people are mysterious even to themselves frank latrickia the mystery of human existence lies not in just staying alive but in finding something to live for theodore dostoyevsky both of these quotes make me think of las vegas mass shooter stephen paddock did he do what he did in part because he felt like he had nothing else to live for outside of planning and committing this tragic act and or i guess maybe or did he even really understand why he was doing what he did on sunday october 1st 2017 when thousands of people roughly 22 000 people were attending the final night of the route 91 harvest country music festival on las vegas famous strip at 9 40 p.m the festival's final performer jason aldean went on stage to close out the concert he'd opened up singing they don't know followed by the only way i know johnny cash take a little ride a little more summer time and any old bar stool people were having fun the weather was perfect in that mid 70s sweet spot with no glaring sun beating down on anyone slight breeze just the lights from the strip the drinks were flowing thousands were dancing singing along lots of tight jeans and cowboy hats they were enjoying the final minutes of a super fun country music filled weekend and come monday morning i'm guessing most of them will be flying back to their office jobs and normal day-to-day lives many were probably thinking that the worst that could happen to them was getting a drink spilled on them or getting shoved by some over-eager concert goer or maybe they drink a little too much and make some regrettable sexual decision then lean on that age-old idiom of what happens in vegas stays in vegas at 10 05 p.m this reality was abruptly shattered by stephen paddock aldean was singing when she says baby the last song he or anyone else would sing that night from the stage the last song anyone would ever sing at the harvest country music festival from the 32nd floor of the nearby mandalay bay hotel a hail of semi-automatic gunfire began to rain down on unsuspecting concertgoers at first most presents seemed to think it was fireworks but then they saw people nearby falling down and bleeding or they felt a bullet pierced their skin chaos now erupted as people ran for the exit stampede as they tried to get to safety this unprovoked domestic terrorist attack went on for 10 minutes until 10 15 when the shooting abruptly stopped in that short span of time 59 people would be dead or dying 41 or 411 would be wounded by bullets and then thanks to the stampede brought on by all this the injured count would climb to 867. two more will later die of injuries relating to wounds they received that night raising the total death toll to 61. one of the deaths of course would be the shooter when law officers barged the door leading into one of his two rented rooms at the mandalay bay hotel they found steven a 64-year old real estate investor living in mesquite nevada lying dead from a self-inflicted gunshot wound his hotel room was filled to the brim with guns ammo scopes other high-tech gear he'd used for the shooting as investigators started the arduous task of piercing it all piecing it all together they found no note no blog posts no journal entries nothing to find a motive but then just a day later the terrorist organization isis would claim responsibility for the attack saying paddock was one of their agents and las vegas sheriff joe lombardo would say that there must have been several gunmen as he tried to grapple with the magnitude of the carnage rumors of a terrorist attack began swirling sheriff lombardo would later retract his statement but by the time he did a circus of media pundits politicians conspiracy theorists were already off and running with all kinds of unsustained [ __ ] unsubstantiated speculation media pundits spun sensationalism because as we've talked about time and time again fear and hyperbole sell politicians mobilize to blame the attack on whatever or whoever suited their political agendas and conspiracy theorists like alex jones they went buck wild talking about how they knew what the shooting was really about stephen paddock was an antifa operative or perhaps member of the deep state coordinating a false flag attack with a bunch of paid crisis actors do any of these conspiracies actually have any legs who was stephen paddock why did he do what he did what conclusions did the fbi and las vegas please come to when they were done conducting their investigations into who steven was why he did what he did do we have any satisfying answers today or will we never know why a nevada realtor in his mid 60s or excuse me real estate investor with no criminal history committed the deadliest mass shooting in u.s history what the hell was stephen paddock thinking when he took aim that october night through his hotel room window all this madness and more today on another true crime mystery and conspiracy edition of time suck this is michael mcdonald and you're listening to 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into some crazy water again uh my lucifina not distract me is to try to bring some reason to an unreasonable act today we're diving of course back into the realm of mass atrocities while we've covered much bigger mass atrocities before like the armenian genocide or the nazis warsaw ghetto in world war ii i believe this is our uh just our second mass shooting event following suck number 201 on columbine sadly there have been so many others we could cover all right here in just the u.s like the 2016 orlando nightclub shooting where a gunman killed 49 or the 2007 virginia tech shooting where a gunman shot and killed 32 or the sandy hook elementary school shooting in 2012 where 27 were killed just in the past few years a lone gunman killed 23 in an el paso walmart in 2019 another dozen killed in virginia beach that same year and just last year 10 killed in a king super supermarket in boulder colorado all terrible tragedies and there are so many others but no mass shooting in u.s history has been more deadly than the one we're covering today and it happened you know less than five years ago but at least in my opinion did not get near the same amount of media coverage as many of the others why is that i wanted to cover this topic because i just knew so little about it you know so i tried to find uh some answers along with uh researcher sophie evans this week who the [ __ ] was stephen paddock why did he open fire on unarmed contra goers to look at the 2017 las vegas shooting we'll first look back at our previous coverage of columbine to show how these two shootings were similar and also how they differed next we'll look at how conspiracy theorists reacted to this tragedy in the days following october 1st 2017 a lot of different theories thrown out regarding who stephen was uh why this happened and we'll examine several then we'll do our best to figure out why stephen paddock or sorry who he was before heading into our time stuck timeline and going you know at some points minute by minute in our coverage of a tragedy that would take dozens of lives and injure hundreds and hundreds of others and then finally before we recap now what we've went over and i share some final thoughts we'll hop into another idiot of the internet segment examining some youtube comments left by people who are positive that they know who stephen really was and what really happened in las vegas in 2017 open your eyes sheeple i doubt you agree with the conclusions that they've come to uh or at least i i really [ __ ] hope you will not agree with the conclusions they come to uh let us begin [Music] you're gonna revisit columbine to kick things off here like i said uh april 20th 1999 two columbine high school seniors eric harris and dylan klebold i believe i believe i referred to them as a bed wedding mama's boy and micropeen stinky nuts in a few previous episodes they unleashed a horrific attack on their classmates and teachers they murdered 12 students a teacher wounded over 20 others before turning their guns on themselves and in the aftermath everyone wanted to know of course why why would they throw away their futures and the futures of so many others in this seemingly senseless act was it because as many proposed immediately following shooting that they were social outcasts who had been ruthlessly bullied by jocks for years who made their lives a living hell and they snapped and went on a rampage motivated by a desire to settle a score that's what a lot of media outlets reported the washington post said fellow columbine students described them as a constant target of derision for at least four years the los angeles times said their peers considered the attack lethal payback for old taunts and prejudices but peter langman a psychologist who specializes in studying school shootings and many other experts in the years that followed the shooting strongly disagreed peter wrote they both had a lot of friends they both engage in school activities out of school activities they work part-time jobs with some of their buddies at a pizza shop both run a bowling league harris played on the school soccer team as a freshman sophomore continued to play soccer and volleyball after school right according to the sheriff's report klebold was in a fantasy baseball league gone to prom with a female friend just a few days before the massacre seemed to have had a great time langman added to harris's personal writings many of which were recovered after the massacre revealed a variety of twisted so-called reasons for his desire to kill she wanted to see himself as the law he killed for the pure sadistic pleasure of it he killed because he felt according to these writings that the human race was only worth killing and also as revenge for being teased revenge was but one of many reasons and seemingly not the biggest harris expressed the desire to kill complete strangers in his writings you know much more often than he wrote of wanting to kill those who he had felt wronged him finally directly refuting the revenge motive theory harrison klebel did not kill any of the students that they had previously alleged had teased them despite hunting classmates for 45 minutes the fbi would come to the same conclusion that these two were not excessively bullied and that revenge did not factor primarily into their violent actions they felt the two were gunning primarily for infamy they bragged about dwarfing the carnage of the oklahoma city bombing right they decided that america was [ __ ] so [ __ ] america harris once wrote in his journal isn't america supposed to be the land of the free how come if i'm free i can't deprive a stupid [ __ ] dumb [ __ ] from his possessions if he leaves him sitting in the front seat of his [ __ ] van out in plain sight and in the middle of [ __ ] nowhere on a fry [ __ ] day night natural selection [ __ ] should be shot they seem to have done what they did because eric harris was a [ __ ] psychopath with a superiority complex and klebold was his deeply disturbed sidekick kind of henchman follower they weren't grotesquely bullied teens they were deranged [ __ ] and unfortunately deranged [ __ ] don't need good logical reasons to kill they don't have to provide us with some satisfying moment of aha that that right there that's why he did it okay so now if we just work on that in society we can really help prevent the chance of this ever happening again [ __ ] yeah bro file this act in the now we get it so now we can prevent it not worry about a folder no the nonsensicalness of it all uh so much scarier than bullied kids overreacting to bullies at least in that scenario as long as you're not doing the bullying right you don't have to worry about getting shot up by the bully right so much scary if it's random or some you know uh you know shitty no one is safe from this notion of infamy kind of act so what was uh steven's motive was it infamy as well did he also uh want to lash out at strangers because of some superiority complex because [ __ ] america and [ __ ] americans maybe while stephen paddock and the columbine shooters were about as different as different could be on the surface stephen was 64. wealthy retired man who didn't seem to have uh much in the way of a personality uh the columbine shooters were young teenage men who spent hours on the internet spewing hateful messages about being big fans of adolf hitler about how america was full of idiots ladies deserve to die uh you know big personalities uh their underlying motives might have been pretty similar and they did seem to share some personality traits paddock like eric harris was described by some uh as an arrogant guy some did say he became more and more arrogant and also anti-government over the final years of his life didn't like the way the government taxed him was worried about the government taking his guns etc but a lot of people uh are both arrogant and anti-establishment and they don't you know shoot up a concert what pushed paddock into action uh it's harder to determine than it was with the columbine shooter stephen didn't leave behind journal entries or blog posts pointing towards why he did what he did much less social in general than the columbine killers investigators were able to interview numerous friends of harris and klebel after the attacks they could interview family that those two still lived with right up until the day of the attack paddock was a more of a true loner much more no close friends it seems he also really distanced himself from his girlfriend in the final months leading up to the tragedy and doesn't seem like they really ever shared a deep relationship to begin with there was no family he kept in close touch with i would say he had no real co-workers just some property managers who managed some of his rentals for him usually from a distance very few records of any kind with paddock compared to with klebold you know at least they were being monitored by their schools and parents paddock doesn't seem to have had a history of violent outbursts or instability uh no journalist has been able to uncover that at least i can't find any arrest reports or medical records that would indicate that either i mean we'll get into a little bit of medical stuff but you know uh the only time he ever saw psychiatric treatment was for anxiety and it was just from his primary physician not a psychiatrist uh just like millions of americans do every year so again why the [ __ ] do you do it let's first look at the official word from the government who are probably if not definitely deep state puppets covering this mess up for the reptilian masters same old [ __ ] story uh no the best the uh the investigators come up with regarding to motive uh was that he was having a hard time coping with old age failing health and money problems and like the columbine killers he wanted infamy he wanted to go out in a blaze of glory uh make a name for himself after a lifetime of being little more than your average upper middle class white dude but there's a lot of conjecture with that assessment more of an educated guess and i guess less educated than with the columbine shooters i'll get into a lot more detail about the official assessment you know later once we know more about stephen down in the timeline for now just know that for many the lack of official answers you know red continues to read as a cover up many of us when interpreting tragedies like this in the absence of any obvious definitive motive our brains tend to go a little bit [ __ ] crazy a little cray-cray uh in the last 20 years particularly in the last 10 numerous studies have been conducted to try and figure out why that is examining the relationship between the need for cognitive closure levels of belief in real-world conspiracy theories and the attribution of conspiracy theories to explain events the results these studies are in short when the world does not provide us an answer to something rather than accept we might not ever know that answer a lot of us assign an answer so we can have cognitive closure right okay now i got it you know book closed let's read a new book and the more conspiratorially minded you are the more likely it is for that answer to be a conspiracy and if you're real conspiratorially minded uh you'll even assign conspiracy related answers to events that we do seem to have you know good answers for such as a shooting where we seem to definitely understand the shooter's motivation right take the 2016 orlando pulse nightclub shooting a lot of conspiracies around that one too on that shooting the attacker omar mateen born to afghan-american muslim parents told law enforcement that the 2016 attack on the nightclub where omar killed 49 people before being shot and killed by law enforcement was done in retaliation for recent american military airstrikes on iraq and syria he explicitly stated his motive he might also be lying uh i think he was but we have to consider what he said as a possibility a lot of people including me think he did what he did because he was a angry closeted homosexual and his uh self-hate drove him to target a gay nightclub there's a lot of evidence for that his father later said that a few months before the attack his son had seen two grown men kissing and just became like wildly infuriated an unnamed police academy classmate said mateen asked him out around 2006 but they spent time at gay bars together after class that he believed mateen was definitely gay man who self-identified as mateen's lover of two months miguel or miguel my god i do want it every time i can't miguel is my nemesis word name i apologize to all the miguels out there but i did correct myself immediately but it's never gonna go away uh miguel stated that he uh i should almost do it just to anger people miguel uh no miguel says that he believed the massacre was out of a revenge against latino men when mateen learned he may have been exposed to hiv from a puerto rican man or puerto rican man with whom he had sex with mateen's ex-wife claimed that his father called him gay while in her presence speaking on her behalf her current fiance said that she his family numerous others believed he was gay numerous other men came forward saying that he had either asked them out or that mateen had sexual relationships with him he'd used a variety of gay dating apps like grindr despite all this motive for either retaliation or a hatred of himself homosexuals rumors abounded that the attack was part of some deep state illuminati false flag [ __ ] involving you know crisis actors etc uh and with even less possible plausible motives known for stephen paddock's mass shooting you know terms like deep state false flag crisis actors swirled around with much more intensity and no one pushed more conspiratorial possibilities uh when it came to this attack than alex jones in a 2016 telecast on jones show infowars he would say about paddock they found antique information in the room the whole thing has the hallmarks of being scripted by deep state democrats and their islamic allies using mental patient cutouts um [ __ ] what mental patient cutouts it's it's [ __ ] depressing how successful alec jones has been uh considering he's either really crazy really [ __ ] stupid uh really manipulatively uh manipulatively evil or all three i i wouldn't i honestly wouldn't mind ty and alex jones nancy grace into some other people with big audiences who spread you know speculation and or lies as uh how could anyone not believe this indisputable fact and then just toss them off the side of a boat in some deep cold water you want to speculate that there are deep state democrats using mental patient cutouts behind something okay fine i mean i think that even entertaining an idea that [ __ ] stupid makes you and everyone who finds you credible look like ass clowns but okay speculate about whatever you want it's good to discuss things from different viewpoints even when those viewpoints are [ __ ] absurdly insane uh when trying to solve mysteries now it's good to have discourse and learn from each other but when you say that they found evidence of antifa in his room things like that that has all the hallmarks of deep state attack [ __ ] you they never they never found evidence of antiva they never had hallmarks of some deep state attack think about how crazy this belief is right just use your capable of logical deduction brain for a few minutes to create the scene right let's uh let's imagine the scene that alex is presenting as being obviously factual the las vegas strip is busy very very busy almost always certainly when this concert went down it was packed right i've been there many times uh 22 000 at the concert plus even if they were all crisis actors tens of thousands of others in the immediate area wandering around you know doing their other gambling and whatnot going to shows and jones is saying that on the vegas strip people seen fleeing from shots or having been shot in photos released in the days following the shooting and i've seen a lot of these photos uh and videos is terrible uh they're what mental patient cutouts like like did a photo shoot before october 1st then a big group i guess just planted a bunch of cardboard cutouts around the concert ground so they could do like a photo shoot then in this scripted event to make videos from the attack look legit uh deep state democrats hired crisis actors i guess to run around just pretending to hear gunshots you know in the videos i guess jason aldean and his band i mean they had to have been in on it too all the other country acts that performed that day right all acting because otherwise they'd be like hey what the [ __ ] are these cardboard cutouts doing it there should be an audience here why is it cardboard cutouts uh thousands of people who were near the concert based on video evans i guess they were all in on it since no one came forward and talked about how it was all fake uh everyone in the hotels numerous hotels around them thousands of windows you know where tens of thousands of guests were staying they could just look down and see the concert i mean they were all in on it uh concert promoter live nation also in on it they all worked together like this was some massive well-cast hollywood blockbuster production and they've all kept it a secret ever since they've kept the fbi or the police from uncovering the secret or the vegas police and the fbi also part of this production right deep state they're in on it all of them no officers or agents have come forward to ram to rat him out and well hopefully you get how [ __ ] crazy this is right how can you explain believing in something like that other than you either haven't thought about it much or you're just not smart in some ways like at all some fans of alex jones after hearing like this would harass the victims of the shooting while they were in the [ __ ] hospital recovering from bullet wounds people posted a horrible [ __ ] on their social media feeds about how they were making it all up stop it you deep state crisis actors you have to be stupid or crazy or