WEBVTT - Strange News: Three Deaths in Kansas City, AI Does Carlin, Corporate Sex Trafficking 0:00:00.280 --> 0:00:04.720 From UFOs to psychic powers and government conspiracies. History is 0:00:04.840 --> 0:00:09.119 riddled with unexplained events. You can turn back now or 0:00:09.240 --> 0:00:12.160 learn this stuff they don't want you to know. A 0:00:12.280 --> 0:00:13.920 production of iHeartRadio. 0:00:24.200 --> 0:00:26.720 Hello, welcome back to the show. My name is Matt, 0:00:26.920 --> 0:00:27.680 my name is Noela. 0:00:27.840 --> 0:00:30.680 They call me Ben. We're joined as olders with our 0:00:30.760 --> 0:00:34.880 super producer Alexis code named Doc Holliday Jackson. Most importantly, 0:00:35.040 --> 0:00:40.120 you are here that makes this the stuff they don't 0:00:40.159 --> 0:00:43.559 want you to know. As you're listening, we are reaching 0:00:43.600 --> 0:00:47.800 the end of January in twenty twenty four, coming off 0:00:47.920 --> 0:00:53.040 a long weekend here in the United States, where every 0:00:53.159 --> 0:00:58.200 company worth being a company does acknowledge, commemorate, and celebrate 0:00:58.680 --> 0:01:03.680 Martin Luther King Day. Over the long weekend, a lot 0:01:03.880 --> 0:01:09.480 of very bizarre things happened. A stand up comic was 0:01:09.520 --> 0:01:13.680 brought back from the dead, the FBI is true story 0:01:14.080 --> 0:01:22.520 investigating some decades worth of villainous actions by a fashion maven. 0:01:22.959 --> 0:01:27.520 And something tragic and mysterious happened in Kansas City. 0:01:27.800 --> 0:01:30.959 Finally, well really not in the tragic part, but just 0:01:30.959 --> 0:01:33.720 something happening in Kansas City. I'm kidding. Kansas City is 0:01:33.720 --> 0:01:35.600 a great town. I would like to go. 0:01:36.440 --> 0:01:41.840 Well, this is something mysterious that occurred in tragic. On Sunday, 0:01:41.920 --> 0:01:45.399 January seventh, several friends gathered at a home within the 0:01:45.440 --> 0:01:49.160 Coves Subdivision in the northwest suburbs of Kansas City, Missouri, 0:01:49.240 --> 0:01:52.200 to watch their home team, the Chiefs, play the Los 0:01:52.240 --> 0:01:57.720 Angeles Chargers. The game was watched by four or more people, 0:01:58.480 --> 0:02:01.400 we know that for sure, or more. That's important here 0:02:02.080 --> 0:02:04.360 and the game that they watched was played at Sofi 0:02:04.400 --> 0:02:09.240 Stadium in Inglewood, California. The Chiefs won thirteen to twelve. Now, 0:02:09.280 --> 0:02:11.560 I'm the last person you'd ever want to ask any 0:02:11.600 --> 0:02:14.680 information about football, but from the numbers, it appears to 0:02:14.720 --> 0:02:18.000 have been a close, perhaps tense game. Could also be important. 0:02:19.160 --> 0:02:21.880 Tell us more about football, Well I will, but. 0:02:21.919 --> 0:02:24.560 I'm leaving little Easter eggs here that we can call 0:02:24.639 --> 0:02:27.440 back to later. Bread crumbs, bread crumbs, there you go. 0:02:27.720 --> 0:02:30.560 That's a thank you, Payne Lindsay for that. There was 0:02:30.600 --> 0:02:33.560 only one touchdown made by the Chiefs in the first quarter. 0:02:33.639 --> 0:02:36.600 The Chargers came back with several field goals and they 0:02:36.600 --> 0:02:39.680 were leading the game twelve to ten in the fourth quarter, 0:02:39.720 --> 0:02:42.360 but the winning field goal was made by the Chiefs 0:02:42.400 --> 0:02:44.960 in the fourth quarter. It's one of those come back 0:02:45.040 --> 0:02:48.799 from behind things. And by the way, they are currently 0:02:48.840 --> 0:02:52.320 number one in the AFC West, whatever that means. Again, 0:02:52.360 --> 0:02:53.120 I don't know if. 0:02:53.040 --> 0:02:54.600 You'd both sports common data. 0:02:55.639 --> 0:02:58.160 It's a good thing for the fans. You'll love to 0:02:58.200 --> 0:03:03.480 see it. Also, also shout out to all our Australian listeners. 