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Do one one the father's day massacre in Denver in the year 1991. I was born on that day in Denver and was on the news. So it's been my pet project. See what you can find. I met several individuals who work there at the bank and the Denver Treasury. Also my grandma, rest her ancient aliens soul, work at the Treasury and retired in the late nineties.
re: Southeast Asian airports… as a Singaporean I have to say. CHANGI AIRPORT. Routinely ranked either #1 or #2 best airport in the world. I’ve been through some terrible airports (including ones in Southeast Asia) and the efficiency? The lack of depressing grey? The plants? Unmatched 😌👌
This is one of my favorites as a Colorado native and an employee of the contractor that built and is remodeling the airport. They’re really leaning into this conspiracy - the “excuse our dust” signs regarding remodeling are hilarious. They show cats wearing tinfoil hats, alien portals, lizard people.
Fun fact: those statues are only technically gargoyles if they are a functioning gutter/water spout. If not, they are merely called Grotesques, which is cool he used the word to describe them anyway.
My father was a Free Mason. It's really no big secret world dominating organization. Sorry conspiracy theorists. This does seem like something that Marge Greene would love!
@infledermaus I did take humanites, though we didn't talk about architecture of gargoyles that I can remember. I actually learned most of my facts about gargoyles and grotesque after doing a full body costume of one for Halloween last year. If I'm gonna be something, I must know it well lol
As an airport employee who was in a van that was almost run over by a 737, tunnels sound really nice. It’s an easy way for tugs and company vehicles to move around without incident.
That's probably why it's such a popular conspiracy. People hear the reason for the tunnels and say, "Pfffft a company spending a pile of money for employee safety?! Impossible!"
Not to mention for helping airport staff to get around. Tunnels sound like a much better option than Altanta's current method. Which is careening through the terminals at high speed with hopped up golf carts.
Side note: I first learned of this whole thing as a college English instructor. I had my students write a short research paper on a conspiracy theory as a way for them to learn the ropes of the university's library. When I say I got an overwhelming amount of Denver Airport essays, I mean I finally banned the topic after only two semesters because I simply could not stand to read about it anymore. Apparently there was a Discovery or History Channel episode on it that happened to go viral at that time. 😅🤦🏻♀️
LMFAO reminds me in high school we had to do a history report at the end of the year. It was one of those 33% of your final grade type reports. You picked the topic, there was a list of banned subjects. Most made sense, stuff like not about mobsters because it glorifies them. A few didn't, sadly I dont remember the subjects, but I did ask why? "Because I'm tired of listening to 70 reports a year on those subjects." Fair enough Mr. Ballard.
I'm Jesse Ventura and I'm here to tell you about the secrets of the Denver International Airport, my time as a special ops Navy seal, wrestler, and then governor has turned me into a crazed conspiracy theorist now let's go yell at some TSA agent on why they have a gargoyle in the airport. Did I tell you I used to be a Navy seal?
whats the rosicruxians what are the montanists of early christianity haha i dont know history and im a low class dweller inside of my big daddys buildings
I’ve watched things on this topic before, one quite long one just yesterday, but when I saw this pop up I figured it would still be worth it to watch because, well, Danny and Simon of course. I have to say that Danny’s specific flavor of humor and writing style made it so very worth it. I kept trying to figure out how Danny was going to explain things before he did and how Simon was going to react. So much fun to listen to. That’s why we love you guys. You make even old topics feel brand new.
My grandfather was a high level engineer on this airport (he's also the one that put fun things in the train tunnels so people had something to look at) and my sister and I always joke with him about this conspiracy theory... he just shakes his head and asks why anybody would think that, so we just wink and smile knowingly because it makes him flustered.
I don't know who had the idea to put Simon's voice through a chipmunk filter from time to time (Jen?) but they are a genius and I am thoroughly amused every time.
Denver international is a mile above sea level, so the air is a lot less dense there than most other class b airports. Less air density means planes need more runway to takeoff and land. As a result, the primary runway is 1/3 longer (16000ft vs 12000ft, almost a mile longer) than that of LAX, which is at sea level. It's also the gateway between the West and the rest of the US and about halfway between Canada and Mexico, so it's a big hub for regional activity, and I believe there's also a fair amount of local GA activity, so it requires several runways (it has 6, where LAX has 4) and a lot of facilities to support all its operations, which all take considerable space. That's why it's so big
Denver International is the 3rd busiest airport in the US - ahead of LA, and the 6th busiest in the world. The airport was purposely build where it was and as large as it was to accommodate the ambitious marketing plan Denver started in the late 80’s to sell Denver as a place to come play. It worked 😅
I have a pilot friend who loves this conspiracy and has often said "if people are dumb enough to believe this, I am happy to listen to them speak nonsense all day"
Ive been to the Manila international airport many times. It’s terrible. You go through security and empty your pockets 3 times. Once I was there and they had a giant air conditioner inside that LITERALLY had flames coming out the vents at the top. I found a security guard and told him about it and he laughed at me. Then I got on the plane for a thankfully short domestic flight on Philippine Airlines. The cabin smelled so strong of exhaust that it burned my eyes. Then when I landed, they lost my luggage and I wouldn’t have gotten it back if it didn’t have apple air tags in it. It still took a week.
My connecting flight kept getting delayed and I was stuck in that airport for thirteen hours, couldn’t use the wifi after the first two hours, and had my boarding gate changed two times. At least they gave us food and snacks and apologized for the delay.
Many here are likely too young to remember the old airport. It was really scary to fly into and out of it. The reason being because the incline to land and depart was frickin' steep! And they had to cut the engines do to all the residential areas around them. So you're on a plane, feeling like you are free falling, with no engines. I only flew there when I was a kid, but at 13, I remember it well. As for the new airport, all that shit is there. I think they've covered a few of the really disturbing murals, but I did see them myself. First time I saw the blue horse the first think you do thin of is WTF. When you're not prepared for the lunacy there, it's disturbing.
Actually I found Athens to be a very easy airport. I use forearm crutches so long walks with my backpack aren’t my favorite thing. But Athens, at least the international terminal, is really easy.
@@Ludvigvanamadeus LOL. How’d you like the metro? The only place where smoking wasn’t allowed. 🤣😂🤣😂 Athens is fun and has lots of good food, especially pastries, but I don’t think I could last year there.
Long time listener, first time caller. As a Denverite, I really appreciate this. There's some weird stuff here, like Cheeseman Park, and Colfax Avenue just deserves a deep dive based on its long and sordid history.
Denver is busy not because it's a destination, but because it's a hub. Flights land there to connect passengers to other flights, a role for which it's well-suited because it's more or less in the middle of the country.
Weird, because Wichita, Kansas has an airport and that's much more in the center of the country, plus there isn't a mountain range right next to it... Which would probably be smarter for airplanes. 🤷🏻♂️
@@lococomrade3488 Given that planes in the US mostly fly at 30,000 feet above sea level, it sort of makes sense to put an air hub at a higher elevation. Planes taking off from Wichita need to climb 29,000 feet, while planes taking off from Denver only need to climb 25,000 feet. Over time the fuel savings probably add up.
Denver is not in the middle of the country. Colorado is considered one of the western states. And the person who makes the point about the higher elevation as a hub spot, allowing savings on fuel is correct! Kansas is much more in the middle of the country. "The term “eleven contiguous Western States” means the States of Arizona, California, Colorado, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, Oregon, Utah, Washington, and Wyoming."
RE: Customs free airport areas: yes. There are places at many international airports where you can deplane and not deal with customs. People shelter valuables like art and vehicles and such in customs limbo that way. They're known as "Freeports" or "Special Customs Zones", though they have a ton of nicknames and other official designations. Port of Hong Kong is a really big one, but any country you could imagine as an offshore tax haven has at least one.
Same. I tried to be cool, but I became rather flustered with him at the "windy city" part, as that I was so proud he had gotten "Mile High" so early on!
my uncle managed denver international for over a decade (after surviving 9/11, the man cannot escape conspiracy theories) and he says it’s not haunted, it’s just big and the unluckiest place on earth.
Is unlucky another way to say haunted. I'm thinking bad things happen and goth people blame spirits, poor people say ghost and hard working middle class say bad luck . Rich just make more money somehow ?
For anyone who's curious, Blue Peter is a naval flag recalling all sailors to the vessel for departure from port. Essentially it means let's go do this thing.
In fairness, Simon, one of the best ways to hide something is to play against expectations. The standard, logical expectation is that no one would advertise their evil plans so blatantly. So therefore any people who attribute conspiracy to these strange happenings is written off because "who would be dumb enough to advertise their secret society?" Which leaves you to have your secret society in peace because no one thinks you'd be insane enough to do that.
Since this video is itself a request, I might as well request that Simon do either a *Decoding The Unknown* or *Causal Criminalist* episode on the story of Big Lurch, and how he may or may not have been drugged by his Record Label so they and his roommate's boyfriend could frame him for the murder of his roommate. Anyone else want to see that?
Decoding the Unknown is BY FAR my favourite debunking/let’s have fun with conspiracies channel! Simon and writers you LEGENDS, you are smashing them out!
Simon and Danny, I live in Denver and I love this place. One thing I wanted to mention is our public art policy. 1% of all civic improvement projects in Denver over 1 million dollars have to have 1% of their budget set aside for art installations. So for a 4 billion dollar airport that comes out to 40 million dollars. The interesting thing about the policy is that the art can not be taken down because a bunch of people decide they don't like it. It can only be taken down by the request of people on the Public Art Commission or the artist themselves. Just a little history lesson. All Hail Blucifer!!
Also interesting, by googling the mural artist (Leo Tanguma), I learned that he and his family have been deeply hurt by the allegations of conspiracy and having the murals called demonic. In the Peace mural, he incorporated the faces of kids who had been killed by gang or abuse violence at the request of their grieving mothers. Are the murals in an odd location? Yeah, but they have a good message and they're well done. People need to get over it.
