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April 5, 2019 - Knowledge Fight
02:22:12
#280: Raptor Weddings and Sardinian Spiders

Today, Dan and Jordan take a detour into Project Camelot world to go over the latest entry in the saga of Sweary Kerry's interviews with Mark Richards, a convicted murderer who likes to pretend he's a space warrior. In this installment, Kerry actually discusses Mark's crime, which is a bad move, since it kind of opens the door for Dan and Jordan to do the same.

Participants
Main voices
d
dan friesen
01:27:20
j
jordan holmes
31:13
k
kerry cassidy
18:28
Appearances
Clips
a
alex jones
00:07
p
pastor david manning
00:05
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Speaker Time Text
alex jones
Andy in Kansas, you're on the air.
dan friesen
Thanks for holding.
Hello, Alex.
unidentified
I'm a first-time caller.
I'm a huge fan.
I love your work.
I love you.
dan friesen
Hey, everybody.
Welcome back to Knowledge Fight.
I'm Dan.
jordan holmes
I'm Jordan.
dan friesen
We're a couple dudes like to sit around, drink novelty beverages, and talk a little bit about Alex Jones.
jordan holmes
Oh, indeed we are, Dan.
dan friesen
Jordan.
unidentified
Dan!
dan friesen
Jordan.
jordan holmes
What was the last time you got a slice of pizza?
dan friesen
Just a slice.
I got one last night.
jordan holmes
You got just a slice?
You got one slice.
dan friesen
Went out for a slice.
Yep, I did.
I was walking around.
I had to go clear out some stuff from my old apartment, finishing up moving, because when you move and you're done, it's never really done.
And so I was walking back, and I spotted a pizza place that I like along the way.
And I went in and got a slice, and it was pretty good.
jordan holmes
Nice.
dan friesen
It wasn't as good as I remembered it, but it was pretty good.
jordan holmes
Have you ever had a bocce slice?
dan friesen
I have.
They're too big.
jordan holmes
They are huge.
dan friesen
Yes.
jordan holmes
And don't forget, terrible.
dan friesen
Yeah, they're not good.
jordan holmes
They're garbage.
dan friesen
Bocce is a place that has a cafeteria pizza, is what it is, here in Chicago.
If you want a lot, and it comes with a free drink also, which is...
Not a bonus.
jordan holmes
The whole thing costs $3 and a lifetime of regret.
dan friesen
I think it's probably just for drunk people down in Wrigleyville.
That's mostly what that bocce location is for.
Not great pizza.
Don't recommend it if you come to Chicago.
Plenty of other options.
Jordan, today...
jordan holmes
What's today?
dan friesen
We're doing a podcast where I know a lot about Alex Jones.
jordan holmes
Oh yeah?
I only know what you tell me about Alex Jones.
dan friesen
It doesn't matter, because we're doing Wacky Wednesday on Friday today.
jordan holmes
Yay!
dan friesen
Like I said, I had to go clear out a bunch of stuff from this old apartment.
And also, I've rejoined the gym near my house.
And I've been getting back into the routine of going to the gym.
I started taking a Pilates class.
jordan holmes
Love it.
dan friesen
Love it.
jordan holmes
Still don't understand it.
dan friesen
Out of character as hell.
So there's still some adjustment to the move happening.
And I felt like a good way for us to get back into a good natural rhythm and a good fun time would be to have...
A little trip down to Project Camelot.
jordan holmes
Love it.
Love it.
dan friesen
Because Jordan...
jordan holmes
This old apartment was Bob Vila, right?
unidentified
Mm-hmm.
Okay.
dan friesen
This old house.
jordan holmes
Oh, okay.
Never mind.
dan friesen
Today, Carrie Cassidy has gone back to prison and interviewed Mark Richards.
jordan holmes
That could go either way.
unidentified
No.
jordan holmes
She could have gone back to prison just regularly.
dan friesen
She wasn't in prison to begin with, so she couldn't go back.
jordan holmes
Okay.
dan friesen
But she went to go interview Mark Richards for her tenth time.
jordan holmes
Captain Mark.
dan friesen
Richard.
Absolutely.
And so here is an out-of-context drop from today's show.
kerry cassidy
Clones are not reliable.
dan friesen
I agree.
I agree.
Can't trust them, clones.
jordan holmes
I love this!
dan friesen
I love it!
I love it so much!
She's making a very important point beneath all that, and that is that you can't rely on a clone.
That's not to say that you can't trust them.
It means that you can't rely on them.
jordan holmes
Well, obviously your clone would never have helped you move.
dan friesen
No, certainly not.
unidentified
No, of course not.
jordan holmes
It's not his responsibility.
dan friesen
No, it would have left a bunch of shit in the apartment when we got out.
Yeah, absolutely.
It's unreliable clone behavior.
jordan holmes
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
dan friesen
But you know what?
There's some people who aren't clones.
And I believe that we should start this episode off by giving a shout-out to these non-clones who have signed up and are supporting the show.
Very reliable.
jordan holmes
Very reliable, these non-clones.
dan friesen
So first, I'd like to say thank you to Amy.
You are now a policy wonk.
unidentified
I'm a policy wonk.
dan friesen
Thank you, Amy.
Thank you, Amy.
Next, Natalie.
Thank you so much.
You are now a policy wonk.
unidentified
I'm a policy wonk.
Thank you, Natalie.
jordan holmes
Thank you very much, Natalie.
dan friesen
Next, Darren.
Thank you so much.
You are now a policy wonk.
unidentified
I'm a policy wonk.
dan friesen
Thank you, Darren.
jordan holmes
Thank you very much, Darren.
dan friesen
Next, someone who donated on a little bit of an elevated level, and we appreciate it oh so very much.
So, Sean, thank you so much.
You are now a globalist.
unidentified
I'm a policy wonk.
Go home to your mother and tell her you're brilliant.
pastor david manning
Someone sodomite sent me a bucket of poop.
jordan holmes
Daddy Shark!
dan friesen
Thank you, Sean.
jordan holmes
Thank you very much, Sean.
dan friesen
And then finally, I'd like to say thank you to somebody who donated on a little bit of an elevated level above that.
unidentified
Uh-oh.
dan friesen
We appreciate that so very much.
So, Jay, thank you so much.
You are now a technocrat.
unidentified
I'm a policy wonk.
Four stars.
Go home to your mother and tell her you're brilliant.
pastor david manning
Someone sodomite sent me a bucket of poop.
jordan holmes
Daddy Shark!
alex jones
Jar Jar Binks has a Caribbean black accent.
unidentified
He's a loser little titty baby.
I don't want to hate black people.
jordan holmes
I renounce Jesus Christ!
dan friesen
Thank you so much, Jay.
jordan holmes
Thank you very much, Jay.
dan friesen
If you're listening out there and you're thinking, I like what these guys do, I'd like to support the show, you can do that by going to our website, knowledgefight.com, clicking the button that says support the show.
We would appreciate it because it makes all our dreams come true.
It allows me to take a Pilates class, sit in this apartment, and talk about Carrie Cassidy going to prison to interview Mark Richards.
jordan holmes
And let's be clear, we are a clone-positive show.
dan friesen
We do not shame clones.
unidentified
We are a clone agnostic podcast.
dan friesen
We have no stated position on clones.
So, Jordan, today, this is super interesting.
This is a very different sort of vibe here on Project Camelot.
jordan holmes
Well, the audio sounded weird.
dan friesen
I wanted to bring that up.
This audio stinks.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
dan friesen
I don't know what's going on.
I don't know why Carrie's audio is very different, but it is, and we're just going to have to deal with that.
Okay.
There's no way for me to clean it up, and I wouldn't even if I could.
jordan holmes
No, of course not.
dan friesen
I'm not putting more work into this.
I already spent forever preparing this episode.
jordan holmes
Hey, it's not your fault.
Fuck Carrie.
She better do the work.
dan friesen
Now, there's other big news.
Carrie has a new graphic that looks like something out of a, I don't know, 1993 PC video game.
jordan holmes
Okay.
All right.
I like it.
She's got lemmings going on.
dan friesen
It's lemmings adjacent.
In terms of quality.
You remember those old Star Wars licensed games?
unidentified
Oh, yeah.
jordan holmes
Oh, absolutely.
dan friesen
Yeah.
It looks like some of the early ones of that.
unidentified
Oh, boy.
dan friesen
It's pretty good.
jordan holmes
The ones that were like first-person shooter kind of things?
unidentified
Yeah.
dan friesen
That quality of graphics.
unidentified
Oh, boy.
dan friesen
So she has that for Mark Richards.
It's like a triangular spacecraft coming in pretty strong.
I love it.
And there's also...
A disclaimer.
jordan holmes
Ooh, what's the disclaimer?
Does she use cookies?
dan friesen
No, because it scrolls through, again, much like Star Trek.
It's just visual.
So I have to read it.
So I will now read you the disclaimer.
Quote, because of the convoluted nature of the case against Mark and the fact that...
unidentified
Coming out strong!
dan friesen
I will say, the case against Mark is not convoluted.
The murder convoluted.
jordan holmes
Yes.
dan friesen
The defense convoluted.
jordan holmes
Yes.
dan friesen
The case against him, pretty clean.
jordan holmes
Straightforward.
dan friesen
Pretty clean.
jordan holmes
Straightforward.
dan friesen
So, because of the convoluted nature of the case against Mark, and the fact that as a journalist, I'm not allowed to use a recording device of any kind, not audio or video, during the interviews, I'm forced to rely on a dull pencil to scribble notes at the same time as asking questions.
I mainly depend on my memory for reporting what Mark says during our interview.
jordan holmes
Red flag.
dan friesen
It's entirely possible for me to get some things wrong or even just slightly incorrect.
However, since my work is heavily dependent on my ability to retain information in whatever form, I have, over time, come to find for the most part my memory recall is surprisingly accurate.
jordan holmes
Even in the disclaimer, she has to brag?
dan friesen
Yep.
unidentified
When it comes to any inaccuracies, I take full responsibility and simply ask you to understand the constraints within which I work.
dan friesen
Lastly, any statements about individuals mentioned here are based on statements by Mark Richards.
Project Camelot is not responsible for the statements made by Mark Richards, which are then quoted below, nor for their accuracy.
Further research and sources are available on my site and linked below.
I've asked Mark Richards to follow up an overview of the case as he remembers it to supplement the following.
This should be very helpful to augment my effort below.
Once I receive this written report, I will include them here.
That is way too long of a disclaimer to basically say nothing that you're about to see here is probably true at all, and also please don't sue me.
That led me to believe, like, oh, she's going to defame somebody.
jordan holmes
Oh, yeah, for sure.
dan friesen
There's something in this.
jordan holmes
Mark Richards has to have called somebody a lizard who might come after him.
dan friesen
We have some pedophile accusations coming up.
jordan holmes
Ooh, there it is.
dan friesen
So this, like, disclaimer plays.
I'm like, that was too long.
And then guess what?
There's another wall of text.
unidentified
A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away.
dan friesen
It might as well be, because it just gives Mark's backstory.
And I'm realizing that we have a lot of new listeners who come along, and a lot of them may not have heard our back episodes covering Carrie Cassidy's visits down to prison to interview a space weirdo.
jordan holmes
One of my favorite recurring situations.
dan friesen
So I guess it would probably be in everyone's benefit to get everyone up to speed on the story a little bit.
jordan holmes
Thanks, Carrie!
dan friesen
So here is the completely non-skeptic...
Okay.
Quote.
For over 30 years, Captain Mark Richards has been and still is a prisoner of the war between on- and off-planet races that have dominated Earth for centuries.
He's an honorable officer in the Navy who, because of his rebellion against the Draco and Reptoids, in parentheses the Luciferian Alliance, he is considered a threat to their operations.
jordan holmes
Naturally.
dan friesen
He was framed for a murder he is accused of having masterminded while he was on a mission off-planet in service to humanity.
jordan holmes
He was in the Space A-Team.
dan friesen
He was captain of a Starship Enterprise-type vessel fighting the war against aliens bent on the takeover of planet Earth.
I am the only journalist who has interviewed him in person while he's been in prison.
Point of order, the Starship Enterprise was not a warship." Nor could it talk.
Oh, yeah, absolutely.
But they weren't out there to do battle.
jordan holmes
No, no, no, no.
Their job was exploration.
dan friesen
Yeah.
jordan holmes
They were supposed to go further than man has ever gone, not fight.
Draco!
dan friesen
Right, and not engage with things on weird levels.
unidentified
Yeah.
dan friesen
So, that's like, I was already exhausted by the time I got through all that text.
unidentified
Love it.
dan friesen
I was like, what the fuck?
And that's all before we even get to this point of all of our episodes.
kerry cassidy
Hi, I'm Carrie Cassidy from Project Camelot.
unidentified
Hi, Carrie!
kerry cassidy
I'm here to discuss my latest interview with Captain Mark Richards of the Secret Space Program, or Space Command, as some people call it.
dan friesen
Fine.
There's two names.
jordan holmes
I actually kind of like the audio now.
It sounds like she's reporting from a bunker somewhere.
Like she's gone into hiding.
dan friesen
Something's up.
I don't know what it is.
Maybe she was recording from a backup computer or something like that.
Or she dropped her computer in the tub.
There's some excuse for this.
It's not forthcoming.
And also the audio changes a little bit.
And so get ready for maybe six of these clips to sound better, and then it sounds like shit again.
Okay.
jordan holmes
Fascinating.
dan friesen
Just know that that's not your headphones if you're listening out there.
So in this next clip, again, it's a little bit more backstory.
It's sort of Carrie talking about how she's been talking to Mark forever.
jordan holmes
Of course.
dan friesen
And why can he say secret shit?
That other people can't say.
jordan holmes
Right.
dan friesen
Why is that?
jordan holmes
She does not mention that it is because it's not true.
dan friesen
No, that's not her angle.
That's my angle.
kerry cassidy
I am an investigative journalist, documentary filmmaker, and I have been visiting Mark for around five years, approximately once every six months, and doing an in-depth interview with him about the Secret Space program.
And because he is in prison, this gives him the ability and leeway to discuss what is in essence way above top secret.
And I believe the government allows him to talk simply because they believe he is discredited by the fact that he has been imprisoned for a murder he did not commit.
dan friesen
I mean, I agree with the premise that he's discredited.
jordan holmes
Yeah, no, no, absolutely.
100%.
100%.
dan friesen
That's not news.
We've heard her say that before, but again, this is just good getting up to speed kind of stuff.
So whatever bullshit she's going to spin about these aliens and Mark's nonsense...
That is why he can say these things, is because the government gave him clearance to do it, because he's in prison, and they know that everyone will just see him as the crazy dude in prison.
jordan holmes
Right, right, right.
That doesn't sound right.
Generally speaking, when the government sees somebody, even if they are in prison, telling the truth, they go, let's call it Chelsea Manning all over them.
Seems like it.
They go hard.
dan friesen
Right, right.
jordan holmes
Even if they are in prison.
dan friesen
Yeah.
So this episode of Carrie's Mark Richards interview series is a little bit unlike all the rest, and not just because of the terrible audio quality.
It's different in that, for whatever reason, Carrie decides to get into the details of why Mark is in prison on this episode.
unidentified
What?
dan friesen
Yeah.
jordan holmes
Oh, no!
dan friesen
Yeah.
jordan holmes
Oh, no!
dan friesen
She's going to spin an absurd yarn that reinforces her narrative that he was off-planet at the time.
jordan holmes
Right.
dan friesen
In so many of their past rodeos, we've just been able to listen and laugh at the nonsense about raptor aliens killing people for chocolate and making cameos in Jurassic World and spider leadership, all that fun stuff.
jordan holmes
I forgot the Jurassic World cameos.
That's great.
dan friesen
They're all laughing at you.
jordan holmes
That is gold.
dan friesen
You go watch Jurassic World, they're laughing at you because that's a real raptor.
jordan holmes
That's a real raptor there.
Not all of them, though.
dan friesen
Not all of them, just something.
This episode is very different because in this episode, Carrie is repeating lies about something that actually happened in the real world.
And as such, I can research that.
jordan holmes
Oh, that's why we've got the disclaimer here.
dan friesen
No, she gives a disclaimer for it.
We'll get to why.
Okay.
But the fact that I can look into these things is not good news for the story that he was off-planet and thus couldn't have masterminded a murder because he totally masterminded a murder.
100%.
jordan holmes
Couldn't you just get, like, credit card receipts from around the day just to prove that he was not off-planet?
Well, obviously they could fake that.
dan friesen
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
The secret space program?
jordan holmes
Oh, yeah, yeah.
dan friesen
Absolutely they could fake it.
So in this next clip, Carrie gets into some of the details and the particulars about the murder that Mark Richards 100% orchestrated.
jordan holmes
Yeah, totally.
dan friesen
And it's not good because she gets some really base facts wrong, just like provable facts wrong.
So this isn't good.
kerry cassidy
He is said to be the mastermind of a so-called murder.
Of an individual called Richard Baldwin.
And that murder was committed by two young boys at the time of the age of 18. And Richard Baldwin has been documented to be a pedophile.
jordan holmes
Whoa!
dan friesen
That last part, I think, might be why there's a disclaimer.
Because there isn't documentation that he was a pedophile.
I can find no evidence of that.
If he was...
And great.
You can say those things about him if you have that evidence.
jordan holmes
Sure.
dan friesen
But I can see no evidence of it other than it just being asserted.
And that's not good.
jordan holmes
Yeah, that's usually not an issue, though, in 2019.
You can pretty much say whatever you want.
dan friesen
Kind of.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
dan friesen
So now the factual problem is that Crossan Hoover and this guy Andrew, whose last name I'm not going to use because he was a minor and he wasn't charged with a crime.
jordan holmes
Okay.
dan friesen
The two of them were both 17, not 18. Gotcha.
So the age is wrong.
If she doesn't even know...
And it is a big difference.
Because the difference between 17 and 18, in terms of the legal system for federal offenses, it does matter.
And so the fact that she's fucking up that is not good.
jordan holmes
Well, I assume that she's not fucking it up so much as just repeating verbatim what Mark told her.