0:03:03.520 --> 0:03:08.120 Got a message recently where someone asked me a similar question, Matt. 0:03:08.120 --> 0:03:11.400 They were like, can you explain American football? And I 0:03:11.480 --> 0:03:15.720 just said, tune in for halftime. It's a commercial written enterprise. 0:03:15.880 --> 0:03:18.320 Can I say though, that the Chargers is clearly the 0:03:18.360 --> 0:03:21.720 best name for a football team, the most descriptive name 0:03:22.000 --> 0:03:24.320 for what that sport looks like. They got that one 0:03:24.360 --> 0:03:24.760 on lock. 0:03:25.000 --> 0:03:27.919 So yeah, goo up there with gpsy concussions. 0:03:28.440 --> 0:03:31.840 Enough again, guys, I don't know football, but I do 0:03:31.960 --> 0:03:35.640 know true crime stories, and this is one of those. 0:03:36.240 --> 0:03:39.280 After the game, guys, friends and family attempted to contact 0:03:39.320 --> 0:03:42.080 three of the men present at that home in Kansas City. 0:03:42.080 --> 0:03:45.520 There were text messages sent calls, messages sent out over 0:03:45.560 --> 0:03:48.600 social media, and there was no response from all three 0:03:48.640 --> 0:03:53.080 of these men for three days. So remember that's January seventh, 0:03:53.120 --> 0:03:57.200 Sunday night when they're watching that game. On Tuesday, January ninth, 0:03:57.480 --> 0:04:00.480 the fiance of one of the missing men to matters 0:04:00.520 --> 0:04:03.640 into her own hands, drove to the home. She's banging 0:04:03.680 --> 0:04:06.640 on the door, nobody is answering, so she goes around 0:04:06.640 --> 0:04:09.800 to the back, through the backyard and to the basement 0:04:09.880 --> 0:04:14.280 and she enters that. She forcefully enters the home. After 0:04:14.360 --> 0:04:17.839 looking around, she discovers the body of one of the 0:04:17.920 --> 0:04:22.200 friends dead on the back porch. Now, first of all, 0:04:22.640 --> 0:04:25.440 that's horrifying. We don't have a lot of information. We'll 0:04:25.440 --> 0:04:27.599 get to that later, but I'm just going to continue 0:04:27.600 --> 0:04:30.200 telling you kind of what happened in order so then 0:04:30.240 --> 0:04:32.279 we can start to really pick this thing apart. 0:04:32.680 --> 0:04:37.799 One question. So we say there's a fiance, and the 0:04:37.839 --> 0:04:41.560 fiance checks in after three days. 0:04:41.560 --> 0:04:45.640 The fiance has been attempting to make contact. It was 0:04:45.760 --> 0:04:49.960 known that the vehicles of all three men were still 0:04:50.040 --> 0:04:55.080 parked there at this home. I'll say that. And finally, 0:04:55.680 --> 0:04:58.520 after not being able to contact anyone in that home, 0:04:58.600 --> 0:05:00.800 she decides, I'm just going to break in and see 0:05:00.800 --> 0:05:04.280 what I can find. Like, I'm that scared, basically, right. 0:05:05.600 --> 0:05:08.719 So then she immediately contacts the police at around ten 0:05:08.800 --> 0:05:12.840 pm that night on January ninth, The police arrive, they 0:05:12.839 --> 0:05:16.160 search the property, and they discover in the backyard the 0:05:16.200 --> 0:05:21.839 bodies of the two other missing men. So three dead bodies, 0:05:22.080 --> 0:05:26.280 same house. What the heck's going on? According to police, 0:05:26.320 --> 0:05:29.479 there are no obvious signs of foul play immediately near 0:05:29.800 --> 0:05:32.800 or around the crime scene, so like right near the 0:05:32.800 --> 0:05:35.680 bodies or right around the bodies in the mediate area. 0:05:36.400 --> 0:05:39.240 They were all outside. Now this is an important part. 0:05:39.240 --> 0:05:42.880 They were outside the home. Okay, that's going to factor in. 0:05:43.680 --> 0:05:47.159 As of today, Wednesday, January seventeenth, the causes of death 0:05:47.200 --> 0:05:49.640 for all three men has not been released to the public. 