1 00:00:01,000 --> 00:00:04,320 Speaker 1: From UFOs two, Ghosts and Government cover Ups. History is 2 00:00:04,360 --> 00:00:08,000 Speaker 1: writ with unexplained events. You can turn back now or 3 00:00:08,080 --> 00:00:15,960 Speaker 1: learn the stuff they don't want you to now. Hello, 4 00:00:16,000 --> 00:00:18,480 Speaker 1: welcome back to the show. My name is mett On 5 00:00:18,720 --> 00:00:23,840 Speaker 1: Ben and we are here as always with our super producer, 6 00:00:24,280 --> 00:00:28,640 Speaker 1: Noel the Mason Brown in spirit. At least, yes, the 7 00:00:28,680 --> 00:00:32,159 Speaker 1: Masonic spirit of Noel Brown exists in this room. Right, 8 00:00:32,640 --> 00:00:37,560 Speaker 1: we'll go ahead and have our secret handshake here, m 9 00:00:38,120 --> 00:00:39,919 Speaker 1: I haven't seen that one before. Yeah, we can do 10 00:00:39,960 --> 00:00:42,599 Speaker 1: it in front of the microphones. Because this is an 11 00:00:42,640 --> 00:00:48,440 Speaker 1: audio podcast, so we're we're pretty informal today. Uh, what 12 00:00:48,479 --> 00:00:52,320 Speaker 1: we're gonna talk about is Washington, d C. Just a 13 00:00:52,560 --> 00:00:55,040 Speaker 1: just a little bit. We're just gonna scratch along the 14 00:00:55,120 --> 00:01:01,080 Speaker 1: surface of this gigantic thing, both as a subject, as 15 00:01:01,120 --> 00:01:07,080 Speaker 1: a town, as a historical um hub. It's it's strangely 16 00:01:07,360 --> 00:01:11,960 Speaker 1: small in size comparatively to the importance that it holds 17 00:01:12,319 --> 00:01:14,800 Speaker 1: for this country and perhaps for the world. Yeah, that's 18 00:01:14,800 --> 00:01:18,080 Speaker 1: a great point. No, Matt, you've been to Washington before, 19 00:01:18,160 --> 00:01:21,000 Speaker 1: and you know later this week tomorrow, in fact, as 20 00:01:21,040 --> 00:01:25,800 Speaker 1: we record this, this podcast will come out on Friday, 21 00:01:26,280 --> 00:01:29,240 Speaker 1: on the thirty one of July. If you're hearing it 22 00:01:29,319 --> 00:01:32,200 Speaker 1: the same day it comes out, and when it's out 23 00:01:32,560 --> 00:01:37,040 Speaker 1: we will be hopefully not arrested somewhere in the metro area. 24 00:01:37,240 --> 00:01:40,240 Speaker 1: We can only hope. We can only hope, but we're 25 00:01:40,280 --> 00:01:43,560 Speaker 1: not strangers to the town. We've both gone. So what 26 00:01:43,560 --> 00:01:46,840 Speaker 1: what was your experience like? Yes, I have been there 27 00:01:46,880 --> 00:01:50,880 Speaker 1: a few times, I think three in total, taking a 28 00:01:50,880 --> 00:01:54,840 Speaker 1: trip first school and for high school. Then I went 29 00:01:55,680 --> 00:01:59,280 Speaker 1: just on a whim one time, and then the last 30 00:01:59,320 --> 00:02:01,840 Speaker 1: time I was there was for the Rally for Sanity. 31 00:02:01,880 --> 00:02:04,480 Speaker 1: I forget the full title, but it was the Shin 32 00:02:04,600 --> 00:02:09,240 Speaker 1: Dig that John Stewart put together with Stephen Colbert. That 33 00:02:09,480 --> 00:02:13,040 Speaker 1: was amazing. That was one of my favorite experiences of 34 00:02:13,080 --> 00:02:17,960 Speaker 1: all time, the Rally to Restore Sanity and or Fear yes, yes, 35 00:02:18,280 --> 00:02:21,040 Speaker 1: Colbert bringing in the Fear wagon as well. It was 36 00:02:21,080 --> 00:02:23,720 Speaker 1: just it was amazing to see so many human beings 37 00:02:23,760 --> 00:02:27,320 Speaker 1: on the National Mall at one time for something that 38 00:02:27,720 --> 00:02:31,840 Speaker 1: you know, admittedly was for comedy, for jokes, but it 39 00:02:31,919 --> 00:02:35,639 Speaker 1: had this air of seriousness to it at the time. 40 00:02:36,680 --> 00:02:39,679 Speaker 1: It was strange and I was at what year was that, 41 00:02:39,800 --> 00:02:44,639 Speaker 1: two thousand and eight, two thousand, two thousand ten? Wow? Okay, 42 00:02:44,680 --> 00:02:49,720 Speaker 1: so That's when I was relatively new in my political awakening, 43 00:02:50,000 --> 00:02:53,520 Speaker 1: my just awakening to all of the larger things that 44 00:02:53,600 --> 00:02:57,760 Speaker 1: happened in the world. And I had been watching John 45 00:02:57,760 --> 00:02:59,880 Speaker 1: Stewart on The Daily Show for so long. It just 46 00:03:00,560 --> 00:03:03,000 Speaker 1: the whole thing resonated with me being in that place, 47 00:03:03,560 --> 00:03:06,200 Speaker 1: and I can't wait to be there again. Yeah, I 48 00:03:06,240 --> 00:03:08,440 Speaker 1: wonder if we'll see if we'll see John up there. 49 00:03:08,639 --> 00:03:11,320 Speaker 1: I hear good things about him. It's strange he's got 50 00:03:11,360 --> 00:03:13,639 Speaker 1: seven shows left. I think, Yeah, who knows what he's 51 00:03:13,639 --> 00:03:17,280 Speaker 1: gonna do, go back to directing, perhaps, uh, go back 52 00:03:17,320 --> 00:03:21,919 Speaker 1: to I don't know, maybe he'll take a vacation. Doesn't 53 00:03:21,919 --> 00:03:24,680 Speaker 1: seem like he actually gets many of those. Perhaps there 54 00:03:24,800 --> 00:03:29,800 Speaker 1: was this uh moving moment when he came up to 55 00:03:29,840 --> 00:03:32,280 Speaker 1: make a speech to the assembled crowd, which you saw live, 56 00:03:33,120 --> 00:03:38,600 Speaker 1: and it was clear, it was apparent how overwhelmed he 57 00:03:38,800 --> 00:03:41,520 Speaker 1: was by this. And and John Stewart is not a 58 00:03:41,560 --> 00:03:44,720 Speaker 1: guy who seems to be overwhelmed easily and keeps it together. 