181 - King Arthurs' Tomb, Ancient Roman Dictators & Creole Cryptids

Summary

Ninjas Are Butterflies | Episode 181

Title: King Arthur's Tomb, Ancient Roman Dictators & Creole Cryptids
Date: February 13, 2026
Hosts: Josh Hooper, Andy DeNoon, Lil, Corey, Kelsey

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Episode Overview

In this lively episode, the Ninjas Are Butterflies crew embarks on a wild ride through history, folklore, and modern mysteries. The hosts explore the legend of King Arthur's lost tomb, the tale of a Roman dictator who gave up power, and a chilling cryptid lurking in Louisiana's swamps. Along the way, they tackle contemporary topics like the World Economic Forum, TikTok censorship, and advances in technology, never missing a beat of banter, conspiracy, or comedic tangential discussion.

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Main Themes

• Enigmatic Tombs and Lost Legends: Exploration of King Arthur’s supposed grave and the mysterious occurrences around Glastonbury.
• Historical Leaders & Leadership: The story of Cincinnatus, the humble dictator who chose cabbage over power.
• Cryptids & Swamp Monsters: Folklore from Louisiana’s porous wetlands and firsthand encounters.
• Contemporary Controversies: Social media censorship, geopolitical boycotts, and new technology regulation.
• Life, Love, & Laughter: The irreverent, conspiratorial style of the show, blending history, current events, and daily life.

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Detailed Discussion & Timestamps

1. The Warm-up & Tangents (01:01–10:00)

• Episode intro and quick banter: Hosts riff on podcast milestones (over 180 episodes!), childhood Speedos, wedding memories, and fruit vs. veggie juicing.
• Food and culture:
  • Kelsey, on juicing:
    “Eat your fruit and juice your vegetables because you need so many vegetables. It's more efficient to juice them. But you should eat your fruit.” [05:15]
  • Raw vegetables debate: The crew riffs on Chinese nutrition philosophy.
  • Josh, quoting a Chinese colleague:
    “Raw plants, he said, still carry their defense chemicals. Plants evolve to survive being eaten. Cooking disarms them.” [06:03]

Memorable Moment

Lil: “That's good, because I literally don't eat raw vegetables ever.” [07:58]

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2. Love & Garters, Family Memories (12:00–16:00)

• Valentine's Day Stories, Marriage & Garters:
  The hosts talk about wedding traditions, odd garter tosses, and family names.

• Granny debate:
  Tongue-in-cheek discussion on whether grandmothers deserve love, spiraling into the story of an infamous serial killer dubbed "The Granny Killer."

  • Josh, fake outrage:
    “Do grannies deserve love? Yes, they deserve Gary David Love, the Australian serial killer better known as the Granny Killer.” [15:34]

Notable Quote

Lil to Kelsey:
“How about you don't answer a question like that?” [15:28]

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3. Health, Food, and Anthony Bourdain (24:32–27:27)

• Kitchen Confidential insights:
  • Kelsey shares Bourdain’s restaurant horror stories (e.g., why not to order mussels if you don’t know the chef personally).
  • Ratatouille admiration—Bourdain’s favorite food film.

Notable Quote

Lil: “Bourdain says, if you watch the chefs in Gusteau’s restaurant in Ratatouille, they have burn marks on their arms… stuff like that they cared about.” [26:35]

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4. Politics, Boycotts & Trump (29:09–34:20)

• World Cup boycotts:
  Several European countries consider boycotting the US-based Cup “because of Trump,” prompting dialogue on the hypocrisy compared to the Qatar Cup.
• Debate on the refusal of NATO/European states to join US peace initiatives.

Notable Exchange

Josh: “We went to the Olympics when Hitler was the freaking guy.” [30:47]
Lil: “And we beat him and he looked like a fool. He was on Meth.” [30:54]

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5. Geopolitics & Conspiracies (36:11–38:51)

• Conspiracies around nuclear history:
  Hosts discuss internet theories that the Hiroshima/Nagasaki nuclear bombings didn’t actually happen as reported.
• Information distrust:
  Corey: “Such a disturbing thought that we have so much information now that we can believe none of it.” [37:44]
• Upcoming guest teaser:
  Josh: “That’s why I’m excited to have the Jesse guy on…about the psyops.” [37:51]

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6. The Saudi “Line”—Failed Mega Projects (39:14–40:26)

• Discussion on Saudi Arabia’s much-hyped “Line” mega-city, now apparently scaled back to a mere data center.
• The hosts lament the failed utopian vision.

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7. Artemis 2 & Podcast Immortality (41:04–42:42)

• The Ninjas Are Butterflies podcast name will orbit the moon on Artemis 2—via flash drive.
• Kelsey: “That’s significant.” [42:42]
• Corey: “If it crashes on the moon and then aliens find the hard drive…” [42:45]

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8. Tech, Control & Dystopia (43:12–48:39)

• US bill enabling remote car shut-off:
  Discussion of new legislation allowing government or law enforcement to remotely disable vehicles. Raises privacy/freedom concerns.
  • Kelsey: “If they get a little greedy and they shut off everybody's car…” [44:14]
  • Lil: “That’s like, alarm systems…that’s crazy.” [46:28]
• Electric vehicles, range anxiety, and the hosts’ skepticism about EV adoption.

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9. Social Media Censorship & TikTok (55:24–60:05)

• TikTok’s new censorship rules:
  Discussion of an Oracle executive tripling hate-speech bans and collaborating with watchdog groups.

  • Corey: “Am I not allowed to negatively…defend someone who’s not a Christian? Their right to be able to say, I do not agree with the Christian narrative?” [57:28]

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10. World Economic Forum & Robots (61:02–62:26)

• Elon Musk’s vision: Every human gets an “Optimus” robot, more robots than people on Earth.
• Kelsey: “Don’t like that.” [62:11]

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11. COVID & Social Experiments (63:27–66:03)

• WEF describes COVID-19 as “the test of social responsibility.”
• The crew reflects on pandemic restrictions, data confusion, and the experience of living through “big SCs” (societal changes/conspiracies).

Notable Quote:

Josh: “COVID 19 was the test of social responsibility.” [63:27]
Kelsey: “So they're saying this, like, just getting the vaccine was a social responsibility, but it's like, when are they gonna acknowledge that people are getting hurt by this vaccine?” [65:12]

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12. History, Holidays & Lunar Phenomena (70:11–74:44)

• March 3rd: upcoming blood moon/lunar eclipse synchronous with the Jewish holiday Purim.
• Kelsey: “So much of the lunar phenomena always falls on a Jewish holiday.” [73:41]

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13. Cryptid Corner — Honey Island Swamp Monster (76:57–84:44)

• The Tale: Two hunters explore Honey Island Swamp in Louisiana, encounter a silent, amber-eyed, seven-foot cryptid with webbed toes. Years later they return, find hog carcasses, and cast bizarre tracks. Another old-timer claims frequent sightings—then disappears himself.
  • Corey: "He never came back. That's it. Never found his boat. Never found him." [82:06]
• The hosts riff on swamp ape lore and regional differences from Bigfoot.

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14. King Arthur’s Tomb and Glastonbury Mystique (84:56–92:20)

• Main Story: Monks in 1191 supposedly discover King Arthur’s and Guinevere’s remains in Glastonbury, complete with a literal inscription. The tomb is lost in the 1500s during Henry VIII’s anti-monastery purge.
  • Josh: “Here lies buried the famous King Arthur in the isle of Avalon.” [85:23]
• Deeper Mysticism:
  • Glastonbury’s ties to Joseph of Arimathea (of biblical fame) and the Holy Grail legend.
  • The “thorny tree” – a Middle Eastern species growing in Glastonbury.
• Lil: “That is cool. And it still stands today?” [90:32]

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15. The Story of Cincinnatus: The Dictator Who Quit (93:12–97:16)

• Legend: Lucius Cincinnatus, a humble farmer, is summoned to save Rome—a dictator with absolute power who, in 16 days, rescues the city, then resigns and returns to his cabbages. He does this twice.

  • Lil: “He just left, abdicated, and went back to be a farmer... just an absolute legend.” [96:27]

• Named as the inspiration for Cincinnati, Ohio, and for the American view of George Washington.

  • Corey: “He either missed his cabbages or preferred his cabbages…” [97:20]

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16. Closing Shenanigans (99:02–End)

• Promos for Patreon, Discord, and merch. Jokes about the team forming a dictatorship.

• The show teases more tomb mysteries for the Patreon episode.

  • Lil: “Who would make the best dictator and tell us why? Yes, we might pin your comment.” [100:07]

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Notable Quotes (with timestamps)

• Josh (on Chinese food culture): “Raw plants, he said, still carry their defense chemicals. Plants evolve to survive being eaten. Cooking disarms them.” [06:03]
• Lil (on cryptid footprints): “They found footprints all surrounding the thing, three toed and webbed.” [77:57]
• Corey (on Cincinnatus): “He either missed his cabbages or preferred his cabbages…” [97:20]
• Josh (on King Arthur): “Here lies buried the famous King Arthur in the isle of Avalon.” [85:23]
• Kelsey (on vaccine side-effects): “When are they gonna acknowledge that people are getting hurt by this vaccine?” [65:12]
• Corey (on information overload): “Such a disturbing thought that we have so much information now that we can believe none of it.” [37:44]

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Key Takeaways

• The show blends deep dives into weird history and myth with satirical current-event commentary.
• Chronicles of King Arthur and Cincinnatus serve as metaphors for modern-day skepticism and yearning for true leadership.
• The Honey Island Swamp Monster legend encapsulates the American love for the mysterious and unexplained.
• The crew remains endearingly skeptical of power—be it technological, governmental, or social—and always finds the humor, no matter the topic.
• Behind the outlandish stories and laughter, the hosts nudge listeners to think: about what stories we believe, why, and who gets to tell them.

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For the full experience, listen in for wild side tangents, rapid-fire bits, and the irreverent tone that’s become the show’s hallmark.

Transcript

[Josh]

King Arthur's tomb was found in the 1100s and then disappeared under King Henry VIII. And it all took place on a mountain in Glastonbury. And there's other mysteries surrounding the area in which he was found. I'm gonna tell you all about him right after this intro. Get ready. It's gonna blow your mind. There's fairies involved in everything.

[Lil]

And guess what?

[Josh]

Merlin appears. You gonna go?

[Lil]

Yep. And we're gonna learn about a Roman dictator that had all the power in the world in the palm of his hands. What did he choose to do with it?

[Corey]

Stay tuned. And there's a cryptid that's been haunting the swamps of Louisiana for years. Two hunters went into the woods. Only one comes out. Hold on to your bayou booties.

[Kelsey]

Golly.

[Josh]

We didn't say anything.

[Lil]

No. Wait patiently.

[Kelsey]

This podcast is brought to you Empowered by Sunday. Cool. So watch this or listen.

[Lil]

Good job. Good job.

[Kelsey]

Thank you. Thanks. You guys were going on and on and on. You lost me.

[Josh]

Because we were waiting for you. We're also trying to make you laugh. 180 episodes.

[Lil]

81.

[Josh]

181 episodes.

[Lil]

Oh, good. On both of them.

[Josh]

Andy, that's anthrax.

[Corey]

Oh.

[Lil]

Yeah.

[Josh]

That means don't get realize. I mean, they say, man, too bad.

[Kelsey]

For y', all, you ain't got no.

[Lil]

Airflow in your office. Not my problem.

[Corey]

Not my problem.

[Josh]

Honestly, I think that's bad for y'. All.

[Lil]

Not my job. Not my problem.

[Josh]

Bad for your circulation.

[Lil]

Get over here.

[Josh]

Stop.

[Corey]

My bad.

[Lil]

Over 180 episodes.

[Kelsey]

Wow. That's a lot.

[Lil]

I know. What are we gonna do for our 200?

[Kelsey]

We have to do something somewhere in a different country. Go to a different country.

[Corey]

Hawaii. It counts.

[Josh]

India.

[Lil]

Greenland.

[Corey]

Greenland. Green blend.

[Josh]

Greenland.

[Lil]

You know what I was reminded of today?

[Kelsey]

What?

[Lil]

I used to wear Speedo as a kid when we went swimming. To, like, swimming pools and stuff.

[Josh]

Really?

[Lil]

Yeah. And I'm realizing that wasn't my choice.

[Corey]

To find Kid 18.

[Lil]

No, I'm kidding.

[Corey]

I mean, I'm. Did you buy it for a second?

[Josh]

Yeah.

[Lil]

No, like, when I was, like, it was like, before elementary school.

[Kelsey]

Yeah.

[Lil]

This wore speed.

[Corey]

Where's that line?

[Lil]

I don't know, man.

[Josh]

Make you.

[Lil]

I guess she. I mean, someone had to have bought it for me. I know. It's weird, right?

[Kelsey]

Well, you were living. Okay, so think about this. Your stepdad is a world traveler.

[Corey]

Sure.

[Kelsey]

And.

[Lil]

Yeah, but he wasn't around that time. Yeah, we. When. When I lived in Africa, dude, all the French guys on the beach, everyone wore Speedo. Of course, it was disgusting.

[Josh]

It is. And it's not just because of the Speedos.

[Lil]

No.

[Josh]

It's because they're French people on the beach.

[Lil]

Yeah, I saw that. They were gross. And then I looked down, I was like, oh, now that makes it even worse.

[Corey]

Oh, gosh.

[Lil]

I just.

[Corey]

You can't talk about we. We.

[Lil]

We weirdos. Yeah, I guess. I don't know.

[Kelsey]

When did your stepdad come into the picture?

[Lil]

Around when I was like, I think five. Five or six.

[Kelsey]

Yeah, maybe he was like, we gotta get rid of that Speedo.

[Lil]

Probably. Probably. Yeah. We moved to California right afterwards, and that stuff wouldn't have flown where we were going.

[Kelsey]

No, no.

[Corey]

A Speedo? You sure?

[Lil]

I'm pretty sure.

[Josh]

I don't know.

[Lil]

We got bullied pretty hard whenever we moved, so I don't think the Speedo would have helped.

[Kelsey]

We should go to California and. And make sure. Do some research, see if they.

[Lil]

Let's get a speed up. Trunks. Let's get a speed up.

[Josh]

I've never had the confidence to wear a Speedo.

[Lil]

Let's do it. Come on. Why not? Kelsey really wants me to wear one.

[Josh]

I'm like, I'm married now, so it's like.

[Lil]

You don't have to impress anybody.

[Josh]

No one.

[Lil]

Not a chance.

[Kelsey]

Me?

[Lil]

Well, no. No one. As soon as you put the ring on, there's no.

[Corey]

You have a legal obligation.

[Josh]

Yeah, you have to love me. Legally. It's against the law.

[Corey]

The old covenant.

[Kelsey]

Oh, my gosh.

[Josh]

Yo, what's up, y'?

