# Sneakiest Spy Devices That Are Actually Real

An episode of [Be Amazed](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1687637469), 7 Nov 2025, 23 min.

Audio: https://audio4.redcircle.com/episodes/68f272f6-a74b-4739-873a-153598224f94/stream.mp3

Sometimes, things aren’t always what they seem. After approaching an injured bird on the ground, one Somalian man found this out the hard way. It turns out, it wasn’t a bird at all, but it did harbour a sordid secret that threatened not just the man’s privacy but that of everyone around him. And this is far from the only time something like this has happened! So, from the devilishly devious to the outright absurd, let’s investigate some of the secret ways people invade your privacy – and the gadgets they use to do so. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

## Transcript

[0:00] \[SPEAKER_00\]: Sometimes things aren't always what they seem.
[0:03] \[SPEAKER_00\]: After approaching an injured bird on the ground, one Somalian man found this out the hard way.
[0:08] \[SPEAKER_00\]: It turns out it wasn't a bird at all, but it did harbor a sorted secret that threatened not just the man's privacy, but that of everyone around him.
[0:17] \[SPEAKER_00\]: And this is far from the only time something like this has happened.
[0:21] \[SPEAKER_00\]: So from the devilishly devious to the outright absurd, let's investigate some of the secret ways people invade your privacy and the gadgets they use to do so.
[0:46] \[SPEAKER_00\]: Back in May 2016 something happened in Somalia's capital of Mogadishu that rocked the entire country to its foundations.
[0:55] \[SPEAKER_00\]: It was a clear day and everything seemed completely ordinary until a single bird flying overhead crashed to the ground.
[1:03] \[SPEAKER_00\]: Most people didn't care but one man went over to see if it was still alive and got the shock of his life.
[1:10] \[SPEAKER_00\]: The bird definitely wasn't alive and it also definitely wasn't a bird.
[1:15] \[SPEAKER_00\]: Rather than an animal made of flesh and bone, the man was looking at some sort of metallic gadget in the shape of a bird.
[1:22] \[SPEAKER_00\]: Unlike a bird, however, it had no feathers, and two battered propellers were attached to the front of its wings.
[1:28] \[SPEAKER_00\]: It didn't take long for more people to gather around, wondering what the heck it was.
[1:33] \[SPEAKER_00\]: One theory quickly rose to the top, suggesting it was a surveillance drone of some kind, and it had been spying on the people of Mogadishu disguised as a bird of prey.
[1:42] \[SPEAKER_00\]: Who would want to spy on them, though?
[1:45] \[SPEAKER_00\]: The USA?
[1:46] \[SPEAKER_00\]: Supposedly, there is a secret U.S. drone based somewhere in Somalia, and it had made sense to have it near the capital.
[1:53] \[SPEAKER_00\]: But U.S. drones are larger and far more advanced than the one that crashed in Mogadishu.
[1:59] \[SPEAKER_00\]: and thanks to advances in tech over the last few decades, they certainly don't use propellers to fly.
[2:05] \[SPEAKER_00\]: A more likely answer is Nisa, Somalia's own intelligence agency, which is headquartered in Mogadishu.
[2:13] \[SPEAKER_00\]: It certainly checks out, Nisa could have been surveying the city for terrorist activity, sure.
[2:19] \[SPEAKER_00\]: But there have been a whole host of unsavory allegations thrown at the organization over the years from harassment claims to those of full-blown corruption.
[2:29] \[SPEAKER_00\]: So people weren't inclined to immediately jump to their defense.
[2:33] \[SPEAKER_00\]: In fact, the fallen drone raised all kinds of questions about personal privacy, if you can't even trust that birds are real, what can you trust?
[2:42] \[SPEAKER_00\]: And it's not just happening in Somalia either.
[2:44] \[SPEAKER_00\]: Over in the U.S., the University of Maryland have created a bird drone that's so realistic, it actually got attacked by a hawk.
[2:53] \[SPEAKER_00\]: And over in Russia, they've developed a much bigger and more advanced Owl-shaped combat drone.
[3:01] \[SPEAKER_00\]: But this thing doesn't just spy on people, it can guide artillery with a laser from its weird electronic head.
[3:08] \[SPEAKER_00\]: Just when you thought it couldn't get any worse, right?
[3:11] \[SPEAKER_00\]: I don't know about you guys, but I'll be jumping into the nearest bush anytime I spot a bird from now on.
