After a viral Tik Tok conspiracy claimed there was a “true story” behind the hit series “Squid Game,” Jake goes down the rabbit hole to try to separate fact from fiction. The Tik Tok people were very wrong, and what we discover instead is far more horrific. Julian and Brad are forced to cope as Jake tells the devastating story of “Brother’s Home”, an 80s era South Korean so-called ‘Wellness Center’ that turns out to be anything but.
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SOURCES:
https://www.aljazeera.com/features/2021/12/10/secrets-of-south-koreas-house-of-horrors-hidden-in-australia
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/25/world/asia/korea-abuse-brothers-home.html
https://www.cnn.com/2016/10/25/asia/south-korea-brothers-home-abuse/index.html
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-52797527
Welcome to the QAA Podcast, Episode 316, Brothers Home.
As always, we are your hosts, Jake Rokitansky, Julian Field, and Brad Abrahams.
This week, you are at the mercy of my TikTok brain, known to scroll endlessly deep into the night on the hunt for content that could be fun and exciting instead of depressing and ominous.
Once again...
I have failed you.
Nice. But that doesn't mean we can't all learn about the horrific moments in history together.
Today, in the form of a quote-unquote wellness center that existed in South Korea in the 1980s that ended up leading to the deaths of hundreds of innocent people, most of them unhoused or from marginalized communities.
Influencers are calling it the real-life Squid Games, but that's not...
Necessarily true.
It's not true at all, actually.
In fact, the reality is far worse and draws some terrifying parallels to the current state of my native land, the United States of America, and maybe Canada soon?
No. No chance.
You guys are both, like, white settler colonialists on native land, so...
Well, we both have, like, white settler colonialist haircuts, if you can see.
Brad and I both recently got haircuts.
I swear to God, man, the guy cut it like I was fucking Adolf Hitler.
Look at the sides.
You know what?
You kind of do have like a 30s Germany type shit going on.
Yeah. You can't be Jewish and getting those haircuts, bro.
Yikes. And my barber was just really methed out.
Oh, nice.
I was like, stop, stop.
And they're like, I can't.
Yours looks good.
He actually was on meth?
It seemed like it.
There was so much shaking going on.
That's awesome.
Yeah. Awesome.
I mean, it is like our God-given right in these horrible times to be extremely high at work.
Well, and, you know, to get horrible haircuts.
By the way, Brothers Home sounds like a Steam game where you get to sleep with your various stepsisters.
Yeah, Brothers Home.
It's like one of those shitty Steam porn games.
I don't know what I was expecting when I started to go down this rabbit hole, but it wasn't this.
It wasn't where...
Where we end up.
That's good.
I actually knew nothing about this whatsoever.
Have you guys ever heard of Brothers Home or anything?
No. It could also be like an SNES game that was never properly ported from Japan and became kind of like mythical, you know?
Well, there are technically some games played, but not the kind that you want.
I'm sure it's bad.
So we're going to get into it.
But before all that, QAnon News.
Holy shit, it's back!
So Trump declares Biden's pardons void due to auto-pen usage.
Even if he signed all of them, it should still be thrown out.
The man, he ain't there.
President Donald Trump continues to attack a man who is no longer president, this time by declaring that all pardons issued during Joe Biden's presidency are void, vacant, and of no further force or effect.
Dude, he can't even hate Biden as much as he kept hating Clinton after she lost to him.
You know what I mean?
Biden is just not that good of an object of hatred or obsession.
Yeah, exactly.
Because he's just sad.
Yeah, I mean, you're hating an empty box.
So, posting on his social media platform, Truth Social, Trump based his claim on the assertion that President Biden used an auto pen, a mechanical device capable of replicating a person's signature, to approve the pardons.
According to Trump, this method renders the pardons invalid while raising questions about whether Biden was fully aware of the documents he was signing.
And he posts...
Oh my god, I'm like looking this up and this is an insane machine.
It is an insane machine.
Yes, we're going to talk about it.
Because I had no idea what it looked like.
I was like, how does this work?
Is it like a spirograph?
Because that's what I kind of thought, assumed it looked like.
And it kind of does.
So Trump writes, In other words, Joe Biden did not sign them,
but more importantly, he did not know anything about them.
The necessary pardoning documents were not explained to or approved by Biden.
He knew nothing about them, and the people that did may have committed a crime.
Therefore, those on the unselect committee who destroyed and deleted all evidence obtained during their two-year witch hunt of me and many other innocent people should fully understand that they are subject to investigation at the highest level.
The fact is, they were probably responsible for the documents that were signed on their behalf without the knowledge or consent of the worst president in the history of our country, crooked Joe Biden.
But Trump admitted to using AutoPen.
Don't worry, we'll get to that.
Okay, okay.
What I don't understand about AutoPen is, like, if you know that we're using this machine that basically just, like, replicates your arm moving to do the signature, why are we not just using a stamp at that point?
Like, isn't it, like, more dishonest to have a weird machine so that it actually looks like a human being assigned it?
Yeah, instead of a stamp?
It's like, just admit what's happening.
Like, I don't get it.
Stamps are fun to use, too, like...
Well, you know he would get, like, Biden would probably die if he had to stamp something like four or five times in a row.
His arm would get, like, tennis elbow and fall off.
I like the idea if they make a whole animatronic, like, double of the president that's signing all the documents.
I think that's better.
I think Elon probably is working on something close to that.
So, but this whole thing feels very QAnon to me, right?
The idea that even pardoned individuals like Fauci and Hunter could actually still be thrown in jail, you know, due to their pardons being null and void.
It's kind of like...
I'm not sure that legally posting a tweet, like, this is very, like, Michael Scott being like, I declare bankruptcy!
Like, it's like, what are you saying, man?
Like, someone taught him these words, void, vacant, and of no further force or effect, but, like, I don't...
Know if a tweet is like a legally binding thing?
It's like when people were posting on Instagram and they were like, I do not allow Instagram to use my data.
This is like the kind of 5D chess logic that keeps conspiracy theorists hopeful that their political enemies will be thrown in jail.
Also, there's no proof whatsoever that Biden used an auto pen for these particular pardons.
And unfortunately for Trump, legal experts have swiftly dismissed these claims, calling them, quote, constitutionally unfounded.
So the Constitution basically grants the president absolute pardon power without stipulating the method of signature required.
In fact, John F. Kennedy himself used the auto pen to expedite signing official documents, as did Barack Obama.
Scholars emphasize that once a pardon is granted, it is irrevocable, and the method of its authorization holds no bearing on its legality.
And as we were saying earlier, you know, I had no idea that such a technology existed.
So I looked up a couple videos of the latest tech, and it kind of looks like a sewing machine with a pen attached to it.
And then you get this, like, credit card-looking type thing that contains your unique signature, and you insert the card, chip facing up, and the machine produces a perfect signature.
Now, I have no idea if this is the same kind of machine that they use in the White House, but the pilled half of my brain is wondering, like, what stops somebody from stealing the card and signing an executive order to make McDonald's serve breakfast all day, you know?
Okay. Wouldn't be a bad idea.
Kind of specific.
That is, like, something that Trump would actually do.
Yeah, I mean, that would be one good, the only policy, maybe.
