Latest / The Lone Gunman Podcast : JFK Assassination / RRR W/ Rob - The Imitation Game
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- 0:06Speaker 1: This is.
- 0:08Speaker 2: Random Research Ramblings with Rob. Bring your notes, your doubts,
- 0:13Speaker 2: and your least favorite footnotes. The file says one thing.
- 0:17Speaker 2: The headline says three. Somebody sold certainty for a subscription fee.
- 0:21Speaker 2: JFK missing pages. Convenient alibi. A polished little theory with
- 0:25Speaker 2: a hole the size of Dallas skies. I'm not here
- 0:27Speaker 2: for sacred cows or credential parade. I'm here for the
- 0:29Speaker 2: claims that collapse when the questions get made. Stream of consciousness,
- 0:33Speaker 2: facts in the cricket stack. If the evidence walks out,
- 0:35Speaker 2: I'm dragging the argument back.
- 0:37Speaker 1: Random research ramblings with Rob.
- 0:39Speaker 2: Pull the thread till the whole false story comes undone.
- 0:42Speaker 1: Random research ramblings with Rob.
- 0:44Speaker 2: No padded conclusions, no damage control, just questions and smoke. Conspiracies, history,
- 0:48Speaker 2: rabbit holes and scorched earth reviews of dishonest researchers selling
- 0:51Speaker 2: certainty as news. Random research. Let's investigate the investigation. This
- 1:07Speaker 2: is Random Research Ramblings with Rob.
- 1:15Speaker 1: That's right. It is Random Research Ramblings with Rob. Welcome in, folks.
- 1:21Speaker 1: Hope everyone is having a fantastic Labor Day weekend. I
- 1:25Speaker 1: know I am. Except for what I'm about to do.
- 1:32Speaker 1: You see, this is a show that I never wanted
- 1:35Speaker 1: to have to make. And I do not take great
- 1:39Speaker 1: pleasure in making this show for you guys. But I've
- 1:47Speaker 1: seen some things recently. And, you know, a lot of
- 1:54Speaker 1: what we do here on the show is try to
- 1:57Speaker 1: un-muddy the waters and expose the discrepancies in the research
- 2:05Speaker 1: community when they don't seem to be above board. So,
- 2:14Speaker 1: with that being said, I've had my eye... on a
- 2:20Speaker 1: certain channel for a while now. And why, you ask? Well,
- 2:29Speaker 1: unbelievable growth, for one. But we'll get to that in
- 2:36Speaker 1: a minute. What I first want to show you is
- 2:41Speaker 1: something that I couldn't believe when I first saw it.
- 2:44Speaker 1: I said, you have got to be kidding me. You've
- 2:49Speaker 1: got to be kidding me. So, here we go. I'm
- 3:01Speaker 1: going to share my screen with you guys. And I'm
- 3:05Speaker 1: going to show you, you know, this is our, you know,
- 3:10Speaker 1: one of our traditional thumbnails that we use, you know,
- 3:14Speaker 1: to make episode thumbnails for the show. Now, you can
- 3:20Speaker 1: see a lot of the elements here. One being the
- 3:23Speaker 1: conspiracy board on the back, of course. You know, with
- 3:27Speaker 1: the thread and the dots and the pins and everything else.
- 3:31Speaker 1: And then you'll see right here, you know, the old
- 3:33Speaker 1: school desk light, typewriter, newspapers, things like that, you know.
- 3:42Speaker 1: And then, a week or so ago, I have managed
- 3:50Speaker 1: to see this come across my feed. Hang on. Now,
- 4:02Speaker 1: you might recognize these two fellas from the Ciphered Past podcast.
- 4:11Speaker 1: And boy, does this picture look awfully familiar. Oh, look,
- 4:16Speaker 1: there's a conspiracy board in the back. Oh, look, there's
- 4:22Speaker 1: newspapers in the back. Oh, look, there's a desk lamp
- 4:26Speaker 1: right here. And oh, look, there's a typewriter right there.
- 4:34Speaker 1: Along with files marked top secret and all of that.
- 4:41Speaker 1: Mindsets classified. But, you know, what... And then they steal
- 4:53Speaker 1: a line from one of my favorite shows ever made,
- 4:55Speaker 1: The X-Files. The truth is out there. Now, surely this
- 5:04Speaker 1: can't be a coincidence, right? I mean, surely these guys
- 5:12Speaker 1: have seen our cover art Beings that they are in our.
- 5:22Speaker 1: Lives sometimes. And I know our stuff is on their feed.
- 5:28Speaker 1: And yada yada yada. I know they've seen the thumbnails.
- 5:31Speaker 1: Why would you ever. Think that it would be a
- 5:34Speaker 1: good idea. To. Imitate our thumbnails. Why.
- 5:45Speaker 3: Why.
- 5:47Speaker 1: I mean, I know they say imitation is the most
- 5:50Speaker 1: sincere form of flattery. But I don't feel very flattered
- 5:57Speaker 1: right now. Not in the least. You know, there's a lot,
- 6:10Speaker 1: a lot. And I've felt it for a little while.
- 6:15Speaker 1: There's a lot of JFK stuff. related podcasts out there.
- 6:19Speaker 1: And yeah, I'll say it again, because I can, that
- 6:25Speaker 1: the Dallas Action and the Lone Gunman have been on
- 6:31Speaker 1: the air for the past 12 and a half years.
- 6:35Speaker 1: We were the first JFK-related podcast out there. Sure, there
- 6:41Speaker 1: were online radio shows before us, But as far as
- 6:46Speaker 1: podcasts go, branding as a podcast, we were the first.
- 6:56Speaker 1: And that's okay. Been around a long time. Like I said,
- 6:59Speaker 1: 12 and a half years been doing this. Cyphered Past
- 7:04Speaker 1: has been around for one year. One year. Uno enos. Now,
- 7:22Speaker 1: when I mentioned earlier about channel growth, something caught my
- 7:33Speaker 1: eye and I was like, something about that doesn't quite
- 7:39Speaker 1: look right. So, I'll show you guys this. And again,
- 7:53Speaker 1: this is not me being trying to be snarky or
- 7:58Speaker 1: jealous or anything because I'm not. It's just suspect to me.