[3:17] \[SPEAKER_00\]: Now Airbnb's can be great, often cheaper alternatives to hotels when you want a short overnight stay somewhere, but there's always going to be a certain level of risk associated
[3:30] \[SPEAKER_00\]: When Max Vest and his girlfriend decided to spend the night in a Miami-based Airbnb, they found this out the hard way.
[3:38] \[SPEAKER_00\]: Their host seemed nice enough and he had great ratings on the website so they shrugged it off when he introduced himself under a different name than the one he'd used over text.
[3:47] \[SPEAKER_00\]: They couldn't shrug off what happened next though.
[3:50] \[SPEAKER_00\]: Night came and Max turned the lights off ready to go to sleep.
[3:54] \[SPEAKER_00\]: Before he closed his eyes though, he noticed two small lights on the far side of the room.
[3:59] \[SPEAKER_00\]: They looked like phone chargers from afar, but after getting closer, he realized they were actually tiny cameras set up to record the bed.
[4:08] \[SPEAKER_00\]: Max immediately yanked the memory cards from the devices, pocketed them, and he and his girlfriend both left the premises.
[4:17] \[SPEAKER_00\]: After reporting the incident, Airbnb suspended the host from the site, and sure enough, police investigating the matter found footage of past guests on the memory cards.
[4:26] \[SPEAKER_00\]: Luckily for Max and his girlfriend, they'd managed to escape on recorded.
[4:32] \[SPEAKER_00\]: But the sinister tale highlights an insidious privacy problem with the whole service.
[4:38] \[SPEAKER_00\]: Indeed, this isn't an isolated case.
[4:40] \[SPEAKER_00\]: Hidden cameras have been found in hundreds of Airbnb's.
[4:44] \[SPEAKER_00\]: They've been snuck inside screwheads, hidden in electrical sockets, and even stashed in the lids of stray coffee cups.
[4:51] \[SPEAKER_00\]: Airbnb actually allows recording in communal areas, but never in bedrooms or bathrooms, and it's against the law in many countries to secretly film anything unless the film is justifiable and in the public interest.
[5:05] \[SPEAKER_00\]: So, how can you ever be sure you're not being secretly watched?
[5:09] \[SPEAKER_00\]: Well, TikTok user Malware Tech suggests shining a flashlight onto any device that could hold a
[5:19] \[SPEAKER_00\]: He shows a fire alarm that it's placed right above the bed and explains that one way to see if a device is a camera is to shine a bright light at it.
[5:28] \[SPEAKER_00\]: If you hit a camera lens, it's going to give a bluish reflection.
[5:31] \[SPEAKER_00\]: He also shows a clock that is mirrored, but when you shine a bright light at it, you can see through the glass and see there's a camera there.
[5:39] \[SPEAKER_00\]: It's surprisingly effective.
[5:41] \[SPEAKER_00\]: Damn.
[5:42] \[SPEAKER_00\]: Now I realize why my dad bought me that oddly heavy teddy bear all those years ago.
[5:46] \[SPEAKER_00\]: Where's my flashlight?
[5:48] \[SPEAKER_00\]: I can't guarantee no one will be watching from behind you, but I can promise you'll both be enjoying top quality content if you follow my podcast.
[5:57] \[SPEAKER_00\]: That way you'll never miss another informative episode of mine ever again.
[6:01] \[SPEAKER_00\]: All done?
[6:02] \[SPEAKER_00\]: Okay then, let's roll.
[6:05] \[SPEAKER_00\]: You've heard of stepping stones, sure, but what about spying stones?
[6:11] \[SPEAKER_00\]: Yeah, they're real, and they're just as terrifyingly ridiculous as they sound.
[6:16] \[SPEAKER_00\]: The Russian Ministry of Defense have been working on the covert surveillance devices, and they're not just stones with cameras in them.
[6:23] \[SPEAKER_00\]: Their robotic and come fitted with wheels too, so an operator from up to a mile away can maneuver them remotely with little risk of being caught.
[6:31] \[SPEAKER_00\]: You just place the fake rock, retreat to a safe distance, and remotely drive it into position.
[6:37] \[SPEAKER_00\]: When needed, the camera pops out from the top of the device and is ready to record whatever it's pointed at.
[6:42] \[SPEAKER_00\]: But the Russians aren't the first to come up with this idea.
[6:46] \[SPEAKER_00\]: They actually took it from the British, who used a similar tactic against them back in 2007.
[6:53] \[SPEAKER_00\]: Russian double agents had been transmitting data to the rock, which subsequently related to Britain.
