So then I started thinking, okay, well, what's a theory?Why is everybody wanting us to have self -driving cars?Like, why is it such a thing?We've talked about it a little bit in the past.So then I saw this.
Oh my God.
I'm going to start this episode off with a very big disclaimer.And I thought I gave enough disclaimers in the last episode.Like, I feel like I, I went overboard on disclaimers and it still didn't work.So when we kind of revamped the show to do more like just conspiracy theories, I got really excited because I do love this and I love talking about stuff like this.But part of me did get nervous because I started remembering, oh yeah, now I know why I stopped doing this.And it's because talking about stuff like this, even with disclaimers, gets a little bit tricky.
So basically the last episode went through hell.I I'm not even gonna get fully into it.But it literally was like someone did not want that episode out.And it was kind of suspicious.It was.It was getting so crazy.
Like video goes up.I'm excited about it.Proud of it.I'm like, I like that episode.and then it was like boom it got hit with something i was like wait what fixed it boom basically we had to remove like a whole chunk out of the video yeah two actually from two different people and it was like wait what never had that happen before like i had to remove two chunks out of the videoOddly enough, one of them was about the reptiles, which I was like, no one wants us talking about reptiles.
I was like noted never again.But I mean, it really was scary, but I'm not going to stop doing this show.I'm not going to stop talking about these theories.So before we start this episode, all of these are theories.None of these are facts.We are just talking about popular theories that are currently happening in the world.
They are being talked about on the news.They are literally talked about on TikTok, Instagram Reels.Anytime you open your phone, people are talking about these things.We're not talking about things that are super crazy or super problematic.Especially in the last episode, I was so nervous to talk about chemtrails because I personally am like, I don't believe that this is what they're doing, right?But it's one of the biggest conspiracies of all time.
I want to talk about it.I want to have a conversation.Yeah, I think it's fun.And I gave a whole thing about what it really is.And even then it still kind of had some issues.So going into this episode, I don't want to turn this show into we're the crazy people talking about the crazy things.
But also, isn't it kind of fun to talk about some of the crazy stuff, even if it's crazy and be like, we don't believe this, but.
Yeah, we can have a discussion for fun.
That's what people do.I go on Instagram and I see a reel that has like 10 million views talking about whatever we're talking about.And they're fine.But we get like our shit removed.And I'm just like, you know, but listen, it's all for fun.It's all entertainment.
We're not saying we believe any of this.And we're just.trying to have a good time around the conspiracy table.Is that what we're calling this now?
I don't know.I think so.I think that's a good name.And it's not like we're making anything up from our own viewpoints.We're really just joining the conversation about these topics.
Yeah.Okay.Our first theory, disclaimer, I donot believe that this is real.But I do have a theory on what it might actually be.We'll get to that later.
Have you guys heard of Palm Beach Pete?
Personalities on podcasts.It's like killing it.It's living the life.
Well played If that's the case, I don't condone it, but I mean it's fascinating and if you don't know what it is Let me bring up to speed and bring Chris up to speed because he hasn't heard of Palm Beach Pete This is the first thing that went viral.
Epstein is alive.Epstein is alive.
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Get started freeI mean the guy in the video that everybody thought was Epstein ended up being Releasing a reaction which I will say is weird because I think he's wearing the same Outfit and it almost looks like he released it at the same time, which is pretty crazy.
I'm not Jeffrey Epstein.I'm Palm Beach Beach Randomly film me while I was driving on I -95 Unbeknownst to me and the next thing I know I'm a viral sensation Pretty crazy.I want to thank everybody for the positive comments.I got from saying I'm not Jeffrey Epstein, I'm just Palm Beach Pete, going to play some tennis today.
That's a pretty great name he's created for himself.I know, he says it every time.He says, I'm not Epstein, I'm Palm Beach Pete.Can I ask a question about that?Okay.We have more to get to, but before we get to this question, so was he Palm Beach Pete before that?
This is part of the - Or did he create a - No, he was Epstein before.
This is part of why people are weirded out, where it's like, it feels like he just came up withthis if it was like genius then he deserves this his instagram page like bombi cheat was created like right when this happened so it feels like that's why that's why it sounds like a joke that's why the theories are so like real it's because it's like wait like okay we've another video with my drink theory i'm shook today Literally, I bet viral moments.
Well, yes, it feels like he probably was going about his everyday life and every grocery store He was in they were probably like you really look like Jeffrey Epstein and then he probably scared them at yeah And then he probably got the light bulb idea of like, oh, I'm gonna hire like a 20 year old to be like, uh -huh so one of the key things of a liar Is that whoa, that's Palm Beach Pete now, I know it looks like whoa, this is Jeffrey Epstein wait now that you show this video.Palm Beach Pete needs a little more sun damage.
That's the same person here.It says listen to how they pronounce their chief, how they pronounce the Fs.
As your firm, Mr. Redwoods and Mr. Jaffe has been described by the U .S.attorney as perpetrating one of the largest frauds in South Florida's history.
Did he say largest fart in South Beach?It's crazy, right?Palm Beach Pete.
Farts, okay, and then they campaigning in Hollywood to play this.This is Palm Beach Pete, and then this is PBP.And then this is PBP, listen to what he's saying.
And some knucklehead films me.
Stop!He's doing this on purpose.I need you to know, gun to my head, if you showed me those videos and said, which one's Pete and which one's Epstein, couldn't tell you.
So, he either is gunning to play Epstein or he is Epstein.
I know, that's why it's...Palm Beach Pete from sunny Florida and on a cloud in the sky, I'm off to play some tennis.I'm not Jeffrey Epstein.I'm Palm Beach Pete.
I can talk to...It makes no difference where I am, in fact.I'm still talking to the same person if I was at my home in Palm Beach.
But I'm not Jeffrey Epstein.
But I'm here in jail.
It's crazy.
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What?Ryland?I mean, we're looking at PBP.Well, if we're gonna go further down the rabbit hole.So people have mapped their teeth.Stop.
Stop it now.Whoa.
The internet's crazy.So people are, this is another thing.This is another one of the big things that people claim.
It's identical.
It's him.The teeth are extremely similar on the bottom.
No.Which is which?Oh, Pomby.So he's now gained a mole.That was the only disguise.
