The Miami Mall Incident Conspiracy Theory

Summary

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Podcast Summary: The Shane Dawson Podcast

Episode: The Miami Mall Incident Conspiracy Theory
Date: May 17, 2026
Host: Shane Dawson (Jared), Co-hosts: Sandy, Lizzy, Spencer, Ryan, Chris

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Episode Overview

This episode dives deep into recent and classic conspiracy theories, with a spotlight on the Miami Mall Alien Incident and the broader themes of portal openings, time acceleration, AI threats, and media manipulation. Shane and his friends mix lighthearted banter, personal anecdotes, and layered discussion, threading themes of simulation, surveillance, and societal control. Throughout, they emphasize that these are just theories—not facts—and invite listeners into their ongoing quest for the bizarre and unexplained.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

I. Opening & Disclaimers (02:37)

• Co-hosts remind listeners these are theories, not facts, and clarify their intent to entertain, not promote misinformation or risk lawsuits.

"We are not trying to get sued or silenced or any of that." – Jared (02:37)

II. Conspiracy #1: Sports Are Fake (03:12–10:12)

• Premise: Are professional sports, like basketball and football, rigged or manufactured for entertainment (akin to WWE wrestling)?
• Evidence shown:
  • Claims of magnetic hoops and lasers marking tackle spots.
  • Discussion of heavy commercialization: more ad time than gameplay.
  • Allegations that player 'game fixing' isn't as rare as people think.
  • The "bread and circus" concept: keep masses distracted from real issues.

"What we're actually watching is a perfectly engineered system of interruptions... a system where the action is short but the monetization is constant." – Narrator (07:05)

Memorable quote:

"I mean, we're seeing a lot of alien stuff, and there’s a new alien movie coming out soon." – Jared (18:48)
Context: Paralleling sports-based distraction with alien/portal propaganda and media tie-ins.

III. The "Blank Program" and Collective Lucid Dreaming (10:12–15:19)

• The group discusses an urban legend of a government "program" (with Stranger Things vibes) that used sound to screen children for psychic or special abilities.
• Lucid dreaming: Many "graduates" of this program report near-constant lucid dreaming and hostile dream characters upon realizing they're dreaming.
• Discussion of dream incubation and spiritual vulnerability during sleep.

Expert on dream hostility:

"When you point out that you're dreaming... the characters can become hostile. You're breaking the fourth wall." – Unknown Expert (13:05)

IV. Viral Marketing and Collective Memory Manipulation (15:19–18:48)

• The "Have You Dreamed This Man?" phenomenon explained as a viral marketing stunt.
• Illustrates the power of suggestion: how planted ideas create collective hallucinations and false memories.
• Discussed alongside other bizarre marketing hoaxes (e.g., the e-corpse/body parts website, and the “killer clown” viral scares).

"I wonder if that implants that person in your head... you could dream incubate, where you think of something hard before sleep." – Sandy (17:18)

V. Food Conspiracies (22:07–24:57)

• Viral video claims Dunkin Donuts uses imitation eggs with industrial additives; group confirms much of this is true upon further research.
• Broader discussion on fast food ingredients and how consumer tastes have adapted to processed food.

VI. Celebrity Cloning & Reincarnation (25:26–28:26)

• Classic conspiracy segment: Are celebrities cloned or reincarnated across generations?
• Examples: Anne Hathaway/Shakespeare’s wife; Glenn Close/George Walachy; Khloe Kardashian/Elvis Presley (with Photoshopped face comparisons).
• Group mostly laughs it off but notes patterns in media.

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Major Theories, Technology & Surveillance

VII. Spy Glasses & Surveillance Tech (28:41–31:06)

• Meta/Ray-Ban glasses can scan faces and pull up personal data from the cloud in real-time.
• Discussion about how normalization of wearable tech desensitizes us to constant surveillance.

"It just is feeling like they're normalizing it a little too much." – Jared (29:51)
"There’s a lot more on TikTok of food reviewers wearing these glasses... recording people without knowledge or consent." – Chris (30:25)

VIII. Is Time Speeding Up? (31:29–35:55)

• Viral TikToks claim there's only "45 seconds in a minute" post-2020, possibly due to a secret "16-hour day" reset.
• The group does live counting experiments and debates the psychological vs. metaphysical explanations.
• Theories include time dilation, lack of sleep, and societal fatigue as forms of control.

"If we don't feel like we have any time... maybe they're pushing us towards a specific lifestyle they want us to have." – Chris (38:04)

IX. AI, Data and Algorithmic Manipulation (41:02–44:25)

• Popular aging-trend filters and “show us what you looked like” memes are posited as covert AI data collection tools.
• Group jokes that these trends are invented by AI to backfill databases with images of people at all ages.

"AI is all about getting data and information and learning from it... if they don't have my baby pictures, the trend gets them." – Jared (41:44)

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Portal Theory & The Miami Mall Incident

X. "Ring My Bell" & Frequency Conspiracies (42:38–44:25)

• Urban legend: the disco song “Ring My Bell” is allegedly banned in casinos because its frequency can 'hack' the law of attraction and make people win.
• The team discusses testing this theory with experiments in Vegas.

XI. The Miami Mall Alien Incident (51:24–53:15)

• Recap: On January 1, 2024, chaos at Bayside Marketplace in Miami sparked claims of a "10-foot tall shadow alien". Despite the crowd and everyone owning smartphones, there is almost zero footage. The air traffic, power outages, and location’s alignment with “alien bases” are presented as corroborating evidence.
• Eyewitnesses say, "they tried to walk in like they were normal. It was mad scary and real." (52:31)
• Parallels drawn to the viral “woman on the plane” story ("That motherfucker back there is not real"), now framed as another possible "portal" anomaly.

XII. CERN & Mandela Effects (53:50–63:16)

• CERN’s Large Hadron Collider allegedly opened “11-minute interdimensional portals,” aligning with the rise of Mandela Effects and shifts in reality.
• Max Laughlin, a prodigy, claims 2012’s CERN experiments shifted us to a "new reality," explaining widespread false memories.
• Actual TV broadcast (2009) records someone saying "Sex in the City" (not "Sex and the City"), reinforcing the Mandela Effect narrative.

"When that 11 minute portal opened in 2012, that's when a lot of shift started happening. And now we're within these dimensions more than ever, you know?" – Sandy (59:57)

XIII. Marvel’s Predictive Programming (64:19–65:47)

• Chris points out that Marvel movies cover all the recently discussed theories—portals, time travel, alternate realities.
• Group analyzes a video arguing that superhero cinema has shifted from solo heroes to collectives, reflecting how narratives influence the public's sense of agency.

"It's always the Avengers coming together to beat Thanos... Every theme, every color, every lighting, and every sound is telling the audience a story." – Unknown TikTok User (65:03)

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Social Manipulation & Conspiracy “Flood”

XIV. Flood of Conspiracy Content (66:46–68:38)

• The episode highlights that current platforms (Instagram, TikTok) are now “flooded” with conspiracy content, theories that were recently banned.
• Is this social engineering? Possible reasons:
  1. Stress testing the public
  2. Mapping and surveilling "dissidents"
  3. Sowing distrust to fragment society

“Why is Zuckerberg’s platform suddenly okay with you knowing all of this?” – P (66:46)

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Notable Quotes & Timestamps

• "Sports are just bread and circus... give us a circus." – Jared (08:43)
• "When you point out that you’re dreaming... they become hostile. You are breaking the fourth wall." – Unknown Expert (13:05)
• "Meta, don’t come for us. Really don’t come." – Jared (29:47)
• "I couldn’t believe it when [the Miami Mall story] had zero video footage." – Chris (52:31)
• "AI is creating trends—wouldn't it be cool if you asked everybody to put their baby picture online?" – Sandy (42:10)
• "Everything you guys have been talking about, Marvel movies have touched on: time travel, alien invasion, multiple dimensions... Is this on purpose?" – Chris (64:19)
• "Let me know what you think is true, and don’t forget to follow this page for only the truth." – P (67:53)
• "Hopefully you enjoyed our distraction. Promise we're not working for any higher powers..." – Jared (68:38)

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Timestamps for Major Topics

| Segment | Topic | Timestamp (MM:SS) | |---------|--------------------------------------------|-------------------| | I | Disclaimers & Show Introduction | 02:37 | | II | Conspiracy: Sports Are Fake | 03:12–10:12 | | III | The "Blank Program" & Lucid Dreaming | 10:12–15:19 | | IV | Viral Marketing/Collective Memory | 15:19–18:48 | | V | Food Conspiracies (Dunkin Donuts) | 22:07–24:57 | | VI | Celebrity Cloning/Reincarnation | 25:26–28:26 | | VII | Spy Glasses/Surveillance | 28:41–31:06 | | VIII | Is Time Speeding Up | 31:29–35:55 | | IX | AI Data/Algorithmic Manipulation | 41:02–44:25 | | X | "Ring My Bell" Casino Theory | 42:38–44:25 | | XI | Miami Mall Alien Incident | 51:24–53:15 | | XII | CERN & Mandela Effects | 53:50–63:16 | | XIII | Marvel/Predictive Programming | 64:19–65:47 | | XIV | Flood of Conspiracies/Closing Discussion | 66:46–68:38 |

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Final Thoughts & Tone

The episode keeps an irreverent, joking tone but tackles these viral conspiracies with detail and genuine curiosity. The hosts try to balance skepticism and possibility, regularly reminding listeners not to take any theory as fact, but to enjoy the speculation.

