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Speaker 2: Hello, welcome back to the show. My name is Matt,
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Speaker 3: August eighth, as you are hearing this this evening, and
Speaker 3: we're so glad that you joined us. Folks, this is
Speaker 3: where we get to hear from the best part of
Speaker 3: our show, our fellow conspiracy realists. We're going to We're
Speaker 3: going to learn about bugs, big bugs. We're going to
Speaker 3: have a discussion about factories, a little bit about dangers,
Speaker 3: dangers that we clocked a while back in private industry
Speaker 3: and DNA before we get to any of that. Boy, howdy,
Speaker 3: as they say in the US, we've received a lot
Speaker 3: of response to our concerns about speed limits or limits governors. Yes, indeed, and.
Speaker 4: We will get to that after just a quick word
Speaker 4: and we're back, and boy, Ben, did you nail it.
Speaker 4: We got a lot of response from our EU listeners
Speaker 4: about a story that Matt brought to the table about
Speaker 4: technology potentially on the table to be added to vehicles
Speaker 4: that would limit the maximum speed of cars, of consumer cars,
Speaker 4: much like the governors that are placed on commercial vehicles
Speaker 4: like trucks or.
Speaker 3: I believe they're called lories over there school.
Speaker 4: Buses, well, school buses one hundred percent, and the term
Speaker 4: there is governors.
Speaker 3: I think that's what they're still referred to.
Speaker 4: We did get a couple of messages saying we have
Speaker 4: we didn't quite nail the geography around that conversation. I
Speaker 4: think we may have even already printed or spoken to
Speaker 4: that in terms of you know, it was the difference
Speaker 4: between Scotland and Ireland.
Speaker 3: And that the United Kingdom is not the EU exactly.
Speaker 4: But this one specifically comes to us from an Irish
Speaker 4: listener that goes by see hey guys. Unlike what Luke
Speaker 4: from the Netherlands said, unfortunately, some people in Ireland aren't
Speaker 4: happy about the speed limit regulations. Ireland doesn't have a
Speaker 4: great public transport system like mainland Europe. The majority of
Speaker 4: people drive as it is unfortunately necessary. I don't drive
Speaker 4: and it does limit me a lot. I live in
Speaker 4: Cork City and can walk or get the bus most places,
Speaker 4: but limited by the terrible bus service where you don't
Speaker 4: know if the bus will show up or even go
Speaker 4: to your destination, as they have a habit of just
Speaker 4: stopping in the middle of the routes. At times there
Speaker 4: is no connection either, so if you need to get
Speaker 4: somewhere that could be less than thirty minutes away by car,
Speaker 4: it could take ninety minutes by bus. The speed limit
Speaker 4: changes for cars instituted by the RSA Road Safety Authority
Speaker 4: are changing speed limits on the roads. Mainly, what people
Speaker 4: are annoyed by is that they are decreasing rural roads
Speaker 4: from eighty kilometers an hour to fifty kilometers an hour,
Speaker 4: and roads closer to towns and villages from fifty kilometers
Speaker 4: an hour to thirty kilometers an hour. This is really
Speaker 4: needed on rural roads, as some of them are literally
Speaker 4: big enough to fit one small car and would have
Speaker 4: grass growing on them. It is the fifty to thirty
Speaker 4: that is annoying everyone, as some of those roads are
Speaker 4: newer and wider and don't need to be reduced for Matt. Yes,
Speaker 4: grocery shopping can be a real pain without a car,
Speaker 4: but maybe it's different in the US. A lot of
Speaker 4: Irish would do a main shop once every four to
Speaker 4: six weeks and a smaller one weekly which can easily
Speaker 4: be carried by bus or train. I get my main
Speaker 4: food shop delivered once every six weeks. And grocery delivery
Speaker 4: I just want to point out like has been much
Speaker 4: more of a thing in other parts of the world
Speaker 4: and in bigger.
Speaker 3: Cities, perhaps in the United States.
Speaker 4: Than the advent of things like instacart have kind of created.
Speaker 4: So it's become a lot more common for folks that
Speaker 4: I know and myself included to get grocery delivery. But
Speaker 4: in Europe and places like New York, for example, grocery
Speaker 4: delivery has.
Speaker 3: Been a thing for a lot longer.
Speaker 4: Also, just to note, Ireland is very car centric and
Speaker 4: Cork they were looking at changing the whole bus networks
Speaker 4: to bus connects, which prior to public intervention, would have
Speaker 4: vastly improved the service in Cork, but it was destroyed
Speaker 4: by people who don't use public transit, and now it's
Speaker 4: basically back to where it.
Speaker 3: Which is pretty much useless.
Speaker 4: I absolutely love the show and you guys' best ce
Speaker 4: so you know, And there's also I'm gonna maybe save
Speaker 4: this last little bit if we wanted to talk about
Speaker 4: something else, but I did want to throw to you, Matt,
Speaker 4: since it was your story that you brought. Does this
Speaker 4: change your perspective at all on this type of legislation
Speaker 4: or is it still kind of a matter of, like,
Speaker 4: you know, this this should be something that's left up
Speaker 4: to individuals.
Speaker 3: I don't know.
Speaker 5: I'm still trying to process how I feel about the
Speaker 5: government changing speed limits.
Speaker 2: Ben.
Speaker 5: I would defer to you a little bit just because
Speaker 5: we've I know you've talked extensively about the types of
Speaker 5: roads that get certain speed limits, basically the standards I
Speaker 5: guess at least here in the US, where you know,
Speaker 5: depending on how many lanes, depending on what type of
Speaker 5: street or road or what highway or whatever it is,
Speaker 5: it gets their own standardized speed limits. And like coming
Speaker 5: through with this Road Safety authority coming through and nerfing
Speaker 5: basically the speeds on all of the roads. I can
Speaker 5: imagine that maybe happening in the US and maybe having
Speaker 5: a little more safety, But I also know directly the
Speaker 5: experience right after getting home driving forty five on a
Speaker 5: thirty five because I'm trying to keep up with traffic
Speaker 5: and still having vehicles behind me, like a giant ram
Speaker 5: truck trying to get like through my vehicle somehow, because somehow,
Speaker 5: if they got.
Speaker 2: Through my vehicle, they could get through all the other ones.
Speaker 3: So yeah, I appreciate that really quickly. Did I screw up?
Speaker 3: Is there no technological aspect to this conversation?
Speaker 4: For some reason, I thought there was also conversation maybe
Speaker 4: just came up, you know, as a part of the
Speaker 4: conversation that the idea of technology that could limit yeah
Speaker 4: max speeds, This isn't.