Well, yeah, but Mark doesn't give a fuck.
And Mark would probably say they were 18 anyways for the same reason that you just described, so it doesn't make it look like he's influencing minors to do stuff.
Instead, he's just influencing minors to do stuff like get coal and all of that stuff.
dan friesen
Right.
unidentified
Yeah.
dan friesen
Yeah, it's a mess.
We'll get into some of his weirdness as we go along.
I read a lot for this episode.
jordan holmes
I doubt she did.
dan friesen
No.
She doesn't know the ages of the murderer and the guy who went and burgled Richard's house.
jordan holmes
Yeah, she didn't even bother with listening to the dollop on it.
dan friesen
We'll get into a lot of the details of this.
There is a slight overlap with some of the stuff that is in the episode of the dollop, the Pendragon episode, but they didn't go into all of the angles of the case necessarily.
So there's a lot of stuff that won't be overlapped.
Let's say.
So in this next clip, Carrie starts talking about how this is all just really an attack on Mark's good name.
unidentified
Oh, of course.
dan friesen
That's been going on.
jordan holmes
His good name.
dan friesen
They're trying to besmirch him.
kerry cassidy
This particular interview is concerned with the case and some of the things that Mark wanted to bring forward about the case that are not out there.
There's been some interest in the public and in various sectors.
And with a specific group that is attempting to discredit both Joanne Richards and Mark Richards as well as myself.
dan friesen
At this point, I really thought she was talking about us.
I was like, that sounds like us.
jordan holmes
That does sound like us.
dan friesen
I'm definitely trying to discredit all of you.
unidentified
No, no, no.
jordan holmes
I'm taking all of you on.
dan friesen
I was ready for her to be like, it's a podcast out of Chicago.
It's not.
It's a British dude.
kerry cassidy
In regard to the Mark Richards case, and so we are making an added effort here to reach the public with the...
Accurate information.
dan friesen
You're doing a bad job.
So there's this British guy who we'll talk about a little bit later, and he is going to release a docu-series about the murder.
unidentified
Okay.
dan friesen
About Baldwin's murder.
jordan holmes
That sounds interesting.
I would watch that.
dan friesen
He recently released a trailer for it that I watched, and I recommend everybody go watch it.
It looks awesome.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
dan friesen
Because he talks to people across the spectrum of, like, he talks to Mark Richards' ex-wife from the time, like, back when he was the murderer.
He talks to Crossan Hoover, the guy who actually did the murder.
He talks to people who knew Mark in college.
He talks to family members of the victim of Baldwin.
He talks to someone, at least from the trailer.
These people are all featured in the trailer.
Someone else who is a pen pal of Mark's in prison.
And she's obscured her identity for privacy.
jordan holmes
Yeah, of course.
dan friesen
But she's talking about how he's a total fraud.
It's brutal.
jordan holmes
I take it they didn't talk to Carrie.
dan friesen
Here's the thing.
jordan holmes
Oh, no!
dan friesen
They did.
jordan holmes
Yes!
Yes!
dan friesen
So it's an entire, like, the trailer is an entire string of people being like...
Oh, he did that shit.
Mark's ex-wife being like, his behavior changed right after the murder.
He became very weird and completely different.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
dan friesen
Cross and Hoover being like, yeah, I mean, Mark told me to finish the job.
Like, he was standing right next to me when I did it and all this stuff.
unidentified
Wow.
dan friesen
And then it cuts to Carrie and she's sitting there next to him and she's like, no.
He is innocent.
He is working with the Raptors.
unidentified
And it's just like, oh no.
jordan holmes
I like it.
dan friesen
So that's who Carrie is talking about right there.
Who is trying to discredit Mark and Joanne and her.
And it's like, yes, yeah, you kind of...
The truth has a way of discrediting you.
jordan holmes
That's so much fun.
I love that.
dan friesen
I cannot wait for it to come out.
unidentified
Why did they have...
jordan holmes
I want Carrie on so many...
Any true crime documentary should have Carrie now.
Making a murderer sucks now.
Because it didn't have Carrie insisting that the government was run by raptors.
dan friesen
I would be very interested to get her in more contexts.
I'm not going to disagree with you on that.
jordan holmes
Oh, absolutely.
dan friesen
But yeah, I look forward to that highly.
And I've forgotten that guy's name, but I have it in my notes.
Because he comes up later.
And so we'll get reference to that here in a little bit.
But in this next clip, Carrie talks about how she knows that Mark is legit.
She just knows because she has a certain set of skills.
jordan holmes
Oh, no.
kerry cassidy
I can also testify to the fact that...
As an investigative journalist specializing in above-top-secret information from whistleblowers, that I believe I am an excellent judge of character.
And in this case, I can say that without any hesitation that Mark Richards is absolutely who he claims to be.
dan friesen
Smash cut to pictures of Eddie Page.
Smash cut to...
I mean, Jessica Schaub, the reverse of it.
Like, she's a better person than Carrie assessed her to be.
But, like, she is a terrible judge of people's character.
She has no idea.
jordan holmes
The absolute worst.
It's hard to find a statement that wrong.
That entire statement is wall-to-wall incorrect.
dan friesen
Spiritually, factually, intent-wise.
Yeah.
jordan holmes
Everything about it.
dan friesen
It's lousy from a T to B, top to bottom, pile of trash.
But it pales in comparison to this next clip.
jordan holmes
I feel like we're going to hear that a lot.
dan friesen
Yeah.
So we're not going to get to the murder just yet.
As Carrie's introduced it, we've seen that she does not have a good grasp of just factual details.
But what's interesting is...
Mark has an arch nemesis, it turns out, that we didn't know about.
jordan holmes
Okay, now I'm in.
I'm glad to hear about this nemesis.
dan friesen
This is a real guy.
jordan holmes
Okay.
dan friesen
I'm going to guess he has no idea who Mark Richards is, or at least he never did have an idea who Mark Richards is because he's been dead for a while.
jordan holmes
Well, naturally.
kerry cassidy
There are some key takeaways from this interview.
First of all, Mark and his father's arch enemy, according to Mark, was James Jesus Angleton.
And this is also the case for Kennedy.
According to Mark, Angleton was instrumental in the death of John F. Kennedy and the framing of Captain Mark Richards.
jordan holmes
That was the only one that I knew.
That was the one I knew for effect.
Of course it was James who killed JFK.
dan friesen
Angel Angleton.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
Who is this guy?
dan friesen
He was the head of counterintelligence for the CIA until 1975.
But he was retired by the time Mark was, I don't know.
14?
jordan holmes
I was going to say.
dan friesen
Mark was 29 in 1982 when he committed that murder.
And so, like, what would it have been in 75?
That would have been seven years earlier?
jordan holmes
Yeah.
dan friesen
So it would have been, like, 22 when this dude retired from the CIA.
jordan holmes
Well, that was the first time that, you know, he finally had the chance to engage with his father's nemesis.
This is a multi-generational fight across this.
I imagine that the guy has a son, right?
dan friesen
Angleton?
jordan holmes
Yeah.
dan friesen
Yeah, and actually two of his daughters came under the sway of a guru.
jordan holmes
I want more details in everybody!
dan friesen
It's such a side issue that I didn't look into it, but on his Wikipedia page, in the personal life section, two of his daughters have converted to following a swami.
unidentified
Cool.
I like it.
Cool.
jordan holmes
I like it.
The autobiography of a yogi.
I've read it.
dan friesen
I'm going to tell you this right now.
I don't give a shit about this.
In terms of stuff that I care about in Mark's story, the idea that he was set up by the CIA and this guy also was instrumental in killing Kennedy, it's too much.
It's honestly too much.
jordan holmes
I don't understand.
dan friesen
It doesn't matter.
jordan holmes
I'm more frustrated because I don't know where the Dutchman is in.
All of this.
The Dutchman had to have been alive when JFK was...
dan friesen
That's his dad.
jordan holmes
No, his dad was...
I thought his grandfather was the Dutchman.
dan friesen
Dutchman is his dad.
jordan holmes
Dutchman is his dad?
unidentified
Oh, okay.
dan friesen
Two of them fought side by side at the Battle of Dulce.
You know that.
jordan holmes
That's right, that's right.
I apologize for forgetting.
I apologize.
dan friesen
Yeah.
jordan holmes
I apologize for forgetting.
dan friesen
Yeah.
No, that's...
Ellis is the Dutchman.
jordan holmes
Ellis is the Dutchman.
unidentified
Okay.
dan friesen
Yeah.
jordan holmes
All right.
dan friesen
We have his real name now because it does come up in some of the news articles about his son's murder.
jordan holmes
Yeah, that does sound right.
dan friesen
About his son doing a murder.
jordan holmes
About his son murdering.
dan friesen
Right.
jordan holmes
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
unidentified
I gotcha.
dan friesen
So his dad was like a major in the services.
Like, he was actually a military man and all that stuff.
But all the rest of it seems ludicrous.
unidentified
A little bit.
dan friesen
His whole backstory is complete horseshit.
But the reason that I don't care about this is like, I don't want to spend...
The next, like, I don't know, days of my life trying to figure out if this Angleton killed Kennedy.
I don't want to do that.
jordan holmes
I think the work has been put in already.
dan friesen
But that's a waste of my time.
jordan holmes
Exactly.
dan friesen
And then further, I don't really care to do, like, some sort of a thing where, like, I'm defending the CIA.
Absolutely not.
Especially with, like...
The CIA in the 70s and 80s.
jordan holmes
Yeah, no, I'm fine with them.
Blame them for killing Kennedy.
I'm cool with that.
dan friesen
He's just trying to hitch his wagon to that team of anti-CIA.
jordan holmes
I was going to say, it sounds more like he just read a book about the JFK assassination and was like, ooh, man, I've got to piggyback on that.
Why haven't I already been doing that?
dan friesen
Yeah, so that's one of the takeaways, is that the Angleton who killed Kennedy is responsible for Mark being set up and put in prison.
jordan holmes
Naturally.
dan friesen
Instead of Mark orchestrating a murder.
And really fucking up the cover-up.
jordan holmes
Yeah, that would be a bad idea.
dan friesen
But there's two more takeaways that Carrie has, and here's the first one.
kerry cassidy
The second takeaway, major takeaway from this interview, is that there are six alien-derived AIs currently messing with Earth, and they do not have our best interests in mind.
dan friesen
She doesn't elaborate on this.
jordan holmes
I like the way she puts it.
They're messing with Earth.
unidentified
It's not like they're malicious.
jordan holmes
They're just fucking around.
Aliens developed an AI with a sense of humor.
They developed Tom Green as an AI.
dan friesen
Yeah, their bum is on the Swedish or something.
Yeah, I don't know.
I really wish I knew more about what she was talking about, but it is not elaborated on.
jordan holmes
That's just thrown out there.
dan friesen
It does come back up later, but not with any greater details.
Except that this AI is alien in nature, I guess.
jordan holmes
Why do they need six?
Do they have names?
dan friesen
Some of them are competing.
unidentified
Wow!
dan friesen
I don't know.
Don't ask me.
Don't you dare fucking ask me.
I want to know!
Not the CIA.
The six of them are somehow, like, some are on some team, some are on others.
jordan holmes
Of course they are!
dan friesen
But they're all messing with us.
Who cares?
Irrelevant.
jordan holmes
I love it.
dan friesen
I love it.
jordan holmes
Just toss it in there.
Six AIs, no names, no details.
They're fucking with us.
dan friesen
So, the next takeaway, it's not really, I don't think she lists it as a takeaway, but I think it's a takeaway.
And maybe just because I took a Pilates class and I'm going back to the gym.
unidentified
Of course.
dan friesen
But it's always great to hear that Mark is getting healthy.
jordan holmes
Oh, good!
kerry cassidy
Update on prison life and Mark's health.
His health has markedly improved.
He's in training for a new job.
He is head of the optical lab that supplies all eyewear for Medicaid.
It is a highly technical job supervising around 100 men, as well as a number of robots that operate the machinery.
being trained on computers.
The last time he was around computers on a job in prison was where they were using very old software, he says.
He's also teaching a screenwriting class, and a group of inmates have 30 finished screenplays that he believes might become the basis for a TV series not unlike Breaking Bad or Orange is the New Black.
dan friesen
Okay.
Now that's a good fit.
That's a good fit.
jordan holmes
I like that.
dan friesen
That's where I'd put him in prison.
jordan holmes
Absolutely.
Have him teach a screenwriting class.
That's great.
dan friesen
Yeah, he's clearly been able to pull a yarn here for this story for a really long time.
Yeah.
I think that maybe he would need some editors or like a workshop setting to get some of these plot holes out of there that we've stumbled into over and over and over again.
jordan holmes
Might need a little bit of punch up.
dan friesen
Yeah.
So that's great.
I mean, he's getting some creative stuff going, screenplays.
That class has 30 completed screenplays.
30. I want to get my hands on those.
jordan holmes
I want one, at least.
dan friesen
I beg of Mark to send them to us so we can do a stage dramatic reading of them.
jordan holmes
We will.
unidentified
We will.
jordan holmes
Absolutely.
dan friesen
Absolutely.
jordan holmes
Guaranteed.
dan friesen
We will do everything we can to get you an agent.
We don't have agents.
jordan holmes
No, no, no.
dan friesen
But we'll get you one.
jordan holmes
Yeah, for sure.
dan friesen
Yeah, absolutely.
jordan holmes
Sometimes you have to sacrifice for the greater good.
dan friesen
Getting traded on computers, which is good.
jordan holmes
That's nice.
dan friesen
So, we move on.
In this next clip, Carrie gets into the murder, and I will be able to discuss this more in depth and where her lies are, because she is way off base in terms of, like, reality.
And, oh man, I read a lot of stuff.
jordan holmes
Good for him for bringing in some eyewear to everybody on Medicaid.
dan friesen
Providing all of it.
jordan holmes
All of it.
dan friesen
Bullshit.
jordan holmes
By himself.
Bullshit.
Overseeing a team of a hundred?
dan friesen
I don't think they'd put him in charge of anybody.
He'd get them to murder people!
unidentified
Right.
As we find out about in this next point.
kerry cassidy
The murder and the trial.
Mark states that he doesn't really know what happened because he wasn't there.
And the DA was given most or all of his info from this mysterious character, whose name is Andrew Campbell, who is supposedly at the scene of the crime.
dan friesen
So, here we have Carrie beginning to try and wade into the waters of discussing how Mark is innocent of the murder that he's in prison for.
And she does not get off to a strong start.
The first problem is that Mark absolutely was there the night of the murder.
Forensic evidence indicates that he was, and his alibi changed repeatedly whenever the police revealed new details that contradicted his story.
He would have one story, and then they'd bring up a detail that they knew, and he'd be like, well...
And then he'd try to be like, well, I lied to you about that, but it was just because I was trying to...
I didn't want to admit that I had done this innocuous thing that I'm ashamed of.
That sort of bullshit.
What never changed, and what was entirely consistent with forensic evidence, and every sworn statement except Marx, is the confession of Cross and Hoover, the 17-year-old employee of Marx's failing contracting company who physically killed Richard Baldwin.
In order to explain just how dumb Carrie sounds in that last clip, I need to probably give you a little refresher course on the actual murder.
On July 6th, 1982, Mark Richards and Cross and Hoover lured Richard Baldwin, allegedly a good friend of Mark's, to a garage under the pretense of looking at some of his classic cars.
Baldwin, age 36, owned a vintage car restoration shop called the Classic Car, so he had a bunch of cool, really rare cars that he Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Yeah.
I'm intentionally going to ignore that aspect of this, where Mark was planning to create a kingdom for himself called Pendragon, specifically because Carrie is talking about the court case.
And the court largely ignored Mark's imperial aspirations, mostly because it was completely unnecessary to prove his guilt.
They were very specific about, this isn't really relevant.
jordan holmes
See, this is the problem with the court system.
They do not want to have fun.
Because they could have had a great time.
dan friesen
I know, but it would have been so much more work for...
jordan holmes
For sure.
dan friesen
For no added charge, really.
unidentified
But that's...
dan friesen
You already got him on murder.
jordan holmes
Yeah, but fun!
Come on!
dan friesen
So when they got into the garage, Mark gave Crossan a sign, at which point Crossan hit Baldwin multiple times in the head with a baseball bat.
jordan holmes
With a sign?
unidentified
Oh.
dan friesen
Baseball bat.
jordan holmes
He didn't give them a physical sign.
dan friesen
No, no, no, no.
He misunderstood.
jordan holmes
He had murdered, comma, now on him.
dan friesen
No, no, no, no.
jordan holmes
Okay.
dan friesen
Crossan then stabbed Baldwin in the torso, but his weapon broke off.
According to a recent interview Crossan gave, Mark then gave him a screwdriver and told him to finish the job.
Mark isn't a goofy, eccentric space weirdo.
He's the sort of cold-blooded monster who can orchestrate and calmly watch someone he presented as a friend be brutally murdered.
Richard Baldwin was in Mark's wedding.
jordan holmes
Wow!
dan friesen
They were friends.
And he was there and handed Cross and Hoover a screwdriver and told him to finish murdering him.
jordan holmes
That's crazy.
dan friesen
Yeah.
jordan holmes
That is psychopath-level shit.
dan friesen
Yes.
jordan holmes
He was in his wedding.
dan friesen
Well, I'm not sure to the extent he was.
He might have been an usher or something like that, but he was involved in the wedding party.
jordan holmes
Even if he was invited to the wedding, you don't kill somebody.
dan friesen
Right, and that was only three years prior.
jordan holmes
Jesus.
dan friesen
So, now, Mark was charged with first-degree murder and two counts of burglary.
the reason there are two counts of burglary is where the other 17 year old andrew comes in prior to the murder mark had andrew stay in baldwin's house to take an inventory of things to steal that was the extent of Well, yeah.
The story that Carrie is telling is literally only supported by Mark's word, which is very unreliable.
Obviously, I thought Mark was a total liar and a douche from the first time we talked about him, but in preparation for this episode, I read a ton of transcripts, including a 131-page interview with the police that he gave right after he was arrested.