0:05:50.160 --> 0:05:54.159 According to police, they are awaiting medical examiner results. Again, 0:05:54.200 --> 0:05:57.880 as of today, as we're recording, there's no information. And 0:05:57.960 --> 0:06:01.080 I'll just say right now, I called one of the 0:06:01.080 --> 0:06:03.719 local CBS affiliates there to make sure there was no 0:06:03.839 --> 0:06:07.440 updates that haven't been published yet, no updates, nothing else 0:06:07.560 --> 0:06:09.719 is known. Now let's go back in time. Here we 0:06:09.760 --> 0:06:14.680 go Friday, January twelfth. That is when police first announce 0:06:14.839 --> 0:06:18.240 to the public and to local news stations that they're 0:06:18.279 --> 0:06:22.080 seeking a search warrant for the home. Right, those bodies 0:06:22.120 --> 0:06:24.159 were found in the backyard of the home, but that 0:06:24.279 --> 0:06:27.200 is not inside the home. So it's not like there's 0:06:27.360 --> 0:06:30.800 probable cause I guess to go into the home and 0:06:31.040 --> 0:06:34.080 look around, right to find possible evidence of a crime. 0:06:34.480 --> 0:06:36.719 And if there's no at least according to the police, 0:06:36.720 --> 0:06:39.120 if there's no signs of foul play, there's no reason 0:06:39.120 --> 0:06:43.040 to do that, right unless new information was revealed at 0:06:43.040 --> 0:06:46.640 some point between February ninth and the twelfth. Does that 0:06:46.680 --> 0:06:47.160 make sense? 0:06:47.400 --> 0:06:47.560 Sure? 0:06:47.680 --> 0:06:51.080 Sure, they're also getting a ton of pressure from the 0:06:51.080 --> 0:06:53.839 friends and family of these three missing men to look 0:06:53.880 --> 0:06:57.280 inside that house to figure out what's going on. And 0:06:57.320 --> 0:07:00.280 they also announced the names of the three men who 0:07:00.320 --> 0:07:02.560 were found dead. So let's go ahead and say these names. 0:07:02.960 --> 0:07:06.479 Clayton mcguiney. Mcguiney, I think is how you'd say that 0:07:06.640 --> 0:07:10.120 McGee n y. He was thirty six years old. He 0:07:10.360 --> 0:07:13.320 is the person who's fiance traveled to the house, broke 0:07:13.400 --> 0:07:16.400 in and discovered the bodies. There's David Harrington who is 0:07:16.440 --> 0:07:19.640 thirty seven years old, and Ricky Johnson who is thirty 0:07:19.680 --> 0:07:22.400 eight years old, who was married and the father of 0:07:22.480 --> 0:07:26.640 three children. Now here's the part in the story, Ben, 0:07:26.680 --> 0:07:30.560 can we get an hwigc. 0:07:29.760 --> 0:07:31.760 Here's where it gets crazy. 0:07:32.160 --> 0:07:35.560 According to several sources close to this story, friends and 0:07:35.640 --> 0:07:39.440 family of the deceased. They are speaking out about the 0:07:39.520 --> 0:07:43.560 situation and they's some weird stuff at play. They are saying, 0:07:43.640 --> 0:07:46.840 the person who is currently renting that house, who is 0:07:46.880 --> 0:07:50.400 still alive, was home while the friends watched the game, 0:07:50.600 --> 0:07:54.360 while Clayton's fiance broke in, and while the police arrived. 0:07:55.440 --> 0:07:57.840 So there was a human being that rents that house. 0:07:57.880 --> 0:08:00.480 It was home the whole time. They're also saying that 0:08:00.600 --> 0:08:05.200 this person was aware that those friends and family were 0:08:05.240 --> 0:08:09.640 trying to contact the men and him, and avoided all 0:08:09.680 --> 0:08:14.440 of that contact for three days, again until the police arrived. 0:08:14.960 --> 0:08:16.000 I don't like it. 0:08:16.000 --> 0:08:17.080 It doesn't sound good. 0:08:17.040 --> 0:08:19.280 Right, No, no, sir. 0:08:19.800 --> 0:08:23.520 If anything, it means this person knows exactly what happened, right, 0:08:24.080 --> 0:08:27.440 This one person, at least, if there weren't other people there, 0:08:27.720 --> 0:08:29.080 knows exactly what happened. 