59 00:03:45,040 --> 00:03:47,440 Speaker 1: He keeps it together. He's talked to, He's talked to 60 00:03:47,480 --> 00:03:50,480 Speaker 1: people who later turned out to be essentially war criminals, 61 00:03:50,520 --> 00:03:55,280 Speaker 1: like Pervez musher Reef Musheriff, the former leader of Pakistan 62 00:03:55,800 --> 00:03:59,000 Speaker 1: and he when I when I saw that, I thought 63 00:03:59,040 --> 00:04:03,720 Speaker 1: for a second, Oh, and did you not anticipate that 64 00:04:05,200 --> 00:04:10,120 Speaker 1: as the most trusted journalist overall in the US, you know, 65 00:04:10,640 --> 00:04:14,600 Speaker 1: which he uh thing that he usually disavows, but a 66 00:04:14,640 --> 00:04:18,040 Speaker 1: lot of people im polls say that he is their 67 00:04:18,120 --> 00:04:21,040 Speaker 1: most trusted source of news. And you know, take that, 68 00:04:21,200 --> 00:04:25,400 Speaker 1: take that as as you will, I would say, But uh, 69 00:04:25,520 --> 00:04:27,440 Speaker 1: I can tell you a little bit about the times 70 00:04:27,520 --> 00:04:29,200 Speaker 1: I went to d C. I went there as a 71 00:04:29,240 --> 00:04:31,520 Speaker 1: kid in high school as well, and fairly certain it 72 00:04:31,560 --> 00:04:33,919 Speaker 1: was high school, though the past does blur like a 73 00:04:33,920 --> 00:04:37,960 Speaker 1: watercolor in the rain. And uh, I also went up 74 00:04:38,000 --> 00:04:40,840 Speaker 1: to d C a couple of times to do UH 75 00:04:41,640 --> 00:04:44,800 Speaker 1: in the process of joining the State Department, before I 76 00:04:44,839 --> 00:04:49,320 Speaker 1: became uh disillusioned by it. And I don't mean to 77 00:04:49,520 --> 00:04:55,240 Speaker 1: disparage the State Department professionals working there, the people that 78 00:04:55,320 --> 00:04:57,760 Speaker 1: I met in the course of that before I decided 79 00:04:57,839 --> 00:05:00,479 Speaker 1: not to go that route, we're all very and sere 80 00:05:01,360 --> 00:05:05,320 Speaker 1: and no, you know, nobody was a jerk or anything. 81 00:05:05,839 --> 00:05:08,680 Speaker 1: I just started to get the feeling that maybe the 82 00:05:08,720 --> 00:05:11,719 Speaker 1: goals that I had and the goals that the State 83 00:05:11,760 --> 00:05:16,120 Speaker 1: Department has might not align. Yeah, So this was before 84 00:05:16,720 --> 00:05:22,520 Speaker 1: going deep into international affairs. Yeah, this was this was 85 00:05:22,680 --> 00:05:27,960 Speaker 1: slightly before I started studying that at Tech. So we've 86 00:05:28,000 --> 00:05:30,839 Speaker 1: been there before, but we've never we've never lived there. 87 00:05:31,040 --> 00:05:35,400 Speaker 1: And d C is interesting in the US because it 88 00:05:35,600 --> 00:05:42,480 Speaker 1: is unique amidst all the other area classifications. Right, So 89 00:05:42,560 --> 00:05:44,200 Speaker 1: we we we'd like to do is talk a little 90 00:05:44,200 --> 00:05:46,120 Speaker 1: bit about the history of d C. So we know 91 00:05:46,279 --> 00:05:51,360 Speaker 1: that before the US was even a thing, before anybody said, hey, guys, 92 00:05:51,560 --> 00:05:56,000 Speaker 1: hold my beer, let me try this, the the place 93 00:05:56,120 --> 00:06:00,880 Speaker 1: was populated. Even though there are these myths about the 94 00:06:00,960 --> 00:06:05,839 Speaker 1: US being relatively sparsely populated, Uh, they are myths. Uh. 95 00:06:05,960 --> 00:06:11,279 Speaker 1: The human presence dates back at least four thousand years. Uh. 96 00:06:11,440 --> 00:06:15,120 Speaker 1: The European exploration of the region so far as we know, 97 00:06:15,640 --> 00:06:19,040 Speaker 1: started early in the sixteenth centuries, so sixteen hundred ish. 98 00:06:19,520 --> 00:06:21,599 Speaker 1: And there was a guy named Captain John Smith you 99 00:06:21,640 --> 00:06:26,440 Speaker 1: might remember from who was there in sixteen o eight. Uh. 100 00:06:26,520 --> 00:06:33,000 Speaker 1: The different tribes that lived around the area included people 101 00:06:33,040 --> 00:06:38,159 Speaker 1: like the uh nato Chunk, the potoa make after which 102 00:06:38,200 --> 00:06:42,479 Speaker 1: you know, the Potomac, the Poottan, and uh some other 103 00:06:42,920 --> 00:06:48,400 Speaker 1: some other groups right. Uh. And the present day Georgetown 104 00:06:48,760 --> 00:06:52,640 Speaker 1: is actually the site of a village called Tahoga, which 105 00:06:52,680 --> 00:06:56,960 Speaker 1: I which I honestly may be mispronouncing. We also know 106 00:06:57,040 --> 00:07:00,680 Speaker 1: a little bit about the first colonial land owners who 107 00:07:00,720 --> 00:07:03,560 Speaker 1: settled down there, right, Yeah, that would be George Thompson 108 00:07:03,760 --> 00:07:06,920 Speaker 1: and Thomas Gerard. These guys were both granted the Blue 109 00:07:06,920 --> 00:07:11,000 Speaker 1: Planes tract in sixteen sixty two, along with the St. 110 00:07:11,040 --> 00:07:14,680 Speaker 1: Elizabeth area of land there um and a couple other 111 00:07:14,760 --> 00:07:19,560 Speaker 1: tracks in Anacostia like Capitol Hill yeah yeah, and then 112 00:07:19,600 --> 00:07:26,040 Speaker 1: other tracks areas down the Potomac as time ground on. Now. Thompson, 113 00:07:26,680 --> 00:07:31,360 Speaker 1: probably much to the dismay of his later family, had 114 00:07:31,400 --> 00:07:34,760 Speaker 1: his later family he of his descendants, he sold his 115 00:07:34,840 --> 00:07:38,160 Speaker 1: properties at Capitol Hill in sixteen seventy to a guy 116 00:07:38,240 --> 00:07:43,600 Speaker 1: named Thomas not Lee. Uh. This this uh continued for 117 00:07:43,600 --> 00:07:48,480 Speaker 1: a while, you know, as more Europeans were establishing areas 118 00:07:48,560 --> 00:07:52,960 Speaker 1: and of course clashing with the people who already lived 119 00:07:52,960 --> 00:07:57,920 Speaker 1: there and said you're what are you doing? Right? And 120 00:07:58,480 --> 00:08:03,320 Speaker 1: the this led to uh, the construction of FOURT in 121 00:08:03,520 --> 00:08:07,640 Speaker 1: sixteen ninety seven, and was it was in the bounds 122 00:08:07,680 --> 00:08:11,720 Speaker 1: of what is now d C. But even though all 123 00:08:11,760 --> 00:08:14,440 Speaker 1: this stuff happened, right, even though all this stuff happened 124 00:08:14,600 --> 00:08:19,200 Speaker 1: in the sixteen hundreds. Washington, d C. Of course, as 125 00:08:19,360 --> 00:08:22,000 Speaker 1: many of our listeners surely know, was not the original 