I mean, it would be weirder.
It would be weirder if there was a mole like previous, you know, it's it's OK.Right, right, right.But then if we want to go even further down.So this is the video of Palm Beach Beach.See this little tattoo he's got on his arm right here.Yes.
Well, actually, you know, it's funny is there's another guy who has.
Oh, I need to go.
So he's on his arm in the exact same place.So he's really playing into this if he isn't him.There's too many coincidences here.What the hell?And so is he like trying to do something meta like spider -man on hollywood boulevard?
I don't want to get Okay, is that meta?
I think that's just a guy dressed like spider -man.
No, I know but he's like playing the real life version of it's not like as on the nose this video about this kind of covers some of the stuff but it's like so he went on tmz and even the tmz people were like here i'll just 2019 you're saying you lived in new york city All they were doing was asking Palm Beach Pete where he was living in certain years, and he was telling them he was living in cities where Jeffrey was living at the same time.Him granting this interview with TMZ as part of basically his world tour.of trying to prove that he is not the man everyone is saying.
Good morning, everybody.This is Palm Beach Pete.I'm not Jeffrey Epstein.I'm just Palm Beach Pete.I'm so not Jeffrey Epstein.
I think the deeper underlying purpose, it's obviously not him.
Obviously.But I think, listen to the tone of this conversation right now that involves his name.Yes.It shifted kind of the whole, when it gets brought up, maybe Palm Beach Pete is the more trendy topic to bring about.
Like we're all laughing like, oh my God, I'm using, like we're - It's fun now.
Now we're celebrating this guy in a way, you know, and it's pretty interesting because it takes the mind to drift a little bit.That is crazy.So here's what I wrote down.
Once again, I do not believe that Jeffrey Epstein is alive.I think he's dead, but I did write this down.Theory, is this a distraction?Similar to when celebrities use body doubles to trick the paparazzi.Once again, I'm not saying I believe that, but it is interesting that we've now turned one of the biggest like monsters of all time into like a hilarious guy that we want on the podcast.
Yeah.No, that's a really good point.
Shout out to Palm Beach Pete, who's obviously a very unique character.He's an original.Nothing but what he says he is.He's not a bad guy.Palm Beach Pete.PBB.
Oh, Jesus.Whoa.
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Scientists have literally put a fly into the matrix.Scientists have uploaded a brain of a fruit fly into a computer and now it lives freely in its own simulation.Look at this little guy.He's just there washing his hands, living his best life.It has no idea at all that it's in a digital world.Look at this, look at this.
He's about to eat digital food.Oh, look, it's so tasty, right?Bro, this is wild.The way they demoed this was using 139 ,000 neurons and 50 million synapses from a real fruit fly brain.
Built the neural model, plugged the sensory inputs, gave it a physics simulated body, and environment just like that the brain performs its natural behaviors of a fruit fly but it's in a digital world and has no idea that it's in a digital world no way no it's literally the matrix so the crazy thing to think about if you really want to think about it is what if that's us right now or what if it's something that could happen to us so a fresh new take on the simulation theory do you know the show upload yeah i haven't seen it and i've heard about it but yeah it's like when you're reaching the end of your life you can put your consciousness into like this until i can give you if you have enough money i think you can like pay to put your like consciousness and live on forever in the thing and it's it feels a lot like that and that's real that right gosh it's real my brain exploded in the physical world when I watch this because I was like okay so the fly doesn't know that I could throw up thinking about that like the thought of him not knowing him him not knowing that he's not real is so crazy to me so that's scary but also like why are scientists doing this and if they're testing it on a fly what's next and then once they get to humans what's the point and then I read about I don't know
where publications are having like staff be like, hey, I write this article and then publishing it.
But I didn't know we were in a world where like A .I.'s publicating them.We're in full dead internet mode.Like there.Sorry, I'm getting on a tangent.But I also saw the same reel over and over again.
It was like first it was a girl and she was just like, have you guys ever wondered why blah blah blah?And I was like, I don't know.Next, this guy.Have you guys ever wondered why?And I was like, what?10 reels later, the same, the same script.
And then I looked into it and they were all AI and they were all made to promote some product and it's not real.And I was just like, I literally scrolled for 10 minutes and every single person was fake.So Jared, what do you think about this fly thing?Where is this leading us?
I mean, a couple of things that Come to mind right away is one is there a mortality for this fly now because flies only live like two days, right?So it is metaverse matrix situation.Is there an expiration date on the fly or You know, is it just gonna live on forever?That's pretty interesting but also maybe you could speed up the process of Building intelligence.Like I don't know if you ever watched Westworld that viewers in the show, but the whole premise is There's this amusement park for adults where the whole shtick is.Everybody within this amusement park is a robot but highly realistic I mean you would never know if this was a robot that you know was among us It would look just like a person even in the show.
The big reveal is always which one is a robot But one of the things is the robots if they get killed per se They go to a doctor or engineer that fixes them back up makes them whole again but there's a dial that could raise the consciousness the intelligence the emotional intelligence and in like one of the episodes of a lady had the ability to do her own gauging and put it to like all the way up and it was almost like she couldn't even fathom what she was doing.thinking about in that moment It was just like too intense But what if they're able to put a consciousness and their dial it up to that point and then decipher exactly what's happening?It might just be a way to harvest information.I don't know.It's all very much like but what is the point?There has to be a point to it.
I kind of think maybe So I started thinking about it and I was like, well, what would be the point of this?Right?Then I got thinking, well, Sam Altman, right?The guy who created OpenAI.Well, if I'm his team and even him, I'm like, well, what if you just put my consciousness into this thing?If I'm unable to run the company or whatever, he'll do it.
It's the same brain, the same mind, the same everything, like that to me.
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Get started freeAnd then it's like, then that becomes, well, what if we just do that for all of the You know smart people in the world and then what if we do that for all of our bosses and what if we do that where now what if we do that for ourselves and we don't have to go to work our consciousness goes to work and then we get to hang out and play like is that where we're going but I've been thinking like you say like Sam Altman's team you know they're able to digitally Quantify his consciousness and put it in this matrix program can more than one of those exists of Sam Altman and be accessed independently because if so Because then Sam Altman could say like well, hey if you want me to run your company, too Wow for like 10 % of your company.