- 8:09Speaker 1: And it also infuriates me because there's channels out here
- 8:14Speaker 1: where people are doing hard work and grinding and grinding
- 8:23Speaker 1: And grinding for years to reach certain levels. Not just
- 8:31Speaker 1: here on YouTube, but in the podcast world. And when
- 8:39Speaker 1: I see somebody probably not going about things the most
- 8:45Speaker 1: ethical of ways... I have to ask the question, why?
- 8:56Speaker 1: So let me show you this. Just two months ago,
- 9:01Speaker 1: maybe two and a half at this point, I don't
- 9:03Speaker 1: know exactly when, it doesn't really matter, even if it
- 9:06Speaker 1: was three months ago. Okay, still, crazy. So, the Cyphered
- 9:12Speaker 1: Pass made a post. And it says, today we crossed 2,000 subscribers.
- 9:19Speaker 1: And while it's a number on a screen, it's also
- 9:21Speaker 1: a reminder that this community is growing because of people
- 9:24Speaker 1: who are genuinely passionate about asking questions, examining evidence, and
- 9:29Speaker 1: exploring history with an open mind. When this journey began,
- 9:33Speaker 1: I had no idea how many people would be interested
- 9:35Speaker 1: in these conversations. What started as a simple desire to
- 9:39Speaker 1: explore some of history's most enduring mysteries has turned into
- 9:42Speaker 1: a community of researchers, investigators, historians, and truth seekers from
- 9:46Speaker 1: around the world. Whether you've been here since the beginning,
- 9:49Speaker 1: a year ago, or discovered the channel last week, must
- 9:54Speaker 1: have been a lot of them, your support means more
- 9:56Speaker 1: than you know. Every view, comment, discussion, and shared episode
- 10:01Speaker 1: has helped make this possible. Now, so, just perspective-wise, two
- 10:11Speaker 1: or three months ago, two, two and a half, three
- 10:13Speaker 1: months ago, they put up a post that they had
- 10:17Speaker 1: just crossed the 2,000 subscriber Threshold. Now, to put that
- 10:23Speaker 1: in perspective for you, the Lone Gunman podcast, and I'll
- 10:37Speaker 1: do it just from when we started going live on YouTube.
- 10:42Speaker 1: I won't even count, okay, the 10 or so years
- 10:47Speaker 1: before that that I was uploading to YouTube. Okay? Okay?
- 10:52Speaker 1: Almost three years ago, we started going live on YouTube,
- 10:56Speaker 1: me and Joe Borelli. And we started going live on
- 11:01Speaker 1: YouTube as soon as my channel hit 1,000 subscribers because
- 11:07Speaker 1: that's when we could monetize the channel. I had everything
- 11:10Speaker 1: else except for those 1,000 subscribers needed to monetize the channel.
- 11:16Speaker 1: Excuse me. So... It happened about two months before we
- 11:20Speaker 1: started going live. We made the plan to do what
- 11:22Speaker 1: we were going to do and take the show live
- 11:25Speaker 1: in video format. And that was almost three years ago.
- 11:30Speaker 1: And in that three years, despite bringing a 10-year audience
- 11:39Speaker 1: with us on this journey to a new video-based format
- 11:44Speaker 1: to YouTube, Despite putting out banger after banger after banger
- 11:52Speaker 1: after bangers of shows, having very interesting guests, very interesting shows,
- 12:00Speaker 1: groundbreaking research, I think, we have managed to add 1,500
- 12:12Speaker 1: subscribers in almost three years. That's it. But that is
- 12:18Speaker 1: to be expected in this niche. It's a very tight
- 12:25Speaker 1: niche that we're in here when we talk about the
- 12:27Speaker 1: JFK assassination. We don't talk about anything else. It's just
- 12:35Speaker 1: the JFK assassination. So, granted, I understand that there's not
- 12:40Speaker 1: going to be 300,000 people in the world tuning in
- 12:44Speaker 1: to see what we're doing here. I get it. But
- 12:48Speaker 1: I think organically grinding it out for almost three years
- 12:54Speaker 1: at 1,500 subscribers is not bad. It's growth. It's organic growth.
- 13:04Speaker 1: It's ethic growth. It's truthful growth.
- 13:09Speaker 3: Okay?
- 13:10Speaker 1: Okay? As of yesterday, as of yesterday, the Cyphered Pass
- 13:31Speaker 1: channel is at 24,600 subscribers. Okay? And just remember, two
- 13:47Speaker 1: or three months ago, They're at 2,000. So they've grown
- 13:53Speaker 1: their channel in the period of two months by 22,500 subscribers.
- 14:09Speaker 1: I'm sorry, but that just doesn't happen. Okay? That just
- 14:15Speaker 1: doesn't happen. Unless you go mega super viral for some
- 14:22Speaker 1: freaking reason, and I'm talking you'd have to have a
- 14:26Speaker 1: video or something with over a million views, something. I
- 14:33Speaker 1: think the highest viewed video on their channel is like 14,000 people.
- 14:44Speaker 1: Something like that. You can't grow in a niche, a
- 14:55Speaker 1: very niche area like this by that substantial of an
- 15:02Speaker 1: amount in just two months. Unless, unless you are paying
- 15:16Speaker 1: for subscribers. Now, I don't know that they are, but
- 15:26Speaker 1: that's the only solution that makes any kind of sense
- 15:30Speaker 1: to me. And I could be wrong. And I'm not
- 15:34Speaker 1: being a hater here. I'm not jealous of this because
- 15:36Speaker 1: I know this number is inflated and not real and
- 15:41Speaker 1: not organic. And you want to know how I know that?
- 15:46Speaker 1: I'll show you. So when you're looking at things, and
- 15:59Speaker 1: you know, I'm a JFK researcher, so I kind of
- 16:03Speaker 1: pull in things. I'm good at aggregating and correlating things
- 16:07Speaker 1: and putting puzzle pieces together. So when you look at
- 16:13Speaker 1: something like this, okay, on a channel that has 24,000
- 16:24Speaker 1: Plus subscribers. And you look at their... Views. Okay? Episode 77.
- 16:32Speaker 4: 236 views.
- 16:34Speaker 1: Episode 76. 853 views. That doesn't count. Because that's not...
- 16:38Speaker 1: A real.
- 16:40Speaker 5: Video.
