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You are now listening to Cryptid Cocktail Party.

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Hey, happy Easter, everyone. Welcome back to

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another... Oh, I guess it's not going to be out

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on Easter. It'll be out... It'll be the day after,

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but that's a holiday here in Massachusetts, so...

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Oh, well... Happy Patriots Day, motherfuckers.

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Jesus Christ. Sorry. Oh, was it... Wait, Patriots

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Day. Is that the Boston bombing holiday? Well,

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I mean, we try not to associate the bombing with

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it, but yes, that's what happened. How could

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you not? Anyways, we'll get to that in a second.

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Welcome back to another episode. Welcome back

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to another episode of Cryptic Cocktail Party,

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a show where we have a few drinks, share a few

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laughs, take a dive into the unknown. I'm your

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host, Dave, joined as always by Sarge, my muse,

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my love. Your PTSD -laden co -host. Yeah, we're

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recording this on Easter. That's why I got a

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little carried away, got a little amped, you

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know? Yeah. Who wouldn't celebrate? The only

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historical story of a zombie. True. But also,

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I mean, Christ died. He was put in a tomb. And

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then for three days, he just chilled out. And

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then he goes like, JK, LOL. Exactly. And then

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bunnies started laying eggs. Yeah, so he didn't

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die for our sins. He gave up a long weekend for

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our sins. It was a three -day weekend. He's like,

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fuck, dude. I need to just chill. I need a break.

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Yeah. I do have one question, though. I don't

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know shit about the Bible or God or Jesus. I

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got your back. I used to be a Sunday school teacher.

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So he died. And then three days later, he was

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resurrected. And then what? Did he just live

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out the rest of his life? Or did he just... No,

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no, no. He just fucked off after that. He's like,

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I'll be back. To where? And then didn't come

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back. He went up to heaven. Yeah, but his physical

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body went? Is that a thing? I thought only your

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soul went. Yeah. Look, reports vary. Some believe

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he became the Holy Spirit. Others believe. What

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happened to his physical body? He was dead. His

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body was dead, but he came back as a ghost. Oh,

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so he wasn't resurrected. He haunted them. Yeah,

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basically. But he's like, I'm going to come back

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eventually. But then where did his body go? Because

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they opened the tomb like, oh, shit. The only

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thing here is the Shroud of Turin. And then he

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like walked around for a bit and then he fucked

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off. But he didn't walk around because. Well,

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see, this is where reports vary. OK, so the Mormons

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believe that he came to the United States. This

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is true. The Jehovah Witnesses believe that he

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was crucified on a stick, not a lowercase t.

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How would that even work? I don't know, man.

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This is all nonsense to me. I just repeated what

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I read. So I think the prevailing belief is that

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he physically came back to life. Went around

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and popped up behind his buddies and was like,

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surprise! And he's like, all right, I'm going

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to go away and you won't see me again until the

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end of the world. Okay. So then his physical

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body went to heaven? He extricated himself northward

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to the skies. I don't think you can do that.

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I guess that's what the rapture is. No, but that's

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probably why atheism is becoming more and more

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prevalent because everyone was like, wait a minute.

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If the Ark didn't get you. and the talking donkey

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didn't get you. Yeah. The fact that he came back

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to life after being brutally murdered by the

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Romans. Yeah. And them. And then... My best friend

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is Jewish, and he and I had this whole inside

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joke. about all the things that he's got planned

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that he won't tell me about because I'm a goyim.

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I mean, well, they're always scheming something.

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Yeah. You know? I bought him a space laser t

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-shirt. It would have been great if you just

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ended it before the word t -shirt. Just present

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him with this. He's like, I already got one.

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Well, I'm glad that we've introduced our audience

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to Christianity. The Christian cocktail party

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has come full circle. It really has. Welcome

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to the team. Yeah. All right, Sarge. Studying

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Jesus and other cryptids. So you say that we're

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both having a pretty good Easter. I think so.

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We're going to skip on all the niceties. We have

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a lot to go over this episode, Sarge. This is

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a doozy. I mean, now we're going to skip the

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niceties. We had like five minutes of lore about

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Jesus. Yeah, that's fine. Today we're going to

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be covering Mark Richards part two. Do you remember

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where we were last episode? Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah.

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We went through. This man was like the Forrest

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Gump of conspiracy theories. Yeah, he's done

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it all. And he was always the hero. Yeah. Right.

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Of course. Like you do. Yeah, but like I mentioned

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at the end of the last episode, it was all nonsense.

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There was no starships, no raptor princes, which

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is probably the most upsetting part of the whole

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thing, and no Minerva, which is also kind of

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upsetting. I think that's why I got so angry,

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because I knew it wasn't real, and I was like,

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God damn it. I want this so bad. I want a spaceship

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that is alive. Yeah. uh and again i still 100

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firmly believe that he fucked that ship there's

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no way he totally fucked it yeah he put his penis

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inside something on that spaceship it was like

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uh did you ever watch that episode of uh my strange

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addiction with that dude who was in love with

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this car who was banging cars yeah it was that

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was the first thing that came in my mind when

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i I remember him licking the bumper and thinking,

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cars are dirty, man. Don't do that. He wasn't

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licking it. He was laying fully underneath the

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car and kissing the bumper. And I'm pretty sure

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he was hard. He was basically just dry humping

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the drive shaft of that car. Henry Ford, when

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he invented cars, never envisioned what could

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happen. Oh, he was probably doing it too, dude.

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He's like, I'm going to be so fucking rich and

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just... That's true. Henry Ford's a weird fucking

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dude. He's got a lot of problems. Don't Google

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Henry Ford's feelings on Jewish people. Don't

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do that. Yeah. He's a bad guy. He's a bad guy

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is what you need to know. That's it. Yeah. But

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like you said, the reason why you were probably

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getting so upset is because you knew that none

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of this was real. It wasn't based in reality.

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So today I'm going to tell you the reality of

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Captain Mark Richards. I'm so goddamn excited

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for this. I'm so ready. Are you? Yeah. I don't

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think you are. I'm hard right now. Well, like

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mostly. Okay. You went from six to midnight real

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quick, didn't you? Well, right now it's like

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9 p .m. Gotcha. All right. So in reality, Mark

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Richards was living in Marin County, California,

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and he was just barely scraping by as a contractor.

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He was running a small, struggling home renovation

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business and was just. At this point, just trying

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to keep himself afloat. But even on the brink

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and or already in financial ruin, Richards, the

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ever delusional man that he is, and much like

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every local band social media, he had big things

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coming, all right? Big things are around the

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corner. We are opening for Whitesnake. He believed

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himself to be a visionary and a man destined

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to reshape the world. But before we get into

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all that, let's talk about what Richards was

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actually doing with his time in the 70s. since

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we know that he wasn't fighting space Nazis along

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dinosaurs. Richards, in 1977, years before Pendragon

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was formed, he tried to start a little place

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called Future Castle. Now, what do you think

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Future Castle? Time out. Future Castle? Future

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Castle, yeah. Did the marketing team just decide

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to take a nap and let him name it? That is the

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worst name for anything ever. Dude, it was 1977,

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man. Back then, this is the height of creativity,

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I bet. I guess so. Future castle? So, like, a

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house? Dude, you would think that, like, a man

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who came up with all of the crazy stories he

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came up with would do a better job at naming

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something than future castle. You would think.

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Yeah, like, it just doesn't make any sense. Well,

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future. Why? What is futuristic about this? And

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why would you need a castle in the future? Well,

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do you want to know why? I do. All right. I desperately

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do. Okay. So think of it like a future castles,

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like a mashup between like a prep school, a science,

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like a sci -fi convention and like a Renaissance

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fair. But all of it's kind of wrapped up in the

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warm embrace of like a cult. Does that make sense?

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Yeah, naturally. Yeah. So this is, this is like

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a hillbop situation. Like, Yeah. Hopefully nobody's

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wearing Nikes. He pitched the idea of Future

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Castle as a quote -unquote academic community

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for the coming new renaissance where students

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would be trained in military strategy, scientific

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theory, political leadership, and pretty much

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whatever Mark was scribbling down in his notebook.

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And I'm almost certain that his notebook looked

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exactly like the notebooks from the movie Seven.

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Or Superbad, where it's just a bunch of really

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veiny penises. Just a bunch of dicks. It's like

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Future Knights jousting with huge cocks. Here's

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the thing, though, and probably very unsurprising.

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The project had no money, no infrastructure,

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no staff, no land, and no real interest outside

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of Mark. Naturally. Yeah, it was literally a

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kingdom without subjects. The only thing to actually

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come from it was a paper trail of absolutely

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bonkers proposals and promotional material that

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nobody took all that seriously. Right. Well,

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I mean, here's the thing. When you think about

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it, when you're catering to the Renaissance fair

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crowd, offering them the future is kind of the

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antithesis of what they're into. You know, I

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didn't think about it like that. I mean, I've

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never been to a Ren Fair and saw a guy in a Star

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Trek uniform. You know what I mean? You haven't?

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Because I feel like people do that all the time.

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And they usually don't get received very well

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by the people at the Renaissance Fair. Yeah,

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they don't have a phaser. They just have a club

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to hit you on the head with. Set your phaser

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to bludgeon. So when this plan spectacularly

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failed, Richards, Didn't let it go. He just went

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further with it and his Camelot fantasy morphed

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into something much darker. So behind closed

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doors, he started forming a secret group that

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he named Pendragon as an Arthur Pendragon, the

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father of King Arthur. So unlike future castle,

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I saying it is just awful. Future castle just

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sounds so stupid. It sounds like, bro, you probably

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could have brought some people in. If you made

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this a little bit more like Star Wars. Something,

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anything. But anyways, Pendragon wasn't about

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education, if you could call what was going to

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take place at Future Castle education. Pendragon

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was about domination. See, Richards, in his John

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Doe notebooks, had laid out detailed plans for

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a takeover of Marin County. turning the region

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into a feudal kingdom where he, of course, would

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rule. He mapped out strategic targets, transportation

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choke points, and even weapon placements. This

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dude is the biggest fucking nerd on Earth. He

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plotted out how to blow up the Golden Gate and

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Richmond -San Rafael bridges to cut Mirren off

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from outside intervention. And on top of Mount

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Tamalpius... Tamalpius? Tamalpius? On top of

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Mount Tam... It would be a command post with

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mounted energy weapons, which he designed himself

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to help repel the National Guard or the Army

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from advancing into the city. So, yeah. My guess

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is this guy had like a big table in his apartment

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and it was just full of like Lego sets that he

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put together. And he's like, this is my town.

