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[00:00:00] Serious question. Why don't we have a [00:00:02] strategic maple syrup reserve down here, [00:00:04] bro? [00:00:07] Vermont's coming up in this world, dude. [00:00:09] Canada's time at the top of the maple [00:00:12] game is over. And I say this as a half [00:00:15] Canadian. It's over. It's over. [00:00:17] >> Conspiracy theories [music] are entering [00:00:19] a danger. [00:00:20] >> Information is the oxygen of the [00:00:22] democracy. There's so much evidence out [00:00:24] there that even if less than 1% [music] [00:00:27] is true, [00:00:29] that enough to collapse the current [00:00:31] paradigm and change the whole planet. [00:00:38] This is this [ __ ] is crazy. I I started [00:00:42] my morning by trying to make some [00:00:43] content for buyer. I quickly got [00:00:46] distracted because I was looking at [00:00:48] maple syrup and who owns this maple [00:00:50] syrup that I'd found. [00:00:54] And holy [ __ ] the rabbit hole took me [00:00:56] so many different places. And it took me [00:00:59] to the maple syrup cartel that controls [00:01:03] like 70% of the world's maple syrup [00:01:06] production. And it took me to the great [00:01:08] Canadian maple syrup heist. If you don't [00:01:11] know, you're going to learn about it. It [00:01:14] took me all the all it I I did [00:01:18] eventually make a piece of content. It's [00:01:20] not really about buyer, but [00:01:23] >> [snorts] [00:01:23] >> um I thought that we would share this [00:01:25] crazy hilarious story this morning, this [00:01:29] afternoon. Um to give ourselves a little [00:01:31] break from all the seriousness um but [00:01:34] also to talk about [ __ ] the government [00:01:36] and [ __ ] the monopolies and [ __ ] the [00:01:37] cartel. [00:01:39] Yeah, it's a true story, dude. I'm not [00:01:41] even kidding. Um, and so we're just [00:01:44] going to wind down a crazy rabbit hole [00:01:45] for a bit. And [snorts] then when we're [00:01:47] done, we'll probably get to some other [00:01:48] stuff, too. Um, and that'll be great. [00:01:51] And we'll save the big CIA controls [00:01:55] Japan deep dive for tomorrow for Free [00:01:57] Speech Friday. How's that sound? How [00:02:00] does that sound? Sound good? I hope it [00:02:03] sounds good because that's what you [00:02:04] pulled up for. That's what you pulled [00:02:06] up, too. We're going to keep it light. [00:02:08] We're going to keep it fun. We're going [00:02:09] to keep it informative, fact-based. [00:02:12] Um, and who knows where we'll go after [00:02:14] the maple syrup mafia. Let's talk about [00:02:16] maple syrup, dude. [snorts] [00:02:20] Because [00:02:21] if you don't know, do you know how maple [00:02:23] syrup is made, guys? Do you know how [00:02:25] maple syrup is made? [00:02:27] Maple syrup is made from tree sap. [00:02:30] Obviously, you just stick a little hole [00:02:31] in your tree, you get out the sap, you [00:02:34] process the sap, you boil it, you reduce [00:02:36] it, you refine it to that good, good [00:02:38] mapley sugar. none of that corn syrup [00:02:41] [ __ ] [snorts] [00:02:44] And the right trees for growing m for [00:02:48] the right like maple syrup trees, [00:02:52] they um they're not everywhere. [00:02:56] They are actually super not everywhere. [00:02:58] They are [00:03:00] here. Let me pull this up. [00:03:03] They're pretty condensed [00:03:05] into Quebec, Canada. Quebec represents [00:03:08] like 70 to 70. It's like 75% almost of [00:03:12] Canada's maple syrup supply. Let me see [00:03:15] if we can find one that includes [00:03:18] um [00:03:19] there is maple syrup supply in the [00:03:22] northeastern states [00:03:25] of the US as well. It's branching out [00:03:28] and actually climate change is shifting [00:03:32] apparently the preferred habitat of [00:03:35] these trees giving more share to the [00:03:38] United States. taking it away from [00:03:41] Quebec. [00:03:42] But [00:03:45] what we'll get to our stats in a minute, [00:03:47] but like Quebec is producing something [00:03:49] like Well, Canada is producing something [00:03:52] like 90% of the of the global maple [00:03:55] syrup supply and Quebec is producing 75 [00:04:00] Oh, sorry, flip that. Flip that. Flip [00:04:01] that. Canada is producing 75% of the [00:04:04] global supply. Quebec is producing like [00:04:08] 90% of Canada's supply. [00:04:13] And did you know that maple syrup is 200 [00:04:17] times more valuable? Am I getting my [00:04:20] [ __ ] wrong again? Is it 20 times? [00:04:22] It's 20 times more valuable than oil. [00:04:26] 200 would be crazy. That'd be like [00:04:28] liquid gold. Maple syrup is 20 times [00:04:31] more valuable than oil when you put it [00:04:34] in the barrel. Like when you actually [00:04:35] talk about that quantity, [00:04:38] it's [ __ ] expensive. As you know, [00:04:41] that's why you're buying Aunt Jamaima [00:04:43] [ __ ] corn syrup. [00:04:46] So, [00:04:49] Canadians have a bit of a gold rush on [00:04:51] their hands, right? Right. But here's [00:04:54] the thing. [00:04:56] When you are running a maple syrup farm, [00:04:58] a [00:05:00] some seasons are good and some seasons [00:05:02] suck. And so trying to run a maple syrup [00:05:04] farm, especially back in the day, is [00:05:07] kind of a tough business because maybe [00:05:08] your trees all [ __ ] up this year and you [00:05:11] don't get much maple syrup and you can't [00:05:13] afford to water your trees or whatever [00:05:14] the [ __ ] I don't know how you run a [00:05:15] maple syrup farm. I'm only half [00:05:16] Canadian. [00:05:18] So back in the day, they had this great [00:05:20] idea that they would