- 16:53Speaker 1: Ciphered past, 75, 565 views. Episode 74, 442 views. 73,
- 16:56Speaker 1: 925 views. So you see here that the views don't
- 16:59Speaker 1: match the subscribers. If you truly had 24,000 real, actual people,
- 17:24Speaker 1: in the past two months, subscribed to your channel for
- 17:29Speaker 1: whatever reason, it would be because they tuned in for
- 17:34Speaker 1: some reason, enjoyed your content, and subscribed. And your view
- 17:39Speaker 1: count would be through the roof. Through the roof. Now,
- 17:48Speaker 1: me being a podcaster... I get these emails all the time. Oh,
- 17:56Speaker 1: we can grow your channel overnight. We can get you monetized. Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
- 18:05Speaker 1: We can add 10,000 subscribers. We can, you know, whatever, whatever.
- 18:10Speaker 1: Whatever you want to do on YouTube, there more than
- 18:16Speaker 1: likely is an Indian or Chinese or Taiwanese room full
- 18:23Speaker 1: of people and cell phones armed with fake accounts to
- 18:29Speaker 1: boost your subscriber count so that you can get monetized
- 18:37Speaker 1: now to me that's kind of unethical and I'm only
- 18:44Speaker 1: saying that because I've done things the right way I've
- 18:49Speaker 1: grinded okay Grind it. Grown the channel organically. I let
- 19:03Speaker 1: the channel grow on its own merit. Now let's look
- 19:11Speaker 1: at something else. America's Untold Stories. Now, I will give
- 19:21Speaker 1: them their props. 134,000 subscribers. Right? And they published 952 videos.
- 19:38Speaker 1: So let's take a look at some of their stuff here.
- 19:44Speaker 1: And again, I don't think that they've done it organically
- 19:52Speaker 1: either okay but I will say based on their lives
- 20:07Speaker 1: uh their live numbers vastly outperform their videos. So this
- 20:17Speaker 1: is some of America's Untold Stories videos. You see here 1.3
- 20:21Speaker 1: thousand views, 890 views, 6,000 views, 2,000 views, 2,000 views, 4,000 views.
- 20:25Speaker 1: Now their lives are up around the 20 to 30
- 20:26Speaker 1: thousand views. which approximate, you know, I mean, you have 134,000
- 20:47Speaker 1: people subscribed, but that means that 100,000 people that are
- 20:51Speaker 1: subscribed to your channel don't watch your shit, which is
- 20:55Speaker 1: not a good dichotomy either, right? So when I'm looking
- 21:06Speaker 1: at the YouTube analytics for my channel, For example, it
- 21:13Speaker 1: tells you the percentage of people who watch your content
- 21:18Speaker 1: whether or not they are subscribed. And mine are consistently
- 21:23Speaker 1: in the 60-70% that they are subscribed. Which is what
- 21:27Speaker 1: you want. You don't want people here to watch your
- 21:30Speaker 1: stuff and not subscribe to your channel. That means people
- 21:37Speaker 1: that watch our stuff... subscribe to the show. And that
- 21:42Speaker 1: is what you want. And just for instance, and I'll
- 21:47Speaker 1: pull it up real time here. Um, on our channel,
- 21:54Speaker 1: that is the Lone Gunman podcast channel. So right now,
- 22:08Speaker 1: Like I said, we have 2,500 subscribers. The live that
- 22:15Speaker 1: we just did is like 1,100 and some views. And
- 22:24Speaker 1: that's kind of right around 50%. Which is good. Trust me,
- 22:31Speaker 1: it's good. It's not great, but it's good. Now I'll
- 22:36Speaker 1: tell you that to show you this. Just for comparison reasons,
- 22:47Speaker 1: I wanted to show you some other JFK-related channels. So
- 22:52Speaker 1: this is JFK, the Enduring Secret, Jeff Crudell. Now, he
- 22:55Speaker 1: doesn't really post his shit on YouTube, and he hasn't
- 22:58Speaker 1: for 11 months. And he doesn't have that many videos up,
- 23:02Speaker 1: but his videos that he does have up have garnered
- 23:06Speaker 1: a lot of views because of who he's had on.
- 23:10Speaker 1: Like I said, if you just have Jefferson Morley or
- 23:12Speaker 1: Jim DiEugenio on your show, you're going to get 7,000
- 23:15Speaker 1: to 15,000 views automatically. Because they will pimp their appearance
- 23:21Speaker 1: on your show, and their fans will tune in to
- 23:24Speaker 1: see what they say.
- 23:25Speaker 2: Okay?
- 23:27Speaker 1: But, JFK The Enduring Secret, 4.23 thousand subscribers with 21 videos.
- 23:36Speaker 1: Jess Connell. 24,300 subscribers. Cypher passed, within the past day
- 23:47Speaker 1: or so, just passed Jess Connell. And she has been
- 23:54Speaker 1: grinding her channel for the past 16 plus years. So
- 24:04Speaker 1: does that make sense? It doesn't to me. Solving JFK,
- 24:12Speaker 1: Matt Crumpton. 8,730 subscribers with 204 videos.
- 24:19Speaker 3: Good.
- 24:19Speaker 1: And most of his episodes get between, you know, 4,000
- 24:22Speaker 1: or 5,000 views, roughly, median. So he's got a good
- 24:41Speaker 1: dichotomy between subscribers and views. And I think that this
- 24:49Speaker 1: is an organic number. He got this and he earned it. Now,
- 24:59Speaker 1: to show you what a channel like Jess's, who has
- 25:04Speaker 1: pretty much the exact same as Deciphered Past, 24,000, What
- 25:09Speaker 1: your views should look like with that many subscribers. Consistently, folks.
- 25:16Speaker 1: In 22 hours, she got 4,000 views on a video.
- 25:22Speaker 1: Within three days, this video is up to 6.3 thousand.
- 25:25Speaker 1: Five days, 18 thousand. Seven days, 6.6 thousand. This day,
- 25:28Speaker 1: nine days, 7.3 thousand. 11 days, 17,000. And 13 days, 6,500.
- 25:44Speaker 1: That is solid numbers. Real numbers. Jess is killing it.
