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yeah, I'm sorry. What did you want to do an episode about?
We're doing DARPA tonight. Okay, So DARPA see when we've been there,
everybody. Oh, you're a part of the time continuance. I'm just glad
you didn't say anything about the huge scar across my eye. I was gonna
ask about that eye patch, but I just thought, you know, whatever,
how come your come your goat's black? Now? How come it?
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tone and Grave died fighting robots. Yep, I mean that's how you wanted
to go, right, that's how everyone wants to go. You died just
how you lived trying to teach robots to give a about karate got a day
attack? How the hell are you, dearest listener. We got right into
it tonight because everything's all tied together. Yeah, DARPA, Right, you
guys ever heard of this? You've seen this? This is one of those
things that like shows up on like Yahoo knews every few months, like,
oh, this is the craziest thing the government's doing now. Yeah, it's
it's one of those cool things dips into a few different categories, but ultimately
some really cool stuff to talk about. When it dips, you dip with
the whole nation dips, Yes, the whole world. Really, that's right.
So DARPA, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, that's right. We're
going to talk about what it is, how it came about, why we
hear about it, why we discuss it. Um. We might even throw
a lightning around in there for oh hell yeah. And how come they got
all the cool fing toys? Right? All the coolest toys. We get
them after they're done. I know, but it doesn't matter. That's why
scientific research is always good. You know truth be told U, and I
know that I'm about to say something in painting. In the broadest strokes,
I find nothing in the world as boring as politics. Personally, I lean
a little more liberally. Suppose I intrinsically would vote Democrat have given the choice,
But I never get the same, bro, I know, I never
I never get two upset either way because one thing backmasking, under tracking,
we're programming you. The one thing that I always every time I say to
myself, like, you know, whenever the Republicans take over, and I'm
like, more defense spending, more science spending, more space agency spending,
I'm okay with those things. I mean, do I think we spend tund
defense? Yeah? Probably. But there is a contingent of defense spending that
is research, and that's what we're going to talk about tonight. And that
research pays off across the board. Everyone wins on that. It's true.
It's very true and true of any scientific research. Yep. And I would
like to also point out that I hold that very separate from say, thirty
five billion dollar aircraft that may or may not work, that suffocate their pilots
or just sit on the ground. Yeah, because they suffocate their pilots.
Turns out it was a problem with their flight suits. Took them a long
time to figure that out. The flight suits did not have it was still
a good investment. They didn't have proper pressure release valves, and so every
time the flight suit they fill with air to help redistribute blood and hide gravity,
turns it wouldn't relax again. So it was literally slowly constricting. And
uh, yeah it was. It was like a big blood pressure pump on
your body, on your body, and they would they wouldn't. They couldn't
breathe deep enough anymore. Yeah, it freaks me out to have it just
on my bicep. Yeah, put a whole flight suit on, man,
that'll get you. Sorry, I didn't mean I was trying to bolster ourt
this episode and then I end up going on a tirade or something. I'm
sorry. I'm sure I just pissed people off left and right, and I
didn't mean to. I was just talking about science spending, which is what
I think is most important. Just like how far reaching this program is.
I think that we'll have a hard time not going off on tangents here and
there. It is this, and this is this, We could easily do
five episodes on DARPA. I mean this one on robots alone. Yeah,
exactly. We're not We're not even gonna two part of this because we're gonna
get We're gonna hit it and quit it. Let's turn hit it and quit
it floor. Can I hit it and quit you can hit them quit.
Can I hit it and quit it? Yeah? Can I take it from
the top, you can take with it. Let's do it one more time,
but time time down. Photos, get one up by just ye just
make them, just make the guy's illinoisance. But get on all right,
here's here's what we got here. This is important. Listen up because if
you don't, the robots won't take over DARPA. As you said, Defense
Advanced Research Projects Agency. And here's a little primer before we really get into
it. YEA love acronyms. Oh man, love acronyms. If if they
don't have a project that has a good acronym, they scrap it. Yeah,
here's a fun fact. This is a true thing. So I was
going through like these huge lists of DARPA projects. One of the projects was
literally audio acoustic translation software to d jargonize discussions, and I was like you're
just making nuts. You can talk to each other. That's not for everybody.
That's just so DARPA can talk to DARPA. This is an agency and
the US Department of Defense entirely devoted to the research and development of potential military
technologies. Yep. It's a relatively small and unique agency. About two hundred
and forty people work in it, with around one hundred and forty of those
working on the direct technical side. The budget is allocated from the defense spending
of the US government. And it's just shy of three billion dollar three buildos
cheved right, yep, yep. Oh no, here's here's some fun stuff
about it though. This is it's an independent, um thing agency. It's
independent from the Department of Defenses Military Research Division. That's a whole other thing,
right, which is weird. Right, Oh, it's cool. It's
cool. If you think three buildos is a lot, uh, just think
of it this way. That is about point six nine percent of total military
budget that the US spins, not even three quarters of one percent, exactly
three buildos, not even not even three quarters of a percent USA. Yeah,
that's right. That is that is money, and uh, and it's
it's it's funny. So you're saying that it's it's not even it's not even
a part of the Military Research Division. It's it's such a strangely structured I
mean, this is this is a nitro burning funny car of research and development.
They have pulled out every stop. The structure of it even there,
there's just two levels, right. Um. They didn't want some complex hierarchy.
They didn't want military. Yeah, they didn't want a military structure.
It The entire thing is designed to be as efficient with with information and uh
and resources as possible. They don't have their own research facility, yeah right,
they There is no giant bay door with robots and flying jet packs that's
labeled DARPA. They they as a matter of fact, they even colloquially refer
to themselves as a you know, what was it, A hundred scientists and
a travel agent. Yeah, yeah, geniuses, dude, not scientists.
Whatevs. Yeah, there's there's the director of DARPA, which that position get
switched out here and there. Currently it's Tony Stark. Yeah I wish that's
the top level. And then they have a manager for each of the little
projects that they do. Yeah, that's it that way they can get shipped
done. Yeah, there's no, there's no and they and they get a
lot done and they and it's okay to fail. That's one of the biggest
things, which yeah, they love just trying. They're like, oh did
that blow up spectacularly? Well was it supposed to? Yeah? Either way?
They they they accept that. They it's science done by scientists overseen by
scientists. Um. And you can get a lot more done in that environment.
And they do. I mean they they cover so many areas. Um.
I mean for example, so DARPA itself is broken down into seven main
areas offices. They've got the AEO, the Adaptive Execution Office they that handles
technology, adaptability and transfer. It accelerates the technology into the Department of Defense
capabilities. In other words, that's that's your your field trials for your tech
tech. They've got the BTO the Biological Technologies Office that handles DU biology,
technology and complexity. Yeah. You you want to talk about cyborgs, that's
your office. Oh man, you know I do, and I'm going to
later DSO the Defense Science's Office that's Discovery, Modeling, design and assembly.
Yeah, creating a creating new tech high risk, high payoff, that's what
they like to say. Nice. The ITO, the Information Innovation Office,
that's duh, information innovation and they just just just playing old cyber yeph cyber
info and threats they got. Here's one thing that's a bit topical, massive
data analysis, and they concentrate on information superiority. We're gonna come back to
this, but also self defending computer networks. That's a big thing that they're
working on. Then there's MTO Microsystems Technology Office that's electronics photonics and m ms
EMS which is micro microelectro mechanical systems photonics. Wow. Leaders, Yes,
this is the fun one. This is this is lasers and nanobots, smart
materials, brilliant STO. The Strategic Technology Office net networks, cost leverage and
adaptability to battle strategies and systems. They deal with network fighting. That's and
it's not that they fight, uh, the Internet, it's that it's how
to communicate as a cohesive unit in order to fight others. Yeah, and
the stuff we're going to go through on that is really cool rich. And
then finally TAT, oh, I couldn't know, sweet sweet Tat. That's
the Tactical Technology Office. Straight up dog weapons, platforms and space. Yeah.
So there's your seven seven offices. Uh, seven heads of the Beast.
