The Human Gum Conspiracy Theory

Summary

The Shane Dawson Podcast

Episode: The Human Gum Conspiracy Theory

Date: May 31, 2026
Host: Shane Dawson with Ryland, Spencer, Jared, Chris, Sandy and other friends

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Episode Overview

In "The Human Gum Conspiracy Theory," Shane Dawson and his co-hosts dive into some of the wildest and creepiest modern conspiracy theories shaping everyday life. The group begins on a somber note, with Shane addressing the recent loss of his dog, Honey, before finding both distraction and camaraderie in discussing everything from mass surveillance in cars and smart devices to slop bowls, digital price tags, and gum-based simulation theories. Notably, this episode features a blend of classic conspiracy speculation, personal opinion, social commentary, and concludes with the group’s spirited "Agree or Disagree" game segment. The tone is casual, funny, sometimes heated, and consistently unfiltered.

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Major Topics & Discussion Points

1. Personal Opener: Grieving, Distraction, and Support

• [01:27] Shane opens up about losing his dog, Honey, describing it as "one of the worst moments of our lives."
• He mentions wanting to cancel the podcast but decides to continue as a distraction and a form of support:

  “I feel like this could be a good distraction. It could be fun to think about some other things and have fun with you guys.” (Shane, 01:40)

• Spencer is designated the unofficial "podcast lawyer" to keep the show legally safe as emotions run high:

  “Spencer, today you'll be acting as our podcast lawyer...remind me that this is all of our livelihoods.” (Shane, 02:10)

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2. "Conspiracy Corner": Mass Surveillance in Cars

[04:53 – 13:00]

• Federal Law & 2027 Cars:
  • By 2027, new US cars must have built-in surveillance tech (cameras, eye and face trackers, alcohol sensors).
  • [05:33] Chris shares a recent experience with a new car already equipped with attention sensors:

    “Yeah, so it has like these motion detectors… if it feels like you’re not paying attention, it will alert you… it’s watching if I’m paying attention.” (Chris, 05:48)

• Purpose & Doubts:
  • Intended to prevent drunk/distracted driving, but tech is “not ready.”
  • Spencer confirms the law, but everyone is skeptical about real motives.
• Privacy and Control Concerns:
  • [06:41] “If we know the tech isn't going to work...why do they want cameras recording us in our cars the whole time?” (Featured video, 07:36)
  • Old cars may surge in value as a result of electronic agreements and surveillance features.
  • Integration with smartphone apps for car use and digital signatures highlighted.
• Quirky Solutions:
  • Glasses with fake eyes to fool sensors are joked about:

    "Glasses with eyeballs on them… the sensors will be looking at the eyes on the glasses." (Jared, 11:00)

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3. Smart Devices & Dynamic Pricing

[16:44 – 20:00]

• Walmart’s Acquisition of Vizio TVs:
  • Walmart now requires accounts to use 2026 Vizio TVs, connecting TV and shopping data for dynamic pricing.
  • Concerns over data privacy and potential for price discrimination:

    “Linking your TV to your purchases, to your location... Now you are a probable target for personal product pricing adjustments.” (Featured video, 16:44)

• Grocery Store Cameras & Price Tags:
  • Switch from paper to digital price tags (often rumored to include cameras and sensors).
  • Fear of personalized pricing; Shane and others debate how much data is being used.

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4. Food & Product Conspiracies

[20:27 – 25:30]

• Preservative-Laden Produce:
  • Viral onion incident at Walmart, speculated to be the result of excessive preservatives:

    “They sprayed so many preservatives on the outside that it couldn’t rot on the surface.” (Comment read by Shane, 21:00)

• Toothpaste & Mouthwash Dangers:
  • Viral clip from Dr. Jerry warns about the poison warnings on household dental products and claims mouthwash can destroy "90% of your body's ability to produce nitric oxide."
• Flonase Usage Conspiracy:
  • How most people use Flonase wrong; correct method is to point to the outside of the nose and not inhale:

    “You’re not supposed to feel it come down your throat...When I snorted drugs, that’s what I felt.” (Featured video, 24:00)

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5. The "Slop Bowl" Conspiracy and Restaurant Homogenization

[28:59 – 33:36]

• Rise of Slop Bowls:
  • Shane observes the rapid spread of quick-serve “slop in a bowl” restaurants (e.g., Chipotle, Cava) as symbolic of a broader cultural/economic shift:

    “Every single restaurant now is just a bunch of...slop in a bowl...we're addicted to the slop bowls because they're so easy and so fast.” (Shane, 29:01 & 33:06)

• Disappearance of Mid-Tier Restaurants:
  • “The extremes are squeezing out the middle...America’s restaurant landscape is starting to look like the country itself, split into two extremes.” (Featured video, 31:04)
• Food Trucks & Chili’s:
  • Food trucks as last stronghold of mom-and-pop authenticity; playful debate about Chili’s as an accessible and affordable option.

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6. The Dollar Store Girl Scout Cookie Revelation

[34:09 – 37:02]

• Debate whether Dollar Tree’s knockoff cookies are identical to official Girl Scout cookies.
  • Finding: Both are made by “Inter Baked Foods” at the same facility, ingredients are the same.
  • Blind taste test leads to consensus:

    “Identical. Identical.” (Shane, 36:27)

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7. The Wayfair Conspiracy & Epstein Files

[37:02 – 40:46]

• Revisiting the 2020 Wayfair theory: high-priced furniture named after girls; clarified that recent files show a bulk order of normal goods, not sinister trafficking.
• Shane’s take:

  “Do I think this is happening on Wayfair? No. Legally, but also, personally, I do not think this is actually happening.” (Shane, 39:25)

• The group wonders why media attention for the Epstein files vanished, while on the day of recording, Pentagon UFO files are dropped.

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8. Surveillance Everywhere: Flock Cameras, Palantir, and Mass Profiling

[48:03 – 57:22]

• Flock Cameras:
  • Ubiquitous automated license plate readers (ALPRs) capturing every car’s details; partnered with police, but increasingly used by a private company.
  • [48:51] “This has been used by cops to track down their ex wives.” (Featured video, 48:51)
• Palantir:
  • Private data company partnering with law enforcement to build citizen profiles, cross-referencing surveillance, spending, demographics.
  • Inspiration drawn from "Minority Report" – pre-crime prediction and mass data profiling.
  • Group expresses concern that chaos is being manufactured so society will demand these solutions.

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9. Fun Theories: Ugly Carpet, Book Fair Surveillance, Gum and Simulations

[43:31 – 47:01, 58:30 – 59:32]

• Ugly Carpets:
  • Purposefully chaotic patterns in public spaces designed to hide stains, not to confuse people:

    “The ugliness isn't bad design. The ugliness is the design.” (Featured video, 44:39)

• Book Fair Paranoia:
  • Satirical theory that Scholastic Book Fairs provided "spy tools" and profiled children’s psychological traits based on book choices.
• Gum Theory:
  • Featured near episode close
  • Every seven years, "the simulation replaces you," but swallowing a piece of gum “locks you in place” – gum is from “outside the simulation”:

    “Gum is their weakness. Swallow one piece every seven years.” (Featured video, 58:42)

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10. "Agree or Disagree" Game Segment

[63:54 – 77:24]

• Format: Each host places a cup with their face on a scale from “strongly agree” to “strongly disagree,” then defends their stance.
• Notable Debates:
  • "Everybody pees in a public pool" – divided, hilarious discussion.
  • "Chili’s is the most overrated chain restaurant" – heated debate about chips, queso, pricing, and food quality.

    “The chips are so breakable. You can’t scoop a salsa...they’re like bible paper.” (Shane, 67:01)

  • "You should never buy sheets from a thrift store or yard sale" – germaphobes vs. thrifty shoppers.
  • "Seeing a movie in a theater actually sucks" – Shane rails against audiences, food, and previews, while Chris praises communal movie magic.
  • "Voice memos are the most annoying form of communication" – debate covers memo etiquette and the worst texting habits.
  • "Going to concerts sucks" – majority love concerts, but Spencer argues it’s “hell.”

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Notable Quotes

• “You know, losing an animal is losing a family member...worst pain ever. Knowing we’re not alone has really helped.” (Shane, 01:30)
• “By 2027, US federal law is requiring all new cars to have mandatory surveillance technology...every car in 2027 will be literally surveilling every single thing you’re doing in the car.” (Shane, 04:53)
• “It will always be watching.” (Featured video, 11:13)
• “That’s also interesting because...they have like, a big plan. It’s all going to get—well.” (Spencer, 16:59)
• “Every single restaurant now is just a bunch of...of slop in a bowl...we're addicted to the slop bowls because they're so easy and so fast.” (Shane, 29:01 & 33:06)
• “Girl Scout – Inter Baked Foods. The address...Identical. The ingredients exactly the same. Cookies made in the exact same facility. One is $1.25, one is $6.” (Featured video, 35:10)
• “How the fuck are there missing children?...But you know where everyone’s car is.” (Jared, 51:20)
• “The ugliness isn't bad design. The ugliness is the design.” (Featured video, 44:39)
• “Swallow one piece every seven years. Any more than that, you might get a stomachache, but one piece…Gum is their weakness.” (Featured video, 59:18)

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Key Timestamps

| Topic/Quote | Time (MM:SS) | |----------------------------------------------------|----------------------| | Shane mourns Honey, “I was going to cancel…” | 01:27 – 02:55 | | 2027 Car Surveillance Mandate | 04:53 – 09:29 | | Walmart/Vizio TV Data Collection | 16:44 – 18:00 | | Preservative Onion Incident | 20:27 – 21:17 | | Dangerous Toothpaste & Mouthwash | 22:02 – 22:47 | | Slop Bowl Conspiracy | 28:59 – 33:06 | | Girl Scout/Dollar Store Cookie Revelation | 34:09 – 37:02 | | Wayfair/Conspiracy & Epstein Files | 37:02 – 40:46 | | Ubiquitous Flock Cameras & Palantir | 48:03 – 57:22 | | Ugly Carpet Theory | 43:31 – 44:56 | | Book Fair Surveillance Gag | 45:30 – 47:01 | | The Gum Theory (simulation) | 58:30 – 59:32 | | "Agree or Disagree" Game Segment | 63:54 – 77:24 |

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Tone & Language

• Tone: Casual, irreverent, occasionally dark humor, frequently self-aware and meta.
• Style: Conversational, tangential, frequently sidetracked by asides, banter and personal anecdotes.
• Language: Profane at times, full of pop-culture references, lots of sarcasm and playful teasing.