0:08:29.320 --> 0:08:33.680 I mean, unless there is some sort of extenuating circumstance 0:08:33.840 --> 0:08:39.640 compromising their lucidity. Right, unless they are unless they are, 0:08:39.920 --> 0:08:44.679 like so many people in the Midwest, struggling with substance 0:08:45.520 --> 0:08:49.720 issues or have some sort of mental condition. But the 0:08:50.320 --> 0:08:53.320 I agree with you, Matt, the window of time there 0:08:53.760 --> 0:08:55.600 is quite egregious it is. 0:08:56.200 --> 0:08:59.160 So let's jump to some writing by Chris Spargo from 0:08:59.200 --> 0:09:02.840 Inside Edition. This was published on Monday, January fifteenth, to 0:09:02.880 --> 0:09:05.319 get a little more information about what's being said in 0:09:05.360 --> 0:09:08.440 those circumstances we're talking about there, Ben, there are several 0:09:08.440 --> 0:09:12.720 friends who are posting on Facebook publicly about this, and 0:09:12.920 --> 0:09:16.839 one of those friends is Kaylee Lettier. And this is 0:09:16.920 --> 0:09:19.840 a fairly long quote, but I think this is important stuff. 0:09:20.320 --> 0:09:22.640 We have to keep in mind. This is a claim. 0:09:22.840 --> 0:09:26.400 This is not an official statement. This is from Kaylee quote. 0:09:26.760 --> 0:09:29.480 This man was inside his home alive while my friends 0:09:29.520 --> 0:09:31.920 were dead in his yard for lord knows how long 0:09:32.240 --> 0:09:35.000 they were all hanging out, since after the game Sunday. 0:09:35.360 --> 0:09:38.720 He knew people were looking for them. He read messages 0:09:38.760 --> 0:09:42.360 of people searching for him. On Tuesday, my husband banged 0:09:42.360 --> 0:09:45.199 on his door for twenty minutes. My friend banged on 0:09:45.280 --> 0:09:47.560 his door and then busted a window and yelled and 0:09:47.640 --> 0:09:51.720 announced her presence while she's inside, and still nothing from him. 0:09:52.200 --> 0:09:54.600 Then the cops come ten minutes later and he comes 0:09:54.640 --> 0:09:57.680 out nonchalant in his boxers with an empty wine glass 0:09:57.720 --> 0:10:02.600 in hand. Again, we don't know if we cannot confirm 0:10:02.640 --> 0:10:04.680 any of that. That is a statement from one person, 0:10:05.720 --> 0:10:10.080 but again it does not sound good, right right. And 0:10:10.120 --> 0:10:12.160 there's one more statement that we need to get from 0:10:12.160 --> 0:10:14.920 someone named Jennifer Marquez, who was the mother of one 0:10:14.960 --> 0:10:19.480 of the deceased, David Harrington. She says that this person 0:10:19.520 --> 0:10:23.400 who was renting the home contacted some or at least 0:10:23.400 --> 0:10:26.440 told some friends and family that all three of those 0:10:26.520 --> 0:10:32.400 men went outside at some point and froze to death. Okay, well, 0:10:32.520 --> 0:10:35.520 so you know we're talking Kansas City here. It's been 0:10:35.600 --> 0:10:39.080 really cold lately, right in the beginning of this year. 0:10:39.760 --> 0:10:42.600 So I went and checked the historical records for how 0:10:42.640 --> 0:10:45.520 cold it was that evening on the seventh, all the 0:10:45.520 --> 0:10:48.120 way to the ninth, and I would just say that 0:10:48.200 --> 0:10:51.440 I found on January seventh, there was a high of 0:10:51.440 --> 0:10:54.440 forty degrees fahrenheit and a low of thirty four degrees 0:10:54.480 --> 0:10:58.600 fahrenheit thirty four or just two degrees above freezing. And 0:10:58.640 --> 0:11:02.360 then when the police arrived on January ninth, the temperature 0:11:02.559 --> 0:11:05.520 was dropping that evening and it had reached about twenty four 0:11:05.559 --> 0:11:09.960 degrees fahrenheit when they arrived at the house. Precipitous, so 0:11:10.760 --> 0:11:13.480 it was getting colder and colder. It wasn't snowing a lot, 0:11:13.840 --> 0:11:17.920 but there was definitely a lot of the temperatures were 0:11:18.000 --> 0:11:21.840 quite quite cold, right, so it is, but there is 0:11:21.920 --> 0:11:26.240 potential that those guys were outside and their temperature dropped, 0:11:26.280 --> 0:11:29.679 I guess, but it does. It feels highly unlikely to 0:11:29.679 --> 0:11:33.280 me that that is the reason they would have frozen 0:11:33.320 --> 0:11:33.720 to death. 