I'm surprised he didn't have any conspiracy theories on the twenty missing gates of concourse B! It's one of these odd things that gates 21 through 40 (I think) are just simply not on the B concourse. But, I had one odd flight where I ended up having to get on a bus and they drove me out to another building off the airport where then magically these gates appear. Being a native Coloradan, DIA has always been a weird conundrum of politics for us. I mean, who really thought it was a bright idea to make a roof be a tent in a climate that can get over 48 inches of snow? Although, it did make it though the big snow storms, so it has worked out in that sense so far. DIA is defiantly one thing we locals complain about most. It's still just one very quirky airport. Oh, and apparently that state of the art baggage system is still sitting out in a field just rusting away. That at least a couple billion of our good ol' tax dollar's doing great work here.
Denver native here, they've been doing a ton of construction at the airport for years and have a ton of signs for construction joking about aliens, demons and reptilains, pretty cute (but it's a nightmare sometimes they need to get that work done)
Thank you, Danny, this was well done. And thanks to Simon who made it fun. And, of course, thanks to those who slave behind the scenes of your benevolent overlord.
Yes, the Appaloosa is an American breed developed by the Nez Perce tribe in the PNW. Known for their amazing spotted coats, thick hind quarters and very short mane and tales. The Nez Perce developed it at their camp by the Palouse river. Settlers would travel from all over to get these horses that bred to be on their landscapes. It soon became "a palouse horse", then became an appaloosa. Its mostly rocky desert terrain in eastern WA. The US army wiped out majority of the breed and as such, is an open breed book in attempts to recreate the original. Which they pretty much have achieved. They also have their new breed called the Nez Perce horse. The tribe, ourselves, still sell and ship them. Still Bred not far from where the original breed was crafted. Anyways...😂
Don't forget that digging tunnels from the Denver Airport to the Stargate (Cheyenne Mountain) means digging through mountains, not flat land! I love it whenever you mention Stargate. I always feel it never got enough love in the sci-fi world.
Dude, Simon, I have been enjoying your eclectic and informative videos on various interesting topics and subjects for quite some time now but this channel is such a treat. Getting to see you hang up your tweed blazer, let your hair down and cut up a bit is very very entertaining! Cheers!
Simon is like the Jam band of rants. You hear the same stories, but he increasingly gets more and more into them with each retelling. Simon is quickly reaching that eccentric rich guy stage. I love it.
I learned from the flight data recorders to always sit in the back like they do. Yes, the turbulence seems scarier back there than it does over the wings but there's a reason why they put the so-called black boxes back there. Seriously, though, I'm not afraid of flying and I actually love to go in planes. The biggest reason I sit in the back when I get a choice of seats is that the window seats often get taken sooner nearer to the front of the plane and I like to take the unique opportunity of flying in a plane to look down.
I prefer a window seat as well. I once had to fly from Zurich to San Francisco and I was stuck in the middle of the middle row so I was too far away to look out the window. It felt odd and especially so because the flight was 12+ hours.
Danny didn't mention something about Stapleton, which is that it was built partly over a capped creek and heavy rains could sometimes close that runway due to flooding, further exacerbating the congestion. Now that creek is opened with a trail along it that moves commuters and recreation thru several neighborhoods in north central Denver. Also, the airport had one runway over the freeway which was fun for plane spotting AND... Stapleton is the airport where many of the scenes for whichever Die Hard movie was the airport one.
My grandpa laid the brick that makes the tunnels for the train system. There are several layers of tunnels beneath and some that were bricked over. He was laying bricks for years and said several times they blocked off sections that were supplied with power and water. It definitely has a 2nd purpose as a bunker or doomsday shelter
It's so quaint to think back of a time when nuclear war was seen as the end as opposed to ecological collapse. If humans avoid nuclear war long enough, global warming will do the job, or at least make the planet a hellscape not worth living on.
And out come the global warming wing nuts. If you’re still spewing this garbage then you are really stupid or you’re one of them. The global warming narrative is so obviously about control. I can’t believe all the comments here and hardly any acknowledge that Denver’s airport could be being used by the deep state for something other than what it’s intended use is. Labeling it “conspiracy theory” as if all of these different thoughts or opinions that something nefarious lies underneath always get debunked and thrown on the pile shows a lack of awareness of what’s happening around you. JFK was absolutely whacked will the help of George HW Bush’s CIA as well as other US government across. People that are completely dismissive are the seasons the fairytale known as the Warren Commission report is still the official narrative. Similarly, if you are still calling 9/11 a conspiracy theory, all you need to do is watch WTC 7 being imploded or better yet, look up British television report it’s collapse while standing in front of a live shot where you can see the building standing completely intact. The blind dismissal of other opinions gives us the 9/11 commission’s absurd conclusions as the official narrative. The entire point being that it’s not such a huge jump to believe that something else is going on at this airport. To completely dismiss it as conspiratorial shows a level of ignorance the perpetuation of which has brought us to the brink of collapse as a country.
The last time I traveled from Manila airport to Kyoto airport, I had a MASSIVE migraine. Like, stomache churning, head throbbing, light/smell/sound sensitivity. Everything. There were extra security checkpoints as there was unrest in Hong Kong at the time. That was my personal HELL. I resisted the urge to throw up in the Japanese checkpoints (there were no restrooms until after) and when I tell you I threw my bags at my family at the sight of the first restroom, they knew it was bad news. 😅 The best part? After I absolutely spilled my guts, I realized this was a FANCY Japanese toilet. I proceeded to play with all the buttons out of curiosity. My mom finally came in and was like "honey, are you okay in there? We have to hurry" As I'm warming up the toilet seat, to which I meakly replied "uh, yeah, I'll be right out." 😂 Hopefully my next pass through Asia is a more pleasant one.
Denver International is big. When my plane landed and turned off the runway, I could see a sign that said "Welcome to Limon, CO. Pop. 1956 (including dogs)." We then taxied for over an hour across the high plains before making a turn. I could then see the airport terminal in the distance. 30 minutes later, we arrived at the gate. So over 1/2 of my 3 hour flight was taxiing around the Denver Airport.
You’d love San Diego. The plane skims over some buildings and over I-5, then lands and practically locks the brakes and turn right to the terminal. No taxiing, no waiting for another plane to cross, nothing. It’s just a hairy landing, then screech, u-turn then you’re at the gate. I’m so spoiled by it I’ve grown to hate endless taxiing.
@@annenelson5656 I believe it! Was in San Diego for a vacation back in February. Saw the plans coming into the airport. Wasn't close enough to hear the brakes. Didn't fly. I did a 2 1/2 day drive (one-way) to get there. 😁
I am from the Bay Area and every time I would fly into the San Francisco airport I would sit by a window because when you are landing you can see the plane looking like it’s about to crash into the bay! The runway extends out over the water and you can’t see the asphalt from where you are sitting but the pilots can so it’s just an optical illusion but it’s really cool! You actually get some sense of what a water landing might look like right before the plane would hit the water! Not all runways are like that but the one I always ended up with was that one! SFO is also such a beautiful and unique airport. Now I live in Las Vegas and this airport is like a little city! Three or four terminals and not in the same area either! It’s super confusing if you don’t know what’s where!
@@annenelson5656that reminds me of San Jose, CA. So close to the freeway that there are deflectors to keep the planes from blowing cars off the highway when they spool up. Must be something about California.
Denver is smack in the middle of the country, which would make it a good place to switch over planes to get where you are going. I remember driving across the country to Colorado. Half of Colorado is on the great plains, so you feel like you are driving on the worlds biggest pancake for hours. It is soooooo flat! Then all of a sudden, in the distance, you see a thin, grey line that stretches from north to south as far as you can see. The line grows bigger and bigger into a massive line of distinct mountains. Its really something to see. Then you arrive in Denver, right at the foot of the mountains. Some people stop there for a week before continuing on into the mountains, in order to avoid altitude sickness. I was pretty young. We continued on to Leadville- a few hours into the mountains, and one of the highest towns on earth. There were no flies, and the few ticks and fleas on our dog died and fell off within a few days. Driving was quite treacherous, esp in the winter, but there were many hairpin turns over steep 100 foot drops. The wildlife and scenery were quite wonderful. Anyway, you should do an article about missing 411- its a good topic to bring attention to. Some people believe bigfoot or something supernatural is hunting in national parks. But the thing is, that no one in the US is really recognizing that its a great place for serial killers and pedophiles to hunt, because when the missing people aren't found in the woods after a week or so, the government assumes they got lost in the wilderness and doesn't do any more investigation. Plus, there's a problem with jurisdiction, that leads to a lack of investigation, and a lack of official knowledge of how many people have disappeared in certain areas, some of which are clusters of disappearances. But a lot of the disappearances are extremely weird, and its good to know before bringing children or loved ones to certain places.
It's the middle of the night after a really shitty October and I can't sleep. Thank the spirits or whatever I can wind down and burst into laughter watching Simon and his tangents and fantastic, witty and well researched topics! ❤👏👏👏😂😂👌
As for Airport Advertisements where I live there are Three Airports; One does High Volume Commercial Flights that allow for Long Distance Interstate/International Flights; Another is Moderate Volume Commercial Flights to Nearby States (including International Border States since I live in a Border State); Finally on That is Mostly used for Private Charter Flights and Personal use Planes as well as Postal/Parcel Delivery Services going to Local Distribution hubs in the same Postal Region Zone.
I'm from Denver and I know that downtown Denver has also been redone with some weird coincidences with sculptures and Washington DC sculptures. Also, at one point they introduced the tunnels and stuff as if they were added on later LoL It was hilarious when the baggage system was eating baggage lmfao The evil , weird horse creeps me out. Colorado is truly full of secrets. My family had the first plank style house in Denver and is in the archives but since we were French and Lakota, we aren't a famous family there. The house burned down in the Denver fires of 1868 (I think that was the year of the great fires). Laws were passed banning wooden hoses after that. Fun fact: Denver burned before Chicago and rebuilt before them so Denver became an older city by default LoL Believe conspiracy theories from Colorado. 🧐😉🤔
The biggest conspiracies in Colorado happen at the Broadmoor in Colorado springs. Trust me, I used to work there and went through a Republican convention and two big pharma industry get togethers.