just a real piece of [ __ ] to do that my god before we learn more about alex jones uh now since he benefited greatly from pouring gas to conspiracy fire he set regarding the shooting probably should define three terms that i'll use a lot i've already used several times that relate to the conspiracies around the las vegas shooting right starting with the deep state the deep state is a type of governance made up of potentially secret and unauthorized networks of power operating independently of the state's political leadership in pursuit of their own agenda and goals in popular usage the term carries overwhelmingly negative connotations uh journalist david rhode wrote a book about this term how it evolved called in deep the fbi the cia and the truth about america's quote unquote deep state david says the term originally showed up uh in the nation of turkey a few decades ago referencing their military using plainclothes operatives to infiltrate certain revolutionary circles in an effort to squash out people with actual democratic ideals who didn't want to live in a you know fake dictatorship a uh or a fake democracy excuse me a dictatorship pretending to be a democracy then the term next showed up in egypt applied to their military doing basically the same thing there uh the term seemed to have first showed up in the us in 2007 in a book called the road to 911 wealth empire and the future of america written by a university of california berkeley professor named peter dale scott who used to describe the us military industrial complex defined as a country's military establishment and those industries producing arms or other military materials regarded as a powerful vested interest and back in 2007 it was used by liberals to describe a group of powerful conservatives like military contractors such as halliburton working with you know other powerful conservatives in the white house on capitol hill and the pentagon to wage war under false pretenses to make lots and lots of money you know see 911 conspiracies and then since 2007 it has evolved to be used to describe some sort of vague nefarious liberal agenda right some kind of shadow illuminati satanic government maybe lizards uh run by liberals who want to destroy conservatives and who just hate freedom and hate everything you know good uh pretty funny that the term evolved from being a term used to describe actual shadowy government forces in europe and africa to be the term used by the left to slam to the right to then be a term used by the right to slander the left and with each usage and its evolution it seems to get a little more grandiose and a little bit more absurd now the deep state equals a nefarious puppet master shadow government very x-files smoking man uh you know kind of [ __ ] lizard people secret league of zionists jewish bankers rockefellers everyone puts their own you know spin on it second term is false flag uh or false flag operation and a false flag operation is a hostile or harmful action such as an attack that is designed to look as it was uh as if it was uh perpetrated by someone other than the person or group actually responsible for it and there have for sure been very real false flag operations that have happened throughout history we've touched on several in various sucks one of the best-known historical examples of a false flag operation a real one was mounted by nazi germany in 1939 as justification for kicking off world war ii the gestapo staged a polish raid on a german broadcasting tower at glebetz in current day poland nazis left behind a deadly saboteur in reality a german farmer with polish sympathies who'd been shot by the gestapo as well as several dead germans who in reality were concentration camp prisoners killed and dressed as german guards says david silby a cornell university historian silby said hitler used these incidents to justify the invasion of poland another example was the mug mugden incident of 1931 in which the japanese army blew up a section of railway line in northern china to justify its invasion of manchuria in 1939 the soviet village near the border with finland was involved in a false flag operation with soviets firing on their own border post as a pretext for invading finland credible historians don't seem to think that operations like these have happened you know very often at all but people who are very conspiratorially minded i think it happens all the time it's constantly happening and with the 2017 las vegas shooting conspiracists claimed it was a false flag operation carried out with the goal of gun seizures guns are dangerous so we must make them illegal and confiscate them saith the deep state illuminati but that didn't happen uh the most infamous example of a false flag operation in u.s history that's verified anyway is operation northwoods and we examined that and suck 52 on 911 conspiracies uh and again in suck 175 declassified military uh you know uh docs this plan proposed in 1962 by the u.s military uh to kill americans and or what it was it was proposed by the u.s military 1962 it was a plan to kill americans and blame the attack on cuba's fidel castro thereby offering a reason to invade and depose the cuban dictator the civilian leadership in the kennedy administration rejected the proposal before it could be carried out and then it was declassified four decades later obviously super [ __ ] up that it was even proposed but it doesn't lead me straight into worrying about a nefarious deep state i mean they were spitballing and a couple dudes you know they took you a little far i mean if i was spitballing and trying to come up with good reasons to attack communist cuba who the [ __ ] knows what kind of crazy [ __ ] i might propose uh have we considered nuke in the island until there's nothing left with rocks and roaches let it cool off for 20 30 years maybe send some prisoners down there after a decade if they don't have three eyeballs uh we open up a resettlement we make it the 51st state and the best one for beaches uh dan there's a lot of women and children down there oh yeah yeah yeah that's right okay hey i'm just spitballing just throwing out ideas uh back back to the drawing board i got you again northwoods disturbing for sure but common easy to carry out i don't think so and again it didn't happen it wasn't carried out you know and a quick go-to now it's but it's a quick go-to now for conspiracists because it's hard to prove any random random tragedy is not a false flag operation okay finally there is uh crisis actors and the these people are supposed people are integral to are integral to you know uh false flag operations a crisis actor is nicholas cage in 80 of his movies it's a great actor who signed on for a terrible project because he's always having money problems and he's always in crisis of course not no crisis actor is a person who takes part in a supposed conspiracy to manipulate public opinion by pretending to be a victim of an event such as a bombing mass shooting or natural disaster unlike a false flag operation there is literally no proof that crisis actors have been used ever at least not in the us at least not by that name conspiracy theorists use of this term is thought to have originated in 2012. when a blog post by former florida atlantic university communications professor and professional conspiracy theorist uh [ __ ] legit weirdo james tracy suggested that the government could be uh have hired a acting agency named visionbox to help stage the sandy hook elementary school shooting tracy was then fired by florida atlantic for contacting lenny posner father of one of the children killed in the sandy hook shooting and demanding that this guy show him his son's death certificate so you know [ __ ] james tracy i would like to throw him off the same boat that i want to throw nancy grace and alex jones off of tracy thinks that the boston marathon bombing never happened a bunch of crisis actors there uh basically all mass shootings are fake deep state false flag operations riddled with crisis actors weird uh some of those crisis actors have actually written into time suck over the years uh actually met a crisis is acting in seattle at one of my standup shows shortly after the las vegas shooting she hugged me she cried and everything she seemed to be suffering from ptsd based on what she witnessed i'm sorry i mean based on what she was trained to say by the deep state she had witnessed she was a very good actor very convincing conspiratorially i do understand the attraction of crisis actors right i see how the concept fits nicely in with the deep state and the false flags and the mass shootings right the deep state wants to take away our guns so they can enslave us and then i don't know harvest our kids adrenal chrome or some [ __ ] so they can live longer and i don't know less more kids for i don't know to make satan happy or maybe sacrifice us to their reptilian overlords or maybe have us work in mono atomic gold mines for the lizard people whatever they want to do to us it's always a little vague and confusing you know getting our guns helps them do that which i get right i see where they're coming from there and then in order to have us you know vote away our own gun rights they gotta they gotta scare us with false flag operations like mass shootings okay all right i still see some logic uh false flag operations you know could make the transition to us living in fema cages or being shipped to some area 51 alien death labs a little smoother fine but then the notion of crisis actors well that's pretty hard to get behind right using local actors to pull off something like convincing the world uh that a mass shooting has happened i just i don't see it here's the thing have you ever watched local commercials or gone to a community theater production are some of the actors good yeah sure absolutely or a lot of them good oh man [ __ ] no uh do they seem like they have the chops the acting chops to pull off something of this magnitude no hard no hard no uh the deep state has to give right then back stories that are gonna be hard to pull off long term like in the sandy hook shooting you know how do they get so many people to corroborate the lie that the the parents um you know who lost their kids actually had those kids before and raise them their whole lives i mean think about that i mean they gotta they gotta like fudge i do a lot of photo shopping i guess and then when people do interviews later with other family members they gotta get them out on the story or um i mean i mean these kids are they're in facebook feeds you know with family members uh they're in class photographs how how is all of that faked to so many people uh all their fake extended family members right have to hold up the lie the fake parents their fake friends who had they had fake sleepovers with they got a lie fake little league coaches who fake coach them for several fake seasons all their fake teammates i mean it just keeps unraveling think about all the fake friends and fake family members of the the fake las vegas shooting victims it would take to pull off some kind of crisis actor operation i mean if you just think about all of this just a little bit i i think you can only keep genuinely believing it if you know again and i don't know how to say this maybe you're stupid or [ __ ] crazy or both like what do you what are you [ __ ] doing with your brain how if you're listening to this podcast i'm amazed you can figure out how to use a podcast and also think that that's how crazy i think it is it's very depressing how so many people can just uh um seem incapable of just completing that simple mental exercise i just laid out right all of us living in some kind of simulation for me is way easier to accept logic wise than deep state plus false flag plus crisis actor [ __ ] for just almost any scenario the simulation being manipulated by uh some you know in-game deep state okay fine right all bets are off if we're living in some [ __ ] advanced version of sims but this this nonsense come on please use your brain it defies so much logic uh alex jones big crisis actor guy uh he played a huge role in popularizing conspiracies around the las vegas shooting uh all this stuff deep state false flag crisis after [ __ ] he loves it and then two other idiots we'll learn about in today's timeline brad johnson rich higgins well they'll take jones's theories run with him further implicating another man as being part of this deep state plot who was just some random [ __ ] dude in vegas for the weekend and they'll turn his life into a living nightmare uh you know to be randomly slandered by conspiracy nuts for being in the wrong place the wrong time what a strange way for your life to take a turn for the worse anyway the 2017 shooting was not alex jones's first rodeo when it came to spreading misinformation about a massive tragedy that fake ass truther had already been profiting off of spreading lies about tragedies for years yeah clearly i'm really not a big fan of this guy back when a young alex jones was in community college in austin texas in 1995 he first started accusing the government of being behind the oklahoma city bombing on public access channels in austin false flag operation right he liked the response as anger got right he started building his brand uh we covered that bombing in episode 181 of time suck and in 1999 alex jones founded infowars uh wikipedia defines it as an american far-right conspiracy theory and fake news website yeah that's uh that's that's like the nice way to describe it fake as [ __ ] news uh lies peddled uh to so-called truthers right who have their eyes opened seeing what the rest of us can't it's very depressing uh these days the infowars website receives approximately 10 million monthly visits making its reach greater than some mainstream news websites such as the economist and newsweek jones getting kicked off of youtube facebook twitter instagram even apple the past couple years uh it seems to have been good for his anti-establishment i'm so honest i'm dangerous brand they're afraid of how much truth i've got you know he's got a lot of press out of all that [ __ ] uh while jones has stated i'm not a business guy i'm a revolutionary which [ __ ] again i want to [ __ ] throw him off the boat uh he is a business guy in some ways at least uh he's a very good business guy very smart i want him to be dumb but uh i don't think he's that i think he's just very conniving i think he's very manipulative faking bravery to make lots and lots of money he's uh he's a [ __ ] clown he spends much of his info wars air time pitching dietary supplements and survivalist products right bring him in with tragedy sell him some vitamins uh looking at his products doing this research uh you can buy some brain force plus right now one of his top selling items he's had for many years uh here's the opening line oh my gosh for this product description it's it's it's so infuriating this is like this is one of his top selling products he's made millions off of this and this is the opening line of its product description top scientists and researchers agree we are being hit by toxic weapons in the food and water supply that are making us fat sick and stupid that sounds like some [ __ ] that i would make up for one of my fake how does this [ __ ] work top scientists you guys they agree that we're being hit by toxic weapons make us fat sick and stupid that sounds exactly like something that top scientists say if by top scientist you mean [ __ ] dr steve bruhl from tim and eric awesome show great job it's it's so dumb and he has a massive audience that eats his [ __ ] up it's [ __ ] painful uh by 2013 uh alex seitzwald of salon estimated that jones was earning as much as 10 million dollars a year between subscriptions web and radio advertising and sales of dvds t-shirts and you know a lot of vitamins um well i guess it wasn't quite vitamins yet uh he he would get into it right after that uh that year jones changed his business model to incorporate selling proprietary dietary supplements in 2014 jones claimed that infowars were accumulating over 20 million dollars in annual revenue over 20 million fun fact a significant portion of infowars products contain colloidal silver which jones claims uh kills every virus including the whole star's corona family and that is for sure not true that is not true this has been aggressively disputed by the fda and so many medical organizations uh colloidal silver is [ __ ] snake oil we have mocked it for a couple of years on a variety of episodes of the secret suck on patreon here's what the mayo clinic uh which has been one of the uh if not the top hospital in the country for many many years here's what it has to say about colloidal silver supplements containing colloidal silver aren't considered safe or effective for any of the health claims manufacturers make i like that just straight out of the box none of it silver has no known purpose in the body it's not an essential mineral colloidal silver products are made of tiny silver particles suspended in a liquid the same type of metal used in jewelry dental fillings and silverware i feel like this is like the snarkiest the mayo clinic kits manufacturers of colloidal silver supplements often promote their products by claiming that silver can boost the immune system fight infection and treat cancer yep it's so [ __ ] sad people dying of cancer taking issues however no sound scientific studies evaluating these uh health claims have been published in reputable medical journals in the us the food and drug administration and the federal trade commission have taken action against several companies for making unproven health claims you know regarding colloidal silver when taking my mouth silver builds up in your body over months to years this can result in a blue gray discoloration of your skin eyes internal organs nails and gums [ __ ] yeah bro so colloidal silver very good to take if you're looking to have blue gray skin and you want some sexy ass blue gray internal organs and eyeballs but not very good if you want to cure literally anything at all eating dirt or gravel or drinking some kind of smoothie made up out of a ground up carpet and old gi joe action figures and aluminum cans and pencil shavings it will provide you with roughly the same health benefits as colloidal silver whipple uh probably better for you than colloidal silver so how has alex jones built is a big audience of people willing to buy [ __ ] like colloidal silver by ranting non-stop about everything from the new world order uh turning americans into sheep to the truth behind the moon landing being faked to the illuminati chemtrailing us 911 being an inside job false flag operation and so much more he was one of the idiots who uh pumped up belief in pizzagate i covered that in episode 64 and was shocked that i got a lot of angry emails blown away that people could believe in such a this is so [ __ ] stupid it makes my head hurt conspiracy on december 4 2016 a man named edgar madison welsh welch i guess instead of welsh uh drove from north carolina to washington d.c armed with an ar-15 to rescue children he was convinced we're being held captive as part of a sex ring in the basement of comet pizza when he found no children and realized the pizza place doesn't even have a [ __ ] basement welch 28 surrendered to police and told them he thought hillary clinton and former president clinton chief of staff and hillary clinton campaign chairman john podesta were running some kind of satanic pedophilery sweet jesus you can't stand hillary okay fine but why leap to the insane conclusion that she's running a massive pedophile ring especially in america would be so much easier to get caught than if she didn't some third world country it just it doesn't even come close to making sense i don't know and i'm not the president of her fan club i don't [ __ ] care about hillary clinton uh i don't like most career politicians i also just don't assume that the ones i really don't like are in pedophile rings it's so weird now the pizzagate conspiracy all started back in october of 2016. when wikileaks began publishing leaked emails from the clinton campaign director and social media users began to theorize they contained food-related code words such as cheese pizza hello that actually means child pornography c stands for cheese c stands for child p stands for pizza p stands for p pornography bingo bango they got a satanic pedophile ring uh december 2016 jones posted a video saying he had zero fear of standing up to clinton even though he knew that she had definitely personally murdered children even though he knew she was a demon from hell who smelled of sulfur he's actually said you like that he's that insane uh using the hashtag uh you know pizzagate he pushed the notion that podesta had dined at comet pizza because it was you know the headquarters of an underground pedophile ring and that also doesn't make sense like like why are you gonna have pizza there if you're running an international pedophile ring and you get a bunch of kids in cages and you don't want to draw attention to yourself you don't want to get caught for having all these kids in cages [ __ ] eat anywhere but that place like why are you then just casually upstairs like i might as well enjoy some you know pepperoni pizza while i'm here uh you know kids can wait 20 minutes uh december 4th 2016 alex jones uploaded a youtube video that linked pizzagate to the november 13th death of a sex worker rights activist he asserted was trying to save kids from being sexually tortured and killed after being sex trafficked from haiti you know by the clintons they're very busy with all the kids and he got edgar madison welch so [ __ ] worked up he almost killed a bunch of people who were just trying to enjoy some pizza sizes jones had taken to the air and said pizzagate is real and he urged his listeners to go investigate it for yourself right in his journal go investigate it for yourself a patreon is real hillary clinton throws up sulfur like his [ __ ] head's always about to explode when he talks how's that gonna die out of a heart attack yet uh welch a faithful infowars listener who often shared the website articles took him up on that and then that weasel jones retracted all the pizzagate [ __ ] in early 2017 to avoid being prosecuted for libel the whole pizzagate didn't pan out for jones business-wise he looked like an ass when he backtracked on it all but a mass shooting where 20 little kids died back in 2012 would get infowars a ton of ratings right shootings have been some of infor's biggest hits which makes sense in a sick [ __ ] up way without a clear motivation on the part of the shooter jones and his employees are free to step up and claim anything they want with paddock you know they'll say he's everything from a member of isis deep state employee leftist plant member of antiva on and on and on uh infowars learned how to milk money out of mass shootings back with sandy hook on december 