The only executive order worth anything.
And of course, I'm not the only one.
This manufactured controversy around the auto pen has reignited larger debates around the scope of presidential authority and the ethics of using automated tools in governance.
Conspiracy theorists have eagerly seized upon Trump's assertion.
Within hours of his statement, social media platforms erupted with speculative narratives surrounding the auto pen's use.
It's not just that he signed it with an auto pen.
It's that the auto pen isn't his signature either.
These are the auto pen.
That one is his real signature.
Took me a long time to figure it out because the bottom one, his real signature, looks like Joel.
And that one is clearly not even the same bee.
None of that.
So I was like, that's not even his signature.
But do you know whose signature it is?
That's Jill Biden.
What? Jill Biden.
Her bee is different than his bee.
This is his bee.
Not attached.
Two different strokes for the bee.
This is her bee.
One stroke.
But these, like, legislations are just, like, you have to sign them a million times over.
Who gives a shit if it's Jill Biden signing them?
It's her bee.
She's out of her mind, and, like, this new TikTok thing of, like, filming yourself, like, on the bed, like, from above is just like, you are about to penetrate me, but have you heard of this conspiracy theory?
Well, I wrote, the jig is up, Joel Biden.
Which is like Jill and Joe if they did a Dragon Ball Z fusion.
So it's the idea that she's signing it, but she meant to write Joe, but by mistake wrote Joel, because she was thinking of her own name.
I don't know.
I can't keep up with these people anymore.
So generally, the latest hand-wringing surrounding Trump's accusation over Biden's alleged use of an auto pen essentially is just to further the narrative that Biden had zero autonomy, you know, and that the deep state was using his senility to push through sweeping changes and allow their allies to get away with untold amounts of crime.
Which is always the case, right?
It's never about the actual event in question, but always about using the event to claim, if, you know, if this is true, imagine how many more conspiracies.
Now, when asked during an interview with MSNBC if he himself had ever used the auto pen, Trump had this to say.
It's a lot of stuff.
And you'll make your own determination.
You have criticized President Biden using auto pen in the last few days.
Have you yourself ever used auto pen, sir?
Yeah, only for very unimportant papers.
And I don't call them unimportant.
If you do letters where people write in and, you know, they'd love to have a response or write responses.
And I'll sign them whenever I can.
But when I can't, I, you know, would use an auto pen.
But to use them for...
Dude, this is such weak sauce, man.
He's like, yeah, I do use the auto pen.
I have lots of grandchildren.
They all need Christmas cards.
He looks so bad.
He looks so bad.
He looks like a mummified body in that video.
I mean, he is 80 now, right?
Yeah, but his skin looks like dried clay.
Yeah. Like Biden was a better looking corpse than Trump is.
Yeah. Well, Trump hasn't.
I don't think Trump has done a lot of plastic surgery.
Like, Biden looks like a fucking Beverly Hills.
His whole face is, like, weirdly flattened.
And that's why, like, all the conspiracy theories about, like, this is not even the same person.
They replaced him.
It's because he does look quite different after, like, all the weird face tuck shit.
That's true.
All right.
So next up, Maui police chief named in Diddy lawsuit.
So, Maui Police Chief John Pelletier is facing mounting scrutiny after being implicated in a civil lawsuit involving Sean Diddy.
The lawsuit filed in federal court in California alleges that Pelletier, along with other high-profile individuals, was complicit in criminal acts tied to Combs.
The accusations are that Pelletier impersonated law enforcement from other jurisdictions and served as security for Combs during incidents of alleged sexual assault and other misconduct.
These allegations stem from Pelletier's tenure in Las Vegas prior to his appointment as Maui's police chief in 2021.
Now, this is the same lawsuit that also names NFL star Odell Beckham Jr. and comedian Drew Drewski DeBoard, both of whom have issued public denials.
Maui's mayor has urged that Pelletier be placed on administrative leave while their office conducts an investigation, but on Wednesday of last week, the police commission voted to keep him on the job, of course.
Jesus. This is like a real dollar bin version of Epstein, where it's like, who are these people?
like, I'm sorry, what?
So conspiracy theorists are baking lots of bread over the police chief's naming in this lawsuit, mostly due to his proximity to other horrific events that have become the center of many conspiracy theories.
For example, Pelletier was the incident captain for the Las Vegas.
Really? I mean, that is the most...
So crazy.
Having a conspiracy theory about that, I think if you look into it, you will become weird.
Your brain will get kind of fucked up because it is a very bizarre thing that happens.
It's fair.
That's a fair one.
That's a fair pilling.
He was also the police chief during the Maui fires in 2023, which many conspiracy theorists believe were triggered by orbital energy weapons in an effort to do some sort of weird high-tech land grab.
They spared all the blue homes, right?
Yeah, exactly.
And there are claims that Pelletier was responsible for trapping victims in their homes so that they couldn't escape to tell the truth about the cause of the fires.
Wow! What is he, like the SimCity manager?
Can he just like...
Can he just, like, act on, like, a larger scale?
Yeah, is he just, like, able to, like, remove the ladders from the pools?
Yeah, this is weird.
Peltier was playing the whole city as, like, the Sims, basically, and he could just...
He's like, well, I'm putting you in the pool and the ladder's gone.
So, of course, none of this holds up under scrutiny.
No hard proof, just lots of speculation.
But with his name popping up in the Diddy lawsuit, it's given these theories a fresh boost.
QAnon believers on X are pointing to it as, quote, evidence of something bigger, that Pelletier is a deep state false flack cover-up artist who goes from state to state ensuring that the real story is never uncovered.
That's so awesome.
His whole job is just like cover-up guy?
Yeah. Jake, did you look up what he looks like?
Of course.
He kind of looks like a WWF guy meets...
Denis Levant, that French actor.
There was a cartoon show that I liked growing up called Cops.
It was like C.O.P.S.
And they had mechanical attachments.
There was one of them who had a real long handcuff arm and stuff.
He looks like one of the characters from that show.
I'm going to get like three people on Twitter that are like, oh my god, I remember that.
Good morning out there.
If you are a conspiracy theorist or if you're somebody who doesn't believe in conspiracy theorists, you're going to want to stick around for this, right?
You're not going to believe what dropped today.
Do you remember the police chief from Las Vegas?
You remember the guy that they shipped up to Hawaii?
Guess what?
Guess where I just saw his name?
This guy.
Remember? MJ Trutholzer tweets this out.
What are the mathematical chances, right?
Not only was he the Maui police chief during the deadly wildfires, but he was also the incident commander during the Las Vegas mass shootings.
And now he worked for Diddy.
Why is he laughing during the Las Vegas mass shootings?
That's not like a great place to be laughing.
He's in that state where like so many people have kind of dismissed him and cut him out of their lives and he's just like...
He's like, you see, motherfuckers?
He just has that attitude.
Also, he's walking through his whole apartment building, just kind of speaking very loudly.
Yeah, very loud.
And of course, the first tweet that he references is MJ Truth Ultra, which is like a blatant QAnon account, of course.
No, that's the new news.
That's like the new CNN, MJ Truth Ultra.
And for my final news story, JFK assassination documents released.