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Memorable Moments

• Shane’s earnest, vulnerable opening about his dog sets a contrasting tone for the wild conspiracy talk that follows.
• The slop bowl/restaurant debate becomes social commentary on American economics.
• The cookie taste test that "proves" the Girl Scout cookies are identical to Dollar Tree versions.
• Group’s collective horror at mass surveillance tech, interspersed with jokes about wearing fake-eye glasses to "hack" the system.
• Heated, funny arguments during "Agree or Disagree" (esp. pool-peeing, Chili’s, and sheet-buying).
• Gum simulation theory sparks a silly—but oddly deep—reflection on the value of always questioning reality.

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Conclusion

This episode of The Shane Dawson Podcast delivers a chaotic yet insightful look at the converging worlds of tech, consumerism, food, and privacy, all filtered through the hosts’ trademark irreverence. For anyone who delights in weird theories, skeptical banter, and the everyday absurdities of modern life—with a hearty side of group therapy and laughter—this hour is both entertaining and eye-opening.

Transcript

[A]

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[B]

I do want to show this because it's so crazy, and I don't know if this is Walmart's fault, but this is crazy. And I will say Walmart responded in the comments on this reel. Please, like, hit us up. We want to fix this. Just check this out and we'll talk.

[A]

I just cut into an onion and look at this.

[B]

Oh.

[C]

What in the. No.

[B]

It looks like it's alive.

[D]

It's hollow. Oh, my God. Oh, my God.

[E]

Did she discover, like, an alien egg or something?

[F]

Literally, Spencer's camera speeds. Won't be one marker. Speeds won't be one marker.

[B]

Hey, welcome back. Okay, so before we dive into some of the scariest conspiracies I've ever seen in my whole life. Oh, my God. But before we get to that, I'm just gonna be honest. This. I can't even talk. This is kind of a rough day for me and for Ryland and. And I was gonna cancel the podcast. So as we're filming this, a few days ago, our dog, Honey, passed away. It was horrible. Definitely one of the worst moments I think, of our entire lives. And, yeah, it's been really hard, but I didn't want to cancel the show because I feel like this could be a good distraction. It could be fun to think about some other things and have fun with you guys. So we're here and we're doing it, but I will say I'm gonna need some help legally, because I think I've entered the process of grief where I'm just so fucking pissed. And I'm pissed at everything. Everything is pissing me off, and I'm so grateful that we had her, and I'm. There's so much love, and she's given me so many amazing signs, and she was in my dreams last night, but I'm still in the anger phase. And I think when I was going through all these theories earlier, and I was just like, fuck this company. I got really mad, and I was like, oh, that's not good, because, you know, like, we don't want to get sued. So, Spencer, today you'll be acting as our podcast lawyer. If I go too far or I get too Mad at a company or I don't censor something or I forget a disclaimer. Please jump in and remind me that this is all of our livelihoods.

[E]

My client is just representing his own personal opinions. That does not reflect any anything the views of the podcast or any of the other hosts. I should have been a lawyer.

[D]

And if it's anything, too bad it was AI. It was a clone that Spencer created to show you how real AI has become.

[G]

Well, we tried that.

[E]

I'm not good enough with AI to make that work.

[B]

I will also say, like, thank you guys so much. The amount of love and support that has come in has just been overwhelming and really, really sweet. We appreciate it so much. Losing an animal is losing a family member. It is liter, like the worst pain ever. And knowing that we're not alone has really helped. And just all the sweet messages. Thank you guys so much. Now, fuck all these people. Where do I start? Oh, but before we get to that, we have a game coming. So I've seen some comments, and you know what? I've kind of felt the same way. A lot of people are like, oh, we miss some games or we miss personal stories. I love doing all conspiracies. It is so fun. But I do kind of miss those, you know, other elements too, of the show. So at the end of the episode, we are going to have a game that I'm so excited about. Is gonna cause so much drama and tension.

[E]

Yeah, actually, yes, actually.

[B]

Maybe we're gonna be playing a game called Agree or Disagree. And Spencer has made Cups put their faces on it.

[E]

I went all out. You should never buy sheets from a thrift store or a yard sale.

[D]

Get me past. Strongly. I landed right on it.

[B]

Yeah, it's really exciting. So we're gonna play that later in the show. But first, conspiracies and. Oh, my God, have you guys heard what's happening with all of our cars?

[C]

Your check. Engine lights on too.

[D]

Now my tire pressure keep taking it in.

[E]

That'd be so funny if that's the first thing we talk.

[B]

It's constant and it keeps them.

[D]

Yes, the tires are full, but the sensor is broken.

[E]

Conspiracy.

[B]

So this is something we actually talked about years ago in a conspiracy video, but it is now officially happening. And so many of you guys emailed about this. Guys, let me break this down. By 2027, US federal law is requiring all new cars to have mandatory surveillance technology, such as cameras inside the cars, eye movement trackers, facial expression trackers, and other body sensors. So every car in 2027 onward will be literally surveilling every single thing you're doing in the car. What the fuck is happening? Lawyer.

[E]

This is true. This is actually true. This is true.

[D]

To get a new car.

[F]

Now I can confirm part of this because I was forced to get a new car as you know. And, and as I was signing the papers and stuff, they were like, yeah, so it has like these like motion detectors and stuff. So if it feels like you're not paying attention, it will alert you. And they were telling me all this stuff and I was like, what do you mean it's watching me. It's like watching if I'm paying attention. What do you mean?

[B]

Yes, there are literally so we have a lot of videos about this to show that are crazy, but literally like on a steering wheel now there's gonna be this little sensory thing and it is just watching everything you're doing.

[D]

So it's going to be like the self driving feature that's like, hey, you're not paying attention. But for all drivers.

[E]

Yep.

[B]

And listen, I will say this disclaimer. See, I'm doing good. Disclaimer. They do say they're doing this because they're trying to remove drunk driving. They're gonna have blood alcohol sensors in all cars up to 2027. So they're saying it's to track your eye movement and facial expression to see if you're drunk or not. Which, like what if you just have drunk face?

[E]

But that's resting drunk face.

[D]

RTF.

[F]

What if you're drunk 247 and it's only used to seeing you drunk?

[B]

Whoa.

[E]

Wow.

[B]

So yeah, let's just jump into some of these videos that are insane.

[H]

I don't think people realize how big of a deal what the government is letting happen under our noses right now. So in 2021, a bill was passed that required all cars produced in America by 2027 to have cameras filming the driver at all times, processing the footage with AI to determine if they were safe to drive and shutting the car off if they were not. Now it's 2026 in the government organization responsible for instance, giving me anxiety. I know he's good scoring and says, hey guys. So this tech we're building it like is not accurate at all and it won't be accurate in time. And instead of the House stopping the bill, they said, we don't care 2027, we want it in there anyway. So then the question becomes if we know the tech isn't going to work well enough for them to use it to Shut cars off for ineviated drivers. Why do they want cameras recording us in our cars the whole time?

[B]

What song is that?

[D]

I'm so anxious.

[C]

I really hope that doesn't catch on. I kind of like the weird ominous one that everybody uses.

[D]

My heart is racing because of that song.

[B]

Yes. That just proves that the technology's not fun. Ready yet. But they're like, well.

[F]

And it's already in my car.

[B]

Yeah, it's not ready. Not ready. Great.

[C]

I wonder. At one point we were talking about Amazon. They had a store where you walked in.

[E]

Yeah.

[C]

If you like stole anything. They knew. But what was the case?

[E]

It was just guys in like another country just watching footage.

[C]

If you still wonder if that's the case here where it's like guys watching your video and you just get like a random thing in your speaker.

[E]

Wake up.

[C]

Oh my God.

[D]

I didn't know that we're preventing drunk drivers. And I kind of am in favor of that.

[B]

You were so.

[D]

No, I mean breathing. No, I do.

[B]

So easily.

[D]

Well, no, this is already. Sit. We already.

[B]

Technology doesn't work.

[D]

No, we all have, but it doesn't work.

[E]

It's illegal for them to like technically illegal for them to use your phone camera. Right, that's technically. I think they do it anyways.

[C]

Allegedly.

[E]

But this is a fully lawyer. The lawyer's gonna get a lawyer.

[C]

Off the cusp.

[D]

But okay, so like when I'm driving in self driving mod and I'm looking to the side, it's like pay attention or we're gonna turn off self driving, right? Yes. If it does that for like sleepy drivers or distracted drivers, it might help.

[E]

I agree with you. But I think that's just an excuse.

[D]

It's like for everyone until that technology is available, it's an excuse to run.

[E]

And if it doesn't work, it's like,

[B]

well, why are we still dealing?

[D]

Fuck em.

[C]

It's like convinced back.

[D]

Well, no, I still think if the technology works, I'm in favor of it.

[B]

Yes. But of course it's like, well, AI could be used eventually to cure all these diseases. But like in the meantime it's probably gonna take over, kill everyone. But you know, like break. Like that's kind of how this feels. Anyways, let's move on to the next video.

[C]

My favorite part about the 2026 CX5 is that if you don't start accepting

[B]

agreements, you have no climate controls.

[C]

Guys, I can't. I can't change my climate because I didn't accept an agreement before rolling.

[F]

No way.

[B]

What in the hell is wrong with new cars?

