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Is There Still Gold At Fort Knox? · Conspiracy! The Show

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  Speaker 1: Welcome to Conspiracy The Show with your hosts Adam Todd
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  Speaker 2: Hey, everybody, welcome to Conspiracy The Show. I'm your host,
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  Speaker 2: Adam Todd Brown. Welcome back to, Welcome back to, Welcome
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  Speaker 2: babym hmm. Thank you for listening. This is a free episode,
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  Speaker 2: so it's going out to the entire world danger. How
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  Speaker 2: are you tell the people who might have no fucking
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  Speaker 2: idea who you are a little bit about yourself.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, I'm thirty two years old. I am the I'm
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  Speaker 3: the host least likely.
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  Speaker 2: Hell yeah, the host least likely to be on this
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  Speaker 2: show because I believe in the fundamental goodness of all
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  Speaker 2: people and including the United States government. Oh that's an
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  Speaker 2: entity and not people. See, that's that's what because I
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  Speaker 2: get the sense that you're a little more on the
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  Speaker 2: skeptic side when it comes to conspiracies, to some conspiracies,
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  Speaker 2: but certainly to me, just kind of a blind trust
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  Speaker 2: in the US government. Are Yeah, stop the clock. No
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  Speaker 2: one's saying blind trust.
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  Speaker 3: I mean we're supposed to openly question these things all
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  Speaker 3: the time and say like, hey, uh, maybe we all
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  Speaker 3: need to to.
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  Speaker 2: But are you the type that until someone holds up
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  Speaker 2: a piece of paper with government stamped on top that
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  Speaker 2: says this happened. You strike me as the type who's like, now,
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  Speaker 2: that probably didn't happen. Yeah, I guess that's fair. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: but why, like, what is it about the US government
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  Speaker 2: that would make you always give them the benefits?
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  Speaker 4: Oh?
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  Speaker 2: I misunderstood you.
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  Speaker 3: No, I I know I've read too much history, uh
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  Speaker 3: and listen to too many quality podcasts to take a
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  Speaker 3: lot of things at face value when they're like it
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  Speaker 3: was a ghast league.
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  Speaker 2: Well maybe they were testing something they shouldn't have.
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  Speaker 3: You know, there's a lot of there's a lot of
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  Speaker 3: silly things that have happened in history, like an atomic
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  Speaker 3: bomb being dropped on the East coast of the United
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  Speaker 3: States by the US military accidentally, uh huh, that you
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  Speaker 3: don't really hear about all that often because that's the
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  Speaker 3: kind of thing that we don't We don't always end
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  Speaker 3: up looking good or rather, the the America that you
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  Speaker 3: and I love, yeah, wholeheartedly, my country tisfathy. We don't
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  Speaker 3: always end up looking super great on that on those replays.
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  Speaker 3: So sometimes there's some stuff they don't want to remember.
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  Speaker 2: The war in Iraq is a really interesting thing to
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  Speaker 2: me because that at its core is a conspiracy. Like
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  Speaker 2: I went to war based on faulty information, and we
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  Speaker 2: lied about that information after we knew it was faulty.
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  Speaker 3: Well, I think enough of the American public accepted a lie.
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  Speaker 3: You know, it's always like we lied, Well, we didn't lie,
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  Speaker 3: we just accept a lot of people said that, like Donald.
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  Speaker 2: Rumsfeld said it was fine, but it was fine, But
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  Speaker 2: there's still a whole half of the country that would
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  Speaker 2: be like, no, they said weapons of mass destruction, and
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  Speaker 2: that's why we went.
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  Speaker 3: Right even though there was no weapons of mass destruction.
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  Speaker 3: There was no yellow So what's.
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  Speaker 2: The difference between someone who objected to how the Iraq
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  Speaker 2: War was carried out and a conspiracy theorist, Because if
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  Speaker 2: we every every argument would apply, because one thing you
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  Speaker 2: always hear from people who immediately shoot down conspiracy theories
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  Speaker 2: is oh, well, so many people would have to lie.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I guess it's just the there are degrees of outlandissness,
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  Speaker 3: because when I hear conspiracy theory, that's like, uh, you know,
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  Speaker 3: I did a I did research on crop circles back
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  Speaker 3: in the back, and it's like, crop circles are a prank.
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  Speaker 3: Crop circles are a really elaborate prank that people use
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  Speaker 3: using that people create using a planka wood and some
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  Speaker 3: rope and a little bit in a decent understanding of geometry,
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  Speaker 3: and they're like someone that I would say call a
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  Speaker 3: conspiracy theorist would be like no, no, no, no, aliens
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  Speaker 3: put those there bro aliens put those there, and that's
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  Speaker 3: proof that those are like hidden messages and Nishiamalan signs.
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  Speaker 3: Watch it and I'm like, no, no, no, I've done
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  Speaker 3: like I've looked into it. It's seriously just kids who
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  Speaker 3: like geometry.
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  Speaker 2: But see, then you have to put yourself in the
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  Speaker 2: shoes of a person who has research to conspiracy theory.
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  Speaker 2: Like my favorite JFK conspiracy theory is that he was
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  Speaker 2: accidentally killed by the Secret Service when they were responding
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  Speaker 2: to Lee Harvey Oswald's shooting. And the guy who came
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  Speaker 2: up with that theory one is a ballistics expert. Two,
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  Speaker 2: he's the only person when CBS did their recreation of
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  Speaker 2: the JFK shooting, he's the only person who successfully got
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  Speaker 2: all three shots off. And after he did it, he
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  Speaker 2: was like, no one could have actually done this under
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  Speaker 2: those circumstances. He was like, I'm lucky that I was.
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  Speaker 2: And they had like fifteen different people try to get
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  Speaker 2: these shots off and only one guy did, and that
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  Speaker 2: guy was so convinced that it couldn't have happened that way.
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  Speaker 2: He spent the next fifteen years researching ballistics evidence in
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  Speaker 2: all of this shit from the JFK assassination, and came
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  Speaker 2: to this conclusion that the bullet that killed him was
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  Speaker 2: fired by a Secret Service agent who stood up because
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  Speaker 2: he heard Lee Harvey Oswald shooting and started to look
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  Speaker 2: around to see who he needed to shoot, and the
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  Speaker 2: car he was in accelerated. He fell back accidentally fired
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  Speaker 2: this shot. Now that conspiracy theory one, it validates everyone
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  Speaker 2: else who thinks it was in a conspiracy because in
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  Speaker 2: that case, yes, Lee Harvey Oswald was technically the only shooter.
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  Speaker 2: And then the question of oh, but they could cover
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  Speaker 2: it up this long the Secret Service, they got SECT
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  Speaker 2: written their name, they can cover that up for the
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  Speaker 2: rest of their lives. Pal, but so that you don't
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  Speaker 2: want to be your job that a president dies. But
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  Speaker 2: so then the crop circles thing You're like, well, no,
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  Speaker 2: I've researched it, and it's a joke. Well that guy's
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  Speaker 2: researched this JFK thing, Okay, but I think it's still
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  Speaker 2: kind of treated as a joke. He's got very both
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  Speaker 2: of the Jay both of the Kennedy assassinations, there is
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  Speaker 2: very weird evidence like the the I don't know if
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  Speaker 2: you've looked into the Bobby Kennedy assassination. Honestly, it breaks
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  Speaker 2: my heart so much I don't even want to. Well,
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  Speaker 2: the most heartbreaking thing is every witness reports Sir Hans
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  Speaker 2: Sirhan pointing at Bobby Kennedy kind of from the distance
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  Speaker 2: I am from you and just firing six shots. The
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  Speaker 2: shot that killed Bobby Kennedy went behind his ear from
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  Speaker 2: close range. There were gunpowder burns on his ear. Sir Han.
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  Speaker 2: Sirhan did not get close enough at any point to
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  Speaker 2: fire the shot that killed Bobby Kennedy. Yanks and it's
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  Speaker 2: I don't know.
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  Speaker 3: So this is another Secret Service agent who was so
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  Speaker 3: bad at what they were. So you're trying to tell
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  Speaker 3: me a good guy with a gun couldn't stop a
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  Speaker 3: bad guy.
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  Speaker 2: With well, the Secret Service agent in this case they
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  Speaker 2: at the time, they didn't give Secret Service protection to
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  Speaker 2: presidential candidates. So he was actually being escorted through the
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  Speaker 2: kitchen by a security guard with known extreme right leanings,
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  Speaker 2: which not the person you want escorting Bobby Kennedy through
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  Speaker 2: a kitchen. Nope, but that's not what we're talking about.
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  Speaker 3: I just I will say I've seen I've seen the
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  Speaker 3: security detail around Bernie Sanders these days, and it's six
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  Speaker 3: dudes who could very easily pick me up with one hand.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I figured it'd just be like Killer Mike, and
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  Speaker 2: it's you know what it's.
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  Speaker 3: I think it's Killer Mike and and the and the
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  Speaker 3: five other Killers Mike.
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  Speaker 2: You know. But so yeah, with these guest episodes, I've
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  Speaker 2: been trying to yeah, no, and that's fair, and reach
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  Speaker 2: out in and see what people's I think, general temperature.
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  Speaker 2: Like with John Fahean and Vanessa Gritton, I knew going
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  Speaker 2: in right away they were very gung ho about what
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  Speaker 2: we were talking about, so I didn't have to ask.
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  Speaker 3: I think my point or my perspective is that like
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  Speaker 3: these things have to be taken on a case by
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  Speaker 3: case basis because sometimes, yeah, like there is some super
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  Speaker 3: some super suspicious things, some really shady things, and unfortunately,
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  Speaker 3: just like the nature of life is that we don't
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  Speaker 3: get all the answers. And when there's not something really satisfactory,
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  Speaker 3: something that we can directly prove, then like people want
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  Speaker 3: to feel special, so they go on, they go off
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  Speaker 3: into all sorts of crazy directions, trying to research, trying
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  Speaker 3: to be trying to prove something. You know, there is
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  Speaker 3: a confirmation bias that happens with a lot of these
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  Speaker 3: kinds of things. And you know, if you were to
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  Speaker 3: tell me that, like JK was assassinated by accidents by
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  Speaker 3: his own guys, and RFK was assassinated by two guys
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  Speaker 3: that sort of like put their heads together, or or
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  Speaker 3: maybe just like dudes saw a moment of opportunity. It
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  Speaker 3: was like, fuck, I might as well not care about
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  Speaker 3: my job so much that I'll shoot at surans are
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  Speaker 3: on but to miss and hit my boss. Yeah, yeah,
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  Speaker 3: that's that's believable, you know, but I's you know, there
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  Speaker 3: are some grander things out there, Like there are grander
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  Speaker 3: things out there that like, our lives are so complicated, right,
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  Speaker 3: and we've only got so much ram, you know, we've
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  Speaker 3: only got so much spoons, and like the conspiracy thing
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  Speaker 3: is where you know, like the whole and there's other
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  Speaker 3: stuff like that immediately discredits the notion of a conspiracy theorist,
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  Speaker 3: like the Birther thing, like something that's so easily disprovable
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  Speaker 3: that's like hey, jerks, like here you go, or like
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  Speaker 3: the that silly shit with like uh, there's there's a
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  Speaker 3: child porn ring run out of a pizza joint in
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  Speaker 3: DC and all those liberals that you that you hate,
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  Speaker 3: you know, the storm emoji, like like that ship is bonkers,
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  Speaker 3: you know, right, and that like that kind of stuff
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  Speaker 3: tends to be almost more of a misinformation, fake news
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  Speaker 3: kind of thing, like especially confirmation bias. You know how
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  Speaker 3: you know how you feel about Hillary Clinton, and you
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  Speaker 3: feel that Hillary Clinton is a monster, and you then
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  Speaker 3: believe that, oh yeah, then she probably would run this
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  Speaker 3: horrible child like look, however you feel about Hillary Clinton,
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  Speaker 3: like like it's some silly shit.