126 00:08:22,200 --> 00:08:26,760 Speaker 1: capital of the US. The US has had multiple capitals. Uh. 127 00:08:26,800 --> 00:08:29,640 Speaker 1: There was one in New York City when they decided 128 00:08:29,680 --> 00:08:32,840 Speaker 1: to form it in d C. And then Philadelphia, Annapolis, 129 00:08:33,160 --> 00:08:37,800 Speaker 1: the list goes on. The area it's called the District 130 00:08:37,800 --> 00:08:45,040 Speaker 1: of Columbia. Didn't become the capital until about uh seventeen 131 00:08:45,120 --> 00:08:47,559 Speaker 1: ninety right, yeah, that's right, and that was with the 132 00:08:47,640 --> 00:08:53,960 Speaker 1: Residents Act of July seventeen, and DC itself was founded 133 00:08:54,040 --> 00:08:59,520 Speaker 1: in seventeen one, the same year that President Washington commissioned 134 00:08:59,520 --> 00:09:04,320 Speaker 1: a guy named Pierre Charles l'infant uh to a French 135 00:09:04,360 --> 00:09:09,600 Speaker 1: board architect, to design the new capital. And oh design 136 00:09:09,679 --> 00:09:13,880 Speaker 1: he did. Yeah, yeah, this comes into play later, right, yeah. 137 00:09:14,240 --> 00:09:17,839 Speaker 1: He there were a lot of strange things with his 138 00:09:17,400 --> 00:09:21,440 Speaker 1: his design that were cool. Admittedly, they're just these huge 139 00:09:21,520 --> 00:09:27,960 Speaker 1: broad streets, um, these avenues that were were basically created 140 00:09:27,960 --> 00:09:30,800 Speaker 1: out of these rectangles, and it was the meat. The 141 00:09:30,800 --> 00:09:35,360 Speaker 1: whole idea was to provide space for landscaping, open areas. Um. 142 00:09:35,559 --> 00:09:38,600 Speaker 1: But man, it sure looks strange when you look at 143 00:09:38,640 --> 00:09:41,160 Speaker 1: it on a map. Some of the areas right right here, 144 00:09:41,400 --> 00:09:44,440 Speaker 1: and you guys see what we're foreshadowing here, which we'll 145 00:09:44,480 --> 00:09:51,079 Speaker 1: get to. So Pierre bases his designs on plans from cities, 146 00:09:51,200 --> 00:09:55,280 Speaker 1: great European cities, right Paris, Amsterdam, Milan, and so on. 147 00:09:56,080 --> 00:10:02,320 Speaker 1: But the layout later what wolf and later becomes a 148 00:10:02,360 --> 00:10:07,160 Speaker 1: source of controversy in the modern age and becomes uh 149 00:10:07,520 --> 00:10:11,079 Speaker 1: polluted might be a fair word, by later builders making 150 00:10:11,160 --> 00:10:14,880 Speaker 1: new street random buildings in places that he would never 151 00:10:14,920 --> 00:10:21,080 Speaker 1: want him so today, or at least as often Washington, 152 00:10:21,160 --> 00:10:23,880 Speaker 1: the actual city of Washington, D C. Has a population 153 00:10:24,120 --> 00:10:27,959 Speaker 1: of uh, just over six hundred fifty thousand. I think 154 00:10:28,000 --> 00:10:30,800 Speaker 1: you might have the exact number, six hundred and fifty 155 00:10:30,840 --> 00:10:34,200 Speaker 1: eight thousand, eight hundred and ninety three. Could say that 156 00:10:34,200 --> 00:10:38,720 Speaker 1: that those extra three people that came in last summer, right, yeah, yeah, 157 00:10:38,760 --> 00:10:42,760 Speaker 1: and uh that that seems like a deceptively small number 158 00:10:43,040 --> 00:10:47,679 Speaker 1: for the capital is such only large country. Deceptively small indeed, 159 00:10:47,920 --> 00:10:51,760 Speaker 1: because that number is only accounting for the actual city, 160 00:10:52,040 --> 00:10:54,600 Speaker 1: the city of Washington, d C. And the actual district 161 00:10:54,600 --> 00:10:57,040 Speaker 1: of Columbia. Yes, and you look at the metro area 162 00:10:57,080 --> 00:10:59,520 Speaker 1: that's surrounding it, you that number jumps all the way 163 00:10:59,600 --> 00:11:04,080 Speaker 1: up to I think five point eight million. Huge. So 164 00:11:04,160 --> 00:11:07,560 Speaker 1: that's the that counters places like UM. Not that rather 165 00:11:07,880 --> 00:11:14,160 Speaker 1: encompasses places like Maryland, Virginia. Nearby towns in those areas, UH, 166 00:11:14,679 --> 00:11:16,839 Speaker 1: one of which you and I went on a trip 167 00:11:16,880 --> 00:11:21,319 Speaker 1: to UH a few years back. Very strange experience. It's 168 00:11:21,360 --> 00:11:26,600 Speaker 1: a different story. One of the biggest controversies, at least 169 00:11:27,000 --> 00:11:30,839 Speaker 1: in the mainstream I for d C, is that UH, 170 00:11:30,880 --> 00:11:36,480 Speaker 1: in a burst of tremendous irony, local citizens District of 171 00:11:36,520 --> 00:11:40,360 Speaker 1: Columbia have no representation in Congress. Yeah, if you live 172 00:11:40,400 --> 00:11:44,360 Speaker 1: in that just that tiny little area. Sorry, the capital 173 00:11:44,360 --> 00:11:50,000 Speaker 1: of a country partially formed by UH, partially formed by 174 00:11:50,040 --> 00:11:55,880 Speaker 1: this principle of no taxation without representation, have no representation 175 00:11:56,080 --> 00:11:59,520 Speaker 1: because they're not state in Congress. Yes, Uh. And due 176 00:11:59,559 --> 00:12:04,520 Speaker 1: to H due to the nature of this organization, the 177 00:12:05,280 --> 00:12:10,920 Speaker 1: legal system of d C is byzantine. It is incredibly complicated. 