Speaker 3: Okay, Okay, that's inherently part of it. Making sure, that's
Speaker 3: a huge part because it's been an ongoing debate. And
Speaker 3: you can go check out earlier episodes of Car Stuff
Speaker 3: wherein you can see the history of this discourse on
Speaker 3: the American continent Canada, US, Mexico or North American continent.
Speaker 3: We've received some great correspondence that shows us how regionally
Speaker 3: different parts of Europe and well Europe entire, the UK
Speaker 3: and the EU can be in some places it is
Speaker 3: almost American. It is very difficult to live without your
Speaker 3: own personal transportation. In other places, a car, weirdly enough,
Speaker 3: does seem to be a burden, right, and you run
Speaker 3: into that in some large conurbations here in the US,
Speaker 3: like Boston or New York City. It's kind of why
Speaker 3: would you own a car if it wasn't your job
Speaker 3: to somehow have a car. The technological aspect is fascinating
Speaker 3: because history proves it is somewhat inevitable, especially in countries
Speaker 3: that are already highly developed. This is seen as a
Speaker 3: number one way to prevent unnecessary death.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and I mean, you know, it's actually a friend
Speaker 4: of the show, Andy who's written into us. He's in
Speaker 4: a band called Sky Trumpets, and I believe he actually
Speaker 4: grew up in County Cork and I had the privilege
Speaker 4: of hanging out with him on a European trip a
Speaker 4: few years ago in Berlin, and he talked a bit
Speaker 4: about life in the village. I mean, this is kind
Speaker 4: of a much more rural area, and I can see
Speaker 4: how the public transportation aspect could be really iffy, you know.
Speaker 4: I mean, even like in my hometown Augusta, Georgia, it
Speaker 4: is nearly impossible to get an uber when you actually
Speaker 4: need it because the infrastructure is just not there. And
Speaker 4: Augusta is actually the second largest metro area in the
Speaker 4: state of Georgia, second to Atlanta, and Georgia, of course,
Speaker 4: is largely pretty rural.
Speaker 3: So even a.
Speaker 4: Place that is considered a pretty big metro area, it
Speaker 4: just isn't the demand for it, or there aren't the drivers,
Speaker 4: or whatever the case might be. And very similar the
Speaker 4: buses in Augusta. They just don't run predictably and you
Speaker 4: really can't bank on them to get places on time.
Speaker 4: And I've you know, been out with friends and Augusta
Speaker 4: drinking or whatever and tried to get a lift or
Speaker 4: an uber and it just it just won't come. It'll say,
Speaker 4: looking for a driver, you'll find one, and it'll say
Speaker 4: fifty minutes before the car will come. And so it's
Speaker 4: just you can't really depend on stuff like that.
Speaker 3: But the bus system, I would say here in the US,
Speaker 3: especially in the South, there's not the necessary amount of
Speaker 3: political will for the infrastructure of public transportation, and a
Speaker 3: lot of that is unfortunately tied up in historic racism.
Speaker 4: M you know, that makes me think of the whole
Speaker 4: concept of the other side of the tracks, you know,
Speaker 4: like development, you know, on the other side of like
Speaker 4: a rail thoroughfare for you know, a movement of goods.
Speaker 4: That term has inherent racism to it as well, the
Speaker 4: idea of you know, having a community that was on
Speaker 4: the other side of the train tracks that would often
Speaker 4: be a more impoverished and minority community, and so that
Speaker 4: term probably even a little problematic, And it hadn't occurred
Speaker 4: to me until recently. Here in Atlanta, in the city
Speaker 4: of Decatur, there was a pretty racist, i believe, lawmaker
Speaker 4: who made a big deal about, you know, developing properties
Speaker 4: like only on one side of the train tracks there.
Speaker 4: And I think there was a middle school that was
Speaker 4: named after him, but then they changed the name Renfro
Speaker 4: But that was probably a conversation for another day.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I think these are very good points. And see again,
Speaker 3: thank you so much for taking the time to give
Speaker 3: us this invaluable perspective. We know that one of the
Speaker 3: one of the biggest issues with the idea of public transportation,
Speaker 3: or the idea with a bunch of people driving their
Speaker 3: own vehicles together, is that it requires a public covenant,
Speaker 3: It requires a level of trust, right, And this idea
Speaker 3: of a speed limitter is you know, ideology aside. It
Speaker 3: is the idea of reinforcing that covenant of public trust.
Speaker 3: Part of the reason there's not a lot of public
Speaker 3: infrastructure or transit, I should say here in the US,
Speaker 3: is because that level of trust is simply not there yet. However,
Speaker 3: always forward to the future. One thing I really like
Speaker 3: about C's letter here, Noel, is that it's not just
Speaker 3: about the speed governors, is it. Yeah.
Speaker 4: I left out the final paragraph of the letter from C,
Speaker 4: and I think we'll bring it up here now. Lastly,
Speaker 4: Se says, it is crazy to me how much targeted
Speaker 4: ads are happening. I have been going to talk therapy
Speaker 4: and we've been discussing childhood trauma and learning to love
Speaker 4: and listen to the inner child to help overcome a
Speaker 4: lot of emotional the neglect in childhood. The week after
Speaker 4: starting and using this language, Instagram has been showing me
Speaker 4: ads for apps and therapy groups for childhood drama and
Speaker 4: reconnecting with the inner child. It's actually kind of funny
Speaker 4: and sick all at the same time. Presumably not sick
Speaker 4: in the parlance of like Surfer Talk. I absolutely love
Speaker 4: the show, and you guys, see, so we've talked about this,
Speaker 4: the idea. I think it came up recently about someone
Speaker 4: in a therapy type situation making notes in their phone
Speaker 4: about like improvements or things that they wanted to change,
Speaker 4: or keeping maybe a diary about medication or something like that,
Speaker 4: and that once they stopped doing it in their phone
Speaker 4: and put the phone aside and started writing it down
Speaker 4: on pad and paper, they stopped getting these bizarrely intrusive
Speaker 4: targeted ads that were relating to very very personal stuff.
