fellow conspiracy realists, we are returning with a couple of classic episodes as we're on the road and at points abroad and domestic.

Guys, remember when we started looking into assassins?

Yeah.

When did we ever stop?

I mean, it's a fascination for sure. Uh, their, their creed, you know, whatever, whatever you, whatever you, whatever you got. Right. For real, I think anybody who ever got into a singular Assassin's Creed game or maybe the entire series, the concept of assassins and the way they build the history

throughout those games is, it's fascinating. And that's one of the primary reasons you want to

play the game. Like, I need to unlock more of this lore. What is this lore? I'll tell you who does a

fabulous job with some modern kind of assassin's lore is the John Wick movies with the whole the high table

and all of that stuff.

Oh, your marker and he don't touch his dog.

Yeah.

We looked into it, folks, and one of our primary questions a few years back was, what's the

difference between an assassination and your garden variety

homicide what's all about intent yeah that's end of episode no it's it's got a lot to do with it

and also who pays you uh who uh is you know, the one putting out the hit?

Mm-hmm.

And as we find in this episode, it goes way back, like well over a thousand years ago to where you can find, you know, at least the written down origins of an actual thing that we're going to learn about in just a moment.

I guess you don't have to be

paid to be someone who is doing an assassination. I believe the killer of Archduke Franz

Ferdinand was acting of his own volition, as is the... Well, exactly, exactly, Matt. But then,

you know, the individual who shot John Lennon again, was he, though? But, yeah,

signs point to it was just somebody who kind of got a bee in their bonnet about that particular

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