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  Speaker 2: Just yeah, like that one's silly. We talked about Ruby
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  Speaker 2: Ridge last week, and I think that's familiar. Ruby Ridge.
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  Speaker 2: It was a siege by the US government where they
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  Speaker 2: basically shot a woman in a head in the head,
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  Speaker 2: killed a guy's son and his dog because the guy
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  Speaker 2: didn't show up to court for a warrant for selling
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  Speaker 2: sawed off shotguns to an undercover agent who probably entrapped
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  Speaker 2: him into selling those guns. And we have history has
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  Speaker 2: pretty much written the people at Ruby Ridge off as
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  Speaker 2: these crazy right wing extremists, which they were, but they
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  Speaker 2: also weren't doing anything. Oh, they weren't bothering anybody. They
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  Speaker 2: just refused to snitch on the Area Nations group that
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  Speaker 2: lived fifteen miles away from them. So the FBI really
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  Speaker 2: fucking cracked down. And the thing is that segment of
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  Speaker 2: CII cracked down on white supremacists. That's a no. They well, yes,
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  Speaker 2: but in the form of refreshing Randy and Vicky Weaver,
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  Speaker 2: who were doing Vicky Weaver was holding her baby when
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  Speaker 2: she got shot in the head by an FBI sniper
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  Speaker 2: and the entire family was running back toward the cabin.
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  Speaker 2: They did not pose a threat to anyone. But what
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  Speaker 2: we brought up then was the new World Order, Like
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  Speaker 2: that's a conspiracy theory that you heard a lot in
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  Speaker 2: the nineties from these right wing types and they were like,
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  Speaker 2: the government is fucking arming the police. The police are
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  Speaker 2: becoming a new military and they're gonna come get us,
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  Speaker 2: and we were like whatever, But it also happened, like
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  Speaker 2: the police, militarization of the police. Militarization of the police
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  Speaker 2: did happen, and it came to them those people first.
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  Speaker 2: It just hasn't affected them lately. So what yeah, I mean,
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  Speaker 2: that's I don't know what that has to do. First,
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  Speaker 2: they came for the right wing wing nuts and I
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  Speaker 2: said nothing, Well, that's I mean, is it that like
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  Speaker 2: when they were saying, Hey, the police are getting militarized
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  Speaker 2: and they're turning into a new army, and we were like,
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  Speaker 2: shut up, gun nuts. And now every small town police
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  Speaker 2: department has a tank. Right, So I had a tank
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  Speaker 2: on my street when there was like an actual tank
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  Speaker 2: parked on my apartment like where my apartment block is, uh,
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  Speaker 2: because there was a basically a big fun run. We
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  Speaker 2: have this Syiclavia Ciclavia like a bicycle deal in in
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  Speaker 2: downtown Glendale at one point, and there was goddamn tank
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  Speaker 2: sitting right there, Like why do we need that? We
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  Speaker 2: don't need a tank here because of the New World
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  Speaker 2: Order Bruh. I preferred WWE at the time. Come on,
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  Speaker 2: you know I don't mean wrestling. Yeah, get out of here.
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  Speaker 2: I won't. So we're talking about one of those those
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  Speaker 2: conspiracies today that is almost impossible to come to a
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  Speaker 2: conclusion on because for one thing, we're talking, well, we're
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  Speaker 2: talking about Fort Knox and the conspiracy as to whether
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  Speaker 2: there is even still gold in Fort Knox or if
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  Speaker 2: we just sold that shit, and we lying.
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  Speaker 3: To a lot of heist movies that kind of rely
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  Speaker 3: on there being gold and Fort Knox.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, so there must be gold there. The heist movies
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  Speaker 2: are relying on it. I love a movie. You know
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  Speaker 2: those movies don't take place inside Fort Knox. Oh, they
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  Speaker 2: build like there has not been it. There have been
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  Speaker 2: very few people allowed inside Fort Knox, which we'll talk
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  Speaker 2: about it. I wonder what's in Fort Knox. It's probably
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  Speaker 2: just empty rooms, palettes where gold used to be. I
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  Speaker 2: hope it's like lead spray painted gold and then you
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  Speaker 2: can be like, oh no, our alchemist went backwards. Yeah, exactly.
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  Speaker 2: So let's talk about some of the background on Fort Knox.
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  Speaker 2: I didn't know any of this. I know very little
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  Speaker 2: about Fort Knox. On April fifth, nineteen thirty three, President
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  Speaker 2: Franklin D. Roosevelt FDR Baby issued Executive Order sixty one
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  Speaker 2: h two quit governing through executive orders forbidding the hoarding
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  Speaker 2: of gold coin, gold bullion, and gold certificates within the
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  Speaker 2: continental United States. Give it up, danger, stop boarding your gold.
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  Speaker 3: This was thirty three, Man, when were the what did
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  Speaker 3: the Great Depression really really hit?
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  Speaker 2: That was the twenties, right, It was most of the twenties,
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  Speaker 2: I believe, so.
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  Speaker 3: I mean this was an effort to sort of shore
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  Speaker 3: up their existing capitol so that they could maybe make
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  Speaker 3: more loans and more investment.
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  Speaker 2: Right because at the time, the Federal Reserve Act of
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  Speaker 2: nineteen thirteen required forty percent gold backing of banknotes issued,
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  Speaker 2: So by the late twenties, the Federal Reserve was close
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  Speaker 2: to its allowable limit. So demanding that people sell their
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  Speaker 2: gold to the Federal Reserve would allow it to increase
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  Speaker 2: the money supply during the Great Depression. Okay, so wait
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  Speaker 2: did the did the depression start in the twenty I
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  Speaker 2: want to say it was like twenty nine, yeah, because
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  Speaker 2: it was twenty twenty nine kind of tied to the
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  Speaker 2: stock market crash, right, right, right, So yeah, it was.
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  Speaker 2: It would have been late twenties that let's started.
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  Speaker 3: So I mean it sounds like a little bit of
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  Speaker 3: a little bit of I mean, not socialism there, but
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  Speaker 3: like in the sense that like, hey, you're not allowed
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  Speaker 3: to have this resource anymore in gigantic amounts, you're not
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  Speaker 3: allowed to hoard will pay you for it, but you
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  Speaker 3: can't main you can't just keep it out of the
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  Speaker 3: public use.
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  Speaker 2: Right. It's basically the America we want to live in
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  Speaker 2: right now? Cool? I mean, depending on what side you're on,
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  Speaker 2: FDR was a pretty badass president. Yeah, he was fine.
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  Speaker 2: So the executive order required everyone to deliver their gold coins, bullion,
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  Speaker 2: and certificates to the Federal Reserve on or before May first,
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  Speaker 2: nineteen thirty three, in exchange for twenty dollars and sixty
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  Speaker 2: seven per troy ounce, equivalent to three hundred and ninety
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  Speaker 2: one dollars today. Do you know what a troy ounce is?
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  Speaker 2: I think it's the measurement for gold. All right, cool?
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  Speaker 2: I mean we can look it up. What is a
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  Speaker 2: troy ounce? Internet point zero six eight five seven one four.
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  Speaker 2: I mean it just kind of sounds like a nautical mile.
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  Speaker 2: Why don't we just it's the It's the official weight
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  Speaker 2: for precious metals. All right, you're happy now. That's according
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  Speaker 2: to J. M. Bullion. Uh huh. That guy's got a
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  Speaker 2: great name for being in the gold market or NAU. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: So there were a few exceptions. People were allowed to
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  Speaker 2: own up to one hundred dollars in gold coins and
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  Speaker 2: rare coins as well as gold used for quote, industry,
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  Speaker 2: profession or art were exempt.
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  Speaker 3: But this is just going after the hoarders, like the
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  Speaker 3: pretty much giant piles of gold.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's going after the Alex Jones types of today
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  Speaker 2: scrooges making doc silver all right, and the Gold Reserve
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  Speaker 2: Act of nineteen thirty four then require the Federal Reserve
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  Speaker 2: to transfer ownership of gold to the Treasury. And that
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  Speaker 2: part is going to become kind of important later. Okay,
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  Speaker 2: it comes up when we hear Ron Paul ranting, must
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  Speaker 2: we in front of the government. In exchange, the Treasury
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  Speaker 2: issued gold certificates to the Federal Reserve for the gold
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  Speaker 2: at a price of forty to twenty two per troy ounce,
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  Speaker 2: which is the statutory price of gold set by law
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  Speaker 2: and does not fluctuate with the market. Don't you try it, danger,
• 18:35
  Speaker 2: no fluctuations price, forty.
• 18:37
  Speaker 3: Two dollars per per ounce, statutory price. That's not really
• 18:42
  Speaker 3: a phrase I've heard that often. I've never heard of
• 18:46
  Speaker 3: a price being set by law without relationship to a market.
• 18:51
  Speaker 2: It's very very interesting that they would do that. Yeah,
• 18:54
  Speaker 2: and I think it's a defense measure of some sort
• 18:57
  Speaker 2: to keep the price from of gold just from completely
• 19:00
  Speaker 2: bottoming out. So they're okay with maybe missing out on
• 19:03
  Speaker 2: some on some good times, but they've ensured themselves against
• 19:09
  Speaker 2: a really significant collapse. That sounds like a pretty smart
• 19:12
  Speaker 2: way to go. Pretty good idea. All right, Feds, So
• 19:16
  Speaker 2: the government now has all this fucking gold and they
• 19:20
  Speaker 2: need someplace to put it. Have they considered Kentucky? They
• 19:24
  Speaker 2: did consider Kentucky. In fact, in nineteen thirty five, the
• 19:28
  Speaker 2: Treasury Department began construction on the United States Bullion Deposits. Sorry,
• 19:34
  Speaker 2: nothing bad ever happens with the depository completed in nineteen
• 19:38
  Speaker 2: thirty six. This fortified Vault building is located within the
• 19:41
  Speaker 2: one hundred and nine thousand acre Fort Knox Army Post
• 19:44
  Speaker 2: in Kentucky, at the intersection of Bullion Boulevard and Gold
• 19:49
  Speaker 2: Vault Road. What a great location. I bet they got
• 19:53
  Speaker 2: there and they were like, holy shit, do you see
• 19:55
  Speaker 2: those names of the suit bro to do that a purpose?