Closing Message:

"Hopefully you enjoyed our distraction. I promise we’re not working for any higher powers here... Stay safe out there and be concerned." – Jared (68:38)

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Note: For the full experience, including jokes, asides, and story tangents, listening to the episode delivers all the entertaining chaos only Shane and crew can provide.

Transcript

[Sandy]

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[Jared]

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[Sandy]

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[Jared]

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[Sandy]

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[Jared]

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[Sandy]

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[Jared]

Exclusions apply for licenses seehomedepot.com licensenumbers I don't know if you guys remember this, but there was this thing that happened in Miami where people allegedly saw this 10 foot tall alien shadow figure and it was really scary and everybody freaked out. So just check out this video.

[Chris]

Jared. Sandy's camera speed.

[Marker]

Marker.

[Chris]

Camera speed is on the go. Marker.

[Jared]

Hey, what's up, you guys? Welcome back. Okay, I kind of want to just jump right into this because I have never been more excited about a conspiracy in my life. When I was planning this with Spencer, we've been like planning this episode all week, and it was like every day more and more shit started happening. More and more theories started popping up. Sandy even has theories. Like, you came to the table and you were like, I got shit to say.

[Lizzy]

Yeah. I started telling Jared and he said, please stop talking. Save it for the conspiracies.

[Jared]

Do you have any theories today?

[Ryan]

Yes.

[Spencer]

Wait till the end for Ryland's theory.

[Jared]

Right. And Jared has. This is a theory you guys have been asking us to talk about. We actually have dived into it previously, but Jared's going to really dive into a. I would say one of the biggest theories of all time. Near the end of the show, it's kind of. Kind of wrap everything up because, yes, all the theories are kind of remotely involved with it.

[Sandy]

I would say most theories happening right now could be involved with it. Very excited to get into it.

[Jared]

I'm excited.

[Sandy]

And Sandy's is, like, mind blowing.

[Jared]

I cannot wait.

[Sandy]

We're just saying.

[Jared]

I don't even. I can't even imagine what it's about.

[Lizzy]

I mean, you know, give us a

[Jared]

little hint, like, category.

[Spencer]

Come on. Teaser.

[Jared]

Give us a topic.

[Ryan]

Beauty.

[Jared]

Lifestyle.

[Lizzy]

This is next level.

[Spencer]

Whoa. Next level.

[Sandy]

Okay, good start.

[Lizzy]

And I just want to leave it at that.

[Ryan]

Okay.

[Sandy]

It's one of those where just one word would give it away. Possibly. She's keeping it tucked.

[Lizzy]

Yeah.

[Jared]

All right, well, here we go. Let's get into it. But before we do, once again, these are all just theories. None of these are facts. And we don't necessarily believe some of these theories. We are not trying to get sued or silenced or any of that.

[Spencer]

That's our show motto.

[Jared]

I love life. Yeah. So if I. That wasn't me.

[Sandy]

You know what I mean?

[Jared]

We believe what you believe.

[Spencer]

That way no one's mad.

[Jared]

And here we go. You might be wondering why I'm wearing a stopwatch. Or you're not.

[Chris]

I was.

[Sandy]

Coach feels like we're in one of those share groups. It's like you all get three minutes ye and then the alarm will go off.

[Jared]

So this is not actually for the theory I'm about to talk about. This is for a theory a little bit later. This is going to be something we're testing. And I'm very excited because I am pretty sure that I'm right about this. But before we get into that, this might also remind you of something else. Does it remind you of sports? That's right. Our first theory is. Is sports fake? Let me explain. I have never in my life been more fascinated and more gripped to a conc conspiracy than this. And I know that sounds crazy. Why would I give a fuck about sports when I never have before? I can't even tell you a team name. Put a gun in my head. Do it.

[Ryan]

No way. You know what team Even I.

[Jared]

The Spiders. I'm sure somewhere, maybe I'm the gayest girl out here.

[Ryan]

And I can tell you a sports team. The Broncos.

[Jared]

Can you name one?

[Chris]

Notes.

[Spencer]

The Os from Colorado or LA.

[Ryan]

Yeah, or LA. Shit. The St. Louis Rams.

[Spencer]

No, they don't exist anymore.

[Chris]

Wait, really?

[Spencer]

The LA Rams now?

[Ryan]

Oh, shoot.

[Spencer]

Okay, so this is the place to hear about sports.

[Jared]

Da da da da da da.

[Sandy]

Sports.

[Jared]

I am going to show you some videos. I'm not saying I believe this, okay? I know this is not true. Disclaimer. Sports are not fake.

[Ryan]

How do you know? Why wouldn't it be like wrestling? A performative art where we're crafting the narrative. Because all these girls, and by girls I mean men, get so mad about the outcome of these theatrical events. I've never seen a straight man get more upset by the results of one of these.

[Chris]

Is that the theory that it's like wrestling?

[Ryan]

It better be.

[Jared]

Maybe. No, guys, stop. Hear me out. I'm going to give you some evidence. Not saying it's true, but I'm going to give you some evidence. You can think for yourselves. Yeah.

[Spencer]

Yeah.

[Lizzy]

Oh, no.

[Jared]

Magnetic field that goes all the way around the court and magnets in the mall. So we literally can't miss Robert's been working on this technology for a while. But we beat him too.

[Marker]

No.

[Jared]

Oh, man, he's that man. Enough.

[Ryan]

But then wouldn't everyone score every time?

[Jared]

Okay.

[Lizzy]

Unless they're controlled.

[Jared]

So Sandra, here's. Okay, that's just exhibit A. So let me just say this. In a world right, where maybe magnets are. There's a magnetic field around the basketball court and maybe the teams decide before the show. The show.

[Ryan]

I mean, let's be honest.

[Jared]

Before the game. Before the game. Okay, so you're gonna win. You know, I don't know. Sports 7 to that would be a

[Spencer]

low scoring basketball game. They're like 100 to like 98.

[Jared]

You're gonna win 20 to 50.

[Spencer]

Sure.

[Jared]

Yeah.

[Spencer]

It'll be.

[Jared]

That's what it's gonna be. We, you're gonna score this, you're gonna score this, whatever. And we control, like press one button, you'll make the shot no matter what. Press this button, you don't make the shot no matter what. And like that's how maybe allegedly. Just a theory. We control the game. Right. Why would they do that? We'll get to that in a minute. Exhibit B. There's a laser right here telling them where to get tackles. 1. Literally right, right here.

[Sandy]

Laser.

[Jared]

It's going to flash.

[Sandy]

Look, it's flashing.

[Jared]

It's flashing right there.

[Unknown Dad]

This is where he's going to get

[Sandy]

tackled right on this laser.

[Jared]

Boom.

[Sandy]

No ball goes down.

[Ryan]

No.

[Jared]

The fuck is that? NFL.

[Spencer]

The fuck is that?

[Jared]

Chris, I've never been more invested in sports in my life. Are you kidding me? This is going to get to watch. I'm going to be looking for lasers and looking for magnets. Okay, so then I think of that

[Chris]

like ICP song where it's like magnets.

[Jared]

How do they work?

[Sandy]

Okay, they're trying to tell us something.

[Jared]

And let me just say this. The way this algorithm is working. Listen, I've been anti algo for a while, but she knows me now because right after that I got this.

[Narrator]

Did you know the average American football game is only 11 to 18 minutes of action in a three hour game? Yeah. The rest of it is commercials, timeouts, replays, injuries, halftime shows. In fact, the advertisements are a full hour of the programming. So you're spending 400% more time watching commercials than you are watching plays. We think we're tuning into nonstop action, modern day gladiators duking it out. What we're actually watching is a perfectly engineered system of interruptions. Time to check your phone, to go to the bathroom, to go get Something to eat and most importantly, time to bet. Because sports betting is now a multi billion dollar business. And those breaks, that's where the money moves. So what are we actually watching? It's not just a game, it's a system where the action is short but the monetization is constant. In 1940, a professional football lasted like two hours. Now it lasts over three hours. So you can tell how much is being packed into there as far as commercialization and monetization. So we are definitely mining it for

[Ryan]

money, which of course is smart.

[Jared]

But here's the thing. Then I started thinking about wrestling, which is crazy, cuz you did too. And I was like, oh, wrestling is a sport, right. They're all athletes, but it is scripted.

[Sandy]

It is literally action entertainment.

[Jared]

This is theory, it's all for fun. But it was interesting because I'm like, imagine a world where it was orchestrated like wrestling and everybody gets so invested, they make so much money. Sports betting, like there is so much money in it. And that's just fascinating.

[Sandy]

Well, there's also been players, I couldn't give you an example, but that have come out and said they were part of a situation where they threw a game.

[Jared]

It's happened a lot.

[Sandy]

It's not like rare for that to happen.

[Ryan]

They're finessing it a little, even if it's not full blown wrestling.