- 25:53Speaker 1: That is what a person or a channel with 24,000
- 25:58Speaker 1: subscribers numbers and views should look like. You should have
- 26:05Speaker 1: at least 300 to 700 likes per per video. And
- 26:12Speaker 1: this is about where your views should be. Some do
- 26:15Speaker 1: better than others. You know, you get the point. The
- 26:17Speaker 1: longer they're around, the more views they get, of course.
- 26:22Speaker 1: But this is the dichotomy I'm trying to show you
- 26:25Speaker 1: guys that I don't think Deciphered Past Channel got there organically.
- 26:33Speaker 1: This is John Young, a JFK podcaster, who's been around
- 26:41Speaker 1: a couple years, and he consistently posts episodes. For whatever reason,
- 26:53Speaker 1: this is where he's at on YouTube. 152 subscribers and
- 26:56Speaker 1: 150 videos. And that's not saying his show sucks or
- 27:03Speaker 1: anything like that. He's got his own style. He's got
- 27:08Speaker 1: his own formatting. I don't agree with the past 20
- 27:12Speaker 1: videos being about James Files, but whatever. Even that, even
- 27:17Speaker 1: mentioning James Files can't get you more than 152 subscribers.
- 27:24Speaker 1: That's harsh. That is harsh. But, again, this is an
- 27:32Speaker 1: organic number. Folks, when I tell you, it's hard out
- 27:37Speaker 1: here for a pimp. It is hard out here for
- 27:41Speaker 1: a pimp. It took me 10 years to get this
- 27:44Speaker 1: channel to 1,000 subscribers. And that was just uploading audio
- 27:50Speaker 1: versions of my podcast here. 10 years. Trust me when
- 28:00Speaker 1: I tell you, something's fishy here. Something's fishy. And you
- 28:07Speaker 1: know what? YouTube don't like this shit. Trust me when
- 28:13Speaker 1: I tell you, at some point, when YouTube figures out
- 28:17Speaker 1: that you've been paying for subscribers and that your subscribers
- 28:21Speaker 1: don't match your views or your likes, they are going
- 28:26Speaker 1: to demonetize your channel, if not shut it down completely.
- 28:32Speaker 1: This is why you don't play games like this. And
- 28:39Speaker 1: I'm no snitch. I'm not saying nothing. I'm just making
- 28:42Speaker 1: a video about some things that I saw that didn't
- 28:44Speaker 1: really rub me the right way. Being somebody who did
- 28:48Speaker 1: it the right way, I don't like cheaters. Don't like cheaters.
- 28:57Speaker 1: I mean, are these guys the assholes that cut in
- 29:00Speaker 1: line at the King's Dominion and Busch Gardens and stuff?
- 29:07Speaker 1: Or at a concert at the merch table. These are
- 29:10Speaker 1: the guys that come up and cut in line. I
- 29:14Speaker 1: don't know. Again, some more channels for you. For comparison,
- 29:20Speaker 1: no true flags here. 1.3,344 videos. These guys, I mean
- 29:31Speaker 1: this guy here, although I might not agree with everything
- 29:34Speaker 1: that he puts out. He puts a lot of work
- 29:38Speaker 1: into his videos. he does and organically I can believe
- 29:45Speaker 1: that number he's been around a couple years 1.3 thousand
- 29:49Speaker 1: subscribers I ain't mad at it I would say those
- 29:55Speaker 1: are probably organic truthful numbers Back to America's Untold Stories
- 30:03Speaker 1: for a second. When I told you their lives did good, okay,
- 30:07Speaker 1: compared to their videos, all right, the last time, four
- 30:11Speaker 1: days ago, when D'Eugenio and Paul Blow were live for
- 30:15Speaker 1: two hours, they did 36,000 views. That's pretty good. But
- 30:21Speaker 1: it's also with 100,000 people that didn't bother to watch,
- 30:25Speaker 1: which is not good. But it's a lot, you know.
- 30:31Speaker 1: 11 days ago, Paul Blow returns live, 27,000. Oswald Unmasked,
- 30:39Speaker 1: Mexico City Tapes, two weeks ago, 29,000. Boy, they love
- 30:42Speaker 1: them some Paul Blow over on America's Untold Stories. I
- 30:50Speaker 1: know this is a joke in there somewhere, but I'm
- 30:53Speaker 1: trying to behave myself tonight as much as possible because
- 30:57Speaker 1: I know there's going to be some blowback On this episode. Because.
- 31:06Speaker 1: You know. I try to. And bless his heart. And
- 31:14Speaker 1: Joe's not here to defend himself.
- 31:16Speaker 3: But.
- 31:18Speaker 1: You know.
- 31:19Speaker 3: When.
- 31:20Speaker 1: When I. When I. When I first went to Joe
- 31:22Speaker 1: about this.
- 31:22Speaker 4: And.
- 31:24Speaker 1: You know. I said. Hey man. I don't like what's
- 31:26Speaker 1: going on here. Something doesn't feel right about this. Now
- 31:31Speaker 1: look at this thumbnail.
- 31:32Speaker 6: Like.
- 31:33Speaker 1: Come on, man. Well, you know, he's a nice guy,
- 31:39Speaker 1: you know. Well, he might be, right? But seeing things
- 31:49Speaker 1: from where I'm sitting, okay, I don't know why everybody
- 31:56Speaker 1: wants a perfect world where we all sit around and
- 31:58Speaker 1: sing kumbaya and get along together. It's never going to happen.
- 32:03Speaker 1: in the JFK assassination research community. Ever. It didn't happen
- 32:10Speaker 1: in the 60s. It didn't happen in the 70s. It
- 32:13Speaker 1: didn't happen in the 80s. It didn't happen in the 90s.
- 32:17Speaker 1: It didn't happen in the 2000s, the 2010s, the 2020s,
- 32:21Speaker 1: or now. There's just too many people married to their
- 32:28Speaker 1: theories without having an open mind about things While we
- 32:36Speaker 1: may be all conspiracy theorists, the conspiracy that we choose
- 32:41Speaker 1: to believe in and put our eggs in that basket
- 32:45Speaker 1: don't necessarily match up with the other guy's conspiracy perspective.
- 32:50Speaker 1: Or that other guy's conspiracy perspective. Or the other guy's
- 32:54Speaker 1: conspiracy perspective. And then you've got the lone nutters, too,
- 32:58Speaker 1: on the other side. You know, throwing shade.
