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🗓️ 6 March 2025
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Look around you as you listen to tonight's episode -- how far did these objects travel to meet you here? In centuries past, the average person would be surrounded by local objects. Today, the most mundane of possessions may have traveled more than halfway across the world to become your fabrics, your electronic components, your favorite snacks. Make no mistake: The world as we know it will collapse if our species stops shipping things across the planet. Global trade is dangerously close to a religion -- literally every nation has a set of laws applying to the passage of goods. So why are these laws so easily broken? Why do the same nations and conglomerates touting 'rule of law' seem to obey another set of rules?
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0:00.0 | fellow conspiracy realist we are on the road traveling abroad and that's part of why we have had a |
0:08.4 | lot of classic episodes to share with you lately uh this one this one i think speaks to uh us as well |
0:16.4 | as our guest producer matt the madman stiloh ben have you ever thought about flights as just being another form of cargo shipping where humans |
0:25.3 | are the cargo? |
0:26.4 | I think about most forms of transit with humans as the cargo. |
0:30.3 | People moving, right? |
0:32.0 | Yes, yes. |
0:33.1 | Just like a podcast, cargo ships move people. |
0:37.5 | Yeah, it's true. |
0:38.2 | And there are many, many very interesting and varying in, in provenance and accuracy, conspiracy |
0:45.0 | theories around the world, the wide world of shipping. |
0:48.9 | Yeah, let me be honest with you guys. |
0:51.5 | Noel, Matt, Rachel, back here. |
0:54.4 | Yeah, we got Rachel. |
0:55.3 | We got to give Rachel a nickname. |
0:56.5 | Yeah, yeah. |
0:57.7 | I don't know if we ever think about this, but after a long journey, especially returning home, |
1:04.3 | I can look at the most mundane of objects, say, maybe a handwritten note of places to visit in Cutter and just marvel at how far |
1:14.3 | this thing traveled to arrive at my hand. You know, it reminds me of the scene in No Country |
1:19.6 | for Old Men, right, where Sugar is talking to the gas station attendant. Sugar? Yeah, and they have a, |
1:27.8 | they weirdly enough don't talk about a strange haircut. |
1:30.4 | Instead, they talk about how far this quarter traveled through time. |
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