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Speaker 1: to the podcast. I'm Josh Clark. There's Charles W. Chuck Bryant. Uh.
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Speaker 1: How are you, sir? I'm pretty good your papers? Please? No?
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Speaker 1: What is that you know? Into pol is that you
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Speaker 1: sounded like? Um? The little Asian man who gives the
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Speaker 1: box to Pinhead, the man who eventually becomes Pinhead. What
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Speaker 1: does y'all plasias? Uh? That's kind of who you're wanting
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Speaker 1: to be. Well, then that's what I was doing. Good one,
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Speaker 1: My first good impression yet. The guy has interpoll written
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Speaker 1: all over him, he's got a he's got an orange
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Speaker 1: notice out on him. I'll bet you green. We'll get
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Speaker 1: on that later. Chuck. I'm pretty much sure you had
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Speaker 1: nothing to do with this, so you may not have
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Speaker 1: heard about it. Um. Back in two thousand eleven about
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Speaker 1: this time. March two thousand eleven, inter Poll, the international
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Speaker 1: police organization, cracked a UM child pedophile ring, the biggest
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Speaker 1: one ever really centered on a website I guess appropriately
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Speaker 1: enough called boy lover dot net run out of Amsterdam.
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Speaker 1: Boy lover dot net is just a straight up legitimate
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Speaker 1: gay porn site, but there was a forum there with
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Speaker 1: like seventy thousand members with that like said, well, hey,
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Speaker 1: you're you're into this kind of thing too, huh Um,
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Speaker 1: I got a video that you're gonna love, and I
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Speaker 1: also have a little boy that I'm gonna mail to you.
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Speaker 1: So this wasn't affiliated with the website. No, they're just
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Speaker 1: using one of the forums as a meeting place for pedophiles.
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Speaker 1: But Interpol busted these guys up, rescued UM two and
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Speaker 1: thirty kids, arrested a hundred and eight four UM suspects
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Speaker 1: just in the first sweet pretty much in thirty countries. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: good for them, It is good for them. It's just
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Speaker 1: one of the many victories and triumphs over pederasty that
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Speaker 1: Interpol can boast. That's right, and not just pederasty, like
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Speaker 1: all sorts of huge international crimes. Anytime there's a crime
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Speaker 1: syndicate or a ring. You need to watch out because
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Speaker 1: Interpoll's watching you. Into Poll is right behind you. Why
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Speaker 1: does y'all plasia? Uh? And this was actually fans generated this. Um.
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Speaker 1: This came on Facebook like three days ago. Oh really,
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Speaker 1: I wish i'd have got the guy's name. Some kid
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Speaker 1: was like, hey, can you do one interpoll? And I went, yeah, sure, sure.
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Speaker 1: He wasn't talking about the band. He might have been.
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Speaker 1: They still around. Yeah, they're still around. H yeah they are. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: I don't I don't know what they're doing these days.
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Speaker 1: I'm not a fan, so I don't know. Dude, how
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Speaker 1: do you not like Inner Pole? Just like listen to
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Speaker 1: their music and it didn't sit right in my ears.
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Speaker 1: I'm surprised. I thought, like everybody like Dinner Pole. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: they're just good. Yeah, yeah, do you think all right?
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Speaker 1: INTERPOL the International Criminal Police Organization or i c PO,
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Speaker 1: or if you're in France or their headquartered, you might
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Speaker 1: call it the Organists Organist Internacional de Police criminal very nice,
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Speaker 1: which is pretty much the same thing and different word order.
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Speaker 1: I didn't know this, but criminal is feminine. Oh yeah, yeah,
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Speaker 1: I didn't realize that they like the ladies. Yes, all right, So,
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Speaker 1: as you said, Josh, they are an international UM fully autonomous,
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Speaker 1: not affiliated with any single country or inization. I think
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Speaker 1: they're a hundred eighty six countries nine now, and they
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Speaker 1: all contribute to the to the budget, to the kitty
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Speaker 1: based on their size and their g d P and
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Speaker 1: some other factors. It's very it's very fair, um, but
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Speaker 1: it's very important, like you said, that they're not beholden
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Speaker 1: to any one country, UM and that they remain neutral,
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Speaker 1: and they don't and they don't engage in any um
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Speaker 1: any investigations into political stuff things UM contributing or being
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Speaker 1: centered on race or um religion. That's right. My brain
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Speaker 1: is now working today. My brain is uh so what
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Speaker 1: they do, Josh, you just said what they don't do?