[C]

I will say this is going to make the value of older cars skyrocket.

[D]

Well, that's why I'm thinking, great excuse to buy a car this year.

[C]

Yeah. Or just any year before this year. Yeah.

[E]

And then even if it now. The old one we did was about how they steal all the data off your phone when you plug it in and you agree to all that stuff, it's like they're just. And remember, the whole thing was like they were tracking people's sex lives, like, through your phone. Whatever.

[F]

That's another thing. I had to sign up for an app to be able to drive my car. I was like, what do you mean?

[D]

Like this?

[F]

Before I put the key in and I drove and now I needed to, like, sign a billion documents.

[B]

And I'm sure you read all. All the terms in.

[F]

The guy was literally like, you can skip this.

[B]

You can skip this.

[E]

He was like, crazy. Wow.

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[C]

After watching this, you'll never want to buy a new car ever again.

[D]

Any new cars have this feature that I'm going to call the Eye of Sauron. This is a driver monitor system that watches your eyes to see what you're looking at if you're paying attention.

[F]

All of that.

[D]

To make things even worse, you can't truly fully disable this. You can disable some of the warnings, but it'll always be watching.

[C]

You pair that with the fact that

[D]

the automakers also have your GPS coordinates at all times. And now you can see why. I call this the Eye of Sauron. They're always watching. And finally, this version is very easy to see, but automakers are looking to maybe put some driver monitors up in this area, hide it in the dash,

[B]

maybe somewhere in the steering wheel.

[D]

In the future, you won't be able to tell that your car has it. So maybe it's time to buy an old car.

[C]

I don't want to be tracked. And I don't know about you guys, but these older cars seem a lot more appealable now. Like and share.

[B]

Okay.

[C]

You know, in the midst of all of this.

[B]

Okay.

[C]

I think I may have an invention that could become huge. Okay. Glasses with eyeballs on them that are looking straight ahead that look real.

[E]

The pink bomb balls.

[C]

Yeah. So you'll just be driving and be like.

[D]

But they have the screen protectors on. Yeah.

[C]

The sensors will be looking at the eyes on the glasses. So you could kind of get away from this whole thing.

[D]

You really are combating the AI.

[C]

Yeah. You know, I'm just saying. Find them on dongcity.com.

[I]

wow.

[B]

So he's not my new lawyer.

[C]

I may need legal counsel, Spencer.

[E]

Well, you came to the wrong place.

[I]

I guess my concern, I mean, many concerns, but it's gonna desensitize us to like other things. So this is just like the beginning of everything, you know, I think now. Cause we're so busy all the time, I feel like we work so hard. I wonder if this is going to be like, well, I can sleep in my car and then when I wake up at home, I can work more. I feel like it's just gonna really burn us down to, you know, the ground.

[E]

I agree.

[B]

Which is totally not what they want.

[I]

Or run us. Run us to the ground. Yeah. It's just too much.

[B]

They don't want us sick and depressed and needing to take all their medications and buying it. Lawyers, step in. Step in.

[E]

He's kidding. Having to tell your own lawyer to step in. All right, this is the last one about this woman's experience renting a car.

[J]

I've seen a few posts about this and I wanted to comment on it because I have a personal experience with it. It's not something that's happening in the future, it's something that's happening now. I rented a car in Europe. And as the woman handed me the car keys, she said, this is a brand new car. And she was like super excited about it. She was like, it's 20, 26, it's a brand new car. And I was like, awesome. No one's had a chance to like fart or smoke in it.

[B]

This will be great.

[J]

And I'd driven up for a day or two and I was getting on a highway. It was a six lane highway. And all of a sudden the gas stopped working. And I'm pressing on the gas, I can't get the car to go. So the car is dinging, it's making all this noise and I can't figure out what's going on. And I look at the dashboard and in English it says, sit up straight, we can't find your eyes.

[B]

Ew.

[J]

Why? Why do you need to see my eyes? That was my first thought. And I'm short, so I sit low in the seat and I guess, I don't know, maybe I'd been driving a while and I'd kind of slouch down more instead of sitting upright.

[E]

She goes on for a little while, but that's essentially.

[C]

But to her point, like, seeing her eyes, because I see sunglasses on top of her head. What if you just. I mean, obviously I'm still gonna put out the glasses with the eyeballs. It's a huge deal for everybody. But what if you're just wearing regular sunglasses that are reflective, that you can't see your eyes? Like, what, are they just not gonna let you drive with sunglasses on because they can't see them?

[E]

That's a good point.

[B]

I mean, here's the thing. I know what you're thinking, okay, then I just won't go anywhere. I just won't drive. I just will stay home. That's where I'm safe. That's where nobody's surveilling me. Right?

[K]

Well, did you realize that this TV right here is a Walmart tracking device to track you at home? Walmart bought Vizio Television. When they did that, they acquired millions of people's data. And more importantly than just the TV itself, they acquired the data system. They bought smartcast and the data advertising platform that was owned by Vizio. So here's how it works. You pay $598 for the TV, you get it home, you unbox and you plug it in. And you realize you can't operate it without a Walmart account. Actually, it says right here that a Vizio account is required for smart tv. And that's more than deceptive labeling. That's a straight up lie. You'll be immediately redirected to set up a Walmart account. And here's the sinister part. Like I said before, it wasn't about buying the physical TVs, it was about buying smart cast. Any Vizio televisions that have been manufactured in 2026 require a Walmart account. And look at the deceptive pricing scheme. 238 for the TCL, 50 inch and 178 for the Vizio. Smartcast is the operating system that lives inside the TV. It runs all your apps like Netflix and YouTube. It controls your home screen, and most importantly, the Ad data system. What it does is detect what you're watching, even from cable boxes, game consoles or DVDs, and your cell phone connected to the Walmart app. Now they will tie in with you and your family, watch, search and buy to relentlessly market you into their store. Even more Orwellian than that, linking your TV to your purchases, to your location. Now, you are a probable target for personal product pricing adjustments set according to your needs or desperation. This is called dynamic pricing. Based on your personal data. And the fact that a giant corporation like Walmart has laid the foundation for a deceptive controlling system just like this should have us all outraged. Does it?

[C]

That's why I want to go to Walmart so much.

[D]

My aunt has been boycotting them for years and I'm now on board lawyer.

[E]

But you are free to make your own choices.

[D]

That's bullshit. That runs so deep it makes me sick to my stomach.

[E]

That's also interesting because we've been talked about the, like, dynamic pricing here before, and now it's, like, tied. You can tell they have, like a big plant, like, allegedly have a big plan. It's all going to get well.

[B]

And here's the thing. So we talked about the dynamic prices and the electric price tags at grocery stores and stuff. Basically, if you missed that episode, they are watching you throughout the store. They know what your spending habits are. And when you walk up to an item, they could electronically change the price to make it more expensive or cheaper, depending on who you are, the demographic, et cetera.

[C]

We're looking like doomsday preppers. We got a TV from like 2005. We got a car from 2009. Like, we're killing it, right? I might just go get a Nokia phone.

[D]

Wait, what about the van?

[I]

Well, it's a 2023.

[C]

Yeah, you're right. We're safe.

[E]

Justin just. Just made it.

[B]

So, yes, we've talked about the dynamic pricing, the price tags. I saw this video on Instagram, right, Which I was like, well, yeah, this is. This is happening. Let me just show you a second of it and then explain. This is really freaking me out. I'm in my grocery store and my girlfriend just told me about this conspiracy theory and it's happening in my grocery store right now. I'm gonna show you, like, regular price tags, okay? Regular price tags.

[J]

This is how much everything is.

[B]

And then you come over here and look at these ones.

[A]

That's a camera right there.

[B]

So they're replacing all of the paper ones with those digital ones that they

[I]

can change automatically, but they have a camera.

[F]

Okay.

[B]

Okay.

[D]

She needs to send her girlfriend back and see what price they are for her.

[B]

Right? So that allegedly is not a camera. It's like Some sort of infrared light thing that connects with. If you're like a Uber Eats or Doordash, it like connects with your app and tells you if it's the right product for the person that you're buying. Something like that. That's what they're saying. And maybe that's excuse, but I wonder

[C]

also what is like the full scope here of them? Cause let's say we walk in and we're looking at prices and box of CERE 599. The next person at 699, whatever the case may be. So like are they looking from outside like already like, okay, they drove up in this car. Now we have like their license plate. What is their credit score? How much are they making a month? Because you had to put what you make a month somewhere over an application. Like how much information do they have on you that determines what the price is? Like, I mean, when do they start tracking you? You know, obviously Walmart at your house with your tv.

[E]

But yeah, yeah, that's why I think we should say it's not. I don't think it's been proven that they're doing it individually yet. And it's more of a store to store thing.

[C]

I could have just helped them out. Oh, we never thought about.

[D]

It's factual though that they have bought Vizio and you have to have the Walmart app to use the interface.

[E]

Yeah, well, I mean think about that. You know, you can buy a Amazon Fire tv. You have to have an Amazon account to do that. Like Chris has to have an app to drive his car. Like it's all turning into that.

[B]

And listen, I love Walmart.

[C]

You do?

[B]

I don't hate Walmart, but. And I'm gonna get off their neck in a second. But before I do that, I do want to show this because it's so crazy and I don't know if this is Walmart's fault, but this is fucking crazy. And I will say Walmart responded in the comments on this reel. Please, like hit us up. We want to fix this. Just check this out and we'll talk. Oh my God, I want to barf so bad.

[A]

I just cut into an onion and

[B]

look at the shit. Oh my God. What in the actual. It looks like it's alive.

[D]

It's hollow. Oh my God. Oh my God.

[I]

Like

[A]

this is the bag of onions.

[B]

I just got this from Walmart, like a grocery delivery a few days ago.

[A]

They look great.

[B]

You know. What the is this?

[E]

Did she discover like an alien egg or something?

[F]

Literally.

