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

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  Speaker 1: Kentucky featuring guest in Kentucky resident Zach Johnston. In the meantime, today,
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  Speaker 1: I'm reposting a couple of episodes from the past that
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  Speaker 1: deal with conspiracy theories related to the state of Kentucky.
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  Speaker 1: We're not going to just talk about them again on
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  Speaker 1: tomorrow's episode, so we're reposting a couple of things. One
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  Speaker 1: of them about the theory that there is no longer
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  Speaker 1: any gold at Fort Knox, which is in Kentucky. Another
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  Speaker 1: episode about the highly underreported theory that the killing of
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  Speaker 1: Breonna Taylor in Louisville may have been tied to a
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  Speaker 1: gentrification project that was happening in the city at the time.
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  Speaker 1: We just reposted both of those episodes. If you're listening
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  Speaker 1: babym hmm, thank you for listening. This is a free episode,
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  Speaker 1: so it's going out to the entire world. Danger. How
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  Speaker 1: are you tell the people who might have no fucking
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  Speaker 1: 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. Hell yeah, the host least likely
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  Speaker 3: to be on this show because I believe in the
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  Speaker 3: fundamental goodness of all people and.
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  Speaker 1: Including the United States government. Oh that's an entity and
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  Speaker 1: not people. See, that's that's what. Because I get the
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  Speaker 1: sense that you're a little more on the skeptic side
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  Speaker 1: when it comes to conspiracies. Just some conspiracies, but certainly
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  Speaker 1: to me, just kind of a blind trust in the
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  Speaker 1: US governments are saying, yeah, stop the clock. No one's
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  Speaker 1: 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 1: But are you the type that until someone holds up
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  Speaker 1: a piece of paper with government stamped on top that
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  Speaker 1: says this happened, you strike me as the type who's like, now,
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  Speaker 1: that probably didn't happen. Yeah, I guess that's fair. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: but why, Like, what is it about the US government
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  Speaker 1: that would make you always give them the benefit? Oh?
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  Speaker 1: I misunderstood you.
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  Speaker 3: No, I I know I've read too much history and
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  Speaker 3: listen to too many quality podcasts to take a lot of
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  Speaker 3: things at face value when they're like it was a
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  Speaker 3: ghast league.
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  Speaker 1: 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 know. We don't always
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  Speaker 3: end up looking good or rather the America that you
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  Speaker 3: and I love, yeah wholeheartedly, my country tisfthy. 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 1: So sometimes there's some stuff they don't want to The
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  Speaker 1: war in Iraq is a really interesting thing to me
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  Speaker 1: because that at its core is a conspiracy, Like I
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  Speaker 1: went to war based on faulty information, and we lied
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  Speaker 1: 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
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  Speaker 3: Donald Rumsfeld said it was fine, So it was fine, but.
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  Speaker 1: There's still a whole half of the country that would
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  Speaker 1: be like, no, they said weapons of mass destruction, and
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  Speaker 1: that's why we went right even though there was no
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  Speaker 1: weapons of mass destruction. There was no yellow So what's
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  Speaker 1: the difference between someone who objected to how the Iraq
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  Speaker 1: War was carried out and a conspiracy theorist?
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  Speaker 4: Uh?
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  Speaker 1: Because if we every every argument would apply. Because one
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  Speaker 1: thing you always hear from people who immediately shoot down
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  Speaker 1: conspiracy theories is oh, well, so many people would have
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  Speaker 1: to lie. Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: 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 nic Shyamalan signs.
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  Speaker 1: Watch it and I'm like, no, no, no, I've done
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  Speaker 1: like I've looked into it. It's seriously just kids who
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  Speaker 1: like geometry. But see, then you have to put yourself
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  Speaker 1: in the shoes of a person who has research to
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  Speaker 1: conspiracy theory, Like my favorite JFK conspiracy theory is that
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  Speaker 1: he was accidentally killed by the Secret Service when they
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  Speaker 1: were responding to the Lee Harvey Oswald shooting. And the
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  Speaker 1: guy who came up with that theory one is a
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  Speaker 1: ballistics expert. Two he's the only person when CBS did
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  Speaker 1: their recreation of the JFK shooting, he's the only person
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  Speaker 1: who successfully got all three shots off. And after he
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  Speaker 1: did it, he was like, no one could have actually
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  Speaker 1: done this under those circumstances. He was like, I'm lucky
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  Speaker 1: that I was. And they had like fifteen different people
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  Speaker 1: try to get these shots off and only one guy did,
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  Speaker 1: and that guy was so convinced that it couldn't have
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  Speaker 1: happened that way. He spent the next fifteen years researching
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  Speaker 1: ballistics evidence in all of this shit from the JFK
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  Speaker 1: assassination and came to this conclusion that the bullet that
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  Speaker 1: killed him was fired by a Secret Service agent who
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  Speaker 1: stood up because he heard Lee Harvey Oswald shooting and
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  Speaker 1: started to look around to see who he needed to shoot,
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  Speaker 1: and the car he was in accelerated. He fell back
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  Speaker 1: accidentally fired the shot. Now that conspiracy theory one, it
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  Speaker 1: validates everyone else who thinks it was in a conspiracy
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  Speaker 1: because in that case, yes, Lee Harvey Oswald was technically
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  Speaker 1: the only shooter. And then the question of oh, but
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  Speaker 1: they could cover it up this long the Secret Service,
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  Speaker 1: they got secret in their name, they can cover that
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  Speaker 1: up for the rest of their lives.
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  Speaker 3: Pal, but so that you don't want to be so
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  Speaker 3: bad your job that a president dies.
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  Speaker 1: But so then the crop circles thing you're like, well, no,
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  Speaker 1: I've researched it, and it's a joke. Well, that guy's
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  Speaker 1: researched this JFK thing, Okay, but I think it's still
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  Speaker 1: kind of treated as a joke. He's got very both
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  Speaker 1: of the Jay both of the Kennedy assassinations. There is
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  Speaker 1: very weird evidence like the the I don't know if
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  Speaker 1: you've looked into the Bobby Kennedy assassination. Honestly, it breaks
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  Speaker 1: my heart so much I don't even want to. Well,
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  Speaker 1: the most heartbreaking thing is every witness reports Sirhan Sirhan
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  Speaker 1: at Bobby Kennedy kind of from the distance I am
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  Speaker 1: from you and just firing six shots. The shot that
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  Speaker 1: killed Bobby Kennedy went behind his ear from close range.
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  Speaker 1: There were gunpowder burns on his ear. Sir Han, sir
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  Speaker 1: Han did not get close enough at any point to
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  Speaker 1: fire the shot that killed Bobby Kennedy. And it's I
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  Speaker 1: 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 with.
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  Speaker 1: Well, the secret Service agent in this case they at
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  Speaker 1: the time they didn't give Secret Service protection to presidential candidates.
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  Speaker 1: So he was actually being escorted through the kitchen by
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  Speaker 1: a security guard with known extreme right leanings, which not
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  Speaker 1: the person you want escorting Bobby Kennedy through a kitchen. Nope,
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  Speaker 1: but that's not what we're talking about.
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  Speaker 3: I just I will say I've seen the security detail
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  Speaker 3: around Bernie Sanders these days, and it's six dudes who
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  Speaker 3: could very easily pick me up with one hand.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I figured it'd just be like Killer Mike.
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  Speaker 3: And it's you know what it's. I think it's Killer
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  Speaker 3: Mike and the and the five other Killers Mike, you know.
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  Speaker 1: But so yeah, with these guest episodes, I've been trying
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  Speaker 1: to yeah, no, and that's fair, and reach out in
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  Speaker 1: and see what people's I think, general temperature. Like with
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  Speaker 1: John Fahey and Vanessa Gritton, I knew going in right
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  Speaker 1: away they were very gung ho about what we were
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  Speaker 1: talking about, so I didn't have to ask.
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  Speaker 3: I think my my point or my perspective is that
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  Speaker 3: like these things have to be taken on a case
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  Speaker 3: by case basis because sometimes, yeah, like there is some
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  Speaker 3: super 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, right trying to research,
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  Speaker 3: trying to be trying to prove something, you know, there
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  Speaker 3: is a confirmation bias that happens with a lot of
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  Speaker 3: these kinds of things. And you know, if you were
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  Speaker 3: to tell me that like JFK was assassinated by accident
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  Speaker 3: by his own guys, and RFK was assassinated by two
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  Speaker 3: guys that sort of like put their heads together, or
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  Speaker 3: or maybe just like dude saw a moment of opportunity.
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  Speaker 3: It was like, fuck, I might as well not care
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  Speaker 3: about my job so much that I'll shoot at surans
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  Speaker 3: are on but miss and hit hit my boss.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, that's that's believable, you know, but I's you know,
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  Speaker 3: there are some grander things out there, Like there are
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  Speaker 3: grander 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 I mean, and
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  Speaker 3: there's other stuff like that immediately discredits the notion of
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  Speaker 3: a conspiracy theorist, like the Birther thing, like something that's
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  Speaker 3: so easily disprovable that's like hey, jerks, like here you go,
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  Speaker 3: or like the that silly shit with like uh, there's
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  Speaker 3: there's a child porn ring run out of a pizza
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  Speaker 3: joint in DC and all those liberals that you that
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  Speaker 3: you hate, you know, the storm emoji, like like that
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  Speaker 3: ship is bonkers, you know, right, and that like that
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  Speaker 3: kind of stuff tends to be almost more of a misinformation,
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  Speaker 3: fake news kind of thing.
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  Speaker 1: Especial confirmation bias. You you know how you you know
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  Speaker 1: how you feel about Hillary Clinton, and you feel that
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  Speaker 1: Hillary Clinton is a monster, and you then believe that,
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  Speaker 1: oh yeah, then she probably would run this horrible child
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  Speaker 1: like look, however you feel about Hillary Clinton, like like
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  Speaker 1: it's some silly shit, just yeah, like that one's silly.
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  Speaker 1: We talked about Ruby Ridge last week, and I think
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  Speaker 1: I'm familiar. What is that Ruby Ridge? It was a
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  Speaker 1: siege by the US government where they basically shot a
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  Speaker 1: woman in a head in the head, killed a guy's
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  Speaker 1: son and his dog because the guy didn't show up
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  Speaker 1: to court for a warrant for selling sawed off shotguns
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  Speaker 1: to an undercover agent who probably entrapped him into selling
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  Speaker 1: those guns. And we have history has pretty much written
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  Speaker 1: the people at Ruby Ridge off as these crazy right
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  Speaker 1: wing extremists, which they were, but they also weren't doing anything.
