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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 this stuff they don't want you to know. A

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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 with our guest superproducer

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

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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. It is Thursday, August seventh, No

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Speaker 3: August eighth, as you are hearing this this evening, and

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Speaker 3: we're so glad that you joined us. Folks, this is

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Speaker 3: where we get to hear from the best part of

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Speaker 3: our show, our fellow conspiracy realists. We're going to We're

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Speaker 3: going to learn about bugs, big bugs. We're going to

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Speaker 3: have a discussion about factories, a little bit about dangers,

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Speaker 3: dangers that we clocked a while back in private industry

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Speaker 3: and DNA before we get to any of that. Boy, howdy,

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Speaker 3: as they say in the US, we've received a lot

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Speaker 3: of response to our concerns about speed limits or limits governors. Yes, indeed, and.

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Speaker 4: We will get to that after just a quick word

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Speaker 4: and we're back, and boy, Ben, did you nail it.

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Speaker 4: We got a lot of response from our EU listeners

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Speaker 4: about a story that Matt brought to the table about

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Speaker 4: technology potentially on the table to be added to vehicles

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Speaker 4: that would limit the maximum speed of cars, of consumer cars,

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Speaker 4: much like the governors that are placed on commercial vehicles

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Speaker 3: I believe they're called lories over there school.

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Speaker 4: Buses, well, school buses one hundred percent, and the term

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Speaker 3: I think that's what they're still referred to.

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Speaker 4: We did get a couple of messages saying we have

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Speaker 4: we didn't quite nail the geography around that conversation. I

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Speaker 4: think we may have even already printed or spoken to

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Speaker 3: And that the United Kingdom is not the EU exactly.

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Speaker 4: But this one specifically comes to us from an Irish

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Speaker 4: people drive as it is unfortunately necessary. I don't drive

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Speaker 4: it could take ninety minutes by bus. The speed limit

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Speaker 4: newer and wider and don't need to be reduced for Matt. Yes,

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Speaker 4: I absolutely love the show and you guys' best ce

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Speaker 3: I don't know.

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Speaker 5: I'm still trying to process how I feel about the

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Speaker 3: So yeah, I appreciate that really quickly. Did I screw up?

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Speaker 3: Is there no technological aspect to this conversation?

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Speaker 4: For some reason, I thought there was also conversation maybe

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Speaker 4: Yeah, and I mean, you know, it's actually a friend

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Speaker 3: always forward to the future. One thing I really like

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Speaker 3: about C's letter here, Noel, is that it's not just

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Speaker 4: and I think we'll bring it up here now. Lastly,

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Speaker 5: And we've returned just as I have recently returned from Ohio. Guys,

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Speaker 2: A big local news story. This is Lauren again.

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Speaker 5: A big local news story this week is a giant

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Speaker 5: Homeland Security investigation into a local factory called fu yow

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Speaker 5: I think that's how you would say it, fu Yao

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Speaker 2: Winning film Q Shacky. It wasn't me, It wasn't me.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, caught me on the factory floor.

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Speaker 5: Yes, because it did have to shut down all of

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Speaker 5: They are saying, fu out Glass America. That is that

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Speaker 3: darkly surprising how often and how widely this process can

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Speaker 3: be applied to any given industry. The idea is that

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Speaker 3: your subcontractor your third party will be able to create

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Speaker 3: a Matroshka doll of other sub subcontractors, and each time

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Speaker 3: that occurs, some portion of the hot potato of legal

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Speaker 3: responsibility and blame gets tossed to the next team. So really,

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Speaker 3: what you're paying people for is just as much in

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Speaker 3: dimnification as it is ease of service and finding people. Mmm.

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Speaker 5: There you go, Hi, guys, I'm gonna give you a

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Speaker 5: little more context on here about the documentary and about

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Speaker 5: the factory itself. According to the AP, this factory was

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Speaker 5: originally a General Motors factory. Over ten years ago. It

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Speaker 5: was going it was shuttered, like it was shutting down.

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Speaker 5: They also got a ton of incentives from the state

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Speaker 5: and local government, and according to Fuyo, the Ohio plant

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Speaker 5: is the largest autoglass production facility, Like the largest, that's

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Speaker 5: what you say.

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Speaker 3: Because aren't they the second largest overall glass manufacturer.

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Speaker 5: They're massive. Yes, and guys get this. Don't want to

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Speaker 5: get too conspiratorial, but the please do. But the documentary

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Speaker 5: titled American Factory that came out in twenty nineteen and

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Speaker 5: won a twenty twenty OSCAR for Best Feature Length Documentary,

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Speaker 5: it was it was produced by a production company that's

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Speaker 5: backed by Barack and Michelle Obama.

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Speaker 3: And that's our show. Thanks for tuning a What was

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Speaker 3: that well done?

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Speaker 5: There was Obama's There was a huge There was a

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Speaker 5: lot of conspiratorial talk, at least on our conspiracy in

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Speaker 5: a couple other places about some movie that came out.

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Speaker 5: I can't remember the name of it. I think it

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Speaker 5: was on Netflix and it was backed by one of

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Speaker 5: these production companies that is backed by the Obamas, and

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Speaker 5: it was about the technology and the world shutting down.