So, the latest batch of JFK assassination documents released on March 18th of this year, 2025, comprises of over 63,400 pages, including about 2,200 files made public by the U.S. National Archives and Records Admin under an executive order from President Donald Trump.
This release follows decades of public fascination and speculation, spurred by the 1992 law mandating the disclosure of all assassination records within 25 years, even though delays and redactions, of course, have persisted.
Initial reviews by historians and scholars, as reported by outlets like the New York Times and AP News, indicate no seismic shifts in the official narrative that Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone in assassinating President Kennedy on November 22, 1963.
However, the documents do offer fresh details, particularly about Cold War-era US intelligence operations, including CIA surveillance of Oswald in Mexico City in September of 1963 and covert efforts like Operation Mongoose aimed at destabilizing Cuba.
Now, new information uncovered in these files sheds light on previously obscured aspects of the CIA's activities and Oswald's background.
For instance, the documents reveal the extent of U.S. wiretapping in Mexico City with Mexican government cooperation, a practice previously unknown which was noted by historian Steve Gillen.
They also detail Oswald's interaction with Soviet and Cuban embassies, reinforcing his political motivations rather than the Warren Commission's portrayal of him as a mere sociopath.
Bro, he was a CIA asset.
I love that they're just like, yeah, we were definitely surveilling him throughout his whole career working for us.
He was handing out fucking Pro Castro leaflets right near where the CIA had their little printing operation where they were trying to honeypot communists.
I mean, come on, guys.
Fucking come out and admit it.
So additional revelations include CIA plots to assassinate Fidel Castro, some involving organized crime figures like John Rossily, though these don't directly tie to Kennedy's death.
And while some of the new information sheds a little bit more light on the historical context leading up to the assassination, experts like Timothy Naftali emphasize that they primarily shine a light on intelligence-gathering methods rather than provide a smoking gun for conspiracy theories.
Now, as you know, nonetheless, many conspiracy influencers do claim that the documents contain the smoking gun, rehashing old conspiracies about Israeli intelligence being somehow involved in the assassination.
Yeah, when I went on X, all I saw was that it proves that the Jews killed Kennedy.
Yes, and while it is true that the documents reveal a relationship between Israeli intelligence and James Angleton, who was the counterintelligence chief, QAnon influencers and other people on X are...
We're using selective screenshots to make it appear much more substantial than what has been previously known.
Wait, the CIA was working with the Mossad?
That's crazy, man.
The two allied countries having their intelligence work together?
How did I do for my Travis QAnon news?
That's my best Travis imitation.
Beautiful. Absolute king shit.
Travis is fired.
He doesn't need to come back from vacation.
It took six years, but we finally, like, made Jake abandon his true self so much that he's, like, doing a perfect simulacra of Travis.
I know.
I hate myself.
So the other night, I was vertically scrolling through TikTok videos, and I stumbled across one that caught my attention.
And the claim, you know, appealed to my TV movie mindset, and happened to center around a series my wife and I are obsessed with, Squid Game.
Now... For those of you who don't know, don't care, haven't watched, Squid Game is about a group of people facing insurmountable debt who sign up for a series of games meant to be played to the death, with the winner taking home tens of millions of dollars.
As a massive fan of the series, I took my wife to a Squid Game, like, pop-up event for her birthday, and we, like, played the games and stuff.
She died very early on.
I survived till the end, but then was killed.
I had always assumed that the series was just, you know, a scathing indictment of hyper-capitalism, using the games to represent the modern-day rat race and the uber-wealthy who benefit from everyone else's hard work.
Yeah, I mean, it's reminiscent of Stephen King's Running Man, which he wrote as Richard Backman.
But it is like, yeah, this is, you know, it's kind of Verhoeven-y.
Sure, and, you know, it's based on a lot of mangas, as we'll get to, you know.
But the claim in the video is much more literal.
That the show is based on the South Korean wellness center, Brothers Home, where occupants were forced to compete in real games to the death.
Did you know Squid Game's actually based on true events from the 80s?
It's all based around the 1986 Brothers House incident in Korea, where an orphanage was essentially turned into the Squid Game.
Founded in 1960, the Brothers House Orphanage ran normally until 1986.
A billionaire adopted all the kids and then bought the orphanage and locked them all in it.
Tiring workers that hid their face like this and forced these children in blue jumpsuits to play kids games.
And if you're wondering, you didn't want to lose.
The creator of Squid Game claims that it was not based on anything, but this is in the TV show where the guards sleep, and this is at the Brothers House where they kept the children.
Also, these were the Squid Game guards, and these were the guards in real life.
Now, you can look this up for yourself.
This is actually one of the worst human rights violations in history.
But weirdly, around 2020, it was kind of scrubbed from the internet, with many people theorizing Netflix did this in order for the Squid Games to be posted as normal.
This is until some survivors of the brother's house started speaking up this year.
They started realizing how awfully similar to Squid Game's looks and plays just like the brother house.
Squid Game's denies there's any influence or ties to this, but I don't know what your thoughts are because I think there is.
This guy's got to find a new occupation.
I don't know.
He's killing me.
This is like kind of TikTok shit though.
He's very popular.
Really? It's like Forrest Gump-like.
Yeah. That video had 1.7 million plays and almost 100,000 likes.
It's huge.
My favorite is like the part where, because he has like images behind him, like in that TikTok way where you're kind of cut out.
Yep. And you're...
Standing in front of whatever you're trying to use as proof and you're pointing behind you.
But when he's like, and guess what?
The games led to death.
He's trying to make the actual claim that is creepy.
It just shows a children's drawing of a guy.
Being killed or something.
Now, that's one of the few things that's real.
Most of what this guy says is completely false.
Most of what he says is completely false.
The drawing is real, and the fact that it is one of the worst human rights violations is real.
You can't use a drawing as proof of a thing.
That's not...
Just... You'll see, you'll see, you'll see.
It is a real drawing, I'm sure.
Yes, you'll see.
In the video, you see many images of run-down looking stairwells painted green and pink, very similar to the Netflix series, you know, but grounded in the real world.
There are pictures of prison guards wearing pink suits with masks, similar to the guards in the fictional world of Squid Game.
The only problem is almost all of the pictures in the viral post and others like it because this is just one of many.
Are AI generated.
So the pictures were stolen from an artist in Turkey who of course did not consent to his AI generated artwork being used in the post.
And the only real photographs are the ones where we see people wearing jumpsuits that do look...
Kind of like the prisoner uniforms in Squid Game.
So I have a couple real pictures for you guys to see.
The top two are real.
And the third picture is from the TV show.
So they changed the color of the uniforms to like a teal turquoise, but they are kind of wearing these matching tracksuits.
But without numbers, at least on the front.
They do have numbers on the back, unfortunately.
Oh, wow.
Okay. Yeah, we're going to get into it.
I'm so sorry.
By the way, hey, everybody listening, trigger warning for everything.
Violence, sexual abuse, you know, abuse of mentally ill, everything.
Every trigger warning that we could have, I'm putting it here before we get into the bulk of this episode.
As I looked into it further, it seemed that just about every piece of information included in this viral TikTok post was fake.
The creator of Squid Game...
