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From UFOs to psychic powers and government conspiracies, history is riddled with unexplained events. You can turn back now or learn the stuff they don't want you to know uction of IiHarR radio Hello, welcome back to the show. My name is Matt. My name is Nul. the Coly Ben. We're joined as always with our super producer Max the Freight trarain Williams. Most importantly, you are you, you are here. That makes this the stuff they don't want you to know. If you are tuning in to our strange news program, the evening it publishes Welcome to june twenty ninth, twenty twenty six. And what better way to celebrate than with a clip of something amazing that happened recently. You guys ready Yes. Yeah. All right, here we go There's no way that you can actually practice for it. You have to just keep it for the day, especially with the world records attempt. So we're going to pause there. You guys, there is a new Guinness World record that I think we will all enjoy goes to a town crier in Canbera who is now officially the world's loudest person clocking in at one hundred and twenty two point four decibels So first off, I'm so glad that the occupation or hobby maybe of town Cryer still exists. And I have questions. One is to what end, what is this gentleman crying about or you know, in respect to, is he shouting out of the news of the day as in the days of Y? or what are we talking here, Ben? This is exciting news Oh yeah, this is a big shout out to our pal and hopefully fellow conspiracy realist fifty eight year old professional AC HVAC guy, Joseph McGrail Betop. who is now he's been an honorary town crier for a minute. He has been recognized as the world's loudest person specifically for yelling the word Now N OW. This makes me immediately think of that toast of London sketch where he's like saying just the one word and I believe it's Yes. Yes. How hard could it be? It's just one word. That's great, T us. Can you give it to us one more time? And then he just eventually goes into an existential tailspin around the word, Yes. and it starts to of course, lose all its meaning. As I imagine the word now could. Yes. Yeah. Yes. that clip he's saying Oh ye ye. wasas he saying? Yeah Yeah hear ye, hear ye. That's his version of it. He is not using the word now, his groundbreaking vocalization because he said he had to practice it for several days and it ruined his voice for several days afterwards, but somehow some ways, sometimes Just like Joseph said, you gott to make your voice heard. We always love to begin on a positive note. This needs a vocal coach. Yeah, let's needs a vocal coach. I almost think it doesn't count if you blow your whole v voice out. You know what I mean? It should be about longevity. It should be about endurance, you know Yeah. well, we got to take it up with Guinness and check out our ridiculous history episode on why we love the Guinness Book of World Records and why we also understand they're maybe not the most accurate And why we love Guinness There's the drink love Auness Y guys. If you've ever wanted to see what it's like to drink Dw Bad. Yeah, or that too ye. I like drinking bread. No, I do not love a Guinness. but I like that it exists for the people who do like it and I do like shaking the cans where you can hear the little little thing cl around the pller in the bottom. Yeah. it's actually I thought Guness was trash for a long time until I went to Ireland. And it blew my mind. Is it more bread like there or less? it's a better version of drinkable bread, but it's so heavy. It's like one would take me an hour and a half. You know,'s that's some be in general. Yeah. You guys like coffee, right? like I iced coffee? Like right now. I coffee. My co producer. yeah, cheers guys. Lh. Well now to be fair, Matt, I like my icice coffee very milky and sweet. So I'm not a a hard black coffee drinker. Over here. Yeah, I got the get intention. I know you do. know Where are we going with this one, M Why I prefer a dark, unsweetened roast that is chilled And for my money, Guinness E extra stout is like the equivalent of that that bitterness that you get that like hear. I could see I don't know. it try a lot. It makes sense because that also U If not Ginnnesson specific, it does harken back to the time when People were always kind of inebriated because it was safer to drink meat or wine or whak beer than it was to drink water due to all the bacteria and contaminants and nasty boys.'s what's that Dave Matthews band song, Don't drink the W waterers is about Is that true? I don't Okay, Well we're going to make it podcast true right now. And we're also in that case there was blood in the water. There was blood in the water. blood in the water And he right. then he scats for fifteen minutes. Yeah. and then poops off a bridge. Well, that didn't come directly out of the man's butt, but it was it he contributed to it. He definitely contributed to the payload So we have we have so much to get to the rise of super El Nino. We've got to talk about some good news from data centers, which again, we love positive news. There's Ninja Academy. There's of course, there's the ranch stuff that I think no we mentioned on a recent episode of Ridiculous history. We definitely did. this is a bit of an update by way of the craft brand Ooh, so why don't we pause for a word from our sponsors and get right into it for all the ranch lovers This is an IHart podcast. guuaranteed human Alienwearss Back to School event is the perfect time to score top gaming gear with incredible features and advanced engineering to go beyond performance Start your Alienware journey with the Alienware fifteen Gaming laptop, featuring Intel core processors Oh yeah, game, live stream and multitask for hours on end. Pair your incredibly smooth gaming experience with immersive visuals and sound by saving on sleek alienware monitors, headsets, and more This limited time sale awaits you now at alienware d. com slash deals You know, we've all tumbled down an internet rabbit hole, trying to self diagnose, and it usually leaves us more anxious than informed Our feeds are full of wellness trends, but how do we know it's real? What's exaggerated? and what's just wrong? 