• 19:58
  Speaker 2: This is a sign you need to set up shop here,
• 20:02
  Speaker 2: And they did. I wonder what was that the intersection
• 20:05
  Speaker 2: of Gold Bullioned Boulevard and Vault Road before? I think
• 20:10
  Speaker 2: it was just like a piece of joint product. Did
• 20:13
  Speaker 2: one of the better laundromats in town?
• 20:15
  Speaker 5: Yeah?
• 20:15
  Speaker 3: Circle, Yeah, they had like they had like the decent
• 20:18
  Speaker 3: teenage min inst Turtles video game, you know, not the first,
• 20:20
  Speaker 3: like the second probably a pawn shop that was pawn
• 20:23
  Speaker 3: shop that had yeah, I got some I got a
• 20:25
  Speaker 3: bike there once.
• 20:26
  Speaker 2: Yeah, no, it's fine, So it's fine if nothing else,
• 20:29
  Speaker 2: perfect location for this. They nailed it there. Eventually, of course,
• 20:34
  Speaker 2: we abandoned the gold standard, which is a big part
• 20:37
  Speaker 2: of this conspiracy, because that was that was kind of
• 20:41
  Speaker 2: why we needed the gold, because our money was backed
• 20:44
  Speaker 2: by gold. You were supposed to be able to take
• 20:45
  Speaker 2: money and go to the government and say no, give
• 20:48
  Speaker 2: me gold instead. It's easier to carry around. It's heavy,
• 20:52
  Speaker 2: but you can't do that anymore. Okay. So on December
• 20:57
  Speaker 2: thirty first, nineteen seventy four, under President Gerald Forward, private
• 21:02
  Speaker 2: gold ownership was once again legalized. Today, the Vault holds
• 21:07
  Speaker 2: one hundred and forty seven point three million ounces of gold,
• 21:11
  Speaker 2: allegedly divided between thirteen compartments, translating to one hundred and
• 21:17
  Speaker 2: eighty six billion dollars at current value. These particular gold
• 21:21
  Speaker 2: reserves are, as mentioned earlier, valued much lower at forty
• 21:25
  Speaker 2: two dollars and twenty two cents an ounce, primarily to
• 21:28
  Speaker 2: keep the balance sheet stable in case the price of
• 21:31
  Speaker 2: gold drops dramatically. So I just said that, Yeah, I'm
• 21:35
  Speaker 2: still having a hard time with this static price that
• 21:38
  Speaker 2: they've set so if they say our gold is valued
• 21:41
  Speaker 2: at forty two dollars like that, then that's what anyone
• 21:45
  Speaker 2: trying to buy that gold would have to pay to
• 21:48
  Speaker 2: get some of the gold. Or they're just saying like,
• 21:50
  Speaker 2: we have this value and we're going to wager or
• 21:52
  Speaker 2: we're going to build based off of the value of
• 21:55
  Speaker 2: this gold. But it's it's a set price to I
• 21:58
  Speaker 2: think to keep the value of gold for I'm bottoming out.
• 22:01
  Speaker 3: Okay. I'm an artist, man, I deal in feelings, not
• 22:05
  Speaker 3: in numbers. Okay to a degree.
• 22:07
  Speaker 2: Actually there's like Journey. Yeah, there's a lot of numbers
• 22:10
  Speaker 2: I live with in my life, especially how many albums
• 22:12
  Speaker 2: politics in my organizations, and then the album sales I
• 22:15
  Speaker 2: generally with Spotify sales, I'll get yes, no, but like
• 22:20
  Speaker 2: I get a check for like forty six dollars every
• 22:24
  Speaker 2: other month or so, Oh my god, am I going
• 22:26
  Speaker 2: to start getting money from Spotify for this podcast?
• 22:28
  Speaker 3: I mean, if you if you're downloaded and played and
• 22:30
  Speaker 3: enough enough regularity, amaze balls, Yes, truly would be amazing.
• 22:35
  Speaker 2: Al said that word in my life until right now,
• 22:37
  Speaker 2: and I'm going to edit that out. Adam said, amazed balls.
• 22:40
  Speaker 2: Everybody said Adam said, amazed balls. Adam said, amazed balls.
• 22:44
  Speaker 2: So let's talk about the security measures at this place.
• 22:47
  Speaker 2: They include a twenty ton blast proof door like in
• 22:51
  Speaker 2: the Last Jedi, exactly like in the Last yet twenty
• 22:55
  Speaker 2: five inch thick casing. Ohit that gets opened. Mine fields
• 22:59
  Speaker 2: just like the ones that took out Paul McCartney's ex
• 23:02
  Speaker 2: wife's leg. Wait what, Heather Mills, she only had one leg?
• 23:06
  Speaker 2: She had one, she lost mine. Now she got hit
• 23:09
  Speaker 2: by a car, but then she did all this campaigning
• 23:11
  Speaker 2: for mines. It's like, come on, I mean you no,
• 23:13
  Speaker 2: that's not how it happened. Okay, car have a mine
• 23:16
  Speaker 2: on front of it. I don't know. She was hanging out,
• 23:19
  Speaker 2: hit by a car and it explodes. I'd be like,
• 23:22
  Speaker 2: I didn't even realize I had this power.
• 23:23
  Speaker 3: Is a pinto Yeah, but like a bee, you only
• 23:26
  Speaker 3: get that power once, right.
• 23:27
  Speaker 2: Yeah. It also has electric fences and helicopter gun ships,
• 23:32
  Speaker 2: like one of my favorite Obama quotes because one thing
• 23:36
  Speaker 2: I've learned going because of helicopters. One thing I've learned
• 23:40
  Speaker 2: in researching conspiracy theories and especially researching Trump, is Obama
• 23:46
  Speaker 2: was no peach himself. He did a lot of awful
• 23:49
  Speaker 2: things that are still in place for Trump to use
• 23:51
  Speaker 2: to be awful with us. Also, yeah, not cool, not cool,
• 23:54
  Speaker 2: But one of my favorite quotes from him. I don't
• 23:57
  Speaker 2: remember who was interviewing him, but they asked about black helicopter,
• 24:00
  Speaker 2: which is black helicopters are a big New World Order thing.
• 24:03
  Speaker 2: They're like, they get they have these black helicopters, they
• 24:06
  Speaker 2: fly them around. And this person asked Obama about black
• 24:09
  Speaker 2: helicopters and if we have them, and he said, yes,
• 24:11
  Speaker 2: but that's not what they're for. Tell me what they're for, Obama,
• 24:17
  Speaker 2: son of a bitch.
• 24:19
  Speaker 3: Parties could be like, I mean, it's kind of expected,
• 24:23
  Speaker 3: but I mean you could basically bungee jump anywhere if
• 24:25
  Speaker 3: you have a helicopter.
• 24:26
  Speaker 2: Yep, maybe it's that. So they have helicopter gunships at
• 24:29
  Speaker 2: Fort Knox. Cool, that's neat. The Depository has also been
• 24:33
  Speaker 2: used to secure other historical items at various times. During
• 24:37
  Speaker 2: World War Two, it held the original Declaration of Independence
• 24:40
  Speaker 2: and the US Constitution until both were stolen by Nicholas
• 24:43
  Speaker 2: Cage in the early two thousands. Remember that, Nope, National Treasure,
• 24:48
  Speaker 2: don't care steals a Declaration of Independence to protect it,
• 24:51
  Speaker 2: I'm sure, no, no, I think you're selling it on eBay.
• 24:54
  Speaker 2: At one point, it also held millions of dollars worth
• 24:56
  Speaker 2: of morphine and opium in foreign supply was cut off.
• 25:03
  Speaker 2: I hope that's I hope it's all opium in Fort Knox.
• 25:07
  Speaker 2: Now what do you think, like bruh, how do you
• 25:10
  Speaker 2: think we got the opium we sold gold? Man?
• 25:13
  Speaker 3: What do you think evokes the most, like wistfulness from
• 25:16
  Speaker 3: the guards of Fort Knox when they're walking by the
• 25:19
  Speaker 3: unused helicopter gunship and they're.
• 25:21
  Speaker 2: Like, man, I hope somebody, Or when they're walking by
• 25:24
  Speaker 2: the vault with all the gold behind it, like maybe
• 25:26
  Speaker 2: they wouldn't miss a base, or when they're walking by
• 25:28
  Speaker 2: the vault with all of the morphine and opium in America,
• 25:31
  Speaker 2: Like what what gets those guards going?
• 25:33
  Speaker 4: Like?
• 25:33
  Speaker 2: Oh, what do you think?
• 25:35
  Speaker 3: What do you think gets them scheming the most? When
• 25:37
  Speaker 3: they're like on their break and they got the back
• 25:39
  Speaker 3: of like their their their bag and the like was
• 25:42
  Speaker 3: opium ever legal in.
• 25:44
  Speaker 2: The United States? Like why? What made what brought that
• 25:48
  Speaker 2: decision on opium? Man, I want to need this to
• 25:51
  Speaker 2: fund the Afghanistan war. Someday I want to say, well
• 25:55
  Speaker 2: morphine for sure was. Everything was was legal in the twenties,
• 26:00
  Speaker 2: Like everything was legal at the turn of the Center
• 26:02
  Speaker 2: and they're like, hey, you got you gotta headache. The
• 26:04
  Speaker 2: friends try some cocaine not addictive. Well, what's crazy about
• 26:09
  Speaker 2: that is we tried that with heroin. There was bear
• 26:12
  Speaker 2: actually produced heroin that was on store shelves for a while,
• 26:17
  Speaker 2: and we were like, no, no, no, no, no, no, that's too addictive.
• 26:20
  Speaker 2: We can't sell this as an over the counter thing,
• 26:22
  Speaker 2: and we can't sell it as a medicinal thing in general.
• 26:26
  Speaker 2: And the next thing they tried was oxy codone, and yeah,
• 26:31
  Speaker 2: they had the same results. They were like, now we
• 26:33
  Speaker 2: got to pull this off the shelves. Too addictive, not
• 26:36
  Speaker 2: medicinal at all. And then in the nineties we were like,
• 26:40
  Speaker 2: never mind, we can produce that in America. Is great,
• 26:43
  Speaker 2: and here we are. So let's talk about some of
• 26:46
  Speaker 2: the Fort Knox conspiracy theorists. The first one, it's his name,
• 26:53
  Speaker 2: Peter David Beeter. Yeah, pumpkin eater. Yept, we can we can't, adam,
• 27:01
  Speaker 2: I need solemn vowed do not refer to this guy
• 27:04
  Speaker 2: as anything but Peter Beeter, pumpkin eater. I'll call him
• 27:07
  Speaker 2: Peter Beeter. Okay, I'm not gonna do the pumpkin Eater
• 27:09
  Speaker 2: part of Peter Beeter Pumpkin Eater, So Peter David Beeter, Oh,
• 27:14
  Speaker 2: Peter Beeter. In nineteen seventy, an attorney who I don't
• 27:18
  Speaker 2: know if I've mentioned this yet, but his name was
• 27:20
  Speaker 2: Peter Beeter made several claims that Fort Knox's vault was
• 27:25
  Speaker 2: empty and the gold had been stolen or sold to
• 27:28
  Speaker 2: European interests at prices vastly below market rates. Why would
• 27:34
  Speaker 2: anyone do that?