178 00:12:11,240 --> 00:12:15,760 Speaker 1: If you are going through the criminal justice system in 179 00:12:15,840 --> 00:12:19,160 Speaker 1: d C, and I hope you never ever are in 180 00:12:19,280 --> 00:12:24,040 Speaker 1: any state really, then what you will find is the 181 00:12:24,280 --> 00:12:29,000 Speaker 1: things are a little bit different. First, since about nineteen 182 00:12:29,080 --> 00:12:34,360 Speaker 1: seventy three and at other times in DC's history, Congress 183 00:12:34,440 --> 00:12:40,080 Speaker 1: has allowed locally elected officials like a mayor and council 184 00:12:40,400 --> 00:12:45,520 Speaker 1: to carry out certain local government functions. However, because Congress 185 00:12:45,559 --> 00:12:50,079 Speaker 1: has constitutional authority to control the area, they literally can 186 00:12:50,240 --> 00:12:53,920 Speaker 1: overturn any of those laws any time they want and 187 00:12:53,960 --> 00:12:58,120 Speaker 1: they don't have to have a reason. Sorry, you don't. 188 00:12:58,160 --> 00:13:01,040 Speaker 1: You don't get to do that anymore. Now, what it is, Uh, 189 00:13:01,160 --> 00:13:06,760 Speaker 1: crime has historically been an issue. It has declined over time, 190 00:13:06,800 --> 00:13:11,120 Speaker 1: but it remains above the US average. Uh this and 191 00:13:11,240 --> 00:13:13,480 Speaker 1: you know, of course d C is a town chuck 192 00:13:13,559 --> 00:13:16,520 Speaker 1: full of lawyers, so it's not surprising that would be 193 00:13:16,600 --> 00:13:20,720 Speaker 1: so uh so complicated. Here's one example. So let's say 194 00:13:21,800 --> 00:13:24,600 Speaker 1: pick one of our coworkers that that that our audience 195 00:13:24,600 --> 00:13:29,240 Speaker 1: would know. How about Chuck? All right, Chuck Bryant from 196 00:13:29,280 --> 00:13:32,480 Speaker 1: stuff you should know. So let's say Chuck gets on 197 00:13:32,520 --> 00:13:36,400 Speaker 1: the wrong side of the law, and uh and he is, 198 00:13:36,960 --> 00:13:39,080 Speaker 1: he is going up the river, he's got to get 199 00:13:39,120 --> 00:13:41,360 Speaker 1: his he's got to get a lawyer, he's got to 200 00:13:41,360 --> 00:13:44,280 Speaker 1: go to trial. Serious business. So oh and by the way, 201 00:13:44,320 --> 00:13:46,880 Speaker 1: listeners right in and let us know what what crime 202 00:13:47,000 --> 00:13:50,440 Speaker 1: you would imagine Chuck committing. And with that being said, 203 00:13:50,480 --> 00:13:53,040 Speaker 1: we're just using him as an example. He has not 204 00:13:53,400 --> 00:13:59,320 Speaker 1: our knowledge done anything crazy, right, zero crimes, and instead 205 00:13:59,400 --> 00:14:02,520 Speaker 1: of the crime, this hypothetical crime being handled by a 206 00:14:02,640 --> 00:14:05,880 Speaker 1: state attorney as it would in any other similar case, 207 00:14:06,240 --> 00:14:09,280 Speaker 1: it goes directly to the U. S. District attorney. It 208 00:14:09,360 --> 00:14:12,599 Speaker 1: does not PASCO, It does not collect two hundred dollars. 209 00:14:12,720 --> 00:14:14,480 Speaker 1: Seems like that would be a lot for the U. S. 210 00:14:14,559 --> 00:14:18,200 Speaker 1: District attorney to handle. Yes, yeah, it's true. I'd love 211 00:14:18,240 --> 00:14:22,640 Speaker 1: to hear from somebody affiliated with that system. Uh so. 212 00:14:22,920 --> 00:14:27,240 Speaker 1: Of course, Washington today is also home to the three 213 00:14:27,280 --> 00:14:31,880 Speaker 1: branches of the federal government, nearly two hundred foreign embassies, 214 00:14:32,400 --> 00:14:40,040 Speaker 1: um Matt's favorite lobbyists and think tanks. Yeah, lobbyists. K Street. 215 00:14:40,360 --> 00:14:43,840 Speaker 1: Did you ever see that showcase Street that came out? Yeah, yeah, 216 00:14:43,960 --> 00:14:46,440 Speaker 1: pretty good. Went for about two seasons before it was pulled. 217 00:14:46,440 --> 00:14:51,080 Speaker 1: Tremendously popular in Washington. It was tremendously popular in Washington 218 00:14:51,440 --> 00:14:54,880 Speaker 1: because it's kind of looking behind the curtain. The staff 219 00:14:54,920 --> 00:14:58,160 Speaker 1: they had, the production staff and people writing knew what 220 00:14:58,240 --> 00:15:02,240 Speaker 1: they were talking about. Presented almost this weird dystopian version 221 00:15:02,520 --> 00:15:07,200 Speaker 1: of reality, which was sad. Now that's you know, that's 222 00:15:07,200 --> 00:15:10,760 Speaker 1: a great segue to the the other stuff we wanted 223 00:15:10,800 --> 00:15:16,200 Speaker 1: to talk about. Here's where it gets crazy. Maybe let's 224 00:15:16,200 --> 00:15:20,640 Speaker 1: talk about the conspiracy theories. Let's go back to the Freemasons. Okay, 225 00:15:20,720 --> 00:15:23,320 Speaker 1: that's the biggest one. I remember we did a couple 226 00:15:23,320 --> 00:15:27,760 Speaker 1: of episodes about Freemasons early on when this show started, 227 00:15:28,040 --> 00:15:31,200 Speaker 1: and we thought we would have about a month of 228 00:15:31,240 --> 00:15:35,600 Speaker 1: doing it before we got fired. Yeah, especially after that episode, 229 00:15:36,040 --> 00:15:42,120 Speaker 1: just because it's the reality of the let's say, the 230 00:15:42,160 --> 00:15:45,920 Speaker 1: Masonic hand that was inside the creation of d C 231 00:15:46,320 --> 00:15:49,560 Speaker 1: and that has historically been a part of at least 232 00:15:50,840 --> 00:15:56,080 Speaker 1: a a substantial number of our leaders. There's a Masonic 233 00:15:56,600 --> 00:16:00,000 Speaker 1: line that goes through there. If we were talking about 234 00:16:00,080 --> 00:16:02,600 Speaker 1: something that we really shouldn't have been talking about, then 235 00:16:02,800 --> 00:16:06,400 Speaker 1: there's one reason that we get canceled. Right. Second reason, 236 00:16:06,680 --> 00:16:09,600 Speaker 1: and I think the most important reason that the show 237 00:16:09,760 --> 00:16:12,680 Speaker 1: was just why would you make this? You know what 238 00:16:12,760 --> 00:16:17,080 Speaker 1: I mean? Well? Yeah, also, you know, I think there's 239 00:16:17,120 --> 00:16:21,680 Speaker 1: such inherent narcissism and paranoia sometimes I really don't think. 