Speaker 4: So I really do fully believe that there's listening going
Speaker 4: on and that you know it is interpreting it and
Speaker 4: actually feeding you targeted ads. I would argue that's probably
Speaker 4: not the best thing in the world to have your
Speaker 4: phone anywhere near you when you're doing talk therapy. But
Speaker 4: that does bring up the question about what about online
Speaker 4: therapy where maybe you're using your phone or your computer,
Speaker 4: and like, how is Google or Instagram or Meta or
Speaker 4: whatever keyed into that, Because we also know that Chrome,
Speaker 4: you know, from from a recent discussion on Google's kind
Speaker 4: of shady search engine optimization practices and the murkiness behind that,
Speaker 4: and you know the idea that they're potentially even using
Speaker 4: Chrome as a key logger in a way to you know,
Speaker 4: feed you more accurate advertising, you know, from your Gmail
Speaker 4: terms and your search terms and all of that. Does
Speaker 4: that extend to audio? And like, do we need to
Speaker 4: be in a quiet room where there's no access, you know,
Speaker 4: for these devices to listen in, you know, because again
Speaker 4: in the conversation we had Ben in the previous Strange
Speaker 4: News episode about the porn tokens or whatever you know
Speaker 4: in Spain, the promise by these government entities that they're
Speaker 4: going to delete this stuff about you. And that's similar
Speaker 4: promise that comes from these giant, you know, conglomerates, these
Speaker 4: corporations that are you know, in the tech trade, in
Speaker 4: the in the data mining trade.
Speaker 3: Their promise that they will delete this stuff.
Speaker 4: The promise of the TSA that they will delete those
Speaker 4: photos they take of you that matches your face, your
Speaker 4: biometrics to your passport, that those will be deleted. I
Speaker 4: don't want to like be scare mongerie, but I just
Speaker 4: have a real hard time believing that that's happening unless
Speaker 4: it's like absolutely forced, you know, like like an adult
Speaker 4: in the rooms and show me you put throwing that
Speaker 4: in the in the trash and then hitting empty trash.
Speaker 3: You know, I just I don't believe it. Man. The
Speaker 3: EU does have legislation in this regard that has the
Speaker 3: kind of teeth and bite, the tooth and claw that
Speaker 3: simply would not be allowed to exist in the US
Speaker 3: to lobbying. One thing I really like about your note
Speaker 3: there see if you haven't checked it out, please check
Speaker 3: out an earlier conversation I outline part of why this
Speaker 3: has become modern folklore. It's not so much the idea
Speaker 3: of your phone entire listening to you. It's the implicit
Speaker 3: privacy permissions you give to any app on your phone.
Speaker 3: That's a big part of it, and it's often obscured purposely.
Speaker 3: I would argue within the TOCs or within the sorry,
Speaker 3: the terms of use and the terms and conditions, and
Speaker 3: that kind of stuff. You know, the thing you scroll
Speaker 3: past because it's purposely written to be nigh unreadable. One
Speaker 3: other thing that can happen without being too redundant. Here,
Speaker 3: one other thing that. One other way this process occurs
Speaker 3: includes Wi Fi spots. The ISPs are able to monitor
Speaker 3: this and you are. That's why your ads may change
Speaker 3: depending upon the Wi Fi you are using. And it
Speaker 3: can be an interesting thing because if you leverage it correctly,
Speaker 3: it's a way to learn about other people around you.
Speaker 3: Nothing weird.
Speaker 5: Yeah, see, I don't think you have anything to worry about.
Speaker 5: I think your phone's not listening. Everything's fine.
Speaker 3: What you need.
Speaker 5: Just can give you a quick recommendation. Head on over
Speaker 5: to the black Market on Monahan Road, pick yourself up
Speaker 5: a fromo one of their signature mixes of slushies and
Speaker 5: ice creams. It'll be delicious, and then just take a
Speaker 5: quick walk over to the black Rock Castle Observatory. It's
Speaker 5: I mean, come on, you're not getting get anything better
Speaker 5: than a sixteenth century castle home that's also home to
Speaker 5: a science center and observatory. It's open from ten to
Speaker 5: seventeen o'clock.
Speaker 3: Well, gee, that sounds delightful. I want to go to there.
Speaker 2: Just if you happen to find yourself in Cork.
Speaker 3: Thanks, targeted ads.
Speaker 4: All right, we're gonna take a quick break and then
Speaker 4: come back with another piece of listener man.
Speaker 5: And we've returned just as I have recently returned from Ohio. Guys,
Speaker 5: and we all saw this in our email inbox, a
Speaker 5: message from Lauren. So it has to do with Ohio.
Speaker 5: So we're gonna get to it. Lauren says, Hey everyone,
Speaker 5: my name is Lauren, and I live in the Dayton,
Speaker 5: Ohio area. You're all over Ohio these days, Matt, I
Speaker 5: am so skippity Ohio.
Speaker 2: A big local news story. This is Lauren again.
Speaker 5: A big local news story this week is a giant
Speaker 5: Homeland Security investigation into a local factory called fu yow
Speaker 5: I think that's how you would say it, fu Yao
Speaker 5: fo yow hm. Nearly thirty houses and the factory were
Speaker 5: rated the other day as a part of a criminal
Speaker 5: investigation involving labor exploitation and financial crimes. There's also a
Speaker 5: possibility of money laundering and human smuggling. If Fuyao seems familiar,
Speaker 5: it's because this factory was the one featured in the
Speaker 5: Academy Award winning film American Factory from twenty nineteen.
Speaker 3: I'm sorry, I'm laughing just because I'm not familiar with
Speaker 3: this film. That's also a really dull name for a
Speaker 3: film that decids what is this about?
Speaker 5: Well, it's I watched the trailer that was available on
Speaker 5: Netflix because that's where it was, and it looks like
Speaker 5: a story of investors coming in from another country who
Speaker 5: basically turn a factory around because of this small area
Speaker 5: or the small town is basically dependent for jobs on
Speaker 5: this one factory that was just going to go under,
Speaker 5: and some investors came through and changed it.
Speaker 3: But changed it means they also get it for a song,
Speaker 3: yesite a few tax incentives and they story as old
Speaker 3: as time, very American.
Speaker 5: Oh yeah, they changed it a lot and brought a
Speaker 5: lot of people over that replaced a lot of the
Speaker 5: factory workers that were existing in there.
Speaker 2: So it's an.
Speaker 5: Interesting story of like, what is the whole job dependent
Speaker 5: life thing that we all exist on?
Speaker 3: Right? What is this?
Speaker 5: What does it really mean to have a dependable job
Speaker 5: and be a good old battery going to continue? Lauren says,
Speaker 5: just thought this was an interesting connection. There's definitely some
Speaker 5: fishy stuff going on with the whole place. People who
Speaker 5: lived near the houses rated said there would be like
Speaker 5: ten to twenty men living in there, keeping to themselves
Speaker 5: except when they left the house in vans to apparently
Speaker 5: go to work. I would say, guys, we have seen
Speaker 5: stories about that before in several other specific businesses and
Speaker 5: in situations of you know, human smuggling, human trafficking, where
Speaker 5: people are kept in places, oftentimes in factories and then
Speaker 5: basically shuttled to work and shuttled back.