[B]

Okay, so then I'm, like, freaking out. I go to the comments, and this one really got me. It's rotted from the inside. They sprayed so many preservatives on the outside that it couldn't rot on the surface.

[E]

That's crazy.

[B]

Whoa.

[L]

Whoa.

[B]

Like, that me up.

[E]

And that's how you buy an onion, too. You're like, mm, looks good.

[D]

Why does everyone want us dead?

[B]

Well, perfect transition to my next theory. Guys, I have wanted to talk about this for so long, but because I've been afraid of, you know, getting sued, I haven't. But since I'm in a fun mood today, let's do it. Long story short, I had a dentist in the past tell me to stop using my toothpaste because he said it was destroying my teeth. And I was like, but it's the toothpaste we all use. And he's like, it's destroying your teeth. And I was like, but you're a dentist. He's like, yeah, exactly. I was like, okay, that's weird. Then so I started using natural toothpaste and all these things. Then I see this. This is posted by a dentist. His name is Dr. Jerry, and he is a dentist. And he posted this.

[M]

This is what always cracks me up. Intense germ kill. So I said this was poison, and the dental society sent me a letter. And then I brought to their attention. It says, warning, keep out of reach of children. Again, it more than his accident said, contact poison control center right away. Right there. In two weeks, you destroyed.

[F]

Oh, my gosh.

[C]

You're so sorry to interrupt. Do not use children under 12 years.

[L]

No way.

[C]

Yeah.

[N]

Really?

[C]

Yeah. Sorry.

[B]

Yeah.

[M]

Yeah.

[B]

No, no, no.

[M]

I mean, the reality is. And I was happy because I. I talked to everybody about this, and they don't understand. This destroys 90% of your body's ability to produce nitric oxide, an essential. An essential compound for health. It is so connected to so many different systemic functions.

[D]

I love mouthwash. Is there a safe version?

[F]

Would I say to use the ones with non alcohol because, like, the alcohol is bad.

[C]

You should just use coconut oil. That's, like, the best thing you can

[I]

do to switch in your mouth.

[B]

I mean, listen, like Rylan said, not me. It is suspicious.

[G]

Yeah.

[D]

Come for me. It's not gonna affect him.

[B]

There is a lot of suspicious things going on. And this one is what? And this is gonna top it off. I promise we'll move on. But this is the one that really got me. Guys, have you seen what's going on with Flonase? I'm a big Flonase fan you really are. Love my flonase. So I'm not coming for them because I don't think it's their fault. But I will say, have you seen what's happening?

[D]

No.

[F]

I use flonase all the time. What's happening?

[B]

You're probably using it wrong. And if you're not, I will be very impressed. This threw me through a fucking loop. Team.

[N]

I was today years old when I figured out how to use flonase correctly so that it works. Okay? I've been using flonase for years. Just snorting it up, snorting it up. It trickles down the back of my throat. And I walk around and I'm like, I guess it works. It hasn't worked. It hasn't worked. My allergies are a mess. So the other day I go to the doctor and she tells me, well, how are you, you know, snorting it up your nose? And I go, well, you know, I go. She goes, you're not supposed to. To do that. You're supposed to point it to the outside of your nose and squirt it, and you're not supposed to inhale. She goes, you're not supposed to feel it come down your throat. I said, what? Well, when I snorted drugs, that's what I felt. She goes, yeah, this isn't a drug. You're not supposed to do that. So then I tried it her way.

[B]

It works.

[N]

My allergies haven't bothered me.

[E]

What a happy ending.

[D]

I learned this. I learned this a couple months ago when I was dying from allergies.

[B]

Wait, so this. I have used it for forever. Nasal spray. All different types of nasal spray. Nobody has ever told me to not inhale it. And you're not supposed to.

[D]

It is like, why does everyone think that until you do a deep dive and realize you're wrong?

[F]

I went most of my life thinking you were supposed to do that. And it wasn't until my allergies went nuts a year or two ago. Went to a specialist, and they told me exactly that. To the side. Don't inhale. And I'm like, I've been doing this wrong my entire life.

[D]

You taste it, you lose.

[B]

Let me. Okay, hold on. Not to come for Flonase because, as we've discussed, I love her. But, like, what does it do in the commercial? Are they showing that?

[D]

I feel like even the instructions when you, like, peel the back tell you to do that.

[I]

Well, I wonder if that does damage to your throw in long term, probably.

[D]

Damn it. You're not supposed to use it more than like five or something.

[B]

Oh, it doesn't.

[C]

Oh.

[B]

So I just clicked on a flonase ad. It just shows it right after he used it. It doesn't actually show him use it.

[C]

Look, he's like pulling it down.

[B]

Come on. Listen. Not trying to come for you, Flonase. I'm still gonna buy you. But come on. Why aren't you showing me how to use it in your abs, huh? Am I in a dream? Am I in a.

[A]

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[B]

Nightmare.

[D]

No.

[B]

I'm in Atlantis. Ooh, the nicest place on earth. And luckily, I have the best seat in the house. All thanks to SeatGeek. That's right. Today's episode is sponsored by SeatGeek. If you don't already know, they're the number one rated ticketing app with over 35 million downloads. They have over 70,000 events listed on SeatGeek. From concerts to sports festivals to comedy shows. Anything that needs a ticket, they got it for the best possible price. And with so many artists on tour right now, we got Bruno Mars, Lady Gaga, bts, Ariana Grande, Morgan Wallen, Cardi B, Alex Warren, Demi Lovato, all of them. And they also rate all the tickets from 1 to 10. So if you go and you click on a show and you look at the seat that you want, you might see a little green dot. That means this is a good price, good to go. And if you see a little red dot, that means, eh, this is way overpriced, not worth it. And every ticket is backed by their buyer guarantee. Sandy, are you thinking about going to a concert soon? I heard a little birdie told me

[I]

maybe you are only always. There's Goo Goo Dolls, no doubt.

[B]

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[C]

What?

[B]

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[E]

I bet you I could guess it.

[B]

Let me just explain it. I'll show you the real because I want to give him credit, but let me just explain where this took me mentally. Have you noticed in influx in every single restaurant now is just a bunch of. Of slop in a bowl. That's it. It's chipotle. It's cava. It's like. It's like all these places, love these places, but it's all just, here's a bowl, you pig. Fill it with slop and shut the up and eat it. Lawyer. And it's like, yeah, scoop sp.

[C]

Sp.

[B]

Eat it real fast. We'll make it real fast for you. You slop it all down like a fucking pig and then you're out the fuck door. So I started thinking. I was like, oh, that is kind of interesting. Like, what happened to, you know, nice little places where you go and you sit down for a second and you enjoy your food. It's not just a bunch of fucking slop in a bowl.

[D]

No, I had a slop bowl at a sit down restaurant yesterday.

[I]

Love it.

[B]

Okay, well, there might be a little reason for this.

[G]

What we're starting to see is a weird paradox in the restaurant industry where at the same time everything tastes and feels the same. A weird economic horseshoe is forming where the extremes are are squeezing out the middle. Just like the middle class in the US is disappearing, so are the mid tier restaurants. And what we're left with are increasingly polar opposites between low tier fast food and high end luxury dining. Instead of going to that local restaurant with mid tier prices, they may just trade down by grabbing a fast food burger here and there. Or if they decide to eat out, treat it as a special occasion to go big on a fancy dinner. So due to this, the social experience of dining is changing to be either a utilitarian or luxury. In those mid tier restaurants that are mostly mom and pop pop restaurants and that don't have centralized prep kitchens, bulk purchasing contracts or Wall street money are increasingly getting squeezed from both sides. Once they're out, the landlords wants to replace them with reliable tenants, so franchises are swooping in to take their place. And nothing encapsulates this better than corporate slop bowls. The bland beige sad mush of chicken, quinoa and lettuce designed to be eaten fast and efficiently during your 15 minute lunch break before you go back to your cubicle and your Excel spreadsheets.

[B]

He's angry.

[G]

Like sweet green chipotle, They've colonized every financial district, occupying the exact real estate that used to belong to actual restaurants. These spot bowls were supposed to be the cheap option, but even this budget fast casual food has become overpriced. And Chipotle is probably the worst example, raising their prices six times since 2021. As every city continues to get divided in these two extremes, an interesting thing is happening where even the extremes are starting to look the same. Because the absence of these mid tier restaurants created a vacuum and investors rushed not to fund creative food, but to fund concepts. This is why every new American restaurant in the country suddenly has exposed brick light bulbs hanging from the ceiling, hard as f metal chairs where you can't sit for more than 30 minutes. There's a corny live love laugh sign in the restaurant old to eat a $24 burger. And America's restaurant landscape is starting to look like the country itself split into two extremes with Nothing in the middle. But what no one has talked about is how this vicious cycle goes way beyond restaurants. It's actually a larger commentary of something bigger happening in American culture. I looked into it all. So follow to better understand how money and power works.

[D]

Wow, he is.

[E]

Oh, that's a good vin.

[B]

He got me.

[E]

Yeah.

[G]

Wow.

[C]

I think there's no way we could watch that without just giving some flowers to Chili's. You know, they still do the three. For me, it's still cheaper to get a whole meal, like a three course meal at Chili's than a Big Mac at McDonald's.

[B]

You are not gonna turn me into a Chili's apologist.

[D]

You're not gonna get Shane there.

[C]

I'm just saying, I. I do think

[B]

there is, in the game later in the show, there is a Chili's.

[E]

This is gonna cause some issues.

[B]

This is what I was thinking is gonna cause drama, but we'll save it. But listen, I am pro, anti slop bowl. Any restaurant that pops up, any mom and pop, I'm gonna give you guys a try. It's so much easier to get the slop bowl.

[E]

Mom and slop.

[B]

God, it's just so crazy. And yes, I love Chipotle and I love these places. I eat from them. But it is interesting. It's like, oh, yeah, and now the slop bowls are getting more expensive. Expensive, because now they really are. We're addicted to the slot bowls because they're so easy and because they're so fast, you have to wait. You'll walk in, you get your slop, and you leave. So I don't know. It's very interesting.