[Kelsey]

All?

[Lil]

Welcome back, Lil.

[Kelsey]

Thanks, guys.

[Lil]

What are you drinking over there?

[Kelsey]

Beet juice. It's called the abc. Apples, beads, carrots by the health basket.

[Corey]

Okay.

[Kelsey]

It does make my tummy gurgle.

[Lil]

Does it taste good?

[Kelsey]

Yeah, it's very apple forward, but it's earthy. You're not gonna like it.

[Corey]

I want it. Well, he's. Well, he's coming over here. Genuine question. What is the upside to juice as opposed to, like, getting all of the fiber and just.

[Kelsey]

No, you. You should eat your fruit. You should juice your vegetables and eat your fruit is the rule.

[Lil]

Like raw.

[Corey]

You shouldn't eat your vet. So you're saying it's not more productive to eat the vegetables?

[Kelsey]

It's not more. You need more. Here's. Here's a rule. Okay, listen.

[Corey]

I'm listening.

[Kelsey]

Eat your vegetables. No, eat your fruit and juice your vegetables because you need so many vegetables. It's more efficient to juice them. But you should eat your fruit.

[Lil]

Isn't there a rule, though? Like, you're like. If you juice certain things, you lose the Nutrients or something.

[Kelsey]

That's what you're saying. There's fiber and stuff like that. But are you going to eat 12 servings of carrots?

[Lil]

Yeah.

[Kelsey]

No, but I'll drink them right now in this thing. True.

[Lil]

I'd rather eat, but is it pointless? If you're losing the nutrients, you're getting all the money. Okay. You're getting them. Okay.

[Kelsey]

But it's. Listen to this fiber thing. Continue.

[Josh]

Speaking of vegetables, a Chinese man said something over lunch that hit me. Quote, we never eat raw vegetables. That's why we outlive you. There's, like, a science and that goes on. It says. He wasn't bragging. He was explaining. Raw plants. He said, still carry their defense chemicals. Plants evolve to survive being eaten. Cooking disarms them.

[Lil]

Ooh. Takes on their defenses.

[Kelsey]

What do you.

[Josh]

How do they know that they're Chinese, Lil. They know everything.

[Kelsey]

I do believe it.

[Lil]

They all lived 200 years old on average.

[Kelsey]

I don't know if I've talked about this on the show, but my algorithm on TikTok is very Chinese medicine forward. And it's really fun because people of all races are getting in on this thing. My favorite one was an African American woman, and she said me parentheses a Chinese drinking my hot water.

[Lil]

I've seen that.

[Kelsey]

I'm back on the hot water thing.

[Lil]

Like, every morning. Drinking, like, a glass of hot water like, helps with, like, your digestive.

[Kelsey]

And like, every time you eat a meal, hot water.

[Josh]

Jiho, my Seth Green friend told me to never drink cold water while I eat.

[Kelsey]

It slows down your digestion. Or the opposite. Maybe it makes you go fast.

[Corey]

I think it's just water in general. While you eat. There's supposed to be a period of time before you drink water with your mood.

[Josh]

I haven't drink water in years.

[Lil]

That's smart.

[Kelsey]

Anyway, congee for breakfast. Like, it's hot, brothy food Kanji. And they say you're eating yogurt and fruit for breakfast. That's, like, the worst thing you can do for your belly.

[Josh]

Why probiotics. Yeah, but it's protein.

[Kelsey]

You need heat.

[Josh]

I warm up my yogurt.

[Lil]

I leave my yogurt outside the boiling blue tip. Anyway, you don't get hot cottage cheese, dude, what's wrong with you?

[Kelsey]

Anyway, these actual Chinese folks are going on tik tok, too, and they're, like, starting, like, with these, like, rage baits where they're like, all these people are, like, pretending to be Chinese, and then it ends with, like, I'm glad, welcome.

[Josh]

And you're like holding your breath, this goes on. It says many raw vegetables contain compounds meant to deter predators. They can irritate the gut, block mineral absorption, and interfere with enzymes. They aren't toxins, they're plant alarm systems.

[Lil]

Wow, that's good, because I literally don't eat raw vegetables ever.

[Kelsey]

That's why raw vegans are so grouchy.

[Lil]

Makes sense.

[Josh]

It's full of poison.

[Corey]

Just doesn't list any of the vegetables.

[Kelsey]

I think it's.

[Josh]

All of it was like, kale and all that stuff.

[Corey]

Broccoli.

[Josh]

Yeah. Well, broccoli you just should have never eat.

[Corey]

Isn't broccoli kale or, like, closely tied to it?

[Lil]

What's broccoli, Rob?

[Kelsey]

Dude, I am in good.

[Josh]

Stir frying broccoli removed nearly 80% of goetrins, compounds known for. To interfere with thyroid function. Stir frying broccoli.

[Lil]

So it's good to stir fry is what you said?

[Josh]

Yes. Don't eat it raw.

[Lil]

Got it.

[Kelsey]

It's. Don't eat it. Broccoli.

[Lil]

Rob, I've. I saw someone make a sandwich in New York with it, and it looked really good, but I just don't. I don't love broccoli. I have to. You have to prep in a certain way.

[Josh]

Something about gives me gas.

[Kelsey]

Something about that specific kind of broccoli tastes chemically. I have made it a couple times for Josh because that's what I buy instead of Josh, you know, I'm talking about. And you're like, why does it. Broccoli taste like that?

[Josh]

Yeah, well, that bitter. Oh, gosh.

[Corey]

It's awful.

[Lil]

But that's. That's something he did. He was. It was. They. They blanched it really quickly.

[Kelsey]

Cool.

[Lil]

And it was on a sandwich with, like, a fried eggplant, and it was apparently the best sandwich this guy's ever had in his life.

[Corey]

Here's. Here's what I was thinking. Broccoli, kale, Brussels sprouts, and more of those type vegetables all originate from the same wild mustard plant. They're all, like, modern adaptations of that same. Same plant we should be eating.

[Josh]

So if you just eat yellow mustard, it's the same as eating a bowl of broccoli.

[Lil]

Yeah.

[Corey]

Mustard greens.

[Lil]

I had a big thing of sweet potatoes today, and that was something I'm going to have to get used to.

[Kelsey]

You.

[Lil]

No, I'd like them, but it's just. I'm not used to them like, used. I'm used to, like, freaking loaded sweet potatoes or, like, having them in desserts and stuff, but just having them, like, in A savory meal. Like with hamburger today.

[Josh]

Yeah.

[Kelsey]

Put some curry powder in it. Curry powder is the good.

[Lil]

I think I need to air fry them. Next time, get a little more crispy.

[Josh]

Speaking of crispy.

[Lil]

Yeah.

[Josh]

You know a song.

[Kelsey]

Yeah.

[Corey]

This is truly not rehearsed.

[Josh]

No, it's not. We practice.

[Kelsey]

Oh, gosh.

[Josh]

We didn't practice. But we don't need to.

[Corey]

I genuinely don't know the song because.

[Lil]

Valentine's Day is tomorrow, and I feel like love's gonna steer our hearts on this one.

[Kelsey]

And our anniversary.

[Josh]

Yeah.

[Kelsey]

We got married on the 15th.

[Lil]

Yeah, I know. It was really inconvenient. We had a rehearsal dinner on Valentine's Day.

[Josh]

Love is love. Can't put a date on it.

[Lil]

No, you can't. I mean, some people obviously have with Valentine's Day.

[Kelsey]

Then we had the funnest wedding of all time. And most romantic.

[Lil]

I. I danced with your husband with underwear wrapped around our necks.

[Kelsey]

Yeah, it's true.

[Josh]

I remember my wife's underwear.

[Kelsey]

Enough of that.

[Corey]

It was.

[Josh]

It was whitey tighties in a size.

[Kelsey]

12 XL or something.

[Josh]

Again, my wife's underwear.

[Kelsey]

No, none of that.

[Lil]

You look great, by the way. Five years. You've really done a lot of.

[Josh]

Let me clarify. You know the garter. The garter toss. Right.

[Corey]

Yeah.

[Lil]

It's always kind of an awkward tradition.

[Josh]

Super awkward. Always makes people uncomfortable because, like, this is weird.

[Lil]

Yeah. So you're like, I want to make it kind of fun.

[Josh]

Yeah. And so I. I put in my pocket a 12x size of whitey tighties and then did the whole garter thing. Pulled out the giant pair of white.

[Lil]

Tighties, went under the dress for a second, and everyone's.

[Josh]

Everyone's like, garter. I go, uh, oh.

[Lil]

It was a good laug. Yeah.

[Josh]

And then my cousin caught it and now he's a monk.

[Kelsey]

Now he's a monk.

[Lil]

So we're going to have to test this out. If this is. This is what happens.

[Josh]

All right, Here goes the song. Okay, here we go.

[Kelsey]

We'll figure it out.

[Lil]

We'll figure it out.

[Josh]

L is for the lizards in DC O is for the orbs above my tree V's for Venezuela. I'm so sorry, Consuela. E is for Epstein. And emails that don't get release so love is all the lies they sell to you Love is more than a psyop too 2 feds can fake it Take your trust and then they'll break it was made to control you.

[Lil]

Love.

[Corey]

Yeah.

[Lil]

Wow.

[Kelsey]

That was great. That was great.

[Lil]

Everybody shout out to Nat King Cole.

[Josh]

Nat King Cole.

[Kelsey]

Have you really seen that? Was it Frank Sinatra?

[Lil]

It was Nat King Cole. Yeah. What does that song remind you of? As soon as you hear it. Yeah. Opening scene, dude. The boat. The boat. So good.

[Josh]

Yep.

[Corey]

Yeah.

[Lil]

Dennis Quaid.

[Josh]

I know. I've talked about it multiple times on this podcast, but it took me a long time in life to figure out that Lindsay Lohan didn't have an identical twin.

[Lil]

It took me. Yeah.

[Josh]

I mean, that's how I question the Olsen twins.

[Lil]

True. Yeah.

[Josh]

I'm like, okay, I get it. Now everyone's just, like, pretending to be twins.

[Lil]

Yeah.

[Kelsey]

There was three of them. She's not a twin, but a sister that looks just like them, too.

[Lil]

What?

[Josh]

The Olsen twins.

[Kelsey]

There's a sister that looks like them in all of your silly movies. In your Marvel movies.

[Lil]

Oh, Elizabeth Olsen.

[Josh]

Yeah.

[Lil]

I thought you were saying. I thought you were saying that Olsen twins weren't actually twins. They just looked a lot like each other.

[Kelsey]

No, I'm saying there's three of them.

[Lil]

Yeah.

[Kelsey]

There's not two of them.

[Josh]

What are you trying to say?

[Kelsey]

I don't know.

[Josh]

I don't want.

[Corey]

No, it's not.

[Lil]

We're talking about the twins.

[Josh]

This is a day about love. All right.

[Lil]

Is it?

[Josh]

Yeah.

[Lil]

Okay. Unfortunately, we're talking about all about love today.

[Josh]

We're talking all about love.

[Lil]

All right.

[Josh]

Unfortunately, we have to answer a question, but I think this is a pretty easy question.

[Corey]

Yeah.

[Lil]

Let's keep it lighthearted.

[Josh]

Let's keep it incredibly lighthearted.

[Lil]

It's the holiday of love, baby.

[Josh]

We love everyone.

[Lil]

Yep, we sure do.

[Josh]

Doesn't matter.

[Kelsey]

Especially me. I love everyone. Especially.

[Josh]

Yeah.

[Lil]

Mothers, fathers, mothers, brothers, sisters, grandpas, grannies. Yeah, why not? All right, well, how about my granny?

[Josh]

Let's just make it that. Today's question, sent in by our viewer, Lily. Do grannies deserve love?

[Kelsey]

Oh, goodness, yes.

[Josh]

Okay.

[Kelsey]

Of course they do. They're sweet.

[Josh]

Are you kidding me? Oh, my.

[Lil]

Are you kidding me? We had. You had one job.

[Kelsey]

Don't yell at me like that.

[Lil]

Is the day.

[Josh]

Are you.

[Corey]

No.

[Lil]

Love. The day of love. Don't yell at you like that. How about you don't answer a question like that?

[Josh]

Do grannies deserve love? Yes, they deserve Gary David Love, the Australian serial killer better known as the Granny Killer.

[Kelsey]

Oh, no.

[Lil]

They deserve that, I guess.

[Josh]

The 1990s, Gary David Love, known for the. His granny killing, murdered at least six elderly women.

[Kelsey]

That's horrific.

[Josh]

Attacked vulnerable women in their homes in Western Australia, often strangled or bludgeoned them. He was caught in 1996 and is serving life in prison. And you think all grannies deserve that?

[Kelsey]

Absolutely not.

[Lil]

Well, that's what you said. You said it twice.

[Josh]

You said it twice.

[Kelsey]

No, no, no.

[Lil]

Wow. I don't know. I mean, did your granny love you, Lil? Because it feels like. It feels like your answer doesn't show that irony.

[Kelsey]

Loved me a lot.

[Lil]

Yeah. So much that you think she deserves love?

[Josh]

Yeah. She deserved to be bludgeoned.

[Kelsey]

No, I never thought.

[Lil]

That's what you're saying.

[Josh]

Yeah, I don't. I. I don't think that.

[Lil]

We don't think that. Right.

[Josh]

I love my grannies.

[Corey]

Yeah.

[Lil]

Yeah. Absolutely.

[Josh]

All of them.

[Kelsey]

You have three grannies.

[Josh]

Yeah, I do.

[Kelsey]

Yeah.

[Josh]

I always bragged about that in elementary school, and I never understood it. But it turns out my grandparents got a divorce when my dad was little and he remarried, and so I had three grandmas. I love all three of them.

[Lil]

Three grandmas. Why? Because when your parents got divorced. Wait, Wait a second.

[Josh]

Wait.

[Corey]

What?

[Josh]

Yeah. But again, in no way would I ever wish love upon these grannies.

[Lil]

No admiration. Sure.

[Josh]

I hope love stays away from them.

[Lil]

Yeah, Absolutely.

[Josh]

I hope he. I hope love rots in prison.

[Lil]

Yes.

[Josh]

For the things that love has done.

[Lil]

There are consequences to his actions, and he's living those out. But Lily says, you know what?

[Josh]

Love.

[Lil]

Break free and visit all graves.

[Josh]

Release love. Release love on the world.

[Kelsey]

No, I'm not saying that.

[Lil]

Free love, free love.

[Josh]

Everyone deserves love.

[Kelsey]

Hold on.

[Josh]

Welcome to the show.

[Corey]

Did I say ninja?

[Lil]

I meant butterfly.

[Josh]

The butterfly is no doubt one of God's most beautiful.

[Lil]

As an empty mind, you were. Martial Arts attack.

[Corey]

All right, let me tell you something right now. Listen up, city slickers. We're talking about Brunt workwear, Not those.