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It's got to be something. Yeah, he's got little

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Lego men. He's probably... Oh, man. I know guys

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like this. You should probably report them because

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what happens next is kind of fucked up. No, I

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mean, they just play Warhammer 40K, you know?

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That's how they get their future night fix. That's

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fair. So at the center of this new kingdom, you

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got Mark Richards. ruling as a modern -day King

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Arthur. And below him, you have a court of a

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couple teenage knights that he recruited from

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his family construction crew. Of course. He promised

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them titles, land, and power. So, like, literal

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nobility. One teacher, one teenager, Cross and

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Hoover, would later state that Richards promised

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to make him the Duke of Angel Island. Oh, God.

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This is so great. No wonder. Now it all makes

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sense. He's got an army of teenage boys. Like,

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this is literally the start of Warhammer. Yeah.

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That's what happened. He started Warhammer 40K.

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Yeah. So, Richards, with his grandiose confidence

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and his constant, almost to the point of being

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insufferable, mythologizing of himself, had brainwashed

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and convinced these kids that they were building

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something real and doing something noble. Did

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he, though? Or were they just like, hey, can

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you buy us beer? We'll get to it. So, here's

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the catch, though. What's one thing any strong

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and respected... kingdom needs sarge a moat close

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it's gold and richard yeah yeah richards he was

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broke as fuck uh future castle was a complete

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failure that renovation business was failing

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and his future kingdom wasn't just going to build

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itself so richards needed money and he needed

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money fast enter into the story richard baldwin

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can we just go back to why his renovation business

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failed because i think i know what happened what

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happened what do we got Every time he showed

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up at a job, he's like, you know what you need?

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You need a drawbridge. You know what this house

00:15:39.070 --> 00:15:42.470
could use? More turrets. I think what we need...

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And then if the lady of the house was ever like,

00:15:49.330 --> 00:15:50.750
no, we don't need that, he's like, as a witch,

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burn her! Speak when spoken to, wench. Get me

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a turkey leg. Alright, so... Richard Baldwin

00:16:00.129 --> 00:16:03.789
was a 36 -year -old car guy who ran a local vintage

00:16:03.789 --> 00:16:06.570
restoration shop. He was well -known, well -liked,

00:16:06.570 --> 00:16:10.190
and unfortunately for him, a trusted friend of

00:16:10.190 --> 00:16:12.769
Mark Richards. Now, they worked together on various

00:16:12.769 --> 00:16:16.409
things. Mark had helped renovate his house. They

00:16:16.409 --> 00:16:18.470
would talk shop, hang out, drink a couple beers.

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But now to Mark, what with his new kingdom that

00:16:22.470 --> 00:16:25.029
needed funding, Baldwin wasn't a friend anymore.

00:16:25.269 --> 00:16:29.419
He was a Mark. Pun intended. He was the perfect

00:16:29.419 --> 00:16:31.620
solution to the cash problem that stood between

00:16:31.620 --> 00:16:35.000
Richards and his medieval wet dream. See, Baldwin

00:16:35.000 --> 00:16:38.500
was known to carry large amounts of cash on him

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at all time. He also kept a lot of valuables

00:16:41.720 --> 00:16:43.320
in his home, and these are all things that Richards

00:16:43.320 --> 00:16:46.700
knew from working with and for Baldwin on his

00:16:46.700 --> 00:16:51.240
property. So Richards needed funding to launch

00:16:51.240 --> 00:16:54.220
his coup, and Baldwin had what he needed, and

00:16:54.220 --> 00:16:56.690
he was... Pretty much is going to take it from

00:16:56.690 --> 00:16:58.509
him. But Mark wasn't about to get his hands dirty

00:16:58.509 --> 00:17:01.389
alone. He called upon his trusty Knights, 17

00:17:01.389 --> 00:17:04.569
year old Chris cross and David Hoover, who I

00:17:04.569 --> 00:17:08.089
mentioned earlier and a 18 year old Andrew Campbell,

00:17:08.210 --> 00:17:11.190
who looking back on it, he kind of got the raw

00:17:11.190 --> 00:17:13.230
end of the deal. Like Hoover was promised that

00:17:13.230 --> 00:17:15.109
he would be the Duke of angel Island. Whereas

00:17:15.109 --> 00:17:17.849
Andrew was just offered land and status, which

00:17:17.849 --> 00:17:22.890
I mean, apples and oranges might be like. I'll

00:17:22.890 --> 00:17:25.750
give you your horseless carriage. You mean that

00:17:25.750 --> 00:17:29.309
the gremlin? Yeah. Or the Pinto. Which one is

00:17:29.309 --> 00:17:32.849
mine? Yeah. But anyways, Richard's called a meeting

00:17:32.849 --> 00:17:35.130
of the Knights of the kids table and laid out

00:17:35.130 --> 00:17:42.329
their mission. Knights of Chuckie cheese. He

00:17:42.329 --> 00:17:44.829
laid out their mission. Kill Richard Baldwin,

00:17:45.009 --> 00:17:48.529
steal everything and use the money to start Pendragon.

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On the night of July 6, 1982, Richards lured

00:17:52.380 --> 00:17:55.099
Baldwin to the shop under the pretense of discussing

00:17:55.099 --> 00:17:58.059
classic cars. Just casual hang sesh, crack a

00:17:58.059 --> 00:18:00.859
couple old cold ones, talking cars. Like, no

00:18:00.859 --> 00:18:04.259
reason for Baldwin to be suspicious. Yeah. Now,

00:18:04.259 --> 00:18:06.940
while Baldwin was distracted, probably talking

00:18:06.940 --> 00:18:09.460
about something car -related, whatever, Richards

00:18:09.460 --> 00:18:11.660
gave the signal. He scratched his head, which

00:18:11.660 --> 00:18:13.539
is a pretty simple but stupid gesture, but...

00:18:13.869 --> 00:18:16.210
What it meant was it's go time. Oh, my God. I

00:18:16.210 --> 00:18:18.130
would accidentally do that signal like all the

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fucking time. That's why it's so fucking stupid.

00:18:19.690 --> 00:18:22.230
I scratched my head more than anyone. Like, I

00:18:22.230 --> 00:18:25.890
would walk in and do that. But anyways, so what

00:18:25.890 --> 00:18:28.529
that signal meant was that it was go time. So

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Hoover crept up behind Baldwin and swung a metal

00:18:31.369 --> 00:18:34.490
baseball bat into his skull. Baldwin collapsed

00:18:34.490 --> 00:18:37.160
to the floor, either stunned or dying. Hoover

00:18:37.160 --> 00:18:39.980
just hit him again and again and again. Then,

00:18:39.980 --> 00:18:43.660
with Richards and or Campbell assisting, Baldwin

00:18:43.660 --> 00:18:46.380
was stabbed repeatedly in the chest and face

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with a knife and a chisel. You'd think they would

00:18:49.220 --> 00:18:53.680
have brought swords with them. Honestly, you

00:18:53.680 --> 00:18:56.220
would think. Yeah, or like a lance. Like, what

00:18:56.220 --> 00:18:58.359
are we doing here? Well, it wasn't the cleanest

00:18:58.359 --> 00:19:00.779
or most efficient kill on record, but hey. Well,

00:19:00.799 --> 00:19:02.619
that's what happens when you hire teenagers to

00:19:02.619 --> 00:19:04.579
help you carry out your weird space renaissance

00:19:04.579 --> 00:19:07.200
dream. Yeah, but at least the hard part's over.

00:19:07.359 --> 00:19:10.440
That's done. Problem solved. Yeah, so time to

00:19:10.440 --> 00:19:12.319
get to work. They went straight to his house

00:19:12.319 --> 00:19:14.819
and cleaned it out. Cash, checks, credit cards,

00:19:15.000 --> 00:19:17.700
collectibles, anything of value, they took it.

00:19:18.039 --> 00:19:20.740
They then returned to the body. wrapped it in

00:19:20.740 --> 00:19:23.000
a plastic tarp, tied it with a cord, and dragged

00:19:23.000 --> 00:19:25.619
it onto Baldwin's own motorboat. And in the early

00:19:25.619 --> 00:19:30.180
hours of July 7th, the three conspirators set

00:19:30.180 --> 00:19:34.119
out into the San Pablo Bay and once out far enough,

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dumped the body overboard and hoped that the

00:19:36.539 --> 00:19:39.099
current would just do the rest. My understanding

00:19:39.099 --> 00:19:41.299
of true crime is that the current never does

00:19:41.299 --> 00:19:45.460
its job. I feel like that body came right back.

00:19:45.859 --> 00:19:49.599
Well, once back on land, Richards got to work

00:19:49.599 --> 00:19:53.279
playing innocent. Oh, what? Baldwin's dead? Oh,

00:19:53.279 --> 00:19:58.640
my. Oh, no. Oh, no. Oh, my lucky stars. Is that

00:19:58.640 --> 00:20:03.259
a thing? Someone has killed my squire. But behind

00:20:03.259 --> 00:20:06.000
closed doors, he started spending his ill -gotten

00:20:06.000 --> 00:20:10.380
gains fast and stupidly. The same day that he

00:20:10.380 --> 00:20:12.750
dumped the body. He went on a little celebration

00:20:12.750 --> 00:20:14.970
shopping spree, and over the course of the following

00:20:14.970 --> 00:20:18.190
days, he forged Baldwin's name on checks, used

00:20:18.190 --> 00:20:21.049
his credit cards, and because you can't make

00:20:21.049 --> 00:20:24.130
this shit up, he bought himself a boat. Of course

00:20:24.130 --> 00:20:27.250
he did. He probably also got like a ton of really

00:20:27.250 --> 00:20:30.930
nice D20 sets, you know, like the metal ones,

00:20:31.170 --> 00:20:35.839
and all the rule books for D &D. 82 was it dnd

00:20:35.839 --> 00:20:38.299
i don't know when dnd started oh was it oh yeah

00:20:38.299 --> 00:20:40.640
you're right you're right no it was the 80s because

00:20:40.640 --> 00:20:43.339
that's when everyone got scared of satan yeah

00:20:43.339 --> 00:20:46.240
so 80 yeah i mean it makes it could be i have

00:20:46.240 --> 00:20:49.559
no idea but maybe later on in the 80s but either

00:20:49.559 --> 00:20:53.740
way this is the guy who like owns all the dnd

00:20:53.740 --> 00:20:56.839
books but can't find anyone to play with yeah

00:20:56.839 --> 00:21:00.000
he would have fucking loved dnd if he he would

00:21:00.000 --> 00:21:02.539
have he would have he would honestly warhammer

00:21:02.539 --> 00:21:05.099
naturally I honestly think that if D &D had been

00:21:05.099 --> 00:21:07.920
around, this wouldn't have happened. Oh, absolutely.