Hwang Dong Hayek has stated that Brothers Home was not the inspiration for the series, but rather a combination of his experience trying to make it an entertainment and the growing class inequalities in South Korea, as well as manga like Battle Royale.
So what was Brothers Home?
Was that even real?
To me, it kind of sounded like an after-school program for disadvantaged youth.
Was it actually something awesome and fun that had been twisted into a nightmare because the uniforms looked similar?
Well, it wouldn't be the QAA podcast if I, you know, didn't inform you that, no, Brothers Home was real and was definitely not fun and awesome, and in fact was far more horrific than the fictional series that isn't based on it.
If that makes any sense.
Yeah. In the period following the Korean War, South Korea was thrust into a tumultuous political situation.
Park Chung-hee, the second highest ranking officer in the South Korean army, had seized power from the interim government in a coup in May of 1961.
He served for two years before officially being elected as South Korea's third president in 1963.
The government at this point was staunchly anti-communist.
Naturally, he was in very close communication with the United States, who still had a firm presence in the country following the Korean War.
As you know, the United States, we helped South Korea during the Korean War while the Soviet Union helped North Korea.
So we still had a very strong presence even in the years following the war, which I believe was 1950 to 1953.
Yeah, it's one of the most violent and awful proxy wars the U.S. has waged.
It's worth listening to the whole season dedicated to it on the Blowback Podcast.
Absolutely. So Park Chung-hee even sent South Korean troops to support the United States in the Vietnam War.
He kicked off a series of economic reform that led to massive industrialization and growth in South Korea.
Now, during this time, there were the formation of what are called chaebols, which are large industrial companies controlled by an individual or family.
The word literally means rich family or financial clique.
Some notable ones that still exist today are Samsung, LG, and Hyundai.
I currently own products from two out of the three of those.
So I felt great.
I felt really good reading that.
The government's goal at this time was pretty focused.
Prepare the nation for the hosting of the 1988 Olympic Games, show off a thriving South Korea, and essentially rid the streets of what the regime labeled as quote-unquote vagrants.
Jesus fucking Christ.
God, I love American freedom.
Beggars, gumsellers, or street hustlers who, without a fixed residence, wanders around the place where many people gather or pass by, such as tourist spots, hospitality establishments.
Train stations, bus stops, or residential areas, and harasses passerbys by begging or forcefully selling items.
Gum sellers.
Damn, gum sellers.
A visibly poor person who's trying to scrape together some money?
Get them out of here.
Wait till you see who they took.
So really, obviously, as we're saying, it just meant anybody who was unhoused, marginalized, or potentially mentally ill, they would take people who were drunk, like businessmen who, you know, were like coming home from work, they got wasted, they fell asleep on a sidewalk, they would be sort of wrapped up in this.
Oh, poor businessmen who got drunk and got wrapped up in this.
Sad. I'm just saying that the people that they ended up taking, I have stats later on, it was not quote-unquote vagrants.
No, all the purges are always like this.
It's like insane.
It's like, we're going to kill the communists.
By the way, we should also take care of all the Chinese and gay people.
Yes, yeah, exactly.
So authorities launched incentives to quote-unquote cleanse urban areas of anyone who might mar their pristine vision, and in the crosshairs were unhoused street vendors, day laborers, and even children.
In 1975, the Ministry of Home Affairs announced Directive 410, which required municipalities to assemble, quote, vagrant patrol teams.
These officers were required to patrol the streets at least once a month and disappear anyone that didn't fit in with Park Chung-hee's vision for the new and improved South Korea.
Police officers swept these individuals off of the streets, often without explanation, and transferred them to facilities like Brothers Home.
The official narrative painted these efforts as benevolent, promising rehabilitation, care, and a path to reintegration.
The reality, however, was far bleaker.
Many of the children that they took were in fact not unhoused.
They had families who were waiting.
What? Oh my god.
What the fuck?
thrown in a van and sent to Hyeongjae Bukjuan, or Brothers Home, the largest facility of its kind in the southeastern ports
city of busan do you have any idea how how old that kid was um he was i think six or seven oh imagine being an adult and doing this shit there's another survivor who who i'll quote later who was nine when he he and his sisters were taken and they didn't even ask like
you know where are your parents no wow if you think about it though like kids are kind of all vagrants you know they just kind of hang around they don't really contribute send them to some sort of weird jail *coughs*
No, and the kids would protest.
There's actually records of them asking kids for information, saying, where's your address?
Where do your parents live?
And then they would take that information and then take them to a completely different city, like march them into some random grocery store or whatever, and be like, hey, do you know this kid's parents?
And the shopkeeper would be like, no, I've never seen them before.
And they'd be like, well, see, you're homeless.
And they would cart them back to brother's home.
So they would pretend.
I think at first they would pretend.
Pretend like they were helping or they were reaching out to the families or whatever.
And if anybody spoke up, they would either beat you or find another way to keep you from getting home.
Brothers Home operated under the protection of political connections and state subsidies.
It was initially established as an orphanage.
The turbulent war years had left many children without parents or families, and because they were considered a great shame upon the nation by the military regime, running an orphanage became a big business.
The more children you housed, the more funding you would receive.
Bye-bye communism.
You got what you wanted.
So, yeah, so this shield of impunity allowed it to function as a detention center rather than the welfare facility that it claimed to be.
So those detained were not given the benefit of due process.
Instead, they were labeled as vagrants, which was, you know, a term that became a catch-all.
No. No?
No. They're like interrogating a baby?
You'll see.
In this environment of unchecked power and social conformity, Brother's Home thrived.
A grim reflection of a society willing to overlook its vulnerable in favor of a
This is like the story of the Olympics.
Kind of, yeah.
Inside Brothers Home.
Survivors recount Brothers Home not as a facility for care, but as a prison-like complex marked by brutality and despair.
From the moment detainees entered its gates, they were stripped of their identities, assigned numbers instead of names.
Individuals were forced to adapt to an existence where their humanity was systematically erased.
In some ways, there is a parallel here to the fictional world of Squid Game, where inmates in the games are given and referred to only by their numbers.
One huge difference, though, is that they volunteered to be there.
Everyone at Brother's Home was taken against their will.
Every single person.
Hang Jung Soon, who was just eight years old when he and his sister were sent to Brother's Home, recalls how he came to the facility in 1984.
So he and his sister were to spend a day with their father in the city, but their dad had to run a couple errands first.
So Han's father thought the responsible thing to do was leave the kids at a police substation where they would be safe until he could finish the handful of errands that he had to run.
However, within 30 minutes, a bus pulled up in front of the station and the police officers told Han and his sister to get on it.
They began to protest, saying their dad would be coming back for them, and they were immediately beaten by officers on the bus for being, quote, too loud.
Beaten? A couple hours later, they found themselves at brother's home.
I mean, the dad, it's like, oh, I got some shit to do, I'm just gonna drop my kids off at a police station?
He's like, hmm, I wonder if they're doing that vagrant thing, and maybe they can...
These kids are a pain in the fucking ass.
Brad, will you take Han's quote?
The beating started the very next day.
My face was covered with blood.
It's so crazy because it's like, why are you doing?
Like, there's not even any advantage to this.
I guess, like, it's a for-profit business.
Violence and abuse for profit.
