingly said

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Speaker 3: Are you going to do the South Park voice?

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Speaker 5: No, I'm not. This is just I'm going to read

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Speaker 2: He says that Adams was a true American original and

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Speaker 3: I am Jack's lack of surprise. So we do want

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Speaker 3: to we want to be clear these are people in

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Speaker 3: the zeitgeist. Obviously Won Danakan meant a lot to us,

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Speaker 3: meant a lot to the show. Obviously Dilbert was a

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Speaker 3: can you bring us back in with this story about

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Speaker 3: Lot dead man switch and also it's a that was

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Speaker 2: Well, no, if you want to set us up, you

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Speaker 4: I wonder if de mumu's a nonsense word. I think

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Speaker 4: But there's not something we've discussed, but there is this

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Speaker 4: It's the whole thing. And this individual goes on to

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Speaker 4: Zon maiz Tzuki head Restaurant for dismantling. Let's just say so, Ben,

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Speaker 4: you said you said there was something to this. Oh,

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Speaker 4: Head of that corporation, Yes, corporation, Yes, sir.

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Speaker 3: Just so and so this guy is not only like

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Speaker 4: That is interesting, Ben, because it does say that kymoora

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Speaker 4: So that was just about last week. Have you ever

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Speaker 4: as having, you know, being successful. This idea of adopting

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Speaker 4: long term fish management fishery management policies in order to

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Speaker 4: make bluefin tuna less threatened. So it has apparently been

441
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Speaker 4: close to a dangerous level. Yes, you know, scarcity. But

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Speaker 4: I'll tell you I'd love, you know, if I were

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Speaker 4: to go to Tokyo, I would I would gladly pay

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Speaker 4: for a piece of that beast. I do love a

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Speaker 4: piece of tuna, good piece of tuna. So that's it

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Speaker 4: for me, guys.

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Speaker 3: Let's take a quick break.

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Speaker 4: Here a word from our sponsor and then we'll come

449
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Speaker 3: And we have returned now not to be boot liquors

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Speaker 3: or butt liquors, but we do want to let you know.

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Speaker 3: What are the stories we missed in a previous Strange

453
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Speaker 3: News program is the following. The US Department of War

454
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Speaker 3: has notified a sex store in Toronto several times to

455
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Speaker 3: stop sending butt plugs to ba Rain. Don't do it,

456
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Speaker 3: don't want them you, They've said a couple of letters.

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Speaker 3: They have not yet invaded Toronto strongly worded, Ben, they

458
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Speaker 3: are strongly worded. I hate that we have to explicitly

459
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Speaker 3: say the US is yet to evade Toronto or has

460
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Speaker 3: not at the time of our recording on Wednesday, January fourteenth.

461
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Speaker 3: Just keep that with you, right, like Johnny Depp said

462
00:28:25,960 --> 00:28:29,919
Speaker 3: in Life's Too Short, Just hold that inside you and

463
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Speaker 3: realize that the Department of War is sending very weird

464
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Speaker 3: letters to be a.

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Speaker 4: Big talk about Canada from that department, A lot.

466
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Speaker 3: Of big talk. And you know, does the guilty dog bark?

467
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Speaker 3: Why they concerned with the butt lugs? All right?

468
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Speaker 4: So well, what is the deal though, Like, what isn't

469
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Speaker 4: the idea that they're sending them to American troops.

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Speaker 3: Or yeah, it's at a naval base bah Rain. That

471
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Speaker 3: was the issue, And the folks who run the store

472
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Speaker 3: called bongjiebont Are are pretty pretty chill. I think I

473
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Speaker 3: hope a lot of people who run sex positive stores

474
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Speaker 3: are very chill. They didn't know where the plugs were

475
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Speaker 3: going until they got the letters. And if you go

476
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Speaker 3: to outfits like CP twenty four dot com, you can

477
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Speaker 3: hear directly from one of the co founders of the

478
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Speaker 3: store who says, quote, we didn't even know it was

479
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Speaker 3: going to Bahrain until it came back to us months later,

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Speaker 3: and it just kind of unraveled this whole hilarious moment.

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Speaker 4: And maybe we're bearing the leads slightly. The issue there

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Speaker 4: would be that Bahrain is not particularly sex.

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Speaker 3: Positive, right, and the issue is, you know, naval bases hopefully,

484
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Speaker 3: Oh okay, we got veterans in the crowd, so I'm

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Speaker 3: not going to do the navy stereotype jokes.

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Speaker 4: What the butt stuff is not cool?

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Speaker 3: That will quite the opposite my friend about.

488
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Speaker 4: Saying it, wouldn't the perception be that it is not

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Speaker 4: masculine in some fashion, that like there's a sense that

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Speaker 4: you know, real men don't put stuff in their butts.

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Speaker 3: Oh my god, every marine in the crowd, every former

492
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Speaker 3: Army member is is laughing aloud. No, the the Navy

493
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Speaker 3: gets pooped on hard for allegations. It's a weird thing.

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Speaker 4: But but yeah, okay, that makes sense. But also these

495
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Speaker 4: are this is like hearsay, and this is not the

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Speaker 4: kind of thing that the Navy really wants people to

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Speaker 4: talk about. In quick question, but would a supplier of

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Speaker 4: butt plugs technically be a butt plug plug?

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Speaker 7: Oh, it would be a butt plug plugk And we

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Speaker 7: don't we don't want to take away from some horrifying

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Speaker 7: intern all activities, internal injustices and cover ups that occur

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Speaker 7: in the US Armed Forces.

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Speaker 3: In fact, guys, I think that could be an episode

504
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Speaker 3: in the future. There's a lot of not just hidden

505
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Speaker 3: not just hidden injustices, but there are murders that have

506
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Speaker 3: been covered up, things that are clearly not suicides.

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Speaker 4: Assault, sexual assaults.