00:21:08.220 --> 00:21:10.700
Absolutely. This guy would still be alive and

00:21:10.700 --> 00:21:15.299
detailing classic cars. Yeah. And this other

00:21:15.299 --> 00:21:18.319
guy would just be going to rent fairs and, you

00:21:18.319 --> 00:21:20.339
know, sexually harassing women. But I mean, I

00:21:20.339 --> 00:21:21.680
think it's kind of like the same thing. Like

00:21:21.680 --> 00:21:24.440
you hear a lot about how like. like the reason

00:21:24.440 --> 00:21:25.819
why we don't have many serial killers, like,

00:21:25.819 --> 00:21:27.099
you know what I mean? It's because like the internet,

00:21:27.220 --> 00:21:29.680
if people have an outlet for those things, I

00:21:29.680 --> 00:21:31.380
mean, there still are. And now we don't have

00:21:31.380 --> 00:21:32.900
serial killers, we just have mass shooters, but

00:21:32.900 --> 00:21:35.880
it's a lot of, it's kind of like they're weird

00:21:35.880 --> 00:21:39.579
fantasies. Like they can see and or role play

00:21:39.579 --> 00:21:43.740
it online. I feel like if he had D and D he could,

00:21:43.779 --> 00:21:46.339
that was a good outlet for his fucking weird

00:21:46.339 --> 00:21:50.359
fantasies. Right. Right. No, no, that I completely

00:21:50.359 --> 00:21:54.619
agree. Yeah. I think that. I think that, like,

00:21:54.660 --> 00:21:58.960
90 % of the crimes committed by, like, crazy

00:21:58.960 --> 00:22:02.480
morons back in the day could have been solved

00:22:02.480 --> 00:22:06.940
by just watching, like, Game of Thrones. Something.

00:22:07.380 --> 00:22:11.240
Anything. But, yeah, for a minute there, the

00:22:11.240 --> 00:22:13.279
plan looked like it had actually worked, and

00:22:13.279 --> 00:22:16.019
Pendragon was a fucking go. Unfortunately, though,

00:22:16.119 --> 00:22:19.700
the fantasy didn't last forever. The cracks started

00:22:19.700 --> 00:22:23.680
to show almost immediately. Hoover, the 17 -year

00:22:23.680 --> 00:22:26.019
-old golden boy of Pendragon, he could not keep

00:22:26.019 --> 00:22:28.559
his mouth shut. Of course not. He started bragging

00:22:28.559 --> 00:22:31.460
to classmates, to friends, to anyone who gave

00:22:31.460 --> 00:22:35.279
him five minutes and a handjob. Anyone who even

00:22:35.279 --> 00:22:40.319
looked his way. He talked about the murder, about

00:22:40.319 --> 00:22:43.019
Pendragon, about how he was going to rule over

00:22:43.019 --> 00:22:46.420
Angel Island once the new order took over. Oh,

00:22:46.420 --> 00:22:48.920
my God. Yeah, and it didn't take long before

00:22:48.920 --> 00:22:51.460
word... got to law enforcement, and right around

00:22:51.460 --> 00:22:54.819
this same time, you called it, the body came

00:22:54.819 --> 00:23:03.359
back. I knew it! I knew it! Yeah, so on July

00:23:03.359 --> 00:23:07.519
20th, 1982, a tugboat operator spotted something

00:23:07.519 --> 00:23:10.900
in the waters of San Pablo Bay. It was a tarp,

00:23:10.900 --> 00:23:14.279
tangled in cable, bobbing at the surface. Inside

00:23:14.279 --> 00:23:16.599
was the decomposing body of Richard Baldwin,

00:23:16.779 --> 00:23:19.210
his skull caved in, face and chest punctured

00:23:19.210 --> 00:23:23.809
with stab wounds and for law enforcement it wasn't

00:23:23.809 --> 00:23:26.170
like a mystery for very long obviously we're

00:23:26.170 --> 00:23:28.569
not dealing with like the higher echelon of the

00:23:28.569 --> 00:23:32.069
criminal underworld here no absolutely not and

00:23:32.069 --> 00:23:35.849
I know I like joked about it but I do feel horrible

00:23:35.849 --> 00:23:39.049
for this poor fucking guy like he's just being

00:23:39.049 --> 00:23:42.470
friends with the weird dude he's like hey you

00:23:42.470 --> 00:23:44.910
know he likes medieval shit no big deal like

00:23:44.910 --> 00:23:48.680
what a horrible situation Like, this poor guy

00:23:48.680 --> 00:23:50.660
is being friends with somebody who definitely

00:23:50.660 --> 00:23:54.160
had no business having friends based on his ridiculous

00:23:54.160 --> 00:23:58.299
ideas. This is fair. And his only reward for

00:23:58.299 --> 00:24:01.380
being a kind human being was being murdered by

00:24:01.380 --> 00:24:06.180
fucking Uther Pendragon over here. Like, what

00:24:06.180 --> 00:24:09.059
a horrible situation. True. To be fair, though,

00:24:09.119 --> 00:24:12.660
if it was with swords and, like, a broad axe,

00:24:12.839 --> 00:24:16.079
like, I think... I'd be an okay way to go. I

00:24:16.079 --> 00:24:18.700
wouldn't feel too bad about that. You know, instead

00:24:18.700 --> 00:24:22.119
he died with a chisel. Yeah, that's fuck. That's

00:24:22.119 --> 00:24:24.880
gnarly. That's got to hurt so bad. Yeah. Holy

00:24:24.880 --> 00:24:26.700
shit. Well, technically he was killed. I think

00:24:26.700 --> 00:24:30.319
probably by the multiple metal baseball. Yeah,

00:24:30.319 --> 00:24:32.599
I think that's it. But anyways, we're getting

00:24:32.599 --> 00:24:39.619
taken out by a fucking Rosalyn. Now, when police

00:24:39.619 --> 00:24:42.420
began digging into Baldwin circle, all roads.

00:24:43.210 --> 00:24:45.430
obviously led back to mark richards and his two

00:24:45.430 --> 00:24:48.109
teenage employees like i said there was rumors

00:24:48.109 --> 00:24:51.690
whispers strange behavior hoover just fucking

00:24:51.690 --> 00:24:54.970
talking shit constantly uh and richard you mean

00:24:54.970 --> 00:24:58.569
the brilliant mind behind future castle was unable

00:24:58.569 --> 00:25:01.529
to thwart the police in their investigation yeah

00:25:01.529 --> 00:25:04.470
and uh the fact that richards was suddenly spending

00:25:04.470 --> 00:25:06.210
a bunch of money even though everyone knew he

00:25:06.210 --> 00:25:08.250
had a failing business it kind of threw up some

00:25:08.250 --> 00:25:12.160
red flags so By August 1982, the fantasy had

00:25:12.160 --> 00:25:14.680
fully collapsed. Mark Richards was arrested and

00:25:14.680 --> 00:25:16.880
charged with first -degree murder, burglary,

00:25:16.900 --> 00:25:20.559
and criminal conspiracy. Cops picked him up,

00:25:20.579 --> 00:25:24.279
but, you know, not during some secret meeting

00:25:24.279 --> 00:25:27.099
or bunker raid. But while he and his teenage

00:25:27.099 --> 00:25:29.539
co -conspirators were allegedly trying to dump

00:25:29.539 --> 00:25:35.549
more evidence. Because of course, why wouldn't

00:25:35.549 --> 00:25:38.309
it be that? While wearing suits of armor and

00:25:38.309 --> 00:25:48.130
crowns. Just the loudest. Yeah. I just picture

00:25:48.130 --> 00:25:51.109
the cops pulling up behind them and they're wearing

00:25:51.109 --> 00:25:54.650
fully clad in medieval armor and they have to

00:25:54.650 --> 00:25:56.549
turn their whole bodies to look and then they

00:25:56.549 --> 00:25:58.809
raise their visor and they're like, oh shit,

00:25:58.910 --> 00:26:04.339
it's the fuzz. Quick, run! And it's just like,

00:26:04.380 --> 00:26:06.779
clink, clink, clink, clink, clink, clink. Sounds

00:26:06.779 --> 00:26:09.579
like a fucking Scooby -Doo chase scene. They

00:26:09.579 --> 00:26:12.720
hit one of them with a taser and the metal armor

00:26:12.720 --> 00:26:16.019
just arcs off the armor and hits the other ones.

00:26:19.569 --> 00:26:22.170
God, I wish it was that so bad, but you know,

00:26:22.190 --> 00:26:24.970
it wasn't. It sucks. No, of course not. No, it's

00:26:24.970 --> 00:26:28.950
three morons. Well, one moron in two literal

00:26:28.950 --> 00:26:33.420
children. Now, from the second that Mark Richards

00:26:33.420 --> 00:26:36.480
was in handcuffs, he denied everything. Of course

00:26:36.480 --> 00:26:38.279
he did. He claimed he wasn't even present when

00:26:38.279 --> 00:26:41.119
Baldwin was killed. Yeah, he was on Mars at the

00:26:41.119 --> 00:26:45.420
time. He had no idea what happened. And that

00:26:45.420 --> 00:26:47.559
the murder was the result of a rogue act that

00:26:47.559 --> 00:26:49.940
he had nothing to do with. But the evidence...