Yeah, and a lot of sadistic.
So the abuse was relentless.
Beatings with clubs, water torture, sexual violence became daily occurrences.
Nighttime in particular was fraught with drugs.
Oh, God.
Oh, God.
When the lights were turned off, that's when the sexual abuse started.
I watched a documentary by 101 East, which is by Al Jazeera, and they were interviewing this one guy who's basically said he was raped every single...
And while he's talking about this, he completely breaks down.
He goes, I'm sorry, I have to take some medication.
And he basically fumbles for a handful of pills just to endure his life.
So the sexual assaults were being perpetrated by the guards or the workers there or other inmates?
By the guards who were also inmates.
You'll see.
I'm going to get to that about the military structure.
So, of course.
You know where this is headed.
Yeah. During this time there and the years since, Han has created numerous drawings to outline the abuse that he and others endured while imprisoned at the home.
So while he was there, he basically was drawing these pictures and hiding them so that if he ever escaped, he could show people, like, what was happening.
So that's where the drawing in the TikTok video comes from, even though none of the real information is given.
I take back my criticism of the drawing.
Yeah, yeah.
It's awful.
It's awful.
In his later years, Han has even created a small model village of the camp to map out areas of abuse for investigators and journalists.
So to get to Brad's inquiry from a couple minutes ago, the brothers' home was run like a military operation.
There were rows and rows of barracks built through forced labor of those imprisoned there.
If you behaved really well, you essentially became a capo and were given a platoon of 120 inmates to command.
So within that platoon, there were designated team leaders, there was a general secretary, all composed of inmates so that no money was wasted on hiring staff.
Oh, God.
So this dynamic created a hierarchy of fear and exploitation, and survivors like Han describe a grim survival instinct.
He says, quote, from the moment you open your eyes to the moment you fall asleep, there's abuse.
If I suffer today, others will suffer tomorrow.
Guards referred to various torture practices as games, according to Hong Johnson, another parallel to the fictional Netflix series.
Han describes two of these torture practices.
One was called motor vehicle, where the guards, inmates themselves, would take turns punching victims in one eye or the other.
Oh, man.
And during one torture session, Han was hit so hard, a couple of his teeth were knocked loose, and the guards basically said, okay, well, let's pull them all out.
They tied strings around his teeth and pulled the rest of his teeth out.
And this is the eight-year-old?
I mean, yeah, he was at some point, I mean, he was a preteen or, yeah, he was probably 9, 10, 11 around then.
And then in the documentary I watched, he takes out his dentures.
He has no teeth left.
Another game was called Hiroshima, where inmates were forced to hang upside down from bunk beds by their ankles to see who could last the longest.
This is horrible torture, as children's faces would swell as the blood rushed to their head.
Most people would just pass out within minutes and then fall upside down to the hard barracks floor, resembling a bomb dropping out of the sky.
Hence. There's nothing more appropriate than just, like, naming one of these sadistic things, like, one of the biggest war crimes that the United States has ever committed.
And it's like, this is the side of Korea that, yeah, like, is defined by what Americans wanted Korea to look like.
Yeah. Monday mornings at Brother's Home brought with them the horrifying spectacle of, quote, people's trials.
Now, these were public punishments for alleged rule breakers, designed not only to discipline, but to instill fear among the detainees.
Jake, did you get the...
The impression or learn, like, did it just immediately start this horrific or did it unravel to become this way?
It immediately started this horrific.
It feels like you kind of hit the ground running when you're coming out of a war.
Like, you're coming out of a sick, sadistic war situation where violence and killing and genocide, you know, is just, like, so part of the game.
And then it's like, well, back to civilian life.
Let's start to create these structures all over again.
Yeah, and as we'll get to in the next section, the guy who...
Who ran it came from a military background and had tons of connections, and they're using religion to justify it.
So yeah, we're going to get into that.
But no, it was even as an orphanage before this decree was passed to round up whoever the police wanted, essentially.
It was not good.
And there's more.
There's more.
Yay. This is the anti-TikTok video where you get only real information and it's not 60 seconds long.
It's like an hour and ten.
Jake, was this your like, you know, pre-bedtime writing session?
I just, no.
I was like going through and I like turned to my wife and I was like, oh my god, there's like a real, they found like a real squid game that it's like based on.
And she was like, I think all those pictures are AI.
And I was like, oh really?
And I started looking into it.
Then I went to the Wikipedia and I went to others and I was like, oh my god.
And there's tons of great journalists on it.
BBC has done amazing work.
Al Jazeera has done amazing work on this.
The South Korean archival services have collected a lot of stories and stuff from survivors.
So there's a lot of information to be found on this.
It's just not really talked about.
And you can see why.
Yeah. I just don't know how you go to sleep after your first...
Yeah, this was like, we left you to your own devices completely, and you decided on this?
Well, I didn't realize at first.
I was like, oh, I think there's a real-life Squid Game, and there's some misinformation TikToks, and I'm going to sort through and figure out what's real.
I didn't understand the extent of it when I started working on it, which is often the case.
Some people like to know the full picture when they propose a QAA episode.
I just like to know the tip of the iceberg.
Right. So the man at the center of what has been called Busan's Auschwitz was a guy named Park In-Kun, a former military officer and ex-boxer.
As far as the government was concerned, Park was a hero.
He was keeping the streets clean while providing shelter and rehabilitation to society's most vulnerable.
Park was given medals by the government and featured in a pure propaganda documentary in 1981 about Brother's Home, where he was portrayed as a saint and the Wellness Center as a place of awesomeness and fun.
But in reality, he ruled with an iron fist.
Survivors claim Park kept handcuffs in his desk and would dole out vicious beatings personally.
There was one rumor from one of the survivors who said that they had heard that Park was responsible for 30 to 50 murders of people who were contained in the camp.
Brad is coping so hard that he's like doing weird selections in the document.
He's kind of like trying to cope by just like selecting the name.
I'm just double clicking.
Yeah. Holding on for dear life.
Park ran brothers' home alongside his wife Lim Sung Soon and her brother Lim Young Soon, all claimed to be devout Christians.
During the Monday morning people's trials, Park would have rule breakers brought up in the front of the church and they were made to publicly apologize to all in attendance and then Park would put on boxing gloves and beat them senseless.
Following the public beatings, Park's wife's brother, a pastor, would get up and perform a sermon preaching about the healing powers of Jesus Christ.
So they were essentially beating these kids and young adults in front of everybody and then saying, like, oh, Jesus can console those who have sinned and do all this stuff.
So it was kind of like they were using religion to sort of wash away the horrors of what all of these people just witnessed minutes ago.
Inmates were forced to perform in Christian plays for local and foreign guests.
They were given Easter eggs as rewards.
They also ran an adoption agency directly out of the welfare center.
They worked closely with the Protestant church who connected them with families who were looking to adopt or had them writing letters asking for money from families who had already adopted.
And this is the worst part.
There were two platoons that were housed on the far end of the center called baby platoons, and these were reserved for children too young to work and would ultimately be put up for adoption.
That's so low.
It was like, what, 3,500 people at the facility?
Uh, 38,000.
38,000?
Went through from 1970-something.
From middle 1970 to middle 1980.