I'll let you download my consciousness into your server It's like don't really like I wish I clone myself Like when you have too much work to do and I wish I could clone myself so I could get all this work done What if you can?You could rent a clone maybe.Digitally clone yourself.
Maybe you could rent one for like 50 bucks a day.That would be a service in the future.I buy it.I gotta do some shit I don't wanna do.Weeber.
There you go.Weeber.Yeah.It's like Uber.I'm in.Okay.
Well, speaking of cloning ourselves, this, okay, this goes along the whole thing we were talking about of like dead internet and how nothing on Instagram or TikTok is real anymore, just a theory.
Let me show you this reel that popped up that, uh, me question everything.
Here's another one I did for Breeze.Create a Facebook ad fora soda alternative called Brez, pronounced Breeze.
You all, I cannot stop talking about this drink.It's called Brez, spelled B -R -E -Z, but you say it like Breeze, and it is my new favorite alternative soda.This flavor is lemon elderflower, super light, kind of floral, a little citrusy.It has microdose...
And she's talking all about the product, like I didn't include anything about it.It's able to find it.These videos are awesome.
absolutely insane this is that girl is not real and the product isn't even fucking if i was scrolling i'd believe it mean i 100 i believed it and then i so i saw that real and look how far it's come so two years ago in september of 2024 we did our whole like ai conspiracy video which is so crazy we should react to it or something because yeah it's everything we talked about has come true and has been worse.Like remember - That could be for the disclaimer.
Everything we talk about becomes true and it gets worse.
Disclaimer, we do not believe any of this stuff.
None of it happened.So look at Ryland's fake avatar that we created just two years ago and how not very realistic it is.That was kind of like him, I think.I think it's pretty good.It's not, but it gives you that, oh, it's AI, right?
I mean, but now AI is so good, dude.You could just put in a prompt to be like, hey, be me acting this part perfectly and send it.Can you just send that in as an audition?For auditions?Yeah.
Don't give him ideas.That, wow, that really unlocked something.
Imagine if there's going to be a movie like, hey, we casted all the people.Where the hell are they?I was thinking of, you know, celebrities do cameo.
Oh my God.That is actually genius.
Just a theory.New theory, new theory.So this is a clip.We used Ryland's avatar to make a clip and here it is.
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It's honestly not that bad.
I kind of want to post it out of context now.
I remember it took so long for us to get a sentence that was bad, but also they would let us make him say, because they wouldn't let us say any swear words at all.It was so annoying.
Well, we tried it yesterday because I was like, oh, do we still have Ryland's avatar?And so Spencer's like, yeah, we have it.I'm like, all right, let's see if it's gotten better.We'll let you guys be the judge.
Hey, girlies.Just wanted to pop on here to let you know that Shane was right during our last fight.I was totally in the wrong and I wanted to tell him sorry.Shane, I am actually sorry.
Shane, I am actually sorry.I will say one thing.I asked Ryland to give a baseline video for this, and I've never heard him talk more like a robot in my life.
I think it's because he said you need to pause after every sentence.And so then I was like, hey, my name is Ryland.That's how he talks.How else would I talk and pause at the end?You talk normal and then you leave a gap.I can't do that.
I didn't know what you were doing, but I heard him recording this and I was like, why is Ryland talking like a robot?
So I think it's a little bit, I don't know.I think I'm bad at AI.It's a little bit of user error for me and Ryland together.
Now, speaking of all of that, and please don't get any ideas for this.Then I saw this.Change your background.It's your outfit.so okay that was crazy to me because her background literally changed into a completely different one and it didn't look green screened it didn't look like weird or fake it looked 100 real and i was like oh that's interesting and i was like how many people could you trick with that then i saw this one that really takes it up a notch the barrier of entry for high quality content is now so low because of ai you don't need a perfect background perfect makeup or full
And I'm like, nobody's going to do this, right?
I mean, that's what we thought about Facetune.Right.In her video, she put comment AI to get a full step -by -step guide.15 .1 thousand comments, and they are all AI, AI, AI, AI.And they're all AI, AI, AI, come on.Same thing with the location one.
That girl got 33 .9 thousand comments and it's all people, it said comment how to learn how to change your background and your outfit.
Clearly the same formula.
I do think though all of this is going to result in there being a lot more value in being outside and interacting with real people.Like at some point people are going to want actual human interaction and how can you guarantee you're getting that online?
It's a trend people are seeing with like really young people now is that they like they value like in -person stuff way more like a concert is like there's a reason concert tickets are so expensive too it's like kids are like willing to pay a lot of money because like this is where we actually can live a real life.
Well speaking of real life there's nothing more real than school.Guys, this is not a brand deal for school.I'd be open to a sponsorship from school.Me too.Hey, we're partnering with school.Remember how ups - Oh, why did I look at you?
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Get started freeYou didn't know me when I was six.Remember when I was - Wow, you just can't remember life without me. I can't.I did see this and we had - Jared has broken this down before, but In case you haven't seen that episode, I want to show this again.Once again, disclaimer, I am not saying any of this is true.I am not anti school.I think school is great.
No, we're sponsored by school.So yes, I'm not anti school.I'm not anti teacher.I love teachers.But I thought this was interesting.So I wanted to talk about it just because I think it's kind of entertaining and fascinating.
So here we go.
John D. Rockefeller was one of the richest men inthe entire world from the oil industry.And in 1903, he funded the General Education Board with a famous quote of saying, I don't want a nation of thinkers.I want a nation of workers.The General Education Board's main objective was to create schools that focused on obeying authority, following rules, memorizing, not not thinking, and breeding you to work nine to five jobs for elite corporations.That is why we see the mundane subjects in school of things like math, English, and other subjects.
And I mean, even look at our schools, they look like prison.
Why do you think I never memorized my times tables?