And I've got to say that knowing what I know now, it's even more embarrassing that Carrie believes a word that he says.
jordan holmes
So he didn't even mention the secret space program in the original interview.
dan friesen
He doesn't mention...
He's trying to lie so hard in that interview.
It's so embarrassing when you read over it.
Because the police are just being like, Hey man, we know what happened.
jordan holmes
No, no, no.
You don't know what happened.
dan friesen
We're giving you a chance.
jordan holmes
I'm going to tell you the real story.
dan friesen
So Carrie is saying that Andrew was inside and at the scene of the murder, and he wasn't.
jordan holmes
He was not.
dan friesen
He was at his house.
He was at Baldwin's house getting the burglary started.
jordan holmes
Right, right, right.
dan friesen
Which is why there's two charges of burglary, because they burgled the house and burgled the garage.
jordan holmes
Gotcha.
dan friesen
So that's a big piece of this.
Okay.
These interviews with the police are insane.
So his interview is with two homicide detectives, one from the sheriff's office and one from San Rafael Police Department.
Throughout the entire thing, the cops are trying to get Mark to understand that they've completely solved the case, even before entering the room.
They keep trying to stress to him that they're only talking to him because they want to give him a chance to do the right thing, and he never does.
jordan holmes
So there's a 131-page interview of them walking in saying, first off, we know what happened.
dan friesen
Well, it starts with implying that they know what happened.
And then like 30 pages in or so, they're like...
I don't believe you.
jordan holmes
Right, right, right.
So they started off with the, like, we're playing the interview interrogation game where we're like, we know more than you know, and that whole thing.
And then later on, they're just like, dude, fuck off.
We know what happened.
Stop it.
We don't even want to be here anymore.
dan friesen
No, they are talking about how they've been up all night.
jordan holmes
Solving the very case they're talking about.
dan friesen
Mark's first story is that he knows nothing.
He wasn't involved at all, and he hasn't heard anything.
The cops and Mark go back and forth, and no one's really enjoying themselves until about page 36 of the interview when the sheriff's detective says, quote, I don't believe you.
I don't believe what you're saying.
I just feel that I'm wasting my time, and if you and I can't be candid with one another, I think you ought to at least allow me the opportunity to go back to my office and go to work.
jordan holmes
I like that.
That's a solid quote.
And that's 36 pages in?
unidentified
Yeah.
jordan holmes
There are relatively...
There's roughly 100 more to go.
dan friesen
Oh, boy.
And up to that point, it's all just them letting him hang himself.
unidentified
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
dan friesen
These lies that they know are lies.
unidentified
Of course.
dan friesen
So at that point, after that detective says this, the other detective butts in.
He says, quote, in addition to what Rich is saying, I have to tend to agree very strongly with what you're saying.
These guys are...
jordan holmes
Point of order, I would like to pop in and say, I also think you're an idiot, and I hate you.
dan friesen
These dudes are not even playing good cop, bad cop.
They're playing sick of the bullshit cop and equally sick of the bullshit cop.
They're on such the same page, it's awesome.
So they threaten to leave, since Mark is wasting their time, and they make it clear to him that if they leave, he isn't going to get another chance to talk to them.
His one opportunity to work with the police will be gone if they leave that room.
So Mark keeps begging them not to leave.
And each time the cops reach their point of annoyance, they say they're going to leave.
And magically, Mark's story starts to change.
unidentified
Odd.
dan friesen
Yeah.
jordan holmes
Odd.
dan friesen
Because he's trying to get...
And he keeps saying stuff like...
I know that you're going to leave and I just don't have enough time to convince you that I'm innocent and all this stuff.
They're like, we don't want you to convince us that you're innocent.
We want you to tell the truth.
And they keep saying stuff to him like, you understand that there's literally nothing you can say to us that will get you out of this.
They keep saying stuff like that.
And he's like, yeah, I understand.
One more thing, though.
You know, there's not a magic word you can say that will convince us to let you not leave in handcuffs.
jordan holmes
Excuse me.
Tubal King?
dan friesen
It doesn't work.
jordan holmes
Oh, damn it.
That's just the judge, right?
dan friesen
Yeah.
So the detectives at one point are asking Mark about what rumors he's heard on the street about the murder.
Because he starts by having like this angle of like, I don't know anything, I haven't heard anything.
But as they threaten to leave and he starts to have this like, shit, I better start pretending that I was lying about something earlier in order to adjust my statements.
He starts trying to throw Cross and Hoover under the bus.
jordan holmes
Okay.
dan friesen
Crossy, as he's called colloquially.
jordan holmes
Did he try the like, I couldn't have done it.
I didn't want to tell you because I was cheating on my wife.
He didn't try that one?
dan friesen
No.
jordan holmes
That's a solid one.
I like that lie.
dan friesen
He doesn't do that.
He starts implying that he's heard that Crossy did it.
And so they want to know specifically about the rumors that he's heard on the street about the murder.
He relates that he heard that Crossy had committed the murder and was telling people that Mark was involved and planned it.
So Mark is saying that he's aware that that's the story that's going around the street.
jordan holmes
I didn't know that earlier, though.
dan friesen
Of course not.
jordan holmes
I just heard that on the streets.
dan friesen
So the exchange that follows is this.
Detective, who'd you hear that from?
Mark.
I'm not.
Wait a minute.
I'm trying to think.
So, you know, I'm sure you already know, and I'm not trying to lie, okay?
unidentified
Detective.
dan friesen
Detective.
We sure do.
And it's not that hard.
They all work for you.
Mark.
Okay.
Yeah, I know.
There's so many points like that that are just like, you are fucking busted.
jordan holmes
I am not trying to lie.
I need you to know that as soon as possible.
It says something that a liar is saying.
dan friesen
Yeah.
So there's a great moment on page 76. This is probably my favorite moment in the entire interview, where the detectives just drop it on him.
It goes like this.
Mark.
Quote, I'm trying, okay?
Now, I appreciate you think I'm feeding you a bunch of crock, and you think that you caught me in two or three or a dozen lies or whatever, but I want you to...
Detective, we have.
Mark.
All right.
jordan holmes
Gotcha.
dan friesen
Detective, we have, and we still gotcha.
jordan holmes
Did he knock on the table and go...
dan friesen
You busted.
jordan holmes
You busted.
dan friesen
Later, they try and explain the problem to him.
Quote, this is the detective.
jordan holmes
You murdered somebody.
dan friesen
Mark, the problem is you fucked up too many times, and you associated with fools, with very immature fools and very dangerous fools.
To that, Mark replies, yeah.
There's an acceptance of his own culpability, but he's trying to wiggle out of it through the entire 131 pages of this interview.
jordan holmes
Oh, of course.
dan friesen
And they keep trying to make it clear to him, like, you are making this worse.
You know that we know things.
And you know that we know that you know things.
Right!
They're not fucking with him or trying to coerce a confession or anything.
They're just like...
You are really, you're on my last nerve.
jordan holmes
But isn't that what they say about psychopaths like this, is that it doesn't matter, they think they're so much smarter than you, that it's like, whatever it is you're saying, that's fine, but I'm so much smarter than you, I can find a way through this.
dan friesen
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
So that interview is really, it was really fascinating, because throughout the entire time that we've been covering Mark and Carrie's interviews, we've never heard his words.
We've really only heard Carrie's interpretation of them.
Yeah.
And so you could imagine that he's a slick talker and all this stuff.
jordan holmes
Turns out he's just an idiot.
dan friesen
I mean, based on this interview, it seems like it.
It's really hard not to walk away from that thinking, like, he's not a master manipulator.
unidentified
Right.
dan friesen
The people who fall for him are just stupid as shit.
jordan holmes
Well, he has had almost 40 years to really get the story right this time, though.
dan friesen
And he still hasn't.
So she talks about, in this next clip, Carrie talks about this Andrew.
The 17-year-old who was at Baldwin's house while the murder was going on.
And she has an interesting and bad theory about him.
kerry cassidy
Andrew may be an assumed name.
Joanne Richards, Mark's wife, had tracked him down and he lives somewhere in Central California.
dan friesen
That's pretty fucked up.
jordan holmes
Oh, that's no good.
dan friesen
Here's what I would say.
Andrew isn't an assumed name.
That was his name when he was 17 fucking years old and Mark Richards lured him into a murder plot.
The idea that he was operating under an assumed name is like a junior in high school.
On the off chance that he'd have the opportunity to help set up a notable space captain at the behest of the Deep State is completely fucking absurd.
What's not absurd is the idea that in the 30 or so years since the murder, Andrew may have changed his name because of people like Carrie and Joanne Richards.
jordan holmes
Yeah, I would say so.
dan friesen
I don't think that Carrie should be using Andrew's full name.
He was a minor who wasn't charged with a crime, and as such, on a legal level, I believe his privacy should be protected.
His name does appear in legal filings and in news stories from back then, so I know it's not a secret.
His name appears in Mark's unsuccessful appeal that was filed on April 28, 1988.
But according to journalistic ethics, I think it's inappropriate to identify him.
So I'm going to have bleeped out all the times that she uses his full name.
unidentified
Gotcha.
dan friesen
Just in case.
jordan holmes
Combo breaker!
dan friesen
Something like that.
But what Carrie and Joanne are doing isn't some kind of act of renegade journalism.
This is targeted harassment of a private citizen who almost certainly just wants to live their life in peace and probably deeply regrets their involvement in this murder 30 years prior.
jordan holmes
Yeah, no doubt.
dan friesen
Who wasn't charged with anything.
Cooperated with the state after the fact, after realizing, oh shit.
unidentified
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
dan friesen
So, we mentioned earlier that Mark wanted to take over Marin County.
jordan holmes
Yes, of course he did.
dan friesen
He wanted to create a kingdom for himself.
jordan holmes
Who wouldn't?
dan friesen
But look, dude, it's a misunderstanding.
jordan holmes
How is that a misunderstanding?
dan friesen
Because Mark was writing a book called Imperial Marin.
jordan holmes
Okay.
dan friesen
Right?
jordan holmes
So the plan wasn't a plan.
It was part of the plot of his novel.
dan friesen
Right.
jordan holmes
Gotcha.
dan friesen
And so Carrie gets into that in this next clip.
kerry cassidy
I have two clear motives that were stated in the trial or during the length of the trial.
And I do want to interject that motive one is based on the science fiction book Imperial Marin.
And I will put the book cover here and be quoting from the back of the book.
Mark was writing, which took place in the future where, as the story goes, Marin County has become a place, quote, environmentally sound and an absolutely democratic and free society, unquote.
It concerns a planet-wide society led by hero...
dan friesen
Wait, how's that democratic?
jordan holmes
A hero king?
dan friesen
How's that totally democratic?
jordan holmes
A planet-wide society run by hero kings.
dan friesen
Seems contradictory.
jordan holmes
What's the term limit on hero kings?
dan friesen
I think it's a lifetime appointment.
jordan holmes
It's a lifetime appointment?
dan friesen
It might be also sort of handed down generationally.
jordan holmes
Could be, could be.
kerry cassidy
Who were focused on creating a better future.
This novel, actually a series of seven books.
Was misrepresented in the courtroom and the press as a takeover of Marin County.
dan friesen
Easy mistake to make.
It's very simple to make that kind of mistake.
jordan holmes
Of course.
dan friesen
So Carrie Cassidy, intrepid reporter and researcher, is here.
She's telling her audience that one of the two motives for Mark's crime that were argued in court was that he was planning to take over Marin County.
But it's just an innocent misunderstanding of this sci-fi novel.
jordan holmes
It was a manuscript.
dan friesen
I should give you full disclosure here.
I tried to buy a copy of Imperial Marin for this episode because I'm positive that it's full of rambling horse shit that would be really fun to discuss.
jordan holmes
Yeah, I would love to read that.
dan friesen
Unfortunately, there is a page for it up on Amazon, but there are no copies available.
jordan holmes
That does not surprise me.
dan friesen
As far as I can tell, the only place you can buy a copy is from Joanne Richards, and there's no way I'm giving her a goddamn penny.
Anyway, what Carrie is saying is completely stupid.
The court specifically decided not to even argue that...
Mark was trying to take over Marin County or charge him with a crime for that because, like I said earlier, they didn't need to.
They had him dead to rights on a murder and felt that pretty much took care of the Mark Richards problem.
jordan holmes
It kind of seems like it would.
dan friesen
Yeah.
Reading from Mark's unsuccessful appeal from 1988 where he tried to argue that the jury was prejudiced against him because he was planning to take over the county they lived in, which would tend to...
jordan holmes
But now that kind of...
I mean, imagine that it worked.
Then it's like, well, you just admitted that you were trying to take over the county there, so I guess we'll just charge you with that.
dan friesen
Yeah, I think it's way tougher to argue that in court.
jordan holmes
Right.
dan friesen
And I think it would require a death penalty, too.
jordan holmes
Secession?
dan friesen
Yeah.
Trying to plan a coup.
jordan holmes
Traitor?
dan friesen
I think that also would really complicate matters.
In a way, you just don't want to broach.
unidentified
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
dan friesen
But so reading from this appeal, it clearly states, quote, The jury was instructed to consider the Pendragon evidence solely to the extent that it tends to establish the nature of the relationship between the defendant on the one hand and Andrew and Cross and Hoover on the other.
You are not called upon to decide whether any aspect of the Pendragon activity was illegal, nor should you assume that it was.
The defendant is not accused of plotting to overthrow Marin County.
But of the crimes of murder and burglary.
jordan holmes
I like the idea that you should not assume that, like...
And don't assume that taking over Marin County is a crime.
You don't know that.
Maybe it's fine.
dan friesen
But it's important to maintain that for the preservation of, like...
jordan holmes
Absolutely.
dan friesen
Because otherwise you would unfairly bias people against him, most likely.
jordan holmes
Of course.
But the idea that there is some bylaw in Marin County specifically that is like...
It turns out it's not a crime to overthrow Marin County.
dan friesen
It's just like one of those old, like, you can't kiss a horse kind of laws.
unidentified
Yeah, exactly.
dan friesen
Can't kiss a horse on Tuesday.
jordan holmes
Yep, yep.
You can't overthrow Merritt County.
That just happens.
dan friesen
So the prosecution was pretty careful about the whole Pendragon plot because they knew it was messy, to put it simply.
They didn't need the overthrowing Marin part to prove their case.
All they needed it for was to establish that Mark was running a group of some sort, and that Cross and Hoover and Andrew were in it.
And they did establish that.
They did.
The Pendragon plot was never used to establish a motive in court for the murder.
That's a strawman argument that Mark uses to pretend he was railroaded.
And Carrie is just repeating it, having done no actual research into the case.
unidentified
Of course.
dan friesen
It's not hard to see vague parallels with Alex's current legal situation when you hear stuff like that.
He's getting sued for his coverage of Sandy Hook, and in his deposition, it's pretty clearly established that in early 2013, he based his horrible reporting on things Wolfgang Halbig said, which he never investigated or fact-checked himself before presenting them as truth.
Similarly, Carey is just taking the word of a lunatic as the gospel truth without fact-checking a single bit of it.
Granted, the stakes of the game Carey is playing are way lower, but it deserves mention of how these people operate in pretty much the same way.
Just take whatever these crazy people say and then pretend that it's vetted truth.
Another interesting parallel with Infowars in their world pops up in Mark's failed appeal.
The court did find that some of the references to Pendragon in the initial trial went beyond the intended scope of what they were there for, but didn't constitute any sort of miscarriage of justice, and that it didn't really affect the outcome of the case.
They say, quote, We agree with the appellant that some of the Pendragon evidence went beyond the purpose for which it was admitted, such as the reference attributed to the appellant about excluding blacks in the new form of government.
jordan holmes
All right.
dan friesen
That's right.
Mark's conceived utopian kingdom would be a white nationalist state.
jordan holmes
Okay.
dan friesen
This should come as no surprise to anybody.
jordan holmes
Nope.
dan friesen
You see, Mark's a little bit of a racist.
jordan holmes
No!
dan friesen
In his interview with the police, he describes the salesman from Montgomery Ward who sold him a video camera as, quote, tall guy, brown hair.
He might have had some Mexican blood in him.
jordan holmes
That doesn't...
There's...
There's no reason to add that.
unidentified
It was 82. That's speculative and stupid.
jordan holmes
It doesn't make any sense to throw that in there.
dan friesen
Turns out Eddie Page is not the exception to the rule in terms of Project Camelot guests.
jordan holmes
I'm starting to think a lot of these kooks are all racists.
dan friesen
There's a lot of overlap.
So they didn't use the overthrow of Marin or whatever misinterpretation Carrie could be arguing about this Imperial Marin book.
Sure.
We don't use that as a motive in court at all.
That is a false argument that Carrie is making and is just horseshit.
There's a second motive that Carrie...
Remember she said there was two?
jordan holmes
Yes, there were two.
dan friesen
That was just the first one.
Second one?
jordan holmes
Clones!
dan friesen
Nope, they're unreliable.
jordan holmes
Oh, goddammit.
dan friesen
Second one, though, is very accurate as a motive.
kerry cassidy
And the second motive attributed to Mark is a motive in which they claim Mark needed the money.
The DA claimed, based on the testimony from Andrew, that Mark masterminded the murder for the sum of $2,000.
This was apparently substantiated based on a paper.
dan friesen
The $2,000 number is just the amount of cash, I believe, that was taken from his house.
jordan holmes
Because he was planning on selling all the cars and all that stuff.
dan friesen
Right.
The amount of money that he would have stood to make off of the plot itself was much more than $2,000.
jordan holmes
And he would own Marin County.
dan friesen
And one of the reasons that Baldwin was selected as a...
Hero King.
No, as a victim, is that he was known for having large amounts of money.
On him and at the garage.
jordan holmes
Gotcha.
dan friesen
A large cash.
jordan holmes
He did some cash business.
dan friesen
Large cash caches.
Yeah.
jordan holmes
Cash caches?
dan friesen
Cash caches.
jordan holmes
All right.
kerry cassidy
That Mark's attorney, Shapiro, and we'll talk more about him later, got Mark to sign after he was jailed and when he actually had no visible means of support.
dan friesen
So this, just really quick, what she's trying to say, because she spells it out in a later part, but it's not worth listening to it twice.
