186 - World's Most Haunted Island, Iranian Ghoul & Iran War Predictions Coming True

Summary

Ninjas Are Butterflies

Episode 186: World’s Most Haunted Island, Iranian Ghoul & Iran War Predictions Coming True

Release Date: March 20, 2026
Hosts: Josh Hooper, Andy DeNoon, Lily, Paige

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Episode Overview

In this lively and wide-ranging episode, the Ninjas Are Butterflies crew launches into their signature blend of comedy, conspiracies, captivating storytelling, and casual chaos. They recount recent adventures in California, riff on current world events (particularly the war in Iran and eerie predictions coming true), explore spine-tingling cryptids from Iran and beyond, and dive into the terrifying history of the “world’s most haunted island” off the coast of Venice. Along the way, the team shares personal stories, speculative theories, and plenty of side-splitting moments.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. Travel Stories & Group Dynamics

• California Trip Recap: The group’s vacation involved visits to a fantastic zoo, toddler mayhem, a memorable conference, and travel mishaps—all told with trademark banter.

  • “People have no idea. So, okay, we need to change attitudes. Okay.” – Andrew (05:00)
  • “I went to the zoo and saw La Jolla sea lions, and Kelsey literally, like, cried watching these sea lions on the beach.” – Josh (06:42)

• Navigating Group Travel: Explores how different traveling styles and communication gaps can cause comic friction.

  • “If you want to go do something, have fun and do it.” – Lily (06:21)

• Travel Mishaps: Flight cancellations led to an extended, circuitous return trip via Seattle, with a bonus day of adventure.

  • “We wake up bright and early. Flights are canceled. …So they rerouted us the next day to Seattle, San Diego to Seattle, Seattle to Orlando.” – Lily & Josh (12:05–12:21)

• Airplane Disasters: From toddler puke to spilled coffee, mishaps abound.

  • “Jane threw up on me on the plane…and then Jane poured my whole coffee all over my body. So in the same clothes, I had puke and old coffee.” – Lily (14:10)

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2. Middle East Conflict & Conspiracy: Iranian War Predictions

• Professor Jiang’s Predictions (31:17):

  • In 2024, Professor Jiang predicted:
    1. Trump would be reelected.
    2. The U.S. would go to war with Iran.
    3. The U.S. would lose the war with Iran.
  • “He said Iran has been planning this attack on the United States for 20 years...their goal is to burst the economic bubble that is in the United States and that is primarily built off of artificial intelligence.” – Andrew (32:24)

• Desalination Plant Threats:

  • Iran could cripple Middle Eastern infrastructure with cheap drones—“It would take one drone attack…$50,000…10 million people would be out of drinking water in two weeks.” (33:23)

• Media & Public Opinion:

  • Leaked news of possible Iranian drone attack in California, and reflections on how such events can rally public support for war.
  • “When an attack happens in the United States…they rally and they’re like, yes, let's go get 'em–9/11, Pearl Harbor...” – Andrew (35:09)

• Draft Talk:

  • Potential U.S. military draft debated.
  • “A draft will never happen. There are too many of us sitting idle.” – Lily (38:57)
  • “Sorry, bud. …Yes. It’s 18 to 25. They said 20 year olds would be first to go…” – Andrew (39:13)

• Who’s the "Bad Guy"?

  • The hosts debate moral gray zones in war.
  • “I love America, golly, I love this country. But it's foolish to think we’re not doing terrible, terrible things…” – Josh (45:02)
  • “We’re both the bad guys…we’re just doing bad things.” – Lily (45:18)

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3. Historic & Haunted: Poviglia Island, “World’s Most Haunted”

• Poviglia Island History (78:13–82:49):

  • Used as quarantine during the Bubonic plague; an estimated 100,000 people died.
  • Soil is reportedly “half human ash.”
  • Later, a 1920s asylum with cruel experiments, closed 1968, now strictly closed to outsiders.
  • “Venice was one of the major ports…if any ship had a hint of bubonic plague, they were sentenced to quarantine on this island…” – Andrew (79:14)
  • Fishermen reportedly refuse to approach the island; tales of ghosts abound.

• Venetian Conspiracy:

  • Allegations that Venice used plague accusations to kill business competitors.
  • “If there was a competitor…they would say, ‘You have the plague on your ship: banished to this island.’” – Andrew (82:13)

• Comparisons With Typhoid Mary & U.S. Quarantine Islands:

  • “Off of New York that had the same purpose—a quarantine island.” – Lily (83:15)

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4. Iranian Cryptids, Ghouls, & Global Monster Parallels

• Paige’s Iranian Ghoul Story (87:56):

  • Parallels drawn between Iranian folk monsters (“ghouls”)—sometimes appearing as backward-footed women calling for help—and Native American skinwalkers.
  • “If the woman's foot or feet are on backwards, it’s a ghoul…same as skinwalker lore.” – Paige (88:22)

• Universal Cryptid Motifs:

  • Similar “Bigfoot” and supernatural predator stories in Iran and North America.

• Warning Against Damsels in Distress:

  • “We just can't help women. No matter what, we can't help them.” – Josh (89:27)

• Creepy Animal Noises:

  • Hosts play bobcat screams that sound eerily like a woman or witch screaming. (92:13)

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5. Societal Cycles, Science, & Subtle Manipulations

• Solar Activity & Unrest Correlation (46:10):

  • Discussion of research tying 11-year solar cycles to uprisings and political instability.
  • “Periods of intense solar activity can correlate with societal stress and unrest…earth’s climate, altering agricultural yields…” – Andrew (46:47)

• Apophenia:

  • Humans’ tendency to see patterns in randomness.
  • “There’s a terminology…apophenia–humans seeing patterns in random data.” – Andrew (48:05)

• Circadian & Emotional Impact:

  • Minor geomagnetic disturbances from solar activity observed to affect mood and health.

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6. Seeds, Survival, and Conspiracies

• Svalbard Global Seed Vault (92:30):

  • “A massive underground backup storage vault for the world’s crop seeds…over 400ft into a mountain…nuclear blast proof.”
  • “About 75% of crop diversity has disappeared in the past 100 years.” – Andrew (93:40)

• Conspiracy Angle:

  • China & Iran refuse to store seeds in the vault. Speculations about “ancient” or even “alien” botany stored in secret.

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7. Lighter (But No Less Spooky) Slices of Life

• Dental Horror Stories:
  • Abscesses, extractions gone wrong, and possible links between root canals and chronic illness.
• America’s Bizarre Nightlife:
  • “Applebee’s once had a club…in Florida, back in the 90s...they would open up at 11 p.m...DJs, different food, dance…Applebee’s is a nightclub.” – Josh & Lily (70:16–71:38)
• Endangered Human Crafts:
  • Everything from handcrafting spades and glass eyes to making stained glass and homemade T-shirt quilts.
• Question Corner with Lily – “Would you rather…”
  • Hilarious debate: Date someone trampoline-obsessed, or someone who never hears you? (60:19–62:00)

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• On the Fortune of Travel:

  • “If you want to go do something, have fun and do it.” – Lily (06:21)

• On World Events:

  • “Their goal is to burst the economic bubble that is in the United States and that is primarily built off of artificial intelligence.” – Andrew (32:24)

• On American Self-Reflection:

  • “I love America, golly, I love this country. But it's foolish to think that we’re not doing terrible, terrible things…” – Josh (45:02)

• Chilling Cryptid Wisdom:

  • “If the woman’s foot or feet are on backwards, it's a ghoul.” – Paige (88:22)

• On Societal Cycles:

  • “There is research suggesting that periods of intense solar activity can correlate with societal stress and unrest…” – Andrew (46:46)
  • “Apophenia…humans seeing patterns in random data.” – Andrew (48:05)

• Arcane Island Ash:

  • “Half of the island’s soil is human ash.” – Andrew (79:40)

• Gallows Humor:

  • “Speaking of crazy spooky things, have you heard of the Svalbard Global Seed Vault?” – Andrew (92:30)

• Fabulous Absurdity:

  • “Applebee’s is a nightclub…this place is great and it’s made of plaster.” – Lily (71:36)

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Timestamps for Important Segments

• California Travel Debrief & Mishaps: 01:00 – 15:00
• Middle East War Predictions & Conspiracies: 30:44 – 46:00
• Haunted Poviglia Island History: 78:13 – 84:19
• Iranian Ghouls & Global Cryptids: 87:56 – 92:28
• Solar Activity & Human Unrest: 46:10 – 51:20
• Svalbard Seed Vault (Ancient Seeds, Conspiracies): 92:30 – 99:15
• Endangered Crafts & Quilting Tangent: 101:08 – 104:05
• Dental Horror Stories: 73:48 – 78:08
• Applebee’s Nightclub Reveal: 70:02 – 71:38
• Question Corner – Trampolines or ‘What?’: 60:16 – 62:29

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Tone and Style

The Ninjas Are Butterflies team maintains an off-the-cuff, hilarious, and occasionally irreverent style throughout, mixing serious speculation with absurdity and warmth. The episode is rich with inside jokes, playful teasing, and fast pivots between heavy and light topics.

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Final Thoughts

This episode brings the signature NAB mix of apocalyptic headlines, haunting legends, and laugh-out-loud personal drama. Whether debating the fate of the world, facing off with ancient ghouls, or discovering Applebee’s after dark, the crew’s vibe is contagious. For listeners in the mood for true “outrageous comedy” with just enough chills for balance, episode 186 delivers.

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“We'll still be dropping every Friday, making our love stained glass. Even though it’ll be difficult…we do hard things.” – Andrew (105:35)

Transcript

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[Josh]

Hey everybody. Welcome back to the show. We have a story today about the most haunted island in the world right outside of Venice. Talk about plagues. We're talking about mental hospitals and we're talking about dead bodies.

[Andrew]

This just end. The war in Iran is taking place and it is scarier than you think. There's three predictions made in 2024 regarding the war in Iran. Two of them came true. The third one, we're still waiting for it and we'll talk about it now.

[Lily]

And if you didn't get swept away in an orphish related tsunami, then what is it again? I can't remember.

[Andrew]

What are you talking about then? Well, he still has to do his.

[Paige]

Oh yeah, I missed one conference.

[Lily]

Lily, I thought we were done. I was jumping in.

[Andrew]

He has to talk about his ghoul.

[Lily]

Can you just edit me?

[Paige]

And there, there's in the Native Americans have the same cryptids as they do in Iran. And it's really scary. It involves a woman screaming for help. We're gonna tell you about it.

[Andrew]

Go ahead.

[Lily]

I can't remember it though. That's what I'm having trouble with.

[Josh]

You have to. Your house is brought to you.

[Lily]

Empowered by Sunday. Cool. Watch this or listen. What is your house made of plaster?

[Josh]

You guys don't get it now, but you'll get it. You'll get it really hard when it happens.

[Paige]

Yeah, all right.

[Lily]

Golly.

[Josh]

He doesn't communicate that to Us.

[Andrew]

I forgot. I forgot, I forgot.

[Josh]

You forgot? My sandwich is wrong. What else is gonna go wrong today?

[Lily]

Much. Lately I've been with you guys too much. I need a break.

[Josh]

Don't start.

[Lily]

Need a break from you guys.

[Josh]

I am a treat to be around.

[Andrew]

You said you need a break from us.

[Lily]

Yes, I've been around.

[Andrew]

Right back at you.

[Lily]

Too much.

[Andrew]

Right back at ya too. Welcome everyone.

[Lily]

Andy, do you have any complaints or notes about the way we travel or live?

[Josh]

Oh, yeah.

[Paige]

What a question.

[Lily]

Oh yeah, go ahead, share.

[Josh]

Oh, man, where do we start? I mean, the fact that you guys don't shower on vacations, that's like a rule you guys have, which is crazy. Like, you guys don't shower.

[Lily]

So then I did wait two whole days to take my first shower and Kelsey went, what? You had a shower yet? Ew.

[Andrew]

Well, the Danoong shower three times a day, so.

[Lily]

Yeah, twice. But we take 500 baths a day.

[Andrew]

Yeah, we had to replace our water filter at our house. Water softener filter thing. And we got it like a year and a half ago, maybe two years ago.

[Lily]

What?

[Paige]

What?

[Lily]

We got our water softener four years ago.

[Andrew]

No, it was not four years ago.

[Lily]

It was not a year and a half ago.

[Paige]

Okay, well, three years.

[Lily]

Jane was not alive.

[Andrew]

Is this how the whole podcast is going to be?

[Lily]

Not alive?

[Andrew]

Okay, three years ago.

[Josh]

Keep this going. I got to finish my food.

[Andrew]

Three and a half years ago, not four. We haven't been in that house for just four. Doesn't matter. The guy's like this.

[Paige]

These things. Five years.

[Andrew]

These things.

[Josh]

I love couple.

[Paige]

Cuz I've almost lived here for five years and I bought your house.

[Josh]

I love when couples bring up like the smallest detail that doesn't even matter to the story. Like actually with this.

[Lily]

No 100% matters because he's trying to say that we used and abused this water softener.

[Andrew]

Because my family. My family takes like six baths a day.

[Paige]

It's a lot of water going through these filters.

[Andrew]

The thing was supposed to last six years.

[Lily]

Some people cope with

[Andrew]

drugs, alcohol, we

[Lily]

do baths, fornication, bats, we take baths.

[Paige]

I mean, you're making it. You're making it sound like incredibly excessive. But if it's lasted almost five years, that's only like 20 extra use.

[Josh]

I've only had it for like six months.

[Paige]

Oh, that changes things.