Speaker 3: In agricultures and others.
Speaker 5: We've seen that time and time again. So we're going
Speaker 5: to find out here as we continue a long if
Speaker 5: that's actually happening. Just to finish out Lauren's message, they
Speaker 5: say it also seems to be that many of the
Speaker 5: houses were owned by the same LLC, according to the
Speaker 5: local news. Then Lauren gave us a link to a
Speaker 5: whio dot com article that, well, I guess we can
Speaker 5: just pull that up right now. It is titled Fuyau
Speaker 5: Plant nearly thirty other area locations rated in massive homeland
Speaker 5: security investigation. It was posted by the Whio staff on
Speaker 5: July twenty sixth. Guys, should we just go ahead and
Speaker 5: dive into it and see what the see what the
Speaker 5: news is saying. Sure, so they are saying HSI, which
Speaker 5: is Homeland Security in collaboration with IRS, criminal investigations and
Speaker 5: other law enforcement agencies, executed federal search warrants at Fuyau
Speaker 5: Glass America. They are, by the way, a factory that
Speaker 5: produces automotive class so glass for all types of different
Speaker 5: vehicles of all shapes and sizes, and twenty seven other
Speaker 5: locations in Dayton, Liberty Township, Miamisburg, I didn't know that
Speaker 5: was a place that.
Speaker 3: Sounds made up New York'sville.
Speaker 5: Yeah, Moraine, and West Carrollton. That all occurred, I guess,
Speaker 5: very soon before that was posted on July twenty sixth.
Speaker 5: The search warrants were part of a quote ongoing criminal
Speaker 5: investigation looking into the very things that Lauren told us,
Speaker 5: financial crimes, allegations of labor exploitation and the like. They
Speaker 5: were also investigating allegations of money laundering and specifically human smuggling.
Speaker 5: Is that's how they refer to it here on WHIO
Speaker 5: the news center seven crews.
Speaker 2: I guess, I'm not.
Speaker 5: Sure who they are with regards to WHIO, but they
Speaker 5: are Channel seven, so we're assuming it's their cruise. They
Speaker 5: reported seeing members of the US Border Patrol at several locations,
Speaker 5: in addition to Homeland Security investigators and yeah, they were
Speaker 5: on the scene in several locations as it was happening.
Speaker 5: They did they confirmed, I guess that it is happening.
Speaker 5: They saw agents detain people at several homes. So these
Speaker 5: are like residential houses where they searched the house and
Speaker 5: they brought people out with zip ties, like their arms
Speaker 5: clasped you can imagine and about a dozen people at
Speaker 5: a home in Dayton, Ohio. Gosh, I don't know, guys.
Speaker 5: Homeland Security apparently would not confirm if anyone was taken
Speaker 5: into custody because.
Speaker 2: Sh this is not going investigation.
Speaker 5: But again, they are attempting to identify in the case
Speaker 5: of the human smuggling aspect of whatever's going on here.
Speaker 5: They're trying to identify victims, right, people who are being
Speaker 5: exploited by some one, who are either being kept or forced,
Speaker 5: you know, into a labor situation, or you know, often
Speaker 5: people whose passports and other travel documents get taken when
Speaker 5: they arrive into the US from another country. That's a
Speaker 5: very common thing. I'm assuming that's what this is all about.
Speaker 5: And again that's an assumption on my part. When WHO
Speaker 5: News Center seven was reaching out to the people who
Speaker 5: run the factory, the people at Fuyao, they did not
Speaker 5: respond to requests for comment, but they did respond a
Speaker 5: little while later. On July twenty ninth, the AP News
Speaker 5: carries a story titled Chinese glassmaker says it wasn't the
Speaker 5: target of raid at US plant featured an Oscar.
Speaker 2: Winning film Q Shacky. It wasn't me, It wasn't me.
Speaker 2: I'm just I'm just a glass. I can't do it.
Speaker 2: I can't do it.
Speaker 3: Then they caught me on the assumably all right, the
Speaker 3: factory floor.
Speaker 2: Yeah, caught me on the factory floor.
Speaker 3: It was I got it. But that is the important part,
Speaker 3: is the blanket denial that we are not the target
Speaker 3: of this thing, right.
Speaker 5: Yes, because it did have to shut down all of
Speaker 5: its production at its factory, a huge factory you can
Speaker 5: see pictures of on Google Maps. You can also see
Speaker 5: it in that documentary, massive plant that is producing this glass.
Speaker 5: They are saying, fu out Glass America. That is that
Speaker 5: they were told by authorities that a third party employment
Speaker 5: company was at the center of the criminal investigation.
Speaker 3: Hmm, similar to, for instance, the provable cases of child
Speaker 3: labor yep in America's abbatois.
Speaker 5: Yeah, the idea that, Okay, you're a company that owns
Speaker 5: a factory producing a good, you need cheap labor. Well,
Speaker 5: you as the factory, as the company, aren't going to
Speaker 5: hire that labor. You're going to hire a third party
Speaker 5: that helps you get that labor. And if this is
Speaker 5: the way, and if anything goes down, those are the
Speaker 5: guys they get raided, and those are the guys, they
Speaker 5: get blamed for all of it, even though you're benefiting
Speaker 5: as the company in the factory.
Speaker 3: Yeah, with a little vigorous all around to grease the wheels.
Speaker 3: But the idea that vigor is just for retreat, right.
Speaker 3: The idea then here just to outline the process, and
Speaker 3: and Lauren, I think I think you will find it
Speaker 3: darkly surprising how often and how widely this process can
Speaker 3: be applied to any given industry. The idea is that
Speaker 3: your subcontractor your third party will be able to create
Speaker 3: a Matroshka doll of other sub subcontractors, and each time
Speaker 3: that occurs, some portion of the hot potato of legal
Speaker 3: responsibility and blame gets tossed to the next team. So really,
Speaker 3: what you're paying people for is just as much in
Speaker 3: dimnification as it is ease of service and finding people. Mmm.
Speaker 5: There you go, Hi, guys, I'm gonna give you a
Speaker 5: little more context on here about the documentary and about
Speaker 5: the factory itself. According to the AP, this factory was
Speaker 5: originally a General Motors factory. Over ten years ago. It
Speaker 5: was going it was shuttered, like it was shutting down.