But she's trying to make the argument that Mark's lawyer, this Shapiro guy, what he did is he made Mark sign a piece of paper when he got into court that said that he was financially destitute.
And Carrie is making the argument that he only signed that because he was once he was in prison.
But he wasn't before he went into prison.
He was flushed with cash.
jordan holmes
Of course!
dan friesen
So that's nonsense and completely stupid.
But that's the argument she's trying to make.
kerry cassidy
But it was simply untrue prior to the death of Baldwin.
In fact, Mark states that Mark's wife at the time, Karen, during the year before the murder, had spent over half a million dollars on furniture alone.
dan friesen
You'll notice that she said Mark said that Mark's ex-wife spent that much money on furniture.
There's nothing at all that establishes this other than Mark saying it.
And it's absolutely not true.
jordan holmes
Yeah, where would you even put half a million dollars worth of furniture?
dan friesen
Ridiculous.
jordan holmes
Ridiculous.
kerry cassidy
Mark states he was making far more money than was possible through his job as a contractor.
jordan holmes
I thought he was off the land.
kerry cassidy
Strangely, his ex-wife Karen, who reportedly has a problem with alcohol at this time, does not seem to recall or has never been questioned on how often Mark was absent from home during their marriage.
jordan holmes
I would go with a lot.
kerry cassidy
In reality, Mark's contracting business was a cover for money earned fighting in the Secret Space Command.
dan friesen
Well, naturally.
I mean, you're going to pay a guy for being a space captain.
jordan holmes
Well, yeah, if he's in the Secret Space Command, yeah, for sure.
dan friesen
So, in the lead-up to the murder, Mark was telling Cross and Hoover and Andrew that Richard Baldwin owed him a lot of money, and he was getting sick and tired of Baldwin not paying up.
Mark continued to use this narrative in his post-arrest interview with those detectives, claiming that he'd done some home improvement work for Baldwin, which he was owed payment for, and that it was tight times money-wise because he wasn't getting this money that he needed from Baldwin.
unidentified
Right.
dan friesen
And that was bothering him.
But he was presenting it in such a way as like, if I killed him, I couldn't get the money back from him that I needed.
unidentified
Right.
dan friesen
So it was almost exculpatory that he owed me money.
jordan holmes
Right, right, right.
dan friesen
Why would I kill him if he owed me money?
He's an asset to me alive that he's not to me dead.
jordan holmes
Unless you're stealing all of his stuff.
dan friesen
So in his trial, it was shown that, in fact, Mark owed Baldwin a large sum of money.
jordan holmes
Surprise.
dan friesen
As Baldwin was one of the main creditors for Mark's contracting business.
Baldwin had floated Mark some credit, and Mark was unable to pay him back.
And this is pretty firmly established in court as part of the motive for the murder, which is what...
I mean, so Carrie is right.
This one is an actual motive for the murder that was presented in court.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
dan friesen
And actually, it's one of the reasons that he got hit with a much harder sentence is because...
Because it's a special circumstance of first-degree murder with the intention of financial enrichment.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
dan friesen
And the qualification for that is something along the lines of, like, you're trying to get money, but an essential piece of getting that money is killing somebody.
jordan holmes
As opposed to, you're trying to get money, and you accidentally killed somebody.
Or not accidentally, I mean, like, incidentally killed somebody along the way.
dan friesen
Yes.
Yeah, yeah.
There's a difference between that, and this is much worse.
So, Mark's contracting business was not a front from him fighting in the secret space program.
Because if it were, it would have been set up like a front.
When a secretive government entity creates a cut-out front business, they make sure it looks like a real business.
That's kind of important for the facade to actually work, because you don't want to raise suspicions.
unidentified
Of course.
dan friesen
I'd like to read to you a passage from page 36 of the interview Mark did with the detectives after he was arrested.
Detective.
What's the name of your company?
Mark, I don't really have one.
unidentified
We just work part-time doing anything we can.
dan friesen
Detective, so you're not in the yellow pages?
Mark, no, no, I'm much too small for that.
jordan holmes
I'm in the white pages?
dan friesen
If this were a secret space program front, the very least they would have done is come up with a goddamn name for their front business.
jordan holmes
It was called...
Captain Mark Richards, secret space program guy.
dan friesen
No self-respecting secret space program is going to be like, alright, look, we've got to pay for this superhero space captain, but obviously we can't just do it directly, so we need a business to funnel payment through.
How about we have him run a completely unregistered odd jobs business where he employs minors?
Sounds good.
Should we name the company?
Nah.
Seems unnecessary.
unidentified
Come on.
jordan holmes
Come on.
What are we going to do?
What are we doing here?
dan friesen
What bullshit.
jordan holmes
Why would we name it?
unidentified
What are we going to name it?
dan friesen
The very idea of a secret space program operating this way is insulting.
jordan holmes
They have to be secret.
It makes perfect sense.
Because even the business has to be secret.
Why would you name a business that has to be secret, Dan?
Do we have any evidence he ever actually did any work for anyone ever?
dan friesen
Based on his testimony, he fixed a fence.
jordan holmes
Okay, see, there we go!
dan friesen
But also, Hoover might have knocked over that fence.
It's a little complicated.
There's a lot of ins and outs.
jordan holmes
Of course.
dan friesen
A lot of ins and outs of that 130 pages.
jordan holmes
Why would I expect even the slightest odd job to be simple?
Of course.
dan friesen
It's very odd.
jordan holmes
It's also a job that most likely they created the need for in the first place.
dan friesen
Yeah.
jordan holmes
Naturally.
dan friesen
So in that interview with police, Mark even admits, while still trying to pretend he had nothing to do with the murder, that after he realized Baldwin was probably dead, which he knew he was dead at the point of the story that he's talking about, he's presenting it as, I had a good reason to think he was probably dead.
Probably dead.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
dan friesen
Even in that mindset, which is a fake mindset, but he's presenting it as that was his mindset, he went through Baldwin's house to try and find things to settle the debt he was pretending Baldwin owed him.
At that point...
jordan holmes
Well, that's just a smart move.
dan friesen
After he admits that, the detective explains to Mark that he has basically just confessed to grave robbing.
jordan holmes
Well, yeah, but I mean, he wasn't even...
It was like...
I mean, it wasn't a grave.
He was in a garage.
It's garage robbing.
dan friesen
The issue is that the detective started to talk about various details that Mark knows, or has to know that they know, but he thinks they might be bluffing, so they bring up the safe that he took.
And stuff like that.
And he's like, well, yeah, I mean, look, I went in.
I didn't want to tell you this because I know it's fucked up, but I went in to his house after I figured he was already dead, and I took that, but it was just because he owed me so much money.
I needed to make back my money, and then, you know, it's that he wanted...
jordan holmes
That's a very innocent-sounding story.
dan friesen
Right, because he needs to roll with whatever details are being presented to him.
That's the skill that he has.
And if you read that 131-page police interview, you get a real good sense of what he's doing to Carrie.
Whenever she comes and visits.
unidentified
Yeah.
dan friesen
Because she'll bring up something about raptors or mantis beings.
jordan holmes
Right.
dan friesen
And then he will adjust whatever his story is to accommodate whatever she's bringing to the proceedings.
jordan holmes
He's thrown in some improv training.
dan friesen
That's why Carrie, whenever she talks about him, he validates so many of the things that I already know from my research.
jordan holmes
Right.
dan friesen
Therefore, he's the greatest whistleblower of all time.
Of course.
jordan holmes
He's telling you what you want to hear.
dan friesen
Yeah.
He is an inveterate sociopath liar.
jordan holmes
And a racist.
dan friesen
Yes.
And a grave robber.
jordan holmes
And a grave robber.
And a murderer.
dan friesen
Mark also admitted that he used Baldwin's credit card after he was dead, but insisted that he had permission to do so, because that's how...
Because that's how Baldwin...
jordan holmes
It was like, hey, if I ever die, please feel free to use my credit card.
dan friesen
No, because Mark was still pretending that he wasn't sure that he was dead.
jordan holmes
Oh, okay.
dan friesen
At the point that he was using the credit card.
jordan holmes
Sure, sure, sure, sure.
dan friesen
And the reason that he was fine to use it was because he owed him so much money, and that's how Baldwin was going to pay off some of his debt.
It was like, I have a $1,000 limit on this card, so you can buy $1,000 worth of shit at Montgomery Ward or whatever, and then I will pay that off over time.
It'll give me time for the money, which is all bullshit.
He just stole his credit card.
jordan holmes
Sure.
dan friesen
And started buying stuff after he was dead.
jordan holmes
Mind-boggling.
dan friesen
From somebody who may or may not have Mexican blood in them, who worked at Montgomery Ward, who sold Mark a video camera using Baldwin's credit card.
jordan holmes
Yeah, gotcha.
dan friesen
Real good stuff.
jordan holmes
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
dan friesen
Also, Mark's...
jordan holmes
What's it going to do with the camera?
dan friesen
I don't know.
I mean, it was 82, man.
It was an exciting time to have a video camera.
jordan holmes
That's true.
That's true.
You're right.
dan friesen
Mark's wife at the time of the murder, Karen, has gone on record and testified that she was surprised by the money that Mark was spending in the days immediately after the murder, like when he bought a boat to take the body out into the bay.
That sort of shit.
Bought a boat with the money that he took from Baldwin to try and dispose of Baldwin's body.
jordan holmes
Wow.
dan friesen
Mark bought a boat, like I said, some jewelry, and that video camera, and she had no idea where the money was coming from because his business was not going well, and he owed a ton of money to creditors like Baldwin.
She also had said that his behavior got really weird after the murder, including him repeatedly asking her if she would, quote, always love him no matter what, which is a bad sign.
unidentified
Oh, boy.
Oh, boy.
dan friesen
That's a sign of guilt.
Yeah.
unidentified
Yeesh.
jordan holmes
You're going to hear some very bad things about me.
unidentified
Right.
jordan holmes
That I did.
Before I tell you what those are, though, I'm going to need confirmation that you will always love me.
Thank you.
Thank you in advance.
dan friesen
I find that behavior suspicious, but feel free to draw your own conclusions.
I will not decide for you.
jordan holmes
Hey, honey, just as a pure hypothetical, let's say I were to kill somebody.
How would you feel?
unidentified
Go.
dan friesen
Maybe I wouldn't be for it.
jordan holmes
Right.
But would you still love me?
dan friesen
No.
jordan holmes
Okay.
How about this?
I killed somebody.
dan friesen
So in this next clip, Carrie is just rambling about nonsense because she wants to present the idea that Mark was the victim of a conspiracy.
jordan holmes
Sure.
dan friesen
I know there's a lot of stuff about the case here at the beginning, but I assure you we'll get to some crazy bullshit at the end.
jordan holmes
Wonderful.
dan friesen
But she talks a lot about the case.
kerry cassidy
This is an added note.
I believe Richard Baldwin was selected as a victim by the team within the military and at the highest levels of power in Britain and the U.S., responsible for framing Mark Richards.
I have come to the conclusion that the murder was orchestrated with Hoover selected as the Patsy due to his early history having been a victim of pedophilia and an unbalanced character.
Naturally, of course.
I also understand that there is a...
Some motivation within what I believe is MJ-12.
dan friesen
Who gives a shit?
That's a lot of nonsense.
unidentified
Sure.
dan friesen
Now, what Carrie's trying to do there is sort of repackage some of the things that Hoover has said were part of why or how...
Mark manipulated him into committing the murder.
And one part of it was that Mark knew that Hoover was violently homophobic.
And so he told him that Baldwin was gay.
And that was a part of the motivation that Mark used the manipulation in order to get him to hate Baldwin enough to do his bidding.
That sort of thing.
And so this idea of trying to repackage that as they knew he was a pedophile and Hoover was the victim of childhood abuse.
And that sort of thing.
It's just really ugly to me.
It's really gross.
It's gross on a number of levels.
jordan holmes
They're exploiting him again.
dan friesen
Yes.
jordan holmes
In the same way that he was originally fucked with by Mark Richards.
They're doing twice over.
dan friesen
Or at least using him as a prop.
unidentified
Yeah.
dan friesen
It's really offensive.
And then also just the conflating.
Even if it's subconscious or on like a...
Like an abstract level, the equivocating, or making equivalent the homosexuality and pedophilia is just disgusting.
jordan holmes
Always, always pedophiles to get out of any bullshit.
It's very Alex-y.
Yeah, it's probably pedophile rings.
That's why they don't talk about it.
That's why everybody, they force them to get into these pedophile rings in order to get into the highest level of power so they can blackmail you any time you want.
So anything I've ever done is probably set up by pedophile rings.
That just makes sense.
dan friesen
I mean, it's yet another connection to Alex Jones as well.
So, I mean, we're seeing a bit of that today.
Yeah.
And then the stuff about the British and the operation that's going on against her now is this docuseries.
And again, we're going to talk about it a little bit later, so we'll get into specifics.
But just know that that's what she's referencing.
And the idea that the British are attacking him is just a guy who's making a documentary.
So, in this next clip, I would say that most of what she says in this next clip is true.
But she's saying it in a different way than I believe it.
jordan holmes
Okay.
kerry cassidy
All indications are that this targeting of Mark Richards...
dan friesen
Talking about the documentary still.
kerry cassidy
...is happening now after nearly 35 years since the verdict.
And this is because of my interviews with Captain Mark Richards, revealing the true nature of the alien presence and the secret space program, as well as space command.
And I believe that this targeting is aimed at further discrediting Mark and me and my work, as well as the work of Joanne Richards, Mark's wife.
dan friesen
If you take out the part of it being to cover up the truth about space, that entirely explains why I do these episodes.
jordan holmes
Perfect!
dan friesen
I am very motivated to discredit Mark Richards.
I'm very motivated to discredit and laugh at Gary Cassidy.
So yeah, absolutely.
jordan holmes
Yeah, we're in.
dan friesen
We're targeting you because we want to discredit you.
jordan holmes
You got it.
dan friesen
You're crazy.
unidentified
Yeah.
dan friesen
You probably lead people down bad paths.
jordan holmes
At the very least, insinuating that everybody is a fucking pedophile.
dan friesen
It minimizes real child abusers as well.
jordan holmes
There are pedophile rings.
We know that.
And you are hurting the...
dan friesen
To paint your enemies with that is to...
I mean, it's crying wolf a little bit.
jordan holmes
Absolutely.
dan friesen
Yeah, it's pretty gross.
jordan holmes
Oh, sure.
There's another pedophile ring.
No, actually, there is one this time.
Yeah, we've heard it before, man.
dan friesen
Right, right.
So I don't think that that accusation of Baldwin being a pedophile necessarily comes from Mark Richards.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
dan friesen
I'm not sure that it does.
It may.
It may.
But I think that it comes from another guy.
And that's a guy who is a guest blogger on Project Camelot.
And a lot of the information, the background, and the research, in very heavy quotes, about the case, she's reading from a guy named Paul Collin who did a report on Project Camelot.
And Carrie has this to say about him.
kerry cassidy
In order to be fully informed, you must see the investigation done by Camelot blogger Paul Collin.
And I have already sort of detailed that and again put the links because this is such crucial information to get your facts right.
dan friesen
So you need to, man.
If you're going to know the context, if you're going to know about reality, you've got to read Paul Collins' report.
jordan holmes
This is fun because she's saying a lot of true things lying.
dan friesen
What do you mean?
jordan holmes
She's saying a lot of right things wrong.
She's like, yes, you have to get the reporting right.
This is a sensitive issue.
You are correct, Kerry.
You are then wrong about all of it, though.
dan friesen
Yeah, Paul Collins is a mess.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
dan friesen
So Paul Collins, for all I can tell, is just a guest blogger on Kerry's website.
He claims to be a former CIA agent, but so does everyone Kerry talks to, so I'm going to maintain my default position that I think that's bullshit.
However, if Kerry thinks that it's so important that I see his evidence in order that I be fully informed on this case, what kind of researcher would I be if I didn't at least poke around a little and see what this guy has to offer?
jordan holmes
You would be lazy.
This is an important thing, and you've got to make sure you have your facts straight.
unidentified
Right.
dan friesen
First things first, Kerry doesn't link to his reporting.
She has copy and pasted the URL for his report into her show transcript, but that's a PDF file that you can't copy from.
So in order to get to his report, you have to type out this long string of a URL.
In fairness, it does lead to an actual page, so that's great.
I just bring this up to vent a little bit of my frustration about how un-user-friendly her website is.
So if you go to that page, you'll find that this report by Paul Collin isn't really about Mark Richards being framed, nor is it really about any truth about his case.
His report is mostly just trying to attack the character of Kevin Daniel Moore, the British documentary filmmaker who's working on that docuseries about Baldwin's murder.
Colin accuses him of having, quote, secretive past involvement with central banking and financial services as a corporate secretary and corporate director while simultaneously working as a lowly telemarketer.
jordan holmes
Oh, that is...
dan friesen
Dun-dun.
jordan holmes
That's, uh...
That's believable?
dan friesen
You could be a telemarketer in financial services or central banking.
I don't know.
I don't particularly care about any of this garbage.
Even if everything this guy is saying is true, attacking a guy who's making a docuseries about Mark Richards has literally nothing to do with what I know about Mark Richards.
This is a classic case of damage control.
And you know why they're doing it?
It's because of what I told you earlier.
Because for reasons I can't possibly guess, Carrie agreed to be interviewed for Moore's docuseries.
And from the trailer of it, it doesn't look like she's painted in a very good light.
Some say it makes her look like a crazy person, or that it looks at things accurately.
jordan holmes
Yeah, well, of course she is going to agree, because to her, she is telling the truth.
And so this is an avenue to get her message out.
dan friesen
To do the interview?
jordan holmes
Yeah.
dan friesen
Maybe.
jordan holmes
Yeah, it makes perfect sense for her to do that.
dan friesen
It's a really vulnerable position to be in.
She doesn't have final cut.
She doesn't know what this guy's thing is about or anything like that.
jordan holmes
She doesn't need to, man, because she is insulated by the truth, Dan.
An innocent man.
