Sam Bungey

We're trying to desperately.

And...

Yeah, we had a newborn baby.

The podcast was late.

It was a tough time.

And I think we were kind of looking for escapism.

And this story was in the papers at the time because it was all very sketchy back then, 2017.

Yeah.

Supposedly, a small group of American US spies and diplomats, so people working as diplomats in Cuba, in Havana, Cuba, or pretending to be diplomats, but actually working as CIA agents in Cuba.

began to suffer a range of strange symptoms after hearing an odd and overpowering noise in their rented accommodation in the evening around twilight.

And sometimes they were in bed, sometimes they were sitting on the veranda having a mojito or something.

But they found themselves overpowered and then...

A week or two later, they started feeling terrible where they would get terrible brain fog.

They would start like falling down.

Their balance was terrible at work and, you know, headaches and inability to kind of concentrate on writing.

Or, you know, there's a thing where if you're sitting in the back of a car, a moving car, and someone cracks one window, you get that funny baffling sound.

Yes.

So there was a range of things.

But the stories back then were quite thin and filled with what turned out to be rumors.

There was quite a lot of false rumors about the extent of what was going on.