[Lily]

That's not true. It's not true. I had a wonderful time. I think that we are getting a wonderful time where on our trip.

[Josh]

People have no idea.

[Andrew]

So, okay, we need to change attitudes. Okay.

[Josh]

I'm just giving her. I'm just saying context, everyone.

[Lily]

I'm saying good things. I was saying I think we're getting really good at traveling together. Something about you and Kelsey, though. You guys don't speak up when you want to do something. So if you wanted to stay at the zoo all day long, tell me.

[Paige]

It was my.

[Josh]

I wanted to stay at the zoo. I was. I mean, just because Kelsey didn't say she wanted to stay at the zoo. I want to stay at the zoo. What's wrong with that?

[Paige]

All right, now I need context. What? What's the vibe? What happened?

[Andrew]

Nothing happened.

[Lily]

I just. We.

[Andrew]

I'm going to pee.

[Josh]

Who's your problem?

[Lily]

What? Where are you going?

[Josh]

What are you doing? You need to change your attitude.

[Andrew]

Everyone be nice.

[Josh]

You be nice. I said I wanted to go to the zoo. You laugh. You laugh. You laugh at me. You walk away. What are you talking about?

[Paige]

So what happened?

[Lily]

We. We went to the zoo. Yeah, the. Probably. Arguably. Arguably.

[Josh]

It's amazing. Truly the best zoo I've been to.

[Lily]

It was fantastic. I. We have toddlers and short attention spans. The Danoons could have slept in that zoo.

[Josh]

True. But they also wanted to go back and swim.

[Lily]

Yeah, that's true.

[Josh]

Just because I want to do something doesn't mean that's, like, what we should be doing.

[Lily]

What I just want. This is my note when we travel together, because I think this is going to happen a lot in our life. Do you. Boo boo. If you want to go do something, have fun and do it.

[Josh]

What if we wanted to hang out with you guys?

[Paige]

Oh, but what if they don't?

[Josh]

Yeah, apparently they don't want to hang out with us.

[Lily]

100. We want it. But I just wanted you guys to leave with a fulfilling and beautiful trip that you're happy with.

[Josh]

We accomplished everything they wanted. The girls met Jake. I went to the zoo and saw La Jolla sea lions, and Kelsey literally, like, cried watching these sea lions on the beach.

[Lily]

It's true.

[Paige]

This is such like a marriage argument, though, where it's like, just because, like, me hunting. It's like, just because I want to hunt Saturday morning doesn't mean I don't want to spend Saturday morning with my wife. Oh, but they can't coexist.

[Lily]

I just.

[Josh]

So you go hunting

[Paige]

and then I spend Saturday evening with my wife.

[Lily]

I just think that Andy has an axolotl sized hole in his heart.

[Paige]

You're going to have to unpack.

[Josh]

I love me. You know Axolotl. You know what, Axolotl?

[Paige]

I actually don't oh, wow.

[Lily]

I didn't know they were alive. I thought they were extinct.

[Josh]

They're like these weird sea creatures.

[Paige]

I thought it was, like, some version of, like, describing you.

[Josh]

You've seen them?

[Paige]

Yeah, yeah.

[Lily]

They're super trendy.

[Josh]

There's an axolotl on the pink stairs. Is an axolotl supposed to be there? If you ask an axolotl if he'll be back tomorrow, a penguin waddles in and the axolotl's gone.

[Lily]

I've never heard that song before in my life.

[Andrew]

Flagged.

[Lily]

So our trip. You guys spoke at the Blessed God Conference, and you did. Amazingly. Joshua's sick, sick, sick.

[Josh]

It was funny because Ruslan's like, hey, where you guys are supposed to go on at 10:30, you're gonna have to get there. We're going on earlier because someone just canceled and had, like, an emergency thing. So we get there, like, at 9:45, and we're like, okay, we're ready to go. We get backstage, and he's miking us up. And we're sitting there for 45 minutes, and Ruslan just brings us up at 10:30. And the whole time, Josh is having an absolute panic attack. We have Ray.

[Andrew]

Not a real panic attack.

[Lily]

She did fantastic.

[Andrew]

So nervous.

[Josh]

On the verge. On the verge of, like. Yeah.

[Paige]

Was he running logistics at his own event as well? That's what.

[Andrew]

Not necessarily.

[Paige]

Did he have a point person?

[Lily]

Yeah, yeah, he had a great team. He. That guy is a man of agency, though. Like, that was a beautiful conference he did. The. The. He killed it location was amazing. The Seabird Hotel.

[Andrew]

Right by the Top Gun house.

[Paige]

Dude. Yes.

[Lily]

Right by the Oceanside Pier.

[Paige]

Think about the amount of content he puts out while being a published, like, author. The amount of stuff he actually, like, he does alive every day, Right? Pretty close to maybe.

[Andrew]

Yeah, pretty close to it.

[Lily]

He's a busy guy. And that's what I was kind of talking about. Matt is his manager, right?

[Andrew]

No. Oh, no.

[Lily]

I get that from.

[Andrew]

I don't know.

[Lily]

Oh, forget it then.

[Josh]

Yeah. I have no idea.

[Lily]

He just does a lot of things because it's not like he reached out to you guys to come and do the show. It's not like some, like, agent or did or whatever.

[Josh]

Oh, yeah.

[Lily]

He's just, like, really? He does.

[Andrew]

The man puts in work.

[Josh]

Yeah, he does. 40 years old. Yeah, 40 something. That's crazy. Something I've been doing for a long time.

[Lily]

You were sick as a dog, then you crushed it on stage. I mean, everybody was laughing so hard. I mean, hollering. At you dudes. You guys were so.

[Josh]

Yeah. Josh brought the house down several times. We came out to Please don't go. Yeah, babe, I love you.

[Andrew]

We did a confetti cannon, dude.

[Paige]

I saw. I saw the clips, dude. I got really excited when I saw the cannon. I thought we finally had a T shirt cannon. I thought that was happening.

[Josh]

It's literally a crime that we don't have one that we are existed at Sunday cool for almost 10 years and we don't have a T shirt cannon in the house.

[Paige]

That's true.

[Josh]

It's literally insane.

[Lily]

You made one, but it was a liability.

[Andrew]

It was a potato gun.

[Paige]

I stuffed a shirt in nice.

[Andrew]

And you cannot control how fast that shirt came out.

[Josh]

Yeah, that's legal. What you created was an illegal weapon.

[Paige]

You didn't.

[Andrew]

Is it 100% potato gun?

[Josh]

A homemade potato gun. What you created is 100% illegal.

[Andrew]

No.

[Paige]

Sean Ryan just dropped a clip, had that kid, the atf. Like, this kid got reported to the ATF because he. There's like some legal loophole where if you're using certain parts and it's legal, but if you do something else, it becomes not.

[Andrew]

But the atf, mine, Mine didn't have, like, the grill igniter with hairspray.

[Paige]

It was air pressure.

[Andrew]

Pressure.

[Josh]

Yeah.

[Andrew]

Another type of potato we don't want to flag.

[Paige]

Might be a good idea to not describe how to make something ATF illegal. It go boom.

[Andrew]

We'll say it on Patreon. I'll give you the plans on Patreon.

[Josh]

Yeah. Download a PDF and then we had.

[Lily]

We had a beautiful trip. And the Airbnb was amazing. Shout out, Jorge and stop right there.

[Andrew]

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[Lily]

Don't interrupt me again.

[Paige]

Wow.

[Andrew]

Please, Please, no.

[Josh]

Please what?

[Andrew]

Please, master.

[Lily]

It's Sunday night. We have a beautiful last meal in Oceanside. Go and watch the sunset. It is so cold. California's cold. Don't let anybody lie to you. And we wake up bright and early. We've been preparing all night to fly out. We're ready to go home. Kelsey is saying to me, it was about one day too long this trip. I've been ready to go home. I'm ready. I can't wait to get home. We wake up bright and early. Flights are canceled.

[Josh]

Yep, we're already packed. Breakfast is Already made.

[Andrew]

Gotta check out the air.

[Lily]

It's Ada's birthday.

[Paige]

Did you guys have to go to Seattle? Did I see that?

[Lily]

Yes.

[Josh]

So they rerouted us the next day to Seattle, San Diego to Seattle, Seattle to Orlando.

[Andrew]

Almost nine hours of flying.

[Lily]

The girls did amazingly well.

[Paige]

That means you can travel further than you thought then.

[Lily]

Well, yeah, no, that's what I said, too. I was like, we could totally go to Europe. Yeah. Or Hawaii, which would be awesome. Ada would love that. Ada really wants to go to China, though. That's like 24 hours.

[Josh]

Let's just go to Hawaii and tell her it's China.

[Lily]

Okay, cool.

[Josh]

She's not gonna know.

[Lily]

I mean, she probably wouldn't know and. But we have this bonus day. That is so beautiful. And we go to the Rabbit Cafe. We go to Balboa park, which is amazing. And we stay in a hotel on the harbor and essentially accomplish everything we aspired to on this trip.

[Josh]

Yeah, I mean, I don't think there was anything besides meeting Gavin Newsom. There was nothing that we could.

[Andrew]

We didn't surf. We didn't have time.

[Josh]

That was the thing.

[Lily]

Yeah.

[Paige]

And the water was cold.

[Andrew]

Freezing.

[Lily]

There was cold.

[Paige]

That's the first. Where I was in Northern California, like, near San Francisco. Pleasure Point, when I surf. But that's the first place I've ever touched water. And just getting in my teeth got, like, ice cream cold from my face with my mouth closed. Being in the water, I was like, what is this? I had a 3:2 wetsuit with a vest on underneath. And still was, like, with the sun out. Still convulsing. That is the most brutal cold I've ever felt.

[Andrew]

Shout out. Shout out to Skyler, though, because he was going to bring us surfing and just didn't have time.

[Paige]

He travels to Florida for work occasionally. He was in the panhandle. We might have to go take him surfing out here. Trip.

[Josh]

Shout out to the stranger that touched our bodies on the beach. All three of us.

[Andrew]

Oh, yes.

[Lily]

Martin.

[Josh]

Mr. Martin.

[Paige]

Did you say he hurt me?

[Lily]

Yeah.

[Andrew]

It's all in the vlog.

[Josh]

It's gonna be in the vlog. Yeah, it's gonna drop soon.

[Lily]

He hurt me and he healed me.

[Paige]

Oh, okay.

[Andrew]

Speaking of hurting and healing, you wait.

[Lily]

And then we're. We're flying on that first Ryan. Jane threw up on me on the plane. On the first plane. And then Jane poured my whole coffee all over my body. And so in the same clothes. I had puke in old coffee. And that's what I smelled like for

[Andrew]

Jane spilled the coffee on Her. But this is how it went down, okay? Our. Our. Our family, mainly this one and Jane, are notorious for spilling things. They're. They're very weak hands.

[Paige]

My girls.

[Josh]

No. No defense.

[Lily]

It's true.

[Andrew]

Lily had her tray right next to Jane, who was sitting right next to her. Lily had a full cup of coffee. Takes the lid off the coffee and why would you do it right on the edge of the tray? And I just kept on looking at it, I'm like, I've cracked.

[Paige]

I was about to say, what Would it happen if you said something?

[Josh]

What was the point?

[Andrew]

You would have gotten mad at me.

[Josh]

What was the point of taking it

[Lily]

off, cooling it off? It was hot, hot, hot coffee.

[Josh]

Okay. Okay.

[Lily]

Anyways, I don't like to drink through plastic.

[Josh]

Do you know, you. Straw. Interesting.

[Andrew]

Coffee spilled. You want a song?

[Lily]

Yeah.

[Josh]

That's the most insane thing.

[Andrew]

All right.

[Josh]

I had a good trip. Me, too.

[Lily]

Me, too. So much fun.

[Andrew]

What are you thinking? What kind of. What kind of genre you want?

[Lily]

I think echoey cave music.

[Paige]

I'm gonna play something telepathically.

[Andrew]

All right.

[Paige]

You ready?

[Andrew]

Yeah, just kind of.

[Josh]

Let's try it.

[Andrew]

Put these on.

[Josh]

If we can come up with something over here, too.

[Andrew]

Yeah. I ran Iran I ran oh, I ran

[Josh]

I ran from the cops I ran from the jail I ran from my family who could not pay my bail I ran from my future I ran from my past I ran from Vin Diesel who runs furious and fast

[Andrew]

I ran I run, I run, I run I ran from my problems I ran for the hills I ran for the joy I ran for the thrills I ran with the bulls I ran so far away I ran to friends and back I ran to disobey I ran, I run I run I run

[Josh]

I run let's break it down real fast.

[Andrew]

I run. I run. High run

[Josh]

overseas to sea what I could find I ran to every country every land and shoreline I ran to a place that I could not be Flee I force I ran to the

[Paige]

home of the World War three I ran,

[Andrew]

I ran

[Josh]

I ran

[Andrew]

I ran,

[Josh]

I ran.

[Lily]

Wow. That was so good. I screwed it up, Andy.

[Andrew]

I did, too.

[Lily]

You guys did great. Enough of that.

[Josh]

Screwed it up.

[Lily]

You guys did great.

[Andrew]

Wait till you hear the. Wait till you hear the Suno version. The AI version.

[Josh]

Oh, it's so good. I mean, we could play it. We'll play it on Patreon.

[Andrew]

Yeah. Or play it in between segments.

[Josh]

Oh, yeah, that'd be good.

[Andrew]

You guys will get it.

[Josh]

You guys get it.

[Paige]

Okay.

[Andrew]

We have fun.

[Josh]

Yeah. I would. Would Say what we do is. I guess it would be probably classified in the category of fun.