Does not need to hide anything.
An innocent man speaks truth to power and everyone sees it.
dan friesen
Look, I love your passion, but that's bullshit.
jordan holmes
That's absolute bullshit.
dan friesen
Carrie knows that she made a huge mistake agreeing to be in that documentary and now realizes that the whole documentary is going to be actual evidence of Mark's guilt.
Interviews with Cross and Hoover.
Interviews with Mark's ex-wife Karen.
Interviews with people Mark knew in college.
And all of it's going to illustrate the fundamental truth that Mark Richards...
Is a sociopath who's been conning people his whole life.
On some level, Carrie knows that the producers of the documentary really only have any interest in talking to her so she can be the example of his current victim.
And that this narrative that Carrie...
That's a narrative that Carrie can't really accept existing unchallenged.
She can't argue her case on the facts.
If she's left to do that, all she can do is start rambling about raptors.
So her only real strategy is to paint this documentarian as an agent of some satanic cabal and pedophile network that is clearly working with the reptilians against her in Mark's noble crusade.
It's painfully transparent what's going on.
jordan holmes
So her exhortation for you to get all the facts by going to this guest blogger's website is her saying...
Get your facts straight.
And him saying, that guy sucks.
So the facts are, that guy sucks.
dan friesen
And he's working for the aliens that we don't like.
jordan holmes
Right, right, right, right.
Of course.
dan friesen
And then the article that this dude wrote, it kind of deteriorates halfway through into a defensive screed about how great Carrie Cassidy is, which is boring.
But it does give us this line.
Quote, furthermore, Carrie Cassidy exercises professionalism, high orders of discernment, courage, and with her integrity remaining intact.
If people want a fair-haired version of Alex Jones-like guerrilla journalism broadcasting, then they know where to turn their attention.
jordan holmes
Well, that was a little bit on the nose.
A little bit.
You might have wanted to keep that part quieter.
You might have wanted to lower the volume on that part.
dan friesen
Just on the facts, Paul Collins' article is a piece of trash.
He gets very basic pieces of information incorrect.
For instance, he claims that Andrew was, quote, criminally charged with murder, but that is not true.
He goes on to even say that Andrew was sentenced to prison for the murder, which is categorically false and even is counter to the version of the story that Carrie is presenting on this episode that we're listening to.
If he's fucking up that kind of really basic fact of the case, I can't get myself to engage with his other unsourced assertions and possibly libelous claims about Baldwin being a pedophile, although that's another parallel about how Alex Jones operates, and we'd be remiss not to point that out.
However, I should point out that on September 4, 2018, Paul Collin posted a blog on Project Camelot's website that reads like he copied and pasted an email from a Nigerian prince.
Quote, Of course.
The U.S. federal government wants me to pay back $2,500 U.S. dollars.
The U.S. State Department 2006 repatriation loan that America used to remove me out of Eastern Europe to America on August 15, 2006.
The debt I owe, they claim, is overdue.
Hence, if I do not repay the U.S. government within the next 30 days, they will levy a lien against my bank account, which means all donation monies from October 2018 moving forward to my bank account will automatically be deducted out of my bank account until their debt is paid in full.
This means I can no longer ask for donations to feed myself, put gasoline in my van, pay my vehicle insurance, or pay my monthly smartphone bill.
These are basic fundamental human necessities for me to conduct the 18 to 22 hour long days and nights I spend seven days a week.
unidentified
Wow.
jordan holmes
He's got to do better.
He's got to negotiate for better labor rights.
dan friesen
I can't imagine what he's doing in that time.
jordan holmes
18 to 22 hours.
dan friesen
There is no work shown on the page.
If I cannot come up with their $2,500 in cash soon...
There will be no further sense in my living any worse than I am already now, homeless in a van without being able to qualify for any public assistance whatsoever.
jordan holmes
Did Roger Stone write that for him?
dan friesen
Here's the thing, Jordan.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
Yeah, Dan.
dan friesen
Repatriation loans are not used to remove someone from a foreign country unless that person applies for the loan themselves because of a financial hardship and a need to return to the U.S., provided that they're a citizen.
From the State Department's website.
The Department of State's Repatriation Loans Program provides emergency loans to assist destitute Americans abroad who have no other source of funds to return to the United States.
They include Americans temporarily abroad who are without funds because of unforeseen events like a theft, illness, or accident.
Individuals suffering from serious physical or mental illness who need to return to the United States for medical care.
Americans residing abroad with an alien spouse needing assistance to escape an abusive situation.
Also, guess what?
If you have a good cause like a medical condition, poverty, inability to work, or something along those lines, there's a really easy-to-find form on the government's website which is called, quote, Repatriation Loan Waiver and Deferral Request Form.
People can apply to have "the whole or any portion of a repatriation loan completely waived." Officers will then perform a review, and if it's appropriate, they'll often waive these loans entirely.
Yeah, that is a shocker.
jordan holmes
It seems kind of nice.
dan friesen
Further, they have a really easy-to-find phone number and email address.
It's very easy to Google.
We're a loan recipient.
U.S. Code 2671, Section D, covers the establishment of the repatriation loan program.
Paragraph 4 clearly states that they don't refer any loans for litigation except in cases where they are more than a year overdue on payment.
Nowhere do they say that they'll place liens on people who don't pay, although I do accept that that's possibly a policy of the collection agencies that do get subcontracted out.
I think it's possible.
But according to the U.S. Code, they seem to prefer to just apply some fees, and they only litigate in any way if you're a year overdue on a payment.
Not on the entire loan.
jordan holmes
Not the whole thing, but on just one...
dan friesen
If you have a $2,500 repatriation loan, I'm positive you could get it cut down into, like, I don't know.
The 15 payments of $200.
unidentified
Yeah.
dan friesen
Or something like that.
Pay a little extra and chop it down into tiny bits or whatever.
Convenience fee to the government.
jordan holmes
Sure, sure, sure.
dan friesen
Something along those lines.
jordan holmes
Interest.
dan friesen
So whatever it is, he's probably just had a $200 bill that he hasn't paid for a year, if this is even true at all.
jordan holmes
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
dan friesen
So I don't know.
Anyway, my point here is that I don't trust Paul Collin in the least.
He seems real scammy.
And this, I need $2,500 and I need it fast post is a serious red flag.
And then he also posted two more things on Project Amalot's thing where we're talking about how he desperately needs money.
So, red flags!
jordan holmes
18 to 22 hours and all he could write for a please desperately give me money is that short piece?
dan friesen
And it really looks like a Nigerian Prince email kind of scam.
unidentified
Bad.
dan friesen
Also, his post...
jordan holmes
It does sound like that...
Do you remember the roommate scam that they used to have?
unidentified
Vaguely.
jordan holmes
Where it was like...
I would love to be your roommate for this apartment.
We'll get this all together.
In order for me to do so, though, I'm going to need you to, you know, I'm going to need you to cash this check after I advance at that whole thing.
dan friesen
There are a hundred variables.
jordan holmes
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
dan friesen
I think it's a simpler version of that that is just, it's almost like sweeps week for you.
Just like, here is a crisis, give us money.
unidentified
Right.
dan friesen
That sort of thing.
jordan holmes
Right, right, right.
dan friesen
Also, his posts that Carrie linked to about Mark Richards haven't made me any more informed about the murder that Mark totally...
Reorchestrated.
But they did give me a chance to learn about repatriation loans.
jordan holmes
Yeah, that is nice.
I didn't even know that existed.
dan friesen
Yeah, so I guess there's a silver lining to everything.
jordan holmes
Yeah, that's nice.
dan friesen
Yep.
So now we get back to Carrie talking about Mark's case, and this is just not true.
kerry cassidy
Around the time of the murder, Mark had more than one construction company.
He supervised crews that reported to him, and he had hundreds of people in the secret space program, or secret space command.
Who reported to him.
dan friesen
Mark didn't have a name for his construction business.
He didn't have two fucking construction businesses.
In that interview with the police, it's very clear he's talking about it not going well.
The business is not going well.
They ask him how many people he has working for him, and he says it's like six.
He's talking about how one guy who he sold a gun to who works for him is like, he's not working for you now, right?
And he's like, well, I mean, he would still work for me, but we don't have any work for him.
So there's not a ton of work to do.
He can't even employ the six people that he has.
The only people who are probably actively working for him are Andrew and Crossy.
unidentified
Yeah.
dan friesen
He has, like, phone numbers of five other guys if he needs them.
jordan holmes
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
dan friesen
They'll subcontract out.
jordan holmes
This is, if you're Illinois, if you were born in Illinois and in the Midwest, at, like, 13, you'll get your first detasseling job.
dan friesen
Right.
jordan holmes
And it'll just be some random asshole.
In my case, it was the PE teacher at my school who'd just show up with a half bus and be like, eh, you, you, and you, let's get out of here.
You know, it's not a real business.
It's just a bus.
dan friesen
I mean, I worked for myself, but I'd go and, like, mow people's yards and stuff like that.
Yeah, it's the equivalent of that.
jordan holmes
What was the name of your business?
dan friesen
Except he's a 29-year-old murderer.
That was actually the name of my business.
jordan holmes
Yeah, 29-year-old murderer?
dan friesen
Yeah.
Grass murderer.
Yeah, yeah.
Weed killer.
Yeah.
So, in this next clip, Carrie brings up something that she thinks is proving Mark's innocence in some way, but it actually makes the case so much worse against him.
kerry cassidy
Apparently there is also another young man named Willie Robles who was not charged but may have had something to do with the murder.
Mark says that Robles was dating Hoover's sister at the time and was said to go around saying he would bash someone's head in with a baseball bat if he got angry.
And this does mirror what happened in the murder, apparently.
dan friesen
Apparently.
Carrie's trying to imply here that this Robles might actually be the person who killed Baldwin.
jordan holmes
Of course.
dan friesen
In reality, William Robles is one of two other youths who have testified that Mark Richards approached them with his plan to murder Baldwin and sell his shit to make a load of cash.
Marcus tried to attack their credibility by saying that they were drug dealers who were trying to cut a deal.
And it is true that one of those two, not Robles, the other guy, was arrested for selling marijuana.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
dan friesen
But the appeals court made it very clear that, quote, the officers who had signed declarations swearing that Neal and Robles were never offered any promise of leniency in any way for their testimony.
So that's all a load of shit.
The existence of these two other people is really damning as a piece of evidence against Mark.
It's two additional people who have sworn testimony that he tried to get them in on a murder plot that's identical to the one that he eventually did carry out.
So...
Hmm.
Or it's the lizards.
jordan holmes
He couldn't rewrite the plan?
He just kept the same one?
dan friesen
You gotta edit.
We're creatures of habit.
jordan holmes
You gotta update it.
dan friesen
I don't know, man.
jordan holmes
I'm telling you.
dan friesen
It's nuts.
It's real nuts to see all of this and still be like, guys, reptilians.
jordan holmes
I like it.
I like it because it's a certain amount of dedication to the idea.
dan friesen
It's quite a bit of dedication.
jordan holmes
It is in some ways admirable, and in other ways the real failings of the human race all in one package.
dan friesen
It's an Ian Abramson-level commitment to a bit.
unidentified
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
dan friesen
That's what it is.
So we get back to this idea of Baldwin being a pedophile in this next clip, and we get some evidence?
Question mark?
kerry cassidy
So the way that Mark learned that Baldwin was a pedophile is that Mark's company was hired to remodel Baldwin's house.
Mark's crew called him one day at the beginning of the job to say they found a huge amount of child porn in the house saying you won't believe what we found.
dan friesen
So, Mark was contracted to work on his house.
Right.
jordan holmes
Because he was his buddy.
dan friesen
Right.
And in that police interview, he was talking about how they were trying to put down a concrete slab for an extension of the building and stuff like that.
And he fixed that fence that Hoover might have hit.
We're not entirely sure.
Vague on the details.
But this is a new wrinkle.
And if this is true, which it's not, then this means that Mark discovered that Baldwin had a giant cache of child pornography and then didn't report him to the police.
Didn't disclose this in his three-hour-long interview with detectives after he was arrested for the murder.
It also means that Mark didn't bring this up ever.
Nor did Cross and Hoover or Andrew, two people who were working on Baldwin's house.
They were the contractors who were there working on it, who ostensibly maybe were the ones who Carrie is implying found this.
None of them brought this up, ever.
jordan holmes
Let's just go even a tiny bit more into making sense territory.
You need money, right?
dan friesen
Desperately.
Right.
jordan holmes
And you have this plan, and your plan is to kill this guy.
But then, later, you find out that he has child pornography, that you're not going to report to the police.
Now, why kill him when you could blackmail him?
That makes the most sense to everybody involved, right?
dan friesen
Totally.
jordan holmes
You don't have to kill that guy.
And he's definitely not going to fucking, yeah.
dan friesen
Nope.
jordan holmes
Yeah, you got this one.
dan friesen
He might kill you, but you have a lot of guns.
jordan holmes
But you'd be fine.
You're a white separatist who's trying to create his own kingdom.
dan friesen
Right.
You're working on a fucking laser.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
What is he going to do?
dan friesen
You have knights.
I really look at this and I assess it this way.
I think that it's part of an attempt to minimize the death of Richard Baldwin.
jordan holmes
Of course.
dan friesen
It's a cruel tactic to make you think, well, this guy kind of had it coming.
We had a huge collection of child pornography.
Why should I give a fuck about him?
Carrie never has to admit any guilt on Mark's part, but subconsciously she's implanting in the listener's mind the idea of if he did it, it was because he was hurting kids and we're all fine with him getting fucking taken out.
jordan holmes
Aren't we?
Are you really going to do a life sentence for Murdering a pedophile?
Really?
Maybe five years tops.
dan friesen
It's insane.
And I mean, look, if he did have child pornography, fuck him.
He should have gone to prison and all that.
You know, like, great.
But I need you to prove this, first of all.
jordan holmes
How did they find it?
Was it laying around?
dan friesen
I don't know.
Until you prove it, go fuck yourself with your stray accusations.
That's sort of my point.
Now, Jordan...
We've been talking about Mark Richards for a long time, not only today, but for our lives.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
dan friesen
We've been talking about him a bit, because he's fascinating.
jordan holmes
It is surprising how long we've been talking about Mark Richards.
dan friesen
He's the gift that keeps on giving.
jordan holmes
He doesn't seem to stop yet.
dan friesen
Now, Jordan, the whole time, we've been operating under the assumption that Mark was off-planet.
When the murder happened.
jordan holmes
We have?
dan friesen
Well, because that's his alibi.
jordan holmes
That is, of course, what we have been operating on.
dan friesen
Kerry says it all the fucking time.
jordan holmes
All the time.
He was off-planet.
dan friesen
Joanne Richards says the same thing, his current wife.
jordan holmes
Didn't seem like he mentioned it in that interview with the cops.
dan friesen
No, not once.
jordan holmes
Not once.
dan friesen
He doesn't mention this either, but in this next clip...
We get a new alibi, and Carrie doesn't even bat an eyelash.
jordan holmes
I like it.
I like a new alibi.
dan friesen
This is insane.
jordan holmes
He's had 40 years to work on a really good alibi.
dan friesen
Put your mic down, because it's not great.
kerry cassidy
Mark's alibi during the exact time of the murder was that he was eating lunch with his parents at his parents' house.
His lawyer, Shapiro, told him that would never be believed by the jury.
However, it is notable that they could never place Mark at the scene of the crime.
dan friesen
They could.
kerry cassidy
Mark states that he had just returned from fighting a war in the Falklands, in which he was in a battle for the control of planet Earth.
This was a turning point in the history of Earth, and if we had lost the battle, we would have lost control of Earth.
It was a battle with the alien races, the Draco, Reptilians and Greys, the Raptors.
And for more about the Raptors, please do see my other nine interviews with Captain Mark Richards.
But the raptors are featured in Steven Spielberg, Jurassic World, and other films very specifically.
dan friesen
So that's fucked up, man.
She's been saying he's off-planet all the time, and now the disclaimer at the beginning of the episode said he was off-planet.
Now she's saying that he was having lunch with his parents, and his lawyers thought that was unbelievable.
jordan holmes
The exact time of the murder as well.
dan friesen
Right.
And by the way, if he was fighting in the Falklands, even if he was fighting aliens, that's not all.
Off-Planet.
So Off-Planet is out the window.
jordan holmes
No, you're wrong.
You're wrong.
It was the Off-Planet Falklands.
dan friesen
Oh.
jordan holmes
There's one in the Beetlejuice system.
dan friesen
I forgot.
jordan holmes
You know, and what we've always...
I always forget that.
You've always heard this.
We heard it from the very beginning in grade school.
If you lose the Falklands, you lose the planet.
dan friesen
Lose everything.
jordan holmes
Everybody knows that.
dan friesen
Right.
jordan holmes
That's an old saying.
dan friesen
You learn that the first time you play Risk.
jordan holmes
Oh, yeah.
unidentified
Yeah, yeah.
jordan holmes
Absolutely.
dan friesen
Risk might come back up later.
That's fucked up.
I mean, like, the only way you can make the argument that he was fighting off-planet would be that he was in a plane?
unidentified
I guess.
dan friesen
And that's off the ground?
jordan holmes
Mm-hmm.
dan friesen
Which is a shady technicality.
jordan holmes
Also, you could have just asked his parents.
dan friesen
I don't think they would talk to Carrie.
jordan holmes
No, no, no.
I mean, for the alibi.
dan friesen
Oh.
jordan holmes
Why would the lawyer say that they wouldn't believe that if both parents were like, oh, he was eating lunch with us?
The lawyer would be like, yes!
dan friesen
Yeah, absolutely.
jordan holmes
Do that one!
Don't do the you're off-planet thing!
dan friesen
Right, right.
They would believe parents over a 17-year-old who worked for him.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
dan friesen
If there could be establishing...
Like, there would be evidence.
jordan holmes
Yeah, it would not be hard to prove that were it true.
dan friesen
It would be sorted out.
Also, a small point, Richard Baldwin was murdered on July 6th, 1982.
The war in the Falklands ended on June 14th, 1982.
jordan holmes
Secret war in the Falklands.
dan friesen
Mark absolutely wasn't in the Falklands' war.
