#230 - The Most Powerful Shadow Group of Spies & Assassins That Run the World | Christian Hansen & Zach Treitz

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Danny Jones

Society & Culture, Documentary, Comedy

4.4 • 777 Ratings

🗓️ 25 March 2024

⏱️ 199 minutes

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Watch the PRE-SHOW on Patreon: https://patreon.com/dannyjones Zachary Treitz & Christian Hansen are the creators of the new Netflix documentary 'American Conspiracy: The Octopus Murders'. SPONSORS: https://mudwtr.com/danny - Try it now for only $29. (that's less than $1 per cup) https://www.rhone.com/danny - Upgrade your closet with Rhone and use DANNY to save 20% EPISODE LINKS: Christian IG: https://www.instagram.com/christianhitehansen Christian X: https://twitter.com/yo_christian Zach IG: https://www.instagram.com/snackery_treats Zach X: https://twitter.com/zacharytreitz FOLLOW DANNY JONES https://www.instagram.com/dannyjones https://twitter.com/jonesdanny OUTLINE 00:00 - The Wackenhut Corporation 08:48 - Making The Octopus documentary 17:03 - Christian's belief about Danny Castolaro 28:57 - Are Chris & Zach in danger? 35:02 - The mysterious man at Danny's funeral 44:24 - Cabazon indian reservation & covert ops 59:52 - Trusting sources 01:06:26 - The CIA arms dealer 01:17:42 - Howard Hughes CIA connection 01:21:10 - Zapruder film deception tactic 01:29:31 - Bob Lazar; Area 51 hand scanner 01:34:32 - Michael Riconosciuto 01:36:58 - Tom O'Neill; Chaos; MK-Ultra 01:40:26 - The PROMIS software 01:45:04 - Earl Brian 01:50:55 - Rigging of the 1980 election; October surprise 02:03:37 - $2 million Dec Vax computers 02:08:21 - How powerful was the PROMIS software? 02:13:20 - Israeli Intelligence; the Mossad 02:20:03 - Nuclear submarines 02:31:27 - Investigating intelligence is a "hall of mirrors" 02:36:04 - Chris & Zach's conclusion on Danny Casolaro 02:40:34 - The man who most likely killed Danny 02:53:57 - Backlash & criticism 03:08:15 - Maintaining sanity while making the film 03:14:03 - The future of The Octopus Investigation Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Yo, congrats on your new Netflix documentary. It is fantastic.
0:11.9	Thank you. Thanks so much. You're welcome. How's it doing? Millions of views?
0:16.7	Yeah. As far as we understand it, yeah. They don't give us too many details, but yeah, it seems to be doing well.
0:23.3	It was in the top 10 for at least two weeks, so I think that's good for a pretty humble little show like ours.
0:29.9	It was the top 10 in 44 countries, I think, and four in the world at one point, number two in the U.S. at one point.
0:41.5	After Avatar, Avatar, the last Arabinder, which is a tough, you know, a tough competitor.
0:48.1	It's a tough climb for us.
0:51.7	You guys have been friends for a long time, right?
0:54.0	Yeah.
0:54.5	Like childhood.
0:56.0	And how long ago did you start working on this story?
0:59.1	I started in about 2012, and Zach started in about 2017.
1:06.2	But he was always sort of like a sounding board for me.
1:10.7	You know, he was someone when I had a sounding board for me you know he was something someone when i had
1:12.7	questions or when i had learned something really interesting i would you know tell zach about it so
1:18.6	by the time he actually started he was he had been talking to me about it for five years and he wasn't
1:24.7	like totally oblivious as to what was going on you know he was able to hit the
1:29.2	ground running so what were you guys doing when or what were you doing specifically when you started
1:33.8	investigating this were you just doing it as like a side hobby or were you working like reporting
1:38.4	on it for a publication or how much time were you spending on it? And what was your life like at that point
1:44.9	in time? My timeline is a little bit confusing and we kind of like compress it in the show.
1:50.2	Right. But I basically dropped out of college when I was, um, after my junior year of college
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