[Andrew]

Yeah, I think it would be fun.

[Josh]

Could be.

[Andrew]

Could be. But it won't be.

[Josh]

Why?

[Andrew]

Because we have a question.

[Josh]

Dang it.

[Andrew]

We talk a lot about the mysteries, the secrets, the good and the bad, the ups and the downs, the side to sides.

[Josh]

Yeah.

[Andrew]

The whoopsie daisies, the flabbergasts.

[Josh]

The bamboozled.

[Andrew]

The Bamboozled. Yeah.

[Paige]

The hoodwinked.

[Andrew]

Okay, that's enough. We don't need any more references. Examples. I'll just get on with it. Today's question, sent in by a viewer. Lily. Freemasons. Do you support them?

[Lily]

No.

[Andrew]

What?

[Lily]

I do not.

[Andrew]

Hold on.

[Paige]

Hold on.

[Andrew]

My ears. Did you say no?

[Lily]

I said no with the question as you presented it. I say no.

[Andrew]

Yeah. The way I present.

[Paige]

What do you.

[Josh]

Could not be more clear. Could not be more clear.

[Andrew]

All the Masons that are imprisoned.

[Josh]

Falsely imprisoned.

[Andrew]

Falsely imprisoned Masons. In fact, there's maybe some that are being held in dangerous jails in maybe Russia.

[Josh]

Absolutely.

[Lily]

Masons is in, like, the. The trade or.

[Josh]

Oh, yeah, play dumb now. Play. I don't know what you're talking about. Mason. Men named Mason that have been falsely imprisoned around this world.

[Andrew]

I don't know why you're laughing. I don't know why you're laughing.

[Paige]

What was the question?

[Andrew]

Freemasons. Do you support them? Do you support freeing Mason? And she said no. She said, lock them up. Keep them enslaved.

[Josh]

Sickening.

[Andrew]

She obviously doesn't even care.

[Josh]

There's a big movement around the world that's saying people are outside picketing, yelling, protesting. Thousands of people out there. Free Masons.

[Andrew]

Free Masons.

[Lily]

No one's saying that.

[Andrew]

What?

[Paige]

Mason.

[Josh]

Okay, so they don't exist.

[Andrew]

You're obviously just. You're. You don't care about anything, anyone. You just care about yourself and your stupid coffee.

[Paige]

And make sure it's cooled off.

[Lily]

Don't say stupid. That's a bad word.

[Paige]

Yeah, you're right.

[Andrew]

Sorry. Actually. No. No, I'm not sorry.

[Lily]

Be sorry.

[Josh]

Don't apologize. No, don't apologize.

[Andrew]

I'm not. I take that back.

[Lily]

You said a bad word.

[Andrew]

You said bad things. Shame on you. Yeah, repent.

[Lily]

I'm leaving.

[Josh]

What do you have to say for yourself?

[Andrew]

Go. Get out of here. Get out.

[Josh]

I'm sick of it.

[Andrew]

No, you get out. Stop it.

[Paige]

Joshua.

[Lily]

Stop it.

[Paige]

Get your things and get out. Get your stupid coffee.

[Andrew]

Get out.

[Josh]

No.

[Andrew]

No. Guys, welcome to the show. Our butterflies. Did I say ninja?

[Paige]

I meant butterfly.

[Andrew]

The butterfly is no doubt one of

[Paige]

God's most beautiful has to empty your mind.

[Josh]

You were martial arts.

[Andrew]

All right, quick question. Remember the war you had before Ridge?

[Josh]

Oh yeah, my giant leather brick. He was always falling ap. And every time I sat down, I felt like I was sitting on a buck.

[Andrew]

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[Josh]

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[Paige]

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[Josh]

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[Andrew]

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[Andrew]

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[Josh]

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[Andrew]

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[Josh]

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[Andrew]

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[Josh]

Yeah. Protects you from digital pickpockets, which is something a lot of people don't think about.

[Paige]

People clearly love these things. Really committed to it.

[Josh]

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[Paige]

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[Andrew]

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[Josh]

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[Andrew]

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[Josh]

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[Andrew]

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[Josh]

Another blooming onion kangaroo. Just pants on my back.

[Andrew]

All right, quick question. Why is buying glasses always felt so complicated?

[Josh]

Seriously, you go and thinking you're just buying a pair of glasses, you know, then it turns into some rigmarole.

[Andrew]

Yeah, half the time the stars feel outdated and you can't even tell if they look good on your face.

[Josh]

That's why I ordered my glasses at Warby Parker. The whole experience was peasy. Peasy.

[Andrew]

Are those the glasses you're wearing on your face?

[Josh]

Oh, these Warby Parker frames. They sure are. The quality's great, they're comfortable and they actually look good.

[Andrew]

Did you try the virtual try on

[Josh]

you darn tootin I did. You just point your phone camera at your face and you see the frames right there on your face in real time. It helps you tell what fits your face before you buy.

[Andrew]

And the price is great too. Their prescription glasses start at $95, so you're getting quality frames without spending a fortune.

[Josh]

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[Andrew]

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[Josh]

And if you ever want to go in person, They've got over 300 retail stores all across the U.S. one of

[Andrew]

the coolest things they do is they buy a pair give a pair program.

[Josh]

Yep. For every pair sold, they distribute a pair to someone in need. They have already helped distribute over 20 million pairs of glasses.

[Andrew]

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[Josh]

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[Andrew]

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[Josh]

purchase, they're gonna ask you where you heard about them from. Please support our show and tell them we sent you. Thank you, R and B.

[Andrew]

This episode is sponsored by BetterHelp.

[Josh]

It sure is, Josh. And I bet you didn't know that March includes International Women's Day. You know that?

[Andrew]

I did know that.

[Josh]

You did. Then. What day is it? It's March 8th. You should have known that I knew it because it's a great moment to stop and recognize how much each women carry every day in work, relationships, families.

[Lily]

It's a lot.

[Andrew]

And I guess when you really think about it, a lot of the strongest people in our lives are women who show up for everyone else constantly and

[Josh]

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[Andrew]

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[Josh]

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[Josh]

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[Andrew]

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[Josh]

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[Josh]

That's better. H E L P.com ninjas no, I'm serious. Get out.

[Paige]

No, I'm not joking.

[Andrew]

This isn't a bit. You really stick with it. Get out.

[Josh]

Hey. Go on.

[Paige]

Go on.

[Andrew]

I hate you.

[Paige]

I don't love you no more.

[Andrew]

Come find somebody else.

[Josh]

Are you white fanging me right now?

[Paige]

California Change.

[Andrew]

Oh, yeah. Yeah.

[Paige]

We hanging in there. Good four hour stretches last night, so. That was dope.

[Lily]

That's nice.

[Paige]

Yeah. I didn't time them well, though, so I was like, oh, awesome. You sleep in four hours. I don't realize I needed to wake up in an hour and a half to come to work. So. Still sleepy?

[Andrew]

Zoe, we got a lot of crazy stuff to talk about today.

[Josh]

Yeah. Do we?

[Andrew]

Yeah. As you know, we film a week in advance because we're not like Ruslan. We're not that much of a go getter, so we have to really prep for stuff. It takes us a while. There's just three of us.

[Josh]

We're trying.

[Andrew]

We're trying. One day will be like the day

[Lily]

of there's just three of us.

[Josh]

Lil, do you want to edit?

[Lily]

Just three of us.

[Andrew]

Four of us.

[Josh]

No, we're trying like the. Like the important.

[Lily]

No, no, no. I got it.

[Andrew]

Me and you are one flesh. I guess you don't believe that either.

[Lily]

Josh went to go pick up these pictures I printed last night, and he's like, they're not ready. I said, try Lily Donna Frio. He said, oh, no.

[Andrew]

I said, ouch.

[Josh]

You're done with that, Lil.

[Andrew]

The Walgreens lady laughed.

[Lily]

I've had my Walgreens account since I was a teenager.

[Josh]

You can change the name.

[Andrew]

I said, look under Hooper. No, Lily. No.

[Josh]

My beloved.

[Andrew]

That's a bad sign called Try Donna Frio. Maybe the name that she used to go by. I know Flesh because we fell in love and we were happily married.

[Paige]

But I guess try that name.

[Josh]

Yeah.

[Andrew]

Bingo.

[Josh]

Hello, Donna Frio. Mistress name under there as well.

[Paige]

Hey, you might need to be checking credit unions for that name. She might have an account somewhere.

[Andrew]

I know.

[Josh]

Sad. Dude, I'm sorry that she treats you that way. I would never treat you that way.

[Lily]

Thanks, guys. Nice. Be nice.

[Josh]

Never treat you that way.

[Lily]

Be nice.

[Andrew]

You know who's being treated not so good? The people in Iran.

[Lily]

Oh, what's going on?

[Josh]

I haven't heard any updates.

[Andrew]

There's a lot of stuff. This is the craziest thing that stuck out to me and it's scary. There's this professor. Lily's talked about him multiple times. Yes, his name is Professor Jing. I'm assuming that's how you say his name.

[Paige]

Like the chili Chris.

[Andrew]

It's J. He's an Asian man. J, I, A, N, G. Would you say Jang?

[Lily]

Yeah, I would say Jang.

[Andrew]

Professor Jang. He talks. I mean, you should hear some of his lectures. They're riveting. Okay, he's like super into. He's. He can see all the connections. Conspiracy wise predictions. What's his background in being professor? Okay, I don't know. School, I'm not sure. But in 2024.

[Lily]

Kick that microphone in my mouth. Continue. Continue, please.

[Andrew]

In 2024, Professor Jiang in his class made three predictions. 2024, he said, one, Trump will be reelected.

[Josh]

Boom.

[Andrew]

Number two, we will go to war with Iran.

[Paige]

Boom.

[Andrew]

Number three, the US will lose the war with Iran.

[Josh]

I thought it was gonna be happily ever after. We live happily ever after.

[Lily]

Oh, I got goosebumps all over my body.

[Josh]

How would that happen? Aren't we so much bigger and stronger than Iran?

[Andrew]

We laid it out.

[Lily]

Well, they're partnered with China, aren't they?

[Andrew]

Not necessarily, but a lot of people are involved. Everyone's involved.

[Paige]

Basically.

[Josh]

Now this is world war.

[Andrew]

We're in World War three.

[Lily]

Oh, no.

[Andrew]

But he said Iran has been planning this attack from the United States for 20 years. And he says this, that little 12 day spat that we had a couple months ago, he said that was them. They're fully accepting of it. And they're like, okay, we're going to see what they do and we're going to plan out based on what they do to us in these 12 days.

[Josh]

So you're saying Iran has been planning. That's what you said.

[Andrew]

Iran has been planning this war with the United States and Israel for 20 years. This is what Professor Jake said, and he says their goal. He says this is also prediction. He said. He said they're going to have many attacks on the gcc, which is the Gulf Corporation Council, which is all those united Arab or the Arab countries surrounding Iran, says they're going to start attacking them and try to basically destroy the west economically. He says. He said their goal is to burst the economic bubble that is in the United States and that is primarily built off of artificial intelligence. And he laid it all out and you're like, that's terrifying. This is scary. And he said they're going to start doing attacks on infrastructure in the gcc, all the surrounding countries. One of them would be targeting desalination plants for these countries.

[Lily]

Oh, man. So, like, how they get fresh water?

[Andrew]

How they get fresh water? He said it would take one drone attack, and their drones cost $50,000. And he gave an example of a city in the Middle East. He says if this desalination plant is attacked by one drone, which to them costs $50,000, he said 10 million people would be out of drinking water in two weeks.

[Josh]

That's terrifying. No, 10 million.

[Andrew]

10 million people. And so his prediction is the US is going to lose this war. And that is scary.

[Josh]

That's the end, folks.

[Paige]

My question, though, they don't have any plan to, like, it's not a land seizure sort of thing. Like, they're not coming over here and owning anything.

[Andrew]

Well, here's another kicker. Talk about a psyop. Recently, this is again a week old, so I don't know what's going to happen within a week.

[Josh]

Yeah.

[Andrew]

But on the news, they've been saying that there's some leaked intel that Iran was planning a drone attack in California.

[Paige]

I saw that while we were there. Yeah.

[Andrew]

Yeah.

[Lily]

Well, nothing happened, right?

[Andrew]

No, but I'm saying, like, within. We don't know when it's going to happen. Oh, but it's weird, though, that the news is like, all of a sudden like, there's going to be a drone attack. Yeah, California. And California. And California. And it's like, it's kind of like they're prepping.

[Paige]

Yep. There was a thing in Texas, too. I heard, like, an airport got shut down for a while.

[Andrew]

And if we know anything about history, is that when the, when the public, when the United States citizens are not behind a war, when an attack happens in the United States or to citizens of the America, they rally. They rally and they're like, yes, let's go get them.

[Josh]

100.

[Andrew]

9, 11, you know, 100. Pearl harbor, you know, so it's just weird.

[Josh]

It's very.

[Andrew]

Not saying who's doing what, but I'm just saying it's weird that the news is talking about it and that the approval rating or the support for this war in Iran is like 30.

[Josh]

I think that's what I was about to ask.

[Paige]

Yeah.

[Andrew]

Yeah.

[Josh]

Oh, man. So buckle up, folks.

[Andrew]

Buckle up.

[Paige]

So what do you think? You think just like, the US Dollar tanks to zero and we're, what, we're living in our houses and the banks are collapsing? Like, how does that work here?

[Andrew]

It's just like a ginormous recession, kind of like how we had in. Was it 2008 or something? Was it 2008 or 2004?

[Josh]

2008.