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Join Simon Plus, our new rewards program for free and get two point five times the points in addition to extra savings, cashback and offers that also work at shopsimon.ot comot Grab the fam, head to a Simon center and make it a day for the books. It's a celebration thing. Sign up today at Simonplus d. comot Rewards program terms apppply, see Simonplus dot com for details And we have returned. Ben I could have sworn we talked about this ranch World Cup situation on this show as well, but I think you might be right. It came up just in passing on an episode of Ridiculous History where we talked about all of the delightful accounts that, you know, soccer fans from the world over are posting about their experience with various American cities. And one of those involves folks just discovering and falling in love with the condiment sauce, dressing way of life that is Ranch And Ben, I know you did and you've mentioned this in the past, an episode of a television, a video series We used to back in our how Stuff Wors days called Stuff of Genius about the creation of ranch and how that came to be M Yeah. and we've talked about it in various shows as well, Noel, including our sister show, The Late Sor, hosted by Annie Reese and Lauren Vgelbaum, both Erstwild guests here on Stuff They donon't Want You to Kn. it's a funny story. It's very American Essentially a guy was working as a chef in Alaska and had to create dressing based on the ingredients available. He came up with what we call ranch. He went down to the lower forty eight and tried to start a dude ranch like what's that What's that one with Billy Crystal Well that would be city slickers, but it also brings to mind Hey dude from Nickelodeon Yeah, like these dude ranches were a big deal back in the day. you would go like you would get your podcast bros and you'd go to a ranch and you'd spend a long weekend doing ranch farm stuff, riding horses, kicking around in the Kaliche. turned out they their ranch, which was named Hidden Valley, became more popular for its dressing and their dude ranch, like riding horses and hanging out stuff. that part of the business didn't work out, but now we have the legendary and controversial ranch. It's not for everybody. What doth a ranch make or what make a ranch Doth Buttermilk is buttermilk secret is buttermilk and seasoning, right? It's got some seasonings in it that give it that It's kind of almost like a Yeah, buttermilk, I could see that, but it definitely has a sort of savory. I mean, it's hard to put your finger on, really? is kind of what it amounts to because I think of like a, you know, sour cream potato chip. And to me, that's kind of the vibe of a ranch, but I guess there in again is that that whole buttermilk of it all, the tartness In any case, ranch has become a bit of a phenomenon, but not one that always translates worldwide Right? It is kind of one of those things where if you go into like Asian grocery stores, for example, you arere not gonna to see a lot of ranch dressing because it is or like pea butter, just so. However, it would seem that some folks when they come over here, they've heard tell of this mythical, you know st and they give it a try, dip a carrot in it perhaps, and they're like, gosh, I love this stuff so much. I want to bring this back to my home country, wherever that might be. And so they pack a bunch up in their bags only to realize that the old TSA is there to shatter their dreams of introducing ranch to the rest of the world because of course they have those pesky fluid ounce limits And it turns out you can't just, you know, bring you know, unlimited containers of ranch back with you. And this is happening to the point where it's kind of become a bit of a joke. And people are when notified of this when it's too late, obviously they've got those, you know, what do you call it? those little bins that you can dump out your water bottle that you accident. Y l chs, trash cans Last chance trash can. Well, some people, it seems are loving it so much that rather than dump it out or throw it away, they're chugging it No They're chugging it right there at security Oh Right It makes you throw open in your mouth a little bit. Now, n are these regular type U World Cup travelers or these influencers looking for a quick piece of short form content You know, Ben, it's a really good point. Not one hundred percent sure, but I do know that the TSA has responded with a statement or a I guess, a plea to World Cup travelers, Please don't chug ranch at airport security, they say. And so TSA in releasing this statement, kind of made ranch dressing a bit of a diplomatic hero and I had this to say an Instagram posts One world One ranch. Who knew Dip Lomacy could be achieved through a dressing. Mbe that's a dressing pun. I'm not sure. The obvious, Ranch is the king of condiments The world is slowly discovering ranch pars perfectly with pizza, chicken wings, fries, onion rings, quesadillas, that one's for you ben. crackers, chips Vegetables and the list it just keeps going Are you kicking around the idea of flying home with your favorite dip If you're traveling within the US, make sure to keep your carry on sauces to three point four ounces or less and place any larger containers in your checked bags. Some heroes wear capes. others Bing Ranch. Now you thought maybe they were going to go with Wear Ranch