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Speaker 5: I specifically remember this shot of all these teslas that

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Speaker 5: were like automated and just running into each other on

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Speaker 5: the road. Can't remember the name of it. Somebody write

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Speaker 5: to us and remind us what that was and what

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Speaker 5: was about. But it was a bunch of hubbub about

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Speaker 5: the Obama's basically putting money into telling a narrative.

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Speaker 3: Also, yeah, I vaguely recall what you're speaking about there,

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Speaker 3: matt let us. Also note something, and this happens on

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Speaker 3: all sides of the political aisle most often. When you hear, oh,

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Speaker 3: this powerful political figure finance this thing, what that usually

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Speaker 3: means is that a very wealthy person who is active

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Speaker 3: in politics has some sort of financial portfolio, right, and

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Speaker 3: that touches on the thing. They might not know what

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Speaker 3: they are actually funding, right, They might think, oh, Vanguard

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Speaker 3: has their fingers and all sorts of bags of badgers.

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Speaker 3: And then you know, when you find that connection, then

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Speaker 3: you can say, ooh, you know insert insert political figure

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Speaker 3: I already didn't care for is clearly planning to make

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Speaker 3: these weird toilets or you know, whatever the weird thing is. Also,

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Speaker 3: you know, to be completely fai, sometimes yes, there is

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Speaker 3: a concerted effort at an agenda.

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Speaker 2: Yep.

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Speaker 5: In this case, I don't know, I don't know that agendimen.

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Speaker 3: I don't I don't know, I mean, like, can't can

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Speaker 3: these individual This is a question, can the these individuals

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Speaker 3: really keep their eye on every falling financial Sparrow, I

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Speaker 3: guarantee you that in many I feel like that guy

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Speaker 3: who sold the suits. I guarantee you that in many

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Speaker 3: of these cases, the people being accused of conspiracy are

501
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Speaker 3: not really aware of where their money's going. They're aware

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Speaker 3: of the percentage of money that comes back to them

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Speaker 3: in terms of quarterly profits. I don't know, But then again,

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Speaker 3: I'm arguing against myself here because guys, the Clinton's got

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Speaker 3: into some really sketchy stuff during Bill Clinton's governorship, right,

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Speaker 3: I don't know, It's a pickle.

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Speaker 5: I want to end the segment here, guys, with a

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Speaker 5: quick word from one of the people that worked at

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Speaker 5: the factory and was there when all this went down.

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Speaker 5: His name is Miles Smith. He, at least as of

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Speaker 5: the time of this reporting on July twenty sixth, had

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Speaker 5: worked as a forklift driver there at the factory for

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Speaker 5: two years. And this is what he had to say.

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Speaker 5: I seen the FBI, like Homeland Security. They said, go

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Speaker 5: back in the building. We got a warrant to search

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Speaker 5: the place, and so he spoke with some agents. Then

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Speaker 5: he said, we couldn't do nothing. We couldn't go nowhere.

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Speaker 5: They said, you got to go to the bathroom. Well

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Speaker 5: we got to escort you to the bathroom. Basically, they

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Speaker 5: had us lockdown, shut down and sweating. And then he said,

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Speaker 5: a couple of weeks before they came some of Homeland

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Speaker 5: I believe came in and got some of the immigrants

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Speaker 5: that were working here. Then he said, I saw them

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Speaker 5: going through lockers, going through the equipment, checking the bathroom.

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Speaker 5: And then according to Smith, the agents made everyone fill

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Speaker 5: out cards to identify themselves. So not just whatever your

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Speaker 5: picture ID that you have on you, as like, actually

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Speaker 5: fill out your information. Then they had to get in

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Speaker 5: four lines, and these agents took all the cards. They

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Speaker 5: id'd everyone basically to verify who everyone was there.

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Speaker 3: Also too, Also that's a very brilliant countermeasure. Uh, not

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Speaker 3: only like, Okay, anybody can have fake paperwork, right, but

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Speaker 3: can you yourself replicate that paperwork when asked?

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Speaker 5: Yeah, exactly in the moment they're doing when you're in

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Speaker 5: their stress. M yep, that's a big deal. But Smith

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Speaker 5: said he watched several people get detained from those lines

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Speaker 5: after everybody you know, was trying to prove their identity. Guys,

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Speaker 5: I don't have a bunch more on this, uh, Lauren,

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Speaker 5: if you hear anything more, please let us know. We

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Speaker 5: hope all else is going well in the Dayton area

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Speaker 5: and where you are. And uh yeah, just to enjoy Ohio,

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Speaker 5: gotta say, guys, went I went to a place called

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Speaker 5: put In Bay and I had never been there before.

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Speaker 5: I didn't know anything about it. According to the locals,

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Speaker 5: it is a big old party island that people go

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Speaker 5: to just to get nice and schwasty.

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Speaker 2: But it was lovely. Ohio was lovely.

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Speaker 5: My son who is caught up in the Ohio thing

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Speaker 5: like using Ohio, I guess in some kind.

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Speaker 3: Of shrugatory progatory.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean, he was like, I'm going to tell

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Speaker 5: all my friends Ohio is amazing.