[Lily]

But then after wars, doesn't the economy skyrocket?

[Andrew]

Well, it will be potentially a shift in economic control. Right. Because China.

[Lily]

Yeah.

[Andrew]

And Russia have been trying to switch the control out of the United States,

[Lily]

make the universal dollar, like the yen or whatever.

[Andrew]

Yeah.

[Paige]

Or even. Even if it's not like, we don't need to be fixed, like, fixated on a type of coin, but even if it's like a system through which currency is integrated. Right. So, like, they could have the end. We could still have something called the dollar, but if it all works through, like a global account system, it would technically be a one world currency, just called something.

[Andrew]

Conspiracy theory would be that this is all very intentional, very on purpose to create that one world government, that one world new or new world order, if you will.

[Paige]

Yeah. Which has been the goal for all time.

[Andrew]

For all time. But now it's like, now there's a reason they're like. It's almost like there are means by

[Paige]

which to do it.

[Josh]

Yeah, but they'd be doing it to protect us.

[Lily]

So don't we see that in Revelation? Right? Is there. Is there foreshadowing of all this in Revelation?

[Andrew]

Maybe. Who knows? Who knows?

[Josh]

No one could ever know.

[Paige]

My whole thing is like, we still think of it as us versus these other places, but I don't think we're even. Like, I think our nation has people with allegiances everywhere who are pulling the strings. And so it's like, it's not actually us versus anyone. So we, the people, are kind of at the mercy of whichever system pays the people pulling the strings the most.

[Andrew]

Doesn't this make you so mad, though, that, like, I know the Iranian regime, the tyranny or whatever, not good people, did not treat people well?

[Paige]

Sure.

[Andrew]

But Trump did say he's going to end these forever wars?

[Lily]

No wars.

[Andrew]

No wars.

[Josh]

No new wars.

[Andrew]

No new wars.

[Paige]

Which. How dumb are we to believe it?

[Andrew]

Politics, man.

[Josh]

I mean, I don't. Yeah, that was never a chance in the world that we're. I don't think. I mean, you would have to be really sold out to believe anything a politician says.

[Paige]

Yeah.

[Josh]

There's not one single promise that I've ever believed because it's like, obviously it's fun to talk about, like, hey, we're getting rid of federal taxes, but it's like, that's not happening.

[Andrew]

No.

[Josh]

We would have to be living in a crazy world for that to happen.

[Paige]

I mean, the Bible says wars and rumors of wars, and then, you know, American Christendom is like, but he's gonna end them all. I'm like, the book you live by says it's not gonna happen.

[Lily]

Well said, Andrew.

[Andrew]

So it's like, yeah, true that.

[Paige]

So there's like two reactions. We get angry or we go like, hey, it's playing out exactly how our God said it would. So, like, I'm just gonna be chill and know that give to Caesar what's his, and I'm going hunting.

[Andrew]

Amen.

[Josh]

I say that we're getting drafted, folks,

[Paige]

because they are talking freaks.

[Andrew]

Me, they're talking about the draft now.

[Lily]

I don't think that's real.

[Andrew]

It is.

[Josh]

You don't think that they thought that during World War II? I mean, Vietnam or whatever.

[Lily]

I had friends in the military for a long time, and they said, a draft will never happen. There are too many of us sitting idle.

[Andrew]

They're talking about it right now. Pete Hegseth and Trump are saying the possibility of a draft is potential. Or it's like, it's a likely thing.

[Lily]

Are you too old?

[Andrew]

Yes. It's 18 to 25. They said 20 year olds would be first to go, then 21, then 22, up to 25, then to 19, and then the last would be 18 year

[Paige]

olds, which is awful. Yeah, I'm gonna.

[Josh]

Just wanted to be picked for something.

[Andrew]

Sorry, bud.

[Lily]

Do you have to be a boy?

[Andrew]

Yeah, I think it's boys.

[Josh]

His boys are strong.

[Paige]

Which brings up a whole other ton of issues. Look at, look at.

[Josh]

Look how big my muscles are.

[Andrew]

Also, something historic that happened was a US Submarine torpedoed an Iranian warship for the first time. Sub torpedoing a warship for the first time since World War II.

[Josh]

Golly, that footage was gnarly. Crazy.

[Paige]

Crazy.

[Josh]

Things are cranking up.

[Paige]

I wonder if Paige's cousins were on that. Nuclear engineers for the Navy. They, like, run subs.

[Josh]

It's crazy, man. Crazy stuff I was learning about. Someone was talking about drafting, and there was a lot of this word fragging. Have you heard of this?

[Lily]

No.

[Josh]

And it's like a term usually, almostly, in games now, but back in the Vietnam War, when people were just over there, American soldiers were just, like, tired of, like, this is useless. What are we doing here? They'd start just going crazy, and they would start throwing grenades into the tents of their leaders underneath the beds and stuff. That's literally what they were doing. And it's like, that was called fragging.

[Lily]

Losing their minds.

[Josh]

Losing their minds. And like, literally just like, oh, yeah, there's. There's a grenade.

[Lily]

Which war?

[Josh]

Vietnam.

[Lily]

Yeah.

[Josh]

Wild.

[Paige]

That was a bad war. Think about the last time we had a draft, though, in that era when there was this massive cultural shift to where it was like, we don't believe in what you're doing. And so it was like, cool. You don't. You're drafted.

[Josh]

And it went on for years.

[Paige]

So you talk, but you talk about, like, a 30 approval rate. That is kind of the formula when they would have to implement a draft.

[Josh]

And when you say, like, there's no way there's a draft, I'm like, I'm sure that's what they thought back then, too. It's like, you're just gonna force us to go. Like, that's crazy. It's like. I mean, that was a long time

[Lily]

ago, but I'm just. I was talking about, like, quantity of military soldiers as a whole. There's just so many of them now.

[Andrew]

Not as it's declined drastically.

[Paige]

Dwindled.

[Lily]

You mean because of budget cuts or

[Andrew]

does that just no interest?

[Lily]

Yeah.

[Andrew]

Yeah.

[Paige]

I think this would have been before you, but I remember going to the movie theaters, and there was, like, a trailer. They'd play with, like, Citizen Soldier or, like, some, like, radio core rock or whatever, and it was like, people would get gung ho. Like, people talked about wanting to enlist in my hometown, like, to go fight terrorism. People were fired up to do it.

[Lily]

No, that happened in my generation, too, I think. Yeah. At least at our school. Maybe our school had, like, a.

[Andrew]

When Transformers came out.

[Josh]

Yeah.

[Andrew]

We had a huge influx.

[Josh]

I want a Bumblebee.

[Paige]

They just need another Top Gun movie, I guess.

[Lily]

Yeah.

[Andrew]

Yeah. Well, they tried to do that.

[Paige]

We had a good war movie in a while.

[Josh]

No, we really haven't. We will for Odyssey. Oh, get us, like, really cool uniforms like that. Maybe I'll sign up.

[Andrew]

Give me a spear.

[Josh]

Yeah.

[Lily]

Well, this is scary, Josh. That's bad news.

[Andrew]

I Know it's bad news.

[Paige]

At least you guys all have daughters.

[Lily]

Yeah, true that.

[Josh]

I'm raising warriors, though.

[Lily]

I'm hoping that by the time we won't be, huh, fighting, hopefully we'll be in an economic boom.

[Josh]

Speaking of grenades and booms, I also learned that in World War II when they were fighting Germany, American soldiers would, when they would run out of grenades and like, has a last ditch effort because German, you know, you're. You learn if there's a big circular object thrown into your, you know, what is that called? The bunker? Bunker. I was gonna say bunker, but it didn't sound right. Yeah, trench or something. But you know, you would just instinctively just dive down and. And so they would bring bags of potatoes.

[Lily]

Genius.

[Josh]

And they would just throw potatoes.

[Andrew]

Wow.

[Josh]

And that would just like give them a few seconds or break it up a bit. And it's like, that's. And that's hilarious.

[Andrew]

Did you know the grenade was also. The United States grenade was designed to be the exact same size as a baseball.

[Josh]

Yeah. Because they're getting young kids who love playing baseball.

[Lily]

Oh my gosh.

[Josh]

Now what do we. Now what's the equivalent for now if we have a draft and we have 18 to 25 year olds, what is it like a Nintendo Switch, all vape shaped grenades?

[Lily]

Oh my gosh.

[Josh]

That'd be hilarious.

[Andrew]

I mean, I mean, to that point

[Paige]

though, that's what like, I heard there's a correlation between, like, for a while they were thinking about getting E or esports fired up in schools because they were trying to like, look for drone pilots and like kids who could like, do that stuff. But that was a way of developing that skill.

[Josh]

It's gonna be scary, dude.

[Paige]

Yeah.

[Josh]

I mean, these were. We got some scary kids coming up.

[Lily]

We're an extremely mentally ill population and we're going out and doing all this crazy stuff.

[Josh]

I think that's what. That's probably by design, I think, a little bit. Probably. I mean, you, that's. You don't want people with, you know, good heads on their shoulders that are thinking clearly. Like, I don't think I really want to fight for a war that I don't believe in, that we're on the bad guys on.

[Andrew]

You know, you see this really crazy.

[Lily]

I don't know if we're the bad guys.

[Josh]

No, we should talk about that. I mean, there are certain things that we do that are bad. I'm not saying we're the bad guys, but I'm saying there are things that we do that are bad. And it's like, that'd be crazy to not mention.

[Andrew]

Well, just some countries. We are the bad guys.

[Lily]

Yeah.

[Josh]

Like that Tim Dillon put out a thing on his post and someone said, like, you know, we shot down that ship and the survivors, you know, everyone was just left out there. And just. It's absolutely brutal. And it's. He's like. And then Tim Till's like, yeah, we're the bad guys. And so it's just. I mean, I love America, golly. I love this country. But it's foolish to think that we're not doing terrible, terrible things behind the scene that are getting publicity. Publicity or anything. And so it's just scary.

[Lily]

We're both the bad guys.

[Josh]

We're just doing bad things. We're just doing bad things.

[Andrew]

Bad. Killing people is evil.

[Josh]

No one's beyond redemption, but golly, it's like. It's tough, man.

[Paige]

Dude, speaking of killing people, I've watched a show that you guys haven't watched and it's freaking amazing.

[Lily]

Try me.

[Paige]

Young Sherlock.

[Andrew]

Oh, yeah, that came out, huh?

[Paige]

Dude, I'm not going to say anything. We'll talk about it later. But you guys need to watch it because it is freaking. I. I am a. You know, I hate most of the things that I watch and I'm frustrated. This thing continued to like, blow my mind.

[Josh]

That's awesome. Have you seen the Other Sherlock with Benedict Cumberbatch?

[Paige]

Also amazing.

[Josh]

That one's incredible. Yeah, because that was like they'd film that like every four years or something.

[Paige]

It felt like they needed to keep going, though. That was my point. And then it just, you know.

[Josh]

Yeah, he got too big.

[Paige]

Had to be a dragon somewhere.

[Josh]

Yeah.

[Lily]

Yeah.

[Andrew]

You see this?

[Paige]

Really?

[Andrew]

Graph that I saw?

[Josh]

Please.

[Andrew]

It's one of my favorite Instagram accounts. It's a history. Cool kids. And they did this graph. I'll send it to you guys. It said, working on a theory that US intervention in the Middle east is correlated to 11 year solar cycle of sunspot activity.

[Lily]

Wow.

[Andrew]

And so they did a graph to where the solar. What do you call it? Solar cycle. The sunspot is exactly when we had interventions in the Middle East.

[Lily]

That is so fun.

[Andrew]

So I looked into it more.

[Josh]

What are the odds of that?

[Andrew]

Well, let me just read the caption from what they said. There is research suggesting that periods of intense solar activity can correlate with societal stress and unrest. The 1956 Hungarian Revolution, the Cuban Revolution in 1959, the Solidarity movement in Poland in the 18 or 1980s, and the collapse of the USSR all happened to Coincide with peaks in solar activity. The proposed mechanism is indirect. Higher solar radiation can affect Earth's climate, altering agricultural yields or energy availability, which in turn can heighten societal tensions and make populations more susceptible to political instability. And it goes on.

[Paige]

But like, that's fair because if you lose ac, I'm just cranky.

[Andrew]

Yeah. But I looked into it and it's like there's a terminology that people. Is this apophine. Apophinia. Geez, ops. Basically, how would you say this? A P O P H E N I A apophany.

[Josh]

I don't know.

[Paige]

Apophania. I mean, I'd roll with that.

[Andrew]

Apophinia, which is a term that humans seeing patterns in random data. So it just so happens to correlate. But there is some truth to the fact that solar activity affects Earth's magnetic field. And there's legitimate research showing geomagne. Geomagnetic disturbances can affect circadian rhythms, mood changes, and heart rate variability.

[Josh]

Whoa.

[Andrew]

So that's a real thing, but they're saying that's very minuscule. But I'm saying, how do we know that?

[Josh]

Sure.

[Lily]

That's interesting. Yeah, people get like grouchier when the sun is.

[Paige]

No, that's a. That's a real thing. You guys remember spy optics? The sunglasses? Like, they were a huge surf brand. Like 10, 15 years ago. They had a lens a Japanese scientist developed. They called it the happy lens. He had some other name for it, but basically what he figured out is like, sunlight affects how you feel. And so people were going outside with like these like gray lenses and it's like the best day, but everything looks blue.

[Andrew]

Oh, I remember that.