[Lil]

Fashion boots that pretend to work. We mean real work boots.

[Josh]

When I pulled my boots out of.

[Corey]

The box, I was ready for the usual suffering. Yeah.

[Lil]

Stiff leather, sore feet, two weeks of getting used to it. No, thank you.

[Corey]

Well, that didn't happen.

[Lil]

Not even a little. They were comfortable immediately. No break in, no fight.

[Josh]

And like a rattlesnake in my trousers.

[Corey]

That surprised me.

[Josh]

Same.

[Lil]

Most work boots feel like you're negotiating with them.

[Josh]

For the first month, I went with the modern style.

[Lil]

I did, too. They feel flexible, solid, and ready to get beat up.

[Corey]

Which is the whole point.

[Lil]

Exactly. These are tough as dirt boots that don't punish your feet for existing.

[Corey]

Traditional boots make you choose comfort or durability.

[Lil]

Brett said that was nonsense and they gave you both.

[Josh]

No painful break ins, no sore feet.

[Lil]

At the end of the day.

[Josh]

And they've got options.

[Lil]

Waterproof, safety toe, soft toe pull ons, lace ups. Whatever kind of work you do, they got something that's going to fit your style.

[Corey]

And it's not just boots.

[Lil]

Brett also makes heavy duty pants and jackets built for job site punishment, baby. The kind of gear that doesn't complain.

[Josh]

And here's the bottom line.

[Lil]

These are some of the most comfortable work boots you'll ever wear, period.

[Josh]

Britain was tired of workwear brands out there cutting corners. You work too hard to be stuck in uncomfortable boots that don't hold up.

[Lil]

So they built something better. Work boots that are actually comfortable and built for any job site for a limited time.

[Josh]

Our listeners get $10 off at Brunt when you use the code Ninjas at checkout.

[Lil]

Just head to BrentWorkware.com use the code NINJAS and you're good to go, buddy.

[Josh]

And after you order, they'll ask you where you heard about Brunt. Do us a favor and tell them.

[Corey]

Ninjas are butterfly sent.

[Lil]

Yeah, lost your accent there for a bit.

[Josh]

I know I committed. I started. I'm like, I just got to commit at this point. But then I. I just wanted to go back to my normal self. I don't know.

[Lil]

Well, you don't commit 100%. You don't really commit at all, do you?

[Corey]

Black boots, ya bullywhacker.

[Lil]

Language. I bleep that. Bollywacker.

[Josh]

Yeah.

[Lil]

That's incredibly offensive. Brunt's gonna hate this. They're gonna hate this. No one's gonna buy Brunt boots now.

[Josh]

But you get $10 off if you.

[Corey]

Use the code Ninjas. All right.

[Josh]

We always said. We already said that.

[Lil]

You can stop now, dude.

[Josh]

All right.

[Lil]

Myself.

[Josh]

Thanks, Brian.

[Kelsey]

Oh, my gosh. My granny. We called her Marmee.

[Lil]

Marmee.

[Kelsey]

Marmee. After the mom. And little women was called Marmee. Very cute little women.

[Josh]

What are your grandma names?

[Lil]

Grandma Judy. Grandma Judy and Grandma Donna. What do we ever had?

[Corey]

Grammy.

[Josh]

Grammy.

[Corey]

Yep.

[Kelsey]

The fact that you called them Grandma Judy and grandma, did that make you feel distant?

[Lil]

No, it was just. That's what we just always called him.

[Kelsey]

Yeah.

[Josh]

I have Gammy Mazzy.

[Lil]

Yep.

[Josh]

And Nanny.

[Lil]

Yeah.

[Kelsey]

Lucky you.

[Lil]

What do you want to be called when you get. Because when you guys become grandparents.

[Corey]

Scooter. Butt.

[Lil]

Scooter. Scooter would actually be a cool one.

[Kelsey]

Dee Dee Grapple.

[Lil]

Scooter.

[Kelsey]

Dee Dee and Jeff's grandparent names are, to me, are the best in the world.

[Lil]

What are they?

[Kelsey]

Dee Dee's is Yaya and Jeff's is Boo. Boo Yaya. And Boo Boo.

[Lil]

That's pretty good.

[Josh]

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Kelsey]

I don't know yet. I'll let my grandchildren decide, I think.

[Lil]

Because Kelsey's nickname that I have for her always has been is Kip. And I think it would be cool to have Kippy. Yeah, Pappy.

[Kelsey]

Really cute.

[Josh]

Happy's a good one.

[Lil]

Yeah, I would love Pappy. That'd be dope.

[Josh]

Speaking of grandchildren.

[Lil]

Oh, no.

[Josh]

You guys hear about candy?

[Kelsey]

Which one?

[Josh]

Candy eating over 96 nerds.

[Kelsey]

Oh, gosh.

[Josh]

Pieces a year exceeds safe annual arsenic exposure for kids.

[Corey]

Whoa, whoa. Dude.

[Kelsey]

Dang.

[Corey]

That's like a single nerd rope.

[Josh]

Yeah, 96 nerds. They said elevated levels of arsenic were found in various candies brands, including Nerds, Swedish Fish, Jolly Ranchers.

[Lil]

I love Swedish fish.

[Josh]

According to the Florida Department of Health.

[Kelsey]

J. Aiden and I just annihilated some Swedish fish.

[Josh]

Just ingested arsenic.

[Kelsey]

Dang. I didn't feel good either.

[Josh]

Might as well have smoked a carton of cigarettes with our daughter.

[Kelsey]

Dang. That would have been fun.

[Lil]

We enjoyed the meth with our children.

[Josh]

Yeah. That's crazy.

[Lil]

How is it, Dude, I get so ticked off when we just have candy in the house now. Like, we have, like, a bag of candy that's just in the pantry, and it's like, I literally just. There's. I just want to throw that in the trash. I'm like, no one's going to miss this.

[Kelsey]

I did do it. I. And now I'm paying for it. I get asked about it every day. I threw one. A Halloween candy bag. Don't let her see this episode. Who, Ada? Yeah, because we keep she. Every day she asks me, mom, where's my Halloween bag? And I say, golly, I have no idea.

[Lil]

That's what. I'm just as. As upset as you.

[Kelsey]

Did you check under the bed? Did you check in the closet?

[Lil]

And she said, gotta get to the bottom of this.

[Kelsey]

She. She tells me. She relays it. She said, mom, you found me in the pantry eating candy out of my Halloween bag. And you said, ada, that's a bad choice. And then you hid it in your closet. Now, where is it?

[Lil]

This is what she's asking me. Let's break down the events. That's so funny. Funny.

[Kelsey]

It's in the garbage.

[Lil]

I hate candy now, dude, as a parent, it's just like. It's just terrible. It's so awful.

[Josh]

We didn't.

[Corey]

We didn't have it in the house growing up.

[Josh]

No, we didn't eat candy.

[Lil]

Yeah. Yeah, it's probably smart. I'm hooked on it.

[Josh]

We keep a chocolate bar stash for mommy and daddy.

[Kelsey]

Yeah.

[Lil]

Oh, yeah.

[Kelsey]

Sneaky.

[Josh]

Which I have my. This is my favorite chocolate ever.

[Lil]

What?

[Josh]

Tony's.

[Kelsey]

Tony's.

[Lil]

Tony. Tony's chocolate.

[Josh]

And it's the everything chocolate bar our.

[Kelsey]

Brother in law Keegan got us. They are salty, they are sweet, they're crunchy, they're delicious.

[Josh]

There's like butterscotch in it. Pretzels, nuts.

[Kelsey]

It's the everything bar. It's the green bar. That's one that you have to get like a teal colored bar.

[Lil]

I've never heard of this chocolate.

[Josh]

It is phenomenal.

[Lil]

Just get it at stores.

[Corey]

Yeah.

[Kelsey]

You can get it at Target. You get at Publix it. They ethically source it as well. So they're conscious. I don't know.

[Lil]

How do they ethically source it though?

[Josh]

They literally go and milk the chocolate from. From.

[Lil]

Okay, I've definitely seen those. Yeah, it's like very like 1950s style, bro.

[Corey]

African cow.

[Lil]

Oh, that's kind of cool of like the breakdown on the inside. Yeah, it's like the, the cutout of it.

[Kelsey]

But then you like get. Sometimes you get a little crazy. You break off of a few of them.

[Lil]

Wild.

[Kelsey]

And Josh was like, I. I came in the room, he saw I was eating some. It's always after we put the kids to bed, I go and I sneak a little piece.

[Lil]

Yeah.

[Kelsey]

And he's like, were you planning on eating all that? Cuz he was like, give me a little bit of that.

[Josh]

I mean the piece is this big.

[Lil]

Give me some of that.

[Josh]

That big.

[Lil]

Give me some of that.

[Corey]

Give me day.

[Kelsey]

Speaking of food, I'm going to jump in on my part. Oh, I'm reading Kitchen Confidential by Anthony Bourdain.

[Corey]

Yeah.

[Kelsey]

I'm listening to it because he narrates it on audio.

[Lil]

We need to talk about that first of all.

[Kelsey]

Fantastic. Yeah, Put it on your tbr if you haven't already read it. But very graphic and awful. Of course, you can imagine.

[Lil]

Just with his language and stuff.

[Kelsey]

Yeah. And the things that were happening in his life, you know, he was doing like.

[Lil]

Oh yeah, New York City chefs at that time. Big time. Yeah.

[Kelsey]

I didn't know you could function.

[Lil]

Oh, yeah. I mean, yeah, it's. I mean we've been doing it for years.

[Kelsey]

Anyway, he has a whole chapter on things that he will not order now because he knows how kitchens treat this food.

[Corey]

Give us a few.

[Kelsey]

So like, for example, he'll never go to a Sunday brunch because he knows it's all old Food that they're just trying to sell, Especially getting something like a seafood Benedict or Benedict period. He said holiday sauce is basically just a bunch of bacteria swimming in butter. Barf. This was the biggest.

[Lil]

It's one of my favorite things in the world. Crab cake Benedict.

[Kelsey]

I know.

[Lil]

Yeah.

[Kelsey]

Literally, he's like, I would never eat that. Another thing. He said he will never order mussels unless he has locked eyes with a chef and met them personally.

[Lil]

Really?

[Kelsey]

Yes, because they're always dead in the bottom of this thing. And they just scoop them out and serve them to.

[Corey]

You thought if they were dead, they stayed closed.

[Kelsey]

Well, then you cook them and they.

[Corey]

Go, well, that's the thing. Some of them won't open. You discard those.

[Kelsey]

Oh, I think. And then another thing is they. If they send you bread and you don't eat it, they'll put it on the other person's plate.

[Corey]

I believe. I believe that.

[Josh]

Yeah.

[Lil]

Yeah. Oh, that's. Yeah. That's crazy. I get scared with oysters still now because I hear, like, people literally dying or getting, like, so sick, and it's like, how can you trust it? I love oysters.

[Josh]

Yeah.

[Lil]

It's tough. Do you know Anthony Bourdain's favorite film of all time?

[Kelsey]

What?

[Lil]

Can you guess? A food related film. Says it's the greatest movie of all time.

[Josh]

Especially with just Willy Wonka.

[Lil]

Ratatouille. Ratatouille. He says, because he's blown away because of the detail they put into it. If you look, if you watch the chefs that are in Gusteau's restaurant, they have burn marks on their arm.

[Josh]

Wow.

[Lil]

From literally reaching in the oven, but they don't mention it ever. It's just, wow. Detail. Stuff like that that they cared about and so much. And he loves that.

[Josh]

Yeah, the details, too. Of, like, the rats actually cooking the food. Yeah.

[Lil]

It's truly incredible.

[Josh]

Yeah.

[Kelsey]

He was talking about a restaurant that he worked in when he hit rock bottom, and there were rats that would jump out of the trash can when.

[Josh]

And they would cook the food.

[Kelsey]

No, but they would. They would take food and hide it in the ceiling, and then you'd be cooking, and then the ceiling would cave in and it was like, rats and Dang.

[Lil]

Nasty. Yuck.

[Kelsey]

Yuck. How are we going to eat in a restaurant again?

[Lil]

Going back to the reading and listening.

[Kelsey]

Okay.

[Lil]

Have you changed your perspective on does it count as reading? When you listen to an audiobook, does it count as reading?

[Kelsey]

It's different. I realize that I need to adapt to the times. I think it's Different?

[Lil]

Yeah. What do you think?

[Kelsey]

But I think that you're gleaning information. I think that people learn things differently. Whereas I'm a visual learner. Some people are auditory, and so I.

[Lil]

Saw someone breaking it down. They're like, so do blind people read if they have a book in front of them and they have rail? Are they. Because they're not using their eyes? We're not using our eyes when we're doing an audiobook.

[Corey]

What does it mean to read? Is the question.

[Lil]

Yeah. What's the essence of read? I think some might. Some might ask.

[Josh]

Don't call me. I mean, I'm. I'm pretty scientific when it comes to this stuff. Sure. And I think it's considered raining, but I also think it ignites a different part of your brain than just using your eyes.

[Kelsey]

Correct.

[Lil]

Totally.

[Kelsey]

Because when I'm listening to an audiobook, I'm also doing the dishes. Or I'm doing this. I'm doing that. And multitasking.

[Josh]

I can't multitask, though. When I do audiobooks, I have to literally sit still, which defeats the purpose.

[Corey]

I think that's why I can't read, because if anything happens in the room.

[Josh]

Yeah.

[Corey]

Readings out the door.

[Josh]

Yeah.

[Lil]

It's also. Someone mentioned writing a book. How do people write books now? Are they sitting down? Are they writing the book out? It's like, am I writing if I typed the book out? Oh, so it's like we're splitting hairs. That don't matter. When you listen to an audiobook and you take it in and you understand everything it's reading, when I wonder.

[Kelsey]

My Goodreads account. I mark it as if I read it.

[Lil]

Yeah. We could blame this on the English language just not having a diverse enough, like, vocabulary of just like, other. I guarantee other cultures have a word that can fill that void that we have.

[Josh]

Collaborative.

[Lil]

Yes. Yes. Arabic.

[Corey]

Yeah.

[Lil]

Nice.

[Kelsey]

Wow.

[Josh]

Well, I was gonna make a really fun transition. I was gonna say, like, speaking of arsenic and nerds, let's talk about the Europeans.

[Lil]

You want to try it? That sounds like a good one. You could try it.

[Josh]

Speaking of arsenic and nerds. But those Europeans.

[Lil]

Bunch of nerds.

[Josh]

Bunch of nerds. Dweebs.

[Kelsey]

Enough.

[Josh]

Yeah. There's a couple countries that are trying to sign a petition to boycott the World Cup.

[Kelsey]

Why?

[Josh]

Because of Trump?

[Lil]

Because we're hosting it in America.

[Josh]

Yeah.