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Speaker 1: What they do do, uh terrorism, sexual terrorism like nobody,
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Speaker 1: sexual abuse, especially with children, which is what you just
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Speaker 1: talked about. UM, organized crime, international fugitives, computer crime, UM stolen,
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Speaker 1: aren't money laundering, human trafficking, illegal drugs, smuggling, environmental crime,
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Speaker 1: anything that crosses international borders. Almost you're gonna find into
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Speaker 1: pol helping helping out with But and you said the
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Speaker 1: magic phrase helping out like interpoll doesn't have they don't
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Speaker 1: run around like arresting guys. Place back guys. It is
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Speaker 1: interpoll UM and they they don't have interpolled jail, as
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Speaker 1: a Grabanowski points out, UM. But what they do is
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Speaker 1: they serve as this international meeting point for UM already
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Speaker 1: established national agencies. Right, So let's let's do a little scenario.
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Speaker 1: I'm FBI agent Todd Ridgeway of the des Moines, IOWA
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Speaker 1: Field office, and your agent, Vinny Testaverity of the Politia
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Speaker 1: Destado in Italy, and I believe a terrorist is UM
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Speaker 1: hiding out near your fel Old office in Genoa. So
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Speaker 1: I'm calling you up like ring ring. This is Todd Ridgeway.
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Speaker 1: I'm with the FBI in Des Moines. Hey, Todd, this
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Speaker 1: is Vinny tes So. And see what Chuck just demonstrated
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Speaker 1: was how it doesn't work because Vinny Testaverdi doesn't speak
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Speaker 1: a look of English and Todd Ridgeway doesn't speak any Italian. Right.
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Speaker 1: And not only that, he shouldn't have been calling Vinny Testaverdi,
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Speaker 1: he should have been calling Giuseppe de Bikono UM, who's
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Speaker 1: with the local police, because that's what the Italian UM
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Speaker 1: police bureaucracy protocol calls for but he has no idea, no,
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Speaker 1: so what does he do? He calls into POTE that's right,
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Speaker 1: and they step up and they're like, you know, he
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Speaker 1: need to get in touch with You need to get
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Speaker 1: in touch with Vinny Testa, Verdie's cousin who works for
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Speaker 1: the state police over there, the Polizza but Italy, because
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Speaker 1: there who's handling this case. Here's their number. In fact,
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Speaker 1: let me go ahead and patch it through. But not
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Speaker 1: only that, I'm gonna and I'm going to translate for you. Um. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: So they're the interpoll Um. Interpol has what are called
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Speaker 1: National Central Bureaus national country Bureaus no National Central Bureaus
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Speaker 1: n CBS, and that's like an FBI field office, but
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Speaker 1: they have them in different countries around the world, and
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Speaker 1: they serve as liaisons for the local or state or
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Speaker 1: national police with the same their counterparts in other countries.
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Speaker 1: That's the big one. Yea. It gets you know when
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Speaker 1: you it's it's complicated enough within these United States with
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Speaker 1: jurisdictions and protocol, but when you open it up to
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Speaker 1: the world, boy, it gets all kinds of crazy. So
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Speaker 1: luckily into poll is there you've been any peing contests well,
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Speaker 1: they probably tried to, but them should they exist? Um.
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Speaker 1: Their big deal is their databases, because the FBI and
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Speaker 1: the CIA, why they might all have like and whatever
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Speaker 1: your country's databases are crime databases, they probably just extend
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Speaker 1: to that country, unless it's like some sort of database
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Speaker 1: on terrorism. UM interpolls. Databases are away extensive. They circle
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Speaker 1: the globe and they can track criminals pretty much anywhere
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Speaker 1: and everywhere. Fingerprints, mug shots, wanted people, DNA, you name it. UM.