[Paige]

And he was like, it actually, like his science wasn't like, you know, it wasn't the. The marketing pitch that spy came came up with. But they took that concept and they figured out how to develop a lens that allowed that light ray through. And the whole idea was like, if you're missing that light ray, you'll get depressed. So they're like, we're gonna let you get that light. And then.

[Andrew]

Very interesting.

[Paige]

The company went under.

[Josh]

Now do you think. Do you think the government or military would see that and choose to attack or crank things up at certain points in hopes that now that it's happening, it's going to help. It's like it's going to make it even worse.

[Andrew]

What? Seems like it kind of goes. Sounds like the conspiracy theory with the hertz thing, right? So like the Nazis developed that 444Hz or 432. Whichever one it was, that would cause distress or, like, angst, and that would make war happen easier. So it's almost like they know the science. If you're going off this conspiracy theory or this theory, it's like they. They know when people are going to be most agitated.

[Josh]

Yeah. And so, like, in, like, for my example, it would be like, with the Hertz thing, it would be change. Make that change so that they get more irritated, whatever. And then you allow them to hear more music. You make music more accessible. So it's like, okay, so we're going to cause war during this time in hopes that this even cranks up even more. So they're already agitated, but now this is even making it worse.

[Paige]

Yeah.

[Josh]

Yeah. That's strange.

[Andrew]

It's weird.

[Josh]

It's very strange. I mean, that we see that all the time with billionaires. They talk about looking at the stars and the patterns are something that for ancient civilizations, for hundreds and thousands of years have been important. It's like, why would it be no different to us?

[Andrew]

Yeah.

[Josh]

You know, we kind of laugh at it with horoscopes and stuff, but it's like, no, there's something. It's gotta be something.

[Andrew]

I'm spooky with it.

[Lily]

What you guys are talking about is making me think of that phrase that was repeating in my dreams of the. Tame your body and love your soul. Like literally tame the flesh so that you can't be influenced by this stuff.

[Josh]

Every thought captive.

[Lily]

Yes.

[Josh]

Yeah.

[Lily]

Take control of your body and your mind and love your soul.

[Andrew]

Definitely. I.

[Josh]

My body's my buddy.

[Andrew]

My body, My body is my buddy.

[Josh]

It's a good song.

[Andrew]

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[Josh]

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[Lily]

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[Josh]

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[Andrew]

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[Josh]

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[Paige]

Bye.

[Josh]

Oh, my goodness.

[Andrew]

Do you see how Jake Paul spoke at the Trump rally thing?

[Paige]

I saw them doing the dance thing together.

[Andrew]

Yeah, well, Jake Paul was speaking on some rally and Trump came up. He's like, I think he's gonna run for office one day. And he's got my full support.

[Josh]

Dude.

[Andrew]

Like, can you imagine Jake Paul's president.

[Josh]

Jake Paul for prez.

[Paige]

What the heck is. What's her name, Kirk. Doing with her position?

[Andrew]

Yeah, the Air Force Academy Academy.

[Paige]

But what I forget her position though.

[Andrew]

It is. I wrote it down.

[Paige]

Yeah, he. He appointed her. Let's remember, this is a dude's wife who became what she is because her husband died. And she's now on the board.

[Andrew]

She was placed as the board of visitors for the Air Force Academy Board of Visitors. And that means this is from this guy, James Lee. He was just on Theo Vaughan. That guy does a lot of conspiracy stuff. He has some really good stuff, but he was talking about this. So Erica Kirk was just appointed Air Force Air Force Academy.

[Josh]

Continue, Josh.

[Andrew]

The Air Force Academy Board of Visitors is a group established to review and make recommendations regarding the morale, curriculum and other important aspects of the US Air Force Academy. It consists of members appointed by the president and congressional leaders, and it plays a key role in overseeing the academy's operations and ensuring it meets its educational and military training goals.

[Lily]

What is her qualification exactly?

[Andrew]

This is where it gets fishy.

[Josh]

She's always been passionate about the Air Force Academy.

[Andrew]

This is where it gets fishy. Not saying that that wasn't already fishy. Put that away on her LinkedIn. Her education says Liberty. Liberty University Doctor of Education 2019 and 2022 and Juris Master degree in American U. S. Law. And people have dug into the records of Liber Liberty University. Cannot find any of that stuff with her.

[Paige]

And also, what is a master's degree in law? Like, I thought law to be worth anything you needed to pass a bar.

[Andrew]

Yeah, I don't know.

[Paige]

Liberty is very good.

[Andrew]

Liberty, Liberty, Liberty.

[Paige]

Liberty at getting people degrees to get jobs. I'll just say it kindly. That way they have a extensive catalog of things you can do online.

[Andrew]

But when people have shown it. And I haven't done it myself, but they go to Liberty University and they go into the year of which she said she graduated and they. They data. They do like 2022. Nothing. Nothing. Erica Kirk or Erica, whatever last maiden name was. They go year after year after year. Nothing. Names aren't even popping up. It's just weird. But then apparently there's no proof that this is actually from them. But over the weekend, a website popped up called. Was it vance? Vance Kirk 2028.

[Lily]

Oh, no, no.

[Josh]

Yeah, that would be a good credential to work. Be working for the Air Force Academy as an executive to have on your ballot.

[Paige]

Always known that these people are handed positions and they're just yes men or apparently yes women until they end up in power. But like we're watching it happen now.

[Lily]

It's so weird. It's spooky.

[Paige]

So I guess it's not any different than it's always been.

[Josh]

No, I don't think so. It's just now we have more media available than ever before. That's strange, man.

[Andrew]

Somebody could just made that website.

[Paige]

Sure, but I did it.

[Josh]

Hey, let's get the Instagram handle.

[Lily]

Yeah. Just launching soon.

[Andrew]

Bance Kirk.

[Lily]

Launching soon. And then drop us a line. Who's us?

[Josh]

Call them right now.

[Andrew]

Illuminati.

[Paige]

Someone got the account already.

[Josh]

Speaking of things being fishy, see that? We got two or fish.

[Paige]

Yeah.

[Andrew]

Washed up.

[Josh]

Washed up on shore and Cabo.

[Paige]

Yeah.

[Lily]

Very strange women that put it back in the water.

[Andrew]

I saw that the day before we were flying out. I'm like, oh, my God. I'm like, of course there's gonna be a tsunami.

[Josh]

Of course there's gonna be a doomsday fish.

[Andrew]

Oh, my gosh. But that happened on February 25th.

[Paige]

I made sure to look.

[Andrew]

I'm like, okay, that seems long enough.

[Lily]

I don't know. Are you sure?

[Josh]

But it makes sense with the sun and everything. You were saying stuff. It's strange. There's weird vibes happening, seismic activity.

[Lily]

Oh, boy.

[Andrew]

Weird stuff. Weird stuff.

[Josh]

It's truly incredible. It's strange times. It's best of times.

[Andrew]

Or fish.

[Josh]

Or fish. Maybe fish or chips.

[Andrew]

But did you know that it's actually question corner.

[Josh]

Question corner. Question corner with Lily with a question.

[Lily]

Okay. Would you rather.

[Josh]

Yes.

[Lily]

Be in a permanent relationship? Your partner is someone that is obsessed with trampolines. Like anytime you go on a vacation or go to a new town, you have to visit the trampoline park. They research trampoline materials. They research socks. The best socks. Trampolines. They have A annual pass to your local trampoline park. And whenever you ask them, what would you like to do today? It's always trampoline park.

[Josh]

I'm assuming we have trampolines in and outside the house.

[Lily]

100. Okay.

[Josh]

The bed's a trampoline.

[Lily]

I don't know. I don't think so.

[Paige]

Waterbed.

[Lily]

That's just a special interest. It's not like.

[Josh]

Doesn't seem like a special interest. Seems like a little more intense than that. But yeah, go ahead.

[Lily]

Or be with someone that every time you tell them something, they say, what

[Andrew]

is that a dig at me?

[Josh]

No, no, that is dig at Kelsey. I think she's half deaf. You can't make fun of her.

[Lily]

I'm not making fun of Kelsey. I thought it was a funny question. Every time you say something and they say, what? And you have to repeat yourself if

[Andrew]

you knew that's what I do to her because. What did you say? She mumbles. And I'm not the only one that said that. Her father is like, speak up. You mumble, you mumbler.

[Lily]

Do you realize you're mumbling right now? That's what dad always says.

[Andrew]

For sure. The trampoline thing, you would love that. I think that's so funny. Imagine how much shape you like. You'd be in such great shape because

[Josh]

you'd just be like, Bounce would be incredible.

[Andrew]

Yeah, I think it's pretty funny.

[Paige]

It's so funny, that concept of, like,

[Andrew]

we have to go to trampoline park.

[Paige]

Yeah. It just become the thing that you. Yeah. It's like, I know this is coming, but I'm not doing it.

[Josh]

No, I think I would do the. What? I get paranoid at trampoline parks.

[Lily]

Why?

[Josh]

It just sends, like, it through my body. I just know some bad's gonna happen. Someone's gonna break a bone.

[Lily]

Yeah, it is scary.

[Josh]

It happens all the time.

[Lily]

It does. Trampolines are dangerous.

[Josh]

I don't like them at all.

[Andrew]

I fear airports. You fear trampoline parks?

[Lily]

Are you making that up right now, or you really feel that?

[Andrew]

No, he's always.

[Josh]

Oh, yeah. Like, constantly. I hate when the girls go to

[Andrew]

Sky Zone or something.

[Lily]

You went with us.

[Josh]

I know. Against my will because I like hanging out with my friends. Apparently you don't, but.

[Lily]

Oh, my gosh.

[Josh]

But that's. I sacrifice a lot to hang out with my friends.

[Lily]

I would say that I would rather have a partner that says what? Because that's my current reality.

[Andrew]

I knew it was gonna go that way.

[Paige]

It was a big.

[Andrew]

Because you mumble.

[Paige]

Do you Guys, in. In the house that I live in, which was years previously, was that a constant problem? Not related to the mumbling, but I swear, every one of those dividing walls wraps the sound.

[Lily]

Is that homemade of plaster? Wait, I don't know.

[Paige]

The delivery.

[Lily]

What?

[Paige]

The way you delivered that.

[Josh]

What are you laughing about?

[Paige]

I'm sorry.

[Lily]

Is that whole made of plaster?

[Josh]

She sounded like the little elephant on Tarzan since water. Sanitary.

[Paige]

I looked around. I thought you were doing a thing.

[Lily]

I'm sorry.

[Paige]

That was good. It's a. It's a stick home. That's. What are they. What are all the Florida homes where they. The outside that they do them with?

[Lily]

I don't know, Stucco.

[Paige]

The out. The outside is stucco, but the interior, it's like a type of concrete. So it's like, not popcorn, everything. That's why it cracks like plaster. Like plaster, but it's not. It's been the hardest thing trying to find contractors to redo the ceiling because. Trying to explain to them, that's basically the thing. They're like, oh, like plaster. Like, no. Concrete. Nope. I don't know what it is. And apparently it's something they used to use 100 years ago.

[Andrew]

Human bones.

[Paige]

Could be the remains. Could be.

[Andrew]

Yeah. Well, when Lily tries to talk to me, she talks. And she, like, literally leaves the room as she's talking. You know what?

[Lily]

It was efficient, dude.

[Paige]

Now that we.

[Andrew]

So imagine talking to her when she mumbles with a wall in between you. Yeah, of course I'm gonna say, what now?

[Paige]

We got white noise going in the house for the baby, and I'm just like. I'm like, paige, if you don't come and talk to me directly from, like, one foot away, I do not know what you're saying.

[Lily]

It's hilarious to see it played out in My Children because I know that I have that behavior where I'll talk to you and my back is facing you and I'm walking another direction, and then Ada will do the same thing to me, and I'm like, come in the same room. What are you talking to me?

[Andrew]

Yeah.

[Josh]

Yeah. What comes around goes around.

[Lily]

It's a big learning lesson.

[Andrew]

Yeah, you got a lot of growing up to do.

[Lily]

Yay, Joshua, say something nice.

[Andrew]

I love you. You're beautiful.

[Paige]

Is that house made of plaster?

[Josh]

Oh, my gosh, we're awful. What is the construction material of your house? Sounds like blippi. Now, is this house made of plaster?

[Paige]

I don't know.

[Lily]

Hey, boo.

[Paige]

Hey, Andrew.

[Andrew]

Who's with that beat?

[Josh]

Oh, shoot.

[Paige]

Did I delete the wrong one?

[Lily]

Oh, no.

[Andrew]

We'll just do the Iran song again.

[Josh]

Beatbox.

[Paige]

And he's gonna show up.

[Josh]

Okay. Oh, my gosh.

[Paige]

Feel like that was. That was quite aggressive to keep people in that space for a long time. The audio doesn't matter. I know you're digging for it. I figured I'd let you struggle for a little before watching this. This is a quick clip. When it shows up, play it. This is all I got, and it was enough to make me unhappy.

[Andrew]

Three, two, one, go.

[Lily]

Oh, come on.

[Josh]

Deal with feet, bro.

[Paige]

Oh.

[Josh]

Oh.

[Lily]

Can I show you guys something? Can I show you something, Andrew? Sure.

[Josh]

Dear Lord.

[Lily]

Are you ready to see this?

[Josh]

That's insane.

[Andrew]

You make so many people angry.

[Paige]

I'm okay with it.

[Josh]

That's crazy.

[Andrew]

That is awful.

[Paige]

Now, would you rather live in that momentary pain, just snatched and gone? Are you going to let that fester forever? Would you rather go to the hospital, deal with insurance, just this, that, and the other? Or if you have a bro who's like, I'll get it in one go?

[Josh]

Probably.