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Speaker 3: And I again, I want to do this on air

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Speaker 3: accountability moment. I apologize for bugging you about both pictures.

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Speaker 3: I'm just very excited by boats and water and you're

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Speaker 3: an excellent photographer.

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Speaker 5: Oh I got some great stuff. If you haven't seen

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Speaker 5: it yet, I will send it your way. Also got

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Speaker 5: some interior cave footage, guys, that I tried to replicate

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Speaker 5: some of the seventies eighties, like shooting a model of

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Speaker 5: a train station or a city, you know, where you

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Speaker 5: have a little camera and you'd move it over the

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Speaker 5: little model and make it look like it's a huge city.

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Speaker 2: I did it.

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Speaker 5: I did that upside down in a cave interior, and

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Speaker 5: I made it look like it's the ground of the cave.

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Speaker 5: But it looks like I have an unending like helicopter

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Speaker 5: shot over a canyon or something.

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Speaker 3: It's awesome, beautiful. Please send it, oh I will.

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Speaker 5: All right, that's it for now, Thanks Laren. We'll be

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Speaker 5: right back with more messages from you.

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Speaker 3: And we have returned shout out to our guest producer

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Speaker 3: Freight Train, who, as a michigan or himself, notes that

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Speaker 3: he regards Ohio as the frozen swamp of America. Okay, hey,

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Speaker 3: all right, I got family from there also. I don't

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Speaker 3: like this anti swamp rhetoric. So unless you meant it

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Speaker 3: as a compliment, which perhaps you did, here we go.

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Speaker 3: We've got We've got an email, and then we've got

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Speaker 3: a letter from home, and we need all hands on

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Speaker 3: deck for this one. If you are hearing this, that

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Speaker 3: applies to you as well. Our next piece of correspondence

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Speaker 3: arrives to us from sc bug Geek that's all one word,

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Speaker 3: s C. Bug Geek. We're kind enough to begin your

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Speaker 3: letter with the following, Hey, guys, I love the show.

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Speaker 3: You all have explored Big Sugar, Big Death, and such,

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Speaker 3: but you all have yet to discuss Big bug slight

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Speaker 3: editorial note here. As my colleagues know, I am incapable

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Speaker 3: of saying certain contractions in this language. I am paraphrasing

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Speaker 3: you a bit sc bug Geek. SC bug Geek continues.

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Speaker 3: I am an associate certified entomologist and a master termite

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Speaker 3: technician in South Carolina. I have been in the bug

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Speaker 3: biz pest control for going on ten years. There is

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Speaker 3: an ongoing technique where large think global pest control companies

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Speaker 3: buy up smaller companies and mom and popshop like me.

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Speaker 3: The new parent company keeps the original name and forward

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Speaker 3: facing workers, much like Big Death. And here here are pal.

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Speaker 3: The bug Geek is referring to our earlier episodes on

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Speaker 3: the funeral a mortician industry, wherein we discovered that unfortunately,

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Speaker 3: monopoly laws don't seem to apply to that industry. They're

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Speaker 3: buying up all these supposedly mom and pop funeral services

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Speaker 3: or funeral homes, and they're letting them keep their original branding,

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Speaker 3: but they are essentially franchises and subsidiaries of a larger

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Speaker 3: hidden hand. So apparently the same thing is happening with

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Speaker 3: the pest control industry. And I didn't look through the

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Speaker 3: entirety of our episode catalog, but guys, I know we

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Speaker 3: have discussed this in the past, the serious problems with

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Speaker 3: the modern pesticide industry overall, and a lot of our

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00:36:02,400 --> 00:36:06,239
Speaker 3: fellow listeners are in that industry or have had some

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Speaker 3: pretty disturbing experiences with it. Right.

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Speaker 5: Oh, yeah, that's a little I'm trying to apply it

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Speaker 5: to the same context here, right, So, when these larger

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Speaker 5: companies in the funeral business are buying out the smaller

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Speaker 5: ones there, I kept trying to I remember thinking about that,

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Speaker 5: like thinking about the profit motive for all of those

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Speaker 5: and in my head, I swear it goes back to

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Speaker 5: the McDonald's thing we talked about, where it's buying up

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Speaker 5: the property, and the property was the thing. It wasn't

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Speaker 5: even the funeral services or the company or the people

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Speaker 5: that's generating some kind of profit. It's just now they

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Speaker 5: own a crap ton of pretty big property. If you

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Speaker 5: think about a funeral home, I wonder if that's happening here.

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Speaker 5: But you know, these pest control companies must be generating

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Speaker 5: quite a bit of profit.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, very much so, especially when we consider that just

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Speaker 3: like how the big boys in the funeral industry can

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Speaker 3: control resources, right, kind of like how Walmart can set

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Speaker 3: the prices or dictate prices for supplies and lower costs

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Speaker 3: for everything just so yeah, and also operate at a

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Speaker 3: loss if they need to drown the local mom and pops.