Speaker 5: They also got a ton of incentives from the state
Speaker 5: and local government, and according to Fuyo, the Ohio plant
Speaker 5: is the largest autoglass production facility, Like the largest, that's
Speaker 5: what you say.
Speaker 3: Because aren't they the second largest overall glass manufacturer.
Speaker 5: They're massive. Yes, and guys get this. Don't want to
Speaker 5: get too conspiratorial, but the please do. But the documentary
Speaker 5: titled American Factory that came out in twenty nineteen and
Speaker 5: won a twenty twenty OSCAR for Best Feature Length Documentary,
Speaker 5: it was it was produced by a production company that's
Speaker 5: backed by Barack and Michelle Obama.
Speaker 3: And that's our show. Thanks for tuning a What was
Speaker 3: that well done?
Speaker 5: There was Obama's There was a huge There was a
Speaker 5: lot of conspiratorial talk, at least on our conspiracy in
Speaker 5: a couple other places about some movie that came out.
Speaker 5: I can't remember the name of it. I think it
Speaker 5: was on Netflix and it was backed by one of
Speaker 5: these production companies that is backed by the Obamas, and
Speaker 5: it was about the technology and the world shutting down.
Speaker 5: I specifically remember this shot of all these teslas that
Speaker 5: were like automated and just running into each other on
Speaker 5: the road. Can't remember the name of it. Somebody write
Speaker 5: to us and remind us what that was and what
Speaker 5: was about. But it was a bunch of hubbub about
Speaker 5: the Obama's basically putting money into telling a narrative.
Speaker 3: Also, yeah, I vaguely recall what you're speaking about there,
Speaker 3: matt let us. Also note something, and this happens on
Speaker 3: all sides of the political aisle most often. When you hear, oh,
Speaker 3: this powerful political figure finance this thing, what that usually
Speaker 3: means is that a very wealthy person who is active
Speaker 3: in politics has some sort of financial portfolio, right, and
Speaker 3: that touches on the thing. They might not know what
Speaker 3: they are actually funding, right, They might think, oh, Vanguard
Speaker 3: has their fingers and all sorts of bags of badgers.
Speaker 3: And then you know, when you find that connection, then
Speaker 3: you can say, ooh, you know insert insert political figure
Speaker 3: I already didn't care for is clearly planning to make
Speaker 3: these weird toilets or you know, whatever the weird thing is. Also,
Speaker 3: you know, to be completely fai, sometimes yes, there is
Speaker 3: a concerted effort at an agenda.
Speaker 2: Yep.
Speaker 5: In this case, I don't know, I don't know that agendimen.
Speaker 3: I don't I don't know, I mean, like, can't can
Speaker 3: these individual This is a question, can the these individuals
Speaker 3: really keep their eye on every falling financial Sparrow, I
Speaker 3: guarantee you that in many I feel like that guy
Speaker 3: who sold the suits. I guarantee you that in many
Speaker 3: of these cases, the people being accused of conspiracy are
Speaker 3: not really aware of where their money's going. They're aware
Speaker 3: of the percentage of money that comes back to them
Speaker 3: in terms of quarterly profits. I don't know, But then again,
Speaker 3: I'm arguing against myself here because guys, the Clinton's got
Speaker 3: into some really sketchy stuff during Bill Clinton's governorship, right,
Speaker 3: I don't know, It's a pickle.
Speaker 5: I want to end the segment here, guys, with a
Speaker 5: quick word from one of the people that worked at
Speaker 5: the factory and was there when all this went down.
Speaker 5: His name is Miles Smith. He, at least as of
Speaker 5: the time of this reporting on July twenty sixth, had
Speaker 5: worked as a forklift driver there at the factory for
Speaker 5: two years. And this is what he had to say.
Speaker 5: I seen the FBI, like Homeland Security. They said, go
Speaker 5: back in the building. We got a warrant to search
Speaker 5: the place, and so he spoke with some agents. Then
Speaker 5: he said, we couldn't do nothing. We couldn't go nowhere.
Speaker 5: They said, you got to go to the bathroom. Well
Speaker 5: we got to escort you to the bathroom. Basically, they
Speaker 5: had us lockdown, shut down and sweating. And then he said,
Speaker 5: a couple of weeks before they came some of Homeland
Speaker 5: I believe came in and got some of the immigrants
Speaker 5: that were working here. Then he said, I saw them
Speaker 5: going through lockers, going through the equipment, checking the bathroom.
Speaker 5: And then according to Smith, the agents made everyone fill
Speaker 5: out cards to identify themselves. So not just whatever your
Speaker 5: picture ID that you have on you, as like, actually
Speaker 5: fill out your information. Then they had to get in
Speaker 5: four lines, and these agents took all the cards. They
Speaker 5: id'd everyone basically to verify who everyone was there.
Speaker 3: Also too, Also that's a very brilliant countermeasure. Uh, not
Speaker 3: only like, Okay, anybody can have fake paperwork, right, but
Speaker 3: can you yourself replicate that paperwork when asked?
Speaker 5: Yeah, exactly in the moment they're doing when you're in
Speaker 5: their stress. M yep, that's a big deal. But Smith
Speaker 5: said he watched several people get detained from those lines
Speaker 5: after everybody you know, was trying to prove their identity. Guys,
Speaker 5: I don't have a bunch more on this, uh, Lauren,
Speaker 5: if you hear anything more, please let us know. We
Speaker 5: hope all else is going well in the Dayton area
Speaker 5: and where you are. And uh yeah, just to enjoy Ohio,
Speaker 5: gotta say, guys, went I went to a place called
Speaker 5: put In Bay and I had never been there before.
Speaker 5: I didn't know anything about it. According to the locals,
Speaker 5: it is a big old party island that people go
Speaker 5: to just to get nice and schwasty.
Speaker 2: But it was lovely. Ohio was lovely.
Speaker 5: My son who is caught up in the Ohio thing
Speaker 5: like using Ohio, I guess in some kind.
Speaker 3: Of shrugatory progatory.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean, he was like, I'm going to tell
Speaker 5: all my friends Ohio is amazing.
Speaker 3: And I again, I want to do this on air
Speaker 3: accountability moment. I apologize for bugging you about both pictures.
Speaker 3: I'm just very excited by boats and water and you're
Speaker 3: an excellent photographer.
Speaker 5: Oh I got some great stuff. If you haven't seen
Speaker 5: it yet, I will send it your way. Also got
Speaker 5: some interior cave footage, guys, that I tried to replicate
Speaker 5: some of the seventies eighties, like shooting a model of
Speaker 5: a train station or a city, you know, where you
Speaker 5: have a little camera and you'd move it over the
Speaker 5: little model and make it look like it's a huge city.