Okay, so obviously, that's like crazy, right?Like, oh, wow, that's so interesting.I was looking into it.I will say the quote from john d rockefeller that said i don't want a nation of thinkers i want a nation of workers is not proven it's an unproven quote nobody can prove that he said that right i want to say that but it got me down this rabbit hole that was kind of funny of like people comparing jail to school and it's like it's crazy okay first of all let me just show you this video and then i'll show you more examples why would you put a kid in a room behind a desk when the sun is out for their whole entire childhood not put him in front of water or ocean or anything that inspires them dim lights if you notice schools jails and hospitals all look exactly the same why wouldn't it something inspired so that video turned out to be an ad for a homeschool good marketing good i mean got me but okay so let me take you down the list of of things that look the same in prison as they do in school and it's pretty fun okay and Are we sponsored by this homeschool?We're sponsored by jail and school.So authoritarian.
structure both in school and in prison address code both in school and in prison emphasis on silence and order both in school and in prison Negative reinforcement, like detention.Oh yeah.Walking lines.
That is true.
Set times enforced for walking, eating, et cetera.So then there's a bunch of picture examples.So look at the food with the little trays.Very similar to prison, right?So then I started thinking, wait a minute.This is where I was, you know, creating little theories.
I was like, what if it is the same food?Well, I asked Google and Google said, yes.Prisons and public schools often use the same massive food service providers and distributors, such as Amarok, Cisco, and Sodexco.They often have the same.
So it's literally the same food?
Allegedly.
I feel like I have a memory from my childhood of this, of like, Oh, we found out the elementary school is using the same food as the prison or something like that.I feel like I have a memory of that being like local news and never was like, well, yeah.
I mean, then I started thinking about like recess, you know, like you're a kid and you're out in the yard.In prison, you kind of get a recess or you like get a walk around the little quad area.It's just like, there is a lot of similarities.And then I was like.I wonder if the Simpsons has ever like predicted this because they predict everything.And I literally Googled Simpsons prison and I found this.
We've got to figure something out.They've got us locked in here like prisoners.
Prisoners in our own school.
That shot of the fucking Simpsons school being a prison is crazy.And that to me, I don't know.Listen, once again, I'm not saying school.is prison, although sometimes it feels like it.I'm trying to relate to the kids.But like the similarities are wild.
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I'm always right and it's usually worse.Disclaimer.But no, I mean.
I wonder how old college is.
How college?What do you mean?
The idea of college.
Yeah, like how long?Well, college is for the people that really want to get high paying jobs because you're going to make more money in a corporation if you have a college degree.Allegedly.I don't know this for sure, but if you went to MIT or something like that, you're probably hundreds of thousands of dollars in debt.So they know that you're coming in.Having to pay off his debt.
So you're gonna work way harder.You're probably gonna work long hours because this job Means to you paying off that debt and if you lose it, that means that you're gonna go more in debt We're a non college, you know graduate has none of that So they're a little bit more riskier.They don't have the leverage on them of you know, so that's What I've heard is one of the factors in paying make a lot of college graduates But all this is why I almost went to Germany for school because I have family out there, and it's just it's free.
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I was just at Costco and I was trying to be a cool mom, get some brownie points by treating my kids to blueberry bagels.Guess what?No cool mom here.This dietician is not buying these blueberry bagels and I'm going to show you why.So I picked up the blueberry bagel bag and I look at the label and it says simulated blueberry bagels.And I was like, simulated?
That's weird.Luckily, the ingredients list is listed right below.So let's read through them.Flour, water, sugar.I'm OK. I'm even OK with the sugar.OK, next is simulated blueberries in brackets.
Sugar, corn syrup, corn cereal, corn starch, palm.I think it was all of palm oil.Artificial flavor.Brilliant blue FCF.Allura red.And there's no blueberries in this bagel.
They simulated blueberries, basically just sugar, corn starch, corn syrup to make fake blueberries to put in these bagels.That's a no for me.My kids will not be getting simulated blueberry bagels.
I wonder how much they are.
By God, we should have got them.We should.
Bring out the bagels!
I need blueberry for this recipe.Do you know the recipe for blueberry?I just need to make blueberry real quick.First of all, you know what?
Okay, positive.
You're standing up for Costco?Let me give one positive before I drag them.At least they're being honest about it.It says very big on that label Which is crazy, which is fucking crazy, right?Also imagine going to costco and being like hi, excuse me, where's the simulated?Bagels like what the fuck is happening, right?
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Get started freeAt least they were up for although this is canada.So maybe in the u .s.They're not allegedly just maybe canadabetter, like, transparency food laws. ButBut like, that's fucking crazy.
And I just get some blueberries.It's not that hard.Well, they're the same people fucking their chickens.I mean, so, yeah, clarifying.Altering their rotisserie chickens.
They put water in the chicken.
There will never be a day.where I don't run into a Costco theory on my explore page.It's fucking crazy.
Shout out Costco for staying relevant, I guess, because it's every day.
It's a little bit when you're the biggest in your category, you're going to be brought down.
There's going to be haters like me. I think it's more they just got some wild shit going on.They're making blueberries over there.
I don't know, ships get crazy.I don't know, but please don't sue me.But what, um, which then I want to give a positive update.So in the last episode, we talked about recess and how we were right and how the peanut butter cups tasted weird and different and disgusting.And then the like, you know, grandson of Mr. Reese's came out and was like, what the fuck?These taste weird.
So there's an update.
Hershey's and Reese's products.will soon taste a little different.According to Hershey Company, the chocolate in a small portion of the products will soon be made using its classic milk and dark chocolate recipes.Some of the impacted products include Reese's Mini Cups and Shapes.The changes will take effect next year.And of course, this comes after the grandson of Reese's creator accused Hershey of using cheaper ingredients.
This is where my brain goes, okay?Shout out to Big Chocolate, first and foremost.Alright?I'm good with Big Chocolate.But I believe it might have been in the 80s.Maybe the 90s, I'm not exactly sure on the date.
But Coca -Cola did something.where they revamped their whole ingredient list and they had Coca -Cola new formula and they put that out into the stores and people were outraged.They were pissed off.Everybody was talking about this disgusting new Coke that exists.And maybe like a year later or so, Coca -Cola decided to put back out Coca -Cola classic.That's why it's called Coca -Cola classic now.
And they like quadrupled their Yourselves, so I think this could be kind of big chocolate Take a note of big soda and be on my will it work for a coca -cola?But now we got everybody in the world talking about how bad it is.We'll take a hit for like two quarters You're blowing my mind.Just put out some powdery chocolate.You know the people don't think tastes good Because we're gonna let them know but don't worry you were right and the one that you do want to get is is now available again.People that haven't had Reese's in forever are gonna be like, I wonder if it does taste the same as when I was a kid, you know?