00:26:49.940 --> 00:26:51.859
Nothing at all to do with it. ...obviously told

00:26:51.859 --> 00:26:54.619
a different story. Richard's fingerprints were

00:26:54.619 --> 00:26:56.779
on the murder weapon. His handwriting was on

00:26:56.779 --> 00:26:59.579
Baldwin's forged checks. Baldwin's stolen property,

00:26:59.740 --> 00:27:01.779
including a ring, credit cards, and collectibles,

00:27:01.859 --> 00:27:04.519
were found in Richard's house. The plastic tarp

00:27:04.519 --> 00:27:06.579
and electrical cord used to wrap the body matched

00:27:06.579 --> 00:27:09.779
items from Richard's own supplies. And then the

00:27:09.779 --> 00:27:12.039
biggest crack of all was that Hoover and Campbell

00:27:12.039 --> 00:27:14.160
flipped almost immediately. Oh, yeah, of course

00:27:14.160 --> 00:27:16.240
they did. Yeah, of course they did. Yeah, faced

00:27:16.240 --> 00:27:17.680
with the weight of the evidence and the guilt

00:27:17.680 --> 00:27:20.589
of what they'd done, both of them... immediately

00:27:20.589 --> 00:27:23.029
confessed and when they did it wasn't just about

00:27:23.029 --> 00:27:25.509
the murder they brought the entire Pendragon

00:27:25.509 --> 00:27:28.549
plot into the light so fantastic yeah we touched

00:27:28.549 --> 00:27:31.450
on what Pendragon like what it was and what they

00:27:31.450 --> 00:27:33.410
were planning but here's a little more thorough

00:27:33.410 --> 00:27:35.789
breakdown of what it was and what they before

00:27:35.789 --> 00:27:38.470
you get into the breakdown just tell me did did

00:27:38.470 --> 00:27:40.609
they sign their confessions with like an old

00:27:40.609 --> 00:27:47.859
-timey wax seal They had one of those rings where

00:27:47.859 --> 00:27:52.859
they had to, like, press it on. Fuck, dude. I

00:27:52.859 --> 00:27:55.019
wish. The entire confession is written in old

00:27:55.019 --> 00:27:59.059
English. Oh, yeah. They had a fucking quill.

00:27:59.319 --> 00:28:02.220
There was an inkwell. Transcribed by monks by

00:28:02.220 --> 00:28:07.779
candlelight. The first letter on the pages is

00:28:07.779 --> 00:28:15.059
this giant drawing. Just massive. Yeah. So what

00:28:15.059 --> 00:28:17.799
they found out was that investigators, while

00:28:17.799 --> 00:28:21.039
searching Richard's home, found maps and aerial

00:28:21.039 --> 00:28:23.500
photographs of Marin County marked with strategic

00:28:23.500 --> 00:28:26.339
targets, including bridges, government buildings,

00:28:26.400 --> 00:28:29.019
and power infrastructure. Now, this one is kind

00:28:29.019 --> 00:28:33.559
of wild because it's 82. You don't just get those

00:28:33.559 --> 00:28:36.799
off of Google Maps. He had to go to a county

00:28:36.799 --> 00:28:38.960
clerk's office or something. Yeah, he had to

00:28:38.960 --> 00:28:41.339
go to the assessor's office and fill out paperwork.

00:28:41.950 --> 00:28:44.349
Yeah. You don't just come across maps and aerial

00:28:44.349 --> 00:28:46.490
photographs of an entire County. Like you have

00:28:46.490 --> 00:28:50.390
to like request this stuff, which I mean, maybe

00:28:50.390 --> 00:28:52.690
not, but I maybe nowadays that would throw up

00:28:52.690 --> 00:28:55.069
some major red flags. Maybe an 82 is a little

00:28:55.069 --> 00:28:58.089
different. I mean, it is pre nine 11. So, well,

00:28:58.150 --> 00:29:00.710
you know, also like it probably, it probably

00:29:00.710 --> 00:29:02.890
like raised his suspicions a little bit when

00:29:02.890 --> 00:29:05.250
an arrow flew through the window with his request

00:29:05.250 --> 00:29:09.730
wrapped around it. Fuck dude. I'm going to choke.

00:29:11.220 --> 00:29:17.819
God damn it. Give me your records, wench. Before

00:29:17.819 --> 00:29:20.319
he walks into the room, he has one of the other

00:29:20.319 --> 00:29:22.819
dudes fucking bust in with a trumpet and announce

00:29:22.819 --> 00:29:30.420
him. An awkward teenager with an extremely long

00:29:30.420 --> 00:29:33.720
horn. That's what I picture. Hear ye, hear ye.

00:29:34.319 --> 00:29:38.180
Alright, sorry. I just, I'm... Oh, God, this

00:29:38.180 --> 00:29:41.900
is just amazing. Yeah, they also found hand -drawn

00:29:41.900 --> 00:29:46.140
blueprints for homemade laser weapons, plans

00:29:46.140 --> 00:29:49.200
for improvised machine guns along with typed

00:29:49.200 --> 00:29:51.140
instructions on how to build them from scratch,

00:29:51.500 --> 00:29:54.359
notebooks detailing a new form of government

00:29:54.359 --> 00:29:57.319
that would be installed post -coup, a neo -feudal

00:29:57.319 --> 00:29:59.339
monarchy with Richards obviously at the top of

00:29:59.339 --> 00:30:03.720
it. recruitment materials, listing young followers

00:30:03.720 --> 00:30:06.440
with assigned titles and land grants, and pages

00:30:06.440 --> 00:30:09.039
of political ramblings outlining how Pendragon

00:30:09.039 --> 00:30:12.359
would restore just rule after seizing control

00:30:12.359 --> 00:30:15.980
of the region. This wasn't just a dude LARPing

00:30:15.980 --> 00:30:19.619
with his friends. It could have ended up in a

00:30:19.619 --> 00:30:22.960
Waco scenario if it really got down to it. Thank

00:30:22.960 --> 00:30:26.259
God he is the most incompetent person alive.

00:30:26.859 --> 00:30:29.460
Oh yeah, dude, it's not great. Yeah, so Richards

00:30:29.460 --> 00:30:31.680
envisioned pretty much a scenario where bridges

00:30:31.680 --> 00:30:33.759
like the Golden Gate in Richmond, San Rafael

00:30:33.759 --> 00:30:36.519
would be destroyed, cutting off Marin County

00:30:36.519 --> 00:30:39.480
from the outside world. And once isolated, his

00:30:39.480 --> 00:30:43.940
forces, quote unquote, teenage knights, and whoever

00:30:43.940 --> 00:30:46.839
else he could possibly recruit, would take control

00:30:46.839 --> 00:30:49.059
of local government offices, eliminate opposition,

00:30:49.480 --> 00:30:51.599
and install Richards as the new sovereign ruler.

00:30:51.880 --> 00:30:54.940
And then the final phase included placing a laser

00:30:54.940 --> 00:30:58.630
cannon on top of Mount... which is Marin's highest

00:30:58.630 --> 00:31:01.269
point to shoot down military aircraft and hold

00:31:01.269 --> 00:31:04.230
off the National Guard. The laser cannon. Oh,

00:31:04.269 --> 00:31:09.849
my God. Yeah. This is just like the biggest fucking

00:31:09.849 --> 00:31:13.029
nerd on Earth. But he's not even a nerd because

00:31:13.029 --> 00:31:16.410
nerds are smart. No. Like, I know nerds. Nerds

00:31:16.410 --> 00:31:19.210
are smart. They're not fucking... They would

00:31:19.210 --> 00:31:21.829
have had, like, a good plan. This guy's a goddamn

00:31:21.829 --> 00:31:23.410
dweeb. I was going to say, there's a difference

00:31:23.410 --> 00:31:26.000
between, like, a nerd and a dork. This dude's

00:31:26.000 --> 00:31:30.059
an absolute dork. He's a total dork. We're just

00:31:30.059 --> 00:31:31.519
not going to lie. It's a word that I feel like

00:31:31.519 --> 00:31:34.000
we should use more often. I think dork is really

00:31:34.000 --> 00:31:36.339
funny. I actually keep thinking of Leonard Lake,

00:31:36.480 --> 00:31:39.920
that serial killer who built the bunkers underground

00:31:39.920 --> 00:31:44.059
because he couldn't get women to like him, so

00:31:44.059 --> 00:31:47.839
he would abduct them. Was it Charles Ng? Yeah,

00:31:47.880 --> 00:31:50.539
Leonard Lake and Charles Ng. This guy is like

00:31:50.539 --> 00:31:55.480
Leonard Lake, but way worse. In terms of stupidity,

00:31:55.480 --> 00:31:57.380
not like crime. I was going to say, because I

00:31:57.380 --> 00:32:00.319
think Leonard Lake and Charles Zink were pretty

00:32:00.319 --> 00:32:01.920
fucking funny. No, Leonard Lake used to go to

00:32:01.920 --> 00:32:05.099
Ren Fairs, though. He actually had a goat that

00:32:05.099 --> 00:32:07.660
only grew one horn, and he kept calling it a

00:32:07.660 --> 00:32:09.920
unicorn. That's pretty fucking rad. Not going

00:32:09.920 --> 00:32:11.859
to lie. But like, bro, it's a goat. It's not

00:32:11.859 --> 00:32:14.900
a unicorn. It's just a goat. No, but that's pretty

00:32:14.900 --> 00:32:18.670
funny. It is. It wasn't for the fact he was a

00:32:18.670 --> 00:32:20.589
terrible monster. Yeah, it would be a little

00:32:20.589 --> 00:32:23.250
funny, but I feel like this guy and Leonard Lake

00:32:23.250 --> 00:32:24.710
would have been best friends because they were

00:32:24.710 --> 00:32:27.390
both active around the same time, too. Well,

00:32:27.410 --> 00:32:29.549
no. His best friend was Charles Ng. Charles Ng

00:32:29.549 --> 00:32:32.089
made it known that they were best friends. You

00:32:32.089 --> 00:32:34.609
have no idea what I bring to this friendship.

00:32:34.609 --> 00:32:36.650
You have no idea what I bring to this friendship.

00:32:41.059 --> 00:32:43.980
But no, I get what you're saying. Yeah. All right.