0:11:34.040 --> 0:11:37.160 Is not that the love pass exactly, No, I mean, 0:11:37.320 --> 0:11:39.920 but you know, if they were intoxicated enough and perhaps 0:11:40.000 --> 0:11:43.480 blacked out, but for all three of them to be 0:11:43.679 --> 0:11:47.160 that incapacitated, I would say something else was at play 0:11:47.200 --> 0:11:50.880 other than just alcohol. If that's the case, you know, 0:11:51.360 --> 0:11:56.600 to be that unaware of your you know, rapidly dropping 0:11:56.600 --> 0:11:57.439 body temperature. 0:11:57.800 --> 0:12:03.120 Yeah, Again, we don't know if any substances were involved 0:12:03.120 --> 0:12:05.160 with any of the people at that home that night. 0:12:05.800 --> 0:12:08.719 The variation that could exist there could answer a lot 0:12:08.720 --> 0:12:09.400 of questions. 0:12:09.800 --> 0:12:14.440 Well, sure, poison perhaps would be the badger in the bag, right. 0:12:14.360 --> 0:12:17.280 Or the bad poisonous one, or you know, if everybody 0:12:17.320 --> 0:12:20.240 is on something and even the person we're talking about 0:12:20.280 --> 0:12:23.400 who lived there was passed for that, Yeah, maybe he 0:12:23.440 --> 0:12:25.240 didn't know and then he woke up and was scared. 0:12:25.440 --> 0:12:29.040 That's one possibility. Sure's an infinite number of things that 0:12:29.080 --> 0:12:32.800 could have gone down. It's now basically a waiting game 0:12:32.880 --> 0:12:34.520 until the police released more information. 0:12:34.960 --> 0:12:36.920 No toxicology report yet, I. 0:12:36.840 --> 0:12:39.920 Assume no, at least none that I have seen, none 0:12:39.920 --> 0:12:44.080 that case TV five has seen, and Inside Edition isn't 0:12:44.120 --> 0:12:46.800 reporting on it or any of the other local stations. 0:12:47.559 --> 0:12:49.839 Just one last thing here. They have all attempted to 0:12:49.880 --> 0:12:52.800 make contact with this person, all of the local affiliates, 0:12:52.880 --> 0:12:57.280 and nobody has successfully spoken with him yet. It's unknown 0:12:57.320 --> 0:12:59.640 if there's an attorney representing him or anything like that. 0:12:59.720 --> 0:13:02.880 In his name has not been released by the police 0:13:03.160 --> 0:13:07.000 or by any of these publications, which because he has 0:13:07.080 --> 0:13:08.640 not been charged with any crime. 0:13:08.720 --> 0:13:10.480 Well, I was going to ask, like, what is the 0:13:10.559 --> 0:13:13.400 crime other than being a bad friend? Like I mean, 0:13:13.559 --> 0:13:16.520 I imagine if you own property and someone dies, you know, 0:13:16.600 --> 0:13:19.720 on your property. That's what insurance is for, you know, 0:13:19.760 --> 0:13:25.480 if people needed untimely and their own faults or through 0:13:25.480 --> 0:13:29.600 perhaps tripping over something. But I mean, you know, you're 0:13:29.640 --> 0:13:32.920 allowed to pass out for three days. That's not against 0:13:32.960 --> 0:13:35.319 the law. I'm saying for the guy that's remained in 0:13:35.800 --> 0:13:39.200 that remained indoors, unless he has found to have done 0:13:39.200 --> 0:13:42.079 something that's that that involves foul play. I don't think 0:13:42.120 --> 0:13:45.080 there's anything to get him for. It's not negligence. They 0:13:45.080 --> 0:13:48.480 already left his company. But I don't know. I'm asking, Well, 0:13:50.160 --> 0:13:51.480 that's right, that's right, he's. 0:13:53.720 --> 0:13:58.600 Yes. So also another another person of interest, the POI 0:13:58.760 --> 0:14:01.720 here would be the land and board, right, who. 0:14:01.600 --> 0:14:04.000 Is probably yeah, depending on where they live. 0:14:04.120 --> 0:14:04.280 Right. 0:14:04.360 --> 0:14:06.800 Well, it's so crazy nowadays you could have somebody who 0:14:06.880 --> 0:14:08.840 owns a bunch of property in one city and they 0:14:08.880 --> 0:14:10.800 live all the way across the country. 