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  Speaker 1: Oh they weren't bothering anybody. They just refused to snitch
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  Speaker 1: on the Area Nations group that lived fifteen miles away
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  Speaker 1: from them. So the FBI really fucking cracked down. And
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  Speaker 1: the thing is that segment of I cracked down on
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  Speaker 1: white supremacists. That's a no. They well, yes, but in
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  Speaker 1: the form of refreshing Randy and Vicky Weaver, who were
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  Speaker 1: doing Vicky Weaver was holding her baby when she got
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  Speaker 1: shot in the head by an FBI sniper and the
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  Speaker 1: entire family was running back toward the cabin. They did
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  Speaker 1: not pose a threat to anyone. But what we brought
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  Speaker 1: up then was the new World Order, Like that's a
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  Speaker 1: conspiracy theory that you heard a lot in the nineties
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  Speaker 1: from these right wing types and they were like, the
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  Speaker 1: government is fucking arm and the police, the police are
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  Speaker 1: becoming a new military and they're gonna come get us,
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  Speaker 1: and we were like whatever, But it also happened, like ye,
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  Speaker 1: the police, militarization of the police, militarization of the police
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  Speaker 1: did happen, and it came to those people first. It
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  Speaker 1: just has affected them lately. So what yeah, I mean,
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  Speaker 1: that's I don't know what that has to do. First,
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  Speaker 1: they came for the right wing wings, and I said, well,
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  Speaker 1: that's I mean?
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  Speaker 5: Is it that?
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  Speaker 1: Like when they were saying, hey, the police are getting
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  Speaker 1: militarized and they're turning into a new army and we
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  Speaker 1: were like, shut up, gun nuts. And now every small
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  Speaker 1: town police department has a tank. Right, So I had
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  Speaker 1: a tank on my street when there was like an
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  Speaker 1: actual tank parked on my apartment like where my apartment
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  Speaker 1: block is, because there was a basically a big fun run.
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  Speaker 1: We have this syic lavilla siclavia, like a bicycle deal
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  Speaker 1: in in downtown Glendale at one point, and there was
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  Speaker 1: goddamn tank sitting right there. Like why do we need that?
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  Speaker 1: We don't need a tank here because of the New
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  Speaker 1: World Order? Bruh, I prefer WWE at the time. Come on,
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  Speaker 1: you know I don't mean wrestling. Yeah, get out of here.
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  Speaker 1: I won't. So we're talking about one of those conspiracies
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  Speaker 1: today that is almost impossible to come to a conclusion on, okay,
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  Speaker 1: because for one thing, we're talking, well, we're talking about
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  Speaker 1: Fort Knox and the conspiracy as to whether there is
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  Speaker 1: even still gold in Fort Knox or if we just
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  Speaker 1: sold that ship and were lying.
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  Speaker 3: At 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 1: Yeah, so there must be gold there. The heist movies
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  Speaker 1: are relying on it. I love a good heist movie.
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  Speaker 1: You know those movies don't take place inside Fort Knox. Oh,
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  Speaker 1: they build like there has not been it. There have
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  Speaker 1: been very few people allowed inside Fort Knox, which we'll
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  Speaker 1: talk about it. I wonder what's in Fort Knox. It's
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  Speaker 1: probably just empty rooms, palettes where gold used to be.
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  Speaker 1: I hope it's like lead spray painted gold and then
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  Speaker 1: you can be like, oh no, our alchemist went backwards. Yeah, exactly.
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  Speaker 1: So let's talk about some of the background on Fort Knox.
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  Speaker 1: I didn't know any of this. I know very little
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  Speaker 1: about Fort Knox. On April fifth, nineteen thirty three, President
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  Speaker 1: Franklin D. Roosevelt FDR Baby issued Executive Order sixty one
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  Speaker 1: h two quit governing through executive orders forbidding the hoarding
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  Speaker 1: of gold coin, gold bullion, and gold certificates within the
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  Speaker 1: continental United States.
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  Speaker 3: Give it up, danger, stop boarding your gold. This was
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  Speaker 3: thirty three. Man, when were the what did the Great
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  Speaker 3: Depression really really hit? That was the twenties, right, It
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  Speaker 3: was most of the twenties I believe. So, I mean
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  Speaker 3: this was an effort to sort of shore up their
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  Speaker 3: existing capital so that they could maybe make more loans
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  Speaker 3: and more investment.
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  Speaker 1: Right right, Because at the time, the Federal Reserve Act
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  Speaker 1: of nineteen thirteen required forty percent goal backing of banknotes issued,
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  Speaker 1: So by the late twenties, the Federal Reserve was close
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  Speaker 1: to its allowable limit. So demanding that people sell their
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  Speaker 1: gold to the Federal Reserve would allow it to increase
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  Speaker 1: the money supply during the Great Depression. Okay, so wait
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  Speaker 1: the did the depression start in the twenty I want
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  Speaker 1: to say it was like twenty nine, yeah, because it
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  Speaker 1: was twenty nine kind of tied to the stock market crash,
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  Speaker 1: right right, right, So yeah, it was. It would have
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  Speaker 1: 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 5: Right.
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  Speaker 1: It's basically the America we want to live in. Right now? Cool?
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  Speaker 1: I mean, depending on what side jerred FDR was a
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  Speaker 1: pretty badass president. Yeah he was fine. So the executive
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  Speaker 1: order required everyone to deliver their gold coins, bullion, and
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  Speaker 1: certificates to the Federal Reserve on or before May first,
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  Speaker 1: nineteen thirty three, in exchange for twenty dollars and sixty
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  Speaker 1: seven per troy ounce, equivalent to three hundred and ninety
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  Speaker 1: one dollars today. Do you know what a troy ounce is?
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  Speaker 1: I think it's the measurement for gold. All right, cool,
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  Speaker 1: I mean we can look it up. What is a
• 18:39
  Speaker 1: troy ounce? Internet point zero six eight five seven one four.
• 18:43
  Speaker 1: I mean it just kind of sounds like a nautical mile.
• 18:45
  Speaker 1: Why don't we just it's the it's the official weight
• 18:48
  Speaker 1: for precious metals. All right, you're happy now. That's according
• 18:52
  Speaker 1: to J. M. Bullion. Uh huh. That guy's got a
• 18:55
  Speaker 1: great name for being in the gold market or nasing. Yeah. So,
• 19:00
  Speaker 1: so there were a few exceptions. People were allowed to
• 19:02
  Speaker 1: own up to one hundred dollars in gold coins and
• 19:05
  Speaker 1: rare coins as well as gold used for quote, industry,
• 19:08
  Speaker 1: profession or art were exempt.
• 19:11
  Speaker 3: So this is just going after the hoarders like the
• 19:13
  Speaker 3: pretty much giant piles of gold.
• 19:15
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's going after the Alex Jones types of today
• 19:18
  Speaker 1: scrooges making doc silver right. And the Gold Reserve Act
• 19:23
  Speaker 1: of nineteen thirty four then required the Federal Reserve to
• 19:25
  Speaker 1: transfer ownership of gold to the Treasury. And that part
• 19:31
  Speaker 1: is going to become kind of important later. Okay, it
• 19:34
  Speaker 1: comes up when we hear Ron Paul ranting, must we
• 19:38
  Speaker 1: in front of the government. In exchange, the Treasury issued
• 19:42
  Speaker 1: gold certificates to the Federal Reserve for the gold at
• 19:45
  Speaker 1: a price of forty two to twenty two per troy ounce,
• 19:49
  Speaker 1: which is the statutory price of gold set by law
• 19:52
  Speaker 1: and does not fluctuate with the market. Don't you try it,
• 19:55
  Speaker 1: danger no fluctuations price, A forty two.
• 19:59
  Speaker 3: Dollars per ounce statutory price. That's not really a phrase
• 20:05
  Speaker 3: I've heard that often. I've never heard of a price
• 20:08
  Speaker 3: being set by law without relationship to a market.
• 20:13
  Speaker 1: It's very very interesting that they would do that. Yeah,
• 20:16
  Speaker 1: and I think it's a defense measure of some sort
• 20:19
  Speaker 1: to keep the price from of gold just from completely
• 20:22
  Speaker 1: bottoming out.
• 20:23
  Speaker 3: So they're okay with maybe missing out on some good times,
• 20:28
  Speaker 3: but they've ensured themselves against a really significant collapse.
• 20:33
  Speaker 1: That sounds like a pretty smart way to go, pretty
• 20:35
  Speaker 1: good idea. All right, Feds, So the government now has
• 20:40
  Speaker 1: all this fucking gold and they need someplace to put it.
• 20:44
  Speaker 1: Have they considered Kentucky? They did consider Kentucky. In fact,
• 20:49
  Speaker 1: in nineteen thirty five, the Treasury Department began construction on
• 20:52
  Speaker 1: the United States Bullioned Deposits. Sorry, nothing bad ever happens
• 20:57
  Speaker 1: with the depository completed in nineteen thirty six. This fortified
• 21:01
  Speaker 1: Vault building is located within the one hundred and nine
• 21:04
  Speaker 1: thousand acre Fort Knox Army Post in Kentucky, at the
• 21:08
  Speaker 1: intersection of Bullion Boulevard and Gold Vault Road. What a
• 21:12
  Speaker 1: great location. I bet they got there and they were like,
• 21:16
  Speaker 1: holy shit, do you see those names of the suit bro?
• 21:19
  Speaker 1: Do you do that on purpose? This is a sign
• 21:22
  Speaker 1: we need to set up shop here. And they did.
• 21:25
  Speaker 1: I wonder what was that the intersection of Gold Bullioned
• 21:30
  Speaker 1: Boulevard and Vault Road before?
• 21:32
  Speaker 3: I think it was just like a piece of joint project.
• 21:34
  Speaker 3: Did one of the better laundromats in town Circle?
• 21:37
  Speaker 5: Hey?
• 21:38
  Speaker 3: Yeah, they had like they had like the decent teenage
• 21:40
  Speaker 3: mint Ins Turtles video game, you know, not the first,
• 21:43
  Speaker 3: like the second probably a pawn shop. It was pawn
• 21:45
  Speaker 3: shop that had Yeah, I got some I got a
• 21:47
  Speaker 3: bike there once, you know, it's fine, so it's fine
• 21:50
  Speaker 3: if nothing else, perfect location for this.
• 21:53
  Speaker 1: They nailed it there. Eventually, of course, we abandoned the
• 21:57
  Speaker 1: gold standard, which is a big of this conspiracy, because
• 22:01
  Speaker 1: that was that was kind of why we needed the gold.
• 22:04
  Speaker 1: Because our money was backed by gold. You were supposed
• 22:07
  Speaker 1: to be able to take money and go to the
• 22:09
  Speaker 1: government and say no, give me gold instead. It's easier
• 22:12
  Speaker 1: to carry around. It's heavy, but you can't do that anymore, okay.