Or younger people are gonna be like, oh, finally, give me back what I wanted and get even more engulfed in eating probably tons more Reese's now because, you know, they're back on the big chocolate.
Imagine how much money Coca -Cola would get if they started putting cocaine back in their drink.Whoa.
Think about it, Coke.They've been invoiced for Coca -Leafs in recent history, so you never know.
Well, I will say one thing about Big Chocolate is that a little allegedly theory, just a theory, is that maybe they got on to a good formula for their chocolate because there's a new trend going in Big Chocolate.
Is that poop?and immediately threw it away, which is exactly what you should do.That dairy milk isn't even legal anymore.
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Get started freeSo lab -grown chocolate is hitting the shelves, folks!All these big companies...I think I talked about it a while ago that one of my theories was like... it's it's becoming harder and harder to get real chocolate these coca beans with like climate stuff and like international issues and everything it's just hard getting harder to get the supplies and so all these companies are realized like oh we have we can now grow chocolate in the lab we can now make lab -grown chocolate and so we're just going to start replacing that okay that's Yuck.
Let me, okay.Let's just do a quick little fun food one.And I have an idea.Now this one is stupid, but it made me laugh.And it also did kind of blow my mind a little bit.This is a theory about Lucky Charms.
And I bet you have not heard this one.Why do Lucky Charms look like cat food?
I mean, nor the marshmallows.
Just look at the cereal.Why does it look like that?Now, the official story is that somebody in the 1960s just cut up some circus peanuts and mixed them with some Cheerios.But what if there was more to the story?What if I told you they had a very expensive factory full of very expensive machinery and they didn't want to throw it away?So they said, hey, let's make a kid's cereal.
But...We gotta disguise it, right?So they added the marshmallows to distract us.Without them, you wouldn't eat them, but you can't mine.
And I didn't do this to you guys, cause like, this would be crazy.I'm not, I was thinking like, how funny would it be if before I showed you that video, I was like, all right, guys, we're going to see if Lucky Charms still tastes the same.And if I just got cat food and put the marshmallows in it, I wish you would have done it.And then everybody tries it's like, no, it tastes the same.And I'm like, it's cat food.I didn't do it.
Cause that's crazy.
I tricked a few people into eating dog food when I was younger.What was your scam because I remember that well I had a bag a ziploc baggie full of dog food and it just looks like grape nuts You know like the cereal and one girl just asked if you know, what is those?Oh, it's like some healthy stuff I eat to like, you know, keep my hunger in check whatever and I gave her like a handful She chucked it down and I said it was dog food and she punched me in the arm and I got a pretty bad I will say, just like I stood up for Costco, I'm going to stand up for you here.It was funny.At least you told that.It's a long con too, because you really are like doing it for a while.
When you work at a pet store, like you think of any reason to have fun with it.
That's one of them.So let us know Lucky Charms.Listen, I'm a big Lucky Charms head.Love it.Let us know.Is that true?
Did you guys used to be cat food or did they make, are the machines, they used to make cat food and then they transitioned it to cereal.Cause that's fascinating.Why else would it look like cat food?And why is nobody besides this genius ever said that?
He did it in such a good way to where I believed him.
So he's a hundred percent big expensive thing.So why is this?Yeah.Why is that?I think if you put, why does lucky charms look like cat food on a shirt, that'd be a good seller.That's a very high engager right there.
You think it's a high seller?
I'd like it.Sell it on bigdicks .com.That's not the website.
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Alright, enjoy the rest of the show!Alright, you're never going to believe this, but this next theorywas submitted by Ryland.
Oh, yes, yes, yes, yes.
I will say, though, he sent me a link and he goes.
I don't know what this is. I didn't watch it, but it's a conspiracy and it was on my timeline.
So this is the pink and blue conspiracy in pop music.And you know, I love my color theory when it comes to pop music.We've talked about it before.The hair theory was like a few years ago where we talked about the fact that if you want to blow up as a singer, you want to be a biggest pop star in the world.You pick a specific hair color and then it happens.And it happened with so many different people.
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Get started freeThen it was like, well, just pick a color in general.Olivia Rodrigo picked purple and then Taylor Swift picked red or orange and blue in the last one, right?Yeah.Yeah.So it's like you pick a color and then you blow up.Well, this new theory is how to blow up as a female pop star.
Guys, there is a pink and blue conspiracy in pop music.This color combo keeps popping up for all of the major pop divas.The pinks range from soft to confident, and the blues range from being safe to being an authority figure.So naturally, we can graph where an album is on the soft versus confident spectrum, and then do the same thing on the safe to authoritative spectrum.So first thing I did was graph all of the albums on their pink scale.and then I did the blues.
And that's when I started to see patterns.These are the soft and safe albums, this is soft girl but in charge, this is confident and in charge, and this is confident and safe.And that helped me find a bunch of instances where different artists use the same colors for similar emotional purposes.Pink and blue keeps popping up because it's the easiest way for an artist to immediately establish themselves as both feminine and trustworthy.
Okay, so, I instantly was like, wait a minute, feminine and trustworthy.That makes so much sense, especially in pop music, right?When your target demographic is young girls and you're like, how do I appeal to them in an album image so that they trulyme and also know that I'm a girl's girl like how do I do that so then I literally searched pink and blue album covers and the first one I found pink trust fall I love pink by the way, but like, trust that was so funny to me.Cause it's like the pink, the blue.Well, Olivia Rodrigo was one of the biggest color theory, you know, conspiracies because she chose purple and she really went with it.
Right.Well now she's on her third album and she's like, okay, how am I going to, you know, appeal to the audience?How am I going to switch it up?Her next album cover.Wow.Then I started thinking, well, what if there's an even bigger theory to this?
I agree with her, it's about the feminine and the safe, and then I was like, but what does light pink and light blue remind me of that reminds me of childhood?That's nostalgic.Like, and nostalgia is the biggest seller of nostalgia.Of everything.Of movies.That's why they remake movies.
Of candy.That's why they always do throwbacks.Like, whatever.Nostalgia is huge.Childhood.So then I searched, like, pink and blue album covers nostalgic.