00:32:44.380 --> 00:32:47.900
But yeah. Oh, and also Richards, like I mentioned

00:32:47.900 --> 00:32:50.559
earlier, had titles ready. Hoover was promised

00:32:50.559 --> 00:32:53.279
that he'd be the Duke of Angel Island, complete

00:32:53.279 --> 00:32:55.440
with territory and power once Pendragon took

00:32:55.440 --> 00:32:58.119
control. Other followers were reportedly offered

00:32:58.119 --> 00:33:02.359
similar roles. So it was a cult wrapped in medieval

00:33:02.359 --> 00:33:04.500
mythology powered by delusion and dripping in

00:33:04.500 --> 00:33:09.339
ego. But here's the thing. when I was researching,

00:33:09.420 --> 00:33:11.359
they kept saying other followers. He didn't really

00:33:11.359 --> 00:33:15.099
have other followers. It was more like he openly

00:33:15.099 --> 00:33:18.579
talked about this to a lot of people and people

00:33:18.579 --> 00:33:21.960
would probably just go, Oh yeah, cool. Yeah,

00:33:22.019 --> 00:33:24.140
no, that sounds pretty rad. And then you just

00:33:24.140 --> 00:33:26.420
had a bunch of teenagers who yes, and did him

00:33:26.420 --> 00:33:30.000
as he bought them like cases of Milwaukee, you

00:33:30.000 --> 00:33:31.920
know, Milwaukee's best. Yeah. So he probably

00:33:31.920 --> 00:33:34.400
took that as like a, hell yeah that's another

00:33:34.400 --> 00:33:37.220
night for my fucking round table and write that

00:33:37.220 --> 00:33:40.220
but really it was just the two dudes so i don't

00:33:40.220 --> 00:33:42.299
want the kids are like yeah right my leash just

00:33:42.299 --> 00:33:45.039
i need another cult 40 before we get started

00:33:45.039 --> 00:33:47.420
yeah i didn't want to like people to think that

00:33:47.420 --> 00:33:49.380
like i'm just leaving out the fact that there

00:33:49.380 --> 00:33:51.460
was a huge cult following around him there wasn't

00:33:51.460 --> 00:33:54.720
it was just the two yeah he he assumed more people

00:33:54.720 --> 00:33:57.240
would follow him weird that the guy who came

00:33:57.240 --> 00:34:02.619
up with future castle would be so Unable to tell

00:34:02.619 --> 00:34:05.859
what people like. Yeah. Now, during the trial

00:34:05.859 --> 00:34:08.639
in 1984, all of this was entered into evidence.

00:34:09.639 --> 00:34:13.739
The prosecution, led by future DA Edward Barbarian,

00:34:13.739 --> 00:34:16.400
cool name, I'm sure. That's a pretty awesome

00:34:16.400 --> 00:34:19.639
name, actually. Barbarians at the gate, if you

00:34:19.639 --> 00:34:23.420
will. Honestly, it fits so well into the Arthurian.

00:34:27.349 --> 00:34:30.050
He used Pendragon to destroy Richard's credibility

00:34:30.050 --> 00:34:32.969
and expose his motives. They argued that this

00:34:32.969 --> 00:34:34.829
wasn't just about money. It was about control,

00:34:35.010 --> 00:34:37.889
power, creating a kingdom, and killing Baldwin

00:34:37.889 --> 00:34:42.230
wasn't random. It was step one in the blueprint

00:34:42.230 --> 00:34:44.610
for this revolution. Now, you want to know what

00:34:44.610 --> 00:34:46.969
Richard's defense was? Can you guess? I'll give

00:34:46.969 --> 00:34:52.389
you three guesses. Goddamn. Witchcraft. Like

00:34:52.389 --> 00:34:55.570
a real defense. I want you to know, this is like...

00:34:56.519 --> 00:34:59.579
Pretend you're his defense attorney. You're faced

00:34:59.579 --> 00:35:03.199
with all of this Pendragon shit. What defense

00:35:03.199 --> 00:35:07.059
do you come up with for this man? Insanity, temporary

00:35:07.059 --> 00:35:11.559
insanity, naturally. Okay, that's not it. The

00:35:11.559 --> 00:35:16.119
Twinkie defense, have you heard of this? Have

00:35:16.119 --> 00:35:17.300
you heard about this? Have you seen this? Where

00:35:17.300 --> 00:35:19.880
a guy who tried to get away with murder by saying

00:35:19.880 --> 00:35:23.340
that he was crazy on sugar from Twinkies? No,

00:35:23.340 --> 00:35:28.809
it wasn't that. Okay. Self -defense. That would

00:35:28.809 --> 00:35:31.369
have been a wild one. Yeah, in self -defense,

00:35:31.409 --> 00:35:34.210
I beat him over the head repeatedly with a baseball

00:35:34.210 --> 00:35:36.190
bat and then stabbed him, not only with a knife,

00:35:36.269 --> 00:35:39.630
but also a chisel in the face and stomach. No,

00:35:39.789 --> 00:35:43.849
it's... Sarge. It was just a sci -fi novel that

00:35:43.849 --> 00:35:46.849
I was writing. Oh, God. It's just, you know,

00:35:46.909 --> 00:35:50.230
I'm just doing research, bro. He claimed that...

00:35:51.039 --> 00:35:53.099
He actually claimed that the documents were part

00:35:53.099 --> 00:35:56.579
of a work in progress called Imperial Marin.

00:35:58.039 --> 00:36:01.260
This guy took Star Wars way too seriously. That's

00:36:01.260 --> 00:36:03.340
what happened. Star Wars came out in 77 and he's

00:36:03.340 --> 00:36:07.659
like, I'm in. Imperial Marin was just a fun little

00:36:07.659 --> 00:36:11.000
dystopian fantasy about local warlords and coup

00:36:11.000 --> 00:36:13.760
d 'etats. The maps were just props. The weapon

00:36:13.760 --> 00:36:16.840
plans, that's world building, obviously. The

00:36:16.840 --> 00:36:19.159
bridge bombings and laser cannons, that's just

00:36:19.159 --> 00:36:22.239
creative writing. I had no intention of doing

00:36:22.239 --> 00:36:33.000
any of this. That's why I killed a guy. But obviously

00:36:33.000 --> 00:36:35.500
that's just like the lamest lie in history. Yeah,

00:36:35.500 --> 00:36:37.880
it's the stupidest shit ever. Of course. Yeah,

00:36:37.920 --> 00:36:40.119
but because witness after witness, including

00:36:40.119 --> 00:36:42.019
Hoover and Campbell, testified that Richards

00:36:42.019 --> 00:36:45.139
never once said this was a novel, he held meetings,

00:36:45.320 --> 00:36:47.619
showed them the maps, assigned titles, spoken

00:36:47.619 --> 00:36:51.019
absolutes. Also committed murder. Also committed

00:36:51.019 --> 00:36:54.059
murder. Pendragon wasn't a maybe, it was a someday

00:36:54.059 --> 00:36:57.159
kind of thing. Oh, definitely. But after weeks

00:36:57.159 --> 00:37:00.800
of testimony, evidence, and like... what -the

00:37:00.800 --> 00:37:03.320
-fuck kind of moments in the courtroom, the trial

00:37:03.320 --> 00:37:05.420
of Mark Richards came to a close, and the jury

00:37:05.420 --> 00:37:07.639
was left with two possible versions of reality.

00:37:08.599 --> 00:37:11.739
One, Mark Richards was a cold, manipulative killer

00:37:11.739 --> 00:37:13.940
who orchestrated a murder -for -profit using

00:37:13.940 --> 00:37:16.900
a fantasy cult as a weapon to control vulnerable

00:37:16.900 --> 00:37:19.519
teenagers and finances personal war on reality.

00:37:20.199 --> 00:37:23.300
Or two, he was just a misunderstood sci -fi author

00:37:23.300 --> 00:37:25.360
writing a book called Imperial Marin, and it's

00:37:25.360 --> 00:37:27.659
all just a... big wacky misunderstanding involving

00:37:27.659 --> 00:37:30.179
blood maps, weapons, schematics, and a dead guy

00:37:30.179 --> 00:37:34.380
in a tarp. And that he was present during a murder

00:37:34.380 --> 00:37:38.840
of the guy in the top. No, no, it's no, I don't

00:37:38.840 --> 00:37:42.300
know. He's just, no, no, no. Okay. Yeah. No,

00:37:42.300 --> 00:37:43.739
you know what, you know what you're doing. You're

00:37:43.739 --> 00:37:45.940
thinking about it. Yeah. Don't don't think about

00:37:45.940 --> 00:37:48.139
it. Think about it. Yeah. But yeah, it didn't

00:37:48.139 --> 00:37:50.940
take long for the jury to decide. They deliberated

00:37:50.940 --> 00:37:53.440
for four days, carefully reviewing every. What?

00:37:53.539 --> 00:37:56.300
Yeah, I know. It's way longer than it should

00:37:56.300 --> 00:37:59.599
be. Yeah, I'm saying like in a situation like

00:37:59.599 --> 00:38:02.139
this, if I were the jury foreman, they'd be like,

00:38:02.300 --> 00:38:04.639
OK, now the jury is going to deliberate and be

00:38:04.639 --> 00:38:07.420
like, you know what? Actually, you guys good?

00:38:07.519 --> 00:38:11.210
Yeah. Yeah. He's guilty. Yeah, definitely. They

00:38:11.210 --> 00:38:14.690
just walk out and then just circle back around

00:38:14.690 --> 00:38:21.250
and come out the other door. You know what they

00:38:21.250 --> 00:38:23.210
did? They probably sequestered the jury in a

00:38:23.210 --> 00:38:25.210
really nice hotel and everybody just wanted to

00:38:25.210 --> 00:38:27.690
get like they had massages scheduled. Oh, yeah.

00:38:27.730 --> 00:38:31.130
They were like, bro, listen, I'm taking time

00:38:31.130 --> 00:38:33.889
off work and getting paid. This shit's free.

00:38:34.480 --> 00:38:36.239
I'm getting room service for they're milking

00:38:36.239 --> 00:38:38.900
it. Yeah. You know, either that or they were

00:38:38.900 --> 00:38:41.300
just like, this is so stupid that we have to

00:38:41.300 --> 00:38:43.480
be missing something. Yeah. But, you know, like

00:38:43.480 --> 00:38:45.320
day four when they're just like they have their

00:38:45.320 --> 00:38:47.579
mud mask on. Someone's like, you guys going to

00:38:47.579 --> 00:38:49.500
like fucking talk about this or what? Like, oh,

00:38:49.500 --> 00:38:54.139
shit. Yeah, you're right. Sorry. Guilty. One

00:38:54.139 --> 00:38:56.280
guy comes in with a charcuterie board from the

00:38:56.280 --> 00:39:00.099
hotel. Yeah. He's guilty. They ran out of olives.

00:39:00.579 --> 00:39:03.500
So it was a. But in the end, they returned a

00:39:03.500 --> 00:39:06.679
unanimous verdict of guilty. Hopefully, I would

00:39:06.679 --> 00:39:09.280
hope so. Easily. I hope one dude isn't like,

00:39:09.340 --> 00:39:11.219
well, I don't know. The book sounds kind of cool.

00:39:12.300 --> 00:39:14.840
Yeah, that one dude is also wearing a purple

00:39:14.840 --> 00:39:19.000
robe. He's carrying a scepter. He's got a scepter.

