1 00:00:00,160 --> 00:00:04,400 Speaker 1: Welcome to thrilling threads. Get comfortable, lock your doors, maybe 2 00:00:05,160 --> 00:00:07,799 maybe check your lamps for listening devices. I am kidding 3 00:00:08,160 --> 00:00:09,320 mostly it is. 4 00:00:09,480 --> 00:00:11,759 Speaker 2: Really good to be here, and honestly, after what we 5 00:00:11,800 --> 00:00:14,839 are about to unpack today, checking the lamps might not 6 00:00:14,880 --> 00:00:16,359 be the most irrational thing you do. 7 00:00:16,559 --> 00:00:19,480 Speaker 1: Exactly. I mean, we all love a good conspiracy theory, right, 8 00:00:19,519 --> 00:00:22,079 and I do not mean the tinfoil hat flat Earth 9 00:00:22,160 --> 00:00:24,600 kind of stuff you hear shouted on stream corners. I 10 00:00:24,640 --> 00:00:27,120 am talking about the ones that hit you at three 11 00:00:27,199 --> 00:00:29,920 in the morning, when you are scrolling through your phone 12 00:00:30,000 --> 00:00:32,320 in the dark and suddenly you stop and go, wait 13 00:00:32,359 --> 00:00:36,600 a minute, that actually makes a terrifying amount of sense. 14 00:00:36,399 --> 00:00:39,840 Speaker 2: The kind that sits right on that razor edge of plausibility, 15 00:00:40,240 --> 00:00:43,439 the ones that align just enough with human psychology or 16 00:00:43,479 --> 00:00:48,039 corporate incentives or historical precedent to make you genuinely question 17 00:00:48,119 --> 00:00:49,119 your daily reality. 18 00:00:49,280 --> 00:00:52,240 Speaker 1: And today we are pulling on some major loose threads 19 00:00:52,240 --> 00:00:55,320 from the internet's biggest discussion board, Reddit. These are not 20 00:00:55,479 --> 00:00:58,679 just wild, random guesses. We have got a curated stack 21 00:00:58,719 --> 00:01:01,920 of yes thirty theories that range from why your genes 22 00:01:01,960 --> 00:01:04,680 do not have pockets to why we might literally be 23 00:01:04,760 --> 00:01:07,000 living in a parallel universe, and. 24 00:01:07,159 --> 00:01:09,920 Speaker 2: We should state our mission clearly right up front for you. 25 00:01:10,480 --> 00:01:13,120 We are looking at these thirty specific theories and we 26 00:01:13,159 --> 00:01:15,920 are going to categorize them into logical buckets. So we 27 00:01:15,959 --> 00:01:20,560 have consumer conspiracies, pop culture, secrets, government history, and the unexplained. 28 00:01:21,120 --> 00:01:23,519 Speaker 1: But, and this is highly important before we start, we 29 00:01:23,560 --> 00:01:25,319 have to drop a quick disclaimer here. 30 00:01:25,400 --> 00:01:29,920 Speaker 2: Yes, we are impartially reporting on these Reddit theories exactly 31 00:01:30,040 --> 00:01:33,159 as they were presented in our source material. We are 32 00:01:33,200 --> 00:01:36,560 not endorsing them as absolute fact. We are exploring the 33 00:01:36,599 --> 00:01:39,319 what ifs. We are just looking at the logic behind 34 00:01:39,319 --> 00:01:40,239 the theory itself. 35 00:01:40,319 --> 00:01:42,200 Speaker 1: So if we say the moon is a giant speaker, 36 00:01:42,239 --> 00:01:44,319 which is not on the list today, thankfully, do not 37 00:01:44,359 --> 00:01:46,799 come for us. We are just the messengers. 38 00:01:46,879 --> 00:01:48,000 Speaker 2: We are the investigator. 39 00:01:48,200 --> 00:01:50,640 Speaker 1: Let us jump right in Segment one is what we 40 00:01:50,680 --> 00:01:53,560 are calling consumer conspiracies. This is the stuff that hits 41 00:01:53,560 --> 00:01:56,400 your wallet and your daily routine. And I think we 42 00:01:56,439 --> 00:01:58,120 have to start with the one that makes every woman 43 00:01:58,159 --> 00:02:02,079 I know absolutely furious, the pocket conspiracy. 44 00:02:02,280 --> 00:02:04,920 Speaker 2: This is a textbook example of creating a problem to 45 00:02:04,959 --> 00:02:09,039 sell a solution. The theory from the thread is incredibly 46 00:02:09,080 --> 00:02:14,360 straightforward fashion companies intentionally make women's pockets useless, fake or 47 00:02:14,439 --> 00:02:16,319 totally non existent, or they. 48 00:02:16,199 --> 00:02:18,879 Speaker 1: Actually sew them shut. You buy a nice blazer and 49 00:02:18,960 --> 00:02:20,800 the pockets are literally sewn shut. 50 00:02:20,919 --> 00:02:23,360 Speaker 2: Why do they do that well, According to this theory, 51 00:02:23,439 --> 00:02:26,639 it is strictly to force the sale of purses. Think 52 00:02:26,680 --> 00:02:30,719 about the mechanics of it. Men's clothing almost always has 53 00:02:30,759 --> 00:02:35,159 functional pockets. Deep pockets. You can fit a wallet, a phone, keys, 54 00:02:35,719 --> 00:02:38,080 maybe a small water bottle if you are really ambitious. 55 00:02:38,560 --> 00:02:40,719 Men generally speaking do not buy purses. 56 00:02:40,759 --> 00:02:42,560 Speaker 1: That is true. If I have my keys in my phone, 57 00:02:42,680 --> 00:02:45,599 i am completely good to go. But my partner, if 58 00:02:45,639 --> 00:02:47,680 she does not have a bag, she is handing me 59 00:02:47,759 --> 00:02:49,319 her phone, her lip bomb, her keys. 60 00:02:49,479 --> 00:02:52,319 Speaker 2: Yes, I end up becoming the purse exactly. If women's 61 00:02:52,360 --> 00:02:56,800 clothing had functional utility, the multi billion dollar handbag industry 62 00:02:56,800 --> 00:03:00,599 would face a massive catastrophic collapse overnight. It is a 63 00:03:00,639 --> 00:03:04,520 symbiotic relationship between the clothing manufacturers and the accessory manufacturers, 64 00:03:04,560 --> 00:03:06,319 which by the way, are often owned by the exact 65 00:03:06,319 --> 00:03:07,479 same parent conglomerates. 66 00:03:07,719 --> 00:03:12,439 Speaker 1: It is totally diabolical. You deny half the population the 67 00:03:12,599 --> 00:03:15,520 basic ability to carry things on their person so you 68 00:03:15,560 --> 00:03:18,000 can sell them a leather sack to carry the things 69 00:03:18,039 --> 00:03:20,199 they should naturally be able to carry in their own pants. 70 00:03:20,360 --> 00:03:23,800 Speaker 2: It is the pure definition of a manufactured dependency. And 71 00:03:23,840 --> 00:03:26,919 you know, speaking of manufactured issues in the home, let 72 00:03:27,000 --> 00:03:27,719 us talk about. 73 00:03:27,520 --> 00:03:33,479 Speaker 1: Lighting, light bulbs, lamps, and landlords. This one hit really 74 00:03:33,479 --> 00:03:35,919 close to home for me because I moved into an 75 00:03:35,960 --> 00:03:38,680 apartment a few years ago that had zero overhead lights 76 00:03:38,719 --> 00:03:40,960 in the living room or the bedroom. I just thought 77 00:03:40,960 --> 00:03:41,879 it was terrible design. 78 00:03:42,199 --> 00:03:44,439 Speaker 2: The thread suggests it is not bad design at all, 79 00:03:44,520 --> 00:03:47,919 It is collusion. The idea is that modern apartments lack 80 00:03:47,960 --> 00:03:50,680 overhead lighting specifically to force tenants to go out and 81 00:03:50,759 --> 00:03:54,439 buy lamps. This heavily benefits the landlord, who saves a 82 00:03:54,520 --> 00:03:57,960 massive fortune on electrical fixtures and internal wiring during the 83 00:03:58,000 --> 00:04:01,719 construction phase, and at obvious benefits the lamp manufacturers, who 84 00:04:01,759 --> 00:04:03,719 get a guaranteed massive customer base. 85 00:04:03,840 --> 00:04:06,039 Speaker 1: But is that really a coordinated conspiracy or is it 86 00:04:06,120 --> 00:04:07,120 just cheap construction. 87 00:04:07,439 --> 00:04:10,039 Speaker 2: Well, historical context matters here. We have to look back 88 00:04:10,039 --> 00:04:13,439 at the Phoebus Cartel. The Phoebus Cartel, this is a 89 00:04:13,680 --> 00:04:18,360 very real, documented historical conspiracy from the nineteen twenties and thirties. 90 00:04:19,040 --> 00:04:22,600 Major light bulb manufacturers basically formed a global cartel to 91 00:04:22,680 --> 00:04:26,480 standardize the life expectancy of light bulbs. They secretly agreed 92 00:04:26,480 --> 00:04:28,680 to shorten the life span of bulbs to ensure people 93 00:04:28,720 --> 00:04:29,480 had to buy them. 94 00:04:29,319 --> 00:04:32,600 Speaker 1: More frequently, so literal planned obsolescence. 95 00:04:32,680 --> 00:04:36,000 Speaker 2: Precisely, they actually find their own members whose bulbs lasted 96 00:04:36,000 --> 00:04:39,120 too long. So when you look at that verified history, 97 00:04:39,160 --> 00:04:41,959 the idea that real estate developers and lamp companies might 98 00:04:42,000 --> 00:04:45,639 have some tacit agreement to strip apartments of built in fixtures, 99 00:04:45,959 --> 00:04:47,759 it really does not seem so far fetched. 100 00:04:47,839 --> 00:04:50,319 Speaker 1: It is the big lamp lobby coming for us. Okay, 101 00:04:50,519 --> 00:04:53,240 sticking with retail weirdness, let us talk about the mattress 102 00:04:53,279 --> 00:04:54,199 firm monopoly. 103 00:04:54,480 --> 00:04:57,040 Speaker 2: Uh. Yes, the mattress firm phenomenon. 104 00:04:57,120 --> 00:05:00,000 Speaker 1: If you drive through any suburb in America, you see them. 105 00:05:00,600 --> 00:05:03,279 Sometimes there's a mattress firm on one corner and literally 106 00:05:03,319 --> 00:05:06,639 another mattress firm across the exact same street, and there 107 00:05:06,720 --> 00:05:09,000 is almost never anyone inside shopping. 