I love that the airport leans into the joke! I wish people that complain about stupid stuff would learn to shut up. I had a neighbor that complained about the train that cut through our town. She stated the horn would wake her baby. We lived a couple miles from the crossing. The train has been then there long before the neighborhood. The tracks literally cuts the town in half, it’s not a hidden secret. And it wasn’t that loud. 😂
My favorite conspiracy because I live in Colorado. The "America Unearthed" episode on DIA on History Channel is hilarious. Simon, when were you in Colorado? (If you see this)
I was at the opening game at Coors/Invesco field. I got a free backpack that I wish still have. I love DIA despite the long drive there. The tunnels are really cool, I loved them as a kid, and an adult. Stapleton was, ok.
Speaking as one of the lizard people living in the tunnels under DIA, the correct combination brail touchpad on the capstone releases a bunch of confetti throughout the airport and the person who sets it off is welcomed into our lair so that they may survive the global nuclear apocalypse that'll occur 33 minutes later. I hope this clears up any confusion on the matter.
The Number 23 is the Jim Carrey movie where he sees the number 23 everywhere. It's more a movie about confirmation bias, but it's a good movie. And Chicago is the Windy City. Denver is the Mile High City because it's estimated elevation is 5280 ft above sea level.
5:35 - Mid roll ads 7:25 - Back to the video 12:00 - Chapter 1 - Build me up buttercup 20:45 - Chapter 2 - Highway to hell 33:45 - Chapter 3 - Time after time 47:55 - Chapter 4 - Calling occupants of interplanetary craft 52:25 - Chapter 5 - Heigh ho 1:09:05 - Chapter 6 - Epilogue the last laugh
The airport leans into the conspiracies with all of the signs during the ongoing construction. It’s funny. As a local, I’d hope they’d fix their lines before digging out underground facilities. The worst part isn’t the lizard people, it’s the damn security queues…
That was so F ing long! I've only been stuck in Denver when doing interviews, and couldn't get a non-stop flight like a commoner. I never check bags so I can switch flights last sec. One Delta layover there. Airport dinner and had drinks with a guy who was stranded and had checked bags. Bar closed. We found a quiter hallway to sleep in. I shared all warm clothes, maybe a suit jacket even. We cuddled up to my carrry on for heat and slept on that nice airport carpet. We talked about snuggling together but nixed that bc some airport person would have woke us up. We just did caddy corner style. Fun times. Glad I had him for heat, it was Jan cold.
I used to believe in all these sorts of conspiracy theories in high school. Embarrassing, i know. I'm jusy glad a channel like this exists to debunk all these crazy theories now.
To be honest I have never really believed in conspiracy theories with one exception I remember and still see as true to this day is big pharma and most of the world’s governments are both covering up the cure for cancer so they can make more money then if they cured it instead of treating it.
@J_Z913 it definitely was different back then. A few how to videos & a couple videos of ppl talking. Now there's billions of videos & a million ppl trying to be YT famous.
This episode was wild as someone who was born in Denver and grew up nearby. DIA was the normal Airport I compared all others to. I don't know whether I'm more amused by the weird conspiracy theory, Blucifer (the eyes should be orange instead of red, go Broncos!) or Simon calling Denver the windy city. Also, if Stapleton Airport wasn't replaced it would've been renamed by now. Ben Stapleton was a KKK grand dragon.....
This is a great episode from Simon and Danny. As a member of the illuminati I enjoyed it immensely. Ps. I was on the Blue Peter programme twice and didnt get a badge. FYI Blue Peter is a naval flag showing that a merchant vessel is ready to sail.
In Toronto, Pearson International Airport is essentially surrounded by the city of Mississauga. When you go to see a house that's on a flight path, you can expect the real estate agent to schedule the open houses between flights... Probably seem nice and quiet.
This has to be one of my favourite episodes, Simon you truly are an amazing presenter and my hours of painting at my desk whittle away to your expert delivery 😂
Behind the scenes tours are fun, I did one with the security team at the Houston airport to see how they monitor things and where confiscated items go. (They have a display case for some of the weirder things) And whole rooms for confiscated/quarantined animals! They help the border officials at the ports too so they have a lot of space. But yeah, if you see a wall with a glassy sheen at an airport, (in the US anyway), that’s a security office. Pretty much most of the main traffic areas are under surveillance always 😬
33:30 old airport constantly needed ot expand because of more and more travelers and couldn't which got increasingly difficult sounds like a great reason to make the new one scary
I just returned from a trip to Rome. I had no problems going there. But coming home, I found that my boarding pass had been randomly selected by ITA Airways for "extra screening". So after going through the boarding area, I was redirected to stand in another line. I had to open my two carry-on bags and watch the agent swab their interiors with some mystery substance. Then I had to empty my pockets and undergo the same mystery swab process in my pockets. The agents then put the swabs in some kind of machine for analysis. I guess it was to detect bomb-making materials, weaponry, or some other whatnot. I wound up as literally the last person to board the plane, though I'd been in the middle of the line queuing up to board. What an effing nightmare.
Were you using firearms or fireworks in Rome? A dog probably indicated you for bomb making materials, that's what those swabs are for. If you go shooting in the morning, and have a flight the same day, they do all that stuff.
@@AliceBowie neither. There was a code on my boarding pass indicating I'd been selected for an additional search. The ticket agent told me when she issued it.
Hmm in Belgium they do that as part of the baggage check process. You empty your pockets, send your stuff through the scanner, you walk through the metal detector, and when you go to grab your baggage one of the agents at the station kinda grabs it first and goes "Can we check your baggage?" and does the swab thing right there. It takes like 20 seconds. And indeed, this is purely random. No dogs are going through the line at the baggage checkpoint to sniff the suitcases and nobody would ever visually peg me (white Belgian woman) for a firearms user or bomb maker.
Chicago - Windy City Denver - mile high city 48:05 The vast amount of jet fuel - is also that there is a semi attached Air Force base on site also 59:41
Having worked in a company where there was a large area that was to be divided into offices along the wall where the windows were, I think it is safe to say that whatever went on down under the airport is most likely a result of human error in the department of calculations and basic geometry. In the company I worked in, I watched as the builders - architect, designers, craftspeople, work people - proceeded to build these office spaces (so three walls only since the window wall was already there) along that long windowed wall. Once all the dividing walls had been built, the front walls with the doors, and the electrics installed (this all took several months of a lot of noise going on in the area next to the research and development department, the designers' area, purchasing and materials departments, and all the people associated with these departments - so a lot of inconvenience of noise and dust and chaos), well, once all that stopped, it was discovered that due to a small miscalculation, one of the offices was the width of a chair. Oops! So all the walls had to be taken down and the whole thing done all over again with new calculations. I had seen that little corridor of a space between two offices and wondered what it was for. Someone actually put a chair in it. So everyone except the builders noticed this strange space? After that experience, nothing surprises me in the possibilities of error when it comes to construction.
@@jmjedi923 oh, totally! That's what made it all the more mind-blowing. Someone said that those involved will be getting paid twice to do the same job, except perhaps the guy in charge of the project.
The thing you have to realize is when the City of Denver decided to build a new airport in the 1990's, they built it like 25 miles east of town. The new airport is on land that was originally in a completely different county. Their old airport had the city grow up around it so the city acquired a huge tract of land to put the new airport on. Also being a mile high and with hot summers they have to have much longer runways.
Because i couldnt fknd anyone else clarifying.... We here in Denver are the Mile High City. The windy city is Chicago. However, the Rocky Mountains' front range has some extreme wind, from very far south of Denver all the way up through Wyoming
Denver is the second largest airport in terms of area allotted to it. The largest by passenger numbers is Atlanta, by quite some margin, although Denver is third by that metric and indeed ahead of Heathrow. It gets a lot of transfer traffic because it's a huge hub for United and Southwest.
3:35 israel is notoriously hard to enter. I’m a full blown heeby, whose great grandmother survived the Bergen Belsen concentration camp. Still got separated for a secondary screening and interrogation because I’m not from Israel. Their TSA or whatever makes American TSA look like a Walmart greeter trying to check receipts
A long time ago (pre 9/11) that El Al actually checks you out before they actually finalize your ticket. I don’t know if that’s even close to true but it does make you go “hmmm”.
I moved to Denver in 1996, just after DIA opened, and have been flying in and out of it ever since thanks to me moving away eventually but my parents staying put. These conspiracy theories have always made me laugh. At least the DIA people have a sense of humor about it....I took a pic of an informational poster they had up about remodeling going on in the airport, and a lizard person was on it. But I do have to say the Blucifer statue is creepy AF. It killed its sculptor, which....yikes.
About the baggage system: Idk about other countries, but one of my favorite things about Manila's airport is that at the baggage claims, they have little screens that play video feed of the airport staff receiving the baggage deliveries somewhere in the airport's bowels and transferring them onto the conveyor belts. You can watch them go from carrying each luggage to the belt (first few pieces) to just flinging stuff in the belt's general direction (last few pieces).
Funny thing, the "EMP blew out windows" is probably the most believable thing in here. Aircraft windows for the crew have heaters in them for defrosting and ice control, so they literally have wires and elements inside. If they get too hot the window will shatter. I learned that when I had to replace a pilots windscreen on a C-130 because of a short that basically resulted in the window heat turning on full blast. I replaced window #2. #1 clued us in that there may be a problem.
@@SkunkApe407 I think you missed the entire reasoning here. I'd suggest reading up into electrical systems more and how EMP's can, not do, but CAN affect an electrical system. Also, some reading on how aircraft window defrosters function may help to explain whats going on.
@@Plaprad an EMP would cause an electrical system to fail entirely, not make it malfunction. I suggest you follow your own advice, rather than talking out of your ass.
@@Plaprad just so we're clear, my father-in-law is a retired commercial pilot and current Airbus flight simulator instructor. I'm a US Navy Aviation veteran. I know far more about the electrical systems on airframes than you do, I assure you.