It's the Hydra. It's Hydra. It's Hydra. I just let it
out. Sorry, Oh no, it's Hydra. Don't worry. There is
a Project Hydra. I'll tell you about it. The whole thing's the whole
thing's Hydra. And as you said, they don't have much in the way
of government labs. What they do is they fund others, mostly with short
contracts that are awarded to project managers who are then given freedom to be mad
scientists, as were at different American universities and co operations. Thirty million here,
fifty million there. Oh do do I like your idea? One hundred
million, hundred billdow. I'm one hundred mildough dude, it's one hundred mildews.
They only got three billdos. Okay, they're not giving any old buildos
out. You're right, I'd be happy with half a buildo. Kidding.
If you've got extra billdos, hit the donate button. Uh yeah. So,
to put it simply, DARPA is responsible for a load of tech that
we now enjoy. Um, there is a darker, scarier side though,
which some people are concerned about. Darker dark guy, he burned it.
Oh no, come on, you think you think I could go through a
whole episode and then pull that out of my pocket. I already double bunted
once this summer. I'm not doing it again. Let's tell you a short
history of the old DARPA. It's if time travel was possible, I would
say, gett into the time machine. But we both know that's not real.
Laura, Laura, why are you crying. Let's go back to nineteen
fifty eight. DARPA was born straight from the space race, which began in
nineteen fifty eight. When the world learned of the Soviet Union's nineteen fifty seven
launch of Sputnik. It's right, the American government went into high gear to
not be caught with his pants down again. Dwight Eisenhower had a rocks glass
full of liquor, and he was when he heard the news. He got
so Maddy, she just hands started shaking, and then the glass explodes in
his hands, and he looked up, licked the blood from his hand and
said, never again. Bring me the nerds. I thought you were going
to say that. His hands started shaking and busted the glass, and in
his excitement he went Tampa, oh yeah, and then it was a bloody
fist. That was a logo for a while, although would have been so
cool the fist of Eisenhow the blood I swear by the bloody fist of Eisenhower,
I will solve this theorem. That would be give them a buildo.
No. Wait, three. So Eisenhower was terrified and embarrassed, and he
wanted the US to never again be surprised by the technological advance of another country.
Right, it was the launch that quote signaled that a fundamental change was
needed in America's defense, science and technology programs. Quote, and we had
the buildos. We had to have the nerds. Eisenhower also wanted to create
technological surprise for enemies instead of us getting surprised or defending from that. Yeah,
this wasn't just taken to the paint. This wasn't Yeah, he wanted
to go strong in the pain. He's saying, it's not good enough to
just be aware of what they're doing. We need to do things that they
are not aware of, that's right, and then catch them with their pants
down, that's right. Pictures then Kruschev gets to pick the rocks glasses out
of his hand, son of a bitch. It was first named the Advanced
Research Project Agency ARPA YEP. From nineteen fifty eight to nineteen sixty five,
they focused on missile defense and nuclear test detection. Really I wonder why,
Oh, because it was the single greatest start to humanity. I don't know.
Maybe I don't know. So projects Defender, Vella, and Agile explored
computer processing, surveillance, and radar, among many other things directed energy tracking
like radar sonar. In nineteen fifty nine, they were an integral part in
the transit system also known as NAVS SAT Yeah, which is the forerunner to
GPS YEP, which they built all that GPS thanks DARPA ARPA and ironically one
of their top projects right now changing their name back to arp one of their
top projects is too is um navigation without GPS. Oh right, yeah,
they're above it. Yeah, that's what babies do. Satellites were so stupid.
Uh. Nineteen seventy two they renamed it to DARPA. Sorry, I
put the defense on the front. It's a bold new world. Then in
seventy three it got kicked square king yahtang Uh yeah. Uh. Senator Mansfield
from Montana, Montana big Sky. Mansfield m through in the Man's Field Amendment
in nineteen seventy three which said that no defense research appropriations would be okayed unless
they had direct military benefit. Now, this was a giant kick in the
crotch because it meant that unless you were I mean, as it says,
unless you were directly benefiting. There was no ancillary research, which up till
that point it was a huge amount, and there was a lot of benefit
from this, and it was employing well it was in agreements him, but
okay, it was employing a lot of important scientists doing a lot of non
military research under this. But he said, oh no, if we're going
to give money to DARPA, we really need to get the military benefit out
of it. And so in seventy three this kicked in. They lost so
many scientists as a result of this that it is a commonly held belief that
it is one of the reasons for the rise of the personal home computer that
all of scientists went off and worked on different things for private companies and boom
rise of personal computing. Because all of these scientists used to be focused in
the government and then they all went to private industry. Good thing. Then
Yeah, I don't know, No, I'd like to keep my nerds all
in one herd if if the what if people didn't get computing then because the
military wanted it, and then they released it much later as in Flora.
We could be doing this on talk boys right now. Neither of us have
a time machine that we can go back and check that the what IF's on
this? Okay, so what is with the crying? What are you want?
Baby? So from seventy two to eighty one they focused on computing and
tactical stuff. They developed time sharing computers, which led to Arpanette, which
is just for porn. I'll the Arpanet is for porne. They also developed
some speech recognition programs and NOULD processing. This is super important stuff. I
love this though. When you think about this, So in the year twenty
fourteen, where we have voice recognition Siri called Flora, call calling dilbet flurma,
No, uh, can you imagine what voice recognition? How maddening it
must have been in like seventy eight can you imagine being named delbet flurt whoever
he is, he's he's he's the guy who opens for Diva on his reroad
comedy tour get Ready for Dolbatur Oh man, Well, I mean that sounds
Scannina, right, so he's kinda yeah. Well, when we release the
Divod live at the improv, Oh yeah, we'll have I'll have the opener
a little dill bad? Why why are all these characters based on mine?
Yeah, I'm enjoying it. Who uh, let's talk about the time sharing
computers real quick. Oh yeah, it's not just like computers go to Florida
for like a month every year, saying. What happened was when they were
making these computers, they would fit inside, you know, a building,
from one computer, and then they'd have it like do two plus two for
them, And then in order to do that, they had to feed them
little punch cards yeah, and then press boop and then you know, two
hours later, Oh the answers for yeah and you This was horrible. In
a university setting, you had to schedule time on the computer, very hard
to get lots of people in a department one computer, and god help you
if even one punch card was out of order or incorrect or upside. I
mean, imagine imagine having to physically edit a cardboard card. Every time your
program, your your basic program didn't work right, and there's no there's no
just trying it. I mean you had such a small window for this computer
to operate in. Yeah, yeah, you had to get it right first
time. And that's that's why something that we take take for granted, like
all computers operate on this cyclical time sharing system. Even within themselves, a
computer is constantly cycling tasks and spinning so many plates simultaneous. And this didn't
exist before Darpak came along. They it was just an ox pulling a plow,
you know. It just it didn't stop till it got to the edge
of the lawn. Yeah, and when you needed the plow, you had
to wait for the ox to be done with the one guy's lawn. Yep.
So what happened was they decided to connect many different computers together so that
they could share time yea. And thus they came up with the time sharing
or they connected a bunch of central processing They connected a bunch of processing units
into one central processing unit. And then somebody in Idaho could they didn't have
computers. They called that witchcraft. Um, so somebody, somebody in Idaho
and somebody in Detroit. Why why why Jesus? Some guy hit Easter Island,
and another guy steenty bos below the Earth's crossed, and another guy just
listed places where no computer will ever be mine. Yes, well, anyway,
Boise in Detroit could uh share share the time it took to compute.
So therefore, if one wasn't being used at the time, and somebody in
Detroit wanted the Detroit computer but it was being used, they could use the
time that was free on the Boise side. Anyway, they could. They
hooked up a bunch of these, so it actually worked. Well, there
you go, bit bob boom, the Internet, yep, Arpanet Internet,
Yeah, and I mean it was it was just arpanette and it kind of
worked. But then they hired this young uh intern named Albert and he spilled
soda all over it. His name was Albert Gore, and he spilled soda.