start a cartel. [00:05:24] What could go wrong? and they banded [00:05:27] together and they created this [00:05:29] semi-private, semi-government [00:05:31] organization that we're going to get to [00:05:33] that pulled them all together and [00:05:36] created a strategic maple syrup reserve. [00:05:39] No lie. So that in a bad year they could [00:05:43] tap the strategic reserve and there'd be [00:05:45] enough maple syrup to go around and your [00:05:47] store shelves wouldn't go dry. And it [00:05:49] could kind of help balance out the whole [00:05:52] industry so that farms could get by on [00:05:56] lower seasons. [00:06:00] Sounds good enough. At first, it was a [00:06:02] cooperative concept with the assistance [00:06:05] of the government. [00:06:08] That didn't go so well. Now it is a [00:06:11] [ __ ] cartel with military level [00:06:14] enforcement that is surveilling people's [00:06:16] farms, sending armed security to watch [00:06:19] the farmers, [00:06:21] not to keep hoodlams out, to watch the [00:06:23] farmers, [00:06:25] and it's actually [00:06:27] giving them quotas that they cannot [00:06:29] exceed. And it's the only person you're [00:06:32] allowed to sell to in Canada. So, if [00:06:34] you're a maple farmer in Canada now, [00:06:36] well, in Quebec specifically, where most [00:06:39] of Canada's supply comes from, you are [00:06:42] only allowed to sell to this cartel in [00:06:45] bulk. You can sell little bottles on [00:06:48] your farm, but you still have to tell [00:06:49] them about it. And you better not exceed [00:06:51] your quota. [00:06:52] Otherwise, you're only allowed to sell [00:06:54] to the cartel. The cartel buys all the [00:06:57] maple syrup. They give you quotas for [00:06:58] how much you're allowed to make. Don't [00:07:00] exceed them or they'll [ __ ] come for [00:07:02] you. Then they put it all into the [00:07:05] warehouses into the strategic reserve [00:07:07] which we're going to look at and they [00:07:09] stash it and then they sell it out on [00:07:11] the market and when they sell your syrup [00:07:13] then they pay you for it. They don't [00:07:14] even [ __ ] pay you when you sell it to [00:07:16] them. You just give it to them for free [00:07:19] and then when they sell it then they [00:07:21] give you your money but they take a cut [00:07:23] off the top obviously. [00:07:26] And so if you produce a thousand barrels [00:07:29] this year, but they only sold 400 of [00:07:31] them, you only get paid for 400 barrels [00:07:33] this year. And you got to wait for the [00:07:35] other barrels to sell before you get [00:07:38] paid. [00:07:40] They have not actually sold the whole [00:07:42] year's supply since 2009. So maple syrup [00:07:46] farmers up in Quebec, they're just [00:07:48] getting paid whatever the cartel decides [00:07:51] to out of their supply every year. It's [00:07:53] this crazy industry that I had no idea. [00:07:57] If if you needed the sparknotes version [00:07:58] of this conversation, the sparknotes [00:08:01] version is by Vermont maple syrup. [ __ ] [00:08:03] Quebec. [ __ ] them. [ __ ] the government. [00:08:07] [ __ ] them all. [ __ ] this cartel. Buy [00:08:09] Vermont maple syrup. Buy Americanmade. [00:08:13] That's the That's the Spark Notes. You [00:08:15] can now go on about your lives. Okay, [00:08:17] but we're going to get to the great [00:08:19] maple syrup heist, which is crazy. These [00:08:22] dudes stole $25 million worth of maple [00:08:25] syrup from the strategic reserve. [00:08:29] They stole more than onetenth of [00:08:31] Canada's maple syrup strategic reserve [00:08:35] dog. [00:08:36] Like oceans 11 style. No lie. [00:08:40] It's crazy. [00:08:42] This is such a weird story. [00:08:46] But these are my favorite kinds of [00:08:47] stories. these weird [ __ ] true [00:08:50] stories. And this is real. This is all [00:08:53] real. I'll show you here. Let me let me [00:08:55] pull it up. You know how you know it's [00:08:58] real? [00:08:59] It has a Wikipedia page, baby. And you [00:09:02] can go read about it for yourself. The [00:09:04] Great Canadian Maple Syrup Heist. They [00:09:06] literally gave it a name. Everywhere [00:09:09] calls it the Great Canadian Maple Syrup [00:09:11] Heist. And actually, I remember this. [00:09:13] This wasn't that long ago. Um, a bunch [00:09:16] of reporting came out through the 2010s [00:09:18] about it [00:09:20] because it actually happened in 2011 to [00:09:22] 2012 and then it took them a bunch of [00:09:24] years to sort of like play it out and [00:09:26] find the guys and catch them and [00:09:28] PROSECUTE THEM. THEY ALMOST GOT AWAY [00:09:30] WITH IT too if it weren't for these [00:09:32] meddling Canucks. [00:09:35] [snorts] So they stole nearly 3,000 tons [00:09:39] of syrup [00:09:41] valued at 18.7 [00:09:43] million Canadian dollars at the time. [00:09:46] That's equal to 24.1 million Canadian [00:09:49] dollars in 2023. [00:09:51] So about worth 25 million Canadian [00:09:53] dollars today. [00:09:56] That's crazy, dude. [00:09:59] I want you to just imagine if you had to [00:10:03] suppose you're like Danny Ocean in [00:10:06] Oceans 11 and Brad Pitt comes up to you [00:10:08] and he's like, "Bro, I got this great [00:10:10] opportunity, dude. I got this great [00:10:11] opportunity, bro. We're gonna I got the [00:10:13] next score, dog. I got the next score." [00:10:15] And and you're like, "All right, bro. [00:10:16] What is it? Tell me the score. Tell me [00:10:18] the score." And he's like, "We're going [00:10:20] to steal onetenth of Canada's maple [00:10:22] syrup, bro. [laughter] [00:10:24] We're going to [ __ ] hit Canada for [00:10:25] all they've got, bro. [00:10:28] What