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Speaker 3: And that seems to be what bug geek is arguing

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Speaker 3: is occurring in the pesticide industry, which I honestly find unsurprising,

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Speaker 3: and I believe this may be worth an episode because

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Speaker 3: we know that we know that the American public will

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Speaker 3: have concerns when it comes to visible monopolies, right someone says, hey,

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Speaker 3: Google does kind of run a lot of stuff, or like, hey,

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Speaker 3: why can't I have a different internet provider here? Oh?

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Speaker 2: Exactly.

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Speaker 5: It makes so much sense now in some of that contact,

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Speaker 5: because I can imagine, especially if you're talking about investor

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Speaker 5: money rather than like an arrow exterminators, which is a

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Speaker 5: really big one here at least in our section of Georgia.

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Speaker 5: Like if you imagine them, this is theoretical but imagine

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Speaker 5: them buying up a mom and pop store, right, That

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Speaker 5: doesn't make much sense, I guess unless there are major

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Speaker 5: investors in a company that are making money by somehow

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Speaker 5: a publicly traded.

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Speaker 2: Price going way up.

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Speaker 5: If they are expanding, right, and they're making acquisitions and

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Speaker 5: all that stuff, that makes sense to me.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, And I actually want to save some of what

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Speaker 3: bug geek is telling us here, because you have hit

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Speaker 3: upon something that most people don't know, and I think

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Speaker 3: it's a thing this industry in particular would rather the

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Speaker 3: public not know, because it's not a sexy thing to

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Speaker 3: talk about, you know what I mean, It's not as

656
00:38:57,680 --> 00:39:02,279
Speaker 3: fun as as on as pop culture conspiracies, because it

657
00:39:02,400 --> 00:39:05,800
Speaker 3: is monopolization is an actual conspiracy. And we have to

658
00:39:05,880 --> 00:39:09,600
Speaker 3: remember a lot of the substances getting supplied here are

659
00:39:09,800 --> 00:39:13,799
Speaker 3: provably carcinogenic. Well, with that note, Buggy, please be safe.

660
00:39:13,880 --> 00:39:17,000
Speaker 3: You're obviously a professional in your field. We'd love to

661
00:39:17,040 --> 00:39:20,719
Speaker 3: hear your war stories. And Matt, I think you absolutely

662
00:39:20,840 --> 00:39:24,400
Speaker 3: nail it in terms of the danger of private equity.

663
00:39:25,960 --> 00:39:30,320
Speaker 3: Just like Unilever really is a corporate chameleon. You know,

664
00:39:30,920 --> 00:39:36,399
Speaker 3: its tentacles are so disparate and unidentifiable until you get

665
00:39:36,440 --> 00:39:38,920
Speaker 3: to the hive brain and then you go, oh wait.

666
00:39:39,320 --> 00:39:42,200
Speaker 5: Yeah, it's you guys all along, and it's just got

667
00:39:42,239 --> 00:39:45,400
Speaker 5: a giant mouth like a whale though that kind of

668
00:39:45,520 --> 00:39:49,120
Speaker 5: combs through the ocean of companies and some of them

669
00:39:49,280 --> 00:39:51,400
Speaker 5: go in and some of them it spits right out.

670
00:39:51,640 --> 00:39:56,760
Speaker 3: With its bailing plates. Yes, private equity, Yes, that seems

671
00:39:56,800 --> 00:39:59,640
Speaker 3: to be what is happening. And here then is a

672
00:40:00,440 --> 00:40:03,560
Speaker 3: and call right now, This is kind of a think

673
00:40:03,640 --> 00:40:06,080
Speaker 3: of this, folks. As ats. We get a lot of

674
00:40:06,239 --> 00:40:10,399
Speaker 3: episodes from strange news and listener mail, from your suggestions,

675
00:40:10,480 --> 00:40:13,160
Speaker 3: from your input. We want to hear from anybody's worked

676
00:40:13,200 --> 00:40:16,040
Speaker 3: with Big Bug in one capacity or another. We also

677
00:40:16,120 --> 00:40:20,200
Speaker 3: want to hear about people who have had dangerous experiences

678
00:40:21,040 --> 00:40:25,280
Speaker 3: with pesticides. And also their lobby is huge, the power

679
00:40:25,400 --> 00:40:29,160
Speaker 3: the pesticide lobby. It is a sleeping giant, and there's

680
00:40:29,200 --> 00:40:31,640
Speaker 3: a reason it's not in the press all that often.

681
00:40:32,640 --> 00:40:35,239
Speaker 3: So that's the downer. But we don't want to leave

682
00:40:35,280 --> 00:40:38,120
Speaker 3: you without some good news to step to, or at

683
00:40:38,200 --> 00:40:43,560
Speaker 3: least something interesting, So we will end tonight's exploration with

684
00:40:44,200 --> 00:40:47,600
Speaker 3: a letter from home. This one is a little bit different.

685
00:40:47,719 --> 00:40:51,839
Speaker 3: I'm putting the spotlight on you guys tonight and all

686
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Speaker 3: our fellow listeners. Do you know how I have like

687
00:40:57,719 --> 00:41:01,480
Speaker 3: I don't want to say mental dysfunctions. I got quirks, right,

688
00:41:01,640 --> 00:41:03,839
Speaker 3: you know, I get a little obsessive about stuff. That's

689
00:41:04,000 --> 00:41:05,920
Speaker 3: you know what. We all go a little mad sometimes.