240 00:16:22,360 --> 00:16:24,080 Speaker 1: I hope, I hope these are words I don't have 241 00:16:24,120 --> 00:16:28,080 Speaker 1: to eat later, But I really don't believe that there's 242 00:16:28,200 --> 00:16:32,960 Speaker 1: any reason that somebody would see our show and say, 243 00:16:33,240 --> 00:16:36,120 Speaker 1: oh no, they have to be stopped, right, Absolutely not, 244 00:16:36,200 --> 00:16:38,160 Speaker 1: But you know it is called stuff they don't want 245 00:16:38,200 --> 00:16:40,120 Speaker 1: you to know. And we get comments on YouTube all 246 00:16:40,160 --> 00:16:43,560 Speaker 1: the time like what are all the major secrets just 247 00:16:43,680 --> 00:16:47,320 Speaker 1: on YouTube available for free? Well, I would say, I 248 00:16:47,320 --> 00:16:50,240 Speaker 1: would say, while that is a very good comparison up 249 00:16:50,280 --> 00:16:53,240 Speaker 1: there with the earlier comparison you and I have made 250 00:16:53,280 --> 00:16:56,840 Speaker 1: about Wi Jia boards and whether proof of Life after 251 00:16:56,880 --> 00:16:59,480 Speaker 1: Death comes from a mass market at Parker Brothers Game. 252 00:17:00,240 --> 00:17:03,400 Speaker 1: The while that is a reasonable thing, the truth is 253 00:17:03,520 --> 00:17:08,960 Speaker 1: that YouTube and podcasting, and I'm not saying our shows 254 00:17:08,960 --> 00:17:13,000 Speaker 1: in particular, but YouTube and podcasting and communicating directly to 255 00:17:13,040 --> 00:17:18,359 Speaker 1: people online is, despite its many pitfalls, uh, still a 256 00:17:18,520 --> 00:17:24,040 Speaker 1: better chance of getting less uh less manipulation or less 257 00:17:24,080 --> 00:17:27,320 Speaker 1: suppression of a story. Right, Yeah, there are fewer people 258 00:17:27,800 --> 00:17:31,399 Speaker 1: dictating what people who create content that goes there what 259 00:17:31,520 --> 00:17:37,120 Speaker 1: they can and cannot say, right, right exactly, Like whomever 260 00:17:37,560 --> 00:17:42,239 Speaker 1: is affiliated with a large a large industrial giant like 261 00:17:42,359 --> 00:17:44,960 Speaker 1: Westinghouse or something is not probably not going to be 262 00:17:45,040 --> 00:17:49,640 Speaker 1: able to give an objective report on any problems, essentially 263 00:17:49,680 --> 00:17:52,959 Speaker 1: systemic problems with a lot of Westinghouse equipment. It's just 264 00:17:53,000 --> 00:17:56,480 Speaker 1: not gonna happen new and if they're if they're controlled 265 00:17:56,480 --> 00:18:00,840 Speaker 1: by a car company, for some reason, then they're going 266 00:18:00,960 --> 00:18:05,680 Speaker 1: to give a very different report on recalls. So that's 267 00:18:05,760 --> 00:18:08,600 Speaker 1: that's the nature of it. But the idea that d 268 00:18:08,760 --> 00:18:11,800 Speaker 1: C is this Freemason town, the idea that it is 269 00:18:11,920 --> 00:18:17,640 Speaker 1: at heart run by the Masons, was historically a tremendously 270 00:18:17,720 --> 00:18:20,360 Speaker 1: popular idea, so much so that there was an anti 271 00:18:20,400 --> 00:18:24,280 Speaker 1: Masonic party, anti Masonic political party at time for a 272 00:18:24,359 --> 00:18:27,720 Speaker 1: time in the US. Uh. There of course no longer 273 00:18:27,800 --> 00:18:32,720 Speaker 1: around in serious capacity. So we've done this stuff on 274 00:18:32,960 --> 00:18:36,400 Speaker 1: whether Freemason's control Washington. We also did one on Albert Pike, 275 00:18:36,640 --> 00:18:41,280 Speaker 1: I believe, big figure in the Masonic tradition that had 276 00:18:41,320 --> 00:18:45,000 Speaker 1: I think a magical amulet some sort I forget the 277 00:18:45,000 --> 00:18:48,640 Speaker 1: whole episode, but he could communicate or allegedly he could 278 00:18:48,680 --> 00:18:54,439 Speaker 1: communicate somehow with the demons for his magical similar to 279 00:18:54,480 --> 00:18:56,919 Speaker 1: like a key of Solomon thing pretty cool, which is 280 00:18:56,960 --> 00:18:59,959 Speaker 1: I guess not a ring of Solomon, rather the legendary one. 281 00:19:00,640 --> 00:19:03,320 Speaker 1: It is true that there are some seeds of truth 282 00:19:03,359 --> 00:19:05,879 Speaker 1: to this because not to the amulet, not to the 283 00:19:05,880 --> 00:19:10,640 Speaker 1: ammuletas because it's true that the national headquarters of Masonry 284 00:19:10,720 --> 00:19:15,520 Speaker 1: is in d C. It's the the prime temple for 285 00:19:15,920 --> 00:19:18,200 Speaker 1: all of the other lodges or the Prime Lodge, I 286 00:19:18,200 --> 00:19:20,280 Speaker 1: should say, yeah, it's that's where you can find the 287 00:19:20,280 --> 00:19:22,560 Speaker 1: House of the Temple. It's also where you can find 288 00:19:22,600 --> 00:19:26,159 Speaker 1: the Supreme Council of the Scottish Rite. It's there are 289 00:19:26,160 --> 00:19:28,959 Speaker 1: a couple other buildings. I think George Washington even has 290 00:19:29,000 --> 00:19:33,000 Speaker 1: a memorial right which we're gonna we're gonna have to visit, 291 00:19:33,080 --> 00:19:36,439 Speaker 1: not the George Washington statue, not the creepy obelisk, not 292 00:19:36,560 --> 00:19:40,119 Speaker 1: the obelisk, but a whole separate building, which is the 293 00:19:40,119 --> 00:19:44,400 Speaker 1: the Masonic memorial for George Washington. And the official name 294 00:19:44,480 --> 00:19:46,479 Speaker 1: of that House of the Temple, by the way, is 295 00:19:46,840 --> 00:19:50,560 Speaker 1: quote Home of the Supreme Council thirty three degrees ancient 296 00:19:50,840 --> 00:19:56,680 Speaker 1: accepted Scottish Rite Freemasonry. Uh yeah, that's oh. It's also 297 00:19:56,720 --> 00:20:02,080 Speaker 1: the Southern Jurisdiction Washington, d C. USA. Okay, so it 298 00:20:02,160 --> 00:20:04,000 Speaker 1: doesn't quite roll off the tongue. I can see how 299 00:20:04,080 --> 00:20:06,600 Speaker 1: people call it the House, or maybe people just refer 300 00:20:06,720 --> 00:20:10,120 Speaker 1: to it as the Temple. I've often heard it called 301 00:20:10,119 --> 00:20:12,600 Speaker 1: the Supreme Council or the House of the Supreme Council. 