But, even if he was, he could have easily been in that conflict and still made it back in time to murder Richard Baldwin.
unidentified
So that is not an alibi.
jordan holmes
He had time.
dan friesen
Yeah.
jordan holmes
He had time.
dan friesen
He had a month.
A whole month from June 6th to July 14th.
Almost a whole month.
jordan holmes
Boy.
dan friesen
Could have done it.
jordan holmes
40 years and still can't write a good alibi.
dan friesen
By the way, there were almost no U.S. personnel in the Falklands War.
That was Britain and Argentina.
jordan holmes
Beetlejuice Falklands.
dan friesen
Oh, sorry.
jordan holmes
Beetlejuice Falklands.
dan friesen
Keep forgetting.
jordan holmes
Come on, man.
dan friesen
We sat like missiles and maybe a couple people.
That was it.
It was almost entirely the British and the Argentinians.
jordan holmes
Well, all we needed to do was send Captain Mark Richards.
The Dutchman's son is going to sort out the Falklands all day.
dan friesen
See, that rebuttal is what ruins my argument.
The fact that it's not zero means it could have been Mark.
jordan holmes
It could have been Mark, yeah.
Shit!
Statistically, it is possible.
dan friesen
Still does not prove that he didn't kill Richard Baldwin.
jordan holmes
Boy, you really gotta write...
See, this is the problem.
I don't want to read his book now because he's had 40 years to write a good alibi and he's not done it.
dan friesen
I bet that book is just patently insane, though.
jordan holmes
Yeah, that's true.
dan friesen
I need a copy.
jordan holmes
I want to read it.
dan friesen
Yeah.
So I wish I could find a PDF, but that obviously doesn't exist.
There's no way.
jordan holmes
Nuh-uh.
dan friesen
So we know that Mark got set up.
We know that now.
I mean, Carrie's proved her case.
jordan holmes
Of course.
dan friesen
Airtight.
jordan holmes
I find no holes.
dan friesen
None.
This is the opposite of Swiss cheese.
jordan holmes
Nope.
dan friesen
Zero holes in this thing.
jordan holmes
It is like Jupiter in that it is 100% solid throughout.
dan friesen
So we know that, right?
We don't know why he was framed exactly.
But Mark has told Carrie a theory that he has that I think is awesome.
kerry cassidy
And Mark claims that the wrap...
Raptors had his back and were at his beck and call, and he was very arrogant back then.
He was twenty-nine, and he was boasting while in the Falklands about how the Raptors saw him as a hero.
He stated it was possibly because of this that they framed him for murder, although he doesn't know that for certain.
dan friesen
But it's a pretty good theory.
jordan holmes
It is a great theory.
dan friesen
I like it.
He was walking around in the Falklands.
jordan holmes
He's a little bragging.
He's a little bragging.
dan friesen
Too cocky about how much the Raptors love him.
jordan holmes
Hey, we all make mistakes when we're young.
He's the son of the Dutchman.
He thought he was hot shit.
He just won the Falklands War by himself as the only person the Americans sent.
I mean, of course he's going to brag a little bit about the raptors, and then they've got to come down hard on him.
dan friesen
Well, not the raptors, the reptilians.
jordan holmes
Right, right, the reptilians.
dan friesen
The Draco Alliance, as it were.
I like that idea.
I really love it.
You're just bragging too much about your alien cult that you have, I guess, your hero worshipping.
And they're like, fuck you, bro.
jordan holmes
This is a story of hubris that is as old as time.
dan friesen
Absolutely.
So you brought up the Dutchman there, and we find out...
Mark's dad was in play around the time of the murder.
jordan holmes
He started the Falklands War, actually.
unidentified
He didn't start it, but he finished it.
dan friesen
That war only lasted like two months, by the way.
I mean, no war is good, but it's really weird to pick the Falklands War as the deciding war for humanity.
We will lose control of the planet if we lost the Falklands War.
Because, I mean, first of all, it's a very short war.
The belligerents in it were really only Argentina and the United Kingdom.
unidentified
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
jordan holmes
He may have been referencing the Peter Falklands War.
dan friesen
No, I think it's the last really major world event before he went to prison.
jordan holmes
Yeah, I would absolutely say so.
dan friesen
I think that's just why he thinks it's such a big deal.
unidentified
Right.
jordan holmes
Well, he looked into the time period.
If it's going to be an alibi for him, he has to put it around the same time.
unidentified
It has to be major.
jordan holmes
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
And it has to be a war.
So, there you go.
dan friesen
And so we get a little bit here in this next clip.
We get some news about the Dutchman and what he was up to around the time of the murder.
jordan holmes
Well, he was eating lunch, obviously.
kerry cassidy
Also around the time of the murder, Ellis Lloyd Richards, Mark's father, was seen as a hero by the British and American Air Force and had just returned from fighting a war with aliens in Kamchatka, Russia.
dan friesen
I think that Mark has been playing Risk in prison, because that's one of the parts...
jordan holmes
That's one of the few parts that you can actually...
dan friesen
That connects Russia to the United States around the sides of the board, the Risk board.
jordan holmes
That makes the most sense.
dan friesen
Kamchatka is one of the regions at Risk.
jordan holmes
Because it was a...
That's why they had the battleground there.
dan friesen
If he had brought up Irkutsk, I would be 100% sure that he's just been playing Risk in prison.
unidentified
Like, oh god, that would be amazing.
dan friesen
I don't know.
jordan holmes
They don't actually have the pieces for the risk board.
It's all in your head.
Yeah, you have to play it in your mind.
dan friesen
Yeah, so his dad was fighting with aliens in Kamchatka.
jordan holmes
Naturally.
dan friesen
Cool.
jordan holmes
Right around that time.
Right.
Then he had time to go get lunch, of course.
dan friesen
Absolutely.
Yeah.
So in this next clip, Carrie talks about how...
Earlier, you know how I brought up that the Dutchman and Mark, their arch nemesis, was this Angleton, the CIA guy.
Carrie brings...
This story isn't true, man.
jordan holmes
I like it when you don't even have the ability to give it anything.
You're just like, dude, this is just not true.
dan friesen
This is just whatever.
Enjoy this not true story about Carrie having her life at risk or some shit.
kerry cassidy
A side note, Project Hamlet was directly threatened.
We were forced to abruptly close down.
We were told people would die, including us, if we pursued an important line of research involving a leaked document from Angleton's files.
We were forced to abruptly close down our investigation and fly back home.
At the time, we had been scheduled to do an interview with a key contact when we received a phone call in our hotel room telling us to stop.
We decided not to pursue our investigation after being threatened, that if we did so, sources related to our investigation would be killed.
As a consequence, the Angleton connection to the Mark Richards case reveals a very high and deep reason for him having been framed and imprisoned now for nearly 40 years.
We are very aware of how high the Angleton connection goes with regard to the alien situation.
dan friesen
I'm very aware of how high you sound.
This is bullshit.
jordan holmes
Yeah, that's ridiculous.
dan friesen
My firm, just like, boilerplate response to that is, nope.
I don't even care.
I don't care at all.
None of that happened.
jordan holmes
I want now, anytime I get super drunk, I really wish that Blackout Jordan would just call Project Camelot all the time.
It's got to be a hotline number.
Yeah, just say nonsense stuff.
Absolutely great.
Fantastic.
Here's the real story.
We were going to interview this source and the guy was like...
dan friesen
You got threatened.
jordan holmes
I don't think I really want to come.
And they're like, why don't you want to come?
We really need to do this interview.
I was probably.
I was threatened.
You'll believe that.
I was threatened.
They're going to kill me.
unidentified
Yada, yada, yada.
jordan holmes
It was great knowing you.
Hang up.
dan friesen
Beep.
Yeah, that would work.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
dan friesen
You'd be her next big whistleblower.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
dan friesen
So now Carrie presents the idea in this next clip that the entire case against Mark Richards was only based on the testimony of this Andrew.
The other guy, the other kid who was involved.
jordan holmes
I don't think that's true.
dan friesen
It's not true.
But then Carrie gets into something that is also not true.
kerry cassidy
With regard to the trial, according to Mark, the DA relied exclusively on information provided by Andrew C. Above, and there appears that Andrew was highly likely to have been a CIA undercover agent on the scene orchestrating events while Hoover was the patsy.
dan friesen
Oh, okay, yeah, that makes sense.
unidentified
Yeah, yeah.
dan friesen
17-year-old CIA orchestrator of a PSYOP operation.
jordan holmes
They get to him young these days.
They get to him so young.
dan friesen
So stupid.
This is so stupid.
This is just disappointingly stupid.
But to hear someone repeating this shit is so stupid.
It's like, I get why Mark would say it.
I get that.
jordan holmes
Oh, of course.
dan friesen
That part makes...
Total sense to me.
jordan holmes
He's an inveterate liar.
Why wouldn't he say that?
dan friesen
Absolutely.
jordan holmes
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
dan friesen
That part makes...
I have no qualms.
Carrie, I'm disappointed in you.
jordan holmes
I...
dan friesen
I have no faith in you, and I'm disappointed in you.
The idea that you're saying that this 17-year-old who Mark completely lured into this murder plot...
He's probably CIA.
That's fucked up.
That's embarrassing.
jordan holmes
That makes me want to get an old-school projector.
Write out those words and just project it up on Carrie's wall and just be like, Carrie, you said this.
dan friesen
Yeah, yeah.
jordan holmes
Do you want to read that out loud and see how it sounds now?
dan friesen
She believes it, I'm sure.
Or at least she's willing to believe it.
I don't know.
jordan holmes
I don't...
I can't...
I can't.
dan friesen
I know.
jordan holmes
I can't believe that she's willing to believe it.
dan friesen
Yeah, it's tough.
jordan holmes
She has to be fucking with us.
dan friesen
Well, I mean, she is still saying that, like, this is what Mark said.
Right.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
dan friesen
But I think that you have a responsibility if you're, like, repeating these things.
Like, this is what Mark said, and he's full of shit.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
At least a little something.
dan friesen
Or, yeah, at least introduce some sort of skeptical voice to the proceedings.
God.
And it gets worse later.
unidentified
Oh, of course.
dan friesen
So in this next clip, you know, I don't know if you know this, but Mark got a divorce pretty soon after the murder.
jordan holmes
I can believe it.
I can believe it.
dan friesen
His wife was kind of like, oh, that's why I got a video camera.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
dan friesen
Not good.
jordan holmes
Do I get to keep the camera?
dan friesen
Can't enjoy that boat anymore.
jordan holmes
In the divorce, do I get the boat?
dan friesen
I don't think so.
I think that boat was evidence.
jordan holmes
That's no good.
dan friesen
Yeah.
So she got a divorce from Mark, but it turns out.
That it was only because the mob made her.
jordan holmes
The mob!
kerry cassidy
Karen, Mark's wife at the time, divorced him during the trial.
Mark believes she was pressured by the mob to do so.
jordan holmes
The mob!
kerry cassidy
She apparently had family, her father who had ties to the mob.
jordan holmes
The mob?
kerry cassidy
At one point, the judge fell asleep during the trial.
dan friesen
I don't blame him.
unidentified
Do not blame him.
jordan holmes
Unconnected props.
Well, the mob made him fall asleep, too.
dan friesen
I would suggest it was Mark that made him fall asleep.
If there's one thing that I take away from that 131-page interview with the detectives, it's that he's doing to them what he does to Carrie.
I think that is an important takeaway because it shows his patterns.
Like the way he works with new information being integrated.
jordan holmes
Absolutely.
dan friesen
Like a shitty verbal kint, basically.
It's a shitty usual suspects game he's trying to play, but these detectives are like, you're really bad at this.
You fucked up.
jordan holmes
It reminds me so much of Stone.
Like, anytime Stone gets in trouble, you have it.
Oh, no, no, absolutely.
But you've still got that same pattern every time, where it's like, do this first, say it didn't happen, blame somebody else, so on and so forth.
Right, but I mean...
dan friesen
Most liars.
jordan holmes
Yeah, gotta.
Don't you get bored?
Don't you get bored with your lies?
dan friesen
But I don't think it's a matter of boredom.
It's a compulsion.
Like, I don't think...
A lot of times, people who are compulsive liars, I mean, it's right in the name, they're not really in control of being able to...
jordan holmes
Modulate when they lie or not.
They just kind of do it.
dan friesen
Some can do it more strategically than others, but the lie is almost like a tick.
You get that.
If you've ever met somebody who behaves that way, one of the things that's really hard about it is that oftentimes there will be lies that come out that are completely inconsequential things.
And it's like, we didn't have to do that.
You start to realize you just can't control it.
jordan holmes
I mean, it's not a terrible strategy either to just lie about everything all the time because then you don't even know if you're lying.
You lie all the time about stuff that's inconsequential.
dan friesen
I think that strategy is overstated as a good strategy because I think you...
jordan holmes
That sounds like a lie to me.
dan friesen
I just did a finger gun.
jordan holmes
We just did some finger guns back and forth.
dan friesen
So that's the first thing that I take away from it, that is like, you get a real understanding and appreciation for his pattern as a liar.
And then the second thing I take away from it is he's fucking boring.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
dan friesen
Because it takes forever for them to get anywhere with him in the conversation.
He's talking circles and trying to play little games and stuff like that, but they're boring games.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
dan friesen
So that's why it takes 131 pages to get through what would probably...
If it wasn't just full of him being like, now I know you're going to walk out.
Look, I need to...
I'm trying to be honest, all this stuff.
jordan holmes
Right, right, right.
dan friesen
And weaving boring lies while the detectives tell him, we know what happened.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
That could have been a very, very short interview.
dan friesen
Yes, absolutely.
But the point I'm trying to make is that if this judge fell asleep...
I get why.
Because Mark was doing that in court, I'm sure.
jordan holmes
Yeah, I'm surprised the two cops didn't fall asleep at one point.
dan friesen
Well, they go out for coffee like three times.
unidentified
Okay.
dan friesen
So that might have been a part of it.
jordan holmes
Let's go get some coffee.
Jesus Christ, this fucking guy.
dan friesen
Yeah, I'm sure.
jordan holmes
Christ!
dan friesen
If there was a recorder in the coffee room, I'm sure he'd be like, this fucking asshole.
This asshole.
So all of what we're talking about is predicated on the idea that Richard Baldwin is dead because he got murdered.
jordan holmes
Oh, no.
Is Richard Baldwin not even dead?
kerry cassidy
Lastly, Mark stated that it is also possible Dick Baldwin is alive and well in a witness protection program.
dan friesen
It's not.
jordan holmes
Why?
But he wasn't a witness.
dan friesen
Nope.
jordan holmes
He would just be in a protection program.
Why would he be in a witness protection program?
dan friesen
Carrie, that's not how this works.
But at least she's still saying that Mark told me this.
jordan holmes
That would be funny if he was a witness.
dan friesen
We have to wait until like two episodes of Project Camelot from now where Carrie starts saying these things but without the Mark told me this.
jordan holmes
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
dan friesen
That sort of shit.
So, yeah, he is not still alive.
He was murdered with a baseball bat and a screwdriver and then had his body dumped in a bay tied down with a motor from the boat.
unidentified
Jesus.
dan friesen
Very amateurishly.
And that's why his body came to the surface and was found, and then Mark was arrested.
jordan holmes
Well, that's why his testimony really was so moving at the trial.
After you've been killed like that, and you float up again, you've got to put him in a protection room.
dan friesen
You've been through a lot.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
dan friesen
Yeah.
There's a great moment.
jordan holmes
That would have prejudiced the jury for sure.
dan friesen
There's a great moment.
One of my other favorites in that interview where they ask Mark a question and Mark is responding to it.
And it's about something that he had done a couple days prior.
And one of the detectives was like, do you think we weren't watching you?
unidentified
No.
dan friesen
It's like those moments are really funny to look at because it's Mark Richards.
But at the same time, I can put myself in that situation and that feeling of hearing that, I'd be like, oh no.
unidentified
It would be the scariest fucking moment in the world.
dan friesen
My whole game is up.
But he still tries.
Nevertheless, he persists.
jordan holmes
Oh boy.
unidentified
Oh boy.
dan friesen
So little do you know this.
Mark is innocent.
He's not.
But Kerry thinks he is, and Mark is saying that he is, although Mark absolutely knows that he's not.
And if only...
Look, man, here's the thing.
Right after the trial, the DIA, the Defense Intelligence Agency, they put out a report that exonerated Mark, and it proved that he was totally innocent.
jordan holmes
Where did they put this report at?
Just in the office break room?
dan friesen
It seems to have disappeared.
jordan holmes
Oh, goddammit!
kerry cassidy
When Mark was arrested, the DIA, Defense Intelligence Agency, put together a report that refuted every charge against Mark.
Mark believes that report still exists.
At the time, there were several paper copies of the report made and distributed, which was in 1982, and also it was sent to the DA's office.
The report was supposedly has disappeared, but there are still copies around.
And if found, it would instantly free Mark.
dan friesen
Ain't gonna happen.
jordan holmes
If found.
dan friesen
It ain't gonna happen.
jordan holmes
If found is a really...
Not something that you want with exonerating evidence.
dan friesen
My friend, that report does not exist.
jordan holmes
Ah, that's a surprise.
dan friesen
I can say that with...
Almost complete certainty.
jordan holmes
I had to look up whether or not the DIA was even a real thing.
I was like, because so little of this is believable, anytime somebody says there's any agency at all, I'm going to look it up because it's like, this could not...
This could just not be true.
dan friesen
It could be a fake thing.
Yeah, absolutely.
I understand your skepticism, but you've just showed your cards that you don't know a lot about the government structure.
jordan holmes
I don't know a lot about the intelligence agencies.
dan friesen
I don't think that the DIA is something that comes up all that often.
jordan holmes
No, because it's just...
Well, I just looked it up, and it's pretty much just military intelligence.
unidentified
Right.
jordan holmes
You know, that kind of thing.
dan friesen
It's not something that's relevant to most normal conversation.