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Speaker 1: They have a they have a database just of lost
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Speaker 1: lost in stolen travel documents. It's got more than like
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Speaker 1: twelve million files to it. Yeah. I think I saw
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Speaker 1: somewhere today too that they said most people don't try
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Speaker 1: and recover those, which I thought was interesting. Well, I
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Speaker 1: imagine like if you lose your passport, you're probably traveling
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Speaker 1: abroad and yeah, you're not getting that back. You never
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Speaker 1: know unless you go. Yeah, yeah, they could have your
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Speaker 1: stuff because who knows, they could that could have been
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Speaker 1: stolen to be used in some trafficking syndicate. It's true,
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Speaker 1: and your name could be all drug all through the
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Speaker 1: mud on boilover dot net. UM. The the database that
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Speaker 1: they are, the databases that they maintain or are their own,
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Speaker 1: but they're open and their access through this UM communications
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Speaker 1: net we're called I seven. That's something because inter poll
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Speaker 1: is UM. They're open seven three even on Christmas. They're
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Speaker 1: fully operational. Really, they don't close down like all the
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Speaker 1: police do here on Christmas. No, because think about it, man, UM, Well, yes,
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Speaker 1: I get your joke, but I mean think about the
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Speaker 1: skeleton crews that go down. I think inter polls open
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Speaker 1: all the time because they cross all all UM time
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Speaker 1: zones at all times. Yeah, so they kind of have
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Speaker 1: to be ready to go all the time because you know,
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Speaker 1: while one guy sleeping, the criminals in one country are sleeping,
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Speaker 1: their wide awake and carrying out bad activities in another.
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Speaker 1: That's true. What else can they do, josh? Oh? They
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Speaker 1: serve that seven is also a place where you can
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Speaker 1: access another country's databases. So there's those those nationally bound
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Speaker 1: database has become international through this portal and interpal overseas
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Speaker 1: all of that, so they know what's going on. UM.
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Speaker 1: They also, let's say there's an international disaster of some sort,
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Speaker 1: like a terrorist attack, assassination, UM, they can send an
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Speaker 1: incident response team UM generally coordinated through the U N.
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Speaker 1: If there's some sort of actually a natural disaster like
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Speaker 1: the tsunami efforts, they can send people down there to
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Speaker 1: help UM identify people and look for missing persons. UH,
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Speaker 1: protect kids, because I can guarantee you there are a
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Speaker 1: lot of pedophiles who traveled to Indonesia after that tsunami.
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Speaker 1: That's right. That's crazy, man, that's just that's awful. Imagine
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Speaker 1: like losing your parents, being seven, suddenly an orphan, and
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Speaker 1: then now there's some guy who's like, hey, you're coming
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Speaker 1: to Holland with me. You're like, no, I'm not. He's like, yeah,
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Speaker 1: you really are. Well, you don't understand what he's saying.
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Speaker 1: He just offers you the lolly in a in a
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Speaker 1: car ride. Yeah. Very sad. But thanks to interpoll things
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Speaker 1: like that are being thwarted. Uh. And I saw there's
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Speaker 1: two types of incident response teams UM. They have the
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Speaker 1: criminal type and the disaster type UM and but they
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Speaker 1: both serve in an advisory capacity and they show up
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Speaker 1: with their database like I can get you into. They
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Speaker 1: can act as a central command. Though if local authorities say, hey,
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Speaker 1: we need your help to act as central command, help
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Speaker 1: us out with logistics. UM. I think the Grabster said
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Speaker 1: in two thousand five they did that twelve times once
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Speaker 1: a month. Not bad. Dust off the old work and shoes. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: like get out the field. Yeah, time to get out
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Speaker 1: of bed. How's it? Structure? Josh, Well, I'll tell you.
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Speaker 1: Interpoll is made up of a General Assembly in which
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Speaker 1: each of the member nations has one delegate and one
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Speaker 1: vote thanks a love sense. They meet once a year
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Speaker 1: and they vote on all the big stuff, which kind
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Speaker 1: of makes it a slow, lumbering bureaucracy unless they invest
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Speaker 1: a lot of authority into the Executive Committee, which is
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Speaker 1: the thirteen member committee that basically carries out all the
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Speaker 1: administrative functions of Interpol. And they are elected, as is
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Speaker 1: the Secretary General, although it saysn't here appointed. That's all elected.
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Speaker 1: Oh yeah, yeah, now he's elected because um I saw
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Speaker 1: this guy, Ronald K. Noble. He got an overwhelming elegy
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Speaker 1: of the vote for his second reelection. So he's in
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Speaker 1: his third term, first time ever. Yeah, which is I
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Speaker 1: think he's running from under this current term. And he
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Speaker 1: is the first American secretary general if I'm not mistaken right,
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Speaker 1: And he's the first three time secretary general too. Then
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Speaker 1: a lot of frenchie's I think I saw one, uh Englishman. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: and uh, there's definitely one German cause there was some
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Speaker 1: controversy with that. I believe the president is Korean, now, okay,
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Speaker 1: not to be confused with the secretary general. The president
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Speaker 1: is beneath him, right. The Secretary General is who actually
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Speaker 1: runs the day to day show, right, and he's headquartered
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Speaker 1: um in the General Secretariat, which is the main headquarters
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Speaker 1: in Leon, France. That's right, um. And then there's other
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Speaker 1: there's regional offices. There's six of them, the sixth of
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Speaker 1: which is in New York, and that's the special Liaison
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Speaker 1: under the u N. Because Interpoll very wisely got in
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Speaker 1: with the u N because like this body has some
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Speaker 1: staying power. That's right. We're gonna become friendly with them.