[6:58] \[SPEAKER_00\]: However, a Brit was caught checking on the rock, leading to four British diplomats being expelled from the eastern country.
[7:05] \[SPEAKER_00\]: And as long ago, as the Cold War, the CIA used fake tree
[7:12] \[SPEAKER_00\]: buckle your seat belts because if you thought Spy Rocks were crazy, you've heard nothing yet.
[7:18] \[SPEAKER_00\]: There's actually a relatively simple way of hacking ordinary light bulbs to become covert surveillance devices.
[7:24] \[SPEAKER_00\]: Jeez!
[7:25] \[SPEAKER_00\]: All you need is a telescope and a little gadget called an electro optical sensor.
[7:30] \[SPEAKER_00\]: In basic terms, electro optical sensors convert light into electronic signals that can be read by a machine.
[7:38] \[SPEAKER_00\]: So if you attach one of these sensors to a telescope, it can be used to read light signals from afar.
[7:44] \[SPEAKER_00\]: By focusing the telescope onto a light bulb, the sensor can pick up tiny vibrations on the surface of the bulb.
[7:50] \[SPEAKER_00\]: These vibrations are caused by conversation or music and the sensor converts them into digital information.
[7:57] \[SPEAKER_00\]: Using a special program, this information can then be translated back into the original music or even human speech.
[8:05] \[SPEAKER_00\]: Which means somebody with the know-how could aim a telescope right through your window from a hundred feet away, pointed at your light bulb, and heaves drop on every word you say.
[8:15] \[SPEAKER_00\]: Right now I'm scared.
[8:17] \[SPEAKER_00\]: Fortunately, this hasn't ever been used in real life, at least as far as I'm aware, and is instead currently confined to an Israeli university's research.
[8:27] \[SPEAKER_00\]: But still, it's been feel tested and proven to work.
[8:30] \[SPEAKER_00\]: Okay, I'll be right back after I've closed all my curtains.
[8:34] \[SPEAKER_00\]: If I've learned anything about spies from researching this episode, it's that they'll use pretty much any means possible to get the job done.
[8:42] \[SPEAKER_00\]: And that includes
[8:46] \[SPEAKER_00\]: Yeah, you heard that, right?
[8:48] \[SPEAKER_00\]: In the past, the U.S. military have installed electrodes, batteries, and even tiny video cameras onto moths and beetles to turn them into miniature surveillance devices.
[8:57] \[SPEAKER_00\]: Not only that, but they've done it in such a way that an operator can literally control the flying insects like drones.
[9:05] \[SPEAKER_00\]: So, how the hell does it work?
[9:07] \[SPEAKER_00\]: Well, scientists insert minuscule brain probes into the insects during their pupa stage so that the ultra-light implants naturally integrate into the body of the developing bug.
[9:19] \[SPEAKER_00\]: This allows the insects to be remotely operated.
[9:22] \[SPEAKER_00\]: At the push of a button, the operator sends an electrical impulse into the implants, which forcefully changes the creature's direction.
[9:30] \[SPEAKER_00\]: So when fitted with a camera or listening device, they're transformed into bug bugs.
[9:36] \[SPEAKER_00\]: The surveillance devices can be attached to the backs of the little creatures, and though it would look pretty obvious up close, you probably wouldn't notice one of these guys from a few feet away.
[9:46] \[SPEAKER_00\]: and they can even stream footage directly to a smartphone.
[9:50] \[SPEAKER_00\]: If that doesn't freak you out enough though, robotic bugs are being developed too.
[9:54] \[SPEAKER_00\]: Though still only conceptual they wouldn't just be able to record you, but also land on you and take DNA samples.
[10:02] \[SPEAKER_00\]: Oh no, this really bugs me.
[10:05] \[SPEAKER_00\]: To do an episode on spying and not mention Leon Therman would be as bad as discussing the best ice cream flavors without mentioning chocolate.
[10:14] \[SPEAKER_00\]: That's because he created one of the most successful spying devices ever used against the U.S. government.
[10:20] \[SPEAKER_00\]: Dermin was a Russian inventor who was imprisoned in 1938 suspected of crimes against the Soviet state.
[10:28] \[SPEAKER_00\]: You might have heard of his most fun invention, the music instrument, Theraman, which is basically an antenna that makes alien sounds, and it was used by legendary musicians such as Jimmy Page from Led Zeppelin.