00:39:19.000 --> 00:39:23.360
He said, I can be king of San Francisco. So what

00:39:23.360 --> 00:39:26.940
was he convicted of? He was convicted of first

00:39:26.940 --> 00:39:30.570
degree murder, conspiracy to commit murder. burglary

00:39:30.570 --> 00:39:33.409
and the special circumstances of murder for profit

00:39:33.409 --> 00:39:36.030
and solicitation of others to kill. Now it's

00:39:36.030 --> 00:39:38.110
these special circumstances that are pretty much

00:39:38.110 --> 00:39:40.449
key because once the jury agreed, Richards had

00:39:40.449 --> 00:39:43.070
not only committed the murder for gain, but also

00:39:43.070 --> 00:39:45.630
had recruited others to carry it out. The sentence

00:39:45.630 --> 00:39:48.570
became automatic, which is life in prison without

00:39:48.570 --> 00:39:52.909
the possibility of parole. So no appeal, no early

00:39:52.909 --> 00:39:56.440
release, just. chilling in a cell for a lifetime.

00:39:58.039 --> 00:40:01.440
Now his teenage accomplices were sentenced separately.

00:40:01.780 --> 00:40:04.460
So Cross and Hoover, who swung the bat and stabbed

00:40:04.460 --> 00:40:08.739
Baldwin, was sentenced to 26 years to life. He

00:40:08.739 --> 00:40:11.280
later regretted parole, but the decision was

00:40:11.280 --> 00:40:13.460
overturned by then -Governor Jerry Brown, who

00:40:13.460 --> 00:40:15.320
said Hoover still posed a threat to society.

00:40:15.860 --> 00:40:18.619
And Andrew Campbell, who cooperated and testified,

00:40:18.880 --> 00:40:20.940
received a lighter sentence. I don't know what

00:40:20.940 --> 00:40:23.360
that sentence was. At the risk of pissing off.

00:40:23.820 --> 00:40:27.400
uh, Jellaby offer from the dead Kennedys. I got

00:40:27.400 --> 00:40:29.280
to stand behind this decision by Jerry Brown.

00:40:30.659 --> 00:40:33.880
Yeah, I think it's a safe. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

00:40:33.900 --> 00:40:36.539
He made the right call. Now, as for Pendragon,

00:40:36.639 --> 00:40:39.139
it never made it past the planning stages, obviously,

00:40:39.159 --> 00:40:41.260
because everyone involved is a fucking idiot.

00:40:41.519 --> 00:40:44.079
Uh, no bridges were bombed. Obviously no governments

00:40:44.079 --> 00:40:46.739
were overthrown. No laser cannons ever made it

00:40:46.739 --> 00:40:49.699
to the top of Mount Tam. Uh, all that remained

00:40:49.699 --> 00:40:52.880
were some. folders full of fantasy, a dead dude

00:40:52.880 --> 00:40:56.380
in a bay in a kingdom built on just bullshit.

00:40:56.960 --> 00:41:00.159
I feel like this should be a movie. Yeah, I think

00:41:00.159 --> 00:41:02.599
it would be really fun. With the exception of

00:41:02.599 --> 00:41:05.039
the murder, this is fucking hilarious. It's pretty

00:41:05.039 --> 00:41:06.980
good, but you have to involve... We'll get to

00:41:06.980 --> 00:41:09.380
it. Now, you think that would be the end of it,

00:41:09.440 --> 00:41:12.519
obviously. Yeah, naturally. Mark Richards wasn't

00:41:12.519 --> 00:41:16.139
done. He wasn't going to go out as some... failed

00:41:16.139 --> 00:41:18.579
cult leader and convicted murderer, he was going

00:41:18.579 --> 00:41:20.840
to rewrite the narrative. And in prison, he found

00:41:20.840 --> 00:41:23.340
- And become a failed CIA operative who's been

00:41:23.340 --> 00:41:27.199
to space. No. In prison, he found a new battleground.

00:41:27.320 --> 00:41:31.300
That is the internet. So after his conviction,

00:41:31.659 --> 00:41:34.179
Richards began spinning a new story, one where

00:41:34.179 --> 00:41:36.860
he wasn't a killer, but a whistleblower. a secret

00:41:36.860 --> 00:41:39.480
space program commander, a man who had been framed

00:41:39.480 --> 00:41:41.360
by powerful forces because he quote -unquote

00:41:41.360 --> 00:41:44.340
knew too much. Now for years, the only people

00:41:44.340 --> 00:41:46.739
paying attention were a handful of fringe conspiracy

00:41:46.739 --> 00:41:50.659
types. That is until 2013 when one woman walked

00:41:50.659 --> 00:41:53.500
into California State Prison in Vacaville and

00:41:53.500 --> 00:41:57.039
changed everything. That woman is Carrie Cassidy,

00:41:57.119 --> 00:42:00.800
founder of Project Camelot. Oh God, these fucking

00:42:00.800 --> 00:42:03.699
dorks. Now Cassidy was a self -proclaimed truth

00:42:03.699 --> 00:42:07.570
seeker, UFO researcher, A walking megaphone for

00:42:07.570 --> 00:42:12.570
bullshit. And made Marion cosplayer. After visiting

00:42:12.570 --> 00:42:15.309
Richards, she emerged from the prison gates fully

00:42:15.309 --> 00:42:17.550
convinced that he wasn't a murderer, but a cosmic

00:42:17.550 --> 00:42:20.349
patriot locked away by reptilian -controlled

00:42:20.349 --> 00:42:22.750
shadow governments who feared what he knew. I

00:42:22.750 --> 00:42:26.090
will never forgive David Icke for inventing reptilians

00:42:26.090 --> 00:42:30.929
because this shit is everywhere. Oh, yeah. Now,

00:42:30.989 --> 00:42:33.349
from this moment forward, Cassidy became Richard's

00:42:33.349 --> 00:42:35.469
mouthpiece, conducting over a dozen interviews,

00:42:35.590 --> 00:42:38.449
taking notes during visitations, since recording

00:42:38.449 --> 00:42:39.829
wasn't allowed. She had to write everything down

00:42:39.829 --> 00:42:43.090
with a pen and pencil, then racing back to her

00:42:43.090 --> 00:42:45.250
camera to deliver the gospel according to Mark.

00:42:46.090 --> 00:42:48.130
It must have been really hard for her to get

00:42:48.130 --> 00:42:51.710
all the calligraphy down. She broadcasts stories

00:42:51.710 --> 00:42:54.989
of interstellar wars, alien councils, psychic

00:42:54.989 --> 00:42:57.829
warfare, time travel sabotage, Nazi saucers,

00:42:57.849 --> 00:43:00.750
sentient ships, raptor royalty, moon bases, and

00:43:00.750 --> 00:43:03.449
secret missions that coincidentally matched the

00:43:03.449 --> 00:43:06.710
exact same sci -fi plot points Richards used

00:43:06.710 --> 00:43:09.889
to lure two teenagers into murder. Crazy, right?

00:43:10.349 --> 00:43:13.510
Amazing. Amazing. All those stories that I told

00:43:13.510 --> 00:43:15.809
in part one, they all came from Cassidy's videos.

00:43:16.090 --> 00:43:18.940
They're not whistleblower testimony. bedtime

00:43:18.940 --> 00:43:21.440
stories from a convicted killer who wanted to

00:43:21.440 --> 00:43:23.039
make a new identity for himself. Jesus Christ.

00:43:23.260 --> 00:43:26.940
And Cassidy lapped it up. Of course. She pushed

00:43:26.940 --> 00:43:29.000
the narrative that Mark had been framed by the

00:43:29.000 --> 00:43:31.559
Illuminati, imprisoned to silence his interstellar

00:43:31.559 --> 00:43:34.079
service record. She claimed he'd been leading

00:43:34.079 --> 00:43:36.119
the fight against alien threats since his teens,

00:43:36.320 --> 00:43:38.920
that he was a Navy captain, a decorated commander,

00:43:39.260 --> 00:43:44.559
a Rhodes scholar, a government advisor. But like

00:43:44.559 --> 00:43:48.039
I said, the reality of it is that he never served

00:43:48.039 --> 00:43:50.380
in the military. He was attending community college

00:43:50.380 --> 00:43:53.860
during the Vietnam War. He has no record at Oxford.

00:43:54.019 --> 00:43:56.880
His only verified degree is a bachelor's in history,

00:43:57.059 --> 00:44:00.139
and his quote -unquote command experience exists

00:44:00.139 --> 00:44:03.000
entirely in his own brain and Cary Cassidy's

00:44:03.000 --> 00:44:05.619
YouTube channel. That is so weird that he has

00:44:05.619 --> 00:44:09.239
a degree in history yet didn't understand how

00:44:09.239 --> 00:44:14.579
it all turned out for the Knights. well maybe

00:44:14.579 --> 00:44:18.179
i don't know i mean people fucking still white

00:44:18.179 --> 00:44:20.000
supremacists talk about the fourth reich like

00:44:20.000 --> 00:44:23.500
that's true okay yeah that's fair yeah and then

00:44:23.500 --> 00:44:26.000
hey that's no way to talk about elon musk all

00:44:26.000 --> 00:44:29.900
right he's just trying he's trying But that didn't

00:44:29.900 --> 00:44:32.460
stop the myth from spreading. To this day, Cassidy

00:44:32.460 --> 00:44:35.019
continues to post quote -unquote intel from Richards

00:44:35.019 --> 00:44:38.019
via his wife, Joanne, who also runs a nonprofit

00:44:38.019 --> 00:44:40.360
called Earth Defense Headquarters. He has a fucking

00:44:40.360 --> 00:44:45.179
wife? Yeah. That's a whole other thing. Okay.

00:44:45.300 --> 00:44:48.380
She runs a nonprofit called Earth Defense Headquarters,

00:44:48.539 --> 00:44:51.260
which is a site dedicated to publishing his writings

00:44:51.260 --> 00:44:54.380
and further entrenching the fiction. And somehow

00:44:54.380 --> 00:44:56.099
people believe it. They believe that he flew

00:44:56.099 --> 00:44:58.119
Minerva, the sentient starship. that he fought

00:44:58.119 --> 00:45:00.679
reptilians in Antarctica, that he brokered peace

00:45:00.679 --> 00:45:04.039
with bug aliens in Bolivia, that he liberated

00:45:04.039 --> 00:45:07.000
Dolce Base, and that he saved the moon. Yeah,

00:45:07.059 --> 00:45:09.059
they believe in Captain Mark Richards, but the

00:45:09.059 --> 00:45:10.820
state of California knows him by a different

00:45:10.820 --> 00:45:16.159
name, which is inmate number B33920. So there

00:45:16.159 --> 00:45:19.539
you go. That is the conclusion of the story of

00:45:19.539 --> 00:45:21.239
Captain Mark Richards. How are you feeling, buddy?