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Speaker 3: Absolutely, God, there was a twist, but we had to

509
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Speaker 3: say it. There was a turn. Yeah, that is true,

510
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Speaker 3: and while we're going we will do that as an episode.

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Speaker 3: Please check it out in the future, folks. And while

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Speaker 3: we are on the subject of darker things, also first off,

513
00:31:48,280 --> 00:31:52,920
Speaker 3: don't assault people. Secondly, don't rob graves. Did you guys

514
00:31:52,960 --> 00:31:58,360
Speaker 3: hear about what went down in Pennsylvania? No, this guy

515
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Speaker 3: got found robbing braves in Pennsylvania. I've put a link

516
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Speaker 3: here in our notes. Let's go to KTV dot com

517
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Speaker 3: courtesy of journalist Mark Schulfouro writing for AP. You can

518
00:32:14,240 --> 00:32:20,640
Speaker 3: see a picture of the perp. But apparently the cops

519
00:32:20,680 --> 00:32:24,160
Speaker 3: found bones and skulls in the backseat of a car

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Speaker 3: near an abandoned cemetery on the outskirts of Philly, and

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Speaker 3: that led them checking the car, led them to a

522
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Speaker 3: basement filled with body parts, and they found the instigator,

523
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Speaker 3: or the guy they like for hasn't been convicted, a

524
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Speaker 3: thirty four year old named Jonathan christ gerlac wow christ

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Speaker 3: as your middle name.

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Speaker 4: Some ed gean kind of stuff. We're talking mummified remains, hands.

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Speaker 3: And feet, Chilton's remains as well. Yeah, and some of

528
00:32:56,600 --> 00:33:00,640
Speaker 3: these were older, some of these were a little bit

529
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Speaker 3: more fresh. We don't entirely know the motivation of this individual.

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Speaker 3: I'm bringing it up because it's such a strange story.

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Speaker 3: It reminds me in a bit in a way about

532
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Speaker 3: our earlier tales of resurrection men. We don't know what

533
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Speaker 3: it was doing with the bodies. He was charged with

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Speaker 3: one hundred counts eat of abuse of a corpse and

535
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Speaker 3: receiving stolen property desecrating public monuments, also tangentially related. I

536
00:33:37,000 --> 00:33:43,160
Speaker 3: heard an amazing statement about Pepe Silvia from Always Sunny

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Speaker 3: in Philadelphia.

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Speaker 4: Okay, what was that?

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Speaker 3: That's that We're doing another twist? Okay, So remember the

540
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Speaker 3: conspiracy episode.

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Speaker 5: Where Red Threadboard, Yes, he doesn't exist.

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Speaker 3: Well, here's the thing. According to Charlie Day, the actor

543
00:34:00,520 --> 00:34:06,760
Speaker 3: who plays Charlie in Always Sonny, he apparently, due to

544
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Speaker 3: Charlie's illiteracy, he was misreading Pennsylvania as pepe Sylvia and

545
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Speaker 3: that's why he thought everything was connected and everything kept

546
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Speaker 3: going back to Pepe Sylvia.

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Speaker 5: Amazing.

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Speaker 3: I didn't.

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Speaker 4: How does that? How does that fold back into this

550
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Speaker 4: grave robbing store?

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Speaker 3: It doesn't. Okay, it both take place in Pennsylvania.

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Speaker 4: Can I just say, without trying to cast dispersions on

553
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Speaker 4: somebody just for their appearance, does this dude not look

554
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Speaker 4: like the kind of guy that would have gotten swept

555
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Speaker 4: up in some satanic panic stuff back in the day.

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Speaker 3: He's got the neck tattoos, is what it is Yeah.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, well in his hair, he looks like he would

558
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Speaker 2: be an incredible lead singer of a band which makes really.

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Speaker 4: Black metal bands.

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Speaker 3: Yes, I'm not saying that he's not handsome.

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Speaker 2: I'm just said he wouldn't. I'm said he didn't go

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Speaker 2: that route. Maybe he did and.

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Speaker 5: This was just a side project or side gig, but

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Speaker 5: five yeah.

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Speaker 4: Do you don't want to find out what he intended

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Speaker 4: to do with this stuff because it's like, was it

567
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Speaker 4: jewelry involved? Was he? I mean, what's what's the what's

568
00:35:09,120 --> 00:35:09,959
Speaker 4: the end game here?

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Speaker 3: Right? We don't know?

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Speaker 1: Uh.

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Speaker 3: He he did cooperate with investigators. He showed them the

572
00:35:19,200 --> 00:35:24,280
Speaker 3: graves in this in this cemetery that he stole from.

573
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Speaker 3: He's currently jammed up on a million dollar bond us.

574
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Speaker 3: There is no lawyer listed in the court records at

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Speaker 3: the time. He might have to get a public defender.

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00:35:35,719 --> 00:35:44,879
Speaker 3: There's not really any uh any update on motive. It's look,

577
00:35:44,920 --> 00:35:50,640
Speaker 3: he was hitting up the largest abandoned burial ground in

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Speaker 3: the United States, at least according to the one of

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Speaker 3: the nonprofit volunteer organizations that tries to upkeep it, the

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Speaker 3: Friends of Mount Mariah Cemetery. It's one hundred and sixty

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Speaker 3: acres one hundred and fifty thousand gravesites. He probably would

582
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Speaker 3: have kept going. We don't know what his project was.

583
00:36:12,480 --> 00:36:14,520
Speaker 3: We don't know what's going to happen to him. Our

584
00:36:14,719 --> 00:36:17,560
Speaker 3: main takeaway here is, guys, just don't rob grapes.

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Speaker 2: No, Yeah, that look it looks like they uncovered after

586
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Speaker 2: a search they found that he was trying to just

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Speaker 2: sell them, like he was selling skulls to people online.