[10:42] \[SPEAKER_00\]: While imprisoned, he was tasked with inventing a bug so sophisticated it could go undetected in Spasso House, Moscow, where the U.S. ambassador to the Soviet Union lived.
[10:53] \[SPEAKER_00\]: Well, that was child's play for Theraman.
[10:56] \[SPEAKER_00\]: By the end of the Second World War, he'd finalized his device, and it was hidden inside a great carved seal, deviously given to U.S. officials as a symbol of friendship.
[11:06] \[SPEAKER_00\]: The plan worked, the U.S. took it, and hung it in his study in Sposso House near Moscow's American Embassy, unwittingly throwing away his privacy for seven whole years.
[11:17] \[SPEAKER_00\]: Yep, it wasn't until 1952 that the bug was finally discovered.
[11:23] \[SPEAKER_00\]: British broadcasters had reported hearing voices on their radios whenever they were near the American embassy.
[11:29] \[SPEAKER_00\]: Dispecting some kind of bug, the U.S. ambassador searched his place and eventually found it to great uproar, but how did it stay hidden for so long?
[11:39] \[SPEAKER_00\]: Well, it was tiny and needed no electrical supply, making it very difficult to detect.
[11:46] \[SPEAKER_00\]: I won't bore you with the exact physics, that could be a whole episode by itself, however it worked by picking up minuscule vibrations made by people's voices.
[11:56] \[SPEAKER_00\]: Soviet spies would hide outside of the ambassador's house and fire a radio signal at it, which would activate the device and cause it to transmit one back.
[12:06] \[SPEAKER_00\]: With this set up, the Soviets could hear everything that was being said.
[12:17] \[SPEAKER_00\]: Yep, if you ask me, Theraman scored up pretty big Therawin there.
[12:22] \[SPEAKER_00\]: Back in 2013, Edward Snowden, a former employee of the U.S. National Security Agency, leaked a ton of highly classified documents and one of the biggest intelligence breaches in history.
[12:34] \[SPEAKER_00\]: Arguably, the most worrying of these documents detailed a computer program called XK-Score.
[12:41] \[SPEAKER_00\]: The program developed by U.S. Intelligence allows the user access to a person's private emails, browsing history, and more.
[12:51] \[SPEAKER_00\]: And all it needs to work is some basic identifying information like a person's email or internet protocol address.
[12:58] \[SPEAKER_00\]: Not only that, but Snowden claimed the program can wire-tap anybody from a federal judge to the president themselves and just a couple of clicks.
[13:07] \[SPEAKER_00\]: Jeez.
[13:08] \[SPEAKER_00\]: So, essentially, anything you do online can be tracked without your permission or knowledge.
[13:14] \[SPEAKER_00\]: The program was officially designed to catch criminals, and it's true as of 2008, 300 extremists had been captured because of it.
[13:23] \[SPEAKER_00\]: So now I'm sure that number is a lot higher, but at what cost?
[13:28] \[SPEAKER_00\]: Apparently 41 billion records were collected and stored over a single month in 2012, which is an absolutely colossal amount of data.
[13:38] \[SPEAKER_00\]: And let's be real, the vast majority of that data won't have belonged to criminals.
[13:43] \[SPEAKER_00\]: The whole idea that some sneaky government agent could be snooping on everything I do without me ever knowing about it gives me the heby-gb's.
[13:52] \[SPEAKER_00\]: But then again, if my privacy is the price to pay for stopping hundreds of extremist attacks around the world, maybe I should be less concerned.
[14:01] \[SPEAKER_00\]: Back in 2010, California student of Fifi was with a friend taking his car to the garage for an oil change when he noticed a wire sticking out from beneath the back of his vehicle.
[14:11] \[SPEAKER_00\]: Confused, he reached under, grabbed it, and pulled out a pair of very strange devices.
[14:17] \[SPEAKER_00\]: One looked like some sort of battery pack, and the bigger one seemed to be a transmitter of some kind.
[14:23] \[SPEAKER_00\]: Wasting no time the two friends posted the find on a Reddit forum, and people's opinions were pretty unanimous.
[14:30] \[SPEAKER_00\]: It was a tracking device and not only that, but one used by law enforcement.
[14:35] \[SPEAKER_00\]: Young a fee fee was being tracked by the FBI, and he was pretty sure he knew why.
[14:42] \[SPEAKER_00\]: The student's father was a religious leader and had recently passed away.
[14:46] \[SPEAKER_00\]: After his passing, a fee fee had been contacted by the FBI several times with a slew of racist questions.