@@SkunkApe407 Then let's try it this way. Window heat is done by an electrical heater element inside the window. If the heater gets too hot, it will cause the pane to shatter. An EMP can cause damage and overloads in electrical systems. Therefore, there is a chance that an EMP may cause the heater to heat up the window potentially causing it to shatter. There is no pressure wave or anything to cause it, just electricity. The one I mentioned in my OP was caused by a simple shorted wire. I probably saw about a dozen aircraft windscreens damaged due to faulty or malfunctioning heaters in my time. So it is 100% possible for a heater element to damage a window, which is why I said it was believable for an EMP to cause an electrical malfunction that would damage the window. I'm going by some of my experiences gained over fifteen years or aviation maintenance. I've had to troubleshoot and repair these systems countless times on several airframes.
as someone who lived next to airport, then moved next to a church with a huge bell tower, I can say I was never bothered by the noise. Your brain just disconnects from it. I noticed this when friend of mine was visiting and he was like "OMG how can you live here?!" and I was like "what? why? whats going on??" and it was noon and church was banging DIIIINGGG DIIIINGGG DIIINGGG
Oh Simon, I have to rant really quick. Just went through the Atlanta airport earlier this month. I was traveling with my husband and two kids aged 1 and 4. Had all the shit to keep them occupied; Switches(mine and my daughters) her tablet. Okay that was only 3 things I suppose, but anyways, while waiting in the security check line, I thought I'd be smart and take all the electronics out of my bag so I could just throw them in the bins when it was time. Big mistake apparently. This TSA woman was yelling "REMOVE SHOES, BELTS, WATCHES, EVERYTHING FROM YOUR POCKETS. ELECTRONICS STAY IN YOUR BAG" She repeated this twice while I was waiting to show my ID and what not, but I wasn't really paying attention to what she was saying at the time. Afterwards, I was still reeling trying to put my ID away and get my four year old. You know, it's freaking chaos. So I looked at her and said "Wait, what? I don't need to remove my electronics?" This woman, oh my lanta. She just looked at me and repeated her earlier statement, in the same obnoxiously loud, monotone "I resent you for existing" voice as before, looking at me directly in the eyes. The amount of rage I felt towards that woman in that moment was immense.
Just a note because it always annoys me; they're not gargoyles, they're grotesques. "Gargoyle" shares a root with "gargle" referring to the throat and refers to the water features. "Grotesque" has similar roots to "grotto" but I don't know that etymology as well. Fun fact: There is a film called "Grotesque" but it's very different to the Hunchback story. I think it's good but I wouldn't recommend most people look into it, let alone watch it.
Hi Simon I watch you all the time I just want you to know about the conspiracies of Denver airport because I work as a security guard at one of the main entrances to the tunnels my job is to check the IDS and security of anyone entering the tunnels. I know there are doubts but I have seen stuff. There are doors that are never opened. I can tell you the construction is on going at least until 2030. It is also a scary thought that 10,000 people work there daily.
Thanks for doing this one, Danny and Simon. This conspiracy theory has always cracked me up - it's beyond ridiculous. I work for a major municipality and the amount of tunnels under and behind infrastructure is mind boggling - the utility corridors and service pathways needed to support what looks like a 'simple' airport or rail station are no joke. Also, digging underground is hard and often disruptive - if a municipality is building something that they know/ believe will be expanded, they'll often build the underground infrasteucture needed for the future expansions - that way the expansions can go quickly and be done without the likely time/financial over-runs that are inevitable during of the initial phase of construction. That said, the art committee were clearly oxygen deficient when they made their artist selections, but apart from that - its just a bloody big airport that's probaly going to get bigger in the coming years.
Some people don’t want to accept the simplest answer, which is: Whoever designed the airport was either high, crazy, or both at the time of its design and construction.
Regarding these secret airport facilities, you should look into some of the documents released in recent years regarding the JFK assassination. One of these documents from the 1990s review board describes a facility intended to be an emergency replacement for the CIA, that is readily accessible by the public, and has relatively frequent incidents of members of the public accidentally taking a wrong turn and needing to be turned back. The redactions on this document cover numerous small segments of the text where the name of the facility is clearly a 3-letter acronym (They used a fixed-width font!... my eyes rolling... "Secrecy" wink). From the rest of the document you can easily tell from the context that they are describing an airport. They describe it as ideal for the comings and goings of agents to blend in with the public while travelling to and from their missions around the world, and "security" being a convenient excuse for preventing public access. I'm not saying it's the Denver airport, but there certainly exists a facility on that scale, operating in plain sight enjoying a very thin veil of secrecy. What's that got to do with the assassination? Who knows, but they still have redacted the name of the place in current documents.
So much conspiracy around Bluecifer. I thought it was widely understood that a blue horse was selected as the airport mascot because the professional football team headquartered in Denver happens to be the Denver Broncos. Their team colors are blue and orange. I think the odd choice of artwork can be pretty easily explained by the recent destruction of the Berlin wall signaling an end to the cold war between the US and USSR or Russia. After decades of practicing civil defense drills in elementary schools in preparation of being bombed, many Americans were finally starting to feel optimistic about maybe not dying any moment in a 3rd world war.
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Chicago is the windy city
Do one one the father's day massacre in Denver in the year 1991. I was born on that day in Denver and was on the news. So it's been my pet project. See what you can find. I met several individuals who work there at the bank and the Denver Treasury. Also my grandma, rest her ancient aliens soul, work at the Treasury and retired in the late nineties.
re: Southeast Asian airports… as a Singaporean I have to say. CHANGI AIRPORT. Routinely ranked either #1 or #2 best airport in the world. I’ve been through some terrible airports (including ones in Southeast Asia) and the efficiency? The lack of depressing grey? The plants? Unmatched 😌👌
As for Israeli airports… yeah. They unashamedly profile people. Wendover has a great video about it
This is one of my favorites as a Colorado native and an employee of the contractor that built and is remodeling the airport. They’re really leaning into this conspiracy - the “excuse our dust” signs regarding remodeling are hilarious. They show cats wearing tinfoil hats, alien portals, lizard people.
I worked on the Phase 2 6th floor west floor stone, but Gazzini Foreman is a slave driver and pay me enough to put up with him.
@@bouldervon7487 does the glitter on white also give you a headache too?
That's what you would say isn't it ?
Yea, because gaslighting people you think already have mental problems is sooo funny.
Yes......yes it is..... It REALLY fucking is!
Fun fact: those statues are only technically gargoyles if they are a functioning gutter/water spout. If not, they are merely called Grotesques, which is cool he used the word to describe them anyway.
Thank you for commenting this.. Saved me the task 👍👍
Neat. Never knew this.
Ahhh! Someone who took humanities in college! Maybe.
My father was a Free Mason. It's really no big secret world dominating organization. Sorry conspiracy theorists. This does seem like something that Marge Greene would love!
@infledermaus I did take humanites, though we didn't talk about architecture of gargoyles that I can remember. I actually learned most of my facts about gargoyles and grotesque after doing a full body costume of one for Halloween last year. If I'm gonna be something, I must know it well lol
Simon being angry for not being butt-searched is comedy gold
The answer is Tinder.
As an airport employee who was in a van that was almost run over by a 737, tunnels sound really nice. It’s an easy way for tugs and company vehicles to move around without incident.
That's probably why it's such a popular conspiracy. People hear the reason for the tunnels and say, "Pfffft a company spending a pile of money for employee safety?! Impossible!"
@@XOguitargurlOXYour post had me guffaw, too, too ironic, too, too true.
O'Hare has tunnels underneath the runways for baggage transport and to move construction equipment to build more runways
Not to mention for helping airport staff to get around. Tunnels sound like a much better option than Altanta's current method. Which is careening through the terminals at high speed with hopped up golf carts.
you could just admit you made the whole thing up...
Side note: I first learned of this whole thing as a college English instructor. I had my students write a short research paper on a conspiracy theory as a way for them to learn the ropes of the university's library. When I say I got an overwhelming amount of Denver Airport essays, I mean I finally banned the topic after only two semesters because I simply could not stand to read about it anymore. Apparently there was a Discovery or History Channel episode on it that happened to go viral at that time. 😅🤦🏻♀️
Hey did you ever hear about the conspiracy at Denver International Airport?
LMFAO reminds me in high school we had to do a history report at the end of the year. It was one of those 33% of your final grade type reports. You picked the topic, there was a list of banned subjects. Most made sense, stuff like not about mobsters because it glorifies them. A few didn't, sadly I dont remember the subjects, but I did ask why?
"Because I'm tired of listening to 70 reports a year on those subjects."
Fair enough Mr. Ballard.
OP is lying their ass off and will never reply to this comment...
I'm Jesse Ventura and I'm here to tell you about the secrets of the Denver International Airport, my time as a special ops Navy seal, wrestler, and then governor has turned me into a crazed conspiracy theorist now let's go yell at some TSA agent on why they have a gargoyle in the airport. Did I tell you I used to be a Navy seal?
whats the rosicruxians what are the montanists of early christianity
haha i dont know history and im a low class dweller inside of my big daddys buildings
I’ve watched things on this topic before, one quite long one just yesterday, but when I saw this pop up I figured it would still be worth it to watch because, well, Danny and Simon of course. I have to say that Danny’s specific flavor of humor and writing style made it so very worth it. I kept trying to figure out how Danny was going to explain things before he did and how Simon was going to react. So much fun to listen to. That’s why we love you guys. You make even old topics feel brand new.
Yasss
My grandfather was a high level engineer on this airport (he's also the one that put fun things in the train tunnels so people had something to look at) and my sister and I always joke with him about this conspiracy theory... he just shakes his head and asks why anybody would think that, so we just wink and smile knowingly because it makes him flustered.
6 year old me really appreciated your grandfather's work. I used to make my parents ride the train just for fun to watch the spinning things.
I've always appreciated having something to look at in those tunnels!