• 27:34
  Speaker 3: Peter Beeter probably make money, he was. Why would you
• 27:38
  Speaker 3: sell something for for a low price?
• 27:40
  Speaker 2: Man? Maybe we had a debt that needed to be
• 27:43
  Speaker 2: paid that doesn't follow up on its debts. That's true,
• 27:48
  Speaker 2: silly bean. So he was known for his for pushing
• 27:53
  Speaker 2: multiple conspiracy theories, including one that Lyndon B. Johnson was
• 27:57
  Speaker 2: involved in the Kennedy assassination, Patty Hurst was kidnapped by
• 28:02
  Speaker 2: the c I A. I buy it, and that the
• 28:05
  Speaker 2: Rockefellers essentially ruled the world and would be responsible for
• 28:08
  Speaker 2: America's ruin three out of three. Ain't bad, I believe almost.
• 28:13
  Speaker 3: Why not, Peter beads, it's recreational for you believe in conspiracy.
• 28:19
  Speaker 3: It's it's like fun what people to work, you know how, because.
• 28:23
  Speaker 2: It's like then you gotta then you gotta do the research,
• 28:25
  Speaker 2: and then you gotta be like all right, well then
• 28:26
  Speaker 2: I got to spend all this brain power, Like where
• 28:28
  Speaker 2: do you think all of the do you think this is?
• 28:31
  Speaker 2: These details just fall out of the sky. We researched
• 28:33
  Speaker 2: this podcast.
• 28:34
  Speaker 1: I know.
• 28:35
  Speaker 2: But you you seem to enjoy it as well. It's
• 28:37
  Speaker 2: my it's my sorry. Yeah, no, it's just a sorry bro.
• 28:42
  Speaker 5: Job.
• 28:42
  Speaker 2: Yeah, you do have a pretty sweet job that you
• 28:44
  Speaker 2: built yourself. I could I could be doing worse, that's
• 28:47
  Speaker 2: for sure. So let's talk about Peter Beaters Fort Knox theory.
• 28:51
  Speaker 2: It gained traction with the American public, leading the US
• 28:54
  Speaker 2: Mint to open the depository doors to visitors for the
• 28:58
  Speaker 2: first time. They showed them that's a certificate. This is
• 29:01
  Speaker 2: the kind of thing I like, I like, what a
• 29:03
  Speaker 2: conspiracy theorist is, Like show me the gold, and they're like,
• 29:05
  Speaker 2: we'll show you the gold. Fuck you dude. Yeah, but yes,
• 29:08
  Speaker 2: the same thing as the birth certificate. They were like
• 29:12
  Speaker 2: birth certificate. He made it a T shirt. Obama put
• 29:16
  Speaker 2: his birth certificate on a T shirt. I love that.
• 29:19
  Speaker 2: I used to have an Obama birth certificate T shirt
• 29:21
  Speaker 2: that I bought from the official White House merch store.
• 29:25
  Speaker 3: Oh, which I think runs on Cafe Press. Okay, in
• 29:29
  Speaker 3: case you didn't know that that's a Cafe Press.
• 29:31
  Speaker 2: Yeah. So on September twenty third, nineteen seventy four, Mary Brooks,
• 29:36
  Speaker 2: then the director of the US Mint, led several members
• 29:39
  Speaker 2: of Congress and the media on a tour of the vault. See.
• 29:44
  Speaker 2: I like transparency like this. I like when the government
• 29:47
  Speaker 2: is like, yeah, no, let's talk it out. That happened
• 29:50
  Speaker 2: with the Russian apartment bombings we did in episode about
• 29:54
  Speaker 2: that's basically Russia's nine to eleven and Putin orchestrated it
• 29:56
  Speaker 2: to get himself into office.
• 29:58
  Speaker 3: Was that like a like the Ukrainian in conflict type situation?
• 30:02
  Speaker 3: Oh no, no, no, that was that was more recently look at
• 30:03
  Speaker 3: two thousand and five.
• 30:05
  Speaker 2: As the name implies, it was a series of apartment
• 30:07
  Speaker 2: bombings that basically the Russian Secret Service pulled off and
• 30:11
  Speaker 2: blamed on Chechens to get Putin elected. Got it and plausible? Yeah,
• 30:18
  Speaker 2: it's it's it's not a matter of whether it's plausible.
• 30:23
  Speaker 2: They got caught planning the fifth bomb. Oh, like it's not,
• 30:27
  Speaker 2: it's not, Oh did they do it? They got literally
• 30:30
  Speaker 2: got caught doing it. But this was it happened at
• 30:35
  Speaker 2: this weird point in Russian history where the government was
• 30:38
  Speaker 2: still being very open and transparent. So there's this TV show,
• 30:43
  Speaker 2: you can find it. It's from Russia right after the
• 30:45
  Speaker 2: apartment bombings, where it's like five Russian secret service agents
• 30:49
  Speaker 2: and then the entire occupancy of this apartment building where
• 30:53
  Speaker 2: they got caught planning the fifth bomb, just peppering these
• 30:57
  Speaker 2: secret service agents with questions onto television. It looked like
• 31:00
  Speaker 2: an episode of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? There's
• 31:02
  Speaker 2: fucking flashing lights. Like Russia used to be really open
• 31:06
  Speaker 2: and transparent about that shit until they pulled off the
• 31:09
  Speaker 2: Russian apartment bombings and got putin into office. But before
• 31:12
  Speaker 2: that they had to at least pretend that things were
• 31:15
  Speaker 2: still on the up and up. And it's a fascinating story.
• 31:19
  Speaker 2: So that's what this is. Okay, this is the American
• 31:23
  Speaker 2: public going, you bombed a bunch of apartment buildings in US, going, no,
• 31:27
  Speaker 2: let us show you some gold to change your mind.
• 31:29
  Speaker 2: And there's actually video of it. Let's watch whoa that's
• 31:33
  Speaker 2: going to be allowed.
• 31:34
  Speaker 5: For years, depository officials were pressured to open the vault
• 31:38
  Speaker 5: for civilian inspection.
• 31:39
  Speaker 2: This is from a history continued.
• 31:41
  Speaker 5: To refuse to allow the public inside.
• 31:44
  Speaker 2: Well, I mean it's on bullion stars.
• 31:46
  Speaker 5: In nineteen seventy four, for the first and probably last time,
• 31:50
  Speaker 5: a dozen Congressmen and one hundred journalists were invited inside.
• 31:55
  Speaker 5: Among them was a young senator from Kentucky called Walter Huddleston.
• 32:00
  Speaker 1: As one who has lived within just a few miles
• 32:03
  Speaker 1: of this installation for a good many years, but who
• 32:05
  Speaker 1: has never been inside the front gate, I can say
• 32:08
  Speaker 1: that it is with a great deal of interest that
• 32:10
  Speaker 1: those of us from the Congress have this opportunity to
• 32:14
  Speaker 1: view the deposit here and to learn just what is
• 32:20
  Speaker 1: inside the gold vault here at Fort Knox.
• 32:23
  Speaker 5: It was the opportunity.
• 32:24
  Speaker 2: He looks like a guy whose Illinois congressman criminals? It
• 32:30
  Speaker 2: was possibly Congressman. You suggested all this?
• 32:34
  Speaker 5: Why?
• 32:35
  Speaker 6: Well, I did because there were ramp and rumors, and
• 32:37
  Speaker 6: numbers of Congress were deeming a great deal of mail
• 32:40
  Speaker 6: based on the charge that significant portions of our gold
• 32:42
  Speaker 6: reserves that Fort Knox were gone. So I had suggested
• 32:46
  Speaker 6: to Secretary of the Treasury Simon that I thought this
• 32:48
  Speaker 6: would be a good way.
• 32:48
  Speaker 1: I think too, Do you.
• 32:49
  Speaker 2: Get inside already?
• 32:51
  Speaker 5: The secret contents of the vault were about to be
• 32:54
  Speaker 5: viewed by the public and recorded on film for the
• 32:57
  Speaker 5: first time.
• 32:58
  Speaker 2: Oh my, well, that was dramatic.
• 33:04
  Speaker 7: Way.
• 33:06
  Speaker 5: Huddleston was on hand as the vault door was unlocked
• 33:09
  Speaker 5: and the wheel was turned fourteen times to open the latch.
• 33:13
  Speaker 2: Write that down, over kill forever there.
• 33:15
  Speaker 8: Fourteen times, it's a big thing.
• 33:18
  Speaker 4: Twenty times.
• 33:20
  Speaker 1: I think there was a considerable amount of excitement.
• 33:23
  Speaker 2: Is that all it takes to open the vault? A
• 33:24
  Speaker 2: four fourteen turns and permission? Imagine? I didn't think that
• 33:28
  Speaker 2: it's not like a handshaker any.
• 33:30
  Speaker 1: When I recognized maybe that was a possibility.
• 33:34
  Speaker 5: The visitors were led to a room makes sense. A
• 33:39
  Speaker 5: blue sign showed exactly what was inside this one single compartment.
• 33:43
  Speaker 2: Thirty six and thirty six four.
• 33:46
  Speaker 5: Thousand, two hundred and thirty six gold bars. Said that
• 33:49
  Speaker 5: almost twelve billion ounces.
• 33:51
  Speaker 2: That's all the time.
• 33:53
  Speaker 5: It was valued at almost five hundred million dollars.
• 33:56
  Speaker 2: We're cutting the ribbon. Why is there a ribbon?
• 33:59
  Speaker 4: Now?
• 33:59
  Speaker 5: We have Euning ceremony what they saw.
• 34:03
  Speaker 2: Actually, we do astoding come.
• 34:09
  Speaker 1: I remember being somewhat in all of seeing all this.
• 34:12
  Speaker 2: You should have got to take at least one cell
• 34:15
  Speaker 2: here I am, and that's bullshit. Look at all those
• 34:17
  Speaker 2: gold bars.
• 34:18
  Speaker 5: It was an interesting experience.
• 34:21
  Speaker 2: What are the property of the American taxpayer there? And
• 34:23
  Speaker 2: he's been weighing about twenty.
• 34:24
  Speaker 5: Two so each of the gold bricks was worth sixty
• 34:27
  Speaker 5: five thousand dollars at the market price of the time.
• 34:30
  Speaker 2: All right, fade it out. So they have let people
• 34:36
  Speaker 2: in in nineteen seventy four. They did recently too, but
• 34:39
  Speaker 2: we'll get to that. There's just no video of the
• 34:42
  Speaker 2: recent trip. It's actually a very famous news story that
• 34:46
  Speaker 2: you will probably recognize when we get to it. You
• 34:49
  Speaker 2: just probably didn't know it involved Fort Knox pal In fact,
• 34:53
  Speaker 2: let's get to it right now. According to the notes,
• 34:55
  Speaker 2: on August twenty first, twenty seventeen, US Treasury Secretary Stephen
• 35:01
  Speaker 2: Nishan boooooooo led a delegation of Kentucky politicians, including Senate
• 35:07
  Speaker 2: Majority Leader Mitch mcconnello, on a visit to Fort Knox.
