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Sept. 2, 2020 - Knowledge Fight
01:38:10
#476: Moon Colonies Part 2

Today, Dan and Jordan attempt to take a Wacky Wednesday break by looking into a possible show featuring space weirdos. In this installment, the gents learn a little more about the first space captain they met, and discover the physical state of souls.

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d
dan friesen
41:41
j
jordan holmes
20:07
r
randy cramer
27:03
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alex jones
00:02
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unidentified
I'm sick of them posing as if they're the good guys saying we are the bad guys.
Knowledge fight.
Dan and Jordan.
Knowledge fight.
Need money.
Andy in Kansas.
alex jones
Andy in Kansas.
unidentified
Stop it.
Andy in Kansas.
dan friesen
Andy in Kansas.
unidentified
It's time to pray.
Andy in Kansas.
dan friesen
You're on the air.
unidentified
Thanks for holding us.
I'm a first time caller, I'm a huge fan.
I love your word.
Knowledge Fight.
KnowledgeFight.com 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
Indeed we are.
Dan.
dan friesen
Jordan.
unidentified
Dan!
dan friesen
Jordan.
jordan holmes
Quick question for you.
unidentified
What's up?
jordan holmes
What's your bright spot today?
dan friesen
Well, not plant-related, but I was at the store the other day.
jordan holmes
Take it back.
dan friesen
I was at the grocery store feeling down, and I looked over to my left, looked over to my right, and what did I see on the salad dressing aisle?
But Italian dressing from Olive Garden.
unidentified
Yep.
Yep.
dan friesen
And so I bought some.
jordan holmes
It's really good.
unidentified
It's great.
jordan holmes
Of course it is.
Of course you love it.
Of course you love it.
dan friesen
I haven't been to Olive Garden in forever.
It's been a very long time.
I don't think it's probably actually even that good.
jordan holmes
No, of course not.
dan friesen
But there's just something about that.
jordan holmes
Yeah, it's childhood.
dan friesen
No, it's not.
I never went to Olive Garden as a child.
jordan holmes
You never went to Olive Garden as a child?
dan friesen
The first time I went probably was like when I was 18, 19. Oh, man.
jordan holmes
Wow.
I thought the dressing backdoored because of the free breadsticks.
That's the only reason people wind up liking that.
dan friesen
No, we went to like Fazoli's generally when I was in high school for the free breadsticks.
They were easier to scam.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
dan friesen
Because at Olive Garden you'd still have to buy something.
jordan holmes
That's true, that's true.
dan friesen
At Fazoli's you could just buy a drink.
jordan holmes
Ooh, and still get free breadsticks.
Oh, well that's thievery.
dan friesen
I mean, we were in high school.
We're poor, we want some breadsticks.
jordan holmes
You need breadsticks.
Sometimes.
dan friesen
Yeah, so I want to drink this Italian dressing, quite frankly.
So yeah, I've been going crazy with Italian dressing.
jordan holmes
All right, I like it.
dan friesen
How about you?
jordan holmes
My bright spot is, Dan, you know, I've talked about music in the past.
I kind of like it.
I was listening to music, and then I came upon Sigur Rós once more, and I was listening to the Sigur Rós, and I remember that the greatest concert that I've ever been to was when I was 18. I went and saw them at the Chicago Theater.
dan friesen
Around about the time I got some Olive Garden.
jordan holmes
It was on the TAC tour after they just released the album.
Incredible.
Greatest concert of my life.
It's my bright spot because as you know...
Thank you.
dan friesen
Thank you.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
dan friesen
And got some interesting situation going on here.
jordan holmes
All right.
dan friesen
So I went to Project Camelot's YouTube page.
unidentified
Of course.
dan friesen
Because I'm constantly just being like, come back.
unidentified
Maybe.
Maybe today.
jordan holmes
Maybe today's the day.
Maybe she's like, this paywall thing isn't working.
I got to go back to YouTube.
dan friesen
I think it might not be working.
Because the last two, there's two new episodes.
jordan holmes
Both released for free.
dan friesen
But they weren't on topics that I think are interesting at all.
But that is a sign that maybe the next time she goes and talks to Mark Richards, we might still have access to it.
jordan holmes
That's going to be YouTube for sure.
dan friesen
I would think so.
jordan holmes
Yeah, it's got to be.
dan friesen
And actually today, thankfully, I was looking at our email, and I'd gotten an email from Robert W. And he'd sent in a little bit of a suggestion for something to fill the gap.
of Project Camelot.
unidentified
All right.
dan friesen
And that is a show called Unexplained with Howard Hughes.
jordan holmes
Okay.
unidentified
Howard Hughes?
jordan holmes
But it's a different Howard Hughes than the Spruce.
goose guy.
What happened to him?
Is he okay?
dan friesen
Hey, bad news.
He's hanging out with John DeGrant.
Oh, no.
So, Robert had sent me this recommendation, and I was scrolling through the people who have been guests on this show.
Sure.
unidentified
Out of the UK.
dan friesen
Real cool British announcer guy.
And there's some people like John Rappaport.
There's some people like Gerald Salente.
jordan holmes
Gotta have him.
dan friesen
There's some InfoWars adjacency here.
jordan holmes
We've been all over.
dan friesen
There's some David Icke on there, too.
Of course, any weirdo show you have, David Icke's gonna show up eventually.
But I found one episode that I thought, like, I've never listened to this guy.
I don't know his product.
I don't know anything about this.
If we're going to do a trial balloon episode, this will be the one.
It's not Mark Richards.
jordan holmes
I hope not.
dan friesen
No, he has not, uh, from the UK, been able to...
jordan holmes
Are they giving him Skype access now?
I don't think that's good.
dan friesen
No.
Um, so we're gonna get into this, but before we do, we gotta take a little moment to say thank you to some folks who have signed up and are supporting the show.
jordan holmes
Oh, I think that's a great idea.
dan friesen
Yeah, so first, Paul F. Thank you so much.
You are now a policy wonk.
unidentified
I'm a policy wonk.
jordan holmes
Thanks, Paul!
dan friesen
Thank you.
Next, uh, Tyler Raymond B. Thank you so much.
You are now a policy wonk.
unidentified
I'm a policy wonk.
jordan holmes
Thank you very much, Tyler.
dan friesen
Thank you.
Next, uh, Freeze Frame.
Thank you so much.
You are now a policy wonk.
unidentified
I'm a policy wonk.
jordan holmes
Thank you very much.
Freeze frame.
dan friesen
It's like that song.
unidentified
Yep.
jordan holmes
It is like that song.
dan friesen
Next, Michael P. Thank you so much.
You're now a policy wonk.
unidentified
I'm a policy wonk.
jordan holmes
Thank you very much, Michael!
dan friesen
Next, Josh M. Thank you so much.
You're now a policy wonk.
unidentified
I'm a policy wonk.
jordan holmes
Thanks, Josh!
dan friesen
Next, Nick Smash, and it's N-I-C-C Smash.
Thank you so much.
You're now a policy wonk.
unidentified
I'm a policy wonk.
jordan holmes
Thank you very much, Nick Smash.
dan friesen
Next, Angus I. Thank you so much.
You're now a policy wonk.
unidentified
I'm a policy wonk.
jordan holmes
Thank you very much, Angus I. That's like a Robert shit.
Now I can't remember his name.
Oh man, my English literature is falling apart.
No, it's not rubber.
It's Scottish.
God damn it.
I'm a failure.
Anyways, that would be the name of one of his poems.
Angus, I. If I had gotten there first, it would have been...
Joyce didn't write poetry.
God damn it.
unidentified
Yeah, he did.
dan friesen
Secretly.
unidentified
Well, his greatest poem was Angus, I. That's right.
jordan holmes
Yep.
dan friesen
Finally, Denver Lodge.
Thank you so much.
You're now a policy wonk.
unidentified
I'm a policy wonk.
jordan holmes
Thank you very much, Denver Lodge.
dan friesen
Thank you.
If you're listening out there and you're thinking, hey, I enjoyed the show, I'd like to support these gents too, you can do that by going to our website, knowledgefait.com, clicking the button that says support the show, we would appreciate it.
jordan holmes
Yes, thank you very much.
dan friesen
Burn!
unidentified
Or...
jordan holmes
Robert Burns!
dan friesen
Nailed it.
jordan holmes
God damn it.
Anyways, we can continue.
dan friesen
Okay.
If you, you know, if you're feeling generous and you maybe don't want to support the show, that's what you should do, probably, is...
Write a poem.
unidentified
Uh-huh.
jordan holmes
I was going to say.
dan friesen
Attribute it to Robert Burns.
jordan holmes
Naturally.
dan friesen
Sell it at auction.
unidentified
Name it.
dan friesen
Give the money to charity.
jordan holmes
Of course.
unidentified
Yeah.
dan friesen
Give the charity in your area that's helping support people in need.
So, Jordan, before we get to today's episode, yep, got to look in the mailbag.
jordan holmes
All right.
dan friesen
First, virtual mailbag.
jordan holmes
Uh-huh.
dan friesen
I mentioned on our last episode that I got really bummed out because the website for Jelly Belly, they didn't allow you to buy seltzers.
No, of course not.
And policy wonk Evan.
I commented on Facebook that they were all available at a local Juul here in Chicago.
jordan holmes
Because of course they would be.
dan friesen
And so I got the Seltzer Mobile out, which is a lift.
And I went over to that Juul immediately, and I bought all eight flavors.
jordan holmes
Of course you did!
dan friesen
I have tried a number of them, and they're fine.
jordan holmes
They're fine?
dan friesen
Yeah, they're pretty good.
jordan holmes
I think that's better than I would have expected.
dan friesen
They're candy.
So you'd think they'd be sweet.
They're really not.
No.
It's strange.
There's even like an orange sherbet flavor.
It's not really overly sweet.
jordan holmes
No.
dan friesen
It's pretty subtle.
jordan holmes
Do they go like the Jelly Belly route and get like actual buttered popcorn?
unidentified
No, no, no.
jordan holmes
See, now that's what I want from a Jelly Belly.
dan friesen
That would be disgusting.
No, of course it would be.
There's like grapefruit, tangerine, very cherry.
jordan holmes
Very cherry.
dan friesen
Vanilla, pina colada.
jordan holmes
Of course.
dan friesen
A couple others.
unidentified
All right.
dan friesen
Orange sherbet and pina colada are probably as rangy as it gets.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
dan friesen
But one of the cool things.
I'm excited to try since they force you to buy.
You can't just buy a single.
The thing that I want to do is mix them.
Like vanilla and cherry.
jordan holmes
See if we can make a nice little cream soda cherry.
dan friesen
Something like that.
I appreciate that in the digital mailbag.
But from the actual mailbag, got a nice little thing from Paul in Austin.
Sent over some other seltzers as well.
Some Austin seltzers that look really great.
I'm excited to try them.
I've not had a chance yet.
Just got this in.
But one of them is called the Party Pickle.
unidentified
Okay.
dan friesen
And I'm not excited about that.
jordan holmes
No, that seems like the only one I want to taste.
dan friesen
It's a pickle-flavored seltzer.
jordan holmes
Yeah, and it's a party.
dan friesen
And it's this brand, Big Swig, right?
All the other cans from this company, normal-sized.
Party pickle, tall boy.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
dan friesen
They're not booze, either.
jordan holmes
What, are you going to drink a normal-sized seltzer at a party?
No, you're going to pickle it up.
dan friesen
Maybe not.
I don't know.
jordan holmes
Okay, that's fair.
dan friesen
Maybe I just want a taste of the pickled seltzer.
And also, Paul sent us a couple shirts.
jordan holmes
Oh, okay.
dan friesen
So I want you to take a look at this here shirt and see what you think about it, because it's a little bit cool.
If you see this shirt, it is a guy blowing an armadillo.
jordan holmes
It really does seem like it's a guy blowing an armadillo, and I've been staring at it for a while trying to think of any other thing that it could be.
dan friesen
I think that's probably what it is.