[I]

And I think they justify it too, by saying, like, well, this is a healthier option.

[E]

Yeah, right? Yeah.

[I]

Because all of these places are more, you know, health this, health that. Like, Cabo is really good because it's healthy. And so, yeah, I think that's how they're able to raise their prices so much.

[C]

I will say, if you live anywhere in a city, look up your local food truck alley. Food trucks are a great alternative.

[I]

Yeah.

[C]

And that's, I think, the last place you could truly find mom and pop foods that aren't slop. Because to have a restaurant and all of that is just way too intimidating for most people to try, especially when most of them go out of business. And the food truck is pretty feasible. So look at food truck alleys.

[B]

Yes.

[C]

Or Chili's.

[B]

Well, speaking of food conspiracies, I don't know why this one pissed me off so much. I'm not Coming for the Girl Scout Corporation of America because their pockets are empty.

[C]

Don't get me started on them.

[B]

Oh, we're starting. There might be another place you can get Girl Scout cookies. And they might maybe be the exact same thing year round.

[D]

And I don't have to feel guilty saying no.

[H]

So the great debate rages on. Does Dollar Tree sell Girl Scout cookies? You heard what I said.

[B]

Does Dollar Tree sell a knuckle off

[H]

brand of Girl Scout cookies Or is it the same thing in a different packaging?

[B]

This mother right here may have just seen a ufo.

[O]

Sorry.

[D]

It looks like he's an Austin Power.

[A]

Probably idiots out there that say that the Dollar Tree and Girl Scout cookies don't taste the same. Let me tell you, this is coming from a mom who is deep in the trenches of selling Girl Scout cookies. I'm going to show you something about these boxes. Here is a girl Scout box of thin mints. And here is a knockoff from the Dollar Tree. Dollar Tree, manufactured by Inner Baked Foods. Girl Scout Inner Baked Foods. The address on where they're manufactured.

[D]

Wow.

[B]

Identical.

[A]

The ingredients exactly the same. Cookies made in the exact same facility. One is 1:25, one is $6. Now I'm not saying don't support your old girl Scouts cuz this time of year buy Girl Scout cookies.

[P]

So there you have it for yourself.

[O]

Deb, date over.

[E]

We're gonna have to make a group decision on this one because Girl Scout season, as I learned the other day, is over. But so you can order them online. They have not arrived yet. The official girl Scout cookies have not arrived. We do have the dollar store ones bring them out. So okay, as a group, do we want to wait and do the comparison or do we want to just have test of feast?

[C]

I remember what they taste like.

[D]

I get them.

[C]

What are you doing here? Dude?

[D]

Come on, remember.

[C]

Don't tell me.

[D]

The cookies or what are we talking? Thin Mint Samoa?

[B]

It's a surprise. Oh, there's multiple fibers.

[E]

So there's multiples. So we have fudge mint.

[C]

We have these.

[E]

I forgot. Even the peanut butter ones.

[F]

Tagalongs.

[E]

And then they didn't have the coconut ones.

[C]

Oh them.

[E]

This like looked like it. I think these are just dollar store cookies.

[I]

So I'll take some of those.

[B]

I hate thin Mint so I'm not trying that. The tag alongs. I do know. I do know the flavor.

[D]

They have like little dots on them.

[F]

Oh, we talked about mint chocolate.

[B]

Identical. Identical.

[C]

There's nothing like eating one of these. And I didn't buy them from Girl Scouts that harassed me and I paid a fifth of the price. This is huge.

[D]

The Thin Mints are the same. They try to trick us with the

[E]

little pin needles and the cookie's white. In this one cookie is chocolate in the regular cookie.

[B]

Oh really?

[E]

Yeah.

[B]

So do they just have like a different machine that they do a little tweak?

[E]

I'm guessing. Allegedly.

[D]

You can't taste the difference between a chocolate cookie and a vanilla cookie though in the Thin Mint.

[E]

That's what I'm saying. It's probably just coloring. Sick, sick, twisted.

[B]

Well, let's lighten it up. Just kidding. We're gonna do the Wayfair conspiracy. I have avoided talking about this for six years because it scares me and I really don't wanna get sued, but let's finally do it. Disclaimer. Wayfair addressed the 2020 controversy by denying the claims. So they denied all of this and said there's no truth to this. So big disclaimer. Wayfair says this is not true. Right. And I would tend to agree. I think this is a pretty intense crazy thing. Then I saw this and I was like, this is interesting.

[O]

You guys remember the wayfair thing from 2020 where furniture like these cabinets would be listed at crazy prices like 8,000, 9,000 over $10,000. And the product being girls names and a lot of times it would be the same cabinet but with different names and different prices. With the implication of course being, you know, there are also pillows being listed at $9999 with some very suspicious naming conventions. I'll just put it that way. Now at the time, the mainstream media like the BBC called this a quote unquote false conspiracy theory. Wayfair responded by saying they use an algorithm to name their products and that some of the cabinets were expensive because they were quote unquote industri industrial size meant for commercial and business use. Head of Global Communications Jane Carpenter also explained some of the weird pricing to be caused by a feature or workaround where the product would default to a high price like $9999 until the true price was determined. Well, guess what just came out. There is an email in the Epstein files that shows that Jeffrey Epstein's assistant bought an unnamed item from wayfair for over $8,000 back in 2018. $8,453 shipped to one Karina. She is a whole nother rabbit hole which we'll get into some other time. But yeah, somebody at Wayfair better go look up this order number and tell us what the heck is going on here? Because at this point, it's not enough just to release the files. There needs to be investigations and there needs to be arrests.

[B]

So, so crazy. So let me just see. Okay. The mention of Wayfair in the Epstein files is legitimate, but what was ordered. A detailed look at the invoice shows that it was not a single mysterious item, but rather a bulk of 25 standard home goods, including bathroom decor, lighting fixtures, et cetera.

[D]

Still a lot of money.

[B]

Here's the thing. Do I think that this is happening on Wayfair? No. Legally, but also, personally, I do not think that this is actually happening. But. But I think it's, like. Because it seems so crazy and so out there. It's like, oh, a furniture store. This is that we're kind of distracted because this is actually happening in other places in the world. But also, like, this is the least crazy thing in those files. The least crazy thing in these files is that Wayfair shows up and nothing has happened. Literally nothing. It's, like, crazy, but it's like, yeah, but also they are doing all these crazy things, but we're all focused on. On the Wayfarer thing. I don't know. It's just very interesting to me that, like, we've moved on so fast. Nobody's talking about the files. Everybody's moved on.

[D]

Yeah. I haven't seen anything about the files.

[B]

Nothing. Literally gone. And it's just so crazy to me. But the timing is very curious that now the UFO files have been released. Yay. Yay.

[I]

I did just see that. California is, like, the biggest place for UFOs to be.

[D]

That makes sense.

[I]

Yeah.

[B]

Literally, as we're recording five minutes before we started filming this show, the UFO files have been released.

[D]

Wait, really? That just happened?

[B]

Today just happened. Pentagon releases UFO files, Moon landing sightings, orbs launching. Among claims, the Department of War released 162 files, including photos and videos related to UFO sightings. And why would they release this?

[F]

And why is this not a bigger deal, actually?

[C]

Well, Jared, they're setting us up. It's a fake alien invasion. But here's. Here's my thought. I was thinking about this actually yesterday. So the fake alien invasion. We had to have been talking about it since, like, we started the podcast, right? I mean, I heard about it at least five or six years ago, but what if they put this out because the whole goal is to get people just fucking terrified and. And put us all on edge? But also, like, what if somebody told you right now, aliens are going to Invade in five days. Chances are we're all gonna get blown up. Like, what are you doing tomorrow? Like, it seems like a lot of things right now are pushing people to be at their wit's end and, like, just kind of get a little bit crazy, you know? And so I do still think the alien invasion is fake. I have just been debating in my mind, is this a planned strategy or is this actually, like something where we've talked about before, where it's going to be the elites that go into their submarines and their bunkers and then they blow up the Earth and then they start over and repopulate, because that's the plan. And now with AI, they have means of doing this, but I think they just want people to say, fuck it, do dumb stuff and just create a dystopian society where they can start enforcing things like crazy and just have. What would they call it, like, martial law, something like that, I believe. But my theory has always been, if they do have a fake alien invasion, the way it's going to play out is at some point the Earth got to blow up or there got to be explosions coming down from these UFOs. But I think they're just going to set off nuclear weapons. They're going to have everybody go underground into a bunker. They're going to tell you where you can go hide somewhere, and then you're not going to see anything happen, but you're going to feel explosions and they're going to say, oh, it's coming from the UFOs. They're shooting down laser beams at us. But it's really just going to be nuclear bombs going off that they've been storing forever.

[M]

How can you guarantee results?

[B]

By dropping the bomb ourselves. And maybe just a theory, because you're probably wondering, well, how do they choose who's to going to be saved in the bunkers? Because not everybody can. Maybe they've been surveilling us for a certain amount of time, watching everything we're doing, everything we're saying, everything, whatever, and kind of picking and choosing. Almost like, we want you and we want you and we want you. I don't know. Yeah, kind of scary. Just a theory.

[E]

Yeah, having everyone's data of, you know, the more data we have, the more comprehensive profile, easier selection process who we should keep.

[B]

Wow. Well, just to throw in a fun one, have you guys heard about the new ugly carpet theory?

[E]

No.

[B]

This one is funny.

[C]

You went to our house. It is ugly. I've been saying it.

[B]

This one is funny to me. Because originally there Was a theory that you now had those hideous carpets in all the casinos. And the theory is it's to make you confused and get lost so that you, like, you know, see all the slot machines and you get lost. Or whatever. That might not be the case.

[Q]

Every bus seat, movie theater, and bowling alley you've ever been in shares a design secret. That chaotic, ugly fabric covering the seats and floors. It's camouflage. The same principles defense agencies used to hide. Tanks are hiding coffee stains and chewed gum underneath you.