and that would be appropriate if you are in fact chugging the sauce at security because you might end up wearing some ro tip folks, you can also and I would argue you should after getting too deep in the badgers with this one, I argue you should look into the powdered form of ranch that you make at home. It's usually going to be better than the shelf stable stuff. and I don't think the TSA will stop you, but we cannot speak to security in other countries. I love it though. I love a pton from the TSA What was that addressed? I was gonna recommend specifically Kinders. ranched in And it is a powder that you can get and the TSA Hopefully is't gonna stop you alough customs might. Exactly. And I think I've mentioned it before before I was hipp to all these limits, I got some really delightful hot sauces confiscated from you. W won't ever make that mistake again, but never put it past a brand to take advantage of a news item like this. So the update here is that craft the purveyors of fine of mediocre food products, cheese Proucts and of course, ranch dressing have decided to take on this issue in the form of a kit. Craft pounces on World Cup ranch Craze with TSA approved travel kits after the agency tells visitors to avoid chugging the dressing. This is from a piece in Fortune by Katherine Giono The twenty twenty six FIFA World Cup has delivered surprises on and off the pitch. For one, it's well known for being an expensive event brought about via the instrouction of dynamic pricing. That's a whole other discussion into the world's sport. But it's also bringing about a new sense of community, thanks in part to cities like New York offering free watch parties or even school buses to the stadiums disconnected from public transport In addition to the hat tricks and scissor kicks dominating this year's tournament, there's one unexpected breakout star and that's ranch dressing. As a Swedish ex user posted, why did no one tell me Ranch sauce is like crack. It's like crack. Europe, we need Ranch ASAP, with tons of replies flooding in from Americans kind of being like, Ranch, really Is it you think it's that good It's red solo cups all over again. It It does appear to be the case. So on june nineteenth, it would appear that the craft compompany unveiled a limited edition TSA compliant ranch kit that' specifically designed for travelers. They announced it just days after the TSA addressed this trend. It is a first of its kind package, including a clear TSA approved quart sized bag. By the way, we haven't even talked about this ranch can of course come in powdered form that you then mix to make your own ranch. Enough ranch packets to equal a standard bottle and then some and a ranch bottle inspired luggage tag for fans who want to show their allegiance on the go Yeah, what's the dressing that Messi uses when he eats salads? He's it ranched? because you know, after his astonishing performance so far, Hidden Valley and Kraft and Clorox and all those other brands will pay him millions of dollars just for one photograph with a bottle of ranch Let's be nice Must be nice. We hold we do those photos, We send them to each other offline folks because we hang out a lot in person and we have never been I don't know. I haven't checked the group chat recently, but I don't think any of us got millions of dollars for the weird brand photos we send each other. no, not yet. I'm still waiting on my check. But speaking of footballers, another story that I came across concerning the World Cup involves a curse against Harry Kaine, a World Cup soccer player from a witch, from Ghana. And I love this headline. It's the most British headline you can imagine. It's so proper. Footballer Harry Kane is cursed by Ghana witch England World Cup draw sparks fuss Earlier, a Ghana football fan was seen at the court blowing a white substance that allegedly drove his team to victory during their match against Panama on june eighteenth, which ended with Ghana's victory. But this time, a rumor has spread that another witch doctor has cursed one of England's most important team players. The England versus Ghana match took place at Boston Stadium, known as Gillette Stadium in Foxboro, Massachusetts The Group L match was held on Tuesday, june twenty third and the teams played to a zero to zero draw. A Ghanian witch has claimed he has placed a curse on England footballer Harry Cain ahead of their World Cup match, saying his supernatural powers will be enough to stop the striker from hurting the Ghanian team And that that Pitioner of the arts is named I believe N Nana Baku Bansa That's right, That's right. Nanu Kaku Bansam, who has previously claimed to cause the very famous footballer, Cristiano Ronaldo's twenty fourteen knee injury through spiritual mechanations, say he's once again up to his old tricks in an effort to help his team triumph over England. Bonam claimed that he placed a curse on the striker in a june twentieth interview and during the match, the footballer did in fact miss a chance to score the match winning goal against Ghana, Whether or not this is witchcraft at play or just good old fashioned bad luck is up to anybody's guess So we have a statement from FIFA No I don't think I don't think FIFA has danged to comment on that I don't believe so. I'd love it if they pulled a TSA and did a punwittden post about the dangers of the dark arts in sports All these folks. Visiting the U. S. for the first time, becoming So excited about ranch because they're encountering all of these deeply fried, deeply cheesy foods that Americans so enjoy and we just smother them and further mayonnaise based sauces you just good God, I feel so bad for everybody going home like five pounds, ten pounds heavier having and having to eat regular people food, right? We are to the land of excess and we have a connection