It says, keep Austin weird.
jordan holmes
It does.
dan friesen
Yeah.
jordan holmes
And I think blowing an armadillo would do that.
dan friesen
I like that the tradition of listeners sending me shirts that I will never wear in public has continued, but thank you, Paul.
unidentified
No, no, no.
jordan holmes
Have you guys seen that guy who wears the blowing an armadillo shirt?
He's a really cool guy.
He's in a coffee shop all the time.
dan friesen
A lot of fun working out at home shirts from our listeners, but thank you, Paul.
jordan holmes
Yes, thank you very much.
dan friesen
So, unzip.
Wait.
Re-zip?
jordan holmes
Whatever.
unidentified
Re-unzip.
dan friesen
All right.
jordan holmes
De-zip.
dan friesen
Sure.
jordan holmes
Okay.
dan friesen
So, Jordan, I don't know anything about Howard Hughes.
jordan holmes
Of course.
dan friesen
The guy who hosts this show.
unidentified
Right.
dan friesen
I know nothing about him.
I was trying to come into this with no idea what I'm looking at.
Yeah.
jordan holmes
Fresh eyes.
dan friesen
Because I want to consider this a possible candidate for us to look at and understand more about.
And I, first of all...
I think this guy is incredibly charming right off the bat.
jordan holmes
Okay, well that's great.
dan friesen
This show opens, I'm like, first of all, his voice, fun.
jordan holmes
Okay.
dan friesen
Second, like, it's just, I mean, listen to this.
This guy sounds nice.
randy cramer
Across the UK, across continental North America, and around the world, on the internet, by webcast, and by podcast, my name is Howard Hughes, and this is The Return of the Unexplained.
Greetings from springtime in London.
As I said those words, a little burst of sunshine came through my window, which is a bit of a rarity these days.
It's been like a kind of mini winter for the last two weeks here, but nice to see that things may be moving in the right direction.
But I know some of you don't like me giving weather reports from London, so we won't dwell on that.
Actually, quite a few of you do, but that's a whole other topic.
dan friesen
What fun!
unidentified
What fun!
jordan holmes
Have you told me a narrative arc of, like, the fourth Doctor?
He became a radio host for a while.
I would buy it and it would be this show.
dan friesen
I find it so charming that he opens the show talking about the weather and then gets self-conscious and is like, some of you don't like me talking about the weather.
But you know what?
Some of you do.
Ah, great!
jordan holmes
I like it.
I like it.
Off the jump, he's kind of, I'm on his team so far.
dan friesen
Very human.
jordan holmes
Yes.
dan friesen
And so we get to, in this next clip, he pretty quickly introduces who the guest is.
And you'll see why I chose this.
randy cramer
Captain Randy Kramer.
jordan holmes
Okay.
randy cramer
You've been on the show, and it took a little bit of time to get it together, but we've got him on this edition.
Captain Randy Kramer claims that he is part of a secret force that is already exploring and part of Mars.
You'll hear the whole story here.
dan friesen
There's a misconception that some people have because of our fascination with Mark Richards.
That Mark Richards was the first episode of Project Camelot that we looked at.
When in reality, the first episode we did had to do with...
Captain Randy Kramer.
jordan holmes
We stuck with captains.
Captains are for space weirdos.
Lieutenant colonels are for gun weirdos.
dan friesen
Yeah, for secret sources.
jordan holmes
Yeah, yeah.
dan friesen
So, yeah, we got Randy Kramer in here.
I figured, like, if this is going to be something we look at, at least as a candidate, the first episode's gotta be Randy Kramer.
If you want us to cover your product on our show...
jordan holmes
Put Randy Kramer in it.
dan friesen
You have to book Randy Kramer.
jordan holmes
Jelly Belly is making a Randy Kramer-flavored seltzer.
dan friesen
Randy, of course, is the guy who was fighting aliens on Mars and the moon and had the holographic medbeds that he was trying to kickstart for a while.
So, we'll get into some more of that, but that's who he is.
I believe our original episode of him was called, like, Mars Colonies?
unidentified
Yes.
dan friesen
Mars Bases?
jordan holmes
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
dan friesen
You can find that in the archives.
jordan holmes
It's fantastic.
dan friesen
So, Howard starts out the show before the interview with giving, like, I really...
This guy is charming.
jordan holmes
Okay!
randy cramer
Graham says he's 40 miles from Papa Caterpillar 10...
dan friesen
He's reading an email from a listener.
jordan holmes
Okay.
randy cramer
10 miles from the Great Pyramid of Cholula and 15 miles from the town of Atlaxco.
He says, the reason I mention this is because ever since I moved here 24 years ago, many people say there have been sightings of alien ships at these places.
I've been to all of them, and I haven't seen any sightings.
It's plausible that aliens, if they exist, visit Popocatapetl and the Great Pyramid.
But Atlaxco, he says, all that town is known for is the meat market, the local ice cream and the garden centers.
Who knows?
Maybe there's a big shortage of ice cream on Alpha Centauri.
Who knows?
jordan holmes
It's just like if BBC4 had a show where they're just like, yeah, aliens are real.
I'm fine with that.
dan friesen
Let's move on.
I love it.
I don't feel like at this point, if you're listening to this, I don't feel like I've heard an editorial decision from the anchor.
unidentified
Agreed.
dan friesen
Like Howard...
The way he responds to that is jovial and jokey, kind of.
That's not saying...
Oh, yeah, the aliens must be coming there because they like ice cream.
jordan holmes
See, and now we're getting into trouble.
I've just been burned too much.
I've just been burned too much.
Because we haven't heard any editorial decision, I'm still on edge.
Like, my hackles are raised.
Because it's like, when are you going to say something about how you hate Jews?
dan friesen
Where does the bomb drop?
jordan holmes
When is it going to happen?
Yeah, yeah, when is it going to happen?
dan friesen
And that's the problem, is it may not.
We don't know.
jordan holmes
What if he doesn't hate Jews?
What do we even do?
That's like a unicorn.
dan friesen
How do we fit that into the conception?
Exactly.
He's actually just pure space weirdo?
jordan holmes
Is he some pure space weirdo?
dan friesen
Oh, could be.
jordan holmes
Oh, God, I'd say, yeah, it'd be amazing.
dan friesen
Now, in addition to having some listeners who like the meat market and the ice cream down in New Mexico.
jordan holmes
It's fantastic.
dan friesen
Yeah, also have some listeners in Canada.
And again, this charmed me to no end.
randy cramer
Jonathan in Mississauga, Ontario.
I've always loved that name, Mississauga.
jordan holmes
Oh, you're so in love with him.
randy cramer
And I love it when they say, Some of the great place names in Canada, like Yellowknife and Mississauga.
You know, one of these days I want to come to Canada.
But anyway, let me get to the email.
dan friesen
Yeah.
jordan holmes
You and I have had the same conversation about Ouagadougou.
dan friesen
Sure.
jordan holmes
This is word for word.
You being like, I just love the way certain names are pronounced.
unidentified
Antananarizo?
jordan holmes
Yeah, exactly.
dan friesen
Capital Madagascar?
jordan holmes
Yeah, yeah.
This is fantastic.
I'm enjoying this.
dan friesen
So, he's done the business up top.
He's talked to a couple of emails.
We've learned he loves the name Mississauga.
jordan holmes
Who doesn't?
dan friesen
And so now it's time to introduce Captain Kramer.
randy cramer
We are fascinated by the red planet.
Mars is a place that we are actively making plans to visit.
There are private companies doing that.
There are plans by NASA and others to explore the red planet more.
And maybe to terraform Mars, in other words, to turn it into an environment that you could live on, to be able to turn the red dust into something that you grow things on.
It's not science fiction anymore.
And it's all in the pipeline.
It's stuff that we dreamt about when we were kids, and now seems to be coming for real.
It's coming reality.
We're actually, a lot of us, going to live to see this.
But there's another perspective on all of this.
What if I told you that there are people who say that we have been to Mars, we're actively involved in Mars, and we have a team of people who are explorers of Mars already?
jordan holmes
I'd say you were full of shit.
randy cramer
Captain Randy Kramer, he claims to have spent 17 years on Mars and three years on a secret space fleet as part of explorations.
dan friesen
So he claims to be, as opposed to he did do this.
This guy?
It's already different framing.
You can tell there's a sense of it that is like, well, this is what he says.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
dan friesen
And the editorial position is still unestablished, even as we're coming in.
And you can see craft.
You can see a bit of like...
jordan holmes
Like what I wrote down was someone wrote something?
dan friesen
Yeah.
jordan holmes
Slash someone involved...
Preparation.
dan friesen
This is wild.
There's a bit of care that is clearly put into the product here.
Unprecedented.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
dan friesen
So when you hear, like, Randy Kramer on Project Camelot, it's just like, ah, hey, bloop, blop, Skype's breaking up.
This is one of the most important whistleblowers of all time.
jordan holmes
We've heard that this guy is the best, I believe, everything that he's ever said, even though a lot of it contradicts some of the people.
Yeah.
dan friesen
So, at the outset, we have a charming British man who likes sitting and can make jokes about aliens like an ice cream.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
dan friesen
And he apparently, at this point at least, doesn't seem to be pushing.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
dan friesen
For this person to be credible or correct.
jordan holmes
Totally.
dan friesen
Which I appreciate, because it's very uncommon for us.
jordan holmes
See, once again, I'm feeling like this is a honeypot.
This is a trap somehow.
Like, this guy only started three years ago after listening to our first episode.
It was like, someday.
dan friesen
No, I think he has a couple, I think he might have like 400 episodes.
unidentified
Goddamn.
dan friesen
Yeah, he's been a while.
jordan holmes
Okay.
dan friesen
So here comes Randy, and he's going to tell his little story about how he was bred to be a super soldier.
unidentified
Okay.
randy cramer
Can I call you Captain Randy Kramer or Randy?
Randy's just fine.
Randy, thanks very much for coming on.
Talk to me about you then.
What's your background?
Oh, well, I guess if you're asking about my military background, I am literally born out of a project that was dreamt up in the mid-60s.
To augment and or create from scratch genetically augmented soldiers.
dan friesen
So he was in the military before he was even born.
jordan holmes
Well, of course he was.
dan friesen
Yes.
I like that.
I mean, Howard's being polite.
Do I call you Randy, Captain Kramer?
jordan holmes
Look, I think this is because we're American.
But when he said, can I call you Captain Randy or just Randy?
I want to say that was a really deep insult right there.
Like, there was something...
Can I call you Captain Randy?
dan friesen
Right.
jordan holmes
Because it's not, can I call you Randy, comma, Captain Randy.
It's, can I call you Captain Randy?
Such as to say that I'm kind of treating you as a novelty.
Can I call you Captain Randy?
Because no one else will.
Do you know what I'm saying?
dan friesen
It's interesting.
It's kind of tough to read sometimes the ways in which politeness can be used as a weapon.
jordan holmes
Yeah, exactly.
No, no, no.
I don't trust British people.
I know you're using...
They're sneaky.
dan friesen
Sneaky Brits.
So, military people realized, at a certain point, that they had this alien technology, right?
They'd gotten this from crafts and what have you.
jordan holmes
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
dan friesen
And they were trying to use it on soldiers, right?
randy cramer
Because why wouldn't you?
unidentified
Right.
dan friesen
But they kept finding out, it doesn't work.
You gotta do it with babies or something.
jordan holmes
Sure!
dan friesen
You've gotta breed super soldiers.
randy cramer
Well, we certainly, at that time, were...
Cracking a number of different books and...
Tables of information from extraterrestrial sources and extraterrestrial technology that was giving us jumps ahead of civilian technology and civilian research and development.
So the ability for the military to start doing genetic experiments ahead of what anything in the civilian world was was due to that, to advanced technology infused within those programs that gave us the leap ahead.
Once we had access to that technology, people wanted to figure out how to use it.
And so the first thing to do was try and figure out how to augment who you've already got.
We had enough tests with that and realized that it was minimally effective, that you really just had to do what some of the ETs were telling us that we needed to do who were working with us, including scientists who were coming down, working in our labs on the ground, on terrestrial soil with us, to advise us, no, you really want to do this right.