00:45:21.440 --> 00:45:24.820
You look good. You look... This couldn't have

00:45:24.820 --> 00:45:28.469
turned out better. Yeah, no, you got it from

00:45:28.469 --> 00:45:33.590
beginning to end. I was just enthralled with

00:45:33.590 --> 00:45:37.969
this story. Holy shit. Yeah, I love it so much.

00:45:38.750 --> 00:45:42.989
The only downside is that I know I know Mark

00:45:42.989 --> 00:45:44.909
Rich. I keep wanting to call him Captain Mark

00:45:44.909 --> 00:45:49.530
Rich. But the one thing that sucks about this,

00:45:49.610 --> 00:45:54.670
and I know he's not directly receiving any sort

00:45:54.670 --> 00:45:58.900
of like monetary. whatever but carrie cassidy

00:45:58.900 --> 00:46:02.219
has a huge following his wife has that non -profit

00:46:02.219 --> 00:46:05.860
whatever but you you know that he's somehow like

00:46:05.860 --> 00:46:08.099
making money off this you know what i mean like

00:46:08.099 --> 00:46:11.900
you know that somehow yeah there's got to be

00:46:11.900 --> 00:46:14.760
money in this commissary coming from like duped

00:46:14.760 --> 00:46:17.199
people who just desperately want there to be

00:46:17.199 --> 00:46:20.980
like a middle ages version of star trek yeah

00:46:20.980 --> 00:46:23.280
like you like in this fucking annoying but yeah

00:46:23.280 --> 00:46:26.940
sarge Any thoughts, questions, concerns? Do you

00:46:26.940 --> 00:46:31.880
want to? Oh, my God. This couldn't have turned

00:46:31.880 --> 00:46:34.619
out better. Just the whole story is just fucking

00:46:34.619 --> 00:46:37.619
amazing. I know I was skeptical in the beginning,

00:46:37.679 --> 00:46:41.300
but goddamn, this turned out just fantastic.

00:46:41.460 --> 00:46:45.079
What an absolute knob. Sarge, listen, you know

00:46:45.079 --> 00:46:46.840
I would never string you along without any payoff.

00:46:47.760 --> 00:46:50.519
Nope. And that was my fault for getting real

00:46:50.519 --> 00:46:56.670
mad about his. many nonsense beliefs but to just

00:46:56.670 --> 00:47:00.210
just perfect to your credit though we can only

00:47:00.210 --> 00:47:02.510
talk about so many grifters for so long before

00:47:02.510 --> 00:47:07.449
it's just like fuck these guys you know well

00:47:07.449 --> 00:47:09.650
I think the thing that bothered me about it in

00:47:09.650 --> 00:47:12.769
the beginning was just like you can't always

00:47:12.769 --> 00:47:16.369
be the hero like you have to like put in a couple

00:47:16.369 --> 00:47:18.650
of losses there to make the story believable

00:47:18.650 --> 00:47:20.530
you know what I mean Well, the thing about Carrie

00:47:20.530 --> 00:47:24.170
Cassidy and Project Camelot is that all the quote

00:47:24.170 --> 00:47:26.090
-unquote whistleblowers of the secret space program,

00:47:26.150 --> 00:47:27.429
because she's had a bunch of people on, dude,

00:47:27.469 --> 00:47:30.610
and they're all fucking awful. It's all Alex

00:47:30.610 --> 00:47:33.429
Jones -ian sphere kind of thing. Yeah, yeah.

00:47:33.789 --> 00:47:37.949
Carrie Cassidy, I don't want to call her... She's

00:47:37.949 --> 00:47:43.190
not... How do I word this? A lot of conspiracy

00:47:43.190 --> 00:47:46.179
theories, and especially like... secret space

00:47:46.179 --> 00:47:50.760
programs and reptilians. And also it's, it's

00:47:50.760 --> 00:47:53.940
all based in some sort of antisemitism or some

00:47:53.940 --> 00:47:56.559
sort of racism kind of thing. But the thing is,

00:47:56.579 --> 00:48:01.699
I don't think Carrie Cassidy thinks about it

00:48:01.699 --> 00:48:03.780
that way. You know what I mean? Like she, she

00:48:03.780 --> 00:48:06.440
genuinely believes that there are different races

00:48:06.440 --> 00:48:09.420
of aliens. Like the people that come on, they're

00:48:09.420 --> 00:48:11.840
telling the story, but it's all like, you know,

00:48:12.239 --> 00:48:14.199
The reptilians. It's like a wink and a nod. There's

00:48:14.199 --> 00:48:16.119
like a dog whistle. Like, yeah, we're, we're

00:48:16.119 --> 00:48:18.639
talking about Jewish people. I think, but like,

00:48:18.659 --> 00:48:20.480
I think she's like, she's a true believer. I

00:48:20.480 --> 00:48:25.199
think she is a true believer and it's kind of

00:48:25.199 --> 00:48:29.079
crazy. So I don't, I don't, I mean, I blame her

00:48:29.079 --> 00:48:32.079
for a lot of things, but her believing this,

00:48:32.219 --> 00:48:35.559
I, like I a hundred percent. Well, like she's

00:48:35.559 --> 00:48:38.019
probably, she's probably dealing with like some

00:48:38.019 --> 00:48:42.329
very untreated mental illness. To be fair, she's

00:48:42.329 --> 00:48:44.530
also... And Mark is just yes -anding her all

00:48:44.530 --> 00:48:47.289
the way. To be fair, she is also a huge QAnon

00:48:47.289 --> 00:48:51.190
person, so I don't know. Oh, yeah, well, obviously.

00:48:51.630 --> 00:48:53.889
Yeah, she's not great. She's not, like, she's

00:48:53.889 --> 00:48:55.849
a big Trump supporter. She believed that when,

00:48:55.909 --> 00:48:58.750
like, Biden was in office that Trump was still

00:48:58.750 --> 00:49:00.650
the real president working behind the scenes.

00:49:01.510 --> 00:49:04.190
Which is weird because everyone voted out Biden

00:49:04.190 --> 00:49:07.909
for doing a terrible job, even though... by their

00:49:07.909 --> 00:49:10.250
own logic trump was president yeah i don't know

00:49:10.250 --> 00:49:13.710
dude um yeah i don't it doesn't it doesn't track

00:49:13.710 --> 00:49:17.070
but i actually just saw a picture of her and

00:49:17.070 --> 00:49:22.630
that's the face of an insane person i don't think

00:49:22.630 --> 00:49:25.030
she's like if you google her face yeah you can

00:49:25.030 --> 00:49:28.360
tell just by looking at her That she's fucking

00:49:28.360 --> 00:49:30.519
cuckoo banana pants. I follow her on Instagram.

00:49:30.659 --> 00:49:32.559
I've been tagging her in every single post I've

00:49:32.559 --> 00:49:34.179
made about Mark Richards in hopes that she would

00:49:34.179 --> 00:49:38.739
like see. You're going to get people knocking

00:49:38.739 --> 00:49:41.440
on your door. Well, I just wanted to see if she'd

00:49:41.440 --> 00:49:44.340
see it. That'd be really funny. I forget where

00:49:44.340 --> 00:49:47.820
I was going. She's going to say that you're part

00:49:47.820 --> 00:49:51.280
of the deep state. I remember where I was going

00:49:51.280 --> 00:49:54.280
with this. You were saying how you can't always

00:49:54.280 --> 00:49:57.000
have wins. You have to have some sort of loss.

00:49:58.239 --> 00:50:01.619
Not on Carrie Cassidy's show. There's no room

00:50:01.619 --> 00:50:04.659
for that. Every whistleblower, every person that

00:50:04.659 --> 00:50:06.139
comes on as part of the secret space program,

00:50:06.500 --> 00:50:08.960
has worked at Dulce, anything like that. They're

00:50:08.960 --> 00:50:12.619
all heroes. They're all patriots. They don't

00:50:12.619 --> 00:50:17.079
ever lose. I don't know if they talk to one another,

00:50:17.199 --> 00:50:19.480
but they all confirm other people's stories.

00:50:19.599 --> 00:50:22.659
It's a yes -and thing. Yeah, it's a yes -and

00:50:22.659 --> 00:50:25.519
thing. That's how conspiracy theories work. It's

00:50:25.519 --> 00:50:28.880
just a big yes -and game, and then anytime somebody

00:50:28.880 --> 00:50:31.619
pushes you, you're like, well, that's what they

00:50:31.619 --> 00:50:33.179
want you to think. Here's the thing, though.