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Speaker 1: You can also find these place offices in Argentina, El Salvador, Thailand, Kenya,
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Speaker 1: Zimbabwe and Cote Dvoir. Very nice, Thank you? Did you
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Speaker 1: practice in No? Just it's lovely name that I've said
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Speaker 1: it many use myself. Yet it means the um coast
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Speaker 1: devoir in French. Okay. You mentioned that we all all
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Speaker 1: member countries chip in for the budget. UM. The budget
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Speaker 1: is not a lot, though, compared to like any budget
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Speaker 1: in the United States. I think in two thousand seven,
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Speaker 1: um the grabster pointed it at roughly sixty one million
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Speaker 1: dollars US or forty four a million euros, which I
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Speaker 1: wonder what that's equal to now, two thousand seven dollars
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Speaker 1: to two thousand eleven. But it's a big change. I
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Speaker 1: should have looked up the current budget actually failed to.
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Speaker 1: It's okay, Chuck, let's talk about the notices. So this
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Speaker 1: is their other big thing. Um. They don't just sit
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Speaker 1: around and and wait to be asked for help. They
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Speaker 1: also disseminate information, and they do it through color coded notices.
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Speaker 1: They've got, Um, let's see what is the nine? Eight?
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Speaker 1: Think seven? Okay, so they have eight now because they
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Speaker 1: added another one after this after the Stephen. Yes, um,
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Speaker 1: and the different color codes mean different things. So you're
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Speaker 1: going to get via teletype possibly facts or maybe even email.
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Speaker 1: You'll get like some sort of maybe a PDF document
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Speaker 1: of um, say Orange basically says like, hey, we've got
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Speaker 1: we have pretty good idea that there's an imminent threat
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Speaker 1: and it's this guy and he's wearing this coat and
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Speaker 1: he's got a bomb. Yeah. So that if you get
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Speaker 1: an orange one, your head better perk up and you
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Speaker 1: need to look closely. That's right. Black is unidentified bodies.
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Speaker 1: That's the same one. That's the sattus of all notices
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Speaker 1: UM yellow missing persons. It's probably second status, uh green
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Speaker 1: general information and warnings about major criminals. So this one
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Speaker 1: is kind of it. Um, that's pretty vague. High well,
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Speaker 1: it highlights another function that they have. UM that it
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Speaker 1: wasn't explicitly stated in this article, but I gleaned using
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Speaker 1: my powers of deduction, that they have analysts who crunch
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Speaker 1: all this data, who poured through databasis, look at crime trends,
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Speaker 1: look at criminal trends, and then um come up with
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Speaker 1: basically just general notices. When they're sitting around with some
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Speaker 1: time on their hands, they issue green notices that say like, hey,
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Speaker 1: here's another angle to a case that you might not
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Speaker 1: have thought of. For interesting, have you met this guy.
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Speaker 1: Here's all the bad stuff he's done. He may be
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Speaker 1: in your neighborhood, right, that kind of thing, And the
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Speaker 1: local authorities say, yeah, yeah, interval, we got we know
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Speaker 1: you've got some time on your hand. Very nice, thank you.
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Speaker 1: The blue notice Josh is um individuals of interest related
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Speaker 1: to a crime, including the possible witnesses or suspects or
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Speaker 1: persons of interest. Is a good umbrella term for those
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Speaker 1: kinds of people your crime that's already been comming, people
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Speaker 1: who ran with the wrong crowd, where at the wrong place,
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Speaker 1: in the wrong time, and didn't stick around. On an
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Speaker 1: international level, that's right. Red. Recently, Mr Juliana Sans was
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Speaker 1: issued at the red notice, which means you are wanted
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Speaker 1: and it's sort of like a world wide a PB.
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Speaker 1: You gotta keep that. You print it out and put
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Speaker 1: it on your wall. What a red inner pole notice
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Speaker 1: on you? Oh yeah, got two find of his. I'll
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Speaker 1: bet he kept his thin I'll bet he's one of
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Speaker 1: the few who did. With photoshop though, I mean, you
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Speaker 1: can never tell if it's real or not. You or
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Speaker 1: I could make our own. I mean we should do that.