You've got to start from the ground up, and you've got to build the chain and build a map and start from the beginning, and don't try and do it later on.
dan friesen
So you can hear at the end, though, that there is the desire to ask follow-up questions, which runs throughout, which, again, I appreciate.
But yeah, so we had this tech, and you couldn't use it with existing soldiers, so you had to sort of genetically alter and create people who could use this tech or whatever.
jordan holmes
I want to say everything tracks there, for the most part.
dan friesen
If you accept a premise, then the offshoot at least makes sense from where you're starting.
jordan holmes
Everything was going great up until he was like, well, we had this alien technology, so they were like, let's just use it on the guys we have.
That was their first option?
Just like, hey, we got this alien tech.
unidentified
I don't know.
jordan holmes
Frank's not busy.
dan friesen
Sure.
jordan holmes
Let's toss it on him.
Let's see what happens.
They didn't try it on...
dan friesen
It does make sense.
jordan holmes
All right.
Fine.
dan friesen
If you accept A, you gotta accept B. It's against the law.
unidentified
So...
jordan holmes
Geneva Convention.
I learned that recently.
dan friesen
So, if we've got this program where these youths are being created before birth to be able to use this tech...
jordan holmes
Sure.
dan friesen
You know, it raises the question, when did Randy get involved?
That's a good question.
randy cramer
Randy, where did you come into all of this then?
Where were you serving?
With whom?
Well, no, no, that is the answer to where I come in all this.
I was one of the first genetically created soldiers from that project.
I was built in a Petri dish from the ground up in late 19, mid-1969, and I was born in 1970.
You're kidding.
unidentified
No.
randy cramer
I mean, I hear what you say, and you sound perfectly irrational when you talk to me.
How can we be sure of that?
unidentified
Do you have proof?
dan friesen
Um...
randy cramer
Not the kind that I could show you through radio channels, that's for sure.
dan friesen
Okay.
So yeah, I mean, already out of the gate...
There is a mildly insulting...
You're kidding.
unidentified
I can't begin to describe to you how much the you're kidding took me by surprise.
dan friesen
Yeah.
jordan holmes
In our world, no one ever says that.
unidentified
Ever.
Ever.
dan friesen
When you're listening to Project Camelot, or some of these people who believe anything, there's never a, what the fuck are you talking about?
unidentified
At what point does anybody just go, come on!
dan friesen
And he asks for proof.
And Randy says, I have proof, but not that I can give you over the radio.
jordan holmes
I can't just tell it to you.
dan friesen
So that is also pushed a tiny bit.
And this is what Randy comes up with as his best proof that he actually is a super soldier who is fighting on Mars.
jordan holmes
I'm with you.
randy cramer
The main piece of proof that I have to throw out to people is that...
I live in the most militarized nation in the world.
We have no sense of humor at all about people who impersonate officers for any reason whatsoever.
jordan holmes
Not true.
randy cramer
If I were impersonating an officer, and I've spoken to my attorney about this, there are absolutely steps that would be taken by the FBI and by the Marine Corps to discuss with me about my fraudulently doing so and how I needed to cease and desist and do that.
All right, so if they thought you were passing yourself off as Captain Randy Kramer of the Space Corps.
Well, they were closing down fast.
What I'm saying is that if I were doing that fraudulently, the process that they would follow through on is to contact me and tell me to cease and desist and show proof.
In which case, then I would say, great, I'd love a hearing in a JAG officer.
And my lawyer has essentially assured me that I'm probably never going to hear from them because they never want to give me a hearing.
dan friesen
That's where I have my first problem.
unidentified
We can take two points of view on that last little piece of it for me.
dan friesen
Yeah.
So his best evidence for why this is real is that no one's tried to stop him.
jordan holmes
Gotcha.
Gotcha journalism.
You thought you had me.
You thought you could catch me with this whole proof question.
Let me tell you something.
What's the sound of one hand not slapping me?
dan friesen
Wow, silence.
Yeah.
So it's also really...
Creates an interesting problem for me when Randy keeps talking.
Because...
You know, he's saying that, like, I've talked to my lawyer about what would happen if I was faking all this, and anyone cared.
jordan holmes
To which his lawyer said, you're kidding!
dan friesen
And why would he ask his lawyer any of these questions if what I'm about to play you is true?
jordan holmes
Good question.
randy cramer
So you're saying that they're letting you do this, and they're letting you come on radio shows like this one, because you're telling the truth.
But if you were telling the truth, wouldn't that be a reason to close you down?
Oh, I'll go a step further than that.
No, the command staff of United States Marine Corps Special Section decided that they needed a public spokesperson to act as their public relations officer, and apparently there was a short list of which my name was put on, and then when they went through that list, eventually it came up to me, and then my brigadier general asked me very politely if I wanted to be the public spokesperson guy, and at first I was like, not really.
But he convinced me, and I said, all right, fine.
And so, yeah, my commanders have absolutely authorized me through a number of legal parameters which exist in the United States Marine Corps Special Section Special Code of Conduct that go beyond giving me permission outside of security clearance.
There's actually a legal mandate for me to do what I'm doing.
dan friesen
He legally has to come on these shows and talk shit about how he's a super soldier.
jordan holmes
All right.
Now that.
Is airtight.
dan friesen
But do you understand why this is now really confusing?
Why were you talking to your lawyer about the potential consequences of being a fraud?
jordan holmes
Couldn't you just talk to your Brigadier General about the potential consequences of being a fraud?
dan friesen
Yeah, go ask your Brigadier General.
jordan holmes
Isn't chain of command really important?
dan friesen
Hey, Brig, what would happen if I were faking what I'm doing, but I'm not, because this is totally legitimate?
jordan holmes
Listen, I would love to give you advice on that, but I need to tell you to talk to a lawyer first.
dan friesen
You've got a lawyer up.
You've got a lawyer up.
jordan holmes
Gotta lawyer up, buddy.
dan friesen
So, I find this out of the gate, convoluted.
jordan holmes
Not great.
Not great.
dan friesen
And so, one of the things that's really nice about this sort of British interview style is that it is largely polite.
You know, like there is a...
You can tell there might be times when he might want...
Howard might want to ask something a little more direct.
jordan holmes
Sure.
dan friesen
But because it's an interview and this person is your guest, there is...
Sort of a decorum that Howard carries with him.
And so he moves on to another topic.
And this one is really where I got serious red flags.
I mean, I already had them.
jordan holmes
Well, yeah.
dan friesen
Randy talks about his early life.
Coming to understand that he was a super soldier.
unidentified
Yeah, yeah.
jordan holmes
I believe there were dreams the last time.
dan friesen
There are some dreams.
They will be in the mix.
randy cramer
There's two things happening there at the same time.
You're living a normal life which you wake up every day and you perceive that you are going through normally.
And then usually at nighttime when they decide to go take you away for training periods or educational missions or educational experiences, whatever the training is which ends up being...
You know, a number of years total worth of training because they start when you're a toddler.
Who are they?
Who are they?
This is a program that was run by United States Marine Corps Special Section called Project Moonshadow.
dan friesen
Project Moonshadow.
jordan holmes
I like it.
dan friesen
I'm dreaming of one.
I like it.
So, yeah, he's got this whole situation where...
Randy's saying he's living a normal life, but then at night, sometimes they take you on training missions.
And at the same time, he's saying he was created wholly in a lab, in a Petri dish, as a super soldier.
And so this is kind of getting to Howard.
And he's like, your parents have to be involved in this, right?
jordan holmes
No, no, no.
dan friesen
Wow.
randy cramer
And your physiological parents, who contributed to you...
How involved were they in this?
They must have been totally involved in this.
I just can't work that bit out.
unidentified
They had no knowledge whatsoever.
randy cramer
They had no knowledge whatsoever.
dan friesen
This is a real sticking point for Howard, which I appreciate because it is so logistical.
You know, it is so like, wait, hold on.
unidentified
Yeah.
dan friesen
How would that, like, they had to have known that they had, like, an artificial...
jordan holmes
At the very least, did your parents have an artificial insemination?
dan friesen
Yeah, exactly.
jordan holmes
Did they have an appointment nine months before you were born with a doctor who may have secretly?
dan friesen
Yeah, exactly.
There has to be something, or like, you disappeared at night when you were really young.
jordan holmes
They were always sleeping.
dan friesen
Okay, sure.
jordan holmes
No parent has ever woken up in the middle of the night to go check and see whether or not their child is still asleep.
That's never happened.
dan friesen
This becomes an issue for him.
But before that really becomes a hurdle, there's also the question of like, wait, if your parents didn't know about this, how do you know about it?
jordan holmes
Good question.
randy cramer
How did you get knowledge of it then?
If they didn't know, who told you?
Well, I always would wake up with...
Memories of things that would happen in the middle of the night.
You would just wake up and sort of disassociate them thinking, wow, that was the strangest, longest dream ever.
Even though you had a dream that seemed to last days or weeks at a time and seemed to be very consistent and not have weird dreamlike qualities to it and have a very solid linear timeline to it other than that, you know, you wake up and there's sort of this...
When you're talking about how conscious brainwave activity works, when you move from delta-theta wave sleep states and move up through what's called your alpha bridge into your beta states, you often forget and disassociate what's happening in that theta or delta state.
So because primarily what you're being trained in is in a lower brainwave consciousness state, which is actually...
Better for training than a high beta state.
Oh, of course.
When you come out of your waking consciousness, you kind of shake it off and go, wow, that was a really weird long dream.
unidentified
Totally.
randy cramer
Nothing about it, if you were to sit down with a dream analyst at that age and talk to them, would really indicate that you were having a dream.
They would go, wow, that is the weirdest experience I've ever heard.
But you don't think that.
jordan holmes
I don't trust dream analysts?
randy cramer
You just think, wow.
unidentified
Start there.
randy cramer
Weirdest, longest dream ever.
And I learned after a few conversations with my parents, like waking up and sitting at the breakfast table and saying, wow, I had this weird dream last night.
Let me tell you about it.
And getting those disconcerted looks from your parents to know I shouldn't bring this up again.
That makes them worried.
dan friesen
Okay, there's a lot going on here.
jordan holmes
There's a lot to unpack.
dan friesen
There's a lot going on here, and none of it to me sounds like super soldier stuff.
unidentified
There's a lot of bullshit, and what I think is true is real bummer.
dan friesen
It sounds like a creative child having vivid dreams, and maybe some kind of an inability to connect with parents around these dreams that leads them to creating...
Alternative explanations for why they're having...
jordan holmes
What I hear so simply could be boiled down...
Because I experienced this too as a child, which is that old, like, you know, I got an A+.
I got an A +, I need to see the counselor.
You know, like that kind of...
Like, that's what I'm hearing right now.
dan friesen
Sure.
But there are just these concrete issues.
Like, the question of, if you're doing all this shit...
And being trained as a fucking Mars super soldier space person, how did your parents not notice?
jordan holmes
That's a really good question.
dan friesen
Howard cannot let that go, and I think that's good.
jordan holmes
It's a really good question.
dan friesen
It's a really important point.
randy cramer
So when did the force that created you to serve intervene and start getting involved in your life as a kid?
When did they start training you?
And how?
The earliest memories of training are probably really somewhere between about three and a half and four years old.
jordan holmes
Okay.
randy cramer
And you would be taken away from your parents for training.
unidentified
Right.
randy cramer
And they didn't know anything about this.
Well, you know, when I was a kid, if anybody had taken me away from my mom and dad, they'd be hearing from my dad pretty damn quick.
Right.
dan friesen
Right.
So, there is an explanation.
jordan holmes
Sure.
dan friesen
I don't know if it's a good one.
jordan holmes
Okay.
randy cramer
So your parents, they must have been aware of this, or they must have made a fuss about it.
If you were disappearing for periods going to get training, and you weren't with them, presumably, surely, I mean, some of this doesn't, I have to say, some of this is difficult to take in.
unidentified
I guess we're missing an important component.
randy cramer
What's the missing link there?