I LOVE THE SPINNY GUYS IN THE TRAM TUNNELS OMFG
YAY!!!! I love the pinwheels!
We dont have that in Germany. 😢 i am a bit jealous. This would be awsome on the slow countryside trains
You know a queue is bad when Simon, an Englishman of whose culture loves queues, thought it was too much. 😂😂
The only thing us Englishmen like more than a good queue is complaining about queueing 😂
And tea
Your Mrs
We don't love queues, we just bitch about them - politely of course
Sorry, don't mean to barge in. I saw five people lining up comments, what are we queueing for? After you.
I don't know who had the idea to put Simon's voice through a chipmunk filter from time to time (Jen?) but they are a genius and I am thoroughly amused every time.
First 5 minutes, Simon going non-script with a hilarious anecdote after hilarious anecdote.
Denver international is a mile above sea level, so the air is a lot less dense there than most other class b airports. Less air density means planes need more runway to takeoff and land. As a result, the primary runway is 1/3 longer (16000ft vs 12000ft, almost a mile longer) than that of LAX, which is at sea level. It's also the gateway between the West and the rest of the US and about halfway between Canada and Mexico, so it's a big hub for regional activity, and I believe there's also a fair amount of local GA activity, so it requires several runways (it has 6, where LAX has 4) and a lot of facilities to support all its operations, which all take considerable space. That's why it's so big
Thinner air slso requires more fuel to take off in, perhaps explaining the amount they have on hand
its also a big tent....
Denver International is the 3rd busiest airport in the US - ahead of LA, and the 6th busiest in the world. The airport was purposely build where it was and as large as it was to accommodate the ambitious marketing plan Denver started in the late 80’s to sell Denver as a place to come play. It worked 😅
I guess that's good to know...but what am I supposed to do with this information?? Genuinely asking
Blucifer the demon horse! Zuckerberg rides him in the Wild Hunt every Halloween!
I have a pilot friend who loves this conspiracy and has often said "if people are dumb enough to believe this, I am happy to listen to them speak nonsense all day"
What is your pilots friends thought on flat earthers?
@@fancypants3828Pilots know the Earth is a Cube.
@@AliceBowie ah, so your a believer in the time cube theory then?
@@EpicgamerwinXD6669The time cube theory what's that's one???
Why is it laughable to think a major airport has a bunker complex?
Ive been to the Manila international airport many times. It’s terrible. You go through security and empty your pockets 3 times. Once I was there and they had a giant air conditioner inside that LITERALLY had flames coming out the vents at the top. I found a security guard and told him about it and he laughed at me. Then I got on the plane for a thankfully short domestic flight on Philippine Airlines. The cabin smelled so strong of exhaust that it burned my eyes. Then when I landed, they lost my luggage and I wouldn’t have gotten it back if it didn’t have apple air tags in it. It still took a week.
Damn. That is a trial. I'll be sure to avoid that place.
Sounds like another satisfied Manila Airport customer. You eventually got where you were going, and eventually got tour luggage; no harm no foul.
@@GimpyChinamanlol only a chinese would say that the disgusting inefficiency and lack of minimum service is "satisfactory"
Never a dull moment at NAIA/MIA 😂
My connecting flight kept getting delayed and I was stuck in that airport for thirteen hours, couldn’t use the wifi after the first two hours, and had my boarding gate changed two times. At least they gave us food and snacks and apologized for the delay.
I love how Sam adds comical music in the background every time Simon goes on one of his tangents
Many here are likely too young to remember the old airport. It was really scary to fly into and out of it. The reason being because the incline to land and depart was frickin' steep! And they had to cut the engines do to all the residential areas around them. So you're on a plane, feeling like you are free falling, with no engines. I only flew there when I was a kid, but at 13, I remember it well.
As for the new airport, all that shit is there. I think they've covered a few of the really disturbing murals, but I did see them myself. First time I saw the blue horse the first think you do thin of is WTF. When you're not prepared for the lunacy there, it's disturbing.
All aircraft reduce throttle to idle before landings.
@@muttleyjones2err NO they do not in case they have to abort the landing.
@@The_Reality_Filter the only aircraft that don't go to idle are aircraft with reverse thrust capability
Simon expecting a Greek airport to be functional is hilarious
Actually I found Athens to be a very easy airport. I use forearm crutches so long walks with my backpack aren’t my favorite thing. But Athens, at least the international terminal, is really easy.
It does not matter what else is in there phrase, if it contains "functional" and "Greek" it's automatically oxymoronic.
I found the ATH airport to be the only functional part of the local transportation infrastructure and I lived in Athens for a year.
@@Ludvigvanamadeus LOL. How’d you like the metro? The only place where smoking wasn’t allowed. 🤣😂🤣😂
Athens is fun and has lots of good food, especially pastries, but I don’t think I could last year there.
@@annenelson5656 the metro was great...as long as there was no strike, which happened surprisingly often 🙄
Long time listener, first time caller. As a Denverite, I really appreciate this. There's some weird stuff here, like Cheeseman Park, and Colfax Avenue just deserves a deep dive based on its long and sordid history.
i used to live 2 blocks from Cheeseman Park. There still hundreds of bodies there. It’s crazy.
@@aaroncarr5725"things to do in Denver when you're dead" 😂
@@Lunch_Meat Nice! 🤣
Denver is busy not because it's a destination, but because it's a hub. Flights land there to connect passengers to other flights, a role for which it's well-suited because it's more or less in the middle of the country.
Weird, because Wichita, Kansas has an airport and that's much more in the center of the country, plus there isn't a mountain range right next to it...
Which would probably be smarter for airplanes. 🤷🏻♂️
@@lococomrade3488 Given that planes in the US mostly fly at 30,000 feet above sea level, it sort of makes sense to put an air hub at a higher elevation. Planes taking off from Wichita need to climb 29,000 feet, while planes taking off from Denver only need to climb 25,000 feet. Over time the fuel savings probably add up.
@@InfiniteAnvil I like that. 👍🏼
I've lived outside of both cities, so I thought "Middle of America" didn't fit Denver. 🤷🏻♂️
Denver is not in the middle of the country. Colorado is considered one of the western states. And the person who makes the point about the higher elevation as a hub spot, allowing savings on fuel is correct! Kansas is much more in the middle of the country.
"The term “eleven contiguous Western States” means the States of Arizona, California, Colorado, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, Oregon, Utah, Washington, and Wyoming."
@@therealdeal3672 When you grow up in Kansas, they tell you the center is Lebanon, KS. 🤷🏻♂️
RE: Customs free airport areas: yes. There are places at many international airports where you can deplane and not deal with customs. People shelter valuables like art and vehicles and such in customs limbo that way. They're known as "Freeports" or "Special Customs Zones", though they have a ton of nicknames and other official designations. Port of Hong Kong is a really big one, but any country you could imagine as an offshore tax haven has at least one.
This is the best audio we've had in a DTU video in a while. Thank you so much!
I really enjoyed this episode. There are some especially funny tangents, too. I really needed a good laugh today. Thanks, Simon and Danny!
As a Denver person, hearing Simon talk about Denver stuff is hilarious.
Same
Same. I tried to be cool, but I became rather flustered with him at the "windy city" part, as that I was so proud he had gotten "Mile High" so early on!
As a CO Springs person, i agree i enjoyed the hell out of this episode and his thoughts on it all
@@abaddonfrazier4772I don't think I've ever run into someone else from the springs 👋😎
@@chrissoup4683 aye!!! Yessir! District 2 Harrison high class of 2011! 🥰
my uncle managed denver international for over a decade (after surviving 9/11, the man cannot escape conspiracy theories) and he says it’s not haunted, it’s just big and the unluckiest place on earth.
Is unlucky another way to say haunted. I'm thinking bad things happen and goth people blame spirits, poor people say ghost and hard working middle class say bad luck . Rich just make more money somehow ?
Lmao true
that sounds haunted to me!! big and unluckiest ever
Ugh then your uncles dense.
For anyone who's curious, Blue Peter is a naval flag recalling all sailors to the vessel for departure from port. Essentially it means let's go do this thing.
I only know Blue Peter as a children’s TV show.
In fairness, Simon, one of the best ways to hide something is to play against expectations. The standard, logical expectation is that no one would advertise their evil plans so blatantly. So therefore any people who attribute conspiracy to these strange happenings is written off because "who would be dumb enough to advertise their secret society?" Which leaves you to have your secret society in peace because no one thinks you'd be insane enough to do that.
Since this video is itself a request, I might as well request that Simon do either a *Decoding The Unknown* or *Causal Criminalist* episode on the story of Big Lurch, and how he may or may not have been drugged by his Record Label so they and his roommate's boyfriend could frame him for the murder of his roommate. Anyone else want to see that?
I'm aware of the story / theory and would absolutely watch that 👌
Nah
@@rhondaparr5739idk know if Google is playing because that is either now or nah lol
No
I have no idea who or what you are talking about
"Why did I have to wait in the huge queue. You didn't even search in my butt or anything!"
I'm dead 🤣🤣🤣
Why did Simon sound so disappointed 😆
thats what Big Poppa Pump said about the security
Decoding the Unknown is BY FAR my favourite debunking/let’s have fun with conspiracies channel!
Simon and writers you LEGENDS, you are smashing them out!
Simon and Danny, I live in Denver and I love this place. One thing I wanted to mention is our public art policy. 1% of all civic improvement projects in Denver over 1 million dollars have to have 1% of their budget set aside for art installations. So for a 4 billion dollar airport that comes out to 40 million dollars. The interesting thing about the policy is that the art can not be taken down because a bunch of people decide they don't like it. It can only be taken down by the request of people on the Public Art Commission or the artist themselves. Just a little history lesson. All Hail Blucifer!!
Also interesting, by googling the mural artist (Leo Tanguma), I learned that he and his family have been deeply hurt by the allegations of conspiracy and having the murals called demonic. In the Peace mural, he incorporated the faces of kids who had been killed by gang or abuse violence at the request of their grieving mothers. Are the murals in an odd location? Yeah, but they have a good message and they're well done. People need to get over it.