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Speaker 1: Why not have a feeling one's coming your way. UH
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Speaker 1: interpoll notice which is not a color. That was scary
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Speaker 1: to me because it was the only one that's not
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Speaker 1: a color unless the new one you talked about. It
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Speaker 1: is not a color. The Interpol notice means, um, it's
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Speaker 1: a U n UH Security Council Special notice, meaning groups
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Speaker 1: of individuals involved with al Qaeda or the Taliban or
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Speaker 1: at work. Yeah, people who have UN sanctions on them. Um.
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Speaker 1: Then there's now the Purple notice, which, um, basically it's
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Speaker 1: kind of like a green notice. It's like, hey, be
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Speaker 1: aware of this kind of stuff that's going on, but
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Speaker 1: it's about what people are doing, like international criminal trans
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Speaker 1: Like do you remember I think they were like pen guns.
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Speaker 1: There was like just a few years back, there was
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Speaker 1: like a pen that could shoot and it was very
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Speaker 1: low powered. But I think inter Poll sent out a
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Speaker 1: notice on this, like, hey, you guys need to be
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Speaker 1: aware that this thing's out there. Okay, well, inter Poll
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Speaker 1: probably inspired the writer. Interesting, it was a comedy too.
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Speaker 1: I guarantee Interpoll inspired the writer. It was pretty funny.
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Speaker 1: It was Fred red Ward, Fred Warder, Fred Willard fred
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Speaker 1: Ward Okay, the time writer Remo Williams. Yeah, he had
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Speaker 1: a he had a pen gun and shot at dude
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Speaker 1: in the neck. It was kind of funny. What movie
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Speaker 1: was it, Uh, thirty Minutes or Less with Danny McBride
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Speaker 1: and uh, it was good. The guy who played Facebook
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Speaker 1: he laid Facebook Mark, Yeah, the Jesse Eisenberg there, they
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Speaker 1: were both in that. It was sort of funny, but
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Speaker 1: not highly recommended. But that scene was funny because Fred
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Speaker 1: Willards like, you think it's a pen and all of
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Speaker 1: sudden need to shoot the stude in the neck with it.
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Speaker 1: That's funny. Um, that's high comedy. Yeah, it was very much. Um.
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Speaker 1: I watched Inside Man again last night. That's such a
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Speaker 1: good movie. Which one is that Spike Lee heist movie
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Speaker 1: with Clive Owens that dude, really Yeah, you hadn't seen
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Speaker 1: it either. I made it watch the last night. She's like,
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Speaker 1: this is a good movie. That's one of the few
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Speaker 1: Spike Lee movies I have not seen. It's see that
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Speaker 1: all right? Have you seen twenty Yeah that's a good
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Speaker 1: one too. Yeah. I think Inside Man hasn't beaten all right.
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Speaker 1: So yeah, Purple is just basically like information on new
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Speaker 1: types of criminal activity that people need to be made
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Speaker 1: aware of, like pen guns, gotcha and Fred Ward, But
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Speaker 1: the pen gun was a real warning or a real
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Speaker 1: purple warning. Notice, I don't know. I'm just assuming I'm
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Speaker 1: using example. So let's talk about the history of interpoll Chuck.
