In The Weeds #3: Spies, Spooks, & Sesame Street

Summary

Host Greg Carlwood runs through a grab bag of conspiracy news in this In The Weeds roundup, from coordinated 72-hour government emergency warnings to Dutch intelligence allegations that Jared Kushner received billions from Saudi and Emirati leaders. He digs into alternative-podcast drama involving Shawn Ryan, Leah Files, Candace Owens, and the Glacier privacy app, framing the new alternative media as possible 'Mockingbird 2.0.' The episode also covers a 400-year-old bestiary listing unicorns, Wi-Fi home surveillance, a hidden 666 in a Sesame Street book by Trey Anastasio's mother, and a Pleiadian-sourced theory linking the 'black eye club' to rapid human cloning.

Key takeaways

• 118+ governments, including the EU, Japan, the UK, and Germany, reportedly urged citizens to prep for 72 hours to 10 days, while the Pentagon allegedly told bases to prepare for 90 days of self-sufficiency.
• 2A book excerpt claims Dutch intelligence watched Jared Kushner's hacked phone and saw $750M from a UAE bank, plus about $2B from Saudi and Emirati leaders, flow to accounts linked to him, including one at Israel's central bank.
• 3An alternative theory holds that the 2017 Las Vegas Harvest Festival shooting was a hit attempt on MBS, followed about a month later by the Ritz-Carlton Riyadh purge of roughly 380 royals and elites.
• 4Leah Files alleged Shawn Ryan shelved her interview because she named Peter Thiel and Andreessen Horowitz, and tied this to Ryan's investments in Shield AI, Anduril, and the Glacier app, whose privacy policy reportedly changed 11 days after launch to retain call logs.
• 5Amazing Polly linked Candace Owens to Peter Thiel through the failed Glorify Bank and noted that Leah Files claimed past work for the NGA, NRO, DIA, CIA, and NSA.
• 6The 1980s Little Golden Book 'Count All the Way to Sesame Street' by Dina Anastasio, mother of Phish frontman Trey Anastasio, repeats the number six three times on one page ('six Kermits on the 6:00 news on six television sets').
• 7An online thread credited to 'Pleiadian' sources claims black eyes on public figures come from clone memory updates through the eye, and that Larry Page took over the cloning program from George Soros.

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Transcript excerpt

Yes, HigherSide Chatters, woosah and serenity now. Here we go. It's been a little while since I did an In the Weeds episode. Really, I think I only did the inaugural test episode and then a follow-up that was an Epstein edition with all the random crazy stuff I was finding in the Epstein files. But, this is something I planned to be the last entry in the HigherSide books every month because there are a lot of conspiratorial current events and wild threads that I see that are interesting, but they're not going to make it into interviews. So, here we can cover even foreign and cryptid stories that pop up. Stuff I always love hearing about, but again, not always right for a 2-hour interview. So, here we are with no shortage of things to talk about. We got compromised Israeli spies, conspiracy podcast scene drama, fun, beneficial smart TV hacking stories, Dave Chappelle, Michael Jackson, and some of the saddest, most graphic child abuse testimony I've heard in an official form, and it has some ritualistic aspects to it. Obviously, we'll get to that. So, I tend to structure these around 10 stories or threads, five to cover in the first half and five more for the plus show. That's usually the stuff that can't be on YouTube at all without the code words. I don't know. It might be four for the free hour, six for the plus. I don't know. We're just going to see what happens. I do have a few extras if I need them and because I'm not also balancing trying to be a good promotional vehicle for a guest, I can lean more into the plus side, so why shouldn't I? ...

Excerpt from The Higherside Chats, Oct 29, 2026. Rights remain with the original creators. Hear the full episode at the source.