- 33:00Speaker 4: So.
- 33:02Speaker 1: There's never going to be a kumbaya moment where all
- 33:05Speaker 1: of us guys, just because we're JFK podcasters, we're just
- 33:08Speaker 1: going to get along. You know, I've been saying for
- 33:12Speaker 1: a while, this space is getting a little crowded. You know? But.
- 33:21Speaker 1: I'm all about... Supporting... And helping... Other channels, because I
- 33:30Speaker 1: believe there's room for everybody... if you're doing things in
- 33:36Speaker 1: your own way and differently than anybody else. The only
- 33:44Speaker 1: other show out there doing lives on a weekly basis
- 33:49Speaker 1: about the JFK assassination is America's Untold Stories. The difference is,
- 34:01Speaker 1: the difference is, Their show started off being about baseball
- 34:11Speaker 1: and the Alec Baldwin shooting on the set of Rust
- 34:16Speaker 1: and other political crap. They stumbled into the JFK assassination,
- 34:24Speaker 1: saw how many views they were getting, and decided, you
- 34:26Speaker 1: know what? This is the direction we're going now. Okay, whatever.
- 34:33Speaker 1: Can't blame them. But even now, when I show you
- 34:41Speaker 1: their channel, they are not just specifically about the JFK assassination.
- 34:47Speaker 1: This show is.
- 34:50Speaker 3: It is.
- 34:57Speaker 1: I think Matt Crumpton does things in his own style.
- 35:02Speaker 1: And I'm not mad at him. I think Jeff Crudell
- 35:05Speaker 1: has a more storyteller vibe perspective to his. He's more
- 35:10Speaker 1: of an audio-only guy, and that's fine. That's cool. John Young,
- 35:16Speaker 1: he's kind of a mix between Jeff and Matt and
- 35:24Speaker 1: a little bit of a good old boy thrown in
- 35:26Speaker 1: the mix. Jess is doing something totally different. by examining
- 35:34Speaker 1: the books and living close to Dallas and, you know,
- 35:39Speaker 1: being able to have access to places and people, um,
- 35:44Speaker 1: that people actually want to hear from and not people
- 35:47Speaker 1: that come on and do the podcast tour and blow
- 35:52Speaker 1: hot air on a weekly basis because they think there's
- 35:56Speaker 1: somebody that they're not. But I digress. I digress. And
- 36:07Speaker 1: here's another one. Speaking of skafoozes, that's enough out of you.
- 36:16Speaker 1: And again, they don't do it live. They pre-tape their video.
- 36:24Speaker 1: But they have 1.44 thousand subscribers. That's an organic number.
- 36:33Speaker 1: even though these guys are some kafoosies. And they don't
- 36:39Speaker 1: just talk about JFK. They do talk about other things
- 36:42Speaker 1: tangentially and maybe not. You know, they're my college football
- 36:48Speaker 1: sometimes or whatever. Hey, whatever. But again, they are what
- 36:57Speaker 1: they are, and that's an organic number, 1.44 thousand subscribers.
- 37:03Speaker 1: That is an organic number. So again, why am I
- 37:16Speaker 1: feeling some type of way about this? It's the imitation game.
- 37:34Speaker 1: I mean, how badly do you want to be compared
- 37:46Speaker 1: to us or be us? And like I told Joe,
- 37:52Speaker 1: I said, you know, if you think shows like this
- 37:57Speaker 1: who bite our shit aren't taking away views from our
- 38:04Speaker 1: channel because they have some people snowballed into thinking that
- 38:12Speaker 1: they're doing something great over there because of their immense
- 38:17Speaker 1: channel growth in such a short time. They must be
- 38:19Speaker 1: doing something right, right? They're using the old Joe Rogan
- 38:27Speaker 1: model where they're putting out short clips instead of shorts.
- 38:34Speaker 1: In order to up their view count. Monetize their videos. Because.
- 38:40Speaker 1: Trust me when I tell you. Putting a short out.
- 38:43Speaker 1: Even if you get a thousand views of it. Off
- 38:45Speaker 1: of a short. You might make three cents. And I'm
- 38:48Speaker 1: not even exaggerating. It might be three pennies. If you
- 38:55Speaker 1: put out. A video though. That's between three and five
- 39:00Speaker 1: minutes long. Called a clip. That adds to your view count.
- 39:10Speaker 1: It ups your videos that you have published count. And
- 39:15Speaker 1: it's just a way to put out repetitive content. Things
- 39:20Speaker 1: you've already put out before. But whatever. Whatever. Whatever. Y'all
- 39:31Speaker 1: got your own strategy. We got ours. It's not the
- 39:37Speaker 1: strategy I'm mad at. It's this shit that I'm mad at.
- 39:46Speaker 1: Be your own show. You want to have. You want
- 39:54Speaker 1: to have. Everybody and their brother. On your show. You
- 39:59Speaker 1: go right ahead. You go right ahead. But I'm going
- 40:05Speaker 1: to show you guys. The type of people. That this show.
- 40:12Speaker 1: Cypher Pass has on their show.
- 40:17Speaker 3: So.
- 40:23Speaker 1: Let's talk about guests for a minute. You know, a
- 40:29Speaker 1: very quick Google of somebody that you ask to come
- 40:34Speaker 1: on your show or who fanboys you to death till
- 40:37Speaker 1: you ask him to come on your show and is
- 40:40Speaker 1: a self-proclaimed JFK assassination expert. Maybe a simple Google search
- 40:50Speaker 1: of who they actually are might be called for here.
- 40:57Speaker 1: Let me show you why. Here we go.
- 41:07Speaker 6: An author and aspiring actor from Tombstone is in the
- 41:10Speaker 6: Cochise County Jail accused of a strange and disturbing crime.
- 41:14Speaker 6: Tim Fadig is charged with connection with his own mother's
- 41:16Speaker 6: death and keeping her body in his home. KOLD News
- 41:20Speaker 6: 13's Soma Saez has the developing story from Tombstone.
- 41:24Speaker 3: It's absolutely repulsive, first off, and then just sad. I
- 41:27Speaker 3: don't understand how someone could do that to your mom.
- 41:29Speaker 3: It's just disgusting. That's a sick-minded individual.