goes through your mind? [00:10:30] It's like, all right, hear me out. Hear [00:10:31] me out. Hear me out. Hear me out. [00:10:34] Maple syrup, dog. [laughter] [00:10:38] We're gonna We're going to steal maple [00:10:39] syrup from the Canucks, dog. [00:10:42] Even if they catch us, they're too nice. [00:10:43] They won't do anything about it, dude. [00:10:45] It's going to be great. [00:10:48] That's for real the plan. So, now [00:10:52] imagine that. That's the plan. How do [00:10:55] you steal [00:10:57] 3,000 tons of syrup? How do you do it? [00:11:02] With a hose? [00:11:04] With an airplane? With a [ __ ] freight [00:11:07] train? How many trucks do you need to [00:11:11] carry 3,000 tons? [00:11:18] I don't even know how many I like. [00:11:23] [laughter] [00:11:23] Whoa. Holy [ __ ] Standard dump trucks [00:11:28] carry 10 to 30 tons each. [00:11:32] This job would require 100 to 300 dump [00:11:35] trucks. [00:11:38] Bro, [00:11:40] semi-truckss can haul 40 tons or more. [00:11:42] So, it would require 75 semitrs more or [00:11:46] less. [00:11:48] Dude, that's crazy. This really [00:11:52] happened. [00:11:54] How did they do it? [00:11:56] How did they do it, you might ask? [00:11:59] They did it with [ __ ] horses. I'm [00:12:02] kidding. They didn't do it with horses. [00:12:04] They did it with beavers. They got a [00:12:07] bunch of Canadian beavers. They suited [00:12:09] them up with knots, night vision [00:12:11] goggles, [00:12:14] and they went in under the cover of [00:12:16] night. [00:12:19] [ __ ] beavers, dude. No lie. Check it [00:12:22] out. I'm lying, by the way. It's not [00:12:25] beavers. [00:12:27] Um, [00:12:33] and it's not these horses either. Oh, [00:12:34] sorry. Good. Good. You can't see because [00:12:36] I was just scrolling through my tabs. [00:12:38] It's horses. [snorts] [00:12:42] Right. So, [00:12:44] so the plan, [00:12:46] Brad Pitt came to you with the score. [00:12:47] You're going to hit Canada for all their [00:12:49] [ __ ] maple, dude. You're going to [00:12:51] steal the strategic maple syrup reserve [00:12:55] of the Royal Mounted Canadian Air Force, [00:12:58] whatever the [ __ ] they call them. [00:13:02] And you're like, great, good score, dog. [00:13:04] Awesome idea. How are we going to do it? [00:13:08] The answer, you're going to need an [00:13:10] inside man, of course. An inside guy, of [00:13:14] course. [00:13:17] Fortunately, that's what they had. [00:13:20] The value of maple syrup is roughly [00:13:22] $1,300 a barrel. [00:13:26] Holy [ __ ] I haven't done the math on [00:13:29] how many barrels that must be. [00:13:32] If they stole like $20 million worth [00:13:38] at $1,300 a barrel, that's a lot of [00:13:41] [ __ ] barrels. [00:13:43] What is that? 2,000 barrels. [00:13:46] 20 20,000 barrels. [00:13:50] That's like 20,000 barrels of maple [00:13:52] syrup. [00:13:56] I'm not very smart. You got to double [00:13:57] check my math here. They did not do it [00:14:00] inside of a horse. 15,384 barrels. Mo, [00:14:04] that shit's crazy, dude. Yeah, we got [00:14:06] some mathematicians in the chat, dog. [00:14:10] So, obviously they didn't do it all at [00:14:13] once. [00:14:16] They did it over the course of a year. [00:14:20] But before we can properly tell the [00:14:23] story of the great Canadian maple syrup [00:14:27] heist, [00:14:29] we I think we need to get a little bit [00:14:30] of context about the strategic maple [00:14:33] syrup reserve. [00:14:36] And we should ask ourselves, why the [00:14:38] [ __ ] does Canada have a have a strategic [00:14:41] maple syrup reserve and America doesn't? [00:14:44] For real. Like real serious question. [00:14:48] Why don't we have a strategic maple [00:14:50] syrup reserve down here, bro? [00:14:53] Vermont's coming up in this world, dude. [00:14:56] Canada's time at the top of the maple [00:14:59] game is over. And I say this as a half [00:15:01] Canadian. It's over. It's over. [00:15:05] Sell your stock. We're done with it. [00:15:10] The time of Vermont maple syrup is here. [00:15:16] And we're going to bring in Simon with [00:15:19] his phenomenal accent to tell us a [00:15:22] little bit about the Strategic Canadian [00:15:24] Maple Syrup Reserve. [00:15:26] Because the visuals, it's it's good to [00:15:28] have visuals on these things [00:15:29] >> with a sticky situation. A shortage of [00:15:31] labor and [00:15:32] >> Yes, chat. You are not the first [00:15:33] [ __ ] to think of the pun a [00:15:35] sticky situation. Okay, Simon was way [00:15:38] ahead of you. Boing demand for the [00:15:40] precious product of Quebec's sugar maple [00:15:42] forests was threatening the nation with [00:15:44] a case of bland pancakes. That's right. [00:15:47] Thanks to the disruptions inherent in [00:15:48] the co9 pandemic, maple syrup supply was [00:15:52] running low. The stakes couldn't have [00:15:54] been higher yet panic didn't. [00:15:55] >> The cakes couldn't have been higher. The [00:15:57] cakes couldn't have been higher, Simon. [00:15:58] Damn it. Come on. The flapjacks, Simon. [00:16:01] The Flapjacks, as you see, are always [00:16:04] prepared when it comes to syrup. The [00:16:06] maple syrup mafia, a trade group of [00:16:08] maple growers that cooperates to [00:16:10] maintain the precious syrup supply, were [00:16:12] able to step in, providing at least 25 [00:16:14] million kg of sweet maple syrup to the [00:16:18] nation's bottlers just in the nick of [00:16:20] time, averting the crisis. This was [00:16:23] thanks to the Canadian Strategic Maple [00:16:25] Syrup Reserve, a privately held and [00:16:27] heavily guarded. [00:16:28] >> This is real footage, by the way. This [00:16:29] is really how they're storing