0:14:11.040 --> 0:14:12.640 Shout out blackrock Yep. 0:14:14.080 --> 0:14:16.319 Yeah, that's that's really all the information I have. Oh, 0:14:16.360 --> 0:14:21.320 according to neighbors, the person who is renting that house 0:14:21.560 --> 0:14:26.160 moved in about six months before now this time, so 0:14:26.280 --> 0:14:28.680 again has lived there for quite a while. Those friends 0:14:28.760 --> 0:14:31.440 definitely knew this person, and they all gathered together. According 0:14:31.440 --> 0:14:34.200 to all friends of family, they all were aware that 0:14:34.240 --> 0:14:36.600 this was a night to watch football and it was 0:14:36.760 --> 0:14:39.440 just a happy hanging out with friends thing. 0:14:39.920 --> 0:14:43.600 What we know is that this is an ongoing case. 0:14:43.840 --> 0:14:47.480 As you outlined, Matt, there are new there are not 0:14:47.680 --> 0:14:54.400 identities disclosed regarding suspects. It sounds like the city is 0:14:54.440 --> 0:15:00.160 still waiting on further investigation. But we do know that 0:15:00.520 --> 0:15:04.320 regardless of how things occurred. There are three children who 0:15:04.400 --> 0:15:05.480 no longer have a father. 0:15:06.120 --> 0:15:10.800 Yeah, the family of Ricky Johnson, one of the deceased, 0:15:10.840 --> 0:15:14.200 the man who did have children, they made a GoFundMe 0:15:14.240 --> 0:15:17.520 for his funeral services. So they're looking to raise six 0:15:17.600 --> 0:15:20.560 thousand dollars and as of us recording this, they've raised 0:15:21.280 --> 0:15:25.360 around forty one hundred dollars. So, you know, if anyone 0:15:25.440 --> 0:15:27.520 has the means to make a donation to that, then 0:15:27.680 --> 0:15:29.960 please do. I'm sure it would help out a ton. 0:15:30.560 --> 0:15:32.120 Maybe that's the best thing we can do right now, 0:15:32.160 --> 0:15:35.800 besides just keeping a lookout and just just finding answers. 0:15:36.000 --> 0:15:39.920 I am personally interested to know what the heck happened, 0:15:40.000 --> 0:15:43.520 because it's just it's something I want to avoid. Whatever 0:15:43.560 --> 0:15:45.920 the heck happened, I don't want to do that, right, 0:15:47.120 --> 0:15:49.040 So I guess just keep your ears to the ground, 0:15:49.080 --> 0:15:52.400 let us know if you find anything, and yeah, we'll 0:15:52.440 --> 0:16:00.880 be right back with more strange news. 0:16:00.920 --> 0:16:05.520 And we have returned with another piece of strange news. 0:16:05.560 --> 0:16:09.000 Been alluded to this in the opening, the idea of 0:16:09.560 --> 0:16:13.520 bringing people back to life, not through necromancy, minds you, 0:16:13.680 --> 0:16:17.200 not through some doc ritual. Well, I don't know. We 0:16:17.480 --> 0:16:20.560 have talked about how certain prompts for AI can be 0:16:20.880 --> 0:16:24.360 kind of compared to an incantation, because you got to 0:16:24.400 --> 0:16:26.720 know the right words to say to feed these things 0:16:27.200 --> 0:16:30.560 to make them make something that's interesting. The right prompts, 0:16:30.600 --> 0:16:34.040 you know, the right things to learn the machine on. 0:16:34.880 --> 0:16:37.720 And today we're talking about comedy. You know, comedy the 0:16:38.800 --> 0:16:40.880 I don't know, and in many ways one of the 0:16:40.920 --> 0:16:44.760 most human of art forms. I think. I think stand 0:16:44.880 --> 0:16:47.560 up comedy in particular, at its best is sort of 0:16:47.560 --> 0:16:52.160 a combination of like story telling and you know, calling 0:16:52.160 --> 0:16:55.960 from one's own experience, and I think lived experience, to 0:16:56.040 --> 0:16:58.920 me is what makes the best stand up comedy. There's 0:16:58.920 --> 0:17:00.560 all kinds of different flavors of it, but that's the 0:17:00.560 --> 0:17:02.160 stuff that usually does it for me. 0:17:02.520 --> 0:17:04.399 The great orators of our time. 0:17:05.920 --> 0:17:09.800 Great orators, you know, can parlay those skills into being 0:17:09.840 --> 0:17:13.960 good writers as well, often great performer. The