I'm surprised he didn't have any conspiracy theories on the twenty missing gates of concourse B! It's one of these odd things that gates 21 through 40 (I think) are just simply not on the B concourse. But, I had one odd flight where I ended up having to get on a bus and they drove me out to another building off the airport where then magically these gates appear. Being a native Coloradan, DIA has always been a weird conundrum of politics for us. I mean, who really thought it was a bright idea to make a roof be a tent in a climate that can get over 48 inches of snow? Although, it did make it though the big snow storms, so it has worked out in that sense so far. DIA is defiantly one thing we locals complain about most. It's still just one very quirky airport. Oh, and apparently that state of the art baggage system is still sitting out in a field just rusting away. That at least a couple billion of our good ol' tax dollar's doing great work here.
"It was an accident. Blucifer didn't mean it." - Simon, your decoder extraordinaire.
Denver native here, they've been doing a ton of construction at the airport for years and have a ton of signs for construction joking about aliens, demons and reptilains, pretty cute (but it's a nightmare sometimes they need to get that work done)
Also, billed as the airport that will never shut down, got quite a laugh at the October blizzard😂
Thank you, Danny, this was well done. And thanks to Simon who made it fun. And, of course, thanks to those who slave behind the scenes of your benevolent overlord.
Yea, shout out to Danny for subtly parodying "Dante's Inferno" for the intro 😂
@@maggotmusic757 *cough* *choking* SUBTLY?!
Yes, the Appaloosa is an American breed developed by the Nez Perce tribe in the PNW. Known for their amazing spotted coats, thick hind quarters and very short mane and tales. The Nez Perce developed it at their camp by the Palouse river. Settlers would travel from all over to get these horses that bred to be on their landscapes. It soon became "a palouse horse", then became an appaloosa. Its mostly rocky desert terrain in eastern WA.
The US army wiped out majority of the breed and as such, is an open breed book in attempts to recreate the original. Which they pretty much have achieved. They also have their new breed called the Nez Perce horse. The tribe, ourselves, still sell and ship them. Still Bred not far from where the original breed was crafted. Anyways...😂
As a Colorado native it is so funny to see him guess things about Colorado. Also Simon, Chicago is the Windy City. Denver is the mile high city.
Yes, Simon, meeting rooms and even full-blown convention centers in and/or right next to airports are totally a thing. I know Amsterdam has one.
You'd have to go through customs still, but there's a hotel about 100ft tops from DIA where you could do that.
😅😅
Don't forget that digging tunnels from the Denver Airport to the Stargate (Cheyenne Mountain) means digging through mountains, not flat land! I love it whenever you mention Stargate. I always feel it never got enough love in the sci-fi world.
It's ENTIRELY flat going from DIA to Cheyenne mountain, until you actually get to the friggen mountain
We can ask Jack Oniell if the tunnel is there
Dude, Simon, I have been enjoying your eclectic and informative videos on various interesting topics and subjects for quite some time now but this channel is such a treat. Getting to see you hang up your tweed blazer, let your hair down and cut up a bit is very very entertaining! Cheers!
Simon is like the Jam band of rants. You hear the same stories, but he increasingly gets more and more into them with each retelling. Simon is quickly reaching that eccentric rich guy stage. I love it.
Simon only has the Jerry Garcia beard, though.
Nailed it
I'm so glad this channel picked back up. I was having withdrawals a couple weeks ago. Love the DTU team!
I learned from the flight data recorders to always sit in the back like they do. Yes, the turbulence seems scarier back there than it does over the wings but there's a reason why they put the so-called black boxes back there.
Seriously, though, I'm not afraid of flying and I actually love to go in planes. The biggest reason I sit in the back when I get a choice of seats is that the window seats often get taken sooner nearer to the front of the plane and I like to take the unique opportunity of flying in a plane to look down.
I prefer a window seat as well. I once had to fly from Zurich to San Francisco and I was stuck in the middle of the middle row so I was too far away to look out the window. It felt odd and especially so because the flight was 12+ hours.
Danny didn't mention something about Stapleton, which is that it was built partly over a capped creek and heavy rains could sometimes close that runway due to flooding, further exacerbating the congestion. Now that creek is opened with a trail along it that moves commuters and recreation thru several neighborhoods in north central Denver.
Also, the airport had one runway over the freeway which was fun for plane spotting AND... Stapleton is the airport where many of the scenes for whichever Die Hard movie was the airport one.
I do miss Stapleton though. I've only flown at DIA once but I used to go to Stapleton all the time.
My grandpa laid the brick that makes the tunnels for the train system. There are several layers of tunnels beneath and some that were bricked over. He was laying bricks for years and said several times they blocked off sections that were supplied with power and water. It definitely has a 2nd purpose as a bunker or doomsday shelter
It's so quaint to think back of a time when nuclear war was seen as the end as opposed to ecological collapse. If humans avoid nuclear war long enough, global warming will do the job, or at least make the planet a hellscape not worth living on.
And out come the global warming wing nuts. If you’re still spewing this garbage then you are really stupid or you’re one of them. The global warming narrative is so obviously about control.
I can’t believe all the comments here and hardly any acknowledge that Denver’s airport could be being used by the deep state for something other than what it’s intended use is. Labeling it “conspiracy theory” as if all of these different thoughts or opinions that something nefarious lies underneath always get debunked and thrown on the pile shows a lack of awareness of what’s happening around you. JFK was absolutely whacked will the help of George HW Bush’s CIA as well as other US government across. People that are completely dismissive are the seasons the fairytale known as the Warren Commission report is still the official narrative. Similarly, if you are still calling 9/11 a conspiracy theory, all you need to do is watch WTC 7 being imploded or better yet, look up British television report it’s collapse while standing in front of a live shot where you can see the building standing completely intact. The blind dismissal of other opinions gives us the 9/11 commission’s absurd conclusions as the official narrative. The entire point being that it’s not such a huge jump to believe that something else is going on at this airport. To completely dismiss it as conspiratorial shows a level of ignorance the perpetuation of which has brought us to the brink of collapse as a country.
@@playedout148kinda thinking all those cell towers has a quite of bit going on themselves.
The last time I traveled from Manila airport to Kyoto airport, I had a MASSIVE migraine. Like, stomache churning, head throbbing, light/smell/sound sensitivity. Everything. There were extra security checkpoints as there was unrest in Hong Kong at the time. That was my personal HELL. I resisted the urge to throw up in the Japanese checkpoints (there were no restrooms until after) and when I tell you I threw my bags at my family at the sight of the first restroom, they knew it was bad news. 😅 The best part? After I absolutely spilled my guts, I realized this was a FANCY Japanese toilet. I proceeded to play with all the buttons out of curiosity. My mom finally came in and was like "honey, are you okay in there? We have to hurry" As I'm warming up the toilet seat, to which I meakly replied "uh, yeah, I'll be right out." 😂 Hopefully my next pass through Asia is a more pleasant one.
Read that as "the last I time traveled" accidentally, and it still made perfect sense.
Denver International is big. When my plane landed and turned off the runway, I could see a sign that said "Welcome to Limon, CO. Pop. 1956 (including dogs)." We then taxied for over an hour across the high plains before making a turn. I could then see the airport terminal in the distance. 30 minutes later, we arrived at the gate. So over 1/2 of my 3 hour flight was taxiing around the Denver Airport.
Lucky you. It's nice when you land close to the terminal.
You’d love San Diego. The plane skims over some buildings and over I-5, then lands and practically locks the brakes and turn right to the terminal. No taxiing, no waiting for another plane to cross, nothing.
It’s just a hairy landing, then screech, u-turn then you’re at the gate. I’m so spoiled by it I’ve grown to hate endless taxiing.
@@annenelson5656 I believe it! Was in San Diego for a vacation back in February. Saw the plans coming into the airport. Wasn't close enough to hear the brakes.
Didn't fly. I did a 2 1/2 day drive (one-way) to get there. 😁
I am from the Bay Area and every time I would fly into the San Francisco airport I would sit by a window because when you are landing you can see the plane looking like it’s about to crash into the bay! The runway extends out over the water and you can’t see the asphalt from where you are sitting but the pilots can so it’s just an optical illusion but it’s really cool! You actually get some sense of what a water landing might look like right before the plane would hit the water! Not all runways are like that but the one I always ended up with was that one! SFO is also such a beautiful and unique airport. Now I live in Las Vegas and this airport is like a little city! Three or four terminals and not in the same area either! It’s super confusing if you don’t know what’s where!
@@annenelson5656that reminds me of San Jose, CA. So close to the freeway that there are deflectors to keep the planes from blowing cars off the highway when they spool up. Must be something about California.
Denver is smack in the middle of the country, which would make it a good place to switch over planes to get where you are going. I remember driving across the country to Colorado. Half of Colorado is on the great plains, so you feel like you are driving on the worlds biggest pancake for hours. It is soooooo flat! Then all of a sudden, in the distance, you see a thin, grey line that stretches from north to south as far as you can see. The line grows bigger and bigger into a massive line of distinct mountains. Its really something to see. Then you arrive in Denver, right at the foot of the mountains. Some people stop there for a week before continuing on into the mountains, in order to avoid altitude sickness. I was pretty young. We continued on to Leadville- a few hours into the mountains, and one of the highest towns on earth. There were no flies, and the few ticks and fleas on our dog died and fell off within a few days. Driving was quite treacherous, esp in the winter, but there were many hairpin turns over steep 100 foot drops. The wildlife and scenery were quite wonderful.
Anyway, you should do an article about missing 411- its a good topic to bring attention to. Some people believe bigfoot or something supernatural is hunting in national parks. But the thing is, that no one in the US is really recognizing that its a great place for serial killers and pedophiles to hunt, because when the missing people aren't found in the woods after a week or so, the government assumes they got lost in the wilderness and doesn't do any more investigation. Plus, there's a problem with jurisdiction, that leads to a lack of investigation, and a lack of official knowledge of how many people have disappeared in certain areas, some of which are clusters of disappearances. But a lot of the disappearances are extremely weird, and its good to know before bringing children or loved ones to certain places.