[Jared]

And it is a little interesting. Just saying that anytime there is a big thing happening in the world that maybe the powers that be don't want us to talk about, they'll throw in some controversial halftime decision to get everybody talking. Now we're not talking about a lot of other things. That is interesting. The, the bread and circus that we talked about before. Throw bread at us, Give us a circus. It is very interesting.

[Chris]

But if the whole goal is to condition us to watch marketing, basically, which

[Ryan]

is, I mean that's everything.

[Chris]

Yeah, it's worked on me fully.

[Ryan]

Wait, you like sports?

[Chris]

No, but I like the marketing. Like I get so excited for the commercial. Me and my mom are like, we love the commercials. I can't wait to see what they did this year.

[Sandy]

Well, think about the super bowl is known for the commercials.

[Jared]

Yeah.

[Spencer]

Which is crazy.

[Sandy]

That's like the biggest thing of the year. And also I will say just an interesting tidbit is the first clip you showed was like the basketball hoops. Basketball notoriously has lost a bunch of popularity in the past like five or six years. So I think anything they could do to spice things up would behoove them for sure. So just saying clip that NBA.

[Spencer]

We love you NBA.

[Sandy]

NBA. I'm not buying anything.

[Ryan]

I really only like sports. Well, no, that's unrelatable.

[Jared]

Yeah.

[Sandy]

I didn't even believe it when you started it. I don't know what you could have said to make me a believer.

[Lizzy]

I personally am a fan of baseball now.

[Spencer]

They.

[Lizzy]

They know how to get it done.

[Ryan]

Throw a good party.

[Jared]

Yeah, yeah, a hot party.

[Lizzy]

Because you can yell at the. You know, you can try to catch the ball. I'm like a yeller at a game. I. Yeah.

[Jared]

Okay, this next theory I'm gonna be very careful about. We have bleeped the word in every previous podcast because I really don't want to get sued. But the blank program, okay, Lizzy is the one that brought this to us maybe a year ago now where she was like, oh, yeah. Like when we were kids, they had the blank program and, you know, they would take kids into this RV type thing and make them listen to sounds and whatever. They would. Basically the theory was that they were pretending they were just sound tests and whatever tests, but actually they were scouting kids for projects. Projects like Very Stranger Things vibes. Right. That's just a theory. Not that's all just a theory. Right. So then I saw this, and it says, if you recognize this sound, you were in the blank program. You guys tell me if you recognize it. This is the first step along your path to a gateway. A gateway beyond, which is discovery. Your own discovery.

[Lizzy]

Girl.

[Unknown Speaker]

Winter is so last season. And now spring's got you looking at pictures of tank tops with hungry eyes. Your algorithm is feeding you cutoffs. You're thirsty for the sun on your shoulders that perfect hang on the patio sundress. Those sandals you can wear all day and all night. And you've had enough of shopping from your couch. Done. Hoping it looks anything like the picture when you tear open that envelope. It's time for a little in person spring treat. It's time for a trip to Ross. Work your magic.

[Jared]

We have reality of truth.

[Ryan]

Anybody wasn't in it?

[Chris]

No, I also wasn't in it. My brain's like, I don't know what? I don't. I'm like the Twilight Zone. That reminds me of the Twilight Zone for some reason. I don't know.

[Jared]

Okay. No, no. The second I got the real, I didn't even know what it was about. Cuz, you know you're swiping.

[Spencer]

Yeah.

[Jared]

It was like. I instantly was like. And I. I was like, oh, my God, this sounds like so familiar. And then I saw the caption and I was like, oh, fuck. Because that was a whole thing, right? Like, I remember so many things from this program. And there's a few other things that allegedly people that were in the blank program do. And one of them is lucid dreaming, which is they're in a dream and they know it's a dream. Every one of my dreams pretty much is lucid. I know I'm dreaming, and pretty much all of my dreams never happen to me.

[Chris]

Not once.

[Jared]

You've never, like, in a dream, you're like, I'm dreaming.

[Chris]

Never once.

[Ryan]

That'd be so fun.

[Sandy]

It's so fun.

[Jared]

You can fly. Like, you can do anything.

[Chris]

If anything, I wake up from my dreams not knowing they were dreams because they felt so real. And I'm, like, devastated.

[Sandy]

You should look into dream incubation. It's a way where you could actually. If you visualize something right before you're going to sleep, it'll trigger you to know you're in a dream as you're dreaming it. But it might help you.

[Jared]

Cool.

[Ryan]

Like manifestation technology.

[Jared]

Oh, yeah.

[Ryan]

You could really live it.

[Jared]

I love dreams because I love knowing that I'm dreaming. I mean, sometimes I don't, but I pretty much do. So then I saw this, and this was so crazy because I've had this experience before.

[Unknown Expert]

There is a reason that dream characters don't like it when you point out that you're in a dream. If you've ever been lucid in a dream, this has probably happened to you at some point. You tell the person you're interacting with, hey, I think I'm dreaming. And then suddenly the whole tone of the dream changes, and the characters can become hostile. May feel like you're in danger. Your dream characters are getting pissed at you. When you point out that you're dreaming because you are breaking the fourth wall. You are pushing through the constructed barrier of the dream narrative and taking charge of that space. Sometimes the characters in your dreams are just aspects of self. They want to keep you in the constructed narrative of the dream because from the perspective of your brain, it is evolutionarily safer to stick to the same patterns or the same stories. And it is to challenge them. Break the mold, in other words, to change, transform, or evolve. Sometimes the characters in your dreams are not just parts of yourself. Sometimes they are spirits or entities that come from an external place. Those characters get pissed at you for figuring out that it's a dream. We have to ask, what is their agenda?

[Jared]

Okay, I literally, maybe like a month ago, I was in a dream, and I knew I was dreaming and I was flying around. I was going to different places, doing my thing, and then I ran into this woman, and she. She was talking to me. And then I was just like, we're dreaming. Like, I'm dreaming or whatever. And she was like. And, like, her face changed, and it was like that movie smile. It was like she got really fucking scary and evil. And then she started trying to stabilize me. So then I had to do the thing that I do in my dreams, which I'm not recommending you do this, because I. I've heard it's not good to do this, but whenever I know I'm dreaming and I want to get out of the dream, I jump off a building. It's crazy, I know, but I do.

[Ryan]

Yeah.

[Jared]

Like, and I'm up. So I did that, and I had that memory. So when I saw this, I was just like, holy fuck. This ties back to so many things we've talked about, which is like, mediums telling me not to drink because when I'm drunk and asleep, I'm more vulnerable to spirits. This woman telling me that maybe these spirits are in my dreams, like, you know, fucking with me or telling me things. And I call them out and whatever. And then the blank program. Allegedly, a lot of these people have had this experience. So my question is, do you lucid dream? Do you know you're dreaming? Do you think maybe you were in the blank program? Have you ever had an experience like this? Did that sound sound familiar to you? Let me know. This sounds like an infomercial call now. Okay. Speaking of dreams, Spencer brought something up. Hmm.

[Spencer]

This is a little mini rabbit hole. I fell down. I'll just show you this face. Does this face look familiar to you? Maybe you know what this is, but ever see this guy in your dreams?

[Chris]

Of course.

[Unknown Mom]

Of course.

[Chris]

Of course.

[Spencer]

Well, there's even a poster. This poster must have been about 10, 12 years ago, is up everywhere. Have you ever dreamed this man? Have you dreamed this man? And people all over the world, we're calling it. We're going to this website, like, I see this man all the time. There's a lot of submitted, like, drawings, like renderings of what he looks like. It gets kind of weird. It gets kind of creepy quickly.

[Chris]

Oh, that one's great.

[Spencer]

Yeah, there's some real creepy. There's some real creepy ones. Yeah, play the video and then we can talk about it.

[Unknown Narrator]

Have you seen this man in your dreams? So in 2006, a psychiatrist realized that their patients were all describing the same kind of person appearing in their dreams, weirdly enough, Always giving life advice. This was interesting, obviously. So the psychiatrist drew up a little sketch, and it looks like this. That is terrifying. Eventually, this photo and the story behind it started floating around the Internet, and more people began seeing this figure in their dreams. Now all of a sudden, this is becoming very concerning. Who is this man that is appearing in everyone's dreams? And at the end of the story, we find out it was a big marketing stunt.

[Unknown Mom]

Wow.

[Jared]

What?

[Spencer]

That's right. So this is a really interesting study into, like, how much marketing and everything can infiltrate your brain and everything. And so people all over the world were like, I see this guy in my dreams. They all had the similar stories, were like, he gives me advice. I see him, he comes up to me, he talks to us. And then people literally all over, submitting, submitting and efforts. Like, what is this? This is crazy. We're all like, is this an entity? Is this? This, this? And the guy was like, no, no, no. I've put this in all of your brains. I've created this image and made everyone think. So it. I don't know, it was just interesting to me about, like, the power of suggestion, the power of, like, group thought in the way, like, we can all trick ourselves into thinking things.

[Chris]

How did he put this in everyone's.

[Sandy]

It sounds like he put posters up.

[Jared]

He just, like, started a violin.

[Spencer]

Yeah, it was just became. It just became a thing.

[Jared]

I mean, I fell for it. I did a whole video about that, like, 10 years ago.