00:50:33.219 --> 00:50:35.480
I don't think this is conspiracy theory. I think

00:50:35.480 --> 00:50:38.980
this is just one long grift, and Carrie Gassidy

00:50:38.980 --> 00:50:41.079
isn't part of the grift. She's just promoting

00:50:41.079 --> 00:50:44.860
the grift, but I don't think she is. You have

00:50:44.860 --> 00:50:47.940
to wonder how unskilled are these fucking morons

00:50:47.940 --> 00:50:50.099
that the most amount of money they could make

00:50:50.099 --> 00:50:53.239
is off of maybe the 10 people that believe this

00:50:53.239 --> 00:50:57.820
nonsense. Bro, Carrie Cassidy has a way bigger

00:50:57.820 --> 00:51:00.800
following than you think she does. I mean, even

00:51:00.800 --> 00:51:03.760
if it's a couple million people, even if her

00:51:03.760 --> 00:51:06.400
videos on YouTube are getting like 30 ,000 views,

00:51:06.820 --> 00:51:10.039
that's like what? I don't think she's on YouTube

00:51:10.039 --> 00:51:14.190
anymore. I think it's mostly Rumble. or whatever

00:51:14.190 --> 00:51:17.070
the the right wing thing it's i know that she's

00:51:17.070 --> 00:51:19.889
on true social she is still on facebook and she

00:51:19.889 --> 00:51:24.510
has the quite the following there um but yeah

00:51:24.510 --> 00:51:27.429
i think she's perpetuating a grift like she's

00:51:27.429 --> 00:51:29.090
not part of the grift but she'll like promote

00:51:29.090 --> 00:51:31.190
people's books and all that stuff like because

00:51:31.190 --> 00:51:33.849
people write books which is fucking crazy um

00:51:33.849 --> 00:51:36.829
yeah it's just all bad it's all it's all just

00:51:36.829 --> 00:51:39.570
right wing grifter shit and like i said the the

00:51:39.570 --> 00:51:44.199
the circles Between her, Alex Jones, and all

00:51:44.199 --> 00:51:47.880
those, it's kind of... It's like a Venn diagram

00:51:47.880 --> 00:51:51.119
that's almost a circle as far as guests and talking

00:51:51.119 --> 00:51:55.280
points go. Only hers are more shrouded in space

00:51:55.280 --> 00:51:59.420
conspiracy while Alex Jones is just crazy. It's

00:51:59.420 --> 00:52:02.980
very, very similar. See, the thing is, I don't

00:52:02.980 --> 00:52:05.719
think Alex Jones is crazy. I think he is probably

00:52:05.719 --> 00:52:08.539
the sanest out of the group. He just knows if

00:52:08.539 --> 00:52:11.099
he keeps perpetuating this nonsense... He's going

00:52:11.099 --> 00:52:14.099
to continue to rake. Well, he was going to continue

00:52:14.099 --> 00:52:16.599
to rake in money until all of his assets were

00:52:16.599 --> 00:52:18.880
sieved. All right. So I just went on Carrie's

00:52:18.880 --> 00:52:22.579
Facebook. She has a documentary coming out. Oh,

00:52:22.679 --> 00:52:25.539
God, I'm so excited. So I just want to see what's

00:52:25.539 --> 00:52:29.340
going on. Carrie Cassidy. her actual Facebook,

00:52:29.480 --> 00:52:32.059
she has 5 ,000 followers. So not that big project.

00:52:32.139 --> 00:52:33.960
And that's way bigger, but she just posted this

00:52:33.960 --> 00:52:36.360
on April 10th, uh, that she's in a documentary

00:52:36.360 --> 00:52:39.719
called nexus to disclosure. The truth is classified.

00:52:41.099 --> 00:52:43.860
I don't know how they know that. How do they

00:52:43.860 --> 00:52:46.500
know the truth? The truth, you know, if you classify

00:52:46.500 --> 00:52:48.719
it, it's probably the truth. That's why you're

00:52:48.719 --> 00:52:51.000
classifying it, but also, all right, so I'm going

00:52:51.000 --> 00:52:53.000
to read you the description that she posted on.

00:52:53.099 --> 00:52:56.300
Please do. Uh, and the worst is how she describes

00:52:56.300 --> 00:53:03.820
herself. This is the synopsis of this documentary.

00:53:04.139 --> 00:53:06.639
This documentary delves into the decades -long

00:53:06.639 --> 00:53:09.019
groundbreaking investigations of prominent women

00:53:09.019 --> 00:53:11.699
at the forefront of the UFO disclosure movement.

00:53:11.860 --> 00:53:14.340
It follows investigative journalist, author,

00:53:14.460 --> 00:53:18.380
and documentarian Linda Moulton Howe Regressive

00:53:18.380 --> 00:53:21.300
hypnotherapist and author Yvonne Smith. Renowned

00:53:21.300 --> 00:53:24.500
speaker and author Laura Eisenhower, the great

00:53:24.500 --> 00:53:27.199
-great -granddaughter of former President Eisenhower.

00:53:27.320 --> 00:53:30.139
An investigative journalist and author Carrie

00:53:30.139 --> 00:53:35.960
Cassidy. God damn it. Host and investigative

00:53:35.960 --> 00:53:40.860
journalist Apola. Austria guides viewers through

00:53:40.860 --> 00:53:43.280
a comprehensive exploration of their work, connecting

00:53:43.280 --> 00:53:45.619
the dots between their findings to reveal a compelling

00:53:45.619 --> 00:53:48.039
narrative of government coverups and extraterrestrial

00:53:48.039 --> 00:53:51.500
phenomena. The documentary aims to expose the

00:53:51.500 --> 00:53:53.860
hidden truth surrounding UFOs and their impact

00:53:53.860 --> 00:53:57.119
on humanity, drawing on the collective experience

00:53:57.119 --> 00:53:59.699
of these influential women to shed light on one

00:53:59.699 --> 00:54:04.239
of history's greatest mysteries. Amazing. We

00:54:04.239 --> 00:54:07.059
have to watch this. I wish we could do like a

00:54:07.059 --> 00:54:11.780
live watch. There has to be a way. I assume there

00:54:11.780 --> 00:54:16.059
is. Yeah, we got to capture our immediate reaction.

00:54:16.400 --> 00:54:18.159
Project Camelot's been doing this since 2005?

00:54:18.659 --> 00:54:23.579
God damn. Jesus. They have almost 100 ,000 followers

00:54:23.579 --> 00:54:27.659
on Instagram. That is bananas, dude. Yeah, but

00:54:27.659 --> 00:54:30.820
how many people are following them as a joke?

00:54:31.420 --> 00:54:33.119
I don't know, dude. Some of these things are

00:54:33.119 --> 00:54:34.420
getting some engagement. There's one Instagram

00:54:34.420 --> 00:54:37.500
account that I follow specifically because all

00:54:37.500 --> 00:54:39.519
of the comments are people making fun of it.

00:54:40.039 --> 00:54:42.219
Is it kind of like that one girl on TikTok who

00:54:42.219 --> 00:54:44.099
just tells dad jokes and everyone's like, shit

00:54:44.099 --> 00:54:47.619
in my mouth, please. You know what I'm talking

00:54:47.619 --> 00:54:50.699
about? That's what I'm talking about. It's not

00:54:50.699 --> 00:54:52.420
the exact what I'm talking about, but that's

00:54:52.420 --> 00:54:55.079
exactly why I follow this account. Gotcha, gotcha.

00:54:58.439 --> 00:55:02.119
Carrie Cassidy smiles like she is currently getting

00:55:02.119 --> 00:55:06.380
a root canal. Look at this picture of her. I

00:55:06.380 --> 00:55:07.760
don't know if you can see. Yeah, right? Check

00:55:07.760 --> 00:55:09.500
out this picture. Oh, yeah, dude. No, she's a

00:55:09.500 --> 00:55:12.460
nightmare. That's the smile you make when someone

00:55:12.460 --> 00:55:14.860
farts and you're trying to be polite. Oh, goddamn.

00:55:15.300 --> 00:55:19.639
All right. But, yeah, that's it. I think that's

00:55:19.639 --> 00:55:21.400
all I got to say. I don't got any more on Carrie

00:55:21.400 --> 00:55:24.900
Cassidy. Not Carrie Cassidy. Did kind of turn

00:55:24.900 --> 00:55:26.559
into that. But, yeah, Captain Mark Richards.

00:55:27.099 --> 00:55:28.739
We're done. Mark Richards. That's it. Captain

00:55:28.739 --> 00:55:32.519
Mark Richards, bro. Excalibur. Yeah. Maybe I

00:55:32.519 --> 00:55:34.139
can fucking find a way to make fun of you. Excelsior.

00:55:34.179 --> 00:55:38.400
I don't think we can. Excelsior. We should write

00:55:38.400 --> 00:55:43.460
him a letter. Write? Oh, my God, dude. I think

00:55:43.460 --> 00:55:45.380
I'm going to write Mark Richards a letter. Yeah,

00:55:45.380 --> 00:55:46.699
because we can't get him on the show, but we

00:55:46.699 --> 00:55:50.219
could write him a letter. Be like, hey, I started

00:55:50.219 --> 00:55:53.760
following your exploits from Carrie Cassidy and

00:55:53.760 --> 00:55:56.219
Project Hamlet. What's all this shit about Pendragon?

00:55:58.719 --> 00:56:00.760
Or you could take it from another angle and be

00:56:00.760 --> 00:56:05.760
like, hey, we met on Mars. Yo, bro, Mark, what's

00:56:05.760 --> 00:56:09.360
up, dude? Hey, man. Buddy, I haven't seen you

00:56:09.360 --> 00:56:13.579
since when we were on Mount... Ah, shit, I can't

00:56:13.579 --> 00:56:15.760
remember the name of that goddamn mountain. Eh,

00:56:15.820 --> 00:56:20.039
it's whatever. All right. Yeah, that was fun.

00:56:20.199 --> 00:56:22.500
Brilliant. Episode two. I love this. A little

00:56:22.500 --> 00:56:24.860
bit more exciting than the first. I mean, it

00:56:24.860 --> 00:56:28.159
depends on what you think is exciting. Oh, God,

00:56:28.280 --> 00:56:30.500
this is so exciting. This is so much fun. Yeah.

00:56:30.960 --> 00:56:32.920
All right. Sarge, with that out of the way, do

00:56:32.920 --> 00:56:33.960
you want to, you got anything you want to plug?

00:56:34.159 --> 00:56:35.679
You got anything you want to talk about? Yeah.

00:56:36.019 --> 00:56:40.739
Coloring book still. Sajasupernormal .com. $9

00:56:40.739 --> 00:56:45.260
.99. Get yourself a coloring book. Just buy it.

00:56:45.630 --> 00:56:47.769
And don't question it. Don't question it. Not

00:56:47.769 --> 00:56:50.969
even for once. Don't even think about it. Exactly.

00:56:51.050 --> 00:56:53.190
Spend the $9 .99. The coloring book will make

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you happy. Exactly. All right. If you want to

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follow us, you can follow us on Instagram, Crypto

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Cocktail. Follow us on TikTok, Crypto Cocktail

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Party. If you are Demi Lovato, come on the show.

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I think that would be awesome. I think that would

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be really cool. Demi, I don't know what other

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videos he has. And there's a couple without.

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without my shirt on and i'm just i'm scared yeah

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i took a break today because it's easter i don't

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want to annoy her on easter you know yeah that's

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fair yeah i'll start i'll continue harassing

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her tomorrow um leave us a rating and review

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if you could it'd be awesome helps the show obviously

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where you can naturally uh i always say five

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stars scathing review i think is really funny

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i think you could rate it five stars and just

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be like this show sucks I'm fine with that. Yeah,

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I think we're really funny. I think that's all

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I got for that. With that out of the way, Sarge,

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you want to say goodbye and I love you to the

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audience? Hey, guys, goodbye and I love you.