to Waffle House. I kind of want to to write to Waffle House Corporate and say, hey, you all should have every restaurant permanently occupied by an astonished German or a befuddled British guy Be I love those beams. Yeah You know what they don't have at Waffle House detail Ranch, Ranch. What Not really, You got it's BYO R. I guess that's true. They do have those big old mayo packets, but that just ain't the same as. It's not the same. That's like saying tartar sauce is the same as mayo. You know what's funny? There was a long period in my life where I did not I despised mayo in any form and I also despised pickles. and yet always quite enjoyed tartar sauce. Which is those two ingredients combined. peopleople hate tomatoes, but they love ketchup. That's true. and they love, you know a spaghette. And then last thing for me today guys, I did see a story that claimed that the Norwegian team was speaking to your point, Matt about all of the fried, you know foods and, you know kind of gross additive written things that we hear thrive on in the states. There was a story that I saw that claim the Norwegian team had imported one thousand plus pounds of their own food and ingredients as well as bringing their own chef to the US to avoid the American diet. However, Snopes seems to have label this as mixed. So what is true is the Norwegian men's National soccer team did bring three chefs and some food ingredients, such as fish because as we know, the Norwegians, they love their fish. They have some of the best fish in the world, salmon, et cetera. in order to prepare some of these ingredients or mix them with other things that they maybe would acquire here However, what at fault is they found no evidence that the team took chefs and ingredients specifically to avoid eating American food. The team imported only some select ingredients and used some local produce, suggesting they were not attempting to avoid eating American food. What is undetermined is the number Which was two thousand pounds of food that this post claimed. In a june twenty twenty six post, circulated online, claimed that the Norwegian men's National soccer team took two thousand plus pounds of food and their own chefs in order to avoid eating trash American food. An Instagram video claimed that the Norwegian team took three hundred kilos of fish hundred and sixteen kilos of national Norwegian brown cheese, which I believe is called hkiast or something like that? And six thousand oranges to serve to players by a team of three chefs at their camp in Greensboro, North Carolina. The account wrote, Team Norway refuses to eat American food for the World Cup. So it would seem that this is only partartially true, if and certainly not to the alarmist degree that the post would have you think But it certainly there is some truth to the fact that food in the states It certainly does not measure up to the quality of food available, you know in mass quantities in other Yeah, but it's unctious. That's for sure, sure it is. Well, that's it for me, guys. I think we should take a quick word from our sponsor and then come back with more strange news This is George Severres and Sam Taggart from Stradio Lab. Okay, picture it. your apartment after a Saturday workout, the gym bag, the couch, maybe even the car. Miamor, it's a full novella of odors and not the glamorous kind. That's where Fabrie comes in. Boost, spray, spritz, plug, or clip. 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And sometimes doing our own research can leave us even more anxious than informed And your feet is packed with wellness trends telling you to cold plunge or protein max or detox or track your sleep but what's actually real and what's exaggerated and what's just plain wrong That's exactly what health versus Hype from the American Medical Association and IHart Media's Ruby studio is here to find out. That's right, each episode, Trace Dominguez, Emmy nominated science communicator interacted of billions of views across PBS, Discovery channel, and YouTube, talks to doctors, influencers, and real people who are trying out these trends, not to cancel them, not to hype them even more, but to actually understand them Because when it comes to your health, who you listen to matters. Start asking better questions and listen to health versus hype on the iHart radio app, Apple podcasts, or wherever you get your favorite shows. And we've returned, gentlemen, let me take you back. The year is nineteen hundred ninety three. The biggest video game system in my world was the Super Nintendo Entertertainment systemstem There was a game. It's near and dear to me. It currently sits in the original box on the wall behind me. A little game called Star Fox. Y. I loved it. forwards everybody Loo forward to it, the repackage or was it's more than a remaster. It's like a remake, right Yeah, if you haven't been paying attention as I have not been paying attention. I just saw the news about it just now as we're recording. We're recording, by the way on Wednesday, june twenty fourth As of tomorrow, the twenty fifth of June, twenty twenty six Starfox will be available for the Nintendo Switch two And it looks better. It looks incredible. It looks like the same game And it makes you wonder, oh, I guess that's why Star Fox showed up as a little cameo in the latest Super Mario movie, Super Mario Galaxy Makes sense, Nintendo. We see what you're doing there with all your marketing. good job. good job because you've officially stoked my nostalgia Though I don't have your system, so I won't be buying your game. Ha, T takeake that. All right, let's jump to actual news, you guys. coming to us from Atlanta first. News, written by Doug Reardan, june eighteenth, twenty twenty six Social Circle Iice site cancellled following months of controversy. What? Does anybody remember