108 00:05:09,319 --> 00:05:13,639 Speaker 2: It completely defies traditional retail logic. The theory that exploded 109 00:05:13,680 --> 00:05:16,360 across Reddit is that mattress firm is a massive front 110 00:05:16,399 --> 00:05:19,519 for money laundering. The underlying logic is that you have 111 00:05:19,600 --> 00:05:23,839 a high inventory, low foot traffic business that deals in 112 00:05:23,959 --> 00:05:28,639 fairly expensive, bulky items. It seems like the absolutely perfect 113 00:05:28,680 --> 00:05:30,120 setup to wash dirty cash. 114 00:05:30,199 --> 00:05:31,920 Speaker 1: I feel like something straight out of a crime show. 115 00:05:32,399 --> 00:05:35,120 You do not actually need to sell the physical mattresses, 116 00:05:35,160 --> 00:05:36,839 You just need to say you sold them on paper 117 00:05:37,040 --> 00:05:38,319 to legitimize the cash. 118 00:05:38,399 --> 00:05:41,319 Speaker 2: However, the reality presented in the source material has a 119 00:05:41,360 --> 00:05:45,000 fascinating twist. It actually was not drug money laundering, but 120 00:05:45,040 --> 00:05:49,040 it was absolutely fishy. Back in twenty sixteen, Mattress firm 121 00:05:49,120 --> 00:05:52,759 was bought by Steinhoff International. Later, Steinhoff was embroiled in 122 00:05:52,800 --> 00:05:55,680 a massive corporate accounting fraud scandal, so. 123 00:05:55,639 --> 00:05:58,279 Speaker 1: They were basically cooking the books on a global scale. 124 00:05:57,959 --> 00:06:01,079 Speaker 2: Massive fraud. And on top of that, firm actually sued 125 00:06:01,120 --> 00:06:04,240 its own in house real estate team and outside brokers. 126 00:06:04,759 --> 00:06:08,000 They alleged that these specific employees were taking illegal kickbacks 127 00:06:08,000 --> 00:06:12,120 from developers to open stores and terrible locations or wildly 128 00:06:12,160 --> 00:06:13,000 inflated rents. 129 00:06:13,240 --> 00:06:15,360 Speaker 1: Wait, so the reason there were two stores across the 130 00:06:15,360 --> 00:06:17,879 street from each other was not to wash cartel money, 131 00:06:18,120 --> 00:06:21,079 but because some mid level real estate guy was getting 132 00:06:21,079 --> 00:06:22,720 a bribe to sign a bad lease. 133 00:06:23,000 --> 00:06:27,279 Speaker 2: Exactly, it creates the exact same visual symptom for the consumer, 134 00:06:27,800 --> 00:06:30,839 way too many stores in one place, But the disease 135 00:06:31,079 --> 00:06:35,480 was actually corporate corruption and greed, not a criminal syndicate. 136 00:06:35,759 --> 00:06:38,079 Speaker 1: That almost makes it more annoying. Honestly, it is just 137 00:06:38,160 --> 00:06:42,639 bureaucratic grift. Speaking of annoying retail experiences, let us talk 138 00:06:42,680 --> 00:06:44,560 about Trader Joe's parking lots. 139 00:06:44,879 --> 00:06:47,240 Speaker 2: This is a deeply universal experience. If you go to 140 00:06:47,240 --> 00:06:50,839 a Trader Joe's, the parking lot is basically a gladiator arena. 141 00:06:50,879 --> 00:06:53,199 It is always too small, The spaces are tiny, and 142 00:06:53,279 --> 00:06:54,680 it is absolute chaos. 143 00:06:54,759 --> 00:06:57,839 Speaker 1: I have genuinely seen people fighting over spots. I have 144 00:06:57,920 --> 00:07:00,240 personally circled the block for twenty minutes just to get 145 00:07:00,279 --> 00:07:02,800 some peanut butter pretzels. The Reddit theory here is that 146 00:07:02,879 --> 00:07:04,439 this is entirely intentional. 147 00:07:04,560 --> 00:07:08,480 Speaker 2: Correct. The theory posits that Trader Joe's intentionally selects retail 148 00:07:08,519 --> 00:07:13,000 locations with aggressively inadequate parking to create artificial scarcity and 149 00:07:13,079 --> 00:07:15,079 the powerful illusion of popularity. 150 00:07:15,279 --> 00:07:17,800 Speaker 1: It totally makes the store look booming. If there is 151 00:07:17,879 --> 00:07:20,720 a line of cars spilling into the street, you think, wow, that. 152 00:07:20,759 --> 00:07:23,399 Speaker 2: Must be the place to be, and psychologically, once you 153 00:07:23,519 --> 00:07:26,720 finally fight for a spot. You are deeply committed. You 154 00:07:26,759 --> 00:07:29,040 were going into that store, and you were absolutely buying 155 00:07:29,079 --> 00:07:31,680 something to justify the battle you just survived. 156 00:07:31,759 --> 00:07:34,120 Speaker 1: I almost lost my bumper for this parking spot. I 157 00:07:34,160 --> 00:07:35,759 am buying three jars a cookie butter. 158 00:07:36,199 --> 00:07:39,439 Speaker 2: There is an alternative view presented, which is simply urban 159 00:07:39,480 --> 00:07:44,519 planning and basic cost cutting. Smaller lots equal significantly lower 160 00:07:44,560 --> 00:07:48,160 rent in high density areas. But the psychological effect of 161 00:07:48,199 --> 00:07:53,160 a chaotic busy store is a very real documented marketing tactic. 162 00:07:53,639 --> 00:07:55,839 Speaker 1: Let us move to the grocery isle itself. Do you 163 00:07:55,839 --> 00:07:58,079 remember the Great egg crisis a little while back. 164 00:07:58,160 --> 00:08:00,920 Speaker 2: It is hard to forget. Prices tripled, even quadrupled in 165 00:08:00,920 --> 00:08:01,519 some regions. 166 00:08:01,560 --> 00:08:04,120 Speaker 1: We were all told it was due to the Avian flu. 167 00:08:04,839 --> 00:08:07,879 But the theory here is a concept called greedflation. 168 00:08:07,600 --> 00:08:11,680 Speaker 2: Which is becoming a widely discussed economic term. The theory 169 00:08:11,800 --> 00:08:13,959 from the threads is that while the bird flu as 170 00:08:13,959 --> 00:08:18,120 a real biological event, major corporate EGX suppliers used it 171 00:08:18,160 --> 00:08:21,279 as a massive smoke screen to price scouge the public. 172 00:08:21,720 --> 00:08:25,279 They raise prices far, far beyond what was actually necessary 173 00:08:25,279 --> 00:08:26,720 to cover their lost inventory. 174 00:08:26,839 --> 00:08:30,240 Speaker 1: Because if the general public believes there's a natural shortage 175 00:08:30,720 --> 00:08:34,399 we just sigh and accept the high price at the register, and. 176 00:08:34,480 --> 00:08:38,159 Speaker 2: The evidence discussed is compelling. The Justice Department actually started 177 00:08:38,159 --> 00:08:41,799 looking into this. Yeah. Remember major ex suppliers have paid 178 00:08:41,879 --> 00:08:45,559 tens of millions in damages for very similar price fixing 179 00:08:45,559 --> 00:08:48,440 and collusion behaviors in the past. When you see a 180 00:08:48,440 --> 00:08:52,240 company posting record breaking profit margins during a supposed crisis, 181 00:08:52,759 --> 00:08:55,559 that is usually a flashing red light for greedflation. 182 00:08:55,759 --> 00:08:58,000 Speaker 1: It is the perfect crime because they have a built in, 183 00:08:58,279 --> 00:09:02,600 unarguable excuse the poor chickens. Meanwhile, the corporate shareholders are 184 00:09:02,639 --> 00:09:03,600 throwing a yacht. 185 00:09:03,360 --> 00:09:06,759 Speaker 2: Party, precisely and finally rounding out our consumer section. Let 186 00:09:06,840 --> 00:09:09,360 us talk about a very different kind of food deterrent. 187 00:09:09,639 --> 00:09:11,840 The happy Birthday song at Shane restaurants. 188 00:09:12,240 --> 00:09:17,559 Speaker 1: Oh wow, the clapping, the forced off key singing, it 189 00:09:17,639 --> 00:09:18,519 is terrible. 190 00:09:18,840 --> 00:09:21,480 Speaker 2: Why do they really do it? The theory is that 191 00:09:21,559 --> 00:09:26,840 restaurants explicitly instruct staff to sing Happy Birthday loudly, awkwardly, 192 00:09:26,960 --> 00:09:31,399 and aggressively, not to celebrate you, but to deeply embarrass. 193 00:09:30,919 --> 00:09:32,960 Speaker 1: You, to totally weaponize the cringe. 194 00:09:33,039 --> 00:09:36,080 Speaker 2: It is a brilliant deterrent if you know that asking 195 00:09:36,120 --> 00:09:38,840 for the free birthday brownie comes with a highly public 196 00:09:38,919 --> 00:09:41,879 shaming ritual that disturbs the entire dining room and makes 197 00:09:41,879 --> 00:09:45,240 you the center of unwonted attention. You may just quietly 198 00:09:45,279 --> 00:09:46,240 skip the free dessert. 199 00:09:46,320 --> 00:09:49,519 Speaker 1: It absolutely works. I have definitely declined free food because 200 00:09:49,799 --> 00:09:52,399 I did not want six strangers awkwardly clapping at me 201 00:09:52,399 --> 00:09:54,639 while I was carried a candle. It is a psychological 202 00:09:54,639 --> 00:09:56,120 fence built around the free dessert. 203 00:09:56,200 --> 00:09:59,440 Speaker 2: It relies entirely on basic human social anxiety to protect 204 00:09:59,440 --> 00:10:00,840 the restaurants bottom line. 205 00:10:00,879 --> 00:10:04,080 Speaker 1: Incredible, Okay, let us shift gears entirely. We are moving 206 00:10:04,159 --> 00:10:07,120 from the grocery store to the screen. Segment two is 207 00:10:07,320 --> 00:10:09,879 the entertainment complex, pop culture secrets. 208 00:10:09,960 --> 00:10:12,279 Speaker 2: This is where the threads get really creative and fun. 209 00:10:12,480 --> 00:10:14,480 Speaker 1: We absolutely have to start with the big one, the 210 00:10:14,480 --> 00:10:17,320 one that Star Wars fans have been violently debating for years. 211 00:10:17,440 --> 00:10:21,159 Speaker 2: Darth jar Jar a legendary internet theory. For those who 212 00:10:21,200 --> 00:10:23,919 are not deep in the lore, generally everyone hated jar 213 00:10:24,000 --> 00:10:26,799 Jar Binks in the Phantom Menace. He was clumsy, annoying, 214 00:10:27,320 --> 00:10:31,200 basically a walking cartoon joke. But this extensive theory argues 215 00:10:31,279 --> 00:10:34,120 that was entirely an act that jar Jar Binks was 216 00:10:34,120 --> 00:10:37,279 originally written to be a supreme, powerful Sith lord. 217 00:10:37,320 --> 00:10:39,960 Speaker 1: So the phantom menace was not Palpatine at all, It 218 00:10:40,080 --> 00:10:40,679 was jar Jar. 219 00:10:41,200 --> 00:10:43,679 Speaker 2: Think about the narrative structure. He is meant to be 220 00:10:43,759 --> 00:10:47,720 a dark counterpart to Yoda. Yoda appears to be a frail, silly, 221 00:10:47,799 --> 00:10:51,120 annoying little swamp creature in Empire strikes back right before 222 00:10:51,120 --> 00:10:54,200 revealing he is actually a legendary Jedi master. Jar Jar 223 00:10:54,320 --> 00:10:56,919 acts the total fool, but if you closely watch the 224 00:10:56,919 --> 00:11:00,480 background of the fight scenes, he is incredibly impossible lucky. 