690
00:41:06,040 --> 00:41:10,840
Speaker 2: Ben, It's fine, well, Ben, as I will. I just

691
00:41:10,960 --> 00:41:12,520
Speaker 2: I'm gonna give context if you don't mind.

692
00:41:12,560 --> 00:41:12,680
Speaker 3: Ben.

693
00:41:13,000 --> 00:41:16,880
Speaker 5: Ben's name currently in our recording session is Ben in

694
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Speaker 5: an accent.

695
00:41:18,440 --> 00:41:21,919
Speaker 3: That's it's for a different show, a different thing for Ben.

696
00:41:23,880 --> 00:41:27,520
Speaker 3: Thank you, Matt, thank you Blackstone Enthusiast, which we'll get

697
00:41:27,560 --> 00:41:31,000
Speaker 3: to next week. By the way, that's a really juicy one.

698
00:41:31,680 --> 00:41:36,400
Speaker 3: And uh Noel, I give you so many monikers and nicknames.

699
00:41:36,600 --> 00:41:38,960
Speaker 3: I like to think you take some of them. Oh

700
00:41:39,040 --> 00:41:41,440
Speaker 3: I dig them all? All right? All right, back man

701
00:41:42,800 --> 00:41:49,160
Speaker 3: shovel so here as they call him in the Eus Spade. Yes, yeah,

702
00:41:50,080 --> 00:41:53,360
Speaker 3: Here is our our letter from home again. This is

703
00:41:53,400 --> 00:41:55,759
Speaker 3: a spotlight on you guys and freight Trainer. I hope

704
00:41:55,760 --> 00:41:59,080
Speaker 3: you joined this conversation. One of my new obsessions, and

705
00:41:59,120 --> 00:42:01,400
Speaker 3: I've been talking with a lot of people about this

706
00:42:01,600 --> 00:42:05,320
Speaker 3: on social media and on different shows that we do.

707
00:42:07,200 --> 00:42:10,959
Speaker 3: Famous Last Meals. Context while back, went to a weird

708
00:42:11,080 --> 00:42:16,200
Speaker 3: museum in New York called the Museum with two MS

709
00:42:16,280 --> 00:42:18,360
Speaker 3: at the front, two ms at the back, and they

710
00:42:18,400 --> 00:42:22,320
Speaker 3: had an exhibit entirely about famous last meals. And I

711
00:42:22,480 --> 00:42:25,080
Speaker 3: have to ask you guys, starting with you first, then

712
00:42:25,080 --> 00:42:29,919
Speaker 3: we'll get to the listeners. If you had a fame

713
00:42:29,960 --> 00:42:34,640
Speaker 3: it if you had a last meal defined as the

714
00:42:35,160 --> 00:42:39,600
Speaker 3: last thing you eat noel holds barred before a state

715
00:42:39,960 --> 00:42:44,040
Speaker 3: or powerful entity executes you, what would that be? And

716
00:42:44,200 --> 00:42:46,719
Speaker 3: freight train for you. Since this is a thought experiment,

717
00:42:46,840 --> 00:42:50,719
Speaker 3: you do not have the condition in this scenario, So

718
00:42:51,160 --> 00:42:53,560
Speaker 3: what would be your dream last meal?

719
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Speaker 6: Well, if I'm going to jump in, uh, this is

720
00:42:57,040 --> 00:42:58,680
Speaker 6: very much not a thing I can't I can eat

721
00:42:58,719 --> 00:43:01,239
Speaker 6: with the condition. It would just a Caesar salad, a

722
00:43:01,360 --> 00:43:03,720
Speaker 6: small one of big a big Caesar salad, no chicken

723
00:43:03,800 --> 00:43:04,080
Speaker 6: or hunt.

724
00:43:04,160 --> 00:43:06,520
Speaker 3: That just that could be the death salad. That would

725
00:43:06,560 --> 00:43:09,200
Speaker 3: be the execution and of itself, it would kill you dead.

726
00:43:09,480 --> 00:43:11,759
Speaker 6: I also, like you know, because the condition, I haven't

727
00:43:11,800 --> 00:43:13,960
Speaker 6: been able to eat caesar salad for almost two years now,

728
00:43:14,080 --> 00:43:15,719
Speaker 6: so I really eencrave in one right now.

729
00:43:15,760 --> 00:43:18,120
Speaker 3: So thank you for date. It is delicious.

730
00:43:18,440 --> 00:43:19,600
Speaker 2: Just the case, I gotta.

731
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Speaker 5: There's one in my fridge that I'm going to eat

732
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Speaker 5: immediately following this recording.

733
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Speaker 3: You bastard. We need you to have Fomo max.

734
00:43:28,440 --> 00:43:31,400
Speaker 2: Yeah, I can FaceTime you while I consume it if

735
00:43:31,440 --> 00:43:31,719
Speaker 2: you want.

736
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Speaker 3: There's a fetishy internet name for that map. Yeah, it's

737
00:43:36,520 --> 00:43:39,200
Speaker 3: like that lady who makes millions of dollars just rolling

738
00:43:39,239 --> 00:43:43,560
Speaker 3: her face and bread. Hm you know, bang right bang. Yeah,

739
00:43:43,680 --> 00:43:45,720
Speaker 3: it's similar. Yeah, it's heavily in that genre.