It became sentient, and that's the birth of the Internet. Little did
they know. All they needed. It's right, some mister pib That's why
the mister pib can has electricity all over it. It's right, all right,
mister bibb, I invented the Internet. Don't need a fancy PhD to
do it. I'm no doctor, just mister. So in the in the
late seventies, after all this, uh, these shenanigans, and into the
eighties, you get a bunch of advanced defense stuff. There's a lot of
stuff going on, um, mostly military at this point since the yep Mansfield
blurb. Uh, they get a bunch of defense stuff. They get bunch
of weapons. Uh, circuits are are made and perfected, and they even
start working on some particle beam stuff. Oh yeah, they've got I mean,
and they get into some things that some of their computer planning things,
UM start to get into uh SDI, the Strategic Defense Initiative. This is
Ronald Reagan's Star Wars program. Will I do it? Damned to get dobod
well? Um, yeah, you know this was There was another thing called
the UM, the SCI, which you know sounds a lot like STI.
Yeah. No. This was when Darper really tried to get into thinking computers.
They tried to make Skynet as hard as they could. They tried to
make AI and they called it SCI. And I'm an idiot. I didn't
write it down. I remember what SCI stands for now, but probably strategic
Commuting Computing Initiative or something of that. Yeah, it sounds right, but
they couldn't quite get it to work. And they had a few different programs
that they were using to try to make autonomous systems, computer systems, or
even in one case they had actually in my home state of Colorado at the
time, it was Martin Mariette, was before Lockey and Martin Marietta joint forces.
They had this truck this and I think it was called the AVII that
was an eight wheeled giant truck that was supposed to operate independently, had a
laser scanner on the front and a camera and I mean it looks had three
cup holders. Yeah. No, this thing is ridiculous. It looks like
it fell right out of the actoll like a bad seventies like the one with
kind of like the trapezoidal front. Yeah, that's it, and it's funny
micromachine of that. Probably it's big and uh it was. So the big
deal was that it could drive itself. It was like a Google car.
And the problem was is that they were like, oh, we we tested
it high noon, it's fine, it can do whatever it needs to.
You test it later on in the day and it's tied, it had it's
fussy, you gotta put it down for a nap um. It couldn't differentiate
shadows from obstacles. It had no means of discerning of discerning a difference.
So all of a sudden, I mean, you know, imagine playing a
child's game where you can't touch shadows, and it was like, uh uh,
it just it couldn't handle it. And they were like, this is
completely useless, and they ended up shutting it down not until eighty six or
eighty eight, maybe because they loved watching it. Yeah, they put them
in Colli CMS and have them fight, no doubt. Um so yeah,
but this uh, this this early uh a huge huge DARPA focus on AI
and and intelligent information systems is just they've they've never stopped working on it.
And we'll come back around to that. But that was a huge push for
them in the eighties, and then they really started focusing on aircraft too because
they got into some hypersonic research. One of their programs for the SEI system
was an onboard assistant for pilots. Hello, Dave, exactly. I mean
their their goal was to have something, say, you know, Bogie's at
six o'clock. Dave A Meg twenty eight has entered your airspace. Would you
like to target it? Click yes or no? Yeah, yes, target
it. A Java update is required. I can't find a messy arget.
I'm sorry, I don't I don't know chess flarget, Yes target, Would
you like to target? Yes? Target? There are six targets within fifty
miles of your current location. Well, some guy in a yarisk gets blown
up, because it's a guy that deserves to blow up. It is some
one of our poor listeners right now. I was like, oh eyes,
and then he's like, fine, I'm gonna listen. I'm gonna research everything.
These say you're gonna live in the penalty box my yaris. Yeah right
um. And they also they also dabbled in some satellites. Now that's you
know, as you were talking about with the space the Stellar Wars program put
some satellites up there and intercept incoming missiles, which is extraordinarily hard to do.
By the way, you wanted to I like Dragon, Well, well
too bad, Sorry, you're a dip. I liked him. It was
a puppet. I've been telling us ever since he left office. I've been
don't you boy, that was something that I couldn't get away from the research
that that bag of dicks. Oh really, Oh man, I'll bet I'll
bet you he I'll bet you Old Aj is right up in that stuff.
I had to fight my own info war, I tell you. I guess
we should just say to the listeners. So when we were planned this episode,
we split it so so Flora, you you handled all of like the
which we're gonna get into in the second half, like the crazy like what
people thinks happening, the conspiracy half of it, and I just went through
like all the actual listed programs. Yeah, so I've got I've got quite
quite a bit here. I'm sure there's a ton more I could have found
me, but I'm in the same place. I just eventually I just stopped
writing things down. Yeah, it's a gold mine. Nineteen ninety three,
Hey, they changed the name back to ARBA. Yeah, they were like
defense, we just kicked a sh out of the of the Iraqi Army.
We don't we don't need to deal with defense anymore. Yeah, defense can
kuwait how if? At the end nineteen ninety six, though, came right
back to the d Yeah they always do. Oh yeah, oh honey,
you don't firsteing this and now up and up until today, I mean as
far as we know, as far as we know, uh, focusing on
a lot on space travel these days, a lot on biotech, oh man.
And robotics. Yes, I mean you've seen you've seen the robotics you
see in that crazy ass yak running around and that's just because somebody glues some
horns on it. It's right, It's disturbing and kind of cute in a
way. Um, let's talk a little bit then about the importance of DARPA.
Just go through a couple of things of why we should be talking about
this in the first place, before we get into some real craz of shide.
Well, this is the classic military research that eventually turns commercial. They
they do the research and test it and do everything, and then ten fifteen
years later it's on the market that you can put in your pocket. Yeah,
and this works and the results of this. I mean, there's not
a military on earth that doesn't have a research and development department to some degree
or another. But the the leg up that DARPA gives the United States is
unparalleled. I mean, obviously we have a great military because we pay for
it. I mean we I'm more by factory, we've fined for it.
I mean we spend everyone knows the statistics. You know, we spend more
than anyone by by multiples. Yeah. But one thing that like one of
those results of that, like here's a great example, and like the first
and I think in the Second Gulf War as well, whenever the US forms
these coalition, you know, these multinational coalitions to go in and whoop some
ass, it is extraordinarily common for the US to to say, and I
know this happened in the First Gulf War and I'm not sure about later,
to say, Okay, you're going to have to use our calm system because
you're you're getting tomato cans with string between them. Are not going to cut
it. Even with our allies, we're like, no, just just take
all of our cell phones, borrow our tech because we'll never get this to
work otherwise. And I think there's part of it is the benefit that's one
platform for everybody. But the other part is that not only in signal fidelity,
in data compression and encryption, the US comm system is so far ahead
of everybody else's that they just they just have to use ours like we are
the default technological limit when we get into these things. And that's a that's
a result of Darper research. That's they never stop working on this. And
we'll come back to that again. But comm systems and and and UM data
relays and information systems in a combat environment or something that they've been working on
like crazy. In this it's it's not like these things. It's hard to
in my mind all you know, you always think about, oh, that's
stuff that pays off ten years down the line. You know, oh it's
coming. You know they're doing it now, but maybe it'll show up in
ten years. But given how long DARP has been around, I mean,
it has constantly pushed the US and scientific community right up against the cutting edge.
The entire time. Well there, I feel like I kind of rambled
towards the end. They're sorry everybody. They're implementing this stuff far before it
even graces the public's awareness, right, And that's that's the kind of fun
thing. By the time it's an article in Popular Science, it's four years
old. Oh yeah, it's what they call them mature. Right. Once
the program matures, they pass it along to whoever probably the highest bidder is
and then they move on to the next robotic cat that they're building. Oh
god, um, I mean it's laid the foundation for the like we said,
the Internet obviously, Siri, the voice recognition, microwaves are up there,
computers, GPS, drones, ever heard of them? Ever heard them?
Stealth technology, prosthetics. I mean, man, the list goes on,
and it shall go on when it's my turn. But the thing about
it is it's secrecy. The secrecy of DARPA and these classified projects and this
and that. Man, does that rustle some Jimmy's Oh of course it does.
Are you kidding? That's like that's like a technophobic nightmare. Yeah.
Yeah, Conspiracies are just rampant um because people view DARPA as the fringe of
the government, and that's the show fringe. Yes, that's kind of a
lot of people have drawn parallels because you know, it's this government kind of
subsidized division that's working on some real out there shipped. Yeah, and it's
very separated from everything else, right, it doesn't you know, like I
said, it doesn't have there's no there's no research facility that says DARPA on
it. Right, it's you've got a genius running around there. Yeah,
it's it's hard to pin down there. They're they're constantly moving around. In
fact, one popular company that that DARPA like to fund was called Boston Dynamics.