[14:53] \[SPEAKER_00\]: So, when he didn't cooperate, they must have planted the tracker on his car.
[14:58] \[SPEAKER_00\]: Scarely, it was actually legal in the US back then for police to secretly place GPS trackers on any vehicle they wanted, even if it was parked in a private driveway.
[15:09] \[SPEAKER_00\]: Thankfully, that's not the case anymore, but it's scary to think that it ever was.
[15:15] \[SPEAKER_00\]: The story doesn't end there, though, just days after the Reddit post of Fifi noticed two suspicious-looking people examining his parked car.
[15:24] \[SPEAKER_00\]: He went out to confront them and suddenly, two SUVs pulled up carrying police officers and bulletproof vests.
[15:31] \[SPEAKER_00\]: They demanded the tracking device back, and a fee fee was happy to comply.
[15:36] \[SPEAKER_00\]: Turns out the authorities had been tracking the student on suspicion of him being involved in extremist activities.
[15:42] \[SPEAKER_00\]: Of course, he wasn't.
[15:44] \[SPEAKER_00\]: And after a short interrogation, they let him go.
[15:47] \[SPEAKER_00\]: But considering neither a feefe nor his father had ever even been accused of being involved in any sort of extremism, this whole saga highlighted some huge surveillance and discrimination issues in the U.S. police force.
[16:00] \[SPEAKER_00\]: Who'd have thought that U.S. cops could be so thoroughly undermined by Reddit of all things?
[16:06] \[SPEAKER_00\]: If your memory can stretch as far back as a few minutes ago, you'll remember all those bird drones that are being deployed around the world.
[16:14] \[SPEAKER_00\]: But this idea isn't new.
[16:15] \[SPEAKER_00\]: In fact, actual birds were being used for covert spy missions as long ago as World War 1.
[16:22] \[SPEAKER_00\]: Carrier pigeons have been used for thousands of years to send written messages because they're easily trained and will attempt to fly home wherever they're released, hence why they're sometimes known as homing pigeons.
[16:33] \[SPEAKER_00\]: However, the German army came up with a novel new use for the pigeons during the First World War.
[16:39] \[SPEAKER_00\]: They strapped special cameras onto them and sent them flying over the battlefield on reconnaissance operations.
[16:46] \[SPEAKER_00\]: The concepts not as ridiculous as it sounds either, the cameras were light enough for the birds to fly without issue, and pigeons were incredibly reliable.
[16:56] \[SPEAKER_00\]: Hundreds of thousands of the feathered flyers were sent through enemy fire over the course of the war, and a whopping 95% of them completed their missions.
[17:05] \[SPEAKER_00\]: In fact, they've earned more medals of honor than any other animal.
[17:09] \[SPEAKER_00\]: So next time you think of turning your nose up at one of the flying rats, think about how many medals of honor you've got.
[17:16] \[SPEAKER_00\]: In the history of espionage, some ideas have worked perfectly, and others, not so much.
[17:22] \[SPEAKER_00\]: One of the CIA's craziest plans was to convert cats into spies.
[17:26] \[SPEAKER_00\]: Can you guess which category this idea fell into?
[17:29] \[SPEAKER_00\]: Long story short, in the 1960s, they got a poor cat from somewhere and operated on it to insert batteries in a recording device into it.
[17:38] \[SPEAKER_00\]: A three-quarter-inch long transmitter was embedded into the base of the cat skull and a microphone and it's here canal.
[17:46] \[SPEAKER_00\]: As for the antenna, it was woven into its tail, of course.
[17:51] \[SPEAKER_00\]: After this horrific procedure, it was then deemed necessary to train the cat, yes, because cats are famously so easy to train.
[18:00] \[SPEAKER_00\]: Unsurprisingly, it wasn't too responsive and would frequently run off to find food.
[18:05] \[SPEAKER_00\]: So in an even more twisted move, the CIA operated on the cat again.
[18:10] \[SPEAKER_00\]: This time to address its hunger issues, whatever that means.
[18:15] \[SPEAKER_00\]: All in all, the crew project ended up costing somewhere between a gobsmacking 10 to $20 million.
[18:21] \[SPEAKER_00\]: So was it worth it?
[18:23] \[SPEAKER_00\]: Well, after five long years, the Franken Kitty was sent off on its first mission to eavesdrop on a couple of men outside the Soviet embassy in Washington.
[18:33] \[SPEAKER_00\]: The cat was released, ran across the road towards them and was immediately hit by a taxi.