their [00:16:31] maple syrup. It's It seems criminal. [00:16:33] Honestly, it should all be in giant [00:16:35] casks, [00:16:37] right? [00:16:39] Like, what the [ __ ] is this? This does [00:16:41] not look like my maple syrup bottle [00:16:43] compound in Laurierville, Quebec, that [00:16:45] helps maple syrup producers maintain [00:16:47] control of the syrup market. [00:16:49] >> So, they like it's not like it's not [00:16:51] like Fort Knox or like, you know, the [00:16:53] nuclear plants. It's they they don't [00:16:55] like it's not like a CIA black site [00:16:56] where they keep the location completely [00:16:58] secret, but they kind of keep the [00:16:59] locations of these things secret. They [00:17:01] have secret warehouses all around the [00:17:04] country, all around Quebec where they [00:17:06] stash their maple syrup in these [00:17:07] warehouses. And it's like [00:17:10] it's lowkey. It's low key. For in [00:17:13] Canada, he who controls the syrup [00:17:15] controls breakfast. He [music] who [00:17:17] controls breakfast apparently rules all [00:17:19] syrup is to the Canadian national [00:17:21] identity as cheese. [00:17:23] >> That's some fake ass syrup right there. [00:17:25] Fake syrup. That's some fake ass syrup [00:17:26] right there. One that they're proud of. [00:17:29] The maple leaf even adorns their [00:17:31] national flag. First produced by Iricqua [00:17:34] people long before the British and [00:17:35] French colonized Canada. Maple syrup [00:17:37] played a key role in the establishment [00:17:38] of Quebec. Initially, [00:17:42] maple syrup played a key role in the [00:17:44] establishment of Quebec. That is not a [00:17:45] joke. That is not a lie. That's true [00:17:47] history right there. It's crazy, dude. [00:17:51] It's crazy how something like maple [00:17:52] syrup can build an entire half French [00:17:57] state. [00:18:00] Your micro dose is hitting right now, [00:18:01] dude. Dude, I hope you got some syrup to [00:18:04] wash that down. Shit's about to get [00:18:05] crazy in here. [snorts] [00:18:07] So, [00:18:09] the strategic maple syrup reserve is [00:18:12] hoarded in these white barrels in these [00:18:16] secret warehouses all across rural [00:18:18] Quebec, just hidden. [00:18:20] Thousands and thousands and thousands of [00:18:22] barrels, [00:18:24] just stashed away at all times, which [00:18:27] they extort from maple syrup farmers [00:18:31] kind of at gunpoint. [00:18:33] Kind of literally at gunpoint a little [00:18:35] bit. [00:18:37] and they just take it all and they set [00:18:40] the price just like OPEC [00:18:43] but way funnier. [00:18:46] And so there's just these stashes [00:18:49] of liquid gold just sitting around all [00:18:52] across Quebec, [00:18:55] right? And suddenly the light goes off [00:18:58] in Danny Ocean's mind and he's like, "Oh [00:19:00] my gosh, great score, bro. Great [ __ ] [00:19:02] score. [00:19:11] So, I need to find I might just tell it [00:19:13] to you from from memory, honestly. [00:19:16] Um, [00:19:20] [laughter] [00:19:21] it's literally called the International [00:19:23] Strategic Reserve [00:19:27] because um I I was thinking of finding [00:19:30] the actual like documentation of the [00:19:32] different pieces of this plan of this [00:19:34] heist, [00:19:36] but um it's kind of split across all [00:19:39] these different articles. So maybe what [00:19:41] we'll do is we'll just watch a we'll [00:19:42] watch a little news report about it and [00:19:44] we'll talk [ __ ] about Canada while we do [00:19:46] because it's it's kind of wild how this [00:19:49] thing went down, [00:19:51] right? Are are you thinking about how [00:19:52] you're going to take 300 dump trucks of [00:19:55] of maple syrup from the the Mounties? [00:19:58] They'll be chasing you down on [00:19:59] horseback. You're trying to drive away [00:20:01] in 300 dump trucks. [00:20:04] Good [ __ ] luck, dude. [00:20:07] Here, here we'll pull up we'll pull up [00:20:09] some visuals. to paint this picture. [00:20:13] >> The most expensive heist in Canadian [00:20:15] history didn't involve precious jewels [00:20:17] or [00:20:17] >> That's not true anymore. Now there's a [00:20:19] gold heist that I think is worth more. [00:20:20] That's a crazy story, too. But back then [00:20:23] it was the most expensive heist in [00:20:25] Canadian history. [00:20:26] >> Cold hard cash. Instead, bandits made [00:20:29] off with $18.7 [music] [00:20:31] million worth of sweet liquid gold. [00:20:34] We're talking pure Canadian maple syrup [00:20:35] [music] here. None of that fake [00:20:37] anjamaima stuff. So, just imagine you're [00:20:40] the you're the guys that pulled this [00:20:42] heist off and you're like at the heist [00:20:44] convention where all the heisters talk [00:20:45] and you're hanging out sipping martinis, [00:20:47] you're in tuxedos, you're you're in [00:20:49] [ __ ] Paris being all like Oceans 11 [00:20:52] and [ __ ] and and you're just talking [00:20:54] about your scores and bro's like, "Yeah, [00:20:56] I stole the jewels." And the guy's like, [00:20:57] "Oh, I stole that fancy diamond and and [00:21:00] I stole that [ __ ] famous painting." [00:21:02] And you're like, "Bitch, I stole [00:21:04] Canada's maple syrup." [laughter] [00:21:08] Like, how do you say that with a [00:21:09] straight face, dude? It's like, so what? [00:21:12] What brought you to the party? Oh, just [00:21:14] I stole 10% of Canada's maple syrup [00:21:16] strategic reserves. No big deal, bro. I [00:21:20] just crippled an entire nation by [00:21:22] stealing their syrup. No big deal. Yeah, [00:21:25] that's a flex right there, dude. That's [00:21:28] immediately the coolest guy at the [00:21:29] party. Coolest guy at the party. And by [00:21:31] the way, he's not wearing a tuxedo. He's [00:21:33] wearing a [ __ ] flannel, obviously. [00:21:38] Thieves made the [music] Federation of [00:21:39] Quebec Maple Syrup Producers look like [00:21:41] fools and nicked 12.5% [music] [00:21:44] of the organization's maple syrup [00:21:46] reserves. 