[Sandy]

Well, because I think also, though, if you put up posters everywhere and you say, have you ever dreamed about this guy? You're gonna start, I wonder if that implants that person in your head especially. And then they say, yeah, well, he gives you advice and does all these things. And then I'm sure, just like I talked about, you could dream incubate, where you think of something really hard before you go to sleep. I mean, it also looks like Steve

[Jared]

Hartley, which is scary.

[Sandy]

But, I mean, then of course, people probably started dreaming about him. And it reminds me, though, there was another marketing stunt. I actually saw it last night in a video where, like, back in the day, there was a website called E. Corpus, and they sold body parts online. Like a black market body part, you know, kind of E commerce site.

[Ryan]

What are people doing?

[Sandy]

And it was like, you could buy an arm for, like, 2500 bucks. You could buy an eyeball for 800 bucks, a whole body for $200,000. And then everybody thought, oh, maybe it's a hoax. But there Was even reviews, like, five out of five. I got the, like, premium. You know, I got a premium item just as described. It ended up being a marketing stunt for mtv where they had a show coming out where, like, it was a headless figure or something like that. So MTV literally did a website that looked like it was selling body parts, and it was just a stunt for the. For the TV show. Pretty interesting.

[Jared]

That's like, the whole clown thing. Remember that? It was like, there's clowns. Like, there's scary clowns, like, seen around the city or whatever. And then that was all hoax for some movie or something. I mean, we're seeing a lot of alien stuff. And there's a new alien movie coming out soon.

[Lizzy]

Mm.

[Jared]

Oh, whoa. We're in the ad portal. I don't know if we've talked about that in the episode yet, but at some point in the episode, we talk about portals to aliens, and maybe that's where we are right now. We're here. We're here. And you know what aliens want more than anything? A good seat to watch the destruction of our world. And you know where they're gonna get the best deal on those seats?

[Chris]

Where?

[Jared]

Fixie. Geek. Oh, oh.

[Sandy]

Now I was gonna say. Gotta be. Seatgeek.

[Jared]

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[Marker]

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[Jared]

Congratulations.

[Sandy]

Flex alert.

[Lizzy]

Thanks.

[Jared]

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[Unknown Mom]

Oh, wait.

[Jared]

The portal is not closed. Leave it open, guys. Leave it open. I want to hear everything in this portal, but I want to hear it crystal clear. I want to hear it hd, but sometimes I don't want to hear it. Sometimes I want to block out the alien noise. And how would I do that? By using my fingers? No, that's not futuristic.

[Sandy]

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[Unknown Expert]

Imitation eggs might be replacing real ones.

[Jared]

And this Dunking customer caught it on camera peeling the yolk off like paint.

[Marker]

This reheated puck is made without cracking a single Egg. Duncan's egg is held together with 12 ingredients. It starts as liquefied factory yolks stretched with soybean oil, then seared at 70 degrees in industrial pipes. That slurry gets drenched in tap water and bulked with with the same thickener used in latex paint, then frozen for weeks, shipped and cooked for the third time in a microwave.

[Spencer]

Subway burger says it like, that's so evil.

[Marker]

Scanned the same industrial eggs thickened with a gum linked to gut damage. Comment exposer. To scan your food.

[Jared]

Hold on.

[Ryan]

I do get stomach aches when I eat the egg bites at different. A variety of different fast food places.

[Spencer]

I think. Well, because McDonald's whole thing with their eggs is like, these are real eggs. Where I think a lot of other places aren't doing real eggs.

[Jared]

Okay, well, so I googled it. I said, are Dunkin Donuts eggs real? Dunkin does not use freshly cracked eggs for their standard sandwiches. Instead they use a pre cooked frozen egg patty manufactured with several additives to ensure consistency.

[Sandy]

So it's literally real.

[Spencer]

It's probably.

[Jared]

While the patties contain real egg yolks and whites, they also include things like soybean oil, water, cornstarch stabilizers, xanthum gum, cellulose gum and flavorings. Yum.

[Spencer]

That is kind of true.

[Sandy]

Wow.

[Jared]

I'm running to grab one.

[Spencer]

I used to eat so many of those.

[Jared]

Listen, when it comes to things like this, I'm not surprised. Like, I've seen. I love Taco Bell so much. So much. But I've seen videos of them being like, this is what the meat is. And it's like a badge. And then they like dump it in a thing and they like. And I was just like, and I'm hungry.

[Ryan]

Or like the beans are powder or something.

[Jared]

They're good, but I'm part of the problem.

[Ryan]

It's like the peanut butter. That's powder that you mix into peanut butter.

[Chris]

Have you seen the sour cream come down from like this giant tube and it's a.

[Jared]

And have I googled how to install one in my house? Yeah, I have. Chris, that would be so cool to have. I will say this though. You know what would sketch me out even more? And maybe this is part of my problem. If I bit into a Dunkin egg sandwich and there was a runny yolk, I'd start gagging. I'd be like, ah, I'm just so used to that, like outer, like, yeah,

[Spencer]

you don't want runniness.

[Ryan]

You've been conditioned.

[Jared]

Yeah, I really have.

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[Spencer]

Yeah.

[Jared]

Well, we're gonna do an update on celebrity clones. Okay, so obviously we've talked about this before. There's so many theories. You know, Jim Carrey was cloned. Like, there's always kind of the new one. Anytime a celebrity says something that maybe isn't what the powers that be want, there's a theory that they're taken somewhere, cloned, and then the clone is out

[Sandy]

there, you know, dipping and doing it. Cloning around.

[Jared]

Cloning around. Well, there's another theory that maybe when a celebrity dies, they are reincarnated or cloned into another celebrity for a new generation. Jared's talked about this before. One of the biggest ones was that Anne Hathaway was William Shakespeare's wife, I think, and it looks just like her. And now in this life, she's Anne Hathaway, and she's this big movie star. And I think her husband is even. There's some connection with William Shakespeare, with the husband. So Anne Hathaway has literally talked about this. She's made jokes about it, reels about it and stuff. She's played into it. It would be great if it was true, but even if it's not, still kind of great. But then I saw this, and this

[Sandy]

led Glenn Close, as George Wallachy did.

[Jared]

So this is just a quick little reel I saw, and this led me down a whole different rabbit hole. Ooh. Ooh. Okay.

[Ryan]

It moves so fast, I can't even tell who's who.

[Jared]

Exactly. So the one that really stuck out to me was Khloe Kardashian. Looks just like Elvis. And listen, number one disclaimer. I love Chloe. She's amazing. I'm not saying she looks like Elvis. Well, I guess I kind of am.

[Sandy]

That's not a bad thing, though. Elvis is, like, notoriously a great looking human being.

[Ryan]

Is it not a. Yeah, complimentable.

[Jared]

So I'm gonna show you first, I'm gonna show you guys a few side by sides. And then I'm gonna show you a little photoshopping that I did to enhance.

[Spencer]

Oh, wow.

[Jared]

But there is a point to this. Why would Khloe Kardashian be Elvis reincarnated? Why would that make sense? We'll get to that in a minute. But first, the side by sides. Okay, let's start here.

[Chris]

Whoa.

[Jared]

Are you fucking kidding me? Incredible. I mean, very, very close. Very similar. Okay, so now let's get to this. So here's a picture of, you know, Elvis. Black and white, wet hair, vibes. Okay. I put a little more hair on Elvis.

[Spencer]

Whoa.

[Jared]

It's looking Chloe to me. It's looking Chloe to me.

[Spencer]

Okay, that's all you did, is just add more hair.

[Jared]

Put a little hair on him. That's it. Okay, so then I went a little farther. There's another picture of Elvis, you know, giving somebody the side eye. Put a little more hair, put a little makeup on him. It's looking a lot more like Chloe.

[Ryan]

Okay, you had some time one night.

[Jared]

This was, by the way, me on my walking pad for six hours putting fucking wigs on Elvis. So then this was the one that really got me. So here's a picture of Elvis in all red, looking sickening. Okay, let's put a little wig on him. That's fucking Chloe, right? It's so Chloe. Okay, so that one's crazy. So I don't think Khloe Kardashian is

[Chris]

Elvis, but she just might be.

[Jared]

But it was just fun to, like, look into it and be like, wow. Like, that was one that I was like, wow, they look so similar. It's, like, actually crazy. Like, she should dress up as Elvis for Halloween.

[Chris]

Yes.

[Ryan]

We should check if she has.

[Spencer]

Sure, she'd love to hear.

[Ryan]

She probably has.

[Jared]

Anyways, I feel like we're getting more and more used to the idea of everybody wearing spy glasses. Are you wearing them right now?

[Sandy]

No, that's. I actually got clear glasses just as proof that there's no mechanism in here. So people didn't think I was, like, a pervert or anything. These are pervertless glasses.

[Chris]

But you guys do have perfect glasses.

[Sandy]

We definitely have perfect.

[Ryan]

So do you.

[Chris]

I do, too.

[Jared]

Yeah.

[Spencer]

Wow.

[Jared]

So, as you guys know, we have done a lot of the conspiracies about meta glasses and what, you know, they're capturing. And then I saw this update.

[Unknown Speaker]

I want meta glasses for my birthday.

[Jared]

I heard they partnered with Ray Ban, so they look pretty cool.

[Unknown Speaker]

What's even cooler is that I can

[Jared]

walk by people and know where they live.