[Kelsey]

Don't they like their soccer? More than they care about anything, you think?

[Josh]

And I'm saying, like, it's like, isn't.

[Lil]

Sports the most important thing in the world?

[Josh]

It brings the world together.

[Kelsey]

Yeah.

[Josh]

And they want to make. No, I don't want to do that.

[Lil]

Yeah. I don't get that. It's just like. Well, it's. To me, it's like people who boycott whenever. Like, they win a national championship, and they're like, hey, we're boycotting going to the White House because we got the invite. It's like you literally have a captive audience. You don't like the president. Guess what?

[Kelsey]

You.

[Lil]

You're five feet from him. And you could say something. Yeah. But yet you're like, I don't. I don't. I don't even want to go.

[Kelsey]

It's because they're chickens. It's because they're chickens.

[Lil]

You say that, but it's like. I mean, there's been people that have been really respectable. You're like, but what are you doing?

[Corey]

Yeah.

[Lil]

You have a chance to say something or to change something. Possibly.

[Josh]

Yeah. Or show up in the US and beat everyone.

[Lil]

Beat them. Protest, whatever you got to do.

[Josh]

Yeah.

[Kelsey]

Talk about what we were talking about.

[Josh]

Well, I just want. The countries that are boycotting are Germany or. They want to boycott Germany, Netherlands, Spain, and Norway.

[Kelsey]

Germany, really?

[Lil]

Yeah.

[Josh]

We went to the Olympics when Hitler was the freaking guy.

[Lil]

Yeah. Yeah.

[Josh]

We were out there running track with.

[Lil]

And we beat him and we beat.

[Josh]

Him and we beat him. And Hitler looked like a fool.

[Lil]

He was on Method.

[Kelsey]

Just World War II.

[Corey]

Yeah.

[Lil]

Yeah, exactly. Because you guys could win World War III if you come to America. Yeah.

[Josh]

But you gotta beat us first. Which they probably.

[Kelsey]

Yeah. Yeah, I think so.

[Josh]

Not Norway, though.

[Lil]

Hey, we love Norway. We're not. We were number one.

[Corey]

We do.

[Lil]

We were number one.

[Josh]

But I'm like, well, what about when they played in Qatar?

[Kelsey]

Yeah.

[Josh]

Because they didn't boycott Qatar, and they had all these human rights violations in Qatar.

[Lil]

It was crazy stuff. Yeah.

[Kelsey]

It's really uncanny. Strange. Yeah, it's really strange.

[Lil]

Yeah. It's just funny that Germany's throwing the first stone.

[Corey]

That is pretty.

[Lil]

I mean, come on.

[Kelsey]

It's because it's, like, trendy to hate on Trump. Everybody's like, in this, like, anti he invites club.

[Corey]

He invites.

[Josh]

I think he likes.

[Corey]

That's what he thrives on.

[Kelsey]

Yeah. He's like.

[Josh]

But deep down, I think he's just hurt. He's hurting inside.

[Lil]

Deep down, I think that guy's just sitting in bed at night. You got to realize he's a human being. He lays down in bed and looks up the ceiling, says, wow, I wish everyone liked me.

[Josh]

Yeah.

[Lil]

More friends.

[Kelsey]

Did you see that?

[Corey]

He Hurts people.

[Josh]

Because he's hurt.

[Lil]

Hurt people. Hurt people. Guys, come on.

[Josh]

Come on, everyone give Trump a hug.

[Kelsey]

See, the interview with.

[Lil]

The thing is.

[Josh]

That's true.

[Kelsey]

What Mondavi. Where he's like, what about him? He's like, did you say that horrible thing about Trump? And Trump was like, go say it.

[Lil]

What, with Trump when he was in the White House. Yeah. And he's like, it's not gonna hurt me.

[Kelsey]

Yeah. And he's like, go ahead. Saying whatever.

[Lil]

Call me a communist or whatever he calls it now.

[Kelsey]

Fascist.

[Lil]

Yeah.

[Josh]

Yeah. That was pretty fun.

[Kelsey]

Okay. They say the other thing that we're talking about with this peace group in Europe.

[Josh]

Oh, the. The peace board. Yeah, yeah.

[Lil]

The world leader that Trump started.

[Josh]

Yeah. How it's basically every nuts. I mean, so far, almost all the countries in NATO have rejected the invite to the peace board.

[Corey]

Sure.

[Lil]

Yeah.

[Josh]

Which is. It's just, it's a weird, funny whatever. But like there, I mean, there's a good handful of countries that have accepted it. They've already met a couple times or at least once.

[Lil]

Do we know what countries that is?

[Josh]

No, you can look it up. Yeah, but the whole point of it, like to buy your seat. Like the, the $1 billion, it's literally a pool to try to create peace in the world. But like one of their first projects is like, rebuilding Gaza, so stopping like coming up with peace treaties with. Between Hamas and Israel and then rebuilding Gaza. It's their vision, their light of like what they're going to do. But I just find it a little funny and ironic that NATO countries for the most part were like, what's happening in Gaza is awful. Which it was.

[Corey]

Right.

[Josh]

But like, as soon as there's like, okay, well, we're going to do something about it.

[Corey]

Yeah.

[Josh]

We're forming a peace alliance. And I know there's a lot of.

[Corey]

I mean, that's where I'm thinking it's like our weapons that did it.

[Josh]

Yeah, I know. But like, at least there's a movement to help rebuild it and make it a. Whatever.

[Corey]

I just keep thinking of the image that got reshared.

[Josh]

Well, they're. They're really. I mean, it looks super futuristic.

[Corey]

Does it? Doesn't look like that.

[Josh]

Yeah.

[Corey]

Trump City. Golly.

[Josh]

Kind of. I mean, not like with Trump.

[Corey]

I mean, it's not going to have his name, but take that off of it. And it's probably the same thing.

[Josh]

Yeah. But I'm like, I just found. Found that a little.

[Corey]

That's. That, that's. The meetings is everyone's like, Trump, you can't put that statue down the main strip.

[Lil]

Watch me. I'm gonna do it.

[Kelsey]

I agree with you, though, Josh. I think it's really hypocritical and strange.

[Josh]

Yeah. It's just like geopolitics now. It's just like feelings are getting hurt and it's like all clickbaity. He said, she said. It's like everyone just.

[Kelsey]

But it's also interesting.

[Josh]

Let's get back to the ground. Let's start dropping nukes and, like, trenches.

[Corey]

Come on.

[Josh]

Let's get back to the old. Come on.

[Kelsey]

It's funny that Europe all, like, basically everybody declined this invitation from the United States to create this peace group, NATO, that organization that, you know, we're a part of. And it's like, why would you want to piss us off? Because we basically are like the ones that are funding everything you guys are interested in. And there was that segment that they talked about at the World Economic Forum where it was like, the guy of the Finland guy.

[Corey]

Yeah.

[Josh]

It was like, who's the president of, like, Finland or something? He's like, we don't need the US and this was at the World Economic Forum. And the lady's like, you sure about that? Like, because they. They basically fund everything in NATO.

[Lil]

Yeah.

[Josh]

He's like, yeah. He's like, but we're equipping now to, like, we can do this if we can do that. And he's like, we have this many F6 F16 fighter jets. And he's like, and your question probably is, well, don't American pilots only fly the F16 jets? Yes, that's true, but we can get our own pilots.

[Kelsey]

Yeah, but it's like, you are you. Because America has been.

[Josh]

Anyways, I love talking politics.

[Lil]

Yeah. I thought it was going to be more of an exclusive group, but it looks like there's 25 countries that have already accepted it. So I was just reading that on the timesofisrael.com I just think it's funny.

[Kelsey]

And weird and strange where I'm a.

[Lil]

Subscriber, long time listener. Have you seen the growing conspiracy of the idea that we never dropped actual nuke on Nagasaki and Hiroshima? Have you seen this?

[Corey]

Hiroshima.

[Lil]

Hiroshima.

[Corey]

Hiroshima.

[Lil]

I know. I say, kidding.

[Corey]

I don't know if I'm saying it right.

[Lil]

There's a video game called Ghost of Tsushima, and my brother always corrects me. He's like. It's just like. I'm like, I don't know how to pronounce it, dude. Not Japanese.

[Corey]

That's the thing. About pronunciation is like, if you actually commit to it, it's like, what are you doing?

[Lil]

Yeah, yeah, yeah, Right? Yeah. I was like, we need. Can I get a corn tortilla? I'm not doing that. But a lot of people are saying that, like, yeah, we never dropped a nuke, like, legitimately. Like, people are looking at it, and it's just.

[Kelsey]

It.

[Lil]

It's kind of weird because it kind of makes sense. You think about, like, the idea of, like, nuclear fallout and all this stuff, and it's just doesn't. You don't see it in those cities. Like, Hiroshima, like, is booming today, and it looks incredible.

[Josh]

Sam Tripoli believes that nuclear bombs don't exist.

[Lil]

I mean, yeah, it was just like a. It was just a. Like a huge. Like a big bomb fire rate. Like, it was just a lot. But you still. I mean, pictures afterwards, you still have. You have all these, like, videos of that. We had, like, of like, what nuclear bombs can do, and it just wipes out everything flat. But then you. Yet you had power lines still up. You had buildings still standing. And it's like. That's kind of crazy. Yeah, it is kind of strange.

[Josh]

Yeah.

[Lil]

I mean, I. I mean, that's the thing. We would. We. How would we know? How would we know?

[Josh]

But that. That going down, that conspiracy, then you're getting to, like, the same territory as, like, flat Earth. Like, they've been lying to us this whole time.

[Lil]

Sure, but where's the line? Because they have been lying to us all the time. We just don't know which one.

[Corey]

Such a disturbing thought that we have so much information now that we can believe none of it.

[Josh]

Yeah, I know.

[Kelsey]

Yeah. Super.

[Josh]

Which. That's why I'm excited to have the Jesse guy on about the psyops.

[Lil]

Oh, yeah. Next week, guys. Next week is gonna be a good one.

[Josh]

Speaking of psyops, let's talk about Saudi Arabia.

[Corey]

Still don't get that reference.

[Lil]

Aladdin.

[Kelsey]

Never seen Aladdin.

[Josh]

Aladdin.

[Kelsey]

Our girls are so into Aladdin.

[Josh]

You've never seen Aladdin.

[Corey]

It's been on in my proximity.

[Lil]

That's crazy.

[Kelsey]

Dude. It's fantastic.

[Lil]

Like, Robin Will. Robin Williams was up for an Oscar. That's for the genie. But the thing is, he didn't get the Oscar nomination. You know why? Because he improv improvised 95% of what the genie said. And so you can't do that.

[Kelsey]

You have to follow his character.

[Lil]

You have to follow a script. The fact that your improvisation would get you an Oscar nomination, yet you. That's why you're not allowed I'm like, that's insane. Insane to me.

[Corey]

I. This many days old is when I realized that he was the voice.

[Lil]

I mean, you got it. You gotta. I mean, now that you're having a.

[Kelsey]

Kid, I was gonna say you're.

[Lil]

You got to raise him right and get him in the good movies.

[Corey]

No cartoons, no cartoon movies. No TV.

[Lil]

Only CNN World News.

[Corey]

Yeah, just radio. AM radio.

[Lil]

Just the Asian, Ms. Rachel. She's getting canceled right now.

[Kelsey]

Yeah, it's been happening.

[Lil]

So funny.

[Corey]

Yeah.

[Kelsey]

All right.

[Lil]

Saudi Arabia.

[Josh]

Saudi Arabia. Remember the line?

[Lil]

Yes. Is it done?

[Josh]

Nope. They are scaling it back.

[Kelsey]

Yeah.

[Corey]

All right.

[Josh]

They're scaling it back and now they're planning on just making it a data center.

[Kelsey]

So people aren't even gonna live there?

[Josh]

No.

[Kelsey]

What a baby.

[Lil]

It's not gonna be a line. It's gonna be a dash.

[Corey]

Yeah.

[Lil]

Just a dash.

[Kelsey]

Yeah.

[Josh]

They said that they're scaling it back and that it's gonna be. It's gonna have practical elements like industrial hubs, data centers, senders.

[Kelsey]

Centers closed.

[Lil]

They'll have senders there, I'm sure.

[Josh]

Yeah. Renewable energy infrastructure instead of the grand architectural spectacle that they were planning on building. So they're just like.

[Lil]

I mean, what happened there? Why'd they change it?

[Josh]

It's an impossible task. They're building in the middle of a desert and they're trying to, like, build something that I don't think technology could support, honestly.

[Kelsey]

Well, that's just true.

[Lil]

It seems so futuristic.

[Josh]

And they said they're way over budget now.

[Kelsey]

Yeah.

[Lil]

Yeah. What are we saying?

[Kelsey]

Baby steps.

[Josh]

Yeah. So the little data center, just a.

[Corey]

Build on it, double wide with some hard drives and then make it a ship.

[Lil]

Yes.

[Josh]

And then shoot it to space. Mars.

[Corey]

Yes.

[Josh]

Yeah.

[Lil]

That's crazy. I mean, that was a bummer.

[Josh]

I was. I was so looking forward to that.

[Lil]

We knew it was going to take forever, though.

[Josh]

Yeah.

[Lil]

And it did seem cool. Like.

[Corey]

What?

[Lil]

There it was. How far you couldn't get. All the way to the end. The end. Like in like 20 minutes or something like that.

[Corey]

Yeah.

[Lil]

I mean, it was. It seems like something out of like a sci fi movie.

[Josh]

Yeah.

[Kelsey]

It'll happen one day.

[Lil]

Some type of utopia.

[Josh]

Speaking of sci fi movie, when this comes out, the Artemis 2 had probably already taken off.

[Lil]

Yes. Is there an update on that?

[Josh]

They said, I think the Open date is February 6th, which we're filming ahead, people, because Andrew's about to be a daddy.

[Lil]

Oh, yeah. So go ahead and get mad at us.

[Josh]

Yeah, so get mad. We're trying to give him some time off to be with his newborn son.

[Lil]

We're going to give him two days.

[Corey]

I thought I got a three day weekend.

[Lil]

Nope.

[Josh]

Anyways, I got a surprise for you guys.

[Lil]

You gotta stick it on Artemis.

[Josh]

What?

[Lil]

You got us a ticket to go on Artemis?

[Josh]

Are you joking? Wow. We're going on Artemis.

[Lil]

We're going to the moon.

[Josh]

Our name is actually for real.

[Lil]

What do you mean? What is this?

[Josh]

There's this thing. I'm pretty sure they just do it for like little kids, but I did it anyways. But what you could do is you type in your name and then they put it on a flash drive and then they literally put in the spaceship that goes around the moon. So our name ninjas are Butterflies podcast will physically be in space around the moon.

[Kelsey]

On a flash drive.

[Josh]

On a flash drive.

[Lil]

Are we the first podcast to ever go around the moon?