Oh yeah, just stems in the news. An interesting coincidence with the
show fringes research and development company Massive Dynamics. Oh, anyway, that's it's
a coincidence. It's the show writers may have drawn some stuff from there.
Hey did you hear that Google bought Boston Dynamics. Oh yes, we'll talk
about it. Let's talk about it later. Um. Shall we talk about
some crazy stuff? Oh? God, love crazy. Let's start with bitcoin.
Oh yeah, I've read all bunch about this. It's there's a there's
a theory that DARPA invented bitcoin. Yeah, now why did they do this,
you may ask. Well, bitcoin is a handy dandy currency that is
easy for the whole world to use. And when you have the whole world
under one currency, you control it one world government and w oh bitcoin,
Yeah, I mean hear about this, Paul bitcoin, bitcoin, Dave got
bitcoins at Paul mind all night. Um. Yeah, the the idea that
that the DARPA invents this as a means of kind of pulling all the and
I've heard it a couple different ways. Oh no, you know they say
that it's the it's an untraceable because it's not linked to a government. But
it's actually, you know, it's it's the most traceable and they trace all
the bitcoins and they're gonna they're gonna round everybody up who uses them because they're
all, you know, using them for drugs and guns, and it's you.
Ever, ever, do you have any bitcoins? No? No,
And I'm I have a particular not in my stomach about that because, um,
I I learned I'm not like a tech savvy guy. I'm not on
the edge. But for some reason, I read an article right when bitcoin
came out and I was like, oh, that seems cool, and it
had a link. I was like, oh, if you're interested, you
can mind bitcoins. So I was like, Okay, maybe i'll buy a
stick of gum someday. So I downloaded the thing and I let it run
in the background on my computer. I mean, obviously I knew nothing about
what it takes to do that, but this was the early days when when
you could mind a lot of bitcoin, and I just let it run for
a few months, and I was like, how many bitcoins do I have?
Zero? This is dumb? What it just I mean, I maybe
not even a few months. But what makes me mad is that I was
fully aware of bitcoin. And I mean if I had bought twenty dollars with
a bitcoin, then we'd have a much nicer studio. Now. Well,
that's that's what's weird about it to me, like, because I feel like
I was in the same boat, but I had heard the stories of people
letting these things run and run and run and not getting like anything out of
it. It's I mean, it is even even during the halcyon days of
bitcoin mining, it is an extraordinarily time consuming and process or consuming project.
And the client that I used was like, you know, kind of like
a thing, you know, it's like that setti at home. It's one
was running the Browns kind of things, and it wasn't really pushing the boundaries
of anything. So um, I mean it would be it would delight me
to find out that I had somehow mined up some bitcoin and it was just
loitering somewhere. But but nowadays it is actually used as currency, right,
Oh yeah, because I've seen websites that are like, we accept PayPal and
bitcoin. It's like, what is bitcoin catching on? Really? That's what
That's how I every time I see it. Oh man, Now, I
mean literally, if I had bought twenty dollars a bitcoin, then it would
be worth hundreds of thousands of dollars now really? Yeah? How? How
when was this early? Oh nine? Huh? Yeah? The the exchange
rate, I mean you could bitcoins were going for you know, twenty five
thirty cents each or something or even less, and now they're I mean the
last I knew, um, hold on right now, a single bitcoin is
worth five hundred and eighty nine dollars. Shit. Oh and that's that's not
even the newest. I mean, it was worth more than that. That's
fucking bullshit. So let's see here, it's a made up thing. How
How does this? How how does this work? How is that supposed to
work at all? In the economic scheme of things. I'm just gonna make
up a currency and if enough people start using it, then it becomes worth
hundreds of dollars. Yeah, that's pretty much it. Yeah. In um
October of nine, one dollar was equal to one thousand three hundred and nine
bitcoins, so twenty dollars. Yep, it's twelve million, two hundred and
sixty thousand dollars. Woof Jesus. But the catch though, right, yeah,
they where can you use them? Right? Well? You can use
them. I mean there was there was a time there was a real big
run on bitcoins about a year ago, and there was a few big investment
banks were just buying them out like crazy. The problem is is, like
where would you You would have twelve million dollars right in bitcoins. If you
sold all of those, you would flood the market. The price would drop
like crazy, like so that's that's kind of a kind of a false number.
If you if I suddenly dropped twenty thousand bitcoins on the market for sale,
the price would go to the floor instantly. If you sold them as
stocks though, right you know if I still I mean, they're not stocks,
they're they're they're just currency. But I could the best the best I
could do was to convert them into other tangible goods and sell them or slowly
sell them over time. But either way, I just don't understand why you
would sell the bitcoins as opposed to all using them as well, I mean
because currency is still more I mean US dollars is still way more useful than
bitcoin. So are they like Paco's. Then does it cost like a thousand
bitcoins to buy a coke? Oh? No, nowadays. If you I
mean, if you found a place that took them, you want to buy
a flat screen TV? I do, okay, So that's I don't two
bitcoins. I mean lots of things like and it comes down to like,
oh, that's point zero ninety three bitcoins and it's wildly fluctuating. And that's
why everyone talks about bitcoin because it is has anybody done this? Then?
Oh? Yeah? Are there are there bitcoin billionaires out there? There's bitcoin
millionaires. I'm sure I know that. They mean how many build stories,
builds, how many buildos in bitcoins? There's a there's a number of stories
about guys who are like, oh, I just bought like five dollars in
bitcoins in twenty ten just to see what it was like. And then they're
like, oh, congratulations, here's your check for seven hundred thousand dollars.
You know, like who doesn't work? It does? But that's that is
the huge question. There is so much speculation about who in no one even
knows who made bitcoin first of all, DARPA to what end is it?
Is it a giant, huge scam, yes, by the people who did
it not to be. But that's the thing. There's so many there's so
much pressure on economic systems to be on the front runner of some kind of
thing. Because now it's not just bitcoin, there's bitcoin, lighting coin,
dogecoin, that's real, that funded the Jamaican bobsled team. I mean,
there's so many weird things out there that there's a lot of cool much running.
Yeah, you and everybody else on Imger and reddit and go to hell
um, there's uh, there's there's so much pressure to to to exploit these
systems as they arise that to a degree, no one cares if it's real.
It's it's such such a weird system that I mean, I don't know,
I don't get it. And bitcoin's boring. Moving on, the DARPA
made bitcoins to control your mind and get us ready for reptile insemination. They've
done it. They've insinced me beyond belief, all right, twenty dollars shut
up to twelve a million. You know, I don't know if I would
have paid money for it, though I probably would have done what you did
and let it try mine. But I mean, all that's doing is like
adding to the evil supercomputer's processing power. It's not doing anything else. And
here's the other fun factoid is that when I think about it, it's not
I don't even know. If I would have been able to buy twenty thousand
bitcoins off the market, then I would have worked in reverse. It would
have shot the price up. I mean, oh, now one dollar only
gets me five hundred bitcoins, you know, or something like that. But
I don't I don't know that there was that much bitcoin in one place because
of the manner in which it was mined. There was never like Scrooge McDuck's
vault. It was always spread over thousand of people. Yeah, so I
would have to have gone through and be like, can I have your bitcoins?
Can I buy your bitcoins? Yeah? It still doesn't make me for
and having done that, if I hit a crude twenty thousand bitcoins, which
at the time, I don't know what percentage that would be of the total
pool of available bitcoins, would I killed it by by concentrating it all in
one spot. I don't know. There's got to be people who tried though,
right, There's got to be people who were like, I've got to
be on the front edge of this. So in case they're worth twelve million
damn milldows later four or five years from now, maybe maybe they're out there
to put a twenty in there. And there's some complete insufferable douchebag smoking clove
cigarettes going, yeah, I just bought like a bunch of bitcoins when it
was smart. I'm hoping they'll return a sweet mildow. All right, let's
move on, and I'm buying you a bitcoin. I'm gonna buy you a
fraction of a bitcoin for your birthday. Don't go, you know what,
as soon as it gets in my hands, priced your rock, you're totally
gonna find a way to do it. Oh all right, Um, let's
talk about HARP real quick. Oh yeah, this is something actually I'd like
to do a whole episode on, so I'm not gonna gonna tell you too
much. But HARP is h ARP, the High Frequency Active Auroral Research Program.