- 41:33Speaker 4: Strong words over a story few people even feel comfortable
- 41:36Speaker 4: talking about. 34-year-old Tim Fadig arrested in connection with his
- 41:39Speaker 4: mother's death. This after authorities forced their way into the
- 41:42Speaker 4: family's tombstone home and found the skeletal remains of 68-year-old
- 41:46Speaker 4: Jill Fadig inside.
- 41:47Speaker 3: From what I understand, the woman died like a year ago,
- 41:50Speaker 3: and he's just kept the body in his house this
- 41:52Speaker 3: entire time.
- 41:53Speaker 4: Seen here in a YouTube video, Tim Fadig was a
- 41:56Speaker 4: street performer who worked regular reenactments at the OK Corral.
- 41:59Speaker 4: He also authored a book about Wyatt Earp. But today,
- 42:02Speaker 4: Fadig is known around town as the guy who couldn't
- 42:04Speaker 4: or wouldn't let go of his dead mother. The reason
- 42:07Speaker 4: why is anyone's guess.
- 42:09Speaker 5: I don't even understand how you could, how no one,
- 42:11Speaker 5: like if the town knows you, how does, how is
- 42:14Speaker 5: no one.
- 42:16Speaker 1: Must be one of Joe's long-lost cousins, Carrie Borelli. Hi, Joe.
- 42:21Speaker 5: Aware that your mother is dead in your house.
- 42:24Speaker 4: Whatever the case may be, Faddick sits in the Cochise
- 42:26Speaker 4: County Jail, charged in connection with his mother's death. As
- 42:29Speaker 4: for Tombstone, we found that a lot of people really
- 42:31Speaker 4: didn't even want to acknowledge what had happened here. When
- 42:34Speaker 4: we asked why, the answer we received more than once was, well,
- 42:37Speaker 4: it's just none of your business.
- 42:39Speaker 5: A lot of people, they know everybody here, so I
- 42:41Speaker 5: feel like there's a sense of... family, and I'm sure
- 42:44Speaker 5: they're feeling a little protective of him, you know, regardless
- 42:47Speaker 5: of how bizarre and weird it is, especially if he
- 42:51Speaker 5: didn't actually kill her.
- 42:53Speaker 6: That was Sonal Esaias reporting from Tombstone. Tim Faddick sits
- 42:56Speaker 6: in the Cochise County Jail tonight under suspicion of negligent homicide.
- 43:00Speaker 6: An autopsy will be performed on his mother on Monday.
- 43:07Speaker 1: Can you say Norman Bates? Jesus Christ. So, he shows JFK, historian, research,
- 43:22Speaker 1: and expert, let his mom rot in the house for
- 43:30Speaker 1: a year.
- 43:31Speaker 4: Wow.
- 43:36Speaker 1: Wow.
- 43:41Speaker 3: Wow.
- 43:43Speaker 1: Again, especially odd. Like the lady said, you know, if
- 43:46Speaker 1: you didn't kill her, that's kind of odd behavior. If
- 43:52Speaker 1: you did kill her, it kind of makes sense. But
- 43:58Speaker 1: I digress.
- 44:01Speaker 5: So.
- 44:08Speaker 1: Let's take a look at this from Tucson.com. The tombstone
- 44:14Speaker 1: man was arrested Wednesday after authorities found the decomposed body
- 44:17Speaker 1: of a woman believed to be his mother inside her home.
- 44:21Speaker 1: The tombstone marshal's office received a call Wednesday to do
- 44:23Speaker 1: a welfare check on Jill Fatig, 68, at her home
- 44:27Speaker 1: in Tombstone, said Marshal Billy Cloud. A deputy went to
- 44:31Speaker 1: the home, but when no one answered the door, he
- 44:33Speaker 1: went to question the woman's son, Timothy. Fatig, 34, told
- 44:37Speaker 1: the deputy that his mother was at a hospital in Tucson.
- 44:42Speaker 1: so he lies to the police about where his mother is.
- 44:46Speaker 1: When the deputy found that this was not the case,
- 44:48Speaker 1: he went back to Fatig, who eventually said that his
- 44:51Speaker 1: mother had died about a year ago, and after obtaining
- 44:54Speaker 1: a search warrant, deputies found the skeletal remains of a
- 44:59Speaker 1: woman inside Jill Fatig's home. Timothy Fatig was arrested on
- 45:04Speaker 1: suspicion of negligent homicide and booked into the Cochise County
- 45:09Speaker 1: Jail on a $ 40, 000 bond. Fatigue told deputies that when
- 45:15Speaker 1: he found his mother dead, he was so overcome with
- 45:17Speaker 1: grief that he just never reported her death. Fatigue had
- 45:23Speaker 1: been telling people around Tombstone for months that his mother
- 45:26Speaker 1: was in a hospital in Tucson. If an autopsy finds
- 45:30Speaker 1: that the woman died of natural causes, any charge against
- 45:33Speaker 1: Fatigue would likely be downgraded to failure to report a death,
- 45:36Speaker 1: which is a misdemeanor. Blah, blah, blah. Fadig is an
- 45:41Speaker 1: author and historian. He wrote a biography about Wyatt Earp.
- 45:49Speaker 1: Does any part of that story seem normal to you?
- 45:55Speaker 1: And not like psycho creepy Norman Bates. Mother?
- 46:00Speaker 4: Mother?
- 46:02Speaker 1: Are you still there, Mother?
- 46:03Speaker 2: Mm-hmm.
- 46:09Speaker 1: Oh, but that's not the end of the story. Of
- 46:15Speaker 1: course not. Of course not. Why would it be the
- 46:19Speaker 1: end of the story? So, charges against a tombstone man
- 46:26Speaker 1: and mom's death have been dropped. Charges have been dropped
- 46:30Speaker 1: against a man whose mother was found dead. Author and
- 46:32Speaker 1: actor Timothy Fatig was arrested last week after his mother
- 46:36Speaker 1: was found in her home more than a year after
- 46:38Speaker 1: she died. Autopsy results on 68-year-old Jill Fatigue showed no
- 46:43Speaker 1: signs of foul play and prosecutors are dropping the case.
- 46:48Speaker 1: Tombstone Marshal Billy Cloud says Fatigue, after finding his mother's body,
- 46:52Speaker 1: locked her home and left because he was so distraught.