[Unknown Speaker]

This enabled it to start matching people to their phone numbers, addresses.

[Lizzy]

And this is all just by walking past you?

[Sandy]

Yeah.

[Jared]

So you can download an app for

[Unknown Speaker]

this and you can tell who people's family members are.

[Jared]

So, like, don't cut me off in traffic.

[Lizzy]

You know, the names and faces of their family members.

[Unknown Speaker]

So they went out and tested this in real time, and to their surprise, the results were nearly 100% accurate.

[Jared]

It's like everyone can be in the CIA.

[Ryan]

Ew.

[Sandy]

Very cool.

[Lizzy]

Wow.

[Jared]

All just theories. Meta, don't come for us. Really don't come.

[Spencer]

Please do not.

[Jared]

At the end, it is, to me, the bigger theory is more like if we're putting these kind of devices on everybody's face with the ability for, you know, and I'm sure they're trying as hard as they can to make them not hackable, but any technology allegedly is hackable. So it's like you're just having a camera on your face at all times in all parts of your day. It just is feeling like they're normalizing it a little too much. And I remember maybe like, eight years ago when another company tried to release these types of glasses and it bombed. And everybody was like, we don't want this. This sucks. Eight years later, everybody's like, well, maybe we want these.

[Sandy]

Yeah.

[Chris]

Do you know what? I'm sorry.

[Sandy]

Shout out to you, meta.

[Chris]

A lot more of that, I think is so creepy. Is like, I love food review stuff. I've always watched, like, food review stuff, and there's a lot more on TikTok. Anyway, food reviewers wearing these glasses, going into restaurants, filming the entire interaction, like, an entire conversation with an owner, and, like, they have no idea they're being recorded. And thankfully, the videos are that them saying positive things almost all the time. But even though it's positive, just the fact that you, like, without someone's consent or knowledge, recorded an entire private conversation and put it online is so weird.

[Spencer]

Yeah, I agree.

[Sandy]

I wonder what kind of impact, though, this is going to have on society. If everybody feels like they're constantly being monitored and, like, video recorded, you know, it's already happening.

[Jared]

I'm terrified to, like, say anything in an Uber about literally anything or any. Like, I didn't know.

[Chris]

When I got out of one of my most recent Ubers, like, yesterday, it was like, for your safety. The entire, like, car ride was recorded. And I was like, what do you mean? What do you. What?

[Jared]

Yeah.

[Spencer]

Yeah, that's wild.

[Chris]

Why am I fully believing all of these today?

[Ryan]

Actually. Yeah, me too.

[Lizzy]

Definitely the sports one.

[Chris]

Yeah.

[Lizzy]

Yeah.

[Jared]

Well, I might trip you up a little bit with this one. This is the one I'm gonna say is the closest I am to believing something, but once again, I still think it's just a theory. It's not real. Is time speeding up.

[Spencer]

I've seen this. I've seen.

[Jared]

You've seen this?

[Spencer]

I've seen the.

[Jared]

Have you guys heard about this? What?

[Ryan]

The second circuiting faster?

[Jared]

Yes.

[Ryan]

I mean, it feels like it.

[Jared]

Okay, I know everybody says, well, once you get older, time goes fast because every year is like a less percentage of your life. So everything feels like it's moving faster. Right? But I've had even young people, even like Gen Z, Gen Alpha. I've. I've heard different generations being like, time is going really fast. Right. There is a theory that in 2020 there was a time reset and that the 24 hour day became a 16 hour day. The clock stayed the same, but the time didn't. And that could be a reason why you might be always tired.

[Ryan]

I am always yawning since 2020.

[Chris]

Wait, so everyone's always tired? It's not just me?

[Jared]

Yeah, it's everybody, babes. So here's a few reels that I found about this and I'll let you guys decide.

[Sandy]

Man says he has proved they are speeding up time.

[Chris]

So I'm absolutely convinced that they're messing with time. Okay, let me show you something. I set this clock when the time changed.

[Jared]

I had to move it back, right?

[Chris]

So it's 11:45, 40, almost 46.

[Sandy]

Right.

[Jared]

Now let me show you something.

[Chris]

These clocks I set to the same time. 11:45, almost 46.

[Jared]

But when I look at the time on my iPhone. Let me see if I have another. Here, use my other phone. Look at this. 2352, 1152. And that's within a matter of six months. Look at this. 45, 40, 45, 45. Why would I go out of my

[Chris]

way to set all these seven minutes off?

[Jared]

I wouldn't do it. I wouldn't. Have you noticed something off about time lately? Everyone I speak to is saying the same thing. Time feels faster. Not just busy, actually faster. People are noticing it everywhere. The clocks in their homes are staying the same, but their phones are running ahead. Something about it doesn't feel right. Okay, so then I saw this.

[Unknown TikTok User]

So there's people on Tick Tock all over the place saying that there's only 45 seconds in a minute now. And somewhere in 2020, something happened. Anyways, I'm a little bit of a conspiracy theorist, but check this out. The one Mississippi, two Mississippi. Watch how many seconds are in the minute? All right, here we go. One Mississippi, two Mississippi, three Mississippi, four Mississippi, five Mississippi, six Mississippi, seven Mississippi. So it's six or seven seconds. Faster than me already. So it'll be about 15 seconds faster

[Jared]

than me on the whole minute.

[Unknown TikTok User]

So it's only 45 seconds how we used to know them using the one Mississippi, two Mississippi.

[Jared]

Okay, this is freaking me out. I want to test this. So I started thinking, okay, I have an old school stopwatch that was made before 2020. And we have our phones, which are currently up to date. So here's what I think we should do. We have a stopwatch, two of them, and I think I'm going to press go. And then all of us in our heads. Or maybe I guess we could all do it out loud. That's creepy. All of us out loud.

[Spencer]

Good podcasting.

[Jared]

Well, I'm thinking 20 seconds. Wait, why am I guys scared?

[Ryan]

Give us a countdown or I'll give us a countdown.

[Spencer]

Okay, you see the screen Go black?

[Ryan]

2, 1, 1 Mississippi, 2 Mississippi, 3 Mississippi, 4 Mississippi, 5 Mississippi, 6 Mississippi, 7 Mississippi, 8 Mississippi, 9 Mississippi, 10 Mississippi, 11 Mississippi, 12 Mississippi, 13 Mississippi, 14 Mississippi, 16 Mississippi, 17 Mississippi, 19 Mississippi.

[Jared]

Okay.

[Unknown Mom]

Yeah.

[Jared]

We were going way too fast.

[Sandy]

Were we?

[Jared]

That was just 19 seconds.

[Spencer]

I mean, that was close.

[Sandy]

I think it's one Mississippi, two Mississippi.

[Lizzy]

You know what?

[Jared]

Let's do it in our heads. Yeah, I was gonna say 20 seconds in our heads. Who wants to be. Cause I want to be a counter too. So who wants to be a tracker? Who will a track? So you're gonna press start and then you're gonna scream when it hits to 20, which is where we're at.

[Ryan]

I think we do a 20 second timer and everyone raises their hand when they get in their head to 20.

[Unknown Mom]

And then.

[Spencer]

But the timer will go off and we'll all know.

[Chris]

Yeah.

[Jared]

Okay. This is true.

[Spencer]

This is.

[Jared]

Okay, okay.

[Spencer]

This is more a test on who can count to 20 the best.

[Sandy]

It's like a sobriety test.

[Ryan]

Yeah, exactly.

[Spencer]

It feels like we're doing.

[Jared]

Let's do 30. Okay, we'll speed it up for you guys.

[Ryan]

Okay. Three, two, one.

[Sandy]

30.

[Jared]

22, 30, 30. I'm at 24.

[Lizzy]

Yeah, I'm about 24.

[Jared]

And what I think me and Sandy are right. Yeah, I was on a good.

[Spencer]

You guys are on the old school.

[Jared]

You guys can check my head. Nods. I was going at a second rate.

[Lizzy]

And I wouldn't trust Jared. He loses count every single time.

[Jared]

Okay. So. Yes, let's.

[Ryan]

Oh, so it seems time's going slower.

[Jared]

I have a good one. Okay, really quick. So we say that media or sometimes, you know, movies will do predictive programming. Well, they'll tell us what's gonna happen in the future, like, get us ready for it. Right. Desensitize us to the idea or even throw a little hint out there. Look at what this person found on their Roku.

[Chris]

There it is.

[Jared]

Okay, so there has been talk about time speeding up. And look what Roku is showing us, y'.

[Lizzy]

All.

[Sandy]

Whoa.

[Ryan]

The aliens coming down to speed up. Speed up time. Why do they want time so fast?

[Spencer]

That links with a lot of other stuff we've been talking about too.

[Jared]

Well, yes. Okay, so let's get into it. Why would they be speeding up time? What is the point? What's the purpose? What's the main theory about this?

[Sandy]

I would say there's two trains of thought to have, potentially. One, is it something that they're controlling? Or two, is it something that's happening that they're trying to keep the reason away from us? Because there is the concept that Albert Eisenhower Einstein came up with that is time dilation, which time moves faster when you're moving faster. So, like, it could be maybe something with the universe's expansion rate has maybe gone a lot faster, which could lead to negative things, or maybe we're moving closer towards something. I don't. I don't really know. I don't know, like, what the reason would be.