12.5%. [00:21:48] Kucks had to deal with a [music] [00:21:50] shortage of syrup. It was a tragedy [00:21:52] worse than team Canada losing to the [00:21:54] Yanks in hockey. This [00:21:56] >> This is obviously AI slop, but it's it's [00:21:58] illustrative. It's it's helpful. [00:22:00] >> Cakes were dry and Tim Hortons couldn't [00:22:02] sell maple dip donuts. Here's a look at [00:22:04] the great Canadian maple syrup. and the [00:22:06] effort to recover the sweet liquid. [00:22:08] >> I said it. [00:22:09] >> The discovery may have been made in [00:22:11] 2012, but the great Canadian maple syrup [00:22:13] iced was a coordinated [music] effort [00:22:15] that began a [00:22:16] >> Those are real photos of the actual per [00:22:20] true story. [00:22:21] >> Earlier, it's the kuck version of oceans [00:22:24] 11. And some people [music] view the [00:22:25] sticky bandits as heroes rather than [00:22:28] criminals. The federation of maple syrup [00:22:30] producers has been called a cartel, [00:22:32] communist regime, and even [music] a [00:22:34] mafia. The government sanctioned [00:22:36] organization regulates the marketing and [00:22:38] production of maple syrup in Quebec. [00:22:40] Think of it as the OPEC of maple syrup. [00:22:43] It's a fitting analogy as pure maple [00:22:45] syrup is actually [music] more valuable [00:22:47] than crude oil. The federation controls [00:22:49] the supply of authentic maple syrup [00:22:51] around the world and keeps a massive [00:22:53] supply of the sticky sweetener in a [00:22:55] secure. [00:22:56] >> Dude, [00:22:58] I just blew my own mind. [00:23:03] Okay, you know oil, you know uh olive [00:23:05] oil, you know about olive oil, dude, you [00:23:08] do you know about olive oil and how [00:23:10] olive oil is controlled by the [ __ ] [00:23:12] mafia over in Italy and how Italian [00:23:15] olive oil, the real Italian olive oil, [00:23:17] do you know how there's this huge [00:23:18] [ __ ] scandal where a bunch of it's [00:23:20] fake where it gets where they they [00:23:22] dilute it. They like cut it with baking [00:23:24] out, baking powder, baking soda, [00:23:26] whatever you cut it with. And then you [00:23:28] [ __ ] sell fake ass olive oil, but you [00:23:30] put your Italy stamp on it. Like, got [00:23:32] you, [ __ ] Right. Do you know about [00:23:33] that? [00:23:37] Yo, Canada, where you at, dude? You [00:23:39] could be making a killing. Imagine maybe [00:23:41] they already are. What if this pure [00:23:44] speculation obviously but dude imagine [00:23:47] if the Canadian strategic maple syrup [00:23:49] reserve if the Canadian mafia was just [00:23:52] diluting that [ __ ] e [00:23:55] that'd be crazy dude no one I would know [00:23:59] but most people wouldn't know America [00:24:02] wouldn't know how would you know [00:24:07] they could make so much [ __ ] money if [00:24:09] they cut this stuff by half there's be [00:24:12] like, "No, like the trees just the trees [00:24:14] changed. Climate changed. The climate [00:24:15] changed. The climate changed. I don't [00:24:17] know. The syrup changed. Whatever. They [00:24:19] control 75% of the world's supply. [00:24:25] I'm kidding. Obviously, I mean like [00:24:27] Vermont would know. Vermont would [00:24:29] [ __ ] know. They would get it. But [00:24:31] dude, it just Anyway, [00:24:33] >> warehouse outside. [00:24:35] In case maple syrup production is low in [00:24:37] a particular year, think of the [00:24:38] warehouse as [music] the Fort Knox of [00:24:40] maple syrup. Because the Federation [00:24:42] keeps a syrup reserve, the market is [00:24:44] never flooded with a glut of syrup, nor [00:24:47] is there ever a significant shortage. [00:24:49] The total value of the And so what this [00:24:51] has done is this has driven up the syrup [00:24:53] prices. These [ __ ] are [00:24:55] artificially inflating syrup prices by [00:24:57] controlling the supply. That's that's [00:25:00] for real. [00:25:01] These [ __ ] are the reason why you [00:25:03] have to pay like $80 for a bottle of [00:25:06] syrup. [00:25:09] Yeah, if you're new, if you're just [00:25:11] coming in here right now, we are talking [00:25:12] about the great Canadian maple syrup [00:25:15] heist. True story, not a clickbait [00:25:17] title. Welcome to the show. Federation's [00:25:19] reserve can sometimes be worth as [00:25:21] [music] much as $185 million. Pro- [00:25:24] Federation syrup producers say the [00:25:26] Federation prevents suppliers from going [00:25:28] bankrupt. But those who are critical of [00:25:30] the federation, [00:25:31] >> that's a [ __ ] scop. They don't they [00:25:33] don't help. They [ __ ] them. Don't listen [00:25:36] to those lies. That's a scop. [00:25:38] >> Say they are struggling to make ends [00:25:40] meet. The thieves responsible for the [00:25:42] heist managed to steal a staggering [00:25:45] 9,571. [00:25:47] >> There's our answer. 