[C]

That's kind of the same. Kind of the same.

[Q]

1930s, a London Underground design discovered that bright, clashing colors hide dirt better than dark ones. Your brain reads visual chaos as one smooth field instead of scanning for individual stains. In the transit world, they call this stuff moquette. And every inch is engineered to outlast the people sitting on it. Required to be at least 10 times more durable than your cow.

[C]

I like that.

[Q]

Every one of these fabrics was designed for a single purpose. Purpose to make sure you never notice it exists. The ugliness isn't bad design. The ugliness is the design. Shout out to every high school charter bus that permanently seared that pattern into my brain.

[C]

I was thinking, maybe, like, the only other thing that could be interesting is, what if at casinos, they use the ugliest carpeting ever because it gives you a headache to look at. And you gotta keep your eyes up because, like, you gotta keep scanning for, like, the slot machines and, like, like everything they're selling you. Because if you look down, I was like, I'm gonna get a headache from it.

[E]

You know, I have a family member who makes carpets for airplanes, so I wonder if he's in on this.

[B]

Get some inside information.

[E]

Are you in on this, Dan?

[B]

Well, speaking of things that are ridiculous, right? This is a fun theory about the book fair. Do you guys remember the book fair?

[I]

Yes.

[B]

Oh, I love the book fair. Hate books, but love the book fair. It was so fun. They had, like, little toys and little bookmarks and little fun things. But what if there was something else going on?

[R]

The scholastic book fair didn't sell toys. It sold functional surveillance equipment to nine year olds. You remember the smell of those battered silver cases when they rolled into the gymnasium? They looked like military transport crates, because that's exactly what they were. But look closer at the inventory list from 1996. The spy ear. A working parabolic microphone. You thought it was a toy. It was a hot mic. The schematics show a secondary transmitter and the plastic casing. You weren't just listening to your Parents argue. The agency was listening to you. And those gray kneaded erasers everyone had. They weren't for pencil lead. They were standard issue fingerprint lifting compound. You freely gave them your biometrics for 50 cents. And the books. They were the psychological profile. If you bought Goosebumps, you tested high for trauma tolerance. If you bought I Spy, you had elite pattern recognition. That thin newsprint catalog wasn't an order form. It was a personality test. The parent volunteers running the cash box, they weren't moms. They were handlers, marking the high potential subjects. And here is the ugliest part. You know that kid from fourth grade, the one who won the principal's raffle and then suddenly moved away in November?

[B]

He didn't move.

[R]

He passed the exam. And he's been watching you ever since.

[D]

This one's a little too far out there.

[E]

Yeah, I don't know about that one.

[C]

I mean, I bought the Goosebumps just so you. Maybe you could scratch off the bumpy parts, but I wonder if they're. Oh, he has high trauma tolerance.

[D]

I liked Captain Underpants, okay?

[F]

I loved Captain Underpants. Also, I got the spy ears, and those things were dangerous. I, like, turned it up and was, like, trying to use it, and I swear it, like, blew out my eardrum,

[E]

it hurts so bad.

[B]

That's what they wanted.

[E]

You didn't pass the test, Chris.

[C]

We were at Costco recently. Made me think of this. But we were picking up some medication for our dog, and they have, like, a hearing aid section right next to the pharmacy. So I was looking at him and, oh, do you have any questions? I was like, I'm just curious. If I were to buy these, but I'm not in need of them, will it give me, like, supersonic hearing? And she's like, no, they're calibrated for. She just, like, walked away. Like, who is this idiot asking me these questions? I mean, I'm embarrassed.

[I]

Yeah, he told me that. And I said, why would you even ask?

[C]

Because that's. How cool would that be? Cause what if I could put them in and I could hear something like, 100ft away?

[F]

I think it's valid. I would have asked it.

[D]

Like binoculars for your ears.

[C]

Exactly.

[B]

Well, speaking of surveillance, I don't know. This next theory is about flock cameras, which, now that I know about this, I'm seeing them everywhere. Like, we're in flock of bass.

[E]

Yeah, I know. I was looking. It really is Flockabas.

[C]

It's crazy Flocks Angeles.

[B]

Yes. It's about to take us through this journey. There it is.

[P]

These are not just some regular cameras. This is a flock camera. And it takes pictures of every car that passes by here with your make, model, color, and even knows the dent on the driver's side door. These things are motion activated. It doesn't just take one picture. It takes roughly 6 to 12 photos per car. And here's another one right here. This is in the city of Glendora, right off of Fleetwood and Grand Avenue. This has been used by cops to track down their ex wives.

[B]

What.

[C]

This one is pointed down this way.

[P]

This is by grand and the 210 Freeway.

[C]

And that's not even that far away

[B]

from the first camera that I showed.

[P]

Is this really for our safety, or have we decided that driving isn't private anymore? And we are totally fine with police departments and private companies knowing where we are driving.

[B]

Driving at all times?

[I]

Well, they already know.

[D]

Yeah.

[E]

So this is what a flock camera looks like. And we saw it briefly in the video, but this is.

[B]

I thought it was like a solar power thing. I'm sorry. I know.

[C]

Exactly.

[G]

They're really good at hiding.

[B]

Wow, there's solar power here.

[C]

I thought they were gonna look like birds.

[E]

And so all of a sudden, these have started coming up more and more in the United States. This company, it's a private company. It's not anything to do with the government. And so they've been starting. They've been doing. It started out small. They've been doing deals with cities.

[C]

And.

[E]

And it's the same similar idea to what we were saying with the car supervance. It's basically the same thing where it's like, this is bad.

[P]

Right?

[E]

Crime is bad. We want to catch people drunk driving.

[B]

We could.

[E]

We know exactly which car they're in. We can see them weaving it out of the lane. Like, this is bad, right? Yeah, this is bad. And it's just tacit agreement to, like, mass surveillance. This is what the camera is like the photo that the guy was using. So it can tell, like, any identifying thing on your car. So you have a certain sticker or something, your license plate, what, like, the back of the car looks like the type of the car. And so it's. If you look at videos of it happening, it's just like constantly, like, identifying these cars all over the road. And I think the most fucked up thing about it is that we never. I never agreed to like, this. Like, no one ever.

[A]

So good, so good, so good.

[I]

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[E]

Agreed to it. And it's just being agreed to. These cities are just doing this deal with Flock.

[A]

Just got a $1,250 ticket in the mail for having my phone on my laptop, flap face down and both hands on the steering wheel. Pretty cool.

[E]

And so this has been growing and growing. And now there's the website the guy went on called dashlock.org and it's an active map. These are screenshots I took. We can go on the website. It's an active map of all the Flock cameras in the United States right now. These are just, like, areas. These are individual cameras.

[C]

How the fuck are there missing children?

[D]

That's what I was just thinking.

[C]

Like, you're saying there's Amber alerts all the time.

[D]

Yeah, but if we have.

[C]

But you know where everyone's car is.

[F]

Like, you're.

[B]

You're asking your ex wife.

[C]

Yeah. You're asking me to look for a 1989 Toyota Sienna with the license plate. But then you got cameras.

[E]

That's a really good point.

[O]

Anybody.

[C]

But, like.

[F]

Well, I was thinking to a much lesser degree, when I got into my car accident, like, suddenly there's not a single camera anywhere nearby. Like, you know what I mean? I'm like, well, how are the cameras everywhere? But every time I need there to be one.

[I]

Well, I think. Especially I think in Arizona, like, there's a huge. I don't know if you guys have heard of this, but Native American girls get kidnapped. It's like, how are they not finding these people? This is crazy.

[E]

Use another video.

[S]

How many people have seen a police program that's being used called Palantir? It is in your police officer's car, on your police officer's computer. So while you've got the person pulled over, you can start to drill down on this person. It's not just like a DMV photo and an NCIC anymore. You can see all their bank accounts, the wallets in their bank accounts, the last times they declared cash somewhere. You can see every time they hit a Flock camera anywhere in the country. Flock is a giant national traffic monitoring system that is basically everywhere now. And they're taking photographs at every intersection all day. And it's using AI to, like, read license plates and put ID identities of people Places. And it's just keeping all that data,

[F]

like, all of it.

[S]

That's what they've got in their car right now. And we're not getting that in discovery. We're not able to confront it, and we're not able to use it as Brady evidence. We've got Fourth Amendment issues galore. Obviously, I didn't realize how prevalent it was. There has never been a surveillance program in the history of the United States that was not used brutally and in a corrupt fashion. And now we have the biggest surveillance surveillance system that we've ever had.

[D]

Bank accounts.

[F]

Yeah.

[B]

Why?

[E]

So they're teaming up with another huge mass surveillance company called Palantir to create these profiles. I think Jared had a little. I don't know if you want to get into that.

[C]

So Palantir, to give a little bit wider of a scope what it is. It was started in 2003 by a gentleman. We've talked about him like a million times, Peter Thiel. And one of the things that I found interesting as I was researching, because I've known about, but it's kind of hard to, like, understand exactly the scope of what's going on there. Besides, they're surveying Everybody. But in 2002, there was a movie that came out. I actually hadn't seen it. I just did a bunch of research, though. Watch the videos. So I have an understanding of it, but. Minority Report with Tom Cruise.

[B]

Yeah.

[C]

Have you guys seen it? Yeah. So the whole thing is based on a Society in 2054, and there's these, like, cyborg type human transhumanism. Them like robots that are able to predict actions. And the whole thing is they arrest people before the crime happens. So it's like, hey, you know, based off of what you just googled, what you ate for lunch yesterday and, like, how you're acting this afternoon, you're probably gonna go commit murder. So we're gonna go ahead and just arrest you to get it over with now. So it leaves, like, little room for any kind of speculation or. I mean, obviously in this country, we have the right to a trial. Like, there's no right to any of that. If they think you're going to commit a crime, you're going to get arrested. So kind of crazy. But Palantir 2003, their first and pretty much how they got funded was something called in qtel, which is like a CIA branch. The CIA was very interested in this. But their whole thing is they're collecting data in, like, any possible way. So, like flock cameras for, for instance, that's probably something they'll acquire or they'll just make their own.