[Chris]

Maybe they're just trying to get us all as a people, to do very specific. Because if we all feel like we have plenty of time, we're going to, like, relax and create art and do certain things, live a certain way. If we feel like we have time and if we don't feel like we have any time as a people, we're gonna live life very differently. You know, maybe they're, like, pushing us towards a specific lifestyle they want us to have first.

[Jared]

And maybe it also does have something to do with sleep. If you're sleep deprived or you're not getting as much sleep as you want, you're worn down, you're weak, you're easier to control. Here's the thing. I've never been a long sleeper. Like, I usually can survive on seven hours of sleep when I don't set an alarm. And this has been happening just in the last few years. When I don't set an alarm. I'm sleeping for, like, ever, 11 hours, 11 and a half hours. And I'm like, what the fuck? That's not normal for me. Even when I was a kid, I was up. Like, that's not normal for me. But it would make sense if time is speeding up, because then technically that would be just the Eight hours.

[Chris]

I mean, I've always been someone who naturally slept, like, 11, 12 hours or whatever forever. But, yeah, they say, like, eight hours is the average for what a person's supposed to get and feel rested. But I never felt restricted. Rested on only eight. I needed 11 or 12.

[Jared]

So I don't know.

[Lizzy]

I will say that my theory that I told Jared kind of has something to do with this is.

[Spencer]

Sandeem.

[Lizzy]

I just want to know when I can sneak it in there if you want me to tell you. Now.

[Ryan]

We've been edging.

[Lizzy]

So have you guys seen it? Have you guys seen on Instagram that trend that was like, what were you, like, in the 90s, mom?

[Jared]

Or something like that?

[Lizzy]

And it's all like, what's the song? The Goo Goo Dolls.

[Sandy]

It's really hard for me to hear that song, though, if you guys cannot sing it, please. Why? Because when we were younger, we had a turtle named Buster. And when Buster passed away because he expelled his testicles during the eating season, he couldn't pull his testicles back in.

[Jared]

That's what that was. That's what that was. Mom told me he pooped his heart out.

[Sandy]

In essence, that's a very pretty way of saying that he was trying to show off for some lady turks that weren't even there. And then he couldn't pull back in because he had an encave shell. But after he passed away, obviously traumatic experience. The first song I heard was the Goo Goo Dolls, and it was like,

[Jared]

I don't want the world to see me.

[Sandy]

And I was crying like, I don't want the world to see me. Right now, I'm just Buster. So if we could just rip. Maybe not sing it. Maybe not sing it.

[Ryan]

So this trend's triggering to you.

[Jared]

Yeah.

[Sandy]

But also, on a side note, another trend to add to Sandy's would be, like, what were you like in 2016?

[Lizzy]

Oh, yeah. Or like, even, like, the graduation one to be seen where it's like, 10 years later and it's like their yearbook photo and then what they look like now. So what they're saying is that we shouldn't do those, because what that's really doing is teaching AI how aging works. But that also is with, like, even filters. Like, so if you use a filter that, like, smooths you out your face, and then. And when it comes off, it's teaching AI, like, the difference of how you're aging.

[Sandy]

So it's all just deployed to get more pictures.

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[Jared]

through online before you had Instagram.

[Spencer]

That's interesting.

[Ryan]

AI is creating any photo you upload

[Lizzy]

of yourself that you're younger.

[Jared]

Oh my God, you're right.

[Lizzy]

Yeah.

[Jared]

Because yeah, AI is all about getting data and information and learning from it and mapping things out. Right. So if they don't have my baby pictures and like baby Instagram wasn't around when I was a baby, they're like, well, how are we going to get these a trend? So AI is creating trends.

[Sandy]

That's what I was going to say. Somebody probably went into AI gave me a good idea and they said, well, wouldn't it be fun if you ask everybody to put their baby picture online and then it's like, you know, in the back of their head they're baby pictures.

[Jared]

Whoa, what's going to be next? It's like AI is going to be

[Ryan]

like, well, I don't know, I can ask.

[Jared]

Wouldn't it be cool if you said if you pronounced every single letter of the Alphabet exactly how you would say

[Sandy]

it, Share your blood test type, you know, something like that. Maybe.

[Lizzy]

Yeah.

[Jared]

Well, this next theory, I wasn't even going to say today cuz I was like, well, it's a copyrighted song, I can't play it anyways. And like, maybe it's like too far fetched. And then I just got an update. Okay. Have you guys heard about the ring my bell theory?

[Ryan]

Ring it baby.

[Jared]

Okay, so you know the song, we're not going to play it, but the song you can ring my bell. Ring my bell. That's all.

[Spencer]

Yeah.

[Jared]

Okay. Dang.

[Ryan]

I didn't know those were the lyrics.

[Jared]

You. So there was a theory that that song has frequencies that trigger the powers of the law of attraction and that because of that, they are not allowed to play that song in all casinos because if that song starts playing it, the frequency of the song triggers a law of attraction, you start winning. So they've banned Allegedly Just a Theory Ring My Bell from all casinos to avoid that. And there's all these reels about it. There's like, you know, people talking about the frequencies. So just now I clicked on the link to the reel because I was like, let me see if I could still play it and just maybe mute the Song. The song has been removed from Instagram, and all the comments are like, oh, my God, the song's gone. So now that song is not available anymore on Instagram or at all? No. So, like, did the creators of this song be like, fuck, they figured out, like, that we did some special thing? Like, we need to remove it? Like, that's kind of crazy, right? Yeah. Why would that happen? So then I started thinking, thinking, wow, this could be fun to test. We've been wanting to do a Vegas video for so long, but, like, there's not that many Vegas conspiracies. I mean, there's the buffet one. There's, like, a few. But now, what if we go in and some of us wear headphones and we listen to Ring My Bell while we're playing a slot machine, and then some of us don't, and we see who wins more, and one of us

[Sandy]

can bring a little boombox and play it and see if they make us turn it off and see how fast

[Spencer]

we get kicked out of the casino?

[Sandy]

Because you shouldn't ever be kicked out of a casino for listening to music. They want you there. So if something is dangerous enough for them to kick you out, especially if you're spending money.

[Jared]

I don't know. That's just. That's very interesting to me because, like, why today? So this started going viral, you know, a week ago, and now, literally just now, I check, and the song is gone.

[Lizzy]

It was there before.

[Jared]

Yeah. It's like the thing pops up where it says, this song is not available, and all the comments on the reel are like, the song's gone. Oh, my God, the song is gone. The portal's open. The portal's open. What do we do? What have you done?

[Narrator]

Cern?

[Spencer]

I don't think we've talked about that.

[Jared]

Yeah, I don't think we've talked about that yet.

[Sandy]

Wait for it. It's happening.

[Jared]

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[Spencer]

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[Spencer]

Yeah, this is kind of related to what we were just talking about, and people have been sending it in a lot and it's obviously something we've talked about and everyone talks about with AI, but seeing it happen to people is really interesting. I will say preface. The video is weirdly sped up. This is how she uploaded the video. I don't know why she uploaded it like this, but I'm just saying. So it's not some effect or some re upload. This is just how this woman uploaded this video. But it gets through it pretty quick.

[Unknown Mom]

Hey, y', all, listen, I just had. Something so scary just happened to me. I got a face on call from my daughter's phone and it was my daughter and she was like, hey, mommy, I'm sick. Can you open the door? Mind you, my daughter is in school right now. I take her to school, I pick her up. They said, can you. She said, can you open the door? And I'm like, can I open the door? How did you get home? Or whatever? And she was like, oh, my friend brought me home. And I'm like, what friend? So I'm like, hold on. I get my other phone, look at my camera on my phone. Nobody was there. So I said, what school you go to? And she was like, why you asking me all these crazy questions? Can you just open the door?

[Jared]

No.

[Unknown Mom]

What school do you go to? I said, are you in danger? No, I'm not in danger. So I said, what do we have for dinner last night? Oh my God, I don't. I don't remember. Oh my God. Oh my God, I don't remember. How many siblings you got? Why are you asking all these questions? Just Open the door for me, please. I hung up. I hung up. So then when I went to my phone to go look back at my phone to see. To, like, call her or whatever, text her because she's in school or whatever, the number. Her number is not there. Like, she called. Like, it's not, you know, and it says, you know, this person FaceTime or whatever, it's not there. I called the school because I text her, but I called the school. I'm like, hey, I need to know what Jake is.

[Jared]

Is.

[Unknown Mom]

I need to check on her, tell her to call me ASAP or whatever. So they get her. She comes to the office. I said, did you just FaceTime me? She said, no, I'm in school, you guys. I don't know how in the world this happened. I don't know how it freaked me out so bad.

[Jared]

That's crazy. First of all, I'm not surprised, scarily enough, because FaceTime, you can kind of make it look a little lower quality. AI or whatever, has access to everybody's selfies. Everybody's, you know, Instagram reels, everybody's videos of themselves talking. Like, it is probably easy for a hacker to replicate that, but this. The scary thing is now we're moving into this new world where, like, we have to have safe words and code words with every verify.