[Corey]

Yes. Yes.

[Lil]

Let's go. That's awesome. That is so cool.

[Kelsey]

Thanks, Josh.

[Lil]

How'd you find out about that?

[Josh]

I just saw a video and I'm like, I'm pretty sure it was for kids, but who cares? Get out of the way, kids. I'm going to the moon.

[Lil]

You have to pay for that.

[Josh]

No, it's free.

[Lil]

Really?

[Josh]

Yeah.

[Lil]

You figured they would use that to, like, raise funds for something.

[Josh]

Yeah. Boarding pass.

[Lil]

Let's show up and be like, no.

[Kelsey]

I should tell Eda's school about that. That'd be really cute.

[Josh]

No, I don't want.

[Corey]

I don't want those.

[Josh]

More room for us, right, guys?

[Lil]

They're gonna launch that at the moon when they pass by. Right? Like at the window. Let's throw it at the moon. The flash drive.

[Josh]

We'll be in space.

[Lil]

Our name will be in space.

[Josh]

Our name will be in space.

[Lil]

That's pretty cool.

[Kelsey]

That's significant.

[Josh]

The furthest humans have ever gone.

[Corey]

Dude. If it crashes on the moon and then aliens find the hard drive and.

[Lil]

They'Re like, we got to learn more about this.

[Josh]

That'd be terrible. Terrible.

[Lil]

No.

[Josh]

Intelligent life be pretty cool.

[Lil]

That would be cool that we need to make a T shirt now. The first comedy podcast in space.

[Josh]

Yes.

[Kelsey]

Nice.

[Josh]

We've been around the moon once or twice.

[Lil]

That is so cool. We got to frame that.

[Josh]

Yeah, I know. Speaking of being around the moon once or twice, do you guys hear what Congress passed a couple week ago? Ish. What they passed? It's this. It's this bill about, like, car safety and stuff.

[Corey]

Yes.

[Josh]

It's been going back and forth, but both Democrats and Republicans agree to, you know, just push it forward.

[Lil]

Sure.

[Josh]

But in this bill, which I think it's something we already knew, but it's now like in paper is the government's ability to remotely turn off your car.

[Lil]

Why would they want access to that?

[Josh]

Well, they say it would be a safety thing. So if someone is impaired, if there's a drunk driver, law enforcement can turn off your car.

[Lil]

How do you know they're a drunk driver or they're. Or they're impaired. There's been guys, I've seen videos of cops flipping a car because the guy's speeding, but yet they didn't know that he was calling the, you know, the station because his wife was in going in labor. Like how did that. That's not good. No, that's terrible.

[Kelsey]

Well, and also if they get a little greedy and they shut off everybody's.

[Josh]

Car that's old, that's like. It's literally like the, the Obama movie.

[Lil]

Yeah. 100% shutting everything down.

[Josh]

Yeah. With all the control stop working.

[Corey]

So except for Harley, what's the point of.

[Lil]

How does this get allowed? Like this is crazy. Like why would everyone agree to that bill? Why would everyone sign off on that and singing that this is a good idea?

[Josh]

I don't know.

[Lil]

Because it doesn't affect.

[Josh]

I know there's more to. I think there was like some back and forth stuff. Like they really want to get this thing passed. So they just agreed on this one thing. But it's like that that's jacked up.

[Corey]

That that's part of our problem. I know but like no vote on one thing.

[Josh]

It's crazy.

[Lil]

Also how does that work? How do they like with my like motorcycle. Like would they be able to do it with that if electric.

[Corey]

Aren't you carbureted?

[Josh]

No, no.

[Corey]

I thought, I thought Hondas were carburetor. Yeah.

[Josh]

I don't know. Are they?

[Lil]

Yeah.

[Josh]

Oh, okay. Well, you're fine.

[Lil]

Okay.

[Josh]

No, but they even. They said the thing is supposed to apply to car manufacturing moving forward, every car will have basically a turn off.

[Kelsey]

Switch, which is why we have a zombie apocalypse truck.

[Corey]

But that's, that's existed as old as OnStar.

[Josh]

Yeah, but I don't know why.

[Corey]

So why.

[Lil]

But where do you, where do you draw the line then? Where do we own anything?

[Corey]

What make.

[Josh]

I think nothing and be happy.

[Lil]

Yeah, that's what they said.

[Corey]

I think the thing is they've been able to do it for a long time. So just at some point they needed to be like, oh we never gonna do it. But now if we have to.

[Josh]

Yeah.

[Lil]

There's legal Precedent.

[Corey]

Yeah. Now it's like, oh, no, that's what they talked about.

[Josh]

Legally they can't.

[Corey]

But my whole thing is like, you never, you never write laws based on outlier situations. Right. Like, those are extreme examples. They can be sorted in the courts, but really you're creating laws for the general populace. But my question would be, how often are you like needing to like, let's just do whatever that turn is where they flip a car. Like, how often are you actually throwing strips or emergency stopping a vehicle?

[Josh]

Yeah, for real, like, never. Out of the hundreds of millions of.

[Corey]

People that drive willing to bet that we could go ask a plethora of cops in this city, how many times have you actually had to physically stop a car? And the answer is five times a day. Yeah, take it back.

[Lil]

When you're asking me, you're taking me away from doing it actually right now.

[Corey]

But you know, but you get what I'm saying. Yeah. And so, yeah, crazy. If you got an old truck, maybe hang on to that. They'll be worth some money for sure.

[Lil]

They've got, they've got a plan. Dude, there's something happening. Because they could turn off our phones, right? Yeah, they can. I mean, that would be just like turning off like locking or unlocking doors in your house. Like automatic doors or something. Or like that's like alarm systems. Because like. Yeah, I mean, but. But what if there's a gas leak and they're passed out in there and we need to help them? We can unlock your doors. It's like, no, I don't care. Leave me be.

[Kelsey]

Yeah, get off my lawn.

[Corey]

I wonder if it's has anything to do with the fact that electric cars didn't take off like they thought they would. Like, they thought everybody was going to move to cars. Like I was talking to Pa about it and she was like, I just don't understand. I'm like, really? I think it's designed to make people have to stay in hubs because really you're only like a 2, 3 hour window from wherever you can charge. Definitely. So if they knock out a few charging ports, everyone's locked down to areas.

[Lil]

Well, they made just car. Electric cars look so dingus.

[Kelsey]

I know.

[Lil]

Like they just like. Yeah, like it's like make them cooler, make it look like a 1980s Chevy and maybe I would have bought one.

[Corey]

I haven't been on a road trip longer than like seven hours and forever. But the fact that an electric car cannot do that without me, like, like sitting there at a charge station forever.

[Josh]

For a Long time, too.

[Lil]

Yeah. And you got to plan out your whole trip around the charging ports.

[Kelsey]

I remember you guys getting stuck coming back from Tallahassee because John Rucker needed to charge his Tesla or something like that.

[Corey]

Or you're stopped at a Chili's.

[Lil]

Yeah, we did.

[Corey]

When we did.

[Lil]

That was. That was Austin, wasn't it?

[Kelsey]

Oh, yeah.

[Corey]

When we do target pickup, they got the charge stations now, and no one looks happy. They're just, like, twiddling their thumbs waiting for their cars to charge. I'm like, I don't. I truly don't understand.

[Kelsey]

Yeah, I could go tap off my car in the. In five minutes.

[Corey]

Yeah.

[Josh]

With dinosaur juice.

[Kelsey]

It also is probably not any more environmentally harmful than what you're doing.

[Lil]

Yeah, not at all. That's why I got my bike that goes 150 miles per gallon, baby.

[Corey]

Yeah.

[Kelsey]

I love it when people are like, I just saw Andy on his bike in the rain.

[Corey]

That's when I know we will have made it. I hope this year podcast takes off and I want a, like Ford or Toyota or somebody who's going to come out with these little key cars. I want ninjas, little 4x4 flatbed, something or others.

[Josh]

Oh, yeah.

[Corey]

I hope that becomes a thing.

[Josh]

Yeah.

[Kelsey]

I don't know any of that meant.

[Lil]

I want to buy a Japanese truck.

[Corey]

So many, many Japanese trucks are going to become legalized in the United States. Like American manufacturing and others are going to import them.

[Kelsey]

They take a lot of crap. So those guys, guys, the mini trucks, they're always having problems.

[Lil]

We need American made like Honda or Toyota, Mitsubishi.

[Josh]

Some problems.

[Corey]

I'm just. I'm trying to. I'm trying to think about where you learned about the mechanical work.

[Josh]

She just talked to one guy in a parking lot like that. Serious.

[Kelsey]

Also, outdoor boys always says it.

[Josh]

Well, he has it. He has like the. The tank tracker things.

[Kelsey]

He has problems with his. All the time. And then I was at Lowe's and a guy truck, I said, sick mini truck. My husband would freak out if he saw that. And he was like, it always has problems, so be careful, everybody.

[Josh]

Speaking of always have problems.

[Lil]

You can talk about me if you want.

[Josh]

The World Economic Forum is a problem. Who.

[Lil]

Who?

[Josh]

That what they just said about COVID.

[Lil]

Oh, what do you mean?

[Kelsey]

Am I gonna be.

[Lil]

I thought you talked about the other thing.

[Josh]

I'll tell you.

[Lil]

Right. Don't go anywhere.

[Kelsey]

Oh, I can't wait to hear.

[Lil]

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[Josh]

We heard you.

[Lil]

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[Kelsey]

Was awesome.

[Lil]

So easily impressed.

[Kelsey]

That is awesome.

[Josh]

Oh, man. Anyways, I thought that was my wife.

[Corey]

Wait, you think it's me?

[Lil]

That was a beat burp.

[Josh]

It wasn't me beat up that burp. Hey, do you hear what time it is?

[Kelsey]

Okay. Would you rather permanently, permanently permanent, your friend teeth go missing. One, two, three, four. This is four.

[Lil]

Okay.

[Kelsey]

Bottom and top.

[Lil]

They go missing.

[Kelsey]

They're gone.

[Lil]

That's a terrible way to wake up.

[Kelsey]

You knock them out. Or the holes of your nostrils close up and you just have a big triangle on your face.

[Josh]

Oh, like Voldemort.

[Kelsey]

Like Voldemort, but no, he has, like, little snake holes. You don't even have that. You have the shape of your nose, but just your nostril for sure.

[Josh]

The teeth. Why the nose thing freaks me out.

[Lil]

Also, you sleep terribly.

[Corey]

Yeah.

[Kelsey]

Yeah.

[Lil]

You'd probably lose your teeth anyway because you being a mouth breather at night, it's terrible for your teeth to mouth breathe.

[Josh]

Can I replace them with gold teeth?

[Kelsey]

Yeah.

[Josh]

Sick.

[Lil]

Yeah.

[Kelsey]

All right, I'll do that, too.

[Lil]

I'll do beaver teeth.

[Corey]

Just huge, ginormous veneers.

[Lil]

Easily just got smaller teeth.

[Corey]

Just one big one, though. Like spongebob or something.

[Lil]

Yeah, teeth, probably.

[Kelsey]

Yeah, me too. How about you?

[Corey]

I think I go teeth. Yeah, My front tooth's fake, so.

[Kelsey]

Is it really. Can you knock it out?

[Corey]

Chasing my brother on some linoleum. Lost it and tooth first when I was, like, 8 years old. Just got him in the whole thing. Yeah, it cracked off other than, like, a point.

[Kelsey]

Oh, my gosh, that hurts so much.

[Corey]

Thankfully, it went completely numb. I, like, stood up smiling. I was like. That was crazy. And we were being babysat, and my babysitter just, like, looked like she saw a ghost. I was like, what's happening? And then she, like, pointed down. I looked down and my whole body was just. No, it was bleeding everywhere. I did, but I couldn't feel it. I didn't know.

[Kelsey]

Oh, my gosh. That happened to Brooke. And Cameron went to the park the other day, and they were with a friend and they had kids, and one of them was 10, and he was like. It's like, at the Eustace Park. That's kind of treacherous. And he sure enough, he falls, comes up, all of his teeth have broken off.

[Lil]

Oh, my goodness.

[Kelsey]

I know.

[Lil]

Awful.

[Kelsey]

Ouch. Taylor's missing his front tooth, and it's kind of like a. Like a identity thing.

[Josh]

I honestly, I forgot about it because he always wears his fake tooth. Little denture.

[Lil]

It's cool.

[Kelsey]

It's new, though. When I met him, he never wore it and he just had a missing tooth.

[Josh]

Yeah, it was his, like, identity.

[Kelsey]

Yeah, I miss that a little. I see it every now and again when he eats something.

[Josh]

He wanted to get a gold tooth, but Madison said no.

[Corey]

That would have been so cool, Dude, I wanted a gold fang for the longest time.

[Josh]

Home alone. Yeah, right?

[Lil]

Yep.

[Josh]

What's his. The what? Bandits.

[Lil]

Yep.

[Kelsey]

Andrew, your turn.

[Corey]

Gosh, I don't know if I have.

[Lil]

Did you let us run the show with Abby?

[Josh]

That was good. Click, click, click, click.

[Lil]

And we're here now.

[Corey]

Teeth. Tooth.

[Lil]

It's gone. Where'd they go?

[Josh]

Andrew's got a real.

[Corey]

I sent a link to an Instagram reel. I didn't screen record it. I honestly don't know if we're going to want to show this. So we'll watch it together. Yes, we will. No, it's not like shocking like that. This isn't. It's. It's just talking about some real events in regards to Tick Tock. This is allegedly, I'm using you guys as my filter for what's real.

[Kelsey]

Are we clicking it?

[Corey]

Yeah.

[Josh]

All right, three, two, one. Hold on, hold on, hold on.

[Lil]

Buffering, loading, loading. To designate the use of the term Zionist as a proxy for a protected attribute as hate speech. So if somebody were to use Zionist, of course you can use it in the sense of you're a proud Zionist, but if you're using it in the context of degrading somebody, calling somebody a Zionist as a dirty name, then that gets designated as hate speech to be moderated against. Over the course of 2024, we tripled the amount of accounts that we were banning for hateful activity. We also have, I think, over two dozen Jewish organizations that are constantly feeding us intelligence and information when they spot violative trends. There is no finish line. There's no finish line to moderating hate speech, identifying hateful trends, trying to keep the platform safe. There's no such thing as an end game. We made it.

[Josh]

So he's the new Tick Tock CEO.

[Lil]

Yeah, the Oracle guy.

[Josh]

New Tick Tock CEO.

[Corey]

That's what this claims. I have. I literally. Adam Presser, according to this, I haven't fact checked. I haven't dove through Adam Presser.

[Josh]

Are you looking them up?

[Lil]

Yeah, I just think it's Harvard Business and Law Graduate.