And then, yeah, one of the biggest pop albums of all time, Dua Lipa.And it's pink and blue.And her album's called Future Nostalgia.Where the whole concept of her album was taking old songs and, like, sampling them in every one of her songs to remind you of the songs you loved when you were a kid.And I was like, whoa.Did you wear a pink and blue shirt on purpose?
No!
I'm gonna throw up.
The exact colors.I'm sick.Oh my god, what are you trying to project?
You can trust him.These are just theories.
He doesn't believe them until they're true two years later and then it's told you so.
So yeah, let us know.Have you noticed any other albums that are pink and blue?and did they make you feel like you trust them?Um, okay.Well, speaking of not being able to trust anyone, although I trust all those pop divas, this is a clip about news anchors.And this led me down a real crazy rabbit hole, but we'll start here.
So if you talk to your parents, every news anchor that they remember from their childhood, there's like a 90 % chance that was a, uh, actual CIA operative.And this is, documented, released documents.Guys like Walter Cronkite, like one of the most famous news anchors of all time, working for the CIA.
Really?
To engineer reality.And they're in the business of engineering reality.And you just have to understand that so much of our reality is engineered.It doesn't mean you walk around like a schizophrenic thinking that everything's out to get you, everybody's targeting you.It just means, like, you see something happen on the news, you see something happen in your life, and you just have one word, just memorize this one word when you, anybody listening, when you hear that stuff or see that stuff, maybe, maybe.They say, oh, this happened today because of this one thing.
Maybe.Just maybe.You don't have to say there's some global cabal and like I need to drill down to the end and go break into - Cut to Ryland being like, why didn't you do the dishes?I'm like - Maybe.
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Get started freeUh, okay.So this was interesting.Cause once again, I don't know if any of that is true.I was looking into it.I we've talked about this before where like there has been instances where the news has been caught, like scripting things or, you know, for sure, setting things up or whatever.But do you guys remember in 2018, there was this clip that went viral and it was where all the news stations started kind of saying the same script.
If you don't remember, here it is.
Our greatest responsibility is to serve our Treasure Valley communities.The El Paso -Las Cruces communities.Eastern Iowa communities.
Mid -Michigan communities.
We are extremely proud of the quality, good quality.journalism that CBS 4 News produces.
But...We are concerned about the trouble that's happening to irresponsible, one -sided news stories in our country.
Okay.What?Crazy, right?So, there was an update about this.Well, first of all, what happened was this big news organization, The largest owner of local television stations in the US directed all of its news anchors in 2018 to deliver the same scripted message Which was about you know false news and the spread of false news and not to trust false news and things like that So they sent out the same script to all the news stations that they owned to say the same script So that's why they did that right?So then I guess they did it again?
Today, Sinclair Broadcast Group was caught again with dozens of local anchors again reading the same script.The newsletter's public notice and popular information first brought attention to the copycat newscasts, which featured a script you might say has a very clear, conservative agenda.
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That's crazy.So, okay, I pulled those clips, right?And I was like, oh yeah, we'll do an update.We'll talk about this.Then, totally unrelated, I moved on to my next theory I was going to research, which is about your car listening to you and watching you.I was like, falling down that rabbit hole.
So first I click on this news clip.
You bought a new car in the last five years.You may be sharing more than just the road.A new consumer reports investigation reveals that automakers could be tracking and selling your driving data often without you even knowing.
Okay.So I was watching that clip and I was like, Oh wow, that's so scary.That's crazy.Oh.And then on my sidebar on YouTube, I saw this other news clip and I was like, Oh, it's another Steve.It's another news.
If you bought a new car in the last five years, you might be sharing more than just the road.
Wow, it's literally, you can cut it.Investigation reveals that automakers could be tracking and selling your driving data often without you even knowing it.That new car of yours, that's so weird.
I was like, oh my God.It's still happening, it freaked me out.So I don't know if they're owned by, I don't know, but that was just crazy to me that I'm like, wow, you see a news story and you're like.
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Get started freeBut why would you make more than one news publication say the exact same thing?To me, it makes it all feel weird.
Because it's all content.They're just filling up space.I remember when the fires were happening, which was the most traumatic, scariest thing ever, the news turned it into the Super Bowl.
Yeah, it really kept dragging it on.
After it was kind of contained it was like you're still in danger you're still they want you to feel like whoa i'm in danger i need to watch the news i need to come back after the break to see where the fire is going to hit next and then if you watch the movie nightcrawler which is really good you just watch it but jake gyllenhaal plays you know uh where he goes out and tries to film things for the news but like he starts staging things for the news and you know being a part of the crime scene to get footage for the news and the news stations like great love it like it it is very very fascinating what the news like yeah it is it is interesting especially now also with like it's like i think more and more people are like i think they realize that's like control like just a way to get your message yeah yeah we all know but yeah well speaking of the rabbit hole light was starting to fall down and then I got distracted which was that your cars are all listening and watching you which we actually did talk about I think in that 2020 video but basically a lot of car companies when you you know buy the car if there's like an electronic anything in your car like a media center or like a screen or if you've noticed a lot of cars now have the screens the theory isthat you are accepting a lot of terms and conditions and they are tracking everything you're doing and every song you're listening to and every like tiny little turn you make.And like everything is allegedly being tracked the second that you step off the lot.So that is a theory.Then I started going down the rabbit hole about, I was like, well, okay, if all the car companies are collecting all this data, like, okay, that's crazy.Didn't one of the car companies get in trouble for like, it's like sex something.
It was, yeah, it was sex.Yeah.They were tracking all their health data, which included how often they had sex when they had sex, when it would read, it would, it had access to all your texts.Stop it.Yeah.So it would take all your texts and it could like, it could like scan all your stuff.
We never text about having sex.That would be weird.Did it?That would be weird.I don't think that's what it was.Hey, we had sex just to confirm.
Was it listening or was it like car sex specific?
No, no.It was like, like going into your, like when you, whenever you plug your phone in and it's like, you've accepted that they can look through your phone.