[Ryan]

Like, the visuals of it make it horrific because even the other day, my brother lost his phone when he had went out one night, and then he texted me from his wife's phone. Be like, being like, can you send me that code? I called his wife, being like, did you do this? Because I just don't trust anyone anymore. I, like, had to get a verbal confirmation.

[Jared]

You still didn't trust him because you called and he's like, hey, Ryan. And you were like, was that you texting me through your wife? And he goes, yeah, that was me. I lost my phone. You were like, okay, where did.

[Ryan]

Because it was so fishy. Yeah.

[Jared]

Questions.

[Ryan]

So even that. And that wasn't even a visual. That was just a phone call.

[Lizzy]

I'm like, it's so scary that you have to do that. I mean, for it to be like, how many sandwiches did you have?

[Spencer]

Like, and you think about the amount of people who aren't, like, thinking about, like, this. Like, oh, okay, someone call me. You know, I mean, obviously people get scammed every day. It's a huge industry. But it's.

[Jared]

Maybe she's a genius for speeding up her video because now AI doesn't know what her normal voice sounds like.

[Sandy]

Or is that Just real time. And time is speeding up. But on a side note, the danger of that is, what if it's a real scenario? Like, what if I really am calling you saying, like, I really need help, Something's going on. And you're like, well, how many sandwiches have you eaten today? And it's like, dude, it's life and death right now. Like, I really need your help.

[Jared]

And you're like, that's scary.

[Sandy]

But what was I wearing last night? It's like, you didn't make it inside. I'm already gone.

[Spencer]

AI this is another quick one of the same kind of thing of like,

[Unknown Dad]

my daughter answered the FaceTime audio call from me, but I never called. True story. It literally just happened. Six o' clock tonight. I'm in the kitchen and my daughter's in the next room on her iPad. Everything's normal. Then I hear her say, okay, dad, I'm coming right there. So I walk in, like, come in where? I asked her, who are you talking to? She looks at me confused and says, you just called me. I'm like, no, I didn't. She says, yes, you did. On FaceTime audio. So I freeze because my phone is sitting right on the counter. I haven't touched it.

[Jared]

Yeah.

[Unknown Dad]

So I grab her iPad and I check the call log. There it is. FaceTime audio from dad.

[Spencer]

Yeah, so same kind of thing.

[Chris]

It's just like, it's a literally a horror movie.

[Jared]

That's crazy. Which leads us into this theory. A former OpenAI manager said in an interview, the truth is we're building portals from which we're genuinely summoning aliens. The portals currently exist in the United States, China, and Sam just added one in the Middle East. So they are literally allegedly just a theory creating portals to talk to aliens using AI. Huh. So that's crazy, right? I can't even wrap my brain around that. I don't even know what that means. Does that mean that all these OpenAI employees are out there like, oh, just got a message from the alien. Like, I don't fucking know. But because of this, everybody's starting to look back at certain events that have happened, you know, since OpenAI has kind of, you know, started growing. One of them was the Miami Alien Encounter. I don't know if you guys remember this, but there was this thing that happened in Miami where, where people allegedly saw this 10 foot tall alien shadow figure. And it was really scary and everybody freaked out, but there's like no video footage of it. Even though everybody nowadays has phones, everybody films everything, but for some reason there's no footage of this, so just check out this video.

[Unknown Reporter]

This is the footage we have the Miami alien encounter that happened two years ago when chaos broke out at the Bayside Marketplace Mall on New Year's Day 2024, causing the largest police response in Miami history. The official story is that this was all caused by teens in the area. However, eyewitnesses came forward claiming it was caused by a ten foot shadow alien or dimensional being incursion. Many believe that this creature was even caught on camera in this footage of the incident. Yet no official body cam or mall surveillance footage has ever been released to confirm the story of the chaos, leading many to believe that there was some truth to the alien encounter. There were allegedly 60,000 homes without power around the time when the alien incident happened at the mall. Miami air traffic control shut down all air traffic in the areas surrounding Miami, so there were no flights going in or out at the same time, which is strangely suspicious. There were also reports of strange lights off the coast and these mirage cities or dimensional rifts appearing off the coast. Some claim that the coordinates of the Miami mall and Miami itself line up with a secret alien base in Antarctica which caused a portal to open on the wrong side of the earth.

[Jared]

That is so crazy to me because that would very much line up with this whole portal idea. One of the comments on here, they said, no lie, I was there. The story is true. Nothing like I'd ever seen before. These people look different and they tried to walk in like they were normal. Like we were supposed to be amazed by these costumes or something. It was mad scary and real. And then people are saying, how does not a single person have a video from their smartphone of this situation? Right. Okay, so that's crazy. Then people started talking about the woman on the plane. Do you remember that? Where she got up in the middle of the plane and she started screaming, that guy's not real. That mother. That mother back there is not real. And everybody's like, oh, she's crazy. Like, whatever. Now that's being revisited.

[Sandy]

Okay, now that we on the topic of conspiracy theories, I think whatever that lady saw on that plane a few years ago, she really seen that. And that person was not real.

[Jared]

I believe you.

[Sandy]

We owe you an apology.

[Jared]

Okay. I did not look into this, where this woman was flying or where, you know, where the airport was or whatever. But who knows? Maybe it was near a portal. Maybe. I don't know. To me, once again, just a theory. Who knows? But I do, I do believe in aliens. I do think it would Be crazy for there not to be aliens. But, yeah, it definitely got me down the rabbit hole of these portals and what they're building. And Jared, do you have any thoughts on this portal?

[Sandy]

So I did some investigating on this, and one thing that immediately started coming up when I was looking into portals was cern. And I know we've talked about CERN several times. It's CERN, and basically it's in Switzerland. It was developed in 1954, and it doesn't translate exactly to CERN, but it's the European Organization for Nuclear Research. And we talked about it because in, like, 2008, they built something called the LHC, the Large Hadron Collider. And their whole goal at CERN is to essentially, they have a 27 kilometer, which is like 17 mile loop that's circular, and they shoot particles in this thing. And they're trying to figure out how the universe came to be by colliding particles and seeing the reaction. And one of the big concerns, and there was even a lawsuit that was brought to the European courts because people had a lot of concern saying that one thing that could potentially happen if they're shooting particles at each other is it could create micro black holes. And if a black hole were to exist, it could completely swallow up our planet. Because think about, like, a black hole, how it reacts in outer space, how, like, light enters it and pretty much ceases to exist. So these little, tiny, tiny particles that they're shooting at each other could create these black holes. But I did more research on CERN because I was curious. We've talked about the collider before, how maybe that's kind of what transitioned us into a different reality. But I didn't dig any further into it at the time. But a couple things to note in 2008 is when this whole, you know, LHC thing was created, there's a lot of concern about it. Like I was saying, people were trying to sue them, saying this is dangerous for the planet and it could result in catastrophic events. And they won, and they ended up just proceeding. But in 2009 is when they had their first collision. Ironically, in 2009 was the same year where a lady named Fiona Broome coined the term Mandela effect and actually wrote a book about all of these changes that have been noticed. So the collider thing happens, and then in 2009, at the same time, all the sudden Mandela effects start happening. And then. And by any chance, have you guys ever heard of a kid named Max Laughlin? No, but he's the smartest kid in the world. His IQ is like, well over 200. He built a particle accelerator in his garage at 10 years old, which I don't think any of us even know what that is. So, like, to be able to build one, I think there's been, like, five people in history who have ever done this. But in 2012, they actually had a collision down there. And this is where the portals come in. And he's saying that they were able to collide these particles that created a portal for 11 minutes, where they were actually able to interact interdimensionally. Because when we think about portals, maybe we think about, okay, there's like a blurriness on this wall, and you walk through it and you enter a new dimension. But the way that it works is it's actually just interdimensional. It's almost like if you've ever taken a strong hallucination, hallucinogen, you enter this new realm that would be like another dimension. And wow. So these portals aren't physical things that we can walk through or see. It's just a rift in our reality that allows other dimensions to be apparent so you can contact. Like, if there's aliens or spirits, whatever the case may be. It's a. I guess a good example would be a seance. Like, when you have a seance, the goal is to open a portal to the dimension to speak with the dead.

[Ryan]

Right.

[Sandy]

So that's what a portal is. It's not a physical thing. But. So in 2012, CERN had this experiment, and this opened up a portal for, like, 11 minutes. And what we did is we entered a new reality, but small changes did happen. And he was talking about how that's what's causing all the Mandela effects. So maybe in 2009, there's. There was a very small shift. But then in 2012, when they opened up this portal is when a drastic shift happened. And that's why we're all looking back and having these weird memories that don't make sense necessarily. But I think that's kind of what it is to be able to talk interdimensionally with these beings and to be able to shift the reality that we currently live in. It could even be the time. Maybe one of the things is speeding up the time, you know, changing our memories. And it's just interesting that all of it kind of comes back to aliens, you know, like, it always comes back to aliens, which. A matter of fact, in the last episode, we talked about a bunch of scientists that had passed away suspiciously. But this Guy, I believe it's Matt Wilcox. I could be wrong on the name, but he was one of the like main dudes on ancient aliens.

[Jared]

Yeah.