[E]

I think they have a partnership with

[C]

them, but their whole thing is they want to figure out, even like with Walmart, they want to know everything about you. Profiling is the only way I could put it, but they're going to take demographic, income, social economics, all these other things, and they're going to pretty much put, like, a social rating on you. So maybe, like, because of three things that I am, I'm higher likely to commit a crime. And what they really want is for people to embrace the technology. So, like, they want it to be a solution. They don't want it to seem like an invasive issue. Like, even these flock cameras. When I said, well, why are there still Amber Alerts? That seems like a pretty valid question to ask. But that's going to be their thing. Well, don't you want missing kids cases to get sold, solved? If so, I mean, it's just a byproduct of keeping kids safe. But, yeah, we're gonna be pretty much filming you all the time, because how else could we do it? We can't just, like, randomly target somebody. We got to film everybody all at once.

[D]

But it's like with the car thing, it's not yet effective.

[C]

It's not. Well, it isn't effective, or they're just not using it for the purpose that we're hoping they do, because that's not the goal. The goal is really just to profile everybody and get all your information. But I think that they want to cause chaos because then there's going to be a large portion of society that doesn't embrace the chaos. And they're thinking, what is our way out? What's going to help us? Well, thank God Palantir exists, because we could implement their systems in society. We're going to suddenly be like, whoa, we actually want that now. So I think they're trying to get society to a point where we want to embrace these types of things. And that's like, the scariest part to me personally, because the best way to convey to somebody to do something is give them two pieces of information and let them put it together. So, like, I think they're trying to create as messed up a society as possible. And this company, Palantir, I mean, they have, like, drones. They've been responsible for things that I don't even know if we could actually talk about without, you know, getting the video taken down. And, I mean, we're like, funding this stuff actively.

[E]

But.

[C]

But how do they get us to the point to embrace it. Which is the scariest part to really think about, you know, like, what are they willing to put us through for us to accept this kind of technology. So like, I think, you know, now might be the time to band together against these things.

[D]

But they're making it near impossible when somebody buys a car and can't turn it on until they consent, you know,

[I]

And I think that's why I brought up earlier about the car, the self driving car. And it's like I feel like they're building us to be robots. Like we go somewhere, we work, on our way home, we're just gonna fall asleep, go back to work. It's just, we're robots at that point.

[E]

Eat your slop on the way home.

[I]

Eat your slop. Yeah.

[B]

And we can't band together because everybody hates each other because of politics or stupid shit on the Internet that actually doesn't matter, but it makes everybody hate each other. And then here we are.

[C]

Let's divide and conquer, you know, but. Yeah.

[B]

Well, that is terrifying. And all coming from Jerry. Yes, a reflection.

[C]

I'm just copying what I heard. I don't know.

[B]

Well, before we play a game where we all band together and then fight, let's just do one final theory. I thought this was kind of a funny one and maybe an interesting one. And I'm not telling you guys to try this, this, I'm just saying it's interesting. This is the gum theory.

[L]

You should swallow one piece of gum every seven years. So we all know we live in a big simulation, everything around us is computer generated. That there's one thing that isn't part of the simulation, that's gum. Gum is weird.

[B]

You chew it.

[L]

You could just chew choo choo choo forever. That's because gum comes from outside of the simulation. Gum is real. So you also know if you swap, swallow gum, it stays in your system for seven years. And every cell in your body changes every seven years. And in the seven year it, you change personalities every seven years. That's because every seven years they come from the outside and they take you away and put a whole new you in there. And they can change you any way they want. But if you, if you swallow the gum, then they can't because the gum locks you in place. Because the gum is real. Gum is there weakness. Swallow one piece every seven years. Any more than that, you might get a stomachache, but one peaks every.

[B]

Should we all, except one of us swallow a piece of gum right now and in seven years we'll See if the one who didn't swallow is different.

[E]

Hey, check back in on this on another episode.

[D]

Definitely going to have destroyed us in seven years.

[B]

Wow.

[C]

I think one of the funniest things, there's a guy, Gary Vee, he's all about, like, the hustle culture. And one thing that he said is he swallows his gum to save time. It's like, how much time have you saved in your life life by swallowing gum?

[B]

So wait, do you the gum out in seven years?

[E]

That's a myth, by the way, that you just. That's your normal.

[C]

Your stomach could disintegrate like iron. Okay, so it could definitely disintegrate.

[F]

Unless you have my stomach, which can't

[B]

corn swallow gum or corn do the test.

[E]

Yeah, that's true. Yeah, Corn.

[C]

Well, to test that theory, Spencer, let's

[E]

go to the bathroom.

[F]

Bathroom.

[B]

Okay. Let's play a game. All right, we're gonna take a quick little break. When we come back, we have a very heated, exciting game, and we'll see if we survive.

[D]

What?

[F]

I have to go.

[B]

It's easy. Whoa. I just had a vision.

[E]

What happened?

[B]

Well, I was doing the show, and then I saw into the future that eventually everybody's gonna have a website.

[E]

That's impossible.

[B]

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[O]

Whoa.

[B]

I just had another vision, but it's more of a vision from the past, so I guess it's more of a memory.

[G]

What was it?

[E]

What was it?

[B]

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[E]

The big game.

[I]

It's going down.

[B]

See you guys next time. Bye. Okay, we're back. And. Wow, look at this game. This is fun. What? Explain what. What you did here. Yeah.

[C]

Thanks for the picture of me, dude.

[E]

Well, I figured I wanted to find everyone's best picture, and so I did.

[D]

Sandy's is at goofy's kitchen. Very on.

[B]

What's wrong with Jared? What's. What's happening there?

[C]

I had a nose job, deviated septum,

[D]

A nose job, operated on.

[C]

But a lot of people did think I had a nose job. They're all, dude, you got a nose job. It's like, no.

[B]

So here's how the game works. Spencer is going to read different statements and then we all will position our code cup where we fall on the category from strongly agree to strongly disagree, and then we'll discuss.

[E]

You have to defend your stance. Okay, everybody take first statement. It's okay. Slash, everybody pees in a public pool.

[C]

I mean, keep it real, guys. What the I.

[F]

Keeping it very real. All of you pee in a public pool.

[D]

Yeah, right. Why else could they be for show?

[E]

This is not for show.

[G]

You're all sick.

[E]

This line has been drawn.

[I]

I'm not saying I do it. I'm saying I get it.

[E]

What?

[B]

What? You don't do it, but you get it. Listen, chlorine was invented for a reason. It is wrong. I'm not saying I do it. I get out and dry off, put on my shoes and walk in the bathroom.

[I]

I mean, Jared said strongly agree, so he definitely does.

[C]

Here's the thing. Jared definitely not a biologist by any

[D]

means, and he's no longer invited to pool parties at my house.

[C]

But. Well, you do it too. You're on his side.

[D]

It's my own pool.

[B]

Like, I don't know the last time I've been in a pub.

[D]

Me either.

[E]

I don't either.

[B]

That sounds like I was like 6

[C]

years old last time and I for sure peed in it.

[F]

To me, it's like every pool I've ever been in, right outside everyone, there's always been a bathroom, right?

[C]

The pool is endless water that you could pee in. Why Would you get outside?

[I]

Outside?

[C]

The whole point is to enjoy the pool. Why get outside?

[B]

Enjoy it if everyone's pissing?

[E]

Well, you don't.

[D]

Well, you're. You're swimming in people's piss, that's for sure.

[H]

If you're in a public pool, you are in.

[B]

Don't even think about the ocean.

[O]

Friend's pool.

[D]

Yeah, I would get out if I was in a friend's pool.

[F]

Everyone else.

[E]

Yeah, me too.

[B]

No, I'd be in the pool too.

[C]

I wouldn't leave. I would swim over to my own little area and pee.

[B]

You're all sick.

[C]

And then probably everyone. I think you're peeing.

[F]

When I win the lottery, no one here is invited to my pool.

[B]

Let us know, please. I've never wanted more comments on something in my life. Please. Where are you on this spectrum from strongly agree to strongly disagree? People pee in pools.

[E]

Should we get controversial?

[D]

Yes.

[B]

Oh, God. Okay.

[E]

All right. This is referencing earlier in the episode.

[D]

What are you throwing me Mine.

[B]

I'm scared.

[E]

Chili's is the most overrated chain restaurant. No, no, no.

[C]

Most denison all the way over.

[I]

No.

[C]

Do we gotta pull up a fucking menu right now and see these prices?

[D]

I think it's factual that it's not the most overrated. There's much worse out there.

[E]

What's the most.

[B]

It is so overrated. I love you. Chilies don't come for me. The chips are so breakable. You can't scoop a salsa. You can't do nothing. Yes, they're free or whatever, but you can't even eat them because they're so thin. They're like bible paper.

[I]

But they've got a kabila ch delicious queso.

[C]

That's why you microwave them for 30 seconds.

[B]

You know what?

[D]

Chili's doesn't even want you.

[E]

Okay? The pricing is a huge sell.

[D]

Ideal.

[E]

But also, when I go out of Chili's, I feel, like, sick and I feel like I want to throw up. Last two times I've been to Chili's, I felt very bad afterwards.

[B]

Wait, so you're kind of agreeing with me?

[E]

That's why I'm riding the line.

[B]

That's why I'm riding the line.

[C]

Why'd you pick them, Spencer? I just need clarification. I understand the food being so delicious that you can't stop yourself and you eat a bunch of of it and you make a mistake. But why are you feeling sick? I'm assuming I'm right. But why?

[D]

It's your fault and they're not marketing health Chili's has never been like, we're healthy.

[E]

There are places that don't market health that I don't feel like throwing up.