Which is that, again, because we're talking about programs that are using reversed and or handed down technology from extraterrestrials, their ability to do things like hover over your house with a spaceship, you know, and pick you up and or project a wormhole into your bedroom and pick you up and or take you to a location for training and use time travel to take you back so that you're actually...
Five minutes after you left, all this stuff was happening.
dan friesen
That is really hard to read.
That's really hard to read.
That could be a guy going, ah, like, oh no.
Oh no.
Or it could be a guy being like, oh, okay, this is how this fits into the narrative.
Maybe time travel's real.
Okay, I guess.
It's hard to say, because I don't know anything about this host.
I might be approaching it more generously than he deserves.
I have no idea, but that is a really funny response.
jordan holmes
I'm falling.
Look, I couldn't get over the...
Because some of this is really hard to swallow.
dan friesen
I'm finding some of this hard to take in.
unidentified
The fucking deadpan nature of that.
jordan holmes
I want to see his face while he's doing that.
If there isn't even the hint of a smile, he's a genius.
He's a comedic genius.
dan friesen
So, this next clip is where I kind of got a sense of, like, aha, call me Hercule Poirot, because I've solved this mystery.
This is where it's like, ah, this is the clue that unravels, I would say, a more Earth-based solution and resolution to what was going on with his childhood dreams.
randy cramer
I will say this, I want to add one thing, I think it's really important.
She's a metaphysically, psionically sensitive person.
unidentified
What does that mean?
randy cramer
And I will say that she has always had insomnia and is one of those people that I think she was aware that something was going on, and it was one of the reasons why she always had horrible insomnia and was always terrified that someone was coming to take her children away.
So on some level, your mom knew about this, on some level.
On an intuitive level, I think she did, and it created a lot of the panic and anxiety she had around sleep issues and around the house being broken into at night and so forth, which there was no evidence that that was happening, but I think she was intuitively tuned into it and was very panicky.
dan friesen
So, I would say that there are, you know, like...
There's an explanation, and that is that he was a super soldier who was bred to fight wars against aliens on Mars for years, and then became a young person again by way of being re-injected into his clone five minutes after he left when he was 17. That's one explanation.
Another explanation is that these paranoias and panicky fears about losing her children were sort of projected onto her child.
His mother...
has this preoccupation, and the child wants to create a way to explain away those fears and anxieties in a way that's helpful, that's productive, that's not like, hey, there is someone coming to take me.
No, there are people taking me, but they're taking me to be a hero.
Yep.
unidentified
Like, it kind of makes sense.
dan friesen
I'm not saying that that is the case.
I'm no psychiatrist or psychologist.
Probably.
unidentified
But like, hey, if that's a possible explanation, I fucking think it's way more likely than he's a Mars soldier.
jordan holmes
Any dream analyst would completely disagree with you.
dan friesen
I feel like I have all the information that I need to say, I don't think you were on Mars.
jordan holmes
Does he do this with all of his guests?
I don't know.
This is the only one you've listened to?
Because currently, I feel like he's lulling him into the sense of like...
Like, accidentally he's revealing the center of all the problems, and Howard is just going to, like, allow that to exist in the space.
So everyone kind of gets it.
dan friesen
I do think that Howard is making fun of him by the end of it.
unidentified
Okay.
dan friesen
Well, I mean, that's fair.
Well, it's one of those things that, like, this is an interesting style of way to talk to people who are making extravagant claims, which is to have some pushback, but not so much that you're being a dick to them, because they are your guest, and you don't want to have a fight with somebody.
For no reason.
But if you ask pointed questions and follow-ups, then your audience can make a responsible choice about what's being said.
And they can be like, okay, alright, hold on.
This doesn't make sense.
Whereas the way that, like Project Camelot and a lot of these other places, the way that they show these people is in such an unquestioning, or if there is questioning, it's questioning in the wrong direction.
jordan holmes
Oh yeah, yeah, yeah.
dan friesen
And that is irresponsible because you give your audience a false sense of credibility about every single thing that every weirdo is saying.
jordan holmes
Oh yeah.
dan friesen
And I think that that is the way that Howard appears to be approaching this.
jordan holmes
Yes.
dan friesen
And I say that...
Very cautiously, because like I said, I haven't listened to any other episodes.
I've only listened to this one.
jordan holmes
Look, I'm waiting to hear him say a hard J. That's where I'm always at.
That's great!
I don't trust you yet.
I'm going to need years of work.
dan friesen
So when I say that he's approaching this in a way that allows the audience to make a decision about what they're hearing, I think that you can tell that some of them are not into it.
randy cramer
I have to tell from your texts and tweets, not all of you are buying into this necessarily.
Randy, you must get a lot of opposition from people who simply don't believe it.
To be honest, not nearly as much as you might think.
I mean, there are certainly the number of unranked civilian people who want to have their opinion about it.
But when it comes to my interactions with my local...
Politicians, elected representatives, local law enforcement, other professional persons, agencies, military personnel, NASA engineers, a whole list of very, very professional credentialed people.
It's never even a question.
They don't bat an eyelash with me.
They all talk to me very professionally and are very interested in what I've done and what I'm doing.
dan friesen
Okay.
I'll believe you.
Whatever.
jordan holmes
Sometimes when you're lying, your list is too long.
dan friesen
It's a pretty big list.
jordan holmes
That's kind of a tell.
dan friesen
Yeah.
But Howard makes a point of this.
A lot of people are not believing this.
jordan holmes
No, that's true.
randy cramer
We have a character on radio here called Captain Kremen, who is a bit of a wacky cartoon space explorer created by a disc jockey on radio who's a really creative guy called Kenny Everett.
Julie has tweeted just to say this is more Captain Kremen than Captain Kramer.
But anyway, look him up online, Kenny.
jordan holmes
I love this guy.
randy cramer
That's actually funny.
I like that.
I think it's a nice comment.
dan friesen
It's a nice comment.
jordan holmes
He's a delightful character.
unidentified
Well, because here's why that's not a nice comment.
dan friesen
Randy's not playing a character.
jordan holmes
No, he's not.
dan friesen
The other guy, Captain Kremen, is a joke.
jordan holmes
Is a joke.
dan friesen
Yes.
jordan holmes
And you are more of a joke than the joke.
dan friesen
Yep.
jordan holmes
You understand that.
dan friesen
So, Howard has another interesting line of questioning that begins, basically, that if you're a kid...
And someone's trying to kidnap you, you might fight them off, or you might not want to go along with them.
How was that experience for you when you were being taken for training?
randy cramer
The point is that you were being taken away by various craft and various means.
Now, if I was being taken away, especially when I was younger, I'd kick against it.
If I didn't realize why it was all being done entirely, I would say, please don't take me away.
Sure.
What about you?
Well, in the very beginning, as a kid, you're certainly given childlike explanations for what you're doing and where you're going and what the training's for.
And so basically you've got, you know, an adult standing there.
You know, you want to shoot ray guns and fight space monsters, don't you?
unidentified
And you're all like, yeah, I want to shoot ray guns and fight space monsters.
randy cramer
And so it's an easy motivation.
dan friesen
That's fucked up.
jordan holmes
That is fucked up.
dan friesen
It sounds fucked up.
jordan holmes
There was a guy with candy in a van.
You get it.
He was like, I've got candy for you.
dan friesen
Let's take a step even beyond that.
He's saying that for a child, it's an easy sell to be like, do you want to shoot ray guns and fight aliens?
jordan holmes
I have candy in my van.
dan friesen
Well, no, no, no.
Take that creepy part off of it.
That is what he's saying is what gets you hooked as a child.
randy cramer
Yes.
dan friesen
But that is also literally what he says he did.
jordan holmes
Yes.
Correct.
dan friesen
So it's not like they're misleading this child to lure them to the training.
jordan holmes
No.
Well, I mean, if you don't actually have candy in the van, that should be a separate crime.
dan friesen
Oh.
jordan holmes
Deceit?
dan friesen
Fraud?
Fraud and kidnapping?
jordan holmes
Exactly.
dan friesen
Yeah, I find this very weird.
And I just can't...
I don't know, man.
I can't imagine the government has a giant secret super soldier program that's predicated on successfully kidnapping children to train them.
jordan holmes
It does seem extreme, and at the very least, slightly unethical.
dan friesen
Oh, quite, quite unethical.
jordan holmes
There might be some issues there.
But that means there are zero government watchdogs who are like...
Hey, guys, at least cut it off.
Like, maybe a moratorium!
dan friesen
And that means that there has to be, like, teams that are just for kidnapping children to train them.
jordan holmes
Totally!
dan friesen
This is a dark view of the bureaucracy.
jordan holmes
Yeah, we got Leroy over here.
He's the best child kidnapper we have in the United States Marine Corps.
dan friesen
So, Randy is being like, hey, you know, they come up and they say you want to shoot lasers and fight aliens, but, like, you know, it doesn't matter.
I was genetically...
Well, yeah.
Built to say yes to this kind of offer.
jordan holmes
Ooh, now that's a good argument.
randy cramer
So they drew you into this by saying, hey, little man, do you want to play with a ray gun like you've seen in the movies and on the TV?
Psychologically, yeah.
Psychologically, but genetically, keep in mind, I was engineered and built for this.
I'm also engineered and built to think and want that this is a good idea.
So it wasn't something that I would have resisted anyway because I was genetically engineered to think it was a good idea.
dan friesen
So...
jordan holmes
Do you know what I can't get out of my head?
dan friesen
What's that?
jordan holmes
He's saying all this stuff while at the same time saying that he's the government-mandated PR person for this.
This is not good PR.
dan friesen
He's the head of PR.
Talking about kidnapping children.
It is.
jordan holmes
This is really bad PR.
dan friesen
Yep.
That's a good point.
Probably would have told him to keep that part hush.
jordan holmes
You remember how we told you ray guns and all that shit is cool?
unidentified
Don't tell people that.
jordan holmes
You tell them ray guns and shit are cool.
That's what we do here.
dan friesen
Keep the kidnapping on the low.
jordan holmes
Keep the kidnapping down!
dan friesen
Yeah.
That's a great point.
But he's genetically engineered to say that this is a great idea.
Yes, please.
Let's go shoot ray guns.
So if you're genetically, you know, engineered, it kind of stands to reason that you'd have superpowers.
jordan holmes
Well, yeah.
dan friesen
And so this topic comes up.
And I love the way that Randy describes his superpowers.
It's so perfect as to never be provable.
randy cramer
Do you have capabilities that maybe I and my colleagues here tonight don't have?
I tend to be a little smarter, a little faster, a little stronger than everybody else.
And when you say you're a little stronger, what can you do that we can't?
It really comes down to what happens with my physical strength in a physical fight.
And the best way to explain that is if I get jumped by three guys, my physical body will respond as if I'm getting jumped by three guys.
If I get jumped by 20 guys, my body will respond as if I'm getting jumped by 20 guys.
So it escalates its output based on the input attack.
So the more people who attack me, the stronger and faster I will be.
dan friesen
Let's send an army.
jordan holmes
That is.
Clever.
dan friesen
Yeah.
jordan holmes
That is a good one.
That's somebody who's practiced that bullshit a lot.
dan friesen
Yeah, it's great.
It means nothing.
jordan holmes
It means nothing.
dan friesen
But earlier in his life, he wasn't really in control of these powers.
But now he's fully actualized and he's in complete control.
randy cramer
It's a skill that is completely under my control and completely in my grasp and has its own safety protocols to keep me from killing innocent people and so forth.
jordan holmes
Ooh, that's good.
randy cramer
We'll be sorry to be hurt very badly by me.
I've never lost a fight.
dan friesen
You almost talked over his response.
Glad to hear that.
jordan holmes
Yeah, exactly.
dan friesen
Let's get you in the UFC.
Alright.
jordan holmes
No, no, no.
I like that.
dan friesen
This seems very easy to test.
jordan holmes
That's a great, great little out right there.
Did you not hear the little part?
Alright.
It keeps me from hurting anyone innocent.