So then I started thinking, okay, well, what about people who just like.uber everywhere or like what about people who don't have cars or like yeah how are they being tracked then i started falling down the waymo rabbit hole i have never been in one of these i can't do it i'm too scared mainly because of my car sickness it's like way too yeah right yeah but have you seen all the videos of what the fuck is happening with these waymos have you seen these no it's crazy i see them in the wild but i'll just watch a few of the waymos doing way more than they should be we need way less on the road safety concerns at this railroad crossing for a driverless Waymo vehicle in Austin, Texas.
The car stopped between the safety arm and the tracks just as that train passed.Waymo says there was no passenger in the car.Company says its vehicles have crossed that location hundreds of times without incident, but says it will now review that location.Waymo.insisted its self -driving cars are safer than human drivers, despite recent incidents making headlines.
Okay, can I just say this?Waymo, don't come for me. I don't want a lawsuit, but I will say it's funny to compare it to like human drivers when like, yeah, there's a lot of crazy human drivers.They're like, but we're not as bad as the worst humans ever.
I think the whole thing is like, The campaign is, we're not distracted, you are.Computers aren't distracted.
But also, this.
That's clearly some company talk.
oh my god imagine you're the last thing you hear is some like corporate like let me escalate that to our oh my god it's like the last thing you hear oh my god so then i saw this So I just found out that Waymos are driven by people in the Philippines, and I can't get over it.
Obviously, we know that Waymos are self -automated, but when a Waymo is in a situation where they don't know what to do, basically their controls are sent to people in the Philippines that navigate them out of those sticky situations.I can't help but picture people out there being like, all right, I'm going to make some money.I'm going to play Waymo now.It's like GTA, but instead of the regular characters, it's just tech bros in SF.
This happened to me. really first time i took a waymo it got stuck for like 20 minutes in a parking lot we had to call you didn't bail no because we had to go we were late it was like we just got in it drove the wrong way drove behind a building into some random parking lot and then it kept goingOh my God.We were like, Hey, we're stuck.And then it was like the same kind of thing.Okay, we'll figure that out for you.And then it clearly a human took over a drove us out of the parking lot and then it's took it and then they started doing it.
The autonomous vehicle company Waymo is facing some criticism.Waymo safety officer said if they get into a sticky situation, agents are located in the U .S.and in the Philippines to help.Some lawmakers said having remote operators from outside the U .S.
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So then I started thinking, okay, well, what's a theory?most taken over.Why is everybody wanting us to have self -driving cars?Like, why is it such a thing?We've talked about a little bit in the past, but the one that Jared has brought up before that I wanted to circle back to was the idea of a kill switch that all the cars that are self -driving, allegedly just a theory, might have a kill switch.And that is something that could be really bad if the wrong people were in control of that.
Yeah, I mean, a kill switch definitely makes sense, but also I think maybe even it was something we mentioned a couple episodes back is like, it all feels like everything is kind of gearing towards something we've been talking about since the jump, but this alien invasion that they have planned.I mean, let's just kind of think everything is leaning towards that.But I think you had mentioned that if all the cars stopped, that would be very reminiscent of a moment in a movie where, like, something comes into our atmosphere that just takes up so much energy field that nothing else can exist within its range.And then everything would just go black, cars would stop.It would feel pretty sketchy.Imagine just being on the freeway and every car stops, including yours.
The outage created driving chaos on the streets as traffic lights were down throughout the city.And Waymo's self -driving cars were were put on pause by the company after the autonomous vehicles were baffled by the lack of traffic lights.
Imagine being the only car that didn't stop.
That would be kind of weird too.Okay, that's terrifying.This is not a theory.This is just something along the lines of like Uber and crazy things that have happened.So in 2016, Uber drivers in China found a loophole that basically would get them paid to do nothing.They would set creepy profile pictures and unsettling names so that passengers would get spooked out and cancel the trip.
That way they would collect the cancellation fee without ever having to leave the parking spot.
I'm gonna use Palm Beach Pete.
Like, look at some of these profile pictures.
He's trying to look at us.
Oh my god.Like, whoa.Okay, look at this one.
I'd say the girl from the ring.
Literally.I mean, like this, like, what?Like, what?
That, I mean...Good for you.That's human beings using their wild intelligence to scam the system.At least they're not using AI.
The only problem is when somebody doesn't cancel and then you're obligated to still do it.And then they're just like, you're a freak.
And then they show up and they're like, oh, you don't look like the picture.
Yeah, you look pretty good actually.They're like, well, I was trying to scam you.So could you please cancel this ride?Wow.
Um, okay.Spencer, speaking of none of that.Or maybe kind of a little bit.You said you had a little rabbit hole about the CIA doing something pretty crazy.
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Get started freeDo you guys see in the news, in the like Iran war stuff, how there was like a pilot that like crashed in Iran and there was this crazy rescue mission to like capture him?I don't know if you guys saw any of that.So this American pilot crashed in like the mountains of Iran and he was stuck there and they had to like rescue him before he got killed or anything like that.And so he was, the way they found him is they revealed this tool the CIA has, which is just like Obviously they have a lot of hidden technology, but it's just interesting to see when they have to use it.like how it comes out and it's called the ghost murmur and they have this technology i don't really know how it works that the ghost murmur can hear the guy's heartbeat from miles away they have this technology to hear the heartbeat and they have this profile on the guy so they know exactly like the unique specification of his heart rate.And so they could find, they found him.
He was hidden in a cave in the mountains in like the middle of nowhere.And they like were scanning the area and they found his specific heartbeat.Cause they could hear it.And it just like, there's no other rabbit hole to go down.Cause it's like top secret information, but it was just really interesting to me. I'm just like, what is like, they're taking all this data on us.Like we're always like, well, what are they going to use for blah, blah, blah.
But it's like, that's how far it can go.It's like they can know your exact heartbeat.They can find you anywhere.They can do this.They can like, but it also, it brings up the Luigi Mangione thing and how they're like, wait, so you found him just off of a guy recognizing him somehow, allegedly with like a, just the mask on you just from his eyes.And it's like, no, I think they were tracking him illegally in some way.
Allegedly.That's all Spencer.