14th 2012 20 year old adam lanza fatally shot his mom at their new uh new town excuse me connecticut home before going to sandy hook elementary the elementary school killing 20 first graders and six teachers then killed himself as police arrived on the scene why did adam do it well for one thing he was clearly mentally ill like do an image search for him i mean i can tell something was very very wrong with him and literally every picture i can find like truly photogenically insane uh he was diagnosed with asperger's age 13 but after his death doctors speculated he had a lot more going on he was a very likely psychotic suffering from paranoid schizophrenia and all likelihood amongst other serious disorders uh he did [ __ ] like contribute frequently before the shooting to a forum called shocked beyond belief that focused specifically on mass murders and mass murderers right he was a very into that thing maybe maybe that's a bit of an indicator as to why he did what he did you know and i could go on and on with more evidence for his motives but this episode is not about sandy hook should probably suck that sad sad topic someday though alex jones did not share the information about adam with his audience that i just shared with you of course not real information doesn't play well to the infowars audience uh they want big blockbuster deep state conspiracies right that's just way more exciting you know if you have a junior high intellectual level and truly think that life is some kind of [ __ ] michael bay movie and alex gives that [ __ ] to his audience jones portrayed the shooting as a hoax on infowars involving crisis actors a false flag operation aimed at increasing gun control he said the parents of the murdered first graders six and seven-year-olds who were [ __ ] murdered by a psychopath were paid crisis actors that's an evil thing to do and he would beat that evil drum for years uh he said on his november 18th 2016 broadcast i've watched a lot of soap operas and i've and i've seen actors before and i know when i'm watching a movie and when i'm watching something real come on everybody uh jones total profit that day 103 513 so much money and lies if you tell the right ones uh you make so much money if you just don't have any morals at all uh meanwhile people who believe those false claims accosted members of these poor families in the [ __ ] street they heckled they harassed them at events honoring their slain children abused them online contacted them at their homes threaten their lives the parents of noah posner the youngest sandy hook victim whose parents were the first to sue mr jones uh moved they've moved nearly 10 times since the shooting and live in hiding currently mainly due to being harassed by conspiracy [ __ ] uh who follow [ __ ] like alex jones and i guess who have nothing better to do than just harass you know people like this uh noah's mother uh veronica de la rosa doesn't even feel like she's safe to go visit her son's grave so good job alex would it be a big brave you know truther way to courageously fight for justice uh in march of 2018 six families of victims of the shooting as well as an fbi agent who responded to the attack filed a defamation lawsuit against jones for his role in spreading conspiracy theories about the shooting on connecticut a judge would rule in november 2021 that jones was liable so that's good of course alex said he's going to appeal obviously i hope he loses i doubt he will lose enough money though to make him go away he's made a lot of money he supposedly raked in 165 million dollars from infowars in the period just between 2015 and 2018. the las vegas shooting in october of 2017 would fall smack dab in the middle of that very very lucrative period for him on monday october 2nd 2017 less than 24 hours after the shooting jones was already alleging some crazy stuff about what happened on the strip he said this is the kind of stuff he said some people might ah makes my head won't explode it's the 100 year anniversary of the bolshevik revolution and the literal grandchildren of the folks that finance the bolshevik revolution uh out of new york and london are now bragging and saying bolshevik 2 is launching on saturday night sunday morning uh they released oj just 20 hours before the attack took place so all the media would come and be in place to cover this event what the [ __ ] no bolshevik grandchildren were saying that in 2017. he literally just made that up he pulled that out of his ass and i say that as someone who [ __ ] hates communism i would rather be dead than me communist uh bojangles actually told me that he would rather have me dead than have me be communist as well which i i think was supposed to be comforting uh he's not great at expressing emotions but seriously this is nonsense what the [ __ ] does oj oj simpson have to do with any of this literally nothing bringing the media to vegas he wasn't that big of a story in 2017 this isn't mid 90s oj um what jones was doing here this is classic lunatic in their basement war room connecting unrelated events uh with thumbtacks and string behavior right the words of a maniac stringing together connections that do not exist then standing back and just going it makes sense now oj bolsheviks the juice is loose the juice is loose in vegas viva las vegas viva la revolution the bolshevik revolution country music equals america freedom panic was shooting freedom communist signal to kick off bolshevik two the communist jews is on the loose jesus christ in addition to jones an untold number of other lesser-known conspiracy theorists right start parodying his [ __ ] nonsense to their audiences because they're idiots uh or putting their own you know just a stupid twist on all this garbage well jones and uh some jones clones oh the jones clones we're selling conspiracy nonsense to uh you know they're uh very [ __ ] smart audiences uh media pundits you know they're playing to the rating bases making sure everyone knows where they stand on gun control uh now in the media for a number of years gun control again reuters ugly head when it was discovered with stephen paddock owned upwards of 50 guns including semi-automatic machine guns uh somebody make rifles some people call machines outfitted with something called a bump stock a special piece of technology aimed to make semi-autos uh shoot kind of like an automatic gun and uh and i got some help to describe what a bump stock is too uh space lizard an active air force member alan neva actually gave me a better definition of how a bump stock operates than anything i could find online uh he's a certified firearms instructor chief range officer knows his [ __ ] he's been shooting competitions for a dozen years here's what alan who sent me a bunch of links in this email uh says a falsehood is that a bump stock or slide fire device turns any gun into a machine gun a machine gun is any weapon which shoots is designed to shoot or can be readily restored to shoot automatically more than one shot without manual reloading by a single function of the trigger a bump stock is an accessory that consists of a stock and pistol grip that allows the rest of the firearm receiver including the trigger to slide back and forth independent of the stock and pistol grip to use this slide fire capability is a very weird combination of pulling the pistol grip toward yourself while simultaneously pushing forward just right on the forearm of the rifle when you press and hold the trigger to the rear the recoil moves the firearm receiver and the trigger rearward this motion resets the disconnector of the trigger the disconnector is the device in the trigger assembly that prevents full auto fire since you are pushing forward on the forearm subsequent shots happen at a rapid rate faster than most people can manually pull the trigger since the trigger is actually being pressed once for every shot fired a bump stock does not meet the legal definition of a machine gun i can shoot any rifle i have in a bump fire mode without any kind of slide fire device you can just use a belt loop or mimic the same motion just firing from the shoulder so thank you alan uh 12 of paddocks high-powered rifles were modified to be capable of unleashing nine rounds per second right with these bump stocks the military-grade rounds he used fired from special large capacity magazines produced so much gun smoke they actually set off the smoke detectors in his suite uh in the days after the shooting anti-gun control outlets slammed hillary clinton other national rifle association opponents for calling uh for stricter gun safety laws former trump chief staff or josh yeah former trump chief strategist steven bannon's breitbart news for one ran a story with the home page tease of mass gun control hysteria breaks out bump stocks would take center stage you know after the las vegas shooting and we'll dig a little bit more into into that in the timeline but first let's meet stephen paddock all right he planned his massacre meticulously after arrived at the mandalay bay on september 28th he set about building his bunker over the course of three days he ferried 24 guns two tripods hundreds of rounds of ammo up to his room one or two bags at a time below in his car he had bags of ammunition or excuse me bags of ammonium nitrate which can be used to make a powerful explosive uh the elevators to his car bypass the lobby so it's easy for him not to be seen as he carried out his plans and no one bothered him until his master was in progress he had rigged video cameras in the hallway to give him a warning when police approached so you know he knew when they'd be coming as law enforcement closed in he put a handgun in his mouth pulled a trigger for the last time ending his life a life people would take a lot more interest in after it was over than when he was living it everyone now wondered who was capable of doing something like that why would they who was stephen paddock so let's give over let's go through a little quick biography of him now uh this part really isn't worthy of the timeline because well we just don't know enough about him uh i checked early no one has written a decent biography right anything that's worth a [ __ ] at the time of this recording so just a lot of various articles with just like you know little snippets from the few people willing to talk about him on april 9th 1953 the man who would later become known as the las vegas shooter was born in clinton iowa clinton town of roughly 25 000 less than 40 miles north of davenport it's the county seat of clinton county it lies along the mississippi river and is named obviously after hillary clinton come on they're taunting us hiding in plain sight no actually the original seller joseph m bartlett operated a trading store for local native americans in the 1830s and in 1836 name the site new york then the iowa land company purchased a town site in 1855 and was like this is [ __ ] not new york come on what are you doing give a [ __ ] out of here uh renamed it for dewitt clinton former governor of new york clinton was one of the largest sawmill centers in the country in the second half of the 19th century then that dropped off when the area's lumber supply diminished these days manufacturing mostly paper plastics chemical products and agriculture are the economic mainstays of the area steve will not live there for long at some point early in his childhood his family moved first to tucson arizona and then to the sun valley neighborhood of los angeles los angeles uh sun valley is uh just north of north hollywood and van nuys also bordered to the south and east by burbank sun valley's most notable former resident according to wikipedia former adult film star amber rain uh that part of the san fernando valley is the porn capital of the world uh pretty sure the stephen paddock had nothing to do with porn though he definitely if you look him up in pictures he doesn't give off uh doesn't give off a strong porn vibe but actually i don't want to not do it there is he was into porn and he was into some some real bad stuff that'll come up later uh steve was the oldest of his parents four sons so who were his parents his mom was irene hudson his dad was benjamin paddock the couple had wed in reno in 1952 seems they met in chicago not long before they wed and we oh we know almost nothing about his mom dolores uh and sorry she would go she'd be known as dolores later so i irene dolores that'll make sense here in a little bit uh we know that steven's dad benjamin was a bank robber that surprised me also surprised me that we can find out more details about uh you know parts of benjamin's life than we can about his son stevens 1960 when stephen paddock was just seven years old fbi agents showed up at his family's tidy white ranch house in the hills outside of tucson stunning the neighbors stunning the local sheriff no one could fathom that the man they knew as pat paddock big jolly father of four young boys owned a a small business in town and was a special deputy at the sheriff's office was really benjamin hoskins paddock a serial bank robber with a rap sheet that stretched back to chicago benjamin hoskins paddock born in sheboygan wisconsin in 1926. served in the navy during world war ii and in 1946 was imprisoned in chicago for stealing cars and running some kind of uh con game the details don't seem to be available of what con game he was running uh he was out in time to marry dolores in reno 1952 and a father stephen before being imprisoned again in 1953 for writing bad checks when benjamin got back out in 1956 dolores was waiting for him now the paddocks moved to arizona where steven's parents start going by different names benjamin becomes patrick his wife irene uh becomes dolores which was actually her middle name living on a quiet street they seem to be model uh mid-century you know uh a model mid-century family neighbors remember them as being kind attentive you know parents to their son clean house uh they have three more boys very quickly steven remembered as being a helpful boy quiet kid good kid he's got some vague descriptive terms there his dad benjamin sold garbage disposals very specific during the week volunteered for the local search and rescue team counseled wayward youths in his spare time uh in town benjamin was active in a shortwave radio club managed with the newspaper called uh a younger set nightclub called big daddies he was big daddy no evidence he was a handsy pedo arthur shaw cross uh daddy guy big daddy type might have been a pretty good guy big daddy guy might have been a naughty daddy guy uh you know big daddy based on some stuff that'll come out uh with his uh kids many years later uh he was definitely pretty good at robin banks over an 18 month span in 1959 in 1960 benjamin paddock hit two branches of the valley national bank in phoenix uh made off with uh over 25 thousand dollars i actually hit one of those branches twice each time he showed to tell her a snub-nosed revolver tucked in his belt and then would flee in a stolen car that he'd abandoned that he would abandon a few blocks away and then switch over to the family's new pontiac station wagon uh when the i love that he's driving home in a station wagon after rob banks when the fbi finally caught up with him at a gas station in downtown vegas he tried to flee nearly running over one agent before another fired a bullet through his windshield and then he surrendered unharmed interesting that his dad was shot at right in vegas many years earlier 1960 while federal agents were rifling through bedrooms and closets in his tucson home a neighbor took stephen to the neighborhood swimming pool uh he was the only kid old enough to realize what was going on the three other paddock boys still too young to understand what was happening according to a family friend who would talk about it later the boys were told that their dad was dead and also that he'd been a mechanic uh that lie the lie went that he had you know had an accident working in the garage on a car benjamin paddock was convicted of bank robbery 1961 sentenced to 20 years in prison he would not serve that full sentence he escaped from the latuna federal penitentiary in texas on new year's eve 1968 made his way to san francisco robbed another bank 1969 the fbi puts him on the most wanted list describing him as this is a very interesting description describing him as six feet four inches tall 245 pounds has been diagnosed as being psycho it's just like it must be old-timey term for psychotic psychopathic with possible suicidal tendencies he should be considered armed and very dangerous to post to red adding and this is the weird part he's also an avid bridge player watch out for this guy he's armed dangerous crazy and not done very good at playing bridge oh that's funny to me because my main association with bridge is my grandma betty she's in her 80s it's pretty cute she had several several friends you know they kind of rotated over the years sadly you know most of them have passed but they uh they play every week they've been playing every week uh at least once a week for like 60 years and the winner wins an entire quarter 25 cents and i just picture this six foot four career hustler con in his way into my grandma betty's home bridge game sitting with seven you know elderly women sipping wheat coffee for several hours listening to benign gossip about you know how the neighbors still haven't sold their home because they're asking too much and i told you they wouldn't and how so-and-so's hubs i mean he doesn't fix the sprinkler system look at that the yard's dying uh and you know and all all to maybe win a couple of quarters apparently ben was some kind of a bridge hustler didn't know that was a thing never played bridge but apparently it's you know it's difficult complicated card game takes a lot of concentration helps to be good at math interesting their son stephen will become an avid video poker player known for being really good at math later a 1969 newspaper story describes benjamin as a glib smooth talking confidence man con man who is egotistic and arrogant stephen will also later be described as egotistic and arrogant uh hiding from the fbi after his prison break benjamin moves to springfield oregon where he uses the alias bruce warner bruce warner eriksen grows out of goatee makes money by turning back car odometers that's very specific as well this guy's lived a very odd life he was a bank robber bridge hustler garbage disposal salesman now guy guy who you can get to uh turn back a car odometer did you stay busy with that uh in 1978 he uh he'd live free for almost a decade following his prison break uh now he makes a deal with a small women's charity in oregon to open a bingo parlor and share the proceeds but he doesn't share like he's supposed to and keeps most the profits to himself so now he's a [ __ ] bingo hustler went from bridge hustler to bingo hustler uh we talked about bingo hustling a lot back in suck 263 the freeway killer william bonin and his death fan oh billy got her balls his parents were bingo hustlers i can't believe that i've covered other bingo hustlers oregon locals uh who knew nothing of ben's criminal record uh we're calling him bingo bruce now [ __ ] yeah they did that's a great nickname oh bingo bruce oh bingo bangos binglebruce uh love that stephen paddock's father was known to many as bingo bruce those who knew bingo bruce said he would tell some crazy-ass stories about his past i wish the whole episode was about bingo bruce bingo bruce claimed according to his interviews that uh uh he had been among other things a dixieland band singer a pilot a auto racing crew chief a pro football player for the chicago bears a survivor of world war ii minesweeper stinky and he was once a wrestler named crybaby uh in addition to bingo bruce some folks knew him as chrome dome or old baldy so uh there was clearly a little bit of crazy in the paddock family tree like on the branch directly above stevens i don't think you go this deep into false identities and end up known as [ __ ] bingo bruce unless you have a couple loose marbles rolling around in your skull uh steven's younger brother eric who will provide the most info to reporters following his brother's death will go visit his dad when he discovers he's alive when eric is 17 and this is how eric describes their encounter he says i went to go see him for the first time when i was 17. he was a gambler that's how you were cool back then so i get up there and he starts telling me about how he used to send letters to j edgar hoover calling him a pansy that's what he chooses to tell a 17 year old son who he'd never met before i don't think i ever saw him again he just sounds like a crazy pathological liar guys he's a super cool fun guy a photo of bingo bruce that ran into local paper uh tipped off authorities who were still looking for the bank robber right the real guy the paddock guy be underneath and on the night of september 6 1978 federal agents arrest bingo bruce outside where else he's [ __ ] bingo hall a year later he would once again leave federal prison early this time on parole people who knew him in oregon including the local mayor lobbied for the release of bingo bruce uh and then he returned of course to bingo i mean how could he not it's in his blood what the [ __ ] else is bingo bruce gonna do bingo bruce needs the bingo baby bingo bango it's bingo bruce um this time he actually opens his own church thinking that will allow him to legally keep all of his bingo profits nope state authorities charged him with racketeering in the 80s dude just couldn't just couldn't avoid a bingo hustle that's so ridiculous benjamin paddock uh he settled civil charges and avoided jail time after paying 623 thousand dollars so if he could pay that he's making some serious bingo bangle bucks uh he eventually left oregon for texas where he will die in 1998 and stephen didn't seem to take uh after his dad much at least not at first patrick paddock another brother would later say my brother was the most boring one in the family might not have been super close to his mom either according to steven's brother eric benjamin was benjamin was uh oh sorry i i threw the wrong name uh yeah but anyway his dad was there with my mom and then stephen had limit limited interaction jesus christ with benjamin following his dad's release from prison so forget what i said about his mom he might have been closer to his mom it was really tricky to piece together a lot of these details into a cohesive narrative uh when the father died in 1998 a paid newspaper obituary listed only one son patrick as a survivor so like it sounds like the only one who was close with him after benjamin's arrest this time uh dolores you know uh uh was done with him kind of backing up now to when uh he gets arrested uh in vegas and they're living in tucson she packs up the family moves to southern california now in southern california dolores will work as a postal worker and augment her wages by investing in stocks