Right.
unidentified
So it makes sense that someone wouldn't know that it exists, but it does.
dan friesen
Yeah.
unidentified
That one's not made up, but the report is.
dan friesen
That is 100% made up.
jordan holmes
That's true.
dan friesen
So now we get back to this documentary maker, this British guy, and they're really grasping at straws trying to discredit him, and you'll see what I mean here in this.
kerry cassidy
See the background of KM as detailed in the investigation by Paul Collin linked above.
One of the key things about that individual is that he has a, I guess, a sex shop in Amsterdam.
Okay.
jordan holmes
That's fine.
kerry cassidy
It's very possible that that's linked to the mob and to the gay mafia, etc.
unidentified
Do what now?
kerry cassidy
And that's my conjecture, not Mark's.
dan friesen
Oops.
You should have just blamed Mark for that.
jordan holmes
Yeah, you should not have made that your own conjecture.
You could have kept that as somebody else's conjecture.
dan friesen
So does that mean that anybody who has a sex shop is conceivably in the mafia or working with the gay mafia?
jordan holmes
I really forgot this.
Okay.
dan friesen
Yes.
jordan holmes
His wife divorced him because of the mob.
dan friesen
There's a lot of vague mob shit going on that I...
jordan holmes
Was it the mob or was it the gay mafia?
dan friesen
The mob was involved in the divorce.
The gay mafia is involved in this dildo shop in Amsterdam that this documentarian may or may not run.
I didn't even care to look into that.
jordan holmes
No, I'm fine with that either way.
That doesn't have any issue.
Even if the gay mafia is involved, that doesn't bother me.
dan friesen
Is there a gay mafia?
jordan holmes
Why not?
dan friesen
Right.
jordan holmes
I know there's a 3-6 mafia, so why not have a gay one?
dan friesen
They're Academy Award winners.
jordan holmes
Absolutely.
dan friesen
I think this is a lot of bullshit, but it also is demonstrative of just how weak this argument is.
They found out that he sells dildos, maybe.
Or someone who has the same name as him runs a sex shop.
jordan holmes
Frankly, I'm going to be honest with you, I think that only raises him in my estimation.
dan friesen
It's completely moot to me.
I do not give a shit.
So look, dude, in this documentary...
This guy tracked down a number of people, like this pen pal of Mark Richards, family members of Baldwin, Mark's ex-wife, that sort of thing.
One of the other people that he tracked down was someone who used to work for Mark and did not want to talk to him.
Now this is very suspicious to Carrie.
jordan holmes
The Lindbergh baby.
unidentified
Bingo.
kerry cassidy
And one of the people KM has contacted is someone who works for Mark.
This person refused the interview and is loyal to Mark.
Mark states the only way KM could have gotten the man's name is from the side of the government involved with framing him.
This contributes to proof that KM has been tasked by them to further discredit Mark Richards and, in the process, Joanne Richards and me.
dan friesen
Can I offer an alternative explanation?
He just asked some people.
unidentified
Yeah.
dan friesen
He just asked around.
Yeah.
jordan holmes
Possible.
dan friesen
Just went to San Rafael and just started asking around with contractors.
jordan holmes
Was this his lieutenant that we referenced in his eighth or the seventh interview?
dan friesen
No, no, no.
jordan holmes
Where Mark Richards has a guy in prison who's still working for him?
dan friesen
No, no, no.
jordan holmes
Has he come back?
dan friesen
No.
jordan holmes
Did the mob kill him?
dan friesen
Probably the gay mafia.
jordan holmes
Probably the gay mafia.
dan friesen
No, he hasn't come back in the...
I think Mark got moved to a different prison.
He's not in Vacaville anymore, so he might not have his lieutenant around.
jordan holmes
Bastards.
dan friesen
But, no, he's talking about...
Carrie's talking about this...
Documentary and finding someone who used to work for him in the contracting business and doesn't want to talk to him.
They're saying that it's because he's loyal to Mark, although the alternative also is possible that he doesn't want to be involved in this, which is smart.
jordan holmes
Hey, remember that thing that happened that really fucked everything up for you and kind of made people talk to you about it over and over and over and over again?
dan friesen
Peace your past you don't want to relive?
jordan holmes
That you don't really feel like you need to have?
Can we talk to you about that?
unidentified
Sure.
jordan holmes
No?
Okay, then we're good.
dan friesen
You must be loyal to Mark.
jordan holmes
You must be loyal to him.
dan friesen
Right.
And then, yeah, the other thing is, like, just really basic journalistic, investigative journalistic skills could find out the people who worked for him.
jordan holmes
Right.
dan friesen
Like, if you go to, like, San Rafael, you go to Northern California, go around, ask some people, go to the, like, ask some relevant figures.
He talked to Mark Richards' ex-wife.
unidentified
Yeah.
dan friesen
She would know some of the people that worked for him.
unidentified
Absolutely.
dan friesen
Or at least be able to point him in the right direction to find someone who does know.
jordan holmes
And the fact that you already talked to people that have previously worked for him.
unidentified
Oh, hey, guess what?
dan friesen
He also interviewed Crossy.
jordan holmes
Who else worked with you?
dan friesen
Exactly.
jordan holmes
Oh, okay.
Thank you for giving me the name.
dan friesen
You don't have to talk to the fucking government.
It gives proof that he's in on the frame job.
jordan holmes
Yes.
dan friesen
Nonsense.
But it turns out that he is working with aliens.
unidentified
Oh, okay.
jordan holmes
Well, naturally.
kerry cassidy
It appears that K.M. is working for the Luciferian Rebellion, also known as the Reptilian Gray Draco Alliance.
dan friesen
That's unfortunate.
jordan holmes
Yeah, that Luciferian.
dan friesen
He seems like a good guy.
jordan holmes
Those are tough.
dan friesen
Oh, well.
So now we're done with the case.
And now we get to jump to the reporting.
Right.
Because, you know, Mark Richards knows shit.
And it's not like this has all got to be about the case.
Carrie's making a trip down to this goddamn prison and writing down with a dull pencil.
She's not going to just do that as, like, damage control and running interference for her number one whistleblower.
unidentified
Right.
jordan holmes
She's still got...
dan friesen
He needs to blow that whistle.
jordan holmes
He's got to have goods.
dan friesen
Exactly.
unidentified
Yeah.
dan friesen
You got to pay the piper, and that piper needs bullshit.
jordan holmes
Exactly.
dan friesen
So now we get to...
jordan holmes
And they didn't even...
See, here's the problem with KM.
They didn't even bother talking to his spaceship.
dan friesen
Oh, yeah.
jordan holmes
And the spaceship isn't held under...
Minerva's a free agent at this point.
dan friesen
But Minerva's in the wind, too.
We don't know where she is.
jordan holmes
We don't know where Minerva is?
dan friesen
God damn it!
According to Joanne Richards, it's not clear where Minerva is.
jordan holmes
Well, they got a divorce because of the mob.
dan friesen
Possibly.
So, we get to...
I would say that this first clip where we're talking Mark Richards' info, like his deep leaks, is not good.
Like, it's not that exciting.
But it is kind of blowhardy and vague.
jordan holmes
Okay, I like that.
dan friesen
And then it turns at the end.
So it's worth it for that.
But I'm not happy that this is the first one.
Because I wanted to come in with a Raptors Eat Your Chocolate.
jordan holmes
Yeah, absolutely.
dan friesen
But this is just kind of vague and stupid.
But like I said, I enjoy the end of this clip.
kerry cassidy
Mark agrees with the following concepts.
One, that there are many different timelines.
Two.
That Earth is a hologram and that this whole galaxy multiverse is in essence probably a series of holograms.
dan friesen
You see what I'm saying?
This is kind of bland, boring stuff.
unidentified
Yeah.
dan friesen
But hold on.
Hold your horses.
jordan holmes
Okay.
kerry cassidy
Humans have simultaneous incarnations and reincarnate.
Time and space are simultaneous.
unidentified
Cool.
kerry cassidy
Mark thinks that our brain...
We can assist other versions of ourselves on other timelines.
jordan holmes
Why not?
kerry cassidy
And yes, there are armies of androids in underground bases both under the U.S. and in China underground, and he has seen the Chinese androids.
dan friesen
Isn't that great?
That turn?
Isn't that amazing?
jordan holmes
Time and space are the same.
The continuum.
There are different timelines.
dan friesen
Your brain can help another version of yourself in another reality.
jordan holmes
And yes, of course, we really need to settle this.
I know everybody's been wondering.
Yes, there are androids underneath the ground in China.
dan friesen
There are.
jordan holmes
Naturally.
dan friesen
The underground area is lousy with androids.
jordan holmes
So many androids, and I've seen them!
dan friesen
Yeah.
You're right.
The way it's just like, yes.
unidentified
God, I'm sick of being asked about this.
dan friesen
Once and for all, androids underground.
jordan holmes
I saw him.
I saw him.
dan friesen
So, you know, there's a lot of people who are worried in Carrie's community and the sort of more paranoid, paranormal folk about the idea of an alien takeover of the Earth.
And I have bad news.
It's already happened.
unidentified
Oh, shit!
kerry cassidy
The takeover of planet Earth has actually already happened.
We are battling the six AIs ongoing.
We are also battling the Draco reptilians and certain species of greys directly.
The greys report to the reps.
The reps report to the Draco.
They are using AI as well.
And the trogs are also an insectoid species that are also working against us.
dan friesen
Oh, boy.
jordan holmes
When did the Trogs get in here?
dan friesen
This is tough stuff.
jordan holmes
And we are...
Man, we are busy.
dan friesen
Yeah.
jordan holmes
We're battling all six AIs.
We're battling the Luciferian Alliance.
unidentified
Right.
jordan holmes
Now we got Trogs coming in here.
I don't even know where the spiders are anymore.
dan friesen
We're going to talk about the spiders in a minute.
jordan holmes
Okay, good.
dan friesen
I mean, it's like, you know, WrestleMania is coming up this weekend.
And it's like, we're in a cage match, and it is a handicap match.
unidentified
It is.
jordan holmes
Wow.
dan friesen
We have got six AI fucking with us.
jordan holmes
Six AI!
dan friesen
And we have a clearly regimented hierarchical structure of aliens who are all against us.
jordan holmes
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
dan friesen
That's not good.
That is bad.
jordan holmes
We really need Doctor Who at this point.
We're in danger.
dan friesen
Or at least Doctor Group.
Yeah.
So to bring things...
I don't know anymore about the AI.
He doesn't say anything.
jordan holmes
I really feel like that's important.
Six AI.
Why six?
dan friesen
I'll tell you this.
It does feel important.
jordan holmes
It does feel really important!
Six AI alone are fucking with the entire species?
And they're messing with us!
dan friesen
It seems important, but it's not, apparently.
Because we don't get any clarification on it.
jordan holmes
It's just a tossed-off aside.
dan friesen
Yeah.
So taking it from the space nonsense, now we get into the terrestrial sphere and geopolitics.
So there's a lot of people who worry about our relations with the rest of the world, be it China, Russia, Iran, these sorts of places.
Turns out Mark knows what's going to happen with all three of those situations.
jordan holmes
Oh, okay.
kerry cassidy
Regarding the Iran war, yes, it is happening.
They took troops out of Syria but left the Russians in charge on the ground there.
jordan holmes
Naturally, there are androids on the ground there, too.
kerry cassidy
They're working with the Russians in this war, which is actually what I have been saying.
And the war with Iran does lead to the war with China.
jordan holmes
Of course.
kerry cassidy
And the Russians will side with the U.S. And there's more about this in the Hennock prophecies.
dan friesen
Oh, great.
A prophecy.
jordan holmes
Great.
dan friesen
The idea that Mark is just mirroring what she says is perfectly illustrated there.
I've been saying that for a long time.
You can see exactly how that conversation must have gone down.
She says these sorts of things, and then he picks up on context clues and is like, yes, absolutely, that's correct.
That's the intelligence that I've been getting from my higher-ups.
jordan holmes
Of course.
I can only corroborate exactly what you said because you are right on.
dan friesen
You are so informed, Carrie.
It's amazing.
jordan holmes
All of your sources are just as good as my sources.
dan friesen
So earlier, we got some strong indications that Mark's a bit of a racist.
Whether it's the Pendragon excluding black people, that's one thing that's not great.
jordan holmes
No.
No, I'm not a huge fan.
dan friesen
His sort of racial profiling of the clerk at Montgomery Ward, not great either.
And that's why this clip sounds a little bit suspicious to me.
jordan holmes
Okay.
kerry cassidy
Sickle cell anemia.
Reptilians are not compatible with this gene, and it would rule out any person with that code for genetic breeding, food, or even sexual purposes.
unidentified
Stop it.
kerry cassidy
They cannot feed off the black race.
Mark, you're a bad fucking dude.
jordan holmes
No need for that.
dan friesen
You know that other people get sickle cell anemia, right, or sickle cell trait disorders.
It's not uniquely.
African-American thing.
And also, by the way, it's not like...
jordan holmes
The only people who get it are people who miscegenate, which they might as well be black anyways, Dan.
dan friesen
That's not true at all.
jordan holmes
No, that's true.
dan friesen
Mark, calm down.
jordan holmes
You only know where you...
So all whites...
Mark, Mark, Mark.
Anemic?
unidentified
Mark.
jordan holmes
A white-nemic.
dan friesen
Mark.
jordan holmes
That's what I'm saying.
unidentified
Mark.
jordan holmes
We didn't land on anemia.
dan friesen
Mark.
Yeah, that to me is like real gross.
unidentified
Yeah.
dan friesen
Kind of like, well, they're not, you know, they're an other.
There's something genetically that's so different about them that the reptilians can't even breed with them or feed on them.
jordan holmes
God, why?
Why?
Why?
You could just not.
dan friesen
Well, because it's...
jordan holmes
Couldn't you just not?
dan friesen
Well, it's because he's racist.
unidentified
Right.
dan friesen
And he has a deep-seated feeling that people of different races are different.
unidentified
Yeah.
dan friesen
And so, while he creates his space mythology and all this stuff, it's a very convenient way to find some sort of an excuse inside your space mythology that justifies the racist feelings that you already have.
unidentified
Right.
dan friesen
That's all that's going on here.
And Carrie just can't see through it because she's fucking also racist.
jordan holmes
She is really, really racist.
dan friesen
And very dumb.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
dan friesen
So, you wanted to know about the spiders.
jordan holmes
I want to know about the spiders.
Did they invent the AI?
dan friesen
No.
jordan holmes
Is the AI fucking with them?
Dude.
dan friesen
From this next clip, I think that the spiders might just be big spiders.
jordan holmes
So they don't even really have any leadership.
dan friesen
I don't know.
jordan holmes
Okay.
dan friesen
All I know for sure is that Sardinia is crawling with spiders.
And there have been some reports of spiders in the northern United Kingdom.
jordan holmes
Oh, of course.
dan friesen
But here's what Carrie has to say.
jordan holmes
They were eating all the badgers.
dan friesen
Here's what Carrie has to say about the situation with spiders currently on the planet Earth.
kerry cassidy
I asked him about Sardinia because recently I was...
asked if I would lead a tour to Sardinia, because there are many ancient sites there and lots of evidence of reptilian involvement.
However, I told Mark that I have declined to go to Sardinia because when I looked at it, on a psychic, intuitive level, I saw That there were tons of spider beings and reptilians there.
And Mark said I was absolutely right.
He said he wouldn't even go there.
unidentified
Strange.
jordan holmes
He really agrees with you.
kerry cassidy
And it is true, not only in the past, but also now.
And my apologies to the people that live in Sardinia.
jordan holmes
I think it's probably a very beautiful island.
Our thoughts and prayers go out to you.
kerry cassidy
I've seen pictures of it, and I do apologize for this information, but what can you do?
unidentified
Ha ha ha ha!
Ha ha ha ha!
dan friesen
Don't shoot the messenger, Sardinian.
jordan holmes
I love that.
That is my favorite thing.
unidentified
What can you do?
jordan holmes
That is my favorite thing.
unidentified
Sardinians.
jordan holmes
Sardinians.
dan friesen
Sorry.
jordan holmes
What are you going to do?
dan friesen
I don't like being the one who has to tell you this.
It's bad news.
jordan holmes
Like the people in Sardinia have no idea.
All of a sudden they wake up and they're like...
Oh, shit.
Carrie just told me we were covered in spiders.
Time to go.
dan friesen
Yeah, got to move.
jordan holmes
Time to go.
dan friesen
So, like I said, I think that they're just spiders, and that's based on the rest of this clip.
But I knew we needed a break after that.
jordan holmes
That's too good.
kerry cassidy
Just for a comparison, from what I understand, Miles Johnston has a source that has told him that there are spider beings hiding out in the area.
In North England called the Lake District and in the tunnels there.
So that is also very disconcerting information.
dan friesen
It sure is.
So they're living in the tunnels like some sort of troll or ninja turtle.
jordan holmes
He did say spider beings, though.
dan friesen
Right.
jordan holmes
So he could just actually be talking about spiders.
dan friesen
Could be.
jordan holmes
And they do live in England.
That's a documented fact.
dan friesen
Right, but I think that it's implied that that's not worth talking about, that there are spiders places.
These are aliens.
jordan holmes
Right, but here's what...
So she apologized to the Sardinians, but it's like, look, England, that's on you.
You asked for them.
dan friesen
No, to be fair, it does seem to follow from the way she's talking about it that there's less in the UK.
That there's a ton in Sardinia.
jordan holmes
So many in Sardinia.
dan friesen
I don't fucking know, man.
I got nothing on that other than I'm sorry to the people of Sardinia as well.
jordan holmes
I'm sorry.
Sardinians.
Dude.
It's rough.
It's a tough situation.
I'm sorry that we had to be the second hand bearers of this news.
dan friesen
Absolutely.
jordan holmes
If you're a Sardinian listener of Knowledge Fight and you didn't know about...
Kerry, pronouncing that spiders are covering your land.
dan friesen
What are you going to do?
What are you going to do?
jordan holmes
Thoughts and prayers.
dan friesen
So Trump is a guy, and Mark has some thoughts about him.
jordan holmes
Oh, that's surprising.
dan friesen
Mark has been kind of pro-Trump in the past.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
dan friesen
And spoiler alert, he still is.
jordan holmes
Surprise.
dan friesen
But this is phrased weird.
kerry cassidy
The Trump administration.