[Andrew]

This is my daughter's show that.

[Josh]

So we were on the back.

[Paige]

That is infected.

[Josh]

Back deck.

[Andrew]

No, it's not infected. She dropped a giant glass cup on her toe.

[Lily]

Do you think that's full of water?

[Andrew]

What's the yellow dead skin?

[Lily]

You think that's infected?

[Josh]

If it was infected, it would be fully red. The redness would be. Ready?

[Lily]

Let me show you a more recent picture.

[Josh]

There'd be pus. There would be a lot more.

[Lily]

Look at this. More recently.

[Josh]

Just read around it.

[Andrew]

Oh, gosh. Let's not show people on the Internet.

[Paige]

I want. Okay. Yeah. That's just dying skin.

[Lily]

All right.

[Paige]

Because of the infection.

[Josh]

Yucky.

[Lily]

Yeah. And she has such a high pain tolerance. She dropped a cup on her toe, and I'm always going, oh, I can't hurt that bad. But she was shaking. And then I go, it's. We wait a couple days, we put a bandaid on it, and we open it. After church, we went to St Andrew's Church, Father Josiah Trenum out in California. And I take off her band aid. I'm like, let me look at that thing. And we both. She and I both go, oh, no.

[Andrew]

Lily goes, oh, my gosh. I'm like, lily, is this infected? Is this infected? You think it's infected? I'm like, no, it's not infected.

[Paige]

She checks.

[Josh]

You gotta stay calm for the kids, Lil.

[Lily]

It literally was not like that.

[Andrew]

And Ada goes, mom, dad, I'm freaking out.

[Lily]

She's a very good communicator.

[Andrew]

Oh, My gosh.

[Josh]

Don't panic.

[Paige]

Yeah, I mean, if it gets in the bloodstream.

[Lily]

Andrew, easy.

[Josh]

Speaking of kids, have you ever. I saw somebody mention this, and then it reminded me. We're watching Bambi yesterday, and they're teaching, like, Bambi to, like, say, like, words and stuff. And you go, bird, bird, bird. And they say, say bird, say butterfly. When we're teaching kids to speak, say mommy, say daddy. They never say say. They just say the word.

[Andrew]

You're right.

[Josh]

Don't you think they would be like, say mommy? Because that's what they're hearing, but somehow they understand that we're telling them to

[Andrew]

say something, understand context at a very, very young age. Isn't that strange?

[Josh]

I mean, you can't name one baby that's ever just started saying say in front of all. Every other word.

[Lily]

I bet we get a lot of comments. So, like, my baby did that. But I also heard recently it was,

[Paige]

like, the fastest way of saying, you're wrong.

[Lily]

I know.

[Andrew]

I get.

[Lily]

I've heard recently from a speech therapist that they say, don't say say.

[Josh]

Yeah, that makes sense. I mean, like, we. Yeah, because I've done. I remember there are times where I was like, you know, like, daddy.

[Lily]

Yeah.

[Josh]

I would just. That's all I'd say. But we say that all the time, though.

[Andrew]

Say what you need to say.

[Josh]

Maybe John Mayer didn't stop saying such. Oh, maybe that's why he says it so much.

[Andrew]

Yeah.

[Josh]

Fun fact I learned this weekend. I was watching a podcast clip on TikTok. Do you know that Applebee's once had a club? Yeah, in the 90s.

[Andrew]

A club.

[Josh]

A club?

[Andrew]

Like a club?

[Josh]

Yes. Over a hundred locations in Florida back in the 90s. They would close at 10, they would reopen at 11.

[Andrew]

The Applebee's.

[Josh]

The Applebee's. The neighborhood bar and grill.

[Lily]

I promise you, it's still that way.

[Josh]

I don't think so. Because it was something they ran. It was a specific thing that they ran and they got rid of. But they would open up at 11pm they would dim the lights, they'd bring out other lights. There would be DJs, drink specials, different food and dance. Like, they'd clear the tables and everything, and people would clear out and they would be dancing in an Applebee's.

[Andrew]

That's pretty awesome.

[Lily]

I promise you, I have been to Applebee's as a nightclub before. I promise you. I have.

[Josh]

Describe this to me.

[Andrew]

I mean, they do karaoke and stuff.

[Lily]

It was my first time ever going to an Applebee's. I worked at Disney World.

[Josh]

First of all, the first time you ever go to Applebee's does feel like a club. So let's just be fair with that. It's incredible.

[Lily]

It was the first time I ever went. I was in college at the Disney thing and we went to dinner after work, which meant I was arriving after 11pm and I thought, that's insane that Applebee's is even open right now. We went. They were only serving apps and drinks. And it was a nightclub in there. It was in Orlando, over by Little Lake Bryant. By Disney World.

[Andrew]

She might by my apartment.

[Josh]

The evidence is stacking up. It's no sense.

[Lily]

It was the only time I'd ever been to an Applebee's. And I said, applebee's is a nightclub. That's literally what I said.

[Andrew]

That's so funny.

[Josh]

Applebee's is a nightclub.

[Lily]

This place is great.

[Josh]

And it's made of plaster. Wait, wait, hold on.

[Paige]

What year would this have been?

[Lily]

I was in college. So like 1980. Oh my gosh. A million years ago. Literally 2017. 2017.

[Josh]

A million years ago.

[Paige]

10 years after I graduated high school.

[Lily]

Yeah.

[Josh]

That's crazy if that's true.

[Lily]

It happened to me.

[Josh]

I mean, I don't know if I could trust you. But

[Lily]

like, by SeaWorld, like the Applebee's by Sea World.

[Josh]

We're gonna have to investigate this.

[Lily]

Okay.

[Josh]

This is incredible. The fact that that was your first, like, what a disappointment. From Applebee's.

[Lily]

From now on, I've never been again. So that was the only thing I don't go back.

[Josh]

You went on top. It's incredible to me. I didn't know that was a real thing. That needs to happen with more fast food restaurants and more like smaller restaurants like that.

[Andrew]

Did you know root canals cause cancer? Great.

[Lily]

Yeah. I don't. I've heard that.

[Paige]

I got one.

[Andrew]

And there was a Netflix documentary called the Root Cause that was on Netflix in 2019 and they were sued by a bunch of the Dentists Corporations Association. The associations associated with with dentists sued Netflix. And so Netflix quietly removed the documentary called Root Cause. But this, this documentary, the film Root Cause argued that root canals can cause cancer, heart disease and other chronic illnesses. It followed filmmakers personal health journey include concluded that removing a root canal tooth solved his chronic symptoms.

[Lily]

I've heard that.

[Andrew]

Yeah. That's crazy.

[Lily]

That is crazy. So but like, what do you do about your infected gums and tooth and mouth? Yoink.

[Andrew]

Yoink.

[Lily]

Put nothing else in there.

[Andrew]

Yoink it. I don't know. I actually have no idea. It's weird, though, because there's a lot of stuff like the Eastern medicine or whatever. A lot has to do with your mouth. You know, they say, like, your mouth health affects the rest of your health. Kind of like your mouth health first, then your gut health.

[Josh]

Yeah.

[Andrew]

Then that permeates from everything.

[Josh]

Interesting.

[Lily]

They say if you want to have a healthy delivery, you should floss every day. When you're pregnant,

[Paige]

Should insert the Carl clip. Oh, yeah. Brock clip.

[Lily]

That's crazy.

[Andrew]

I know.

[Lily]

It kind of sounds like, you know, like some folks who get breast implants makes them sick. Maybe he's the same.

[Andrew]

I've been so sick.

[Josh]

Didn't make. Yeah, didn't make me sick.

[Paige]

I knew you weren't going to the gym.

[Josh]

There's an actress. Did you guys see that actress who said all of her teeth have been pulled? And she's been like. It was like Dakota Fanning. It was Dakota Fanning. That's what.

[Lily]

As a child actor, they kept pulling her teeth because it made her look more childlike.

[Josh]

They. She never lost her teeth naturally. They always pulled. Isn't that wild?

[Andrew]

That seems like abuse.

[Josh]

It is. It. 100 is 100. The whole Hollywood child acting scene has got to be.

[Paige]

Yeah.

[Andrew]

Speaking of infected teeth, did you hear about my dad's tooth?

[Lily]

Oh, my God.

[Andrew]

We had that youth leader summit, and my dad, the whole night was just

[Paige]

like, man, my tooth hurts. Ow. Man, my tooth hurts.

[Andrew]

And could not sleep that night. Woke up, he's like, I gotta go to the dentist. My mom said he took, like, six showers because the pain was miserable. Goes in his tooth in back here, completely cracked and infected. And they're like, you gotta go get it operated tomorrow morning.

[Paige]

Yep.

[Andrew]

They go in. This is crazy.

[Lily]

Oh, my gosh.

[Andrew]

They said they. The. It took over an hour to extract this tooth because it kept on snapping off. And when they're doing it, his filler popped off on the tooth behind it, went down his throat, started choking on it. The dentist.

[Josh]

Oh, my gosh.

[Paige]

Oh, my gosh.

[Andrew]

And, like, had to do, like, the flyer things. Pull it out or. Yeah, that's probably the suction thing. And then they pulled out an inch and a half abscess out of his mouth.

[Lily]

And then I do a bone graph.

[Andrew]

And a bone graph.

[Paige]

Oh, they had a bone graph. That's huge.

[Andrew]

Yeah. And then gave him no pain medication.

[Lily]

Give him, like, Tylenol.

[Andrew]

They gave him Tylenol?

[Paige]

Yeah. I got. I got actually hindsight. I got. So this tooth when. This one. So we were, like, super poor growing up. And it. When it cracked, they just glued it back on.

[Andrew]

Yeah, they did that with my brother.

[Paige]

But the glue every few years would become brittle, and the tooth would snap. Well, one of the dentists who put it back together didn't do a good job. And I started complaining about pain. This is pre root canal, and. Which is crazy. I had an exposed nerve, and they were just gluing the tooth back over to cover it. And so that's how I know. I was like, hey, it's cracking again, because I feel everything in my front tooth. Well, I started complaining about pain, and, like. So my mom was like, all right, we'll schedule something. And I woke up the next morning feeling like, oh, this hurts. And then my turn walked around. I still remember walking around the corner in my childhood home, My mom going, oh. And I looked in the mirror, and it looked like a finger was under my lip. I had a ring of pus.

[Lily]

Oh,

[Paige]

Molar to molar, all on my upper lip. My God. But it happened in a night going from no swelling to waking up. And it had. The infection had taken that quickly.

[Lily]

Oh, my God.

[Paige]

And that's. That's still. Because you're awake for that type of surgery.

[Lily]

Yeah.

[Paige]

And so that's the gnarliest. So, like, we need to do a root canal. We need to, like, get everything out. This is when I actually got the. The cap put on. But so you're awake, and they're, like, numbing me.

[Lily]

Yeah.

[Paige]

Finally get me numb. But you can still feel pressure. And I remember basically what looked like an exacto knife going in. I could feel pressure going from molar all the way across my.

[Andrew]

Oh.

[Paige]

And then I had to watch them scrape what they were scraping out. Pulling all of that out of my face.

[Lily]

Golly, dude. You know, we have a lot of listeners that have medical trauma.

[Paige]

One of the most painful. That's terrible. Painful and gnarly experiences of my life, that one. Actually, they did give me codeine, like, a single pill.

[Lily]

Nice.

[Josh]

But I'm never been so happy to have my wisdom teeth out. But those. Those. Those hurts so bad last year. Oh, man, I'm literally about to throw up here.

[Paige]

Want to hear another?

[Josh]

About to pass out.

[Andrew]

Kidding. Speaking of passing out.

[Josh]

Yeah.

[Andrew]

Have you heard of Povella Island? Povela Island?

[Josh]

I have not heard of Povella Island.

[Andrew]

It's a crazy, crazy island.

[Josh]

Where's it at?

[Andrew]

It is in the Venetian Lagoon, and it has been classified as the most haunted island in the world.

[Josh]

Cool.

[Andrew]

This island right in the Venetian Lagoon is completely closed off. To everyone. No one is allowed to go to this island.

[Josh]

Who owns it?

[Andrew]

Venice.

[Josh]

Okay.

[Andrew]

The Venetian government, I should say. But it's a total of 17 acres. It's completely abandoned today. But its purpose of what it's been used for throughout history is terrible. So in the 1700s, during the Bubonic plague, it was used as the plague island.

[Josh]

Like exile, kids and people.

[Andrew]

Yeah. So basically, Venice was one of the major ports in the Mediterranean. And during the bubonic plague, all these ships would come in, and if there was a hint of the bubonic plague, they were sentenced or like, you have to quarantine on this island. There's a 17 acre island. And they suspect that during the bubonic plague, over 100,000 people died on this island.

[Josh]

What?

[Andrew]

And they say to this day, half of the island's soil is human ash.

[Josh]

17 acres is not that big.

[Andrew]

It's not that big for that many people. 100,000 people total during the bubonic plague died on that island, bro. And then if that's not, whatever, Freaky, Spooky. In the 1920s, they established a mental hospital on the island, you know, would

[Josh]

be a great place for this mental hospital.

[Andrew]

And there was this doctor, apparently, this doctor who worked at this asylum, like, one of the head doctors who was just purely an evil man. And what he would do was perform cruel experimental treatments, tortured patients, and eventually went insane. Insane himself. And jumped off the bell tower in himself.

[Lily]

Like lobotomies and stuff. You do lobotomies?

[Andrew]

And then the hospital eventually closed in 1968, and then basically was that after 1968, the island has remained abandoned but closed off.

[Josh]

Yeah.