so maybe she was really good with numbers as well uh she also worked as a secretary at one point the family was lower middle class according to steven's brothers uh the mom would not remarry uh when they were in the home at least i don't think she ever remarried doesn't say it explicitly though the brothers would fight over who would get to drink whole milk growing up powdered milk less tasty but cheaper was the norm their neighborhood was working class full of tidy ranch houses bought mainly with money from the gi bill uh their mom never explained what really happened to their dad not sure how they would find him later to reconnect according to one of steven's ex-wife steven's uh single mom and the financial instability the family faced pushed even to prioritize being self-reliant and independent and he would become a very hard worker uh long-time childhood friend greg pallast spoke after the shooting said that he was classmates with stephen from the second grade through their high school graduation and this one guys interview is where we get most of what we know about his childhood greg said the main thing is that he was a math whiz he was really brilliant he said that paddock played tennis on the high school team but was otherwise quiet and the only other thing he said was that uh no one was really close to me he was a closed-in kid so it sounds like he uh may not have really had any close friends growing up and there are just some people who just don't ever make those connections i dated a girl in college for about nine months ago rita who was from portland oregon and she had one brother they were close in age his name was dan as well i met him a few times and he just didn't seem to have any close friends i was kind of fascinated with him he just uh i'm like what's going on there the more i would talk about the more i'd want to ask more questions uh didn't sound like he ever really had any close friends nice enough guy but super quiet like way introverted painfully shy when he did talk it was only about surface stuff uh rita didn't have much to say about him they grew up in the same house and it was like she didn't really know him i remember finding that just odd right he liked soccer he liked to work out uh very shy never had a girlfriend went to church regularly uh you know got good grades didn't cause problems at home or anywhere else it seems no idea whatever happened to him strange for me to think about people like that who just never reveal much ever about themselves considering how much i've shared about myself over the years yeah but some people i mean they'll live long lives make it to their 70s 80s 90s and will never share their innermost thoughts and desires with [ __ ] anyone they'll have co-workers neighbors spouses who won't really know much about them how weird is that right casual friends who really don't know much a family who won't know much my great-grandma still seemed to have been one of these people i spent a lot of time with my great-grandma still growing up she made it into her 90s mid-90s and i don't know that much about her and i don't i don't think anyone ever did no one in the family seems to i know she likes spaghetti i know she was you know norwegian she gets bigger i know she liked certain gemstones like topaz and amethyst she was a housewife uh her whole adult life raised two daughters helped raise two granddaughters four great-grandchildren she's like watching rodeos and bowling matches on tv but didn't seem to have a favorite bull rider or bowler uh she didn't watch movies tv shows or listen to literally any music uh if you asked her her favorite anything and i would ask her hey what's your favorite this what's your favorite that you just get a shoulder shrug and just like i don't know never heard her comment in depth on literally anything i know she liked card games and yahtzee what did she love no idea right have asked her daughter you know my grandma better like you know but what did she what was she really into nobody seems to know anything uh was she ever passionate about anything did she ever have big hopes and dreams what really mattered to her no one seems to know some people just don't share much and some people i don't think they have much to share some people aren't that introspective some people i wonder if they they have any real depth to them at all hard for me to relate when i get so lost in my own head all the time i often think of the term rich imaginary life i've always had sometimes a blessing sometimes a curse i think it's why i really like hallucinogens right when i do enough my imagination can feel as if it's uh just as real as the real world uh do these quiet people have rich inner lives you know did stephen paddock what was going on in that head of his growing up a lot some nothing 1971 stephen graduated from john h francis polytechnic senior high school in the sun valley neighborhood of los angeles again after graduating from high school he attends then graduates california state university northridge in 1977 with a degree in business administration according to his brother eric uh he made it clear that he wanted to be rich that seems to have been his life's driving force he wanted to make a lot of money and he would uh he bounced around from job to job for a while looking for something with a high income ceiling he worked nights at an airport while going to school at you know cal state northridge then worked as a postal carrier also when he was in school seemed to overlap possibly a little bit with graduation again details are scarce uh after graduation he for sure afterwards she went to work for the irs i guess he thought that was where the money was for a while wasn't enough he quit in 1984 went into the aerospace industry uh worked for a predecessor to lockheed martin for three years in the 80s according to a company statement not sure exactly what his job was but the money there not what he wanted either finally turned to real estate and that was where he started to make big bucks while he got into real estate he also held other jobs he uh brother-in-law said he was an accountant for a while public records described him as an internal auditor for a while he definitely seemed to have worked his ass off for most of his adult life he got married twice while he was bouncing around from career to career while he got into real estate development his first marriage lasted from 1977 to 1999 second from 1985 to 1990 both times he was married in los angeles county we don't know why his ex-wives divorced him both have consistently refused to talk to reporters and i do not blame them i spent much of adult life in the los angeles area he and his two wives lived her own property in panorama city cerritos uh north hollywood other areas from the 1970s to early 2000s all in all he seems to have been a pretty normal seeming dude no big red flags from when he was younger uh paddock's former brother-in-law scott brunholler recalled the gunman in the 70s and 80s as a smart fun-loving person who enjoyed entertaining on his boat at castaic lake and uh buena vista lake in kern county he seemed like a normal good guy he said i don't remember anything bad back then at all and bruno sister sharon married panic in 1977. uh he said i'm still in shock 1987 paddock bought a 30-unit building at 1256 west 29th street in los angeles near the university of southern california usc such a good investment bad neighborhood at the time not far from a good neighborhood not far from a great university stephen later you sweat equity he built up in this building to buy then refurbish more properties in economically depressed areas around l.a teach himself how to do all kinds of stuff put in plumbing install air conditioning et cetera he was doing rich dad poor dad real estate wealth building [ __ ] long before that became a national trend uh you know flipping houses all that kind of stuff he consistently made excellent investments by the time he sold these properties years later he'd more than doubled his money on his california holdings which included at least six multi-family residences by the late 80s he was making a steady reliable income off of his rentals by the 2000s he's getting legit rich among his most profitable investments was an apartment complex purchased in 2004 which gave him more than 500 in annual income by 2011. irs records show he made five to six million in profits from its sale in 2015. in 2012 uh he sold a 110 unit building to mesquite outside dallas for 8.3 million [ __ ] 110 units he kept one for himself he'd like to uh go there and check on his building get a feel for how things were going with the tenants his brother eric at some point in the 80s said he gave all of his life savings over to his brother to become a partner in steven's a real estate development company saying he trusted stephen implicitly trusted him entirely to make him rich which he did eric also would describe steven as a bit of a father figure for him uh steve was also apparently a fair landlord kept the rents low responded promptly to his tenant's complaints learned all their names made sure they were happy when one reliable tenant complained about a rent increase he would take off uh half the difference i guess or he took off in that instance half the difference uh he designed the ownership structure so his family would profit installed his mom in a tidy house where he took care of his mom financially put her in a little house behind another large apartment complex uh he had bought in texas he was a strict no-nonsense landlord for nearly a decade he uh owned an apartment complex yeah in mesquite that one that big one former tenant richard gehring said paddock improved the texas property by checking applicants credit scores uh and quickly evicting those who didn't pay also during the riots in los angeles 1990s he went on to the roof of an apartment complex he owned in a flak jacket armed with a gun waiting for the riders did he want them to try and loot his building uh did he want to kill that day foreshadowing of his later attack here maybe yeah maybe not he was a good businessman he was successful but according to those around him this came with a rigid attitude and a lack of desire to compromise when his second marriage failed gambling became his passion he liked trying to beat the system outsmart the casinos and it was gambling from here until the end too many of those around him beginning around this time lasting until his death uh he came across now yeah arrogant uh superior yeah egotistical he acted like everybody worked for him and that he was above others said john weinrich former executive casino host at the atlantis casino resort spa reno where he saw stephen frequent uh frequently from 2012 to 2014. when steven wanted uh food while he was gambling he wanted it immediately he'd order from more than one server if the meal didn't come right away he could be pushy he took his gambling very seriously uh he was uh very meticulous with a lot of things in his life like gambling uh to some of the people that worked at the casinos he frequented employees who'd seen hundreds if not thousands of gamblers pass through their doors steven seemed like he was you know playing in the level above your typical joe schmo gambler he approached like a chess player he'd research his favorite game video poker make sure to learn the pay table for every machine he played the listing of payouts for every coin and hand combination on a specific machine while you can find on the on the back glass or screen of a video poker machine uh he knew how to calculate percentages based on these pay tables to determine how much coins he should play per hand at which machine to maximize his odds of winning one machine might only pay out an average of 95 percent you know depending on how much you put in the machine another might if you play it right with the right amount of coins uh per hand 99.5 paddock always knew apparently what machines were the loosest which ones paid the most how many coins to play per hand to always maximize his winnings he knew the house advantage down to the tenth of a percent on whatever he was playing uh also played a lot of casino promotions casino promotions essentially pay out extra bonuses to winners says richard munchkin author of gambling wizards conversations with the world's greatest gamblers says the gambler likes uh mr paddock will often lock a machine meaning he or she monopolizes it make sure no one else uses it during a promotional gambling session when you have the best out to get it sounds like a really [ __ ] annoying person to go to a casino with it sounds this guy's way too into video poker uh man talk about a true introvert to me that's like the most boring game but whatever for one casino promotion paddock showed up two hours early locked two machines played them both simultaneously for 14 hours straight okay the promotion only lasted for 12 hours he got there two hours early to make sure no one would get his precious machines that had the best pay tables dude was not [ __ ] around video poker uh stephen was considered a mid-level high roller he was in good standing with the mgm properties the owner of the mandalay and the bellagio he had a hundred thousand dollar line of credit but never used the full amount never spent more than he could afford to lose and his balance fully paid off by the time of the shooting according to his brother it seemed as if gambling made him feel important if not social right he liked being waited on he liked seeing shows you know go by himself oftentimes like to eat good food eric paddock said he likes it when people go oh mr paddock can i get you a big bowl of the best shrimp anybody has ever eaten on the planet the big glass of our best port you could tell that being in the high limit gambling environment would lift him up said mr weinrich that atlanta's casino host he liked everyone doting on him in addition to gambling he also liked to fly in 2003 he got his pilot's license after training in the la area eventually taking the extra step to get instrument rating so he could fly in cloudy conditions with limited visibility uh doing well economically steven bought houses in texas and nevada towns with small airports uh he owned a few planes uh he had these little houses so he could park his planes have somewhere nearby to stay in mesquite texas he rented a hangar for 285 dollars a month 2007 through 2009 also stored other planes uh in henderson nevada from 2002 to 2010. then in 2010 he could no longer fly his uh planes anymore his medical certificate expired according to the faa uh way more interested in gambling than flying now but still would travel sometimes by 2013 he had started dating marilu danley a filipino woman two years younger than him who was a cocktail waitress marilu was working at a as a high limit hostess for club paradise at the atlantis casino resort spa in reno for his 60th birthday on april 9 2013 uh marilu and stephen flew to the philippines on uh japan airlines and stayed for five days the family of marilu his girlfriend uh still lived there the cup went again for his birthday the following year marilu worked at mesquite where she and steven lived together at the time of the shooting she had taken a job booking sports bets at a local casino called the virgin river and we don't know a lot about marilu she has also consistently declined to talk to reporters steven's brother eric said they were adorable big man tiny woman he loved her he doted on her apparently often gambled side by side but the supervisor to starbucks in mesquite they frequented esperanza mendoza didn't think he was sweet to her he told the la times that paddock often berated her in public mendoza said it happened a lot he said paddock would verbally abuse her when she asked to use his casino card to buy food or other things inside the casino he said he would glare down at her and say with the mean attitude you don't need my casino card for this i'm paying for your drink just like i'm paying for you pretty [ __ ] up uh then she would softly say okay and then step back behind him he said he was so rude to her in front of us now if that's true obviously very [ __ ] up i don't know why this guy would lie about that uh is that why his first two lives left him right was he a rigid controlling [ __ ] behind closed doors it seems as if he might have been a my way or the highway kind of guy he does sound like a dick in a lot of descriptions his brother eric would say if steve decided it was time for steve to go well steve got up and left he did what he wanted to do when he wanted to do it uh from 2013 to 2015 he lived primarily in melbourne florida kind of he always bounced around from property to property last 20 so or so years of his life hard to say where he spent the most time right vegas reno florida texas henderson he's all over the place 2016 he sold the place in florida bought a home in mesquite nevada several mesquite residents described him as someone who just didn't speak much and kept a low profile and uh you know seemed pretty average maybe cranky maybe a dick to his girlfriend probably uh but no one saw you know what happened coming it seems did not seem like a future mass shooter did not have run-ins with the law his only record a recorded interaction with law enforcement minor traffic citation just one years before the shooting which he settled in court uh but he might have been struggling mentally in his final years he uh filled prescriptions for the anti-anxiety drug valium in 2013 also in 2016 and finally again in june 2017 just four months before the shooting his primary physician unnamed in the sources uh wondered if he might have been bipolar during an interview clark county sheriff joe lombardo said paddock had reportedly been losing a significant amount of wealth since september of 2015 which led to his having bouts of depression well maybe he should stop [ __ ] gambling all the time that's what happens when you play video poker house always wins in the end right they don't build those big [ __ ] casinos by losing to the stephen paddocks of the world his girlfriend mary lou seemed to corroborate sheriff lombardo's assessment of paddock being depressed in his final days saying she noticed a decline of affection and intimacy towards her from paddock who had been romantic at first during their relationship also though he'd always had guns in the final year of his life he went on a crazy [ __ ] shopping spree adding to his arsenal substantially right before the shooting i think he's clearly planning the attack he purchased over 55 firearms the majority of them rifles according to the bureau of alcohol tobacco firearms explosives right in that final year also purchased a bunch of firearm related accessories as a comparison he'd only bought 29 firearms between 1982 and september of 2016. mainly handguns and shotguns now he just goes to rifles not mostly ar-15s but you know uh close to half of him ar-15s at the end there one of his purchases a shotgun came from dixie gun works in st george utah he was driving all around the area to various places buying lots of guns chris uh michael the owner said that mr paddock visited the store three times in january and february of 2017. right driving from mesquite nevada mr michael recalled steven saying that he was stopping at a number of local gun dealers that he retired moved back to the area and was trying to get back into his hobbies when it came to guns mr michael said he was not a novice marilu noticed he increased the firearm related purchases but wasn't worried thinking it was just a hobby then two weeks before the attack stephen suggested that marilu take a trip to the philippines she accepted uh and then paddock uh bought her uh after he bought her a surprise airline ticket and then soon after that wired her a hundred thousand dollars to buy a house there so he didn't want her in the country when he did what he did uh was that a hundred thousand dollars a farewell gift to her we don't know and then two days before the shooting paddock was recorded by a home surveillance system driving alone to an area to do some target practice located near his home now that we know more about stephen paddock let's dig into this week's time suck timeline get a more in-depth look at what happened as a quick note some of the sources list slightly different times say 11 26 instead of 1127. it's not off by much uh we're going to go with the times that the las vegas police department and the fbi the deep state because i'm a puppet would confirm in their later investigation strap on those boots soldier we're marching down a time suck timeline [Music] on august 3 2017 a person used the name steven paddock reserves a room at the blackstone hotel in chicago uh during the lollapalooza music festival while the plus was held in grant park in chicago august uh yeah third through six arcade fire chance the rapper the killers muse the xx lord blink 182 ryan adams the shin spoon all jay run the jewels sounds [ __ ] great so many more great x and how weird for anyone who attended that concert to think about how you could have ended up as one of steven's victims the blackstone hotel overlooks the park for some reason steven decides not to go second thoughts about a mass shooting second thoughts about the location for a mass shooting september 9th 2017 over three weeks before the shooting paddock reserves a room at the mandalay bay hotel mandalay bay 43-story luxury resort casino on the las vegas strip owned by mgm growth properties the blackstone group and operated by mgm resorts international and it's [ __ ] massive i'm constantly amazed by how big these casinos are every time i go to vegas i'm like god these things are huge mandalay bay has uh 3 209 hotel rooms or had at that time 24 elevators a casino of 147 992 square feet uh adjacent to the hotel the 2 million square foot mandalay bay convention center and the 12 000 seat michelob ultra arena and there are 24 restaurants at the resort gather it's a [ __ ] small city um from september 22nd to 25th steven paddock rents a room at the uh condominium complex in downtown las vegas at the same time as the life is beautiful music festival there's always so much stuff going on vegas featured performances from chance the rapper muse lord again he doesn't act so what's he doing here uh scouting running the shooting through his mind lining up shot angles determining which room will be the best to fire from who knows september 25th six days before the shooting stephen paddock checks into the hotel with the uh 10 shooting range bags or with 10 shooting range bags and a computer given a checkout date of october second he rolls one bag to his room himself a bellman uses a luggage cart to bring up four other bags paddock leaves uh returns to his home in mesquite nevada after getting all the bags um you know he has another bellman bring up the the rest we get all ten bags up there his hotel room overlooked a portion of the las vegas strip called las vegas