on this show when we were talking about a little town called Social Circle and a giant freaking ice facility, a detention center that was being planned and built and worked on by the federal government While the city of Social Circle kind of stood back and said, what in the heck is going on? Well the biggest ever in history it would have been. I mean, it was it was insanely massive And we talked about this in respect to private prisons and like what are they building in there kind of talk? And like how would this play into a much more nefarious version of the whole rounding up and, you know, disappearing people of it all, right? M Well it came to all of our attention all of the sudden last year when the Washington Post reported on it, and literally the town of social circle was like, wait, whatn't the hecks happening? Wh, who, where, what? when? why It's crazy The Department of Homeland Security, according to the Washington Post back then, late last year, they said they were planning a site with a capacity somewhere between five thousand and ten thousand human beings just to keep there in detention. for as long as necessary, I suppose And this is the weird part guys The social circle officials, the city planning folks, all of those guys on the board, the people that make the decisions, they were opposing the project. which is really interesting A lot of times we've been hearing stories about small town governments welcoming this kind of thing in like detention centers, the data centers because there is such an influx of usually federal dollars They come through or private dollars. that come through and to the tune of hundreds of thousands, if not millions in taxes that the local government is going to get to collect and, you know, potentially monies that they're going to get to make depending on, you know, in different ways In this case, Social Circle is saying, no, we don't want that. Our infrastructure of this tiny little city, we only have the infrastructure for five thousand human beings. That's the number of residents we have right now Um Why didn't the federal government contact us, which they said they did not Very, very crazy The mayor of Social Circle, David Taylor at the time, was saying he was learning everything through the media And when a new story would come out, he would find out the information which is again, not how we imagine things work in these spheres. But thankfully this thing isn't going to be making its way to to social circle. However The federal government DHS, continues to own the property and they are saying that they will be offering it to other federal agencies before possibly selling it to a private investor or a private corporation of some sort. So I guess a little bit of good news I don't know if you guys remember a little while back, I mentioned a giant facility very similar to that one in Social Circle that popped up near where I currently live There was a million square feet. that's a facility. that's a million square feet and It looked as though all of the signs had been taken down for this thing. It looked like there was no activity. and then all of a sudden, there was a ton of construction on the facade on the front of it. and I was wondering what the heck it was Well, found out what it was guys It's a It's a furniture store It's a million square foot furniture store Sometimes you have to have big furniture I like the idea of it not being you tens of thousands of chairs and ottomans and tables. I like it being ten really huge couches. Yes. That would be awesome. Just stacked up on one another. Well, in this case, it's some company that I had never heard of before called Living Spaces And the crazy thing is y'all, maybe it's because I'm being geo targeted because of where I live But if I go on YouTube or Instagram or any of the social media apps right now, I am being bombarded with messaging with ads for this place for this liivving spaces company. Like they're everywhere. They will not go away And I keep trying to do things like signing out of different accounts to not see it, but it's just because I'm using the internet in this place. P would it just theN Well I have tried it with a VPN and that seemed to function about when it thinks I'm you know, further up the east coast thinks you're in Singapore. Yeah. Yeah I've never done that But the crazy thing is I can't fathom a company could look at a one million square foot facility and think, oh, that's perfect We sell furniture. That's perfect U But it is one of those business models where they sell furniture out of maybe a third of it and then the rest is just storage for all of the furniture and then they use it as a distribution hub, which I guess is smart. Proably an old business model I just don't know about Anyway Ono the actual news, guys, there's so much I wanted to talk about. We're have time for. I would recommend everyone and their brother and their sister and their mom and their uncle and their dog all read a piece from ourrs Technica wrritten by Jennifer Ulet. maybe O U E L L E T T E The journalist we've mentioned in the past, by the way, excellent work Amazing. I didn' I was unaware of that. She wrote this on june twenty third, twenty twenty six. The title is How to Burst the AI Bubble colon strike at its roots And it's an interview with a fellow named Corey Doctoro who is a science fiction writer, he's a journalist I was with Boeing Boeing for quite a while. If anybody remembers Boing Boing. He wrote the book initification, whyy everything suddenly got worse and what to do about it He's written a new book titled The Reverse Centaur's Guide to Life after AI Boy is this an interesting interview with a fellow that seems to really understand what's happening. as someone who has had a lot of experience not notot experience in the fin financial sector