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Speaker 1: It has a strange, tumultuous history that closely fall It
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Speaker 1: was the tumult of the twentieth century if you ask me, Yeah,
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Speaker 1: and Ed kind of breeze right over the whole Nazi
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Speaker 1: part of it. There's been a lot of controversy over that. Actually,
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Speaker 1: oh yeah, why are they accused of colluding? Well, let's
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Speaker 1: back up. They were formed and being in Austria, uh,
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Speaker 1: during World War Two. Ed says they were interrupted when
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Speaker 1: the Nazis took control, deposed the Secretary General moved to
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Speaker 1: Berlin for a short time, but then after the war
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Speaker 1: everything was rebuilt, they moved to Paris, and that's kind
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Speaker 1: of all he said. I looked a little further into it,
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Speaker 1: and it's pretty uh, pretty controversial those years, UM, when
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Speaker 1: it was under Nazi rule. Obviously, Uh, they shared headquarters
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Speaker 1: with the Gestapo, officially operated UM as a division within
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Speaker 1: the Nazi Security Police, and to Nazi war criminals were
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Speaker 1: the agency's presidents during the wartime. Plus they overspent on
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Speaker 1: Christmas partes. Uh. And then this A read a Times
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Speaker 1: article and some of the comments back to the editorial said,
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Speaker 1: you guys even kind of whitewashed it because after the
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Speaker 1: war they refused to take part in the sixties and
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Speaker 1: seventies in any of the Nazi war crime hunting, war
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Speaker 1: criminal hunts. Uh wow, I had no idea, Chuck, I'm
21:23
Speaker 1: really glad you did this. Yeah. And then uh in
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Speaker 1: nineteen their president uh to seventy two was Paul Dickkop
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Speaker 1: and he was an s S officer. No, he was
21:36
Speaker 1: and remained president despite them finding out about this and
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Speaker 1: knowing about this, and that was pretty controversial. Toe, I'll
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Speaker 1: bet you don't usually want Nazis leading your organization former
21:47
Speaker 1: Nazis either, no, you know what I'm saying. Once the Nazi,
21:51
Speaker 1: always the Nazi in my opinion. Well, dip Cop was
21:54
Speaker 1: the he was that the president for whatever four years. Yeah. Wow.
22:00
Speaker 1: And a lot of people, a lot of people say
22:04
Speaker 1: interpoll is like run without oversight and they have all
22:08
Speaker 1: this access, but no one has access to their real
22:11
Speaker 1: like how they do things the opposite of how grab
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Speaker 1: Minowski tells them. Yeah, it's a little more controversial than
22:16
Speaker 1: I thought. Wants to start poking around. Well, I I
22:18
Speaker 1: guess it was probably the VHS tapes that started to
22:21
Speaker 1: bring them out of the dark and into uh, I
22:24
Speaker 1: guess a brighter role. Remember the Interpol warning on old
22:28
Speaker 1: video cassettes? Now was that interval? Oh yeah, and now
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Speaker 1: it's like an FBI warring. But before and every once
22:33
Speaker 1: in a while you'll still see it like Interpol warning
22:35
Speaker 1: it's again like copyright theft and piracy. Um. But yeah,
22:40
Speaker 1: apparently they now are they've shed themselves of Nazis and
22:44
Speaker 1: have a third term Secretary General who's busting pedophiles in Amsterdam.
22:51
Speaker 1: And did you pretty I think that's good? I'm saying,
22:54
Speaker 1: oh yeah, yeah, they've they've apparently tried to clean up
22:57
Speaker 1: their image a lot since those days. It's crazy, man um.
23:00
Speaker 1: And you did you hear about the executive order Obama
23:03
Speaker 1: signed and oh nine, it was pretty controversial among conservatives
23:07
Speaker 1: because little background. The International Organization and Immunities Act in
23:13
Speaker 1: ninety five was signed into law, and basically that meant
23:17
Speaker 1: the president could say certain organizations international organizations that worked
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Speaker 1: in the US are exempted from certain things like taxes,
23:25
Speaker 1: search and sees or laws. And pretty much every president
23:28
Speaker 1: has said you can be a part of this, like
23:30
Speaker 1: the Red Cross Reagan UH in nineteen eighty three included
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Speaker 1: interpoll Um as part of that group. Songs like four
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Speaker 1: different sections dealing with property taxes, social security, federal taxes, customs, duties,
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Speaker 1: and UH having property and assets searched and confiscated then
23:54
Speaker 1: and O nine, Obama said those four things now you're
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Speaker 1: immune from as well, so you have full immunity Interpoll
24:02
Speaker 1: does in the United States from these things. And conservatives
24:06
Speaker 1: got up in arms about, you know, the fact that
24:08
Speaker 1: Obama had signed this. They tend to get up in
24:11
Speaker 1: army anything he signed, like his his dinner check. Uh.
24:17
Speaker 1: But then people rallied back and said, well, you know,
24:20
Speaker 1: I thought you wanted someone tough on crime, and he's
24:22
Speaker 1: basically saying Interpoll has more rights to do their thing
24:26
Speaker 1: in the United States. So which way do you want it?
24:29
Speaker 1: Or do you just want to complain about everything that
24:31
Speaker 1: he does? Uh? And the Obama administration said that, you
24:34
Speaker 1: know what, this really didn't give them any more free
24:38
Speaker 1: reign than Reagan had already given them an eighty three.