Well, speaking of that, uh, Jared so break this down because Spencer is telling me about this I've seen this everywhere but I really want to understand what's actually happening and what's what's not a theory because Spencer is saying this is like all over this is a thing Chris was even saying I had a thing about but do you want to play your video to get into it so this is just kind of let's gradually get to the peak of this theory, but I found this video and I found it very interesting and you'll see why, but it basically goes over products that were created that got taken off the shelf or were made to cease production and see what kind of products these are and see maybe why people wouldn't want them out there.
Products that got discontinued for solving the problem.Number one, the forever flashlight in 2009.Wow.
And you can probably pause at this point, but basically the last one is a company was selling lifetime mufflers for cars.But within like eight years of them being on the market, all the auto mechanics took a off the shelf because they rely on repeat business.But the whole thing is like, there's a gentleman and his name was Stanley Meyer.And in 1998, and I think we may have talked about this before, but he created a car which the engine ran strictly on water.He has developed what's called a water fuel cell.
The Pentagon flew a lieutenant colonel in last week to look at Meyers invention.There's talk of possibly using it in the Star Wars defense program and to run army tanks.
This was going to be like a huge blow to the oil companies, to everyone that basically supplies the capabilities for cars to run off of gasoline.So he was called by a company and like, Hey, we're like super interested in this patent.Cause he had a bunch of patents throughout across multiple industries, but they're like, we really liked this one.We want to meet with you.So let's go out to dinner.So they take him out to dinner and he, he was found dead outside of the restaurant, but he had a note on him, allegedly.
that said they poisoned me and they did it.because of what I'm doing to revolutionize the car world.So he went in there with that note thinking there's a very big possibility that these people just want me out and they're going to try to do something to me.And once he realized that he walked out just enough to get his note out there and like have it be read.But it's crazy because I think there's like a system where they find somebody and then they see, could we use this person as an asset?Do we need to get rid of this person?
Or can we give this person an alternative?And Spencer had texted me about how a bunch of scientists recently have gone missing.And if I knew anything about that, and I heard a little bit about it, but I started doing more research.And it's very interesting because since 2023, nine scientists have gone missing.And the first one in 2023, he worked for something called the Jet Propulsion Laboratory for NASA.And then there was, I mean, most of them.
Then the next guy, his name is Frank Wehwald.He worked for the same exact laboratory.He was actually a co -worker of the first guy, who was Michael David Hicks, that passed away.And it was very mysterious.Like, he's a pretty healthy guy at 59, and he just suddenly dies.But the one that, like, really caught my attention Out of the nine, I believe like seven of them work for NASA.
The other two were for Los Alamos.But this one lady, this happened in 2025.Her name was Monica Rizza, but she was just walking in the Angelos forest with like 30 people, mind you.But the last time she was actually seen, she was waving at a friend that was 30 feet away.And the friend looked back and she was completely gone.And this happened in Angelo's National Forest.
It was very close to a highway and they deemed it as it must have been accidental, you know, terrain incident where she fell off a cliff or something.But they researched the cliff she was next to.It wouldn't have been fatal if she fell off of it.And she's never been seen again.And I mean, this just keeps happening.over and over, whether people are dying, whether people are going missing.
I mean, the last one was actually a guy that was doing like cancer research and his body was found and he was part of like JPL and this just happened literally a month ago so he's the last in the string of disappearances but it's just like a wild thing and it has been on the news a lot like the lady that I just told you about she uh went missing it was in June of 2025 and then like eight months later the general in charge that was funding her project went missing So it was the one that really like broke it open.So it's kind of like, why are all these people going missing?Do they know something that they shouldn't know?Do they possess something that other people want?Or are they just so valuable for us that it makes them dangerous for somebody else for us to have them on our team, you know?
Wow.
But it's a lot to think about.That's terrifying.
Wow.Well, just to end this episode on a light note, I guess.A light blue and light pink note.Thank you.Have you guys heard of DoorDash's brand new standalone app called Tasks?No.
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Get started freeThis is not sponsored by Tasks, but let me tell you about it.Instead of paying dashers to drop off your food, they started paying dashers to strap on a body camera and film themselves doing their everyday household chores.Oh, what in the Pokemon go?Things like hand washing dishes to loading the dishwasher, folding laundry.uh, recording unscripted everyday conversations in different languages.So why are they doing this?
Well, the AI and robotics industry is starving for high quality real life data.So tech giants need massive amounts of first person video to teach the next generation of humanoid robots.and AI systems how to understand complex daily tasks.So rather than building a data collection team from scratch, DoorDash realized they already have a network of 8 million independent contractors across the US.So now if you want to join tasks, you strap a camera to you and just do everyday chores.Very cool.
But to me, it's interesting because like, Yeah, in the right now, you know, any job is good.Like, you know, people need jobs, but also, um, you're just training the AI and the robots to take this job very soon.
There are so many people doing that right now.It's like, guys, don't do that.
Yeah.Stop.I don't know.I just thought that was next level.That is crazy.
I don't know why we keep going towards the humanoid robots, because I keep seeing videos of them like freaking out and like trying to kill someone in a restaurant.
Like, have you seen?I think we saw the same video and everyone's laughing, like as they're trying to shut it down and they can't.
And it's like, There keeps being more and more videos of them, like getting violent and flipping out.And I'm like, and we want to make more of these.
Combining AI with the robots is truly the end of us.Truly.Thank you.
Well, that was supposed to be light, but listen, I think that we're going to be fine.If they end every episode like that.And disclaimer, that is just a theory.Uh, there you guys go.Hopefully you enjoyed whatever the hell this was.Let us know in the comments.
Are you enjoying this new format?Do you like it?Do you miss the old format?Do you want us to bring in a game every once in a while?We could do that.We, I do like this table.
Like I enjoy sitting here.I feel like we're closer.I do think we could incorporate some like snack testing or conspiracy kitchen vibes, or maybe some games.Let us know in the comments.What do you want us to incorporate?What are you enjoying about this new vibe?
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And we have two extra podcasts, office party podcast a month.We have one to two vlogs a month, an episode of a docuseries.So check it out.And we also have a conspiracy chat over there, which we're always in there, you know, talking about different theories and stuff.Hope you guys enjoyed this episode.Stay safe out there.
Stay away from robots.And cars.Robotic cars.And Ryland.Oh, he's driving.Stay away from me for sure.
I crashed the shit out of Shane's car last week.
Bye.Bye.
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