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Speaker 4: Well, and that's I don't know if you guys have

589
00:36:29,200 --> 00:36:32,920
Speaker 4: ever encountered this. I once was buying a drum machine

590
00:36:33,440 --> 00:36:35,040
Speaker 4: from a guy that I met on the internet or

591
00:36:35,080 --> 00:36:36,720
Speaker 4: on like some forum, and I went to his house

592
00:36:36,880 --> 00:36:39,720
Speaker 4: and he had a pretty significant collection of human skulls.

593
00:36:39,719 --> 00:36:41,480
Speaker 4: So that is a thing people do, and it is

594
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Speaker 4: very illegal to transport across you know, state lines.

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Speaker 3: You can own a human skull, you can't own it.

596
00:36:49,520 --> 00:36:52,520
Speaker 3: Sound so you shouldn't a shrunken head. But you know,

597
00:36:52,600 --> 00:36:55,200
Speaker 3: there's nothing wrong with a little yorick now and then,

598
00:36:55,360 --> 00:36:58,640
Speaker 3: as far as the law is concerned.

599
00:36:58,680 --> 00:37:01,000
Speaker 4: But that's the deal. It's to own it, but it's

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Speaker 4: illegal to transport them. Human room. There's this weird little

601
00:37:04,440 --> 00:37:08,560
Speaker 4: like the yeah minutia around you know the law concerning

602
00:37:08,800 --> 00:37:12,040
Speaker 4: you know, the same the broker ing of human remains.

603
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Speaker 3: Like back in the days of the resurrection men. Again

604
00:37:15,600 --> 00:37:19,080
Speaker 3: the weird laws in parts of Western Europe that said

605
00:37:19,920 --> 00:37:24,040
Speaker 3: it's not illegal to dissect the corpse, but it is

606
00:37:24,440 --> 00:37:30,279
Speaker 3: illegal to a choir a corpse. So look, it's just

607
00:37:30,760 --> 00:37:35,520
Speaker 3: it's gross stuff. It's gross for the surviving family members

608
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Speaker 3: and loved ones. They did find pacemakers, jewelry linked to

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Speaker 3: the cadavers, linked to the graves. We don't know the

610
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Speaker 3: motive yet. We'll update if we hear more. But we

611
00:37:50,360 --> 00:37:52,959
Speaker 3: do have another home rate that we have to talk

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Speaker 3: about before we move on. It's a very important one.

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00:37:56,200 --> 00:38:03,320
Speaker 3: It concerns the living, friends, neighbors, countryfolk. The FBI, Federal

614
00:38:03,360 --> 00:38:08,000
Speaker 3: Bureau of Investigation, has crossed a bit of a rubicon,

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Speaker 3: as we record. They have rated the home of a

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Speaker 3: Washington Post reporter. Let's go to the Guardian and let's

617
00:38:18,080 --> 00:38:21,600
Speaker 3: all get worried together, so play along with us. At home.

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Speaker 3: There is a journalist named Hannah Nathanson in at A N.

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Speaker 3: S O. N lives in Virginia. FBI came down hard.

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Speaker 3: They they raided her home in the early hours of Wednesday,

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Speaker 3: as we record like this morning before going in to

622
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Speaker 3: record strange news. The Washington Post called it quote highly

623
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Speaker 3: unusual and aggressive end quote, and various you know, press

624
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Speaker 3: freedom groups, journalist rights supporters, actually people who sup or

625
00:39:00,120 --> 00:39:04,399
Speaker 3: at the Constitution. They excoriated this. They condemned it. It's

626
00:39:06,120 --> 00:39:10,880
Speaker 3: it's violating the concept of journalism. Critics say, now, have

627
00:39:10,920 --> 00:39:11,960
Speaker 3: you guys heard about this?

628
00:39:12,320 --> 00:39:13,160
Speaker 5: Yeah, this is.

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Speaker 2: This is extremely complex, right, I mean, and part of

630
00:39:19,640 --> 00:39:22,880
Speaker 2: me personally comes down on the you can't do that.

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00:39:23,200 --> 00:39:24,480
Speaker 5: You can't raid.

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Speaker 2: A journalist's home and take her phone in garment, watch

633
00:39:29,440 --> 00:39:31,839
Speaker 2: and look at all of her devices in her home

634
00:39:31,880 --> 00:39:36,560
Speaker 2: and you know, find evidence on her just because she's

635
00:39:36,640 --> 00:39:40,719
Speaker 2: got sources that you don't like, right, Because that's what

636
00:39:40,760 --> 00:39:41,600
Speaker 2: it's about.

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00:39:42,040 --> 00:39:47,680
Speaker 3: Right, This, this did occur with a warrant. You can

638
00:39:47,680 --> 00:39:50,880
Speaker 3: call it rubber stamp Warren if you wish. This was

639
00:39:51,160 --> 00:39:56,560
Speaker 3: an attempt to gather information and reveal sources from the

640
00:39:56,680 --> 00:40:01,240
Speaker 3: journalist because she was quote obtaining and report wording classified

641
00:40:01,440 --> 00:40:07,279
Speaker 3: and illegally leaked information from a Pentagon contractor. They also

642
00:40:07,600 --> 00:40:11,560
Speaker 3: go on to note that the leaker is currently behind bars.

643
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Speaker 3: And when I'm saying they just to be clear who

644
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Speaker 3: I'm quoting here is Pam Bondi, the current Attorney General

645
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Speaker 3: of the United States, talking on social media on x

646
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Speaker 3: dot Com. It's it's pretty it's pretty frightening stuff because

647
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Speaker 3: it reminds me of the earlier conversations regarding how the

648
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Speaker 3: Pentagon has chosen to treat journalists.

649
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Speaker 2: Yeah, overall, Like, right, how many stories have we talked

650
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Speaker 2: about over the past couple of months?

651
00:40:46,760 --> 00:40:49,440
Speaker 3: About as many as we're allowed to, Man, dude.