That's why, if you were to suddenly show up and beat the shit out of him, it'd be like, no, my super soldier keeps me from hurting you.
dan friesen
Go against one of the most highly trained martial arts professionals in the world, and don't kill them, but if you can beat them up, then...
jordan holmes
I need government authorization.
dan friesen
Fine, that's your brigadier general.
jordan holmes
He won't say yes.
dan friesen
Oh, come on.
He's a beanie.
He won't let me play.
jordan holmes
He won't let me play.
dan friesen
These things seem pretty easy to test.
jordan holmes
I'm a little bit smarter, a little bit stronger, a little bit faster.
unidentified
No big deal.
dan friesen
I mean, the smarter part we could also...
I mean, I don't really know a perfect way to quantify that.
jordan holmes
Yeah, define that bullshit.
Fine, you win.
dan friesen
But, okay, let's have you race against Michael Johnson.
I don't know.
Is he still super fast?
jordan holmes
All right.
How about Speedway?
dan friesen
I don't have a good reference to that person anymore.
jordan holmes
Usain Bolt.
dan friesen
There you go.
unidentified
Yeah, yeah.
dan friesen
Usain Bolt versus Randy Kramer in a foot race.
jordan holmes
I think so.
dan friesen
And then he's got to fight...
jordan holmes
Is he just going to be a little bit faster than Usain Bolt?
dan friesen
I bet...
Andy Bravo could kick his ass.
Oh, easily.
Speaking of which, Rogan is now on Spotify.
jordan holmes
Yes, I saw.
dan friesen
And just a little update.
jordan holmes
Alex still is not on Spotify.
dan friesen
Alex was supposed to be his first guest.
jordan holmes
Supposed to be, though.
dan friesen
It was Duncan Trussell.
Duncan Trussell was the first guest.
And all of Alex's old episodes gone from Spotify.
Not in Joe Rogan's thing.
jordan holmes
In a very literal sense, Alex will never be on Spotify.
dan friesen
I wanted to cover Alex's show because I'm sure he's going to have a freak out about that.
But we just didn't have enough time.
So that'll probably be on Friday.
But back to the superpowers.
It turns out he can also run and jump really fast.
randy cramer
They can't meet tall buildings in a single band, but can you sort of jump over high walls and stuff like that and run faster?
Well, yeah, like I said, it's situation responsive.
So the faster I need to run, the faster I'll run.
The higher I need to jump, the higher I will jump.
And, like, the actual limitations of that as far as, like, inches and feet are classified.
But, again, it escalates based on threat.
So we're not really sure what the top of those scales are sometimes because we haven't necessarily seen top-scale threat.
dan friesen
I have a perfect way to test this.
jordan holmes
Okay.
dan friesen
We have to create...
A scenario where there's a parkour contest against, I don't know, Tony Jaa or someone who's a really high-level professional parkour person.
Whoever loses will be executed.
jordan holmes
Now that.
dan friesen
Because you have to make the threat.
jordan holmes
It's against the law for the government to stop him.
dan friesen
It's against the law for them to kidnap kids.
jordan holmes
Yeah, but this is an asset of theirs.
They don't want to lose money on this.
dan friesen
Let's just say...
But how else would you do it?
How else would you create the required threat that you need to jump over that building?
jordan holmes
Sure.
Now, furthermore, what this implies is that the government has done a lot of testing that involves regularly increasing threats.
Like they're in a box and they're like, alright, today, you fight a lion.
And then tomorrow, they're like, you fight two lions.
And so that's the way that they're going to figure out what your level is.
dan friesen
Can I be clear with you, too, that I think that what this has to be regulated by is adrenaline, right?
I mean, it's got to be a situation where the threat is...
Perceived by the body as an adrenaline response.
unidentified
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
dan friesen
So you could artificially elevate your adrenaline.
jordan holmes
No, no, no, you can't.
Super soldier, you need aliens.
dan friesen
Whatever it is that's causing him and his body to respond to threats the way it is could be artificially recreated and he could jump over a building.
jordan holmes
Not with our technology.
unidentified
Let's do it.
jordan holmes
Not with civilian technology.
dan friesen
They have the alien stuff.
jordan holmes
The aliens never figured that one out.
dan friesen
So we know from listening to Randy on Project Camelot that after his tour of service was done, he was age regressed, which is to say that the government had an exact...
Perfect clone of him at the age that he left.
jordan holmes
Right.
dan friesen
And then his consciousness was transferred into it.
Exactly.
Yes.
Now, mic down for this, because we get a little more information than I remember.
jordan holmes
He's had years to work on this story.
dan friesen
This is not good.
jordan holmes
Okay.
randy cramer
So you spent all those long periods, but because they're able, they've got...
Back-engineered technology, presumably, that allows them to compress time, you are not like 60 or 70 years of age now, which you would have to be if you'd served all of those periods.
See, now, here's the funny part, right, is because of their ability, okay, so they call it age-reversing, but it's not really age-reversing.
At the end of your 20-year tour, they take you back to LOC, which is Luna Operations Command on the Moon, and they say, okay, we're going to, you know, wipe out your memory from all the traumatic, secure things that you don't want to remember anyway, and we're going to send you back in a young, do basically...
Hatch you out a new clone body that's the same age when they took you away.
And I know this is going to sound weird to some people again, but high advanced alien technology and science has gotten us to understand that the human soul is a quantum fluid and can be removed and pumped out of the body.
Put into another container and held and /or put back into another vessel or another body and so through a mechanism which I was not conscious for obviously and I do not recall or do know how it works other than they're able to remove the soul from that body, put it into this younger clone body that's the same age when you left, repress all your memories and then put you back and you essentially wake up, you know, 15 minutes after you left from a 20-year tour.
dan friesen
Soul juice.
You got soul fluid.
jordan holmes
I'm going to be honest with you.
If this was in a theater, and the two of them were talking on stage, and he had just said that, and then just the pause, I would have stood up and slow clapped my balls off.
That would have been me just standing up and being like...
dan friesen
See, if I were the interviewer in that exact same situation, I would stand up and walk away.
Souljuice.
jordan holmes
Come on.
dan friesen
Get the fuck out of here.
jordan holmes
Souljuice deserves a standing ovation, Dan.
unidentified
There's two reasons why this is bullshit.
dan friesen
One, what happens in the casket?
Like, is your souljuice just trapped?
jordan holmes
No, no, no.
It's a quantum fluid.
It just kind of sinks down.
dan friesen
Into the ground?
unidentified
Yeah.
dan friesen
That doesn't seem like it makes sense.
jordan holmes
It doesn't really.
dan friesen
Oh, or maybe all the coroners know this and they take your souljuice out and they use it to power spacecrafts.
Who knows?
jordan holmes
What do you think the Egyptians were doing?
dan friesen
So that's confusing.
And second, the other problem that I have, there's a very serious problem, is you had this done.
unidentified
Yeah.
dan friesen
Are you not curious?
You can't tell me anything about the process.
jordan holmes
That's classified.
dan friesen
He didn't say that.
He doesn't know anything about it.
jordan holmes
He doesn't even know.
dan friesen
Yeah.
jordan holmes
He never asked.
dan friesen
You had your soul juice put in another body.
jordan holmes
Some things you don't ask about, Dan.
You don't ask about soul juice.
dan friesen
Yeah, it's rude.
unidentified
Dan, tell me, tell me, tell me, tell me.
jordan holmes
Do the words quantum and fluid mean anything when they are put next to each other?
dan friesen
Maybe.
I don't know.
jordan holmes
I don't think they do.
dan friesen
Okay.
jordan holmes
I'm going to call it fluid.
dan friesen
It's a quantum fluid.
jordan holmes
But that's not a...
dan friesen
Well, you might be on the half of the audience here that thinks this is bullshit.
jordan holmes
Okay, I could be.
randy cramer
Hey, Randy Kramer, you are dividing my audience here.
Some of them love it, and some of them say...
Gee whiz, not sure about this, but amazing stuff.
jordan holmes
That was polite.
randy cramer
If you just join us now, if you're half an hour into this hour and you missed the first half hour, if you see what I'm saying, Captain Randy Cranor is a man who was bred for missions to Mars.
dan friesen
Yep.
jordan holmes
Amazing.
dan friesen
Yeah.
I mean, there's the constant reminder that there's a bunch of people listening who think this is trash.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
dan friesen
This is garbage.
And I think that's important.
I think that's responsible.
jordan holmes
And he's very polite about how he's expressing what is clearly a bunch of people saying he's full of shit.
dan friesen
So there's a question that is important.
Why aren't there a ton of people who have the exact same story as you?
jordan holmes
Good question.
randy cramer
Very important point, and people would get on my back if I didn't put this point to you.
Some of those craft have, you said, a few thousand people on board them, which they might well have.
Where are all of those people, and why aren't they speaking to?
Well, some of them do.
Do they?
jordan holmes
Do they?
randy cramer
Yeah, sure.
Some of them do.
There aren't a lot.
jordan holmes
Who are they?
randy cramer
Because most of them, their memories have been repressed very badly or well, and so sometimes their brains end up being more Swiss cheese and oatmeal.
And it's hard for them to bring memories to a cohesive state.
I talk to people all the time who are in the process of unfolding their traumatic memory experiences and are constantly asking me for advice on how to remember things more clearly and how to get their memories back and how to deal with the trauma and so forth.
And so there's a lot of people who are.
I will just be honest and tell you that most of them, quite simply, have no desire.
You must admit that a lot of people would find it strange that you are the main person authorized, you say, to be doing the speaking about this.
If there are so many people who go through that experience, and if you're in contact with them here on Earth...
Well, I'm one.
I'm one of two.
dan friesen
There's two.
Now, I would suggest...
That if we take Randy at face value, what he's describing is...
There's a government program that makes super soldiers, kidnaps them from their parents without anyone's consent in order to train them up through their dreams and other things.
Then has them fight battles against aliens for 20 years or whatever, and then takes the soul juice and puts it back in a younger clone body, wipes all their memories, which leaves many of them with brains like Swiss cheese or oatmeal in terrible pain,
not remembering any of this feeling crazy for the rest of their lives yeah and randy is doing pr for them it's just i was just sitting there thinking just like uh uh randy come on I'm sorry, but your previous brigadier general was fired because he hired you as our PR guy, and you just...
jordan holmes
Gave us PR as scrambling people's brains, maybe on purpose?
unidentified
Yeah.
jordan holmes
You're describing a nightmare.
unidentified
Badly or well, are you implying that we want to scramble brains?
dan friesen
I think that's what I heard.
jordan holmes
I think that's what I'm hearing.
So your Brigadier General's fired, and also, you are.
dan friesen
He's describing something really, really horrifying.
unidentified
Yeah.
dan friesen
And just being like, yeah, I work for them.
What?
Why?
Shouldn't there be a whistleblower trying to stop this?
randy cramer
No, no, no.
jordan holmes
They're great guys.
dan friesen
Weird.
So anyway, there's two.
There's two of them.
And here's Randy's explanation for that.
randy cramer
Yeah, there are two people actually.
Well, let me put it in, try and answer that in a more broad way to be more specific to get where you're going now with that.
jordan holmes
Have you ever seen me with a mustache?
randy cramer
The fleet that Naval Space Command sort of runs for the planet is divided into two fleets in the same way that here in America we have a Pacific fleet and Atlantic fleet to separate ships and guards sort of two different coastal ports.
unidentified
So we got up space and down space.
randy cramer
Of course it is.
Of course it is.
and another fleet on the other side.
Of what?
They're called Solar Warden and Radiant Guardian.
unidentified
Now, each fleet...
randy cramer
Decided that they needed to have a spokesperson, and that they would pick a spokesperson, and each of those spokespersons would come at about the same time.
And which one are you the spokesperson for?
I am the spokesperson for Radiant Guardian.
The other spokesperson for Solar Warden is a gentleman by the name of Corey Goode.
You may or may not have heard of him.
Is he in America?
He is, absolutely.
If you don't know about him, look him up.
dan friesen
That's convenient.
They're both American guys.
Yeah, it's laughable that these space programs decide, hey, we need a spokesman.
jordan holmes
We both need spokesmen.