[Corey]

I just think it's really interesting. They're Talking about in 2024, they already started having organizations actively searching through and calling through content on Tick Tock for the purpose of literally blocking free speech. Like, it's fine that you can say like, hey, they're being mean, but since when am I not to neck. Am I not allowed to negatively? Like, let's just say, like, I defend someone who's not a Christian. Their right to be. To be able to say, I do not agree with the Christian narrative. I think, you know, like, I am a Christian, but like you have the right to say an open speech.

[Josh]

Yeah. You're able to think the way you want to think.

[Corey]

I don't think Christians are right. You can say that.

[Josh]

Yeah.

[Corey]

You're a Christian.

[Josh]

That's pretty crazy.

[Corey]

That's insane. That's awesome. Free speech.

[Josh]

I honestly, I stopped posting on Tick Tock for the most part because almost every other video Gets flagged, really. Guidelines.

[Corey]

That's about when, when we started, like when stuff stopped popping off.

[Josh]

Yeah.

[Kelsey]

Now when did, when did that start happening? Because remember, like, maybe was it two years ago they sold it and it was gonna go away.

[Josh]

That was like half a year ago.

[Lil]

That was a year ago when they got banned. It was in January.

[Kelsey]

Yeah.

[Lil]

Of last year.

[Kelsey]

One year.

[Josh]

The art.

[Lil]

Tick tock, Tick tock. It was banned for like 13 hours.

[Josh]

Yeah, it was in January.

[Lil]

Yeah. I was in Montana when it happened.

[Kelsey]

My. My time.

[Lil]

It was, I mean, that was when Trump came into office. Like they meant like it was like as soon as Trump came in office and then it went away for one night and then boom.

[Kelsey]

And then he saved it.

[Josh]

A year ago.

[Lil]

Yeah, a year ago ago.

[Josh]

What is happening?

[Lil]

I know.

[Kelsey]

Do you think it was longer or shorter?

[Corey]

Shorter.

[Kelsey]

So did our Tik Tok start getting things banned after that or was it happening prior to that?

[Corey]

This dude said 2024. Yeah, but there was that. There was that period of time where it was just crazy. Every. It was like everything we posted hit a million views and then out of nowhere it was, you know, started falling off. It's correlated. But now it's necessarily.

[Lil]

Tik Tok is owned by Oracle. Yeah, that just happened. Which is an American owned company now. And so a lot of things are going to be changing, I think as far as that goes, because it's just like what it says is a global technology company specializing in enterprise software, hardware and cloud computing.

[Josh]

Is Oracle not that facility that they built in Tel Aviv? Is that not what we were talking about that one time?

[Corey]

No.

[Josh]

That data center, was that not Oracle?

[Corey]

I don't think that's Oracle.

[Josh]

I don't remember Jorical.

[Kelsey]

Okay, stop.

[Corey]

Yeah, I don't know, I just think it's weird. I think in the next year we're gonna like, AI is better. Like people have been saying Apple juice to refer to stuff AIs picked up on that he even talks about like using, like you can't get around the filter. But the fact that there's a word that can be used positively or not banned.

[Josh]

Yeah, yeah.

[Corey]

Means they're either just this massive army of people going through content or the use of AI that they're using to sort through stuff and figure it out. It's pretty insane that they're filtering that drastically now. That's crazy.

[Lil]

Interesting. In 2001, Oracle attracted attention from the computer industry in the press after hiring private investigators to dig through the trash of organizations involved in an antitrust trial against Microsoft. They paid janitors twelve hundred dollars.

[Kelsey]

At.

[Lil]

The association for Competitive Technology to look through Microsoft's trash.

[Josh]

Oracle did.

[Lil]

Oracle did. When asked how you would feel if others were looking into Oracle's business activities, Ellison said, we would. We will ship our garbage to Redmond and they can go through it. We believe in full disclosure. Wow.

[Kelsey]

Funny. Redmond, Oregon, is that what it is?

[Lil]

I guess so, yeah.

[Kelsey]

Is that where Microsoft is?

[Lil]

Apparently, yeah. That makes sense.

[Kelsey]

You've been there.

[Josh]

To Redmond.

[Kelsey]

Yeah.

[Josh]

No, been to Bend, which Raymond, Oregon. I don't know. Speaking of Redmond, Oregon. Yeah, I've been there before. World Economic Forum.

[Lil]

Yes.

[Josh]

One of their statements. Because they just met, you know, a couple weeks ago.

[Kelsey]

Yes.

[Josh]

A bunch of all the world leaders came there and they're talking.

[Lil]

We apologize we couldn't make it.

[Josh]

Yeah, we got the invite. Yeah.

[Lil]

We just had some things.

[Josh]

Yeah.

[Kelsey]

We didn't have our spooky.

[Josh]

Well, one. Did you see Elon up there talking?

[Kelsey]

No.

[Josh]

What did you say?

[Lil]

It was a good one.

[Kelsey]

I said we didn't have our spooky demonic costumes ready.

[Josh]

Oh, it was very quick. Nice. Sorry.

[Kelsey]

What did Elon say?

[Josh]

Well, he's like a lot of people he spoke for at the World Economic Forum for the first time ever.

[Lil]

Elon Musk.

[Josh]

Yeah.

[Lil]

Okay.

[Josh]

And they're talking about, like, space and his new robots, which. That was a big announcement.

[Lil]

Lame. Lame.

[Josh]

The whole like, technology thing. Remember we were hyping that up. Like, he's like. Like talking to Joe Rogan is going to be huge, revolutionary.

[Kelsey]

He said flying cars. It wasn't that.

[Josh]

No, he didn't say flying cars.

[Corey]

No.

[Josh]

Joe Rogan asked if it was going to be a flying car and he's like, I don't know if you can even call it a car, because you can't. It's a robot.

[Lil]

Cars are kind of robots, I guess.

[Josh]

His robot called Optimus Cool. And his whole goal is, like, every human on Earth will have an Optimus robot.

[Lil]

Yeah.

[Josh]

He said it'll be more robots than humans is his goal.

[Kelsey]

Don't like that.

[Josh]

Yeah, it's.

[Corey]

Where's the middle come from?

[Kelsey]

Did you know that there's 8 billion people?

[Josh]

So they say 16 billion. I think there's less. I think there's less people.

[Kelsey]

Why?

[Josh]

I just think that's a lie.

[Lil]

Let's have a census if you're live. Comment. Alive in the comments.

[Kelsey]

A million kajillion people in India.

[Josh]

One billion, I think, is India. Anyways, tell me about this robot. Well, he also was talking about aliens and he's like I always get asked, are aliens real? And he's like. He said, we're aliens. I'm an alien.

[Lil]

Yeah.

[Josh]

And he's like, so, yeah, they're real. He's like, you think? He's like, they're. When, you know, I. He said, if anyone would know, I would know. And I've not seen any aliens up there with my. They've never interfered with our satellites. It's because they're coming from the ocean, Elon. Yeah, coming from the ocean.

[Lil]

That's why you're trying to go up and get from here and live on Mars, because you know they're going to come for us.

[Josh]

What if he is an actual alien, though?

[Lil]

That's like him just being. Playing out like just in, you know, plain sight. Just like, yeah, we're all aliens.

[Josh]

But World Economic Forum, they came out with this statement. It's pretty right on the nose.

[Lil]

Okay.

[Josh]

It says, COVID 19 was the test of social responsibility.

[Kelsey]

Wow.

[Josh]

A huge number of unimaginable restrictions to public health were adopted by billions of citizens across the world. There were numerous examples globally of maintaining social distancing, wearing mask mass vaccinations and acceptance of contact tracing applications for public health, which demonstrated the core of individual social responsibility.

[Kelsey]

How about.

[Josh]

So they're talking like, yeah, test.

[Corey]

Yeah, but I mean, that can mean like something can test you even if it wasn't originated.

[Josh]

That's probably what it meant. But the World Economic Forum, they were talking about us like running through a scenario like COVID 19 before COVID 19 happened.

[Lil]

Yeah. Like four months before.

[Kelsey]

And then, and then you find out that the Wuhang wet market was right next to the COVID factory.

[Josh]

Wuhang.

[Lil]

Wuhang Clan.

[Kelsey]

What is it called?

[Corey]

Wuhan. Wuhan.

[Josh]

I just thought that was crazy.

[Lil]

That's very interesting.

[Josh]

If you were gonna. You should probably just rephrase that differently if you. If that's not what you actually meant.

[Lil]

Yeah, yeah, for sure. But also we just know that like, like we know for a fact that numbers were thrown all around.

[Kelsey]

Yeah. Numbers were inflated.

[Lil]

Were inflated, like comorbidities. We know that for a fact. It's been admitted. It's been shown, which is just a bummer. And so it's like. Yeah, what does that mean? What does that. Like if there, there obviously were agendas that were trying to fit in, whether there was a world pandemic or not. Like, people are trying to makes things happen behind the scenes that we don't even know about.

[Corey]

Yeah.

[Kelsey]

Similarly, they put out a vaccine that was hurting people and so they're saying this, like, just getting the vaccine was a social responsibility, but it's like, people. When are they gonna acknowledge that people are getting hurt by this vaccine?

[Lil]

Yeah, yeah, there's a lot of people. I mean, that we know that. I don't know people that you guys know that we all know. Like, I know that, like, have, you know, we're healthy people, and then they got vaccinated, and then, you know, two or three years later, they're dead. And they're young people who are. Yeah, it's like, that's scary. It's very, very scary that that stuff comes out of nowhere. And, you know, you could chalk it up to whatever, you know, health stuff and just underlying things, but. But you never know, man. It's so, so scary. We just. We know we can't trust our government not being. They're not being upfront with us on any of this stuff. No, there's always hidden stuff, man.

[Josh]

Not good.

[Lil]

I saw somebody say they're like, could you imagine, like, being sick from COVID during the middle of it? Like, because it was scary at the beginning. I remember where I was like, whenever we. Like when I found out, like, the Olympics, the NBA finals were getting canceled, I was like, oh, so this is like, like real, like.

[Kelsey]

Yeah.

[Lil]

It would take so much for those big money makers to just stop.

[Josh]

Yeah.

[Lil]

And then you find out people are like, we have to work from home. This. All this stuff. I was like, this is very, very scary. But people who are dying in that time from COVID imagine, like them laying there thinking, this is literally the end of the world. Like, they died thinking, I know this is the end of the. Everyone's going to be affected.

[Kelsey]

That is so sad to think about.

[Lil]

Crazy to think about.

[Kelsey]

I'll never forget Kelsey didn't even being like, should I be nervous about this thing?

[Lil]

Like, prob. Eight months into.

[Kelsey]

Really, I remember be like, GS.

[Corey]

Yeah.

[Kelsey]

Dude, you're.

[Lil]

You, you're.

[Corey]

You're.

[Lil]

You're fine now. If you're. If you're just now wondering, you're probably okay.

[Josh]

Yeah, that was crazy. I'm excited to talk about that, too, with Jesse about, of like, what big SCs have we lived through?

[Lil]

Oh, yeah. That's going to be fascinating to learn.

[Josh]

Yeah.

[Lil]

Let's talk about the World Health Organization.

[Josh]

Yeah, we said bye. Bye.

[Corey]

Not us.

[Josh]

We don't like health.

[Lil]

See you later, alligator.

[Corey]

Who.

[Lil]

Not you, not us.

[Josh]

Yeah, we left him.

[Kelsey]

Yeah, that's fine.

[Josh]

I think it's probably fine.

[Lil]

I think what would. What would be the implications of That.

[Josh]

I have no idea.

[Lil]

I mean, we. I feel like we didn't really.

[Kelsey]

I don't know who's the leader of who. It was Fauci, right?

[Lil]

No, some owl or something.

[Kelsey]

Google it.

[Lil]

Or something.

[Corey]

I don't know.

[Josh]

Some owl or something.

[Lil]

Next subject.

[Josh]

It wasn't Fauci.

[Kelsey]

No, it wasn't. Yeah, it should have been his name.

[Lil]

It should have been.

[Josh]

It should have been. Fauci was a smart guy.

[Lil]

He's our man.

[Josh]

We've said so many words on this.

[Corey]

Podcast are gonna get.

[Lil]

If you're seeing this podcast right now, it is a mirror.

[Josh]

Oh, sorry about Epstein. You know, Golly.

[Kelsey]

What else can we say?

[Josh]

Yeah, it's crazy. I don't. I don't know anything except that I know Trump. He started that process, I think, in 2016. He wanted to pull out of.

[Lil]

Yeah, it officially started last year. Yeah, around this time last year. And then they started doing all that paperwork or whatever, like, to get out of it. But then it's official now.

[Corey]

Dude, I don't trust anyone telling me what healthy is. Like, Seriously, Flat out, like. Except the Chinese, the food pyramid Chinese, not Japanese.

[Josh]

Not the Chinese government. The old Chinese traditions.

[Kelsey]

Yeah.

[Lil]

Takashi and Joe Rogan.

[Corey]

Dude, I had a.

[Lil]

That's it.

[Corey]

I had a poke bowl today for the first time in forever, bro.

[Josh]

Pokeball.

[Lil]

We need to make a little slogan for Funko.

[Corey]

Yeah.

[Josh]

Or a little jingle.

[Lil]

A little jingle. That's what I mean.

[Josh]

Let's do it.

[Kelsey]

Let's do, like, another quick plug. If you are in the Central Florida area and you are looking for some tasty, delicious food. Funkos Poke and Mount Dora and Asian snacks. Yes.

[Corey]

Technically, his entire business.

[Lil]

I'm off the bowl. I'm off the bowls right now. I'm just doing. Onigiri's just the Crab Ranch. I had two of those before the park the other day.

[Josh]

And if you guys can't make it, go to Google reviews and give them five stars.

[Corey]

What do we give the best review? Let's. Let's.

[Josh]

We'll send them a little care package.

[Corey]

Okay.

[Lil]

Yeah. Honestly. Yeah.

[Kelsey]

Maybe we can, like, flash free some Onigiri.

[Josh]

I. Maybe. I don't know about that. We'll see the technology.

[Lil]

Let's just flash freeze some shirts.

[Josh]

Yeah, I was thinking more of, like, shirts and stuff. Speaking of shirts and stuff.

[Lil]

Yeah.

[Josh]

The blood moon. Ooh, March 3rd. Okay, put it on your calendars, people. March 3rd, there's going to be a lunar eclipse. It's going to create this bright red moon and it's going to last for 58 minutes.

[Lil]

Oh, that's gonna be sick.

[Josh]

Yeah.

[Kelsey]

Remember Jake, his picture that he took of the moon? What moon was that?

[Josh]

Huh?

[Kelsey]

Remember Jake Hutchinson went to go look at the moon in the middle of the night and he was like, I took a picture but then I looked in the morning and it was like not a picture.

[Josh]

Oh, I don't know.

[Kelsey]

Ignore me. Continue.

[Josh]

No, I just don't remember.