They are the only ones fighting for us in the U.S. at this time.
But there is something going on right now with that administration.
dan friesen
She does not say what that is.
jordan holmes
That's it.
dan friesen
That's it.
jordan holmes
That's all we get.
dan friesen
That's it.
jordan holmes
Oh, in this case, then once again, I am going to apologize to the people of Sardinia because something bad's happening.
dan friesen
Well, but also, once again, I'll say, I agree, there is something up with this administration.
jordan holmes
Yep, yep.
dan friesen
Until you qualify what you're talking about, I'm going to go ahead and say, yep, something's up.
jordan holmes
Something's up.
dan friesen
So, this now takes a turn in a direction I could never have predicted.
jordan holmes
That's why we do Project Camelot episodes.
unidentified
Right.
jordan holmes
If it didn't take a turn into the unpredictable, what's the point?
unidentified
Right.
dan friesen
But this isn't good, unpredictable.
jordan holmes
Oh, boy.
kerry cassidy
I asked him if Kevin Spacey was set up, and Mark totally agrees that Kevin Spacey is being set up because of what he knows.
dan friesen
Now, that's just a perfect demonstration of him yes-anding her.
But also, I wonder if it's just because Space is in his name.
unidentified
Why would Carrie ask him if Kevin Spacey was set up?
jordan holmes
Is that even a thing?
dan friesen
Because he was in K-Pax?
jordan holmes
Is there a...
Well...
That actually does sound right.
dan friesen
I'm trying to think of any reason.
jordan holmes
Is that a thing online?
Are people saying?
dan friesen
It's not something that I've seen.
jordan holmes
I have not seen any conspiracy theories regarding that.
I'm pretty sure universally everybody's like, yeah, he probably did that shit.
dan friesen
Well, there's the denialists and stuff like that that'll go around, but that's just more of a...
jordan holmes
Well, people are still denying for R. Kelly, but nobody's saying that space being set him up.
dan friesen
Right, right, right.
That's the version that I don't think I've ever heard.
I've heard just a, like, who gives a shit, or this is all made up.
jordan holmes
Right, right, right.
dan friesen
But I've not heard anyone suggest that this is some sort of a he knew too much situation.
jordan holmes
It sounds like he did, though.
dan friesen
That seems crazy.
That's wild.
It also seems crazy that Carrie's asking.
jordan holmes
I don't understand that at all.
dan friesen
I do think it's just because he has space on his name.
I know that it sounds like I'm joking, but I think that's what's going on.
jordan holmes
I wouldn't be surprised, but maybe sometimes they also just shit the shit, man.
dan friesen
Yeah.
jordan holmes
Maybe they're just talking.
dan friesen
It could be.
jordan holmes
Like, maybe this is an incidental thing.
We've already talked about raptors and shit, and now we're just getting to the news of the day, which she just found out that Kevin Spacey was in trouble.
But since it took her for so long to figure out that the Spider-Man was bitten by a radioactive spider, I wouldn't be surprised if Kevin Spacey was breaking news for her.
dan friesen
Yeah, that's possible.
I don't know.
I don't know.
But you know what?
There's other news.
unidentified
Oh, yeah.
dan friesen
I'll be honest with you.
Towards the end of this, I really zoned out.
I was so bored by things that were being said that when this next clip played, it was almost like I got jostled out of the sleep or like someone threw a bucket of cold water on my face.
I was like, what the fuck?
I had to scroll back and be like, did I hear that correctly?
unidentified
Because this is the craziest shit I've ever heard.
kerry cassidy
There was a raptor wedding.
In late February, around the 28th, and Mark says this was a major wedding uniting two major raptor family lines.
unidentified
Of course.
kerry cassidy
And Mark calls it a great love story.
dan friesen
There was a raptor wedding.
jordan holmes
Did he just watch The Deer Hunter?
What is going on?
dan friesen
There was a raptor wedding, and Mark is happy for the couple.
jordan holmes
Well, it is.
It's a beautiful love story.
unidentified
Can I ask you this?
dan friesen
Why do raptors get married?
That's a human concept.
jordan holmes
What are you talking about?
Why do they get married?
dan friesen
Monogamy is not necessarily a human construct or anything like that.
That does exist in the wild and all that sort of stuff.
But the formal ceremony of marriage is something humans created.
jordan holmes
It was brought to us.
dan friesen
By the raptors.
jordan holmes
Exactly.
Boom!
Turn it around.
unidentified
Got it.
jordan holmes
How else are you going to allocate land to your family?
dan friesen
They live in space.
jordan holmes
Well, how are you going to allocate certain sectors of space?
They're going to farm.
dan friesen
Jordan, I know you're like, this is good stuff.
jordan holmes
I'm trying.
I'm trying.
dan friesen
This is stupid.
jordan holmes
I want it.
I want it.
Raptors are in love.
dan friesen
What about spiders, then?
Do they get married?
jordan holmes
Spiders can't get married.
dan friesen
Do reptilians get married?
jordan holmes
Reptilians are evil.
dan friesen
Do greys get married?
jordan holmes
Greys are evil.
dan friesen
Do Draco get married?
jordan holmes
Draco do get married.
dan friesen
What about dog beings?
jordan holmes
Dog beings?
No, they have little things.
unidentified
Mantis beings.
jordan holmes
They actually mate backwards.
Mantis beings?
No, they kill each other.
See?
The only race that makes sense to have marriage is raptors and Draco.
dan friesen
I just thought, like, outside of the context of this being an episode where we're talking about Carrie Cassidy running interference for a fucking murderer.
Right.
jordan holmes
Raptor love?
dan friesen
That's a delightful clip.
There was a raptor wedding recently.
unidentified
Why?
jordan holmes
Was he just...
Now he's just sharing news?
Now he's just sharing gossip around the...
Oh, and here's an update on Teresa, the raptor.
dan friesen
Like the socialite news page.
jordan holmes
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Ridiculous.
Raptors were spotted getting married on Tuesday.
unidentified
Blind item.
dan friesen
So we learned a little bit of human celebrity news with Kevin Spacey.
jordan holmes
Right.
Now we know that raptors got married, solidifying an alliance between two major raptor families, which, heretofore, we did not know that they were separated into families.
unidentified
No.
dan friesen
And now we jump back to human celebrities.
jordan holmes
Okay.
dan friesen
Because there was a death.
jordan holmes
Kevin Sorbo.
dan friesen
No.
Oh, okay.
There was a death in the celebrity world not too long back, and Carrie wants to know about it.
kerry cassidy
Regarding Jan Michael Vincent, the actor, he was a close friend of Mark's and died of alcoholism because he had seen too much, knew too much, and couldn't handle it.
Mark had the utmost respect for him and misses him.
dan friesen
So, Jan Michael Vincent.
jordan holmes
Mark was friends with Jan Michael Vincent?
dan friesen
Apparently.
jordan holmes
That is definitely one of those, this guy is just going to lie about fucking whatever.
dan friesen
Yeah.
jordan holmes
There is no benefit to be gained from calling yourself a Jan Michael Vincent friend.
dan friesen
Yeah.
No, I mean, there's something to be gained, I suppose.
You look cool.
jordan holmes
Cread with the Jan Michael Vincent fans?
dan friesen
Yeah.
jordan holmes
The Jan heads?
dan friesen
Airwolf fans?
jordan holmes
Airwolf?
Yeah.
Maybe he just watched Airwolf as a kid.
dan friesen
Or in prison.
jordan holmes
Or in prison.
dan friesen
They got TVs in there and shit.
jordan holmes
They do.
dan friesen
But, I mean, at least that's current.
Like, he died on the 10th of February, so that's pretty close to when Carrie was going and doing this interview.
That would make sense that Mark would want to lie about being friends with him.
That's cool.
jordan holmes
Is that cool?
dan friesen
Yeah, it's real cool.
jordan holmes
It's real cool.
dan friesen
Also real, not true.
So here we have the last clip where Carrie, this is how she ends the episode, and I think that she's giving her audience advice that will work against her best interests.
jordan holmes
No, that's not good.
kerry cassidy
I want to thank you for watching and for listening and for supporting the work of Project Camelot.
Take care and please use discernment and do your own investigation.
Thank you and good night.
jordan holmes
Good night, Carrie!
dan friesen
The idea of saying you should do your own research is only going to lead people to realize that she's full of shit and doesn't know anything.
jordan holmes
Right.
dan friesen
So I would advise her against telling people to research things.
jordan holmes
That's a bad idea.
dan friesen
Although that's a bad look.
You don't want to be a truth teller and a truth seeker kind of person and be like, don't look into this.
jordan holmes
No, don't worry about it.
dan friesen
Don't worry about it.
jordan holmes
Don't worry about it.
We've all been there.
dan friesen
I got this covered.
jordan holmes
Yeah!
Come on, trust me!
Trust me!
dan friesen
Trust me, trust me!
So I think it's super weird that Carrie decided to even get into any of the specifics of Mark's case because she has such a poor grasp on...
The details of the case, what's going on, the way that she articulates her interactions with him are so parallel to that police interview.
It opens up a can of worms where it really reveals how manipulated she is by him and how willing of a participant she is in that manipulation along with him.
So I just think it's a real stupid game to play.
It's a dumb gambit.
jordan holmes
It's a little...
Like, disconcerting, because it's almost like she's in a one-woman cult.
dan friesen
Two-woman, because his wife.
jordan holmes
Oh, that's right.
Because his wife is there, too.
But yeah, it is a little bit like...
dan friesen
Yeah.
jordan holmes
You are full-on willing to do anything to justify what it is that he is telling you.
dan friesen
Well, and Simon Parks, too.
Her friend Simon Parks, who talks to mantis beings.
He's also in that cult.
jordan holmes
He's in?
dan friesen
As best I can tell, it's like a three-person dance.
Because, yeah, even in the trailer for that docuseries that that guy is making, that K.M. is making...
Yeah.
He has some interviews with people who are into the UFO communities and stuff like that, and they're like, it does a really great disservice to people who are trying to actually look into these things for people to just pass off.
jordan holmes
To just trust a murderer.
dan friesen
Well, I mean, I don't think they put it that way, but charlatanry and stuff like that.
I think there's a fair point there.
I think that's a salient point.
So even the mainstream...
Quote-unquote serious UFO folks don't like Mark.
jordan holmes
Of course not.
dan friesen
So, yeah, she is sort of in a world of her own.
Yeah.
And I think that drawing attention to it makes her look so much worse.
So when she does draw attention to it, it just seems like, this is stupid, you shouldn't do that.
But you can only hide for so long.
I mean, like five years ago, most people weren't talking about him.
jordan holmes
That's what I was going to say, yeah.
dan friesen
And now, not that a lot of people are, but more people are aware of his story and the fact that he's a fucking murderer, and it's hilarious.
The fact that he's transitioned into this guy who's like, I know the raptors, they get married, they take your chocolate, they're fighting against other beings and beetles down in Vietnam and all wars are really just about Stargates and all this stuff.
It's pretty funny on some level when you uncouple it from the fact that he is the kind of guy who would manipulate a 17-year-old into murdering a guy who was in his wedding.
And tell him, finish the job with a screwdriver.
You forget about that part, hilarious.
You keep that part in, still kind of funny, but also very upsetting.
jordan holmes
And tragic.
There is a certain amount of parallel here with AJ, too, in that it's like...
dan friesen
Don't fucking call him AJ.
jordan holmes
Ah, come on.
I was trying it out.
I was having some fun.
dan friesen
I thought you were talking about Benza.
jordan holmes
No.
In that...
Because of the popularity, like, she's running this scam.
And the goal, really, for these types of scams is to keep them contained.
dan friesen
Right.
jordan holmes
And once it starts getting out and you start getting attention, you're fucked up.
unidentified
You lose control a little bit.
jordan holmes
Yeah, and you can't do it.
And so you wind up making bad decisions, like trying to actually defend him.
dan friesen
Right.
jordan holmes
You know?
dan friesen
That's foolish.
unidentified
Yeah.
dan friesen
But the difference is, I think, that Alex got paid, and I don't know if Carrie did.
jordan holmes
Ah, I doubt she did.
dan friesen
Well, at least not on the level of it.
jordan holmes
Right, right, right.
dan friesen
And I don't think that she's necessarily responsible for the overexposure of Mark.
jordan holmes
No, I absolutely agree.
But she's part of it.
dan friesen
She is.
She is.
I think it's just a natural thing that's going to come out because it's an awesome story.
jordan holmes
Yeah, that's true.
dan friesen
You know, like the idea of...
As long as a couple people...
Start talking about the idea that there's this guy who got these kids who worked for him to murder a guy.
Then he went to prison and started a career in fan fiction.
Or space fan fiction that he's presenting as real.
And also, before he went to prison, he was going to take over Moraine County with lasers that were going to destroy bridges and these kids were going to be knights of his round table.
It's too good of a story for people to not...
Like, enjoy.
jordan holmes
Oh, yeah.
dan friesen
Or look into or pay attention to.
So you reach a critical mass once enough people are looking at the story that, like, it's almost destined to blow up if you're trying to pretend it's real.
jordan holmes
Oh, of course.
It's too good.
How many documentaries have you watched on Netflix with way less interesting stories than this and you're still like, this is a pretty good documentary?
dan friesen
Yeah, I watched three episodes of The Staircase or whatever before I turned it off.
I'm sure maybe it gets good.
I don't know.
I'm sorry.
jordan holmes
Not important.
dan friesen
Right.
jordan holmes
This is not the time to litigate the staircase.
dan friesen
Someone could make an amazing series.
And this guy is doing that.
This KM guy is doing probably what will be an amazing series about this story.
And part of the story now is that Carrie is a victim of Mark's manipulation willingly and also...
Defensively.
jordan holmes
Man, surprised we didn't even have the thought to make a documentary.
We should have got there first.
dan friesen
I did have the thought, but that's not nearly within the scope of what I could do.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
dan friesen
We could call a guy.
We need a team.
jordan holmes
We could call a contracting service.
dan friesen
Call Larry Nichols.
unidentified
Ah.
jordan holmes
We wouldn't be able to know the name of the contracting service, though.
It's not really named.
dan friesen
You know how much that would cost, though, too?
We don't have nearly the money.
jordan holmes
Ah, we could find...
We put together a pitch, we get the money.
dan friesen
We could pretend.
That we need to pay back a repatriation.
jordan holmes
Yeah, everybody listening to Knowledge Fight right now, really go to the Patreon.
We need $2,500 by tomorrow.
Otherwise, the government's going to send us back.
dan friesen
The government took me out of Eastern Europe.
So that brings us to the end of this.
I think we've learned a bit.
Mostly, the carry is very dumb.
jordan holmes
Very.
dan friesen
But I guess we didn't learn that.
jordan holmes
No.
dan friesen
But we did learn about repatriation loans.
jordan holmes
I suppose this is dumb in more of a concentrated evil way than it has been previous.
We started out...
Very hard with her justifying a murder.
dan friesen
But I think that she hasn't read that interview with the detectives.
I think she hasn't looked at the court records or anything like that, but is pretending that she did.
And I think that that is evil in negligence.
But I think that she's merely pretending that she has this information in her mind.
If she does have that information and she still believes this shit, then that's fucking awful.
But I still think that she's bluffing about what she's actually looked at.
You think so?
jordan holmes
I don't know, because I wouldn't be surprised if she did read all that information and just summarily dismiss it as...
I doubt she read the 131 page.
dan friesen
If you read that, you cannot imagine for a second that he's not a huge liar.
jordan holmes
I don't think she read that.
But I wouldn't be surprised if she dismissed all of the court records and shit as being, oh, it's just a railroad job and I don't even need to worry about it.
dan friesen
Yeah, perhaps.
But if so, then that's still negligent as fuck.
I mean, because you're defending a murderer without having read the evidence.
jordan holmes
And evil, yeah.
dan friesen
Yeah.
Anyway, we have a website.
jordan holmes
We do.
It's knowledgefight.com.
dan friesen
Correct.
We'll be back on Monday with a new episode, but we're also on Twitter.
jordan holmes
We are.
It's at knowledge underscore fight.
unidentified
Correct.
jordan holmes
And I'm at go to bed Jordan.
dan friesen
Right.
jordan holmes
Absolutely.
dan friesen
Isn't it interesting?
You started a Twitter and I got rid of my Twitter.
Yeah.
Fairly close to the same time.
jordan holmes
Inverse, yes.
dan friesen
We're also on Facebook.
jordan holmes
We are indeed.
dan friesen
And we're on iTunes.
jordan holmes
We've got a group called Go Home and Tell Your Mother You're Brilliant.
dan friesen
Yep, we're on iTunes.
jordan holmes
We are.
dan friesen
Rate, review, subscribe, all that good stuff.
jordan holmes
Do it all!
dan friesen
So, I would say, I mean, I guess I know that this Andrew, that guy didn't kill anybody.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
dan friesen
I mean, he was involved in the plot, so I'm not going to...
jordan holmes
I would go with KM.
KM didn't kill anybody.
dan friesen
We don't know that.
He does run a sex shop in Amsterdam.
jordan holmes
That's true.
That's true.
Peter Falk didn't kill anybody.
Not even in the Falklands.
Are you looking up whether or not Peter Falk killed somebody?
dan friesen
I am.
unidentified
Oh no.
jordan holmes
That would be the weirdest news.
unidentified
The good people of Sardinia.
jordan holmes
Again, apologies.
dan friesen
Most of them.
I mean, I'm sure some Sardinians have killed people.
unidentified
Well, naturally.
dan friesen
Most of the population of Sardinia never killed anybody.
jordan holmes
About to be eaten by spiders, too.
So that's a bummer.
dan friesen
But one guy who technically, not probably, absolutely killed somebody is Mark Richards.
alex jones
Andy in Kansas, you're on the air.
dan friesen
Thanks for holding.
unidentified
Hello, Alex.
jordan holmes
I'm a first-time caller.
unidentified
I'm a huge fan.
I love your work.
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