as in working at banks and you know, hedge funds and those kinds of things, but been in the ecosystems where those entities function and how they function and what they need to survive and thrive and all that stuff as well as somebody who is really paying attention to the AI sector U It's crazy. Here's the concept guys that really got me going As part of the interview, Jennifer's talking about automation theory, which is something Corey doctoro that author is basically basing the title of his book on and the premise of his book It describes a centaur as a human augmented with some technology. likeike machine learning, like a vehicle, a car that you can drive Like a simple thing like autoocomte on your phone when you're typing a text, something like it's a tool that a human being is using. The human being is in control The idea of the top part of a centaur rightite being human, that human is in control If you look if you think about a centaur The horse body moves for the human because the brain is up there, causing those legs to move. In this reverse centaur thing, here's a quote. It's a machine head on a human body a person who is serving as a squishy meat appendage for an uncaring machine U And it's a very It's a super thoughtful Scary concept just about how many of these Folks in the upper echelons, especially in the Ca suuites who are imagining humuman beings functioning as reverse centaurs The example that's given in this article is an Amazon delivery driver And essentially that human being being an appendage of a simple appendage that makes that vehicle move and get to where it needs to go. But ultimately the important thing is that vehicle and its contents That's like the thing that is truly driving everything. The human being is just making it function like the centaur's legs just an appendage of a larger organism or mechanism Yeah. But man, this thing goes deep and I wanted to read so much of it, I highlighted almost everything but u I don't want to do too much of this. He calls AI the asbestos in the walls of our technology society with wild abandon by a finance sector and tech monopolists run amuck. We will be excavating it for a generation or more Well, yeah, that's another one of those things where it's like this miracle material that they didn't really do the research on You know, in terms of like future down the road knock on Cos Yes Oh yes U He says when the AI investment mania halts, most of the models are going to disappear because it won't be economical to keep the data centers running. The collapse of the AI bubble is going to be ugly. There are seven AI companies currently accounting for more than a third of the stock market There are seven AI companies. that currently account for more than a third of the stock market and they endlessly pass around the same ten billion dollarsar IOU to each other pumping and pumping and pumping and pumping U just going. And shatification is primarily a thesis about how firms in the absence of constraint get tilted to the bad. But it's also a thesis about how the constraint of competition, when it falls away, produces all kinds of perverse outcomes. One of these perverse outcomes is that firms that have saturated their markets can no longer grow and they have to find other markets. There's a ticking time bomb when you saturate your market because it's only a matter of time until investors start to worry that you're not a growth stock You're a mature stock. Imature stocks traded a small fraction of the multiple that growth stocks do Firms with growth stocks can grow by typing zeros, whereas firms that are mature have to actually use money if they want to grow And you're not allowed to make money on the premises anymore Because if you do that, you get taken to jail by the federal government. as we saw in E Ron's case. Unless you know you're the president Yeah, yeah, yeah ye U I love this. He says it's this is the last quote from this. I'll move on, guys Here it is That's why those firms started promoting stories about how they were going to conquer imaginary markets. Imaginary markets have no agreed upon valuation because you can just make them up Unless you can turn an imaginary market into a real market pretty quickly, you need to come up with another imaginary market and announce that, oh, no, no, no, this. This is the new imaginary market that we're going to conquer It's easier than you'd think because the capital markets have the object permanence of a toddler. So you can say, oh, actually it's not metaverse, it's crypto. No, no, no way, it's not crypto. It's web three. Nope, it's not web three. It's something else. And the markets will forgive you provided you do it quickly enough. Anyway, guys, this is just a huge, terrifying thing, but at the same time, I think it's real and it's happening and we need to be aware of it and begin taking steps to shield ourselves however we can from the inevitable collapse and fallout of the AI thing as it implodes in on itself. One last thing guys, I saw a little story while ago was on june ninth. It was out of people It was written by Angelique Brenet or BR E N E S It's about a Minnesota restaurant, y'all that stopped charging money for food items on their menu They stopped charging any money for all of their food. And they said donations only And it has effectively turned this fairly small restaurant that was once called modern times, which is now called post mododern times It's turned it into a food kitchen of sorts for folks who need food but can't afford it as well as a place to make a donation if you do have means and money and you want to support a cause In this case, it's an anti Iice cause. That's I mean, ultimately what it is, if you look at the words of the founder and the owner operator of post to modern times What an interesting business model Donating money to support a cause, whatever that cause is And part of that cause is to help folks who are in need They say they're doing better than ever now post pandemic because I think they were The quote was they were up to ten percent profitability right before the pandemic and then struggled through the pandemic as every other restaurant did, but They are now making more money than they have in a long time through this donation thing and they're giving away thousands of meals Thousands and thousands of meals. Pretty incredible. cool stuff You can check out their website, Modern Times MPLs. com Check it out All right, that's it for me guys We'll be right back after a word from our sponsors This is George Severres and Sam Taggart from Stradio Lab. Okay, picture it. 