[C]

And, you know, aside from the food, they also have possibly one of the best marketing songs ever.

[E]

I want my baby back, baby back, baby back I want my.

[C]

I mean, come on. Chili's is just all around strong.

[B]

Let us know, guys. I'm not going to ask every time, but. But from here on out, let us know in the comments where you stand on all of these.

[E]

All right, Are you guys ready?

[B]

I'm ready.

[E]

This is fun. You should never buy sheets from a thrift store or a yard sale.

[D]

Get me passed strongly. I landed right on it.

[E]

You know, this is big for you guys.

[B]

I'm almost there with you. I'm almost riding the line.

[I]

Oh, but only if it's like quite a quilts. Like bed sheets. Sheets.

[D]

See, I wouldn't even encourage somebody to buy my used sheets. And I feel like I'm a pretty clean guy. Like, I shower a lot. I wash them in the wash at least once a week.

[C]

But what about clothes? Do you. Would you buy clothes at a thrift store?

[D]

I don't like it because I can't even smell it.

[C]

The same clothes are on your body all day. You know what I'm saying?

[I]

People buy clothes that you can't get. Like the shirt that I got, I've been. I've washed it it like five times and I cannot get the smell out. But not all of the clothes are like that.

[C]

But yeah, that's why we strongly disagree. There are circumstances, Chris.

[B]

Yeah, so you are on the strongly agree.

[F]

Yeah. So everything is impacted by the. By the fact that I am quite germaphobic and like, I'm just paranoid of like, what if this person had like a skin condition or like something that like rubbed off in the clothes and then I get it and then like, I don't know, I'm just really. I would not feel comfortable. I would be panicking the entire time.

[B]

I'm so given the choice. Jumping in a public pool that, you

[E]

know, four kids just said, hey, I

[B]

was just sleeping in yard sale sheets for a night.

[D]

Oh, I jump in a piss pool.

[E]

I don't know.

[F]

They're both awful, I guess because the pool is like. I assume it has so much chlorine in there that hopefully it's killing Jared's pee. I hope maybe that's a percent strong pee.

[C]

Chris. I don't. I don't think Florians do that.

[E]

They're both awful.

[D]

They're both awful.

[F]

But I'll.

[B]

Sorry.

[F]

I'll probably.

[B]

Probably pick the pool. But they're both awful. All right.

[E]

Seeing a movie in a theater actually sucks.

[F]

Wait, seeing what?

[E]

A movie in a theater actually sucks. What?

[F]

That's the only way I want to see a movie.

[C]

I would say disagree. I would say disagree.

[B]

Push me one forward. In case I ever really. A movie in theater. Let me. I need to clear my name first. I go to movie theaters. I see movies in theaters.

[D]

It's awful.

[B]

Support theaters. I support movies. I want people to go to movie theaters. But we got to do something about the people. It is making me not. We got to take the food out. It is so stinky and loud. They don't care at all. They're just right behind me. And I'm just like, okay, we could have had chili at home. So it's like that. That then the talking people just talk. And I know this is like been happening for years, but it's getting worse. People on their phones. We went to see the Michael Jackson movie the whole time. A whole.

[D]

I could have killed this. This kid. This like 12 year old kid next to me. His dad just let him be on the phone the whole time.

[B]

30 minutes.

[C]

And you only agree with that? That's not a strongly agree.

[D]

I like the idea of a movie theater. I hate the people inside of them.

[B]

The 30 minutes of previews, which is fucking insane. It's not even previews anymore. Now you go to the movie theater and the actual movie theater has like a commercial. And they used to just have one. Now they have four. It's the same fucking commercial four times. Four different times. It's driving me crazy. It's just so depressing to me. So I love the idea and I hope we can fix it. Maybe they need to put Palantinos or whatever the fuck that thing was called in movie theaters to watch everyone.

[C]

Now you're wanting it to happen because you want a better movie experience. This is what they want. But I will say I think there is opportunity here. Maybe we open a movie theater.

[B]

Do you hear that? Sounds like breakfast is ready. Because Quaker's coming in hot with morning nutrition 100% whole grain oats and a good source of fiber to fuel the rhythm of your morning and kickstart your day. And that sounds absolutely delicious.

[C]

Fuel to start.

[B]

Whatever's next. Quaker official sponsor of FIFA World Cup 26.

[E]

Let's go.

[C]

And we say eat the fucking food outside. One for no phones, no talking or you're kicked out right away.

[D]

And let me.

[C]

There's A lot of people that would love to go.

[B]

And a lot of these screens are pretending to be imax and they're not because we went to an image max screen, and I was like, hi, this is smaller than our tv.

[E]

Yeah, they're. I.

[M]

They're.

[C]

I mean, it best.

[D]

These are just group activities in general.

[C]

How fun would it be if the theater that we might open. What if underneath every seat there was a airbag? And if anybody disrespected the rules, it's like. And they just get ejected from their

[I]

seat or at least like a buzzer.

[F]

The reason I strongly disagree is because there's something about the communal everyone together on the same page in this moment that's so beautiful and transcendent and can only be experienced in the theater. A good screening is so magical that it's worth the risk of a bad screening. And even not that long ago, when the last Quiet Place movie came out, the entire theater was dead silent from ice cream.

[B]

I don't like that either. Then I hear breathing. I need, like, ambient noise.

[D]

It's best I'm just not around

[I]

in general.

[D]

Yeah.

[B]

Okay.

[E]

Hey, you guys ready for another one? Voice memos are the most annoying form of communication.

[C]

Oh,

[B]

God, that's a tough one. Because I do use them.

[D]

There's a time limit.

[C]

You know, I would say, yeah, I'm pretty much. I'm gonna let the chips fall where they last.

[I]

Ooh, Spencer, how long?

[E]

That is the number one question. I'd say question number one. What does that timer say right there?

[D]

I can deal with a minute 30 and under, honestly. And that's pretty.

[B]

That's a pretty big thing. Press on the play button and you hold on it. You can do two times speed.

[E]

Oh.

[B]

Oh, yeah.

[D]

And it will transcribe if you're just not having it.

[E]

Exactly.

[B]

Yeah.

[E]

So I'm again, I'm riding the line. It's the people I put agree because it's. There are certain people. No one here who uses. Who use voice memos all the time. Every conversation, I'll text something and they reply in a voice memo. And then I'm like, do you want me to reply in a voice memo? I don't really want in public right now. And then I have to, like. You have to, like, listen. You have to, like, hold your phone up and listen. Like, wait, what did they just say? I can't remember everything. They just said it's gonna disappear. So I don't know. It's just like, to voice that text if you want to talk. Like, just voice the text.

[C]

The only thing more irritating than an extremely long voice.

[B]

I know what you're about to fucking

[C]

say is when they break up a text into, like, 50 texts.

[B]

I was gonna say, when they do a text so long that it does this to see more clicking.

[C]

That's annoying too. I do not want people like, what's up? New text. Da, da, da. New text. It's like, send it in one text.

[F]

Yes.

[C]

You know, I don't want to keep getting dings.

[E]

I do that too.

[F]

Your voice memos are, like, the template for what a voice memo should be. They're never too long.

[B]

I agree, Q.

[F]

They're a quick little, like, gets to the point.

[I]

Just in case you thought they were talking about your voice.

[D]

Just to be clear.

[B]

Oh, no, I know. I am aware of my etiquette.

[E]

All right, move on. I'm laughing also because this next one is, like, the same as another one we did.

[B]

Oh, no.

[E]

Going to concerts sucks socks. No. Yeah.

[F]

It's my favorite place to be.

[D]

I find a crowd's actually more tolerable at a concert than at a movie.

[I]

Oh, 100%. Yeah.

[F]

Remember the clip of me crowd surfing at the last Warped Tour? Like, that's like a memory I'll relive for the rest of my life. It was so magical and incredible.

[B]

Jared being in a pool is a memory. He'll do.

[I]

I love a concert. I mean, I'm not gonna go in the mosh pit, but I love singing. I love everybody singing. And just like. And then, too, Jared and I will go. And Jared isn't. We're two very different people when we go to concerts. Like, I'm standing up. I'm, like, screaming every word with everybody else, and Jared is just sit back in his chair just, like, taking it in, Taking it in, you know? So it's so much better.

[D]

At least you get him there.

[E]

I am hard pressed to think of a concert. I was like, wow, what a show. Really loved it. I hate everything about it. I think if you. If I was about to say, when I go to hell, if you took me to hell, it would be at a music festival. I think that I can't think of a worse scenario to. Well, I can think of a few,

[C]

but I'm with you on the music festivals. I think the trick to those. Those is just go later when the bands you actually want to see playing are playing, or else you're gonna get fatigued. Pretty close, pretty early on.

[E]

Yeah.

[I]

But I will say, because even the.

[A]

No doubt.

[I]

I really want to go, but I. I'VE never been into. Like, I've never been to the sphere. And so it's like, I don't know if I'm gonna go all.

[D]

You don't want to go too high. It gets really steep. It gets really.

[I]

Yeah. It's like, am I even gonna enjoy this right now?

[D]

The view is good. You're just gonna be nauseous because it's like so steep.

[I]

Yeah. Well, then that answers that.

[E]

There we go. There we go.

[C]

Cool.

[B]

Wow. Well, there you guys go. That was our agree or disagree. I felt like that was a fun game. Riled up, everybody got a little testy, got a little fighting. Let us know in the comments. Which ones did you agree or disagree with? And should we play this game again? And do you like this? Should we incorporate games? Should we maybe in the next episode. Do you know, just like a conversation about what's going on in life. How do you feel about the show? I like this format. I feel like this is fun, like going from conspiracies to something like. Like this kind of fun.

[C]

You know what? I strongly agree.

[B]

We survived. We really did. Well, there you guys go. Hopefully you enjoyed the show and yeah, watch out out there. Be careful and be safe out there. See you next time. Bye.

[A]

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