village where that weekend over 20 000 people had flocked to attend the route 91 country harvest music festival um our harvest country music festival the route 91 hardest festival launched its inaugural event in october of 2014 in 2017 major acts where eric church sam hunt jason aldean jake owen lee bryce you know friday through sunday is how it's running september 26 2017 paddock now wires 50 000 to a bank account in the philippines where his girlfriend mary lou danley is visiting family he then returns to las vegas visits a pair of casino hotels before returning to mandalay bay where he brings another six suitcases on a luggage cart as well as another rolling suitcase to his room paddock then begins gambling at a hotel overnight and into the next morning for more than eight hours straight do you think he was gonna die in that shooting was he enjoying his final days on earth or did he think he might get away with what he did take home some weddings i don't know what's going on here the night of september 27th paddock drives back to mesquite buys luggage razor blades fake flowers a vase and a styrofoam ball at a walmart no [ __ ] idea why you bought this [ __ ] gotta make sure you have some fake flowers i guess before you start shooting strangers september 28th paddock buys a 308 bolt action rifle from a gun store and mesquite wire transfers another 50 000 to that account in the philippines does he just want to make sure his girlfriend is taken care of after he's gone um paddock also goes to a gun range before returning to las vegas for some final practice brings another two rolling suitcases laptop bag to his mandalay bay room again gambles for more than six hours this time until early the next morning what the [ __ ] is he thinking about as he gambles why is he gambling if he's going to do what he did i mean i guess he just liked it september 29th steven moves into an additional suite uh 32-134 connected to the first one both rooms overlook the festival grounds he can set up more rifles have more window space to fire from after spending september 29th most in his room the next day paddock places do not disturb signs on his adjoining rooms i would think so drives to mesquite then returns to mandalay bay with four more suitcases and then drives back to mesquite again is he having second thoughts is this all going according to plan for him now onto the day of the shooting october 1st 2017. early in the morning he returns to mandalay bay for mesquite gambles for four more hours brings two more rolling suitcases and a bag to his room throughout the afternoon officials say he has detected opening and closing the doors to his suite multiple times probably you know preparing for his attack uh what do you have in preparation so much [ __ ] all those suitcases 24 guns we found in paddock's rooms at the mandalay bay an additional 18 guns found in his mesquite residence you know seven ward at home in reno uh here's a few examples of the guns found in his room it feels like a glossary if i read them all but he had a colt m4 carbine ar-15 with the bump stock vertical foregrip 100 round magazine front sight only he had a christensen arms ca15 r15 uh wild with a bump stock vertical four grip and 100 round magazine no sights or optics a colt competition ar15 with bump stock vertical four grip 100 round magazine no sights or optics smith wesson 342 airlite 38 caliber revolver with four cartridges one expended cartridge case colt m4 carbine ar15 with bump stock vertical four grip 100 round magazine daniel defense m4 a1 ar15 with bump stock vertical four grip 100 round magazine and eotech optic daniel defense ddm4 v11 ar15 with the bump stock vertical four grip no magazine eotech optic on this one as well a ruger american 308 caliber bolt action rifle with a scope and on and on and on had metal uh had a metal l bracket with three screws uh securing it to the interior door frame two surveillance cameras planted in a room service cart outside his room a blue plastic hose with a funnel fan and scuba mouthpiece attached uh i guess in case they're gonna tear gas him baby monitor camera small sledgehammer surveillance camera monitor uh spotting scope binoculars approximately 1050 extended uh 223 or 556 cartridge casings for those ar15s polymer around 40 ar15 magazines steal a hundred round ar magazines polymer 25 round ar10 magazines approximately 5 280 total rounds of unused live ammunition would be found a handwritten note with distance and bullet drop calculations uh power hand drills and several empty rife rifle magazines would all be found after he was dead it had had a [ __ ] arsenal the guns were modified to do the most damage possible uh a forward front grip on most of his weapons was a modification made for allowing the shooter to get a better hold of the front end during recoil for more rapid fire also maintains a steady sight through a scope which can come in handy during competitions when you're aiming at a target several the guns modified to uh yeah allow for more rapid fire fully automatic firearms right can fire as many rounds as their magazines drums or belts hold simply by pulling hold in the trigger whereas semi-automatic weapons require trigger pull for each round fired but he had that bump stock modification uh police at the scene of the shooting would later report that the gunman was using an auto right the automatic weapon because of the rattata sound of the gunfire then they would find the bump stocks we talked about and it gave all that info on earlier uh here's a bit more bump stocks have been around for uh or had been around for around a decade when this happened when a federal assault weapons ban expired in 2004 the bureau of alcohol tobacco and firearms noted a significant increase in requests for firearms triggers and other devices that replicate automatic fire the atf began approving such devices around 2006. for most people the bump stock modified semi-auto rifle was the closest they could get to full auto 1986 federal law prohibited civilians people who are not members of law enforcement or the military from processing or possessing newly made machine guns uh even then machine guns made before 1986 uh were allowed and they could cost uh you know twenty thousand dollars in the private market again the machine gun requires special permission from the treasury department process that includes an fbi background check and approval from the buyer's local police department i believe you can still do that currently today new or not all machine guns must be registered with the federal government as april 2017 630.19 guns were registered to civilians and police agencies in the u.s including uh almost 12 000 in nevada according to the bureau of uh alcohol tobacco and firearms and explosives uh that number does not include military inventory because they're so rare hard to come by machine guns uh hardly ever used in crimes they only seem to have been two instances of machine guns used in killings in recent history won by an off-duty ohio police officer in 1988 and a 1992 case also in ohio in which disgraced doctor murdered a former colleague now important note that the guns paddock was using from his perch at mandalay bay resort and casino were meant for competitions target practice for use as a hobby not meant uh to be used obviously mowing down concert goers up to around a half a million bump stocks are still in circulation right now in the u.s the 2017 las vegas shooting seems to have been the only time that they were used in a mass shooting event okay 9 36 p.m paddock deadbolts the door to one of his rooms then dead bolts the door to another one 10 minutes later final act country star jason aldean goes on stage 9 40 p.m 9 55 pm security guard jesus compost or campos arrives via a elevator on the 32nd floor to investigate an alert of an open door in a guest room down the hall from paddocks campos uh checks the stairwell door that blocked his entry to the floor minutes earlier discovers it's been fastened closed with that l-shaped bracket paddock had screwed it shut right didn't want to be interrupted once he got started 10 04 pm campos called security dispatch to report the blocked door his call is routed to the facility's maintenance department which dispatches maintenance engineer steven shuck to go to the floor 1005 paddock fires two initial shots at las vegas village the open air venue across the street from the hotel where that route 91 harvest music festival is being held right with over 20 000 people then after a few moments he really opens fire chaos will now follow confusion some attendees initially think that fireworks are ringing out just as jason aldane begins to sing the first two lines of his hit when she says baby but as the rapid fire shots continue people begin falling the crowd collectively realizes the horror of what is happening and they start to run gunfire explodes around concertgoer doris heuser 29 she and her eight-year-old daughter had been in the bathroom when the shooting began they pushed back into the crowd towards the sound of the bullets in search of huser's five-year-old son and her developmentally disabled sister they could hear bullets pinging off nearby concession stands ricocheting off the pavement around them holy [ __ ] just absolute terror about 50 yards away tyler reeve 36 year old country artist and songwriter dives into a production trailer with five friends lays on the floor as hundreds of rounds ring out around him piles of bodies piles of bodies are soon everywhere blood's collecting in pools everyone's screaming as hundreds are being shot thousands are clamoring to get away survive in the pandemonium a 48 year old woman hears her husband the father of four collapse dead on the asphalt next to her young man sprints alongside his eight-month pregnant wife uh 30 year old woman lays on top for 21 year old little brother to protect him from the hail of bullets because quote he has big goals in life holy [ __ ] that is so [ __ ] courageous and altruistic and intense uh he had better get her some nice ass gifts on her birthday every year for the rest of her life better give her a kidney if you ever maybe just give her a kidney now just in case she ever wants one uh 1006 pm security guard jesus campos right who found that l bracket on the 32nd floor seven minutes earlier now here's what he'll later describe as rapid drilling noises as paddock fires about a hundred rounds of contra goers paddock would place surveillance cameras outside his room now clearly spots campos because now he starts to shoot through the door and down the hallway at him hits the security guard in the lake campos who is unarmed not lethally wounded thank god takes cover radios a hotel dispatch for help giving paddock's room number on the 32nd floor 1007 paddock resumes firing hundreds of rounds at concert goers two las vegas police officers are already in the building on another call to head upstairs presumably try to find the source the gunfire along with two armed mandalay bay security guards over the next two minutes paddock now takes several pot shots at jet fuel storage tanks at the nearby airport over 2000 yards away actually hitting them twice but luckily not igniting the fuel before resuming fire on the concert crowd 10 10. uh shuck that building engineer arrives on the 32nd floor to remove the l bracket campos yells for him to take cover paddock starts firing down the hallway again i've seen him on the cameras shuck now radios hotel dispatch to send police to the 32nd floor a minute later two police officers right those ones are in the building they arrive on the 31st floor one floor below paddock as the gunman resumes firing on the concert crowd they're working to determine where the shots are coming from by 10 13 they kind of figured out they were initially about 20 floors off but they knew it was coming from the building and which side of the building was coming from two bits of dialogue timestamp 1013 report it's coming from like the 50th or 60th floor north of the mandalay bay it's coming out of a window and then they go we're seeing local flashes in the middle of mandalay bay on the north side kind of on the west tower but towards the center of the casino like one of the middle floors 10 16 11 minutes after paddock fired his first shots news of the attack first hit social media i'm pretty sure a terrorist attack just happened next to me i'm at mandalay bay twitter user glockman posts at glockman uh the first two police officers reached the 32nd floor of the hotel at 10 17. they find campos the wounded security guard he tells them which room is paddocks gunshots had stopped abruptly two minutes earlier at 10 15 pm at 10 18 they were shown the location of paddock's door right taxi drivers in the area receive a message direct from the police at 10 25 pm telling them to avoid the mandalay bay area at this time the police think there could be as many as three shooters the message said drivers avoid las vegas boulevard and tropicana active shooting for mandalay bay possible three shooters between 10 26 and 10 30 p.m an additional eight las vegas metro police department officers joined the first two officers began clearing other suites along the 32nd floor hallway at 10 30 the police start hurting people inside of mandalay bay to get them out of the line of sight of the gunman 1055 eight swat team members enter the 32nd floor to the second stairwell near to paddock suite once all the other rooms on the floor have been cleared at 11 20 pm more than an hour after the first two officers arrived and 65 minutes after paddock could cease firing the police breached his door with explosive with an explosive charge and entered the room paddock already dead self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head he could have been dead since 10 15. swan officers noticed a second closed door when they burst into paddock's suite couldn't immediately be sure what was behind it so they used a second explosive charge to burst it open at which point which point they can see the entire suite and a certain paddock had been alone but not before at 11 26 p.m a police officer accidentally fired three rounds into the room thinking that he had seen movement i can can't imagine the amount of adrenaline flowing through those swat team members veins and moments like this inside the two rooms police find scopes 24 firearms some of the rifles resting on bipods so we could you know quickly move from one to the next many equipped with high-tech telescopic sights 14 ar-15 rifles outfitted with bump stocks laters investigators you know also found you know ammonium nitrate chemical compound using homemade bombs inside paddock's car at mandalay bay how much more damage did he want to inflict that day in addition to the firearms and accessories found in paddock's hotel room there was a note that included handwritten calculations right where he needed to aim to maximize his accuracy contained the actual distance to the target his elevation bullet trajectory relative to line of fire there was also a number of laptops in the suite one of which was missing a hard drive computer forensics will later discover hundreds of images of child pornography on the laptops i didn't see that coming this analysis was done by the fbi and wasn't made public until january of 2018 the search revealed according to uh sorry the search revealed a disturbing search history and numerous a numerous jesus images of child pornography what the [ __ ] was going on with this guy uh just a few weeks after the shooting steven's brother bruce also uh uh child porn was arrested on child pornography charges bruce paddock 58 would be detained on october 25th at an la assisted living facility where he was awaiting surgery for spinal stenosis a felony complaint said he had over 600 explicit images of minors in 2014 had also swapped pornography he faced 19 counts of sexual exploitation of a child a one count of possession of child pornography lapd said the images were discovered inside a building where paddock was squatting in 2014 but they couldn't find him at the time after his brother's mass shooting they learned where he was i'm guessing through steven's computers and obtained a warrant uh is that related to what he did in vegas like why the [ __ ] pedos come up so much in these stories really bothers me i don't seek him out like i thought we'd be pedo free this week uh paddock's remains will be sent to stanford university to receive a more extensive analysis of his brain uh they would find nothing out of the ordinary no evidence of a stroke no tumor no frontal lobe injuries nothing unusual in terms of neurology that anyone could point to in regards to some kind of aha that's why he did it you know explanation also during the medical investigation it will come out that paddock's doctor wanted him to take anti-pressure medication in the final months of his life but he refused uh his doctor also found him to be an odd man showing little emotion in general and expressing fear in general of medications uh back to october first two minutes after midnight almost two hours after the first shots were fired the las vegas police tweet confirmation that one suspect is down but the but the vegas strip still in chaos on the streets below red and blue police lights speckled the strip drowning out its famous neon many who escaped the venue who had ran ran for the casinos and confusion are now walking around aimlessly some are dragging luggage others are still wearing blood drenched clothing right the color drained from their faces first responders descended upon the scene civilians did their part too taking uh literal truckloads of wounded to local trauma units the injured were sometimes moved in wheelbarrows on luggage carts more than 100 people were treated at university medical center alone sunrise hospital uh medical center also quickly becomes flooded with the wounded about 12 hours after the ordeal began uh desiree boyle 35 sat in the east valley hospital small surgical waiting room as her husband underwent surgery next to her set several or sat several others praying checking their phones some pacing looking anxious weary occasionally a doctor or surgeon would pop in calling out the name of a patient like clockwork a swarm of loved ones would rush over huddling to hear the news robert kander of san bernardino california sat in limbo his head down his daughter lauren and her boyfriend zach both 21 have been at the festival all weekend and zach had been shot hours earlier the 55 year old candor had been at home watching the sunday night news when headlines about the shooting began ticking across the screen panic he just bolted to las vegas good dad just before he left got a text from zach who said hey this is zach i got shot in the back but i made your daughter run like hell i'm truly sorry i'm not with her she's safe with jody love you both i'll keep you updated god that is the kind of dude i want my daughter monroe to date you know when she starts dating in 20 or 30 or 40 years uh currently i'm trying to talk her and her brother into just being weirdos who never date and i just want to live at home forever right but they don't they don't seem into it for some reason even when i promise that they can they can play as much playstations they want they got the basement of themselves and not even have to pay rent oh well uh when he got to the hospital kander found lauren wait in the lobby he wrapped her up in his arms she was lucky she wasn't hurt zach would recover others of course would not be so lucky 58 people would die at the scene or in hospitals immediately afterwards 411 wounded uh you know with the gunshots uh the ensuing panic the stampede brings the number of injured to 867 a female survivor will die of complications from her injuries on november 5th 2019 and then officially declared as a fatality in the shooting in august of 2020. initially authorities did not list her in the body count but then changed their minds another female survivor also died from gunshot wound complications may 26 2020 reported as a fatality in the shooting that september the las vegas police would update the official death toll from 58 to 60 on october 1st 2020 the third anniversary of the shooting and that of course does not count stephen paddock taking his own life which raised it to 61. the deadliest mass shooting committed by a single person u.s history uh okay now back to october 2nd 2017. so 12 31 a.m 31 minutes past midnight more than an hour since paddock was found dead uh the police department sent a follow-up tweet saying that they think paddock was the only attacker after initially thinking they were multiple attackers uh you know they hadn't had much time to process all this insanity conspiracy theorists would read lombardo changing the story as obviously a sign of a cover-up false flag operation crisis actors deep state two hours 26 minutes after it began the massacre is officially declared over uh that afternoon nevada governor brian sandoval declares a state of emergency a public health medical disaster in clark county as the sun begins to set hundreds of las vegas uh locals and tourists gathered vigils throughout the valley to mourn weep and share in their disbelief in front of las vegas city hall sorrowful singing grows into triumphant chants of hallelujah and jesus silverado high school student ethan demaio stands alongside his younger brothers holding a sign that reads we are strong we are battle born in the central valley at the international church of las vegas faith and community leaders from several different backgrounds comfort a crowd of about 150. many attendees sniffle between sermons and species uh and speeches from clark county commissioners also on october 2nd isis will now claim responsibility for the shooting because why the [ __ ] not uh we covered these insane [ __ ] way back and stuck 27. ice is short for the islamic state of iraq and syria the military islamic extremist group that follows jihadist doctrine doctrine said that stephen paddock was a soldier of the islamic state but gave no evidence to back up his claim because there was no evidence of this in existence because he wasn't citing a security source the group's media arm amak said paddock carried out the attack in response to calls to target coalition countries isis will soon double down on this claim releasing a second statement claiming paddock had recently converted to islam and identified him as abu abid el-barr i wish it would have identified him as bingo bruce bingo mango bruce ii uh the isis supporting al-batar media foundation also claimed that vegas the vegas shooting was all islamic state yeah because you know [ __ ] it why not if you did that after the massacre isis uh will release the 100th issue of their weekly al naba newsletter with an infographic on a blood-soaked rendering of the mandalay bay hotel and claimed that paddock had converted islam again six months before the shooting right just go propaganda i'm sure a lot of scared ignorant brainwashed