They started out with one spokesman, and one guy was like, I can't be handling with this spokesman.
We're going to need our own spokesman.
dan friesen
What spokes job is being achieved here?
I don't see what good is coming of this.
jordan holmes
Is good a better spokesman than you?
dan friesen
No, he's been getting into COVID denialism lately.
jordan holmes
See, there we go.
You guys are bad choices for spokesmen.
dan friesen
What's interesting to me is that, like, just look at this from an institutional perspective.
Like, you are the Navy.
You're running the Solar Warden or whatever, right?
jordan holmes
Okay.
dan friesen
What good does this guy do you?
What good is he doing?
unidentified
Hold on.
jordan holmes
Let me ask you a better question.
Are you running East or West Solar Warden?
dan friesen
Oh, no, because one's Radiant Guardian.
jordan holmes
Oh, okay.
So you're running...
Well, I mean, I assume Radiant Guardian does things differently from Solar Warden.
dan friesen
Wow.
jordan holmes
I don't know what Solar Warden standards are.
dan friesen
I don't know.
But what is achieved by this?
Obviously, if you have a spokesperson, they would be there to answer questions about things.
There is nothing to answer questions about.
There's not like, oh, hey, there's a reported story in the AP about Solar Warden's behaviors.
We've got to reach out to the spokesman for comment.
That's not happening.
jordan holmes
So this is furthermore not just PR in the sense that it's like, if people are fielding questions in order to make the company look good.
dan friesen
Well, that's what often...
A spokesperson would do.
jordan holmes
It's active outreach.
Right.
I'm being directed to tell you that this is the worst place in the world.
dan friesen
The problem with that is if he's a spokesman in that sense, he's doing a terrible job.
We kidnap kids and then bring them back with their brains fried.
jordan holmes
What?
dan friesen
No, we don't support this.
Not in our name.
No.
Doing more damage than good.
If this is some, like, crazy, elaborate secret program, then it's better for them to not have someone like Randy.
It does them no good.
jordan holmes
Agreed.
dan friesen
It does them no good!
jordan holmes
Agreed.
dan friesen
Anyway, there's these two branches.
jordan holmes
No, here's what they're doing.
They want you to underestimate them, Dan.
They want you to think they're so stupid.
They would hire this guy.
And then whenever you finally come at them, oh, they're brilliant.
It's all part of the long game.
dan friesen
Victory, then.
So, you know, you got these two guys.
You got Randy Kramer, and you got Corey Goode, and they're both weirdly from the United States, but they're supposed to be policing space.
So how does this work?
randy cramer
You said policing the solar system.
Who is policing the solar system?
unidentified
Well...
randy cramer
Earth Defense Force, Naval Space Command, and this other sort of loose international group of military persons who sort of conglomerate together to make up the fleet.
So participating countries have officers and pilots and so forth that they contribute to the larger program, and then those people are distributed throughout the fleet in various missions and purposes.
So this is real-life Star Trek, then?
It's the Federation?
Pretty much!
I mean, except that if you want to get real, let me get all nerdy about it.
The Federation's mission was very diplomatic and peaceful and was non-military, and we definitely have a military mission because we consider the military protection of the solar system to be absolutely necessary given the tangible threats that we have to deal with, which, again, aren't so horrible that we can't deal with them, but there is a list of tangible threats that we have to deal with.
dan friesen
So the tangible threats aren't really that bad, and yet we use it as a justification to kidnap children and then leave them with their brains fried afterwards.
I don't support this.
jordan holmes
No, there's no other way.
unidentified
The tangible threats aren't that bad, turns out.
jordan holmes
Listen, as your PR guy, I want to just let everybody know this would be way better if it was Star Trek.
I know everything about Star Trek.
I'm a bit of a nerd.
In actuality, this is the worst.
dan friesen
Yeah, it's really peaceful in space.
unidentified
There's no problem, and we ruin people's lives.
dan friesen
Yeah, Star Trek, excuse me.
So, Howard goes to some listeners who have brought up some interesting points, and one of them has to do with the fact that if you're in space for like ten fucking years, your body will deteriorate.
There you go.
Randy has his go-to answer.
randy cramer
Now, one of our listeners, Hedy, who is a scientist and is a regular contributor to this show, says...
Prolonged exposure to 17 years or whatever of Martian gravity would cause massive bone deterioration.
How did you avoid that?
Well, we had this amazing medical technology that was used on us all the time because we were in the field engaging in regular combat, and I've had my arms and my legs blown off so many times I can't even count.
And they essentially use what we call a holographic regenerating medical bed technology, which uses a projected hologram at a cellular level to convince your body to regrow and damaged and ripped off limbs.
And what's that technique called again?
I love the name of that.
What's that called?
unidentified
A holographic regenerating medical bed.
It doesn't sound like he believes him.
dan friesen
It really doesn't sound...
It sounds incredibly polite.
It does not seem like he believes him.
jordan holmes
Oh, that's good.
I love the name of that.
Tell me the name of your magical made-up world, J.K. Rowling.
dan friesen
So here we get a little bit more information about these medbeds, because, you know, they've been brought up a bit, but the actual mechanics of it have always eluded us.
jordan holmes
I have one question that I hope this clip answers.
dan friesen
Maybe.
jordan holmes
If he's had his arms and legs blown off so many times.
Does he lose any soul juice?
dan friesen
Soul juice isn't in the arms.
unidentified
None?
dan friesen
It's a quantum liquid.
jordan holmes
There isn't even a little bit of soul juice in the arms?
unidentified
What does that even mean?
dan friesen
Are you your arm?
This is a philosophical question now.
jordan holmes
If you replace every part of your body.
dan friesen
If you go into a younger clone with your soul juice.
jordan holmes
Are you still you?
dan friesen
I don't know.
jordan holmes
This is a good question.
dan friesen
These questions do not come up, and I'm sorry that your question is not answered.
randy cramer
A hologram that has a resolution at the cellular level that projects a perfect image of your body that restores damaged tissue and /or at the end of a severed limb will fool that cellular tissue to keep going.
Because the only thing that stops your tissue from growing when you've blown off a limb is it reaches, oh, there's nothing here to keep going to.
But if you convince it by having a hologram at a cellular level that it goes, oh, I can just keep growing, you essentially fool your body that it can just keep growing and you can regrow an entire limb.
So there's a master template of you somewhere.
jordan holmes
Sure.
randy cramer
Right.
They use your perfect genetics.
Basically, it's just a DNA map that they can project holographically.
I could do with one of those.
unidentified
*laughter*
jordan holmes
Alright, he wins.
I have nothing funnier to say than that.
dan friesen
It seems like he's being a dick to him really politely.
jordan holmes
He's really polite.
Oh, I could use one of those, boy!
dan friesen
So apparently, I don't know, I'm not a doctor and I didn't pay much attention in biology classes in college.
So I'm just going to have to leave this to the audience.
Reach out and tell us if the only reason your arm doesn't grow back is because it gets there and is like, ah, nothing here.
jordan holmes
It sounds right.
dan friesen
So holograms are apparently the solution to that.
jordan holmes
It turns out that's a great idea.
dan friesen
Because I'm not a doctor, I can't speak on this or tell you that it sounds very dumb.
But, hey, maybe it works.
Anyway, there's a really lingering question that I think is very important.
jordan holmes
Okay, if soul juice exists at its quantum fluid, can you artificially create it in like a collider?
Can you create soul juice?
If you are telling me that the soul is a physical thing...
dan friesen
Soul juice can neither be created or destroyed.
Only changed.
jordan holmes
All right.
Fair enough.
I retract my question.
dan friesen
So this lingering question that I think is really important and didn't really get a real sense of in the other interview I heard of his is like, what's your job?
What is your job?
He's a VR guy.
unidentified
Well...
randy cramer
Do you have a regular job in the States?
My regular job is as an independent field commander of the United States Marine Corps Special Section.
So under that series of duties is three main things right now that I have to deal with, which is criminal investigation, research and development, and public relations.
Criminal investigation?
Yes.
I have a couple of very...
I'm just going to call them strange X-File type cases that have been given for me to deal with that involve criminal activity of a very unusual nature, which I'm really, because it's an open criminal case, I can't really say anything more about it.
But yeah, those are probably, that's my top priority, to be honest with you right now.
dan friesen
You're the PR guy!
Why would they have the same person be Fox Mulder and the guy who answers the phone at the FBI or whatever?
That doesn't make sense.
jordan holmes
Oh, come on.
Look, you're on the clock.
dan friesen
That's a fantasy.
jordan holmes
If you've got time to lean, you've got time to investigate.
You are not always giving interviews.
dan friesen
Jordan, I will grant that his PR work is probably pretty limited.
He would probably have time.
jordan holmes
I wouldn't give him that many hours in the PR field.
dan friesen
I would say that he does have bandwidth.
To do some criminal investigations.
jordan holmes
Sure, sure.
dan friesen
Although I really, really, really don't think that any competent organization would have all of those hats being worn by the same person.
Seems dumb.
jordan holmes
Brigadier General, can I do PR today?
unidentified
Oh, you could do PR, but just for today.
dan friesen
So now here's where it gets weird about this job situation.
Well, about the job situation.
I mean, it's already weird that he's so rangy, but it gets even worse.
randy cramer
Randy, what does it say on your paycheck?
I don't get one.
That's why I'm an independent field commander.
I'm responsible for dealing with all of my own resources and so forth.
How do you live?
How do you make ends meet, as we say here?
How do you pay for your food, your accommodation, and the rest of it?
There are some wonderful people who have been wonderful and helped me out when I've needed it.
I do teach a psionics class, and every once in a while when I do one of those, I get a marginal fee for teaching a class.
I get teeny fees for public speaking, which doesn't amount to anything.
But to be honest, it's some really wonderful people who have picked up the slack and said, you know, we want to help you and have taken care of that for me.
So really some wonderful folks.
dan friesen
So it's just people who maybe believe that he's a super soldier have given him a bunch of money?
jordan holmes
So I'm the PR person.
I do criminal investigations in space.
I have a Patreon.
dan friesen
That's strange.
You should maybe quit as the PR person.
jordan holmes
You are a bad PR person.
Not only do they steal children, but they don't even...
Pay you!
dan friesen
Yeah, I mean, this is gonna be a serious labor issue.
I think...
jordan holmes
He's a slave investigator?
That's what he's saying?
dan friesen
Yeah, yeah.
jordan holmes
That's what he's saying!
dan friesen
Well, I mean, he doesn't say that he can't quit.
He doesn't say that.
jordan holmes
That's fair.
dan friesen
So we don't know that for sure.
unidentified
That's fair.
jordan holmes
I feel like it's implied that you'll be killed.
Situation, right?
dan friesen
Or your soul juice won't be put into another body later.
jordan holmes
Or your soul juice will be stolen.
dan friesen
Because he has to be expecting that once he gets to a certain age, or his body wears down, the government's going to put his soul juice.
Yeah, you'd think.
Maybe that's the payment.
jordan holmes
What if they put you in kind of like a...
dan friesen
They're paying him with immortality.
jordan holmes
Ooh, that's a...
unidentified
I think that's a bad payment for his shitty life.
dan friesen
Well, I don't know if his life's that shitty.
jordan holmes
No, that's fair.
dan friesen
I bet he has a job at an office.
jordan holmes
Yeah, I was gonna say.
He's probably a really great fucking groundskeeper.
Like, I bet he's...
I bet he could fucking kill a baseball diamond.
You know, like, really make it look beautiful.
dan friesen
Sure.
So it's a problem that he's not getting paid.
Or at least it's very confusing.
jordan holmes
Could be.
dan friesen
So Howard pushes back on this a little.
randy cramer
But I know it's not called this, but why aren't the Star Corps paying you?
Oh, that is actually a more complicated legal reason.
Being activated under the independent field commander clauses...
I actually have a greater legal authority to do the things that I need to do as an independent field commander not getting a paycheck than I would getting a paycheck, which would actually limit what I can do.
Without a much more complicated legal discussion of that, it's a very specific legal parameter on being independent versus being completely dependent on them.