9,571 [00:25:50] barrels. [00:25:52] That's a lot of barrels, dude. [00:25:57] It's about $45 Canadian dollars for a [00:25:59] gallon. [00:26:02] That's how you wind up with a $25 [00:26:04] million maple syrup heist. [00:26:06] >> One barrels of maple syrup from one of [00:26:09] the Federation's warehouses outside of [00:26:11] Montreal. That's nearly [00:26:13] >> Yeah, chat, real quick, chat. Based on [00:26:15] what you know so far, are the maple [00:26:17] syrup bandits are they heroes or are [00:26:20] they villains? [00:26:21] Are these maple syrup bandits heroes or [00:26:24] villains? [00:26:27] Because I'm just going to go out on a [00:26:29] limb here and say that shit's [ __ ] [00:26:30] awesome. That's awesome. [00:26:33] I call Call me Call me an [ __ ] Am I [00:26:36] the [ __ ] Because I think that's [00:26:37] awesome. It's almost as cool as Stacy [00:26:40] constantly gifting huge numbers of subs [00:26:42] in the chat. Yeah, legends, right? [00:26:44] Absolute legends. These are guy These [00:26:45] guys are the [ __ ] Robin Hoods of the [00:26:47] North, dude. [00:26:50] Robin Hood of the North up here [00:26:53] stealing from the cartel, selling it [00:26:55] back to the people. 3,000 tons of maple [00:26:58] syrup worth $18.7 million Canadian. [00:27:02] That's a lot of loonies. One of the [00:27:04] thieves was in charge of the St. Louis [00:27:06] de Blford warehouse where the syrup was [00:27:08] stored. So, the theft was an inside job. [00:27:11] Every successful heist needs a man on [00:27:13] the inside. in total. [00:27:16] >> Sort of like if you wanted to steal [00:27:17] nuclear technology from America and take [00:27:19] it over to your country, you would need [00:27:21] a man on the inside at Newck.5% [00:27:25] of the Federation's maple syrup supply [00:27:27] was stolen. And each barrel stolen [00:27:29] [music] was worth about $2,000 Canad. [00:27:32] >> That's So imagine if someone stole 12.5% [00:27:36] of OPEC oil. [00:27:39] Just imagine that. Imagine what that [00:27:41] would do to the world. Dude, this is [00:27:43] like that bad but worse because it's [00:27:45] maple syrup. [00:27:47] >> The thieves almost got away with it, [00:27:49] too, as their pilfering wasn't [00:27:50] discovered for over a year. So, why [00:27:53] didn't [music] anybody noticed the [00:27:54] barrels were missing at first? [00:27:57] So, I'm going to just cut in here real [00:27:59] quick and steal this AI motherfucker's [00:28:00] thunder. [snorts] [00:28:03] What they were doing is first they stole [00:28:05] a few barrels out in the middle of the [00:28:06] night, took them out of the warehouse, [00:28:08] and siphoned out all the maple syrup [00:28:09] from the barrels. And then they were [00:28:11] filling them back up with water and [00:28:13] sending them back into the warehouse. [00:28:16] So no one even knew. [00:28:19] Then it worked so well they did it again [00:28:21] and they did it again and they did it [00:28:22] again and they did it again and they did [00:28:23] it again and again and again [00:28:27] and eventually they started to get lazy. [00:28:30] And my understanding I could be wrong in [00:28:31] this maybe he'll clarify maybe AI bro [00:28:33] will clarify for us. My understanding is [00:28:34] that they got lazy and they stopped [00:28:37] filling them up with water. [00:28:40] big mistake. And then some [ __ ] [00:28:43] noticed. [00:28:44] >> Well, the thieves concocted a brilliant [00:28:47] plan. They swapped out the barrels with [00:28:49] ones that were nearly identical, right [00:28:51] down to paint color and make, and filled [00:28:54] many of them with water that was [00:28:55] siphoned from a nearby creek. The [00:28:57] thieves even slapped stickers on the [00:28:59] barrels that perfectly matched those put [00:29:01] on by the Federation of Quebec Maple [00:29:03] Syrup Producers. The stamps looked [00:29:05] official, and at first glance, [00:29:07] everything seemed right. Federation [00:29:09] inspectors didn't catch on until some of [00:29:11] the barrels started to rust. [00:29:13] >> Cuz imagine this like you're Brad Pitt [00:29:16] going to Danny Ocean with the plan here [00:29:17] and you're like, "All right, we got the [00:29:19] score. It's [ __ ] maple syrup, dude." [00:29:21] And and Danny's like, "Dude, that's [00:29:24] [ __ ] That's [ __ ] bro." And [00:29:27] you're like, "No, dude. Get this. It's [00:29:29] just sitting there and it's just in a [00:29:31] reserve. So they never even like they [00:29:33] don't even use it. They'll they don't [00:29:35] even open it. They just it just sits [00:29:36] there so they can control the maple [00:29:39] syrup prices. [00:29:41] They might not even discover it for like [00:29:43] 10 years, [00:29:45] right? Because they're not even opening [00:29:47] them. It's just maple syrup sitting [00:29:49] there. [00:29:52] 20 times the price of oil just so they [00:29:55] can control the price. So you're like, [00:29:57] "Well, [ __ ] you, [ __ ] [00:30:00] Here's some water." You see, maple syrup [00:30:03] won't make metal rust. [music] But water [00:30:05] will. When the Federation inspectors dug [00:30:07] deeper, they noticed that some of the [00:30:09] barrels were actually empty. And one [00:30:11] inspector almost fell to his death [00:30:13] climbing a pile of barrels. If they were [00:30:15] filled with syrup, they would have been [00:30:16] much heavier and therefore stable enough [00:30:18] to climb. In addition to swapping out [00:30:20] the barrels of syrup for identical ones, [00:30:23] the criminals also siphoned some of the [00:30:25] syrup into entirely new barrels. What [00:30:27] was left was water-filled knockoffs and [00:30:30] empty original barrels. The thieves got [00:30:32] greedy and eventually swapping out every [00:30:35] barrel became too timeconuming. The [00:30:37] thieves transported the nicked syrup [00:30:39] [music] via tractor trailers. [00:30:41] >> They got greedy. [00:30:43] They got greedy. Should have stuck to [00:30:45] the plan, boys. Always stick to the plan [00:30:48] >> and sold it to an exporter