people believed him they wrote that brother uh abu abdul uh bahr stationed himself for the invasion on the 32nd floor of a hotel overlooking a concert opened fire continuously on the crowns using 23 guns and more than 2 000 rounds and died may allah accept him after exhausting his ammunition i mean and yes it was 24 guns 24 guns 23 was initially reported by some outlets of course it didn't jive with any of the evidence stephen paddock had not run out of ammunition not even close officers found several loaded magazines in paddock's room uh the evidence report said that along with 1050 casings littering the floor they found 5 280 unused rounds of live ammunition so he didn't even come close to using all his ammo the fbi quickly of course dismisses isis claims saying at this stage there's no evidence paddock had connections of any kind to any international terrorist group alex jones and others of his ilk not so quick to dismiss the isis claims isis had also by the way claimed responsibility for a bunch of other attacks in the past two years that they couldn't reasonably claim like in june 2017 when isis claimed an attack at a casino in the philippine capital of manila but authorities dismissed the claim saying the suspect who left dozens dead was an angry indebted gambler not a terrorist why do they make these false claims to spread fear and alarm to make themselves seem more powerful than they actually are they had been steadily losing international attention and political power for years leading up to this attack in july of 2017 iraqi security forces had driven isis out of mosul and in uh mosul and in the weeks that followed u.s backed forces closed in on the syrian city of raqqa the so-called capital the group self-declared caliphate as isis forces retreated in syria and iraq they lost oil reserves key source of income for the group so they were in the process of uh losing their ability to sell fund one thing that had made them unique among terrorist organizations and duncan gardum nbc news security analysts noted that the group spike in claims of responsibility indicative of its increasing desperation okay october 3rd 2017 now by 8 30 a.m on october uh third year less than 36 hours after the worst mass shooting in modern history began upstairs uh guests at the mandalay bay already back at the casino floor slot machines humming two poker tables in full swing racing fans filling the sports book and washington democrats are pushing bans on assault rifles and republicans volume back that the problem was not guns at a news conference on october 5th las vegas sheriff joseph lombardo still reeling from the magnitude of the shooting it'd only been four days since dozens were killed and hundreds were wounded in the city he would end up making some statements that again would spur on conspiracy conspiracy theories in anguish limbardo asked at the news conference do you think this was all accomplished on his own you've got to make the assumption he had to have help at some point with more information from the ongoing fbi investigation lombardo later would move away from the possibility that paddock had help others wouldn't right this is all signs of deep state stuff to a lot of people in the days after the shooting conspiracy theorists ignite across the internet uh would ignite infowars alex jones one of the first on the scene on his radio show that aired friday october 6th alex jones said clearly there's more than one shooter uh they said there's no way he acted alone he had help infowars has backed its claim of an accomplice by highlighting supposed evidence like a room service receipt from mr paddock's hotel room which seemed to suggest that two groups two guests excuse me had been present uh why is that who knows maybe just had extra food maybe he had an escort over hopefully you know they weren't underage sunday october 8 alex jones said in a facebook post it's a fact infowars has been the most accurate media operation so far telling you that he did not act alone the drudge report now splashes several infowars stories about the massacre across its traffic driving homepage wishing mr jones theories into millions of screens so that's a [ __ ] great job guys let's let's get his awesome hot takes out there to as many people as humanly possible uh unlike stephen paddock we know uh what alex jones's motivation was in all this right money back in june 2017 infowars website reached more than 1.4 million unique visitors according to web tracking firm comscore right he sold a lot of awesome brain vitamins that you could take to become as smart as he was a lot of helpful you know silver water his numbers fell off in august big time way down to 689 000 visitors he needed a big story he needed some deep state false flag crisis actor [ __ ] his take on the vegas shooting went viral in november nearly 4 million people visit his site that month so business is [ __ ] way up very good uh others are supporting him longtime propagandist roger stone a frequent infowars contributor uh appeared on air to argue that the traditional news media was hiding the facts about the las vegas massacre from the public of course he did before bringing on roger stone as his guest mr jones said all i know is they're trying to blame gun owners when it was patriots that got targeted uh they're making their move the democrats have said that they're going to have a huge uprising in october november it's here it's here brother can you smell the fear brother the hulkamania he reminds me of a like a deluded like a crazier [ __ ] hulk or something uh as someone constantly annoyed with both republicans and democrats this [ __ ] is so uh [ __ ] ridiculous it happened so much right twisted tragedy into political gain pander to the portion of your base that is consistently all too willing to swallow any lies you sell make them hate the other side even more than they already do so they'll keep voting for your team will more people ever wake up and see how transparent these political games really are right just smoke and mirrors get people thinking the other side is evil get them scared and then they won't even notice when you make it harder for them to get healthcare or when you make it harder for their kids to go to college or when you provide more tax cuts to the rich with benefits that actually don't trickle down to the working class or when you don't pass the proper funding measures to give more money to say public education so the next generation will be smarter maybe smart enough to see through all this [ __ ] and create real change that is not in the best interest of uh shady multi-millionaires like you know roger stone uh do you know that in the spring of 2021 the department of justice filed a civil lawsuit against roger stone and his wife nydia accusing the couple of owing the irs nearly 2 million in unpaid income taxes department of justice also accused the family of setting up a company called drake ventures that allowed them to shield their personal income from enforced collection and fund a lavish lifestyle but you know what he's patriot loves america he's a good guy uh citing a high level cia official and top psychiatrist from the federal government alex jones now said they're saying clearly he's antifa i just picture me like a little earpiece i'm just getting a word in from a top psychiatrist from the federal government like do they even have those uh clearly it's the mo to trigger a helter skelter revolution [ __ ] what what who who is saying this alex what alex jones made all kinds of claims about the las vegas shooting right in the months that follow he alternate alternatively name called steven uh as being a member of the islamic state left activist anti-trump radical stooge for a broader conspiracy intent on disrupting democracy democracy in general could steven paddock the lone vegas shooter have been a patsy to kick off the left's war with the right in the streets of america he wrote on his facebook page fear fear fear the radical left is coming for you any day now i've been hearing that from people like jones for so long still waiting i'm not sure that the left is real uh well armed right most of my friends on the left no offense to them not the scariest toughest people i know i mean if i was going to put together a shooting competition team say i'm not going to pick them i have some friends on the right though and family members they can light it up i don't doesn't make sense to me like uh the the right sphere of like the like an uprising from the left i think i think the right has a big advantage as far as being armed and being like well armed and knowing how to how to use it not sure what jones is afraid of it's almost like he's just manufacturing fear uh out of nothing so he can sell more [ __ ] shitty vitamins uh those who believed alex jones uh then amplified the unsubstantiated antifa isis allegations on social media and a storm of tweets facebook posts youtube videos a few weeks later the theory takes on uh another life of its own in an alternative investigation spearheaded by two men brad johnson retired cia officer rich higgins former pentagon official who served for a few months in the white house as a director of strategic planning for the national security council it's [ __ ] terrifying these two bozos had these positions uh seems like higgins career in the government was pretty turbulent dude is a [ __ ] maniac one i can see according to ed mccallum former director of the combating terrorism technical support office and higgins boss from 2002 to 2010 uh higgins uh often butted heads with leadership and made enemies at the pentagon he left the defense department in 2013 had a history of propagating controversial ideas reed whack-a-doodle uh crazy ideas an ally of michael flynn president donald trump's first short-lived national security advisor and political strategist stephen bannon uh steve bannon higgins traveled from the with the 2016 presidential campaign before joining the administration a controversial memo he penned while at the national security council summed up his worldview when he said cultural marxist narratives the forced inclusion of post-modern notions of tolerance such as transgender acceptance or destroying america's judeo-christian culture he argued this was all part of a larger political warfare campaign waged by islamists in concert with the hard left that's how they're going to [ __ ] take america down not with guns but with new penises and new [ __ ] pretty soon we'll all have to be transgender hope you don't like those dicks male meat sacks because marxist islamic left they're going to turn them inside out that's a real liberal agenda we keep hearing about right get ready to lose those sweet pusses ladies the hard left is gonna [ __ ] turn them into dicks why can't the left and the righteous argue over like economic policies and equal rights healthcare access gun control abortion etc why do some have to make the battle uh so much wilder and crazier i guess cause fear sells right because they're conspiratorially minded or liars who know stuff like that just furthers political ends in their careers or crazy i don't know i [ __ ] hate these people uh can't find as much info about brad johnson his linkedin page reads in part brad johnson retired as a senior operations officer and chief of station with the central intelligence agency's uh directorate of operations he has served domestically and abroad with numerous assignments often during periods of armed conflict he has served overseas in direct support of the war against terrorism in the summer of 2017 mr johnson founded the non-profit organization americans for intelligence reform to create awareness for political corruption and diminished capabilities within the intelligence community and to raise support for cia families who have lost family members and the performance of their duties mr johnson often speaks at universities churches and events i mean reading that he sounds like a [ __ ] great dude sounds like a [ __ ] hero uh and you know and maybe he was maybe he was here you can be a hero and you can be crazy um he's also of course a deep state believer uh he would explain his theories of what went down in vegas in interviews with fringe media outlets higgins and johnson met in the 2000s they believed that paddock did the whole thing out of some islamic state deep state antifa kind of situation plot and what was their main piece of evidence for this well they said that paddock was a registered democrat in florida mike drop boom do i do i need to say more uh but actually that's not true he wasn't according to paddock's family he had no political affiliation actually seemed like he was pretty conservative uh one witness told las vegas police that he was uh kind of fanatical about anti-government conspiracies and that he believed someone had to wake the american public up maybe that's his motive right there and get them to arm themselves in response to looming threats what if [ __ ] alex jones got him so worked up that he did this and then alex jones used him as like painted him as an enemy to work others up i don't doubt it uh family members and associates of paddock painted a picture of a man who loathed restrictions on gun ownership and believe the second amendment was under siege so really doubt he's part of the fringe left and also self-made businessmen don't typically go far left don't generally love more taxes social services system that they often see in my experience as rewarding people who did not work as hard as they did way better chance you know he was someone who was possibly a big alex jones fan uh johnson and higgins would claim that paddock had targeted country music fans a natural trump fan base to attack the right and because paddock was an actor crisis actor for antifa right the deep state in isis prevented the fbi then from pursuing correct leads where do the lizard people factor into all this what about the grace asked about how the hundreds of agents who had participated in the investigation could possibly all be in on the same deep state cover-up all these two had to say was that almost nothing you think is true is true i [ __ ] love it when these [ __ ] give weird movie answers uh to tough questions that i don't explain anything uh what evidence do you have uh uh of all this what evidence do i have you ask how about the truth is out there uh wait uh isn't that uh from the x-files yeah yeah you got you got me but it still plays still plays okay you don't like that one how about maybe you should do your own research uh what no we we did and it doesn't line up with what you're saying which is why i'm asking these questions uh so what what sources did you use for all this again all right check this one out conspiracy theorist nothing more than a derogatory title used to dismiss a critical thinker um isn't that just an internet meme you just repeated hey still plays hey i've got more how about trust no one god damn that's the x-files again all right he caught me again uh okay hold on hold on how how about this how about this i i got one i got one uh the world is in a constant conspiracy against the brave that's another uh internet meme oh one last chance last chance what about and now that you're finding out he's playing little games you calling me again you say you want me around but i'm not sure now if i want to be down goddamn that those are [ __ ] backstreet boys lyrics all right i don't know i can't answer your question uh johnson higgins would send their super credible theory to the cia the fbi members of congress and i'm guessing he was throwing the trash i'm hoping so far nobody's any real standing seems to have taken their document seriously or even acknowledged having received them uh the findings of the las vegas police investigation which the fbi assisted directly contradict higgins and johnson's theory but even as there appears to be no hard evidence supporting higgins and johnson's theory very little support for it outside the authors of the document it has had real world effects within weeks of the massacre higgins and johnson and some small hive of like-minded supposedly members of people supposing members of the intelligence and special ops community i doubt it informally teamed up to examine data they thought investigators were ignoring their investigation included an analysis of acoustic signatures from cell phone videos recorded during the shooting and posted on youtube excuse me which led them to believe a second gunman was likely involved the document excuse me authored by higgins and johnson argued that paddock was likely killed by another collaborator in the room with him in an opt-on bad situation and who was this other collaborator well some poor bastard named brian hodge hodge who moved to the us from fake country not real full of crisis actors australia uh in 2013 a man who worked as a concert promoter was in las vegas for business the night of the massacre staying in the same hotel as paddock in a room on the same floor according to hajj he was returning to his room as the shooting unfolded he fled downstairs hidden some bushes outside the hotel posting on social media in real time about what he thought was happening although he was not an actual witness to anything he talked about being on site then disseminated faulty information that he had pulled from the internet at one point he posted there are multiple shooters with automatic weapons but he doesn't actually know what's going on this caught the attention of the australian media hodge gave a series of interviews in the hours after the shooting in which he talked about hiding in those bushes until a las vegas swat team led him to safety hodge also made some misstatements for instance mistakenly saying that his hotel room was next door to the shooters he exaggerated it wasn't it was down the hall on the same floor though hodge now found himself to be the subject of wild speculation on the internet in the days after shooting youtubers bloggers dissect his media appearances raised questions about his various misstatements and assertions soon enough this catches the attention of higgins and johnson those [ __ ] that brain trust they examined his digital footprint on social media and come to believe he is the go-between between isis and antifa on this operation no no evidence supports this theory part of their document included detailed personal information about hajj that would later lead to him getting death threats uh it said while not excessively political it is clear from his facebook activity that mr hodge supports left-wing issues such as transgender rights support of gay marriage and he holds some anti-right-wing views holy [ __ ] you guys he's not anti-trans so he must have something to do with the shooting damn you antifa damn you why do people do this binary [ __ ] right i uh i am a pro gun and also pro trans you can [ __ ] you can be a variety of things these [ __ ] idiots i hate them one piece of evidence given for hajj's supposed isis ties and i'm not making this up this is the level these guys are operating on he allegedly ate at a turkish kebab restaurant in new mexico in the days after the attack and they're like see the truth is out there [ __ ] what i went off on the current turkish government hard in the armenian genocide hate the current party in power think the president's piece of [ __ ] uh but i love their food i [ __ ] i like the fruit uh and i don't think ill of all the citizens in general uh well it's such a juvenile idiotic way to think right like what like that that's not the kind of person that um uh during some kind of immigration uh situation well i'm not eating tacos anymore well congratulations you're a [ __ ] [ __ ] um and do you always like love what whatever president we happen to have do you agree with all your fellow fellow citizens about literally anything at all i'm guessing no would you want people to assume all americans think the same way no why do we do that to other nations and cultures silly us versus them boogeyman [ __ ] some people will put an entire nation of others into the same cohesive group and by and by some people i just mean people not good at complex thinking like the people who buy these conspiracies such an irrational thing to do i'm guessing a whole bunch of people in turkey you know uh think that the people running their government are [ __ ] faces okay in this example he didn't even eat at the restaurant han said he says he never even traveled to new mexico so good job higgins and johnson i hope you uh both can become maybe co-president someday and lead our nation into glory i hope you're working uh i hope you have your own detective agency you have such incredible minds very impressive uh when hodge saw that he was becoming the focus of conspiracy theories he changed his social media privacy settings so that only select friends and family had access to higgins and johnson this was suspicious how dare he tried to avoid online and real world harassment in their document they wrote that in some cases the purposeful deletion deletion of data is evidence of consciousness of guilt and since the las vegas attack mr hodge has attempted to conceal his electronic social media presence locking down his twitter instagram and facebook accounts higgins and johnson uh guys again almost as smart as al jones become so suspicious they recommend in their report that hodge be put under national level surveillance so that's [ __ ] awesome they also never contacted hodge to get his side of the story i mean but why would they they have all the answers they need in the spring of 2018 the document higgins johnson made went public causing a tidal wave of harassment for hajj who reported to the fbi he wanted protection because he's worried about like getting [ __ ] killed because this august 3rd 2018 almost a year after the shooting police re uh release their final report on their investigation they said they had no way to determine paddock's motive paddock did not leave a suicide note the investigation concluded no evidence he belonged to any terrorist organizations any hate groups uh had no criminal record uh they determined he acted alone in the course of their 10-month long investigation investigators followed 2000 leads watched 22 000 hours of video examined 252 000 images on january 29th uh the fbi 2019 the fbi will release their findings about the investigation and their report will highlight 10 findings uh these are the key ones they found number one his attack was neither directed inspired nor enabled by ideologically motivated people or groups he conspired with no one and he acted alone two there was no single motivating factor behind the attack three investigators found no manifesto video suicide note or other communication relating to the attack however he desired to die by suicide four he wanted to gain infamy via a mass casualty attack and was influenced by the memory of his father bingo bringo bango brusso uh convicted bank robber and diagnosed psychopath five his