[Andrew]

Like, you will be arrested if you step foot on that island.

[Josh]

That's crazy.

[Andrew]

Yeah.

[Josh]

I wonder if any of the plague is still laying there.

[Lily]

I know.

[Paige]

Makes you wonder.

[Josh]

Yeah, dude.

[Lily]

Under all that, the bubonic plague was bacterial, I believe.

[Josh]

Yeah.

[Lily]

And so it probably has all died.

[Josh]

Dude, that's scary.

[Andrew]

There's even points in history, Lily knows about this, where they thought vampires lived on the island.

[Josh]

Of course.

[Andrew]

And it was because of the bubonic plague, Correct.

[Lily]

Yeah.

[Andrew]

That they would find these corpses with like. Because the blood would fester in their lungs and they would just have blood all around their faces.

[Lily]

They basically would shovel the bodies into these, like, holes.

[Paige]

Yeah.

[Josh]

So, yeah, Also, go ahead.

[Lily]

Someone new would throw a body in there, and they would see these corpses with, like, blood, and they thought they were vampires eating the pot.

[Josh]

I mean, also, you probably had some cannibalism. I doubt that you had that Place stocked full of food during, you know, 100,000 people or whatever.

[Andrew]

This is why. This is where it gets, like. Not saying that that wasn't messed up, but, like, what the Venetian government did, the conspiracy part was the fact that it was the main hub, the main port of the Mediterranean. Venice was. And they basically had, like, companies, lobbyists, if you will, with the Venetian government. If there was a competitor coming in, like, bringing in their goods, they would say, you have the plague on your ship. You're banished to this island. No. And so basically, they were killing off their competitors.

[Josh]

Yeah.

[Andrew]

With the bubonic plague stuck on this island.

[Josh]

Yeah. And you can't argue it.

[Lily]

Nightmare. Nightmare.

[Andrew]

Yeah. And so they would force quarantines for. To con. To control the economic growth of Venice.

[Paige]

And that was in the era, like, two. It wasn't just an option to turn around because you needed port. You needed to restock, to make a trip back to wherever you came from.

[Josh]

So glad the government stopped doing that, though.

[Paige]

Yeah.

[Josh]

That's crazy.

[Andrew]

But, yeah. That's the.

[Lily]

So scary.

[Josh]

That's the second scariest island I've ever heard of.

[Andrew]

What's the first favela?

[Lily]

That one.

[Josh]

That one. The one owned by a financier. Oh, I just thought you were gonna tell me. Like, in 1990, it was purchased.

[Andrew]

No. And moved all the way to the Caribbean.

[Josh]

They tugged it all the way there.

[Lily]

This island thing was, like, a regular thing, though, because they would do Typhoon Mary. You know Typhoon Mary? That story.

[Josh]

No.

[Lily]

Okay. There's an island off of New York that had the same purpose, was, like, a quarantine island that they would send people.

[Josh]

Oh, no.

[Lily]

I guess at one point, though, there was, like, Typhoid Mary. What. What she was doing is she was a cook in a really affluent home. So she, like, lived in this home. And everybody that came to stay in this house would get typhoid fever. And they're like, what the heck is going on in this home that everybody's getting typhoid fever? The cook was carried. It was a carrier.

[Paige]

Oh.

[Lily]

But, like, never presented symptoms. So anytime she cooked for somebody, they would get typoid fever. And, like. Yeah. So they ended up sending her to a quarantine island.

[Andrew]

Geez.

[Lily]

Off of New York.

[Josh]

And they named the island after. They just became named after.

[Lily]

I don't know. I think it's called something else.

[Paige]

Dude, I wish I carried something and get my own island.

[Lily]

Nice.

[Andrew]

I forgot to mention, with the povela island, how people say today, that's super haunted. People report ghosts seeing ghosts on the island? Constantly. Fishermen refuse to fish in or around the island. They're like, no way, Jose. And then they say that they still hear the bell tower ringing when there's no bell in it.

[Josh]

Oh, man. How terrifying is that?

[Andrew]

Very terrifying.

[Josh]

Foggy water.

[Andrew]

Anyways, I booked us a trip.

[Lily]

Would you go?

[Josh]

Yeah, I would go.

[Lily]

That's awful. I would never go.

[Josh]

Nope, nothing's there.

[Lily]

I would be scared I'd kick up a little bit of plague. Although you. It's treatable. It's extremely treatable now, just like with the antibiotics.

[Josh]

That's what you're afraid about?

[Andrew]

Yeah, we got it.

[Paige]

Thanks, Bill Gates.

[Andrew]

The mental hospital component is just super spooky to me.

[Josh]

Yeah. Dude, this is a freaking novel. I'm sure there's gotten. I'm sure Italy's gotten some, like, horror movies based on this.

[Lily]

Yeah, Ghost adventures went there.

[Josh]

Oh, really? Yeah, I want to see that.

[Andrew]

I would say you can't go. You have to get incredible permission. Like, that's. Yeah, it's like you fill out this application and typically you're turned down.

[Josh]

Yeah, we could do it then. Yeah, we could probably do it for research.

[Lily]

I forbid it.

[Josh]

Come on, island.

[Paige]

You want to hear about an Iranian ghoul?

[Andrew]

I would love to, dude.

[Paige]

I started looking up stories.

[Andrew]

What is a ghoul?

[Paige]

This.

[Andrew]

Oh,

[Paige]

if I told you, it would give away some of the story. I started looking up, like, cryptid stories around Iran and just was like, I wonder, like, what parallels their culture has to, like, some of our history and what I can find. And turns out they do have a Bigfoot. Very similar. Like, they call it a flat nosed, tall, hairy creature with feet that look half human, half ape, seen around their, like, wooded and mountainous areas. And the same thing. Like, people find footprints and then people tell them it's just a bear. But I thought that was interesting that they had, like, very similar stories. Maybe we can get into that in some future episodes. But the one that freaked me out is they have this creature they call. I forget their name for it, but it's become known as the Iranian ghoul. And often it's ghost like, or tall and lanky, sometimes appearing as a woman. But. So I started looking up these encounters. And you remember the story I told about the hunter and the cryptid that he. Where he heard a scream for help? Oh, yeah. Same exact thing happened. So these caravans, historically, they'd be going through, like, the desert, and then, you know, they'd pause or they'd see this lanky figure up on a dune and they would hear help. And then, like, it became so known that this is what it is. If you see the figure, do not go after it, because what it would do is it would lure, like, someone who would fall for it further and further and further away from the caravan. And eventually there's stories of, like, being killed, being consumed, just going missing, like, all of this stuff. But then there are stories where people had actually seen the creature, and this is where it gets completely terrifying and where we find parallels to some of our stories and see if you can pick up on what it parallels. So we have a creature that's remote areas pretending to be a woman in need of help. And so one of the instances are on this caravan, and instead of being off in the dunes, like, seen as a silhouette, this woman was kneeled over on the side of the road, whimpering for help. And the person gets out of the caravan, walks up to the woman, puts his hand on her shoulder, is like, do you need something? And she looks up, and her face is half animal and warped. And apparently this dude runs, gets away, but she. She goes in pursuit before giving up and then darting back off. Oh, gosh, it's so scary. It becomes known that this is a thing. Like, look out for this thing. And I forget the document from the area, but there's a document where they're actually, like, writing, like, this is how to know if this is what you're about to encounter. Apparently, the tell, because it was often half animal. The tell is if the woman's foot or feet are on backwards, it's a ghoul.

[Josh]

Very cool.

[Paige]

Sounds like a skinwalker.

[Lily]

Yeah.

[Paige]

Like half animal, feet on backwards. So, but that explains, like, kneeling on the side of the road because she's hiding her feet. You can't see them. And then turns to attack. And that's when they realize the face is half animal. But how interesting, you know? And there's. They're like, oh, these are. They say they have hyenas apparently somewhere in the Middle east or. Or did, historically.

[Andrew]

Yeah.

[Paige]

And they're saying, so that's the Yelp and that's the weird face that are freaking people out. And I'm like, okay, if that's the explanation, eventually people are going to be

[Andrew]

like, oh, that's an animal.

[Paige]

That's an animal. Like, okay, you know, like, yeah. But people continue to report that they're running into this creature.

[Lily]

That is so scary.

[Paige]

But why is it that in Iran they have the same exact cryptids that our Native Americans have?

[Lily]

Watchers?

[Paige]

I mean, bigfoot and skinwalkers.

[Andrew]

Yeah.

[Paige]

Remote areas. Why? Like, how weird underground caves.

[Andrew]

Yeah. Maybe, like, a portal connection.

[Josh]

I'm just learning that we just can't help women. No matter what, we can't help them.

[Andrew]

Never help a woman in distress.

[Josh]

Guys, you have to.

[Andrew]

You will die.

[Lily]

I literally was just thinking about that.

[Josh]

Like, what did scariest cryptid. A damsel in distress. I know.

[Lily]

I was thinking about that, too. Like, no one. No grownup needs your help.

[Andrew]

Do you have a connection of.

[Paige]

Why? No, There's. There is no connection other than. I mean, I'm thinking, like, you know, if this stuff is real over here, like, we talk about how everything on the Native American totems are real except for the Bigfoot. And so why would they be adding this one mythological thing? And so if these really are either beings of some sort of dark magic or whatever, if they really are being real things, then who's to say that they can't be real elsewhere? Just known by different names? But that's. Yeah. I forget the word that they use, but that's where we get our word for ghoul.

[Andrew]

So goblins and ghouls. That's where I've heard it. I wonder how many, like, ley lines are on or on.

[Lily]

I know.

[Andrew]

Run through it.

[Paige]

That's spooky.

[Andrew]

That is so scary.

[Lily]

Backwards.

[Andrew]

When I heard that, I immediately thought of. Have you seen those people that have to get, like, their legs amputated, basically, and their foot goes on? They put the foot on backwards for the leg brace.

[Josh]

Yeah.

[Andrew]

The first time I saw that. If I'm like, that's crazy.

[Josh]

That's a prank. That's AI.

[Lily]

That's.

[Josh]

No way.

[Andrew]

That's not real. That is real. Joke's on you.

[Josh]

It walks on this earth with us.

[Andrew]

It's pretty. I mean, whoever figured that out was a psychopath, but it works perfect.

[Josh]

Yeah. The guy's like, got any ideas? I don't know, dude. Put it on backwards.

[Andrew]

What do you mean?

[Josh]

Wait a minute.

[Lily]

But that works. Yeah, I'm scared.

[Andrew]

Yeah.

[Paige]

That was spooky.

[Andrew]

Yeah, Very spooky.

[Josh]

Reminds me of the Siberian dancing woman.

[Andrew]

Oh, my gosh. So scary.

[Josh]

So scary. Don't like that at all.

[Lily]

Oh, my gosh. Enough.

[Andrew]

Just stop helping women, everyone.

[Josh]

Yeah, Lee, I'll.

[Paige]

I'll approach someone in need of help one time. But if I get to where you were and you're further, you're on your own. Like, I'm not following you into wherever.

[Lily]

Help. Help.

[Josh]

Zola loves the. I don't know why. It's kind of Scary. But she likes the bobcat screams. She thinks it's so funny. She's like, scary. There's this one clip I'll show you. Because it's these two bobcats just yelling at each other. And for those who don't know, bobcat screams literally sound like a lady screaming. A lady screaming in the woods. Who runs into this.

[Lily]

Oh, my gosh.

[Andrew]

Hearing that in the dark woods would be the scariest thing ever in the

[Lily]

world because it also kind of sounds like a witch.

[Paige]

Yeah, a witch scream.

[Lily]

Enough. All right, Move on.

[Andrew]

Oh, man.

[Josh]

So good.

[Andrew]

Well, speaking of crazy spooky things, have you heard of the Svalbard Global Seed Vault?

[Josh]

Oh, yes, I think I have heard of this.

[Paige]

We not talked about this.

[Andrew]

Have we talked about it before?

[Lily]

I think we talked about the Global virus vault.

[Paige]

Go ahead.

[Andrew]

The Sval. Sval Bard Seed vault.

[Josh]

Okay.

[Andrew]

Global Seed vault.

[Josh]

Tell me about this.

[Andrew]

The Svalbard Global Seed Vault is one of the most unusual facilities on Earth. It's a massive underground backup storage vault for the world's crop seeds located deep inside the mountain in the Arctic island of. Forgive me, Spitzenbergen.

[Paige]

That's great.

[Andrew]

In Slavbard. It's basically owned by Norway. This island.

[Josh]

Okay.

[Andrew]

But it's in the Arctic. But why it exists is modern agriculture. The modern agriculture uses relatively few plant varieties over the past century. This is crazy. Stat about 75% of crop diversity has disappeared.

[Lily]

Oh, wow.

[Andrew]

So over the past 100 years, 75% of crop diversity has disappeared.

[Josh]

Just gone.

[Andrew]

But. Which makes food systems more fragile to disease, climate shifts and disasters. Because now we don't have all this variety. The vault acts as a backup for seed banks around the world. Countries and research institutes send duplicate seeds there in case of their own. Sorry. There in case their own collections are lost due to war, natural disasters, climate change, equipment failure failures, funding loss, crop disease outbreaks.

[Lily]

Dang.

[Andrew]

What's crazy is that they keep. In the Arctic, there's no full time staff there. It's very like. It's almost impossible to get into this thing. It's like five people a year get to go in there and like put in seeds. But the nation, whoever donates the seeds or puts their seeds in there, they're the only ones that can take it out.

[Josh]

Oh, smart.

[Andrew]

Yeah. So that way it's. It's a completely neutral thing.