And this is the amount they actually got adopted?
Well, this is on record.
There could be many more that they don't have.
They're just the ones that they know for sure.
So investigators found that 90% of the inmates at Brothers Home had families and were of sound mind.
So this is just straight-up human trafficking.
They worked alongside many adoption agencies, including six agencies based in the United States.
And this was just one of the many revenue streams for Parkin Kuhn and his family.
Brothers Home was not just the center of abuse.
It was also a site of forced labor and economic exploitation.
Detainees, including children, were made to work long hours in factory-like conditions producing goods such as clothing, shoes, fishing equipment.
One of the survivors talks about how for, you know, like 10 hours a day they would have to run fishing line through poles.
So they were just made to do, like, all of this, like, you know, forced labor as children for no or little pay.
These items were then sold for profit, and the money would go to Park Il-Kun, his family.
They became very wealthy.
I think when Brother's Home eventually is raided by authorities, they found over $5.5 million in today's value of money that they had basically just been embezzling from the government, stealing from selling the goods that they were producing with slave labor.
One detainee said that they were given $140 after seven years of unpaid work.
And so, yes, from 1976 to 1987, an estimated 38,000 people were swept off the streets and fed into Brother's home.
And it could have been thousands more if it hadn't been for a fateful hunting trip.
In 1986, a local prosecutor named Kim Yong-won heard a rumor from some local hunters that they had seen what looked like young laborers being assaulted by guards with clubs on a nearby mountain in Ulsan.
Kim trekked out to the construction site himself during a pheasant hunting excursion and photographed the guards himself.
So this is Kim's picture from when he was spying on basically the chain gang, essentially.
Yeah, it's so eerie.
It's just being photographed from, you know, behind branches and leaves.
So, of course, he's disturbed by what he sees.
He launches an investigation and uncovers, you know, thousands of individuals at Brother's home who are being held against their will.
And basically, what he claims that he saw inside when the home was raided was, quote, a perfect detainment facility, not a welfare center, locked from the inside and out.
He found a hospital ward where patients had been left untreated, as well as graveyards behind the facility's church, unmarked graves hinting at the deaths of detainees.
An official inquiry would later reveal that over 630
50 people died at Brothers Home.
Their causes of death ranging from beatings to untreated illnesses and malnutrition.
Just like the concentration camps.
And there's all sorts of stories.
Like, if you watch any documentaries about this, the survivors, everybody seems to have a story where somebody acted out of turn or a little kid wet their pants and basically is, like, beaten to death in front of the children.
Or beaten so bad, hauled away, and then they never come back, which means that, you know, they died.
So this is fucking crazy, too.
So subsequent investigations found that the brothers' home purchased over 250,000 tablets of Thorazine in 1986 alone, alongside a handful of other antipsychotics.
So these would be given to inmates who dared to speak up, or worse, tried to escape.
They were beaten, sent to the hospital wing to have their injuries treated, and then force-fed benzos until they were compliant.
Han Jong-sun, the boy who was kidnapped with his sister in 1984, told investigators and journalists in interviews that his sister, who had broken the rules to come and visit him in his platoon, was given so many pills that she developed severe mental illness while in prison in the camp, and then was therefore locked in the camp's mental ward,
which had, like, apparently horrible, horrible conditions.
Even worse.
Yeah. Just want to remind, these are the anti-communists.
I mean, this defines, like, anti-communism in Asia during the Cold War.
There were two million people fucking killed in Indonesia.
Like, ritualistically, just, like, organized slaughter, and they would just feed the bodies into the river.
Bad. Anti-communism is, in fact, kind of fascism.
Despite the overwhelming evidence, Kim's investigation faced significant resistance.
After the arrest warrant was issued for Park and Kuhn...
The mayor of Busan called Kim and told him that he should let Park go.
Park wielded considerable influence and political pressure from higher-ups hampered the inquiry.
While Park was eventually arrested in January of 1987, he faced only minor charges and served just two and a half years in prison for embezzlement.
So initially he was supposed to face 15 years for embezzlement of government funds as well as false imprisonment.
And there were two.
There was false imprisonment during the day and then false imprisonment during the nighttime.
And first, they let him off the charge of false imprisonment during the day, and so he was only up to be charged with false imprisonment during the evening.
Bizarre. Very bizarre.
Yeah, and then eventually all imprisonment charges were dropped, and he got hit with embezzlement, and he served two and a half years, and he got out.
Damn, I would love to do, like, motor vehicle or Hiroshima or whatever to him.
Yeah. Well, Brad is being interviewed by a couple of weird guys.
They're taking him to a place called, like, Brother's Home or something, but the American version.
Swept off the street.
Yeah, swept off.
They found out he was Canadian, actually.
No, this whole thing is very – we'll talk about it a little bit at the end, but this is very – it's relevant considering what's happened over the last couple weeks in this country.
Yeah. In 2025, not 1980s.
So at the time of Park's arrest, his brother-in-law, second-in-command Lim Young-soon, was nowhere near South Korea.
A year prior, in 1986, he had moved his family to Australia to begin preaching at a Presbyterian church in Sydney.
He used embezzled money from brother's home to give large donations to other churches in the area, buying his family influence.
When Park got out of prison in 1989, he too was granted visas to go and visit his family in Australia, and in 1990, he and his brother-in-law used the money that they had stolen from the government to start their own church.
In 1995, Park started the family company Jobstown in Australia, whose co-owners were all of his family members who had helped him run Brothers Home.
Same configuration.
They spent $1.5 million on a driving range and sports complex in a suburb of Sydney, all funded by the slave labor of workers from Busan.
They even flew over former inmates of Brothers Home, even after it closed following Park's arrest, to work dawn to midnight at the driving range, paying them nothing and beating them with golf clubs if they protested.
These are like horrible, horrible monsters.
Lim Young soon became a senior member of the Korean Presbyterian Church in Australia.
So Han Jong-sun, this is the guy who was kidnapped with his sister.
He's also the artist who drew the pictures of the abuse that he witnessed at Brother's Home.
He was the first survivor to demonstrate publicly against the atrocities committed at the home.
Well, that's actually not quite true.
In 1982, a man by the name of Kang drew up a petition that he delivered to the government asking them to look into his brother's mistreatment at Brother's Home.
The case was handled by the Busan Bukbu police station, who had connections to Park in Kuhn, the center's director.
And Park claimed that Kang had made a false accusation and Kang was tried and sentenced to eight months in prison in December of 1982.
Oh my god, so Kang like served more time.
Yes. Yes.
That's insane.
So the first guy who was like, hey man, my brother got out or escaped.
I don't know the specifics of how people...
I know that people tried to escape a lot and they were punished for it, but some people must have gotten out at some point because this guy went to authorities saying like, hey man, I think they're beating people in there.
I don't think it's good.
And they essentially threw that guy in prison for eight months.
Beautiful stuff.
Beautiful stuff.
So you can see why people were afraid to speak up.
Back to Han.
In 2012, he began standing alone outside South Korea's National Assembly.
And soon after, other survivors joined him.
Here's a picture included for you.
Hell yes.
Everybody they're wearing.
They are like sitting outside.
They've got white sheets and headbands on with words of protest written on it.