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And we have returned, folks Wlcome to the last act of our strrange News program. You have probably heard about the rise of something called Super El Nino. guysys, this is something that is I don't want to make it about myself. I hope everybody is worried about climate change. We know that the meteorological boffins are se some strong to historic El Nino events in twenty twenty six. And so for a bit of quick background for anybody who is not a weather nerd like us El Nino is our street name basically for the El Ninho Southern Oscillation. It's a global phenomenon that involves sea surface temperatures and winds over the tropical Pacific ocean. and it could have wide ranging effects just like in in previous eras of human civilization where a volcanic eruption could throw the world into darkness. So for all our European conspiracy realists, you know, we've received a lot of excellent correspondence regarding dangerous and tricky the weather is getting at this point. So thank you for writing in conspiracy dieheartradio. com. Please keep them coming. We are happy to report that when we started this show, even before we got on YouTube, back when we a video show Climate change was still being treated as somewhat speculative or as a conspiratorial branch of thought. And that was because of a conspiracy on behalf of a lot of very powerful countries. Do you guys remember when climate change used to be a conspiracy Well mean, it's still kind of a line that the current administration uses from time to time the Chinese hoax 's that's the words. That's their words I mean, they're always talking or Trump in particular is always saying how climate change is a Chinese hoax. Yeah, and this is all my set up to a story that I hope everybody Checks out. you can see our past episodes on the heated debate heated debate, keep it regarding climate change. Now it is an acknowledged fact for the majority of the planet because people are seeing real world effects And peopleeople have The people in power have started finally listening to the scientists and the experts I' quoted previously who were right the entire time. And the good news is these folks are teaming up There was going to be a huge climate change event on extreme heat. that recently got canceled Due to and Max, I can't wait for the sound ceue here, due to extxtreme heat This is coming to us from the independent courtesy of the journalist Maria Butts, BUTT. climate event was supposed to occur in London, you guys. It was all about extreme heat. A lot of people, especially in Western Europe grew up without ever needing and air conditioner because of the latitude, it just didn't get enough to need it, but now as we know for several years, people have been dying during the summer months. Dude, just on that note, Ben, we talked to some friends in Worthing. It's kind of near Brighton. in south easastern kind of yeah, southeastern UK and it' they're right on the water and they have never had air conditioning in their house before and they're a little bit older And they are literally L everybody in town is just suffering through this insanity And like on a daily basis just trying to get through. Especially folks who are older who have health problems already, it's insane like apocalypse level stuff It very much is Matt. And we also know that not just the people are agingross actually across Western Europe, but also the buildings and the structures in which they live are incredibly aged to make it fancy and Shakespearean. This event was going to be called or is called, extxtreme heat, improving governance and strengthening action around the world. It was going to take place at the London School of Economics. If you haven't had the chance to visit, please do check it out. There are some nice restaurants in the area as well they had to cancel this because the M office In like the eleventh hour issued what they call a red weather warning all of Ger London, the London Metro area, and they said go outside if you don't have to, the temperatures are going to reach forty degrees Celsius. Please stay indoors. And for all our fellow Americans wondering what that means temperature wise, forty degrees Celsius is one hundred four degrees in freedom units Remain indoors. Man, there was a story that I missed that had to do with remaining indoors where four hundred hives of bees crashed out of a truck in Texas and the authorities told people to remain indoors. I just thought I'd mention them 'cause whenever I hear that term Ben and I know you think of it too, I think of N Wang, right? Remain indoors Well, speaking of derailing here, guys, one of the biggest problems happening right now are literally the rail lines are having to be slowed down, their usage is slowed down and the trains are having to slow down because the rails are breaking. The heat is causing their one of their primary transportation systems to break. So those folks I mentioned primarily will travel by rail if they want to go anywhere outside of the small