652
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Speaker 2: I know, but it's got to be at least three

653
00:40:51,200 --> 00:40:55,080
Speaker 2: or four specifically about who can report what out of

654
00:40:55,080 --> 00:40:57,960
Speaker 2: the Pentagon, right and where they can be located.

655
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Speaker 4: As from briefings, et setup.

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Speaker 2: In this case, we have a journalist who began obtaining sources.

657
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Speaker 2: She would talk to people, and then those sources would

658
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Speaker 2: talk about her and say, hey, you can give your

659
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Speaker 2: your information to her if you want to speak up.

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Speaker 2: Let's say, if you're deep inside a government organization like

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Speaker 2: the Pentagon, or maybe you're one of the over one

662
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Speaker 2: thousand other sources that she had gained access to who

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Speaker 2: were inside government organizations.

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Speaker 3: I think sixty nine.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I think that's why she was dangerous to the administration, right,

666
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Speaker 2: And that's why they needed to do a show force

667
00:41:36,960 --> 00:41:40,640
Speaker 2: here and just say, hey, if you're inside one of

668
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Speaker 2: our organizations, you cannot talk to journalists about this classified stuff,

669
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Speaker 2: or this is going to happen both to you in

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Speaker 2: the case of this primary source that's being talked about

671
00:41:50,920 --> 00:41:54,080
Speaker 2: here in the Guardian and reported on, or the journalist

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Speaker 2: who's putting stuff in newspapers.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, and this brings us to another bag of badgers.

674
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Speaker 3: This brings us to quite a tall milkshake, a real

675
00:42:02,880 --> 00:42:09,239
Speaker 3: pickle journalism and the security or anonymity of sources. Now,

676
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Speaker 3: a lot of us in the crowd tonight have heard

677
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Speaker 3: these concerns before. This is not unique. This is again,

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Speaker 3: how do I put it, It's crossing a rubicon of

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00:42:20,680 --> 00:42:25,719
Speaker 3: things that are have long been considered inherent to the

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Speaker 3: democratic experiment of the United States. So this is a

681
00:42:30,640 --> 00:42:34,560
Speaker 3: worrying flag. This is a sign We've got a little

682
00:42:34,560 --> 00:42:37,320
Speaker 3: bit long on here. There's so much more to talk about,

683
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Speaker 3: but I got to commend the work of Richard Luscomb

684
00:42:42,360 --> 00:42:47,880
Speaker 3: and Jeremy Barr and of course Hannah and Nathanson. We

685
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Speaker 3: are going to keep an eye on this one because

686
00:42:51,080 --> 00:42:55,840
Speaker 3: I agree it is definitely for a regime that loves

687
00:42:55,840 --> 00:42:59,600
Speaker 3: political theater. This is definitely an attempt to set an example.

688
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Speaker 3: We're gonna pause. We're not going to get to a

689
00:43:03,200 --> 00:43:06,680
Speaker 3: lot a lot of other weird stuff, including the EPA,

690
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Speaker 3: but we'll we'll return with more of that perhaps in

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Speaker 3: the future. For now, let's take a break for a

692
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Speaker 3: word from our sponsors and return with more strange news.

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Speaker 5: And we've returned.

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Speaker 2: Well, guys, hey, at least journalists aren't being summarily executed

695
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Speaker 2: in our country yet, so you know, we've got a

696
00:43:28,960 --> 00:43:33,719
Speaker 2: time window here before that happens, at least because we

697
00:43:33,840 --> 00:43:37,680
Speaker 2: just talked about shrunken heads or Sansas. We wanted to

698
00:43:37,680 --> 00:43:39,799
Speaker 2: bring up a story that we saw coming out of

699
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Speaker 2: Ecuador that was particularly grizzly. So warning here, I suppose.

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Speaker 3: I think, I mean, we just did talk about a

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Speaker 3: grave robber.

702
00:43:50,520 --> 00:43:55,160
Speaker 2: Yeah we did, so, Uh, people have been If you're.

703
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Speaker 3: Anybody who was worried earlier, has probably already a hot Yeah.

704
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Speaker 2: This is this is your post disturbing content apology instead

705
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Speaker 2: of a setup. But here we go. This is coming

706
00:44:11,280 --> 00:44:14,520
Speaker 2: to us from AP News, the Associated Press, and it

707
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Speaker 2: was posted on January eleventh, twenty twenty six, coming to

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Speaker 2: us out of Quito, Ecuador, five human heads were found

709
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Speaker 2: hanging from ropes on a beach in southwestern Ecuador, according

710
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Speaker 2: to police there. Apparently it is a part of a

711
00:44:30,719 --> 00:44:33,560
Speaker 2: wave of violence related to drug trafficking. Now, we've talked

712
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Speaker 2: before about the country of Ecuador and how it is

713
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Speaker 2: going through some pretty pretty tough times because of the

714
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Speaker 2: differing drug trafficking routes that are now happening.

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Speaker 5: Talked about how.

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Speaker 2: You know, you've got Columbia right there smackdab between Venezuela

717
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Speaker 2: and Ecuador, and you know Panama of course, we talked

718
00:44:53,239 --> 00:44:56,800
Speaker 2: about and where the drugs actually end up exiting out

719
00:44:56,840 --> 00:45:00,359
Speaker 2: of Colombia, and how that's changing a lot, and how

720
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Speaker 2: that has really changed the landscape of let's say, groups

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Speaker 2: who are totally cool with some criminal activity. Generally you

722
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Speaker 2: would use the word gangs associated with out our cartels,

723
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Speaker 2: and that is happening a lot in Ecuador. According to police,

724
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Speaker 2: this incident had something to do with a conflict between

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Speaker 2: two of these different criminal gangs or these groups, right,

726
00:45:25,200 --> 00:45:30,600
Speaker 2: these cartels, and I'm just reading directly from this ap article.