• 22:17
  Speaker 1: So on December thirty first, nineteen seventy four, under President
• 22:21
  Speaker 1: Gerald Ford, private gold ownership was once again legalized. Today,
• 22:28
  Speaker 1: the Vault holds one hundred and forty seven point three
• 22:31
  Speaker 1: million ounces of gold, allegedly divided between thirteen compartments, translating
• 22:38
  Speaker 1: to one hundred and eighty six billion dollars at current value.
• 22:42
  Speaker 1: These particular gold reserves are, as mentioned earlier, valued much
• 22:47
  Speaker 1: lower at forty two dollars and twenty two cents an ounce,
• 22:49
  Speaker 1: primarily to keep the balance sheet stable in case the
• 22:53
  Speaker 1: price of gold drops dramatically. So I just said that, yeah,
• 22:57
  Speaker 1: I'm still having a hard time with this static price
• 23:00
  Speaker 1: that they've set. So if they say our gold is
• 23:03
  Speaker 1: valued at forty two dollars like that, then that's what
• 23:07
  Speaker 1: anyone trying to buy that gold would have to pay
• 23:10
  Speaker 1: to get some of the gold. Or they're just saying like,
• 23:12
  Speaker 1: we have this value and we're going to wage or
• 23:15
  Speaker 1: we're going to build based off of the value of
• 23:17
  Speaker 1: this gold. But it's it's a set price to I
• 23:20
  Speaker 1: think to keep the value of gold from bottoming out.
• 23:23
  Speaker 3: Okay, I'm an artist, man, I deal in feelings, not
• 23:27
  Speaker 3: in numbers.
• 23:28
  Speaker 1: Okay to a degree. Actually, there's like Journey. Yeah, there's
• 23:32
  Speaker 1: a lot of numbers I live with in my life,
• 23:33
  Speaker 1: especially how many albums politics in my organizations and the
• 23:36
  Speaker 1: album sales I generally with Spotify sales, I'll get yes, no,
• 23:42
  Speaker 1: but like I get a check for like forty six
• 23:44
  Speaker 1: dollars every other month or so, Oh my god, am
• 23:48
  Speaker 1: I going to start getting money from Spotify for this podcast?
• 23:50
  Speaker 3: I mean, if you if you're downloaded and played and
• 23:52
  Speaker 3: enough enough regularity, amaze balls, Yes, truly would be amaz.
• 23:57
  Speaker 1: I've never said that word in my life until right now,
• 23:59
  Speaker 1: And I'm going to add that out. Adam said, amaze balls.
• 24:02
  Speaker 1: Everybody said, Adam said amazed bass. Adam said, amazed balls.
• 24:06
  Speaker 1: So let's talk about the security measures at this place.
• 24:10
  Speaker 1: They include a twenty ton blast proof door like in
• 24:13
  Speaker 1: the Last Jedi, exactly like in the Last Jedi, twenty
• 24:17
  Speaker 1: five inch thick casing. Oh wait, that gets opened. Mine
• 24:21
  Speaker 1: fields just like the ones that took out Paul McCartney's
• 24:24
  Speaker 1: ex wife's leg. Wait what Heather Mills, she only had
• 24:28
  Speaker 1: one leg, She'll have had one like she lost in
• 24:30
  Speaker 1: a mine. Now she got hit by a car, but
• 24:32
  Speaker 1: then she did all this campaigning for mines. It's like,
• 24:35
  Speaker 1: come on, I mean, you know that's not how it happened.
• 24:37
  Speaker 1: Oh okay, car have a mine on front of it.
• 24:39
  Speaker 1: I don't know. She was hanging out, hit by a
• 24:42
  Speaker 1: car and it explodes. I'd be like, I didn't even
• 24:44
  Speaker 1: realize I had this power?
• 24:46
  Speaker 3: Is a pinto Yeah yeah, but like a bee, you
• 24:48
  Speaker 3: only get that power once, right.
• 24:50
  Speaker 1: Yeah. It also has electric fences and helicopter gun ships,
• 24:54
  Speaker 1: like one of my favorite Obama quotes, because one thing
• 24:58
  Speaker 1: I've learned, it's going because of helicopters. One thing I've
• 25:01
  Speaker 1: learned in researching conspiracy theories and especially researching Trump is
• 25:07
  Speaker 1: Obama was no peach himself. He did a lot of
• 25:10
  Speaker 1: awful things that are still in place for Trump to
• 25:13
  Speaker 1: use to be awful with us. Also, yeah, not cool.
• 25:16
  Speaker 1: But one of my favorite quotes from him, I don't
• 25:19
  Speaker 1: remember who was interviewing him, but they asked about black helicopters,
• 25:22
  Speaker 1: which is black helicopters are a big New World Order thing.
• 25:26
  Speaker 1: They're like, they get they have these black helicopters. They
• 25:28
  Speaker 1: fly them around. And this person asked Obama about black
• 25:31
  Speaker 1: helicopters and if we have them, and he said, yes,
• 25:34
  Speaker 1: but that's not what they're for. Tell me what they're for, Obama,
• 25:40
  Speaker 1: son of a bitch.
• 25:41
  Speaker 3: Parties could be like, I mean, it's kind of expected,
• 25:45
  Speaker 3: but I mean you could basically bungee jump anywhere if
• 25:47
  Speaker 3: you have a helicopter.
• 25:48
  Speaker 1: Yep, maybe it's that. So they have helicopter gunships at
• 25:51
  Speaker 1: Fort Knox cool that's neat. The depository has also been
• 25:56
  Speaker 1: used to secure other historical items at various times. During
• 25:59
  Speaker 1: World War or two, held the original Declaration of Independence
• 26:02
  Speaker 1: and the US Constitution until both were stolen by Nicholas
• 26:06
  Speaker 1: Cage in the early two thousands. Remember that Nope, national treasure.
• 26:10
  Speaker 1: Don't care steals a declaration of independence to protect it.
• 26:13
  Speaker 1: I'm sure no, no, I think you selling it on EBA.
• 26:16
  Speaker 1: At one point, it also held millions of dollars worth
• 26:18
  Speaker 1: of morphine and opium and ken for in supply was
• 26:24
  Speaker 1: cut off. I hope that's I hope it's all opium
• 26:28
  Speaker 1: in Fort Knox? Now what do you think They're like, bruh,
• 26:31
  Speaker 1: how do you think we got the opium we sold
• 26:34
  Speaker 1: the gold Man?
• 26:35
  Speaker 3: What do you think evokes the most, like wistfulness from
• 26:38
  Speaker 3: the guards of Fort Knox when they're walking by the
• 26:41
  Speaker 3: unused helicopter gunship and they're.
• 26:43
  Speaker 1: Like, man, I hope somebody, Or when they're walking by
• 26:47
  Speaker 1: the vault with all the gold behind it, like maybe
• 26:49
  Speaker 1: they wouldn't miss a peace, Or when they're walking by
• 26:50
  Speaker 1: the vault with all of the morphine and opium in America,
• 26:54
  Speaker 1: Like what what gets those guards going?
• 26:56
  Speaker 6: Like?
• 26:56
  Speaker 1: Oh, what do you think? What do you think gets
• 26:58
  Speaker 1: them scheming the most?
• 26:59
  Speaker 3: And when they're like on their break and they got
• 27:01
  Speaker 3: the back of like their their their bag and they're
• 27:03
  Speaker 3: like was opium ever.
• 27:05
  Speaker 1: Legal in the United States? Like why? What made what
• 27:09
  Speaker 1: brought that decision on opium. Man, I want to need
• 27:13
  Speaker 1: this to fund the Afghanistan war someday, I want to say. Well, morphine,
• 27:18
  Speaker 1: for sure was everything was was legal in the twenties,
• 27:23
  Speaker 1: Like everything was legal at the turn of the century.
• 27:24
  Speaker 1: And they're like, hey, you gotta you gotta headache that friends,
• 27:27
  Speaker 1: try some cocaine not addictive. Well, what's crazy about that
• 27:32
  Speaker 1: is we tried that with heroin. There was bear actually
• 27:35
  Speaker 1: produced heroin that was on store shelves for a while,
• 27:39
  Speaker 1: and we were like, no, no, no, no, no, no, that's
• 27:41
  Speaker 1: too addictive. We can't sell this as an over the
• 27:43
  Speaker 1: counter thing, and we can't sell it as a medicinal
• 27:47
  Speaker 1: thing in general. And the next thing they tried was
• 27:50
  Speaker 1: oxy codoney and had right, yeah, they had the same results.
• 27:55
  Speaker 1: They were like, now we got to pull this off
• 27:56
  Speaker 1: the shelves. Too addictive, not medicinal at all. And then
• 28:00
  Speaker 1: in the nineties we were like, never mind, we can
• 28:03
  Speaker 1: produce that in America. It's great and here we are.
• 28:07
  Speaker 1: So let's talk about some of the Fort Knox conspiracy theorists.
• 28:12
  Speaker 1: The first one, it's his name, Peter David Beeter O.
• 28:17
  Speaker 1: Peter Beater, Yeah, pumpkin eater, yep, Pet. We cannot.
• 28:22
  Speaker 3: We can't, Adam, I need solemn vowed, do not do
• 28:26
  Speaker 3: not refer to this guy as anything but Peter Beeter,
• 28:28
  Speaker 3: pumpkin eater.
• 28:29
  Speaker 1: I'll call him Peter Beeter. Okay, I'm not gonna do
• 28:31
  Speaker 1: the pumpkin eater part of Peter Beeter pumpkin Eater, So
• 28:35
  Speaker 1: Peter David Beater old Peter Beeter. In nineteen seventies, an
• 28:40
  Speaker 1: attorney who I don't know if I've mentioned this yet,
• 28:42
  Speaker 1: but his name was Peter Beeter made several claims that
• 28:46
  Speaker 1: Fort Knox's vault was empty and the gold had been
• 28:49
  Speaker 1: stolen or sold to European interests at prices vastly below
• 28:54
  Speaker 1: market rates. Why would anyone do that? Peter Beeter probably
• 28:58
  Speaker 1: gonna make money, he was. Would you sell something for
• 29:01
  Speaker 1: for a low price?
• 29:03
  Speaker 7: Man?
• 29:03
  Speaker 1: Maybe we had a debt that needed to be paid
• 29:06
  Speaker 1: that America doesn't doesn't follow up on its debts. That's true,
• 29:10
  Speaker 1: silly bean. So he was known for his for pushing
• 29:15
  Speaker 1: multiple conspiracy theories, including one that Lyndon B. Johnson was
• 29:19
  Speaker 1: involved in the Kennedy assassination, probably Patty Hurst was kidnapped
• 29:24
  Speaker 1: by the CIA, I buy it, and that the Rockefellers
• 29:28
  Speaker 1: essentially ruled the world and would be responsible for America's
• 29:31
  Speaker 1: ruin Three out of three, ain't bad? I believe all
• 29:35
  Speaker 1: those Why not?