24:41
Speaker 1: It is sort of finished up what he started. So
24:45
Speaker 1: who knows, regardless regardless of which side you sit on
24:48
Speaker 1: on the political aisle, Obama is the new Reagan the
24:52
Speaker 1: end you got any more? Uh. Some successes. You talked
24:57
Speaker 1: about the tsunami in two thousand four, UM, and they
25:02
Speaker 1: your pedophile scenario. It's pretty big, not yours thirty countries,
25:06
Speaker 1: that's pretty huge. UM. They helped identify and capture a
25:13
Speaker 1: Serbian war criminal, Milan Lukic Luci Luke. I bet it's
25:18
Speaker 1: lukach Uh in Argentina, coordinating between Argentina and Chile and
25:25
Speaker 1: uh Bosnia Herzegovina. Yeah. Um, and let's see. Uh. They
25:32
Speaker 1: they also had one, Um you remember the Madrid train bombings. Man,
25:36
Speaker 1: I had forgotten about those ninety people. Um, and they
25:41
Speaker 1: managed to catch at least one guy. They they found
25:45
Speaker 1: twenty one guilty, but the interpoll called at least one
25:47
Speaker 1: guy through coordination between Belgrade, Baghdad and Madrid offices. And
25:53
Speaker 1: did you know the twenty one people who were found
25:55
Speaker 1: guilty of that got to combine forty thousand years in prison. Really, yeah,
26:00
Speaker 1: he'll probably never get out. No, no, I don't think
26:04
Speaker 1: they're gonna get out. And then grabs Her pointed this
26:06
Speaker 1: one out. A response team obtained and disseminated fingerprints and
26:10
Speaker 1: photographs of Abu Musab al al Zarkawi. Yeah, which sounds
26:15
Speaker 1: kind of whatever. But then you're like, oh, yeah, how
26:18
Speaker 1: would you get that guys? I guess yeah, I thought
26:20
Speaker 1: the same thing, and then I thought twice. I was like, now,
26:22
Speaker 1: I guess that is a pretty big deal. It's worth mentiny. Yeah. Sure,
26:26
Speaker 1: I didn't find a lot of stuff though that searched
26:28
Speaker 1: for more. Yeah, same here. And I think they're sort
26:30
Speaker 1: of behind the scenes that they're like, we're not gonna
26:32
Speaker 1: have any big arrests because we don't do that. Um,
26:36
Speaker 1: but we're involved in a lot of those on the
26:38
Speaker 1: back end on their website, UM, which is a pretty cool,
26:42
Speaker 1: user friendly website. Agreed. It's like, here's a lot of
26:44
Speaker 1: information that's very vague. Yeah, like we have two kinds
26:48
Speaker 1: of response teams, criminal and disaster, and that's all we're
26:50
Speaker 1: gonna say about that. That kind of thing. And you know,
26:53
Speaker 1: I'm interested to hear if anyone knows anymore about their controversies.
26:57
Speaker 1: I'm curious, does your dad work at Interpoll? We want
27:00
Speaker 1: to know, Um, you got anything else? So if you
27:05
Speaker 1: want to learn more about inter Poll and and read
27:07
Speaker 1: a very glowing review of their life and work, very glossy,
27:12
Speaker 1: whitewashed review, UM, you can type in interpol I N
27:16
Speaker 1: T E R P O L. And did we say
27:18
Speaker 1: where they got the name? I don't think we did.
27:20
Speaker 1: I don't think so. So with the advent of telegraph communications,
27:26
Speaker 1: they're like man we need to uh, we need to
27:29
Speaker 1: shorten this or else people aren't gonna waste the money
27:32
Speaker 1: with Western Union talking about us, so they shorten their
27:35
Speaker 1: name to Interpol. Instead of the longer I c OP.
27:40
Speaker 1: They should just call i CP. Yeah, I COP. Yeah yeah, Well,
27:45
Speaker 1: don't type I guess you could type I COP into
27:47
Speaker 1: the search probably some mac Apple app now that allows
27:52
Speaker 1: you to like make citizens arrest. Um, that's a good one. Thanks,
27:58
Speaker 1: we should go make that. Um. Well, yeah, type I
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Speaker 1: COP in the search bar. How stuff works dot com?