727
00:45:30,840 --> 00:45:34,600
Speaker 2: Drug trafficking networks with links to transnational cartels are active

728
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Speaker 2: in the area and have used fishermen and their small

729
00:45:37,000 --> 00:45:40,960
Speaker 2: boats for their illicit activities. A dispute for territory and

730
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Speaker 2: control of drug trafficking routes has triggered violent episodes across

731
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Speaker 2: the Manobe Province, which is where this place, Puerto Lopez

732
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Speaker 2: is located. You can read more about this in the

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Speaker 2: AP News. Particularly grizzly and just a really horrendous thing

734
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Speaker 2: to discover. If you imagine just going out on the

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Speaker 2: beach and seeing five heads hanging there from ropes. Yeah,

736
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Speaker 2: I don't want to talk about this much more, guys,

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Speaker 2: anything to say about the heads.

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Speaker 3: It's like some yeah, it's it's it's definitely a line

739
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Speaker 3: of sand of warning. As we said earlier, it's it's

740
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Speaker 3: quite grizzly.

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Speaker 4: It also aligned with the sunset talk and how a

742
00:46:22,680 --> 00:46:25,759
Speaker 4: head is the ultimate warning because you know exactly who

743
00:46:26,000 --> 00:46:28,000
Speaker 4: or what set that head belonged to.

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Speaker 3: It's also interesting in that it shows it shows a

745
00:46:34,600 --> 00:46:39,000
Speaker 3: vin diagram that we've always suspected between law enforcement and

746
00:46:40,160 --> 00:46:44,799
Speaker 3: organized crime up to a certain point. And the thing

747
00:46:44,920 --> 00:46:50,000
Speaker 3: is that brutality, like any other disease, is contagious, right,

748
00:46:50,120 --> 00:46:58,720
Speaker 3: so these actions are unconscionable and they're grabbing headlines because

749
00:46:58,760 --> 00:47:03,640
Speaker 3: of course they're human heads on stakes. However, we have

750
00:47:03,680 --> 00:47:06,440
Speaker 3: to remember that there's much more to the headline, and

751
00:47:06,640 --> 00:47:10,560
Speaker 3: I think it'd be worth exploring getting under the hood

752
00:47:10,600 --> 00:47:11,399
Speaker 3: of Ecuador here.

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Speaker 2: Oh yeah, oh, we should definitely do a larger episode

754
00:47:15,480 --> 00:47:18,880
Speaker 2: on that, Ecuador and Venezuela and all of that. It'll

755
00:47:19,000 --> 00:47:22,800
Speaker 2: kind of be an update to our episode on Panama

756
00:47:22,280 --> 00:47:25,160
Speaker 2: and and that will area right where the drugs flow.

757
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Speaker 3: Yeah, get out of my head. Yeah, let's do an

758
00:47:27,320 --> 00:47:31,640
Speaker 3: episode on Ecuador. We had show, we got an episode

759
00:47:31,680 --> 00:47:34,000
Speaker 3: on that as well.

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Speaker 2: Yeah. Well, hey, speaking of getting into things, what about

761
00:47:39,440 --> 00:47:43,240
Speaker 2: getting into our electronic devices? Guys, Let's go to ABC

762
00:47:43,640 --> 00:47:47,480
Speaker 2: Denver channel seven to hear some reporting from Maggie Brian

763
00:47:47,800 --> 00:47:50,920
Speaker 2: about something super cool, something we've talked about on the

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Speaker 2: show before. Colorado's latest Right to Repair a law, which

765
00:47:54,520 --> 00:47:58,480
Speaker 2: went into effect on January first, forces device manufacturers again.

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Speaker 2: Hear that forces device manufacturers to share specific parts, tools, software,

767
00:48:04,640 --> 00:48:09,520
Speaker 2: and manuals to fix broken devices. This law covers everyday

768
00:48:09,560 --> 00:48:14,719
Speaker 2: electronics and appliances like phones, laptops, dishwashers, vag right to

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Speaker 2: Repair stuff right yes, and sewing machines.

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Speaker 3: And LaserDisc and uh.

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Speaker 2: Yes, machine fax machines, it's your whole palm pilot.

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Speaker 3: Yeah.

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Speaker 4: The previous thing we discussed on this was things like

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Speaker 4: farm equipment, right, yes.

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00:48:32,280 --> 00:48:35,160
Speaker 3: Pharmacy huge. Uh.

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Speaker 2: In this case, look, Denver's just pushing the needle. Okay,

777
00:48:39,080 --> 00:48:41,759
Speaker 2: Colorado says, hey, we're gonna we're gonna move this forward

778
00:48:41,760 --> 00:48:44,960
Speaker 2: a little bit. At least now you can repair your phone.

779
00:48:45,640 --> 00:48:47,960
Speaker 2: And this is also stated here and it is very important.

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00:48:48,320 --> 00:48:55,120
Speaker 2: This latest law includes exemptions for marine vessels, aviation motor vehicles,

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00:48:55,440 --> 00:49:02,200
Speaker 2: medical devices, certain safety and security equipment, and video game consoles.

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Speaker 2: So congratulations Sony.

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Speaker 4: Speaking of ve did y'all hear that somebody jail broke

784
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Speaker 4: the PS five and that Sony is not happy about it.

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Speaker 3: I thought they were gonna send the guy a high five.

786
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Speaker 2: Well no, but really, but no. Imagine like if you

787
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Speaker 2: own a PS five and you go into that store, right,

788
00:49:27,640 --> 00:49:30,520
Speaker 2: and you see all of those brand new, shiny, awesome

789
00:49:30,560 --> 00:49:33,080
Speaker 2: titles that you're just oh, you just want to try,

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Speaker 2: you want to play the Ghosts game that you're playing.

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Speaker 5: Ben.