225 00:11:00,840 --> 00:11:03,639 He takes out heavily armed droids with these clumsy accidents 226 00:11:03,639 --> 00:11:07,279 that look suspiciously like advanced martial arts moves or subtle 227 00:11:07,279 --> 00:11:08,159 force manipulation. 228 00:11:08,360 --> 00:11:10,720 Speaker 1: There's that one specific scene where he does a weird 229 00:11:10,720 --> 00:11:13,399 little hand wave while talking to a general and suddenly 230 00:11:13,399 --> 00:11:15,320 people just seem to agree with him, like a Jedi 231 00:11:15,360 --> 00:11:15,840 mind trick. 232 00:11:16,120 --> 00:11:18,759 Speaker 2: Highly possible. Yes, and look at his actual role in 233 00:11:18,799 --> 00:11:22,519 the overarching political plot. Who is the specific senator who 234 00:11:22,519 --> 00:11:28,919 proposes giving emergency dictatorial powers to Palpatine? Jar binks he 235 00:11:29,080 --> 00:11:32,720 is the exact key that unlocks the totalitarian Empire. The 236 00:11:32,720 --> 00:11:36,519 theory argues that George Lucas fully intended a massive mind 237 00:11:36,519 --> 00:11:39,759 blowing reveal in the second movie, but the fan backlash 238 00:11:39,799 --> 00:11:42,759 against the character was so universally toxic that he chickened 239 00:11:42,759 --> 00:11:45,600 out and frantically rewrote the script to minimize him. 240 00:11:46,039 --> 00:11:48,879 Speaker 1: So we potentially missed out on the greatest villain reveal 241 00:11:48,919 --> 00:11:51,240 in cinema history just because we were all too mean 242 00:11:51,279 --> 00:11:52,399 to the Cgi Gungin. 243 00:11:52,600 --> 00:11:55,240 Speaker 2: It is very likely it changes the entire texture and 244 00:11:55,279 --> 00:11:57,879 rewatchability of the prequel trilogy if you view him as 245 00:11:57,919 --> 00:12:00,200 a master manipulator who is just playing the fool the 246 00:12:00,200 --> 00:12:00,639 whole time. 247 00:12:00,679 --> 00:12:03,759 Speaker 1: I genuinely love that. Now, speaking of changing public narratives, 248 00:12:03,799 --> 00:12:06,279 let us talk about Disney and the movie Frozen. 249 00:12:06,480 --> 00:12:09,399 Speaker 2: This one is a masterclass in modern search engine optimization 250 00:12:09,639 --> 00:12:10,279 or SEO. 251 00:12:10,480 --> 00:12:14,200 Speaker 1: So for decades there was this massive, persistent rumor that 252 00:12:14,240 --> 00:12:19,039 Walt Disney had his head or his entire body cryogenically frozen. 253 00:12:18,679 --> 00:12:22,159 Speaker 2: After he died, right the Walt Disney Frozen rumor. It 254 00:12:22,200 --> 00:12:25,240 was a massive Reuben legend. If you google the words 255 00:12:25,360 --> 00:12:28,480 Disney frozen back in the day, you got pages of 256 00:12:28,559 --> 00:12:32,639 sketchy articles about chronic societies, secret vaults under the pirates 257 00:12:32,639 --> 00:12:36,399 of the Caribbean ride, and Walt's frozen head. It is 258 00:12:36,440 --> 00:12:39,879 obviously not the pristine brand image the family company wants. 259 00:12:39,960 --> 00:12:42,320 Speaker 1: So what did they strategically do? They make a massive 260 00:12:42,320 --> 00:12:44,000 animated movie about a snow queen. 261 00:12:44,240 --> 00:12:48,840 Speaker 2: They title a billion dollar cultural juggernaut blockbuster Frozen. Now, 262 00:12:48,840 --> 00:12:51,039 if you type Disney Frozen into Google, what is the 263 00:12:51,120 --> 00:12:52,200 very first thing you see? 264 00:12:52,360 --> 00:12:56,159 Speaker 1: Elsa holl Off Just endless pages a let ago. 265 00:12:56,240 --> 00:12:58,679 Speaker 2: You would have to dig through twenty pages of merchandise 266 00:12:58,720 --> 00:13:00,759 and song lyrics to find a single mention of the 267 00:13:00,799 --> 00:13:04,279 rumor about Walt's head. They effectively and brilliantly buried a 268 00:13:04,320 --> 00:13:07,600 damaging conspiracy theory by overwriting the specific search terms with 269 00:13:07,720 --> 00:13:08,960 overwhelming pop culture. 270 00:13:09,080 --> 00:13:12,200 Speaker 1: That is just genius. Truly corporate evil, but absolute genius. 271 00:13:12,240 --> 00:13:15,240 Speaker 2: It is pure information warfare using animated princesses. 272 00:13:15,440 --> 00:13:17,879 Speaker 1: Let us go from high level corporate strategy down to 273 00:13:18,519 --> 00:13:21,159 low level pizza grossness. Chuck E Cheese. 274 00:13:21,519 --> 00:13:24,679 Speaker 2: This one gained massive mainstream traction a few years ago 275 00:13:24,879 --> 00:13:28,200 thanks to creators like Shane Dawson. The theory is that 276 00:13:28,360 --> 00:13:31,279 Chuck E Cheese employees in the back gather up uneaten 277 00:13:31,320 --> 00:13:35,480 slices of pizza left on tables, reheat them, and physically 278 00:13:35,600 --> 00:13:39,080 arrange them into quote unquote new pizzas to serve to 279 00:13:39,159 --> 00:13:40,000 the next batch of. 280 00:13:39,919 --> 00:13:43,519 Speaker 1: Customers recycled frank and pizza, And the primary evidence for 281 00:13:43,559 --> 00:13:46,440 this is entirely visual. Right you order a fresh pizza, 282 00:13:46,519 --> 00:13:49,919 they bring it out and the slices are wildly different sizes. 283 00:13:50,159 --> 00:13:52,120 The crust lines do not match up at all to 284 00:13:52,200 --> 00:13:53,360 form a perfect circle. 285 00:13:53,799 --> 00:13:57,120 Speaker 2: The visual evidence shared online is definitely compelling. If you 286 00:13:57,240 --> 00:14:00,320 use a standard cutter on a fresh round pizza, the 287 00:14:00,360 --> 00:14:04,159 cuts should perfectly align across the center. In many many 288 00:14:04,279 --> 00:14:07,039 user submitted photos, they simply do not. The pepperoni is 289 00:14:07,080 --> 00:14:09,440 cut in half on one slice, but does not continue 290 00:14:09,440 --> 00:14:13,279 onto the neighboring slice. The geometrical angles are completely wrong. 291 00:14:13,399 --> 00:14:16,519 Speaker 1: Now, obviously Chuck E Cheese Corporate has denied this aggressively 292 00:14:16,559 --> 00:14:17,200 and repeatedly. 293 00:14:17,360 --> 00:14:20,879 Speaker 2: Of course they have, And from a practical logistical standpoint, 294 00:14:21,080 --> 00:14:24,000 the massive health code violation risk and the sheer effort 295 00:14:24,039 --> 00:14:28,000 required to jigsaw puzzle pizza together would be astronomical. But 296 00:14:28,039 --> 00:14:31,080 when you look at those specific photos, it is incredibly 297 00:14:31,120 --> 00:14:33,519 hard to explain away why that one slice of cheese 298 00:14:33,519 --> 00:14:36,279 pizza is magically twice the size of the one right 299 00:14:36,320 --> 00:14:36,759 next to it. 300 00:14:36,799 --> 00:14:38,919 Speaker 1: I am officially never eating there again, just to be 301 00:14:39,000 --> 00:14:42,320 totally safe. Okay. Next up in entertainment is Home Alone. 302 00:14:42,879 --> 00:14:47,039 Speaker 2: Kevin McAllister, a charming, resourceful child who defends his family 303 00:14:47,080 --> 00:14:50,919 home from burglars. But this dark Reddit theory suggests that 304 00:14:51,039 --> 00:14:54,080 Kevin grows up to become Jigsaw, the infamous killer from 305 00:14:54,080 --> 00:14:55,799 the Saw horror franchise. 306 00:14:55,399 --> 00:14:57,799 Speaker 1: The tricycle riding horror movie villain. 307 00:14:57,639 --> 00:15:01,360 Speaker 2: The very same. Look closely at the deep psychological parallels. 308 00:15:01,960 --> 00:15:06,120 Both characters take immense delight in crafting intricate Rube Goldberg 309 00:15:06,200 --> 00:15:11,000 style mechanical traps. Both characters specifically target and punished individuals 310 00:15:11,120 --> 00:15:14,159 who they feel have violated some strict moral Coder boundary. 311 00:15:14,559 --> 00:15:17,759 Both have a very, very twisted sense of retributive justice. 312 00:15:17,840 --> 00:15:20,080 Speaker 1: When you think about it, Kevin really does seem to 313 00:15:20,159 --> 00:15:23,360 enjoy inflicting the pain a little too much. The glowing 314 00:15:23,519 --> 00:15:27,159 hot iron falling directly on the face, the actual blow 315 00:15:27,200 --> 00:15:29,279 torch to the top of the head. That is not 316 00:15:29,440 --> 00:15:33,679 just panic self defense, that borders on sadism exactly. 317 00:15:34,159 --> 00:15:36,919 Speaker 2: The theory maps out that the severe psychological trauma of 318 00:15:36,960 --> 00:15:41,080 being abandoned by his family, combined with his terrifyingly natural 319 00:15:41,120 --> 00:15:45,519 aptitude for engineering torture devices slowly leads him down a 320 00:15:45,639 --> 00:15:48,759 very dark path. As an adult, he graduates from dropping 321 00:15:48,799 --> 00:15:52,480 paint cans on petty thieves to putting reverse bear traps 322 00:15:52,519 --> 00:15:53,320 on people's heads. 323 00:15:53,399 --> 00:15:56,360 Speaker 1: It is a really dark unofficial prequel. I kind of 324 00:15:56,399 --> 00:15:59,320 live it. Here's another wild movie connection from the threads 325 00:15:59,679 --> 00:16:01,360 snow Piercer and Willy Wonka. 326 00:16:01,440 --> 00:16:03,759 Speaker 2: This might be my personal favorite on the entire list. 327 00:16:03,960 --> 00:16:07,120 The theory proposes that the gritty dystopian sci fi train 328 00:16:07,200 --> 00:16:10,679 movie snow Piercer is actually a direct chronological sequel to 329 00:16:10,759 --> 00:16:14,120 the nineteen seventy one film Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory. 330 00:16:14,200 --> 00:16:15,960 Speaker 1: How does that timeline even begin to work? 331 00:16:16,039 --> 00:16:18,799 Speaker 2: Okay, So, the core idea is that Wilford, the mysterious 332 00:16:18,840 --> 00:16:21,639 and eccentric creator of the apocalyptic train in snow Piercer, 333 00:16:21,759 --> 00:16:24,679 is actually an older, hardened Charlie Bucket. 