- 46:56Speaker 1: He is a street performer who worked on regular reenactments
- 46:59Speaker 1: at the OK Corral. How do you do an autopsy?
- 47:10Speaker 1: On a skeleton. Is my question. And how can you determine.
- 47:16Speaker 1: Based on just a skeleton. That there was no foul play.
- 47:25Speaker 1: I don't know. I don't know. To me there's a
- 47:30Speaker 1: lot of questions that need to be answered here. But
- 47:35Speaker 1: it sounds like he was a good old boy. In
- 47:38Speaker 1: Arizona with the. In this tight knit small community. But
- 47:48Speaker 1: he weathered the storm. Despite being. Norman Bates. Coming close
- 47:54Speaker 1: to being charged with homicide. Being jailed because of it.
- 47:59Speaker 1: You'd think that that would. Tend to straighten somebody out
- 48:03Speaker 1: a little bit. Right? Not old Tim. Not old Tim. Because, oh,
- 48:15Speaker 1: let's see here. About six years after that, former OK
- 48:25Speaker 1: Corral show director indicted for embezzlement. A former show director
- 48:33Speaker 1: of the OK Corral has been indicted by a grand
- 48:35Speaker 1: jury for Nearly three years after the Tombstone Marshal's office
- 48:39Speaker 1: began investigating what was initially believed to be the theft
- 48:41Speaker 1: of a couple thousand dollars, but quickly grew in scope
- 48:46Speaker 1: to nearly 185,000. But just remember, that number is going
- 48:51Speaker 1: to grow here in a little bit too. Timothy Wayne
- 48:54Speaker 1: Fadig was arraigned last week on felony charges of money laundering, theft,
- 48:58Speaker 1: and two counts of fraudulent schemes. He has been ordered
- 49:02Speaker 1: by presiding judge Timothy Dickerson to return to Cochise Superior
- 49:05Speaker 1: Court on April 5th for a trial hearing. Fatig, 44,
- 49:10Speaker 1: became the OK Corral show director in 2014 after he
- 49:14Speaker 1: got out of jail for failure to report his mother's
- 49:18Speaker 1: death in 2011. or 2012, after working for parent company
- 49:23Speaker 1: Tombstone Historama Corporation for several years. He was terminated in
- 49:28Speaker 1: February 2018 after Robert Love, the company president, initiated a
- 49:33Speaker 1: series of sting operations to determine why revenues were far
- 49:36Speaker 1: short of expected ticket sales during the busy tourist season.
- 49:42Speaker 1: A March 7, 2018 statement issued by then-Marshal Bob Randall
- 49:46Speaker 1: noted fatigue admitted to investigators the day before to stealing $ 4, 000
- 49:50Speaker 1: to $ 5, 000. That's it. Over an 18-month period, however, the
- 49:56Speaker 1: TMO investigation quickly identified dozens of transactions dating back to
- 50:00Speaker 1: January 2017 in which fatigue appeared to have embezzled at
- 50:04Speaker 1: least $ 185, 000. The matter was eventually referred to the Arizona
- 50:09Speaker 1: Attorney General's Office due to the scope of the additional
- 50:12Speaker 1: examination needed going back to 2014. In the meantime, Tombstone
- 50:17Speaker 1: Historama filed a lawsuit in 2018 against Fatigue seeking civil
- 50:22Speaker 1: judgment for financial damages. Love testified in 2019 hearing in
- 50:28Speaker 1: Dickerson's courtroom that he began to suspect something was awry
- 50:32Speaker 1: with revenues in late 2017. Then in early 2018, he
- 50:36Speaker 1: came to believe that Fatigue was underreporting ticket sales, which
- 50:40Speaker 1: allowed cash to be removed from the register. In February 2018,
- 50:45Speaker 1: Love enlisted the help of a trusted employee to surreptitiously
- 50:48Speaker 1: count ticket stubs following several shows. Revenues for one show
- 50:52Speaker 1: appeared to have been underreported by 45 ticket stubs, or $ 450.
- 50:58Speaker 1: Another thing revealed the underreporting of 84 ticket stubs for
- 51:01Speaker 1: a loss to the company of $ 840. 00. Fatigue did not
- 51:06Speaker 1: file a formal answer to the lawsuit, nor did he
- 51:10Speaker 1: appear in court for the hearing, because, you know, probably
- 51:13Speaker 1: didn't give a fuck. Sounds like the kind of guy
- 51:16Speaker 1: he is. Love testified he later received an apology letter
- 51:20Speaker 1: from Fatigue via email. Hey, sorry I stole a bunch
- 51:23Speaker 1: of money from you, man. Fatigue's bank records played an
- 51:28Speaker 1: integral part in the civil case and are expected to
- 51:31Speaker 1: be key evidence in the criminal prosecutions. A forensic accountant
- 51:36Speaker 1: testified in the civil case that these bank records showed
- 51:39Speaker 1: regular ATM cash deposits into Fatigue's account unrelated to the
- 51:43Speaker 1: timing or amount of his paychecks. The cash deposits ended
- 51:48Speaker 1: when Fatigue was fired and amounted to $ 481, 063, stemming from
- 51:51Speaker 1: 2014 to February 2018. So in the course of four years...
- 52:05Speaker 1: he stole $ 481, 000. The accountant also testified that neither he
- 52:13Speaker 1: nor investigators could identify any other source of income or
- 52:16Speaker 1: financial resources fatigue had access to. Well, maybe he was
- 52:20Speaker 1: cashing his mom's social security checks, you know, after she
- 52:23Speaker 1: was dead and he didn't report her. Because that kind
- 52:28Speaker 1: of thing kind of sends off alarm bells. You know,
- 52:31Speaker 1: if you keep getting Social Security checks and they never
- 52:35Speaker 1: get cashed, it raises a red flag. So, was he
- 52:40Speaker 1: cashing his mom's Social Security checks too? I mean, Jesus.
- 52:48Speaker 1: Dickerson also heard the testimony of a $ 14, 000 cash loan
- 52:52Speaker 1: Fatigue made to a co-worker who was buying a house.