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Speaker 2: I think about that one a lot. I remember opening

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Speaker 2: the PS five app store and looking at that because

794
00:49:42,320 --> 00:49:45,040
Speaker 2: it was advertised and pushed on the front, and you

795
00:49:45,080 --> 00:49:47,359
Speaker 2: look at the price tag, and you go, ah, how

796
00:49:47,360 --> 00:49:50,239
Speaker 2: can I justify this? How can I do this? But

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00:49:50,280 --> 00:49:52,160
Speaker 2: then of course I go through and I'll buy like

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Speaker 2: three things for that same price because I go on

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Speaker 2: all of a sudden, I feel some sort of way

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Speaker 2: and I'm like, I reserve it.

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Speaker 3: You broke this, you know what I mean. There's a big,

802
00:50:02,480 --> 00:50:04,640
Speaker 3: big bit of psychology to that, and I think what

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00:50:04,760 --> 00:50:09,240
Speaker 3: we're well, we're also talking about, Matt is You're getting

804
00:50:09,280 --> 00:50:15,080
Speaker 3: to just a phenomenally fascinating point. Now we all know

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00:50:15,200 --> 00:50:19,840
Speaker 3: that my car stuff evenings and days have made me

806
00:50:20,440 --> 00:50:25,800
Speaker 3: even more radicalized into the idea of an ownership versus

807
00:50:26,080 --> 00:50:29,799
Speaker 3: subscription right, yeah, And I think we're all I don't

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00:50:29,840 --> 00:50:32,440
Speaker 3: think I'm unique in that. I think we're all on board.

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00:50:32,480 --> 00:50:36,040
Speaker 3: And we hope you are too. Folks. We are as

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Speaker 3: a society in the West, in the United States, we

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Speaker 3: are being pushed the average entity away from ownership and

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00:50:45,080 --> 00:50:49,800
Speaker 3: towards subscription. It is going to Dylan, Man, I love you,

813
00:50:49,840 --> 00:50:51,839
Speaker 3: will you please beat me here? We have to say it.

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00:50:52,840 --> 00:50:57,880
Speaker 3: A subscription based society is being stupid and bad. What

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Speaker 3: you've got to own stuff? Come on right to repair?

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00:51:01,920 --> 00:51:04,160
Speaker 3: Why is this even a thing? Why does this have

817
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Speaker 3: to be a thing?

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00:51:05,200 --> 00:51:07,680
Speaker 4: How how is it an?

819
00:51:08,880 --> 00:51:10,560
Speaker 3: What's next? The right to poop?

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Speaker 4: Bad for us, be great for them.

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00:51:13,000 --> 00:51:14,239
Speaker 5: It's so good for them.

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Speaker 2: Oh, and this is something that's in this article for

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00:51:17,120 --> 00:51:21,480
Speaker 2: Maggie Bryan over at ABC. Let's just quote the article again.

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Speaker 2: Democratic State Rep. Breonna Titone sponsored all three of Colorado's

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00:51:26,320 --> 00:51:29,120
Speaker 2: laws expanding repair rights. She said while working to pass

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Speaker 2: the bill, she and other co sponsors faced pushback from

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Speaker 2: large corporations. And here's a quote from her. They don't

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00:51:35,560 --> 00:51:38,480
Speaker 2: want to comply, or they want to comply to a

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00:51:38,480 --> 00:51:41,160
Speaker 2: certain degree. That was one of the reasons why this

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00:51:41,239 --> 00:51:44,920
Speaker 2: bill was delayed. It was mainly because of Apple, because

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00:51:44,920 --> 00:51:48,040
Speaker 2: they needed time to change their iPhone design to actually

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00:51:48,120 --> 00:51:52,080
Speaker 2: be able to comply. Yeah.

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Speaker 3: Also, I mean play adopts a lessons check our episode

834
00:51:55,719 --> 00:52:00,960
Speaker 3: on that if you buy something and animate option, you

835
00:52:01,080 --> 00:52:05,320
Speaker 3: should be able to own it. The very first book

836
00:52:06,239 --> 00:52:11,320
Speaker 3: illegally unfairly pulled off the Amazon Kindle was indeed nineteen

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Speaker 3: eighty four Boo by George Orwell, you have when you

838
00:52:17,320 --> 00:52:21,080
Speaker 3: buy something, you have a right to own the thing.

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Speaker 3: This is just meloca. This is just so ridiculous.

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Speaker 2: So when you look at an object. Let's say a

841
00:52:28,200 --> 00:52:30,959
Speaker 2: smartphone that you purchase. I'm looking at mine right now,

842
00:52:31,200 --> 00:52:34,120
Speaker 2: and you notice there doesn't seem to be a simple

843
00:52:34,200 --> 00:52:35,600
Speaker 2: way to open this.

844
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Speaker 3: Thing by design? Yeah it was crazy, Yeah yeah, Ed.

845
00:52:40,320 --> 00:52:43,200
Speaker 3: You can also what do we call it? You void

846
00:52:43,239 --> 00:52:46,600
Speaker 3: your warranty if you attempt at home repairs or if

847
00:52:46,640 --> 00:52:49,120
Speaker 3: you take it to a third party repair person.

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Speaker 5: How could you betraying me?

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Speaker 2: After all we've been through the Mother Corporation.

850
00:52:55,280 --> 00:52:59,040
Speaker 3: I stole your data from Instagram and you do me

851
00:52:59,239 --> 00:52:59,720
Speaker 3: like this.

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00:53:00,120 --> 00:53:03,160
Speaker 5: I get birth to that phone? How dare you take

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00:53:03,160 --> 00:53:04,480
Speaker 5: it to time? I'm sorry?

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00:53:05,600 --> 00:53:07,440
Speaker 4: Do you mind if I backtracked for like two seconds?

855
00:53:07,480 --> 00:53:07,719
Speaker 3: Please?