• 35:12
  Speaker 2: This trip became somewhat controversial due to Mushin's use of
• 35:16
  Speaker 2: a government plane and his wife Louise Linton, subsequently posting
• 35:21
  Speaker 2: a photo of her stepping off the plane on Instagram.
• 35:25
  Speaker 2: Mushin ended up reimbursing the government for the cost of
• 35:28
  Speaker 2: his wife's travel. So that famous story, that picture of
• 35:31
  Speaker 2: her stepping off the plane and being like, Aha, fuck
• 35:34
  Speaker 2: you poor people.
• 35:34
  Speaker 3: Right, Oh, that's that's also where they have that shot
• 35:37
  Speaker 3: with like him and his wife holding that sheet of
• 35:40
  Speaker 3: printed one hundred dollars bills. Yes, like, Hi, this is
• 35:43
  Speaker 3: an image of everything that you want and can't have
• 35:46
  Speaker 3: because we have it and we're setting up a whole
• 35:48
  Speaker 3: system in which you can't have it.
• 35:50
  Speaker 2: Yeah, So that's what that That's what that trip was about.
• 35:54
  Speaker 2: They were going to they got to go through Fort Knox.
• 35:57
  Speaker 3: I'm sure for Minuchin it was market research, because as
• 36:00
  Speaker 3: shitty a human being as he is, he's got his
• 36:04
  Speaker 3: name on some really great movies.
• 36:05
  Speaker 2: Does he.
• 36:06
  Speaker 5: Yeah?
• 36:06
  Speaker 3: Edge of Tomorrow excellent, Yeah, Lego Batman excellent. So how
• 36:11
  Speaker 3: bad can this guy be?
• 36:13
  Speaker 2: Horrible? He's yeah, he's horrible. I've never known anyone who
• 36:17
  Speaker 2: puts their name on a lot of great movies to
• 36:19
  Speaker 2: be horrible.
• 36:19
  Speaker 3: You know what, I got a few names for you.
• 36:22
  Speaker 3: They're sure sugar, suret ah Man, none of those Yeah,
• 36:26
  Speaker 3: none of those sugar. Yeah, don't don't call me sure sugar, sugar.
• 36:31
  Speaker 3: I think it was supposed to be, sir, and then
• 36:33
  Speaker 3: it just kind of fell in sugar.
• 36:35
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 36:36
  Speaker 3: AnyWho, it's this Harvey Weinstein is a real, real character.
• 36:39
  Speaker 3: To look into him, okay, honey.
• 36:41
  Speaker 2: So unlike nineteen seventy four, there wasn't a lot of
• 36:44
  Speaker 2: publicity surrounding this visit to the vault. There was no
• 36:48
  Speaker 2: mention of whether any members of the media were invited.
• 36:51
  Speaker 2: If they were, they're probably still in there. Maybe that
• 36:54
  Speaker 2: was the whole point. That's how we get rid of
• 36:56
  Speaker 2: dissidence in this country. Now we let them tour Fort Knox.
• 37:00
  Speaker 2: It's just them, but then you can then you wind
• 37:02
  Speaker 2: up with a smelly vault. Nobody likes a smelly vault.
• 37:05
  Speaker 1: Nope.
• 37:05
  Speaker 2: No photos of the delegation inside the depository have been released,
• 37:09
  Speaker 2: although that's to be expected given that the vault's internal
• 37:11
  Speaker 2: structure is now classified. Baby. See that's it. They could
• 37:16
  Speaker 2: just set up like a twenty four hour live streaming
• 37:18
  Speaker 2: webcam so we can just always look at the gold
• 37:20
  Speaker 2: if they wanted. You'd think Yeah, they totally could, like
• 37:24
  Speaker 2: Big Brother the TV show. Oh okay, so we're gonna
• 37:29
  Speaker 2: listen to Ron Paul talk about this for a little bit,
• 37:32
  Speaker 2: not for all six minutes, as the notes threatened. But
• 37:36
  Speaker 2: before we start, let's talk about the description of this video,
• 37:40
  Speaker 2: the Ron Paul video. This is the actual YouTube description
• 37:44
  Speaker 2: of this video. The oldest metropolis on Earth was built
• 37:47
  Speaker 2: by the Onu Naki. They came here to mind gold
• 37:49
  Speaker 2: and send it back to their home planets. They're still
• 37:52
  Speaker 2: doing it. That is the actual description of a video
• 37:56
  Speaker 2: of Ron Paul talking about Fort Knox. I love this
• 38:00
  Speaker 2: so much. Do you know who the Onanaki are? Apparently
• 38:04
  Speaker 2: of people that are in desperate need of gold. I
• 38:09
  Speaker 2: clearly remember asking you to watch all nine Seasons of
• 38:11
  Speaker 2: Ancient Aliens before we recorded this, and had you done that,
• 38:16
  Speaker 2: I did not you would know. The on A Noki
• 38:18
  Speaker 2: are an ancient space race who came down to Earth
• 38:22
  Speaker 2: well before any of us and have just been mining
• 38:25
  Speaker 2: our resources ever since in a very exploitative way. When's
• 38:29
  Speaker 2: that scandal going to become a hashtag? Time's up? On Anaki.
• 38:34
  Speaker 2: Let's talk about Ron Paul. This is him. What's interesting
• 38:38
  Speaker 2: about this is mister chairman, I tell you that he's
• 38:42
  Speaker 2: coming in a second. There are people who argue that
• 38:45
  Speaker 2: this video is the government admitting that there's no gold.
• 38:51
  Speaker 2: That seems to be what the title of the video asserts.
• 38:55
  Speaker 2: Where is the gold of the planet here today? But
• 38:57
  Speaker 2: the whole planet?
• 38:59
  Speaker 7: The distrust out here by the American people is as
• 39:03
  Speaker 7: deep and severe as I've ever seen. And it does
• 39:06
  Speaker 7: not only Congress itself, not only the administration.
• 39:10
  Speaker 2: But yeah, yeah, yeah, let's get the ross is very low.
• 39:13
  Speaker 2: I have something known as will finish up.
• 39:17
  Speaker 8: One thing is on a follow up on what mister
• 39:19
  Speaker 8: Jones says, is the confidence is very low. But when
• 39:24
  Speaker 8: you speak of independence, and I understand your terms, and
• 39:29
  Speaker 8: I disagree with with the need for that, but I
• 39:32
  Speaker 8: understand it. But what people hear when you say independence,
• 39:36
  Speaker 8: they hear secrecy.
• 39:37
  Speaker 2: You know you're going to keep it from us.
• 39:40
  Speaker 8: And like the point I made at the beginning, the
• 39:44
  Speaker 8: sec is to pressure companies to reveal information, where the
• 39:49
  Speaker 8: Federal Reserve does the opposite. They want, no, we can't
• 39:52
  Speaker 8: tell anything because it might disturb the markets. You have
• 39:55
  Speaker 8: one question, during the crisis or any time that you're
• 39:58
  Speaker 8: aware of, has Federal Reserve or Treasury participated in any
• 40:02
  Speaker 8: gold swaps.
• 40:03
  Speaker 2: Arrangements cash for gold. We don't.
• 40:06
  Speaker 4: The Federal Reserve does not own any gold at all.
• 40:08
  Speaker 4: We have not owned gold since nineteen thirty four, so
• 40:13
  Speaker 4: we have not engaged in any gold swaps.
• 40:15
  Speaker 8: But it appears on your balance sheet that you hold gold.
• 40:19
  Speaker 4: Balance sheet is gold certificates when we turned to it
• 40:21
  Speaker 4: in before nineteen sounds like did own gold. We turned
• 40:27
  Speaker 4: that over by by law to the Treasury return for
• 40:33
  Speaker 4: that gold certificate.
• 40:34
  Speaker 2: If the Treasury he's literally.
• 40:38
  Speaker 8: We would assumes the legal authority to do it, they
• 40:42
  Speaker 8: wouldn't be able to do it then, because you have
• 40:45
  Speaker 8: the securities for essentially all the gold.
• 40:47
  Speaker 4: No, we have no the tryst in the gold that
• 40:50
  Speaker 4: is owned by the Treasury. We have simply an accounting
• 40:55
  Speaker 4: document that is called gold certificates that represents the value
• 41:00
  Speaker 4: at a statutory rate.
• 41:01
  Speaker 2: And still that we gave to the Treasury in nineteen
• 41:03
  Speaker 2: thirty and.
• 41:04
  Speaker 8: Still measured at forty two dollars an hours, which makes
• 41:06
  Speaker 8: no sense.
• 41:07
  Speaker 2: But so ever, but you know, convinced you and Ron
• 41:10
  Speaker 2: Paul finally agree. Danger I just don't understand. It's not
• 41:14
  Speaker 2: that it doesn't make sense.
• 41:15
  Speaker 8: Really, not money we don't want it to be money.
• 41:17
  Speaker 2: I mean, if you're okay, good enough, Ron Paul wrong.
• 41:20
  Speaker 2: What I do love about this video is the guy
• 41:22
  Speaker 2: behind him has the weirdest nose, looks like he's just
• 41:24
  Speaker 2: waiting for the CIA mind control suggestions so he can
• 41:27
  Speaker 2: shoot Ron Paul in the back of the head. Get
• 41:30
  Speaker 2: this over with? Will you please say clap so I
• 41:34
  Speaker 2: can just shoot you. That's his trigger word, clap. So
• 41:38
  Speaker 2: that was Ron Paul. He is a very much a
• 41:41
  Speaker 2: believer that we got rid of the gold danger. Okay,
• 41:45
  Speaker 2: you shouldn't have voted for that guy. I did not
• 41:47
  Speaker 2: in the past six elections. Never have That's excessive. Man,
• 41:51
  Speaker 2: let's talk. You're not gonna believe this. But there's also
• 41:53
  Speaker 2: a conspiracy theory involving Russia. But they're they're they're paragons
• 41:59
  Speaker 2: of transparence.
• 42:00
  Speaker 3: Is we just discussed this that they do a really
• 42:03
  Speaker 3: good job getting people who do bad things to go
• 42:05
  Speaker 3: in front of big panels and talk about it truthfully
• 42:07
  Speaker 3: on television.
• 42:08
  Speaker 2: Right, So this conspiracy centers more around whether the US
• 42:13
  Speaker 2: in general still has its gold reserves, not just in
• 42:16
  Speaker 2: Fort Knox, just whether we still have it at all.