- 52:55Speaker 1: Fatigue took no action to collect on the co-worker's loan
- 52:58Speaker 1: or claim the debt as his own, so the judge
- 53:00Speaker 1: added the $ 14, 000 to the ATM deposits for total damages
- 53:04Speaker 1: of $ 495, 000. Wow. Court records show the employee is voluntarily
- 53:13Speaker 1: repaying that loan directly to Tombstone Historama. However, fatigue has
- 53:20Speaker 1: made no direct payments toward the judgment, shocker, except for
- 53:25Speaker 1: what has been ordered by the court to come out
- 53:27Speaker 1: of his earnings, as in a garnishment on his wages.
- 53:32Speaker 1: The Cochise County Sheriff's Deputy served Fatig with the indictment
- 53:36Speaker 1: on February 4th while working at the Oriental Saloon in Tombstone.
- 53:41Speaker 1: He is out of custody on his own recognizance and
- 53:44Speaker 1: is awaiting assignment of an attorney. Yeah, because he can't
- 53:48Speaker 1: afford one, allegedly. Through the Cochise County Indigent Defense Program.
- 53:55Speaker 1: Despite the fact that he just stole half a million dollars.
- 54:00Speaker 1: He can't afford an attorney. You can't make this shit up, folks.
- 54:10Speaker 1: But wait, there's more. Now this is as of last year,
- 54:25Speaker 1: July 28th, 2025. OK Corral embezzler still hasn't served agreed
- 54:33Speaker 1: to jail term. A tombstone man who pleaded guilty in
- 54:39Speaker 1: 2021 to fraudulently scheming nearly $ 500, 000 from the owner of
- 54:46Speaker 1: the OK Corral reenactment show. Now, of course, if I
- 54:54Speaker 1: were to click on this, the rest of the story
- 54:58Speaker 1: is behind the paywall. And I ain't paying for it.
- 55:04Speaker 1: But as of last year, and I don't know what
- 55:06Speaker 1: kind of, I might move to Arizona, man. You know,
- 55:11Speaker 1: he still hasn't served his agreed to jail term. I
- 55:15Speaker 1: just don't feel like coming in yet. Maybe next year
- 55:18Speaker 1: I'll show up. Maybe the year after that I'll come in.
- 55:24Speaker 1: Maybe next month. Maybe next year. They seem awfully lenient.
- 55:30Speaker 1: On old Norman Bates over there. In Tucson. Just saying.
- 55:52Speaker 1: I was going to play a video for you. But
- 55:57Speaker 1: I'll just direct you to it. Because I don't want
- 56:03Speaker 1: to have to take this video down for some stupid reason.
- 56:11Speaker 1: But four days ago, there was a video, a clip
- 56:15Speaker 1: posted with Tim Fatig called Oswald's Job at the Book
- 56:20Speaker 1: Depository Staged? Over on CypherPast channel. There's a lot of
- 56:35Speaker 1: very vague observations. Observations that really don't mean anything. And
- 56:46Speaker 1: just wrong facts presented in this very short four minute clip.
- 56:49Speaker 1: If this is the kind of stuff that you want
- 56:54Speaker 1: to watch. Because I don't. I don't. But if this
- 57:02Speaker 1: is the kind of stuff you want to watch, have
- 57:05Speaker 1: at it. But if you want document-based research, informed hosts, well,
- 57:17Speaker 1: you know, and not recycled, reject guests from around the
- 57:28Speaker 1: podcast sphere, of so-called JFK experts who put out a
- 57:35Speaker 1: book 20 years ago, then by all means, enjoy that show.
- 57:50Speaker 1: But I would hope that they would at least have
- 57:54Speaker 1: a little cooth. And come clean. About their subscriber count.
- 58:06Speaker 1: Like a mea culpa. If you will. Because I don't think.
- 58:14Speaker 1: That is an organic. Ethical. Channel growth. And when you
- 58:19Speaker 1: do things like that. It's cheating. It's deceptive. You're deceiving
- 58:24Speaker 1: your audience. And when you can deceive your audience. About
- 58:28Speaker 1: such trivial shit as that. and not care enough about
- 58:32Speaker 1: your own brand or your own show or your own
- 58:35Speaker 1: channel as to actually do things the right way, then
- 58:41Speaker 1: what do you think they actually care about you, the viewer?
- 58:48Speaker 1: When they have no problem at all putting on Norman
- 58:52Speaker 1: Bates and dressing him up as a JFK researcher on
- 58:54Speaker 1: their show or having Corey Hughes on their show. I mean,
- 59:05Speaker 1: it is what it is. And change your goddamn thumbnail.
- 59:13Speaker 1: And quit biting our shit. Anyway. That's it for me, folks.
- 59:22Speaker 1: I can't do it anymore. My Labor Day weekend was
- 59:32Speaker 1: good up until now. And it was bad for an hour.
- 59:39Speaker 1: But now it's going to get good again. Because I've
- 59:43Speaker 1: said what I had to say about this subject, and
- 59:46Speaker 1: you're not going to hear anything more about it from me.
- 59:50Speaker 1: I don't have to look at this channel's growth every
- 59:54Speaker 1: week and shake my head and be like, how is
- 59:55Speaker 1: this possible? How is this possible to gain 2,000 subscribers
- 1:00:00Speaker 1: in a week? When you have no viral content whatsoever.
- 1:00:05Speaker 1: You must be paying for it. And to all those.
- 1:00:09Speaker 1: Guys over in India. And China. Who have. Been voraciously.
- 1:00:17Speaker 1: Subscribing to the Cypher Pass channel. I don't know what
- 1:00:20Speaker 1: they do here. But I just hit subscribe. Subscribe. Subscribe. Subscribe. Subscribe. Subscribe. Subscribe.
- 1:00:32Speaker 1: Those guys are the real heroes. Anything for a buck.
- 1:00:38Speaker 1: Anything for a buck. Alright, folks. That's it for me.
- 1:00:45Speaker 1: You've been watching Scafusa TV. Random Research Ramblings with Rob.
- 1:00:51Speaker 1: And we'll see you next time. Peace! Random Research Ramblings,
- 1:00:58Speaker 1: we're up!
- 1:00:59Speaker 2: Random Research Ramblings, we're up!
- 1:01:03Speaker 1: JFK questions one by one, talk it out, the day
- 1:01:08Speaker 1: ain't done. Random Research Ramblings, we're up!