It's located in Alaska. I think that's come up before. It is
a huge array of what are they towers in a grid pattern that are all
pointed up to the sky and what what it does? It shoots beams into
the ionosphere in order to heat it up and research that. And this was
this came up before in an episode. This came up on our Cat Trails
episode. Yeah, I think we might have mentioned it in the Sky Sounds
the Strange Sounds, and we also I think we also mentioned it in our
so we've already done harm. No, we also mentioned it in our ghost
Stories episode. But you were just really drunk, that's right. It had
no place there. I had tried to buy a bitcoin it failed. I
got depressed. I cannot wait. All right, it's your birth bit card.
You're gonna open it, and it's gonna be like point zero zero zero
eight nine bit coins. By that time, I'll probably owe four people like
you just made me pay twenty bucks. I am so gonna figure that out.
So harp Is is a popular conspiracy thing because people think since it's kind
of closed off, it's up there in Alaska, kind of in the middle
of nowhere, and they're they're doing stuff to the ionosphere which nobody knows about.
Right, gotta be bad. Can't be bad? It causes earthquakes,
that it's an earthquake machine. It's a um a bad weather modification system.
They cause tsunamis, they cause storms, tornadoes, yep, they cause hurricanes.
They're responsible for liberal legislation. That's right. That's right. They're responsible
for taking your guns away and your god. And they've also, um,
well, I'm gonna tell you right now, they've poisoned all fresh water supply
on the planet. There's there's there's one thing. No, I can't even
think of anything to do. It's too late for America one one. Wait
a minute, it's just crazy enough to work. Buy my water filters.
So now I gotta tell you, I gotta I got one condition. You
can only buy this water filter if you love your family. If you don't,
well, I got coloidal silver. It's cooloidal silver. Um. Harp
was actually shut down this year. Did you hear this. No, it's
it's been shut down because they're between contractors. Oh yeah, so the people
at the helm switching out. It's the night nights shift switch. I would
love to believe that it's like that weird and ratchet switch from like Star Star
Wars and he goes, so Harp. I think we'll try and touch on
that in a future episode in detail, but that that's connected to old derepa.
Well we've got a little grab bag here. Uh, mind control one
room, room, room, room, room. Now, how are they
gonna control your mind? Well, they've got a bunch of different things.
They can do, so many, so many options. Uh, they may
be working working up some old brain chips. Oh yeah, they're gonna shove
into everybody. Yep, I got, I got, I got the I
got the public version of that, the part they want you to believe.
There's also the thought that they are reponsible for some Manchurian candidates maybe yep.
I mean that's thrown in about everything that you when you talk about the mind.
Yeah, but it which is so weird. I mean, of all
the things to manipulate, why Chinese elections, they want to be able to
implant false memories perhaps, Oh yeah. And ultimately they want to track all
human activity, track all humans. I don't have to get a taser or
something. They must be tracked. Yeah, they want to track all all
human activity that goes back to you know, another Illuminati deal or the global
elite. Yeah. Oh man, And there's no hiding from them. The
scary thing is I'll get to this probably in the next round, but it's
it's sort of happening those CCTVs. Everywhere there's there's drones laced with cameras.
We're getting facial recognition software. A fun fact unrelated to this, I mean
to DARP at least, but um, there was actually a fashion show in
It was in Europe. It was either in London or Paris. Maybe it
was in the lawn. But what it was it was someone had designed clothes
and makeup whose sole purpose it was to completely goff recognition software. Nice and
so it was like the way like the clothes had all these weird lines in
them that didn't necessarily equate to physically how a person was. It was like
it was like digital camouflage and cameras and photo receptors had a hard time discerning
what the hell they were singing. And the makeup was like, I mean,
it was really blade runnery looking at there's like black lines across the face,
and and it was all designed to completely thwart facial recognition. Interesting.
Well, yeah, scientific world impacting the fashion world, that's right, Which
is kind of an irony because I always thought that people who dressed fashionably kind
of wanted their picture taken. Yeah, but they don't want to be tracked.
Track all human bioengineering, Oh yep, are responsible man apes, human
zies, human zies, things like that Flora question. If it was possible,
would you have your left hand instead of like a normal five fingered human
hand, you still have five appendages? They all I mean even just sitting
on a desk. No one could tell the difference. But they're all tentacles.
Would you do that? Would you have your hand turned into tentacle hand?
I would? I totally would. You're such a free I told you
I was freaking baby. No, I don't go for tentacles. Well,
sorry, love, I'm not doing it for you, dude. Um.
Yeah, they could possibly be making super soldiers right now. They are,
they're working on it. They are working on well. I mean, I
don't know do we define super soldiers? Do you mean like like um Captain
in America super soldiers M serrium? I don't think it's serum more than genetic
manipulation. Um. But they're they're trying to make it to wear soldiers and
don't sleep or they don't need food. Oh yeah, I'm gonna get that,
which is great this is a I mean, your part's the conspiracy part.
My part is the list of projects. And right here we just met
a nexus. Because it's not a conspiracy, they absolutely are doing that crazy.
Yeah, that's I'll go in a little more detail on that. Okay,
then I'll stopped talking on that one. So I got one more here
to round us out to some carezy stuff. The darpest responsible for maybe Project
Pegasus. Oh I love this. Project Pegasus was a program that begun in
nineteen sixty eight where DARPA achieved time and space travel to perform quote remote sensing
in time. Yeah to quote, this would give the US intelligence on past
and future events. Do you have what it takes to join the United States
Chrono Knot Force if you're a school children? The answer is yes. One
hundred and forty school children were secretly chosen as Chrono knots and sent places in
space and time. I'm luck Brinkman, and if you want to be a
chrono nut like me, you're gonna have to eat dentymore baked beans, the
only beans with real vitamins to fortify your strength, and don't forget to eat
plenty of light bread. I'm less master man. Do you like cigarettes?
Boy? I knew you would. How about a nice gest you feel?
Yeah, goes great with my soda boy brand beverage, Luck Brinkman and less
master Man Chrono Nuts. Well there's another podcast, damn it. It's all
advertisement. Yeah. Um, so these kids were sent places in space and
time such as Mars, where apparently a US bass exists. Uh, and
Gettysburg for Lincoln's address. That's where these these kids got to experience. What
about how about that two men right now currently no are currently leading the charge
as whistle blowers, the names Andrew Boziago and William Stillings. Was there ever
anyone famous in America's top secret chrono core, say perhaps in the early eighties.
Apparently one of the visitors that that got teleported to Mars went by the
name Barrack Obama. Uh do I get that rain? That's right, Barrick
Obama, Obama, Barack. Oh freaking Obama Barack. Who's saying Obama?
Yeah? Rono dude. In the eighties, he was getting with the Martian
ladies. This is what Boziago claims in a book that you can buy with
your bitcoins point six six point zero zero zero six eight bitcoins. Um.
Yeah, it's like a pamphlet written by a madman. So so that's Project
Pegasus. Yeah. We could probably go into much detail on that, but
I haven't read the book by mister Botant. You don't want to jump onto
that without all the facts. So, um so there's there's some conspiracy stuff
DARPA's working on. Be careful you. I mean, you know what though,
of all the things that we've talked about with conspiracies, like, this
is the one I least blame people for. I mean, it's highly secretive
they're doing. Even MKA Ultra. Yeah, I blame people the least for
being because well, first of all, m KA Ultra wasn't like that was
just true. There's no like. Uh but DARPA, I don't blame anybody
for thinking they're doing everything. I mean, sending sending Barack Obama to Mars
in the early eighties. Okay, that's a little weird. But but nonetheless,
you know, like I get it. This is this is if you're
gonna if you're gonna grow a conspiracy flower, this is the soil you need
to put the seed in. Um. So, let's go over some of
their their projects. This is some of their confirmed like they'll they're happy to
talk to you about it projects right, Um, as you said, brain
inputs what they call subnets, system based neurotechnology for emergency therapies. Emergency therapy
being if you don't listen to us, we'll put your ass down. Well
what they what they envision of it? They absolutely no secret. They're like,
yeah, we think if we put these UM electrodes in your brain,
we can keep a soldier from sleeping, but keep them fully operational. I
think we can do that. Another part of it they're talking about, it's
therapies for PTSD. Oh yeah, yeah, get your at home kit m
um. Yeah, so they've got and they have a few different projects that
are all working under this. Um uh this this SUBNETS thing. Um you
also mentioned, uh direct nerve interface for amputees. Uh. These are these
are prosthetically limbs that are that are controlled by my neural impulse, just the
same way you control your arm. And in some cases they're even able to
give tactical sensation. Yeah, they're they're able to return some kind of sensation
back to the user, which is amazing. And there are people who are
running around with these things on right now. I mean that is awesome.