[Kelsey]

Continue.

[Josh]

I don't remember. You can't get mad at me for not remembering something.

[Kelsey]

Well, I am so here we are.

[Lil]

So where do we go from here?

[Josh]

No, keep talking about this incident that no one remembers.

[Kelsey]

Done. That was it.

[Lil]

Are we going to freak out about this lunar eclipse like we did with the last one?

[Josh]

I don't know. It's going to be at full peak at 6:04 in the morning.

[Lil]

That's good. That's a lot better than like 2am yeah, that'd be perfect.

[Josh]

Just set your calendars.

[Corey]

I'm excited to see what happens on my game cameras. I wonder how that affects like animal behavior.

[Lil]

They all just start howling, even the pigs.

[Corey]

I just look at my game, they're all, all, all the pigs are standing up on two legs just in a.

[Lil]

Circle around the feeder doing some type of ritual. Yeah, that's a. I always, I always go back to like how like you know the Aztecs and all these people like just how they like would have reacted to seeing that.

[Kelsey]

Dude, have you seen that scientist? I know you've probably seen this a million times but scientists have gone back to the time where Christ likely died on the cross and that there it did make sense for a lunar eclipse to happen right in that time.

[Lil]

Yeah. When they timed it and I think it was NASA that kind of like fentanyl like figured all the timeline out and like so cool.

[Kelsey]

Dude, did you know I'm doing the Bible in the year Laura, whatever Bible recap is what it's called. Okay, I'm on Abraham and Isaac. He's going to sacrifice his son willingly. Isaac was probably like 30 years old by the way. We always imagine him as like a kid but there historians believe he was like a grown up and that he was willingly doing it. And the same mountain that he was going to sacrifice him on that Abraham names the mountain where God provides is the same mountain that Christ was crucified on.

[Lil]

Really?

[Josh]

That's pretty cool that they speculate.

[Lil]

I mean the whole thing is just phenomenal with like you read that and it's like that's what we're trying to tell Jake. When we're reading, talking about the Bible. It's like you don't realize just how much, like, it all points to Jesus in every single detail, which is impossible to do. And that whole story is phenomenal. I mean, you think about in the Chosen, when they see Abraham and Isaac and he's like, he's like, I'll carry it for you.

[Corey]

Oh.

[Lil]

And it's like, jeez Louise. The sun carrying the heaviness up the. The mountain. You're like, dang, man.

[Kelsey]

And the Chosen One, it's like when he goes back and he sees Ezekiel and he says, ezekiel, will these bones live? And he says, tell me, Lord. Oh, my gosh. Watching it.

[Lil]

You're like, I'm teaching on the woman touching the. On Jesus's robe in a couple weeks to a youth group. And I was trying to think of, like, a fun story to like, intro that whole premise of, like, going through a crowd to touch Jesus. And I'm literally going to tell the story of me going up and shaking Jonathan Ram Rumi's hand.

[Josh]

He's like, okay, all right. You know what a weird coincidence is? Maybe it's not coincidence. I don't think. I don't know a lot of these, like, lunar phenomenons or like the eclipses and all this stuff, they like almost always fall on a Jewish holiday.

[Lil]

Really?

[Kelsey]

That's interesting.

[Josh]

So I'm like. I'm just curious. I'm like. Because I've heard that before. And so I'm like, is there a Jewish holiday on March 3? Which. The Jewish holidays, they only go based off of moon phases.

[Lil]

Yeah. Which makes sense.

[Josh]

So this year, March 3rd is the Jewish holiday holiday celebrate is Purim. P U R I M Purim, which marks the salvation of the Jewish people in ancient Persia.

[Lil]

Cool.

[Josh]

So I just thought that was interesting. It says it celebrates Queen Esther and Mordecai overcoming the villain Haman.

[Kelsey]

Amen.

[Josh]

Amen. Haman.

[Kelsey]

Do you watch Veggie Tales?

[Lil]

No, never.

[Josh]

What is that?

[Kelsey]

Nothing. Why are we fighting?

[Josh]

You're the one that started it.

[Corey]

Fight. Fight, Fight.

[Josh]

Your beet juice is making you mean.

[Lil]

Yeah, that's true.

[Kelsey]

It's the blood of my enemies.

[Lil]

That's the. The blood moon right there.

[Kelsey]

She's drinking it.

[Josh]

Speaking of blood moon, I know you're Jewish. I found. I showed you guys. I don't know if I did I show you, Andrew.

[Corey]

I don't know what it is yet.

[Josh]

Let me tell you. It is so the UFO encounter that me and Lily had with that giant.

[Corey]

V shape, the airplane. I'm just Kidding. I'm trolling.

[Josh]

No, but I really. I think. I always thought it was a government vehicle of sorts, flying vehicle, plane, ufo. But these. These pictures came out of someone taking. It's the first one that was taken in Wichita in 2014. Looks exactly like what we saw.

[Kelsey]

Yeah.

[Josh]

Except what we saw was. Had to have been lower.

[Lil]

Yeah.

[Josh]

And it was completely silent.

[Corey]

We've talked about this.

[Josh]

I don't know if we. If I've not seen this picture before.

[Kelsey]

This image in particular really resonates with me because you can see the light on the.

[Josh]

Exactly how we described it.

[Lil]

So you. You agree this is exactly what you saw? It looks exactly like it, yes, Officer.

[Josh]

There's no trail behind it, but yes.

[Corey]

Your honor, my whole thing. You said it like, filled the sky.

[Josh]

I know.

[Kelsey]

Because it must have been literally, like, I could have probably jumped up.

[Corey]

Yeah. I'm not disagreeing with what you said. I'm just trying to like. Because I now live. You were in the yard, right?

[Kelsey]

Yeah, Front yard.

[Corey]

So I'm trying to, like, picture looking up in my front yard and just picture like, how far out to the sides.

[Josh]

I'm saying in your yard.

[Corey]

Yeah.

[Josh]

It would have, like, been your street.

[Kelsey]

It. It took up three quarters of the sky high, so it must have been low is what I'm saying.

[Josh]

How is it silent?

[Lil]

That is crazy. Do they know what kind of.

[Kelsey]

That's so crazy?

[Josh]

No, they didn't say.

[Corey]

And for the new listeners, I bought his house when I moved here to work here.

[Lil]

So it was part of the contract.

[Corey]

It was, yeah.

[Kelsey]

You have to buy my house.

[Josh]

Which. We are hiring an editor, and you.

[Corey]

Are selling a house.

[Josh]

And we are selling a house. So you have to buy our house.

[Kelsey]

What do you mean your hiring editor?

[Corey]

No, I have to buy.

[Josh]

We're always.

[Corey]

I have to buy your current house and then they have to buy mine.

[Josh]

Right.

[Kelsey]

Are you interested?

[Corey]

No.

[Josh]

And have to be, though the next.

[Lil]

Person has live with me for two years.

[Josh]

Yeah.

[Kelsey]

Nice. Nice.

[Corey]

Anyways, do you want to hear about a crypted.

[Josh]

Sure, please.

[Corey]

This one. I was super excited. So this is not a chat GPT story. This is ancient Louisiana folklore floor. Yeah, but it's a modern encounter. But it's. It's tied to things that the Native Americans and. And old Louisiana people not related to the story. But I found out my wife is descendant of a Louisiana governor.

[Josh]

Wow. I do declare.

[Corey]

Yeah.

[Josh]

Anyways, what's your. What's her last name?

[Corey]

Sanders.

[Josh]

Colonel Sanders.

[Corey]

Yep.

[Kelsey]

Boom.

[Josh]

Louisiana Fried Chicken.

[Kelsey]

Paige.

[Josh]

Oh, it's Kentucky Fried Chicken.

[Corey]

That's Paige's maiden name, Sanders.

[Lil]

It all connects.

[Corey]

Okay. No, so there, there's a story of a cryptid in Louisiana swamps over Honey Island Swamp. It's called the Honey Island Swamp Monster. So if you look at like where New Orleans is, do you know the lake? The Pontchartrain, that's what they refer to. It's this big body of water like that kind of splits Covington, Louisiana from New Orleans. And then like Slidell is to the east. If you don't know what that means, I don't. It's in the middle of Louisiana, kind of on the southern edge. There's this long swamp between the main highway and the Gulf. Anyway, so there's this one, there's these two dudes and they're flying over, they're looking for a cabin. And while they're. I'm sorry. They're flying over and they're looking, just looking at the Louisiana coastline and they spot a cabin. They're like, hey, it'd be cool to like, like go find that old cabin in this swamp. So they go in. They're avid hunters, you know, like just out for whatever. They're exploring the woods, looking for this cabin. They come into a clearing and when it opens up, they look and there is a seven foot tall creature they describe as amber eyes with long shaggy gray hair. And it like locked stare with him. When he retells the story, he says the thing that unsettled him most was like, typically like if if I, I startle an animal, that thing's gone. And I'm like, was that a raccoon? I don't know what it is, but it turned and looked at them and they like had like a moment before it like ducked and left. They dipped out. They're like, yeah, I'm, you know, I don't need to, I don't need to see what this was. Whatever, you know, Smart. Yeah. So they get out of there. Well, years pass, 11 years go by and you know, it fades into memory. It's, you know, whatever. That was a crazy. Probably starting to assume I saw something different. My brain, you know, it was like a mangy bear or something like that. Anyways, they're duck hunting, so they go back into the swamp and they get so far in and they encounter a ton of feral pigs, large hogs with the throats completely ripped out. They're like, this is unsettling and weird. And you know, they, as they approach to inspect, you know, Louisiana is full of gators. But apparently on this island, it was, was so far from where the water was, they're like, there's no way it was gators. Like, gators would not be that far from water. And when they were expecting only one, they were inspecting the kill and they found footprints all surrounding the thing, three toed and webbed. And so they, they, like, they saw that, that's when like, that was the moment where they're like, this is sketchy. And they dipped out of there, but with the intent. Like, let's come back like more prepared. I'm assuming they just had duck guns, you know, bird shot. You're not really trying to take down a big cryptid or monster with that. So they came back more prepared. And I'm gonna turn my phone around, I'll pop them up on the screen. But these are the, the casts that they came back and they, they actually took. They took, they took those. Yeah, that's, that's what they look like. Oh my gosh.

[Josh]

How big is that? How do they. Like a foot size?

[Lil]

It would.

[Corey]

Yeah, well, it was bigger. I think they said it was something. I'm not positive. I'm kind of trying to pull from memory what I read, but I think they said it was like the equivalent. It was either 12 inches, which would have been small for a seven foot beast, or it was like a size 12 shoe.

[Josh]

Okay.

[Corey]

But either way, that's still small for a seven foot tall creature. They said probably seven foot, probably 400 pounds, like in the retelling of, of what they did. And so anyways, they, they have this encounter, they have these prints, they start telling the story. And then there's this guy. Guy, his name is Ted Williams. And so he's another just been in Louisiana his whole life. And as the story starts to circulate, he's like, yeah. He's like, I've. He's like, I've seen that. He was like pretty frequently. He's like, I had. I could have shot it. Like, what are you talking about? He's like, it never meant me harm. Why should I harm it? He was like, actually, I think there's more than one. He's like, the amount of times that I've seen him, he's like, there's no way that there's just one of them out there. Like, this is unsettling. Well, the dude is like. I mean, Cajun to the core, you know, like swamp guy. He went out running trot lines and literally the story ends. He never came back. Oh, that's it. That's the end of the telling. Literally the dude who Said I saw him all the time. Literally disappeared. They never found his boat. They never found him. All his trot lines gone.

[Josh]

Oh, my gosh.

[Corey]

Yeah, dude. And the native Americans have a telling of a very similar. I forget what they call it. Well, let me see if I put it in here.

[Lil]

You know what I would have called it?

[Josh]

What?

[Corey]

But I think the natives. That was good. I think the natives, like. Basically it's like a defender of the water, but known for overturning canoes and stuff like that. But also like a. A hairy bigfoot type creature. And I haven't done further research. Maybe on the next couple pods I can go into that. But I guess Florida and Louisiana and Texas all have similar bigfoot stories. But the thing that distinguishes our bigfoots from like the northwest is like the. When you think of a big foot print, the mid tarsal break, whatever ape looking print. Apparently the ones down here are three to four toes. Toad and web.

[Kelsey]

And web. So they're aquatic, big feet.

[Josh]

They're swamp apes.

[Corey]

Yeah.

[Lil]

They've evolved.

[Corey]

I mean, it makes. It makes sense. You think about like the difference between an elk and a Florida buck. They're quite different creatures.

[Josh]

Yeah.

[Kelsey]

And where are they hanging out most of the time? Like under the ground in the center.

[Josh]

Of the earth, probably.

[Corey]

People see. People think it's weird that like creatures live. But like, that pig that I've been hunting is well over 300 pounds and it's in a neighborhood. I'm hunting 15 acres. And every redneck in that neighborhood, if they saw it, would pull the trigger.

[Josh]

Yeah.

[Corey]

The fact that it's existed unseen and unkilled for quite a few years to get that big, it's like that's in a neighborhood. Like you just go a little further where you got to get a boat like a Louisiana swamp. Makes sense. You know what I mean? Like, there's no road in there. So.

[Lil]

He's also 300 years old. He could be pound a year down a year.

[Josh]

Anyways.

[Corey]

Yeah, that was the honey island swamp monster.

[Josh]

Dang, that's fun.

[Lil]

That is Gatty.

[Corey]

There's the guy who took all the interesting.

[Josh]

Dang. Do they have like a picture of like what they think it looked like?

[Corey]

It just looks like bigfoot.

[Josh]

Oh, really?

[Corey]

Yeah. And they're like. It almost makes the story feel less real because art wasn't there forte. Yeah. You know what I mean?

[Josh]

But super interesting.

[Corey]

Yeah, I thought it was. I thought it was really crazy. Really unsettling. I don't want to run into anything, that's for sure. Yeah.

[Lil]

It's like the swamp man. Or the old Greg. Oh, Greg, you know what?

[Josh]

I got you, like, bay leaves.

[Corey]

Did you say bay leaves?

[Josh]

Bailey's.

[Kelsey]

Bailey's. You ever drink Bailey's? From a shoe?

[Josh]

Yeah, whatever. Speaking of humor.

[Kelsey]

Like a breadstick.

[Corey]

Like a breadstick.

[Josh]

Speaking of old Greg.

[Lil]

Yeah.

[Josh]

Let's talk about an old king. Ooh. King Arthur. King Arthur. The one, the one, the only, the mythic, mythical.

[Kelsey]

Nice.

[Josh]

The legend. The legend.

[Lil]

Legend, Nicole.

[Josh]

The legend. King Arthur.

[Lil]

Yes.

[Josh]

Not a lot is known about King Arthur. He's just kind of, like, in history. They're just very, like, you know, mystical. Like, who was he? Yeah, but, like, he.