Do you often get asked the question I've just asked you about how do you pay for all this?
Not a ton.
I mean, every once in a while.
dan friesen
He doesn't seem to be getting asked the regular questions very often.
jordan holmes
You would think.
dan friesen
So yeah, I guess what he's trying to hearken to is the idea that if you're a contractor, they farm out blackwater mercenaries.
jordan holmes
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
dan friesen
So I can do more outside the law than within.
jordan holmes
Sure, sure.
Whatever.
dan friesen
Mercenaries also get paid.
jordan holmes
I'm going to ask you really quick.
An organization that has no problem genetically creating children, secretly implanting them into host bodies, then stealing them when they are four.
I don't understand why they're real hung up on the payment part.
dan friesen
Yeah.
Or pay you in gold or something.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
dan friesen
Bitcoin.
unidentified
Yeah.
jordan holmes
You can get paid.
dan friesen
Yeah.
You can weave this into the narrative.
jordan holmes
There's untraceable money.
dan friesen
Yeah.
So this leads to Howard making a joke.
randy cramer
Do me a favor, Randy.
Don't tell any radio station that explanation for why you shouldn't be paid because they're all going to be using it.
And, you know, I've got bills to pay.
dan friesen
Damn charming guy.
jordan holmes
He's great.
dan friesen
That's great.
So he asks Randy because this is really hard as a pill to swallow.
jordan holmes
My capitalist overlords would love to treat me like that.
dan friesen
You, Randy, are working for Space Army.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
dan friesen
You're doing PR work.
You're a detective for paranormal shit.
jordan holmes
I'm a good one.
dan friesen
You're not getting paid.
jordan holmes
Why would I?
dan friesen
Do you have a contract?
jordan holmes
That's a good question.
randy cramer
Have you got a contract that you can read like a piece of paper with these people?
Not in front of me that I could show you.
Let me put it this way.
In a box somewhere in a vault that my records exist and in there is a contract.
I'm going through a process to try and get them but I don't expect it to happen soon.
dan friesen
Yeah, me neither.
jordan holmes
I'm trying to get my legal documents, of course.
But every time I ask my brigadier general, he's like, go back to PR work.
dan friesen
Yeah.
It's in a box somewhere.
Great.
Whatever.
It's in the Ark of the Covenant.
jordan holmes
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
I was going to say, yeah.
It's a big warehouse.
dan friesen
So we've basically gotten where we're going to get on this line of questioning.
jordan holmes
Pretty much, yeah.
dan friesen
And so Howard moves it over to talking about, yeah, what's it like on Mars?
randy cramer
What's it like to be on the surface of Mars?
Well, the gravity is less than half.
It's about 0.4, so, you know, it's much lighter, that's for sure.
And that's why you have the extra strength then, presumably.
Well, I mean, first of all, we're there in an augmented powered body armor environment suit, so not only...
Do you have the ability to sort of jump higher and throw things farther?
You're in a powered body armor, so you can even jump higher and farther and throw things farther.
So it's a little crazy.
But you're not allowed to bring that back with you.
Oh, heck no.
unidentified
Nope.
dan friesen
Also, why are you so focused on throwing things?
How much throwing are you doing?
jordan holmes
Well, because he works on a baseball diamond most of the time.
dan friesen
I could be.
jordan holmes
I think this is indicative of one thing.
Everyone who's in the space weirdo, like, interviewing community, whether consciously or instinctively, knows what questions not to ask.
Because he's really thrown off by a lot of these very, very simple questions.
dan friesen
These basic questions?
jordan holmes
Yeah, yeah, just like, you can hear him when he's like, well, like, he's, when he's in his element, he's, snap.
I got my prepared responses.
dan friesen
Let me offer Randy a little bit of an out on that.
jordan holmes
Okay.
dan friesen
If I had been on Mars and you asked me what's it like on Mars, that's such an open question that it might take a second to be like, well, the gravity is different.
unidentified
Fair.
dan friesen
You know, like, what's it like in Chicago?
See, you paused.
unidentified
It's nice.
dan friesen
Yeah, you didn't have a quick answer.
jordan holmes
That's fair.
dan friesen
It's a broad topic that you don't have, like an easy, like, immediate...
Satisfying answer.
jordan holmes
Yeah, I wouldn't say that gravity's normal here.
dan friesen
Sure is, though.
So, also, another thing that Randy got to do while he was in space was he got to go to some intergalactic negotiations.
jordan holmes
Steve Pachenik was there.
dan friesen
Yep, he was.
unidentified
He was there.
jordan holmes
He was there.
dan friesen
Mic down for this, because it ends with my favorite question that Howard asks.
randy cramer
While I was on the Nautilus, I was very, very, very...
Very fortunate.
On a number of missions to the Intergalactic Space Station, not the International Space Station, the Intergalactic Space Station that rotates around Jupiter, which is a meeting place for a number of species from all over the place.
We meet there, other people meet there to have some really fascinating discussions, mostly diplomatic arrangements, contract negotiations, etc., treaty negotiations.
And on a number of occasions, I was...
I'll tag along, basically, as one of the only officers, flight officers, with a hand-to-hand combat experience.
I was a just-in-case, even though there was never a just-in-case.
It was always very peaceful arrangements.
But they wanted one guy who could stab somebody in the eye with their thumb if they needed to, and that was me.
So I got to go along.
I got to sit at many different tables across from many different species while senior officers were having many different discussions, initial negotiations, contract negotiations, treating negotiations, first contact meetings.
It was one of the...
Who are your favorites?
dan friesen
Yeah, that's a great question.
Here's...
Again, I haven't listened to enough episodes to have a good sense of who this interviewer is, but my sense of that is if that's your question, you're not taking this very seriously anymore.
You are not...
Your question, who's your favorite alien?
unidentified
Yeah.
dan friesen
I went to this intergalactic space station where they negotiated treaties.
Who do you like best?
jordan holmes
Yeah.
dan friesen
Another question, if you're taking this seriously, is like, oh, on what authority are those treaties held?
Totally.
Who enforces contract law in space?
jordan holmes
Contract law?
Contract law?
unidentified
Yeah.
jordan holmes
We're really worried about contract law here?
dan friesen
Is there...
That must mean...
jordan holmes
Who's the JAG officer for space?
dan friesen
Well, that must mean if there's other alien races coming to this space station for a negotiation, that must...
That we are already in a universal government.
jordan holmes
Correct.
dan friesen
Like, there must already be a one, not one world.
jordan holmes
A united galaxy.
dan friesen
Yeah.
jordan holmes
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
dan friesen
Because otherwise, none of this could be enforceable in any way.
Of course not.
jordan holmes
Okay, so we break a contract.
Do we get blown up?
dan friesen
I mean, maybe not blown up, but there would have to be some sort of a penalty.
jordan holmes
There would have to be some sort of consequence.
dan friesen
From whoever can enforce these contracts.
That would be something I'd like to hear.
But something else I like to hear is, what's your favorite alien?
jordan holmes
Who's your favorite?
That I do.
Dan, we have a ready-made answer for that question if anybody's asked.
You like the feline?
dan friesen
Oh, yeah.
jordan holmes
Yeah, of course.
And I'm a dog merchant.
dan friesen
You're a mercantile dog.
jordan holmes
Yeah, of course.
dan friesen
Well, Randy, he doesn't realize that that's an actual question that's being asked to him.
But it is.
randy cramer
Who are your favorites?
Oh, gosh.
I mean, on Star Trek, I used to like, on the old series, The Little Tribbles.
They were good.
You know, who are the most interesting and the ones that you like?
Or do you like them more?
You know, as a person who has always been very sort of like science motivated, I mean, I was a nerdy science kid, you know, from the get-go, and so I was...
Always fascinated and interested, no matter what, no matter what they looked like, no matter where they were from, no matter what their behavior was, I was always fascinated and interested to understand what in the world it was like.
You're a diplomat, and you like them all.
dan friesen
Alright, man, whatever.
I was just looking for a fucking answer.
jordan holmes
We were going to have fun.
You're being a dick right now.
dan friesen
So there's another issue that comes up here, and I think this is another really important point that a good, well, at least a decent interviewer would ask that never comes up in other places like Project Camelot, and that is like, okay, you were on Mars.
You're doing all this shit on Mars.
We just had a rover go there, and we saw pictures of Mars.
It doesn't look like anything like what you're talking about.
That's a problem.
randy cramer
When we get these orange pictures back from Mars from NASA...
They're all orange-tinted, and it looks like rubble up there.
I mean, there are some people who say that they can see figures and various other things.
But, you know, it looks like rubble, mostly.
Just nothing in particular.
I don't know.
I thought there was a really great picture that came off the JPL that had a rodent tucked between two rocks.
Well, people differed about what it was.
There have been lots of photographs like that.
I mean, there have been photographs of a woman in an evening gown, supposedly.
Yeah, that was more fuzzy.
But the rodent on the ground, I mean, it looked like a giant...
Rat squirrel there next to a rock.
I mean, I thought that was way less fuzzy and way less questionable.
dan friesen
Alright.
Yeah.
Alright.
jordan holmes
Then why don't you ever talk about how big the rodents on Mars are?
dan friesen
That doesn't seem to be central in the narratives.
But maybe we'll be eventually.
jordan holmes
So many goddamn rodents on Mars!
And finally, the Lunar Rover picked one up.
Don't worry about all the technology that I said was there.
Didn't you see there was a rodent in between two rocks?
unidentified
Yeah.
jordan holmes
That's true.
dan friesen
Very exciting.
jordan holmes
Proved it.
dan friesen
So, this is how things end.
randy cramer
Listen, we gotta go, but Captain Randy Kramer, I have a million more questions I have no time to ask you.
Thank you very much, and please take care.
You can have me back anytime.
dan friesen
That's the end.
unidentified
No.
dan friesen
I think this is really interesting, and I really do appreciate Robert sending this suggestion over, but as we come to the end...
I don't think that this is a good option for Wacky Wednesday in the future.
jordan holmes
We can't also make fun of somebody with somebody else.
dan friesen
Well, but it's also, from the one glimpse of this, it's unclear if he's making fun of Randy.
jordan holmes
Sure.
dan friesen
Because he does talk to fucking John Rappaport and David Icke.
unidentified
Right.
dan friesen
So who knows what kind of actual standards he has.
jordan holmes
That's fair.
dan friesen
It sounds like he's making fun of Randy.
jordan holmes
It would be so hard for me to believe that he wasn't.
dan friesen
Yeah, me too.
jordan holmes
It'd be really tough.
dan friesen
Me too.
But I don't think that this is necessarily a good option for us to cover for the reason that I kind of laid out earlier, which is he asks follow-up questions and presents this guy who we've seen on Project Camelot in a light that the audience can then make up their mind.
unidentified
Sure.
dan friesen
That is all I ask of people who are doing Space Weirdo or this kind of interview.
That's how you do an interview like this responsibly.
You push back on ideas that are outlandish.
If someone's being too offensive, you probably end the interview.
You can talk to people.
You could even interview horrible people like Gavin McGinnis.
You can do it if you do it in a responsible way.
And from this one...
jordan holmes
Politely leave them out to dry.
dan friesen
For this one glimpse that I have of Howard Hughes, it appears that...
jordan holmes
He did a good job.
dan friesen
That seemed to be what he was doing.
He pushed back on these completely absurd points.
He tried to get some details.
The details probably weren't coming.
It was polite.
jordan holmes
He said, you're kidding.
dan friesen
And at the end, it does seem like his questions become less serious because I think he's like, oh, okay, I get what's going on.
I don't want to be a total asshole to this guy and be like, you're full of shit.
Because that's not the brand.
That's not the program that he's running.
jordan holmes
But who's your favorites?
dan friesen
That's a great question.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
No, no, no.
dan friesen
If you're trying to be a dick.
jordan holmes
It's an even greater question, just because if you're taking that into, like, just terrestrial life, can you imagine a journalist talking to somebody at a diplomat, at the fucking UN, being like, hey, who's your favorites?
You like Germany?