740
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Speaker 5: I've been looking to diversify my revenue streams boys, so hey,

741
00:43:49,520 --> 00:43:50,560
Speaker 5: it's a big economy.

742
00:43:50,880 --> 00:43:53,479
Speaker 3: Yeah, I don't know. Bread Lady might have been first

743
00:43:53,480 --> 00:43:57,719
Speaker 3: to the post on that. Uh, but the so it's weird.

744
00:43:57,760 --> 00:44:00,279
Speaker 3: I've been fascinated with the history of last meets. It

745
00:44:00,320 --> 00:44:04,640
Speaker 3: actually dates back our earlier conversation about the Olympics, right,

746
00:44:04,880 --> 00:44:11,680
Speaker 3: and the pseudo controversial Paris opening game ceremony. Last meals

747
00:44:12,000 --> 00:44:14,960
Speaker 3: are kind of an ancient Greek thing, and they predate

748
00:44:15,080 --> 00:44:17,960
Speaker 3: the idea of probably the most famous last meal in

749
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Speaker 3: the West, which is, you know, the Last Supper of

750
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Speaker 3: Jesus Christ.

751
00:44:22,200 --> 00:44:22,319
Speaker 5: Uh.

752
00:44:22,680 --> 00:44:26,560
Speaker 3: The that's the most famous last meal right now. But

753
00:44:26,920 --> 00:44:30,359
Speaker 3: when I'm looking back through the history of this, it's

754
00:44:30,520 --> 00:44:37,000
Speaker 3: quite common throughout the world for people to give someone

755
00:44:37,520 --> 00:44:39,760
Speaker 3: a last meal. And we're going to have a hopefully

756
00:44:40,200 --> 00:44:45,239
Speaker 3: fascinating episode on this for Ridiculous History coming up pretty soon.

757
00:44:45,600 --> 00:44:47,880
Speaker 3: But I just I immediately thought of you guys. I

758
00:44:47,960 --> 00:44:52,600
Speaker 3: was so fascinated. I've been thinking through what you all's

759
00:44:52,920 --> 00:44:55,480
Speaker 3: like based on my understanding of your favorite foods, what

760
00:44:55,640 --> 00:44:58,399
Speaker 3: your favorite what your last meal would be. Uh, there's

761
00:44:58,440 --> 00:45:01,120
Speaker 3: no holds barred. Let's pretend that, like, there's no budget,

762
00:45:01,200 --> 00:45:03,560
Speaker 3: there's no cutoff. It could be anything. I think the

763
00:45:03,920 --> 00:45:07,480
Speaker 3: gold should be barred, choke hold should be you want

764
00:45:07,480 --> 00:45:08,520
Speaker 3: to eat a choke hold?

765
00:45:08,880 --> 00:45:10,879
Speaker 4: Well, I told you a joke that I stole from

766
00:45:10,960 --> 00:45:13,920
Speaker 4: the I guess that was on the Adam Friedland podcast

767
00:45:14,440 --> 00:45:16,719
Speaker 4: where he said he had this is like a whole

768
00:45:16,840 --> 00:45:19,719
Speaker 4: like hack. He said his last meal, he would choose

769
00:45:19,800 --> 00:45:23,560
Speaker 4: to eat the electric chair every time, and and then

770
00:45:23,600 --> 00:45:25,560
Speaker 4: they have to, you know, eat the electric chair. Then

771
00:45:25,600 --> 00:45:27,600
Speaker 4: it wouldn't function and they'd have to, you know, give

772
00:45:27,640 --> 00:45:30,640
Speaker 4: him a stay of execution and then presumably a new

773
00:45:30,800 --> 00:45:32,839
Speaker 4: last meal, and then he'd do it again every time.

774
00:45:33,040 --> 00:45:35,520
Speaker 3: I thought this cute. There's the all you can eat

775
00:45:35,560 --> 00:45:39,520
Speaker 3: buffet hack. The intent right, like I'm getting you know,

776
00:45:39,640 --> 00:45:42,040
Speaker 3: all you can eat crab legs in case dias, I'm

777
00:45:42,120 --> 00:45:44,359
Speaker 3: just never quite done. I'm taking a break.

778
00:45:44,960 --> 00:45:45,080
Speaker 5: Uh.

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00:45:45,760 --> 00:45:50,600
Speaker 3: The execution apparatuses of the world are hipped to that one. Unfortunately,

780
00:45:51,640 --> 00:45:53,960
Speaker 3: a lot of people wait, so are you saying you're

781
00:45:54,040 --> 00:45:55,840
Speaker 3: joking or would you you would try to do that?