timing of 0:17:14.280 --> 0:17:17.679 delivering good stand up tends to translate really well to 0:17:17.720 --> 0:17:21.360 screen acting, as we know, but George Carlin is widely 0:17:21.400 --> 0:17:23.480 considered to be one of the greats in terms of 0:17:23.680 --> 0:17:26.199 stand up comedy. There's actually an episode Ben and I 0:17:26.240 --> 0:17:30.679 did on Ridiculous History with Wayne Fetterman who teaches stand 0:17:30.760 --> 0:17:33.479 up comedy or the history of stand up comedy at 0:17:33.520 --> 0:17:37.320 a university in California, and we talk about the dirty words, 0:17:37.320 --> 0:17:40.439 George Carlin's dirty words. He does a whole bit on him. 0:17:40.480 --> 0:17:42.760 These are the words you can't say on TV or 0:17:42.800 --> 0:17:45.840 the radio. The guy's a legend, no question about it. 0:17:46.000 --> 0:17:49.320 And he's also deceased. And one thing that comes into 0:17:49.359 --> 0:17:53.399 play when dealing with legends, you know, the public and 0:17:53.480 --> 0:17:57.399 people who are passionate about art and whatever the person represented, 0:17:58.160 --> 0:18:00.440 they've got a stake in this kind of stuff. And 0:18:01.480 --> 0:18:04.240 like we saw with the Tupac hologram, you know at 0:18:04.240 --> 0:18:08.560 Coachella Lough those many years ago, sometimes these things can 0:18:08.640 --> 0:18:11.679 rub people the wrong way, and for a good reason. 0:18:11.800 --> 0:18:15.640 And that's what we're talking about today. A podcast that Matt, 0:18:15.680 --> 0:18:17.080 you might be able to give a little more background 0:18:17.080 --> 0:18:18.359 on it. I'm not I haven't listened to it, but 0:18:18.400 --> 0:18:21.280 it is called dude z uh and it is the 0:18:21.280 --> 0:18:26.960 inevitable integration of podcast T and AI and it's a 0:18:27.000 --> 0:18:31.040 comedy podcast where an AI called dudez essentially, I guess 0:18:31.080 --> 0:18:35.000 creates the topics for every episode or I don't know. 0:18:35.080 --> 0:18:37.000 Matt can explain a little bit more about how the 0:18:37.040 --> 0:18:39.240 AI is part of the show. 0:18:39.520 --> 0:18:43.760 Well, I've only I've not watched entire episodes of Dudez. 0:18:43.960 --> 0:18:46.720 I have seen it on social media clips quite often, 0:18:46.760 --> 0:18:49.399 which I find to be hilarious most of the time 0:18:49.880 --> 0:18:53.840 when it's it's these two hosts sometimes just doing impressions 0:18:53.840 --> 0:18:57.119 that are so spot on it's insane. It just you know, 0:18:57.240 --> 0:18:59.960 as a talk podcast. Then other times they are reac 0:19:00.080 --> 0:19:04.720 acting to creations of this AI but that I believe 0:19:04.800 --> 0:19:09.160 is also called Dudzi. Yeah, and the stuff I've seen 0:19:09.240 --> 0:19:10.159 is just unhinged. 0:19:10.200 --> 0:19:11.840 It's like one of them is will Sasso, who is 0:19:11.840 --> 0:19:14.359 famous from being on Matt I would you know, I 0:19:14.359 --> 0:19:17.840 would say, is it's a very good uh comedian. It's 0:19:17.880 --> 0:19:20.679 funny and also a really good impressionist, which is an 0:19:20.720 --> 0:19:21.479 easy thing to do. 0:19:21.560 --> 0:19:25.639 So that's the Tom Hanks clips. Yes, those are I 0:19:25.960 --> 0:19:29.639 think those are the ones that attained prominence because it 0:19:29.760 --> 0:19:36.960 is clearly AI uh some arcade agglomeration, something like mid Journey, 0:19:37.080 --> 0:19:42.320 something like chat GPT with some voice ripping uh. And 0:19:42.400 --> 0:19:46.160 it's a since I already use the word ripping, it's 0:19:46.200 --> 0:19:47.200 a ripping good. 0:19:47.040 --> 0:19:51.320 Time, you know, wizard for one. 0:19:52.040 --> 0:19:57.359 Yeah, that's one turns into a bus. It's it works 0:19:57.440 --> 0:20:00.960 really well as a what if trailer. 0:20:01.160 --> 0:20:04.600 Yeah, they're like teaser trailers for those new you know, 0:20:04.800 --> 0:20:08.159 a movie and they're amazing. Anyway, that's at least my 0:20:08.240 --> 0:20:11.280 knowledge coming in to this discussion. 