• 42:19
  Speaker 2: And it seems to be pushed mainly by Russia. I
• 42:22
  Speaker 2: found at least two videos from RT dot com directly
• 42:26
  Speaker 2: addressing this okay story. RT is it's such a like
• 42:30
  Speaker 2: you really need to know your fake news to not
• 42:33
  Speaker 2: get fooled by them, because it's a very American looking
• 42:37
  Speaker 2: like they use American and British anchors. It's not like
• 42:40
  Speaker 2: a dude. It's not a dude named Saguy with a
• 42:43
  Speaker 2: thick accent who doesn't move his arm when he walks,
• 42:46
  Speaker 2: because that's what Russians do to let you know they
• 42:49
  Speaker 2: have a gun a little toothbrush. So I brought just
• 42:52
  Speaker 2: tieth with Dulfstoyevsky book and pistol precisely. So RT dot
• 42:59
  Speaker 2: com is not that, but they were the ones who
• 43:02
  Speaker 2: were really pushing this along with I think it's Sputnik.
• 43:05
  Speaker 2: Is that the name of the other big Russian fake
• 43:08
  Speaker 2: news okay network. And Germany has the second largest reserve
• 43:15
  Speaker 2: of gold after the US. During the Cold War, the
• 43:18
  Speaker 2: country stored ninety eight percent of its gold abroad, including
• 43:21
  Speaker 2: at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, in order
• 43:24
  Speaker 2: to protect it from the Soviet Union. Okay. Even today,
• 43:28
  Speaker 2: it's not unusual for countries to store their gold abroad.
• 43:31
  Speaker 2: The Federal Reserve Bank of New York holds reserves for
• 43:33
  Speaker 2: over sixty countries. Because if you're a fucking developing country
• 43:38
  Speaker 2: with a ton of gold, you probably don't have the
• 43:41
  Speaker 2: secure facilities needed.
• 43:42
  Speaker 3: Yeah, and you always you don't want to spend your
• 43:44
  Speaker 3: limited money on a storage facility when you can send
• 43:47
  Speaker 3: it somewhere and like maybe like hey, we'll buy you lunch.
• 43:51
  Speaker 2: Hold this, hang on to this for us. This is
• 43:53
  Speaker 2: from a Washington Post article. In practice, much of the
• 43:57
  Speaker 2: world's gold is stored in vaults underneath central bank This
• 44:00
  Speaker 2: is highly convenient when one government or central bank sells
• 44:04
  Speaker 2: its gold to another. The precious metal can be rolled
• 44:07
  Speaker 2: from one cage to the next with none of the
• 44:10
  Speaker 2: risk that comes with transporting it across oceans. The system,
• 44:14
  Speaker 2: of course, is built upon trust among the world central bankers.
• 44:18
  Speaker 2: That trust runs deep, and most governments are content to
• 44:22
  Speaker 2: keep their gold wherever it is most convenient. Okay, central
• 44:26
  Speaker 2: bankers are you talking about like basic government banks? Are
• 44:29
  Speaker 2: you talking about like, uh, well, in this case, it's
• 44:32
  Speaker 2: a government, okay, bank? All right? Well is it? The
• 44:35
  Speaker 2: Treasury is government? The Federal Reserve is like, it's a
• 44:39
  Speaker 2: government institution, but it's also a private institution if I'm
• 44:43
  Speaker 2: not like the post office. Yeah, yeah, okay, so yeah.
• 44:47
  Speaker 2: At one point we just turned all our money over
• 44:50
  Speaker 2: to a fucking private company. But we're like, why are
• 44:53
  Speaker 2: you all mad about this? But that company is not
• 44:57
  Speaker 2: trying to like it doesn't have share a whole, it
• 45:00
  Speaker 2: doesn't have like people who are benefiting, like private persons
• 45:03
  Speaker 2: who are benefiting from this thing. It's like a private
• 45:05
  Speaker 2: partner private public partnership type situation. Yeah, you keep trusting
• 45:09
  Speaker 2: the man, bro So. In January two thousand and third
• 45:13
  Speaker 2: post Office, they're very friendly. After pressure from nationalist politicians
• 45:17
  Speaker 2: and conspiracy theorists like myself, Germany announced, hey, conspiracy, Hey, yeah,
• 45:23
  Speaker 2: let's scrub that one there. I want you to reread
• 45:25
  Speaker 2: that conspiracy theorist part. Yeah, reread that sentence and put
• 45:29
  Speaker 2: your own punctuation in when you're gonna be talking about.
• 45:31
  Speaker 2: In January twenty thirteen, after pressure from nationalist politicians like
• 45:35
  Speaker 2: Adam Todd Brown and conspiracy theorists like Danger van Gorder,
• 45:39
  Speaker 2: Germany announced that it planned to relocate three hundred tons
• 45:43
  Speaker 2: of gold. Although it's probably spelled like to N N
• 45:46
  Speaker 2: E S or something, you stupid like that you did
• 45:49
  Speaker 2: misread some of those things. What did I misread? Well,
• 45:52
  Speaker 2: we are neither national politician nationalist. No, that part was
• 45:56
  Speaker 2: all fine. Germany announced that it plans to relocate three
• 45:59
  Speaker 2: hundred tons of gold from the Federal Reserve Bank of
• 46:02
  Speaker 2: New York and three hundred and seventy four tons from
• 46:05
  Speaker 2: the Bank front in Valley to the headquarters of its
• 46:10
  Speaker 2: central bank, Deutsche Bundespunk Deutsche Pundesun. Yeah, welcome to dortche Punk.
• 46:18
  Speaker 2: How may I help you? M's vide coming Vi'll coming
• 46:21
  Speaker 2: off them? So anyway, this translated to a bouk fifty
• 46:27
  Speaker 2: four thousand sole solid gold bars worth nearly thirty one
• 46:31
  Speaker 2: billion dollars. Germany's got bars danger Okay. Although Germany wanted
• 46:36
  Speaker 2: the gold returned within five years time, the US asked
• 46:38
  Speaker 2: for a twenty twenty deadline. We were like, let's see
• 46:43
  Speaker 2: what happens with Trump first, then we'll talk about whether
• 46:46
  Speaker 2: you can have your gold back. He might just tell
• 46:49
  Speaker 2: us we can keep it, but instead, uh so this
• 46:54
  Speaker 2: obviously people were suspicious. They were like, hey that, why
• 46:59
  Speaker 2: are you why are you wanting to wait? Do you
• 47:01
  Speaker 2: not have the gold? Do you not have the gold?
• 47:03
  Speaker 2: That you say you have. Maybe you like gold, I
• 47:05
  Speaker 2: don't know, like my friend loan being in sixty like
• 47:07
  Speaker 2: cruising USA on N sixty four. Well, think about it
• 47:10
  Speaker 2: like this. Think about you as a person, Yes, think
• 47:14
  Speaker 2: about you go to the bank, yep, and you have
• 47:17
  Speaker 2: a very large check, and a lot of times the
• 47:19
  Speaker 2: bank will put a hold on a really large check,
• 47:21
  Speaker 2: super annoying. And if you're expecting a ten day hold
• 47:25
  Speaker 2: and then no, no.
• 47:26
  Speaker 3: No, they tell you seven days, but they don't tell
• 47:29
  Speaker 3: you seven business days. So when you go back, when
• 47:33
  Speaker 3: you go back on Funday, which is seven days day, it's.
• 47:36
  Speaker 2: Like, oh, we met seven business days. You're gonna have
• 47:39
  Speaker 2: to wait over it. And we just assumed, you know,
• 47:41
  Speaker 2: it's business days. Were you hoping to go in on
• 47:43
  Speaker 2: a Sunday? No, I went went on a bank. They
• 47:46
  Speaker 2: said seven days, bro, bro. But okay. So imagine you
• 47:52
  Speaker 2: go in and you're like, I have this big check
• 47:56
  Speaker 2: and I need it right now. I know there's a
• 47:59
  Speaker 2: ten day hold. That's fine, and they're like, give us
• 48:02
  Speaker 2: thirty days. You'd be like, why do you why why
• 48:06
  Speaker 2: do I have to wait thirty days? Do you not
• 48:07
  Speaker 2: have my money? Why am I waiting? Or they're enjoying
• 48:10
  Speaker 2: profiting off of Well, either way, that would be suspicious, correct, Sure.
• 48:15
  Speaker 2: So when Germany comes to the United States and says, hey,
• 48:18
  Speaker 2: we want our gold back and we'd like it back
• 48:20
  Speaker 2: within five years, and we go give us seven maybe
• 48:28
  Speaker 2: naturally people were like why, well, I mean, if it's
• 48:31
  Speaker 2: if it's on a five year timeline and they're like, hey,
• 48:34
  Speaker 2: maybe you stretch that out a little bit more like
• 48:36
  Speaker 2: I would. I would find it way weird.
• 48:37
  Speaker 3: Or if they're like, can we get this back in five
• 48:39
  Speaker 3: years and they're like, hey, can we do twenty? Like
• 48:41
  Speaker 3: that seems a larger stranger scale than like an extra two.
• 48:46
  Speaker 2: I guess, but it's okay. Also, bro, I don't move
• 48:51
  Speaker 2: a lot of gold around. I don't know how heavy
• 48:53
  Speaker 2: it is when you're moving it in tons or two.
• 48:55
  Speaker 2: That was one of the other things is people thought
• 48:58
  Speaker 2: it was so much gold that we wouldn't even be
• 48:59
  Speaker 2: able to move it in seven years. So we were like, well,
• 49:01
  Speaker 2: what's that about, Like you can't move that much gold
• 49:04
  Speaker 2: in that much time? Like this is Either way, people
• 49:07
  Speaker 2: found it suspicious, but we ended up getting it to
• 49:09
  Speaker 2: them in three years, all right, under promise over deliver.
• 49:14
  Speaker 2: I learned that selling furniture pal.
• 49:16
  Speaker 3: I actually have a similar theory with some wedding photography
• 49:20
  Speaker 3: things that I do, Like, hey, I can get you
• 49:23
  Speaker 3: I can sounded ominous. I can get you your photos back.
• 49:26
  Speaker 3: Give me like at least a week. It's gonna take
• 49:28
  Speaker 3: a little a little while long, you know, because I
• 49:30
  Speaker 3: might have some things crop up, you know. Just give
• 49:32
  Speaker 3: me at least a week, and then I get them.
• 49:34
  Speaker 2: There someone slides a bride'smaid's name on paper across to you, well,
• 49:38
  Speaker 2: pictures of this one. Well, then I get them the
• 49:40
  Speaker 2: photos back within three to four days, and they're like,
• 49:42
  Speaker 2: I thought this would take a week. What a miracle,
• 49:45
  Speaker 2: what a fan tot. Thank you. And then I get
• 49:47
  Speaker 2: a better review on Yelp. Cool. Yeah, so it's relevant.