....... the middle of the US is about 20 miles north of Belle Fourche, South Dakota
Pitch Shifted Simon is *always* hilarious and I thank you Jen for providing so much of it 😂
Haha I was thinking the same
It's the middle of the night after a really shitty October and I can't sleep. Thank the spirits or whatever I can wind down and burst into laughter watching Simon and his tangents and fantastic, witty and well researched topics! ❤👏👏👏😂😂👌
As for Airport Advertisements where I live there are Three Airports; One does High Volume Commercial Flights that allow for Long Distance Interstate/International Flights; Another is Moderate Volume Commercial Flights to Nearby States (including International Border States since I live in a Border State); Finally on That is Mostly used for Private Charter Flights and Personal use Planes as well as Postal/Parcel Delivery Services going to Local Distribution hubs in the same Postal Region Zone.
I'm from Denver and I know that downtown Denver has also been redone with some weird coincidences with sculptures and Washington DC sculptures. Also, at one point they introduced the tunnels and stuff as if they were added on later LoL
It was hilarious when the baggage system was eating baggage lmfao
The evil , weird horse creeps me out.
Colorado is truly full of secrets.
My family had the first plank style house in Denver and is in the archives but since we were French and Lakota, we aren't a famous family there. The house burned down in the Denver fires of 1868 (I think that was the year of the great fires). Laws were passed banning wooden hoses after that.
Fun fact: Denver burned before Chicago and rebuilt before them so Denver became an older city by default LoL
Believe conspiracy theories from Colorado. 🧐😉🤔
The biggest conspiracies in Colorado happen at the Broadmoor in Colorado springs. Trust me, I used to work there and went through a Republican convention and two big pharma industry get togethers.
I love that the airport leans into the joke! I wish people that complain about stupid stuff would learn to shut up. I had a neighbor that complained about the train that cut through our town. She stated the horn would wake her baby. We lived a couple miles from the crossing. The train has been then there long before the neighborhood. The tracks literally cuts the town in half, it’s not a hidden secret. And it wasn’t that loud. 😂
My favorite conspiracy because I live in Colorado. The "America Unearthed" episode on DIA on History Channel is hilarious.
Simon, when were you in Colorado? (If you see this)
As a CO native, I also thoroughly enjoy this one.
Although I am part of the deep state illuminate......
Hilarious but true? 😅
I can’t with history channel anymore 😂
Sounds like something a wealthy elite who would say 🤔
Was that the one where they got the manager to come talk to them and she basically was like, "oh, trust me it's not a secret underground base"
I was at the opening game at Coors/Invesco field. I got a free backpack that I wish still have. I love DIA despite the long drive there. The tunnels are really cool, I loved them as a kid, and an adult. Stapleton was, ok.
Speaking as one of the lizard people living in the tunnels under DIA, the correct combination brail touchpad on the capstone releases a bunch of confetti throughout the airport and the person who sets it off is welcomed into our lair so that they may survive the global nuclear apocalypse that'll occur 33 minutes later. I hope this clears up any confusion on the matter.
The Number 23 is the Jim Carrey movie where he sees the number 23 everywhere. It's more a movie about confirmation bias, but it's a good movie.
And Chicago is the Windy City. Denver is the Mile High City because it's estimated elevation is 5280 ft above sea level.
Was he not serial killing people while suffering from dissociative identity disorder? It's not about confirmation bias if he's really doing that shit.
5:35 - Mid roll ads
7:25 - Back to the video
12:00 - Chapter 1 - Build me up buttercup
20:45 - Chapter 2 - Highway to hell
33:45 - Chapter 3 - Time after time
47:55 - Chapter 4 - Calling occupants of interplanetary craft
52:25 - Chapter 5 - Heigh ho
1:09:05 - Chapter 6 - Epilogue the last laugh
The airport leans into the conspiracies with all of the signs during the ongoing construction. It’s funny.
As a local, I’d hope they’d fix their lines before digging out underground facilities. The worst part isn’t the lizard people, it’s the damn security queues…
That was so F ing long! I've only been stuck in Denver when doing interviews, and couldn't get a non-stop flight like a commoner. I never check bags so I can switch flights last sec. One Delta layover there. Airport dinner and had drinks with a guy who was stranded and had checked bags. Bar closed. We found a quiter hallway to sleep in. I shared all warm clothes, maybe a suit jacket even. We cuddled up to my carrry on for heat and slept on that nice airport carpet. We talked about snuggling together but nixed that bc some airport person would have woke us up. We just did caddy corner style. Fun times. Glad I had him for heat, it was Jan cold.
The chipmunk voice at the end of the security line story - chefs kiss to the editor. I laughed myself into a coughing fit.
I used to believe in all these sorts of conspiracy theories in high school. Embarrassing, i know. I'm jusy glad a channel like this exists to debunk all these crazy theories now.
To be honest I have never really believed in conspiracy theories with one exception I remember and still see as true to this day is big pharma and most of the world’s governments are both covering up the cure for cancer so they can make more money then if they cured it instead of treating it.
When did you graduate, last year?😂
@@jbird7782 I graduated nearly 15 years ago. RUclips was a different place back then.
Well that's kinda normal, children believe all kinds of things. I think it's just a part of normal growing up.
@J_Z913 it definitely was different back then. A few how to videos & a couple videos of ppl talking.
Now there's billions of videos & a million ppl trying to be YT famous.
This episode was wild as someone who was born in Denver and grew up nearby. DIA was the normal Airport I compared all others to. I don't know whether I'm more amused by the weird conspiracy theory, Blucifer (the eyes should be orange instead of red, go Broncos!) or Simon calling Denver the windy city.
Also, if Stapleton Airport wasn't replaced it would've been renamed by now. Ben Stapleton was a KKK grand dragon.....
I always used to park on the top level so I could drive the whole length of that spiral ramp. Weeeeee!
I always look forward to Bluecifer welcoming me home ❤❤❤
Yeah, wasn't the Colorado state government basically run by the KKK in the '20s? Yikes.
This is a great episode from Simon and Danny. As a member of the illuminati I enjoyed it immensely. Ps. I was on the Blue Peter programme twice and didnt get a badge. FYI Blue Peter is a naval flag showing that a merchant vessel is ready to sail.
In Toronto, Pearson International Airport is essentially surrounded by the city of Mississauga. When you go to see a house that's on a flight path, you can expect the real estate agent to schedule the open houses between flights... Probably seem nice and quiet.
This has to be one of my favourite episodes, Simon you truly are an amazing presenter and my hours of painting at my desk whittle away to your expert delivery 😂
Some people think this conspiracy isn’t real, but it’s always been right there in plane sight lol
Ba-dum-Tsss!
I see what you did there, and I approve of it.
@Mister
U win the internet today! Yay😂😂
@@nicole6323 ick
It may not land with everyone but I hope your airport puns really take off.
I named my dog Blucifer after the murder demon horse statue. I love that bug blue art piece, and how freaking weird DIA is
Behind the scenes tours are fun, I did one with the security team at the Houston airport to see how they monitor things and where confiscated items go. (They have a display case for some of the weirder things) And whole rooms for confiscated/quarantined animals! They help the border officials at the ports too so they have a lot of space.
But yeah, if you see a wall with a glassy sheen at an airport, (in the US anyway), that’s a security office. Pretty much most of the main traffic areas are under surveillance always 😬
How do you go on a behind the scenes tour?
33:30
old airport constantly needed ot expand because of more and more travelers and couldn't which got increasingly difficult
sounds like a great reason to make the new one scary
If I ever have the opportunity to design a public building, I’m going to include things like this just for giggles.
Love the conspiracy warning from RUclips on a channel that literally only exists to dispell conspiracy theories 😅
As much as I love Simon's tangents, this could have been a 20-minute video.
theres hundreds of 20 minute videos about this topic. go watch one if you care so much?
@miikaura I said I love Sumon's tangents, so I was OK watching this one, thanks.
I just returned from a trip to Rome. I had no problems going there. But coming home, I found that my boarding pass had been randomly selected by ITA Airways for "extra screening". So after going through the boarding area, I was redirected to stand in another line. I had to open my two carry-on bags and watch the agent swab their interiors with some mystery substance. Then I had to empty my pockets and undergo the same mystery swab process in my pockets. The agents then put the swabs in some kind of machine for analysis. I guess it was to detect bomb-making materials, weaponry, or some other whatnot. I wound up as literally the last person to board the plane, though I'd been in the middle of the line queuing up to board. What an effing nightmare.
Were you using firearms or fireworks in Rome? A dog probably indicated you for bomb making materials, that's what those swabs are for. If you go shooting in the morning, and have a flight the same day, they do all that stuff.
@@AliceBowie neither. There was a code on my boarding pass indicating I'd been selected for an additional search. The ticket agent told me when she issued it.
Hmm in Belgium they do that as part of the baggage check process. You empty your pockets, send your stuff through the scanner, you walk through the metal detector, and when you go to grab your baggage one of the agents at the station kinda grabs it first and goes "Can we check your baggage?" and does the swab thing right there. It takes like 20 seconds.
And indeed, this is purely random. No dogs are going through the line at the baggage checkpoint to sniff the suitcases and nobody would ever visually peg me (white Belgian woman) for a firearms user or bomb maker.