And a huge crowd of people basically are rallying behind them.
So this started to gain more and more and more national attention.
Families and survivors continued to demand justice from the South Korean government, and eventually their voices were heard.
In 2014, Park and his son were extradited to Busan to face trial once again for embezzlement and false imprisonment.
His son, Park Joon-Kwang, was sentenced to serve three years in prison.
Parkin' Kuhn's charges were suspended, however, because he had acquired dementia, and he died two years later in 2016.
Fucking hell.
The fucking craziest thing about this dude is that they found out after these investigations that he had had another orphanage before this.
Oh, of course.
So when they raided, they finally raided Brother's home, they found in the basement thousands and thousands of like...
Children's clothing, like, you know, new clothing that people had donated, people from churches, families, you know, from the adoption agencies, they'd all been donating these clothes to this center, and they weren't giving it to any of the people that were in prison there.
They were selling these clothes, and they realized that, like, that's how these guys were essentially making money.
And before this, they had operated under a different name, they had another orphanage, and they were doing the exact same thing, and then they got busted doing it.
So basically...
Basically what happened is this guy was like He was essentially propping up orphanages, using the money from the government, not spending it on the kids there, but using it to enrich himself, enrich his family.
There was a little bit of suspicion.
He was like, all right, well, I'm out.
He changed his name and then started another one, which eventually became Brother's Home in the midst of this sweeping reform to clean the streets or whatever.
Yeah, it's like, well, it's time for everyone to self-determine and try to make a career and make some money.
And he's like, Oh, I have a business plan.
It's what if, as an entrepreneur, I'm proposing concentration camps for profit.
Yeah, exactly.
Exactly. And the worst part is that concentration camps do work.
Like, capitalism makes the kind of...
Context for that to be a very profitable way to do things.
Control and violence and institutional abuse, that can be profitable.
Very profitable.
They were millionaires.
There hadn't been this huge public outcry for the South Korean government to bring these guys to justice and retry them and acknowledge these tens of thousands of people, survivors, suffering.
They would have lived happily ever after in, like, Australia at the Gulf Range.
It's so crazy, though, like, uncovering the last few decades, basically the Cold War period, like, post-World War II period.
The story is always this, like, even in, I don't know, Canada, where you're like, oh, yeah, they were just, like, burying, they were, like, abusing to death and, like, burying native kids, like, at these boarding schools.
And now we, like, found all the bodies super later.
It's like, yeah, of course this is what the structure produces, right?
I mean, it makes sense, like, you know, so fucking frustrating.
Because you can't really, like, you can't be like, well, you know.
Capitalism requires this level of abuse and violence.
It's like, no, it just sets the conditions for that to be something you can do and get away with and have be profitable.
So finally, in 2022, just three years ago, South Korea's Truth and Reconciliation Commission formally acknowledged the events at Brothers Home as a, quote, grave human rights violation by the state.
The commission's findings provided survivors with a degree of validation, but nevertheless, much remains unresolved.
Survivors like Han Jong-sun and Choi Sung-woo have spent years advocating for formal apologies and meaningful compensation, asking for merely $30,000 for their work and suffering while in the camp.
But finances are the least of their worries.
They want formal acknowledgement that their best years were stolen from them, thrown in the back of a van with vagrant transport vehicle printed on the side.
To quote Choi, even as our country democratized, we never became part of a mainstream class.
Yeah. Yeah.
Look, I mean, here's a situation where we have these videos go viral, right?
You know, they claim that they've stumbled on a real-life squid game, but they're using AI images stolen from an Instagram account, and they get the majority of the facts completely wrong.
Meanwhile, there are hundreds of pages, court documents, and research about Brother's Home, despite it not being, you know, super well-known.
And I don't think I need to emphasize how important this story is in the wake of ICE unlawfully arresting, detaining, and threatening to deport pro-Palestinian activist Mahmoud Khalil.
Just as Brothers Home was used to disappear those that the government considered undesirable, Khalil's detention highlights the precarious position of those who challenge domination.
Honestly, in 35 years, we're just going to have this kind of disclosure, but for what ICE has been doing throughout the Obama...
Oh, I'm sure!
Biden, Trump, like all of these different regimes.
We're just going to find out that, of course, it was clear.
It was even covered.
We know.
We were running concentration camps.
We already know.
We already know.
We're already here.
They're disappearing people off the streets.
They're ripping kids away from their families.
And it's not like, oh, it just started happening.
It's like, this has been us.
Oh, yeah.
No, we put Japanese people in concentration camps.
In America, like, I don't know.
There's this idea that, like, America was always just, like, a good guy.
And it's like, America was kind of, like, the main competitor to Hitler.
Like, it wasn't opposed to what Hitler did.
In fact, Hitler admired the United States.
I think probably his biggest mistake was not allying with the United States very early.
He could have probably fucking gotten a bunch of, like, southern boys to be like, you know what?
You're right.
The Jews are fucking awful.
Yeah, probably.
Probably? He loved America.
This country is, like, by far the most evil country, like, after World War II.
Yeah. Like, the entire Cold War up until today, what an evil empire, man.
And it's fucking crazy, too, to me, because, like, the Soviet Union, like, totally saved our asses in World War II.
100%. You know, a lot of the Jews who were in concentration camps, like, saw Soviet faces.
Yeah, of course.
They were the majority of the people lost in the combat.
Not American ones.
And, like, it's so crazy that to turn around after that and to be like, well, they saved our asses, boys, but this ideology has to be snuffed out in every shape or form for the next hundred years.
Oh, yeah, dude.
They didn't want to join the war.
They were like, this is your European bullshit.
Like, leave us out of it.
Our enemy is communism.
And then they were kind of forced into joining it because it just got out of hand.
Anyways, we're kind of off.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
So all I'm saying, I guess, is fucking conspiracy theory TikTok influencers.
Do fucking better, you know?
You can use your little, like...
The fucking song that everybody uses, and you can point to things behind you, but there's plenty of real information.
It's just fucking laziness.
Like, the guy got so much shit wrong, he said it was bought by, the orphanage was bought by a billionaire, and then he imprisoned everybody.
No, no, it was always a prison.
It was always a prison.
The guy wasn't a billionaire, he was just like an ex-military officer who took advantage of a situation, and he was like, oh shit, if I don't feed these children, you know, I can fucking make a shit ton of money.
I feel like fucking short form video vertical dimensions and like the broccoli head.
Yeah, these people are not helping you.
Okay, so to cap, I know this is incredibly depressing.
So to cap us off, I wanted to end with, you know, another thing that I found late night scrolling through the depths of our conspiracy.
And I'm just, it's somewhat of a poem.
I'm just going to read it to you.
So just, you know, if you're in bed right now, you're listening to this episode, you're really fucking sad, you know, just kind of turn your brain off and let the soothing words of our conspiracy flow through your mind.
The title of the post is...
I'm a clairvoyant.
These are the visions I'm having.
From an early age, I have had visions that end up being shockingly true.
Family and friends have witnessed it firsthand, but you choose to believe what you wish.
I'm not here to make you believe me.
It's more so a deep-rooted need for me to share.
We are being monitored by a more advanced life form.
Oh boy.