• 29:36
  Speaker 3: Sure, Peter, it's recreational for you believe in conspiracy its
• 29:41
  Speaker 3: it's like fun for what people to work, you know how,
• 29:45
  Speaker 3: cause it's like then you gotta then you gotta.
• 29:46
  Speaker 1: Do the research. Then you gotta be like all right, well,
• 29:48
  Speaker 1: then I got to spend all this brain power, Like
• 29:50
  Speaker 1: where do you think all of the do you think
• 29:52
  Speaker 1: this is? These details just fall out of the sky.
• 29:55
  Speaker 1: We researched this podcast, I know. But you you seem
• 29:58
  Speaker 1: to enjoy it as well. It's mine. Sorry, yeah, no,
• 30:02
  Speaker 1: it's just a sorry bro.
• 30:04
  Speaker 5: Job.
• 30:05
  Speaker 1: Yeah, you do have a pretty sweet job that you
• 30:07
  Speaker 1: built yourself. I could I could be doing worse, that's
• 30:09
  Speaker 1: for sure. Yeah, So let's talk about Peter beaters Fort
• 30:12
  Speaker 1: Knox theory. It gained traction with the American public, leading
• 30:16
  Speaker 1: the US Mint to open the depository doors to visitors
• 30:20
  Speaker 1: for the first time. They showed them the birth certificate.
• 30:23
  Speaker 1: This is the kind of thing I like, I like
• 30:25
  Speaker 1: what a conspiracy theorist is, Like, show me the gold
• 30:27
  Speaker 1: and they're like, we'll show you the gold fuck you, dude. Yeah,
• 30:29
  Speaker 1: but yes, the same thing as the birth certificate. They
• 30:33
  Speaker 1: were like, show us a birth certificate. He made it
• 30:35
  Speaker 1: a T shirt. Obama put his birth certificate on a
• 30:39
  Speaker 1: T shirt. I love that. I used to have an
• 30:42
  Speaker 1: Obama birth certificate T shirt that I bought from the
• 30:45
  Speaker 1: official White House merch store, which I think runs on
• 30:49
  Speaker 1: Cafe Press. Okay, in case you didn't know that that's
• 30:52
  Speaker 1: a Cafe Press. Yeah. So on September twenty third, nineteen
• 30:57
  Speaker 1: seventy four, Mary Brooks, then the director of the US Mint,
• 31:01
  Speaker 1: led several members of Congress and the media on a
• 31:04
  Speaker 1: tour of the vault. See. I like transparency like this.
• 31:08
  Speaker 1: I like when the government is like, yeah, no, let's
• 31:11
  Speaker 1: talk it out. That happened with the Russian apartment bombings.
• 31:14
  Speaker 1: We did an episode about that's basically Russia's nine to
• 31:17
  Speaker 1: eleven and Putin orchestrated it to get himself into office.
• 31:20
  Speaker 3: Was that like a like the Ukrainian conflict type situation?
• 31:24
  Speaker 3: Oh no, no, no, that was that was more recently look
• 31:25
  Speaker 3: at two thousand and five.
• 31:26
  Speaker 1: It, as the name implies, it was a series of
• 31:29
  Speaker 1: apartment bombings that basically the Russian Secret Service pulled off
• 31:33
  Speaker 1: and blamed on Chechens to get Putin elected. Got it
• 31:38
  Speaker 1: and plausible? Yeah, it's it's it's not a matter of
• 31:44
  Speaker 1: whether it's plausible. They got caught planning the fifth bomb. Oh,
• 31:48
  Speaker 1: like it's not. It's not. Oh did they do it?
• 31:50
  Speaker 1: They got literally got caught doing it. But this was
• 31:56
  Speaker 1: it happened at this weird point in Russian history where
• 31:59
  Speaker 1: the government was still being very open and transparent. So
• 32:03
  Speaker 1: there's this TV show, you can find it. It's from
• 32:06
  Speaker 1: Russia right after the apartment bombings, where it's like five
• 32:09
  Speaker 1: Russian Secret Service agents and then the entire occupancy of
• 32:14
  Speaker 1: this apartment building where they got caught planning the fifth bomb,
• 32:18
  Speaker 1: just peppering these secret Service agents with questions on television.
• 32:22
  Speaker 1: It looked like an episode of Who Wants to Be
• 32:24
  Speaker 1: a Millionaire? There's fucking flashing lights. Like Russia used to
• 32:27
  Speaker 1: be really open and transparent about that shit until they
• 32:30
  Speaker 1: pulled off the Russian apartment bombings and got Putin into office.
• 32:34
  Speaker 1: But before that they had to at least pretend that
• 32:37
  Speaker 1: things were still on the up and up. And it's
• 32:40
  Speaker 1: a fascinating story. So that's what this is. Okay, this
• 32:45
  Speaker 1: is the American public going, you bombed a bunch of
• 32:47
  Speaker 1: apartment buildings in US, going no, let us show you
• 32:50
  Speaker 1: some gold to change your mind. And there's actually video
• 32:53
  Speaker 1: of it. Let's watch WHOA that's.
• 32:55
  Speaker 5: Going to be loud.
• 32:57
  Speaker 7: For years, depository officials were pressured to open the vote
• 33:00
  Speaker 7: for civilian inspection.
• 33:01
  Speaker 1: This is from a history continued.
• 33:03
  Speaker 7: To refuse to allow the public inside.
• 33:06
  Speaker 1: Well, I mean it's on bullion stars.
• 33:08
  Speaker 7: In nineteen seventy four, for the first and probably last time,
• 33:12
  Speaker 7: a dozen congressmen and one hundred journalists were invited inside.
• 33:18
  Speaker 7: Among them was a young senator from Kentucky called Walter Huddleston.
• 33:22
  Speaker 2: Oh as one who has lived within just a few
• 33:25
  Speaker 2: miles of this installation for a good many years, but
• 33:27
  Speaker 2: who has never been inside the front gate. I can
• 33:30
  Speaker 2: say that it is with a great deal of interest
• 33:33
  Speaker 2: that those of us from the Congress have this opportunity.
• 33:36
  Speaker 5: To view the.
• 33:38
  Speaker 2: Deposit here and to learn just what is inside the
• 33:43
  Speaker 2: gold vault here at Fort Knox.
• 33:46
  Speaker 7: It was the opportunity.
• 33:47
  Speaker 1: He looks like a guy who's Illinois Congressman criminals. It
• 33:52
  Speaker 1: was also.
• 33:54
  Speaker 4: Congressman grand You suggested all this, Why, well.
• 33:57
  Speaker 8: I did, because there were rampant roamers, and numbers of
• 34:00
  Speaker 8: Congress were deeming a great deal of mail based on
• 34:02
  Speaker 8: the charge that significant portions of our gold reserves that
• 34:05
  Speaker 8: Fort Knox were gone. So I had suggested to Secretary
• 34:08
  Speaker 8: of the Treasury Simon that I thought this would be
• 34:10
  Speaker 8: a good way.
• 34:11
  Speaker 1: I think too, Do you get inside? Already?
• 34:13
  Speaker 7: The secret contents of the vault were about to be
• 34:16
  Speaker 7: viewed by the public and recorded on film for the
• 34:19
  Speaker 7: first time.
• 34:20
  Speaker 1: Oh I well, that was dramatic.
• 34:29
  Speaker 7: Huddleston was on hand as the vault door was unlocked
• 34:32
  Speaker 7: and the wheel was turned fourteen times to open the latch.
• 34:35
  Speaker 1: Write that down over kill for the fourteen times.
• 34:42
  Speaker 5: I think there was a considerable amount of excitement.
• 34:45
  Speaker 1: Is that all it takes to open the vault? Four
• 34:47
  Speaker 1: fourteen and permission? Imagine? I didn't think that this is
• 34:51
  Speaker 1: not like a handshaker.
• 34:52
  Speaker 5: Any but I recognized maybe that was a possibility.
• 34:56
  Speaker 7: The visitors were led to a room makes sense. A
• 35:02
  Speaker 7: blue sign showed exactly what was inside this one single compartment.
• 35:06
  Speaker 1: Thirty six hundred and thirty.
• 35:07
  Speaker 7: Six bar thousand, two hundred and thirty six gold bars.
• 35:11
  Speaker 7: That almost twelve billion ounces.
• 35:14
  Speaker 1: That's all the time it.
• 35:15
  Speaker 7: Was valued at almost five hundred million dollars.
• 35:18
  Speaker 2: We're cutting the ribbon.
• 35:20
  Speaker 1: Why is there a ribbon ceremony?
• 35:24
  Speaker 7: What they saw?
• 35:25
  Speaker 6: Now?
• 35:25
  Speaker 1: Actually we do not astounding.
• 35:32
  Speaker 5: I remember being somewhat in all of seeing all that.
• 35:34
  Speaker 1: You should have got to take at least one.
• 35:36
  Speaker 5: Hard sell here, I am.
• 35:38
  Speaker 1: Andullsh look at all those cold bars.
• 35:40
  Speaker 5: It was an interesting experience.
• 35:43
  Speaker 1: What were the property of the American taxpayer there? And
• 35:45
  Speaker 1: he's been weighing about twenty.
• 35:46
  Speaker 7: Two Each of the gold bricks was worth sixty five
• 35:50
  Speaker 7: thousand dollars at the market price of the time.
• 35:53
  Speaker 1: All right, fade it out. So they have let people
• 35:58
  Speaker 1: in in nineteen seventy four. They did recently too, But
• 36:02
  Speaker 1: we'll get to that. There's just no video of the
• 36:04
  Speaker 1: recent trip. It's actually a very famous news story that
• 36:09
  Speaker 1: you will probably recognize when we get to it. Okay,
• 36:11
  Speaker 1: you just probably didn't know it involved Fort Knox pal
• 36:15
  Speaker 1: In fact, let's get to it right now. According to
• 36:17
  Speaker 1: the notes, on August twenty first, twenty seventeen, US Treasury
• 36:21
  Speaker 1: Secretary Stephen Niushan boooooo led a delegation of Kentucky politicians,
• 36:28
  Speaker 1: including Senate Majority leader Mitch mcconnello on a visit to
• 36:33
  Speaker 1: Fort Knox. This trip became somewhat controversial due to Mushin's
• 36:38
  Speaker 1: use of a government plane and his wife Louise Linton,
• 36:42
  Speaker 1: subsequently posting a photo of her stepping off the plane
• 36:45
  Speaker 1: on Instagram. Mushin ended up reimbursing the government for the
• 36:49
  Speaker 1: cost of his wife's travel. So that famous story, that
• 36:53
  Speaker 1: picture of her stepping off the plane and being like, ah,
• 36:56
  Speaker 1: fuck you poor people.