That's a that's in the good column. I would say, Um, you
mentioned hydrae uh. Hydra is a very real project they're working on. And
what it is is an enormous underwater infrastructure system that includes supplies, munitions,
drones, all kept underwater globally for rapid deployment, ready to deploy a moon's
notice. Yep, float up to the surface. You talked about Boston Dynamics,
I did, Yep, that's the one, and lots of DARPA funding
tons of work on um what I call like robotic mules. I think they
actually call it the Puma maybe, yeah, some cat name. Yeah.
It's like a little box with stick legs, and it's yeah, terrifying and
it is. It's very weird to watch it movie. Everyone's seen the videos
of it. But it's it's designed to have a flatbed, that's what That's
why it looks like a box with legs. I mean, it's designed to
carry cargo over uneven ground. UM. Also, and Google bottom up.
Google has spent the last year buying up robotics research company after company. They've
been buying a ton of them up and they are not accepting They will complete
all current military contracts, but they're not accepting further ones, and that includes
they are accepting bitcoin. Jesus, let it let it go. Yeah,
bloody hand the bloody fast advise and how are man? That's cool that that
would make an awesome shirt, just says DARPA. And it's a bleeding fast,
drunk Satan robot. Yeah, yeah, no doubt. UM. But
they another one that they had that was also bought by Google. UM was
called the Atlas, and there's plenty of footage of this online. This was
a bipedal Hammad shape and it's a man shaped robot that they were saying where
they were going to use as a disaster response robot. You could send it
into a broken terrain to look for survivors and things like that. You could
also send it into broken marriages and it would woods a mass Listen to yourselves.
I'm hearing a lot of emotion right now. You use the following format
when you blank, I feel blank. Also mentioned UH trying to come up
with the next generation of navigational systems that don't involve satellites that aren't required GPS
as we currently know it. They're using atomic fluctuations UM they're using things like
lightning strikes. Um, very minute variations in the magnetic uh pole polarity of
the earth, which is hard because it's moving right now. Um uh yeah,
just amazing things like that. They have, Uh, how about a
guided fifty caliber sniper round. This motherfucker can make a ninety degree turn about
This is yeah, this is it's the fifth element. It's what it is.
It really is. Uh and you can you can, you can google
this and there's videos online of their test footage. And that's again, it's
terrifying. This is the part they're letting us see, right. But you
know what I got. I got some news for you, Darba. Leave
the camera rolling a little longer. Every time that thing like turned and went
towards its target, it would kick off and go to the next like.
Well, I think that that's when it presumably hit it. I want to
see it hit Oh man, maybe it didn't. Maybe that's what they don't
want to show you. Hey, what's the what's the acronym for that one?
I'd rather hear you say it. Uh it is exact. Oh yeah,
the extreme Accuracy tasked ordinance boom these and there. Oh they're so good
at it. They're so good at it exact. How about the X thirty
seven B Yeah, yeah, uh it's it's uh, it's darp AS space
plane. I call it the DARPA Dark Yeah. Do you call it that
or debate? Is it da art? I can see it. I call
it dynamic aeronautic. Yeah, they should transfer the do um, but it
is. It's like a function. It's like a flattened cone. Should have
said transport. But here's the squirrely thing about it. It's made from squirrels.
It runs purely on sporel age. So again, DARPA cannot be funded.
No, no requisitions will be funded will without a direct military benefit.
That's still in effect. Yep. And DARPA's got this thing, this uh,
this X thirty seven B H space plane. This thing spent over five
hundred days in continuous orbit over the planet. Wow, you know what they
were doing up there, jerking off? Nobody knows. It's completely classified.
No one knows what it was doing up there for over acking year, almost
two years. It just sat up there, sitting and spinning. It was
the Black Knight satellite probably um. So that's a fun, weird mystery.
How about molten metal projectiles. This is a metal projectile. You fire it
and the moment it launches, the metal component of it completely liquefies. It's
got to be some oxidation, right, like, I don't know, some
kind of chemical reaction with the air, and as it flies it is ero
They it's called aerodynamic forging. It is actually the motion through the air that
cools it, that forms it into a perfect aerodynamic point. Wow. Yeah,
and then blam and then it's your ass. Yeah. Yeah. The
last thing I want to talk about really briefly here, how about this gravity
anomaly mapping? When the order comes down to track all humans hiding underground won't
help you because they actually have been working on technology with instruments so precise they
can go over an area and using that they can determine any gravimetric anomalies and
buy that make an entire map of all below ground caverns in an area.
Disgusting, awesome, absolutely awesome, Flora. I don't know why you're so
against this. I think we just let them have the robots, let them
have the AI, and nothing bad can happen. Stop crying. Are you
gonna leave that eye patch on the whole podcast? You know what you know,
all cheer you up, Flora. What my my my my my,
my my my my. Oh man, we've got dueling lightning rounds. Yeah
we do. What's it gonna be? Well, Um, we're gonna go.
We're just gonna go back and forth. Huh little tennis match of a
I like it. I like it. Volley. Uh you serve all right?
Hit me up with some hot crazy Uh, first one, I've gotten
the old lightning round. These are again, these are projects that Darpe is
currently working on or has just recently worked on. RAM Project RAM R a
M. The Restoring Active Memory. Oh yeah, implants neuroprosthetics, they call
it, to help overcome memory deficits that occur from either trauma or disease.
They're implants that go in your old morayon and they help you, you know,
make up for missed memories that you might not have any more. Weird.
I love it. How about this? The XO S three combat exoskeleton
made by Raytheon Corporation. The only exoskeleton made exclusively for a combat. This
thing will allow a soldier to lift up to two hundred pounds and also,
further down the line, they want this thing to be an exoskeleton that a
human could step out of, and then that exoskeleton just keeps on trucking autonomous
in future designs. Tony Star, I know, right, like a super
lame Iron Man. It's a matter of fact, if you look online you
can find an old version of it. It's the the xos two that Raytheon
not wanting to miss an opportunity for good pr back in say twenty twelve,
they got Agent Colson. They got the actor who plays Agent Colson to come
on down to Raytheon town and put this exoskeleton on and run a mucked for
a little while. Wow. Yeah, product hye ins man. I'm glad
they got it at least working where it you know, didn't crush crush a
person. There's like a big pile of debris that they had all the people
that got crushed behind them on the pile. All right, how about the
z Man. These are handheld Gecko inspired paddles to climb on glass. Oh
yeah, it's a thing like did you ever see the Last Mission Impossible?
Yeah, had the flexi gloves. Yeah, he had the gloves and he
climbed up the outside of that building with them. Those were cool. It's
not quite that, but it's the same idea these are. It's not in
glove form yet, it's in paddle form, so it's not as cool,
but yeah, z man, all right, how about robot and or cyborg
insects. I mean, they worked so hard to make smaller and smaller drones.
Their current tiny drone is like six inches long and they painted it to
look like a shitty humming bird. But they want to make insect size robotic
drones. The problems, yeah, the problem is power systems. You know,
how do you keep it? You know, those these super tiny ones,
they can only keep them in the air for like three minutes before they
run out of juice because we don't have very good batteries for them. And
then somebody said, well, you know what's really good at that flying that's
that size real fucking insects. So they actually and you can go online and
buy a kit so that you can make a remote control cockroach. Oh yeah,
um, And so they're working on this. They're they're attaching electronics to
insects and they can actually, yeah, they can. They can affect their
behavior, they can, they can control them. You can. You can
buy a kit online you get scared with so many girls. Oh yeah,
with instructions on how to make a remote controlled cockroach crazy, I'm so gonna
do it. It's kind of expensive, but that's that's kind of about my
alley. I'm not afraid to do surgery a roach. You know what?