Speaker 2: I did it.
Speaker 5: I did that upside down in a cave interior, and
Speaker 5: I made it look like it's the ground of the cave.
Speaker 5: But it looks like I have an unending like helicopter
Speaker 5: shot over a canyon or something.
Speaker 3: It's awesome, beautiful. Please send it, oh I will.
Speaker 5: All right, that's it for now, Thanks Laren. We'll be
Speaker 5: right back with more messages from you.
Speaker 3: And we have returned shout out to our guest producer
Speaker 3: Freight Train, who, as a michigan or himself, notes that
Speaker 3: he regards Ohio as the frozen swamp of America. Okay, hey,
Speaker 3: all right, I got family from there also. I don't
Speaker 3: like this anti swamp rhetoric. So unless you meant it
Speaker 3: as a compliment, which perhaps you did, here we go.
Speaker 3: We've got We've got an email, and then we've got
Speaker 3: a letter from home, and we need all hands on
Speaker 3: deck for this one. If you are hearing this, that
Speaker 3: applies to you as well. Our next piece of correspondence
Speaker 3: arrives to us from sc bug Geek that's all one word,
Speaker 3: s C. Bug Geek. We're kind enough to begin your
Speaker 3: letter with the following, Hey, guys, I love the show.
Speaker 3: You all have explored Big Sugar, Big Death, and such,
Speaker 3: but you all have yet to discuss Big bug slight
Speaker 3: editorial note here. As my colleagues know, I am incapable
Speaker 3: of saying certain contractions in this language. I am paraphrasing
Speaker 3: you a bit sc bug Geek. SC bug Geek continues.
Speaker 3: I am an associate certified entomologist and a master termite
Speaker 3: technician in South Carolina. I have been in the bug
Speaker 3: biz pest control for going on ten years. There is
Speaker 3: an ongoing technique where large think global pest control companies
Speaker 3: buy up smaller companies and mom and popshop like me.
Speaker 3: The new parent company keeps the original name and forward
Speaker 3: facing workers, much like Big Death. And here here are pal.
Speaker 3: The bug Geek is referring to our earlier episodes on
Speaker 3: the funeral a mortician industry, wherein we discovered that unfortunately,
Speaker 3: monopoly laws don't seem to apply to that industry. They're
Speaker 3: buying up all these supposedly mom and pop funeral services
Speaker 3: or funeral homes, and they're letting them keep their original branding,
Speaker 3: but they are essentially franchises and subsidiaries of a larger
Speaker 3: hidden hand. So apparently the same thing is happening with
Speaker 3: the pest control industry. And I didn't look through the
Speaker 3: entirety of our episode catalog, but guys, I know we
Speaker 3: have discussed this in the past, the serious problems with
Speaker 3: the modern pesticide industry overall, and a lot of our
Speaker 3: fellow listeners are in that industry or have had some
Speaker 3: pretty disturbing experiences with it. Right.
Speaker 5: Oh, yeah, that's a little I'm trying to apply it
Speaker 5: to the same context here, right, So, when these larger
Speaker 5: companies in the funeral business are buying out the smaller
Speaker 5: ones there, I kept trying to I remember thinking about that,
Speaker 5: like thinking about the profit motive for all of those
Speaker 5: and in my head, I swear it goes back to
Speaker 5: the McDonald's thing we talked about, where it's buying up
Speaker 5: the property, and the property was the thing. It wasn't
Speaker 5: even the funeral services or the company or the people
Speaker 5: that's generating some kind of profit. It's just now they
Speaker 5: own a crap ton of pretty big property. If you
Speaker 5: think about a funeral home, I wonder if that's happening here.
Speaker 5: But you know, these pest control companies must be generating
Speaker 5: quite a bit of profit.
Speaker 3: Yeah, very much so, especially when we consider that just
Speaker 3: like how the big boys in the funeral industry can
Speaker 3: control resources, right, kind of like how Walmart can set
Speaker 3: the prices or dictate prices for supplies and lower costs
Speaker 3: for everything just so yeah, and also operate at a
Speaker 3: loss if they need to drown the local mom and pops.
Speaker 3: And that seems to be what bug geek is arguing
Speaker 3: is occurring in the pesticide industry, which I honestly find unsurprising,
Speaker 3: and I believe this may be worth an episode because
Speaker 3: we know that we know that the American public will
Speaker 3: have concerns when it comes to visible monopolies, right someone says, hey,
Speaker 3: Google does kind of run a lot of stuff, or like, hey,
Speaker 3: why can't I have a different internet provider here? Oh?
Speaker 2: Exactly.
Speaker 5: It makes so much sense now in some of that contact,
Speaker 5: because I can imagine, especially if you're talking about investor
Speaker 5: money rather than like an arrow exterminators, which is a
Speaker 5: really big one here at least in our section of Georgia.
Speaker 5: Like if you imagine them, this is theoretical but imagine
Speaker 5: them buying up a mom and pop store, right, That
Speaker 5: doesn't make much sense, I guess unless there are major
Speaker 5: investors in a company that are making money by somehow
Speaker 5: a publicly traded.
Speaker 2: Price going way up.
Speaker 5: If they are expanding, right, and they're making acquisitions and
Speaker 5: all that stuff, that makes sense to me.
Speaker 3: Yeah, And I actually want to save some of what
Speaker 3: bug geek is telling us here, because you have hit
Speaker 3: upon something that most people don't know, and I think
Speaker 3: it's a thing this industry in particular would rather the
Speaker 3: public not know, because it's not a sexy thing to
Speaker 3: talk about, you know what I mean, It's not as
Speaker 3: fun as as on as pop culture conspiracies, because it
Speaker 3: is monopolization is an actual conspiracy. And we have to
Speaker 3: remember a lot of the substances getting supplied here are
Speaker 3: provably carcinogenic. Well, with that note, Buggy, please be safe.
Speaker 3: You're obviously a professional in your field. We'd love to
Speaker 3: hear your war stories. And Matt, I think you absolutely
Speaker 3: nail it in terms of the danger of private equity.
Speaker 3: Just like Unilever really is a corporate chameleon. You know,
Speaker 3: its tentacles are so disparate and unidentifiable until you get
Speaker 3: to the hive brain and then you go, oh wait.
Speaker 5: Yeah, it's you guys all along, and it's just got
Speaker 5: a giant mouth like a whale though that kind of
Speaker 5: combs through the ocean of companies and some of them
Speaker 5: go in and some of them it spits right out.