28:03
Speaker 1: And I said search bar, It just didn't you know it,
28:06
Speaker 1: which means it's time for listener now, Josh, I'm gonna
28:11
Speaker 1: call this uh uhm. A brewer for Anheuser Busch. Wow,
28:15
Speaker 1: it's a big, big time one of the big daddies. Hey, guys,
28:18
Speaker 1: just finished listening to the Beer podcast and felt compelled
28:21
Speaker 1: to write. I used to live in Atlanta and missed
28:24
Speaker 1: the Beer Senior, a dream of the brick store pub
28:26
Speaker 1: every third night. I'm a beer geek homebrewer, and also
28:29
Speaker 1: happened to now brew beer for Annheuser Busch UM also
28:33
Speaker 1: now known as a b in Bev. As was mentioned
28:37
Speaker 1: in the podcast, it's a pretty sweet gig that all
28:40
Speaker 1: started for me by homebrewing in my Atlanta apartment closet. Crazy. UM.
28:46
Speaker 1: I enjoyed the podcast a lot, and you were pretty
28:47
Speaker 1: spot on with the info and brewing one on one,
28:50
Speaker 1: except for the mention of forced carbonation. UM, I have
28:53
Speaker 1: worked because I think we said that that the big
28:56
Speaker 1: breweries like forced carbonate everything not so UM. I've worked
29:00
Speaker 1: a couple of crap berries aside from my current job
29:02
Speaker 1: at Anheuser Busch, and I had never seen this before.
29:06
Speaker 1: I can't speak for the other big guys, but our
29:09
Speaker 1: beer at ANH Anheuser Busch is made pretty much the
29:12
Speaker 1: same way as other small craft beers. We just have
29:15
Speaker 1: much larger equipment and more automation at Anheuser Busch. After
29:20
Speaker 1: primary fermentation, our beers are loggered in a tank for
29:23
Speaker 1: as long as twenty one days in the case of
29:27
Speaker 1: the famous Budweiser. I've heard of that twenty one days. Um.
29:32
Speaker 1: During the aging process, the beer is still fermating slightly
29:35
Speaker 1: and builds up c O two in the tank. This
29:37
Speaker 1: is how our beer is carbonated, all natural, so similar
29:40
Speaker 1: to the priming homebrew and bottles and uh that's it,
29:45
Speaker 1: he says, have a four twenty on me and I'll
29:47
Speaker 1: pick up the tab next time in Atlanta. No, you
29:50
Speaker 1: send us the money first, and then we'll go have
29:52
Speaker 1: a four twenty and you That's what I say, David.
29:54
Speaker 1: Thanks David. We appreciate in advance the money you'll send
29:57
Speaker 1: us for our four twenties. Yes, and also I wanted
30:01
Speaker 1: to point out when we were talking about our favorite beers,
30:03
Speaker 1: I was sort of snobby with all my I p
30:06
Speaker 1: a s and all that stuff. I do love all that,
30:07
Speaker 1: but the triumvirate for me has been my staple since college,
30:13
Speaker 1: which is Budweiser, Miller Highlight, and the Pats. I like, yeah,
30:19
Speaker 1: I like all those. I'm fun with those, and I
30:21
Speaker 1: don't drink those as much anymore because I love the
30:23
Speaker 1: taste of like a delicious I p A. But I
30:26
Speaker 1: certainly don't turn my nose up at a Budweiser. Okay, well,
30:28
Speaker 1: then you're definitely not a beer snobble, No, not, you
30:31
Speaker 1: like the drinking poop? Remember those kids in college? Did
30:34
Speaker 1: you know anybody in college you could like recite what
30:37
Speaker 1: it said on the neck label of the Budweiser bottle,
30:41
Speaker 1: like what it says the writing. I didn't know anyone.
30:44
Speaker 1: It's like, this is Budweiser, the finest beer ever produced
30:47
Speaker 1: to Bud. I used to go to school with kids
30:50
Speaker 1: who could recite that like by heart, and I always
30:52
Speaker 1: thought it was kind of sad. Yeah, I didn't even know.
30:54
Speaker 1: I've never even read the bottle. It's easier if you
30:56
Speaker 1: have like a beach towel because the lettering is way
30:59
Speaker 1: bigger and see. Oh and I also got called out
31:03
Speaker 1: by a fans for being a hipster for drinking HAPs
31:05
Speaker 1: and I was like, dude, I've been drinking PBR since
31:09
Speaker 1: like and it amused me when it became a hipster beer.
31:14
Speaker 1: I was like, really, it blows my mind how much
31:17
Speaker 1: we share ourselves and how much we have been the
31:19
Speaker 1: four plus episodes, and there's so many people out there
31:22
Speaker 1: who do not know us at all. So um, I
31:28
Speaker 1: guess if you want to offer us money for beer,
31:30
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31:33
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31:34
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