856
00:53:07,760 --> 00:53:09,959
Speaker 4: PlayStation thing? I just think it's like a digital version

857
00:53:10,000 --> 00:53:12,160
Speaker 4: of what we're talking about here. This is fascinating. Apparently,

858
00:53:13,320 --> 00:53:16,680
Speaker 4: a Star Wars racing game that released back in twenty

859
00:53:16,760 --> 00:53:20,840
Speaker 4: nineteen is now fetching hundreds of dollars on eBay because

860
00:53:20,960 --> 00:53:26,239
Speaker 4: its code is reportedly crucial to fire off. And I'm

861
00:53:26,280 --> 00:53:29,120
Speaker 4: reading from IGN here a new method of jail breaking

862
00:53:29,160 --> 00:53:32,239
Speaker 4: PlayStation five, which would unlock the ability to play illegally

863
00:53:32,280 --> 00:53:38,879
Speaker 4: pirated games and prevent the system from doing those online handshakes. Yep,

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00:53:39,160 --> 00:53:42,319
Speaker 4: that check that you have you know whatever that you

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Speaker 4: have the right to play whatever game.

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Speaker 3: It's like that old I love these loopholes, guys, because

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Speaker 3: it's like that that legendary phone freaking thing that happened

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00:53:51,960 --> 00:53:57,360
Speaker 3: by accident, the captain front whistle that could perfectly perfectly hacked.

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Speaker 3: The telephonic system that was back when you.

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Speaker 4: Would actually use touch tone sounds to make things happen.

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00:54:03,800 --> 00:54:10,040
Speaker 3: Yeah, ed this we see again, hopefully we see a

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00:54:10,080 --> 00:54:15,240
Speaker 3: beachhead here and we see a larger a larger movement.

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Speaker 3: If you buy something, you should have the right to

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Speaker 3: repair it. And I believe in our previous conversations I

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Speaker 3: had been on record speaking with uh, speaking with some

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Speaker 3: folks who have dealt with the Drayconian policies of some

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Speaker 3: farm manufacturing outlets. And I really appreciate you bringing that up, Noel.

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Speaker 3: It's not talked about enough in the United States. Matt.

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Speaker 3: I want to go back to you, though, real quick,

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Speaker 3: with the list of exceptions. You said certain security technology.

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Speaker 5: Yes, safety and security equipment.

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Speaker 3: Oh all right, well that kind of makes sense because.

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Speaker 2: Okay, all right, the medical industry hardware thing is Oh.

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Speaker 5: There is a story in there, guys.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, that's an episode. It vaguely makes sense because it's

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Speaker 3: such a vague description. We need to hear the actual

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Speaker 3: list of the devices that don't that are exempt from

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Speaker 3: right to repair.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, we do, but we're not going to get

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Speaker 5: them today. You know, we are going to get what

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Speaker 5: are we going to get today?

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Speaker 2: One final little piece of news because I found it

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Speaker 2: to be delightful, and I.

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Speaker 4: Don't want a delightful night.

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Speaker 3: I hope we find it delightful, certainly.

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Speaker 5: Oh, I hope you do.

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Speaker 2: I did, And now I give them to you here.

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Speaker 2: It is ready ready.

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Speaker 4: To received with them.

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Speaker 2: According to Futurism and Frank Landimore, a story published on

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Speaker 2: January thirteenth, the day before we are recording in Vidio,

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Speaker 2: Ceo says everyone should stop being so negative about aid.

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Speaker 4: Take can you guys, it's your problem?

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Speaker 3: Hey, did you see.

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Speaker 2: We're trying to build a massive Ponzi scheme here?

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Speaker 3: Peter would agree this is the best way to fight

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Speaker 3: the Antichrist. I was clocking some of those statements as well.

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Speaker 4: Tone deaf way that he put this forth.

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Speaker 3: I'm curious, Yeah, yeah, it just just everybody for precedent.

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Speaker 3: It reminds me of an earlier headline a little bit

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Speaker 3: before we started the show where the town prior would

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Speaker 3: run into the village and say, everybody's panicing about this

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Speaker 3: plague thing.

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Speaker 4: You know, I know what's the big deal?

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Speaker 2: Think you tell us to stop manufacturing it and creating

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Speaker 2: giant centers for the plague.

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Speaker 3: I'll kiss a pustual when I want.

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Speaker 2: Guys, you have no idea how much of the global

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Speaker 2: economy is wrapped up in these plague factories.

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Speaker 3: We're basically as plagues were propped up the economy. That's right.

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Speaker 3: We talked to the king. He's bullish on plague. Dude.

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Speaker 5: Okay, so so he looked.

923
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Speaker 3: Out the window for a while during his speech. But whatever,

924
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Speaker 3: oh god, we could get away with it. Keep it in.

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Speaker 2: Sometimes you gotta have a fart, even when you're there

926
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Speaker 2: talking to all the oil executives. You just gotta let

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Speaker 2: one fly, and you only need a couple of feet

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Speaker 2: of space, you know, depending on Here. Here's a quote, guys,

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Speaker 2: really quickly. Yeah, here's a quote from Jensen Wang, who

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Speaker 2: is the CEO there at Nvidia. He says he was

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Speaker 2: talking to no priors a podcast. Shout out to you

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Speaker 2: podcast fellow podcast quote, I think we've done a lot

933
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Speaker 2: of damage with very well respected people who have painted

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Speaker 2: a doomer narrative, end of the world narrative, science fiction narrative.

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Speaker 2: And I appreciate that many of us grew up and

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Speaker 2: enjoyed science fiction. But it's not helpful. It's it's not

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Speaker 2: helpful to the people. It's not helpful to the industry.

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Speaker 2: That's that's me talking out of the quote here, that's me,

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Speaker 2: the guy talking to you, And it's not helpful to society.

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Speaker 2: It's not helpful to the governments.

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Speaker 3: Wait, so is that is that quote not helpful to

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Speaker 3: the industry? Is that part of the actual quote.