• 36:57
  Speaker 5: Right.
• 36:57
  Speaker 3: Oh, that's also where they have that shot with like
• 37:00
  Speaker 3: him and his wife holding that sheet of printed one
• 37:03
  Speaker 3: hundred dollars bills. Yes, like, Hi, this is an image
• 37:06
  Speaker 3: of everything that you want and can't have because we
• 37:09
  Speaker 3: have it and we're setting up a whole system in
• 37:11
  Speaker 3: which you can't have it.
• 37:12
  Speaker 1: Yeah, So that that's what that That's what that trip
• 37:15
  Speaker 1: was about. They were going to they got to go
• 37:18
  Speaker 1: through Fort Knox.
• 37:19
  Speaker 3: I'm sure for Minutchin it was market research because it
• 37:22
  Speaker 3: is as shitty a human being as he is. He's
• 37:25
  Speaker 3: got his name on some really great movies, does he. Yeah,
• 37:29
  Speaker 3: Edge of Tomorrow excellent, Yeah, Lego Lego Batman excellent.
• 37:33
  Speaker 1: So how bad can this guy be? Horrible? He's yeah,
• 37:36
  Speaker 1: he's horrible. I've never known anyone who puts their name
• 37:40
  Speaker 1: on a lot of great movies to be horrible.
• 37:42
  Speaker 3: You know what I got, I got a few names
• 37:44
  Speaker 3: for you. They're sure sugar shirt ah man, none of
• 37:48
  Speaker 3: those yeah, none of those sugar. Yeah, don't don't call
• 37:51
  Speaker 3: me sure sugar, Sugar. I think it was supposed to
• 37:55
  Speaker 3: be sir, and then it just kind of fell in sugar.
• 37:57
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 37:58
  Speaker 3: AnyWho, it's this Harvey Wan Einstein is a real, real character.
• 38:02
  Speaker 3: Look into them, okay, honey.
• 38:04
  Speaker 1: So unlike nineteen seventy four, there wasn't a lot of
• 38:07
  Speaker 1: publicity surrounding this visit to the vault. There was no
• 38:10
  Speaker 1: mention of whether any members of the media were invited.
• 38:13
  Speaker 1: If they were, they're probably still in there. Maybe that
• 38:16
  Speaker 1: was the whole point. That's how we get rid of
• 38:18
  Speaker 1: dissidence in this country. Now we let them tour Fort
• 38:21
  Speaker 1: Knox and then it's just them and then but then
• 38:23
  Speaker 1: you can then you wind up with a smelly vault.
• 38:26
  Speaker 1: Nobody likes a smelly vault. No photos of the delegation
• 38:29
  Speaker 1: inside the depository have been released, although that's to be
• 38:32
  Speaker 1: expected given that the vault's internal structure is now classified.
• 38:36
  Speaker 1: Baby see that's it. They could just set up like
• 38:39
  Speaker 1: a twenty four hour live streaming webcam so we can
• 38:41
  Speaker 1: just always look at the gold if they wanted. You'd think, Yeah,
• 38:45
  Speaker 1: they totally could, like Big Brother the TV show. Oh okay,
• 38:50
  Speaker 1: So we're gonna listen to Ron Paul talk about this
• 38:53
  Speaker 1: for a little bit, not for all six minutes, as
• 38:56
  Speaker 1: the notes threatened. But before we start, let's talk about
• 38:59
  Speaker 1: the description of this video, the Ron Paul video. This
• 39:03
  Speaker 1: is the actual YouTube description of this video. The oldest
• 39:08
  Speaker 1: metropolis on Earth was built by the on Naki. They
• 39:11
  Speaker 1: came here to mine gold and send it back to
• 39:12
  Speaker 1: their home planets. They're still doing it. That is the
• 39:16
  Speaker 1: actual description of a video of Ron Paul talking about
• 39:20
  Speaker 1: Fort Knox. I love this so much. Do you know
• 39:24
  Speaker 1: who the Onanaki are? Apparently of people that are in
• 39:28
  Speaker 1: desperate need of gold. I clearly remember asking you to
• 39:32
  Speaker 1: watch all nine Seasons of Ancient Aliens before we recorded this,
• 39:37
  Speaker 1: and had you done that, I did not you would know.
• 39:40
  Speaker 1: The Onanaki are an ancient space race who came down
• 39:44
  Speaker 1: to Earth well before any of us and have just
• 39:46
  Speaker 1: been mining our resources ever since in a very exploitative way.
• 39:50
  Speaker 1: When's that scandal going to become a hashtag. Time's up
• 39:55
  Speaker 1: on a Naki. Let's talk about Ron Paul. This is him.
• 39:59
  Speaker 1: What's in asking about this is mister chairman. I tell you, uh,
• 40:04
  Speaker 1: knowing that you he's coming in a second. People who
• 40:07
  Speaker 1: argue that this video is built the government admitting that
• 40:11
  Speaker 1: there's no gold.
• 40:12
  Speaker 3: Federal reserve, it seems to be what the title of
• 40:15
  Speaker 3: the video assert, where is the gold of the planet
• 40:19
  Speaker 3: here today?
• 40:19
  Speaker 1: But the whole planet.
• 40:21
  Speaker 4: They distrust out here by the American people is as
• 40:25
  Speaker 4: deep and severe as I've ever seen. And it does
• 40:29
  Speaker 4: not only Congress itself, not only the ministration.
• 40:32
  Speaker 1: But yeah, yeah, yeah, let's get to rons is very low.
• 40:35
  Speaker 1: I have something known as ever said before, will finish up.
• 40:39
  Speaker 9: One thing is on a follow up on what mister
• 40:41
  Speaker 9: Jones says is the confidence is very low. But when
• 40:46
  Speaker 9: you speak of independence, and I understand your terms, and
• 40:51
  Speaker 9: I disagree with with the need for that, but I
• 40:54
  Speaker 9: understand it. But what people hear when you say independence,
• 40:58
  Speaker 9: they hear secrecy. You know you're going to keep it
• 41:01
  Speaker 9: from us. And like the point I made at the beginning,
• 41:06
  Speaker 9: the sec is to pressure companies to reveal information where
• 41:11
  Speaker 9: the Federal Reserve does the opposite they want. No, we
• 41:14
  Speaker 9: can't tell anything because it might disturb the markets. You
• 41:17
  Speaker 9: had one question during the crisis or any time that
• 41:20
  Speaker 9: you're aware of, has the Federal Reserve or Treasury participated
• 41:24
  Speaker 9: in any gold swaps arrangements.
• 41:26
  Speaker 1: Like cash for gold. We don't.
• 41:28
  Speaker 6: The Federal Reserve does not own any gold at all.
• 41:30
  Speaker 6: We have not owned gold since nineteen thirty four, so
• 41:35
  Speaker 6: we have not engaged in any gold swaps.
• 41:37
  Speaker 9: But it appears on your balance sheet that you hold
• 41:40
  Speaker 9: gold balance sheet.
• 41:42
  Speaker 6: Is gold certificates. When we turn to it in.
• 41:45
  Speaker 1: Before nineteen times did own gold.
• 41:49
  Speaker 6: We turned that over by by law.
• 41:52
  Speaker 1: To the Treasury. McClintock return for that gold certificate. If
• 41:57
  Speaker 1: the Treasury he's literally.
• 42:00
  Speaker 9: Talisation, I would assumes legal authority to do it. They
• 42:04
  Speaker 9: wouldn't be able to do it then, because you have
• 42:07
  Speaker 9: the securities for essentially all the gold.
• 42:10
  Speaker 6: No, we have no for the tryst in the gold
• 42:12
  Speaker 6: that is owned by the Treasury. We have simply an
• 42:16
  Speaker 6: accounting document that he is called gold certificates that represents
• 42:21
  Speaker 6: the value at a statutory rate. And still that we
• 42:24
  Speaker 6: gave to the Treasury in nineteen thirty.
• 42:26
  Speaker 9: And still measured at forty two dollars an hours, which
• 42:28
  Speaker 9: makes no sense what soever.
• 42:30
  Speaker 1: But you know, convince you and Ron Paul finally agree. Danger.
• 42:34
  Speaker 1: I just don't understand it, not that it doesn't make sense.
• 42:37
  Speaker 10: Really not money. We don't want it to be money.
• 42:39
  Speaker 10: I mean, if you're fir okay, good enough, Ron Paul wrong.
• 42:42
  Speaker 10: What I do love about this video is the guy
• 42:44
  Speaker 10: behind him has the weirdest nose, looks like he's just
• 42:46
  Speaker 10: waiting for the CIA mind control suggestions so he can
• 42:49
  Speaker 10: shoot Ron Paul in the back of the head.
• 42:52
  Speaker 1: Get this over with? Will you please say clap so
• 42:56
  Speaker 1: I can just shoot you. That's his trigger word, clap.
• 43:00
  Speaker 1: So that was Ron Paul. He is a very much
• 43:03
  Speaker 1: a believer that we got rid of all of the
• 43:05
  Speaker 1: gold Danger. Okay, you shouldn't have voted for that guy.
• 43:09
  Speaker 1: I did not in the past six elections. Never have.
• 43:12
  Speaker 1: That's excessive. Man, let's talk. You're not gonna believe this.
• 43:15
  Speaker 1: But there's also a conspiracy theory involving Russia.
• 43:19
  Speaker 3: But they're paragons of transparency. Is we just discussed this
• 43:24
  Speaker 3: that they do a really good job getting people who
• 43:26
  Speaker 3: do bad things to go in front of big panels.
• 43:28
  Speaker 1: And talk about it truthfully on television. Right, So this
• 43:32
  Speaker 1: conspiracy centers more around whether the US in general still
• 43:37
  Speaker 1: has its gold reserves, not just in Fort Knox, just
• 43:39
  Speaker 1: whether we still have it at all, and it seems
• 43:42
  Speaker 1: to be pushed mainly by Russia. I found at least
• 43:45
  Speaker 1: two videos from RT dot com directly addressing this okay story.
• 43:51
  Speaker 1: RT is it's such a like you really need to
• 43:53
  Speaker 1: know your fake news to not get fooled by them,
• 43:56
  Speaker 1: because it's a very American looking like they use America
• 44:00
  Speaker 1: in British anchors. It's not like a dude. It's not
• 44:03
  Speaker 1: a dude named ser guy with a thick accent who
• 44:07
  Speaker 1: doesn't move his arm when he walks, because that's what
• 44:10
  Speaker 1: Russians do to let you know they have a gun.