decision to kill people while they were being entertained was consistent with his personality he had a history of exploiting others through manipulation and duplicity sometimes resulting in a cruel deprivation of their expectations without warning that's interesting six he had no ill will against a specific casino hotel the music festival or anyone killed or injured in the attack seven he engaged in significant methodical internet-based research regarding site selection police tactics and response and ballistics eight he did not plan to escape the mandalay bay hotel room after the attack and took multiple calculated steps to ensure he could kill himself at a time and in a matter of his choosing so he was not planning on going to the philippines nine he kept interpersonal relationships and was not isolated before the attack uh ten he had a really nice uh vase and fake plant that uh you know we just thought was a nice touch and really kind of like uh brought the room together now ten findings illustrate he was in many ways similar to other active shooters the fbi has studied and that uh you know you just don't often find uh the answers to stuff an fbi behavioral analysis unit did not find a single or clear motivating factor for his actions just concluded he was in financial trouble uh he had you know uh lost uh 1.5 million dollars recently through gambling and was having difficulty coping with his age as he grew older paddock became increasingly distressed and intolerant of stimuli while simultaneously failing to navigate common life stressors affiliated with aging the fbi's report said the report was just three pages leading to disappointment for many who had hoped the investigation would reveal so much more close to 16 months after the massacre the fbi's long-awaited report did little to shed light on the investigation left its main question about motive unanswered aaron rouse special agent in charge of the fbi's las vegas office defended his agency's handling of the investigation calling it a herculean effort more than a thousand fbi employees worked on the investigation he said adding that it would be a mischaracterization to deem the fbi's inability to identify a specific motive as a failure ralph said everything that could be done to figure out why has been done and it makes me think of that quote we started this episode off with again people are mysterious even to themselves right conspiracy brain types would use the lack of finding of a motive as evidence of course at the fbi withholding information but is that necessarily true jack levin author of several books on serial killings professor emeritus of sociology and criminology at northeastern university in boston said he doubted authorities had any reason to withhold information about paddock he said uh you know he would have liked the fbi report to detail whether a catastrophic loss might have triggered paddock to undertake the attack he said i've studied hundreds of cases and in almost every case there has been a catastrophic loss loss of a job loss of lots of money becoming deeply in debt losing a relationship or a loved one separation from important friends and eviction las vegas police have declined to comment on the fbi report but their report clicking it at 187 pages you know didn't find motive either levin said he thinks paddock just wanted mostly to be remembered to be infamous levin said people say we don't know paddock's motive but i think his motive was to go down in infamy that's a motive that's shared by lots of killers and then finally on march 26 2019 after over a year of political debate a federal ban on bump stocks goes into effect uh the push to make them legal led largely because of the vegas shooting the final rule clarifies the definition of a machine gun and the gun control act and national firearms act includes bump stock type devices ie devices that allow a semi-automatic firearm to shoot more than one shot with a single pull the trigger by harnessing the recoil energy the semi-automatic firearm to which is it affixed to which it is a fixed so that the trigger resets and continues firing without additional physical manipulation of the trigger by the shooter there have been numerous legal challenges to the ban and some appear to be ongoing but from what i can tell you can no longer purchase bump stocks in the us currently now let's hop on out of here good job soldier you've made it back barely okay before i uh recap today's episode uh let's hop into a little idiot to the internet to see what some of the uh of the web's finest minds have to say about possible alternative explanations regarding what happened in las vegas on october 1st 2017. idiot uh in a video titled conspiracy quote unquote nuts right to be suspicious about vegas uploaded on october 18th um you know there's some pundits entertaining some alex jones type [ __ ] we've talked about some uh some and some geniuses reveal how smart they are in the comment section underneath uh zero zero zero zero zero zero zero chemo right underneath this video in 2017 there have been so many lies and secrets over the years and getting worse so we have to be conspiracy nuts they earned our lack of trust with certain groups and people guys guys we have to believe in conspiracies deep state crisis actors celebrity clones lizard people area51 all of it we have to for the good of america uh chemo seems like they have a real good head on their shoulders thomas neal also posts in 2017 all these commenters uh i've selected post in 2017. the fact that they have to tiptoe around the term conspiracy nut just to ask legitimate questions should say a thing or two yeah it does say a thing or two says you're [ __ ] crazy uh you know uh thomas you get people who believe in some uh some conspiracy legitimate ones a bad name pills nurimgaard writes mandalay bay will release the video just as soon as the cia and fbi are done filming it [ __ ] yeah bro cranking out deep fakes in the same studio they used to uh fake the moon landing noise and danny writes it's not conspiracy it's common sense you're stupid if you don't believe uh things that no evidence supports i see what you did there genius so many other comments like this a lot of back padding a lot of high fives right like we're all super smart right guys i mean we're smarter than everyone that's why we see what others don't we know the truth right love you guys love being on team smarter than everyone then uh mario marin oh boy kicks it up several notches goes way deeper to get to the truth 9 30 17 was the last day of yom kippur the shooting happened on sunday at the harvest 91 and 1001 911.01 in roman numerals it is written i x x i move the two x together and you have the masonic square and compass the i and the sides stand for the two pillars and towers jaqen and boaz the sun and the moon at the event the two towers are right behind the stage that's where the directional speakers were hidden which simulated the gunshots mandalay bay is a camp at the bohemian grove [Music] and the original owner of the mandalay bay attend the elite camp sheldon and miriam andrus edelson are known as sabatian francis jews adelson had a pre-planned meeting with trump and then this just happened jim murran owner of mgm international came out for hillary big time he's a republican supposedly but now he heads the american infrastructure for the homeland security committee michael chertoff ex-dhs secretary roth child zionist leads the chertoff group which represents one of the leading manufacturers of whole body imaging machines rapid scan systems special agent aaron rouse head of the fbi las vegas married to megan rouse daughter of john podesta son of pete rouse chief of staff for senator obama chief of staff president obama he got the job in 2016 assigned by james comey came from counterintelligence clandestine operations that's the kazarian zionist cabal responsible for the psyop and treason mandalay bay equals banal mayday like boston orlando san bernardino sandy hoax 911 etc etc also the oregon standoff nothing else than a staged event to instigate u.s militia the strategy was developed by the tavistock institute called controlling masses through terror it is trauma-based mind control through the mass media the emotional pain sets in as the msm is anchoring the source of the trauma to an object in this case white people christians conservatives american patriots mentally ill men gun owners much of the programming is to create an aversion to white people carrying guns for protection also supposed to look non-conclusive unrealistic grossly exaggerated to filter out and identify dissonant parties who do not believe the official narrative label them as domestic terrorists and enter them into a dhs database last but not least believers are made to argue with debate and fight non-believers the conspiracy theorists in order to divide and conquer imx intel and this was planned and executed by sad special activities division of the cia fbi and dhs in compliance with the local shares department and hospitals most of the victims and participants who are giving interviews are not crisis actors but undercover agents crisis actors are used for drills which run parallel to the event or a day before as a misdirection and a way out in case something goes wrong the chief coordinator in this case aaron rouse would call it off and sell it as part of a drill since they are so-called capstone events heavy gag orders as well as non-disclosure agreements imposing big fines along prison sentences if the operations revealed need to be signed by each and every participant who is in the know i've also seen the cyber warrior binder at the dhs headquarters in washington dc this is a [ __ ] youtube comment by the way it's a [ __ ] novel which obama approved right before he was elected to office it outlines the operating procedure for all government shills to push their official narrative of a stage psyop on social media no matter how ridiculous and keep track of all the conspiracy theorists a term coined by the cia to label all people who don't buy the official report the jfk single shooter report or the warrant commission i mean i don't buy that but this is [ __ ] too crazy the crown corporation of the inner city of london one of the only three independent city states in the world which consists of the crypto jewish banking families khazar as consim bloodline not semites rothschild warburg oppenheimer [ __ ] schiff loeb sax gotha windsors created issue the fiat money to the federal reserve look up the federal reserve act 1933 this guy's going [ __ ] deep all americans are dead slaves to fictitious george corporations founded in 1871 by birth certificate bonds coaxed into putting life into their all-cap strawman's name by signing commercial contracts like driver's licenses marriage licenses business licenses etc etc the u.s operates under maritime admiralty law and its uniform commercial code we are still under the war power jesus christ act of 1941 and under soft martial law therefore no american owns anything not even their underwear the irs income tax falls under the war powers act and is totally voluntary everyone who calls it a citizen person or resident within the u.s corporate documentation automatically consents and falls under the commerce and trade law of the vatican's uniform commercial code nice getting the [ __ ] pope in there united nations resides on our soil and under state department publication 7277. the u.s is outlined as being the world police force the united states and russia are the two disarmament police countries and once we are done disarming the world then russia will disarm us in 1992 the u.s congress approved the u.n charter became this is a treaty that supersedes the constitution of the u.s the u.n charter is now the law of the land the u.n treaty articles 55 and 56 states that u.s congress no longer abides by the u.s constitution as of 1992 america completely ceased to exist they just haven't told the people yet and they will not tell them until they have totally regulated the second amendment and taken everybody's firearms away check out the open skies treaty of 92 between russia and the us it's a treaty that made a picture like if he's uh like he's talking at the dinner table like the family have left six minutes ago he's by himself it's a treaty that mandates russia to conduct flyovers of our country to monitor the dismantling of our military our missiles tanks bombers closing military bases likewise those treaty mandates the us conduct flyovers to russia to monitor the dismantling of bombers missiles tanks i have no one to talk to please i'm very lonely close your military bases even though the us is the world's main disarmament police force along with russia this process is always led by russia as outlined under the world disarmament agency this the two the two mil now he's just like he's falling to sleep himself the two military world powers are downsizing and coming together to form the world police george h.w bush created the jihad movement when he was out of the cia come on guys please just listen a little bit longer he brought a group of arabs together to teach them the corrupt version of islam then train them arm them use them to overthrow the ussr and put in a new world compliant russian government any country doesn't comply with the race for peace world disarmament and adhere to the agendas put forth by the u.n gets hit with terrorism false flags that's why the cia together with israel's mossad created isis israelis come on please someone listen to me israel's secret intelligence service to disarm and destabilize the middle east most of isis soldiers are saudis i don't want to take my meds our saudis and treated by israeli hospitals now he's a mental institution once russia and the u.s are done disarming the world they will disarm each other laws were passed decades ago i i know i've talked about this earlier but i didn't want to say it again just please don't don't give me the jacket or outline your right to own a gun disarmament in the u.s public law 87297 and a very careful process of getting those who will go along with the plan either kicked out of the military or sent overseas to disarm other countries we are in stage four of four in the peace race now it's been like three years later he's in room by himself all this missile testing of other countries iran north korea et cetera is bs nuclear weapons not exist this is a fear-mongering scam little boy fat man mixed with 8 000 pounds mixture of tnt napalm magnesium for the glaring flash the houses of hiroshima nagasaki were mainly out of wood and paper uh he's at like a hearing now to see if they can let him out of the institution the victim is burned to death by fire not radiation since they're fire bombed all of our senior military officers know this and are complying most of them are new age freemasons and exactly the same now he's back in the room by himself are exactly the same in other countries militaries are all freemasons who believe in a world war government obama not a muslim now he's at lunch with other patients or just [ __ ] glaring at him putin bush clinton president of china all freemasons trump is a freemason once the first militia i did not write any of this by the way promises all his one [ __ ] post once the first militia or patriot is trying to be disarmed there will be a civil war the second continental army of the republic plus many other militias already prepared to fight a 15-year civil war to reinstate the constitution as the extreme law of the land there will be a civil war because real patriots are prepared and willing to fight in the defense of the constitution that's why the government is preparing by setting up the fema camps buying millions of hollow point rounds adding tactical armored vehicles to their fleet right now now he's on his deathbed he has a [ __ ] dates left to live when russian soldiers dressed in our military or nato uniforms started confiscating firearms rounding up patriots in the middle of the night that's when the war will officially begin civil war will happen 100 in america that's when the real truth will be unveiled holy [ __ ] uh that that comment wasn't ridiculed in the comment section that shows how bad the overall conversation is you know had some thumbs up right people like yeah yeah yeah that's i've been saying a lot of the same [ __ ] a lot of my family my former family back when i had a family back when people still talk to me i said a lot of these same things uh yeah bohemian growth right psyops whatever the [ __ ] else it is red that's what happened or or a depressed gambling addict became disillusioned with his life and wanted to end it and decided to take a bunch of me with him because he was an arrogant misanthrope who hated society and want to be infamous or that or sometimes shitty people do really shitty things and never tell us why and that's all there is to it right or that let's get the [ __ ] out of here [Music] that was [ __ ] wild i will say i i do want to apologize someone for the length when i went over it it didn't seem as long as when i was reciting it just now what is that person who is that what is that person doing right now i'm sure i'm sure they're still working on manifesto like maybe they just like they they hit click on that and then i got more to say and then i don't think they get kicked off of youtube and now they're just like i picked them with a typewriter they've just been adding to that ever since that post you know they just they just enough to kind of stay alive and just constantly and there's the types and the russians in china i mean you got two two three seven four uh what do we actually know about this terrible tragedy on the evening of october 1st 2017 while country singer jason aldean was on stage as the closing act of the route 91 harvest country music festival stephen paddock fired from a 30-second floor window of the mandalay bay hotel with a variety of weapons including semi-automatic rifles outfitted with bump stocks right to make it similar to fully automatic machine guns he'd kill 60 people gunfire trampoline left 867 injured biggest mass shooting committed by an individual in u.s history and we don't know why he did it frustrating but true we don't always get to understand why people do terrible terrible things not everyone explains why they do what they do in life not everyone knows why they do what they do not all stories have endings wrapped up in nice little bows where all the questions get answered life just doesn't work that way right it's very hard for a lot of people to accept that a lot of people so desperately want a reason for every there's got to be a reason there actually doesn't have to be a reason why are we here what's the point of life right what's the nature of god why does stephen paddock do what he did on october 1st 2017 who the [ __ ] knows we just don't know about so much [ __ ] and that can drive us crazy and it does drive some of us crazy and then people like alex jones whether consciously or not they take advantage of this need for answers i loathe jones and people like him but i don't hate conspiracy sometimes they do hold the answers healthy to have some skepticism important to look at alternative theories especially considering some of the shady [ __ ] our government has actually done shady cia stuff that has for sure happened is still happening i'm guessing probably right now but that's not a good reason to just keep jamming puzzle pieces in where they don't [ __ ] fit what good does that do that's not healthy that's not smart it's stupid and sometimes cruel accusing families of murdered first graders of being crisis actors so you can sell more supplements i mean that's flat-out evil peddling falsehoods like pizzagate can people riled up because it's good for business that's that's terrible it's horribly unethical what's good is dialogue investigation fact-based research [ __ ] alex jones doesn't do because i don't think at least uh he's not your friend i think he just wants to make money off of your fear will we ever learn more about stephen paddock or his motivations i mean maybe i doubt it unsatisfying for sure but that's uh you know what that's true for you truth just doesn't [ __ ] care about your feelings doesn't care how [ __ ] satisfying it is or is not it just is nimrod likes to keep us guessing sometimes uh now let's look back at what the story is again uh for sure in today's top five takeaways time suck top five takeaways number one on the night of october 1st 2017 a man named steven paddock committed the worst shooting by an individual in american history when he ran down bullets from a hotel window onto unsuspecting concertgoers at the nearby route 91 country music harvest festival 61 people including two victims who would die of complications uh to their injuries in 2019 and 20 lost their lives as a result of paddock's actions including paddock taking his own life 411 injured by gunfire more trampled as the chaos broke out bringing the total injured to 867. number two steven uh aside from stockpiling weapons and being moody maybe being a really verbally abusive boyfriend didn't show any classic signs of the instability that would lead one to think he was going to go on a shooting spree to most he seemed like just another dude in the 60s who loved video poker and vegas is full of those guys number three the city of las vegas resilient as hell in the aftermath of this tragedy and the days after the shooting locals and tourists gathered at vigils or casinos determined to go on living after witnessing what must have been one of the worst things a human being can ever bear witness to number four uh bump stocks stephen paddock outfitted many of these to his semi-automatic weapons to make them work a lot like automatic weapons meaning he didn't have to pull the trigger every time he shot he could pull the trigger once empty a whole magazine these devices certainly helped him shoot as many people as he could that night in vegas does that mean they should be illegal i don't know uh you know i mean you could argue that any gun of any kind can help you kill it does so should they all be illegal then and maybe crossbows too and knives and chemicals you could buy the store and you could use to poison someone etc how far do you want to take that line of thinking and if you think they should definitely be legal then why not legalize true automatic machine guns and maybe rocket launchers and tanks attack choppers fighter jets uh maybe maybe private citizens should be able to access nukes going extreme in either direction gets pretty silly at some point so what do we do i wish i knew in a democracy i guess we just keep going with whatever the majority of us feel is the right call to make number five new info on november 7th 2018 roughly 13 months after the las vegas shooting another mass shooting occurred in thousand oaks california north of la at the borderline bar and grill a country-western bar frequented by college students 13 