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Speaker 2: It's not helpful to the industry, it's not helpful to society,

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Speaker 2: it's not helpful to the governments. That I was just

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Speaker 2: pointing out that the man saying this quote is a

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Speaker 2: part of all of those things now in not in

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Speaker 2: some not so small way.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, oh yeah, video legendary. Actually, this is why I

949
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Speaker 3: love our our strange news segments, guys, because this informs

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Speaker 3: episodes and we have we need an Nvidia episode. It's

951
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Speaker 3: just massive.

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Speaker 4: Did you all Grock That Grock is now going to

953
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Speaker 4: be incorporated into the Pentagon Systems.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, seems like a great idea.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, the least guardrailed, most hitlery loving AI platform and

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Speaker 4: by most accounts of the worst.

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Speaker 3: One, it's not great. And I just want to give

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Speaker 3: due respect to Tennessee man. We're recording remotely, and I

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Speaker 3: see your mute sign popping on and off, which lets

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Speaker 3: me know that you're getting a little heated up. I

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Speaker 3: love it.

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Speaker 6: I always get heated about AI. I just want I

963
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Speaker 6: saw another headline that the Microsoft CEO would really appreciate

964
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Speaker 6: if you'd stop calling it slop this year.

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Speaker 4: Yes, can we just turned the temperature down a little bit? Guys?

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Speaker 6: On A I saw other people saying that Microsoft is

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Speaker 6: currently making a slop rating system, which I really love.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, micro slops new sloperating system.

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Speaker 3: The Tennessee Pal, friends and neighbors, guys, ermager, everybody stop

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Speaker 3: being so worried about A or It's probably gonna be fine.

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Speaker 3: I'm sure it'll be just five anience.

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Speaker 4: Fiction guys, by the way, I mean, can I just

973
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Speaker 4: say too that Elon Musk and talking about incorporating rock

974
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Speaker 4: into these pening on syste and his view of the future.

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Speaker 4: He wants to turn Star Trek into a reality Starfleet Academy,

976
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Speaker 4: and he literally says we want to turn science fiction

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Speaker 4: into science fact. So this notion that science fiction, to

978
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Speaker 4: this notion that science fiction is somehow entirely separated from reality,

979
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Speaker 4: is incredibly tone deaf.

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Speaker 3: It's definitely dismissive. We we will definitely need more context,

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Speaker 3: which will find I believe in our semiconductor and Nvidia episode.

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Speaker 2: Yeah wait, no, wasn't there another story you had about

983
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Speaker 2: slop right?

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Speaker 4: No, there was a there's apparently some monkeys on the

985
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Speaker 4: loos in Missouri and there's a hunt for them, and

986
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Speaker 4: AI images flooding the internet are creating a real wrench

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Speaker 4: in the work, some monkey wrench perhaps in their efforts

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Speaker 4: to catch these monkeys because of like, you know, false

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Speaker 4: images of them, you know, doing monkey stuff in places

990
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Speaker 4: that they aren't actually.

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Speaker 3: Wow, monkey stuff. I love reindeer games.

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Speaker 4: Uh.

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Speaker 3: There was also a woman hospitalized after being triggered by

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Speaker 3: a pluribus ad on a smart fridge.

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Speaker 5: What I think, don't get a cartfridge.

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Speaker 4: They'll get a cartfridge.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, uh, but do hang out with us. And actually,

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Speaker 3: you know what, let's amend that. Folks. If you are

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Speaker 3: listening to this show on your smart refrigerator, thank.

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Speaker 5: You is almost bad. You need to use it.

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Speaker 3: The avocado started bad. Just do it so that we

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Speaker 3: make the Wakamuligator the musical. Yeah, I'm writing it down,

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Speaker 3: Nolan'm pointing at you. I can't. I don't know if

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Speaker 3: we had the right eye line, but I'm pointing at

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Speaker 3: you or writing down. Refrigerator the musical. This is going

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Speaker 3: to be big, the.

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Speaker 2: Crooning fridge only from LG.

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Speaker 3: Let's do it, guys, Let's make it happen. We're gonna

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Speaker 3: text Tim Robinson right now and Zach Caanan, the guy

1010
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Speaker 3: who doesn't get enough credit for co writing this show.

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Speaker 3: We can't wait to hang out with you, folks. We

1012
01:02:11,480 --> 01:02:16,320
Speaker 3: have so much more strange news to get to. I'm

1013
01:02:16,360 --> 01:02:19,440
Speaker 3: really happy to report I don't keep it vague for

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01:02:19,520 --> 01:02:24,840
Speaker 3: now that your three faithful correspondents here are going to

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Speaker 3: be technically around the world in sooner than we think.

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Speaker 3: And we're going to be sharing more details with that

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Speaker 3: as it comes. In the meantime, we can't wait to

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01:02:36,680 --> 01:02:39,080
Speaker 3: hear from you. You can call us on a telephone,

1019
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Speaker 3: you can find us online. You can always send us

1020
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Speaker 3: an email, or you can tag us up on Netflix.

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Speaker 4: Oh man, dude, Oh my gosh. Yes, please do watch

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Speaker 4: us on Netflix. You can also find us all over

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Speaker 4: the internet at the social media channels of your choosing

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Speaker 4: at the handle Conspiracy Stuff or Conspiracy Stuff Show.

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Speaker 2: We also have a phone number. It is one H

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Speaker 2: three three STDWYTK. It's a voicemail system three minutes.

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Speaker 4: Call it.

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Speaker 2: You'll figure out what to do if you want to

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Speaker 2: send us an email.

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Speaker 3: Read each piece of correspondence we receive. Be well aware,

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Speaker 3: yet unafraid. Sometimes the void writes back, there were active

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Speaker 3: volcanoes on the Moon when dinosaurs were alive. Conspiracy at

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