302 00:20:13,080 --> 00:20:15,920 Speaker 1: So there's another piece of truth here. It is also 303 00:20:16,000 --> 00:20:19,600 Speaker 1: true that Mason's were involved in the construction of numerous 304 00:20:19,640 --> 00:20:22,520 Speaker 1: other historic buildings in the area. We've got a great 305 00:20:22,600 --> 00:20:24,919 Speaker 1: quote from a guy named Mark Tabert, who was the 306 00:20:25,400 --> 00:20:28,160 Speaker 1: who was the director of collections at the George Washington 307 00:20:28,240 --> 00:20:33,760 Speaker 1: Masonic Memorial in Alexandria, Virginia. He says, individually, Mason's had 308 00:20:33,800 --> 00:20:35,800 Speaker 1: a role in building the White House and building and 309 00:20:35,880 --> 00:20:39,560 Speaker 1: designing d C and small scale Masonic symbols can be 310 00:20:39,560 --> 00:20:41,760 Speaker 1: found throughout the city, as they can in most U. 311 00:20:41,840 --> 00:20:48,600 Speaker 1: S cities. So this, uh, this note here is important 312 00:20:48,600 --> 00:20:52,679 Speaker 1: because he's saying individual Masons were involved, not necessarily a 313 00:20:52,680 --> 00:20:57,600 Speaker 1: big collective, saying this is the pentagram we shall wrought 314 00:20:57,760 --> 00:21:01,280 Speaker 1: upon the face of this nation. Absolutely, He's also reminding 315 00:21:01,320 --> 00:21:04,640 Speaker 1: you that Masons have had their hand in creating buildings 316 00:21:04,640 --> 00:21:08,440 Speaker 1: and cities throughout the United States. If you go to Decatur, Georgia, 317 00:21:08,920 --> 00:21:12,960 Speaker 1: a smaller little town east of where we are right now, 318 00:21:13,640 --> 00:21:16,879 Speaker 1: and uh, there's a building. I think it's the I 319 00:21:16,880 --> 00:21:19,440 Speaker 1: don't know if it's the city council building. Uh, it's 320 00:21:19,440 --> 00:21:21,640 Speaker 1: one of the main building like county courthouse, I think. 321 00:21:22,119 --> 00:21:25,000 Speaker 1: And then directly across from it is the old uh 322 00:21:25,240 --> 00:21:28,680 Speaker 1: Freemason Temple or used to be a lodge there and 323 00:21:28,760 --> 00:21:31,240 Speaker 1: now it's a mixed use building. But on the corner 324 00:21:31,440 --> 00:21:33,880 Speaker 1: you can see there's a there's a big sign up 325 00:21:33,920 --> 00:21:38,119 Speaker 1: that has the what is it the Masonic compass, the 326 00:21:38,160 --> 00:21:40,520 Speaker 1: square in compass. Then on the bottom that you can 327 00:21:40,760 --> 00:21:42,640 Speaker 1: you can look at the cornerstone that has a bunch 328 00:21:42,680 --> 00:21:46,640 Speaker 1: of etching on their cornerstone. Have been important in these 329 00:21:46,640 --> 00:21:51,120 Speaker 1: this kind of construction for a very long time. So 330 00:21:51,119 --> 00:21:53,920 Speaker 1: so then this is either it makes you feel a 331 00:21:53,920 --> 00:21:56,600 Speaker 1: little better you're like, oh well, just Freemasons have a 332 00:21:56,640 --> 00:21:58,800 Speaker 1: hand in everything, or makes you feel a little worse. 333 00:21:58,840 --> 00:22:01,760 Speaker 1: Oh wait, Freemasons just have a hand in everything. Well, 334 00:22:01,760 --> 00:22:05,000 Speaker 1: this is more a statement I guess about my personal philosophy. 335 00:22:05,040 --> 00:22:08,399 Speaker 1: So this is just my opinion, ladies and gentlemen. I 336 00:22:08,440 --> 00:22:12,399 Speaker 1: don't have a fact to back it up. I am naturally, 337 00:22:12,480 --> 00:22:19,760 Speaker 1: instinctively and continually concern and skeptical about the motivations for 338 00:22:19,840 --> 00:22:25,239 Speaker 1: any group that requires secrecy. I hear that, you know, 339 00:22:25,440 --> 00:22:28,679 Speaker 1: it's not I, like many other people, believe it's not 340 00:22:28,920 --> 00:22:32,639 Speaker 1: enough for someone to pack the public on the head 341 00:22:32,920 --> 00:22:37,160 Speaker 1: and say, trust us, we're the good guys. Don't worry, Bobby, 342 00:22:37,200 --> 00:22:40,000 Speaker 1: We've got this right right. Because another thing that we 343 00:22:40,040 --> 00:22:45,320 Speaker 1: have learned throughout human history and modern day psychology is 344 00:22:45,400 --> 00:22:50,320 Speaker 1: that very few people that we would consider bad guys 345 00:22:50,440 --> 00:22:54,679 Speaker 1: or people who are people who have antagonistic aims or 346 00:22:54,720 --> 00:22:57,200 Speaker 1: something like that, very few of those people ever think 347 00:22:57,240 --> 00:23:01,920 Speaker 1: of themselves as villains. And the the good guys perhaps misunderstood, right, Yeah, 348 00:23:01,920 --> 00:23:06,800 Speaker 1: I misunderstood, or perhaps they're good goals or the goals 349 00:23:06,800 --> 00:23:09,080 Speaker 1: that they believe are for the greater good or for 350 00:23:09,480 --> 00:23:12,840 Speaker 1: some some great greater good. Yeah, these are This is 351 00:23:12,880 --> 00:23:14,960 Speaker 1: the right thing to do. Sometimes you have to break 352 00:23:15,000 --> 00:23:18,520 Speaker 1: some eggs, Benjamin, right, right, Matchamen, Sometimes you have to 353 00:23:18,520 --> 00:23:21,960 Speaker 1: break some eggs. And the So the Freemasons, I think 354 00:23:22,480 --> 00:23:29,840 Speaker 1: we should do a podcast entirely on the Masonic Orders. Absolutely. 355 00:23:29,880 --> 00:23:33,240 Speaker 1: We need to find a high ranking Mason in Atlanta 356 00:23:33,440 --> 00:23:35,280 Speaker 1: to come and talk to us. Who's willing to talk 357 00:23:35,280 --> 00:23:38,439 Speaker 1: to us. There's no shortage. We can also interview some 358 00:23:38,520 --> 00:23:43,520 Speaker 1: Masonic historians. That's great. Yeah, the the stuff that we 359 00:23:43,560 --> 00:23:46,400 Speaker 1: had found. You know, I had speculated for a while 360 00:23:46,440 --> 00:23:52,399 Speaker 1: the idea of UH joining Masonry, but I try to 361 00:23:52,400 --> 00:23:55,960 Speaker 1: be very respectful, so I would never join an organization 362 00:23:56,040 --> 00:23:58,159 Speaker 1: with the idea that I will be a mole. It 363 00:23:58,240 --> 00:24:01,960 Speaker 1: just doesn't seem Yeah, I would never do that either. 