334 00:16:24,360 --> 00:16:26,200 Speaker 1: The kid who inherited the Chocolate Factory. 335 00:16:26,320 --> 00:16:31,240 Speaker 2: Right, think about the overarching structural themes. The Chocolate Factory 336 00:16:31,399 --> 00:16:36,080 is a massive, self sustaining, closed loop ecosystem where a 337 00:16:36,120 --> 00:16:39,559 specific group of people tour the facility and are slowly 338 00:16:39,720 --> 00:16:42,960 methodically whittled down one by one due to their own 339 00:16:43,000 --> 00:16:44,919 personal vices and flaws. 340 00:16:44,639 --> 00:16:48,000 Speaker 1: Which is exactly like the violent class rebellion in Snow Piercer. 341 00:16:48,440 --> 00:16:51,679 They brutally fight their way forward, moving through the distinct 342 00:16:51,759 --> 00:16:54,639 train sections one car at a time, and it goes deeper. 343 00:16:55,039 --> 00:16:58,600 Speaker 2: Wilford uses tiny, small statured people to crawl inside and 344 00:16:58,679 --> 00:17:02,679 manually work the dangers engine machinery. This is a very dark, 345 00:17:02,919 --> 00:17:06,559 practical echo of Wonka using the umpa lumpus, and the 346 00:17:06,559 --> 00:17:09,680 whole underlying philosophy of the train is about ruthlessly maintaining 347 00:17:09,720 --> 00:17:12,960 population balance and keeping the engine eternal. It is the 348 00:17:12,960 --> 00:17:16,559 eccentric industrial madness of Willy Wonka taken to its absolute 349 00:17:16,640 --> 00:17:20,319 apocalyptic conclusion. After the world freezes over, so. 350 00:17:20,319 --> 00:17:23,200 Speaker 1: Little Charliebucket grew up, saw the global climate disaster coming, 351 00:17:23,359 --> 00:17:26,440 built a massive train and decided to run it exactly 352 00:17:26,480 --> 00:17:27,799 like a candy factory from Hell. 353 00:17:28,039 --> 00:17:30,079 Speaker 2: I fit surprisingly well when you map the plot points 354 00:17:30,119 --> 00:17:30,680 over each other. 355 00:17:30,920 --> 00:17:34,319 Speaker 1: Okay, the last one in our entertainment Bucket the true 356 00:17:34,440 --> 00:17:36,160 identity of Banksy, the. 357 00:17:36,119 --> 00:17:41,160 Speaker 2: World's most famous elusive street artist. Supposedly nobody knows who 358 00:17:41,200 --> 00:17:43,920 he really is, but the dominant Reddit theory is that 359 00:17:44,039 --> 00:17:47,480 Banksy is actually Jamie Hewlett. The artist and co creator 360 00:17:47,519 --> 00:17:49,079 of the animated band Guerrills. 361 00:17:49,200 --> 00:17:51,440 Speaker 1: I actually love Grills. Their art style is. 362 00:17:51,599 --> 00:17:54,880 Speaker 2: Iconic, and there's real forensic evidence backing this up. A 363 00:17:54,960 --> 00:17:58,599 data expert actually traced the complex business ownership of several 364 00:17:58,759 --> 00:18:02,640 Banksy related shell entities directly back to Hewlett. But the 365 00:18:02,640 --> 00:18:05,200 real smoking gun that the Internet latched onto was a 366 00:18:05,240 --> 00:18:08,960 live interview with a music pr agent who seemingly slipped. 367 00:18:08,680 --> 00:18:10,559 Speaker 1: Up What exactly did she say on tape? 368 00:18:10,640 --> 00:18:13,160 Speaker 2: She was being asked about Banksy's cultural impact, and she 369 00:18:13,279 --> 00:18:17,720 casually said Jamie's and then immediately stopped herself, looked panicked, 370 00:18:17,759 --> 00:18:20,440 and pivoted. She later released a statement claiming it was 371 00:18:20,480 --> 00:18:23,000 just a typo in her notes, or a momentary misspeak. 372 00:18:24,599 --> 00:18:28,279 Speaker 1: That is an incredibly specific name to accidentally drop when 373 00:18:28,319 --> 00:18:30,440 talking about an anonymous graffiti artist. 374 00:18:30,920 --> 00:18:34,599 Speaker 2: And when you analyze the artistic styles, the heavy anti 375 00:18:34,680 --> 00:18:38,559 establishment themes, the locations of the art dropping right when 376 00:18:38,599 --> 00:18:41,880 Guerrillas happened to be touring in those exact same cities, 377 00:18:42,519 --> 00:18:44,400 the timeline aligns perfectly. 378 00:18:44,480 --> 00:18:47,079 Speaker 1: It really does. Okay, let us get a little darker. 379 00:18:47,519 --> 00:18:50,799 We are moving into segment three, the tech dystopia. This 380 00:18:50,880 --> 00:18:53,079 is where we talk about how our phones, are apps 381 00:18:53,119 --> 00:18:55,880 in our computers are subtly controlling us. 382 00:18:55,920 --> 00:18:58,839 Speaker 2: She control surveillance and data harvesting. 383 00:18:59,200 --> 00:19:01,680 Speaker 1: Do you remember the T year challenge? It was everywhere 384 00:19:01,720 --> 00:19:04,240 on social media. Everyone was eagerly posting a photo of 385 00:19:04,279 --> 00:19:06,119 themselves from two thousand and nine right next to one 386 00:19:06,119 --> 00:19:07,119 from twenty nineteen. 387 00:19:07,240 --> 00:19:10,160 Speaker 2: It just seemed like a fun, nostalgic viral trend. But 388 00:19:10,240 --> 00:19:12,680 the prominent theory is that this was a highly calculated 389 00:19:12,759 --> 00:19:16,720 data mining operation initiated by tech giants to perfectly train 390 00:19:16,799 --> 00:19:20,640 their AI facial recognition algorithms on exactly how humans age 391 00:19:20,680 --> 00:19:21,319 over a decade. 392 00:19:21,440 --> 00:19:24,119 Speaker 1: Because if you just scrape random photos from the Internet, 393 00:19:24,440 --> 00:19:27,680 you do not always know the exact dates or ages right. 394 00:19:28,039 --> 00:19:33,319 Speaker 2: Data is messy, Exactly the AI needs clean data. This 395 00:19:33,480 --> 00:19:37,160 viral trend gave the algorithm a perfectly labeled, user verified 396 00:19:37,200 --> 00:19:39,920 data set. Here is my face at age twenty. Here's 397 00:19:39,960 --> 00:19:43,000 my exact same face at age thirty. It completely filters 398 00:19:43,000 --> 00:19:46,319 out the background noise. It immensely helps the algorithm predict 399 00:19:46,400 --> 00:19:50,440 biological aging, which is absolutely crucial for long term surveillance 400 00:19:50,480 --> 00:19:52,319 tracking and security software. 401 00:19:52,519 --> 00:19:55,680 Speaker 1: So we all just happily voluntarily hand it over our 402 00:19:55,680 --> 00:19:59,319 biometric aging data to the machine for some lights great, as. 403 00:19:59,160 --> 00:20:00,960 Speaker 2: We usually do with mo most viral trends. 404 00:20:00,960 --> 00:20:04,200 Speaker 1: Honestly, speaking of algorithms running our lives, let us talk 405 00:20:04,240 --> 00:20:09,000 about dating apps, specifically Hinge. Their entire brand slogan is 406 00:20:09,160 --> 00:20:10,759 designed to be deleted. 407 00:20:10,519 --> 00:20:13,880 Speaker 2: Which is a brilliantly manipulative marketing lie according to this 408 00:20:14,079 --> 00:20:17,759 very popular theory. The theory states that Hinge and frankly 409 00:20:17,799 --> 00:20:21,119 most wipe based apps like it, are algorithmically designed to 410 00:20:21,160 --> 00:20:24,319 be terrible on purpose. They actively hide the best, most 411 00:20:24,319 --> 00:20:26,279 compatible matches from your feed. 412 00:20:26,240 --> 00:20:27,799 Speaker 1: Just to keep you hopelessly swiping. 413 00:20:28,039 --> 00:20:31,000 Speaker 2: It is the fundamental paradox of their entire business model. 414 00:20:31,799 --> 00:20:34,599 If the app works perfectly and you find your absolute 415 00:20:34,680 --> 00:20:38,440 soulmate on day two, you delete the app. They instantly 416 00:20:38,480 --> 00:20:41,400 lose a daily active user, They lose the AD revenue, 417 00:20:41,559 --> 00:20:44,559 They lose the chance to sell you a premium monthly subscription. 418 00:20:44,880 --> 00:20:47,960 Speaker 1: They need you to be just single enough to stay profitable, right. 419 00:20:47,880 --> 00:20:50,920 Speaker 2: So the proprietary algorithm is finely tuned to give you 420 00:20:51,079 --> 00:20:53,119 just enough hope, maybe one good match a week, to 421 00:20:53,200 --> 00:20:56,559 keep you completely engaged, but not enough actual success to 422 00:20:56,599 --> 00:21:01,319 let you permanently leave. The ecosystem is a digital slot 423 00:21:01,359 --> 00:21:05,200 machine where the supposed jackpot is true love, but the 424 00:21:05,240 --> 00:21:08,640 house is mathematically rigged to ensure you mostly just pull blanks. 425 00:21:08,839 --> 00:21:12,359 Speaker 1: That is profoundly depressing, but from a boardroom perspective, it 426 00:21:12,400 --> 00:21:15,279 makes total business sense. Okay, what about the dead Internet 427 00:21:15,319 --> 00:21:17,000 theory and the coding conspiracy. 428 00:21:17,079 --> 00:21:19,279 Speaker 2: This one takes a hard look at the massive cultural 429 00:21:19,279 --> 00:21:22,079 push over the last decade to quote unquote teach everyone 430 00:21:22,119 --> 00:21:25,599 to code. Remember that massive movement. Learned to code was everywhere. 431 00:21:25,839 --> 00:21:29,160 It was sold as the ultimate path to modern economic salvation. 432 00:21:29,680 --> 00:21:32,640 We had programs trying to teach five year old's basic Python. 433 00:21:32,960 --> 00:21:36,480 Speaker 1: Yeah, I remember that. Clearly, every politician, every celebrity, every 434 00:21:36,519 --> 00:21:37,960 tech CEO was pushing it. 435 00:21:38,359 --> 00:21:40,839 Speaker 2: The theory is that this was not about education at all. 436 00:21:41,400 --> 00:21:44,720 It was a calculated corporate strategy by big tech cartels 437 00:21:45,079 --> 00:21:48,880 to intentionally saturate the highly skilled labor market. 