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Chicago - Windy City
Denver - mile high city 48:05
The vast amount of jet fuel - is also that there is a semi attached Air Force base on site also 59:41
Another scary airport to land at is Las Vages. The approach through the mountains, the winds, landing there was the scariest air event of my life. 😱
Having worked in a company where there was a large area that was to be divided into offices along the wall where the windows were, I think it is safe to say that whatever went on down under the airport is most likely a result of human error in the department of calculations and basic geometry. In the company I worked in, I watched as the builders - architect, designers, craftspeople, work people - proceeded to build these office spaces (so three walls only since the window wall was already there) along that long windowed wall. Once all the dividing walls had been built, the front walls with the doors, and the electrics installed (this all took several months of a lot of noise going on in the area next to the research and development department, the designers' area, purchasing and materials departments, and all the people associated with these departments - so a lot of inconvenience of noise and dust and chaos), well, once all that stopped, it was discovered that due to a small miscalculation, one of the offices was the width of a chair. Oops! So all the walls had to be taken down and the whole thing done all over again with new calculations. I had seen that little corridor of a space between two offices and wondered what it was for. Someone actually put a chair in it. So everyone except the builders noticed this strange space? After that experience, nothing surprises me in the possibilities of error when it comes to construction.
Oh they noticed, they just didn't care. Those are fhe measurements they were given and they're gonna build to them.
@@jmjedi923 oh, totally! That's what made it all the more mind-blowing. Someone said that those involved will be getting paid twice to do the same job, except perhaps the guy in charge of the project.
The thing you have to realize is when the City of Denver decided to build a new airport in the 1990's, they built it like 25 miles east of town. The new airport is on land that was originally in a completely different county. Their old airport had the city grow up around it so the city acquired a huge tract of land to put the new airport on. Also being a mile high and with hot summers they have to have much longer runways.
The editing in this episode is killing me, great job guys 😂
Because i couldnt fknd anyone else clarifying.... We here in Denver are the Mile High City. The windy city is Chicago.
However, the Rocky Mountains' front range has some extreme wind, from very far south of Denver all the way up through Wyoming
Denver is the second largest airport in terms of area allotted to it. The largest by passenger numbers is Atlanta, by quite some margin, although Denver is third by that metric and indeed ahead of Heathrow. It gets a lot of transfer traffic because it's a huge hub for United and Southwest.
3:35 israel is notoriously hard to enter. I’m a full blown heeby, whose great grandmother survived the Bergen Belsen concentration camp. Still got separated for a secondary screening and interrogation because I’m not from Israel. Their TSA or whatever makes American TSA look like a Walmart greeter trying to check receipts
A long time ago (pre 9/11) that El Al actually checks you out before they actually finalize your ticket. I don’t know if that’s even close to true but it does make you go “hmmm”.
I moved to Denver in 1996, just after DIA opened, and have been flying in and out of it ever since thanks to me moving away eventually but my parents staying put. These conspiracy theories have always made me laugh. At least the DIA people have a sense of humor about it....I took a pic of an informational poster they had up about remodeling going on in the airport, and a lizard person was on it. But I do have to say the Blucifer statue is creepy AF. It killed its sculptor, which....yikes.
Simon will always surprise you both with the esoteric information he's able to recall on the spot and by... well... the inverse.
OMG 😂 spot on!
We got tangent and an ad before Simon got through the first sentence. A total of 7 minutes, this has got to be a new record 😂
About the baggage system: Idk about other countries, but one of my favorite things about Manila's airport is that at the baggage claims, they have little screens that play video feed of the airport staff receiving the baggage deliveries somewhere in the airport's bowels and transferring them onto the conveyor belts. You can watch them go from carrying each luggage to the belt (first few pieces) to just flinging stuff in the belt's general direction (last few pieces).
Gotta admit, if I worked in the underground areas of Denver Airport, I would *definitely* be pulling those pranks on people. And then lmao.
Funny thing, the "EMP blew out windows" is probably the most believable thing in here. Aircraft windows for the crew have heaters in them for defrosting and ice control, so they literally have wires and elements inside. If they get too hot the window will shatter.
I learned that when I had to replace a pilots windscreen on a C-130 because of a short that basically resulted in the window heat turning on full blast. I replaced window #2. #1 clued us in that there may be a problem.
Lol, what? Heaters can't created an EMP. Even if they could, an Electromagnetic Pulse doesn't cause a concussive wave, since it isn't an explosion.
@@SkunkApe407 I think you missed the entire reasoning here. I'd suggest reading up into electrical systems more and how EMP's can, not do, but CAN affect an electrical system.
Also, some reading on how aircraft window defrosters function may help to explain whats going on.
@@Plaprad an EMP would cause an electrical system to fail entirely, not make it malfunction. I suggest you follow your own advice, rather than talking out of your ass.
@@Plaprad just so we're clear, my father-in-law is a retired commercial pilot and current Airbus flight simulator instructor. I'm a US Navy Aviation veteran. I know far more about the electrical systems on airframes than you do, I assure you.
@@SkunkApe407 Then let's try it this way. Window heat is done by an electrical heater element inside the window. If the heater gets too hot, it will cause the pane to shatter. An EMP can cause damage and overloads in electrical systems. Therefore, there is a chance that an EMP may cause the heater to heat up the window potentially causing it to shatter.
There is no pressure wave or anything to cause it, just electricity. The one I mentioned in my OP was caused by a simple shorted wire. I probably saw about a dozen aircraft windscreens damaged due to faulty or malfunctioning heaters in my time. So it is 100% possible for a heater element to damage a window, which is why I said it was believable for an EMP to cause an electrical malfunction that would damage the window.
I'm going by some of my experiences gained over fifteen years or aviation maintenance. I've had to troubleshoot and repair these systems countless times on several airframes.
Awesome! My daily distraction from how awful things are. Thank you for the smiles Simon!
as someone who lived next to airport, then moved next to a church with a huge bell tower, I can say I was never bothered by the noise. Your brain just disconnects from it. I noticed this when friend of mine was visiting and he was like "OMG how can you live here?!" and I was like "what? why? whats going on??" and it was noon and church was banging DIIIINGGG DIIIINGGG DIIINGGG
Oh Simon, I have to rant really quick.
Just went through the Atlanta airport earlier this month. I was traveling with my husband and two kids aged 1 and 4. Had all the shit to keep them occupied; Switches(mine and my daughters) her tablet. Okay that was only 3 things I suppose, but anyways, while waiting in the security check line, I thought I'd be smart and take all the electronics out of my bag so I could just throw them in the bins when it was time. Big mistake apparently. This TSA woman was yelling "REMOVE SHOES, BELTS, WATCHES, EVERYTHING FROM YOUR POCKETS. ELECTRONICS STAY IN YOUR BAG"
She repeated this twice while I was waiting to show my ID and what not, but I wasn't really paying attention to what she was saying at the time. Afterwards, I was still reeling trying to put my ID away and get my four year old. You know, it's freaking chaos. So I looked at her and said "Wait, what? I don't need to remove my electronics?" This woman, oh my lanta. She just looked at me and repeated her earlier statement, in the same obnoxiously loud, monotone "I resent you for existing" voice as before, looking at me directly in the eyes. The amount of rage I felt towards that woman in that moment was immense.
Just a note because it always annoys me; they're not gargoyles, they're grotesques. "Gargoyle" shares a root with "gargle" referring to the throat and refers to the water features. "Grotesque" has similar roots to "grotto" but I don't know that etymology as well.
Fun fact: There is a film called "Grotesque" but it's very different to the Hunchback story. I think it's good but I wouldn't recommend most people look into it, let alone watch it.
Hi Simon I watch you all the time I just want you to know about the conspiracies of Denver airport because I work as a security guard at one of the main entrances to the tunnels my job is to check the IDS and security of anyone entering the tunnels. I know there are doubts but I have seen stuff. There are doors that are never opened. I can tell you the construction is on going at least until 2030. It is also a scary thought that 10,000 people work there daily.
Thanks for doing this one, Danny and Simon. This conspiracy theory has always cracked me up - it's beyond ridiculous.
I work for a major municipality and the amount of tunnels under and behind infrastructure is mind boggling - the utility corridors and service pathways needed to support what looks like a 'simple' airport or rail station are no joke. Also, digging underground is hard and often disruptive - if a municipality is building something that they know/ believe will be expanded, they'll often build the underground infrasteucture needed for the future expansions - that way the expansions can go quickly and be done without the likely time/financial over-runs that are inevitable during of the initial phase of construction.
That said, the art committee were clearly oxygen deficient when they made their artist selections, but apart from that - its just a bloody big airport that's probaly going to get bigger in the coming years.
Ah, Danny -the Simon Quinlank reference made me laugh - you absolute legend 😂😂
Im only 5 minutes in and I'm in tears! 😂 "you didn't even search my butt!!"
Some people don’t want to accept the simplest answer, which is: Whoever designed the airport was either high, crazy, or both at the time of its design and construction.
The only weird thing is the art, and that’s just artists trying to make something interesting and unique because, you know they’re artists.
Regarding these secret airport facilities, you should look into some of the documents released in recent years regarding the JFK assassination. One of these documents from the 1990s review board describes a facility intended to be an emergency replacement for the CIA, that is readily accessible by the public, and has relatively frequent incidents of members of the public accidentally taking a wrong turn and needing to be turned back. The redactions on this document cover numerous small segments of the text where the name of the facility is clearly a 3-letter acronym (They used a fixed-width font!... my eyes rolling... "Secrecy" wink). From the rest of the document you can easily tell from the context that they are describing an airport. They describe it as ideal for the comings and goings of agents to blend in with the public while travelling to and from their missions around the world, and "security" being a convenient excuse for preventing public access. I'm not saying it's the Denver airport, but there certainly exists a facility on that scale, operating in plain sight enjoying a very thin veil of secrecy. What's that got to do with the assassination? Who knows, but they still have redacted the name of the place in current documents.
It was towards the end of Simon's airport experiences that I got suspicious & checked the play time... Over an hour, deadly :)
So much conspiracy around Bluecifer. I thought it was widely understood that a blue horse was selected as the airport mascot because the professional football team headquartered in Denver happens to be the Denver Broncos. Their team colors are blue and orange. I think the odd choice of artwork can be pretty easily explained by the recent destruction of the Berlin wall signaling an end to the cold war between the US and USSR or Russia. After decades of practicing civil defense drills in elementary schools in preparation of being bombed, many Americans were finally starting to feel optimistic about maybe not dying any moment in a 3rd world war.
Simon is the king of delivering Ad reads from services that I actually want/need