Speaker 3: With its bailing plates. Yes, private equity, Yes, that seems
Speaker 3: to be what is happening. And here then is a
Speaker 3: and call right now, This is kind of a think
Speaker 3: of this, folks. As ats. We get a lot of
Speaker 3: episodes from strange news and listener mail, from your suggestions,
Speaker 3: from your input. We want to hear from anybody's worked
Speaker 3: with Big Bug in one capacity or another. We also
Speaker 3: want to hear about people who have had dangerous experiences
Speaker 3: with pesticides. And also their lobby is huge, the power
Speaker 3: the pesticide lobby. It is a sleeping giant, and there's
Speaker 3: a reason it's not in the press all that often.
Speaker 3: So that's the downer. But we don't want to leave
Speaker 3: you without some good news to step to, or at
Speaker 3: least something interesting, So we will end tonight's exploration with
Speaker 3: a letter from home. This one is a little bit different.
Speaker 3: I'm putting the spotlight on you guys tonight and all
Speaker 3: our fellow listeners. Do you know how I have like
Speaker 3: I don't want to say mental dysfunctions. I got quirks, right,
Speaker 3: you know, I get a little obsessive about stuff. That's
Speaker 3: you know what. We all go a little mad sometimes.
Speaker 2: Ben, It's fine, well, Ben, as I will. I just
Speaker 2: I'm gonna give context if you don't mind.
Speaker 3: Ben.
Speaker 5: Ben's name currently in our recording session is Ben in
Speaker 5: an accent.
Speaker 3: That's it's for a different show, a different thing for Ben.
Speaker 3: Thank you, Matt, thank you Blackstone Enthusiast, which we'll get
Speaker 3: to next week. By the way, that's a really juicy one.
Speaker 3: And uh Noel, I give you so many monikers and nicknames.
Speaker 3: I like to think you take some of them. Oh
Speaker 3: I dig them all? All right? All right, back man
Speaker 3: shovel so here as they call him in the Eus Spade. Yes, yeah,
Speaker 3: Here is our our letter from home again. This is
Speaker 3: a spotlight on you guys and freight Trainer. I hope
Speaker 3: you joined this conversation. One of my new obsessions, and
Speaker 3: I've been talking with a lot of people about this
Speaker 3: on social media and on different shows that we do.
Speaker 3: Famous Last Meals. Context while back, went to a weird
Speaker 3: museum in New York called the Museum with two MS
Speaker 3: at the front, two ms at the back, and they
Speaker 3: had an exhibit entirely about famous last meals. And I
Speaker 3: have to ask you guys, starting with you first, then
Speaker 3: we'll get to the listeners. If you had a fame
Speaker 3: it if you had a last meal defined as the
Speaker 3: last thing you eat noel holds barred before a state
Speaker 3: or powerful entity executes you, what would that be? And
Speaker 3: freight train for you. Since this is a thought experiment,
Speaker 3: you do not have the condition in this scenario, So
Speaker 3: what would be your dream last meal?
Speaker 6: Well, if I'm going to jump in, uh, this is
Speaker 6: very much not a thing I can't I can eat
Speaker 6: with the condition. It would just a Caesar salad, a
Speaker 6: small one of big a big Caesar salad, no chicken
Speaker 6: or hunt.
Speaker 3: That just that could be the death salad. That would
Speaker 3: be the execution and of itself, it would kill you dead.
Speaker 6: I also, like you know, because the condition, I haven't
Speaker 6: been able to eat caesar salad for almost two years now,
Speaker 6: so I really eencrave in one right now.
Speaker 3: So thank you for date. It is delicious.
Speaker 2: Just the case, I gotta.
Speaker 5: There's one in my fridge that I'm going to eat
Speaker 5: immediately following this recording.
Speaker 3: You bastard. We need you to have Fomo max.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I can FaceTime you while I consume it if
Speaker 2: you want.
Speaker 3: There's a fetishy internet name for that map. Yeah, it's
Speaker 3: like that lady who makes millions of dollars just rolling
Speaker 3: her face and bread. Hm you know, bang right bang. Yeah,
Speaker 3: it's similar. Yeah, it's heavily in that genre.
Speaker 5: I've been looking to diversify my revenue streams boys, so hey,
Speaker 5: it's a big economy.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I don't know. Bread Lady might have been first
Speaker 3: to the post on that. Uh, but the so it's weird.
Speaker 3: I've been fascinated with the history of last meets. It
Speaker 3: actually dates back our earlier conversation about the Olympics, right,
Speaker 3: and the pseudo controversial Paris opening game ceremony. Last meals
Speaker 3: are kind of an ancient Greek thing, and they predate
Speaker 3: the idea of probably the most famous last meal in
Speaker 3: the West, which is, you know, the Last Supper of
Speaker 3: Jesus Christ.
Speaker 5: Uh.
Speaker 3: The that's the most famous last meal right now. But
Speaker 3: when I'm looking back through the history of this, it's
Speaker 3: quite common throughout the world for people to give someone
Speaker 3: a last meal. And we're going to have a hopefully
Speaker 3: fascinating episode on this for Ridiculous History coming up pretty soon.
Speaker 3: But I just I immediately thought of you guys. I
Speaker 3: was so fascinated. I've been thinking through what you all's
Speaker 3: like based on my understanding of your favorite foods, what
Speaker 3: your favorite what your last meal would be. Uh, there's
Speaker 3: no holds barred. Let's pretend that, like, there's no budget,
Speaker 3: there's no cutoff. It could be anything. I think the
Speaker 3: gold should be barred, choke hold should be you want
Speaker 3: to eat a choke hold?
Speaker 4: Well, I told you a joke that I stole from
Speaker 4: the I guess that was on the Adam Friedland podcast
Speaker 4: where he said he had this is like a whole
Speaker 4: like hack. He said his last meal, he would choose
Speaker 4: to eat the electric chair every time, and and then
Speaker 4: they have to, you know, eat the electric chair. Then
Speaker 4: it wouldn't function and they'd have to, you know, give
Speaker 4: him a stay of execution and then presumably a new
Speaker 4: last meal, and then he'd do it again every time.
Speaker 3: I thought this cute. There's the all you can eat
Speaker 3: buffet hack. The intent right, like I'm getting you know,
Speaker 3: all you can eat crab legs in case dias, I'm
Speaker 3: just never quite done. I'm taking a break.
Speaker 5: Uh.
Speaker 3: The execution apparatuses of the world are hipped to that one. Unfortunately,
Speaker 3: a lot of people wait, so are you saying you're
Speaker 3: joking or would you you would try to do that?