438 00:21:48,640 --> 00:21:50,480 Speaker 1: Basic supplying demand economics. 439 00:21:50,559 --> 00:21:54,519 Speaker 2: Exactly when software coding was a niche, almost wizard like skill, 440 00:21:54,640 --> 00:21:59,680 senior developers commanded massive, untouchable salaries and incredible leverage. By 441 00:21:59,680 --> 00:22:03,400 a pressively pushing the narrative that coding is for absolutely everyone, 442 00:22:03,759 --> 00:22:07,799 you increase the supply of entry level developers exponentially. This 443 00:22:07,960 --> 00:22:11,319 naturally drives down the average wages and makes individual developers 444 00:22:11,400 --> 00:22:12,960 totally expendable to the company. 445 00:22:13,039 --> 00:22:16,480 Speaker 1: It effectively turns a high paying specialized craft into a 446 00:22:16,519 --> 00:22:18,920 mass produced, blue collar commodity. 447 00:22:18,599 --> 00:22:22,359 Speaker 2: And it directly massively benefits the bottom line of companies 448 00:22:22,359 --> 00:22:25,279 like Google, Meta, and Amazon. They do not have to 449 00:22:25,279 --> 00:22:28,160 pay three hundred thousand dollars a year to a senior engineer. 450 00:22:28,400 --> 00:22:30,799 If there are ten thousand desperate kids fresh out of 451 00:22:30,839 --> 00:22:33,240 coding boot camps willing to do the exact same work 452 00:22:33,279 --> 00:22:34,880 for sixty thousand dollars. 453 00:22:34,599 --> 00:22:37,759 Speaker 1: And now with AI basically writing code instantly, it is 454 00:22:37,799 --> 00:22:39,279 even worse for that job market. 455 00:22:39,400 --> 00:22:41,640 Speaker 2: The corporate plan is basically complete. 456 00:22:41,880 --> 00:22:44,640 Speaker 1: Okay, let us get really weird for a minute. The 457 00:22:44,799 --> 00:22:46,599 Large Hadron Collider. 458 00:22:46,240 --> 00:22:50,640 Speaker 2: The LHC in Switzerland the biggest, most complex machine ever 459 00:22:50,720 --> 00:22:54,920 built in human history. It smashes subatomic particles together at 460 00:22:54,920 --> 00:22:55,960 near the speed of light. 461 00:22:56,359 --> 00:22:58,240 Speaker 1: The theory from the Reddit thris is that when they 462 00:22:58,240 --> 00:23:02,200 turned this massive thing on, they literally broke our reality. 463 00:23:02,359 --> 00:23:06,000 Speaker 2: Specifically, that the immense energy generated actually shifted our entire 464 00:23:06,039 --> 00:23:10,680 consciousness into a parallel universe or an alternate, slightly degraded timeline. 465 00:23:10,720 --> 00:23:13,759 Speaker 1: And this is primarily used to explain the Mandel effect right. 466 00:23:13,920 --> 00:23:18,480 Speaker 2: The psychological phenomenon where large, unconnected groups of people distinctly 467 00:23:18,519 --> 00:23:21,559 remember a fact, an event, or a brand differently than 468 00:23:21,559 --> 00:23:24,119 how it currently exists in a record of history. The 469 00:23:24,200 --> 00:23:27,839 absolute most famous example is the Berenstain Bears children's books. 470 00:23:28,559 --> 00:23:32,799 Millions of people vividly remember it being spelled stein Stein, 471 00:23:33,599 --> 00:23:35,640 But if you look at the books in this current reality, 472 00:23:35,720 --> 00:23:37,839 it is stain Stai. 473 00:23:37,440 --> 00:23:39,720 Speaker 1: N I swear on my life it was Stein. I 474 00:23:39,920 --> 00:23:42,799 vividly remember reading the covers as a kid. I swear 475 00:23:42,839 --> 00:23:43,359 it well. 476 00:23:43,400 --> 00:23:45,880 Speaker 2: The collider theory says it actually was Stein in our 477 00:23:45,920 --> 00:23:49,559 original native timeline. But when the LHC first fired up 478 00:23:49,559 --> 00:23:53,599 and smashed those particles, it created a microscopic anomaly that 479 00:23:53,720 --> 00:23:57,039 nudged our entire existence into a neighboring dimension where it 480 00:23:57,079 --> 00:24:00,039 has always been stain. So the reality we are sitting 481 00:24:00,079 --> 00:24:03,240 and right now is slightly subtly off from where we 482 00:24:03,359 --> 00:24:04,720 actually started. 483 00:24:04,440 --> 00:24:08,119 Speaker 1: So we are essentially living in the staying timeline. Honestly, 484 00:24:08,200 --> 00:24:10,680 that explains why the news has felt so weird and 485 00:24:10,759 --> 00:24:13,200 chaotic lately. We're on the wrong track. 486 00:24:13,440 --> 00:24:16,319 Speaker 2: It is the pseudoscientific version of saying we are currently 487 00:24:16,319 --> 00:24:17,559 in the darkest timeline. 488 00:24:17,640 --> 00:24:21,480 Speaker 1: Okay, let us move to segment four, government history and 489 00:24:21,559 --> 00:24:23,519 the state. This is where we get into the heavy 490 00:24:23,519 --> 00:24:26,200 stuff that might actually get us put on a watch list. 491 00:24:26,279 --> 00:24:28,400 Speaker 2: We are probably already on a few lists just for 492 00:24:28,519 --> 00:24:29,759 researching this true. 493 00:24:30,000 --> 00:24:32,160 Speaker 1: Let us talk about the connection between the military and 494 00:24:32,240 --> 00:24:32,920 higher education. 495 00:24:33,240 --> 00:24:36,720 Speaker 2: The central theory here the United States government will never 496 00:24:36,960 --> 00:24:40,440 ever make public college free for its citizens because doing 497 00:24:40,480 --> 00:24:43,200 so would completely destroy military recruitment numbers. 498 00:24:43,480 --> 00:24:45,319 Speaker 1: When you really think about it, this makes total sense. 499 00:24:45,640 --> 00:24:48,599 The GI Bill is the absolute biggest caret they have 500 00:24:48,640 --> 00:24:49,160 to offer. 501 00:24:49,119 --> 00:24:52,319 Speaker 2: Exactly for millions of low income or working class individuals, 502 00:24:52,680 --> 00:24:56,880 Joining the military is the only realistic, viable path to 503 00:24:56,920 --> 00:25:00,759 obtaining a debt free higher education is it's a massive 504 00:25:00,839 --> 00:25:04,759 systemic leverage point. If you suddenly make public college free 505 00:25:04,799 --> 00:25:08,640 and accessible for everyone, regardless of service, that powerful leverage 506 00:25:08,680 --> 00:25:10,000 completely evaporates. 507 00:25:10,000 --> 00:25:13,359 Speaker 1: Overnight recruitment would absolutely plummet. So the government actually has 508 00:25:13,400 --> 00:25:18,480 a deeply vested strategic interest in keeping civilian tuition artificially 509 00:25:18,559 --> 00:25:21,039 high and student debt completely crushing. 510 00:25:21,200 --> 00:25:25,279 Speaker 2: It perfectly preserves the necessary pipeline of economic volunteers. It 511 00:25:25,359 --> 00:25:28,799 is a very cynical dark view of domestic policy, but 512 00:25:28,960 --> 00:25:33,200 purely from a strategic military standpoint, the logic absolutely holds water. 513 00:25:33,400 --> 00:25:36,680 Speaker 1: Speaking of terrifying military operations, do you remember the Hawaiian 514 00:25:36,680 --> 00:25:39,359 missile false alarm back in twenty eighteen. 515 00:25:39,480 --> 00:25:42,160 Speaker 2: A horrifying day, everyone on the island's got a blaring 516 00:25:42,160 --> 00:25:45,720 emergency text on their phones Ballistic missile threat inbound to Hawaii, 517 00:25:45,960 --> 00:25:47,839 Seek immediate shelter. This is not a drill. 518 00:25:48,160 --> 00:25:52,359 Speaker 1: And then for thirty eight agonizing minutes, people thought the 519 00:25:52,359 --> 00:25:54,359 word was ending. And then they finally sent a follow 520 00:25:54,400 --> 00:25:57,359 up saying, Oops, my bad, someone pushed the wrong button. 521 00:25:57,599 --> 00:26:00,240 Speaker 2: The prominent Reddit theory is that it was not an 522 00:26:00,279 --> 00:26:03,279 accident or a UI error at all. It was a deliberate, 523 00:26:03,440 --> 00:26:07,519 highly classified test run. The government specifically wanted to see 524 00:26:07,519 --> 00:26:11,400 exactly how the modern public would organically react to an imminent, 525 00:26:11,519 --> 00:26:14,440 unavoidable nuclear threat in the smartphone era. 526 00:26:14,640 --> 00:26:17,559 Speaker 1: Would we riot in the streets? Would we hide quietly 527 00:26:18,000 --> 00:26:21,240 with the cellular networks crash from everyone calling their moms. 528 00:26:21,400 --> 00:26:25,799 Speaker 2: They desperately needed the real world behavioral data, and the 529 00:26:25,920 --> 00:26:29,279 emergency employee who actually sent the alert claimed afterward that 530 00:26:29,359 --> 00:26:31,480 he was one hundred percent sure the threat was real 531 00:26:31,480 --> 00:26:34,480 at the time he sent it, and strangely enough, Japan 532 00:26:34,559 --> 00:26:36,960 had a very similar emergency aler error just a few 533 00:26:37,000 --> 00:26:37,759 days later. 534 00:26:37,759 --> 00:26:42,519 Speaker 1: Too, massive unprecedented false nuclear alarms in two different countries 535 00:26:42,680 --> 00:26:45,119 in the exact same week. That is a whole lot 536 00:26:45,119 --> 00:26:46,480 of coincidences to swallow. 537 00:26:46,599 --> 00:26:49,640 Speaker 2: It feels very much like a coordinated global stress test 538 00:26:49,720 --> 00:26:51,039 of the civilian population. 539 00:26:51,519 --> 00:26:54,160 Speaker 1: Absolutely terrifying to think we are just lab rats in 540 00:26:54,200 --> 00:26:56,519 that scenario. Yeah, okay, let us go back in time 541 00:26:56,559 --> 00:26:56,720 of it. 542 00:26:57,680 --> 00:27:02,839 Speaker 2: dB Cooper the only unsolvedmmercial skyjacking in American history. A 543 00:27:02,920 --> 00:27:06,240 guy in a suit hijacks a plane, demands two hundred 544 00:27:06,240 --> 00:27:09,480 thousand dollars, jumps out the back with a parachute somewhere 545 00:27:09,480 --> 00:27:12,480 over Washington State, and completely vanishes forever. 