That includes catching a roach keeping it alive. Well, surgery can buy the
roaches. It's a specific species makes it easier, so they count. All
you have to do is like click, like the little like dino writer helmet.
Pretty much. It's funny. Actually, I watched the I watched the
video about how you do this surgery, and it actually includes there's a point
at which you actually have to sand the the kitness exoskeleton of the cock rouch
that the glue will work better. Really bad, right, How do you
keep it? How do you keep it still? Oh, they've covered a
drug it. Yes, you anesthetize it. You don't get an ice water
for a couple of minutes, Oh my gosh, and then that thing just
don't move, and then it thaws out and off it goes. It's a
cock rotch. They're extraordinarily hard to kill. And then you don't have to
feel bad if you kill it. Um. Another fun fact is that the
the antenna of this particular species is hollow, and so you cut the antenna
and you can actually thread a wire into the antenna and that's how you give
it instructions, which my instructions, I just mean an electrical pulse. Heya,
turn right. Oh um, that's so but so nuts. But you
have I mean yes, insects crawling under your door watching you do whatever you
want to do. Or um earthquakes. You release two hundred insects to a
pile of rubble and they can find people. Yeah, I'm in life saving
roaches. All of these implications for removing rubble from people. That's yeah,
it's nuts. Your balls in your court floor? Which you got? My
next one, Project Excalibur. Um, this is the development of hell Well.
I love it. I actually had this on my list too. H
L high energy lasers. This is for weapons and communication, that's right,
and buy weapons. In communication, they mean communicating that your face is melting.
Yeah, Project Excalibur, because that was the Blazer. The big problem
with it was that they always required such huge power support power systems. But
they finally getting those shrunk down. They're getting them. Everyone wants laser guns,
and I don't blame them. What do you got how about portable blood
decontamination. Wow, you can remove pathogens, toxins, poisons from blood.
It's like a gigantic techno kidney, but way better at its job. Opening
tonight for ice quake techno kidney cool um. Tara hurts frequency electronics. Oh
yeah, the as yet unused range of the electromagnetic spectrum between microwave and infrared
is the TARA hurts frequency. Nothing nothing going on at that's going on.
So if people can figure out how to how to get in there and get
stuff going on, then electronics wouldn't compete for spectrum access. Also, clothing
could have built in TARA hurt frequency sensors, So that means something to get
buried under rubble, right, the shirt lifts it off. The shirt emits
a high frequency sound that roaches will be attractive to. But yeah, it's
I think somebody wrote that in you know, if you get hot or something,
the shirt will like automatically cool you or something like that. I love
that crazy stuff, all right. I got one last one here for you.
How about bone putty for compound fractures. You put the putty around the
bone and it hardens, it forms a temporary cast and its internal cast that
that degrades over time as the bone knits back together. Wow. Also medical
nanobots and why not throw them on the bucket? Wow? So one's are
lightning round bone? Lightning sound? Put the lightning round. So to wrap
up here, a little bit uh darpest should exist for in my opinion,
for science's sake, not for military's sake. I agree with that. I
think we would be just fine in a much better world if if we could
just fund research like this, you know, and instead of worrying about the
next bomb or bullet that that changes direction, right, you know, we
could put it in a medical research or something useful to What about a syringe
that changes direction, or an ad vill that can hunt you down there put
itself in your mouth? What about an IV bag that can take rubble off
of you when you've gotten buried? Treat all humans. That guy with the
cold is in a cave. I found him. I mean, if this,
if this country slips into a police state, which it's doing, then
this type of research is going to send us straight into an Orwell novel.
Oh yeah, that's and that right there, is kind of the crux of
the conspiracy. Oh. I mean, here's the thing. I mean,
I don't think this research is what's going to send us into a Norwell novel.
I think people are going to send us into an Norawell novel if that's
the way things go. I don't. I look at look at the actual
book of nineteen eighty four. They didn't. They didn't have a tenth of
the technology that we do now to achieve that. Look in North Korea and
they've got pretty good Orwellian state going down there. You know. I don't
think the technology is what's required to repress people, just the will to do
so. No. I mean it'll make it much easier to police the state
though. Yeah, when you can't hide, what are they gonna do?
Are they gonna get like robots to do our jobs for us? Come on,
Flora, that's what you know what? And if they did, I
would kick this shit out of them. There's no way a robot could stop
me in my cart. No way, dude. I'm gonna tell you this
once and for all. Use your at high only on humans. I'm just
saying the robots come. No, I don't say it. I'll be fine,
dude, Uh, there's so much do I want to tell you.
The other thing is, how is Google a player? How? How what
are they going to do with all this stuff in the next in the coming
five years? Oh man, I hope robo enslavement. I don't know.
I mean Google, they could do whatever they want at this point, and
like I are doing whatever. I mean, yeah, and it's you're making
bitcoin probably just let it go, let you go. I'm there's Uh,
that's that's kind of a weird thing. And I was having a discussion with
a friend of mine about Google the other day and how you know, things
like Google Fiber, Like I love it if it came to Chicago. But
on the other hand, I do have this nagging feeling like I'm placing too
many eggs in Google's bast get that society like this is a I don't know,
is that is that irrational to worry that this company is becoming such a
huge player, like they control, you know, like the information and search
engines they have. They have such a huge influence on the world through that
that, you know, I don't know, are they just there? Are
they just tech happy? Are they like? No, you know, we
really want to get into robots. We think it's going to be really cool,
so we're buying up these robot companies. Or is it's the beginning of
some malevolent end. I don't know. I It's going to be something for
the grandkids I'll never have to deal with. Don't worry. I'm solving all
of my long term guilt problems by never having sex. And also, this
is only the stuff we're told about, right, oh man, Yeah,
this is the stuff that they're willing to let everyone see and mess with.
There is a prime example of this in the eighties. There was a stealth
boat that they played around with for years until they finally had a big coming
out party. It's like this boat's King signera or something. They showed it
to the public, but it had been bopping around for years in production before
that, you know, and testing and all that stuff, and well,
it's just a freaky thing. And you gotta wonder though, if some of
this experimental aircraft things like that aren't what people are seeing in the skies.
Oh, they most certainly are. I mean, like, especially there's the
space plan that they've got. You know, there was little sightings of it
here and there. There's experimental propulsion systems. There was a there's a really
running thing and I forget what they call it, donuts on a rope.
It was a I think it was a ramjet propulsion system that's still classified.
No one knows what aircraft was flying it. But people would see this contrail
with it's literally like the straight contrail with these rings down it, and you're
like, what the there's no aircraft that makes that. Uh And I'm still
not really released, but I mean so there's these weird kind of secondary like,
oh, well, we know something's doing a thing, but they're not
going to tell us. And there are tons of pictures of stuff that they're
working on are apparently you know, um that that's out there for DARPA of
aircraft things and what do they look like? Big golfing cigars right well,
all right, freud back it down, a little bit Zeppelin type things like
giant Harry dogs, just just just I mean huge. I think I saw
three builders in the sky build anyway. Um, that's that's it, DARPA,
take it or leave it, I don't know. I mean, it's
there's some really cool stuff just because it's you know, we're we like toys
and and there's all kinds of neat things that are coming out of these people's
minds. Yeah, but again, if it's used the wrong way, you
know, Spider Man, it's it's not going to be good for anybody.
But that's Dark before you, very high tech, somewhat clandestine, time shared,
nutshell, time shared, nutshell. Anyways, let's let's get into the
real conspiracy. Yeah, and the stuff that we've been working on for years.
Finally finally release the pollen n boons, the peans flora. Why don't
you kick it off. I'll kick it off. I'm not going to go
after the low hanging fruit on this one, sorry buddy, But I am
going to start out here with a government funded music festival. Nice, with
the freedom to explore some really sweet licks. Oh, I like that.
You can fail if you want, but it's just you know, getting out
there and making it happen. Yeah. Does it focus on any particular instrument?
Usually it does. It's gatarpa. Nice. You always get so mad
when you sniff them out. I know, I feel like I've I've peeked
at my Christmas presents. Smells it coming, you know. Um. Dark
percent a research team down to Southern Texas to work on on, you know,
building a something that a person an operator could wear that would help them
with their job, because the problem that they were having is they would go
out to eat and the food it's just like the guacamole wasn't made well.