364 00:24:02,080 --> 00:24:05,600 Speaker 1: It doesn't seem like the right kind of motivation. Agreed, Right, 365 00:24:06,040 --> 00:24:10,719 Speaker 1: Your sarcasm is dripping off of you and rolling across 366 00:24:10,760 --> 00:24:15,120 Speaker 1: the table. What society have you infiltrated? Man, I haven't been. 367 00:24:15,520 --> 00:24:20,520 Speaker 1: I would never do such a thing, have you really? No? Okay, Well, 368 00:24:20,560 --> 00:24:24,080 Speaker 1: if you have, and if you are, then it doesn't 369 00:24:24,119 --> 00:24:27,160 Speaker 1: necessarily have to be the Masons, because we get caught 370 00:24:27,200 --> 00:24:30,080 Speaker 1: up in this idea, which is which is a valid 371 00:24:30,160 --> 00:24:34,840 Speaker 1: concern right of secret societies, But Freemasons are not the 372 00:24:34,920 --> 00:24:40,320 Speaker 1: only secret society. Really depends on what you would consider secret. Right. 373 00:24:40,960 --> 00:24:44,840 Speaker 1: Many of the many of the discussions that the United 374 00:24:44,960 --> 00:24:50,160 Speaker 1: Nations were various embassies hold in Washington, those are not 375 00:24:50,280 --> 00:24:53,560 Speaker 1: for public consumption. There's another group called the Second Stewards 376 00:24:53,560 --> 00:24:59,320 Speaker 1: that recently got into some heat for apparently trying to 377 00:24:59,680 --> 00:25:05,160 Speaker 1: fit the election at Georgetown. Yeah. I think the reporting 378 00:25:05,240 --> 00:25:07,720 Speaker 1: is a little bit skewed there. The Second Stewards were 379 00:25:07,720 --> 00:25:13,040 Speaker 1: supposed to have been abolished, but it came to light. 380 00:25:13,480 --> 00:25:16,440 Speaker 1: Uh in, let me make sure I got the factory 381 00:25:16,560 --> 00:25:18,960 Speaker 1: came to light in two thousand thirteen. That's someone who 382 00:25:19,000 --> 00:25:21,199 Speaker 1: is going to be in the student government head of 383 00:25:21,200 --> 00:25:24,240 Speaker 1: student government who was running for it, uh at Georgetown 384 00:25:24,320 --> 00:25:29,600 Speaker 1: was a member of the second Stewart Society. So, you know, colleges, 385 00:25:29,760 --> 00:25:33,040 Speaker 1: especially higher level colleges, are just lousy with this stuff. 386 00:25:33,480 --> 00:25:35,679 Speaker 1: But yeah, I mean, can we just talk about George W. 387 00:25:35,840 --> 00:25:39,080 Speaker 1: Bush versus Kerry for then with the Skull and Bones 388 00:25:39,119 --> 00:25:44,600 Speaker 1: Society membership? Yeah, you know, a bit weird. Well that's 389 00:25:44,600 --> 00:25:47,919 Speaker 1: another thing, you know, Should elected officials be allowed to 390 00:25:48,000 --> 00:25:53,080 Speaker 1: be members of a secret society? I mean I don't 391 00:25:53,119 --> 00:25:57,240 Speaker 1: think so. Where do your loyalties live? And right, right, 392 00:25:58,040 --> 00:26:04,400 Speaker 1: we do have some unfortunate news about the the actual 393 00:26:05,520 --> 00:26:10,399 Speaker 1: street layout. If you if you look at it, and 394 00:26:10,440 --> 00:26:13,600 Speaker 1: if you look at some of the history, it doesn't 395 00:26:14,160 --> 00:26:18,720 Speaker 1: it doesn't really seem that this it doesn't seem that 396 00:26:18,720 --> 00:26:23,679 Speaker 1: there was purposely a satanic pentagram or something constructed. It 397 00:26:23,880 --> 00:26:27,639 Speaker 1: is eerily close to that. I have to say, Um, 398 00:26:27,800 --> 00:26:30,720 Speaker 1: if you just look at it with a map, let's say, 399 00:26:30,720 --> 00:26:34,159 Speaker 1: satellite of Google Maps, but you can tell it's unfinished. 400 00:26:34,240 --> 00:26:36,800 Speaker 1: If they did mean to make it, then they purposefully 401 00:26:36,800 --> 00:26:42,320 Speaker 1: didn't finish it. Yeah, and I don't know, it seems 402 00:26:42,320 --> 00:26:44,480 Speaker 1: a little weird, right man. Well you can The thing 403 00:26:44,560 --> 00:26:47,560 Speaker 1: is you can read these You can read things from 404 00:26:47,600 --> 00:26:53,680 Speaker 1: the people who believe that a larger Masonic organization and 405 00:26:53,840 --> 00:26:57,959 Speaker 1: or Satanic secret religion built the layout. While you can 406 00:26:58,000 --> 00:26:59,679 Speaker 1: read these things, what you also see is that they 407 00:26:59,680 --> 00:27:04,280 Speaker 1: claim these somehow harness lay lines. For people who believe 408 00:27:04,320 --> 00:27:09,280 Speaker 1: in lay lines, these are geomagnetic lines criss crossing the 409 00:27:09,320 --> 00:27:13,719 Speaker 1: Earth that supply uh, some sort of energy, and the 410 00:27:13,840 --> 00:27:17,520 Speaker 1: interpretation of what sort of energy that might be changes 411 00:27:17,880 --> 00:27:20,480 Speaker 1: over time. Yes, and it's certainly something we have yet 412 00:27:20,520 --> 00:27:24,520 Speaker 1: to prove in any scientific fashion. Right. However, there is 413 00:27:24,640 --> 00:27:28,520 Speaker 1: there is solid proof, of course that many of the 414 00:27:29,680 --> 00:27:34,119 Speaker 1: many of the things cited as hubs for lay lines 415 00:27:34,560 --> 00:27:37,439 Speaker 1: in in the US are or in the world, I 416 00:27:37,440 --> 00:27:43,240 Speaker 1: should say, uh, do exhibit a sophisticated knowledge of astronomy. 417 00:27:43,320 --> 00:27:45,639 Speaker 1: So they're definitely built for that time, right to measure 418 00:27:45,920 --> 00:27:48,639 Speaker 1: the rise and the fall of the stars and the 419 00:27:48,680 --> 00:27:53,280 Speaker 1: sun and the moon, equinox, solstice, stuff like that, and 420 00:27:53,520 --> 00:27:57,159 Speaker 1: uh in many cases, to also predict those movements in 421 00:27:57,200 --> 00:28:00,800 Speaker 1: the heavens, which to me is really it and so 422 00:28:00,800 --> 00:28:03,760 Speaker 1: so intelligent that it's it's kind of frightening, especially because 423 00:28:03,800 --> 00:28:06,240 Speaker 1: in the modern age, for such a long time people 424 00:28:06,359 --> 00:28:12,080 Speaker 1: loved to deride. Uh, the past generations, right, those heathens 425 00:28:12,119 --> 00:28:15,000 Speaker 1: they knew not what we know now. Right. And again 426 00:28:15,040 --> 00:28:17,680 Speaker 1: this is this is just scratching the surface. We haven't 