546 00:27:12,720 --> 00:27:15,880 Speaker 1: The theory on Reddit, he did not even exist, right, D. B. 547 00:27:16,000 --> 00:27:19,200 Speaker 2: Cooper was the crew. The theory posits that the actual 548 00:27:19,359 --> 00:27:23,720 flight crew, the pilots, the flight attendants, completely concocted the 549 00:27:23,920 --> 00:27:28,559 entire story from scratch. They literally invented a phantom hijacker, and. 550 00:27:28,480 --> 00:27:30,759 Speaker 1: They just threw a few bundles of money out the 551 00:27:30,799 --> 00:27:33,359 back door to make it look real to the investigators. 552 00:27:33,440 --> 00:27:35,000 Speaker 2: Maybe they threw a little out or maybe they just 553 00:27:35,079 --> 00:27:37,440 quietly hid the bulk of the cash on the plane 554 00:27:37,920 --> 00:27:41,440 they safely landed, sat down, told the FBI a really spooky, 555 00:27:41,559 --> 00:27:44,400 detailed story about a polite man in a dark suit 556 00:27:44,400 --> 00:27:48,480 and sunglasses, and then later quietly split the cash among themselves. 557 00:27:48,599 --> 00:27:51,400 Speaker 1: That perfectly explains why the guy was never found. He 558 00:27:51,519 --> 00:27:54,119 was not found because he never actually jumped, because he 559 00:27:54,200 --> 00:27:55,480 was never actually there to begin with. 560 00:27:55,839 --> 00:27:59,640 Speaker 2: It cleanly removes the most impossible variable of the entire case, 561 00:28:00,039 --> 00:28:03,119 which is a middle aged man surviving a parachute jump 562 00:28:03,480 --> 00:28:06,839 into a freezing thunderstorm in the dead of night, wearing loafers. 563 00:28:07,079 --> 00:28:11,920 The absolute simplest explanation applying Oukham's razor is usually the 564 00:28:12,039 --> 00:28:13,799 right one. It was an inside job. 565 00:28:14,000 --> 00:28:16,599 Speaker 1: I really liked that one. It is incredibly clever. What 566 00:28:16,640 --> 00:28:18,039 about the lost cosmonauts? 567 00:28:18,359 --> 00:28:21,720 Speaker 2: This one is deeply chilling. We all know the official 568 00:28:21,799 --> 00:28:24,839 history that Uri Gagarin was the first human being in space. 569 00:28:25,039 --> 00:28:25,559 Speaker 1: Here was he. 570 00:28:25,680 --> 00:28:28,480 Speaker 2: The persistent theory is that Gagaran was just the first 571 00:28:28,480 --> 00:28:31,079 cosmonaut to actually survive the trip and make it back. 572 00:28:31,480 --> 00:28:34,599 The Soviets were secretly launching multiple people into orbit long 573 00:28:34,599 --> 00:28:37,519 before him, but they died horribly. Their capsules burned up 574 00:28:37,559 --> 00:28:39,920 on reentry, or the life support failed, or they just 575 00:28:40,000 --> 00:28:41,279 drifted off into deep. 576 00:28:41,079 --> 00:28:43,200 Speaker 1: Space, and because it was the height of the Soviet 577 00:28:43,279 --> 00:28:47,279 Union's propaganda machine, they just brutally erased the records of. 578 00:28:47,279 --> 00:28:51,240 Speaker 2: The failures exactly, and there is physical evidence. There are 579 00:28:51,279 --> 00:28:55,319 officially released Soviet photos that have been clearly airbrushed, where 580 00:28:55,359 --> 00:28:58,359 an unknown cosmonaut stands in the background of a group shot, 581 00:28:58,720 --> 00:29:01,240 and then in later published versions of the exact same 582 00:29:01,319 --> 00:29:05,440 photo he has been completely painted out of existence. Plus 583 00:29:05,480 --> 00:29:09,240 there are the infamous Tory Burt recordings, two Italian amateur 584 00:29:09,319 --> 00:29:12,640 radio operators claim to have picked up horrifying distress calls 585 00:29:12,680 --> 00:29:17,240 from Russian spacecraft drifting away from Earth, specifically a woman's 586 00:29:17,279 --> 00:29:21,160 panicked voice complaining about rising heat, followed by dead silence 587 00:29:21,400 --> 00:29:21,839 that is. 588 00:29:21,880 --> 00:29:26,160 Speaker 1: Pure, unadulterated nightmare fuel, drifting off into the freezing void, 589 00:29:26,200 --> 00:29:28,920 screaming for help, and then being officially erased from human 590 00:29:29,000 --> 00:29:30,680 history like you never existed. 591 00:29:30,799 --> 00:29:33,759 Speaker 2: It perfectly aligns with exactly how the Soviet state apparatus 592 00:29:33,799 --> 00:29:37,200 operated during the Cold War. Failures absolutely did not exist, 593 00:29:37,279 --> 00:29:39,720 only glorious successes were permanently recorded. 594 00:29:39,839 --> 00:29:42,440 Speaker 1: Speaking of erasing history, let us talk about handwriting, the 595 00:29:42,519 --> 00:29:44,240 death of cursive right. 596 00:29:44,319 --> 00:29:45,279 Speaker 2: The death of curses. 597 00:29:45,359 --> 00:29:48,799 Speaker 1: Public schools basically do not teach it anymore. My nephew 598 00:29:48,880 --> 00:29:52,400 literally cannot read his own grandmother's birthday cards because it 599 00:29:52,519 --> 00:29:53,319 is incursive. 600 00:29:53,640 --> 00:29:56,759 Speaker 2: The conspiracy theory is that this systemic removal is not 601 00:29:56,880 --> 00:30:00,880 just about modernization or keyboards. It is is a deliberate, 602 00:30:01,079 --> 00:30:06,200 long term educational strategy to ensure that future generations cannot 603 00:30:06,200 --> 00:30:10,079 independently read primary source historical documents. 604 00:30:09,920 --> 00:30:14,079 Speaker 1: Like the original Constitution, the Declaration of Independence, old treaties. 605 00:30:14,160 --> 00:30:17,519 Speaker 2: They're all written in looping persiv. If the general populace 606 00:30:17,519 --> 00:30:21,599 cannot physically read the original raw documents, they are forced 607 00:30:21,640 --> 00:30:25,759 to completely rely on the digital translation, the modern summary, 608 00:30:25,880 --> 00:30:29,519 or the specific interpretation provided by the current authorities and power. 609 00:30:29,599 --> 00:30:33,519 Speaker 1: It creates a massive, invisible barrier between the citizen and 610 00:30:33,559 --> 00:30:35,640 the fundamental source code of their own country. 611 00:30:35,759 --> 00:30:38,680 Speaker 2: It is an insidious form of linguistic gatekeeping. If you 612 00:30:38,720 --> 00:30:40,880 cannot read the original text with your own eyes, you 613 00:30:40,960 --> 00:30:44,359 fundamentally cannot verify what it actually says or what was promised. 614 00:30:44,519 --> 00:30:47,039 Speaker 1: That brings us to probably the most meta theory of 615 00:30:47,079 --> 00:30:50,240 the entire bunch today. The FBI on Reddit. 616 00:30:50,680 --> 00:30:54,400 Speaker 2: The theory states that federal intelligence agencies, specifically the FBI 617 00:30:54,440 --> 00:30:58,400 and the CIA, actively and routinely start conspiracy threads on 618 00:30:58,480 --> 00:30:59,319 sites like Reddit. 619 00:30:59,519 --> 00:31:01,440 Speaker 1: Why would they spend tax payer money to do that? 620 00:31:01,799 --> 00:31:04,960 Speaker 2: Primarily two reasons. One is active monitoring. They throw a 621 00:31:05,000 --> 00:31:07,759 topic out there to see who responds, who knows what, 622 00:31:08,119 --> 00:31:12,319 and how fast information spreads. Two, and more importantly, is 623 00:31:12,519 --> 00:31:17,519 deliberate disinformation. If you want to effectively hide a real, 624 00:31:17,799 --> 00:31:21,319 actual conspiracy, the absolute best way to do it is 625 00:31:21,359 --> 00:31:23,960 to flood the public zone with incredibly crazy ones. 626 00:31:24,079 --> 00:31:27,759 Speaker 1: Right If you seamlessly mix a sliver of actual truth 627 00:31:27,799 --> 00:31:30,720 in with wild stuff like lizard people and the flat earth, 628 00:31:30,960 --> 00:31:33,559 the truth automatically looks completely crazy just by. 629 00:31:33,480 --> 00:31:38,039 Speaker 2: Association exactly, It perfectly dilutes the signal with overwhelming noise. 630 00:31:38,119 --> 00:31:41,039 If an FBI agent starts a massive thread saying aliens 631 00:31:41,039 --> 00:31:43,480 are hiding in the deep ocean, and then years later 632 00:31:43,519 --> 00:31:46,400 it turns out there actually is strange military tech hiding 633 00:31:46,400 --> 00:31:49,119 in the ocean, the public instantly dismisses it because, oh, 634 00:31:49,119 --> 00:31:51,279 that was just that crazy Reddit thread from years ago. 635 00:31:51,400 --> 00:31:53,680 Speaker 1: We are literally doing their public relations work for them 636 00:31:53,720 --> 00:31:56,119 right now, are we not. By grouping all these together. 637 00:31:55,839 --> 00:31:58,440 Speaker 2: We are potentially active participants in the disinformation. 638 00:31:58,559 --> 00:32:00,799 Speaker 1: Luke, Yes, well, let us just keep happily helping them. 639 00:32:00,799 --> 00:32:03,799 Then we are moving to our final section, Segment five, 640 00:32:04,599 --> 00:32:08,279 the unknown aliens, cryptids, and the truly bizarre. 641 00:32:08,519 --> 00:32:11,480 Speaker 2: Let us start with the grandaddy of them all, Area 642 00:32:11,599 --> 00:32:12,200 fifty one. 643 00:32:12,519 --> 00:32:16,160 Speaker 1: The theory. Area fifty one is entirely a decoy. 644 00:32:16,519 --> 00:32:18,839 Speaker 2: Think about it. We all know about Area fifty one. 645 00:32:18,960 --> 00:32:21,759 We talk about it in movies constantly. There were guided 646 00:32:21,799 --> 00:32:25,440 bus tours. People literally camp out in lawn chairs outside 647 00:32:25,440 --> 00:32:26,359 the perimeter gates. 648 00:32:26,519 --> 00:32:30,799 Speaker 1: If you possessed a genuinely top secret military installation holding 649 00:32:30,839 --> 00:32:34,839 paradigm shifting alien technology, you absolutely do not want tourists 650 00:32:34,839 --> 00:32:36,880 camping outside the front gates taking selfies. 