• 49:52
  Speaker 2: And so here's the thing, Uh, Germany, between two thousand
• 49:55
  Speaker 2: and two thousand and one, they'd retrieved nine hundred and
• 49:58
  Speaker 2: forty tons from the Bank of England in order to
• 50:00
  Speaker 2: cut back on storage costs. So it's a thing that
• 50:05
  Speaker 2: we should have been able to do in less than
• 50:08
  Speaker 2: seven years, so that we the fact that we asked
• 50:11
  Speaker 2: for seven years raised some eyebrows, but the US managed
• 50:16
  Speaker 2: to return the three hundred tons to Germany by twenty sixteen,
• 50:19
  Speaker 2: four years ahead of schedule, Thanks Trump twenty sixteen. How
• 50:25
  Speaker 2: do you know it wasn't November because he wouldn't have
• 50:27
  Speaker 2: been a non Do you know he didn't bring it
• 50:29
  Speaker 2: with January to the White House because he doesn't have
• 50:32
  Speaker 2: any He gave it to France. No, he put why
• 50:36
  Speaker 2: aren't you following the.
• 50:39
  Speaker 3: In the it's up in his stupid apartment building, like
• 50:42
  Speaker 3: in that apartment that he took all those photos for Salon.
• 50:45
  Speaker 2: And you think he has five hundred and forty tons
• 50:47
  Speaker 2: of gold? No, I don't think he. I think he
• 50:49
  Speaker 2: had some. And then he's like, I'm going to build
• 50:51
  Speaker 2: the brand out of this, and then that's it. So
• 50:54
  Speaker 2: Jim Rickards, who spells his name wrong, It's the right
• 50:58
  Speaker 2: way to spell it. Richard's oh continue. He is an
• 51:02
  Speaker 2: attorney and author of several finance books. He said in
• 51:05
  Speaker 2: an interview with kit Ko News that we probably made
• 51:09
  Speaker 2: the transfer quicker because of political reasons, since twenty thirteen
• 51:15
  Speaker 2: and twenty seventeen were both electioneers in Germany. He believes
• 51:18
  Speaker 2: that Angela Merkel arranged for the repatriation to be completed
• 51:22
  Speaker 2: early in order to appease a small nationalist party that
• 51:26
  Speaker 2: was pushing for the gold's return. That never goes wrong,
• 51:29
  Speaker 2: appeasing the nationalists. No, that's fine. There are still one
• 51:33
  Speaker 2: two hundred and thirty six tons of gold in New York,
• 51:36
  Speaker 2: about thirty seven percent of Germany's reserves, and four hundred
• 51:39
  Speaker 2: and thirty two tons at the Bank of England in London.
• 51:42
  Speaker 2: Germany has no plans to repatriate the remaining gold any
• 51:46
  Speaker 2: time soon, which means we get to keep it. We
• 51:50
  Speaker 2: can't do anything with it. Sell that shit? Where to
• 51:55
  Speaker 2: who fucking cash for gold? Dude? I just sent them
• 51:57
  Speaker 2: a gold filling and they sent me a check for
• 52:00
  Speaker 2: eighteen dollars. You think we can't package up a couple bars.
• 52:03
  Speaker 2: So Germany has no plans to repatriate the gold anytime soon.
• 52:08
  Speaker 2: Got it? But nick News, which is run by a
• 52:10
  Speaker 2: Russian government controlled news agency, quoted Valentine A. Katasanov, a
• 52:16
  Speaker 2: professor at the International Finance Department at the Moscow State
• 52:20
  Speaker 2: Institute of International Relations the old misz ear as saying, Hey, right,
• 52:26
  Speaker 2: I got I got this. I can do a pretty
• 52:27
  Speaker 2: decent Russian accent. There are a lot of signs that
• 52:31
  Speaker 2: gold was not physically presented to New York Volts when
• 52:33
  Speaker 2: Germany called it beck. Of course US began to return
• 52:37
  Speaker 2: it to Germany. But there's one interesting detail. When you
• 52:41
  Speaker 2: leave your suitcase in the luggage storage, you expect to
• 52:44
  Speaker 2: get back same suitcase, but Germany took wrong suitcase. That
• 52:48
  Speaker 2: does That is the most Russian fucking quote of all time.
• 52:52
  Speaker 2: Give me borsch. That sounds like something somewhat like that
• 52:55
  Speaker 2: sounds like a line of dialogue from an episode of
• 52:58
  Speaker 2: The Americans.
• 53:00
  Speaker 3: Yep, Swaping the suitcases A lot, a lot of big
• 53:02
  Speaker 3: swaps happened with the with suitcases. That's how they're like,
• 53:05
  Speaker 3: you know, you put the hat in your coat on
• 53:07
  Speaker 3: the suitcase and then it's like.
• 53:08
  Speaker 2: Oh, swepperroodles. Whoops. Yep, yep. Now now now the Kremlin
• 53:13
  Speaker 2: have the codes. But like, as long as it's still
• 53:17
  Speaker 2: got the gold in it, okay, I don't give a fuck.
• 53:19
  Speaker 2: I mean, how can they substantiate uh, A lot of
• 53:24
  Speaker 2: signs that the gold was not physically presented there are
• 53:26
  Speaker 2: They have no rationale or backing for this theory, all right,
• 53:29
  Speaker 2: so they're just throwing it out. They're like, hey, what
• 53:31
  Speaker 2: if I know that's unprecedented for Russian news to do.
• 53:34
  Speaker 3: What is it that the baseball team? That was it
• 53:37
  Speaker 3: the Brewers or their slogan is like, what if Cleveland Indians?
• 53:41
  Speaker 2: Is it Cleveland? Okay? Yeah, yeah, yeah, okay. What if
• 53:44
  Speaker 2: we got beat by the Cubs in the World Series?
• 53:48
  Speaker 2: That happened, So let's talk about I believe this is
• 53:51
  Speaker 2: the last conspiracy related to Fort Knox and it's put
• 53:56
  Speaker 2: forth by a guy named Koo's Jams. Who whoa, whoa, whoa.
• 54:00
  Speaker 2: Hold on, let's be respectful here.
• 54:03
  Speaker 3: He is a proud Swedish woman, I assume.
• 54:09
  Speaker 2: I don't know. I don't know. I'm just saying that's
• 54:11
  Speaker 2: a real uncouth, real uncouth kind of term.
• 54:13
  Speaker 3: For for good chances and dutch man. I'm just saying
• 54:19
  Speaker 3: that that's a real bad it's a real bad word.
• 54:22
  Speaker 3: I'm where I'm from.
• 54:23
  Speaker 2: Coups.
• 54:24
  Speaker 3: Yeah, it's like on like a like uh one of
• 54:28
  Speaker 3: those n y p D type shows where they're investing
• 54:31
  Speaker 3: law and order. They're like, well, they can't they can't
• 54:33
  Speaker 3: say some of the worst words for a woman.
• 54:36
  Speaker 2: That's some some real derogatory terms that you can't say
• 54:38
  Speaker 2: on television. Yes, a real coups like that's a it's
• 54:44
  Speaker 2: like Okay, so that's not a real thing. Can we
• 54:46
  Speaker 2: can we go on? Sure? Great, so cous Jansen. He's
• 54:49
  Speaker 2: a writer for Bullion Star, which bills itself as Singapore's
• 54:56
  Speaker 2: premiere bullion dealer.
• 54:59
  Speaker 3: Yeah, there a lot of JV League bully on dealers
• 55:02
  Speaker 3: in Singapore, don't you go there.
• 55:04
  Speaker 2: He's written several articles questioning whether Fort Knox's gold is
• 55:08
  Speaker 2: still there, including analyzing the annual audit reports he was
• 55:12
  Speaker 2: able to get his hands on like that. The audits
• 55:15
  Speaker 2: are conducted by the Department of the Treasury's Office of
• 55:18
  Speaker 2: Inspector General. In twenty eleven, Inspector General Eric M. Thorson
• 55:23
  Speaker 2: told the House Financial Services Committee that by two thousand
• 55:26
  Speaker 2: and eight, one hundred percent of government owned gold had
• 55:29
  Speaker 2: been inventoried, audited and placed under quote official Joint seal
• 55:35
  Speaker 2: one hundred percent of zero's what four to twenty? Stay
• 55:37
  Speaker 2: hi all day, y'all. Official Joint seal is a pre
• 55:41
  Speaker 2: number document that includes wax seals and tamperproof cloth tape.
• 55:46
  Speaker 2: Document includes detailed information about the gold bars within the
• 55:50
  Speaker 2: compartment and is signed by those present at the audit.
• 55:53
  Speaker 2: So when we watched that video of her leading that
• 55:57
  Speaker 2: delegation through Fort Knox. I believe that's what she opened
• 56:01
  Speaker 2: to get into the auditing fault. Well, they weren't auditing
• 56:03
  Speaker 2: that form that that I just mentioned on the front
• 56:08
  Speaker 2: of the door. That's when she was like, we have
• 56:10
  Speaker 2: to be very careful with this document. Got it, and
• 56:12
  Speaker 2: then that's when I bet a bunch of people snatched gold.
• 56:16
  Speaker 2: And then they didn't update the audit. So the annual
• 56:22
  Speaker 2: audits now mostly involved making sure the seals have not
• 56:24
  Speaker 2: been tampered with and as saying random samples of the gold.
• 56:29
  Speaker 2: During the twenty ten fiscal year, the US Mint replaced
• 56:32
  Speaker 2: all previously placed seals with new seals that can only
• 56:37
  Speaker 2: be removed by two cuts with a strong cable cutter. Motherfucker.
• 56:42
  Speaker 2: In twenty fifteen, Janssen contacted both the Treasury Department and
• 56:45
  Speaker 2: the National Archives to obtain copies of the audit reports
• 56:49
  Speaker 2: from nineteen seventy four to nineteen eighty six, when the
• 56:53
  Speaker 2: majority of the gold was audited. Neither the Treasury nor
• 56:57
  Speaker 2: the Archives were able to produce the audits for seven
• 57:00
  Speaker 2: of those years, claiming they weren't able to find them.
• 57:03
  Speaker 2: That seems like a big detail. Seven years, seven years
• 57:08
  Speaker 2: worth of audits for all the gold in America, in
• 57:12
  Speaker 2: specifically Fort Knox. Yeah, and we're like, you know, fucking
• 57:17
  Speaker 2: filing and computers and the inner no Google and like
• 57:24
  Speaker 2: friends the man and I don't know, we just lost it.
• 57:27
  Speaker 2: So that does seem weird, right right? Sure, So in
• 57:32
  Speaker 2: twenty sixteen, Jansen filed freedom of information requests for the
• 57:36
  Speaker 2: audits carried out between nineteen ninety three and two thousand
• 57:39
  Speaker 2: and eight, when the remaining gold was reportedly audit audited.
• 57:44
  Speaker 2: The US meant initially requested three thousand, one hundred and
• 57:47
  Speaker 2: forty four dollars and ninety six cents to fulfill the request.
• 57:52
  Speaker 2: Based on the time and labor involved to find and
• 57:55
  Speaker 2: duplicate twelve hundred pages, it's a lot of work. That
• 57:59
  Speaker 2: it's a lot of but it's not like if you
• 58:01
  Speaker 2: came to me and said, here, I have a stack
• 58:03
  Speaker 2: of twelve hundred pages, I will give you thirty four
• 58:07
  Speaker 2: hundred dollars to copy them all.