782
00:45:56,080 --> 00:45:58,200
Speaker 3: I couldn't. I couldn't get down any any part of

783
00:45:58,239 --> 00:46:00,600
Speaker 3: an electric chair. Just think of the fiber in the

784
00:46:00,719 --> 00:46:05,160
Speaker 3: minerals and the minerals. Think of the minerals. There's also

785
00:46:06,480 --> 00:46:08,680
Speaker 3: this goes state by state here in the US. But

786
00:46:08,760 --> 00:46:12,160
Speaker 3: the one thing that's really heartbreaking that you may find

787
00:46:12,719 --> 00:46:16,640
Speaker 3: is that typically when people are on death row, whether

788
00:46:16,760 --> 00:46:20,480
Speaker 3: or not they were guilty of the crime that they're

789
00:46:20,560 --> 00:46:24,319
Speaker 3: being executed for, typically after they've spent that much time

790
00:46:24,360 --> 00:46:27,880
Speaker 3: in lock up, the things they want become relatively simple.

791
00:46:28,200 --> 00:46:30,520
Speaker 3: I was talking about this on Daily Zeitgeist. You know,

792
00:46:30,600 --> 00:46:34,759
Speaker 3: you might imagine something opulent like ortilon, or you know,

793
00:46:34,960 --> 00:46:38,879
Speaker 3: give me a tiger. I want tiger meet Most people

794
00:46:38,920 --> 00:46:40,920
Speaker 3: are like, I want a burger and fries and some

795
00:46:41,080 --> 00:46:45,200
Speaker 3: ice cream, or I'd like a three piece fried chicken.

796
00:46:45,440 --> 00:46:48,680
Speaker 4: But maybe I really like a double double animal style

797
00:46:49,400 --> 00:46:53,840
Speaker 4: from In and Out that'd be good. I think i'd request.

798
00:46:53,880 --> 00:46:55,600
Speaker 4: I think I'm finally on board with the idea that

799
00:46:55,680 --> 00:46:57,880
Speaker 4: in and out fries or trash. I always try to

800
00:46:57,920 --> 00:47:00,320
Speaker 4: defend them, but they really aren't that good, like the

801
00:47:00,400 --> 00:47:02,640
Speaker 4: crispy bits at the bottom of the fry bag. So

802
00:47:02,680 --> 00:47:05,239
Speaker 4: I think i'd ask I request fries from outside a

803
00:47:05,320 --> 00:47:08,400
Speaker 4: different place. Yeah, some nice seasoned fries.

804
00:47:08,560 --> 00:47:12,200
Speaker 3: All right? So uh, in and out double animal style

805
00:47:12,880 --> 00:47:18,920
Speaker 3: seasoned fries from somewhere else TBD. Caesar salad for freight train, Matt,

806
00:47:19,560 --> 00:47:20,680
Speaker 3: Do you have a pick? Oh?

807
00:47:20,760 --> 00:47:25,960
Speaker 5: Yeah, sure, green curry tie, hot stinged rice and jasmine.

808
00:47:26,560 --> 00:47:29,319
Speaker 5: Need some spring rolls in there, for sure. The kind

809
00:47:29,360 --> 00:47:32,160
Speaker 5: of haves shrimp in them, like the.

810
00:47:32,360 --> 00:47:34,520
Speaker 4: Like the like the fresh spring rolls or the fried

811
00:47:34,560 --> 00:47:37,760
Speaker 4: spring rolls. Fresh spring rolls, Yeah, with the nice papery

812
00:47:38,000 --> 00:47:39,000
Speaker 4: kind of sticky.

813
00:47:38,960 --> 00:47:40,680
Speaker 2: The rice paper all day.

814
00:47:41,239 --> 00:47:44,960
Speaker 5: And I'm gonna need tofu in that green curry as

815
00:47:45,000 --> 00:47:47,839
Speaker 5: it will absorb the deliciousness. And we gotta make sure

816
00:47:47,960 --> 00:47:51,000
Speaker 5: it's not that runny watery. No, you's gotta have some

817
00:47:51,719 --> 00:47:54,000
Speaker 5: got some body and the tofu. Do you like a

818
00:47:54,040 --> 00:47:55,680
Speaker 5: little seer on your tofu? Ye?

819
00:47:56,200 --> 00:48:01,200
Speaker 3: Yeah, exactly, thank you? What are we playing otherwise now

820
00:48:01,320 --> 00:48:03,600
Speaker 3: sometimes kind of like a custardy tofa. Sometimes I don't

821
00:48:03,600 --> 00:48:05,439
Speaker 3: need to see her for the last meal.

822
00:48:05,719 --> 00:48:08,239
Speaker 4: Oh no, I get a really rad dish from There's

823
00:48:08,239 --> 00:48:10,520
Speaker 4: a place called High Chinese here that does this thing

824
00:48:10,600 --> 00:48:14,960
Speaker 4: called Mapo tofu. Yeah, it's fabulous, but the tofu is

825
00:48:15,040 --> 00:48:17,719
Speaker 4: this custardy consistency. It's not fried at all, and I

826
00:48:17,920 --> 00:48:20,200
Speaker 4: love it, But for the most part, I would prefer

827
00:48:20,280 --> 00:48:22,880
Speaker 4: a little a little crispiness on my tofu.

828
00:48:23,239 --> 00:48:28,440
Speaker 3: I'd be worried if you're eating slovenly tofu. It's it

829
00:48:28,480 --> 00:48:32,800
Speaker 3: holds together. It's custardy. Custardy. That's a pleasant that's a

830
00:48:32,840 --> 00:48:34,239
Speaker 3: pleasant mouth feel, guys.