651 00:32:36,960 --> 00:32:41,240 Speaker 2: Exactly. It is basic magicians logic. You make the audience 652 00:32:41,279 --> 00:32:44,119 look intently at the right hand waving the bright flag. 653 00:32:44,720 --> 00:32:48,559 Area fifty one is the loud distraction. The government deliberately 654 00:32:48,640 --> 00:32:52,200 keeps it somewhat active. Flies a few weird looking experimental planes, 655 00:32:52,240 --> 00:32:55,640 and let's the curis take blurry photos. Meanwhile, the actual 656 00:32:55,640 --> 00:32:58,440 world changing alien tech is being quietly tested at the 657 00:32:58,480 --> 00:33:01,759 Dugway Proving Round in Utah or some unnamed black site 658 00:33:01,759 --> 00:33:04,079 in Alaska that is completely off the public map. 659 00:33:04,200 --> 00:33:07,920 Speaker 1: It makes total rational sense. You cannot permanently hide a 660 00:33:07,920 --> 00:33:10,279 massive secret the pop culture already knows about, so you 661 00:33:10,319 --> 00:33:12,759 cleverly weaponize it to hide the real secret somewhere else. 662 00:33:12,799 --> 00:33:16,039 Speaker 2: Now, what about what they allegedly found to begin with Roswell, the. 663 00:33:16,039 --> 00:33:19,680 Speaker 1: Classic nineteen forty seven crash in the desert flying saucers aliens? 664 00:33:19,799 --> 00:33:23,759 Speaker 2: Right, this specific theory says absolutely no, it was not extraterrestrial. 665 00:33:23,880 --> 00:33:27,799 It was Soviet wait a Soviet flying software, a highly 666 00:33:27,839 --> 00:33:32,960 experimental Soviet aircraft, possibly designed specifically to look confusing and futuristic, 667 00:33:33,400 --> 00:33:36,960 sent intentionally by Joseph Stalin to crash and cause mass 668 00:33:37,039 --> 00:33:39,359 hysteria and panic in the United States. 669 00:33:39,440 --> 00:33:43,119 Speaker 1: And what about the famous bodies, the supposed Little Green Men. 670 00:33:43,200 --> 00:33:44,319 The witnesses talked about. 671 00:33:44,359 --> 00:33:46,880 Speaker 2: The extremely dark part of this theory, which has been 672 00:33:46,920 --> 00:33:49,400 explored in books by journalists, is that the bodies were 673 00:33:49,440 --> 00:33:54,759 actually surgically altered humans, possibly adolescents or children, horrifically engineered 674 00:33:54,799 --> 00:33:58,160 by Soviet doctors to look like deformed alien beings. 675 00:33:58,240 --> 00:34:01,279 Speaker 1: That is just deeply prof horrific. 676 00:34:00,880 --> 00:34:03,799 Speaker 2: And according to the theory, the US military rapidly covered 677 00:34:03,839 --> 00:34:06,759 it up. They pushed the whole weather balloon narrative not 678 00:34:06,759 --> 00:34:09,800 because they were hiding intergalactic visitors, but to hide the 679 00:34:09,880 --> 00:34:14,360 terrifying reality that the Soviets had successfully deeply penetrated sovereign 680 00:34:14,400 --> 00:34:17,719 American airspace with an advanced craft and the US radar 681 00:34:17,920 --> 00:34:18,800 totally missed it. 682 00:34:19,000 --> 00:34:22,039 Speaker 1: They absolutely did not want to admit to the American 683 00:34:22,079 --> 00:34:25,239 public that they were militarily vulnerable during the dawn of 684 00:34:25,239 --> 00:34:25,800 the Cold War. 685 00:34:25,880 --> 00:34:29,639 Speaker 2: Precisely, it was a massive geopolitical cover up, not an 686 00:34:29,639 --> 00:34:30,800 interplanetary one. 687 00:34:30,920 --> 00:34:33,599 Speaker 1: But if there actually are aliens out there, maybe we're 688 00:34:33,639 --> 00:34:37,480 just aggressively looking in the completely wrong place. Aliens in 689 00:34:37,519 --> 00:34:38,000 the ocean. 690 00:34:38,159 --> 00:34:42,000 Speaker 2: We spend billions constantly looking up at the stars with telescopes, 691 00:34:42,440 --> 00:34:46,880 but the theory argues they are actually right here, deep underwater. 692 00:34:47,039 --> 00:34:49,559 Speaker 1: We have literally explored more of the surface of the 693 00:34:49,559 --> 00:34:51,880 Moon than the bottom of our own oceans. 694 00:34:51,679 --> 00:34:54,880 Speaker 2: And there is compelling physical evidence pointing this way. The 695 00:34:54,920 --> 00:34:59,800 Baltic Sea anomaly, for instance, that massive, strangely geometric structure 696 00:34:59,800 --> 00:35:02,760 see on the seafloor that looks exactly like the Millennium falcon. 697 00:35:03,119 --> 00:35:06,440 But much more importantly, look at the recent declassified US 698 00:35:06,559 --> 00:35:10,920 Navy pilot reports, the infamous tic tac Ufo videos, the. 699 00:35:10,840 --> 00:35:13,440 Speaker 1: Ones on radar that casually dropped from eighty thousand feet 700 00:35:13,480 --> 00:35:15,039 in the air down to sea level in a fraction 701 00:35:15,079 --> 00:35:15,639 of a second. 702 00:35:15,960 --> 00:35:19,639 Speaker 2: Yes, and those craft have been visually observed seamlessly entering 703 00:35:19,679 --> 00:35:22,679 the rough ocean water, without creating a splash and without 704 00:35:22,679 --> 00:35:25,920 slowing down it all. The military classifies them as trans 705 00:35:25,920 --> 00:35:29,760 medium vehicles. They operate in space, air, and water equally. 706 00:35:29,800 --> 00:35:32,039 Speaker 1: Well, if you were an advanced scouting party and you 707 00:35:32,079 --> 00:35:34,679 wanted to secretly hide on Earth to observe us, the 708 00:35:34,719 --> 00:35:38,519 bottom of the Mariana Trench is the absolute best place. Literally, 709 00:35:38,599 --> 00:35:39,679 nobody goes down. 710 00:35:39,559 --> 00:35:43,440 Speaker 2: There and noticed NASA's sudden historical shift. In their early days, 711 00:35:43,679 --> 00:35:47,199 they actually did a lot of deep ocean exploration. Then 712 00:35:47,199 --> 00:35:51,159 they abruptly totally stopped and focused entirely on outer space. 713 00:35:51,719 --> 00:35:55,000 The conspiracy asks did they find something terrifying down there 714 00:35:55,039 --> 00:35:57,760 and officially decide it was better to just leave it alone. 715 00:35:57,840 --> 00:35:59,760 Speaker 1: We are just going to pivot to Mars. Now, let 716 00:35:59,800 --> 00:36:03,280 us completely forget the fish. Okay, here's a massive conceptual 717 00:36:03,280 --> 00:36:06,679 twist on the whole alien thing. UFOs are future humans. 718 00:36:06,840 --> 00:36:09,760 Speaker 2: This elegantly solves a lot of biological problems with the 719 00:36:09,760 --> 00:36:13,480 standard alien theory. Why do the typical grays always look 720 00:36:13,559 --> 00:36:17,440 vaguely like us? Two arms, two legs, a bipedal stands, 721 00:36:17,480 --> 00:36:21,960 a big head, two forward facing eyes. That exact morphology 722 00:36:22,239 --> 00:36:25,880 is highly statistically unlikely for an organism evolving on a 723 00:36:25,880 --> 00:36:28,920 completely different planet with a different evolutionary tree. 724 00:36:29,000 --> 00:36:32,159 Speaker 1: But it makes absolute perfect sense if they are actually 725 00:36:32,320 --> 00:36:34,880 just us a million years from now. We simply evolve 726 00:36:35,000 --> 00:36:38,599 significantly bigger brains and smaller, weaker bodies because we rely 727 00:36:38,719 --> 00:36:41,800 on technology and space travel, and maybe lost our hair 728 00:36:41,880 --> 00:36:43,039 due to artificial. 729 00:36:42,639 --> 00:36:46,280 Speaker 2: Environment exactly, and it perfectly explains their bizarre behavior. Why 730 00:36:46,280 --> 00:36:48,159 do they never just land on the White House lawn 731 00:36:48,159 --> 00:36:50,320 and say hello? Why do they just zip around quietly 732 00:36:50,360 --> 00:36:52,039 scan things, and silently watch us? 733 00:36:52,079 --> 00:36:55,599 Speaker 1: Because they are time traveling tourists or futuristic historians. 734 00:36:55,920 --> 00:37:00,000 Speaker 2: They are on an academic safari to their own ancient past. 735 00:36:59,559 --> 00:37:03,239 The absolutely cannot interact with us or share technology because 736 00:37:03,239 --> 00:37:06,960 doing so would completely break their own timeline. It is 737 00:37:07,000 --> 00:37:11,159 the classic Grandfather paradox. They are just here to passively observe, 738 00:37:11,280 --> 00:37:14,320 or maybe to record the crucial moments right before some 739 00:37:14,559 --> 00:37:16,480 massive global catastrophe hits. 740 00:37:16,719 --> 00:37:18,360 Speaker 1: So when you are looking up and you see a 741 00:37:18,360 --> 00:37:22,079 glowing UFO, it is basically just a bored teenager from 742 00:37:22,119 --> 00:37:25,400 the year four thousand taking a mandatory class field trip 743 00:37:25,679 --> 00:37:26,840 to see the stupid ages. 744 00:37:26,920 --> 00:37:28,840 Speaker 2: Pretty much. Yeah, just taking temporal notes. 745 00:37:28,880 --> 00:37:30,960 Speaker 1: I really love that perspective. Okay, let us talk about 746 00:37:31,000 --> 00:37:33,119 ancient history the pyramids. 747 00:37:33,480 --> 00:37:35,480 Speaker 2: Pyramids as power plants. 748 00:37:35,079 --> 00:37:38,599 Speaker 1: So not royal tombs for pharaohs, massive machines. 749 00:37:38,639 --> 00:37:41,880 Speaker 2: The engineer Christopher Dunn wrote a very detailed book extensively 750 00:37:41,920 --> 00:37:45,199 outlining this. He argues that the Great Pyramid of Giza 751 00:37:45,480 --> 00:37:48,559 was specifically engineered as a g mechanical machine to generate 752 00:37:48,599 --> 00:37:50,239 wireless microwave energy. 753 00:37:50,320 --> 00:37:53,639 Speaker 1: How does a pile of stone blocks generate electricity? 754 00:37:53,800 --> 00:37:57,480 Speaker 2: It involves pouring chemical solutions down the specific interior shafts 755 00:37:57,519 --> 00:38:02,440 to create volatile hydrogen gas. Then the massive granite beams 756 00:38:02,480 --> 00:38:06,320 in the King's chamber act as a giant resonator. Granite 757 00:38:06,360 --> 00:38:09,920 has a very high quartz crystal content, which means it 758 00:38:10,000 --> 00:38:13,800 is highly piezoelectric. It generates a charge under physical stress. 