That life form resides on our moon, within our ocean, and mountains.
The life form is nefarious.
Oh, come on!
The life form is already intertwined with our day today.
Elon Musk is E.T. and has flat out stated this in a tweet on X. Physically, though, kind of the same physique.
That belly.
That big belly.
That big ET belly.
Yeah. Other high-profile individuals are likely ET as well.
Okay. Some type of harvesting is happening.
We are programmed to, quote, head to the light when we die.
But that light source is actually a collection device.
Wow. Individuals who do not follow the light fall off the escalator into purgatory.
Ghosts rattling objects, slamming doors, etc.
are upset spirits or souls that are trying to warn us.
Cow mutilations are simply the more advanced lifeform testing our food supply for environmental changes slash toxin detection.
COVID was a program designed by these more advanced lifeforms.
The injections had something in them similar to nanobots.
A cataclysm is coming and COVID is related.
70% of the global population took the vaccine.
This advanced life form will either collect or destroy the 70% of the population who took the vaccine.
The moon affects the tides.
We have a body of water massively larger than our ocean under the floor of the ocean.
Don't know if that's true.
Oh, that's the one you don't know if it's true?
I don't know about that.
The advanced life form controls the moon.
Awesome. Once the 70% and been wiped, the advanced life forms are going to essentially back up the moon to cause biblical flooding, wiping out most of the remaining 30% away.
This has already happened once, at least in history.
Great flood, I'm guessing.
Wait, wait, wait.
What is back up the moon?
Like a truck?
It's just like beep, beep, beep, beep, and the moon is backing up towards the Earth?
Yeah, I think they mean like hook a tow cable onto it and back it up a couple light years.
I don't know.
Hell yeah, dude.
There's a weird element of duty here.
For instance, the advanced lifeforms take on different shapes, etc., such as we take on roles for careers.
In doing this, they're assigned to Earth and are required to stay on it.
The advanced lifeforms that appear human are preparing for the cataclysm.
Billionaire bunkers.
This is why Elon keeps encouraging people to have children, because he knows people are being harvested.
His children will not be affected by the cataclysm.
I love it.
This is like an anti-Elon, like, pilled alien person.
It's kind of positive about him, though.
It kind of is, yeah.
It's like, listen, he knows the shit, he's smart, he's ET, and he's taking care of shit so that his kids don't get harvested.
A good father.
This is a recurring thing, and the advanced lifeforms toggle between doing this on Earth and Mars.
Something happened on Mars.
My gut is telling me the people there realized what was happening and intentionally eradicated their planet via nuclear means to prevent the cycle from continuing.
What people?
The Martian people.
It's also why these advanced life forms are so concerned about nuclear weapons on Earth.
And that's the end of the post.
That's, uh, really fucking...
That person's brain is dirtier than mine somehow.
I will say, you know, I don't check in on our conspiracy all that often, but it used to be, for a while, when I first got on it, it was kind of like lefty conspiracy theorists.
Like, there was a lot of stuff about Bush, a lot of stuff about 9-11, you know.
Then it was, like, all right-wing for a while.
It was like...
COVID and vaccines and all of this stuff.
And now, when I went back recently, it's like, I don't know, like five posts are like kind of like lefty conspiracy theories and like five posts are like righty conspiracies.
And then there's one post like this that's just completely, you know, just bonkers, like out of the blue.
That's like, we are being controlled by Elon's tummy.
It feels like people are kind of just dissociating.
Yeah. They're not like, I think that we're heading.
Past anger into, like, just total narcotic haze.
Yeah, yeah.
I gotta say, like, anecdotally, it's kind of rare that I have a conversation with somebody outside of work that isn't, like, completely down the rabbit hole, like, politically in one way or the other.
Yeah, I get it, though.
It's like, you know what?
Yeah. Fuck this shit.
We're backing up the moon, boys.
Yeah. But, like, it's so fucked because, like, I didn't get to enjoy any of that.
Like, this podcast basically came along and, like, Travis View came along and, like, destroyed my ability to sort of, like, enjoy conspiracy theories.
So now everybody is pilled, but I'm not.
I'm like, well, I mean, think about, you know, well, think about it.
I mean, where did you get this information?
And they look at me like, who the fuck cares?
Who cares where we got the information?
It's true.
It's true.
I mean, I love Travis, but, like, he did sort of destroy.
He destroyed my ability to.
I don't know.
I hear his voice.
It's like a disappointed father.
Every time I try to get pilled on something, I'm just like, eh.
Where's the source?
You can unbutton your shirt and reveal Travis a quato in your stomach.
He lives inside you.
He's piloting you?
Yeah, that's why you haven't heard his voice on the pod.
As a result, you were like, I'm going to do whatever I want for this episode.
It's going to be a kind of historic deep dive that's very depressing.
I was like way in over my head.
I was like, oh my god.
I didn't realize what I had signed up for.
I thought I was kind of like debunking some Squid Game shit that I like to show.
And then, of course, I find out that it's like this horrific, horrific, tragic, tragic tale.
You did it justice, man.
I think I did okay.
I think that I had some great sources, which I'm going to, you know, obviously link in the show notes.
And there's a lot of good, especially at Al Jazeera, has done a lot of like really good work on interviewing survivors of Brothers Home and sort of like laying out like, you know, the amount of money, where it came from, where it went to, you know, what happened when the family kind of like fled to Australia.
So there's some great journalists who are doing great work.
And I hope that this serves as a fairly comprehensive look so that, you know, the 60-second vertical videos, you know, there's something out there that's kind of combating them.
I guess that's what this podcast is, just battling the vertical videos.
Send that broccoli-ass head motherfucker the link to the episode when it comes out.
He's going to be like, it took him an hour and a half to get everything wrong?
He's going to be like, Jesus, the view counts on this podcast are so low.
I make like $2 million every week.
That's exactly 1.7 million.
He's like, and counting.
Wait, the broccoli head?
Yeah, he had 1.7 million views on his video.
Totally wrong about it.
Oh, okay, okay.
I thought you were saying he made like 1.7 million dollars.
No, no, no.
But he had 1.7 million views.
I don't know what that translates to in TikTok bucks.
Can we just get Ice to just pick up the broccoli heads?
That would be hard because that would be like all of Doge picked up by Ice.
Yeah. Anyways, just kind of spitballing.
Yeah. You know what?
We'll keep brainstorming and maybe we'll figure out what to do with the broccoli heads.
It's perms, by the way.
They're getting perms.
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Alright, so a lot of people are thinking that Squid Games is based off of this true event.
That it's based off of No Brothers Land in 1986.
They're claiming that the real Squid Games took place in an underground bunker.
And that these men, dressed in very similar tracksuits as in the show, were forced to compete in games.
Now, this is a real photo of inmates at Brothers Island.
These images, however, are AI-generated.
Don't believe me?
I did some research.
I'm sorry.
Their home did not actually look like this.
Now, the Brothers' home was a concentration camp with over 40,000 people prisoned there.
Basically, it was a place for undesirables.
People with mental health conditions, orphans, etc.
Now of course there's similarities between the home and Squid Games, but no, this is not what actually Squid Games was based off of.
What's sad is that a lot of violence did occur in this prison.
