the take
we heard the entire cabin got moved and immediately designed a theme park around it. grassy knoll ride, heart attack gun gift shop, the works. to be clear, that part is a bit, and we got the agency wrong: the cabin belongs to the fbi, not the cia. it spent about a decade on display at a journalism museum and is now in fbi storage, which is somehow both more and less unsettling. we still think 'cia world, now open' is a great tagline. we just don't think anyone should build it.
this is the hosts' commentary and speculation for entertainment, not a statement of fact about anyone in it.
the backstory
Ted Kaczynski, the Unabomber, was arrested at his remote one-room cabin on April 3, 1996. The FBI kept the cabin as evidence, and it was moved for his federal trial and then held in storage for years.
From 2008 until the end of 2019 the cabin was on loan from the FBI to the Newseum, a museum about journalism, where the public could see it. When the Newseum closed, the cabin went back to the FBI, which took it apart and rebuilt it inside FBI headquarters in 2020. The FBI says it isn't on public display right now and it hopes to show it someday in its own museum, The FBI Experience.
So the cabin did get moved, but it's an FBI artifact, not a CIA one. The CIA theme park in this clip is a joke.
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transcript
auto-transcribed from the clip audio. speakers aren't labeled and there may be small errors.
- 0:00They transported the entire cabin. Really? Yeah. So that's crazy.
- 0:04You could go, you know, well, I don't know if anybody could go look at it.
- 0:08I don't know if it was open to the public, but it was available for
- 0:10the CIA museum. Oh my God.
- 0:13It like literally has like the grassy knoll and
- 0:18the cabin. Yeah, exactly.
- 0:21It has like all of like the CIA's best work. Yeah.
- 0:25The heart attack gun.
- 0:26Could you imagine CIA world?
- 0:31Oh, now open. That sounds fun, actually.