town where they live. and right now it's not a possibility especially if folks are trying to get to the hospitals And the NHS is really struggling. They're having to cancel all kinds of appointments to go see doctors, like major doctor appointments are having to be cancellled. because there's not enough people. The hospitals are also overheating I just want to point out how inssane just a little higher temperature can be for the human condition. Yeah, absolutely.. And it is important to know. you know, that's why it's so easy for the public to shrug off things like rising ocean temperatures because you may say, oh, just a few degrees Fahrenheit or Celsius, but it makes a huge difference when we realize that ecosystems and those organisms within those ecosystems have evolved for millions of years to function most perfectly in a very constrained window of temperature, of chemical mix of the air and the water. This is untenable. This shall not end well unless something is done, but we keep having to cancel our meetings about fixing the climate because the climate is already, as was said earlier going off the rails. And I want to respond real quick. I didn't know if I would have time to get to it, but Noel, I loved your energy. We' talking earlier and I found a story specifically for you I know you're not the biggest fan of Arby's, my guy. So I wanted to give you one more reason to dislike them. Oh dear. know I guess if you needed one. I've never been a fan of their like flagship roast beef. It's just kind of gray. like, I think it is. Ga go a good one. Maybe that's true. Classic Arb's roast bef probably all right. And I do remember back in the day they had those market fresh sandwiches. I thought were pretty good, but by and large, I guess I just haven't been to oneine in a long So give me a reason to continue on that trend. Okay, here you go. This takes us to Oklahoma. I'll keep this very brief before we get to. Where the wind goes swippping down the pl? Th real dues. Yeah. An Rrby's manager in Oklahoma has been accused of giving a customer her after spitting in the food No Y So one more reason for you there, man. which leads to a larger conversation about fast food moovie on, you know, and again, case by case, don't judge all RB' by one of them U I want to mention something that's going to be very important to a special contingent of our audience tuning in today without nailing anybody to the wall demographically We were correct in our predictions from our earlier episode about Chinese spine. Government of China has gone full mask off, full ten toes down And they have recently declared to the world that they have, quote, a right to target people overseas with their new ethnic unity law. end quote. Not the sea turtle program, though No no, no. So it's funny because that came on the heels of our earlier report about spy fish and spy sea turtles according to And senior officials who were speaking with the world at large, actually, just today as we're recording on Wednesday, june twenty fourth, twenty twenty six China has passed a law in March of this year to create what they call a shared national identity amid the countries fifty five ethnic minority groups, which are wildly distinct, you know, it it's a melting pot in a very different way to the U. S. These minority groups include people that we have historically heard of being oppressed or harmed, like Tibetan peoples or the Uyighghurs out in Western China, and this new law which is going into effect in just a few days as we record. It's going to an into effect on july first It says that people and groups beyond the borders of the PRC, the People's Republic of China can be held legally accountable for undermining ethnic unity and progress or inciting separatism. This would also apply to probleblematic anti PRC groups like Shed Yut or Valon Gong, excuse me So this means, like remember guys, we were talking about this and we did predict it before Before this went into play in March U We know that the government of China, which is not the people of China, has a reputation for going and finding that it considers Chinese descended or Chinese nationals abroad. They will target you in Western Europe. They will target you in the United States Yeah, we talked about the police stations in the US that were popping up that were kind of secreive and weird and seem to be used to surveil Chinese citizens living in the U.S. pretty weird It's it's again, what we would diplomatically call non ideal. It is a conspiracy looming on the horizon Please be safe out there, folks, because we still don't know re your home country will protect you because of the way these operations work. Now, you might be saying at this point, this is a segue, you might be saying, well, hey guys, yeah, I have family in China or I'm descended from Chinese nationals, but I live in the United States. We have the biggest army in the world. We have the cracker jack intelligence teams and our State Department is unparalleled. So I'll be fine, right? in this Oklahoma spot as long as I don't go to Arby's, I'll be good. I'm an American be true. If u if we were not actively firing all of the people who are supposed to protect against espionage threats. This takes us to Reuters Where it turns out, the the new kid on the block, the The new acting spy chief of the United States, Bill Polte is or Bill Polte is seeking to hundreds of jobs fromrom the director of National Intelligence. This was a Friday news dump So it it happened when they were hoping everybody wasn't paying attention on juneenth Right? And then they said, Oh yeah, happappy Juny, by the way, firing everybody whoo could stop all those threats that we campaigned on Did you guys hear about this? about everybody getting fired And they're still keeping the people of that RVs. You know what I mean Um