[Sandy]

And he like just passed away. And days before he passed away, he told people that if anything happens to me, consider it suspicious. So like all of these people keep passing away and I know I kind of talked about it, but it's just weird that now. This dude, this ancient David Wilcox, by the way, I want to respect his name, but it's just interesting how all of these experiments are going on. We seem to be experiencing all of these glitches with within our reality and this alien talk is everywhere right now. I believe a meteor like just hit somewhere in the east coast and it was felt in like 10 states. But they're really setting us up for something that's about to happen, you know, like it made me feel that way, especially like trying to figure out how the universe was made, how they could change things. Like, what is really the purpose of doing all of this? Like, what's, what's the goal here? Like you make a big bang happen and then what? Like, do you.

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[Sandy]

Try to create another one. Do you try to alter the current existence that we're in? Like, what is the goal of spending billions and billions of dollars to have this experiment go on? So it's just very weird and it kind of makes you analyze the fabric of reality that we live in. And like maybe they say that you have to invite these dimensional beings into your life. Like if you don't invite them in just like a seance. Yeah, if you never go to a seance, you might never hear from a dead person, let's say. But like, what if CERN is something that is making it so we don't have to invite them in anymore? Like CERN's inviting them in on mass level. Like CERN's like, hey, come on guys, like don't wait for us to ask. Like we're trying to create an existence for you. And when that 11 minute portal opened in 2012, that's when a lot of shift started happening. And now we're within these dimensions more than ever, you know. So it's kind of crazy stuff.

[Jared]

Well, even this article I just saw the other day, it said, scientists propose that your consciousness can jump through time. Meaning that God gut feelings are memories from the future. Which freaked me out because I was like, what does that mean? Is it an alternate dimension? Like, what is that? So when I saw that, I was like, oh, that's interesting. Then one of the Mandela effects that pisses me off so much, and I still don't know what it is. What is the title of the show where Carrie Bradshaw types up about her life? What is that show called?

[Lizzy]

Sex and the City. Sex and the City.

[Jared]

Sex and the City. Okay, so that's what it's called, right? Yeah, that's the title. I still always get confused.

[Sandy]

Yeah.

[Spencer]

Yeah.

[Jared]

But me and a lot of Sex in the City, right?

[Chris]

I actually haven't seen the show, but I was positive until now.

[Jared]

That's me, too. My whole life, I'm like that. The show is Sex in the City. Like, that's what it's called.

[Chris]

Sex and the City doesn't even end.

[Jared]

But a lot of people remember Sex in the City.

[Ryan]

Sex in the City.

[Jared]

So then I saw this clip. So this is from June 12, 2009. So on that date, almost a thousand TV stations simultaneously switched off their analog signals for the last time. No more antennas. Now everything is cable and digital. I remember when this happened. It was like a big deal. It was like, it's coming, it's coming. And the second it turned off, remember, they, like, sent us boxes. Like, if you didn't have cable, they would send you this box to plug into your TV because they were taking away antennas and, you know, whatever. So that's why when you turn on a TV now, it's just static until you hook up your Apple TV or whatever. Back in the day, you turn it on and you would actually get tv.

[Sandy]

Yeah, right.

[Jared]

Yeah. So somebody filmed that moment of it happening. So I was like, okay, that's kind of fascinating. But while I'm watching it, the guy in the video is about to watch Sex and the City. And then this happened.

[P]

Yeah.

[Jared]

So they're waiting for it to switch over. Go. All right.

[Ryan]

Okay.

[Chris]

Okay.

[Ryan]

Now we're gonna sit in front of

[Jared]

the TV and watch it.

[Ryan]

It's gonna go out. Lasting analog TV with Sex in the City.

[Sandy]

Historical notes.

[Ryan]

Stupidest show on the Internet.

[Jared]

Okay, he said he's had Sex in the City. Hold on, let me play it. Again, Sex in the City. Sex in the City. Yeah. So he said Sex in the City In June of 2009, when the show is currently on the air and most popular. But now we look back, and it's a Sex and the City. So I just thought that was interesting because it was somebody in that time period saying Sex in the City.

[Spencer]

Well, and it links directly with what Jared was talking about.

[Jared]

Yes, that 2009. Okay, I guess we'll just keep playing the clip so you can see the moment.

[Sandy]

Here comes.

[Ryan]

Here comes Single black.

[Spencer]

Or at least it should.

[Sandy]

Simpler times.

[Chris]

The sound it made was so creepy.

[Jared]

Imagine, like, you're, you know, an older person. You're not, like, keeping up with much. You're just watching prices, Right? Yeah. And then it's just like, jupe just gone forever. And you're like, what? Pretty crazy.

[Chris]

Oh, I just wanted to say I was thinking about when. When you were talking. When Jared was talking. I know we've mentioned in the past how movies are. Like, a lot of them are to prepare us for things that are to come or that. And I was thinking about how, like, Marvel movies are some of the biggest movies in the entire world. A lot of them make close to a billion dollars or whatever. And everything you guys have been talking about, this episode, Marvel movies have touched on whether it's time travel, alien invasion, multiple versions of yourself, multiple dimensions.

[Jared]

Yes.

[Chris]

Like, all of it. As you were talking, I was like, there's a Marvel movie for that. There's a Marvel movie for that. The God of death is basically Galactus, who's, like a world eater. There's portals in that movie trying to Earth. Like, literally every point you guys were hitting, I'm like, these. This is every Marvel movie. Is this on purpose?

[Jared]

And when did Marvel start really making these movies? 2009.

[Chris]

Is that real?

[Jared]

Yes.

[Spencer]

That's when Iron man came out.

[Jared]

When Iron Man.

[Chris]

Stop.

[Jared]

Well, okay, that's crazy that you brought that up, because the last theory that I was gonna get into, just because I thought it was kind of interesting, was a Marvel theory.

[Chris]

And you're wearing a Marvel shirt.

[Jared]

I am. Ew.

[Chris]

Okay.

[Jared]

I swear, I am not planning this.

[Sandy]

These things you just said something I never thought about, which is explain what you said about superhero movies.

[Unknown TikTok User]

If you look at the 50s, 60s, 70s American cinema in the golden age, the hero worked alone. He fought against all odds, and he's fighting against the collective. It's one person against Hydra. It's James Bond against this constant cavalcade of villains. And then through their willingness to sacrifice Themselves for the great greater good. Organic followers come. And then now it's been inverted. Now the bad guy is always the individual and it's always the collective that has to beat the individual. It's always the Avengers coming together to beat Thanos. When people say, oh well, they roll their eyes. They're like, you're thinking too deep into this. You've been in these rooms. You've been a writer, you've been an actor. Every single word is chosen for a reason. Every theme, every color, every lighting, and every sound is telling the audience a story that wants to be told.

[Jared]

Okay, so that got me thinking, well, what would be the purpose? And it's like, oh, when we were kids, it was all about the superhero taking on the bad guy. And it made you feel like maybe one day I could do something like that. I could take on the bad guy, like that could be me. But now for the next generation, it's like, well, that's impossible. I could only do that if I have a whole team of superheroes like to, to fight off this one bad guy. So I'm not even going to try. Like it kind of was interesting to me, cuz I'm like, oh yeah, that is like, like what happened to the individual superheroes? Now they're all. They have to combine forces and be teams. Can't do it alone.

[Chris]

That's really interesting.

[Jared]

So I don't know. And then this is where we'll leave off. And I'm going to leave this one a little open ended. The other day I was on Instagram and I'm just watching, you know, crazy drink recipes and you know, whatever. And then it was like conspiracy, conspiracy, conspiracy, conspiracy. And some of them were too dark and crazy for us to even talk about. It was like crazy stuff. And I was like, oh my God, it's every single one. And then I saw this.

[P]

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[Jared]

So that did get me thinking. I mean in the last last year, it is all conspiracies. Tick Tock Instagram. It is like so mainstream. It is everything everybody's talking about. It is everything on my page. And that really was not the truth. I mean we have gotten in trouble on YouTube. Not in trouble, but like, you know, I've had to delete things from my videos because, you know, maybe these conspiracies weren't good for YouTube. But on Instagram, on Tick tock, they're everywhere. Nobody's taking them down. So, yeah, what is the reason why is conspiracies flooding everything right now?

[Sandy]

Well, because for people who don't engage in sports, to distract them, maybe they need to hit other people and conspiracies are the best way to distract them from the real stuff that's happening. It's even crazier than anything we could conceive conspiracy wise.

[Jared]

Right? Yeah. Well, hopefully you enjoyed our distraction. I promise we're not working for any higher powers here. Well, there you guys go. Hopefully enjoyed this extra creepy episode. I don't know. I'm loving this format. I'm really excited about where this show is going and how it's been flowing. If you guys have any suggestions, let us know in the comments. And if you have any theories you want us to talk about, send an email to shane dawson podcast stuffmail.com Also,

[Spencer]

if you want to talk with other people about theories, we have a whole chat on Patreon. It's essentially like kind of a discord where people just talk about theories and stuff and share a bunch of stuff. So like, if you want to go past the comment section, I would say it's a good spot to do it.

[Jared]

Yeah, it's in the conspiracy chat. Well, there you guys go. Stay safe out there and be concerned.

[Sandy]

Yeah, very weird. That. That's in the name.

[Jared]

See you next time.

[Unknown Mom]

Bye.

[Jared]

Foreign.

[Sandy]

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[Jared]

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[Sandy]

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