759 00:38:14,280 --> 00:38:17,519 The theory claims the pyramid was built to precisely capture 760 00:38:17,599 --> 00:38:20,800 and amplify the natural seismic vibrations of the Earth. 761 00:38:20,800 --> 00:38:24,360 Speaker 1: So the entire massive pyramid was physically vibrating and shooting 762 00:38:24,440 --> 00:38:27,320 a beam of energy out into the atmosphere to power what. 763 00:38:27,880 --> 00:38:32,400 Speaker 2: Interestingly, Nikola Tesla strongly believe the pyramid's conducted ambient power. 764 00:38:32,840 --> 00:38:35,800 The overaging idea is that this was a global wireless 765 00:38:35,840 --> 00:38:39,960 power grid for a highly advanced ancient pre Ice age civilization, 766 00:38:40,360 --> 00:38:42,559 not just an oversized place to bury a dead king. 767 00:38:42,679 --> 00:38:45,679 Speaker 1: That would neatly explain why modern engineers still cannot definitively 768 00:38:45,719 --> 00:38:48,559 figure out exactly how they move those stones. Maybe they 769 00:38:48,559 --> 00:38:50,679 were not using copper chissels and ropes. Maybe they had 770 00:38:50,719 --> 00:38:53,559 advanced power tools physically plugged into the pyramid's grid. 771 00:38:53,719 --> 00:38:56,880 Speaker 2: It totally flips the standard view of history from primitive 772 00:38:56,920 --> 00:39:00,400 people slowly learning to stack rocks to a highly advanced 773 00:39:00,400 --> 00:39:04,719 civilization that was wiped out, leaving only their forgotten technology behind. 774 00:39:05,239 --> 00:39:07,239 Speaker 1: Right, we are down to the final theory on our list, 775 00:39:07,559 --> 00:39:11,880 and honestly, this one just makes me profoundly sad. Museum fakes. 776 00:39:12,519 --> 00:39:16,239 Speaker 2: The theory posits that the world's major museums display high quality, 777 00:39:16,320 --> 00:39:19,480 immaculate replicas of their most famous works, like the Mona 778 00:39:19,519 --> 00:39:24,360 Lisa or the original Declaration of Independence, specifically to protect 779 00:39:24,440 --> 00:39:27,239 the priceless originals from vandalism or decay. 780 00:39:27,639 --> 00:39:29,440 Speaker 1: So when I spend thousands of dollars to go to 781 00:39:29,440 --> 00:39:31,960 the louver in Pairs and I fight through a sweaty 782 00:39:32,000 --> 00:39:34,800 crowd of three hundred tourists just to get a glimpse 783 00:39:34,800 --> 00:39:37,039 of the Mona Lisa, I am essentially just looking at 784 00:39:37,079 --> 00:39:38,280 a really nice poster. 785 00:39:38,159 --> 00:39:42,760 Speaker 2: A very expensive, masterfully hand painted photocopy, but yes, a replica. 786 00:39:43,119 --> 00:39:46,079 The deeper fear behind this theory is are the actual 787 00:39:46,079 --> 00:39:49,199 originals even in the building anymore? Or are they locked 788 00:39:49,199 --> 00:39:53,360 away in a dark, subterranean, climate controlled vault, or even worse, 789 00:39:53,480 --> 00:39:55,679 were they secretly sold off to sit in the private, 790 00:39:55,719 --> 00:39:57,599 guarded collection of some tech billionaire. 791 00:39:57,679 --> 00:40:01,079 Speaker 1: So the general public is paying premium admits prices to 792 00:40:01,079 --> 00:40:04,559 see the showroom display model, while the ultra elite are 793 00:40:04,599 --> 00:40:08,559 hoarding the real, authentic pieces of human history all to themselves. 794 00:40:08,679 --> 00:40:12,159 Speaker 2: It is the absolute ultimate form of cultural gatekeeping. 795 00:40:12,519 --> 00:40:15,480 Speaker 1: Wow, okay, let us just take a collective breath. There 796 00:40:15,559 --> 00:40:16,840 was a lot of information to. 797 00:40:16,800 --> 00:40:21,119 Speaker 2: Process, thirty incredibly dense threads pulled and examined. 798 00:40:20,719 --> 00:40:23,239 Speaker 1: And my brain is genuinely vibrating right now. Is it 799 00:40:23,280 --> 00:40:24,159 the granite effect. 800 00:40:24,280 --> 00:40:26,679 Speaker 2: It might actually be the piezoelectric effect kicking in. 801 00:40:26,800 --> 00:40:28,360 Speaker 1: When you take a step back and look at all 802 00:40:28,440 --> 00:40:31,559 thirty of these entirely different theories together, what is the 803 00:40:31,639 --> 00:40:34,960 underlying pattern? What are we actually seeing about human nature here? 804 00:40:35,320 --> 00:40:37,800 Speaker 2: I think the deeply common thread connecting all of them 805 00:40:37,880 --> 00:40:40,840 is a profound pervasive lack of trust. 806 00:40:41,000 --> 00:40:42,760 Speaker 1: Trust in who, exactly. 807 00:40:42,679 --> 00:40:49,079 Speaker 2: Absolutely everyone, massive institutions, faceless corporations, the federal government, even 808 00:40:49,119 --> 00:40:53,440 standard history books. Every single one of these theories, from 809 00:40:53,440 --> 00:40:56,760 the trivial to the terrifying, stems directly from the fundamental 810 00:40:56,800 --> 00:41:00,000 idea that the official narrative is a carefully constructed lie, 811 00:41:00,679 --> 00:41:04,679 a lie designed specifically to control us, to financially exploit us, 812 00:41:05,199 --> 00:41:07,039 or to hide the real truth from us. 813 00:41:07,639 --> 00:41:10,360 Speaker 1: Whether it is literally removing pockets from pants just to 814 00:41:10,480 --> 00:41:14,280 aggressively sell more purses, or staging fake nuclear missile alerts 815 00:41:14,280 --> 00:41:17,760 to secretly test our psychological panic response, it is all 816 00:41:17,800 --> 00:41:20,360 fundamentally about manipulation from the top down. 817 00:41:20,559 --> 00:41:22,920 Speaker 2: And what I find most fascinating as a researcher is 818 00:41:22,920 --> 00:41:24,800 that the scariest theories on this list are not the 819 00:41:24,840 --> 00:41:28,320 wild ones about underwater aliens or time travelers. The genuinely 820 00:41:28,360 --> 00:41:30,880 scariest ones are the ones that require absolutely the least 821 00:41:30,920 --> 00:41:32,400 amount of imagination. 822 00:41:32,079 --> 00:41:35,199 Speaker 1: Right gre inflation with the egg prices, Yeah, planned obsolescence 823 00:41:35,239 --> 00:41:37,880 with the light bulbs, the dating app algorithms, those are 824 00:41:37,880 --> 00:41:40,840 not sci fi movies. Those are just modern capitalism operating 825 00:41:40,840 --> 00:41:42,199 with the gloves completely. 826 00:41:41,800 --> 00:41:46,280 Speaker 2: Off, exactly analyzing a sith Lord jar Binks is a 827 00:41:46,320 --> 00:41:50,199 really fun thought experiment, But a dating app scientifically designed 828 00:41:50,199 --> 00:41:53,679 by psychologists to keep you chronically lonely just so a 829 00:41:53,679 --> 00:41:57,360 tech company can reliably extract a monthly subscription fee from you. 830 00:41:57,840 --> 00:42:01,199 That is not a fun theory. That is grim reality. 831 00:42:01,559 --> 00:42:04,239 Speaker 1: And I think that leads perfectly to the final provocative thought, 832 00:42:04,719 --> 00:42:07,239 the one that is really going to mess with me tonight. 833 00:42:07,119 --> 00:42:08,760 Speaker 2: The FBI disinformation theory. 834 00:42:09,199 --> 00:42:12,679 Speaker 1: Yeah, if the FBI or the CIA or whoever is 835 00:42:12,760 --> 00:42:17,559 actually out there intentionally starting wild reddit threads just to 836 00:42:17,599 --> 00:42:20,960 distract the public, are we, by doing this deep dive 837 00:42:21,039 --> 00:42:23,599 right now, actively part of the distraction. 838 00:42:23,440 --> 00:42:27,159 Speaker 2: By loudly discussing the fun cinematic conspiracies like snow Piercer 839 00:42:27,199 --> 00:42:30,719 and Wonka. Are we collectively ignoring a boring, deeply terrifying 840 00:42:30,719 --> 00:42:32,599 truth that is happening right under our noses in the 841 00:42:32,599 --> 00:42:33,079 real world. 842 00:42:33,159 --> 00:42:35,519 Speaker 1: Maybe, or maybe that is exactly what they want us 843 00:42:35,559 --> 00:42:36,599 to think, so we stop looking. 844 00:42:36,639 --> 00:42:38,559 Speaker 2: We are firmly stuck in a paranoid loop. 845 00:42:38,719 --> 00:42:41,440 Speaker 1: We really are, and listener, we want to drag you 846 00:42:42,000 --> 00:42:44,199 right into the loop with us. I have a direct, 847 00:42:44,239 --> 00:42:48,360 serious question for you. We covered thirty distinct threads today. 848 00:42:48,880 --> 00:42:51,199 Which one of these do you believe is one hundred 849 00:42:51,280 --> 00:42:53,280 percent undeniable fact? 850 00:42:53,760 --> 00:42:57,719 Speaker 2: Is it the Pocket conspiracy, is it the lost drifting cosmonauts? 851 00:42:58,519 --> 00:43:00,440 Or do you firmly think we are living in the 852 00:43:00,440 --> 00:43:04,320 misspelled stained universe right now thanks to the large Hadron collider. 853 00:43:04,599 --> 00:43:06,960 Speaker 1: I genuinely want to know exactly where you draw the 854 00:43:07,000 --> 00:43:11,679 line between crazy Internet fiction and obvious reality. Leave a 855 00:43:11,679 --> 00:43:13,880 comment below tell us your definitive answer, and if you 856 00:43:13,880 --> 00:43:15,760 have a favorite weird thread that we miss today, drop 857 00:43:15,840 --> 00:43:16,480 that in there too. 858 00:43:16,800 --> 00:43:19,840 Speaker 2: Just please do not openly mention the GPS location of 859 00:43:19,880 --> 00:43:22,519 the real alien base. We really do not want the 860 00:43:22,519 --> 00:43:25,039 black SUVs showing up at our recording studio tomorrow. 861 00:43:25,320 --> 00:43:28,320 Speaker 1: Very good advice. Keep pulling the threads everyone, You honestly 862 00:43:28,400 --> 00:43:30,559 never know what will completely unravel when you do. 863 00:43:30,800 --> 00:43:32,800 Speaker 2: Stay curious out there, we will see you in. 864 00:43:32,719 --> 00:43:35,719 Speaker 1: The next deep dive, or, depending on the collider, we 865 00:43:35,760 --> 00:43:37,639 will see you in the next timeline. Bye.