[Josh]

But the process of getting it out's gotta be tough.

[Andrew]

Very tough.

[Josh]

Like expensive, I would imagine.

[Andrew]

And they actually. They did that in. Where was it? So it's already been used to restore lost Crops. During the Syrian civil war, the seed bank, their seed bank in Syria was destroyed. Scientists withdrew over 100,000 seeds from the seed bank in the Arctic to rebuild the collection in Lebanon and Morocco. And then they restored those hundred thousand seeds back into the bank. So it's been used. It's been like. Yeah, but what's crazy is the fortification of it. It's like over 400ft into a mountain. It's completely nuclear blast proof. It's kept. Since it's in the Arctic, it's kept just below zero degrees year round. So the, the seeds, they said that they could last tens of thousands of years in there.

[Josh]

So yeah, that was, that was my thought is like, oh, this could be an easy way to dismantle the world.

[Andrew]

Yeah.

[Josh]

At a point. If you bombed it.

[Andrew]

A little bit of a spooky thing. There's like the majority of countries in the world put seeds in there.

[Josh]

Sure.

[Andrew]

China and Iran refuse to put their seeds in there.

[Josh]

Whoa. I mean, why wouldn't.

[Andrew]

And I try to do digging into it and it's like you can't really find. So it seems like they've been preparing. They're preparing for something with that.

[Josh]

Yeah. But even just to be like on the safe side or like just optics wise, like just donate a few seeds.

[Paige]

Yeah.

[Josh]

It's a big deal.

[Lily]

Especially if you're the only one that can get it out of there. Like, what's the deal?

[Josh]

Maybe are they trying to create something on their end where it's going to be bigger and better? I don't know. I'm trying to think of why would you do that? Why wouldn't you be involved in it?

[Paige]

I mean, it's the way he framed it. It's like a negative thing. But if there's just genuinely no need. They're like, we have mountains that are absolutely full and we've actually already acquired seeds from all over the world. So we don't need.

[Andrew]

It would be smart to keep your own secured hidden seed bank.

[Josh]

Yeah.

[Andrew]

Especially.

[Josh]

But you wouldn't get, you don't have. They don't get access to yours just because you donate to theirs. Right. That's what I'm saying. Like why not? Like, why wouldn't you? Like just for optics, for relations, for whatever like that makes. It's no effort on your part.

[Andrew]

It seems like a bitter, like it's either.

[Josh]

Yeah. Bitter, personal kind of thing like that. Or there is some other darker meaning.

[Paige]

Yeah. Or even a vulnerability like communicating. It's like because you are preparing for the worst in doing that. And so it's kind of a power move to be like, we genuinely don't need your help.

[Josh]

Yeah.

[Lily]

Dang.

[Josh]

That's very interesting, though.

[Lily]

You've inspired me, Joshua. What do you mean? You said 75%.

[Paige]

Oh, it's horrible.

[Andrew]

75 of crop diversity has disappeared in the past century.

[Lily]

I challenge you guys to grow a weird vegetable.

[Andrew]

Dude, there's a. There's a weird vegetable.

[Paige]

There's a. Dude. I saw this. I forget. I think he's in Appalachia somewhere. But, like, it's become his hobby is finding heirloom apples that have been lost.

[Lily]

Oh.

[Paige]

And so he hikes. Like, I think it's Appalachia, but he hikes all over the place. And it's like hundreds of. Of different apple species that were completely wild. And they don't. I mean, like, we're like, you don't go to the grocery store, grocery store, buy a honey crisp and think that that's like. That's actually how sweet and, like, perfect apples are in the wild. So he goes, like farmers markets and he, like. So he does. He collects the seeds, repropagates, and has, like, a bank of his own. But just for him, it's a hobby he's, like, proud of. Like, he's actually reintroduced and, like, saved tens of different native North American apple species.

[Lily]

That's crazy. Cool. We should do that for real.

[Paige]

Yeah.

[Andrew]

Well, did you know there's a theory with this seed bank that they are actually a conspiracy theory that they're actually holding ancient seeds in there that they found at different archeological locations. Like Gobekli Tepe.

[Lily]

Cool.

[Andrew]

And this is a crazy one, very fringe theory that there's alien species of plants, that they're holding the seeds in this vault.

[Lily]

Dang.

[Andrew]

That they said that they've gotten from meteorites and stuff. They found plant life and stuff or seeds on these meteorites.

[Josh]

Yeah.

[Andrew]

And that they're holding them in this facility. That's why it's super locked up, super secret.

[Josh]

Dude. I want to see pictures of this place, dude.

[Lily]

Like, seeds from.

[Andrew]

Oh, it's crazy. It's spooky looking.

[Josh]

Oh, there's actual pictures.

[Andrew]

Oh, yeah.

[Josh]

Surprised they released it.

[Andrew]

Yeah.

[Josh]

Interesting, man. Hopefully no one that doesn't get in the wrong hands of nobody.

[Paige]

Oh, shoot. I think it'd be. I'm not going to grow. I want to try. I saw there's a guy in South. I think it was South Carolina who was taking, like, African, like, ancient or not ancient, but like pre American, different rice species. And it was like, in his Restaurant. That's all he used because he was trying to bring that, like, coastal immigrant community, like, their authentic flavors. And so, like, okra from over there, like, they called it golden something. But I just think I want to, like, know what that tastes like.

[Lily]

Yeah.

[Paige]

You know when you have a meal and you're like, this is different than how I've had this before, and it's because of the ingredients. Like, I think it'd be sick to try a bunch of that stuff.

[Lily]

I cannot wait to get into this new house and have a beautiful and robust garden and, like, try all these vegetables that grow in the ground rather than cisco potatoes or something like that, you know?

[Josh]

That's sick.

[Andrew]

Yeah. That's just the entrance to the thing. They said it can hold up to 4.6 million seed varieties, and it's currently holding, I think it said, 1.3 million solid.

[Josh]

Is that a little art piece on the front? Weird.

[Lily]

You know, this is making me think of. Also.

[Andrew]

That is weird, isn't it? Very random. For people that don't go and see it. Let's just do a bunch of shiny triangles.

[Josh]

Alien seeds.

[Andrew]

Alien seeds. This will attract them. What are you saying?

[Lily]

This is making me think of that thing I sent you, Joshua, about crafts that are going extinct. Extinct? Crafting.

[Paige]

Like the opera. Like, shout out Charlemagne.

[Lily]

Like historical stained glass. What did he say? Everybody's mad at him.

[Paige]

He made a passing comment just about, like, dying arts. Referring to, like, the opera and, like, ballet. Yeah, that's what it was.

[Josh]

Yeah.

[Paige]

Or orchestras and ballet. And it was.

[Josh]

It was opera, ballet. Yeah.

[Paige]

Yeah.

[Josh]

That's like, the third time he's been critical of that, though. But I think it's, like, mom and his sister, like, are, like, professional ballet.

[Andrew]

Who's this?

[Lily]

Yeah. He said something that made everybody mad. I don't get it, though.

[Josh]

It doesn't happen.

[Andrew]

Don't get mad at Timothy. He's trying his hardest. Try his hardest. He's a good guy.

[Josh]

He's up for an Oscar. Give him a break.

[Andrew]

Golly.

[Josh]

Just leave him alone, Wonka. Guys.

[Lily]

Okay. Critically endangered Crafts point shoemaking. There's a whole list, but I'm just putting it.

[Josh]

Macaroni art.

[Lily]

Spade. Spade making. Like, shovel making. Scissor making.

[Andrew]

Wow.

[Lily]

Tanning oak bark.

[Josh]

I do that every day. What are you talking about?

[Lily]

Wooden fishing net making. These are going away, guys. They're going away. Rattan.

[Andrew]

Probably because that's a dumb way to catch fish. Is with a wooden straw hat.

[Josh]

The wooden. The handle is wooden straw.

[Paige]

Okay.

[Josh]

Not the straw is wooden straw hat. Those are the cool nets. Those are cool for trout and stuff.

[Andrew]

Yeah, yeah.

[Lily]

Glass eye making, where people can get their glass eyes.

[Paige]

Some of these just sound like things

[Andrew]

that have become obsolete or that they make in factories. Now.

[Lily]

What? Aerosmithing.

[Andrew]

You know who's starting?

[Josh]

They still tour. Wait, they still make music?

[Paige]

Arrow. How is that becoming obsolete?

[Josh]

It's critically endangered because they just shot Aerosmith's ride down at Disney World.

[Andrew]

Oh, yeah.

[Lily]

Paper making. You used to make paper with your friend and send him love letters. You did.

[Andrew]

Like the third time she said this on this podcast, Ethan.

[Josh]

Interesting. It's always new to me, Ethan.

[Andrew]

Unless I'm like, it's no love letter. She's like, you love them, don't you? I'm like, yeah, of course there's a love letter. I'm not doing this again.

[Lily]

Quilting. Your mom is doing a critically endangered craft, and this is me saying to you, Americans get crafted.

[Andrew]

The world.

[Josh]

Hey, can I. Can I get somebody. Can I do a selfish plug right now or an ask?

[Andrew]

Sure.

[Josh]

I have two large trash bags of Sunday cool T shirts that I want to get made into a nice thick T shirt blanket. Like, I want a nice one. One that I could have for years. I want, like, my grandkids to play on.

[Andrew]

So you're asking these people?

[Josh]

So I'm asking if anyone is out there. I will ship the shirts to you. I will pay you to do it. I just want it done really well because I, like, that's just. I want to do it, but it's like, I don't know how to sew. I don't know how to do anything like that.

[Paige]

Yeah.

[Andrew]

So if there's anyone out there becoming an extinct trade.

[Josh]

A hundred percent. And I just want to save these shirts because each one is like a story in, like a time in our lives. So it's like. And I'm. It's like a love letter. Yeah, it's like a love letter.

[Andrew]

Of course.

[Josh]

Yeah. So if there's anybody out there, please. Andyundaycool.com Email me. I want to make it happen. That'd be dope.

[Andrew]

Make it happen.

[Josh]

It's also taking up a lot of space in my closet.

[Andrew]

I have decided before I turn 40 years old, I'm going to learn stained glass making.

[Josh]

Dude, I would do that with you. That'd be awesome.

[Andrew]

Like a love thing.

[Josh]

Yeah, we do like a love thing.

[Paige]

Yeah.

[Josh]

Love stained glass making.

[Paige]

Yeah, we do like a love thing.

[Josh]

Love glass stuff.

[Paige]

Yeah. Just missed the window in the old house. Yeah, that thing is pretty sick.

[Lily]

It is so.

[Andrew]

Yeah, it's very cool.

[Josh]

Is it hard, you think?

[Paige]

It can't be that hard.

[Lily]

The hard part will be cutting the glass into the right shapes and fitting them together like a puzzle piece to make a picture.

[Andrew]

So, like, stained glass making, the exact thing that you have to do to make stained glass is the hardest thing

[Josh]

to do,

[Andrew]

you know, and then soldering them together, you know, like. So stained glass making. What's the hardest thing about baking?

[Paige]

Oh, you know, just, like, making hard,

[Andrew]

Making the dough, letting it improve, and then doing the correct temperature to bake it and make sure you do it for the right time.

[Paige]

So baking the whole thing's hard.

[Andrew]

Oh, my goodness. Oh, man.

[Lily]

Yeah.

[Andrew]

Well, guys, if the US Is going to lose the war, at least we'll all be together. We'll all be together. We're still dropping every Friday, making our love stained glass. Even though it'll be difficult.

[Josh]

Yes, it will. We'll do it because we. We do hard things.

[Andrew]

We do hard things. And speaking of hard things, we got an ad, right or not Me. Golly. That was hard.

[Josh]

That was hard.

[Andrew]

We have an episode right after this on Patreon. Patreon.comninjasarebutterflies where we're gonna do an episode right after this. I already said that. And we're gonna talk about some crazy stuff I got. There's fly matrix.

[Paige]

You said there's a fly matrix. That's crazy. That is insane. And then they. In China, they discovered a mushroom that makes you hallucinate a specific thing. They thought it was all cultural until they found it somewhere else.

[Andrew]

Dang. So, well, I have a story about the United States congressional hearing where they're talking about a certain type of map.

[Josh]

A map.

[Andrew]

A map. And it's to blow your mind.

[Lily]

And I want to talk about the dolphin named Gerald.

[Andrew]

Okay, I want to talk to you about that, too.

[Josh]

For some reason, I think I'm going to throw up. So I'm going to throw up between now on Patreon.

[Andrew]

Oh.

[Josh]

So if you see me on Patreon, I know that I just threw up.

[Lily]

Why are you throwing up?

[Josh]

I don't know. Feel nauseous. I think I blame it on Andrew and his toe.

[Lily]

Now, oh, my gosh. If you have the stomach bug, dude,

[Josh]

it's. I was Ben nauseous all morning.

[Paige]

It was the abscess.

[Andrew]

All right, guys, we love you. And he's gonna go throw up. Love you.

[Paige]

Make sure.

[Andrew]

Make sure to, like, comment, subscribe, because we could choose you as a winner to send some stuff.

[Paige]

Don't forget to do that.

[Josh]

Please do that.

[Andrew]

All right, Bye.

[Paige]

Love you, dolphin. What you're about to see.

[Josh]

Wow.

[Lily]

May disturb you.

[Andrew]

If any of you know what these

[Paige]

multi decade UAP dolphins are.

[Josh]

Aliens.

[Andrew]

Bottle nose fish.

[Lily]

Pigs. There's a massive police response.

[Josh]

Oh my God.

[Paige]

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