in New [00:30:50] Brunswick. The exporter then sold the [00:30:52] delicious confection on the black [00:30:53] market. the syrup was [00:30:55] >> and yes, there is a maple syrup black [00:30:57] market. That is a real thing and it [00:30:59] exists entirely outside of this heist. [00:31:02] And that's where we're going to talk [00:31:03] about the maple syrup mafia and how [00:31:05] they'll [ __ ] come and take your farm [00:31:07] from you and they'll post armed guards [00:31:09] and charge you for them to watch you if [00:31:12] you [ __ ] sell your maple syrup onto [00:31:14] the black market. Supposed to be safe in [00:31:16] Quebec, but in reality it was being sold [00:31:19] all over the world from Europe to Japan. [00:31:22] The IATE Federation of Quebec [music] [00:31:24] Maple Syrup Producers notified police [00:31:26] and what ensued was an in-depth [00:31:28] investigation involving numerous police [00:31:30] forces [music] and detectives. Finding [00:31:33] missing maple syrup is Dude, imagine [00:31:36] you're like your claim to fame. Imagine [00:31:38] you're a detective that wanted your [00:31:40] whole life to be a detective and you [00:31:43] like finally get your big break and [00:31:45] you're like on the force and you're [00:31:46] going to lead an investigation and [00:31:47] they're like, "Here you go, bud." And [00:31:49] it's, "Hey, why don't you go look in the [00:31:51] maple syrup they got taken?" Eh, and [00:31:53] you're like, "God damn it. God damn it, [00:31:57] I joined the force to catch a murderer [00:32:00] and now I'm looking into the maple syrup [00:32:02] cartel." [00:32:07] Some [ __ ] got stuck with that [00:32:08] job [00:32:10] and they led a international manhunt to [00:32:12] track these guys down and catch them. [00:32:15] [snorts] It's true story. [00:32:17] true story. [00:32:27] So, [00:32:30] let's talk about the QMPS. [00:32:40] Um, [00:32:41] I just have to find [00:32:46] I have to find the uh stats that I've [00:32:49] got [00:32:52] about the [ __ ] [00:32:55] that [00:32:59] did the wrong that got on the bad side [00:33:02] of the cartel. [00:33:09] Have any of you guys seen the Dirty [00:33:10] Money episode that's about this? There's [00:33:12] apparently an episode of Dirty Money on [00:33:13] Netflix that's all about maple syrup [00:33:17] um that I have not seen, but it sounds [00:33:18] like a good a good watch now. I might [00:33:20] watch it now. [00:33:23] Um [00:33:26] because there's a couple of people that [00:33:27] have been fighting the cartel in the [00:33:29] courts and stuff because they sold on [00:33:32] the black market and got caught and [00:33:34] their stories are kind of crazy. [00:33:37] Um here, let me pull this one up. [00:33:42] So [00:33:44] Quebec is a province in Canada, like a [00:33:47] state, and if you live in Quebec and [00:33:49] have a maple syrup farm, you are obliged [00:33:52] to sell your stock directly to the F [00:33:54] FBAQ, the cartel, except for any like [00:33:58] single bottles that you sell directly [00:33:59] from your farm. If you choose to sell [00:34:02] directly to supermarkets, they take 12% [00:34:04] commission off the top. [00:34:07] Sorry, [ __ ] [00:34:10] Um, [00:34:12] and so a black market has been growing [00:34:15] as this cartel has gotten more and more [00:34:20] cartelli and um, people that get caught [00:34:24] selling into the black market. [00:34:28] Gr an anel [00:34:31] gran an anel, it's French. Um, she got [00:34:35] fed up and sold her stock directly to a [00:34:38] distributor in New Brunswick. This black [00:34:40] market transaction attracted the [00:34:41] attention of the police and the FBAQ [00:34:45] and they slapped her with a $500,000 [00:34:48] fine. She appealed and brought her court [00:34:51] her case all the way to the Supreme [00:34:53] Court where she lost or rather they [00:34:55] refused to hear it. [00:34:58] But [00:35:00] oh, this article doesn't have it. But [00:35:03] they will actually if you get caught [00:35:07] selling into the black market because [00:35:09] it's kind of like how do you track all [00:35:10] the maple syrup sales? You need like a [00:35:12] whole maple syrup police just to police [00:35:14] these maple syrup farmers. If you sell [00:35:16] into the black market and get caught, [00:35:17] they will [ __ ] send armed security [00:35:20] guards to your farm and charge you the [00:35:22] bill to surveil you in your farm to [00:35:26] watch your trees and make sure that all [00:35:28] that maple syrup goes to the cartel. [00:35:31] True story. They'll also find you. Um, [00:35:35] they'll take your [ __ ] farm from you [00:35:37] if you're not mess if you're messing [00:35:38] around too hard. It's crazy up there, [00:35:41] dude. It's like the ostrich story. Do [00:35:43] you guys know about the ostrich farm? [00:35:46] Do you guys know about the ostrich farm? [00:35:56] Yeah. You guys know about the ostrich [00:35:58] farm? Dude, the ostrich farm is so [00:36:00] [ __ ] up. [00:36:02] They killed all the ostriches. [00:36:05] They killed like 300 ostriches. [00:36:10] It's [ __ ] wild, dude. [00:36:13] They got all afraid of bird flu. [00:36:16] Here, just I'll show you this just so [00:36:18] you know it's real. Canadian government [00:36:20] kills ostriches afflicted by H5N1 [00:36:22] despite appeal from RFK Jr. They weren't [00:36:26] afflicted with H5N1. [00:36:30] gunshots and monthsl long Canadian [00:36:32] ostrich cole saga that captivated RFK [00:36:34] Jr. This fight went on for a while, [00:36:36] dude. And it was crazy. And what it was [00:36:38] is that they like they detected like [00:36:41] traces of bird flu at this ostrich farm [00:36:43] in