[18:39] \[SPEAKER_00\]: Well, believe it or not, the project was deemed a total failure and cancelled.
[18:44] \[SPEAKER_00\]: You've got to be kitten me.
[18:46] \[SPEAKER_00\]: Now even if you're not a fan of Lord of the Rings, you've probably heard of the I of Sauron, you know the demonic all-seeing eye on top of that big tower in Mordor.
[18:55] \[SPEAKER_00\]: Well, back in 1964, the CIA came up with an idea to spy on China that was strikingly similar.
[19:02] \[SPEAKER_00\]: Communist China had just tested a bomb that produced a suspiciously nuclear-looking mushroom cloud, and the U.S. were worried they'd crack the secrets of the atom.
[19:12] \[SPEAKER_00\]: So, they decided the logical course of action would be to install a giant surveillance device on top of one of the tallest mountains in the Himalayas.
[19:21] \[SPEAKER_00\]: From there, it would have a perfect view of China's test site.
[19:24] \[SPEAKER_00\]: Fast forward a few months and the CIA had assembled an elite team for the job, chosen for their mountain climbing and scientific prowess, a pretty niche combo.
[19:35] \[SPEAKER_00\]: In the fall of 1965, they began their expedition.
[19:39] \[SPEAKER_00\]: The mountain they had to climb is called Nanda Devi and India.
[19:43] \[SPEAKER_00\]: Only six people had ever reached the 25,000 foot tall peak before them and three of them perished on the way back down.
[19:51] \[SPEAKER_00\]: And they hadn't been lugging a huge 40-pound surveillance package along the way.
[19:56] \[SPEAKER_00\]: After days of struggling up the mountain with the cumbersome device, a storm suddenly hit, and conditions got so bad that the team had to abandon the expedition.
[20:06] \[SPEAKER_00\]: The next spring they returned to finish the job, but the surveillance device was gone.
[20:12] \[SPEAKER_00\]: It turned out an avalanche had ripped through the area and buried the device somewhere far below, which was not ideal considering it was made from radioactive material.
[20:23] \[SPEAKER_00\]: So the CIA arranged a search party for the original device while the team of climbers were given a new device and tasked with climbing a neighboring mountain.
[20:32] \[SPEAKER_00\]: This time they made it to the top and installed it successfully.
[20:36] \[SPEAKER_00\]: While it only lasted three months before malfunctioning, enough data was gathered to indicate that China did not, in fact, have long-range nukes.
[20:46] \[SPEAKER_00\]: As for the Lost Radio Active Surveillance package, well, it was never recovered.
[20:51] \[SPEAKER_00\]: But a bit of radiation never harmed anybody, right?
[20:55] \[SPEAKER_00\]: North and South Korea have a long and bitter history, and with both opposing states being so close to one another, there's been a hell of a lot of spying from both sides.
[21:05] \[SPEAKER_00\]: In the 1990s, though, South Korea conducted what could be considered the most ridiculous espionage mission in history.
[21:13] \[SPEAKER_00\]: South Korean agent Park Chai CEO, codenamed Black Venus, was chosen for the operation.
[21:20] \[SPEAKER_00\]: Posing as a disgruntled former military officer turned business man, he managed to organize a meeting with then-north Korean leader Kim Jong-il.
[21:29] \[SPEAKER_00\]: Kim thought they were there to discuss filming TV commercials in the state, but Park had other intentions.
[21:35] \[SPEAKER_00\]: Like secretly recording Kim with a tiny device hidden inside his willy winkle.
[21:41] \[SPEAKER_00\]: You know, his ding-a-ling, his long-dong silver, his secret sausage, his...
[21:47] \[SPEAKER_00\]: Well, you get the idea.
[21:49] \[SPEAKER_00\]: Anyway, before the meeting began, Park took a micro recorder and, oh my days, he shoved it right up there.
[21:56] \[SPEAKER_00\]: Man, I hope it was a really micro recorder, amazingly it worked, and Park managed to sit through the home meeting without giving the game away.
[22:05] \[SPEAKER_00\]: What's more, he got valuable information from the dictator about a plot to influence the South Korean elections, and was able to foil it.
[22:13] \[SPEAKER_00\]: Forget the long game, it's all about playing the shlong game.
[22:17] \[SPEAKER_00\]: And on that note, I think it's time we call it a day.
[22:20] \[SPEAKER_00\]: Which of those sneaky tales of espionage freaked you out the most?
[22:24] \[SPEAKER_00\]: Thanks for listening, see you next time.

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