427 00:28:17,680 --> 00:28:23,320 Speaker 1: even talked about how incredibly weird the obelisk for the 428 00:28:23,320 --> 00:28:28,080 Speaker 1: Washington Monument is now incredibly old obelisks are, or the 429 00:28:28,080 --> 00:28:31,280 Speaker 1: original plans for the Washington Monument which had an obelisk, 430 00:28:31,440 --> 00:28:36,960 Speaker 1: but also this temple, right, a straight up old school 431 00:28:37,400 --> 00:28:40,080 Speaker 1: temple and uh, which to me is kind of what 432 00:28:40,240 --> 00:28:45,720 Speaker 1: became the Masonic Memorial for Washington. Yes, and uh, we're 433 00:28:45,760 --> 00:28:49,360 Speaker 1: going to have to head out because candidly we have 434 00:28:49,520 --> 00:28:53,160 Speaker 1: to pack and through some other stuff. But we wanted 435 00:28:53,240 --> 00:28:55,600 Speaker 1: to hear. We wanted to open a conversation. Ask you 436 00:28:55,640 --> 00:29:01,080 Speaker 1: what some of your favorite theories about washing into d 437 00:29:01,160 --> 00:29:05,680 Speaker 1: c R and what what you think the future of 438 00:29:05,680 --> 00:29:09,560 Speaker 1: the city is, especially getting some of these enormous contradictions. 439 00:29:10,360 --> 00:29:13,080 Speaker 1: Would you ever live there? Do have you ever lived there? 440 00:29:13,120 --> 00:29:16,000 Speaker 1: Do you live there now? Uh? Can we crash on 441 00:29:16,040 --> 00:29:21,600 Speaker 1: your couch? Uh? We're kidding. Hopefully, hopefully we'll get it 442 00:29:21,640 --> 00:29:24,160 Speaker 1: together enough that I don't care. Man, I'll sleep on 443 00:29:24,200 --> 00:29:26,320 Speaker 1: the trend. You know, I don't see much well. And 444 00:29:26,600 --> 00:29:28,760 Speaker 1: one other thing I hope some of you joined us 445 00:29:28,960 --> 00:29:31,760 Speaker 1: on our periscope missions that we were doing while we 446 00:29:31,760 --> 00:29:34,800 Speaker 1: were in d c. Uh. If you did not, hopefully 447 00:29:34,840 --> 00:29:37,720 Speaker 1: we'll be doing that again at some point. So make 448 00:29:37,760 --> 00:29:41,360 Speaker 1: sure you were following us on Twitter at conspiracy Stuff 449 00:29:41,400 --> 00:29:44,720 Speaker 1: to get updates of when those little quick live broadcasts 450 00:29:44,760 --> 00:29:47,200 Speaker 1: might happen. Well, we're gonna try and surprise you guys 451 00:29:47,240 --> 00:29:50,440 Speaker 1: a couple of times. Uh that that would be huge. 452 00:29:51,080 --> 00:29:54,240 Speaker 1: Also follow us on Facebook, y'alls. Yeah, you can find 453 00:29:54,280 --> 00:29:57,360 Speaker 1: Facebook and Twitter where conspiracy stuff at both of those 454 00:29:57,600 --> 00:30:00,440 Speaker 1: at a blog entry recently where put our for stuff 455 00:30:00,720 --> 00:30:04,680 Speaker 1: the time of our first periscope experiment. And I'll be 456 00:30:04,720 --> 00:30:08,520 Speaker 1: continually updating that blog as well as the social media 457 00:30:08,640 --> 00:30:12,440 Speaker 1: stuff to let you guys know where we're going, when 458 00:30:12,440 --> 00:30:15,920 Speaker 1: we'll be there, and if you would like, if you're 459 00:30:15,960 --> 00:30:21,520 Speaker 1: in the area, full free to swing by and say hello. Uh. 460 00:30:21,720 --> 00:30:25,920 Speaker 1: We we won't be too weird, I hope right, not 461 00:30:26,080 --> 00:30:29,800 Speaker 1: in an extreme way, but the weirdness you will catch on, 462 00:30:29,920 --> 00:30:32,120 Speaker 1: you'll you'll be able to feel it. I'm I'm a 463 00:30:32,160 --> 00:30:34,640 Speaker 1: regular guy. I'm an open book on a sunny day 464 00:30:34,760 --> 00:30:38,480 Speaker 1: in a meadow. Well I am not all right. So 465 00:30:38,960 --> 00:30:41,800 Speaker 1: we're gonna go ahead and get out of here. Um. Oh, 466 00:30:41,840 --> 00:30:44,200 Speaker 1: and there's one more thing. We said earlier that our 467 00:30:44,280 --> 00:30:48,760 Speaker 1: super producer Noll is with us in spirit but not 468 00:30:48,920 --> 00:30:53,400 Speaker 1: in the flesh, and we can't hear him, but you 469 00:30:53,400 --> 00:30:59,480 Speaker 1: guys probably can. D C. A reflection by super producer 470 00:30:59,600 --> 00:31:04,080 Speaker 1: Noel Brown Washington. D C is not an easy to play. 471 00:31:04,120 --> 00:31:06,480 Speaker 1: The piano is not an easy to play. The piano 472 00:31:06,640 --> 00:31:08,840 Speaker 1: is not an issue that the two men in black 473 00:31:08,880 --> 00:31:11,080 Speaker 1: screen is not the best way of saying it is 474 00:31:11,080 --> 00:31:13,600 Speaker 1: the most recent version in that first place. I have 475 00:31:13,680 --> 00:31:16,040 Speaker 1: no clue who I was, like, I don't have the 476 00:31:16,160 --> 00:31:18,000 Speaker 1: right way and it will take the bus drive or 477 00:31:18,120 --> 00:31:20,280 Speaker 1: just got to it was my mom and my friends 478 00:31:20,520 --> 00:31:25,360 Speaker 1: to be sorry everyone. The spirit world is really, really, 479 00:31:25,400 --> 00:31:32,000 Speaker 1: really weird. What is that? That is that him? Well, 480 00:31:32,080 --> 00:31:35,000 Speaker 1: I didn't hear anything, but it was cool sitting here 481 00:31:35,000 --> 00:31:37,160 Speaker 1: awkwardly with you in silence for a few minutes. I 482 00:31:37,200 --> 00:31:40,000 Speaker 1: did hear that door open and close really loudly a 483 00:31:40,040 --> 00:31:43,760 Speaker 1: couple of times. Let's be the spirit world. So we're 484 00:31:43,760 --> 00:31:47,320 Speaker 1: going to head out as always. Uh, give us topic 485 00:31:47,400 --> 00:31:49,320 Speaker 1: suggestions or if you want to just say hello, if 486 00:31:49,360 --> 00:31:51,520 Speaker 1: you have any advice about d C, we would love 487 00:31:51,560 --> 00:31:53,360 Speaker 1: to know it. You can tell us on social or 488 00:31:53,400 --> 00:31:56,800 Speaker 1: you can write to us directly. We are conspiracy at 489 00:31:56,840 --> 00:32:04,840 Speaker 1: how stuff works dot com. 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