Canada and they were like, "Sorry, [00:36:46] you have to kill all of your ostriches [00:36:48] now because the next CO is going to [00:36:51] break out." And the farmers were like, [00:36:53] "Uh, no, [ __ ] you, dude. These are our [00:36:55] ostriches and they're living beings and [00:36:58] we're not going to kill them all." And [00:37:00] then the Canadian government was like, [00:37:01] "Yeah, you're going to [ __ ] kill them [00:37:03] all." And then you you think it through [00:37:05] and you're like, suppose you're Brad [00:37:06] Pitt and Danny Ocean, you're talking [00:37:08] about your ostriches and you're like, [00:37:09] "How are we going to kill 300 ostriches, [00:37:11] dude? These things are [ __ ] [00:37:12] dinosaurs. They run like as fast as a [00:37:15] car. They're super dangerous. They're [00:37:18] absolutely massive. They're huge. [00:37:21] Ostriches are huge. [00:37:23] And you're exposed to kill 300 of them. [00:37:25] And they hear one gunshot and they all [00:37:27] [ __ ] run to the hills. [00:37:31] This is seriously, this is a true story. [00:37:33] And eventually the Canadian government [00:37:34] came in and shot all their ostriches [00:37:36] because they detected a little trace of [00:37:38] bird flu. [ __ ] up, dude. It's [ __ ] [00:37:40] up. Canada, I'm sorry, but you're [00:37:42] cooked. You were cooked before Mark [00:37:44] Carney took over, but you're super [00:37:45] cooked now. Pretty conclusions. Thank [00:37:48] you. Appreciate it. [00:37:51] So So [00:37:55] we we could go on. Um, I I started [00:37:59] tracking down all these [ __ ] [00:38:02] Um, I got really into this this morning. [00:38:06] Um, oh, that's not the only tab. I need [00:38:08] my other tab [00:38:10] because um I wanted to I wanted to um [00:38:15] know more about this cartel. I wanted to [00:38:18] know like who who's running this cartel? [00:38:21] Like who owns this cartel? Who who works [00:38:23] there? And um do I still have it open? [00:38:28] No, I don't still have it open. [00:38:31] Board of directors, [00:38:33] dude. I got to still have it open here [00:38:35] somewhere, right? [00:38:40] Because [00:38:42] their board of directors is sus as [ __ ] [00:38:48] Origin story of FPAQ maple syrup mafia. [00:38:52] Um FPAQ board of directors. [00:38:59] No. No. FBAQ, bro. [00:39:09] Structure, [00:39:12] a democratic organization. Yeah. [00:39:16] No. And it's all in French, too. [00:39:19] Because when I went to their board of [00:39:20] directors, there it is. [00:39:23] Because on their website, on most [00:39:25] websites, um, [00:39:28] when you [00:39:31] when you look for it, you can find the [00:39:32] board of directors of most companies. [00:39:35] Um, all right. FBAQ [00:39:38] Canada [00:39:40] board of directors. [00:39:42] They won't even show us. Where where are [00:39:45] you? [00:39:47] Quotas. Maple Production, Sustainable [00:39:49] Development, our organization. [00:39:53] Page not found. I was just looking at [00:39:55] this page earlier today. [00:39:58] But anyways, I got super into it earlier [00:39:59] and I had found their board of directors [00:40:01] page, but it had no names. It was just [00:40:03] their faces and I was like, "Dude, could [00:40:05] you guys be any [ __ ] sketchier? Could [00:40:08] you be any sketchier?" And so I Oh, [00:40:11] well, no. This is Yeah. And so I started [00:40:14] hunting them down with all my tools face [00:40:16] by face, finding all the places that [00:40:18] they'd been and all the different things [00:40:20] that they'd done and finding their names [00:40:22] like Benoa Kintal who is the president [00:40:25] of the Union of Maple Serial Producers [00:40:27] of Central Duke to Quebec, which is the [00:40:29] organization. They're the mafia. He's [00:40:31] the president. Um, but I I fortunately I [00:40:34] pulled myself out of that rabbit hole [00:40:36] because that was that was going to take [00:40:37] forever. And [ __ ] these guys really. [00:40:40] Like [ __ ] them. Um, so we don't need to [00:40:43] get into all those details. I think you [00:40:44] guys get the gist of it. You guys [00:40:46] understand if you want to know more [00:40:48] about the Maple Syrup Mafia, there's [00:40:50] great documentaries about it on YouTube. [00:40:51] There's a great documentary about it on [00:40:53] Netflix. It's a crazy story and it [00:40:55] really did happen. And [ __ ] um the [00:40:59] cartel [00:41:01] and [ __ ] Canadian maple syrup. Now, did [00:41:04] you know that Canadian maple syrup [00:41:06] You're late, dude? You're walking into a [00:41:08] weird stream to be late to. Um, [00:41:11] did you know that Canadian maple syrup [00:41:14] is almost entirely controlled by this [00:41:16] cartel that's forcing family farms out [00:41:19] of business? That's posting armed guards [00:41:21] in their farms to watch over them and [00:41:24] surveil them. That's taking all their [00:41:27] product, taking a cut off the top. [00:41:30] It's total [ __ ] So, what I learned [00:41:33] today, what I learned personally is I'm [00:41:36] going to buy Vermont maple syrup now cuz [00:41:39] [ __ ] those guys. America, dude. For [00:41:42] real. [00:41:44] That's I mean, that's just how I feel. [00:41:46] That is just my feelings about the [00:41:49] matter. You should feel free to have [00:41:51] your own feelings about it. Okay. [00:41:54] >> Conspiracy [music] theories are entering [00:41:56] a [00:41:56] >> information is the oxygen of [music] the [00:41:59] devolution. There's so much evidence out [00:42:01] there that even if less than 1% is true, [00:42:05] will that be enough to collapse the [00:42:07] current paradigm and change the whole [00:42:10] planet?