0:20:10.920 --> 0:20:15.000 And those are clearly meant to be completely absurd, and 0:20:15.200 --> 0:20:17.600 you know, like these movies that don't exist, that everyone 0:20:17.800 --> 0:20:21.080 knows don't exist, and you know, one could argue that 0:20:21.119 --> 0:20:23.840 their experiment with what they've done with the story it's 0:20:23.840 --> 0:20:27.560 about that's making people upset. Making a new hour of 0:20:27.680 --> 0:20:31.840 stand up from a deceased legendary comedian. One could argue 0:20:31.840 --> 0:20:34.159 that there is some comedic merit in that, and then 0:20:34.200 --> 0:20:36.000 it is sort of taking the piss out of AI 0:20:36.480 --> 0:20:39.600 and sort of deflating it a little bit. But that 0:20:39.680 --> 0:20:42.240 requires you having a little bit of control over the 0:20:42.280 --> 0:20:44.919 spin and the way these things are perceived, and oftentimes 0:20:44.920 --> 0:20:49.679 with reporting, people are going for grabby headlines and you 0:20:49.680 --> 0:20:54.280 know stuff like you know, hack podcasters resurrect legendary comedian 0:20:54.400 --> 0:20:57.120 through AI sort of like that Beatles song where they 0:20:57.119 --> 0:21:00.760 took you know, John Lennon's vocal from a the demo 0:21:00.840 --> 0:21:03.560 tape and then sort of like enhanced it and allowed 0:21:03.600 --> 0:21:04.560 them to make a new song. 0:21:04.560 --> 0:21:04.800 With it. 0:21:04.800 --> 0:21:07.640 People were really upset about that before they even heard 0:21:07.680 --> 0:21:09.360 the song, and then they heard the song and we're 0:21:09.359 --> 0:21:11.480 just kind of irritated that it sucked. But it was 0:21:11.640 --> 0:21:14.560 the ais fault. This wasn't a very good song. So 0:21:14.680 --> 0:21:16.639 with this, it's an hour of new stand up. And 0:21:16.760 --> 0:21:18.399 I don't think any of us have heard it, So 0:21:18.440 --> 0:21:20.200 why don't we hear a little clip of it? Okay, 0:21:20.200 --> 0:21:22.119 Ben sird it, Matt and I haven't heard it. Why 0:21:22.119 --> 0:21:23.600 don't we hear a little clip of it and we 0:21:23.640 --> 0:21:25.800 can all kind of react to in real time before 0:21:25.840 --> 0:21:30.919 we bring down our hammered fists of judgment or not. 0:21:31.240 --> 0:21:34.479 And by the way, it is called very pointedly George Carlin, 0:21:34.600 --> 0:21:38.600 I'm glad I'm Dead twenty twenty four full special, and 0:21:38.760 --> 0:21:41.760 you know it's labeled, you know, like a special from 0:21:41.840 --> 0:21:43.520 George Carlin, just putting that out there. 0:21:45.800 --> 0:21:46.879 Thank you, thank you. 0:21:47.480 --> 0:21:49.880 I like to start off with a heartfelt apology. I'm 0:21:49.920 --> 0:21:51.720 sorry it took me so long to come out with 0:21:51.800 --> 0:21:54.200 new material, but I do have a pretty good excuse. 0:21:54.560 --> 0:22:01.520 I was dead, so technically it was my fault. If 0:22:01.560 --> 0:22:04.720 you want to blame somebody, you're gonna have to blame God, 0:22:07.000 --> 0:22:09.600 which we all know is not gonna happen. People are 0:22:09.640 --> 0:22:12.679 always thanking God for the good stuff in their lives, 0:22:12.880 --> 0:22:15.960 but somehow they conveniently forget that it's the same God 0:22:15.960 --> 0:22:18.480 who does all the badge too, and he does a 0:22:18.600 --> 0:22:24.520 lot of badge shit. You get a promotion, praise Jesus, 0:22:24.640 --> 0:22:25.320 you get fired. 0:22:25.440 --> 0:22:26.439 God is testing me. 0:22:27.960 --> 0:22:30.560 You meet your soulmate. God brought us together. Your soulmate 0:22:30.600 --> 0:22:34.600 dumps you. God is bringing me someone else. You survive 0:22:34.640 --> 0:22:37.800 a tornado. I'm so blessed. Twenty other people do not. 0:22:38.000 --> 0:22:42.520 God wanted them in heaven. It's all bullshit. 0:22:43.600 --> 0:22:46.119 Okay, So looking at each of the three of us, 0:22:46.160 --> 0:22:50.120