[Lil]

He existed an enigma.

[Josh]

But they think that he existed, like, right after the Romans were there and he was, like, a chieftain lord. But, like, there's just a ton of. You know, there's stories about, like, Merlin and, like, all this stuff, but in 1191, in Glastonbury, England, these monks were digging around and they found an oak coffin. And it had two bodies buried in it, a male and a female. And they say that the male was, like, 6 foot 5. And in this wooden coffin, there was a lead cross. And the inscription translated to, here lies buried the famous King Arthur in the isle of Avalon. So they're like, we just found King Arthur's body.

[Kelsey]

Yeah. That's pretty on the nose.

[Corey]

Those.

[Josh]

Yeah.

[Lil]

It would have taken me weeks to figure out, like, but who was it?

[Corey]

Who is this person?

[Josh]

But Glastonbury has just so much weirdness around it already. So Glastonbury was, like, a pinnacle for, like, the early Celts and like, their weird witchy witchcraft stuff.

[Corey]

Okay.

[Josh]

And there's this. Basically, there's. If you look. If you type in Glastonbury.

[Kelsey]

Yeah, I'm doing that.

[Josh]

There's, like. There's this giant mountain, this, like, hill that just, like, shoots up out of nowhere on top of it. Now. I think it's like the Tower of St. Michael or something where they built it. But they speculate that these monks found King Arthur's body on this mountain. And. But this mountain used to be, like, have all these, like, weird stories that the Celtis talk about that this kid, this mountain was hollow and it led to this inner earth where all, like, the fairies and spirits lived and stuff.

[Lil]

Cool.

[Josh]

So just weird stuff around this. But these monks, they put it on display, basically, and, like, all these pilgrims started coming to see King Arthur's body, and then it. That. Yeah. So it was in 1278. King Edward ordered the remains ceremonially reburied in a marble tomb. So it had been basically a hundred. Was it 100 years? Yeah, around. No, less than that. No. Yeah, 100 years. 80 years. Whatever.

[Lil]

80 years it was displayed.

[Josh]

80 years it was displayed, like, in this box. And they're like, the King. King Edwards. Like, let's bury. Let's give it a proper burial. So there's, like. It gave some validity to, like, this is King Arthur's body. And so they buried it at the monastery in Glastonbury. And then it was. King Henry VIII went on this whole escapade in the 1500s. So 1536. And it was called the Dissolution. Sorry, Dissolution of the Monasteries. So he basically was at odds with the Roman Catholic Church, and so he decided to break apart from the Roman Catholic Church, start the Anglican Church, and basically burn down all the monasteries.

[Lil]

Oh, no.

[Josh]

And get rid of all the monks, all the nuns. And in that time, King Arthur's tomb, or his. Yeah, his tomb was raided and it disappeared. So no one knows where King Arthur's bones are now.

[Lil]

So they just took it.

[Josh]

They took it and they're gone or they're destroyed. No one knows.

[Lil]

Yeah.

[Josh]

And I'm like, wow, that's a crazy story.

[Lil]

Yeah, it's wild also. Yeah. It's strange.

[Josh]

I started looking into Glastonbury a little more.

[Kelsey]

Yeah.

[Josh]

There was an even crazier story around it.

[Lil]

It.

[Josh]

People believe that Joseph of Arimathea, from the Bible, the man that gave Jesus his tomb after Jesus resurrected and went off to heaven, that Joseph of Arimathea traveled to England and set up the first church in Glastonbury.

[Kelsey]

Whoa.

[Lil]

That's dope.

[Kelsey]

Who believes that? Incredible people.

[Josh]

I mean, all the monks and stuff did in that area, and that's what they taught forever. But I'm like, okay. And there's no real validity or proof to it, except merchant ships would travel from the Israel region to the uk. Never knew that. It was like, all the Roman routes and stuff.

[Lil]

Yeah.

[Josh]

But there is a tree that is specific to Glastonbury where they call it the Thorny Tree. And the legend goes that Joseph of Arimathea had followers with them. And he went to this place in England and he went atop this hill and he planted his staff in it, and it instantly sprung up and became a tree.

[Kelsey]

Cool.

[Josh]

And he's like, this is where Christ wants us to start reaching out to people and building a church and stuff like that.

[Lil]

Yeah.

[Josh]

But there's a tree in Glastonbury that is only native to the Middle East.

[Lil]

Whoa.

[Kelsey]

Stop it right now.

[Lil]

Yeah. That is cool.

[Josh]

Yeah.

[Lil]

And it still stands today.

[Josh]

I don't know if that tree exactly, but there's more trees that sprouted from that one original tree, which they claim was his staff.

[Lil]

Wow.

[Josh]

Yeah.

[Lil]

That's gnarly, dude.

[Josh]

Yeah.

[Kelsey]

What else did you hear about him?

[Corey]

Why don't we carry staffs anymore?

[Josh]

That's what I'm saying.

[Lil]

Let me just start doing it.

[Kelsey]

Yeah, somebody has a start.

[Corey]

I'd be a staff guy.

[Josh]

Anyways, that's all. That's my story. I thought it was cool.

[Lil]

Birthday's next week.

[Kelsey]

So they say Joseph of Arimathea also brought the Holy Grail.

[Josh]

Yes, they do say that. They said that he brought the Holy Grail to Glastonbury and buried it somewhere. Whoa.

[Kelsey]

Another thing. They have a well called the Chalice well, and it's a natural spring that is red iron rich.

[Josh]

Wow.

[Kelsey]

Water.

[Lil]

Interesting.

[Kelsey]

And they believe it to have many healing properties. They say Glastonbury is like a Mecca, basically for like. Like, witchy folks, but also Christians and stuff like that. Yeah, it's just, like, really mythological.

[Josh]

That's why they. These monks, they say that the story of Joseph Arimathea went and set up the first church in England there because it was the pinnacle of paganism. Paganism and stuff. So it's like this constant battle.

[Lil]

Yeah. That's interesting.

[Kelsey]

In Neolithic times, it was an island in a swamp.

[Josh]

Yes.

[Kelsey]

And now it's like a mountainous region.

[Corey]

Yeah.

[Josh]

That's why it says on King Arthur's thing. It says in the Isle of Whatever.

[Kelsey]

Yeah.

[Josh]

It's because when they buried him on this hill, it was an island, but now it's the top of a mountain.

[Lil]

Strange to tie it all up.

[Kelsey]

We could go there tomorrow for a thousand bucks. I looked up like, not me. Yeah, true. You're. Come on, you're homebound.

[Corey]

No passport.

[Kelsey]

Dang.

[Josh]

Anyways, crazy stuff.

[Kelsey]

That was really fun, Josh. Thank you for sharing it.

[Lil]

That.

[Josh]

That.

[Lil]

The imagery in that is phenomenal.

[Corey]

That's such a fun story before it leaves my mind. Speaking of grave robbing, that other story that Corey told, a buddy of mine that I know from back home reached out to me. He was like, dude, that story is creepy. Crazier thing. He was like. He was in my homeschool co op.

[Kelsey]

Corey was?

[Corey]

No. Oh, the grave robber.

[Josh]

No way.

[Corey]

Yeah.

[Kelsey]

These homeschoolers.

[Corey]

I know, right?

[Josh]

That's crazy.

[Lil]

Yeah.

[Corey]

He was like. I literally like, like, would sit next to that kid.

[Kelsey]

Oh, my gosh.

[Corey]

Homeschool.

[Lil]

Give me some skin. Oh, I won't actually ever Yikes.

[Kelsey]

I want to go to England. England is so. You know what's so funny about England? It's tiny. You could go all over it, like in two days. Yeah, but I. It's so mythical. There's so much going on, going over there.

[Lil]

It's a lot of history.

[Josh]

A lot of history.

[Lil]

A lot of history. Hey, speaking of history, have you guys ever heard of Cincinnatus, Ohio? No. But that's why Cincinnati got its name.

[Josh]

Oh, yeah.

[Lil]

This is the story of Cincinnatus, the Roman dictator who quit, believe it or not. So back in the day, Roman, when Rome was in a. Like an emergency, you know, they were. They were. You know, they were in a pinch, they would elect a dictator, which in our minds, dictators are a bad thing. But back then, it was someone that was needed. It was kind of like a panic button kind of thing. So they would have their own senate. And at this time, it was like 5:48 year the year, and the Romans were going against this neighboring tribe, and the Roman soldiers were stuck and they were surrounded, and literally, we're about to just be massacred. And so the Senate is freaking out and, you know, they're panicking and they choose to elect a dictator. And so someone who can come in, who can make the. The quick decisions has full, complete power over Rome. But it's only for, you know, a. Up to six months, up to a year. They. They're going to be in place. So they, they go back and forth a picture. You know, they need someone who's. Who's loyal, who's strong, who's going to have a quick mind for this stuff. And they come up with a guy who used to be part of Rome's history. His name was Lucius Cincinnatus. And this guy was a very poor farmer at this time. He had his own little, small, little farm. He worked in the dirt. He was just living his own life. And they elect him. They go, you know, they slide him him. They just, they. He was a respected person in, In Rome's history, but he had just, you know, walked away and kind of just wanted a quiet, you know. He's basically a retired farmer. And so they went up to him literally in his, you know, farming clothes, completely covered in dirt. They sit and sit him down and they say, we need you. All this stuff. They have them put on a toga. Toga about said yoga. They had him do yoga. And he says, okay, fine, I'll do it. And so he shows up literally within the day. He gets a whole Rome army put together, they go march through the night and they escape, and they literally just take over this neighboring tribe that was trying to kill them and completely wins them over and then spends 16 days as dictator getting all these things ready. And in that time, as a dictator, you can, you know, create wealth for yourself. You can take over other land, you can literally do whatever you want. By the end of the 16 days, after all that, that whole conflict was resolved, he said, okay, I'll see you later. And literally just left abdicated as. Just bowed down and just said, all right, see you later, and went back to be a farmer completely fine. Two years later, they get another pinch, they hit the panic button, and he comes back and does the exact same thing and then quits and leaves.

[Josh]

Dang.

[Lil]

And just, Just an absolute legend. Guy that did not want power, did not want wealth, was very. Just very humble, a very good leader. And that just became an absolute legend of, like, that's how leaders should be.

[Kelsey]

That's.

[Lil]

That's a person that's not power hungry. And so the only thing he wanted was a city in Ohio named after him. But no, he. That's. But that's what happened. Whenever they found that city, they named them, named it Cincinnati.

[Josh]

That's crazy.

[Lil]

Yeah. But the cool thing is, is George Washington was also labeled the American Cincinnatus because he was president for two terms and did not want any part of being president, wanted to step down, and did step down. And so that was his. His legend as well. Just people, like, looked at him as the American Cincinnati.

[Josh]

He was only president for two years.

[Lil]

Two terms.

[Josh]

Two terms. Okay.

[Lil]

Yeah.

[Corey]

Did. Did you see the quote that he said about going back to his farm? When they asked him to stay on, when he abdicated, they asked like, please continue. And it was something. I can't remember if he said. I. He either missed his cabbages or preferred his cabbages. I forget the line.

[Lil]

Well, there's a. There's. I saw two quotes, but I thought it was a different one where they asked one other person to come back and they. He didn't want to. And it may be the same person, but I think it was. It started with a C, but there was another guy. But the quote was he said, if you would. If you would be able to see the vegetables that I would grow with my own hands, you wouldn't be talking to me about empires.

[Kelsey]

Wow.

[Lil]

Because he was so proud of the cabbage, like, the, the vegetables that he was growing in his own garden.

[Kelsey]

I would, too. You should see the broccoli. We Grew. It's humongous.

[Lil]

Don't talk to me about empires. Have you seen my broccoli?

[Corey]

That's fascinating.

[Lil]

So cool. I think it's just like. Yeah, it's a cool, like, leadership story as well.

[Josh]

Dang. So dictators are good.

[Corey]

Yeah.

[Lil]

I honestly, I mean, at this point.

[Josh]

You guys heard it here first.

[Lil]

As long as you farm north civilians of North Korea and China, that's what kill lax.

[Josh]

You guys are lucky.

[Lil]

Yeah. You guys are so lucky you have a dictator.

[Josh]

Dang, I wish we had a dictator.

[Lil]

Some say we do. Open your eyes.

[Josh]

Speaking of dictators.

[Lil]

All right, I'll do it.

[Josh]

We got an episode right after this, people.

[Lil]

Yeah, baby.

[Josh]

Patreon.com forward/ninjasbutterflies. And I didn't get to the story that I want to talk about too. It's another tomb story.

[Lil]

Oh, perfect.

[Josh]

Yeah.

[Lil]

Good deal.

[Josh]

Let's talk about Angel. Angeli starred in it.

[Lil]

No way.

[Josh]

Tomb Raider.

[Lil]

Well, we have a new Tomb Raider.

[Josh]

Do we actually. Yeah, yeah.

[Lil]

Oh, she just got.

[Josh]

No, it's not about that. It's about a tomb in Israel and it's crazy and it's spooky.

[Lil]

I'm. I'm hooked.

[Corey]

All right.

[Lil]

I only wish I could download the Patreon app and go to Ninjas or Butterflies and sign up and just have a great time. I was about to say for free. It's not for free, but you can cancel anytime you get free episodes with that extra episodes. I'm quit saying free. I'm not saying free. I don't know why I said free. But it's very, very cheap, very affordable. You can't. Anytime you get behind the scenes footage and you get discounts on merch, you get access to our community on Discord. It's a good old time.

[Josh]

It's a great time.

[Lil]

And you could. And you could be there.

[Josh]

It's a fantastic time. And guys, if you're watching this, please, like, comment. Subscribe.

[Lil]

Leave a review.

[Josh]

Leave a review.

[Lil]

5 stars, preferably comment down below whether you'd have no nose, no nostrils, or no teeth.

[Kelsey]

No. 2. No front teeth.

[Lil]

Teeth. Yes.

[Josh]

No. 2 front thing. No. 2 front teeth.

[Kelsey]

That's what I sound like.

[Josh]

And if you would prefer a dictator.

[Lil]

Yeah. And who would you elect as America's dictator?

[Corey]

But you.

[Kelsey]

To check dictator, you have to choose.

[Josh]

Out of US4 or it has to be.

[Lil]

Oh, yeah, yeah. Who would make the best dictator and tell us why? Yes, we might pin your comment.

[Corey]

We will. We literally. We literally can't.

[Josh]

We'll.

[Lil]

Too bad.

[Josh]

We'll do it.

[Lil]

Too bad.

[Josh]

All right, guys, we love you. We'll see you on Patreon. We'll see you on YouTube members. Bye bye. Bye, bye, bye bye.

[Lil]

Yeah, Dolphin.

[Corey]

What you're about to see. Wow. May disturb you if any of you know what these multi decade UAP dolphins are.

[Lil]

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