• 44:12
  Speaker 1: All those toothbrush. So I brought just tieth with Dolfstoyevsky
• 44:16
  Speaker 1: book and pistol precisely. So RT dot com is not that,
• 44:23
  Speaker 1: but they were the ones who were really pushing this
• 44:25
  Speaker 1: along with I think it's Sputnik is that the name
• 44:28
  Speaker 1: of the other big Russian fake news okay network. And
• 44:33
  Speaker 1: Germany has the second largest reserve of gold after the US.
• 44:39
  Speaker 1: During the Cold War, the country stored ninety eight percent
• 44:41
  Speaker 1: of its gold abroad, including at the Federal Reserve Bank
• 44:45
  Speaker 1: of New York, in order to protect it from the
• 44:47
  Speaker 1: Soviet Union. Okay, even today, it's not unusual for countries
• 44:52
  Speaker 1: to store their gold abroad. The Federal Reserve Bank of
• 44:54
  Speaker 1: New York holds reserves for over sixty countries. Because if
• 44:58
  Speaker 1: you're a fucking developing country with a ton of gold,
• 45:01
  Speaker 1: you probably don't have the secure facilities needed.
• 45:04
  Speaker 3: Yeah, and you always you don't want to spend your
• 45:06
  Speaker 3: limited money on a storage facility when you can send
• 45:09
  Speaker 3: it somewhere and like maybe like hey, we'll buy you lunch.
• 45:13
  Speaker 1: Hold this, hang onto this for us. This is from
• 45:16
  Speaker 1: a Washington Post article. In practice, much of the world's
• 45:19
  Speaker 1: gold is stored in vaults underneath central banks. This is
• 45:23
  Speaker 1: highly convenient when one government or central bank sells its
• 45:26
  Speaker 1: gold to another, The precious metal can be rolled from
• 45:30
  Speaker 1: one cage to the next with none of the risk
• 45:32
  Speaker 1: that comes with transporting it across oceans. The system, of course,
• 45:37
  Speaker 1: is built upon trust among the world's central bankers. That
• 45:41
  Speaker 1: trust runs deep, and most governments are content to keep
• 45:44
  Speaker 1: their gold wherever it is most convenient.
• 45:47
  Speaker 3: Okay, central bankers are you talking about like basic government
• 45:51
  Speaker 3: banks are you talking about like, uh, well, in.
• 45:53
  Speaker 1: This case, it's a government okay bank? All right, well
• 45:57
  Speaker 1: is it? The treasury is government? The Federal Reserve is like,
• 46:01
  Speaker 1: it's a government institution, but it's also a private institution
• 46:05
  Speaker 1: if I'm not must like the post office. Yeah yeah, okay,
• 46:09
  Speaker 1: so yeah, at one point we just turned all our
• 46:11
  Speaker 1: money over to a fucking private company. But we're like,
• 46:15
  Speaker 1: why are you all mad about this? But that company
• 46:18
  Speaker 1: is not trying to like, it doesn't have shareholders, it
• 46:22
  Speaker 1: doesn't have like people who are benefiting, like private persons
• 46:25
  Speaker 1: who are benefiting from this thing. It's like a private
• 46:27
  Speaker 1: partner private public partnership type situation. Yeah, you keep trusting
• 46:32
  Speaker 1: the man, bro.
• 46:33
  Speaker 6: So.
• 46:33
  Speaker 1: In January two thousand and third, post Office they're very friendly.
• 46:36
  Speaker 1: After pressure from nationalist politicians and conspiracy theorists like myself,
• 46:42
  Speaker 1: Germany announce, hey, hey, yeah, let's scrub that one there.
• 46:47
  Speaker 1: I want you to reread that conspiracy theorist part.
• 46:49
  Speaker 3: Yeah, reread that sentence and put your own punctuation in
• 46:52
  Speaker 3: when you're gonna be talking about.
• 46:53
  Speaker 1: In January twenty thirteen, after pressure from nationalist politicians like
• 46:58
  Speaker 1: Adam Todd Brown and conspiras theorists like Danger van Gorder.
• 47:02
  Speaker 1: Germany announced that it planned to relocate three hundred tons
• 47:05
  Speaker 1: of gold. Although it's probably spelled like t O N
• 47:08
  Speaker 1: N E S or something. You stupid like that. You
• 47:11
  Speaker 1: did misread some of those things. What did I misread? Well,
• 47:15
  Speaker 1: we are neither national politician nationalist. No, that part was
• 47:18
  Speaker 1: all fine. Germany announced that it planned to relocate three
• 47:21
  Speaker 1: hundred tons of gold from the Federal Reserve Bank of
• 47:24
  Speaker 1: New York and three hundred and seventy four tons from
• 47:27
  Speaker 1: the bank front in Pally to the headquarters of its
• 47:32
  Speaker 1: central bank, Deutsche Bundespunk Deutsche bundes Yeah, welcome to dortch Punk.
• 47:40
  Speaker 1: How may I help you? M M, it's vide coming.
• 47:43
  Speaker 1: The're coming off them, so anyway. This translated to a
• 47:49
  Speaker 1: fifty four thousand sole solid gold bars worth nearly thirty
• 47:53
  Speaker 1: one billion dollars. Germany's got bars, Danger, Okay. Although Germany
• 47:58
  Speaker 1: wanted the gold returned within five years, the US asked
• 48:01
  Speaker 1: for a twenty twenty deadline. We were like, let's see
• 48:05
  Speaker 1: what happens with Trump first, then we'll talk about whether
• 48:09
  Speaker 1: you can have your gold back. He might just tell us,
• 48:11
  Speaker 1: we can keep it. But instead so this obviously people
• 48:17
  Speaker 1: were suspicious. They were like, hey, that, why are you
• 48:22
  Speaker 1: wanting to wait? Do you not have the gold? Do
• 48:24
  Speaker 1: you not have the gold that you say you have?
• 48:26
  Speaker 1: Maybe you like gold? I don't know, like my friend
• 48:28
  Speaker 1: Loan being in sixty like cruising USA on N sixty four. Well,
• 48:32
  Speaker 1: think about it like this. Think about you as a person, yes,
• 48:36
  Speaker 1: think about you go to the bank, yep, and you
• 48:39
  Speaker 1: have a very large check, and a lot of times
• 48:42
  Speaker 1: the bank will put a hold on a really large check,
• 48:44
  Speaker 1: super annoying. And if you're expecting a ten day hold
• 48:47
  Speaker 1: and then no, no.
• 48:49
  Speaker 3: No, they tell you seven days. But they don't tell
• 48:51
  Speaker 3: you seven business days. So when you go back, when
• 48:55
  Speaker 3: you go back on Funday, which is seven days, it's like.
• 48:59
  Speaker 1: Oh, we meant in business days. You're gonna have to
• 49:01
  Speaker 1: wait over it. We just assumed you know it's business days.
• 49:04
  Speaker 1: Were you hoping to go in on a Sunday?
• 49:06
  Speaker 6: No?
• 49:07
  Speaker 1: I went wit on a bank. They said seven days, bro, Bro.
• 49:12
  Speaker 1: But okay, So imagine you go in and you're like,
• 49:16
  Speaker 1: I have this big check and I need it right now.
• 49:21
  Speaker 1: I know there's a ten day hold. That's fine, and
• 49:23
  Speaker 1: they're like, give us thirty days, you'd be like, why
• 49:27
  Speaker 1: do you why? Why do I have to wait thirty days?
• 49:29
  Speaker 1: Do you not have my money? Why am I waiting?
• 49:32
  Speaker 3: Or they're enjoying profiting off of well, either way, that
• 49:35
  Speaker 3: would be suspicious, correct.
• 49:37
  Speaker 1: Sure. So when Germany comes to the United States and says, hey,
• 49:40
  Speaker 1: we want our gold back and we'd like it back
• 49:42
  Speaker 1: within five years, and we go give us seven maybe
• 49:50
  Speaker 1: naturally people were like why, well, I mean, if it's
• 49:53
  Speaker 1: if it's on a five year timeline and they're like, hey,
• 49:56
  Speaker 1: maybe you stretch that out a little bit more like
• 49:58
  Speaker 1: I would. I would find it way, Or if they're
• 50:00
  Speaker 1: like can we get this back in five years and
• 50:01
  Speaker 1: they're like, hey, can we do twenty? Like that seems
• 50:04
  Speaker 1: a larger stranger scale than like an extra two I guess,
• 50:10
  Speaker 1: but it's okay. Also, bro, I don't move a lot
• 50:14
  Speaker 1: of gold around. I don't know how heavy it is
• 50:16
  Speaker 1: when you're moving it in tons or two. That was
• 50:19
  Speaker 1: one of the other things is people thought it was
• 50:20
  Speaker 1: so much gold that we wouldn't even be able to
• 50:22
  Speaker 1: move it in seven years. So we were like, well,
• 50:24
  Speaker 1: what's that about, Like, you can't move that much gold?
• 50:26
  Speaker 1: In that much time, like this is. Either way, people
• 50:29
  Speaker 1: found it suspicious, but we ended up getting it to
• 50:32
  Speaker 1: them in three years, all right, under promise over deliver.
• 50:36
  Speaker 1: I learned that selling.
• 50:37
  Speaker 3: Furniture pal, I actually have a similar theory with some
• 50:41
  Speaker 3: wedding photography things that I do, Like, hey, I can
• 50:45
  Speaker 3: get you, I can sounded ominous.
• 50:47
  Speaker 1: I can get you your photos back. Give me like
• 50:49
  Speaker 1: at least a week.
• 50:50
  Speaker 3: It's gonna take a little a little while long, you know,
• 50:52
  Speaker 3: because I might have some things crop up, you know.
• 50:54
  Speaker 1: Just give me at least a week, and then I
• 50:56
  Speaker 1: get them there from someone the slides a bride'smaid's name
• 50:58
  Speaker 1: on paper across to you, well, pictures of this one. Well,
• 51:02
  Speaker 1: then I get them the photos back within three to
• 51:04
  Speaker 1: four days, and they're like I thought this would take
• 51:05
  Speaker 1: a week. What a miracle, what a fan tot thank you.
• 51:08
  Speaker 1: And then I get a better review on Yelp. Cool. Yeah,
• 51:12
  Speaker 1: So it's relevant. And so here's the thing. Germany, between
• 51:17
  Speaker 1: two thousand and two thousand and one, they'd retrieved nine
• 51:20
  Speaker 1: hundred and forty tons from the Bank of England in
• 51:22
  Speaker 1: order to cut back on storage costs. So it's a
• 51:26
  Speaker 1: thing that we should have been able to do in
• 51:30
  Speaker 1: less than seven years, so that we The fact that
• 51:32
  Speaker 1: we asked for seven years raised some eyebrows, but the
• 51:38
  Speaker 1: US managed to return the three hundred tons to Germany
• 51:40
  Speaker 1: by twenty sixteen, four years ahead of schedule. Thanks Trump.