• 58:09
  Speaker 3: Well, No, first you gotta find the pages. I'm stilling
• 58:13
  Speaker 3: a larger stack.
• 58:14
  Speaker 2: If I'm still in I'll do twenty pages in order,
• 58:17
  Speaker 2: and you gotta get a sticky note put on say
• 58:19
  Speaker 2: like this page came from this still in block. It's
• 58:21
  Speaker 2: a month's work. I'm fine, all right. So he crowdsourced
• 58:24
  Speaker 2: the money, and because of course he did, Well, why
• 58:27
  Speaker 2: the fuck wouldn't you like there? I feel like you're
• 58:30
  Speaker 2: bothered that this guy is questioning where this gold is?
• 58:36
  Speaker 2: Eh no, no, I'm not. Just want to see where
• 58:40
  Speaker 2: it's going, my god. On December twenty third, twenty sixteen,
• 58:44
  Speaker 2: the Mint finally delivered Jansen with two hundred and twenty
• 58:48
  Speaker 2: three redacted pages that contained sixty eight pages of reports
• 58:52
  Speaker 2: I didn't ask for and twenty one pages that were
• 58:54
  Speaker 2: copied twice. Effectively, I got one hundred and thirty four
• 58:58
  Speaker 2: pages related to my Free of Information Act request. The
• 59:02
  Speaker 2: Mint ultimately decided not to cash the check. So does
• 59:06
  Speaker 2: that does that part seem weird that they were a
• 59:08
  Speaker 2: little dack?
• 59:08
  Speaker 3: Well, they they clearly did such a piss poor job
• 59:12
  Speaker 3: getting him his information that they're like, yeah, you know what,
• 59:15
  Speaker 3: this one's on the house, chicken. But did they do
• 59:17
  Speaker 3: a shitty job or did they just not really give
• 59:20
  Speaker 3: him the information he was asking for? Because if it's that,
• 59:23
  Speaker 3: if it's twelve hundred pages and you end up getting
• 59:25
  Speaker 3: one hundred and thirty four, what's in those other thousand
• 59:29
  Speaker 3: plus pages that we're not supposed.
• 59:32
  Speaker 2: To know about. I don't know Nixon tapes. Why would
• 59:35
  Speaker 2: the Nixon tapes be there? I don't know. They had
• 59:37
  Speaker 2: to go somewhere. Freedom of FBI Vault dot gov is
• 59:41
  Speaker 2: a fascinating website for ANYONEBI vault dot gov for anyone
• 59:46
  Speaker 2: who's too skeptical to believe conspiracy theories ever happened. It
• 59:50
  Speaker 2: is a database of FBI files related to pretty much
• 59:55
  Speaker 2: any free What this guy requested, I guarantee you is
• 59:57
  Speaker 2: on FBI vault dot gov. Oh, there are hundreds of
• 1:00:01
  Speaker 2: pages about Elvis. I'm an Elvis truther man. I think
• 1:00:03
  Speaker 2: Elvis faked his death and joined the witness Protection program,
• 1:00:06
  Speaker 2: but only because there are FBI documents that kind of
• 1:00:10
  Speaker 2: hint at Elvis joining the witness protection program and faking
• 1:00:13
  Speaker 2: his death. So who knows. I think I do think
• 1:00:16
  Speaker 2: that's suspicious. I think I always think it's weird when
• 1:00:21
  Speaker 2: the government's like, Okay, we'll tell you, but we're gonna
• 1:00:24
  Speaker 2: kind it. Yeah, well, like nine to eleven. For a
• 1:00:27
  Speaker 2: long time, there was a conspiracy theory that a Saudi
• 1:00:32
  Speaker 2: intelligence agent had a role in prepping the hijackers for
• 1:00:37
  Speaker 2: nine to eleven, and because Saudi Arabia is our ally
• 1:00:41
  Speaker 2: for years and years and years, we were like, no,
• 1:00:44
  Speaker 2: that's just crazy conspiracy theorist talk. And then someone was like,
• 1:00:48
  Speaker 2: all right, freedom of Information Act request, let me see
• 1:00:52
  Speaker 2: that report. And that came out and there was still
• 1:00:55
  Speaker 2: a bunch of pages redacted, and we were like, I
• 1:00:58
  Speaker 2: bet that's the Saudi Arabia stuff. And then they finally
• 1:01:01
  Speaker 2: declassified those pages. Guess what was in it? Zadi Arabia
• 1:01:04
  Speaker 2: stuff about a Saudi intelligence agent helping with nine to eleven.
• 1:01:08
  Speaker 2: So Christ, those pages aren't redacted for nothing. It's not
• 1:01:12
  Speaker 2: like they kept their kids' fucking school colorings from him.
• 1:01:18
  Speaker 2: They're fucking hiding something in those redacted pages. So that's
• 1:01:22
  Speaker 2: I mean, it's worth thinking about, if nothing else. So
• 1:01:26
  Speaker 2: what he found after reviewing the documents during the ninety
• 1:01:29
  Speaker 2: six audit, one sealed compartment was opened for inspection, but
• 1:01:32
  Speaker 2: no obvious reason was given. Theoretically, if the seal was
• 1:01:35
  Speaker 2: deemed intact, there would be no reason to open the compartment,
• 1:01:39
  Speaker 2: and if there was a reason, it was not mentioned
• 1:01:41
  Speaker 2: in the report. The sample size of weighe and tested
• 1:01:44
  Speaker 2: gold had gone down dramatically since the nineteen fifties, during
• 1:01:49
  Speaker 2: the Fort Knox audit, about ten percent of the gold
• 1:01:51
  Speaker 2: bars were weighed. In two thousand, only zero point six
• 1:01:54
  Speaker 2: y five percent of the bars were weighed, and this
• 1:01:59
  Speaker 2: could just be because they didn't use the seal method
• 1:02:01
  Speaker 2: back then, like the verification thing. Yeah, okay. In another instance,
• 1:02:05
  Speaker 2: the scale was set to standard ounces, even though precious
• 1:02:07
  Speaker 2: metals are weighed in troy ounces. That's weird. Why would
• 1:02:11
  Speaker 2: that scale ever be set to anything but troy ounces.
• 1:02:16
  Speaker 2: I don't know.
• 1:02:17
  Speaker 3: Maybe somebody hit the wrong button. I had to ask
• 1:02:19
  Speaker 3: what a troy ounce was earlier.
• 1:02:22
  Speaker 2: Yeah, And another time the auditors misread where the decimal
• 1:02:25
  Speaker 2: point was on the scale. But that's probably just human error.
• 1:02:29
  Speaker 2: So there's not like a conclusion you can draw from this,
• 1:02:32
  Speaker 2: but it is strange, like this guy's Freedom of Information
• 1:02:36
  Speaker 2: Act request being that heavily redacted them losing the audit
• 1:02:41
  Speaker 2: reports for seven fucking years.
• 1:02:44
  Speaker 4: Weird.
• 1:02:45
  Speaker 2: It's it's very weird, and it's frustrating because it's one
• 1:02:49
  Speaker 2: of those things where we're never gonna know the answer
• 1:02:53
  Speaker 2: for sure. Like you could be like, no, no, the
• 1:02:55
  Speaker 2: gold's there, How do you know until you get a tour,
• 1:02:58
  Speaker 2: We're not when are we go to get a tour?
• 1:03:00
  Speaker 2: I don't know. Maybe they could set up a lottery
• 1:03:03
  Speaker 2: and then seven like like we could do like a
• 1:03:05
  Speaker 2: Willy Walker type situation where seven lucky uh uh you
• 1:03:11
  Speaker 2: know Alex Jones conspiracy ship heads get to tour, uh,
• 1:03:16
  Speaker 2: the the Fort Knox and then one by one. Long
• 1:03:19
  Speaker 2: time to spit out the plot of Charlie and the
• 1:03:22
  Speaker 2: Chocolate factory just now, but I mean they all earned
• 1:03:25
  Speaker 2: lessons and then the one at the end is like
• 1:03:28
  Speaker 2: he gets everything. So what do you think is the
• 1:03:30
  Speaker 2: gold still there?
• 1:03:31
  Speaker 3: I think that, uh, there's there's gold there. I don't
• 1:03:35
  Speaker 3: know if it's one hundred percent of the gold that
• 1:03:38
  Speaker 3: was in there when it was first set up.
• 1:03:40
  Speaker 2: Might be more, might be less. I hope it's all gone. Wow,
• 1:03:43
  Speaker 2: it's just empty rooms. I hope those are condos now.
• 1:03:49
  Speaker 2: Condo and Fort Knox, Oh bunker. You think that's where
• 1:03:52
  Speaker 2: Tupac wound up. No, Tupac went to Argentina, just like Elvis. Yeah,
• 1:03:57
  Speaker 2: everybody winds up in Argentina. Well, here's the thing. If
• 1:04:01
  Speaker 2: in the Elvis FBI documents, the part that's redacted, it's
• 1:04:06
  Speaker 2: redacted on foreign policy grounds. Huh Okay, weird, right, what
• 1:04:11
  Speaker 2: would a foreign government have to do with Elvis? I
• 1:04:14
  Speaker 2: don't know, keep keeping it, keeping it real, k I
• 1:04:18
  Speaker 2: R taking care of business. So that's the Fort Knox conspiracy.
• 1:04:22
  Speaker 2: It's a it's a one that I mean, it's hard
• 1:04:26
  Speaker 2: to come to a conclusion. I would if all the
• 1:04:28
  Speaker 2: gold is gone, and it is and it's demonstrated to
• 1:04:31
  Speaker 2: be gone, then like then you know, there's a huge
• 1:04:34
  Speaker 2: hit to our economy, right yeah, So like who who
• 1:04:38
  Speaker 2: really loses in that case? Uh? Like what jillion? But
• 1:04:42
  Speaker 2: if the gold is gone and they can successfully lie
• 1:04:47
  Speaker 2: about it still being there, then our economy doesn't take
• 1:04:51
  Speaker 2: that same hit. Sure, but so who knows? I mean, uh,
• 1:04:57
  Speaker 2: vast amounts of money in general, Like I just need
• 1:04:59
  Speaker 2: to go, just all need to go. Let's let's bring
• 1:05:02
  Speaker 2: back the barter system. I gotta, I gotta, I got
• 1:05:04
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• 1:05:08
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• 1:05:11
  Speaker 2: don't really want to live in the world they're pushing
• 1:05:13
  Speaker 2: for right now. Yeah it's fair, Like I don't know, Yeah,
• 1:05:18
  Speaker 2: Like I like my bicycle, but I also like my car.
• 1:05:21
  Speaker 2: All right, So that's that's the gold at Fort Knox Conspiracy.
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  Speaker 2: All right, let's get the fuck out of here danger.
• 1:08:07
  Speaker 2: Say goodbye like the Golden Fort Knox can't because it
• 1:08:11
  Speaker 2: was never there exactly. I mean it was, so you're
• 1:08:15
  Speaker 2: unning out. Okay, goodbye everybody. We love it, mate, pas