831
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Speaker 2: But if you feed that to me, you can just

832
00:48:36,239 --> 00:48:38,520
Speaker 2: take me away. I'm good to go there.

833
00:48:38,760 --> 00:48:41,480
Speaker 3: They are also tragic stories because this gets into the

834
00:48:41,600 --> 00:48:45,440
Speaker 3: larger conspiracy and problems with the death penalty. Like there

835
00:48:46,360 --> 00:48:50,920
Speaker 3: there's at least one case I know of a mentally

836
00:48:51,000 --> 00:48:58,000
Speaker 3: impaired person who, upon being led to their execution, saved

837
00:48:58,120 --> 00:49:00,960
Speaker 3: their cake for afterwards, and they asked the guard to

838
00:49:01,040 --> 00:49:03,040
Speaker 3: keep an eye on it because they didn't understand what

839
00:49:03,200 --> 00:49:08,800
Speaker 3: was happening to them. Wow, But in good news, in

840
00:49:08,960 --> 00:49:12,319
Speaker 3: good news, there are for a while. It seems there

841
00:49:12,320 --> 00:49:16,880
Speaker 3: were no limits on what people could order, and our

842
00:49:16,920 --> 00:49:20,880
Speaker 3: buddy Miles from Daily Zeitgeist and Jack from Daily Zeitgeist

843
00:49:21,239 --> 00:49:25,880
Speaker 3: they pointed out, maybe this was a show of conscience

844
00:49:26,280 --> 00:49:30,319
Speaker 3: on the part of the prison staff or the executors.

845
00:49:30,600 --> 00:49:35,640
Speaker 3: You know, I think they have empathy, you know, especially

846
00:49:35,719 --> 00:49:37,520
Speaker 3: when facing down the reaper.

847
00:49:38,239 --> 00:49:38,439
Speaker 5: Yeah.

848
00:49:38,520 --> 00:49:41,560
Speaker 3: It's a little too late, too little though, maybe so

849
00:49:41,840 --> 00:49:44,719
Speaker 3: I'm just you know, just be a devil's advocate. Yeah,

850
00:49:45,200 --> 00:49:48,520
Speaker 3: I think that's appropriate. But it's like, hey, sorry, we're

851
00:49:48,560 --> 00:49:52,120
Speaker 3: going to kill you, even though the state has serious

852
00:49:52,239 --> 00:49:57,960
Speaker 3: questions about whether you did the crime. Here is a cheeseburger.

853
00:49:59,160 --> 00:50:01,120
Speaker 3: Best we can do as long as it's a double

854
00:50:01,160 --> 00:50:05,480
Speaker 3: double animal style baconator baconator, right, because you don't have

855
00:50:05,560 --> 00:50:07,919
Speaker 3: to worry about the calories. Oh boy, that went dark.

856
00:50:08,880 --> 00:50:14,240
Speaker 3: This is This is a fascinating thing to me because

857
00:50:14,640 --> 00:50:18,880
Speaker 3: food is such a fundamental part of human culture, and

858
00:50:19,239 --> 00:50:22,960
Speaker 3: this would be your last chance to participate in that

859
00:50:23,320 --> 00:50:27,560
Speaker 3: universal interest. And this is where we throw it to you, folks.

860
00:50:27,640 --> 00:50:31,200
Speaker 3: We want to hear your story, not even your stories.

861
00:50:31,600 --> 00:50:38,319
Speaker 3: What is your ideal last meal? Please? Please do tell us,

862
00:50:38,719 --> 00:50:41,759
Speaker 3: take all the time, all the detail, you need check

863
00:50:41,800 --> 00:50:45,560
Speaker 3: out earlier conversations about this in different shows. Stay tuned

864
00:50:45,640 --> 00:50:49,520
Speaker 3: for our Ridiculous History episode that dives into the origin

865
00:50:49,680 --> 00:50:54,720
Speaker 3: story of Last Meals, along with notable episodes in the future.

866
00:50:55,120 --> 00:50:57,760
Speaker 3: I hope you are never in this situation, but please

867
00:50:57,840 --> 00:51:01,319
Speaker 3: do remember Last Meals in the US do go state

868
00:51:01,400 --> 00:51:04,640
Speaker 3: by state. For instance, in Florida, you have to have

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Speaker 3: warden sits down and eats with you. Oh damn, which

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Speaker 3: I would I would request that I would give a

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Speaker 3: pass on that. Yeah, yeah, I don't know. And in

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Speaker 3: Texas they don't do it anymore.

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Speaker 4: What if there was a thing in Texas, like an

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Speaker 4: episode of King of the Hill where you have to

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Speaker 4: That Okay, that would be such a Texas thing. Man,

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Speaker 4: wouldn't that be like a man? And then you get

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Speaker 4: your picture up on the board too.

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Speaker 3: You know, Oh my god, he's got a picture of

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Speaker 3: the board. Yeah, we want to hear your stories about this, folks,

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Speaker 3: and as always, we greatly appreciate your time. Big thanks

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