• 51:45
  Speaker 1: Twenty sixteen. How do you know it wasn't November because
• 51:49
  Speaker 1: he wouldn't have been a non Do you know he
• 51:51
  Speaker 1: didn't bring it with h January to the White House
• 51:53
  Speaker 1: because he doesn't have any He gave it to France. No,
• 51:57
  Speaker 1: he put why aren't you following this.
• 52:02
  Speaker 3: In the It's up in his stupid apartment building, like
• 52:04
  Speaker 3: in that apartment that he took all those photos for Salon.
• 52:07
  Speaker 1: And you think he has five hundred and forty tons
• 52:09
  Speaker 1: of gold? No, I don't. I think he had some.
• 52:12
  Speaker 1: And he's like, I'm going to build the brand over
• 52:14
  Speaker 1: of this and then that's it. So Jim Rickards, who
• 52:17
  Speaker 1: spells his name wrong, it's the right way to spell it.
• 52:21
  Speaker 1: Richard's oh continue. He is an attorney and author of
• 52:25
  Speaker 1: several finance books. He said in an interview with kit
• 52:28
  Speaker 1: Ko News that we probably made the transfer quicker because
• 52:33
  Speaker 1: of political reasons. Since twenty thirteen and twenty seventeen were
• 52:38
  Speaker 1: both electioneers in Germany. He believes that Angela Merkele arranged
• 52:42
  Speaker 1: for the repatriation to be completed early in order to
• 52:46
  Speaker 1: appease a small nationalist party that was pushing for the
• 52:48
  Speaker 1: gold's return. That never goes wrong, appeasing the nationalists. No,
• 52:53
  Speaker 1: it's fine. There are still one thy two hundred and
• 52:56
  Speaker 1: thirty six tons of gold in New York, about thirty
• 52:59
  Speaker 1: seven percent Germany's reserves, and four hundred and thirty two
• 53:02
  Speaker 1: tons at the Bank of England in London. Germany has
• 53:05
  Speaker 1: no plans to repatriate the remaining gold any time soon,
• 53:10
  Speaker 1: which means we get to keep it. We can't do
• 53:13
  Speaker 1: anything with it. Sell that shit. Where to whom fucking
• 53:18
  Speaker 1: cash for gold? Dude? I just sent them a gold
• 53:20
  Speaker 1: filling and they sent me a check for eighteen dollars.
• 53:23
  Speaker 1: You think we can't package up a couple bars. So
• 53:26
  Speaker 1: Germany has no plans to repatriate the gold anytime soon.
• 53:30
  Speaker 1: Got it? But Nick News, which is run by a
• 53:33
  Speaker 1: Russian government controlled news agency, quoted Valentine A. Katasanov, a
• 53:38
  Speaker 1: professor at the International Finance Department at the Moscow State
• 53:42
  Speaker 1: Institute of International Relations, the old misz ear as saying, hey, right,
• 53:48
  Speaker 1: I got I got this. I can do a pretty
• 53:50
  Speaker 1: decent Russian accent. There are a lot of signs that
• 53:53
  Speaker 1: gold was not physically presented to New York volts. When
• 53:56
  Speaker 1: Germany called it back, of course US began to return
• 53:59
  Speaker 1: it to Armandy. But there's one interesting detail. When you
• 54:03
  Speaker 1: leave your suitcase in the luggage storage, you expect to
• 54:06
  Speaker 1: get back same suitcase, but Germany took wrong suitcase. That
• 54:10
  Speaker 1: does That is the most Russian fucking quote of all time.
• 54:14
  Speaker 1: Give me borsh. That sounds like something somewhat like that
• 54:17
  Speaker 1: sounds like a line of dialogue from an episode of
• 54:21
  Speaker 1: The Americans.
• 54:22
  Speaker 3: Yep, swap in the suitcases. A lot, a lot of
• 54:24
  Speaker 3: big swaps happen with the with suitcases.
• 54:27
  Speaker 1: That's how they're like. You know, you put the hat
• 54:29
  Speaker 1: in your coat on the suitcase and then it's like, oh, sweptperroodles. Whoops. Yep, yep.
• 54:34
  Speaker 1: Now now now the Kremlin have the codes. But like,
• 54:38
  Speaker 1: as long as it's still got the gold in it, Okay,
• 54:40
  Speaker 1: I don't give a fuck. I mean, how can I substantiate?
• 54:44
  Speaker 6: Uh?
• 54:45
  Speaker 1: A lot of signs that the gold was not physically presented.
• 54:48
  Speaker 1: There are they have no rationale ur backing for this theory,
• 54:50
  Speaker 1: all right, So they're just throwing another They're like, hey,
• 54:53
  Speaker 1: what if I know, that's unprecedented for Russian news to do.
• 54:56
  Speaker 3: What is it that the baseball team that was at
• 55:00
  Speaker 3: the Brewers or their slogan is like.
• 55:01
  Speaker 1: What if Cleveland Indians? Is it Cleveland? Okay? Yeah, yeah, okay,
• 55:06
  Speaker 1: what if we got beat by the Cubs in the
• 55:08
  Speaker 1: World Series? That happened, So let's talk about I believe
• 55:13
  Speaker 1: this is the last conspiracy related to Fort Knox, and
• 55:17
  Speaker 1: it's put forth by a guy named COO's Jams. Whoa whoa, whoa,
• 55:21
  Speaker 1: whoa whoa.
• 55:22
  Speaker 3: Hold on, let's be respectful here. He is a proud
• 55:27
  Speaker 3: Swedish woman. I assume.
• 55:31
  Speaker 1: I don't know. I don't know.
• 55:32
  Speaker 3: I'm just saying that's a real uncouth, real uncouth kind
• 55:35
  Speaker 3: of term for for good chance and dutch man. I'm
• 55:40
  Speaker 3: just saying that that's a real bad it's a real
• 55:43
  Speaker 3: bad word where I'm where I'm from.
• 55:45
  Speaker 1: Cous Yeah, it's like on like a like uh one
• 55:50
  Speaker 1: of those NYPD type shows where they're investing law and order.
• 55:54
  Speaker 3: They're like, well, they can't they can't say some of
• 55:55
  Speaker 3: the worst words for a woman. That's some some real
• 55:59
  Speaker 3: derogatory that you can't say on television. I women coups
• 56:03
  Speaker 3: issues a real cous like that's a It's like.
• 56:06
  Speaker 1: Okay, so that's not a real thing. Can we can
• 56:08
  Speaker 1: we go on? Sure? Great, so cous Jansen. He's a
• 56:11
  Speaker 1: writer for Bullion Star, which bills itself as Singapore's premiere
• 56:20
  Speaker 1: bullioned dealer. Yeah, they're premier.
• 56:22
  Speaker 3: A lot of JV League bullion dealers in Singapore, don't
• 56:26
  Speaker 3: you go there.
• 56:26
  Speaker 1: He's written several articles questioning whether Fort Knox's gold is
• 56:30
  Speaker 1: still there, including analyzing the annual audit reports he was
• 56:34
  Speaker 1: able to get his hands on.
• 56:35
  Speaker 9: We like that.
• 56:37
  Speaker 1: The audits are conducted by the Department of the Treasury's
• 56:39
  Speaker 1: Office of Inspector General. In twenty eleven, Inspector General Eric M.
• 56:44
  Speaker 1: Thorson told the House Financial Services Committee that by two
• 56:48
  Speaker 1: thousand and eight, one hundred percent of government owned gold
• 56:51
  Speaker 1: had been inventoried, audited and placed under quote official Joint
• 56:56
  Speaker 1: seal one hundred percent of zero's what four twenty hi
• 57:00
  Speaker 1: al day'all and official Joint Seal is a pre number
• 57:04
  Speaker 1: document that includes wax seals and tamper proof cloth tape
• 57:09
  Speaker 1: document includes detailed information about the gold bars within the
• 57:12
  Speaker 1: compartment and is signed by those present at the audit.
• 57:15
  Speaker 1: So when we watched that video of her leading that
• 57:19
  Speaker 1: delegation through Fort Knox, I believe that's what she opened
• 57:23
  Speaker 1: to get into the auditing fault. Well, they weren't auditing
• 57:26
  Speaker 1: that form that that that I just mentioned on the
• 57:30
  Speaker 1: front of the door. That's when she was like, we
• 57:32
  Speaker 1: have to be very careful with this document. Got it.
• 57:34
  Speaker 1: And then that's when I bet a bunch of people
• 57:37
  Speaker 1: snatched gold. And then they didn't update the audit. So
• 57:43
  Speaker 1: the annual audits now mostly involved making sure the seals
• 57:46
  Speaker 1: have not been tampered with and a saying random samples
• 57:50
  Speaker 1: of the gold. During the twoenty ten fiscal year, the
• 57:54
  Speaker 1: US Mint replaced all previously placed seals with new seals
• 57:58
  Speaker 1: that can only be be removed by two cuts with
• 58:01
  Speaker 1: a strong cable cutter. Motherfucker. In twenty fifteen, Jansen contacted
• 58:06
  Speaker 1: both the Treasury Department and the National Archives to obtain
• 58:09
  Speaker 1: copies of the audit reports from nineteen seventy four to
• 58:13
  Speaker 1: nineteen eighty six, when the majority of the gold was audited.
• 58:17
  Speaker 1: Neither the Treasury nor the Archives were able to produce
• 58:21
  Speaker 1: the audits for seven of those years, claiming they weren't
• 58:24
  Speaker 1: able to find them. That seems like a big detail.
• 58:28
  Speaker 1: Seven years, seven years worth of audits for all the
• 58:32
  Speaker 1: gold in America in specifically Fort Knox. Yeah, and we're like,
• 58:38
  Speaker 1: you know, fucking filing and computers and the inner no
• 58:44
  Speaker 1: Google and like friends, the man and I don't know,
• 58:48
  Speaker 1: we just lost it. So that does seem weird, right right? Sure?
• 58:53
  Speaker 1: So in twenty sixteen, Jansen filed freedom of information requests
• 58:58
  Speaker 1: for the audits carried out between nineteen ninety three and
• 59:01
  Speaker 1: two thousand and eight, when the remaining gold was reportedly audited.
• 59:06
  Speaker 1: The US MEANT initially requested three thousand, one hundred and
• 59:10
  Speaker 1: forty four dollars and ninety six cents to fulfill the request.
• 59:14
  Speaker 1: Based on the time and labor involved to find and
• 59:17
  Speaker 1: duplicate twelve hundred pages, it's a lot of work. That
• 59:21
  Speaker 1: it's a lot of work. But it's not like if
• 59:23
  Speaker 1: you came to me and said, here, I have a
• 59:25
  Speaker 1: stack of twelve hundred pages. I will give you thirty
• 59:29
  Speaker 1: four hundred dollars to copy them all.