people killed including the perpetrator who died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound and a police officer shot multiple times with the fatal wound accidentally being fired by another officer uh one other person sustained a gunshot wound 15 others injured in incidental causes uh police identify the killer's 28 year old ian david long a u.s marine corps veteran what does this have to do with today's topic well some people who are at the 2017 vegas shooting were also at the 2018 thousand oaks shooting how [ __ ] crazy is that and super tragically telemachus or fanos 27 years old a man who survived the vegas shooting died in the thousand oaks shooting it's particularly ironic that after surviving the worst mass shooting in modern history he went on to be killed in his own hometown his father told the ventura county star that is like something out of a final destination movie only real sometimes unfortunately life actually is like a movie a terrible terrible uh horror movie the 2017 las vegas mass shooting and the conspiracies that surround it has been sucked i'm sure i'll get some fun emails from some conspiracy freaks i look forward to them hopefully hopefully one of them at least is as long as that thing i read uh thanks to the bad magic productions team thanks to bad magic queen uh lindsey cummins for running so much [ __ ] the best teammates thanks to reverend dr joe paisley for his production thanks to biddilixer for keeping the timesuck app running smooths logan the art warlock keith creating the merch at badmagicmerge.com and for running socials with lizzie and sandra's hernandez thanks to the all seeing eyes moderating the cold at the curious private facebook page thanks to beefsteak and his mod squad running discord thanks to producer sophie evans again for her initial research on this shooting next week we're going to really lighten things up we're going to suck the long fabulous life of actress betty white our space lizards have decreed it uh betty white was uh taken from the world too soon not too long ago at the young age of 99. is it too soon for me to talk about her being taken too soon in a sarcastic way before passing on december 31st 2021 uh 20 what did i say that was weird 20 21. betty white was still busy with an entertainment career that had begun in the 1940s that's so wild she was a legendary actress who starred in shows like life with elizabeth the mary tyler moore show the golden girls hot in cleveland so many more betty worked for eight decades and technically was active in nine different decades in the entertainment business made a career for herself that most actors can only dream of she appeared in more than 30 movies over a hundred tv shows one [ __ ] that's [ __ ] nuts won five emmys a grammy three american comedy awards two screen actors guild awards uh in 2014 the guinness book of world records confirmed she had the longest career ever as a woman in tv uh betty's entire life defied expectations she built her career in a time that opposed working women became a producer founded her own successful production studio betty was one of the first and few female game show hosts she continued working well after the time that the industry determined was a woman's prime although betty wasn't overtly feminist her career reinforced equality between the sexes proved that women could star in shows and continue to be successful in their later years she was a badass boss [ __ ] and me and lucifina cannot wait to suck her next week right now let's suck on this week's time sucker updates get your time sucker updates uh been a heavy episode this week and we're gonna start with a heavy update uh beautiful soul and sucker dasha chambers writes i've been a longtime fan of all your platforms and have forcefully recruited anyone i can to the bad magician team thank you i just recently went to see you in denver with my partner jake we are excited to come see you again when you come back to salt lake that's very nice unfortunately today i have some bad news to report i'm hoping you all can help me out on the morning of february 8th this year my uncle kade clemenson sadly lost his battle with mental health and took his own life at the young age of 33. he lived a very full and amazing life he had done more than most people can do in a lifetime within his short 33 years over the last five give or take he decided to use his own personal struggles with mental health and suicide to speak out and advocate for others who may be too afraid to get help for themselves in 2019 he was amazing enough to have the courage to speak about his journey with mental health and suicide at the united nations it brought tears to many eyes and he received a standing ovation that was just the beginning for him he began painting as a form of coping and battling with his inner demons then he decided he wanted to use his newfound skill to help with his determination to continue to advocate for mental health awareness especially in young children he opened up an art studio in salt lake city called it's not a gallery and began selling his art and other local other local utah artists work to help raise money for mental health awareness shortly after he was able to partner with the children's center who have been helping infants toddlers and their families across utah for 59 years providing care for trauma anxiety depression adhd many other mental health concerns young children and their families may encounter it is heartbreaking he cannot be here with me to ask you uh ask you all to help us raise money for something that meant so much to him and so much to his family i do not want all his hard work to die with him and that's why i'm reaching out to you today if you could please use your platform to help continue to raise awareness and continue to donate to the children's center so we can all keep fighting for the help that young children and adults all deserve if cade had the opportunity to find an organization like this when he first started showing signs of depression at the young age of eight he may still be here with us today i'll leave a link to the video of his talk at the united united nations and other news platforms uh he spoke on at the bottom of this email i will also leave his instagram handle as well on there you can find a link to his obituary all of his artwork and an almost endless amount of comments from all the people he touched all around the world he was a light that burned so [ __ ] bright he took life by the balls lived with no fear he has traveled all over the world blessed so many people with his love and friendship the world lost a true [ __ ] treasure this month and i'm determined to keep his legacy going thank you so much for taking the time to read this i know it was long but i'm sure as [ __ ] not sorry for the length kay deserves a novel and a movie about him i'm just gifting you the short version for the sake of time feel free to use my name and my partner jake's name if you'd like maybe there's enough people out there who listen that will recognize mine or cade's name and be able to continue to spread his amazing legacy endless love positive energy to all of you love dacia chambers and jake davis here's how you pronounce their names you mush mouth i love you left uh phonetic uh pronunciation for jake uh at it's not a gallery and uh yeah i did watch the youtube link you sent me of his un speech and holy [ __ ] dasia uh it definitely focused my allergies and and i'm leaving all the links in the show notes for today's show so all the links you sent uh if anybody wants to access them you just go to the time suck app and you can just download the show notes there and just click right on over on your on your phone and um yeah this guy uh clearly was hurting inside clearly cared so much about uh easy not just his own pain but the pain of others uh he was the opposite of stephen paddock a soul who wanted to heal not to harm i hope we can push some traffic in that direction i hope sharing kate's story can help save others from their own demons uh for anyone listening on the edge right now you know think about this alex jones is not ending his life anytime soon are you really cool with letting alex jones outlive you also more importantly get help and get it now you're worth it you're worth it unless you unless you're alex jones listen to the show then i don't know let's talk privately uh now for the first of uh of a few amish updates uh super sucker sam henry has amish blood running through his veins and he writes hey suck lord and lucifina play toy just listen to the amish suck and had to say wasn't surprised anything i grew up 20 minutes from sugar creek ohio was around amish the majority of my life got to see a lot of the weird [ __ ] they do to me i personally see them as not necessarily a cult as a weird sect they act all holy and divine but i've seen them smoke weed drink whiskey and cuss like a sailor i haven't known normal people who have joined the ambush just to get away from paying taxes which doesn't seem like a good trade-out at all another thing most people think they can't have modern equipment but i've seen them have cars and all sorts of electronics but the catch is they can't use it they have to have a non-amish person use it for them that's so ridiculous uh where i grew up they mostly spoke pennsylvania dutch my mom who lived in germany for many years knew enough german to understand what they were saying when they were around and you'd be surprised about how much [ __ ] they talk and how quick they shut up if you speak german to them one last thing my grandpa was raised mennonite and his mother was amish he grew up in north dakota and when he turned 20 he joined the navy to serve in vietnam and in doing so got shunned because it's against their beliefs but he put his country over his own family and religion which made him a hero in my eyes sadly he passed away four years ago and as far as i know his parents never spoke to him again uh kind of a dumb rule they have sorry for the long email hope it reaches you well loyal meets zach and dummy sam well sam i included your message because of that vietnam aspect of it i mean how crazy you know your your son joins the navy to fight for his country in a time of war and you shun him for it how could anyone think that that is uh god's will what a shame despicable uh glad your grandpa got out sounds like he was a awesome meat sack and uh thanks for the message and now a lancaster area sucker uh uh find feinsack dude named kelly has all kinds of amish information to relay to us he writes hey dan wow a local suck episode i live in the lancaster area and just wanted to uh share a few things that you did not mention may not have seen in your research first off they may have resting a [ __ ] face but in all my personal interactions with them the amish could not be nicer people this is coming from a guy with two full sleeves of the devil's ink i would also say in the same breath they are the not my most favorite group the molestations and rape in some families you would mention animal abuse with livestock and puppy mills sorry about jangles and on a lighter note the horseshit all over the roadways you definitely become disillusioned with their seemingly peaceful and wholesome way of life all that negative doesn't stick out in your head when you're stuck driving behind a buggy with two sweet little amish children waving their arms off at you through the back window but onto the things now i actually emailed you for i wanted to touch on what you said about amish not having cell phones while it seems frowned upon in their religion it has become more common for young members to have and hide them one example of this is pervin mervyn who is perv and mervyn you ask he received that moniker after being caught by a local guy who poses as young children and live streams meetups with perverts the best part of old pervin mervyn's video is that he showed up in his horse and buggy with the twisted tee and a miller light to meet the girl i know this sounds too ridiculous to be true i have a link for the video and local news article in this email the live stream runner mr one seven five four zero deserves credit as police have charged many of these sick [ __ ] after watching his videos on to another stats and i watched that video it's ridiculous onto another sad story you had mentioned the tragedy of the nickel mine school shooting another more recent bout with tragedy for this community is the kidnapping and murder of eighteen-year-old linda stolfus or stolzfuss linda was kidnapped on her way home from church father's day june 21st 2020 there were no new developments in the case until three weeks after the kidnapping when justo smoker was arrested and charged with a kidnapping and false imprisonment of linda fbi enhanced surveillance video in the area of the kidnapping actually uh they were able to watch the abduction happen on the video excuse me they released information to the public on make model and plates of the vehicle police charged smoker after receiving tips seeing his vehicle in different locations around the area uh once with an amish woman in the front seat on june 23rd a business owner called police after noticing the car parked behind their shop they said it was there two days earlier as well on a man matching smoker's description was seen walking around the building peering into the windows he backed the car up to the railroad tracks the same spot was parked a few days later cell phone records confirmed he was in the area around 2 30 to 3 30 pm june 21st in that same location a pair of teen stockings and bra were found partially buried wasn't until december that he was formally charged in her murder in the spring of 2021 he took a plea deal finally revealed where she was buried after 10 months the stolstos family received closure her body was found just behind smoker's former workplace in gap pennsylvania police searched this area before but did not find anything uh they believe that she was originally killed buried at the location in wrongs then moved to his workplace and gap after being spooked mostly just missed crossing each other's paths and right in line with the school shooting the family forgave and prayed for justo to end this email on a lighter note i can't believe you didn't bring up the weird local names in amish country blue ball intercourse fertility pennsylvania anyway not sorry for the long email if you read this on the podcast can you please give a little blast out to hell with the devil to my wife rachel and buddy matt you bet [Music] two newer members this wonderful cultivars thanks to the whole bad magic team for keeping us laughing and learning a dude named kelly well dude named kelly wow man i watched that video you sent good on that local vigilante catching predators so weird to see a child predator with the dumb and dumber haircut uh pulling up to do dirty [ __ ] uh in a literal horse and buggy in 2021 if it feels like part of a reno 9-1-1 episode more than it does real life and can't believe that family forgave justo do not think i could uh hope someone who feels like i do about [ __ ] like that is his cell mate in prison uh now strong as [ __ ] amazing meat sack megan kennedy reminds me that sometimes it's good to get angry good to feel and express some righteous indignation megan writes dan your amish suck is amazing just to keep this short i just want to tell you that i love you i wish you started this podcast years ago when i was enduring my own abuse at the hands of my closest neighbor's son nine years my senior i had no one i could go to and like the amish didn't even understand what was happening nor why i was bleeding afterwards it happened a dozen or so times before he went to jail slash prison for some unrelated charge for much of my life i thought it was my fault that i've been raped even though i was 11 and 12 years old your own personal view on pito p holes see what i did there peter plus [ __ ] made me cry because i had if i had heard you back then i immediately would have felt like i wasn't alone and was not wrong in feeling what was happening was wrong uh your words about the pedo and his beautiful daughters made me cry and i hope like crazy that listeners too agree with you not sorry for the length keep up the awesome work you're legit a highlight i look forward to weekly xoxo well [ __ ] yeah megan i love you too and [ __ ] that neighbor i hope he's still in prison i hope he's getting the new mexico prison riot treatment probably not but one can hope uh actually i really hope that you have gotten the psychological carry deserve you live an amazing and full life of happiness and joy and healthy sex and sunshine and i don't know donuts do you like donuts i love them old-fashioned glazed maple bars they're my faves chocolate long johns uh also very great uh but seriously though good on you for just writing this message maybe some other scared girl will hear it and and take more strength from it than i could ever give them so keep being wonderful and now let's end on some absolute amish insanity not sure if the end of this message uh it happened but someone told super sucker jeremy that it did and jeremy seemed to believe it and if it did [ __ ] wow just uh wow jeremy writes dearest master general i'm a four plus year listener first time emailer listen to the amish live quaint or terrible brought back some memories ranging from humorous to cringy to appalling i grew up in rural west central wisconsin where there was notable amish population near my hometown my father ran logging cruise and for a short period of time had an amish guy sawing with him he may have uh run out of farming work and needed employment uh with an away from home business like you described my dad always laughed at the guy's detailed knowledge of green bay packers and milwaukee brewers news and information just come just from listing to games and sports shows on my dad's truck radio he'd ask my dad things like do you think brett favre will play against the bears on sunday he's been diagnosed with two cracked ribs he's probably never even seen these teams ever playing on tv when you talked about the amish never wearing any clothing that uh that may be considered gaudy reminding me that it reminded me that not only was their wardrobe basic their aroma was too in high school i worked as a stalker and carryout at our town's grocery store people would sometimes drive amish families to the store because they couldn't safely pack their buggies full of grocery bags so ridiculous the amish uh do not use deodorant or perfume let me tell you in july and august with temperatures in the 90s and humidity in the 70s 80s you could smell them five miles away in their thick unbreathable clothes these poor bastards finally this is the crazy part a few years ago i knew a guy who said he answered a wanted ad for the insemination of local amish women for money yes you read that correctly obviously the community was attempting to get new genes in their pool in order to curtail some problems with inbreeding this is [ __ ] crazy if this is real he said he and a college friend who were strapped for cash went to an amish residence were looked over by elders after getting approval they walked them into a dark barn an amish woman in her childbearing years was bent over a table [ __ ] what the back of her dress was raised and he guided uh them to walk up behind her looking up he saw maybe seven white haired and bearded elders standing aside standing side by side with their arms crossed observing the axe in the stifling hot building at this point he backed off quickly exited with his friend who would have been next up i'm actually i actually am sorry for the long evil electronic mail that will guarantee my damnation feel free to trim it down if necessary my wife heather and i have tickets to see you in chicago in june cannot wait for the show keep on sucking jeremy what the [ __ ] jeremy uh that sounds more like some fetish porn than real life i kept waiting for you to say just kidding let's get this get the [ __ ] out here that's ridiculous i don't know though super [ __ ] super weird [ __ ] does happen in real life we've covered a lot of it right dolphin sex you know we talked about that uh thanks for sharing that craziness i i feel so bad for that lady in that barn that's [ __ ] so weird please god let that not be true let's get out of this week's uh time sucker updates next time suckers i needed that we all did thanks again for listening to another bad magic productions podcast meet sax 285 straight weeks of suck how crazy is that over 300 sucks in the feed in total well over 600 hours of suckage uh i appreciate you still sticking around and continue to tell your friends uh the sun continues to grow don't [ __ ] shoot any strangers this week in a mysterious and bloody exit uh alex jones has already sold enough brain vitamins maybe get outside sit by a lake i don't know just relax maybe jerk off rub one out if you're feeling too worked up maybe just keep on sucking [Music] [Applause] [Music] same face different mask uh in the years before the templars arrived at a force from france robert the bruce's campaign the english had been pretty disastrous i mean and that that really plays into the the teutonic order uh there was a there was a visage chateau uh in france and alchemy is a transformation of base man woman into pure spirits and that's how the lizards like they'll distill you just stick with me the the babylonian brotherhood baphomet that's how that's how the the knights templar they they get into the the crown chakra the third eye chakra the throat chakra uh the heart chakra and and and and the base shocker all of us know as the root chakra will sometimes tie into the uh obama administration and and that's when trump that's how he gets involved and they drink the blood the adrenal chrome and that's how they get into the stephen paddocks part of what they found they didn't talk about was the the adrenal chrome they found it is he had bottles he had a can he had a camel he had a camel camel pack or a dreaded chrome that gave him more strength to shoot it's worth emphasizing again that the satanist relationship with the female energy is important to all of this and and that's that's how you get the reptilians they live under the vegas they live stick free and roy they have a lot of tigers and then they didn't and one attacked him where's that coming from well that's that's tied to my blood sugar is low and i get sleepy sometimes and sometimes uh i feel like just maybe i should maybe i should just lay down and kind of stop talking for a second but then that that's but if i if i talk too slow the matrix gets realigned and i can't break the spell and that's when the soul gets split in into the new and the old and that's when the priory of sign gets worked in the mona lisa and um i got i have some snacks i said if i if i could just have some doritos i could i could i could just i could just keep keep going i'm winding down i'm tired