Speaker 3: I couldn't. I couldn't get down any any part of
Speaker 3: an electric chair. Just think of the fiber in the
Speaker 3: minerals and the minerals. Think of the minerals. There's also
Speaker 3: this goes state by state here in the US. But
Speaker 3: the one thing that's really heartbreaking that you may find
Speaker 3: is that typically when people are on death row, whether
Speaker 3: or not they were guilty of the crime that they're
Speaker 3: being executed for, typically after they've spent that much time
Speaker 3: in lock up, the things they want become relatively simple.
Speaker 3: I was talking about this on Daily Zeitgeist. You know,
Speaker 3: you might imagine something opulent like ortilon, or you know,
Speaker 3: give me a tiger. I want tiger meet Most people
Speaker 3: are like, I want a burger and fries and some
Speaker 3: ice cream, or I'd like a three piece fried chicken.
Speaker 4: But maybe I really like a double double animal style
Speaker 4: from In and Out that'd be good. I think i'd request.
Speaker 4: I think I'm finally on board with the idea that
Speaker 4: in and out fries or trash. I always try to
Speaker 4: defend them, but they really aren't that good, like the
Speaker 4: crispy bits at the bottom of the fry bag. So
Speaker 4: I think i'd ask I request fries from outside a
Speaker 4: different place. Yeah, some nice seasoned fries.
Speaker 3: All right? So uh, in and out double animal style
Speaker 3: seasoned fries from somewhere else TBD. Caesar salad for freight train, Matt,
Speaker 3: Do you have a pick? Oh?
Speaker 5: Yeah, sure, green curry tie, hot stinged rice and jasmine.
Speaker 5: Need some spring rolls in there, for sure. The kind
Speaker 5: of haves shrimp in them, like the.
Speaker 4: Like the like the fresh spring rolls or the fried
Speaker 4: spring rolls. Fresh spring rolls, Yeah, with the nice papery
Speaker 4: kind of sticky.
Speaker 2: The rice paper all day.
Speaker 5: And I'm gonna need tofu in that green curry as
Speaker 5: it will absorb the deliciousness. And we gotta make sure
Speaker 5: it's not that runny watery. No, you's gotta have some
Speaker 5: got some body and the tofu. Do you like a
Speaker 5: little seer on your tofu? Ye?
Speaker 3: Yeah, exactly, thank you? What are we playing otherwise now
Speaker 3: sometimes kind of like a custardy tofa. Sometimes I don't
Speaker 3: need to see her for the last meal.
Speaker 4: Oh no, I get a really rad dish from There's
Speaker 4: a place called High Chinese here that does this thing
Speaker 4: called Mapo tofu. Yeah, it's fabulous, but the tofu is
Speaker 4: this custardy consistency. It's not fried at all, and I
Speaker 4: love it, But for the most part, I would prefer
Speaker 4: a little a little crispiness on my tofu.
Speaker 3: I'd be worried if you're eating slovenly tofu. It's it
Speaker 3: holds together. It's custardy. Custardy. That's a pleasant that's a
Speaker 3: pleasant mouth feel, guys.
Speaker 2: But if you feed that to me, you can just
Speaker 2: take me away. I'm good to go there.
Speaker 3: They are also tragic stories because this gets into the
Speaker 3: larger conspiracy and problems with the death penalty. Like there
Speaker 3: there's at least one case I know of a mentally
Speaker 3: impaired person who, upon being led to their execution, saved
Speaker 3: their cake for afterwards, and they asked the guard to
Speaker 3: keep an eye on it because they didn't understand what
Speaker 3: was happening to them. Wow, But in good news, in
Speaker 3: good news, there are for a while. It seems there
Speaker 3: were no limits on what people could order, and our
Speaker 3: buddy Miles from Daily Zeitgeist and Jack from Daily Zeitgeist
Speaker 3: they pointed out, maybe this was a show of conscience
Speaker 3: on the part of the prison staff or the executors.
Speaker 3: You know, I think they have empathy, you know, especially
Speaker 3: when facing down the reaper.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 3: It's a little too late, too little though, maybe so
Speaker 3: I'm just you know, just be a devil's advocate. Yeah,
Speaker 3: I think that's appropriate. But it's like, hey, sorry, we're
Speaker 3: going to kill you, even though the state has serious
Speaker 3: questions about whether you did the crime. Here is a cheeseburger.
Speaker 3: Best we can do as long as it's a double
Speaker 3: double animal style baconator baconator, right, because you don't have
Speaker 3: to worry about the calories. Oh boy, that went dark.
Speaker 3: This is This is a fascinating thing to me because
Speaker 3: food is such a fundamental part of human culture, and
Speaker 3: this would be your last chance to participate in that
Speaker 3: universal interest. And this is where we throw it to you, folks.
Speaker 3: We want to hear your story, not even your stories.
Speaker 3: What is your ideal last meal? Please? Please do tell us,
Speaker 3: take all the time, all the detail, you need check
Speaker 3: out earlier conversations about this in different shows. Stay tuned
Speaker 3: for our Ridiculous History episode that dives into the origin
Speaker 3: story of Last Meals, along with notable episodes in the future.
Speaker 3: I hope you are never in this situation, but please
Speaker 3: do remember Last Meals in the US do go state
Speaker 3: by state. For instance, in Florida, you have to have
Speaker 3: local ingredients and it can't be over forty dollars. In Oklahoma,
Speaker 3: it can't be over twenty five dollars. In Louisiana, the
Speaker 3: warden sits down and eats with you. Oh damn, which
Speaker 3: bothers me. It's a little weird. I feel like that's
Speaker 3: I would I would request that I would give a
Speaker 3: pass on that. Yeah, yeah, I don't know. And in
Speaker 3: Texas they don't do it anymore.
Speaker 4: What if there was a thing in Texas, like an
Speaker 4: episode of King of the Hill where you have to
Speaker 4: eat the biggest giant t bone steak and if you
Speaker 4: finish the whole thing in less than thirty minutes, your
Speaker 4: whole meal is free. Oh and you don't get executed.
Speaker 4: That Okay, that would be such a Texas thing. Man,
Speaker 4: wouldn't that be like a man? And then you get
Speaker 4: your picture up on the board too.
Speaker 3: You know, Oh my god, he's got a picture of
Speaker 3: the board. Yeah, we want to hear your stories about this, folks,
Speaker 3: and as always, we greatly appreciate your time. Big thanks
Speaker 3: to Laura and big thanks to See, big thanks to
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