• 59:31
  Speaker 3: Well, no, first you gotta find the pages. I'm stilling
• 59:35
  Speaker 3: a larger stack.
• 59:36
  Speaker 1: If I'm still in I'll do you twenty pages in order,
• 59:39
  Speaker 1: and you gotta get a sticky note put on say
• 59:41
  Speaker 1: like this page came from this still in block. It's
• 59:44
  Speaker 1: a month's work. I'm fine, all right. So he crowdsourced
• 59:46
  Speaker 1: the money, and because of course he did, Well, why
• 59:49
  Speaker 1: the fuck wouldn't you there? I feel like you're bothered
• 59:53
  Speaker 1: that this guy is questioning where this gold is. No, no,
• 1:00:00
  Speaker 1: I'm not, just want to see where that it's going.
• 1:00:03
  Speaker 1: My god. On December twenty third, twenty sixteen, the Mint
• 1:00:07
  Speaker 1: finally delivered Jansen with two hundred and twenty three redacted
• 1:00:11
  Speaker 1: pages that contained sixty eight pages of reports I didn't
• 1:00:14
  Speaker 1: ask for and twenty one pages that were copied twice. Effectively,
• 1:00:19
  Speaker 1: I got one hundred and thirty four pages related to
• 1:00:21
  Speaker 1: my Freedom of Information Act request. The Mint ultimately decided
• 1:00:26
  Speaker 1: not to cash the check. So does that does that
• 1:00:28
  Speaker 1: part seem weird that they were a little dac Well,
• 1:00:31
  Speaker 1: they they clearly did such a piss poor job getting
• 1:00:35
  Speaker 1: him his information that they're like, yeah, you know what,
• 1:00:37
  Speaker 1: this one's on the house, chicken. But did they do
• 1:00:40
  Speaker 1: a shitty job or did they just not really give
• 1:00:42
  Speaker 1: him the information he was asking for. Because if it's that,
• 1:00:45
  Speaker 1: if it's twelve hundred pages and you end up getting
• 1:00:47
  Speaker 1: one hundred and thirty four, what's in those other thousand
• 1:00:52
  Speaker 1: plus pages that we're not supposed to know about. I
• 1:00:55
  Speaker 1: don't know Nixon tapes. Why would the Nixon tapes be there?
• 1:00:58
  Speaker 1: I don't know. They had to go somewhere. Freedom of
• 1:01:01
  Speaker 1: FBI Vault dot gov is a fascinating website for anyonebivault
• 1:01:07
  Speaker 1: dot gov for anyone who's too skeptical to believe conspiracy
• 1:01:11
  Speaker 1: theories ever happened. It is a database of FBI files
• 1:01:15
  Speaker 1: related to pretty much any fruit. What this guy requested,
• 1:01:19
  Speaker 1: I guarantee you is on FBI vault dot gov. Oh,
• 1:01:22
  Speaker 1: there are hundreds of pages about Elvis. I'm an elvistruther man.
• 1:01:25
  Speaker 1: I think Elvis faked is death and joined the Witness
• 1:01:27
  Speaker 1: Protection program, but only because there are FBI documents that
• 1:01:31
  Speaker 1: kind of hint at Elvis joining the witness Protection program
• 1:01:35
  Speaker 1: and faking his death. So who knows. I think I
• 1:01:38
  Speaker 1: do think that's suspicious. I think it. I always think
• 1:01:41
  Speaker 1: it's weird when the government's like, Okay, we'll tell you,
• 1:01:45
  Speaker 1: but we're gonna kind yeah, well, like nine to eleven.
• 1:01:49
  Speaker 1: For a long time, there was a conspiracy theory that
• 1:01:53
  Speaker 1: a Saudi intelligence agent had a role in prepping the
• 1:01:59
  Speaker 1: hijackers for nine to eleven, and because Saudi Arabia is
• 1:02:02
  Speaker 1: our ally, for years and years and years, we were like, no,
• 1:02:07
  Speaker 1: that's just crazy conspiracy theorist talk. And then someone was like,
• 1:02:10
  Speaker 1: all right, freedom of Information Act request, let me see
• 1:02:14
  Speaker 1: that report. And that came out and there was still
• 1:02:18
  Speaker 1: a bunch of pages redacted and we were like, I
• 1:02:20
  Speaker 1: bet that's the Saudi Arabia stuff. And then they finally
• 1:02:23
  Speaker 1: declassified those pages. Guess what was in it? Saudi Arabia stuff,
• 1:02:26
  Speaker 1: stuff about a Saudi intelligence agent helping with nine to eleven.
• 1:02:30
  Speaker 1: So Christ, those pages aren't redacted for nothing. It's not
• 1:02:34
  Speaker 1: like they kept their kids' fucking school colorings from him.
• 1:02:40
  Speaker 1: They're fucking hiding something in those redacted pages. So that's
• 1:02:45
  Speaker 1: I mean, it's worth thinking about, if nothing else. So
• 1:02:48
  Speaker 1: what he found after reviewing the documents during the ninety
• 1:02:51
  Speaker 1: six audit, one sealed compartment was opened for inspection, but
• 1:02:54
  Speaker 1: no obvious reason was given. Theoretically, if the seal was
• 1:02:57
  Speaker 1: deemed intact, there would be no reason to open the compartment,
• 1:03:01
  Speaker 1: and if there was a reason, it was not mentioned
• 1:03:03
  Speaker 1: in the report. The sample size of weighed and tested
• 1:03:07
  Speaker 1: gold had gone down dramatically since the nineteen fifties. During
• 1:03:11
  Speaker 1: the Fort Knox Audit, about ten percent of the gold
• 1:03:13
  Speaker 1: bars were weighed. In two thousand, only zero point six
• 1:03:16
  Speaker 1: y five percent of the bars were weighed, and this
• 1:03:21
  Speaker 1: could just be because they didn't use the seal method
• 1:03:24
  Speaker 1: back then, like the verification thing. Yeah, okay. In another instance,
• 1:03:27
  Speaker 1: the scale was set to standard ounces even though precious
• 1:03:30
  Speaker 1: metals are weighed in troy ounces. That's weird. Why would
• 1:03:33
  Speaker 1: that scale ever be set to anything but troy ounces.
• 1:03:38
  Speaker 1: I don't know.
• 1:03:39
  Speaker 3: Maybe somebody hit the wrong button. I had to ask
• 1:03:42
  Speaker 3: what a troy ounce was earlier.
• 1:03:44
  Speaker 1: Yeah, And another time the auditors misread where the decimal
• 1:03:47
  Speaker 1: point was on the scale. But that's probably just human error.
• 1:03:51
  Speaker 1: So there's not like a conclusion you can draw from this,
• 1:03:54
  Speaker 1: but it is strange, like this guy's Freedom of Information
• 1:03:58
  Speaker 1: Act request being that heavily redacted them losing the audit
• 1:04:04
  Speaker 1: reports for seven fucking years. It's it's very weird, and
• 1:04:10
  Speaker 1: it's frustrating because it's one of those things where we're
• 1:04:12
  Speaker 1: never gonna know the answer for sure. Like you could
• 1:04:17
  Speaker 1: be like, no, no, the gold's there, How do you
• 1:04:19
  Speaker 1: know until you get a tour? We're not. When are
• 1:04:22
  Speaker 1: we going to get a tour? I don't know.
• 1:04:23
  Speaker 3: Maybe they could set up a lottery and then seven
• 1:04:26
  Speaker 3: like like we could do like a Willy Walkin type
• 1:04:28
  Speaker 3: situation where seven lucky uh uh, you know Alex Jones
• 1:04:35
  Speaker 3: conspiracy ship heads get to tour the Fort Knox and
• 1:04:40
  Speaker 3: then one by one.
• 1:04:41
  Speaker 1: Long time to spit out the plot of Charlie and
• 1:04:44
  Speaker 1: the Chocolate factory just now. But I mean they all
• 1:04:47
  Speaker 1: earn lessons and then the one at the end is
• 1:04:50
  Speaker 1: like he gets everything. So what do you think is
• 1:04:52
  Speaker 1: the gold still there?
• 1:04:53
  Speaker 3: I think that, uh, there's there's gold there. I don't
• 1:04:57
  Speaker 3: know if it's one hundred percent of the gold that
• 1:05:00
  Speaker 3: was in there when it was first set up.
• 1:05:02
  Speaker 1: Might be more, might be less. I hope it's all gone. Wow,
• 1:05:06
  Speaker 1: it's just empty rooms. I hope those are condos now.
• 1:05:12
  Speaker 1: Condo and Fort Knox. Oh bunker. You think that's where
• 1:05:15
  Speaker 1: Tupac wound up. No, Tupac went to Argentina, just like Elvis. Yeah,
• 1:05:19
  Speaker 1: everybody winds up in Argentina. Well, here's the thing in
• 1:05:23
  Speaker 1: the Elvis FBI documents, the part that's redacted, it's redacted
• 1:05:28
  Speaker 1: on foreign policy grounds. Huh okay, weird, Right, what would
• 1:05:34
  Speaker 1: a foreign government have to do with Elvis? I don't know,
• 1:05:37
  Speaker 1: keep keeping it, keeping it real, k I R. Taking
• 1:05:41
  Speaker 1: care of business. So that's the Fort Knox conspiracy. It's
• 1:05:44
  Speaker 1: a it's a one that. I mean, it's hard to
• 1:05:48
  Speaker 1: come to a conclusion.
• 1:05:50
  Speaker 3: I would if all the gold is gone and it's
• 1:05:52
  Speaker 3: and it's demonstrated to be gone, then like then you know,
• 1:05:55
  Speaker 3: there's a huge hit to our economy, right yeah, So like.
• 1:05:59
  Speaker 1: Who who really loses in that case?
• 1:06:02
  Speaker 4: Uh?
• 1:06:03
  Speaker 1: Like what Jillian? But if the gold is gone and
• 1:06:06
  Speaker 1: they can successfully lie about it still being there, then
• 1:06:11
  Speaker 1: our economy doesn't take that same hit. Sure, but so
• 1:06:15
  Speaker 1: who knows?
• 1:06:16
  Speaker 3: I mean, uh, just vast amounts of money in general,
• 1:06:21
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• 1:06:24
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• 1:06:26
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• 1:06:28
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• 1:06:31
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• 1:06:37
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• 1:06:40
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• 1:06:44
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  Speaker 1: All right, let's get the fuck out of here. Yep,
• 1:09:28
  Speaker 1: danger say goodbye like the Golden Fort Knox can't because
• 1:09:33
  Speaker 1: it was never there exactly. I mean it was, so
• 1:09:37
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