Who's your favorites?
Just give me some of your faves.
dan friesen
Well, yeah.
jordan holmes
That's a dick question, and you know it.
dan friesen
I guess so.
jordan holmes
Yeah, come on.
dan friesen
But Randy didn't experience it that way.
jordan holmes
Of course not.
dan friesen
No.
jordan holmes
Because he doesn't get that.
dan friesen
No.
So anyway, I appreciate it, but I don't know.
jordan holmes
I think it's a great episode.
dan friesen
I think it's fun to listen to and to get some more information about soul juice and med beds.
I love soul juice.
We will have to probably keep looking for a new...
unidentified
Just going to Google Soul Juice and see what comes up.
dan friesen
But before we get out of here, Jordan, let's take a little time to listen to some voicemails.
jordan holmes
Oh, that'd be great!
unidentified
Hi, chat guys.
I'm a letter carrier in a small town currently sitting in a park on my lunch break.
I just wanted to thank you for keeping me sane while I deliver the mail.
But also, and more to the point, ask, should I get a tattoo of a portrait of my D&D character?
Or just one symbolizing it.
You know, I didn't know an actual portrait of him would be a little bit too much.
Anyway, thanks again.
Have a good day.
dan friesen
I feel like that's a question for you.
That's more in your vein.
jordan holmes
Personally, I am against portrait tattoos.
I'm all about symbols.
I'm against portrait tattoos.
I don't know what it is.
I just think the representation of a face is so iffy.
dan friesen
Unless the face itself is a symbol.
jordan holmes
Could be.
But, I mean, even then, when you're going to an artist, faces are tough to tattoo.
dan friesen
You're just thinking of Roger Stone, aren't you?
jordan holmes
Well, I don't want a Nixon on you.
If your D&D character is Nixon, you know where to put it.
dan friesen
On your back.
jordan holmes
Oh, yeah.
dan friesen
Yeah, I don't know.
I kind of agree with you, I think.
Also, shout out to our mail carriers out there.
jordan holmes
Yes, 100%.
dan friesen
All right.
jordan holmes
Please survive.
unidentified
Hi, guys.
My name is Rashawn.
I am a long-time listener, second-time caller, because I freaked out and hung up a second ago, so I'm sorry about that.
But I just wanted to call, and first of all, I'll say that I really enjoy the podcast.
I think that what y 'all do is very important as far as shining a light onto the way that conspiracy culture kind of exists and how it propagates.
I think that's marvelous.
Alex used to be a very different person back when I first encountered him.
I remember watching that documentary, Secret Rules of the World, the Bohemian Grove episode, where Alex goes to Bohemian Grove with BBC reporter, or he's an English journalist, John Ronson.
So you have Alex's documentary, Dark Secrets Inside Bohemian Grove, which is still on YouTube.
That was actually filmed at the exact same time.
As John Ronson's Secret Rules of the World episode, which is also on YouTube.
And it's just remarkable to look at the difference between how Ronson reports Alex's daring raid, so to speak, and how Alex reports it.
That could be a fun Wacky Wednesday thing for y 'all to do, where you watch both and just compare them.
I don't know.
Whatever you do, I'm going to be listening.
I'm going to be supporting.
Y 'all have a good one, and stay safe up there.
Bye-bye.
dan friesen
Thank you!
Yes, thank you very much!
As to that, we've talked a bit about Alex and John Ronson's different takes on Bohemian Grove, so unfortunately, that would be redundant as a wacky Wednesday.
But, do like the suggestion nonetheless, and thank you for...
jordan holmes
Yes, thank you very kindly.
unidentified
Hey, Dan and Jordan.
This is Griffin calling out of California.
It's been referenced a few times, but Jordan keeps saying he has an Andrew Jackson joke.
I was just wondering, could he send it on the podcast?
I'm super curious now to know what it is, and I'm sure there's a few other people who are equally curious.
I don't think I'll be getting out to Chicago anytime soon, and even though I was, I'm not sure if Jordan would be performing that night.
So if the bit isn't too long, or if Jordan is not opposed to it, could we hear that bit?
Thank you.
dan friesen
Do the bit.
No.
Do the bit.
jordan holmes
It is one.
dan friesen
Do the bit.
jordan holmes
It's one way too long.
dan friesen
Do the bit.
jordan holmes
And two, stand-up is not done on a podcast.
But if you want to hear that bit, I'm pretty sure I have a clip of me doing stand-up, and I'm pretty sure it's on one of them.
dan friesen
Okay.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
No, I won't do the bit.
I'm not going to do the bit.
unidentified
All right.
jordan holmes
Okay.
unidentified
Hey, Dan and Jordan.
This is Katie from Oklahoma City.
I'm really glad that y 'all created this online because I never wanted to tweet this out, but I've had this burning question forever about Alex.
He's got to have, like, a water sports or, like, urine fetish, right?
Because he talks about it all the time.
He...
It just seems like he's way too fixated on it for it not to be a huge hangup for him in some way.
In the technocrat drop, it's like he talks about globalists pissing on people all the time, and I find it really gross, but it comes up so frequently.
I'm convinced there's something there.
I wonder if y 'all have ever talked about it.
I know it's kind of weird and gross, but I'd love to hear your thoughts.
Love the show.
Bye.
dan friesen
First of all, no kink shaming.
jordan holmes
Exactly!
dan friesen
Second, he talks about...
The globalists pissing on us all the time.
jordan holmes
He's got a scatological thing that he returns to repeatedly, yeah.
dan friesen
Yeah, it's hard to say if it's a preoccupation or if it's just like, ah, this is my way of saying disrespect.
And he often talks about it in the form of like...
Female politicians pissing on him.
jordan holmes
Correct.
dan friesen
Like AOC or Hillary.
He talks about that a lot, which I don't know.
I'm not ready to ascribe that to be some kind of a sexual thing for him.
But it is.
Of shows that I've ever listened to, he is the most frequent person who brings up people to hang on.
jordan holmes
100%.
dan friesen
But it is a family show.
jordan holmes
I would say that I see some sort of dominance thing there.
I don't know if it's escalated to actual water sports, but there's definitely dumb circumstances going on there.
I can only imagine.
dan friesen
I don't know.
jordan holmes
I don't know.
dan friesen
Anyway.
unidentified
Hi, guys.
Long-time listener, first-time caller.
I've always wanted to say that.
I'll be honest.
I'm really only doing this to terrorize one of my friends, and I felt like you guys would appreciate that.
So, door magic.
I'm in your podcast now.
Thank you.
Thanks, guys, and keep up the great work.
dan friesen
I don't know if I should encourage that kind of behavior, but I decided, what the hell?
jordan holmes
I mean, we don't negotiate with terrorists, but I don't know if we flatly deny them.
dan friesen
Making your friend frustrated by leaving a message.
jordan holmes
I guess.
dan friesen
I think that's kind of fun.
jordan holmes
That's fair.
dan friesen
Yeah, I'll allow it.
jordan holmes
There are worse things.
unidentified
Hey, Dan and Jordan, this is Clay.
I was wondering, hearing about all the news about the plants, if Dan or Jordan have ever heard of the game Stardew Valley.
If not, it is on the Switch, and I highly recommend you guys look into it.
It's comfy as fuck.
Have a great day, guys.
dan friesen
Ah, yes.
I have played Stardew Valley.
jordan holmes
Oh, have you?
dan friesen
Yeah.
It was one of the first games I played on the Switch.
jordan holmes
Oh, no, that's right.
Now I remember.
I was thinking of the one with animals.
dan friesen
That's got animals.
unidentified
Is that one?
dan friesen
Yeah, it's like a farming kind of game.
jordan holmes
Oh, okay.
dan friesen
Yeah, I played it.
It was fun.
I don't know if it has a lot of replay value for me, but when I got it, I actually, deep in our Twitter feed, you can find...
I was posting screenshots of the game because I named all my animals after Infowars people.
unidentified
That's true.
jordan holmes
You did.
dan friesen
So there's a screenshot that's like, David Knight is not old enough to milk or something.
So yeah, Stardew Valley was a lot of fun.
I like that kind of thing.
It is very mellow.
The music is relaxing.
It's just interesting enough, because there is a story to it.
Sure, sure, sure.
jordan holmes
I've never played it.
dan friesen
You should give it a shot.
jordan holmes
I might.
unidentified
I don't have a Switch, but yeah.
dan friesen
Consider porting it.
Write some code.
jordan holmes
Alright!
Okay, I apologize for not solving my own problem.
dan friesen
One last call here.
unidentified
Hey Dan, hey Jordan, this is Brandon.
I'm from Chicago, but I'm living in Pittsburgh right now.
Leave.
Sure.
I just wanted to say that a couple of months ago, maybe, maybe sooner than that, you had been developing a narrative that Alex's show would have run out of money by now, and that didn't happen, and I'm mad at you, and I'm disappointed.
I deserve an apology.
Love the show.
Thanks.
You guys are great.
dan friesen
I am going to...
Honor your request for an apology.
I'm sorry about that.
You know, there was a situation where Alex was behaving in ways that were very consistent and very repetitively talking about how they were going out of business.
He was being very blunt and direct.
I can only express this as the person listening to it.
It's very difficult for me to recreate that on the show, but the way that I was bringing it up repeatedly was reflecting how repeatedly he was bringing it up.
unidentified
Yeah, yeah.
dan friesen
And you know what?
jordan holmes
He was very fatalistic about it, for sure.
dan friesen
Yeah.
unidentified
And I appreciate the call out on this.
dan friesen
And I accept that criticism that maybe we allowed ourselves to buy into that a little more than we should have.
But there is also a decent chance that he was in terrible financial straits and some things were able to fix that.
jordan holmes
If there's anything I'm pretty sure we've been consistent about is, one, our predictions are almost always wrong.
dan friesen
I say that a lot.
jordan holmes
And two, if we predict something, it will almost always...
Go wrong.
dan friesen
In our faces.
I don't know how much, you know, I certainly wasn't guaranteeing all of this, but there were things that were happening also that were sort of heightening that possibility.
Like, there was the fact that he got a DUI, and that, like, he was, like, it looked like things were really falling apart for him behind the scenes.
jordan holmes
If there was a just and loving God, our prediction would have come true.
dan friesen
Yeah, and then there was the situation with his bankruptcy hearing, which...
Granted, did not end up bankrupting him, but his wife was suing him for involuntary bankruptcy that could have ended up costing him three quarters of a million dollars.
There were these things that were real, that were happening kind of around the same time, and I think that I've learned a little bit of a lesson, and that is that even when things look really bad, I'm not going to buy into it.
I'm going to try and do a better job of Like, not letting myself get caught up in the, oh, what if?
jordan holmes
Sure.
dan friesen
What if this happens?
jordan holmes
Sure, sure, sure.
dan friesen
And I think that it's a fair criticism to say that, like, I probably did get a little bit more into, like, he's gonna fucking eat.
He could be out of business.
jordan holmes
Look, we're allowed to be excitedly wrong.
dan friesen
Yeah.
But at the same time, I have no problem with recognizing that in that excitement...
We can look back on it and be like, eh, we got carried away a little bit with what could be fantasy booking Alex's bankruptcy.
jordan holmes
I'm not going to defend my predictions.
dan friesen
I appreciate that.
jordan holmes
We are called out.
dan friesen
So we'll be back, Jordan, but until then we have a website.
jordan holmes
We do have a website.
It's knowledgefight.com.
dan friesen
Yep, we're also on Twitter.
jordan holmes
We are on Twitter.
It's at knowledgefight and I go to bed, Jordan.
dan friesen
Yep, we're on Facebook.
jordan holmes
We are on Facebook.
And then if you could please find a local charity or bail fund in your area and help out people.
dan friesen
Yep, we'll be back.
But until then, I'm Neo, I'm Leo, I'm DZX, Clark, I'm Daryl Rundus.
I am Soul Juice.
alex jones
Andy in Kansas, you're on the air.
dan friesen
Thanks for holding.
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Hello, Alex.
I'm a first-time caller.
I'm a huge fan.
I love your work.
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