It was really chunky, like they they get fahitas and the chicken wasn't cut
all the way through. And they realize that the people just physically weren't up
to the task of making the food properly. And this inspired them to make
muh the t X four seven three tex Mexo set skeleton. It makes for
it's a lot easier to prepare food where lift a lot of uros. It's
it's the text Mexo skeleton. Nice all right, I've got I've got a
program that was funded to transport people through space and time. But it's just
took a long time more than anything, but it was it was it didn't
cost very much. It was a super cheap It was Project Megabus. Another
fun for you. There was a research and team sent to Southern Texas and
the restaurant, but there was never any chicken on the mat. They made
it a bullet I guided bullet project text mex Acto killed the chicken? Oh
why did I take so much joy in just recycling upon? Okay, you
go, but I have to do another way. I can't get away.
Well, i'll give you I'll give you another one here. Okay. It
was um when they when they went in southern Texas, they actually had a
problem before they had the texts mex Sacto bullets, they had a problem lining
up their their sites with real bullets and stuff. They needed something quicker and
something that would hopefully cook the chickens as they shot them nice. And that's
why they got the text Mexcalibur weapon. We're geniuses. We're smarter than put
that I'm on a bumper sticker photos smarter, but it's gonna be smarter than
smarter than DARP, smarter than smarter than DARP. Okay, okay, well
more, yeah, I mean I okay, I get two more. One
of them goes very fast and easy. Uh. It's he um, government
funded research project for people who are just idiots, and it's called derpah yeah
yeah, uh no. Um. It turns out that in the early nineties
there's a lot of competition in toy manufacturing and one particular company. He was
funded by the US government and Nickelodeon, as I recall um and Uh.
They were tasked with, you know, research development on upcoming toy designs that
they could let the Russians get ahold of. It's called FLARPA. Yeah,
all right there, Yes, there's a whole bunch. There's there's the text
mex Combo plant buns, the number eighteen. You know, it's amazing the
amount of things that DARPA has been instrumental in providing. I mean, look
at the very Internet itself. I mean even even email. But you know
what DARPA didn't invent? What listener? Man? You know who's kicking in
the door on this sweet ass party the fits No our friend Tim? Oh
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the leader of the free zombies. Really well, do you mean the de
facto fascist dictator of the That's that's what I mean. Oh okay, he
just calls them the free zombies, so there won't be any more unresting,
like the way they call it a people's republic. That's normally work exactly.
Zombie Master rights in with some bring them pounds left out from the history books.
Bring them pounds out from the history books. Johnny Applesee did have a
brother who also went across the land spreading the seeds of not apples, but
cannabis. He went by the name of Johnny Appleweed. What there's a rare
and large so cool can you imagine, like like, what if there's just
weed trees everywhere? Man, there's a rare and large gourd that grows in
the mountains of the Pacific Northwest. It said that the flavor is so big
and tangy. It was named the sas squash. Oh my god, that's
such a good right now. Ancient builders of Egypt as we all know,
were master architects, also beaters. Almost almost lost to it antiquity until very
recently. Unearthed was a papyrus roll on the rules and standards used when building
the Pyramids. It's titled colk like an Egyptian I get it? What if
you like took one of those papyrus role Why am I doing this head thing?
This stupid and I'm sorry? Never works, Never works. He also
has a shampoo for Egyptian kids that won't hurt their eyes nevatari. I like
that. And and he also has a mundane superpower. Oh oh, he
just made me go Paul Barr, Yeah he did. He's got cotton all
the power to make all fabric have the touch the feel of cotton happer.
And then he caught an orbon camera and sent us a video of it.
Sweet, that's pretty cool. Clean your lands, thanks Zombie master Quail.
Those zombies. That's right, And we go from the best of the zombies
to the worst of men. Oh narrow, Adam, he's got puns.
There was once a farrow with a serious case of irritable bowel syndrome. I
like this one why widely known as boot uncommon Oh man Worst Man. That's
great. Um, here's a fun factoid that the Roma people of Europe that
commonly referred to as Gypsies. Um, they got that name because Europeans actually
thought they came from Egypt. Yeah. I didn't know that. So yeah,
maybe even worthy of a podcast. The Worst Men agrees with you.
He said, maybe we should, Maybe we should? Now is it a
good idea or a bad idea because it came from the Worst Man. Oh
tough call. I get thirsty for the worst dy that was? That was
pretty bad to me. Oh, and he gives us a really cool link
to a Cracked article about five ways in which every conspiracy theory makes the world
worse. I'm I'm a fan of that already, so I'm gonna check that
out. Crack does some good stuff. Yeah, they really do. They
do. They do. Sometimes they do our research for us a little bit,
which is nice. Yeah. So it's always nice when we have an
episode and I can find like a Cracked top ten things that you know,
hollow Earth. Yeah, I love it. Thanks Worst Man, Adam,
Oh, the Worst You're the worst hard from Tyler? Oh what m Tyler?
High tie? Tyler has want to drink tie? But it could be
your tiepower. What is it? It's the ability to pull the exact amount
of toilet paper needed off the roll each time. Oh, but only for
your previous bowel movement. Great Monkeys, because there's that movie. You're like,
what the hell? Oh yeah, got dark that's awesome. One more,
much like Aquaman. The ability to speak to creatures of the sea,
but only while attending county fairs. Oddly specific. Yeah, I like that
one. That's what I got, Thanks, Tyler. I love mundane superpowers.
I gotta I gotta make a page. Yeah, oh man, we're
talking about we're talking about updating the site too. Yeah, and that would
be an easy thing to add, I think. So Floria hit me with
a mundane superpower right now, I'm gonna hit you with him. We're gonna
make him up right now. Boom Okay, this this is called buff fingers.
Oh okay. The ability to carry any number of plastic bags from the
grocery store home. That's barely mundane. That might just be a superpower,
because that's genuinely useful. You know, I've been I've been doing bad one,
so I thought i'd throw a good one. I like that. Yeah,
I got one. I got one, okay. Um, The ability
to open a book directly to the page in the index that tells you where
the page you want to find is. That's useful. I use that a
lot. Yeah, it won't take you right there, but you'll you'll get
the page in the index that will guys. All right, okay, moving
on, moving on? Oh, make glorious email from Chromrade Luke, chromrad
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himself. Oh he's about work. So Robert Howard or maybe guy who make
Conan stories. I have question am told perhaps George har har Martin, perhaps
Harbert Jordan, I'm not remembering. Also make writing of Conan stories I think
was George har har Martin. No, no, no, you you such
make stupid with mouths. Stephen King make make Conan series very horrific. Damn
him not making funny jokes. He's real author. No groth coning stories.
I think was George harhar Martin. Thank you, Lord must I must make
it. To agree and disagree is glorious understanding. And uh to end to
end this round, we uh unfortunately almost ran poor Angie off the road.
Oh yeah, listener, Angie wrote in uh and apparently uh in the Golden
episode our our Pokemon guys was almost her undoing whilst whilst driving. Sorry to
put a warning on that, I think I think we've ever been in some
discussions warning by good night. We didn't have warnings on stuff. No,
you understand it. The risks and you tried to eat dairy, you would
die from it. We had pois that would put your eye out. That's
what they were made to do. The point was not to put your eye
out and learn from it. I saved up for two years to buy a
jagged wooden splinter to play with that thing lasted for the rest of your childhood.
We had babies with that jagged wooden splinter. Oh thank you, hanjie
Um. She also says that you suggested the Supernatural. The show Supernatural probably
had a goal on episode it does. Ah. Yeah, it's called Everybody
Hates Hitler and sticks surprisingly close to the folklore that we talked about. Awesome,
that's really cool. I'm gonna get into super I'm gonna start watching it
soon. I've run out of community. I watched all the community, so
I'm needing a new ship. I mean, it's the sun is setting on
summer here in Chicago, so I'm already like starting to build my summer bunker,
watch my winter bunker watch list. Yeah, and uh, Angie says,
do we think that golems are any good at laundry? I think they'd
have to be, except their servants. I don't know that you'd want to
get them with though. Yeah, not maybe not a good idea in that
regard. So maybe maybe they're right clean. Only you see it easy these
golems. You don't want to get them away. These golems these days use
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